Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 22, 1916, Page 9

R W UP IN KNIFE FIGHT Mexican in Hospital May Die and Third is Being Shielded in Private Home. PERHAPS SETTLING FEUD One dead man another lying at the point of death in St. Joseph’s hospital with his abdomen slashed to ribbons, and a possible third victim being har- bored by friends somewhere in Oma- ha while recovering from serious knife wounds are believed by the po- lice to be the results of a Mexican vendetta that reached a head in Omaha. Detectives are weaving together, piece by piece, facts which may re- veal a feud between Mexicans, a theory being that revenge vows were settled here Saturday night in a bloody battle with knives. Brutally beaten and mutiliated and with a stilleto wound in his left breast and through his heart, a Mex- ican whom the police thus far have been able to identify as “Mike,” was found dead in a weed-covered vacant lot at Twelfth and Chicago streets, west of the People’s Ice gompany plant, Sunday morning about. 7 o'clock. The trampled-down weeds and the shambles-like appearance of the patch of ground upon which the body was found gave evidence of a battle to the death, the Mexican obviously hav- ing fought furiously until his last breatk. May Have Been in Mix. A Mexican, weak from loss o1 blood and hardly able to walk, staggered into the police station late Saturday nifllt. _He was taken to St. Joseph's hos- fil!al, where doctors hold out scant opes of his recovery. Knife wounds that could have been inflicted by a long blade in the hands of a dueler who cut to kill, criss-crossed through his flesh and penetrated his intes- tines. Unusually reticent, the Mexican finally told detectives that his name was J. Aerney, and that he received his wounds when several men at- tacked him, with robbery as the mo- tive, on a dark street in the lower district. Later versions of the affair by Aer- ney were conflicting, the police de- ducting that he is trying to shield the men who really did knife him, prob- ably fatally. Third Mexican Hurt. . A clue that may throw some addi- tional light on the stabbings and aid in clearing up the mystery surround- ing the murder and the other stabbing is being run down by detectives. There is a report, fairly well substan- tiated, that a third Mexican, in a se- rious condition from knife thrusts, is being kept under cover at the home of friends. Followlng the finding of the body of the murdered man Sunday the po- lice threw out a dragnet for Mexi- cans who have made the Bowery their stamping ground. Mexicans ~being held for investigation are Frank Gar- cia, AGertrqde Garcia, who has been serving as interpreter; Felix H. Smith, Santragis Zuaris, Felix Savalla, A. Garcia and Jose Ruiz. Denied All Knowledge. (At first all of these Mexicans de- nied knowing either the murdered man or the one in the hospital. Later thg admitted knowing each other. etectives took the suspects being held to the hospital, in the hope that Aerney on his death bed would iden- tify some of them as having been the ones who had a hand in the fra- cus. Aerney, however, maintained a stoic indifference to any efforts of the detectives to get him to tell what they are confident would be the ex- Slanatory story of the feud street bat- e. The last seen of Mike, was at 11 o'clock Saturday night, when he left a restaurant at 1212 Cass street. He is said,to have had a violent quarrel with three other Mexicans earlier in the evening. Coroner Crosby will hold an in- quest over the body of the murdered man. the dead man, —_— Constipation and Sick Headache. Dr. King's New Life Pllls will relieve you of both, clean out the bowels and make you feel fine. 25c. Sold by all druggists.—Adv. Welfare Worker is Declared Sane by Insanity Board Mrs. Sylvia Lezinsky, inspector of the Public Welfare board, was found sane by the Insanity commission, re- leased from the custody of her nurse and returned to her work among the department store girls of the city. Accompanied by her aged mother and two of her seven brothers, Mrs. Lezinsky a]gpcated before Robert Smith and Drs. Johnson and Young to learn her fate, The examination has been one of the most interesting before the com- mission. The possession of a sacred Jewish torah, written by a famous Russian rabbi, its threatened sale and its mysterious disapearance from the synagogue, have been factors in the bringing of the insanity charges. “We further find that the whole truth has not been told by either side in this hearing,” added Dr, Arthur Johnson in announcing the findings. NICKELRATE RDOAD SUMMER TOURIST TICKETS Season and Variable Routes. Chicago to New York and return ...............