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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 1, 1919)
z. THE BEE: OMAHA, FRIDAY, AUGUST- 1, 1919. WIFE ARRESTED WHEN HUSBAND f FACES JUDGE Mrs. Mable Baltzer Held in Connection With Robbery of Wealthy Idaho Rancher. W. R. Chadbourne, wealthy rancher of Gooding, Idaho, report ed to the police that he was held up nd robbed of his watch and $17 in money Sunday night, and Monday morning police arrested Peter , Baltzer, 2564 Marcy street, as a sus pect , He was identified by Chad , bourne and held on a robbery charge. , Wednesday a demure little woman visited Chadbourne in his hotel roont and after dangling his watch . and , a roll of greenbacks totaling $17 in front of his eyes he consented not to appear in police court to prosecute Baltzer. He immediately packed his bag gage and was boarding a train for his Idaho ranch when police learned of the ruse and arrested him as a complaining witness to insure his presence in court today. Baltzer was bound over to the district court on robbery charges by judge Fitzgerald yesterday and his bond fixed at $1,000. As he was being returned to the "bull pen" a woman in the audience rushed up and,; weeping, entwined her arms -bout the prisoner's neck. Court officials were startled to hear Chadbourne shout, "There she is." ' Chief of Detectives Dunn after questioning Chadbourne about his remark was told that the woman with her arms about the prisoner was the same woman who visited in the rancher's room. , A prisoner and the woman were eparated Dunn stepped forward and placed her under arrest. "What for?" questioned the woman. "You're in the "hoosegow now," "Dunn replied as he had her "book ed" for investigation. She gave the name of Mrs. Mable Baltzer and says she is the wife of the man held for the alleged robbery. Chief Dunn says she will be held as an accessory after the fact. Baths to Be Open Saturday. '1- The new city bath house on Jef ferson square, Sixteenth and Cass streets, will open next Saturday, Park Commissioner Falconer an nounced. City commissioners will inspect the place. There are 12 shower bathes and they are free, a small charge only being made for soagjtna towels. 13 Lucky IT II Saturday .13 lucky women will buy 13 copies of im ported Dree and Gown Saturday. Besides" we will offer 321 sum mer dresses and early fall suits at a price that will make every one who buys call 13 their lucky number ever afterwards. Watch tomorrow. for details The House 13 Menagh Candy Merchant Freed in Alleged Murder Plot Case Joseph Tirro, Sicilian, Accused by George Stein of Closing Death Pact, Discharged by Police Judge on Motion of Prosecuting Attorney. Joseph Tirro, Sicilian candy mer chant, charged with conspiring to murder Emma Housechild, 17-year-old girl employed by him as a clerk, was arraigned yesterday in police court and the charge dismissed. The motion to free Tirro was made by Deputy County Attorney Ready. Tirro was accused of closing a death pact with George Stein for the girl's murder because she spurn ed his love. Stein, according to his testimony in the hearing, was en gaged as the assassin. Stein bared the alleged death plot to the police and caused Tirro's ar rest 10 days ago. Tirro did not testify. Stein was the only witness called. He related alleged conversations with Tirro in which the murder was discussed and the details for disposing of the body arranged. Stein said he was to receive $100 for the crime. Stein's testimony freed Tirro. Asked by counsel for Tirro if he had at any time intended to carry out the murder plot he answered, "No." It was on this answer that Tirro's attorney asked a dismissal of the complaint and was sustained. Under the laws of the state two persons , are necessary to a con-soiracv. Judge Fitzgerald, in discharging tirro, said he thought the defendant insane. He did not ask, however, that Tirro be taken before the in sanity commission. Emma Housechild, the girl Stein said he was hired to kill, was in court with her father, R. M. House child of Papillion. They made no demonstration when Tirro was dis charged. Tirro is a candy merchant at Six teenth and California streets. Stein, the man who bared the alleged plot, is a baker, and until recently was employed by the Iten Biscuit Co. He was a one-time friend of Tirro's. Tearing Up of Paving On Dodge Street Marks Beginning of Grading Grading on Dodge street hill be gan yesterday when a force of men for the gas company began tearing up paving on Nineteenth street and excavating to relay a high pressure gas main there, preparatory to the grading. A resolution passed yesterday by the city council, directing the Oma ha & Council Bluffs Street Railway