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It Will Soon be Time to Assemble Tackle for the Annual Run of Chinook; Also to Bring Forth the Family Fly Swatter
WEATHER YESTERDAY
Highest temperature yesterday 45
Lowest temperature last night 33
Precipitation 24 hours 19
Total precip. lor mouth 2.15
Precip. siuce Sept. 1, 1929 :i5.52
VOL. XXXI NO. 32 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW
ROSEBURG. OREGON. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21. 1930.
VOL. XX NO. 271 OrS THE EVENING NEWS
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Fugitive Slain By Benton County
BULLETFIRED
AT LEGS HI
S
Deputy Sheriff Scliloeman
Uses Gun When Alleged
Forger Attempts to
Outrun Posse.
Slain Man Geo. Thomas Of
Portland His Voman
Companion Placed
Under Arrest.
(Agsorlntcd Preni Loawrt Wire)
mnVAl.LIS. Ore., Feb. 21.
Ocorite Thomas, 2G. of Portland,
was killed, and his companion.
Mrs. Maurine Brown was captured
last night after Thomas had
threatened the lives of a group of
cltlzans who pursued them after
the pair had heen accused of pass
ing bad checks. Thomas was
killed by a bullet from the revolv-'
er of Deputy Sheriff Carl Schloe
nian. The deputy was called by a
rhllomath store which had ac
cepted one of Thomas checks.
The call said Thomas and Mrs.
Brown, dressed in man's clothing,
had been cornered and would be
held until the deputy arrived.
When Sehloeman reached Philo
math he found that Thomas and
Mrs. Brown had broken away from
their captors and had run out of
town. A group of citizens pursued
!he pair and surrounded them a
mile out of the village.
Fired at- Less
Ah the pursuers closed in Thom
is picked up a club and threatened
In kill anyone who approached.
The pair then started to run
across a field. Sehloeman fired
one shot In the air but Thomas
did not turn. The pursued man
started to rlimb a fence and the
deputy fired at his legs. Just as
Sehloeman fired Thomas dropped
down on the other side and the
bullet went through his chest. He
dieil In a few minutes.
An Inquest will he held Monday.
The sheriff's office said the pair
had operated In Stayton February
11. and had passed bad checks in
other nearby communities. Thev
visited Corvallls and Philomath
several times in the past, and In
1927 passed several hundred dol
lars' worth cf bad checks in those
two towns. The same names were
used on all cherks. .
Cn'-t Prh'nrn"'!. the deputy
naturd in the f''nve iltanntch. is a
son of Mr. and Mrs. August Sehloe
man and a brother of Mrs. Elmer
MrKean of Roseburg. He was born
nt the former family home at Oak
Creek, ca-t of this city. He has
been a deputy sheriff of Benton
county for about ten years past.
v MEMBERS OF TAFT
FAMILY SUMMONED
(AseoolntM Prcsi Loawd Wire)
W A SHI NG TON. Feb. 2 1 . Fat 1
ure of William Howard Taft to
rain ground during the last week
today prompted those who are at
his hedside to summon members
of the family who are out of the
city to come to Washington.
While there was nothing to indi
cate bis condition had taken a sud
den turn for the wo"sc. It was said
those carina for the former presi
dent and chief justice felt some
npprehension over a lack of Im
provement. i o
ROTARY HEARS TALK
ON GEO. WASHINGTON
Delivering a masterful address
on George Washington, Rev. Chas.
Edwards told the Rotary club yes
terday of the life and work of the
famous patriot whose birthday is
celebrated this week. A quartet
composed of Bill Whipple, Hamlll
A. Canaday, A. J. Oeddeg and Le
roy Watt, accompanied by Mrs.
C. S. Heinline, sang a group of pa
triotic songs.
The next meeting of the club
will be the annual banquet to the
teachers of the Itoseburg school
and will be held next Thursday
evening at the Umoqua hotel.
President Charles Lockwood called
the attention of the members to
the fact that next Wednesday is
the 25th anniversary of the foun
dm Ion of Rotary.
Walter Carter of Vancouver.
Washington, and E. C. Corn of
' Medford were visiting Rotarians.
MAN IN CHEST
MILES LINEN MILL
AT SALEM BOUGHT
BY BARBOUR BROS.
