VOL.. LV 0. 17,128.
PORTLAND, OREGON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1915.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
BRITAIN DECLARES
WAR
BULGARIA
Manifesto From Czar
Also Expected.
ITALY CONSIDERS ACTION
Way Sought to Avoid Actual
Clash With Germans.
GREECE HOLDING ALOOF
Icfinite .Decision Not to Intervene Is
i Reached Greek Army Takes
i Steps to Restrict Allies'
Space at Saloniki.
' LONDON, Oct. 15. Great Britain has
declared war on Bulgaria.
The British Foreign Office announces
that in view of the fact that Bulgaria
lias announced she is at war with
Serbia and is an ally of the central
powers. His Majesty's government has
Informed the Bulgarian government
through the Swedish Minister at Lon
don, who is in charge of Bulgarian in
terests, that a state of war exists be
tween Great Britain and Bulgaria , as
from 10 P. M.
RaMla Expected to Follow.
A dispatch from Paris says that Rus
sian intervention In the Balkans prob
ably will be preceded by a manifesto
Issued by Emperor Nicholas as "chief
protector" of all Slavs to the Bulgar
ians denouncing what will be character
ised as the "treason" of King Ferdinand
In making common cause with the
A ustro-Germans, -Russia's enemies. This
manifesto, it is expected, will be fol
lowed immediately by definite action.
Another Paris dispatch says that
while there is no doubt of Italian in
tervention in the Balkans, the Petit
Journal Milan correspondent !-ays the
question now under consideration Is
how contact can be avoided between
Italian and German contingents if
Italy's share in the campaign com
prises the use of land forces, as no
declaration of war has been made on
either side.
Diplomatic Difficulty Overcome.
It is reported that this diplomatic
difficulty may be overcome by sending
the Italians against either the Turks
cr Bulgarians, or both.
Official announcement was made
here today that Serbia had declared
war on Bulgaria. The announcement
says war has been declared on account
of Bulgarian attacks on Serbian armies
on the SCaltchen and Radovitch fronts.
In a note to the British government,
received today, Greece announces her
definite decision not to intervene In the
war on behalf of Serbia at present.
Greece Refuses to Intervene.
In the communication, which is of
great length, Premier Zalmis. of Greece,
presents his interpretation of the
Oreco-Serbian treaty. He concludes
ith the statement that the present
Greek government is of the opinion
that the treaty with Serbia docs not
call for intervention by Greece in the
present circumstances.
BERLIN, Oct. 15. (By wireless to
Tuckerton, N. J.) According to ad
vices from Budapest, the Greek army
took measures to limit the space occu
pied by tho entente allies landing at
iSalonlki. Thus, it is said. French
telegraphers who attempted to estab.
lish a wireless station in a building in
the port were forcbly ejected.
It is said in tnt-se aavices mat oo,
00 Greek soldiers, who have been as
sembled at Saloniki, occupy all the
buildings in the towns and the troops
which landed were limited to the sec
tion of the port which is in Serbian
possession.
Serbian Toirn Captured.
Capture of the Serbian town of Poza
rcvar, about IS miles southeast of
Sfmrndrla, was reported today by the
War Office. Klsewliere on this front
the Serbians have been driven back
further, with the loss of three guns.s
Announcement also was made that
the Bulgarian first army, attacking
ovpr the eastern frontier of Serbia, had
taken possession of several positions.
SOFIA. Oct. IS. via London, Oct. 15.
The following official communication
wa issued today: "The Serbians last
night attempted n incursion at sev
eral points in the region of Oiu
Horgilegrad and Kustendil, with a view
t occupying Bulgarian utrategic points
which defend the road to Sofia. Their
attempts were frustrated. Our troops
today succeeded in driving off thw
Serbians, but in certain districts fight
ing continues. p
The Bulgarian losses as far as is
known were IS men killed and 19
wounded."
t-EHBIANS BLAME BCLGARI VXS
Trraeherous Attack
Charged
Government Moves From Nish.
NISH. Serbia. Thursday. Oct. It. via
Tails, Oct. 15. An official comniunica
t ion issued by the "War Office today
-ayg:
"On October 11 the Bulgarians made
a surprise attack on us at Koritza and
.'!ava. The attack was repulsed. The
fame day the Burgars occupied the
position of Kita and advanced two
thirds of a mile into our territory.
