Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 24, 1924, Page 1

Weather Forecast Thursday. east portion tonight. Generally fair tonight and Colder in north- ——— POLICEMEN AnE INDIGTED FOn BOOZE ThAFIG Identification With Big Bootleg Ring Is Charged. JERSEY CITY, N. J., Dec. 24.— Almost one-third of the personnel of the Weehawken police force is un- der indictment today in connection with the operation of the alleged bootlegging: ring in thatschty, as the result..of tho indictment yesterday by thé Madson county grand jury of Captain John Dillon and Lieutenant “edward John Kirk on charges of malfeasance. Of the 14 persons thus fur indicted eleven are members of the Weehawken police department. The finding of true bills against these police officers, the raiding of alleged saloons in Jersey City and Wewark by federal agents from New York City, and the charge made by jamuel Wilson, assistant superin- tendent of the Anti-Saloon league of New Jersey, that there are “a few hundred open saloons here,” furnish- ed the highlights of the prohibition enforcement situation. CHEYENNE LIQUOR POURED DOWN SEWER Cheyenne sewers receved 200 gallons of whiskey, beer, wine and other con- fiscated intoxicants when Federal Prohibition Director Lon C. Davis, conducted the annual “houseclean- ing” of his office. The intoxicants were seized in raids in various parts of Wyoming during 1924. (Eee EES WOMAN 1S ACQUITTED OF INSANITY CHARGE Mrs. Bugenia Sheppard, rooming house proprietor of 330 South Oak street, was yesterday afternoon ac- quitted of an insanity charge by a jury sitting before Judge R. R. Rose. The woman was arrested several days ago for investigation as to her mental condition. Poison Candy Source Still Is Unsolved JACKSON, Miss., Dec. 24.—No arrests had been made early to- day at Columbus, Miss., according to telephene advices in connec- tion with the critical illness of Miss Harriet Mossier, at Olean, N. ¥., because of having eaten candy sent through the mail in a Christmas package forwarded to her address by Mrs, Ensminger, of Columbia and said to have shown traces of poisoning by an Olean bacteriologist. The sheriff of Marion county Saidhe had recelyed no instruc- tons from the Olean police to take into custody Mrs. Ensminger *sainst whom a charge of murder Was isrued yesterday in the New York City courts. Mrs: Engi the second wife sminger, res. ‘ed Len statement totay. that SGudy codiatned ao pulsua, | ed Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation HIGHT GETS LIFE. WOMAN DRAWS 35 YEARS, FOR POISON MURDERS EIGHT PLUNGED T0 DEATH Che Casp London-Paris Airplane Express Barsts| Into Flames After Tragic Dive and Bodies Are Charred CROYDON, England, Dec. 24.—(By The Associated Press.)—A Christmastide tragedy occurred today.at the airdrome here when the seven passengers and the pilot of the big Imperial Airways air express DH-34 were killed when the airplane banked and crashed soon after-it had taken off. The passengers, who were on their way to Paris for Christmas, were hardly aware they were well in the air when the machine suddenly banked over Purley Down, in @ guest of wind, went Into a nose dive and burst into flames through the explosion of the gasoline tank. All eight in the machine were’ burned to death and the machine was destroy: ed. ‘ “There were two women among the passengers, five men nge including Dr. Borbosa Lima, ® Bra- zilian, and Cedric Trudgett, repre- sentative of the Chilean Reyiew, and the pilot. L An eye witness of the tragedy said the plane, flying low; suddenly bank- ed, cleared a nearby house, and then staggered in the air. Almost im- mediately a guest of wind caught the plane, its tail shot up, it went into a dose dive and fell like a stone. Im- mediately after the machine touched the ground, it burst into flames. “I ran to the spot,” said the eye witness, ‘but by the time I got there the whole machine had burned away. The only things I could see uncon- sumed were the two wheels of the under carriage, In the wreckage I bodies—that of the pilot in front. NO TRIBUNE TOMORROW Merry Christmas! No Tribune tomorrow. That may sound like an imposl- tion on its thousands of Casper! readers and subscribers but there” are a very limited number of days in the year when the Tribune man- agement feels justified in suspend- ing publication for a Gay so that its big family of employes may have a full holiday. ‘Tomorrow, Christmas {s one of them. Fourth of July, Labor Day and Thansgiving are the others The Tribune takes this oppor- tunity of wishing its many readers the best and most joyous kind of a Christmas. could see the charred remains of “All the passengers must have died instantaneously. Their clothes were gone and their bodies were black."