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MERCHANT'S CLOTHES
TAKEN BY ROBBER
FRO.MIXEN'T GRANTS PASS MAX
S90.QU0 IN LOOT IS
TAKEN FROM HQME
MISS BRASLAU SINGS
TO RADIO AUDIENCE
SERBIA IS ROCKED
GHOSTLY RAPPING
PORTUGAL-TO-JANEIRO
FLIGHT IS RESUMED
BY REPEATED QUAKES
REVISITS BELFAST
CAUGHT BY POLICE
NOTED cdNTRALTO GIVES DE
LIGHTFUL. REClTAIi.
100 HOMES WRECKED; DAM
AGE NEARLY $6,000,000.
AVIATORS LEAVE CANARY FOR
CAPE VERDE ISLANDS.
LEFT IX UNDERWEAR.
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MURDER
UNSHOD
ALARMS
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Week-End Another Grim
One for City.
FOUR MEN SHOT TO DEATH
Three Small Children Are
Wounded in Outbreaks.
KILLINGS ARE IN HOMES
Action Is Believed to Be in Re
prisal for Slaying of Police
man Saturday.
BELFAST, April 2. (By the Asso
ciated Press.) Four men -were shot
and killed and three small children
were wounded last night in the Sinn
Fein area near the Old Lodge road
district. The ages of the men ranged
from 40 to 63 years.
It was another grim week-end for
Belfast. The shooting of the men
was believed to have been in reprisal
for the killing on Saturday of George
Turner, a regular policeman for 14
years. The news of the shooting ot
. the policeman spread rapidly, and
there were scenes of excitement on
the streets.
Later heavy rifle and revolver fir
ing, punctuated with the shrieks of
women and chiloren, was heard, and
shortly afterward the bodies of the
four men were taken to a hospital,
where the three wounded children
also were conveyed.
Children's Father Killed.
The father of the children, Joseph
Walsh, was one of the men who was
shot and killed. All the killings took
place in the homes of the victims.
Walsh was lying in bed with the
two younger children, and the bullet
which killed him wounded them.
Two-year-old Bridget was isnot
through the head.
Frank Walsh, a son of Joseph
Walsh, was stopping with his grand
mother a few doors distant from the
Walsh home. The grandmother's
house also was raided.
The body of a young man was
found lying in the road at midnight
last night three miles from Newry.
There were two bullet wounds in his
head and a bicycle lay beside the
body.
Oranare Hall Destroyed.
Orange hall, near Newry and close
to the scene of the recent train burn
ing, was destroyed early today.
Armed men ordered out the woman
caretaker and her four children,
threw out the furniture and set fire
to the building.
At Waterford today Frotestant
Bishop Millar of Cashel, speaking on
the "terrible events in north Ire
land," said he had consulted wi'.h the
clergy and men prominent in Jill de
nominations who had voiced the
opinion that "the names of Catholics
and Protestants are being used in
connection with some of the foulest
deeds that have ever disgraced a I
country." "
REPUBLICAN ARMY
SPLIT I
Further Responsibility lo Dail Is
Renounced by Troops..
DUBLIN, April 2. (By the Asso
ciated Press.) The serious extent of
the split in the ranks of the Irish re
publican army was revealed today
when from five Dublin battalions
which had" been ordered out to take
a "new oath of allegiance or an oath
with new implications" not less than
2000 men obeyed the republican ap
peal and marched to Smithfield.
There, in the presence ot Liam Mel
lows. Roderick O'Connor and other
noted heads of the republican move
ment, they took the oath of alle
giance' to free themselves from any
other further responsibility to the
Dail Eireann.
The extremists tonight expressed
entire satisfaction at the response to
their appeal
A large crowd, including contin
gents from the women's organiza
tion, witnessed the parade of the bat
talions, but save no demonstration
of sympathy beyond their presence.
ELECTIONEERING CONTINUED
Valera Says North Ireland Regards
Pact as Scrap of Paper.
DUBLIN, April 2. (By the Associ
ated Press.) The campaign of elec
tion oratory continued today. Eamonn
de Valera addressed a demonstration
at Dundalk. Referring to the new
peace pact, he said that . already In
north Ireland it was regarded as a
scrap of paper.
