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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (April 16, 1925)
DENIES CHARGE OF BLACKMAIL Gosper County Farmer Car ries His Case to Supreme Court Lincoln, Neb., April * .(Special) •—Harvey McKenzie, Gosper county fhrmer, was In supreme court today asking for a reversal of his con Tlction on a charge of blackmail. He lived by himself In a small house, and claims that he had been robbed of $500 by a trio of boys. He Is charged with having compel led the father of one of these boys, who, he said, had taken the mosey, to agree to pay him back at the rate of $100 a month. The father, after making two payments, found out his boy had taken no money, and caused the man's arrest. »«•* HIS JUMPMAY END IN DEATH Newwcastle, Neb., Drayman Terribly Injured by Fall On Wagon Stakes Newcastle, Neb., April 1 (Special) •—Sustaining three broken ribs and Internal Injuries, John CJlbbs, a dray man here, may lose his life as the result of jumping from the barn loft to catch the lln'es when his horses started to run away while he was loading baled hay at the Dougherty barn. Working alone, when the horses started to run he leaped sev eral feet,, missing the baled hay and falling on the sharp upright stakes around the outside of (he wagon which threw him back against the side <• the barn and then to vie ground. A young man on his way to school saw Mr. Gibbs fall and he was taken to his home nearby where It was found that Internal hemorr buges, accompanied by sinking spells, made the Injuries serious. GRADUATING CLAS8 TO GIVE PLAY EARLY IN MAY Carroll, Neb., April _ (Special) —The gnduatlng class of the Carroll high school composed of 10 members have selected their class play "Nothing but the Truth,” to be giv en the fore part of May. Only one member of the 10 Is planning on teaching next year. The others will go to college. A8K8 CONFIRMATION OF EGBERT CONVICTION Lincoln, Neb., April (Special) —Attorney General Hpillmun has asked the supreme court to af firm the convictien and 10 year sentence of Dr. Charles Egbert of Hastings, who killed his soninlaw, Roy Gordon, in a quarrel In £he Egbert home. He says thnt the theory of accident put forward by Egbert Is negatived by the fact that Gordon was shot twice, and that logic and human experience Is against acceptance of that defense. The fact that Gordon grabbed the gun he regards as conslusive evi dence of some hostile movement on the part of Egbert, who had the gun In his hand when Gordon en tered the room. Gordon's wife, Eg bert's daughter was tbs only wit ness to the tragedy. TWO ELECTED THOUGH NOT REGULAR CANDIDATES Hartlngton. Neb., April (Spe cie)—A mild sensation developed here following the annual spring election. Tuesday, when It was dis covered that J. P. O'Kurey, received the largest vote of any candidate far membership on the local school board, allhough his name was not printed on the ballots. Mrs. L. A. Miller, club woman, who also bad not been mentioned for the plaee and who was not a candidate, re ceived the next largest number of Vote*. ENGINEER REPORTS ON ELECTRIC PLANT PROJECT Bloomfield, Neb., April (Spe cial)—Another step has been taken In the move toward putting In a municipal light and power plant In Bloomfield. At the last meeting of the city council, the engineer, en gaged by the council to investigate and make a report on the feasibility of constructing and operating a muni cipal plant, made his report which was favorable to the proposition. His report included the estimated cost of •tub a plant, the generating and op erating cost, cost of motorising the present city water pumping equip ment and pumping cost and an esti mate as to the value of the distribu tion system owned by the Tri-Stute Utilities company. Representative business men and citizens were present at the meeting and the sentiment was strongly In favor of the move. A mass meeting of the taxpayers of the city has been railed for Tuesday evening, April 14, at which time the matter will be given a full discussion and definite action taken. President Henley of the Tri-State company, has been in vited to attend this meeting and pre sent the company's side of the case. POSTMASTERS DISCUSS CHANGES IN LAWS Coleridge Neb., April . (Special) •—The poet masters of Cedar county met here Tuesday afternoon and discussed the postal changes that take effect April 18. . Postmasters from Hurtlngton, Randolph, Belden, Magnet, Laurel, Fordyee and Cole ridge were present. At 5:30 o’clock they were entertained at a banquet