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Resolutions Adopted Censuring Tactics of Iowa Officials
v in Depriving Investigators of Right of Public Speech;
Joseph Stillinger Pleads for Support; Detective
Wilkerson Tells of His Investigation.
Eight hundred citizens of Red Oak, Villisca. and other
towns in Montgomery county, Iowa, held a mass meeting in
Boyd theater yesterday afternoon and listened to stirring ad
dresses by J. N. Wilkerson and Joe Stillinger on various phases
of the Villisca ax murder and the injunction against Wilkerson
addressing them in their own county.
A dramatic set of resolutions, offered by Jack Seafelt of
Red Oak, condemning Iowa officials for throttling free speech
in the Hawkeye state were unanimously adopted by the crowd,
and at the close more money was contributed toward a fund to
push the investigation being conducted by Mir. Wilkerson.
Ktillincsr in Tears.
Mr. Stillinger, who was elected
chairman, addressed his fellow Iowans
and many Omahan's who attended to
hear the unusual proceedings.. He
broke down in tears several times,
pausing now and then to regain his
composure.
The theater was crowded in the
parquet and balcony, with scattering
attendants in the gallery. Joe Stil
inger is the father of two girls, Lena
and Ina, 11 and 9 years of age, re
spectfully, who were murdered in the
Moore home on the night of June 9,
1912, when the terrible tragedy oc
curred. Ho told in an impassioned
manner of the bereavementi which
seared the minds of himself and wife
and which, he said, he has not been
able to eiface from bis memory.
Another relative of the ax murder
victims was John Montgomery, father
of Mrs. Joseph Moore. Mr. Mont
gomery received word Saturday morn
ing that a brother wasying in Knox
ville, 111., but hesaid he was deter
mined to attend the mass meeting.
Ewing Makes Prayer.
Rev. W. Jj Ewing of the Presbyte
rian church at Villisca was called up
on by Chairman Stillinger to open the
meeting with a prayer. It was aa the
Ewing home that the Rev Lyn G. J.
Kelly stayed on the night of the mur
der. Kelly attended Children's day
exercises with the Ewing family at
the Presbyterian church, returning to
the Ewing home shortly after 10
o'clock, and left during the early
morning for Macedonia.
Among the relatives of the Moore
family present was W. W. Arnold, fa
ther of Mrs. Ross Moore, the latter
being unable to attend with her hus
band. Prominent citizens of Mont
gomery county sat on the stage. At
torney A. L. Sutton, for the Rev. Mr.
Kelly occupied a box.
Crowd With Wilkerson
J. N. Wilkerson, who made the
principal address of the meeting, had
the crowd with him from first to last.
.He has been prominently identified
with an investigation of the ax mur
der, covering a period of years, and
it is alleged that the Thompson law,
passed during the last hours of the
last Iowa legislature, was aimed at
him. That law is generally known in
Iowa as the "anti-Wilkerson" law.
Last Saturday night, in Red Oak,
Mr. Wilkerson sought to address
Montgomery citizens in a theater at
Red Oak, but was restrained by a
writ,of injunction served by order of
Attorney General Havner of Iowa.
Determined to hear Wilkerson, citi
zens of Montgomery county raised a
fund, engaged the Boyd theater here
and came to Omaha en masse yester
day, returning at 6:30 p. m.
Stillinger Asks Backing.
During his talk to the audience,
Chairman Stillinger said:
"I want t oask a favor of you Ne
braskans. I just want your silent
promise in your heart, that if it should
happen, now or later, that either my
self or wife should be arrested for
this or any following violation of the
Iowa laws, and we should be thrown
into jail, that you will do your part
to help us out, no matter what may
happen. We are not going to live very
long on this earth.
He asked those wllo would promise,
to raise their hands, which the entire
audience did with enthusiasm.
Safest to Hide in Iowa.
