The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 26, 1927, Page 2

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE Weather Conditions As Recorded by the U. S. 29 minutes wanufacturers of that wmtes eather md 29 Solid Shoes oms of the v Brand Factori that has no equal. of come -t an OCK CAIRY LINE OF WE IN STOC olVie € Juneau's in 597,941 pairs through the 3 hours finishing ) other record 4 COMPLETE TAR BRAND SHOES Leading Department Store E‘-Mn—-finm\':fr . ~,m;~1~w»r,pm.,mmww |Déath Becko™: in Couniry B3 ¥ By L. L. EARLY, | International Yllustrated j Correspon’ a | HICAGO (i-IN)—The law of | C the 127 Is secking to annl- hilat ® of the cleverest minds in the cduntry~because that | eleverness is dedicated to crime, | The miud is that of ¥lonvy J. Fere nekes. midget baidit,” to be more dauge Peca y. 1se He’ wa Steft Chapwman ever ncls havine falied temporarily, to ecuted, it may turn “Jm over to ! Btate of 'Jew York to stan? trinl for murder, Ferncles is waoted in Rock- land County for murder in conneec- tion with the holdnp of the Natlor Bank of Pearl River on’ Lec 29, 1922, He is ctill gerving a teen-year sentence in Jollat T but may be released In tne ex tion that New York will jolt tue 1 out of him at 8ing Sing. ¥ bave Teruckes ex- Ie was ! before a 1 elghe Chicago in love ¢ high s\horvl ere studied law for found I couidn’t mak & week at honest 1.5 The /Judge sent the fivefo: ¥o =gster to prison for two Ferpekes used his®time well. tie ed crime in every moment, . And when he was tree from prison Henry J. Fernckes, *‘midget he read up on several things he bandit,’? still hopes 1o beat the wanted to know mote about, the gallows, But lliinois oficials, chemist x :xshcs.lta “% temporarily blocked, may turn ady et * him over to New York to staud e Mr. ana Mrs. trial for morder. DROSE ateraavional Newsrcel) > next Lo the pank. For & year ho kept on. Ihen Lol of Fernekes. one afternoon & sinall man entcred Meanwhile 2 new sorlos of ban't nd Lned up employes and pohberies vecurted in Chicago. Al Sowmething went wrong, were executed with amazing =kill L refused to submlit, and and d»u-lng anfl t‘ re wae ample the bandit shot duwn two and flc cr of the gang Detectlvos searched .undery rauch uhau' science. and quizzed sicuimigeons, but falled ln April, 1925, the greatest coup to find a ‘.)uu urtil p;\pem recorded was planned. A gang of men wears ad drop- ing gas masks were to carry two » In ammonia tanks in automobiies to a ~opte dom't usvall The ammonia was to venish, and decectives cama to tif and while employes concluslon that Dareta was ome, the bandits wore to | bandit, Working upon this theory, scoop up the money and flee in they catae 1o ile conclusion tnat waiting automobiles. Smoke bombs Darche and Yo n kes *» were prepared to cenceal the escape D nders, wife of a Ohe'of Brainiest Men . - s a Criminal But on the night before the crime dctectiven¥arrested Fernekes in the Crerar Library, There he had bun‘ going gathering information to per- fect detalls of the elaborate plan. A meek librarian had become suspic- jous of the stranger, and, notieing a bLulge in his pocket, had called police. Fernekes was convicfed. . While he was in prison, he was convicted of the murder of & cashier ng & bank robbery, But like the District Attorney, he was not ‘rom his prison cell he plotted the kidnaping of the two children of Charies G. Schwappe, heirs to 4 $15,000,000 fortune. Police, by means of tapped telephone wires, learned of the scheme, &nd Fernekes was placed in’solitary confinement. The day he came out of solitary, he cxploded a bomb In prison, tear- ing down half of the side of tho builing., For & moment it looked as 1t Lornekes and 800 compani.as e p——. would escape, but guards rallied and the prisoners were driven back. The midget's attorneys had taken an appeal on his murder convictien, and succegded in having it nulled. Tho State Supreme Court ruled that the Judge had been too enthusiastic in his conduct of the trial. The prosecutor NOW A&ppears un- willing to try him n for this crime, and may permit New York to borrow him from Jollet fail with the expectation that the midget will never come back. Meanwhile, l‘erunhl