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on- - "vuieiy omn VOL. NO. XXXTX. PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA. MONDAY, DECEKEEE. 3. 1923. NO. 42 piattsmoutb COUNTY OFFICIALS ilD III THE I1CTOTS VOTED BY GRAND JURY Sheriff Carroll D. Quinton Charged With Several Counts In the List of Indictments William Grebe Charged With Assault And Malfeance In Office County Attorney Named To gether With Holmes and Grebe In Lenz Case JURY ALSO RETURNS INDICTMENTS AGAINST CHARLES C. Two Name Forgery as Alleged Offense and Third Charges Embezzelment Julia Kaufman for Alleged Liquor Violation and Chief of Police Jones for Perjury and In toxication Other Warrants Remain to be Served, It is Said. The greatest sensation that has been revealed in Cass county in many years followed the indictments voted by the grand jury that closed their deliberations here on Thursday eve ning and the serving of the warrants in the cases named in the indict ments yesterday gave to the public the nature of the charges preferred against the several parties named which include largely the law en fordng officers of the county and the chief of police of the city of Platts mouth as well as Charles C. Parmele, former president of the Bank of Cass County: Julia Kaufmann and two parties upon whom service has not yet been served with the warrants and which has not been made pub lic. The charges against Carroll D. Quinton, sheriff of Cass county since 1906. embraces a numbers! counts, charging him with having' had knowledge of the unlawful posses sion of liquor by Walter Sans on or about June 1. 1922. and failure to arrest Sans. The same charge is pre ferred in the case of the alleged knowledge of the Bheriff of the fact that Julii Kaufmann was in the pos session of liquor the date of June 1. 1923. being given as the day that the offense charged occurred. Six counts are contained In the charges that the sheriff failed to make the quarterly reports as de manded by the law and that on No vember 23. 1923. he made a false re port of the fees collected. 'The second indictment against the sheriff allege that he made false sworn statements as to the amount of fees collected in his office for the first, second and third quarters of the year l-23. There is only one Indictment mat'e against County Attorney A. G. Co;e in which he. together with William Grebe. constable. and Fred A. Holmes, are charged with having on October 1C. 1923, by threatening ar rest and prosecution to John Ler.z fcr the illegal possession of liquor caused him to turn over to the offi cers fifteen gallons of grape juice, which was not returned to the own er and no prosecution was filed in the case. William Grebe, who has been act ing as const? ble in the court of Jus tice of the Peace William Weber, is charged with malfeasance in office, in that of October 2. 1923, he as saulted Raymond W. Hay ward and that on May 22, 1923. he assaulted Elmer Gaines. Charges of assault and battery cov ering separate indictments are filed against Mr. Grebe in that he assault ed Raymond W. Hayward and El mer Gaines. Fred A. Holmes is charged in a separate indictment with usurpation of office in that on October 4, 1923, he took unto himself the right to ex ercise the office of deputy state sher iff and arrested Alex Eaton and Frank Bauer, both resident of Union. Cass county, Nebraska. The charges preferred againrt Chief of Police Alvin Jones are those of malfeasance in office and perjury. It 19 alleged that on July 10, 1923, he failed to arrest Julia Kaufmann. although he knew that she was deal ing unlawfully in liquor. Also that on July 10. 1922, he was in a state of intoxication and that on August 10,. 1923. he had liquor illegally in hi3 possession. The perjury charge Is based on the statement made before the grand Jury on November 23. 1923, that he had nevpr been in the home of Julia Kaufmann. although it Is alleged he had been there. The charges against Mrs. Julia Kaufmann are embraced in three counts of an indictment charging her with having on July 1. 