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12 . TOE MORXIXG OBEGOXIAS. WEDNESDAY, JTJXY 21, 1909. ! . . - . , !.. 'i DDRPITTT PJICC . UIIHUILI. UNUL HEAR SOLUTION? Police Have Evidence Involv ing Alfred G. Tyreman, Now Thought to Be in Chicago. WIFE THINKS HE SKIPPED Although Said by Some to Have Bern Out of Citj When Bracken Was Shot, Others Believe Jeal ous Engraver Is Guilty. This week may bring forth a solu tion of the Brackett case. yesterday the police were supplied with clews that mm to Involve Al fred G. Tyreman, who until July 1 was foreman of the Hicks-Chatten En-graving- Company. The preponderance of evidence Indicates he was not In the city at the time of the shooting- of Brackett. but a statement attributed to his wife declares he was here and later -skipped." Bearing a relation to this alleged remark, a bartender of the Tumwater saloon says he would not take an oath to the fact, but thinks he saw Tyreman across the street from the resort with a smaller companion half or three-quarters of an hour pre vious to the Yamhill-street shooting last Wednesday night. Tvreman's alleged presence near the scene of the affray at a critical time, numerous threats said to have been made by htm to kill any male consort of his wife, and the fact that Mrs. Tvreman had lived off Yamhill street less than three blocks from the place where Brackett was waylaid, are the basis of the Investigation concerning Tvreman's movements to be begun by the police today. Seemingly adding strength to other clews, a chauffeur re ported vesterday that Brackett closely resembeled a railroad engineer nick named Slim." "Slats" and Slivers," who is alleged to have been an admirer and close companion of Mrs. Tyreman. Tyreman May Not Be Fonnd. According to detectives, the statements made concerning Tyreman form the best line on the mysterious shooting. Judged from the standpoint of mistaken identity, but they anticipate considerable difficulty in their attempts to locate the engraver. When discharged by the Hleks-Chatten Company. July 1. he is said to have made four different statements as to his in tended Itinerary. He left a Chicago ad dress to be used in forwarding money to him: to some he announced he would go to Seattle; others were Informed he in tended to locate in Spokane, and there re a few who say he declared he would shape his course for Montreal, Canada. The Chicago address Is 152 Oakley boule vard, where his mother is said to live. Favoring an alibi for Tyreman. several feiiow-craftjimen state he was seen by them In Seattle after July 4 and a postal card was received here from him at Seattle. July S. The only points against him so far as his alleged presence here at the time of the shooting is concerned rise from a statement made by Roy Rhoades. a bartender, and a statement attributed to Mrs. Tyreman. .The former declares the man he saw across the street from the Tumwater saloon the night of the shooting seemed to him to be Tyre man. -Friends of his." Mm. Tyreman Is reported as having said, "tell me he is In town, but I believe h has skipped and I don't know where." Wife Hides Herself. Mrs. Tyreman herself is responsible for much of the suspicion directed toward her husband. In fact, more than any thing else her effective concealment of herself for the last week has aroused the sleuths to action. Two months ago she and her husband lived at 450 Yam hill street. Separating later. Mrs. Tyre man. known as "Bib May," moved a block down the street to a lodging-house, at 16S Twelfth street. Then elie deserted this abode, departing with a suitcase after obtaining the landlady's permission to leave her trunk behind. Upon leaving, she informed the landlady she had hired a room In the Ooodnoujch building, where Brackett lived, but she is said to have cautioned the landlady not to send her mail there. This action seems to have been a subterfuge, as none of the three landladies in the Goodnoush building is acquainted with Mrs. Tyreman. "I wish I were," said one of them yes terday. "In the last week or so I have had h calls for that woman." Another stranice feature of Mrs, Tyre man's recent alleged movements is that she is said by friends to refuse Insistently to give her present address or even her telephone number. She calls at regu lar intervals at 16S Twelfth street for her mail, but according to the landlady there, she has not deigned to tell where the may be found by inquiring friends. Tumwater Saloon Involved. In thefc- quest to determine the soundness or frailty of the clews point ing to Tyreman as the possible assail ant of Brackett, the police must of ne cessity confine their delving to the Tumwater saloon, at Morrison and West Park streets. At this resort was made the first statement mentioning Tyre man in connection with the shooting; one of Its bartenders thinks he saw Tyreman the night of the affray; an other bartender there declares Tyreman to be insanely jealous of Mrs. Tyreman and it was there Tyreman is alleged to have thrashed a man he accused of in timacy with his wife. Further, bartend ers and waiters at