Michael Collins, speaking at Castle
bar, alluded to the new agreement
which he declared opened up a new
era in the northeast and added imme
diately to the prospects of a union be
tween the north and south. That
prospect, he said, would become al
most a certainty if the people could
reach an understanding among them
selves. An appeal was made by Mr.
Collins for consideration of this
point by the followers of De Valera.
O. A. Colby Presents Pathetic Ap
pearance on Return Home
After Being Held Vp. ,
GRANTS PASS, Or., April 2. (Spe
cial.) Sans watch, sans money, sans
everything but his underwear and a
pair of rubbers, O. A. Colby, promi
nent merchant, presented a pathetic
appearance when he returned to his
fireside after closing up his store late
Saturday night.
Mr. Colby was accosted by a lone
robber when within 40 feet of his
home. He was compelled to go for
a walk, which terminated in the
brush a block or two from his house
Here he was relieved of 115 and his
watch.
The robber, noticing that he and his
victim were of nearly the same size,
proceeded to annex Colby's suit. A
silk shirt attracted him, and he sup
plemented his collection with that,
Shoes socks, hat, collar and tie fol
lowed.
Hold on," said Colby. "These cuff
buttons are a present from my wife.
"Are they gold?" the robber in
quired.
"They are,
replied Colby.
oorty, dui i need them, too," was
the reply.
Upon finding the cuff links had
Colby's initials on them, the robber
threw them on the ground, however,
where they were found this morning.
Police officers investigated shortly
after the hold-up, but were unable
to apprehend the robber.
Mr. - Colby came to Grants Pass
nearly a year ago from Seattle, where
he was engaged in business.
MORNING FIRE IS FATAL
One Dead and Four Missing in
Blaze at Hazelton, B. C.
HAZELTON. B. C, April 2. Frank
Walsh of Vancouver, B. C, is dead
and four other persons were missing
tonight as the result of a Tire which
early this morning destroyed four
buildings, including the Hazelton
hotel.
Careful search has been made for
the missing, but little hope is enter
tained of their being found alive. The
property loss is estimated at $65,000
The fire, which was first noticed
about 2 o'clock this morning, started
in the Hazelton hotel,, a three-story
frame building. By the time the fire
department reached the scene the
building was ablaze from top to bot
torn. The fire quickly spread to the
hotel stables, a Chinese cafe, and the
residence of L. A. Graef, government
telegraph operator, all of which were
destroyed. Firemen succeeded in get
ting the flames under control before
further damage was done.
Walsh was traveling salesman for a
Vancouver, B. C, hardware firm. He
came here from Calgary three years
ago and was well known in Alberta
and British Columbia. He was occu
pying a room in the hotel.
THREE CREEKS NAMED
Atlantic, Pacific and Hudson Bay
Signalize "Triple Divide."
WASHINGTON, D. C, April 2. Lo
cation in Glacier National park, of
the only "triple divide" mountain In
North America, has been signalllzed
by. the United States geographical
board which has christened three
small- creeks originating at that
point, Atlantic, Pacific and Hudson
Bay creeks, respectively.
From the summit of Triple Divide
an observer is within pebble tossing
distance of waters which flow into
Hudson bay to the north. Pacific
ocean to the west and Gulf of Mexico
to the soutl .
TWINS' SPINES JOINED
X-liay Pictures Taken of Siamese
Sisters After Death.
CHICAGO, April 2. The "Siamese
twins," Josefa and Rosa Blazek, who
died last week, were joined at the
spine and severing them would have
bee fatal, according to X-ray photo
graphs taken after their death.
The v pictures, it was declared,
showed a continuous U-shaped spine
and also several vital organs in com
mon. The death was due to intes
tinal obstruction, according to George
W. Brady, radiographer.
HEARSE CHASES VICTIM
Empty Auto Finally Corners and
Runs Down Pedestrian.
BOSTON, April 2. While doctors i
patched up his injured back and hand
today, Thomas Lavin of Bast Walpole !
related how an empty automobile I
hearse had chased him 40 yards across i
the street and up on the sidewalk and
I finally had cornered him and knocked i
him down. The driver, Walter Eld
ridge, blamed the accident on the wet
pavement.
"Business must be bad," was the
victim's comment.
2 GIRLS MAKE ESCAPE
Pair Dash to Freedom While Tak
ing Walk With Rest of Wards.
