The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 29, 1922, Page 16

4 { who told me to forget it. tons HE DID NOT MURDER GIRL Rich C hurchman, However, Admits, Betrayal of Choir) Singer in East BY CARL VICTOR LITTLE HOOPESTON, Ul, April 29.— John G. Wyman wealthy retired farmer and church elder, con- fessed today he betrayed Ger. trude Hanna, choir girl, who was found murdered in the basement of the United Presbyterian par. sonage here. “But 1 didn’t kill her,” shouted Wyma “Before God, I say didn't!” | Wyman, 35 years of age and | haggard, after two days of com | stant quizeing, stuck to that story until dawn, when he was let go in custody of the police, No charges have been lodged against _ the man. “We turned him loose with hounds | ‘on his track,” was the explanation of | Charles N. Knox, sheriff of Vermil- fon count: | “1 don't want to be turned loose,” | Wyman begged, “I wouldn't think! of going anywhere in Hoopeston without a policeman.” The third degree was given Wy-! man thruout the night by Sherift! Knox and John H. Lewman, state's attorney. The United Press corre- at this examination, which was held| in a dingy, stuffy room above the} fire station. MAN AND GIRL ATTENDED CHURCH “I met Gertrude,” Wyman began, “when we attended church together years ago. We were friends even then. “But she went to Chicago to live, after which I met another woman, whom I afterwards married, That) was two years ago. Mrs. Wyman died since.” Wyman sat erect tn his chair as! he told his story, leaning slightly forward and gave the appearance of being eager to answer whatever Questions might be put to him. j "One Sunday Gertrude came back to Hoopeston. I met her at the chureh and we took a long stroll in the country. “I confessed my love to her, but| J.am no longer worthy of you, abe‘ «ail; and started to tell me of het tpisdeeds in Chicago—that she had been tempted and had fallen. “[ stopped her. I said ‘Gertrude, Mt, matiers not what you have dona No mattpe how bad you have been, I have been mipny times worse.” REPEATS DENTAL OF KILLING GIRL “It was shortly after this that 1 went to live with her folks. I was tempted and so was she. Last Octo, ber we fell, “| wanted to marry her, but she re- fused. “We severed relations. “That's all I know, Before God, T/ fepeat, I didn’t kill the girl.” | “You remind me of Tom Tucker, who got kicked out of hell for lying. shouted the state's attorney. Ques. tioned as to his whereabouts since April 1, many minor discrepancies appeared in Wyman's story, Wyman mentioned many near-by towns where he said he had been. “You said you were in Danville last Friday and Saturday,” Lewman said. “Your friends there didn’t see you. “Well, T was there, all right,” was Wyman’s response. Sheriff Knox interrupted: “Grace, | sister of Gertrude, told me that the dead girl pleaded with you to marry | her when she found out about her/| condition.” | “It isn't true,” Wyman responded CONFRONTED BY GIRLS SISTER nox jumped up and shouted: “Well, we'll find out.” | Wyman rocked back and forth against the wall in his straight-back chair. The sheriff entered with} Grace and W. T.,Hanna, the girl's! father. During the intensely dra matic scene which follawed, Wyman kept his es glued on the floor. Grace, a year or two younger than her dead sister, a school teacher and quite attractive, pointed an accusing| finger at Wyman. “You did it!” she screeched. “After Gertrude pleaded and begged with you to marry her, you, a pillar of the church, refused!” The young school teacher raised her two clenched fists high above her head and cried for the truth “Please, if you killed my sister, tel) us,” she begged. “My mother Is dy ing at home."* Wyman repeated in a droning voice: “Before God, I didn't; before God, I didn't.” SAYS HE WANTED TO MARRY GIRL “Didn't Gertrude piead with you for an engagement ring, and didn’t she threaten to bring rou into court | to foree you to acknowledge the child?” Grace demanded. “I wanted to marry her,” he con tradicted. “Didn't she play the game aquare| | with you?” asked Lewman | “Yes,” | “Did you think you were better| than she?” | “We she was as good as I,” was the man’s reply “What?” shot the attorney, “good | as ter all of the things you| your personal answered Wyman, “I guess she was better.” | “You're damn right she was bet-| ter,” men d the father Sheriff | Knox held Hanna in his enair | “Why don’t you tell the truth? pleaded the sheriff. “You know you! wronged this fam You brought misfortv telling the truth: I didn’t kill her “But you were responsibie for her condition asked Lewman | "Yes," and Wyman hung his head | “Come on, spit it out,” commanded the sheriff | “Get right with God,” said the father, who is of deeply religious con- victions. | defeat | «he | would present the facts to the grand | | wonders | r | HERE’S MORE ABOUT LIES ARE BARED STARTS ON PAGE ONE down town on primary election HARDING MAY THE SEATTLE STAR BLAST ROCKS ‘MOBS READY T NOT BE ABLE 0 AVENGE MURDER ‘Riot Feared Following Slay- night, April 18, 1922, and I know | ing of Officers of my own knowledge that he did not touat liquor of any | BEARDSTOWN, D1, April 29.