Evening Star Newspaper, October 8, 1923, Page 4

SLANPRISONERS LEFTDEFIANT NOTE “Killed Ourselves,” Message Read—Widow of One Ad- mits Smuggling Arms. Associated Press. .yF‘J';D‘!YVlLLPL K October 8.—A note to his wife, scribbled with a lead pencil on the back of a letter by Monte Walters. reputed leader of & trio of convict murderers. found dead in the me: hall of the western Ken- tucky state penitentiary here Satur- day, wheu authorities entered the building after a siege of eighty-one hours, was made public by prison officials. “Love to you, beloved—l am wounded and surrounded by guards. Good-bye—I know you will be— the note® read. Death apparently stayed the hand of the writer before the message was completed. Other Messages Found. An examination of the room in ich the bodies of the desperadoes w found disclosed a number of pencil-scrawled messages on the back of a wooden bench, signed by Lawrence Griffith. ““‘Remember, Killed ourselves” one read, indicat- ing that the theory that Harry Fe land and Grifith killed themselves was_correc “Deflants (defiance) from the dea was the text of another of the mes- sages. Two graves in the cemetery of the western Kentucky state pemftentiary over which the earth was freshly d and the bullet-scarred mess n the center of the prison area. | are mute reminders today of the des- perate last stand of the trlo, Find Only Dend Men. Members of the stormiag party en- red the mess hall after it had been filled with ammonia fumes, prepared to meet three desperate gunmen, and found Monte Walters, Lawrence Grif- fith and Harry Ferland stiff with the rigor of death. All of the gunmen had been dead for at least thirty-six hours, and in the cases of GriMith and Ferland, whose wounds indicated death from suicide, opinion was expressed that the end might have come forty-elght hours before the siege was resumed. Walters, belleved to have been the last to die, wav shot through the head, and had been struck by a rifle grenade, Prison’ routine, disrupted when the gunmen shot four guards. three fa- i tempt to escape fro n Wednesday morning, prac- 3 estored to normal. Troop . from the National Guard machine gun company at_Hopkinsville, and a detail from the Maylfleld guard com- pany, ordered to the scene of the riot by Gov. Edwin P. Morrow, have left for their home Lights and Water Reatored. ectric power lines, cut by bullets fired by the besleging 'forces, with & result that lights and water, the lat- ter from electrically driven pumps, for the prison and the town of Eddy- ville were cut off had been repaired. Prison authorities directed their ef- forts to restoring the machinery of prison routine. A pressing problem was the repairing of the equipment in the prison Kitchen, located on the ground floor of the bullet-torn mess hall. The prison dining room was on the second floor of the building held by the desperadoes, and during the siege it was necessary to feed the ap- proximately 530 prisoners in their 11s with emergency rations and food cooked in the small kitchens of the prison hospital and the warden's quarters Authorities are initiating a search ing investigation .te determine the manner in which Walters and his companions obtained the pistols with which they fatally wounded Guards Hodge Cunningham, V. B. Mattingly and W. P. Gilbert and shot Willlam Gillihan seriously. ‘WIDOW SAID TO CONFESS. Mrs. Lillian Walters Smuggled Arms Into Prison, Say Police. LOUISVILLE, K; Lillian Walters, Walters, reputed leader of a trio convict ‘murderers who killed three in the Western Kentucky state penitentiary, Eddyville, con- that she aided in smuggling pistols and ammunition to the gun- men, police officers here said. “What's the use? 1 helped.” police, who have been cross-examin- ing Mrs. Walters since Friday, quoted her as having sal % Mrs. Walters' complete statemefit the d_by the police, who sald it would be forwarded to T. B. Mc Gregor, state attorney . general at Frankfort. Two persons, both negroes, were jmplicated by Mrs. Walters, it was said, One of the negroes, the con- fession was said to have detailed, purchased the arms and ammunition in Cairo. 1ll, and the second negro smuggled them ifto the prison. One of the negroes is under ‘surveillance by Lyon county authorities, officials reported. 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CONSTANTINOPLE, October $.