The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 18, 1931, Page 1

North Dakota’s Oldest Newspaper ESTABLISHED 1878 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE. BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1931 The Weather Fair tonight; Saturday probably rain or snow; not much change. PRICE FIVE CENTS New York Gang Chieftain Slain HARNED DURING 26 HOURSIN CAPTIVEY Wealthy Founder of Garment Company and Negro Chauf- feur Abducted Wednesday WERE KIDNAPED BY TRIO Only One of ‘Abductors Was Discourteous, Kansas City Woman Tells Officials Kansas City, Det. 18.—()—Nervous but unharmed after almost 36 hours in the “filthy” rendezvous of three kid- napers, Mrs. Nelly Donnelly, wealthy founder of a Kansas City garment company, and George Blair, her ne- gro chauffeur, were freed early Fri- day. i They were released from a motor car near the Kansas Avenue bridge on the Kansas side ef the city and soon! were back at the Donnelly home. Their return marked the end of a per- iod of anxious waiting by her hus- band, Paul Donnelly, and his attor- neys who were at a ldss as to how to get in touch with ‘the abductors for the delivery of $75,000 in ransom, de- manded under a threat of death to Blair and blindness for the woman. L, M. Siegfried, chief of police, said he was certain no money had been paid. Mrs. Donnelly said she and Blair were taken from the rendezvous about 30 minutes before they were put out of a motor car. ‘Was Kidnaped Wednesday ‘The kidnaping occurred at her home Wednesday. As Blair drove into the driveway another machine pulled in. Three men got out. Blair was forced to move over from the wheel and two of the men got in- to the rear seat with Mrs. As the car .moved away the men ee to big eee eon peEeey. “That got my _ Up;? 1, “and T fought. But they’ finally’ got the sack over my head.” Blair also was blindfolded and, af- ter a 20-minute drive, they were transferred to another car. “We went out Brookside boulevard to Huntington road,” she related. “I was kicking and screaming all the way, trying to attract the attention trom the stteam of motorists. We were taken into a dark house, I was seat- ed without delay and they immediate- ly told me they wanted money.” She was compelled to write as one man dictated. Had Bed and Cot She said the captives were tied| hand and foot. The abductors had provided a bed for her and a cot for house as “filthy.” . “Then the thing got out (referring to the news of the abduction) and they told me they realized they never should have taken a woman and that they were going to release us.” Less than were released. Former Senator James A. Reed, neighbor and counsel for Paul Don- nelly, also said no. ransom had been Mrs. Donnelly expresed belief she had been kept on the outskirts of Kansas City, Kansas. She said she could hear cows and chickens about the place. German Railroads Held Unable to Pay) Basel, Switzerland, Dec. 18—(P)—; ‘The Young plan committee of experts decided Friday by unanimous vote that the German railways will be un- able to meet eal non-postponab! reparations payments next year. ‘The experts accepted a sub-commit- tee’s report which contained- the statement it will be impossible for the railways to balance their budget in 1932, even though the unconditional ver plan. ‘This disclosure was accepted as the first official indication the experts’ final report would contain a recom- mendation for a moratorium on con- ditional payments rather than. for cancellation, = - What Do YOU See? HARRY HERSCHLEB, Under- _ wood Typewriter company: “It seems that the adverse con- ditions prevailing have caused @ more neizhborly spirit amongst busihess men. “When one man héars of an- other's success fn closing a sale, he is spurred on to more effort himself. * “The needs of the unfortunates have drawn people of all creeds together for charitable effort more so than ever before. “Also, though hope doesn’t fill pocketbooks or stomachs, it helps. “The ability and stamina of the ordinary man on the street to _ hang on is about the _ most marked characteristic that 1 note at, the present time.” : De Donnéily. |ed Friday. an hour later the rm le|the poultry projects