$3070 Chicago to Boston and re- tarn .o,iiiiiiiiies.. . 30.50 Chicago to Buffalo or Ni. agara Falls and return.. 18.35 And many other points, i Three Trains Daily From La Salle Station. OBSERVATION CAR TO NEW YORK Write A. B."B. Burrows, . P. A, 787 Brandeis Bldg. Omaha, Neb. A few weeks ago o city authorities inaugurated a plan for sub-letting petty offense prisoners to public works contractors. inquiry as to how the arrangement is doing, we have the following interesting report from Commissioner Jardine with personal comment. THE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY ONE DEAD, TWOCUT |Sub-Letting City Prisoners; How Plan s Working Out In response to By City Commissioner Walter S. Jardine. I have your questions relative to the working of city prisoners, which I will answer as follows: 1. What important grading and pav- | ing has been done thus far with city prison labor? Some of the grading and all of the paving on Center street from Fifty- fourth street to Forty-sixth street has been done with city prisoners and they are now in the act of complet- ing the balance of Center street, or that district from Thirty-sixth street to Forty-second street. 2. Which of the work was done di- rectly for the city and which through a contractor? There was none of this work done directly for :he city, but all of it was done for the contractor, 3. Which contractors have thus far taken advantage of the opportunity to employ city prisoners? The only contractor taking advan- tage of the opportunity to employ city prisoners was Charles E. ning, present postmaster. 4. Which contractors are employing them now, and where? Charles E. Fanning is the only con- tractor employing them at the present time; they are working on Center street. 5. About how many on an average on a job? They use from twenty to thirty men each and every day. 6. Are they as satisfactory as free labor, or half as satisfactory? Mr. Fanning claims that they are entirely satisfactory. 7. What wage does the contractor pay the city per prisoner? They receive 25 cents an hour. 8. What part of it does the prisoner get? The prisoner gets $1 a day, or 10 cents an hour, and the city gets 15 cents_an hour. 9. Do they work a nine-hour or a ten-hour day? They work ten hours a day in some instances; in others only nine. 10. What, roughly, does it cost the city to maintain a prisoner on the job per day? It costs, taking all in all, about 90 cents a day to maintain these partic- an- | ular prisoners. That means board, guards, transportation and inciden- tals. 11. Where the prisoner has a wife or family, does he receive his daily share of the wage personally, or is it paid to his wife or family so that they may be cared for? Answering this question will say that the moneys earned by the pris- oners themselves that comes to them direct is turned over to the Welfare board, and the Welfare board uses its discretion along the lines indi- cated by your question, and in some cases they give it to the wife and in other cases they don't, owing to in- vestigations that they may make. 12. Is there always an abundance of prison labor here thus far to sup- ply the demands of the contractors using such labor, or could they use more “vags” if they had them? Would say that, so far, there has been enough. The contractor would refer free labor if he can get it, but Mr. Fanning's work is away out at the edge of town and it is hard to get men to go out there to work. Insofar as ither suggestions are concerned, I would state that my firm belief is that the men are far better off to be engaged in labor than they are to be lying in the city jail \dle, for three reasons: First and foremost, when their sen- tences are through they are hardened wnd ready to go to work, and wherev- tr we have work at remunerative wages, or, in other words, where we tan pay them part of their earnings, when a man gets out of jail he has some money to make him indepen- dent of anybody else until he can procure work, and we find that these men are all willing to perform this ‘abor and do not complain of the \reatment that they receive at the vorkhouse; but, on the contrary, they weak well of the food that they re- teive and, in fact, in a general way, the whole matter seems to be entirely satisfactory to the prisoners. We also have a rule that a man that works faithfully and has no marks against him during the time of his sentence that we cut down his sentence 20 per cent; and if at that time they are in good standing we allow them to board at the jail twenty-four hours to pro- cure a position, so that they are not thrown out on their own resources with no money to pay their way. When we use them on grading jobs we have no income that we can pay them