Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 4, 1925, Page 1

| The Casper Sunday Se ee ee VOLUME 34 SEARCH FOR SLAY== ARAGEDY MAIN NEWS SECTION | = Home Robbing | Is. Charged to Fugitive ‘Pair Jimmy Hall and Roy Hawkes, Captured in Illinois, Believed Guilty of Whole- sale Burglaries Here With the arrest in Kewanee, IIl., of Jimmy Hall and Ro Hawkes, alias Ralph LeMasters, the sheriff’s and Hbdaattite ing attorney’s offices believe that they have the two men responsible for the McCord-Brady warehouse robbery, the Smyth store robbery in Glenrock, the'rifling of three pri- vate homes in Casperand several bold holdups perpetrated here Jn recent months. truck load of merchandise was Hall and LeMasters, both ex-con- Asks Mother For Funds, Is Under Arrest DENVER, Jan. 3.—(United Press). —Because Robert H. McClure, 35, a laborer, wrote his. aged mother in Phillips county, Kansas, and asked for $300, he was held here today on charges of using the mails to de- fraud. McClure, according to postal au- thorities, wrote his mother that he was “just ready to pass out, and for God's sake send me $300 so I can go to a hospital.” Investigation showed McClure to be perfectly healthy and employed as m= truck driver. ‘ex, Victs with unsavory local reputa- ions, will be, brought back to Cas- per by Al Peyton, Converse county sheriff and Dan Miller, deputy sher- iff of this county, if the pair are not successful in fighting extradi- ton. The chain of circumstances lead- ing to the arrest of the pair in the Illinois town points to their almost certain guilt. A day after the Me- Cordy-Brady robbery, in which a TEST MADE OF SHEEP BIPPING RULE OF BOARD dmund Josendal Is Cited Into Court On Charge. Refusal to dip his sheep last fa!l on the grounds that they were free from direaso and that to run thém through the vat at that season was, besides being a mere formality of compliance with the law, injurious to them, resultedein Oddmund Jos- endal, prominent among Natrona county sheepmen, being called into justice court yesterday. He waived preliminary hekring through his at- torney, C. D. Murane. The action taken by Mr. Josendal brings the state livestock board into a battle to defend its ruling that all sheep in the state must be dipped by a certain time each year, regard- less of whether or not they are af- fected by scabies or other communt- cab’e skin diseases. Bucking the de- fendant are the majority of flock masters In this county, a force of fighters augmented by a large num- ver of sheepmen throughout the tafe. The case will first be heard here in the March term of district court. If an unfavorable decision is handed down, it will be sent into he state supreme court. It 1s the contention* of Mr. Jos- endal and many other wool grow- ers that it is useless to dip sheep not requiring such treatment and that to so subject them to disin- n late in the year is harmful ) them. The object of the case, it © said, is to prevent the state board from demanding dipping except in instances where there is infection. taken, one of the pair attempted to! market a large lot of a well known brand of cigarettes. In the looting LAWRENCE, Kan., Jan. of the warehouge several cartons of this particu'ar brand were taken. The night after the robbery two police officers were making an in- vestigation of a house in the south- (Continued on Page Two.) from office. ball teams in many-a thrilling struggle here, BE. H. Lindley, will ask a temporary injunction in court here, preventing Gov There will be no packed stands of cheering rooters, no thrills, procedure in a drab courtroom. Cribune CASPER, WYOMING, SUNDAY, JANUARY 4, 1925 MAIN NEWS SECTION -——_- Rs NO. 24 sy SL IS RENEWED AS FIRST SUSPECTS ARE FREED RIDES STORM IN EAST Score Dead and Scores Injured in Fires and Accidents Following in Wake of Heavy Snow and Cold (United Press) Upwards of a score of persons were killed, more than 100 seriously injured and hundreds rendered homeless in a series of fires and accidents which followed in the wake of severe snow storms throughout the east today. Many children were among the dead and injured. Traffic was delayed and shipping hampered as many cit'es dug out of the snow. Toledo and a fireman was killed Nine persons, eight of whom were | fighting flames and two men were children, were burned to death \in| frozen to death in Philadelphia. fires in Montreal; a woman was| More than a score persons were burned to death when fire swept | burned in an explosion on a street through an Apartment house in New| car runn'ng on a subway line in