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I VUU'MK XXIX LOUP CITY. NEBRASKA.- THURSDAY , AUGUST 24. 1911. NUMBER 42. NEWS OF ft WEEK IN FEGCFS or vosr important C CS*I TOLD V BRIEFEST EARNER POSSIBLE. 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X. J Hi* ap peb. «raa received oltfe tfee greatest i» ta****rat..'si. of approval tbit tfee .*• eiperu-iiced 1= srssy Su-atba • • • S it McCabe nf ’be flepimser.! if acncaltar* appeared before the 'i.-e to* *ous*»&g nmwlTm -a tsa vaa r*oumr to <ie*y Tfee implied t*rg» de by In-tor Kebler tfeat Mr abe (roklMitd sciential* of tfee .. f i „eiai»*r7 from tilting with member* at cobgrese. Another «*c prehen*! re congre* •tana- investigation. 'hi* tune late ’.be attair* "4 •: In’rrna’ioiial Harvester «e:pah> a ill be under way during tbe as** rerwiar session of ongrea* If ■ teewiu’.ot :ntrudured by Represents *♦ Fee ter *f knots Is passed by the sou*- It ut> sc inquiry by s commit ee at n» members d tbe bouse, tc be efct.tet m ’t« same way as tbe com at inquiry in** tbe so-called steel whd sugar trueta • • • A ’-solution providing for an meet •n a at rb» election o? Senator S*epL«-*son at Wisconsin wss adopted eg the **t.at«- Tbe action was a for ■alitg n- -essitated by a technical MTor some days ago in passing a sink _r -solution wrnout reference to tbe mat ingest expenses committee. • • • !-r> dec- Taft sent to ibe senate th- nomination of Cap Bradley A n*fce V 6 N to be rear admiral • • • Domestx Mrs Mar: rle Burn* Love is s tut: r *sher and abe deserted ber buslisac because be bad lost bit money aben his brokerage concert went to the wall according to Sidney C Bote* attorney * bo argued at linker. re against tbe granting of s d’ioroe to her • • • Four men acre killed, four fatally •rjured and ball a hundred disabled a an eapkwioe that wrec ked tbe 111 no:» steel company s plant nt Jol •at. Ill A Indie at molten metal sat .verturned on tbe wet floor of the foundry Tbe explosion which result eg hies o€ tbe roof of tbe building • • • Thirty-six persons were injured at -be result at a »maab-up which cc curved when Big Four train No. 4t waa ditched near tbe Ohio State hos pixal as it sat entering Col us bus • • • Eki* Ilartholomem of Toledo. O '■ •: ' ..: . was -e.iasec from tbe Beavers wr> rtf pattaettny Me earwad U no^hi fur misuse at tbe mails. • • • Mrs Tboma* Pettigrew of Lion't Head On-ar»o mangled ber son anc daughter aged *wel»e and ten years and then banged herself in tbs kttrben She bad been in poor bealt! and is believed to have lost hei • e • L'topU seems at last to bare beet found in a Virginia summer resort. A Virginia Beach the town council Lai sounded the virtue of the community and. finding nothing to condemn, bai voted unanimously to abolish the po ttos department on September 1_ • • • Joseph Rlbt* is under arrest It Brookfv* -barged with a doable mur *er committed In a dispute over th. It* t! i two-year-old baby H« kitted the child s parents Mrs. Boece Debaaco. anc Mr atnscsen year-old son. N-w York state and the middle west lave a bumper apple crop this year >r «z;*crt shipments, according to the ijile’tn of the Boston chanmer of •ommerce. The far west, Virginia and v e« England have fallen off some shat. but New York and the middle *«*'- bring this year's average up to lalf as large again as last year. • • • Seven thousand people, represent rg H s*ates. have registered for free aotnesteads in the Berthoid Indian -esema-. i. in North Dakota. Of this turner 4.4j; registered at Minot, the jovemmen' headquarters. • • • Papers were filed in the district rourt at Butte in a sensational suit *£i:ts' F Augustus Heinze. in which K bert Lyons, as receiver of the Ae'na Bar k : e and Trust company, eeks to recover J2.V).0iX> alleged to — ve been obtained illegally by Heinze 0 0 9 Andrew O'Hearn and Frank Ellis of ’hirar employed at the Rochelle -arming factory, went to sleep on the 'hlrago a Northwestern railroad ra r. - at Ro.belle. 111., and were killed by a fast train. • • • Fr behind the bar.