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About The Omaha morning bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 25, 1924)
Pastor-Slaver 9 to Spend Rest of Life in Jail Penalty of 35 Years Imprison inent Imposed oil ^ ife of Victim, Com icted as Accomplice. (foulIiiihmI From I'nire One.) reaved. watches both through his tear fill"il eyes. i^lie made her bed—she is lying on ii.“ His words disjointed—hi; thoughts are overlaid with anguish. “I loved her . . . loved her as .1 daughter,” old “Kum" Swcctin re pealed. “And now half of the heart which was hers when she married my son is dead; the other half is down In the grave with the boy she murdered. Heart Without Vengeance. “I’ve got to find something else to lov '. I’m an old man, nnd the mother of my grandchildren has broken me. 1 had no vengeance In my heart to ward her. I told the truth on the witness stand. And, as Cod is my judge, I would have given my life to haxQjke^n spared that." 11iKeyes' fill, his voice chokes ami lie turns silent as first one friend and then another touches him on the shoulder in the comradeship of pity and sorrow. They pass him silently, refraining from speech, like mourners at a funeral. Hut HI si •* Sweet in Is not crying. Elsie show’s no pain. Perhaps there is a slight twitching of the lips, hut the eyes—glimmering cold under tlfc ir heavy brows—are .steady. She is still the “iron woman"—the unbreakable one. Almost immediately after the ver dict was rendered counsel for both defendants announced they would seek a new trial and the court set January R as the date for the hearing of the petit Mins. Nearly Iftfl llallols Taken, With the discharge of the jury it became known that nearly 100 ballots had been taken as the tide of life and death for the defendants ebbed and flowed throughout, ihe long night. The question of llight’s sanity was the early is.ue. it became known, hut as dawn crept closer there was a noticeable swing toward the tenets of the faction which held Might legally sane. • There was never once any consider ation of the extreme penalty of death, the jurors said. With the sanity phase disposed of. the question resolved It self into whether the punishment should lie life imprisonment for both or a term of years. Tt was decided that 35 years woul# be approximately life for the pastor, the elder of the two, nnd for this reason the 35wear term was imposed on Elsie. Elsie is now 32 years old. J light is 50. Thus by this the Jury held Elsie’s guilt equal to that of the preacher whom defense charged led her astray. The jury included nine farmers, one 1-borer, one merchant and one me chanic. l* was d . y a “bread end butter" jury. Iv-d, logical and \ tit::l!y unmoved by sympathetic ap 1 c-.is. , SEIZED AI COHOL GIVEN HOSPITAL \ carload of alcohol captured by S’ •i;ff l-*. A. I.aln»on a month age w’ll he turned over to hospitals and l y t« institutions. District Ju’ge O. I) Wheeler decided Wednesday. ^ Mercy hospital will receive 200 pal lor.*. Jennie T*M mu nd-son hospital 200 /» gallons, the poor farm at McClelland fd* gallons, and the renninder, 2.-IT!* yahum, will he given to tiie state I .oh i cl of control fur distribution emung various state institution*. One k i lion will he retained hy Sheriff * l.ainson for evidence. ▼ 'Pile alcohol was seized in the W'a hash railroad yards in Council Hltilfs and was consigned from Philadelphia 1 to San Francisco. The seizure was instrumental in breaking up a Phila j delphla lifiuor ring. JOINT MEETING " OF C. OF C. BODIES Member* of the legislative commit tor. the executive committee and a delegation of the woman s division of the Chamber of Commerce havef^een Invited to attend a meeting of the agriculture committee Friday noon at the Chamber. J. F\ Hanson of Fremont, wealthy landowner, will address the meeting on the proposed child labor amend jnent from an agriculture standpoint. DANBAUM WOUNDS ARE NOW HEALING Chief of Detectives Ren Dnnbamn ’will remain In the hospital two week* longer-, said his mother AVednesdny morning. Hi* Christmas will be celebrated In bis room lit the lies pi t a I. Visitors ate now permitted to *' e him. An X ray picture taken -Yuc -day Showed that the bullet • and* are healing. Mrs. Danbnum Slid, and no Infection has set in. Nebraska News Nubbins -> Humboldt.—American Region post and the woman's auxiliary gave a de lightful Christmas program In con nection with the memorial Christmai tree and treat at the aPrarnoimt the iter. Between 300 and 400 children participated. Dr. C. B. A root, com mander of post Xo. 260, presided. Uev. B. >1. Dawson, chaplain of the post, delivered a short Christ mat tall;. Pawnee City.—Following an inspec ilon of plants in Omaha equipped with automatic stoked steam boilers, the cft\ council has derided to equip the local municipal light and water plant with similar installations. Humboldt.