Nebraska Newspapers

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D. H. CRONIN, PUBLISHER.
W. C. TEMPLETON,
Editor and Business Manager.
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A WaFhlnjfton <T>. C.) woman who
rpont the summer in Maine took a cen
tury-old furnished house. It was neces
sary to use the |<irlor for a Kuept « ham*
bt*r, but the queatton arose as to dispo
sition of the old-fashioned square piano
and where a bed could be placed. The
litSt'sh conceived the idea of turning the
yMa do upside down and making a fotir
mmN bed of It. A canopy wag made,
a iSIntz curtain Added, springs' placed
In position and a genuine antique four
poster was the result.
Rescued twice from drowning within a
perl oil of 24 hours was the experience of
Rettu Spence, lfi, of Chester, Pa. He
coming exhausted while swimming she
cried for help arid was finally brought
to shore by John Crossett. It was neces
sary to resort to 20 minutes of artificial
respiration before \liss Spence was re
vived. I-atcr In the day she again entered
the water and for the second time her
strength failed her. Cresset went to her
aid and brought her In safely for a sec
ond time.
Detective Dennis O'Hanlon, of New
York city, says he has Just run Into
the strangest coincidence that eve*
igrne under his observation. He was
ufter ft girl, Katherine Hart, by name,
wanted us n witness In New York. He
trined her to Hinsdale, In the Berkshtres,
and found when he arrived that she was
not the woman he wanted, though she
had the same name, same age. lived In
the same part of New York and had
left the city’ at the same time fts the
Katherine llart for whom he was hunt
ing
f-'afety first signs on lamp posts, pave
ments. at street rorr^rs. and other
available place* were advocated by El
bert H. Gary, chairman of the United
States steel corporation In a recent ad
dress.
Two Alrdule dogs aided federal agents
tn checking traffic In narcotics In Son
Francisco. They leaped upon a man at
tempting to leave a building by the fire
escape, and held him until the agents
arrived.
Discovery of ft moving Island was re
ported by the commander of a coast
guard cutter, returning to Beattie from
a cruise to the Aleutian Island. He fla
tted the Island five times, and each time
found It In a new location.
A student In a Dos Angeles high school
tried to prevent a door from slamming,
and thrust his hand through the glass
panel. A silver of glass pierced his heart.
As If nothing had happened lie walked
down the steps and collapsed. Death
came quickly.
Old Oap’n Kidd Is said fo have hurled
many Spanish doubloons about 1700 near
the whaling town of Portsmouth, now
under thi‘ water of Delaware bay. Jay
K. McCray, of Cape May, N. J., Is or
ganizing a company to salvugo those
doubloons and pieces of eight.
The century-old dream of converting
Grand Isle. EO miles south of New Or
leans In the Gulf of Mexico, Into one of
America’s greatest resorts will be re
vived by a group of men who will meet
In , New Orleans this month. They ex
pect to spend $1o,000,000 on the project.
A test of the Klnatein theory of rela
tivity will he made by Its originator In
southern California next year. Tho test
will be made September 12, 11*23, when
n total eclipse of the sun will occur.
Santa Catalina Island Is expected to he
In practically tho center of the eclipse.
Carrying forward Its program to meet
the emergency and relieve suffering
among the refugees In the near east, the
American Bed Cross has cahld orders to
all of Its nurses now on fluty In Vienna,
Budapest, Paris and Constantinople, to
hasten to Athens for service In tho re
lief operations.
The Persian government will send 60
army officers to Franco to receive their
military education In the French army
school. On their return to Pet-Bla these
men will he charged with the ro-orgun
lzation of the Persian army. Two hun
dred thousand krans have been appro
priated to meet the expenses of the ex
periment.
Co-eds of the University of Wisconsin
are up In arms because a new city
ordinance classifies the famous Junior
Jiromenade and the military ball, the
most Important social events of the
school year, as public dances, and a rul
ing by tho dean of women pvohlbtts •
co-eds from attending public dunces un
der penalty of expulsion.
Total enrollment at Harvard university
Is greater this year than ever liefnre In
the history of that Institution, 6,265
students being registered, as compared
with 6,073 last year. The greater num
ber of these enrollments are In the grad
uate schools. For the first time, tho
Harvard Daw school has passed the
l.OOO mark and has 1,011 students.