— ined.” | Mob violence wan feared here today Brown's supporters’ misstatements s »4 {following the killing of Sheriff Id about Landon’s senatorial record » a | Laxhbrook and two of his deputies in avout Landor’s senatoriat reoerd | Decides He Won't) anercs ant sve ot he depute sok itself, This record shows that Lan he trouble # Go Away Unless |ent iir"senu attempted to rted when Lashb | 4 dixturbance in the section hands’ | don voted for the “full crew” “, "Aca Q ite |: sjoamp at Frederick, near here, on the bill when it was passed in 111, ( ongress ults |: 4g0, Burlington & Quincy rail after having worked for its * a road. Passage faithfully, In 1922 the This Summer | One Greek was killed today by a railway interests introduced a |porse led by Deputy Sheriff Kiley as DI for ite repeal, It was thhy SACK | the laborer was attempting to escape repeal bili that Landon voted WASHIN ) 29.—Mven|thru the flooded districts of Freder against, Had it not been for Jen. his ony vacation this, summer |! Landon's bard fight in the sem [wilt be spent in Alaska, if he man-| Thirty of the laborers were taken ate the repeal bill might have passed. It would have wiped |} the full crew law from the stat- ule books, “The Brotherhood of Locomotive | F Engineers, Conductors and Firemen | have always supported Senator Lan-| t don since his fight for their bill in 1911," said their representative day. °The efforts of Brown porters to make the trainmen be. Neve that he voted against their bi in 1916 as in line with other | ¢ |taction of misrepresentation adopted by the Brown forces to besmireh | f Landon’s senatorial record.” i Among other measures championed in the legislature were | the workmen's compensation act, | minimum wage law for women, the eight-hour law for women and the} medical aid and safety laws, ail con. tructive labor measures. He fought 4 voted against the repeal of the | eight-hour law on public works. Brown's pretense that he raised his! pends upon what congress will do. voice to op the people from voting | tons of Landon’s record. the people, against the measure. ages Friends in California, ¢ sup: | & states are at his command if he will but Just y an or the | policy is correct not at all certain. Joan stand W: Running for prosecuting attorney | heat of summe: j at the same time as the etreet rail.| And whether congress will adjourn) way purchase measure was before | 'n time for him to make the Alaskan Brown said no word |*Utvey I* problematical, to make the trip, President/into custody and are in Jail he ming from thr t the country lorado, Tex ington, Oregon and other acing wonderful homes floods. thorities, the work train war r hoose to use them. The prenident is being forced to re. ‘ure all offers, because of a because of the unsavory repu f the labo: © | their Friday and a if he leaves! fight thruout the camp. Whether he will take the Alankan | by residents to rip to determine for himself wheth:| trouble i or the Wallace Alaskan! proached the train, a volley of and thereby settle) sounded and Lashbrook and controversy within his cabinet, 18] tel: dead nearby quell within a few hours After the shooting the entire de | made « rush for a train just p The president's movements for the! ummer are ur ‘tain. Tt all Mr. Harding wil! not leave Wark: | town, ongreas in in session, If conEres™|arresied all except eight, wh hington during the) caped fo can he. he S8Y%) she laborers were marched the street, waist deep in water, . with | ‘The senate must dispose of the tar.|'% boats with lev He worked and voted for Ole Han. | ff. the bonus, the army and navy ap- son for mayor. The street car pur chase was a Hanson objective. Even | Brown's acquaintances smile at the| dentist's statement that he tried to! defeat the railway purchase, and say | in all probability he voted for the | purchase as well as to elect Hanson \FEAR PLOT TO mayor and himself prosecutor. } HERE’S MORE ABOUT CINCINNATL Aprtl 2%.—Investi.| been under way for a week gation the collapse of one of the! body is at the Rafferty LANDON TALK | decks of the Island Queen, excurw Co, in F mt. Conrad was steamboat, is based, in part, on a the: |of Mr, and Mra. K. A. Storvik STARTS ON PAGE ONE thing sticking Inside his jaw. “He poses as @ lover of American People, but for years he has been | charge that supports on the boat) the ai Turnverein, Saturday employing Japa. were not of sufficient strength 6, at the Masonic temple, si Landon hasn't grown . - Hehnke, phogigal director of handsome in the service of the public, nor wealthy, Brown has piled up wealth sufficient so that, in his offices, he can say, do this, and Togo, do that.’ “Togo, But if Dan has done nothing else, he has made himself 4 man, “During the 12 long years that he has represented the people in the state senate he has fought for the | people's interests. We know that. | His record shows tt “He put thru a bill that is giv ing our young people free tuition | at the University of Washington, | He voted against the pernicious poll tax. He went down the line for the antialien land law, and put it over. “Our Dr. Brown may be a pal dentist, but the people of Seattle, if] he is elected, will get a painful ad-| ministration. “Lat us not advertine to the world that Seattle is again seeing red. We} don't want any more red-fiag parades | in this city. We don’t want the L| W. W. We want the kind of gov-| ernment that will mean free speech | for everyone, without license to any clase. “Brown ts telling the people that he hasn't changed, that he is still the same, If that is true, then he is red, and unfit to be dog catcher in any Americ: ¥- hat in why the rank and file of honest police and firemen and the ex-servies men of Seattle are out to him, because they want Americanism in Seattle, and they| know Dan Landon is American clear thru.” Other speakers were: William T. Laube, secretary of the state se and Hugh C, Todd. attorney “lam,” was the low reply. Grace and Hanna had heen roused out of bed for the early inquisition, They morning had returned in| the late afternoon from the funeral! of Gertrude, The murder—so the| death of Gertrude is called by the sheriff and state's attorney—rivals| the mystery plots weirdly woven by Edgar Allen Poe. These are the) facta Gertrude donned rubbers and sweater on the night of March 21,/ ying she was going for a stroll! to her sister's home, m distance of | seven miles Her body days ago in the reonage She wore the clothes which she had on left home. Her hands folded as she lay on the cemen ledge. No marks of violence were | on her body physicians said she had for a month; others for three and another for only two week It has been established that she! the cement slab in on April 19. The 1 from basement day for a lawn! Alscovered basement of two the was discovered Some dead | weeks been the house not parsonage was nearch that on to garret. on mower, Vital organe were shipped to Dan ville, the county after it was discovered she was to have become a mother. seat who left Sheriff inquisition. Lewman with morning here for Dan-| after the} said he ville Knox early jury, which meet Meanwhile, In two week vengeful Hoopeston BANE GET $5,400 | LOUIS, April 29 bree ban! dits today held up a messenger of | the McElroy-Sloan Shoe company and scaped with a $6,400 payroll, ST. | propriation bills, ax welt | other legislation before there can be! any thought of adjournment | tampered with by some one plotting againat the life of Pre | who was originally to have sa and recovered damages because the| the Island Queen to Point Pleasant, | doctor had left a harpoon or some. | birthplace of Thursday much Boy’s Body Found President Harding spent most of last summer in Washington. playing last vont on the Lake Washingto leanal, harbor patrol boat ory that the deck may have been Physical Culture ident Harding on Physical jin observance Against this theory ts advanced a| week, May 1 to 6, will be gtv Gen. U. & Grant,| CENTRALIA.—Construction start. | Turnverein, # invited to attertd. As the group of guard | out of Frederick and rode to Bear ‘There a large poane of hastily | spondent was allowed to be aetna | eee re mone railway aye |ington for any extended trip while) mwormin deputies were waiting and| his misrepresenta: | «7 re and | favding is receiving the usual annu The deputies, Frank Utter al batch of tnvitations to use vartous| Carl Neff, were killed by revolver! holce estates for his “summer White/ tity from the work tram. They louse." were popular officials and feeling ts ‘The invitations are not confined to running high In Beardstown, where | he New England coast, but they are| the nerves of the populace are al ready on edge due to three weeks of | + On request of Beardstown elty au moved | |from this city to Frederick recently tation * The men received y celebration | uneed intention of spending) started which resulted in a genera his vacation tn Alaska Landon | Washington at all An appeal waa went to the sheriff | 1 the shots Utter | Neff died of his wounds | wang! utlin o em} thru while the guards rowed behind and at sides shotguns, Floafirig in Canal Near the apot where he had been Saturday with a toy ship 2 Fri |day afternoon discovered the body of SLAY HARDING: 10-year-old Conrad Storvik of 126 W,| | Canal st. 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