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VOL. LXI NO. 19,153 Entered at Portland (Oreffon Poatofflfe as Second-class Matter. PORTLAND, OREGON, MONDAY, APRIL 10, 1923 PRICE FIVE CENTS KEYNES PREDICTS CLASH OF POWERS CHOIR SINGER SHOOTS SELF DURING SERVICE i TEACHER AT SEATTLE FIRES SHOT INTO BREAST. HERBERT GOULD SINGS INTO RADIO TONIGHT DISGUISED SLEUTHS RAID GOTHAM CAFES JAPANESE FALLS SUICIDES' MECCA CHINESE. WAITRESS HOLDS UP INTRUDER TO' DR. W. T. McELVEEN ALSO IS TO DELFTER LECTURE. NEARLY 40 RESORTS YIELD ALMOST $30,000 IN RUM. DAINTY GIRL PULLS FISTOL TO DEFEND EMPLOYER. COHAN DOYLE HEHE EX-PASTOR SLAYS PAL III JAILBREAK AMERICA Rea! Struggle at Genoa Meet Forecast. LIBERALISM TO BE TESTED Conflict With Old System Is Held Inevitable. SHOWDOWN NOW DESIRED Old Players Busy With Old Game, Says Writer Chance Seen for Bold, Powerful Leader. BY JOHN MAYKARD KEYNES, M. A. C. B. Fellow and Bursar, Kings college. Cam bridge; editor of the Economic Journal, Ixindon; author of "The Economic Con sequences of the Peace and Revision of the Treaty." (Copyright by the Tfew York World. All rights reserved. Published by arrange ment.) - GENOA, April 9. (Special cable.) It is natural to approach Genoa with scepticism and doubt. Not much flourish of trumpets this time. No chorus of "complete accord," millenial expectations and prospective tri umphs, but, rather, dissents and grumblings, limitations, prophesying of emptiness and fiasco. The British prime minister steps on the stage no longer clothed in the im-, perial purple with emblems of victory and omnipotence, but In the drab gar ment of an itinerant friar, weary, sor rowful for the world, a preacher; or as another Charles V on his way to the monastery of Yuste, taking In Genoa en route. I like the change of costume and the change of voice. But will Lloyd George be ready to run the risk, or will he repeat in April, 1922, the de fault of March, 1919? On the answer to this question the Interest in Genoa depends. It will be a dull, drawn-out affair, lost in a bog of detail. But our friar has a fine pulpit and a strong voice; Charles, with the world behind him, has little to lose. Showdown Now Desired. There are two parties in Europe, two attitudes and two impulses, and it is time they joined the issue. De ceitful gestures of agreement where none exists, even if they served some purpose ones, are not useful now. I hope that at Genoa the differences of opinion will be allowed to come to the surface instead of festering in the body. If the rival policies for Europe can be brought into distinct outline we hall have made progress, even though nothing is agreed and nothing signed. Where the existing treaties are con cerned a- contract is necessary be tween all parties concerned. But with economic questions of trade and cur rency universal adoption of a scheme is not essential. Some Suggestion Made. A currency union for re-establishing the gold standard; a customs and transit agreement for reciprocal re moval of unnecessary impediments to the movement of goods and persons; a commercial agreement for trade under special safeguard between na tionals of the participating powers and those of Russia, or an incorporat ed trading body for aiding the move ment of capital and credit to impov erished areas each of these things might be useful, even if some power preferred to stand aside. Let those who like them come in and those who don't stay out. The right procedure at the Genoa conference would be for a few powers who agree funda mentally on important economic mat ters to lay a scheme on the table and gain for it what support they can. If unanimity is sought by substitut ing a vague and empty formula for proposals of substance, then nothing whatever will result but words and disillusion. But if a policy of peace and recon struction can be given sharper out line we may decide who are real friends and thus organize a new alignment of European opinion, while i on matters of detail it is not impos- sible that something useful may be concerted. It is not foolish, there fore, to be at the outset a little in terested in Genoa. Great Disad vantage Seen. Yet if we are to escape disappoint ment we must admit the immense dis advantages from which the conference suffers. In my own judgment it is premature in point of time. It should have been held six months later, after more careful preparation on the tech- Woman Is Carried From Church; Song Resume!! to Divert At tention of Congregation. SEATTLE, Wash., April 