Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 15, 1915, Page 1

| came from the jury room and informed | ‘a verdict had been reached, the foreman | WHEN AWAY PROM BOME The Bee is The Paper for; if you plan % be ‘more K £ SR THE OMAHA DAILY BEE VOL. XILV—-NO. 22 OMAHA, THURSDAY JULY 15, 19 MORNING, JURY DECLARES HARRY K. THAW IS A SANE MAN Twelve Men Vote Slayer of White to Be of Sound Mind, but His Freedo mWaits on Judge Hendrick. COURT DECIDES ON FRIDAY Will Then Announce Whether Order | Sending Defendant to Mattea- wan Stands. CROWDS GO WILD WITH JOY! i NEW YORK, July 14.—Harry K. Thaw today was declared sane by a jury, which for nearly three weeks‘ listened to testimony given in the‘ supreme court here befors Justice | Peter Hendrick. Forty-eight min- utes were consumed and two bnllc(sf were taken in reaching a verdict. Justice Hendrick on Frday morn- ing will annouce whether the com- mittment upon which Thaw whs in- earcerated in the state hospital for the eriminal insane at Matteawan shall be vacated, thereby giving to| the slayer of Stanford White-the lib- | erty for which he has fought in thei courts for nine years. | Judge Warns Crowd. It was at the end of a day of addresses by counsel and the charge of the justice that the jury retired. While the twelve men were deliberating the crowd in the court room and about the court house ‘was augmented by scored of people who believed that a verdict quickly would be | found. Shortly before 4 o'clock a bailiff | Justice Hendrick that a verdict had been | reached. The doors immediately were | locked and Justice Hendrick, ascending the bench, warmed the spectators that | any demonstration would be met with severe punishment. Then the jury came in. In reply to a| question by the clerk of the court whether handed over a sheet of legal paper, which | wag passed to the justice on the bench. Justice Hendrick read it and handed it back to the clerk. “Gentlemen of the jury,” said the clerk, | “the question you have been asked is| this: Is Harry K. Thaw now sane? Your anewer i yes." Despite the warning, several persons | #téod up in front of their seats ‘The | oourt, room. hummed like a dynamo. Jus- a dozen court attend- Kisses Mother. Meanwhile Thaw, who, until the ver- dict was announced, sat at the cpinsel | table with his chin resting in a handker- | THE WEATHER Unsettled 15—~TWELVE PAGES. On Truine a [ Rote) News Stands, So SINGLE COPY TWO CENTS. RUSE TO DECEIVE THE ENEMY—How the big guns are disguised to protect them from the sight of the enemy airship scouts. RAILROADS BADLY WASHED BY RAINS Twelve Bridges on Wabash Between Omaha and 8t. Louis Give Way Before Flood. CROP L0SS WILL BE HEAVY The rains throughout eastern Ne- braska, western Iowa and north- { western Missouri Tuesday afternoon, night and Wednesday have resulted in damages of fully §1,000,000 to the roads operating out of Omaha, according to local railroad officials. They are of the opinion that the damage to crops in the storm area will be an additional $1,000,000, and perhaps considerable more. and grasped | As a result of the torrential rains dur- 2.'.‘1";;.:.“«‘2’.’3:.:'3"3‘.’ counsel, Then ' ing the last twenty-four hours, bridges he went to where his mother was sitting along the railroad lines have been washed a few feet away and, throwing his arms away. Along the leys of the streams about her neck, kissed her twice. Mrs | for miles on either side the rich’ agricui- Thaw at the same time patted her daugh- | tural lands are under water to a depth ter, Mrs, George L. Carnegie, on the| of from one to six and nine feet. In Aha’ulur. Thaw later shook hands with | these sections where’ theré are many his halt-brother, Josiah Thaw. | thousands of acres of corn and small The verdict recorded, John B. Stanch-|grain, it is asserted that crops are to- fleld, chief counsel for Thaw, made a tally destroved, that in many locallties motion that the committment signed by | it will be days before the water will run Justice Dowling following a verdict of |off and that then it will be too late o Dot guilty on the ground of insanity, | replant, which was returned by the jury at Thaw's Roads to South Inoperative. second trial for the murder of White, be| mpere was not a road operating trains wacated. between Omaha and Kansas City and St. Justice Hendrick asked Deputy ALtor-|y,uis though late in the afterncon the mey General Becker what he had to SaY | aigeouri Pacific resumed service. to such & motion. Mr. Becker, in reply, | Wwest of the Missouri river the damage requested time in which the state mISht | gg0a1n6q by the raiiroads was insig- prepare an appeal. Justice Hendrick re-| niniant gy compared with that through minded the lawyers that he had mot|y,y, 4nq in western Missouri. decision, and that consequently 0‘!