Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 14, 1921, Page 1

GUN BATTLE RAGES ON SEVEN-MILE Fku... ” FANEST WRAY NEAR DEATH AS RESULT OF AUTO CRASH THURSONY Highway Gives Way On Trp to Montana, May Prove to Be Fatal Ernest D. Wray, wae is as- sociated with hitestprcthers, Walt and Pete, ii owner- ship of Wray’s ci i fighting a battle ag at the Carter sai Thermopolis, as the reji tomobile accident in wy” Ueved he suffered fatal ‘Wray’s Hudson car to tu Mrs. Wray, Clarence eo per and a nephew of th were in the clr when it All three of the other GW” the car had time to escape-wut MT. | Wray who gamely stayed at the wheel of the car endeavoring to avert the mishap. ‘The heayy . machine plunged over and over pinning him beneath the windshield when it settled down. Wilcox and Mr. Wray’s nephew removed’ the machine from his body and then set out to gét relief. Passing automobilists took the party to Thermepe}'s where Mr. Wray was taken to the Carter ‘institution. Little details of the accident have been re. ceived here, but it was learned that the injured man suffered three broken ribs, an injured spine and had his lungs pencirated by the fractured ribs. Doctors who were in attendance last night predicted that he 0G? not sur: vive the night but late this afternoon has was making .a~game, fight and ha * parently gained strength. ‘Wray # brother of the injured aut ey Dr. Le D, Johnson, Casper surgeon, left early this morning in a race against death td attend the in. jured man and to see if anything known to modern surgery. or medicine epuld Ue done to save him. a “| with Dietz, brought the trouble to a WASHINGTON, Emma Bergdoll, of Grover e “Bergdoll, draft posse aa told a. house investigating commit- tee today that she buried the $105,- 060 in’ gold obtained from the treas. ury in the fall of 1917. She refused. the bi lace, it indicated it Wis not as fdas Gd BN. “toa phia as jown, Asked where the gold was now, Mrs. Bergdoll replied: “In my, possession and burjed in the same place I first pu Counsel for the gulag said it was important to know if it was near Hagerstown, Md. “No,” she said. “I never was around there in my life,” adding that nobody else knew the. location. The witness said she had been told by Bu late D. Clatence Gib- boney, her attorney, that he was de- pending cn the advice of Judge John W. Wescott in efforts to ob- tain the release ¢i,>er son. “I did not undvestand,. however, that Judge Wescott was one of my lawyers,” she added. Mrs. Bergdoll said she never heard of Grover's pot of buried gold un- Minister Is Sentenced for BRITISH ON SEA IS CUT was added. Che Casper Daily Crilame [NIGHT MAIL|. CASPER, WYO., SATURDAY, MAY 14, 1921 REDS AND CATHOLICS RIOT; FIFTY KILLED IN MEXICO VOLUME V BY GOVERNOR ‘DEFENDER OF CAMERON DAW’ Demonstration Staged Against Desecra-|, IS GIVEN COMPLETE PARDON OF WISCONSIN MADISON, Wis., May 13.—Complete pardon was gran! Governor John F. Dietz thi Blaine, eetored by freedom to the widely-known “defender of Cameron dam,” who was convicted of the killing of Oscar Harp, a deputy sheriff, on October 8, 1910. Blai: vad considered that seen was legal nm respect to the Judicial Proceedings. | and declared that “from consideration af public policy and in making allow- ance ‘for. the exceptional circum. t stances," he had concluded that Dietz} should be free. | “T am conscious,” the governor sai, | “that from the evidence before me here 1s a doubt as to the guilt of John | Dietz of thererime charged and that] Joi Dietz held off a sheriff's posse’ for) nonths and attracte) nation-wide at-| ention. charges pending against Dietz in Saw-! yer county will be pressed by the offi-| olals. | ‘The controversy which led to the} ton and sentence’of the Wiscon-| sin pioneer to life imprisonment for tirst degree murder, started in 190 shortly he. tid moved jnto Sa’ ver coun: ‘the