Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, November 02, 1911, Page 9, Image 9
T1IK UKK: OMAHA. TURUNDA Y, XOVKMUKU 1011. JUDGE HALTS DETRACTORS Bebukeg Paper for Publishing Dis torted Stories Concerning Court. LESLIE LASHES FAKE FACTORY Drllbrratr Fnisrhonil In nrporttn Ontcnm of Aodrrton rune and Mallrtons Innuendo In Kdl torlal Vttrranrra. Judge Leslie of tha county court hat written the following letter to the World He'ald, his utterance being evoked by the maliciously biased and Inaccurate report published In that paper concerning the trial of the Anderson case In the county court: "OMAHA Nov. 1. To the Editor of the World-Herald: Ever alnce my nomination for judge of the district court you have persistently sought to create the Impress alon In the minds of voters that I am unfit for the office which I seek. News stories, editorials and cartoons In which you clearly Imply this, have appeared In the World-Herald from day to day; and as If to crown these unwarranted at tacks upon my Integrity, you printed last Saturday a story on the preliminary hear ing before me In county court of Albert Anderson, charged with perjury In icsls terlng In the Third ward, which was malicious In its misstatement of facts, and which charged me, by IndiiectiDn, at least, with a greater crime than that of which the prisoner at bar was accused namely, the crime of acquitting a guilty man for political reasons. And this story was followed Sunday by an editorial under the head. "What Is Omaha to Do?' In which you again attempt to create a false Impression as to my action In the Anderson case. "In these attacks you accuse me of the rraveet moral offenses of which a Judge could be guilty, and I cannot rest in si lence under them. Abont Anderson Case. "As to Anderson: The state failed ab solutely to make a case against him, and there was nothing for me to do but dis charge him. Lest you may dispute this, let me say that John J. Mahoney, demo cratic candidate for police judge, who was the complaining witness against An derson, had the manhood to say frankly In my court Saturday morning in the presence of three witnesses that I had taken the only action in the case that an honest Judge could take. County Attor ney James P. English said substantially the same thing when interviewed. Mr. riattl, deputy county attorney, and chair man of the democratic county central committee, expressed regret that the World-Herald should have printed so In accurate and unfair a report of the case. The reporter who wrote the report, when taken to task by me for misstating the facta, answered that perhaps he had gone further than the facts warranted his go ing. But no correction of his false re port has since appeared in your paper. State Failed Vtterly. "In his report he said Anderson waa discharged on a technicality. This is an unqualified falsehood. He was discharged because the state did not offer evidenco sufficient to warrant me In binding him over to the district court. He was charged with perjury. The state not only failed to establish that he had taken an oath, let alone a false one, but It failed to show that. If he had taken the oath he was accused of talcing, It would have been a false one. Before the state can convict a man of murder it must show that somebody his been killed. So before It can convict a man of perjury It must show that he took an oath. It failed to how that Anderson took one, therefore I discharged him. I little thought when I performed this simple act of duty that I was making myself an object of attack by the World-Herald, which Implies that I did It for political reasons. I think, however, that if I had been contemptible enough to suffer political considerations to dictate my action, I should have bound Anderson over. But by doing such a thing, I should have lost my self-respect, not to speak of the respect of the demo crats attorneys who were prosecuting Anderson. "I shall be'- called upon to hear sixty other cases of this nature, and In dispos ing of them you may be sure that I shall disregard political consequences. Nor will anything the World-Herald or anyone else has said, or may gay, influence my decisions in the least. Another Consideration. "The charge you Indirectly make that I refused to send a man to Jail for political reason, If it were true, ought to spell, not enly my overwhelming defeat at the polls, but it ought to subject me to an indefi nitely greater punishment than that would Involve. A Judge who would not send a guilty man to Jail for political reasons would not hesitate to send an Innocent man, there for such reasons. Nor am I sure he would hesitate to commit any other crime against Justice. 