THE SUNDAY OREGONIAX, PORTLAND, FEBRUARY 28, 1915.
BROTHER IS HELD
POISON
CHARGE
Clarence Russell and Wife, o
Coos County, Charged With
Murdering Albert Russell.
DEATH THREE YEARS AGO
Statement by Ttancli Hand Leads to
Investigation, Anal) sis of Body
and Arrest Principal AVitne&s
Is Taken at Coeur d'AIene,
MARSHFIELD, Or.. Feb. 27. (Spe
I clal.) The death of Arthur Russell
three years ago under suspicious cir
cumstances on his ranch five miles from
" Myrtle Point resulted today in the ar
rest of his brother, Clarence Russell,
and his brother's wife, on the ranch
where Arthur Russell died, and where
, all had lived together. The prisoners
are charged with murder by poisoning.
The arrest comes as the result of an
extended inquiry by Sheriff Johnson,
after a statement by William Pentiand,
who later disappeared, only to be ar
rested as a witness today at Coeur
d'AIene, Idaho, where he has been un
der sur-eillance for two months.
It was Fentland"s statement, made
years after Russeirs death, which gave
the first inkling of crime. Shortly after
the firt of this year Pentiand, who had
been employed a year and a half on
the Clarence Russell ranch, went to
Sheriff Johnson and declared he had
received information from Mrs. Russell
-which implicated her and her husband
In Arthur Russell's death. The state
ment was made to District Attorney
Liljeqvist and Sheriff Johnson and
transcribed by a court reporter.
Remark Overheard Is Hfat.
Pentiand declared that while occupy
ing a room across the hall from Air. and
Airs. Clarence Russell he overheard Mr.
. Russell say, "Toil poisoned Arthur." To
this, he declared, Mrs. Russell replied,
' 'I would not have done so if you had
not told me to." This, Pentiand said,
was his first inkling of a crime.
Immediately after obtaining this State
ment Sheriff Johnson exhumed Arthur
Russell's body and sent the viscera to
K. P. Harding at Portland for analysis,
and received from him a report that
the viscera showed sufficient arsenic to
warrant the belief that poison had
caused death.
Sheriff Johnson then investigated a
statement by Pentiand that he and Mrs.
Clarence Russell had stayed at Bin
' don as man and wife and found evi
- dence to corroborate this. In the
meantime, however. Pentiand had dis
appeared, having left the country by
way of Florence and Eugene. 1
W. C. Laird, Deputy Sheriff, by acci
dent learned of a young woman at
Florence who knew Pentiand and
from her he obtained information that
he had gone to St. Mary's, Idaho. Pent
land was located there and has been
under surveillance until he was taken
in custody today.
.It Intake Is Alleged.
Pentiand further told the officer
that Mrs. Clarence Russell had told
him she had intended to poison Mrs.
Arthur Russell and it was the husband
instead who got the poison. Jealousy
of Mrs. Arthur RuaselL whom she be
lleved to have been receiving atten
tions from her husband, was the motive
for the crime, Pentiand declared Mrs.
Clarence Russell had told him.
The version of Arthur Russeirs death
as given by Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Rue
sell is that he died from an acute at
tack of an old trouble. The story was
that in his earlier days Arthur Russell
had been poisoned by nightshade and
until about nine years before his death
had been troubled periodically, the at
tacks becoming worse at every recur
rance. But in nine years, his brother
Clarence said, he had not suffered from
the trouble. Clarence told Sheriff John
son his brother had often said he ex
pected another attack would cause his
death.
Brother Denies Guilt.
The incidents surrounding his im
mediate death were related by Clar
ence Russell to Sheriff Johnson while
the body was being exhumed and were
substantially: -
'Arthur came to our house, which is
onlv half a mile from where he lived.
one evening and complained he bad
suffered another attack of his old com-
Dlaint. He eat about and was ap
parently in great agony and soon left
for his home. An hour or two after
wards we saw an automobile stop at
his home and supposed he had tele
phoned for a doctor. I nad intended to
visit his home in the morning and In
quire about his condition and take care
of his work, if necessary, but it was
only two or three hours afterward we
were informed he was lead.
MOULIN ROUGE FIRE BIG
Center of Xierht IMe t Paris Is
Thrilled by Conflagration.
PARIS. Feb. 27. The Moulin Rouge,
well known as a center of the night
ife of Paris, caught fire- early this
morning.. The entire fire department
of the center of Paris was called out
n an endeavor to put out the flames.
The fire quickly communicated to
the theater, the auditorium of which
was badly damaged, but the stage was
saved by the steel curtain. There
were no casualties and the damage
amounts to not more than $100,000. The
origin of the fire is not known.
Bundcsratli Checks Speculation.
BERLIN, Feb. 27, via London. Ex
planatory details have been issued re
garding the Bundesrath's prohibition of
the publication of the prices of securi
ties or variations In them. The order
was designed. It is explained, to check
unwholesome speculation, and was not
due, in any sense to unsatisfactory mar
ket prices, which are said to compare
favorably with those of foreign paper.
