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VOL. L.IX 0. 18,CG4 SfTf1, at p'r'"? (Oregon, '
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PORTLAND, OREGON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1920
PRICE FIVE CENTS
LAND BOARD TO SELL ,
12,000 SCRIP ACRES
SITES MAY BE USED IX SELECT
LNG GOVERMIE.VT L.VXD.
SCANTY TREASURY
AMUNDSEN IS CAUGHT
IN SIBERIAN- FLOES
HART'S IRON NERVE
IS . BROKEN AT LAST
SOCIALISTS FACED!S
MAYOR SUSPENDS
T
EXPLORER'S VESSEL MAY RE
GROUND TO PIECES.
CO.VV1CTED MURDERER WEEPS
AT FATHER'S LETTER.
PORTLAND WOMLW EAR
DEATH ; CALIFORNIA DIES.
' CLffl IS FOUND
ALARMS
BOURBONS
WO FOR SHOOTING
Federal Agents Receive
Anarchistic Letters.
NATIONAL PLOT RECALLED
Signature to Circulars Same
as Revolution Announce
ment in June, 1919.
DEAD NOW 35; HURT 200
Property Loss Is MfNlons.
Search Is On for Driver
of Death Wagon.
KETvV YORK, Sept. 17. Receipt
by department of justice agents to
night of five radical circulars, signed
"American Anarchist Fighters,"
which were found in a mail box at
Cedar street and Broadway at 11:58
A. M. Thursday, furnished the first
tangible clew, they said, to the iden
tity of the persons who were respon
sible for the explosion in Wall street
which three minutes later killed 35
persons, injured 200 others and
caused property damage running
into millions.
In making public the circulars,
which were printed on cheap paper,
7x11 inches, Chief William J. Flynn
of the bureau of investigation of the
department of justice called atten
tion to the fact that the bombs sent
m tne nation-wide bomb plot on
June 2, 1919, were wrapped in cir
culars announcing the coming of the
revolution and signed "Anarchist
Fighters."
Demonstration Believed Motive.
Chief Flynn declared the circulars
were not in the letter box when the
carrier made his round at 11:30 A.
M., but that he found them there on
hi3 next round at 11:58 o'clock.
The circulars read:
. "Remember, we will not tolerate
any longer. Free the political pris
oners or it will be sure death for all
of you.
"American Anarchist Fighters."
The circulars were not inclosed in
envelopes, nor did they bear ad
dresses. Some contained misspelled
words. Discrepancies in spelling
would indicate they were printed by
two different men.
Discovery of the circulars, Chief
Flynn said, "makes the plan of the
bombers fairly clear."
Timing Device Used.
"They left the wagon with a horse
attached in Wall street, having; set
n i;; ,1',. f .
""""to - mviiicuwi
ahead,' he explained. "They didn't
want to take a chance of mailing the
circulars. They didn't want to throw
them into the street as they walked
away from the scene, so they stuck
them in the box. Three minutes
later their bomb exploded.
"We are reasonably sure that a
time device was used. A fuse would
have smoked. Someone might have
smelled it- The clock arrangement
would be the safest." ,
He declared that it was his opinion
the bomb was "placed in the finan
cial heart of America as a defiance
against the American people and the
American government."
Bomb Cause of Explosion.
"In my opinion," Chief Flynn de
clared, "this is not an attack on J.
P. Morgan & Co. I believe those
responsible picked out the financial
center in order to create a demon
stration." Chief Flynn declared after leav
ing J. P. Morgan's office late today
that "from evidence obtained within I
the last few hours it has been defi
nitely established that the explosion
was due to a time bomb."
"The bomb was taken to Wall
street," he added, "in the wagon
which was blown to pieces. The in
fernal machine was timed to go off
at noon and apparently was placed
in the wagon by a person who was
within four blocks of Wall and
Broad streets when the explosion oc
curred." 100 Are in Hospitals.
Nearly 100 injured persons are
still in hospitals. The property dam
age is variously estimated from
$1,000,000 to 12,500,000.
