Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 3, 1918, Page 1

DR |ISHER CAPTURE: PRISON TERM FACES AUTO SLAYER WHO RAN DOWN MAN LAST EVENING LOCAL OFFICERS: ON MAK ims Ohe Caspr r Dailsy Cribune RESULT KILLING William McCuen Is| Victim of Speed | Maniac Here | populace thru court prosecution| awaite“fevelations regarding ti identity of an unknown speed | maniac and moral coward who, at| 8:30 last night, after running down and fatally injuring William McCune at the corner of Fourth and | Wolcott, left the victim of his mad-| ness in a dying, mangled condition on the pavement and speeded up his car to effect an escape. While no information is at hand that the cul- prit has been ‘identified, it seems | probable that he will be located thru | a description of the car, and be brot! to justice. | At an inquest to be conducted by} Coroner Lew M. Gay later in the day, such evidence as can be adduced will be offered by eye-witnesses to} the accident, ineluding John Carey,! Taylor White and Mrs. Bonyen. It} is unlikely that sensational develop-| ments will be unfolded at this time, as the inquest will merely, determine} how McCune met his death, and will leave the more sordid details of crim- inal negligence and murderous con- duct to a later hearing, after the cul-| prit has been apprehended. McCune, who was hurled to the! pavement and almost instantly killed | under the big car, was unable to talk} before he expired, altho several) rushed to the scene of the accident and picked him up. | According to eye-witnesses of the| tragedy, the car was a Cadillac of the seven-passenger type, and rounded the corner of Fourth street at a ter- rif ti d, at th time | ignoring traffic regulations with re.| WASHINGTON, Sept. 8—The |Fobbers elambered aboard the ‘car, spect to following the right side of|steamer “West Haven,” gunned by | °ruere’ Mosse the street. McCune was struck as| he stepped from the curbing, and the| car, which whirled on at a rate of speed variously estimated at hetween 35 and 40 miles an hour, indicated that the driver was giving it an in- creased supply of gas. He also dim- med his lights so that identification was reduced to the minimum. At the corner near the Burlington depot he was seen to turn east, and here all immediate trace of him was lost. There were two occupants in the ma- chine. Witnesses to the accident, includ- ing those who will testify at the cor- oner’s inquest today, made haste to summon medical aid for McCune, but he breathed his last but a few mo- ments after John Carey and Taylor White reached him. McCune was a teamster in the em- ploy of Stark & Co., contractors, and had made this city his home for the past year. dren live at Fort Collins, Colo. ‘Bold Holdup by Masked Bandits in East Casper In-| | parade in the Casper business section in the morning until the last | auto load left the Fair Grounds in the late afternoon. a submarine off Halifax last Satur-| time by jabbing the muzzle of a gun day, escaped, it was learned today. | WEATHER FOR WEEK Local showers Tuesday till Thursday with rising temperature in north por- tion. VOLUME TWO The vengeance of an coraed|; LANDER “HUCKSTER RELIEVED OF S176. AT POINT OF GUNG AND GAR (a REQUISITIONED TO AID FLIGHT cludes Midnight Ride to Hills at Glenrock; No , Clue to Identity, Declare Officers | Held.up by two masked bahdits, robbed of $175_in cash and forced to driye his car between 20 ahd 25 miles to assist the bandits in covering up the tracks of their daring escapade, was the rather startling adventure of Robert Gossell of Lander last Saturday night, who is known to the people of Casper as an enterprising “huckster’’ who peddles vegetables to many — | homes in the city of Casper. SHIP ESGAPES © | wits deuriccttes gece. GUN FIRE OF BOCHE U-BOA ing the Northwestern tracks in East | Casper about 10:30 Saturday night | on his return home when two masked T bandits, stuck guns in his face and ‘ordered him to bring his car to a | stop. On obeying the summons the | punctuated their orders from time to | into his ribs. Five miles, 10 miles, and finally 20 miles were covered, during which {ime the Big Muddy oil field had been passed and one of the men had | taken