Foreign securities quotations may still
be printed.
BELGIAN
TRENCHES
MADE SHAMBLES
French Eye-Witness Tells of
Bitterly Contested Efforts
to Hold Ground. -
the lost trenches were entirely recov'
ered.
"The German losses were heavy. The
Ave prisoners taken said they were the
only survivors of a detachment of 100
men. Fifty dead were found in the
recaptured trenches and 200 more on
the adjacent ground. Our artillery
also caused heavy losses among the
reinforcements, which were unable to
come up to assist their comrades. In
the two days the losses of the enemy
were more than 400 killed and 600
wounded; our losses were 50 dead and
80 wounded."
GERMAN ATTACKS SEVERE
Five Prisoners Taken at One Point
Say They Are Only Survivors of
100 3Ien Petards, Bombs
and Machine Gnns Used.
PARIS. Feb. 27. A description of re
cent , fighting in the district between
Ypres and Menin, Belgium, is given in
a dispatch from the French official
"eyewitness." made public today. The
message follows:
The Germans prepared a great ef
fort against our trenches at the
Chateau Heerentage, on the road from
Ypres to Menin. beginning with a
violent shelling on February 19, which
ruptured the telephone lines connecting
the trenches with the post of command,
Infantry attack followed north of the
road to Menin, several columns, pre
ceded by sappers with hand grenades,
making the assault.
Germans Disregard Heavy Fire.
'Our artillery and infantry met them
with a heavy fire, and machine guns
took them on he flank. Entire groups of
our assailants were brought down. The
enemy succeeded, however, in pene
trating part of our trenches. Here we
counter-attacked, but progress was
made painfully, and at the same time
the enemy brought up reinforcements
of infantry and artillery, and all our
efforts failed until evening, when we
recaptured part of the lost trenches.
We made anotner attacK on tne
morning of February 20, which was
stopped by the enemy's violent shelling.
A second attack also was repulsed, but
third progressed to within 30 yards
of the trenches. We dug in there and
brought up machine guns and a mortar,
while other machine guns and a bomb
thrower prepared to take the enemy on
the flank.
- JFrench Covered With Projectiles.
"A fourth attack began at 4 o'clock.
Machine guns In front and on the flank
opened fire, while petards, bombs and
artillery fire covered the entire area
of the trenches with projectiles. The
enemy tried to retreat an hour after
we began the attack, but all leaving
the trenches fell under rifle and ma
chine gun fire. ' Then the infantry
charged and killed the last defenders,
excepting Ave men. At 4:30 o'clock
ALCOHOL ' SUPPLY SHORT
Germans Adopt Measures to Curtail
Private Consumption.
BERLIN, Feb. 27, via London. Ger
many's supply of alcohol Is so far be
low the demand that the so-called
"spirits central" organization, which
primarily supplies the army's needs,
has announced that it will be com
pelled to limit sharply deliveries of
brandy and spirits for other purposes.
especially for drinking.
About 40 per cent of the former
amount will be allowed the larger in
dustries for use In March and slightly
more to smaller concerns. The supply
of denatured alcohol for fuel lights also
must be curtailed. ,
An effort will be made to save for
human consumption a large portion of
the supply of potatoes now in distil
leries and to Induce distilleries to un
dertake the production of crude sugar.
GERMAN AVIATORS SAVED
British Effect Kescue of Men From
Xorth Sea Waters.
LOWESTOFT, England, via London,
Feb. 27. Two German aviators, who
for two days had been clinging, to their
machines in the North Sea. were landed
here today by the British trawler which
rescued them.
The Germans met with their aeeident
while attempting to fly from Ostend to
England last Sunday. Both of them
were handed over to the naval authori
ties.
BRITISH STRIKERS AT WORK
Peremptory Order to Shipyard En
gineers Proves Effective.
GLASGOW.' Scotland, via London, Feb.
27. The peremptory order of the gov
ernment . yesterday for the resumption
of work on Monday by the ship-yard
engineers at the Clyde yards, who went
on strike for an increase in wages, has
produced speedy results.
Committees representing the strikers
decided today to advise the men to re
turn to work immediately.
I HP TUT TC RAM W (TT it- i
I ' OUR $55,000 STOCK OF
M
eim9s ClotliiinL
and Fmrmislhiiirags
Which Was Damaged by Fire, Smoke
and Water, Sunday, Feb. 14, Begins
w
eanesaay
MARCH 3
M
ormng
Full Details in Tuesday Evening
. and Wednesday Morning Papers
Phegley Cavender
FOURTH AND ALDER STREETS
POTATOES TABOO TODAY
BERLIN FAMILIES HAVE FOOU
SUPPLY CUT DOWX. N .