Two hundred and forty monuments are
to he placed In France and Belgium to
mark the German invasion. The stone
markers will line the historic land from
Mie North sea to the Swiss frontier.
The court of appeals of Maryland re
cently decided that the $»,000,000 soldier
bonus, passed by the last legislature, Is
unconstitutional, holding that the ref
erendum clause attached Is iu violation
of the state constitution.
An English scientist has perfected a
wireless receiving set containing Instru
ments so fine that they are affected
liy waves less than half an Inch In
length—the smallest wave used ordi
narily being about 206 yards long.
Japan’s new diet building, being erected
not far from the Imperial palace h!
Toklo, will he the third largest parlia
ment building In the world. The capitol
at Washington and the House of Parlia
ment In London exceed It In size.
Jean Acker (Mrs. Itodolph Valentino
No. 1) h.-is prepared a sketch for vaude
ville, and it Is understood she will use
his name In her billing.
Enough silver Is salvaged In one month
from the waste from tll-us In the Los
Angeles motion picture studios to coin
between $11,000 and $12,000 silver dollars.
Great Britain's newest passenger plane,
capable of carrying 21 .passengers ami
a ton of lugr.tge, has been successfully
tested. It probably will be used In Lon
don-Berlln service.
Bird of Paradise Humes, valued at
$20,000, were seized In raids by federal
agents In Chicago. The Fordney tariff
act makes Importation or possession of
the feathers Illegal.
Benjamin Franklin’s first Philadelphia
home is to he destroyed In providing foe
the approach of the new Delaware river
bridge.
The champion needle worker In Colo
rado Is not a gray haired old lady, but a
78-year-old man, whose embroidery lias
taken prizes at fairs and exhibitions for
eight years. He lives at Canon City.
There is an Insane asylum at Heidei
luirg. Germany where an art exhibition
is being held. Some excellent canvasses
sculpture and mosaics are shown. All
are creations of Inmates of the institu
te-,^.
Shirley Mason, Fox screen lias
an offer to travel as a featured dancer
with tiie Klngllng, Barnuin & Bailey
circus.
One hundred Russian Roy Scouts are
doing valiant work in Odessa delivering
food packages sent in by the American
relief administration.
But Child Is Discovered in
Time tn Catch Mother—
Relative Takes the
Little One.
Oxford, Neb., Oct. 23 (Special.)—A
two week’s old baby boy abandoned
near a garage by his mother, was
picked up here before the train which
the mother boarded left town.
As a consequence, Mrs. Bessie
Kvans, of Omaha, is being held at
Beaver City on a charge of child de
sertion. The woman's husband is
laid to have left her last January.
Mrs. Kvans had been visiting her
half sister here. She has a little girl
two and a half years old. The sister,
Mrs. Jewell Smith, Identified the
baby and took it home with her.
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TOWN OF FOSTER
HAS A BAD BLAZE
Foster, Neb., Oct. 23 (Special)—
Over half the business section of this
town was clestroyecj by a fire, started
when a holt of lightning struck a
downtown building. The loss Is esti
mated at $30,000. The postoffice,
Sehrndeman grocery store, William
ltelkofskl general merchandise store,
and pharmacy of H. M. Willman were
destroyed. The Pierce fire depart
ment war. summoned, but the '"re had
burned Its way through befo.^ It ar
rived.
North Nebraska Churchmen
Not In Harmony With Con
gregational Confer
ence Action.
Norfolk, Neb,, Oct. 21 (Special).—
The resolutions passed by the Ne
braska Congregational conference,
favoring a federation of churches, has
left church people In North Nebraska
bewildered, and many have given out
public statements indicating that
they do not believe In the illmination
of denominational individuality.
Here are a few statements made
by ministers and church leaders re
garding their feeling on the union of
churches:
The Rev. P. M. Orr, pastor First
Presbyterian church, Norfolk: "l be
lieve the work of the churches could
be accomplished better by co-ordina
tion and co-operation of denomina
tions, but I do not mean an organic
union of protestant denominations.
I believe closer co-operation of de
nominations will come in about 40 or
50 years, but organic union will not
Dome in 100 years.”
