Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 25, 1921, Page 1

CO Ghe Casper Dailsy Weather Forecast Generally fair preceeded by thui..cr showers in ex- treme north portion this afternoon or tonight; warmer in southeast VOLUME V sht and Tuesday Crihuunte [| CASPER, WYO., MONDAY, JULY, 25, 1921. NUMBER 244. Stories of Bribes To ld to Grand Jury by Jackson, Cicotte and Williams to Be Used as Evidence; Players Say Judge ‘Agreed Not to Use Them CHICAGO, July 25.—Judge Hugo Friend today ruled that the grand jury confessions Eddie Cicotte, Claude Williams and Joe Jackson made that they were paid to throw games in the 1919 world’s sezies are admissible as evidence in the base- ball trial. The judge, however, informed the state that if the de- TWO GIGANTIC TOUAISTS SPEND $1,380 IN CASPER ON WEEK-END WHISKEY RINGS ARE REVEALED Tramp Ships Bearing Liquor Cargoes Off Atlantic Coast Evidence Found NEW YORK, July 25. rings, one having headquarters in this city and one in At-|visitors owned BAGGAGEMAN AT BURLINGTON IS STABBED FOR WAITING ON PUBLIC IN TURN AT WINDOW Charged with having stabbed Z. P. Roberts, veteran bag-| lantic City. Aid of the navy department also was being sought in an effort to build up a rum hunting fleet, According to Leroy W. Ross, Unit- ed States district attorney of Brook- lyn, foreign and domestic capital ag- gregating several million dollars is be hind the whiskey smuggling conspir cy. A tramp steamer cruised saucily outside the three-mile limit off At- lantic City yesterday, according to reports received here, and taunted fed- eral agents by breaking out pennants saying. “Lay down your money and come and get it.” The tramp slipped away at nightfall. The temporary injunction will be in effect until Thursday. It was issued on application of Bainbridge Colby, formerly secretary of state, who is now practicing Iaw with Woodrow Wilson. Its effect fora few days, at least, will be to restore operation oi the ships to the United States Mai Steamship company. , July 25.—Federal prohibition forces are placing a drag- net to gather in the rum runners op erating along the north Atlantic egast Commissioner Haynes declared today. Heretofore chasing liquor smugglers has been more properly a customs matter as the prohibitiun forces had neither ships nor’ the money to con- duct operations at sea, the commis oner said. He. indicated, however hat the prohibition unit was prepar- ing for greater activity on the water ————_ Babe Gets Two Homers in Game With Cincinnati WASHINGTO: CINCINNATI, July - 25. — “Babe” ‘Ruth kocked the ball over the center of the field fence for a home run with the bases full in an exhibition game today between the New York Ameri- cans and the Cincinnati Nationals. Coumbe was pitching for Cincinnati. Ruth hit his second home run of the game in the seventh inning with one man on. The previous hit was made in the fifth inning ee ey FRENCH TRAIN HELD UP. CHAGNY masked men, held up and, rohbed=the first class passenger Paris-Marseilles express train near here early today:| the bandits shot dead one man who. refused to raise his hands and wound- led another. They escaped with a quantity of booty. France, July 25.—Three| V Federal authorities along the Atlantic coast rédoubled their vigilance over tramp ships to- day following disclosure of evidence indicating the existence of at least two gigantic international whiskey smuggling AUTOS WHICH PASSED UP CAMP ARE NOT INCLUDED ‘Casper Motor Club’s Camp East of City Paying Divi-| dends; 113 Cars From 25 States Enjoy Ac- _ | commodations Over Sunday, Report Federal Sleuths on. Sharp Lookout for| | During the past four days, ‘ per’s free tourist camp came in 113 cars and according to | pittsburgh | the week-end visitors at Cas- statistics compiled from record cards, spent $1,338.63 with! Casptr business institutions. Nebraskans constituted the greatest part of the population at the camp grounds during the four days, while the Ford bad the distinction amcng cars.” A large percentage of the Nebraskans who stopped here however did not come in Fords, in fact the Nebraska @ smaller percentage |three Fords. | Twenty-six states anc jot Fords than any‘other state repre- sented. | The Nebraskans came in