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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 4, 1913)
3 WIFE OF ITALIAN ARMY MAN SHOT THIEVES FLEE AS AUGUST BELMONT'S DAUGHTER-IN-LAW GIVES UP TRYING TO KEEP HUSBAND. nnn linn nnim bur AIUD DtfUJII Slayer Comrrtits Suicide With College Professor Sitting in Adjoining Room. Woman Faints in Arms of Po liceman as He Is Draw ing Revolver. ACTION FOLLOWS QUARREL 4 AUTO BANDITS ESCAPE tHE 3IORMXG OREGOXIAX, SATURDAY, JANUARY 1, 1913. M. J. Ilowley Kills Woman Who He fuses to Lend Money and Dies AVlth Iietter Blaming Mother for Xot Helping Him. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 2. Mrs. Rita DiRovey. wife of Frank DiRovey. a re tired Italian army officer, was shot and killed in her home here tonight by M. J. Howley, of Scran ton. Pa. Howley then committed suicide. A letter found In Howley'.s pocket, addressed to his mother in Scranton, in which he upbraided her for refusal to send him money and Intimated his in tention of taking his life, supplied the only conjecture as to the motive for the crime. Friends of. Mrs. DiRovey said she had sent Howley away from iter lodging-house, where he boarded, a week ago, and that they had quar reled after he had made an unsuccess ful attempt tr borrow money from her. College Professor In Apartment. Professor Fritz Kruegor, instructor at the University of California, was the only person in the syjartment, other man tne iwo principals in the tragedy. He went to the apartment late today to go with Mrs. DIRovey through a rehearsal of a German play in which she was to have appearied January 15. lie was admitted by Howley. he said, and was usked to wait a moment in the living-room. "Howley and Mrs. DiRovey were to gether in the dining-room," said Krueger, "and the door was closed. I heard them talk a moment in low voices and then I heard two shots. AVhen I opened the door the body of Mrs. DiRovey lay on the floor and Howley sat upright in a chair with a bullet hole through his head." Letter Indicates Plan. A letter In Howley's pocket addressed to Mrs. J. J. Howley. 1624 Jefferson avenue. Scranton, pa., was as follows: "'Dear Mother: It would have changed things if you had answered my tele gram asking for $25. I may be a cow ard, but it is better for everybody that I follow my present Inclination. It was hard when lny wife and I separated, but when you refused to answer my telegram it was more than I could stand. "MIKE." Howley appeared to be about 25 years old and was well dressed. Professor Krueger said he was known as a dis solute son of a well-known Scranton family. Mrs. DiRovey was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. E. von Demandowskl, of this city, and was well known in Ger man circles. She appeared in many plays and festivals. .She was a beauti ful woman and at one time was on the professional stage. PI ROVEY IS SEATTLE WAITER Letter From Wife Tells of Intent to Rejoin HusUnnd at Once. SEATTLE. Jan. 3. Francisco Di Rovey. whose wife was killed in San Francisco by St. J. Rowley, - is head waiter at a prominent hotel here. Di Jtovey has been in Seattle more than five years. He met Howley a year ago, when he spent the holidays in San Francisco. DiRovey, who was at work tonight at the hotel where he has charge of the dining-room, collapsed when told liy a reporter of his wife's death. He said he would leave for San Francisco tomorrow morning. Mr. Di Rovey soon recovered his com posure and went to his room to pre pare to leave for San Francisco. How ley, he said, had boarded at Mr. Di Kovey's more than a year and appeared to be a pleasant young man. He had never heard any 111 of him. "Although we were compelled by cir cumstances to be away from eacli oth er much of the time we were together in spirit always." he said. "My wife spent four months with me every Sum mer and we werealready making ar rangements for tho coming Summer vacation." He showed the reporters several let ters received this week in which his wlte thanked him for the Christmas remembrances he had sent to her and their little girl and spoke in tender terms of their'resard for him. Dl Rovel, who is 48 years old, has lived In Seattle five years, coming here from San Francisco, " where he lived 