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VOL. XLIII NO. 95.
OMAHA, TUESDAY
MORNING,
OCTOBER. 7, 1913-TWELVE PAGES.
SINGLE COPY TWO CENTS.
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MILITANT IS JAILED
AFTER FIERCE GLASH
DFCOPS ANDWOWIEN
(Annie Kenney, Released from Prison
Following Hunger Strike, Again
in Custody.
(JUST STARTING HER SPEECH
tSuffragettes Seated About Her Try
to Aid Leader Escape.
IDRESSES AND UNIFORMS TORN
(Prisoner Rushed to Taxicab Which
Takes Her to Holloway.
(NINE PLACED UNDER ARREST
Ttto Derby lints and Walklmr Cnne
Captured from Detective lut
Up n Auction nnd nitl
j dtnnr Lively,
LONDON, Oct. 6. The militant suf
fragettes were deprived of one of their
leaders, Miss Annie Kenney. who' was
.arrested on the platform of a London
music hall in the' course of a meeting to
day to mark the recommencement of hos
tilities.
MIbs Kenney was released from prison
after a "hunger strike" two montliB ago.
She was undergoing a term of eighteen
months Imprisonment for conspiracy.
The arrest today brought a scene of
lid excitement In the crowded hall.
Miss Kenney had Just- opened her
speech with tho words: "I hear there are
detectives In the 'wings,' " when a squad
of policemen dashed out on the platform
In flying wedge formation.
Catch Kiss Kenney.
The women seated around Miss Kenney
(tried to get between her and the police
men so as to give their leader a chanc'n
o escape, but the policemen scattered
the resisting women about like nine pins
(Snd caught Miss Kenney Just as she was
preparing to leap from the platform Into
the orchestra.
As Miss Kenney was seized, yells of
protest arose from the hundreds of
women filling the hall. There was a
(wild din, .accompanying tho short, but
fierce, struggle between women who en
deavored to rescue Miss Kenney and the
officers who had her in custody. She
was rushed to a waiting taxicab, which
started off, after a final skrmlsh, to
HollowaV Jail. "
The sceno In the street In front of
the mudlc hall was of the wildest de
scription. The women fought and strug
gled furiously with the police and their
(torn dresses and the rips In the police
men's tunics tecttfled to the fierceness
of the scrimmage.
, Throws. Hell Before Wheel.
- Ono of.- thft-.wojneu. threw, .herself" In
front 'of the. wheels 6f tho cab, .Others
attempted to climb through the windows,
and the shrieking militants had to be
pulled off by main force. (
Eventually a solid phalanx of police
men cleared the way, and enabled the
cab to start on Its Journey.
Two men, one of them a clergyman,
and seven women were arrested.
Before the adjournment of the suf
fragette meeting two derby hats and a
walking cane, which had been captured
from the detectives by the women, were
put up for auction. The bidding was
lively. The hats fetched' 23 each and
the cane $12.00.
(TRIAL OF DR. BIRNEY
BCUIIM AJUyUHA 5rHINU5
MASON CITT. Ia., Oct. 6.-(Speclal,)
Dr. E. E, Blrney of Nora Springs la on
trial charged with murder In the second
degree, causing the death of Miss Mable
Irish. Judge Joseph J. Clark is 'hearing
the case. Possibly two weeks' will bei
occupied In this trial, as it is one of the
most sensational cases ever tried In this
county, on account o fthe prominence of
the parties Involved. Miss Mable was
the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank P.
Irish of Hopklnton and would have grad
uated last year from the high school. Dr.
Blrney Is a very successful as well as
wealthy practitioner at Nora Springs.
Attorney Senniff, who is the leading coun
sel for the defendant, feels fairly confi
dent that the evidence he has will be
sufficient to clear the doctor. Roy Or
cutt is to be tine of the first witnesses
thestate will call. He Is the young man
Involved In the case. According to the re
port it is stated that he will testify that
he wanted to marry the girl, but Mabel's
father and mother objected.
