The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 20, 1917, Page 8

BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE BRITAIN ADOPTS “UNWRITTEN LAW” Tenler Love Letters Written by Capt. Malcolm Before Killing Bogus ‘‘Count’’ Melt Hearts of “Jury and Slayer Is Acquitted. London, England, Sept. 20.—This is the story of Britain's first “unwritten law” acquittal of a man who killed What exceptional plot so touched an unemotional British jury as to estab- lish that precedent? This: It is such a drama of love and war that the great world contiict, with all its upheaval of c ances and fer- ment of human pas not else- where produced its equal. It might be the theme of a maste novelist. It is as elemental as an epic. It goes to the root of human motives. It tells how two British juries de- cided Dougias Malcolm, lieutenant in| the royal artillery, returning from the front in France to shoot the war slack- er who as a bogus count had stolen his wife's affections, was not a murderer, and set him free. And in telling of this one tragedy it tells of all like it that’ the war can produce. In the coroner’s court at Padding- ton a woman At first sight Lon Save Wits Hono { ‘bers of the Grand Army, of the. , streets of the city ended at:the ‘ball {lowed by speeches by Mayor Kastien, BEAGH PAYS TS. TABUTE TO BOYS WHO 60 10 WAR Wednesday Afternoon Devoted to Memorial in Honor of Mem- bers of Company M Beach, N. D., Sept. 20.—On Wednes- day afternoon the people ‘of Beach and surrounding territory took a half- day off and dedicated it to honoring | members. of company: M,: Second ,; North ‘Dakota infantry. At 2 o'clock @ ulanimounl parade was formed under Robt. A. Sprague, who acted as mar- shal and assistant. The parade was headed by: the: school children, pre- ceded by the band and was followed ‘vy the mayor and. city council, mem- public, Mrs. E. H. Lovell and Mrs. M. I. Jones, president and secretary of the local Red Cross in automobdles, Company M, commanded by: Lieut. Paulson of the machine gun company of Dickinson, and citizens ‘in autos. The parade formed on Third avenue and after going over the principal park, where an exhibition drill -was given by the company. This,.was' fol- J. A. Kitchen of Sentinel Butte, Major W. S. Davis of Beach and Hon. L. F. Crawford ‘:of Sentinel Butte. The speeches concluded, the company was marched -to'the school grounds, where the direction of Charles [Cook and |, “Exclusive Service” Lahr Motor Sales Company en br tad home in Hebron; stealing savings tanks belonging to the children cf Adam Beyer .and stealing some $26. Aside from that she is a modest, well behaved young lady, whom anyone would be glad to have around. Her arrest and sub- sequent confession followed a two weeks’ investigation by the state fire marshal’s office and State's Attorney L. H. Connolly. terious fires at her home town of Hebron in the last few weeks, has been committed to the state train- ing school here. Some of the stunts for which she claims re- sponsibility are the burning of a hay stack on her father's: farm, causing z heavy loss; setting fire to Adam Beyer’s home on two dif- ferent occasions; firing the Sauter responsible for a number of mys- | - CUSTOM TAILORING The majority of Uniforms made _ for Army officers in this state have been made in-our shop, and every Uniform a perfect fit, You take no chances if = - = don called her “the woman of the Ros-' ¢ fear auty was classil a most eatadle feed of spring chicken: g ‘i pete eck or hen beauty mas cine and other good things were provided your suit and over coat 4 cies ee? A z for the entertainment of the soldier * A : % She was on the witness stand | mad : “Mrs. Malcolm,” said Coroner Byrne Gardens mre aptamer te 1s ade in our shop. i] to “the woman with the Rossetti st a 4 4 pated in the demonstration which was . Hy H neck,” “did your husband know the i fed G truth of your liason with the bogus eiperscetey 4 the company. In Eight Hi h rade Tailors N Count de Borch?? der direction. of the company, -and busy nigh’ aid da “I told him,” she replied, with a taken‘as.a whole the event was one y iS ye. a faint smile, “to divorce me—that there had been intimate relations med us.” The coroner looked at her, over his gla Then he picked up two rel pers from his desk and turned to the; jury. “In case of my death,” he read, “I leave all my money to Mrs. Taylor of Vicarage cottage, Hertford Heath, and! cancel my previous will. “J. DOUGLAS MALCOLM.” It was written, plained, by Lieut. Malcolm, just be- fore he went to the rooms of Anton Baumberg, alias Count de Borch, to fight out with him the possession of the officer's wife. Then the coroner read the second paper, a letter from Lieut. Malcolm to his wife as the officer left for the bogus count’s room, where he shot him with his army automatic; | And the jurors drew in their minds “To My Own Very Darling Dorothie a picture of a tall, tanned artillery —Dear God! It is time! Everything officer, placing not only his life, but points to it that this creature is the his home before his country as a war count's bedroom,.how Lieut. Malcolm order to save his wife and spare her name from gossip—and how a pistol lay almost within the Pole’s reach as he was found dead—details like these the witnesses’ stories unfolded. i MRS. LOUGLAS MALCOLM, “THE WOMAN WITH THE ROSSET TI NECK.”