Eight separate investigations cf
Concluded on Face 3, Column 1.),
Sale Price $15 an Acre In Amounts
ot to Exceed 32 0 Acres to Any
One Person, Is Ruling.
i
SALEM. Or., Sept. 17. (Special.)
The state land board, at a meeting
today, decided io place c - the market
12,000 acres apf approved state base
or scrip, which can be used for tl.e
selection of any government land sub
ject to homestead entry In Oregon.
This scrip will be sold. at $15 an
acre in amounts not to exceed S20
acres to any one person, the appli
cant designating- the lands he desires
and depositing $3 an acre with his
application. When the elerferi lands
are approved to the state, certificates I
or saie win be issued to the pur
chaser. Deferred payments will be due as
follows: $3 an acre in one year with
interest at 8 per cent; 13 an acre in
two years with inte.ast at 7 per cent
and i$ an acre on demand with inter
est at 6 per cent. It Is customary for
the board to allow the demand pay
ment to run for a period of five years
from da to of Issuance of the certifi
cate. 0GLESBY GOES INTO LEAD
Lowden's Candidate Ahead of
Small, Backed by Thompson.
CHICAGO, Sept. 17. Lieutenant
Governor Oglesby, candidate for the
republican nomination for governor
on the ticket supported1 by Governor
Lowden. today took the lead over Len
Small, Mayor Thompson's candidate.
Representative McKinley, also sup
ported by Governor Lowden, contin
ued to pain over Representative
Frank B. Smith of the Thompson
ticket for the. United, States senatorial
nomination.
Returns from 5396 precincts out of
5737 In Illinois showed tho following
vote:
For .the republican gubernatorial
nomination: Oglesby, 351.897; Small.
349.034.
In the republican senatorial con
test the vote from 5389 precincts was:
McKinley, 347,485; Smith, 331,353.
MILL IS RAZED BY FIRE
Damage of $250,000 Estimated to
Lumber Concern at Ivan.
KLAMATH FALLS, Or, Sept. 17.
(Special.) Fire late this afternoon
completely destroyed the lumber yards
and buildings of the- I. E. Kesterson
Lumber company at Ivan, near the
California line. The fire started from
the Incinerator.
J. H. Driscoll, local Insurance agent,
said that the lumber concern carried
$129,000 Insurance with him. He esti
mated that the loss would reach
1250.000.
The fire destroyed the California
Oregon Power company's transmis
sion line, which connects this city
with the Copco plant, and forced all
local mills and box factories to shut
down, but does not Interfere with
small industries and lighting, which
are eerved from the Keno plant.
BABY -IS BORN IN" AUTO
Stage, in Race to Hospital, Over'
taken by Stork.
VANCOUVER, Wash., Sept. 17.
(Special.) A baby
the fanflly of Mr.
Chlnaks cf Camas
was expected in
and Mrs. George
yesterday, but it
I so happened that there was not
I doctor in the city at the time. A
.. -.in, i. j
, after a hurried consultation it w., d-
elded to bring her to St. Joseph's hos
pital in this city In the big Camas
automobile stage.
This was done, but the stork over
took the stage before it reached this
city. The etage continued the trip to
the hospital and the mother and
daughter were removed to a room.
Today it Is reported that both mother
and child are doing very well and
none the worse for their unusual ex
perience.
REDS OUT FOR REVENGE
Cemtralia Gets "Warning of Intend
ed Raid by Radicals.
CENTRALIA, Wash., Sept. 17. (Spe
cial.) A letter, signed "The Revenge
Committee,' was received by a Cen-
tralia paper yesterday from Milwau
kee, saying that a band of radicals
would Invade the city about October
15 to get revenge for a "raid" on the
L W. W. hall here on Armistice day.
The band has -arms and ammunition
secreted in Butte, Mont., and all Cen-
tralians who participated in the "raid'
are marked forv death, the letter de
clared.
Little credence Is placed in the let
ter, which is similar to scores of
others received by local indivldua
and organizations within the past
year.
P0NZI HAS WOMAN RIVAL
$300 Profit In 10 Days on Invest
ment of $100 Offered..
BUTTE. Sept. 17. That Charles
Ponzi of "get-rich-quick" fame was a
"piker" when compared with Mrs.
