Slayer, 21, Calmly
Goes to Death on
Blood Red Gallows
Efforts of Prominent Society
Women, Including Duchess,
Fail to Save Boy's
Life.
Montreal. Quebec. July 11.—Walter
Muir, 21-year-old New York youth,
was hanged at 8-36 this morning et
the little Jail at Valley Field for the
murder of Henry La Vlollete, whom
he shot during a quarrel last Sep
tember.
Muir went to the gallows cour
ageously a few hours after he had
said a pathetic farewell to his mother,
Mrs. May Muir, a widowed dress
maker who came to Valley Field from
New York to see him Just before he
died.
She had tried desperately but In
effectually to obtain executive clem
ency for her son.
Blood Red Scaffold.
The boy student was hanged on a
blood red scaffold In the courtyard of
the little Valley Field Jail.
lie died smiling, his face lit up with
an ethereal light.
“Jesus have mercy," he said in a
voice that, although low, reached
the very ends of the courtyard.
He walked to the scaffold with firm
step. On the scaffold, the handsome
youth’s blonde head was raised to
catch the morning sun and the black
hood.
The prayer was on his lips when
the hood was adjusted.
There was a grating sound. Then
a swift, downward rush—and all was
ended.
The trap was sprung at 8:35. Ten
minutes later, the Jail physicians de
clared Muir dead.
Claims Trial Unfair.
Before he died, Muir addressed a let
ter to the sheriff of the distlct, de
claring he di not have a fair trial.
“I did not Intend to kill any one—
there was no premeditation. I forgive
all.”
Muir’s rase attracted wide interest
and no little sympathy. The Duchess
De Richelieu and other prominent
New York women interested them
selves In his behalf and the case even
went so far as to be put up to State
department at Washington for inter
vention.
Laviolette wag killed during a
drunken brawl. Both men, accord
ing to testimony, were drinking.
Muir contended he was trying to
protect a cripple. Because of ap
parent lack of deliberate intent and
Muir's youth, the Duchess De Riche
lieu and others interested themselves
In the case.
The Rev. Father Aumais, who ad
ministered the last rites to the boy,
refused to go to the gallows with
him, declaring that boy “is not a
criminal."
“I am not opposed to capital
punishment," Father Aumais said,
“but it ought to be resorted to only
in the case of criminals.
Letter to Mother.
A farewell letter, writeen before
her visit as he sat alone in his cell
during the night, was delivered to
Muir's mother after the hanging.
Muir rail not told her he had written
it. It read:
“To my heartbroken mother:
“My poor mother, how you must be
suffering since my death. But you
must be brave and remember I died
a good Christian and in a state of
grace. Always think of me as I will
be watching and praying over you
until you join me in Heaven. It was
the will of God that 1 should leave
this earth at this time. I am dying
a very happy boy. I love you,
mother, with all my heart and will
pray to God always for you. Goodby,
Mother dear. May God bless you.
“Your loving son,
"WALTER.”
Not since the famous Shorts mur
der case in 1899 has such a wave of
public feeling swept over this sec
tion of Canada. The entire town
turned out to see the prisoner en
route to the gallows.
* 1 - ■ ■ -v
RADIO
--'
Program for .July IS.
(Courtesy of Radio Digest.)
By Associated Press,
AVQ.T, Chicago, (448), 7-9. musical.
WEBH. Chicago. (380). 6:30. music;
8 3'*. soloists, dance; 10.30, artists, or
chest ra
WLS. Chicago. (345). 6:30-7. choir.
VLW, Cincinnati. ( 423 ). 8. orchestra
W K H. Cleveland. (283 ), f». services;
5.30. baseball, news; 7, concert.
W F A A. Dallas News (476). 7:45-9:16,
church services. 9 30-1 1, aynropators.
WWJ, Detroit News. (517), 6 30, 8t.
Paul Episcopal cathedral
WOC. Davenport, (4*4). 8. service,
9.30, musical.
WOK. Jefferson City, (440 9). 9 serv
ices. music.
WHAA, Iowa City. (484 ). 9, hymns
WDAF, Kansas City Htar. (411), 4-6.
Newman theater.
WHB, Kansas City. (411), 11 a m ,
Christian church services. 8 in. repre
aentative churches of Kansas City.
WOQ. Kansas City Unity, (360), 11 a
m . services; 7-9. services
KMJ, Los Angeles. (396), 8 30, concert;
9, organ; 10. program
KFI. Los Angeles, (469 ), 8 46. concert ;
10. orchestra; 11, vocal. Instrumental; 12.
orchestra.
WLAG, Mlnneapolls-St. Paul, (417),
7:45, service.
WHN, New York. (405), 1-9 p. ns.,
services, talks, solos.
