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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 22, 1920)
fHE BEE! OMAHA, THURSDAY. JANUARY 22. 1920- WOULD-BE BANDIT FLEES AS VICTIM SHOWS NO FEAR .-i What Do You Want?"' Shouts -Man When Thug Bursts Into Room Bran dishing Revolver. While W. Tipton, 2536 North Sixty-fourth street, was working at the mechanics' bench in the plant of the Fairmont Creamery company, TweUth and .Jones streets, late Tuesday right an unidentified man burst in thrdugh the front door and covered him with a revolver, with the command, "Throw up your hands." " "What do you want?" shouted back Tipton, and the would-be burg lar turned and fled from the establishment. Tipton immediately called police reported his story and detectives scoured the neighborhood. The man was unmasked, Tipton said.,. ' For the third time in the last six vw-eks burglars broke into the gro cery store jof Leaf & Zabich, 240J Hickory street, at 1 a. m. yesterday and stole $125 worth o'f cigars and tobacco, according to a police re port. They also robbed the cash drawer of 60 pennies. Entrance was gained through the front door. ' Three weeks ago, burglars using au automobile truck, stripped the More of its supply of canned goods and groceries. I A. D. Franks, 2236 South Tenth street, reported to police that a burglar entered his home sometime during the night, and while the fam ily was asleep, went . through his pockets from which he stole three checks amounting to $60. BURGLARS FLEE WITHOUT LOOT WHEN SURPRISED Divorce Courts Owner's Brother Saves $5,000 Worth of Home Furnishings and Silverware. Eric Iverson struck his wife, Es ther, with a pair of gloves and told her tq get out of the house on March 15, 191J, $he alleges in a petition for divorce filed in district court She says he deserted her in 1916. but returned in November, 1917. When their second child was born, he did not visit her at the hos pital where she stayed, she says. She asks for the custody of their two children and alimony. Irfne Johnson was given judg ment for $2,500, payable at the rate, of $25 a month in a decree of di vorce from Carl E. Johnson, granted her by Judge Troup in di vorce court on grounds of extreme cruelty. The money is for the sup port of the child, custody of which was given to Mrs. Johnson. y Custody of the child .and $20 a month for its support were given to Remice Kelly in a divorce decree from Ora Kelly granted by Judge Troup in divorce court on allega tions of extreme cruelty. Elsie Haroer was granted a di vorce from Tig Harper on grounds of desertion, the decree being signed by Judge Troup in divorce court. Martin J. Flanaean has failed to support his wife, Hazel, sheNallegcs in a petition for divorce filed in dis trict court. Lida'Lamb Bailey asked the dis trict court for a separate mainte nance decree from her husband, Baz zie B. Bailey, to whom she was mar ried last year. S,he says he was af flicted with a contagious disease. Peter L. Van Everingden filed suit in district court for a divorce from Maria A. A. Van Everingden, to whom he was married in Rotterdam, Holland, September 25. 1907. He al leges that she deserted him in 1910. After dismissing her petition for divorce filed.in district court a year ago, Cora Keiser reinstated the peti tion against her husband, George Keiser. in district court. She says he hasn't lived up to his promise to treat her kindly. Joseph Brcmken charges his wife, Doris, with extreme cruelty in a pe tition for divorce filed in district court. Burglars rausAcked the home of Charles Kirschbraun, 305 South Thirty-eighth street, early yesterday morning and made their escape at 7:30 from a rear window .when Louis Kirschbraun, 401 South Thirty eighth avenue, surprised them. ' Silverware, house linens, clothes and odd articles of jewelery were e j . . j i f t : louna ilea in peu sneeis jui iuiu the front door as if the thieves were ready to make off with their plunder. The loot they left behind was valued at $5,000, Mr. Kirschbraun said. Family in California. The family of Charles Kirsch braun is :nl California and the house was left in care of his brother. Louis. Evidence of the burglary indi cated that the thieves had ransack ed every room in the house, even stripping several of the downstairs rooms ' of pictures, i The Kirsch braun home is in a fashionable neighborhood. Entrance to the place was gained through a rear window. Cigaret butts scattered about the floor gave evidence that the thieves had been in the house several hours. Saw But Two Men. Some of the linens and silverware were found wrapped in bundles in a laundry basket. A valuable rug in a front room was also found wrapped ready to be taken away. Louis Kirschbraun first disgover ed.the burglary when he entered the front door of the home. He came upon the bundled plunder lying in he front hallway. At the same time, he heard a couimotion in the kitch en -of the house, he told detectives. Running to the rear of the place, he caught sight of the thieves mak ing their escape. He