9. With the words of a hymn of Christian faith and comfort on her lips. Miss Bertha Brackett, 25, a public cshool teacher, shot herself in the left breast with a pistol tonight while singing with the choir of the First Baptist church, at the night service. She was rushed to a hospital where she is believed to be dying. The bullet penetrated her left breast, grazing her heart. Miss BracKett is the daughter of Alfred E. Brackett, vice-president of a large cleaning and dyeing estab lishment. She is a graduate of the University of Washington and has taught several years In th Seattle public schools. Rev. Ambrose E. Bailey, pastor of the church, had just finished reading a passage from the Bible and the choir had commenced a hymn when the muffled report of a pistol elec trified the worshipers who crowded the auditorium. Glancing toward the choir loft they saw Miss Brackett slowly sinking to the floor, her hand clutching 'a pistol from which a thin. blue vapor was flowing. She had drawn the weapon from her blouse and fired a single shot into her breast, those standing near her aft erward said. Rev. Mr. Bailey rushed from the pulpit to the choir loft and assisted members of the choir in carrying Miss Brackett to the choir chambers below. As we reached the choir room," he said later, "Miss Brackett revived, opened her eyes slowly and then stood erect. 'I'm all right," he said. It was the only thing to do.' " Attendants summoned from a near by hospital bore Miss Brackett away and Rev. Mr. Bailey returned to the pulpit. In the meantime the choir, at the direction of Mrs. E. M. Broadman the director, .had resumed the singing of the hymn in order to divert the at tention of the audience from the trag edy. At the conclusion of the hymn Rev. Mr. Bailey continued the service, preaching a sermon on "Moral Resur rections," in which he referred to the uncertainties of human affairs and of mortal existence. It was not until after the service had been concluded that the serious nature of Miss Brackett's wound was known to Rev. Mr. Bailey and her friends in the congregation. Friends of the family say that Miss Brackett suffered a breakdown sev eral years ago which caused her acts at times to become irrational. Recent illness, they said, had made her fear a return of the previous affliction. Spiritualist Hopes to Put Skepticism to Rout. FEAR IS TAKEN FROM DEATH Hell Is Declared to Be Just Sort of Hospital. HEREAFTER IS DESCRIBED It's Hard to Prove to Man in That Happier Plane That He, Not You, Is Dead, Says Visitor. NEW YORK, April 9. (By the As sociated Press.) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of the materialistic Sherlock Holmes but now a sincere believer of things spiritual, arrived here tonight to "raid" America. "I propose to make a raid on Amer lean skepticism," he said, in explain ing the purpose of his proposed lec ture tour. "I propose to raid church and laity alike." Stepping onto American shores from the steamer Baltic for the first time In seven years, the distinguished author admitted that the memory and reputation of the master detective still surrounds him, but asserted that he had been definitely and enthusias tically graduated from material to spiritual things. It is not that Sher lock was out of place or indiscreet, but that Sir Arthur declared he had "learned the truth, and Sherlock Holmes, however interesting and val uable as a friend, has no place In my life now." WRECK BODIES CLAIMED American Dead In Plane Crash, to. Be Taken to Paris. PARIS, April 9. (By the Associated Press.) The bodies of Christopher Bruce Yule and Mrs. Yule, Americans, who were killed with five others in Friday's mid-air passenger airplane collision, have been claimed by the American authorities and will be brought here. Consul-General Thackara today sent a consular agent to Beauvais and Thieulloy, near which places the accident occurred, with all the neces sary papers. Company officials said that an average of 12 airplanes leave London daily for Paris and 12 leave Paris in the cross-channel service. Yester- j day's accident, they declared, was the first serious one on any of the lines' in a year, during which time they I carried 15,000 persons. ' Mr. Burns Greets Sir Arthur. But the atmosphere of materialism was present as Sir Arthur, his wife and his three children arrived. He was met at quarantine by a man equ ally famous In the world of detec tives, William J. Burns, chief of the bureau of investigation of the depart ment of justice. Mr. Burns