Evening Star Newspaper, September 3, 1931, Page 21

THE _EVENING F 3 "HIGH MARK MADE “BLACK PHANTOM,” WHO ONCE RULED HIGHWAYS OF WEST, DIES 80, Colorado’s Oldest NI —ron Prisoner, Served First Battalion Favored by Term for Fair Weather at Camp By the Assoclated Press. Pollard. CANON CITY, Colo., September 3.— T Old-timers today back-tracked into the Special Dispatch to The Star. ‘\Vest to ‘410 )-;nrs A?O :l.; te;llllitl;:hrx- AR ploits and crimes of “the Black Phan- CAMP POLLARD, VIRGINTA BEACH, , PIOUS A0 €FU0e8 O er garb_and Va., September 3.—Fair weather con- |yiding a jet-black horse, roamed Colo- tintes to permit the carrying out of |rado and Wyoming. the crowded intensive training - The body of the phantom, otherwise ule of the 6th Marine Brigade in camp | Allen Hence Downen, 80, Colorado's here. | oldest prisoner, was lowered into a The 1st Battalion. 20th Marines, fired | grave at the State Penitentiary here . ent | yesterday. Downen died Tuesday. He t- | had served 33 years under a life sen-) tence for murder. m. The highest | ~ Colorado officers sald he was the turned in on | mysterious horseman who once ruled de Sergt. | the highways leading into Denver, and ve of 237 | Wyoming ploneers recalled the black - | phantom rider who disappeared shortly s mot on the rifle| before Downen's conviction. eluding the r: individual scor the range was 33 Years of Life Murder. phantom escaped from a posse of vigl- lantes and was seen no more. Buffalo Vernon, who called himself a son of Cattle Kate, was arrested three years ago for wrecking a train near Cheyenne and was turned over to Cali- fornia officers. He 1s now serving a sentence in California for robbery. Downen’s first criminal venture, so far as is known, was the Tobbery of a Wells-Fargo stage near San Jose, Calif. He was captured and sentenced to 21 years in prison. Two years later he escaped, was recaptured after a revol- ver fight and spent 10 more years in prison before his sentence was com- muted. Soon afterward & man and woman were shot in a robbery in a San Jose STAR, WASHINGTON, D. park. The man died. Downen was gouemoned, tried and again sentenced n. In 1892 he was released and went to ‘Wyoming, where he is supposed to have operated as the “Black Phantom” until 1895. Colorado next was troubled by & nocturnal marauder. Then one night Joel Ashworth, trav- eling salesman, was shot to death in a Tobbery on the Sand Creek road, lead- ing into Denver. Downen was arrested and convicted despite his plea that he was an honest labor DISCOUNT CAROL RUMORS Italians Doubt He Seeks Marriage With Daughter of King. ROME, September 3 (#).—A report that King Carol of Rumania is seeking | a marriage with Princess Maria Fran- | cesca,second daughter of King Victor | Emmanuel of Italy, was received coldly here yesterday and most commentators cfi:;ndered any such marriage impos- sible. Unofficial commentators at Vatican City said papal sanction would not be obtainable for such a marriage because King Carol is a divorced man, whose former wife is still living. C., THURSDAY, FALSE ADS UNDER CHECK Admitting that 26 statements used in advertising her product were “wholly incorrect in certain respects and greatly exaggerated in others,” a woman vendor of an alleged remedy for gallstones and other abdominal allments has signed WHY NOT "REAL BARGAINS" IN FLOWERS? This week we’ll sell choice SEPTEMBER 3. 1931, stipulation with the Federal Trade Com- mission agreeing to discontinue false advertising. On the ground of misleading adver- tising, the commission also has obtained a stipulation fiom a corporation selling an abdominal belt offered as a reducing belt, under which sales in interstate commerce are discontinued. ROSES 50c doz. GLADIOLI 75¢ Why not make “C. quarters and save money doz. " Flower Stores your Floral Head- C. & C. 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No Stop-overs 2% 2 2 7 Pennsylvania Railroad range the mor Metra, 7438 Metro. 7945 Metro. 9369 sisted of pitching pup tents brigade will sleep in pup tents Satur- | day night. preparatory to departure for | Washington early Sunday. The present model Marine Corps camp of pyramidal | tents will be struck and stowed on! Saturday. This afternoon’s drill period was de- | voted to rlose order drill formations, | preparatory to tomorrow’s competition | for various cups, medals and trophies. | To prizes placed in competition from , the 1930 camp Norfolk business men | have added several cups and awards. Boxing Titles Decided. The brigade boxing championships in each of the classes were de- | finals, the Fr Buchholz gold ring medals to be pre- sented to the title holders at brigade formation along with other cups and s The fByweight champion of the 6th Brigade is Pvt. Shepherd, brigade mili- | tary police company, Roanoke, Va, He! won on a technical knockout in two | rounds from Pvt. Zagami. Company D, | 20th Marines. The bantamweight | champlonship_ went to C. Neuman, | Compeny A. 20th Marines, by & deci- | slon over Pvt. Day, Company D, 20th Marines. itle was won by! v A, 20th Ma-| igade Headquarters Company, by de- |lic University. Pyne had to box but lonce in the tournament, on which oc- Escaped From Vigilantes. Max Meyer, Cheyenne, Wyo., mer- chant, said the phantom was a member of the gang of “Big Jim"” Averill and “Cattle Kate,” who were hanged by vigilantes, Meyer recalled that the rines of Alexandria. The middleweight title went to Pvt. Rollins, Company B, 20th Marines, by default. He had de- feated Sergt. Walter McFeely earlier in . The light-heavyweight title went to Sergt. McFeely, 6th Bri- fault, McFeely had entered in both the light-heavy and middle classes. The heavyweight championship was won by Pvt. 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