told police he believed that there were only two men in the case. Cities Don't Grow, . . ; They Are Built, Says Commissioner Larson J." David Larson, commissioner of the Chamber of Commerce, out lined what he termed "The , Unoffi cial Administration of a City" at a large meeting of Rotarians at the Hotel Fontenelle yesterday. ..."The unofficial administration of a city is a centralized group or force, made tip of citizens of character, combined in a centralized organiza tion," Mr. Larson said. "This force may be called a chamber of com merce, a board of trade or a com mercial club, it doesn't matter what, as long as its main object is the building up of its city. "Cities do not grow. They are built. Detroit does not depend on its available raw supplies to make it an automobile manufacturing center. It brings necessary ma terial from all parts of the coun try." Youth Held to District" Court On Theft Charge Robert Rule, 17 years old. 308 .North Tenth street, was bound over to district court in Central police court yesterday oh a charge of breaking and entering. He was ar rested Tuesday upon alleged confes sions of tow of his former com rades, William Davis and Harry Miller, who are awaiting trial in dis trict court for breaking into the store of F XV. Thorne. 1812 Farnam . street, the night of January 15. 1 T ! i t:n 3 a. i , uavis ana .Miner are saiu 10 nave implicated Rule in the theft of sev eral fur coats from the store. The mother of the youth appeared iu po lice court with tT son. Mrs. Fred Rosenstock Gets News of Death of Her Father Mrs. Fred Rosenstock has left for Milwaukee, having received news of the death of her father. Charles Mock, of that city. The pumps of a fire boat pur chased bv the Italian government tor use in Naples harbor can throw L245 tons ot water, as hour. Arrest Two of the Three Men Alleged to Have Robbed Pawnshop Two of the three robbers who held up and ' beat Abe Fahr, proprietor of a pawnshop at 1115 Douglas street, Monday night, were arrested yesterday by -Detectives Franks and Graham in a rooming house at 1124 North Sixteenth street,, according to v Chief of Detectives Dunn. At central police station they gave their names as Robert G Martin and Walter F. Bell. Two loaded revolvers taken from Faber's place were found in the room. Both men were in bed when the detectives, arrived. Martin refused to tell police his whereabouts on Monday night, but Bell is said to have confessed to Chief of Detectives Dunn that Mar tin and he were induced by "a stranger to take part in the robbery of Faber's place." The third member of the gang left Omaha with balance of the plunder. Bell said. Faber lost four revolvers and $25 the trio. Returns Stolen Goods and Gets Prison Sentence George Alexander pleaded guilty yesterday afternoon to a charge of larceny from the person and was sentenced by District Judge Redick to the penitentiary for a term of one lo seven years. ' Deputy County Attorney Kubat refused to accept, the plea of guilty until Alexander returned the jew elry which lie was accused of steal ing from Emma Lawson, 931 North Twenty-seventh straet, at 4 the morning of December 27, 1919. Al exander turned over to Mr. Kubat four diamond rings and a platinum brooch, which Mr. Kubat returned to Mrs. Lawson. SORENESS, PAIN, ACHING JOINTS Don't suffer! Relief comes the moment you rub with old "St. Jacobs Liniment" Don't stay sore, stiff and, lame! Limber up. Rub soothing, pene trating "St. Jacobs Liniment" right in your aching muscles, joints and painful nerves. It's the quickest, surest pain relief on earth. It is absolutely harmless and doesn't burn the skin. ' St. Jacobs Liniment" conquers pain. It instantly takes away any ache, soreness and stiffness in the head, neck, shoulders, back, legs, arms, fingers or. any part of the body nothing like it. . You simply pour a little in your hand and rub "where it hurts," and relief coifles instantly. Don't stay crippledl Get a small trial bottle now from any drug store. It never disappoints six gold medal awards. "BALMWORT" PLEASES MANY Hundreds of thousands are afflicted with irregularities of the Kidneys, urinary passage and bladder. Thousands have fonnd true comfort anr! bene fit using Balmwort Kidney A Tablets, sold by all druggists. J Mrs. Frank Monehan. 1519 Penrose St, St. Louis, writes: "I am taking Balmwort Kid ney Tablets and must say they are the finest thing on the market and I feel I could not live if I hadto be without them-'. GIRL SLASHES FATHER WHEN HE BEATS MOTHER Negress,' 13 Years Old, Tells Police of Using Razor During Row In Home. Lucile Ncal, 13 years old, 1212 South Seventeenth street, slashed her father, Robert Neal, about the head, neck and arms with a razor at 10:45 yesterday morning, when he is said to have started to beat the girl's mother with a club. All are negroes. The girl was arrested and booked on a charge of cutting to wound Juvenile officers took charge of her. The father was rushed to St. Joseph hospital in the police patrol. Surgeons say he will recover. ' "He'll