WJZ, New York. (4R6), 7-11 a. m.
children, services; 4:S0, concert.
W'EAF, New York, (492), 1, hymns; 2.
services; 6:20-7:16, Capitol theater. 7:16,
Skinner organ
WO AW, Omaha, (626). 9-11, services.
WKI Philadelphia. (395), 6:30, services.
KGW. Portland. ( 492), 8. service.
KFNF, Shenandoah, (266), 6:30, serv
ices.
WOAW Program
<*—-/
Hat unlay, July It.
« p m., dinner program
• r m.. program arranged by Clinton
R. Miller Auaplcaa Omaha Printing com
pany aha office aupply houee):
“Aerial Corpa" . Nlcholgon
“La Oolondrlna" . Lake
"Alonavunna" .Flahei
“Lost Hope” . Morelli
“Sunny Italy." Italian alra.Tobanl
“La Paloma . I>e Yradler
Voc^ Solo—“The Stare and Htripcn
Forever" . Honan
Angelo Luepo’a Rainbow orcheatra.
••Dream of Love"
Saxophone aolo, with orchestra
••Floating Down the Mlaafaalppi"
. McKenna
Orcheatra.
“Down Home Blues".. .Heracher
Vocal aolo.
•'Maid of the Weal". ....Smith
Orcheatra
“Mlaarera." from II Tmvatore . .Verdi
Saxophone aolo, with piano.
“Burning Kieses" Peck
“Lights Out" . McCoy
“On tha Lagoon" . Prlml
“East." latest Oriental melody . Hmlth
Orchestra.
•‘Serenade" . Schubert
Saxophone aolo. with piano
••Nobody Else But You" .Gilbert
Orchestra.
4
t-—-X
Burgess Bedtime
Stories
v_ _
By THORNTON \V. Bl'RGESS.
B* *ur* you do not lauRh too noon;
Your laughter may prove out of tun#
—Farmer Brown.
The Mysterious Whistle.
How Farmer Brown did laugh when
he came home and heard about the
mysterious w'histle, which had called
his boy up from the cornfield. “Either
you must have Imagined that whistle
or else some boy has learned our pri
vate signal and played a Joke on you,"
ho declared.
But Farmer Brown’s Boy was posi
tlve that he hadn’t Imagined that
whistle. "I heard it,” said he, “just
as plainly as ever I have heard it. J
don’t know of any boy around here
who would play a trick like that.
Somebody whistled, and I mean to
find out who it was."
The next morning Farmer Brown’s
Boy went to town on an errand, and
was gone until naon. He did not re
turn until after Farmer Brown had
come up from the cornfield where he
had been working that morning.
Farmer Brown raw him come into
the yard and there was a funny look
on Farmer Brown's face. "Is this the
first time you have been back since
you started out early this morning?”
he demanded.
"Yes. sir," replied Farmer Brown’s
Boy. "Why do you ask?"
"Because," replied Farmer Brown's
Boy. "Why do you ask?”
"Because," replied Farmer Brown,
"I thought I heard you whistle to me
twice during the middle of the
morning.”
"Well, I didn't," replied Farmer
Brown’s Roy. "It wasn’t my whistle
you heard, for I was at the village.
Now I guess you really do believe
that I heard a whistle yesterday.
"Yes, son," replied Farmer Brown.
"I believe you heard a whistle just
is you said you did. If I refused to
believe it I couldn’t believe that I
heard that whistle myself this mom
Ing, and I know that I did hear it.
[t was our own private signal whis
tled Just as we always whistle it.
Some one certainly is playing a Joke
m us. Who it can be I have no Idea
it all."
Right at that very minute both
heard that whistle. Being in the
touse they couldn't tell exactly where
It came from, out both heard it.
Farmer Brown's Boy Jumped up from
he dinner table. "I'm going to find
'hat fellow," he declared. "I'm going
!o look through every hiding place.
Whoever Is doing that whistling is
having a lot of fun. But I'm going
!o put an end to It by finding out
ivho it Is."
.lust as Farmer Brown's T!o>
stepped out of the house he heard
the whistle again. It came from back
of the barn. He was sure of it. Re
turning quickly but noiselessly over
to the barn he crept along the aide
of It and very carefully peeped
around the corner. No one was to
he seen. Such a funny expression a«
The next morning Farmer Brown's
Boy went to town on an errand.
the face of Farmer Brown's iBoy
wore. He had felt sure that he would
find some one hiding behind that
barn.
Farmer Brown's Boy looked every
where. He went all through that
barn. He didn't miss a single place
big enough for a hoy to hide in. He
looked in the pig pen. Twice while
he was hunting he heard the whistle,
but he didn't find the whistler.
