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p The WEATHER TODAY'S CIKCULATWN OVX 4,200 AND STILL CROWING Highest temp, yesterday 62 Lowest temp, last night -.61 Unsettled with Rain Tonight A Friday; Moderate Temperature. Consolidation of The Evening Newt and The Rostburg Review An Independent Newspaper, Published for the Best Interests of the People ROSEBURG. OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 2. 1925. VOL. XIII NO. 1S OF THE EVENING NEWS f J t VOL. XXVI1 NO. 115 OF ROS GERALD CHAP MAN TRIES TO SAVE HIS LIFE Man on Trial for His Life Testifies in Cool and . Collected Manner. AN ABSOLUTE DENIAL Tells Court He Was Not in Store Where Man Was Killed May Have Hidden Securities. 5?e Cordon Guards Chapman in Murder Trial SK V r -i v (AmcUtcd rrm Lwtd Wirt.) HARTKOItH, Cmn April a For more than an hour Imliiy ;t ald Chapman, mail lNt-r, who made a wiuuttioiuil ewnpc from Ailunta prison, Mas a spectacular wllnwiM In his trial f..i- tier of Jainn Nkelly, a policeman, I ..U,..,K , roiHx-ry or a .rw llrl. tain store but (Molier. Shortly after C'lutpiniina testimony both sides reic and a reccus was tak. rii with arguments to follow this afternoon. Each side was nllottctl two hours and a half for summation. Ihe cane was expected to no to the Jury after the prosecution closed tomorrow morning. (AaoetatM Pros Leased Wirt.) HARTFORD, Conn.. Apr. 2 Gerald chapman this morning took the stand in his own defense on a .imrgB 01 naving murdered Patrol man Jamos Skelley in New Brit ain last October 12. I Chapman, cool and collected, speaking In clear tones denied he had been In the Davidson and Lev Inthal store In New Britain at any time. It was In this store that I Skelley was murdered. His direct examination was ' brief. Under questioning of Fred- ' rrick J. Groehl, he told of the j Skelley murder through the agen- i cy of "Dutch" Anderson, his part of the New York mall robbery. I Under cross-examination he re- 1 fused to be rushed into answers at the hands of State Attorney I Hugh M. Alcorn. ! nnwrcTIP Alcorn went Into the orlsoners i uuln 1 Past life over the objections of t.roeni, which Judge Jennings ov- erruiea. XzzztTIXi I - ' - r, l- 7 F''J ' mis VrrA YrW h H -5 A squadron of police, unequalled In the annals of court History, guarded every move of tlernld Chapman, notorious bandit, during his Hartford, Conn., trial tor the murder of Policeman James Skeljy, of New Britain, Conn. Walter E. Shean. son of a well-to-do family, will be the State's chief witness. He la said to have contesKOd that he and Chapman plotted the robbery of the New Britain store Where Skelly met his death when he surprised two gunmen at work. A specially posed portrait ot the so-called master bandit'' la shown above. iASSASSINATION i GEN. AGOSTA OF RESULT OF FEUD General Maciel Suicides Af ter Confession Were Former Companions. aid In procuring a divorce. Ma ciel's wife took, her own life upon learning of her husband's intentions. i Later General Obregon, as presi dent appointed Maciel third chief ' of the war department and he In said to have used his influence against Acosta that the latter i wrote to his enemy an insulting 'letter the consequence of which he was tried by court martial tor in subordination. Acosta's statements also brought him a duel challenge from Ma ciel, but this he rejected, declaring Maciel had dlshonered himself by his proposition as to the divorce. SIX TRAINS TO CARRY DENY SHEPHERD REEDOM 1 F JAIL ON BAIL Chief Justice Hopkins Makes Ruling and Sets His Arraignment. Will Bare Soul MAY APPEAL CASE Judge Says Question of Mans Guilt or Innocence ... Not to Be Decided by Him. TROOPS iSUHER CAMP, Recently the newspaper took up i Medford Will Rf Trirnnoer i. I .i,- I-.. II1W IBRD, II1I1.IIIK ... l.tfj I Coolly and candidly he discus- ! Cliallenowl tn Duo Ut R. sed his