Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 1, 1916, Page 1

- ' Americans Defeat and Scatter Villa’s Band dvertising is the pen- ‘dulum that keeps bu {| ing and selling in motion THE OMAHA DAILY BEE [ =& VOL. XLV—NO. OFFICER GOOD KILLED BY MAN, | WHO KILLS SEI.H Veteran Patrolman is Fatally Shot by Oliver P, Morrell Following Arrest and an Attempted Escape. TURNS GUN ON WIFE AND SELF Shoots Wife Three Times, Severely Wounding Her, and Then Takes His Own Life. MORRELL IS AN EX-FIREMAN | Police Officer Willlam Good, one of the veterans of the force, was shot and instantly killed by Oliver P., Morrell, 2024 North Twenty- fourth street, shortly after 1 o'clock yesterday Following the murder of the of- ficer, Morrell shot and seriously wounded his wife, and then turned the gun on himself, with fatal re- sults. The shooting followed the arrest of Morrell by Good. A call was re- ceived at police headquarters that a wife at 2924 North Twenty-fourth street. Good, man was beating the patrolman on the beat, was or dered to investigate and he arrested Morrell. Breaks from Officers. He took Morrell to a drug store on the | corner of Twenty-fourth and Binney streets, from which place he called for the patrol. A minute after Good sum- moned the wagon Morrell broke away from the officers and started to flee. Good set out in pursuit. After a few steps Morrell stopped, drew a gun and fired at the officer. The bullet struck Good squarely in lhl mouth, killing him instantly. Morrell then wenl to his home and fired three shots at his wife, striking her in the stomach, chest and head. She was taken to the Swedish Mission hos- pital, where she is reported in a serious condition. Morrell then turned the gun on him- self. The bullet went through his head dead when the police ar- and he w, Good was appointed to the Omaha pollce force, June 2, 1%2. He was re- garded as one of the most reliable offi- eéfs on the force. He lived at 3316 Spaulding street and is survived by a wife and two children. Hhe was 48 years of age. Morrell was 50 years of age and for twenty years had been a city fireman. He is survived by three children, each under 7 years of age. According to nelghbors of the Morrells they had quarrcled frequently, particu- larly because Morrell was jealous of his wife. She had attended a dance Thurs- day evening, and the trouble Friday arose over his accusing her of being escorted home by another man. Hospital Ship Sunk by German Subsea PARIS, March 31L.—The hospital ship Portugal has been sunk in the Black sea by a German torpedo boat or submarine with a large number of wounded aboard, according to an announcement of the official press bureau tonight. Tt is said | that the Portugal had Red Cross signs consplcuously displayed. Court Orders Sale of 'Frisco System| {do with him. ST. LOUIS: March 31.—A de Circuit Judge Sanborn in the United | States district court here tos The minimum pfice was placed at $45,700,000. The @gathe} Forecast till 7 p. m. turday For Omaha, Council Bluffs and Vicin- @ ity—Fair, sligtly warmer., Temperatures at Omaha Yesterday, | Hour Deg Comparative Loca: Record, 1916. 1915, Highest yesterday 4 Lowest yesterday » N o« Mean temperature e 3 o« Precipitation T 0 .2 Temperature and precipitaiion depar- tures from the normal: Normal temperature Deficency for the day Total excess since March Normal precipitation 9 inch Deficgency for the cav 01 fich Total rafnfall since March 1.... .% in-h Deficlency since Muwrch 1 1.04 Inches Exceas for cor. period, 191, 423 inch Excess for cor. period, 19l4.. .13 inch Reports from Stations at 7 P, M. Station and Btate Temp. High- Rain- of Weather. Tp.m. est. fall Cheyenne, clear ... ) [ Davenport, cloudy .. ] w Denver, clear - a“~ Des Moines, cloudy " » Dodge y. part cloudy 38 “w North Platte. clear 5 " cloudy “ ¥ . ‘part eluody. part cluod lenr - T indicates trace of precipitation L. & WELSH, Local vorccaster, KILLED WHILE MAKING ARREST. POLICEMAN WILLIAM GOOD. 'LONB GERMAN WHO CAPTURED VESSEL | Took Possession of Several Taken P Matoppo Off New York Says LOCKED UP SHIPS OFFICERS | Smashed Wnele rorized Crew and Searched Safe and Cabins. MAY BE TRIED FOR PIRACY LEWES, Del,, March 31,—Ernest Schiller, the young German who cap- Appantul, Ter- and terrorized its crew of fifty-six men on Wednesday night after the ship had sailed out of New |condition. York barbor for Vladivostock with rallroad supplies for the Russian gov- ernment, declared today that he wWas | {nat the bandit himself with & fow a spy for the German government. Weary from in his efforts to escape from steamer yesterday after he had held Sentrien Are Surprised. the crew in his power with pistols| While few detafls were given in the 1 dispatche it was asserted that, despite "®W | the arduous mountain march of the himself upon a cot in the Lewes jail | \; ericans, the advance guard