THE 1EE: OMAHA. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29. 1921.
Youth Gets Cell
Instead of Bride;
Loses Legacy, Too
Dewey Russell, 22, Lands in
Jail on Check Charge
After Want-Ad
Courtship.
f Alliance, Neb,, Dec. 28. (Spe
cial.) A cell lnteJ of th bride
the city ja! intcaJ of the bride
groom's cat it a ChrUt'nas wedding
feast, a romnntic courtship having
its inception through a matrimonial
advcrtiiieiveiit and a shattered end
ing on the rocks of alleged crminal
iiy. the loi of a legacy of $10,0(j0
left him by a rich uncle and care
fully laid wedding plans gone awry
tlene are a few of the "high fpots"
in th recent history of Dewey Km
nl. 22 years old. until recently an
cific raildoad at Green Kivcr, Wyo.
Like a tale of ro iiantic fiction
runs the story of this would-be ben
edict up until the time of hi arrest
here on Christ . as eve, but decided
ly in the nature of stern reality is
the future he is now facing as lie
sits on a cell cot behind steel bars
and gazes wistfully out of a window
in the direction of a little farm house
a short distance from town, where
lives the girl he intended to marry
and which, according to Dewey, was
to Have bren the scene of a Christ
inas wedding.
Dewey spins the tale:
Legacy From Uncle.
' "Last August my uncle died in
Oklahoma, leaving a large aaiount
of money and property. After leav
ing $10,000 each to my three broth
eis and three sisters he drew his will
sc that I could g'.-t my share only
on condition that 1 get married and
'settle down not later than Decem
ber 24, 1921. He didn't like it be
cause I traveled around quite a bit
and wanted me to get a good job
and get married.
"I. didn't have any 'steady' girl,
so I inserted an ad for a wife in a
Denver newspaper, without, of
course, saying anything about my
legacy. I got fourteen replies.
Three or four girls wanted to get
married right away and 'no questions
asked.' Several others were moe
cautious and demanded more partic
ulars about myself. Among these
was Nellie Price. 16 years old, who
lives with her parents on their farm
just outside of Alliance. I liked
the letters she wrote they were
dandies real love letters. We ex
changed photographs and everything
went along lovely. A short tune
ago I sent her a diamond engage
ment ring and we arranged for my
first visit to her home on December
22. When I got to Sidney, Neb.. I
called her up on the telephone and
told her how I was dressed so that
she could identify me when I got
here. She met me at the station and
we drove out to her home in her
t-M- Af... - 1!ttl
lathers automoDiic. nci a
visit, we decided to let matters rest
for a few hours and I came m town
to a hotel, agreeing to meet her and
her father downtown the following
day. When I went to keep the ap
pointment at a bank her father was
there but Nellie didn't show up. i
thought it looked funny, and her
father acted rather distantly. I was
getting short of cash, so I asked the
bank to cash a $35 check. The cash
ier said he would cash it if Mr.
Price would endorse it, but Mr. Price
refused Then he handed me the
diamond engagement ring I had giv
en his daughter and told me I had
better call her up. I called her over
the phone and she said she had de
cided to break the engagement, bhe
didn't give any reason she just said
she didn't want to get married now
and that she guessed she had made
a mistake.
Cashed Several Checks.
"That evening," Dewey continued,
I thought I would try again to raise
some money. I didn't have any
money in the bank here, but I had
some at Green River, so I thought
I could just as well pass some checks
on the bank here and get back to
Green River in time to forward the
money here before the banks opened
Tuesday, Monday being a holiday.
1 didn't like the idea of carrying that
ring around in my pocket after Nellie
had broken the engagement, so 1
took it to a jeweler and had him put
the stone in a new mounting, l
wanted to get the 'jinx off of that
ring as quickly as possible, for, you
see" Dewey smiled broadly at his
interviewers. "I have' another girl
or two 'on the string" and I might
want to use that stone again some
time. The mounting cost $15 and I
gave the jeweler a check on an Alli
ance bank for $25, receiving $10 in
cash. I figured that wouldnt run
me very long, so later I went back
and bought a fountain pen and a
silver pencil and cashed a $10 check,
getting $2.25 in change. I needed
more, so I went to a clothing store
pnd bought a lady's coat for $25 and
tendered a $35 check, but they re
fused to cash it without investigat
ing. While the proprietor was hesi
tating, the officers nabbed me, and
here I am."