Gossell’s place at the steering |wheel. ‘Turning off into ths ee + ‘ ; |near Glenrock approximately three SDE RER gear ORCER Bese | miles from town, the bandits brot the recently the police department has | machine to a stop, relieving Gossell waged a war against traffic violators | of an extraordinarily, heavy purse, representing the fruits of recent | Strange to relate the accident was | one not entirely unexpected by the | authorities, altho they had no knowl- edge of what form it would take and its consequences. Promiscuous speed- WRATH OF J. PLUVIUS FAIL | DAMPEN ARDOR IN LABOR FETE A wife and two chil- jofficers openly admit failure to fix which has resulted in scores being cited before the police court. In running down the guilty party | the sheriff’s office and the police de- partment probably will take an in-| ventory of every Cadillac automobile | owned in the ciy and likewise extend | their investigation to other districts. | Some other clues are being followed | but their result will not be made known until an arrest is made or the | labor in Casper, and telling him that he would find his car a mile or two down the road, drove off in the dark- ess. Gossell half expected that he had seen the last of his car us well as the money, but after a tramp of a mile and a half was rewarded by_ the discovery of his automobile, undam- aged, beside the roadway. It took him but a comparatively short time |to report the holdup to the authori- Phot blame. for ithe affair. ties of Glenrock and Casper, but the HUN ATTACKS ’ FAIL BEFORE YANKEE FIRE [By United Press} WITH THE AMERICANS IN FRANCE, SEPT. 2,—Strong Ger- man raiding attacks between Ba- zoches and Fismes were repulsed by Americans yesterday. In the | German positions northeast of \ Soissons. At one point German machine guns delayed a certain American | detachment under command of ; ; Lieut. C. O. Harris. He crept up, | Ma guns and rifles quickly | nest. broke up the Germans before they | An American brigadier general reached our lines. | - advanced in the open, under ¢ Within half an hour the enemy | Tific machine-gun fire, to make & attacked ag but American snip- | personal observation. ers and machine gunners thinned American airmen dropped two them out so rapidly that the Ger- | tons of bombs on objectives at mans fled. | Auden-le-Roman and Monguyon American artillery is ripping up and downed three hostile machines. |faet that he was unable to furnish | an intelligent description of the men thus far has prevented their appre- |hension. Outgoing trains at Glen- }rock have been watched without |avail and it is presumed that the _holdups have made good their | escape. | Gossell owns a farm near Lander} ‘and daily receives a shipment of | Fresh vegetables which he peddles | | from house to house. It is believed |that he was the victim of holdups | who “spotted” the “roll” he carried | nnd planned a deliberate attempt to} |rob him at the close of a successful | day’s business. HUN EMPIRE IS NEAR COLLAPSE AVERS NEUTRAL PARIS,.Sept. 8-—A Havas dis-| patch from Berne, Switzerland, to) |Le Matin, quots a prominent Swiss \citizen coming from Germany as de-| claring that the in thé last six weeks | formidable disillusion has swept Ger- many. “If the German. military sit- juation, does not improve,” the in-| formant said, “trouble that may sur- pass the acts of the. Bolsheviki in| Russia menaces the German empire. / THE DAILY TRIBUNE Has twice the circulation of any other newspaper serv- ing the local field. Ss TO Admiring Crowds Line Streets as Labor} Hosts Pass in Review; Program at Track Is Packed with Thrills In spite of the evident determination of the weather man to keep | the people indoors with the cold weather and a drizzling day, bor Day celebration for the benefit of the Red Cross and other kin-| dred charitable ofganizations was All precedents and traditions were ignored in the morning parade which \offered no glittering array of floats and uniformed ‘pesticipants; yet, in its simplicity and. strength it presented an imposing ‘spectacle, a visualiza- tion of Labor’s part’ in the great world struggle, and as such it reflect- ed a solemn and steadfast~ purpose which