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.
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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."
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