‘:“: been finally decided which side might desire an appeal. He then set 1l o'clock tomorrow morning as the time when he would receive briefs and hear Along the Northwestern, from Fremont all the way through to Long Pine and on the Bonesteel branch, from Norfolk to Winner, the rain continued from late Tuesday afternoon untll morning, the erguments in his chambers upon the mo- tlon to Aismiss the committment. The gury was discharged and then court ad- Journed. Shakes Hands with Jurors. As soon as the jury was dismissed, whaw crossed to the box and shook hands warmly with each of the men. His {Continued on Page Two, Column Five.) precipitation being tigured by ageats and others along the lines at from four to eight inches. It threw the streams out of thelr banks and spread their waters over the bottom lands for miles. From Fremont to Norfolk, all along the Elk- horn walley, the water was up to or over the tracks. The bridges withstood the floods, but in many places the grades were softened and badly washed. e— i The Weather Many Acres Under Water, A conservative estimate by Northwest- ern officlals indicates that up the Elk- horn valley fully 10,000 acres of crop s Memperature at Omaha Yesterday. |, .. wuier. some flelds only a few Hour, Tem: linches, while in others the water ls as gfi:' ;‘.: many feet deep. Ta m. The main line of the Omaha road fromn - above Blair, all the way to Bioux City, 10a m. and where it 18 built on the lowlands, s 11a m under water. The bridges remain intact, 1 m, but the track is badly washed. The P sane conditions maintaln across from 3p. Emerson to Norfolk, and on the Harting- 2 ton and Bloomtield branches. Through - 6 p. m. this section of the state, comn and small 1p. m. grain on the rolling land is badly washed, 8 p. m. much of it bemg torn out by the roots Comparative Loeal and carried into the lowlands below. All 1915, 1914 1913, 1912, | the streams are out of their banks and m!tlhrg:y o 104 )g‘l"’"" of those that at low water are Lowest yesterday Mean rature only a few feet wide, have now spread on ... out from ome-half to a mile over the ure and precipitation depart- nm the normal at Omaha since and compared with the past two va'leys. Down the Missouri and for twenty-five to forty miles baclk in the state, it is as- " than farther north, the rain having been heavier and continued longer. Reports to the failroads Indicate that from late Tuesday afternoon around Plattsmouth, Nebraska City, Auburn, Peru, Brownville, Weeping Water, Ver- don, Stella and a dogen other towns in the southeast part of the state, the precip- itation was from four to eight inches and, owing to congiderable of the land being roling. the Water rushed lh.m the fie'ds in torrents, tearing out grain apd tuining sl ravines snd small streams Into rivems. for cor. 1914. 1.50 inches fo; cor. ::YM. 1913. 1.71 fnches Brkesaskeheaks Farmers Lose Meavily. All through the southeast part of the state, imcluding Cass, Otoe, Johnsom, Pawnee, Richardson and Nemaha coun- ties, the loss to farmers, it Is asserted, will be unparelleled in the history of Ne- (Con on Two, Colt ) BrgzzIsssEEze EaaREEzEzTEaR ‘of precipitation, L. A Local Forecastér. |serted that conditions are even worse | WILL SEND PROTEST State Department Will Make Rep- resentations Regarding Delay of Meat Cargoes. THIRTY-ONE SHIPS DETAINED WASHINGTON, July 14.-—After conferences with representatives of the leading American meat packers today State department officials said formal representations would be made to Great Britain for the release of neutral meat cargoes detained by Britigh naval authorities. The char- acter of the representations has not been decided. The packers complained that despite assurances of expedition of their cases before the British prise court not one of | thetr cargoes had been released so far. | They sald thirty-one American, British and other ships carrying the American meat products consigned to the Scandi- navian countries were held up, Postpone- ments of which they have previously | complained, packers, Saloon Keeper at Pinedaie, Wyo,, is Murdered with Axe PINEDALE, Wyo., July 14.