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GIRLS TELL HOW TO LIVE ON $6 A WEEK Some Buy Suits With Lunches and Others Depend on Help of Men Friends. - RESULT IS MERE EXISTING fcMlniony Before Xew York State Factory Investigating Commit tee Pictures Life of Many Women Who Work. .Dt.- t-o- f How to live on $ a week wa. the tory told by Mis. Esther Packard at tne ntr. "","M the New York State Factory Invert g a t,on Con.mis.ion , In the County Court- house a lew ! - story of one girl, but of many. Among them waa Miss T-. a woman of 31. wno ad served all her life In a department " . m urn B-A Of 39. tore ana na rcLin.u - Her vacation of one week was spent in to rest In J her .kyl? ht ; everr day ine went i - " - - see if her Job hadn't been taken away. - ion Miss At tne opening v- . . Mary E. Dreier was the only member of the Commission pronem iVomper. arrived later and presided over the remainder of the hearing. . . - R am ad. IfBUBIW" J Miss Packard read her testimony. which waa in pan as luiiu-j.. How do they manage to do It? In what mysterious ways do g Iris "fetch a less than a living wage Into a living Sne " is the question which the publ c most often ask. when It hears of girls Jiving on 5. 6 and $7 per week. Miss C W a department .tore clerk, an iwe quickly: "When P have to, par for a pair of shoes or something like that. I don't buy meat for weeks at a time You see yourself the Vhf"d .ays left me to economize on Is . food says another department .tore clerk neve eat any breakfast at all. By Pe "ce l fonntt that was the easiest meal t0"dTbeW.e and ilmllar answer, are gen oy The budget, gathered from Jog girls all over New York State. T. bile the number of girls Interviewed is not laVg? enough fo? statistical conclusions. U U Urge enough to Illumine the wage data already collected. 30V Ctrl. Interview. -About 300 girls and women living . ,h. i-rIre cities all over the State, were mrerllewed and the "count of Their expenditures carefully tabulated. The fact most strikingly brought out by this study is that on leas th" Hv In wage, one or another item essen thfl 7o every normal person', budget Is reduced to a minimum or dropped nAemtle girl of 30. who is getting ,50 a week in the millinery work room of a large departm ent .ton laughingly said: 'I buy my suits wltn "p'ene. on friends for occasion al meals is regularly counted upon by .few girl, who were frank enough to admit it. Quite often the lriend- is regularly counted on for help. -Mrady" Help. One. -Geo! but I feel sorry tot te girls who haven't got a steady saVI Miss wno n to buy , my meat I'd never get along When , .n. know, that her friend i coming in fh. evening she eat. only a and a cup of tea for .upper and then Tets nis treat of an ice-cream .oda or candy make up for the rest of her tonJr. 'Sunday dinner I always count on him for she "-lIfI1I ted. 'As it is now my food bill rarel runs above ti-' .. -Miss T I. a woman of about it who ha. .pent most of her life as a clerk in a department .tore. Often she would write the advertisements for he? department, but after nine years of ,uch services her wage was only $8 She had a widowed mother Hying in the country to whom she had to send one or two dollars every week, fcbe lived in the lodging-hou.e e;"0" "f Buffalo in a small attic room with only skvflgnt window for light and air. For this she paid 12.50 a week Her breakfast, and dinners she cooked her Mlf At night .he would buy aome ro d bam and a can of tomatoes for her .upper. These provisions she would make last for two or threa days, l.aacfc Cost. or T Cents. -At noon she would buy a dish of bean, for 3 rents and some bread for -c"t. Hardly e,er did she pay more than cents or 7 cents for her lunch. y"e often she went without "J uYeakfast. because she had no money '"tSScW-. that thousands of to another It will be -poor living quarters, and to et another -no savings for the rainy day. But invariably It will mean to thousands cramped, subnormal W. of . flf mere existing, not a real living. FORTUNE IS TOLD IN VAIN Wife of Austrian Soldier Falls to Find Lost $tC0 Despite Advice. PHILADELPHIA. Pa, Dec "!; . lio weeks' frultles. .earch. directed ty foTtune-teller. Mm. Olga M.rpu. 313 Gideon street, came In grief to CltT Hall and asked police to help her find $130 She lost in Franklin Square "he admitted the fortune-teller