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^sMrs. Sweetin on Edge of Collapse; Refuses to Eat Poison Love Pact Slaver Worries Over What Will Happen to Her Children. (Continued from 1'are One.) your love?’ And her reply Invariably was: ‘Oh, I haven’t time for that.’ And I was yearning for the love of a woman who understood me. “The first time I Haw Mrs. Sweetin. I loved her. I fought the feeling off until I couldn't resist It any longer. God, how I wanted to be free.” llis face twitched Impulsively and he made a little gesture with his hands. Then he continued. "I was dying for love and I guess Klsie was too. Her husband was a good provider but he was not affec. ; tionate. We were two dissatisfied . creatures looking to Heaven for a true mate. And behind these bars, alone, deserted by all my friends, I can still honestly say to you that I ln\» Mrs. Sweetin as much as ever. I still see her beautiful face ns I lay on the cot in this cell. “I love her with my heart, and I know she loved me. Any man can tell when a woman puts her arms k^sr.oround him. Yes, I love her better A than life. She Is the perfect woman. Forsaken by AH. "I used to lay In bed dreaming of -this woman and the words of my wife ‘I have no time for that’ would keep ringing in my ears. “Perfect love is not known until perfect love Is accepted and given. The world has forsaken me but that's when the Lord comes in for if all forsake, the Lord will not. "I remember the morning I gave my wife the arsenic. She lay in bed, suffering from a paralytic stroke. She weighed 210 pounds, and you can Imagine the poor woman’s plight. For hours In one position and not a hie to move so much as her little finger. I guess it was about 4 a. m. that the crisis was at hand. I thought for a moment she was going to get well, and I prayed she would. It was either a life of nagging or a life with my perfect mate, free. But as the daylight was dawning I was hoping she would live.” Tears welled Into his eyes and re pentance and contrition were written on his face, to give way to a more sinister look as he went on: "it was just at dawn that my wife In the faintest whisper asked for coffee. The weather was chilly and a fting of chill peremated the house. I wrapped something about my shoul ders and went for the coffee. I did not say to myself 'Now here Is the chance,’ but perhaps my subconscious mind was working, for I went direct ly to the kitchen pantry and reached for the container whlrh held a death and a new life—a free life to live over again. I put a little powder In I_,^the black liquid that was handed to me.” The paraon digressed momentarily to draw a diagram showing the posi tion of his wife's bed in relation to the kitchen and the path he had to travel with the death potion. I watched her for two days and nights after she drank that stuff.” he continued. “God, she improved a bit : after she got the stuff in her vitals, for she could then move a bit until she expired." Keralls Ixive. And In the midst of this exposition of the death throes of the wife who had stood by him for 26 years the pastor's mind reverted to the woman for whom he had done murder. He broke off his story abruptly to in terject: “She handed me many notes. Some times as I stooiVln the doorway of the little church when we shoo!: hands! sometimes she dropped their, as I walked a block or so behind her.” The little clergyman was talking almost breathlessly now. He seemed anxious to unburden himself of the whole sordid story. "Wllford Sweetin and I were good fi lends," he went on. “We wrestled about like rhums matching our physical prowess. We never had words. Mrs. Sweetin told me she never loved him. She married him when she was a child and didn't know what love was. At least, that's what she told me. “When I told Elsie goodby after ^ our conference at Mount Vernon, she • said, 'I'll be waiting for you.’ And It thrilled me. At first I wanted to M stick to my original confession, wherein I said that 1 had poisoned both. She said she would take care of my children. 1 wanted to do that but my conscience wasn't dear. So I told the truth. I want all the world to know I’m sorry. But what can I do?” Would Be Chaplain. Rev. Hlght has an Idea. "If I go to the penitentiary,” he muses, “I want to be appointed a chaplain. I have seen both sides of life—the clean and the seamy—and I believe I would be fitted for such a task. “I feel as if this all was preor dained. God perhaps has thrown me In with prisoners, the transgressors of the laws of man, so that I may study them and pick out their flaws. “I’Ve got this scar, now I want to live better than ever. I'in so sorry this happened. It's killing my family. But 1 couldn't help It. Homethlng just pulled me anil I couldn't stop, i'all It fate or anything you like." The