Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 12, 1922, Page 2

PAGE TWO NEGRO SHOOTS WN TAKING. UP WIFE'S DISPUTE orities Investigating Dis- (Continued: from Page One; thieves. may inspire some one of those aseocinted withy her in crime to re ven! truth The truth, it is sur. mised, is that Annie Richey was mur dered to prevent her from confessing the identity of persons who were her CRIMINAL CHARGE ERASED FROM RECORDS BY RICHEY MURDER) wasn failure, and a divore: soon sepa- ra! Cu of the open « unhappines vent ¢ her from her husband of her turned to the ure had not tempered her love mauntry and, to forget the matrimonial ad- hant, por of ranching “on her un- Che Casper Daily Cribune her guilty, she was sentenced ‘o the In a moment she was in convulsions. penitentiary for from one to six years, Palsenberger attempted to relieve her. but she remained silent. Aided by her/Suddenly he was seized with ugonizing father, she carried her case to the cramps. Realising that they had been supreme court, meanwhile keeping at|poisoned, he staggered toward a near- Uberty under bond. Nearly two yeurs by horse, intending to stmmon aid. elapsed before the higher tribumal|/As he reached the horse he collapsed. rendered judgment on her appeal—|Just then a neighbor arxived at the judgment that no error had been com-'ranch ard observed Palsenberger’s mitted by the lower coutr and that ber|writhing form and the still form of conviction had been, justified. Again| Mrs. Richey. The latter, he realized she faced imminent imprisonment, but! immediately was dead, but there migh' still she kept the seal on her lips.|be a chance for the man. He placed More than two months would clapse| Palsenberger in his wrgon and raced before the opening of the term of court to town. Medical attention saved the at which she would be resentenced.|ranch-hand’s life, but two days elapsed Much may happen in two months.|before he was able to relate what had Yor ber much lid happen. Her father,|happened—to tell of the visit of the to ride to Kemmerer to report for her person, or at the instigation of per-|hope that the mystery of her death Preliminary hearing on the cattle rust-/sons, who feared she might tell the; may yet be solved. Approach of death limg charge. The hour for the hearing truth regarding the crime with which was at hand when a ghastly, blood-|she was charged, the apprehension|death to confess; a quarrel among drenched, reeling horsewoman rode in-| regarding what shc to town. She was Annie Richey; her! would have existed two years ago, at left arm had been shattered by a bul-|the time of her preliminary bearing, ‘et. The preliminary hearing neces-|as it existed In May, just subsequently |ever—the poisoning of Annie Richey sarily was postponed. She had been/to confirmation of her conviction and |may be # murder that will out, shot, she said, by a stranger, who prior to her imprisonment. [wor Mean rode close to her as she journeyed to! town and without a word fired with a rifle, then, as she reeled from the bul- let's fmpact, set spurs to his horse and | galloped away. She had been able be- fore the shooting to look at him close ly, an@ she described him rather min- WEDNESDAY, JULY 12, 1922. ~ may move one associated with her might reveal|criminals may inspire one to Inform on the others. Many a secret has rv fused to be held within a grave for “Meet me at the Smokehouse. ‘That theory 1s responsible for the Partners In cattle stealing. Even the poison with which she was stain has not been identified. The sym toms in her case, and in that ef Otto Palsenberger, her ranch-hand employe. who also was poisoned but survived, | were those customarily produced by | > strychnine. But the Wyoming state utely. Her description, never heard by Palsenberger before her death, tallied in striking and vital particulars with that given by Palsenberger of the man in corduroy who was last, save him: She established herself twelve north of Kemmerer. But whis- went through the community unnaturally—that pped morte stock normal fecundity of a he owned would make her staunch and generous ally, was stranger jn corduroy. taken from her by death. Still she) ‘There are strange things about that was silent, but visibly profoundly de-|stranger. One is that no person other pressed. Would she continue “game”i:han Palsenberger has been found to the bitter end? Would she drag out wig wil! admit: having seen him. Yet|self, to sce ber before her death. jong months behind prison bars with-| mounted men in corduroy “re suffi-| At the time of the wounding of Mrs out weakening of the determination ciently rare in Wyoming to make a| Richey scepticism was rampant. She not to reveal the identity of suilt¥|horsaman so clad 1ce Brought to Head 1 Is ‘HALF SICK iS ALL SICK t stive r waaay f . conspicuous, to|shot herself, it was ch: . with the} beg nas bcd es exhaustive analyses! , Many thefts of cattle were reported ar who Wi t while wie line ide: to? ate eee 8! = oweaselias Pad = { Mrs. Richey’s digestive organs, and! by stockmen of the Kemmerer district trained? Thee were questions! < Y | i Stle looatenite, ‘werebien: that Tai atlestibe tecy Ce ee ngtet nt |scrutiny of any whom he might en-|remarkable similarity of her descrip. obtain no reaction suggesting | t regate an in some unident which he still |counter. Who was the stranger? Why did he visit the Richey ranch? What '|did he say to Annie Richey? Did he al into the house and place the fatal poison in the food? Quien sabe? tells how Annie Richey died. She had| "dnc. wtrange “hing? tedetns t.