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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, FRIDAY, MAT 9, 1913. 14 LAFRANCE RELATES CONFLICTING TALES Insurance Defrauder Says Two Portland Medical Students Were Aides. BUSINESS AGENT INVOLVED ; Various Stories Told as "TrutH" j ; Prl.oner Vary Much and Frose- cutor Evans Continues Quest for More Facts. ' Unable to obtain verification of my . Df the several conflicting stories told i i by J- C. La France relative to where : j, secured the body which was palmed ' off as his. resulting in the collection by his wife of $15,600 in life Insurance ': money. District Attorney Evans yes- terday related synopses of the various '. versions for publication. : One story, the first told, by La ttiuct is that he had as confederates ! two medical students of Portland who transported the body to the place where it was found and "planted while La France himself went no further than the Oaks on June 18. 1911. the day he ' left Portland, for the fishing trip which ! culminated in h!s alleged death. Another is that La France and a i fishing companion found the body along the river near where it was later ; re-discovered, conceived the Insurance ' : fraud and embalmed the body and kept i it in hiding until La France was ready : to stage his disappearance. The second " time La France told this try. Mr ; Kvans states, he released his fishing ; companion from complicity. Insisting 5. that he had carried out the scheme alone. '- Medical Sradrats Blamed. f. The explanation involving the medl I ral students was given by La France ' when he talked to Mr. Evans for sev eral hours on the night of the day Je wae returned from Marshfleld. He gave the names of his alleged student confederates as A. J. Merger an alias later assumed by himself, and George : ; M Ray and blamed them for suggesting -' the insurance fraud idea to him. He ; : further declared that they had arranged ; all details, only requiring him to supply ' them with a suit of his clothing, some ' lodge Tecelpts. an envelope bearing his ? . name and address and other articles to ; put in the pocaeis oi wiu - The fake La France body. On June 18 ; he had gone only as far as the Oaks ,:nd had then doubled back into the ti city end secured the job cutting ties at ' Donald. Or- a station 20 miles south ' of Portland on the Oregon Electric line. -' He ha lived practically in seclusion several months, coming into town oc ;. ' casionally and appearing on the "treets , : and staying at various hotels, including I the Multnomah, without disguise. On : one of these occasions, he said, he ac cidentally met Merger on the street : and was berated soundly for his In ' discretion. Hla statement of the amount ; of money he gave the students varies i from $100 to $2800. ;- Stodeata Met at Daaeea. ' ' La France says he met the two stu ' dents at dances and did not knew them very well. He asserts they tcam ' aware that he had a $10,000 policy in the Postal Life Insurance Company and I Immediately began to scheme how he I could collect the money. His descrip tions of his alleged confederates were 1 Indefinite, but they were about j ! or ! 25 yeara of age. All they wanted was enough money out of the proceeds to put them through the medical school ; here and enable them to take post , graduate courses In the East. : The first difficulty encountered by i Mr Evans in checking up on this story ' was hla inability to find the names of ' A. J Ferger and George M. Ray in the city "directory. The faculty of the Cnl- verslty of Oregon Medical School, the ' only one In the city, gave Information 5 that there were no such names on the roster of the Institution, nor could they , ehed any light on who the guilty par 1 ties might be from the descriptions ' furnished by La France. One of them ' WM supposed to have come or been at some time at Drain. Or, and Mr. Evans telegraphed to that town without avail. Tale of Burled Money Told. Tho prisoner said that he believed. ! but waa not certain, that his confeder ' ates had been known also as E. J. Rector and John Cogger. This lead waa followed up without avail. He ' aa!d that he had not seen Ray since : last November, but had come here from f the Coos Bay country in April of this . year, a week or so before his arrest, '. and had given Ferger money to get 1 out of town. This money had been buried In Portland in a vacant lot on I the East Side. He told the District At i torney that Ferger had been to Donald I and to Bandon to get money from him. The prisoner stuck to this story sev ' feral days. Then, laat Friday, he switched to the yam about the find ing and embalming of the body. In tell ing thla he said that he and hla compan ion tore the aide off a