must niv. bn mistaken. Mrs. Marpuska h" been living in Philadelphia ever since her husband le to Join the Aus tr'an army two months ago. The dav after Thanksgiving ah. went for a w.ik in Franklin Square. In her pocketbook wa. $12 in bills, most of he money left by her husband hen he .ailed for Austria. W hn Mr. J puska returned home she discovered x he money wa. gone. That night .he consulted a fortune-teller on Dar'en treet and asked him to tell where the money was. . . He replied, she says, that four schoo children who lived near Seventh and Callowhill streets had picked It up. Mrs Marpuska haunted the neighbor hood of Seventh and Callowhill streets until today, when she decided the for-Mne-trller had deceived her. po" officials assured her a .earch would be made and that they would question the fortune-teller. WRIST BONE PROFITABLE Sfinnesotan to Serve Tjlson Term After Swindllnc Hallway. MINNEAPOLIS." Dec 30. How an obedient wrist bone served as a means of livelihood was told In court a few l.vs ago by Lester Edward Mills, who confessed that tt had netted him $5000 In the last ear It flnallv caused hi. downfall, how ever and he will serve an indetermi nate' sentence in the Stillwater peni tentiary aa tba result of 'sentence by i Judge W. C Leary, before whom he pleaded guilty to a charge of attempt ed grand larceny on complaint of Ralph Wellington, claim agent of the Duluth Street Railway Company. All Mlls has done to separate $2000 from railroads, street railway compa nies and merchants within the last year has been to fall prostrate over a suitcase in the aisle or any obstacle on the sidewalk, gasp for breath and allow bis left hand to hang limp from the wrist. Six rides has he taken in ambulances, six fair nurses have smiled at him a. the color slowly but surely returned to his face. Five claim agents have drawn checks against their companies and as many times has Mills pocketed the same. Among the recent settlements made with Mills,, according to his story in open court, are: May 6, 1914 Kennedy Brothers, $400. December 29, 1913 Northern Pacific $1200. June 27, 1913 Great Northern, $125. September S, 1913. Great Northern, $250. September 7. 1914 St Paul Street Railway Company, $250. "I have been in Just one wreck. Mills told Judge Leary. "That was March 13, 1905, at Fond du Lac. Wis. I was brakeman on the old Wisconsin Central. My left wrist was broken. About a year ago I thought I could use that injury to collect damages from others. At Duluth I got a fellow with a suitcase to get on the street car, and when the car was rounding a enrva I fell over the suitcase. I com- WOMAN AND BOY WHO WERE plained that my wrist was hurt. They took me to a hospital. Later I came to Minneapolis and met the claim agent . i .i- . t-I Tt waa onlv a. few days afterward that I was arrested. FOES FIGHT WITH FISTS TRICE 1ST 1HESCH TREMHES BROKE.Y IS AXGRY INSTANT. Gcrmia Newspaper With Reference to Oatead ma "Kale." Shatter. En tente on Firing Lines. V tji-ittt v:vp nee 19 iCorresDond- ence of the Associated Press.) A Brit !.k l ; ..l.taa s remarkable storv of how the Knglish and Germans hob nobbed In the same trencn a lew miiea south of Tpres. There were a hanaiui oi iiermans uu ii h.nHfui nf allied forcee. m sniaiici . " - Trenches were only a few yards apart, and in these for more than a week . . ,;h. i u (1 heen bored and inactive. They amused themselves as best they could exchanging mes- .n.cnnino. nAirn&ners and to bacco! hurling back and forth greetings and epithets. -i-..- onrl Rt!l neither inuio uj o (.- -' side received orders either to attach: or withdraw. Some sort of eo-operatlon seemed necessary. Accordingly. the Germans hoisted a white flag, and, ad vancing under this, entered the allied trench for a conference. The result was an agreement was reached that it would be more commrwuio 4J live in one trench until one aide or the ither received orders. . nn mnvtA nv..- has: and bagsage. and for several days all went ii nf t h ft Germans spoke Engiish or French. Under the strange circumstance, irienasmp. sprs " Both factions dreaded the arrival of messenger. cnmA And Dlans Ilfc' qk) t im.. r..