(Copyright, 1924.)
The next story: "The Whistler Is
Discovered."
Cass County Disabled
Veterans to Organize
Atlantic, la., July 11.—Disabled vet
erans of the world war in Cass county
have called a meeting at the Atlantic
municipal auditorium Sunday for the
purpose of forming a branch of the
Disabled War Veterans association.
Omahans Held
in Bank Slaying
Attend Inquest
Fred Johnson and Earl Wil
* liams Accused of Killing
Forest Ranger in Flight
From Robbery.
By International New* Sorrlre.
Red Bluff, Cal., July 11.—Returned
to the Tehama county Jail today from
Wlllos, where thoy had been rushed
yesterday, following threats of lynch
ing, Earl Williams and Fred John
son of Omaha, accused bank robbers
and slayers of Samuel Harmanson,
forest ranger, today attended the
coroner's Inquest held over the body
of their alleged victim.
They disclaimed any Intent to kill
Hermanson, declaring he was shot
during a scuffle for possession of a
gun after he hal captured them, in
statements made to District At
torney F. C. Pugh. Both confessed
to having robbed the bank.
Willows, Cal., July 11.—Accused of
looting the Bank of Tehama at Red
Bluff, near here, and of slaying
Samuel Hermanson, a forest ranger,
F>d Johnson, 22, and Karl Williams,
28, both of Omaha, Neb., are held
)y the local authorities, after having
ieen hurriedly rushed here from Red
Bluff when a mob threatened lynch
ing.
The bandits, after cooly holding up
Ihe Red Bluff bank, securing f2,000,
fled In an automobile stolen from a
Jitney driver. When it became dis
abled, they commandeered Herman
son's car and later, shot him to death
when he tried to etop them. The
thugs were arrested at Lyman
Springs by three citizens and were
returned to Red Rtuff where threats
of lynching were hard from a crowd
of several hundred persona who
gathered In front of the Jail.
Police believe Johnson and TVil
Hams are the same men who robbed
the north Sacramento branch of the
California National bank on Juna 9.
and the California Trust and Savings
bank In the same city on July 1.
No record of an Earl Williams or
Fred Johnson who might have figured
In the affair could tie found In Omaha
this morning. The only Earl Wll
Hams on the police docket was the
one who was shot and dragged to the
steps of a hospital two years ago. He
died. _
A search through the 21 Fred
Johnsons and the in Earl Wllliame*
in the city directory failed to reveni
any who are now In California or
nearby states.
Omaha police say that they mav ha
a hie to Identify the men when <hr<r
(ret further particulars and finyer
prints, but they are Inclined to be
lleve that the names Riven were
aliases.
:—.—.. .. - ■■ ■■ ■ i
OMAHA’S COOLEST SPOT
(Everybody Says So) |
° frudilM °
What kind of a girl does a girl
have to be to be the kind of a
girl the boys want her to be?
H. Hall Clovis Good Comedy I I
In “MONKEY I j
SONGS MIXUP’’
ORGAN, ORCHESTRA, NEWS f
__ 5
j VAUDEVILLE-PHOTOPLAYS
UAa^^
-J
Starting Today
AHEARN’S
MILLIONAIRE JAZZ BAND
And Other Excellent Vaudeville
and Pictures
■HBRKSIBDBBBBnHP
4 ii
I ' o
M ^Tsth & dok’a&J yy
■ ANTONIO MORENO
El «nd
|| ESTELLE TAYLOR
| “Tiger Love”
F—' ■' -1 ' -
HEIGHBDRHODD THEATERS
BOULEVARD - - 33d and Leavenworth
Vaudeville
| ‘The Girl Who Came Back,’ and Comedy
| LOTHROP - - - - - 24th and Lothrop
Butter Keaton In "The Three Agee”
Comedy and Aesop’s Fables
GRAND.16th end Binney
Marie Prevott, Alice Lake,
Johnnie Walker, in "RED LIGHTS”
r starts
j L " J k 1 today
Elinor Glyn't
“How to Educate a Wife"
emBMHHHetewwBMHBwmeHew
vET
I “One Law tor the Woman'
I CULLEN LANDIS
B_MILDRED HARRIS
A Musical Play As Unusual and
As Funny As Its Title
BERT SMITH
PLAYERS
I
“BEAN SOUP”
^Bihi^hibhhhbhbbhb^
LAKEVIEW PARK
Dancing Tonight and Every
Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday
Mid summer Dancing |
Contest Next Friday
Here's
- a Tip
on real
Clothes
Comfort
«— -- ir --t—- 1 --
If you want to enjoy your
vacation it’s a mighty good
idea if you change your
own scenery, too
Bond’s Tropical
Worsted Suits
guarantee a real round trip of
cool comfort—and here’s the
tip, the price is only
!
r77r“i j
Bond’s Genuine
Palm Beach
2-Pants Suits
A* cool and airy as a
lakff braaxa -— Rond's
Palm Rearh Suits will ktep
you fool.