tent, which they found near a woodsman's cabin, and -wrapped the body In It, concealing it In the brush. They had then returned - to Portland and gone back with a jar - -of formaldehyde and on embalming needle. Thla waa within a few days. and before a week was out they had .' returned with more embalming fluid, ' fearing that they had not injected . enough the first time to preserve the .' "body. The only thing o do then was ' to wait until the weather got so warm that a few days in the hot sun would ' decompose the features of the cadaver .beyond recognition. - " Plaa Precedes Oae Policy. According to thla account the con- ' federate, who runs a collection agency in the city, had agreed to arrange for the discovery of the body by fishermen 1 AnnAwnMA Mm, anA to be Mrs. La v France's assistant in securing the money rrom tne rosiai xjiie inauram:B ' Company, the United Artisans and the T Modern Woodmen of America. The poll ? rles with the two first-mentioned were V then In force. That in the Modern "Woodmen of America was secured '.' later. La France says that his com- pan Ion lost his nerve when it came y to pointing out the body, making it ti accessary for him to return to Esta - cada and do it himself. - This was the first time he admitted i 4 w a kji whA railed the atten- tlon of Edward Unger, Fred C Baker and other fishermen, to the corpse. When he told this story the second time it was the same with the excep- t; tlOU VII U l UQ JCLl AlOUtllK LVIIlljtOll- . . . . P it . ...! (. that tk fniin1 the body stranded along the shore of - . v. t -Kit. hv vr mngr.tay and planned and carried through the scneme wiuiuui Maiaiu. I Collection Ageat Called. X Tho collection agent named by La ' Franca was called to the District At " torney"s office and "quixaed" without being told what La France had said. He admitted the fishing trip on April -IS and said that he and La France had been separated three or four hours 1 that day. He remembered also that j. two other men had come to the camp ? and Introduced themselves. He recalled that one gave his name as Franklin ! and that by conversation he satisfied himself that he was the same Frank lin against whom he had a bill. He and La France, this man said, had slept in a tent near the river that night. During the night he saw someone with a lantern, apparently signalling from a railroad grade a short distance away. He had fired two shots, being nervous, and recalled that La France had not become ex cited, but advised him to shoot low. Every time he had awakened he had found La France also awake, but Mr. Evans attaches no importance to this, for the reason that he has experienced sleeping on hard ground when not ac customed to it. The collection agent was apparently open and frank in his statements and made a favorable im pression on the deputies who talked to him in the District Attorney's office. Studeata Involved Agala, Then a couple of days ago La France switched back to his original story, varying it to a great extent, but pre serving the main features. This was the most Interesting yarn of all. After arranging to become a' party to the frai-4 he had gone, under Instructions from the students, to a hardware store near the Hawthorne .bridge and pur chased a tent and had delivered it to his confederates. They, had met that nigh; on the Burnslde bridge, where the confederates appeared with a two horse light wagon, bearing the body wrapped in the tent. They had driven to Ustacada, arriving there about 2 o'clock In the morning. This was about June 5 or 6. The body had been unloaded in the pork at Estacada and the driver sent back to Portland, the other three remaining with the corpse. They had found a 12-foot pole and tied the body to It and started oil to find a place to "plant" It. They tolled along all night and had hidden the body during the next day. La France had come back to Portland that day and returned to Portland the one fol lowing, coming up with his companions again. They had debated about where to place the body, suggesting points under bridges and riffles in the river. There were fears that it might be dis covered before sufficiently decayed It either of these courses was adopted. The railway right of way had been followed with the body-laden pole borne in relays, and they had then switched off on a ranger's trail. Final ly they found the ideal spot. La Fnsee Strips Off Clothing. La France had stripped himself of everything. Including his undercloth ing, and hla clothes were placed on the corpse. It was then placed in such a position that finders naturally would oome to the conclusion that a man had fallen from an inclined log and re ceived fatal injuries. They had come back to Portland one by one so as to avoid