Mary E. Phillips of Fort Worth, Tex,
is the belief of Chief of Police Jere
Murphy of Butte, who today arrested
Mrs. Phillips on a charge of operating
a "confidence game."
"Mrs. Phillips offered J300 profit in
ten days on an investment of Jloo.
l'onzi's best offer was 50 per cent in
SO days." Murphy explained.
Finance Body on Verge of
Quitting Contest.
WRITER SPRINGS SENSATION
Democratic Paper Reveals
Difficulties of Campaign.
FRANTIC APPEALS MADE
Telegrams Sent Broadcast to Help
In Maine Barely Bring SufH- v
cient Money to Pay Toils.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU,
WASHINGTON, Sept, 17. "Whatsis
the matter with the democratic cam
paign?" is a question the Baltimore
Sun, democratic newspaper support
ing Cox. -has put up to one of its
best staff writers to answer. ., He
went to the headquarters of the
democratic national committee in New
York and today the result is a sensa
tional storv in which he says he Is
prepared to prove that within the last j
ten days the national finance com-
mittee but narrowly, defeated a prop
osition to close up headquarters and
quit the contest.
He tells of numerous discourage
ments suffered by the national organ
ization since the Sap Francisco con
vention. There is no money in the
treasury and frantic appeals have
failed to bring aid. To .begin with,
he says, the national committee can
not, fall to take cognizance of the
fact that neither Governor Cox,
Fra-nklin Roosevelt nor Wilbur w.
Marsh, the latter treasurer of the
democratic national committee, has
opened his purse to give one cent,
although every one of them is either
a millionaire or a near millionaire.
Penury Kelt Keenly.
This latter situation is felt the more
keenly, he says, by the leader or
long experience when they recall
that Cleveland and Wilson, though
both comparatively poor, gave until
It hurt. The writer, who is Stephen
Bonsai, a well known newspaper man.
begins his story with the query
quoted at the beginning of this dis
patch, and says:
'Instructed to obtain an answer to
the foregoing query which is on many
lips today, 1 went to New Tork last
week for the first time since the
convention and after some difficulty
located the national democratic head
quarters in the Grand Central Palace,
although the obliging policeman was
pretty certain the folks had moved
away.
Only $70,000. he declares, has been
(Concluded on Pace 2, Column 1.)
I WHERE THE TROUBLE COMES IN. ', ?
IS
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Wind Drives Pack Toward Coast
AYhere Boat Is Caught in Jam
and May Be Destroyed.
SEATTLE, Wash., Sept- 17. Captain
Roald Amundsen, whose polar expe
dition ship, the Maud, Is wedged in
the ice 20 miles off Cape Serge on
the Siberian coast, is in danger of
losing his vessel and'may be forced to
abandon his attempt to reach the
pole, according to Dr. James H. Con
dit, superintendent of Presbyterian
missions in Alaska, who arrived here
today on the steamship Victoria from
Nome.
Dr. Condit said word was received
of the plight of the Maud Just as the
Victoria sailed from Nome and that
the residents of that city are
greatly concerned over the fate of the
explorer. The vessel la tightly
wedged between ice floes and the
rockbound Siberian coast and is in
grave danger of being ground to
pieces. Dr. Condit said. The first
news of the Maud was brought to
Nome by a fishing vessel.
On leaying Nome in July Amundsen
sailed into Bering strait, passing
Prince of Wales and thence into the
Arctic sea via Kaat Cape. Northwest
erly winds, which have prevailed dur
ing the summer, carried the great
Arctic ice floes to the east coast of
Siberia and the Maud was caught in
the ice pack, according to information
received at Nome.
"Amundsen is gray but in excellent
physical condition," said the doctor.
"He was rugged and optimistic. When
he left Nome en route to Wrangell
island to pick up the Arctic current,
which he hoped would carry him to
the pole, he had five years provisions
on the Maud. He has a crew of four
men and a few Kskimos."
The Victoria brought In a collection
of curios and skins collected by
Amundsen during his voyage through
the Northwest Passage from Norway,
which the explorer Is shipping to bis
brother in Chrlstianla. .
COURT ENJOINS CARRIERS
Railroad Rate Increases in North
Dakota Interdicted.
BISMARCK, N. D., Sept. 17. The
North Dakota supreme court today is
sued an order enjoining railroads op
erating in the state from further
charging the increased intrastate
rates put into effect September 1.
The order also directs the railways
to rebate any Increase already col
lected. FILER, IDAHO, HAS BLAZE
Business Block Bnrned; Loss Esti
mated at $300,000.
FILER, .Idaho, Sept. :7.-iDamaje
estimated at $300,000 was caused here
today by fire which destroyed nearly
en entire business block.
Fire apparatus from nearby cities
was dispatched here to fight the
flames, believed to have originated in
the basement of a mercantile estab
lishment. COMES
Slayer of Sheriff Taylor Remorse
ful and Begs Forgiveness as
He Starts for Gallows.
PENDLETON, Or, Sept. 17. (Spe
cial.) Iron nerve and the air of In
difference hithsrto displayed by Em
mett Bancroft, alias Neil Hart, con
victed to be hanged November 5 for
the murder of Sheriff Til Taylor,
broke today.
The change of spirit and attitude
came during services held in his cell
ftr him by members of the local post
of the Salvation Army.
A letter received by the Salvation
Army today from W. Z. Bancroft of
Denver, Colo., father of the convicted
man. was given to him. The epistle
expressed a father's love and anxiety
for his rjywird son. Its contents
caused the sentenced man to weaken
and, rocked with remorse, he wept.
Tho letter, which Is the first word
to be received from relatives of the
criminal. Is headed Bancroft Dec
orating company of Denver. The
father, who is manager of the con
cern, pleads for news of his son
and says that he had not heard from
him during the past year except
Trom a detective who said that Ban
croft was working out of Denver with
a gang of thieves. Mr. Bancroft was
informed of his son's plight recently
In a letter from Captain Conrad of
the local Salvation Army post.
The sentenced man this afternoon
answered his father's letter In words
which show remorse for the deed he
committed.
"I would not have 'done such a thing
if I had of taken the second thought."
the .slayer said in his letter. "And
father I am sorry that I have done
this and have gave my heart to my
heavenly father and have asked him
to forgive me for my sins that I have
sinned. And father I will pray for
you until the last minute."
Bancroft expresses appreciation for
the work of the Salvation women in
his behalf. '
"I will say that if it hadn't been for
these women that I would not of got
ten on the right path toward our
heavenly Father."
His letter continues: "I would not
have been a saved man today and I
know that I will see my mother up
there with the angels."
Bancroft instructed Captain Conrad
to tell Mrs. Taylor, wife of the man
he had murdered, that he was sorry
that he had killed the sheriff. He
then asked to talk with Sheriff E. R.
(Jinks) Taylor, who was called in.
Bancroft then asked him to forgive
him for murdering his brother. Sheriff
Taylor, deeply moved and with tears
In his eyes, told the slayer of his
brother that was all he could do.
Sheriff Taylor will leave tomorrow
morning for Salem with Hart to de
liver him to- the state penitentiary.
In the party will be two youths, Vic
tor Arego and Henry Gass. sentenced
for a minimum of three years for
automobile stealing by Judge Phelps
yesterday.
BYSECDMD DUSTER
Victory of Re-election
May Be Nullified.
DISASTER STIRS SENTIMENT
New York Assemblymen Like
ly to Be Declared Disloyal.
CONFERENCE IS SUNDAY
Meeting Called to Decide I'pbn
Action to Be Taken Monday
When Session Convenes.
ALBANY, N. Y., Sept- 17. (Special.)
The members of the state as
sembly will meet here with Speaker
Sweet on Sunday afternoon as the re
sult of the re-election of the five
ousted socialist members of that
house at the special election In New
York city yesterday. The meeting is)
called for the purpose of deciding
upon some action for Monday night,
when the special session convenes.
Speaker Sweet has iefused to make
any statement on what course of ac
tion tne assembly members will take.