-. . - . . . .i ,,r hnutil ties were hastily made. But the messenger proved to be only a-bearer of mail and news papers for the Germans. All gathered i ('ori.mil hesran to trans- rounu " 1 1 ii .3 ... - late the latest dispatches from Berlin. nhappily for tne narmony oi me Bi" ring, it referred to Ostend by its Ger- man Knica-name . bomb droppings on various trench towns, ot oontempiaiea air rams m. Great Britain. The English frowned, growled, the French grew excited. Both sides had by agreement laid aside their rifles; ,ut both sides still naa meir unm. ,ed them. A free-for-all fight fol lowed and the unique compact came 10 an end. . 5EGQNDG0URAGEGQMES SOLDIER, AFTER CONQUERING TER ROR, FINDS -.MANHOOD." Medical Officer Compare. Scorned Vetera 'With Traveler, Who DIs ceonts Possibilities. LONDON, Dec 19. (Correspondence Ul lllO inouvi.ii ' officer who has been making-a study . 1..HH1.1U1 pr, i a meaicai of the "psycnoiogy oi .-uic " Hrlti.'h front, says that most men con fess to a feeling of fear which wears off only alter several uj v tranches. "But once this physical in stinct of terror i conquered, there comes." says the medical man, "a sec ond courage, which while not despis- danger. Is able to oiscouni ii- n .1 .1 .... fi n.l sfilf hitherto uer lire i " ' JD " unsuspected, an elusive quality virhich. for want of a oener titie. io ma mhood." He says: ine soiaier iwm" n.o. . . . " - hi. f no r tTa iMrnfl tO men to mwsuic, ., -.. discount possibilities Just as toe ordi nary -rallroaa traveler u -- - In hand generally engasea i """s more and more of his attention. Then comes a time when ne want. i s k to the firing line, not Decause it is i i,r. hut because staying away 1. Ju.t Impossible. " hue tne man no been under fire cannot safely count on experiencing this or that particular feeling when his hour comes this de pending oh temperament and circum stances he can, I believe, count upon soon achieving the second courage which Is the priceless possession of the veteran. Under fire he may lose every preconceived notion he ever cherished or shunned, but it ia highly probable that he will find himself." Jack of Most Trades. Atchison Globe. " ' An Atchison man has done every thing but run a skunk farm. In proportion to Its ie Belgium has more railroads tha. any Uwr country in tut world. .' . - flf , i34L ' J . 'IV I ' Mrs. Daisy Webrmao. Harold tVehnnan. I jF f" t v MOTKOXG OHEOOXIAN, SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 1915. TTTE Wehrman Murder Mystery Is Studied Closely! PREJUDICE ALLEGED JUDGE George A. Tliacher, of Oregon Pris oners' Aid Society, Alter Thorough Research, Concludes. Pender Is Not Menace to Society. (Continued From First Page.) lying on the bed with her clothing dis arranged and her bare legs over the edge of the bed and her feet near or touching the floor. She was fully dressed except for an undergarment wnica IlttU uccn vj Z lying on the bed, partly under her body. MURDERED . AOT OimCTED MAN John A. Pender. Rubbers were found over her shoes at the time the body was discovered. The surgeon who examined the body at the inquest found a crushing injury of tri pngulitr shape on the foreheai nnd front top of the head, mad9 apparently by a broad, tlunt instrument. Ho also found three bullet holes made by 38-caliber bullets, one of which en tered the left Jaw and came out be hind the right ear, another entered be l. i .1 . v. ani thA third entered at the Junction of the collar and breast bone and later was cut out ui mc back, having ranged downward. The -i - huHiv nowder-burned. showing that the revolver muzzle had betn held wltnm a coupie oi juuuoo the victim when the shots were fired. -. r irtiMnan urn a fnilTld lvlmT Oil jiirs. i. l..i ....... - i her back with her right arm extended on the bed. The Doay or ner boy waa found fully dressed lying n kla ctnmarh nnd the left i(le of his head resting on his mother's arm. There were three Duiiei wouuu , . . i ..i. ; i ,j - Knriv which were badly in Liin in.". ' ' , powder-burned. They were in the back of the child's head. Body Found Long After Crime. The surgeon made his examination n SAntember and he testified that PENDER 15 DEFENDED . j .i i. .... . Vi i- o . . . ' , i., - riAntfimher 2. Mrs. f'Sern'dyelrld he we rman family and saw Mr. and the weiirman "muy a u M iTt tlm s far a" known, was the last time, so f wfhrmayn ''ndh.cSw "llvT S vvenrman anu Sierks. a neighbor, with her 15-year-old sierits - , nd Tuesday S' looked in the window, the door be ng padlocked on the outside, and saw Mrs. Wehrman's body lying