1923. been in illegal possession of liquor and the second and third counts that she had hold liquor and given it away. The indictment voted against Mr. Charles C. Tarmele. former bank president, are two for alleged forg ery and the third for alleged embea rlement. In the first indictment Mr. Parmele is charged -with baring cn Jun 12. 1919. chanred a draft fir $5,000 by having crossed out the name of Parmele and having insert ed that of George W. Snyder. The draft having been signed by C. F. McGrew and drawn upon Mr. Par mele. The second charge for forg ery alleges that he falsely uttered a check on the Bank of Cass County fcr I3.7S3.92. signed "Will Jean" and made payable to Elizabeth Berg man. The third indictment charges Mr. Parmele with having committed alleged embezzlement in that' while acting as the agent of Luke L. Wiles he converted to. his own use the pro ceeds of a note for $1,500 paid by Wiles to Parmele for the benefit of an obligation owed by Wiles to Daisy Douglass. The parties were served with the indictments late Wednesday, County Clerk George It. Sayles serving on Sheriff Quinton and County Attor ney Cole and the sheriff serving the retraining indictments. - The parties who are charged with the various offenses by the grand jury were present In court late Wed nesday evening and gave bond for their appearance in the court on Sat urday afternoon at 2 o'clock when they will be arraigned and their cases held for the petit term of court which will convene on December 10. The parties deny any violation of law and Sheriff Quinton stated to newspaper representatives that his record in regard to law enforcement was such as to be proof of his hav ing enforced the law and admitted that he might have made mistakes in his reports and that he should have been more prompt in the re ports. He expressed his confidence in being vindicated by the future action in the cases. He also cited to the press his saving to the county of hundreds of dollars during his long term of office. County Attorney Cole stated to the press that the action in the Lenz case was taken at the suggestion of Fred Holmes and out of sympathy of Mr. Lenz he did not file any charges against him in the case that has been named in the indictment. To the press. Chief of Police Jones ascribed his arrest and the charges preferred against him as being caus ed by the desire of parties to get even with him and the bitterness caused by his appointment as chief of police. He denied any visitation at the home of Julia Kaufmann. 'PURE BUNK,' DE GLARES PARMELE OF THE CHARGES Interviewed by World-Herald Report er, Former Banking Head Says Has Committed No Crime Charles C. Parmele former presi dent of the defunct Bank of Cass County, who was indicted on three counts by a grand Jury Wednesday on charges growing out of his con nection with the bank, last night de clared that his predicament was caused by former patrons turning against him to make him "the goat" after he had befriended them in a business way. ' Parmele was ill in bed at his room In the Paxton hotel. He returned to Omaha three weeks ago after ten months in Long Beach, Cal., where he was engaged in the real estate .business. Since his return he has been ill and has been operated upon, be said. He learned of the brewing t indictments in California, he said. j "There are a lot of people down i there at Plattsmouth who are agi tated by the losses they suffered in a building and loan establishment. Some of them are just trying to raise hell." "It's all pure bunk," he said. "I never committed any forgeries or embezzlements. Whenever I signed a check for a client it was nothing more than charging his account with an item be bad authorized. It was PARMELE ON THREE COUNTS never done with intention to de fraud." Explains Transaction Referring to his indictment for al leged forgery of a $5,000 draft sign ed by C. F. McGrew, on which he is alleged to have crossed out his own name and inserted that of George W. Snyder, Mr. Parmele said: "Snyder owed McGrew something like 12 thousand or 15 thousand dol lars. McGrew called up and asked me if Snyder could pay 5 thousand immediately and the rest at his con venience. I called Snyder and he said it would be all right to give McGrew the amount as MeGrew was leaving town. McGrew then sent a draft on me for 5 thousand dollars through the Corn Exchange National bank. Says