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LAWYERS READY
FOR EX-KAISER'S TRIAL.
London, Nov. 22. Lawyers of the
crown have everything ready for the
trial of the ex-kaiser, including the
form and text of the indictment
upon which he is to be called to jus
tice, the Daily Express asserts. The
delay in demanding the former ex
emperor's extradition is due, the
newspaper adds, to formalities nec
essary after the exchange of ratifica
tion documents, which will not take
place till December 1.'
BAREFOOT BOY WANDERS
STREET IN SEARCH OF FOOD.
A bare-foot lad, eight years old,
and dressed in ragged clothes, was
taken to the Central police station
vestcrday when detectives found
him wondering about Twelfth and
Davenport streets. The boy said his
name was Frank Henderson and
that he lived at Ninth and Daven
port streets.
"Can't have no clothes until pa's
pay day," he told police. The lad
was shivering with the cold when
found, and said he was sent by his
parents to find something to eat.
The boy was pllced in the mat
ron's ward. His case is being in
vestigated by the Associated Charities.
OMAHATHE GATE CITY OF THE WEST, OFFERS YOU GOLDEN OPPORTUNITIES.
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CITY BEGINS
TO REALIZE
LACItOFFUEL
Order Stopping Delivery to
Nonessentials Hits Omatia
Churches, Schools and Places
. Of Amusement Hard.
BEER WITH "KICK" SOLD
FREELY IN ST. LOUIS. ,
St. Louis. Mo., Nov. 22. Beer of
275 alcoholic content was sold
freely in St. Louis today following
the issuance by Federal Judge John
C. Pollock yesterday of a temporary
injunction restraining the United
States district attorney and the col
lector of internal revenue from in
terfering with the manufacture or
sale of the beer.
Twelve breweries; were ready to
resume manufacture of the bever
age. United States District Attor
ney Walter L. Hensely said the de
cision would be appealed as "speed
ily as possible."
FIVE CARDS IN "HEARTS"
GAME COST FIVE $50 EACH.
Kansas City, Mo.," Nov. 22.
"Yonner, we wuz just having a
friendly little game o'hearts," chor
used W. J. Henry, Charles Conrad
and three other men to Judge Ed
ward J. Fleming of the South Side
court today, following their arrest
in a raid on a hotel here.
.. "What? Playing hearts with
only five cards in your hands?" de
manded the judge.
"Here's a pair of queens Henry
held when I arrested him," inter
posed one of the 'arresting officers.
"And here is $181 I found in the
'kitty,'" broke in the other officer.
"Fifty each," said .the judge.
"Ah, have a heart," chorused the
men. ;
LOVER STEALS TO GIVE
SUGAR TO SWEETHEART.
New York, Nov. 22. His sweet
heart's craving for sugar and his in
ability to get it by honest means led
to Jhe arrest of William Valentine.
19 years old, of this city. Valentine
was arraigned before Magistrate
Ten Eyck on a complaint made by
William Cerney, a watchman at a
candy factory. Cerney said he saw
Valentine leaving the. factory with
10 pounds of sugar and a three
pound box of candy. According to
the policeman who arrested Valen
ti i ., the latter said that when he re
turned from France a short time ago
he brought some lace, and other
souvenirs to his sweetheart. She
(lid not like these, he said, and in
fisted he get some sugar for her.
After a futile effort to purchase the
strgar,. he, according to the police
man, resorted to the candy factory.
THOUSANDS FACED WITH
POSSIBLE UNEMPLOYMENT
HIGH COST OF RAISINS
LAID TO PROHIBITION.
Washington, Nov. 22. Prevailing
high prices of raisins and scarcity of
the production in eastern markets
are due to increased demand result
ing from prohibition, according to
testimony of E. L. Chaddock, presi
dent of Chaddock & Co., independent
raisin packers,- before federal trade
commission here.
BRITISH FLAG
TRAMPLED UPON.
. New York, Nov. 22. A lirge Brit
ish flag flying from the second floor
of the residence of George Preston
Hotaling, a lawyer, was pulled down
by a crowd and trampled upon. The
incident was the culmination of a
series of protests by neighbors of
the Hotalings and passersby against
the display of the union jack with
only a small American flag hung be
side it. The flag has been flying
since ' Wednesday in honor of the
prince of Wales and the Hotalings
had stoutly refused to remove it.
