Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 16, 1921, Page 1

PEACE BREAKNOR ANGELLATION : OF CONFERENGE 15 NOT FINA , FIREMAN ONGENTENCED TO ATE PRISON Manslaughter Verdict Returned by Jury in Distri¢ . ourt in Connection With Shooting a, _ {illing of Edward Schus- terin Sand, , Altercation Last March Trainman and Hobo Meet Death When Coast Limited Is Derailed in Iowa Che Casper Daily CLINTON, Iowa, Sept. 16. —Fireman John Johnson of Weather Forecast | Crihu Generally fair tonight and Satur- Clinton and an unidentified % @ay, cooler in southeast portion to- tramp were killed when the x s Ss . . t Th t night; probably frost tonight. engine of the Chicago & L. B. Nicholson wes © inced to serve from 15 to 20 years Situation Likened Oo inal ~ Northwestern railway’s fast} in the state penitentiar, en arraigned before Judge C. O. of July 14 by the | VOLUME v CASPER, WYO., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1921. NUMBER 289. (| SoRbownd “passenger, sean 0. 7:| Brown at 1:30 o'clock th @ ‘ernoon. Nicholson was sobbing ‘ we cas was derailed ir a mile and} when sentence was pas ollowing an emotional appeal a half west of Be early this for mercy by Judge E. F.._ ««son, a cousin of Nicholson, who had assisted Judge C. D. Murane in the defense of the case. County Attorney M. W. Purcell announced following the appeal that he had no recommendation to make in the case. Judge Murane requested execution of the sentence be de- layed to give defense counsel time to file a motion for a new morning No passengers though man t Journals BELFAST, Sept. 16.—(By The Associated Press.) —En- counters between opposing / , killed and aken from were KLAN MEETING IS BANNED BY were gh: BODIES OF DIASTER rush. washed out a creek and. the A terrific ra ing down a culvert over a factions in interior Ulster were reported here this after- noon. Two unatmed constables, on cycle trol near Cookstown, in East Ty- . were shot at by scouts alleged to be covering Republicans at drill. A patrol was gent out and intercepted three cyclists, one of whom had a loaded revolver and other weapons. Unionist farmers in the district, arming themselves and setting out. surprised a,party of Republicans and shots were exchanged. A youth who had been shot in the leg was taken as a prisoner to a Belfast hospital. 16 officers and men of the DUBLIN, Sept. 16—(By The Asso- ciated Press}—Althqugh the popular newspapers today describe the letter of Premier Lioyd George, cancelling arrangements for the Inyerness con- ference as @ bombshell which spread consternation, there seems no dispo- sition on the. part of the public in general to consider the Irish peace negotiations at an end, the prime min- ter's reférence to “inevitable delay” Ving rise to. hope. The prevailing indications here are that the desire is to avold a breach, that a diligent “Search is in progress for a formula which will enable the proposed conference to be held with- out the sacrifice of principles on the part of elther side, and that it is pos- sible to phrase such @ statement of principles in @ way to avoid a breach. As to the truce there appears no im- mediate probability of its rupture. a’Ys, and the Present. fast, the bodies will be removed to a temporary chafiel where they will will be given the dead airmen. BALL The next moye, however, it is de- Midwest clared here, tg with Lioyd George, and, At Sterling (Ist further communtéation with him after; Casper . po the British cabinet meeting is avwait- ed. Leaders bf the Dail Bireahn ex: pressed nd concern. over the ‘prospect of a general election, taking the view that if'one were held the Sinn Fein would score another triumph. RELATIONS REVERT TO DAYS OF STRIFE. LONDON, Sept. 16.—(By The Asso- ciated Press}—Relations between Eng- land and Ireland, today stood as they 4 before Eamonn De Valera came fo Lonzon om July 14, to discuss with Prime Minister Lloyd George a pos- sible basis for ending the Irish con- troversy. The Sinn Fein leader yes- terday made public his note to the prime minister affirming his) stand that Irish Republican plenipotentiar- ies could enter ‘a conference only as delegates of an independent power and Lioyd George quickly announced the cancellation of his invitation to Irish leaders to parley at Inverness. It was made plain by the prime minister that he could not meet the Sinn Fein delegates if the claim of Irish independence and sovereignty were insisted on, but he did not close the door to further exchanges with the Republican: Lioyd George is in- disposed and ‘is confined to his room at Gairloch, Scotland, where he has been spending a vacation and it is expected here that members of the British parliament will confer with him before the. government takes further steps. There