"On the 12th they attacked our po
sitions at Ivnaovra and Livada. but
were repulsed. On the 13th they at
tacked the line of Tsrweni-Kanangrad.
repulsing: one of our detachment. In
the whole Timok River sectiou th.
Rulgars opened fire on our positions.
We made no reply.
"Bulgaria thus began war against
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WOMAN EXECUTED
AS SPY FOR ALLIES
GERMAN'S rrMSH HEAD OF
SCHOOIi AT BRUSSELS.
Miss Edith Ca veil's leatli for Aiding
Escape of Prisoners Reported
by American Embassy.
LONDON, Oct. 15. The Foreign Of
fice has been notified by the American
Embassy that Miss Edith Cavell. lately
the head of a large training school in
Brussels, who was arrested August 6
by the German authorities In Brussels,
was executed October 13 after sentence
of death had been passed on her.
It is understood that the charge
against Miss Cavell was that she har
bored fugitive British and French sol
diers and Belgians of military age and
had assisted them to escape from Bel
gium in order to Join their colors.
Thus far the Foreign Office not
aware that a charge of espionage had
been brought against Miss Cavell.
BEAR FAT FORECASTS COLD
Hood River Animal, Weighing 550
Pounds, Killed by One Shot.
HOOD RIVER, Or., Oct. 15. (Spe
cial.) Nimrod prognosticators. making
their predictions from the heavy fur
and rolls of fat found on bears killed
in local hills this season, are prophesy
ing that the coming "Winter will be
unusually severe.
The largest bear killed in the Hood
River district in many years was slain
yesterday by Robert Leasure. Mr.
Leasure, accompanied by Angus Mc
Donald and Jake Lenz, was hunting on
Laurel Creek on the headwaters of the
west fork of Hood River, when the bear
was found feeding on late huckleber
ries. -
A shot through the head instantly
killed the animal, which weighed 550
pounds.
DELINQUENCY MET SPREAD
Street and Sewer Penalties Will Be
Heavy Next Year.
Delinquency in street and sewer
sessments after January 1 of next year
will be decidedly costly, according to
a statement Issued yesterday by City
Treasurer Adams for the benefit of
those who will- have v assessments due
at that time for improvements put in
since June 1 of the, present year, The
delinquency- will be bandied after thip
year by the new law adopted by the
voters at the June election.
Under the new law, the property
owner, has 20 days in which to pay af
ter the date an installment on an as
sessment falls due. If he fails a pen
alty of 5 per cent of the entire amount
of the assessment is imposed in addi
tion to regular interest at 6 per cent.
This affects only the bonded liens.
MURDERER IS SENTENCED
John U. Richardson Confesses Kill
ins ex-Wife's Husband.
PENDLETON. Or., Oct. 15. (Spe
cial.) Confessing the murder of J. T.
Owings, an Idaho horse trader, whom
he killed August 23 and whose body
was found a week later in an aban
doned well 10 miles from this city, John
G. Richardson, divorced husband of
Owings' wife, pleaded guilty to homi
cide before Judge G. W Phelps in the
Circuit Court here today and was sen
tenced to life imprisonment.
Richardson lured his victim to a des
olate part of the Cold Springs country
and shot him twice in the head. He
then returned to town with Owings'
rig, which he sold.
Richardson is in poor health and
probably will not live long in prison.
AUDITORIUM DELAY NIPPED
Chamber of Commerce Committee
Recommends Market Block.
The last move to obstruct the munic
ipal auditorium was blocked yesterday
when a committee of the Chamber of
Commerce refused to consider a pro
posal to build tile auditorium on a
site other than the Market block.
The plan was presented some weeks
aero by H. L. McCutcheon, suggesting:
the block at Twenty-first and Kearn
ey streets.
The committee held its final meet
ing yesterday and adopted a resolu
tion that nothing should be done that
would in any way delay the auditorium.
LOAN -CONTRACT IS SIGNED
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French, 'British and American- Fi
nanciers Complete Transaction.
NEW YORK, Oct. 15. The contract
covering the flotation of the $500,000,
000 Anglo-French credit loan was
signed today.
Lord Reading, chairman of the Anglo-French
commission, signed the
document on behalf of Great Britain:
Octave Romberg and Ernest Mallet,
the French commissioners, signed for
France, and J. P. Morgan signed on be
half of the American syndicate of
bankers.
