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About The Omaha morning bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927 | View Entire Issue (July 29, 1922)
THE OMAHA BEE: SATURDAY. JULY 29, 1922. Mrs. Taylor Held by Coroner s Jury for Freiden Deatl .Verdict .for First Degre Charge , Reached After Deliberation of Leu Than Five Minutei. A coroner's jury, out less thin five minute , recommended yeiterday that Mn. Linda Taylor be held on the charge of first degree murder (or killing Sam C. Freiden, Counci Biiuffi business man. Th Pottawattamie county cour houie was crowded long before the hour let for the inquest with friends and relativei of the slain man and neighbors of the W. H. Taylors at 822 Avenue D, where the shooting took olare VVednesday noon. Mrs. Taylor seemed the most dis interested spectator. Slight, colorless and, clad in a faded ' fiiiisham dress and pink sailor hat she sat expressionless throughout the hearing, only perking herselt up with an air of self-vindication whenever neighbor-witnesses quoted her as having said: "He ruined my home "or "He attacked me, so I shot him!" High Spot of Evidence.' The only sign of nervousness she exhibited was frequent moistening of her lips with her tongue. Two high spots of evidence de veloped in the hearing. One was the ' testimony of Dave Eiseman, grocer on the corner, that Mrs. Taylor used the telephone in his store to call Freiden's office, the day before the shooting. When told Freiden was not in, she declined to leave a mes sage or give her name and telephone number, he said. ' To a reporter for The Omaha Bee, after the inquest. Mrs. Taylor denied that she ever telephoned Freiden, , but county Attorney Charles E. Swanson, who will prosecute the case in tq.e September term of court, declares that he will produce evi dence that the woman did phone Freiden frequently, and did so sev eral times the day of the murder. Said to Be Irrational. Relatives ; quoted M. I. Ansite. Freiden's partner, as having stated "a Miss Taylor" phoned for Freiden. When he delivered the message, Freiden's reply was: "Who is she and what does she want? I don't know who it could be." Neighbor women testified Mrs. Taylor was frequently irrational, that she suffered "brain storms" and that they were afraid of her. Mrs. Eiseman, wife of the grocer, testified Mrs. Taylor rushed into her store a month ago, to telephone to police. " 'My neighbor murdered my child,' she told the police. I ran out into the street to see what was going on and there was her child, playing peacefully in the yard," said Mrs. Eiseman. - , "Afraid of Her." Mrs. Matilda Stegall, 814 Avenue D, testified: "I was afraid of her and so are the rest of the neighbors. A doctor told Mrs. Carlson, another neighbor, that Mrs. Taylor had brain storms and for Us not to aggravate her." When Taylor yelled to Mrs. Stegall to call police after the shooting, Mrs. Stegall said she was afraid to run Out the front way for fear Mrs. Tay lor would shoot her, too. Mrs. Lillie Lewis, 815 Avenue E, rear, testified Mrs. Taylor told her Freiden "tried" to attack her and that she "warned him if he came again she'd shoot." Testimony Varies. Testimony of witnesses varied as to the time Mrs. Taylor told them the alleged attack took place. None of Mrs. Taylor's relatives, not even her husband or father, were visible in the court room. No one but newspaper folks attempted to speak to her as the sheriff led her back to jail. Her attorney, John P. Tinley, indi cated the defense would not plead emotional insanity, but would ad here to her story that she shot to de fend her honor. T. F. Callaghan, Peter Hansen and Charles Beschean, neighbors