said he was very1 much a materialist but went down the bay to greet the English visitor as "an old friend and a man who would have been a wonderful de tective." "Spiritualism today," said Sir Ar thur, after he had greeted the Ameri can detective, "is nothing but religion. It is a greater religidh than anything we have ever known. Fifty years from today this world is going to be a spiritual world. In which leaders of thought are going to laugh at our puny attempts to fathom the future. Fear Held Taken From Death. "Spiritualism teaches a definite knowledge. of the life after so-called death. It teaches us not to fear death and that the passing of heart beats is merely a promotion. "You see, a so-called dead man goes to a happier plane. There is no sor didness and it is many, many times happier. You always have a difficult task proving to a man on that plane that he, not you, is really dead. "But suppose a man passes who has been something of an unsavory individual here. Does he go to hell? Event Is First of Four Scheduled by ' The Oregonian for This Week ; Next Is Wednesday. (Concluded on Page 5. Column l. Herbert Gould, celebrated bass soloist from Chicago, will sing to all radio listeners In the Pacific north west through The Oregonian radio set tonight, and Dr. W. T. McElveen, pastor of the First Congregational church In Portland, will deliver lecture as the second feature of the programme. This will be the first of four un usual events which The Oregonian will provide for radiophone enthus iasts this week. The programme will begin at 7:30 o'clock, the time set for all Monday night concerts and radio programmes of The Oregonian, and will last for an hour. Herbert Gould arrived in Portland last night from Chicago to fill a con cert engagement for the Apollo club In the municipal auditorium on Tues day night. The Apollo club has con sented to let him sing for The Ore. gonian. Mr. Gould is a singer who has risen to fame with considerable swiftness during the last few years and is well known in Chicago, St. Loui3, Indianapolis, Minneapolis, Mil waukee and other middle western cities where he has given successful and hlerhlv nleaslnir concerts. His voice is powerful and clear. The subject of Dr. McElveen's lec ture will be "The Rapid Development of News Gathering," and in which will be emphasized the progress made in means of cummunication during the last two generations. Before he entered the pulpit Dr. McElveen was a newspaper man. That was in the days when reporters did not have telephones at their command and other facilities which now am in news gathering. Always keenly In terested In the press. Dr. McElveen has observed Its progress and will recount in his lecture the steps for ward in publishing and also some thing of the methods used at present. His talk will be carried by radio phone to the dining hall of his own church, where a special receiving set has been Installed for the monthly brotherhood banquet. There the men of the First Congregational church will listen to the entire programme given by The Oregonian and will hear the lecture by their pastor. The dinner will be given by the brother hood before the concert, and others will gather at the church at 7:15 o'clock to hear the programme. This afternoon Miss Mary Eliza beth Godwin will deliver one of her music memory course lectures at 4 o'clock, a daily feature of The Ore gonian radio programme. The sec ond concert of the week will be giv6r Wednesday night, when the Orpheus male chorus of 35 voices will sing nine selections. On Friday night George Olsen's Portland hotel orchestra will give another pro gramme, similar to the successful one last Friday night, and Mervin R. Good, winner of the state intercol legiate oratorical contest, will de liver the oration which won state honors for him on March 21. The first sermon to be sent out from The Oregonian radio tower will be delivered next Sunday night by Rev. William Wallace Youngson, and Mrs. Goldie Peterson Wessler will assist in the programme with several soprano solos. The radio apparatus will be in the hands of W. J. Weed, local manager of the Shipowners Radio service, during the week. U. S. Agents Experience Trouble in Buying Liquor in Only One of Dens Visited. NEW YORK, April 9. Disguised as tourists, their motorcar covered with mud and dirt and their faces smeared with dust, Izzy Einstein and Moe Smith, New York's most versatile pro hibition agents, today raided nearly two score cafes, arresting 28 proprie tors