Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 20, 1922, Page 1

OBENCHAIN TOHARDING REFUSES TO APPROVE BONUS BILL, LEADERS TO GO AHEAD TRIAL SECOND TIME Jury Fails to Agree in Case of Woman Alleged to Have Murdered Broker in Revenge for Unrequitted Love; Vote Stood Nine to Three for Conviction LOS ANGETIES, Cal., Jail again facing a jury trial March 20.—In her-cel? in the county, for the murder of J. Belton Kennedy, her sweetheart, Mrs. Madalynne Obenchain, in whose case a jury last night disagreed and was discharged, today was resignedly waiting for tomorrow when, it was ex- pected her second trial would be set. GASPER GIL FIRST IN STAT EVENT, LARA Shorthand Honors Carried Off by Marguerite Cole; Other Honors Are Divided. (Special to ‘the Tribune.) LARAMIE, Wyo., March 20.—Mar. ‘The foreman reported the jury was “hopetessty divided” and after each of the nine men and three women who composed it had been asked separately and had confirined the foreman’s re- port, Judge Sidney N, Reeve dis- charged them. The foreman, Frank W. Crockett, a retired attorney of Pasadena, told the court the division was nine to three, and had so stood from the first to the fifth and final ballot. After the court had dismissed them, some of the jurors told news- Papermen the nine, including two of the women jurors, favored conviction; while the three including one woman, had voted for acquittal. ‘They said that as the “hopeless di- vision“ came on the question of guilt or innocence, they never had reached the question of the degree of guilt. + They were out approximately 5f hours, of which nearly 24 were passed in acautla deliberation, they said. Mrs. Obenchain, with a pale, drawn muerite Cole of Casper, placed, first in| fice Put Ounerwase diabiaying no shorthand contest of high school week, which came to a close here Saturday with lively competition in all academic events by representatives of all state schools of importance. Marjorie Grif. fith of Rock Springs, was second tn the shorthand contest. Other winners of academic events follow: the jury reported. She quickly re- turned to her cell in the women’s de- partment of the jail, without any in- terview although it was report:d she had become designed to disagreement. Judge Reeve set the case for tomor row, when, according to the district _| attorney's office, a motion will be second. Vocal, Thelma Foster, Sheridan and Glenn Mills, Evanston, first; Louise] OS ANGELES, March 20. — The Potter, Douglas, second. . Piano, first; Ione Harris, Evanston, second. Reclamation, Robert Adams, Wheat. land, first; Charles Pedri, Rock Springs, second. Ex! temporaneous speaking, George Guy, Cheyenne, first; Hal Wendt, Lan- der, second. Debate, Leonard Hansen and Wil- iam Glenn, Rock Springs, first; Elinor Keyes and Bernice Brooks, Newcastie, second. Short story, Lorena Hubbs, Chey- enne, first; Pearl Budd, Big Piney, second. BANDITS HOLD UP THEATER LOS ANGELES, March 20.—Two! bandits walked into the office of the California theater, in the heart of the downtown district here last night and. robbed the office safe of the day's ceipts, estimated at between $10,000 and $12,000, according to reports to the police. CONDITION OF SOLON GRAVE WICHITA FALLS, Tex., March 20. —Congressinan Lucian W. Parrish, suffering from injuries sustained in an automobile accident, regained com sciousness for = few minutes at about noon today but his physicians said his death at any-moment would not be un- expected. revenge of a woman scorned was the Harold Vantorn, Powell, Motive the prosecution sought to es- tablish in tho trial of Mra. Madalynne Obenchain, charged with murder in connection with the slaying of J. Bel- ton Kennedy on August 5, 1921. About two months before this time, accord- ing to testimony, Mrs, Obenchain left Chicago for” San Francisco and told Sequaintances she was to marry Ken- nedy in that city on June 28. Kennedy failed to meet her, how- ever, and she came to Los Angeles. There were frequent meetings be- tween the couple during July and Mrs, Obenchain wrote some letters to Ken- nedy, introduced in evidence, some of which expressed ardent affection, others deep resentment. On one occa- sion Mrs. Obenchain took Kennedy to a fortuneteller whom sho-had asked to to come to Ios him a shotgun case, according to a Pullman porter’s testimony. Kennetly and Mrs. Obenchain went motoring on’ August 5, and in the eve- ning drove to a summer cottage owned by Kennedy in Beverty Glen, 15 miles from Los Angeles. As Ken- nedy was standing on a flight of steps in front of the cottage two-shots were fired from a shotgun, the second kill- ing him. Mrs. Obenchain was found alone with the body. Two persons testified they saw Burch in the Glen earlier in tho evening, and it was testified he rented an automobile under an assumed name that night. Mrs. Obenchain and Burch were in- Continued on Page Three) STOLEN ARE RECOVERED BONDS WASHINITON, March 20.—Re- covery of all the liberty bonds, amounting to $175,000 stolen from the branch office of the treasury department Saturday night was an- nounced today by the secret serv: ice. U. O. Wamsley, formerty-of Wash- LAST TROOPS ON | RHINE RECALLED Chariottesville, Va., and charged with complicity with Charles A. Clevenger, an em- ploye of the band Sovextmest the treasury, already in custody in con- nection with ,the robbery, pecret service-officials said. | Orders for Withdrawal of Last Forces by) July 1 Issued by Secretary Weeks in Carrying Out Regular Policy aoe: | WASHINGTON, March 20.—Orders directing the return to the United States by July 1 of all American troops now the Rhine were issued today by Secretary Weeks. Re The order includes the return by the end of th fiscal year of the entire force of approximately 2,000 men excepted from the previous order’of several weeks-ago:-under=which Special Rule to Promulgated for Consideration in House, Report WASHINGTON, March 20. president’s compromise soldiers’ bonus bill, but went ahead with plans to-put the measure through the under a suspension of the rules, how- ever, and @ special rule will be nec essary for ft consideration. Leaders were to confer tate today as to procedure anu house conxideration would begin. Representative Monde of Wyo ming, and four other houso members of the bonus Upon leaving the exeentive’y office Mr. Mondell issued this in writing: Speaker Gillett also had en appoint- ment with the p resident, but because the canftol to preside over the house session without securing the execu- tive. Upon reaching the capitol the speaker met with the house leaders and made known to them his decision Chatrman Fordney rules and pass the bill. While at the White House Mr. Mondell and other members of the house commtttee went ever the whole expression of his views on the com- Promise measure with fts bank loan provision in Meu of the original cash proposal. ‘The president was quoted as having said that he preferred not to make not be passed by the senate; that the measure either would be held up there by taxes or the sale of bonds. ‘When the house met today, Repre sentative Garncr of Texas, ranking Democrat on the’ ways and means committee, asked unanimous consent for Mr. Mondell to tell the house when the bonus bill would be taken up. Rep- wcognized to bring it up today, BILL DISCUSSED AT THREE CONFERENCES. Later the president saw Speaker Gillett with whom rested tho decision as to the suspension of rules for action on tho bill today. Following the speaker, Representa- tive Lineberger of California, a for- |mer service man, was on the white house engagement list. Mr. Lineberg- er recently circulated a petition for a conference of %ouse Republicans for Tuesday night to thrash out the whole ‘bonus question. He had obtained the necessary number of signatures to as- sure a conference call but is deferring |presentation of the petition to Chair. man Towner of the Republican house conferences in the hope that the situa- tion can be ironed out without a gen_ eral meeting. House leaders calling on the presi- dent were Representative Mondell, of Ohio, a. member of doth the ways Continued on Page Three) the homeward movement of the ma tingent ‘The action of the war department was merely a continmation of policy previously announced for withdraw- ing the American forces from the | Rhine territory as early as possible, Mr. Weeks said. It was indicated that the status of army legisiation in congress in no way influenced the de- partment’s decision and aleo that the |controversy over payment by Ger |many for the maintenance of the aoe troops was not involved. Secretary “Weeks said-thatrthe op-be back and was told that no one would be|’ “Che € Weather Forecast Generalty fatr tonight and Tuesday: colder tonight in east portion. VOLUME VI Dodge Given Release Upon Serving Time Duval Dodge, possessor ofa fortune Of $1,600,000 left the house of corrte- tion this morning with $8 tn his speeding. Dodg> -was taken to the rear of the unobserved through a back door and was whisked away in a prison auto- law, M. P. O'Connor in this city. battery of Dodge entered the prison Thursday he had $108 in his pos- session. He paid $100 of this as a fine in addition to the jail sentence. Dodge left so hurriedly this morn- ing he forgot to take with him a silver that was among his is when he en- tered the prison. ‘The corkscrew will be mafled to Dodge, prison authorities said. Although his punishment for vio- with exception of loss of his auto- mobile 4rivers’ license for a year, Dodge is not yet “out of the woods.” and face a charge of reckless driv- ing, foNowing a midnight automo bile ride recently during which Miss Emmaline Kwakernaak, Western States normal studert, jumped from Dodge's car while it was traveling at a high rate of speed, and sus- tained serious injuries. Then there fs an additional charge of violating the prohibition laws. Dodge put in several hours yes- terday writing an article for the Detroit house of correction newspa- per, “Progress,” published by the “Your conception and my concep- tion of prison life have been decided- { ly erroneous. We all were of the | opinion that prison officials were | cruel, burly bruisers with no hu- | manitarian motives. | “We thought inmates of prisons, were, on the whole, coarse illiter- | ate ruffians, beaten and cowed until | there was no manhood left in them. | “We were wrong. “During my enforced incarcera- tion I have been greatly impressed by one thing, that prison officials are extremely humane and that in- mates are decidedly human.” ‘TORRINGTON 10 ERECT NEW $100,000 SCHOOL tects for the new $100,000 school building to be erected here this year. Plans for the structure have also been completed. An auditorium capacity of 700 will be provided and the building ‘wii be modern in afl other respects. eration of two army transports now being employed in the return of the troopa had been ordered continued up to July 1, by which date all of the foros would have been withdrawn from| the Rhine. Secretary Weeks did not go inic de; tail as to how the function exercised by General Allen in the Rhineland} commission and those of the Amer- ican forces at'Coblenz would be trans- ferred to the allied commanders. He confined his armouncement to the/ statement that all of the troops would in the United States { DETROIT, Mich March 20.—John} mana: house of correction, allowed to slip | affair were recsived. mobile to the home of his father-tn- | Winchester is reported to have been freedom an hour earlier |names were given as Edward and sautenateine set, Dodge escaped a | William Taylor, in the operation of camera men |the Taytor ranch near Barnum. | newspaper pt ‘When |_ Dr. Victor R. Dacken, and Frank Rae ee net ee ee gaat | a Devitn, AaDuty “shoacite: lett jdiere: at BATTLE LINE IS ed FORMED IN ERIN CASPER, WYO., MONDAY, MARCH 20, 1922. asper De ‘hy | Crihune | NUMBER 137. One of Three Taylor Shooting in Which Brothers Accused of Paddy Daly Was Wounded in Late Dispute Paddy Daly, who for the past 15 years has assisted in the gement of the Buffalo Creek ranch, near Barnum in northwestern Natrona county, is thought to have been dan- gerously, if not mortally, wounded by a man named Taylor Daly. Report of the shooting which His release came at 8 o'clock and|occurred at the Buffalo Creek ranch was carried out with the greatest se-| yesterday afternoon was recetved at crecy, at the request of the prisoner./the sheriffs office here‘at 11 o'clock last night. Only meager details of the ‘Taylor who is said to have fired and hit Daly three times with « 30-30 fassociated with his brothers, whose 12 jo’clock last night for Arminto,| Wyo., the doctor to cure for the in-| jured man who {s said to be in a) critical condition from loas of blood| and Devlin to effect the arrest of Tay- pocket, having completed a five |as the culmination of a dispute over the ownership of a day prison sentence for automobile | horse blanket which is said to have been in the possession Daly refused and another demand ‘was inade for the blanket. After twice! refusing to return the blanket Daly started toward the stable, when it is said, Taylor produced a Winchester and fired three times at Daly. One shot entered and shattered the right| shoulder, another struck the left arm) at the elbow and a third strutk| ‘Daly in the upper part of the left leg.| After the shooting Taylor is said to| have left the ranch. Advices as to} whether he became a fugitive or re- turned to the Taylor ranch are lack-| ing. The sheriff's office here has re-| cetved no word from Deputy sheriff! Devlin since he left for the Taylor| ranch to arrest ‘Taylor. In communication with Dr. Dacken this morning the sheriff's office learned that the injured man wag in "The scen6 of the shooting is said to have been the Buffalo Creek ranch, | @ property owned by John Mahoney} of Rawlins: Jerry Mahoney of Cas-| per was in charge of the ranch at the! time of the shooting. lating tho city speed limit is ended, From reports reaching here the} shooting occurred yesterday evening|/him under treatment at a local hos-!H. Cooley, local after Taylor had ridden to the Boffalo| pital