(Rear Admiral Doyle
i Ordered to Pacific
WASHINGTON, Oct. 6.-rtead Admiral
tn. M. Doylo was detached from com
biand of the Norfolk navy yard today
and ordered to command the Pacific re
serve fleet. Rear Admiral A. M. Knight
(was detached from command of the At
lantic reserve fleet and placed In com
jmand of the Newport, It. I., naval sta
llion. Hear Admiral W. B, Caperton was
detached from command of the Narra
Eansett station and ordered to command
the Atlantic reserve fleet. Rear Admiral
Alfred Reynolds was transferred from
(command of the Pacific reserve ileet to
Washington as a member of the exam
9nlngboard. The Weather
Forecast till 7 p. in. Tuesday:
For Omaha. CouncU Bluffs and Vicinity
unseiiiea wun snowers; cooler.
rrempcraturcn at Oranlis Yesterdnr.' .
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2 p. m 8u i ,oa" I" Cf"i o. an tne banks of the ;aiming tne eilate. were opposed by
J P. m a I'nlted States" .Lleuttrant Kllugsbys biother. who said
iS'S'" ?f Consideration of the currency hill Is ; that thtir alleged heir was the child of
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FIRST PRESIDENT OF THE NEW
REPUBLIC OF CHINA
j 1 ; t 1 'i
iillHssAs,
TlMBMlflMiil A .
YUAN SHI ICAI.
YUAN SHI KAMS ELECTED
Statesman Chosen First President of
Republic of China.
mAny YEARS IN PUBLIC LIFE
ire Took Prominent Vnrt In Reor
ganization of Army nnd Wu Pro
visional President During
' Formation of nepublic.
PEKING, Oct. C.-Yuan Shi Kai was
today elected president of tne Chinese
republic for a term of five years. He re
ceived the 'necessary two-thirds vote of
the united houseB of Parliament on the
third oallot.
Of the 160 members 8f the house of
Representatives and Senate 759 were. In
attendance. On tho final ballot Yuan
Shi Kal received 607 votes,, only one more
than the necessary two-thirds. LI Yuen
Heng, provisional vice president, received
179 votes. The other ballots were eat-
tered among twenty minor candidates.
LI Yuen Heng, It was declared had as
serted that he would not take the nomi
nation. The announcement of the result was re
ceived Willi Bnthliclnom' -'
The procecd-
Ings lasted twelve hours.
The 'constltutlojkof tha republlo prp-,
vldes .that at least two-thirds of the
nemfirs,of-!aJllatnent-prent. must cast
meir vnira rnr n ronm,ior 11. .
accomplish his election. It also calls for
the presence at a presidential election of
tnree-rourth of the members of both
houses.
In all Darts nf thn mi
Interest was manifested in thft first presl-
riantlal '-l-t, ,u. ... -
.v..v.i id in c juBiory 01 me new I
republic. The new nresident win hnM
flee for five years.
When the united houses of Parliament
came together this morning the register
recorded 769 representatives present.
The first ballot took a considerable
time, owing to the fact that the deputies
and senators were not familiar with the
proceedings. The candidates Included,
beside provisional President Yuan Shi
Kal,,Tsal Yuan Heng, a "dark horse;"
Dr. Wu Ting Fang, former Chinese mln
later at Washington and Dr. Sun Yet
Sen. Reader of the republican movement
Vrinn Lonir In Official Life.
Yuan Shi Kal, first president of the
Chinese republic, is 54 years old. He was
born in the province of Ho-Nan In 1.859,
During most of hi8 adult life he has been
In official life. At the age pt 23 he Was
sent with a Chinese detachment to
Korea and three years afterward becam
Chinese imperial resident at Seoul, h.
remained yiere twelve years, until he
was Vexpelled durine the Chln.
Japanese war.
On his return to China he occuoled
various provincial posts until 1902, when
he became consu'tlng minister to tho
government Yuan Shi Kal took a prom-
went part In the reorganization of the
ChlneRe, army on modern lines jand In
the closing years of the empire became
Its most Influential and powerful states
man. He wos always thoroughly Drao-
tlcal In his methods of administration
and by this-means worked his way up
to the premiership In 1911. Early In 1912
It was he who was given full powers to
arrange the terms of abdication of the
hrone and to organize a republican gov
ernment in conference wun the repub
lican leaders, Shortly afterward, In Feb
ruary, he was elected provisional presi
dent by the national council at Nanking
and took the oath of office on March 10
Country Bankers N
Meeting, at Boston
BPSTON, Oct 6.-The meeting of coun
try hankers here today stood out as the
first important event in connection with
the thirty-ninth annual convention of the (
American Bankers' association which has !
brought to Boston nearly 6,000 bankers
f.-om all parts of the United States. To-
day's meeting was cailed for the purpose
w. ..unit mo vurrcuuy uni nar oe-
fore congress.
