Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 26, 1921, Page 4

MAIL BANDIT §§ = Pm aRI Tin ‘RUPERT HUGHES 1S A ——— : WRITES TALE _ OME OF THE PRINGIPALS IN BOOZE PARTY AND ARBUCKTE TRIAL | VERSATLE ARTIST senses Trio Will Defend Author of “The Old Nest” Kas Wor ing of the “Spoilers.” Success as Short-Story Writer, Novelist and Playwright. Throughout Rupert Hughes’ event- ful Mteraty career he has shown a versatility that has permitted him to express himself in many forms. His ability to write plays, short stories and novels with equal success has now been supplemented by his achieve- ments as a wfiter for the screen. Arbuckie tee» OF ESCAPE Roy Gardner Admits Being Shot Twice in 7 Early in his career Mr. Hughes. Continuous 1 to 11 P. M. Appeals to Harding for Pardon Wrote his “American Composers,” and POSITIVELY y | Flight From McNeil Island Prison; | SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 26.—Roy Gardner, the California mail car bandit, who escaped from the McNeil Island, Wash- ington, federal prison on September 5, has written an account of his escape to George L. North, assistant managing editor of the San Francisco Bulletin, in which he admits having been | shot twice by the prison guards. The wounds, he said, are} ¢ his right leg,|and a good husband and father.” For p and in the| two days Gardner said he hid in the| eo loft of the prison barn and nursed his wounds. He said he crept back to! the barn about midnight on the da of his break from prison. | Gardner wrote he had escaped ¢ addres: which appea: opportunity c . left to right: Milton M. ‘Cohen of Angeles, Frank H. Dominguez of Los Angeles and Charles H. Brennan of San Francisco. They will defend the movie comedian at his trial, outgrowing the death of Virginia Rappe. the inland and since has been in ng from his wounds. UNEMPLOYMENT CONGRESSGIVEN | 4 that a crin bed an asset to » NGTRUGTIONS BY PRES. HARDING (Continued from Puge 1.) he president reir quoted deeply interested in ference on unemplc problem is a in the mphasized president added. “If it be true that no citizen is without ample to someone ar which I believe to everlastingly true, then nation grea nd small, are influencing others in all they do| eee “The industrial depression which we are feeling is a war inheritance throughout the world. We manity stressed in that production which is impelled by nations desperate in self-preservation. * * * From such @ test there is inevitable reaction. * © © With the world invo! there | is no escape for any of the world from the valleys of depression. Though we| * suffered less than many of those with| whom we were assoc! 1, and less{ han any of those ag: whom wel contended, it v that we] experience fever's after come to know depression could become normal as, “Liquidation justment, ne count of things done and sober con-| templation of things to be done, the} finding of firm ground and the open, sure and onward way—all these are part of the inevitable and he who thinks they might have been avoided by this plan or that, or this policy or that, or this international relationship or that, only hugs the delusion, when reason is needed for a safe counsel. “You have been summoned to coun- sel all America, to apply your knowl- edge and your experience in relieving a condition which concerns all Amer- ica,” the president further told the conference. “Specifically you are to deal with unemployment, to suggest a way to repairing the arterial circula- tion which is the very life Blood of the republic. UNEMPLOYMENT COMMON IN FAVORABLE TIMES, “There is always unemployment. Under most favorable conditions I am told, there are a million and a half in the United States who are not at work. But there is excessive unem- ployment today and we are concerned, ribution and character of the na- on’s unemployment and then evolve series of emergency methods to t the present situation, The commerce secretary expressed e belief as did President Harding, conference also should con- asures which could be utilized of recurrance of unemploy- des. medies for the unemployment sit- Mr. Hoover declared must, not any legislative program and there must be no drain upon the pub- Me treasury. The United States, he said, had so far, escaped the doles and charity methods of foreign nations and uid seek a mobilization of the co- operative action of manufacturers, em- ers and public atthorities to meet tua uggested that the con- order to facilitate its work solve into committees and nmittee on organization and pre be appointed. A motion that ganization Hoover as follows: Henry 8. Robin- son, Los Angeles; Ch: New ¥ Julius V. O'Connor, chipping board; Tas New York; Samuel