who saw the woman emerge from her . house with the revolver in her hand! and saw her husband take it away from her, also were called to the stand. Mrs. Taylor did not testify. Freiderm Retain Lawyers. George S. Wright and Addison G. Kistle, attorneys retained by rela tives of Freiden to assist in the prose cution of Mrs. Taylor say they will clear the dead man of charges brought against him by the woman in her statement to police after the shoqting, ' . ' Mrs. Taylor alleges that Freiden came to her home, 822 Avenue D, lbout 2 on the afternoon of Tuesday, fulv 18, and attacked her. Funeral services for Freiden will ee held Sunday afternoon at 2 from he home of his brother-in-law, 737 Mynster street Rabbi Singer of Lincoln, Neb., will officiate and the services will be in charge of Bluff City lodge, A. F. & A, M, authorization for a Ma sonic burial having been received vesterday by - wire from Freiden's iodge at Silver City, la. Burial will be in-Oak Hill cemetery. Tot Held to Satisfy Board Bill Auctioned to Highest Bidder Chicago, July 28.-Held to satisfy a $4(15 board and doctor bill incurred by her father, now serving a term in the house of correction, Marie Baker, 5, was sold at auction by Judge Adams in the court of domestic rein tions to the hishet bidder. The child wss "knocked down" to Mr. and Mrs. John Kenney, wealthy residents of Kentville, Minn. Their bid was $.10. When Manes mother died a year ago, her father took her to board at the home of Mrs. A. Stolpman He frll behind in his payments and Mrs. Stolpman brought him into the court on a charge of contributing to the dependency of a child. When he could not pay the judge sent him to the house of correction. Short Editorials Have Equal Chance in Prize Contest Limit is 500 Words, but 100 Words May Be Better Conciseness May De termine Winner. Your editorial for The Omaha Bee's editorial-writing contest need not be long. The maximum limit is 500 words but if you can write a good one in I0U words, so much the better. Brevity is the soul of wit and may be the soul of an editorial. It's a pleasant game to play with the Eng- ish language, to see how brief and concise and clear you can make a thought that is in your mind. The world is busy and wants to get your thought in the fewest possible words. Now is the time to write it you re going to take advantage of this op portunity to win cash and maybe fame. Contest closes August iu. Prizes are $25, $15 and $10 for the three best editorials written by a reader of The Omaha Bee who is not a newspaper worker. These three with winners in similar contests on 23 other Nebraska papers will be contestants for the three super prizes of $100, $50, and $25. The three super-prize winners will be brouirht to Omaha at the ex pense of The Omaha Bee to be honor guests at a banquet to the Nebraska Press association. Write on one side of the paper and put your name, address and occupa tion on the first sheet, upper ten corner. Address manuscript to edi torial Contest Editor,' The Omaha Bee. And do it now I Burlington-Will Install Oil Burners on Engines Lincoln, July 28. Orders to install oil burners at the Lincoln round house of the Burlington road have been received here and will be car ried out as rapidly as possible to re lieve a coal shortage, which is said to be becoming acute, according to division officials. No such orders have as yet been received at the Havelock shops of the company, however. It was intimated here today by road officials that application to dis continue certain . trains might be made, if the present situation be comes more serious. Candidates in Primary File Election Expense Lincoln, July 