ALL IS WILLED TO STATE
Premier of Luxemburg Provides for
Study of Political Economy.
AMSTERDAM, via London. Oct. 15.
Tho will of Premier Kyschen of Lux
emburg, who died Tuesday, bequeaths
his entire fortune to the state to pro
mote education in political economy.
Director-General Mongenast will tem
porarily take M. Kyschen's place in the
direction of state affairs.
SORDID EVIDENCE
OF FLIGHT IS SEEN
Pathos Lacking After
Russian Defeat.
BIG DEFENSES ARE FUTILE
Splendid Trenches Abandoned
Without Being Used.
DESOLATION IS COMPLETE
Fntiljty of Big Defenses Proved
Again at Novo - Gcorgievsk.
I Concrete Block Walls Soon
Reduced to Ruins.
BT JAMES O'DONNELL BENNETT.
(War correspondent of the Chicago Tribune.
Copyright. 1915. by the Chicago Tribune.
Published by arrangement.)
WARSAW, Russia, Sept. 4.. If you
rode for four hours over the least in
teresting parts of the prairie lying to
the south and west of the industrial
suburbs of Chicago you would have a
fair picture of the great Warsovian
plain.
The resemblance would have to be
modified by the fact that this plain is
far less populous, and by the touch of
strangeness that is given to, the land
scape through the presence of gaunt
crosses and. wayside shrines at every
few versts along the broad highway.
Foliage is scant save when you enter
the dark aisles of a narrow strip of
damp woodland.
Altogether It Is not a region that a
traveler would be drawn to, either for
scenic charm or historic interest, for it
Is deficient in both. And yet on this
wide and gently undulating stratch of
land there has just culminated the
seven months of trench fighting and
advancing and falling back and en
circling which have resulted . in the
capture of an ancient kingdom and the
shattering of a powerful chain of
fortresses. - .
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Superb Trenches Vanned.
Beyond the immediate environs of
Warsaw the plain is marked off in po
tato and cabbage patches and the dull
picture derives Its present historical
Interest solely from the lines of superb
trenches, many of which the Russians
never used and from the grass-grown
humps of forts which Napoleon , would
have found useful . indeed, he started
the. building of the fortress of Novo
Georgievsk in 1807 but which did not
long withstand in these days even so
much as the threat of the Austrian
"thirty-point-fives."
From them all the German flag is
flying now and in them all the bearded
men of the German landsturm and
landwehr are doing lonesome sentry
duty. I don't know any sadder sight
than an evacuated fortress. It is even
sadder than a dismantled house, be
cause it gives such sordid proofs of the
futility of the means of defense man
has made in his pride. The huge works
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INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
Tho Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature.
degrreea; minimum. 42 decrees.
TODAY'S Fair; easterly winds.
War.
French pretender renoimcea orders con
. ferred on Mm by King of Bulgaria.
Page 2.
Secretary McAdoo urges $50,000,000 mer
chant marine as auxiliary to Navy.
Page 2.
All foreign purchases by allies controlled by
committee In London. Page 5.
Futility of big defenses proved again on
Warsaw plain. ..Page 1. .
Woman executed as spy by Germans at
Brussels. . Page J
Britain declares war on' Bulgaria. Fage
National. 1
Rush orders being placed for trousseau of
President's fiancee. Page 1.
Domestic.
Berlin said to have obtained plans of New
York fortifications. Page 2.
Powder concern to harvest kelp to use in
meeting war orders. Page 3.
Sport.
Coast League results: Los Angeles 5. Port
land 4; Salt' Lake 7, Pan Francisco 3;
Vernon 3, Oakland 2. Page 13.
Two important games to be placed today In
Oregon. Page 12.
Portland Academy trounces Franklin High.
48 to 0. Page 12.
Thre games In Eastern football vital today.
Page 13.
Pacific Northwest.
Footprints of man and woman found near
where "William Booth was killed. Page 1.
Lumber mills losing orders through scarcity
of cars. Page 6.
Commercial and Marine.
Broader demand for wheat In Northwestern
markets. Page 17.
Dardanelles situation cause of sharp ad
vance in wheat at Chicago. Page 17.
Stock speculation checked by European de
velopments Page 17.
Trade and industrial expansion Is rapid.
Page 17.
