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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (June 22, 1921)
Slayer Asserts His Victim Tried To Defraud Him 3Ian Brought Here for Safe keeping After Shooting Em ployer at Pender Frank ly Tells Story. A wholesome-looking, tanned, honest-eyed farmer with big calloused hands is William Mattox. 36, who is in the county jail for killing John G. Schnier, his employer, on a farm near Pender, Neb., Monday. Mattox is just such a typical "hired man"" as you may find on, any Ne braska farm. He was brought hen. for safe keeping Monday night by Sheriff Rutledge and three other Pender officers. r Quite different from the usual type is Mattox. He is frank and open and talks about the affair much as though he were discussing the condition of the corn or the prospe t of higher prices for hogs. Talk About It , "This is what a man gets for try ing to be a good fellow," drawled Mattox. "My employer made an agreement with me but he was not a man to fulfill that agreement and even threatened to cheat me out of all I had earned by hard work. "Just the night before this hap pened he threatened to get an at torney and beat me out of pay I had coming. The morning before I shot him I had said to his wife she's as fine a woman as ever lived I said to her, 'Now, when Johnnie comes in, you use your influence to get him to pay me off. "An Easy-Going Fellow." "I am naturally a quiet, easy-going fellow. I work hard and earn every fc dollar. The only trouble is I'm too easy. I let the pay run on and on. But when Schnier taunted me and said he would beat me out of all, it was a little more than I could bear. "I hope the good, honest citizens of Nebraska will look at the cause of the deed I committed as well as the deed itself. And, if men will act to ward fellow-men as they would have them act in turn, we will all live closer to each other and be better men and women." Mattox's father and mother and several brothers and sisters live in -Roscoe, Mo. He has five brothers and five sisters.. He had worked in the vicinity v of Pender for three years. "Seemed to Go Wild "I hate this worse on account of my mother than on any other ac count,"" he said. "I can't bear to think of the worry it may give her. "I am sorry. I committed this crime, but I just seemed to go wild for a moment This man I killed was about as mean a man as ever lived. "There is another farmer right near there who owes me $850 for labor. But he is a different kind of man, a fine citizen and I wouldn't harm a hair of his head. He is just flard up and told me so. He will pay me when he gets the money.'' Mattox declared he was not cap tured by a posse, but gave himself up. r On Way to Surrender. "After I shot Schnier back of the barn I came out in front and a hired man asked me what I had done,'-' he related. "I said, 'I just shot a dirty Dutch cur.' .Then I went up to the house where Mrs. Schnier and her aunt and niece were. Then I ordered Mrs. Schnier's uncle to drive me to West Point He was so scared he did it. "I had the gun with me then, but I left it at the house of a neighbor and was on my way to West Point, unarmed, to give myself up when the men caught up with me and I went with them willingly." ' Congregational Young People Meet at Crete Crete, Neb., June 21. (Specials Delegates from 25 churches attended the Congregational Young People's assembly here this month. There were 125 registered delegates and a large number of visitors. Weeping Water had 17 delegates present and Exeter was second with 15. The Norfolk dtlegation of 11 traveled an aggregate distance of 3,366 miles. The assembly was under the leader ship of Rev. C G. Murphy of Lin coin. Lineman Is Injured York, Neb., June 21. Nate Lind strom, lineman for the Nebraska Telephone company, sustained two broken ankles and it is feared inter nal injuries, here this afternoon when a pole on which he was working crashed to the ground. Postoffice Examination Washington, - June 21. (Special Telegram.) An examination will be held July 24 for presidential post master at Aberdeen, salary, $3,800, and Sioux Falls, S. D., salary, $3,900. READ- The Itinerant Lover By May Edginton Charles Faraday was al ways distinctly a man of affairs. But hit affairs were of the heart rather than of the head, and his mother prophesied, that some day' he would find himself seriously involved. Blue Ribbon Rcttotv :er Says Victim Was "Meanest Man" ft c Us i I 1 ; " " I i " ' i - , -Si :!': -5 " ' Writer Gets Ideds Hot From Life Author of "The Married Life of Helen and Warren". Hard Worker. , Plodding is responsible for the suc cess of the stories of "The Mar ried Life of Helen and Warren," their author, Mabel Herbert Urner, admits; telling how she re-writes each story six or seven times in a la borious eliminating and condensing process. Her stories appear exclusively in The Bee in Omaha. By her tech nique cf cljse Writing she is able to embody in each of these 1,500-word stories all the atmosphere, plot and action in a magazine short story of twice the l"ngth. Her style is vivid, delicate, acy and always crammed with color. Constant association with a note hook and pencil gets all the ideas for her stories of the intimate life of "America's best known couple." Every time she sees an incident, or a" friend teUs a romantic or dramatic happening, she jots down the essen tials and in a short time Helen and Warren act it out for their readers. In private life Mabel Herbert. Ur ner is Mrs. Lathrop Colgate Harper. Her husband is a bibliographer of note, a dealer and collector of rare books and has a wide literary knowl edge. Thev were married in 1912, according to "Who's Who." ? Their home overlooks urarnercy pars, in New York. Omaha Officials Will -Address Norfolk Meeting ' Lincoln, Neb., June' 21. (Special Telegram.) Gus Hyers, state sher iff, left for Norfolk tonight to pre pare for a school of instruction in the finper-print system to : be held there Thursday. Gov. S. R. Mc Kelvie, Mayor James C. Dahlman, Chief of Police Henry Dunn and Sheriff Mike Clark of Omaha are scheduled to speak to sheriffs and peace officers of northeastern Ne braska who will be present at the meeting. County Office? Charges Himself With 'Assault Aurora, Neb., June 21. (Special.) County Commissioner ( Edward Hahn's conscience cost him $5 and costs. In a controversy near a bridge north of town with Gus John son, road overseer, he is alleged by his own accusation of slapping John son. When he reached town, he had his own warrant filled out, and causea mmscit to oe arrestea. I I I xm ins crewus 1 Tail tham to . 1 light a SPUR X Cigarette and ( njoylta J Crimped, (popasfc) Ancestral Home Of Wellingtons Is Rededicated Marquis of Camlbridge, Broth er of Queen MaryvIs Prin-, cipal Speaker at-Elab-, orate Ceremonial , -. V V r' Sulgrave, N&rthamptonshire, June 21. Sulgrave Manor, ancestral home n( the Washinctons. was rededicated here today with elaborate ceremonies after its restoration, at a cost of 50,000 pounds, to the state in which it existed three centuries ago. - , The marquis of Cambridge, broth er of Queen Mary, gave the princi pal address, asserting the funda mental solidarity oi the peoples of the empire and the republic and de claring the day's advent a good au gury for the future. The prince of Wales planned to be present, but was detained. He ex tended an invitation, however, to a delegation to call on him tomorrow at St. James palace, London, to give him an opportunity to express his personal interest in the enterprise. Today's exercises were arranged by the Sulgrave institution, organ ized to foster friendship between Great Britain and the United States The exercises began with short services in the Sulgsave parish chflrch, where L. L. Washington forebear of George Washington. Mrs. Washington and their 11 chil dren worshipped. The ceremonies proper were held on tf, lawn of the manor house. ' John A. Stewart, president of the American branch of the Sulgrave in stitution, presented a bronze bust of Washington to the manor on behalf of American donors. Letters from Ca'.vin Coolidge, vice president of ttit United States: United States Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor; Charles W. What a d Mctrola Tungs-tone Stylus - the perfect point for playingVictor Records Victor THE BEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 1921. Eliot, president emeritus of Harvard university, and other Americans were read. Hearing Begun to Test Sanity of Wife Slayer Chicago, June 21. Given a new lease on life hy the Illinois supreme court, Carl Wanderer, slayer of three, appeared in court today when a hear ing was begun on a petition for a further' investigation into sanity. It is , claimed that Wanderer has lost weight since his conviction, that his , mi ! hoafthfiil .'