crept up through arfoyos beyond the Villa out posts before they were discovered and |and that there would be no action unl trat the American Sprinfie'd 1ifles mowad the Mexicans down as they sprang from |rine commander had acted in violation shortly excitement undergone the of Wednesday night, he threw early today and sought sleep. “Yes, I am a spy for the German gov- can belleve it or not-it makes no difference to we. 1 got my instructions from the German |their pallets. government to go aboard the ship and reaching I could have blown it up, but the heart to do it. the consequences, keep me ashore Instead of sending me back to the ship for the captain to take me In charge. May Be Tried for Piracy. ing exploit occurred outside the thre:- Federal au- for the sale of the St. Louls & San Francisco railroad at foreclosure was signed by | ble and that Schiller was reluctant to tell his history I was born in Germany,” » town or my parents' have been in this country the German government to | after the war at Germany's |and was assignes v that there the | know what this means | her husband was e Tower of London if they bear that in m said he is convinced that Schiller | home. The bride is the daughte naval officer indictment against charging extortion, would rather return to under sus- picion of being a German spy. Much to the surprise of the | written from Lou- | SEISMIC SHOCK IS FELT AT GEORGETOWN Ahl's letter came to| WASHINGTON, March 8L—Pronounced earth shock's were recorded at George- 4| town university this morning. They be- continued until Wme | 7:20 o'clock, and reached their greatest 35 o'clock. disturbanc : : identitv. | intensity at 635 o'cl ce-u';;r.bout Advertlsc in The Bee don telling of his predicament and te ging that the American authori.is cer- to Scotland Yard s an Detective Barney Flood, who se,s that rs ag0 he recognized the ind Strand in London the detective accosted him at tha: Ahle indignantly denied he writes to remind Flood of meeting and seek his aid. When OMAH ATURDAY MORNI APRIL 1, 1916 TROOPS BANDITS illa Outlaws Do Not Know of Sol- diers' Approach Until They | Feel Blow CHIEF PERMANENTLY CRIPPLED COLUMBUS, N. M., March 31 A message from Lieutenant Colonel D. C. Cabell, General Pershing's chief of staff, said Villa was carried away in a carriage after the battle, wounded and with his hip perma nently digabled. Colonel Cabell in his message con firmed the report that American troops under Colonel George A. Dodd had d clsl including Genera defeated 500 \Villistas, killing 21 o Hernandes Pablo Lopez, Villa's lieutenant, who was | roported to have been killed in the Co. lumbus raid, Is stated to have been se riously wounded Attacks at Dawn. Colonel Dodd attacked the Villa camp | with 400 members of the Seventh and | Tenth cavalry at dawn, completely sur | prising the Mexicana and forcing them immediately on the defensive. A five hour running fight follawed and last re ports from Colonel Dodd were that the | American troopers were close behind the Villistas, who were fleeing further into n\o mmmuln- was indicated that the Mexican rmrm- were somewhere northwest of the | rallroad at the last reports to General Pershing's headquarters. Before the bat tle the American forces marched through out the late day and all night, making a chill mountain night in seventeen hours onecrs, Several Villa prisoners were taken™ in the engagement, the exact number not belng indicated In reports recelved here | Also a number of Carranza soldiers, who | were being held with the bandits' forces awaiting execution, were liberated and are assisting the American forces In the pursuit | captured by Colonel Dodds' forces. attempt to reach a hiding place. troops to General Hernandes. quarters of ( Those who have Never 1| SHENANDOAH, Ta, March 31.—(8) in | cial.)—To add more spice to the romanc by | not because of family objections, was the England soon | reason Miss Ruth Mosher of LeMars, Ia., and E. A. Trapp, a reporter for the Sioux British navy | City Tribune, give for their s training ship | riage. The reporter and ee eluded th American Forger Held as Spy Asks ‘ New York Officers to Identify Him ...