TTTE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: JANUARY 3, WIS.
MRS. R. S. COMLL
SUES ON policies;
Tragic Death of Former Omaha Boy
Reflected in Effort to Collect
Accident Insurance.
TWO COMPANIES CONTESTING
Claim that lie Waa Set Dnmurd In
the Ocapatlona Described In
the Policies at Time He
Met Ilia Death.
The tranio death of Ralph S. Connell
near hla home In Tularosa. X. M.. Is re
flected in a cult Just filed in the district
court here against the KcUance Life In
surance company of Pittsburgh to recover
$11,009 on an accident policy Issued to
him aome time prior to hla death. The
petition of his wife. Bertha Green Con
nell alleges the Issuatue of the policy,
the circumstances of the shooting of her
husband from ambush and the refusal of
the company to pay the amount of the
policy, wblch she demands with interest
and costs.
The attorney representing the plaintiff
Is W. J. Connell, who states that all the
Insurance held by his son, Ralph, at the
time of his death, except the policies of
the Reliance Insurance company of
l'ktsburgh and the Maryland Casualty
company of Bultiincrc, Md., have been
Cully paid.
"As to these two companies," saya Mr.
Connell, "the flimsy reason given to
avoid payment is that at the time of the
shooting- Ralph S. Connell waa engaged
in an employment different from the em
ployment Fpeclfled in tho application and
in the policy Issued to him. In the appli
cation and policy it was stated thnt he
was engaged as 'proprietor of farm, office
duties and traveling.' At the time he was
shot from ambush, as nlllegcd In tho
petition, without warning or notice or
provocation of any kind, and while riding
on hnrseb n k in ti e public highway, ac
companied by his llttlo 9year-old daugh
ter, ho was with a herd of cattle of about
AO head which ho hud purchased and
which were being driven from Tularosa
to tho Mescalero Indian Agency by hla
foreniun and a number of Mexican herd
ers. Although In no way injured by any
of the cattle or as the result of accom
panying tho herders with his little daugh
ter, it Is claimed by thse Insurance com
panies that he was not then doing office
duties or duties of proprietor of a farm,
or traveling within thu terras of tho
policy; and that, therefore, no liability
exists. If tills Is a sufficient reason for
not paying the full amount of tho policy,
i propose to find it out,"
Mr. Connell expresses his intention to
bring another Fuit against the Maryland
Casualty company In a few days.
Refuses Reward for
Finding Valuable
Ring on Street Car
Miss Josephine Marplc, daughter of Mrs.
Charles II. Marplo, found a diamond ring
when stepping aboard a Fimam street
car the other day. The young woman
gave the ring to the conductor, who
announced tho discovery to tho car. Ths
man who had lost the ring was on the
car and when receiving hla property de
clared the ring was valued at J600 and of
three carats. He refused to disclose his
name and Miss Marple refused to ac
cept the reward he offered.
Forsberkis Found
Dead Under Viaduct
John Forsbcrg, aged 45 years, a stone
cutter of Clay Center, Kan., waa found
dead yesterday morning beneath the north
end of the Sixteenth street viaduct In
exactly the same spot that he was found
In a stupor New Year's eve.
Forsberg when found Thursday evening
oould not be aroused and waa brought
to police headquarters, from which place
he waa released New Tear's morning by
Captain ' Denipsey, While passing under
the viaduct William Dlneen, 1017 South
Thirteenth street, discovered the body of
the man and notified the police. Coroner
Crosby has taken charge of the body
end believes death to have been caused
by heart failure.
About a week ago Forsberp came to
police headquarters and reported that he
had been robbed of $140 by a colored
woman at Fourteenth and Cass streets.
No trace of tho woman could be found,
and since that time the man is reported
to have been drinking heavily.
The death of Forsberg completes an
annual record of ten years In which a
man has been found dead under the Six
teenth street viaduct during the winter
months.