He did say, however, that he had re
ceived many letters from different
members of the house, statins that
they are willing to express their view
on the subject at the Sunday after
noon conference. It is the opinion
among upstate legislators that the
men will n6t be allowed to remain in
their seats through the special ses
sion. Even the amendment of their
constitution to fix any objectionable
measures is said to have no influence
with the legislators who want them
ousted for a second time.
DU.ltr Stira tp And..
The speaker probably will be the
chief spokesman at the conference.
Senator Walters, majority leader of
the upper house, also will attend. He
will arrive tomorrow from Syracuse.
That the disaster of yesterday in
New York city will cause anti-socialist
sentiment is the consensus of
opinion here today. Up until yes
terday it generally has been thought
that for peace the socialists would be
allowed to remain in their seats. The
disaster, however, will have & ten
dency to eliminate any such action.
It is thought that the socialists will
be disqualified by affidavit showing
that they are disloyal.
Senator Lockwood, chairman of the
housing committee, is trying to get
the housing programme in shape be
fore Monday night. The programme
has been revised many times, due to
disagreements on the part of the
members of the committee. No def
inite statement can be obtained from
any member of the committee until
the first meeting of the. legislature.
' Fusion Candidates Overcome.
'Erery one of tne five socialists ex
pelled from the assembly last spring
at the behest of Speaker Sweet and
other majority leaders won yesterday
their fight to be returned in the spe
cial election ordered by Governor
Smith. The five overcame fusion
candidates agreed upon by democrats
and republicans. The vote was much
lighter than in the regular election
last fall, but the older parties which
fused lost almost twice as much as
the socialists, so that the latter won
by a comfortable majority.
That the five ejected socialists won
through the votes of democrats and
republicans who resented the methods
of Speaker Sweet and others who di
rected the ouster last epring was
suggested by the fact that of the six
districts where the special election
was held, in the nineteenth, Brook
lyn, the socialist candidate, who was
not one of those ousted, failed to win.
In a three-cornered fight the demo
cratic candidate, Benjamin C. Cling
man. was elected to fill the place of
the late assemblyman, John Damico.
The elected socialists will be chal
lenged again when they attempt to
take their seats and another will be
made when they appear to take their
path of office. This was said last
night on authority of a man close to
Speaker Sweet.
Insult Declared Added.
Assemblyman Cuvlllier of Harlem
wrote yesterday to Speaker Sweet and
expressed the opinion that the five
socialists, if re-elected, "will not be
entitled to their scats in the assem
bly." He declared that since article
111, section 2, of the state constitu
tion, provides that the members of
the assembly ehall be chosen for one
year, and as the seats of the five
have been declared vacant, they can
not Bit .during this year. If the so
cialists had nominated other candi
dates than those ousted, he said, the
question of their right to seats would
have to be determined by an inves
tigation of their fitness, "but sending
these men back, who were expelled
for disloyalty against the government
of the United States, is only adding
insult to the assembly, and I for one
shall, without hesitation, vote to un
seat any of the above men if elected."
Another fight against the seating of
the re-elected assemblymen would
take up a great deal of the limited
time which the special session of the
legislature, which is to qonvene Mon
day night, has at its disposition if
it is to adopt pressingly needed rent
and housing legislation by October
- Concluded on Page 2. Column
Mrs. C. A. Carlson and C. Saw
yer Inflict Abdominal Wounds.
Mother Treated by Son.
Mrs. C. A. Carlson. 69. 65 East
Thirtieth street, attempted suicide
yesterday morning at 11 o'clock by
slashing her abdomen with a pocket
knife. She -was found lr the bathtub
in her night clothes by her daughter,
Kdna O. Carlson, who had left the
house for a few minutes to go to a
neighboring store. Physicians at the
Good Samaritan hospital, where the
woman was taken for treatment, be
lieved last night that there was little
hope of her recovery.
Mrs. Carlson had been suffering
from melancholia for several years,
according to her daughter, and "had
been closely watched during the laM
few weeks to guard against any
attempts of suicide. Yesterday morn
ing, believing that her mother would
remain in btd during her absence,
the girl left the house for a few
minutes," but on her return found her
mother in a pitiful condition in the
bathtub, and suffering great pain
from her self-inflicted wounds.