—The funeral of Mrs, llenr.v Sells, who diet! suddenly on Sunday, was held Tuesday nt the home. Rev. .7. M Both well, pastor "f the Methodist Episcopal church, was in charge. Pawnee Fanners Hold Back Corn i Elevator Receipts Are Small Though $1.10 a Bushel Is Offered for Grain. Pawnee City. Dec. 24.—Despite high itrices ld«l on corn, little of the grain is being shipped out by elevator men • *f this city. Receipts Friday, when 31.10 was bid by local buyers, were small. At many of the farm sales cribs of grain are being withheld from the auction, and most of the crop is still held in the county. The experiment of sheep feeding, made last season by many feeders of the county, is not being conducted near Pawnee City on the scale that it was last year, and receipts of cat tle here for winter feeding are be low normal. The fact that the demand by local feeders for corn nearly always ex ceeds the supply Is said by dealers to be a cause of the non-movement of the grain. DETECTIVE SLAIN IN PISTOL BATTLE By InfernHtinnnl \pwh Service.* Chicago, Dec. 24.—Chicago’s Christ mas crime wave continued unabated during the list 24 hours and a* a re sult, one detective sergeant and two bandits are dead today, and another detective sergeant and a thief lie per haps mortally wounded. The gunplay was part of a night of crime during which 50 patrons of the Sheridan Park club were lined up and robbed by six "polite” holdup men, three employes and two guests of the Parkway hotel were robbed of 32,000 and an undetermined amount of jewels and scores of minor holdups and rob berles were reported. Because he refused to give a loan “on such a cheap watch," Benjamin Albin, a pawnbroker, was held up in his shop here today and robbed of *16.000 worth of jewelry and $500 in 'cash. DRIVERS’ SCHOOL FOR WOMEN, PLAN A women’s drivers’ school to be held In January and February Ik planned by the Omaha Safety coun < il, according to the secretary's re port at the meeting of the hoard of • ontrol Monday. The report s’ates that 2.000 attended the drivers school held recently, with an aver sae attendance of 300. The report also announces that | .rrrmgementa have been made for brief talk* on safety over radio sta lion WO AW, which will be started at once. The report details the work of the \ariotts committees of the council in furthering safety work. YOUTH SUES FOR $50,000 FOR ARM Wednesday was the cichtk day of the tri'l of the suit of Harry !,. Ash ton, 32, Seward, N'eh., to recover j *30,000 damages for the loss of nn arm which was burned off when a 23,000-volt current passed through his body as he grasped a switch handle. Ashton Is an electrician. The suit Is against the Electric Development company of Omaha, the village of Adams, where the accident occurred, and the Blue River Power company. The plaintiff has a wife and five children, lie charge* that the switch handle came in contact with the high voltage wire through negligence of const met ion. PRESIDENT SIGNS PENSION MEASURE Washington. Dec. , 24. Preslden' (culldro today signed Hie omnibus (pension bill granting pensions to a | number of individuals who htive served in Hie aimed forces of Hie country. Bee Want Ads are the best busi ness boosters. Man Slain on Wav to Yule Reuniqn Here Nebraska City Motorist Civ*** Stranger Ritl*-; Charred Body Found; Auto Part* Stolen. l>ei th stifled tut* Christmas joy at i lie home of A. ,1. Albright, I’S.'iH Meredith avenue, Monday night, when news of the slaying of his brother, Carl, reached the family. A Christmas reunion of the Al bright family of Nebraska City had been planned, with Mr. and Mrs. .1. F. Albright, Nebraska City, parents of the slain man, and his sister anti brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Miller, of Nebraska City In attend ance. (lifts hearing his name are piled **n the table at the Albright home in Omaha, hut the body of their in tended recipient lies in a Plattsmouth (Neb.) morgue, charred almost beyond recognition. Clave Stranger "Lift.” Kn route from Nebraska City to Omaha to attend the holiday festivi ties Albright gave a stranger a’iift” as far as Plattsmouth. That is the only due police have to his slayer. Two miles beyond he was found hours later. His auto had been stripped of all accessories. The charred body was found half a block from the car. Tbe clothing had been soaked in nil. Stayed Itehind Crew. Albright hail been employed by the fleorge W. Condon Construction com pany, engaged in road building at Rock port. Mo. He remained behind when the workers left. Rockport to check up what had been accomplished and after a few days’ visit with his parents in Nebraska City started for Omaha to attend the reunion. He was born and reared in Ne braska City, according to his brother. News of his murder was not given his mother. She was told he had hem injured and with her daughter in-law. Mrs. A. .T Albright, departed fur Plattsmouth Tuesday night. Friends of Carl M. Aldrich, jr., prominent in American Legion activi ties in Lincoln, were needlessly alarmed when the victim’s name was first incorrectly reported to he Carl Aldrich, I unload nf AlSlght. Aldrich is a son of C. M. Aldrich of Nebraska City, who says that his son Is now in Minneapolis. / " A Railroad Men Raise Purse for Co-ff orker Confined in Hospital y-' Wymore, Dec. 24.