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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (July 23, 1919)
TIIE MORNING OREGOXIAX, "YEDXESDAY, JTTLY 23. 191D. ' POLICE BAFFLED IN SEARCH FOR CHEMIST llllilll!!i!lllIN!I!IIIIII!l!liIIIIIIIi!IIIII!IIII!li!I!IIiIII!l!I!iIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!Nl!llI!!III Five States Try to Locate Missing Man. SUICIDE CLEARS MYSTERY College Student in False Marriage With Classmate, Who Dies Later From Poison. "cD f! (Wq) OMAHA. Five states are interested in the suicide at Janesville, Wis., of Frank Knight, who for 16 years had j lived in that city, a silent and morose man, without friends and scarcely with out acquaintance. Knight banged him self. The suicid ef Knight and the letters which he left for relatives in Marshall town, la., has somewhat cleared up the secret of the most mysterious murder case with which the Omaha police ever grappled, and has made clear that a portion of. the mystery will never be eolved. Immediately after the murder of Rose Snyder Knight, Knight disap peared from Omaha. Five days after war he was seen in Cheyenne. From that hour until the Knight suicide the Omaha police were not able to secure a trace of him. Then came word through relatives in Marshall town that he had ended his life in Janesville. Knight was a student at Valparaiso, Ind. So was Miss Rose Snyder of Swan. Ind. The girl fell in love with Knight," who proposed marriage. Kinght, witt? fellow students, arranged a fake wed ding and he and the girl were married. The girl died unde rthe mpression she was Knight's wife. Baby la Polaoned. After the marriage Knight sent bis wife to relatives in Marshall town. Ia., "While he came to Omaha and .'.ecu red a position with Swift & Co. Then he be came infatuated with Jennie Dusen foerry, an Omaha woman. Rose Snyder Knight, in Marshall town, received letters from Knignt tell ing how much he thought of the Du senberry girl. She came to Omaha Knight took her to a cottage which Miss Dusen berry and her mother had occupied up to the day previous. Knight was a spiritualist. A. child was born to Jennie Dusenberry. One day Knight told fellow workers some thing had just whispered to him that a enild of whom he was very fond was ill. He went to the Dusenberry home. Some hours later the Dusenberry child died in convulsions.- It had been poisoned. While in college Knight specialized in chemistry. A few days later Mrs. Knight became very ill. To a neighbor she said: "Frank has poisoned me." The morning of her disappearance the girl told the same neighbor, "I believe Frank is going to pack me off tonight." That was Saturday. No one saw Mrs. Knight Sunday. Wife's Body Never Found. On Monday neighbors saw Mrs. Dusenberry go to the Knight home, car rying a bucket and a scrubbing brush. She told neighbors the nKights had move dto South Omaha. Half-an hour later nKight, in South Omaha, received a telephone call. He left the office. Police went to the Knight home. Knight gave them a street number in South Omaha to which, he said, he and his wile had moved. They found a dif ferent family entirely living in the house. Then they started a search for Knight. Five days later he wrote an Omaha friend, saying. "Mrs. Knight intended the dose for me, but I caught on and changed cups with her." The body of Mrs. Knight was never found. Wagon tracks were followed from the Knight house to a sandbar in the Missouri river. It was believed nKight had poisoned fits wife and had buried the body on the sandbar. Airs. nKight's sister, Mrs. Harry Pres ton, of Swan, Ind., and her brother, V. O. Snyder of Coleman, Mich., as sisted in the search. Then the police started a- nation wide hunt for Knight. The city, coun ty and state joined in offering a huge reward for his capture. Hut no trace was ever found. PLEASANT RI0T SfAGED ilodcarricrs Have .Friendly Battle, But Police Are Late. CHICAGO. It looked like a riot re cently at Hod Carriers' hall. Its often done there, y'know. Three patrol waKons loaded with coppers double timed over. The hall was closed, so the police shinned up the fire escapes. But, had they reached the scene a short time before, they would have seen a wild disturbance centering around one Mar tin Egan. In the midst of celebrating a 12H-cent-an-hour increase in wages which Joseph V. Moreschi, president of the executive council International Hod Carriers and Building