The woman was taken to the hos
pital, where she was attended by her
son. Dr. C. K. Carlson, who received
his medical degree less than a year
ago, and Dr. Otis F. Aikin, In whose
office Dr. Carlson Is employed. It
was found that the woman had las
ceratcd herself in. such a manner that
her recovery is doubtful.
VANCOUVER. B. C Sept. 17.
N. C. Sawyer, aged 72. of Fort Bragg.
Cal., committed suicide at the home
of his sister, Mrs. A. Reid. here early
today, according to police Investi
gators. The body was found in a bath
tub, death having resulted from
wounds in the abdomen. Ho had
been suffering from rheumatism
since arriving here to visit his sister.
VETERANS MEET SEPT. 25
Men of "Wild West" Division to
Hold Ileunlon in Scuttle.
SEATTLE, Wash., Sept. 17. Hun
dreds ol veterans of the 91st (."Wild
West") divisions from all parts of the
west will gather here next week for
the first annual reunion -of that or
ganization. The reunion will open
Saturday, September 25, the eve of
the anniversary of the beginning of
tne Meuse-Argonne drive, in which
the 91st took part.
The local arrangements committee
has provided accommodations for at
least a thousand visitors and has pre
pared an elaborate entertainment pro
gramme. VICTIM SAVES SECURITIES
Man Who Lost Leg In Explosion
Delivers Papers in Hospital.
NEW YORK, Sept. 17. (Special.)
One man who lost a leg in the Wall
strjeet explosion was carrying a large
number of securities for delivery to
a Wall-street banking house.
Neither his name nor that of the
banking house was revealed, but it
was learned that a representative of
the bankers later visited him in the
hospital. There the wounded man
made safe delivery of the securities.
GENOA EXCHANGE BOMBED
Timo Explosion Causes Slight Dam
age to Financial Center.
LONDON. Sept. 17. A time bomb
was exploded at the stock exchange
In Genoa today, says a dispatch to the
Exchange Telegraph from Genoa.
Some damage v.as done, but there
were no casualties. The authors of
the outrage were not apprehended.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature.
77 degrees; minimum, 50 degrees.
TODAY'S Occasional rain, cooler; south
westerly winds.
Politics.
Impoverished treasury alarms democrats.
Page 1.
Re-elected New York socialists face second
ouster. Page 1.
Late returns increaj. Hart's lead. Pag 4.
Conrtitution la at Issue, deoiaree Harding.
Page 2.
Cox pledges aid in solving California's
oriental problem. Page 2.
Itaraestic.
Evidence that explosion was due to planted
bomb is held to be conclusive. Page 1.
National.
United Btates rejects packers' plans for
sale of stockyards. Page 6.
Pacific Northwest.
Amundsen Is caught In Siberian floes.
Page 1.
Elate land board to sell 12,000 acres of
scrip. Page 1.
447 Japanese live In Oregon and own
$300,000 worth of property. Page
rNell Hart breaks down when he gets home
leWer. Page 1.
Big reclamation programme is
Page 2.
Sport.
Coast league results Portland 6,
inento 1: Seattle 3. Salt Lake
urged.
Sacra-
Los
Angeles 3. Vernon -; San Francisco
2, Oakland 1. Page 12.
Johnny Murphy tells of treatment on Ant
werp trip. Page 12.
Tillman to fight McCarthy at Milwaukie.
Page 13.
Commercial and Marine.
Average level of wholesale prices Is grad
ually declining. Page 19.
Wheat higher at Chicago on talk of ex
port sales. Page 19.
Sharp advances in Wall street stock mar
ket. Page 19.
Service out of Portland to west coast Is
planned. Page 13.
Portland and Vicinity.
Mayor suspends policemen who killed
Robert W. Hedderly and charges are
filed. Page 1.
Wife shoots at husband when she finds
him with alleged vampire. Page ll.
John E. Young named Portland fire chief.
Page 7.
Man and woman use knives in suicide
efforts. Page 1.
Girl says officer man-handled .her. rage 3.
League of nation termed foe to American
constitution. Page .
Slayers of Hedderly Laid
Off for Hearing.
