Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 27, 1909, Page 8

THE OMAHA DAILY SLEEPY ONE'S PALS IN JAIL Bheriff and Game Warden Get Three Fishermen, At the “Goodyear” Store Tomorrow and NEXT WEEK SPECIAL EASTER SALES IN BOTH DEPARTMENTS Princess Cloak and Suit Parlors SPECIAL SUIT SALE Women's New Easter Suits At 40% Less Than STANDARD PRICES Just at this time particular interest is center- ing about the new tailored suits for Baster. To- morrow we are ready with a good quantity of new Easter suits. You'll be charmed with the beautiful materials, the new colors, and the pretty trimming touches. The tailoring s of the finest. Our line of dresses, skirts and waists is now complete. Selling these beautiful suits at the manufac- turer’s prices we are enabled to sell you a much better suit for less money than any retailer—but to induce early buying for Easter we are willing to make a reduction in prices as an extra inducemens, and are now selling ESSAY AT ARREST SAD AFFAIR | eepy’ Hewitt !ee-;e- Shotg H s Up Captors, Forecing Them to Unlock Handeuffs ¢ on His Frien Rainceat Departmnnt Special Raincoat Sale MEN’S | WOMEN'S Cravenettes | Silk Coats Raincoats ‘ Opera Cloaks | WE HAVE A LARGE COLLECTION. of New Spring Clothes for Men, Women and Children, showing a great number of the new spring materials and all the new shades. “Sleepy” Hewitt, who day before yester- | day tricked a game warden and his friend, escaped capture yesterday afternoon at the hands of Sheriff Bralley and Deputy Game | Warden Joseph Boehler of Linceln, but three alieged associates of Sleepy are now in the county jail awaiting trial for fllegal { fishing. They afe John Doe, F. C. Howc and Frank Winship. It is said that the man calling himself “John Doe" turns around if one says “Nels Anderson” in his [vieinity, Hewitt himself Is supposed to | have fled to lowa Merely to go seining In Cut-Off lake fis but hark to the cruel tale of | py" dld when first they tried cateh him: ' $17.00 Suits for iands up!" sald Hewlitt | i | The unhappy game wardens put them up vy | $20.00 Suits for. .. as quickly as the villlan does on the stage “Now unlock those handcuffs' ordered ~ Hewitt, pointing to the steel wristlets bind- 52.5.00 Suits for........... cecenne Ing together two men with whom “Sleepy” Top Coats Auto Coats Auto Coats Touring Coats AT 409 LESS THAN STANDARD PRICES We now offer the best and biggest stock of waterproof garments for spring wear ever seen in Omaha. Our stock represents the newest raincoat styles. Our garments have all the style and fashion of the finest tailored garments, while prices are so low that no man or woman need be without a rain- coat. Don’t be without a raincoat on Haster. To induce early buying, we are now selling $17.50 Men’s and Women's Raincoats for $10 $20 Men’s and fiogc_l's Raincoats for $12.50 §25 Men’s and Women's Raincoals for $15 For Women, we can't begin to describe them individually but just mention— Handsome Tailored Suits — Smart Top Coats — Graceful Long Coats and many ideas in Fancy Cos- tume Dresses, Waists, Skirts, etc. For Men, all the correct styles for the coming Spring— new bright, snappy patterns, every popular model, and the newest materials. They are clothes that fit, wear, and are distinctive for their all around excellence. OUR CREDIT makes to keep up your it easy for you to dress well,” lé)peaunce and to make a favorable impression. You don’t have to limit your purchases to the amount of your ready Cash, You can buy what you want and open a charge account. You make only a small deposit at time of purchase, then $1.00 per week. UNION . QUTFIT: TING CO. LSS 1T =19 FARNAMST, STORE THAT'S SQUARE ALL OVER." NOVEL PLEA COUNSEL MARES Booty Left Uncovered, So Why Shouldn’t He Take It? SAYS HE OUGHT TO BE REWARDED David Van Etten W Pald by Company Robbed of Punished by the Court, ts His Client | 1 David Van Etten, attorney for John Hedrick, a prisoner before Jjudge Sears Friday morning, declared to the court that Hedri¢k ought to be rewarded instead of punished. Judge Sears didn't see it. Hedrick was arrested with Arthur Hall on the charge of breaking and entering tne Farrell company's warehouse and stealing & quantity of maple syrup. Hall pleaded &uilty to the burglary charge a few days ago and got two years. “The aFrrell company ought Hedrick $100," asserted Van Etten, “Why?" asked Judge Sears In surprise. | “The man. is pleading guilty, is he not “Well,” said Van Etten, “the Farrell company almost - invited robbery by the way It left its place open and since this af- fair 1t fixed it up." “Even if it had left its gootis on the side- walk,” answered the court, “that would be no réason for putting a halo on this man's head. He confesses to the theft of the syrup, It was not worth a great deal, but they were there to steal