Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 23, 1922, Page 1

; ‘ 300 SINN FEINERS SEIZED IN ULSTER RAIDS e Casprr Daily cry -_———<———$— Weather Forecast Fair tonight.and Ws a ing temperature Wednésday and tn West portion tonight. VOLUMF. Vi CRIMINAL RECORDS CHARGED TO IN N.Y. POSTOFFICE Forty-Nine Employes in Registry Division Dropped on Evidence Secured Through Finger Print System WASHINGTON, May 23.—(By The Associated Press.) — Discovery through “finger printing” that 49 of the 460 em- ployes of the registry division of the New York postoffice had criminal records was reported to President Harding today by Acting Postmaster General Bartlett upon his return from an investigatie¢n of the New York office. All of the 49 have been {Eos from the service, Mr. Bart- lett said. | ‘The acting postmaster general told | the president the discovery came dur- |ing his inquiry into the arrest last of seven employes of the | teeeweee New York office which arrest, post- [office officials assert cleared the pos. |tal robberies extending over the last ai ’ | six months and involving nearly $2,- ]900,000. The arrests also are said to |have thwarted a gagantic robbery \{P | planned for mst Friday night in the : lregistry division itself. nN | Mr. Bartlett declared that the men }arrested hod admitted that they had | secured emjloyment in the registry Body of tdan Found in Can yon Four Miles from Cas- | Mr. Bartlett said he had ordered |that all of the 15,000 employes of the per ie Here |New York office be required to have finger prints impressions made. Both Postmaster Morgan and himself, he added, “were finger printed” and he was of the opinion that such a step would be of benefit to the service, eliminating the untrustworthy and protecting, the bulk of honest em- ployea. ‘ Be. Bartlett wi! returm to NewYork the latter part of the week to continue ‘hig investigations, after which it is The deceased man was found after said he will likely visit the Chicago having been missing for a period of! pestoffice where numerous thefts have over two months, From indications occurred recent in registry and on the badly decomposed body it was vi we mail oréer dtvisions. evident that the man had fallen into) oo a rayine while wandering in the hills| a Sor ma ne oe ine POVETNOTS OF Minding the boay marked the! Western States Invited to Meet ‘man. Finding the body marked the SPOKANE, Wash., May 23.—Plans clos: of a search which has been |tor a conference of governors of ten Funeral services for N. R. Welch,| age 74, whose remains were found Saturday. evening in a canyon about four miles from Casper, were held from the) Shafer-Gay chapel late yes- terday afternoon. The Rev. C. M. Thompson offfiated.at the service. In- terment was made at a local cemetery. maintained almost continuously dur ing the period that the man was missing. TWO KILLED IN TRAIN WRECK MUSKOGEE, Okla., May 23.—The |to ‘consider uniform taxes on gasoline in the near future, were announced | here by Governor Louis F. Hart, of ‘ws fashington. Governor Hart said the great volume of tourist travel made imperative Late Reign of Ter. BELFAST, May 23.—(By of Recent History in Ireland \Irish Republican ‘Army Officers Rounded Up in Six Counties as Culmination of ror in Greatest Raid The Associated Press.)—The | Crihune CASPER, WYO., TUESDAY, MAY 23, 1922. EDITION NUMBER 191. greatest raid in the recent history of Ireland was carried out early today when swarms of*police swept througn Ulster and rounded up 300 Sinn Feiners, the majority of whom were Irish Republican army officers. | The northerfi government’s action was taken, it was | stdted, in an effort to suppress not Western states at Sacramento, Calif., | MANY BANDIT KILLS MAN IN OMAHA OMAHA, Neb., May 23.—Charies E. Siefken, 42, @ special agent for a life insurance company, is dead from bul- let wounds inflicted Saturday night when he went to the assistance of his son Robert while the latter was being held up by a bandit at an oil filling station. The son was badly wounded by the bandit, who escaped. AVIATORS WILL CIRCLE WORLD Cunning Answers More Question “Again last into The Tribune office by every mail night & largejfor Dr. Cunning. Arrangements, have crowd saw and|been made whereby he is to answer a heard Cunning,| limited number of questions each day ‘The Mystic, at|/while here. Your full name and ad. the Jris theater./dress must be signed to all letters His. performance) sent in but your initials only will be is far the best! used in answering. This offer holds that has ever| good to all readers of ¥he Tribune no been seen in Cas-| matter where located. Dr. Cunning per and it is safe| sees no one in private. There.are but to say that the| two ways to consult him. Either go house will be/to The Iris this week or send your crowded all dur-|questions to The Tribune. He ‘will in|answer through these columns each | day all that time and space will per- |mit. Today's answers are as follows: | | DR. CUNNING | ing his stay {the clty. Letters continue to pour Q—Would a patent such as I am planning prove a success? What is best for me to follow?