and employes, and seized liquor valued by them at $30,000. It was the first Sunday liquor raid ever made here by federal sleuths. Seven nationalities were represented in the list of prisoners, who were rounded up after several hours' work The biggest haul was made in an ex- saloon at 335 Amsterdam avenue. Izzy and Moe breezed Into the place this morning. "Did you enjoy that speech last night?" asked Izzy of Moe as they ap proached the bar. "I did not," replied Moe, disgustedly, "there was too much prohibition in it." "What will you have boys?" asked the proprietor, smiling. "A little hootch," brazenly replied Izzy, The proprietor poured the liquor in a glass and the two agents poured it into test tubes, which they carried in their vest pockets. The , owner, stunned by surprise, then was placed under arrest. A search of the place, Einstein said, revealed 55 cases of champagne and other imported wines, several cases of gin and whisky and scores of bottles of assorted liquors. Before proceeding to the Bronx Finstein and Smith changed their disguises, assuming that of coach drivers in high hats and all. I don't like these Sunday funer als," complained Izzy, as they warned into, the first Bronx saloon. Neither do I," replied Moe. "I hate to work on Sunday." The bartender who served them with liquor agreed with them, saying: I'd like to go to the Polo grounds this afternoon, but the boss won't let me off." 'Sure he will," replied Izzy. "Come along with me," and he flashed his shield. A summons was left for the owner. They had no difficulty, the agents said, in getting liquor, except in one place where the bartender, who Was serving .near beer, told them o "beat it" and picked up an empty bottle. Izzy and Moe walked out, satisfied, they said, that there was no chance of getting anything "on the bar tender" today. "But we may go back," Moe said. The average price of a drink, Ein stein said, was 50 cents. "And it is terrible stuff worse than furniture polish," he added. Adults, Youths, Maidens Take Leap to Death. WEARISOME POET LEADS WAY Rapid Daiya Passes Through Areas of Huts and Coolies. HOLY LAND MYSTERIOUS Homage Still Paid to Carven Fig ures in Curio Shops Depicting Killings. 2 Centuries Ago. 1 DEAD; 1 HURT IN PLANE Machine Nose-Dives With Pilot and Passenger at Fresno. FRESNO, Cal., April 9. Aaron Clements, clerk for the San Joaquin Light & Power company, was killed instantly this afternoon when an air plane at the Aerial circus, in which he was a passenger, crashed from a height of 200 feet, Ed Bishop, a Fresno pilot, was seriously hurt. Nearly 20,000 persons saw the smashup. The airplane had just taken off when a turn was attempted, and th plane nose-dived sharply. THANK HEAVENS HOUSE-CLEANING COMES ONLY TWICE A YEAR! I. W. W. SAIL FOR RUSSIA I Vanguard of Force of 6000 Seeks to Prove Success of Soviet. NEW YORK, April 9. The White Star liner Adriatic, sailing yesterday, carried in her steerage 6S members of the Industrial Workers of the World, the vanguard of a force of 6000 which is going to Russia seking to prove the workers can operate the machin ery of industrial production. They are followers of William D. (Big Bill) Haywood, I. W. W. leader. MT. ADAMS CHANGE SEEN Piece on West Side of Summit Ap- Iears to Have Dropped. HOOD RIVER, Or, April 9. (Spe cial.) After being veiled since last Thursday night by heavy clouds, Mount Adams again was visible today, and Hood River valley folks expressed (" their belief that a large chunk on the west side of the sum mit had dropped some distance. On Thursday many local folk ex- I citedly watched a cleft in the top of nicar side and after prior arrangement new snows have obliterated evidence with the Lnited States on the diplo matic side. It should have met without those limitations on subjects for its agenda which are differently interpreted in different quarters and are certain to lead to ill feeling and charges of bad faith. Psychologically the conference opens in a bad atmosphere; intellec tually It is ill prepared. Nor can any one who is expe rienced in other international menag eries look forward to this one with out sympathetic indigestion. The spectacle of 30 nations classified into their separate species of statesmen, expert and secretary, assembled around the green baize in a polyglot (Concluded on Page 3, Column ) of the chasm. TURKS DELAY ARMISTICE Allied Commission Told Negotia tion May Begin in Three Weeks. CONSTANTINOPLE. April 9. (By the Associated Press.) The note of the