was no indication here today that either the British government or Sinn Fein would denounce the truce arranged two months ago and esume the guerilla warfare that cost res of liyes and destroyed proper-| ty valued high in the millions. Just what the Sinn Fein would do Hamilton, Glazner, Yellowhorse and Schmidt. R. H. E. AMERICAN LEAGUE. . At Philadel; Detroit . Philadelphia -.000 110 Batteries — Ehmke Moore and Myatt. iphia— -001 123 000-7 12 0 OO1-—-3 8 3 and Bassler; R. HH. -100 001 020— 4 12 000 343 00%—10 11 Wilkinson, Hodgo and Bush, McQuillan and BE 4 1 R. H. E. R. HAB. 000 402 004—10 14 0 was seemingly a difficult question gee today. It was suggested that the Dail E Eireann might intend to go to the Irish people with the question and seek to determine by a _ plebiscite what the desires of the people are: The Belfast correspondent of the Press assoclation says the Irish News of that city prints a message from a well-informed Dublin source to the effect that. the government’ contem- plates an early reassembly of the British parliament. This step would be taken, it is said, to declare a gen- VENUE CHANGE SPRINGFIELD, Il, Sept. 16. titions for a change of venue alleging fair trial were filed today with Cir- cult Judge BE. S. Smith, by attorneys off Sandy Hook today escorted by American war craft. harbor until afternoon and then at high tide come to th ‘ At the yard the cruiser will find awaiting it a spe rines and bluejackets—recruited mainly from the new from the French light cruiser Villeynicipal governments will have a part, Brazilian battleship| has been arranged. Minas Geraes, now in port, will be The bodies brought home today in. { clude all but one of the Americans As soon as the Dauntless makes} who were on the ill-fated dirigible when she was destroyed. The excep- Batteries — ‘Toney and Snyder; R. H.&.] Pe- for Gov, Len Small and Vernon Cur- VICTIMS ARRIVE N. ¥. Guard of Honor on Hand to Receive Remains of Officers and Men Who Met Death in Accident to ZR-2 on Trial Trip; Full Honors to Be Accorded Dead Airmen NEW YORK, Sept. 16.—The British cruiser Dauntless, tion is Rigger N. Walker, who rest until tomorrow when full honors] with his life, but now is in a British hospital. A memorial service In which high} The others were: Commander Louis officials of the federal, state and mu-/ tH. Maxfield of St. Paul, Minn.; Lieu- tenant Commander Valentine N. Bie: Alexandria, Va.; Tiuet, Emory Westboro, Mass.; Lieut. Little, Newburyport, Mass. Family Given Life Term In Penitentiary COLUMBIA, S. C., Sept. 16.— Mother, daughter, son and two male friends of Marcellus Cook, aged farmer, were sentenced to life im- prisonment today by County Judge Seahe for the murder several weeks ago of the elder Cook. Experts had testified the defendants were per- sons of arrested development. [ROAD REPORT] Grant Highway—Generally good from Nebraska line (o Keeline, then new grading and rough to Lost Springs, and fair fo Orin. Yellowstone Highway — Platte county lin» to Orin generally good, though a few chuck holes. Orin to Careyhurst good, Careyhurst to Glenrock fair, but rough at Alkali bridge. _Glenrock to Casper gener- ally rough. Casper to Shoshoni and Bonneville good. Shoshoni-Lander Road—Good ex- cept across the Indian reservation, which is rough and some new grade. Casper-Sheridan Road — Rough first ten miles north of pavement, very rough and dusty 17 to 19 miles out. @ouring cars may find better travelling on. detour west of main prejudice and inability to obtain a] road between 1834 and 24 miles out. This avoids the very rough and dusty new grading, but trucks should keep to the main read. Fair Coll, Charles G. Lieut I bringing home the bodies of the American navy who lost their lives in the ZR-2 disaster arrived She was expected to wait outside the ie navy yard. cial guard of honor made up of ma- dreadnaught Maryland. Officers Marcus H, Easterly, Columbiana, 0. Lieut. Henry R. Haye, Seven Oaks, Fla.; Charles I. Aller, rigger, ver, Maurice Lay, rigger, ham, Ala.; A. S. Pettit, rigger, Dick- machinist, Owensboro, Ky.; Lieyd E Crow! machinist, Wiliam Juttus, dalia, Mi Steele, machinist, Greencastle, Ind. and George Welsh, machinist, Bred. on. Canada announced that “the motion picture actress. The announcement came after a tonference between Brady and polive officials called for the purpose of de- ding which of, the four charges igainst Arbuckle would be — tried. There are two murder and two man. slaughter charges pending aga'nst Ar- buckle. Judge Tazarus continued the case until next Thursday at 1 p. m. Arbuckle, surrounded by his attor neys, stood up at the counsel tabi luring the brief session. A crowd - men tried to rush the courtroom door just before the hearing started but were