for the year. In [Woman Is Freed /LENZ AND JACOBY. "| WALLOPED HARD BY | NEW BRIDGE PAIR Theodore A. Lightner, Culbert- son’s Latest Partner, . Proves Real Star GET LEAD OF 4,965 POINTS Have Good Run of Cards and Usually Make Most of Them; Argument Rages New York, Dec. 18—()—The great- | est swing of any session of the con. tract bridge world series left Ely Cul- ' bertson and his new partner—Theo-; dore A. Lightner. » scintillating star} of his system—4,965 points ahead of Sidney 8. Fri ‘iday. In the eighth session the Culbertson | side won five of six rubbers and} gained 4,555 for its greatest lead in; Points. It also went into the lead in: jrubbers won for the first time, having | taken 26 compared with 26 for the {representatives of the “official” sys- tem. Lightner .is substitutting for Mrs. Culbertson so she can prepare for: Christmas. He will be Culbertson’s partner again Friday night and at the: sessions next, week—Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday nights and Saturday | He had @ good run of cards andi usually made the most of them. His technique, especially in play, aroused | the open admiration of his opponents i i | | MBS, NELL DONNELLY i PROJECT PLANS ARE | OUTLINED FOR 1982 | BY COUNTY COUNCIL Special Eniphasis Laid on Live- stock Work By Burleigh Organization sets. They went down 15 times, once! jon @ grand slam effort, doubled, and once on @ bid of one, doubled, on which they lost 1,000 points alone. ‘Strategic’ Pass Hurts The 1,000, point loss was due to a strategic pass by Culbertson’ after Lightner had daubled in order for Extensive livestock operations will jbe undertaken by local farmers in ; 1832 under a program outlined by the Burleigh county agricultural council, | H. O, Putnam, county agent, announc- ‘Bpecial emphasis will be placed on bertson’s strength .was;mainly in the livestock “work with hogs and beef \suit bid by Jacoby phiysloally. cattle listed. among the major projects 4Continued on page nine) for the year. é Under thé pian, 4-H clubs{in the county will continue programs already started, stressing Ivestock production and the raising of alfalfa, sweet clov- jer, millet, and sudan grass as fodde: sg even me * = CHURCH CELEBRATION jPlans were set forth to reorganize jun- jlor clothing clubs, promote organiza- ition of food clubs, and encourage the Many Pioneer Members of Bap-, {continuation of other projects already| tist Congregation to Speak (undertaken. ; { In connection with livestock plans, at Session jthe council urged the adoption of a {Program calling for extensive develop- jment of the industry within the coun- | ty. Among recommendations was a/ Proposal to stage a junior livestocix how In connection with the annual nievement Day in September. | " ttendal The committee urged that farmers | jDenene store in: a pee will Be assist in locating breeding stock, con- [eipaiand neous wae deme ieet| tinue purebred sire campaigns, con- iff guring its half-century of activity | finue baby beet club work, particl- |i, Simerck, \ a Pate in feeding demonstrations, and lattend agricultural conferences. Tt also was urged that farmers rais- | ing hogs procure better breeding stock, | {maintain sanitary pens, and encour- jage the formation of pig clubs among A series of meetings held in co- operation with the Northwestern Crop i Improvement Association are expected ito bring about ‘a number of soil tests with the idea of improving soil con- ditions. ‘The advisibility of using phosphorous on certain’ types of land will be discussed as well as the feasi- bility of using certain phot aly | A. Program composed of: short.ad- Farmers were asked to cooperate | dresses and musical numbers will fol- with and assist the wool pool when-/low. Flovd Roberts will give a vocal ‘ever possible and to take advantage of frag waa } Maile hig Bive'a vio- the sale and exchange to be ‘held r; Dr. Fannie Dunn Quain ‘next tall. ‘ |will speak’ on “Bismarck in the | will ‘Culling, ‘disease-prevention, and cd- | Eighties;” will Craven will speak ‘on Celebration of the fiftieth anniver- | when the present church building was \ dedicated in 1906. She is the mother jot Mrs. Clare Nelson, 320:-Mandan St. ber of the church for many; years, will jserve as toastmaster. Her dauahter, Miss Gertrude Evarts. will read the |Ust of pastors affiliated with the number of them. |gon will sing; Mrs. R. D. Hoskins, will. laddition encouragement to poultry clubs and the Missouri Slope Poultry French, H. F. O'Hare and .Charles Following will be s talk on Memories of the Past 15 Years.” by making shelterbelt plantings. x Rev, O. 8. Jacobson, former pastor; a ' . Members of the council are: George | H. Will and Walter Seliens, Bismarck; Erwin Anderson, L. E. Heaton, Jr., P. 