"We must not waste any time. Wt
are here in the interest of humanity,"
continued Mr. Stillinger. "We are
here because, a ban has been put on
free speech in Iowa. Under the Hav
ner rule in Iowa it is the safest thing
for a man to do when he wants to
say anything to go into his cellar and
hide his head. You alt know my rela
tion to this case. I will tell you why
they have put a padlock on our
mouths by this new law. I was before
the grand jury. I was not supposed
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RAIDSONLONDON
Score of German Planes Pre
cipitate Hail of Bombs on
British Capital; Women
and Children Die.
BULLETIN.
London, July 7. Thirty-seven
personi were killed in the air raid
and 141 injured, it was ofi'.cially an
nounced this afternoon. One en
emy machine was brought down by
the Royal Flying corps.
London, July 7. Damage was done
in the heart of London by an air raid
today which was one of the greatest,
if not the greatest, ever attempted by
the Germausover the metropolis.
Fortunately a majority of the people
in the capitai had just enough warning
of the raid to enable them to seek
safety in basements.
An official statement issued this af
ternoon by the British admiralty said
that three of the German airplanes
which had dropped bombs on London
had been brought down at sea.
About twenty-one airplanes bom
barded London.
The raiders were attacked by artil
lery and a large number of British air
planes. The results were unknown at
noon.
The raid occurred at about 9:30
o'clock this morning. Thousands of
persons crowded the streets, many of
them women and children. The po
lice and soldiers had difficulty in hold
ing back the people. Many persons
were seen at windows.
Anti-aircraft guns throughout the
city and British airplanes immediately
engaged he hostile craft and for a
time the sound of exploding bombs
and the vicious reply of guns was
deafening.
Fly Straight Over City.
Straight over the city flew the
squadron of raiders, pursued by burst
ing shrapnel. The sun was shining
brightly, but the sky was overcast
with a haze such as is so favorable
to raiders. Notwithstanding the haze,
however, the Germans were visible
plainly to the people in the streets.
The raiders appeared most sud
denly and few persons realized that
a raid was in progress until the sound
of bombs began to be heard. The
Germans were traveling at tremen
dous speed. They appeared to be at
a lower altitude than in the last raid,
when they exacted such a heavy toll
of life in London.
Superb View of Raiders. '
The west end ana fashionable north
western residential suburbs had a
superb view of the approach of the
visitors, hrom the further northern
fringes of the metropolis the raiders
swept onward in fairly close forma
tion, more than a score in number.
The suadrou owhich had been flvinsr
high then began a swift toboggan
downwards, its speed increasing: tre
mendously under the assistance of
gravity and the planes soon reaching
a level evidently less than a thousand
yards in their swoop toward the cen
tral objectives.
Meanwhile from all directions anti
aircrift batteries were working like
machine guns. Bursting shrapnel dot
ter the air around the on-coming raid
ers with snarling, vicious black puffs
of smoke more numerous than the
planes. It seemed impossible for the
raiders completely to escape from the
atmosphere of curtain fire surround
ing them. 1 he raiders however, pur
sued their course holding their cargo
of bombs until they had crossed the
suburban district and outlying parks.
Basements Are Shaken.
Even in basements the effect of the
bombs was felt, the ground trembling
as though an earthquake were in pro
gress. Windows were shaken from
frames, plaster from walls and soot
from chimneys.
Evidently there was a considerable
difference in the calibre of the. bombs
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SLAVS LAUNCH
NEW OFFENSIVE
WESTJF PINSK
Another Great Battle Begins
150 Miles North of the
First Russ Victoryin
Galicia.
(Associated Frets War Summary)
General Brussiloff has launched a
new offensive against the Germans,
it is announced from Petrograd to
day, this time in the Pinsk district,
which is ISO miles north of the Gali
cian border, where the first offensive
since the revolution was opened last
Sunday. The Russian statement rec
ords gains in both the Pinsk and Gal-
ician fighting.
Pinsk, which has been in German
hands since the tide of the great in
vasion of 1915 swept Grand Duke
Nicholas' armies far back into Rus
sian territory, is reported in flames.