pastor choked with sobs. He was near the breaking point. The little church bells aga’n tolled softly. The Interview ended. The clergyman, in the rusty black clothes of another day. the jockey-pastor who wanted to be free, was led back Into a cell. ■ AllVr.KTISKWr.NT. How Fat Actress Became Slender Mwhv ■tn^* people now depend entirely upon Mirmoli Prmicrlptlon Ttblili for isMjU’tinF and i nii(rotltri| fat On« ' l*v»r arlieif ’ «r 11 m thf ahe reanted «t *» »♦ t II) y unit •«*ii i t»y U'inx ihi* new form of 111* f»m «ui* vi*rmnl« l»rea« rlpMon. N"W. bv i*k f n K Mmi rnola I'lMnipl Ion Tnhlel* m*vmi»I time* m v»»i, ape knepe her weight Juat light All 'IriiifKiata ■ 11 Maimuia Pr#» itlptlon Table** mi on* dollar for a bo* or if vmi profit imi tan secure them *11 r#rt f i <> 111 the Mat-inola < n , < ••11*1*1 Mo 1..11 Mills. 1 »at i olt Mb h If >oti have ■•( tiled them, du so. in pleaeeol “He H'as Bad,” Towns Opinion of Poisoner—“She l^as Good” By SONIA I,EE, International >nr« garrlcs Staff Tnr respomlent. Ina, 111., Sept. 25.—Main street has become a court of judgment. The fellow citizens of Elsie Sweetin and Rev. Lawrence M. Might, who killed that they might possess each other, sit In conference assembled. Life in a small tow'n is lived in houses of glass. There are few sec rets. Loves and hates and posses sions, good fortune and bad, happi ness and sadness—all are commonly shared. And now, with Elsie and the preach er held for murder, the patriarchs of this town assemble early at the square close to the furniture store and seek a newer solution to an old, old problem. They review Might's life and that of his “perfect mate." I language Terse. "A good woman—Elsie," a vener able one remarks, quoting from the gossip of his wife. “She was a good mother and a good wife. Sweetin thought a lot of her." Language here is terse and una dorned—like the lives of these men spent in tilling the rugged country side or in the mines. "He wras bad." It is the town's opinion of Hight. Nathan Newell puts the town's feeling into word. “He rame here out of nowhere and what with his face shaved nice every day and his powdered nose and his nice clothes— all the women spoke to him and smiled. He couldn't keep his eyes off any woman. "Klsle was good looking and he took up with her. He took up with some women everywhere." And the little circle made it plain that the pastor need have no fear of a lynching. _ Won't (Jive “Party.” "No, we wouldn't give him a 'necktie' part if wo could,” they say. "He Isn't worth It. We'll let the law take its course and if its hang ing, it will be all right with us. If it isn't he'll suffer In jail.” The white church where pledges of love were exchanged between the preacher and his convert stands idle. Women scurry by, with shawls drawn over their heads. Gossip still carries tales of the preacher about the town. Here Is one who knows of a young girl too friendly with the pastor; there of a married woman who is dead; and far ther on one wfho has heard of a. hus band who has been made unhappy— but always the story is of women; and of Hlght who could not resist playing with fire, until at last the brand, flaring up, seared him and cast its lurid glare on the face of Klsle Sweet in. Wahoo C. of C. ! Urges New Road Resolution Asks Highway to Be Built Through City as Planned. Wahoo, Neb., Sept. 25.—Construc tion of a highway through Wahoo in accordance with the original plans to extend it to connect with Douglas county on the east and Butler and Polk counties on the west was urged by the Wahoo Chamber of Com merce in a resolution adopted unani mously Wednesday. The chamber's statement follows: “It has always been the policy of Wahoo. its business men. and Its busincb* organization to support and endorse the county commissioners in all of their activities for promoting and increasing and bettering the highways in this county, regardless of where said hghways have been located, to being the general policy that good roads make a good county. “When a road project was anticipated connecting through the county east and west, with a western outlet through But ler and Polk counties and a connection to the east with Douglas county, naturnl ly enough the Chamber of Commerce en dorsed this federal and state aid project, feeling that It would be to the benefit of a very large population "At the same time, it la our wish to have all the afflcjais in Saunders and Douglas counties know by these resolu tions from the Wahoo Chamber of Com merce that it Is solidly in favor of their actions, which have established this highway through, by and with the con sent of the federal department and it Is believed that it should be tarried through as these engineers snd the county commissioners have agreed upon “We therefore urge that the legal de partment of the state use all honorable means to see that the law is effective In thl* established federal state aid high way." CHAUFFEUR HELD IN JEWEL THEFT New York, Sept. 25.