Co. to re-route the Dodge street cars over Harney street from Tenth to Twentieth strefets during the progress of work Jn grading Dodge street. Russell Condon, the grading con tractor, will start within a few days at Seventeenth and Dodge streets with a steam shovel, doing the actual work of removing the dirt. A train of dirt cars drawn by a small steam engine will run down Dodge street on the street railway company tracks to Tenth street where tracks will be built allowing the dirt trains to reach the lowlands where the dirt will be dumped, A large amount of (trading of pri vate property abutting on the streets to be graded, will be done at tne same time as the street grading job. Commissioner Towl says that, with a fairly open winter, the whole Job ought to be completed by spring. Railway Clerks Will Hold Big Picnic at Lake Manawa A long-distance swimming race across Lake Manawa, water sled riding by Mrs. Dan Leary, motor boat races, water races for both men and women, high diving, airplane flights, a base ball game, picnic din ner and other events will feature the first annual outing of railway clerks, express and station employes, to be held at Manawa park Saturday. The water events will begin at 6 o'clock. Several hundred people are expected to attend. Negro, Dressed as Woman, Escapes From the Police Clarence Smith, negro female im personator who carries his role into' real life and was employed by a Dundee family as "housekeeper" before his arrest on a vagrancy charge, escaped from the police Sat urday while being taken to the county jail. Smith was arrested near Eleventh and Capitol avenue Friday night when Policeman O. P. Peterson found him dressed as a woman. City to Advertise for Bids For Public Comfort Station The city council yesterday voted to advertise for bids for a city com fort station to be built under the sidewalk on the northeast corner of Sixteenth and Dodge streets, with two entrances from the sidewalk. Bonds for this work were voted more than two years ago. Two other comfort stations are to be built, at Sixteenth and Howard streets and at Twenty-fourth and N streets. Marriage of Negress To White Man Annuled; Woman Asks Damages The marriage of Ardail Hall, ne gress, and James D. Brisben, white, was annulled yesterday by Judge Toup in district court on the grounds that it took place in Ne braska contrary to the state law prohibiting intermarriage between whites and negroes, and that the license was obtained in Council Bluffs. Immediately after Judge Troup's decision was given Ardail Hall filed a damage suit for $5,000 against her ex-husband in district court. She al leges that she is a negress, that Bris ben deceived her by telling her that their marriage was legal when it was not, and that she was humiliated, suffered a loss of health, was de prived of wages she could have earned as a housekeeper during the five years that she lived with Bris ben, and has been damaged to the extent of $5,000. She declares that Brisben enticed her into living with him February 9, 1913, by promising to marry her. On March she secured what she thought was a legal marriage li cense, she says, and they were mar ried by a minister. She later learned that the marriage was contrary to the Nebraska state law, and on July 2 left Brisben, she asserts. Hoover and His Staff on Way to London Meeting Paris, July 31. Herbert C. Hoover and other members of the supreme economic council left to day for London, where the council will meet tomorrow to discuss plans for the continuance of inter allied control of supplies. PLANE CROSSES SOUTH AMERICA FOR FIRST TIME Italian Aviator Successfully Negotiates Continent From Atlantic to Pacific Oceans Acted as Mailman. Santiago, Chile, July 31. Lieuten ant Locatelli, a member of the Ital ian aviation mission now in Argen tina, yesterday completed an airplane flight from Buenos Aires to Val paraiso, his trip marking the first crossing by air of the South Ameri can continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Lieutenant Locatelli several days ago covered the first stage of tne flight from Buenos Aires to Men doza, on the eastern edge of the mountains where he waited for good weather. He started early yesterday morning to complete the flight, crossed the Cordillera Andes and after circling over Valparaiso, land ed at Vina del Mar, near that city. Later in the afternoon he flew to Santiago, landing at the airdrome of the Chilean military aviation school. The Italian aviator acted as an aerial mail pilot on the trip, bringing several sacks of mail matter from the Mendoza postoflice, as well as a number of private letters. New Carpenters' and Plasterers' Wage Scale Effective On Friday The