all they could.” Plea for More Clemency. | Counsel for defendant proceeded to argue that Hedrick had already been in fall thirty days and asked the court to give him but twenty-four hours mor “The situation is this," salg the court, “The county attorney is satistled that this man wes guilty of breaking and entering | with the purpose tp steal, but he s not certain that he can prove the burglary part of the charge. The prisoner pleads guilty to petty larceny. Thirty days in jail s the maximum penalty for this, but I can asses & $100 fine and costs, which it will take a lttle longer to work out. That is the sontence.” Van Etten pleaded that it was Hedrick's to give first offense. It always is,” said the judge grimly, “when prisoners come here and plead guilty.” Hedtick disposed of, Van Etten argued his motion to set aside the penalty of two years given Hall, Hedrick's confederate, who admitted breaking and entering. The | motion was overruled. IMPORTANT MEMBERS OF CORN SHOW STAFF SELECTED Prominent Experts Lined Up for Various Departments of the Work This Year. This is the lineup of some of the depart- ments of the National Corn exposition for 1909: Small Grains—Prof. C. P. Bull, Minne sota Agricultural college. Forelgn Bxhibits—C. partment of Agriculture Bducational—Superintendent E. C. Bishop, Nebraska. Domestic Sclence—Jessica Towa BState college and versity. Towa—Prof. M. Montana—Alfreq Mont. North Dakota—W. C. Gilbreath, secretary of agriculture. The management is working on the dif- ferent departments and the staff for the coming year is not complete. It is prac- tically certain that Prof Bull, who was in attendance at the 1908 exposition, will take charge of the smail grain department. C. E. S8hammel was superintendent of judges at the 138 exposition. Because of his con- nection with the Department of Agricul- ture he Is well acquainted with those who will likely have the next forelgn exhibits brought to this country in charge. The teeling s that the management is greatly strengthening its staff by the addition of the men who are experts in their jine, and has been quite fortunate in securing those who had the experience of 1%8 to return and work for the 1909 exposition. E. Shammel, De- E. Besack, Columbla uni- L. Bowman, Atkinson, Ames, Ia. Bozeman, Captain Carter Seriously 11 CHICAGO, March 2.—Oberlin M. Carter, a former captain of the United States army, 1s serfously ill of pneumonia at the home of a brotheX in this city. Mr. Carter recently contracted a severe wold and symptoms of pneumonia developed soon Hewltt had been seining in Cut-Off lake. The order was obeyed and then came an- other to row out into the middle of the !lake. All these commands were enforced {by a short-barrelled shotgun which {kept aimed at the officers of the lawe The game wardens rowed out |and his friends set up a de |then turned and legged it Boehler and former Dep |of Omaha had heard | there was something astir on the placid watcrs of the lake. ogether they we there Thursday night an@ found, they say Hewitt and three other men operating a seine! big enough to drag in at ome haul all the fish in the lake. OMcers are Cantious. y Frank Brown hursday that | getting near the bank heard the sound of men rowing out on the garksome waters {They waited awhile and then came a noise elly bank. Bwooping down on the quartet the four were ordered under arrest and a pair of handcuffs placed on the wrists of two. Unfortunately for them they did not select Hewltt as one of the two. Then as the officers were proceeding to confiscate the selne and the fish Hewitt sidied off a little ways. In the darkness they did not notice him. A minute more and Hewitt was back, the officers were gazing at the twin barrels of a shotgun and the situation was reversed. There fol- lowed the dime-novel orders, Juctantly but promptly. " Boehler denles that Hewltt ordered him to put his hands up and declines to vouch for the rowlng into the lake part of the episode. In Sheriff Brailey's office this part of the narrative 1s as confidently be- lieved as the ominous appearance of the shotgun, “Fie on YourVotes, Give Me the Law” Berryman Declaims That He Cares Nothing for Election as Com- pared With Law Enforcement, ‘I do not care If I do lose a few votes. 1 stand for law enforcement and if any of these men appointed by the mayor and confirmed by the council as judges and clerks of election, resent my action in goIng to the courts to uphold the law, as I read it, I can not help it.” Colonel E. P. Berryman, Jack candidate for mayor, makes this statement t reply to the mayor's charge that he is not a candidate in good faith because because attempting to oust the judges and clerks of the primnary named by the democratic mayor and council. ‘A democratic city attorney advised the appointments, a democratic mayor made the appointments and a democratic council confirmed the appointments,” said the mayor. “Yet this man Berryman, pretend- ing to be a democratic candidate, jolns hands with the republican candidates, in trying to enjoin these democratic boards from serving." u Bank Robbed. BFFINGHAM, Ill, March 2.