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THE BEE: OMAHA. WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 3. 1919.
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77 YEAR OLD MAN
DIVORC ED FROM
WIFE, AGED 60
Peter Holmberg Says House
keeper Married Him Only
' for Money Judge Gives
j"" Her Alimony. ,
Guest at Plaza Hotel Says ;
Negro Youth was Shot at
Command of Paul Sutton
i Other Witnesses Positive That Fatal Bullet Was Fired
by One of the Gity Officers and Not by Special
Policeman Holman Negroes of the City Indignant
at What They Term "Cold-Blooded Murder."
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f - Seventy-seven-year-old Peter
- Holmberg wis granted divorce
from his 60-year-oJd wife, Augusta,
. by District Judge Sears, yesterday,
and wis ordered to pay her $500
- and attorneys' fees.
- .The decision in the case, was
breached by arbitration. Ross Shot-
rwtll, attorney for Mrs. Holmberg,
', and John Battin, attorney for Mr.
: Holmberg, agreed to certain stipu
lations in the case and Judge Sears
, . gave hia decision without testimony
, on the stand by either side.
The aged couple mere married on
January 28, 1914. She had been his
housekeeper for a number of
months. Mr. Holmberg alleged in
t' his petition that as a tiotisekeeper
she seemed to have all the qualifi
f cations that he wanted in a wife,
v. But after the marriage, he alleged,
,' she changed. He said she made fun
' of hia appearance, threatened to
send him to the poor farm and was
f.. mora interested in-his property than
; in him. She declined to go to
- church with him as she had before
their marriage, he said, and was in-
terested in younger men more than
in him. He said she collected rent
, from his houses and kept it.
, Worked in Laundries.
In her cross-petition, Mrs. Holm-
berg said she had to go to work in
laundries and other places to get
, money to live on after their mar
"" riage, She alleged he had not even
bought her a calico dress during
' their married life. She expended
' the rents that she collected only on
household necessities, she declared.
Mrs. Holmberg stated that before
Mr. Holmberg. He also ownes a
a will, giving her all bis property.
' They livea at 618 North Twenty
second street in a house owned by
Y Mr. Holmbe.rg, a little, bald amn,
" house at 1409 Ohio street.
, "Any woman," said Judge Sears,
"who would marry that ancient man
really oughtn't to have a cent of
alimony."
. Mr. Helmberg, a little, bald man,
wearing glasses, speaks no English,
thnifirh ha tin in thi rrttfntrv
from Sweden 30 years. He is very
, feeble.
Mrs. Holmberg doesn't look her
60 years. She is also Swedish.
. Crowder Has Hay Fever;
: Seeks Relief in Colorado
Colorado Springs, Sept. 2. To se
cure treatment for hay fever, from
which he has been suffering for
some time, Maj. Gen. Enoch H.
' Crowder arrived here Monday night
x from Washington.
, General Crowder has placed him
self under the care of a physician.
No callers are allowed and it will
7TJeTraveral days before he will be
' able ft see any one outside his im
. mediate family.
- While here General Crowder will
f -visit his mother, Mrs. Nellie C.
i t.rowder, and his sister, Mrs. F. H
' Tinsman..
) Eueene Scott, neero bellboy who
was Shot . to . death early Monday
morning following a police raid on
the Plaza hotel, was killed on the
order of Detective Paul Sutton, who
was in command of the fix police
men assigned to raid a half dozen
downtown hotels Sunday night, ac
cording to the statement of Mrs. L.
Roberts of Minneapolis Monday
night to Michael Dempsey .special
investigator for the county attorney.
Mrs. Roberts, who is a guest at
the Plaza hotel, also repeated her
statement to James B. Kilkinney
and a reporter for The Bee.
The woman declared she heard
Sutton call to the officers on the
floor beneath him to shoot and kill
the fleeing negro .
Was Ringing Alarms.