never hit mother again," Lucile cried at the central police statioo. "He came home late Tues day night and abused her. He wouldn't let us sleep. This morn ing when he awoke he swore at mother. He hit her with a club when she began to cry. So I rushed upstairs to get his razor. "I saw him standing over mother with a club in his hand. I screamed and rushed at him with the razor. Now do with me what you want, but he'll never hurt mother again." The mother, Mrs. Myrtle Neal, is suffering with bruises about the head and Body from punishment at the hands of her husband, she told po lice. She said her husband began to abuse her Tuesday night when she asked him where he had been so late. When police responded to' an emergency call at the Neal home yesterday morning they found Neal lying in a pool of blood in the kitchen of the, home. His wounds are deep cuts on the neck, on the back of his head and on his arms. My HEART and My HUSBAND Adele Garrison's New Phase of Revelations ' of a Wife The Way Madge Put Harry Under wood on the Defensive. My first emotion at the unexpect ed sight of Harry Underwood alight ing indolently from the machine back of mine was one of unreason ing fright Before my eyes flashed the most awful moment of my life, that when I first realized that the aviator who had crashed to earth with his ma chine and lay apparently lifeless before me was my husband. This man, lounging toward me, his hands in his pockets, in the au dacious manner of the old days when he had been my husband's best friend, had been responsible for that horrible thing. He had been the connecting" link between Grace Dra per, the thought of whose very name turned me ill, and the man whose hands had cut the wires which sent Dicky almost to his death. . That he had repented as soon as he recovered from the influence of the whisky with which he had sat urated himself and had enabled the authorities of the field, to have the first aid ready which had in all prob ability saved Dicky's life, mattered no whit to me." He had almost mur dered My husband; that thought would be ever with me. I knew, however, that both in Dicky's eyes and Lillian's Harry Underwood had redeemed himself by his war service, the most dan gerous he could find, and the fact that he had sacrificed himself for Dicky when their machine had come down behind the German lines. That my husband was enabled to come back to me alive was undoubt edly due to the man before me, who had taken the bullets meant for him and had suffered for many days in a loathsome German prison before his escape. What Madge Said. 1 But, though the remembrance of these things stopped my feet from actually running panic-stricken away from him, my first impulse, made me realize that not only had I nothing to fear from him, but that for the sake of a mere decent grati tude I must be civil to him. I yet hid a shuddering distaste for his so ciety beneath the courteous, sur prised manner I adopted as soon as I could pull myself together. - "Mr. Underwood!" I exclaimed. "How wonderful a surprise." He laughed sardonically, eyeing me with the old lazy, insolent mirth I remembered and detested. "Didn't I use to tell you that you couldn't lie artistically, so you ought never to attempt it?" he drawled. "Well, you haven't gained any fa cility in that direction since I've seen you! You're about as glad to see me as a book agent would be to get the life of Lincoln for a Christ mas present and you're thinking right now that you'd rather sit here by the roadside all night than to have me fix that tire. "Does Lil Know?" He had reflected my thought so graphically the hut color sprang to my cheeks. Mr. Underwood put his head on one side, looked at roe with an air of impersonal criticism that was maddening. "I actually believe you're prettier than ever," he said at last, in a tone indicating that he had been debating the question for some ,time. "You haven't forgotten how to blush, either. How many times I used to make you angnr just to see you color up that way. Don't worry," he grin ned at me quizzically. "You can take that startled-fawn-don't-know-which-way-to-spring-out-of-danger look out of your eyes. I'm not going to try to kiss you, nor even imprint a chaste salute upon the tips of your fingers, although me 'art is aflame, simply burning me up." His tone, rather than his words reassured me, although for a mo ment or two I had been actually afraid of the gleam of reckless ad miration which I could not help see ing in his eyes. But I decided to take the conversation into my own hands. "Weren't you in a boat in the bay for two or three days recently?" I asked, knowing now that the sus picion which I had not dared men tion to Lillian, which I had dismissed as a hallucination, was indeed con firmed. He started, looked at me keenly. "So you knew me when you were gazing soulfully through those field glasses the other day?" he said slowly. "Well, fiat's one on me! But you always were there with the lamps. A very observing little party yon were in the old days. Does