York; two children died of burns in (Continued on Page Two.) Services for F. B. Capen at 3 p.m. Today Private funeral services for the late Frederick B. Capen, Texas refinery superintendent whose passing early Friday after a brief ness struck ‘sorrow circle to a wide of friends and plant em- , will be helg- at the resi- 519 Milton avenue, at 3 o'- clock this afternoon, The Rey. C. A. Wilson of the First Presby- terlan church will conduct the service. Friends who wish to pay their last respects may call at the resi- dence between 4 and § o'clock to- day. Mrs. W, N. Capen, mother, and Mrs. J. H. Lapham, sister of the deceased, were expected to arrive this morning from San Antonio, Texas, where news of Mr. Capen'¢ death reached them ,and_ they will be among those who will ac- company the body to New York for interment. 5 3.—(United Press.) —Students of the University of Kansas none of the glamor But interest throughout the state of Kansas andi shown In any Jayhawker football Solon’s Wife Goes on ‘Stand in Own Defense Crowd Disappointed When Mrs. Scott Tells Story of Neglect and Disdainment by Husband’s Relatives Instead of Night Life at Washington ALPENA, Mich., Jan. 3.—(United Press) —Mrs. Frank D. Scott, beautiful and styl- ishly dressed, took the stand today to answer charges of her congressman husband that er men, was cruel to him and by her extravagance cost him she was indiscreet with oth his fortune. But the great crowd which gathered t é set” which have turned through divorce proceedings, went only a story of a wife disregarded— only a stor yot a wife disregarded— even disdained—by her husband's relatives, © story of the bride scorn- ed. Family quarrels and village gossip supplanted for the day the juicy bit’ that have been tossed into’ the court hoppers by Congressman Scott himself and his recretary Jane Ken- nedy, the comely witness for him in his action-against his wife. Mrs. Scott did not even venture to detail from the stand the “Enormous gambling losses” and “lquor ship- ments” of her husband with which she charged him in her cross-bill. Instead the court followers heard a bitter denouncement of Mrs. Effie McCain, sicter of Congressman Scott whom Mrs, Scott. charged first caused discontent in the Scott household through her refusal to ac- cept the congressman's wife as one of the family. . “My husband says I did not like his family or fhe people of Alpena,” said Mrs. Scott. ‘He said that I injured him and his standing here. When we first came to Alpena Mrs. McCain, with whom we made our home, refused \~ kiss me, On one occasion when my baby was desper- ately ill, Mrs, McCain refused to even heat water for me. “T had to hold the baby !n one NEW TRIAL IS DENIED HIGHT I[inois Poison Slayer and Mrs, Sweetin Off for State Prisons Today as Penalty for Double Crime MOUNT VERNON, Ills, Jan, 8. (United Press),—A tra'l of illicit love starts winding towards prison to- morrow when Lawrence M, Hight, the one-time Methodist pastor js tal. en to the southern Illinols prison to start serving a Ife sentence for the murder of ‘Sweetin, Monday his paramour and conspirator in the murder, Mrs, Elsie Sweetin, starts for the state prison at Joliet to ac au 36-year sentence ‘She two were sontenved today and branded as “base siayers, In Hight’s oase the branding was tem- pered with pity by Judge J, 0, Kern, pity for the mental condition which led to the slaying, ut for Mrs, Sweetin, Judge Kern had noth'ng but contempt, He hint: ed that hey term was tog short— that she should have had at least the same sentence as her pastor hana and keep my fingers between his lips ta keep him from biting his tongue, while I heated thé water. Mrs, McCain was always cold tow- ards me.” § Soon after they were married— against Mrs. McCain's wishes— Scott took his bride to Alpena where they lived at the McCain home but enjoyed no privacy, Mrs. Scott said. “My life in our’ Washington apart- ment was Jike that of a canary In a gilded cage,” Mrs, Scott said. “Miss Kennedy once told me: ‘The boss asked me {f his canary every stepped out and told me to keep an eye on her when he was away.’” The bitterness against Miss Ken- nedy who betrayed Mrs. Scott's con- fidence because of ‘duty to her em- ployer,” came above the surface at one time when Mrs, Scott vehement ly dented they were ever intimate friends. “When we first went to Washing: ton. I rarely saw her,” Mrs, Scott testified, “At first I was kind and introduced her to people. Then for weeks at a time I wouldn't even see her." The quarrel between Scott and his wife, that reached {ta climax late yesterday when they stood op- poste each other on different sides of a small table almost shout! their versions of the Fort Myer af: fair with Captain Sumner, slumber. ed under a mask of calm indiffer- ence today, Scott ant at a table m few feet in front of his wife, gazing at the table top, his head resting in hin hands, Once he glanced up when Mrs, Scott sot thelr wedding date at December 14, 1924, Beott said it was about ten years ago when questioned on the stand previously, Mrs, Scott rarely anced at him and then only for 4’ moment, Mrs, Beott were a binck velvet dress, sinall close fitting hat, Meht colored hose and tan oxferds, Mra, Heott teld.of frequent occa siona when her husband told har that Jane Kennedy had gene off on “her high horse aga’ In January, 1918 according to Mra, Scott, her husband paidy “Well I think Jane has quit me ewain,”’ but she came back the next day, "In reply to the question, "Did you live happy with youg husband unt| your geing abroad?” Mrs, Beott’ said dramatisally; “I would eay that we lived hap- pily until the day"he Jeft me,!' qweetheart, “Now your husband is dead and (Continued on Page Two.) /’Weuld you say you caved a great dew} for. your hushand?’ “I certainly did," ‘was the reply, o hear scandals of the Washington “‘smart clash, If Judge Hugh Means grants Dr. Lindley’s application for a tem porary injunction writ, it will mean hat the chancellor will continue in office at least until after Governor Davis {s succeeded by Governor-elect Ben Paylen on,January 12, ‘hd controversy batween the gv: ernor and the head of the unfversity was brought to a head several weeks: ago when four students of the uni- versity were suspended by Dr. Lind- ley on chgrges of drinking. ‘The students protested, claiming they were not granted proper hearing. Governor Davis and the state board of administratioh re- quested an explanation of this and other matters from tho university head. Then, like a bombshell to Kansans came the announcement that the governor had asked the chancellor to resign. ‘The chancellor refused and he was dismissed from offic’ < Governor Davis charged Dr. Lind ley with incompetency, political ac- away disappointed. They Absolutely sincere in her effort to) tivity, aloofness, insubordination help her husband, never with any|and procrastination. ‘The chancel des're to ruin or embarass him, Mrs. | jor obtained u temporary restrain Scott told of her drawing $250 from her savings account so he would not have to write Alpena for money. “I earned and saved the money while a nurse. I had a couple of ing order and refused to be ousted. Hearing on Chancellor Lindley’s ap- plication for a temporary injunction against the ouster order of the gov- ernor and the state board of ad- ministration is to be held Monday. Since December 27, when the chancellor was ordered out of office, Kansas has been in a turmoll. Stu- (Continued on Tage Two) good cases in New York, before I was married, and banked my‘ money there. Mrs. Scott replied in answer to a (Continued on Page Two) J.C. Underwood of Underwood | (Editorial.) The Wyoming legislature is on the eve of a forty day session. The first duty of each house is to organize itself for the transaction of its legislative work by selection of suitable officers to fill the sev- eral positions. The most important of these, in the lower house, 1s the speakership, the officer who presides over deliberations, guides the house in parliamentary and legal manner so that its procedure and acts may be in accordance with the consfitution und the law and stand all legal tests that may arise later, ' Much depends upon the speaker, and a man of high quality, wis- fom and fairness is required, ; We have no knowledge of what {sin the minds of members of the lower house respecting this important officer; but we do have in mind a man eminently fitted, {f he can be prevatled upon to ac- cept the responsibility, It 1s not our purpose to select the presiding officer, it {s only our purpos+ to suggest a nultable one and leave the selection to those properly qualified to do #0, Previous legisiatiye experience 1s a prerequisite, ‘The man we have in mind has already served six terms in the Wyoming house and fs this term entering upen hin seventh term, He has served fatth. fully and well, He has fought conetantly and yallantly for the right Mn all proporats, And to him may be given the honor, and it tx indeed fn high honor, of stamping every principal act for the public geod In are all set for another sort of battle Monday, 1 I J ernor