Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 22, 1922, Page 16

| Weather Forecast Fair tonight and Saturday. Moderate temperature. CASPER, WYO., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1922. VOLUME Vil. LAKE GIVES UP BOD: Bandit Hunt of Coloradoans > ——__ | —— ring Noted Prelate Stricken! Denver Police Give Up Search for Gang! Believed to Be Mint Robbers Who Were Reported Trapped at Ranch | a FRAUD-GHARGE {SUMMARY OF IN CONTEST OF | L DROPPED! Estate of Boston Woman Who Died at Sea Goes to French Friend. PARIS, Dec. 22.—An inquiry into the story told by a Mme. Liotardy that she was the sole legatee of the estate of Miss Lillian Fair Heller of Boston, esti- mated at $100,000,000 has re- vealed Mss Hellers will Th « bank and has resulted in the disr of fraud charges brought Mme. Liotardy by a bar vanced her 15,000 frances strength of her contention. Mme. Lioctardy » ght the loan to ply the gal expenses of probating the wil. M. Bogg, the banker, was at first skeptical, but Mme. Liotardy explained that the testator was the niece and heir of Mr. and Mra, Charles L. Fair, who were killed in an automo bile accident in France many years ago. Mme. Liotardy said that she met Miss Heller at Nice and that the two became great friends. Eventually, she eaid, Miss Heller Informed her that she would make Mme. Liotardy her heir on the condl- ton that she look after several ani- mals in which the testator was inter- ested. Miss Heller died on August 21, 1921, bn the yacht “Old Chap,” in the Med- iatrendest nee NEW YORK—Louls’ Pasteur, Mme. Liotardy sald. that the Wii) French microscopist, was mention- was in a Paris bank but that she had| oq as “the greatest’ man who ever been unable to get formal proof of] ‘tfyed" at a co'ebration in honor of Misa Heller's death, although she had} ¢he 100 anniversary of his birth, applied to the dead woman's sister Mme. Cattaul, the wife of a Cairo banker. M. Boggs advanced Mme. {Aotardy 15,000 francs, but on her alleged failure to re-pey that sum he tiled a charge of fraud. An inquiry | yey ENA, Mont—Carl Shifter, was started and the will was found.) 4) tat in connection with the slay- Lime. Liotardy then fepaid the money |, Sea fig- eek ataeew the CHRRE 5| Meee ee Soe The examining magistrate is con- tnuing his investigation to determine DENVER, €olo., Dec. 22.—Denver peace officers have aban- | doned their search in northern Colsiado for the four men believed to have been the ones who robbed the United States Federal Re- serve bank employes of $200,000. ‘The police posses that ‘went from here to the Greeley district have returned to this city having lost trace of the four men seen by a Greeley man in an abandoned | farm house. house but whether or not they were| From 2:30 o'clock yesterday after-|the bandits police were unable to! hoon until 100 last niggt when dark. | locate them to prove or disprove their j ness intervened, the search for the|thcories which led to the Greeley dis- men who claimed to be coyote bunt-| trict {crs was conducted. Numerous réports| Chief of Police Rugg Williams stat-| as to the hunted men. having been/|¢d today that his department will con seen in various sections of the Grte- | BOSTON—Alexander Doyle, Am- erican sculptor, died. LONDON—Dr. Theodor Melchior, one of the German delegates at the Versailles conference, was repontel to have left for Paris to submit frsch reparation proposals to the French WASHINGTON—Colohel L. G. Natt, chief of the narcotic division of the prohitftion bureau, Sd there thas been a marked decrease in the numben of drug addicts in the country In recent years. BRUSSELS—A seriov parliamen- tary crisis was sald to be = ponsl- | bility, owing toa recent vote of the chamber of deputies making Ghent university a Flemish Insttuton, VER. Colo, Dec. 22.—Wheth-| ‘sant AGO—The mayor of San- fiago decided to name a strect “United States street” In recogni- tion of ald by the American navy during the recent earthquake dis- aster. on NEW YORK—Patiard: Meletios of Constantinople, sent Christmas greetings to the people of the United States. \ NEW YORK—William R. Walk- er, of the United States Steel cor- poration, died. avail, The officers have not definite-| Confirm the belief that the ly established the Identity of the men |*°usht near Greeley were the reserve | who occupied thn abandoned 0 peopled tenia abencened! j-farm | "°° fugitives, et Denver's bank wagon bandits yester- \day and frightened from’ a ranch pause, 20 miles east of Greeley the roan men who Monday shot ang kin- jed Charles T. Linton federal resarve é 00,000 In currency after a spectac- jular gun battle with guards of the [Denver mint, was still uncertain early. today. 