sublime porte accepting the arm istice proposals drawn up by the al lied foreign ministers at Paris in an effort to bring about a cessation of fighting between the Turks and Greeks in Asia Minor was handed to the allied high commissioners In Con stantinople yesterday. , It offered to begin negotiations in three weeks. BY BEN HUR LAMPMAN. NIKKO, Japan, March 20. (Mail.) There is a river here, born of the hills, that leaps as swiftly to the blue Pacific as does the Rogue in Oregon. From Lake Chuzenjl it springs, the rapid and lovely Daiya, past the great glaring temples of the Shogunate in foaming and pecipitate haste. And Nikko stretches beside it for a long mile, unspoiled by the foreigner as when the royal worship pers from Kyote came thither many centuries ago. The mountains, vol cano and offspring, are bright with lingering snow. Only the ; straight cedars and the hardy bamboo bear foliage this, month. Four hours by train, from Tokio, and northward to tfie flanks of the range, the summer place of Nikko is more than a month distant as the seasons are measured, and shall not see a blossoming plum or cherry for weeks to come. It is the hill country of eastern and central Oregon, set down by the genie in another land if one could but close his -eyes to the thatched huts, the plodding coolies, and the range trees. Geographical notions are tenacious and deceiving. Around each turn to the red road that twists upward to the lake it was not in the least astounding to meet a stockman from .home, , riding down to the val ley, or a whiskered prospector scan ning the tumbled gravel of the river bed. Yet of mornings there sounds across the town, and into the hills beyond, a deep, enduring, recurring tone of pleasant thunder. The priests of I'uddha are striking the temple gong. Five hundred pilgrims, coun try folk bowed with toil, for the most part, pass through the lacquered gates to worship. Nikko is holy ground. Uvea Taken Carelessly. Nor is the river the Rogue. A sinis ter stream, for all its happiness, that flows as a turbulent testimonial to the unaltered character of an eastern people who have assimilated civiliza tion in her material spirit, but who are at heart mysterious and aloof from all our spiritual ways. These 20 years past the Daiya has taken to herself so many lives, as carelessly tossed away as leaves, that he who hears her story may well conclude that the east is ever the east and the west shall not meet with her this side of judgment. Kegoin falls, where the Daiya is new born, is the fairest and most fearsome in all Japan. Ten miles above Nikko the river throws itself over a 323-foot precipice and roars into the canyon, a stream possessed In old days there' attached to this spectacle no taint of the somber, and pilgrims to the shrine paid also their devoirs to the waterfall. Today so many turn aside there for another purpose, and turn aside eternally, that a sabered policeman guards the river brink with futile vigilance. In Nikko they will tell you, with the laugh that the true Japanese re serve for a tale of tragedy, that two or three world-wearied mortals elect each week to win surcease by suicide at Kegoin. And so It has been for 20 years. AVe who have been taught that the institution of hari-kari is in the dust-bin of the past begin to per ceive that such a record is not con firmatory. That which it does con firm is quite another conclusion. Street cars and dreadnoughts have not Served to modernize the heart of a people. Falls Death Rendezvous. Moroya he was caUed, an honor student at the University of Tokyo. He wrote much poetry and was adopt ed by a rich patron, who named him Fujimura Misawo. There was to his verse a dark but gracile charm that endeared both him and his song to his readers. Two vogues he created The one a lasting affection for his poetical contributions to national lit erature, the other a madness, a popu lar mania, for death in the arms of the bright falls of the Daiya river. At the height of his fame the pet. young and wealthy, came to Nikko and its wond-erous waterfall, and with his knife carved a last poem on an oak that leans over the fearful plunge. The theme of this verse was not so much one of despondency as of a tired disillusionment. The incomprehensi ble Japanese police have permitted it to remain to this day "The world means -nothing to me." Concluding this sentiment in sev eral stanzas, deeply cut in the oak, Misawo went the suicidal way of a Japanese gentleman. His bridal with Kegoin strongly