Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 25, 1923, Page 1

Weather Forecast and Thursday. northwest portion. WYOMING—Generally fatr tonight Warmer tonight in VOLUME VII. DEATH AND DESTRUUI The Guaranteed Circulation of The Casper Daily Tribune Yesterday was 10,623 ~ Ghe Casper Daily Tribune CASPER, WYO., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 1923. “eMURET os LUN ANBBI’S DEATH INCONST HOTEL [o GLEARED UP Story Secured Today Fol- lows in Detail Notes Found in Diary. PHOENIX, Ariz., April 25. Gladwell G. Richardson, 19 years of age, confessed this morning to the slaying of Rabbi Alfred G. Lafee in a San Francisco hotel on April 4, in m statement made to Assistant County Attorney Louls Hart and the chief ‘of police Oscar Roberts, and Chief of Detectives J. J. McGrath. The confession as taken down by the district attorney's stenographer, follows out in detail the diary found on the person when arrested early Monday morning. Richardson, in his verbal state- ment, as in his diary, declared that he beat the rabb! over the head with a cuspidor, inflicting the blows which caused his death, after the rabbi had attacked him at 3:30 o'clock in the morning in a room at the Gates ho- tel in which the two had registered. After making his confession Rich- ardson offered to waive extradition and asked that a Phoen!x officer ac- company him back to San Francisco, Assistant County Attorney Hart an- nounced, Richardson, who is also a confessed deserter from the navy, was found in @ box car in the Phoenix railroad yards early Monday ond taken to the police station for investigation as a “drifter.” ‘The diary, telling in “detail of the fight with the rabbi and the dealing of the fatal blows, was found on his Person, Richardson at no time “since Mon- day has denied authorishp of the diary, but shortly after his arrest he declared that fhe parts of its refer ring to the slaying were -‘figments of the imagination.” He held so con- sistently to that sttyy through Mon- day night and yesterday that police officials expressed themselves as @oubtful of his connection with the killing. S.A. Republics Conferring On Ship Program SANTIAGO, Chile, April 25.—(By The Associated Press.) — President Alessandri of Chile, who is conferring with the Argentine and Brazilian delegates to the Pan-American con: ference in efforts to reach a formula for an agreement on armament lim!- tation, has drafted a new pronpsal for a five-year treaty under which capital ship tonnage would be limited to 66,000 tons, auxiliary ships to 85,- 000 tons and submarines to 15,000 “tons. The delegations of Argentine and Brazil have wired their governments for instructions as to their attitude. TRIO PLEAD NOT GUILTY BOSTON, April 25.—Hamilton B. Wills, of Hamilton B. Wills, Inc., of New York and Toronto; Francis J. Sullivan, Boston representative of the Wills company, and John H. Burnham of Bingham, defendants in the Boston-Montana corporation case, pleaded not guilty in the superior court today and were released under bond. ‘They are charged with con- spiring to obtain property of the cor- Poration, which owns and operates mines. ‘In all eighteen men were indicted among them Wm. R. Allen, former Neutenant governor of Montana, and Charles 1. Burrill, former state treasurer of Masta chusetts, —_>- WASTE ELIMINATION URGED. W YORK, April 25.—Avoldance ©f extravagance and wasteful use of hews print was urged upon members #{ the American Newspaper Publish- es’ association at the annual meet: ing today fn an address by its prest- @ent, Paul Patterson, publisher of the Tialtimore Sun, he record breaking rate of news 4 consumption continues, he as 4, but expansion in the mills ld provide an adequate supply if ishers do not waste t ‘outh Siens Murder Confession Every Building in Henrietta, Texas, Is Wrecked by Wind and Hail; Two Dead BALL SCORES NATIONAL LEAGUE. At Pittsburgh— R.H.E. Chicago --.0090000%*%*—* + Pittsburgh 010150*%**—* * © Batterics— Kauffman and Hartnett; 0 Cooper and Gooch, At Boston— Phila, -.... 