Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 27, 1920, Page 1

oe ALLEGED SLAYER WHO ESCAPED FOUND MURDERED, OSAGE | *RMYSTERY COMPLICATED | (Special to to The Tribune.) hed Nov. 27—The mystery of the fate of Wal- NEWCASTLE, ter Sim, alleged murderer of Fred’ Walker, after Sim broke jail here 21 last, was solved Friday, it is believed, by the finding, twelv: tiortheast of this me of the skeleton of Ai po sr 5h bul- ! Despondency Causes Suicide at Early ‘Hour at Home « After getting up and preparing his own breakfast, Edward Chad- wick, aged 59, lay down ~on a couch in his home, 124 North Beech street, and shot himself| listed appeared for examination in with a .32\ caliber Colt revolver| this morning about 8:20 o’clock. Death was almost instantaneous, SNOW INTERFERES WITH BETTER BABIES’ CONTEST BUT RESULTS ARE ENCOURAGING| LEADERS SAY Although, on account of the snowstorm today, not all the babies Intyre and the members of the Welfare Club feel that the work they have done has been tremendously successful and most beneficial. Forty-Eight Dollars Paid for 50-Cent Hinge} on Galley Door, Probe Reveals; Instances of Gross Waste and Mi: ismanagement Re- cited before Investigators | NEW YORK, Nov. 27 _—Testimony tending to show allegea< », of the cost-plus form of contract in repairs to shipping board vess.%,, was given,today before the ¢ beard affairs, by Harold F. Hanes, examiner of the board’ ¢ departments. He said that at Norfolk, Va., he saw a bill for 48, hich es for ised) a 50-cent hinge on a galley door. He testified that 25 men were sent aboard the ship at the same port, re- mained there from 7:30 a. m. Monday until the same hour the following Mon and’ were allowed pay for 39 hours a day Short deliveries and overcharges for furnished to Emergency fleet* ships also alleged by Hanes. He said 24 cents a pounds was paid for that Il-cent beef. Payment of a commission of $1,000 on an order of $4,000 to a ship captain) at Portland, testified to by | Hanes. The of silverware marked “U, S. Shipping Board” in a hotel at Yokohama and street vendors | selling shipping board linen at LaPail- lice were also testified to by Hanes. fe | gated the Kora en FIRST TREATIES ARE FILED WITH the baby contest, Mrs. J. W. Mc- ongressional committee creer %, $ said he did not know if they investi-| Le! let holes in the skull._ The bones from which all of the flesh had been stripped and knawed by qeautry psi priigre be- lieved to be those of Sim. It is: believed{.was brought to town last ‘night and by the authorities, bere that the. fugi-] persons acquainted with Sim are cer- tive was taken into the hills by the! tain that it is he, corresponding both persons who assisted him to escape and in size and the color of the hair, Trous- there was murdered to prevent him| ers and shoes are missing, but the from telling the truth regarding the! soldier shirt and underclothing are; shooting of Walker. A coroner's jury| similar to that worn by Sim. A pocket- to investigate the death of the man} book containing $30, a comb and a Despondency and worrying over the condition of his wife, Rae Chadwick, who has been sick for a larger part of the last year or more, is believed by police officials to have caused him to take lis own life, ; ¥ His wife in an adjoining room | thought the report cameé from a burst ing auto tire outside of the house. How: ever ,hearing ‘nosound’ in: ‘the’ next A number of mothers with children who were under or over the ages fixed in the contest, asked to Five months’ old twins passed the test with grades of 96 and 98 per cent. One 2-month’s, old premature baby was examined this morning and found normal, to the mother’s great satis- faction, as. she was avout to start on a long journey with him. While the scoring committee is giv- _ brothers. whose bones were found was empan- eled Friday night. . The shooting of. Walker was the first murderous violence to result from -dis- “putes over land (in ‘the then ‘recently discowered Osage oil field last June. ‘Walker was employed by the Briggs stickpin have been- partially identified as belonging to Sim. The corpse was found by Jim Phil- lips while hunting rabbits. It lay in a deep ravine, 50 feet from