from. All the income that we have goes towards paying | the expense of the grading, and where they work on this grading there is no revenue that the prisoners can participate in. Consequently, when they are through with that job they have no money to pay for their board or room, and by giving them twenty-four hours to procure a place, they can make such arrangements that they will not be back in jail the next minute, as that would be the consequence if they were thrown out and no provision made for emergencies of this kind: There are a number of these men that have to have medical assistance. | That is furnished them free of charge. Some of them have not suitable cloth- ing to go out to work, and that is also furnished by the city. In cold weather we also furnish them with warm underclothing, overshoes, overalls, mittens, without cost. The other day four men had no shoes and were out working on the street. We went and bought shoes for them, but charged the shoes up to them. These men who receive them will have money to pay for them when they come out, and they are glad to have that courtesy grant- ed them. This matter is only in its infancy, but I believe that one year's trial will determine a policy that can be figured out that will be a benefit to the men and to the city at large, as it keeps a raft of people in the winter time from coming here, knowing that they will have to earn their liveli- hood out i® the cold, and that they | cannot board with the city unless they pay their way by labor; and that is the sign that gas kept away over 50 per cent of the. vagrants that generally infest our city jails through the winter time. You must realize that a great many men get into jail that are not really responsible for their conditions. They are there first because they cannot give a good account of themselves, have no money, are begging on the street, and various other causes that might happen to the ordinary person To say that they are in jail through no fault of their own, I do not always believe that statement. 1 believe that if a man should be unfortunate enough to get into jail through no fault of his own, that if he had always conducted himself in a proper man- ner and lived as a man should live, he should have made friends enough to come to his rescue if, by acciden should have landed in jail, and been able to give bonds to get out until his 1 & NEBRASKA PROSPERITY LEAGUE = 4 — VICE-PRESIDENTS® WESLEY P. ADK NS SOUTH SMANA JOMN ALBERTSON MERCMANT, PENOSR PR. C. C. ALLISON sunaton GEORGE ANTIL NVESTMENTS, BLAM Z. M. BAIRD J. L BAKER MANUPACTURER 4 W. BENDER PARWER, HUMPHREY ALFRED BRATT INVESTMENTS, GENOA BROWN ATE INVESTMEWTS W. J. BURGESS MARRY V. BURKLEY W. M. 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STAFFORD NoaroLK WILLIAM STORK INVESTMENTS, ARLINGTON ROBERT C. STREHLOW ConTRACTOR . TYLER MENTS, HASTINGS A, J. VIERLING PAKS. PAXTON & ViERLInG Inon wonks THEODORE WIDAMAN * $T0CK BUYER. AuRORA €. 5. WiLLEY ATTOANEY, RANDOLPH 8. N. WOLBACH MERGHANT. GRAND i8LAND R M. WOLCOTT MENCHANT. CENTRAL CITY MON. OTTO ZUELOW MaYOR. scHUTLER Does;P S Prohibit? - AUGUST 22 aa, 1916 trial should determine whether he is entitled to be placed in jail or to have his liberty. The idea of a jail sentence, as | view it, should not always be for punishment, but it should be the means of helping a man that has made a mistake and try to make him a better man if possible, not simply to put him in jail foy punishment, but to correct the evil by showing h'm that he is wrong, and in \rying to show him that he is wrong, impress it on his mind and make him feel that he has been wrong, and that he will not do the same thing again after serving his time in jail, Police Will Keep Closer Tab on All ‘Speeding Autoists “All policemen are supposed to ar- rest violators of the traffic laws, just the same as they should arrest any law-breakers,” stated Superintendent Kugel of the police department. “Of a total of 276 arrests during July for infractions of the traffic reg- ulations forty-seven were for exceed- ing the speed limits,” added the su- perintendent. Mr. Kugel expects all policemen will henceforth increase their vigi- lance in the enforcement of traffic regulations. The Proof of the Pudding Is in the Eating. What the sick want is to get well. They do not care whether they are cured by the most scientific physician or the most unlearned neighbor—they don’t care how they are cured, if only they get well. For forty years women suffering from female ills have been taking Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com- pound and have been getting well; and because they have got well, that great medicine continues to have a sale equalled