wooded northern sre: sion of thie state. His attitude in op: posing the Chippewa Lumber & Boom ‘ABispute fiad’arfsen over the proper: ty prietts of Dictz in his homestead, which bordered on a loggin: stream. feud, in which two men, one a deputy sheriff, were wounded in fights climax when a sheriff's posse besieged the Deitz home and in the fighting. The family then sur- rendered. Deitz was then convicted and mur- der and sentenced to lifé imprison: ment but former Governor McGovert! commuted the sentence to 20 years. —_r_ Stockgrowers Ask Reduction In Yard Rates DENVER, Colo., May 13.—The Col- arado Stockgrowers association haa yresented a formal request to the Den er Union Stockyards company ask- ag that yardage and feed rates be cut to a 1916 basis. The association claims that livestock and commission prices have been reduced and that yardage and feed rates chould be cut J.Y, STOCK INJURED IN ACCIDENT AT TRAGK J. ¥.Btock, wealthy Casper oi] man, was slightly injured and a Buick rac- ing machine which he was tuning up for the races at Fair grounds Sunday, was partially destroyed last night when he was making a speed trial on the half-mile track. Mr. Stock’s in- juries were of minor nature and he will be able to drive his machine Sun- day if mechanics working on it to- day are successful. The most dam- age inflicted by the accident was the destruction of several lengths of the fence around.the track. adhe hee FUR EXCHANGE ON ROCKS. ST. LOUIS, May 15.—Officials -f the International Fur Exchange an- nounced a deficit of $9,202,437 in the finances of the establishment. A cir- cular containing this information is being mailed to all stockholders, it FORCE sive sales of war craft to South eylminates ina fight, with, he baecitt O-2.9tL sap i908. , Tie rp was killed | in granting the pardon, stated that hej churches last Sunday by radicals. ‘Grand Secretary I. O. O. F. Dies: BALT'MORE, Ma., Benjamin Goodwin. May 13—John| 71 years of age, he should be granted a complete par! who for 16 years had been grand sce-| trouble. retary of the Sovereign grand lodye, I. 0.0, F., died today of Bright's ‘@accze at his home here. Mr. Good- | It ts not expected that other | win for 31 years was a lawyer in At-|of fully armed gendarmes against the lanta and twice mayor of that city. — Flour sprinkled on burning oil wil immediately extinguish it. PAPERS Divorcee Bride Of J. H. Flagler This is the first picture of the young divorcee taken since she was secretly married to John H. Flagler, muiti-millionaire steel magnate, Copake Falls, N. ¥, Mrs. Flagler was formerly: Miss Be.trice Wen- necker of Brooklyn. Her first hus- band was James Divischi, Jr., whom she divorced in June, 1920. She is 33 years of age. British Military Mission Arrives In Chita Capital RIGA, May. 13,—The arrival of a British military mission at Chita, capital of the Far Hastern republic of Siberia, is reported in a Moscow dispatei to the -Letvian gency, which adds that recognition American governments for eventual transfer to Japan. “The only ships disposed of to for- and one sloop to Belgium.” of the Chita government by the pow- ers is imminent. In connection with the Far Eastern situation, a Reval dispatch reports that the Prince of Oldenburg is or- ganizing new forces in Siberia “to join General Semenoff and Japan against the Bolsheviki.” zis paride The square in front of St. familiar to every tinople, is now a Y. M Sophia's, visitor to Constan- c. A | Fighting Renewed On Kentucky-Vir- ginia Border as, Troops Are Asked LOUISVILLE, Ky., May 13. Morrow has tele- graphed the commanding of- ficer at Fort Benjamin Harri- son, Indiana, asking that fed- eral troops be sent to the) BALL SCORES OUULLITIT TIT TIT rerervereneweseneveseseccscoeseed | ane et At Brooklyn— NUMBER 184 | Kentucky and West Virginia counties’ Qineinnati ____— 010030100—5 14 FF. PrThe “principal firing toward the ‘Brooklyn = pear 000121000—4 7 Kentucky side came from Spriggs, W. Batteries—Rixey and Wingo; Grimes, Mitch- | Va., according to the rep when Pike county fleputy sheriffs and a el] and Miller. number, of miners approached the state line. West Virginia state police- Shel Ser aediparoars toe Feeetet te bate at New York H. E: icipated in the firing. Earl Smith, a Pike county deputy St. Louis sheriff, was reported shot and serious- «|New York ly wounded by State Policeman H: Bentley a eo We Virginia er of : . . . |{the tall bridge. at Willian ; (Called end sixth inning, rain.) Batteries—Walker and Clemons; Ryan and- 1 2 7: 2 | the tall bridge at Williamson WILLIAM W. Va.. May Moun waich raged alt of Smith, | tion of Church Leads to Bloodshed _ |>:strdax 274 intormittantiy’ doroust 2 2 the West Virginian-Kentucky c | In Mexican State of Michoacan rile Sasi aan Feactogd Wit + i this morning. Reports sent to ¢ J. R.. Brockus of the state police headquarters here said heavy was in progress at McCarr, Ky eastern end of the trouble and at Merrimac, W. Va where y rday's shooting started. | R. H. E. At Philadelphia— Chicago ___.---000000013—4 7 90 Philadelphia __.000000020—2 8 90 | Batteries—Martin and Killifer; Hubbell and Bruggy. at} firing | the |__ MEXICO CITY, May 13.—(By The Associated Press.) — | Fifty p: ersons were killed and a score wounded last night aaj Morelia, capital of the state of Michoacan, says reports to/ al Excelsior early this morning, when police, aided by un- solicited help from radicals, charged a large lay: An unidentified man was killed 6n ; gro the bridg lidg from McCarr to the) .. | Catholics. | dispatches state, they charged at tho| West Virginia bank of Tug river this At Boston—Pittsburgh-Boston game post- The latter were as jonstrating | police, who Ned their guns at the! morning, bringing the known. casual- poned; rain. against alleged desecration of their|crowd. The Catholics, some of whom | were women, were dazed at the action The Catholic population of Morelia| °f the police, and seeing their com- was much incensed Sunday when radi.|7ades lying dead in the streets, fled ties to three killed and two wounded. This includes a member of the at tacking party reported killed Me: Carr last night i at | cals ,entered several churches there,|!n panic. | |broke many {mages and eventually General Garcia; chief of m WILLIAMSON, W. Va., May 13.— | placed their red flag on the cathedral| operations in the state of Mich {Reports that firing from the moun 3 neral Mugica, governor of the|tains had been resumed at dawn tc tower. A demonstration of protest wadtand c where state police {held yesterday. according to dispatches) state, combined their forces to restore day at Sprigg | received here, but waa broken up by|order and prevent further outbreaks,|fought a battle yesterday with rific- police, and aided by federal soldiers, which it is feared will occur. men hidden in the mountains, were At Chicago— R. H. E. when clashes with jeering radicals on| The latest dispatehes from Morelia received y county authoriti Chiet Boston_ 240207200116 15 1 |Chicago 2000400028 15 2 Batteries—Jones and Ruel, Walters; Kerr, McWeeny, Hodge, Pierce and Schalk, Yaryan.’ At Cleveland— R. H. E, 00—4 10 3 Washington -._ 3 00 Cleveland 100 o0o—2 74 Batteries—Mogridge harrity; Uhle and O'Neill. At Detroit— R. H. EL New York __--_030000120—6 10 1 Detroit 1000100024 10 2 Batteries—Harper, Ferguson and Schangl Ehmke, Cole and Ainsmith. At St. Louis— ; Philadelphia _-_.004001000—5 5 90 St. Louis 34000000*—7 8 2 Batteries—Hasty, Barrett and Perkins; Da- vis, Bayne and Severeid. ! MURDER SEEN) Tobacco Less |the side to Excelsior indicate intense bitter-| Deputy Sheriff John Hall left at ence ness is being manifested against the|with ammunition for the police ‘The demonstration was resumed) extreme action of Coyt, which is be-| Governor Morgan's request for fo again In the evening. Vicente Coyt, in-| lieved here to have been unwarranted,|eral troops to guard ihe district fol spector of the police, led a large unit|Coyt, who led the police personally, |lowed the battle in which one max was injured and three of his men|was killed and two wounded. demonstrators, few of whom carried| were among those killed. Isaac Ar-| Firing from the Kentucky sile of larms. The latter refused the demand|riaga, Socialist leader in Morelia, and/the Tug river continued intermittent | of Coyt that they disperse ang when | head of the agrarian commission there,| ' volley was fired over thelr head;, the! also. was killed. ' lincs threatened eetious! (Continued on Page 14) 0100 Lae 0001 and G ISSUED FOR RETURN Remains of Four Husbands Show Effects Of Poison, Prosecutor Says; Accused Woman Now Living With No. 5 Harvard Prof Is Seized in Raid R. H. E. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., May 17.—Y. H. Ormsby, deputy sheriff of Twin Falls county, Idaho, arrived here today to await a boat for Honolulu, where he will seek the extradi- tion of Mrs. Paul Vincent Southard, who is charged with having poisoned her fourth husband, Edward F. Meyer, at Pocatello, Idaho. ;band, Paul Southard, is a petty of- Frank L. Stephan, prosécuting at- 'ficer on the U. 8. 8. Monterey. They torney of Twin Falls county, Idaho,|Were Married in Los Angeles iast has investigated the deaths of three|November. She is 28 years of age. +] H f l Th other husbands of Mrs. Southard, a! The bodies of the husbands, Rob- armiu an = brother-in-law and a cbild of one ofjert GC, Dooley, William G. McHaffi the men she married. All of the}Harlan C. Lewis and Edward F. M oh I Cl - husbands were insured in favor of{er, and that of Edward Dole: a Se i ae ea, Is au Mrs. Southard, the prosecutor said. |Lrother of her first husband, have my 5 Nok i lee Tae Op Ormsby said he would be accom-|been exhumed and Stephan said ho OC snr Axpestiit er esenG ene - panied to Honolulu by his wife, who! had evidence that poison caused their Sareyd hry eq paats try McGDvray lay 13.—Tobacco is the is to bring extradition papers from|deaths. The poison that the prosecu: pases sellce officiate ‘today. The| last harmful of the “four social Boise. She is matron of the county)tor said was found in the bodies of So aacts bt he Se eee hich had beca| Poisons,” tea, coffee, tobacco and | jail at Twin Falls. ppned Spenives tbe athe: 1b) SAN) CAs. topeidered one of suicide in official) #i¢ehol, according to Sir James. Mrs. Southard was arrested at| The charge against Mrs. Southard eigcles}- had changnd. entirely. over| Cantle, the eminent surgeon, speak-> Honolulu yesterday, where her -hus-| was filed after,staie ctiwmists of Idaho hight, they said. Two new witnesses! iS here recently. = and Utah ad examined the stomachs of the former husbands and * the brother-in-law. Mrs. Southard, the |prosecutor said, failed in two cases to collect insurance on her husbands’ } Hives. She is said to have collected at least $9,500 in insurance. 1 Her marriages took place in Idaho and Colorado and the deaths occurred were found whose testimony regarding} “Smoke the some amount of to- circumstances now | bacco every day,” said Sir dames,~ shooting altered the “and the heart will become accus- tomed to a certain amount. smokes less one day than anoth he feels as much effect 2s if had smcked more. He said three days’ abstinence: | from smoking would entirely free n Montana and Idatiag where she | < Jae 4 eR 5 aaa et ~ ~ condemned the cigarette. was arrested in Honolulu she said she telegraph |, DENVER, ——— {would not fight extradition to the} Prof. Louis Agassiz Shaw of | Shoup, on behalf of the state of Col-| : WASHINGTON, 13. — The} United States, the Harvard Medical school and | orado, toda sent to