Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 27, 1923, Page 1

Weather Forecast Fair tonight and. Wednes- day; not much change {; temperature. OLUME VIL. in Che Casper Daily Tribune FINAL EDITION! |. | WORK IS NA POS t T. CASPER, WYO., TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 27, 1 BES, Fe MOB STONES SLAYER OF FRAUD CHARGE ARE BANDIED A GHIGAGO VOTE Great Interest Centers in Results of City Primaries * CHICAGO, Feb, 27.—Charges of kidnaping of officials, of stuffing bal- ‘ot boxes and of the use of firearms and gang politics today marked the primaries jn which or the first t!me n.mayoralty primaries and elections for the last eight years, Mayor Wiil- lam Hale Thompson's name {s not on the ballotyand in which for the first time also in Chicago aldermantc can- didates .appear on a non-partisan ieket. In the old Twenty-first ward, inclu- Ring the “Gold Coast” on the Lake Michigan Shore just north of the dowritown business district, now the new Forty-second ward, Michael A. Lannina, a Democratic judge, was nissing and was reported to have been kidnaped by a band of five men who nyaded the polling place. Invest!ga tors could find no one to admit the man had been carried away forcibly. The precinct is in an Italian neighbor- hood, Aldermen Dorsey Crowe and Charles Agnew are coritesting in th’s ward to determine which. shall. repre: sent it» Before the re-districting each of the 25 wards which were repre- sented by two aldermen now will have sut one, * There were unverified reports of the firing of shots in the’ Fourteenth ward, of stuffing batlots in a baliot bex in ah Eighteenth ward precinct before the polls were opened and of gang methods in a Seventeenth ward precinct. A heavy Republican vote was being rast, {t was estimated, while Democra- f \ic and socialist candidates were thiefly w:thout opposition. CHICAGO, Feb. 27.—Voters of Chi- zago went to tneir polling places to- fay confronted with a four-fold task. Selection of party candidates for ma yor, elty clerk and “city treasurer; party nominta‘ons for the congres- sional vacancy in the Stcond district created’ by the death of James R. Mann; election of fifty aldermep ‘un- Je new district plan and the selec- tion’ of 15 municipal pavk commission. —_——— BUFFALO HERD STARTED ON GILLETTE RANCH GILLETTE, Wyo., Feb, 27.—R. B. Marquis, a rancher 42 miles south of Gitette, has stocked his rango with tive head of young biffalo purchased from the world famous Scotty Phil Ups buffalo ranch near Fort Pierre, 5. D. Although Yellowstone park boasts a herd of buffalo there are no others on ranches of this state, it is believed, FORTY-NINER DIES AT 99 OAKLAND, Cal,, Feb, 27,—Lewis Lamberton, among the first go'd seekers to come to California in 1849, s dead today in his home here at the age of 99, He'came from Massachu- setts and prospected in the oarly days In El Dorado and Yuba counties abandoning mining in tho early fit- ties to engage in the steamship busi- ness, Later he was a merchant, He ls survived by a son and a daughter, Kidnaping and As-| _sault Is Confessed by Brute Seized at Philadelphia PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 27. —While a crowd of men and women on the street shouted, for swift justice, Wylie - F. ‘Morgan, slayer of 6-year-old | Lillian Gilmore, today was! held without bail in a pol'ce station in} ne northeastern part of the city.| en when he was removed from the/| station to a prison van to be taken| the city hall a shower of stones and other missiles were hurled at the frghtened prisoner. No one was struck and no arrests were made. Morgan's confession + of kidnaping. attacking and kjlling the child whom he took away with her four-year-old sister, Dorothy, from near their home ‘ast Saturday, {n a motor car. was ob- tained by the police last night. Dorothy was returned home a few hours after the kidnaping. Lillian's body was found last night on the ice of Neshaminy creck, 20 miles from Philadelphia. | PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 27.