Lil-knovv?" I was glad that he had the grace to be ashamed a the look in his eyes, his heightened color, his faltering tones betrayed. For when I thought of my friend sacrificing her happi ness and that of the lonely artist, Robert Savarin, in his mountain re treat, because of her fancied respon sibility for this wastrel before me I could scarcely control my anger. "1 do not know whether she does or not," I said icily. "It is sufficient that I do, and I should like to know also why it is necessary for us to be subjected to an espionage so intoler able." (Continued Tomorow.) Veteran Railroad Man Dies ' Following an Operation Hosea Tracy Catlin, 63 years old. died Tuesday in a hospital follow ing an operation. He had been ill since last Thursday. , Mr., Catlin was employed by the Rock Island railroad and had been a railroad man for 47 years, starting as a telegraph operator in Burling ton, la. He Was a member of the Masonic lodge for 42 years, being a Knight Templar and Shriner and was an active member of the First Methodist church. He is survived by his wife and one son, K. T. Catlin, living at Wichita, Kan., mother, Mrs. Mary E. Catlin of Fairfield, la, and sister, Miss Jennie Catlin. .runeral services will be held from the home, 4307 Leavenworth street, this afternqon at 2. Burial will be at Burlington. DON'T CHANGE YOUR HUSBAND If tou can't get along with one hat band you can't get alonar with two, but it's different with cleaners. Take the Carey Cleaning Co., for instance; They do work to satisfy all, nd their "fair price list" will meet with your approval. What the duece is this pperlyeacf Some new kind of near-beer? Nope. See papers tomorrow. NEW YORK SIOUX CITY LINCOLN OMAHA CONANT HOTEL BUILDING, SIXTEENTH ST. Phenomenal Reductions in Winter Goats We are offering Our Entire Stock of Cloth and Plush Coats Plain and Fur Trimmed at Savings of 33ls to 50 Goats $19.50 $35.00 Velours, Kerseys, Meltons and Mixtures in Fur-collared and Plain Tailored Models of great style beauty. . $14 .95 Coats $35.00 to $49.50 Silvertones, Duotones. Ve lours and Mixtures. - Many are Fur-trimmed and come in very distinctive styles. $22 Coats $49.50 to $69.50 Tinseltones, Velours, Mix tures, and Plushes. Fur trimmed and Plain Tailored models in most luxurious fashions. $32 Coats $69,50 to $89.50 B o 1 i v i a s, Silvertones, Evoras and Plushes. Models of great beauty that are Fur trimmed and lined throughout. 42 .95 $22? ' EVERYWOMAN who needs a coat should take advantage of this remdrkable savings opportunity. A coat for every taste and desire. ' ' COAT SECTION SECOND FLOOR Schmoller & Mueller's 47th ANNUAL January (Clearance S ' I 'j You Simply CANT LOSE By Buying Now! IF you shut your eyes, reached out and bought the first piano you touched, you couldn't lose for every instrument in our 47th Annual January Clear ance Sale is a splendid value. At the end of one month or even 12 months we will take back any instrument in exchange and allow all you have paid on it. Could ANY guarantee of good faith be strong er than that? A Few of the Piano Specials Awaiting the Quick Buyers LIBERTY BONDS -ACCEPTED AT"FOLL FACE VALUE LYOK & HEALY Old style Ebony case, but will make a good piano fox children to practice on.... fJIflPshjlll Another of the . old style ma I Oliail .yprjght pjan0s; but with sev- & Wendell years ' use sti11 'eft Vheelock Upright SMITH & BARNES DECKER BROS. VOSE & sons PRICE & TEEPLE KIIABE UPRIGHT LY0II& HEALY STEGER UPRIGHT $95 $149 $155 Dark case, good tone and action. A fine piano in every respect A large size, dull finish gold en oak case. Has a splendid tone and action You are already familiar S A P" with this famous make, so IJl 1 fa nothing need be said. This -Ti I one is a dandy Ill I 1 1 Walnut case. The present ifk gj value of a new piano like U" M III this is $600. A great bar- -TV 1 1 gain at IJJ I U Beautiful golden oak. . This piano can't be told from new and your saving is over ?100 Rosewood case. Wonderful T I" tone and action. Could not U" I U be duplicated in a new one Jli B for less than $750 V3 Lm i J An artistic instrument in fS A satin finish walnut. Can't U1 J I k be told from new. A splen- Jfi 1 I did value ,...r 11! U I U Large size mahogany case. iJi B M II Used so little that it is just Jli X 1 1 as good as a new one V m $268 Player Pianos Also Going at Big ( Clearance Sale Discounts Many Players and Baby Grands are also included among the scores of bargains but it is utterly im possible to list everything in one advertisement. So if you are interested in a Player or a Grand, we urge you to come and see the ones we have on sale at huge discounts. Our Clearance Sale Payments Makes Buying Especially Easy Terms have been made so liberal that ANYBODY can afford to buy one of these Pianos, Players or Grands. Just a small down payment (as little as $10 on some pianos) and then you may have from two to three years m which to pay 'the balance. SGH0LLER & MUELLER Farnam Si PIANO GO. Farnam St. i . 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