14 years. He has been married 13 years. Before coming to America Dl Rovey served in the Italian army, holding a commission as First Litcutenant when he left the service to travel. SCALDS KILL DALLAS MAIM C. F. Rowell Pinned Beneath Over turned Engine, Which Explodes. DALLAS, Or.. Jan. S. (Special.) C. F. Rowell. of this place, was fatally injured Monday, when an engine on tho logging road of the Portland Lum ber Company overturned and pinned him beneath, where he was literally cooked by steam following an explosion of tho boiler. Ho died a few hours later in a hospital at Astoria The body was brought here and burled yes terday. The wreck occurred at Gray's Klver.- Wash. Mr. RoweH was a native of Dallas. His father and grandfather have lived here since 1ST". He was a member of the Knights of Pythias and was honorably discharged from the Ore gon National Guard following a full enlistment. He was a civil engineer and hod worked In Portland. The last words of the dying man were spoken to the wife of a compan ion on the engine when the wreck oc curred. He asked if his friend had escaped unhurt. Mr. Rowell loaves surviving him his father, T. B. Rowell; a brother, George Rowell. of Penawawa, Wash., and a sis ter, Mrs. J. A. Perry, of Sitka. Alaska, besides many aunts, uncles and cousins residing in Polk County. Vnion I'aeiric Life Wins. SALEM. Or.. Jan. 3. (Special.)' Judge Galloway In Circuit Court today grauted a writ of mandamus ordering State Insurance Commissioner Fergu son to grant a license to transact busi ness to the Union Pacific Life Insur ance Company, of Portland. A motion to dismiss the appeal in the case against the American Life & Accident Insurance Company was also nied and a new suit was brought in Circuit Court to enjoin the Insurance Commissioner from refusing to grant a license to that company. ; iff " v ; I I 4 ! ETHEL LORRAINE BELMONT. NEW YORK, Jan. S. (Special.) Ethel Lorraine Belmont's an nouncement that she will return to the stage is taken by her friends to mean that sho has given up hope of keeping hor youthful husband, Raymond Belmont, son of August Belmont. The marriage several weeks ago was against the wishes of the Belmont family. "Judge for yourself." was the only answer the former chorus girl would make to the question as to whether she had broken with young Belmont. "I understand he is somewhere in the South. I haven't seen him lately, and I don't expect to-." Mrs. Belmont is living at 236 Jest Fifty-fifth street. Recently, in spite of reports that thousands of dollars had been offered her to give up her husband, she declared nothing could part them. REID FUNERALTODAY Body Arrives at New York on British Cruiser Natal. GUNS BOOM OUT SALUTE President Taft, Dignitaries of Army and Navy and Representatives of Foreign Powers to Atleiul Services In Cathedral. NEW YORK, Jan. 3. Great Britain delivered today to his countrymen the body of Whitclaw Reid. editor, states man and American Ambassador, who died in London. The British cruiser Natal brought the body home and it lies tonight under t; stars and stripes n the Cathedral of St. John the Di vine. President Taft, dignitaries from the Army and Navy and. representatives of foreign powers will attend the funeral services there tomorrow. The Natal was met off Nantucket by two United States battleships and four destroyers and the funeral fleet lay off Sandy Hook last night. A thick fog blanketed the bay and it was 11 o'clock before the procession got under way. A gale that swept up the river made landing the coffin a-difficult task. On the river the guns of the Natal and the Florida boomed a salute of 19 guns. The body was escorted to the cathe dral by a company of marines. The ten petty officers from the United States battleships walked on either side. There was no music and no dis play. At the cathedral the coffin was in trusted to a guard of 30 marines from the battleship Connecticut. In squads of 15 on two-hour shifts these marines watched the casket during the night. At the funeral services in the Ca thedral tomorrow Dean Grosvenor will read the lesson: Bishop Leonard, of Cleveland, O., an old friend of Mr. Reid, representing the State of Ohio and the diocese in . which Mr. Reid formerly lived, will read