three | Buicks, two Chandlers, two Dodges, jone Nash, one Auburn Six, one Hud- son, one Overland and five Fords. | piilinots is partial to Fords and/ by five Fords and two i | Oklahotha is represented by more! class and variety than any other state, |they came in one Peer.ess, one Mar- |mon, two Studebakers, one Buick and | Dodges, that state being represented } twenty-five | makes of cars were represented at the camp in the last four days, the roster is as follows. | Nebraska 16, Colorado, Missouri and California’ 11 each, Oklahoma 8, IIl- gagemaster at the Burlington depot, on the head and arms |inois, Iowa and Kansas 7 each, In- with a pocket knife, Lon Prunty is being held in the county “ana, Texas, Michigan and Wyo- jail charged with aggravated assault. The alleged assault occurred, it is said, when Roberts re- fused to serve Prunty before he cared for the requirements) Tennessee, Arkansas, Massachusetts, of other persons who had made their appearance before Prunty showed up at the baggage window. | t b After stabbing the baggage master| Prunty is said to have made a dash : tor Ubérty, climbing through a mov- ng train evafte the officers who took up the chase.. He was later lo; cated when’ he approached his homé it 134 West F street. He will be giv- en a preliminary hearing in justice court today. . The asxault took place at the depot 1ast night when Prunty was sending his wife back to the home of her par; ents in Virginia. ‘When arrested Prunty had over $100 in his pockets. arg Roy Schenck of Tampico, Mexico, is spending hts vacation as a guest of Judge Winter. Mr. Schenck ts con: nected with the Tide Water Oil com-| nany. He is expected to arrive to- day, ROAD REPORT State Highway Department Road Report. The district office of the state highway department makes the fol- lowing report of road conditions today: Grant Highway — Nebraska line to Shawnee good, then fair to Orin. Yellowstone Highway — Good from Platte county line to Glenrock, then fair to Casper. Good from Casper to Shoshoni and Bonneville. | The mountain road across Birdseye Pass’ between Shoshoni and Ther~ mopolis can be made without dif ficulty with cars in good condition | and, not overloaded. Shoshoni-Lander Road—Shoshoni to Riverton is good, then fair to Hudson and good to Lander. Casper-Sheridan Road — Rough from end of pavement to Seventeen Mile, then fair to good to Sheridan. IRELAND TAKES UP PROPOSALS Peace Terms of Premier Lloyd George Are Submitted to Irish Cabinet by De | Valera DUBLIN, July 25.{By Thé Associ- Jated Press.)—The Irish peace propos- als made, by Lloyd George to Eamonn | De Valera in London last week were taken up by the Republican leader and his cabinet today at the mansion | house. | LONDON, July 25.—If Mr. De Va lera decides to summon the Dail Eire Jann, a full attendance will be posst- jble as-the British government wil) | release the members of that body whe |ure still in prison, in accordance with the request of the Republican leader, jalready made, says The Daily Mail. jit is understood that’ those detained number between 30 and 40. while about 90 are at liberty. DUBLIN, July, 20—Countess Georg- jina Markievicz, Sinn Fein member of parlianment for St. Patrick's div! fon of ~Dublin, was released from Mountjoy prison yesterday. She had served seven months of a two-year. sentence imposed last December. |ming 4 each, Pennsylvania 3, Mon- jtana 2, Minnesota, South Dakota, | Washington, Vermont, Oregon,. Idaho, *|Ohio, Nevada and Wisconsin one each. Makes of cars—Fords 40, Buick 17, Dodge 20,” Studebaker. & -Qverland 7, Nash 4, Hudson 3, Essex, Chandler, Chalmers and Chevrolet 2 each, Haynes, Auburn, Maxwell, King, Mar- mon, Oakland, Peerless, National, Olds, Reo, Jeffrey, Patterson, Liberty and Jackson one each. The accommodations of the tourist camp won the following expressions of commendation from the visitors: “Enjoyed camp very much.”—Mrs. G. M. Cox, Anadarko, Okla., Marmon Best camp since we left Texas. ‘arren M. Stilson, San Antonio, Texas, Overland driver. “Best camp before or after leaving Yellowstone park. Thanks."—A. W. Sundiquist, 4652 Bryant avenue south, Minneapolis, Minn., Studebaker Coupe. “Your accommodations are all that one could ask. We wish to express our thanks.”