MORON CASE NOW
THING OF THE PAST
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JM7 Wm DUMtf
The famous Chadron blackmail ;
I. charring ail Omaha men and i
Ifcree cltliens or Chadron wltn con-
S I racy to blankraail. was virtually
rown out of court here Saturday
ft cr noon
After hearing testimony by Mr,
ftobert Hood and Attorney E. D.
Orite of CbHdroa, tbat tbey knew
f the alleKcd conspiracy before It
' uncovered. Judge uriines im-
llately Instructed the Jury to b.lng
4 a verdict for the defense.
The jury did aa directed and was
dismissed at once. The jury was
eem posed of Bruce- McDowell, W. 8.
flbker, W. F. Walker, D. L. Hlmes,
OoorKo II. Clayton, Oeorge Fernald.
W. A. McLean, eGorge Hedgecock,
hn Walters, G. A. Hagamaa, ai
art I. r.' and Fernald Trenkle.
The defendants ware: Steve Ma
loney, former captain of detectives
on the Omaha police force; Harvey
Wolf, president, W. S. Dolan, man
ager, Phil Winckler, Uua Tylee, oper
atives of the Omaha Detective Asso
ciation: Charles W. Plpkia, former
yet at l vr of the association; Allen O.
Fisher, Chadron attorney and former
captain of mltltia; Chnrlcs I. Day,
Chadron hotel keeper, and Ixmls K
Mote, of Chadron.
Judge Urlmes held tbat since the
alleged victims knew of the plot be
fore It was "uncovered," 'there was
ao conspiracy.
"That reminds me," he said, "of
the old custom of 'putting down the
cattle' in western Nebraska. 'Put
ting down the cattle' means 'stealing
four own cattle,' then trying to con
vict some other person.
"These alleged victims knew of the
alleged plot, and tried to catch the
alleged plotters."
Showed Plan to Rntrap
Paul Sutton of Omaha, County
Attorney Crites and Mrs. Robert
Hood of Chadron had testified for the
state
Judge Grimes said in a spoken
opinion their testimony showed they
bad consented to a plan to entrap
fee defendants, Including the overt
act of which the latter wore accused.
'The defendants are charged with
agreeing to cause County Attorney
Orltes and Mi h Hood to be In Crites'
afltoe in the night time and to accuse
them for the purpose of obtaining
asoney," said the Judge. "When
these three state's witnesses testified
they had arranged to go to the office
and had been told In advance of the
aian of the defendants by Elsie
Phelps, they consented to the same
actuation of which they complained
to the court."
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OinahanH Interested In the defense
took No. 43 for Omaha late Satur
day afternoon, the train having been
aeveral hourB late. The other de
fendants and lawyers and witnesses
for prosecution and defense left at
midnight Saturday.
Kern Marr Appears
Fern Marr, "the girl of mystery."
who was wanted aa a witness by both
state and dofense, figured In a sen
sational incident when she made her
first public appearance in Alliance
late Saturday afternoon.
She arrived here Saturday morn
ing and Saturday afternoon, after
the closing of the trial and the free
ing of the defendants, laughingly re
lated how she had outwitted repre
sentatives of the prosecution and
eluded those who sought her.
As Miss Marr, accompanied by
Amos Abley of Omaha, walked from
the Alliance Hotel to an automobile,
H. B. Cowles of Valley, her employer,
approached and asked her to go with
him.
Abley vigorously pushed Cowles
aside and Miss Marr stepped into the
car and drove away with Abley.
Abley Is said to be n former saloon
keeper of Omaha.
"I got off the train from Omaha
at Broken Bow," MIsh Mar declared,
"and later I came to Alliance."
On arriving in Alliance on No. 41
Saturday morning, Miss Marr eluded
those who son light her by going a
ronnd-about way out of th Burling
ton railroad yards. She remained
conceded until late la the day sad
left Saturday eight for Omaha.