(Associated Pres Leased Wire)
SALEM, Ore., Feb. 21 The Bar
bour Brothers company of New
York City, among the. largest linen
thread and twine manufacturers In
the world, has purchased the out
standing treasury stock In the
Miles Linen mill of Salem amount
ing to 150,000. Prediction Is made
of an early doubling of the $200,
OpO capital stock of the mill. In ad
dition It Is predicted that the pres
ent capacity of the mill will be
doubled in the near future, probab
ly during the coming summer.
.Invasion of the Oregon thread
and twine field by eastern capital
interested in flax development to
the magnitude of the Barbour
company is the consummation of a
dream of 65 years. The first flax
for linen purposes In the valley
was grown near Jefferson in this
county by Charles Miller in -1875
and captured an award at the cen
tennial celebration at Philadelphia
in 1876.
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One mile of grading on the Ore
gon coast highway, which will cost
too .000 in Douglas county, was au
thorized) by the Btatft highway com
mission yesterday at a special ses
sion held In Portland. The unit will
be north of Gardiner, and will be
financed on a 'cooperative basis.
The commission received assur-;
ances that Douglas county will con
tribute $20,000; the road district at
Gardiner will contribute $5000. and
as those offerings are on a 25 per
cent basis. It will mean n $100,000
job. The construction at that point
is extremely heavy, as most of the
road will have to be blasted out of
solid rock. Bids for this nroject will
be advertised for the March meet
ing, so that the work should be un
der way early In summer.
UNEMPLOYED MOB
IN CHICAGO STAGES
FIGHT WITH POLICE
f AMorlalrd Ttch I-onwri Win)
CHICAGO. ' Feb. 21.--SeveraI
hundred men and women milled
about the city hall today In pro
test against unemployment. Squads
of mounted police charged the
throng, using bllies to keep the
lenders from haranguing the mob
that quickly gathered. Seven per
sons suffered bruised heads, and
several were arrested.
The boldest of the marchers was
young girl who bobbed up on
rostrum every time she was pulled
down by the police. She was one
of the dozen or more herded into
natrol and taken awav.
Handbills urslng the unemnloved ,
to "join the International demon-
stratlon atminst
Thursday, March I
about.
unemployment
were tossed
BOSTON, Feb. 21. Approxi
mately 20 striking earment work
ers todav Invaded the work room
of the Imperial Dress company
and attacked employes. One man
was slashed across the neck with
a sharp instrument and about 20
other men and women were pum
melled. 25 YEARS FOR WIFE
WHO SLEW HUSBAND
fAortHntM T'row. ia-M Wlrr)
KIVr.SVILLE. Tex.. Feb. 21. (Charles Hackney, wanted at. Pen
Vn. Maude Lone was'convlcted of ! dleton. Oreeon. on foreery charg-
noisoning her hnbind. .Tim Long,
hv n jury here todav aM her pun
thmeni wa fixed at 25 years In
th penitentiary.
Mrs. Lone was accused by the
"tnte of having rid herself of her
huband. p winter. In order to car
ry on an illicit love affair with Pat
Smith, a 14 year-old boy.
SMALLPOX EPIDEMIC
' IN MISSOURI AREA
COLI'MRIA. Mo.. Feh. 21 All
students of the University of Mis
souri, two ffifls' colleges bere and
the loral ebnnls nr being vac
Hnntrf rtt RpiRllnnT as a r
ult of an outbreak of the disease
in the county. Nine new cne
all of tbm neeroes. were repor'ed 1
i fn health pmhn--Me -rctprnJv. t
There ure more than thirty cases
in the county.
s.
PENALTY
MURDER
First of Sex to Be Hanged
in Arizona Six Other
Women on Scaffold
as Witnesses.
Meets Fate Calmly, Makes
No Confession; Killed
Employer to Get
' His Estate.
fAiwnriatml I'rost IomhI Wire)
FLORENCE, Ariz., Feb. 21. The
name of Eva Dugan, mother of two
children, today was written on the
pages of Arizona history as the
first of her sex to be legally exe
cuted in the name of the sovereign
state.
The 52-year-old housekeeper, con
victed of the Blaylng in 1927 'of A.
