Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 16, 1915, Page 1

T ey Be- IIE AHA AlL ' Unshon ] VOL. XLV-—NO. 103. . OMAHA, SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 16, CHILD COMES "~ HOME TO FIND PARENTS DEAD Eight-Year-Old Phyllis MeCulloch Finds Mother and Stepfather Lifeless Upon Return from Grocery Store. BELIEVED lfi AND SUICIDE Two Revolvers on Floor Near Hus- band Indicate He Shot Wife and Then Himself. COUPLE HAD OFTEN QUARRELED When Phyllis Mecgulloch, aged 8 years, returned to her home at 2623 Casa street from the grocery store at noon she found her mother and step-father dead. A bullet wound through the right temple of Mrs, Alice Schwichtemberg, lged 35 years, and a similar wound through the night’ temple of John Schwichtem- berg, her husband, were the cause of death. Two revolvers were found beside the body of the latter. The little girl told the following stery to the police officers: “Papa has been awful cross lately and this noon he came from work and he and mamma quar- | reled bechuse mamina said he flirted with & neighbor woman.” “Papa sent me to the store to get a bottle of milk ang when I got back the front door and the back door ware locked. I looked through the dining room window and saw papa lying on the floor. Then I went to the back window and looked in and mamma was lying near the kitchen stove. I broke the kitchen window with a wtick and went into the front and got the baby and took it mext door.” » Phyllls had come from the Webster Automobile concern spent some time in Omaha on ments. This photograph shows Mr, Ford and HENRY FORD, WIZARD OF THE AUTOMOBILE WORLD, VISITS IN OMAHA-—The head of the great Ford !‘r_l(}sy wisiting with employes and looking over his local establish- _vloyes of his Omaha branch. 1915—TWENTY PAGES, SINGLE COPY TWO CENTS. = ———— (CONFESSION OF ' MURDER IS MADE William W. Cryderman Admits Killing of Mrs, Nell Heelan and Mrs, Anna Layport at H Arabia. (LAUGHS AT THE OFFICERS |Reoites Details of Gruesome Crime and Burning of Bodies With- out Repentance. {MRS, HEELAN FORMER OMAHAN Scornfully laughing at his ques- declares hig home is on a northern Michigan homestead, confessed today to the murder of Mrs. Nell Heelan, wife of a rancher at Arabla, Neb,, and daughter of Mrs. Margaret Hee- lan, 721 South Twenty-fifth street, Omal and Mrs, Anna Layport, a neighbor. Cryderman, who {8 but 17 years of age, says that he landed in Nebraska while tramping about the country and that he first went to work for Joe Leader, a ranchman near Valen- tine. Then he went to work for John Heelan, by whom he had been employed since July. The young fiend confeseed that he w At Arabla early in the evening with M Heelan and Mrs. Layport and that alter- cation arose regarding a horse. He says he was ordered home by Mrs. Heelan. Angry begause he was ordered home Oryderman confesses he planned the murder. When Mra. Heelan and Mre. Layport returned Cryderman dec ared he went to the house and askod for some- thing to eat, which was re‘used him, {ARMY OF KAISER tioners, Willlam W, Cryderman, who | BEGINS ITS DRIVE BY YOUNG FIEND — AgA(NST SERBS Battle Raging Along the Danube River Front, with the Teuton Invaders Gaining Four | Miles Advanoce. SERBIANS RESISTING STOUTLY | Mayors of Cities Along Macedonian | Frontier Organizing and Arm- ing Bands of Irregulars. TO TRANSFER THE CAPITAL BULLETIN, LONDON, Oct. 16.~—Great Britain has declared war on Bulgaria. | | PULLETIN, | BERLIN, Oct. 15.—(Via London.) {—Capture of the Serblan town ot | Pozarevae, about twelve miles southeast of Semendria, was reported today by the war office. Hlsewhere on this front the Serbians have been driven back further, with the loss of three guns, 3 PULLETIN, BERLIN, Oct. 15.