Snyder Credited "I called Snyder and showed him the draft. . He told me to charge it to his account. So I'drrw a lead pen cil through my name in the draft and charged it to him at his own sugges tion. All this was nearly five year3 ago and Snyder got his statement and settled with the bank. He got credit for the payment." Mr. Parmele said Snyder was heavily indebted on land matters and j got embarrassed. "He went busted and tried to make a goat of me," he declared. j The alleged false utterance of a check signed by Will Jean and pay able to Elizabeth Bergman for $3,783.92. one count in the indict ment, was a pure business trans action. Mr. Parmele asserted. "I signed his name. I admit it." he said, "but there wa3 nothing wrong In it." People Got Sore I "Elizabeth had a mortgage on eighty acres of Jean's land and she asked me to fix it up. I talked with Jean and gave her his check for the amount, signing his name." Mr. Parmele's recital of the de tails of his indictment on a third count of embezzlement of $1,500 to be paid to Daisy Douglas was halted upon the advice of his lawyer, to whom he telephoned, and who cau tioned him to say nothing of the charges until the lawyer had had anj opportunity to peruse the indict- i ment. "But it was the same kind of a' case, the transfer of money for a patron in compliance with the pa-' tron's wishes," Mr. Parmele said. The bank of which he said he had been president for twenty-five years, failed three years ago because of an internal fight between himself and a family of heavy stockholders who were trying to gain control, he said. "But the bank closed its doore en tirely solvent, the receiver told me that." he said. j "The people to whom we lent mon ey steadily got sore when we could not lend them any more because of 'frozen' assets. You know what the hard times did to the bankers, don't you ?" World-Herald. HAS VERY SERIOUS ACCIDENT From Friday's Daily Yesterday morning, Ricbard Beal, Bix-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Har ray Beal. was taken to Omaha where , he was placed in the hospital to have ! his injured right leg treated and set. Richard was very seriously injured j on Wednesday evening when he had nis rignt leg rmdiy tractured at a point just below the hip. It seems that the boy was climb ing on a wagon and doing so stepped on the wheel and the horse hitched to the wagon started out at the same time, the result being that the right leg of Richard was caught in the I wheel and before the horse stopped and the turning wheel had snapped the bones in the leg and the little lad left hanging helpless from the wheel. The break is a very serious one and will require a great deal of work to care for properly. Yon are urged to visit St. Mary's Christmas shop December 5th at M. W. A. hall. Come early while the selection is complete. HAS A BAD FALL From FricUxy's Iaily Edward iJonat, the proprietor of the Peerless soft drink parlor is get ting around rather slowly as the re sult cf an accident sustained on Wed nesday afternoon and which has in capacitated him to a large extent from his usual activities. At the rear of the place of busi ness of Mr. Donat is a small stairway leading up into the room occupied by Charles E. Martin as a law office and on Wednesday afternoon Mr. Donat hurrying back to the rear of his building in search of an oil can with out thinking that one of the steps was out, ran up the stairway and the first that Mr. Dcnat was a mi he had fallen through to a depth several feet into the space beneath the stairs and as the result sustain ed several very badly bruised ribs and which makes getting around fu.r from pleasant. COUNTY ATTOR NEY EXPRESSES A' I SE Says He Did Not Ha7e Possession cf Liquids Taken From the Lentz Home by Officers. This morning County Attorney Cole at his office in the court house stated to a representative of the Journal that the indictment voted by the gTand jury against him "had come as completely a surprise as a bolt from out of the sky" to him. Regarding the Lenz case in which the indictment was voted. Mr. Cole stated that the grape juice that had takn 'rom h f nz home by imiii orcus iiuu never been in his possession nor in his office and that