Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 7, 1923, Page 1

‘“ \ YLUME VIL. HERRIN IN ¢ wv ‘, The Guaranteed Circulation of The Casper Daily Tribune Yesterday was 10,332 Weather Forecast WYOMING—Generally fa‘r tor/ght and Sunday, except probably snow ex- treme northwest portion. Somewhat colder tonight. Rising temperature Sunday. CASPER, WYO., SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 1923. | The Casper Daily Tribune [eres NUMBER 155 ASSAILANT OF RABBI HUNTED ‘Alfred G. Lafee, Head of Great Frisco Synagogue, Dies Late Friday and Leaves Unsolved Crime Mystery SAN FRANCISCO, April 7.—Naval authorities today joined in the search for a man garbed in a sailor’s uniform who inflicted such severe injuries upon Rabbi Alfred G. La- fee on Wednesday that he died yesterday. Surgeons operated in an effort to save the rabbi’s life but he never regained reconsciousness fully. Soon after the operation he was semi-conscious for a few seconds when he muttered the words “fight” and “hit” which were interpreted to refer to his assailant. Hospital at- tendants were standing by his bed side constantly hoping that he might regain consciousness and throw some | light on the identity of his ~~ ABOUT EWEN | | ant. Already naval authorities have ‘With honors thus far about evenly divided candidates in the Tribune's combed the naval training station here and the Mare Island naval sta- tion near Vallejo for the sailor—a par- tlal description of whom was given by a hotel clerk. The name signed| now famous prize campaign are pre- by the sailor on a hotel register 1s) paring with feverish haste and in- believed to have been a fictious one. It is known that the rabp! also signed the register under an assumed name. The sallor and the rabpr occupied the/ same room. The sailor left early Wednesday morning and later the rabbi was found wandering about the room in a dazed condition. Several motives have been advanced for the assault, among them robbery, although the police admittedly are; mystified by the whole episode. ‘A watch and a diamond pin were stolen from the rabbi. His skull had been fractured. Apparently a large water tumbler figured in the attack;! it was found broken and bloody. Rabbi Lafee was a conspicuous fig- ure in Jewery because of his attain-/ ments in extreme youth. He held| Interest in the competition fs run- the degree of doctor of philosophy | ning high and strong. And it has not and , but 22 yarn old at the time of|been confined alone to this locality, his tragic death, was rabbi of a large| but has reached out until there are downtown synagogue here hundreds, yes thousands of eager (aad Sd a bes watching friends who are awaiting |the final outcome with intense in- terest. False Stories, It {s no doubt natural, with such intense interest being shown in the great race that some candidates would attempt to discourage others by circulating rumors more ingenious Mich. April 1.—The fudicial and executive, branches of the state government | were linked in action against the Israelite House of David today. The than accurate. One hears of im- mense vote reserves stored “away” legislature joined the state's cause with a bill, ready for enactment, that to dumbfound participants in the end, etc. But the tales that one hears are so highly embellished with frille, will permit the state to ask for a receivership for the colony's property, pending outcome of the quo warranto so utterly inconcetvable, that their untruthfulness 1s readily apparent. These exaggerated stories hurt no proceedingn instituted in circuit court here by Attorney General Andrew B. Dougherty, Whether Benjamin Purnell, head of the colony, could be tocated and served with a summons, still was a matter of speculation, Commenting! victory before 10 o’clock this coming Saturday night—the close of the sec- ond period schedule of votes.» Surging forward at the rate of several thousand votes a clip, all of the leading candidates are dashing straining every nerye in their final efforts for supremacy. Action Grows Faster. should take place during the next few days than at any other time since the contest began and with the race narrowing down to a limited few each ot the favorites are more determined than ever to be declared