at the earliest possible moment| vere burns about Creek ranch and after accosting Daly At 9 o'clock tomorrow morning he | demanded the return of a saddle blan- must appear in court at Kalamazoo |cet which was in Daly’s possession. | & critical condition and that he will) be rushed to a hospital here this after- noon in hopes of saving his life. Dr. Dacken and his patient will arrive on the Northwestern this afternoon. Daly was moved from Arminto to/ Wolton this morning in order to get} Other details’ of the affair will be suppressed until definite reports are obtained from Deputy Dev BUFFALO CREEK RANCHER IS SHOT AND SERIOUSLY HURT Soviet Women Buy Husbands For Passports ODESSA, to-the-frontier-only is one of the new forms of commerce in Russia. Wom- March 20.—Marringe- en are, willing to pay handsomely those foreigners, who, by virtue of their passports, may pass freely out of Fussia and also enter Poland, Rumania, Germany, or other coun- tries and take with them women passing as their wives. As Russian subjects, nether men or women may easily get permission to leave Russia, and, if so, the other countries will not receive them. Subjects of Turkey and other Moslem ¢dountries engaged tn this marriage business some times take out four wives at a time, the num- ber allowed by their marriage laws. Some times such marriages of the moment end unhappily. The hus- band of a Daku lady of beauty suc- Geeded in getting out, and then planned for his wife to marty a lo- cal official for the journey. The official fell in love with the woman and insisted that she remain as his legal wife, as she had Sh Te Be come through her own declaration before the local Soviet marriage bu- reau. Ss eS TANK EXPLODES, MAN BURNED. RIVERTON, Wyo., March 20.—Ww. rancher, suffered se- the head and hands when the gas tank on his automible was ignited from a blow torch being sed to solder a connection. BANKS IN LEAGUE WITH MIAMI BOOTLECCERS, IS CHARCE MADE BY SLEUTH ing Large Sales of Hootch; Arrests ' Ordered by Government MIAMI, Fla., March 20- A bootlegging ring has been| uncovered here so thoroughly organize! that its contracts were backed by some Miami bankers who also acted as | trustees for the funds covering the internal revenue bureau ha: missioner Haynes. . ‘The liquor dealers, Colonel Nutt de/| clared, contracted without hesitation |t0 get any required amount of liquor| preliminary reports from | “within 24 hours,” and to deliver ft| Nutt, in charge of the campaig: wherever the pgchaser desired, “at | your hotel, the courthouse or at the| Postoffice.”” “Wo will giver it at the raftway station if you wish it shipped,” the| report to Commissfoner Haynes} quoted the local dealers as offering,| “and will attend to placing it in| cases and will buy the necessary) Srapefruit or tomatoes to cover it up. | “More than a dozen of our tnvesti-| gators,” Colonel Nutt said, “on the! first Gay's operation reported proposi-| tions of the above character and in| two instances negotiations were| closed, with the aid of bankers, all of/ which will be revealed shortly in) court proceedure. i “Our investigators discovered that! many of the operators owned their! own smuggling ships, would make} night voyages to a point near Nas-| sau, Bimini or Gunkey, meet a. schoon-| er laden with lMquor, make purchases/| at the average price of $18 per = | | | | return the next night and received double the price from their pur- ‘chasers, also making a anng profit on the fruit and vegetables for packing. ‘They would explainthat by diluting, the consignment could be doubled and even trebled in quantity and sold ‘up north’ for at least $100 a case. “So brazenly was the law violated in the city of Miam! that in severnl instances the princtpa! prizes of punch boards operated in prominent cigar ‘stands were bottles of liquor. Our investigators not only made win-| nings of Gordon gin, Johnny Walker| and Bushnell rye, but carried away| the punch boards as suovenirs.” large sales, Col. L. G. Nutt of 8 reported to Prohibition Com-}| WASHINGTON, March 20.—Immi- nent arrest of a number of individuals some of them prominent in Florida commercial circles was indicated in Col. In C Miamt against liquor smugg'! missioner Haynts said today. ——— Se ; Wrecks Home | With Gasoline, | Child May Die DENVER, Colo., March 20.—Corrie Van Raalt, 14 years old, intended to start the kitchen fire at her home to- day with kerosene. She picked up a two gallon can of gasoline instead. wrecked by the explosion which fol-| lowed pouring of the gasoline into the stove and the child was so badly burned she may die. Deisoners. Dodge's article fotiows in | OFF ci gly Act as Trustees for Funds Cover-|Robbers Loot Jewelry Shop CHICAGO, March 20.