across the bed. the woman, naa oeen ucu V.Portland detective, was that Pender days, probably,, but not as long as entered the cabin of two She went home 7",e tered before "the , 10th then the claim of ing back the next day " "e,"f the prosecution falls to the ground, be body in the same position, she walkea v murder wag discovered on the to Scappoose ana toia i.e. who informed Sheriff Thompson of the tragedy. Mrs. Sierks and others testi fied that it rained hard on Sunday. Sep tember 3. and also on the 4th. Labor daRefenring to pages 813 of testimony and following, and again on page lion, it appears from Mr. Wehrman s testi mony that he worked in Portland (New York Baking Company), and usually passed the week-end with his wife and child, but that on the week preceding Labor day he was at home, sick, but left Scappoose for Portland on Sun day, September 3. He testified that he was informed of the killing of his wife on Wednesday night, the 6th. the news reaching -him through an Orego nian reporter. He immediately tele phoned L. C. Meyers, who was in Port land but who had a little place near Wehrman's. near Scappoose, and who was one of his neighbors there, and that they together drove to Scappoose or near his cabin, that night in an automobile. Wehrman Refoe to Look at Bodies. Mr. Meyers (see page 605 and fol lowing) testified that he went with Wehrman. after being called by phone on that Wednesday night, to Wehr man's cabin, and that he. Meyers, un locked the door and went in and saw the bodies, but that Wehrman did not go in (Page 1308 Wehrman says he did not go in nor look in.) Meyers tes tified that Wehrman said to him. If he. only knew where his little boy was. and that after Meyers told him the boy was dead that Wehrman broke down and cried on his shoulder. After this, Wehrman (it was now 4 A. M. on Thursday, September 7) proposed to go to Pender's cabin to see what the knew about it. Meyers walked to Pender a cabin with Wehrman and persuaded him to wait a little, as It was so early In the morning, before disturbing Pen- dMeyers testified Wehrman woke up Pender and said: "What do you know about my family?" and that Pender re plied: "I don't know anything about them. Why?" Wehrman said: "They are up there, murdered." Pender said he did not know a thing about it, and he started to tell them to get the Sheriff and to get a good detective. Meyers also said that Wehrman talked to Pender about the murder and that Pender said "It must be & hell of a community around there." be?" rwJSelthMersnhouM go tl sp"oose and Fender went back with n to the Wehrman cabin, wenT'ln0 and .2 S W5? go "n ' ahaiChk; ens. Wehrman did. not go in. aa ne himself testified. (See page 818.) Pender. Carrie. Rifle. , i. i - ,pin Pnnrfpr carried & 2 caliber rifle and from Wehrman's testi raliber rifle and from wenrman a lesu- "t "might be inferred that Pender plssfbly had the thought of shooting ,uZnyh.n5rtha Pender put his T M. Fry swore that he looked In lrmTrouynd h" and that he probably this mail bo x on this turday fi even was able to feel that he, Wehrman, ing about 6 P. M. and that there was did not have a gun on his person. On page 605 ia Meyers' testimony to the I effect that after going into Wehrman s cabin he took a revolver out of W ehr man's ulster pocket and put it in his own hip pocket. On page 862 Meyers says that this waa a 38-caliber revolver and belonged to him, Meyers. On page 860 Meyers denies Wehr-man-s statement that Pender tried to change the subject when he -told Pen der that his family was murdered. On September 15 Pender went to In dependence, Or., where his wife had gone hoppicking before the murder of Mrs Wehrman. and he was arrested there for the murder of Mrs. Wehrman. Some Evidence Ignored. The most remarkable thing in this case is the evidence that was ignored. It was-all circumstantial, of course, but the onlv unquestioned and undisputed circumstantial evidence was Just men tioned and then- forgotten, while an elaborate struggle was made to ahow that Pender stole a revolver out of a neighbor's cabin with which to kill Mrs. Wehrman. , , ' ", I refer to the hairs found In Mrs. Wehrman's handa by Sheriff Thompson after her death. The Sheriff testified at the second trial of Pender that he found several light hairs in Mrs. Wehr man's right hand and one darker hair In her left hand. There