'What is Omaha To Dor you ask, and then proced to relate (1), that a ' complaint was filed before Judge Craw ford recently, charging the defendant In the caae with fraudulent registration, (2) that Judge Crawford gave as his reason tor releasing the defendant that there had been a mistake In precedure, and (3) that he pointed out that the proper course for the state to have puruued would have ben to prosecute the accused for perjury. Then you go on to say that the 'next case" was prosecuted befere me on a perjury charge (giving the reader the impression that the defendant brought before me was the same one prosecuted before Judge Crawford) and that I dls . charged the accuted on the ground that y it was necessary fur the state to prove that ho had a wont before I could hold that he had sworn falsely. I admit that that was my ruling, nor did It require very laborious thought on my part to arrive at the conclusion I reached. But the man prosecuted before me was not the man prosecuted before Judge Craw ford. The man prosecuted before Judge Crawford was one Wilson. The man prosecuted before me was the man An derson whose case I have been dlscusnlng. fmait I'olltlcal Practice. "As to this man Wilson: When Judge Crawford released him he suggested plainly that a charge of perjury would lie against him. Why, then, in the name of common senau and outraged justice, was not this man Immediately rearrested on a perjury charge? Terhaps you can rot answer this qutstlon. 1 believe I can. Here is my answer: Some one conceived ti.e Idea that it would be sharp polltici not to rearrest Wilson and prosecute him before Julo Crawford, who had clearly suggested in advnr.i.e that a chart,' of perjury couM bo sustained against him, but to arreat and bring before me an other man, one ukj I ft whom the charge could not i4 sustained, see him dis charged, an thus ptovide material at the expense of the taxpayers for such mis leading neas stories and editorials as appeared in the World-Hernld about the Anderson "As to niv candldtry, I admit ynur right tt oppos It. But I deny your rightt. In the bitterness rf partisanship, to so per vert easily ascertained facts as to my judicial aetl.n, as to cast odium upon me as a public official. "CHARLES LESLIE." a. Electrical Club in Favor of Better Lights for Omaha The Omaha Electrical cluh is not going to permit the movement for better street lighting to dlo of Inanition. At its meet ing Wednesday noon the club appoined a committee of five to tsko the matter up for discussion with the Commercial club, the Keal Estate exchange and other civic bodies. This committee consists of W. L. Burgess, Israel Ivett, Ed. F. Schurlg. Waldcmar Mlchaelsen and Sec retary M. J. Curran. This action followed a discussion pre cipitated by a brief speech delivered by John J. Hydcr, on Invitation from the club. Mr. Ryder insisted that the Elec trical club was the proper organization to take the Initiative in formulating a definite, practical plan for the better lighting, hot only of the business section, but of the residential precincts. He said the first step toward making such a plan effective would probably have to be taken when tho next legislature meets, In order to have the present law amended, or a new charter framed, to permit the adopt, on of somo scheme that could gradually be extended throughout the city. Several members engnged In the argu ment, some taking Issue with Mr. Ry der's views and others agreeing with him In the main. City Electrician Michael sen and E. F. Schurlg had some definite opinions to express and the club per mitted Mr. Ryder to participate In the de bate, which proved quite Interesting. The appointment of a live committee to keep the matter before the public was decided on as the first step In the campaign. r M Starving and Cold, A. P. Borg is Dying Cold, hungry, sick and deserted by his daughter and son-in-law, Andrew T. Borg was found lying on a cot with a com forter wrapped around his shivering form Monday afternoon by Constable Ed Pimp- son when he went out to the house at Twenty-ninth and Ellison aveue to serve a writ of restitution on Ross, Borg's son- in-law. The old man had been In this condition since last Friday, when his son- in-law and daughter had moved the fur niture from the house to another on Camden avenue, two blocks away, leav ing Borg In a dangerous condition with but a cot and comforter to