Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 14, 1916, Page 5

311 “ BRIEF CITY NEWS “Townsend's for Sporting Goods.” Lighting Pixtares—Burgess-Granden. Rave Root Print It—Now Beacon Press. To Sell Beal Eatate list it with J. H.| Dumont, Keeline Bldg. i “Today's Movie Program” classified secion today. It appears in The Bes | EXCLUSIVELY. Find out what the va. | rious moving picture theaters offer Baker Gets Limit—F. C. Baker of Sloux City, arrested on a charge of peddling dope, was sentenced to ninety days in | the county jail by the police magistrate Masonic Temple Oraft Elects—Masonic Temple craft of Omaha held its annual | election for the ensuing vear. John Kelly, | president; Dr. A. 8. Pinto, vice presi-| dent; Luther B. Hoyt, treasurer; H. ¥ | Race, secretary Pay Ocoupation Tax—Omaha Posting | service and Thomas Cusack ompany have paid $314.34 and $353.50, respectively. for 1915 occupation taxes. The gross re- celpts for the year for both companies were reported at $54.475.35 1 Xugel Goes Avisiting—The city coun | cil granted Commissioner Kugel leave of absence for three weeks beginning Janu- ary 1b. Mr. and Mrs. Kugel Intend l(!‘ visit Pacific coast cities. During Mr. Ku- | &el's absence Commilasioner Hummel will look after the department of police, sani tation and public safety In the Divorce Court—Decrees of di- vorce have beea granted by default to| Pearl trom Griffith Stevens, and to Jen- | nie from John L. Belding. Nonsupport and cruelty were the grounds in each | case. Mrs. Stevons was also awarded the | custody of two children, aged 7 and 4| years. Anna (‘hoate has filed a petition for divorce from Willlam, alleg ng crueliy. nonsupport and desertion. Oratorical at Creighton—The annusl oratorical contest of the Creighton Arts | department will be held at the College auditorium at 8 on Friday evening. Six contestants have been chosen from the preliminaries held tw, weeks ago. To of these will be awarded a golf medal, as also representation of his col- lege in the Nebraska state oratorical, to be held at Crelghton in Februar: “The Best of Everything”—To 8t Paul-Minneapolis, via Chicago & North- western Line. A complete service of three fast dally trains leave Omaha, 7:45 a. m., 645 p. m. and 9:6 p. m, arriving 8 Paul, 7:40 p. m., 7:16 a. m. and 7:60 a. m.; Minneapolis, §:10 p. m. 7:50 a. m. and $:25 a. m. Most modern equipment, in- cluding parlor cars, dining cars and stan- dard sleeping cars on night trains. The Omaha-Twin City Limited, leaving at 9:06 p. m., has a new luxurious observa- tion lounging-buffet car, with spacious club rooms. For tickets and information call on City Ticket Office, 1401-3 Farnam street, telephone Douglas 2740, Omaha. Street Car Company Must Pay Attorney of the Other Side The Omaha & Council Bluffs Street Rallway company must pay Harri gton & Johnson, lawyers for Mrs, Florence Ed- wards, $4,000 as attorneys’ fees for prose- outing a personal injury suit against the corporation. This is the odd result of a fight between the lawyers for the corporation and Mrs, Edwards that has been going on ever since a jury awarded her $8,000 in Decem- ber, 1913. Judge T. C. Munger has given his de- cision, sustaining the len which Hor- rington & Johnson had on whatever damages they secured for their client. This was for 50 per cent. all would have gone well If the Street Rallway company had paid the $8,000 damages. But Mrs Edwards agreed to accept $760 in satis- faction of her injuries. This ‘‘cut out” her attorneys from the 34,000 melon and they brousght suit to get it. SAMUEL HALL SUES EMERY PROFFIT FOR ALIENATION Emery D. Proffit, sixty-day sentence one who Is serving & in the county jail, after pleading sullty to having im- proper relations with Mrs. Samuel R. Hall, is now made defendant to a eivil suit filed by the woman's husband, who asks 000 damages for allenation of ois wife's affections ‘By protestation of love, flattery, de- ception and promises,” the petition in the case alleges, Proffit poisoned the woman's mind and allenated her from Hall, so that she finally deserted him and went to live