Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 26, 1920, Page 1

BODY OF MURDEREDMAN, RIDDLED BY BULLETS OF ROBBER ASSASSIN LIES FOR DAYS IN RANCH CELLAR Disappearance of Unidentified Ranch Employe Together with Missing Horse Only Clue to Slayer of Wealthy Stockman; Starving Livestock Leads to Discovery Early Sunday NUMBER 89 i | | | On a trail grown “‘cold’’ by lapse of time and scarcely a ray of hope that their quarry has not escaped, officers thruout the state today are throwing out a dragnet for the murderer of John J. Cor- bett, 46 years of age, wealthy pioneer stockman of Natrona county, whose body, riddled with bullets from a .25-.35 high-powered. rifle, was found Sunday morning secreted in a dugout cellar on the Corbett ranch, eight miles southeast of Casper. The lonely region of east Elkhorn valley, in which the ranch is © nestled at the foot of Casper mountain, alone holds the story of the crime. The murderer suspect, 'T0 BE RENEWED, y 5 q (ere lust for money, It is belleved, led) COUNCIL RULES Ee: Ppknomtand dibeentstied:. Hal [ E A S ING B TL L j : was employed by Corbett only a few] aaeearent \ la before and his disappearance, along Colonel Blunt of Engineers and Several Fe . j with a saddle horse, linked with one es ° -|French Legal Talent’ Red Cross*Workers Among Captives otra Ph Will Drati Reply |sser to justice. Taken by-Bolsheviki in East FIVE BULLETS | i Ibeen deputized by Sheriff Pat Royce DJ] ‘BA ] | ' AGAIN Red Cross, and an entire Polish army, bel SOME chetgnbors: when paeying former prisoners, were captured by the Bolsheviki ATs according to « telegram today from the for- Conference Arguments to Be Resumed on Oil Measure Along with Crush of of the foulest crimes uncovered here in to. Dutch Refusa { ‘The gruesome discov (By Associated Press.) fe ee 96 The livestock first sounded alarm. Any one consul at Irkutsk. « Other Business in Congress ® RUSSIAN SOVIET | 'y was made by are following in an effort tg bring the | Commissioner riffith, who had Miss Ford, Captain Charette and sev- of i ambassadors has decided to con-| body would have caused his death. A : A lfifth shot caused a flesh wound. All| tinue efforts to:indace Holland to cntered the body from the back, indi- surrender the ex-kaiser for trial by| cating that Corbett either was running allie + \away from the murderer or was am- hea d tribunal. The council M-\ hushed from behind. Two of the but- structed the French government to recent years, is the one clue officers ‘“ a la searching party, headed by County iberia, Jan. 26.—Colonel Blunt and seven to Give'Uv Fiend ) nat PARIS, Jan. 26.—The council of or “four shots which pierced Corbett's : (By United Press.) — Program of World| LONDON, Jan. 26—Despite a Warsaw report quoting Bol- ye \ | shevik sources that Russian soviet cavalry has entered Persia Revolution Thrown | and India, latest reports to the British war office showed that . i: : Bolshevik forces were 500 miles from the India frontier. in the Discard by " ets grazed the heart, one entered be- prepare a reply to the Dutch .note of|low the right shoulder blade and came ————— refusal. k Jout to the left of the righ nipple, an- (By United Press.) The council also decided that pend-| other plowed thru the fleshy part of the . 5 ing United States§ ratification of. the arm, and a fifth went thru the arm| WASHINGTON, Jan. 26.—Congress is facing a busy week. Con- treaty the presidéfcies of variouy ple- at an angle, struck the shoulder and| ferees on the oil leasing and waterpower bills will resume their argu- bescite commissions shall be filled by ranged upward thru the neck, lodging | ministry are prisoners at Irkutsk. The Red advance in Siberia Moscow anno today that Admiral Kolchak and -his Lenine, Is Claim continues. ICIAL WORD ON CAPTURE. Associated Prean.) INGTON, Jan, 26—No report bn : ture” by Rolshe iki forme mer Vie ats workers iit Kiuchinskayd, Siberid, as réported in press iispatches from Chito, Siheria, has beech received by the state or war departments or at the zational headquarters of the Red Cross. Red Cross ‘headquarters 7 Milttee today. Because of this, he sald; the soviets have ceased to urge an in- ternational revolfition to support them. The Russian ‘soviets have ‘‘between $450,000,000 and $500,000,000 in the public treasury,” Martens said, which it now desires to spend in foreign coun- tries on the purchase of necessities. There is now no gold in the hands of private banks or individuals in Russia, he added. ERZBERGER HIT BY ASSASSIN’S BULLET, BERLIN (By Asnocinted Prens.) BERLIN, Jan, 26.