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About The Omaha morning bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 23, 1924)
Hough Paces Cell | as Law Prepares to Solve Slaying Jury U ill Begin Untangling Net of Evidence in Lillian McKenney’g Death Tuesday. Special Dispatch to The Omuha Her. Bedford, la., Nov. 22.—A young man, hard-featured, surly and un happy, nervously paces off the dimen sions of his cell in the county jail here. Three things may happen to him. He may go to the gallows, to cul minate u career splotched with petty crimes. He may get a long term in ptison. Or, should the state's case based on circumstantial evidence fall down, it Is possible that he will leave the jail a free man. Carl Hough goes to trial Tuesday before a jury which will decide whether or not he murdered pretty Lillian McKenney, 21, a girl with whom ho eloped in a stolen automo bile not two months after her gradua tion from the high school at Herrick. S. n. County Attorney .1. Tt. Docke says that the evidence he has gath ered points overwhelmingly to Hough's guilt In one of the most brutal crimes ever committed in this section of Iowa. He has not yet in- de known his attitude on the death p unity, but tt Is believed he will ask it. lloys Find Body. Two small boys, bare-legged and el. d in overalls, were playing along i, country road on the afternoon of «' uRUst 12. They were depicting Korat!.- at the bridge, one of them I ng the Roman hero and the other t'no entire Alban army. They skir i shed around a culvert, and Hora t ra j reseed the foe down under the s rupture. There the two hoys made a gruesome find and ran as fast as they could to the nearest farmhouse. Neighboring farmers were led to 1h- spot, where lay the body of a young woman, her face cut and bruised, her throat showing evidence of stianguiation and her head cut open. The body had been there about two days. On August 15 Elmer Me Kenney of Herrick identified it ns that of his daughter, who had run away from home the previous week with a man who called himself Wil son. Wilson was a name alleged to have been used by Hough. The authorities, thoroughly arous ed. began working within three hours after the boys hail discovered the body. Attendants at an oil station at New Market. Ia., reported that on Augu-t 12, a man drove up to the place end traded a suitcase contain ing clothing for gasoline and oil. In the suiti isc was apparel for a woman a well as for a man. Yh“ i il ; tel: n men had the wits to ;nk ■ d •.-.•!! the ifumber of the car, and Invest'-- it Ion ’disclosed that It had been sob n from Albion. Neb.. and that Hough was being sought for th» theft. The net began to weave Itself around the absent Hough. Will Fitch, a farmer living south of Bed ford. reported an unusual Incident. At 2 a. III. on August 12, he was aroUFcd by a stranger who said he had been poisoned by moonshine liquor and wanted something to eat. The fellow was taken In and given food. He said he did not know where he was, having obtained the whisky at Ctarlndn. At 4 he drove away in ;h" dll' i-tb n of Bedford. John Beach, riding a freight train ^ fur- the South Dakota wheat fields, fell fn with Hough on (he train and, rt splcious at things Hough had said, turned him in to the police at Sioux City. The automobile had been de scried. j torch presented an alibi lm r adl.'itely. lie said he had been p lamed by the bad whisky, and F t tof the girl, and was afraid t • report her disappearance because b was driving a. stolen oar. Tale lias Weak Spots. Tin- police, however, discounted this p ,ry. They say that the romance, r ver auspicious, smashed completely i den the couple ism out o? money ; -d f ird. Miss McKenney by this t up had had enough of the primrose \ ty that had turned out to lie drab i i a igancar sunset. According t • the rtcry the authorities have 1 lilt up out of loose facts, she re t -sed to go further with Hough and \ is beaten to denth. Hough's tale was weak In many pnots. lie said he lost the girl early Monday. That night, however, Mr. end Mrs. Plenum Morris, living west iT Bedford, say Hough and the girl r me to their place west of Bedford fur gasoline. Bedford is stirred up as the town has never been stirred