J. Mathis, her employer, on his
ranch near Tucson, shortly before
dawn calmly walked up the 13 steps
leading to the gallows and smiled
as she stood on the trap while pris
on officials adjusted the black
hood about her head.
No Weakness Shown y
Unshaken In her resolve to
"show the world I can take my
medicine," she went to her death
without making a last minute state
ment. Surveying the crowd of spec
tators and prison wilnesaes, she
clasped the hand of Warden Lor
enzo Wright and said "Good-bye,
Daddy Wright." A few seconds la
ter tlie trap was sprung and Eva
Dugan's account with justice was
marked "paid In full."
Mrs. Dugan was the first woman
to receive the death sentence in
Arizonn. It also was the first time
in the history of the state that
members of her sex were permitted
to Bland on the scaffold as wit
nesses to an execution. Six women,
five of them invited to witness the
hanging, Blood with heads bowed
as the noose was fitted about the
neck of the condemned woman, and
shuddered as the steel trap clanged
to plunge the body Into eternity.
The Bix'h woman, a prison matron,
accompanied Mrs. D'1,Tin on her
trip to the gai'ows and it was her
last wisli that the matron stay with
her until the end.
Story of Her Crime
Mrs. Dugan was convicted of the
murder In Januarv. 1927. of Mathis.
aged Tucson rancher-recluse, in or
der to gain possession of his prop
erty. The body of Mathis was not
found until a vear later, when
Rearchers found it buried In a shal
low quick-lime filled grave, at a
lonely spot on his desert ranch.
Meanwhile Mrs. Dugan drove
arrosa country in Mathis' automo-
bile and later was arrested in
White Plains. N. Y., on an auto
theft charge. She was roturned to
Tucson where she Inid authorities
I that Mathis hid given her the
tomoblle just before he left the
ranch on a long trip. She emphati
cally denied knowledge of Mathis'
whereabouts, and authorities were
unable to connect her with the
rancher's disappearance.
With the finding of the body,
however, a formal murder charge
was placed against the woman.
Unknown Boy Blamed
She testified at her trial that a
19-year-old youth known to her
ony as "Jack" had committed the
Continued on page 6, Story
PRISONER BREAKS
JAIL IN ONE DAY
TWIN FALLS. Idaho. Feb. 21.
hrnke through the bars on his
window and eocopd from the Je
rome county jail last nieht. Five
other nrisoners In the same cell
refused to take advantage of the
opportunity t o escane. Hackney
bad "ent onlv about 24 hours In
the jail.
MABFL WILLF.BR ANDT
SPEEDS, FINED $10
Mwwfalwl Prp Tarfl Wirl
WASHINGTON. Feb. 21. MabM
Vi;er Willehrandt. former as
sistant attorney general in chare
of prohibition enforcement, plead
ed fiintv tmlav In nolle rout to
char "f speeding and paid a
fir.n of nn
I Mr" Willehrandt was arrest "d
t FHdv bv a nolifenan who
1 he wsi driving er entomo-
vi at
hour.
a sped of 38 miles an
Persecution of Christians By
Soviet Government Scathingly
Denounced By British Officiate
(Associated Press Leased Wire)
LONDON. Feb. 2 1 . While the spokesman for the labor
government admonished them not to get "hysterical, ' conserva
tive peers in the house of lords last night bitterly attacked the
soviet government for alleged persecution of christians- in Rus
sia and for spreading communist propaganda abroad.
The archbishop of Canterbury,
Most Rev. Cosmo Gordon Lang,
declared he proposed to make a
most exhaustive inquiry into the
charges of religious persecution in
Russia. "I have received much in
formation which greatly increases
both the gravity and difficulty of
the subject." he said.
The archbishop added he would
raise the whole matter in parlia
ment when the church investiga
tion was complete.
Lord Mirkenhead. former secre
tary of state for India, had initiat
ed the discussion. He asked what
understanding the government had
reached with Russia before the re
sumption of diplomatic relations.
The soviet regime was the "most
unworthy and perhaps the most
criminal In the history of the
world," he added. .