Mrs. Roberts is the woman Sut
ton said he saw the bellboy deliver
ing whisky to. The detective was
talking to her in the corridor on
the second floor. Scott, who was
ringing his Western Union alarm
bells, was stopped as he passed the
couple.
What are you doinr, boyf but
ton is quoted as saying to the boy.
"I am ringing my bells," Scott
responded.
"You have too many bells to ring
around here," the detective is said
to have commented. "Just wait
there until I get through talking to
this woman." t
Scott is said to have ignored the
command of the officer, whom ii is
believed he did not know, and start
ed for the staircase leading to the
next floor, where his duties required
him to ring another Western Union
alarm. Sutton started in pursuit,
Mrs. Roberts declared, the boy be
came 'frightened and quickened his
pace. The detective was out-distanced
and he called to the officers
on the floor below to stop the boy.
Kill Himl Alleged Command.
"Knock his head off I Shoot him!
Kill himl" Mrs. Roberts declared
Sutton shouted to his men on the
first floor.
Scott made a dash through the
front door, ran across Fourteenth
street into an alley. He was followed
by Detectives Herdzina, Armstrong
and Brigham. Ten minutes later the
bell boy was lying in the mouth of
an alley a block distant dying with
a bullet wound through his heart.
The police arrestea Edgar Hol
man, a Union Pacific detect.ve. and
have been making every poss'ble ef
fort to have it appear that Holman
killed the boy.
According to witnesses, Holman
was ordered by Detective Arm
strong to kill Scott as he fled from
the alley across Thirteenth street.
Armstrong was chasing the racing
negro and Holman was walking
north in Thirteenth street. "Kill that
black - - " Armstrong was
raid to have shouted at Holman. The
Union Pacific detective fired one
shot into the air, according to his
statement and according to the story
told by other eye witnesses.
Witnessed Entire Affair.
Scott was shot before he emerged
from the alley on the west side of
Thirteenth street, declared Tom
Bevinsrton. 412 South Thirteenth
'street, who witnessed the entire af
fair from his door which opens into
the alley a short distance from
where the boy fell.
"I was preparing to go to bed,"
said Mr. Bevington, "when I heard
a shot, which sounded like it came
from the direction, of the Plaza ho
tel. I hastened to my door and saw
several men racing down the alley
from Fourteenth street. Scott had
reached the mouth of the alley' on
the west side of Thirteenth street
when another shot rang out. I was
standing only a few' feet from the
man, and am positive that it was this
shot which killed the bell boy. The
fugitive seemed to turn half way
around just before he was struck.
He was pleading with his pursuers
not to kill him. The boy staggered
across Thirteenth street and dropped
dead a short distance up the alley.
Says Didn't See Boy.
"Holman was standing on the
north side of the alley and on the
west side of the street. The negro
was shot before he emerged from
the alley on the west side of the
street. Holman seemed to be hiding
out of range of the bullets which
were being fired by the policemen.
In my opinion, the Union Pacific de
tective did not see the negro until
after he was shot by one of the
policemen.
"I do not know which one of the
city detectives fired the fatal shot.
I believe it was one of two men,
however, who came up almost 1m
mediately."
Detectives Armstrong and Brig-
ham were the officers who followed
directly behind their victim.
Saw Youth Fall.
Roy Stewart, who is a guest of
the at. James hotel, the windows
to whose room opens on the alley
and Thirteenth street, declared he
witnessed the affair from his room
"I heard several shots fired up the
alley an the direction of the Plaza
RECORDS READY
FOR "BIG FIVE"
PACKER PROBE
Investigation of Profiteering
and Hoarding of Packers
Begins in Chicago Before
Judge Landis.
Chicago, Sept. 2. Investigation
of profiteering and hoarding on the
part of the "big five" packers, sugar
operators and others charged by the
Department of Justice with respon
sibility for prevailing high prices of
food, was scheduled to begin today
befdre a new federal grand jury
sworn in by Judge Landis.