being seen together. After his return, La France says, he went to the Meier & Frank store and purchased a khaki suit nearly like one he already had. and gave one of the suits to one of his confederates. On the day of his disappearance he dressed up in the other and came downtown with a United States Army knapsack and a fishing outfit. To acquaintances he met and he made it a point to meet them he said he was going up the Clackamas River on a fishing ex cursion. He then boarded a car at First and Alder streets and met his companion. To this man he had trans ferred his fishing rod and knapsack and had dropped off the- car himself at the Oaks. Deed Donej Gravity Realised. It must have been this student, he declared, who talked to the conductor on the way out to Estacada, the con versation being partially about the knapsack, which the conductor was told had been bought at an Army sale, and who had purchased the sardines at the Estacada grocery, these acts be ing part of a deliberated and arranged plan to enable the alleged La France to be traced easily. Ferger had gone to La France's tie-cutting camp near Donald to notify him of the finding of the body, and La France also had read an account of it In The Oregonian of July 1, 1912. Then It was, he says, that he realized to what he had committed himself. The addition of all La France's ex penditures. Including $500 which he says be gave his student confederates to carry them along while the fraud was being Incubated and amounts given them subsequently, his Invest ment in Coos County timber land and living and traveling expenses of him self and family, leaves several thousand dollars of the $15,600 to be accounted for. The prisoner insists that he has none of the money left, but doesn't ex plain the discrepancy. Evaas Coatlanes Probe District Attorney Evans attaches no particular credence to any of La Frances explanations about tne Doay. but admits that any of them may be true or partially true. He is in hopes that publicity may attract the atten tion of some person who can shed some light on the subject. He has had Frank Beatty, his special Investigator, mak ing the rounds of the cabdrlvers and expressmen in Portland with La France In the faint hope that the prisoner might recognise one of them as tne driver who took the body to Estacada, but so far La France has failed to do so. Hotels and rooming-houses where La France says he and his confederates . took rooms and plotted have also been checked up, but nothing definite has come of it- These Included the Matthie sen Hotel. 204 Columbia street, where the name A. J. Ferger appears on the register on several dates subsequent to La France's alleged death, and the Auditorium rooming-house at 208 Third 'street. Last September La France, under the name of A. J. Ferger. stayed at the Matthtesen Hotel for more than a week. Men registering as E. J. Rector and John Cogger were there for several days at the same time. ADVERTISING MAN VISITOR Suggestion Made That Coast Cities Employ Eastern Kepresentattve. Granville M. Hunt, chairman of the conventions committee of the Wash ington Chamber of Commerce, and ex presldent of the Washington Ad Club, is a visitor to Portland, and will spend 30 days here of his six-months' vaca tion. Mr. Hunt said that there is much un invested wealth in the East, and that the story of the Pacific Coast is only half told In the East, and suggested that the Ad Club and various other clvlo bodies from Seattle to San Diego keep representatives In the East. Mr. Hunt also said that the Southern Commercial Congress maintains a per manent exhibit in Washington In a building which "they erected and which pays them a dividend on a $1,000,000 investment. The Southerners have "A New Nation Through a New South" for their slogan. EXCURSION HILLSBORO Sunday Round Trip, Including Lunch, C5c. Get tickets now at 90 Fifth street train leaves Jefferson-st. depot. Front and Jefferson streets at 10:30 A. M. Sunday. GATEWAYS HEARING WILL OPEN TODAY Harriman System's Order to Come Up Before Inter State Examiner. TRAFFIC OFFICIALS IN CITY Prince Succeeds Malboeuf. C A. Malboeuf, who has been the sec retary of the Northwestern Frait Ex change for the past two years, has re signed to engage in another branch of the fruit business. He will continue to make his headquarters in Portland. A. A. Prince, the assistant sales manager of the Exchange, has been elected sec- iretary. Coast Shippers Are Complainants Against Attempt to Close Spo kane, Silver Bow, Denver and Wallula, to Competition. Whether the attempts of the Harri man railroad system to close the "gateways" at Denver, Spokane, Silver Bow and Wallula against Its competi tors Is legal will be argued before Ex aminer Camalk, of the Interstate Com rnmmURlnn. In the Federal building, beginning at 10 o'clock this morning. Traffic officials and attorneys for the i ...ir. hm HnrrlmMi avstem began gathering in Portland yesterday tO attend tne unuufi. vuio . ' " Omaha H. A. Scandrett. interstate com- . m nr- th TTnlon Pacific and W. H. Garrett, assistant general freight agent or tne union rutins, from Salt Lake City J. E. Reeves, gen eral freight agent of the Oregon Short Line. The following officials of the O.