"As an American dating back to
1640, I maintain that I have a per
fect right to display any flag I see
fit," said Mrs. Hotaling.
TOWN FORMS "BEAR '
POSSE" TO TRAP BRUIN.
North Park, Cal., Nov. 22.
Ranchers and residents in the vicin
ity of Rabbit, Ear Rocks are up in
arms ana nave organncu d umi
posse" in an effort to trap a wily
bruin that they believe has been re
sponsible for many depredations
upon domestic animals for the past
ten years.
VOld Thirteen" ts the particular
v.., , Krinrr soiiffht He is believed
to be of unusual size, and received
the nickname because each of his
foot prints measured thirteen inches.
SPY'S DEAD BODY
RECOVERED BY MOTHER.
Paris. Nov. 22. While after in
numerable formalities Pierre Le
nier's mother has at last obtained
possession of the body pf her son,
who was shot dead by a firing squad
for treason a fortnight ago, the
ccrpse of Mata Hari. the most fa
mous of women spies of the great
war, remains unclaimed by any of
her numerous friends. Her remains
are held in the "spies cemetery at
Vincennes, alongside the coffin con-
taming the body of Bolo Pasha,
which was refused to his brother,
because only wife, husband or
mother have the right to claim the
remains of an executed spy. The
courts, however, have not yet solved
the question as to which of the two
women . claimants for Bolo's body
was Lis legal wife,
School Officials Take Serious
Cognizance of Coal Situation
Railroad Heads Continue
To Be Optimistic.
The full force of the coal situa
tion began to be impressed on Oma
ha yesterday when most of the
large theaters were deprived of
heat, some of the departments at
the packing houses closed, public
school officials taking serious cog
nizance 'of the situation, and many
industrial plants running on a nar
row margin of fuel.
Deliveries of coal have been
stopped to schools, churches, places
of amusement sad nonessential in
dustries. The terminal coal com
mittee is endeavoring to distribute
the supply in the most essential di
rections and to promote conserva
tion in every way possible.
Although optimism seems to pre
vail as to an early resumption of
mining, it is also stated that it
would be a period of days and per
haps weeks before normal condi
tions could be restored, even
should an immediate restoralion of
production be accomplished. '
The coal committee is taking the
situation as it exists at the present
time and that means that Omaha's
ceal supply is being depleted to the
point of serious thinking. ,
Three Days of School.
One of the -large packing plants
yesterday closed its soap and
canned goods department, where
350 workers were employed. In
several of the plants arrangements
are being made for burning oil.
The coming school week will be
only three days, on account offhe
Thanksgiving vacation. The supply
of coal on hand will run the schools
through the following week, unless
a cold spell should occur. Coal has
been transferred from some of the
schools, as for instance, fifteen tons
was moved from Lake to Howard
Kennedy school yesterday. Evening
school sessions and community cen
ter meetings have been discontinued
in the schools.
"The coal situation is serious and
we feel it," said J. H. Beveridge, su
perintendent of schools.
Mild weather is favoring most of
the large theaters from which heat
has been cut off.
Rev. Conrad Bilgery, superintend
ent of Creighton university, esti
mated that his institution has'
enough coal to last to January 1.
The churches have varying
amounts of coal, whichif conserved,
will provide sufficient heat for a pe
riod of weeks. The abandonment of
midweek . services is being con
sidered. Workers Face Idleness.
Several thousand employes of the
South Side packing plants are fac
ing the possibility of being thrown
out of employment as a result of the
critical coal shortage.
Two large departments of the
Cudahy Packing Co., South Side,
were closed yesterday owing to a
lack of coal. The two departments,
which produced soap and' canned
goods, employed 350 people.
"We have only a two-day coal
supply on hand," said M. R. Mur
phy, general manager of the Cudahy
plant, "and it was absolutely neces
sary to shut down the two depart
ments. We are installing equipment
to burn oil and hope to have it
completed before our supply is en
tirely exhausted. A packing plant
can't run without coal, however."