headed off by the police. Frank E. Dominguez, chief counse! foi Arbuckle, asked for a ten-day con tinuance following Brady's statement The district attorney objected, saying five days should be sufficient. ‘At the inquest into Miss Rappe's death you demanded a speedy hea: ing," Brady said, addressing the de fense. “You also demanded a speedy trial, so wny ask for such along con- tinuance? Why don’t you put the de- fendant on the stand and let him tell his side of the case.” Dominguez explained that the ée- fense found it necessary to obtain considerable expert evidence before going ahead ‘with even the police court examination. “If the defendant is willing to stay in jail until his counsel prepares his ease, the people of the state of Cali- ing= Robert M, Coons, yne, Ind ; Shield, Albert L. Loftin, © n= Lake Charles, La,; J. District Attorney Brady Announces De- cision at Preliminary; Trial Opens Within Three Weeks, He Declares SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 16.—District Attorney Brady in the police court of Judge Sylvain Lazarus today people are ready to proceed on the murder charge” against Roscoe C. (Fatty) Arbuckle, who is held responsible by the authorities for the death of Miss Virginia Rappe, a SAFETY BOARD LOUISVILLE, Ky. Sept. 16. The board of public safety today served “notice on all citizens to re- main away” from a proposed mect- ing of the Ku Kinx Klan Sunday night and warned owners of public halls not to rent their places to the organization. Should any attempt be made to hold the meeting in deflance of this the board's announcement ‘any person who attempts to attend it will be regarded as an un. patriotic citizen anc a law violator and will be dealt with accordingly.” Mayor Smith recently declared he would use every lawful means to prevent the organization of a klan in Louis: Full page advertise- ments in a morning paper an- nounced that a Rev. Ridley would address 4 mass meeting Sunday on the purposes of the Klan which brought the subject to an issue. TROUT FRY PLANTED, CHEYENNE, Wyo., Sept. 16.—Twd million trout fry have been distribut- ed this year from the state fish hatch- ery at Laramie to streams of south- eastern Wyoming. The distribution of the final lot was made this week engine and two s plunged into the dite The eastbound riand limited passed over the culvert scarcely a minute before the derailment. ineer Thomas L.a, at first re- ported dead was badly scalded and was taken to a Cedar Rapids hospital. The tramp, presumably, was riding on the engine tender. ONE KILLED WE PASSENGER HIT: MORRISTOWN An odd accident Delaware, Lac FREIGHT. J., Sept. 16.— e yesterday on the 1 between and Rock. way, caused when a westbound lo. al passenger train crashed into a car of an eastbound freight train, which became derailed just as they were passing. ulted in the death of a locomotive engineer and slight Injury to a passer and a fireman, The passenger locomotive jumped the track, uncoupling itself from the baggage car and rolled down an em. bankment. The baggage car also was derailed but was not overturned. The passenger coaches remained on the tracks. Joseph Hendricks of Hoboken; the 4 engineer of, the local, applied the kes, but not in. t'me to avert col- lision with the freight car, which left the rails a short distance in front of ‘is engine. His body was crushed in the wreckage of the cab. ‘RUTH CRACKS HOMER NO. 56 | NEW XORK, Sept. 16.—"Babe” Ruth made his 56th homerun of the season today in the fourth inning of the St. Louis New York Ameri. can league game, Shocker was | pitching for St, Louis. No one was on base. | Trio Held For. | Thett of Jewels | | NEW YORK, Sept. 16.— 2} and |Mrs. John Bonfiglio and Frank Cai uto, were arrested in a Brooklyn j lelry store today ,after/a tray of di mond rings vanished while a si |boy was chasing an elusive rubber ball behind the counters. It is alleged the |boy gave the tray to Caputo and that jhe placed it in a handbag. The po- lice say reports of similar robberies from many cities east of the Missis- sippi river have been received, the tis, a Grant Park banker. The gov- ernor is charged with embezzlement during his term as state treasurer Bev- from ‘Twenty-Mile hill to Salt Creek, then ‘some new \grade to’ Johnsor county line, but road is in fair con- eral election so that a new govern- ment might be formed which would be invested with the right to formu- boy’ with the ball figuring in all of them. fornia ‘should ‘not mind,” Dominguez said. | battation: late domestic policies and appoint delegates to the conference on limi- (Continued on Page 10) is chaged with conspiracy to defraud the state. elected grand master for the ensu- ther lins was chosen as the next meeting | ing year and oth officers