|been working hard, at man's Yabor, | iin the stranger: Two years ago getting her ranch into shape for the/, nie Richey set cut from her ranch but were permitted |impending period of her absence. Pal an he South Omaha senberger was her only employe. They | tor take the routine spent the morning tolling at an irri- Te tion of her alleged attacker with Pal- v senberger’s description of the man in corduroy, has eliminated the sceptic- ism of two years ago, however, and| strengthened the conviction that the| man in corduroy was connected with, if not directly responsible for, her as- eastination. If she were killed by a Then special 4 e employed—men iar with and subterfuge of t May 19, an assassin’s work made cer. ltajn that they should never be an# wered. Otto Palsenberger, the ranch-hand ‘ami ney made unum ipment of ca’ to mar t molested at the point by the physicians a atmenberger and who perorme: stock e poisoning, the phy: " was establi beyond | gation ditch, the slender woman keep-| | eared hag — e thar Annie Richey in-|ing pace in labor with the stalwart © death in less than > market them as her own. |man. At about 10 o'ezock a mounted th W. k f Ca halt hours, very. Farly hey were selned” Athang Gau|Stngtt ut oe eet 1O the Workers oO sper period, whereas Mrs. Rict many that had been eabjected to|stranger of appearance umusual be-| ing to Pal: berger, had fallen db 's” bandiwork. lcause he was garbed in corduroy. He} less and dying within twenty mi | iked to Mrs. Richey “for several | rustling. Simultaneously war-|minutes. The hired man toiled on and/ were issued for others. Some|heard nothing of what passed between were arrested, but onty|them. At the conclusion of the con. | Annie Richey was a con-|versation the visitor rode away and/ 1. There was fear and|Mrs. Richey resumed work. She did} is certain, at several |not mention to Palsenberger anything | e no arrests were, made—|that had passed between her and | ck of evidence—fear and stranger « begot of apprehension that} At noon Mrs. Richey and Palsen-/ hey, herself enmeshed, would |berger ate etanes in the rng ie tell the truth, the whole truth. & meal chiefly of warmed-up . Richey was “game.”|Then they returned to the irrigation 2.PYOSSOS9S900900044[Politicnl Advertisement}. F sri ye ne aH NOTICE tealing | associates in eattle|Richey fell to the ground, groaning. es who would have; profited as much, if not more, than| 12 Would have she from the nele of the | I hereby announce myself as a Candidate for the sgn oat aise renin (Sao mage ete nomination for the office of Sheriff for Natrona Coun- See eee j ty, Wyoming, on the Republican ticket at the August primary. Should I secure the nomination and election for the office I will perform the duties of the office to the best of my ability. Dated May 29, 1922. y was arrested, charged | You are cordially invited to attend a muss meeting of workers at Carpenters’ Union Hall on Thursday evening, July 13, at 8 o’clogk. Questions of the day will be discussed. Prominent speakers will bé present. after eating the food in which 5 had been placed, and had died within | * ten minutes after her collapse. Annie Richey! Unhappinesa; ‘was the part of this attractive, wilful, (headstrong, courageous woman. fea in the case viction se others Poor fly denou condemna with her now—was sympathetic with | , {her before the culminating tragedy of her wrecked life. When she died thére were in circulation among her neigh. borr petitions for an executive pardon that had been signed by members of | the jury that convicted her, by witnes- ses on whose testimony she was con- victed and by scores of other who were familiar with her case and who had became convinced that she was the loyally silent scapegoat of accom plices far guiltier than was she. Annie Richey was the daughter of John Richey, pioneer railroad builder and veteran ranchman, than whom no more upright citizen lived in Wyo- ming. He is dead now—it is safd from a broken heart. He was spared {grief over the closing tragedy of his beloved daughter's career; his death proceeded her's thirty days. It occur. rad when the supreme court affirmed | the finding of the district court that | his daughter must &o to prison. The! of the new There are two strong, loyal heart that has sustained unloading racks for cars. These will|him during the long, costly fight to be put to good use tomorrow, inas-isave her from that fate, gave up then, much 9s Meyers has two carloads of/But his aged wife still lives, bowed be Golp “8” and backer cars. (a double tragedy, : “An expert mechanic, who has had} Annie Richey's parents were able to ight years’ experidnce with the Cole/prévide her’ many advantagés denied make of cars, will arrive this evening/the average ranch girl. She mato to take care of repair work. |What her friends regarded a brilliant Complete and guaranteed repairing match when ‘she became the bride of “el be done in the garage. Already |the principal of the Kemmerer public there are Rickenbacker and Cole ‘‘8'"|schools. 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