Cheyenne, Wy | Stillman Case "Tincher bill, to regulate dealings in ponnse. of a socially prominent fam- | two wreat to- be placed on ama | grain futures, was passed today by M -U L ly in Boston, said: “All the fellows | caskets containing the bodies of Fred i Thai GoGsasaha” GER ets ‘eonnte: ex Utilities have’ stills.” when-probibition-oM-1G.Green of Denver and Ered “H.: Mon Is Postponed en eget ce i cers entered his home and found one | ris of Westcliffe, Colo., killed | : AERIAL PATRO}. FORMED. To Be 0 erated of the finest stills the prohibition | France during the world war. j au c os |. Dp era has brouzht to licht. ‘The bodies will arrive in Cheyenne | VICTORIA, B. C., May 15.—Organ- tomorrow afternoon and will be| NEW YORK. May 13.—Hearings in ization of an airplane force to fight ° brought to Denver. |the divorce proceedings instituted by forest fires in this province is to be} MEXICO CITY, May 17 Govern. Accidental Shot — = | James A. Stillman, New York bankex soon, it was reported today, | ment authorities are prepared to op- Goods yaalle for export te China been tentatively postponed from following the announcement of thelerate all public utilities here if the . should not be wrapped in white or blue May 18 and 19 to M: and 26, at- British Columbian government. that it/threat of a gencral strike is carried From Gun Kills | ravers. tor they are the mourning col- torneys for Mrs. 8 hoxaniical had appropriated. $20,000 for the pur-!out today pose. by striking telephone em ployes: RAIL DEFICITS ARE PILING UP WASHINGTON, May 13.—Unless some way is found to increase rev- control of railroads was estimated by the director general of the rail- road administration at $1,200,000,- 000. Considering railroad claims conflicting with the government, the chairman said, the total amount rose to $2,500,000,000 and he gave as his own estimate $1.800,000,000 as the final loss which the govern. ment was likely to sustain. enues and reduce expenses, the rail- way deficit “will have to be met from the national treasury,” Chair- man Cummins of the senaté inter- state commerce committee, declared Chairman Cummins said that the “This situation challenges the total loss sustained by the govern- | permancy of private ownership,” ment during the 26 months of its | he declared. Mother of Boy GRANGEVILLE, Idaho, y 13. Rossiter, 51, ac y and killed by her you! son here rday. The Woy had re. turned from a hunting trip and had laid his gun on the bed. Upon pick- ing it up it was discharged, the bul- let striking his mother in the side and driving a piece of corset steel into her lungs. vey Maca FRENCH STAR NOT COMING PARIS, May 13.—The French Ten- nis association has decided not to nom inate Suzanne Lenglen, the French woman tennis champion, for the Davis cup matches, it was announced here today, ‘The federation considers that fivé set matches Would be too great’a tax for a woman piayer. ors of the Chinesc here toda SLAYER IS HELD ON HAND PRINT CHICAGO, May 13.—Paul Labri- ola, cousin of the man ef the same from Albuquerque, N. He told police he was merely on a visit. M: name who was shot and killed on March 8, in the political warfare of the nineteenth ward in Chicago, was arrested late last night in connec- tion with the shooting of Anthony d’Andrea on Wednesday morning, one of the nineteerth ward's political leaders. D'Andrea died in a hos- pital of his wounds. Labriola is said to have come to Chicago ‘within the past few days Tho print of a hand on a newly decorated wall on the ground floor flat-of d’Andrea’s apartment is the_ chief clue police have obtained. The print of Labriola's hand, with one finger cut off. is said by police ban! be similar to that on the wall. D’Andrea’s slayer fired throtigiet the window on the vacant floor Mat with a sawed off shotguit leaving the weapen in the rear of, the building. cassgmes ground: