Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 19, 1909, Page 1

" ¢ o - . ¢ } i i 3 THE OMAHA BEE Q‘u the most powerful business etter in the west, bacause: it goes to the homes of poor and rich. THE OMAHA DAILY B VOL. XXXIX-— OMAHA, FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 19, BIG QUESTIONS FOR CONGRESS Busy Session Ahead if Program Out- lined by Heads of Departments is Carried Out. WATERWAYS COME TO FRONT Well Developed Movement Will Force Consideration of Plans. TINANCIAL POLICY | AT STAKE | Monetary Legislation and Central | o Bank Are Issues, POWERS OF COMMERCE BOARD Members of Body Find Themuselves R oted By Lack of Author- 1ty—Food Loawas, Inspection (From a Staft Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, Nov. I18.—(Speclal)—1f the program of the statesmen, politiclans | and heads of the different executive de- partments is carried out the coming ses- sfon of congress will prove to be one of the most important in the history of the federal government. In the first place, there Is a very ef- foctive and active organization know as the National Rivers and Harbors consress, which has spread the propaganda of water- ways Improvements so effectively that there 18 not a state in the union which has not a strong auxiliary organization working In entire harmony Wwith the main body for the purpose of securing the adop- tion of & poliey of waterways improvement which will, if carried into effect, result in & definite well considered plan for giving the United States a systém of waterw eqaal to that of any country. This large vrganization will meet in De- cember in annual convention, und this week thé Atiantle Waterway branch fs booked for a imeeting In Norfolk, which will be attended by the president of the United States and & number of his ad- visers, when the preliminary gun in the campalgn_will be fired. More Territory im District. President Taft Is expected to recommend to congress the legislation looking to the restoration of the orlginal boundarles of the Distriot of Columbia. That is to the president belloves a grave error was made in the year 158, when the Virgin portlon of (he original torritory set aside as a federal disiriot was ceded back to tue old dominjon, president s reported e to advocate legslation looking to the reces- | #lon of the Virginia porilon of the distriet back to fedoral control. This never eanibe carried out without a very vigorous pro- test on the part of the Virginlans who are affected, as they do not like the idea of losing thelr rights, especlally their rights a4 citizens, which carry the right of fras chise. It s doubteyl,, too, if the country at darge will twke sugh an interest in this Programas (0 agree through Its representa. tives In congress (o compensate the old dominion for the loss of territory and this doubt is accentuated when it is remembered that Virginia has for years attempted to sccure some sort of redress for the loss of that portion of the original territory of the state out of which West Virginia was carved in the early 'd0s. Postmaster General Hitchcock has a pumber of projects in view for the better- ment of the,postal service. It is not defi- nitely known that he will advocate the establishing of the parcel posts and postal savings banks, for which there has been 4 widespread demand, but he has In con- templation & thorough re-organization of his department and has already taken some steps toward that end, but his program, in its entirety, will need the endorsement | of the legislative branch of the govern- | ment and in this part of his program he ‘uy encounter much difficulty, Financial Question to Fore. sSenator Aldrich as head of the monetary commission which has recently made an exhpustive study of the financial poliey of the principal countries of Kurope will ‘éndeavor to mecure results looking to a revision of the currency laws and possibly the creation of & great central bank, simi- lar to the Bauk of England and the Bank of Fra This program, contemplating such & radical departure in the currency affalrs of this country Is likely to create much bickering and to split party lines wide open. Jver since the days of Andrew Jackson a central bank program has been delked of, from time to time, but owing to the wide divergence of opinion between the various sections of the country as to the wisdom of such a policy, no substantial steps in the direction of the creation of a &reat central bank of lissue have been taken since the national banking law was enacted. The Treasury department is confronted with an Investigation growing out of the chatges made In connection with the al- leged collusion between the office of the New York custom house and the sugar trust, which promises to.develop one of the greatest political sensations since the days of the Great Mobeller in the early elghtles. Commerce Commission Seeks Remedy. The Interstate Commerce commission ls Mrging upon congress a number of amend- ments relating to the powers of that Sranch of the Federal service, and in this | will be supported by a.number of organ- tations. The cattlemen of the west do not think that they are treated as they should be in the matter of rates made by the rallroads, and within the last few months & nuniber of farmers' organiza- tlons from the graln growing sections of he west have been looking Into the rates '*u £raln to various points along the Mis- ippl river, and have come to the con- clusion that they are even worse trealed than the cattle growers. They will ask for legislation which will relleve them of some of the freight burdens under which they sutfer, and an equitable adjustment of fielght charges wpon thelr products. Food pection Laws. Perhaps one of the most important sug- gestions 1s that which is likely to come from the Department of Agriculture m reference to changes in the food Inspection laws. There has been some difference of opinton Lelween the scientific men of the comntry upoa the question of the possibility of inogulatisn of human beings with tuber- culosi§ germs from bovines infected by the diead diseasts, The consensus of o;in fon segms 1o be that dairy products from cattle’ infected With tuberculosis can be trafamitted to human beings through j produsis from infected animols. I well kngwn fact that the firs (Continued n, Second Page.) interior | Investigation Beitg Made Into Mrs. Dexey’s Case Woman Arrested at Columbus Has Divorce Record in Iowa—Dr. Doxey Will Not Talk. ST. LOUIS, Nov. 18.-(Speclal Telegram.) —At the' offices of the health board today officials sald no request had been made there for an Investigation of the death of b J. Erder, a postoffice clerk here, Afficlal records show occurred at aming street, July 10 last. The signed by Dr. A. Friedeberg dled of abdominal tuberculosis, “itis being a contributary cause. Srder, bookkeeper here, Who is Allam J. Erder's sister, has { "rrest at Columbus, Neb, of ' Loren B. Doxey, prominent 4 on a statutory charge. Arges her deceased brother n PRey" were marrled at Clay- ton, Mo.“iast April; that she lived wiht | him here until she went to Columbus, Neb,, early In June and lived with Dr. Doxey there a few weeks, returning to St. Louls to be at the bedside of Erder, who died July 10. Miss Erder | also nsked an investigation |of her brother's death. Mrs. Doxey denled she was ever married to Erder and pro- |duced a certificate of her marriage to | Doxey in August, 1906. Clayton, Mo., records show Willlam J, Erder, aged 3, and Dora E. Dodge, Des Moines, Ia., were mdkried there April 2, last, by Rev. K. T. Pheiffer. It is alleged Erder's bride was Dora Fuller, daughter of a farmer near Joy, Ill, where In 1895 she married Robert L. Downing, a shoe merchant living with him ten years and tearing three children, all of whim died; |that Downing sued Dr. L. B. Doxey, al- {leging Doxey had alienated his wife's af- fections; that this suit was settled out of court, Doxey removing to Washburn, Ia. Downing divorced hip wife, who a few { months later became Doxey’s wife. About three years ago “Miss Dora Legear,” now it is claimed identificd as Mrs. Doxey, be- |came acquainted with William J. Erdsr {here, while In North St. Louis she was then known, It is alleged, as Dora Dodds. | She absented herself from this city for two years, returning early_this year, when she was known as Mrs. Dora Dodds, it is cleaimed, explaining that she had married a man named Dodds, who had died of typhold fever six months after thelr mar- | riage in Chicago. COLUMBUS, Neb, Nov. 18.—(Speclal | Telegram.)~Dr. Doxey, when asked today {o substantlate or discussi the story from t. Louis, had nothing to say. “It is a family affair,” he said, “and I have noth. ing to say.” At the hearing here Mrs. Doxey pro. |duced a marriage certificate showing she | was married to Dr. Doxey in August, 1904 Chilean Claim at Critical Stage = s United States Threatens to Close Legation Unless Prompt Action is Takem. WASHINGTON, Nov. 18.