—Mathias Erzber- ger, minister of finance, was wound- ed by a shot fired as he was leaving the criminal courts building after a hearing in the Helferich libel suit. Only one shot struck the minister, who was slightly wounded in the shoulder. His assailant, Oltwig von Hirschfeld, was arrested. ———————— Mis Katherine Anthens and Miss Lilly Roberts have returned from Douglas where they spent the week end with Miss Anthens} parents. They | made ‘the trip overland. RESERVATION TO ARTICLE 10 NOT TO BE CHANGED . Johnson-Borah Group Wins Point After Threatened: Defection; Lodge Breaks Off Conference with Democrats (By Associated Press.) = neg grerog ee ~ 26__No change in reservatians affecting Article League of Nations covenant, or lonroe doytrine x or tek Cane trosty wil be sccaptabls to the Republican Lodge’s committee in an effort to reack a compromise on the treaty. Senator Lodge's statement was formu- = FIFTEEN) records destroyed and two houses slightly hour gale threatened to spread the addition. lated after a conference Saturday with Senators Borah, Johnson and other Re- publican. senators opposing the tréaty. Immediately after the statement was presented the bi-partisan conference was adjourned, Hitchcock and his associates retiring for a private conference, Théy ‘will make a reply to Lodge tomorrow morning. Hitchcock said in a state- ment: “Senator Lodge regreted to say that he. found it impossible to resume the conference for a compromise except up- on the understanding that no changes (Continued on page Eight) as the result of collision between tw: ‘Crass sho- houses were threatened in a fire here this mo age done by the blaze is between $3,500 and $5,000. An 80-mile-an- showed that the Captain Charette re- ferred to as captured probably was Ed- ward Hercules Charette, 9. pharmacist of Stockton, California, who went over with an early detachment. There was no rgcord of a “Miss Ford,” also re- ‘ported captured. It was assumed that iehned the Ted! Cross *staff-in Siberia. ( Es The Colonel Blunt referred to as cap- tured is believed by the war department to be Frank Boscow Blunt of Plano, Illinois, a member of the Stevens rail- way commission, SHERIDAN HEIGHTS PROPERTY OF MAG. JL. GORYELL (5 SWEPT BY DISASTROUS FIRE DURING GALE Three Bars and Two Small Houses Total Loss in Early Morning Blaze Which Wind Threatens to Spread over Residence District Three large barns and two small frame houses were completely damaged while two or three other i Estimated dam- flames thruout the Sheridan Heights By stretching a line of hose more} than three blocks and using the motor pumper, firemen were able to throw water on the flames and prevent their spread, All of the property was owned by Mrs, J. L. Coryell, the widow of Mr. Coryell who was Killed on East Sec- ond street last fall when he ran into 4& sand pile in the street at dusk one night. ance, it was stated by friends today, Mrs. Coryell was sitting in the front part of her house this morning, about 8:30 o’clock and did not know that the rear portion of the house was ablaze until she saw the flames breaking thru | the kitchen ceiling. With the Coryell home a mass of flames, the fire soon spread to an adjoin- ‘ing house occupfed by Mrs. Zimmerman. A third fire truck was used in getting enough hose to put out the fire and it was nearly 8::50 o’clock before a good pressure could be used in combatting | the flames. On top of thé hill to the east part of the city. and fanned by a terrific wind, it made a spectacular hlaze which attracted the attention of who (Continued on Page 8) KILLED IN TRAIN CRASH ed Press.) (By Associat NORTHBAY, Ont., Jan, 26,—¥Fifteen are.dead and a large number injured ‘0 sections of the Canadian Pacific ex press. The rear sleeper of tlie first section, which was stalled, was telescoped |] by the locomotive.of the second section and eight were killed outright. None of it was covered by insur- | Frenchmen. The