Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 19, 1916, Page 2

2 - BLACKMALL BAND NABBED AT CHICAGO Five Men and Three Women Who Get $1,000,000 from Rich Persons Arrested. ' RACE GAMBLING SIDE LINE § e Chicago, Sept. 18—Confession has o R OB LSS Ao B B A SR o PSSO War Summary ‘ THE NEW THRUST BY the French south of the River Somme in northern France, | where the Important railway town of Chaulnes is their objective, has resulted in the complete encircling of the village of Denlecourt, the Paris war office announces today. Denjecourt formed the center of the wedge the French are driving into the German lines north of Chaulnes, Its re- sistance holding up thelr advance between | Berny and Vaimaidovillers, complete oc- cupation of which villages by the French | was announced last night. H FURTHER PROGRESS has been made b the/French in this region and heavy coun ter attacks by the Germans on the ne\ French positions both north and south o . been made by two members of the al- ' leged syndicate of blackmailers, eight * of whom are under arresst here, that operations of the swindlers have net- ted more than $1,000,000 within the last year, federal officials announced today. The confessions, it was declared, disclosed that the alleged band num- bers at least sixty—a third of whom are said to be women—young, pretty and crafty. A dispute over the di- vision of spoils, it was said, led to the confessions. Arrest of a score. or more members of the syndicate are expected within a week. The men who confessed are “Dick” ° Barrett and Edward J. Thompson, ac- cording to Hinton G. Clabaugh, head of the Chicago bureau of the federal Department of Justice. Both are at liberty, he said. They will become witnesses for the government, how- ever, when the eight members of the alleged syndicate arrested in a raid on a faghionable apartment hotel Sat- urday night are brought to trial. Fear that they would receive long prison sentences caused Thompson and Barrett to confess, Clabaugh said. He declined, however, to say when they gave him the information that led to the raid. List of Persons Arrested, Bail aggregating $100, been fixed for the eight members of the alleged band now under arrest. They are to be given a hearing tomorrow, Those under arrest and the bail they ~ will be required to give are: 'ward Donahue, alias “Doc” Donahue, Mrs, George W. . Russell, $25,000, $56,000.. James Christian, James Roberts, 98,000, George Bland, alias Joseph Pearl, §5,000, Mrs. Frances Allen, allas Mrs. Frances Chapman, $5,000. The operations of tne band are de. clared to have extended from coast to coast. Men and women alike have been victims. Persons of wealth were the objects in every case. Five weal- thy and socially prominent members “of Chicago society are declared to have been blackmailed out of $20,000. : Theit names are withheld, L Race Gambling Also Used. | Operations of th -adicm which . z: appears to h en of interna- ’ al %roportio were not confined to the blackmail of wealthy men and women, according to information de- ¥ ‘today. Amon the effects in the office of “Doc” Edward Donahue, %hol the men caught in the Saturday olen Evers, alias S SRFGETRATR AT t raid, was stationery of the nited Turf exchange” with !"“head- quarters in New York and offices all r"zr the world.” T‘!.l:re were also er codes d'dfi ring messa - received by m; telling what hor::: to bet on, how much to bet, what u}u and positions to play. ake newspaper clippings detailed the wonderful cleanups made by a young eastern plunger in pool room tly had used to lure v One letter found in Donahue’s room at the lehiomble south side ent haus, e was from the man’s association” of 1 t street, Louisville, Ky., signed J. C. Sauls! "R secretary, and ad- d to A. T. Karger. The secre- said he was sorry to hear of “Mr, r's notoriety lately and hoped dn't have another occurrence that lgh. seemed that “Mr, Karger's” pic- ture had appeared in a newspaper in _connection with bookmaking activitics at the races. . Turf Exchange is Exclusive, According to Department of Justice officials here today, the “United Turf i ‘Iclm.n‘u must have been exclu- sive affair. The rules s members using the club rooms in the wum must lg&ur in full dress, !.' tly the “Horseman's associa- tlon” was known in Louisville as a e house. (fiode books ! wagers on horse ra could be placed, and there was no limit, If the bettor w ed to place $50,000 on a horse he ) d order fifty boxes of white blue matches, the color depend- ; .on the position to ‘f,f‘ on the raights X ] as follows: Dry, oats; mud-/ :z. corn; medium, rye. If all these borate systems were not enough to ln.uillle the victim fltheh fske ne_l\yhl- aper clipping was flashed. e ludlinu DfnSlil llrticlc n?te “:i“ a % oung eastern