28. (Special.) W. M. Stebbins, candidate for the repub lican nomination for state treasurer spent $940 in the campaign accord ing to a statement filed with the secretary of state. O. S. Spillman spent $694 in the race for nomina tion for attorney general. Many of the candidates stated that their ad vertising was handled by O. O. Buck, secretary of the Nebraska Press as sociation. Omaha Contractors Get Assessment Reduced Lincoln, July 28. (Special.) The Allied Contractors, Omaha, protested before the state board of equaliza tion today against an alleged $6,100 assessment on certain equipment at Ord and a like assessment on th same equipment at Omaha. The board voted to lower the Omaha as- j sessment $6,100. Wonderful Dress Bargains At $3.95, $7.50 and $15.00 For Saturday's selling we of fer about 250 dresses which we have grouped in three bar gain lots every type dress is to be found. Only one, two or three of a style. The bargains are truly wonderful and we ask our customers to come Saturday morning early. JULIUS ORKIN 1512 Douglas llPeuTiinisylvaB.ua We Still Have Egg Size Limited Amount of Hard Coal for IMMEDIATE DELIVERY LUMBER & COAL CO. Phone WAInut 0300 4 4 i 4 Girl Struck by Truck Driven by Iler Father When his truck no into a little girl at Eighteenth and Cuming streets yesterday morning, S. L. Peterson, 1 1 35 North Nineteenth street, carried the victim into an oil filling station, there to learn that she wss his own daughter, Rosa. It was found she was only severely shaken and bruited, however, She was uUn to Lord Lister hispitat, Mits Peterson works ss an stenog. rapher at the Union Pacific I'dtd quirters. Charles W. Bryan to Plead for Unity of Democrat Charles W. Bryan, democratic Candida's for governor, will appeal to the Douglas county democracy to j stand shoulder o thouldcr it the democratic mobilisation at ICrug park tonight. An address of welcome I will be delivered by Mayor Dahl- man. uo mt pistiorni wm aiso ap pear a number ol county, state and Irgitlitivs candidates. The proceeds from all the plays written by vueen Maria of Roumama are devoted to the charities cf her country. 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All you have to do ia take a look through the "Want" Ad columna of The Omaha Bee today. That will start you on the good-luck habit. You will find hundreds of things that you may be in terested in buying right now that you surely will want aome 'time advertised there at prices that make them twice as easy to get. There's something on that page for you or your family today tomorrow every day in the year. When it comes to getting what you want a little "Want" Ad in The Omaha Bee will bring you a thousand times better hick than all the four-leaf clovers that ever bloomed. Jt you want to sell something you don't need, or buy something you don't have, your "Want" Ad in The Omnha Bee will get quick and sure results. , ' OMAHA BEE "WANT" ADS BRING BETTER RESULTS AT LESSER COST The Omaha Morning Bee' THE EVENING BEE Groceries at Lowered ' Prices for Saturday 10 lbs.' Pure GranulaUd Sugar 75 Hayden's Diamond II Flour 81.78 Hayden's Health Flour ' 81.88 lbs. Best Breakfast Oatmeal 25 2 lbs. Hand Picked Navy Beans 25 3-lb. nkg. Argo Starch 23 Gallon cans Mazola Oil 81.65 3 cans Fancy Sugar Corn 25 Ideal or Flora Vora Malt and Hops 58 Pure Tomato . Catsup, hot. 10 6 cans Oil Sardines 25 Large cans , Mustard Sardines 9 10 bars White Borax Soap 23 10 bars Crystal White Soap 38 Tea and Coffee Dept. Our Famous Santos Coffee per lb. 25 4 lbs. for . 95 ' Golden Santos Coffee per lb. 20 4 lbs. for 75 Excello Brand Coffee per lb. 30 3 lbs. for 85 Hayden's De Luxe .Coffee, lb. 45 2 lbs. for . 