0000 Boston ___.0 001 Batteries—Head ton and O'Neill. At St. Louis— Cincinnati OO * eee St. Louis...00°°*e*¢¢8 Batteries—Donohue and Hargrave; Pfeffer and Ainsmith. R. i. E. eerie a AMERICAN LEAGUE. At Cleveland— R. H. E. Detroit _...00010000 pend . Cleveland_.6 0010000 Batteries—Dauss and Bassler; Uble and O'Neil. At Philadetphia— Boston - -.10001100 Phila, _. 00000001 Batteries—Ferguson and Ptelnich; Ogden, Heimach and Perkins, Bruggy. At New York— New York.0412°°°¢ Batteries—Holiowell and Ruel; Pen- nock and Schang. - LATE SPORTS 8ST, LOUIS, Mo., April 25.—4By The Associated Press).—The -Amer- ican League trophy committee has decided that no player baby reat has been awarded sraryed: the —hopags ot. hatne: the league's te ball player” is eligible to succeed him- self, it was learned here today. The ruling makes it tapes for George Sisier of the Browns, the only player on whom this hon- or has been’ conferred, to again as- pire to the award. It means that a player so honored can have his name on the American league monument to be erected in Wash- ington only once, DENVER, Oolo., April 25,.—Mrs. J. B, Cosgriff, widow of the late millionaire banker widely known in Wyoming and Colorado, prominent in Denver society, fell through a temporary bridge on the golf course at the Denver Country club yester- and fractured a leg. She was p'ay- ing in the opening tournament of the women’s season. The injury was not felt at the time, as she fin- ished playing nine holes and then was taken to her home. Today it was sald she would not bo able to play again for a month or more Allotments for Rivers- Harbors Work Are Made WASHINGTON, April 25.—(By The Associated Press—About $40,000,000 of the $56,589,000 appropriated by con gress under the protest of the budget bureau for the improvement of riv- ers and harbors already has been al- loted by Secretary Weeks, and the re- mainder will be distributed among va- rious projects later. 8 ies Mrs. Coolidge’s Father Is Dead} BORLINGTON, Vermont, April 25. —Andrew J. Goodhue, fatherin-law of Vice-President Coolidge, died at his homo here today. He was 75 years old. For many years he was a deacon in the Congregational church here, of which Mrs, Coolidge is a ‘member. Vice President and Mrs, Coolidge are expected here from Toston to-| night. — WRAT 1S WRONG rae GENTLEMAN RECRUITING DRIVE IN HIGH Etiquette. INTHIS PICTURE ? EXTRA! KANGAROO COURT IN COUNTY JAIL RETIRES ITS ABLEST Mike “Peaches” Webster, con- sidered the ablest Judge who has presided over the “kangaroo” court in the Natrona county jail in sev- eral years, lays aside his judicial robes today and returns to the com- placency of the workaday world. Webster has just terminated a six months’ sentence for playing with narcotics. He was tried by the federal court at Cheyenne and served out his time in the local Jail. | The “‘kangarco” court, an inter. | esting sidelight of every jail in the | country, ts run nowhere with more | nicety of detail than it is in the local bastile. Every prisoner ts tried shortly after he passes the portais for the first time and the charge is usually that of breaking into the jail. The sentence is al- ways guilty, and the fine {s usually $5 but the court procedure {s orderly formal and true to the best precedent of jurisprudence and equitable dispensation of justice. The most important office in the court is that of judge and tt is an office which comes by The prisoner, man or woman, black or white, who has been incarcerated for the longest period, presides and when his term expires the next old- est, in point of time, automatically succeeds to the position. ‘The sec- ond oldest prisoner is the prosecut- ing attorney and the third acts as the sheriff. Every infraction of d{scipline ts tried and the penalty when guilty js usually to clean up the “bull- pen” or some other menial work. ONLY THREE DAYS RENIAIN OF SPECIAL HUPMOBILE CAMPAIGN sentority. | of the campaign The all-important day Tri- bune's. automobile prize “looms up" in full before every candi: | date who is striving for one of the beautiful new Sedans, Tho important day is