District Attorney Clyne announced
the government was ready to pro
ceed and said that at the opening
of the investigation complete rec
ords of the Cudahy Packing com
pany, dating back to 1912, -will be
laid before the grand jury. These
records apply to 40 different cities,
it was said.
Fear Demoralization.
Washington, Sept. 2. Independ
ent packers assailing the Kenyon
and Kendrick bills before the senate
agricultural committee today de
clared that federal regulation
through a licensing system would
utterly demoralize their business.
Says Crest of Prices Here.
St. Paul, Minn., Sept. 2. "The
crest in the high cost of living has
been reached, prices have already
started downward and will continue.
The drop later will be consider
able," said J. Ogden Armour, the
Chicago packer, in an interview
here this afternoon.
Cudahy Company Fined.
Milwaukee, Wis., Sept. 2. Cuda
hy Brothers company, packers, to
day pleaded guilty in district court
to 23 violations of the cold storage
law and was fined the maximum
amount on each charge, totaling
Now
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Record of Man Who Was
Leading the Morals Squad
When Boy Was Murdeited
Paul Sutton, new leader of the morals squad, is the detective, who
under a former administration was charged with grafting, protecting
dives, conspiracy and frequenting disorderly houses. He was discharged
following a prolonged hearing before the city commission. Later the
action of the commission was sustained in district court. Sutton was
represented by Elmer Thomas in- his losing fight to hold his job on
the police force and for years he has been a close associate of Com
missioner Ringer's hired press agent.'
Employed By Ringer.
Sutton was employed a short while ago by Mr. Ringer and Thomas
at the city's expense. It was announced at the time he would be re
quired to wear a uniform and walk a beat when attention was called
to the fact that the law would not permit his appointment to the detec
tive force. However, instead of requiring Sutton to walk a beat, in
accordance with the law and like all other new policemen are required
to do, he was placed directly under the orders of Elmer Thomas.
Sutton receives his o'fders from Elmer Thomas and he reports to
Elmer Thomas instead of at police headquarters, as all other police
men do.
Has Sanction of Mayor.
This arrangement, it is declared, has the sanction of both Mayor
Smith and Police Commissioner Ringer.
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QUALITY tells the dif
ference in the taste between
Coca-Cola and counterfeit
imitations.
Coca-Cola quality, recorded
in the public taste, is what
holds it above imitations.
Demand the genuine by full name
nickname! encourage tubititution.
The Coca-Cola Co.
atlanta, ga.
hotel," he said. "Then I heard the
men racing down the alley., I think
it was the third shot I heard when
I saw the bov fall in the allev across
the street. I am unable to sav who
fired the shot which killed Scott."
Stewart declared he heard De
tective Armstrong shout at some
one to kill the fleeing negro.
Burt Schroeder, bell boy at the
Carlton hotel, who was at the po
lice station early in the morning
when the report of the murder was
received declared it first was
thought Herdzina had killed a man.
"Send the stretcher to Thirteenth
and Harney streets," the desk ser
geant ordered, "Herdzina got him
self a man."
"We are going to see that justice
is done at any cost," declared Rev.
John Albert Williams, pastor of the
colored St. Philip the Deacon Epis
copal church, and president of the
local branch of the National Asso
ciation for the Advancement of Col
ored People.
"Scott was murdered in cold
blood. I have my opinion, and it is
a decided opinion, as to Tvho is re
sponsible for this, crime. Our so
ciety is taking an active and keen
interest in this affair. We are going
to the very bottom of it. Some one
is going to suffer for this murder.
The limit has been reached in Oma
ha recently and no more white
washing can be tolerated."
C. C. Galloway is chairman of a
committee representing the organi
zation in an investigation which is
being conducted by representative
colored people of Omaha. It was
announced that a delegation of ne
groes would attend , the inquest,
which will be held in room No. 1 at
the court house at 9 o'clock this
morning.