ThUfl far." anlH CinrAftn .Inn.. H...L
----- - , - . nt.r
dent of the Hrst National bank of Lit-
tleton. Colo., and one of the signers of
the call, "the bill has been considered
mainly from the viewpoint of the huge
banks ln the reserve cities. It Is desired
. r. . ,j """w- -iT""-
tun ,y to ,c,"ldtr ce,,a,n f'atur which
ai.p'y "art'ular'y to their own business.
Bv cou"ry banks Is meant the small
oi au,vuu capital ana lesn,
iiic iiiiio icnuwD tn me one anu two oajiK :
towns, out dn the agricultural and Indus- I
.
regular sessions of the assoclal'on
whlrh open Wednesday
p, m...r!. SO firing linn. Such banks compose at ternatlonal pote when the SUngsbys
HITCHCOCK FLAYED
nu nniiini.jiiiij&s
bnam mmm
Representative lewises Ncbraskan
for Opposition to Pending Cur
' rency Measure.
HE IS "CURIOUS TO KNOW"
j Wonders Where "Several Hundred
I Amendments" Will Be Attached.
TALKS OF CRUSADE AGAINST BILL
Says Senator Has Specified but Four
Objections So Far.
"FIGMENT OF THE IMAGINATION"
Assertion Cnmnierclnl'Credlt Wonld
He KrlRhtfnlly Contracted With
out Particle nf Hilda, De
clnrea House Lender.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 6. Representative
Carter Glass, chairman of the house com
mittee on banking and currency, Issued
a statement tonight criticising the opposi
tion to tho pending currency bill of Sen
ator Hitchcock, a democratic! member of
the senate committee on banking and
currency. He said he was quite "curious
to know" to what provisions of the meas
ure the. Nebraska senator was to attach
the "several hundred amendments of
which he speaks In his rather persistent
newspaper crusade against the bill."
Thus far, Mr. Glass declared, Senator
Hitchcock "ventures to specify but four
objections to the bill as it passed the
house," and asks for more time In which
to consider the subject. Asserting that
tho senate commltteo had possession of
the currency bill before the house com
mittee, he suggested that "it would not
be exactly fair for the house to assume,
merely because Senator Hitchcock Is un
prepared to act, that those who now have
the matter In charge have not had even
more tlmo and better opportunities than
the nouse 'committee to study the sub
ject nnd glvo It definite form nnd sub
stance." Concerning some of Senator Hitchcock's
objections to the bill, ' Representative
Glass said i npart: ,
"FlKinent of Intnftfn'ntlon."
"The assertion that the bill as it passed
the house woula 'frightfully contract
commercial credits,' even temporarily, Is
a figment of tho imagination. It has not
one particle of basis and no capablo
actuary with any regard for his Intellec
tual Integrity would reach any such con
clusion. As to the talk of an ultimate period
of 'wild inflation' it ls curious to note
Senator Hitchcock in his plea for delay
finds himself in exact accord with the
itpuuiiran memnera of his commit
tee who attached their signatures to the
"'"nc(' poneme providing for, possible-,:
w.foo.ooo.coo, . .rv
xne intimation of the Hstfngtjeh$d
Nebska senator that he. Intends to
uiiciiu. me currency Dill Dy compelling
regional reserve bankB to discount the
obligations, of member banks, thus etrin.
ping the regional banks of their dlscre
r10"' a8 1 terpret hls suggestions, will
'interest both tho irlpTlitrlr. .tiM.nt nA
. ..-....
tno Practical banker as being an unldue
.Idea, One of the most vehement criti-
clsms that the public bill encountered In
the entire process of consideration related
to the power of tho reserve board to re
quire, 'in time of emergency' and under
severe restrictions, one regional reserve
iban.k, t0 r,feoo,unt the Pr"e paper of
there are to be only twelve. Yet now
as I understood from Mr. Hitchcock, we
are to open the throttle and in the ordi
nary courso of builness transactions com
pel regional banks Indiscriminately tq re
discount paper and to issue currency and
credits to perhaps 10,000 member banks.