.and -.that he i imagines he hears his murdered wife's voice at midnight, these are tne sole grounds for the insanity plea. His attorneys attempted to have the hearing put over to October be cause one of the alienists is now on his vacation. Judge David announced that the trial was confined to the question as to whether or not Wan derer has become insane since his conviction. Says Shipment of Cows To Germany Was Mistake Sioux Falls, S. D., June 21. (Spe cial.) The recent large shipment of cows'-to Germany 'was a mistake, according to Henry Wottrock, a Mc ! Cook county man, who accompanied the shipment overseas. He has re-"--( to his home with a story of the trip. vi v Wre' plenty .of cows in Ger many, Wottrock says, and it is pos sible to buy a good animal there for $65. What is needed in Germany. &ccor'r" to his observation, is feed to sustain the cows they have already He savs rich people in Germany became wealthier during the war, while people of moderate means were impoverished. Harding Makes Selection For New York Postmaster Washington, June' 21. Announce ment was made today at the Post nffire department that Edward Mor- I rsn would he nom'nated hv Presi- : dent Harding as postmaster at New 1 York City. . ' ' . gb- Extra loud tone Full tone Soft tone of tungsten makes ! The use of tungsten as a reproducing point was a real discovery and an actual invention. Its soft fibrous qualities were what had been sought for years. This truly remarkable metal always insures a perfect reproduction of the music and at the same time gives long life to the records The tungsten wears itself away rather than the records. 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"The American Federation of La bor is fully justified in taking a firm stand to do away with the 'gentle man's agreement' and in its place in augurate a definite policy calling for total exclusion of Japanese with all other Orientals." Abolition of gambling in grain futures on the Chicago board of trade, establishment of co-operative produces' and consumers' organiza tions and government regulation of corporations and monopolies were urged as a means to combat the high cost of living. The work tf the federal trade com mittee was commended and congress was urged to provide funds for in vestigation of all industries and pub lication of statistics showing the cost of production and marketing of all staple commodities. "If the people are in full possession of all the facts," the declaration said, "of costs of distribution and the profits made on the necessaries of life, public opin'on would . have a powerful effect in reducing prices, and there would be no necessity of prosecution under the Sherman anti trust law." Too Many Overturns. In urging the abolition of "gam bling in futures" and "unnecessary recon signments and brokerage opera tions" the resolution said there "are too many overturns between the pro ducers and consumer, which ulti mately increase the cost of living." The convention went on record against legislation fixing the wages of the workers, declaring that "if American standards are to be gov erned by laws enacted by a congress made of men not alive to maintain inference that tiny ing those standards the workers of the country will suffer irreparable in jury by legislation governing 'their wages." An educational campaign to give the teachers and students of the country the "truth about the labor movement" and "meet the propa ganda in the schools of the country in furtherance of the so-called, "open shop" was authorized by the dele gates, t Campaigners Are Busy. Campaigners for both John L. Lewis and Samuel Gompers, candi dates for'the presidency, were work ing at top speed today when the ses sions of the annual convention of the American Federation of Labor were resumed. Supporters of the candidates were busy throughout the night and con ferences were held that are reported to have considerably changed the lineup of both sides in the contest. Both candidates expressed them selves as confident of victory, de claring that they had been pledged sufficient votes to win. Their claims, however, conflicted, and no accurate estimate could be made of the votes that each would probably receive. The official announcement of the decision of the representatives of the railroad workers was awaited with interest as both the Gompers and Lewis supporters chimed a majority of these organizations!1 The elec trical workers and the