spectacular criminal rc- r j . ord. under Alcorn's urglntfs. He ; rused to Meet and General admitted four previous criminal convictions and discussed them Maciel Was Declared Dishonored. dipapslonatelv. When Alcorn asked the unflinch ing witness if he had a (run when i he held up the mall truck In New ' York In 1951, he said he had not. ,,.,, j "Anderson had, but I had not," """""I wiw ) he said. I MEXICO CI TV. Apr. 2. The as- Alcorn disagreed with Chap- s8sinatlon of General Abelarde man's version of the mall robberv Acosta Thursday nlcht bv General and the witness, looking straljiht Austln Maciel and the latter's j Into the prosecutor's eyes said: suicide after confessing his crime i "I don't want to argue this mat- to ,ne police are declared by the ter with you. I don't wish to go in- authorities to be the outcome of a to the esse at all. It has nothing lonK standing feud, to do with this charge of murder." The two men were close friends H had fired a shot at a Muncle ,n tn"lr' youth, while students at policeman at the time of his ters exchanged by the two offic ers and this brought about Ma clel's dismissal as head of the ar Itillery department. ' I The climax was reached Tues day night as Acosta was entering TROUBLES itne WRr department. Maciel, ac companied by other officers, I alighted from an automobile and shot his enemy from behind. Two I street vendors were wounded by i stray bullets and one Is reported ! to have died. I Maciel, fleeing from the scene, ! spent the night at the home ot a ! friend, after reading the report of 'the crime In the morning papers Ihe went to police headquarters and j confessed. Ijlter In the day his body was found in Kscana Park a bullet hole In the right temple. With National Guard Boys in June. PLEADS NOT GUILTY rest, "hvcause he thought him, a holdup man," he said. "He sa!d nothing before he pok ed his gun under my heart." he added. tat!n? he "was an unpres- . possessing fellow at best." So he ated on the Impulse, he said thinking the policeman a hlghwnv-1 man anil he fired to save f 4,700 I he had. The nltro-gh-eerlne found In his effects, he said, had been bought by him and Anderson at Shean's repeated ursring. "It was for him and his ganT." he said. "W git It In the Pennsylvania oil fields." The ear so much dlsenssed in the esse ws owned by Anderson and himself. Chapman said. The Saturday afternoon before murder, October 11, Holyoke, he testified tAwUt1 Ft Liiw4 Wlr..i WASHINGTON. Apr. 2. E. S. Booth, former solicitor of the In terior department who 'Is under Indictment here with Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana on ar- tne military academy and the part- charges of conspiracy, pleaded not CAMP SITE IS CHOSEN Work on Laying Out Train ing Camp Will Be Started Shortly 2500 Men to Take Trip. (AwortotMl Preai Leiwd Wire.) SALEM, Ore., April 2. 8lx special passenger trains will be required to carry national guard troops to Medlord In June, ac- (AaorUtnl hfa Lrued Wire.) CHICAGO, April 2. William D. Shepherd, charged with mur der today a second time, was de nied freedom on bail by Chief Justice Jacob Hopkins In the criminal court. The Judge set Shepherd's for mal arraignment for a week from today after defense attorney's had indicated their proposed Intention to appeal to the state supreme court upon the question of the ball. Judge Hopkins after consider ing the six affidavits filed yester day by the defense refused to re consider his previous decision de nying Shepherd admittance to ball. The question of Shepherd's guilt or Innocence of the charge in the Indictment that be murder ed William N. McCllntock, his foster son. by typhoid Inoculation to gain his million dollar estate, was not up for decision, the Judge said, and he would not be forced Into any expression of opinion as to such guilt ot inoculation. The