-W. R. & N. Co. will appear for .no a- t Tt Miliar, traffic man ager; F. W. Robinson, assistant traffic manager; H. E. LOunsDury, general freight agent, and A. C Spencer, gen eral attorney. Coast Shippers Complain. rm... ..m.ininBnt. i tVi mM are the West Coast Lumber Manufacturing As sociation, the Portland Chamber of Commerce and the Northwest Fruit growers Association, "iney win uo k T v Tool an attorney'. loyicecuicu ij -. F. G. Donaldson also will appear for tha lumbermen, and J. n. iomrop iur th transportation committee of the Chamber of Commerce. . It is -understood that the complain ants will not offer evidence directly at tacking the rates by means oi wmcn mo man Y.-atam nnil0-ht tO flOSG theSS gateways, but that the . complainants will force the attorneys ana oiuum. for the railroads into an effort to Jus A rates. This will give attorneya for the shippers oppor tunity to cross-examine ana w lcocllk testimony to refute the railroads' alle gations. It is not likely that any of the af fected lines will be represented offlcial i., -nrhiia thr are ereatlv Interested in' the outoome of the case, they have taken no active part in opposing me rates. Nearly all the roads operating ) won ira afrected the North ern Pacific at Wallula and at Silver Bow, the Great Northern at sponane, and the Missouri Pacific, the Santa Fe, the Burlington and the Rock Island at Denver. The Ogden gateway, which af fects the Denver & Rio Grande alone, is not Involved in the present hearing. The Ogden gateway was closed last Fall without protest from the shippers, but it is proDaoie mat n " -the Commission orders the other gateways to remain open. Traine mncipia ibtwitct. OTW. ..Innlnl. InVAlrAil In the COntTO- versy is that of the power of a road or a system of roads to take the longest possible haul on tramc wmcn n tnr nrhlrh it furnishes the iiiiaicD wi -" - . market On the theory that this Is a Just and fair principle of transporta tion, the Harriman auoruoji " . , ...,1m, that thA rates by meir twnwu" - which the gateways would be closed are Just and legal. The Harriman people also point out that they did not serve all of the ter ritory affected by these rates at the time the gateways were opened. This is true of territory along the Northern Pacific between Portland and Seattle. Previous to the time tne Marriman sys tem entered the Sound this was "dead . ti th, Vorthprrr-Paclfic. local wiiiw j - - as is all the territory on the Northern Pacific line In the Grays naroor coun try. Naturally the Northern Pacific . i . k.i.ln.ia In tMfl "dead local territory and furnishes the market for Incoming tramc , Effect la Pointed Out. U Manral that ttlA Northfim Pi" clflo will want to haul this freight over Its own rails for the greatest possible .n.t.noo Rut now the Harriman lines proceed. In effect, to say: "All Dusiness moving iw mi " m j i i ' nnttit, in" nnr territorv must ur,u -- - be delivered to us at the nearest Junc tion point otherwise the rates will be higher. This would force the Northern Pacific , v. - nvr the O.-W. R. N. tracks to the Oregon Short Line con nection, instead of moving over the Northern Pacific to Silver Bow, Mont, as at present This merely is an musi.iui.iun ui m way the order affects traffic Pending . i i 1. . K f rm m loo Inn hnn T1 M - IU1S Uniiufi . pended the rates closing the gateways. CITY EMPLOYES TO STAY Old Habit of Doing Other Work In Summer Is Stopped. - The practice of a number of city em iIoves securing leaves of absence dur ing the Summer months to take work which pays better than the city posi tions was stopped yesterday by the r-itjM Service Commission, when peti tions of several employes for leaves of absence during the Summer were re jected. In years past tnese men nave leu tne city service in May or June, and have returned in November. This the mem bers of the Commission thought was unfair to other persons. Inasmuch, as employes appointed temporarily re mained in the city service during the Summer, and. were put out in the Fall when work outside slackens. The Commission was to have heard testimony - in the case of Policeman Staack, charged with sleeping on duty, but a defect in the complaint caused a postponement. BEAUTIFUL HOME SITE FREE To be given away