\ i G0 Although | Ahle was indicted October 13, 19, ar Charles [it 1s sald he jumped his bal Ahle | His alleged crime is not an e New York and|ofiense American | A deposition setting forth <he facts| aveer is nmow On ils way bout Ahle's | to London de- n at 4 a m, a is estimated to hav | 3,30 miles from Washington. * The Villa fllgnt after the engagement waa an utter rout, arms and equipment being thrown away by the Mexicans in | the bottom as the result of an ex- their haste. Two maehine guns, a quan- tity of ammunition and supplies were |golnhia to Manchester. The crew, which contained two American ne- |1ylng about the fisld over which the | 8roes, was saved. Wesley Frost, Americans fought and Colonel Dodds' re- ports said that perhags the estimate of tured the Britisk stes Mato; thirty killed was low. The names of the " BV amer MALODDO | | ericans wounded were not contined | Pedoed. in the dispateh, but #8 was reported that mone of the men W's In a dangeroua The dead and woundedadillistas were Later reports indfcate that Villa had separated his 500 men into small bands each, fleeing in a different direction and The dispatches did not state definitely that they |that Villa was wounded in the enga ment, but rather intimated that he had | Leen wounded previously and was nursing | his injuries at the time of the attack. This is taken here to mean either that |in officlal circ | he was wounded, as has been reported in | = had been told that as his dar-|the attack on Columbus, or in the minor skirmish with the Carranza forces in the | mile limit, he would in all likelihood be | vicinity of Namaaquipa early last week. taken to British possessions in the West Indies for trial for piracy. representatives from nment came here today er and to decide what The isolation of the country in which tho engagement was fought and the Aif- the | ficulties in communication and trans oggy- 16 | tlon are shown by the fact that Colonel to |Dodds’ report did mot reach the head neral Pershing at Colonia An examination into Schiller's mental | for more than forty-cight houvrs condition will be made. Bt dos v, - it Al g Secretly Married ot mar- The bride, who has been visiting her e sister, Mrs, H. G. Fox six weeks, sur-| NORTH PLATTE MEN IN EAST prised the family, when she announced ted for a vs't | ot $5, 000 e || Harmony GERMANY AWAITS AN INVESTIGATION - BEFORE REPLYING iGeer Presents Note to Imperial Government Asking if U Boat Torpedoed the Sussex or Horse Ship. “COMMUNICATXON IS FRIENDLY | Until an Inquiry Can Be Made in Case BERLIN, aMrch 31 (By Wire 8 to Tuckerton, N. J.)—James W | has presented to the foreign offic | his government's request for infor | mation whether any German subma [ rine hadtorpedoed the cross-chann steamer Sussex or the British horse | ship Englishman. The answer, a ‘ cording to the Overseas News agenc) will be delayed for some time iu order to allow the naval authorities | | to make the nec foreign office by the ambass friendly throughout Ank A t Third Vessel, The to requesting information concern ing the steamers Sussex and English man, also has asked the foreign of- fice regarding a third steamer, the | Manchester Engineer. It is reported that nothing is known concerning the loss of the three ships. net, the ovidence thu State department In the ¢ of the principles of international law. Villa, himself, was in a little tent on a knoll fn the rear of the encampmont and Mav Reauire a Week, it was asserted took no active part in the the captan’s plea for his wife and daugh- | engagement, leaving the direction of his [ pafore the desired information was re ter was too much for me and I hadnt I am ready to take the disasters had not reported, It was sald at the ing any of the ¢ had been recelved during the da Five Zeppelins Raid f Eastern England Tust to Add Spice| roxuos. s i s e ships ruided the eastern countries WASHINGTON, March pe friends and were quietly married befors | Telegram.)—M. V. Hoagland and wife ‘Ihr‘ came to Shenandoah They will re John Halligan and wife of North Platte | the Ma- | turn to Sioux City Sunday to make their |10y CAUIEEN WG U O estrs, Floag of Dr. |1and and Halligan are in Washington to Mosher, head of & hospital at LeMars. | rairesent the attorney general of braska in the suit of the Beaver R Power company against the United States, the state of Nebratka being one {of the intervenor In the suit which for the use of water power owned by private corporation nd GERMANS RETURN FRENCH AIR RAID ON THEIR CAMP by dropping bombs on Saloniki. The photo shows In the foreground is a German ‘‘aviatik,”’ brought down by one of the French air scouts. the river front in Saloniki. Kaiser's Answer Will Be Delayed SOFT PEDAL AT WASHINGTON rard, the American ambassador, | ssary investigations, ‘ The tenor of the note handed the | is | fean embassy in addition The Manchester Engineer went to plosion while on a trip from Phila- corY TWO CE BEATEN OUTLAWS CARRY WOUNDED CHIEFTAIN AWAY Dodd’s Cavalry Sweeps Down Con- tinental Divide on Bandit Clan, Scattering It Like Chaff Before the Blast, | VILLA IN TENT NURSES HURTS Thirty-One xexium Slain While American Force Suffers but Four Injured. SENDS THRILL ALONG BORDER EL PASO, Tex., March 31.