the Tumwater de clare on account of Tyreman's Jealousy and his threats to kill anyone he found with his wife that prompted them to refuse to serve Mrs. Tyreman, That Tyreman was a frequent patron of the Tumwater is a stateemnt of the .lay bartender. That Tyreman has not visited the saloon since the shooting of Brarkett is maintained by Roy Rhoades of the nlsht watch. Both Tyreman and his wife seem to be known in many resorts where accom modations are given to women patrons and that Tyreman was profuse in his threats to kill on sight any man he found with Mrs. Tyreman is vouchsafed by many resort-owners. Tyreman was foreman for the Hicks Cliatten Company for a year and a half and was discharged on account of being overbearing sylth his subalterns. Pre vious to his arrival here he was em ployed in San Francisco and prior to that he lived In Chicago, where, it is said, he at one ttme was a policeman. Ho is about six teel - tall, of heavy frame, smooth-shaven, his hair has a red tinge and his face is freckled. Even though the police regard the clews centering about Tyreman as a "good line." their energy in Investigating the case has been dampened by Brackett. who is said to have asserted yesterday that even if they find his assailant, he will not die a eomplatnt. "t'nder those conditions." say the sleuths, "tf a man confesses to shooting F.rackett. we could do nothing. That Brackett was shot by mistake though, is our final conclusion. JUDGE-ADVOCATE OF THE SUTTON C0UBT OF INQUIRY i jr CAPTAIN HARRY LEONARD. ANNAPOLIS. Md.. July 20. (Special.) Captain Harry Leonard of the Marine Corps Is Judge-advocate of the court which is making an inquiry into the death of Lieutenant Sutton, which occurred at Annapolis. WHEAT AT ONE DOLLAR IDAHO WAREHOrSE PRICE IS HIGHEST IX HISTORY. Barley at Dollar Mark, Too, and Farmers Expect to Make Big Fortunes From New Crop. LEtVISTOX, Idaho. July 20. (Special.) The delivery of dollar wheat at the Lewls ton and Asotin warehouses within the past few days establishes a new record for opening- prices in the Lewiston country. One local Arm has contracted approximately 10. 000 bushels for July delivery at 1 a bushel, and while the prices for August and Sep tember wheat are expected to range from 0 to VS cents, the dollar mark Is predicted for the bulk of the crop carried until late Fall and Winter. It Is estimated at least Ml. WO bushels will be delivered during the next 10 days at the Lewiston and Asotin warehouses, for which the growers will receive the contract price of SI per bushel. The operation of the steamer line on Snake River by the Open River Transpor tation company will net thousands of dol lars to the farmers along the river by the early delivery of their crops when prices are at the best. This Is particularly true of barley, which Is now quoted at about $1. but Is expected to slump later In the sea son unless the California crop is exported; In which event a good market will prevail throughout the year. The reports from the entire Central Idaho and Eastern Washington country confirm the record forecasts of record yields of wheat and barley. In some sections the grain Is exceptionally good, with average crops In all districts and the greatest acre age In the history of the country. Favor able weather during the periods for Fall and Soring seeding, with the assurances of good prices, has added at least 25 per cent to the crop acreage. As an Indication of the crop values in the rich Nex Perce section, offers as high as S35 per acre for the standing crop have been rejected during the past 10 days. The crop up to the present time has not cost to ex ceed $5 per acre, and It Is estimated the grain can be harvested and put in the warehouses for an additional 15. Esti mates of average wheat yields of 50 bushels per acre and 80 bushels of barley to the acre are not uncommon. RECORD BARLEY NEAR DAYTON. Hundred Bushels to Acre Is Yield on One Washington Ranch. DAYTON. Wash., July 20. (Special.) It was reported to grain-dealers at Waits burg yesterday that barley grown on the W. E. Singer ranch, a mile west of that place, la yielding 100 bushels to the acre. This eclipses the record yield heretofore re ported this season by nine bushels. Num erous 80-bushel yields have been reported within the last few days. Harvest will commence pretty generally In the vicinity of Dayton today. In the lower Touchet Valley, near Prescott and Waitsburg. harvest is well under way. par ticularly In barley. That the valley will produce the heaviest crop in 13 years Is the estimate of grain-dealers. A slgnlncant fea ture of the enormous yield is the quality of the grain. Wheat will test, it Is claimed by dealers, eight to ten points above the average for several years. The average for wheat will be not far from 60. FANATIC FIGHTS CHINESE Then Refuses to Secure Bail and Id Locked Up. Because a white man and a Chinese rubbed elbows on the street last night In passing they fell to belaboring each other and were engaged in a fine dis play of fisticuffs when the police ap peared and arrested both. The white man gave