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Daily Bee Silk Hat Harry Bat Side Spiittimj Stoats Mir On Oar Magnata Face.- WITHER FORECAST Showers VOL. X1I-X0.-. 273." OMAHA, AYEDXESDAY MORNING. MAY 1, 1912 FOURTEEN PAGES SINGLE COPY TWO CENTS. The Omaha STEAMER TEX1S STRIKES A MINE Turkish Hail Vessel with Americas Name it Sank at Entrance to the Golf of Smyrna. HUNDRiiD AKD FORTY DEAD Ninety of the 156 Passengers Aboard Reported Sated. . NUMBER ARi, BADLY INJURED Vessel Owned by Archipelago American Steamship Co. FAHIX io FOLLOW PILOT BOAT It la Alleged that Skip Deviate . tna Coarse Marked Oat for It Through tha ' Mlaa . Field. SMTiCvA. April Sa-Ta steamer Tsxes, belonging to the Archipelago American Steamship company, struck a mine at the entrance to the Quit of Smyrna, and tank One hundred end "orty person The Texas was (lying the Turkish flag end was engaged In carrying mall from Constantinople to the Levant. ; It was first stated that the Teiee was en American vessel, the error rising from the feet that it Is part of the fleet of a loeal concern trading under tb nam of the Archipelago American Steamship company. Marty Passengers Saved. . CONSTANTINOPLE. April StL-Nlnety passengers out of the US on board the Texas were rescued, according to reports received here. Several of the rescued passengers were Injured. No mention Is made of the crew In the report. It la aleged that the disaster was due to the Texas deviating from the course Indicated by the vtyl boat preceding her tnrougn Ins mine field.- Rifles for Mexicans Seized by Mistake Mexico City. April 30-Th selture yester day by the. Mexican. police of tfclrty of the IK rlftt-s, shipped to the American. am basaador for the use of American colony in the event of trouble In the capital. Is explained today by the governor of the federal district to be pursuant to an 'order of the secret police Intended to prevent the traffic In arms with the re volutionaries. On application, the governor says he will Isms a permit for th continuance of the distribution of the weapons among .American residents even at points out-, sMe til oapltol. . . j : . i The arms which acre Confiscated yester day hava been recover. ' WOULD LIMIT PRESIDENTS . JO SINGLE SIX-YEAR TERM . Washington. April Sft-Representatrvea Clayton of Alabama chairman of - -th Judiciary committee Introduced a house Joint resolution today ' to provide aa amendment to the construction fixing th term of office of president of the United States at six years and making him ineligible for a second term. , .Mr. Clayton said that one' of the reasons he proposed this resolution was President Taft' -declaration In Massach usetts yesterday that a president should not be eligible for re-election. ATTEMPT TO REORGANIZE . BIG FURNITURE COMPANY Cincinnati. O.. April 10-A reorganiaa tlon of tne Ford and Johnson Furniture company of Michigan 'city. Indiana, la jhelng attempted by receiver Elmer W. poutof Indianapolis, who Is In Cin cinnati conferring with creditors of trie concern. It Is said that the assets as now figured are about tl.IOO.Out and R abillties S2.000.000. The plan of reorgan isation Involves the scaling of claims to firty cents on ths dollar and taking In payment for them bonds la the new com pany. . . . . i . The Weather T Official Forecasts Forecaat till 7 pm., Wednesday:, For Omaha. Council Bluffs and vicinity-Inset tied weather 'with probably showers tonight or Wednesday; slightly warmer tonight Teaas rater U at Omaha N Hour. Dag. c5 ia-m.; at at u ..... u M K P m M ' P m m P- m at l-eeal Weather Keeewd. mi. 1511. i:. i. Lowest last night it et w n 1'nR-iwtatKiU .o .et T T Normal temperature for today, U de grees. Deficiency In precipitation sine Mach 1. ot an Inch. Deficiency corresponding period, iflL l ot indies. 