- in Sing Sing Ca; ' Peter C. Hains. Jr., army off! ■er and inventor, has begun his battle or fr-edom against his wife, for love >f wt no be -ho- and killed his former friend. tVUliam E Annis. at *he Bay si -- e Yacht club "tree y^ars ago. The vir*ic. ! -h“ -rag.-dy named in the a'-tion . tarted at Brooklyn. Newman Erb and Edwin Hawley .lave i'.armed to extend the Minneapc > and St Louis railroad to the Ca .adian border, so as to connect with he Canadian Northern and Grand Trunk Pacific Plans are also under *ay to extend the Iowa Central direct rom Centerville to St. Louis • • • Mr.- Amanda Irwin, a widow, was .fmit'ed ' Bellevue hospital. New York, suffering. The physicians said iron, hydrrpfiobin, the symptoms of which have been unnoticed for five years • • • At : banquet even Ly Col. Robert U Thompttto Admiral Togo at New York S T k.-.ki. at-Crr;ary to the ad nlraJ. suddenly rose from his : ..jr w;:h au expression of pain. In ryir.e t leave the table he fell. - --ktijr iiS head, and was picked up ’ . r..- t- aids tc Gen Frederick D Grant, U. S A. • • • Spurring A new- world s record for altitude or ae- rtatu-i- was set in Chicago's ‘viati n meet Oscar A. Brindley, in i Wrirc- b:; .ane climbed 11.826 feet tbove 'he earth, smashing the record >f 11.1 fet fed set by Captain Felix of he Fren : army corps August 5, at jt Temps. • • • Foreign The fight between the railroad com aues and the striking union em ployes throughout Great Britain is >c in dead earnest. Thousands have >beyed the strike order. It is esti na’-d that 220.000 are now out. The 'ompanies are operating their princi trains under guard of soldiers. There has been much rioting through ju: the country. The government and he board of trade are continuing their -Herts toward peace. • • • It is reported at Teheran that Mo hammed Ali M:rza. the former shah d Persia, who recently returned from exile in Russia and started an upris ng to regain his throne, has been assassinated. • • • Curtis Guild, Jr., the newly appoint ed ambassador from the United States to Russia in succession to Will iam W. Kockhlli, was received in audi ence by Emperor Nicholas at the pal ace at Peterbof at St. Petersburg. Mr Guild was accompanied by all the members of the staff of the American embassy, who were also received bj Ms majesty. • • • Nominated for the presidency o! Mexico by one party, suggested foi office by another and anticipating that the Catholics, now in convention would choose him as their candidate President de la Barra issued a mani festo protesting against such action. • • • Personal E H Sothern and Julia Marlowe were married in the registry office at Knightsbridge near London. The rouple left the Hyde Park hotel - where they bad beer, staying, and have gone on their honeymoon to Devon shire. where it is understood they nave taken a house. Both Miss Mar owe and Mr. Sothern have been mar' ried before. • • • Tte engagement of Lieut. Frank P Lahm of the Seventh United States cavalry, widely known army aeronau tic expert, and Miss Gertrude Jenner of one of the oldest families in Mans field, O., has just been announced. • • • Col. Theodore Roosevelt Is a grand father. A daughter was born to Mr and Mrs. Theodore. Jr. Mother and child are reported In satisfactory health. Since their marriage the Roosevelts have made their home in j San Francisco, Cal., where Mr. Roose velt la engaged In business. • • • John H. Osborne, one of the plo | neers in the harvesting Implement Industry. Is dead at Auburn, N. Y„ ol bean failure. He was seventy-nine years old. In his youth he fought under John Brown In »««««■ FORMER CANDIDATE FOR GOVER NOR TEACHER OF CULT. NEWS FROM OVER THE STATE Whst is Going cn Here and There That is of Interest to the Read ers Throcgnout Nebraska and Vicinity. Broken Bow.—C. H. Harbaugh. one t:aie candidate ior governor on the so c:a ticket, therapeutist and a be liever in tbe "House of Israel" cult, has announced the coming end of the v.or.d. which is to occur in 1915. Mr. Karnaugh has opened a “House of Is rael" m Broken Bow and is teaching h;s strange belief to a few. He is very much in earnest, but is not making much headway in his home com munity. Unknown Hero Rescues Baby. Nebraska City.