his name as Charles Campt bell, a carpenter, living at 435 East Pine street. The Chinese said that he was Tai Shing, who owns a laundry at Fifteenth and Bumside streets. Camp bell accused the Chinese of drawing a knife. Patrolman Ellis, who came upon them while tuey were in the height of their melee, did not see a knife. Campbell is said to be a religious fanatic be longing to the Holy Roller sect, and the police say that they have been requested more than once to observe his erratic actions. He refused to make any effort to secure ball or notify any one that he was in Jail, and he was locked up for the night. The Chinese secured bail. SANCTUARY WAS COSTLY Evangelist Martin Preaches on Sym " bolsm of Scriptures. Jesus Christ led Israel in the wilder ness;" thus spoke Evangelist Martin at the "Cotton Tabernacle." on Eleventh and East Morrison streets, last night in his lecture on "The Sanctuary of Ancient Israel." The speaker said that accord ing to the Bible record, this little sanc tuary and its articles of furniture cost J6.Oo6.00O. He dwelt on the service con nected with the sanctuary, how when an individual committed sin, he would bring an offering of some kind, usually a lamb, and it would be killed and offered up ac cording to custom. This was a daily service, but on a certain day during every year there was a cleansing of the sanctuary. ' All this service, Mr. Martin said, was typical 06 the life and the work that Jesus Christ did for mankind when he died as an offering for sin. The speaker showed that this sanctuary was made after the pattern of a sanctuary in heaven, and that the service of the earthly 6anctuary was typical of the heavenly, only that Jesus Christ was the offering in the heavenly instead of lambs and goats. Mr. Martin asserted the day of atone ment in the earthly sanctuary was a type of the day of Judgment in heaven. This work, said the speaker, began in 1&4 and was the event that was to hap pen Instead of the end of the world, as William Miller preached at that time.' Tomorrow night Mr. Martin will speak on "The Judgment, or Court Week in Heaven." HURT ATTEMPTING RESCUE Fireman Alfred Injured Trying to Stop Runaway. Fireman Alfred, of Truck Company No. 1, figured in an heroic attempt to stop a runaway yesterday afternoon and suc ceeded In preventing possible injury to an endangered man and boy, although he himself came out of the affair with slight Injuries to his leg'. He was pitched out of the runaway wagon after he had succeeded In slowing down the horse and reducing the danger to the panic-stricken occupants of the vehicle. The accident occurred about 4 o'clock, at Fourth and Yamhill streets. Alfred, with a number of other firemen, was lounging in front of the flrehouse, when a light wagon containing a man and a little boy came dashing south on Fourth street. With great promptness AUred ran out to meet the runaway team. Catching hold of the rear of the wagon, he climbed Into it, grabbed the lines and had drawn the horse's speed down no ticeably when the animal veered toward the sidewalk, the wheels striking the curb. Alfred and the man were thrown out, the man escaping without injury, but Alfred receiving painful injuries to one of his legs. The boy remained seated and the run away animal, gathering new speed, rushed east on Yamhill street, where it was caught In a wedge at Third and YamhIU streets formed by a passing streetcar and an automobile, and broke his harness, to continue on toward the river. The automobile and the street car were unharmed. The names of the boy and man were not learned. Milwaukee Buying Piling. CENTRALIA. Wash.. July 20. (Spe cial.) W. J. Cross, pile inspector for the Milwaukee road, was in this city last week making arrangements for piling to be used in bridging the Che halls River at Rochester. Over 2000 piles will be needed for this work. SUTTON PICTURED AS SURLY BULLY Fellow Officers Tell of Esca padesCadet Played "Wild West" Pranks. HEAR SEVERAL WITNESSES Adams Tells of Attempt JIade by Sutton's Family to Get Admis sions From Him After First Inquiry. (Continued From First Page.) Inquiry and pointed out some of the dis crepancies. The witness insisted, however, that where the testimony seemed to vary, his answers at the present inquiry were the correct ones. ' "I want you to state again If you saw Lieutenant Sutton kill himself," Mr. Da vis asked. " "As I have said. I saw Sutton draw a revolver from under him in his right hand, like this" (Illustrating the motion), "turn his head to the right and fire. I saw the flash Jump about six inches," the Lieutenant replied. Mr. Davis pressed the question as to whether Sutton fired the fatal shot with the large service revolver or the small one. "It was not very light" said the Lieu tenant, "but It was my idea that he shot himself with a small revolver." Question Ruled Out. Mr. Davis referred to a reported in-, tervlew with Adams in a New York pa per of July 7. in which Adams was quoted as saying that the Buttons were trying to "trump up a murder charge against two who were innocent," and asked the wit ness