4 Scores of armed men, “including the county sheriffs and their deputies wane ccsnaleny posses and three torn es and one armored riot car Moses Landau Forded to Watch Rifling of: Pear soRo ee ee men scoured) northern Colorado in Cash Register at Army Goods Store _ |i» viinty s 2 of Thursday evéning. Last Night by Bandits ‘Tre ‘chase led from the dry: farm rench house, in which Hénry Fuqua, farmer, » early Se |_» | ov e |bank wagon guard, and escaped with 1 the vicinity of Gree'ey, Fort Morgan. Sheriff Frank Hall of LONDON—Tho international com- mission which has been studyfng the question of reviston of the laws of warfare, adjourned after havint taken sctlon on the classification ot nationality markings for airplanes. reeley, that “We want your money!" With this uncompromising command one bandit held a Colt automatic in the face of Moses Landau, proprietor of the U. S. Army Goods store, while another man rifled the ‘contents of the cash register and took from it $112: The hold-up, which marks the largest amount-of money taken from a man before his own eyes in Casper this winter, occurred at the store, 548 West’ Yellowstone street, ac Casper Post Gets |* Yohtnu staves ina Appreciation From Landau states that he hhd just been next door at Green's grocery. On-re- “Tiger of France’ turning to his own shop ke saw two the United States! to the outekirts of Greeley and tater, In the evening, southeastward tp Roi gen and Hudson, Colo., about 30 m: away, part of Denver's detective abandoned the manhunt. OftciTs Jate last night were in- clined to belleve from reports which squad ROME—Professor Vincenzo Tan: gorra, died one day after the resign- ed as minister of the treasury. headed dast, and another automobi! | mien loitering cn the corner. A pros 9} pective purchaser was in. the store when he entered and bought a pair of socks from Laudau. When: this customer had gone two other men came in desiring to look be ich alata, 5) DR west. NEW YORK—The cost of living |; Before leaving P| among wage earnens families in |%0r France at the cconctuston of his! 4¢ q chamois vest. ‘The vests which whether the woman has obtained oth- E SOTEAT tains teary eee Cle enbincaaant f 8 whic tr loans on the strength of the will. the United States has’ gone <up | the following letter to the Powder) Vanda bad in stock did nos suit them more than 58 per cent. sincé 1914, according to the national industrial confenence board. according to the'r expreséed opinion and they Went out again. In about two minutes they returned with the statement that ‘they were after the money. ‘One of them backed River post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in response to an invitation to vigit. Casper. Mr. E, R. Purkiser, Commanter Veterans of Fereign Lady / Rhondda LAW PROMOTED WASHINGTON—StIr Keith Smith, Gets Divorce British aviator, completed plans for | Wars, Powder River Post, Casper.| the manager into a corner while the ser crossing the western hemisphere on c . other took the cash from the till. ing. his 23,000 alrpians fight” around | “yooe"'kind invitation of, the 8th 3S eee eso: seston ict Clubs Will Ask for | turned. y, . 22- he Asso-| the world. vest , Irpbut a lestrian passed at that mo- rv ial inten eae A ultimo reached me hero yesterday. Jt) Tt a gianced into the shop, ana| CO-operation of Casper and woud indeed have been a great pleas: ure forme to accept it had my pro- gram not been so exacting; but owing to previous engagements and the shortness of my Stay in this country I cannot much to my regret, include any town of Wyoming 4n my tour. I stake the hand of each ofthe splendid. fellows of your association and hope they will continue to fight in-peace for the gecurity of the prin- onle: went “over there” for. epwes Stncervly, G. CLEMENCEAU. Hated Press.)}—Lady Rhondda was granted a divorce from Sir Humphrey Mackworth, on grounds of misconduct and desertion. ~The suit was not de fended. they became somewhat frightened Other Towns on Measure. leaving the ftore in haste. ‘They left the owner of the store with $1.50 in WASHINGTON—The_ staie de- partment accepted the Invitation of Chile to attend the Pan American conference in March at Santiago. OMAHA, Neb—The Union Pa- cifle railroad notified the Interstate commerce commission of a general reduction in shipping rates from Mssouri river points to the Pacific coast. CHEYENNE, Wyo., Deo. 22. his own clothes w' to remove. ich they had failed the jtary clubs will co-operate with Lady Rhondda, formerly a militant ruffragist, and for some time one of the leading figures in the British bus!