Powers of Ileserve Itonrd.
"No featyre of th currency bill re
ceived greater attention or more serious
consideration and none was more ex
haustively discussed than the provision
having to do with the powers of tha fed
eral reserve board. These powers 'do not
comprehend, except suggestively, ths
routine function of banking. There Is but
one of them which has not been exer
cised, fully or approximately for fifty
years by the secretary of the treasury or
the comptroller of the currency,"
The statement charged that soma it
the witnesses who appeared before tho
senate committee were prompted by bank
ers as to what they were to say and
c'ted the Instance of "a great merchant
of the country" who had been toldto
come to Washington to "sow the seeds
of discontent" with the house bill by de
claring to the senate committee, as Mr.
Hitchcock has declared to tho country,
that it "involved a tremendous contrac
tion of commerlal credits."
This testimony, Mr. Glass said, was
absurd and lie added the merchant who
gave It, afterward, admitted that he
was "coached" and that he had not
even read the bill.
Representative Glass concluded with a
statement that he had hesitated to make
any criticism of commltte proceedings
on the seriate side and that he would not
have spoken at all had the senator from
Nebraska confined his ' observations to
his committee room.
Slingsby Baby
Case Reopened
j SAN FRANCISCO, Call., Oct. 6.-The
;eo-called "Slingsby boy" case, involving!
fcv,vw a year income from a Yorkshire
Erigland, ebtate, and a charge of babyl '
uiih - .l...4ln v... r ..... . J . I
..".uiuuuu .ieuienani ana Mrs i
Charles Raymond Slingsby, In order to I
'get this Income. Is to be reopened It
wi learned today that A, Carnegie Rosi
iBrltlsh consul In Hnn Fn.i.n, t,. t. ' I
appointed by th& high court of chancarv I
cusiana 10 iaxe testimony on the sub-
Ject. and the final disposition of the
atM t0 hlnge uppon tn,8nproceed! s
Ing. . ro-eea
xne Biingouye live In Vancouver. B C
.,,., bumjovib,
ver a year ago the case attained ln
" ii
away. This would Invalidate Sllngsby's
'claim under the will
Drawn for Tlio Bee by Powell
HONEY CREEKBANK FOBBED
Safecrackers Blow Open Safe in Iowa
Town and Get $2,212 in Cash.
ESCAPE ON A VELOCIPEDE
Trails of Two Men Are Found Lead
in to Northwestern Itlirht-of-Woy,
Where They Iloarded
Menn of Conveyance.
Two safecrackers secured $2,212 from
the Stockman bank at Honey Creek, la.,
at 3 yesterdAy moTnlng. There were
two muffled explosions, which awakened
a teamster who thought It was h'ls horsed
Mqklng against, the side ot the barn.
(A further 'lnvMtisatlotrTevettld''that "the
fetfnkrtdoor nearfi.v. ,wa-opn' and?iver&l;
tpwnspeoplB ' Were.' called b- he 'team,
star.
The sheriff at Council flluffs was then
notified and the authorities examining
tho work pronounced It that of profes
sionals.' S6me ot their toots were fdund
and the trail of two men led to the side
oi the Northwestern trallroad right-of-way,
where it was evident they jtiade
their getaway, ort a velocipede.
Thomas L. Davis, cashier of the First
National bank of Oniaha Is said to be
the heaviest stockholder in tle Honey
Creek institution.
State Board Would
Delay Construction
of Norfolk Building
(From 'a Staff Correspondent.)
LINCOLN, Oct 6. (SpeciaD-Accordlrig
to Chairman Henry Gerdes of the Stato
Board of Control, there is a disposition
on the part of the state board to delay
the construction of the new building at
the state hospital for the Insane at Nor
folk until ta later date tn view of the
fact of the low ebb .of funds In the .state
treasury and the fact that It is believed
possible to take care of the Insane of
north Nebraska In other ways until thu
board sees Its way clear to erect thu
building.
The last legislature appropriated $02,000
for this purpose and sines that time the
Board of Control has taken charge of
the institutions pf Nebraska and has be,
gun to outline plans for their care. Funds
have been rather slow In coming In to
the treasury and Chairman Gerdes hos
given expression to tho proposition for
delay, it is declared, simply to permit the
construction of buildings no faster than
the stat's funds are gathered ln.
