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a We x WEAT Unsettled téhight sy Bunday. Snow probably. ESTABLISHED 1878 CALEXICO Is AGAIN SHAKEN BY TEMBLOR' Quake Lasts Only About 30! Seconds Early Today— Damage Is Nominal FELT AT OTHER POINTS Mexicali Reports Two Shocks —El Centro and Brawley Feel Heavy Quake Calexico, Cal., Feb. 12.—()—Thi. Imperial Valley city, victim last Ne Year's day of a series of damaging | earthquakes, suffered further, al- though nominal, damage from a tembior lasting about 30 seconds, felt at 12:58 a. m. today. .The quake was of sufficient force to shake down cotnices of buildings damaged by the January 1 disturb- ances. The cornice of the Virginia hotel, condemned as a result of dam- age suffered New Year's day, fell into the street. | The first quake was follewed 30 minutes later by two light tremors | which were a few seconds apart. Mexi across the international boundary line from this city and which suffered some damage in the January 1 quakes, reported two | _ shocks, one very sharp. El Centro, and Brawley, cities near here in the valley, reported a heavy | shock. Brawley advices said the ke was heavier than those felt danuary 1. No damage was known to have been caused at either place. | THIELE CASE’ .. TOOPEN HERE NEXT TUESDAY Judge Jansonius to Preside— 48 Men Summoned ‘to Re- is held by President Cooli ra the n: Washington. capitak ship limitation treaty will look with favor upon his ; i | Proposal td extend that treaty to! e a the slaying of Police’ Chief Nels| lighter fighting craft, although of-(Police ‘Hunt Former Care- ficinis are. so! the attitude .F Great Britain and port as Possible Jurors Trial of Arnold Thiele, charged with Romer of Mandan on Christmas day, will begin next Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock with the choice of 12 jurors from the panel of 48 drawn, The Thiele case has been place first on the calendar for this court: d term and attorneys for both prosecution and defense have an- nounced themselves ready to broceet | pectaions of favorable consideration Jansonius to Preside Judge’ Fred Jansonius will sit. in the case, it has finally been decided. of Mandan, Pugh of Dickinson or Lembke of Hettinger had been ex- pressed earlier but after conferences with these men, it was Thiele is in the Burleigh county jail, having been transferred here in January after William Langer, his attorney, had filed an affidavit of Prejudice against Judge H. L. Berry and Morton county. The 48 men from whom the jury for the trial will be chosen represent all sections of the county. They are as follows: Nels A. Niemle, Wing; C. L, John- ton; K, A. Ersland, Driscall; A. Anderson, Baldwin;' Alex Bismarck; Joseph Babnick, Wing; F. W. Murpl Bismarck; George Piepkorn, Wing; W. E. Lips, Bismarck; George Le’ lit George W. Little, H. F. Tiedman, Joseph Clifford, Fred Peterson, Bi marck; Mrs. Roy Rasche, Rey Emanuel Haas, Goodrich; son, Baldwin; Sam Berg, Wilton; A. Copelin, Arthur Solberg, Spencer Boi Bismarck; George J. Day, Brittin; Martin 'G, Hagen, Wilton; . loffit, Mofit; Waino Wainio, Wing; 0. W. Backman, Regan; re ard Brenden, Arena; Dan McCotihick, Menoken, Gus Schaper, Sterling; Milton Doehle, Moffit; Gus Hoge, W. B. Fal- coner, Bismarck; Delbert Olson, Re- gan; E. A, Thorberg, James Robidou, Henry Burman, Harty Smith, P. J. Meyer, Walter Paul, Roy Small, Mar- tin Bourgois, Charles Glitschka, G. \ Olgeirson, Bismarck; M. O. Sherman, Martin Tooker, Menoken; Nels Erick- son, Wilton; H, A. N. Christianson, Arena; V. L, Anderson, Wilton, The Fatal SI The shooting of Romer, which caus- ed the filing of the criminal informa- tion against Thiele, occurred shortly before noon on Christmas day, the climax of a family quarrel, during which Mrs. Thiele and two children were chased to the house of a neigh- home by the neighbor and was said cral to have been compelled to force open the side door to enter. Just after he entered the door Thiele fired five times and Romer was instantly kill- ed. 14 Thiele left the house and! walked down First street to corner of ~+First avenue, where he was captured by Sheriff Charles McDonald and taken to the Morton county jail. Later, fearing mob’ violence, je- Donald took the alleged slayer to the penitentiary, where he was kept in solitary confinement until fol- lowing Monday, when he was spirited back to i Rar county tg ouse ti given an opportunity y he had previously stated he wished to do, Thiele declared he “eould not re- member” the events Medline up to the sl cota’ and. f placed cell the county jail. he announced he had William Langer his attorn the fight to save hi “tence was begun, The engagement of George