Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 8, 1922, Page 1

hour after the murder. | Che Casper Baily Triune VOLUME VI MIKE GROVAC, ALLEGED SLAYER, TO KNOW FATE LATE TONIGHT, BELIEF State Rests’ in Murder Case in Which Still Cleaner Faces| Severe Penalty for Shooting and Killing Friend; Self- Defense to Be Advanced in Argument Mike Grovac, Serbian still cleaner, who killed his partner, Matt Fember, on July 28, is on trial for his life in district court today and may know his fate by late tonight, as the testimony of the prosecuting attorney was completed in the middle ‘of the afternoor. and Attorney John G. Killelea had commenced introducing testimony for the defense. The murder was committed as the result of a quarrel over $3 between the\two men, who, hitherto, had been the best of friends and who worked together at a togal refinery. BIG REDUCTION IN CORN CROP ESTIMATE IS SHOWN BY BUREAU ‘The defense will attempt to show that Grovac committed the crime in self- defense, while Prosecuting Attorney Purcell endeavored to show that the murder was committed maliciously and without cause. Mr. Purcell an-} nounced this afternoon that he would ask for the extreme penalty—death. ‘Testimony introduced this morning showed) that after committing the erime, Grovac went to work and was arrested there by Officers Carter and McGrew of the city potice within an Fember, the dead mm, was taken to the hospital, where he died from acute peritonitis the next day, the direct cause being, according to Dr. Keith, the inflicted gun shot wound, Lew Gay, coroner, Dr. Keith, attending physician, and Officers Carter and McGrew testified this morning, while the Indy of the house if which the crime was commit: ted, ard“eye-witness- of the affair, ostifig this afternoon. SOUTH RUSSIA. SETS UP NEW NATION, CLAIM LONDON, Sent. 8.—Rebellion has broken out in South Russia, accord- ing to a Helsingfurs dispatch today fm the Central News via Copenhagen. ‘The Odessa Soviets have declared South Russia’ and’ Crimea independ- ent, ‘There is fighting in many, dls: tricts between the rebels and the So viets, the dispatch stated, The crews of warships stationed at Sabastopol also were reported to be in a state of mutiny. ——__— LATE SPORTS PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 8.—Zen- zo Shimidzu of Japan defeated Wal- ter Wi ik of Detroit, 64, 75, 63, in fastest and most spec- tacular oakai in the national Jewn tennis singls championship tourna ment at the Germantown Cricket club courts toady. Gerald Patterson, star of the Aus- tralian Davis cup team and winner of the world’s title this year at Wimble- ion, England, met Charles C: Hubbell, a youth from the Sleepy. Hollow Coun- try club at Yonkers, N. Y. The score was 6-0, 6-0, 6-2 in Patterson's favor. CHICAGO, Sept. 8.— J. Daok the Texas ney, president %f Western league, accepting on behalf of his organization Tearney’s recent chal- lenge for a champlonship class A baseball series between the winner of the Western jeague pennant and the victor in the post season series between the. champions of the Southern association and Texas league, ST. LOUIS, Mo., Sept. 8— George Sisler of the St. Louis Amer- icans signaled in the first inving of today’s game with Detroit, making consecutive games in which he has hit safely. If he hits safely the next three games he will have tied the modern major league record set by Ty Cobb of Detroit in 1911 WASHINGTON, Sept. §.—Reduc- tion of -142,600,000 bushels during the last month in this year’s pros- poective corn crop was shown t a in the forecast at 2,875,000,000 bushels by the department of agri- culture. he crop was reported to have deteriorated considerably in the central and eastern states since mid-August and to have had a severe setback in Missouri, Kansas and Ne- braska from excessive heat and lack of moisture. Other crops generally showed In- creases in prospective production al- though there were a few slight de- clines. Spring wheat estimates are placed at 277,000,000 -bushels: and all wheat at $18,000,000 ‘brmhels, Condition of the crops ‘september 1 was: Spring wheat, cats 74.9; barley 85.7; white potatoes toes 82.4; tobacco 76.2; flax 82.7; 85.5; sugar beets 88.6; kaffirs 65.5. HORNSBY BOUNCES 25TH HOMER OFF BLEACHERS, TIES WILLIAM CINCINNATI, Qhio, the Cardinals-Red game here Sept. knocked out his thirty-fifth home run in the f 8.