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About The Omaha morning bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927 | View Entire Issue (April 17, 1925)
he'- unnatural wiah This Ultai!n| atory was t 'ld In a dronln* monotone is the woman lav on a .1*11 rot, and with little ur*ln* calmly recited minute details of the ertmee. Daughter Hires I-awaer. Bi 'Ught n«'tn Gary shortly before, w here ah-- etained a lawyer to de fend her mother, the daughter, Mae. stood at tl.e foot of the cot and plead ed with her teother "not to talk." "Don't say anythin*. mother," pleaded th* girl, "these people Just want to get a confession out of you." No, Mae." calmly replied her mother, "I am going to talk. I am tired of lying here. I don't care w hat becomes of me. I'll never get out of here anyway." "Please, mother, don't," came a* n •oh from Nine but the mother already had started th# calm recitation, al most as a child would read a lesson, and hs the broken-hearted daughter sobbed at her bedside every detail waa told In the slow unemotional voice. .Not '-nee during the entire iial ,1hl her voire break *« tM! gaihered •T wanted to join IHivid In heaven after he died, she said. “And some thing told nie to take the on# I loved heat with tup Sit 1 gave the poison to little IsaheJle, and then took some myself Just as much as 1 gave hei she died. Inn 1 couldn't, and then th next year Hairy died, hut T dldn t do that. Afterwards I wanted to taka Charley and die and he did, but 1 again couldn’t. Then I gars It to Waller and he died. too. Every time I would take jonie. 1 w as Just full of it. hut it wouldn’t kill me. 1 was going to wait this February afte I gave Haild some, and see if hr would die, too, before T took some But he hasn t died yet I didn't take any this sear.'' Hard Roads in Illinois. Springfield. 111.. April 16.—Three legislative bills, which appropri*.1 r H36,000.000 for hard road construe [lion, were signed hj Hovernor Small Fire. Grocery Trucks Crash: Driver Is Hurt Machine* Meet at Street In tersection: Smaller Car De molished; Man Hurled 10 Feci. Wuh * crash that could be heard for blocks, a fire truck collided with • Ben Reinschreiber grocery truck driven by Edward Simonson a* Thir ty-fourth and Mason streets Thursday morning at 10:45. The delivery truck, h. mass of tangled wreckage, was ! hurled 1* feet into Turner park by rha impact. Simonson was toward 10 feet into the air. according to wit nesses. H« was hurried to I.ord lus ter hospital, where his condition 1, said to be serious. After striking the lighter machine the fire truck ran up over the curb ing and was finally brought to a atop on the edge of a slight embankment to the sunken garden of the park. The fire truck was from Station Xo. 0 0 at Twenty-ninth street and Creigh ton avenue. It was answering a call to Thirty-fourty and Eeavenworth streets, where a weed fire was re ported burning in the rear of an oil station. Driver Attempts Leap. Simonson had started across the intersection when he saw the heavy fire truck hearing down upon him from the steep hill on Mason street, between Thirty-third snd Thirty fourth street. He attempted to leap from his machine, but as he poised liimeelf the fire engine, driven by John J. Bougatz. struck his truck. Simonson was tossed Into the ab end his machine was knocked into Turner park. Bougatz made frantic efforts to prevent his truck from turtling and finally stopped it with us front wheels over the slight, em bankment into the park. Hurried to Hospital. Simonson was taken to Lord Lister hospital by A. W. Olson, driver for Assistant Chief Sullivan. Attaches at the hospital were unable to say whether Simonsons skull was frac tured. Residents in the vicinity of the crash declared the fire truck came down the hill at a terrific rate of spaed. Capt. Mike Belitz of th» fire department claimed, however, that the engine was going only 16 miles an hour. "The fire truck was speeding said Mrs. J. C. MoK inle;. 1003 South Thirty fourth street, who saw the accident. "The man driving the light grocery truck was thrown more than 10 feet tn the air.” » Woman Narrowly Escapes. A. W. Olson, driver for Chief Sul livan, witnessed the accident from Thirty-fourth street st the tints of streets. He declared the accident would not have happened if the gro cery truck had not tried to cross the intereectlon Is the path of the fire truck. Mrs. H. M. Anderson. 