The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 28, 1926, Page 1

~ TWO NEGROES SHOT TO DEATH SATURDAY NIGHT @ Iparned, who ; + ae bs] Full Associated Press Leased Wire Day Service VOLUME XLVII. No. 153 KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, JUNE 28, 1926. For 47 Years Devoted to the Interests of Key West PRICE FIVE CENTS ALLEGED THAT COUPLE WAS KILLED BY MAN KNOWN HERE UNDER) NAME OF DICE ae | The man known as Dice, but} whose real name has not yet been | charged wich shooting to death a man and a) } is woman at the corner of Division! and Whitehead streets about dark! lest Saturday night, has not been! apprehended, though | county officers have been closely | city and s combing the city since the tragedy i ocurred until the present time. It} is not believed that he has left the | city, and he may be found at any| Dice was seen on Julia street a short while after the dual killing’ when he met Rose Huger, wife of | #@ colored minister, poinied — his} gun at her and told her that if she | screamed he would kill her. Since) that time his whereabouts are un- known. Manuel! Jermania and Mercedes Carmancho were the man and woman killed. Jermania was shot and kitrd instantly on the east side of ./hitehead street, the bullet passing ‘irectly through his head. The gunman then chased the wo- man across the street into a gro- cery store and shot her one time, the missile taking effect in the abdomen. She was carried to her | home and died in about 80 min-jare in-good hands and everything \will be ready for the visitors when utes. : The bodies were conveyed io the Key West Undertaking Company |>eine Thomas street, where-thby werey prepared for burial and viewed by the coroner’s jury. The funerals loy will take place at 6 and 5:80) o'clock this afternoon, the woman's from the resicence at 1012 Whitehead street, the man’s from the undertaking chapel. The wo- Man's age was wiven as 19 years and the man’s as 25, j A coroner’s jury empaneled by} County Judge Hugh Gunn held a! sess.on at 10 o'clock this morning to investigate the killing of Man- uel Jermani i Augustina Planchat, 13-year-old niece of (he woman who was killed, | was the only eye witness to the shooting of Jermania. She testi- fied at the inquest that her aunt,/ Mercedes Carmancho, the woman; killed, had been Dice's sweetheart | for sqype time, and that two} mon hs ego they quarreled. Since} that time she had been keeping company with Jermania. She said that on Saturday night she was on | Duval street with the couple (hat | was killed. When they got! to the corner of Division andj Whitehead streets, they were ap-) proached by Dice, who, without | utering a word, drew his pistol | end shot Manuel Jermania, who) fell to the sidewalk dead, He then chased her aunt across the street} where che ran into a store, Dice followed. inside ‘he store an aunt of the fleeing woman ran between the, but Dice pushed her to one! side and fired. } The coroner’s jury adjourned to meet again Wednesday aiter- noon at 3 o'clock, when the death, of Mercedez Carmancho will. be probed into. The girl told her) story in a straightforward wa; and gave a graphic description ¢o! the dual tragedy. A brother of the woman killed: Saturday night, Anionio Carman.| cho, met a tragic death in an tereation here about a year ago. He was shot by a man named) Daniel, who is now under a five year sentence in the state prison for the crime. Chief Deputy 5S ff Joseph; Kemp was the first er at the scene of the shooting Saturday night. finding Jermania dead when he arrived, the woman having been carried to her home, dying 30 minutes after being shot. He was soon joined by the full force of all police and county officers, and the elty was scoured all Saturday night and Sunday, but without suc- cess. It is understood that Dice owned « boat, and that the boat is gone, so it may be that he is in hiding on a nearby Key, or may have made a dash for the main- jand. |more than 100 people are expect- COMPILE REPORT ON CASUALTIES — SOUTHERN STATES |LIST ALSO SHOWS NUMBER OUTLINE PROGRAM | INJURED IN VARIOUS SEC-| FOR CELEBRATION | Shite FOR DURATION a ON JULY FOURTH | | ASSOCIATED PRESS HEAD-| REDUCED <WaTES. oF onn| CCOABTERS, Jane. 28-—Anto- |mobile, railroad, steamboat, air-' FARE FOR ROUND TRIP IS ‘plane and horse-drawn vehicular GRANTED FROM HAVANA, | ‘taffic killed 1,127 Persons and) - |injured 6.575 in eleven southern CUBA | states during the period from! January 1, 1926 up to and |‘ cluding yesterday, a survey con-| ducted by the Associated Press reveals today. 3 { The grand total of traffic | | { in-| The tentative program for the celebration of July Fourth in Key West this year indicates that it will be a great day in the Island | City. casualties during the all but three Reduced rates, one fare for the|days less than six months period | round trip, have been granted|@s arrived at through a consolida- | from Havana for the occasion, andj tion of traffic surveys conducted | weekly by the Associated Press, | through cooperation. of member; ed to take advantage of this low papers in the area covered. | fare to visit Key West for the} ‘There were a number of out-) celebration and to meet old|standing accidents in all classes of | friends. ~ traffic. The collision of two ves- The tennis, basketball and base-|*¢!s in the Mississippi River chan- hall <ehibi : ft th nel near New Orleans several - a af ing re Ses race “| months ago claimed upward of a. University of Havana, and they) score of lives while train crashes | will all find meritorious contests | in various sections of the south of awaiting them here. i more or less importance killed Paul Albury and Roy Hamlin £ equally as many. 4 | have combined the best material} Estimates placed the number of | from their baseball teams and will |srade crossing fatalities in the| start practice this afternoon. They |states at fifty while airplane acci- | are looking forward to a double-|(ents at the various military and header on Sunday and one game|naval fields claimed a like num-| Monday. ber. Drivers of horse drawn’ Phe golf and tennis games are|Vehicles killed were few by rea- being arranged by Col. Robert |£0" of their steadily diminishing Spottswood and Mrs. Kirschen-|number. The over a dozen killed baum. Those branches of sports| Were, the results of outstanding ‘ |automobile accidents. Others kill- ed were in the now ordinary auto-| mobile crashes. | ‘There were more persons killed | Leng injured during ‘the month ot ij il January than any other of the! ephnietiae Mader ak Widticen [period ineluded with 233 deaths | and American fistic artists|*"4 1,271 persons injured. The’ that will be a feast for fight fans, |“anuary total is accounted for in’ At the Cuban Club the regular | the treacherous conditions of monthly dance will be turned into| Paved roads and highways during an event in honor of the visiting |the winter from snow and rain. As| citizens of Cuba, on Monday eve- | the weather improved, motorists | ning, and the De Molays announce |es9n toking to the rords in great- a dance for the Coral Isles Casino | ¢T numbers. and a corresponding | Monday night, increase in the number of acci- A number of other athletic and|dents was noted after February society events are planned in con-;2nd March. | nection with the celebration, and 4 big parade is being dise =, PALM BEACH announcements of which will be} | made later. | BANK CLOSES | j | . | DOORS TODAY te | | i EIGHT INJURED |ST. PETERSBURG INSTITU-! | they arrive. Basketball is algo taken ‘care* of. At the new Cuban stadium in- . through Monday. Le It is understood that the ex-) eursionists from Cuba expect to! WHENSTRUCTURE "2%: % morse ovr or: FALLS IN MYAMI > «402 | arrive here Saturday and remain | BUSINESS BY HEAVY RUN. \ SHARP EXPLOSION PRECEDES} ihr Nesters yore) COLLAPSE OF BUILDING —The Palm Beach Bank and Trust | Company closed ite doors shortly | UNDER COURSE. OF CON: Hefore noon today . following a} | STRUCTION he withdrawal of funds pre-! A Very Tasty Job She Has Miss Irma Williams has what you might.caib'a very tasty Job. As loads of the Imperial Valley (Calif.) watermelons roll through Los Angeles on e has to sample each batch to make sure the quality te. there., She i hired to do this by the Melon Growers’ Association. their way east, Other \* i i |MANY WITNESSES TES. TIFY IN CAMPAIGN IS-| | SUE OF GOVERNOR) | PINCHOT | (By Associated Press) | WASHINGTON, June 28.— | Nearing ihe end of its inquiry into! |the $3,000,000 Pennsylvania re- | publican primary, the senate in-| | Vestigating committee directed two! |state officials to appear today for, | quesiioning about the unsuccessful! | senatorial campaign of Governor | | Pinchot. | ST. PETERSBURG CORONER’S JURY IN INQUIRY: RELATIVE TQ Tough Job fuége Charles A. McDonald, formet chief justice of Chicago's eriminc! court, has a tough job. He has been appointed to investigate Chicago’! election frauds, the present crim} situation and the supposed intrigu? between crime and politics in that city. WHALE KILLED BY PASSING STEAMER (By Associated Press) LOiv.wi, dune 28.—The trans- WEST PALM BEACH, June 28.|At!antic liner Berengaria killed a) ™ake ® statement. His attorney, whale yesterday. Six whales Sunday crossed the bow of steamer, but one turned back and} the liner struck it. The impact Meanwhile it is pressing forward | with its plan to make a compre-| | hensive survey of the political ac-| | tivities of the Anti-Saloon League, | | Women’s Christian Temperance! | Union, Ku Klux Klan, Church Or-} | ganizations, Association Against| {the Prohibition Amendment and | other groups identified with pro-| | hibition and similar issues involved 19 ot ‘WIFE'S DEATH _— jin senatorial campaigns. fl This phase of the committee’s MRS. E L Ss I E ELLIOTT) work probably will not be concen-' | traied, but may overlap or form DIES AT HOSP ITAL AS} part of other investigations more | | directly concerned with recent and | RESULT OF RECEIVING: impending primary and election FRACTURED SKULL >) gontests for seats in the senate; ex MAN FACES. _| falling vacant in March. | After completing the Pennsyl- [Sania inquiry, the committee’ plans | Mo take up the Ilitidis republican | ’ . f~rmary in which Senator McKin-| ST. PETERSBURG, June 28.—! ey was defeated for renomination | Eugene M. Elliott, noted in his} by Frank L. Smith, chairman vf} college lays as an athlete and in| the state utitlities. commission. ks Senator Caraway, democrat, Ar- seal: @ungamauia wae iae nses, has called the senate’s at- day faced a coroner's jury 8s 8! tention to charges that the McKin- pmateriag witness at an inquiry in-|ley force expended $1,000,000, in to his wife’s sudden death Satur-| this campaign, and the Smith sup- day night! | poriers $2,000,000—a charge de- His wife, Mrs. Elsie Fortier scribed as “absolutely silly” “by Elliott, died at # hospital three| Allen F. Moore, Smith's campaign | hours after her arrival at the in-| ™&nager. ; stitution from a fractured skull), The. Pinchor aeiteesieg Airected anid by police to have been incur-| to be on hand today were George, red in a fall from the rear steps! W. Woodruff, state attorney gen-| : of his . io | Elliott was released trom cus-| campaign activities in behalf of | tody last night under $25,000) Pinchot, the committee wanted to jbond, after having passed Satur-| tnow more about the expenditure jday night in the municipal Beck: at the $130,000 fund raised by jade. Yesterday he was taken to! he Pennsylvania Women’s Chris- | the county jail at Clearwater! tion Temperance. Union for en- | vhere his release was effected af-| forcement of the Armstrong-Sny- ‘ter his attorneys had evidenced | der prohibition act after the legis-' lan intention to seek his freedom | lature had turned down the gov- through hebeas corpus proceed- ernor’s request for $250,000 ap- pings. H propriation. Haggard from his experiences, | pages. queen’ Elliott continued to decline to! Mr, And Mrs. Robert B. Anstin~ Leaving + On Extended Trip RoBert B. Austin, treasurer and Tana Gy Anngetated “Peows) k Holland, however, declared | s. Elliett died of injuries that; j vere purely accidental and scoffed | \et the possibility of Mr. Elliot be- | | cipitated by the failure of the caused the big vessel to tremble| ‘eg held in contiection with her/ general manager for the Key West | inelude (By Associnted Vress) MIAMI, June 28.