Alleged Pickpocket
Captured After Long
Chase Through Streets
The motorman and conductor pf a
North Twenty-fourth street car
after a long chase finally overtook
a man at sixteenth and Webster
street, who is alleged to have picked
the pocket of E. F. McKinna. 4949
North Twenty-fifth street They
were passengers on the street car.
According to Policeman Aboud.
to whom the man, giving his name
as Joe Benson, South Side, was
turned over by the street car crew,
the man confessed to picking Mc
Kinna's pocket, while they . were
jammfd close to each other on the
rear platform of the car.
Too Much Mother-in-Law,
Says Man Held for. Desertion
Too much mother-in-law is given
as the reason for the desertion of
his wife 10 months ago in Chicago
by J. P. Conley, who was arrested
yesterday by detectives in a down
town department . store, where he is
emolcved as a salesman. Conley is
being held pending the arrival of a
nicago omcer to lane mm oacK to
the Illinois metropolis.
More Oversea Arrivals
The following Omahans recently
arrived in New York from overseas:
Casuals:
Private Jack A. Sorenson, 122
South Thirteenth street.
Capt. Ralph P. Campbell, 2712
North Fifty-sixth street.
Company B, .third supply train:
Lieut. George Knight, 842 South
Twenty-first street.
Eenf row's Case Continued
Th rat aeraincf T.mii RnfrAw
proprietor of the Carlton hotel,
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cnargea wun Keeping anu maintain
ing a common ill-governed house
and violating the state hotel law,
was continued in police court yes
terday until Thursday morning.
The hotel was raided Sunday night
by the morals squad, without a
search warrant.
Regular Sherlock Holmeses
Cigars and candy valued at over
$100. stolen Monday from the store
of G E. Gunnnell, 2923 Spalding
street, were found yesterday by
detectives in a cornfield at Thirty-
third and Spalding streets. The po-
I licemen followed tracks of foot
i steps leading to the field from the
store. ' i
Austria Gets Peace
Treaty From Allies
.(Continued From Tmf On.) v
had been defeated in the field,
makes it clear, according to any
canon df Justice, they must be held
to bear their full measure of respon
sibility for a crime which has
brought such misery on the world.
"There is, however, a further fact
to which the allied and associated
powers feel bound' to point. The
Hapsburg system became in its es
sence a system maintaining the as
cendancy of the German and Mag
yar peoples over a majority of the
inhabitants of the Austro-Hungarian
monarchy. This ancient and effete
autocracy, with its militarist tradi
tions, was maintained in existence
through the vigorous support of the
inhabitants of Austria ana Hungary,
because it gave to them a position
of political and economic domina
tion over their fellow subjects.
"It was a policy of racial ascen
dency and oppression to which the
people of Austria gave their steady
support, whicK was one of the deep
er causes of the war. It led to those
iredentist movements along the
frontiers of Austria and Hungary,
which kept Europe in. a ferment of
unrest; it led to the growing de
pendence of Austro-Hungary on
Germany, and consequently to the
subordination of the Austro-Hun-gariau
policy to the German plans
of domination, and, in the end, it
led to a situation in which the rulers
of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy
could see no other way of preserv
ing their own power than to set to
work deliberately to destroy the lib
erty of small and dependent na
tions. "In the opinion, therefore, of the
allied and associated powers, it is
impossible to admit the plea of the
Austrian delegation that the people
of Austria do not share the re
sponsibility of the government
which provoked the war or that
they.are to escape the duty of mak
ing reparation to the utmost of their
capacity to those whom they and
the government they sustained have
so grievously wronged. The prin
ciples upon which the draft treaty
is based must therefore stand.
"Until the signing of peace, the
people of Austria are and will re
main an enemy people: upon its
signature they will become a state
with whom the allied and asso
ciated powers hope and, expect to
maintain friendly relations.
"(2) The Austrian delegation
have further protested against the
arrangements under the treaty gov
erning their relations with trie new
states formed out of the late Austro-Hungarian
monarchy.
