Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 5, 1920, Page 1

00 ARRESTS } WEATHER FORECAST Unsettled tonight, probably snow in north and warmer in southeast — portions; Partly cloudy and colder. a ae * ee, VOLUME IV. CROSSING OF German Cities on Right Bank to Be Seized CASPER, WYO. tinued Violation of Armistice by Teuton Advance in Ruhr District; Foch to Avoid F. ightin ‘ PARIS, April 5.—(Havas Agency) which are stationed along the Rhine, cording to the Wiesbaden correspon ment has decided to occupy cities on of German government troops into th announcement has been made of su dent of the Matin. the right bank of thé Rhine ich an order, however. , MONDAY, APRIL 5, 1920 PREPARE FOR -—French troops commanded by General de Goutte, are prepared to enter German territory this morning, ac- It is reported that the French govern- ¢ neutral zone fixed by the Versailles treaty. aper Daily <= Se LF BIL). > HA “ON NE WASHINGTON, April 5. RHINE in Reprisal for Con- total of nearly $2,000,000,000 congress federal treasury. g, Is Report as a reprisal for the movement No official Newspapers here continue to dixcuss NEAR EDED TO WIND UP RAILROAD ADMINISTRATION, - FINANCE DIRECTOR ESTIMATES} (By United Press.) Additional appropriations of $436,000,000 to wind up federal railroad coitrol was asked teday by Swager Sherley, finance director of the railroad administration. If granted it would make a grand | arrested in a new series of raids follawing the Easter uprising. will have yoted the railroads out of the IN IRISH UPRISING PROPERTY DAMAGE HALF BILLION South Ireland Placed Under Martial Law Following Easter Destruction in Which Bridges Are Blown Up; Police and Reve- nue Stations Burned and Lands Seized (By United Press.) DUBLIN, April 5.—Over five hundred Sinn Feiners were South Ireland is under martial law. North Ireland is cut off from telegraphic communication. Officials estimate property damage in Easter outbreaks at EX-YANK RETURNS TO GIVE SELF UP AFTER r $500,000,000. A number of bridges Land ¢ thousands of a of lands, driving the }owners off. Seventy-one police and income tax offices were burned. | Where is every fon that the jraids were planned by a centra! organi- zation, Destruction of tax records will make enforcement of the tax laws most difficult. The outbreak was the most extensiye in the Belfast district. The city was isolated when wires were cut. Armed mobs-entered the government buildings, destroyed many documents and set fire |the situation resulting from the entry lof German government troops in the Ruhr basin and the Petit Parisien de- jCclares that indications given by the Ger- {man note concerning these forces do not j correspond with information received by KILLING GIRL WIFE to the pensions and labor departments. At Guerleen ten armed men ent A Kieran Flynn's residence and killed him. Two policemen were dangerously WAS ‘BETTER PAL’ TO HUSBAND THAN WIFE VAMP SAYS IN NOTE Woman Wha Shot Rival for Husband’s At-| fections Exonerated by Judge When Evidence in Near Tragedy Is Told CHEYENNE, Wyo., April 5.—Altho Myrtle Lewis, pretty blonde waitress, was lying on a bed of suffering at a hospital | when Mrs, Thomas Downer of Lincoin, Nebraska, was arraigned 1 late Saturday for shuoting her thru the thigh, it was Miss Lewis’ testimony that resulted in Justice W. H. Edwards summarily halting the hearing and discharging the defendant from cus- tody, accompanying the discharge with{ way, but no doubt this letter will hurt expressions of sympathy and implied} y But I haye took a long time to approval, “| think it over, and I do think I am in Mrs. Downer shot Miss Lewis at the| the right. \ Sherman hotel Fridwy night, as a ré-| ‘Now we can help you until we are sult of the association of the waitress, Married, but affer that he must forget with Mrs. Downer’s husband, a boiler-' that he ever met you as my home! maker. When Mrs.. Downer was ar-/ means more to me tkan any woman, raigned Saturday her counsel produced) “We met here in Cfleyenne on the in evidence a letter which she -had re-| 19th of February, and haye been to- ceived nd which was written in a! gethér ever since, so you see, Mrs.| hand which witnesses identified as that| Downer, there isn’t much chance any of Miss Lewis. Before the reading of | more. | this letter had been completed Justice} “You are coming to see your hus- Edwards was in tears, and as soon|band, and I am glad you are for it} as the reading was completed he dis-|™may straighten things a lot to have you charged the defendant with an admoni-|come up here.’ As I myself would like tion to return to her home at Lin-|to meet you, and Tom speaks well of con and try to forget the man who|you, and I cm-glad he does, 1 caused her unhappiness and whose} “The time isn’t far away when he) conduct had inspired her to attack Miss can no longer claim you. as your love Lewis, for him is a love for no one but your- The letter follows: self, and if you area proad minded wo- “Mrs, Thomas Downer, man you can see why he loves anoth- “Lincoln, Nebraska. er/ woman, and it is his will that you “My Dear Mrs, Downer: | start suit for divorce at once, “Just a line to let you know that! “Tom does not know I've wrote you | it is my place to write you about: your} this, letter, but you may ask him of} husband and myself. jit if you like. I am a married woman | “Now your husband, Tom, and my-| myself, or haye been. But I'm not now. sel€ are better pals than you and him| “So I will close now hoping you don’ t ever was, I’m sure. Altho you are true beet angry at this-letter. I hope to re-| to him he is not to: you, for he has main a friend to you. a | told me time and again ‘of his love for} “MRS PAULINE JACKSON, me and not for you. You-are his wife| ‘‘General Delivery, Cheyenne, Wyo. in name; I his wife in love is far the| Before this letter, with its cool ap: best so I wish you would be kind! propriation by one woman of another) enough to let him go free to make a| woman's husband, the man in the case, home for the one he cares most for. | Downer, had been placed on the stand: “I don’t want to hurt you in any (Continued on Page 3) CHICAGO TRAIN SERVICE IS CUT | Unauthorized Strike of Switchmen Ties Up} ~ Traffic in Illinois; “No Compromise,” Ts Railroads’ Edict (By Associated Press.) CHICAGO, April 5.—Fifty thousand stockyards employes will be thrown out of work tonight as a result of the strike of switchmen, officials of the Marshal Foch, The demand is made by the Journal that the expenses of occupation be borne by the Germans 4nd it is sug- gested that cities occupied be taxed to make up this amount. The British government will decline to co-operate in the occupation of Frankfort, Darmstadt and other German cities, according tothe London corre- spondent of the Petit Parisien, but will, he says, favorably follow the action of France, realizing the importance of thé situation, MILITARY ME! .IN HANDS OF (By Associated Press.) PARIS, Abril 6.—French ~ military measures destined to force the German government to withdraw its troops from the Ruhr basin are entirely in the hands of Marshal Foch, It is advanced in some wellinformed quarters that the occupa- tion of Frankfort, -Dannstadt, Homburg and Hanau is not likely to exercise suf- ficient pressure upon the Germans, since they may well argue this occupation is distasteful to the French as well as to themselves. 4 % FRENCH NOT TO RISK CLASH WITH GERMANS (By United Press.) PARIS, April 5.—The movement of German troops into the Ruhr district in the. neutral zone in violation of the peace treaty continues. Forty thousand troops have already entered the neutrai zone, advices to the French foreign office today stated. One report says the troops are singing “Hoch der Kaiser." While France will not risk possible clashes between her troops and the Ger- man reichswehr forces, France is still planning to occupy Rhine cities if re many persists in violating the treaty. Germany sent a note to the American and British embassies here today appeal- ing against the French military plans. French leaders will not send their troops into German cities garrisoned by German troops nor into the Ruhr dis- trict where Teuton troops have already penetrated in an effort to clear out the Commanist rebels. NO OBJECTION TO-H' MOVEMENT FROM U. (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, Apr.*5.—State de- partment officials today said they had received no notice from France of its intention to have French troops occupy cities on the east bank of the Rhine as . reprisal for the advance of -German forces into the Ruhr valley neutral zone. The last official word regarding troop movements in this territory was ‘EASTERSTORMS |": Poy ©. BREAK RECORDS, SNOW IS HEAVY a (By Associated Press.) CHICAGO, Apr. 5.—The Middlewest ind Southwest, with predictions of a ‘greaet about deging ant of 9 recor developed in ne Texas; Panhandle breaking Easter snowfall. A blizzard and swept rapidly through the Cen- tral West with snow ranging from 6 inches to 2 feet in depth. —_—_»—. POSSES SEARCH FOR INMATES OF INSANE ASYLUM (By Associated Press.) CHESTER, ILL., Apr. 5.