1-efkiency corresponding period. Oia . mcbea. Weather la tb brain Bell. The disturbance that was central aver the middle Mississippi valley Monday morning, is now central off the' middle Atlantic coast Rains were general In the east and south during the hut twenty-four bouse and eoeriaue along the Atlantic seaboard this morning. The western disturbance is central over the western Canadian provinces and Is ex tending down over the eastern Rocky mountain slope. The weather Is nn ettied throughout the west- and north west and raina are general In the north west aad on the north Pacific slope and lint snows are falling in Tellowstone yarfc and southern lda.no. Warmer eathrar prevails from the mountains erer the valleys ta the lakes, but cooler weather at moving In ever to Pacule slope. The outlook la far-eon-tlnued unsettled weather and probably showers In this vicinity tonight and Wednesday, with sluthtly warmer to night, followed by center by Wednesday a. . w KLAM. Vocal Forecaster. M.i . r. ta. m KJ i-B-fl T 1 a. m.... OiS. J I a. m fyjX -l '-"m E " m . Urn...'"" PRINCE IS .FODKD;' GOUTY Slayer of Deputy Warden Saris to Die for His Crime; MUSSES DT TEE FISST SEGSEE tnry Sa -Oat Six Hears aad Eleven amlrae Are ' Taken Pileeaee Hears the Verdlet ' Stead (. . " with a laser, - (From a Staff Correspondent) LINCOLN. April -(8peclal.r-Albert Prince) must ate Is the verdict of the Jury which has heard th evidence In the case wherein he was charged with murder m the killing of, Deputy, Warden. Davta. at the penitentiary during chapel exercises February U. Tha 'jury reached a verdict about 1 o'clock this morning, but Judge Cornish decided not to come to tha court ta re ceive it until tha usual hour of convening court' -'.'- Judging by appearances. Prtace was the moat disinterested one among th speo tatora m tha court room when the verdict of tha Jury was read. Neither by look or action did he give any indication that the words meant anything to him and when H was all -over and Warden Meilct tapped him on tha shoulder and told him to come with him to Ms auarters In th penitentiary he was still eatm and 'appar ently unconcerned. . . Tritce Declared in . Zion Tobacco War ..Chicago. April at True was declared In the Hon. City Tohacca war today after a recurrence of the rioting of yester Aay whan . the adherent of. Wilbur Glenn Vollva, .overseas of Zloav were rout ed by the tobacco-using employe ' ot a manufacturing concern, after many heeds had been broken. Vollva declared there would be no more militant marching against the em ployes of the factory, and Mayor Miller. Whose deputies have had a busy time quieting the warring . elements, said hs was satisfied to leav th question fur the courts to settle. ' t HOUSE VOTES SUBSIDIES . -FOR RURAL MAIL ROADS WASHINGTON, -April SO.-Tb house, today aided the National Good Roads movement by passing a provision uvth postofflcs appropriation Mil which would grant, a subsidy to all highways used In th rural free delivery mall - service The roads would be divided In three class, with subsidies .of . tSS. Sis and SIS a mile. ' It Is estimated tha cost ths first year would hs K.(l,0M to I1S.000.000. Th amendment offered by Rearesenta- tlv Shackleford of Missouri was a com- promise at twenty-nine good road hills Introduced luring the ereeco' session rd of congress. It dlvldss all highways usVi h tha rural " free" delivery mall aervfr inu three (last ex. Class A I M recelv W pet mil a year: claM B, . and (lax C, sjv. Tha amndmni wa adopted by. a o of to at. , .i : . ! Thed Ivlslon was between city ' and country. Democrats and , republicans from rural communities oernbined to da feat the argument of a similar coalition ot representatives from tha cities. 1 1 'i i i i ' ; . BARGAIN. SWINDLER IS SENT, TO PENTENTIARY ! NEW YORK. April . -Samuel Roller, bead of the Broadway Bargain compear, pleaded guilty today lo a federal Indict ment charting 4 he as sf (be mall t awtndie ont-ot-tow merchant of goods worth mor than SlOO.OOO. On on count of th Indictment Judge Holt sentenced Koller to a term of a year and a day In th federal prison at Atlanta. Edward Eggenberger, Bdgar A. Whitney and Samuel L. Lederer, Indicted as "toiler's associates, entered tentative pleas of not guilty. , " ' ' - ." DELAWARE DELEGATES ARE FOR W00DR0W WILSON DOVER, Del.. April 10. -Th oemooratlc stats, convention today named sis dele- gates to the national convention at Balti more, two from each ot three counties ot th stat. ' ' .!