SALEM, Or., April 2. (Special.)
Cleo Crocker, 16 years old, and Delia
Irene Lane, 13, made their escans
from the girls' training school here i
today while being taken on their
The Crocker girl was committed j
from Tillamook county and the Lane !
girl from Douglas. The two girls, f
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the school, broke from the ranks and !
dashed into some nearhv tindfrhn,.k i
where the attendants who gave chase '
were unable to find them.
Gang Locks Rich Pair and
7Servants"in Cellar.
RAID IS MADE IN DAYLIGHT
Alarm by Butler Causes One
Robber's Capture.
$20,000 IS RECOVERED
Police Race in Taxicab to Scene
and Arrive Just .as Four
Outlaws Are Leaving.
NEW YORK, April 2. The most
amazing daylight robbery New "York
has known in many years took place
this afternoon in tne home of Albert
R. Shattuck, retired financier, 19
Washington Square North, when four
armed bandits overpowered Mr. and
Mrs.- Shattuck and tneir seven serv
ants, -bound them all with rope, locked
them in a wine cellar and stole jew
elry valued at $90,000.
The robbers ransacked the dwell
ing for an hour and a half, but as
they were leaving one was captured,
and in an overcoat he had abandoned
in his flight through. Washington
Square jewels valued at $20,000 were
found.'
Alarm Given by Bntler.
The alarm was given by the butler,
who freed himself from his bonds and,
running to a neighbor's house, while
the thieves were still at work, tele
phoned the police.
Racing in a taxicab to the Shattuck
home, the police arrived as the four
robbers were leaving.
They scattered as they fled, pur
sued by hundreds in the square. Three
escaped. .
The seven servants were at dinner
in the pantry on the basement floor
when .one of the robbers gained ad
mittance to the house on pretense
that he was in urgent need of a tele
phone. -
' Mr. Shattuck la Pant 00.
Mr. Shattuck, who is past 60, was
seated in the library, and Mrs, Shat
tuck in the living room, adjoining.
Neither knew what was going on in
the basement when the robbers were
admitted.
The servants dropped their knives
and forks in fright as the four in
truders covered them with revolvers
and ordered them to hold up their
hands and make no noise.
Rope was then obtained from a
store room and the hands of each
were tied behind their backs. Three
of the servants then were marched
to the wine cellar and the other four
to a vault and all were locked in.
(Concluded on Page 3. Column 2.)
SOME DAY THE PUBLIC
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Three Favorite Selections Which
- Have Won Acclaim Here and
In England Are Given.
EVKXTS ON THE OltEGONIAN
RADIO PROGRAMME TODAY.
4 P. M. Phonograph concert,
featuring five selections in the
public school music memory
concert. . ,
7:30 P. M. Concert of popu
lar phonograph records.
8 P. M. Songs by Walter
Jenkins, community song lead
er, accompanied by B. D. Ackley.
Miss Sophie Braslau, noted con
tralto of the celebrated Metropolitan
Opera company of New York, charmed
an enthusiastic and invisible audience
of music lovers last night when she
gave a delightful recital in The Ore
gonian radio tower.
Miss Braslau sang. three of her fa
vorite songs, selections which have
won for her the acclaim of the princi
pal cities of the United States and
England on concert tours and have
entertained an army of her admirers
as phonograph records.
Her first song was "Eili, Eili," the
great Hebrew sacred number which
Miss Braslau sings with an artistry
equaled by no other American con
tralto. She then graciously sang an
extra song, not announced in the
original programme, "As We Part."
Her third song was "The Sweetest
Story Ever Told," love melody which
brought out special qualities in the
Splendid voice of the Metropolitan
artist.
Mrs. Ethel Cave-Cole, accompanist
for Miss Braslau, played the piano for j
the noted contralto last night, and her
sympathetic playing r.dded much -to
the enjoyment of the concert.
Many enthusiastic reports and con
gratulations on Miss Braslau's con
cert were received last night from
radio stations that listened fn on The
Oregonian broadcasting. The soldiers
at Vancouver barracks sent a message
of thanks to Miss Braslau by wire
less.
An interesting concert will be sent
broadcast from The Oregonian radio
tower at 8 o'clock tonight, when Wai
ter Jenkins, popular community song
leader and conductor of singing at the
Methodist gospel crusade, will sing.