Dresses Nattily.
Dewey is of gool appearance and
nattily dressed in a ilue serge suit
the one he intended to be married in
he says. He is tull six feet tall,
swarthy of skin, has straight, coal
clack hair .and pro ninent features
indicatirg a strain of Indian blood;
smiling, blue-grey eyes and pearly
teeth. He is of slender, athletic
build and walks with a slight limp,
the result, he says, of a railroaj
wreck about three years ago, n
which his hip was injured while
working as a fireman for the Union
Pacific out of kawlius, Wyo. Be
cause of his injury, he said, he was
given the job of engine dispatcher
and transferred to Green River. He
is, apparently, well educated.
The uncle who left him the legacy
paid for part of his college education,
he savs. He says the property whjen
would have been his had he com
plied with his uncle's will consists
principally of an interest in a motion
picture theater at Tulsa, Okl He
savs he intended taking hn bride to
Tulsa, where he planned to assume
rranageinent of the picture theater.
Dewey says his father was a white
rran and his irother a half-breed
Cherokee Indian.
"Gee, I hope this deal doesn't
"queer" things with my little girl up
at Green River." said Dewey, as he
looked languidly oat through the jail
bars. "Sht'i a mighty sweet kid.
and I'd hate to lose her. In fact, I
could hardly make up my mind be
tween her and Nellie, but now that
Nellie's turned m down and I've
got into this mess, It's me for Green
Kiver if I get out oi this trouble all
rikht"
Dewey said hii Green River sweet
heart is chief operator at the tele
phone office there.
He told of a third husband seeker
who answered his ad in the paper,
"She and her mother came to Green
River to see me. but when I saw
them smoking c'gnrcts in a hotel,
that queered them for me." Dewey
declared he has never used tobacco
and never drank liquor.
Local authorities said they woulj
file charges of uttering worthless
checks aRaiint Dewey. Meanwhile
he is held for further investigation of
his recent activities.
Nellie Price, the girl Dewey says
he was to marry, is a sophomore it'
the Allance High school. She ii
exceptionally pretty and , popula
among the students.
Dewey feels the loss of his $10,000
legacy keenly and says he may try
to break his uncle'i will in court.
Bodies of 13 Soldiers
Arrive Here Friday
The caskets of 13 soldiers who died
m France arrive Friday morning at
8:09 over the Milwaukee. J. M.
Buck, who meets all these trair.s. calls
attention of those who wish to honor
the soldier dead to the change in
train time. This train arrives sev
eral hours earlier than former ones.
The bodies coming are those of
Clyde Kidder, Glenwood, la.;
Vernon S. Brown. Atwood,
Kan.; Arthur Peach, Bedford. Ia.;
Arthur Burger, Aiusworth, Neb.;
Marshall Salmon, Arthur, la ; Le'gh
Colburn, Norfolk, Neb.; Fred E.
Boston, Sioux City, la.; Frank E.
Nachtman of Pishclville, to be sent
to Verdcl. Neb.; Frank Pallas of
Thurston, to be sent to YVa'ioo, and
Lewis Proknp of Casper, Wyo., to
be sent to Maxwell, Neb.; Nile H.
Peterson of Fremont; John Richard
son of Hordville, and Mcrritt B.
Miller of Pawnee City.
Iowa Celebrates
75th Anniversary
Of Its Statehood
Ta Admitted as State in
1816 by President Polk;
Firt ' Sighted By
Marquette.
Fire Threatens Oldest
Nebraska Uni Building
Lincoln, Dec. 28. Fire, believed
to have started from a defective
switchboard, threatened University
hall, the oldest building on the Ne
braska university campus at 7:30 this
morning.
Passersby who saw smoke pouring
out of the windows turned in the fire
alarm.
Dog Hill Paragrafs
By George Bingham
Our postmaster has a hard time,
even if he don't have to work hard
not draw much pay. During his
slumbers last r-idn.fi! while all
Vfie Vbctime 96mter
honest people were in bed, some
body knocked on the door of his
home and wanted him to get up and
go and open the store and sell him
a postage stamp.