appealed to the strain of supersentimentality in the Japanese breast, and since that day Police Find George C. Evans Ready to Flee From China Inn Before Diminutive Gun-Woman. Helen Ding, little Chinese waitress, dainty, fragile and as ineffectual in the grasp of the world's rough hand as all Chinese femininity appears, was a heronine of sorts early yes terday. When George C. Evans at tacked the proprietor of the China inn, 153 Broadway, according to the story of the startled almond-eyed boniface, the girl procured a revolver and held Evans on the stairs until the police arrived. Patrolmen Jewell and Fleming hur riedly answered an emergency call, and found Evans cowering before the waitress, who was threatening him with her weapon. Whether she would have pulled the trigger or not will always be a matter of doubt In the man's mind. But he was not the one to tut her to the test. He had al ready started to run from the place. The officers were ready to pin a star or some other badge of honor upon the little waistress for the mas terful part she played, but the girl smilingly declined to be decorated. It was not really war times anyway, she said, and coolly went- back to her role of a Chinese Hebe, serving, perhaps not ambrosia, but certainly nourishment to her patrons. Evans was booked at the police station on charges of assault and dis orderly conduct. Herbert Wilson, ex-Oregon Minister, Is Killer. SHERIFF TIPPED' IN ADYANCE Turnkey Reveals $1000 Of fer to Let Trio Out. VON FALKENHAYN DEAD German ex-War Minister Suc cumbs Near Potsdam. BERLIN, April 9. (By the Associ ated Press.) General Erich von Fal kenhayn, ex-minister of war and one time chief of staff of the German army, died Saturday at Wild Park, near Potsdam. General von Falkenhayn was ap pointed war minister of Germany in 1913, succeeding General von Her- ringen. Shortly after the outbreak of the world war he was appointed chief o'f the general staff, succeeding Gen eral von Moltke, who was declared to be ill. In August, 1916, Von Falkenhayn was supplanted by Von Hlndenburg and shortly afterward took the field in Transylvania against th Rouma nians. He was born in 1861. CEMETERY MINE KILLS 20 French Soldiers, Seeking Hidden Arms, Strike Detonator. KATTOWITZ. Silesia, April 9. (By the Associated Press.) More than 20 French soldiers were killed and a dozen wounded today when, while searching for hidden arms, a spade struck the detonating mechanism of a hidden mine. The explosion occurred in a ceme tery between Gleiwitz and Sossnitna. An examination showed that the mine had been planted under a store of arms. The explosion made a crater 30 feet in diameter and t feet deep. BAD BLOOD CAUSES DEATH Intention of Herbert Cox to Turn State's F.vldcneo Believed to Bo Reason for Shooting. ELGIN WAREHOUSE BURNS Big Granary Destroyed With Esti mated Loss of $50,000. ELGIN, Or., April 9. (Special.) The Elgin warehouse, under the man agement of Harlan Huffman, was burned tonight with a loss estimated at 350,000 to building and machinery. The cause of the fire is unknown, but probably was due to spontaneous combustion. Firemen saved the grain in adjoin ing warehouse. (Concluded on Page A Column 2.) INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 83 decrees: minimum, 38 degrees. TODAY'S Occasional rain; southerly wind. Foreign. Japanese falls suicides' rendezvous. Fa Re 1. Problems of Genoa conference discussed by Maximilian Harden, rage i. Keynes predicts clash of old and new sys tems at cjenoa coniercntc. cms" All European nations courting; Russia. Page 2. National. Reduction In navy attacked In bouse. Page 4. Harding unlikely to employ veto, rage 4. Domestic. Oregon ex-pastor slays pal In Jailbreak. Pago 1. Day's exoneration accepted py puonc. Page . Conan Doyle here to "rain American skepticism or spiritualism, i-age i. Seattle -woman shoots self In choir loft. Page 1. Pacific Northwest. Soldier memorial dedicated at The Dalles. Page 8. Sports. Pacific Coast league results: At I.os Angeles 4-6, Portland 2-4: at Sacramento 9-10. Oakland 8-4; at San Francisco 8-8, Se attle d-10; at Salt Lake-Vernon post poned, snow. Page 10. Amateurs of city open bouts tonight Pa.ge 10. Frank Troeh's score high In three-day shoot. Page 11. Commercial and Marine. Oregon farmers ask for United States' help. Page IS. Steamer Montana is expected today. Page 9. New York market takes bull turn. Page 15. Portland and Vicinity. Heavy fruit crop likely in Oregon. Pags 8 Four health meetings set for this