7-w Days' Supply.
R. C. Howe, general manager of
the Armour I'-cking company, said
yesterday that his company had only
a "few days'" supply of coal on
hand.
"We are burning oil, but we must
have coal to keep the plant going,"
he said. "We have some coal con
signed to us which wehave not yet
received, but even that will not help
us unless it arrives at once."
O. D. Maybery of Swift & Co.
also reported that his company was
running short of coal. "We have
a few days' supply, he said, but no
prospects of getting more."
H. L. Snyder, acting chairman of
the terminal coal committee, said
the situation here had not improved
yesterday. The committer is receiv
ing applications for coal from pri
vate individuals in large quantities.
! Rail Men Optimistic.
Burlington and Union Pacific
railroad officials are taking a more
optimistic view of the situation to
day. Mines are producing almost
the normal amount on the Burling
ton system in Wyoming, according
to reports, and miners have returned
to work in Utah.
Two hundred and ninety-six cars
of coal were loaded from Union Pa
(Contlaued on Page Two, Column ScveaJ
U. P. DETECTIVES
AWAIT DEFINITE
, WORD OF BANDIT
Mark Time Until William L.
Carlisle Attempts Holdup;
Robber Sends Telegrams.
Cheyenne, Wyo., Nov. 22.-The se
cret service department of the Union
Pacific railroad here tonight an
nounced it was "marking time"
waiting for definite word from Will
iam L. Carlisle, the train robber
who escaped from the Wyoming
state penitentiary a week ago to
night. Carlisle has celebrated his
week of freedom by robbing a pass
enger train the Las Angeles lim
ited and bringing out the largest
posses that ever hunted a man
through the "bad lands" of this
state. Tonight the railroad detec
tives are frank is asserting that thep
expect to hear of Carlisle definitely
when the young bandit attempts to
hold up another passenger train.
Wires From Chadroii.
The railroad officials here twice
heard of telegrams alleged to have
been sent by Carlisle. From Chad
ron, Neb., a message came to the
railroad headquarters in Cheyenne
reporting the' alleged arrival of Car
lisle in that city with the added in
formation "I am on my way." Lat
er R. E. Stapleton, editor of the
Casper Herald, who was interviewed
in his office last Wednesday night
by a man resembling Carlisle, re
ceived a telegram from Omaha,
signed "Carlisle" reading:
Police Force N. G.
"Your police force N. G. Why
did you tell on me? Am coming;
hark after vnu. 1
Stapleton immediately asked the
Omaha police to trace the sender of
the message.
Confederates of Carlisle working
to throw officers seeking the bandit
off Carlisle's track may have sent
the telegrams, the railroad author
ities believe.
Left Note for U. P.
Chadron, Neb., Nov. 22. A man
believed to be William Carlisle, es
caped Wyoming train robber,
stopped at a hotel here last night
and left a note with instructions that
it be given to the local elegraph
office in the morning. It was ad
dressed to Union Pacific officials at
C-heyemie, Wyo. - - v i
May Be Hiding in Omaha.
"Bill" Carlisle, notorious ' train
bandit, may be hiding in Omaha. .A
"hot" tip was received at the local
detective headquarters last night that
the escaped robber was, headed for
this city from Chadron," where it is
believed he was seen late Satur
day afternoon.
Detectives Haze and Danbaum
were immediately detailed on the
case and a close watch on incoming
trains from Chadron was kept all
night. '
19 PERISH WHEN
BLAZE AT DANCE,
CAUSES A PANIC
Many Others Believed Dead '
Most of Victims of Tragedy
Women and Children.
CARRANZA IS
SEEKING TO
OFFEND U.S.
Information in Hands of Sen
ate Foreign Relations Com
mittee That Jenkins Kidnapr
ing Planned to Bring Break.
OIL MANIFESTO ISSUED
TO CREATE TROUBLE, TOO
Recognition of Mexican Gov
ernment Will Be Withdrawn,
It Is Stated, Unless Its Head
Rescinds Recent Orders.
. ,
The Passing Show . .