also was found foreign matter under her finger nails, but the evidence of finding the hairs was not brought out at the first trial. At the trials great weight was attached WHOSE GUILT IS QUESTIONED to the testimony that Pender's face was scratched, though the evidence was so conflicting that, given as it was. months after the event, no one could attach much value to it. Think of the absurdity of proving to the Jury that Pender was the guilty man because his face was badly scratched from cheek- bone to chin by Mrs. Wehrman in her struggle with him before he killed her, at the same time admitting that the hairs found ir Mrs. Wehrman's dead hands were light In color, and that while one was darker than the others, it in no way resembled Pender's hair, which is almost, if not quite, as black as an Indian's. Sherilf Thompson said on the stand that he did not want it understood that these hairs resembled Pender's. Yet these are the bald facts on which the Jury found Pender guilty of the murder of Mrs. Wehrman, and the court and the detectives andthe lawyers and the Su preme Court of Oregon solemnly have overlooked this absurdity. To drop into vernacular, if the people of Oregon, in the conviction xf Pender, have "got anything on" the people of Georgia in the conviction of Frank. It would be extremely interesting to know what it is, unless the people of Oregon have been rather more bitter and de termined to have a victim, and rather less clear-headed in construing evi dence. - Evidence I. Contradictory. The theory of the prosecution, which L. L. -Levings. the men, Riley and Hassen, broke open a revoKea usedt toshooTto death Mrs. Wehrman and her 4-year-old boy. testimony ot Riley and Hassen as to when they found their cabin had been entered and the trunk broken into is so.hopelessly contradictory that noth- ing is certain. l run k ana toott out a. oo-.iwo Riley and Hassen passed the weeK- at their cabin, and it is in dispute ge tember 10 "r September 17 that the cabin had been entered. If It had not been en- cause the murder was discovered on the 6th. It is true tnat tne revolver was in the trunk when the examination was made, and no proof was offered that it had ever been taken out of the trunk. But, of course, it might have been taken out and returned later, and the lock patched on again. It is not even shown that Pender knew that the re volver was kept in the trunk, though he knaw that they owned a 38-callber Colts revolver. The only sure connec tion with the murder was that Mrs. Wehrman and her child were shot with a 38-callber Colts revolver. The time of the examipation of the trunk by Sheriff Thompson, Sheriff Stevens and Detective Levings was as serted at first to have been on Septem ber 17, but they admitted later that, judging by other facts concerning which memoranda were made, that it was probably a couple of days later. On the assumption that the cabin was entered before September 10, and that the revolver was taken out and used to kill Mrs. Wehrman, Detective Levings swore on the stand that the bullet cut out of Mrs. Wehrman's back was fired out of this particular revolver. He based his sworn statement on his knowledge of revolvers and his belief that a small gas pit in the barrel marked the bullet so that it could be identified. Sergeant, Craddock, of the Portland police, swore quite as posi tively that a gas pit would not mark a bullet so that it could be Identified. He claimed that a hole would not mark the bullet unless the edges of the hole protruded. So much for the absolute contradiction of experts, Wehrman Mall Play. Role. An important feature of Detective Levings" theory that Pender killed Mrs. Wehrman with a revolver taken out of Riley and Hassen's cabin, though her forehead was crushed in with some blunt instrument presumably with the blood-stained hatchet which was found near the body (the hatchet belonging to the Wehrman's) was the fact that there was some mail found in the Wehrman cabin that Pender might have taken there. There was no direct evidence that he did take it there, but somebody did, and so the question of probabilities was offered to the Jury.' Pender was in the. habit of getting the mail for a number of the neighbors, including the Wehrman's, at the Scap nAnen nnstolTice and placing it in a rough box on a post near his cabin which was about a mile from