Grac Line turns attention to South Amer
ican trade during cttnal delay. Page 14.
Portland and Vicinity.
School Board majority favors military train
ing plan. Page IS.
Levy for city is estimated at f.S mills.
Page II.
Burns delegation trying to Interest capital
in proposed railway. Page 14.
Possible primary candidates for judgeships
are named. Page 7.
Weather report, data and forecast. Page 17.
CAR GOES IN CANAL, 1 DIES
Woman Walks Five Miles for Help
to Rescue Floyd Woods.
BAKER, Or., Oct. 15. (Special.)
Pinned under his automobile in the
Blltzen canal. Harney County, Floyd
Woods was drowned today despite the
efforts of Mrs. M. Goyt to save him,
after she had extricated herself and
her 2-year-old baby.
Woods was taking the woman and
child from their home in Catlow Val
ley to Burns when the car ran over
the canal embankment and overturned.
Mrs. Goyt was thrown through the
windshield into the water, put saved
herself and child from Injury.
When she became convinced that her
efforts to save Woods were useless,
she walked five miles, carrying her
child, for aid. Woods was 23 years old
and a homesteader.
BALTIC CLEARED OF FOE
British Say Submarines Have Put
End to German Shipping.
LONDON. Oct. 15. British sub
marines have now cleared the Baltic
Sea and the Gulf of Bothnia entirely
of German merchant ships, says a dis
patch to the Star from Copenhagen,
Every German ship which was south
bound from Sweden when the sub
marines started their campaign has
either been sunk or run aground, it
adds.
Of 50 German ore carriers, 37 are
virtually interned in Swedish ports, the
correspondent declares.
RUSH ORDERS FOR
TROUSSEAU PLACED
Frocks Already Deliv
V'j'tfrs. Gait.
FRIENDS MAKE SELECTIONS
Baltimore Contributes Models
of Modish Cut.
GOING-AWAY SUIT CHOSEN
Seamstresses in Constant Attend
ance at Home of President's
FianceeExample of Misses
Wilson Is Followed.
BALTIMORE. Oct. 15. (Special.) A
large portion of the trousseau of Mrs.
Gait. President Wilson's fiance, is being
made in Baltimore. Two afternoon
frocks, a going-away suit and several
separate blouses, destined for the all
important outfit of the future Mrs.
Woodrow Wiison, already have been
sent to Washington from a fashionable
shop on Lexington street.
Frocks and suit were ordered last
Saturday and Monday, on which days
two or three friends who are helping
Mrs. Gait in tho selection of her trous
seau motored over to Baltimore for
shopping. It was reported Mrs. Gait
accompanied them or one of the trips,
but the report was not verified.
Traveling Salt la Striking.
The suit which is thought to be one
which Mrs. Gait intends to wear on her
wedding trip is a striking model in
dull green duvetyn with a chin collar
and cuffs of beaver. The top of the
coat is cut to lit the figure rather
closely. There is a flare measuring
four yards and a half about the bot
tom of the coat, edged with a wide
band of beaver. The coat buttons
straight down front and is worn with
m simple, slightly-flared skirt. - -
The prettier of two afternoon frocks
which Baltimore is contributing to Mrs.
Gait's trousseau is a model in crepe
georgette and taffeta of the same rich
dull green as the suit. The model
shows a strong Chinese influence. The
skirt has five narrow flounces of crepe
georgette, banded in taffeta finely
pleated and mounted on a crepe under
skirt.
Chinese Jacket I Be Worm.
There is an underbodice of taffeta
flowered in dull rose, over which falls
a Chinese sleeveless jacket of crepe
georgette, exquisitely embroidered in
self-colored beads.
The second afternoon frock is a com
bination of crepe chiffon and crepe
georgette in seal brown. There is a
wide box pleated skirt, with bands of
plain chiffon in & lighter shade of
brown set in at intervals above the
hem. To this model also there is a
slip-on over-Jacket, embroidered with
threads of silver and gold. The band-
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Friday's War Moves
FROM all the battle fronts come
news of continued fighting, but
from none of them has been received
any indication of victories or reverses
which would make a marked change in
the general situation.
The Austrians, Germans and Bul
garians are proceeding methodically
with their invasion of Serbia, which,
according to neutral reports, is costing
them a heavy price in the lives of their
soldiers, as the .hardened veterans of
Serbia are taking every advantage of
the difficult country to inflict the
greatest possible loss to the invaders.