- Th Ncwcanl and Sussex county se lections ar advocate of Governor Wood- raw. Wilson. Th Kent county selection was not mad by tha Wilson leader or that county, but the two delegates ar said ta favor Wilson. Th delegates wert not Instructed. BARNHART NEWSPAPER ' BILL PASSED BY HOUSE WA8HINOTON. -April A-The Barn- hart hill ta compel ail newspapers, mag- aetnM end nerlodieals fa brint the names of then- managing editors, owners and I all Mockbolder was attached to the post- j offie- appropriation bill la tha house to- dav: It was amended to make this obligatory oa aewspaper one day ot each week. Th amendment wa agreed to by a vole of Q to & EIGHTY-ONE MILES AN ' HOUR BY. AEROPLANE BORDEAUX. Far nee, 'April It.-A viator Bedel arrived her from Vtllaeoubley to day, near Paris, 'after makmg Intermedi ate stops at Tours and tngoulem. His a vera rats of speed for the Journey was nearly . eerbty-one miles an hour. Throughout (he, flight, he. waa buffeted about by the wind and snowstorm ! raged all tha 41m.. causing him severe suffering. Bedel Intends to continue his flight to Madrid, lis la competing, like Vednnee. for the - Fonunary cup. PRESIDENT WILL ATTEND " BUTT MEMORIAL SERVICE WASHINGTON. April " Is.-Presideat Taft returned t Washmaloa from Ms campaign trip to. Maasschnaatta ahortly tofera at a'vleck today. His stay la th aaaital was brief, however, as be . Is stheifiilsd to leave tor Savannah. Oa. lata thai aftarnoom. Tha presidenl win alas vtatt Augusta.. Os.. and attend aeesaortal senVes there for bis sat aid. htajsr Arrsdsaid W. Bett. FIGHT CLOSE IN MASSACHUSETTS Early Returns Show Slight Lead for Soowelt in Preai- - dential Primariea. B0ST0H-V0IXS FOB PRESIDENT Smaller Towns and Country Fre . ' cinctt Cat Sovrn Lead. CLASK WdNES 0TES WILSON -'", , eaaasasawsssssa Speaker Sunning More Than Two to One Ahead. VOTERS GO EARLY TO POLLS Caatese Held I ader Ustriat Cleada W ith Chilly Matat W lad . Fre-aa lea Mark Activity . tfeawa la Boetea. . BOSTON. April sS-JeRurns la the presidential, primariea today from 3K out of 1.08J .electloa predncU, Including all but ono precinct la Boston, giv La. Foll ttte. fit; Roosevelt. It,?; Taft, K.M. I let urns from 104 election precincts out side of Boston, Including part ot four cities and sixty towns, out ot ti cities and towns, glv La Follettee, 104; Roose velt. .&; Taft, s.355. Delegates-at-Ur?s: Baxter, heading Roosevelt group. i,H; Chans, heading Taft group, 4.U7. 1 ret he - areanr q Returns' from ttS out' of LOW election prectnets. Including 10D out of 817 pre cincts In Boston and forty small towns out of SS cities and towns, giver Clark, 14.18; Wilson. COS. ' Returns from IM out of SO? election precincts In Boston give La Follett CI; Roosevelt' Taft, 10. IS; Clark. 12,411; Wilson. S.1SS.. ' - . Scarcely had the echoes ot on of th most strenuous campaigns In Mssaachu scUs ceased vibrating between Cape Cod and the Berkshire, when the voters were starting for ths polls today to vote In th first presidential primary In the Bay tats, i , In Boston, Newburyport, Lynn, Salem and Haverhill,- th voting began early, bat. la th majority of th 361 cities and Nowns th noils did not open until after- " H,n. . ,11. rvIB U I V. IIVI I WW until p. m. In thea plarea, definite re sults of ths asntast were not expected until lata tonight or perbepe tomorrow morning. Th primariea were held under lowering clouds, with a chilly, moist breess from the sea. In this city every effort was mads to bring out a full vol. '" Wast Tlsbury, on Martha Vineyard, th first , town to report today's vote In th presidential primaries, gave Taft T, Roosevelt La Follett L , Orleans, . a - Cap Cod tows, .voted: Rooodevelt eV Taft K, La Follu'L Clark WUo ii v a- . - - NewHampshire . 