—James Welch, builder and contractor, Nebraska City, Neb., Hudson driver. “The finest camp in 3,000, miles travel. Thank you for your hospi- tality."—G. W. Brosman, agricultural- ist, Martinsville, Ill., Dodge driver. "This is sure a fine camp and by the way you have opened this camp I feel.sure when I come back next year I will find. plenty more added. Sheridan, Wyo., is trying to make the finest camp in Wyoming, watch her and don’t let her do it. Thank r the fine camp and fine treat- Frank Dow, Wichita, Kan., Ford driver. The one hundred and thirteen cars that have turned in thelr cards have left $1,338.63 with Casper merchants in the last four da: Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Urbansky of St. Mary's, Kan., are stopping. over in Casper visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. I. Nijak. The visitors are on their way to the Yellowstone park and peints in Idaho. Mr. Ni- jak is manager of the Leader store here in Casper. MISSING CHILD IS FOUND MURDERED Cheyenne Looking for Perpetrator of Hor- rible Crime; Body of Harry Moll Is Found With Skull Crushed CHEYENNE, Wyo., July 25.—The body of Harry Moll, [13-year-old son of W. E. Moll of San Francisco, was found late Sunday afternoon in a vacant warehouse in West Chey-| enne. The skull had been crushed by a terrific blow across | the forehead. Beneath the corpse was a blood-stained | bar with which the blow presumably was struck. The child had been missing sinco Thursday)to the warehouse. The body." when morning, when he left the munitipal|found by boys who had gone into the} mping ground a mile. north of the nding to attend a picture His parents and he the campground While st On # motor trip. of the opinion that the svhero and his body t of death curad position on the back, the hands crossed on the breast. Physicians who examined the corpse are of the opinion that death occurred probably ‘Thursday afternoon. Decomposition had begu' Ths pojice are at a loss for a theory or a motive for the murder, unless possibly the Child fell into the hands of a degenerate. The disappearance of the lad was reported to the police by his parents! Thursday evening. His parents were! prostrated by the news of his fate| and-his mother since has been under restraint because of fear that grief might move her to destroy herself. | The child when he left the munici-| pal camping ground had a dollar which his father gave him to finance his amusement seeking expedition to! town. Four cents were found in his} pockets by the coroner. A Masonic consistory ring, property of his fath- er, which the lad wore, ‘was still on a| finger of the corpse. | ‘With a thousand cowboys here for} ing Tuesday, indignantly discussing the crime, apprehension is felt re- garding what may happen should the murderer be identified and appre- hended within the next few days. t (Continued on Page 4) "RANCHER 15 HELD FOR OPERATION OF STILL Charged with either operating or permitting the operation of a still on his ranch in the Deer Creek park | vicinity, Herman Kraasch was placed under arrest yesterday and a 46-xal- lon still, said to have been operatiyg at the’ time the officers arrived, was confiscated. The arrest was made by George Massee. “ Information for the afrest followed the arrest of Kraasch and others when they were apprehended warehouse to play, lay in a composed|the Frontier Days celebration open-| driving to town-with a small flask of the whiskey. in .their. possession. Pre- liminary court action on the matter will be heard today. — Mr. and Mrs. H. Glen Dines are at heme to their friends in their aaa | ments at 856 South Lincoln street. BALL SCORES NATIONAL LEAGUE At Pittsburgh— R. HL. E. New York ....000 100 200— 3 e -200 O11 —6 13 1 Batteries—Douglas, Sallee and Sny- der, Smith; Adams and Schmidt. No other games scheduled today. SUMMARY OF NIGHT NEWS AIR PASSENGER KILLED.” WASHINGTON, July 25.—Ler- tram M. Stewart, Grand Junction, Colo., pilot, was’ seriously injured and a passenger was killed when a commercial airplane fell. GIRL FOUND, SLAIN. DENVER, July 25.—Police are looking for William Riley Hill, father of Helen Hill, 10-year-old girl found murdered near Eno, Colo. SILESIA COMPROMISED. PARIS, July 25.