up before. The Interest at the trial next week will take on unprecedented proportions. And while the Judge and jury thresh out the problem of Hough's fate, autumn leaves drop one by one on a simple grave in South Dakota, where rest In perpetuity the remains of a girl who was lured away in that everlasting hunt for romance which so often ends In tragedy, as It did to her. Joe Cryan Organizes Orchestra at Newcastle Newcastle, Nov. 22—An orches tra recently organized here under the leadership of Joe Cryan made Its first appearance at a musical and entertainment held by the young peo ple of the Community Congregational church. Shop in Utmost Comfort “ELECTRIC SHOP** ttabrarikdlftoweri k ' Jury is Ready to Hear Tale of McKenney Murder w&wBb x mm Car/ C/ouy/.' ACCUSED OF THF OR.IMF Miss Ct/can McCCrnn^u LEFT, AMD HER SISTER, TAKEN AT THEH? HOME in SoUth DAKOTA A SHORT TirvlF. BEF'Oirr HER MURDER NEAR BEDFORD SHE is- WEARING SAME it’*’ |* ■ 'She hap o/t when mi i to I g mmr n ' m W- ^ •ft Where the bodn was pound ( 4Sheriff ^Parrish is s tt\ndinc> 1 AT THE E.HACT SPOT WHERE THE \^GIRU'6 HEAD WAS uYiNG. * I I The. Death Cak~ stolE-n fhum Nebraska Midget Engine Made by Hand . .Wb.. Nov. 22.—-A loco motive engine th.it "carries'’ small] boys to a tiarher shop. That’s the right title, avers George A burr, proprietor of a local shop, when his attention is called to a mi nut tire loeomcdive 30 inches long and a foot hign that stands in his place. Besids carrying small boys to the shop for 25 years the little engine has an interesting history. Back in another generation It was made by Hugo Sch&ad, now dead, then a retired Platte county farmer who was janitor at the first ward school. At the school, Schaad wan a fav orite with the kiddles because there wasn’t a child In tfye school for whom he was not willing to 'make playthings. He made the little engine entirely by hand. The little engine, belonging to the four-wheeled driver type design of a generation ago, carries with it nn un written agreement that it is never to lie sold or to leave the shop, but al ways stays when the place changes bunds. Since the engine "first went Into service,” the shop has been sold six limes. Tn 1H08 the place was gutted by flames following a gasoline ex plosion and everythin* was destroy ed except the little engine. That was the only thing they tried to save. Hartington High School Annual Named “The Burr” Hartington, Nov. 22.—Plant are being made by the senior class of the high school here to issue an annual, "The Burr,” which will contain arti cles about the school system, organi zations, athletics, pupils and teachers. The following officers have been chosen: Miss Doris Miller, editor; Donald Poble, business manager; Col burn Olson, advertising manager; and Donald Robinson, subscription man ager. This will be the first annual the school has published since 1016. RADIANT COIL I II Smokeless Semi-Anthracite I I Lump $13.50 Mine Run $11.50 Slack $8.50 I 1 Phone WA- Inut 0300 lv UPDIKE couEc.& ■ See Samples of This Coal at Hayden’s Grocery Dept. |f| |.■ * Dog Aristocracy to Be “Shown Off’ Here in December Nebraska Kennel Club Will Sponsor Exhibits; Trophies and Ribbons to Be Awarded. Tha ‘'400” of dog aristocracy will lie pared to bare 230 or less at the dog show to be held at' the City au ditorium December 4 to 6. The list of real top-notchers will probably be considerably less than 230, for only 77 families "that count" are invited, and only the top three pups of each family will be tagged with the ribbons of good, better, and best. Entrance lists for the party to be given hy the Nebraska Kennel club will close at midnight Wednesday, and dogs who didn't It. R. V. P. to their invitations before that can bark at the moon from their own back yards. More than K00 of America's best friends of man will be barking in unison at the exhibit, according to Mrs. W. C. Edmlston, president of the club, and D. C. Fattble, secretary. Among the guests will be every re presentative of almost every family from the Dobermann pinschers (call ed "pinches" by their friends) to the wire-haired pointing griffons. Many Omaha Entries Omaha's best dogs will take their chances at the exhibit along with those from