THE MORNING OREGOXIAX, 3IOXDAT, DECEMBER 8, 1919. MAUDE TABOR'S FATE ONLY WOMAN GRAIN INSPECTOR. AT HER WORK. POLICE BAFFLED, BQY j CLEARS UP MYSTERY CONTINUES MYSTERY PUBLIC AUDITORIUM Wednesday Afternoon .and Wednesday Night E '. "" 1 ' 11 ii i iim 1 1 mi in mi ii mn -......iM CITY OF PORTLAND PRESENTS Famous American Syncopated Orchestra and Singers Identity of Body Found in Trunk Questioned. New York Robbery Problem Is Solved by Youth. INQUEST NOT YET ENDED WORK IS CLEVERLY DONE Mother's Statement That Daughter Died in Colorado Springs, Colo., Raises Further Doubt. UWTOX, Mich., Dec. 7. The state ment by Mrs. Sarah I. Tabor that her daughter, Maude Tabor, died of asthma in Colorado Springs, caused some authorities today to express doubt of the positive identification of the body generally believed to be Miss Tabor's which was found in a trunk in the basement of the Tabor home here a week ago. Joseph Virgo, a near friend of the dead woman, testified at the inquest early last week that the body was that of the schoolteacher who disap peared nearly four years ago and, although no other witnesses were positive in their identification, Virgo's belief was generally accepted. Officials expressed the belief to day that the testimony of the mother and Walter Tabor, brother of the dead woman, would clear up the mystery. They were particularly interested in learning if the body was buried in Colorado Springs or if it had been secretly sent here. Continuance of the inquest is await ing the return of the Tabors from California, where deputy sheriffs went for them yesterday, and the re port of University of Michigan pa thologists now examining the body in an effort to establish the cause of death. COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., Dec. 7. Exhustive search of mortuary rec ords of Colorado Springs and El Paso county has failed to substantiate the story of Mrs. Sarah Tabor, held in California in connection with the dis covery at Lawton. Mich., of a body thought to be that of her daughter. Miss Maude Tabor, that the latter died in Colorado Springs in her arms. MISS TABOlt ALWAYS FEARFUL Teacher A'raid to Be Alone at Night, Says Friend. SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Dec. 7. (Special.) Fear of death by violence constantly haunted Miss Maude E. Tabor, former Ogden high school teacher, whose body was found No vember 30 in a trunk in the basement of the Tabor home in Lawton, Mich., according to Mrs. G. T. Brooke of this city, with whom Miss Tabor lived from December, 1913, to March, 1914. "She would never stay at home alone at night and even seemed afraid in the day time," said Mrs. Brooke, in discussing the woman. "I left her alone one night, and when I returned home she had all the doors bolted and even the keyhole plugged with paper. Several chairs were piled in front of the door and she was so frightened she would hardly let me in. When I did finally gain admit tance she was shaking with fright, and warned nte never to leave her alone again. "Miss Tabor told me that her fath. er. who she said was a lawyer, had left her the entire estate, which con sisted of three farms in Michigan, and that he had left the son and his other daughter a very small sum, I think Khe said XI a piece, in order that they might not contest the will. Bad feel ing seemed to exist between the two sisters and Miss Tabor told me that they did not speak. I do not remem ber ever hearing of any correspond ence between them. "Her brother did not seem to have a frjendly feeling toward her, either, although she talked about his little son, whom, I believe, she called Mal colm, and whom she said she was edu cating. He used to write her little letters in a childish hand. "She suffered greatly from asthma and was thin and anaemic. After her sweetheart died she took up spiritual ism, with the idea perhaps of com muning with him. At least ehe used to tell us that he came to her some times at night and she would stay in her room and talk to him. I went into her room several times at night, thinking she might be suffering from an attack of her malady, and she would tell me that it was nothing, hut that she had been communing with the dead. "Although she was a brilliant minded woman and possessed of a cer tain magnetism, she was very queer and was obsessed with the idea of making money. She was always talk ing about some get-rlch-quick scheme and trying to interest the people with whom she came in con tact with some money-making propo sition. "She talked much of going to Eu rope, and planned on going there with her mother and renting a cha teau in France, where she might live through a season or