the creed and prayers. The committal service will be read by Bishop David M. Greer, of the New York diocese. Bishop Boyd Car penter, canon of Westminster Abbey, London, will attend with the clergy representing the abbey. The pallbearers will be James Bryce, the' British Ambassador: Secretary of State P. C. Knox, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Senator Ellhu Root, Joseph H. Choate. J. P. Morgan, Chauncey M. Depew. Judge George Gray, Rear-Admiral Willir.m S. Cowles, Hart Lyman, Donald Nicholson, W. D. Sloane, Robert Lincoln, John Cadwalader, Robert Ba con and Henry W. Hite. Taft Leaves for New York. WASHINGTON. Jan. 4. President Taft, accompanied by Secretary of State Knox, left here at 1:30 this morn ing to attend the funeral at New York today of Whltelaw Reid. The President will address the International Peace Forum this afternoon and the Republi can dinner tonight. He will return to Washington Sunday afternoon. DYNAMITERSBAIL FIXED fPontlnued From Tint Page.) on the theory of a continuing conspir acy. As far as we have been able to learn there Is no decision which def initely considers this point. It is a question to be determined by reason ing and analogy to precedent. The question as to whether the defendants should have been tried for conspiracy in connection with one offense has not been definitely adjudicated and there are possible grounds for difference of opinion. "In such circumstances It Is the or dinary and customary practice to ad mit the defendants to bail." PRISONERS RECEIVE NEWS Tveitmoe Advises Fellows to Keep Their Own Counsel. " LEAVENWORTH, Kan.. Jan. 3. Thirty-three labor leaders convicted of connection with the dynamite conspir acy, who began serving their terms in the Federal prison here January 1, lined up awkwardly in the warden's office late today. They had been sum moned by Warden McClaughrey to re ceive news that the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals had granted super sedeas bonds, which may mean tempor ary freedom for 32 of the prisoners. Only two of the men commented upon the information given them. Herbert S. Hockin, formerly secretary of the Iron Workers' Union, who has been labelled the "betrayer" of his fellows, and the only one of the 33 not affect ed by the supersedeas order, spoke first. "Will the bond be perfected at In dianapolis or at Chicago?" he asked, nervously. The question brought broad smiles from several of his fellow prisoners. When Warden ' McClaughrey said he was unable to answer the query, Hock In made-no further attempt to pursue the subject. The face of Olaf A. Tveitmoe, of San Francisco, who. like Hockin, was sentenced to six years, beamed when the warden announced the Chicago court's action. He shifted nervously while Hockin had the floor, then said: "in behalf of my fellows, Mr. Ward en. I thank you for this news. Some of us confidently had expected it, yet we are prepared to serve our time if the court so willed. With your leave, I beg to suggest that these men keep their own counsel until the full Im port of the order has worked itself out." When the warden announced the bond for each would be '$10,000 for every year of sentence a slight smile hovered about Frank M. Ryan's lips. Warden McClaughrey said he had notified them in advance of official in formation concerning the bonds to pre vent their receipt of various news paper accounts or other information which might cause false hopes. He cautioned them not to become excited or talk to other prisoners. The warden told them that next Sunday each would have his first opportunity to write one letter home. Warden McClaughrey said tonight he did not expect orders for the releases of any of the men would result from the ruling of the Chicago court in side of four or five days because of the time necessary to prepare bail. The warden returned today from a confer ence with Attorney-General Wicker sham in Washington. He said Mr. Wickersham had given him special in structions regarding the 33 prisoners and that tomorrow he would put in force an order that no visitors be per mitted to see them. He said several anonymous letters to the "dynamite" prisoners had been intercepted in the offices. Some of the letters, he said, made "dire