Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 18, 1921, Page 1

FORCES WARDEN TO OPEN PRISON DOOR ON THREAT TO KILL OOGTOR Physician Kidnaped byl ‘Escaping Prisoner Is Forced to Drive Car And Dodge Bullets serving ht- term. for on iyo penitentiary here cend cornered after a spectacular bahar ‘mile automobile race shot himself through the head, dying instantly. The story of his escape and the subsequent pur- suit is more suggestive of a scenario writer's hectic imagination than of a reporters narration of sold facts. ‘Biscardo severa, days ago. became iil, oF pretended to be ill, and was admitted to the penitentiary :>firmary, There his wife was permitted to visit him and she assumably smuggled a revolver to him. Dr. Raymond Barber, prison physt- cian, entered the infirmary, accompa- nied by a friend, R. C. Magor, county clerk of Carbon county, and the pair were held up by Biscardo with the re- volver. The convict forced Barber to “swap” clothes and threatened to kill the physician unless the latter con- trived to get him out of the prison. Barber explained that what was asked would be impossible without the con- nivance of the prison guards, Sts- cardo, responded that if the doctor ‘ral- Biscardo's consent, Barber communicated with Warden F.-A: Hadsell. who came to the grated door of the hospital ward and attempted to} Treason with ‘he convict, explaining. door of the. yor blocks start.” All 1 ask is that you do net harm Barber or Magor.3 . Barber's machine Was driven to the door pf the in ry. the gates were left open and he «nd his hostages Were not interfered -with in leaving. vubo made Darber take the wheel wor, got in himself, compelled *ty follow and the party drove the yard with’ the convict be- tyre Dis two hostages. awiie Sheriff Saunders with an several cars armed teers urrived.’ They stood Barber car rolled past ‘eh tor Casper. Fearing that might cause deaths of hey followed at a re- : not attempting to fleeing car but merely eit: Larber, driving es directed by Bis- cardo und with ‘the convict's gun pressed against his side in emphasis of @ threat to kill him unless he made tho best time of which his machine was capable, headed eastward. A mile and a half out of town Biscardo com pelled Magor to leap from the rurtling car. He did so, turned several somer- saults and brought up in the sage- brush, stunned but virtually unin- jured. Hadsell did not permit Ma gor’s spectacular descent to divert him but went. by the sprawling man at], 60 miles an hour. For 16 miles the chase continued over a rutty road, the pursued and pursuing cars careening crazily but never slackening speed. Then Barber's engine became overheated and he was compclied to stop. Biscardo, -sus- pecting a ruse, appeared inclined to kill the physician and_ the - latter jumped to the ground. When Barber leaped Biscardo fired three ineffectual shots at him and scuttled into a near- by draw. Hardly had his feet touched the ground when Hadsell brought his car, the brakelining smoking from fric- tion, to a skidding step and he and Keiffer leaped to the ground, guns in hand. Biscardo, however, already was ducking in and out among the sage- brush of the draw and the officers could not obtain a fair shot at him. They pursued and within a short dis- tance bad the fugitive cornered. Then, his plans meg pas only the dreary prospect of a prolonged: term in prison; before him, Biscardo placed ‘the muzzle of his revolver to his side and pulled the trigged. He then shot himself in the hesd and was dead fetery when the officers reached him. CHILD IS finding last night of the boy’s body. body thrown into a marsh on the east side where two boys found it while picking dandelions. When taken to the morgue last not recognize the boy. WOMAN SEIZE DETROIT, May 17.—Mrs. Elizabeth Lewen, 58 years of age, held" at the women’s detention home since Saturday on a charge of abducting Max Ernest, 6 years of age, faced a charge of murder today, upon the Her arrest was asked by Frank. E. Ernest, the child’s father, who told authorities he believed she might have kidnaped lis Loy to avenge a fancied wrong in recent business dealings. The Caz W EKS DEFENDS PUBLICATION OF ,2LACKER NAMES | ' Of System Designed to Run Down Slackers and Correct Mistakes WASHINGTON, May 17.