absolutely. Go on the Sunday excursion to Hillsboro you may get the lot Secure tickets at 90 Fifth st'at once. ' Round trip, includ ing lunch, 25c. Train leaves Jefferson street depot at 10:30 A. M. Sunday. Mrs. Strang Declared Insane. . Mrs. Lillian Strang was declared to be Insane at the time she administered poison to her daughter Marcla, aged E years, whose death occurred Monday at Good Samaritan Hospital, by the Coro ner's Jury at an Inquest held Wednes day. This will probably nullify the complaint of first-degree murder which was filed against her. Mrs. Strang was too ill to be told of the death. The two other- children are reported to be Improving. vl VfiTT c"a nke hla a Summer of double pleasure by taking I U J m KODAK with you o yonr outlaga and vacation. Let as show you the different Kodak models and how simple and easy they are to operate. WE DO DEVELOPING AND PRINTING THE SATISFACTORY AND QUICKEST WAY. 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Note the special price Cream of Tartar A full nound box of strlctly'the best quality. This bears "The Owl" label. Sells regularly 40c. Special Beef, Iron and Wine A full pint bottle of this , splendid tonic builder. Note the price 17c 1 29c v J Fresh Chocolate-Dipped Almonds, Friday and Saturday, special, lb. 45 j P To BreaK Up That Cold, TaKe fcMfi . compound X3JXX TTIT PI VP. JoOCe srrn not" 1 HDHAnWAV ANT) WASHINGTON Ki TWO blita ZDC itllU JUL uni.. . " gMMSIieiSJ ESTABLISHED 1892 -EIGHTEEN, STORES ON THE PACIFIC COAST ATTORNEYS TELTj OF WILES PRACTICED BT MEN. Four Alleged Swindlers Now Held for Portland Police With Variety of Charges Pending. With four alleged swindlers of wom en under arrest for the Portland (.. th business of plausible men victimizing susceptible women through pretense or anecuon is buuwu to be one of magnitude. "I believe there should be created the office of public administrator for worn ,. u .tfnmev. telling of the en, bhiu j case of a woman client who had been literally stirpped or ner DoKiuu her new husband, whom she had wedded after a too brief acquaintance. Other lawyers tell of having similar cases now pending. In which the swindler was clever enough to . act within the law, or where the victim values her privacy more than her re- VCOf the accused men now being held, two are at the County Jail, one is un . ..,itir.n nroceedinsrs at aergoing c .-- . , Chicago and the fourth is on his way from Denver. ncui8 " X point of public interest Is E. E. G . Von Klein, accused of deserting Ethel New comb here a few weeks after marrying her. taking her Jewelry, valued at 3To"answer a charge of stealing a val uable ring from a Portland woman, Frank Murray Is now on hla way from Denver, in the custody of Constable Weinberger. - Miss Anna Bock, a Florida g lrl. was not shrewd enough to cope with C. H. Duffy whom ehe married and to whom she entrusted her finances. He disap peared, going to California with an other woman, and was arrested at Dunsmuir. He is now awaiting hear ing by the grand Jury. H. M. Hudson has not yet told how he came to be In possession of a trunk full of women's clothing and Jewelry, but Detectives Vaughn and Hyde have discovered that one purse found In his possession was stolen from a woman tourist in a hotel at Los Angeles, and are in correspondence with numerous other women from whom he had let ters. He has been ldentiflled by a New berg woman as the ihan who stole her diamonds, valued at nearly $10,000. in New York. OLD RAILROADERS INVITED Iowa Organization Will Hold Re union Slay 2 and 27. Invitations have been received by a number of Portland citizens to attend the reunion of "Old-Time Railway Men of Iowa," which will be held In Des Moines on May 26 and 27. In Iowa there Is a unique organization, known as the Iowa Railway Club, and each year a reunion of old-timers Is held. One qualification necessary to be a par ticipant in the reunion Is that the rail wayman must have served with some Iowa railway more than 20 years ago. The list of old-timers coming under the classification described who are alive today number 5639. Those from Oregon receiving invitations are A. K. Brownell, of La Grande; William Ful ton, H. S. Helton, C. A. Hunter and B. S. Josselyn. of Portland; E. W. Mack, of La Grande; John A. McCabe, of Port- land; John W. Riley, W. J. Sherman and F. S. Spaulding, of The Dalles, and E. J. Walsh, of La Grande. "Don't forget this! Insecticide kills the bedbug. Main 252, at 260 Third. Plummer Drug Co." S25 Cas h Will B uy This 88-Note Splendid Player Piano Removal Sale Specials "The Piano Anyone Can Play" . M mm WW 1 -A II' Ha w hi I ' t i - $365 $2 Weekly Usual Price $650 Saving $285 Investigate. 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