.LIRUTENANT DOUGLAS MALCOLM, OF THE POYAL ARTILLERY, AND (INSET BELOW) ANTC N BAUMBERG, ALIAS “COUNT DE 3ORCH,” THE WAR SLACKER AND BOGUS “POLISH COUNT” OF WE OSE MURDER LIEUTENANT MAL- the coroner ex- COLUM HAS JUST BEEN ACQUITTED. 5 For Public Ownership. Albert M. Todd, president of the National Ownership league, speak ing before the conference of Frodu cers and Consumers, here today de clared that public ownership of al utilities and of natural resources ne cessary to the public welfare is fund amentally right; public ownership i. thrashed his wife's seducer and tried | vention, but most of them say they, Standard. Oil company /thps secured for months to force him into a duel in| are looking on. the destruction of its competitors, not on account of superior intelligence or ability, hut: through setfet-rates ant rebates is but one of many examples of financial despotism practiced by. the railroads in nearly:every line of business,” Jeanette Has Her: Say. * The nation’ is facing@’shortage in copper, which with nifnes in Mon-! tana. shut down wasdeserived as which will long be remembered, not only by the people of this community dut, also by the hoys, who -will repre- sent this territory in the world’s fight tor democracy. SlTeenuueccauancaanagaueuaceaeay LADY FIREBUG JUST LIT. "EM UP TO SEE . "EM BURN, SHE DID Mandan, N. ept. 20.—Katie Maissner, aged 15, lady firebug, on her confession that she has been Expert Dry Cleaning, Hand Pressing and Repairing -§. E. BERCESON & SON UNION STORE—Close} Evenings cxcent Saturtlay. : WITHIN THE LAW—Slosed Sundays. IIIT) H most unspeakable blackguard ever sacrifice, refusing to, believe in his | Bean. born. I shudder to think that he wife's dishonor when she herself pro-} should even dare to speak to you. I tested it to him, proclaiming her vir- simply cannot stand it any longer. I. tue in one court while she was confes- am going to thrash him until he is un- sing her disgrace in another, loving) — dy’ recognizable. 1 may shoot him if 1 her in the face of her protestations of lic utilit politically right, since it.promotes so- cial justice, civic ideal and democ- racy. “Studying the operations of the pub- a our own country,” said Mr. Todd, “the fact that first com- ‘alarming by Miss-. Jeanétte Rankin, representative in‘ congréss from Mon-) tana, in an address beféré:the “Pro-' ducers’: and Consumers") conference’ here today. The demands'of the Butte strikers are just, she ‘said, and term devil incarnate. Your honor is safe, Paul Program ; thank God, thank God. seals Hotel It massages and “Goodbye! I love you and shall go ” 5 on loving you to eternity—forever. “POLITICIANS BARRED Aes ee Hot and Ste ey Ss fe n¢ e n S e 1 know I shall meet you in the next ’ sen eam t th is world if the worst happens. When Is ‘TOWNLEY’S REPLY 80e per day and up — — si x 5 you come to me you will come with ” ae °20.—Tha e- Single reom with bath, $1.00 oy k v open arms and those beautiful eyes St. Paul, Minn., § bie 20.—That they, - The McKenzie gums, eeps teet " shining—and you will say to me, ‘Dug-| Were refused a front seat at the feast Running hot and cold water The Seventh Story of Newth Dakota. < w gie, 1 forgive you!’ Forever, your lov-' of democracy represented by the Non- in every room Sea ee Socoet Euronean, clean and br th ing husband. DOUGLAS.” | partisan H. C. L. convention in St. Opposite McKenzie Hotel | on seventh ea 4 think he has a gun. I expect he is too: love for her paramour and determined much of a cur to stand a thrashing. to save her when she was glad to be If the inevitable has to happen, of lost. course, I may get it first. You see,I And—they acquitted him. am quite cool. If that happens—O, be- Which explains why there is a new lieve me, my little darling, my beloved precedent in British legal records. soul whom I love so absolutely—be- lieve me, it is for you.” The coroner stopped and polished his glasses, then put them on the table and read on without them: “IT swear to you I love you more fhan a man has ever loved a woman before, and if there is anything wrong in me it is because I love you too much. You are a brave woman—a No Room for Labor Men noble, honorable, upright one, with a beautiful soul. | believe in God. 1 at said yesterday I didn't; but I do, I do, ives ion Organiz- and I thank Him from the bottom of Representatives of Union Org my heart that He sent me over from France in time to save you from this League'Has ation Given No Place on St. Several {imes in the last paragraph the coroner stopped and turned and looked closely at the paper and then Paul was a disappointment to mem- bers of the Minneapolis Trades and weat on reading. Labor assembly, 15 representatives of When the coroner's jury’ began its which occupied the attention of the deliberations Mrs. Malcolm walked un-' offivials of the Nonpartisan league peared at TO ee this noon at the latter’s headquarters. lips. . The a ssion, which Nonpartisan While the coroner was reading the leaders said was devoted entirely to verdict of “justifiable homicide in self- the subject of “Co-operatioa"—and defense,” Lieut. Malcolm was being Which the Trades and Labor represen- arraigned in Marleybone police court. | tatives in attendance admit was more ‘A delay until the court received the SPecific in its application—arose, it is coroner's verdict was asked, and as Understood, from the fact that Mayor it was granted the artillery officer Van Lear of Minneapolis was not put arose in the dock and insisted upon speaking. He was tall, well built, about 34, and he swayed from side to side as he spoke: “I see published a wicked and scur- rilous report that my wife had inti- mate relations with this man. I swear it is false. You see, she is all alone, and has no one to look after her. it is false—absolutely false. Do you hear me? It is absolutely false, 1 say!” His voice was growing higher, and the magistrate waved his arm hastily. The lieutenant was led out of court, crushing his soft hat between his hands. The trial of Lieut. Malcolm in Mar- leybone court was formal—as formal as.it could be, with the sympathies of spectators and jury, and even of the court and prosecution, not to be con- cealed. The jurors heard of Licutenant Mal- colm’s meeting with the Pole Baum- berg, a war service slacker, at a gar- den party. It received details of his career as a ladies’ man in his pose as “Count de Borch,” and of his own admissions that he had no right to a title. among them a German woman spy, were read. His letters to other women, on the program. No Politicians on Program. League officials say no public offi- j¢ials or politicians were put on the 'program except those necessary for addresses of welcome. A delegation of the Minneapolis men called on Mayor Van Lear this noon, it is understood, to talk over the fact that he was not invited to speak. Joseph Gildert represented the Non- partisan league at,the discussion. Organized labor was represented on this morning’s program by George W. Lawson, secretary, St. Paul Trades and labor Assembly, which had no part in the dissension, it is under- stood. - Nonpartisan Jearue officials sav there are no difficulties which cannot be smoothed out. Labor Men Attend. Will organized labor in Minnesota give its support to the Nonpartisan} league? | That is the main question buzzing up and down the corridors and in and out the convention. It is known the Nonpartisan league want organized labor’s support in sola. Gov. L. J. Frazier, North 1irman of the convention today said the Nonpartisan league has How he exercised a strange fascina- had the support of organized labor in tion over Mrs. Malcolm, how her hus- North Dakota and looks for the same band burst into a friend’s house to find the “count” and “the woman with the Rossetti neck” together in the bet ote a sce Has sans Siete: ain in Minnesota. manded -attention was the economic injustice suffered by the public on account of the excessive and unjust | rates, and the discrimination between citizens, by which a favored few en- jJoying secret rates and rebates, ware, quickly enabled to crush out competi- tion and to obtain a monopoly of each | kind of business. Thus, intelligence, ! industry and integrity were struck down through a most despotic usurp: | ation of power by those entrusted with the conduct of governmental functions. The manner in which the ed “unpatriotic,” unjust»demands by labor or capital’ during ‘the wat. “The development of ¢he country must depend upon the combined ef; forts of. capital and la.or,” said Misa Rankin. “Both are ‘necessary, and both must respect the'just demands of each other if industry ig to proceed It is unpatriotic of either faction to make unjust demands. The demands that labor is making in Butte at the present time are reasonable and just and for .the welfare of the country they should be respected. ~ THE “The - 1 Northwest : EUROPEAN The NORTHWEST, 100 Rooms THE HOTEL CENTER IN- BISMARCK, PATTERSON HOTELS Dairy anch day and night oppoate Depot Park, 100 rooms with le ‘The McKENZIE, 210 Rooms The SOO, 125 Reome N. D, 2D. G. PATTERSON, Owner aad Prop. AUDITORIUM ONE NIGHT ONLY [/ one nicut onty | SATURDAY, SEPT. 22 _ PRICES—50c, $1.00, $1.50, and $2.00. Seats on Sale Thursday. September 2) at Knowles & Haney. 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