—The war department issued a of deserters from the draft as shown. by the department's |u' relatives of men who did th cases gave up their lives in the serv ice that the slacker lists be given out, the statement said, “it is now in- sisted that the lists should never have been published at all until the de- partment Was absolutely convinced Uthat there appeared thereon the name ‘of no rain who actually rendered either! military or naval service, during the world war. “As a matter of fact,” !t continued, ‘the war department would have been ent warranted in including in the pubiishéed lists of men charged with from the draft the name! registrant. who failed to re-| port for military service at the time land place specifically stated in the | Notice to him) by his board. whether or not he subsequently Served honorably in the army, navy or ma ¢ corns of the United States or itary forces of the allied powers + The ¢epartment undertook grat uitiously tq check and reeMck the the SA4.O88. sie Minar ocuiee so the Ii ptt cae cea Het prenaty pie hese tar BOLE ERIE have offi- At Boston— Chicago ...---. 200 Bosten _-.-..-. 300 ~~ Batteries—Martin, Oeschger and O’Neill. developed where names of men ‘wrongfully carried on the list. wey At New York— ; FORTY KILLED Socvon 10003 IN ROME RIOTS Batteries—Napier and W; ROME, May 17.—According to fig Smith. ‘ At Brooklyn— ures published by the ‘newspaper Il Paese, forty persons were killed in St. Louis: ___--_ 1110 conflicts between factions on election 0010 day, last Sunday. Rome, May 17:—(By The Associated Press.)}—Government computations on the result of Sunday's parliamentary elections, based on returns reecived up to noon Monday, with 50 districts doubiful, show the election of 240 sup- porters of the Giolitti ministry, the newspaper I] Paese states. Reduction in the Social Ist-Commu- nist representatives from 170 in the last parliament to 100, so far as def- {nite returns have been reecived is claimed. FORMER MINING MAN 1S LAID AT REST HERE Funeral services for Austin T. Ho man, aged 46, who died yesterday morning after a fatal attack of heart trouble, were held from the Shaffer & Gay chape! this afternoon at 2-o'clock. Mr. Holman was a prominent en- gineer and operator of the Cripple Creek mining districts and had recent- ly come to Casper from Victor, Colo., on a business visit. He was accompa- nied here by Mrs. Holman. Burial was made in Highland cem- 00 10 © 000 000 in 0 4 No 1 2 hoefer; Grimes and Krueger. At Philadelphia— Pittsburgh _--_. 1004000 Philadelphia _-.0001000 bell, Keenan and Peters. At Chicago— Philadelphia -__0010110 icago —______ 0040040 Batteries—Harris, Keefe, H Perkins; McWeeney and-Schalk. At Detroit— Washington -_ 10000 Detroit __-___--00000 Batteries—Mogridge ard, Oldham and Ainsmith. At Cleveland— New York ___.. 0100000 Cleveland 0002002 oS CLEVELAD ‘D, 0, O., May 17— “Babe” Ruth made his 12th home run of the season today in the ninth inning of a game with the Cleveland Americans. There was no one on base and the hit was made off Pitcher Uhle. ‘ George Kelly, New York Nationals, cight home runs to date. SLAIN, 01 00 and G Uhle and O’Neill. At St. Louis— Bosto: 0000002 St. Louis. ___-_.2000000 vis‘and Severeid. The lad had been strangled and the Princeton 0. AMERICAN LEAGUE Batteries—Ferguson, Collins : NUMBER 187 | ORDERED OFF OPEN SHOP URGED ON U. S. MANUFACTURERS ‘| Department ASir otimed at Criticism President of Association in Address| Before Convention Declares for Abrogation of Agreement R. H, E 10-4 13 1 4 ara & g 2 and -Killifer; R. H, £. 000-3 9 0 01-4 10 3 zo;. Barnes and Batteries—Haines, North, Goodwin and Dil- R. H. E. Batteries—Glazner and Schmidt, Skiff; Hub- R. H. E, 10—4 11 1 0 2—10 13 1 asty, Perry and R. H. E. 0 2 10 0 011 #70 harrity; Leon- R. HE. 9 1 FS R. H. E. 00-2 80 2*—4 10 2 anpomirel Mogan tig: Meyers and Ruel; Da- COLLEGE BASEBALL ’ Princeton, N. J., May 17.—Dartmouth 2, night, Mrs. Lewen declared she did = SHOE COMPANIES MERGE. BOSTON, May 17.—Tho merger of ‘he Internaijonal Shoe comrany -ct St. Louis and the W. H. McElwain company of .this city, turers, was announced today. It brings! wing of the party will adopt the title tesether companies whose sales aggregated $130,000,000 last year. 1350, 000 adherents. shoe manufac- NEW YORK, May 17.—Abrogation of the national labor statement today Be whee} surprise at the “constant fire of |adjustment agreements on the railroads, support of the| drastic criticism’ lowed its action in publishing lists|/‘“‘open shop” and the enactment of a sales tax law were | irged by Stephen C. Mason, president of the National Asso-| records. Despite the urgency of “patriotic societies and the/ciation of Manufacturers, in his annual message delivered ir full duty and who, in many |today at the association’s twenty-sixth annual convention. BALL SCORES NATIONAL LEAGUE “The infamous national labor ad justment agreements,” said Mr. Ma son, “which were inherited by the car- riers out of the war-time period of government operation and the coinci tent uneconomic high railway wage burdens have been the ¢hief causes of the deplorable transportation con- ditions which have existed during the past year. “In my opinion, the Esch-Cummins ict of 1920 has more than justified its enactment in every respect. The speaker declared that the “open shop". had gained a greater measure uf public support and recognition than ‘ver during the past year. Indications of dissension within the wssociation were given with the dis tribution, of a cireular -including a esolution of the leaders of the move- ment deploring conditions and calling an investigation of the associa- tor tion’s political and other activities and the effecting of necessary reforms. . Two. hundred firms in 25 states were disclosed In the circular as backing the movement for reformation, —————— WOULD CURB ARMS SAL WASHINGTON, May —A bill by Senator Shields, Tennessee, designed! 7, by the detonation of several sticks | We Welfare of the troop. to curtail sales. of firearms by pen- uizing transportation of firearms of any other type than those approved by the army and navy or state regu- lations was approved yesterday by judiciary committee. ui he? ogee Concessions Are | Made Tenants in Chicago, Report CHICAGO, May 17.—Recent conces+ sions as an inducement to prospective tenants to rent an apartment were of- fered in Chicago today for the first time in several years. A real estate ffrm advertised free’rent until June 1, on two apartments in a choice rest. dential ‘section. One was six rooms, sunparlor and bath ‘with a rental of $120 a, month,.while the other was four rooms and bath fo. $75. NOMINATION RECOMMENDED. WASHINGTON, May 17 +The sen- ate finance committee ordered today a favorable report on the nomination ot Dayid H. Blair of Winston-Salem, to be commissioner of internal revenite. The report was ordered without a roll call voie. % WOMAN TO BE )| Her’ that “Lampitt had been STATE WITNESS INMURDER CASE’ Fiance of One of Two Victims of Grass Creek Dynamite Trage- dy to Take Stand Against Lampitt (Special to The Tribune.) THERMOPOLIS, Wyo, May 1i.- The most important witness against Lampitt, 45 years of age, when he is arraigned here next Thursday, on a charge of murder in connection with the death of Harry Foight and Wy. C. Seaton in a dynamite explosion in the Grass Creek oil field recently, is ex: pected to be Mrs. Grace A. Lee, care taker of the bunkhouse in which Foight and Scaton were asleep when they met death, who was engaged to marry Foight and whose favor hed been sought by Lampitt. Mrs. Lee will testify that Lampitt Was resentful of Foight’s attention to her and cavedropped during a con versation in. which Foight jnformed aiecused of Seiting a trap-gun which killed A. S. Ash at Cody, Wyo., in 1909, A. J. Kelly will testify shh Lampitt told him of having listened at a win. dow and overheard Foight give him a bad name to Mrs. Lee, and that Lampitt vowed darkly he would “get both of them.” Foight and Seaton were killed May of dynamite beneath the bunkhouse In which they and three other men— Jack Crandall, Ed Schroeder. and Charles Wilcox—were sleeping. Wil, cox, Crandall and Schroeder were in: jured but are recovering. At the time of the killing of Ash; at Cody Lampitt was suspected of having been responsible for the crime but no conerete evidence against him could be secured. The murderer set a trap-gun in Ash's cabin in such} @ manner that it would be exploded by any pergon opening the door. Ash opened the door and received a charge of shot in’ the Witness A gainst | night were: : bel, Marvin Pile, Clyde Hoon, and Tom Edith Cavell Is Logan. Several additional boys who attend the Christian Sunday school are expected to attend the organization _ Under Arrest meeting, of the troop Saturday wen: RESERVE CHIEF ON TOUR, BRUSSE A man a leged to t denouncer of Miss ‘Cavell, the English nurse. who was executed by the Germans, has been arrested at Mons, the newspaper giving his name Armand Jeanne. He has put forward the plea that many other French and Belgians have been identified Rumerous witnesses as the denouncer of the nurse TWO AMERICANS AMONG REDS | AS ‘PERNICIOUS FOREIGNERS’ MEXICO CITY, May 17.—Frank Seaman, alleged to be an American agitator; another American, whose name was not announced; two Spaniards and four other. foreigners were ordered expelled from Mexico last night on the ground that they were “pernicious foreigners.” preferred against them under the provisions of Article 33) constitution and was the ot nm in an order President | Obregon Members of the Liberal-Constitution 1 party in the chamber of- deputies | MEXICAN SOIL This charge was! of the Mexica @ result of the participation of four men in the radical {invasion the chamber of deputies last Demonstrations in governtr ings and in church een forbid anned to propose ousting of several| i yesterd but absence of a quorum. deferred action until the chamber assembles tomorrow. ly yesterday afternoon the eral-Constituticnalists held a caucus at which they discussed Program to be followed. They gave particular attention to a letter they purpose to send to President Obregon Li eret the Philip EB. C Diaz Sioto y Gama, uties charged with leading sion of the chamber by They also hope to se: n the federal rillo ra the Bol sheviki district, a labor leader, and Inspector | , of Police Reygadas. Gendarmes guarded every entrance) 4 to the chamber yesterday and persons| Senor | entering for arms Socialists have planned a demon stration upon the arrival from Morelia of the body of Isaac Arriag, a radical leader who was killed during the: riot- ing there last Thursday. Sweeping orders were issued last night by President Obregon to the fed- eral prosecuting attorney, the supreme court and the department of interior to investigate the Morelia affair and the invasion of the chamber of de. puties by radicals, Federal officers were directed to use every means at thelr command to ascertain the causo of the Catholic-Secialist clash at More- lia, which was described in the presi dent's order as “an act of intemper- ance and _intolerasa NEW SCOUT TROOP T0 BE ORGANIZED IN CITY The organization of Troop 13. the newest troop of the Casper Scout or- RAnizatio: has been undertaken by the First Christian church. The board of directors of the church have appointed a troop committee con sisting of five members to look after The mem- bers of the troop committee are Wil- lard Murane, C. C. Chamberlin, Albert Parks, Mr. Van Hecken and Mr. Perkins. 0. I. Harris has been designated as scoutmaster ‘of the new troop, and Ralph Murane, patrol leader in Troop 1, will act ss assistant scoutmaster in addition to his work with Troop 1. A preliminary meeting of represen- tatives of the new troo night at the home of Rev . Stout, pastor of the church, and plans were made for the organization meeting of the troop to be held at the home of the scoutmaster at 135 South Jackson str next Saturday meeting. Prospective members of the new troop who attended’ the meeting last eorge Hocks, Willie Sei- the building were searched WASHINGTON, May 17.—Gover- nor Harding of ,the federal reserve board left today for a two-weeks tour of agricultural and industrial centers of the middle west and south. The purpose of the tour, the gover: nor said, was to acquaint himself more fully, with the individual problems of those sections. AMERICAN ATTITUDE IN SILESIAN ROW SOUGHT LONDON, May 17.—(By The Asso- ciated s)—The possibility that the United States will participate in the forthcoming meeting of the al- | lied supreme council, provisionally | scheduled for the week-end in Bou- logne or Ostend to consider the Upper Silesian questicn, is beira discussed here in connection with the semi-official jouncement that the conference will be a | one. British official circles are keenly Sahcs ira bits ebay arses Czechs Approve Membership in Internationale | | PRAGUE, May 17.—The congress of | the Czecho-Slovak Socialist-Democrats of the left have voted to join the Third | Internstionale vf Moscow, the ballot) standing 562 to 7. The decision was! combined | ofs Communists. reached without reservation and the It claims’'to “have | interested in the attitude of the United States. OPPELN, May 17.