The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 1, 1928, Page 8

ARG AN SENSARRANS RN JACK MITCHELL HELD HERE AS - SINCLAIR AID Marshal W}utc %n s He Is|r Man Who Sawed Hole in Local Federal Jal Interest in the ¢ d Charle Sinclair ¢ L S ¢ | escape e % n\\-\\u.-.\\u\\\\ S0 by Ma hal Wh an | who Marsh ¢ \ on 14 Held for ) have Augus Extradition h le Ottawa authorities 1sed and o leave Canada. However representations made by loca Federal authorities, resulted in h ‘7 detention by Prince Ruper } I lice pending the tradition proceedings based on t warrants, g him wit from a jail and th n Tt given 90| n outcome of ex- charg Feder perjury | other allegin Courl.s Last Word In Mur(l(’r A ppeal [ —— ¥ i THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE MONDAY, OCT. 1, 1928. af in on of h vi ph fre .-‘.qul Ma moved her from the garage, were and charged with mur. r. They were acquitted. Stephenson was indicted by the irion county grand jury and ter a lengthy trial, was sentenced the state prison The prosecution 1 the contention that in lacerations on Miss Oberholtzer, alleged to ave been inflicted Dby* Stephen- n, contributed to her death. For a few months after his con- little heard of Ste- suddenly, the spapers through- arried stories of tephenson and based its case an infec- n the body was henson. Then pages of new country written by ction ot the ters camp for several days, returned from there Saturday evening on the Jazz. Mr. Mumbrue will leave shortly with a party to survey the town- site of the Kake Indian village. .. — WENDELL DAWSON ARRIVES | Wendell Dawson, hydro-electric engineer in charge of stream in- vestigations for the Zellerbach Company at Ketchikan and the Cameron - Chandler interests at Speel River, returned today from the latter point. He will leave on the Aleutian later this week for Ketchikan. FIREMEN ARE CALLED OUT TWO mES ON SUNDAY Twice Sunday morning the fire department was called out by a smoldering blaze in the basement of the New Imperial Pool Room on Front Street. Little damage was done by the flames. The fire started beneath the oil burner, the wood under the cement base of the burner having caught. e Leon Permanent Wave, Fern Bezuty Parlor. T12.50. —adv. ‘morning in an attempt Brock and Schlee Trying for Record DIEGO, Cal., Brock and , noted rcund were still in SAN William Schl flie Oct. 1.— Edward the world the air this to break the new world duration record. They started early Saturday morning. They mist remain in the air until 1:15 tomorrow to set a record. s 0ld papers ror saie at tne Empire. /E. THOSE EGGS AGAIN WE HA announcemer Albert Whi Jack Mitchel and with the Marshal rest of of aiding escape from the on or about April 2 warrant issued plaint signed by Deputy W. E. Feero. Mitchell is alleged to have éd a hole in the jail through which the escape was made. It was 9f by 17 inches in the inner side and 7 3 inches in the bars. | 7 by 13 He was recently bre jail sent G A <SR X MOOSE MEMBERS ATTENTION Meeting tonight at 8 p. m Come out. Nominations for Sec- retary and Prelate. Initiation and a big feed. c. D. from prison, in which could expose a “mass in Indiana politics lly the Marion county grand took cognizance of the charg und in time indictments were returned against John L. Duvall, of Indianapolis, and other smuggled he extradition he subject liplomatic tions between the United St Department and the O tawa Governm The Americ m} Gove 40 days in which | matter of 8 now The kind you liked last year priced 2 dozen for $ .95 Our carrots are—per pound : Nice Green Cabbage, pound Large bunches Celery, each GARNICK’S PHONE 174 he orruption of « negotia ‘ said char Sinclair” al abettin local Fede last on a com Marshal nt rnment pre ‘]A‘””‘“ esod White Issues Statement | Cofncident with Mitchell’s turn here to be tried on the charge of aiding Sinclair escape, Marshal White issued a statement review- in his work on the " FERGUSON, Secretary. e 0ld papers 1or sale at the Bmpire. was to ent its case Sincl —ad mayor % officials During all this time, through his attorneys, was making use of every legal device to ob. tain freedom. Writs and petitions filed every few weeks. The re Stephenson, ca were “l gave much time and thought| main prop of his legal structure, complete a [ working out this case, trying ./ - ¥ % however, was an appeal from the at Skagway. to apprehend clair ,and fix conviction for murder. 