winners of first honors. LANSING, logislative, Dance Record Is Raised To Over 36 Hours NEW YORK, April 7—A new upon the rumor that he was in, NEW Xf p ‘Australia, where the House of David yeas bh ie bag) pansy Moy has a colony, Governor Groesbeck | 17S Was claim loday by 3 Mat seeds ONG matter where he 14, Huth Holleck and Jack Butler, who tripped the wax floors of a Broad- nd bri Jurhsbac ae to get him and bring:| Jay jazz palace for 36 hours and nim back. j VIOLATORS ROUNDED UP Cummings, of Texas, with several partners, Miss Holleck and Butler, who he- gan to fox trot at 9:47 o'clock CHEYENNE, Wyo., April 7-—State sutemobile license inspectors, acting under a new law that became effec tive April 1, have detected more than Thursday night, finished in a waltz at 10 o'clock this morning, Miss Holleck lost eight pounds and wore out two pairs of shoes and stock- ings, while Butler was ten pounds lighter and minus a pair of thick soled shoes and socks, Miss Hol- 700 Cheyenne motorists operating| leck apparently had more reserve without 1923 licenses and in each in-| energy at the finish than her part- stance have compelled the delinquent| ner, a world war veteran, for she to procure a license immediately.| sank into an easy chair and chatted gaily with the hundred or more sleepy-eyed spectators who stayed for the finish, Butler retired for sleep, Among the delinquents rounded up by! the inspectors were T. P, Fahef, judge| of the municipal court, and Under-} sheriff James Woo!cox | THOUSANDS OF BRITISH WORKERS TALK LONDON, April 7.—(By The Asso ciated Press.)—The indstrial outlook in Great Britain at the present time arded as extremely disquieting. trades announce today a new schedu'e of wages and hours to become opera- tive on April 14. If the men do not timated tha nearly . 700,009 | w y alt. Th are involved in disputes with | much er | ic their employers, and that some 56,000 |fwhat course will be dec'ded upon when are already on strik include | the leader of t uni meet next the Welsh r er and th Norfolk | Monday farm workers. Di ‘enc have arisen over the ‘The employers of the building| railway shopmen's wages. The em tam First Session of Inquiry Into Ward-Peters Case George Sherman (second from 'right) and his deputy, Wilbur W. Chamber (right), in the New York state investigation of CANDIDATES ENTER LAST MONTH DETERMINED TO WIN; HONORS N TRIBUNE RACE tensity to make their final stand for! through the final days at top speed—| More general and concerted action | the slaying of Clarence Peters and the failure to bring Walter S$, Ward, indicted for the s'aying to trial. A Mother’s Plea Wins Jone but those who attempt to circu- late them. The REAL contestants are those who are too busy either to listen or to be bluffed by these would- be bluffers. So on the basis of personal honor the competition is being waged zest- fully. Shedding lustre on this inspir- ing sight {s the civic pride manifest- ing Itself. This mighty factor is the | bulwark behind the Various candi- ates; in-short, each community and | each ‘“‘sct” ts. solidty: behind _their+ favorite and no community that values its reputation for doing things | is going to let some one else walk | off with the most. desirable prize | when a little concerted effort will ring it home. With but one more week in which | ‘to turn in subscriptions and secure “second period” votes, and with only three weeks more to go before the final day and hour of the election for the special prize of a $2,000 Hup | J. Werner, sheriff of Westchester County. N. Y. (left), being quest‘oned by Attorney General Cart! NEW YORK, April 7.—A by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Unknown Soldier in London lence for prayer—drew xasps on spiritism. Some women sobbed and even scoffers were thrilled. “Do you see the dead creeping through?” Sir Arthur asked, poiln i to the spectacle faces on the screen. “You can see them everywhere.” There were two photographs scribed as taken by Mrs, Dean, English medium. shot, showed the great crowd stand ing bareheaded before the cenotaph A faint luminous patch appeared over the throng. Tho second picture showed count- less heads of sad visaged soldiers floating above the memorial. The spectators were blotted out. Some faces were blurred but others were distinct. The general impression of the audience was that the faces were those of men who had been killed in battle. “I don’t wonder ‘that you are moy- ed.” Sir Arthur said, when the sob- bing and buzz of hysterical wh'sper- ed comment interrupted his remarks. “I consider it the greatest spirit ple ture in the world.’