* Fire brigades from Burley and Croyden hurried to the ‘spot, but were unable ‘to arrive in time to be of any assistance. * The charred bodies. were removed to the -police —— WATCH FOR SANTA AND HIS SLEIGH Sleigh bells! Sleigh bells! Santa {s coming to town! With his big sleigh heaped high with presents, he and one of his helpers from the big shop way up north will speed aroqund the city. Listen, you kids, and you will hear the sleigh bells ringing in the distance the first thing in the morning. Then, with a_ merry jingle, around your corner wiil come St. Nick himself. In his. own real ‘sleigh that’s come.down -here all the way from the North Pole, he will pass by your house in the morning. Watcli for him. He's going up and down all the streets in town. CHRISTMAS CHEER FOR JUVENILE HOSTS TO RING OUT FROM ELKS HALL AT BIG PARTY TOMCRROW pr Bail MEMBER GF ASSOCIATED PRESS CASPER, WYOMING, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1924 4 Crile IN CRASH -PAERRY ; MERRY. CHRISTMAS When not a creature/in town is stirring tonight and all good little girls and boys are fast asleep, then— But, listen! You youngsters are thinking of the joy you will have tomorrow morning when you see Santa Claus at the Elks building. ‘ You are thinking of how you will rush to your schools and from there be taken in cars to the Elks. you are hardly able to wait until you see the gifts Santa has for you. + Old St. Nicholas will come speeding tonight through the cold sky, park his reindeers on the snowy roof of the | Recess. In M’Coy Case No Chance of Former Pugilist Learning Fate Until After Christmas as Result of Postponement ~ LOS ANGELES, Cal., Dec. cell in the courity jail today while the jury which will de- termine his fate on a charge of killing Mrs. Theresa Mors, liberated until after Christmas, from the court will be read. was Taken 24.—“Kid” McCoy sat in his when instructions Arguments in the former pugilist’s trial were completed in superior court late yes- terday with the prosecution demand- ing a verdict of first degree guilt, punishable by hanging. The case was not submitted to the jury, how- ever, Judge Charles S. Crail declar- ing a recess until Friday. In his closing argument for the state, Deputy District Attorney C. W. Ostrom declured it was not pleasant, on the threshold of christ: | mas, to be demanding the death penalty for ‘any man, but “if wé have not law enforcement, what is to become of us?” The killing of Mrs. Mors, he said, was the act of a “roue and rake, inflamed by Mquor."* Outworn as a prize fighter, and a| failure’ at evérything else, McCoy | (Continued on Page Eleven) 4 Elks building and squeeze his jolly: Isn’t is so? And at Newstands, ‘arrier 75 5 cents cents a month CHRISTMAS TREES ALL SOLD OUT What would happen {f some grocer announced today that he had a Christmas tree for sale? Please don't ask—it's something too horrible to contemplate. It became cruelly apparent yes- terday that there wil! be scores of Casper homes without trees as the central shrines of tops and gifts tomorrow morning. In view of this calamity, word that a tree might be had.at this late hour would precipitate the most terrible bargain-counter riot ever known in the country. To care for tha local demand the Wyoming Grocery company ship- ped in 2,000. lovely fir trees from Oregon, Now Ben Cullen, man- ager of the company, says that if he had another thousand trees they would be gone in a minute. Hundreds of anxious parents are scouring the town today, hoping br habia bike al igen er wisp of sprucetha! ely ra Uttfe burden of lights and p: disappointment. It's no use, folks, there arn't any real Christmas trees left. By. “real” Christmas tree {s meant a spruce ora fir. | There's just a chance that some pines cut from Casper mountain may be found. re DELIVERY WINDOWS TO BE OPEN TOMORROW AT THE POSTOFFICE From 9 to 11 o'clock tomorrow morning the general delivery and package windows in the main post- office building Will be open, an- nounces Postmaster Edwin Bean. Those who are expecting gifts in the incoming mail will be able to get them through this courtesy of the local department. Packages ad- dressed to residences will be deliv- ered during the day. LAVOYE DRUGEIST 15 ACQUITTED IN COURT; ANOTHER CONVICTED William Johngon, Lavoye drug store proprietor, was yesterday ac- )} quitted of several charges of .viola- tion of the narcotic laws, in federal court in Cheyenne. J. L. Stotts, druggist from the same town, was fined $250 following his conviction in the same court on a similar charge. self down the chimney. On his back will be the biggest bag of toys and candy that anyone ever heard about. Once Kris Kringle has landed in the great auditorium he will be awfwly,.awfully busy, for he must get ready f@ the hundreds and hun- dreds of children who will come to see him. A most wonderfut tree—right from the North Pole, they say—will be decorated by Santa so that. it will shine more brightly and beautifully than any other tree in the world. Then, all around the tree St. Nick will spread his treasures, and there will be presents for all Casper girls and boys whose ages are between four and 12 years. When every- thing is in readiness he will open he doors of the Elks building at 9 o'clock and in will troop the kid- dies, bubbling over with the spirit of “Merry Christmas!’ dio Santa sent advance in structions to A. A. Slade, superin tendent of’schools here. He said: “I want to see all the children of the Washington, Park, Jefferson, McKinley and Grant schools at 8:30 o'clock Christmas morning at the Elks building. They are to go. to their school houses wiiere cars bear- ing American flags will meet them and bring them to me. “At 10:30 o'clock I would Uke to have ‘all the children of Willard, Lincoln, Garfield, Roosevelt, Wilson, (Continued on Page Hlevea) E Holly wreaths agatnst frosted window panes, curtains parted to reveal in the corner of the living room a fir tree gorgeously beautiful, its branches supporting a myriad ar- ray of sprakling lights and iridescent tinsel; the dear little stockings of tiny tots faithfully hung along the mantle— these are tokens of Christmas on the morrow, and are to be seen tonight in every part of the city. Before dawn in the morning many a trundle bed will lose its small, excited occupant, whose sleep has been a most wonderful dream about Santa Claus, and mothers and dads will be awakened by the shouts of “Merry Christmas!” | . To ng high in the orthwest- Jorn park op Center street, the giant community tree, resplendent with entwining strings of red and green lights, will be the city's expression of Christmas—will be a tree for the season, in which everyone may light. This is to be a in Casper, for the (Continued jan Tage Yr ‘Curteen) |Trees in Hundreds of Homes Bespeak Good Cheer as All Casper Awaits Dawn of Annual Celebration Yuletide Spirit Grips City on Christmas Eve BANK BANDIT KILLS OFFICER NEW ORLEANS, Jacob Uhle, traffic | shot killed robbed the Branch of the $13,000. L, De Policeman toéay 24.— wis and by a man who Frenchman Marine treet Bank of FORT WORTH, Tex., Dec. The bank and practically every store in Paradise, Wise county, were robbed last night, according to word #eceived here tdday. ‘The robbers are helleved to be-~.those 24 Who sacked and barned Va‘ley View Th: last week. cured at determined, amount aise has of money pot beer Tribune Bldg. Publication Offi: 216 EB NEW TRIALS 10 BE SOUGHT FOR DEFENDANTS: IN ILLINOIS. COURT Death Penalty Favored By Two Jurors for Former Pastor Who Pleaded Insanity. MOUNT VERNON, III, Dec. 24.—(By The Associ- ated Press.)—The jury try- ing Lawrence M. Hight and e. Sweetin for the murder of her hus- band, Wilford Sweetin, early today returned a verdict of “guilty.” Hight was given life imprisonment whil Mrs, Sweetin was given thirty-five years in the penitentiary. After deliberating all jury .reported at 8:30 o'clock this morning that {t had reached an agreement. The judge and attorneys were immediately sent for. Reports said that the-jury had been in dis. agreement over the degree of guilt The jury had deliberated abgut eleven hours, retiring at 10 o'clock night, the last night. It considered the caso almost continuously except for a short time for breakfast. The jurora stated after the verdict that the jury had been unanimously for finding both defendants guilty from tho first ballot, but that there had been wide difference as to the punishment to be inflicted upon Mrs. Sweetin. The punishment infiicted upon her, the jurors said, represented a com- promise. Only two of the jurors had favored infliction of the death penalty upon Hight. None voted for the hanging of Mrs. Sweetin, The two defendants received tho verdict in silence and with no out ward display of emotion. Attorneys for both defendants gave formal notice that they would ask for a new trial “I still think I have been misun- derstood,” said Mrs, Sweetin calmly after the verdict had been returned. “I was led into a trap. That is why I am able to receive the verdict as Ido. I am innocent * “T ‘still maintain I am {nnocent,"* said Hight. “Tam not guilty, but I ain't mad at nobody. If I have to go to tha Pentitentlary, I have to go, that {# all. Tam not guilty. I wasn't afraid of death, the penitentiary or any- thing else.” Judge J. C. Kern gave the defense attorneys until Decem 29 to filo motions for a new trial and sald hoe would hear arguments on the mu tions on January 3, In delivering his charge Jury, Judge J. C. Kern in six possible verdicts. formed the jurors they could find one defendant guilty and the other not guilty, or find them both guilty. “If you find the defendant Hight insane at the time the alleged crimo was committed, then he must be acquitted,” Judge Kern sald to the instructe 1 While Prosecuting Attorney Thompson tongue-lashed the end. ants, Hight and Mrs, Sweetin re- tained their composure, r¢ ining calm when the jury left room. the court “Hight said that they wanted mercy, not just: Thomp: son, “but® in linc > still have the old Mosaic | an eyo for an eye, a life ha been * *.* apd death 5 t t In spite of the strong probabi of Christmas. playe 2 min role in the arguments ferrt an appeal made by Attorney man. in- his. addre n_ behal Hight, Thompson sa “They talk to you ut Christmas and.I ask you to think last Christmas and remember who was here then and is absent + for this crime W 1 would now be playir for his boys The pros (Contiued on, Page Lieven. cutor reviewed in di { ——