The Germans, however, have been
able to occupy Pozarevac, southeast of
Semendria. and assert that their cam
paign is proceeding according to their
plans. The quadruple entente allies
arte perfecting their preparations to as- j
oici. tin serDians, ana every day ad
ditional troops .are landed at Saloniki.
where the French General. Sarrail. has
arrived to take command of the allied
forces. What steps Russia and Italy
have taken to assist have not yet de
veloped. TH. nnlitln.l ; . . , : '
- f " Duumiuu remains un
changed. Greece having announced
that she would not intervene in favor
of Serbia "at present," and Roumania.
although she is being urged by Ger
many ueiinueiy to define her position,
not having made any move.
Along the western front there has
been heavy fighting in the Artol.
Champagne and Vosgea regions. At
tacks were made by both sides, but the
gains and losses are described as be
ing of minor importance.
In the east the Russians have turned
to the offensive in the region ot
Dvlnsk. and, although the Germans as
sert that they have repulsed most of
tne Muscovite attacks, they admit that
the Russians penetrated their line at
one point. Except for the hostilities
in this region, things are somewhat
calmer in the east. Lieutenant-General
Ivanoff, tho Russian commander, after
his victory in Gallcia and his subse
quent check by the Germans, has for
the moment shown himself satisfied
with what he achieved.
The Italians again have been on the
offensive and say they have gained
some successes against the Austrians.
The Austrians, however, deny this
statement.
Outside the Balkan campaign, Eng
land is watching with the most in
terest the operations of her submarines
in the Baltic Here. after having
driven the terinan merchantmen from
the sea, they have sunk one. and prob-
iwo. uerman urpeoo cralt one
reported to be a torpedo-boat de
stroyer and the other a torpedo-boat
which with other warships had coroe
out to convoy other laden steamers.
Activity of the British iavy also is
shown in the North Sea. The record
shows that 21 German trawlers have
been captured and taken into Grimsby
during the past month.
October- 16, 1014.
Germans capture Ostcnd.
British cruiser Ilawke destroyed by
German submarine.
Honolulu Marconi wireless station
may b9 closed for announcing arrival
of German gunboats.
WOOL TARIFF IS FAVORED
President Said to Believe Duty Is
Needed to Reduce Dcricit.
ORKGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash
ington. Oct. 15. President Wilson is
reported by members of Congress who
havejalked with him as favoring the
Placing of some duty on wool not
that he believes wool needs protection,
but that he believes a wool tariff will
aid in wiping out the deficit in
the Treasury.
It is reported that the President will
recommend a duty on wool when he
asks Congress to repeal the free sugar
clause of the Underwood act. ' How
much duty the President will recom
mend is not yet determined.
TUG IS SENT TO RESCUE
United States to Pick Up Castaways
l'roni Midway Island.
SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. 15. The
United States Navy tug Iroquois left
Honolulu today, for Midway Island to
pick up the crew of the San Francisco
owned schooner O. M. Kellogg, accord
ing to advices received by the marine
department of tho Chamber of Com
merce. The vessel was wrecked September
25 on Maro reef. The ship's company
nine men and a woman made their
way in a smallboat to Laysan Island,
where they borrowed a sloop, in which
they sailed to Midway Island.
DIPLOMAT DENIES TALKING
Mr. Page, at Rome, Has Expressed
No Opinion on 3Ierits of War.
WASHINGTON. Oct. 15. Ambassador
Page, at Rome, cabled Secretary Lan
sing today that ne had never expressed
an opinion concerning the Italian cam
paign or given out any expression
whatsoever in regard to the probable
results or merits of the European
struggle.
The State department had asked to
be informed regarding a published re
port that tho Ambassador had given an
interview regarding the Italian army
and as to success of the Italian cam
paign. Clerk Permitted to Parade.
NEW TORK. Oct. 15. Thousands of
girls and women employed in many of
the leading department stores here
will have a half holiday to march in
the banner suffrage parade October 13,
it was announced here today. Em
ployes desiring to take part in the pa
rade may do so without the loss of
any pay, it was said. -
FOOTPRINTS FOUND
WHERE BOOTH DIED
Proximity of Man and
Woman Betrayed.