Newport, West Palm Reach , and Oskywowow, Indiana. A score of Omaha fanciers will vouch for them, while dozens of owners from among 200 memhers of the elub in Nebraska will present their choice specimens at court. Among the Omahans who have en tered proteges and Mrs. Margaret Swanson, Mrs. Lillian A. Von Druska, Mrs. George II. Moore, Mrs. F. .1. Gehling, Ruth G. McCIeneghan, Fred W. Hamilton, C. W. Hamilton, (”. Zoeller, Richard R. AVagner, O. IT. Rarmettler, I.oui. Htorz, and Dr. J. J. Warts. As in "regular soeiety,” the aristoc racy of dogdom will be selected part ly for family, partly for beauty, and j partly for wit. Everything will be considered. The whippet, of course, with ail his brains in his feet, will he chosen for beauty, The Mexican hair-; less, with no more beauty than a j carpet sweeper, will get in because of ! his family, which setteld this con tlnent several centuries ago. The fox terrlor, despite despite his democratic taste In friends, will be j elected because he ran always be counted on to keep the erowd laugh ing. The police dops will get in be cause they have the sort of person ably that takes hold of people. The Judges of the social event will coma from outside of Omaha, so no dog can get past the butler mere ly because he knows a police report er. The social arbiters who seat the guests according to rank will be Mrs. .lames Cole of Kansas City, who will i lag the sporting dogs; Charles AV. I Quetsrke of Toledo, O, who will I pick the shepherds, airedales and fox | terriers, and Dr. George AV. Clay-' ton, who will Judge the rest of the comers. The Chesapeake* will he the guests 1 of honor from the start, for they have been Invited not only by tlie Nebraska Kennel club but also by the American Chesapeake club and the Nebraska Field club, which will offer a special prize for them. The field trial club is holding a show for Chcsapeakcs, pointers and setters in connection with the main party. Election into tlie list of the aristo crats will not be an empty honor, for it carries more than social <lis tinctlon. The publicity bureau of the Omaha Chamber of Commerce 1ms donated seven handsome trophies for the liest dog at the show and for other sweepstake events. The Ne braska Kennel club has built up a prize fund, which will he used to provide liberal cash prizes and trophies. The owners, not the dogs, get the loving cups. The president of the club, Mrs. W. C. Edmiston, left last week with Mrs. L. C. Fauble, wife of the secretary, for Kansas City to attend the dog show there which began Thursday and ended Saturday night. From there they are going to Tulsa, Okla for the show there. They took with them a number of dogs owned by Omaha fanciers, which they will ex hibit at the shows. They will bring back a number of Kansas City and Tulsa blue-bloods to be guest* at the Omaha party. In the receiving line at the bie function will be E. B. Demarest of Omaha, chairman; W. C. Kdmiston of Ralston, Mrs. Charles H. Martin of Lincoln, and Louis Stors and George H, Moore, both of Oma^a, all of whom compose the bench show com mittee. Farm in Mitchell Valley Sold for $150 an Acre Bridgeport, Nov. 22.—Platte valley land is still in demand at good prices, as evidenced by a sale made this week by R. S. Quick of Scottsbluff to Charles Evans, of an 80-acre tract In the Mitchell valley, for $12,000, or $150 an acre. The value was prac tically all In the land, as there are few Improvements. Mayberry Postoffice Again Discontinued Table Rock, Nov. 22.—Poatmaster W. 1*’. Huff of Steinauer received notice last week that the postoffice at Mayberry would be again discon tinued on Monday of this week and patrons there served by the carrier on rural route No. 1 from the Stein auer office. Latter Day Saints Join in Rally at Frog PontJ Table Rock, Nov. 22.—Sunday was rally day for the Latter Day Saint* at Prop Pond, west of here on tho Oage county line. Visitors were pres ent from St. Louis, also from Horton and Hern, Kan., and from Tecumseii and DuBols. Neb. I WANTED I BOYS and GIRLS I to join my Band. I will ffl furnish instruments and ra teach you to play on a I small monthly payment. I Ed. Patton I MUSIC CO. 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