threats" against the pris on management. The warden said that while the let ters apparently were written by cranks, every, precaution would be taken against admitting any of the writers. FEDERATION 'WITHOCT MEANS' Gonipers Replies to Question as to Assistance in Giving Ball. WASHINGTON, Jan. 3. Samuel Gom pers. president of the American Feder ation of. Labor, when asked this after noon whether the Federation would furnish bail for the release of the men convicted of conspiracy in the dynamite cases, said: "Neither our men nor the Federa tion has any means." Defendants Paid Dtying Triaf. INDIANAPOLIS. Jan. 3. J. E. Mc Clory, acting secretary of the Interna tional Bridge & Structural Iron Work ers, today said be did not believe the organization's expenses for the dyna mite conspiracy trial would exceed $85,000. While the trial was in session, he said, the defendants were paid $5 a day as a wage allowance and $3 a day for board. Mr MoClory declined to discuss counsel fees. Robbers Smash Window, Take Tray of Diamonds and Outrun Pursu ing Detectives' Car After Sharp Revolver Battle. CHICAGO, Jan. 3. Four automobile desperadoes smashed a Jeweler's win dow here today and escaped with a trav of diamonds after a running re volver fight with the police. Their escape was aided by a beautiful, fash ionably dressed woman, who fainted in the arms of a uniformed policeman as he was drawing his revolver. As soon as the thieves were out of sight the woman recovered and disappeared. A few minutes later the desperadoes car was stopped by & policeman, who ordered them to drive with him to a police station to answer a charge of robbery. When they reached a quiet street the robbers shot, stabbed and slugged the policeman and threw him off the au tomobile. Stolen Car Abandoned. They then abandoned the machine, which had been stolen near a down town office building before the rob bery, and disappeared in a crowded sec tion of the West Side. Passersby near a Clark-street jew elry store, startled by the crash of glass, saw two men beating in the show window with bricks. The robbers seized a tray of rings and leaped to the running board of an au tomobile moving slowly at the curb. As Policeman Charles Hanson ran up, a woman shrieked and threw herself into his anni. Hanson could not draw his weapon, but two policemen in civilian dress opened fire on the thieves. The robbers returned th &hots a they clambered into the car. One of the thieves was seen to fall Into a seat. He is believed to be wounded. Robbers Distance Pursuers. Twenty shots were exchanged as the machine gathered speed. The plain clothes men commandeered a passing automobile. They oruered the chauf feur to pursue the thieves, who, how ever, distanced the officers. The robbers' car was stopped by Po liceman Charles Sticken in a traffic blockade a few blocks from the scene of the robbery. Sticken arrested the chauffeur for speeding. "Jump in, old man, and we'll take you to the station house," said one of the mer to Sticken. The chauffeur took a wrong turn into La Salle avenue. Sticken, who stood on the running board, turned to pro test. He received a stab over the left eye, a blow on the back of the head, a bullet In the leg and was hurled from the car. The thieves fired several more shots at Sticken as ho lay in the street. He returned the fire, but with, out effect. Good descriptions of the men were given by those , who saw them aban don the car. ' 'BUNCO QUEEN' RETURNS GIRL'S CAPTURE REVEALS EX TENSIVE OPERATIONS. Black Hand Methods Costing Italian, Swiss and French Laborers $100,000 Also Kevcaled. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 3. (Special.) That a well-organized gang of Ital ian,black"nand and bunco men operat ing from a saloon headquarters in Broadwav have cleaned up approxi mately 1100,000 in the last 18 months, chieflv from Italian. Swiss and French laborers. Is the astonishing disclosure made in connection with the return to this city from New Jersey of 20-year-old Irma De Pietro, sweetheart of Ronaldo De Pietro, alias Rimini, the brains of the Latin quarter bunco ring in this city. The girl arrived here to day in custody of Detective Gallatin. De Pietro is thought to be in Europe. De Pietro, the girl, a comely and vi