the Salt Creek road, thirteen «miles north of New- castle. Two bullet holes were ¢ound in the back of the head and the skull ‘On ‘Company, which claimed acreage| wa. fractured as though from the blow also claimed by the Freel Oil Company, organized by Roy and Ernest: Freel. ‘While Walker was engaged in moying drilling machinery to the land he was shot from a distance of several hun- dred yards by one of three men alleged to have been Sim ts the eee Peel The, . bullet. “intestines, Wut he Teed” days before succumbing to’ the ore. Sim and the Freel brothers were ar- rested, Sim charged ly with the Murder and the Freel brothers with * Been accessorlos, The Freels “bail of $5,000 each. Sim was held. bir ut bail. On the night of August} 21 other prisoners in the county jail here heard an automobile stop outside the Jail, "and later heard it leave. The following the discovery was made that Sim escaped. through _ the connivance of some person or per: bona who had sawed the tars ut the window of his jail cell from the outside. Meanwhile the Freel: brothers ‘had dis-|.. appeared, ‘A state reward of §500 yas offered for Sim's capture. Posses scoured the country for several deys, but no trace bt the ‘was found, nor could ‘there be found any ‘person who could explain the visit ee the mysterious au- pariattie to the county jail at the time of the escape. It is now believed that this automobile was provided by a per- son or persons who feared that Sim, in order. to save his own neck, might ccn- fess the truth regarding the slaying of Walker, and that this person or persons therefore planned and executed the jail delivery with tlie deliberate pur- pose of murdering Sim and so vrevent- ing the truth from known, Bim, believing the or ac- complices in his escape “to “be his friends; undobtedly recent with him or them. ‘The trial of Roy Freel on the charge of belng accessory to the murder of Walker was held recently and the de- fendant was convicted of manslaughter. A few days ago he was sentenced to serve from three to ten years in the nitent eee Mrs. Walker, widow of the slain fan, obtained a judgment for! $100,000 against Sim and the Freel brothers, whom she sued for damages for’ the murder of her husband. The suit was not contested. and dudgment was obtained by default. Should: the bones found Friday) be identified as Sim's ft is possible that a chatge of murdering Sim may be lodged against one or both the Freel brothers. In that event Prnest Freel/ in all probability will face two murder | charges, the second heing dering Walker. ‘The coroner's jury in the Sim case, ‘will convene thix afternoon... The body SEATDLE, Wash., Nov. 2%.—No trace of the barge W. J. Pirie, reported ashore near James Island, off the Washington const, was found early today, wireless from the coast guard cutter went to tho aid oj, the stricken vessel. including the Wife of Capt. A, B. Ensen, and their baby, The Pirrie cut loose were reported aboard the 'vessels. from thé steamer Santa Rite In a heavy Flattery tate yesterday. of a heavy instrument. FRENCH OFFICER GIVEN COMMAND =| LEAGUE ‘TROOPS! GENEVA, Nov. 27 ery ~t Seger’ Press)—-The League of Nations mili- tary foree destined for occupying Vil- na onion, a pipette: in thi+ city he ora by_ French Col- in} Chai © head of the league's ary. now at Vil- na, The ‘will include two Brit- "i ith machine-gun sei from She Dans forces of oc- FORGIV NOT HUN AIM (By United Press.) 21.—Germany feels that in her conduct of the war she was no more a criminal than the allies and is not secking forgiveness from herself or others, according to a remarkable open letter from Dr. Bernard Dernburg' to Foreign Minister Puerrydon of Argentina, who is attending Dernburg declared he could not condemn BERLIN, Nov. the League of Nations meeting. the sinking of the Lusitania. He said of the stigma of unworthiness attached to them and because of the refusal to allow Germany in the league. NAVY LEADING ARMY, (By Associated Pret) POLO GROUNDS, N. Y., Nov. 27.—The Navy drew first blood by| scoring a touchdown and kicking goal in the third quarter of the Army-Navy game here this afternoon. Neither team scored in the (By Associated Press) NEW YORK, Novy. 27.