He Intimates that with the new build
ings now being completed at Lincoln's
asylum, the proposition of caring for the
state's Insane will be an easier one for
the Immediate future,
NORFOLK. Neb., Oct. 6,-(Speclal Tele-
gram.)-PeopM faml.llar with the Norfolk
Insane hospital situation were amazed
to read today the statement of Chairman
Gerdes of the Stato oBard of Control de
claring that the building for which the
last legislature appropriated $6,000 would
not be built because the board deemed
it unwise to Issue any more state war
rants, -As
a result of the crowded condition of
the hospital two in ale .patients seeking
admission are now coni'lned to north
western Nebraska Jails, and one Is sleep,
fng on the floor at the hospital because
not another bd can be crowded in.
There ls some disposition to see In the
board's attitude a conspiracy to cheat
north Nebratka out of Improvements that
the legislature has ordered made.
Million-Gallon Tank
of Oil is Burning
SAN DIKGO. Cal., Oct. S.-Burnlng at
the rate of five Inches an hour he
1,000,000-gallon crude oil tank of the
Standard Oil company, which caught fire
yesterday, will still be blazing at' ifoon
tqmorrow, according to present estimates.
Tank after tank of naphtha, stove oil
and distillate has been consumed, and
tne lose. It I said .will b $300,000. A
tank containing 260.000 gallons of gaso-
line was momentarily expected to ox.
Plode today.
.'His Ear to the Ground
JAJ " ( LISTEN TO Td WORLDS
Mr, Elliott Blames
Investigations for
New Haven Troubles
NEW YORK, Oct 6.-The Now York,
Now Havon & Hartford railroad during
the year ending Juno 30, 1913, spent $4,127,
632 mote than' It earned. The annual re
port mado public yesterday by Howard
Elliott, the now president of the system,
explains this deficit and tells what ha
been done and what Is In prospect to
meet the adverse criticism of which the
railroad lately has been the target.
President Klllott says that while thfl
earnings for the first few months, of tha
flBeal year were the greatest In tho his
tory pt the company for a similar period.
the, net results of the year.comuareV.
"witn -isu show largo decrease,, due 'to
neavier operating expenses, HrhlOti re
fleet principally the expenditure made
by the company to put the' property and
equipment In better condition tq htfndlo
business safely and promptly, and to pay
Increased wages."
In further explanation dt these flguros
President Klllott goes on to say;
"The unfortunate accident at West
port, Conn., on October 3, 1912, at Stam
ford, Conn., on July 12, 1918, nnd at North
Haven, Conn., on September 2, 1918, the
continued Investigations for several years
of the company and Its operations nnd
the resulting demoralization and expendi
tures made tha year one ot unusually
heavy outlays.
"While tho human factor was one cause
for the deplorable accidents referred to,
tha managemnt did not attempt to evade
Its full responsibility and the efforts of
the officers and employes were and are
being systematically devoted to raising
the railroad and sen-Ice to higher stand
ards ot efficiency and discipline, all nec
essitating largttr expenditures and higher
wags."
After paying dividends of ti,7S7,000 on
the stock of the New Haven road proper
and of the subsidiary companies publicly
wned, the company ended the year with
the deficit of S,1Z7,!32.
Alaskan City Almost
Destroyed by Storm
NOME, Alaska, Oct. 6. Nome has beep
almost destroyed by a storm. All the
south sldo of Front street In gone, The
sand spit Is gone.
Two milts, of territory next to the sea
was .devastated. No fives were lost
Tho storm that began last night set
ting in from Behrlng sea was the worst
ever known here. Men and women
worked all night in the ley water to
save their household effects. The electric
light plant was wrecked and telephone
service cut off. The loss Is estimated 'at
$1,600,000.
There will be much suffering, and out
side help will be required, Winter Is at
hand, and It will be Impossible to get ln
supplies needed.
The steamships Victoria and Corwl
which wero lying In the roadstead, ran
the open sea and escaped damage. All
the small boats on the beach were de
stroyed. Five hundred houses have been
demolished, and more are falling.
Aigrettes on Women's
Hats Are Seized
WASHINGTON, Oct. 6.-A woman en
tering the United States wearing an aig
rette on jier hat violates the new tariff
law Just as much as a man with a pound
of oplum'ln his pocket. That is the un
official view ot officials hero who have
asked the Now York customs house for
details of seizures of plums from hats
of trans-Atlantic passengers there Sat
urday.