—The claim of |more than $10,00000 against Chile, which |has been pending for thirty-five years, |has assumed a critical stage. Intimation |has been given to the Chilean minister In Washington that unless a final setlie- {ment s made within the next few days |or the claim is referred to The Hague | for trial on its merits, the American lega- {tion In Chile will be closed. No ultimatum has been glven to Chile, but the with- drawal of diplomatic representatives will be in the mature of a foreeful pro MAKE BONFIRES OF BOOKS | Mothers of Feell Catholie Pupils Against Interdicted Text PARIS, Nov. 18.—Mothers of the Catholic puplls at the young girls' school at Chas- signy-Sous-Dun, in Saone-Et-Loire, today made a public bonfire of the Interdicted textbooks used by their daughters. At other places in that commune Catholic girls withdrew from the schools. At Bayonne, where the priests have re- fused absolution to children attending the public schools in defiance of the clergy's | warning, the parents have retallated|by re- fusing to contribute to the sufport of the church. | RICHARD WATSON GILDER DEAD Editor of Century Magazine Dies Sud- denly in New York of Heart Disease, NEW YORK, Nov. 18—Richard Watson Gilder, author, and editor of the Century Magaszine, died tonight of heart disehse. Mr. Gilder was a brother of Robert Gilder of Omaha, a member of the editorial statf of the World-Herald. ONE BODY TAKEN FROM COAL MINE Mine Inspectors Taylor and Moses Explore Part of the Second Vein, NUMBER OF BODIES LOCATED One Brought to Surface Identified as Ole Friborg, Unmarried. ATTACK ON THE MAIN SHAFT s Broken and Volunteers Carry in Line of Hose. Seal CROWD SURROUNDS THE MORGUE News Spreads Through Village and Frantic Women Rush Toward Ambulance Hope of Seeing the Body. CHERRY, TIl, Nov. 18—For the first time since the mine horror of Saturday the bodles of about 800 victims were lo- cated today by daring explorers in the polsonous depths of the second gallery. The temper of the people was feared and an attempt to keep the secret was made. One body was brought to the surface and concealed for an hour at the top of the pit before being turned over to the under- taker, and then only because the discovery had become known. Tho first descent into the ventilating shaft was made by J. W. Paul, George H. Rice and R. Y. Wllllams on a temporary cage constructed during the night and forenoon. The second descent was made by Mire Inspectors James Taylor and Thomas Moses, who brought up the body. Mr. Taylor's plan of a do-or-die attack on the main shaft, where «it Is reported the temperature is still around 100, .degrees Fahrenheit, was delayed by the expedition into the air pit. After the removal of the body, the ex- perts held a short conference and upon the conditions reported, it was determined to break the seal of the main shaft at onue. A force ot'laborers was put to work and by 6 o'clock the shaft was pouring gases and smoke into the alr. News of the recovery of the first body spread rapidly through the village and as the ambulance, flanked by soldiers, passed through the streets, distressing scenes were witnessed. Women, rushing out of their ouses, pushed frantically through the crowds in a vain attempt to look into the ‘wagon. State's Attorney Reckhart gently told them that identification would require some Ime and the crowd began to fall back from the wagon, but until late at night the little brick morgue was surrounded by anxious Inquirers. The recovered body was identified tonight s that of Ole Friborg, unmarried. Seven volunteers carried hose.into the main shaft tonight and turned a stream on the burn- second gallery.’ R Mrs. Stetson is Expelled by Board | Name of New York Christian Science Leader is Dropped from the Church Rolls, BOSTON, Nov. 18.—The name of Mrs, Augusta E. Stetson, formerly first reader of the Christian Selence church of New York, was today dropped from ‘the rolls of the Christian Science church by order of the board of directors. It was announced that the directors had found the charges that Mrs. Stetson was working' against the interests of the church and contrary to the teachings and practices of Christian Sclence, to be proved and true. — lNEGRO ATTEMPTS HOLDUP Uses Bystanders as Shicld at Iowa City, but Clever Boggage Man Folls Him, IOWA CITY, Ia., Nov. 18.