THE BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER' 29, 1919.
BLAMES STRIKE
FOR ATTEMPT TO
SLAY HIS WIFE
William Philbrick, Ort Trial for
Intent tk Murder, Has:
7 Defense of Temporary
Insanity. , .
.William A. Philbrick on the wit
ness stand before a jury and District-
Judge Redick yesterday swore
that he has no recollection of having
stabbed his wife, Mary Philbrick, in
an elevator in the First National
bank building on June 24, 1919. He
is on trial for assault with intent
to murder.
His defense is temporary insan
ity. He said he had brooded to
long over his domestic troubles that
lie didn't know what he was doing
when he stabbed his wife 13 times
with an ice pick and then tried to
kill himself. He was found in the
elevator at the fourteenth floor of
the building, the elevator looking
like a shambles with his blood and
that of his wife.
Their troubles started, according
to the testimony, when he went out
on a strike with the boilermakers'
union. While he was unable to sup
port the family, Mrs. Philbrick got
work running an elevator. Their
three children were sent to an
orphans' home
Mrs. Philbrick filed suit against
her husband for divorce since the
stabbing, alleging various threats
against her life. Mr. Philbrick filed
a cross-petition, charging her with
misconduct
They lived at 1013 South Twenty
fifth avenue.
New York Man Dies of Injuries
Received in Motor Accident
C H. Hunter, 68 yeariNold, of
Hyatt CJorners, Seneca county, New
York, died Thursday of injuries re-
Lceived in an automobile accident
-near Council Bluffs. Mr. Hunter and
his wife and his son, Frank, and
family of Mills county, la., were
en route to Omaha when the acci
dent occurred. None of the others
were seriously injured.
Mr. Hunter is -widely known in
New York and is one of the board
of directors ol' the Lackawanna
railroad.
STOCKS SHAKEN '
BY STRIKE AND
MEXICAN NEWS
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Call Money at 10, and Traders
. 'Unload 1,500,000
S ' Shares, j
- New York, Nov. 28.The itock
market again was severely unsettled
Friday, many speculative issues fall
ing five to nearly 35 points on a
turnover approximating 1,500,000
shares. ; -
6n the stock exchange, and in the
financial district generally, the
break, which lacked the sensational
features of the mid-November up
heaval, -was chiefly ascribed to
growing apprehension arising from
the deadlock in the coal strike and
later events south of the Rio
Grande.
Shares of. the various coal roads
were only moderately affected, but
issues with Mexican connections
were under constant pressure.
: European ne"ws was again dis
couraging and contributed to the
heaviness of exchange on London,
Paris and the former neutral counr
tries of northern Europe.
Selling was at its height in the
final hour, when call money, which
had ruled at 7 per cent, rose to 10
per cent on the belated demands of
borrowers. ,
The setback doubtless owed
much of its success to the renewed
activity of the bears or short in
terest, but no small part of the sell
ing originated, according to com
mission nouses, irom discouraged
traders at interior centers.
-Another noteworthy feature was
the renewed selling in heavy volume
of Liberty and Victory bonds, sev
eral of these issues establishing
minimum quotations for the year.
It now is generally accepted as a
fact that liquidation of these bonds
is in process mainly to. adjust losses
in the income tax returns of indi
viduals and corporations at the end
of the year. '
General Motors led the set
back, just as it has led all similar
movements recently at a net loss
of 2ZV points. Other motor shires
and their accessories, with oils,
shippings and prominent steels and
equipments, closed with a heavy to
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Slightly raising and lowering a
user's heel actuates gearing vttfat
propels a roller skate invented by
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EXPECT BREAK
WITH MEXICO TO
FOLLOVVMURDER
Seventh Crime Since Car
ranza Was Warned That
"Next One". Would Lead
To Action.
(Continued From Para One.)
atid they not only went over the
Jenkins case, but Mr. Lansing also
laid before the Mexican" envoy the
report- of the killing of Wallace,
which had just been received.