3367 Center street, who was driving south on Twenty-fourth street at the time of the collision, said she narrowly es raped being hit by the fire engine after It had struck the delivery truck. Mrs. Anderson was obliged to swerve m'^’’her car sharply to the left as the fire truck plunged toward her after striking the grocery truck. She said she believed the driver of the lighter truck was responsible for the acci dent. Po t mill Auxiliary Plan i • virion Home at Bealriur P. c. April 16.—Preliminary fc.eji,-. toward a qulring a permanent home tv.- the Bitting Norman post of tie American Legion and the legion auxiliary were tit ken here at p joint, meeting of the t o organizations in F iremen's hall. Committees from each organization will jointly work on plan, snd make recommendations in the near future. F'ull approval was given to Dr. C. C. Baird s C. M. T. C. recruiting pro •grant for this summer. Dr. Baird, who is the legionnaire in charge of recruiting for the citizens' military training camps in this county, will, with his aides, visit every community. Leitrice Joy—Eirnwt Torrenee and an all-star cast —in- | ‘The Brvssmaker f ran Paris' _ON THE STAGE_ Randall’* Royal Orchestra Thomp*on-Belden Silh Revue AesIKed by Hte *11 sic A I. < 'I.OWsls ■ad snsa horuk arnst Thentne n**a* | Al Field* aid A Ca. I .lebany Jebeetaa BILL HOBIJOAO* Maanlna A dais I E. J. Mur* FRAXC I5F. ItAGMARA t fO. IfftQHBOf HO 00 THEATERS BOULEVARD - • lid and Leavenworth Bebe Daniel* in "Mite Bluebeard" Vaudeville and Comedy Garvin's Hamilton, 40th and Hamilton Zone Gray’s "The Mina With the Iron Door" "Tea Scars Maks a Man" and Comedy IDEAL ------- 16th and Dorcas Moats Blue and Maria Prevoet in "A Lover af Camille"—Vaudeville GRAND.16th and Bin nay Norma Talmadfe in "Secrete" rJh Delivery Truck Demolished by Fire Engine on Coll —Bihlor jibutu. This delirei-y truck, owned hy the Reiuachreiher grocery, was struck by a fire truck at Thirty-fourth and Mason streets. It was hulled 15 feet by the iniliRct. Tlie foot of the steep Mason street hill down which the fire enginr came can he seen in the background. Loyalty League Statewide, I'rjje Greater Omaha Leaders Say Home-Products Drive Should Be Extended. The resolution of the Klwanis club to be presented to the Greater Omaha committee next Monday noon asking support for the proposed Loyalty league will he referred to the home patronage rominittep of the Greater Omaha body, according to Frank TV. Judson. chairman of thp Greater Oma ha committee. Judson said the Loyalty league would he a great thing for Omaha if handled properly. Hr calls attention to the fact also (hat the Loyalty league plan of boosting Omaha prod nets should not he misconstrued. "TVe have to take in the entire Omaha, trade territory," said Judson. "This means Council Bluffs and the entire state. Lincoln and other out side cities are Important. TVe must go altnut It. in a most diplomatic mar ner.” TV. A. Fraser, chairman of the home patronage committee of the Greater Omaha body, said that when the mat ter is handed to him he will ask that a representative of each of the noon day clubs meet with his committee to formulate plans whereby the Loyalty league can be made a success. "The Greater Omaha committee was organised for Just such purposes as this. TVe are going to instill into our people the idee of loyalty and home patronage." Fraser said. City Officers Appointed by Mayor of Columbus Columbus, April 1S.—Appointments of city officers for the next two years have been announced by Mayor Julius Nichols and approved by the council as follows: City attorney, < X. MeElfrcsh: city engineer. C. K. Devlin: city physician. E. E. Koebbe: chief of police and public, dance su pervisor. Jack Lehman: traffic office: Baxil Rice; policemen. Felix Sinagac and J. TV. Rendell: dairy inspector. Mark Burke: electrical Inspector, R. H. Hvnen: court dlmanic member of the board of health. TV Beoher. f-\ Nebraska News Nubbins Columbus— l)r. H. IT. Adams. Dr A. E- Vallier. F. E. Teller, Eugene ^Tlessler. (\ J. Garlow, R. H. Heynen and G. AY. Phillips were elected directors- of the Columbus Rotary club at its annual meeting. Rockford—Funeral services for Mrs. Mary Girl were held at the Church of Rockford, the sermon be ing given by Rev. .1. S. Dell. Mrs. Girl resided in the Rockford vicinity for more than 40 years. \ Hi land—Funeral services for Mrs. William McReynolds were held at the Christian church. Mrs. McReynolds lived here nearly 80 years. She leaves Three sons and a daughter—Albert and William A. of Ashland, Henry of Plattsmouth and Mrs. Clarence YallJer of Hollywood, Cal. All were present at the funeral. York—John Rett. Commander o? York G. A. R. post