Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 5, 1923, Page 1

A Newspaper for All the Family, Clean, Unbiased, And a Booster for City, County and State: | Weather Forecast WYOMING — Unsettled — tonight and Saturday, probably showers in west and south portions. change in temperature. Not much VOLUME VII CAPTURE (S NOT “LIKELY. BEFORE NIGHT, 1S CLAIM Bullets Rattle Off Bar- vcade Shielding Slayer Trio. EDDYVILLE, Ky., Oct. 5.—(By the Associated Press.)—Rattle of musketry and the heavier roar of machine guns was easily audible shortly before noon here today, echoing from the walls of the state penitentiary, which is a mile from the city limits here. It was decided to resume firing when pickets from the Mayfield state guard at Vantage points on the administration building, using field glasses, reported a belief they could discern two forms» recum- bent on the floor of the dining hall, evidently of wounded or dead men, according to Captain Craw- ford, of the troopers. No sign of a third was detecied. EDDYVILLE, Ky., Oct. 5. — (By The. Associated Press).—The siege of Eddy ville entered its third day to- day. Their hands red with the Ufe-blood of three prison guards Monte Walters, Lawrence. Griffith and Harry Ferland, convict murder- ers, still lurked behind the bullet riddied walls of the two-story brick mess hall of the Western State pen!- tentiary. For more than two days and two nights the three gunmen have held the improvised fortress, despite combined efforts of prison guards, a troop of National guards, machine gunners and volunteer citizen rifle- men to dislodge them. The convicts seemed assured of holding their position until night, following an announcement made by Warden John Chilton today. Warden Chilton sald further con- ferences and efforts to dislodge the men would be hold up until 5:30 Dp. 1 awaiting the arrival of three members of the state board of charities and correction. Just what methods the board might suggest that have not been tried by the military power the warden did not know. The effective hiding places the convicts possessed was said by warden Chilton to be the main dif- ficulty the state faced. He said the conyicts evidently had used four ninety-gallon {ron steam bollers in the front of the bullding and steel- sheeted bread mixer in the rear as hiding places, and said they were located at the only entrance ways to the building. In the warden's opinion, the con- victs could hide in these places and each man could stand off a regi- ment, due to the strategic range of fire they would control if an ad- vance was made upon them. The desperate courage of the lost Jegion—those men with “all to gain and nothing to lose’—carried the trio through two barrages from high Power rifles and two machine guns that drove a hall of steel jacketed bullets through the mess hall walls, tearing out large holes in the north and west sides at points where the fire was concentrated; a gas attack (Continued on Page Eleven.) On Cause this city pending the report o: gans is being prepared. Dr. Goettler announced yesterday that there was mercury in the brain, liver and kidneys of Mrs. Webb but | that it was in such emall quantit S95 that it cannot be stated positively WOICE THEIR Appreciation is addressed to the superintendent of the Pullman com- pany in Chicago and the division superintendent of the Burlington railroad in Casper by survivors from Pullman cars which were a part of train No. 30 wrecked in Cole creek last Thursday night, for the care and consideration given them im- mediately after the disaster. The letter follows: “The undersigned passengers of the Pullman cars attached to train No. 30, which left Casper the eve- ning of September 27, and which was unfortunately wrecked, wish to express their appreciation to the c. B. & Q. R. R. and the Pullman company for the courtesies and care tendered them through _ Conductor L. D. Coburn, who gave every as. sistance possible to the comfort of his passengers. TRIBUNE CUP PLAY LAUNCHED BY GOLF STARS Qualifying Round Now On at Country Club; - Match Play Next. With several players having com- pleted their qualifying rounds in the City Golf championship tourna- ment Thursday afternoon, the tour- nament is well under way on the links of the Country club. The qualifying rounds must be com- pleted by Sunday night. The match play in the two flights will com- mence Monday. Six additional entries were re- ceived Thursday too late for pub- Meation. They include W. F. Ott, Leo, Dunn, .Frank England, Caz] Shumaker, M. A. Becklinger and Francis Brown. This makes an even 40 entries in the tournament, one of the largest entry list ever record- ed in a Casper tourney. Players may play their qualify- ing round at their ietsure, the pair- ing to be made at the clubhouse Just before the men start around the course, The results of the qualifying rounds will be published in full in Monday's Tribune and at the same time the pairings for the champion- ship flight will be announced. soa ae od C.