Poles today appealed for help against the Bolshevikt. | ye aah (By Annociated Prexs.) PARIS, Jan. 26, reply to the re- fusal.to the Dut vernment to com: of the allies for. “Emperor Wiltfam was the first subject discusséd at the initial meeting of the council of am- bassadors created to carry on the un- finished routine work of the supreme counci! of+the peace conference, which was disbanded last week. It w de- cided that-French legal experts avail-; able go into ai! aspects of the cace and Prepare a reply «which probably will be submitted for the approval of the coun- cil next week. Discussion of the council did not dis- close the trend of opinion among mem- bers further than it-appeared tobe the general view that the legal phose of the question had become the chief one. SOBER TE at WATER RISING | IN HOLD, SHIP MAY FOUNDER (By United Press.) NEW YORK, Jan. 26.—The Pow- hatan is adrift in a storm 200 miles off Halifax. Her tow lines parted ; Saturday and heavy seas prevented new lines being rigged. The water is | gaining slowly in her hold. The crew {| will be taken off if the water contin- ues to rise. The steamer relief of the Merrit Chapman Wrecking company has reached ¢he Powhatan's side and. will | immediately attempt towing her with heavier hawsers. Latest dispatches from the ship say the two firerooms are flooded and still taking water. | The weather is: moderating. Eight | steamers are standing by. { ao PEASANT CORPS ON BORDER TO INVADE CHINA (By Associated Press.) LONDON, Jan. 26—An official statement issued by the soviet gov- ernment at Moscow says a Bolshevik peasant corps has reached the Chinese frontier in the vicinity of Kobdo, on the western border of Mongolia. DESPAIR BRINGS THOUSANDS T0 TAKE OWN LIVES (hy Associated Prensa.) NEW. YORK, Jan. 26.—Since the signing of the armistice there has \ been a constantly increasing number of suicides everywhere, according to m report today by the Save-a-Life | league., In Germany, Russia, Syria | and other foreign countries where the | number is very large, the cause is attributed to despair because of miser: | able living. conditions brot about by the war. Phe *tabulates: 5,121 suicides bie wees lin the head. ments but there is little prospect of an agreement as they are far apart | which the horse lis a possibility that the intricacies of cial lthe irrigation district legislation may agreed upon at a conference between make it necessary to sit a day or two the governar and the Republican ma-/| forces was effected thru election chiefly BODY DRAGGED INTO on licensing provisions. DUGOUT, DOOR NAILED The assassin dragged his victim in- to a dugout cellar near the house, where} ‘the body was found face downward in} Senator Lodge’s office today. ‘orbett did not live! The military atfairs committee ex- Disagreement also looms in the conference on the ‘railroad bill. The bi-partisan treaty conference is scheduled to be resumed in &) pool of blood. arm; 3 CAR ee Jeet oe aerate pet re woe oven OAS RET wounds indicating that death was in:, bil] this week: stantaneous. After latching the inner} The senate regulation legislation. The senate sub-committee investigat- ing the federal trade commission will continue its labors. @oor had been securely nailed down with 9 half dozen large nails. The body had lain in the cellar for several days. Corbett was fully .dressed when found, heavy buckskin gloves and over- shoes covering his hands and. feet. His bloodstained cap was found in the ranch blacksmith ‘shop, where: it had been tossed undér a bench, evidently by the murderer. HOUSE RANSACKED FOR VALUABLES That robbery was the motive for the crime is indicated by the fact that all the ranch buildings had been ransack- ed in a search for money. Valuable papers and letters were strewn about! vember 2, has been taken from the N the floor of the house. An old-fash-|trona county jail to the Converse coun- ioned grip, which might have been | ty jail to await his triat which will take | hiding place for money, was ripped open| place at Douglas probably shortly after with a-knife and its contents dumped] March 1. out in 4 mass on the floor. Several hun-| Charles Moore, under indictment in dred dollars worth of jewelry ,which| the same case, is still