two. in order that she might gain first-hand knowl edge of the French people. She talked French fluently, and taught it to private pupils. She had a wonder ful mind along mathematical lines, and could figure with ready ease a problem which seemed very intricate. "I did not know her when her sweetheart died in Arizona, but friends of hers told me that she mourned his loss so much that her health was impaired. Later she be came attached to another man, and she consulted me in choosing her trousseau. When she left Ogden I understood that she was arranging to go to Europe, as she had 'planned, with her mother. "Many times 1 wondered what-had become of her and one day I was talking to a friend of hers in Ogden and we discussed the possibility of her death. A number of her friends who had been interested with her in spiritualism talked of attempting to commune with her spirit. "I do not believe if she was mur dered that it happened in Utah. I think she went back to her home when she left Ogden in 1914. and she was never heard of from that time. "She was peculiar in her habits of dress. Once a week she would visit a hairdresser's and have her hair ar ranged. She would not comb it be fore the next visit a week later to the hairdresser. She tied a veil over her head at night and all of the time the lived with me I never saw her hair down." In 1909 Miss Tabor was visited for half a day at Ogden by a woman friend, who later went into the cafe business with her in Ruth, Kev. Miss Tabor Is said to have furnished the money. One of Miss Tabor's sisters lived in Los Angeles and friends in Ogden believe this sister was the one who went into business with her at Ruth. In 1910 Miss Tabor made a hurried trip to iexas to attend the funeral of a young man whose name was believed to have been Murdock. This may have been the sweetheart who is referred to as having died in. . - T- , . I ' i S "-- I - , r A - - . . ' i ' t - ' ft - . " - - " i i ,5 " ' "- v " - 1 u- ' " "' r i ,a: - r ' " ! f - 5 . -f V 1 Arizona. It is known that Miss Tabor made the trip to the south in a chair car, her funds being low, not permit ting Pullman reservations. Miss May Kyle, a teacher in the East high, said she had taught in the Ogden schools with Miss Tabor, who was considered a brilliant and able teacher but of a very peculiar dispo sition. She was obliged to g-ive up her teaching work in Ogden, it was understood among the teaching force, Miss Kyle said, because cf Tier failing health. Among Miss Tabor's friends in Og den were Mrs. J. H. Epperson, 408 Twenty-sixth street, with whom Miss Tabor roomed from September. 1912, until December, 1913; Mrs. A. W. Put nam, 469 Thirteenth street, and Mrs. T. F. Rowlands, now a resident of Oakland. Mrs. Putnam recalled at Ogden the last letter she received from Miss Tabor, late in September or the early part of October, 1914, in which Miss Tabor told of a lawsuit at Lawton, Mich., in which relatives were con cerned and in which she and her mother were making a fight against other members of the family. Mrs. Putnam said that Miss Tabor's father had been a lawyer and the daughter seemed to have taken an interest in legal matters and in her letter to Mrs. Putnam she gave a vivid ac count of the lawsuit. She also wrote of her mother, to whom she seemed greatly devoted. Shortly after receiving the letter Mrs. Putnam said that both she and Mrs. Rowlands had written to Miss . Ta.bor, but that the letters were i unanswered. Then Mrs. Rowlands 1 wrote to Mrs. Tabor at Lawton to in- I quire if Miss Tabor was ill or if any misfortune had befallen her. The letters were unanswered and they were returned to the writers. Mrs. John F. Hobbs, 2269 Adams avenue, Ogden, was intimately ac quainted with Miss Tabor in Baptist church work. Mrs. Hobbs said the church had sent a message to Miss Tabor each year at Christmas time, but had never received any acknowl edgment. "Miss Tabor's disappearance seemed a mystery to us," said Mrs. Hobs, "as she was such a faithful worker while here and was so interested that we considered it strange thafc she did not write after she left Ogden." It was learned yesterday that Miss Tabor's father died at Lawton while she was teaching school at Ogden Regarding a supposed visit to Og den in 1918 of Mrs. Florence Tabor Critchlow a sister of the murdered woman, who was held for further examination when she refused to tes tify at the coroner's inquest at Law ton, was recalled by Mrs. J. L. Web ster, superintendent of the Esther home for girls. The woman said she was a sister of Miss Maude Tabor, ac cording to Mrs. Webster, who former ly taught Latin in the Ogden high school. The supposed sister said that she was walking from Chicago to San Francisco. Several of Miss Ta bor's friends met the woman, Mr3. Webster said, but because of her ap pearance none talked with her very much. She left Ogden after a day's visit. During the time she was in Ogden Miss Tabor was a close friend of Mrs. O. J. Stilwell, who, with Mr. Stilwell, came from a town in Michigan near Lawton. When Miss Tabor left Ogden she corresponded with Mrs. Stilwell until the fall of 1914, when letters ceased.