'p, Bliss, and Mrs. P. P. Bliss, Mc- | Kenzie; Anthony Erickson and Enock | Fargo Anderson, Wilton; A. J. Norlin, Me- \noken; ‘Tyler Johnson, Sterling; Mrs.| ron, . A. E. Kopplin, Wing; . Emil| Look,” by Rev. the entire assembly will sing “Auld Lang Syne.” : the Church,” by Dr.. Pred... Stockton, ; @ talk, “Young People and the Haughty Navajo Indians Are Humbled By Three Bitter December Blizzards Gallup, N. M., Dec. 18—>)— attentions ~ and Three December blizards have |. iE jumbled the haughty Bleck Mountain Navajo Indians — an all wildest dances found in the Na- end sought by the white man vajo country. since 1865, but unsuccessfully un- But @ runner has come out of til near-privation turned them to the mountains to the: Springs 3 Great White Father Friday. trading post, the nearest settle- ment, and asked for relief for his' | mous Indian scout, Kit Carson, fellow. tribesmen and their flocks. subdued the belligerent Navajos Superintendent John Hunter said || and took them to # government he gathered from the runner the {| reservation near Fort Sumner. A Indians were not starving, but large grdup of the Indians fled that supplies were low gnd fear of into thé Black Mountain region. ences caused their first 200 miles northwest of here. appeal to the whites in history. ‘Sunplies will be started imme- diately. bag | jactive American. Legion post, is put- \servicemen’s magazine which goes to Lenz and Oswald Jacoby! Lenz and Jacoby suffered damaging | Culbertson to offer his best suit, Cul- | wiGR WILE OPEN OF JAPANESE ARMY sary of the First Baptist church will) get under way at 6:30.6’clock Friday | evening with a banquet in the, chureh parlors. i Among the special guests will be! Mrs, Miriam Willlams, widow of Rev | Wiliams, who gave the main address ; Mrs. Nellie Evarts, an active mem-/| {ehurch in the 50 years. since it was! founded, and also greetings‘ from a/ ponizing demonstrations will feature | “Notes of Early Days;” Esther Jacob- | jrelate “Memories of 40 Years;” and’ @ trio, composed of Mesdames J. P./ and| numerous ofl wells were flooded and . H. Bayles, Hu- | talk, “A Forward ckaon. In closing | ~ City Gains Fame from Legion Effort SANTA CLaus’ ADISTANTS~ up sPetz fosr, Sisruacre, eB OLD TOYS RePaiReD DISTRIBUTION To NEEDY — The manner in which Bismarck’s| While Santa Claus may have his G. H. Q. at the North Pole, his P. C. for several weeks before last Christ- mas was a storeroom at Bismarck, North Dekota, with sixty members of Lloyd Spetz post composing his sup- ply corps. With the ald of the other posts all through Western North Da- kota, the Bismarck Legionnaires as- sembled old toys. With hammers, saws and paint brushes they made these like new. At Christmas time,| with the help of Boy Scouts and the Red Cross, they placed the toys in homes which otherwise might have known no visit from Santa Claus. As with the toys, so also with food and things to wear. Milton Rue, “Open Your Heart Chairman” said Friday the record made during the campaign last year Probably will be surpassed this year. A complete report covering all phases ting this city “orf the map” is illus- trated by the above reproduction of a cartoon appearing in the last edition of the American Legion Monthly, ex- imore than a million veterans of the {World war. ‘The cartoonist was Waligren, fa- mous for his caricatures of doughboys and staff artist for the “Stars and Stripes” newspaper published over-| seas by the A. E. F. during the war The inspiration for the drawing was @ report sent to national headquarters of the Legion by the local post cover- ing its “Open Your Heart” campaign: for 1930. Since its publication num- erous other Legion posts throughout. the country have adopted the Bis- marck idea, according to information received here. of the work will be made to the pub- Here's what the Legion monthly |llc when a check-up of the work done has to say of the Bismarck enterprise: |is made after Christmas, he said. Issue Warrant for Man Suspected of Shooting NEW OFFENSIVE IN MANCHURIA I$ PLAN Charge Edward Race With Shooting N. D. Man in Minneapolis . 