& NW. OFFICIAL AND EDITOR VISIT GROPER Bruce V. Crandall, editor of the Northwestern Railway magazine, with his office in Chicago, together with H. EB. Dickinson, general super- intendent of the lines west on the C. & N. W., are in Casper for a few days on official business for the company. Mr. Crandall, who is making his first visit to Casper, is much im- pressed with the city and its pos- sibilities, APPRECIATION “We also wish to state that at no time were the cars in such condi tion that they could not be used comfortably. “Conductor Coburn is also to be commended for the risks incurred in entering sleeper No. 19 and help- ing those imprisoned in finding their way to safety. Also his un- tring efforts afterward in con- soling and providing such comforts as possible to those who lost their clothing.” The following tached: signatures are at- street, Chicago, Ill. avenue, Denver, Colo. John Downs—Littleton, Colo. A. D. Lewis—203 Customs House, Denver, Colo. J. N. Chipley—308 Customs Bldg., Denver, Colo, Daniel J. Mass. Mrs. C. B. Beck—Dubois, Wyo. Mr. C. B, Beck—Dubois, Wyo. Mrs. C, A. Mulock—Thermopolis, Wyo. : Earnest P. Kipp—Denver, Colo. Danker—Brookline, LLOYD GEORGE LANDS; WOMEN RIOT | Che Casper Daily Cribue CASPER, WYO., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1923. COUNT ON COLE ¢ 'Break in Bank Released Waters Impounded by} Heavy Rains With Resultant Destruction | Of Railroad Structure. That Cole creek suddenly of a small stream last Thursday night to the size of a |swollen river, is the belief of Burlington officials who have Morris Morurtz—81 North state Deen making a thorongh examination of the drainage area which in time of excessive precipitation concentrates upon Check Davis— 2737 West s4tn, Cole Creek for an outlet to the Platte river. | At a distance some 10 miles up jCole creek J. A. Leary, passenger jand freight agent of the Burlington here, discovered a small natural reservoir of approximately four |hundred acres area, its opening dl- rectly on Cole creek. Indications |were that this reservoir had held jback an immense amount of water jand that finally after being con- stantly added to by continuous rains, had broken over its lower end last Thursday evening and poured into the creek. CLIFFORD MANWESCAPES DEATH PENALTY FOR WOMAN'S MURDER CHEYENNE, Wyo., Oct. Pardons today commuted to sentence of Clifford Mann, on the grounds that he is only 19 years old and has been pronounced mentally defective. | Mann was to have been hanged next Friday for the mur- der of Mrs. George Schwertfeger, wife of his former em- If that be true, why should not he| ployer, near Lander, December. Wyo., last CHEYENNE, Wyo., Oct. 5—F. A. Michaels, prosecuting attorney of Fremont county, appeared before the Wyoming State Board of Par- dons Thursday and argued against commutation to life imprisonment of the sentence of Clifford’ Mann, under sentence to be hanged at the Rawiins penitentiary next Friday, October 12, for the murder of Mrs, Goldie Gwendola Schwerdtfeger near Riverton, Michaels{ asserting that Mann had been convicted without hesitancy by a competent jury and who had not undertaken to appeal his case, de precated the effort made before the board to secure a commutation of sentence on the ground that to hang Mann ‘probably would cause the death of his mother, a semt-invalid. “Sympathy, and not the proposi tion of ‘humanity's sake,’ has caused this move to interfere with a court sentence,” Michaels said. “Sym- pathy and justice never take abode together. When sympathy enters the front door justice departs at tho back door.” Michaels filed with the board a brief in support of his contention that there should be no interference with execution of the death sen- tence on Mann. “It is urged that Clifford Mann is, in a degree, insane,” says the brief, “and for that reason the sentence of the hangman should be commuted. Relatives of Mrs. Webb Delay Plans for State Appeal Pending Full Report of Death NEW YORK, Oct. 5.