? He declared the plates had been de an veloped immediately and that there was no chance for fraud. pa easier HM HUNTINGTON WILL QUIT STATE. COMMISSION CHEYENNE, Wyo., April Harry M. Huntington, member of the state public service commission, is to. hand his resignation to Governor Ross within a few days, tt 1s forecast, and will be succeeded by a northern Wyoming Democrat. Huntington is Sedan, this race is steadily being ‘ brought to a close and the end may It was through the plea of Mrs. Inez Peters that the state of New York now be said to be in sight. | reopened the investigation in the killing of her son, Clarence Peters (right), Ten o'clock next Saturday night is) and the dismissal of an indictment agninst Walter S. Ward, heir to mil- (Continued On Page 4) ‘lions who officials said admitted the shooting of Peters. a Repub'ican. His displacement with a Democrat will resu!t in a commis- sion consisting of two Democrats and one Republican. Federal Grand Jury at Fort Worth Deluged With Letters and Demands for Prosecution of More Promoters; Millions Filched from Pe ople, Is Claim | FORT WORTH, Texas, April 7.—Deluge of letters and telegrams from all parts of the country and Canada poured in upon United States Commissioner Parker and the federal grand jury today following publication of Fort W promoters, literature in corroboration. Many ask whether the grand jury is going to get ‘ ‘The communications come from eyed Rai the department of justice in the| Press dispatches. postmaster general also declared the “I was separated by this bird from} postoffica department intended to # small sum,” one man writes, as he! move in the most vigorous and per: gives the name of an oll promoter. |pistent manner possible for the en “Don't overlook this party,” writes a) forcement of both tho criminal law self-styled member of the “sucker /anq the fraud order statutes against Ust” in giving the name of a promo-|the fraudulent use of the mails not ter long departed from realms of oll/only in the pale of fraudulent oll and speculation, stocks but all ether cases involving| fishermen today from Vineyard sound. ‘The grand jury letters were turned| fraud in the malls, They are believed to be those of over to J, H, Burroughs, foreman, New said the government had heen} members of the crew of a vesnel appealed to “by disillusioned stocit-| ye eh iy WASHINQTON, April 7,—O11 stock | holders to stop the ofl stock frauds,”| Which coast guards saw sink yester promoters operating in the state of|after ‘wildcat promoters” had escaped| day, Texas during the last five years have| prosecution by state authorities. Post: | ae HIched more than $100,000,000 from|oftice inspectors, he addea, have been| the public, Postmaster General New| working since last summer on mors | was advised by John H. Edwards. so- than 200 cases, many of which have Former Cheyenne Heitor of the postoffice department. | already gone to the grand jury now in| and Chief Postal Inspector Simmons, session at Fort Worth. |\Woman Asks Decree | BODIES OF FIVE VINEYARD HAVEN, Maxs., April T-—Vive bodies were recovered by orth dispatches of the round-up of oil Some of the letters. give “tips” on oil men not named in the roundup and pacloecd oil} ‘so and so.”’| Francisco, Philadelphia, Vancouver,| prosecution of mail fraud cases in-| B, C., and numerous other points. | volving ofl promoters, E P | Some of them enclose Associated! In making public the report, the | SUCKER LIST IN ARMS ) | Fair Weather Promised For Coming Week WASHINGTON, April 7.