to that of few propri- etary preparations. Dr. Ebbitt to Speak at City Hall this Evening Dr. Richard Ebbitt, who is to speak on the recent Dublin riots at the city hall Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock, is a former Omaha man who was re- cently exiled from Ireland by the British government. He will tell the cause of the uprising in Ireland, Patrick O'Neill will sing the national e |anthem. Patrick Duffy will be chair- man and John Hopkins secretary of the committee on arrangements, (Many Nebraskans have the mistaken idea that | state Prohibition makes a state “dry”. in actual sense of that word. A Confession of Failure: " (From the Topeka State Journal, of Jan. 14, 1916.) rohibition | | | the i+ “Ape the prohibition forces of Topeka cheerfully ] [ smiling under a feeling of false security in ignorance of the situation which they have to combat? * * #* Legally Topeka is ‘dry!” But—" The Record: In the same article the Topeka Journal states that the INCOMPLETE record of shipments for 1915 shows that r . citizens of Topeka ordered and received during that year a ; total of 160,169 quarts of various kind of liquors. The restier’s sttention s called to the significant fact that these are | I the present conditions in Topeka after 85 years of comstant effors l under state Prohibition to compel the people to discontinue the wse of liquors, The ‘Actual Conditions Prohibition fails to remove the opportunity I and the desire on the part of the people to purchase and to use alcholic beverages. the opportunity to purchase from manufact- urers and dealers operating under license with- in the state, resort is had to express shipments to bootleggers and to “alley joints.” Pealisaijary, The Chaplain’s Testimony: & B ¥ So long as the desire to purchase and to use exists, better results are achieved by REGU- LATING the manufacture and sale of alcholic beverages than are secured by enacting a state Prohibition The Nebraska Prosperity League OPPOSED TO STATE PROHIBITION. IN FAVOR OF LOCAL OPTION, HIGH LICENSE Treasurer, W. J. COAD Secretary, J. B. HAYNES President, L. F. CROFOOT D ulle “About 37 per cent of the prison popula- tion are floaters from other states. Most of them came by the ‘dope’ and liquor routes. It must be confessed that a large percentage of Kansas citizens incarcerated here came by the same route. % % ¥ law. the R rections. enied A i ! Ka TR Was an Unexpected Success Souvenirs Were Given Free to All if ibow }/fl/l//r I | ’, \ ) Qi yl Our Grand Opening Monday Il \'\"}l\lfl o World eeald The O_[;eni»ng of Omaha's Most Modern Shop Devoted to the Sale of Diamonds, Watches, Jewelry, Silverware and Cut Glass On Credit! “LEIBOWITZ,” the man you deal with, is a diamond mer. chant of years’' experience. He has a knowledge of rare and precious stones to be gained only through a lifetime in the busi- ness. He knows the market thoroughly and purchases his dia- monds as near “direct” as is possible for any large dealer. He believes in short profits and quick sales and his prices are low, and every diamond, watch or piece of jewelry carries with it a printed guarantee, which reads: “GOODS AS REPRESENTED OR YOUR MONEY BACK.” “LEIBOWITZ” specializes on loose and finely mounted dia- monds, but he also carries a crisp, snappy, right-up-to-the-minute stock of watches, jewelry, silver lines, ete.; in fact, he carries every item you would expect to find in any jewelry house of real “class.” % BUT THE MOST INTERESTING FACT OF ALL! “LEIBOWITZ"” Offers Any and Every Item on Credit. CHOOSE ON CREDIT any article in the store—diamond, watch, plece of jewelry or silverware, and arrange to pay the bill in & number of small, easy payments. Wear the Jewelry While You Are Paying. The beautiful store room, fitted up with -xquil{ta fixtures ‘ by “LEIBOWITZ,” gives an assurance of permanence. You will agree that there isn't a prettier jewelry store in the entire west. The stock will meet every demand you put upon it and YOUR CREDIT IS GOOD. Diamonds are always good investments—Dbetter by far than 80 much money put away in the bank. Besides there is a certain distinction and pleasure in wearing the diamond or beautiful piece of Jewelry. You are invited to see this store and stock. A very thorough welcome awaits you, whether you purchase or not. “LEIBOWITZ” wants to meet you and show you “something dif- ferent” in the way of a CREDIT JEWELRY ESTABLISHMENT. Leibowitz “The Credit Jeweler”’ New World-Herald Building. 218 South 15th Street. Most Modern and Sanitary Brewery in the West. Family Trade Supplied by WM. JETTER, Distributor. 2502 N St. Telephone Douglas 4231. South 863 or 868." e N |Experienced Advertisers Always Use THE BEE | : ‘ ) SA