affidavits, the courts Jield, . did not warrant re-opening the bail question. "The affidavits support In the main to attack tne character and credibility of the state witnesses and that is a matter for a Jury," said Judge Hopkins. States Attor ney Crowe asked that Shepherd be immediately arraigned, so that an early trial date could be set but William Scott Stewart, Shep herd's attorney, said he wanted time to dec.de whether to appeul to the supreme court on the ball question. The court then Bet ar ralgment for April 9, and said It could be continued If necessary in cuse an appeal was decided on. The defense affidavit princip ally attacked the character and testimony of C. C. Kalman, head of a school of science who con fessed and was Indicted with JOSEPH EWiTGyoN" josepn Elllngson, hnge Viking father of Dorothy Elllngson, six teen year old Tiger Girl, of San Francisco, was prepared, according to dispatches from the Golden Gate, to go on the witness stand at her trial and tell of bis hard-drinking days. In aa effort to show pre-natal Influences on his daughter, who killed her mother when reproved for her lass lifr OFF CERS 6ERALDIN E HOOTCH SUPPLY lice and Excellent Supply of Booze Is Found. FATHER OF DOROTHY ELLIUGSOU GIVES TESTIMONY AT TR AL TODAY BRANDING DAUGHTE R INSANE Attorneys for Defense Also Introduce Circumstantial Evidence Tending to Show that Accused Girl , Is Guilty of Crime Maintains Her - '. Composure in Trial Today. . -; (Associated Press Leased Wire.) - SAN FRANCISCO, Apr. 2. By th, strange twist the murder trial of Dorothy Ellington, 17 year old tlaytr of her mother, ha ta. developing Into a determination of present unity, her own attorney Introduced evidence today to establish by circumstantial vldtnoaahs killed her mother, as charged. When the defense started thla line of testimony the prosecution questioned it relevancy. ' .,, ' "Are you prepared to admit," asked Assistant District Attorney Harmon D. Sklllln, that this defendant actually killed her motherr "We are stipulating nothing," responded 8ylvester J. MoAtte ot defense counsel, "but we do Intend to prove that, aa part of the evi dence of her Insanity. No one saw the defendant kill Anna Elllngson. But we will bring it out by a chain of circumstances.' The girl, nervous and agitated, eat through the testimony of her father, Joseph Elllngson, without a recurrence of the fainting spell .that have interrupted other session of her trial. A matron sat -betid her, occasionally protecting smtlllng salts, and th f.rl whisper. Ji comments on the Ustlmony, some time an Indignant "no". Smit ing she left th courtroom with th matron. . ; Her father said he believed her Insane, H gave thla opinion at tr outlining a history of hr delinquencies and her conduct toe hsr arrest. In cross-examining him, Mr. Sklllln brought out that the girl had i win ner rawer -she d.dn't Ilk Alexander Moolln," her chief counsel: The defense went Into its theory that prenatal Influences disposed I "Dld h"r "other ever have any 'Dorothy toward insanity. Under lCOn'fo1 0Ter herT" questioning Joseph Elllngson said: .Sm 'k ..,. "About three months ' before her?" Dorothy was. born her mother I "No, but sometimes her mother ca.ne Into the bedroom where I wollld "et angry and yell at her." was sleeping and tried to choke I Tne t&ttiT also recalled that the mo f I... .,.-..