Jonathan M. Davis from ousting him KANSAS STUDENTS STAND BEHIND CHANCELLOR IN OUSTER BATTLE who have watched their foot- when their chancellor, Dr. of the gridiron, just a legal n Lawrence is greater than was ever Hulse murder of ‘Silent last Sunday night. ‘The police and sherift's office are working on a number of important clues which singly have been unpro- ductive of tesults but which they hope to co-ordinate into a chain of circumstances, that will establish a network of evidence from which the murderer will be unable to escape. The greatest handicap at present fs that only a most meagre descrip- tion of the man who ts wanted is avatlable, Johnny" Hulse Geo. Mehring Exonerated of Killing Two Others Held for Questioning When Man First Grilled Clears Up Pos- session of Time Piece Exoneration and release of George “Blackie’ Mehring and Hazel Grace, the arrest of five men, two of whom are still in custody, a frantic search for a missing half dollar dated 1828 and an effort to connect a blood-stained pair of trousers with the crime were the overnight deyelopments in the effort to unravel the mystery surrounding the brutal In the meantime “Silent Johnny’ had been shot through the head, hie valuables stolen and his body thrown on a refuse heap by a lonely trafl southeast of the city Mmits. Five days later the frozen corpse of the taxi-driver was found where it had been dragged and dropped by the cold blooded assassin. Up to yesterday afternoon no trace of Hulse's actions after 6 o'clock the evening of the murder, had been learned. The newest de- velopments trace his movements to 9:30 o'clock that evening when he was seen going east on Second street with lone passenger, the man who !s suspected of the das- tardly crime. . A few minutes after this informa-) The man sought was in Hulse’s taxicab Sunday night at 9:30 o'clock. 1e hour later Ross Wardell noted the machine parked in front of h's résidence at 951 South Cedar street. 200 Inj BOSTON, “Jan. 3.—(Uni Underground Park Street sta An explosion took place u cane and woodwork fought frantically to edcape, doors stuck Windows Passengers but the were smashed sons frantic to get away from the flames. It Was the height of the noon rush hour, and cars and plat forms were crowded. Investigation revealed pieces of motion picture film near where the explosion occurred. And police be Meve that the film, accidentally ignited, caused the fire. There was instant panic, not only in the car, but in the subway sta by per. tion. Persons milling about to escape fought with those entering the subway The explosion occurred just as the train was pulling into As {t slowed down at the platform, Passengers in the burning car could be seen hammering at windows, which were protected by wire net ting. As the windows were-broken the station smoke billowed out onto the plat- form, Emergency calls. brought ambu lances from the Haymurket Relief hospital, while police formed cordons outside the exists, commandeered automobilex and even a truck to take slightly and seriously injured passengers to hospitals, ite Boss Eo MARKETING REPORTS 10 BE HEARD TUESDAY AT six weasions, With the guarantee of his approval, Ho ts by birth and education thereughly Wyoming, A product of our own soll and ef our ewn times and a worthy ene In all reapec Not only has he mastered the theory and teaching ef boeks, but he has mastered the practical application of his learning [nh actual experiences in life, Primarily a rancher and steckgrower, he has been called te many other activities wherein his versatile necomplishments fitted him to serve, And “serve” is the word that best sults anything de: scriptive of this man in elther his publie or private eapacity, He is no secler for honors, Buch things come to him, by @eneral acknowledgment of hia fitness te bear them, That te why he iq today a direotor in the federal Land Bank, That is why he hag \ perved as a speaker pre tem in previous sessions, That is why he declined higher henors jn the past to be a useful working chair, man of impertant semmittess, Hoe is pousibly the most thereughly scheoled parliamentarian aniong the present mremberg of the house, He ia paulpped with val; uabje experiance, And he js Wyoming at its best If we had the naming of the speaker of the lower house, with all respect to the other able members ef that Lody, we should name ©. Underwood, of Underwood, as the one man best fitted from all posst-” ble yiewpoints, For the presidency of the senate, heard most frequentiy, Harry N. O, Horton of Johnsom county, the names of twa