the Wehrman cabin. The neighbors then heTp" "thunselves from th. T improvised mail box. and in neighborly fashion sometimes played postman for each "onSaturday. September ,. Mrs. Bates IZZfZ Mrs. ltrrTt r tJjat penaer J l" " ' who had ridden in a conveyance with . roiirfini. sidinar to hia cabin. UCl a- " , was near enough to see her do it. Mrs. Bates identified the package found in uaies iaenucu the Wehrman cabin after the .murder as the one she had placed in the mail Double Stamps All Day To day In Every Department on Our First Three Floors CM drugs! wo f i- p I A Pyralin Ivory SOAP 25c Pears Glycerine 15c Liebig's Skin Soap, 25c Resinol Soap 25c Poslam Soap... j D U r u.iiam , 25c Glenn's suipnur -2 bar Contl Castile SjoaP. - 2' inn nii!rt'B All-Round Sop. dozen Sr 10c Colgate's Cold Cream boap. 3 JOc Jergen's Violet Glycerine feoap, 15c Wild Flowers MU Hood Soap, 15c Urdas Complexion Soap, 3 for. 10c Jergen's Soap, assorted in box, 25c bar Floating Castile Soap..... 10c Elder Flower Soap, 4 for 25c Packer's Tar Soap .1 - ii- .jk,.. ....... tTcnial SnsD. ...... Jr ine iraiispaiiriii Soap, 5c: six for.. f cci?RnT.V! BAKING D15BKS $2.50 Casseroles S1.70 12.65 Casserole Dish, with aluminum pan for use . in gas oven 81. OU FEATHER DUSTERS. r.n T-iiT-ltAv Feather Duster $1.25 Automobile Feather Duster. $2.25 Janitor's Feather 0 Woodard, Clai-ke & Co, Alder I B ' W.?l n 9 -. ii. i i i r nc - a -i.. i ! i ' n mm m- nothing there. Of this he was posi tive. (p. 301-302). Clerk Think. Pender Aakeu Mall. hi.:. n .1.. In the store I and VVUllllOJF, " . - .-cr: .. . L.-ii nnco !1 ' d (D. t) - 25) that he thinks that Pender asked hi im for the Wehrman mall on mow v. September 4. and that he gave him day, ilm a i .ays paper lor airs, w ejirnmii. cdn cn ihot Tvinea. he tn thinks. showed him a paper supposed to n i .rj in tb Wehrman ca have cabin UCCU xuuixu .. i a V. x fn-rm r tri ial after tne muroer. m. w 7 ;Ya ccn whitnav t.qtift&d that ne tola d e WL. Brpr that DetectU . , , x t. v. t r. t.-. an v Inf that day. 1-.- i 4. nnt crivft him any Mr-. McNaughton, an Oregonian porter wru r"-lt- case, said on the siana tp. ." " in the store at Scappoose said one minute that he thought it was Pf3" to whom he had delivered mail on Labor day and then said he was not sure and could not be sure whether it was that day or not. This gives a hint of the contradiction concerning the de livering of a paper to Pender for Mrs. Wehrman on Labor day at the post- 0fThe inferences from all this which the prosecution intended the jury to draw were that Pender actually de livered this mail at the Wehrman cabin on Labor day, at which time he must have had the revolver stolen from the Riley and Hassen cabin (after wards returned to its place in the trunk) and that he then and there killed Mrs. Wehrman, using both the hatchet and the revolver to do the deed. Summary of Inference. Given. The first inference, which was offered to the jury and the public, wa9 that the killing of Mrs. Wehrman was a Sadistic murder like the-Holzman and j - - n n in f Summer ana xllll muineio v.. . . Spring. I shall refer to this again The second lnierencts J-'"" . s0me witnesses testified that Jendei -s face showed .scratches from the cheek bone to the chin (though other wit nesses who saw him at the time did notice any .cratches), and as Mrs. Wehrman's finger nails showed consid erable foreign matter under- them, that she must have scratched Pender fae in her struggle to fight him of f. As I have shown, however, from the testi money of the state's witnesses, that l?gh-colored or brown hairs were found in Mrs. Wehrman's dead hands, while Pender's hair is black the value of this inference can be estimated b thTheatWrd inference was that Pender took the 38-caliber Colts revolver out of the trunk in Riley and Hassen s cabin, breaking into the trunk for that pur pose, usld it to kill Mrs. Wehrman. to gether with th hatchet, and then re furned it to its.Tplace and patched up the lock on the trunk. On. page 408 of transcript Hassen s testimony in the former trial was read by which it appeared that he and Rile left their cabin between 5:30 and 6 P M Labor day, to return to Portland. That would show that Pender must have taken the revolver after that time, if he took it at all. There was a great deal of conflicting testimony as to what time Riley and