The Rev. H. H. Gilbert, First Bap
tist church, Norfolk:
”1 am opposed to a union whereby
denominations would lose their indi
viduality, because they would lose a
vital force by so doing. It would
weaken the moral fibre of the
shurch.”
The Rev. W. JI. Coburn, Christian
ihurch, Norfolk:
"It may not sound Christian, but
churches could not work in harmony
If united. Closer eo-operutlon may
come, but I do not believe churches
should give up their doctrinal view
points.”
The Rev. John Witt, St. Paul
Lutheran church, Norfolk:
“I do not think Lutherans would
be affected by the union of protestant
denominations, and 1 db not believe
in the Idea. I believe the churches
should be united in spirit."
The Rev. O. A. Hinson, pastor of
First Methodist church, Norfolk:
"A union of churches in a small
community, is good, but the differ
ence would be Insurmountable in a
general union. Some churches are
progressive, some have high spirit
ual Ideals but some are bound too
strongly to the orthodox lines to take
the liberal view necessary for the
proposed change. What Is really
wanted Is a greater co-operation, and
that is a mighty good Idea."
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KILLING OFF PHEASANTS
IN NORTHERN NEBRASKA
Valentine, Neh., Oct. 21 (Special).—
The state of Nebraska distributed
over 1,000 pheasants over this part
of the country a few months ago
with hopes that the birds would mul
tiply so fast that In a few years an
open season on pheasants could bo
declared and that they could be
bagged similar to the way wild ducks
and prairie chickens are being killed
now. Since the birds have been let
loose, however, hunters are becoming
rather restless and reports are com
ing in that many of the pheasants
are being killed. In some localities
ranches are Landing together In an
effort to help the state carry out its
hopes of protecting the pheasants,
but the birds arc so few ami hunters
are so numerous that it is believed
the birds will be cleaned out in a
short time.
CALHOUN COUNTY
TEACHER DIES SUDDENLY
Rockwell City, la., Oct. 23 (Special).
—Miss Fiances Snow, for many years
a teacher in Calhoun county and who
server two teams as county recorder,
died suddenly Saturday morning.
DROWNED WHILE TRYING
TO RESCUE HIS DOG
Scotts Bluff, Neb., Oct. 21.—The
body of W. K. Calhoun, local motion
picture theater manager, lias been
taken from a government irrigation
ditch, two miles below the point
whereon Wednesday Calhoun, disre
garding his ability to swim, had
plunged in to rescue a favorite game
dog. Calhoun had killed a duck and
the dog, in an effort to retrieve, had
been caught in the swift current of
the canal. The dog swam to safety
PREFERRED BERTH
TO FIFE IN PEN
Convicted Omaha Kidnaper
and Generally Bad Man
Says He Has Nerve tor
Such Tiling.
Omaha, Neb., Oct. 21 ^Special.)—
Fred Brown, alias Otis Grimes, alias
Ei nest Kush, alleged murderer,
two-gun man, chainer of women, auto
thief and all around bad man, con
victed Thursday of kidnr.^lng Mrs.
Jean Jenkins, declares today he
wishes the jury had imposed the
death penalty, instead of sending him
to prison for life.
“I’m not afraid of the electric
chair,” Brown boasted. "I wasn’t
afraid of death when I refused to
throw up my hands at Medicine Bow,
when the officers pumped lead Into
me, was I?
“A conscience? I have one. Sure.
But it never bothers me,”
INCREASED COAL RATE
DENIED BY COMMISSION
Pierre, R. D., Oct. 21 (Rpecial).—The
South Dakota railroad commission
has received a copy of the decision of
the Intrestate commerce commission
in a case In which the railroads serv
ing the coal fields of eastern Ken
tucky, Tennessee and southeastern
Virginia requested material advances
in freight rates on coal from those
fields to all points in South Dakota,
Minnesota and Wisconsin. The de
cision declines to grant the increases
asked which have boosted coql rates
in this state ranging all the way from
80 cents to Aberdeen and Watertown
to $1.35 to Leo la.
The South Dakota Commission, in
connection with the commissions of
the other states Interested fought the
proposal before the interstate com
mission.