Ville Platte, La., Nov. 22. Nine
teen persons are known to have per
ished Saturday night when fire in a
building here where a dance was in
progress caused a panic. Many other
bodies are believed to be still in the
structure.
Most of those killed were women'
and children. The dance was on the
second floor of the building and the
fire started on the ground floor. A
struggle to escape followed. Some
estimates placed the total casualty
list at 50. ,
The identified dead:
Miss Anna Robiero, Mrs. Ocatavo
Sarre, Miss Etta Barre, Miss Lena
Guillory, Mr. and Mrs. Curley
Solieau and daughter, Andre Vi
drener Mrs. Zelma Johnson, Culver
West, Bernadat Fotenot and Miss O.
Buillon. Other bodies recovered
have not been identified. ' '
"Come and Get Us,"
Is I. W. W. Defi to
Members of Legion
Centralia, Wash., Nov. 22. "Come
and get us," said a message from
Bordeaux received by the local post
of the American Legion and signed
by I. W. W. The challenge received
was the second of its kind sent here
since Armistice day, November 11,
when four soldiers were killed in an
I. W. W. attack upon the holiday pa
rade. The possemen before they left
said they intended to raid seven
lumber camps. The camps in the
Bordeaux section are said to house
a large number of I. W. W.
"The two men you want are here,"
said a verbal message received from
Bordeaux by the American Legion
men here. The two men referred to,
it was believed, were Ole Hansen
and a John Doe Davis, both wanted
for murder in connection with the
Armistice day shooting.
Austria Closes Year With
13 Billion Crown Deficit
Vienna, Nov. 22. (By the Asso
ciated Press.) The first year of the
new Austrian republic has closed
with a deficit of 13,000,000,000
crowns.
El Paso, Nov. 22. Positive as
sertion that information is in the
hands of the foreign rejations com
mittee of the United States senate
to the effect that the Carranza gov
ernment is .deliberately seeking to
affront the United States in con
nection with the kidnaping and
subsequent arrest of Willian O.
Jenkins, American consular agent
at Puebla, Mexico, and the simul
taneous promulgation of the oil
properties nationalization decree
was made tonight by a member of
the sub-committee who has arrived
here to inv;stigate international
conditions.
To Withdraw Recognition.
Recognition of Carranza will be
withdrawn, this authority stated,
unless Carranza rescinds the" recent
order putting into effect the oil
manifesto, which the state depart
ment recently informed the Car
ranza government, amounts to vir
tual confiscation of American and
foreign oil properties in the re
public. The Carranza decree putting into
effect the oil manifesto, was issued
in the midst of negotiations with
Mexico over the .kidnaping and sub-
sequent arrest of William O. Jen-
kins American consular agent at
Puebla, Mexico. ( "
Decree Folfcws Statement.
The decree followed Secretary
Lansing's statement that this coun
try could not demand for its citi
zens more protection than granted
by another country to its own citi
zens. Formal request for the with
drawal of Carranza's decree has
been forwarded to Mexico City, this
authority stated. Previously the
state department informed the Mexi
can government that the nationali
zation order amounted to confisca
tion and would not be tolerated.
American oil interests were notified
to disregard the decree.
General Angeles Executed
Without Court-Martial
San Antonio, Nov. 22. Gen. Fe
line Angeles, who was reported cap
tured several days ago when a strongu
force of Mexican federal troops sur-1
rounded him and his Villa followers
near Olmi'stos, in the Conchos river
valley, was executed without court,
martial, according to information re
ceived by Martias Garcia, secretary
to Fancho Villa, who is residing in
San Antonio. The same report was
generally circulated here in all Mexi
can circles.
D'Annunzio's "Troops
Are Terrorizing Zara;
. Insulting Inhabitants
Belgrade, Nov. 22 (by the Asso
ciated Press). A semi-official state
ment just issued says:
D'Annunzio's troops are spread
ing terror in Zara. Those of the in
habitants not wearing the armlet of
Italian colors inscribed "Italy or
death" are insulted and attacked.
The Jugo Slavs are unprotected and
have taken refuge in the houses.