M Yor! Clarence Mott rolt, and Matthew Woll, vice president American Federation of Labor. The conference then adjourned to meet again this afternoon to consider the preliminary report of the commit- tee which immediately went into ses- sion Milton U"Ren, assistant district attorney of San Francisco, wha will probably be in direct charge of the" prosecution of “Fatty” Ar- buckle, movie comedian, in connec- tfon with the death of Virginia Rappe, film actress. (Continued from Page 1.) tense pain overshadowed evidences of alcoholism. “This was a classical picture of a ruptured bladder,” Dr. Beardelee said when the defense counsel reverted to questions about other possible inter- Coingident with the convening of the unemployment conference Urbain Ledoux, who has been conducting a campaign for relief of the unem- ployed in Boston and New York, ar- rived in Washington and announced he would attend the conference as an observer. Ledeaux said he would ap- peal to President Harding to publish the names of those who during the war profited to the extent of more than 100 per cent so that they might share equally. with the unemployed, the latter's part\to be used under gov- ernment supervision for “work of constructive welfare. nal injuries. ‘The witness denied that he had told Sheriff Dolan of Mono county, when he was notified on his hunting trip that dis testimony was wanted, that ‘too much high life” was the trouble with Miss Rappe.. Dr. Beardslee was still on the stand when a court recess was taken un- til 2:30 p. m. PROSECUTOR HE IS SATISFL SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 26.—Mrs, Bambina Maude Delmont, who swore to the complaint accusing Roscoe C. (Fatty) Arbuckle of the murder of Miss Virginia Rappe, was announced | as the principal witness who would be called at the comedian’s prelimin- Matthew Brady, district attorney of San Francisco, who will direct the prosecution of “Fatty” Ar- buckle, who faces trial in connec- tion” with the death of Virginia | Rappe, film actress, following a ary hearing on that charge in police court here today. Mrs. Delmont was the companion of Miss Rappe at the party in the Arbuckle suite at the Hotel St. Francis at which the girl is said to have suffered fatal injury. The plan called for Mrs. Delmont to take the witness stand after Dr. Arthur Beardslee, house physician of the St. Francis, and Al Semnacher of Los Angeles, Miss Rappe's business manager. Semnacher, it was an- nounced last night, would be asked to testify as a defensé witness, Ar- tant details had been overlooked in his testimony. Semnacher had been called as a prosecution witness but the prosecution repudiated him as their witness. Dr. Beardsiee attended Miss Rappe efter she had been taken {Il and, ac- cording to District Attorney Mathew Brady, his testimony-ts considered ex- tremely important to the state showing that Miss Rappe was appar: ently injured internally when the first buckle’s attorneys saying that impor-| Miss Zey Prevon, left, and Miss Jeanne Dolly Clark, right, are im, portant witnesses in the case of “Fatty” Arbuckle, facing trial in connection with the death of Virginia and model, following a booze party in Arbuckle’s rooma. Miss Alice Blake is one of the Witnesses in the case of “Fatty’ Arbuckle, who is awaiting trial in San Francisco as a result of thi death of Virginia Rappe, followin: a booze party in Arbuckle’s rooms. ‘This is Guest Jean Jameson, nurse who attended Virginia Rappe, who guests at the movie comedian, Rappe, film actress an original song cycle, Besides this creative work, he was the editor of several London magazines and as- sisted in the compilation of the En- cyclopaedia Britannica. Pictures American Life. Mr. Hughes has always heen alive to the ridiculous aenects of changing fashions. This comic sense hi pressed itself in such plays as cuse Me" and “The Richest Girl in the World.” .In his novels, Mr. Hughes has sought to vivify the foibles of American life and to point out how customs that seem permanent are as ephemeral as those of every previous generation. i novels, “What Will People Say." “The “Thirteenth Com- mandment” and “The Unpardonable Sin. illustrate the satirical trend of TODAY ONLY Rex Beach’s Famous Story |. THE SPOILERS Mr. Hughes’ vision. But he also sees the simple, tender commonplaces of life and reproduces ‘The Old Nest Featuring the most thrill- ing fight ever filmed. Witness Miss Betty Campbell, one of the “Fatty” Arbuckle booze party in San Francisco. She them faithfully, as in This novel has at last found its to. the sereen, and the film version will be seen at the America theater | tin. three days, beginning Tuesday. whe piuotoplay