with Proffit.” JURY BEFORE WHICH ART HAUSER IS BEING TRIED -Back row, left to right: Elmer E. Meek, C. A. Swanson, Willard R. Nimocks, Charles P. White, Albert J. Dohrsey, E. C. Jones. Front row, left to right: Earl E. Lloyd, Thomas G. Foglesong, Harry Rachman, Frank Wirthsafter, J. F. Lindberg, Connie 0. Downing CRIME SERIF;S PROOF BARRED; STATE RESTS from (Continued corridors, The rush trial was so great compelled to order shortly after court Page One.) see Hauser on that the judge was the doors closed resumed session Evidence for Defense Today. Attorneys Richard Horton, J. E. Bed- nar and Edward F. Rooney of Topeka, representing Hauser, refused last night to say what witnesses will be intro- duced in his behalf today. It is known, | however, that Mrs. May Hauser, wife of | the defendant, who came from Wichita to attempt to save him from the electric chalr, will try to prove an alibi for him, The state completed its case by intro- ducing three witnesses yesterday nflnrv‘ noon. These were Watson A. Hitchcock, 28 South Twenty-fourth street; C. D. Crozier, 2117 Webster, and Steve Maloney, captain of Omaha detectives. Hitehcock corroborated testimony of Nels Gunderson ,street rallway conductor, that Hauser boarded a westbound Far-| nam car at 11:30 o'clock the night of the murder, October 16 He remembered Hauser, he sald, on account of his agi- tated manner., He testified, as did all the other witnesses who saw the man on that night, that he wore, a dark suit without any overcoat and & dark soft hat to Tells Where Hauser Lived. i Crizier is proprietor of a rooming house, where Hauser and his wife and | 3-year-old daughter, Lida, lived from Oc- {tober 1 to 21, Attorneys for the defense | admitted that Hauser was in Omaha lduring this period and objected to the {testimony, but it was received, Crozier {sald Hauser stayed at home in the day- time and went out at night. Objections |to further testimony concerning his per- sonal habits were sustained. Captain Maloney told of theidentifica- tion ofHauser by Miss Grace Slater, eye- witness of the murder, at Wichita, after the man had been brought from Indianap- olis, where he was arrested. The detective chief was anxious to tell a number of circumstances concerning | Hauser, to which objections of the de- |fense were sustained. He provoked hur- ried protests Wy Hauser’s attorneys and Judge English when he intimated that the defendant had confessed the holdup of the W. T. Hause home a week before {the date of the Smith murder. Maloney identified a huge, wicked lo0k- ing blue-stecl revolver as a gun which Chlef of Police John Hays of Wichita had received from Hauser and given to him. Hauser admitted the gun was his, the ecaptain testified udge Asks If it is Loaded As the ewapon was handed to Maloney by the county attorney its muzzle pointed ominously at Judge English. The court inquired in a digniffed manner “Are there any bullets in that cylin- |der?” { “No, sir" sald Mr. Magney. "It in empty. The judge held that the gun should not The last city directory states that Proffit was a clerk at the Drexel hotel, and that Hall was foreman for the L. Doup company, with residence at 89 be received in evidence, owing to lack of evidence connecting it with the mur- |der of Mr. Smith., Dr. 8. McClenaghan, | coroner's physician, had testified that he Ngrth Twenty-third street |believed Mr. Smith's wound was in- e————— {fliicted by a .35-caliber gun, but said he JUDGE DAY SAYS FORD MAY coutd not be positive BE CLASSED AS REAL AUTO| wite Tries to Save Bandir. ! Mrs. May Hauser, ZI-year-old wife of During the examination of jurors In| , ... Hauser, who, according to police the case of Ottmar Schaefer against| ... gurnished information which re William A. Leet, in Judge Day's court, | the following occurred: Attorney Hat- teroth to first juror Q. Mr, Bryant, do you own or operate an automobile A. No. Q. Or a Ford? Mr. Hatteroth then inquired of the court as to whether, in order to facil- itate the examination, a Ford could be considered within the term “automoblle,” and Judge Day, after some deliberation, decided