4 Grmina R“T‘I'd responsibility those who aided | itche a formetr soldier and 7 " teclared. “My| tonta ' Chikoot Bhreecks at|15 Mo ewcaber e deciared. ‘) 'MUMBRUE COMPLETES WEST ADMIRALTY IS. RECTANGULAR SURVEY |10 years’ experience in the De- one time, is said to have served to| nee imposed | hd on In prison, D. C. Stephenson (inset), former Grnnd Dragon of the Indiana Ku ‘Klux Klan, awaits final word of the courts in his appeal from conviction for murder of Miss Madge Oberholtzer in 1925. The girl swallowed poison and in a dying statemeni *| declared Stephenson tock her to his mansion (above) and later attacked her on a train. . [partment of Justice, including work two terms in a Federal jail. The hn {arie Nowt Yok offense with which he now | LuReanbeth s charged carries with it a maxi ) Sdiippad i b mum penalty of ten years in the Sniwiedée vaiuabl penitentic Other prisoners the local jail White to have the del at least of making an usual noise while the hole sawed in the wall the tank and while his get-away. History of Case In November, 1927, Sinclair cities such @ San tle is S me 75 OIL BURNERS We have sold over seventy-five Oil Burners in and around Juneau. While we have no way of checking up we feel sure this more than equals the COMBINED SALES of all other Southeastern Alaska dealers. in solving the et 1 P, arrested, April 2, 19 a murder charge in eon- nection with the death of Mjss Oberholizer. y In a dying statement, L[ declared Stephenson had induced In. jer to go to lis mansion at Iry the|8ton, a suburb, and later forced her to accompany him on a train to Hammond. She asserted she was attacked while on the trai The day (March 17 1925) Miss Oberholtzer obtained poison and swallowed it. Aecord ing to her statement, she was tak en back to Indianapolis in an au tomobile and secreted in Stephen- son's ge for two days, and afterward removed to her home Karl Gentry, who was alleged to have accompanied Stephenson and the girl Hammond, and Barl Klinek alleged to have Mumbrue, in charge of Public Survey party, ar- Sunday evening on the gas Woodrow after complating his work on the west coast of Ad- miralty Island. He has been in the field since last April. The party was engaged in run. a rectangular survey in Mitch. and Kanelku Bays. Its work designed to facilitate the tim- survey now in progress in the west Admiralty Island pwlp tim. ber unit for the Cameron-Chandlar nterests of California. In the party w i Winston Spencer, William Wallace, L. A. Dauphiny, Bob Eldred, Nels Hor- num, Henry Lepisto, and Charley Sing c INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Oct On the action of the Indiana su- preme court, which has announced it soon will give a decision in D, Stephenson’s appeal from a murder verdict, rests the fate of the former Ku Klux Klan leade: and notorious figure the diana political upheaval of of |last three years. cas Indianan 25, on incarcer the are said by Marshal been implicated in to the extent) amount was the direction and att under Burn uating of William J Government and New Y being | the criminal | Alaska as elsewher bars of his companion had made | | start on the officer modern methods and a certain amount study of the moves of criminals| The former grand dragon of the bec fugitives make|klan in Indiana is lifa S ested charged with bootlegging, | 7hen they " e e ed with DOOUGKENS | 1,6, marked me and lcad to their |sentence for the murder of Miss . et | eventual detect That is what |Madge Oberholtzer. g Into| ) ppened to Sinclair.” - 2 . 3 scape were riding down By One Escaps One of the bullets pas | Referring to uc in handling prisoners since taking of- the coat of one of the B T car. ‘The auto was taken by fice, the Marshal said: “I feel a officers and later on the sam pride in the fact that in 28 months, icers a ) 81 was taken away from before when handling about 100 prisoner; daily in the jails of the First Di- ” nce { o officers residence of \_”“ s v [vision, there has been only one ho testified he saw Sinclair take - . Rno Laetian Is eaw Bln | escape. \is was Sinclair, and the machine. Jack Diaz, the he was recaptured after threc . ™ 8 months of liberty. 1 think this EONONRRG. Beas S0 {record 15 clear enough to speak ;"" s ibuigaed wan ’l" ";I" "l“”"‘“"\‘h..r itself. Twenty-eight months ater was charged with perjury| o daie e Sain W 3 as the result of testimony given _‘\‘l'l”“” l:;:]‘ ey iy 'y [‘_“':f‘ hog by Marshal White and Mrs. White ° hiciat ke fo the effect that they had listened in at a dictograph to Diaz in con I onibition aent. FOREST SERVICE GETS in which he told them what he| 58,976 OF TRAIL FUNDS was going to testify and that it was “framed” for the occasion.