Their conference was confidential.
but it is understood the secretary
conveyed to President Carranza's
representative a message more
forceful and1 direct than .any yet
transmitted in any diplomatic note.
No Credence to Charges.
Mr. Bonillas was informed that
the department placed no credence
in the charges on which Tenkins is
held in jail in Puebla, in which the
Mexican government declines to in
tervene, and it is understood that
Mr. Lansing further outlined to the
ambassador the inevitable conse
quences of continued murders and
molestations of Americans, probably
more pointedly than was done in
the government's official note of
last July.
Third American Dead.
About the same time word came
in of the death of another American
as the result of brutal treatment of
bandits who held him for ransom.
He was Otto Lund, of Swedish
birth, a naturalized American, who
died of blood poisoning after being
held for ransom five months in the
state of Mayarit.' His captors
chopped off one of his fingers and
wrapped it within their written de
mand or ransom money which they
sent to .his friends in Tepic. Blood
poisoning and gangrene killed the
man "while his wife, ai American
woman, and their child, are reported
in want in Tepic.
Ihe murder of Wallace, however.
assumes proportions of overshad
owing importance. Potrero Del
Llano, the ranch on which he was
murdered, is six to nine miles south
of Tampico. The oil pipe lines of
the Aguilar, Gulf Refining and
Huasteca Oil companies run through
the property. When word ofhis
death was received here toe offi
cials of all three companies were
communicated with for identifica
tion). The Gulf company's office at
Houston. Texas, responded that the
Wallace probably was W. M. Wal
lace, who was known to be in the
Tampico district and on the Potrero
Del LJano property.
Eighth Since Warning.
If the identification be correct,
Wallace is the eighth employe of
the Gulf comoanv to meet death at
the hands of Mexicans in the Tam-
oico district and the eighth Amer
ican to be killed in Mexico since
July 28, when the United States
warned Carranza that further mur
ders of Americans would seriously
affect the relations between the two
countries.
According to state department
records the eight murders have been
in this order:
July 31 K. A. Cunningham, at
Matamoras.
August 28 Adam Schaerer, at
finosa.
Aueust 30 H. 5. McUH, at
Coapua. ,.
September Z A. f. tiennessy, ai
La Colorado. -
Seotember 21 Lieutenant u n.
Connelly, U. S. A., at Bahia.
Lieuteant' f . is. waternouse, ai
Bahia. ' .
(The were the two army avi-
ai who lost their way, were starved
and finally murdered by Mexican
fishermen. ) . ,
November 14 E. K. Lack, at
Mexicali, said to have been killed by
a Mexican official.
November 26 James Wallace, ai
Tampico. . ' .
Seventh Killed by Carramans.
It is further said from the unof
ficial records that Wallace js the
seventh American killed by Car
ranza soldiers in the Tampico dis-
trct- ' - i
Immediately on receipt of the
death of Wallace the State depart
ment ordered investigation and fur
ther report on the details. ,
Investigation and report on the
new" phases of the Jenkins case,
raised in the Mexican note refusing
to meet this government's demand
for the consular agent's immediate
release, already has been ordered.
The whole effect of the days de
velopments was to put the Mexican
situation, already acknowledged bad,
into the worst light of probably more
than a year. . , .
The reports of fighting in Mexico,
City and the reported flight of Car
ranza, should they be verified, are
expected to have a material bearing
upon it. So far as revealed no news
was received directly from Mexico
City. The State and War depart
ments and the Department of Jus
tice all of which had been receiving
information recently tending to fore
cast such a development, set about
seeking -further information and
verification of the day's reports
which came to the border.
Due to Angeles Shooting.
There was just a suspicion that
the trouble in the MexicanCapital
was a-jeaction from the execution of
GeH Felipe Angeles at Chihuahua
City, against which many Mexicans,
including Carranza supporters, pro
tested vigorously.