—Four hundred American cavalrymen, under thé command of Colonel George A. Dodd, whirling down from the granite slopes of the great conti- nental divide, have fallen like a thunderbolt on the main body of Francisco Villa's bandits at the S8an Geronimo ranch, scattering them like chaff in the wind and driving the bandit chief, wounded and crippled, to seek a hiding place in the moun- tains over which he has ruled for so many years, Villa was hurried from danger in a carriage. The battle opened at 6 o'clock in the evening of March 29, . SINGL 0 8, ot News Stands, oto, 5o Thril] Along Border, The news of the briillant exploit of the American troopers was flashed over the Mexican wires Into Juares today and sent a thrill along the border, For neven- teen hours the veteran Colonel Dodd and his picked riders of the Seventh and Tenth cavalry drove down the valley of the Santa Maria river. At the end of n fifty-five mile ride they burst upon the unsuspecting Villista camp, where 600 bandits wore celebrating the massacre of 172 Carransistas two days previously at Guerrero. Villa, shot through the leg and with one hip shat- AVIATION RELAY |GERMANS CAPTURE CHAIN IS COMPLETE Craft Carry Messages and Lighter Freight from Border to American Camps. PILOTS ANXIOUS TO DO SCOUTING Chihuahua, American consul at Queenstown, re- ported that the steamer was tor- Tonhn: Attack fllh(c of Malan- WASHINGTON, March 81 —President Wilson and-his cabinet today disussed far recelved by the | s of recent disasters to merchant ships carrying American citizens. In the absence of conclusive proof of submarine attacks no chosen followers were being jolted over | olvo oo FilLe ™ mountain roads in a light carriage in an ATI‘ACK ON WND REPULSED COLONIA DUBLA —(By Motor to Columbus, A complete chain of aviation relays from the Ameri- It is understood that the course to be pursued by the United States should the indications be sustained by evidence now being gathered, was considered at length. After the meeting it was authoritatively indicated that no step Involving serious consequences was imminent that the ad- ministration was determined to proceed only after definite facts were before it, delivered a fierce night attack on three sides of the village of Malan- court, says the French officlal state- American columns are close on Vil- la's trail has been established. main base is at field headquarters. The advantage of the relay is that it enables the planes to travel with fairly light loads from one station to It also serves in part to overcome the problem 'whlch the aviators have faced, by lightening the load of fuel. ent the machines perform important messenger service, carry malls and occasionally a few emergency sup- Omne of them took a small hand mirror more than 100 mile for important work. along with a bushel basket full of emergency supplies, All this preparation by the aero squad- ron is for more vital work which may call the men tinue to hold its outskirts, there was positive proof that a subma- Secretary Lansing made it clear that he believed six or seven days might elapse of altitude celved. The press dispatch from Berlin announcing that Ambassador Gerard had presented to the Berlin forelgn office an inquiry whether a German submarine had attacked the Sumsex or the British horse ship Englishman was read with interest The statement In the dispatch that the reply might be delayed bore out the opinion of officials that all the German submarines on crulsers at the time of It was carried ate department that no dispatches of importance regard. s under investigation ccomplished by the men feel that they field aivisions been sent aloft reckiessly 18 no good to be accomplished by aviator's Ilife damage to property | Wish for Big Chance. flying men say, with emphasts, |Dr. Waite Formally . |miterysoures ot England last night, according to official announcement just issued. Thus far it has been ascertained that about | ninety bombs were dropped by the vaders. of mountain TO REPRESENT POWER CO Two, Column ‘OLONTA DUBLAN line of communications Sherman In his mareh to! | o sea has been exceeded already in the southward into Mexic Between the seller and the buyer is what makes busi- ness. Nothing equals from his line isely what Brigadier General ts prepared to do, if necessary, » tinal dash after Villa is ready of this dash is uncertain | indications today pointed st newspaper advertising as the means of keeping the merchant and his patron in touch with one another. [ noted niding piaces head of this ) might try to use for doubling on his trail, { will tail tered, was hurried from the scene barely in time to eescape the onslaught of the soldiers of the north. The bandits made a brief but hopeless stand before the fierce charge of Colonel and fled, leaving thirty-one dend on TOWN NEAR YERDUN Dodd ‘and his troopers. Then they lfla: field, including their commander, Gen- eral Kliseo Hernander. Two m | anwos, & numper of horses, rifles, | 3 nition and equipment fell into the hands of the victors. 