—Interest in the mysterious death of Mrs. Gertrude Gorman Webb, at a fashionable country club in Rye, N. Y., Sept. 25, continued to center today in f Dr. Alexander O. Goettler, whose report on his examination of the woman’s vital or- to have caused her death. District Attorney Rowland said he was going ahead with his plans to continue the grand jury investiga- tion. Plans of relatives, several of POISON CASE STILL UNSOLVED IN N. Y. whom are beneficiaries of Mrs. Webb's estate of several million dol lars, to appeal to Governor Smith for assistance in the. investigation have been postponed pending the further action of the Westchester county authorities. e Most of the disclosures in the death bed scene described before the Westchester grand jury by Mra. Robert W. Johnstone, friend of Mrs. Webb and by Dr. W. J. Meyer whose refusal to issue a death certificate led to the current investigation, are believed to haye been revealed in a statement made by th doctor last night. The suspicions of a trained nurse voiced while Mrs, Webb was dying, resulted in cross examination |Schang, Hofmann. 5.—The Wyoming Board of life imprisonment the death be given a new trial? If the lower ae ——. | D. E. Schultz, baggageman and | expressman, Casper. E. J. Klove, brakeman, Casper. W., J. Nource, Gunnison, Colo. | Albert Hill, colored, Dodge City, | | Kan. | | Mrs, Minnle Owens, Casper. | | F. R. Parker, New York City. | W. S. Wiison, Denver, painters union organizer. Chas. Browne, Denver, Collier's! Weekly representative. | W. E, Hinrichs, Fort Collins, Colo., railway mail clerk. Ella Seales, Lander, Wyo, identified man; body washed up by Platte river three miles below | wreek. Nicholas Schmidt, Douglas, Wyo. Carl Linn, address unknown, (listed Thursday as unidentified), | J. P Jensen, Boise, Idaho, cently of Glenrock, Wyo. James R. Cogin, Model, Colo. THE MISSIN Charles A. Guenther, pe | Wyo. wreck victims. M. D. Montgomery, Denver. |near Glenrock. R. G. Neill, salesman for Carter, | Rice & Carpenter Paper Co., Denver. 0. E. Gahns, Denver. H. Watkins, negro porter, Casper. | k ; Guy W. Goff, conductor, Chey-|car continued without result. enne, re. leaped from the proportions Seattle, Wash., was the only The suitcase Martin was lodge of Seattle and is believ cently listed as missing. The channel from the reservoir opening to the creek bed was cut deep, with marks about 10 feet high left by receding water. This seems to prove, according to Mr.| E. J. Spangler, engineer, Casper. Leary, that the break over from the| Ollie Mallon, fireman, Greybull, | natural reservoir came all at once |Wyo. and that it was the force of such an immense amount of water concen- trated in the small bed of Cole creek that piled against the Bur- lington bridge and without warning washed it away, Jay Griswold, Casper. 3. S. Martin, Seattle, Wash. R. T. Glerhart, Denver. W. R. Douglas, Denver. lala, Wyo. \night. Added to the known ‘Demonstration ‘A gainst Former British Premier Broken Up By New York Police and Banners Torn Down as Boat Docks Today In Gotham Harbor NEW YORK, Oct. 5.—Police reserves today broke up a parade of middle-aged women carrying banners denouncing Great Britain, outside of city hall, where a crowd of several thousand persons had gathered to greet former Premier Lloyd George on his first visit to Amercia. j More than 20 women carried the banners, some of which read: “Don’t let England pull the wool over your eyes,” and “British bootleggers are flooding America with British booze.”; bers of the American Association The police grabbed the banners|for Recognition of the Irish Repub-! court were wrong, we have a su- Preme court. A full record was made of the case. The supreme court will certainly reverse for error; and {if error be in the record it is certainly the solemn duty of. those in the representative capacity | of Clifford Mann to pursue that course. But, remarkable as it may. be, counsel for Clifford Mann, m his petition for commutation, says: | ‘The boy is not insane, in the legal | sense.’ If that be true, in the name of common sense, can Mann be in- sane, and {f so, what sense? Not- withstanding the thousands of years of experience and perfection, it is here claimed that the wise province of the law 1s wrong, and a distinc tion is concocted between legal in- sanity and ‘clemency insanity.’ pb mena A ee cal BALL SCORES NEW YORK, Oct. 5—Babe Ruth today knocked out his 40th home run of the season in the third in- ning of the Yankees’ game with Philadelphia. | jot 4 pe ht AMERICAN LEAGUE. | At Washington: Ist game— R.H.LE. Boston -000 100 010-2 6 1 Washington -..000 020 020—4 9 4 Batteries—Forguson and Walter; Johnson and Ruel. At Detroit— R.H.E. | St. Louis — 000 000 001-1 4 0 Detroit - -111 001 O5x—9 14 0 Batteries—Danforth and Severeid, Cole and Bassler. At Washington: 2nd game— R. HE. es Washington - eis Batteries— Murray, Howe and Picinich; Marber and Ruel. At New York— R. HE. Philadelphia -_.022 000 000—4 5.3 New York 02 020 20x--8 14 0 Batteries—Naylor, Walberg and Perkins; Shawkey, Bush and At Cleveland— Chicago 000 100 0' Cleveland — 10 120 0 R.1.E, of Mrs. Webb and the revelation that she had taken blue tablets which, said Dr. Meyer, might have contained poison, ._ Batteries — Thurston, Leverette and Graham; Shaute and O'Neill. — —— Jedda, in Hejaz, Arabia, the. har bor of which is the port of disem barkation of pilgrims for 1 4 sees 50,000 passing through ther ] each year. a6) | moved to fullback. and tore them into shreds, lic. Some of the banners destroyed During the melee, a number of|by the police bore these inscrip- Last Concert automobiles paraded past the out-| tions. skirts of the crowd circulating ant!-| “Lloyd George's black and tans Lloyd George statements. A woman/are here,” “Lloyd George's hands OF the Year struck a police sergeant over the|are red with the blood of women and head with a banner she was carry-| children.” ing and was taken into custody On account of the demonstration The women sald they were mem-jat city hall plaza, Inspector Cole- man sent a hurry call for 60 addi- GRID SEASON tional police reserves. HERE T0 OPEN sociated Press.)—David Loyd ing program, including some of the George, war premier of Great| favorite selections of the summer, is | Britain, today set foot on American|included in the program, which is as ON SATURDAY soll for the first time. Coming here | follows: as a private citizen to tour the|March .--'Ponca” United States and Canada, the 5. Hannah doughty little Welshman and his _"'Superba”’ party were taken from the liner Mauretania at Quarantine and landed at the Battery on the police boat Macom, At Quarantine the Iatest member of the “Big Four’ to come to the This Evening The last outdoor concert of the season will be given this evening at 7 o'clock by the American Legion band at the city park. An interest- NEW YORK, Oct. 5.—(By the As- WILL CALL UPON WOODROW WILSON | With a team made up largely of inexperienced men, Casper high school opens the 1923 football season tomorrow afternoon at 2.30 at home| with the eleven from Lander. The visitors have the advantage of one game under their belt this fall and Overture - “Van, Schenck and Black Jan RAR TS, “I Cried for You" Encore are here confident of giving the| United States made it known that} Freed, Arnheim and Lyman Orange and Black a hard run if not| he intended while here to ca!l on|March ---"Men Who Served winning the game. |former President Wilson, with) Worrel ‘nach Morgan started the season whose aid the treaty of Versailles! Waltz —-~-- ---"‘Dreamy Melody’ with an extremely difficult problem! ending the World war was drawn Koehler, Magine and Naset on his hands. Out of the whole] He defended the treaty, asserting (By request) squad only five men could be quali-| that {t was the manner in which {t|cornet Solo.."Sweethearts Always fied as regulars last year. They| Was operated that had caused un-| L. 0. de Witt are Shikany, who will be at ‘center;| happiness, and endorsed the pro-| srayeq by Mr. Arthur Dav: posal of statesmen and economists to study the troubles of central rope. A crowd of several thousands was|March -—~. (Continued on Page Fourteen.) Thompson and Cody, who will be in at guard and tackle respectively; Davis, last year’s freshman quarter- back and Archambault, a husky tackle of last year who has been {Overture - McCaughey F. H. Losey FINAL [EDITION ~~ NUMBER 307. ES CLIMBS TO 16 CONVICTS STAND OFF GUARDS“2""DOzEN KNOWN. PASSENGERS IN PULLMAN 19 |FLOO FAOM NATURAL RESERVOIR CAUSED DISASTER AT COLE GREEK LISTED Recovery of Three Bodies Late Yester- day and last Night Raises Total of Known Dead; Body Washed Up by River Unidentified; Pullman Raised Discovery of a suitcase belonging to J. S. Martin of new development this after- Douglas, 200 in searching for bodies or property of the Cole creek was washed up by the river a member of the Eagles ed to be the W. Martin, re- Work of digging into the wreckage of the smoking It is still necessary to oper- jate pumps to keep out the water and quicksand. The number of bodies recovered from the wreck last Thursday night of Burlington train No. 30, five cars and the engine of which were practically swallowed by Cole ‘Creek flood waters and sand, at noon today stood at 16 William Hines, homesteader, Ogal-|2ater the recovery of several yesterday afternoon and last dead are Nicholas Schmidt, Douglas; Carl Linn, address un- known; J. P. Jensen, Boise Idaho (recently of Glenrock), and James Cogin, Model, Colo., all taken from the