carried its impression to the hundreds of people who lined the walks and curb lines to echo the sen- timent which the ‘silent procession radiated. Altho: reduced materially by the threatening weather the crowd was in no wise depleted and the event proved beyond the shadow of a doubt that the labor hosts are performing a function that is no less worthy than the greater sacrifices overseas. Headed by J. B. Griffith, presi- dent of the Casper Trades Assembly, and Richard Dunn, marshal of the day, flags and manners constituted the only outward manifestation of display, with a great American flag conceded the place of honor in the vanguard of the march. Closely fol- lowing it was the service flag of the Trades Assembly, bearing witness to the fact that local unions have con- tributed 297 men to the service of their country. Both were borne by} the Waiters and Laundry workers, | who presented an attractive appear-] ance in uniforms of immaculate) white. Behind the band the other unions followed in close succession, the line of 1,000 or more patriotic “toilers” reaching back some six blocks in length and dotted with banners and service flags of 18 locals. The serv- ice flags told in eloquent. testimony of the volunteers who have left the unions for the service of the govern- ment, while the banners were none the less impressive in their record of | labor’s response to patriotic calls for | assistance and gupport im winning | the war. At one o'clock in the afternoon the dribble of entrants to the grounds ithru the gate increased to a steady stream, as the cars from town and the® pedestrains who elected.to walk the distance reached their goal. The} crowd swelled and grew until every | available seat in the large grandstand | was occupied and the overflow were | accomodating themselves on. both sides of the baseball diamond. About this time the ball. teams got ready to start the game and also Company D arrived from the Athletic field. | The Company members had elected | to stop at the gate and each mar pay the regular admission fee and _ this) was done, the proceeds to go to the| Red Cross and the institutions that | were to profit by the generosity of the soldiers. ‘The Guards are to be| especially commended for their open- handed generosity in the: matter. | FLAG PRESENTATION IMPRESS- IVE. Arriving at the grounds, the Guards were dismissed for the time and*shortly afterwards were assemb- léd to receive the flag provided for them by the ladies of the W. C. T.W. and the Mothers’ League. The men formed in the rear of the grandstand and marched around;the track in front of the judges: stand where the (Continued. on page 8) knee ERLE AN RTE DeRRTR ELUNE OUD" (TTS APRON the La- a pronounced success, from the ALLIED EMBASSY IS-OGCUPIED BY THE BOLSHEVIKS COPENHAGEN, Sept. 3.—Bol- shevik troops occupied the British embassy at Petrograd and shot one Englishman during a general exam- ination of houses Sunday, following the murder of Uritski, Bolshevik commissary of the interior. sea haps al EIGHT BILLION REVENUE BILL NOW COMPLETE WASHINGTON, Sept. 3.—-The House Ways and Means Conimittee today handed down a completed eight billion dollar revenue bill. After it passes, as is expected in about ten days, the House may take a recess until after the elections are over. ———— NUMBER 272 GREAT COAL BASE FALLS ‘Hun Retirement Speeded up on Front of. Fifty Miles by Hammer Blows of Hais’s Victorious Armies; Ten Thousand Pris- oners Added to Toll of Captives, Who Throw Down Arms Without Fighting. On a front of virtually 50 miles, from just below Ypres to a point near Peronne to the Somme, the German armies are in retreat. This retrograde movement is not a voluntary one on the part of the enemy, bat has been forced by a series of unremitting trip hammer blows in- flicted by Foch in the past six and seven weeks. It now has been accelerated by a notable victory won by Haig yesterday in breaking thru the strong defensive lines protecting the railway centers of Dowai jand Camrai, and thratening to outflank even the main Hindenburg \lies south to St. Quentin. Already the taking of ten thousand prisoners by the British is re- |ported, and German casualties in killed