Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 26, 1920, Page 8

~e ee tah queens A A inn a ___PAGE EIGHT , JOHN J. CORBETT SLAIN BY RANCH HAND LAST WEEK /o ADDED ATTRACTION OF (Continued from Page One) the saddle on when killed is death the oldest .rate collector in by the fact that the stirrups w: 1 union, Ballagh Quin, County ed na mixture of blood and dirt ‘e, Ireland. At the time of his/ smeared about by the death struggle) 1 John Corbett was 46 years of peng SS of the animal. age and for over 20 years ne tina made |Concerts to Follow in Close Succession for Week with} his home in Wyoming. A coroner's jury PLACE OF SHOOTING IS MERE THEORY Th 2 ot where Corbett met his/ will be summoned | within the next 24 hours to conduct an CAVALRY BAND ENTERTA ii | EXHIBIT AND RECRUITING DRIVE Military Ball Thursday Night and “Open House” _ | “i il {Heart CROPER THREE { : } e } { @ressed the senate, / . | Scores of suggestions of legt —_— | (Continued from Page 34 for consideration by the special s +] ‘of state house employes to serve during | were made last nighp and today but t! Trouble - Claims Daugherty- Suddenly; Pneu- monia Fatal to Two Oth- ers on Saturday beyond @ | pioneer cote {honor in’ the hail RRIGATION LAW Casper : |the special session, decision to confine the business to the Twenty-four of the 27 menbera- of |three measures previously related bar- James senate responded to the ro! call, and|red all, ineluding a movement to amend [46 of the 54 members of the hduse. The ;the prohibition law to make some of its jmombers not present aro | Senators | Provisions more strict. ireen of Washakle county, Hdmonds of | |Purk county and Shmazy of Sweet- |water county, and Representatives Hall Asnocinted Preas.) |__prrpsBURGH, Kansas, San. 26.— Four hundred Kansas miners struck death has not heen determined. Some |i™duest into the murder. 2 > » = | James Dougherty, aged “74, was |! Crock county Bunten of Sweetwater. | today because of the passage of the of the authorities incline to the belief! 4 brother of Mr. Corbett probably will | at Soldiers Club Friday Evening t found @ead inbed at his home, 911;Gantz and Johnson of Natrona, Hall of | industrial court bill. that the assassin ambushed his vietim |°7Ve from Virginia ‘luring the week {South Elm strett, yesterday morning, | Nliobeem, Hares and Hunter of Carbon |: and shot him from the rear while he! {Death was caused, by” organic heart 24 Steel of: Washalie county. ‘(iy Associated: Preas. was mounted on the hors’ mae is Gseperitedsy Sitars upon almost agalasweelkegith the ltrouble with which he had ioi'g been! Women predominated in the galleries | TOPEKA, dan. 26.—The > entners? tng the animal: Gthes 4 ifteenth cavalry band from Fort D. A. Russell here during the |jiijserca, ‘The tunerst will be held at ‘IS Morning, attracted by the fact that} strike means an immediate test. of that the horse was killed as a part Sel recruiting week campaign. Starting Tuesday night with a con-|2:20 this afterrioon from the seca amendment was responsi-| the new Industrial relations law, Gov- ParaUIESIA LEbacavanesWigcesisaeae olde /cert in the Iris theatre beginning at 7 o’tlock, the cavalry band |“ay Chapel, Rev. Philip K, Fawards ot - R270" calling the snecia! session. There |_ernor Allen declared today. : Dury ne event the crime was dis: covered hi » the murderer could put| 3 2 Thru: the ogee wag i distance between himself and the crime. courtesy of Major Nelson, the services of the band have been Samuel Freeman. With little or no evidence on which placed at the disposal of the American Samuel L. Freeman, a x 4 6 Naa abet canoe eg ‘ Daciher Alquhest win atin at cane op ese 7 Naa TODAY AT THE wired Various police departmenta and| the lobby of the Oil Exchange building. Jhospital Saturday evening of \pneu-! sheriff's offices in this and neighboring Major Warren Dean of Fort Russell CRUDE OIL UP monia. The body is heing held at the} states to keep on the lookout for the and a member of the state executive | |Bowman chapel pending the arrivaivot | murdere 1e most plausible committtee of the American Legion will} @ son-in-law, H. H. Petransch, from} is that Corbett was murde talk at the Iris Tuesday night after m 3 | Billings, which was the former home otf unknown ranchhand, dese! the band concert. He will tell of the \ if Mr, Freeman. . ‘ hort, red-faced man or bo: © not more than : e oe De a le a |Co-operation of High School also Carroll, a neighbor and lifetong friend of Corbett, ix the only person Sought by Chamber of Com- far found who had even so much os merce in Plans for Next thi n only at a feeding the seen the employe distance when the Corbett cattle A missing sorrel dle and blanket escape of the iption of the on which the offic Week’s Drive The campaign executive committee and the quota committee will have a joint meeting at the Chamber of Com- merce headquarters this afternoon. | Among otlter important matters to