—Sunday morning, as c heavy freight train was coming into the efty down a long, sloping graded tra; the fireman noticed a baby standing in the middle of the track and seemed to be frightened by the blowing of the engine whistle. He did not hesitate to think of the danger, but dasced out of the cab window and ran along the rail to the front of the engine and down onto the piiot. He held on with his left Land, while with the right he reached out and grabbed ; the child and lifted it clear of the track. Finds Trunk Full of Jewelry. Nebraska City.—The A. F. Smith Jewelry trunk, containing about $20, Ooo worth of jewelry, which was sup posed to have been lost or stolen somewhere between Omaha and Ne bras::a City Juiy 31, was accidentally tound by an electrician working cn tue new school buiiding here. No Lack of Moisture There. Orleans.—During the las: thirty days it has rained on thirteen days here, the precipitation totaling 17.00 inches in that time. The bottom lands along the Republican river are flooded yet. The river went cut of its banks August 3 and is siii! out. reaching the highest point in the history of the county. A Petroleum Strike at Hastings. Hastings.—While passing through shale rock at a depth of 150 feet, in boring a well at the city water works, workmen struck stron g indications of oil and the water which was brought nr in the buckets when settled, wouid be nearly one-fourth crude oiL The oil was struck Tuesday. Ohiowa.—'The eleven-year-old-son of a farmer named Elznic, living north of town, was killed by a cavein of a sand pit in which he and a younger brother were playing. He was buried under four feet of sand and was dead when found by his parents. NEWS FROM THE STATE HOUSE Secretary of Agriculture James Wil-! snn has sent a telegram to W. B. .Mel-' lor. secretary of the state fair board, stating, "will address your association at 3 o'clock September a." Woman suffrage. Governor Aldrich's veto of the Sunday baseball bill and a protest against clairvoyants were In dorsed by the Epworth assembly at its closing session. The governor s veto was called "heroic. ’ The Platte Shirt cijmpany has pre sented a bill to the state for the de struction of a sewing machine. The machine was used at the penitentiary until a convict deliberately smashed it with a hammer. Deputy District Attorney A. W. Lane has filed in federal court a con plaint against the Gage County Gas, Light and Power company, asking that they be fined $10,000 for failing to make their report March 1 as required under the new federal corporation tax law . The minimum fine is *1,000. Hon. James Wilson, secretary of i agriculture, will address the farmers of Nebraska on “Reciprocity” at the state fair. September oth. Owing to the fact that this is a subject of mo ment in the affairs of the nation and will be one of the leading political issues in the coming campaign, a great gathering may be expected. School bonds to the amount of $10, S00. issued by district No. 16 of Scotts bluff county, were purchased by the state. State Superintendent Crabtree has given out a statement in regard to his prospective resignation from the office and his going to Wisconsin, where he will become president of the state nor mal school at River Falls. Mr. Crab tree has not yet indicated the exact time when he wjll retire from the state superintendency, but says it will be either at the time of the state teach ers' association meeting in November or at the end of the present year. Several hundred incorporated vil lages in the state of Nebraska find, under an opinion written today by Assistant Attorney General Edgerton. that they must add a police magistrate to their other official*. In reply to an inquiry from Oshkosh, the Grossman police magistrate bill, passed by the last legislature, was examined and so interpreted that it means that police magistrates will hereafter exercise in cities and incorporated villages, and within a radius of three miles thereof, a part of the duties heretofore per formed by justices