if he said anything like that. Major Leonard, the Judge-Advocate, objected to this line of questioning on the ground that It was not pertinent to the Issues. "This witness knows what he is charged with," said Major Leonard.. "He knows there are no charges against hlra as far as the Department is concerned." Mr. Davis argued that if, besides ob taining counsel. Adams had made a state ment that he considered himself accused of murder. It had a direct bearing on his credibility as a witness. Commander Hood, presiding, ruled that Adams did not have to answer the question. Mr. Davis questioned the witness in regard to his Interviews with Mrs. Parker. Sutton's sister, soon after Sut ton's death. "Did Mrs. Parker ask you at that time to make a statement of the truth of this whole affair." asked Mr. Davis. The witness said he believed she did. "Did you make such a statement?" " No, sir," replied Adams. "Assuming that you did make a statement, did not Mrs. Parker after ward tell you that it was not the truth 7" asked Mr. Davis. . Sought Iionely Interview. "I have told you before," Adams said, "that I told Mrs. Parker to look up the records of the testimony of the first hearing if she wanted to find out any thing and furthermore Mrs. Parker was willing to talk with the other officers in twos or threes or bunches, but she wanted to see me alone." Mr. Davis read from the assumed in terview with Mrs. Parker and asked the witness if he remembered making the statement. Adams said he could not remember. The statements Mr. Davis credited the witness with gave a somewhat dif ferent version of the tragedy than that which Adams has given on the witness stand. At this point there was a brief conference of all the lawyers at the conclusion of which Mr. Davis an nounced that he was through cross-examining Adams for the present. Major Leonard asked the witness a number of questions in regard to the in terview with Mrs. Parker and other matters. The witness caused a burst of merriment on the part of Mrs. Parker, her mother, and counsel, 'when he declared that Colonel Doyen, senior officer, had told him Mrs. Parker was "a very shrewd-looking woman." Lieutenant Adams was excused ana Lieutenant Edward A. Osterman called as the next witness. Osterman on Stand. Starting with the hop at the Academy and the meeting with Sutton later, about midnight, at Carvel Hill Hotel, the wit ness told substantially the same story of the Incidents on the night of October 12 as told by Lieutenant Adams. ,"We were in a room at Carvel Hall about 12 o'clock, when Lieutenant Sutton appeared at the door with a bottle of whisky in his hand and asked us to have a drink," began the witness. "We told him we were not drinking whisky. Then he went 'away. About twenty minutes later he came back and said he had an automobile outside, and asked if we did not want to ride to camp. I don't think anv one anawered. but we all went out. and Lieutenants Adams TJUey, Sutton and myself got into the automobile and started for the camp." From that point on Lieutenant Oster man told of the fist fights with Sutton and Adams and himself near the marine camp, and later running down to where the shots were fired he found Lieutenants Adams and Bevan standing near where Lieutenants Sutton and Roelker lay on the ground. Some one said Sutton had killed Roelker and then killed himself, tho witness said. Oregon Man Unpopular. Osterman said the reason he and his friends refused to drink whisky at Carvel Hall was because Sutton was not wanted In the party. "He was unpopular with his class mates," the witness said. Osterman told of an incident about a month prior to Sutton's death when Sutton "shot up the camp." "I was awakened by the bullets whiz zing through our tent," said the witness, "and, stepping out Into the camp street, saw Sutton standing in the door of his tent firing a revolver." Asked about the threat which the wit ness says Sutton made that he would kill them all before sunrise. Lieutenant Oster man said he believed at that time Sutton was likely to carry out the threat. "How long did it take you to get from where you heard the shots fired to the spot where the altercation occurred?" in quired Major Leonard. "About a minute," the witness replied. "Whom did you see there?" "Lieutenants Adams, Bevan, Utley, Roelker and Sutton." "What did Adams do or say?" "He showed me his finger and said Sut ton had shot him. The finger was bleed ing profusely." Sutton Looking for Fight. 