Injunction on OStoars
John linger, former oeltae otBcer
at Omaha, who had been assisting la
the defense here, returned to Alliance
on th same train after a day's ab
sence. Bilks Harrington, All no a
Fisher and William Rooney, attor
neys charged with having liquor la
thehr eosesesion as a result of a raid
on the Drake Hotel here early last
week, obtalaad a temporary injunc
tion restraining County Judge Ira K
Tash and County Attorney Lee Baaye
from proceeding with the prosecution
af the else. Ths Injunction wns
granted by Judge Westovwr here Sat
urday afternoon.
Although the decision of Judge
Grimes came ss a bolt from the sky
to the state, counsel for the defense
(Wlcred they had expectd a similar
decision earlier in the trial on a de
murrer. Attorney Baker snld the case was
won at the preliminary hearing at
Chadron when he demanded a trans
cript of the evidence. At the prelim
inary hearing the evidence showed
that Crites and Mrs. Hood knew of
the alleged attempt to compromise
them and were prepared for the
event with witnesses.
"There never was any case," Mr.
Baker said. "The only crime was
committed by those who made the
frame-up and made dupes of certain
people of Chadron. leaving Mrs.
Hood to suffer the consequences."
Mike Harrington repeated the
statement which he made In the pre
liminary hearing ut Chadron, "He
laughs last, laughs best."
Case Not Changed, Hays Sutton
H. C. Brome of the prosecution
said: "My belief was and is that the
state's theory of the case was cor
rect. The court, however, has held
to the contrary."
Crites said the decision was a sur
prise. Sutton said the decision does not
change the case, although It frees
the defendants.
Judge Grimes Bald, when a Herald
reporter asked If he had anything to
say now that the trial was over:
"You heard what I said In court?
Well, tell them that, and say that I
think they ought to try their Omaha
cases in Omaha and not out here. I
suppose there will be no more Omaha
cases tried here for a while, at least."
The testimony of Sutton, County
Attorney Crites and Mrs. Hood was
that at 7 o'clock, three hours before
the scene In Crites' office in Chadron
last May, they knew of the plan of
Winckler, Day and Mote to Induce
them, through Mrs. Phelps, to go to
I the office and the three defendants'
plan to find them there and accuse
them.
The witness also testified that they
and Mrs. Phelps planned to go to the
office to entrnp the defendants, and
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that Sutton and Crites had previously
agreed by letters and telegrams to
co-operate for the purpose of catch
ing the defendants.
Mm Hood, who did not testify in
the preliminary bearing, corrobo
rated the other state's witnesses on
ihe point that the purpose in going
to the office was to entrap the t-
feadentn
Mrs. Phelns. star witness for the
ttrowfutioii. was to have been the
next witness called, had the defend
ants' motion been overruled.
Tho roiirt's decision was rendered
before a large crowd of spectators,
who had anticipated hearing Mrs.
Phelps testify.
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DRINK HOT TEA
FOR A BAD COLD j
i i :i hinall package of Hamburg
rlresat Tea, or as the German folks
sell it. "Hamburger Brust Thee," at any
pharmacy. Take a tsblespoonful of ths
tea, put a cup of boiling water upon
it, pour tbrougli a sieve and drink a
teacup full at any time during the
day or before n tiring. It is the most
affective way to break a cold and cure
grip, as it opens the pores of the skin,
relieving congestion. Also loosens the
bowels, thus driving a cold from the
system.
Try it the next time you suffer frsm
a cold or the grip. It is inexpensiv
and entirely vegetable, therefore safl
and harmless.
t olocalltiea or sections of the coun
try as nearly as possible In propor
tion to the quotas asaigned by the
Treasury Department to tho various
federal reserve districts so that each
such district will get credit for its
proportionate share of the total sum.
The actual subscriptions will be
made in each federal reserve district
by the associated Bell company oper
ating In such district. The Bell Tel
ephone System also subscribed $5,
000.000 to the First Liberty Loan,
but owing to the over-subscription on
that issue only a part of it was ac
cepted. Arrangements have been made
whereby employees of the Bell sys
tem may subscribe for Liberty Loan
bonds and pay for them on install
ments during the coming year.