-In the summer of 1913 Mr. and Mrs. Stilwell went to ' Europe, where they were a number of months on a motor trip. Mrs. Stilwell sent cards to Miss Tabor. Salctn Church Well Financed. SALEM, Or., Dec. 7. (Special.) Al though confronted with many de demands attendant to the late war, members of the Central Congrega tional church of Salem have sub scribed sufficient money to meet the budget for 1920. increased the salary of the pastor $300 a year and have a surplus of more than $300, together with valuable property free from in cumbrance. This church is uniqus in that financial problems are never mentioned at the services yet the money comes. ? ? ? 7 p o MISS RUBY PETERSON. GIRL, 19, GIN INSPECTOR DISTINCTION IS GAINED ARDUOUS STUDY. BY Ruby Peterson of Seattle First Is Messenger, Then Learns to Identify Grades of Wheat. SEATTLE, Wash.. Dec. 7. (Special.) Toward the end of the great war Ruby Peterson. Seattle girl, then 17 years old, desired to serve her coun try as a nurse. Failing In this be cause of her youth, she finally be came attached as & messenger, girl to the representatives of the govern ment at the Fisher Flouring mills. In the short space of a year she has studied and advanced until today, at the age of 19, she is a grain inspector, the only woman in the United States filling such a position. Miss Peterson devoted her spare time when not engaged in carrying messages between government offices here to studying mixed wheat so as to be able to identify the different classes of wheat. Later she made separations of damaged wheat to study the grading factors of the standards. Then she began making all mechanical determinations such as weight and moisture tests. Now she is checking, under the supervision of the manager of the big mills, the in spector's grades on all wheat received at the mill, the third largest in the country. Miss Peterson's present work takes her far into chemistry, a rubject she says she knew nothing of when she started in as a messenger girl. Milts Peterson's success with her work has brought her personal letters of commendation from government officers and in the near future she will be the subject of a lengthy arti cle in a woman's magazine that re cently sent a writer to Seattle from Philadelphia to interview her. MI-JHP DRIVE PLANNED HOOD RIVER LEAGUE IS PRE PARING FOR CAMPAIGN. Opposition to Ownership by Nip ponese of Land in V. S. Said to lie Growing in Oregon. HOOD RIVER, Or., Dec. 7. (Spe cial.) The Hood River Anti-Asiatic league, if plans of its members mate rialize, will conduct a nation-wide campaign to rouse the general public against Japanese land ownership, de clared to be a serious menace to the Pacific coast. It is planned especially to enlist the aid of farmers in all parts of the country, and all national farm papers will be asked to co-operate in th movement. Members of the local organization declare they are well pleased with the work of the past week. R. E. Scott and J. H. Koberg attended the con vention of the Farmers' union at The Dalles to ask aid in bringing about a law to prevent further immigration of Japanese. The Farmers' union, by adopting a resolution calling for can cellation of existing Japanese land ownership, they say. went beyond their hopes. That the movement is gaining for TO QT & YAMH1LU ground in the state is indicated, it is said, by the action of the Bend Commercial club In calling for pre vention of the purchase of 11,000 acres of land by George Shima, Japanese potato king of California. CHURCH RAISES $25,000 Half of Westminster Presbyterian Fund Is Subscribed. That $25,000 of the $50,000 sought for expansion equipment for West minster Presbyterian church to en able it better to serve the Irvington community has been obtained, was the announcement made last night by O. W. Davidson, chairman of the special committee in charge of the campaign. "We are meeting with excellent support in the campaign," said Mr. Davidson, "and are greatly encour aged. People are responding very well to the call, and no doubt when we have had time to canvass the dis trict thoroughly, the full amount will be realized. The workers will meet every night in the church to continue their activities." 