—A compromise has been effected between France apd Great Britain regarding Si- lesia. Premier Briand probably will agree to» meeting of the supreme council # out the first week in Au- gwet, wiiadrawing his demand for a meeting oi experts. TURKS ARE DEFEATED. SMYRNA, July 25.—An - attempt by the Turks to capture Eski-Shehr fense presented further evidence which proved that the confessions were not made voluntarily by the play- ers he would instruct the jury to dis regard them. Each confession can be used only against the man who made it Winder Judge Friend's ruling the names of any defendants appearing in the confessions will be stricken out with the exception of the names of the men making them. ‘The jury was called back into the court room and repetition of the testi mony giyen privately Friday and to- day was begun. CONFESSIONS MADE IN CONFIDENCE, IS REPORT. CHICAGO, Ju —Eddie Cicotte Joe Jackson and Claude Williams, for- mer White Sox players, told their own stories in the bascball trial today of how they confessed to a special grand jury last fall that they had received money to throw game: in the 1919 world’s series. Each of the three men declared that his confession had been made on! after Judge Charles A. McDonalk who ordered the baseball scandal in vestigation, Hartley Replogle, former assistant state's attorney who directed the inquiry, and Alfred Austrian, Chi cago American league club attorney, had promised them that their con fessions would never bo used against them and were wanted only so that baseball gamblers might be “trampled under foot.” Cicotte said that he had broken down and cried while telling Judge McDonald his story and that much of what ho did on that day was simply a hazy memory. Under cross exam ination, he replied to many ques. tions: “I don't remember " JUDGE M'DONALD DENIES CHARGES. Judge MeDonalo, chief justice of the criminal court, testifying at the after noon session, denied virtually every Statement attributed to him by the players. He declared that he had never in any way even discussed im munity for Cieotte or Jackson. Wil ams, he said, had appealed to his sympathy and he told the player that a trial court “ might and probably would take into consideration the fact that Williams was a Jow salaried play- er who had yielded to temptation be- cause was badly in need of the money and’ Tineunu failed, with heavy Turk losses. MYSTERY GIRL GOES HOME. DENVER, July 25.—Connie Phil- lips, the “mystery girl,” left for Rosston, Texas, her home, in com- pany of the sheriff of Cook county, a friend of her family. WIDOW STABBED TO: DEATH. CHICAGO, July 25.—Mrs. Vir- ginla Esposito, widow of Carmen Esposito, shot to death several months ago.in the Nineteenth ward political feud outbreak, yesterday was stabbed to death upon her ro- turn from a wedding. She is said to have quarreled with a woman over a bag of candy. Nine Cases Of Blindness Are Cured by Serum NEW YORK, July 25. — A serum which Dr. Erasmus Farlington Pond, Brooklyn eye specialist, claims has cured nine cases of blindness caused by atrophy will soon be demonstrated before the Academy of Medicine and che American Medical association, it was reported today. Dr. Pond, who discovered the serum, said the method of cure was to inject the fluid which nourished the optic nerve. Blindness caused by accident, he said, could not be cured by the ‘Nerum, nor would it be successful un- less there was slight vision left to the patient, The physician said as soon as he had demonstrated his discov- ery before the medical profession he ‘would make’ public the formula that ‘it might be used generally. —_—_—_— Largest Flying Boat on Trip To Chicago Today! yany in Middle West and Mountain | Region Meet Tragic Fate in Crashes; CHICAGO, July —The Santa Maria, the largest passenger fiying buat in the world, which left Detroit fast Friday on its trip to this city, arrived in Traverse City, Mich., last night and is expected to reach Chicagu Tuesday. The shi is carrying 12 passengers. eanepecieeeed THREE DROWN IN RAIL WRECK ST! JOSEPH, Mo., July locomotive and eight cars 25.