—Football su- that of mur-: premacy cf the United States army and navy is at stake today in the 23rd an- nual game between, the elevens of West Point and Annapolis. New York was BOARD BARGE AT RCY OF COAST STORM (By Associated Press.) : according to a Snohomish, which Sixteen persons, search of the coa: shortly after the ¢ gale south of Cape storm. danger. Possibility that the Pirrie was blown out to sea instead of haying gone ashore was indicated after a thorough wirelessed that nothing had been seen of the barge from ; room, she went in and found her hus-| ing no results as yet, it was stated this band dead on the Touch with the re-| morning that one 100 per cent ehild the telephone <ommunication became} and one with a grade of 991-4 per cent volver still pressed to his temple. had been found. In an effort to get Dr. T. A. Dean, It may be stated that the prises accidentally connected with the line} sre awarded in six divisions, according Chief of Police Lynch was using in| to the age of the child. talking to Fred Place at the Standard Mrs. Guy Gay, who was in charge Refinery. of the exhibit of beds, bath parapher- Hearing that a man had been shot) nalia and children's clothing, declared he jumped in a police car, after noti-| that this feature had been well worth fying Dr. Dean, and rushed to the| while, large numbers of mothers, who Chadwick house. Chief Lynch was the] came, receiving ‘valuable suggestions. first man to arrive on the scene of the} Some of them found that they could had suicide. buy garments here which they Lew Gay, county coroner, was noti-| thought impossible to procure. fled,a coronér’s jury twas drawn, and} The 1 Se be jo os was- eq tically “had than. 45 minutes. There appeared to be} thelr help and assistance in conducting no doubt but that Chadwick had shot] the examinations. Almost without ex- himself. __ | ception the doctors have kept their ap- Only one shot was fired,*the bullet! pointments for the two days, putting entering the right temple in front of} aside everything else to give their time and a little above the right ear. to sthe work. It seems from the story. told Chief} —‘Yhey have’been keenly interested and Lynch that Mr. Chadwick had been in| glad to assist. One or two failed to, the habit of getting of his meals: Keep eppointments and did not. notify on account of te sick condition of his} the club, but on the whole the spirit ‘wife. She had been ill and had been| ghown was one of professinnal and scientific.interest in the work the Wel- fare Club was doing, and perfect will- ingness to co-operate. An example of the value of the work was the case of one mother whose baby was found to have an unsuspect- ed spinal curvature, which might have caused invalidism in later Life If] not corrected. Taken now, the mother, was told that the defect: could undoubt- edly be remedied. The contest ended at 2 o'clock ithis afternoon with probably 300 of ‘the 500 babies listed examined. ATTEMPT MADE TO ASSASSINATE MILITARY CHIEF (By United Press) LIMERICK, Ireland, Nov. 27 attempt was made to assassinate eral Cameron here today. Bullets struck his carriage as he was leaving the barracks but he was uninjured. (Continued on Page 5) ENESS the German people were hurt because BOMBS START FIRES | IN DUBLIN TODAY, (By Associated Press) CORK, Nov. 27.—A drapery store in St, Patrick's street was compl ly destroyed by fire today follow a number of bomb explosions. TT! damage is estimated at 50,000 pounds. Reports in some quarters allege that members of the “Black and Tans,” at the point of revolvers, pre- yented the fire fighters’ operations and later ordered all volunteer he'p- ers from the scene. In Tipperrary, the Sinn Fein club rooms were burned. RESOLUTION ON | 7 TOO a neutral host to thousands of intense- ly partisan supporters of the army gray; and the navy blue. Nearly 50,000 had tickets for, the .battle ground at the Polo grounds. Many thousands more tried in vain for admission. —————— Although rubies are ‘usually red, there are violet, pink and purple ones. VETOED AGAIN| (By United Press) WASHINGTON, Nov.) 27,—Senator Oscar Underwood, Democratic leader, today predieted that-the proposed reso- lution declaring a state