' Poke Easley reads in the almanac
where; if a peason dreams of nm
brellas in wet 'weather it is a sure
sign of rain.
Cricket Hicks got a letter the
other day addressed to himself and
wife. He says somebody had made
a horrible mistake as there is no
such animal.
Common Sense
By J. J. MUNDY.
Be Yourself.
You hold aloof from those who
belong to your own social plane or
who are financially in as moderate
circumstances because you think they
are' not quite good enough for you,
and as you cannot be a part of the
society you desire you make very
few acquaintances or friends.
You are disappo nted and discour
aged at times that this is so.
You loner for friends, you want
, the society of those with whom you
would feel free and with whom you
could enjoy life.
Those whom it is your lot to meet
evidently do not crave your society,
and perhaps if you were admitted to
their soc ety you would be more un
happy. "
Their incomes may be such that
what tbey do is not extravagant for
them.
With your income it would worry
;-ou to pay the bills they carelessly
incur.
You have enough trouble now to
meet your obligations.
Would it not be better for you to
live and associate with decent, hon
est, clean, think'ng people, even
though they are not fashionable in
he world's eyes, rather than to live
the life of a recluse and become
selfish and nnsvnpathetic and cynical
because you do not mingle enough
to loosen your heartstr ngs.
(CopTTls-ht, 111. International ratar
Service.)
Parents' Problems
What can be done to break a child
of 5 of running away?
This rather serious matter, for
some harm may come to the child.
Tell him this. Then, 'f the habit
I persists, use discipline. Confinement)
in is own room for an afternoon j
J will help: if necessary, keen hi-u on ;
' te porch for several afternoon to J
I deepen the lesson.
Dy Th Auwletrd rreaa.
Des Moines, la.. Dec. 28. Today
is Iowa'a birthday.
The state is 75 years old, and do
ing as well as can be expected.
It was on December 28. 1846, that
President James K. Polk signed the
bill passed bv congtess which gave
Iowa statehood and nlaccd another
star in the "Stars and Stripes" to?
represent , the Hawkeye common
wealth. At that time Iowa was a wilder
ness, full of fighting Indians and
wild animals.
Of course, it was nearly 250 vcars
ago when those French explorers
first saw th s land we now call Iowa
Father Marquette and Joliet, so
history relates, paddled their canoei
for eight days down the Mississippi
after leaving the Wisconsin river,
without "discover ng anything."
Then, looking lowa-ward, they
caught a glimpse of the land that
lav bevond the bluiTs, which they
termed mountains.
Only July 25. 1673, Marquette and
Joliet landed and journeyed into the
land of a "great unknown." They
gazed with rapture on the scene, the
beautiful rolling land, the "wild cat
tle scattered about the prairies in
herds."
They were greeted by the Indians
smoked the pipe oi peace with them.
and there was feasting and dancing
throughout the day in honor of the
white visitors.
That was the beginning of the
story of Iowa. It was many years
later before other wh te men came
and began trading with the Indians,
and it was not until 1833 that white
men artually began to settle perma
nently in Iowa and plow up its won
derful soil. The fame of Iowa land
drew settlers from far and near, and
a steadv stream came following the
visits of Julion Dubuque. Cecil John
ston, Bas 1 Giard and Dr. Muir.
In 1P36 Iowa had approximately
12,000 settlers, of which 6,257 were in
Des Moines county, and 4,274 in
Dubuoue county. Ten years later
the population had jumped to 96,-
088 in 27 counties.
No Roads in 1836.
There were no roads in Iowa 'in
1836. There were no schools, no
churches, no towns nothing but
wilderness.
The old Indian tre'ls have become
railroads. It is boasted that there
is no place in Iowa which is more
than nine miles from a railroad
right-of-way.
The wigwams of the Indians have
become stores and the homes and
business bu Idings of brick and stone
and cement. The ox cart has be
come an automobile and there are
more automobiles in Iowa than in
any other land area of equal popu
lation. There are 491,000 families now liv
ing in Iowa. Of these, 69 per cent
own their own homes. The popula
tion has grown to nearly 2,500,000
Iowa has no slums, no poverty
none of the disadvantages of the
great cities. It is a land of rolling
prairies and swift running streams ,
of peace and prosperity.