Laborers union, had secured for the union last Satur day, Egan got the floor and proposed the boys hold out for another nickel. He was politely asked by Moreschi to withdraw. He wouldn't stir, Mo reschi became insistent and the meet ing broke into an uproar. At its height a self-appointed committee farcibly removed Egan and broke up the meet ing. Police were told revolvers flashed, but none were used. Moreschi's council, having jurisdic tion over 12 unions with a member ship of 12.000, is believed to have full control of the situation and the strik ers returned to work. HUNS OUST OPERA HEAD Striking Chorus and Stage Hands Force Retirement. BERLIN. (Correspondence of th Associated Press.) The principals chorus and stage hands of the Ger man opera house at Charlottenburg after a five-day strike, have forced th retirement of Otto Neumann Hofer. its director-general, with whom the em ployes had been in conflict for several years. The forces of the opera houses numbering five hundred, went on strike without warning. Socialist members of the Charlot tenburg town council espoused th cause of the strikers and demandec that the board of directors remov Herr Hofer. RED CROSS AIDS RUSSIANS Hospital Opened to Men Wounded by Bolshevik Forces. OMSK, sioeria. to meet an emer gency in hospital work for wounded Russians of the army lighting the bol shevists, the American Red Cross has opened one of its biggest hospitals at Cheliabinsk. The opening of heavy fighting on the Ufa front brought many wounded sol diers to the already burdened Russian military hospitals. 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School District No. 1 iflllllllllllllllllHIM portant station for American Red Cross work this summer, as it is expected that the fighting will be particularly heavy in the district fronting it. EDEN FARM TO BE SOLD Sale Necessary to Satisfy Forty Heirs to Estate. NEW YORK. According to an order obtained in the supreme court, prop erty worth over 1 5,000,000, located be tween Third snd Eleventh avenues and Thirty-fourth and Fifty-first streets, in what was known as the old Eden farm, will be sold at auction. The property is part of the estate of the late William B. Astor. and the order was obtained by William Astor Chan ter, one of his next of kin and a for mer congressman. The order was made on the recom mendation of a referee to whom the matter was sent as to the best way in which to divide the property among- about 40 heirs. The referee decided that the property, which con sists principally of buildings, be auc tioned off as the best manner in which to make a pnysical distribution of the same among the heirs. To make an equitable distribution, the purchase price will be divided into 260 equal parts, of which 20 will go to Margaret De Steurs Oberndorff. wife of Albert Oberndorff, one of the Ger man peace delegates at Paris, which means that unless peace is signed at that time it will be turned over tem porarily to the alien property custo dian, because she is a German citizen. She was a great-granddaughter of William B. Astor. Eight parts will go to "William Vin cent Astor and the same number to his half-brother, John Jacob Astor, whose mother is now Mrs. William Dick, but who is not a party to the dis tribution. Among other heirs who will share in the partition are James Roose velt Jr., and Theodore Douglas' Robin son, who get one share each. As it is thought the full value of the property may not be obtained at a forced sale, it is understood that the Astor family will be represented at the sale to buy it ir. if the prices the tracts are expected to bring are not forth coming at the time they are put up for sale. Old Eden farm was once the play ground of the children of John Jacob Astor Jr.. William Astor and Henry Astor, founders of the family. Through it ran Old Verdant lane. What was Eden farm in the old days embraces the liveliest part of the White Way. Tin Pan alley, dozens of dwelling houses inhabited mostly by actors, and several of the largest theaters, includ ing the Astor. Origin of CJypsles Vet Unsolved. The real origin of of the gypsies Is a problem yet to be definitely solved. Many scholars have tried their hand at it and in tracing the gypsies to com mon ancestries have Identified them with the lost tribes of Israel the Sara cens, the Canaanites and various peo ples of India. 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