lie on and no food. Constable Simpson notified the county commissioners, who had Borg removed to the county hospital. The doctor in charge ihere Vvednesuay stated that there was no hope whatever for Borg's recovering. vv-hen Mrs. Itoss was spoken to by Constable Simpson on the matter she said: "I didn't know what to do, Mr. Officer. My husband said that he would leave if I brought my father here, so I left him there." Champ Clark Goes to Help Dan Stephens On his way up into the Third congres sional district of Nebraska, where he will make three speeches for Dan Stephens, who is the democratic candidate for con gress, Speaker Champ Clark of Missouri was In Omaha betwen trains Wednesday. At the Union depot he was met by Sena tor Hitchcock and Congressman Lobeck, who Intimated to him something about the hard row that Stephens Is, going to have to get Into congressional seat oc cupied by J. P. Latta, deceased. Speaker Clark expects to see the demo crats carry Missouri next Tuesday, but as It Is an off year in politics and no important issues before tho people, he did not care to estimate the possible majority. Sioux City Wants Omaha Lumber Rate General Freight Agent Spens of the Burlington goes to Des Moines Thursday to appear before the Interstate Commerce commission at a hearing wherein the Sioux City Commercial club protests against the rate on southern lumber now snipped to Omaha. The lumber rate Into Omaha from the south is lib cents per 1W and into Sioux City 30. Sioux City job bers contend tho rate charged them is too high a compared with tho Omaha rate. LIEUTENANT HASKtLL TO . LEAVE OMAHA IN A MONTH The high school cudet regiment will be without the, services of Lieutenant Wil liam N'. Haskell of Fort Omaha after this month, according to orders received from tho War department recently. i "I have anticipated the change for some time," cald Lieutenant Haskell Wednesday noon, "and expect to leave by November 31, and at the least pot later than December ir. The cadets are considerably handicapped in drill this year because of having but one drill day a week. However, they are working hard and have already made excellent progress In their diiil o far this year." Lieutenant Haskell Is ordered to Join the Fourteenth cavalry in the Philippines and will be succeeded at Fort Omaha by Lieutenant H. A. Myers, Jr., who Minn from the same regiment. The lieutenant has been very prominent ns commandant of the hip h school cadet regiment and be cause of his work on the signal corps at Fort Omaha. He has held the position as-commandant cf the cadets since 130, when he succeeded Captain William Oury. He has had charjre of the three cudet ramps, the one at Aanland and buth camps at Harlan, la. SAFE AND SANE HALLOWE'EN FOR THE YOUNGSTER" A "safe and san" but spookv Ttitlmv e'en prouram was cftrrlcd nut hv ho;t' 'arts and lassies in the neighborhood Fortieth nnl Farnani streets Tupihv evnlnir. Th'-re was no rohblnir of cloth" lines or porch chairs, no emearlni.' o breaking of windows and fences, Hut tr kiddles had a fhat-rate time and enter talned Ihe neighbors In a unique way. The young people were the guests n' Miss Anne Axtell, dauKhfr of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Axtell. Thrv assembled In the afternoon, had a Hallowe'en partv followed by a Hallowe'en supper and Announcement by Brandeis Stores to the People of Omaha. Any stroke of good fortune whereby a retailor buys desirablo goods nt n figure i0 to 40 per cent lower than ho could possibly buy the same goods under ordinary market conditions, means more benefit to the people at largo than to the merchant himself. The reason is that a merchant who saves several thousand dollars when he buys, takes only the regular per cent of profit when he sells. It is the people who buy these goods who reap tho genuine profit of thousands. It is just such a fortunate business stroke ns this that Brandeis Stores has made. It is because wo think that every man and woman in Omaha should realize fully just how important this occasion is ns a saving event that we make this announcement. ; A prominent retail store discontinued tho handling of rugs. The entire stock was sold - naturally nt n sacrifice. Although the goods were new and de sirable in every way, Brandeis Stores secured the entire stock at thousands of dollars less than the usual market price. "We believe that the people of Omaha will benefit best by having all the goods in this stock offered on sale at one time. Therefore, we have planned this event ns a Bug Sale, nnd