"Italian officers have informed the
Jugo Slavs that D'Annunzio will ar
rive at Sebenico on Nov. li, as
liberator of Dalmatia and protector
of Montenegro, which is groaning
under .the most barbarous slavery.
"According to a dispatch from
Spalato, D'Annunzid Intends to oc
cupy the whole of Dalmatia as far
as the Narenta and liberate Monte
negro, giving it to Cattaro. The
operation is being supported J?y
large part of the fleet and many
troops.
"Dalmatia. accordingly, is waiting
prompt decisions by the Belgrade
government against the Italian
rebels." -
Three Killed, Many Injured;
Union Men Fight Legioners
Bogalusa, La., Nov. 22. Three
men were killed and a dozen seri
ously injured in a fight here be
tween union men and members of
the American Legion. The fighting
grew out of the "deportation" re
cently of a union man said to have
uttered radical sentiments.
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COMPROMISE OR
FIGHT TO FINISH
FACING TREATY
Senator Hitchcock Issues
Statement Reiterating Belief
Ratification Yet Would
Be Accomplished.
Washington, Nov. 22. The peace
treaty controversy apparently en
tered upon a week of waiting while
sentiment crystallizes for a com
promise or. for a finish fight in the
1920 political campaign.
Most of the few senators who re
mained here after the closing of the
session, left for home during the
day and there was no indication at
the White House that the president
had changed his decision to let
treaty issues stand where they are
until he sends his message to the
new session of congress a week
from Monday.
Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska,
the administration leader in the
treaty fight, issued a statement be
fore starting home, reiterating his
belief that ratification yet would be
accomplished. He said, however,
that reservations were "inevitable."
The stand in favor of carrying the
reservation fight into the campaign
outlined in a statement by Repub-I
lican Leader Lodge was declared by
Mr. Hitchcock to have been actu
ated more by politics than by pa
triotism. The only word from the White
House during the day was a state
ment by Secretary Tumulty, that
the president was in thorough ac
cord with Senator Hitchcock's
management of the fight for ratifi
cation and was taking no part in
the choice of a democratic senate
leader to succeed the late Senator
Martin. The statement was di
rected against published reports that
Senator Underwood of Alabama,
would have Mr. Wilson's backing
for the leadership.
In the coming week many sen
ators on both sides are expected to
feel out sentiment in their home
states.
Legal Door Closed
Through Which Cole
Might Escape Chair
Lincoln, Nov. 22.( Special.)
The supreme court has refused a re
hearing in the application of Anson
B. Cole sentenced to electrocution
with Grammer for the hurder of
Mrs. Lulu Vogt in Howard county.
The vcourt in denying the appli
cation nolds that when a defendant
is convicted and sentenced in a
court of competent jurisdiction,
habeas corpus proceedings are not
available for correction of error in
proceedings. All presumptions are
in favor of jurisdiction of the court.
"Applicant for this writ has not
offered sufficient facts from the rec
ord of his conviction to enable the
court to determine whether the
trial court was without jurisdic
tion.'' it is held.
This will mean that both Cole
and Grammer will have to go to the
electric chair January 9 unless per
haps an appeal should be taken to
a still higher court.
SECOND MAN IS
IDENTIFIED AS
LEADER IN RIOT
Man Who Rescued Mayor
Smith Says Nick Fort, Gang
ster, Struck Him.
. Chauffeur Russell Norgaard at
Central police station yesterday pos
itively , identified Nick Fort, 1415
William street, as the man who as
saulted Mayor Smith on the night
of the court house riot.' Norgaard
was appointed to the police depart
ment in recognition of his services
in saving the life of the mayor.
Fort was arrested by Detectives
Hays and Danbaum and charged
with vagrancy. Immediately upon
his arrest Norgaard said he was pos
itive that Fort was the man who
struck the mayor and he is being
held without bond.
George Davis, indicted by the
grand jury on testimony of Mayor
Smith for the same offense, was
released from the countv jail bv
Judge Redick yesterday to await trial
under what is said to be the heaviest
bond ever put up on a criminal case
in the district court of Douglas
county.
The bond was $14,000. It was
signed by Catherine Campbell, 1512
North Twenty-eighth street, and
Ben Handier, 115 Turner boulevard.