'Instructs for Taft CONCORD. N. H.. April W.-Th tut republican eonvsnllon today elected dele gate to the Chicago convention favor. Ing th reno ml nation of President Taft and Instructed them to vol for him un til released. A cuius In th . platform presented ttf th convention Instructing th delegates not to vol tor Colonel Roosevelt under any circumstance was stricken out after a heated debate Th convention adjourned. The platform a adopted Included the following planks: ' " 1 Ws repudiate any assereto .of the government admlnlatenrd under the re publican party as catering to any special or privileged classes. 'At ths same time w denouno those doctrines of anarchy aad socialism that would, deprive any man of reaping the Just rewards of his sfforta to Improve hi condition. W protest against associating ths lofty sentiments- of Lincoln with ' sny such perilous and subversive dogmas aa the: Initiative, general, referendum and the recall of Judges, or their decisions, by popular votes In he heat of partisan feeling." The Instruction were voted, according to the platform. "In view of th emphatic and unequivocal expressions of ths re publican voters of New Hampshire at th recent presidential primaries." , LITTLE GIRL'S LIFE SAVED . BY HEROIC TREATMENT MITCHELL, 8. D.. April .-(8peclal.) By prompt and heroic treatment Henry Ehlers, living near Preaho. saved the Ufa ot bla little 7-year-old daughter. Freda, after she had been bitten by a rattle snake. .She waa coming home from her chool lata la the afternoon and stepped upon a rattler that toy In the roadway. " ,h "P"' mn" Into her - Knowing the danger, she hurried ,h "malrdng mil home, and then went orrr "'"er was worn Ing. Taking be little girl back to th bouse he cut Into tbe wound with a sharp kalf and did all that waa possible td stay the danger.. He drove through tha night to Preaho and placed her m th car of a physician, and In all prob ability her. life wiU be saved. , AUDITOR CONFESSES PART IN WOLF BOUNTY STEAL PIERRE. 8. D April 10. (Special Tel egram. ) Deputy State Auditor Murphy this morning wire from Hot Sprtag that County Auditor Tlernan has confessed to' his work m padding wolf bounty claim aad baa resigned. D. Blllups and J. B. Lapage. twa of th men who ar charged with having been working with the auditor in his padding scheme hava been arrested charged with perjury. The wbote deal means frauds running Into thousands of doflars. Iter Keeked to Death hr Horse. SIOUX FALLS, a D.. April 30- Spe cial. Louts Brandt, the lt-ysar-old son of Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Brandt, living oa a farm In Deuel county, waa Instantly killed as the result ot being kicked by a here. Th. boy waa driving twa horses m th bars when oaa at them kicked htm ia th sit at the stomach with such From tht MlniMpoHa Journal. NEW ANGLE WTITANIC CASE Intimation that Attemnt Was Hade to Reinsure it After it Sank. nrsiosAST senial by ismat fe eaten Haatlag few Message Said 4 Hava Been Received by ths White star Line Moaday ' s Meralag. WA8HINOTON, April ax-Th senste Investigation Into the wreck of th Ti tanic entered IU final stages today. J. Bruce Ismay, managing director of ths International Mercantile Marine, owners ot ths lost ' liner, ' was recalled to the witness ttand and put through a last searching examination by Senator Smith. Mr. lamay Indignantly denied that he or any representative of his company hsd attempted to reinsure the Tltanlo between th time It went down and th hour the real new of the disaster beram public. Hs asserted thst a wireless message, which he directed to Vice President Franklin from th Carpathla on Monday morning, April 16. did not reach that official until Wednesday the 17th. Mr. lamay said ths Titanic waa not a "speed boat,1, but had been constructed under orders 'given by him to make her th biggest and beat equipped vessel afloat No cost limit had been set Before reaching the senate hearing this morning. Mr. Ismay and four offloers ot th Titanic war ftrmwioned lo appear be fore an admiralty court commissioner late today to glv testimony to b used In a contemplated damag cult to be brought agalnel the .White Star tin by Mr. Lout Robllna 4l'Ht York 4ar tha has of her husband. '. .'