THE 3IORXIXG OREGOXTAX, TUESDAY, APKIIi
1922
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BY IRISH SOLDIERS
Details of Castlebar Turbu
lence Disclosed.
COLLINS PARTY IS ARMED
Speaker Frequently Interrupted
and Finally, When Weapons
Are Drawn, Storm Breaks.
DUBLIN. April 3. (By the Asso
dated Press.) The meeting addressed
by Michael Collins at Castlebar
County JIayo, last night, was stopped
by members of the 4th western divi
eion of the Irish republican army
after stormy scenes in which a woman
was wounded by a bullet, according
to accounts reaching Dublin this
morning.
The chief of the provisional gov
ernment .and his party returned to
their hotel and the officer who had
proclaimed the meeting at an end fol
lowed, declaring that none would be
allowed to leave until Mr. Collins and
his friends had surrendered their
arms. ,
The accounts received here do not
State whether the Collins party was
disarmed, merely saying- that "some
people who left the hotel were
searched. "
The telegraph wires around Castle
bar were cut and when the news
paper correspondents there boarded a
train for Athlone they were ordered
iy two officers to go to the barrack
SloCabe First to Draw.
The newspaper men were conveyed
o the barracks in automobiles, where
: they found A. M. McCabe, a member
of the Dail Bireann, with Commandant
Xilroy and his staff. The comman
iant stated that McCabe had admitted
ho was the first to draw a. revolver
at the meeting. Mr. McCabe then
the presence of the correspondents,
raid he believed he was the first to
draw, the dispatches say.
A Dublin man, said to foe Charles
Bryne, a member of the Collins party.
was arrested and accused of the
shooting. Mr. Collins subsequently
told, the representative of the Irish
Independent, Dublin newspaper, that
he had visited Bryne In the barracks
ana found him in a cell with only a
plank for a bed and no bedding. He
cald he had asked Commandant Kil
. roy to parole Mr. Bryne, Mr. Collins
to he responsible, but that the re
luest was refused.
Mrs. Fogarty, proprietress of the
Commercial hotel, Castlebar, was
wounded in the shoulder, presum
ably by the bullet fired at the meet
All Roads Are Blocked.
The correspondent of the London
Evening News says all the roads to
Castlebar were blocked by trees and
that automobiles moving toward the
town were stopped by armed men,
"who even ripped up the railway track
to prevent the arrival of the special
trains from surrounding towns.
The meeting was consequently de
layed until 7 P. M.
The crowd numbered 2000 persons,
among them many hostile to Collins.
Collins was frequently interrupted
and then a supporter drew a revolver.
Others produced revolvers also, upon
which the crowd stampeded, women
fainting, and several persons were
trampled upon. A young man was
pursued into a side street and a
number of shots were fired.
At this point, adds the correspond
ent, an officer jumped upon the plat
form and declared the meeting ad
journed in the interest of peace.
OUSTED OFFICIALS ON CALL
(Continued From Fir5t Page.)
number ot investigations of the bu
reau, as did other treasury officials,
while Director of the Budget Dawes
brought A. R. Barnes on from Chi
cago to Jook into the efficiency of
the output of the plant. Mr. Barnes,
he declared, was the proprietor of
tn engraving establishment somewhat
approaching the magnitude of the
government plant and was considered
an expert on the subject.
These various investigations made
from time to time, Mr. Mellon con
tinued, disclosed conditions in the
bureau warranting the changes.
Waste was found, he said, losses to
the government running into large
turns because of sheets of paper being
spoiled in the new presses, lack of
modern methods for keeping plates
find other unsatisfactory conditions.
' Ka Irregularity Charged.
Reports of these investigations
were made, he added, and it was
thought that Lewis A. Hill, the new
director, was the appropriate man to
lie put in charge of the bureau.