—An armed posse is scouring the Missis- sippi bottoms south of Chester’ in pursuit of eight inmates of the Chester state hospital for the crim- inal insane, who participated in the delivery at the institution late Satur- day night’ when fifteen men escaped after assaulting and overpowering the nightkeeper. Hospital officials said the men who escaped were con- sidered among the most dangerous of the inmates. Seven men were cap- tured yesterday and last night. TEN LIVES LOST ON FERRY BOAT IN RIVER FLOOD (By Associated Press.) ANDERSON, 8. C., Apr. 5.—Ten persons were drowned near Lownds- ville today by the capsizing of a fer- ry on the flooded Savannah River. rourt. Bergstrom, wi year- old bride of five months, it is as- sumed, because she had instituted suit for divorce, alleging cruel treatment as | her ground. He followed her to the second floor of the building in which | the prosecuting attorney's office is lo- | cated and supposedly shot her as she | was knocking at’ the attorney's door. | He then’coolly walked from the build- ing, replying to the inquiries of per- | sons attracted by the sound of the shots’ and whom he encountered on ) the stairs, that a woman was sick “up | there." «Mrs. Bergstrom died a few | minutes after these persons reached her | side. One bullet struck her in the right eye and penetrated the brain. | Bergstrom circled the block in which | the tragedy occurred and entered a candy store opposite the building where the shooting had taken place, Intimi- dating the clerks in the store with his} | automatic pistol, he telephones for a| | ab, Half an hour elapsed hefore | | sab arrived. In the interval Berg- strom, ever keeping his gun trained on the clerks, watched through the window | the rrival of officers at the scene of | the tragedy, their interrogation of per- | | sons from whom they attempted to ob- | tain some, clew to the direction of his | | flight, and the carrying of the murdered | woman's body from the building to an | undertaker’s van. When the taxicab ar- | rived he hastily entered it, trained his | | pistot on the driver and commanded him to get out of town in a hurry, I taking the north road, As the driver, | in obeying, swung the taxicab in a half Bergstrom, peering out of the ma- looked directly into the blood: | | stained face of his wife as she lay in | the undertaker’s van. Eighteen miles north of town, when |the taxicab was passing Bosler, Ber es jstrom changed his mind regarding CHILD LIVES BUT FEW HOURS. | flight and ordered the chauffevr to turn Fun@ral services were held at the}around end return to the city. When Bowman Chapel at 10:39 this morning | they arrived he gave himself up to fer thé infant son of Mr. and Mrs. | Sheriff Trabing. Meanwhile posses were (Continued on Page 3) CHCA April 5 Train service thruout ae Chicago dite ict, Ir serio} i y a heavy snowsto! i was demor- rie ry by ths erad of an msthotized site of switchmen, ac- cording to 11 railroads affected. The entire police force here was Garrity said it might be necessary to call for placed in reserve’ Chief troops. Approximately 2,500 switchmen were out at midnight, according to strike leaders and the General Managers’ as- sociation, représenting the railroads, E. W. Bailey, who died yesterday a few | searching the country and some of hours after birth. | these did not learn of his return until lafter night had fallen. } | Mrs. Bergstrom was a daughter of |Roy McArthur. She was reared in | Laramie and was highly popular: Ex- |pression against her slayer made by jher friends are bitter and menacing. - ranked seen ratibe 9 24 AGED MAN IS CLAIMED SUNDAY Mrs. Aimira Plantz, aged 69, died yesterday at her home in the Burling- ton addition, from complications result- ing from old age. Her husband, Wil- liam Plantz, and one son, who is en route here from Illinois, survive. The body is at the Bowman Chapel‘ and funeral arrangements will not be crm- pleted until the son arrives. a no compromise” with the strikers. Sixty LEGION MEETS TONIGHT. Bergstrom of Laramie Is Shot Down by Husband at Door of Attorney’s Office; Husband Shows No Remorse (Special to The Tribune.) | LARAMIE, Wyo., April 5.—Roy E. Bergstrom, who murdered | | his wife Saturday at the door of the office of Prosecuting Attorney Patterson, has expressed no remorse, and has declined to discuss his peotens foe the slaying. He will be tried during the present term of ho is a former soldier, shot Mrs. Bergstrom, his 18- IN JERUSALEM | | | | | LAKE GIVES UP HEIRESS’ BODY, LONG MISSING (By Associated Press.) | CHICAGO, April 5.—A body, be- lieved to be that of Jeanne De Kay, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John De | Kay, of Lucerne, Switzerland, was washed ashore today at the Munici- pal pier. Clothing and shoes bore the name of Swiss makers. Mrs, Gertrude Howe Britton of Hull House, where the girl lived, said the clothing answered her description, She is a daughter of a wealthy Amer- ican livmg abroad and came to Hull House to do social work. She disap- peared several months ago. 188 CASUALTIES RIOTING EASTER JERUSALEM, Apr. 5.