as far as he knew the stuff had been turned over by the owner, Mr. Lenz to Grebe and noinies anu cuac cue juice as 3im at the jail where it had been left. Mr. Cole also stated that be had conducted the office as he had thought best for the interest of the county and that, on the suggestion of Mr. Holmes, when Mr. Lenz had maue Qis.youiTr appearance at the office on the evening of the day that the grape juice had been taken. iuiu iiul iTusfiuiTO me man as lie thought it would be a very great hardship on him in having to pay a fine. ENTERTAIN FOE FRIENDS From Friday's Daily Yesterday afternoon the home Mr. and Mrs. L. F. Fickett and fam- Hy on High school hill was the scene of a very pleasant gathering when a number of the relatives and friends were entertained at a most sumptu- ous Thanksgiving dinner and the de- lightful time that followed. deeper appreciation of the goodness Those attending the hnppv occa- of the Almighty to our land, for our fion were Mr. and Mrs. Ott Hurich. material prosperity in the year past. Omaha; Mr. and Mrs. Elva Iiarkcrjfor the preservation of 'our notion and daughter, Leola, Lincoln; Mr. Jess Smith. Lincoln; Miss Pessie C. Herring. Lincoln; Mr. and Mrs. Roy and prai?ed the attitude of the Unit Reed and daughters. Misses Ona. Hel- ed States in the world war when it en and Xariine and Rnn5 Rnlnli nnfl nr1 p-nn forth nnt fnr tho cal-o rt Harrs. of Nemaha City; Mr. Winnie Pickett, Auburn; Mr. and Mrs. Sam Smith and grandson, Orval Smith, Mrs. Ray Lauritson. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Finnegan, Hamburg, Iowa; Mr. Glen McBride. Omaha; Mr. Ray Ay ler, Plattsmouth and Miss May Alv. in, Platsraouth. GOOD WHEAT YIELD From Friday's Daily The farm of O. T. Leyda west of Murray consisting of 200 acres has had a very fine yield or corn this sea son and one of the largest crops of the year will -be gathered there. Mr. Leyda states. On nine acres of the farm there was , a yield of corn amounting to eighty bushels and the average all over the farm wa3 esti mated at sixty bushels to the acre, which is a very fine showing and one that is especially gratifying to the owner of the land. AUTO TURNS TURTLE Sunday afternoon a distressing ac cident occurred south of town, near the farm of Mrs. Henderson Ward. Mrs. J. Watson, Mrs. Pauline Ma son and two sons of Lincoln were on their way to La Platte to spend the day. Mrs. Mason is a sister cf Wm. Gus set, one of the flagmen for the Mis souri Pacific here, and they were coming here to get him to go on the visit with them. The axle on one front wheel broke and the car turned over, seriously preat Masonic institution and the injuring Mrs. Mason, cutting her dinner that was served at the noon badly about the head pnd face. The hour wps one that embraced all the other ooHirnts escaped with slight! good things that might be desired ruts nnd bruises. land certainly aided in making the Thev were brought to town and j day one of real thanksgiving, bad their wourds drewsed. and The Plans for the new infirmary friend took them to their home In 'that it is proposed to erect ad join Lincoln t'ttg the present units of the Home Mr. Outset scconinnnied them and "Viildings have been received by Su returned on Tuesdv morning. He j Perintendent Evers and the new reports his sister doing ps well a3 building will be a great addition to could be ernecied trin? Water Republican. ChrTctms shop December 5th, M. W. A. Hall. ' CHURCHES OF CITY UNITE IN THANKS6IVIN SERVICES AT H. E. CHURCH ARE VERY LARGELY ATTENDED BY THE MEMBERS. REV. W. R. ROSB THE SPEAKER Gives Inspiring Plea for Brotherhood of Man and Ideals that Have Made This Nation Great. From Friday's Daily The Thanksgiving day services at the Methodist church Wednesday evening were attended by a very pleasing congregation and among the audience were representatives Itova the various Frotestant churches of !he city gathered to render u their thanks as did the Pilgrims for their j debt of gratitude for the blessings : of the years past and for the future of the nation. On the platform "were seated .nur of the ministers of the city. Rev. F. E. Pfoutz of the Methodist church, presiding; Rev. H. G. McClusky of the Presbyterian church. Father W. ijt'et'j ui i iie 01. ijuku a ejiusjii;'u.i fhnn l' nr.fl Tlov Walter R. Ftohll of t1 rhristisn rhnrr'i. tl ' Sprvi(,p, ,vprp nnened the cho;r cf tho church and the members pf lhe rogregation joined in the singing of "America." the song most rnnrnT1Hate to the occasion that was heir."