THE BEE: OMAHA. THURSDAY, MAKCH 10. IHSI.
Man Near Death
? From Mysterious
Shooting in Bluffs
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Shot hy Highwaymen Who
Came to Door Is Story Sou-In-Law
Says He Told He
fore UneonseioiiMiewi.
Sam Christiansen, ''-7 Avenue 1,
Council BIutK was mysteriously
siliot nrar tin- heart Tuesday night
in his home ami now lies near death
in the Mercy hospital.
Iilutfs poliee ami county attorney
yesterday jrobed the circumstances
yurroundinp the shooting in an ef
fort to determine the identity of the
assailants.
I hristiansun is liowied and lias
hern keening bachelor quarters at
927 Avenue lavitli a youth, W'illard
Lavenharg.
Christiansen was at home alone
Tuesday night. Shortly alter 11 he
called his son-in-law, George A.
Wright, 214 Fleming avenue, by tele
phone and told him:
"I'm shot. Come quick I"
Find Man on Floor.
Wright and (irover Home, 1506
South Seventh street, hastened to the
Christianson home, where they found
the man lying semi-conscious on the
floor with a wound in his chest.
lie was alone in t lie house and the
door was locked. On the table lay
a Colt automatic revolver with all
chambers filled.
Roused bv the appearance, ( t
'Wright and Home, the wounded man
struggled to regain consciousness
and told his son-in-law this story,
according to the police:
"I was alone in the house and sud
denly heard a knock at the door.
Seizes Revolver.
"When I opened the door I was
met ,by two masked men, one of
them covering me with a revolver.
, "I had $90 in my pockets, and as
one of the men told me to put up my
hands, I seized his revolver.
,;."Ile pulled the trigger. Hie bullet
hit me. They turned and ran and I
slammed the door and bolted it."
Christianson then gasped and fell
back into semi-consciousness, his
rirm-iu-law told the police, who ar
rived at this juncture and bore the
wounded nun to Mercv hospital.
Say He Will Die.
,' Christianson told the plocc he
suspected James Jensen, foreman of
the coach cleaners in the North
western railroad yards, as one of,
the masked men, and lensen was
arrested but later released in $1,000
bail.
Christianson still had bis $90 in
bis pockets when the son-in-law ar
rived. Young Lavenburg, who lives with
the wounded man, denied all knowl
edge of the shooting hut told the
officers Christianson had purchased
the revolver they found on the table
but a few days ago.
Attendants at Merry hospital say
the wounded man will die.
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Danec Permit for Marigold
The Marigold cabaret on Harney
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Joseph Miller and I. Bernstein to
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Rock Bottom Prices. I
All this month the Union Out
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greatest furniture sales from the
standpoint of Quality and Value
Giving that has occurred in
Omaha since before the war.
Prices reaching new LOW levels.
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Welfare has allotted the dance hall
permit for this year.
The new manager is well known
as an aviator. lie was aerial chic!
i't p.diee in Denver, holding the first
position of this kind in this country,
lie .-!so served as an aviator in t!u
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League Girls
Alienist Called
In Lawson Trial
Dr.
Young Declares Defendant
Iot Insane When He
Shot Wife.
trial when the persistent red hair
began to show, growing out during
' Lis weeks in jail.
liurnell had an ambition and that
j caused him to dye his hair, F.ulali
, Wortsmith, sister of his dead wii'e,
; testified at the trial. And that was
j to look like Wallace Reid, pretty
! movie actor.
; , But dyeing his hair didn't make the
resemblance complete, as Burnell's
nose is hopelessly of the "snub" va-
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Act As Model
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Style Show Most Successful in!
Omaha Merchants' Week '
Annals.
The style show put on by the
M. V.. Smith company yesterday,
with Junior League girls as fash
ion models, will go down in Mer
chants' Market Week annals as the
most successful event of its kind
ever held in Omaha.
More than 1,500 visiting retailers
l acked the large roof garden au
ditorium to witness the modeling of
lutest spring fashions in women's
apparel and the newest in gingham j
frocks. I
A storm of approval greeted the
kitchen tableau, showing Mrs. Ray
Low, Mrs. Ivalph Peters and Mrs.
Marion To,wIe, attired in the Mina
Taylor dresses, in the act of boiling
water without burning.
Equally popular was the sickroom
scene with a bevy of attractive
nurses, including Mrs. Allen Tukev,
who performed that mission in
France; Mrs. John Caldwell, Mrs.
Harton Millard and Miss Rcgina
Council, tenderly ministering to a
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Mrs. Jack Summers. Claire Daugh
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excel professional models, the au
dience voted. Three house em
ployes, Mrs. Charles L. Martin, Mrs.
Harry R.' Jones and Mrs. Frances
Jacobs, modeling "stylish stout"
dresses, made a decided hit with the
vast audience.
Character songs and dances by
Charlotte Brant, the Apollo quartet
and orchestra music completed the
revue.
Money earned by the Junior
League girls will he used for the
children's ward at the University
hospital.
May Recover Piano Player
By Paying Storage Charge
Margaret Johnson, 712 North
Twentieth street, must pay Sadie
Rtirke. 12-48 South Sixteenth street,
?I0 for takin.v care of her piano
player given her by her husband as
a birthday present prior to the filing
of a divorce suit against him. accord
ing to an opinion given 'by Municipal
Judge Holmes yesterday. Sadie
took the piano a' the suggestion of
her sister, a friend of Mrs. Johnson,
to safeguard it from threatened seiz
ure by Johnson, recording to testi
mony adduced during the trial Tues
day. But wiieii Margaret sent for
it last week Sadie refused to part
with it. asking $3 a month storage
for a period of 11 months. Then
Margaret instituted a replevin action.
Four Women Driven Out
Of House by Morning Blaze
Smoke from flames of undeter
mined origin in the furnace room
in the basement of the home of Mrs.
E. W. Nash. 3806 Burt street, at 7
yesterday morning, routed Mrs.
Nash and three women guests, MrsJ
Ella McGee of New ,York. Miss
Catherine Cartan. her granddaugh
ter, and Miss N. L. Trounx, a niece.
from their beds onto the front porch
in scanty attire. The fire was ex
tinguished after $200 damage had
been done. The four women sought
refuge at the home of Mrs. Nash's
son, Louis iash ot trie isurgess
Nash company, across the street,
3807 Burt street.
sWhen. alter asking a lO.tHHI word
hypothetical tpiestion of County
Alieui.-t Alexander Young yesterday
afternoon, Eugene O'Sullivan, at
torney for Burnell Lawson, began
going into a extended scientific
questioning of the doctor on all the
kinds of insanity, District Judge
Troup protested.
"Get some real facts to this jury
and don't attempt to review all the
material of science and medicine,"
he told the attorney.
Adjournment had to be taken
finally in the midst k" the question
ing of the alicnisi, although it had
been expected to finish testimoy
yesterday in the trial of Lawson for
the murder of his wife.
The first hypothetical question was
asked t yesterday afternoon by
County Attorney Shotwell. It con
tained about 14.000 words and Dr.
Young answered it by declaring
Lawson, in his opinion, was not in
sane when he shot his wife.
Few of the eager, inquisitive and
curious spectators at the Burnell
Lawson murder trial knew that the
youthful wife-slayer's coal-bjack hair
was once a fiery red, until late in tlx.
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Starts Monday at 2:00 P. M.
The biggest crowds in
Omaha's automotive
history are expected
Hundreds of motor cars valued at hundreds
of thousands of dollars will be exhibited
There will be musical programs
every afternoon and evening.
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tend early. Thousands are com
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