—The British Crimean Memorial cemetery was desecrated some time within the past three da: The crosses on soventeen graves were overturned, treeg were broken and shrubbery was stripped. Many distinguished Britishers, official and private, are burled in this ceme- tery ‘and the affair has caused a most painful sensation, particularly tn view of Ismet Pasha's assertion when the Galllpoli cemeteries were under dis- cussion at the Lausanne conference that the Turks reverenced all sepul- chree. Inasmuch as ail the greenery was carrled away. it is belleved to have ole been the work of persons who to sell for Saturday's decoratio MMILLAN CAN NOW tablished With Radio Ama- teur in Calgary. By the Associated Preas CALGARY, Alta, October 8.—Two- way communication with radfo sta- tion WNP, on board the Bowdoin, the ship chartered by the McMillan Arctic exploration party, now within the shadows of the Arctic circle, has been established by W. W. Grant of the station CFCN at Calgary. Vorification was reported from station 9-DKB of Minot. N. D.. and the United States station also picked up the Bowdoin's message to Mr. { Grant RADIO CALL TWISTED. SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Oetober S. —The marine and newspaper circles of the entire Pacific coast, from Van- uver Island south to San Diego were set agog lust night by what later appedred to have been a radlo broadcaster's overzeal and a ch’ yacht people off thag According jectural, statlon experien municating wit doin, gn exploral tic waters, and cleare This ur 8] stations, varying in a detai as it went, until north Pactfic points turned out a well rounded account that & Japanese war vessel was in distress and identified the ship with the call letters, “JXA." Nobody could find these letters in any radio directory and the situation was getting murky indeed, when the steamer Humboldt re ported she had picked up thirty per- sons on the vacht Corsair. This, in turn, was exaggerated and varied in relaying and led to a report that the yacht in trouble was one owned by E. W. Scripps, newspaper publisher. Arriving of the yacht at Santa Barbara under tow, and receipt of further advices from radio.stations at several points, inland as well as coastwise, led to a general discredit- ing of the reports that a vessel was in @istress, though echoes of the pur- ported call for aid resounded up and down the air lanes for some time afterward. DISCUSS CLASSIFYING. Federal Bar Association to Hold Session Tonight. Classification of government employes under the classification act of 1923 will be discussed at a meeting of the Fed- eral Bar Association of Washington to be held tonight at 8 o'clock in the auditorium of the Interfor bullding. All government employes engaged in legal work are invited to attend the meeting. The association Is composed of legal officers of the governmen Pickens Neagle, solicitor of the Nav: Department, is president of the asso- ciation. lolc——{ojc——] EVERY RUG A Special EXQUISITE SMALLER SIZES 2x4 Feet . . 3x6 Feet. . 4x8 Feet. . "LARGER SIZES AT MODEST PRICES Evesy Rug Unre teed: Woven of Wool in JEAN‘CALVERT Chinese Rugs. ~ | Two-Way Communication Es- better xchoolx in Wanh! AIR RECORD FLVER DESCRIBES THRILLS 1 | | Lieut. Williams Says He Was | Half Asleep From Terrific Plane Vibration. ; —_— | T6 A ssoclated Press. ®f. LOUIS, Mo. October | speed trials for attempts to break i the world records for the one, two [and three kilometer straightaways, ‘xcheduh-d to have been held yesterday, Fwere postponed, due to the inability «L the contest committee to arrange | he electrical timing apparat 'rma‘ tests, it was announced, will be held | at Mitchel Field, Mineola, L. L, inj Ltwo weeks. Lieut. A. J. Williams, holder of the !\world speed record and winner of L Lo Pointed out today to budget hureau offi i the flow from the Armstrong High School mearby, that he evidently forgot to wipe out a chalk mark, for he flew the course five times instead of four. Describing his sensation as he hur- tled through the air at & speed of over two hundred and forty miles an hour, Lieut. Williams added that the vibrations of the plane were terrible, and that each “bump in the air threw my shoulders against the cockpit, snapped my head back and forth so sharply that 1 did not, after ng one lap, know what it was all about.” Brow Felt No Thrill. On the other hand, Lieut. H. J. ow, United States Navy entrant, who came in second, with an average speed for the 200 Kilometers (124.27 | miles) of 24178 miles, declared he.