of the peace. BRIEF NEWS OF NEBRASKA. The state saengerfest is in session at Grand Island. The business men of Roea have or ganized a commercial club. Odell has voted bonds for the erec tion of a new hi^h school building. Dixon county ole settlers will picnic at Martinsburg Tuesday. August 25*. C. G. Miller, a Burlington brakemaa fell under the cars near West Lincoli and was killed. The Congregational church r«op!e at Genoa have commenced work on a ?4.000 parsonage. September 14 and 15 are the dates set for the corn show and live stock erhibit at Deshler. Joseph McLaughlin of Sutton was ! drowned at Ontario Canada, while vis | iting friends there. - Prof. J. W. Crabtree has accepted : the principalship of a state norma.1 i school in Wisconsin. The annual pow wow of the Santee : Indians took place at Center last week Hundreds of Indians and many whites attended the celebration. Rev. David Marquette, one of the oldest ministers in the state, died a! his home in University Place Satur day night. During a severe electrical storm sc I companied by an inch of rainfall i lightning struck the Methodist chure: I at Chappell. Otis Crouch, aged twenty years, so; ! of Mr. and Mrs. M. D. Crouch of Bel i videre, w as drowned Friday ntornin, ; in the Little Blue river. Robert Griffin at Nebraska City wi! I lose a foot as the result o:' an explo j sion of melted metal as he was pour I ing a flask at a foundry. Thomas Nordbrook of Auburn die | j as the result of suffocation from smok j ' ing some kind o f herb he was usiut j I in the treatment of asthma. Mrs. A. W. Kelso fell down a Slghf I j of concrete steps at Fairbury and sus- j tained numerous bruises, but it is • thought none are serious. The first shipment of marble for the court house at Pawnee City has ar- ' rived ana several cars of the same art already unloaded, and on the ground i Carl Springer, a Fremont youns man, was overcome with heat on th< Epworth assembly grounds at Lincoln and for a time was in a critical con i i dition. Mayor Griffin has issued a proclama j tion designating Wednesday. Octobet •1. as the date for holding the electior on the adoption of the commissioi form of government for Beatrice. Thomas Sham an 1''-year-old lac from Corsicana. Tex., got taught it the bumpers while attempting to craw through a train to avert a policemat at Fairbury and his toes were mangled. Several thousand people attendee the ceremonies incident to the unveil ing of the granite shaft commemorat ing the celebrated Lone Tree of the old California trail, two and a hal miles from Central City. After you have seen the aerop.an; flights, heard Liberal's band ant grand opera singers, the speed con tests, etc., do not forget to visit th< Nebraska library commission head quarters at the state fair and look up the method of securing a traveling library for your town or community. Owing to the fact that of late a num ber of false alarms have been turned in “just to see the horses make a run '' the firemen at Hastings offer a reward of $5 to anyone informing them of the names of parties guilty of such an act The gala day at Havelock to cele brate the opening of the new- muni cipal water plant will ba held on Au gust 26. It will be in the nature o! a street fair with athletic stunts, a I balloon ascension and various othe: attractions. Secretary Mellor announces that ths state fair board has contracted for t gasoline lighting plant that will fur nish 29 arc lights to light the traci and the grand stand for night race: and entertainments. A feature of tht fair for young people as well as oldei ones will be day fireworks. L. O. Jones, who has served as presi dent of the Epworth assembly for fif teen years, was again re-elected to that office. The other officers chosen foi the year are: J. W. Embree, University Place, vice-president; Geo. E. Tobey Lincoln, secretary; C. E. Sanderson, Lincoln, treasurer; Rev. C. M. Shep herd, Lincoln, auditor; Mrs. C. L Myers. Geneva, junior superintendent; E. M. Furman. Hebron, missionary secretary; and Rev. I. F. Roach. Lin coin, secretary of Christian citizenship Lightning struck an old storage barn belonging to the Lincoln Traction company Friday night, destroying i! and about a dozen cars. Because he wanted to enlist in tht navy, J. V. Miller of Lincoln sub mitted to an operation for straighten ing a finger which had grown crooked as a result of a fracture several years ago. Mrs. C. W. Martin or Fontanelle la., and her sixteen-year-old daughter Lura, had a miraculous escape from death in one of the most spectacualt runaways witnessed in Lincoln in a long time. William Anderson of Tecumseh had one of his arms badly cut by flying glass from a pop bottle, which ex ploded while he was putting it in an ice chest. The citizens of Valentine are put ting every effort into making the fra ternal picnic, corn show and farmers institute, which is to be held ther* September 6 to 9 inclusive, four days of the biggest kind possible. Jacob Lehn of Otoe county was Tightening a bolt on a separator when his foot slipped, causing him to lose his balance and be thrown into the machinery. THE EM SESSION I HAS BEEN STRENUOUS ONE A'-L THE WAY THROUGH. _ ADJOURNMENT IS AT HAND Memorable Struggle Over Issues of Which Reciprocity Was the Notobie Result. Washington.—Congress will ad journ before Tuesday night, possibly Monday, and the most strenuous sea- i sion of recent years will pass iSio ; political history. The net results ef j the extra session, In comparison w-;h ' the ambitious program adopted at the outset were not large, Canadian reciprocity was brought as near reality at the executive SS« legislative deportments could ad vance It; statehood w»o assured Id? Xew Mexico and Arizona; Campaign publicity legislation was *t»aojd4 in n 1 form satisfactory to lU most earnest j advocates; provision was made for ; an enlarged house of fepfeseaiatlvse, : based on the latest census, sbu a few other measures ei c,usf impofVSwoo were passed, A democratic hongs, the first since 1S96. seized 03 this session c.s a ve hicle to convey to the country the views of democrat- on tariff revision, but esseaUve disapproval rendered futile ail efforts to impre== those j views on lbs s'atiif? books. . Two tariff tills, one materially re ducing lbs existing duties cn woo!, and woeies gcdtls of all classes and 1 the other placing on the free list ar ticles ef m*-misery and tools used by farmers and amended to include many ether items. were vetoed by; Prsc-def.- Taft.- He ba-ed his disap proval en the grounds that the bills had not been ^scientifically” prepared and that tariff revision should wait until rcpOr‘s on the different sch-e dulea bad he-n mode by the tariff board. A COtion revision bill awaits a similar fate. The house, under the leadership c! Representative t’nderwood of Ala bama, Chairman of the ways and moans rommittae. end Speaker Clark. [ endeavored to pass the Woolen and j rree list bills over the veto, but the fceeessarr two-thirds vote -could not1 b? mustered. These failures to over : throw President Taft's veto were a strong facto? in determining leaders to close the session, and it is not like ly that congress will be in session tc ! receive a veto to the' cotton measure Trust investigations without num be? were instituted during the ses sion. and some of them, notably those j bearing on monopolies in steel and sugar, tvere prosecuted with vigor. They still are in progress. Constructive legislation to bear on federal regulation or corporations is regarded as certain to come from I these inquires. Plans already have j been instituted to revise the anti- j trust laws. General arbitration treaties with Great Britain and France were sent j to the senate by President Taft, but they received a frigid welcome, be cause the upper house contended; that one provision of the treaties usurped the senate’s constitutional prerogatives. FIRE IN SOUTH OMAHA. Flames Destroy Over $150,000 Wortf of Property. Omaha.