be considered will be the selection of team captains for next week's drive. bridle, sad-} tale of the and the de- is the best clue can proceed. horse, tell the murderer horse The assassin is believed to have spent) Mr. Kin ked the high school stu- some time at the ranch before taking! dents at « mbly this morning to give leave. The k of dragging his 4 thot to their citizenship and to the victim into the rand nailing down; the door was no easy one. Corbett was ali , Weighing over 200 pounds. city of Casper. asked their paign by In this connection he co-operation with the cam. the filling out of a question- g the slain horsegout of the) naire which asked what they would sug- barn down to the bank of the creek} gest be done to make Casper a better must have consumed another 45 min-|town for them to live in ten years ules or possibly an hour. ‘Two work! hence. horses had heen harnessed. a double-|° The campaigners have found by ex: tree taken from the haywagon and a! perience that what the high school stu- chain secured with which to drag the|dents recommend gives them avery. animal, After this the work horses|good lind on what the mémbers are tied in the barn, where they were / hes going to later ask that the chamber do. found in a starving condition when the/‘phe high school students over this ch made Sunday. In their) country show themselves to be as mixuge| 6) {05.88 eH widely awake to the needs of cities to had gnawed the r ropes al pe st mals make them places where the citizens most in two and were ng at the will enjoy life as ass of citizens mouth. in society Corbets's two dc AE EL hunger by eating dead horse. RANCH SOAKED 1 he of the S MURDER EVIDENCE * AUILDINGS ARE In ever nook nd corner of the ranch is the foul On the stoop of the ranch house re blood splotches. Inside the door 1 eral empty 2 § shells, indicating that if thi had stood in the doorway (Continued from Page 1) and fired the shots which snuffed out) could see the flames from all parts of some evidence of murd of this building were found assassin the life of his victim. In the bunkhouse | the city. papers and letters were strewn all over! ‘pwo large barns in the rear and to the floor, and desk and dresser draw-| the east of the burning houses soon ers were piled in a heap upon the floor. | caugnt fire. Two carloads of hay were In the barnyard pieces of bloody rope) stored in the barns. The barns and were found and great pools of blood | chicken coops owned by J. O. Ander- dotted the ground. Inside the stable? son in the rear were practically wiped was a bloody saddle and more dried | out. The house owned by E. L. Puckett In the blacksmith shop, victim w pools of blood. the blood-stained cap of the and located to the southeast of the / burning houses was partly damaged by und, while in the e the life-) the flames and water. form of one of The house owned by John Phenn al- pioneer citizer In their most directly north of the second house officers, evideny the including SI to catch fire, escaped being destroyed f heriff W. E-| almost miracuously. It stood almost in Kilgore found wher ja direct path of the burning building changed shirts, discarding his blood: and sweep of the wind but was only stained garment for another hefore flee: | <corched. ing. ! The house occupied by Mrs. Isher- CORBETT LAST SEEN | man, about a block away to the north- ALIVE ON MONDAY . Was threatened. Burning embers, Corbett: w seen alive by Ray! Shia were blown into the front door, Carroll, a neighbor, who says he saW|cogught the rug on fire in the frontroom him feeding his cattle on that morn-| of her home while she was out fight- ing, A week st Saturday he was! ing her neighbor's Sand spartivanies in ind cashed a check on a local) stroyed it before she could extinguish hank for $60, and also attended to some | the flames busine ters at the courthouse,! ‘phe house occupied by Guy Cory wher ted briefly with members| cjoser to the burning barn than the Ish- of the s offic |erman home, escaped thru the efforts Not sen his neighbor for */of the firemen and volunteer fighters few days, ‘oll went to the Cor-!in the neighborhood. bett ranch a thinking } ‘ly that Corbett might have been| H, B, Haseler of the Casper Phar- » sick and was unable to fecd his| macy has received word of the death Carroll's suspicions were aroused) of his father; and is leaying for Towa stock wrong, but no thot! tomorrow. that something wa of murder entered his mind. The horses} were half starved in the stable and the dead saddle horse was discov but Carroll thot the horse had br been shot by its owner. TARTED (Webster's Dictionary 5S: “Free from imperfection plete in its own character; fect. PROTECTION: (Webster from oss, ance.”” com- per- matt@ to the sheriff's office late Saturday. Sheriff Royce then deputized Commissioner Griffith, | who is familiar with the country sur-/ rounding the Corbett. ranch, to conduct | a thoro search of the premises. A