vacious Italian, and Frank Cappilino, alias Du Bois. a third member of the gang, went East, settling at Plainfield, N. J., where there is an Italian colony. They were finally traced there, but before tho police coup for their cap ture could be executed the two men had slipped away, the girl being the only one to be taken. During the past 18 months probably a score of "tricks" have been turned through this gang, their fields of operations extending from Los Angeles to Seattle. There are a dozen or lb members in it. They make free use of blackhand letters to intimidate victims. In one case a stil leto waa stuck in the front door of a victim's house with a warning. He kept his loss to himself for months, al though hia life's savings had been taken from him. CLATSOP ELECTION CALLED Coast Town to Choose Officials for First Time In Many Years. CLATSOP. Or.. Jan. 3. (Special.) Having been relieved of the need of municipal elections several years ago, the town of Clatsop has undergone a change and a special election will be held next week to elect five Commis sioners, a Recorder -and a Marshal. Clatsop was incorporated In 1870. Since that time the towns of Hammond and Warrenton have been sliced from the original town. ' Within the corporate limits of Clat sop, are valuable parcels of property, extending from Wahanah Creek, near Seaside, to Warrenton. Included are the Flavel holdings, the Hill water frontage on the Columbia River and Gearhart, Sunset, Columbia and Dele ware beaches. SHEPHARD 0UT ON BAIL Pnrser, Accused of Humboldt Rob bery, Given Old Job Back. SEATTLE, Wash., Jan. 3. (Special.) Clen IL Shephard, who was purser on the steamship Humboldt in Septem ber. 1910. when 857.500 in gold bullion waa stolen from his safe and who was arrested December 23 for alleged com plicity in the theft, was late yesterday afternoon released from the County Jail on a bail bond of $7500 and is to day back on hin old job. At the time of ls arrest Shephard V If i The Girls' and Misses' Store Announces a Radical Lowering of Prices Throughout the Entire Stock Covering Suits, Dresses and Coats The Variety of Styles Is Very Great; Representing AH That Is New in Fall, Winter Styles Girls' Makinaw Coats $7.00 Selling Regularly at $12.S0 These come in dark red. tan, black and white plaid, green and black plaid and brown and tan plaid materials, and are uniform Mackinaw style. An excellent coat at the price. Clearance of Girls' Coats Regular $22.50, Clearance $9.95 Sizes 1 3 to 1 7 years of age. Made of fancy tweeds, chinchillas, plain cloths and black and white checks. Norfolk and plain coat styles with Chesterfield and reefer fronts, sailor and turn-down collars. Girls' SuitsClearance $15.00 Selling Regularly at $22.50 to $32.50 Materials of fancy mixtures, tweeds, diago nals, coating serges and cheviots. Regulation and pleated Norfolk, plain box and belted back styles. Coats have notch or fancy collar of all velvet or velvet trimmed, and sleeves have trim mings of velvet and buttons. New pleated back or foot pleated skirts, also panel front and back. Colors are tan, brown, navy and black. Sizes 13,15 and 1 7 years only. Corduroy Suits, Clearance $10.00 Selling Regularly at $18.50 Sizes 13 to 17 years. Girls' brown, mole, navy, black and petunia corduroy velvet suits in Norfolk and belted style. Coats have high necks or turn-down collars, Chesterfield fronts, patent leather belts, trimmings of braid and but tons and are satin lined. Skirts are plain with panel back and front. Three-Piece Suits, Clearance $6.50 Regular Prices, $10.50 to $14.50 Fancy tweed, mixtures, cheviot and serge three-piece suits for girls from 6 to 1 6 years of age. Waists have long and short sleeves, Dutch necks, and are trimmed with bandings of velvet, braid and buttons. Skirts have panel back and front. Coats are Norfolk and belted style. Girls' Middy Blouses Sixes, Six to Twenty Years of Age Regular $1.25, Clearance $1.05 Made of white or navy Galatea with large sailor collar and emblem on sleeve. 