SHERIFF RUTHLEDGE IS
GIVEN COURT DECISION
Pender, Neb., Oct. 21 (Special).—
Judge Post of Columbus, before whom
the Sheriff C. W. Ruthledge was tried
last summer, has filed his decision in
favor of Rutledge. Governor McKel
vie ordered the suit claiming Rutledge
refused to assist in the prosecution of
liquor cases.'
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♦ COLLEGE PROFESSOR ♦
♦ ON “WET’ PLATFORM ♦
J frot.CxMxgjp
On a platform calling for light
wines and beer. Professor George
H. Derry, Instructor of economics
at Union College, Schenectady, N.
Y., is seeking election ft) Congress
on the Democratic ticket. He
makes his campaign speeches In six
different languages — English,
French, Italian, German, Polish and
modern Greek.
Although a large number of polit
ical Jobs are vacant, it is announced
that the president will not make up
point merits until after the Novem
ber elections. This is done in order
that the deserving “boys” who lose
out may be taken care of. Further
Evil report, like the Italian stilet
to, is an asnassin's weapon, worthy
only of the bravo.— Madame de
Maintenon.
“Rampant Nationalists.’’
From Charleston (S. C.) News.
Of late weeks various American gen
tlemon hove taken occasion to depiort
the "tnmpant nationalism" or Kuropt
which threatens to bring on another
holocnust of w .r. Tills rampant national
ism is pointed out as Kurope's cardinal
sin. and ns the cause of ul the trouble.
Most of the speakers confine themsi Iv-s
to deploring the situation, though some
of them append heartfelt thanks be
cause we—that ts. the United States—
are out of It. Few of them explore the
subject to any extent or seek to explain
this phenomenon of rampant national
ism.
It never seems to occur to any of them
that of all nations in solved \i the world
war'the United States was the first to
give an Impressive exhibition of “rxr.i
pant nationalism" after the war ended.
STATE NOT LIABLE
FOR LOSS OF CATTLE
Lincoln, Neb., Oct. ?1 (Special)._
By virtue of a supreme court decree
entered Friday, the state la relieved of
the payment of $23,100 to the Benda
Bros, of Folk county, who lost rattle
to that value by the negligence of two
employes of the State Highway De
partment. The legislature gave per
mission to sue, but the court says the
state is not liable for anything done
by employes not In the line of duty.
The court entered an order revising
and remanding the case of Miller vs.
Ruzicka, from Holt county, involving
a big land deal.
1 HEAVY TRAFFIC ON
NEBRASKA ROADS
Rail Officials Assert They
Have Plenty of Engines
But Not Enough
Cars.
Lincoln, Neb.. Oct. 20 (Special.)—
Nebraska railroad officials report a
tremendous traffic. General Super
intendent Ed. Flynn, of the Burling
ton, said that the road has orders
now for 800 stock cars for the north
west range country and 400 cars for
the sterling and McCook divisions.
From 10 to 15 trains a day are now
moving over the Lincoln-Ravenna
lines. Flynn also reports a heavy
traffic on the main line. There is
sufficient power, but a car shortage.
Ail roads doing business in the state
report this. The Northwestern also
reports plenty of power, but a need
of rolling stock. The Northwestern
has asked for 800 ore cars, the Rock
island wants 3,500 cars, and the Bur
lington at least that many. Officials
point out that coal, which should
nave been moving several months
ago, has greatly increased the traffic
problem. *
HITCHCOCK OPPOSES
AMENDING DRY LAW
Kearney, Neb., Oct. 20 (Special.)—
United States Senator Q. M. Hitch
cock, democrat, seeking re-election
November 7 told the "Association
Against the Prohibition Amendment,
Incorporated” that he would vote
against any amendment that would
weaken the Volstead prohibition en
forcement act.
In a telegram addressed to the as
sociation’s headquarters at Washing
ton, the senator said:
"4n various newspapers I notice
announcements that your association
indorses me for re-election as United
States senator. If you are doing this
in the belief that my election would
aid in amending the Volstead act, you
are mistaken. I shall vote against an
amendment that would weaken the
act, and particularly any that would
permit the sale of wines and beers.
1 have made this pledge publicly to
the people of Nebraska.”
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HE IS DEMANDING
FREE USE OF THE AIR
Omaha, Neb., Oct. 20—Joe Yeiser,
jr„ Omaha attorney who has filed
suit against the American Radio
corporation, General Electric com
pany, American Telephone and Tele
graph company, Westinghouse com
pany, and Federal Radio Inspector
Lovejoy, charging conspiracy to mo
nopolize the air, says his suit is for
the purpose of forcing the govern
ment radio department to open up
approximately 24,000 different wave
lengths for the use of amateur broad
casters.
“Broadcasting can be done on 25,
000 different wave lengths,” Yeiser
said. "Yet governmental regulations
force all broadcasters sending out
musical programs to use the same
wave length—360 meters. As a result
programs broadcasted in different
cities often conflict, making it impos
sible for amateur receivers to hear
unything intelligible.”
Yeiser's broadcasting station was
recently closed when he failed to pass
the government examination,
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WELL KNOWN IOWA
DEMOCRAT IS DEAD
Cedar Rapids, la., Oct. 20 (Special).
—Samuel Sherman Wright, national
ly known as a democratic leader and
the man who set the St. Louis con
vention in 1904 in an uproar by sec
onding the nomination of Alton B.
Parker, is dead in Houston, Texas,
says a message received. When Judge
Parker was nominated, Wright got
up in his seat and said “In the name
of the unbought and the unpurchas
able delegates of Iowa I second that
nomination.” Delegates from Georgia
grabbed Wright, placed him on their
shoulders and carried him to the stage
where he was forced to make a
speech and that speech electrified
the convention. Mr. Wright left here
several years ago and took up his
residence in Houston.
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4 The men who failed to climb 4
4 Mount Everest ray that if the 4
4 peak ever is reached it will be by 4
4 men under 30 years old. Atten- 4
4 tton, yo :ng men who are wasting 4
4 their youth! 4
4 Thirty is not the deadline. But 4
4 it is tiie changing of thc^tide, the 4
4 beginning of old age. Few men 4
4 notice that tt ey have a stomach 4
4 until they pass 30. Stomach is 4
4 the body’s key wheel. 4
4 Failure is inevitable unless the 4
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"We may buy a little coal t’ use in
case o’ sickness, but th’ engine keeps
cur sedan het up jest fine,” said Mrs.
Art Beasley, t’day.
Th’ feller that marries these days
may know vyhat kind o’ ankles he’s
gittin', but he’s takin’ a long shot on
th’ face an’ disposition.—Abe Mar
tin.
NO BRITISH PROTEST.
Washington, Oct. 20.—It was made
plain officially at the state depart
ment today that Great Britain has
not made any protest to the govern
ment, and especially not any formal
protest on the question of seizure of
ships outside the thrt - mile limit
under the prohibition law.
TO DELAY~CONFERENCE.
Paris. Oct. 20 (A. P.)—Lord Cttr
zon, informed Premier Poincare, that
owing to the political situation in
England he thinks it impossible that
the Turkish peace vpnftron.e can
convene before November li.
Ten Commandments
Not Meant to Apply
To Women, Says Harvey
London, Octr 24—The 10 com
mandments do not apply to women
and therefore the commandments
must be revised to meet modern con
conditions, declared Ambassador
George Harvey tonight in an address
to the Authors club. If the com
mandtmenta are not revised, accord
ing to Col. Harvey, a specific deca
logue must be constructed for the
guidance of women. As the the
ologians have been unwilling to solve
the problem, said the ambassador, the
authors must.
Ambassador Harvey’s subject was:
‘Have women souls?” He did not
answer the question but spoke for an
hour to show that women were mere
ly treated as property in the Old
Testament. He cited Moses as “a
lady killer, who classed wives with
slaves and beasts of burden?’
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PLEAD JIT GUTI
Burlingame and Sawyer Enter
Pleas at Sioux Falls—
Salinger Freed Under
$1,000 Bond.
Sioux Falls, S. D., Oct. 24 (Spe
!**)—C. H. Burlingame and Fred
Sawyer, Midland Packing company
officials, appeared before Federal
Judge James G. Elliot here today and
pleaded not guilty to charges of us
ing the mail to defraud. Federal of
ficials announced last Saturday Bur
lingame und Sawyer would not be
tried until the May term of federal
court here.
8ALINGER~GIVES bail.
New York, N. Y., Oct. 24.—B. I. Sal
inger, Jr., vice-president and general
manager of the defunct $8,000,000
Midland Packing Company of Iowa,
where he is charged with being a fu
gitive from justice, gave bail for $1,000
today for a hearing Nov. 4, before U.
S. Commissioner Hitchcock, in remov
al proceedings. Salinger is under in
dictment for alleged mall fraud in
connection with the sale of the com
pany’s stock to investors in Iowa. He
returned from Europe recently on the
Aquitania, but was allowed to stop
at the Hotel Commodore under cus
tody of the U. S. Marshal.
DENIES HEliT FUGITIVE.
In a telegram received by The
Tribune today from former Judge
Richard Campbell, of New York city,
counsel for Ben I. Salinger, Jr., for
mer Judge Campbell confirms special
dispatches from New York to The
Tribune that Salinger, former Mid
land Packing Company official, was
not in Sioux City last Tuesday as
claimed by tlrfe Sioux City Journal,
but arrived from Europe last Friday,
as claimed by The Tribune.
“Ben I. Salinger, Jr., arrived in New
York city from Europe, Friday,
October 20, on his way to Sioux
Falls, S. D„ pursuant to an agree
ment with the district attorney that
he should be there October 23, former
Judge Campbell's telegram reads.
“He learned here for the first time
that the agreement had been vio
lated and that it was claimed he
should have been there October 17.
"No arrest was attempted and he
and I called on authorities here Sat
urday morning and offered to meet
any proceedings that might be valid
ly taken against him. He is not and
has n<^ been a fugitive, having gone
to Europe with the knowledge and
consent of the department of justice.”
The Tribune carried this Informa
tion from its special New York cor
respondent Saturday that Salinger
surrendered to federal authorities,
that he was paroled to former Judge
Campbell and that he denied being a
fugitive from justice.
Coroner’s Jury In California
Thinks Circumstances War
ranted Beating Girl
to Death.
Fresno. Cal., Oct. 23 (A. P.).—
Justifiable homicide was the verdict
returned today by the coroner's jury
that inquired into the death of Mrs.
Clara Harlow, ID, whose husband,
George A. Harlow. 30, an electrician,
was said to have clubbed her to
death with a shotgun near their home
at North Fork early yesterday when
he found her in the company of a
young man of her age.
Harlow declared his wife, who was
not expecting him, was with a 19
year old youth. Mrs. Harlow and her
visitor fled from the house, the hus
band said. The latter seized a shot
gun and started in pursuit of his
wife. He fired one shot at her, but the
charge went wild. Overtaking her. he
is alleged to have struck her repeat
edly on the head. Her skull was
crushed. Harlow returned to his home
and remained with neighbors until
the sheriff arrived.
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TESTIFIES LIVE STOCK
FREIGHT RATES HIGH
Lincoln, Neb., Oct. 24.—James A.
Lilt!?, rdte expert for ttie railway
commission, testified Monday after
noon in the matter of the commis
sion's investigation of freight rates
on livestock. He testified that rates
on livestock in Nebraska are too high
when the density of traffic and rates
in other states are compared. He
said the density of traffic in Ne
braska so far as livestock is con
cerned compares favorably with that
in Iowa. Minnesota and Wisconsin.
PEGGY BEAL
FREED AFTER
SHORT TRIAL
Defense Was Claim of Wom
an’s Right to Kill Unfaithful
Lover—Weeps While Telling
Tragic Story to Jury.
BY JACK C^RBERRY
Uiversai Service Correspondent.
Kansas City, Mo., Oct. 24.—The
Sheik should die.
At least such was the verdict of a
jury here tonight when after three ,
hours delibration it acquitted Marie
"Peggy” Beal, modern Thuvia, Maid
of Mars, of the murder of F. Warren
Anderson, Philadelphia and Kansas
City club man.
The verdict came after one of the
shortest trials in the history of tho '
Missouri criminal courts.
Four ballots were taken. The first
two were seven to five for acquittal.
Hi* next showed ten Jurors in favor
of giving Peggy Beal her freedom.
Peggy, bobbed, diminutive, tears
filling her flashing black eyes, told,
her story of unwise love to the jury
this afternoon. a
Tale of Game of Hearts.
Crowded Into the six hours of evi
dence and argument was the story of
llfe—the tale of love and the game of
hearts as played by Anderson—“The
Sheik”—and "Peggy”—a real life »
"Thuvia.”
Evidence introduced by the state
through six witnesses—detecives and
officials of the coroner’s office
showed—
"Peggy Beal is a2 years old. She
looks 20, even with the sharp fea
tured beauty which was hers before
the tragedy turned to the hardness of
a pallid-prisoner of the law.
"She was married and divorced af
ter the birth of her second child—the
eldest now 15 years old, living with
their father in Terre Haute, Ind.
"She met Anderson in a flirtation.
Meeting they loved—she in her heart,
she jald, while he but professed hia
aff.ction.
"That she gave herself to him, ever*
after he had confessed that his in
valid wife had not divorced him.”
“Thuvia” Enter Trial.
And then the state scored its two*
strongest points. By evidence, the
state*showed that a copy of “Thuvia"
Edgar Kice Burrough’s novel—lay be
side the body of Anderson. It was op
ened at the page where a picture
showed “Thuvia” bending over her
slain lover, a blood dripping dagger
iti her hand.
Through this evidence the state
hoped to convince the jury that ‘’Peg
gy" Beal—the Thuvia of rea* life —
had premeditated the killing.
The state’s second point, on which
was based hope for conviction, was
that Anderson was shot in the back
while he slept in a room occupied by
himself and Peggy Beal.
“His eyes were closed in.death—he
had not moved from the moment the
bullet struck him,” Dr. H. E. Moss,
coroner, told the jury. ‘‘He had been in
bed. The covers of the bed were not
rumpled. I cannot swear he was asleep
when shot, blit his body had all the
appearance of such a situation."
Mrs. Beal in her testimony detail
ed her life and meeting with Anderson
in a flirtation. She said that when he
boasted to her of his fifty loves—of
which she was the last—and told her
that still others were to *follow, she
shot him down.
She denied Anderson was asleep.
"I killed to save other girls,” Mrs.
Beal said, adding “But I was Insane—
1 do not recall the actual shot—my
memory is a blank there.”
"Peggy” Beal's defense was a vin
dication of a woman’s right to slay
“A Shiek lover”—a man who made all
women bend to his will.
Many times she broke do\Vn weep
ing as she told of their one time lovo
and of the actual killing.
Peggy Beal was aided by Eiefa Wil
son Stice, head nurse of the Open Air
hospital, Springfield, Ills., where she
was employed as a nurse.
‘‘I saw the Shiek letters this man
wrote, begging marriage, promising
love”, Miss Stice, who paid her own
way to Kansas City to testify for
“Peggy” said.
The speed with which the trial
moved was unlooked for even by at
torneys in-the case.
GRAND JURY TO PROBE
WHAT ROSENBLUTH SAID
New York, Oct. 23 (A. P.)—Inves
tigation by the federal grand jury of
statements made by former Capt.
Robert Rosenbluth, in connection
with his indictment on a charge of
murder near Tacoma, Wash., Were to
be started today. The former army
officer is at liberty under $10,000
bonds pending hearing of removal
proceedings on Thursday. He is
charged with the murder of Maj.
Alexander P. Cronkhite at Camp
Lewis, four years ago.
One of the statements to be inves
tigated and which was attributed to
Jonas J. Goldstein, Rosenblum's
counsel, was that before the grand
jury was to hear the case against
Rosenbluth, persons closely asso
ciated with the department of justice
made the direct proposal that it
would he cheaper for Rosenbluth's
friends to contribute to a fund to pre
vent the indictment than it would be
to go to trial.
Lloyd George tailed the Turks
“warlike animals,’’ and they dislike'
it. Kemal Pasha got the speech by
wire and hi#; friends suggest that he
will start more fighting, presumably
to prove that Turks are not fighting
animals.
Lloyd George also told his crowd
that the Turks are men that cannot
be bluffed, “brave men” he called
them. That ought to offset the
“fighting animals” insult, especially
as they are fighting animals. If they
could think as well as they fight,
they’d frighten Europe. Better think
ing is Europe’s safety.
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