—Fur- ther detafls of the confession in which Wylie “Texas” Morgan admitted hav- ing kidnaped, assaulted and killed six year-old Lillian Gilmore last Satur-| day, ‘were promised by the police to-| day." Tha little girl's body was found) last night on the {ce-covered banks of Neshaminy créék, near Croydon, Pa., after Morgan’ bad‘ led the detectives to the spot.- ~ e ‘The prifoner will be arraigned be- tore a magistrate charged with mur- der, Kidnap'ng and felonous assault- Director of Public Safety Cortelyou said that his tral would be rushed. Morgan, made a lengthy s'gned statement, the police said, setting forth in detail how he had lured. Lil- Han and her sister Dorothy, 4, from their home on the pretext of taking them. for «2 automobile ride, how he had taken tnem to a vacant lot; how the older had died during an attack and how he had taken her body to the isolated spot 20 miles north of Phil- | adelphia in the hope that it would not], be discovered. After laying Lillian’s body alozg the bank of the stream he told the po- lice that he had returned to the city with Dorothy and put her out of the car within ia few blocks of her home, Morgan, who was said formerly to have lved at Maud, Texas, confessed after he had heen identified the sec- ond time by Dorothy Gilmore. A few minutes later he was guiding the po lice to the spot where he had hidden Liliian’s body. “T am glad they found her,” Mrs. Robert Gilmore, the mother, said la- ter. ‘It would have been terrible to think that my little one was alive some place, perhaps in need of help h we would be unable to give PARDON PLEA IS REFUSED HARRISBURG, Pa., Feb. 27.—The application for a pardon for Lakin C. Taylor, former president of the Pitts- burgh Tin Plate and Steel company, serving a prison term on a charge of conspiracy to defraud through the sale of stock, was refused by the state board of pardons today, tank eit ad YOUTHFUL FORGER 15 SENTENCED TO WORLAND THERMOPOLIS, Wyo., Feb, 27,— Jobn Augustine, 19, who was re- turned from Buffalo, N, Y., to, face a charge of forgery, was sentenced to an indeterminate term in the state reformatory at Worland when * raigned before Judge FP, W, Metz, RICH MAN SLAIN ~ WOMAN NEW YORK, Web, 27,—Mrs, Anna Buzzi, known also as Anna Schneider, housekeeper for Wrederick Hohneidar, Wealthy contractor, wha was found murdered in hig automobile in a lone y section of (he Bronx yesterday, was Irrested (ody ag a material witness he denied all knowledge of the crime ifter detectives had questioned her or six Sours and became hysterical/ before his bedy was found with two| Five Milo prairie, where when lodged in @ eel, IS HELD Mrs, Busa!, who (a 86 years oid, was divoveed from her husband in a uit in whioh Schneider wag pamod as co- respondent, The police said whe was known (o her neighbors as Mrs, Goh- neides, The pollee pontinued (aeiv reareh | for a bionda woman who was seen to leave Schneider's automobile shortly [bullets in the head, 923. FOR INTERIOR | BE SUCCESSOR CHILD ACK! iT TasTes VuRSE UND VURSE BO SECt Remains of Youth Who Perished in Storm Found A tragedy which occurred | during a snowstorm on No-) vember 18, 1922, was brought to light yesterday afternoon | when the body of Clyde Brakebill, 16 years of age, was found on the open prairie, about; 14 miles northwest of Casper and’ about four miles east of the Midwest's! midway deep test well. A man by the name of Rummel! found the body, | Brakobill met his death by freez-| ing according to conclus‘ons reached here. Anwuncle and a sister survive Brake- bill at Mills, ‘The body of the youth was brought Into Casper this morn- ing by Lew Gay, county coroner. a SENATOR IN FIST FIGHT WASHINGTON, Feb, Blows were exchanged by Senator Caraway! of Arkansas and another passenger) on a Washington street car today af-| ter the man had been accused of Jost 37 TRUCK ROLLS OVER An incomplete report of an acci- dent in which a truck load of pipe tipped over with