—The a Chicago train bound from St. Joseph to Kan- sas City plunged into the Missouri river two and one-half miles north of Kansas City today and three mem Wers of the train crew were drowned. “I told him that a court would give him consideration’ only if he mad @ clean breast of the whole affair,” Judge McDonald said. Judge McDonald testified he saw Cicotte sign an immunity walver, CHICAGO, July 25.—A new base: ball scandal was brewing today as agents of the state's attorney contin- ued their frantic search for tmmun- ity waivers and confessions signed be- fore the grand jury last fall by Ed- die Cicotte, Claude Williams and Joe Jackson. Information in the hands of Assist- ant State's Attorney George Gorman indicates a New York gambler paid $10,000 for the papers soon after they were stolen from the state’s attor- ney’s files. Another development of today was the discovery that a signed, statement made by Williams in the office of Al- fred Austrian, attorney for the White Sox, has disappeared from Austrian’s files.’ In this statement, which was made public by Austrian when Wil liams went before the grand jury, the ball player detailed the ramifications of the alleged plot to lose the 1919 world’s series. The grand jury evidence apparently dropped from sight during the confu- sion incident to the retirement of State's éttorney Hoyne and the taking over of the office by State's Attorney Crowe. Reports being investigated by the state's attorney include one that the New York gambler who is said to have (Continued on Page 4.) NFESSIONS OF BLACK SOX’ ARE ADMITTED ABSCONDER OF TRUS} “ONCERN TAKES °%50,000 President of Michigan Avenue Company, Said to Be Short Over $1,000,008, Believed to Have Fled to Canada CHICAGO, July 25.—Walter C. Spurgin, missing presi- dent of the Michigan Ave. Trust company, which closed last week, is believed to have fled into Canada with $50,000 in currency. It was reported last week that he was supposed to have $300,000 in securities and cash. The involvement of the bank has not been definitely ascertained but has been PS) OHERIEF MARTIN RESIGNS PLACE, EFFICIENCY OF OFFICE 15 lbh Undersheriff Massee fo Succeed to Position August 11; No Cause Offered by Martin Sheriff Lee Martin, who has had charge of county law en- forcement since January 1, has tendered his resignation to the county commissioners to become effective August 11. Announcement was made by Mr. Martin this morning, but he ascribed no reasons for the move. Under the direction of Mr. Martin the sheriff's office here’ hax been -cred- ited with giving highly efficient serv- ice, and is said to be doing three times as much business at this time as any other county in the state, while the expense of operating the office js said to be the smallest of any county in the state with but one exception. By order of succession, according to state statute, George Massee, who has been serving as undersheriff since Mr. Martin has been in office, will succeed to the post left vacant by the resignation. * Announcement of Mr. Martin's de. cision to resign came as a surprise to. even those most intimate with his affairs. His administration has been subject to little criticism and has al- ways efficiently handled county af- fairs. It is thought that conditions have arisen which prevent his carry- ing out the work of the office as ef ficiently as in the past. “I need a long rest," Mr. Martin said, “as I have been continually on the go since I have been in office. After August 11 I plan to take an extensive vacation in Yellowstone park and in Coloraduo, My plans after that time are inglefinite.” NO TANK HIT BY LIGHTNING Heavy smoke coming from the Mid west tank farm this afternoon north of the Platte river following the elec- trig storm was said to be coming from an oil sludge that ignited. At press time no tanks on the property had been hit by lightning. purchased the stolen evidence later Ba SAN FRANCISCO, July 25.