- observed by the worshippers The prayer was offered by the Rev. H (; McClusky and the scripture ,eson ,jven hy FatheT W. S. Leete. , A ETocial number was given in t!ie V3Cl so!o by Mrs E H. Wescott. who sang '"The Recessional," which was fitting to the ppirit of the eve- iatr0lilICod ry pleasinglj by Rev. Ttrtr nn m ntiro'iann'rtwi into i, .... --r, adaresR wliich vas very dear and to it, Qth t iimcs u-v, fiiiH Yo r hjirr h the message carried home, This was the first appearance of Rev. Robb to" a general audience in the city r.nd the public was well pleased with the very able discourse offered, Rev Ttnhh ivnr.tert out in his re- marks the songs of the Hebrew peo- ofple as told in the psalms, wherein they praised the name of the Lord and rejoiced in the nenetits mat had j been theirs and in the delivery of i their nation out of bondage in a for- ' eign land and their restoration to their homeland. lie pleaded for a and for the brotherhood of man. na tionally and in the world at large, conquest! but for the idealism that ! wnni.-i rtnrp th trmihi tnm -r.rM and bid war and suffering to begone frnm tti frr nf thp nrth Tl Rnhh rvniH ? verv Inftv tpihuto in "F"-r- n,.,;(in, Ti'nn,im- "wiinn fnr via leadership in the fi-ht for a world peace and the advancement of the brotherhood of man in the world the greatest advocate of this ideal the world has known since the hum-J ble Man of Galilee walked upon the earth. The benediction was offered by Rev. Robb and the members of the congregation departed for their homes carrying in their hearts the song of the Thanksgiving day mes sage that they had received. THANKSGIVING DAY AT MASONIC HOME Special Observance of Day Marked with Bountiful Feast for All at the Noonday Meal. Yesterday in keeping with the spirit of Thanksgiving the members of the Masonic Home enjoyed a very fine observance of the day thnt "cer tainly will long be pleasantly re membered by all those present. The superintendent of the Home, Mr. W. F. Evers, Mrs. Evers and the matron, Mrs. Ona Lawton, had ar ranged a very p'ensant time for all of the members of the familv at the nome anu permit cue uanuung of all cf the bedfast patients at the new building instead of in the main building as at the present time. The infirmary will provide for twenty rooms for patients, offices, nurses' room, supply -rooms for the medical .supplies and a large living room sit i uated at the northwest corner of the building. The new building will be located near the present cottage on the cast portion of the grounds, and near where it is proposed to have the new boulevard laid out. v.hieh is pending the action of the city council at the present time and on the favorable action of the eity the Home hoard cr.n go ahead v,-ith their plans for furtir miDiovements. The institution will be an im - raense afi'air in the course of time r.r.ti the new building is arranged so that it can be made a part of a ser ies of building units that will be erected from time to time bv the as f sociation cs the institution expands. LANGKORST STORE AT ELMW000 LOOT ED WEDNESDAY Mercantile Establishment Bobbed of Goods Estimated at $2,000, Says State Sheriff's Office. Frf-m Friday's T'aily The large retail store of L. F. Lingliorst at Elmwood was the scene of a wholesale robbery on Wednes day and goods to the amount of $2. 