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
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' 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
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•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.
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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.
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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.
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H 16th and Farnam
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