Davis was arrested in Lincoln
Lincoln about three weeks ago. He
was indicted by the grand jury on
four charges, as follows: Assault to
murder and assault to do great bod
jly injury; conspiracy to commit
murder, and unlawful assemblage
and rioting.
The bond on the first two charges
which relate to his alleged assault
on Mayor Smith was fixed at
$7,500; on the third charge at $5,000,
and on th. fourth at $1,500.
Mayor Smith declared that he
was positive that Davis is one of
the men who attacked him during
the riot. Davis denies it and says
he was at home during the riot.
Morris Borsky was also released
under $5,000 bond to await trial on
a chargo of conspiracy to commit
murder and $1,500 bond on a charge
of unlawful assemblage and rioting.
X
Omaha Indians Lose
Fight for 8,000 Acres
Of Land to Government
Lincoln, Nov. 22. Word was re
ceived by United States Attorney
Gen., T. S. Allen that the federal
circuit court of appeal at Denver
had affirmed a district court decision
in favor of the government in a suit
involving the disposition of 8.000
acres of land in the Omaha Indian
reservation.
The suit was brought by Hiram
Chase jr., who was among 85 origi
nal claimants to the land, the govern
ment, however, contending that the
land should be divided among 600
Indian children on the reservation.
$100,000 Robbery.
Cclina, O., Nov. 22. More than
$100,000 in government bonds, most
ly Liberty issues, Was secured by
robbers who earry Saturday morn
ing cut their way into the vault of
the Farmers' Savings bank at Rock
ford, 10 miles north, and looted 18
ot 60 deposit boxes of the vault. ,
JUDGMENT IN
THE T.H. MATTERS
CASE AFFIRMED
Sentence of Five Years, in
Federal Prison Upheld by
U. S. Circuit Court
of Appeals.
The judgment of the local United
States district court in the case of
T. H, Matters, who was sentenced
to five years in federal prison in
connection with alleged wrecking of
the First National bank, Sutton,
Neb., has been' affirmed by the
United States circuit court of ao
peals, according to information given
yesterday by F. A. Peterson, assist
ant united States attorney.
Mr. Matters was tried twice in
the federal court, the first convic
tion having been set aside by the
court of appeals, and the second
judgment being that which has just
been amrmed. tie was charged with
aiding and abetting in the issuance
of certificates of deposit contrary
to the tederal banking laws. His
trials were legal battles, in which
some of the foremost legal talent
of Omaha and Lincoln -participated.
Howell Not Surprised.
"I am not surprised that hte court
of appeals has upheld the local fed
eral court.' said Franlc S. Howell,
who, as United States district at
torney, prosecuted Mr. Matters at
his first trial in 1915. ''The new
trial was granted after I convicted
Mr. Matters, not on any question of
law, but on the ground that certain
inflammatory evidence had been al
lowed to come into the trial. On
questions of law the United States
attorney was always upheld.
"The appeal from his second con
viction was entirely on law ques
tions. 1 understand.
"District Judge Youmans of Ar
kansas heard the first trial. Mr.
Matters was defended by E. J,
Burkett and H. H. Wilson of Lin
coln. After Mr. Matters was sen
tenced to six years by Judge You
mans, John L. Webster carried the
case to the court of appeals. He al-
(Conttnned on I'skd Two, Column Five.)
German Assembly Will Be
Asked to Sanction Protocol
Paris, Nov. 22. Herr von Sim
son, who was sent to Paris in con
nection with the protocol which the
allies have demanded shall be exe
cuted by Germany to guarantee the
carrying out of the armistice terms,
will leave tonight to , consult the
Berlin government and obtain the
approval of the national assembly
to the new provisions in the pro
tocol. Ora Brown Sentenced to
20 Years in State Prison
Ora Brown, alias Barnhart, was
sentenced to 20 years in the pen
itentiary yesterday by District Judge
Redick for criminal assault. Judge
Redick overruled the motion of
Brown for a new trial. Brown was
found guilty by a jury of a statutory
offense against a 7-year-old girl. The
alleged offense occurred July 7.
1919 '
IDENTITY OF
VICTIM NOT
YET KNOWN
'".