85 Best Tea Sittings per lb. 16 Breakfast Cocoa, lb. . 10 3 lbs. for 25 Drink Hayden's Famous Ice Tea Blend per lb. 45 2 lbs. for . . 85 Cracker Specials Kellogg Crumble Braa per pkg. 20 Shredded Wheat Biscuit 11 Jersey Corn Flakes, pkg. 7tf Dried Fruit Specials Fancy Apricots per lb. 33 , - 80-40 Santa Clara Prunes per lb. 23 Pure Comb Honey, rack 15 Fancy Pop Corn per lb. 3 Brazil Nats per lb. 18 Fresh Roasted Peanuts, lb. 10 National , Biscuit 1-lb. ' Chocolate Cookies and pkg. Uneeda Biscuit, all for 38 Exclusive Store for Men and Boya We're Doing a Lot to Make Men Comfortable "Everybody talks a lot about the weather, but nobody does any thing about it" Mark Twain Saturday Palm Beach Suit Prices HitBedRdck i f PALM Mb EACH SUITS , $8.95 , $14.00 s For Palm Beach Suits that sold up to $15.00. For Hart Schaffner & Marx Suits that sold to $25.00. Buy a Palm Beach Suit and Defy the Hottest Weather Palm Beach Suits will stand all the wear you can give them, nans isc fiwu jicau ocaouti. xucjr tan uc uau in All liib uesirauie colors And shades nH iMittprn. Tftev will rava vaiit vrnAlan rlnHiaa for spring, fall and winter wear. There is only one Palm Beach Cloth. It carries the Palm Beach label. Look for it. Mohair and Dixie Weave, Hart Schaffner and Marx Suits,. $35.00 Values, $17.00 Golf Knickers made of Palm Beach are cool and good look ing, practical and durable. $2.95 VERY SPECIAL Good wool cloth Suit for men. Mad by Marx and Haas, St. Louii. Each suit has extra pair of trousers. $19.75 Men's Caps $1.00 si"".!".. A great quantity to select from wonderful selections nov elty fabrics. New Exclusive designs large desirable shapes. A Continuance of the Remarkable Selling of Manhattan Shirts and Pajamas Public Note: This Is Not a "Job Lot" of Small Sizes, But Includes Every Size and Quality Made . Manhattan Shirts .f. Price $ 2.50 3.25 4.00 5.00 6.00 7.00 8.50 10.00 Kinds, Kindt, Kinds, Kinds, Kind, Kind, Kind, Kinds, Now.. Now... Now. . . Now. . . Now. . . Now. . . Now. . . Now . . . Sal Pried -31.65 2.25 2.85 3.45 4.25 4.95 5.85 6.95 Manhattan Pajamas Rag. Sale Prieo Prieo $ 3.50 Kinds, Now... $2.65 5.00 Kinds, Now... 3.45 6.59 Kinds, Now. . . 4.15 7.50 Kinds, Now. . . 5.25 10.00 Kinds, Now... 6.15 12.00 Kinds, Now... 7.85 15.00 Kinds, Now... 9.95 18.00 Kinds, Now.. 11.95 Market Sales Saturday Freth Pressed Spring Chicken, Jb. 354 Frh Dressed Hens. lb. 27H Fancy Rolled Steer Rib Roast 25 c Fancy Steer Shoulder Roast 16H Fancy Steer Tot Roast, lb. lit Fancy Veal Roast, lb. 17 H Small Lean Pork Roast ' 174 Steer Shoulder Steak, lb. 17H Pork Chops per lb. 22 Cudahy Narrow Lean Breakfast Bacon, lb. 27W All Brands Sugar Cured Skinned Hams per lb. 34K Fancy Summer Sausage, lb, 20 Home-Made Liver Sausage, lb. 15 ' Pure Rendered Lard, lb. 14 Butter, Egg and Cheoia Dept. Fancy Tub Creamery Butter, lb. . 34 Fancy Pkg. Creamery Butter per lb. ' 36 Peanut Butter lb., 25 Queen Olives per quart 45 Dill Pickles dozen for 15 Fancy Brick Cheese, lb. ' 23 Fancy Full Cream Cheese lb., 24 Fresh Country Eggs, dozen 22 Rex Nut Margarine lb., 20 5 lbs., 98 Phono Order Given Prompt Attention Mail Orders Promptly . Filled 17.:. a a una and Vegetables Priced Special Sweet Corn per dozen 12tt 4 bunches of Green Onions 5 Fancy Cabbage, lb. 1 Market Basket Cucumbers 25 Market Basket Tomatoes ' 25 Fresh Beets or Carrots 3 bunches 5 Wax or Green Beans,. lb., 5 Summer Squash, 3 for 10 Green Peppers per lb., 10 Leaf Lettuce, 3 bunches 5 Sunkist Lemons, dos. 30 Ice Cold Watermelon, lb., 2tt . 4 lbs. Cooking; Apples for 10 Fancy Canta loupe, each, Large Baa. Plums, 35 Fancy Apricots, per crate, 82.45 Burbank Plums, 4-Bas. crate, 81.30 A 4