—(Special.) —Richard Grant, 64, was murdered in his saloon, the Fremont, some time between midnight and 6:30 o'clock yesterday morn- ing, the murderer splitting his skuil with an axe and then hacking his body in a score of places, No crime in the history of the ‘“‘upper country” of Fremont county se excited the population as has this one, and the murderer, if he ocan be identified, will be summarily dealt with if he is caugat before Sheriff L. B. Gaylord arrives, if, indeed, the presence of the sheriff could prevent \iolence. Sheriff Gaylord and Coroner O. L. Mid- dickauff are rushing to the scenc by automobile, but as nearly 100 miles of rugged country separates Pinedale from Lander, the county seat, they may not arrive until tomerrow. Grant's body was found by Roy Alli- son, an employe, when the latter en- tered the saloon at 6:30 o'clock. It was lying behind the bar, where Grant had fallen when he was struck with an axe the top of his head and his brains spiat- |tered out upon the bar and floor. After | dealing the fatal blow the murderer went around the bar to where the body lay and again and again hacked the limbs and trunk. The surrounding walls, bar |ana floor were splashed with blood until |the room resembled a slaughter pen. When Alllson entered thé blood was just beginning to coagulate, indicating that the crime had net been committed long previously, { The safe of the saloon and the cash rex- |1ster were rified, but there 1s a suspicion (that the murder was not with the motive lof robbery und that the money recepta- |eles were emptied merely to cause belief {that & robher had done the job. Austria Tried for Peace With Serbia ROME (Via Paris), to the effect that when Italy’s entrance in the comfiict appeared inevitable Aus- T0 GREAT BRITAIN| they said, were continuing | without reason, to the hardship of the | or mattock. The instrument sheared off | July 1.—A semi- | official announcement publisbed in Rome | STRIKE MAY TIE UP LARGE ARMS PLANT President of Company Says Dispute Between Unions is Stirred Up by German Sympathizers, MACHINISTS TO MEET FRIDAY BRIDGEPORT, Conn., July 14— The strike situation at the plant of |{the Remington Arms company, where union organizations are dis- puting matters of jurisdiction, and which threatens, unless settled, to {nvolve several thousand iron work- ers in the city and to tie up shipment of war munitions, was olose to & standstill today. Labor leaders present in the city {did not look for any important de- velopments pending word from Bam- uel Gompers, president of the Amer- ican Federation of Labor, who has been asked to intervene in the trou- ble, or the mass meeting of machin- ists set for Friday night, when the question of a general strike in the city will be taken up. The bone of contention, the labor men ey, s the matter of the affillation of the millwrights employed by the Stewart Construction company, which is working on new buildings for the arms company, both the carpenters and the metal work- s claliniug them. The dispute is said to be, in one form or another, a trouble of long standing which has come to a head at the present time, and the labor leaders declare it is purely & mattar be- tween the unions and not due to outside influence, Major Walter W, Fenfield, U, & A, re- tired, head of the arms company, ex- preased the belief that the difficulties are due to the work of German sympathis- ers who wish to hinder the shipment of war munitions, ““There is not the shadow of a doubt™ he said, ‘“‘that this whole thing is the work of Germans or German sympathis- ers. I am not speaking from hearsay {or suspicion. 1 have good reasons to know just what I am talking of.” Chicage Painters Will Arbitrate. { CHICAGO, July 14.