.: . Hews ( Disaster Held Bark. A Charge waa made to th committee today that th Whit Star line officials had positive new of the dlraeter be tween the hour ol 1 and I o'clock la th morning following th accident, but sup pressed the new until twslv , hour later. Th Information was given by M. J. Dunn, a New York business man. who said hs In turn got his Informstton In New Tork from (he son of a Western Union employ. Dunn refused to glv hi In formant' name, was promptly given over to the sergeant-at-arms, and spent sev eral hours using the long dtstane tele phone to New Tork In sn sftort to be absolved from bis pledge of , secrecy. Vice President Franklin of th Whit Star line uggatad th eoramittee call on the telegraph company for tha mea sag end said hs wanted lbs committee to have every wireless messsgs, cablegram or Jlegram bearing on th disaster. "We waht this matter sifted to th bottom." aid he. . , Builder Bald Ship Weeld Mk. Senator Burton announced that he had examined Fourth Officer Boxhall late last night, and had learned from him that. J. W. Andrews, builder of tht Ti tanic, who went down with tha ship, told Captsln Smith attar th collision that th boat would sink within an hour. Andrews hsd gone over the ship Im mediately after th crash and discovered that the hull had been ripped open. . E. J. Dunn.' an Importer of Mew York, the first witness, said that a day or so ago a friend told of tbe receipt by the Western t'nlon Telegraph company of a wireless message, wnicn waa irans- mlttsd to t'Islefrank" between 7:10 and S o'clock Monday morning. Th cod address Is that of P. A. 8. .Franklin, vlca president of th lnlemsOonsI Mer cantile Marine. Ths messsge. tha witness said, ha was Informed, told of th Tl tanlo disaster, nsws of which was not made public by the White Star line until twelve hour -later. "What waa your Informant's name?" aaked Senator Smith. "I can't tell you." replied Dunn. "I am under pledge not to reveal his name. H promised to come over here to testify, but toddy 1 received the following tele gram: 'Regret present circumstance ao not permit departure.' (No signature.) "1 must Insist yoa give your Infor mant's name," the senator continued. "I can't glv It, I regret It very much," said Dunn. j Did your informant tell you why yoa should not give his mm!" Simply a matter of protecting his father. He said his father was employed by th Western I nlon and that If this matter came out and it' was known thst be gave It, his father would lose his position." .... What Uraaasv Ceatalae- Mr. Dunn ' was temporarily excused. Senator Smith .instructed him to get (Continued on Second Psge-t The National Capital Tae ay, April 3t 1S12. The Senate. In aesetoa t p.m. Titanic Investigation eon tinned. Mea suring Director Ismay at International Mercantile Marine being examined. The Eoose Met at nooav Resumed aonstderatlon - ot poatofrtee appropriation bill with Intention ad voi lg upon it befww adjournment, Getting to be a Two-Ring Circus Chicago University Girl is Attacked, Bound and Robbed CHICAGO. April . -Authorities ot th University of Chicago and th Chicago police were pussled today aver th cir cumstances surrounding a supposed at tack on a young woman student at the university high chooi, who was found bruised, hound and gagged on th col leg campua and who ha wot yet given a lucid explanation. Th girl la Marlon Doreckl. daughter ot Stephen Doreckl. 