posse of horsemen, composed of Commission- sr Griffith, his brother, D. H. Griffith, Jones and Ray Carroll set out at mnday morning. On arrival at reporting the injury annoy- (Kemp Says): “Have You ranch it was soon decided that Cor- bett was still on or near his ranch, G ” either dead or helpless. It had been ot It? suspected that he had left on a trip, hut his best clothes were found in his | SERVICE: trunk. That he was out on the range Neale: tbat): apbetormanns or perhaps injured also were discard- Liiiakae for thaveree® 1ottan: ed when his riding boots and spurs other; that which promotes in- were found, Then a thoro search of SeSEREA) Wappiheanvorlsbenk? the house and, outbuildings rv the discovery of the dead body. MURDERED MAN HAD NO ENEMIES, CLAIM sulted in) acts or means of supplying “some general demand.” So far as known, Corbett did not have a bitter enemyy While he lived a secluded life, he was an approach (Webster says): ‘To be reckon- able man who possessed the sterling Malwith: to"be Keledvor depends traits of character and rugged honesty with, which pioneers of the great West ! been so richly endow! Finan-| he was in comfortable circum- sand his business affairs were in sient shape. All his property had n paid for and he was entirely out of debt. He had’a considerable bank’ balance, his friends declare, His ranch 3 stocked with about 300 head of cat- nd sufficient feed on hand to carry | the stock thru the winter. BORN IN IRELAND e) LIVED HERE 30 YEARS | John J. Corbett was a native of Ire-| land, the son of Thomas Corbett, who. ed on (Kemp Says): “Do You Get It?” “OR ARE YOU JUST PAY- ING PREMIUMS?” Absolute Protection R. T. Kemp Company Service That Counts is sald to have been at the time of his! A Rm NNER EI LE SO ARENT EL AES © . i ta. . will be busy entertaining practically every night. relationshfp of civilians with men in the service ahd describe the benefits of the Legion. He is also to speak again at the second show about 9 o’cloc's. Wednesduy the Fifteenth cavalry bard is scheduled to give a concert at noon at the Mitwest Refinery. PENN STATE (By Asnocinted Preas. PITTSBURGH, Ja 26 Pennsyl- vania crude oil was advanced 25 A big military ball is to be given |] cents a barrel to $5.25 by principal Thursday night in the Masonic temple|] purchasing agencies herp today. || pe under the auspices of the Army and Other grades quoted in this market Navy club, the War Mothers. and the American Legion. The cavalry band is to furnish the dance music. lt was this Fifteenth cavalry band that supplied music at the reception held in honor of General John J. Persh- are unchanged. of RESERVATION TO ing when he visited Cheyenne, re- Friday pight the Army and Navy club will hold open house for all ex: service men in. the club rooms located in the basement of the West hotel. ‘The band probably will supply the music for this entertainment. ‘Two excellent speakers will talk at the “open house” gathering. The exhibit of army equipment ana paraphernalia being used in connection with the recruiting week campaign is on yiew in the lobby of the Ofl Px- TO BE CHANGED (Continued from Page 1) shall be made in the reservation on Article X or on the Monroe doctrine. Democratic members retired for a pri- vate conference and will make their re- ply to Senator Lodge Tuesday morning Leo Miller, ae Mrs, Casper, died 138 North MeKinle Saturday parents, a brothe from the here today. the Epise>pal church otictating. aged y street, at 5 o’cloc evening of pneumonia. H a sister, Miss Lola Miller, an survive. Funeral services w held #t jome, Rev. Walter L. the Methodist church officiating. MURDERERS OF CENTRALIA MEN | ON TRIAL TODAY, (By United Press.) MONTESANO, Wash., Jan, . Eleven I. W. W.’s accused of murder- ing American Legton men in Cen- tralia during the Armistice Day an- niversary parade were put on trial A change of venue was 1, the son of Mr, % Q. Miller, old residents of} t the home of his parents, | o'clock tomorrow afternoon Prenc 26.— CONTINUOUS 1 P. M. TO 11 P. M. ca JAZZ PITTS—She is a Jazz Dancing Dynamo—The Original sf Jazz Baby, in the big Comedy Drama— | “The Other Half” A story of the classes and masses—a story of pathos and’ humor, with a touch of jazz. DON'T MISS IT! Then a COMEDY Next PATHE NEWS Showing the wood alcohol barrel that killed 60 people. AND SOME MORE h es up the peu (By Axsociated Prens.+ BOSTON, Jan. 26.—The mercury was} | sections of the reservations except that lrelating to Article X, the Monroe doe- | trine and one or two minor matters and 4 a lan-agreement was apparently also con- pega ee Oh iat low levels by the | summated on Article X when adjourn B ich spread over/ northern | - y > Naw pita oien jment suddenly cde, followed by" inte Northfield, Vermont with a’ reading|Yention of irreconctiiable Republicans, of 30 below, was the coldest place, ac-| cording to official figuers. 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