4 Minneapolis, Dec.’ 18.—(#)—A" War- rant charging Edward Race, 30, Min- neapolis, with first-degree murder in connection with the killing of Andrew Erickson as hé sought’ to defend his ; Announcement of Drive Against | sister, was issued Friday, Chief of Po- é lice William Meehan announced. Bandits Made Following {The sister of the slain man, Mary Friday Conflict |Ruth Erickson, has been in jail since the shooting but she was expected to} | be released Friday, Chief Meehan said. | Miss Erickson had been a voluntary | Tokyo, Dec. 18—(?}—Plans for | prisoner’ because of her fear of the new and extensive military campaign! man sought. The Ericksons came here against alleged bandits in Manchuria | {rom Kenmare, N. D., where the par- {were announced by # spokesman for | Paes Seine. : Chief Meehan said a photograph of | the war office Friday as reports were| Race had been identified by a pawn- received of fighting in- which one broker as the man ee whom ‘he aad are the weapon used. purchase Japanse and: 14 ‘Chinese were. killed, Boensthade ef 6;10:p. m1. ‘Wednesday, | nun pevetel} wonder, and an hour later Erickson ‘was shot | A dispatch to’ the Rengo NewWS/as he stepped from the bath room of Agency from Tientsin, China, said the | his sister's apartment to intercede in Chinchow situation has become s0 acute the Japanese residents of his sister’s behalf. cael Meehan said 5 ince saieo | Shanhatkwan decided to evacuate. | had been found who told o} We eee military campaign, the war ing related to them he killed Erickson. office spokesman said, will be a drive | The chief said he expected the arrest against bandits in the territory just of Race in the next 24 hours. north of Chinchow. The: complaint was signed by De- ‘also were received that ban- | tectives Clarence McLaskey and John {dits are un ly. active’ around Changchun, tun and other its. Harmon and was issued by 8. Paul Pomield Marshal Prince Kotohito Skahen, assistant Hennepin county attorney, after hearing the story of: Kanin was selected Friday as citlef of the army general staff to succeed Miss Erickson, who said Race believed Generel Hanzo Kanaya. It is the.first her brother was another suitor. time since the Russo-Japanese war & ce eer BURLENGH FARMERS crc" | AWARDED $6, 298.3 man of Emperor Hirohito. Mississippi’s Flood : Conditions Alarming iWin. Three-Year Battle Against; Soo Line After Prairie Fire in 1928 Jackson, Miss., Dec. 18.—(P}—Flood conditions reached alarming propor- | tions Friday in portions of two states —northern Mississippi and the ial dorado section of Arkansas. - ‘The village of Kenova, near Eldo-; Burleigh county farmers have rado, Ark. was swept by overflow: won a verdict of $6,226.36 after a from the Quachita river and Smack-| three-year battle against the Soo over creek and residents fled their| Line Railway ‘company in a court homes. Highway and railroad traffic} action to recover damages suffered in’ that section was demoralized and) from a prairie fire Oct. 5, 1928. The farmers claimed the fire was started by employes of the railroad who were burning grass and weeds along the right-of-way near Welch’s ‘were forced to: case operations. ‘The Yazoo river and its tributaries in the northern part of Mississipp! j jcontinued to rise rapidly Priday and| Spur in Telfer township, —- their overflow spread over fields and! Grass, crops, hay, fencing, and \nighways ina manner.that tened | buildings burned in the fire, to bring flood Mc derrivag ualling F = Sees sounty alti court those area. ju) broug! in e Vi gi ‘avOl oC aT Set eee of the farmers at 10:05 p. m., Thurs- .. day, after deliberating almost 12 Capital Publisher pou she farmers ‘asked i sui Cited for Contempt & Pandit wer Hagen, Tavo, orn, Washington, Dec. 18—U?