- yess world, was denied a seat in the house of lords last May after a long fight for admission. Last March ‘the lords committee on privileges granted her petition for*a seat but on recon- and disappéared. No trace of t robbers has been found. a city manager bill. The co-operation of Laramie, Caspen, Sheridan other possibly «interested towns be solicited. A city manager bil passed by the last legis'ature now {5 {noperative, having been daclared*un- Inaugural Ball LONDON—It was reported that , 2 matter whether at Buckingham Hderation the committee pease A that |"A. Stulginsk! Inas been elected Le eae constitutional by Jlea W. H. Bur- her claim had not been es! president of Lithuania. Palace, Windsor Castle, Balmoral, 0! 5 igead Of Sheridiin, ———— eee ee Sandringham, queen siery ects’ asi! TQ Be Revived |, ae Ku Klux Klan ae oe SORE, bee eae gap her own Rimes yo seayez © ~ / has t ei a eo does 1 Sy e ion, or old |day passes when 5) Many Bids. for 1 kitchens and house- On January 1 visit to the ro hold offices. time German, a fixture at dinner dances two decades ago. Is Warned In Jersey Town' PRESIDENT HARDING TO ISSUE CHRISTMAS PARDONS FOR TWO. ‘WAWSHINGTON, Dec. 32. “Christmas pardons” it is under | stood, will be given tov ony two fed- eral prisoners by President Harding. The pardons are sald to have been | signed by the president and announce- ment as to the recipients is expected i CHEYENNE, Wyo., Dec. 22,—Th: Wyoming capital's first inaugural ball {n eight years will be held Jan- wary 1, the evening of the day Will- iam. B. Ross succeeds Robert D. Carey In the governorship and tho other state officers selected Novem- ber 7 are sworn in, The function will take place in the capitol build- Ing and will be financed by Chey- enne citizens. No inaugural ball was held four years ago, when Governor Carey as- sumed office, because war cond!- tions still prevailed. MANILA, Dec. 22.—(By The Asso- giated Press.)—Thirty one bids for ten vessels owned and offered for sale hy the Unitec’ States government HARRISON, J., Dec. 22.—In- structions to arrest any one appear- ing in the city wearing tho regalila | of the Ku Klux Klan and orders to | have the sanity of all such persons | @etermine® by physicians were posted today by Chief of Police Walsh. The orders adopted by the common council, also include the unmasking of hooded individuals and ten days tmprisonment. SLAYER GIVEN | REPRIEVE ACCOMPLICE WIUST HANG gemi{-consclousness. Then his sf torneys appeaied again on question | of law and he recovered. i When this appeal was dismisse? | quartermaster of the department, of the Philippines. One tug was the only craft sold, and tt brought $3,100. to- occur Christmas day. The presi-| dent thas been urged to extend clem-; ency at this time to persons sifil im- prisoned for violation of -war time | laws, but it !s understood that none! of these prisoners will receive a Christmas pardon. was $32,000. The other vessels at the) auction block were tugs and launches. New bids will be advertised for, MR. MERCHANT! Remember that the Saturday edition of the Tribune is de- livered in the homes: of aspen nvinteally, every home, for the. Tribune blankets the city h paid circulation—by 1 O'CLOCK P.M. This edition contains all the latest wire news, market reports and the best number of features which go to make the Tribune in the prison hospital here reprieved by Governor Harvey and his sén- tence stayed by the courts. The governor late yesterday on COLUMBIA, 8. C., Dec. 22.— Frank M. Jeffords was electrocuted at state prison here today for the murder last May of J. C. Arnette, | the evening of the date originally | and he was told he would be taken | the best paper in Wyoming. It reaches the hie business partner. set for the death of both Harrison | into court to be ne-sentenced, Har - 5 ed | ang Jeffonds granted Harrison a | rison lapsed into a state of appurent | SA COLUMBIA, 8. Dec, 22.— | reprieve until February 16 in order | stupor. He was taken into the | While Frank M. Jeffords proposed | that the eme court might have | Ri@hland court on a stretcher and | to march to the death house in | time to pass on questions brought | after three doctors had testified | béfore they leave their homes. Your advertisement in the Sat- Bovth Carolina state prison today | before it by Harrison's attorney. they believed he was shamming, | urday edition will: bring immediate results. Try it and see. to pay the penalty foi ricipaton | supreme.court affirmed | Judge Mauldin sentenced him to die | Copy must be in'the Tribune office Friday night in order to im the killing 3 te, his | ce | the electric chair on December be sure of insertion. business par court he Ho has been in the same con- | fessea tion ever since. officers flushed the rendezvous of| FLYERS STILL Roggen throughout all; Thurgday notified | bad seen four heavily armed men, | where the trail vanished “andy have been rejected .as too low by the) Che Casper Datly Cribune ES OF MEN SLAIN IN FEUD gah } they enter W tinue working, on local clews on tise | exaealbennte Lake Suj ley vicinity were run down without |Déllet that evidence was lacking to| world. men| partly wrecked the locks. | Seeaea in @ blizzard. they had received of speeding motor | were dispatéhed yesterday when the cars sighted during the evening, that! rumors first became genérally known, the Laud }.ad divided. One car con-| to check on thé accuracy of the re- taining twe men ‘s believed to be ports. with two or more men is thought/to! local electric battery service stati¢n, CITY MANAGER Tie | missing aviators if the report ‘was the cash register and with $185 In!cheyenne Lions, Kiwanlans and Ro-| ‘rue. chamber of commerce in endeavoring| told others and the story soon became They immediately crossed the stfeet!t, inguce the next legislature to pass | Senerally known. ‘ana|Camp Stephen D. Littla-cnd alko in wil | charge of fhe aunt for Ships Rejected day to aid in checking on the rumor. ‘A bid for the transport) Warren|®t Kane, Big. Horn county, had been ‘destroyed by fire. No details were | j ‘Reported Discovery of Charred Bodies of | Kane Thursday morning. 1 NCEN DIARISM 1S SEEN The Casper Tribune — ‘Two editions dafty; largest cre. tion of any newspaper In Wyoming = ee Ce ee cee OS s No Results \iMes 0.0) Dangers of Inland Sea MEN TIED WITH WIRE, DYNAN LIFTS REM Mystery Surrounding Dis. appearance of Two at Mer Rouge Solved by ‘Thore have been many severe storms on Lake Superior this month. The low eetne! Frees. the. west 8 Bats 8: cleat siene exer Oe eee us water Discovery of Bodies. Whitefish bev: bay, where th: Sault Ste. Marke ie probably the stormliest body of water In the i SHREVEPORT, La., Dec. .22, ‘On Decemixz 5, 8 ‘skxty ie gale drove Ail SuIPNE Soaveat’ seer | --- The bodies of two-mén in high dow windward side of Keweenaw peninsula, with ths less of eleven von, oSeateeday Taettp ites of the trey of the tug. Eelance were res. tate. of decomposition, believed rom Lizzard’ rocks, north of Whitefish bay, after thelr vessel wenb|to be Watt Daniels and Thomas F. Richards, missing victims of the Morehouse mob’ of last August, were found this morning near the Eastland ferry on lake La Fourche, which separates Morehoug and Richland perishes, according to the special correspondent. of thy Shreveport Journal. The limbs of the dead men were tied with wire. They came to the surfact as the result of a Dig charge of. dynamite explod last night by. axn‘dentified persons, MISSING TODAY MER ROUGE, La.. Dec. 22.—It was reported here today that the bodies of the two missing. men believed 19 have been victims of hooded men las, August, had tecn brought to’ the sur. face by fishermen in La Fourche lake 12 milew from here, A military de tachment im automobiles was tmmei Jately dispatched to the place. Army Airmen Branded as Fake; Search Continued in South * MER ROUGE, La., Dee. 22.—The national guard company rushed to Copper lake early today to’ investi gate the reports of the presence of men wading in the water that was being explored for the bodies of two missing men believed to have been the victims of hooded men, hs re- turned here. Captain W. W. Cooper apnounced that the men fired on by the guards had disappeared and investigation after daylight failed to throw furt': er light on their) purpose. The theory was advanced that the men. were attempting to remove the bodies of Watt Daniels and Thomas Richards, and that particular Pat of the lake will be given” espec: ‘attention by the explorers today. TUCSON, Ariz., Dec. 22.—With rumors as to the finding of an airplane and the charred body of either Col. Francjs-C. Marshall or Lieut. C. L. Webber, missing army aviators, doubted both by army officers and by. the local man whe first receivet! the report from an Indian, absolute confirmation or denial of the report awaited the return of airplanes to Fort Huachuca, near Douglas. The planes EXTRADITION OF MAN “WANTED: IN’ WYOMING REFUSED IN MICHIGAN CHEYENNE, Wyo., Dec. 22.—Gov- ernor Aleaxnder J. Groesbeck of Michigan. hhs denied thé requisition of Governor ‘Robert D. Carey of W ming for Guy Taylor, wanted at Che enne on a charge of wife and child desertion, a felony under the Wyo- ming law. Deputy Sheriff Glenn Schultz, who carried the requisition to Lansing, returned empty-handed latter a hearing in Governor Groes- beck’s office. Taylor was arrested at Detroit on the Wyoming complaint. pied scene Be Roy R. Stewart, an employe of a fen that John Blane, an -Indian {Feber of his, told him last Tuesday that he had heard that two other In- dians found the plane on the Pupago Indian reservation last week but had not told white men of their discovery for fear of “getting into trouble.” Stewart said he sent the Indian back to Indian Oasis, 75. miles west of Tucsom, to. seek further information regarding the discovery with instruc- tions to return here if he learned any- The Indian has not yet re- MONROE, La., Dee. 22.—Lieut. Louis Hayden today received a mes- sage from Captain W. W. Cooper Mer Rouge to. mobil A. detac ment of forty men ahd rush them to Morehouse parish to reinforce: the members of Company G. Louis: jana national guard, now on duty, there. RAWLINS RESIDENTS PA Carey Consolidates STIFF FINES ON LIQUOR State Land Boards|[ASES |N FEDERAL COURT CHEYENNE Wyo., Dec. 22.—Wyom- ing now has only ono board to ad-|jresidents of Rawtl minister its state-owned lands. Gov-| alex Paulas, John W. Collins ernor Carey Wednesday issued a proc-/Dave Hichols—through their counsé, tamation puiting into effect the coz- |) 5 “Wednesday stitutional ‘amendment consolidating | United Staies court for the distr the State School Land board with the| Wyoming entered pleas of gui! State Land Board, wa:ch was adopted] violation of the Volstead act. ¥ at the election November 7. was‘fined’ $200, whieh was. paid. BOMB . AST ROCKS CITY WHERE TRIAL OF MINERS IS UNDER WAY MARION, I't., Det. 22—Much ex- citement was caused here last night hwhen the city was shaken by the ex- plosion of a d¥namite bomb at th> home of Joseph Casbonb' foreign section of the ef houses within & radi: Stewart explained that he had kept the matter quiet unt! yesterday so that he might collect the reward of $700 offered for the finding of the Yesterday, he sald, he told a friend “in confidence,” but the friend Col. A. J. McNab, commandant of aviaters in the Nogales district, last night de- clared that the report was “probably faked. Officers at Fort Huachuca also gave Kittle credence to the story although the planes were sent out in acco ance with the policy of investigating all clews. Colonel McNab last night sald a plane might be sent from Nogales CHEYENNE, W; Bank Building At Kane Is Destroyed CHEYENNE, Wyo., Dec. 22.—State Examiner Rudolph. Hofmann was notified Wednesday that the building occupied by the State bank of “Kane, b'ocks were broken by the bias which blew out the front-part of tit Casbonbio~honie. No one was injut) ed. Police announced that the me tive. or the party . wi aalaged tht} bomb. could not be asepftdined. | s'mitar explosion occurréa in the iit! tnict a month ago. HISTORIC CHURCH BURNS |contained In'the message. Ansistant Examiner S. A. Brown departed for QUEBEC, Dec. 22—Fire, thought to have started. from a. short cir- cult in the electrical “wiring, de- stroyed Notre Dame chureh here ot the blaze so dense was the smoke Laval. | It underwent a restoration In 1745-and since that date had been altered and renewed a- num ber. of times. inside the building. Later it was found the flames had started be tween the ceiling and the roof. He- early today. It was considered one | role efforts made.to save the sacred The rectory ndjoining the ‘church of the® finest and most artistic | vessels were unsuccessful. also was destroyed. The sem! eburch buildings in "Canada and The chureh known as the French | buildings were threatened anc t the Interior had been renewed re- cently at a cost cf $90,000. The loss was daid to be covered by insur ance. A messanger boy turned tin’ thé alarm when he noticed smoke issu- ing irom the edifice. Firemen were unable for a time to locaté the seat Basalica, was located on the oppo- site side of the square from the for- mer site of the Jesuit’s college and was first established iw1647, Mass was said on Christraas da yin 1659 but it was. not until 1986, that the church was cottsecrated by the first bishop of Quebec,” Moensigror De students were ordered out. The flames -leaped the narrow stecet separating the cburch b ings from the business section old Quebec and caused slight do age to the offices of the Telesran® and the’ Chronicle, the Ens} (Continued on PageSeven?