C, H. Johnson, an employe of the Van Sant Sales agen is to the effect that John- son is at the Lathrop clinic under- going treatment for a broken leg and other injuries, LATE MURDER IS CONFESSED SPOKANE, Wash, Feb, 27—Don |Steforth of Dallas ,Ore,, this morning confessed to baying killed his travel: ing companion, Napoleon Post, age JT, also of Dallas, yesterday afternoon at Yardiey, a suburb of Spokane, ac- cording to Charles Leavy, prosecut- Ing attorney of Spokane county, Ac- cording to the prosecuting attorney, Steforth claimed that Post’a death was the result of tho necidantal dis- oharge of a gun that Bleforth earrfed, ng the senater and using offensive language, The altercation ocourred at Your- teenth and H streets, northwest, after both had left the street car, the un identif'ed passenger striking Senator Caraway on the face and the senator retallating with blows with h's um- brella on the man's back, Booze Carrying Plane Captured BPOKANE, Wash,, Feb, #7—An alr plang identified ag the one which Bun day landed el#bt cases whiskey at the Parkwa aviation fold h and mado its: escape was located ¢ the ranch of Frank M, Pershall anded at 3 q’clook yesterday afternoon, SINCLAIR SAYS WYOMING CRUDE WILL GO HIGHER DENVER, Colo, 87,—Harry Ainelalr, chairman of the board o ob F, directors of tho Sinclair Consolidared 21 earporation, who stepped in Den- ver teday en route to Casper, Wyo, tq inspect the Teapot Dome and the Balt Creok field, declared “When our Teapot 1, falt \ ld pipe lino t won comp! Creek an r 8 ing ¢ Post this after Binalair was accomy ficials of his company, nied by sx ¥'S BORY: FOUND IN PON OND TRAGEDY REVEALE MAN'S LEG BROKEN A$ © Frozen Pool Gives Up Body of Lad for Whom Organized ’ ducted by th A search lasting almost 48 | you should be a candidate in | campaign—a | bi'es or hundreds of dollars in gold tn | evening. ind out all about the cam | or education to earn the very biggest | tion during your spare time as you| Work done these “big vote” days will easily bring success to contestants in the Tribune’s big “Everybody Wing Some- thing” election. The laggard, unwilling to devote any time or thought to the grand prizes, however, will reap no reward, This is a campaign strictly for “live wires.” If you are alive, awake to the opportunity now before you willing to give some of your time and in the thousands of dollars jn ‘cash. thought to a proposition whereby over} to be distributed—and we think you $16,000 in prizes are at stake—then | do—get into the campaign today this) Send {n your nomination blank at live candidate. eater or cowe in --befure 9:00 o'clock should send in your name today. You can secure your choice of the eix big, powerful, beautiful automo- tonight. If you can spare the time n to election headquarters come this a very few days’ work. The work) paign, how to get votes, what is is ¢asy—requires no special talent! necessary to get them and then go after one of the biggest prizes. Vote Schedule Soon Declines. of the awards. Your opportunity, then, to win al iz) prize that will repay you many times| continne until Meader. ee for your effots is here. But, y, April 2. Al to get} your rightful shares, you must get busy and take advantage of the op. portunity. subscriptions received at this office | before 10 o'clock will count. And subscriptions mafled with remittance 1 to cover, which postma Don't lag tn the campaign; don’t! tater than 10 P.M. ApEn 2 paren hesitate or be timid about your race.| on the first period vote echedul a Go right to it and keep right im it! ie vote schedule Will positive oe Give your campaign ax much atten-/ aiscontinued at this time, in ‘accor! ance with the rules and regulations would any good business proposition, | evi for right here 1s, no doubt, the great: | ond, wit never be repeated oe’ 4x est o7 ortunity that will come to you soi YOU! The big vote schedule won’t wall Stop and constder: did you ever ¢ | f0r you—you'll have to Jump in and c in a few short weeks have 1:,.