—Three ban- dits today held up Marcus Nlierman in his pawn shop and escaped with virtu- ally every bit of jewelry in it. Nier- man said the loot was worth “between $25,000 to $100,000." ULSTER BORDER AGAIN. SCENE OF OPEN WARFARE Bridges Blown up, Roads Bamicaded, Forces Are Intrenched LONDON, March 20.—(By The Associated Press.)—The border line of Ulster is de- scribed as “like a battle front” by the Evening News Belfast correspondent, who says rival forees of the Irish Republican army and of Ulster special constables were actually within rifle range and con tinually firing at each other the week. end. The combatants were too well con coaled for seri losses to be inflicted ‘and the exxchange of fire was intended mainly to prevent the springing of; surprise attacks. The rival armies, continues the cor- respondent are gradually creeping closer and the first collision is expect ed to occur on the frontier near Cale don, county Tyrone. “The sound of the blowing up of the: bridges an the Ulster border during the week-end could be heard miles away,” adds the dispatch. “The north- ern forces were mainly responsibie,! ‘and as the result of their activities’ every important bridge leading from’ the Free State has been demolished,” while hundreds of roads have been trenched and closed with trees. “The tension is already beginning to, affect the inhabitants behind tho bat: tle Ime ‘The unionists hlong the frontier are much perturbed over the menace of invasion and have asked that more protection be afforded them. Many close to the battle zone, which _ is no man’s land, have had to excav: = ate their houses, which immediately ¢ have been occupied by the fighting forces.” The Pall Mall Gazette and Globe correspondents today telegraphed: | “There are all the elements of a serious outbreak on the Ulster-Free | State boarder and only a spark is | needed to bring it about. Sime shots | already have been firec GUNMEN ACTIVE . BELFAST. | BELFAST, March 20.—Gunmen |egain were active in Belfast today. A number of carters proceeding to work | were stopped by a man who pointed a revolver at them and ofiered them back. In the ensuing altercation one carter was wounded. An ashman was working in the tien. The police barracks at county Londonderry, were during the night. A “B special” constable was shot dead at Tobermore by raiders engaged |i cutting wires and obstructing the |road. ‘The garrison at the Maghera bar racks consisted of three members of the regular police force and eight spe- cals, who were surprised by an over: whelming foree. Previous to the at- tack the roads had been biocked with trees and trenches had been cut and bridgea destroyed. Telegraph com- munication also was interrupted. The raiders obtained fourteen rifle wounded while Ballymacarrett sec Maghera, captured NATRON WOOL MEN OF A AGREE TO POOL CLIPS Series of Option Sales Based cn Value of Individual Clips Season by Growers Proposed for This Representative woolgrowers of Natrona county will pool their wool after the spring shearing, thus enabling the wool wool buyers and commission their 1922 supplies. | The Ven Raalt farm house was nearly| industry in this district to present a united front when the men come here to get part of This unique organization was perfected at a meeting of SHIP ABANDONE CREW IS SAVED SAN FRANCISCO, March 20.— Abandonment of the San Francisco bound steam schooner Fairhaven, water logged off the southwestern coast of Mexico near Manzanillo, state of Colima, was described in a radio message received here today by the ino department of the chamber of commerce. The mes sage said the crew had been picked | up by-the-steamship Katrina Luck- enbach and landed at Manzanillo. The cause of the accident was not given. The Fairhaven, owned by J. E. Davenport of San Francisco, was dh her way north from Punta Arenas, Costa (Rica. She became water logged, according to the wirl latitude 19.40 north, longtitude west. The Fairhaven had a to nage of 1,087. She built In 1998, atrona County Woolgrowers’ asso- per Saturday. Such s the wool men unified strength and the benefit of | co-operative marketing w should react to the advantage of the industry in this vicinity. Under this plan the wool of all growers entering the pool will’ be j classified and will be disposed of in | lots to the highest bidder. The woot buyers will thus have to submit seal- jed@ bids for the product and the com- | mittee which will have chargo of ths | sales will have the option of selling jor withholding the wool from the | market if the price Is not satisfacto: Sales of the wool will be hand | for the Natrona cou wool men | Thomas Conper, M. J. Gothberg and r Continued on Page Three)