nroblbl! schemes in his cell. is under guard day and nl.ht, lnd he 18 openly feared. Prison officials realize 'he is brainler than most prisoners, and probably smarter than most of the guards. Besides, he is reported to have a million dollars in -uhi valuables burled on the outside, and this means he has friends who km unceasing efforts to obtain ireedom, - vl I erop: A 100-foot tunnel will be ¢ en on the Last Chance ing the present sengo: to H. A. Hallum, hecl the Seattle Oxy:zen Co., and owuer of| NEW LONDON STREET the property. TO CCST $2¢,007,000 Mr. Hallum. riv-| foot p dur-|io t July h the b district i 20,000 Gue after nding most of the pasi month on the ground, came in the othe: and let a contiact for 100 feet _-cross cut tucunel to Murfe © erson sand his partmer, Albcrl Johuson. The tunne! is cxpec \m“Vlu ¥ 1w owil to cut the muin vein at a depth!lo carried for a connluumbla Al of about 75 feet, below the oul 1mme on arches, thus doing awsy spe LONDON, A stretch of ad thr art of Lond o be bul at a cost of lown s Nearly 700 houses must be torn down to make way for the ioad: County Council 25 per cent. i e RED LETTER DAY EVANSTON, 11, the day that Mr. came the parents of a a-unm vertlllll ! Marshal, Weather Forecast for Sunean and yicinity Fair and warmer tonight LOCAL Barom, 30.20 30.23 L.O 22 Time— 59 48 G0 4 p. m. yest'y |4 a. m., today Noon today and Wec D. Bureau peg-nning 4 p. DATA Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity 5 = CABLE AND RADIO REPORTS ERDAY ghest temp. 60 3 pm. temp. _ 62 66 74 46 Tanana Ea Dutch Kodiak Cordova Juneau Ketchikan Prince Rupert Edmonton Seattle rtland San Francisco Harbor OTE: Obs lous Seattle, Portland and S: p. m., Juneau time The pre Isiands and It is risin the southward reporting precipitation during |warmer in the Tanana V at ire is moderately high cver practic in all portions ot WHO'S WHO I AND WHERE | \ i State on aa Albert Whate, who has United been | official business trip to Ketchikan { returned today on the Yuk W. G. Noble, deputy U shal ‘of Tenakee, arrived neau today on the Yukon on way home from a short bu in hi (trip to Ketchikan. | | the past few weeks, | Juneau on the Yukon |and brother of the late Geo T. M. bar local man who has been in restaurant Ketchikan returned to| John Hazlett, old time Alaskan, | | Hazlett of Cordova, passed throu Juneau on the Yukon. He is con ducting a Golden Belt tour of twenty-five members R. D. McCarthy of Yor) is a member of the American Ex press party of seven, which pas ed through Juneau on the Yukin as a part of the Golden Belt tour | F. Swenson, assistant to D. W,/ Branch, manager of the Libby, Me. Neil and Libby salmon plants in Alaska, arrived neau on vhn Yukon imm New in Ketch In Milan hemp close out Juneau Wranct Alaska and Tanana and Kodiak the oy this | tree | through and Jacob r | tailor, w hlior metroopiis recer braids—in most all shades. HATS $1.75 Irm\‘\ 438 b6 1 56 56 54 Le ) s than 10 Rupeit, at 4 Prinee cc are made middl mainde the the Ala twenty-four are only past morning i will raturns an g Branch the we rd ok Ritchie Shattuck, i Cirele Jun fro ur conduct tour arrived dent of Fairbank that a for befor Anchc plone ied D e AY, JULY 26, m Facific which au today on the tod, 35U four 1927. Bristol Bay Pack 891,074 Cases; Nuslagak Is Failure n. today: ilmon for Weather Cldy Clear b 10,000 wrea th £ 10 Nush ¢ remainder be the Ugashik The runs in district rom tl put md other area ak a total failure and in the total from about 500 Ilnrv entirely ha were cally decline 0 0 0 miles. e INTERURBAN LINES BUSY CHICAGO, aren't Edmonton a. m. July hurtir Aleutian the Alaska : Railway Association says Coast of the Unite statio 230,000,000 mor | It is 1926 than thi Mote interu ran Eled and 4 Amer rried s in kan hours. in 26.—Six speakin conntrie -so TON, July M sh trip : ign afti with the <Inulun of Women’s until a - m Genera wele of Glub ng the 19- | s 11 th "'IllllllIIHIIIHIIII.uhlllllhllllllllllllll‘ frlgldalre the Guaranteed by the residen ; General at the ity Inter Motors AT THE HOT Gastinea " Peder Latva, Zynda Charles Boham, and fancy To u Gastineau Electric Co. 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