and past com rounder for the Department • *f Ne braska. has been appointed by the ptnte commander one of the inspec tors of the old soldiers' homes in Ne braska. York—Word was received on Fun day of the death of Mrs. John, wife of a well known pastor of the United Brethren church of York. and mother of Mrs. Kephart, wife of Bishop Kephart. Mrs. John died at South Bend, Tnd. Beatrice—Sixty pupils of Prof Kniee. violinist, will give a concert the high school auditorium here on the evening of May 3. Tn the or chestra are advanced pupils- from Wymore, Blue Springs, FaJrbury and Beatrice. Anrk—The choir of St. Joseph | church gave a sacred concert before \h. large audlen* e. A free will offering I was taken and the money is to be Ap plied to a fund for the purhasa of n pipe organ for the church. York—Nine merchants w ere \ ic tims of a check forger who got about $.S0 before leaving town At each of the stores \iaited. the young man made a small purchase, giving a • •heck sigived by George Miller and made out to Fred Stewart “for farm work." Broken Bow -City officials have de-'ignated next week as cleanup week fo** Broken Bow. Convicted Slayer Granted Reprieve Governor Gives Russell Seott Htay of Execution 1 util July 17. Springfield. 111., April 16.— Bussell Scott, condemned to die on the «cnf fold in Chicago tomorrow for the murder of Joseph Maurer, loop drug «t«»re clerk, wns given a chance for his lif** today when Governor Small - nleved a stay of execution until July 17. The governor’s action came as n surprise in view of the fact that Scott’s attorney* had a petition for a writ of error and supersedess be fore the state supreme court. It was explained that the court would not [consider the petition until It could he presented more fully, and that the governor had granted the re prieve so tha Scott might have time [to perfect his defense. Scott, a Canadian, was convicted of shooting Maurer to •death during scuffle between the latter and Scott's brother. \\ itne.*--os testified Scott wag drinking in the basement of the drug stnr* and upon hearing his brother and Maurer in battle, ran upstairs with a drawn revolver Maurer was found dead with a bullet hole in his body. Vi beat Crop Prospects Good in Callaway Neighborhood Callaway, April 1<i—Prospects for the wheat crop are letter In this pari of the state than they have been for ■•event] years. The crop has been benefited greatly by the heavy rains. A Urge acreage of oats was gown this spring. Reduced Fare. Fare and one half for the round trip, Omaha to Chicago, account Woman’* World Fair April 17 to 25: ticket* on ««1* April 17, IS and 2ft to 25 inclusive with return limit midnight April 27. Excellent service, leaving Omaha * p. m., 7:32 p. tn., 7:35 p. m , and * 15 p. m. Chicago A- Northwestern Railroad. CJ. W HAkLt General Agent. 1413 Farnatn St. Poisoner of 1 Children \lav Be Own \ ictim Mrs. \mia Cunningham Be lieved living in f'.ell as Re sult nf Swallowing Deadly Drug. By lnt <M-n*rimml Nani ^rtira. Crown Point. Tnd., April 1®.—Mrs. Ann* Cunningham. 47. the mother who fed her children arsenic sand wiches that t liey- might “join their father iri heaven" may herself ho suffering—perhaps dying- from ar senic poisoning. This was the belief of authorities here today as the woman collapsed In her ceil again. TVspite her condition, however, au thorities ordered court convened by her bedside and she was to he sr ratgned on a murder charge as she lay III. Crown Point. Tnd.. April 1®.—The legal machinery that will send Mrs. Anna Cunningham, 47, to the gallows or to an insane hospital for tli» re ntalnder of her life, was set In motion here today following her weird taie of death, in whioh she accounted for ihe deaths of three of her five children from arsenic poisoning administered by her. Before the dav is over, according to early plana, a «anlly commission will have ruled on Mr«. Cunning ham's mentality, and additional mur der warrants, for the deaths of her daughter, lsalvelle. and h»r son, Harry, will have been sworn out against iter, although in her epic of death, she denied Harry had been nmnne those to whom she fed the bread spread with arsenic and butter. Site already Is tinder indictment for death of Walter, her youngest son. In whose exhumed body state's chemists reported they found quanti ties of free at-Renio. And It was because «he loved them gSA 7 COLLEEN MOORE. ¥ OntteSt^n PARISGOVNS H WHITE an3 IN NATURAL fl MANNING COLORS H BALLYS alley* I. —I NIGHTHAWKS SSE? I Brandeis Restaurants Monday and Turiday E»onin*». April 20-21 