International. Ladies' Garment Workers were also claimed by both cand:dates. Election Friday Afternoon. The Lewis supporters today added the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers- Mine. Mill md Smelter Workers, and Rail way Carmen and nearly ISO single votes of state and central bodies to their list, which already includes the machinists' union, mine workers' and carpenters' and joiners' union the three largest in the federation, with a combined voting strength of 10,514. The election, labor leaders said, would be made a special order of business for next Friday afternoon. The wife of the lord mayor of London can appoint maids of honor and a train bearer, and she has her own private state carriage. ftEaU&MEOrK This trademark: and the tndenurked woTd"Victrola" Identify ill our products, look under the lidl Look on the label I VICTOR TALKING MACHINE CO. Camden, N. J. . Protests Attempt to . Locate Reformatory In Lancaster County Lincoln, June 21. (Special.V Information circulated through the state house that Lincoln will be se lected as the location of the new $300,000 reformatory, or freshman prison, has resulted in an open letter of protest to the state board of con trol from W. L. Gaston, assistant secretary of state. Gaston lives at Broken Bow, which is an applicant for the new reformatory. "If the institution is located In Lincoln, it will assume the name nnd ot-. er in a creneral w.iv the . nuu .ui.v v.. ... o - character of the 9tate penitentiary,' UADlVli " IV... ' " J to keep it separate from the pen itentiary, it will naturally be asso ciated with the penitentiary and first offenders, inadvertent youths, wjio are in the taf'nish of their first sin. will be sent to the Lancaster refor matory, associated in the. minds of people with the Lancaster peniten tiary, and so closely allied to that institution that the youthful of fenders will be indelibly branded by it." i Celebrate Golden Wedding With Reception for Friends Mr. and 'Mrs. Martin Tidke cele brated their golden wedding anniver sary at their country home, one half mile west of Fairacres, yester day. A reception was held for frends in the afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Tidke have lived in Omaha about 40 years. Mr. Tidke retired from the banking business several years ago. Straws That Point the Way to Summer Coolness CJ Clothes have so miich to do with comfort these hot days that one should select them carefully. Here at Thompson-Rel-den's, we try always to show you the pleasant things that are attractive and cool, both to look at and to wear. tj And shopping here is not the least bit tiresome. 81 1.. -.W i mm ' gTTTJTOJ. J. The Joy of Getting Ahead Thrift Is merely the common sense-view of life; getting ahead by the proper route does not mean denying oneself wholesome pleasures It means proper care of Income. " , Thrift means earning and saving: the use of wise economy; sacrificing a little now aa a means of having more later. This bank offers an interested , service to savings depositors. The Omaha National Bank Farnam at Seventeenth, Capital and Surplus, 12,000,000 Nebraska Eagles Hold Convention,. Elect New State Officer at PJattsraouth session At Grand Island in 1922. Plattsmouth. Neb.. June 21. (Spe cial.) The sixteenth state convention of Nebraska Eagles closed here this afternoon, after selecting Grand Is land as the meeting place next year. Sixty delegates, representing as many Nebraska aeries, attended. Yesterday morning the delegates were taken on an automobile tour of the town. T,he business sessions were taken up with reports of com miftie and officers and with elec tions. The principal address of the J convention was given by Abraham B. Duncan of St. Joseph, past grand national president. Resolutions en dorsing government old-ape pensions V and sympathizing with the -Irish were paed. . ". . i- Election resulted as follows- Presi- ..." dent, William M, Barclay of Platts- ', mouth; vice president, L. L. Moshe ler of South Omaha; secretary, Fred G Mower of South Omaha; chaplain, . E. E. Abbott of. Beatrice, re-elected; treasurer, C. H. Christiansen of Fre- , mont. re-elected; inner guard, W. H. Mason of Plattsmouth; outer guard ,. J. E. Dunn of South Omaha con ductor, Frank Kounovsky of Fre- mont. Trustees elected were F. H. . Isberg of Hastings, Charles H. Winkler of Falls City and F. M. 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