plunger cleaned up %Wg from Seattle, h, rooms. Identity known to local gambling fraternity.” The . story then went on that all efforts to rt information from him had been ruitless. He had never lost a bet, +Here it was, according to the De- rtment of Justice officials here to- ay, that Donahue broke into the me. He would claim to be the mys- rious stranger from the east. Mann Act Blackmail. £ doneyi;y the syndicate: ~ “The New York out of $40,000 ia woman who had them $35,000. fi v fi;om each of five Chicagoans, two | feur, all of Pittshurgh. They brought | === hom are women. their own arrest, it 1s alleged, o= ol h worked for More Arrests Probable. oo s liminas Uliudanmel zmmil According to the federal officials |action at the Dardanelles in June, here are some of the things fleeced a multimillionaire of | Four Persons Killed in by threaten- ~, ing him with arrest for alleged viola- . tions of the Mann act, two of the members of the syndicate impersonat- ing secret service agents for that pur- - pose. ' “They frightened a wealthy Phila- | were riding was struck by a New 0 ad been too|York Central train, ly with a stranger in a cafe into | Mrs. Percy Seager, Mrs, K. Shipman, . They took $10,- | Miss Shipman and the negro chauf- 500 from Mrs. Regina hiladelphia and afterward er. t was said today that the organiza- e as ldwtlolg l;;\(i_! th; of e year and it 1s believe to have cleaned up in that time §1,- The rnment officials say ne known victim of the te there arc probably twenty bers of the syndi- still in custody to- ar- the Somme have been repulsed, accordin, | to today's report, which announces th Germans sustained enormous losses, tw. battalions being nearly wiped out. Thi French have taken 1,200 prisoners and ter. machine guns, THE BRITISH ARE KEEPING up thel forward push north of the Somme, scoring thelr advances, however, at Isolated points. spparently in operations to straighten thelr line and secure their hold on cap- tured ground. London today re| an uppreciable advance on the left bank, where the British line has been driven further toward Le Sars, along the Po- zleres-Bapaume road north of Martinpulch and east of Courcelette. ON THE MACEDONIAN FRONT an entente attack in the Struma valley northeast of Saloniki was repulsed by the Bulgarians, o g e en to the west :'::k of the river. FIELD MARSHAL VON MACKENSEN'S forces are continulng to progress in their cam| In the Roumanian provinee of Dobrudja, Sofia reports. Bome indlcation of stronger resistance by the Roumanians wnd Russians, however, is furnished by :I.l: o:flchl statement, which reports coun- o head of the organization would be ar- rested during today, The band, including five men and three women, was arrested shortly be- fore midnight Saturday in a raid by Department of Justice officials on a fashionable South Side apartment hotel. The women, according to the au- thorities, are young and beautiful The men are well groomed and of a‘type calculated to impress society women Those arrested {:nve the names of Henry Russell, dward Donahue, Helen Evers, Mrs, Ftances Allen, Mrs. Edward Donahue, James Chris- tian, Frank Crocker and George Bland. George Irwin, alleged director of the group, is still at large, Authorities refused to reveal the names of the victims. Some, it was said, are men prominent in_political life, who werc vi:t.mized wkile at the regxbl]can convention here last June, uring the raid, which had been carefully planned for many weeks, an elaborate opium outfit was found in one of the apartments raided, Federal authorities said that one of the gang, Henry Russell, had osed as a brother of Mayor William ale Thompson of Chicago and had used this alias in a plot. The raid was made only after the apartment building had been literally sown with dictagraphs. These were connected with an adjoining building, where the detectives hid. Newsie Takes All Joy Out of Life for Man with Big Heart (Continued From Page One.) anyway. I sent them to my daughter Jast summer. She never got them, and 1 ain't gos money to buy-the stuf to make any; more. It took me a month to make them, mister’” Before the perplexed auctioneer had time to answer, a large-framed, heavy-jowled man beside her boomed out: “Two dollars!” That settled the bidding, and when the baby hoods and other articles had been returned to the soiled shoe box and handed to the successful bidder he quickly passed the package to the person beside him, with a mumbled “Here's your things, old lady.” With many a “thank’e, thank'e” she continued on her way up Capitol ave- nue, hy, ’inhlhe box and muttering to herself. Her benefactor smiled to himself as one who had done a loodJ day's work. “Anyone know the old party?” he queried, “Sure, 1 know her,” vouchsafed a newsie, “It's old lady Flannigan. She lives down on the river front; got more money in her sock than you, I bet. say, mister, she ain't got no daughter and never had one. “What am I bid on this baby coat?" the auctioneer was saying. But the good-hearted man had de- camped, departed and retreated. Lieutenant Asquith Killed in Battle London, Sept. 18~—Lieutenant Ray- mond Asquith, son of Premier As- quith, was killed in action on Septem- ber 15, it was announced today. Raymond Asquith, who was in his thirty-eighth year, was a graduate of Oxford and prominent as a member of the bar, to which he was admitted in 1904, He acted as junior counsel/ for Great Britain in the North Atlan- tic fisheries arbitration at The Hague in 1907. He was made a second lieu- tenant in a county of London regi- ment in 1914, and licutenant of the Grenadier guards in 1915, Raymond Asquith was the eldest son of the premier. Two brothers, Lieutenant Arthur Asquith of the royal naval reserve, and Lieutenant Herbert Asquith were wounded in Grade Crossing Accident Erie, Pa, Sept. 18—Four persons were killed at North Springfield, cightccu miles west of here today. when the automobile in which they The dead are: THE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, 'KELVINIA SUNK WITHOUT WARNING ' American Aboard British Horse Ship Says It Was Torpedoed at Two in the Morning. SURVIVORS AT NEW YORK New York, Sept. 18—A torpedo ank the British ship Kelvinia, carry- ng twenty-eight Americans, accord- ng to G. W. Dillard of Richmond, | Va., one of the Americans, who ar- -ived here today on the Cunard liner Tuscania. Dispatches from England left in doubt the question whether the Kel- vinia, bound from Newport News, Va., to Glascow, was torpedoed or sunk by a mine on September 2. Agents for the Department of State met the Tuscania upon its ar- rival here and took the depositions of the Americans, L5 According to Dillard, the Kelvinia was torpedoed at 2 o'clock in the morning without any warning having been given. The vessel listed imme- diately and as there weré not enough boats for both the crew and the Americans, who were engaged as hos- tlers for the cargo of horses, many of the Americans put®on_life belts and jumped overboard. They were rescued by a trawler after floating about for fourteen hours. Dillard A K M SR B G % said that at the time the Kelyinia met with the mishap he saw nearby a small light which later seemed to disappear under the waves. This, he declared, confirmed his belief that there had been a submarine attack. FRENCH CIRCLE TRUTON TROOPS IN DENIBCOURT (Continued From Page One.) brought down his fifth enemjv) ma- chine. This aeropfane fell near Denie- court. - The same day Flight Lieu- tenant Huerteaux brought down his seventh German aeroplane, “French air squadrons have con- ducted various bombardments. Twelve shells have been thrown down on the railroad station at Nantillois and thir- ty-three missiles thrown down at Vil lers-Carbonel and Horghy from an altitude of 800 yards, caused serious| damage. Britons Report Gains. London, Sept. 18.~In small opera- tions on the Somme front last night the British gained further ground, the war office announced today, “The general situation continues un- changed,” the announcement says. South of the Ancre we improved our position north of Martinpuich. East of Courcellte a minor attack made last night upon elements of enemy trenches was entirely successful, Our line has been advanced appreciably at this point. “West of Mouquet farm the enemy eritered one of our trenches under sover of severe sheling, but was sounter-attacked and driven out with 088, “South of Thiepval we have taken a further portion of the enemy trench system, he enemy heavily sheiled various parts of our line at intervals during the night.” Mexican Bandits Take $62,000 in Go@om Train Laredo, Tex, Sept. 18-Bandits held up a passenger train September 12 near Tamasopo, rifled the express car of $62,000 in gold, robbed the pas- sengers and then pushed the train down the mountainside into a deep canyon, according to an apparently reliable report reaching here today. The passengers were permitted to de- d that| Owns a lot of houses, they say. And|train, thus preventing loss of life, the report said. | On the following day, according to the report, a constitutionalist troop train sent out to apprehend the ban- dits was blown up at the same spot the holdup occurred, resulting in the death of forty soldiers. Germans Abandon Two Towns. Ber'in. Sept. 18—(Via London.)