—In the arrest today of John Keinstein, 24, a chaf feur, police believe they have one of ihe four men who on September 15 held tip and robbed Miss Edith Bobe of $25,000 in jewels and assaulted her escort, Robert L. Hague, marine superintendent of the Standard Oil company, at the Bobe apartment. Bandits Get S3,000 in Bank Robbery Bloomington, 111., Sept. 25.—Three men entered the Heyworth State bank at Heyworth this afternoon, when E. T. Hutledge, assistant cashier, was alone, forced him linto the vault and took $2,000. Lanchow Air Attack Kills 3 (iliangfs Airmen Pelt City at East End of Wall. By ANmirlatH PrM«. Shanghai, Sept. 25.—Three per sons were killed and four wounded today when aviators in the army of Gen. Chang Tso-LIn, Manchurian leader now at war with the forces of the central government of China, appeared over Lane-how, a city on the line of the Pekin Mukden railway, 55 miles south of the eastern ex tremity of the Chinese 'wall, and pelted the town with more than 20 bombs, according to a report received here by the eastern news agency. The same agency reported heavy firing Wednesday along the Shanhalk wan front between the Pekin govern ment and Manchurian forces, accord ing to advices received at Tientsin. Preparations made yesterday by the Kiangsu troops fighting on the front 15 miles west of this city for an offensive against the defensive Chekiang troops, continued today, but no drive against the line of the lefenders was reported. “LUMBER”PROVES TO BE “SPIKED” Rt. Louis, Sept. 25—A freight car said to contain 10,000 quart* of whisky valued at $100,000 wa* seized late tonight on a side track of the Missouri Pacific railroad at Cham inade station, 10 miles west of here. The shipment which was reported to have come from Mandeviile and Bayou Lacombe, near New Orlean*, La., had been billed as lumber. Digestible—No Cooking. A Light Lunch <1 Mf" Avoid Imitation* — Substitute* Bee Want Ada produce results. Rosebud Special Will Bring Band Dakota Booster* Coming for Ak-Sar-Ben Electrical Parade October 1. The Rosebud country of South Da kota will have one day of Ak-Sar Ben all to itself, on October 1. Scores of Rosebud ranchers, mer chants and other* will arrive In Omaha on a special train on the eve ning of September 30, and will re main In Omaha to take part in the electrical parade on the following night. The designation of this day as "Rosebud day" Is a tribute by the governors of Ak-Sar-Ben to the enterprise of the people who have created a wonderful producing coun try out of what was an Indian reservation and a barren prairie only a few years ago. In the few years since the reserva tion was opened, the towns of Fair fax, Bonesleel, St. Charles, Herrick, Burke. Gregory, Dallas, Colome and Winner have sprung up along the Chicago d Northwestern railroad, as well as the inland towns of Wewela, Hamill, Witten, White River, Wood, Mission and Millboro. The Rosebud boosters who will visit Omaha claim that the country is only one-third developed, and that some of the finest land in South Dakota is still available at as little as $10 per acre. The visitors will bring their own hand, which will march in the elec trical parade, and they will attempt to interest settlers in the growing region. BURLINGTON TRAIN TO LEAVE LATER Burlington train No. 22 to Kan sas City will leave Burlington station here at 11:45 p. m., instead of 11:10, beginning September 28, it was an nounced Thursday. The later depar ture is being made to accommodate Omahans and transients, who de sire to attend the theater here be fore boarding the train, and also for show troupes, which must catch trains to Kansas City following night performances here. The Pullmans will still he available at 9:30 p. m. Trains Nos. 1 and 10, placed In serv ice between Chicago and Denver to augment passenger service during the summer tourist rush, will he withdrawn on the same date. ARMY TROOPS ARE NEARING OMAHA Atlantic, la.. Sept. 25.