that Goldwyn has made | of this novel with Mr. Hughes’ per- sonal co-operation {s said to be one of the best exampies of modern photo-} play productions. It presents a story of mother love without any artificial, melodramatic trimmings. One of the unusual facts in connection with the picture is that Mr. Hughes himself | Prepared the continuity from which Reginald Barker, the director, made the picture. Mr. Hughes {s connected with the Goldwyn group of Eminent! Authors, and his most recent pictures have been “The Cup of Fury,” eratch My Back" and “Hold Your} i —ALSO— Pathe News A two and a half hour Dollar Show for 35 Cents. See the Atlantic City review of the Mermaids. See the Mine Strike in Virginia. Horses.” says she wan annoyed at the party by one of the men guests, Mrs. DeImonte Mrs. B. M Delmonte, companion of Virginia Rappe at the fatal booze The COLUMBIA THE HOME OF MUSIC, MIRTH AND MELODY TONIGHT , Lawrence P. Wall Presents VAUDEVILLE’S NIFTIEST REVIEW THE SAPPHIRE GIRLS CO. In a Side-Splitting Farce Comedy Entitled “IN WRONG” Songs, Dances, Beautiful Costumes and Comedy Galore Also a First Run Feature Movie Program ENTIRE CHANGE OF PROGRAM TOMORROW A Sure and medical treatment was given. not alone about its diminuition but we lare frankly anxious, under the involy- ed conditions lest it grow worse with | hardships of the winter season soon | to be met. The problem of unemploy- ment is the most difficult with which we are confronted. “But there are no problems affect- pled int ae ag ia years, typhoid also being given as the) Brady said last night: 4 cause of the death. We are satisfied with the progress Mrs. Southard's second marrlage,| mado in the Arbuckle case. I wish the officials assert, was in June, 1917, Re copes upon the public, though, to William G. McHaffie a waiter. On| the fact that we are not trying to October 22, 1918, Haffie died xt) ‘hound’ any man or attempt to force Hardin, Mont., supposedly from in- given by Roscoe (Fatty) Arbuckle in San Francisco. Mrs. Jameson is one. of the important witnesses in the case rooms in a San Francisco hotel, is the woman who signed the warrant charging Arbuckle with murder of the Rappe girl. bai ern was a guest at the : Nurse Jameson ofthe. died after attending a booze party | party at Roscoe (Fatty) Arbuckle’s 3 Conservative Meutenant, was} Of Great Britain’s railway passen- gers nine-tenths trayel third class, ham Kover, former a conviction of a person on any |arrested. Investment (Continued from Puge 1.) ing our national life and the welfare of the American people which we can- not and will not solve. If we fail to- day we will try again tomorrow. * * * It is fair to say that you are not asked to solve the long controverted prob- lems of our social system. We have builded the America of today and the fundamentals of economic, industrial and political life which made us what we are and the temple requires no re- making now. ‘We are tncontestably sound, We are constitutionally strong. We are merely depressed after the fever and we want to know the way to speediest and dependable convales- cence. When we know the way, fiv- erybody in America—capital and la- ber, employer and employes, captains of industry and the privates in the trenches will go over the top, in the advance drive of pence. Frankly, it is difficult to know whether we have reached that bedrock to which reac- tion forces runs before the upward course begins, but here are representa- tives of the forces which make for all we are or ever can be, and your sound- ings ought to be reliable. “I would have little enthusiasm for any proposed relief which seeks eith- er palliation or tonic from the public treasury. cause of trouble rather than a source ‘The excess of stimulation | from that source is to be reckoned a} in a suit of brown material with col- Jar of fur, biack hose and—new shoes. She sat with her back partiy toward the audience. Her huspand, Paul Vincent Southard, entered a few minutes later and took a seat at his wite’s side. The first two jurors examined were excused in rapid fire order, both claiming to have detinite and fixed ideas on the subject of the guilt or innocence of the defendant, which no evidence could shake. POISON FOUND IN BODIES OF FOUR. TWIN FALLS, Idaho, Sept. 26.