—Rogers Hornsby. today inning of | today. It was a new kind of a homer, the ball hitting the right field bleachers and bouncing | back so far that ‘se made the circuit before it was recovered. SOUIX CITY GUNMAN SENT TO DEATH ON THE GALLI FORT MADISON, Ia., Sept. 8.—(By The Associated ns ss.)—Without & tremor of fear, Ira Pavey, Sioux City gun. weep ye er CASPER, WYO., FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 8, 1922. SPORTS MARKETS - ;USED IN MASSACRE lone Per Cent of All WOMAN ‘WITHESS’ TO MOVIE Earnings Pledged DUEL SLAYING IS SEIZED AS. |) by 1uinois Union ACCOMPLICE OF GEORGE CLINE); “cv Meeting | | 5 aT 7 PEORIA, Ill, Sept. 8.— (By The Associated Press.) — Illinois miners in executive session here today pledged one per cett of their total earnings or $250,000 a month in defense of any and all members of the United e Workers organization who may be arrested for partic pating in the recent massacre of non-union miners at Her. rin, Il. eae PLL HOPE DEAD |) FOH ENTOMBED MINE VICTIMS Discouraging Progress Made by Rescue Squad When Drifts Are Found Tightly Closed. JACKSON, Cal., Sept. 8.—Hope for the 47 entombed Argonaut miners seems to have died completely. The people of Jackson, with calm resigna: ton, now await the removal of bodies. yery discouraging progress has been |made during the last 24 hours in the attempts to reopen old drifts leading to the lower levels of the Argonaut from the 3,600 and 3.900. foot levals of the Kennedy. Instead of opening up jas the crews slowly dug thelr way for- ward, the drifts have been found HACKENSACK, N. J., Sept. 8.—A warrant for the arrest | of Miss Alice Thorntonjof New York, charging her with com. BALL SCORES NATIONAL LEAGUE At Philadelphia— R. H. E. New Yorkie 58 040 000 000— 4 10 38 Philadelphia _______ 000. 220 31*— 8 15°1 Batteries—Nehf and E. Smith; Meadows and Henline. At Pittsburgh— R. H. E. Chicagn. 2.-2_.--_-=- > gay, * Pittsburgh _ eg Batteries—Aldridge, Kauffman and O’Far- rell; Wirts, Hamilton, Carlson, Morrison and Gooch. At Cincinnati— R. 8; E. St. Louis __ --000 119 040—6 8 2 Cincinnati _ -100 600 “OO— 1 6 3 Batteries — Pfeffer and Clemons; Couch, Gil- lespie and Hargrave. ‘AMERICAN LEAGUE At New York— Washington _000 001 00O— 1 9 8 New York 200 024 00*—8 13 1 Batteries—Johnson, Erickson and Picinich; R. H. E. plicity with George Cline, Movie location scout’ jn the MUF. | Worse clogged than ever. Mays and Sch ride! an der.on August 25, of Jack Bergen, motion picture actor, was 0) Reine anasto nergy i 8: issued today at the request of Prosecutor Hart of Bergen the first week of rescue effort, has At Boston— R. H. E lcounty. Miss Thornton appeared today before the county | tirasy.” secctney Peed he Ton Pe : * Sites \grand jury investigating the murder charge. . glootnily Asctaie ¢tiat tno te Molning Philadelphia rie 100 000 000— 1 6° 2 new to give out, that when there is another bulletin will be promptly sued. The rescue crews which Jackson following the spreading of reports that 47 men were entombed in @ burning mine, are bundling up their oxygen helmets and departing for their le Miss Thornton, it is alleged, admitted to the police that she was in the house when Bergen was killed and until today , Was regarded as an important witnéss in the case. flocked to respective homes. Several of the crews left yesterday. Others ure go- ing today. Henceforth the attempts to reach the entombed miners will be Jin the hands of tne Amador coumy mine crews, assisted by expert advice from the California Industral Acci- dent commission and the United States Bureau of Mines. James Spiers, superintendent of the Kennedy mine, said: “The report is very discouraging. On |the 3,600 foot level of the Kennedy they cannot see ahead at all any more, he drift seems to be blocked with timbers and muck and very littie prog. ress was made.” M.ners coming off shift this morn- WS LIQUOR RUNNER Boston 000 001 i10*— 2 4 I! a Se ee and Perkins; W. Coilins and uel. At Chicago— EB. Cleveland 200 000 000— 2 8 2 Chicago 301 102 6O*— 7 10 96 Batteries — Boone, Lindsey and L. Sewell; Leverette and Yaryan. R. H. At St. Louis— R. H. E. Deteorby 8522 a 300— * * * SL W701 1 Se a pal ene ~----000— ata Batteries—Johnson and Bassler; Shocker and Severeid. man, paid with his life for the murder of Claude Letner, at nj oon today. Sheriff Snyhorst of Orange City pulled the trap at exactly noon. Pavey, his arms strapped to his side, his fee t bound, and with a black hood over his face, shot through SLAIN TODAY IN Ing stated only nine feet had been made during the n.ght on the 3.600 foot level while conditions on the 3,- $00 foot level were fully ing. us discourag the space in a drop of eight feet and spun at the end of th Unofficial estimates piace ‘the time 5 of breaking through to tne Argonaut Synhorst, of Sioux county, the con- prorat akiee ea aed ven eae FORT MADISON, Iowa, Sept. 8—|demnoit man’s nerve, instead of ince ithe Auaglertoncscea (Tite (By The Associated Press.>—Travel-| weakening the end draws near, . isaster.'a A. ar worn from a three days’ automobile | krows stronger. EL PASO, Texas,’ Sept./'8:—-One man was killed, three Wine sAvsonanee amity ate trip from Kansas City, ess ie ro night Bey was served eer were arrested and 100 quarts of liquor were seized on the} known to be creeping siow'y down Pavey and her two daughters, Fern{and ice cream for supper. Eugene aes 5 3 3 F prardianaiiergsd ti and Bessie, the mother and sisters|Weeks, Orie Cross, William Olander | border within the city limits of El Paso early this morning, |"! Sar rae 7 He oraph sapere of Ira Pavey, condemned to die atjand Earl Throst, the former occu-/at the close of one of the hardest clashes prohibition agents | c's. noon today, arrived at the peniten- tiary three death. In a yoice broken with teara, Mre ‘Pavey asked Warden T. H. Hollowell to take her to her son, The woman hours with thefr ‘race exhausted from two sleepless nights the road and the knowledge of/ her son’s fate, was near the breaking | here. on point, ‘The three women were taken to the! death cell where they were talking with the ‘condemned man as the death | hour drew near. Pavey spent. his ‘last night in un- broken sleep. At 4 o’clock this morn- ing he rose, asked hiv guards to turn on the lights and began writing, let- ters. At 6.80 he ate a hearty a errat fs According to Sheriff FACT FINDING COAL MEASURE. PASSED BY THE SENATE TODAY WASHINGTON, Sept. §.—Com- Pletion of congressional actten on the emergency coal fegisiation pro- gram neared todaf as the passed the fact-finding c@al missio Mbill. profiteering and coal measure late yesterds senate com- It acted o nthe anti- distributing Roth bills © sent tapconference for adjust tof différences with the similar Meagures: passed bythe ~heuks i The senate decided today to retain provisions in the fact-finding coal commission bill providing for the proposed agency to make a study of the “advisability or wisdom”.of na- tionalization of the coal industry. The provisions had provoked heate: debate but/an amendment by. Sen ator Dia’. Democtat, of South Car. olin, which would have struck qhem oul was les, 62 ig 13, pants of the death cell also received early today winning by a bare|part of the special menu. with | “That treat’s on me, boys,” Pavey lcalled to Weeks. “I'd just as soon |they’d hang some one here every week, if they would feed us li this, | At dawn today for the first time }in 12 years a wooden gallows stood Hin the pirson yard of the penitentiary YANKEES WIN FROM CANUCKS IN GOLF PLAY | TORONTO, Ont., Sept. 8.—The | American team of fifteen seniors de- ,feated the Canadian seniors in the in- ternational golf match at Scarboro to- jday, 34% points to 20%. This gives }the Americans four victories to the Canadians’ one in the five annual in- { ternational senior matches. COTTON GINNINGS. WASHINGTON, Sept. 8.--Cotton jginned prior to Sept. 1 «mounted to $17,171 running bales, including 2,- | 953 round bales counted as half bales, jcomapared with 486,787 bales including |86,027 round \bales to Sept. 1 last year a 361.569 bales including 17. 