As regards the undertaking by
the Soviet to refrain from propa
ganda, Lord Birkenhead said the
IT
A. A. 'Smith, arrested in Port
land In connection with the swindl
ing of 30 painters, who paid $190
upon the offer or work at burns.
Oregon. Is not the man knoVn here
as W. O; Hall, alias. Perry, wanted
on a charge of kidnapping, pacing
worthless cnecks, and larceny.
Sheriff Jackson stated this morn
ing. Snuln, who was arrested by
Portland police and later released,
was thotVbt later in Portland to bi
the man wanted in Roue bur,;, but
an exchange ol description thin
morning. Sheriff Jackson ritan d,
revealed that Smith Is not tin mitn
wanted here.
Hall, Sbeiltf Jackson statj.i re
sided with ih wife and two chil
dren In K'verslde for abou. lour
months, ami Vft here a few days
ii;o with Helen Nefr, 16 year of
afie. the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
j. S. Neff. Hall's wife, Ins offi
cers slattj lias apparently dlsan
peared, and they are endeavoring
to determine il she met with loul
Ilcy
Hall, who Is reported to b.ive
come from s''i.lh Carolina, is claim
ed to havv passed a check for fKiti
on a commj.'U'y grocery uto.-, re
ceiving $S0 lu cash, the rest cf tiu:
amount being represented by his
account. He nad also purchased a
used car upon which he had made
a down payment and It was In this
car that he was last seen.
He was seen about 20 miles
south of Itoseburg and staled at
that time he was going to Glen
dale where he had secured a job
herding sheep. Inquiry In that vi
cinity, however, reveals that he
never was there. Sheriff Jackson
stntes.
Parents of the girl have Issued
a complaint ngalnst Hall, cbarKint;
him with kidnapping, while charges
of passing a worthless check and
larceny of the auto will also prob
ably be brought against him if he
Is arrested.
Circulars have been sent out to
officers all over the state, giving
his description and asking for his
arrest.
PLANE DOWNED ON
FIRST MAIL TRIP
NKW YORK. Feb. 21. Officials
of the New York, Rio and Buenos
Aires line today said the Kin Ih
Janlero, flagship of the line, whir-h
started from Buenos Aires for llf
Pnlted Slates Inaugurating the ri"w
east coast mall anil passenger line
was down at Florlnapolis. Brazil.
disabled, according to their
est Information.
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 21-Two
marine corps aviators were killed
yestidav In what was . believed
to have been a mid air crash over
Quantlco. Va. Thev ere Lieu
tenant Joseph L. Wolfe of the
marine corp nnd Second Lieuten
ant William R. Ostertag of the mar
ine corps reserve.
intensity of communist propagan
da in India had increased in the
last 12 mouths.
Lord Newton compared the bol
shevists to "unattractive animals
like boa 'constrictors and alligat
ors, who accept food and show
their gratitude by Bwallowing
their keepers". Lord Cushendun. a
former undersecretary for foreiitn
affairs, said Russia was a "wasps
nest".
Lord Parmoor, lord president of
the council, in reply declared that
thanks to the resumption of nor
mal and friendly relations, the so
viet would eventually cooperate
with the general life and outlook
of Europe. Lord Ponsonby, anoth
er member of the labor ministry,
asked bis opponents not to gel
hysterical; not to use "every snip
pet put in the newspapers aa a
stick to heat the labor government
with".
BF U. OF 0.
(AnwiclitttHl ITi'iw Win.')
. PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 21.
Headed for Fugeue and, ho hopes,
the Pacific coast Conference cham
pionship. Dr. Clarence W. Spears,
new football coach at the Univers
ity of Oregon, arrived In Portland
from ills home in Minnesota today.
A large group of civic and slate
officials, led .by Mayor Baker ami
Dr. Arnold Bennett Hall, president
of the university, greeted the grid
mentor as he stepped from the
train. A large crowd of alumni and
Oregon students also were Includ
ed lu the reception committee.
Several new ideas In praclice
will be Introducer! at. Oregon. Dr.
Spears said. Including the play
ing of regular games in the spring
practicing session. This plan met
with great sti-ess at Minnesota
for the past two years, .the couch
said, and not only stimulated In
terest In football but served to de
velop a great d'-al of material.