Mr. Jenkins will sing "The Gypsy
Trail," "Keep on Hopirt'," and several
special gospel crusade songs. He will
be accompanied at the piano by B. D.
Ackley, pianist with eight years" ex
perience in revival work with Billy
Sunday, famous evangelist. Mr. Jen
kins is also making arrangements to
secure a quartet or singers for the
concert tonight. -
At 4 P. M. The Oregonian will send
broadcast five phonograph selections
from the public school music memory
list. The numbers are "Marche Slave,"
by Tschaikowsky ; "Festival at Bag
dad," by Rimski Korsakov; "Song of
the Shepard Lehl," by Korsakov; "La
Soagnuola," bv Goli-di-Chiara, and
Valse Triste," by Sibelius. A brief
lecture on the story of each selection
and its composer will be given - by
Mary Elizabeth Godwin, who has
charge of tne educational department
(Concluded on Page ' 4, Column 2.)
MAY DECIDE TO PUT A STOP
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Authorities in Some Districts Ad
vise People to Stay Outside
and Watch for Signs.
BELGRADE, April 2. (By the As
sociated Press.) Continuous heavy
earth shocks are occurring through
out Serbiai. More than one hundred
houses have been destroyed and many
others damaged.
The monetary loss up to the present
time is estimated at ,30,000,000 dinars.
(Normally the dinar is worth 19
cents; which would make the loss $5,
850,000.) The authorities In certain districts
have advised the people to keep out
doors as much as possible and to
watch various animals for the signs
of fear they show in anticipation of
earthquakes.
'' WASHINGTON, D. C, April 2. An
earth movement of "pronounced in
tensity" was recorded this afternoon
on the seismograph instruments at
Georgetown university.
It lasted from 2:47 .P. M. to 3:22
P. M. and was estimated to have
been centered about 2000 miles from
Washington.
KU KLUX EiECT NEGRO
Klansmen Drive Suspected Offend
er of Women From Roseburg.
ROSEBURG, Or., April 2. (Spe
cial.) Great excitement was caused
here about midnight last night, when
the Ku Klux Klau started a search
for Sam Jackson, negro bootblack,
who was alleged to have insulted
several women, while in an intoxi
cated condition. The klansmen had
attended a lecture and motion pic
ture given by the order and follow
ing the programme it was reported
to them that the negro had stopped
women on the street and mad in
sulting remarks to them.
Squads were quickly formed and a
careful search of the city was made,
but the negro managed to get into
hiding and remained there. When
located rfter daybreak this morning
he was given 24 hours to leave the
city and he immediately began to
comply with the order.
ROBBER DIES OF WOUND
Attempt Is Being Madq to Find
Widow of Bank Raider.
PORT TOWNSEND, Wash., April 2.
James Grant, Sequim bank robber
who was shot in battle with Sheriff
Philip Case early Saturday morning,
died in a hospital here tonight."Grant,
with Ernest Browning, was captured
j after they had dodged posses for more
than a week on tne Olympic penin
sula.; The men were finally cornered
near Quilcene. Browning surren
dered, but Grant attempted flight and
was shot. '
An attempt was being made tonight
to find Grant's widow. She was be
lieved to be in Spokane, but officers
there have been unable to locate her.
Grant is said to have exacted a pledge
from Browning that he would never
reveal Grant's true Identity and would
Bee that his wite is given all his
property.
TO THIS SORT OF THING.
Neighbors Tell Family to
Leave Brentwood.
PORTLAND HAS MYSTERY
Poundings on Door Leave No
Dents for Sleuths.
CASE PUZZLES OFFICERS
Mr. and Mrs. H. Jr. Wellcome's
Home Visited by Spirit Who
Thunders on Panels.
Ghosts nebulous, shivering wraiths
of shadowland have Brentwood trem
bling in their pores and their victims
Mr. and Mrs. H. N. Wellcome, have
been ordered by nervous neighbors to
leave their home before noon today or
be removed by force. Deputy sheriffs.
attorneys and neighbors who attempt
ed to. solve the mystery have failed
dismally.