—The Ninth field artillery battalion and the 14th cavalry, en route to Omaha for the Ak-Sar-Ben festival, camped over night Wednesday at Lewis, Is. Offi eers In command reported that Pri vate Derr, wounded at Adair on Mon day night when accidentally shot In the mouth. Is convalescent. j —:—s J Next Door to Athletic Cluh NO DROPS We do not use drop* la our eye examination*. By tha n*a of our scientific instrument* our examina tion in accurate and complete. Same service in our South Side *tora. 24th and M Street*, MA 0784. Flitton Optical Co. JA 1953 1716 Dauflai St. ^ * \ e KeJ>ort hy i Secretaiy Hoover f and 17 Nationally Known Engineers Shows that over half of the men and women em ployed in our industries are suffering from defective sight. The report further shows that the resulting loss is as great as from accidents, idleness, or loss of production due to poor management. The loss in dol lars and cents is tremendous; the loss in health, a calamity. And it could all be remedied if the sufferers could be made to realize their condition. o .T • This is not easy, because the eye can stand so C i iv very much abuse. It can accommodate itself to poor eyesight! light, to glare, to near and far sight, and the victims of eyestrain go carelessly on burning the candle at both ends. Give your eyes a chance. Have them examined today. ONE OF A SERIES OF ADVERTISEMENT? I f \ Nebraska News Nubbins - --- Blue Springs—The body of Mrs. Hazel Rice arrived here today for burial. She died at her home in Long Reach, Ca., last week. She was 26 years old and was formerly Mis* Hazel Brooks of Wymore and Blue Spring*. She moved to southern Cal ifornia with her husband, George. Rico, four years ago. The husband, mother and a small child survive her. Humboldt—Final check on fall fes tivai returns by the chamber of com merce showed a fair balance In the treasury. The committee on mem bership reported 125 names which were unanimously placed on the roll for 1925. Mouth Miniiv City—Because of sev eral robberies by sneak thieves, street fights, drunkenness and midnight prowling, Ihe authorities are consid ering the appointment of a night watchman and ihe arrest, of all groups of hoys found on the street* after midnight. Peru—Mrs. Marftie B. Martin, a long-time resident of Peru, died Sun day afternoon. Her son. Klllott, came from California and her son, Frank, from Jacksonville, Fla., to attend her funeral. able RocBois Press rounded* ouDu Table Koek—DuBois Press rounded out 20 years of existence with the last Issue. The paper is published by Harry Moore, who first took over the property in 1912, sold it and re purchased it a few years ago, after he ran the Steinhauer Star for a few years. Blue Mprings—The body of Mrs. W. M. Copeland was burled here beside a son. She died at Payette, Idaho, last Saturday. She was the wife of W. M. Copeland, an early day employe of the Burlington railway, who was agent at the Filley and Adams sta tions from 1890 to isos. YOUNG T R.’ NAMED G. 0. P. CANDIDATE Rochester, X. Y., S^pt. 25.—Theo dore Roosevelt, asMMant secretary of the navy, was nominated for povei nor by the Xew York republican Mate convention today. The choice was made upon the first ballot. Colonel Roosevelt had a majority over Him combined votes for his three com petitors, Col. William M. Hayward of Xew York, District Attorney Guy B. Moore of Buffalo' and Supreme Court Justice Arthur S. Tompkins of Nyack. The vote was: Roosevelt, 563; Hayward, 187; Moore, 101; Tomp kins. 134. r^1-" Stock Killed as Train Is Wrecked Broken Rail Throws Five Cars in Ditrh at Astor, la. Specfiit PWpstrh to The Omaha flee. Manilla, la., Sept. 25.-?-Sixteen freight care were thrown Into a ditch and wrecked Wednesday morning at Astor, seven miles southwest of here, when a Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul freight train struck a broken rails in passing over a switch. Five of the cars contained live stock, and dozens of animals were killed and maimed when the car* were overturned and smashtd. The cars were piled three and four deep In the flitch along the track. The freight train was running at good speed, a few' miles ahead of passenger train No. 4, due In Manilla at 8:45 a. m. The engine and 10, cars of the train passed safely over the broken rail, hut it gave way as the remaining cars passed over It. The passenger train was delayed two hours while the track was cleared of wreckage. Property damage was heavy, ac cording to railroad officials. None of the train crew was injured. COOLIDGE SCORES RAIL OWNERSHIP (Contimiprl from Pa*o One.) of irade and the natural sources of mechanical power, the nationalization of all industry could soon be expect ed. "Our forefathers were alert to re sist all encroachment* upon their rights, if we wish to maintain our rights, we can do no less. Through the breaking down of the courts lies an easy way to the confiscation of the property and the destruction of the liberty of the individual. With railways and electrical utilities under political control, the domination of a group be so firmly intrenched in the whole direction of our government that the privilege of citizenship for the rest of the people would consist largely In the payment of taxes. Fathers Put Faith in Kepublir. "The fathers sought to escape from any such conidtlon, through the guar antees of our constitution. They put their faith in a free republic. If we wish to maintain what they estab lished. we shall do well to leave the people In the ownership of their prop erty, in control of their government and under the protection of their courts. By resolute determination to resist all these encroachments we can best show our reverence and ap preciation for the men and the work of the first continental congress?" Declaring It significant that the first congress "resulted from the voluntary effort on the part of the people to redress their oWn grievance* and remedy their own wrongs," Mr. Cooltdge warned that "we pay too lit tle attention to the reserve power of the people to take rare of them selves: we are too solioltlous for gov ernment intervention.’’ Economic Problems Difficult. "Everyone knows,’’ he added, "that our economic problems are very far front being solved, but we are mak ing constant progress both in the field of production and distribution. When certain abuse* arose, we adopted a policy of government reg ulation and control. I have no doubt that some action of that kind was necessary and of course such a policy would be continued. But it has not been, nor can it be hoped that it will be always wisely administered. While it provides some defense against wrong doing its restrictions often hamper development and pro gress, retard enterprise, and when they fall to produce the perfection promised tend to bring the govern ment into discredit. "The real fact i» that In a republic liks ours the people are government, and If they cannot secure perfection in their own economic life It is alto gether Improbable that the govern ment can secure it for them. The same human nature which presided over private enterprise must be em ployed for public action. "No doubt there are certain mu nicipalities where some public utili ties have been managed through pub lic ownership with a creditable suc cess, But this is very different from a proposal that the national govern ment should take over railroads and other public utilities.” FIGHTING ‘BOB’ TO RUN AS SOCIALIST Chicago, Sept. 25.—Representative John M. Nelson of Wisconsin, na tional manager of the La Kollette Wheeler campaign, announced today that the Independent organization's presidential electors In California would be entered under the socialist party label. A formal public statement accom panying the announcement said that Senator 1a Kollette "desired to run as an independent, but the action of the California supreme court wilt force him to go on the socialist ballot with the same electors." SEARS TO SPEAK AT VALLEY FRIDAY Congressman W. G. Sears and J. M. Rodman, republican candidate for the legislature, will speak Friday night inj the opera house at Valley. Hester White Is Bandit Victim Daughter of Armour Presi dent Meets Burglar in Home; Loses Jewels. By International Newa dfrtlr*. Chicago, Sept. 15.—A "gentleman burglar" with a London accent," was being Bought by the bandit aquads of the detective bureau here today as the man who last night alngle handed held up Hester White, daugh ter of F. Kdson White, president of Armour and company, In her palatial summer home at Lake Forest, while guests were making merry on the floor below, robbed her of a pearl necklace and two diamond rings and escaped. The robbery occurred about 1* o’clock, when Miss White left the room where the guests were as sembled to go to her apartment on the. floor above. At the head of the stairs, the rob ber threatened her with a revolver, and, warning her to be quiet, de manded the jewels she was wearing. After obtaining these, he walked quickly, but quietly out of the front door. Noting that Phil La Follette, son of Boh. is called a "chip off the old block," the Tecumseh Chieftain wants to know why they pick on the boy that way. "He may outgrow It," savs the Chieftain. M YEARS OF SAFE INVESTMENT We pay 6Dividends Inter est compounded Quarterly. ASSETS 14 MILLION Start a savings account with us today. Money invested in tfi First Mortgages on Homes. BUILDING "•LOAN ASSOCIATION 18th and Harney Omaha The Brandeis Store Friday—a Distinctive Collection of Specially Purchased J New Autumn M illinery Priced to Offer Unequalled Values I New burnt goose Hals— , In Black and the Smartest Beautiful embroidered Hals S' P* dutumn Shades Many types for dress wear VLL J ^ Almond— } outhful pokes for the bobbed head— == Darkwood— Panne velvets— ■ ^ Cedarwood— Lyons velvets— ^B New postillion crowns— Taffee Tailored Hats • Combinations Every woman will profit by selecting her fall hat from this wonderful selection. Every hat is priced specially for this sale event—and every hat is a rare value at this sale price. Hats for the Matron Hats for the Miss Hats for the Flapper Hats for the College Girl Hats for the Older Woman Large Head Sizes Small Head Sizes m-rr—-— t-jt -r~ - -: 1 hey Are Not 6.65 Hats—They Are Worth Almost Double This Modest Sum