0PERATI0NIS UNUSUAL Double Mastoid Removed From Ears of Hood River Girl. Miss Grace Wilson of Hood River is recovering at St. Vincent's hospi tal from a most unusual operation performed last week. It was what physicians call a double mastoid operation, to relieve infection of the mastoid bone of the inner ear. Oper ations for mastoid infection of one ear are comparatively common, but it is very rarely that both ears are af fected. The operation, which was per formed by Dr. Hicks C. Fenton. was entirely successful. Miss Wilson, who is the daughter of John A. Wil son, will probably be removed to her borne in Hood River this week. Canoeist Escapes Drowning. Jack Routledge, salesman for the Meier & Frank company and the oc cupant of a. houseboat at the Willam ette moorage, narrowly escaped drowning yesterday "afternoon when a canoe which he was paddling cap sized. Routledge was rescued by J. L. Gregory, another resident of the houseboat colony, who saw his neigh. bor struggling in the icy water, and went to hi3 assistance in a rowboat. Supreme Marigold c& a spread, this fine-flavored Supreme Marigold is becoming more popular every day. And it's a great economy in the household. Packed under the yellow and black labeL Wholesale Distributor FRYE 8C COMPANY Portland, Oregon Lad Catches Remark Not Intended for His Ears, Follows Clew and Arrests Result. (Copyright by the New Tork World. Pub lished by arrangement.) NEW YORK, Dec 7. (Special.) Detective work by a devotee of the motion pictures has resulted in the arrest of two men and three boys, fol lowing systematic robberies of at least four hotels and several mercan tile Arms. The loot of these robberies will run into thousands of dollars, the police say. The Waldorf Astoria, the Vander bilt, the Biltmore and- the McAlpin were among the hotels which were robbed. Antonio Campettelo, 30 years old, of 9 Morton street, is held in police head quarters on a charge of grand larceny; Michaels De Vito of the same address is accused of receiving stolen goods, and the three boys are charged with burglary. They gave their names as Tony Sabini. 17 years old, 367 Bleecker street: Hugh Cox. 120 Chrystie street, and Vincent Casarella, 94 Beacon ave nue, Jersey City Heights. Hotel Employe! Bribed. According to the story the police say Campettello told, he bribed em ployes of hotels to wrap silverware and glassware in linen and put these in with the ashes or other refuse. Campettello, who is- a collector of refuse from hotels, says he would sort over his load after leaving the vicinity and remove the valuables he found to his home. Robberies of the hotels had been re ported weeks ago, but the police were never until now able to discover how they were committed. The boys who were arrested are said to have confessed to at least 15 bur glaries. They say one of these was committed in a wholesale grocery store at 278 Bleecker street, and that the goods they obtained they buried in the cellar of the Morton-street ad dress, but when they went to take it away later they found it had been stolen from them. Group Trailed by Boy. A few days ago a boy, whose name is withheld by the police, overheard some others talking of robberies they had committed. This boy, whose favorite books are after the style of Sherlock Holmes, trailed the group, and. after several hours' work, learned their names and the crimes of which they had boasted. He immediately reported his infor mation to the police department, and Detective Fiaschetti, chief of the crime squad, with five other of his men. arrested the boys. Each one, in turn, made a confes sion, the police say. When Fiaschetti called at the Morton-street address he found Michael De Vito, whom he later arrested on a charge of receiving stolen goods. There he says he saw linen marked with the monogram of one of the hotels. After being questioned, De Vito said he obtained the goods from Campettelo. 1100 SOLDIERS RETURN Transport From Siberia Displays Warning to Bolshevists. SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 7. Eleven hundred American soldiers returned from Siberia today aboard the trans port Sheridan with a large canvas sign put up on the side of the ship reading "Bolshevists, beware! We are coming home to join the American Legion." The bodies of 45 Americans killed in a surprise attack by the bolsheviki in the Suchone district were aboard. Quartermaster Agent Ryan, who won the congressional medal for valor displayed in the chase after tht. Indians who massacred General Cus ter and his command, died on the Sheridan Friday. 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