week. Page 16. Lumber demand exceeds output. Page 9. Herbert Gould to sing Into The Oregonian radio set tonight. Page 1. Chinese waitress holds up intruder. Page l Life of John the Baptist example to all, says evangelist. Page 16. Scmenoff declared to be leader of band of robbers. Page 2. Disguised sleutbs raid cafes In New York. Page 1. Ardent lover beats companion on wild auto ride. Page 5. Mr. Crumpacker finishes platform. Page 5. Weather report, data and forecast. Page 19. LOS ANGELES, Cat- April 9 Her bert Wilson, formerly a minister of the gospel In Oregon and Canada, held in the county Jail pending trial for the robbery of the malls here of nearly 11,000,000 the night of March 3. 1921, shot and killed his allege accomplice, Herbert R. Cox, Just after officers had frustrated an attempted Jail break late today. Frank Wilson, a brother of Her bert; Miss Helen Gillespie, Herbert's sweetheart, and Mrs. Herbert 11. Cox. widow of the slain prisoner, were taken into custody by sheriff s depu ties a short time after the shooting. The man was held and the women were permitted to return to their homes. Cox, Wilson and Eddie O'Brien, re cently arrested here In connection with a mail robbery at Toledo, u.. more than a year ago, had made their escape from the Jail proper and were on the "bridge of sighs," a pannage way leading to the hall of Justice, when deputy sheriffs closed in on them. W ilson Shoots llows Cox. Then Wilson trained a revolver upon Cox and pulled the trigger. Of ficers said there had been "bad blood'' between the men since shortly after their arrest, when Cox was said to have made a statement to federal of ficers and the report became curric that he would testify for the state a Wilson's trial. Sheriff Traeger announced that Ju before Cox died he said. -Herb did It After O'Brien and Wilson had be. returned to their cells and plact under guard, the sheriff said Wils. would be charged with murder. How Wilson obtained the weapoi the officers were unable to say. To. said he had wrapped it in a hantl kerchief. Escape I'lotled Home Time. For several weeks, the officer; declared. Cox, Wilson and O'Brle. had been plotting to escape, thei final arrangements having bee made Saturday, when Wilson offerei Koy Rankin, a turnkey, 31000 if L would let the three out onto ti . Bridge of Sighs. Uankln reported the offer to Shei iff Traeger, and the latter decided i permit Rankin to seem to accede I the plan and permit the men to i onto the Bridge of Sighs, while plai. were made by the sheriff to captui the prisoners there, and also a. possible accomplices who might , proach from the outside. About 3 o'clock this afternoon I three prisoners, pleading Illness, c . trlved to go to the Jail hospital, m. the entrance to the bridge. Kank. met them there and let them out on the bridge. Twelve sheriff's dcputi were placed about the Jail at advai. tageous points. Klsht Occurs on Bridge. O'Brien soon succeeded In workli his way Into the Hall of Justice, l officers there Immediately ordoii hint to throw up his hands. Then, on the bridge, started a flgM between Wilson and Cox. Before th. officers could reach the place, a shot wu heard. Cox was found lying on the floor, groaning. Wilson was seen to hide a revolver under his coat, of ficers said. Cox died soon, after at the Jail hospital, after gasping first, "they did it," and then, when asked "whoT "Herb did It." Wilson remained cool after the shooting, declining to make any state ment. He and Cox were to have been tried for mall robbery May 16. They were suspected of having committed a number of robberies, obtaining a total of $2. 500,000, according to of ficers fOSO.OOA Reported Koand. After Cox's alleged statement to the federal officers, more than $600, 000 in securities were said to have been recovered in Detroit. San Francisco officers were said ti have evidence tending to connect them with the robbery of Hale Bros', store in that city. Los Angeles de tectives expressed the belief thot the men committed a robbery in the Fifth-street store here a few years ago. It was only a few days ago, accord ing to Sheriff Traeger, that another revolver was found In Wilson's tell. It was removed, the powder taken from the cartridges and the flrlns: pin filed off and then replaced In the cell. Apparently, the changes were dis covered, as nothing happened. Later, seven steel saws were taken from the same cell. Wilson formerly occupied the pul pit at Brownsville, Or., Inter beenm- IConcludcd on Page 3. Column 2