Assignment of justice department
agents to the bureau by Attorney
General Daugherty, Mr. Mellon de
clared, was merely a matter of pre
caution in going over the stock in
the plant, as there were no specific
charges of irregularity or defalca
tion against any of the dismissed em
ployes. Nothing is pending in the bureau,
Sir. Mellon eaid, involving the hon
esty of any group of ex-employes
and there was nothing pointing to
any individual. He said that while
the politics of the ex-officials were
known in a general way, in reality
most of the employes of the bureau
could be said to have no politics, as
they had no vote.
Amplifying their formal statement
to newspaper men at the White House,
members of the delegation of dis
missed bureau officials declared they
had no idea of the charges upon
which they were dismissed, stating
that they knew of "no clique" in the
bureau "except discharged employes
who have been fomenting discontent
and are now back in places of au-
thority." They were unanimous in
their statement that they could not
believe politics was at the bottom of
the matter, however, declaring that
of the number discharged 18 were
republicans, eight democrats and the
political affiliations of the others
were unknown.
Bond Duplication Denied.
There has been no duplication of
bonds in the last 18 months, they
added, and there had been only a
few petty thefts which had been de
tected and accounted for. Reports
of bond duplication were dismissed
by Secretary Mellon today with the
remark that such charges "had been
thoroughly ventilated by Secretary
Houston," and completely dispelled.
The delegation of employes charged
that the installation of a new elec
trolytic process and of improved
methods of machinery had met with
bitter opposition from the transferers'
union and that during the war these
transferers had obstructed the use
of this new process in every possible
way. Installation of modern machin
ery, they said, brougnt opposition be
cause it meant a reduction in the
force, citing as an example the mak-
ng of postage stamps, which they
said was reduced by half through im
proved methods, which meant a cut
also in that force.
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WOMEN JURORS ASKED
LEX SMALL SPKIXGS SURPRISE
AS TRIAL OPENS.
Attorneys for State Are Taken VTn'
aw arcs and Ask 48 Hours' De
lay to Prepare Reply.
W AUK EG AN, 111., April 3. (By
the Associated Press.) Governor Len
Small wants women to sit on the
jury which will try him here on
charges of having conspired with
Fred E. Sterling, lieutenant-governor,
and Vernon Curtis, banker, to em
bezzle state funds.
'Today the governor attacked the
legality of the Jury panel because the
Lake county board of supervisors had
failed to include the names of wom
en voters in it.
Taken by surprise, attorneys for
the state obtained 48 hours' delay to
prepare their answer.
Attorneys for the governor read an
affidavit signed by him asserting
that the board of supervisors had
failed to comply with the legal re
quirement that names of 10 per cent
of the qualified voters be placed in
the jury box and had, in fact, listed
only 10 per cent of the male voters,
ignoring the women.
Werner Schroeder of the defense
counsel declared that even though
it should be held that women may
not sit on the jury, the supervisors
should havi prepared a venire based
on the total number of votes cast
by both men and women. He cited
a long list of court decisions in other
states in support of the contention
that women may serve on the juries.
Should the governor's contention
be upheld by Judge Edwards and
women seated, the Lake county court
house may have to be remodeled be
fore the trial can be held. The court
house has one large dormitory with
12 single beds for jurors, and as
Illinois law forbids separation of
jurymen, some arrangement would
have to be made to furnish privacy
for the women jurors.
Judge Edwards has already an
nounced that the jury will be con
fined throughout the trial, which is
expected to last anywhere from
three to five months.
Store Closed Until
12 o'Clbck Noon
Today
Out of Respect for
Mr. George G. Wolfe
Whose Funeral Will Take
Place This Morning
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HUNT FOR GHOST FAILS
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More Signs of
Better Business
"Hi, there. Al. How are you any
way? Haven't seen you in a coon's
sge. How's business?"
"Well. well. Jim. I surely am glad
to see you. Business hasn't been any
thing to get elated over for quits
some time, but I have a hunch it's
picking up a bit lately and all signs
saf it is going to get better right
along. Gosh, I hope so. I have been
watching the pennies pretty close
now for a long time. I have gone
without new clothes just about as
long as I can." If business keeps on
getting better I hope to take enough
out of the firm by June or July to
get that new suit I've been suffering
for. for a year or so."