— Abandonment by the Germans of the villages of Berny and Deniecourt, to- ether with positions between Bar- eux and Vermandovilfers, south of the River Somme, is reported in to- day’s official statement. North of the river, the statement says, the fighting developed favorably to the Germans. WORK OF THE LIFE AGENT What is the work of the life insur- ance agent, and what does it mean directly as to homes and broadly as to society? His direct work is good. There can be no question of this, Indirectly his work is far reaching. It is because of the premiums paid by the policyholders whom he obtains that the life insurance companies ex- ist; it is by reason of his tireless en- deavor that the companies prosper and grow large. Through these com- gav)ws it may be said that he erects uildings, constructs bridges, helps towns and municipalities in construc- tive work and puts railroads in places where there were but endless dead stretches of mere landscape. The life insurance IEH)C is an important fac- tor in the development of many en- terprises. of Lincoln, Nebraska Runabout, $345.00 It was said the o~ FOT([ SALES AND SERVICE STATION HOLMES-ADKINS CO., *tandN Chassis, $325.00 Touring Car, $360.00 Coupelet, $505.00 F. 0. B. DETROIT N. Z. SNELL, President Guaranteed Cost Life Insurance. Sedan, $645.00 Town Car, $595.00 STRIKE LEADERS TALK WITH MAYOR Proposed Sympathetic Strike at New York Awaits Outcome of Further Conferences. MITCHEL MAY END New York, Sept. 18.—There will be no sympathetic strike of labor unions to aid the striking street rail- way employes until Thursday, at least, and one may be averted alto- gether if renewed efforts of Mayor Mitchel to settle the present street car strike in the meantime are suc- cessful. This was announced today after a conference between the mayor and five labor leaders, representing the street railway employes, the Longshoremen’s union, the Station- ary Engineers and Firemen’s union and the State Federation of Labor, the latter appearing for a number of labor organizations whose trades con- nect with the operation of the trac- tion system. The leaders told the mayor that the various organizations they represent- ed were determined to strike unless the municipal authorities took some IT action to compel the traction heads | to observe their recent agreements with the railway employes and that they had come to him as the last re- sort. Mayor Will Try Again, The mayor promised to make another effort to adjust the differ- ences and said he ho_Ped to give the men an answer by Thursday. The labor leaders Fromised that mean- time no general strike would be call- ed. The mayor announced that he would ask Public Service Commis- sioner Strauss to join him in his final effort to effect a settlement. The longshoremen have conferred upon Mr. O'Connor the authority to call a strike, if, in his judgment, it is deemed advisable. Mr, O’'Connor said no decision would be reached before Thursday. No date had been set for the strike of the 3,000 members of the Tidewater Boatmen's union, who have voted to go out. Leaders of these unions denied that the proposed strikes are merely sympathetic and say they are intended to benefit their own members. WilliamB. Fitzgerald, organizer for the street railway men, says the strike has cost the transit companies $1,032,- 000 and that it is costing the public $600,000 a day, bringing the total up to $7,200,000. More Attacks on Cars. Repeated attacks from roof tops were made on passing elevated trains during the early hours today. Stones and bottles crashed through car win- dows and several pagsengers were in- |fi jured. In the Bronx a policeman was urt while dispersing a crowd of strike sympathizers who were bricks. Normal service on subway and elevated lines was being maintained today, according to police reports. Persistence Is the Cardinal Virtue in Advertising, ' | throwing‘ ! i N N5 - SO o AR SN RN 50 55 s SEPTEMBER 19, 1916. GRAINT0 OMAHATS INCREASING FAST More Business in First Nine Months This Year Than for All of 1915. MORE GRAIN IS IN STORAGE Omaha Grain exchange has done more business in the first nine months of the present year than it did in the whole twelve months of 1915, Secre- tary Manchester announces that re-| ceipts to September 16 this year were 42,180 cars. The receipts for all of 1915 were only 41,912 cars. ! Up to Septembey 16, 1915, the Grain exchange had received but 25, 520 cars, just 16,540 less than the re- ceipts to date in the current year. or a Monday Omaha grain re- ceipts were comparatively light, there being 127 cars of wheat, 25 of corn and 75 of oats on the market. Prices were more steady than last week, with an upward tendency on every- thing except oats. Wheat Up a Cent. Wheat sold a cent up for the best and a cent down for the poorer grades, the prices ranging from $1.40{ to $1.48 per bushel. Corn was un- changed to a cent higher, selling at 79% to 81% cents, and oats at 4234 to 4334 cents, a quarter of a cent off. 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