Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 18, 1924, Page 10

PAGE TEN Che Casper Dally Cridune , TUESDAY, MARCH 18, 1924 A iacll 2M ERS CN cine ie SCENES AROUND WHICH MURDER TRAGEDY WAS WRITTEN BURDEN LIFTED |INQUEST FAILS BY SERVICE. AT TO THROW NEW LOCAL CHURCH LIGHT ON GRIME Page One) (Continued From Page One) Orie: & Peyton. The postal authorities at received the Oakland, Cal., it is understood, Have r granted by our a letter in their possession addressed r four years’ to “Alberta Lynch, general de- He was sudde livery” with a Casper postimiiek ht 1 its contents have not been divulge from childhood’s happy ceful realm e, where in our nor can it be obtained. It is be- Chrlatian faith. n 01 e believe Meved to be a letter written by Van Christian faith and hope w _ fir endl fac ats Mead that the good find corapensation in rden a larger and unending service. As tragedy here and has not been to Mr. a multitude of claimed at Oakland. friends are grieved beyond measure ‘The disclosure yesterday that Van that one who had so many likeable Gorden propped the body of his traits character, should choose murdered wife in the back. seat the w poss ay of escape when he made off with his grue- from the diffic in which he some cargo Saturday night indicates was involved. Wiling friends, if intention to create an imp: would have to the that his wife and boy were fleein| their abil with him. Neighbors saw her tn help to show him the the car, as Van Gorden evidently ™“ In ation of the intended they should. tragedy, friends attribute PREMONITION OF s to unsoundness of mind FATE REPORTED i at the time they were committed Premonition of the tragic fate that Thus w they cast over him the] befell her Saturday night was felt mantle This is a mat-/ by Mrs. Van Gorden for a week ter knows, | previous to the murder, according to close friends of the deceased. “I know something#is going to happen. Even the coming of the mail man makes me nervous,” she is quoted as saying a day or two before the tragedy in expressing the fear that she was about to receive word of the serious illness of her aged mother. ‘oO c can deter. gullt and respon for only God knov > mental and ph: generations upon a We leay him to the > alome can judge. to encourage ou: great 8! t always find ow © the extent of Boy Victim of Tragedy Saved To Buy a Lot y A boy's bicycle, sled, catcher'p” glove and baseball, and the stiffened body of his pal, a small and tawny Colle dog, le in the cold garage at 412 South Grant street. Not more than a few steps distant and in the basement of the adjoining house, is a muddy brown sploteh on the floor. That's where the lad, Arthur Lioyé Van Gorden, 10-year-old, fair-hatrea and keen minded, was slain by his own father, Industrious, alert, Arthur sold pa- pers regularly. From his profits he was purchasing a lot by install- ments, A little business man from the beginning, he carefully invested his earnings in this manner, He was not the kind that works only to_ spend. Nor was Arthur a boy with no time for plays The silent array of his toys in the garage on Grant street, tell tales of youthful activity and abundant fun. Small devices of his contrivance lead further into the land where all {s Ife, energy and ambition. Is the small body that Hes at the mortuary today the one that happ!l> whistled and tumbled about with a Collie dog playmate last Saturday afternoon? Is this the same idealistic youth who but several days ago was at once. Good at work with us story of Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde. It ‘s ours to see that the good over- comes the evil in the conflict. 1 tragedy d evil forces are in the strange strates the pos evil in us all, are; if thou L niquity, who could truth, and unrightness, ng virtues. Nothing can To live within one’s means is a necessary condi- tion of safety and happiness. It is an old-fashioned virtue, but too of- ten forgotten. It is good also to sur- sround one's self with wise and help- ful friends. It will be strength and stay in the hour of distress and nt Husbands and 1 confide in each other he utmost, and ch be familiar n the other's affairs. ‘The cour- of one is made stronger by the * of two, if affairs go fll. And there is always a good way out of every difficulty. Mutual counsel, and the counsel of friends, could have readily found the way of avoid. ance from the terrible tragedy that shocks our city. “We take leave {n profound sor- row of those we loved and respect- ed, pray for comfort for their friends, and command these thoughts to the consideration of all.’ Again he led in prayer, and the choir sang rep in Jesus.” ‘The caskets were taken out. Many floral offerings were put n the coffins, tributes of this 1 coming from the Men's Broth- k dreaming of the time when he would erhood class of the chu be “like dad?" Does death make dics’ !d soc! such horrible grimaces and lead ern Star and father against the son of his owm RECEIVERS FOR BE "4 at the Cause and Remove It CALIFORNIA OIL UPPER RIGHT—Group picture of the Van Gorden family, showing Fred Van Gorden, well known in Casper’s business life, who was shot and killed by Sheriff Peyton in a] - — LEASE CHOSEN Douglas hotel where he fled after murdering his wife, Pearl] D. Van Gorden, and son, Arthur Lloyd, 9, at their home here Saturday night. UPPER LEFT—Corner of base- sub> Dr. Edwards’ Olive Tablets, the ment in Van Gorden home at 412 South Grant street where double murder was commhitted. The open door leads from the garage at the rear of the house to the basement toe eae eee the through which Mrs. Van Gorden stepped to meet her tragic fate. Wan Gorden is belfeved to have stood behind the door, one bil.et being deflected from the wall at the OP Cain eE find point marked by the arrow andericocheting up the stairs at the right. Blood stains were found on the floor and on the wall at the deft. CENTER—Van Gorden home at| quick relief Dr. Edwards'Olive one : 412 South Grant street, showing location of garage at rear of house in which dead dog, was found and out of which Van Gorden bucked his car after the murder with the HTablts. “The ieasan, sagarcoated U: S. ‘Counsel ‘Leaving | boay of his dend ite teopned mucin thersaenebte Lowe R—Probing and dragging the Matte river from the city dump bridge northeast of Casper for the bodies of the murder For Capital After victims. The point at which work is going on is where V an Gorden shoved the bodies off into the stream as shown by tell-tale blood stains. The bodies of both were re-|" Dr. Edwards" Olive Tablets act gene covered a short distance down the river. Sy but fiemly on the Lawes ar iver Starting Suits ° ' j clearing the blood and gently purify! ’ |fy befort the county grand jury]a lone entry for Démoeratic en- Nh On Sunday he delivered a long one Ze ym | the entire system. They do that whic emis this afternoon in another disputed | dorsement that of W. G. McAdoo. Pope Pius Not address to 400 members of the St Ledeen at sede d ‘lomel doen withook any 3 LOS ANGELES, Cal, March 18. | tease cas 4 ; : President Coollage and Senator Til: Report of | Vincent soctety. Much of his time i Pe pies ss i aye Pomerene | ‘The lease about which the grand| Hiram Jolmson of California, are ? occupied in preparing the allocu and Owen J. Roberts, his associate 3 . tion which he wii] deliver at the | jury seeks information is one grant-|the only names on the Republican I d D ct’ ie whl de counsel, planned to leave today for| eq to the Doheny interest on mun. | ballot but an eleventh heuc setae ONAOR VENUE | corincoming secret consistory when Washingtun after having taunched | icipally owned land at the harbor.|er’ campaign for Senator LaFol. arch bishops Hayes of New York The High Grade Spread for Bread Nucoa | the bad after effects. Ail in federal court here yesterday the lity of this lease hag been at-|Iette. promised to win him many| ROME, nh 18.—(By The As-| and Mundelein of Chicago are made government's sult against Doheny | ¢,, On ithe: grouna’ that the vical votes: fociated Press.)—The statement by | cardinals, interests for cellation of naval] Ango'es charter: specifically *for- ch party is selecting a nation. |# 10ndon newspaper that the pope's s in the Elk 1 bids such leasing of municipal har- j health was causing conside t ! commitjeeman, five presidential heb ginucqesfantteds Meanwhile IE. L, Doheny, who| DO, fontage. 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