Young, first man to | channel, ported following Irene’s taken at the railway station. POWERS FAVOR ° Great 01 the ‘has still to come from Italy. the tensonableness of the American i plan; ‘because Possibility of calling in Judges Berry} extension of the disarmament form=- ula. already ,, Washington treaty powers. decided to ote means of escape from the have Judge Jansonius preside. deadlack disarmament from a disagreement as to which branch of atmament should first be tackled ina ment of ai also believes tions are. successful in applying re- ductions to cruisers, destroyers and submarine: ital ship: conference, the problem would pave the way for agreements in other directions. League of. Nations circles is that the! pecrosel has strengthened the! league's ition on disarmament. | The secretariat voices profound sat-| isfaction with it. JAPAN WILL ACCEPT of the Japan duction of armaments. armament proposals, it was stood after a cabinet meeting today, will constitute acceptance in but “under serious reserves.” eign Minister Briand will reply and present it for final cabinet ‘approval Monday. , tions h: known that France is »oFomer was called to the Thiele] {eaous armament conversations. EversoniMentioned HEAD, Breregg couiity commiasion:| ‘premiums en bonds of state officials er of Viens Bou today in * si measures pen tu ’ is He Pod bi ie Oca jeden rt oh to succeed Col,| tion claims before the period for fil- of Valley City, who is| ing expires in two years, was passed iding ‘A (recess Mr. Everson {none of BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1927 CHILDREN FIND FOUR SKULLS IN TRUNK George Young and His Irish Irene swim the Catalina,| and Irene O'Byrne, pretty daughter of his trainer, was re arrival in Los Angeles. This picture was Neither George nor Irene would confirm the rumored engagement. Today’s Doings.in Nation’s Capital Congress meets at noon, House debates McNary-Haugen bill, Sen: brane LIMITATION BY COOLIDGE P LAN nee ee Britain, Japan FAIL TO FIND WOMAN'S BODY ‘ ze that! powers signatory to the! taker of St. Mary’s College, | Missing Two Months | ewhat skeptical over ice might take. Th: were favo impressed with the overtures is indicated in press advices from Lon- pre n and Tokyo. Official comment! South Bend, Ind. Feb, 12,—ta— Disappointed in their fi day’s search for the missing portion of a +woman’s headless body, found in the St. Joe riv hursday, authorities ve concentrated upon’ a search for Ernest Rogers,/30-year-old caretaker of St. Mary’s college. Rogers disappeared December _ 20, the same day that Mrs. Alice V Dusen, at whose home he was a board- er, was reported missing. Neighbors said the woman would never have left her home and three small children willingly, gla nee fo, The man and woman started down d and sea forcen ts town ostensibly on a shopping trip. if the Gen a delegu, Officers were told that there was a essfal in neva deleza- sharp argument between the two just before they left, Mrs. Van Dusen was separated from her husband. He was unable to give any information as to her where- abouts, Her weight and height tally closely with the approximated weight and height of the body. The basis for Mr. Coolidge’s ox- is explained at the White House as it proposes merely an by The president feels his proposal agreed upon the} a in the Geneva preparatory conference resulting ag were done with cap- in the 1921 Washington removal of this angle of Geneva advices say the opinion in FOR REDUCTION OF PERSONNEL Brant of Emmons Would Limit Senators to 35 and Representatives to 89 WITHOUT RESERVATION Tokyo, Feb. 12.—(I—A spokesman foreign office today stated that his government had de- cided to accept the proposal of Presi- dent Coolidge for a conference of the Powers with a view to further re- The Japanese acceptance to the in- vitation will be without reservation, it was said, FRANCE MAY ACCEPT WITH RESERVA’ A Dill that would reapportion leg- islative representation and reduce membership in the state senate from 49 to 35 and in the house of repre- sentatives from 113 to 89, was intro- fe duced in the state senate Friday by For, weeie a H. Brant, Fame county. -| Independents are expected to oppose draft thal the measure, contending that it would give the Nonpartisan league control of the legislature. Handicapped by the absence of 10 senators, the ate agreed to post- pone consideration of bills on which a debate is expected until Tuesday Three bills that were . defeated: largely because of a lack of a con- stitutional majority wil] be reconsid- ered Tuesday, their sponsors said. in house . appropriation bills were pi d without comment and will be sent to the governor for his “| signature. They appropriate $72,000 for care of insane patients whi state wards, $100,000 from insurance ixes to aid state fire departments, for expenses and salary o the state transportation officer, $400 for expenses of commissioners ap- pointed in actions to release insane patients, $10,000 for the Florence Crit- tendon home at Fargo, $2,500 to The exact nature of these reserva- not_been revealed, but it is much more of her independence regard- ing land and air forces and small ft @ is regarding capital wate less‘ useful and too suggested also that like some assurances of Nations would not jm any subsequent di ‘as Possible Choice For'U. 8. Marshal junty, is in the eity | and $40,000 for the afhte emergency rt of some jon | commi in. la- Vets’ Commissioner Bill Passes s te . beet fe ie 4 are ig bie) Steel had saiked 5 ratood, ing to|in favor of the bill, a measure creat of: Sag “fist he is|ing the office of a veterans’ service American Legion | commission, designed to aid ex-ser- a for the office of| vice men in filing their compensa- sppointment.| with only three opposing votes. It is the best known|.an emergency bill and calls for an “in. the state, and owns sppropriation of $11,100 for carrying) ‘and most modern | it into effect. of Nore Be| Fina) conslien sage Cases ually, he | committee | chairman, having been passed by the “ing 10 cents from y | probably. HOUSE PASSES FLOUR LABEL BILL FRIDAY Measure, However, Carries Amendments Added By State Affairs Committee MILLERS’ Nonpartisans Claim Amend- ments Have Removed Pos- sible Benefit to Farmers IS NOW BILL Only slight argument marked pass- age by the house Friday of the flour label bill as amended by the state affairs committee and approved Thursday by the committee of the ya) after n bitter battle, Nonpattisans joined in’ opposin the bill on the ground that as Aete ed, it is unworkable. Numerous Non- partisans explained their votes say- ing that the amendments ‘have taken out of the bill any benefit for the farmers and have made it a millers’ nstead. peaker Carr cut short a_prospec- ‘e argument when he said he felt that the matter had been thoroughly discussed yesterday and that no votes would be changed by further | discussion, L. L. Twichell, majority floor lead- er, pointed out that the senate has an opportunity to amend the bill and that the house could either accept or reject the senate amendments, Event- aid, the bill will go to the governor. who, if he doesn’t ap- prove of it can veto it. A senate bill carrying provisions asked by the governor now is in the hands of the hou: state affairs of which Twichell is upper branch of the legislature. Safety Council Bill Killed The house killed a bill appropriat- ach automobile 1i- cense fee for the support of the state safety council, despite recommendation of the safety com- mittee that the measure be passed. Some objected to the amount to be spent but even after the appropriation had been reduced to five cents per license the Dill was bea in the committee of the whole, to 41, Gordon Cox, Burleigh county, ar-} gued for passage on the ground that if the committee succeeded in saving only one life it would be worth while, Miss Mi nnis, Stutsman (Continued on page three.) LEGISLATURE PREPARES FOR HOME STRETCH Time Limit For Introducing Bills Expires Monday— House Has Titanic Task With nearly six full weeks of the legislative period gone, the twentieth general assembly next week will set- tle down for its final dash to the wire which will end March 4 or per- haps in the wee small hours of March 5, The principal jam is expected to come in the house where more than 300 bills haye been introduced and where the time limit for introducing bills will not expire until two o'clock Monday, the house session prior to that time being considered as a part of Saturday's legislative day, Since the requirement is that bills originating in one house be sent to the other house 15 days before ad- journment, the lower body fuces a titanic struggle to get all the house bills out 6f the way before beginning consideration of the mass of legis- lation which has been sent over from the senate. No effort has been made to get the senate bills out of the way this week and few of them will get serious consideration until after the time for acting on house bills has ex- | pired. Despite the oncoming jam, however, Speaker Carr and other house lead- ers are hopeful that the lower body will be able to get through with its work without setting back the clock on the final night as has been the custom at recent sessions. Because it has shorter roll calls and usually disposes of its business in much less time than the house, the senate is not expected to encounter the difficulties which may beset the housey as the final hours of the ses- sion are reached. ——_— OO Weather Report | OO Weather conditions at North Da- kota points for the 24 hours ending at 8 a, m, today. Teniperature at 7 a, m. .. Highest yesterday st last night . Precipitation to 7 jot much change in tem- For North Dakota: Unsettled to- night and Sunday. Snow probably. hte 80 cold tonight northeast por- tion, WEATHER CONDITIONS The Saskatchewan high pressure area has moved southeastward to Manitoba and cold weather prevails from Minnesota northwestward to the eastern Rocky Mountain slope. The ree is iow over the Southwest. n perature. it i it iyred in the shee tee wakes eee in the western Canadian Provii ! ORRIS SENATE PASSES M'NARY HAUGEN BILL, 47 10-39 Measure Gets Margin of Two; More Than That: Which , Killed Bill Last June | | BILL NOW IS IN HOUSE! —- | Senators Nye and Frazier! Vote in Favor of Measure to Give Farmer Relief | » Feb. 12.—P)—Carr: | in of eight votes in its) t, which is two. more than th which a somewhat similar bil!) was turned down last June, the sen- ate approved MeNary-Haugen i _. Washingt relief bil! was en route to the house | today, where it’ will be offered as a! substitute for a twin measure being considered there. | Although passage by the house is| na | in| now | looked for by both supporters opponents of the measure, unle joes through in the same form as it} passed the senate it will have to be| sent to conference and run the risk | of being crowded out in the last! {minute rush of the present session. | Worried Over Possible Veto | |, Proponents of the legislation are | being cused no little worry by the! j uncertainty as to whether President {Coolidge will sign the bill. If hej | Vetoes it, they see the measure kill- | ed as far as this session is con- ‘erned because of the apparent im- | _pomigelaed mustering in either jouse the two-thirds majority necded to override a veto, four Republicans, and the one Farme vhile 22 Republi its opposed it. unanimous | ¢ Dakota and Schall and Shipst Minnesota voted for the bill The bill emerged with its embat tled equalization fee intact, although y attempts were made to defer operation. Among the amend- ments adopted was one by MeKel Democrat, Tennessee, adding teba to wheat, corn, tron and ho yhich were originally covered as basic commodities uven which the equalization charge to handle sur pluses would be made. ' Insurance Plan Added ' The Bledsoe insurance plan also twas added to the bill. Under it, the federal farm rd to ke set) u would be authorized to use a part the $250,000,000 revolving fund pro ;Vided to safeguard growers agains: i price declines by levying a premium | ‘on any or all of the basic commodi- | ties. “Cotton, however, i the chief | ‘article it designs to protect. |, Two other amendments, guaran- teeing that before the fee’ provision fis placed in operation, a majority of | j the producers of any one crop should | ideclare for it first, were adopted they were offered by Senators Me- ‘Kellar and Simmons, Democ ‘North Carolina. Immediately preceding the vote, the senate, rejected, 54 to the Curtis-Crisp bill which was offered by Senator Curtis; the Repuglican jleader, as a substitut CHURCH SECT HOLDS WOMAN UNDER SPELL | Had Been Bound to Bed For 3 ; Days While Culf Members Prayed and Shouted | Sy Bridgewater, S. D., Fel Tied to a bed for thre members of a religious sect prayed and shouted around her, Mrs. H. Woll- man of Dolton was recovering today | after being reset by a committee | of Bridgewater business men. The committee of four, investigat- ing reports of the sect meetings a farm five miles west of Dolton, called a physician, Dr, H. Clauser of | Bridgewater, when they learned that | Mrs. Wollman, who is about 35 years old, had been without food for five days, The investigators were told that the meetings had been continuing day and night for several days, and that ; some of its members were hysterical. | The purpose of the meeting was to “extract the devil.’ iy ized According to Dr. Clauser, there | Were @ score of men and women in the room where Mrs. Wollman was bound to the bed. With the aid of the business men, he forced the wor- | shippers outside and released Mrs.) Wollman. | Dr. Clauser said she was hysterical and was “under the influence of hypnotism” and had been “in more or legs the same state” for two weeks, The sect is composed of farmers | and their’ wives living in this| neighborhood and is said to have headquarters at Mitchell. Members of the business men’s committee in- dicated that their investigation into the Wollman affair would not go any | further at present. COUNTY AUTHORITIES START INVESTIGATION | Bridgewater, 8, D., Feb. 12.—(P)— An investigation was begun today by MeCook county authorities into the case of Mrs. Wollman of Dolton wi bed for three days while members of a religious sect made phir lg “pray the evil er body Hendricks of Salem om page tures.) ‘In This Temple . . . the Memory of Lincoln Is Enshrined Forever’ The sember memorial shrine a closeup of the (lower left) which is pl the distant Washington monument. the statue is pictured at the lower door is Washington, i Today’s Program in Legislature House meets at 1 in commit- tee of the whole preliminary to Lincoln's birthday ceremony. Senate in recéss until Tues- day. Lincoln's birthday scheduled for 3. 600 HARVARD STUDENTS AND POLICE FIGHT ceremony Two Patrolmen Seriously In-, jured—39 Harvard Stu- dents Are Arrested Cambridge, Mass., Feb. 12.—(®)-—' Five hundred Harvard students and others battled police in’ Harvard! Square early today and when the field of action —h. eh le policemen had been stightly hurt, two students had been treated for various inju ind 41 had been arre on ges of disturbing the p 4 unts differed as to the of the trouble, but when hundred students, who ha tending a midnight a vaudeville theatre, p > the street, a general free-for all wasj started, | Police used their sticks free i Joseph O'Connor” was} bad]: nd taken to a hospital { ound that hi# injuries { were not serious and later he went’ home. - Two students, Ben Gorman; and John J, Shaw, were treated for! minor injuries at the same institu- tion and then urrested. ! One version of the primary cau of the disturbance was that a patral. man had been attempting to arrest! two citizens for disorderly conduct and word reached the crowd inside the theatre that a student was in trouble, j | 41 MEN CHARGED WITH DISTURBING THE PEACE i Cambridge, Mass., Feb. 12.—(2)— Thirty-nine Harvard students and two other mgn were held in the dis-j; trict court today for a hearing on a charge of disturbing the peace us’ a result of a riot in Harvard Square early today. Several of them also were charged with assault on two police officers, Kieht of the students furnished $500 bonds each. Bail for the others ‘was nominal. ‘A number of them ap-! peared in court with their heads bandaged. 4 The police said that the origin of| (Continued on: page three,) ce cf Abraham Lincoln as it looks out from the ce of the Daniel French s ced in the shrine s jin which 8. § Lincoln The picture is ue of the emancipator that it looks out upon The view of the monument frem right. A marine just outside the portrayed above. unding a bugle call. COX ADVANCES | ALLEGED PROOF OF STATEMENT Livdahl and McDonald As- sailed in House For ‘At- tempted Intimidation’ Rising to a que: privilege Gordon county, chairman ion of personal Cox, Burleigh a letter addressed joint- ly to him and the Bismarck Tribune McDonald and G. M. Livdahl, m of the North Da- kota workmen's compensation bu- reau, had demanded retraction of statements made by Cox on the floor of the house ednesday and pub- ‘lished in the Bismarck Tribune. The letter demanded that Cox and the newspaper offer proof of the statement that commissioners had granted only nominal awards in some cases in order to prevent appeals to cqurts, or else retract. “This is an attempt to intimidate the newspapermen from correctly re- porting the proceedings of this house, and the members of the house,” Cox charged in a discussion of the matter’ and asked that the whole matter be recorded in the house journal. Cox cited alleged records of a case in which he said the action of the bureau commissioners had justified his statement and called further tention to another claim and to a cas which he said had been appealed to the courts and which directly bore out the truth of his statement, L. Twichell, majority floor leader, said “this is the first time I know of that a state official or mem- bers of a state bureau have ever threatened a member of this house, It is just another evidence of their bur- eaucratic tendency. Something should he done to put them in their proper place.” Cox also cited the ers and publishers may not be prose- cuted for faithfully reporting the pro- ceedings of a court or of the legisla- ture unless it is shown that the mat- ter was published with malicious in- tent. COUNTY BASKETBALL TOURNA- MENT La Moure.—Entries /for the La Morre county basketball tournament on February 25 and 26, have been re- ceived. and it is expected that an unusa!ly large number of high school teams will take part. Plans are also being made for a girls’ tournament. TAKE OVER THEATRE Kulm.—V, C. and 8S, K, Lewis have taken over the management. of the Kulm theatre here and are institut- ing a policy of better productions - section of the, ' state law which provides that report- THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE [naam] PRICE FIVE CENTS STORED AWAY | IN ATTIC OF - DBTROIT HOME Skulls Are Those of Women, One of Whom Was a Ne- gress, Officers Report | FORMER TENANT SOUGHT | House Was Previously Occu- pied By Negro Who Is Now Believed in Prison | | ss | Detroit, Feb. 12—U)—Wrapped in | Newspapers and tucked into the bot- {tom of an old trunk, four human were found last night by | skulls {children playing in the attic of their home in’ Royal Oak, a suburb, The skulls were those of women, | preliminary examinations indicated. | A braid of blood clotted blond hair {and a braid of black hair, the lat- ter from the head of a negro wom- }an, also were found. The blond {braid was that of u Caucasian, phy- reported. j ‘hildren of Mr. and Mrs. George | Wilson, negroes, came upon the | skulls as they investigated the con- , tents of a trunk left in the attic by |a former occupant. The Wilsons | have lived in the house only a short time. Immediately there was started a |search for James Coyner, a negro jand a world war veteran, who lived \in the house until two years ago. Phys ins scouted the theory that jthe skulls had been used by medical students as they showed no signs of incisions usually made for cranial study. Police likewise put aside the | suggestion that the skulls had been ytaken from graveyards. Lists of Names Checked With the certainty that at least ne of the skulls was that of a Particularly investigators to women burgh soc | numbers pen interesting were references prominent in Pitts- with telephone after their names, note book ich were writ- the names of Cleveland and De- jtroit wor The word “white” was {written after several names. ]_The names of the Pittsburgh and Cleveland women were withheld pending a check wish authorities of j those cities, SUSPECTED NEGRO B46 IN MICHIGAN PRISON Chicago, F —P)—A giant |negro named Coy was convicted yof grave robbing at Hammond, Ind. {last November, and sentenced to three to 10 years in the Michigan ¥ penitentiary. of stealing woman from a ceme oyner confessed to the police that he had planned to take the body jto Berenice, Ilinois. He could offer no other explanation. The body was found in a man- ner similar to the discovery of four skulls in a house in Royal Oak, Mich. Boys came upon the body in an empty house, a day after the grave was robbed. Police watched the house and arrested Coyner when he returned. - COYNER BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN IN DETROIT | Hammond, Ind., Feb. 12.—()—The giant negro, James Coyner, who rob- bed # grave here and removed the body of a white woman last fall and was sent to the penitentiary, is be- lieved by the authorities here to be the same negro who lived in Royal Oak, Mich., where four skulls were found yesterday in a trunk. Coyner was a world war veteran and ‘was 35 years old. He had“ pa- pers in his possession showing he had been in Detroit before coming here. PITTSBURGH POLICE ASSIST IN SEARCH Pittsburgh, Pa. Feb. 12.—(P)- The Pittsburgh police today soughe | to aid Michigan authorities to estab- lish the identity of the negro in whose former house at Royal Oak, Mich. was found four skulls, sup- posedly those of women, one of which was wrapped in a Pittsburgh newspaper. The police located two of the four well known Pittsburgh women, whose names were found un- derscored in the paper. | These two women, prominent fig- jures in society, failed to throw any light on the identity of the negro, who was known in Michigan as James N. Coyner, alias Ed Grayton. PRISONER DENIES ANY CONNECTION WITH SKULLS Michigan City, Ind, Feb. 12—U) ~—James Coyner, negro convict in the state prison here, is believed by Deputy Warden H. B. Claudy to be responsible for the discovery yester- day of four human skulls in a house in Royal Oak, Mich., although the prisoner denied it. Coyner was convicted of robbing a grave at Hammond, Ind., last fall and sentenced to 10 years imprisonment. He admitted taking the body of a white woman from the grave after hig arrest there, but after his con- viction denied it, as he does now, “He denies that he ever was in Royal Oak but his manner makes me think he was the man who left the skulls there,” the deputy warden said today. The deputy warden planned to jon. Coyner again later in the GRAVE ROBBERY IS THEORY OF POLICE " raped ot Feb, 12.—#)—Four human ale Most as much of an en to police as ‘nl ti f the nearb; when th were found” Ownership of the trank in

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