Hassen dis covered that their cabin had been en tered and Riley and Hassen have con tradicted themselves on thie Point. They were at their cabin on September 10, and if they did not find that their trunk had been broken into at this date the whole case against Pender falls to the 'ground. On pages 879-880 George Schnitzer testified that he was wUh Riley and Hassen on this September 10 and that they sat and talked Quite a while about the murder, but that noth- !j oKt tho entering of the ing waa "Hi" . - - cabin or the breaking open of the trunk, and tnat aiterwuruo to Scappoose together, and all took the train back to Portland. Thie third in ference was not as to whether the re volver actually was taken out of the trunk and later replaced, but as to whether it could have been taken in time to use It for, the killing of Mrs. Wehrman. S The fourth inference was that ren der got a paper at the Postoffice on Labor day (which is disputed) and that he delivered it that night, after get ting the revolver from Riley and Hassen's cabin. The delivery of the package, placed in the box on Saturday, the second, is also in question. It is obvious that all these four In ferences must be accepted as facts be fore it is possible to believe that Pen der killed Mrs. Wehrman and her child. Who Killed Them Ia Pnsale. It is certain that Mrs. Wehrman and her child were murdered most brutally. The surgeon testified that the blow on the forehead, crushing it in, or any one of the three revolver shots, would have been eufficient to cause death, and any one of the three shots fired Into the back of the child's head would have killed it. All the wounds were badly powder-burned., . ' ' I know Mr. Levings-well, as I served with him in- making the Investigations of the Vice Commission in Portland, and I know with what particularity of detail he would study this case. I know it to be true of him. and others have remarked it in my hearing, that his olose attention to detail" destroys his capacity to see anything in its larger aspect. He never can see the forest for the trees. This murder of Mrs. Wehrman was : ... i m,ii.ii at nil thnntrh Mr. Levings aad the jury and the public assumed max it woo. because the woman's clothing was dis arranged and the community was .till horror-.tricken at the Barbara Holz man and Hill murders " .... .... j : .. i,i trills Hoes it in a ine oauiav " ----- . . . , sensual frenzy. He is insane at the moment and usually irau8' ' Today 25 Discount SOAP ' SOAP FREE Soap, scented. 15C i. three for -.gc iJJJ, ix: ------ - - Address. for 25e 3 for... IS if 3 for..25t 25 4 for. .25" 19C 25 15C . -loC v - ---- ryrk ELECTRIC COOKING DEVICES. S12.00 K 1 ectric C h a fing Dish SS.OO $12.00 E 1 ectric Oven SS.OO 3.50 E 1 e ctric Toaster...2.50 8.00 Electric Grill S4.25 fS Fransen's ass After . .14C 1 V. i .. .- Salted Pecan Duster ...1.&U Pistachio or tim, as in the Holzman case and In the recent case in sacramenio, " some cutting instrument to make blood now rapidly, as in the Hill case and the various reported "ripper" cases. Shooting and striking with the flat side of a hatchet are never reported in Sadistic murders, neither is there the premeditation as to detail, which would have been necessary in the Wehrman case had the revolver been stolen for the purpose from a cabin ata distance of nearly a mile. Case Fall, to riec. on Pender. The whole case falls to pieces so far as Pender is concerned because of these facts, even If all the Inferences are true, and some of them palpably are absurd. . The murder of Mrs. Wehrman and her child cither was inspired by jealous hatred, and her clothing was purposely disarranged to divert suspicion from tho murderer and to create the belief that it was a Sadistic murder, or else It was the work of some feeble-minded man who was attracted by Mrs. Wehr man in her husband's absence and who, upon being repulsed by her, took the same kind of revenge that Fred Tron son took on Emma Ulrich in Portland a few weeks ago because she would not respond to his demand. Tronson emptied hi. revolver in trying to kill Emma Ulrich, and the brute who killed Mrs. Wehrman did the same thing and used a hatched besides. The murder has all tho marks of rage of a feeble minded man of bad personal habits such as Tronson was. I have made this investigation and report as a duty resting upon me as