—(Via London.) ~—German victories in the Artois and the Champagne regions were an- nounced today by the war office. Near Vermelles the British were again driven out of the German posi- tions, PARIS, Ort. 16,~The Germans aro attacking in great force near Passar- owitza, which commands the Morava valley, according to a Nish dispatoh to the Matin. The Serbs are resist- Btreet school about 11:30 and found her " Crydermian then confessed that he got i /' parents auarreling. On her return to the | * | the shotsun and Went to. the barn, whers :"‘ ';"“"’;' and it {s asserted that the | i o » [tell what the trouble started o but | than four miles south of e river at bodles of her mother.and stepfather to PRINCE Am!n you will find our bodles in the ashes,” |any point on the Danube fromt, The 3 4 get to mr h::v- R IN D AY IN OM AH A WHO H AYF TROUBLE OF SERBIA, in command || avd signed it W ATk Bulgarians have been held in the | { In .Amuo:za';..w:'.a P torehead 4 of the Serbian forces at- After writing the note Cryderman de- | 71Ok Valley, where a'new action is b4 of the mother a wound was discovered | . S ,tempting to bar the Teu- || clares he sneaked vp to the house and |ID Progress along the entire front. § ‘n :lnroau‘:.h nerhb:k. The b:lt‘horhnvldenuz Visits Local Branch, Shakes Hands God Would Stop Making Worlds to tonic' advance on Nish. l'hol ktlillr: : thle :vm:llnw ;:';' 3 Hv:'- Mayors of villages along the Mace- 4 re 8 al E i i . an, ng. her instantly. ng o N § | vttt °M. ,:.m ::m ar “POW ‘:r ‘,:’.“r',’u with lenhuqel and Part of Help Man in Trouble, Says, . gt mpdieingh s o s e 4ot donian frontier have been made offl H ! were Fainly. vistble. ; the Office Force. “Billy” Sunday. {man save he then shot Mra. Layport, | O '|“ :“ ";";‘“.“"“ ‘::“‘:': { The parents had quarreled frequently, who was standing at the telephone call- nstructed to organize of ! according to_the child, but her fether (IS ENROUTE TO S8AN FRANCISCO ing for help. He says he shot Mre. Lay- | {rregulars, who will be armed with {i to her km;hdn had never threatened il u;n ¢ s u?-:‘ -"_l:.": not Aead | Mauser rifles, i .+ the life of the mother or had & revolver | Henry Ford, millionaire motor cer birei iy e " 1f Nish is seriously menaced by the i':n mmh:::o.‘ l-ld: the body of the man belleves in publicity _au- " later, e . Mt L Phyllis and the é-month-old Sohwieh- |and ‘he doesn’t like fesnes that he ‘- % WL i SqmDebe habs, Cury are it bured ot | b ef With Jt hitselt. He has ot Jmbire, dauent one of Healas's * ustest temporarily by Mrs. J. H. Hel %21 | somebody else do it for him ? d- started 0 _his esoans | §] 0 3 S e at the Tabernacls, " 0 g 3 { Cass street, who Hves mext door. B0 Whkue ad0n0" h raDerinvs. At » W~Bualay tollowed by Meelan's dog. Hé abandoried Gould Lavender, who occup'es the seo- ond floor of the Schwichtemberg homte, was in the house and heard the quarrel and shots, but did not come downstalrs untfl after the arrival of the officers. ' Owned Their Own Home, The property is owned by the Schwich- temberg family, who bought the place ( about five months ‘ago. They had lived in Omaha for five years, coming here : \ from Red Oak, Ia. They have no rela- { rived in town, according to Phyllis, The mother of the dead woman lives in Iowa, somewhere near Red Oak, the little girl believes. According to the child, her . Stepfather did not drink, but for the past year had displayed a bed temper “He never told mama he would kill her, but he sald he would put her in jail. Yesterday he struck me.” ‘Worries Over Dusineas, Schwichtemberg was a grain dealer at the Board of Trade and had been worry- ing considerably of late over his business. Phyllis sald that she never saw.a revolver in the house, but that her father a ds or two ago asserted he was going to tra his cornet for one, so he would be ready if any burglars broke into the placé. In his pocket was found an open box of \ T and constantly argued with his wife. | tacked his private car in the Union depot yards here Friday morning, Mr., Ford being on his way to the San Francisco exposition, he blocked the @oor with his foot and wouldn't let the news hounds in. He even hesitited to admit Louls Blen- dorf, passenger agent of the Union Pa- cific, who called to make sure every convenlerice and accommodation was &iven the millionaire on his journey. Only when Mr. Blendorf and C. L. Gould, manager of the Ford local branch. proved they were not newspaper reporters would Mr. Ford let them in, However, the auto motor genius 1s very democratic, even though he is shy when reporters