Fourteen Killed in
Wreck in Russia
OVIN8K. Ilursla. Out 6.-Kourteen pas
sengers were killed und tw.nty-oght In-
ijured today when the express from
Kiev to Bt Peterburg collided with a
'stalled locomotive near the stuthtt hire.
ALL TALKING GOOD ROADS
County Maps Prepared for Meeting
at Central City.
COUNTY CONSULS ARE NAMED
Vice President 1'nriUnntnn of the
Lincoln Highway Aaoolntion
Will Speak nt Central City,
Lincoln nnd Omaha.
Coun.ty,. rrfaps pi . the sections of the
transcontinental highway, through Ne
braska are to be presented .at the meet
ing of. tho Platte "Valltiy Highway asso
ciation at Central City Wednesday, when
the matter ot building tho Nebraska sea
tjoifof tltd Lincoln'' Memorial Highway
'will comw tjp. This la to bo ono of the'
b!ii."moe tints In connection with the
building oi tho transcontinental highway.
H. B. Fredrlokson, state cpnsul for Ne
braska for the Lincoln Memorial
elation., has appointed a couhty Consul
for every County through which the high
way his been tentatively laid out.
Mr, Fredrlckson says these county con
tuts have consulted Hth their respective
county engineer with regard to the most
desirable route. These routes aro to be
brought to Central City t6 the convention
and laid before tho house for considera
tion. They are instructed to keep the
road as near the Union Pacific line ns
possible on the theory that the Union
PacUlo has selecteu the best route
through Nebraika.
Tn llaln Out ItOaltl.
When these various county maps hav
been threshed oyer and the route in de-
tall Is decided upon through Nebraska,
the chief engineer of the Lincoln Me
morial Highway "association Is to be
called out from Detroit to go over tho
ground .from one end of tho atqte to the
other and stake out the road.
Harry Lawrle Is the Douglas county
consul who Is to attend the meeting.
Many.othors Interested, in the road from
(Douglas county and Omaha expect to tfo
to the Central City meeting. Some are
going by train and others by automo
bile, providing the roads are good. A.
It. Partington of Detroit, vice president
of the Lincoln Memorial Highway asso
ciation, Is to pass through Omaha that
morning on hi way to Central City. II.
U, Fredrlckson is to Join blm here and
accompany him.
Following the Central City meeting, Mr.
Pardlngtou Is to go to Lincoln to ad
dress the Commercial club there the fol
lowing day. He has been Invited by tho
club to moke a talk, as Lincoln has been
very anxious to get on this transconti
nental route. The official announcement
of the general route made from head
quarters at Detroit did not contemplate
passing through Lincoln, as It was Some
what too far jiouth. Mr. Fredrlckson
will accompanylr. Pardlngton to Lin
coln. To Sell Certificates.
Perhaps within a week a meeting will
be called In Omaha principally of auto
mobllo dealers and dealers In automobile
supplies. It will be 'for "the purpose ot
devising ways and means of instituting
a campaign locally for tho sale of mcvi
bernhlp certificates that are to produce
the revenue for the building of Omaha
and Douglas county's apportioned sharo
ut road. In the east some' handsome con
tributions have been received for the pro
motion ot the great project. One Long
Island man, past TO years old, has sub
scribed $5,000. A survey of his finances
showed that he was worth less than
J1M.0O0. He said that he had always
looked for the day when he could make a
coast-to-coat trip In an automobile and
had never dared to attempt the hardships
on account of his age. Now he believed
it would still t a posslbllltyTn his
day, when the highway should be com
pleted. RAILROAD BRIDGE NEAR
PRY0R, COLO., IS DAMAGED
TUtNIDAD, Colo,, Oct. 6,-rteports of
the dynamiting of a Denver &. Itlo Grande
railroad bridge between Munson and the
Pryor mine in Huerfano county was re
ceived here today. The bridge took fire
about midnight, the blaze being extin
guished by men from Pryoi. The dam
age was slight. Traffic was nut Inter
rupted Guards are employed at Pryor
an Independent property.