ATTORNEY FILES CHARGES
Killing of Suspect Is Declared
to Be Outrage.
NEW WITNESS PRODUCED
Police Conld Have Captured. Sus
pect Without Firing Shot, De
clares Street Cleaner.
W. I. Morris and E M. Jackson,
policemen who participated in the
shooting of Robert W. Hedderly on
September 10. were suspended yes
terday by Mayor Baker pending the "
report of the grand jury now investi
gating the case and also a special
hearing to be conducted by the mayor
Tuesday afternoon.
The suspension of the policemen
followed filing of charges against the
men by Barnett II. Goldstein, attor
ney for Mrs. R. W. Hedderly. the
widow.
Both Morris and Jackson hold the
rank of patrolman and had been as
signed temporarily to work with the
revenue officers. Following the
coroner's inquest in the Hedderly case
they were ordered back to regular
duty. Morris for some time had been
working in plain clothes with the e
tectives and had bceu detailed to this
same employment prior to his sus
pension. .Suapenxion Lasts IS flays.
Karly yesterday afternoon Ma?or
Baker called Chief of Tollce Jenkins
into conference, after which he an
nounced that he had ordered both
men suspended for 15 days pending
th investigations.
The charges filed by Attorney Gold
stein revealed sensational evidence
which was not presented at the
coroner's inquest, because the police
did not call Hillbrand Zoon, an em
ploye of the street cleaning bureau
tvho was an eyewitness to the shoot
ing. Following the inquest. Mr. Gold
stein obtained a statement from Mr.
Zoon, who was standing on the cor
ner of Grand avenue and Oak street
at the time of the shootin.
Shooting Held I'Bneeeiisrf.
In his statement, Mr. Zoon says that
he first noticed an automobile travel
ing by at a rate of speed estimated
at five miles an-hour. Almost at the
same moment as he noticed the car.
he said he was attracted by two men
who were'' firing shots running from
a corner in the direction of the auto
mobile. An officer, whom Attorney Gold
stein Identified by Zoon's discription
ab Patrolman Jackson, ran about 15
feet behind tho car, according to
Zoon, and fired the four shots in the
direction of the automobile without
Civing a command to stop. After fir
ing the shots, Zoon assented that this
officer said: "I believe I got him this
time."
Zoon said in his statement that the
officer, could have boarded the auto
mobile without difficulty at any time,
but that he did not do so until he had
fired the shots at Hedderly.
Hedderly Handcuffed, Searched.
When the Hedderly car was brought
to a stop, according to Zoon, the pa
trolman who fired the shots immedi
ately placed handcuffs on Hedderly
and ordered Zoon to search him. This
Zoon said he did. finding no firearms
or other weapons. He did find a
small flask of whisky in Hedderly's
pocket.
Mr. Goldstein charged that Patrol
man Morris without warning fired
four shots at the Hedderly machine,
and asserted that there was no occa
sion, reason or necessity for the dis
play or use of firearms in self pro
tection or otherwise.
He further charged that Patrolman
Morris without any knowledge that a
felony had been committed, and with
out personal knowledge that a mls
demoanor had been committed proj
ected his revolver into the stomach of
George Lewis, an alleged accomplice
I of Hedderly. and commanded Lewis to
"stick em up."
Threat Held Prfmitnre.
Mr. Goldstein said in his charges
that there was no occasion for this
theatrical but dangerous display of
firearms, as Lewis had neither been
advised of his arrest nor had he given
the slightest indication of resistance,
according to Mr. Goldstein.
Mr. Goldstein pointed out that be
cause no evidence showed that Hed
derly had consummated any sales of
liquor he could not have been charged
with anything but a misdemeanor.
The attorney cited the law to show
that an officer is not empowered with
any legal right to kill a human being
except when necessary to overcome
resistance to the execution of legal
process; when necessary in retaking
prisoners charged with or convicted
of a crime who have escaped or when
necessary in arresting a person flee
ing from justice, who has committed
a felony.
Cane Held Outrage.
"I' earnestly submit." read the ,
charges filed by Mr. Goldstein, "that
the conduct of the officers in accom
plishing the death of a human being,
without necessity, is reprehensible.
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