—Fire originating in the cai building and repair shops of the Cudahy Packing company Sunda; caused a loss of $150,000 to ahy property, and less than ^^B tc j the Union stock yards. The^Rs is! fully covered by insurance. In ‘•‘the Cudahy plant the departments de stroyed or damaged by the flames embraced an area of 375x150 feet Th car shop is a total loss, as is alsc the lumber and supply yards. Congressman Latta Leaves. Tekamah. Neb.—Congressman J. P. Latta and his son. Ed. accompanied by his physician. Dr. Luken, leave 'Monday for Rochester, where Mr. Lat ta will probably undergo the planned operation. Southern Pacific Retrenching. San Francisco, Cal.—A considerable number of employes of the Southern Pacific Railway company will be dropped temporarily from the com pany’s payrolls before September 1. This statement was made here by a high official of the company. Hesse Thought on Way East. Ogden. Utah.—E. E. Hesse, wanted at Tecumseh, Neb., for the murder of his wife and stepdaughter, is thought to be going east. It was learned that a conductor on a passenger train leaving Salt Lake City last Wednes day afternoon saw and recognized Hesse. Terrific Storm in Northwest. Minneapolis.—A terrific windstorm along the international boundary line in North Dakota blew down houses on the heads of their inmates and whip ped crops in places into shreds. A number of persons are reported killed. Concentration of Troops. Washington.—Concentration of the army at large stations, strategetieally situated for military purposes, and the abandonment of the small posts is un der consideration by the war depart ment, MURDER TRIAL ENDS IN A LIFE SENTENCE HENWOCD GUILTY Or KILLING, AND WEALTHY WOMAN RE VEALED AS CAUSE. Denver. Colo.—Harold Frank Hen wood. slayer of George E. Copeland of Victor. Colo., who was shot accident ally by Kenwood when the latter killed Sylvester L. Van Phul. the St Louis aeronaut, was found guilty of murder in the second degree ana sen tenced to the penitentiary for life Never in the history of local tri- j cunals have the presiding judge and j prosecutor been subjected to such an ' excoriation as that pronounced by j Henwocc when asked what he had to ! say “why sentence should not be pro- j aounced.” He characterized his treat- 1 ment by the court and prosecutor as “persecution." The trial of Henwood was replete with sensational features. Like many ; other sensational tragedies there was i a woman in the case; and while she j " u ftXSk* l > e&aaziK. was on the witness stand in the mur j der trial her lawyers were in another court ashing $30u a month alimony i in a divorce suit instituted by her j husband. The suit for divorce was j the sequel to the ^ragedy in the hotel ! and was won~by tile husband. The killing of Copeland was acci dental and occurred when Henwood ' was shooting bullets at Van Phul. j Henwood and Van Phul were rivals ! for the friendship of Mrs. John W. i Springer, wife of a wealthy banker j ana stockman. She had entertained j both men in St. Louis, her former ! home, and at Denver hotel, where the | tragedy occurred. It was inevitable i under the circumstances that bad feeling should have been engendered Detween them and this feeling found its logical ending when the men met in the hotel bar-room. There are conflicting reports as to the encounter between them: but there is no dis pute as to the fact that Henwood shot and killed Van Phul, -end in doing so inflicted a mortal wound on Copeland, a young miner, who had no part at all in their quarrel. Mrs. Springer's maiden mme was Patterson and she was born in St. j Louis. Among her schoolmates there j was Van Phul. Later in life he was a i suitor for her hand, but she married j a man named Folk and divorced him ; shortly afterward. Two years ago she married Springer in St. Louis. They at once came to Denver and Mrs. Springer has been a social leader, though much of her time was spent with friends in St. Louis and at Hot Springs, Ark. The Springers' home in Denver was on Washington street, but they spent much time at their beauti ful country place in Arapahoe county, and also had a suite in the hotel where the tragedy took place. HINDU IS CREMATED ON PYRE Countrymen Perform Religious Rites of Race and Scatter Ashes on River. Tacoma, Wash.