1121 Noble street, and haa attended the high school sine last fall. She expected to enter the university next ysar. Much secrecy surrounds the Incident snd It was not reported lo the police until today.1 The first report was that th young woman wa th daughter of Countess Ooraskl. To th physician, who finally brought her to consciousness, the girl told a story of having been seised by two men and carried away In an automobile. Several rings and trinket the girl waa accustomed to wear were not found, when he waa picked up on tha campus. Mississippi is..:. , . 'Above Danger Line ' at St. Louis ST. LOCI. Mo.. April Sa-Th Mis sissippi river passed th dnr mark this point thli aierslasi. the gauge -regis. tering at.S feet, a lis of etgM-tenths of a foot una last night and as fast ta twenty-four hours, Th rtss ha bean caused by heavy rain In Missouri and unlsaw rain fall slohg lh Ohio It Is expected to be local. The local weather toiwcaaur this morning declared hi belief that th rtvsr bad reached It crest her. ' Hermann. Ma, report th Missouri stationary this morning aftsr a rls ot Ihree feet In twenty-four hours. Below the Osags and Oaaconads rivers It Is predicted that th Missouri will exceed th flood stag. . Reports from Alton, HI., and other point abov St. Louis this morning ssld tha river wa rising and that lowlands. Inundated by tb high waters ot last month were again being flooded. Baltimore Police Fire on Striking Stevedores BALTIMORE. April St-Dsfendlng them sslves when about 1.000 striking steve dores, many ot whom were armed with sticks snd stones, swooped down on them a aquad of policemen guarding pier No. . at Canton today drew their re volver and fired many shots. Scleral men wers shot but not seriously and a number of heads were crocked In the general melee. The strikers finally fled. The etrixers were attempting to get on the pier to reach strlkebreskers en gaged In discharging ths cargo of the steamship Bulgaria. A riot call brought police reinforcements which prevented further disturbances. Half Million-Dollar Fire in New Ycrk Office Building NEW YORK. April 3.-Ftre today broke out In the top floors of the twelve-story Exchange building on West Thirty-second street and before It was extinguished four floors were burned out, causing a loss estimated at SaOU.om The offices of D. Appleton A Co., publishers, were wept by flsmes. and a dosen or mor printing and mercantile eelabllahraeht were burned out. BOY KILLED BY STORM NEAR GILBERT, LOUISIANA GILBERT,' La.. April K.-Sldney Rosa, aged 1 years, was killed; Ada Roe, hi 12-year -old sister wss seriously Injured snd George Ross, father of the children wss probably fatally hurt, when their home In Boeuff Prairie was demollsbed by a cyclone, which passed over that place Sunday night. Another man was seriously injured. A number of house war destroyed by tbe storm. MILWAUKEE STREET CAR STRIKE IS INEFFECTIVE MILWAUKEE. April -Street ears ar running la Milwaukee today a usual though ieadera ot the etrlke which caused temporary delay last night declared mora a would uult. It Is said that fewer than fifty motormen and conductor failed to report for regular runs. The traction oomnanWa -uetive tore nor than off sets th number who set-4 their can. CABLE SHIPJRINGS BODIES Corpses of 190 Titanic Victims E:ath Halifax. ' EIGHT OF THEM ARE WOKEN Three Haadred aad Ninety Picked l a. All at Which Had aa Lit Bella Haadred aad Six teen Barled at Sea. HALIFAX, N. 8. AprU lO.