—(Speclal Tele- Sram.)—A masked negro compelled the as- slstance of three young men by standing in the rallway depot here early this morn- Ing and attempted to hold up the ticket agent and the baggagemena, both of whom were In the ticket office. Agent Leinbach reached for his gun, when the negro, stand- ing behind & man he had forced to take the position next the window, pointed two big revolvers his way. A half dozen shopts geman Machovee turned off the light and the negro fled. took effect in the walls of the office before Bag P — Infant Scalded to Death. PIERRE, 8. D, Nov. 18.—(Special Tele- gram.)—The 18 months' old son of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Bennett of this city died today from the effects of scalding which it suf- fered from falling into a tub of hot water, Women’s Hats ‘Women's hats have grown so great in |size * that the express companies have |changcd their tactics. They are hundling the big ones now according to dimensions instead of weight. The larger the hat, the higher thel charge is the rule. If & woman buys new headgear of the Gainsborough or peach basket type she pays for the hat, maybe, not according to the worth of the willow plumes, the corded silk or the impourted velvet, but {by, the amount of air the hat displaces. |The woman pays for the immensity of the hat, not for its concrete value, Omahe dealers in millinery have just figured It out that the new system of com- puting charges is not in their favor. They insist that the rates are not on a falr basls and they object 10 paying charges on mere space. The raise in the express charges applies most vigorously to the extreme models. The big picture hat, the wasatub, the well known peach basket and the Imported Gainsboroggh are the first (3 feel tne power of the blg express carriers, Tae fur turban and the shagsy beaver, con- {#idered * the most chic for the winier wonths, do no: come under the pall of the new rule, As the hat increases in size s0 does the express charge. Omaba dealers pay higher raies and the natural conclusion is that the price comes out in the ha* Are Shipped g Per Size and Not Weight The following little schedule shows how the new tariff applies to Omahw dealers In millinery; the measurements beitg taken from the length over the top and one end of the box: Length, inches, 70 0 to to I 0. 10 to 70, 4 Thus is will seem that the charges fixeq {by the express companies are based solely on the size of the hat or, more specifically, on the size of the box or crates in which the hats are packed. Several Omaha department store man- agers complain about the new schedules complled by the express companles. They maintain that the rates are exorbitant and should be based upon weight alone. 'Women's hats continually Increas- ‘ng in size, but we don't get any pro- portionate Increase iIn price,” says one. |“I don't see why we should pay & higher irate than is paid on lron or any other |commodity that occuples less space, but weighs more. “Over in Illinols some of the big de- partment stores have filed a protest with the Interstate Commerce commission. Mar- shall Field & Co, Mandel Bros, and Slegel, Cooper & Co, are up In arms against the present rates. They are going to have a hearing in December and the old ariff may again be in force Equivalent 1909—TWELVE WEATHER FORECAST. For Nebraska—Generally fair. For lowa—Fair. For weather report see page 3. PAGES. From the Minneapolis Journal The Bumper Crop. I I L] \ \LIFE TERM FOR FIVE MEM Train Robbers Ordered to Leaven- worth Prison Until They Die. JUDGE MUNGER IMPOSES PENALTY After Sentence is Pronounced Amid Solemn Hush, Attorneys for Ban- % Declare They Will Take Appeals for “The sentence of the court is that you and each of you shall be imprisoned at hard labor in the United States peniteni- tentlary at Leavenworth, Kan. for the terms of your natural' lives.” Such was the final chapter in the noted Overland Limited mail robbery case, pro- nounced in solemn accents by Judge Thomas C. Munger in the United States district court Thursday afternoon at o'clock. Judge Munger had informed the attor- neys for the defendants, half an hour earller that he had decided to overrule their motions for new trials and for ar- rest of judgment, and