Gun Used by Suicide
Found Near Scene
The gun, with which Clement Sir shot
and killed himself, was discovered Fri
day several yards from the spot at
Thirty-sixth and Q streets, where his
body waa found. The inability of the
police to find the gun at first la ac
counted for by the fact that Sir threw
the gun away, walked several yard's and
fell dead, the snow covering tho gun
from sight. The weapon was a 33 caliber
revolver. The fact that the revolver w
not found at first led for a while to the
suspicion that Kir had met with foul
play.
UNION INSTRUCTORS WILL
LEAVE PRISON MACHINE SHOP
SAVANNAH. Ga., Jan. 2. -All union
iri'c hlnlnU employed as instructora in
Ftiite prisons will be withdrawn at a date
to tie named soon, William H. Johnson,
president of the International Associa
tion of Machinists, announced here last
niKlit after a meeting of the associa
tion's executive board.
This decision approves a recent com
mittee report to the American Federation
of 1-a.bor, declaring- against competition
between prison factory products and the
output of free labor.
S. N.VOGEL IS CHARGED
WITH RECKLESS DRIVING
K. N. Vogel. HIT North Twenty-third
meet, driver of the automobile which
rollided with a bob-sled at Twenty-fifth
in.i Hunillton streets Friday, and se
verely Injured two small boys, will be
nrrested on a complaint filer against him
by City rroe'Utor Fred Anehaustr.
Vogel lit charKed with roikles.- driving
Tli" two injuiod boys are repotted to be
Improving.
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NCERTA1NTV still marks the
Ul doings of tho magnates, who
I are very ctiutlously foaling"
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along the avenue down which
the stage procession used to
pass In such glorious panoply. What the
immediate future holds is blank, .but
the revival of business in all other lines
oupht to be followed by resumption of
activity at the theater, and it is quite
reasonable to expect that something will
be doing very soon. In the meantime,
however, the good people of Omaha are
not languishing for lack, of some place
to go. Manager Burgess la much en
couraged by his experience at the Boyd
theater, and the welcome given the very
well balanced company ne has over there.
That expression, "well balanced," is
somewhat hackneyed, but It applies to
the Boyd theater players so patly that it
may be conscientiously used. Tho com
pany over there Is ono of the best or
ganizations ever assembled In Omaha, and
its members work together with such
excellent effect that It would be singular
If they did not succeed. Down at the
Ornheum Manager Byrne is In receipt
of notice of the continuation of the policy
of sending the best to Omaha, the an
nouncement of two additional big stars
being rcselved but yesterday. Gertrude
Hoffman and her troupo of dancers are
down for a week this month, and Valeria
Bergero Is also approaching with u
dramatic sketch of the type that has
mado her so well knowR. The Gayety
will go right along, offering tho very
best of musical burlesque, and when that
Is said it Is all told. The moving picture
houses are going a good business, and
the announcements In The Bee today
indicate still greater things for the
'movie fans."
Bpeaktng of the movies, here comes a
new move m that great industry, uewis
J. Pelznlck, general manager ct the
World Film corporation, one of the
dominating figures In the motion picture
world, has announced that thta year and
for all the future, the employes of his
company will share In the profits of the
organization. This has been worked out
on a basis that win greaiiy increase me
Income of the people who work for the ,
World, and, In making tha announce'
ment, Mr. Belznlck saya he has taken
the step In hopes that it will lndune other
manager to do likewise, and that all
moving picture people will be the gainers
as the result of his new policy.
The attraction at the, Brandels theater,
matinee and night, today is tho musical
play with the airy, topical title of "Sep
tember Morn," a cute, lively story with
crisp, witty dialogue and laughablo sltua
tlons and Jlngly tunes. Rudolph Plastric,
a would-be artist, who claims to havs
painted the picture called "September
Morn" (but who In reality cannot paint
the side of a barn and do It well) get
himself in many tight places and fur
nishes the story. Leo Greenwood has tha
role of Rudolph. An actress claims to be
the original model of the popular picture
and she Instructs her publicity promoter
to boost her as tha real "September
Morn," who waa not afraid to bathe in
the open or the lake or whatever it was.
The dodging of Rudolph and the actress,
both knowing they are impostors. Is
funny throughout. At intervals musical
numbers are Introduced by a bevy of
dancing experts who are aeen In tho
latest tango, shark-swlrh-dlp and hesita
tion waltzes.
Ths society drama "Today, ' which
New York theatergoers kept running at
the Forty-lghth Street theater, that city,
all lost season, will pe presented at the
Brandels theater for three days, begin
ning Tuesday. January 6, with matinee
Wednesday. George Broadhumt is co
author with Abraham fccbumer of 'To
day." Harry von Til.r, well known In
the east as a muslo publisher. Is Its
producer. "Todey" tells of a young and
pretty wife upon whom an adoring hus
band lavishes his all. When business
troubles come, and their beautiful home,
with all Its luxuries, must bo given up,
und a una' I flat in an unpretentious
neighborhood taken !n its .-tcad, she re -
WILL PLAY AT THE BOYD TUES
DAY EVENING.
AliccVirginia. Ihvis
fusea to relinquish hr dpir for drs
B.nrl a. huttArflv AvlMtAnoA To th vrtimi?
w(f c0 the o ,ueaUon of a
woman who Is arrayed In glittering
Jewels and costly furs. The suggestion at
first strikes tho wife with horror, but
It gradually takes hold of her, and tha
dissolution of her moral character quickly
follows. The climax comes when the
young husband visits the house where
his wife Is wont to receive, the atten
tion of others. He goes to negotiate a
lease. He sees his wife's photograph upon
a table. With reason well-nigh de
throned, he arranges a meeting. The re
sult Is Inevitable. Swiftly and surely
comes the end, an end that only could be
expected. Arthur Byron heads the com
pany, and in his support are Bertha
IMlann, Clara Lindsay. Marguerlts EH.
John, Alice Gale. Herman Ceroid,
Kathryn Keys and Harry MacKaydon.
This Is the same company as appeared
for four months this season In Chicago.
Frederic Eantley, one of the youngest
leading men in musical comedy, though
now only 23 years of age, is a veteran of
the stage. He has been before the public
for the last twenty years, having made
his first appearance with Jane Gray In
"Kast Lynne" at the age of S years. Mr.
Stanley is this year the featured player
In Philip Bartholomae's musical comedy,
"When Dreams Coma True," which will
be seen at the Brandels theater for two
days beginning Sunday, January 10.
Thurston, the magician, will appear at
the Brandels theater for three days be
ginning Thursday, January U. when ha
will present an entire new program.
Chief among his new features for this
season are "The New Woman," "Noah's
Vision," 'The Evolution of tha Negro."
"Balaam and His Donkey," "Animated
Sketches," "Aerial Fishing," "Ths Choco
late soldier" and "Creation."
"Peg O My Heart." with Peggy O'Neill
and liio same excellent company which
arneared here lust season, and which has
l'ibt closed a run of over fiva months
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At ft Gajrey
In Chicago, comes to the Brandels the
ater for four days, beginning Sunday,
January 17.
"Food," a travesty on the high cost of
living, as presented by Gertrude Ooghlan.
Is not the only feature this week that
will hold the apotllght of interest at the
Orpheum. The comedy she Is presenting
is the work of William C. De Mille, and
reviewers state it Is quite the best thing
the star who appears In It has presented.
Lambert!, favorably remembered from
other seasons, Is again to offer his living
portraits of Liszt, Hollman, Ktrauss,
Gounod and others. Lambertl Is an Im
personator of rare accomplishment. Noth
ing In the form of animal training In the
entire history of the variety stage com
pares favorably with tha education that
has been given this marvelous chimpan
zee, Romeo the Great. He does nearly
everything a man can do, except talk.
Herbert Ashby and Al Canfleld are to
offer an entertaining bit of burlesque.
with a lot of laugh compelling song
parodies. A smartly staged act la to be
the one contributed by Bert Kalmar and
(easle Brown. Mr. Kalmar la a song
writer. While both he and Miss Brown sing
well, they are said to dance still better.
The Indian orator and singer. Chief Cau
oollcan, was a school boy In Omaha some
twenty-six years ago. His muslcijl edu
cation began here as a choir boy In Trin
ity cathedral. Ha Is a South American
Indian, who inherits his title as chief.
His singing Is one of the best features In
advanced vandevllle. Another of the ad
mirable offerings for this week will bs
"Little Cleo" Gascolgne of the Metropoli
tan Grand Opera company. Song selec
tions from famous comlo operas, ballads
given distinction by such singers as Te
trazlnnl and Trentlnl, are the chief fea
tures of his vocal program. Interesting
views oi strange countries the world over
will again be presented by the Orpheum
Travel Weekly.
Mr.. Lynolv is to have the lead role
at the Boyd this week, when the offer
ing will be "Irince Karl," a four-act
comedy drama by Archibald Clavering
Gunter. It tells the story of how a young
German nobleman fell In love wtili a rich
young American widow and the crooks
and turns in the path of true love from
that time on. The comedy Is rich and
natural, without any approach to the far
cical, while the love atory is so well told
that at tiroes the dramatic element en
tirely overshadows the comedy. Mr.
Lynch will play the name part, while
Miss McHenry will have the' role of Mrs.
Florence Lowell, the rich young widow,
and the others In the company will be
well bestowed In the long cast. Several
sets of scenery have been specially pre
pared for the play, lbs first performance
of which will be at the matinee this
afternoon, the bill running all week, with
tha regular matinees on Wednesday and
Saturday. On Tuesday evening Miss Alice
Virginia Davis will give a piano recital
as the special society nlsht feature.
The new and successful musical bur
lesque 'The Winning Widows," Is booked
at the poplar Gayety for the current
week. The piece hbs a will defined plot
and an excellent reason for the many
laughable and amusing complications.
Tho coinody tells a story of complications
whkh aie apparently serious to Uie
characters Involved; a seriousness that
Is an absurdity to tha audience. Act one
Is laid at the home of the Rileys on
Riverside Drive, New York. Act two
takes place at Brighton, showing tho
boardwalk and the beach. The east
numbers forty people supporting Bmelle
Bcnner, Ben Holmes and Leon Fox and
with a carload of special scenery rarrlcd.
It Is safe to assume that a performance
much above the ortiinary will be wit
nesses. Daily piatlneea are offered,
which the ladles are especially invited to
attend, although tha evening perform
ances at the Gayety ares Identical with
tli afteriio performances.
Heading the vaudeville bill at the Km
press tills week is the comedy team
"fccknff and Gordon " Their bit has been
throwing audiences into convulsions along
the i lrcull. Thompson and Bcrri offer a
highly humorous skit entitled. "I'atent
Applied For," whhii contains many
'gloom dispensing" and "wrinkle wreck
ing" qualities. ., The "Times Hquaro
Quartet" furnish the melody and fun
chatter, and have wonderful ability along
both lines. The Krnest Alvo troupe will
complete the vaudeville offering with a
strong lino of gymnastics. A ' special
feature photo-play has been booked for
this week. This picture Is featuring
"Wilton Lackaye" and "Gall Kane" In
their original Broadway success, "The
Pit." Five hundred people are shown
In the scene of the wheat pit In the Bto k
exchange. This play will be shown only
before the 2:)0 and 7:30 performances
and after tho 3:90 and 9:00 shows.
Who Will Be Head
of the School Board?
Rumor Says Ernst
The nsw school board will organize at
its first meeting next Monday night, but
just how Is still a matter of speculation.
The hold-over members who would talk
do not know anything about It. and the
newly elected members will not talk. It
Is known, however, that the members
elect have a working agreement among
themselves, and that they asked Robert
Cowell to accept the presidency. It Is
known too that owing to the pressure of
his personal business Mr. Cowell has
positively declined. It Is also known
that at the time the presidency was put
up to Mr. Cowell only two other names
were mentioned by ths members present,
those of C. J. Ernst and Dr. V. H.
Jenkins, the former being the second
choice of most of them, so that every
ona may draw his own Inference.
Petition Out for
Pardon or Parole
of Delbert Smith
A petition for a pardon or parole for
Delbert H. Smith is being circulated for
signatures. He Is ths man who confessed
as an accomplice In tha robbery of tha
Kearney postofflce, and alleged that ex
Sheriff Sammons committed the robbery.
Smith . has been committed to the Buf
falo county Jail to serve his sentence of
six months, Imposed by Judge Page
Morris.
Sammons wss convicted and given a
sentence of two and one-half years la
the Leavenworth prison, but is now at
liberty on bond, pending appeal of ths
case.
Woman Sues Attorney
for Estate Balance
. Suit for an accounting has been brought
against Attorney John M. Macfarland by
Mrs. Dollle McLaughlin, Who alleges that
he has In his possession fi.WZ) dus her
from tha estate of the lats W, R. Mc
Laughlin. Of 17.760 collected by Mr. Marts rland as
her attorney, she alleges she has received
12,70. There Is a balance of tm after
his feo has been taken out, Mrs. Mc
Laughlin assert
Metz's Car Found
With Tires Rat
Herman .Metz, Hamilton apartments,
who reported to the police that his car
had been taken, was informed of its be
ing found In front of the Savoy hotel
with all four tires punctured by soma
sharp Instrument and the speedometer
gene.
RABBITS SLAUGHTERED
NEAR COUNCIL BLUFFS
rifty.one rabbits wss the toll II. li.
Frederlrkson took In a two hours' hunt
on hla farm north of Council Ulufrs, Fri
day afternoon.. He took, roventy-flva '
cartridges with hint and ran wit of am
munition after two houis of flno shoot
ing. 11 simply drove up through a draw
wbera there were lota of weeds and a
great deal of grass. As the labhlt
rabbits Jumped up, he shot right and
left, lis had a boy running along be
hind ths wagon to pick them up.
RRANDEIS THEATRE
--CRAWFORD. PHILLEY U ZEHRUNG. Ugr.
HOW
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WIIIRLY GIRLY TAHGO k8&tf,KS
SEPTEMBER MORN
ALL Ml Sll' AM ( O.MKHV TAMaFJ4 AM) JOY
THREE iUGllTS-January 5. 6, 7--wZtilor
The Dramatic Sensation of the Century!
All Last Year in New York All This Year in Chicago
Manuscript Producing Company
riJKSKNTS
CZ3
Dy Georgo Droadhurst and Abraham Sehomer
With "The Perfect Compa y" Headed by
ARTHUR DYRON
JI'ST SOHKl A Tlti:IKXlMlH HIT IN KAXSAH CI TV
WHKIll.: Till: I'APKHS 8AI1:
"To-iImj at. tlio SliulMMl niv 10 worth of thrllH."
" n nil-star t'oiiipniiy, inul I ho work of Arthur llryou u the
inucli-nhiifi'd litishnnil in 1llrl)."
" losing with mil- of tho most lrauiallc and moot ' atlrring
fftHi ctir wlllr" iion any hIsp."
IMUCKS THAT AKK 1UGHT
XKillTS, 2.V to tHiJM. Wi:iXl:sIAY MATIXKK, 2.V to fl.OO
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ADVANCED VAUDEVILLE
Wrick SUl tlnK Hunday Matlncc, Jan. .'Id.
iss Gertrude
Supporter! by J. H. Gllmour & Co., In
"FOOD"
A Tratcsty on the High Cost of Living
Uy William C DeMlll. Author of "The Woman.