—Weath- er outlook for the week beginning | Monday: Rocky mountain and plateau regions; Generally fair and normal temperature, Pacific states: Generally fair and normal temperature but with a probability of local rains in western Oregon and western Washington. CHEYENNE. HIGH TO GRADUATE FIFTY-TWO CHMYENNE, Wyo., April 7—Fifty- two students will constitute the 1923 graduating class of the Cheyenne high school, Girls outnumber boys in tho ing 85 girls and 17 boys, de The first, a snap-| CIMENTS DISMISSED Photo of Spirits Shown By Doyle wierd photograph, described as that of spirit war dead— myriads of grim faces hovering above the cenotaph of the during the two minutes of si- of astonishment from a large audience in Carnegie Hall last night when he gave a lecture GHARGE FILED AGAINST ALLEGED SWINDLER WHO BILKED CAPITAL PUBLIC CHEY 7.—John A. Green, who ob: tained between $20,000 and $30,000 from Cheyenne investors by promis. jing five per cent interest per month on loans, {s charged in an informa- jtion fed in the district court with jhaving issued a fraudulent check. Green's method, {t 1s alleged, was to borrow money, tssue a post-dated check for the principal and five per cent interest, and when the date on which the check was dated arrived post-dated check for the principal, or either pay the interest and issue a new |issue a post-dated check for both prin cipal and interest due plus interest for the period before the new post | dated check would be payable. PETITION (TIONG FOR FIVE DIVORCES | Mother of Children Who Broke Rouan Will Is One Plaintiff. Of the five recent actions for divorce that of Mabel Crane against R ert Crane is the most prominent. ‘The plaintiff was formerly Mrs. Raymond Rouan, mother of the Rouan child ren, whose attempt to break the will their father was successful last month in district court. Rouan left |an estate of $87,000 in which he cut | two of the children off with $1 each, The case has been appealed to the state supreme court. || Mr. and Mrs, Crane were married November 1919, at Billings, Mont The divorce is asked on the grounds of personal indignities and the plain tiff seeks a division of the property valued at $14,000, temporary alimony, attorney’s fees and costs. | Harry B. Wright {8 asking for a | divor from Della Wright on the | grounds of desertion. The couple was | married April 11, 1916 at Chamberlain |S. D., and have two children. The ; Plaintiff seeks the custody the children, Annie Kelly on of is suing Daniel Kelly the grounds of desertion. The couple were married October 28, 1889 at Helena, Mont., and the plaintiff claims that the defendant deserted her September 6, 1916. ‘The action asks for alimony and the costa of the sult Dorothy B. Thompson is suing Karl B. Thompson for divorce on the grounds of failure to provide. Tho couple were married November 10, | | | 1919, at Billings, Mont., and have one | son, Karl, Jr, aged three years. The | plaintite asks the custody of the | boy, | Woodle Vv. jer Ht. Barnhart is suing Walt- Barnhart for divorce on the | grounds of cruelty and failure to provide, The couple were married July 14, 1915 at Mad!son, Neb, The plaintiff aske full title to certain class more than two to one, there be-) property that the couple owns jointly|of an incendi in Casper, in leu of alimony, ~FILEDIN COURT filed in the clerk of the court's office, | NO JUSTICE IN TRIAL, ATTORNEY GENERAL CLAIMS UPON AGQUITTAL ‘Six Defendants Freed by Jury for Second Time; Remainder of Cases Are Dropped by State MARION, Ill., April 7. (By The Associated Press.) —All of the untried criminal jindictments growing out of the Herrin riots were nolle | prossed today following the | Requittal by a jury night of six | defendants charged with murder. CHICAGO, Aprfl 7.—Justice cannot be obtained in Williamson county In | the opinion of Attorney Genera jward J. F . who returned % day from Marion where last night | second verdict of acquittal was given by a jury in the Herrin mine murder tr It was as a result of the not | guilty verdict in the second trial that |all the remaining cases nst the Jalleged rioters were no! prossed y the state's on county. MARION, 1 , April 7.—(By The Associated Press.)—After deliberating less than seven hours y for the econd time this year w <1 into the j court room he ast night with a verdict of not guilty for defendants | charged with murder in connection with the Herrin riots of last June. verdicts freed six de: of | | ‘The | Hugh Willfs, member executive board of the Il P. Philip Fontanetta, Os James Brown, negro; F Otis Clark. Grace and Otis Clark were acquitted in the first Herrin riot trial. The six were charged with the murder of Antonio Mulkavitch of Erle, Pa., a veteran of the world war. {Only one ballot for each of the de- ndants, state ois miners; ur Howard, Grace and the |fendants, six in all, was taken, the foeman of the jury said. | Shortly after o'clock the jury gnified to Judge D. 