and wounded are declared to |be notably heavy, as their thickly massed forces felt the force of the British blow. So pronounced and speedy is the German retirement that it seems |as if the enemy, if he has not met with disaster, is perilously near the | verge of one. | In what appears a like effort to escape in time, the scope of the \German retirement, which had been proceeding somewhat leisurely |both north and south of the Somme, has been markedly accentuated |north of that river. , In this movement, the important French coal mining city of Lens, jat the gates of which the British pounded vainly virtually all of last jyear, has been evacuated, the British moving in. | Northward, in Flanders, the retreat is continuing, and the British have further closed up the Lys salient by taking possession of Wulver- ghem, two miles south of Kemmel. South of Lens, the Germans ap- |parently are acknowledging themselves beaten on the Quant-Drocourt |line, where Haig’s break was effected, and are retreating in this vitally |important sector, without attempting a counter drive upon the victo- |rious British. |Bulwark of Hindenburg Line Is |Smashed by the British Advance | [By United Press] LONDON, Sept. 3.—The Germans have abandoned the | famous Drocourt-Queant switch line and are hurriedly retiring | southward in an effort to get behind the Woton line or such a | part of it as is left. Queant was captured and also Lens, farther | north, by the British. Simultaneously the British and Americans at the extreme north advanced a mile and occupied Wulverghem. The British ‘also advanced four miles on a 20-mile front in the region of | Buissy this morning, capturing Doignies, Velu, Berkincourt, |and Rocquigny. Evacuation without resistance of the Drocourt-Queant line the British in possession of positions Hindenburg regarded as the most important in that section. Hindenburg prepared it in 1917 as a protection against any Allied advance from the Arras region along the Cambrai and Douai highways. Much of the Wotan line is destroyed but Hindenburg NEW YORK, Seput. 3.—The resig-| hopes to hold it til h ref iti nation ofPralteat eean af te Au | feos ee it unti e@ can reform and prepare positions JOHN D. RYAN QUITS BIG JOB | WITH ANACONDA | puts that he may devote his entire time to! the government as director of the air conda Copper Mining C: ‘ | ° tire time to| Huns Scream with Fear, Trow service, was announced today after) J)OW?L Arms, Admit Their Defeat a meeting of the company’s direc-| torate here. C. F. Kelley, vice-presi- Ten ‘Thousand Germans were taken prisoners yesterday dent, formerly of Butte, Mont., was| by the British. They screamed with fear as the British reached elected president. | their lines. They threw their hands up with the first appear- jance of the Canadians. When questioned, prisoners frankly MADE FISHING EASY voiced the belief that Germany is beaten. PARIS, Sept, 8.—It’s an ill wind “We don’t care,” said one. “(We want only peace.” This doesn’t mean that yesterday’s advance was a trium- phant parade. The Germans threw in great masses in some parts of the line.. Great masses are still coming up and a dec sive battle must yet be fought, but none doubts the ultimate result. that blows nobody good. During a) bombardment of a group of French hamlets far behind the lines most of the German shells fell in a river. The explosions killed hundreds of fish which the country folk eagerly harvsted. C (Continued on page 8) ZECHO-SLOVAKS ARE rn ee eee ere a 2 Ue We ee ee er ee ee eee ls es ee ee ee ee ae ae ee ee a ae ae. . . .. ~ RECOGNIZED ALLIES WASHINGTON, Sept. 3.—The | and commander-in-chief of the LONDON, Sept. 3.—The entente United States has recognized the Czecho-Slovak armies fighting in Allied troops in Northern Euro- Czecho-Slovak peoples as co-bel- Russia, France and Italy, met Sec- pean Rus: aided by Russian ligerents in their w: d Austria-H. f: ryk, president Czecho-Slovak National | retary of State Lansing at the State Department at noon and was formally notified of President Wil- son’s action, forces, on ust 31 captured the enemy positions north of Obozer- Arch- skaya, 75 miles south of Council, angel. fl RNR SOE Sa noid: