New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 11, 1929, Page 2

TRAGEDY GHANGED RIGKART PLANS Death of First and Second Wile St Him fo Alska CHAPTER IIT (By George Kirskey) % United Press Stag Correspondent ICopyright 1929 by the United Press After spending almost eight years Jn Alaska Tex Rickard left for Cali- “fornia i1 1902 to enjoy his wealth mcquired in the Nome gambling on the gun. Then he stepped back and tossed the gun into a far cor- ner and the crowd stood dumb- founded. Tex turned to the bay and litted his glass to his lips as if nothing had happened. Then he walked out.” A panic hit Goldfield in 1907 and business fell off at the Northern. Rickard sold out and opened the Palace bar nearby. It was a failure. Then Rickard opened his fourth Northern in Rawhide, where a new boom had rtarted. Again Rickard | caught the flow of easy money. More than 50 faro and card deal- ers were employed by Rickard. Eight bartenders worked in shifts and each man got his $12 in wages as| he went off duty. Changed His Career | Fire destroyed the Northern at| venture. Romajpce again entered the career of Rickzrd shortly after he reached | San Francisco where he married his second wife, Miss Mae Meyers, in 1802, Si> was often referred to as his first -cife. One child was born | to them, Bessie, and she died in| 1907. The second Mrs. Rickard died | in New York October 30, 1925 of | pneumona. | The facts about Rickard's first marriage to.Leona Bittick in May. 1894, were mever made public and are worth retelling even at this point. Rickard and his young sweet- heart eloped from Henrietta, Texas, | where Rickard was serving as city marshal at the time, and were mar- ried at Fort Worth, Texas. The ‘bride’s tather, Dr. 8. G. Bittick, bit- | terly opposed the'marriage, but for- ‘gave them afterwards. | The first Mrs. Rickard became ill and a few months after she was pronounced incurable, & son was| born. He was named George L.| Rickard, Jr. Three weeks later his | mother died. The baby died a few days later. Weant to Alasks | weights, fight a draw. Rawhide and it was never rebuilt although Rickard made hasty plans for its reconstruction before the| flames died out. It was his last| gambling house. Things happened | at Goldfield in 1906 which changed | the career of the man who up to| this time had been a cowboy. marshal, miner, bartender and own- | er of gambling houses. The “big business” men of Gold- fleld wanted to attract attention to their flourishing little desert city. Rickard was selected as the man to put Goldfield on the map. Here again conflicting stories are| told about how Rickard became en- | College Youths Face Hearing In Alleged “Thrill Slayings” George R. Harsh (left) and Richard G. Gallogly (right), both sons gaged in the promotion of his first | 0 Loainy familles, have been indicted for murder in Atlanta. Judge fight. John Mateer, a reporter from Santiago, where he served under Col. Roosevelt was said to have sold the idea of staging a big fight in Goldfield to Rickard. | thrill; insanity; need for cash— Anyway, Rickard took his first| these reasons are advanced for two trip to New York city and saw his|sons of wealthy families charged first ring battle. He occupied a|with a series of holdups here that ringside scat in old Madison Square | resulted in the slaying of twe in-| Garden and saw Terry McGovern |tended victims and baffled police and Jimmy Britt, famous light-!for nearly a month. ‘When he got George R. Harsh of Milwaukee, back to Goldfleld, Rickard wired Joe | jointly indicted for murder in the Humphreys, who was later to be- | holdups with Richard G. Gallogly, E. B, Thomas will January 15, (inset) Atlanta, Jan. 11 (#—Desire for a preside a¢ Harsh's trial, which begins into one of the hardest fought le- gal battles in Georgia since Leo Frank was tried for the murder n{; Mary Fagan. Police began a scarch after tRe 8mith killing which was fruitless until information was received more than a week later that a pair of blood stained trousers had been sent to & dry cleaning establish- ment, Giant Skeletons Found In Ruins of Nero City Rome, Jan. 11.——Peamnts work- ing in a field at Monterotondo, near Rome, discovered the ruins of a ! sarcophagus which may turn out to | be a relic of a village established for freed slaves in the reign of Nero. The ancient tomb was built of local travertine stone and it contain. |ed the skeleton of a giant. Nearby (Washington Correspondent, N. B. Herald) | Were two smaller tombs with skele- ‘Washington, D. C., Jan. 31.—Mrs. [tons, the size of whose jawbones, Charles Humphrey Bissell of South- |feet and hands indicated that the ington, Conn., is a candidate for persons buried therein must also recording secretary general of the have been of unusual size. Daughters of the American Revolu- | Archaelogists recalled that besides tion at its triennial election to be the village of former slaves, Pliny held at the Continental Congress of wrote of a village of Seneca, Which |the organization in Washington in existed in the same locality. April. | . Mrs. Bissell's name appears on the same ticket with that of Mrs. | Lowell F. Hobart of Cincinnati, who mean 8 nasty siege of sickness. Fight off colds with | president general from that state. Besides the head of the society, Ia statement in support of the claims of its slate. | NRS. BISSELL CANDIDATE FOR SECRETARY OF D. A. R. Name of Southington Woman On Slate Headed By Mrs. Lowell F. Hobart By GEORGE H. MANNING |is running for president general. | Mrs. Hobart is now organizing sec- | retary general and her rival for the | presidency is Mrs Julius Y. Tal- madg> of Athens, Ga., now vice c P 10 national officers and seven vice presidents general are to be chosen | in April. Active campaigns are | heing conducted by the two sets of | candidates and each side has issued | S 100 STORES $1.00 Listerine .ccoco0eee * 100's Bayer’s Aspiria ....... . * 60¢c Forhan's for the Gums ...... ¥ 65¢ Pond's Cold & Vanishing Creams . * 69c Bromo Seltzer ....... * $1.00 Nujol .....o0000ee $1.00 Squibb’s Mineral Oi 50c Musterole . ... 37¢ ‘Y $1.25 Father John's RELIEVE YOUR Medicl coLD by inheling * $1.50 Agarol ...... 97c Advance, Spring | The two tragedies brought & come Rickard's announcer, an offer | faces trial January 15. change into Rickard's life and in-|of $15,000 for a return hout between | Harsh, following his arrest last fluenced him in making his decision |\fcGovern and Britt at Goldfield. | October, confessed to the holdups, John Lowe, detective, investigat- ed and traced the garment to Harsh, who was arrested as he VAPURE to go to Alaska. None of Rickard's intimates can ever recall any men- tion he ever made of his first mar- risge. Just how much money Rickard left Alaska with will always remain in doubt. Some say it was half 8| million, while others say it was no | mere than $100,000, At any rate part of this fortune was wiped out | “in the purchase of claims which fail- ed to yield gold after he left the | ‘Yuken. He flourished as a gambler around | Seattle and San Francisco for a time, but in 1903 headed for Navada goldfields and settled in the town of Goldfield at the time the boom hit that lonely little spot in the western desert. Conflicting reports were circulate :as to Rickard's finances when he reached Goldfield. One story had it | that he arrived with & barrel of whiskey and two song cnd dance artists which he soon promoted into | his third *“Northern” saloon and gambling hall. It seems that this tal: has been slight exaggerated, but d | the facts indicate that Rickard had | run through with most of the money | mate outcome of the formation of | police say, and to the slaying of | | E. H. Meek, grocery clerk, and Wil- |lard Smith, pharmacist, when they | attempted to resist him. The youth, it is alleged, gave “desire for a thrill” as his mot Gallogly POWER INTERESTS |ing the prosecution, declares he has Statewide Systems Ses Re-|cyidence proving tha the young| alewide dYStems deed A5 Re- nen wero actustea by a desire for . | money to augment gencrous allow- Slllt 0[ G{)mblm | ances which they dissipated rapidly. ‘ Although defense attorneys have | declined to comment on their prob- New York, Jan. 11 (M—State-wide | able course of action, well known grouping of castern power systems, |alienists have made physical and representing $2,000,000,000 in pub- | mental examinations of Harsh while lic utility securities, was seen in | state attorneys also have employed financial circles today as the ulti- | specialists to make similar examina- tions, the United corporation by the Mor-| The trial is expected to develop) gan interests. | Announcement was made yester- | day of the creation of the United | corporation with a capital stock of | {$260,000,000 by J. P. Morgan and | |company, Drexel and company and |Bonright and company, Inc, to acquire minority holdings in the‘ came from the campus at Olge- thorpe university, where he was a student. A few hours later, under steady questioning, police said he confessed to the robberies and slay- ing and named Gallogly as an ac- complice. Confirm Death of Yang Yu-Ting in Mukden Tokyo, Jan. 11 M—The general staft today received an official _re- port confirming that Yang Yu-Ting had been shot to death in Mukden, Manchuria. Anxiety was felt in Tokyi as it was realized that the situation held dangerous possibili- ties. Details of the shooting were not received. 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Like his ce in Nome, bank deposits were accepted from the miners and merchants. Entries were made in grocer's pass books. | Many of the wildest gambling | scenes ever enacted in the United | States took place in Rickard's| Northern. It was here that Rickard | once wagered $35,000 on one throw of the dice—the largest single gam- | ble in his lifetime. One of Rickard's first came frue at Goldfield when he| built the finest brick mansion in| Nevada—a palace in the desert. The house cost $75,000. It had a bath- tub, heating plant and water, Onc year's water bill was $1,300. The “bricks used to build the structure ‘were imported and almost worth their weight in gold. Oold Steel Nerve Many stories have been told about ‘Riekard's “cold steel nerve” but Jack Curley, the wreatling promoter, | contributes one of the best illustra- | ting the fearless Rickard of his younger days. It happened in Rei 1y’s saloon in Tonopah, a nearby ri- val city of Goldfield. | “Rickard walked in the saloon with & friend to get a drink,” Cur- ley recounted. “Larry Sullivan was drunk at the bar. He was one of the meanest men in the Goldfields. | «He had a record of seven notches on his gun. He hated Rickard and began looking for trouble the min- ute Tex came in. “Ne trled to insutt Rickard by ,avery conceivable way, but Rickard kept his head and ignored him. Finally Sullivan whipped out his gun. And Sullivan had a reputation for mever bluffing. All eyes turned on Rickard. Tex turned around casually and faced Sullivan. The gun was levelled at Rickard's lowest vest button. With the swiftness of a panther Rickard’s hand shot out and grabbed the gun. He twisted Sullivan’s wrist and broke his grip dreams | Renier, Pickhardt & Dunn Wgfiffi Phone 1409 127 Main St Opp. Arch, 10% Discount on all Flannelette and Children. 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