-On hun dred and ninety bodies, among them those of Colonel John Jacob Astor and lssdor Straus, Were brought to Halifax todsy aa ths cableahlu Markay Bennttt, which had been searching an area of more than thirty square miles In th vi cinity where the greet White Star liner Titanic sank after atriklng an Iceberg. Geo, B. Wldener s body, although pre viously reported as recovered waa not among thoss on the ship, and her com. mender explained that a body, at first thought to hsvs been thst of Mr. Wlde ner was burled aa that of his valet. , All told SM dead were found and 11 wers consigned again to the sea. Wuauaa ta b'lrst Muaraer. Aa sous a I he ship wa sighted due a rhe harbor ths csnvass curtains shield ing ths coffins and embalmers tenls on ths pier were lowered and twenty sailors from the Csnadlan cruiser Nlobe. In the yard for repairs, lined up a a guard. A pslrul boat was stationed In th front ot th pier to prevent any craft docking la th vicinity. ' A woman waa th tint mourner to ar five on ths pier. Fhs s Jflsa Kill Lur tte, a maid for Mrs, WlJIIara Augustus apenpsr ot New Tork. Mr. apd Mrs. Uliatner 'wire passengers oa th Tltanlo. Mr. Spencer went down; Mrs, Spencer ws saved. Ths maid hope to find her late employer body, although it had aot been riorted among those on Ins Mackay-Bennett. ' J. A. Kenyan, of Bouthlngton, Conn., arrived shortly afterward, hoping to Inde-ntlty th body of hi brother, F. R. Kenyon ot Pittsburg. It's own flag at halt mast, (hs death ship docked slowly. Its crew manned the rails with bare heads and on tha aft deck were stacked th coffin of th dead. ' ' " All Bodlea Have I.I re Bella.' Member of th crew talking over the side said that svery body picked up had been In a life belt and there were no bullet hole In any. Many uncofflned dead lay In oa th forward deck, covers! with taj-pullnes. As th undertakers came aboard It was decided to take thess bodies first. Colonsl John Jacob Aster's body. It waa said, waa somewhere In th pile of rough coffin at th stern. The first body removed waa that ot a seamen. When th tarpaulin wa thrown back mor than fifty bodlea war disclosed. Men with stretchers quickly cams on board and th work ot removal wa begun. Captain Richard Roberta, seeking Col onel Astor's body, after a conference with Commander Lardner ot tha Mackay-Bennett, ssld there wss no doubt that thi Identification of Colonel Astor's body was correct. In th pockets RM0 casa wss found. Th body Identified that of Oeorg B. Wldener of Philadelphia, waa so mu tilated that Captala Lardner could not positively say whether It ws that of Mr. Wldener or of hi vslst Th body was burled at sea. It was predicted that the mere work ot unloading would take perhap all day. Aa fast as tha bodies wers put on ths pier, they were placed In wagons and taken up the hill to a curling rink, where they will be prepared for Inspec tion. Colonel Astor's body was brought off the ship snd token with others to the morgue. Captain Lardner ssld ths total number of bodlea found wss H Of thess lla, moat of them members of ths Tltanlc's crew and unidentified, were con signed to lb ses, and th remaining IM brought to Halifax. Only eighteen bodies of women were found afloat. Th exact number of Identified among th 19 brought here. Captain Lardner pre ferred to leave to a otatement to be Is sued by the White Star author! ties. Chicago Man Killed and House Set on Fire .CHICAGO, April A With two bullet wounds In his body, Peter ' Musso. JS reara old. employed by an elevated rail road, was found dead In a burning bed room f his horn on the North slds this morning. , Neighbors heard two shots fired In ths Musso apartment several hours be fore tha body waa discovered. Mussos body was found on tha ted. It Is believed be waa abet while asleep. snd that his assailant sat fire ta the bed to hid evidence of the crime. A revolver wtlb three empty cartridges waa found In a room adjoining tha bed room. A golf cap and a ahlrt. believed to hav been left by tha slayer, were tha only doe found by th police. Moass's wife and child could not be found following tha discovery of tb bod. BLDNT SLAYING STILLMYSTERY With Preliminaries Near Close Re-' sponsibility for Young' Man's Death Not Disclosed. SIATE WITNESSES DISAGREE j Expert Testimony Shows Briggi Sid Not Fire Fatal Shot HEARING PRACTICALLY ENDED Question of Who Fired Shot Haa I Sot Been Developed. NATURE OF W0DKS DESCRIBED' Five Wllaresee Teetlfy at Meralag Session la Trial at Officer Aecnacd of Being Reapaaelble Far Bleat' Death. ' At tha