—~Complete labor peace in Chicago was In prospect today tor thie first time in years with the an- nouncement that the painters and metal | workers, who have been on trike for more than two months, had agreed to | arbitrate. More than 10,000 union painters will be affected by a settlement. The striking electrical workers also are expected to agree to arbitration of a wage contro- versy. Employers and labor leaders also are of the opinion that labor peace in Chicago promises to be lasting as a result of re- cent successes in arbitration in the street car men's strike and carpenters’ strike. MALVERN PACES GO OVER ON ACCOUNT OF RAIN MALVERN, TIa, July l—Special)— More than one and one-haif incliéh of rain fell here last night, making the race track so heavy that the races have been postponed one day, lasting over Thurs- day and Friday. [HE-GATE-CITY-OF THE-WES Let us repeat that though The Bee originated and in- augurated the “stop off” campaign weclaim no pat- ent on it. We again invite the other newspapers to take hold and boost with 'HEDRICK SLAIN BY UNION SOLDIERS, | SWEARS VETERAN aptain MoCoum Testifies Father of Mrs. Pease Shot as Spy and Made to Dig His Own Grave by i Exeoutioners. NOT VICTIM OF BANDIT CREW Pioneer, Who Was Cause of Four Being Arrested on Murder Charges, Tells Story. LONG SOUGHT FOR TREASURE Bedford, Ia., July 14, —Willlam Des Moines, was not murdered by bandits in Taylor ocounty, Captain L. 8. MoCoum of Bedford declared today. squad of union soldlers In 1862, who suspected the Missourlan to be lines. They suapected him of being a spy, the oaptain declares, and after making him |4lg nhis own grave, shot him to death while he was standing on its edge The eoldiers were in command, the says, of Captain Flick, grandfather of Attorney B. J. Flick, who s handling the defense for the four Taylor county ploneers Samiel Anderson, the aged ploneer who was the cause of four of his nelgh- bors being brought Into court on charges of murder in connection with the so- oalled Siam murder and treasure chest ocase, testified Anderson followed John A. MoKenzle of Omaha on the witness stand at 11 o'clock and his evidence was expeocted to take up the greater part of the afternoon. ‘The witness’' story on the stand did not vary groatly from that which he told In public statements recently. He de- talled his almost continuous efforts dur- ing the last twenty years to dig up a treasure chest on his farm, which was the scene of the alleged murder and rob- bery of Nathaniel Bmith, a Missour{ oat. tlemaw. and his son in 1868, An important development of the day was when Mrs. Elisabeth Benson of Dover, Okl., the widow of Jonathan Dark, who Is alleged to have figured in the Biam farm murder and robbery case, told Attorney General Cosson that her sister, Mattle Colline McAlester, was acquitted of the murder of Jonathan Dark et Inde- pendence, Mo, on the plea of insanity. Mrs, Benson is to take the stand for the defenss and will, it is sald, deny the statements of her other sister, Mra. Maria Collins Porter, the state's ochief witness. Mrs. Porter Clears Up Poluts, Before Anderson began his story, Mrs. Porter resumed the stand and cleared up points passed over in the hearing last night. A new clew to the identity of Smith's daughter was furnished Attorney Bul- man, when he recelved a letter from Kansas City, A woman who slgned her- self as “K," told of a relative named Nathanifel Smith, who went to ¥Kansas City from Indlann at the close of the otvil war. He invested heavily in land In and about Kansas City, holding it for #peculation, A year or so later he sold the land and with his small fortune started for Taylor county, Iows, ostensibly to buy cattle, He never returned. Attorney Flick represeuting the de- fendants, brought forth a dramatic answer from Mrs. Porter, when, on cross- examination he referred to the faot that Dr, 0, R Huntsman., Dr. A. B, Goliday and Jonathan Dark, who, the witness claimed, were participants in the murder of Bmith, had since died. “You can repeat what those dead men sald, oan't you?' he asked, ‘but you cannot repeat what these living defend- ants sald “¥es, I can vreplied Mrs. Porter quickly, as she.pointed a finger at S8am- uel Sorivner, one of the defendants. “Sam Scrivner wsald, ‘Let's divide the money now,” and Johathan Dark sald, ‘No, let's wait.'" Serivner smiled at this . Date of Murder Revised, Mrs, Porter, in her testimony last night, fixed the date of the alleged murder of Smith and his son as some time after the death of her father, Floyd Collins, in Beptember, 1876, ‘‘probably in 1877." The warrents on which the four defendants are held charge that the crime was com mitted in 1888. Attorney Bulman sald these would be amended. John A. McKensle, an Omaha attorney, who is assisting the prosecution, fol- lowed Mrs. Porter on the stand and told of having seen the tombstone of Floyd Collins ini.Slam cemetery. He sald this tombetone gave tho date of Collins’ death as September 2, 'lfll South American Packers Ask Access to Markets of U. 8. NEW YORK, July 4.