HAIR RAT ALSO DISCOVERED
Husband Known to Have Been
Keeping Watch on Pair. ,
BORROWING OF GUN DENIED
AYillainina Neighbors Tell of Seeing
Mrs. Booth and Branson Close
to Scene of Crime About i
Time of Its Committal.
WILLAMIN'A, Or., OcU 15. (Special.)
Twenty-eight feet from tho point
where William Booth, a 3$-caliber bullet
through his heart, tumbled headlons
over a low rail fence and lay dead oil
his back, one arm and a foot partly
in the Willamina River. Just a week
ago this afternoon, tho footprints of a
man were found by P. A. Flynn. Deputy
Sheriff, imprinted in the sand. ' Bv
tween 30 and 40 feet from these tracks
were found more of these imprints, and
beside them the smaller tracks of a
woman's foot. The unmistakable
marks made by high-heclcd shoes and
the outline of tho sole were plainly Im
pressed In the sand on the river bank.
The tracks were viewed by the Cor
oner's Jury the day after the murder.
They were traced for somo distance
along a path through the brush lead
ing up the river from the road.
Point of sfcootlnc Located.
These footprints are just another de
tail in the series of circumstances that
have led to the arrest of young Will
iam Branson and Mrs. Booth for the
murder of her husband.
It seems certain that the shot thut
killed Mr. Booth, or "Billy" Booth, aa
he was affectionately known in this
community, was fired from the point
where the first footprints were found.
Whoever the slayer, be had from this
place a perfect sight at Mr. Booth,
who evidently was running along the
fence preparatory to climbing over it
to run Into the thicket. The nature of
the wound indicates that he had seen
the murderer pointing the revolver at
him. and had half turned and raised
his left arm out from his side in the
way that a man will do to ward off a
blow, for the bullet struck his forearm,
glanced slightly on the ulna bone, and
went through his heart from the side.
Hair Itat Auione Clews.
He was partly down the bank at the
time, his footmarks show, and in fall
ing tumbled over the fence on his head,
turned a complete somersault, and lay
stretched on his back as he was found.
But the footprints do not comprise
the only clew found in the thicket.
Deputy Sheriff Klynn picked up the
next day a woman's hair rat, which
later was introduced in evidence at the
preliminary hearing.
It was testified at the hearing that
Mrs. Booth, wore "rats" and the ono
in question, though considerably light
er in color than her hair, was testified
to be similar to. two others she had
worn. Obviously, however, this "rat"
can only be regarded as one of the bits
of circumstantial evidence In the case,
not of supreme importance in itself,
hut helping to bind the net of suspi
cion still tighter about her.
Suspicions of Wife Known.
It has been established beyond any
doubt that William Booth suspected his
wife of illicit intimacy with young
Branson. In this connection an inci
dent of the strawberry picking season
last Spring was related here today by
several persons.
As the story is told, Mre. Booth had
gone strawberry picking, and Mr.
Booth later took his shotgun and said
that he was going hunting. Near a
patch of strawberries, where Mrs. Booth
was picking, was a clump of under
brush. Booth afterward told friends
he had seen young Branson in this
underbrush. Mr. Booth passed near
his wife and started toward the thicket.
She asked him where he was going.
"I'm going hunting," he is said to have
responded.
Gosalp Long Rife.
His own story of what happened then
was that hi wife insisted that he
should not hunt in the underbrush and
tried to stop him. A scuffle ensued
between them, in the course of which
one barrel of the shotgun was dis
charged. There was considerable gossip in
town to the effect that ho had fired
at her, or that his wife had fired at
him. but Mr. Booth's own story was
that the gun was accidentally fired as
related. He said that he then "broke"
the" gun, threw the other cartridge on
the ground and then gave the gun to
his wife. He did not go hunting in
the thicket.
Shortly after this episode, within two
or three weeks, Mr. Booth came to
Deputy Sheriff Klynn and told him tlwt
he suspected his wife and Branson and
that he didn't know what to do.
"But whatever happen," he went cm,
"I don't want to have any guns about
the house."
(iiu Int Ont of Rcarh.
lie insisted on bringing his gun?, tiie
shotgun and a Il'-callber rifle, to Mr.
Flynn. Only three weeks ago he hold
the rifle at a nominal price to W. F. 1,
Wright, who later served on the Coro
ner's Jury after his murder. He at,'
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