were Place of the Wyoming grand lodge, chosen as follows: oe ae A. F. & A. M., which closed a two | Cheyenne, deputy grand master; J> day session this . | W. Stachel, , Casper, Knittle, Douglas, con; C. 0. Natwick, Wheatland, fun- jot grand deacon; Marlon Kline, eral years ago and with Curtis, also} dition. Reported very good through Johnson county and generally good to Sheridan, RAWLINS GHOSEN FOR EXT MASONIC MEET Cheyenne, senior grand steward; Guy Gay, Thermopolis, junior grand steward; Robert ‘Hopkins, Rawlins, grand lecturer; L. L. Jeffers, Buf- falo, xrand chaplain; Elwood An- derson, Gillette,’ grand orator; Lewis Laramie, marshal; Tho new officers were installed by Grand Master C. H. Townsend, Blake Kennedy and/ Sumner Miller. Prosecution of the murder charge automatically denies the defendant hi: liberty on bail, court officials ex plained. Counsel for both sides conferred be- tween themselves and Dominguez then announced that. they would set Thursday by stipulation for the pre- liminary hearing on®the charge. After the court session Brady an- nounced that a representative of the district attorney's office is to wait in the finance committee of the county board of supervisors today and ask that every financial demand on the county for the prosecution of the Ar- buckle case be met rromptly, District Attorney Brady today in- structed Captain of Detective Duncan Matheson to detail “all the men neces- sary to search for Dr. -Aruthur Beards- lee, one of the physicians who attended Miss Rappe and bring him back to-the city at once. He is believed to be on a hunting trip, Capute .«d the Bonfiglios denied ny acquain‘ance with the boy who disappeared. > \Frisco Baseball Manager to Quit Place With Club | SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 16.— Charles Graham, for three years man-| ager of the San Francisco club of the} Pacific! coast baseball Jeague, is to re-} sign at the close of the 1921 seazon, it was announced here tod: | Graham. “who is one of the owners of the club, will handle the business| end of the organization after this sea- “The district attorney's office, from (Continued on Page 10) > con. His successor as manager has not been selected. |be organized from the Rescue Squads Laboring .To Save Miners SCRANTON, Pa., Sept. 16.—Fifty men working in relays are exert- ing every eff.rt to vescue six men entombed yesterday in the Wilson Creek mine of the Hudson Coal com- pany at Carbondale The men were engaged in second mining. or pillar robbing. When, they blew away the pillar, the roof caved in, blocking the exit. ois ui aa Retusal to Pay Taxes Leads To Imprisonment 9ADELAIDE, Australia, Sept Many residents of the northern tory of Australia were recent; prisoned for refusing to pay _ taxe: The federal minister of home and te: ritories. Alexander Pi who hi just visited the territory, says terror- ism prevails there, especially at Pore Darwin, where the federal government is adopting stringent measures to re- store order, including suspension of trial by 5 and deportat'on of de- faulting taxp< Sek 53S ARTILLERY REDUC WASHINGTON, Sept. 16.—Tweive coas tillery comr-ands, the Columbia, Ore., district were p ed today on the reduced personnel ba s's in line with the reduction of the army to 150,000 men. The redu of the coast artillery service involves creation of two army antLaircratt one to be stationed at few York, and the other neiseo. The batt Fort Totte: at San F ing after the reductio jury took office last night trial, and the request was granted. L. B. Nicholson, former Casper policeman and reputed owner of considerable property here, was found guilty of manslaughter in connection with the killing on March 10 last of Edward Schuster, a taxi driver, in the Sandbar district. The verdict was returned in district court at 11 o’clock last night, just 23 hours after the jury had taken the case under lay of deliberation the lots and at times it was deadlocked sheriff's that the it Through the 4 the c s sent to about 16 ve jooked like When word w was jury had reached a heard with surprise. As the jury filed into the court- room with its finding there was’ just » handful of the huge crowd of spec tators which had been in attendance at the trial When Judge C. O. Brown formally questioned the jury as to whether it had arrived at a verdict or not Burton Nye, the foreman responded in the affirmat:ve. When the verdict charging Nichol- son with voluntary manslaughter was read the defendant had to grip him- self to prevent a show of emotion Judge Murane requested that _ the jury be polled, so that the decision of each juror could be established. The jurors responded in the affirmative in e the following order: Burton Nye. W Brewer, C. D. Poling, John Peters, Gus Link, J. A