—Conditions gov- erping the competition between the meat packers of Chicago and South American concerns shipping Argentine beef to this country, are to be disclosed in a hearing |before the Interstate Commerce commis- slon, which opens today A. H. Benjamin of New York, agent of the Companie Sansinena of Buenos |Ayres, and the Frigerfica, Urug has |asked the commission to give them fa- {ellitles to sell beef in New York and |elsewhere in the east which enable them |to meet the competition of the American | The complainants asked the Interstate Commerce commission to direct several railroads to give them a refrigerator car service that is owned by the railroads |and not by the American packers. They asserted that unless this were done they could distribute South American beef here only through channels controlled by American packers. Hedrick, the father of Mrs, Mar-| garet Pease and George Hedriok of | POt that he is to relinquish his posi-| (Via Paris.)—The Italians have cap- VILLA COLUMN IS MOVING ON CAPITAL | Chieftain's Agency Says Gemeral | Obregon is Completely Isolated from His Base, FOOD IS REACHING THE CITY WASHINGTON, July 14.—An- other column of Villa forces mean- while, according to advices to such |agents here, {s continuing the cam- ‘p.l‘n toward Mexlco City. After the capture of Queretaro yesterday, it is claimed they completely {so- lated Obregon from his base of sup- plies. A statement issued by the agency on authority from General Villa wishes to deny emphatically the re- |tion as commander-in-chief in favor of General Jose Isabel Robles, or that there is any movement a-foot among Carransa Wilj Build Tower, General Carransa hag ordered the ereo- & spy of the rebels within their | !!on of a wireless station at Chapultepec| |to insure constent communication be- | Food sipplles chiefly corn, are arrive |ing in the city, Mr. Silliman added, and Illfiv|~‘ru| Gonzsles has announced that he | will give prefcrence to supply trains over | troop traine entering the city. t a confarence yesterday between the | Brazillan minister, the British chargo land reprosentatives of the Carranaa | torces, full guarantees of protection were |&iven with the notice that there would |be mevers punishment for any infraction {of the order. Consul 8illiman also con- firmed other dispatches from Mexico City that General Gonsales had ocaptured the water worke which has been out off by the Zapata forces evacuating the city. Another message to the State depart- ment sald General Vills evidently had evacuated Auguuas Callantes, the foroes which had been in conflict with General Obregon's troops near that point pro- ceeding northward. Communication bey tween Mexico City and Auguas Chlientes, the dispatch addes, was expected to be established soon, There were no advices on the reported capture of Queretaro by Villa trocpr. Promise of Amnesty. General Carranza will lssue an amnesty decree to Mexicans who return “to the ath.” His agency here today re- this dispateh from Vera Crus: and forelgners. He has instiuctions me severely to punish all crimes against property. “Within a few days I will, in my ca- pacity of first chief, issue an amnesty law In an endeavor to have those in error return to the true path and to restore peace and order in the republic.” Carransistas Take Saltillo, SAN ANTONIO, Tex., July 14.—Capture of Saltillo, Mexico, was claimed In & message from Neuvo Laredo recelved at the Carransa consulate early today. De- tafls were lacking and no mention was made of the casualties on either side nor | prisoners taken. Haltillo was lost & month ago by the constitutionalist garrison under command of Generul Luis Guiteres to Orestes Pe- reyra, & Villa commander. Guiteres was | forced to retreat and await reinforce- | ments. These wers sent him by General | Trevino, and with & force of 3,000 mlni he moved on the lost stronghold. l Three White Men is | Shot Down by Posse Negro Who Killed MACON, Ga., July 14—A posse of olti- zens and county officers today shot and killed Peter Jackson, a negro acoused of killing three white men near Cochran, Ga. The nexro had barricaded himself in his home and defled the posse who, “With reference to the ocoupation of: Mexico City, General Publo Gonzales will afford all kinds of guaranties to natives GREAT ARMIES IN GALICIA ARE ON DEFENSIVE Russ and Teuton Hosts Near Kras: nik Apparently Each Waiting i for the Next Move by | the Other. FIGHTING ON THE WEST LINE | French Statement Says Ground Lost | to Germans in Argonne Forest Has Been Regained. | |TURKEY I8 READY TO QUIT BULLETIN, GENVA, Switzerland, July 14.