Pr. Spears said his offensive at
tack would depend entirely on ma
terial and weather conditions. If a
ralnv season greets the new coach
In bis Oregon debut, be Intimated
that the speed v own pbiv for
which his Dart month and Minne
sota tenms were noted, would be
discarded In favor of wh;t he
lauchtngly described ns "power
plays."
S. P. ENGINES HIT,
INJURING 2 MEN
( .Uw I'rriw
PORTLAND. Ore.. Feb. 21. Two
Sou I hern Pacific railroad switch
engines sides wiped each other in
the north bank railroad yards to
day and J. T. Koch. 'Mi. Vancouver.
Wash., and It. A. Myles. 41. Port
land, suffered burns and other In
juries. They were members of
each engine's crew.
Koch was burned when the Im
pact of (be two engines severed a
boiler pipe and a geyser of scald
ing steam enveloned him. Myles,
on his seat in the other engine,
was Inirb-d to the floor and suffer
ed a fractured, leg and contusions.
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TIDAL WAVE TAKES
LIFE AND PROPERTY
f A ltHl Pom I Win)
ST. JOHN'S', N. Y., Feb. 21.
Southern New found lurid fishing
ports. swpt ibrec months ago bv
an earthquake . tidal wave w hir-h
i Iann " z nei, were lasri'-'i aain
Mtimiav ny a lerrnic souim-asi.
cale. Three men perished at Iji-
Mallne and hundreds of thousands!
of dollar' damage was done. j
Property loss at Burgeo, one of
Newfoundland's importiuit fishing
ports, was eni Irnaied at Jl uo.iioO.
Bav I-argent Llitle Bav and '
Fast Harbor, all sirhatcd at the
foot of Fortune bay, reported
heavy property damage.
Officer
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SINGLE RULE
Control of Chief Northern
Lines to Be Merged by
Interstate Board's
Authorization.
Burlington Route Divorced
From Group Purchase
of S. P. & S. Part of
the Permit.
(AworiutH IVi-m !iiK(l Wirc
WASHINGTON. Feb. 21 Acqui
sition by the Great Northern Pa
cific; Railway company of control
of the Great Northern railway and
the Northern Pacific railway wus
approved today by the Interstate
commerce commission.
Under the ' order the Chicago.
Burlington aud Qulncy railroad.
now owned Jointly by the two
mads hut assigned by the Inter
state commerce commission on its
consolidation plan as bead of
trunk line system of its own.
would be divorced from the unifi
cation of the two northwest sys
terns.
Permits Stock Issue
Control of the Great Northern
and the Northern Pacific by the
newly formed Groat Northern Pa
ell'Ic compun'y would ho obtained
by lease aud stock ownership. Tlx1
new company was authorized by
the commission to issue Its com
men capital slock for the purpose
of acuuiripg Ihe two roada.
The Great Northern Pacific com
pany also was authorized to ac
quire (he Spokane. Portland and
Seattle railway1!
In ordering the roads" to divorce
themselves from ownership of Ihe
Burlington, the commission held
that question had been disposed of
by Ihe consolidation plan.
In awarding the Spokane, Port
land and Seattle to (he unified
system. (! commission said suit
able assurance must he given that
and Pacific railroad will have ac-'
cess from Spokane to Poiiland
over this short Jlne.
Air-Rail Agreement
PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 21. H.
A. Burgesi:, assistant to Harris M.
UauHbue, president of the West
Coast Air Transport, Western Air
Kxpress ami Fokker Aircraft cor
poration, announced today (hat
air-rail agreements between I lie
West Coast Air transport and four
major railroads had been consum
mated.
The railroads concerned are (he
Canadian National, Canadian Pa
cific Great Norlhcrn and North
ern Pacific.
Burgess said the Canadian roads
would offer the air service to pass
engers desirous of reaching points
in Ihe northwest and southwest.
The agreement, 'ho said, alo af
fords an oullel (r: these points for
not! hern railiouds wllb termina
tion at Seattle. The Great North
ern and Ihe Northern Pacific will
be able to offer passengers ser
vice enabling them lo slight from
one of their trains at Portland and
board a Wci Coast Air transport
for San Francisco, connecting
there with planes for Los Angeles
and points in the southeast and
WfMt.