— Poison said to have been found by state chemists in the bodies of the four husbands and one brother-in. law of Mrs. Lyda Meyer Southard led to the filing against her of the charge of murdering her fourth husband, Edward F. Meyer. According to Prescuting Attorney Frank L. Stephan of Twin Falls county, Mrs. Southard collected $9,- 500 insurance on the deaths of three of the five men. All were insured, with Mrs. Southard as beneficiary. Mrs. Southard is 28 years of age and is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Trueblood, who reside on a farm ut Kimberly, near here. After Meyer's fluenza and diphtheria. Her fourth marriage, to Meyer, was at Pocatello, Idaho,, August 10,-1920. Meyer, a ranch foreman, died in a Twin Falls hospital September 7, 1920, less than a mouth after his marriage. An antopsy revealed traces of poison. Edward Dooley, a brother of Mrs.) Southard’s first husband, died August) 9, 1915, about two months before the brother-husband died. Mrs. Southard collected insurance of $2,000 insurance jointly assumed by his brother Edward Doole: husband in favor of her. She also collected $5,000 insurance on the life and her} charge. All we are trying to do in this case is to get the truth and pun- ish those responsible for Miss Rappe’s dealth.” Other prosecution witnesses whom. Brady expects to have taken the stand late today or tomorrow are Miss Alice Blake and Miss Zeh Prevost, who were guests at Arbuckles party. That every woman witness for the prosecu- tion will bé thoroughly cross-exam- ined by Arbuckle's attorneys is the ex- $2,500 on her first husband and also| pectation of Brady. The screen comedian his sixteenth day a prisoner in the Hall of Justice, where he has been held since his arrest on charges in is spending of her third husband, Harlen C. Lewis.| connection with the death of Miss Prosécutor Stephan hag stated that/ Rappe. he has in his possession evidence which will establish that poison caus- ed the deaths of the two Dooley broth- ers, McHaffie, Lawis and Meyer. Ste- phan said the bodies of the first four men were exhumed and the contents of their stomachs analyged by Herman Harms and Edwin F. Rodenbaugh, state chemists, respectively of Utah and Idaho, and deadly poison found. In each case, they declared, the pois was the same. In two case! authorities sa, Southard failed to collect insurance on her husband's lives. The policy on McHa‘ffie’s life was allowed to lapse through non-payment of a premium. the fourth husband; carried Today's session of the preliminary hearing was announced to begin at 10:39 a. m. oe ASSASSIN FILS TOKILL POLE (Continued from Page 1.) suicide but was arrested before he IAMERICA A Bishop-Cass Theater LAST TIMES TODAY TOM MOORE —IN— “BEATING THE GAME” —AND— LLOYD HAMILTON Stock bought in the Lyric Thea- ter Company entitles you to a share in, profits in the receipts of the theater and in the real estate of the property thereon. Outside of the receipts of the theater, there is approximately $1,700 or more in revenues on sub- leases, etc., to be derived from this property monthly. The amount of stock to be sold is limited and when disposed of positively no more will be offered for sale. For Further Particulars Write P. O. BOX 555 CALL ULL of cure. We should achieve but little|death September 7, 1920, his widow| Meyer, . —IN— in @ remedial way if we continued to| worked for a time as a waitress here}10,000 insurance, which was porns could end his own life. \, excite a contributing cause. and later left for Los Angeles, where} $2,000 shortly before his death, but no 4 3 “ ”? “Tt is not my thought to suggest|she met Vincent Southard, naval pet-|attempt was made by his wife to col-] ASSASSINATION ID THE VAGRANT CASPER, Wwro. your lines of conference, * * * I have|ty officer, who later became her fifth] lect it before she left Twin, Falls. BUDAPEST ATTEMPTED. An examination of the ranch house] BUDAPEST, Sept. 26.—An attempt occupied bY Meyer and his wife tn/on the lives of Count Julfus Andrassy, Continuous 1 to 11 Admission 40c wished to say to you that the people| husband. Southard was with her at} of the United States are very deeply/the time of her arrest in Honolulu. Agents Will Call on You John A. Miller Co. Fiscal Agents sted, not alone the unemplo H., May 12, 1921. She marriei|Twin Falls county {s said to have re-|former minister of foreign affairs and ere but all who are concerned for our c uthard in Los Angeles, November} vealed a quantity of poison: The au-|former president Raskovsky of the STARTING TOMO! ow tdorities report the presence of the | national mbly was made from the same kind of poison concesled in the|galleries of the assembly chnmber house occupied by Harlan G. Lewis|Saturday, five shots being irected land his wife at Billings, Mont at the pair, Neither was injured. Tbra- ‘NOBODY NOBODY ™monwealth, and the world is lo on to find helpfulness in our Aw can fes say Mrs. Southard’s first example.” t mmar- HOOVER FOLLOWS RUPERT HUGHES’ “THE OLD NEST” . I id = = ‘2 LAA il Sil it Md . " — ‘a = ” " - - ns SOR NEAT TES ol INA CE 0 MB I