—A purse totaling *20(1 was delivered to Mack Anderson, injured Burlington railway bridge Carpenter, who Is confined to a Beatrice hospital. The money, sub subscribed voluntarily by railway men In all departments of the Wymore dl vision of the railway, Including ‘of ficials, most of whom Anderson had worked with for the past 2fl years, will be used to help meet bis expenses and gluden his Christmas. Anderson was seriously burned about the feet and hands while trying to rescue Ids crippled son, who was burned to death in a railway bunk car in the yards at Cuba, Kan., two weeks ago. All of Anderson's clothing, tools, his watch and Jill personal effects were lost in the fire. Pawner Poultry Show Open*, j Pawnee City, Dec. 24.—The 10thj annual Pawnee county poultry show opened Tuesday, over 200 coops have been obtained by the committee in charge with the cooperation of the county fair officials, and plans were made for the biggest show In the organization’s history. Krle Smiley of Sew.ml will judge the birds, Mrs. Fred Woods ».f tins city is secretary of the association. tfEXTRAORDINARY! Starts Friday, Dec. 26th j 700 Pairs Worth to $10 Pumps High Ox f nr <Is Heels Strap ^ Low Kf feels Heels Row Military Patterns Heels .it . I This after Christmas Footwear disposal brings ^ B^^^h to you the year’s most remarkable footwear of ferings. The values overshadow any so far presented in 1924. ( 'Y. ,| A wonderful variety of snappy new styles, em V- bracing every favored leather and fabric. Foot ,wear for all types of wear, in every desired' \ color. Come early, prepared to buy at least two pairs. Mezzanine Floor •Ilia STYLE WITHOUT W BPBjP' [®PH®(OL^I '519 1521 EXTRAVAGANCE | llfcllr^feBIEsIrwIS)^ DOUGLAS ST Starting Friday, December 26th, on the Fifth Floor Our Greatest—Most Extraordinary S A LE of GIRLS’ APPAREL A Clearance that is all inclusive in scope. If your daughter has a single garment An event that will bring good news to need to supply, surely this wonderful every mother and daughter in the city. sale affords you the best opportunity to Think of the possible savings on new secure it. We urge your early at and wanted girls’ wearables. tendance. Your unrestricted choice of any article in Girlie Nook at exactly HALF-PRXE —Any Girls" Coat —Any Girls" Dress Silk, Wool or Cotton —Any Girls" Hat —Any Girls’ Middie —Any Girls" Sweater —Any Girls" Skirt —Any Girls" Bath Rohe Any Girls" Leggins Quality Wearables for Girls of 3 to lb years— Your Choice Starting Friday - - - • Garments of clever styling, dependable quality. C.nrnie-its which give to the girl wearer a distinctiveness which makes llerzbcrg’s wearables such favorites. And Half Price at Herrberg’s means that you pay but one-half original selling price. No special sale-made merchandise involved. Today’s stocks arc the greatest in the history of this store, you will find the field for choosing excep tionally broad. f Briny the (lirls Down Friday—Kxlra Sales/wopic to Strre You Entire Fifth Floor Devoted to Thin Sale A= " K Prices Slaughtered on Delayed Holiday Ship mentsof Pianos, Phono graphs, Small Goods and Radio Sets. a $41(l;i NO Pi*Ts ^ 1 u ^ MONEY $55° $0 00 DOWN ?7Z 66L Think of Buying Re- Now built Pi.no. «l The.e L-w Price. $325 C ftftl Gr$39dr,2S0’ $320, Upright * / / f Player.—$ 72, $i9s, I Pianos £_ L_ 1 $278, $310. Now Uprights—578, $110, !j $122, $138. ~ Phonograph Bargains $175 Cathedral . . j $125 Brun. v. *k .S 1.5 SI50 Columbia.$50 | $125 Victor. $62 $225 Sonora .SOO ' $250 Klectric Console $16S 75c Phonograph Records 1 5c NO MONEY DOWN Every instrument listed here is a genuine bargain— delayed shipments, odds and ends of ( hristmas buy- | ing that we offer at ridiculously low prices for quick ;alo. Pay SO MONEY DOWN, then small monthly payments. Trade in your old instrument as a sub- | stantial part payment. I I I :' Mandolins . .. 85.00 »"<* “P Gibson - 810.00 «"d «P liar.jo*. 87.50 and up Drut -.812.00 and “P C Melody Saxophones lli Bi.'S v h < 8.>0.00 1 V S 1 . • w • h iso, !tk« .. 800.00 Tenor Saxophones 1 V. .in '-rr Brass with rase . ... . 8 4.P.OO 1 ^ v>rk Bra>■. with . - 800.00 • 1 Y'-rk, At fin sh. vith o; . 8110.00 York Brass Alto Saxophone, new. with care. 00 .continued style.V ' Ooucsbob (Paris) Silver and Gold, with case. ^42 SO n w »)/ *“*wv SAXIKS P.ra! Saxonhor.es s.mplifiod for ihe small C 1 H Afl boy or pirl; with instructions.1 v*vv ! ."Oe Sheet Music.5f* Radio Prices ’4 to xh Off $00 O' r n hr. r w S'J'i S7o Three lube, now ... $140 Thre ■ t he. now . .. S1>N *100 Two lube, now , S7 * i fiO Thr■ * t;; hr. now S 1 00 $170 Three ; hr. now S'.’OO F ii tube. now S*50 ; $”t>0 l " *.ile, now . 92irlO See there wonderful value* tomorrow. ’Rr know you will buy. They are backed by our cuarantee. 1 Sold on r«iv term*. Schmollcr & jllucjl^r Pigmto^ 15H H> 18 DodV $t_Cm aim ^--- r