"The allied and associated powers
feel bound to point out that the
disabilities from which Austria will
suffer will arise, not from the pro
visions of the treaty, but mainly
from the policy of ascendency which
its people have pursued in the past.
"Many of these peoples protested
against the war and are now, one
and all, determined, and rightly de
termined, to set themselves up as
independent states. They will
trust the empire no more. The pol
icy of ascendency has borne its in
evitable fruit in the fact of parti
tion and it is this partition which
lies at the root of Austria's trou
bles today.
"The dissolution of the monarchy
with its consequences is the direct
outcome of that fatal policy of
domination for which the people of
Austria are' themselves principalry
to blame.
Won't Enlarge Hardships.
"(3) The allied and associated
powers, however, have no wish to
add to the hardships of Austria's
position. On the contrary, they are
anxious to do all in- their power to
assist her people to accommodate
themselves to their new position
and to recover their prosperity, pro
vided always that It is not at the
expense of the new states formed
out of the late empire."
"The allies and associated powers
while adhering to the general lines
of the treaty, have made consider
able modifications in its economic
provisions.
"Provision is made to insure Aus
tria supplies of coal from Czecho
slovakia and Poland, upon which
it is dependent, in return -for re
ciprocal obligations to supply cer
tain raw materials. Outstanding
questions affecting nationals of Aus
tria, which require settlement be
tween Austria and its inheriting
neighbors are to be regulated by
a conference to which Austria will
be admitted on a footing of equality
with the other nations concerned.
The reparation commission will
be instructed to carry out the duties
confided to it in a strictly humani
tarian manner. It will have due re
gard to the vital interests of the
community and will permit any
mitigations which it may consider
required by the food situation.
No Modifications.
"(4) As regards the territorial
limits established for the republic of
Austria, the allied and associated
powers are unable to admit any
modifications in the decisions al
ready communicated.
"They have drawn for Czecho
slovakia the historical frontiers of
the crown of Bohemia, and so far
as Austria is concerned, they have
only departed from this frontier in
two minor instances where the
economic interests of the new state
appeared, and still appear, to out
weigh the claims of the Austrian re
public. "In the case of Jugo-Slavia, the
allied and associated powers have,
so far as was possible, followed the
admitted linguistic boundary. As
regards Hungary, they have includ
ed within Austria certain German
speaking districts hitherto included
within the Hungarian frontier.
"As regards Tyrol, they have
thought it best to accord to Italy
the natural frontier of the Alps,
which sh has long demanded.
"(5) The allied and associated
powers would further remind the
Austrian delegation that the treaty
of peace makes special provisions
for the protection of small com
munities, such as New Austria. It
will no longer be postble for
powerful empires to threaten
with impunity the political and
economic life of their lesser neigh
bors. Ports and waterways guarantee to
Austria under international sanction
access to the sea by land and water.
The labor clauses will help to pre
serve the rights and raise the
standards of life for , the working
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population. The minority treaties
will safeguard the political, religious
and linguistic rights of the repub
lic's minorities, transferred to new
sovereignty under the treaty of
peace.
"The league of nations is not the
only protector of Austria's rights.
The league, to which the allied and
associated powers hope that Aus
tria will be admitted at an, early
date, will not only protect the rights
of all signatories to the treaty, but
creates a means whereby such ad
justments as facts or changing cir
cumstances may prove to be neces
sary, if the peace- settlement itself
can be peacefully- and lawfully
made. These features of the settle,
ment proposed should not. be, for
gotten. , , . 5
"(6) In conclusion, the "allied
and associated powers wish to make
it clear that the modifications
which they have now made m tnc
draft treaty are final. ' "
u -m. . . e . i . ...Li.., .
we send you today, following upon,
that of July 20, last, which had al
ready undergone considerable ,
changes since the original text of
June 2, must be accepted or re.'",
jected in the exact terms in which
it is now drafted, within a period
of five days."
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