—(By The Asso- | elated Press.\—The Polish executive committee in Silesia, of which Adal- bert Korfanty is presiient, has tele- | graphed to the inter-allied commis- sion here stating the insurgents are now ready to retire sufficiently to insure immediate cessation of hos- tilities with the Germans, provided the ground they’ abandon i pied by allied and not by troops. KATTOWITZ, Upper Silesia, May 16—4By The Associated Press.)— Adalbert Korfant leader of the Polish insurgent movement in Upper Silesia, issued an ultimatum to the industrial interests in the district today directing them to sign a spe- cially issued Polish-Silesian paper currency to relieve the money str:n- rcency brought on by the refusal of the German reischbank to transport 250,000,000 marks te the district fo pay the miners’ wages. The grow- ing tendency toward Belshevism ' H and possible sabotage were given hy Kewisnty as reasons for his action. While awa‘ting a reply to the ul- | timatum Korfanty the frentier forces. is strengthening The German interests objected to issue it the proposed special currency on the ground that ultimately would become worthless. FRANCE, POLANE LEAT EUROPE IN: ARMIES, LATEST: REPORT REVEALS. Military Establishments Other Nations; Is Third in Strength WASHINGTON, May 17.— majorities the other con- military effectives now under arms, according to British sta- tistics received here today in official Czecho Denmark France . Eatery Portugal Rouman: Spain Sweden rland Serb-Croat-Slovene State France controls approximately two- thirds of the si¢htly more than 3,006, 000 men reported »nder arms today im Europe, {t was pointed out, by her une derstandings concluded with Belgium, Czecho-Slovakia, Poland, Roumania ind Jugo-Slavia ANTONITO, Colo... May 17,—Henrg F Jordan, $0°years of age. a resi- dent of the San Luis valley for 40 years and one of the most prominent sheep growers in Colorado. sujcide at his ranch near by shooting through the head with # heavy bore rifle. He died instantly, Jordan last fall was reputed to he worth « million dollars. Friends said he had lost most of his money througiy recent reverses in the wool markety MRS. BERGDOLL here toda YEAR AND SAY: L ‘. Bergdoll was today sen- tenced in the federal district court to one year i one day in the At- lanta penitentiary for conspiracy to: aid her sons, Grover C. Bergdoll and Erwin R. Bergdoll to desert the~ United States army, and was fined a total of $7,000. Judge Dickinson in imposing sentence announced thi prison sentence would be remitted if the fine is paid within the resent term of court ending the aecanay Monday in dune. PHILADEL M: 17. — Tre same conditional sentence was im: posed on Charles A. Braun, Mrs. Berg: doll's eldest son, who changed «hia name because of the notoriety caused by Grover's escapades, and on James a friend of the family. an S. Mitchell, automobile uh, indicted sert the army, were to six months i} ail a Their sentences ‘also will be remitted if the fines are paid before the sec ond Monday in June —_ Score Cards Are Presented Fans nd fanettes who nd the will re. cipients of favors from Prof. Donald McFarlane and Walter Keefe of the Casper Floral compar Mr. McFar lane, who with hi Bickford, has been the danc tor at the Winter Gard will present each per te h a specially ard of the Midwest le has on hand enough re score Keefe and carna- Mr. i Sta hers cme The republic of area of 38 square{miles and s jation of not’ quite 11,000. ) supply all the members of the x with a flower. RANCHER VICTIM OF POISON DOSE ALBLQU ERQUE, N. M., May —John Murrah, rancher of Lake wood, N. M., who died shortly after taking a drink of water at his ranch _ last week, had enough poison in his ing to Dr. John D. Clark, chemis his analysis of Murrah's stomach. stomach to kill several men, accord- » who today made public the results of One of the two samples of water sent here from the .well also contained strychnine, according to Dr. Clark. Wiliam Murrah, a brother, who will be charged with the murder, t is held in connection with the case,> he distgict attorney at Carlsbad anos nounced today in authorizing the report of the chemist to be made public, Much Larger Than} Italy France and Poland lead by™ j large tinental nations of Europe in » Colorado | Pioneer ' Takes Own Life: committed. | SENTENCED TO. |