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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (April 19, 1922)
THE MORNING OREGOXIAN, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 1923 B SCENES ATTENDANT UPON POLICE INVESTIGATION nVTO MURDER OF FRANK BOWKER, WHOSE BODY WAS DROPPED IN CALAPOOIA RIVER, NEAR ALBANY, SUNDAY BY RUSSELL HECKER. WHS PUT IN RIVER Hecker Leads in Search for Murder Victim. DRAGGING IS STARTED 6 DDY ml Wl Prisoner Trembles So That He Can ..not Leave Police AutoSpot Is Near ATbsny, Or. (Continued From First Page.) i Various pieces of circumstantial evl dence have been gathered. The. po lice, from this source, likewise have been able to trace the youthful slay er's actions during the fatal Sunday night. One point as yet undetermined Is where the killing was committed. Deputy District Attorney Mowrey Is strongly of the belief that Bowker was slain in Multnomah county, some where on the east side near the sun posed liquor rendezvous to which he was led. Others are of the opinion that Bowker was alive until he reached Marion or Linn counties. Hecker has said that he placed the dead man's body in a hop sack. There was no such sack in the little touring automobile used as the death car when it left Broadway and Stark street at 7 o'clock Sunday night. Neither are there any hop fields in "Multnomah or Clackamas counties. . This would indicate, the officials agree, that Hecker picked up the hop pack either in Linn or Marion coun ties, a district of hop fields. Letter Reported Written. It also has been established that Hecker arrived at the Albany hotel here early Monday morning. He reg istered and procured a room with bath. He remained in his room about two hours, after which he paid his bill and departed. Detective Captain Harms said tonight it also had been established that Hecker had written two or three letters during the two hours. He remained secluded in a room at the local hotel. One of these letters was thought to have been ad dressed to his father, giving the par ent the first inkling of his crime. After leaving the hotel, Hecker pro cured a new supply of gasoline for his machine and drove back t-i Port land. Persons who saw, him during the two hours he was here said he showed no signs of nervousness, and they could not account for his appar ent coolness immediately after he had thrown the body of his victim into the waters. Whether dr not there werS blood stains on the towels' which he used at the local hotel has not yet been ascertained. At 8 o'clock tonight it had grown so dark that the work of grappling for Bowker's body . was postponed until morning. Chief Jenkins believes this work will not be successful until Hugh Brady. with his unerring knowledge of currents, arrives on the scene. The Calapooia river is still slightly swollen from the spring freshets. The current is swift and the waters muddy. The body may have floated more than 100 feet, in the belief of some. Shortly before dusk young Hecker was started on the Journey back to Portland. Not until it has been defi nitely established where the crime has been committed will Hecker be ' transferred to the county where Bowker was slain. Until long after dark' tonight the morbid and curious of Albany's pop ulation lined the river bank and peered down Into the dark waters. The little boat was moored to the muddy shore and put away for the night. At daybreak tomorrow the work will be continued and the po lice believe that the body will be recovered before noon. TVHERE IS MONEY? IS QUERY Is $1400 on Frank Bowker's Body? Police Are Asking. Is the $1400 that Frank Bowker had oil his person Sunday night still In his possession, at the bottom of the Calapooia river? Last night It became known that the real reason authorities are so anxious to discover the body right away, is that they wish to look inside his vest pocket, and inside of the sock on his right foot, for there is where, police are Informed, that he carried the bulk of the 41400. A close rel ative saw him divide the money into at least two parts and possibly more If the money Is found on the dead man, then the attitude of Hecker's attorney, Tom Ryan, will be easily understood. For Ryan last night hinted that the public would do well to withhold its Judgment until more developments come. Simultaneously he exclaimed:" "Hecker does not talk because I won't let him." That there is truth in the last as sertion is apparent. Young Hecker has had great difficulty in maintain ing the silence demanded by his at torney. Several times he has started to talk since he gave himself up Mon day noon, but each time checked him self with the thought of his orders. Last night when he returned to in spectors' headquarters from Albany he whispered to his brother and to his father. If ever a man wanted to talk and get rid of a sickening burden it was Hecker. His attorney stuck closelly to him. Police forebore to question him because of an agreement with Chief Jenkins that there would be no further interrogation until to day. Most of those in close touch with I v- ' Jr -sr . . .... - "SjpSi -rv - t q V-Ci - - ' ' - H" if : ' 4 I ' " , - - ' J t - v -a ' - , . ; i - v ' v ; j ; 1. i t - 1 ( - I f ,1i,M V:? "'v't " I i i 4 - v 3 I - t I " Viuimmi i i I mnfcnnijiBi;'HWJHi in i 1. 1 ii., i ,i i mini i i m I. v ff iiiuMiiijiimiii.il i. in ii. iiimsiuuu.iwlftiilt ,i mini mtwtmtutbi tpper Cnrlons crowd watchlns; seelcera for snnVen body. Center Grapplers at work In boat with improvised outfit. Below (At left) Miss Nellie jLainnart, I'ortlantf woman, sweetaeart of mnraerer, beta as marerjal ynx ness. (Right) Circle on floor of bridge indicates spot where body was shoved over edge, where blood was found. Headaches Are Usually Due , to Constipation fhen you are constipat ed, there is not enough lubricant produced by your system to keep the food waste soft. Doctors prescribe Nujol because its action is so close to this natural lubricant. Nujol is a lubricant not a medicine or laxative bo cannot gripe. Try it today. . the case believe that the reason Ryan Is compelling silence upon the part of his client is that Hecker has told him that robbery was not the cause of the murder and that if Bowker had any money when he started out, it still is on him. Undoubtedly, if such is the case, Hecker will not be the deliber ate murderer circumstantial evidence is at present indicating him to be It was a fight, and Hecker killed in self-defense, in the