Prominent Attorney
Undergoes Operation
Deadwood, Sf D.. Dec. 28. (Spe
cial.) John T. Heffron, one of the
most prominent criminal attorneys in
the middle west, underwent a very
serious operation here yesterday at
St. Joseph hospital. Mr. Heffron just
recently was instrumental in bring
ing about the conviction of a prom
inent rancher by the name of Saw
veil at Rapid City for murdering Otto
Parr, a neighbor. Mr. HefTron's
strenuous activity in this case greatly
aggravated his condition. The sur
geons say their patient is doing well.
Christmas Packages Are
Looted by Des Moines Men
Des Moines, Dec. 28. Systematic
looting of Christmas parcels post
packages intended for the residence
district came to light here last night
with the arrest of "Ted" Hartung, a
temporary parcel post carrier and
Frank Cooper, his pal.
. Both Hertung and Cooper ad
mitted to police and postofficc auth
orities, late last night that they had
stolen the parcels, according to the
officers. Virtually all of the prop
erty was recovered. A m3il sack was
located in a house a short distance
from the city limits.
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(Continued From Yesterday.)
The Fortune Hunter stood like
man turned to Hone; there was not a
spark of color in hii (ace, save for
the burning blue of hit eyes; for in
tgonied moment they (tared at one
another, the with growing fear anJ
suspicion, and lie like a man dazed
md incapable of thoughts,
Tlien Anne gave a wild, choking
cry. It was at if a veil had been
torn down between them, showing
her this man as the had never teen
I im before.
"You're not my John. You're n it
my John!" The words broke from
her frantically. She wrung her hands
in impotent fear and despair. She
backed away from him. across the
room till the came up against ttie
wall, and the stood there, ashen-
laced and trembling.
The Fortune Hunter had not
moved. He looked at if tome giant
hand had smitten him, and it was
only when Anne groped blindly be
hind her for the door that he gave a
little inarticulate cry and dragged
himself toward her.
"So vou know the truth at last?"
he said, and his voice was labored.
His breath came with difficulty. "I
am not John Smith, but I love you
with all my heart and soul."
"Not mv John; not my John!"
Over and over again she moaned the
words, and her brown eyes never left
his face for an iustant.' Then she
broke out wildly. "Oh, in my heart
I think I always knew it, but I
wouldn't let myself believe." She
covered her face with her shaking
hands. "Oh, if I could only die, if t
could only die."
I he 1-ortune Hunter made no at
tempt to touch her, but he went over
to the door and stood with his back
to it, his arms folded across his
rhest. His face was like a mask, his
eyes expressionless, and, for some
minutes there was a tragic silence in
the room until he began to speak tn
a strange, faraway sort of voice.
"I've tried to tell you a hundred
times every day since I came here,
but at first you would not let me,
and afterwards 't seemed impossi
ble. God knows I'm not blaming
you, but if you'll just look back
Anne try and remember it waj
you who -first claimed me not I
who" ,
His voice died away, and some
seconds passed before he struggled
on again
"You would have known the truth
tonight any way. It's only come an
hour or two sooner than I expected
"John Smith was the man who
died in the woods six weeks ago
and it was I who found h'm." He
bit his' lip till the blood came, as
Anne moaned faintly, and shuddered.
s'l'm nobody just a vagabond
Road Conditions
(Furnished by Omaha Automobile Club.)
Lincoln Highway, Eaat Roads good.
Cedar Rapids reports roads are tn good
condition now and unless they get more
rain or snow roads should ba excellent in
a day or two.
Lincoln Highway, went Roads good.
Little rough between Schuyler and Co
lumbus. Grading Between Gothenburg and
North Platte now completed.
0. I.. 1. Highway Road at Ashland
now open. Roads fine to Lincoln and west.
Detour between Imperial and Chase.
, Highland Cutoff Roads good. ,
8. Y. A. Road Good.
Cornhusker Highway Good.