( “had no thrill,” nor experienced any | unusual sensation in rounding the | course. | Commander Marc A. Mitschner. | commanding the naval detachment here, sald yesterday that a check on Williams' speed showed that on the stralghtway between pylons he at- tained a speed of better than two hundred and forty-seven miles an hour. Commenting on the new world's speed record made by Willlams, men prominent in aviation declared that the limit of air speed had not yet been reached, and that a speed of at| least 300 miles an hour might be ex-| pected at the next air meet in 1924. Howard E. Coffin, Detroit, retiring | president of the National Aeronautical | Association, told newspaper men that | | beings r High School, to take care of the over- | the vibration of the plane so_terrifig | should now devote their time to ef- ficieney of airplanes and temporarily forget speed. Now Hold All Recor “America has now all world speed records,” Mr. Coffin said, “and I think the aircraft manufacturers should now devote their efforts to making airplanes more efficient.” Orville Wright, who with his broth- er. invented and flew the first afr- plane at Kitty Hawk, N. C., more than twenty years ago, said that the speed of airplanes is limited only to human eadurance and the abillty’ of human to withstand che, centrifugal force of the rush of air. Similar expressions were given by Col. Harold H. Hartney, Chance Vought, president of the Vought Air- plane Company, New York, and Lieut. H. J. Brow. Lieut. L. H. Sanderson, United States Marine Corps, who had a forced land ing after finishing the race ye today was reported as feeling much better. Physicians said that Sander- son’s ‘ankle was not broken, as pre- viously reported, but sprained. The, Army and Navy planes will he shipped back to their various sta- tions tomorrow. The hundreds of other planes which had flown here for the meet left yesterday and today. _— Tiled walls, rustless paint and new ventilating “dodges” are the latest luxuries _in the llon house at the BANDITS DARINGLY ROB RITZ-CARLTON Fashionable Hotel’s Employes Locked in Elevator—Get " $5,000 in Gems. " By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, October 8.—Three armed men early today held up the night manager and several other. em- ployes of the fashionable Ritz-Carlton Hotel and robbed a jewelry store off the lobby of $5,000 worth of gems. The robbery occurred at 2:30 a.m. Charlie Chaplin, who entered’the ho- tel lobby fifteen minutes after the bandits fled, was the first outsider to learn of it. Not until five hours later, after hotel émployes had tried to trail the robbers and failed, was the hold- up reported to the police. Bandits Well Dressed. Entering the hotel at the main con- course, the bandits, well dressed and armed, called for the night manager and ordered his hands up. A porter, bellman and elevator operator were herded into an elevator cage and kept prisoner there by two of the invaders, while the third smashed the show case of the adjoining gem shop and scooped out jewels. ‘When a special policeman appeared the bandits fled, leaving $45,000 worth erday, | Lustrous Rick in_ Oriental Symbolism. 1912 CONN. AVE. { the Pulitzer event yesterday, was one of the entrants. Thousands of-people had gathered to witness the event. Their disap- pointment was ameliorated somewhat, however, when Williams, flying his record-breaking Curtiss navy fighter, barrel-rolled for them at speed of over 240 miles an hour. A barrel roll consiste of turning the plane in a | corkscrew motion but continuing straight ahead. Speaking to newspaper men today | Lieut. Williams said: “Really I do not know how 1 did it. Winning this race was my one and only ambition. 1 have been fiying for six years with the thought of winning the world speed classic, the Pulitzer trophy, #1- ways uppermost in my mind. Practiced Turning. “lI flew over the course exactly twenty-six times and knew every telephone pole and haystack around the thirty miles of it. I did not fear a forced landing, but wanted to cut every corner and get every mile out of the ship. To do this I have {been practicing a new turn for fi |ing at that terrific speed. Last year iTieut. R. L. Maughan in_taking the turns round the pylons became un-; | conscious due to the tremendous American aviation manufacturers ' London Zoo. i 0 “Thinzs Rubber" | centrifugal force as he turned at a | speed of over 200 miles an hour, “All 1 can say is that 1 am content o have realized my ambition and won the Pulitzer trophy. for the United States Navy." At a smoker last night, at which trophies were presented to the win- ners of the various races held, Lieut. 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