HOOVER MARKED
FOR MURDER BY
MEXICAN "REDS"
MF.XICO CITY.
Pteiisa dispatch
Potosl today stall
Alcorta, a forme
Feb. 21. -A La
from San Luis
d thai Nicholas
student there
who Is wanted in Mexico In con
nection with the shooting of Presi
dent Ortiz. Ruhio, has b" u aret
ed in St. 1-ou's, Missouri.
Alcorta Ih alleged to ha'e sent a
letter to a friend in San Luis Po
losl conuratiilating him on the at
tempt against the president's life
and savin : pliin were vlrtuail
f-nmplefc for a similar attack on
President Hoover.
The palter sid Alcorta would
he returned lo San Luis Potosl.
T A M P Iff) M ex Ico, Feb. 21.
The general workers federation
l;iKt nleM g;ve atmroval to a gen
eral strike In protest at arrewt of
several labor lenders In connection
with Ihe recent attempt against
the tfe of President Pasr-ual Oiitz
Ruhio.
Date of the. strike was not fixed.
PLACED UNDER
DR. CHASE NAMED
IIJJNOIS U. HEAD
I. ' '
DR. HARRY W. CHASE
(AM-iutrl 1'ivm I.smm1 wire)
URBANA. 111., Feb. 21. Dr. Har
ry Wood burn Chase, head of the
University of North Carolina for
the last ten years, was elected
president of the University of Illi
nois yesderday. succeeding Dr.
David Kinley. 6S, retired.
Born In Grove'aml, Mass., 47
years hko, Dr. Chase was gradu
ated wllh the bachelor'B decree
from Dartmouth In UW1 and re
ceived his mas'ier's decree, from
there In 1!M)S. In lltlO, he was giv
en the degree of doctor of philoso
phy from Clark university. Since
I hen, he hns received the degree
of doctor of laws from ' Darlinuth,
the University of Georgia, Lake
Forest college- and luoir-RU) no
college.
During the past, year, Dr. Chase
served as president of the national
association of state universities
and had previously heen the asso
ciation's secrelary-treasurer aluee
lt22. Nearly four years ago he de
clined the presidency of Unlversl
ty of Oregon.
ANOTHER DEHH
rW-ltit-. Com l.i-nw.1 Wire)
LONDON, Feh. 21. Ills mind
harried by tboimhts of the PI"m-
olis' curse and the recent death of.
his sou, 7Syear-o)d Lord West bury,
today fell or threw himself to
deal It from his bathroom window
on Ihe seventh floor of St. James
court. i
His body crashed through a
Klass veranda celling 1 imi feet be
low, and knocked over a woman
there. She was so badly cut. by
broken class and so affected by
shock that It was necessary lo
take her to a hospital. Lord West
bury was dead when be was
picked up.
Lord Went bury for months bad
worried over the si ran en circum
stances of the death of his son,
Richard Bethel!, 411, who was sec
relary to Howard Carter, whos1
investigations In Kgypt disclosed
thV treasures of ancient Tut-Aukh-Ahmei..
Bethell's death, while, apparent
ly from natural causes, revived
discussion of the superstitions of
a curse resting upon meddlers
with the tombs of Ihe Pharaohs.
Ills was the tenth death aiming
those concerned with the ex pi ora
tion of Tut -Ankh Amen's senulchre.
Csrtei, chief disturber of the tomb.
Is mill alive.
In the very flat from which
Lord Went bury presumably jumped
were several important and ex
quisite works of Knyptlan art from
the Kgypllan valley of kings which
Bet del I. who v. as his heir, bad
given bis parents.
HUSBAND SLAYS
WIFE AND LOVER
LOS ANGKLKS. Feb. :M -Mrs.
Vera M. Ghmeil, :tfi. iictress, and
Sifruril H jot-neb v, musician, earlj'
Unlay wen nhot and killed in a
downtown him rt merit house bv Au
intus Gingell. :t. Glendiile. Calif..
merchant and estranged husband t
of Ihe dead woman. Gin?c walked
from lire apartment and sur
rendered to a policeman.
Ghigel) nnid his wife left him be
en use he had been dr Ink Inc. He
said ttiat v, hen he entered the
apartment he intended to commit
u
Ide after kilting the couple.
but "hmt mv nerve
The Glmrells were married In
Portlaud, Ore, In 1010.
