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THE SUMJA1 OKKGOMAX, POKTLAJNIJ. MUVEJIBEK 3, 1913. 'A SILENT TBIIIIT WINS CONFESSION Acrobat, to Whom Turnkeys Will Speak No Word, Says He Killed Woman. MAN IN TEARS AT END Police Carta fn Accentuates New "Third- Degree" With Nagging - rrocexs Story or Wire In Main Corroborated. CHICAGO. Nov. 2. Broken by hours of silent treatment, the humane tui effective third decree devised by Cap tain Max Nootbaar. of the Chicago po lice. Chart N. Kramer confessed this afternoon that he killed Sophia Stnger, the. Baltimore actress and heiress, found murdered here. Monday night. Kramer, known generally by his stage name of Conway, In the final con fession added a new feature to the statement given yesterday by his wife. He said he struck Miss finger down In self-defense when she attacked him with a rasor, after he had rebuked her for making a suggestion to Mrs. Kra mer to go out and meet some men. Kramer exonerated hla wife from all blame in connection with the crime. Silent Treatmeaf Telia. Kramer, the former clown, high diver and circus acrobat, held out 21 hours longer than his wife. lie paced his cell all night, begging for a word from the turnkeys, who would not ' vouchsafe him a syllable. He heard his wife's agonised outcries when she made her confession yester day, but could get no information as to their cause or what she was saying. Today Captain Nootbaar began a systematic nagging 'of the man that aggravated his silence. Several times an hour he would pass the cell and would pause a second to ?ay: "Well, do you want to confess?" .Man In Tears Confesses. Kramer each time refused, but at last broke into tears'and begged to be allowed to tell his story. Kramer's story differed from his wife's only in the detail that he claimed self-defense in Justification. He said he never meant to kill Miss Singer and that he bound and gagged her to pre vent her making an outcry. He said he took J35 from Miss Singer's purse and two suits of clothes belonging to W. R. Worthen, Miss Singer's friend, because he was penniless and needed clothes to go out In. He and his wife fled through the al ley, he said, hoping to get away before Miss Singer revived and believing that she would not want to come into pub licity by prosecuting them. WARSHIP ACCIDENT FATAL Two of IMreroom Crew of Vermont Killed, Four Injured. NORFOLK. Va.. Nov." 2. Michael V. Horan and Richard M. Wagner, mem bers of the fireroom crew of the bat tleship Vermont, are dead and H. W. Cramer, J. W. Newberry. M. W.' Green and O. K. Hoteling are badly scalded as a result of the blowing out of the head of the battleship's No. 6 boiler while she lay in Hampton Roads during the night. Cramer is so badly burned it is feared he may die. The battleship was only slightly damaged. A board of Inquiry will determine the responsibility for the accident. It is believed It was due to the water in the boiler being per - mltted to run too low. Early today the Injured men were transferred from the Vermont to the hospital ship Solace. Horan and Wag ner died aboard the vessel. The in jured men will be transferred to the naval hospital at Portsmouth as soon as their condition will permit. ANOTHER VICTIM IS DEAD Salem Explosion Proves Worst Acci dent in City's History. SALEM. Or- Nov. 2. (Special.) Death claimed its third victim from the boiler explosion In the Salem Bank &. Trust building of last Tuesday, when I. B. Muchmore died tonight as the re sult of injuries in the catastrophe. W. G. East, cashier of the bank, and Jlarry Ahlers. son of the president of the bank, were the first victims, Mr. East dying early Wednesday and Ahlers later in the day. Hopes were held out for the recovery of Mr. Muchmore. Although he re ceived scalds and burns of a dangerous nature, it was believed he would sur vive. With the third death this is con sidered the worst accident in the his tory of the city. BANKS' RESOURCES GAIN Total for 29, OIK) Institutions in Country SO 4.956,000,000. WASHINGTON, Nov. 2. Lawrence O. Murray. Controller of the Currency, to day issued a statement indicating that the resources of the banks in the I'nited States, National, state and pri vate, are the highest in history. According to reports of their condi tions on June 14, the Controller an nounced 25.000 of the 29.000 banks In the country show aggregate resources of $24, 953,000,000, an increase of SI. 324.000.000 over the resources of 24,000 banks in 1911. The total individual deposits amount, ed to $17,012,000,000, an increase of II, 105.700,000. MRS. SAGE HARVARD DONOR Request Made to Xante. Freshman Dormitory Stand i.sh Hall. BOSTON. Mass., Nov. 2. (Special) It was learned today that Mrs. Russell Sage was one of the largest contribu tors to the 11,800,000 fund which