Old Man Ghost appeared about two
j weeks ago which was a week after
Wellcome, his wife and young child,
had moved into the four-room box
house. They came to Portland from
St. Paul and their first visitor was
the spook He rapped, loudly -enough
to have shattered a door. Rushing to
it, Wellcome found nothing. In two
hours he knocked again, this time us
ing a sledge hammer or some .equally
heavy instrument. Wellcome's neigh
bora heard the rapping but thought
little of it.
Kapplngi Are Continued.
At intervals during the last two
weeks the spook has rapped, and
rapped, and rapped. Wellcome has
never been able to .reach the door
quickly enough to intercept him.
Neighbors, who lay in wait outside
and in the house, heard the rapping.
It was peculiar in that when they
were outside the house the sound ap
peared to come from inside, and when
the watchers 'were both inside and
outside those on either Ule accused
the others of doing the rapping.
Old Man Ghost was no joke to the
Wellcome family. Several days ago
Mrs. Wellcome was working in the
kitchen and was going to the kitchen
door with a pan of water when he
knocked. She dropped the water and
nearly fainted.
Neighbors Accuse Householder.
Opening the door, Wellcome was
confronted by several wrathy neigh
bors, who accused him of doing the
knocking. He indignantly denied it.
The incident was one which Mrs. Well
come could not forget and she devel
oped a case of nerves whicr. Saturday
brought on hysterics. She was placed
in care of a nhvsician. whila her hua
band called in Deputy Sheriff Beeman
and an attorney, George N. Woodley.
But before sheriff and attorney
were appealed to the neighbors
reached the end of their patience. A
delegation said to have been headed
by John Brown called at the house
and informed Mrs; Wellcome that they
would have to move before Monday
noon or be moved. Not all sentiment
was against the Wellcomes, however,
for the neighborhood is divided into
two factions, those who believe that
Wellcome is "running a shenanigan"
on them and those who believe tnat
some human or occult being, with
sinister motive, is deliberately terri
fying the newcomers into moving.
Medium Theory Advanced.
One neighbor conceived the Idea
that Mrs. Welcome might be a me
dium and not know it. Getting busy,
this neighbor was said to have im
parted this information about Old Man
Ghost to a clan of spiritualists, who
called at the home to hold a se
ance. It was not a success. Mrs.
Wellcome tearfully denied that she
was hand in hand with the spook
world and no rapping rewarded the
visitors.
There was a ghost party at the
Wellcome home Saturday night, at
tended by Beeman, Woodley, other
deputies and neighbors. The place
was examined thoroughly. Although
the rapping must have been done with
some heavy instrument, examination
of surfaces failed to reveal a single
scar or dent that might have' been
made In such a manner. The kitchen
door, most frequently shaken and
which had apparently been pounded
so hard that it should have cracked,
showed not a dent. No human con
trivance was found that might ex
plain the manifestation.
Ghost Kalis to Come.
For hours the watcners sat and
watched." The ghost did not like their
brand of tobacco. He refused to sat
isfy their curiosity or to have any
thing to do with them. They slan
dered him llbelously.
"The house has been vacant for
, months," confided Deputy Beeman.
'There has been some complaint of
bootlegging in Brentwood, although
we have never been able to catch the
fellow. 1 I believe he has been using
th Wellcome house for a liquor cache
and is trying to frighten them away.
"A couple o"f days ago a stranger
called at the house and asked permis
sion to crawl under the house to look
for a grave. The basement is not ex
cavated, but there was a hole there
that might have been used for hiding
tConi.uded era Page Culuinu 1.) 1
Second Leg of Long Journey
Through Air Is Started.
Hydroplane Being Used.
LAS P ALMAS, Canary Islands, April
2. (By the Associated PrefS.) The
Portuguese aviators, Captains Coutin
ho and Sacudura, resumed their hydro
plane flight at 10 o'clock this morn
ing. They are bound for the Cape Verde
Islands on the second leg of their long
journey to Rio Janeiro.
The aviators stated that the port of
Las Palmas was too narrow to permit
of their machine, laden with gasoline
to take off there, and therefore the
start for the Cape Verde islands was
made from Gand0 15 mUes from Las
Palmas.
The Portuguese hydro-airplane left
Lisbon on the morning of March 30
on the first leg if the flight to South
Africa, covering 710 miles to Las
Palmas in IVt hours. The distance
from Las Palmas to the Cape Verde
islands is 816 miles. The next leg,
from Cape Verde to Fernando Narons,
near the cost of Brazil, measures 3170
mileq.