demands of both carpenters and plasterers for increased pay are effective ' today. Carpenters ask an increase up to 90 cents an hour while plasterers request an hourly increase of 124 cents, making a flat rate of $1. But little difficulty is anticipated by officials of these two locals in obtaining higher wages for their men. K. A. Wilson, business agent of the carpenters' local, stated yes terday that the majority of the car penters were already receiving the new scale. Plasterers are said to be receiving $1 an hour at the present time, but submitted demands for an increase to make the scale official. Iowa Man Ordered to Pay for Support of Children Here Judge Estelle yesterday ordered Frank Tones. Des Moines, la., to pay $4 a week for the support of his two children, who are to be Iett in the care of Mrs. Ella Jackson, 1509 Locust sreet. This decision was made after a two weeks' fight in district court be tween Jones and Mrs. Mable West, his common law wife, for the cus tody of their children. During the trial Mrs. West testified that she had been working in Omaha and supporting the two children, one 3 and the other 5 years old, until Jones interefered. i iiKarniiauviianaitatiaiiaiiaBiimTiaiiBitaTiaiianaiiaMaMai iiaiisiTaiianaMBtiBitstisiirtiaiiattBParraiiBiiatiatiaiiaiiaTiaHSMaiiciiar This Beautiful Round Edge Trunk j Built for service, has best hardware, locks and hinges. Two trays all handsomely lined with cretonne. Very special price, I I $25.00 ! I Others from $17.00 Up. 1 FUELING . STEINLe! 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They are now ready-a most wonderful display of really fine furs for 20 o Less than the price after September first. All summer furs Sable, Stone Marten, and Australian Opossum will be reduced one third. We are featuring Hudson Seal coats, although coats of nat ural squirrel, moleskin, rac coon, muskrat, nutria and mink will be shown. Scarfs are of fox, mink, kolin ski, caracul, ringtail, silver fox and cross-fox. Small skins, squirrel and mink, may be had by those who wish hats to match their coats. This is undoubtedly the finest showing of furs we have ever obtained, the coats particular ly, being made in more at tractive styles than ever be fore. You should at least see them, it is an opportunity not to be overlooked, and our saleswomen will be very glad to show them. Reservations may be made by payment of a certain percentage and charge purchases, upon ar rangements with the Credit Office, will be carried over to the November first statement. Furs will be stored without charge until December first. "YOU BUY WITH AS FURS HERE SURANCE " The August Sale of Shirts A good one Eagle, Arrow, Earle & Wil son shirts, both soft and stiff cuffs. Sizes 1312 to 18. $2.50 shirts for$2.15 $3 shirts for $2.35 $3.50 shirts for$2.85 $4 and $4.50 shirts, $3.25 $5 shirts for $4.15 $6 shirts for $4.85 $7 and $7.50 shirts, $5.65 $10 shirts for $7.65 $12 shirts for $8.15 $13.50 shirts for $9.35 To the Left A You Enter Silk Hose $1 White Silk Boot Hose, full fashion ed, lisle top and double sole. Spe cial, $1 a pair.' Toilet Articles Jess Talcum, a large glass jar, 25c. Hind's Honey and Almond Soap, Fri day, 3 for 25c August Sale of Linens Every year we con duct a linen sale dur ing August, and, not withstanding the un usual conditions the linen and cotton markets, this year will be no exception. Cottons and linens are high, but as they are going higher you would be wise to buy your supply now. Big savings on table cloth and napkins thai are jure linen, huck towels, Tvrk ishtawels. all linen crashes and so forth. Beginning Friday. Remnants of Wash Goods Broken lines and odd pieces of voiles, organdies, skirtings and novelties. Materials selling orig inally up to $1.25 a yard Friday 39c a Yard Convenient lengths of very lovely materials an opportunity to save. Opposite the SU Muslin Underwear Cotton crepe slip over gowns in white and colors, $2 to $235 Nainsook slipover Gowns in white or flesh, embroidered in dainty colors, $2.25 and $2.35. Bloomers of crepe or batiste in white or flesh very plain or prettily trimmed. From 75c to $2.25. A Bargain Table Odd garments un der priced. Chil dren's sweaters, boys' wash suits, children's dresses, drawers and combi nations in odd sizes. Third Floor. Chiffon Taffeta Belding's . guaranteed chiffon taffetas, in a fine variety of desir able colors. $3 Taffeta Friday for $1.89 Art Dept. Bargain Table The leading attrac tion of the Art De partment is this bar gain counter, upon which something new is placed each day. Friday's Bargain Solid mahogany trays, beautifully fin ished and made so that they may be used as picture frames also. $1.00 size, for 39c $1.50 size, for 59c