are around. After get- ting rid of the scribes and meeting the other local callers, he walked uptown all alone and dropped in unannounced at the Ford agency at Twentieth and Har- | ney _streets. * Shakes Hands with Mechanics. After looking over the plant and talk- ing with the head men, he inspected {the work rooms and shook hands with |every mechanic. He was a mechanic himself once, and always takes speclal MRS. NELL HEBLAN, ONE OF THE VICTIMS OF THE DOUBLE MUR- DER AT ARABIA, Dry Federation Makes Its Plans The State Dry federation, which will wage a cl,mnun for prohibition in Ne- braska, held a commjittee meeting at Lin- coln yesterday. The ‘ Iyrical colored gentleman’s rule, “Never trouble trouble till trou- ble troubles you," was improved upon by “Billy” Bunday in his afternoon sermon yesterday; for he upheld the God who “‘delivers out of their trou- bles” those who cry unto Him, “Trouble met you at the cradle and has been around ever since,” he, sald. “It's in the palace and in the hovel. It visits the king and the peasant. “The poor man in the text ‘cried unto the Lord and He heard him and delivered him out of all his troubles.” “I belleve that God would stop mak- ing worlds to help the man that erles to Him out of his troubles.” At one point “Billy” dramatized his contempt_and hatred of the devil. ““Think of the Saviour you've got,” he sald, “npt of the devil.. Pshaw. the devil!” and “Billy" spat contemptuously on the carpet. ‘|by the train crew and captured at Val- the horwe near Wood Lake and walked into Valentine, where he tried to sell a watah 'which he had taken from the body 6f Mre. Layport, to section men. He then bourded a frolght, but was put oft |entine by Bherift Rossiter, ‘who had re- cefved ‘a description of him from Gordon, Nab, Cryderman wis lodged In the Valentine Jall, but the feeling began to run so high among the rékdents of the town that the prisoner was taken to Crookston by au and from there to Rushville in She county. By plecing the confossion and the evi- dence it has been learned that Cryder- man shot Mrs, Heelan while she was say- ing her rosary and was holding her cru- cifix in her hand. It was also learned that the confessed ipurderer took crucifix, rosary and prayer book from Mra, Heelan's body and an inexperisive hair comb and a gold watch from the body of Mra, Layport. | The authoriti {doubt that Cryderman attempted to as- tuull Mrs, Heelan before committing the | an at Valentine have no double murder. Daughter of Omaha Ploneer, Mrs. Heelan was a daughter of Mrs. the terminus of the branch raflroad which conneets with the main Iine from Nish to Balonfki, at Uskup. Parfls’' Reports Progress of War.' PARIS, Oct. 16—There was a violant bombdrdment last night, both sides tak- ing part, hefore Loos and near Souches, according to the announcement given out by the French war office this afternoon. There was also spirted trench fighting at the Hache forest. In the Champagne district French e terles answered with energy, artillery from the German lines against the French positions to the emst of Auberive. There was also severe cannonading near Lihons, between the Olse and the Alsne, near Quennevieres, at Nouvron. In Lorraine the French fire put an end to violent German artillery and infantry attacks, There has been violent trench fighting in the Vosges, as well as intense artillery exchanges at Hartmanns-Weflerkopt. Austro-German Losses Reported. PARDIS, Oct. 16.—(5:40 p. m.)—Losges of the Austro-German forces on the morth- ern front In Serbla have totaled 20,000 killed and 40,00 wounded, according to the latest reports recelyed at Serblan headquarters in Nish, says a i Shllght W HRAE AF0UDE ‘the Skechadical Margaret Heelan, Omgha ploneer, and dispatch { fi":‘;“‘h":';h;:"":::‘zh‘:;""“‘n:‘:_'::f::»p:n' ot Tin company's plants ™1 An executive committes consisting of | Fifteen persons hit the tral {n respon wifo ot the late Major Phillip Hoelan. | fom Nish to the Tempa. \ % ; ofi,, Shots had. been fired from both. k3 aidn shook hands with most of the | W. T. Thompson of Linceln, chairman;| to the Invitation. They were slow get- Though the murdered woman's malden rece to Keep Out of Wawn, b Opened on the piano to “Brighten the |gther employes of the local branch and |Judge A. C. Epperson of Clay Center, vice | ting started and “Billy” called, out: oo Bk Heclan, she ':":“;: A e ; Corner Where You Are” was a “Billy” |posed for a snapshot of himself and B | chairman, and W. A. Selleck of Lincoln, | I don't care o give the fvitation just ot e e oo sl s iy o £ Bunday hymn book. The two little xolx.