EPISCOPAL OFFICER QUITS
St. Stephens Pro-Cathedral Treas-
y nrer to Resign Job Today.
W. F. Robertson, treasurer of St,
Stephens Kpiscopai Pro-Cathedral,
announced yesterday that he would
resign today from that position. This
announcement was the latest devel
opment in the recent controversy be
tween Bishop Walter Taylor Sum
ner and the Very Rev. R. T. T. Hicks,
dean, which resulted'in the resigna
tion of the latter.
Rev. Jay Claude Black, archdea
con, filled the pulpit of the pro
cathedral yesterday. A choir made
up largely of recruits furnished the
music, owing to the fact that 20
members of the previous organiza
tion had resigned out of sympathy
for the resigning dean.
Many young members of the pro-
cathedral congregation attended
Trinity church yesterday morning
and the Church of the Good Shepherd
last night.
SUNDAY MOVIES FAVORED
Baseball and "Street Dancing Also
Planks or Church Ticket.
TACOMA. Wash., April 2. (Spe
cial.) Sunday movies and baseball
are planks in the platform of the so
called church ticket of Sumner, in the
Puyallup valley, adopted unanimously
at a political caucus following the
nomination of Dr. C. E. Judd for
mayor; L. D. Ryan and Clyde Tuel fori
councilmen, and O. T. Fryar for
treasurer.
Street dancing under proper super
vision was also favored, as was per
sonal freedom within the limits of the
law.
HONEYMOONERS IN PARIS
Princess Mary and Viscount lias
celles Visit Lord Uranard.
PARIS, April 2. Princess Mary and
Viscount Lascelles, returning irom
their honeymoon trip, arrived in Paris
tonight.
They are visiting Lord and Lady
Granard.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 62
degreea; minimum, 47 degrees.
TODAY'S Rain; aoutherly winda.
Foreign.
Soviet to demand Russia's pre-war ahlp
Dlngr. Page 2.
Wave of murder revisits Belfast. Page 1.
Sir Basil Zaharnff again In limelight.
Page 12.
Portugal-to-Bio Janeiro flight is reaumed.
Page 1.
Deau of Charles unheeded officially by
republic. Page .
Sr.rbia Is rocaea Djr repealed quaxea.
Page 1.
National.
Powers to act on pacts soon. Page 8.
K-cent gasoline sold at 20 cents. Paga 8.
Spring brings gay evems to capital.
Page
Four women s conventions to os areas pa
rade. 1'age o. '
Home tie. .
Farmurs already see fight ahead. Pag 2.
J90.000 Jewels aelzed by bandits In New
Xork. rase i.
Average young man dislikes flapper, aur-
vey ahows. rage o.
Overseas Masonic loags rtome. i-age a.
Last of war aeaa nonorea py nation.
Page .
Pacific Northwest.
Merchant forced to disrobe and give rob
ber clothes. Page 1.
State traffic squad prepares to cops with
tourist travel. Paga 5.
Secrecy marka Investigation of masked
band's activities In Merlford. Page 6.
Sports.
Aberdeen bowlers win five-man event.
Page 11.
Leverens to atart against Angels. Page 10.
Tommy Milton wins California auto sprint
championship. Page 10.
Commercial and Marine.
Ninety-nine vessels enter port during
month. Page 16. ,
Stock market 'riae Increases eonfldencs.
Page 17.
Good outlook seen for U. 8. sheepmen.
Page 17.
Trend to atablllty noted In Europe. Pag 17.
Portland and Vicinity.
Churches advised to turn to beggar.
Pag 18.
Buying of lumber increases rapidly.
Pag 16.
Five o'clock burglar caugbt by police.
Page 1-
M'.ss Sophie Braslau sings to radio audi
ence. Pag 1.
Ghostly rapping alarms suburb of Port
land. Page 1.
Home beautiful exposition opens totliay
Page 7.
Sore throat epidemic under control, health
officers say. Pag 7. I,
Chamberlain placed on committee to ha'4
merchant marin(4j bearings. Page 7. I
Many Five o'clock Rob-'
beries Confessed.
FRED WEAVER IS JAILED
Alleged Companion Also Is
Under Arrest.
SEVERAL JOBS BUNGLED
Prisoner Has Record of 9 Years
In Oregon Penitentiary.