-- .1 t. i . j . , i elrl hurl hnen miwul. and AnHa- Private Car Raided by Po-'uity. after which she feu to thei,ed- .. ;jnoor in a rami." me rather'began I "e B1Mflun grew increasingly la recital of his delinouenrlna as a agitated as the testimony proceed- child. The first serious breach In ed ,od t0 natron held smelling her conduct, he said, came at the 't to her nose, age of 12 when she and another I Elllngson recalled a recent occa glrl were picked up by a sailor i ''on- when he and her attorney and MnlHIer" onrl ... .n visited her In nrlann and ah ARRESTS ;"lht ' "went Into a raving fit." He add- MAKE NO Not Known Whether Ger aldine Farrar Will Be Prosecuted Stays in Drawing Room. (AMocUted Pma Leiiml Wirt.) MUSE'S POINT, N. Y., Apr. J.t- He said she nlaved trn.nt from led: "n." awearlng like a mad school frequently and finally was " " ' your late Shepherd, that he Bad supplied The matter of prosecution of Oer- ' h.dkereh?ef H Shepherd with live typhoid cul- ,i,nn v.-... i-j . ... ""'"'rcnier. ti tures obtained from the city Wln,e arrar noled "in,"r tne 5u and your w detained In a juvenile home for a time. "Did you ever talk to daughter regarding her hours? "I did," said the witness. He ex plained that he warned her that she should consider her future, that a girl of her years should not go with older persons of doubtful character. Aa her father exposed her life. the girl continued to twist was asked health department, and instructed Te'a'1 ' the selzue of liquor In Shepherd how to administer the her private car was In abeyance germu. i today nenriino- a miwri fmn, tome agents here to the collector d,r ,cnool?" wife ever attend church?" Not since our marriage." Did Dorothy ever attend Sun- 1 He describe her fainting spell" since the trial began. He then gave It as his opinion that the girl Is "Insane." . . On cross-examination he was asked : " - "When did you first doubt . her sanity?" "After she committed this of fense." - Further questions elicited from him ehat she had been abnormal virtually every time he visited her her In the Jail. She refused to answer did question, he said, and ' didn't . ap ing Is said to come through an at- guilty when arraigned today tempt py jiaciei 10 enlist Acosta a r.as released cn Jl.Oim ball. Demsey Laughs at Claim of Gibbons to Chamo Title and Says Fight With Tunney Farce CMlCAr.n Anrll r-mininl for William D. Sheuherd. served of th Port of Ogdensburg. cording to train schedules for the I notice on the states attorney to- I The singer's private car the movement issued today by Hriga- ; day that they would tomorrow n,.w York was boarded h' fnr dler-Ceneral George A. White, ' apply for ball for Shepherd, who ,V ,i . . 1 commander of the reinforced brl- is charged with the murder of uePu,'r collectors after It had croa gade, which is to hav its field . his foster-son. William N. Mc- "d tn border eroute from Alon training In Southern Oregon be- .Cllntock, before Circuit Judge W. treal to Rutland, Vermont where b.tut, .uii. j. v. iirotners. juuge jacou nop- mIhb vrt.a pear to know what It was- all about." - He added that she did not thank him for gifts he brought her. Assistant District Attorney Har mon D. Sklllln read an extract from testimony at the coroner's in quest quoting (Elllngson as saying Elllngson said that when she he "never had noticed anything' was a babe he had used alcohol wrong with her mind." j "pretty heavily." He detailed the The girl whispered to the - ma glrl's childish rages. She was not Iron Indignant comments on the obedient, he added. testimony. , ' : "Once In a while, when ihe was little." i an(j Troops from Eastern Oregon 1 and the West coast will leave home during June 11, and will converge In Portland and points south where they will board the six spv-clal troop trains that are to land tho entire command at MedforJ during the morning of June 12. Twenty-five hundred men are affected hy this move- kin twice has refused ball. GETS INFIELDER to appear In con cert. I Pour deputies said they found ! about forty bottles of champagne, whiskey and beer concaleed In the car. Miss Farrar was in hen- i Jazz Girl on Trial for Murder fA-ocutH rm. Wiro the New York boning commission NEW YOHK. Apr. 2 Clinch- Vccntlv placed the name of Jack I?.?hbof '.""iim'S (:,nd A,hl;tl Pempscy. holder of the world's club of a llght-heavywelitht match ,,... , . , , between C.ene Tunney and Tom wl-'ht boxing title, on Its In- Glbbons. effected yesterday will eligible list, the champion dubbed bring together on June 12 In an op- It top notch comedy, shrugged his en air battle at ratrhweights two shoulders and raid: men who have attained nuizilfsMc ' "I should worrv? thev make me the distinction along much the same laugh." he spent in 'n. Both boxers are Irish-i Dempsey had another laugh com- ".