it will bo held at Brandeis Stores, beginning Monday, November Gth. This sale differs from ordinary rug pales, because the conditions of pur chase were out of the ordinary. We do not know when such high quality rugs were ever bought so cheaply by any house nnd we feel positive that such low prices on rugs of this character were never before offered in Omaha. For instance, we will sell next Monday one lot of room size Roubaix Eng lish Wilton Bugs, that are regularly sold in exclusive rug stores at $G0.00, for just $2D.9S. The rugs we will sell nt $15.00 are the same character as rugs that regularly sell for $25.00 or more. All the other lots nre priced nt similar reductions. If tho people of Omaha who are judges of rug values could see these rugs nnd compare them with tho same qualities nt regular price, they would simply be amazed. Scores of people who have seen the rugs in our display windows havo thought the low prices must be the result of an error. There has been no error only good fortune nnd the good fortune is yours. The sale will begin next Monday. Yours respectfully, BB AN DEIS STORES. M 9 r. i IT r: t' , y ' I'll -in. ...:-: IE it sitssfl i sTisw nlia i then proceeded with a "ghost walk." Arnyed in sheets and carrying pumpkin lanterns, they formed a solemn proces i-ion and In this fashion called upon each nelRhbor. After ringing the bell, and be ing greeted by the occupants, they marched through the house In spooky arruy, much to the amaxement and amusement of the grown-ups. They would finally settle In a circle on the floor until they completed their visit. when they would move on. Peeling the Face (From Modern Housekeeping.) Women are beginning to realise how dangerous and how unnecessary Is the painful and expensive surgical operation known as "face-peeling." Many clever society women noted for their exquisite beauty, accomplished the desired result themselves at home, with perfect safety and no pain, expense or detention In doors. They simply use ordinary merco lired wax, which can be obtained at al most any drug store. It Is applied at night like cold cream and washed off In the morning. The niercolized wax slowly absorbs the half-dead outer skin, causing it to flake off day by day in fine, almost Imperceptible particles like flour. The fresh, vigorous young skin underneath soon shows . forth, blooming radiantly with health and beauty. The face begins to look years younger, though the use of the process absolutely defies detection by the closest observer. Naturally this process also removes all such minor facial blemishes aa freckles tan, moth patches, liver spots, fine wrln klea, pimples, etc. Adv. PSh I.eare Tour Valuables I'nprotetted In the hom The tire that burns, or the Burglar who steals Is a constant menace to Jewelry, Silverware, your Will, Deeds or other Important Paperi. Our great Steel Vaults are a constant source of protection and the cost of a Safe Deposit Box therein Is but from $3 00 upwards yearly. Omaha Safe Dtpnlt & Trctt Co. Street LfTel Entrance to Vaults. J 61 1 rarnam KU i mm mm.m ta& L 1 ; : ; lidkf Lumiivcr CO ,0 Gel th Original and Qmulni RUCK'S MALTED MILK The Fooddrlr.k for All Ages For Infants, Invalids.and Growing children. Pure Nutrition, up building the whole body. Invigorates the nursing mother and the s ged. RU h milk, malted grain, m powder form. A quick lunch prepared in a minute. Tale no substitute. Ask for HORUCK'S. Hot In Any fJilk Trust "You will soon be asleep anyway; for the track is smooth, and there are no cinders or smoke to bother you. And there's nothing to be afraid of, for the train is protected by electric block signals and the cars ahead are built of steel. So get a good night's sleep, and we'll have a Fred Harvey breakfast on the dining car tomorrow morning." The Hustler FROM Kansas City 7TO - Oklahoma, and Texas It leaves Kansas City at five o'clock every afternoon and la the beat train to Oklahoma City, Dallas, Houston, Galveston and Brown villa. FOR RATES AND TIME TABLES Address, FRISCO TICKET OFFICE Waldhaim Building, Elsvsnth and Main Strssts, KANSAS CITY J. C LOVRIEN, Division Passangsr Afc-iU Closes Movember Booklover Contestants Have Plenty of Time for Sending in Answers Many Are Entering Now! COUPONS AND CATALOGUE MAY BE HAD AT BUSINESS OFFICE OF THE BEE. COUPONS SELL FOR ONE CENT EACH, SET 75 CENTS. THE TITLE CATA LOGUE, CONTAINING ANSWERS TO ALL THE PUZZLES, SELLS FOR 25 CENTS; 30 CENTS BY MAIL. ALL ORDERS MUST BE ACCOMPANIED BY REMITTANCES. 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