The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 25, 1931, Page 2

ae > crime,” he says, THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 1931 Officials Still Hope to GUILTY CONSCIENCE [__rencoatin Onkiand sarin OF BRUTAL SLAYER MAY GIVE SOLUTION Dismembered Body of California Woman Is Preserved by Authorities NO INQUEST HAS BEEN HELD Killing Took Place Almost in the Back Yards of Two Crim- inologists Editor's note: Murder cases which were nation-wide sensa- tions of recent years still are listed in the various cities as “un- solved mysteries.” Associated Press writers have gathered de- tails of some of the most inter- esting of these cases. This is one of a series of six stories. By W. A. WELLS Oakland, Calif. March 25.—()— ‘When scientific crime detection meth- ods fail, “time” becomes the chief ally of the detective. On this belief District Attorney Earl Warren rests his chief hope of solving the myster- ious murder of Bessie Ferguson. Although it has been nearly six years since the comely San Francisco nurse's dissected body was found, scarcely a month has passed without bringing some new clue, false or oth- erwise, to keep alive official interest in the case. In a legal sense the case is unique in many ways. ‘Whereas many murder cases fail of successful court prosecution for lack of a “corpus delicti,” Alameda county finds itself in ion of the “body of the crime” without official recog- nition that a murder has been com- mitted. District Attorney Warren declares it has been definitely established that the Ferguson woman was slain, her identity has been proved beyond dis- pute, and the insurance company has paid the policy on her life, yet no coroner's inquest has been held and no court or other official action ever has been taken to indicate officially that a crime has been committed. Body Still Held Neither has there been a funeral. ‘The body is retained by the authori- ties of Alameda county, and from time to time expenditures are au- thorized to defray the cost of pre- serving it. When the auburn-haired nurse left her hotel in San Francisco on the ‘August evening in 1925 when she was last seen alive, she told her mother she was going across the bay to Oak- land to meet Sheriff Frank Barnet, Alameda county’s veteran peace offi- cer. Subsequently the names of four other more or less prominent resi- cents of bay cities were brought into the investigation. The killing—almost in the back yards of two widely-famous criminol- ogists, Chief of Police August Voll- mer of Berkeley and E. O. Heinrich, consulting criminologists—engaged perhaps the greatest array of police talent ever employed on a California case. Vollmer’s newly developed lie-de- tector was credited with eliciting ad- ditional pertinent information from questioned witnesses, but no arrests were ever made. Grain Of Earth Is Clue Heinrich, examining in his labora- tory a tiny grain of earth found in the dead woman's hair, declared his epinion that the slaying and dis- memberment may have taken place not where parts of her body were first found, northwest of Berkeley, ‘but on Bay Farm Island, several miles southeast of Oakland. He based hhis conclusions on the character of the soil. ‘A few days after his announcement, additional portions of the body were found in the estuary near Bay Farm Island. Parts of the body having been found at widely-separated points in Contra Costa and Alameda counties the coroner of each county declined to assume there was sufficient evi- dence to show the killing had taken place in his jurisdiction, Both de- clined to hold inquests. Piece by piece the body was reas- fembled, and custody of it was as- sumed by District Attorney Warren. Deputies Clear Sheriff Several deputy sheriffs corroborat- ed the declaration of Sheriff Barnet that on the night of the slaying he was in his private office. The hunting lodge which Barnet frequently occupied and his home were raided and searched, but no evi- dence against him was disclosed. At the next election he was defeated for office after many years of tenure. ““The atrocious nature of the “makes it morally certain that some one’s conscience will eventually cause a breakdown and insanity or a confession result.” He believes he has sufficient evi- dence to prove the motive for the STICKERS peceprnrra rere ae Sey Scarcely a nth passes that does not yield some new clue, false or other- wise, to give a new turn to the six-year hunt of District Attorney Earl War- ren (right) for the slayer of Bessie Ferguson (left) in Oakland, Cal. left home one night in 1925, saying she was going to visit Sheriff Frank Barnet (below). She never arrived at his office. Parts of her di body were later found in two counties. She By WM. E. MCKENNEY Secretary American Bridge Leaguc Contract bridge has become firmly establishe¢. A year or so ago the question was “Will contract prove as popular as auction?” Today question is “How long will it be before the masses of bridge players through- out the country play nothing but con- tract?” It is quite natural for the player who is taking up contract to become confused with the so-called “systems.” At the recent national championshi tournament where the various ex] of the country assembled to compete in the championship events, the writ- er was strongly impressed with the fact that every acl ledged author- ity on the game was using some kind of a forcing bid. It is quite true that all men do not think alike. Quoting from the latest book of my friend, Shepard G. Bar- clay, he states that “an old Indian chief in @ -peace pow-wow with a neighboring tribe said, ‘Thanks be to the Great Spirit that all men do not think alike—otherwise all men would want my squaw’.” And so it is in contract bridge—it is just as well that all experts do not think alike— otherwise bridge would become a me- chanical game. It has been ‘generally accepted by all of the leading authorities that two and one-half high card tricks are necessary for an opening bid of one, although one or two of the ex- perts will open on two quick tricks if their hand contains five probable tricks. So we see that the difference is very slight on the opening bids of one. Where the great variation comes in is on the two bids and the forcing bids. ‘There are several types of forcing bids. First the two of a suit bid, when used as a demand bid, requires —A Series Explaining the Contract Bridge System— partner to keep the bidding open. The artificial club convention—when the artificial club bid is used, the bid means nothing as to the actual club holding. There may or may not be clubs in the hand. It is made simply to inform partner that the hand con- tains general strength and quite nat- urally this club bid has its variations regarding strength holding. In all cases where the arbitrary one club bid is used, it demands partner to respond. There are variations in: the response by partner, also. ‘The two-club bid—also an arbitrary convention—has proven popular with some players, In this ‘system, the club holding is also disregarded. An original two-club bid when made—not as an overcall, but as an original bid —signifies a power-house hand and is a forcing bid. Then there is the one over one, which is also a demand bid. When the one over one—a bid of one of @ suit over partner's one of a suit—is used (e. g. the original bidder opens with one diamond, partner responds with one spade) this in an absolute forcing bid and requires partner to keep the bidding open, although it makes no promise for game. In other words, it is a system asking the original bidder to give more infor- mation regarding his holdings. None of the systems in use at tHe present. time force with no trump, therefore a two no trump made orig- inally in any system, is not a forcing bid. It might be called an encourag- ing bid, but in each system partner is to go to three no trump with a def- inite holding. Contract differs today only in the use of the above conventions. The writer, in following articles, will de- scribe each of the above systems with popular variations. (Copyright, 1931, NEA Service, Inc.) crime, but not to constitute evidence acceptable to a court as to the iden- tity of the perpetrator as between two or more suspects; that the parts of the body found near Bay Farm island were placed there by an im- plicated person after Heinrich’s an- nouncement. “It isn't influence or ce that is standing in the way of a solution of this mystery,” he declared. “It is just that the slay- er has been sufficiently clever to out- wit us. But time is our ally and some time, before I am out of office I hope, | 1 am sure he will be caught.” Will Face Charges In District Court Ray Isaac, local man, musician and hotel employe, was bound over to district court Tuesday afternoon aft- er having been arraigned in justice ried a Bismarck girl while already married to a woman whom he is said to have deserted in Miles City, Mont., about @ year ago. ‘He was bound over to district court i HH i tan fdla pEECESE giees reel F i if ERE “HE = E s than on the hoof.’ Manting on. the estate of the Duke of Westminster, he got in the way. A boar was charging right at him, was within 100 feet, when an- other hunter’s bullet brought the ani- mal down. Charlie helped to eat the boar later. FARM RESERVES OF WHEAT EXPECTED 70 Bulk of Supplies to Grain Corporation Farm reserves and elevator stocks of wheat in the spring wheat area, comprising the Dakotas, Minnesota and Montana, will be less this summer than for many years, according to the weekly review issued Wednesday by the Farmers Union Terminal associa- tion, An extremely small northwest carryover was forecast. “Due to the fact that wheat prices in the United States are being main- tained at 18 to 20 cents above the Winnipeg or foreign prices,” the re- view says, “farmers and grain ele- vators are selling the bulk of their supplies to the Farmers National Grain corporation. If does not ap- pear likely that any wheat owner will miss the opportunity to sell and de- liver his grain before price stabil- ization ends. “A survey by the Farmers National Grain corporation recently made in- dicates that the farm and country elevator reserves are extremely light. Even the elevator stocks must be dis- counted to a great degree, as much of the grain now stored in country ele- vators has been sold to the. national j marketing agency, and while it is in the physical possession of the local grain elevators, it is not actually owned by them. “A proper survey showing grain stocks locally owned at country points, therefore, undoubtedly would show a much smaller total than’ the present figures indicate, as the Farmers Na- tional is encouraging country eleva- tors to hold their grain stocks at local points until the wheat actually is ordered out to terminals. This effort is being made to relieve congestion at terminals. “Navigation on the Great Lakes is j being opened this year at the earliest | @ate since 1914 and this should help relieve the storage space situation. “The Farmers National Grain cor- poration desires that farmers be kept informed that wheat sales at stabil- ized prices until June 30 are assured, and that to obtain these prices they must contract to sell their wheat be- fore that date.” WIRES CRIPPLED BY Order Between Twin Cities And N. D. Points telephone and telegraph and power North Dakota line were crippled and BE LESS THIS YEAR Farmers and Elevators Sil. 9 SLEET IN NORTHWEST 41 Circuits Reported Out of St. Paul, March 25.—(7}—Some others “weather bound” after one of the worst sleet and snow storms of the year Monday night and Tuesday. |delicacy in a controversy now. going This is the third of a series of articles on home gardening, writ- ten especially for NEA Service and The Bismarck Tribune. By WILLIAM R. BEATTIE (Bureau of Plant Industry, U. S. Department of Agriculture) Enriching the soil of the garden should be an easy matter on most farms, but it is a different story with a city lot or back yard. Manure, and plenty of it, is the best fertilizer for gardens and the farm garden should have a liberal dressing every year: Apply manure to town gardens if it can be obtained at reasonable cost. Eight or 10 large loads of barn-lot or well-rotted stable manure will not be too much to apply to a half-acre farm garden. If it is not thoroughly rotted it should be spread and plowed under some time before planting the .gar- Gen. If, on the other hand, it is com- pletely rotted it may be spread after plowing and harrowed into the soil. Commercial manures, including dried stockyards cattle manure, goat manure, pulverized sheep manure and pigeon manure, are sold by seed and supply hquses. Must Be Used Sparingly Poultry manure and the litter from the poultry houses will make an ex- cellent compost if rotted with sods or leaves, or even with a little garden loam. The materials should be placed in a flat pile and if dry, water should be adde@. The pile should be turned over at intervals until a uniformly rotted compost is obtained. This material is excellent for mix- ing with the garden soil Sut must be used sparingly where it is placed in the hills or directly in the rows where the plants are to be grown. Commercial, or chemical, fertilizers are important in maintaining the fer- tility of the garden. They supply the principal plant nutrients, nitrogen, Phosphoric acid and potash, and also small quantities of other elements that are beneficial to plant growth. Si itary Aids | Gardeners of truck crops very fre- quently apply a ton of average grade fertilizer to the acre for potatoes, beans, beets, lettuce, spinach and similar crops. While the ciop is growing they often supplement this with side dressings of 150 to 200 Werner Editor Says Senator Passes Chance to Make Names are names out in Dauntless Dunn county, whete Senator W. E. Jones, who voted against congression~ lines between the Twin Cities and the j&l reapportionment for North Dakota, lives. Furthermore, they are being called, without hesitancy and not ‘too much ‘The storm appeared to be centered|On with regard to Jones’ voteon the in the area bounded by Fergus Falls on the west, Brainerd to the east, and Alexandria to the south. temperatures which followed rain put wires out of commission in some sec- tions when they became laden with. ice while heavy snows brought lines down elsewhere. The Northwestern Telephone com- pany reported 41 circuits out of com- mission in the St. Cloud district, chiefly between Alexandria and Fer- gus Falls. LEFT $1,585,694 ESTATE New York, March 25.—(#)—The net value of the estate of the Princess Von Hatzfelt-Wildenburg has been fixed by state tax authorities at 585,604. The adopted daughter of road builder, died in England in 1928. The estate was left mainly to friends. BEE’S SPEED if An unladen honeybee can fly about 25 miles an hour, but seldom’ flies more than 15 miles an hour. $1, the late Collis P. Huntington, rail-|- subject. Many voters and most of the editors in the district have dis- agreed with Senator Jones on his. stand. A letter by Senator Jones, publish- ed in the Dunn County Spotlight at ‘Werner, illustrates the . point. The Dunn county editor, true to the tra- ditions of the press, gives Senator Jones space to air his views—and in which to call names—and then cxer- cises his privilege of disagreeing with the legislator. i The article, as printed in the Spot- light, is reproduced below. Killdeer, N. D., March 19, 1931. I have been characterized as a Bob Cat in a recent scurillous attack in the press. I take it as a compliment, as the Bob Cat is a liberty loving animal: living a clean life in the.open, of clean habits, seldom attacks unless molested, and has sharp claws for defense. Some would-be editors. resemble the Skunk, only as to its odor, but WwW LET GO“HEM "CAKES IVE BEEN HERE A HALF HOR, AN” “THEN’RE “TA” LAST ae ee ORDER ! THIS IS A SWELL WAY ‘O TREAT A GUEST ~ COME GROWLIN’ I AN? HOP HIS CAKES ! —- G'WANs PuT IN A BID FOR NouUR owl! ~ AIST CHANGED SINCE You WERE A KID, EXCEPT YoUR SQUEAL HAS GROWAS “To A GRUAST! SHIPMEAST ON MY “ABLE RIGHTS AND tt DEMAND “THESE, PANCAKES !] (WWDEED! wo -HE ONLY TimMé I REMEMBER BEING. ABLE “To EAT LEISURELY WAS “HE SUMMER YOUR ARM WAS INA SLING ¢ aw AS MASTER OF “THIS House, I HAVE PRIORITY Solve Six-Year-Old Murder of Kind, Amount and Method of Applying Fertilizer Important for Garden - Sow the fertilizer broadcast. Lime is not ordinarily considered a fertilizer, but a corrective material for sick and sour soils. A word of cau- tion is necessary, for sick soils are not JONES SCORED BY DUNN PAPER FOR OPPOSING REDISTRICTING ‘One sop he throws out is that the ‘bill will be two years hence: Maybe, but not if there are enough Jones in the house and senate to } j “Pretty Nurse: | NORTHDAKOTA MEN OUTNUMBER WOMEN BY $8,385 IN 1930 OF 680,845 Total Population, 671,243 Residents Classi- fied as White ‘Too bad, Jones, you ‘couldn't mus- a ter_up enough courage to tell them to go to h-, like they sald you should tell us when you returned home. ‘(Bditor’s Note: reference to.an editorial. in the. Bis- | o portion, Senator Jones is in error. The Tribune editorial quoted from favored reapportionment.) Free Alleged Liquor _; Mans, Chinese, Japanese, and Fill- or ammonia to the sere,” | Law Violators on Bond Oscar Reynolds and Ben Horwitz, Mandan, charged with violating the A ponies Washington, March 26.—()—North Dakota’s male population exceeds the female population by 38,385, accord- ing to classified figures announced ». Wednesday by the director of the ensus. Of the total population of 680,845, there were 359,615 males and 321,230 females, according to the 1930 census figures, as of April 1, 1930. ‘There were in 671,243 the state white persons, 377 negroes, and 9,225 ’ of other races, including Mexicans, hb If Senator Jones’ ‘Tribune was intended to con- the idea that The Tribune fa- his stand of refusing to reap- |pinos. ‘The white population showed an increase of 4.9 per cent over 1920 when there were 639,954 white persons in the state. The negro population, which numbered 467 in 1920, shows & decrease of 19.3 per cent. ‘The white population includes 256,- Always sick for, want of lime, and it)/the United States district court by U.| ¢22 natives of native parentage, 309,- < «| [i ie orten easy to overdo the use of/g Commissioner J. K. Doran Monday| 473 natives of foreign or mixed par- " sed Care With Use of , {and released on bail. The pair were| entage, and 108,148 foreign born. Of ne of Line arrested Saturday night by federal! the entire foreign born, 6,666 were Remember that too much lime in| prohibition officers in a raid on a re-| naturalized, 4,515 had taken out the soil will check the growth of most | sort five miles south of Bismarck, said/ their first papers, and 9,998 were re- vegetables. So if you use any lime|to have been operated by the two. turned as alien, with reports on citi- apply it sparingly at first, two to] Horwitz’s bond was set at $1,000/zenship missing-for 3,969. Alien for- three pounds to 100 square feet, be-/and Reynold’s at $500. eign-born whites represented 1.5 per cause a. little lime often has a very ‘Mandan men algo arfésted in|cent of the population in 1930, as decided effect in changing the acid-| liquor raids Saturday night in Man-/ compared with 2.8 per cent in 1920. § ity or alkalinity pf the soil. dan were given a hearing and re-| ‘The population 21 years of age and , ‘Truck growers of the South Atlan-|leased on bail. They are V. 1. Gard-| over numbered 358,182, or 52.6 per tic coast region follow the practice of |ner. W. H. Smith, Jack Jackson and/cent of the total. The foreign-born applying a ton of a medium grate|W. H. McCormick. white population 21 years of age and fertilizer to the acre for potatoes,| In each case bonds were set at/over amounted to 102,308, of which beans, beets and similar crops. They|$1,000 except in the tase of Jackson | 8,741 were returned as alien. tT sometimes supplement this with side| whose bail was set at $500. The figures show there were in dressings of 150 to 200 pounds of ni- the state at the time of the census, + trate of soda, or sulphate of ammonia,| But why do we see no bronze|8,387 Indians, 608 Mexicans, 103 to the acre during the 1g sea-|statues of fool drivers? They kill as}Chinese, 91 Japanese, 30 Filipinos, son just to push the crop along. many in a year as the war did. and six Koreans. @ If you apply eight or 10 : ys manure.to your half-acre garden, to 500 pounds of fertilizer may be ap- plied in addition, and as a rule the best way is to sow it broadcast while the land is being fitted for planting. Five pounds of a high-grade com- F |) R D mercial fertilizer to 100 square feet of space is about right for the small gar- den. Tomorrow: Preparing the Garden. | differing from that animal in ihe fact af tage that, their hide has no market value. ss Enraged at the failure of their in- sidious propaganda eminating from the Headquarters of a coterie of cheap dirty politicians in Bismarck, who plotted to rob the people of their rights to select at.the Polls, the men who would represent all the people of the State in Congfess, and not a little clique of office seekers of any fac- tion. Blank Petitions with typewritten headings were sent out from my Dis- trict, was one form of insidious mis- leading propaganda, sent out by a Hele bitdig in Bismarck to * luence unst Vot pray uspecting Voter to) Arpiplex shatter-proof glass windshield The malicious, . r Rear cenrecie personel has saved many lives in collisions : ae ag » various fem of ie ive .. Asser during. the ‘Session, were EVERY new Ford is equipped with a Triplex shatter- nauseat , ded readers. dshield. This i mad that glass will ‘The charge of “cheap dirty politics” proof win me < sah hey met a rests. against the -accusers of the fly or splinter under the hardest impact. It has saved >. ‘Members who voted to let the matter of re-districting be decided oy the People of the State, and not to the few snarling petty office seekers who would deny the voters at large the right to say with the Ballot who shall represent North Dakota in Congress. Quoting excepts from an editorial in the Bismarck Tribune of Feb. 28: “This issue of fixing a fair for redistricting is bigger than Hall, Burtness or Sinclair, and the person who can tell what conditions will con- gets nowhere. “Fence fixers and political machin- ists have injected the issue of candi- dates into this contest. It dces not belong there and to iegislate along such transitory lines would’ be foolish and ineffective. 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