S' AN
.7 J
White Made from the famoui Clark
Flannel * n,n* rtann#'—plain whltr
* *<»**1*wl op strin^d—will not ahrink or
Trousers diaeolor. i
Open Till 9 P. M. Saturday
New York Detroit Pittebnrgh Cincinnati Lorain
Chicago Akron Yotangatowm St. Uuli Omaha
Cleveland Toledo T^ulavilla Kanaaa City Buffalo
Columbua
0
i
Save Food—Save Ice—Save Health! Save During Hartman’s
©nn©=Bay M@Mg@]rat©F Sal©
Nationally Known Brands—All Low in Price
It means the soundest economy to in
vest in no refrigerator except one that
has stood the test through the years
and is nationally known for its excel
lent qualities. Here you choose from
just such refrigerators, and there is a
style, a size and a price to suit every
one during Saturday’s One-Day Sale.
^ The Variety of Sizes
a Makes the Matter of
Selection an Easy One
7S-lb. Capacity
pv Sfide-ker
Three Nickel Shelvet
Large, roomy compartment*, golden oak
] ~ _ finlah exterior with sanitary, white enam
I el Interior finish. The outside dimension*
are a* follows: 45 inches high. 19*4 lnchea
deep, and 11 Inches wide. A wonderful value at this spe
cial price. Ideal for the average size **
g. family. Patented drain pipe and ■ j .Hi 1
ITV drip cup lnauring against quick ice w
consumption. Regular *50.00 value,
—And then we have other style* and staei la Side-Ieen
as described below. All are exceptional valnes tomorrow.
r— Enamel Lined ^0.50”'
100-lb. Capacity
Side-Icer Model
Another typical bargain In style aa Illustrated abore
Measures 46 Inches high, 19V4 Inches deep, 35 Inches
wide. Regularly M5-00
l__—-'
—!40-lb. Capacity
Enamel Lined
Side-leer Model
One of the larger *iie* Sanitary white enamel lined
Measure* 5* Inches high, 224 Inches deep and 41 ^
Inches wide. Rejrularly IT5.00.
- ■ ^
r 80-lb. Capacity White
Enamel Lined Top-Icer
Surely you will b. Interested In this epeelsl value. One of
the moat popular aliea—accommodates full 50 lbe. of lea.
(Jolden oak finish caaa. Meaeurea 42 Inches 4 /s ca
high and 24 Inches wide. Shown to left. I “
A >26.00 Talue, at. A
Ail White Enamel Model
-Nickel Trimmed Edges
A large slse all-white enamel alde-tcer, as Illustrated to
right. Handsomely trimmed In nickel, and will accommo
.. ___ date full 75 lb». of lc*. Our stock is rather £ 7C
White Fnamel l ined 11 wuhj W' ^ Mr'T bU7lB* Ut/ A Size and Style
Saturday 16.75 to Suit Your
23.50 Particular Need.
I " ' Porch Furniture
I Galore at
| Attractive
j | Prices
Sale oil Swings
4.Font Site— Fumed oak finish, complete with
chains snd hooks ready for hang- ^ 9 5
tng Regular *6.75 value, only....
4-P...eager Uw«
etn.M *5.95
_ _' A Day of
Unusual Rug Values
Sale of Beautiful Floor Coverings
It has been year* since the public has been offered as gx>od
values in rugs, m the present low prices afford, and there has
surely never been a time when our assortments were more
complete.
Special selling of Wilton Rug* 9x12 Wilton Rug*, all pur*
in 8 3x10 8 ail*. Choir* pattern* worsted varns. the finest grads
LT117.50 SUfT 122.50
9x1* Seamless Fringed Velvet 9x12 Axmlnster Rugs In a splen
Rugs of an extra heavy grade did range of pattern* Heavy
full display of gas ranges, many sites, many makes Spe- designs! at’. ******! 34.95 pil*'l<>’ . . ' 29.95
rial attention to this model with 16-lneh ovsn. (jj f\ nc
large broiler and white porcelain trimmed; X. -----
889 7S value, special at .SSxfiTlnch C.Cx~
Hlt-and-3tlss Rag Rngs
♦TvM) Porcelain Trim Range, Sfl ________J
SnMirn. Talur < onwnlmt T«rn»«
and Satlnfartloa i( Ortired
>■■ - -=s-413-15-17 South Sixteenth ----- ■--=
%
•i
<