Other Sentences Served.
The "alma mater" of Fred Weaver
the Oregon state penitentiary was
ahamed yesterday mornlnr when
Weaver, 40 vears old and with a rec
ord of nine years In tne Institution for
burglary, was captured on the atreeta
of Vancouver by inspectors Gold and
Schulplus and locked In the city jail
as the "5 o'clock burglar who Inst his
shoes."
Weaver served five years of a li-
year sentence, was paroled to try life
anew, but bungled and was sent back
for a post-graduate course at the In
stitution. There he met George Brown,
an association which developed the
recent 5 o'clock burglaries that have
compelled Captain Harms and Inspec
tors Coleman, Collins, Gol.x, Howell,
Moloney and Schulplus to lose many
hours of sleep during the last two
weeks.
A Urged Pal la Jail.
Brown, an alleged pal of Weaver.
was in the city Jail yesterday charged
with vagrancy, but he probably will
be re-booked on a more serious chart
today. The two were said to have
planned the recent career oi burglary
while cellmates In the penitentlury.
Their capture indicate, ruld the po
lice, that even a post-grsduste .count
will never make a bungler anything
but a bungler and never a burglar.
The public became acquainted with
Weaver on the morning of March 31.
He took off his shoes, after entering
the home of, K. J. Mahoney, DM Kant
Twenty-first street North, through a
Jimmied window, in order not to dis
turb the family. He was a thoughtful
burglar and meant well, but he awak
ened Mrs. Mahoney with the racket he
made w ith his clumsy bands.
Paper Carrier Knrsuatrrao,
While rummaging the house lie
noted a pair of shoes with holey soles,
so be left his own shoes. It was a
charitable deed, although It availed
him not.
Two blocks from the Mahoney Home
Weaver, racing along In bis stocking
feet, saw Leo de la Fontain, 13, Ore
gonian route carrier, approaching.
Fontain had an air of prosperity that
radiated visibly even In the early
morning, so Weaver concluded he
would like to be in Fontain' shoes.
As he passed the carrier he swung at
his head with a revolver, knocking
him down.
"Gimme them shoes," Weaver com
manded. "Not on your life," returned th
other, beginning to pick himself up.
Weaver Fears Pursuit.
Weaver feared pursuit and did not
wish to take time for argument. II
sprinted onward. Fontain rubbed his
head, found that he was nut Injured
and continued with his work. Weaver
yesterday told police that he ran to
the home of George Brown at Sixth
and Belmont streets, where he ob
tained a pair of shoes.
Another bungled Job of Weaver's
was the attempted burglary o( the
home of Mrs. C. F. Clark. 6!5 Kant
Ash street. While ranHncking
dresser he awakened a woman, who
I screamed. Weaver dashed down
stairs to escape through a win. low.
As he thrust his head and shoulders
outside, another lodger on the sec
ond floor seized a book and hurled it
at him. Weaver shook himself and
ran.
Other Burjclarlea Admitted.
Other burglaries Weaver was said
to have admitted were his are: Dents!
college fraternity house, 669 Multno
mah street, watches and clothing;
E. F. Piatt, G34 Clifton street, watrh
and chain, a pistol and a revolver;
attempt to enter, 1. C. Henney. ii
Heights torrace; attempt to enter. J
Lowengard, 695 Heights terrace; at
tempt to enter, N. J. Furnish, S03
Clifton street; H. J. Collins, 582 Kast
Twenty-first street North, theft of
overcoat; J. E. Cameron, 763 Thomp
son street, overcoat and jewelry.
The extent to which George Brown
was impllcatid in the burglaries had
not been determined by police. When
they arreBted Brown and searched
his house they found a Jimmy, a
mackinaw coat and a revolver "he
longing" to Weaver. The revolver
was one taken from the home of Mr
Piatt. It was loaded and ready for
business.
Stolen Overcoat Recovered,
The overcoat, stolen from Mr. C"l-
lins, was recovered under the rmrtu
approach to .the Twelfth street brhlge
Three" revolvers had been cached In
the same spot, but some superpa raait e
had beaten the police to t lie in and
only one was found. It bad been
buried In a shallow hole. Alirae re.
volver taken fP3 rw'r ho inl
and thrown ar" i j,i In In