Officials Hope Mystery. Will
Be Solved Through Recogni
tion of Features at Omaha -Undertaking
Establishment. , j
CALHOUN DANCERS TAKEN
TO MORGUE TO VIEW BODY
Clue Discovered Likely to
Bring About Identification
Tomorrow or Reveal Whre
Crime Was Committed.
Important developments occurred
yesterday in the case of the mur
dered girl whose body was found
Thursday morning in a Washington
rounty ravine 15 miles north and
west of Omaha.
The body was brought to Omaha
last night and placed in John A.
Gentleman's mortuary. The cloth
ing worn by the girl when she was
found will be replaced on her body
tody in an effort to aid identifica
tion. It is hoped that among the
visitors to the mortuary today will
be fomebody who will recognize her
features sufficiently tb give a strong
clew to her identity and lead at least
to a partial solution of the mystery
that has baffled the police for three :
days. .
Attended Dance at Calhoun.
City Detective Andrew Jay Trapp
and a corps of newspaper men
learned last night that a girl answer
ing very closely the description and
appearance of the murdered girl at-
tended a dance at Dick Johnson'i
dance hall in Calhoun Saturday
night, November, 15,' in company
with two other girls and three men,
and that the girl had a quarrel with
her escort, a tall, well dressed, good
looking fellow. It was, also learned
that the sextet went to Calhoun
from. Omaha in a touring car with
curtains drawn and that they left,,
the dance in a heated argument at
3:30 Sunday mcxaing and started
toward Omaha. It was learned, too,
that the party was seen near the
first bridge this side of Calhoun half
an hour later. At that time their
car was stopped, the curtains drawn
tightly and all was quiet about'the
car.
Dancers View Body.
Omaha police stopped the masked
ball at Johnson's dance hall, last
night and had more than 100 of the
dancers who had not viewed the
body, look at it in an effort to find
some one who recalled seeing the
girl in life.
Cecil Stricklett of Blair, Neb.,
danced with the girl supposed to be
the murdered girl Saturday night,
November ' 15. She told him she
would be at the dance in the same
hall last night. She failed toappear
last night. Last night's dance was a
masked ball. Everyone was made
unmask by the Omaha police and
every face scrutinized to see if the
girl had kept her promise. 1
Important Clue Found.
A third development was a hurried
visit of Miss Ballard to Omaha dur
ing the afternoon on a report to her
that there were several persons'who
found it inconvenient to go to Cal
houn, but who might be able to iden
tify the clothing of the girl.
The fourth development is re
garded as the most important, if the
public view of the body in Omaha
today fails to bring identification.
This is an investigation of a clue
discovered yesterday that is ex
pected to lead to the identity of the
girl Monday, or at least to give the
first definite facts regarding her
death.
Girl Not Recognized.
All efforts failed yesterday to
identify the murdered girl.
The report that she was Miss
Helen Lovelace, former counter girl
at the Hotel Rome, fell down at atf
early hour.
The two girls who had claimed
to recognize her from a photograph.
Miss Catherine Foley, cashier of the
Hotel Rome, and Miss Edna White,
cigar girl at the Carlton hotel, were
taken to the morgue at Calhoun
during the afternoon, and immedi
ately on viewing the body said that
they had been misled by the photo
and that it was not Miss Lovelace.
In the meantime, it had been
learned that the Lovelace girl, whd
has been absent from the hotel for
some time, had been married to T,
L. Hannon, a traveling auditor dl
the Union Pacific railroad. A tele
gram was sent to Mr. Hannon at
Cheyenne, and shortly after the re
turn of the two girls from their
fruitless trip to Calhoun a telegram
was received from Mr. Hannon as
follows:
Message from Cheyenne''.
J. J. Stirling, chief auditor Union
Pacific, Omaha.
Mrs. Hannon in Cheyenne with
me. Cannot be confused with af
fair menticmed. J. L. Hannon.
Previous to the receipt of this
telegram, thus positively exploding
the Lovelace identification, it had
been found that Mr. Hannon
claimed that he and his wife had
been aboard the train held up by
the bandit, Carlisle.
The new clue, it is said, relate
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