—One hun- dred and eighty-cight casualties, most- ly slight, occurred as the result of a conflict here Easter Sunday. The military control the situation. LUMBER YARD FOREMAN DIES Burger Bye, employed as a foreman by the O. L. Walker Lumber Company, died at a loca] hospital this morning from complications resulting frorn in- fluenza. His only relatives live in Norway, They have been cabled con- cerning the death and the’ body will be held at the Shaffer-Gay Chapel until word from the relatives is received. wounded from ambush in County Mayo. ARMED UPR! iG Is BELIEVED UNLIKELY. (By Associated Press.) DUBLIN, Apr. 5.—The fourth versary of tho rebellion of 1916 5 quietly in Dublin up to noon today. During the morning the streets were somewhat deserted, owing to the 1 number of people attending the I Grand National horse races. Reports of the burning of police bar- racks and other outrages Saturday and Sunday continue to pour in from many parts of the country, but the general opinion here continues to be that there will be no armed uprising. anni- sed ht POLICE BARRACKS MAIN. OBJECTIVES (By Associated Press.) LONDON, April 5.—-Reports continue to reach London of the destruction of property in raids in Ireland by armed bands, most of which occurred Satur- day night. Police barracks geemed to have been the main objectivés of raid- ers. Among the places where barracks were burned or blown up were Coi Clonolough, Dunkerrinn, Clonakenny, lymackey, Dolla, Ballinderry, Ard- fert, Ballyheigue, Rathcoole and Dri- agh. everal barracks in north Tip- perary also de HICHIGAN VOTE IS SPLIT AMONG 13 CANDIDATES (By Associated Press.) DETROIT, Apr. 5,—Michigan voters are today registering their preference for presidential nomination with seven Republicans, five Democrats and one So t seeking indorsement. The Republicans are Lowden, Wood, John son, Pershing, Poindexter and William Simpson of Detroit. Herbert Hoov name appear on both the Republican nd Democratic tickets. Other Demo are Palmer, McAdoo, Bryan and wards. Debs is the Socialist candi- date, er's ——___——— BLUE SKY OPERATIONS PROBED Guy A. King, “klue sky” commi er of the state of Wyoming, is in ° per investigating several alleged viole- tions of the blue sky law. His investi- gations may result in prosecutions, it is stated. So D'Anelo Vucurevitch, weight 5 pounds in round figures and namesake of the Montenegrin prince, took up his permanent residence at the I Vu- curevitch home early Sunday. Both the mother and baby downs well. FRUIT RUINED BY BLIZ ZARDS; LOSSES GREAT (By Associated Press.) JEFFERSON CITY, Apr. 5.—The |percent of the switch engines in Chi- cago are out of service. “This has been caused by an cuiiay | The regular twice-monthly meeting of organization which has presented de-| the George Vroman Post of the Ameri-| can Legion will be held tonight, sta:t- blizzard which swept Missouri yester- day, destroyed the entire peach, ap- ple, cherry and plum crops, causing Strikers asserted that 9,000 men wuuld | ing at 8 o'clock, inethe Army and Navy losses of millions of dollars, accord- Middlewest under a snow blanket, spreading in four directions, with a cold wave enveloping practically all territory between the Appalachian and Rocky Mountains. Rain or snow late today and freezing weather are forecast east of the Appalachians. Five thousand were laid off when they reported for }mands for rates of pay that already| |have been presented to the railroad or-| clubrooms. All reports of committees ganizations by the Brotherhood of Rail-| will be read. Action relative to the! |way Trainmen atid the Switchmen’s! taking over of the Army and Navy j union of North America,” said the man-| C1u> by the local legion post probably | jagers’ statement, will be taken. companies announced, work today and others will follow as soon as the small receipts of animals on hand are disposed of. Only 3500 cattle, 5,000 hogs and 500 sheep reached the stockyards today. An embargo on express shipments was announced. |be affected and predicted a “complete | tie-up of freight traffic and serious im: |pairment of interurban :service.’” ‘The General Managers’ association is- sued a declaration that there would “be ing to the state board of agricalture. Frost is probable in East Gulf states. Tee Freezing temperatures prevailed as (By Associated Press.) | far south as the interior of Texas WASHINGTON, Apr. 5.—The Fiast- | and north portions of Louisiana, Mis- er storm buried the Southwest and | sissippi and Alabama.