The :ity lies within a pronounced
salient in the line and the statement
that fighting is occurring west of it
may mean to the northwest, but the
front trends along the Oginski canal
and the Jasiolda river.
On the Franco-Belgian front the
British have again made another for
ward thrust, slightly advancing their
line east of Wytschaete, in the Bel
gian district, where General Plutner
blew t.ie Germans out of an extended
salient east of the Messines ridge last
month. With the French forces there
have been only artillery fighting and
trench raiding.
Russian Official Report.
Petrograd, July 7. Violent fighting
has begun on the Rusian front west
of Pinsk. The city of Pinsk is in
flames, acco. aing to an announcement
by the semi-ofTicial news agency.
The Russian artillery, the an
nouncement says, is leveling all ob
stacles. The Russians have -captured the
fortified forest of Sianka with all the
enemy's organized positions and also
Hill 388. They have penetrated the
village of Godov.
Further gains have been made by
the Russian forces in Galicia. Ad
vices from the front record the tak
ing of first line trenches by troops
of the Eleventh army, whicli also at
some points captured second line po
sitions. The opening of the battle of Pinsk
marks tliesecond effort of the Rus
sians after the long period of quiet
which followed the revolution. The
point selected for this attack is about
175 miles north of the sector in east
Galicia along which the Russians
made their first onslaught resulting
in the capture of about 18,000 men
in two days. Pinsk is at the middle
of the Russo-Galician battle line.
Pinsk had a population of about
30,000 before the war. It lies within
the great marsh and swamp region.
ot White Kussia about on a line east
of Warsaw.
jtacation-A Question of Choice
Cruiser Olympi
Floated Off Rock
Washington, July 7.The famous
old cruiser Olympia, beached re
cently in. Block Island sound, after
striking : an uncharted rock, was
floated today.
TO COMMANDEER
ALL OF DISTILLED
STOCKS IN BOND
Senate Votes to Prohibit Man
ufacture and Sale of Heavier
Liquors; Beer and Wine
Not Interfered With.
Washington, July 7. In a final vote
on prohibition the senate late today
substituted 45 to 37 for the "bone
dry" prohibition section of the house
food control bill, Senator Robinson's
compromise, as amended by Senator
Smoot, prohibiting manufacture and
importation of distilled beverages dur
ing the war and directing the presi
dent to take over and pay for existing
stocks of distilled beverages in bond.
As this would eliminate distilled
beverages as a revenue source, Chair
man Simmons of the finance commit
tee had the senate recommit the $1,
670,000,000 war tax bill so that new
sources pf revenue may be sought.
In a preliminary test vote upon au
thorizing the president to suspend
manufacture of beer and wines, the
senate late today voted 46 to 34
against conferring such power.
lotoaMass Meeting Denounces
Officials Who Bar Free Speech
The following resolution, offered by Jack Seafelt of Red Oak, was unani
mously adopted yesterday afternoon by a mass meeting of Montgomery
county, Iowa, citizens in Boyd's theater:
"Be it resolved by the citizens of Iowa here assembled:
"1. That we deplore the present condition of affairs in Iowa, which makes
it necessary to leave the state to enjoy freedom of speech in regard to mat
ters of profound importance to our welfare, our personal safety and our per
sonal liberty.
"2. That we denounce as a gross injustice the law against free speech, as
framed by Attorney General Havner, and passed without chance for debate
by the Iowa state legislature during its expiring moments. We declare it to
be a law proposed by the political ring, whose sole object was to prevent'
exposure of the Villisca murder plot.
"3. That we denounce the present attitude of certain Iowa state, county
and high court officials, who are preventing and have prevented an honest
investigation, and who have conducted and tolerated 'third degree methods
on state witnesses before they appeared in the grand jury room, and this
after protest had been duly made.
"4. That we protest against such proceedings, and against the attempts
of the so-called 'state agents of the Havner administration to destroy state's
evidence in the Villisca murder case.
"5. We further brand as unconstitutional and an outrage on American
liberty and justice the enjoining of J. N. Wilkerson from public speech, a
fact which made this meeting here today necessary.