wreckage. Linn was yesterday listed as unidentified. No bodies have been found since daylight to- day. The ist of known missing today still stood at 12 in addition to sew eral who are supposed to have taken ‘Thursday night's train but of whom there {s no confirmation, The body of a man washed up by the Platte river three miles below the scene of the wreck and taken from a sandbar, still ler unidentified at the Glenrock morgue. Face and body are badly disfigured. Positive identification is also atl! lacking of the body believed to be that of Ella Seales of Lander, Wyo.. over which the inquest at Douglas is being conducted by Coroner Chris H. Hofmann of Converse county. The inquest hearing was continued until 10 o'clock tomorrow morning, when ft will be resumed and con- cluded before the day is ended. Progress reported at the acene of the wreckage this morning included the removal from the sand of Pull- man No. 19, in which several met death but from which no bodies were rémoved. The huge steel car was hoisted by cranes and trucks are being ced under it for re moval to Casper, Only a small portion of the smok- ing car wreckage remains to be hed for bodies. One end of the car on which the roof was smashed in by the train crash remains to be explored and it is possible that a few more bodies may be recovered from it. The locomotive will then be the only thing remaining in which dead bodies may be expected. The bodies of Engineer Ed Spangler and F man Ollie Mallon may be found Sn the cab. BODY WASHED UP BY RIVER UNIDENTIFIED. he body of a man washed up by the Platte river yesterday afternoon below the scene of the wreck lay unidentified today at the morgue in Glenrock, to which place ft was re Sheriff Albert Peyton of Douglas and his seachers. The ofl soaked corpse, left on a sandbar. by th ding waters of the river, may nev be identified because of its condition Both face and body are badly dis- figured. A portion of the chin re- mains but the face Is almost entire- Ix gone. The man was clad in clothes of a laboring man which (Continued on Page Hleven.) Captain Hanson was late in returning to schoo) this fall and is not eligible for the game tomorrow. He will be in the lineup in a week or two. Several of the other men were seen in action last year including Houser and McKel- vey, backfield candidates. The Lander. squad arrives this afternoon with a victory over River. ton to its credit. The team ts sald to have plenty of weight and speed and to be well condit‘oned for this time of the year. The exact lineup for Casper will not be announced until a few min utes before the game but Coach Morgan will probably send the fol- OTHERS IN Conspiring Against Wife lowing men into action; Shikany, center; Thomas and Van Doren, guards; Cody and A'lsman, tackles; Brittain and Bell or Gibson and O’- Bryan ends; Davis, quarterback; Houser and McKelvey, halfbacks and Archambault, fullback, Numerous substitutes and members of the sec- ond team are expected to get into CHICAGO, Oct. 5.—W. E. D. Stokes, millionaire hotel man of New York, his attorney, Daniel Nugent of New York, and five others were indicted by the county giand jury today on charges of conspiracy in connection with the charges of Mrs. Helen Elwood Stokes that her husband and | the game. his agents plotted to ruin her reputation in connection The officials for the game, mutual-| with his divorce sult Those named besides Stokes and | ly agreed on by Casper and Land The indictment containing 9 counts} his attor include taxical coachen are Mike Grant, refereo;|}came on the eve of the re-hoaring| driver, and four negre one of Red Rowe and C'arence Cypreansen|of the suit which Stokes secks| them a former deputy sherif alternating as umpire and head|to divorce his wife. ‘The hearing is| Those named include Robert H Unesman, - ~~ Lese fax Monday in Now Yark, (Lee, former deputy, sheriff; Joseph STOKES AND FIVE DICTED Indictment of Millionaire Hotel Man of : New York Madeon Nine Countsfor |: Bruner, taxicab driver sald to have nm used as a “pay off’ man, and ged to have sought to secure perjured testimony; Ray Hubert, former head waiter of the Beaux Arts club, a “Black and Tan" re- sort; Henry Tapsley, a New York negro sald to have made an affidavit that Mrs. Stokes once was an in- mate of a resort, and Mrs. Hattle Johnson, colored alleged to have been active in gathering evidence for tokes. the indictment turned fs the first re since Mrs. Stokes ade y sensa tional charges that her husband and his agents had plotted by per jured evidence to attempt to be her name with charges ana had, a dozen glover. mi (Continue Jon Pag