000 on the estimate of Mr. L. F. Langhorst, the owner, was taken from the store, who notified the state sheriff's office at Lincoln and brought State Sheriff Carrol to the scene of the robbery a few hours af- terwara. cl'ioa unor fnntiH Ini'IpaHniF ho nnmhr-r of tv rt ir, h rrM.rv y-.t it ic irUr.t , ic rM0r, amount 'of goods taken as well as the articles that the robbers must have had a truck or at least two cars in msiHn thoir rotav goods The robbers evidently made their entry to the store through a back window after prving off the screen an depenin the "window. The bolt on the back door was broken and it is thought that the robbers made their escape in this manner. rohh. v,. t ffounnn . n p r, n n i . V- 3 and i o'clock Wednesday morning it -oo ,f iD,i til later when the town marshall vis- t . . c t- j fnnnrt th rnhhorv ha W mn,nlt. ted. He had been around the place previous to 3 o'clock so the robbery is figured to have occurred between his rounds over the citv. Tn thp list nf rtiiM tov ae given out bv Mr. Lancrhorst were CO men's duck 'and leather coats, tweri- ty-flve ladies' coats were cf plush material, a large num- ber of bolts of silk cloth, a large number of sweaters and some silk and wool shirts. About two hundred purs of ladies silk hose was also taken. WILL ATTEND CONFERENCE From Friday's Daily This morning Edgar Wescott. Ed ward Patterson, Joe Buttery, John Hatt, Jr.. Harlan Gorder and Forest Shrader departed for Lincoln, where they will attend the Older Eoys' con erence wnicn is neing neid tnere in connection with the Bov Scout work 'n the State. The boys will be met C. H. Pcden, scoutmaster in Lin-'at co,n and he wil1 aUend the meeting! most artistic in design. December Cth, with them' l0De da onlr- At M- w- A- hal1- i ,V- - MEMBER FEDERAL Capacity Profit for any business enterprise depends on doing as large a volume of business as pos sible on a given capital. And this, in turn, involves skillful hand ling of the firm's finances. The First National Bank's service in cludes intelligent co-operation in evolving prof itable financial policies for your firm. On this basis we solicit the accounts of progressive business executives in Plattsmouth and vicinity. The First national Bank THE BANK WH EWE YOU FEEL AT HOME DIATTSMOUTH SHERIFF DE PARTS TO SERVE WARRANTS ! ACTION IS TAKEN IN CARRYING OUT SERVING OF LAST IN DICTMENTS OF JUEY. FRICKE ARRESTED AT NELSON Former Building & Loan Secretary One cf Those Indicted, Will be Brought Here Soon. From Saturday's Iaily Yesterday afternoon Sheriff C. D. Quinton left the city with his desti nation carefully concealed but de spite the veil of secrecy thrown over the carrying out of the indictment of the grand jury It was learned that his destination was Nelson, Nebras ka, and the purpose was that of serv ing on Carl G. Fricke, former secre tary of the Livingston Loan & Build ing association, the warrant made on the indictment of the grand jury. This leaves but one of the indict ments remaining unserved and this is generally understood to be one charging J. W. Chilton with f-aud in connection with the purchasing of the C. E. Williams store in this city several months ago. The exact whereabouts of Mr. Chilton is un- knowa at the r-resent time altho it has bee" understood that he is at his lur"' ai -u,lu 1 The indictment, growing out of the difficulties that have beset the af- fairs of the Livingston & Building association, has been expected since ,n summoning oi ine grana jury and the orer stockholders have been ver' ygent that someone be held for the responsibility of the trouble that resulted in their loss. It will be remembered that there was a shortage that has been estimated l 7 . vv ' fends of the association and a 1 v 1 1 U ill ?OV,VVU IU 4?U,VUV 1U LUC it the "me tbat the affairs of the company ursi came 11110 me innfiitui, j nan, 01 me iaie Bureau 01 uannDg TT A. 1 i - A L. commerce, was here to try and adJust the affairs and the stockhold- ?s at a ee;inS decided to carry on I the association at that time and a meeting of the officers of the associa- tion accepted a settlement from Mr. F"cke of hls Property and in turn ment with the former secretary in which he was cleared of responsibil ity in the matter. Later the assets of the Livingston Loan & Building association and their remaining stockholders were transferred ever to the Standard Co., of Omaha, which has since been carrying on the af fairs of the association here. The settlement, which failed to cover the losses of the association, has caused more or less dissatisfac tion among the late stockholders and the matter was taken before the grand jury at its session, with the result that an indictment was voted by the Jury. The clever card table covers shown St. Mary's Christmas shop are eptftsiOrt RESERVE Business! t:T4 NEBRASKA