Tips From Telegraph
and that it is up to the retailer to
get in line.
Jesse C. Hager, of Amherst, S. D. .
was fatally injured when a colt kick
ed a pitchfork la such a manner that
the tines entered the man's throat
Mr. Hager and a friend were walk
ing through a barnyard when the
accident occurred.
Attorney General Havner of Iowa
has instructed County Attorney Ole
T. Naglestad to take steps to can
vass all the ballots cast in the pro
hibitory election in Woodbury coun
ty. Supervisors throughout the state
will canvass the votes cast in their
respective counties.
Eastern and nortli western counties
in Kngland were raided by six or
.-.even German airships. The enemy
air craft did not reach London. Dis
patches describing the ruid did no'
contain reference to casualties.
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fjlfJT TELKPHONK BUYS
FIVE BII.MONH IK BONDS
The American Telephone and Tel
egraph Company and Its associated
coiupauies forming the Bell Tele
phone System, have announced a
subscription in behalf of themselves
snd their employees of $6,000,000 of
the Sevoed Liberty Loan.
This subscription Is to be allotted
Fearing that the Germans are con
templating a drive on Petrograd, the
Kussian seat of government is soon
to be moved to Moscow. The civil
population already is leaving lteval,
one of the principal ports on the Gull
of Finland.
Charged with conspiring to place
an explosive on a United States con
veiled transport, formerly a German
American liner, Charles W. Walnum
was held without bail In the United
States court at New York city.
Advances of (26.O0O.O0U to Kng
land and $20,000,000 to France made
by the United States have brought
the total loaned to the allies to $2,-756,400,000.
While hopes are held out by Fuel
Administrator Gartield and high offi
cers of the United Mine Workers that
the strike of coal miners In the cen
tral competitive districts will soon be
settled, the fuel .situation in the mid
dle west Is reported to have assumed
a serious aspect.
Machinery has been set iu motion
by the United States to take to task
pro-Gerinun workers who supported
a move at various points in the
United States to pour cold water on
the Liberty loan campaign
I,ate reports from the Oesel island
zone are to the effect that about 20
Russian warships are bottled up In
Moon hounn. rne nusiuns are pui
iting up a stubborn resistance against
; being cut off from communication be
tween the Gulf of Riga and Finland
Three men lost their lives when ,
I the boiler of a freight train exploded
; near I.ramie, Wyo. An engineer.
fireman and brasemun were Kiueo
Iowa recruits of the Eighty-eighth
division of the National Army at
Camp Dodge, assigned to the One
Hundred and Fifty-third depot bri
gade, pending their transfer to the
national guard army units at Dom
ing, are expeeted to move south this
week.
After a merchant in Council Bluffs
had informed a Liberty loan bond
commtttee that the government could
attend to its own business and he
would do the same. Indignant citi
zens painted the front of the man's
store, on a principal business street,
yellow.
Food Administrator Hoover has
given out notice that a curb has been
put oa high food prices, so far as tee
wholesaler is concerned, and that it
is now up to the consumer to see lo
it that bis retailer does not over
charge. The food admialstrator said
that wholesale prices of flour, beef
sad sugar bad recently beea reduced
Bone Barometers.
It Is a fortunate thing that Lone
bsrometcrs are going out of style. The
people who have always felt everything
in their bouee were forever feeling
many things tbut nobody wanted them
lo feel. It never ruined ou a holiday,
the washerwoman uever failed to
come, the hugs never ate the rones,
company never appeared unexpectedly,
nothing unpleasant ever happened
without the person who had boues de
dating that Hhe had known It all the
time, that she bad felt it In her bones.
If the boue barometers could have been
trained to predict sunshine and good
crops they would have been very good
things to have and would never ha
gone out of style, but a bone barome
ter was always fulling. And at last
It baa fallen almost out of sight. In
dianapolis News.
Only Owe Ckance
To bear lfiBS Buckley. "She is
simply great " Season ticket for five
entertainments $.50 and $1.00.
Single tickets: adults 40c and and
60c. Children iZc. Get season
ticket and save $1.00. f