— |tured two miles of Austrian trenches in the Carniec Alps, according to a | dispatch recelved today by the Instead he was shot by a his generals aiming at such action. | Tribune from Villach, an Austrian |town on the river Drave, fifty-two {miles northwest of Laibach, | LONDON, July 14.-—~For more {tween Mexico Clty and Vi Crus. | Capton McCoum fs a veteran of the | American n‘.::-.-n ‘lm)mmnnnn at ::rn (_Nl.‘x'hnn' & Wesk thy AustorGurims ot Moxican ada civil wars. [eo reserted tofiay after Raving Besn W ensive in Galicla and Poland has A squad of soldiers in the northern |direct communication with the Brasillan | beon hanging fire, while the Rus- army caught Hedrick in Taylor county. i minister in the capital | slans, their center having fallen back {on a more advantageous line in the | helghts to the north of Krasnik, ap- | parently are awaiting the next move of the Teutonic forces. Fresh ammunition and reinforce- ments may bring a sudden revival of activity in this war theater, but L:l:::ume the western front, by n of uncertainty as to which side plans a general offensive, will offer the greatest possibilities of in- teresting developments, The Fronch claim thelr front in the Argonne forest after being dented by a Violent attack mude by the army of Crown Prince Frederick Willlam, has been restored, the net result belng a venture for the German but the strength of the offensive at this point leads the British press to speculate whether the Argonne or the Woevre dis- tricts will not be selected for a generanl German offensive rather than the battle grounds in Flanders. Many reports from Balkan sources re- vive the rumors that Turkey is weary of | (Continued on Page Two, Column Two.) B LINE IN FRANCE s fur- for the moment the only military sotiv. The German strugsle for Ver- is regurded by observers on the side of the entente allies as with assaults on e the Woevre, reports record a Latest French check for the German crown prince in his attacks in the former re. wton, ALMOST COMPLETE SILENCE vells the situation In the ecastern war theater. ROME REFPORTS the the Austrian front Iatest Austria says there have be several artillery engagements and that an intantry attack was repulved near Redi. wlia. ERMAN ENGINEERS are stremgth- & the defense of Constantino- e on & &e sonle, according to advices through Mytilene recetvea in London. GERMAN THRUST at Verdun has resuited in an important gain of @round, according to the ourrent official tement from Berlin, LATEST FRENCH officlal state. ment claims that German attacks in the Argonne were defl Iy stopped. FIGURES GIVEN OUT in Beriin ow the sinking of forty-twe tuation along merchant vessels by German sub- according to reports recelve here, blew | suarines during the month of up the house with dynamite. Jackson, e of destroyed it was stated, continued firing after his 1, house was dynamited, and he then was shot down. Three White Men Killed by Negro MACON, Ga., July 14 —~Three white men are dead today at Cochran, Ga., in Pul- askli county, and a posse timated to number several hundred farmers, heavily urmed, negro farm hand who is alleged to have shot and killed the three men. The negro has barricaded himself in his home. James Jackson, the nexro, at last re- ports, had succeeded in holding off the posse. The dead are: W. 8. HOGG, jed 40, night marshal. LYNN SAND: 40, farm supervisor. OSCAR LAWBON, 23, a farm hand. Jackson, sccording to reports, was orit- icised by Sanders yesterday for some work he had done and the supervisor is sald to have struck the negro. Later, it is alleged,” Jackson accosted Banders, drew a pistol and fired, killing bim al- most instantly. Hogg and Lawson went to Jackson's home today to arrest him, when It is al- leged, the negro fired upon them with a shotgun. They died shortly afterward. Wheat Makes Wild Advance Near Close CHICAGO, July 14.—~Wheat made & wild advance today, jumping up 6% cents a bushel in some cases, as compared with last night. Just before the close the July option sold as high as $.16, against §1.104% at yesterday's finish. The rush of values was largely the rasult new reports of black rust infection in chlef producing states of the spring belt and because of signa of Wberal for Burope. ¥y has surrounded the homs of a |