Is be ing raised at Harvard University for the new freshmen dormitories. The only announcement made is that the dormitory which she gave will- be railed Standish Hail, and that the build ing given by general donations will be called Gore Hall. FIRM FICTITIOUS IS CHARGE Government Agent Testifies at Trial of Bremerton Yard Clerk. SEATTLE. Wash.. Nov. 2. William Bryon. special agent of the De part- ment of Justice, testified today in the trial of Edwin F. Meyer, former prin cipal clerk in the office of the Gen eral Storekeeper of the Puget Sound Navy-yard, and who is charged with defrauding the Government. Bryon told of. a transaction in- Ferro-Manganese. a firm which the Government alleges is fictitious, put in a bid and obtained a contract to j furnish 4000 pounds to the Navy-yard and later 4500 pounds more. Brvon testified as to conversations he had with J. H. Kettlewell. of the Navy pay office, wherein the Ferro Manganese deal was brought ontv Ket. tlewell is named in the Indictment with Meyer.- Bryon asserted that" the firm, Lyman Evans & Co., which was supposed to have bid on the Ferro Munganese, was fictitious, according to Kettlewell and that Kettlewell had told him the profits on the -transaction were to be divided between Meyer and Ket tlewell. According to the Government, the Ferro-Manganee was purchased at ap proximately 5 cents a pound In the Eat and sold for almost 12 cents a pound to the Navy-yard. Bryon testified th:it Kettlewell had explained that the rst of the shipment of S500 pounds, after the first requisition of 4000 pounds was taken care of. was to be used on a secoTM- requisition which was to b issued by-Meyer. Court adjourned out of respect to the memory of Vice-President Sherman, with Bryon still on the stand. The trial i.s Jikely to continue all of next week. "SUIT CLUB" HAS GRIEF INCENSED WOMEN TAKE LAW INTO OWN HANDS. One Takes Collector's Watrh as In demnity; Another "Tries On" Gar ment and Walks Out, SAN FRANCISCO, Nor. (Special.) William McNally, collector for the Charles W. Hickey "suit club," which became notorious when several women had Hickey arrested for obtaining money under false pretenses a few weeks ago, was persuaded by Hickey, who is out. on hail, that the club was still doing business at the old stand. Holding to this belief McNally today went J.o the home of Mrs. Dora Berry and dsked her for another $2 payment to add to the $10 which she had al ready paid in for a tailored suit. She left McNally standing In the hall, and when she returned she car ried a revolver in her hand. The weapon was unloaded, but McNally was unaware of this fact. "Now I want those $10 I've paid Into that concern returned," ordered Mrs. Berry. "You won't leave this houBe until I get the rest of that mon ey." In vain pleaded and explained Mc Nally. Mrs. Berry was obdurate. She finally compromised by accepting his watch. When McNally arrived at the bond and warrant office to get a warrant for Mrs. Berry's arrest he met Charles W. Hickey. his employer. Hickey also was having trouble. He was applying for a warrant for the arrest of Mrs. Anne Bowart, charging her with lar ceny. He said that she visited the Great Eastern Woolen Mills, asked to "try on" her suit and had then walked out. telling him to "put it In his pipe and smoke It." Both requests for warrants were de nied. CUBAN LIBERALS LOSE RETURNS INDICATE SWEEPING CONSERVATIVE VICTORY. Several Election " Clashes Are Re ported and One Man Is Shot and Ivllled in Havana. HAVANA, Cuba, Nov. 2. The sweep ing victory of General Maria Menocal and Enrique Jose Varona, the Conser vative candidates for the Presidency and Vice-Presidency, and for the rest of the Conservative ticket for the executive offices of the Cuban Republic appears to be fully confirmed by the returns received in the provinces today. El Triunfo, the administration organ, con tinued, however, to assert that Alfredo Zayas. the Liberal candidate, has been elected. There Is practically no doubt that the Conservatives carried all the prov inces' with the possible exception of Matanzas. The Liberals appear to have carried only a few municipalities. At the small town of Jiguani, in Oriente Province, .a partisan clash re sulted in the destruction of the regis tration lists, rendering the election im possible. In Havana one man was shot and killed in an election dispute, but no other conflict occurred here. General confidence is felt here that there will be no disorder. REBELS STILL ACTIVE AMERICAN REFUGEES REPORT UNSETTLED CONDITIONS. Work Is Begun in Repairing: Rail way Bridges Under Protection of Federal Soldiers. y EL PASO, Tex., Nov. 2. Refugees ar riving here today say conditions remain unsettled below the border et this point. Antonio Rojas has . about 600 rebels camping in the