-A slight earthquake was felt here last night. } $1,000,000. Spurgin, Ben Newmark, chief inves tigator for the state’s attorney, be- lieves may attempt to go abroad and he has warned all ships scheduled to soon from Canada by wireless to be on the lookout It developed today that Mrs. Spur- gin, the banker's wife, aud daughte-, V vian, 21 years of age, had fled by motor from the notori With 3300 they drove to Det wheic they were traced. It had been supposed Aus. Spurgin had gcue to her mot ver in Yanora, Iuws. From Herman By ler, Miss Spurgin’s fiance, {t wa: learned that their $300 dwindled rapid ly and that they both planned to go to work. Spurgin, according to Byler, before he fled, confessed to his wife that his affairs at the bank were in- volved and that there was an entangle- ment with a woman 'S. D. “Sterlings” Anxious to Deny Kin to Illinois REDFIELD, 8. D., July 25.—The recent dispatches from Springfield, IL, relative te charges against Fred Sterling, Heutenant governor of Illi- noise, have given rise to, some con- fusion'in South Dakota. - Fred Sterling formerly lived in Huron, S. D., and Senator Thomas Sterling of this estate formerly. lived in Redfield, S, D.. .The two families both came from near Springfield, Til., in the early ‘80s but they are no wise related. RICKARD AND FILM OWNER FACE ARREST NEW YORK, July 26.—Tex Rick- ard, promoter of the Dempsey-Carpen- ter bout, and F. C. Quimby, "motion picture producer, today admitted to United States Attorney Hayward that they had caused a film of the fight to be brought across the state line from New Jersey. Mr. Hayward announced that the frankness of the two men would not make it necessary for him to place the matter before the federal grand jury. He said that he would proceed against them by means of an informa- tion charging them with a misde- meanor. Mr. Hayward asserted that the pair had intimated they would plead guilty to violating the interstate commerce law if such a charge were formally brought against them. The maximum punishment on conviction would be a year's imprisonment or a $1,000 fine. ———< MINERS WAGE CUT. DULUTH, Minn., July 25.—Addi- tional reduction of 10 per cent in the wages of its 10,000 miners effective August 1 and further curtainment of operations in the Lake Superior dis- trict was announced today by the Oliver Iron Mining company, a subsi- dary of the United States Steel cor- poration. AUTO ACCIDENTS SUNDAY TAKE TOLL OF NINE AND INJURY OF MANY, REPORT | One Is Killed Associated Press here today. | of a Denver rubber company, |turned over. The husband and two children were injured. and mother were injured when a Chi- |cago and Northwestern railroad train |struck the motor car in which the family were going to church. Near Denver } DENVER, Colo., July 25.—Sunday automobile accidents ©#\, when the automobile driven by in the west took a toll of nine lives and resulted in the injury of many persons, according to a compilation made by The |droppea 350 feet into a gorge. Mrs. A. G. Rowe, 35 years of age, wife of the proprietor was killed when brakes on the {motor car her husband was driving )39 years of age, contruction foreman,!automobile driven by ‘failed to work on a hill near Arvada.|was killed when his automobile was|went through a bridge weakened by |Colo. The car rolled down the hill and | overturned by a blowout in one of the!a tires. Mrs. W. G. Fly, 38 years of age, of a dry stream near’ Apache Springs, |16 miles from Las Vegas, N. M.. and overturned the automobile in which |she and her brother and four children brother saved the children and him- self. At Omaha, Neb. Miss Marjorie Wil- |liams, 18 years of age, was killed and eight other persons were injured when a car carrying joy riders turned turtle. Katherine Messenger, age, was killed near Mount Wilson, 9 years of her ‘father left the mountain road and The jleading to the observatory }father was uninjured. Mrs. Killman and her seven-months old daughter were drowned last night near Rock River, Wyo., when the her husband udburst. The husband and a ear-old girl escaped. The fam- as en route from Albert Lea, two-y ily |_ At Vail, Towa, two children of J.| Amarillo, Texas, druggist, was drown-|Minn., to California. Burlington & Quincy railroad stock|T. Welsh were killed, and the father|ed when a wall of water swept down| a During the 20 years that Fielding H. Yost has been football coach at the University of Michigan the Ann Arbor gridiron team has won 131 At Des Moines, lowa, Fred Storer,|were returning {o Amarillo. The! games, lost 26, and tied 12. ; — - om xergoes ae OO 2x mee 7 as pe oexrrte greOosreKZ EE epu eace. 2