|‘#ke advantage of it while you can. opportunity to cash your spare time| 44 It's a mighty tmportant that you for $2,4007 eilkaa, seenptece sf it if you want Do you think you haven’t a chance land one af tke big prizes. if you enter owt Wuy you Baye 100,000 Extra Free Votes. every chance. Not one candidate has| Understand that with every $15 a Jead that cannot be overcome with| Worth of subscriptions turned in you a few days’ work. | will _rective 100,000 EXTRA FREE It's Up to You. | VOTES i aduition to the regular ‘The only thing that will keep you| Votes on every tmdividual subscrip from winning is you, yourself, If tion, ‘The offer of 26,000 extra votes you enter the campaign determined, —the bonus vote—for each NEXW sub: to be successful, you will be. It's up S¢ription for one year received in the to you entirety. If you want the! FIRST period posittvety expires at Buick, Chalmers, Rickenbacker, Fgud-| the end of the period, Monday, April son, Nash or Bssex, or to participate; ®. sult of your race—your success or fatlure—will depend almost entirely @/ upon what you accomplish during the BIG VOTE SCHEDULE period. These are the days that subscrip tions count most votes for you. They will never count for as many votes again during the campaign. The re Make the big vot: schedu’e win for you—BEGIN IN EARNEST TODAY. es Ice Holds Up Train Wrecked On East Road ORANGE, Maass., Feb, 27.—Pas- gengers on a Boston and Maino railroad train had a thritiing ex Search Was Con- e Boy Scouts hours for eight-year-old Roy * NUMBER 121. Busy Workers AreliCANCY SHUSED Ones Who Will Geel RESIGNATION Campaign Gifts SEC, HLL I ILLED TODAY Westerner Selected for Interior Secretary and Senator Is Named Post- master General. WASHINGTON, Feb. 27. ~Selection of Postmaster General Work to succeed Al- bert Fall as secretary of the nterior and of Senator Harry 3. New of Indiana to become postmaster general was announced at the White Erouse. The selection of Mr. take the interfer partfolis Ralgrcthog fore- cast ever stnee President Harding be- min to turn over in his mind the names of avaliable candidates. A rexi- dent of Colorado and a man of dem- onstrated abitity in goverrimental or- ganization, Afr. Work is regarded by the president as fulffling all the qual- fications for an interior secretary . The change tn cabinet lineup ts to 6 Dimce on March 4. when Mr. I retires after two years _ ind the nominations of Mr. Wark and, Senator Now were sent to the senate today to permit their conftr- mation before the present session of congress comes to an ond. Senator New had been offered a place In the original Harting cabinet, but decltmed because he thought he could render the administration a greater service by remaining In the senate. In Inst year’s primaries he was @efeated for renomination, how- ever, and when ft became known that he was under consideration for the cabinet, an element of the Indiana Repubttean organization began a ae termined, Dut losing fight to prevent the eaeppointment. Senator New’s nomination was con- firmed frnmiilatety by the senate, in open session following precedents of courtesy to sitting members, ta yale | 4 MINISTER TO 7 NETHERLANDS NAMED. WASHINGTON, Feb, 27.—Richar@ M. Tobtn of CaTTfornia was nommatéd by Prest@ent Harding today to be minister to The Netherlands, filing the vacancy caused by the appomnt- ment of William Phillips as under. secretary of state, WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.—MoKen- |"le Moss of Kentucky, was nommated today to be assistant secretary of the treasury. |Carey, only son of Mr. and Mrs, C. A. Carey, was brought j/to an end at 2:10 p. m. today when the boy’s body was found |in a frozen pool not more than 100 feet from he house at Fifteenth and Beech streets by George Rash, his son, Melvin Rash, and Charles Green. Roy Carey disappeared from his! He found that there was a pool of home at 4 o'clock Bunday afterncon.