"6. Be it farther resolved that we heartily commend J. N. Wilkerson,
and the men who are assisting him, for their persistent and courageous work
in this investigation. We have faith in Mr. Wilkerson's honesty and in
tegrity; we have found him true to his trust, and we join the relatives of the
murdered people in renewed allegiance to the cause of securing justice in
Montgomery county, to which we pledge our substantial assistance.
"7. Further, it is the sense of the Iowa people here assembled, that we
express our. appreciation of the fairness of the Omaha papers in reporting
all news concerning the investigation, and for the courteous treatment given
us by Omaha and Nebraska people ,
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EMPLOYES OF .
GERMANY NOW IN
U.S. MUST LEAVE
Clerks and Servants Formerly
Connected With Embassy or
Consulates Requested
to Quit Country.
BULLETIN.
New York, July 7. Heinrich
Schaafhausen, former German em
bassy attache, whom the United
States government has decided to
send cut of thir country, was placed
on board a Norwegian steamer by
agents of the Department of Justice
here today.
The immediate arrest of all Cer
man agc.ts suspected of activities
against the country has been or
dered from Washington.
Washington, July 7. All Germans
formerly connected either with the
German embassy or any one of the
many consulates in America have been
requested to leave the United States.
Notification that their presence in
America is undesirable has been sent
to them by the State department.
The Germans, who principally are
clerks or servants, were not told that
they were suspected of being spies.
The inference that their loyalty to
the kaiser might make it difficult for
Continued on Tajce Threw, Column One.
WITNESSES FOR DEFENSE IN
MALONEY TRIAL ATTEMPT TO
DISCREDIT WOMAN SLEUTH
Most of Saturday Session Taken Up With Evidence Seek
ing to Prove Detective Chief Did Not Talk Over
Telephone to Mrs. Phelps at Office
of Detective Association.
In the Maloney hearing before the city council yesterday
the defense used most of the time rebutting the testimony
of Mrs. Elsie Phelps regarding an alleged telephonic conver
sation between Captain Maloney and herself and with the
Omaha Detective association on the afternoon of Saturday,
May 5- That conversation was the chief point made by the
prosecution in connecting Maloney with the detective associa
tion directly and the Chadron conspiracy indirectly.
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UNIONS
WIN LEGAL FIGHT
TO REMOVE SUIT
Judge Leslie Rules Federal
Court Should Have Original
Jurisdiction in Reed's
Injunction Case.
Omaha unions won their legal
fight to have the case brought against
them and the Business Men's asso
ciation by Attorney General Reed,
who envoked the Junkin act, alleging
acts in restraint of trade, removed to
federal court.
Judge Leslie, sitting in equity court,
yesterday signed an order ruling the
federal court should be given original
jurisdiction in the injunction case
pushed by Attorney General Reed
in an attempt to end Omaha strike
troubles.
Though named as one of the de
fendants when the attorney general
obtained a temporary injunction June
18, the Business Men's association,
through its attorney, F. A. Brogan,
lined up with Attorney General Reed
and his legal battery in fighting re
moval of the case to federal court.
They argued that Judge Leslie
would deny himself further jurisdic
tion in enforcing the restraining or
der if he signed the order of removal.
Injunction Suspended.
Judge Leslie's action will have the'
effect of suspending the injunction.
"However," said Judge Leslie, "if
the federal court should happen to
remand the case and leave the in
junction as it is now this court will
punish any and all who violate the
injunction in the meantime."
Anson Bigelow, attorney for the
unions, and C. A. Owens of Chicago,
special counsel for the International
Bricklayers' union, contended the ac
tion was originally brought under the
federal Junkin act and therefore
should be removed to federal court.
The application of J. A. Sunder
land and Paul Haskell, representing
employers involved in the injunction
suit, for a separate injunction against
the General Teamsters', Chauffeurs',
Stablemen's and Helpers' union No.
211 was set by Judge Leslie for hear
ing July 16.