GREATER PORTION OF
SPENCER'S STORY IS
DISPROVED BY FACTS
Confession of Many Murders is Ds
dared by Police to Be Besult of
Disordered Brain
CONSTANT USER OF OPIUM
He Attributes to Himself All Crimej
He Has Read About.
SEVERAL STORIES ARE FANCIFUL
He Was in Joliet When Several
Murders Were Committed.
IS MURDERER OF MRS. REXROAT
Police 8iy that in This One Cnse 11U
Confession Is Clearly Corrobo
rated hy FnclN In Their
Posst'SRloii.
CHICAGO, OiM.' 6. As one after another
of the. "murders" confessed to by Harry
Sponcer were disproved today, the pollen
wera practically convinced that, while he
was tho murderer of Mrs. Mildred Alll-son-Rexroat,
tho rest of his monstrous
story was mostly fiction engendered In a
drug-craxed mind.
Bpcncer Is adlctcd to tha opium habit,
a symptom of which Is a wolrd and gro
tesque Imagination. Pome years ago the
police had occasion to Investigate his con
duct and learned" that while In ui'Ison ut
Jollet on a charge oMarceny. tho prison
authorities had regarded him as mentally
defective and from time to tlmo confined
him In the Infirmary. He told fellow
prisoners, of having committed several
murders.
11 run rile it its Mentally llnsonnil.
After ho was released from tho ponl
tenttary he came to Chicago and visited
dotectlve headquarters, whero ho said he
wanted to "live square," and asked to bo
assisted to employment. He told Frank
Bhenncssy, secretary to Ch'lqf of Detec
tives Hal pin, that ho had committed sev
eral murders. Shannetsy Identified him
today and said that at the tlmo ot
Spencer's visit In searah of employment
ho considered the man mentally unsound.
Dispatches from Detroit, Dclavan Lake,
Wis., and Goshen, N. Y., today further
shook official faith In the confessions,
Investigations at these points, while not
absolutely disproving Bpencer's state
ments, Indlcatod that there was llttlo
likelihood that they were true,
-Some time will be necessary, the police
say, .tJeforo the truth In Spencer's story
can bo sifted,
"Some of his stories are probably fic
tion" Mid Captain Halpn today, "but
on tha vw.hol 1 h alleys he.l)amgst. go
great a criminal sJutatfnTTo T3e7 '
Wnninn Mrs. Annabel Wrlkht.
The Tvonmff Spencer Inlfl he thurderod
near the county hospital nan shown by
aisa-fpollce records today to have been Mr
Annabel Wright, who was beaten on th6
head last December, robbed of K0 nnd
two diamond rings, ancl who sUcbumbed
to her Injuries June 19. last.
It -was discovered tn the police records
this afternoon that Spencer was In prison
at Jollet when Fannie Thompson w.ih
mUrdcrod, January 1, IPOS. 'The records
allow that ho went to the prison In 1901
and was not paroled until 1910.
It 1 practically certain also that ha
was behind the bars at Jollet when de
tectives Pennell and Dpvlne were mur
dered. Local records, which will be com-
ared with those at Jollet show that
wpencer was in prison from April 1, IJiOi.
until 1903, while the murder of the dc
tectlves confessed to n great detail, wru
committed August 11. 1903.
Gives List of Sliinlcr.
Spsneer told the pollcu that he had
killed ten person slncd his luit release
from tho Illinois; state penitentiary in
September, J912, and four, a man apd f.
woman and Policemen Pennell and De
vine, before that. Following I a Hat ot
kullnga Spencer related to Chief ut De
tectives Halpln:
Prior to September 12, 1312:
' Patrolmen Timothy Devlnu and Charli
Pennell, shot when they -surprised Spen
cer and a man named Murphy In the act
of forcing the door of a houke. Murphy
died In the penitentiary. Spencer said.
Fanny Thompson, murdered" in a room
ing house at Twelfth street and Mich
gan avenue. Robbed ot dlambnds worth
11,200. Lunw.n Mann, son of a wealthy
Chlcogoan, narrowly escaped louviutlui
on circumstantial evidence for this crime.
September 12, 1912, to September 2ti, 19U.
Twb girls at Delavau Lake, Wis., l,.
June. Killed with hammer and bodtw
thrown into water.
Aged man in Washington park ust
spring. Met the man at Illinois Centmt
station nnd went with him tp Washing
ton park. Shot him and threw body into
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