—Edward | Ciovononal, Orin Dutton, George |B, MoLeen, publisher of the Washing- | Sctrborgugh, 0. P. Welch,, Fred |ton Post, was cited for contempt of court Friday for sending a daintily wrapped Ohristmas box. to his home jcontaining a summons for. his estrang- ed-wife to appear in s Latvian court {as @ defendant in divorce proceedings. | An order requiring McLean to show Ally of Roosevelt next Tuesday why he should not be {held in contempt and imprisoned was Dies in Connecticut jsigned Chief Justice Alfred A.. * , Wheat of ‘the District of Columbia su-| Farmington, Conn., Dec. 18—(?)—. \preme court upon petition by attor-|Herbert Knox Smith, 62, polltical] ‘neys for his wife, Mrs. Evalyn: Walsh allay of the late President Theodore | McLean. Roosevelt in the Bull Moose progres- ‘They contended the newspaper pub- | sive movement of 1912, died ‘Thursday | lMsher, now in Latvia, had violated a/of heart disease. | |court injunction forbidding him from| His widow, Gertrude E. Smith, is a| proceeding ih any way with a divorce | national leader in the league of wom- Smith, Thomas Homer and ‘Henry Cra , The. verdict stipulated how the award should be divided among the plaintiffs. |/HOUSE EXPECTS 10 ;itions that the railroad situation, Kidnaped Woman Is Freed Without Ransom MRS, DONNELLY NOT | Chief Slain | Cs | Gang i PASS MORATORIUM BEFORE MIDNIGHT Senate Finds Little to Do and Adjourns Without Settling Moses Affair LAMONT AND MEYER HEARD Internationally - Known Banker Tells of Foreign Loans Made By Morgan Washington, Dec. 18.—(AP)—The House became fully moratorium- minded Friday, debating the Hoover proposal in the expectation of ap- proving it before midnight. The Senate, meanwhile, found lit- tle to do and adjourned without an- other try at breaking the deadlock over Moses as president pro tem. The president had house leaters in for breakfast, winning a promise frm members of both parties for rapid consideration of nis economic Proposals. ' Committees stayed active. On the Senate side Fhomas W. Lamont—in- ternationally known-banker — testi- fied the public was unduly alarmed over the foreign security holdings of American banks. Eugene Meyer, federal reserve board governor, told a House com- mittee the president’s proposed “re- construction corporation” would suc- cor business. The House public lands committee decided to defer until February hear- ings on the public lands bill formu- lated by President Hoover’s com sion. Chairman Evans, Montana, was in- structed to confer with the Senate paebe lands committee at a later jate. JACK (LEGS) DIAMOND Death came to Jack Diamond, noted New York gangster and one-time bodyguard of Arnold Rothstein, noted gambler, early Friday in a rooming house at Albany, N. Y. NORTH DAKOTANS T0 ‘SAVE THOUSANDS BY REDUCED OIL RATES i = Reductions Will Run Up to About 20 Cents Per 100 Pounds, Expert Says North Dakota's freight bill on pe- jtroleum and petroleum products from the mid-continent field will be re- May Probe Wage Rates Chairman Connery of the House duced several labor committee said he would pro- dollars a year ds the result of a re- pose an investigation into wage rates Vision of the rates ordered by the In- and would summon labor department Commerce Commission, it Officials and William Green, presi- W@5 estimated by the state railroad dent of the American Federation of ¢ommiasion here Friday. Labor. 4 The reductions will run up to about The Massachusetts democrat said 20 cents per 100 pounds, E. M. Hen- he would introduce a resolution Sat-,dricks, rate expert for the commis- urday calling for the inquiry ‘sion, said. At the maximum reduc- Made No Specific Plea :tion, the freight saving will amount Representative Snell, the Republi- to about one cent a gallon he said. can floor leader, said the president Bismarck, Dickinson, Mandan and did not make any specific plea for Jamestown receive reductions of non-partisan action, but talked to the about 20 cents per 100 pounds, ac- Democratic and Republican leaders cording to Hendricks,. while Williston present as though they were a united and Minot’s reduction will run about group with a