1 Major Leonard this afternoon brought out for the first time evidence in regard to the time between the firing of the five shots. Lieutenant Osterman- said the first three shots were fired in rapid succes sion, with a perceptible interval between the fourth and fifth. The withesp said he could not say what Sutton's physical con dition was after the fight with him. Os terman insisted that no argument took place In the automobile until Lieutenant Utley suggested that they better get out and walk to camp. Then Sutton said he would not get out, no matter what the others did, and, turning to Adams, called him a coward and said he could "beat hell out of him," according to the wit ness, who added: "Adams Jumped out and said that if Sutton was going to do any beating for him to start at once." ' Osterman said he knocked Sutton down at least three times in the first fight on the way to the camp, and that the last time Sutton got up and disappeared in th darkness. First Lieutenant William F. Bevan, of the Marine Corps, now attached to the United States ship New Jersey, then tes tified. He- was officer of the guard the night Sutton was shot. Lieutenant Be van said: "Some one reported to me about 1 o'clock that a fight was going on in the marine camp. Sutton Held Gnns. - T found Lieutenant .Sutton in his tent door with a revolver in each hand, pointing them at Lieutenant Roelker's feet, who was remonstrating with Sut ton and trying to get him to put up his weapons. I arrested Sutton and ordered both men to their tents. Sut ton made some remark about disre garding arrest, and ran down the walk exclaiming that he was going to leave the camp for good. "Shortly afterwards I heard several shots, and Lieutenant Utley and I ran down towards the parade grounds. There we found Lieutenant Osterman and Sergeant Dehart sitting on Lieu tenant Sutton's body. Lieutenant Ad ams was trying to get at Sutton to strike him. Some one had pulled him away from Sutton and was holding him. "I took hold of Sutton by each shoul der, intending to hold him down on the ground so he could not use the two revolvers he had when I last saw him. Some one said: 'My God, he has killed Roelker.' "Then I felt a movement under me and saw Sutton extend his arm from under him to the right of his head and shoot. Then his body relaxed. Lieu tenant Willing reached down and took the revolver out of Sutton's hand. It was a service revolver." Court adjourned with Lieutenant Bevan still under direct examination. THOMAS IS SEEKING ROELKER Says Missing Sutton Witness Is Hid ing In Pittsburg. WHEELING, W. "Va., July 20. With the avowed purpose of locating Edward P. Roelker, the much-wanted witness in the Sutton inquiry, now being held in Annapolis, Harry B. Thomas, of Mar tins Ferry, Ohio, is today in Wheeling. Thomas in a sensational statement last night declared he had seen Roelker with in the lasf two weeks, and was sure he could find him. Thomas said today he was sure Roelker had been employed for some time In the Wheeling offices of a coal mining company, working there un der an assumed name. Much interest is being manifested as to the contents of a letter purporting to be from Miss Mary Elizabeth Stewart, of Pittsburg, which Thomas says he will forward to the authorities at Annapolis late today. In the letter, Thomas states Miss Stewart outlined graphically the events of the night of Lieutenant Sutton's death. Pioneer Pastor's Wife Dies.- DAYTON', Wash., July 30. (Special.)- Cocoa Fact No. 29 The roasting of cocoa beans is done in Urge revolv ing iron drums, which are constantly turned so that every portion of the con tents is equally heated. The roasting, which is done at a temperature of 260 to 280 degrees Fahrenheit, brings out the flavor and aroma of the cocoa bean. It takes but a teaspoonful to the cup when the cocoa's pure. 1 flu 0 is most economical be cause it is perfectly pure and goes farthest. Dont ask merely for cocoa ask for GhirardellPs. HELLO - - BILL Get Your Eastman Films and Kodak Supplies From the Columbian Optical Co. 133 SIXTH STREET Oregonian Bldg. Mrs. Rachael E- - Watson, wife of the Rev J H Watson, pioneer minister ot 1$70,' died here yesterday aged 66 years. Mrs Watson crossed the plains with her husband 40 years ago. They located at Walla Walla and Rev. Mr. Watson or ganized tho Walla Walla conference of the United Brethren Church. Surviving children are Mrs. Jessie Locker and Mrs. Mina Allender, of Spokane, and Mrs. Sylva Hefley, of Lawton, Okla. Taeoma Waterfront Notes. TACOMA, Wash., July 20. The Nor wegian steamer Horneten arrived at the smelter today with 1800- tons of copper ore from South America. The steamer Elihu Thomson arrived this afternoon from Nome and St. Mi chaels to load for return trip, leaving here Friday. The steamer Stanley Dollar arrived at the smelter with 2300 tons of concen trates from California, and the steam er Delhi arrived from Treadwell with concentrates. The schooner Aloha arrived to load lumber for Honolulu. The steamer Tallac arrived to load 1500 tons of lead bullion for San Fran cisco. The steamer Watson left for down Sound ports this afternoon. The steamer Wasp arrived this morn ing at Dupont with powder. More Troops for Africa. MADRID, July 20. King Alfonso and Premier Maura are returning to the cap ital from San Sebastian to arrange for sending reinforcements to Melilla. The Spanish government is exercising strict censorship over telegrams from Melilla, and also the outgoing press dispatches re lating to the situation in Morocco. The sign of good train service Eastward from Chicago it is the only system whose tracki axe water level. You can sleep. 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