It has been known here for some
time that the preliminaries of the
Mexican presidential' campaign were
waxing warm with Carranza and
Obregon as the chief figures. Obre
jron has been touring the country
and is, just about due at Manzanillo,
one of the Pacific coast ports con
trolled by Carranza forces. Although
the report of an outbreak seemed
to be the logical consequence to an
accumulation of information at
hand there was a disposition to await
further news before considering it a
real factor in the situation.
A change of government in Mex
ico, it was pointed out, 'might point
the way to a solution of the present
difficulties. On the other liand. it
was said, a change in government
might be accomplished by such dis-!
turbances and spoliation ot toreign
trs and foreign property as to pre
sent itself as an added cause for ac
tion. " "
There was considerable agitation
for positive action among senators
and representatives gathering for the
reconvening of congress Monday.
senator Ashurst of Arizona, demo
crat, characterized the State depart
ment's policy so far as running "a
big bluff with a bobtail flush."
The most definite official expres
sion obtainable to define the govern
ment's intentions was that the ne
gotiations would not be prolonged,
and that once a course were decided
upon the government would be pre
pared to carry jt out.
Says Murdered-Man Is
Her Brother-in-Law
Twin Falls, Idaho, Nov. 28.
Fears were expressed here by Mrs.
R. S.-Lewis that W. M. Wallace,
reported killed by Mexicans at
Tampico, is her brother-in-law,
William T. Wallace, a vice-president
and general manager of the
foreign, department of the Gulf Oil
company.
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Arrest Mexicans wun
4,800 Rounds Ammunition
San Antonio, Texas, Nov. 28.
Three Mexicans, supposed to be gun
runners, were arrested in a San An
tonio hotel and 4,800 rounds of
pistol amTnunftion seized in their
room.
A fourth occupant of the room
escaped.- The three men arrested
claimed that they are from Piedras
Negras, opposite Eagle Pass, and
were buying the ammunition for a
hardware merchant of that place.
They have been making weekly
trips here for several months, ac
cording to the hotel man. The am
munition was concealed between
mattresses, in dresser drawers and
throughout the room.
Private Wires Reassert
Fight Against Carranza
San Antonio. Tex.. Nov. 28. Tele
grams asserting that fighting was
going on in Mexico City between
adherents of Generals Obregon and
Gonzales, candidates for the Mexi
can presidency, were received in pri
vate messages from various Mexican
sources.
The messages described what was
declared to be a general revolt
planned throughout Mexico, de
signed to overthrow President Car
ranza and eliminate General Gon
zales as a political opponent to Gen
eral Obregon. v x -v
Preparing an Elaborate '
Campaign Against Villa
Ojinagaj Chihuahua, Mexico, Nov.
28. Plans for a new ' campaign
against jaucisco Villa, the bandit
chieftain, rapidly are taking shape
in a mountainous region of eastern
Chihuahua, Vnown as the "Range o
the uoves. ' .
General Manuel M. Dieguez,- com
mander 1 operations in the. nortl
is reported to be marshalling in thi
region his command of infantry
cavalry and artillery. It is expecd
ed the federals will conduct tM
campaign after the manner of modi
em warfare. j I
The "Range of the Doves" if
about 100 miles southeast' of Ojij
naga, and the eastern part project
into the state of Coahuila. It is re
ported to be the resort of seven
Villa bands under Alvina Aranda
Ricardo, Michael, Porfirio Ornelai
and Cristrto-Bustillos.
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Former Omahan, Shoots .
Himself at Maiden. Mass
Maiden. Miss.. Nov. 28. Gtotxl
A. Wadman, 35 yearrof ge, forer
ly of Omaha and Irvington," Neb
from which cities he came- here
1917, a mechanic employed
Boston, committed suicide shortlv
after eating Thanksgiving dinner ai
his home, 31 JLonwod street Maiden:
He laid down directly after dinnei
and fired a bullet into his left tern
pie. Members of his family- heard
the shot and called Dr. Ralph. Mara
of Melrose, but Wadman lived only
a few minutes. Overwork may have
led to the act. He is survived by
his widow and , two children. , I
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