Likely, J. W. Douglas, CG. S. Baker HH. &. McGiMiivray, George Wa'iron, D. A. Robertson and W. A. Reeves. Conviction on a charge of man- slaughter under state lew leaves the penalty to the discretion of court, with the exception that the punishment shall not exceed a sentence of twenty years in the state penitentiary. ‘o formal notice of appeal or of a request for a new trial was served but it is understood that the defense con- templates Such proceedure. Nicholson’s conviction is the out- growth of the killing of Edward Schu- ster following an altercation of ®ome kind in front of the Hong Kong cafe in the West A street section of the Sand Bar district. Schuster and Nich- olson had some words when th for- mer drove his taxi in fro: of the building and bad blood which existed between the two men culminated in the fatal shooting. The defense. represented by Judge D. Murane of the firm of Hagens nd Murane and Judge E. F. Watson North {arolina, contended that Nicholson first disarmed Schuster and then shot the tax!-driver in ‘he neck, ene before he knew pt he had fired hit Schuster or not. The state, ably represented by ‘ounty Attorney M. W. Purcell, as- sisted by John Casey, inherited the case (rom a former administration and prosecuted holson diligently Mr. Purcell asked for first de Ye ved- dict without .¢ punishment 8 case disposes of all important criminal actions on the fall ter completed a list of straight conv! for the county attorney ses which have b plea of guilty 3 Camets, charged with the killing . conviction of Ethel Hu fa charge of assault with a tempt to kill upon the person of Jones; and the convict’on of Mrs. Ida Durham on a second degree murder state penitentiary count as the outgrowth of killing Jack Delury. None of the defendants in the cases have been senten by Judi jrown but it is probs that many of them will be arraigned for sentence the first of the k. The dela is the result of a law all prisoners be wii sentence¢ until all the ea a the transportation of p oners {is facilitated and made nomical possible» in sentencing which requ delivered ‘to OBENCHAIN IS DENIED BAIL Sept ’ ANGEL 16.—Mrs Madelynne Obenchain, indicted joint- ly with Arthur ©. Burch for the al- leged murder of J. Belton Kennedy, nied release on bail in the su- perior,court today. Counsel for Mrs, Obenchain moved that ‘bail be fixed on the ground the prosecution had “no evid ing_her with the slayin) judge ruled” he had no right to go behind the,grand jury's action in’ returning an indictment “Shirtsleeves”’ Permissible In Harvey Houses nce connec OKLAHOMA —An order fo: ination by the tion and the Atchison, Santa Topeka Fe railroad against men desire to eat in their shirtsleeves, and who was issued here by the state corporation commission it was learned today. The order followed a complaint made be- fore the commission by Campbell R sell, its. chairman, who declare had been denied the privil ing in a Harvey diningroom at cell, Okla., without donning his ¢ Grape Industry Is Prosperous SAN FRANCISCO, 5S apegrowing ind’ “ous, hibition, dec president ‘of association profits of the growers has with prohibition and said w years ago the rage price for grapes was $10 fo $20 per ton is now around $75 and $100 per THREE DEAD IN FALL OF PLANE DALLAS, Texas, Sept. 16.—Lieut. James F. and two enlisted men_ Sergeants Gibson and Post field, Fort Sill, Okla., Dallas, this afternoon, Armstrong White, from were instantly killed at Love field, when a big army De Haviland observa- tion plane in which they were flying went into a spin at an altitude of only about 150 feet and crashed to earth. machine burst into flames just as it struck the ground, The STATE FAIR CLOSES WITH EVENTS TODAY DOUGLAS, Wyo. Sept. 15-—With | this afternoon's program the an- nual state fair will come to a close, not as successful perhaps in a fi- nancial way as in more prosperous years, but satisfactory to those who believe that the annual. show has fulfilled its mission. No less than 500 Casperites swelled Thursday's crowd to the targest attendance record of the three days and bet- ter weather today promised a large attendance when (he curtain Is rung down. The Muscovites held (h> center of the stage Thursday and appeared in a parade before the fair audi- en The steer roping and double pars- chute drop from an airplane were outstanding features of Thursday's program, tho best time in the roping | | being placed at a fraction over 23 seconds with three contestants close to the 30-second mar The pioneers’ annual gathering also proved one of the most enjoy- able events of fair week. Aménz those present were Gov. Robert D. Carey, Senator F. E. Warren, Con- gresrman Frank W. Mondell, State Treasurer shus and Secretary State Chaplin, ae rn