Saturday, April 28, at 10 p.m. At that hour the best offer of the re- mainder of the campatgn closes. At that hour the special campaign for the Hupmobile Sedan closes. There remains but to win this $2,000 Sedan and same time Increases your toward all of the capital pr Any of the prizes may be won or lost from effort or Imck of effort these next three three days at chan the Gays. Tt 1s all with the eandidates| themse ubacriptions than the Saturday count more NOW will Remember after night EXTENSIONS will NOT count extra votes. Every day counts VITALLY, from now on. Saturday night at 10 o'clock is the hour. The third period vote schedule, the biggest of the remaind: is closed forever a of the campaign, at hour. ATURDAY IS YOUR LAS CHANCE. If YOU ARE EVE ING TO PO ANYTHING BIG FOR YOURSELF, DO IT NOW. BENCH LIGHT In the several months that “Peaches” has swung the gavel, he has held more than 200 trials, and it 1s his record that he has dis- pensed justice to all and favors to none. Many interesting tales are told of the court during Webster's term of office. One is of a fairly well known local man who was incar- cerated for refusal to pay @ fine for operating a car without a license. ‘The man was fined $5 but refused to pay. He refused and was given the alternate of 10 slashca across the bare back with a belt. It t's recorded thet after one slash he came across with the $5. The money collected in fines | put into a fund and used to buy fruit, tobacco, magazines and other luxuries for the prisoners. Another tale is of a young at- torney who went into the jail re- cently while “kangaroo” court was in session to visit a client. He was tried for contempt of court and fined everything in cash he had on him, A search of his pockets re- vealed exactly $1.02 which does not speak well for the affluence of the practice of law in Casper. The “kangaroo” court in the local jail provides an interesting picture. The judge sits at the end of the long table in the “bull-pen”, with the prosecuting attorney at his right, the sheriff at his left and the prisoners ranged around the room on the benches, ‘The jud has the only “props.” ‘They con sist of a pair of huge shell rimm spectacles, a gavel and a weighty time that takes the place of the docket in the ordinary law court The Inst duty of a retiring judge 8 to instruct his successor in the conduct of his duties and to impress m the seriousness of his post the diginity that should y dt. Peaches” held his closing ses- sion of court this morning and when last seen was headed for his old haunts on the Sandbar TWO KILLED BY EXPLOSION | JOPLIN, Mo., April 25.—Two men | were killed today when-a g house exp! at tho Gene hwest of Jor k both of n SHOULO LEAVE AT LEAST ENOUGH FoR CAR- FARE. 4,500 SCHOOL PUPILS TO PARTICIPATE IN BIG SPRING FESTIVAL SCHEDULED HERE FOR MAY 11 in Kansas Tornado; Fort Worth and Oil| Fields Report Damage Tuesday HENRIETTA, Texas, April 25.—(By The Associated Press.) —Virtually every building in this community of 3,000 in north central Texas was wrecked by a storm last night with an estimate damage of $75,000. A fifty-mile wind | threw hail stow as large as hen’s eggs, breaking every win- dow in tow Hail to the depth of a foot on the streets and water two feet deep in the cellars sent EXPOR TS OF ta Falls, twenty miles away, for LIQUOR TO U. S. GROW temporary protection. ASHI April 25.—8: The St. Elmo hotel, a 8-story build , had its roof blown in and the in prohibition became effective in the United States exports of Scotch and terior badly damaged. The first floor of the high schoo! from Great Britain and various West Indian bufiding was under water. The base islands off the American coast has ment of the Clay county court house was flooded and the roof torn asun der. The roofs of other buildings were blown off. BURKBURNETT, Texas, April 25, —Five residences and six oll derricks were blown to bits by a terrific wind {ncreased 2,000 per cent. which visited the Humble O71 Lease, s weiss 19, 70,229 gal- | tO miles west of Burkburnett, and The totais were: 1919, 70,229 wal: | abont 80 miles northwest of Henri lons; 1920, 321,620 gallons; 1921, y etta, last night. 