that for present purposes a Ford would be assumed to be an automobile GRAIN PRICES MOVE UP WITH LIGHT RECEIPTS | Due to the storm of Wednesday, prevented shipments, and to the some- what demoralized condition of freight train service, Omaha grain receipts were the lightest in years, there being but forty-four carloads received, distributed as follows: Wheat, sixteen; corn, twenty- seven; oats, one Omaha prices were decidedly stronger, wheat selling at $1.04 to SLISK 2 cents up; corn, 6 to 68% cents, and oats, # to 4% cents. Corn sold 1% to 2 cents up and oats, 1 to 1% cents higher B s Took a Nelghbury Advice. “Last winter my son Claude had a severe attack of croup. I took & nelgh- bors advice and procured a bottle of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. It re- leved him promptly,” writes Mrs. T. H. Bell, Vandergraft, Pa. Obtainable everywhere.—Advirtisement —_— Read The Bee Want Ads. It pays' J Liner A SEATTLE, Wash., Jan from Nanaimo, B. C.. to the Merc exchange says that the Japanese steamer Kenkon Maru, bound from Beattle fc t the we Viadivestok, went ashore & trance to Active Pass, | 1t sent word that it that | | sulted in his arrest, arrived from Wichita to attempt by her testimony to save him from the electric chalr. | With her were the 8-year-old daughter | of the bandit, who resembles him to a | remarkable degree, | mother. The trio came from Wichita, | Kan., which {s theig home, | The wife declared she will testify that | Hauser wag with her the night of the murder, October 16, thus providing an | alibi and a possible escape from the net { of evidence which the state already has | drawn tightly about the alleged mur- { derer of W. H. Smith, Woodmen of the World cashler. The two women exhibited intense af fection and devotion the bandit who is charged with committing many terrible crimes. Mrs. Mary Hauser, the mother, & years and Hausers aged | old, rushed into the court room, threw her arms about her son and kissed him repeatedly. While District Judge English l inoreases strength of | delicate, nervou -do people 3 per ent. un ten dava man. B y _ instan $100 forfeit i B I'100" FORFEIT fruggisc about ft erman & McCOunnell 'rug Stores always carry it in stock Do mat dslay satil you by by this terrible epidemic. oaing Uw old reliahle Virgin Ol of Pise which can be sscured from any Drug gist. an. ared and guaranteed by (b Lanch « Co Cinelonati Oblo | the aged woman to a seat. to come into the court room, but Hauser | met them during recess at | but other's hand during their fifteen-minute | conversation | fondled hie little daughter. | stand on a bar of the cell 80 that | & might | save the announcement of her purpose |iIn Omabha. The mother had been in- | structed by attorneys to say nothing. “Ha | is a good boy,”” she declared, however. | Horton Resumes Seat. Richard Horton, chief counsel for | | was called by the illness of his father, | chief witness for the state, finished cross- examination whose home overlooks the corner at which | | rapped sharply on his desk, “hailitts led Not Allowed in Court. ‘e and child ware not The w allowed 11 o'clock were between them wife each held the The bars of a cell the man and The little girl held all their attention v conversed through the child, who is to repeat almost any sentence. Hau- | ser reached an arm through the bars and He made her hold her upright with his arm. his face up to the bars. It Hauser knew of the repart that his | wife had given him up he sald nothing of it to his wife. Mrs. Hauser refused to make any statement for publication, He held Hauser, returned from Kansas, where he and resumed his seat in the court room. During the morning Miss Grace Slater, Other witnesses continued the identification -of Hauser. Miss Ione Fogg, 3116 Dodge street, the murder of Mr, Smith occurred, tes- | tified that after she heard a shot and Miss Slater's scream, she saw a man dressed in a dark suit and dark hat going north through the tennis court at her home and that another person was in | front of him. The man's arm was out- | stretched and he was crouching over, she | testified. | Mra. Newlon Testiffes. Mrs. Letitia Newlon, 220 Davenport strect, testified that on the night of October 16, she left the “Billy” Sunday | tateruucle with aor husbani at 9 o'clock; that they took n jitney and got | off at Twenty-ninth ang Farnam, As they | walked north, she sa.l, a man followad than, They took the middle of the sirest and the man, she deciared. fol- | lcved them to Twenty ninth and Dodge | strects. There, she auserted, he stood unde; an arc light for tnroe minutes, | watching them, ] This man, Mrs. New'on tes.ltial, was Arihur Hauser, and wore a dark suit and derk soft hat. Tha ,olnt sho nanied | is twe blocks east of ihe scons of the mucer, | She fixed the time at about 9:30 o'clock, half an hour prior to the murder. Nels Gunderson, 1722 South Ninth street, To Have Perfect Skin Throughout the Winter These days the face and hands nesd | special care and attention. Strong winds, | auick changes of temperature from in- doors to outdoors, are gevere on the skin. Thelr despoiling 'etfects are best over- come by the application of pure mercol- ized wax. This keeps the skin and pores in a cleanly condition, the complexion beautifully white and spotless. Chapped, red are actually absorbed by it. One ounce | of mercolized wax, obtainable at any drug store, is sufficient to completely renovate a weather-beaten complexion, | It used like cold cream, allowed to re- hlotchy And roughened cuticle | » street rallway conductor. continued the | weaving of the net of evidence by testi- | fying that Havser got on an eastbound Farnam car At 11:M o'clock the night of the murder. Iie boarded the car at Thir- ty-second while it was in motion and left It at Seventeenth while it was moving, he sald. He appeared agitated and forgot to put his fare in the box until the con ductor calle dhis attention to it. ile wor a dark soft hat pulled down over his face, said the conductor suit, He also wore a dark the witness said. Cross-Examine M Siater. | When cross-examination of Miss Grace | Slater, Smith's companion at the time of | the murder, was resumed, attorneys for | the defense confronted her with alleged statements 1e last October that she would be unable to identify the murderer. She said she did not remember whether she said at the Inquest “No, sir: 1 could not identify the man; it was dark.” &he admitted she then said she would have to hear his voice In erder to identify him, and sald she had ‘“felt that way about it, then." On re-direct examination County At- | torney Magney brought out the ntate ment by her that any doubts concerning ! her ability to identify the murderer had | existed prior to the time she first saw Hauser, and that she had always been | positive that none of the other suspects shown her by the police was the mur- derer. New Cars Tell of Omaha, Largest of | All Butter Markets The first car of the Ak-Sar-Ben Des patch, owned by the Western Despatch of Chicago and represented here by . J. Colvin, went ocut Wednesday night, loaded with butter by the Fairmont Creamery company and conaigned to New | York City. While the headquarters of the Western Despatch will continue to he in Chicago, 200 of its cars have heen set aside for the Nebraska dairy product business, to | —nothing else In the world gives such prompt relief as “Pape's Cold Com pound,” which costs only 2 cents at any 14 1916 be operated over any and all roads Omaha will be the headauarters for these cars and they will be under the direct management of Mr. Colvin The cars of the Ak-Sar-Den dispatoh are practically new. They are painted in the official colors of the Knights of | Ak-Sar-Ben. A band of red runs around | the body of each car, near the top. Below is & wide band of yellow, and beneath 1 band green | On each side of each lowing Ak-Sar-Den Dalry Products, Omaha. the largest the world car is the fol- | Nebraska annually market in Dispateh 50,000,000 butter | [ { Congh. | i Prompt Action Wi} Stop Your Dr. King's New Discovery wiil stop your cough. The first dose helps. Good for children, tisement 60c. 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