Omnha-TopeUa Highway Good.
O Street Road In excellent shape.
George ". Washington Highway Roads
good. This is the preferable route now
to Slour City.
Black Hills Trail Good to Norfolk.
King of Trails. North Roads good to
Onawa. Little rough north.
King of Trails, South Roads in ex
cellent condition to Hiawatha. Hiawatha
to Leavenworth road a little rough. De
tour between Leavenworth and Kansas
Citv due to road work in progress.
River to River Road Good. Little
rough some stretches.
White Pole Road Good. Detour fair.
1, O. A. Shortllne Good.
Blue Grass Road In poor condition to
Glenwood. In order to avoid this follow
the I. O. A. Shortllne to Carson, then
State Road No. 4 to Emerson; the Blue
Grass from' this point east is in good
Weather reported clear at every point
except Atlantic, Neola, Fremont, Schuyler
and Plattsmouth.
and ! was tramping the country
when tint thing happened. I know
by what I've heard tmce that I'm
turt'icimtly like what lie wat 'for
you to have made the niUuke you
did. I've no excuse to otler. ex
cept that when 1 came here 1 was
hungry and almost penn lc and
it wat like a glimpse of heaven to
be in a decent home again. "That't
no excukc, i know, and I only
meant to stay lour enough to get a
mc.tl and then clear off to the road
again- There teemed no harm in
that. I hadn't arkrd for what wat
forced upon me; I looked upon it a
a freak of fate until until vou let
me kiM you" His voice broke
a little, and for the first time Anne
uncovered her face and looked at
him.
He went on, at if each word cost
him an untold elTort:
"It was too late then. I suppose
I loved you from that minute. Any
way, I I put oh telling yo the
truth until at last I kmw tt at I
could never tell you until I was
forced,
"Things happened, of course
th'ngs 1 hadn't counted upon. That
luggage coming, and Tommy mak
ing me open it. Then then vou J
finding that photograph." He turned
his liaggard eyes to her.
"It was the truth I told you tl.it ,
day, at any rate 1 had never tet-n
the woman in my life, and the
photograph was not mine. Then she ,
wrote that girl and I was afraid oi
being found out. She threatened to '
come down to Somertoit so I went
to London to sec Iter, and Foster g
saw us anil vou heard.
"She wanted me to buy her off."
He laughed drearily. "Buy her off
when I had only 16 shillings in the ,
world." He stopped again and
pas?'-1 a hand across his forehead, ,
if trying to remember what hap
pened next.
"And then," he went on, "Mr
Harding oliered to U-ud me tome
money and the triiifUtion wat Mo
great.' I took it J.Otxi pounds - with,
out a hope in the world of, p-iynu
it t4t k, and 1 tent it to her. I tup
pone I was mad; I've never done a
dishonorable thing hke that in my
life before, at any rate,
"I've never deliberately taltn wh.it
wat net mine. Then a let'er came
fr for the man I wat pretending
to he. He was rich, it teemed; the
letter wat from a firm of bankers;
they taid that a large turn of money
had been paid to my credit.
"It wat one way out. The chances
were that nobody would ever find
out but but even I stopped short
at that. I've never touched a thilh
ng of the money; 1 think 1 wit
fuid."
He took out his handkerchief and
assed it across hit lips. "Thitigi,
irgan to gi wrong 1 might have
known they were bound to, You
began to tliMrut me; 1 taw it in
your ryes long before you Mid a
word; and I think I began to go to
irccs from that moment. Vou tee,
I rotter at 1 am I loved yon,
Anne."
She neither moved nor spoke, ai.d
he went on heavily once more:
There" nothing much else to tell;
vou know the ict or mut id it.
Vou knew Fernie alwjyt hated nir;
well, lift been spying and watching
mo, and now he knows, too.''
Antic gave n little aiiguilu'd cry
lit that, and (or the lust time a
1 aiiilul streak of color touched the
Fortune Hunter's drawn lace.
I'd rather have died a thou,iml
timet th.in had this happen," lie
said hoarcly. "I've no excuse, u
defense, except that I love you. 1
chall love you as hmg at I live, and
afterwards if there is any after
wards for a man like me," he added
harshly.
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