{:hr:u? ':t‘.m;h::r;:na:,u::u:‘zi -::0‘:: treasurer, was elected. to fill in time. 2ls beother, Willlash 2o, sal®live seck: 2 ;:3:-‘1;" ‘:;:‘l"m“t;l:n :l-‘r:":i d:fl:';’;{ iy A finance committee consisting of W. A.| In his closing prayer he portrayed the He had accompanied his 12-year-old 3 ¢ Y e o':h:r‘hl.“ve. can be found. Phyllis| Mr. Ford is accompanied by his wife | Selleck, chairman; 8. K, Worrick of | realness wf God's listening to the cry > NS TR daughter, Mary, to St. Joseph's hospital Q = o - ' |and son, Edsel. They came in over the | Beott's Bluff, W. BE. Hardy of Lincoln, | of those in trouble, PRINCE RLEXANDER OF Sarodid, {for an operation, when he was -ppmfi J ) (Continued on Page Two, Column Three.) i Northwestern- at 1016 a. m..and I6ft at | C, .C,. Crowell of Omaha and Georgs R. | «This poor man cried unto the Lord,” {86 Ehe_Sradndv, -'n.-.nmo e Ko 4 — 2 p. m. over the Unlon Paclfic, haviB | piageil of Central Clty was named. he satd, “and God wasn't awsy at &| Rl : progfleyghor: S agbomig A # » private car. iterature and’ péfition work of the . v« * British Submarine T . 2 . Th Weath The party was not acheduled to stop The literatu % | card party, I can see God saying to the to her mother, but wes not told of, the k € yveather rder to Have | SAmPalsn was glyen to the ‘Women's : . ' H affair. She is an attendant at St. Herch- off in Omaha, but did so in order angels, ‘Lay aside your harps a minute, o altuched to & taster train than | Christian Temperasice union, the publicity in-Sea Fight 8inks | acasoms: ; Forecast till 7 p. m. Saturday: l:“ oo .luu kel g ;| and speakisg to the Asnti-Saloon leagué | you're making to* much poise. I can't Mrs, Heelan was & cister of Edward ¥ For Omaha, Council Bluffs and Vieintty | 1P °¢ °riéine v and E. 1. Morrow: of Omaha was chosen | hear this poor man that s in trouble.’ | ./ Teut‘ T d B t Heelan, for twenty-five years & member . —Unsettled, kes =~ genvs to represent the socialists, And God heard him and delivered him." on Ol'pe 0 Oa! of the Omaha police force, but now re- - Temperature Bt Omaka Yesterday IUtfl,h Pa,rdon Body b e |tired on a pension, : 3 i) . | LONDON, Oct. 16.—A dispatch to the | H e rate o ’ W N Central News from Copenhagen says that e £ Will Set a8l Summary of Day’s War News & Britieh subciarine tas moae- s cores! Pifty Thousand — ” { torpedo boat. ’ Jam & Oondemne ayer Information recefved here indicates that | More Men Are to Be il a. m. [ British casualties in ‘he Darda-|the new advanced posifions of the|8ll the members of the destroyer's crew | . - 1t T 8. saur Laxn Gy, oot 1o S8t | liey Cperations have resched. ol | French. o 1. P Called from Canada i e I8 1o consider the case of Jaseph Hillstrom, | most the 100,000 mark. An official| In Lorraine the Ge@mans Mmade. & Gérman cruiser and thres destroyers more E ip convicted of the murder of J. G. Mor-| gtatement in London today gave the|violent attack mear L #vicourt, which | engaged with the British submash QTTAWA, Qot. I4.—Eulistment figures, [} U 3 o i 1914, Hillatros sentenced to nEss ne. The i, e public here tonight, show that 164 1 @ gf 6, ::“ - uu‘i Omb:: l":m reprieved tigures as 96,899 up to October 9, of the French fire is declared to have | German craft movd in circles to avoid 00 m.: b ” Soth GuiiiaEy Cairada for 1® & Soptefber 3 by Governor Spry at the | Which number 18,957 were killed, |checked. There has been lplrl!sd.::“ :"‘:: = ""I submarine, which Was o ...eq service since since the beginning © tve 2 S | request of President Wilson. 