"Well, now, Al, if you need a suit
that bad it might be dangerous to
wait till June or later. Say, thcugh
seriously, I'll tell you a fine place to
get a suit by paying such a small
amount evely month that you will
hardly notice it. Cherry's at 349 Mor
rison street on the second floor. You
can practically make your own ar
rangements on what to pay down and
then the monthly payments are dead
easy." Adv. :
frighten the family and disturb the
neighbors.
It is a tiny house, much too small
for a ghost who is honored by such
a large importance, and the price set
on it when Wellcome rented was $400
for the building and the lot. There
are four tiny rooms in the house, all
the same size and all scantily fur
nished. If all the rappings reported
were made by actual pounding on the
oors and walls, the necessary force
to have produced such noise would
have knocked the joists and sills loose
before this.
The sheriffs expressed hopes that
there would be a bit of rapping while
they were there. The neighbors ex
pressed hopes that the sheriffs would
wait for nightfall but the mystery
about the mode of "procedure to be
followed by these officers in catching
he ghost is as complete as the mys
tery of the noises.
Naturally a real deputy sheriff with
a gun and a star and much matter-of-fact
experience could not be ex
pected to believe in ghosts and the
four on the scene were not loathe to
admjt that they suspected skulldug
gery and knavery. H. E. Stout, who
lives next door to the south, was just
as scornful of the ghost theory, but
upheld it by relating the happenings
of the neighborhood since the rap
ping began. He said the noises were
frequently loud enough to awaken I
him in his own house and that they
had also occurred when the Wellcome
house was being watched, both in
side and out, and no one was seen
to make the noise.
There are two distinct kinds ol
rapping. One is a heavy slow thud,
repeated twice or thrice on the doors
and with such force that it .would
break the door if it were really'struck
so hard. It is the kind of a noise
v. hich a man could make with his fist
against a door, yet when the door
was struck by a real fist it made an
entirely different sound. The other
noise is a faster and lighter rapping,
which has been counted up as high as
14 raps. To imitate it the weather
boards were tapped, but they didn't
imitate. Some of these were torn off
and the space between them and the
plastering explored, but it was just
space and contained no noise-making
instruments. underneath the house
was just the same and the space be
tween the ceiling and the roof of the
c-ne-story structure was just as
empty. ..
Theories flew back and forth as
fast as the retold tales of occult visi
tation. One man was within six feet
ot tha house when the door was
pounded and he ran across the street
to friends and said he "felt a breath
of air on his face. This story brought
weak laughs from visitors. Mr. Well
come, who is a badly scared man, told
of being knocked down by the force
of the rapping. Neighbors living two
blocks away have also heard it on
occasions when the rapping was un
usually loud.
The belief that there was a cache
of moonshine whisky under the
house, recovery of which was the
cause of noises made maliciously to
frighten away the householders, was
shattered by a fruitless search and
the Stout home next door contained
no still when it was searched. The'
haunted house was not occupied for j
a period of four years before the
Wellcomes moved into it two weeks
ago, and Stout said he had never seen
or heard anything to alarm him while
it was vacant.
On Sunday night after the sheriffs
had been notified of the noises and
threats of neighbors no noise occurred J
at the Wellcome home, but three dis
tinct raps were heard as from the
small house 30 feet to the nortn. This
building stands vacant.
Residents of the vicinity maintain
there are unusual electrical phenom
ena at times above and around the
pine trees which stand in the yard,
and little threads of blue flame can
be seen passing through the air. The
popularity of radio work brought
forth conjecture but there were no
scientists present to solve the mys
tery or no electrical appliances on
the premises to cause the noise, al
though Wellcome is an electrician by
trade.
The sheriffs concealed any theories
they might have about the spooks.
That they had one or two is certain.
It is not likely that the cause of the
ghostly noises will be solved by night
watchmen, for such attempts have
been unsuccessful. There probably
will be several' interviews with per
sons suspected of remote malice, but
who they are is not known.
S. & H. green stamps for cash. Hol
man Fuel Co., coal and wood. Broad
way 6353. 560-21. Adv.
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