- .into u' mi.iiniinirii ng vesteritflv and when ha wns her stateroom and was not disturb- ed. She did not appear during the i search. ' Tho singer and her nartv were Kill land , (AwvliN Vtrm laied Wlrr., POItTI.ANI), Ore., Apr. 2. President Turner of the Portland ment. all belonging to the eighty leazue toiinv rinsed rlenl where, allowed to proceed to ! second Infantry and attached by the club will get Dee Walsh, In- ""hout furnishing bond. i units, i ne uniis oi me conimann fielder. In t exchange for Pitcher are the I bind and ISath Infantry Ted Plllette and casn. says a dls- regiments comprising the eighty- patch from Ssn Jose. Cal. Walsh second brigade with the attached ha be) u,ty infielder with San i units consisting of battery A. Kranclseo for a number of years. 148th field artillery, company of Dut wai 0d ast winlPr to the the llbth combat engineer, and Lincoln western league club. i ..unuiiui i-uiiipn.ijr lot. ' train, he said, leaving his car In cleverness topped bv Shean's possession. punrh and have been consistently "I rsnnof tell yon where I was successful against the foremost all the time." he told Alcorn, when men of their division. Gibbons the latter asked him concerning is the older and more experienced h's whereabouu on certain dates, of the two flehters and earned un- "Vou must remember. I was a fug- paralelled distinction two years Itlve from Jiistire and was Jumping aro by going the lS-rmnd limit around from state to state." with Jack Demney. Gibbons Is Chanmsn srore in a musing now 3n vears old and has fourht trne and had to he warned on or- 97 ring battles, srnrlng 42 knnrk- ?aslons to raise his voice, that the outs, winning nine by decision. Jnrv mlcht heer He was nulet drawing In one. losing three and and self possessed and sat slump- appeared In 42 no-declsinn en- ei down In the witness rhalr. Ills counters. One of his match's was resnner auegested a young man en- declared no contest, gaged In a pleasant discussion of Tunney who Is 27 has facel R7 current tonics. opponents, scored 28 knockouts Concerning 'he South Hadley, nd captured 15 battles hy decl- Mass., house, frequently mention- alon. He h.s lost one bmt and ed 'nring the trl.il Chapman said: hss tnken part In 12 no-dee. slon af- "Shftsn honrht It for us for a fairs. He also hss seen sji en- bootlerging center. It wss sn ex- razement declare' no contest. ce'lent place for lust thst. Hstv flreb. Pittsburgh "wlndml'l' Cities contributing troops to the Southern Oregon movement are Maker, I.a Grande, The Dalles, flnKhlnr .... i j . .u . ( uresnam, roriiana, Ht. Helens, "H..JP,- PP,"d nf the signing of papers A,,orl.. For., (irove. Tinn,nok. ror a match between Tommy Gib- MrMlnnvllK Salem, Corvallls. bons and Oene Tunney for the ,)aM wondl.urn. sllverton, 1-eb-heayywelght championship of the , Kugene. Cottage Grove, world, he took It. , fioseburg. Grants Psss and led- "A laughing proposition." he ford. Announcement of the train said. He then scoffed at Gibbon's Ing noint for other trooDs will be ciatm to tne title and termed It ad vertising. He also took occasion for a long distance, verbal Jab at the New York commission saying that that borly can di whatever It wishes in New tnrk. but that there are oth er statea In which toj fight. MAY LIFT QUARANTINE made In the near future. It was said, although Ihe roast artillery will probably train at Fort Harry, because of construction work at Kort Stevens, which will proNably ...... ... V .v., fnnti.r...! I,.,lnv wllh tln.riiiir OCDENsni'ItO. N. Y.. Apr. 2 Whether Geraldlne Karrar will be prosecuted a a result of the seiz ure of liquor In her private car yesterday at Mouses Point will de pend upon the circumstances, it i was stated at the offices of the I collector nf the port here today. House's Point comes within the Jurisdiction of Ogdensburg collect or. A.cl.tH Pre tr--M Wlr. ) , Th c0p(,tor , aWatng reports SALEM. Ore.. Apr. 2. Whether from his riennllea It nr.lnta,l the Oregon quarantine against out however, that In cases of per livestock shipments from Callforn- sons attempting to bring small la still exfming since It was Im- stock nf liquor Into the country In posed a year ago because of the their baggage the usual procedure prevalence nf foot and mouth dls- n to confiscate with no prosecu ease In California shall now be n unless the cwner of the liq llfted will be discussed at a meet- uor refuj,,., to surrender It. ing or the state livestock sanitary hoard In the offices of Governor Pierce tomorrow. R. N. Wilson, representing Gov ! The champion agsln denied any Intfntlnn of retiring an his ap pearance lent color to his denial, for he was thf-n preparing to en ter the ring for an exhibition per formance at a navil day field pro- I l. I Lll.il L 1. I pinui. in uin exiuuiiiuii on some fast footwork and nlaved Chapman denied that he nat wn0 took the rnldril'wA-elght title with his opponent for 3 rounds. p.ih pi. "bud-lv." Dutch Ander- from Johnny Wllsr. defeated He Indicated that his next fight son to escape from the federal both flihhons and Tunney by derl- may be In California anl said r-.itentlrv at Atlanta or that An- slon In 1322. that he had received ieTempt derson bad assisted him. AnOer ( Continued on psge ( ) I training. Arrangements of tne southern Oregon csmp have been practic ally completed, and the actual construction work on the camp site will Ire commenced In a short time. Laying out of a field ar tillery firing range, requ rlng a five mile field of fire will be un dertaken next week In the vicini ty of Medford. Funds for all phaavs of the Pierce, sta'e veterinarian W. H. Lytic and c. A. Park, president of the state board of horticulture, and requested that the ban be lift ed. He said there had been no appearance of the disease among domestic aufmals since October 9 Isst, th"t lls practically rltmlnat- RUTLAND. Vt. Apr. 2. Mem hers of Geraldlne Karrar's party on concert tour today said that It ' was near-hier and not champagne that customs agents had selr.ed when thev searched her private i ra at House's Point, N. Y., yes- j tenlay, Miss Farrar refused to enmment on reports thst forty bottles of wine snd a quantity of real beer i had been found In her car afar It crossed the bord.s on the way ed among der,ini that all oth- from Montreal to this city. er states have lifted their quaran- Her manager denied that any llq tlnc. I uor had been found In her car and I Abont wai k ago the state live- said It would be absurd to smug- -.11 1 jyf ) t- l n CZezKrJ HASSOVD lOtJDEieBAOir. training mnvemsnl mnA t.rrwrr. m . I I. : i .. ..I n.mnn .1- .Ka 1 n 1 1 rtA Ing offer from (ftifornla promiat hsve been set aside by the I'nltrd adrmted a resolution asking the Stales when I In uor was so easily ujs AMit.l.t.3, Apr. . nnen ers. Q v ip ate government. i governor not to rift th quarantine, obtainable here. Th San Franel.ro trial of Dorothy Elllngson, sixteen-year-old Jas mad slayer of her mother, bad to be postponed for hours because 'he defendant, her stoic bravado gone, collapsed twice during the early proceeding. The girl Is shown facing the Jory In the court room. Judge Harold Louduback, of 8aa Francisco, ppsalded M the trial.