—A. M. J. A.—A patent on the article should prove all right it has commercial val. ue, but would depend entirely upon the way same was promoted. Take * FLIGHT T0 START FROM LONDON ::: re EPS ee ee cork jpany, Woolworth Bidg., New York LONDON, May 23.—(By The Associated Press.)—In an attempt to fly around the world by air, two British aviators} plan to hop off from the flying field at Croydon at noon to- City. You could make good in min- from now on. ing this year as that game will look | Q—wit I get any of the estate?— A. K. only the Irish Republican army and | the Irish republic brotherhood but all jother Sein Fein organizations in the | six counties. | The government's move follows | swiftly uport Irish Republican army raids and burnings of buildings in the jcounties of Down and Antrim, and the intensified hostilities in Belfast recently, culminating in the murder yesterday of W. J. Twaddell, member of the Ulster parliament Nearly every town and village in Ulster was visited but the bulk of the Prisoners was taken in the county districts from farm houses. Compar- atively few captured were made in Belfast as most of the Irish Repub- lican army living in the Sinn Feinn | districts of Beitast anticipating action | by the police as a result of the Twad- | dell assassination had gone “on the run.” | The captured inciude some of the |most prominent Sinn Feiners in the | Ulster area, | The movement was begun at 4 o'clock this morning and the work of | visiting the various houses, town and | country, was rapidty carried out. Sev- eral hundred members of the con- }stabulary and a large staff of officers |had been on duty from midnight com pleting the arrangements, Most of |thore wanted were surprised and in |inest instances were aroused from sleep As part of the comprehensive scheme, special police were active in ¥ermanagh during the night and «arly morning, arresting every Sinn Feiner known to be an officer or to have authority In the Irish Repub- liean army. Only about 60 Irish Re Publican army offlecrs ‘ere captured jin Fermanagh, bat tt is learned the morrow. | (A—Yes, there will be some prop-! authorities are making fairly clean The airmen, Maj. W. T. Blake of the Royal Air force and |erty but no money from this for you|rweep of the men wiw exercise influ Capt. Norman MacMillan, expect to complete their trip in (Cintinued on Page Nine) ce in the army in that part of two months. The route, les through France, Itaty, Greece, Egypt, via the Aleutian Islands to Alaska, through the United States to New York, to New Foundland and across the Atlantic via Greenland and Ice-! land to Spotland, ‘The record making trip was. visual was killed recently in a preparatory flight. Mesopotamia, | India, Eastern China, Japan, thence by Sir Ross and Sir Keith Smith of Australia, but the latter abandoned his plans when his brother LEONARD WOOD’S PARTY ON YACHT IN TYPHOON MANILA, P. I1., May —(By The Associated) Press.)—Wireless queries to the’ Yacht Apo, on which Governor General Leonard Wood and his wife and daughter sailed Saturday for Mindoro, have not been answered and the typhoon which raged yesterday is believed responsible’ for the delay ing their return, The Apo’ {i belidved to have sought refuge in some port of Min- doro, General Wood planned a brief visit of inspection on the igl- and. No serious damage from the typhoon has been reported. Ulster. | Among those. arrested in Enniskjl- jten were Capal Healy, a member of \the Fermanagh county council and well-known leader of the Sinn Fein | party; W. J. Nethercot, a member of |the Enniskilen urban council and | Thomas Corrigan, accountant for the |Fermanagh county council. While .the raids were proceeding, tenders were busy. conveying: the spe- celal police and thelr prisoners: from the’ outlying districts. In Relfast 52 were arrested, but these did not include any well-known party leaders, while the Falls. Road (Continued “on Page Seven) DOPE PEDDLERS SENTENCED \Kid Ross Draws Tw Leavenworth; La Months, Williams One Year CHEYENNE, Wyo., May 23.—(Special to The Tribune.) —Kighteen of the nineteen drug peddlers recently arrested 0 Years in Prison at ngford Gets Five MURDER AND 23.—The chapter fn the carer of Mrs. Emma CHICAGO, May final engineer and firemen of Missouri, ‘Kansas and Texas passenger train number 3 were killed’ Monday in a wreck south of Vinita, it was an- nounced at the railway division head- quarters here. a CHIEF NISBET INJURED. Alexander Nisbet, chief of police is recovering from the effects of in- juries suffered in the Salt Creek field Saturday when a car backed into him and threw him violently against his own car. Chief Nisbet was caught be- Ntween the two machines and badly bruised. First belief that he had been internally injured was dispelled by medical examination. He is able to carry on his duties here. uniform taxes on gasoline. Chief jexecutives of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, California, Utah, Ne- vada, Arizona, New Mexico and Colo- lrado will-be asked to attend, he an- nounced. Plans for sending a Western dele- gation to Washington representing the ‘White Cross league to present to con- gress the need for greater restrictions are under consideration, the governor said. fo SAL et W. G. McADOO, JR. WEDS. NEW YORK, May 22.—Wm. G. Mc Adoo, Jr., son of the former secretary of the treasury, was married at the Municipal building today to Mra Mollie Tackaberry Ferguson. against the sale and use of narcotics; in Casper and indicted by a federal grand jury today were sentenced by Judge T. B. Kennedy ¢f the United States court for Wyoming. ie majority received penitentiary sentences, the men being committed to Leavenworth prison and the jwemen to the prison at Rockwell It was an evil day in court for Cas- | City, Iowa. per prize fighters. Sam ‘Langford was In passing sentence on Kid Ross a)sentenced to five months in the Na- prize fighter, Judge Keffnedy ‘said:| 114 county jail for bootlegging and “You have been preying on the frail-| " ties of your fellow men, you have| Nathaniel Blake (Scotty Williams) to a@ year in the penitentiary. Blake |Peen sending them to hell, and all for {@ few paltry dollars. I cannot under-| pesought clemency, claiming that he stand why prize fighting and dope) haa been induced by others to engage |peddling go hand in hand, yet such|i. joaaing drugs. “I haven't much patience with peo- appears to be the case, at least in ple who go out and commit crime be- so far as your locality is concerned.” Scotty, Williams, negro pugiist. Was! —ouse somebody has asked them {o,” said Judge Kennedy.. “Would you also among those sentenced having edd! mee to & charge of peddling} (cmmmit murder because someone Ross was sentenced to two years in| S8Ked_you to? Weir—"Big Emma'—known by a score of aliases in police circles, was being written today by the police who discovered the 65 year old wom- an dead, with a gas tube in her mouth in the attic of a drab cottage which had been her home since she “retired” 20 years ago. Murder and suicide are believed by the authorities to have played the final roles in “Big Emma's” life. In another room of the house, Mrs. Rickey Gunther, 65, Mrs. Weir's in- separable companion for three years, was found dead with two ribs broken and numerous body bruises. Threats on Mrs. Gunther's life by “Big £m- ma” were recounted by several per- sons today. > “Big Emma" was credited with the most spectacular career of any MOB LYNCHES GEORGIA BLACK IRWINTON, Ga., May 23.—A mob cf 50 or 60 persons stormed the Wilinkson county jail early today and after a fight in which one of the guards and a member of the mob were slightly wounded, seized Jim Denson, a negro sentenced to hang June 16 for attacking a white woman. the penitentiary, TWO DROWN IN SNAKE POCATELLO, Idaho, May 23.—Leon- ard Barrows, 34, and Vergil Malcotm, 26, were drowned in the Snake River late yesterday, while attempting to string a wire across the stream, which is very high at this time of year The two men were employed by a local power company and up to early today The mob placed a rope around the negro’s neck and took the bodies had not been recovered. him away in an automobile, No trace of him had been found early today by | the sheriff and his deputies. Denson was convicted in the supe rior court here more than two years ago on a charge of attacking a 72- year-old white woman. His execu- tion was postponed several times anf the United States supreme court fin- ally ruled 6n the verdict of the lower courts, affirming his conviction. Denson was removed some time ago to Macon for safe keeping but yester- day he was brought back to Irwinton to be re-sentenced. DETROIT, Mich., May 23.—John game in 1921, according court here by Al Day, payment of a check for that amount other check for $2,500 was honored. down.” Day declared the game was p! BORE SEs FOR LOSS AT BE GALLOPERS LOADED, HE ASSERTS Duval Dodge, lost $12,500 in a dice to the complaint -in a suit brought in circuit bout referee. Day seeks to collect $10,000 having been stopped by Dodge. An- The young millionaire claims the dice used were “loaded” and that the game was arranged to ‘shake him layed with “Dsige's gold bones,” ‘ TRAGEDY TOLL STANDS AT 102 BREST, France, May 23.—(By The Associated Press.) — |The British vice consul here today announced that 102 of | those who were on board the British steamship Egypt, sunk | off the Island of Ushant Saturday night, are missing of whom 16 were passengers and 86 members of the crew. Twenty- jeight passengers were saved, together with 204 sailors. Mrs. M. L. Sibley and Miss V. M. Boyer. American missionaries) are missing and presumably lost. Many of the dead brought in were wearing life belts, they evidently had died from ex- posure. ees WASHINGTON, May 23. — The Dempsey bill, authorizing improve- ments for rivers and harbors was Passed by the house 209 to 18. Funds for the improvements are yet to be provided. tion picture camera. SUICIDE IN FINAL CHAPTER OF “BIG EMMA” OF POLICE FAME woman in Chicago police annals. Rated as one of the city’s most dar- ing and successful shoplifters she came to be known as the “million dollar lifter.” For many years she headed the “Weir gang” which prac- ticed systematic thievery in large stores with such cleverness that members of the band were seldom caught. In the gang were her hus- band, two sisters and three brothers. Comparatively little of “Emma's” story is in police records, Her light-fingered cleverness, police said, saved her from detection time and time again, until in 1900 police had estimated her plunder at $500,000. They said she had undoubtedly an- nexed another half million singe. It was Mrs. Wier who first inteo- duced the “split skirt” but not for style. “Big Emma" used the split :to reach an underskirt provided wich ample pockets tu store away her loot as she extracted it from store coun- ters. In her palmier days, she was sald to have driven up to State street stores in a “four-in-hand,” with a team of blooded horses and a driver in livery. her voluminous skirts with picked articles, “Big Emma"—was a con nolsseur of quality as well as # plunderer of quantity—she would rustle out to her waiting carriage and drive serenely away. | INFANT DEAD, The infant daughter of Mr. and| Ro Mrs. Frank J. Devlin was buried at private funeral services this morn- ing. An infantile malady claimed the baby yesterday afternoon: Interment|bureau of mines reports to the general land office. will be made at a local cemetery. LATE KILLING OF GANGSTER IS CONFESSED Night Spent in Search for Witnesses Said by Walter S. Wa Him Kill New Y rd to Have Seen ork Blackmailer WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., May 23.—Search for two men known only as “Ross” and “ Ward of New Rochelle, N. Y., of May 15, was continued by shot Clarence Peters of Haverhill, Mass., today. gang that had blackmailed him for $30,000 and then attempted to get $75.- 000 more, went to New York last night with officers and visited several re sorts where he declared the men wanted might be found. It was an unsuccessful quest. Ward, who is the son of the president of the Ward Baking company, is at liberty under bond of $30,000 Using a list made up by Ward, the party went into cabarets, restaurants and cafes in the white light district and scrutinized every man present. When the search along Broadway and its side streets failed, Ward and the others spent several hours on the low: er East side, but no men fitting the descriptions. of the two men sought, could be found + Sheriff George Werner, who accom panied Ward, said Ross was a contfi- dence “man while “Jack” the only name the other of the trio is known by, is more of the type of a chautf- feur. The basis for the blackmail plot re mains unreyealed as the lawyers rep- resenting Ward decline to make pub- lic any of the bundle of letters given theta by Ward which he received in the six weeks he was being threat- ened. ‘The telephone call which resulted in the meeting by Ward of the men on the day of the killing, was said to have been the threat by Peters: “We want $75,000 or your life will pay.” ‘This is the threat in the only letter disclosed. Sheriff Wert.r said that he had read a threatening Ictter with a demand for that sum. When Elwood M. Rabenold, counsel woman in the cae he atiwered: family.” Allen R. Campbell, lawyers, was asked if the blackmail | “I don't think I should answer that question.” “Did it start, as reported, at a race track “I think it did.” Did it involve Ward's war record? “I can assure you that it did not, answered Mr. Campbell. Mrs, Ward said that she had not known of the plot for very long and added: “I'm with my husband and I want to do everything I can for him. I have the utmost confidence in him. I am sorry that I cannot answer any further questions.” Much surprise is displayed in New Rochelle that Ward waited for al- most a week before surrending him: self, especially as he was known as a strict disciplinarian in his position as chairman of the police commission. Ward came to New Rochelle n 1911 He was appointed for Ward, was asked if there was a “The threats were aimed at his another of the plot involved a woman and answered: Jack,” declared by Walter S. to have been present when he West Chester county officials near here the night Ward, after confessing he had killed a member of a | BALL SCORES NEW YORK, May 23.— Kenneth Williams of the St. Louis Americans hit a home run in the seventh inning of the game with the Yankees today with two men on bases. It was his [2th homer of the season. Mays was pitching for New York. NATIONAL LEAGUE At Pittsburgh— R it. E. Phitndetphia 100 000 002— 3 15 2 Pittsburgh . 200 512 0Ox—10 15 0 Batteries—Smith, Peters, Pineto and Henline, Petre; Morrison and Gooch. At Cincinnati (tied In R. H. E. New York ....901 000 202—x x x Cincinnati ....000 020 210—x x x Batteries — Toney and Smith, Can- sey; Couch and Hargrave. Jones, Osborne and O'Farrell. At St. Louis— Boston : St. Louis .... . oO—x x x Batteries — Watson and O'Neill; Doak, Haines art! Clemons. ee AMERICAN LEAGUE At Boston— R. H. E. Cleveland 030 000—5 11 3 Boston _.. 000 030 000—3 7 1 Ratteries—Uhle und O'Neill; Pen nock, Fullerton, Quinn and Ruel. At New York— R. H. E. St. Louis ---.000 111 330-11 14 1 New York 200 100 000— 3 8 3 Batteries—Shocker and Severeid: Mays, O'Dowd and Schang, Devor- mer. At Philadelphia R. A. E. Detroit ~_ Philadelphia 000 230 00—x x x Batteries—Stoner, Oldham, Olson Bassler; Moore, Harris and Perkins. At Washington— R. H. E. Chicago ~ Washington Batteries—Robertson Francis and Gharrity. [lished by Dr. Bright, a London phy-hhis body, had been put off a from Pittsburgh. head of the pulice commission in 1919 and two weeks ago was re-elected. District Attorney Weeks said that the case would be submitted to the grand jury next week. Young Ward had sent a radio mes- sage to his father, who was returning home from Europe on the Majestic, explaining his predicament and ask- ing for funds to meet the blackmail- ers’ latest demands, said an official working on the case. When he re Falls to Death F Under Freight IDAHO FALLS, Idaho, May 3g.— Dick Curtain 21, of Butte, Montana, ‘was killed last Saturday night at Rob- ceived by radio the curt response,|erts, Idaho, a small station 30 miles “Not one cent for blackmail,” he re-|north of Idaho Falls, when he at- solved to meet Peters+and his two|tempted to board a moving freight companions and teil them he was|train, according to word received here “through,” this official said. last night. Curtain, who was under <a ee bond torappear in Butte on a felony A system of shorthand was pub-|charge according to papers found on senger sician, as long ago as 1588. ‘ternoon. train at Roberts § turday OIL ROYALTIES After loading | ARE PILING UP WASHINGTON, May 23.—(Special to The Tribune.) — oyalties accruing to the federal government in April from oil and gas production on leased public lands in W. oming and California amounted to $1,009,007.86; according to amount, $784,600 is credited ‘SINS OF HOLLYWOOD’ TOO SCURRILOUS, IS CLAIM UNITED STATES ATTORNEY BARS IT FROM MAIL LOS ANGELES, May 23.—A book calipd “The Sin s of Hollywood,” supposed to be an expose of the lives of certain motion picture actors and actresses, is “too scurrilous” to be admitted to the mails, according to a ruling by Mark Herron, deputy United States district attorney here. Clark E. Webster, postoffice inspector, has ‘started an investigation to Jearn the author and the publisher. The book. of 225 pages, hes upon the front cover a picture of Mephistopheles, a beautiful girl, and a mo- Of this to Wyoming and $224,400 to California, The total net royalties accruing ‘to the federal government to April 30, as the result of oil and gas production on public lands under the terms of the general leasing act, approved February 1920, amount to $4,650,- 286.81. A total of 7,328 permits for prospecting for petroleum and nat- ural gas on public lands had been issued up to the end of April. —_—— Ocean steamers Amazon for a distancs from the sea. end the River of 2,300 miles