common purpose. Snell 18 cents, with Devils Lake 15 cents. added he personally believed the| Hendricks said that a revision of Democratic leaders’ were willing to oil rates in 1928 gave North Dakota cooperate in full on emergency eco- reductions about 30 cents per 100 nomic legislation. pounds from mid-continent fields, ef- The house banking committee yes-'fecting a saving of appoximately terday approved the land bank bill $500,000 a year on oil shipped into and Snell and Rainey tentatively North Dakota. agreed on the floor that it would be! The Interstate Commerce Commis- brought up in the house for action sion said many adjustments were Monday. jmeeded to make the North Dakota Tates and rates to points north and west on the Great Northern railroad , between Duluth and Pipestone, Min- nesota, reasonable. The companies charged rates on oil which went into effect in 1928 were out of line with ;Pates to nearby sections affected by ‘recent adjustments. They asked for reparation. ‘The railroads were directed to make adjustments of their rates by March 15. The-principle changes were based on percentages of the rates on first class freight. These percentages were 22.5 per cent on first class to Fargo and related points; 25 per cent to Jamestown and related points, and 2614 per cent to Mobridge, 8. D., and related points. All rates are based on the distance of the haul. / Differentials betweens the points in the affected territory and Duluth and other Minnesota points were ordered to be retained. NOMINATIONS CONFIRMED At a. press conference called by Walter Newton, one of the president's secretaries, he said in answer to ques- known to bulk large in Hoover's mind, had been touched on “only in its broader aspects.” Amendment Just Mentioned It was. understood at the white house that there had been mention, | but no lengthy discussion, of the amendment added to the moratorium measure Thursday, barring cancella- tion or reduction of debts. ‘ Before the house banking commit- tee, Myeer said “lack of confidence and fear” were largely responsible for the tight credit situation and the ex- isting economic conditions. “T believe a bill of this kind would restore confidence in many areas, and that alone would be commendable,’ e said. With a capital of $500,000,000 fur- nished by the government, the cor- poration would be authorized to issue bonds not exceeding $1,500,000,000. The white house took its first for- mal notice of the attack upon Presi- dent Hoover by Representative Mc- Fadden, Republican, Pennsylvania. «Continued on page nine) Aged Crone Holds to Dream as Veteran Mississippi Rivermen Predict Disaster Keokuk, Ia., Dee. 18.—(AP)— A 68-year-old woman’s dream to float down the Mississippi in a flatboat, is going to be realized she says, despite predictions of. veteran river men that she can- not succeed, The woman, Miss Randi Lerohl, former scrubwoman of Superior, Wis., now 43 days out of St. Paul, her starting point, is de- te Friday confirmed the nomination f George R. James of Tennessee and Wayland W. Magee of Nebraska to be members of the federal reserve board. day, her feet were in six inches of water. But her dream lies south. There she will be able to take things easier; just work enough to keep her going and regain her health. In the little trunk in the bow of the crate-like craft she bought 44 days ago in St. Paul she has everything she owns. This trip has cost her more than had she termined to.carry‘on even though gone by rail. ‘ she is now almost penniless. Her Miss Lerohl cannot swim. She face is raw from exposure td the kas never beer in a boat before, except when she came to this country from Norway. If the river freezes, she says she'll skate. Nothing else matters except to reach the south in the way she has started. What, she asks, is the cold, the leaky boat, the dis- comfort, the loneliness, compared to satisfying her ambition—the same urge that led her Viking forebears to cross seas in open boats? Today she set about getting ready for the next lap of her journey. elements, but she won’t give up. And warnings given her at every port of call go unheeded. “I started, didn’t 1? I can’t give up what I started.” It