first sitting of th preliminary hearing of the men charged with man slaughter, for tha desth of Roy Blunt, at Papillloa failed to dlecluae whs first ths shot that death dealt to O young farmer, the Innocent victim at th con vict chase of March IS. But tlv witnesses were examined be- . for th noon recess. Four of them said Brlgga fired the first shot. Th fifth asserted Sheriff Hyers wss th man who opened fire on tha convicts. Nat Killed by Brlaas. Testimony Introduced In tha afternoon t by Dr. J. A. Peters demonstrate that, th first shot. If fired by Chief Brigs, j could not have killed Blunt, th courts . of th bullet Indicating that It was not fired from the position where Brigg i stood. It I pretty clearly established, though, that Blunt wa killed by a bul-i let fired by one of the three officer I unless he was murdered by on ot thsj convicts. Witnesses gred that th effl-. did all tha shooting at the convicts. Dr. Petera I ths surgeon who examined Blunt' wound after th killing. . Sai Brlaas Fired First. Msrlon Minlurn, Amos Ketch. Walter Drlscoll and James Russell, alt of Spring field testified thst Brlgga fired first. Th first twa wers certain as to this. Tha latter t ao wuuld go no f urthlr man to ssy Brlggs fired the first shot Th four told how they darted from Springfield between JO and 11 o'clock In tha morn ing and met the convicts and Blunt faca to tec. They turned back when Blunt begged them not to shoot, telling, them If they did not kill him the convict would, and ths convicts msda threat to kill Blunt It they would b pursued by anyone. When th four ltr were passed by Brlggs, Trouton and Sheriff Grant Chss Ih a buggy, they urged th officer not to shoot, ' Mosjlr Waa Veeley of emtha.' The officers replied, I'Sa halt with them, w know our business and w ar going to get them," aA-ordlnC to the wit nesses. Brlggs left tb buggy and ran td th right aid ot th road before tiring. All these witnesses agreed, that th convicts returned the fir of th pur suer almost Immediately after th firing ot th tint shot by th pursuers. They aid tha firing continue! until tha sur render of Money, the only surviving con vict. They ssld to Ih beat or their knowledg no on but Ih officers fired at th con victs After th first (hot ther wa Bring from th rig containing Trouton and Chase, but they could not tell who tired th shot. . . rilag Is l aerrtala. fleorg pflug. who with Andrew Clark started after ths oonvtcta from tb Pflug farm, said Sheriff Hyers fired th first shot and be as tha oonvtcta return th fire at one and It continued until th surrender. Pflug said hs urged th officers not U hoot while Blunt wa with th convicts. "Do you know who killed Roy Blunt." aaked H. C. Murphy of South Omaha, ot counsel for Brlggs and Traouton. "No, was th answer. About twenty witness had bees subpoenaed by th atato before tb hear ing waa begun, but at noon It wa an nounced that probably not mor than, ten wltneae would be put oa the stand and tha hearing could be concluded to day. Th preliminary hearing ia had merely to determine whether th defendant hall be discharged or held for trial In th district court. To warrant holding th men for trial, the atato must tint ahow that a crime has been committed and second that there la probable reason to . believe th defendant committed It. A th hearing proceeded, It became more evident that Interest In th Blunt case Is on the wane. Beetde Blunt' widow and other relatlvee and tha wit ness not mor than SOS person were In attendance. John P. Phelps, who took th stand The men who have the best real estate values to olter are using the classified columns of The Bee. Therefore, you people who want the best values in real estate will find them by answer ing the ads in The Bee real estate columns. Many a man has made the best investment of his life through The Bee reaJ estate ads. Don't let your opportunltj slip by. The least you can do is to become acquainted with the facts. ; Tyler 1000