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THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE; MAY 9, 1920.
Take Subscriptions
To Finance Appeal of
Confessed Murderer
Pontiac, Mich., May 8. Anson
Best, convicted last night of the
murder of Vera Schneider, a tele
phone operator, and sentenced to
life imprisonment at Marquette, will
not be taken to the northern Mich
igan prison immediately. A move
ment to finance an appeal by popu
lar subscription begun immediately
after the verdict was being continued
today.
In his statement before sentence
was pronounced, Best called upon
heaven to witness his innocence, and
a purse was immediately started. It
was said to contain $1,000 this morning-
The prisoner maintained he had
never known Miss Schneider and
that the confession offered by the
prosecution was obtained from him
under duress.
Make It Easy for Shoppers
To Send Message to Mother
The Brandeis stores and the
Ve-'te-r 1 ''-ion Telegraph company
ti vsterdav to make it
!t..-. ',ui downtown shoppers to
send "mother" a Mothers' Day mes
! sage. . , ,
A special telegraph Doom was in
stalled for the day just inside the
Sixteenth and Douglas street
Braiideis entrance, with a line of
poles and wires leading from the en
trance to the booth. .
"She thinks of you every day
remember hef'Sunday," was the sug
gesiton to shoppers displayed over
the top of the booth.
I' if ty messages hart been sent irom
the special station before the store
closed last night. Installing of the
telegraph station marked a new de
parture in Omaha department
stores.
Miss Minnie 1 Thompson of
Charlestown, S. C, makes a business
of training horses for circus showing.
Sonora Rebels Organize
New Department of Mails
Agu.i Priota, Sonora, May 8.--A
department of mails has been or
ganized by the Sonora state gov
ernment, it was announced at mili
tary headquarters today. Cosme
Hinojosa, formerly postmaster gen
eral under Carranza, left Auga
Prieta today for Hermosillo, where
he will take charge of the depart
ment. Mrs. Lena D. Sulzer is manager
of the savings department of a St.
Louis, Jio., irusi coi.ipany.
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