men are vee, of Natrona county, and Branit NEXT FORUM GATHERING The Casper Chamber ef Commerce forum next Tuesday will be given over to reperts of renvice club and merchants sdoclation vemmittees that attend the co-operative market ing venference at Glenrock temer row evening, Tt is empected at this time that # speaker frpm Douglas py Glenresk will attend the forum luncheen and diseusy the marketing pregram de. veloped py the Converse . county growers, —_ Northwestern 86, Mercer £1, EVANSTON, Iil., Jan, 3—Coming up from behind in the last half Pour, Northwestern university basketball quintet defeated Mercer 30 ta 21 here tonight. Mercer led 12 to 11 at the half, — Subway Panic Explosion Uhder Beatiak Car Folowed by Flames Throws Crowd in Riot in Underground Station trapped and burned or trampled in a subway which 200 persons were slightly injured. lowed by appearance of a sheet of flame which set fire to tion was received and substantiated every available man on the police force and all deputy sheriffs were scouring the city for the suspect. Up to an early hour this morning®the man had not been found although five arrests had been made in tho interim. One of the suspects seized to Ralph ¥. Jonson, who is said to have been deal’ng “21 in. a down- town gambling house. He is insis- tent in his.denial of any connection with the crime but is. still held in custody. In the meantime {t has been ascertained that Johnson tried to pawn a Hamilton watch at Noah's Ark some timo Tuesda Hulse's missing watch, for which officers have been frantically searching, was a 21-jewel Hamilton, of a size known as No. 16, lafger and bulkier than an ordinary timeplece. The second man arrested was Fred Keefer who answers in a gen- eral way the “description of the wanted man, Keefer was unable to give a clear account of his where- abouts last Sunday evening and fur- ther has been in difficulties with the past. He js now out on bond for having shot ” Mrs: Bell in the h'p during a daylight holdup in th ter’s home at Layoye last summer, Keefer is equally insistent of his Holdup Gets All Prizes on |) ern eit te is sit under tock | made on him. . || Punch Board ured in ted Press.) —Thirty persons, car at the tion today, started a panje in inder the seat of the car, fol- | | The third suspect taken Into cus- tody was in c®nection with a no- | torious fifty cent piece which his Sse ~ been the envy of many of “Silent _ GUERNSEY, Wyo. Jan. 3.— | Johnny's" associates, It is dat The holdup kid of these parts got | 1828, being 97 years old, and was | dill the prizes ef a punchboard in| considered a rare specimen for nu | @ local pool hall, when he stepped | mismatic collections } Into the joint, took in the situa The - a | thon with a mean looking gun, and 1p Nhe ecg mak dent Mer: ba walked cut with the pasteboard cd et i elle ac | mystery under his arm. The | the topo te pee punch board contained $200 in | sion Sars Wels 18 Seine ana s gold coins and greenback pen pe hr tas Mecmsateiise - he Miser which he das t < ng and as | the date did not correspond within 25 y he was released OVE At the time Hulse’s body wis found, sprawled out on the dump heap, the coin was not in his pocket, SAVED A and his asrociates suy that he car- ried it for years ~ The discovery of a pair of blood stained trousers stuffed into an otherwise empty box on the lot at the rear of 115 East Second street yesterday morning !s considered sig nificant. The lot where the trousers were found !s contigous to the rear of the Green Lantern apartment Continued on Page Twp) An overheated stove set fire to the two-story dwelling at 1159 South Cherry street at 4:30 Saturday after- noon, necessitating a run by the fire department, The blaze» was extinguished quick- ly and little damage resulted, MRS. ROSS TO TAKE OFFICE Simple Ceremony to Mark Inauguration at Noon Tomorrow in Cheyenne of First Woman Governor in U.S. — ONBYENNE, Wye., Jan, 0.—(Sper clal tg The Tribune)—Tha simple ceremony by which Nellie Tayloe Rose will assume {he governorship of Wyoming next Monday at noon very briefly, Mrs, Rosa will make « brief statement ynd the oath then will be administered by Chie Juss tlee UO, N. Potter, The tnauguration, which will take probably will not consume fifteen! place in the senate @hamber, will minutes, (There will be @ prayer by| be recorded by motion pictures, Bishop N, 8, Thomas of the Epis-| Mrs, Ross will be escerted ta the copal diocese of Wyoming, Acting| dias by her brother, Judge Ramuel Governor Frank 1, Lucas will apeak’ @ Tayloe of San Antualo, Texas, '