1y Amertoans Wurt, Among the known wounded is Pablo Lopes, Villa’s lleutenant in the Columbus rald, The American casualties were four privates wounded. The American soldiers did not linger on the fleld of victory, For five hours they drove the enemy before them into the wilderness of mountain peak, desert nd canyon, where roads or even tralls are unknown and where a misstep means death to horse and rider. They halted only after the chase had led them ten miles from the battietield and the fugitives were scattered far and wide Iin little bands of half a dosen men each. Villa's oareer has ended, His power has tion in the village of Malancourt, the | been hr:"fl"- "';' fl“'"‘;:‘ '»‘W::;" only a question of days, perhaps hours, OftiolA] statompint: adogs such is the fnevitable conclusion reached The Germans again tried to CATTY | pere, as little by little the details of by assault the position which the |“Dodd's ride” seep nm-: t::’lomr‘:s - | seems impossible that the ppled, French had won back in the Avan Seased bamdit tam lemg ‘remaln Ridih court wood, but they were repulsed. |, ., in the mountainous wastes in which Gast of the Meuse the night was |he has sought refuge. calm, Sceme of Vieto The text of the communication follows: The scene of Colonel Dodd's victory is “In the Argonne we have repulsed two |8 broad valley lying at the head of the AL — | Rio Santa Maria. On the west, sise tha (Continued on Page Two, Column Two.) | barren foot hills of the continental divida and to the east is a trail, made fimous by*Villa, which leads through the Laguna De Castlila district to the {ll-fated Santa Two Aeroplanes | Drop Bombs Into Vit ius ienisen - American - minina [men, a erime which sent a thrill of a SWISS Vlua,ge | horror throughott the United States and | marked the beginning of what many be- BERNE., March 31 (Via Paris)~Two | leve to be the end of his blood stained aeroplanes of unknown nationality drop- |(ateer. It was toward Santa Ysabel that ped five large bombs at dawn this mern- | he was believed to be heading when the fng on the small Swiss village of Poren- | trcopers of the United States swept dowa neh frontier, Some I trom the north upon his camp. was caused. | ¥rom the meager details which have reached here frem Mexican and American *' Dodd's men made through arroyos, or W' h M d deep gulches, which split the foot hills Charged With Murder |, i s Vere simont 1 tha camp before the alarm was given. court from Three Sides and - Drive Ont French. Fod g 4 ¥ v‘Akm March 31.—The Germans ment issued this morning, and the French retired from the vi'lage proper, which was in ruins, but con- Fierce infantry fighting lasted for the entire night before the French withdrew from the untenable pos truey, near ihe NEW YORK, March 31.—The grand Ville i His Tent, jury today retuned an indictment chark- | . oo o fiave Leen in & amall Ing murder In the first degree ngainat| "0 B LR s when the orash Dr. Arthur Warren Waite, aceusing him oo, o 4 pyorican volley s awoke the bandits of polsoning his father-in-law, John K. to panic stricken action. The extraordinary hold the bandit chiet has over his followers is shown by the fact that their first thought was to save him. Unable to walk or ride he was naire drug manufacture of \Line of Pershing’s Expedition is egers ey driven over the rough tralls to some thrity-one known to have been killed, it 1s sald, that the number may have been considerably larger. Nothing is yet known as to the number of wounded, although it is pres sumably in proportion to the dead. trty Killed Now More Than 300 Miles Long ;. ": o s while at the front is a body of men whose Identities the censorship has hidden thus far, but whose exploits are daily filtering back along the long communication line filling the troops pressing forward from the rear stations with anticipation and| WASHINGTON, D. C., March 3= maintaining the most gallant of Ameri- | General shing. through General Fune ston, reported today to the War departs 008 Tary‘ Aradiions. ment that he had found General Vilia In hard campalgning about two dozen | TIRE SRt BE A O e of the vanguard troops have dropped | od o THORRE LNl eport sald thirty from the ranks for hospital treatment.| yjoxicans were killed and four Amers There is not encugh lliness, however, to | " s but none seriouslys affect any part of the original stren8th |muo \ochine guns, many cavalry horses of the pursuing units. Meanwhile the | nd' juuch ammunition was captured by others are said to have hardened to their | the Ameri work as they advanced. If the line of |prise on the Villa forces and culminated communications holds up under the strain |in o running fight, in which they were of cross-country transportation, it ap-|driven ten miles into the wmountaing { pears that Villa will ve hunted with in- |northeast of the rallway, where they creased vigor. The men along the route | separated into small bands expreas no apprehension that the line| General Funston's dispatch from Fork (Continued on Page Two, Column OeJ " ¥ 5. The attack was & sWrs