JURY FILES
VERDICT
FIVE HOURS
Unanimous Decision Is
Reached After 8-4
Reported Vote
at Outset.
Oakland Institution Held
Justified in Refusing
to Honor Check of
Rodeo Head.
After about five hours of deli
beration, ihe circuit court jury, be
fore which ihe case of "..odoe.
Johnnie" Farleigh, rodeo promoter,
against the K. G. Young and Corn-
puny bank of Oakland, was tried,
turned a unanimous verdict In fa
vor of the bunk, holding, fn a spe
cial form of verdict in accordance
to the general verdict, Unit Far
teigh hail no funds on deposit at
the time his dishonored check wan
presented for payment.
The jury took only a few ballots,
before reaching its verdict, tho
flrsi ballot standing 8 to 4 for tho
bank, according lo reports. Tho
verdict was returned into court
shortly after 9 o'clock lust night,
itlie case going to Ihe jury about 'I
p. m.
Wbethoi or not an appear will
be taken has not yet been an
nounced. Deposits Moot Point
The chief issue of the case wan
with regard to certificates, which
Kailelgh claimed were deposit
slips. The hank held that only
two were actual deposit slips, and
tho others were memorandums of
receipts for funds held by tho
Gobblers, anil were not represent
ing actual deposits In the bank, an
It was claimed that the hank car
tied an account only to cover
money advanced upon the personal
guarantee ijf the Gobblers.
The case Invovled many technl
cailtles of, law. and raised several
issm s concerning banking law not
heretofore tiled lu Oregon courts. ,
Judge James T. Brand, before
whom the case was tried, gave a.
great deal of study to the technl
cal quest Ions and submitted very
explicit and easily understood lu
structions to the Jury regarding the
basis upon which their findings
must he made.
Rodeo Fiasco Sequel
The suit followed Ihe presenta
tion or a rodeo lu Oakland during
August of last year. Tho rodeo hit
the financial rocks on Sunday, aft
er the celebration had been in pro
(; " ror three ifciys, and because
of lack of funds the program
scheduled for Monday was not
given. A near not developed
when unpaid performers started
clamoring for their money, and ad
diilonal police protection was re
quested by Mayor Bridges of Oak
land, local deputy sheriffs being
sent to Oakland to preserve order.
A hearing was later held In the
justice court, followl" "'arleigh's
arrest for pasKlng vorthless
check. Farb igb. hovov:-r. was re
leased when il was found that he
Issued the check with Ihe belief
that, he hail money In pay th
claim, as the law provides that a
penally can only be Imposed when
tho defendant Issues n check know
ing thai he has no balance.
Reputation At Issue
Suit was later Instituted by Far
Iclgb against the bank, seeking
Continued on pane 6, Story 2
TWO NEAR DEATH
AFTER KEING HIT
BY MOTORCYCLE
f Um i'llM I'r.'.. l-d Win-)
POCGHKI'lKPt-'IK. N. Y.. Feb.
21 - A railmad ofi'lcia! and a Van
sar student were near death hero
todnv of Injuries received last
night wbr-n a motorcycle plunged
into n rup of students and oth
er! In front of Vassar college.
Kfve others. Including two stir
dents, were less serloush Inhirrd.
The nnerntor of the motorevclo
was held on n charge of assault.
Mnrrav K"!Pv:tn. "f Sa't I ko
Ctv, ron em! rn!Mta:er of the Salt
Lake City and Utah railroad, who
was here visiting his dautrhlor. a
"Indent, suffered a frnrtM'ed skill'.
frneiitred left leg. left nelvls and
rnllar hope, and internal Injuries.
The diMtv'iter. Nancv Adair Sulli
van, also in the croup, escaped In
jury, Marian Jav Vnrtz. Fn ;;ie wood.
N. J. a lunior. uffered a ftaetnred
rkull. Her condition was described
as crlileal.
Cime of the accident, which oc
curred at a noint where the rnid
"nv 1 trafi?ht. was unknown.
Vitftird T-'rrelt the onnrator. told
"oHee. he was driving 2" miles an
hour.