| 7The sum of $8,976.70 Disz was declared to have been at|gilotted by the Federal treasury the time in the employ of the Pro-|io the Alaska district, U. 8. Forest Biion ofibe abd Was heing used |@arvice for (il coastruction, it as a “stool” to entrap Sinclair. H:| was announced today by Assisiant was sentenced today to one year| b gt s ol {This is 10 per cent of the net in jail for perjury receipts from timber sales mad¥ from national forest lands in the convicted De-| parritory during the last fiscal and was sentenced ! yoar to two years imprisonment in thel” yna.r the local Federal jall and to Pay &|cent of these receipts go to the s fine of $1,500. He served about!joc.1 porest Service for trail It’s Right four and onme-half months of the|ywork An additional 25 per cent Sub Station Post Office.No. 1. term, becoming a model prisoner.|js sot aside for Alaska schools and J | according to Marshal White. He|ioaqs and trails, and is remitted i il - S paEL L 3 S o%lby the Fedatal Bigakury to the Tar- IIIIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!illIllIIIIIlIIIIIIIIIIIIllIIIIIllIIIIIIIIIIllIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIllIlIIIIIIIIIllllIIIIIIIIIIIIIllillllllfl What 9B Will Buy the disposal of certain proper interests. On April 23, this year, when his attorney called to see him, the prisoner could not bhe found, and a checkup disclosed the escape and the holes in the jail Sinclalr in his hurried depar- ture, left behind him a good pho- 95¢ 95¢ 4 cans Amocat Tomatoes . 95¢ 4 cans Amocat Beets . 95¢ 4 cans Amocat Parsnips . . 95¢ 5 cans Amocat Carrots . . . 95¢ 5 cans Amocat Sauerkraut 95c¢ 5 cans Amocat Sardines. . . 95¢ rived boa ending chools Chicago I have found that in ork, " he the girl can caught Sincla three but was and Sinclair With this record of successful jobs and satisfied own- ers we are safe in GUARANTEEING EVERY JOB TO BE SATISFACTORY. “HAVE A HART” HERE'S WHY-— Absolutely safe, approved by underwriters for 25° Diesel oil. Saves 14 to %% of fuel bill. Exclusive Hart vacuum tank feed—(no pump, no chance to flood). Churns oil and air together and feeds through large nozzle at low pressure (no high pressure pump— no chance to clog—no wear). Spark points swing out of flame (will not ecar- bonize). Exclusive Hart flame switch—shuts burner down if fire goes out or does not light. Burns heavy diesel oil without preheating. It is so quiet that it can be used in warm air furnace. Simple—only one moving shaft. Twenty-five in Juneau—will show you one or all. GEO. B. RICE Sheet Metal “I tell you in advance what job will cost” months’ | e 1 was| ber of following two e thre shots and two others blind ed through men in the the day th Virtually unknown in 1923, Ste. phenson becAme interested in the klan and within two years he had risen to the top of that organiza- tion in Indiana, had amassed a for. tune of $1,000,000 and was an ad. mitted political power in the state. He was reputed to have the power to make or break those aspiring to political office, and he was said to have played the role of dictator e ove the Indiana legislature of} 14 Then came his sudden fall A tonic Shortly - after v disagreement with Hiram W. Kvans, imperial| for old and young a street. h Naghel, who was at the ay one of to who man who narrow- was one of | ARGONAUT ey wizard of the klan, and attempts to form a separate organization to further Stephen’s political power, Light Grey Flannel Shirts FOR YOUR COUGH AND COLD WE RECOMMEND White Pine and Tar Cough Syrup, Pine Tar and Honey Cough Syrun, Antigrip Tablets, Bromo Quinine, \\ eek’s Cold Tablets and many others. has been Two Pockets $1.20 Plumbing Heating BUTLER-MAURO DRUG CO. Frec Deilvery is Convicted Sinclair wa cember 14, 19 capes l on H. S. GRAVES The Clothing Man Phone 134 NI 10 When We Sell It to present law, per is ZINES PAPERS We have a complete line of magazines and Sunday papers. We take subs; tions for the New York Times or any magazine. We have a few left of the Pacific Motor Boat for August of the race to Al- { aska, and illiiiiillllllllllll. ’ tograph of himself. Copies were made of it and scattercd broad-| cast all over the country and eve: to Great Britain. Search Is Pressed Rumors from time to time came to officers of Sinclalr's presence in various places and posses weye) sent out several times on unsuc- cessful searches The first definite fugitive came from Port Althorp. Investigation showed that a man corresponding to his general geription had been there on small boat and bought some sup-| plies, No further trace was un-! de- covered in that direction. 'l IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIH T LT CE L L EL L LT 4 cans Amocat Peas 4 cans Amocat Corn . 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