that he had directed United States Marshal W. P. Warner to have the prisoners, William Matthews Donald W. Woods, Lawrence J. Golden, Fred Torgenson and Frank Grigware brought Into court for sentence. The prisoners were led into the court room shortly before 3 o'clock shackled and under heavy guard. Their handcutfs were removed in the court room. Sur- rounded by deputh they resuined the seats In the center of the weourt room, of thetr trial. in front, with Torgenson, Woods Golden immediately behind. Al of the prisoners were neatly shaved, and “well dressed. Woods had shaved off his blonde mustache, but otherwise the convicted men looked much as trial, Grigware seemed to be the more troubled than any other, though Matthews, Torgen- son and Woods seemed nervous. Torgen- son, ordinarily pale, was a shade more pdllid than usual. Golden was the least disturbed and looked defiant. Women Come to Hear Semtence. A number of women were present in the court room, afide from a group of fifteen or twenty other spectators, including & | brother of Golden's, who had just arrived trom Spokane. The elder Grigware Was not in the court room, but remained out in the lobby with Bob Splain and one or two Washington friends. Attorneys Fle- harty and Macfarland sat beside their clients, and District Attorney Charles A. Goss sat the other side of the table from them. The rest of the group was made up of Pinkerton men and postoffice inspectors and a few who have attended the trial from the start and who occupled seats back of the bar rall, In announcing his decision overruling the motion for a new trial and for arrest of |judgment, Judge Munger made a care- {tul review of the evidence implicating | Matthews in the robbery and showing his constant collusion with the other four ae- |cused men. He spoke also of Golden's connivance with Matthews and the other men, and indicated that he could see no reason for granting a new trial in any of their cases. “Do you wish to move that sentence be prbnounced at this time?’ asked the court of Mr. Goss. your homor. We wish passed on each of the. prisoners. The court then asked the prisoners if they had anything to say. Matthews was the first to speak. T am not gullty of this erime. 1 had nothing at all to do with it. I was at no time at the scene of the robbery and know nothing about Jt." All But Woods Declare Innocence, Golden, who is really a handsome young tellow, arose frofn his seat with a seml deflant air and said: “I am not guilty, your honor. I was not at Fremont the day of the robbery, and | was never Omaha in my life, nor was I ever in the vieinity of the crime. I have known Tor- |genson but six days in all my life before this trial. 1 never roomed with Torgen- son. There are twenty-five people in Omaha who could testify that 1 was not at the scene of the robbery and who could prove where 1 was every hour of that day and night." He said further that hedid not go under an assumed name, and that he could not have been the man who canie around the head of the engine and snot at the head light, he was as tall as Woods, and that the testimony showed that it was a small man who shot at tho head light He denied that he ever carried a gun or that he ever took a drink of liquor in his life. Grigwa. announcing that he was not guilty of the crime, and that he was never in the vicin- ity of the crime. Torgenson declared his innocence and denied being a participant in the crime, or in the vicinity of its commission. The court waited a few moments and asked If anything more was to be said Woods remained in his seat and sald noth- ing. The court then remarked about the un- pleasant duty that developed in passing sentence, but indicated that the law had entence (Continued on Second Page) which they occupied during the two weeks Matthews anh Grigware wat and they have during the in South | had but little to say, simply, Nebraska Union Holds Seceders, it is Charged State Federation Accused at Toronto of Harboring Revolting Electricians. —— K TORONTO, Nov. 1.