American set tlement of Pacheco. The refugees, who came from the various Mormon colonies and other American settlements in-the Casas Grandes district, were compelled to move overland to Hachita, N. M. Work was begun today in re-constructing the Mexico-Northwestern Railway, on which road rebels have burned 60 bridges between Juarex and Casas Grandes. American railway offi cials agreed to attempt to rebuild the road again on the promise of General Trucy Aubert that full protection would be given. The first work train to depart was guarded by 150 federal soldiers. All railway traffic below thts port has been paralyzed for nearly a month. GALE H0LDSBIG STEAMER Victoria, With 4 64 Passengers, Hove to in Bering Gateway. n SEATTLE, Nov. 2. The big steamship Victoria, from Noma, the last merchant vessel navigating the Bering Sea, sent word by wireless Friday night that she had been hove to for IS hours, unable to make headway in a gale of 90 miles an hour. She was then ISO miles north of Uni- mak Pass, which is the gate, to Bering Sea from the North Pacific. She has 4S4 passengers and a large shipment of furs and gold. The revenue cutter Bear will be the last steamer to leave Bering Sea, which will be closed until next May. TO SEA-LASHED WRECK All but One of Crew Fall Into Ocean While Those on -Shore Are Helpless. WARSHIP RUSHES TO AID New York Schooner, John Maxwell. Driven on Treacherous Shoals of Hatteras . While - Bound South to Savannah. NEW INLET LIFESAVING STA TION, N. C, Nov. 2. A lone survivor of the crew of the New York schooner John Maxwell, driven on the treacher ous Hatteras shoals during the 'night while bound from Norfolk to Savannah and broken In two by a raging sea, clung tenaciously to the rigging of the wreck when darkness fell tonight. Llfesavers from this and two other stations watched anxiously, but help lessly for an opportunity to rescue him. A United States battleship from the Southern flrill grounds and a revenue cutter are steaming full speed tonight to reach the spot In an. attempt save him. Six lives already have been lost In the wreck, five of the men having dis appeared In the waves before dawn to day. Sixth Man Loses Hold. The sixth sailor hung on to the rig ging until late today, when, benumbed by the cold and exhausted by the lash ing of the waves, he was forced to re lease his hold and was swept to death In the sea. The lone survivor who through glasses appeared to be an aged man, was making a brave fight for life, but it is feared he is doomed. An all-day battle was waged by the llfesavers, but the tremendous 40-mlle gale made It impossible for them iQ launch their boats. Repeatedly during the day the life savers shot a line over the Maxwell, but the two men In the riggingvere apparently too numbed by cold to at tach It to the rigging. Failure to get the line fastened so the breeches buoy might be sent out prevented a rescue in this way. Word was sent to Norfolk, where the Navy-Yard's wireless flashed the pliglTl of the vessel and men to the Atlantic fleet on the Southern drill grounds. News came back here that one of the ships would steam as near the shoals as possible and attempt to rescue the men from the seaward. The coastwise telegraph also brought word that the revenue cutter service would send a vessel. , Vessel Will Be Total Wreck. While the llfesavers watched the sea pounding the vessel to pieces, one of the two men was seen to disappear as a big wave swept over the rigging. He had been wrenched from the spar wnich he bad clutched all day, dashed into the sea and drowned. It was not until after noon that the identity of the vessel became known. A piece of wreckage bearing the name was washed ashore. Under the force of the terrific waves the craft broke in two and is fast go ing to pieces. She will be a total wreck with her" cargo of coal. SPOKANE WOMAN HONORED Mrs. W. A. Betts Head of Methodist Deaconesses in Northwest. SPOKANE. Wash., Nov. 2. (Special.) Mrs. W. A. Betts, wife of Dr. Betts, pastor of the First Methodist Church, was apprised this morning of her ap pointment as secretary of a deaconess' bureau for the Pacific Northwest. The bureau and the office of secre tary were created by the Women's Home Missionary Society of the Metho dist Episcopal Church which has Just closed its annual meeting at Pes Moines, la. The appointment makes Mrs. Betts a member of the National Board and gives her a voice in the an nual meetings. Next year's meeting will be held at Washington. r. C. The bureau Includes the Columbia River. IdahOi Puget Sound and Ore gon conferences, and - Mrs. Betts as secretary will have general supervi sion of the work in the territory covered by the bureau. . BIG POULTRY SHOW IS AIM Asotin County Chicken 3Ien Would Make It Northwestern Affair. LEWISTON, Idaho, Nov. 2. (Spe cial.) To convert the Asotin County Poultry Show into a Northwest show of poultry to be held Independent of the Northwest Livestock Show, but contemporaneous with it, is the plan of the chicken men of this section of the Inland Empire, who are urging the changing of the situation from Clark ston to Lewiston. A meeting was held in Lewiston yes terday, attended by a number of busi nessmen, who guaranteed a large sum to the Clarkston promoters to finance the show here. Entries from all the leading chicken centers of the Northwest will be so licited. STRIKE'S END IS DELAYED Arrest of Two Miners Canses No Ac tion to Be Taken. BINGHAM, Utah, Nov. 2.