—Deder Singh, a Hindu, committed suicide in Lyle, by hanging himself to a rafter in a sec tion house. The body was cremated Cremating a Hindu. oy his countrymen with the religious rites of their race. A funeral pyre was erected on the banks of the Co lumbia river. Two cords of wood and :en gallons of kerosene were used. The ashes were scattered on the Co lumbia. II GIRL’S STRANGE MEMEiin NELLIE SMITH, 12 YEARS OLD GIVES DETAILS OF HARROW ING ATTACK. AN INNOCENT MAN IS KILLEC Circumstantial Tale Arouses Whole City and Brings Deadly Wrath o1 Pcsse Upon a Fugitive, Whom the Coroner's Jury Later Exonerates Hot Springs. Ark.—Some subtle elusive, psychological phenomenon in a young girl’s mind is blamed for the death of L. L, Shockley, for whose death Robert Ellis, a police office clerk, sad Herbert Smith, brother o: the girl, and members of a posse have been held. It is charged tha* they shot him as he was fleeing ar rest. The girl had aroused this whole city by a circumstantial tale of at attack upon her by a horseback ridel who. she said, had chloroformed her She gave a minute description of the horse, a description that fitted an ani mal owned by Shockley. After the man's dea’h she positively identified his horse as the one her assailant hae ridden. Yet at the coroner's inquest it hae been shown conclusively that Shock ley could not have attacked the gir: at the time she gave, and that hii horse was then somewhere else. Shockley's attempt to escape is ex plained as due to a misconception ot his pttrt that he was wanted for boot legging in Oklahoma. He discovered that officers were after him. although ignorant of the accusations of the girl The girl is Nellie Smith, 12 yean old, daughter of a prominent coa! merchant of Hot Springs. This is not the first time she has figured in thrill ing adventures, which she either ex perienced or imagined so vividly she thought she had experienced them. The morning Shockley was killed Nellie, who had started to a private school, went in an hour late, trem bling with excitement, and told a bar rowing story of an attack. She had been walking along Ouachita avenue she said, when a tall man with gray rap ar.d brown shoes, having red halt and freckles, rode up to her on a gray spotted horse. “The first thing I knew,” said Nel .ie. “he called to me to stop. He I A Girl’s Imaginary Experience. pointed a big revolver at me, threat ening to shoot. Then he reached down and grabbed me by the shoul der. He lifted me on the horse in front of him and galloped off. The moment we started he placed over my face a cloth that had chloroform on it. At least I thought it was chlaro form. I became unconscious. The next I knew I was awakened by some one slapping me in the face. I don't know what the man said. He didn't try to hurt me, anyway, except to slap me. After I had gone a little way, when he had told me to leave I found a handkerchief around my neck and a note which said, ‘Don’t you tell anyone what has happened If you do I will kill you.’ ” When the child had told her story i story strongly reminiscent cf a mo tion picture film, her teachers sound ed the alarm. Immediately from po lice headquarters the order to find i man riding a gray-spotted pony was flashed. A posse began forming. Deputy Sheriff Hardie Hinton was riding near the fair grounds when he saw a bare-legged boy on a spotted gray horse. The lad rode up to the tent where Shockley and his family who are wandering horse traders were living. Scarcely had the boy dismounted when a man rushed out s>f the tent and sprang on the horse. “Tell yout ma the marshals are after me and they won't get me alive," he shouted to the youngster. The man was Shockley. Hinton reported this incident to the city police; they took up the trail, accompanied by Smith, and soon came upon Shockley. When the fugitive saw the posse he turned from the main road into a country lane on the banks of the Ouchita river. He de fied the calls to halt and was shot. At the coroner’s inquest it was es tablished that Shockley could not have attacked the girl nor could his horse have been seen by her.