334,615 gallon: 1922, 609,500 gal- = WE lons, according to figures compiled by the commerce department. FORT WORTH, Texas, April 25.- Twenty homes tn South Fort Worth were blown down in the storm here 50 BARRELS _ |im ie avatar! a OF WHISKEY IS STOLEN took ten lives here. TWO KILLED IN KANSAS STORM. MARYSVILLE, Kan. April 25.— Two persons were killed in a tornado which struck the southeastern part of Gage county, Nebraska, and extended {nto Marshall county, Kansas, accord ing to word recelved here, The dead ST. LOUIS, Mo., April 25.—(By The Associated Press)—Fifty barrels ef bonded whiskey were stolen from are: Zov ent store room in a flavor ing, extract company here, today.| _MU'%. Clyde Brunsbech and her. four reap | year-old daughter, Evelyn. air’ The whiskey has a medicinal value |} ihter, Evelyn. Their of $3,800. but a bootleg value of about $80,000, it was said. Tho whiskey = was destroyed. was stolen by s!x or seven men. OIL INDUSTRY PROBE SCORED TULSA, Okla, April 25.—(By The Associated Press.}—The senate sub- committee which investigated the oi! industry last winter evidenced a total disregard for actual facts and figures, h. L, Welch, secretary of the Amer- ican Petroleum Institute, charged In an address here last night. The committee's inquiry, Mr. Welch asserted, was guided to bring out only testimony supporting the convictions of Senator Robert M. LaFollette, of Wisconsin, who headed tho investigat ing body. Royal Wedding Given Knock by Weather Man Total Membership in Commerce Chamber Boosted to 569 on Result of Team Work; Success to Top Efforts The Casper Chamber of Commerce team workers gath- ered into their net this morning 254 new memberships and $10,223.95 in cash, bringing the total number of member- ships up o 569. r The reserves team scored the greatest number of points, 1,005, with 55 new members and $2,358.50 cash. Rotary No. 1, came second with 642 points, 58, s0ne vver with definite and satisfac new members, $2.187.50, Rotary No, 2 was third, having 503 points, 29 new members and $1,416.75. Other teams were as follows: Ki nis 8, $237.70; Kt-| tory results. In some cases it was found that | the prospect could not afford to take |out as many memberships ag he was | scheduled for and in such instances | fair consideration was given his fi five members, 8 4, 19 members, $719; Kiwants | (Continued _on Page Five) Siated LG cata te Anes 17 members, $471 Realtors nu wet atmosphere and sharp winds five members, $352.50: Realtars portended unfavorable weather for six members, $568.75; Ilons 8, 22 m England's great royal bridal pageant hers, $730.25; Chamber of Commer tomorrow when the Duke of York and 9. 13 members, $199; Chamber Lady El h Bowes-Lyons are mar Commerce 10, nine members, $ 5 ried in Westminster Abbey. It ts Chamber of Commerce 11, 16 m certain that the hundreds of thou NEED fands who will witness tomorrow's at a ind brilliant wedding cortege will be The teams are working again t i snugly dressed in ulsters, furs and afternoon and they will turn in re-| rparacm, Ireland, April 28—(By | aan, Ooo eee ae sade the ball | 22S Associated — Press)—Richard| Lady Elizabeth divided her time to | Hatheway, James McEnery and John | aay between her dressmakers and a In Friday at which time they ex-| Greaney were executed here today | rchearsal of the wedding ceremony. | pect to clean up the matter of new!), the Free State authorities. oS ee | memberships and to have the drive| iatneway, a deserter from a Brit | completed successfully lish regiment, was captured in the of * the teams related something of| {rregulars was hol their experiences in their efforts. It| C seams that they have been met with the greatest good wil! by persons whom they have contacted and that © drive is golng over successfully. Tn many instances !t has been neces: g out on Kerry towers ssraa monn | OF EXAMINERS BOARD patch to the Times says the State government has decided sue revo'vers and ammunition Free to ts. CHEYEN 0., April 