a director of the Oregon Prisoners A d Society, and I have. done it voluntarily and without being asked to do so. There are many men who have to De contined in prison because they are a menace to society, but this man Pender is not one of that number. A careful study of the testimony in the trials and personal interviews with the people concerned will settle that In the mind of any unprejudiced person. I have ouoted from the testimony with perfect fairness, 1 believe, and every statement can be easily verified In the orticial records. I am expressing no disrespect for the Supreme Court of Oregon, which has passed upon the case, Tior tor the trial court, nor the prosecuting officers, but this is quite as important a case as that of Leo Frank in Atlanta, and it is of importance to all good citizen, for obvious reasons. Incidentally, it gives the people of Oregon who have been saying harsh things about the people of Atlanta, Oa., an opportunity "To see oursel's as ithers see us.". WIFE'SloiTuGORIED MINISTER DIFFERENT IN PI LP1T ' AND HOME, IS CHARGE. California Pastor". Spouse Denle. She Pulled Hi. Ear. and Say. He a. "Nice" to Oilier Women. OAKLAND, Cal.. Dec. 25. Counter charges that he was a 'earless Chris tian in church a.d a man altogether different in his home were made by Mrs. Helen P. Davis In answer to the divorce suit filed in San Bernardino by Rev. Benjamin J- Davis for 10 years rector of the Trinity Episcopal Church, of Santa Barbara, and one of the wealthiest and most widely non clergymen In California. Rev. Mr. Davis in the divorce papers, had charged his young wife with mental and physical cruelty. ti,. "You cannot understand what 1 have suffered " said Mrs. Davis at San Ber nardino, where both parties to the suit have been living. "To have a husband who was spotless in his pulpit and then entirely different in his home. "If there ever was an unmated pair I guess that is my husband and my self I have been a true woman I can't tell you all I have loved him devotedly and have been so proud of him for his work in the church. 1 thought that we would just keep on living in our unhappy way forever. Mrs Davis denied that she ha pulled her husband's ears, as he charges, and said that she had never expected him to apply for a divorce. , The couple were married in February, 1913. and in June of that year. Rev. Mr Davis gave up his work as rector, which he has not taken up since. After their marriage, bound up in the career of her husband In the pulpit, where he had become locally noted, Mrs Davis, a writer of some reputa tion wrote in verse the feeling of love that her husband's preaching Is said to have inspired in her. He scorned it all, she says. When asked whether she believed that there was another woman in the case, Mrs. Davis said: "I don't want to say now. I do know that he would be awfully nice to other women." CARELESS KICK IS FATAL Man Aims at Woman and Plunfree Downstairs. JOHNSTOWN, Pa., Dec. 29. Kicking at a woman who waa 10 feet away. An drew Cortas, 42 years old, plunged down a flight of stairs at Harnexuoro. His skull was crushed and he died last night. Cortas had been drinking Jamalt-a rum. A Coroner's Jury attributed death to carelessness. USE THIS COITOM 20 EXTRA 2 Bring this coupon and get i'O extra "S. 11." 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Pulling himself together, and leaning on his sword, he walked as best he could towurd the supposed shelter of his comrades in the woods. "Just as I reached the edge of th. wood." he says. "1 stopped In terror. From the distance there came the howling of a wolf. It sounded unut terably melancholy and dreadful In the still Autumn night. Another wolf an swered. In the same long-drawn, dis mal note. The howling drew nearer; presently I heard It all around mo. without pause, growing louder and more exultant every moment. "I am no coward. 1 am a sportsmsn and have killed many wolves In hunts, but what I heard that night I can never forget. The chaotic howling which In closed me like a chnin kept coming closer and closer, drawing to the cen ter of the circle where I was standing. 'I saw clearly there ws. no chance of saving myself when the rlrcl. had closed finally upon mn. I went run ning how I managed It I don't know towards some buslie. a hundred yards away. 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