—A question as to the status of state and cenrral bodles af- fillated with the American Federation of Labor which, it is charged, are still har- boring seceding organizations of electrical workers, was ralsed in the convention of the confederation today by Delegate Hayes of Cleveland. The convention yesterday approved a plan submitted by the committee on laws whereby It {s expected an amalgamaticn of the two factions of the eleotrical workers will be brought about. State federations in West Virginia, Utah, Montana, Okla- homa, Washington, New sersey and Ne- braska are harboring seceding factions of the electrical \works, and he wanted to know If their charters would be revoked. President Gompers replied when in- formation was received the offending or- ganizations would be advised that their course must be ‘changed. The convention devoted the greater part of the session to discussing jurisdictional disputes reported by the committee on ad- Justment. ; In the controversy hetween the Inter- national Assoclation of Car Works and the Brotherhood of Railway Car Men, the sommittea focommended that a conference between the executive officers of the two organizations and the executive couficll” of the Amerjcan Federation of Labor be held at an early dat WASHINGTON, Nov. 18.—The court of appeals of the District of Columbia, upon request of counsel for the labor leaders, today granted a stay until November 2 of the issuance of the mandate sending Presi- dent Gompers, Vive President Mitchell and Secretary Morrison, of the American Feder- atlon of Labor, to jail for contempt of the supreme court of the District of Columbla In the) Buck Stove and Range case, s Chiet Justice Sheppard stated that if the labor leaders had by" November 29, the day the supreme court of the United States reconvenes, filed in that court a petition for certiorari, a further stay of the man- date would on application be granted, pending the determination by the higher tribunal of the application. As & result of this action, Mr. Mitchell and Mr. Morrison need not hasten to Wash- ington as it will not be necessary for thém to surrender, nor will they have to re- course to habeas corpus progpedings. First Train Uses East River Tunnel Trip Marks of Great Engineering Work. 4 Practical Completion | NEW YORK, Nov. 18.—Burrowing be- neath the Hudson river under Manhattan Island's sky scrapers and on below the bed of the East river, a Pennsylvania rail- road train today, for the first time, tra- versed the new tunnel route of the trans- portation line from New Jersey to Long Island. The trip marked the practical comple- tion of a rallroading feat paralleling in many ways in interest the opening of a transcontinental rallway route. President McCrea of the Pennsylvania railroad and the members of the railrpad's board of directors made the trip td get an oppor- | tunity to Inspect the work which has been progressing for years past and which is expected to cost, before it is fihished, close to $160,000,000. LOEB 1S CLEANING HOUSE Conditions in Customs Service Reach- | ing Acute Stage. MAY HIT Rumor Twenty-Two “Undesirables” Hind Been Indicted Sugar Fraud Case Nefther Con- firmed Nor Denfed. NEW YORK, Nov. 18.—The erlsis pre- cipitated fn the customs service at this port by the revelations made by former govern- ment employes engaged in the welghing #nd sampling of sugar imports reached an acute stage today. The house clenning which Collector Loeb is preparing to In- sugurate is belleved to threaten customs employes other than those having to do with sugar. The collector was asked It/ the twenty- two welghers whose names he submitted to the United States Cvil Service commis- slon as “undesirables” had been indicted by the federal grand jury for complieity In the sugar frauds, but he elther confirm or deny the rumor. That the first Information of frauds agsirst the government In connection with sugar importations was brought to the Treasury department as far back as 198 was declared today by Willlam H. Theo- bald, a former confidential agent of the ‘Treasury department. NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y., Nov. 18— George W. Whitehead, who was appraiser of the pert of New York from 1802 to 1906, sald teday that Hemry C. Corsa was dis- charged from the customs servico in Feb- ruary, 1002, elther because he was physically’ unfit for the work or went out in the gen- cral reduction of the force at the time Mr. Whitehead took office, He sald the dismissal was made at the suggestion of no one outside his tmmediate force. Mr. Whitehead added: “Mr. Corsa was removed for reasons entirely satlsfactory to me Astor’s Yacht is Reported Safe Captain of Fruit Ship Says He Saw Vessel at Anchor at San Sal- vador, Sunday. NEW YORK, Nov. 18.—Some assurance that Colonel John Jacob Astor's yacht Nourmahal, which has been missing In West Indian waters for ten days, safely outrode the recent hurricanes wag brought here today by Captain J. Durle of the steamship Annetta, which arrived with fruit from Jamalcan ports. Captain Durfe, learning on landing of the solicitude felt for the Astor party, reported that on Sun- day, November 14, he sighted a boit which | | he belleved to be the Nourmahal, riding at anchor in the reef harbor at Hawk's Nert, San Salvador, the island which Columbus made famous by his landing in 1492, Colonel Astor's friends here were in- clined to doubt that the yacht seen by Captain Durle was the Nourmahal, as San Salvador is nearly 200 miles north of the region where Colonel Astor planned to cruise. The fruit steamer passed within three miles of the yacht, a large white steam vessel with yellow funnel and about 20 feet long, which description would answer that of the Astor yacht. The storm had lost its hurricane intens- ity on Sunday when the fruiter passed San Salvador, but heavy weather still pre- vailed. The yacht showed no signs of d'stress and Captain Durle thought that it had put into its shelter before the hur- ricane and was simply waiting more fa- | vorable weather. Golden Family A brother of Lawrence J. Golden, one of the Overland Iimited mail bandits, who has just been sentenced for life, arrived in Omaha Thursday morning from his home | in Seattle to see what could be done for | | bis younger brother. It was not untll his | arrival Here that he knew that his brother Lawrence was on trial as one of the priasi: pals in the robbery. He said “Lawrence tricd to keep from us the reriousness of the charge against him and Leld out the hope to us that he was meroly | belng held as @ witness, (hat the affair | would come out all right and that he would | be acquitted. We id not dream the worst, as bad as the reality was from his word to us. We of course knew of his arrest at Denver for complicity in the ro’ “ery, but letters to us indieated that he was oaly held as a witness. It seems (hat fate has been following our family with the direst rgeance lately. “It was only a few days before his arrest Crushed by a Double Calamity, at Denver that his sister, a school teacher in Denver, was returning home with her ittle brother of 7 years of age and boih were killed in a train wreck near Spokane. just a few miles from home. We were, of course, overwhelmed with srief, and before we had time to think, almost, then came the news of Lawrence's arrest for com plicity in the Omaha train robbery, 1 think it will kill father and mother. Oh, it Is awful. “Yet, I believe that Lawrence is innocent of this erime. pany. Yet he is only a boy, bad assoclations. God krows he eriminal, He may be wayward tmpulsive. is not a He 1 “If he had only told us all we would have {um 1 LT ‘conlai’s jedte been in better shape to make a better de- fense for him. But for our sakes he sup- pressed too mueh. I do not think he i gullty and believe that If we con get the case reversed that we will be able to prove his {nnocenc OTHER CITIES, declined to| He aid get Into bad com: | led off by! TWO CENTS. LAUGHTER STOPS DOBBINS TRIAL Story of Drugging Only Serious Note in Hearing of Alleged Steerer of Mabray Gang. W. H, BEDFORD SPRINGS SURPRISE !Methodl Not Hitherto Known Charged i by Witness, | |ONE STEERER CALLED HYPNOTIST John Hermelbrecht Funnier Than Any German Comedian, “HAD ME GOING SOUTH,” SAYS HE il'nrnn-(-lnnu Humor of Serfous-Minded Man Causes Four Cesmsations of Trinl to Let Audience Gain Control of Itaelf, The trial of John R. Dobbing, on a charge of larceny steerer for the Maybray gang, became a rare entertalnment yester- day through the jovial philosophy of two radiant “mikes who testified before the | qistrict court at Council Blufts, It was All Fools day The spectators went into convulsions, and even ‘‘Buck- ‘em-all” Ballew, the $80,000 viefim, appear- ing as complaining witness, smiled. Four times testimony was stopped to restore order. W. H. Bedford, a lank Missourl tarmer with all the native wit of his type, made gay with his plight and then Intro- |duced the only serlous note of the day's hearing by declaring that he had ben drugged in the process of being “miked." Bedford's testimony in' this connection spread great surprise by apparently