'Collar, sleeves and pocket trimmed with soutache braid. With or without laced front. Another style in all white with navy collar. Regular $1.50, Clearance $1.25 Material of white Galatea trimmed with navy or red. Some have large sailor collar braid trimmed and others round collar of blue and white striped Galatea. Also Norfolk style with striped collar, cuffs and belt, and laced front. Regular $3.75, Clearance $3.19 Middy blouses of navy blue serge with sailor collar, dickey and sailor knot silk tie. Collar, sleeves and pocket trimmed with soutache braid. Girls' Wash Dresses 85c Selling Regularly at $1.00 For girls from 2 to 1 2 years of age. These are of striped Galatea or checked and plain materials. Trimmings of plain self or checked material, pipings, buttons or sailor knots. Have long sleeves, turn-down collars or Dutch necks. $1.50 Wash Dresses, $1.25 Made of checked, striped and plain gingham and prettily trimmed with .braid, buttons and material to match. Have high necks and long sleeves Girls' $1.75 Norfolk Suits Clearance $1.49 Girls' wash Norfolk suits in sizes from 8 to 14 years. Middy blouses of blue and white striped Galatea with pleated navy blue skirt. Blouses have plain navy blue collar, belt, cuffs and lacing. $1.75 Rain Capes, Clearance $1.49 Gray striped rubber raincapes with plaid lined hoods and arm slits. Sizes 4 to 1 4 years'. Girls' $2.50 Bestyette Rain Capes Clearance $2.15 Made of extra quality tan striped rubber. Have arm slits and hoods lined with plaid. was purser on the steamship Jefferson. The Alaska Steamship Company, own ers of the Jefferson, arranged for the bond through a surety company. After his release, accompanied by his attor ney. Will H. Morris, Shephard went to the offices of the steamship corpora tion. He was there told that he could return to his old position on the Jef fehson and that his salary would be paid in full, despite his incarceration. Shephard then returned to his old du ties. Benny Wiseman, also implicated by Prosecuting Attorney John F. Murphy. Is still in the County Jail, where he is held on a Federal charge of smuggling. MARSH FIELDG ALE HIGH Damage of $10,000 Done at C. A. Smith Lumber Plant. MARSH FIELD. Or.. Jan. 3. (Spe cial.) Wind, blowing 90 miles an hour, on Monday night blew down the large electric loading crane of the C. A. Smith Lumber Company, smashing a hole in the dock, overturned and wrecked a piledriver, being used in the foundation building of the new pulp mill, and caused a damage which the Arm officials say' will exceed J10, 000. All the electric light wires of the plant are tangled up with wrecked poles and many of the poles of the private telephone system were blown down, paralysing the service. Western Union wires and those of the long-distance telephone are down in every directionand the town is cut off from the outside world except by mail, which is also delayed on account of the roads being blocked by fallen trees. While some rain fell, it seetaed that it was torrential by reason of the wind driving it, but in fact the precipita tion was the lightest that has taken place in any. storm of the year. WOMAN, TRAVELING, DIES Mrs. Ida May Bollcn, of Roscbnrg, Stricken on Train in California. ROSEBURG, Or., Jan. 3. (Special.) Stricken with paralysis while en route from Roseburg to San Diego, Cal.. Mrs. Ida May Bollen died on a Southern Pacific train, near Dunsmulr. Cal., at 11 o'clock last night, according to a telegram received here today. Mrs. Bollen was born in San Fran cisco, and later moved to salem, where her husband, an undertaker, committed suicide a few years ago. She was a daughter of the late George H. Pitts, a wealthy southern Douglas County rancher, and was 48 years of age. The remains are being held at Dunsmulr awaiting Instructions from a sister, Mrs. Lillian Edwards, of New York City. Ex-Dallas Man Is Killed. DALLAS. Or., Jan. 3. (Special.) Word reached this city last night that Chester Rowell, formerly of Dallas, but of late of Grays River, Wash., was scalded and instantly killed at Gra River yesterday. Mr. Rowell was working upon a new railroad beins constructed in that part of the state and was riding upon one of the con struction engines. when a landslide turned over the engine. Mr. Rowell was well known here snd in Portland, SPECIAL SALE OF" REAPING LAMPS A rare opportunity to purchase strikingly beautiful Port ables, positively the best produced in this country, at Half Price J. C. ENGLISH CO., 128 s ARK STREET