—Eight work- | men were seriously injured and/ several others were known to be buried under a mass of debris when the George Washington school, under construction _ on northwest Twelfth street, col- Hapsed shortly before noon today, The injured were taken to t Jackson Menrorial Hospital. They George E. Turner, car- penter; R. Jones, carpenter, and P. Grant, carpenter and five ne. gro laborers. Police and firemen responded to the general alarm at Commercial Bank Trust Company |ftom stem to stern. A man in the|‘esth. over-| to open for business this morning. PEOPLE’S BANK CLOSED DOWN ST. PETERSBURG, June 28.— Heads of the other banks in St. Petersburg today were trying to jwork out a plan by which the Peeple's Bank, which closed its doors Saturday following a run, can resume business. If. it is found that the bank cannot open, » plan is being discussed to have one of the older banks take it over end work out the affairs. | The People’s Bank did not open, the accident and succeeded it}t,qgy and is now in the hands of [the state bank examiner, pending — dragging the unconscious. work- men from the wreckage. While no check of the workers could be made, in the excitement which fol- lowed the crash, searchers at- tempted to locate the several ia- borers who were believed imprison- edor killed under the deb: According to George N. Smal- ridge, president of the Smalridge Constraction Co., contractors for the building, a sharp explosion preceded the collapse, giving rise to the belief that an attempt to wreek the had= been made. (some decision of the other bankers at a meeting this afternoon. ; ee AMUSEMENTS Seoeeeesecessesenesesesee STRAND THEATRE \ TODAY—“When the Door Opened.” Comedy, “Chicken Feed.” } TOMORROW — “The Gilded Butterfly.” Comedy, “Lote Sweet bow was oard. The whale nearly thrown was killed; it was carried along for some distance; before it disappeared. Rooming houses and all other hovses,—50 Ib. full-size felt plated cotton mattresses while they last at $7.00—20 to 40'per cent reduc- tion on our entire sock. Sale ends Saturday. July 19. Terms cash. Long’s Furniture Store June 28-1t CORAL ISLES CASINO — TUESDAY EVENING DANCING TEN CENTS MUSIC BY NINE-PIECE ORCHESTRA CORAL ISLES CASINO ORCHESTRA Best Dance Music Key West Has Ever Had - DINING BATHING | Foundation Company, and Mrs. Divorce proceedings were in-| Austin, are leaving this evening uted against Elliott by h's wife over the Flagler System for New | Saturday, only # few hours prior | York, where, on July 10, they will to her death. The instrument filed take passage on the S. S. Ohio for by Crockett Owen, St. Potersburg' Europe. After an extended con- sttorney acting for Mrs. Elliott|tinental tour of about two months, charged cruel and: inhuman treat-' Mr. and Mrs. Austin will return ment end infidelity. ito their home in this city. Coming to St. Petersbure in Robert B. Austig, Jr., will be 1922 from Atlantic City, Elliott|left in charge of the Key West became identified with others in! Foundation Company offices here the promotion and development of! ontil his father’s return. the famous Gandy Bridce realty! pr Success greeting this! venture Eltiott soon was inter Dr. Warren Vieiting In San Francisco; States Weather Quite Chilly The Citizen is in receipt of a post card from Dr. Wm. R. War- ten, who is now visiting in San Francisco, Calif, stopping at the Palace Hotel! in thet city. i Dr. Warren states that the weather is quite chilly, overcoats) ‘and blankets being quite essential, and says that he surely misses the excellent climate of the Island City, which is such a contrast to ithe weather now heing experienced lin the California city and other jsections of the country at this time. ” {Continued cn Page 8) PER DANCE eee Investigating Committee Too Chummy | i | | i Sheriff J W Monroe of Yolo coun. ty. Calif, face¢ impeachment | rc’ .g@s because he got too chummy with hia prisoners. He shared wine with them, he admits, but says he) did it to get them to talk about cases) he was investigating. FOUR PERSONS: MURDERED IN TAMPA TODAY VICTIMS FOUND WITH SKULLS CRUSHED; BLOODY AXE IS USED IN EARLY) MORNING SLAYING (ity Associated Press) | TAMPA, June 28.—Two | were held today for questioning by the police in connection with the killing of four persons here early | this morning. Those killed were Bee Rowell, | 45, carpenter; Mrs. Rowell, his| mother, and Ira and Lena Rowell, | his nephew and niece, respectively. | All lived in the same house within | a few blocks of the business dis- | trict. All ded from crushed} skulls. A bloody axe found léan- ing against Mrs. Rowell's bed was | believed by police to be (he in- | strument used. Police refuxs to mimke known | AGREEMENT SIGNED WITH ROAD PARTMENT ON TANIA! TRAIL Officials Called For Questioning Before DADE COUNTY TAKES ACTION; MONROE AND COLLIER EX- PECTED TO FOLLOW (Ny Associnted Press) TALLAHASSEE, June Dade county has signed the agree- ment with-the State Road Depart- ment for construction of the Ta- miami 28.— Trail and similar agree- ments with Monroe and Collier counties are expected ‘shortly, Dr. F, A. Hathaway, chairman, an- nounced today. The agreement with Dade county, signed in duplicate form of execution by the commission- ers and road department, is. the original proposal submitted to the county, it was stated with certain clauses incorporated Tor the pur- pose of “clarification,” after 4 had been held at Jacksonville on the subject. The department, Dr. Hathaway said, also received assurances from conference the Dade commissioners that the agreement would be promptly ex- pected and that advertisements for bids for the construction of 12 miles: of the trail in Dade county are being inserted. wtih the view of speeding up the work. Minimum ‘specifications for con- struction of the trail fn Monros county under the agreement are being worked out following a re- port of Assistant Highway Engi- neer L. K. Cannon, who was sent there to go over the situation with the county engineers, the chairman said, and now that Dade county has executed its agréement, Col- lier county is expected to follow immediately Mr. Hathaway added. Automobile Thieves Stvip Machine of Parts At Lewis Motors Company Som automobiles left outside the Le-vis Motors Compeny plant were stripped of tires, batteries and asecessories during the nights of the past week ond, though .no | clue hes been discovered as to the ‘dentity of the thieves. Mr. Lewis anys this is going slong nearly all the time, but that they hit him unusually heavy last ‘riday night, the loot taken the names of the prisoners pending i arrest of a third mai, ‘who, they said, was believed to be the killer. | They held that the mo.ive was rob.| Members of Order of mounting to about $60. bery. } Richard Rowell, brother of Bee, | who lived with the others, had not | been found at a late hour this af-/ ternoon. * The vy ms were discovéred by | Miss Rub: iner, who, accompan- ied by her father, called at the Rowell house this morning. When her knock brought no response, ' she said she went around the | house to.a side window, where she | saw Lena and Mrs. Rowell lying on & bed in a pool of blood. summoned the police. Two petroinfen answeted j the young girl was rushed to the cpital. In a back room the po- lice found the other two lying dead on their bed, their heads crushed almost beyond recogni-} ton, ) A coroner’s jury was empaneli-| ed by J. M. Cathcart, justice of the peace. After viewing ‘the bodies and examining the house it adjourned to meet again on Wed-| neaday. Several neighbors testified to{ having heard a commotion ahd) loud voices about one o'clock this} mogning, but none investigated. | and} She | nce. De Molays Planning To Give Another Dance Another De Molay dance, to be given next Monday night at the Coral Isles Casino, is announced »y Joseph Mondial, who says that he dance recently given by the De Molays was so much enjoyot that numerous requests have been made to have it repeated. The program ‘next Monday night, he says, will be particulsr. ly attractive, and that refresh ments will be served in abund WHAT HAPPENED? What heppened when the door opened? You will see at the Strand Theetre today in the thrilling play “Whee the Door Opened,” 2 Wm. Fox produ-- tion. This is one of the most thrilling plays produ.ed this STRAND THEATRE TODAY