opinion of several of the' most experienced criminologists on the police force. They point out that there are no earmarks of premeditation to the case as it has been outlined by known facts. They say the murder was not in Hecker's mind when he started out with Bowker Sunday night be cause: He borrowed a pistol that could be easily traced: He borrowed an automobile that had to be returned The murder was committed in the front seat of the automobile, which, even after it had been cleaned, was bloody in a dozen different places He did not know what to do with the body, taking a whole night to dispose of it and deciding upon its disposition after he was faced with that necessity He drove to within a block of his father's house, then feared to face him. and went to a hotel. He returned the automobile covered with blood. He sought an attorney before "he was suspected of murder, and will ingly gave himself up. Every move he made that has come to light was marked with a clumsy necessity to "muddle through" some how. The above moves do not check up with the mentality of the prisoner, who is intelligent. Representatives of young Hecker declined to verify it, but the new theory, held by old heads in place of that of cold-blooded robbery, is that the murder occurred in Clackamas county, where Hecker and his asso ciate had a cache of liquor. The asso ciate was with the liquor. There arose a dispute of some sort, they aver, in which Hecker or his associate or both were placed on the defensive by Bowker, who police said had a re volver in hi pocket when he started out to view the liquor and that in the ensuing fight Bowker was killed. They believe that, had Bowker been killed deliberately for his money. side the machine, and they maintain that Hecker, at the wheel, was taken unawares. If there was a companion, his ex istence has been unproved, and Hecker is said to have told his father that he alone was responsible foi Bowker's death. Apparently Heckef was afraid to return toward Portland after the killing, because Albert Bow ker, brother of the dead man, was waiting at Eighty-second and Division streets. His only escape was toward Albany, andi some maintain that to ward A bany, dazed at the unex pected outcome of the deal, Hecker dashed, without any clear idea of what he was to do with the body. In his dire extremity he headed! for home. HECKER'S GIRL FRIEND HELD More Circumstantial Evidence Gathered in Murder Case. While the party of inspectors under Chief Jenkins was at Albany with Hecker, his attorney and his father in an endeavor to locate the body of Bowker, Inspectors Tackaberry and Phillips gathered loose ends of the skein of circumstantial evidence. D. C. V. Robinson of the firm of Robinson & Smith, Sixth and Madi son streets, yesterday picked Hecker from among a number of prisoners as the customer who early Monday morning bought a rubber mat and a rug for the tonneau of a machine similar to that driven by Hecker. The machine Hecker borrowed had such new equipment when it was returned to its owner. The .45-caliber automatic pistol that was found, specked with blood, in Hecker's suitcase, was identified as the one lent to the youth Sunday afternoon. Nellie Lainhart. woman friend of Hecker's, was held in the city Jail as a material witness with her bail set at 2000. Inspectors said she was preparing to move from her apart ment when arrested, although the rent was paid for 30 days in advance. She cooked breakfast for Hecker when he returned on the morning after the murder. She admitted that his clothing was muddy and wrinkled, but denied that she saw any blood on them. y Rex Case, youthful chum of the dead man, also was held in the city jail as a material witness with bail at S2000. Authorities were of the there would have been a plant out- opinion that C&se, mows something of the deal Hecker and Bowker were negotiating for liquor. Case was seen Sunday afternoon in earnest conver sation with Hecker in the lobby of the Imperial hotel, a conference that lasted perhaps 45 minutes. He denies knowing anything of the case. Chief Jenkins last night ordered Hecker returned to Portland from Albany after he had disclosed the whereabouts of the body of his vic tim. The chief and his men remained on the scene. Motorcycle. Patrolman Forken was dispatched to Albany last night with grappling apparatus from the harbor patrol, on orders telephoned by the chief. Corvallis String Quartet Is Heard in Recital. HaeDowell Club Has Charge of the Programme. THE MacDowell club, Mrs. Warren Thomas president, showed decided enterprise yesterday after noon, by presenting in recital in the Multnomah hotel ballroom, the Mar guerite MacManus string quartet, from Corvallis, Or. The members of this quartet, are: Marguerite Mac Manus, first violin. Hokan Trued son, second violin; JohnBedynek, vi ola, and Florence Bowden, 'cello. Mrs. MacManus is principal of a music school in Corvallis, and Mr. Truedson and Mr. Bedynek are juniors at the Oregon Agricultural college in that city. The quartet members are highly gifted musicians who play wonder fully well in ensemble, and with the true finish of professionals. The guiding artistic direction of Mrs. MacManus, herself an Auer pupil. is seen in the performance of this new quartet, which is an honor to musical Oregon. It plays with sur prising unanimity, smoothness and splendid finish all of which is agree able and grateful to the ear. The quartet has practiced, as a whole, snice last May, and often daily re hearsals have been the rule. The programme chosen was of clas sic significance and was selected from the works of Beethoven, Tschaikow sky, Mozart and Bach-Wilhelmj. The Beethoven was the quartet "C minor, opus Is. .No. 4, in lour movements, which was played with fine precision, tone and .finish. The famous "An dante cantabile" from Tschaikowsky's quartet, opus 2, based on a monkish m I Clothes 'Designed by Kaufman Smart Styles for Spring Good-looking, well-fitting Clothes at reasonable prices that's what you want You can buy them. Kaufman's Campus Togs, Clothes that . are well tailored, smart in appearance, guaranteed depend able fabrics that wear. Economical too, because they do this. We guarantee our clothes Trices $15 to 50 Kaufman's Clothes for Young Men CHAS. KAUFMAN 8C BROS. CHICAGO NEW YORK BOSTON SAN FRANCISCO chant, had the velvet ecclesiastical at mosphere in its cultured presentation. 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