at the Community hotel by the business men of Coleridge. A mova ■vent wan started to hold a picnio at Lo-Val lake, June 21, for all pos tal employes of the county. RATE SNARL TO BE GONE INTO Nebraska Rail Commissioner Goes East to Confer On Matter Lincoln, Neb., April •. (Special)— A snarl In rates on livestock from the South Dakota country Into Sioux City and Omaha by way of the Win ner branch of the Northwestern rail road caused Railway Commissioner Browne to leave for Chicago In an ef fort to secure a definite ruling from (ho Interstate commerce commission. He may have to go to Washington If the contending parties cannot agree. In a recent adjustment of live BtO''K rates made by the state commission In co-operatton with llu. MitV&S com mission a discrimination was unin tentionally created. This consists of charging more for hauls In South Da kota and from there than In Nebras ka, The South Dakota commission has recommended that this ho removed by lowering the South Dakota rates to the Nebraska level, while the Northwestern officials saj that It should bo wiped out by raising the latter to the South Dakota level. Mr. Browne says that neither proposition meets the equities In the case, and he has gone east to defend the Nebraska rates and endeavor to secure a com promise between the two levels. COURT RECORD IS MUTILATED Attorneys for Winner of Suit Ask Supreme Tribunal For Confirmation Lincoln, Neb., April (Special.)— Attorneys for Jens C. Skov, a Buf falo county rural mall carrier, who sued Arthur E. Atkins, wealthy man and got $15,000 Judgment for alien ating the affections of Mrs. Skov, are In supreme court asking for affirmation of the Judgment on the ground that somebody has mutilated the record of the trial In the court below so that there is nothing upon which the high court can pass. The record was Introduced In evi dence. Somebody lias torn off the last page of It, that part which bears the certification of the Judge as to Its official character. Skov’s attorneys say that was the condition It was in when they got It from Atkins’ lawyer, and the latter says It was all there when he sent It to the other attorney. SHOWS MAIL PILOTS ARE WELL-PAID MEN Lincoln, Neb., April . (Special.)— An air mall pilot makes from $3,000 to $11,000 a year, the supreme court judges, who get but $7,500 were told by an attorney from Omaha, who was asking that his Hlent, Mrs. Jeannette Hopson, wife of William Hopson, an air mall pilot, be given an Increase In alimony from $150 to 200 a month. He said that the pilot gets $300 a month as a base rate and that in addition he Is paid 10 cents a mile for every night ride. He drives between Omaha and Chi cago, and gets $95 for each round trip. He makes from four to eight of these a month. Hopson's attor ney dtd not deny the figures, but said that $150 a month was all that the wife needed to live In comfort. The curious feature of the legal battle Is that the appeal concerns only the custody of a 12-year-old son by a former wife. Ills step mother was given the child by the Llouglas county district court. WOODMEN OF WORLD HOLDING CONVENTION Lincoln, Neb., April (I. N. 8.)— Wve hundred delegates attended formal opening of quadrlenntal con vention ef Woodman of World of Ne braska, which opened here Tuesday afternoon. Motor Zehrung of Lincoln welcomed delegates of behalf of cap ital city. New officers will be elected at this seesloa. CATHOLIC SISTERHOOD RESISTS TAX PAYMENT Lincoln, Neb., April * (Special.)— Whether or not the House of the Good Shepherd at Omaha should pay taxes on $30,000 worth of Its property devoted to laundry pur poses. fron\ which a profit is made, was n question argued and sub mitted to the supreme court. The Catholic sisterhood that operates It says that all Its members have taken the vow of poverty and that none of the money made at the laundry is devoted to other than good works. They take care of some 31)0 wayward girls and thus relieve the public of the expense and care of them, and that It Is necessary that they he given some employment of a useful character. This, they insisted, placed .he entire property within the exemption al lowed by the constitution* for so cieties organised for charitable ami religious purposes. CHILD’S BURNS RE3ULT IN HER DEATH Storm Lake, la., April t. (Special)— Kathleen McCabe. 