reveal- ing methods of the Maybray gang not hitherto known. The witness Intimated that Willlam Carson, n :icerer, had exer- ecised nothing less than hypnotie control over him. The story of Bedford's ex- !ptlu'"l.'f was practically the same as that of Ballew, varying ooly in that the money involved was quoted In lower figures and trat Dobbins, the defendant, did not figure in the operations. as a Hermelbrecht Unconsclous Humorist, The sad serlously-intended story of John Hermelbrecht, who represents Ban- {eroft, Neb., in the “Mike frat’ convention at the trial, all to the total cost of 35,000 spent on the racing farce which consti- tuted the initiation, made the hearing bit funnier than “Fritz in a Madhouse. His answers on cross examination de- |serve to become claesic. “When you left the Grand hotel to g |out to the race, which ‘way did you go! asked Emmet: Tinley of the defense. They did haft me golng some south.” “I'm not joking, r. Hermelbreeht,” ad- viged the lawyer. “Now, which way were you going? “I yust sald dot I vas somng south—you think dees bin one yoke mir?” A fuss over direction ensued, entangling the witness woetully. “Vell, maybe you' dom't I bin looking nordt now.'. The witness was, In fact, facing south; of this the attorney Informed his viedm, but Hermelbrecht shook his head. “You won't take my word for it then?" |asked the lawyer. i | | | think .X- know. Is Now a Doubting Thomas, “Say, ven you gets once vat 1 didt in diese stadt, maybe you don't beliet beoples efther,” remarked ths witness, sadly re- membering that $5,000. 3 1t was_impossible for the court to stop Hermelbrecht and the heated German de- livered himself of his feelings. “I think 1 bin got some sense yedt. 1 know ver I vas ven I bin home, by ehim- | miny. | The spectators threatened to tedr.up the | turniture in their mirth and the baiitt had to turn his back while he rapped for | order. “I was to help oudt In der races,” ex- ting."" | plained Mermelbrecht, “unt do der bet- “Mr. Maxwell, the secretary, he told me |dot I should get some drafts so der mil- | Monaires what vas to lose would think I had money (o §o home on if I lose—so they | wuidn't feel bad about betting mit me.” | Was Willing to Rteap Harvest. | Hermeibrecht revieweA the same old Mike | story of the contruct with Hemmingway, the leader of the supposed sportive mil- lionaires and the shortage which forced the | “secretary” in the deceitful plot to leave, lalways with the money. The honest Ger- |man dia not attempt the feneing which characterized Ballew's efforts to shield { himseif, and frankly admitted that he knew |it was a fake and expected to reap & har- vest. You knew you had to bet that stake money pver six times?’ asked Tinley In his most belligerent mood, demanding that the witness tell how he covered $30,000 in “millionaires” bets with his little $,000 | ""Ve bet der money over only tree time, |answered Hermelbrecht. “Mine ‘friends’ had $,000, too, dot gift uns $10,000. “You are good on addition,” suggested Tinley “Ya, but only sometimes,” replied Her- melbrecht. Vaudeville or Clreus, Which? “Hold on, you're not runnirg thls vaudes ville show,” suggested Tinley, “No circus for m came the reply. The witness declared that he d4d not | know Dobbins and that he had not ssen hi mbefore his appearance at the trial. The state took the examination of “Mikes" Thursday after the argument of strenuous and sweeping objections by the { @efense, which were overruled W. H. Bedford, the jolly “Mike" from Eolckow, who, by belng calied to the stand, pregipitated the téchnical tangle of objections and motions, off direct examination proceeded to relate #i good- natured terms how he was fleeced for $8,000. 1t was a story strikingly typleal of® the Mabray operations. The testimony of Bedford did not eon- nect Dobbins with the experience of the witness, further than that the defendant was seen mueh In company with the “milllonaires." Bedford’s Money Detached, Bedford firmly avowed that he was ina “detached state” when the final operations on his purse were performed “I knew It was too late when I went after my money back after the race,” he sald on cross-examination, “1 knowed all that day that | 1 was up after that dinner &t the hotel with Carson (the sterrer). 1 was feeling ltke 1 w leep and wide awake enough to know it. “Then you think that you would have re- (Continued on Bighth Puge.)