2—BANDS—2 Coon* Art Sandora Landry’s Original Popular NigHthawks Orchestra Dancing Continuous From 9 P M. Suggestion—Rsservs Your Tsbir Now. that she killed them, she declared In her arrange confession, made late laaf night. She ttai urged hr ■ drawing tn her heed.” which told her to loin her huehsnd In heaven and to take her V»*et l>eloved child with her. Mr*. Cunningham said in account-1 ing for the myateriou# series of 111 nesses which in six care have claimed five members of th# family, and left one fighting death In the Columbus hospital in Chicago. Kach time the mother would sd minister a fatal potion, she would take an equal dose, she said, but failed to die. Three times the brood ing mother sought to follow her off spring into internity and three times eh# failed In the attempt, eh# S3id. The 18 year-old daughter. Mae, was spared because she had made trouble1 for her mother and was not loved well enough to be chosen to aecom nany her into death, said Mrs. Cun ningham. She denied that she had poisoned her husband, and Harry, their eldest son. and maintained her denial even after reporter# informed her sufficient poiaon had l>een found in Harry's viscera to cause his ciemre. Poison Coat Quarter. Twenty-five cents' worth of poison purchased in Gary in 1920. after she had brooded two years over her hue band" death, sufficed for the slaying of Isabelle in 1920. Charles in 1022. and Walter in 1932. Harry died be tween Isabelle and Charles in 1921. she said. Her determination to add David. Jr., her sole support, to the death list was evidenced In her statement that two boxes of arsenic purchased by Mae at her direction accidentally vvere destroyed and she herself pur chased 50 cents' worth to complete the deed. Bread a la yer of arsenic and a covering of butter was the me dium of administering the poison be tween meals as the children would .loin her in the kitchen, and she with a demoniac motherly kindliness would offer them ihe death sandwich, ac-1 cording to the confession. Kach of the children was insured. Isabelle for *1,900. Harry for J2.5nn, Charles for $9O0 and M’alter for *230, hut the confession denied desire for gold had played a part In actuating i ~ , ,. TT:_■=. , Lobster Dinner t Cowrite. t an* Chowd* V\ hole Broiled Live l>obi*er .lulienn* Potato** FRIDAY Special Indian Grill Naoit to 2:30 and ; 1:30 to 8:30 p. an ^Hotel Fontenelle^J ( FIRE 1 FRIDAY NOON, April 17th, at 20th and Dodge, we will burn our Haydite Block Houae l Omaha Concrete JJ Stone Co. M _TOMORROW _ |NO ADVANCE_ For 7 Days Only 1 IN PRICES 1 THE GIANT OF SCREEN PRODUCTIONS! _ ._ ✓ IT’S ALL NEW The battle of the gigantic slave with a bull to save his mistress tied to the bull’s back. / Slave girls hurled into the golden pools to feed the fishes for the imperial tables. Gladiatorial contests. Chariot races. • ajm K m-: . * Sami a thou- / Voluptuous revels of the Roman sand and one banquets. other thrills. j*——— ————■■■ii i- ■ ■■ ■■■■—m nf&nn ■*- —>»-Wwy ' BRODERICK and TODAY—LAST DAY 1 FELSEN REVUE COLLEEN MOORE Ariitocrata of Dance HILLS’ CHICAGO BLUE DEVILS “SAI I Y” An.tocraU of Mu.i. 1 and Pincu. Leff, Stepper * WHITE and" MANNING BEDDEO I 1415-17 DOUGLAS STREET j I V.V.W.W.V.V.V.V.V.V.V.V.V.V.V.V.V.V.V.V.V.V.W I I BUY ON PAYMENTS V.V.V.W.V.VAVW.W.W.V.V.V.'.V.V.V.V.V.V.VAV I We Give You Six Months to Pay— ->V'\ ,A That's the Bed - deo idea. easy payrr rts—that’s the . a s i s on which •• e want to outfit yourself and family. Now in Progress Outfif Sale $5 Down! Outfit Yourself From Head to Foot | i Suit.$28.75 Pay (Js I TopCoat . . . $19.75 Shoes .... $ 6.00 J £ Hat.$ 3.85F $ Shirt . ... $ 1.85' Underwear . . . $ .98i | Garters ... $ .50i i Tie.$ .50 Hose .... $ .501 DoWti Total Outfit Cost . $62.68 ' , On Thurs., April 23, Attend Our APRIL OUTFIT FREE DANCE I Empress Rustic Garden Call at Store for Free Tickets Valuable Prises -1 | I I Coat .... $13.50 \jPoy Us | Dress .... $13.501 Hat.$ 4.00 I Shoes . • . . $ 6.50 | Scarf ... $ 1.95 Hand Bag . . $ 1.50 , Hose .... $ 1.95 Underwear Silk . $ 5.00 Gloves .... $ 2.00 ^ Down Total Outfit Cost . $49.90 | Itching Rashes When a warm hath with' Cuticura Soap and applies-1 lion of Cuticura Ointment will afford immediate rehet and point to permanent akin health in moat cases when all else tails. •«l CVattaMPt • lad ftfta nWm »• *♦ K ssteJEers: nr »Cwttcty 3W**\*| 5»«k tS* \ at. mm...- M Defective Elimination Constipation Biliousness The action of Nature's Remedy (M Tablets) is more natural and thor ough. 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