Lambertl
The Master Musician
HsrLert Ashlay & Al Canfield
1 In a. Novel Idea
Martin Van Birgen
T'.ie Boy from Kansas
' OBFHXXm TRAVEL WIIIIT
Ths WorlA at Work and may
Around the World with 1- Orpheum
Circuit's Motion Picture
PhntoKrauhera
RUDOLPH GANZ
Eminent Swiss Pianist ,
Y. W. C. A. AUDITORIUM
THURSDAY EVENING, JAN. 7
Tickets, 50c, $1.00 and $1.50
Selling at Hayden Bros. Sheet Music Department
TBRPIKV DAKCIX9 ACADEMY 2ITH AKD FAEJ5A1 STREETS
New term begins Monday, January 11th. Adult beginners Mon
day and Thurnday 8 P. M. Adult advanced, Tuesdays 8 H. M.,(Only
Dew dances taught in this claws.) Vuplls Joining class January. H, 12
and 14 will be given a reduction of $1.00 on tickets. Application re
ceived now. Phone Harney G143. Private lessons dally. . Up-to-date
dances.
BOYD - D. 1919
5th
D
Commencing Hunriay
Mntlnce mid All
M'Mlt
Mats. Wed., Sat., 23c
Mghts, Bc and 60c
Ttia Boyd Theater
Stock Company
in
Richard Mansflelil's
Great I'lay
6
TuMlay, January 5,
Society Mtfht
ALICK VIIUilMA
DAVIS,
Omaha's Itrilllant
l'UnUt
Tlet ween Acts.
flNKXT WKKK XHK HtaiT.
OsCAHA'a rtrar o'H"
Dally Mat.. IB-flB SOe.
Brags., 14-88-50.780.
-.."'WIKXIKS WIDOWS
Mr. Max rienel's proudest offering,
most Kurueously srowned and siuuptoiiHiy
staged production of the Benson. Hax
the IS look, tilrenlc beauty. Chorus ul
pranrinr. pouting pets.
UIIM1 Bntl HIT. Will BATS.
PIANO TUNING
R. BRANDON
Recommended by Mary
Mnnebiioff, Mi Hi- Ryan,
fartin Bush, Jean Duffield.
Belle Robinson and Max
Landow.
Webster 4332.
4618 N. 28th Avenue.
tlflQl
25c, ,"r; Orrlipwlrsj, BOc, 7.V.
lliil., ."Hie, 73c; Orrh, 75r, ft.
Company of Dancers
and Sineors in the
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Tele
phone Doug.
494.
Coghlan
Grriruile Cos-Man
"Romeo The Great"
Most Marvelous of Intelligent
Chimpanzees
Bert Kalmar & Jessla Brown
rresentlna
Original Honrs and Tfcnri
"Little Cieo" Gascoipa
Of the Metropolitan Grand Opera
Company
In Hongs from Huccessful Comic
Opera
Prices Matinee, eallerv, 10c, best
seata (except Saturday and Sunday ,
?r.c. Night. -Sc, BOc nnrl 7iio,
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Eckoff & Gordon
TXS aCUKCAX, X.ATQK MaXXXS
Ttapscn & Berrl ;
will orm '
"Patent Appliaj For" ;
Tinas Square Quartstta
BXvrsiraiiM or HAsvoirr
Ernst Alvo Troupa
Triple Bar Comedy gymnasts
Wilton Lackays & Gall Kane
la their original Broadway BuooeSa
"The Pit"- .
ia rtTs Farts. '
10a admission 10:
essrrsd Seats lOo Zztra
MARY F. COOfER
School of Dancing
19th and Farnam
KaBT T, COOFXB School of Dane
Iiik. Beautiful nsw studios. lth and
h a i nam 81. Classes in ball room,
esthetic and nattonul danrlnc. New
clauses for children and adults will
be fujiiied after January 1st. fcpaclal
attention to private clubs wlshlnc In.,
struction in social dauclnic.. Children
requested to enroll in i-laittc before
Jaliuuiv 6.
Advertising is ths Ufa of Trait
Talk thro nra Tha Baa ta yems ems
temsre. year eompetltor' nstasnars,
JOBS posslbls USMBASSBV
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