| Water frozen over about a hundred About 5 o'clock of the same day ajfeet from the house, It had been [neighbor of the Carey's, according to|fermed by tho grading of an embank- | heard the|mont, .Mr, Rash walked out on the }a statement obtained today, little fellow scream three times,/Pool and immediately tho ice broke Thinking that !t was nothing out of/4nd he fell in, discovering that the rs the ordinary, sho said noth ers hundred fifty Casper Boy 5 | scours searched all day yeuterday and| A boy could have drowned tn tt, ho scoured the city completely for the|ooncluded, eo he got assistance, and boy. Many false cluca were obtained/by making holes in the foo, the boy's and it was thought that he had head. | body was Glscovered shortly after % ed toward Salt Creek, according to/0’clook, the Intest report received, | ‘The coroner was tmmodiatety called George Rash, who had read the|and the body taken to the Bhaffer-Gay story in the newspaper, thought that| chapel, perhapa he would be able to lend as:| alstance to the atricken parents, #0] he went to them this marning and obtained what information he could to ald him in the search Homesteader 84 Years Old Files Proof CHEYENNE, Mrs, jauntily wearing 4 soft, gray spert hat and gray peat, appeaved at the United Btatea Jand affiea here Man: day and offered final proof on her Wye, Web, 87, Rebecca Woods, #4 yeara old he 89 milew tho} nextead neay Buford, Of the future of the of! industry: paper quetes Sinclair ag having #po-| West OF Cheyenne and at an alt with optimism and continues: tude of 8,000 feet, Mra, Woods In contemplation of tha futupe) Wha stated that she bad Jived on Singlair announced his company has) the land fron May wail Oetobe entered on a program ef expenditures) of each year wince 1913, offered aggregating $40,060,000 on propertios| proof on 640 aare in all seetions of the eeuntry This Mrs, Woedg gaid lid net fing | money iv being spent in rev tw) ita hardship ta [ly her land and eof all kind woth ap ¢ that af twa Pr t | medern 4, rst with oo w et * Glared.’ p - — injaw aad per srandgoa. j water was about four and a half feet, perience and remarkable escape from serious injury today when two of the three coaches jumped tho rails, plunged down @ 15-foot em: bankment and alld out on the thick | ico of Miller's river, The tce sup: | ported the cars and the passengers ——— scrambled to safety. The third car stopped on the embankment, Four of the -train orew were alightly TWO VESSELS BY EXPLOSION IN COLLISION | ea — tiles from Vittsburgh, waa rooked hy NEW YORK, Feb, 27,—The out-|a ter explosion early today, when ward bound passenger Iner Lenapa|a powder magantne at Superiof ming for Charleston, 8, C., callided with 1 of the Buperion Fuel company |the Incoming freighter, H1 Bud, from|blew up. ‘The magaene was destroyed Galveston, Texas, in the Hudson river/nnd mere than 100 houses damaged, yeaterday afternoon, Both vessels! ‘Two imen were injured, Furst reports were badly damaged but were alfo|wers that the explosion ocourred In to proceed to thelr plera, the mine WASHINGTON, Feb, 2£7.—Charlea |H. errill, of Maryland, was nominated by President Harding today to be a member of the United States em- ployes compensation commission, PITTSE mining vil NOTCHES TEST _ HITS OIL FLOW With the bringing in of a well eath {funy may pe ped, wand wy muek mated {600 bagpelg jn ita present! larger PUtPUt ia eapfoted to pesult stage tha Midwoat Refining eampany| Tha oil iw plauk with au as basa ef about oA w |hag added @ new field ta Wyaming gravity and t net Prodycers in the Casper territory and stromag jc gawuline portent will t hag ppentd a& vag area tq develop /uatla. rudd will pesiyt the | ment t veupmuut of apa Thiq well, which {a Jocatod pn tho! whigh ra pansldarat ° harthwest quarter pf pection jOHre) [Ray y " er \ about in the tapped the fon) eliaal Wt farmer thy 6 Pen Bleep iy fald durjng pe in the Notchey dome, fa mile northwest of this city [Blecp at 2.764 feet and with tt five feet in the sand {ov ‘ ny Parga ty 1 th being tl th { y