25 y to use a little sales talk and to| disposed citizens for the protection of |G. xf. Anderson, recentl enlighten a prospect on a few of the| the prevalance of robbery which, in| secretary of the ming things which the chamber has been| their lives and property In view of| Roard of Health caddy was doing during the past two years, but) many instances, has been accompan:| pointed a member of the State Board n nearly every case thiq talk has\ ied by violence, of Medical Mxamtners Four th and five hundred, school teachers are sponsoring !t,, of the exercises. Just what the pupils of Casper's grade schools will| while the work is under the direction | costumes will consist of has not been take part in spring athletic festi-|of the athletic department ye é ! val tovbe given just prior to the «rade| Both girls and boys will take part.|SPmounced yet, but they will be in school track meet on the afternoon|It is planned to have many intricate | lof May 11. The festival will last} and difficult drills for the occasion preted. from 1:30 until 3.00 o'clock and will] Many of these will be done to music. The track meet which {s to be be followed by th accorg: | The fr these special is|given on the same afterr will l been scheduled in Casper ance t ons 1 start next week, j EDITION | NUMBER 170. _IN WAKE OF STORMS FINGER PRINTS OF oLAYER SENT TO HONDURAS BY CONSUL TO Uo. Envoy of Republic Aids Movement for Speedy Identification of Sus- pect Believed Phillips. LOS ANGELES, April 25. —Photographs and _ finger prints of Clara Phillips, es- caped hammer murderess, to- day were on the way to Tegucigalpa, Honduras, where she is believed to be under arrest, accord. ing to an announcement from Dr, F. M. Rodiguez, Hondurian consul, Dr. Rodiguez said he had forwarded the photographs and finger prints on his own initiative, together with a letter to the Hondurian secretary of state asking his government to facilitate the early return to Los Angeles of the prisoner if {t should definitely establish she is Mrs. Phillips. Plans to cause the dismissal of her appeal from a life sentence for hav. ing beaten Mrs, Alberta Tremaine Meadows to death with a hammer. and to take her direct from Teguct galpa to San Quentin penitentiary, are sald to be under consideration at the district attorney's office. A group of officers to the sent to being the woman bi ic the United States will be headed Eugene W. Biscailuz, under-sheriff, who speaks Spanish tuentiy, and wil contain two ot\or deputies, jail matron and Mrs, Biscail hey expect to leave here about May 5 and return about June 8, If the woman is Mra, Phil lps, you may be assured Hondurian authorities will hold her,” sala Con sul Rodriguez. “There are so few Americans in that country and they are so easily recognized, that she will have no hance to escape. She would have been far safer in New York City than in Honduras. Despite stories to the contrary, Honduras {s not a hide- out for fugitives, as this case will prove to the world Extradition papers for Mrs, Phil lps are expected to be compl time to start them to Governor Rich ardson at Sacramento tonight The caso of Jesse C. Carson, one of her alleged traveling compantons. wanted here for arson, probably will be taken up by the county grand jury tomorrow. It was sald by offi- slals an indictment might have more welght in extradition than the ordin. ary complaint now on filé ggainat him. 1 in PORT POLICE PLACED ON STRIKE DUTY NEW YORK, Aprtl 25.—white po- lice today picketed the water front, preservir he compar quiet hich in the strike called the Trar Workers’ divistc I. W. W. Officials of the organization, which elaim 90,000 members, reported r strike was hight San Pedro, Cal cisco, Portland, Orleans. Members of the I. W. W. union at the national ready for a tomorrow Baltimore were #: arters here genera! walk out t morning. In the first few hou today there le evidence of the strike, and up by polica, shippers and eaders, indicated only 800 fticinis ahipping STATE WILL REST TODAY IN RED CASE ated Pres The state to rward Charles tria higa a =