'T. Hartwell that @ verdict had been reached. | An ominous nce filled the platn, little courtroom as the foreman wit jout speaking, handed the sheaf cf verdict for there was one for each |defendant to Judge Hartwell. | Thumbing the pages of the first, Judge Hartwell read “We the jury find the defendant Hugh Willis not guilty.” The silence was maintained he read a similar verdict for each of the other five | Standing in the jury box each juror in reply to a question from Judge Hartwell in short, terse words agreetl |that the verdict unanimou j!n accord with their interpr the evidence offered The formality of returning the ver- lets was concluded in eight m was and the jurors filed from the box A few minutes later the courthouse was deserted and again flickering shadows played in the court room, where since bruary 12, the 12 jurors, includ! seyen farmers, a student, a union painter, a merchant and two union miners, save for three delays, had Mstened iments of rneys and thi c of wits nesses and the judge's { tions, Most of the thirty-two witnesses for the state connected some one or another of the defendants with the mob that acked the Southern Illinois Coal company mine and tho slayings of certain of the twenty-two men, state's witnesses said Willis |drove to the mine in an automobile and was present when the mine work- |ers were led down the road toward | Herrin and killed. Other state witnesses said Clarice and Fontnnetta were prominent par- | tictpants in the mob, acct Clark ary speech and charg: nued On Page 4) CHEYENNE, Wio., April 1—Mrs ° James O. Coste'lo, former!y of Chey- Receive Big Class enno, has filed suit at Portland, Ore Of Bo sa d Gi Is gon, for divorce from the man she ty n UFES married in this city 80 years ago, al- ——— eging intolerable indignities, inclu 7 t Tho. services. at tho Methodist [iM niggardiiness in his financ’al al-|. NEW YORK, April 8.—3Moen with ployers propose an extensive reduc-| church Bunday will be of unusua! in-|lowance to her and his action in keep-|Scr#tched faces were being sought bf tion, and this is regarded as holding/| terest. At the mor: g service a class|ing all their prop in his name.| Police ag the murderers of the two the possibility of a general railway | of girls and boys who have been under| Mrs. Coste!lo asks §560 a month all-| young women found ked to death men’s strike throughout Great Bri-|instruction for months will be re-|mony and one-third of the preperty,|on an unfrequented road near the Sta- tain. ceived into the church, At night a| Which she estimates to be worth|ten Island shore yesterday. Tho dispute in the pottery trades|stereopticon lecture showing indus-| $400,0C Beratches : particular ident ‘fic involves about 60,000 men |trial conditions that are being dea't| Costello at the t'me of h's residence |t'on were neal bene ; : » Dal'y Telegraph takes the view! with by: ¢ tian 0 be | was emp'oye Union Pa-|found evidence of a f r that the next few weeks may be the; shown, The subject will be “The Six| cifle a Storekeeper. | After movitis| tor te i malig crucial time in the fortunes of the ‘ock Whistle Around World."| to Portland twenty years ago he made! Blandino of Jersey ( and Be administration. Special music will be rendered money through dealing in real e./sie McMahon of Utica, N. ¥. The po ice believe the victims dug their fin gers deep into the flesh of thelr assall ants in their strmuggle for life, | The theory that the blackhand may |be involved in the murders was ad: |vanced after police learned that Mrs. | Blandino’s first husband, Frank Bon- uni, had been killed by a man who Altt jwa SCRATCHES TO IDENTIFY SLAYERS OF TWO CIRLS !veal the name of his nssaliant, and after he died Mra, Bandino refused to U because she was afraid of “the rf T tr Mee are convinced, was a blackhand organiza- tion, While pursuing this theory the Jersey City police were holding Blan- dino and Rosario al 1 , an em: ah e with 4 the 1 were hetd