1,185 of the killed being officers. |trench fighting in the Vosges, with l .o:;"';l; u':i""v“:o .:2“;‘21"::"]'(‘1’;:‘0"':‘0! the war. Of these 83,00 men have i v A St 1998 1902, | of e "‘\"‘:::"l;r;"'::.:“h "’"l"n';‘:;;”"; Abandonment of the costly Galll-|violent cannonading in some sectors. | torpedo on the destroyer.. which nnk‘b';“ ::'" v ,::“n A,:'J,m;: enlisted, it Highest yesterdny | % % 2 |the United States, who represented that [Pl expedition was suggested in the| A German torpedo boat destroyer |with a territic explosion. The other Ger.| AROiher WO men will be enlisted, i £ i 7 g bk A @) 31 5l G8(Hillstrom ls a Swedish subject and that | House of Lords last night by Lord |was sunk by a British submarine to- | man warships arc said to have retreated. | poo wot P00 : | ’ Precipitation ............ .0 .00 .l: 0 (he blleved the man had not been fairly [ Myinep, who advanced the idea of the day in the passage connecting the 2;.::,:"'“":: ":::":"' ‘r’" '“";“ ‘;L" ‘The firet contingent and reinforcements ¥ Temperatrre o4 precipitation depar- | tried, 3 v on the or some time be« t,tq1ed 36,1 d the second contingent ' ‘ tures from the normal Hllistrom's Teprieve terminates tomor- | tranafer of the troops on the peain- ) Baltlo and the North sea, known as!core 1t gisappearsd. No surviyors have | oo s otateg A 4 ;:gfl_l.l 't:r'"m:-é:;! s vow snd if the Board of Pardons sgain |sula to another field. The govern-[the Sound, & Copenhagen dispatch | been found. l( || Total deficlency since March 1. 507 |declines to commute his sentence, a new | pient would not commit itself as to|states, A German cruiser and an- - . P All Rights Ressrved. Pkt 1‘ ormal m'm:‘fl“y” ::‘m"::'. "; ::: I:':b:‘“"u‘;':‘ ":'““: whether the troops woyld remain or |other destroyer in the vieinity hastily Gas Klus our Let ""“"' Joow rewne m Total rainfall since ted by the Swedish minister. be transferred. steamed away southward, the dis- : : With & Want Ad your busiiess - Txcess since March 1. 23 inches | Presen ¥ » ) that you won't be o [} Exooss foF CoF. period, i#id... 118 inohes e Greece will not intervene in the | patch adds. | Tomorrow the Best ! in New York Clty "’“"“"‘:‘ ..}h" 1 i Excess for eor. period, Wl.... 0t inches | (Y pt_Martial of war on behalf of Serbia at present.| British submarines recently have | ! — et we cleee o sorve [ 3 ! Reports from Stations at 7 P, M. " . It has officially notified the British |been active in the Baltic, near the | Colored u'r‘_'?‘:'mf‘"::‘,;u?:;"‘;:::"bz‘,’;"_:; With e Wast Ads your Vusiness will Station had Btate Timn Wigh- oty thtle 18 Ordered government to this effect. scene of the incident of today, sev- | ber three young deughters, were found| Whes 7ou st shis comelusion arvive; P : Cheyenne, raining i A Intense activity, chiefly on the eral German steamers having been ' . in their home in Brooklyn today. All of e T v 'n::w 'rt-'nuu .0 8 WASHINGTON, Oct. 15.—Secretary | part of the artillery, has prevalled |sunk by them. | Comlcs the nine gas Jets in the house were|! mut we close at seven 4 {):;d" awdc;-“u :: : 'fi Daniels today ordered the mv.vl by court- | Jlong the western front. Today's Announcement was made today | lx.ur;ln;: on and enly one of them was The Want Ad ““i oléde w % North ‘Piatte, riining.. ¥ B % mayiinl °:":""”“';':'._ ‘“1’_"':‘,, N. | paris report ‘mentions in particular |t{hat Serbla had declared war on Bul-| —with— uiios beliave the bk wamen soint] M- Raturday, Soroie pig Foudly e \ Durebia; cloudy 8§ % |nectet aad srvices methods tn the aon- |volent artillery baties before Loos gars. r (e cae an sxplonon, ae the crevies of| _ Farly Wane Ade alwaye rcsio ey e ning. A duct of his duties while inspector of |and ortheast of Souches, and a con-| Pirst war statement issued by the all doors and 'IM‘:" were stutfed with | ChIS 70 tnan later ade. ! Baowa Fe, clondy. ol 8 el machinery a:l :::"on mv-:'nlblohu:;::: centration of German fire on the|Bulgarian genersl staff dated Thurs- "‘“" m n‘:“wm',?_‘ | WP hone your Blox ity clowdyer- ® 8 0| O on of the submarine | Fronch lines east of Auberive, In the day night accuses the Serbians of in- East river as that of her husband, Joseph | #4rlY &x and pot o : Valentine. A 23} Dorntiatan™ U 8. Kok lchumu‘n-. near the-western end of | itiating the offensive. | Huntstoger. THE OMAHA BERy Ja AW ~ S ST