451 re 1920, the bureau announced today in (sinning seaport of the eslon, os in cens its fh have had with smugglers since the dry law became effective. Sage Se BROOKLINE, Sept. 8.—(By The Associated Press.) — Jésse Sweetser, metropolitan champion, became a finalist for the national amateur golf title today when he turned back Bobby Jones of Atlanta, 8 up, seven to play. Their maich was marked by golf of record-breaking scores by Sweetser and of almost par performance by his opponent, champion | of the south. Bill Providing 25 New Judges Passed by Senate| idolph Knenpermpl Siaux Oiti dawa, today, Jd up,-8-t0 play.’ gent Hardiness | fracture POSSES SEARCHING FOR MAN WHO TERRORIZED HOME, STAYED ALL NICHT, TORTURED WICTINS OLYMPIA, Wash., Sept. 8.-—Armed posses are on ‘ths trail today of a man who ! ste last night assaulted Mrs. Harry O’Hara, a widow, her five children, and Joe Dobson, a young neighbor, and left them lying upon the floor at the O’Hara * home, eight miles west of Olympia. Two of his victims ma A hundred shots were fired before the | reported finding scores of men Flying Handicap fatally wounied, police officers,home from Olympia last night at ~ smuggling party wes routed. | women and children, huddled in cor- and all are in lock and were covered by a gun in Much of the fighting took place Ee 1 cr dae eagbnod dea aba trom Around B iti h The victims are Mrs. O'Hara, the "hana! oC: 4 cadaked’ wat” weer in a tenement section of the city|betng struck by bullets = E ruts. Agnes O'Hara Teresa O'Horc, they entered the yard. Teresa was when Spit enaes mente te Poliee today were trying to identify s es . ; rances O'Har, ask pn fect Petite 3 ai persed overt ree _men held in custody by the of-}the dead man, They said charges of Tsl i hh | fe i ripe Radagenes chy yhich the intruder marched fiverks etaatal Webi uectitea ‘nuatnet tne auncneda, i. ‘The skulls of the motier and‘them {nto the house and up to the Pulloe! auwweritig’ erherwenkiy? <¢alte [other -thres, Teta | Eva O'Hara cre believed to have been Sedrooms where Mrs. O'Hara and her and their injuries may|other three daug and son were : inyrarity-becos viata ar gukctad® toaaye Ta | oe sleeping. ‘Teresa was forced to | k 1 started today: in| \ rhe the police/the hands of all, and then’ the assail- the “circuit of Britain's” flying handi-| ¢o hav: Hate nie aeons ia SWEETSER DEFEAT RE Fa inllen MPRA this Seco ee] Spm: aN. 2:45| ‘Teresa. who was the only one eble ahi rer unde aie iale ey be! this morning. tortur sito Ut out of the house when-she re- Themes iS at the -alrdom4 jand then before leaving struck one! covered consciousness 2 the as. One tor tnecdat des Sante jof them over the head with the butt left,.ran half a? mile-to the 5 Loewenstein Wertheim aged pets |of a heavy revolver, rendering them of a nei nent an ; accompanied the pilot during the | upconectous. He is alleged to have alarm to officers ». The other vic i flight. Winston Churchill, secretar: | 2ttempted an assault on Teresa. and|tims were found by officers lying on for ‘the ontisahtatay “entered tae its {calnig, ion the if: old girl -the poe and beds in pools of their chine which was flown by Col. Spencer i jown blood. Gray. : Teresa znd Joe Dobson. according] AN of the victims were brought to to the girl's. story, returned to the a hospital here early today MEX REPORTERS GROW VIOLENT : ye t ‘ WASHINGTON, Sept. 8—The long} | MEXICO CITY, Sept. 8.—{iBy drove out all empleyes at the Chick Evans, western titlist, will meet Sweetser tomorrow /delayed administration bill providing] Associated Press).—The entire plant | t of guns and destroyed all the for the championship. 25 additional federal judges finally| of El Universal was fore’bly shut [ printed papers. | ‘ y the senate and! down early today as the last editions | Solder. tod he Lwetinetnadional chembion wo . = y e pt inest] were being printed when members | plant ard ref p n from Young Rue ve tne ire will go lo Presi} of the Graphic Art Syndicate and | everyone, ii FP. Pala- teporterig um | viciuni, the editor,