-On account of the arrest here today of Yanco Ter xig and E. G. Locke, executive board members of the Western Federation of Miners, the meeting of the striking miners tonight did not result in any definite action to call off the strike of the copper miners that has been In force here for six weeks. Terzigr'and Locke are said to have attempted to Incite a riot here today when a Deputy Sheriff arrested four Cretans, who are alleged to have taken part In the disturbances last week. Both Terzig and Locke were released tonight. Another meeting of the min ers will be held, next week. CARDINAL FARLEY IN WEST Ecclesiastic Bears Message From Pope to San Francisco. SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 2. Cardinal John Murphy Farley, with a party of -ecclesiastics with whom he will tour California, arrived in San Francisco on his visit to the West. Although Cardinal Farley is the bearer of a spe cial message from the Pope, to the people of San Francisco, he said his visit was without official significance and that he bad no definite plans as to his itinerary in the West. Cardinal Farley, and the other mem bers of his party left New York Oc tober Ha srlvate mm s IP SCHLOSS BROS BALTIMORE fc NEW YORK Fourth and Alder WOMAN SLAYS II Foster Mother and Widow Die of Rough on Rats. MURDERS ARE CONFESSED Conscience Stricken, Mrs. Pansy K Lesti, Whose Husband Deserted Her, Admits Having Killed Victims in. Missouri. LOS ANGELES, Nov. 2. Despondent and conscience stricken, Mrs. Pansy Ellen Lesh, ti years old, who said she had Just been deserted by her husband, went, to central police station today and surrendered, after making the state ment that she had murdered two wo men in Missouri one at Green Ridge and another at Sedalla. The victims, she said, were Mrs. Quaintance and Mrs. Coe. Both were killed by the administration of rough on rats. Mrs. Lesh told the police that she was taken from the Orphan Home So ciety in St. Louis when she was 13 years old by Mrs. Quaintance, and went to live with the Quaintance family at Green Ridge. She refused to tell her maiden name. In June, 1904, she said, Mrs, Quaintance became ill and, Mrs. Lesh declared, she put a capsule con taining rough on rats in some medicine and gave It to Mrs. Quaintance. who died the next morning. The next Spring she left for Sedalla, and went to the home of Mrs. Coe, a widow on Sixth street. In August of that year she said she put some rough on rats in a glass of beer and gave it to Mrs. Coe, who died the next morn ing. Leaving the household, the womaif said, she drifted 'around. Anally going to Paducab. Ky., where, on September 5 1907, she was married to Lesh and went to East St. Louis, 111., to live. -In October of this year she and her husband came to Los Angeles, but ac cording to her story to the police, she was deserted by Lesh shortly after their arrival. The police are holding Mrs. Lesh for an Investigation of her story. DEATHS APPEAR SUSPICIOUS Sedalla Authorities Inclined to Be lieve Mrs. Ivesh's StorJ. SEPAL IA, Mo- Nov. 2. When the FRANZ' Butter -Nut . BREAD is a splendid bread. If you have never tried it you can't tell. It is a firm, fine-grained white bread, and the crust has that rich, gold en brown color which always shows the quali ties of a good loaf of bread. 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She had lived at the Quaintance home but a few months when she and Mrs. Quaintance quarreled over an alleged !-..a,4., th.fi Mrs. Quaintance dis covered between the girl and her hus band. tv,,. a-ii i. mm tn have knocked Mrs. Quaintance down, injuring her badly. Physicians pronounced the injury rup ture and treated the case as such. Peri tonitis developed and she died in June, 1904. Made Clean Sold Clean Delivered Clean Phones: E 6044, B 2429 .g&sjf Grant Christmas nnlv nmmeTidahle from the the work of the young woman and . .. '. -. i Does Away Entirely With Dentistry at Half Price (Until further notice.) While our charges for Alveolar work are the same as the standard price of high-class bridgework. 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