held in close con-| might have resulted at some future] finement at the county jail here. | who confined his hunt to money. About 50 feet from the ranch house, | time in the apprehension of the cri | ANARCHIST OF SADDLE HORSE ALSO sin a pool of blood, was found INSPIRE REVOLT DOUGLAS JAIL Hugh Armstrong, charged with the murder of Deputy Tom Majors on No- inal, was not touched by the robbe SHOT BY MURDERER ITALY TRIES TO agriculture committee goor to the cellar, the outside ‘‘storm"| hopes to finish deliberations on packer ARMSTRONG IN. j cording | responsible GROWERS SEFK HIGHER PRICES (By Associated Press.) Ja hundred repr ar beet organ Colorado, Idaho, Utah, Washington, Nebraska and Michigan gathered here today for the first national convention of, beet growers. The object is the formation of a @ or: ganization which will handle tl tire beet output somewhat similar to that used by the citrus growers of Califor- nia in marketing their product It is the contention of the beet men that pri too low to compensate with more than a living nd the of the i ized marketing plan. completely in control of to the beet growers, for - maintaining and low beet prices. A number of representatives of the federal government are pr N. P. Peterson of Granger, Utah, he carcass of Corbett's. buckskin sad- dle hoi which was shot down, pre- sumably, fn the same manner’ and at| (Be “Auanciated Press.) the same time as its master. In front} #LORENCE, Italy, Jan. 26—During of the stable was a pool of blood in had died. Inside of the stable was a blood-stained saddle and more blood, indicating that the ani- mal might have been shot inside and then dragged out. That the horse had (Continued on page Eight) the meeting, in which the anarchist, Enrico Malatesta, recently elected to the chamber of deputies, urged a revolu- tion, a mob tried to overcome party carbineers. The .latter, in defending themselves, fired at the demonstrators, wounding a score of them. temporary chairman, of Longmont, tempor ei Mrs. Cc. Cherest and W. J, Coyne are in Casper from Omaha, . They have incorporated the new ladies’ fur- nishing company on Second street and will be ready for the grand opening in the near future. IRRIGATION BILL TO BE ENACTED BY THE STATE LEGIS Only One Measure Not Related to Suffrage Recognized in Limiting Work of Special Session Opened Today (Special to The Tribune) * CHEYENNE, Wyo., Jan. 26.—The Fifteenth Wyoming legislature convened in special session at 10:15 o'clock this morning, primarily to ratify the woman suffrage amendment to the federal constitution thru the passage of a joint resolution, but will give attention to.two bills—one appropriating approxi- mately $8,000 to defray the per diem and travel expenses of the legislators an another repealing the} ‘The two houses spent this morning in| present irrigation district law and enact-/ effecting an organization and in hear- ing a new irrigation law containing}ing in joint session a message from | many of the workable provisions of the; Governor Robert D. Carey requesting state's drainage distriét statute. The|patification of the suffrage amendment} jsession, it has ‘been agreed, shall not/and suggesting attention to the trriga-|hy last longer than three days, but there}tion law. This program and the spe seasion appropriation bill were longer, | Jority of the legislature at a conference LATURE Sunday afternoon. Later Democratic members were invited to indorse the limited program. The suffrage joint resolution was in- troduced in the senate this afternoon by the judiciary committee and was refer- red to the committee of the whole. The irrigation law was introduced in the house at the afternoon session by the committee on irrigation, and thé appro: priation bill by the committee on ways and means. Both went directly to the ommittee of the whole. ‘Th Trae resolution will be before the. house to morrow morning, and the two hou bills—appropriation and irrigation— probably before the senate before tomor row's session is over, The house was called to order by Speaker Eugene Sullivan and the senat President ag Interim ,William W. Datey, The clerical forces of the two houses had not been summoned for the special session. Organization vf clerical (Continued on Page 8)