is an ambition she had had more than 20 years. | She has been told repeatedly | it cannot be done. At Fort Madi- son men who inspected her 20- foot craft said it could not nego- tiate the rapid waters that lay before her. One man said he couldn't drive a nail irto the hoat, so rotten was it. When she action begun there. en voters. arrived from Nauvoo, Ill., Thurs- 1 hundred thousand | Wood, Washington, Dec. 18—()—The sen-| J a DN | SHOT T0 DEATH IN HOUSE AT ALBANY Noted Underworld Figure Was Celebrating Latest Vic- tory Over Law GANGLAND STRIKES QUICKLY Accomplishes Feat Which Arm of Law Had Failed to Perform Legally Albany, N. Y., Dec. 18.—(AP)— Fresh from a new vindication by the forces of law and order which he had flouted most of his life, Jack (Legs) Diamond was killed Friday by mem- bers of the underworld in which he had long been himself a sinister fig- ure of ever-growing power. Thursday night he was acquitted on a kidnapping charge and he was still celebrating his victory with high revelry in a rooming house near the capitol when gang guns suddenly spoke out the final verdict. The arm of the law, which so many times had reached for him, had reached once more in vain, but the arm of the underworld struck, and did not miss. As gang bullets at last ended the career of the former bodyguard of Arnold Rothstein, the fair - weather friends who had gathered to celebrate his latest victory over the law fled into the darkness and it was not un- til about two hours later that the murder was discovered by police. i ly Warm Diamond’s body was still warm and his twisted features showed he had died in agony. He had been shot down so often during his tem: uous career that he had achieved the reputation of being practically “bul- let proof,” but at last he had been fal Y wounded and he waged his last’fight against death alone. The gang leader’s widow and Mrs. the Gl keg of the house where Diamond died, were held as pict ecg é e I ing was done by two un- identified men, who burst into Dia- mond’s room and sent three pistol bullets into his brain from close’ range. Mrs. Wood, owner of the rooming house, said she heard the shots, the men dashing down the stairs, and then the sound of a rapidly depart- ing automobile. There was one bullet wound in the back of the head. Two other bullet marks were seen on the cheek. _ Mrs. Diamond, at the police sta- tion, sobbed, moaned, and smoked cigarettes incessantly. “I didnt’ do it,” she kept repeat- ing. “I don’t know anything about Had Just Come Home Mrs. Wood is rted to have told the police—and this did not agree with earlier accounts—that Diamond had gone out and returned to the house between 4:30 and 5 o'clock. The automobile in which he returned croye away as soon as he entered the loor. A few minutes later she heard the three shots and then the sound of men rushing down the front stairs. They paused a second in the hall, and she heard one say: “Oh, hell, that’s enough.” Then the front door was slammed and the men hurried away in a sedan. F Diamond was found not guilty Thursday at Troy of kidnapping James Duncan, 20, a farm boy. After receiving a hearty kiss from his wife, Diamond rushed away from {the courthouse without saying any- thing of his plans. The state had tried once before— also _unsuccessfully—to send Dia- mond up for an alleged attack upon Duncan and Grover Parks in Green county last April. In addressing the jury John T. Cahill, state prosecutor, had con- ctured that Diamond had. mauled and tortured Parks to impress Marion Roberts, his chorus-girl companion. The ending of Diamond's career marked the fourth time that he had been a target of rival gangsters’ bul- lets. When “Little Augie” Orgen, lower east side gangster, was killed in 1927 “Legs” was with him and re- ceived three bullet wounds. In Octo- ber of last year two men invaded his hideaway in a New York hotel and shot him five- times, but -neither he nor his show girl sweetheart, Marion “Kiki” Roberts, who was found in an adjoining room, threw any light on the attack. 5 The third shooting occurred in April of this year when gangsters drilled him with buckshot as he stepped from @ Catskill, N. ¥., roadhouse.