Leyland Liner Cestrian
Is Sunk by Tqrpedo
Boston, July 7. The Leyland liner
Cestrian, long in the Boston-Liverpool
service, has been sunk by a
German submarine, according to cable
advices received here today.
The Cestrian was taken over by the
British government early in the War
and had not been in this port in nearly.
two years. Shipping men said the
loss of the vessel probably was in
cluded in a recent admiralty report,
although its name was npt mentioned.
The Cestrian, a sister ship of Ar
menian, sunk oit the coast ot Africa
in 1915, was built at Belfast in 1896
and registered 8,912 tons gross.
The council adjourned at 2 p. m. to
meet again Monday.
Captain Maloney entered vigorous
denials of having talked to Harvey
Wolf or Mrs. Phelps on the day in
question and he denied any connec
tion with the detective association. !
C. W. Pipkin testified he was not
in his office on that afternoon, as tes-"-fW
to W Mr-s. 'i-'". Gust A.
Tvlee made an attack on the evidence
of Mrs. Phelps. Claus Menke and
Morris Mehrens of Blair confirmed
Pipkin's testimony that he was in
Blair at a time Mrs. Phelps claimed
she saw him in the office of the de
tective association.
W. S. Dolan and Mrs. Harvey Wolf
o. .m. ,..r eviuence to discredit
the evidence of the woman detective.
Beginning at 9 a. m. Monday the
opposing lawyers will offer their ar
guments, after which the council will
pass upon the merits of the charges
as filed.
Commissioners Jardine and With
nell did i not atend the afternoon'
session, which made it inadvisable
for the lawyers to offer their arguy
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Dig Up Old Misdemeanor.
Attorney Baker placed much
stress upon his claim that Mrs.
Phelps was indicted during April,
1911, under the name of Clara Wat-
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sun on a uiargc oi violating mc pusiai
laws, but was released upon an agree
ment to appear as state's witness
against Mrs. Corwin Jones of 1503
South Twenty-fifth avenue, who was
convicted. 1
Mrs. Jones appeared as a witness,
acknowledged that she had been in
dicted and convicted, the latter upon
testimony of Mrs. Phelps. She gave
hearsay evidence that Mrs. Phelps
was the "Clara Watson" referred to.
"I want to show by Frank S. How
ell, former United' States . attorney,,
that Mrs. Phelps was a falsifier when
she testified here that she never used
the name of Clara Watson," an
nounced Attorney Baker, who added
that Mr. Howell is in Tekemah. but
may return during the day.
Rine Gains Admission.
City Attorney Rine gained from
Mrs. Jones an admission that her
daughter, Josephine McCune, was a
companion of Fred Adkins, who tes
tified Friday against Mrs. Phelps and
who was upbraided by Attorney
Thomas for what Thomas thought
was lack of chivalry.
At the conclusion of the morning
session Attorney Thomas agreed to
a stipulation for the records, that
Frank S. Howell would testify to
the Clara Watson phase of the case
as was outlined by Attorney Baker,
this being done to expedite the hear
ing. ,
Captain Stephen Maloney was the
first witness called at this morning's
session of the hearing of charges
against him. Attorney Ben S. Baker
examined the witness.
"Did you talk to Harvey Wolf over
telephone as testified to by Elsie
Phelps?"
"1 did not and had no knowledge of
any woman being sent by the detec
tive assocition to Chadron."
"Did you say to any woman, over
a telephone 'Are you the girl that is
going to Chadron?'"
"1 did not." .
"Were you ever in the office of the
Omaha Detective association?"
(Continued on race Hlx, Column Two.)
One American Citizen
Lost With the Orlean:
New York, July 7. One American
citizen was among the frfur members
of the crew of the American steam
ship Orleans, who were drowned
when the vessel was torpedoed and
sunk by a German submarine .accord
ing to cable advices received here
today by the ship's owners, the
Oriental Navigation company. The
American was E. Nogot, messman of
the Philippine islands. The other men
drowned were Thomas Geary, fire
man; A. Tamarants, seaman, and A.
Murillo, coal passer.
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