—The Bank of Watson, Ill, a small village south of here, was robbed early today. Particulars Hewitt | Hewitt | ve yell and | lke a kiff's prow running up on a grav- | $30.00 Suits for....... $30 Men’s and Women's Raincoals for $17.50 Two Omahas and Capital. tody as Not Having Any Con- nection With the Three Hold-Ups. “The holdup men have gone to Lincoln, declared Chief of Police Donahue and Chief of Detectives Savage, Friday morn- ing, after reading of the street car rob- bery at that city Thursday night. “We are sure the three men who pulled off the three highway robberies in Omaha and South Omaba, Tuesday and Wednes- day nights are the same who relieved Conductor Parker of his money and other valuables In Lincoln Thursday night,” the police officials said. Bennle Thomas and his partner, Chester Willlams, who were arrested Thursday night in this city on suspicion that they belonged to the hold-up gang, have been discharged and completely exonerated by alibis and failure to identify them. Other suspects also have been réleased by the police, who are now firm In their con- victien that the mem have ‘“given them the slip” and have gone to Lincoln. Attempts at identifying the prisoners | who have been plaged-in jail at a result of the robberfes, “were made |Thursday evening by Conductor H. C. Acker and Frank Glllhouse, who were made the victims of the gun-play artists the night before. They falled to identify any of them Bennie Not the Boy. Belng shown tHe photograph of Bennie Thomas, the conductor declared that the likeness between Bennie and the Yyoung man who pushed a gun in his face on his car Wednesday night, was surprisingly striking. So Thomas and another young man were arrested, but when they were shown to Conductor Acker, the latter changed his mind about either of them being gullty. The police are convinced that Bennie could not have done the work. He worked that night until after 11 o'clock. Aside from fair descriptions of the three highwaymen, only two slight clues to thelr identity remain In the hands of the Omaha and South Omaha police. Both watches taken during the carnival of rob- bery that relgned In the two citles for a couple of days have been recovered and with them good descriptions of te men who pawned them. Conductor Acker's ‘waten was found in a South Omaha pawn shop, Thursday and before that, the timeplece taken from Edward P. 0 T0 LINCOLN| | Police Believe Same Trio Worked | pawnea t The officers approacHed cautiously arnd | PECIALISTS IN RAINCOAT SPECIALTIES" N Goodyear Raincoat Co. Cor. 16th and Davgnport Streets. Miller in South in Omaha by Deteotive Shoop. With the description of the men who he watches given by the pawn Omaha, Sergeant was recovered Dempsey and | brokers, the local sleuths are working, but | | they think the men they want are opera- ting in the capital city, or at least were STREET CARS THEIR SPECIALTY | there Thursday night. The facts that there were three men, two with guns and one = " to search the victim, th b Bennie Thomas Released From Cuse o he victim, that they were young and unmasked, and that they operated alike, in both the Omaha and Lincoln street {car hold-ups, leads to the conclusion that both pleces same trio or work were of crooks. done by the Sues Herself to Adjust Wil{ Woman Becomes Both Plaintiff and Deféndant in Case, Involving Property Rights. Mrs. Margaret Bruson -6f South Omaha occupied the somewhat unusual position of belng both defendant and plaintiff in a suit filed in district court. Mrs. Bruson was formerly Mrs, Margaret Lesac. Her husband died, leaving a child, Mary Lesac, and some real estate. A brother of the deceased claims that he has an interest in the property by virtue of a mortgage, Mrs. Bruson has one.as a dower right and the child as the daughter of the dead man, So Mrs. Bruson, as the “next friend" of her daughter, sues her- self and her former brother-in-law in behalf of the child, in order that the various equities of the several. people interested may be settled. [MOTHER PLEADS FOR CHILD Mra. Mattie M. Mackay Promises to Be Good to Her Younger Son, Mrs, Mattie M. Mackey, in a petition to modify a decrec of divorce, declares that she has the financial means to educate her young son, that she will be a “kind, loving and indulgent mother and will en- deavor to teach him what {s right and try to make him happy.” This part of'the petition refers the younger son, Clarence P. Frenzer. The older boy, Arthur P., is 14 years of age ani applying to have