of peace with | Germany would not be adopted at the) December session of congress. He stated that even if enough votes were | obtained to pass the measure, President ‘Wilson would veto it. pada dace lena (By Associated Press) LOS ANGELES, Nov. 27,—The next! jair race for the Pulitzer aeronnutical The Pirrie was fully) trophy will be held in southern Califor- |nia, according to interpretation of the| st, the message Gaia. The Santa Rita ime it cast adrift. eaulpped and it was believed possible might weather the \rules governing the event by officials | The Snohomish reported the Santa Rita in no ‘of the Aero Club of Southern Califor- | nia, it was announced today by George | BH. Harrison, ‘secretary. commen igen Merl ecaccrdl txts coetary ob tte city tor) | | to’ the PEACE WILL BE. \« LEAGUE BY U.S. GENEVA, Noy. 27.—(By Associated’ Press)—The first American treaties filed with the League of Nations were put officially on record today awhen | Sweden ‘presented the text of two agreements with the United States. The first of these, signed. October 18 last, in the form of ¢ proclamation by Presi- dent Wilson. ':xtending the copyright law of 1909 us applied between Sweden and the United Shotes. Optimists in the meeting of the league assembl, are counting. on finish-} ing the work of the session next week, or ten days earlier than calculated by league officials. The average life of an ¥yster is about :ten years. * have their children given the tests INJUNCTION OUT AGAINST RAISE INN. Y. RATES (By Associated Press) NEW YORK, Noy. 27.—All raflroads operating in New York state are re- strained from raising intrastate rates next Monday, Deputy Attorney General Edward A. Griffin announced today in making public temporary injunctions is- sued by Supreme Court Justice Crop- sey. FORMER GASPER RESIDENTS SEN 210 PRISON FOR AN VIOLATION Mother Who Encouraged Daughters in Life of Shame Among Trio Sen- tenced in Cheyenne (Special to The Tribune.) CHEYENNE, Wyo., Nov. 27.— Mrs. Minnie C. Brown, lately of Riverton and Casper, Wyo., will serve one year in the Col-cado penitentiary at Canon City, and Roy Brown, lately of Casper and son of Minnie C. Brown, and Ju- lus Schmidt, lately of Crawford, Neb., will serve one year in the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kan., under sentences s imposed by Judge A, Riner in the United States district court here, fol- lowing their pleas of violation of the Mann act. The trio were arrested here several weeks ago, charged with connivance in commercialization of immorality by Mrs. Bessie Scaaffner of Casper, daugh- ter of Mrs, Brown and sister of LeRoy Brown, and were indicted by the recent grand jury. Disposition has not been made of the case of Mrs, Schaffner, who also was Indicted. A second daugh- ter of Mrs. Brown, 17-year-old Doredt Brown of Casper, also was indicted. rats sain st Migs eds At a motion pieture theater recently a fet of false teeth waa found on one of the seats after the evening perform: ance. Next day an old lady called for them, and explained that a comady made her laugh so much that her teeth dropped out without her knowing. SSO airtel be The debris from ground into dust, to face powder. slate’ quarries, is now converted in- TAX INCREASE OR NEW TISSUE PROBABLE Billions in. Revenue BAVARIANS NOT PLOTTING FOR KING’S RETURN BERLIN, Nov. 27.(By Associated Press)—Reports that organizations are being, formed in Bavaria for the pur- pose of restoring the monarchy and’ es- tablishing Bavarian dominion over Ger- many, are discredited by Minister to the President Vonkahr of Bavaria, He is in ‘Berlin discussing Bavarinn affairs with the central government. PROVISIONAL WASHINGTON, Noy. yy with the necessity either of increasi committee and treasury officials. ® CLAUDE KITCHEN ported. Needed for 1921, Is Leaders’ Claim; Labor to Fight for Ear- lyT hi ail Restrictions y Associated Press) next congress may be faa eceahaeh ing tax rates or providing another issue of long-term bonds, according to preliminary surveys of the fiz nancial situation made by members of the house ways and means Indications are that chances are increased levies, particularly on non: essentials will be recommended, it is re= The country needs $3,000,000,000 foe 1921, it is estimated. Expenses are high because the war debt interest CABINET QUITS amounts to nearly $1,260,000,000 ap? 9 | nually. he (By Associated Press) MEXICO CITY, Nov. 27.—All mem- bers of the cabinet of Provisional President Rodolfo de la Huerta have tendered their resignations so General Alvaro Obregon, «the incoming exec utive, may have a free choice in nam. ing his department heads when he is inaugurated December 1. Obregon has left for the country. He refused te give out any details relative to the per- sonnel of his cabinet.. He asserted that he would announce his. selections on the irre eB at of Dee ber 1, SIX DEAD, MANY HURT IN BLAST (By Associated Press) LONDON, Nov. 27.—Six were killed and 20 injured by an explosion at a former shell-making plant at Vergato, 35 miles from Milan, says a dispat Times today. Buildings were wrecked and panic caused at Vergato and other villages in a radius of 60 miles. Street cars were overturned in Mila Soldiers were sent to the scene. ire, starting in a nearby hut, spread to the factory and exploded the shell IS NEAR DEATH (By United Press) \ WASHINGTON, Nev. 27.—Repre- | sentative Claude Kitchin of North Carolina suffered a paralytic stroke for the second time while visiting postoffice department officials. , His condition is critical. Kitchin is the ranking minority avember of the ways and means committee. He will be Democratic floor leader after March BARRICADES ARE) PUT UP AGAINST SINN FEIN PLOT; LONDON, Nov. 27,—{By Associated Press)}—The capture during raids in Ireland of Sinn Fein documents, al- leged to give details of a conspiracy for damaging governmen? buildings in England is said in police elrctes to be the cause of the erection of formid- | able barricades that have been put across the entrances of Downing ! street and King Charles street, | dump. Anti-Saloon loon League Not Interested in S unday Observance (By Associated Press) COLUMBUS, Ohio., Nov. 27,—Wayne B. Wheeler, counsel for the Anti-Saloon League of America, today denied that his organization was connected with a movement to make Sundays ‘dead still” or co-operating as an organization ‘with | the Lord's Day Alliance, which is dedi- cated to bringing about more complete | observance of the Sabbath. “The Ant) Saloon League is comurilit- |ted by its constitution to one activity, namely, war against one evil—the bev erage liquor traffic,” Wheeler declarsd MINDEN, Nev., Novy. annul her divorce from Owen Moore. Nevada her home when she instituted | Neither Douglas Fairbanks nor M | refuses to quash the motion the next her divorce. ground that Miss Pickford falsely represented that IMMIGRATION RESTRICTIONS ARE HELD IMPORTANT. (By Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Nov. 27.—Immigra> tion legislation will be the most import tant problem to be comsidered at the approaching session of congress, in the opinion of the legislative committee “of the American Federation of Labor. “With two million idle and thousands of immigrants pouring into the coun- try daily;the dangers ahead of Ameri- | ca are so serious that even the enemies of labor are fearful of the ays a report published today. A bill prepared by the American Fed: eration of Labor, proposing an investh future,” | gation of the continued high cost of necessities will be presented in both houses early in the session, the com: mittee said. oN BLA e (By United Press) CAMP SHERMAN, Ohio, Nov. 27. —A provision battalion of 400 picked men from the Third and Nineteenth regiments left this morning fer Wik liamson, W. Va,, where they will a6 guard duty. Trouble between strit- ing miners and mine guards since the withdrawal of federal troops neces- sitated recalling the guard. seemed Laas Something like 500,000 gallons of tea are consumed by Londoners every day. PICKFORD MOVES TO QUASH SUIT (By United Press.) 27.—Mary Pickford has through her lawyers to quash the sult brought by the State of Nevada to begun proceedings The state’s suit was filed on the she intended making action in court, iss Pickford are present, Wf the court step will be trial of the suit to annul. ALT LE EE TE OE ET RK Te Ge TTY TE FE LE FILS I LE LE LE OE | aw