7 year* old, died at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mr3. Christ McCabe, in Lincoln township, Monday night, as the result of burns sustained Sunday evening when a gas lamp which she was carrying up stairs set fire to her clothing Tiie child rushed down stairs, all aflame, and tho father extinguished the Lre by wrapping a coat ubout her body. However, by that time she was so badly burned from the knees to the shoulders that she never re t gained consciousness. MAYOR ASSERTS PLAIN MURDER Chief Executive of Omaha Blames Judge Vor Wo man’s Death Omaha, Neb-, April (Special) — “Murdered by the court!” This wan the bitter verdict which Mayor James Dahlman gave on the death of Mrs. Nana D. Krlesz, who committed suicide by Inhaling gas after learning that her son had been Bent to Jail for drunkenness. Municipal Judge Arthur Baldwin, who Imposed the sentence on Mrs. Frlesz’s 20 year old son. Leslie, was the target for verbal attacks from all sides. “I don’t call this a suicide at all," Mayor Dahlman said vehemently. "It Is plain murder—murder by what Is mockingly called a court of Justice. "Relatives of this woman and her son told the Judge that she was suf fering from nervous prostration and that the shock of her son's sentence might be fatal. The judge was told that the youth came from a honest hard-working family “It made no difference. He rent the youth to jail, and now the Judge must take the blame for this poor mother’s death. COSTLY BLAZE BLAMED ON BOY Barn, Crib, Hay and Much Grain Destroyed With $6,500 Loss Allen, Neb., April . (Special)—Fire, supposed to have been started by a young son, Donald, playing with matches, destroyed a large horse barn and double corn crib with all con tents, on the John Engel farm about two and one half miles west of Mar tlnsburg, Tuesday afternoon. The loss Is about $fi,5t)0, with but a small amount of Insurance. Neighbors and people from the town of Martlnsburg responded, but due to the high wind, little could be done and the blaze soon spread to the nearby corn crib. Other buildings were saved. Just the day previous, Mr. Engel had hauled borne a stack of hay which he had purchased of a neigh bor, and stored It in the barn, and his corn crib had been recently filled with corn and oats for the large herd of hogs which lie Is feeding for mar ket. About 2,000 bushels of corn, 1,000 bushels of oats, IS tons of hay, 1 ton of straw, hay rack ami wagon, buggy, and numerous small tools were de stroj ed. BEING GOOD PHOTOGRAPHER WON HER A DIVORCE Lincoln, Neb., April (Special) — The Bktll of Mrs. Florence J. Phil lips as a photographer helped her se cure from the district court here a divorce from Kalph S. Phillips to whom she was married in S'oux City, November 18, 1822. They have no children. Mrs. Phillips said she was a divorced woman with cue child when she wedded Phillips. She showed the presiding judge two photographs, one of her husband holding a pretty girl on his lap, with their arms Interlaced. She said she had followed her husband In a car anil snapped the photograph. She bad another one, this time of the hus band and the same girl seated on the hood of a sedan, taken by a friend who gave it to her. GAVE PERJURED EVIDENCE IN MURDER TRIAL Seward, Neb., April .—At a spe cial session of district court held here yesterday by Judge Hurting*. Louie Christian, tharged with perjury la the Blaster murder case, pleaded guilty and was fined $400. He wae paroled by the court to Oeerge Lig gett ef Utica. Christian, It Is alleged, gave fatee testimony In tbe trial of L>pula Nel ster. who waa convicted of killing his brother more than a year age en a farm near Utica. The slayer Is now In the penitentiary under a life sentence. WOMAN DEMANDING RELEASE OF HUSBAND Lincoln, Neb.. April (Special) — Mrs. Mary C. Riggs asked tbe su preme court today to give her hus band, Warren Riggs, an Antelope county farmer, his liberty via the habeas corpus route. She says that Sheriff Sutton Is unlawfully depriv ing him of his liberty. After being sentenced ta 60 days In Jail for pos session of Intoxicating liquor, he was allowed by the sheriff and court of ficials to go to his farm to lake care of the stock, hts wife being about to be confined and his father an aged and decrepit old nan, while his two children were of tender years. When the sheri! f went after him Riggs set up the claim that as the 60 days had expired since he was sentenced the sheriff hud no hold on him. Judge Welch said he was wrong. SECRETARY POOL REFUSE8 TO SIGN WARRANTS Lincoln, Neb., April - (Special)— Secretary of Slate Pool says It w'ill take a mandamus order of the court to gel his signature to the warrants that the legislature directed shoulo be drawn to pay Senators Wilkens of Burt, Banning of Cass and Robbins of Douglas for services on a special Investigating committee. Mr. Pool says the law does not permit legis lators to draw extra compensation and that this was not a Joint Investi gating committee. iv« • «mm am OLD HANDS AT ROBBING GAME Bandits Who Took Bank Cash at Cortland Boasted Of Their Ability Lincoln, Neb., April . (I. N. S.)— The three bandits who held up the Farmer’s State Bank at Cortland Monday afternoon and made away with $1,845 In cash, apparently had made good their confident boast to Cashier Miltonberger that “we have gotten away with it before and we can do it again if necessary.” Police believe the robbers are the same gang which held up banks In two Lincoln suburbs last fall. In the suburban robberies as in the Cortland holdup, the bandits kidnaped all em ployes and customers In the bank and took them several miles into the country. The only clue to assist authorities today Is the report that a car, sim ilar in color and design to the auto mobile used by the robbers, was seen to enter Lincoln late Monday. The car entered from the direction of Kmerald and was seen on a Btreet intersection up town. ARREST FORMER S. DAK. BANKER Presho Man and Wife Are Charged With Defrauding Federal Credit Bank Omaha, Neb., April —Charged with defrauding the Federal Inter mediate Credit bank of Omaha out of $90,000, Ernest M. Sedgwick, 55 years old, and his wife, Alys, former Presho, S. I)., bankers, were arrested Satur day in Denver. The arrests were made on indictments returned by the fed eral grand Jury which adjourned here last AVednesday. Sedgwick was president of the Presho State bank and his wife was cashier. The bank was closed by in solvency more than a year ago. Activities of the Sedgwicks in South Dakota, according to federal opera tives, Is strewn with a trail of farm ers and stockmen who lost thousands of dcdlars through his alleged manipu lations. After making several trips to Oma ha, In November, 1923, confering with Intermediate bank officials here, Sedgwick formed the Lyman County Agricultural Credit corporation at Presho under the farm loan act. It was to discount bank paper In Lyman and surrounding counties I Sedgwick became president and his wife, secretary treasurer of the cor poration. Then, federal agents charge, Sedg wick embarked on a series of forger ies, false claims and embezzlements which for a long period, baffled in vestigators. In his wake, they charge, lie lell rulred farmers who trusted him and caui.ed heavy losses to banks, other than the Intermediate Credit. Tlie full extent of Sedgwick's ac tivities while in charge of the Presho State bank and the Credit corpora tion, can never be disclosed, govern ment Investigators said. The alleged embezzlements included, according to tie investigators, large sums from the State Kural Credits funds of South Dakota, War Finance corpora lion, and an unknown number of pri vate banking Institutions. TRY NEBRASKAN H)R MURDER IN FLORIDA Miami, Fla., April .—A youth, who back In Gordon, Neb., a few years ago had the reputation of “always in trouble," must stand trial here next month on a murder charge. The youth is John Naugie, 19 years old. who was known lu Gordon as John Arndt. Naugle rode into cr’iniual court on a “joj ride." With a companion, Wil liam Valiton, he was cut riding with two girls at 2 o'clock l;i the morning. A motorcycle policeman drew up alongside ihslr car and ordered them to drive to the police station. The boys sped awsy. In the opposite di re ttoa. The officer overtook them sad forced them to a stop at the curb. There waa a shot. The officer toppled dead off hi* motorcycle. The boys again sped away but, were recaptured. Valiton ha* confessed he did the shooting. But under the Florida law, Naugle must share the guilt. \ allton will be tried May 12. Naugle* trial will follow immediately. At Gordon, Neb., where Naugle formerly lived, it was said his niothei and stepfather separated because of the son s alleged waywardness. RANDOLPH SELLS FIRE TRUCK T& OAKDALE Randolph. Neb., April —Having r.„ u.e lor the old fire truck and its equ pment since the purchase of a new outfit, the city has sold the old one to Oakdale for $200. FREMONT PHYSICIAN TAKES NURSE FOR WIFE Fremont. Neb., April " —Dr. H. N. Morrow, well known Fremont physi cian, has claimed Miss May Oberg, Fremont nurse, for his bride. The couple were quietly married by the Rev. It. V. Kearns. Dr. Morrow has practiced medicine here for more than 20 > ears. 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