his mother named as his guardian. Mrs. Mackey, who was formerly Mrs. John M. Frenger, lost control of the children when a divorce decree was awarded some years ago. Her petition avers that the boys' father lli-treats them and that once examining her second son, “she found his little body and legs bruised in a number of places.” to | profits for tho last purchaser. Nebraska Land Has the Elements of Real Old Gold | Farm Sells Three Times, On Gradu- ated Scale of Profits From $26,000 to $49,000, There's something about Nebraska land that smacks of gold—gold, bright and yel- low, hard and cold. Between Fremont and Valley is a farm of %0 acres which J. H. Dumont & Son of Omaha has sold several times, each time with Increasing value and handsome The firm first sold the farm six years ago to a man whose name Is mow for- gotten for $26000. Four years later W. A. Weidenhaft wanted to buy it. He pald 436,000 'cash, the man who bought it four years before making $10,000 on the transac- tion beside raising crops which paid divl- dends on a $50,000 investment. When B, N. Jensen wanted to buy a farm this week he was shown the Wel- denhaft farm by J. H. Dumont and Fri- day he bought it for $9,280, Mr. Weiden- haft making $13,280 on the investment which he made two years ago, beside tak- Ing two bumper crops from the land. Now Mr. Dumont says Nebraska land is 100 cheap when $50,000 buys %0 acres, and most of the farm which Mr. Jensen bonght is worth from $10 to $0 per acre more than he pald for it, the average price pald being $10 per acre. MATCH DOES THE MISCHIEF' Starts Fire in Clothes Closet Where Her Wardrobe s Kept. When Mrs. John Mars of 24 Dodge street struck a match and peered into a dark closet at her home early Friday morning, she did not intend to set fire to her wardrobe, but that is what she did. She discovered what she had done a short time afterward, when smoke issued from the closet. Damage to the extent of $50 was done to her clothing and the room before the fire- men arrived to put out the blaze. Considerable smoke damage was done to Charles Dittle's restaurant and rooming house at the southeast corner of Sixteenth and Leavenworth at 2:3 o'clock Friday morning, although the fire that occurred there did not burn up anything of value. A quantity of rubbish and boxes in the basement caught fire from uncertain cause and flooded the building with smoke. Wow! Marshall Says Jim Lies! “You Knew It Was An Absolute Falsehood When You Made the Statement.” “If this is your plan (to tie up the coun o) and if you suceced, may ‘the good Tord have mercy on the citizens af Omahy / As a stinger, Colonel B. F. Marshall throws in this short sentence to close his stated reply to Mayor Dahlman, called him a ‘“long hungry rooster,” in making the statement that Marshall at tempted to buy the Jim club's endorsement for delegate to the Denver convention Colonel Marshall in his letter to Colonel Dahlman says: ““You, of course knew. when you made this statement It was an absolute falsehood,” in referring to the mayor's charge that the colonel sought to buy his club, “There is mot a word truth in it and I do not think there is reputable citizen in Omaha who does no believe but that you manufactured it from whole ecloth for your spectal use.' But Colonel Marshall says he does not Worry over the groundless charge, as in making it the mayor simply showed ths desperate straits In which the Jacks fanc, he finds himself. “I am not an lssue in this campalgn,” says the president of the Juck club, and asks the mayor why he does not devote at least a part of his Ume o his record as fmayoh for the last three years. “That 1s what the voters of this city are most Interested in just now,” says Colonel Marshall, and I do npt believe you wiil make any votes by attacking men who are not candidates for office. God knows, record needs defending. GOOD EXCEPT GETS DRUNK Prisoner Says Excessive Drinking His Ouly Fauit, So He Goes to Jail. “There’'s no harm in me, judge. only 1 get drunk In a while,” explaincd George Barton in police court when he was arraigned for stealing a $30 bolt of silk i a department store and pleaded gullty the charge of petit larceny. “Yes,"” his honor replied, “amd there iy no harm in your serving out the value of the silk at the rate of about $1 a day.' So Barton's address will be the county Jail for the next month, although he gives his home as Vicksburg, Miss. rested Tuesday. who your once| to He was ar Nobody is Too Old to learn that the sure way to cure a cough or cold is with Dr. King's New Discovery 60c and $1.00. For sale by Beaton Drug Co When you think of NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY - you naturally think of Biscuit. When you think of Biscuit you naturally, think of ¢ The only Soda Cracker possessing National-Biscuit-Goodness