Pullman Man Rises in Diplomacy.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash
ington, Feb. 27. The President today
promoted Charles E. Strangeland, of
Pullman, Wash., now Secretary of
Legation ' at Bogota, to be secretary,
class three, at the American Embassy
at London.
I'ollce Guard Established at 31 any Shops
to Prevent Overcrow dlna.
Some Hard Hit.
BERLIN, Feb. 27, via London. Many
Berlin families will have no potatoes
for their Sunday dinner. Although It is
expected that the removal of the re
striction in the maximum price soon
will result in the bringing in of a sup
ply, the time has been too short as yet
to permit this.
It was necessary to establish a po
lice guard at many shops where pota
toes were on sale to prevent over
crowding. Only small quantities were
sold to one person, at prices usually
around 1 'i marks (about 30 cents) for
10 pounds.
At Wllniersdorf, a suburb of Berlin,
where no arrangements have been
made for the sale of potatoes by the
municipality, the people were hard lilt.
The Minister of Public Works has
provided freight cars with which a
supply of potatoes may be brought In
quickly to Berlin.
SEAMEN'S BILL IS PASSED
Measure to Improve. Labor Condi
tions Goes to President.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 17. The Senate
accepted today the conference report
on the seamen's bill, already adopted
by the House, ending a two years' fight
in Congress. The bill now goes to the
President. The measure raise the
standard of labor for seamen, and pro
vides for Increased safety equipment
on lake and ocean steamships.
When Senator Hoke Smith entered
the chamber and found the bill passed
he declared he had been mislnfnrmr-d
of the tlu-.e of the vote and esve note
of a motion to reronf lnr. fenator tl.il
linger made the smiie complaint V
ionK parliamentary wrangle follow -.(.
Senator Smith's motion to rc nnrMT
finally tahl-,1 m1 the hill wan
prepared for the rrenlilrnt' slntui-'i.
COURTMARTIAL IS THREAT
Army Order by I'rrm-li ticnrral hull!
to Deury Ijy btirrrndrr.
PKRLIN. Frh. :7. by w1rre. to Sa
villo. N. Y. "An ariny onler ha it ema
nated from the hrailuuartrrx of ths
French general rlmtt. Ksylng ttist
French soldiers currender too easily. "
says the Overseas New Asjrncv.
"It threatens that every eoldler l"
is made a prisoner of r wl!l l-court-martialed
on hW return."
Only OM "DKOMO QIIMNB"
Whenever you feel a enld wmlni on. Ii
of the lull nsme, Laxxtive Hroine villoma,
Look for l.n.tur K. W. Orov nw bn. 2.Vi.
OUR TERMS ARE NOT RAISED DURING THIS SALE
DiningChairs
Regular to $4.25
13m
jits
3
1.75
A closing out of patterns of
which we have a limited number
in vtock. All are of solid oak, of
good design and could not be
better made and finished. One
pattern of one piece only sells at
$2.75 regularly. The others are
all regular $3.o0 to t.2a values.
TOY
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With Spring Upon Us it Is Now Time to Think
of Putting the Home in Summer Order
An to Replace Your Old One Can TVT . t
JLVUg Be Had at Removal Prices llOWi
Here Is the Prime Value in Rugs
$8.50 9x12 Reversible Rug $4.75
Comes in a very comprehensive range of colors and patterns. Colors fast.
Patterns suitable for bed chamber or dining-room. The Removal Sale
surely is making price records
THESE ARE , UNBEATABLE VALUES
$30.00 Seamless Wilton Velvets,
9x12, are now $22.50
$23.00 Axminster Rugs, in beauti
ful colorings, now go at $14.75
$23.00 Seamless Velvet Rues. 9x12.
now go for $18.75 lowest, and
Axminster 11-3x12 Rugs during the
Removal at $31.50
Extra large sizes, 10-6x13-6 Brus
sels Rugs $27.00
10-6x13-6 Green Wiltons are now. .$48.00
This is surely
rug time. The
Removal Sale is
making prices
the
Edwards "Your
credit is good"
way makes it
12-6x12 Bundhar Wilton Rugs, sp'l $52.50 even more timely
The Big new home is being
made ready at Fifth and Oak
streets. Portland's popular
Home-Furnishing Store "since
1887" will be settled into regular
selling. Meanwhile we will light
en the load of moving by selling
Reliable Furnishings at prices
and on terms Portland has-not
known. All. prices are quoted
on first quality Furniture, from
our regular stocks, and, as was
said in our store the other day,
prices may be quoted that are
lower, but not on first-quality,
regular line goods. This is not
"Bargain Sale" Furniture.
"Make Your House a
i You Never Could Buy Outfits as Low Priced
and on Such Cood Terms as Now. at Edwards
unwvnv An utfit
Home! wniDoit
The Removal Sale
a week offers you p r i c e s
and terms it will be
a week hard to duplicate
later in the Sprinp:.
a week Buy Nowt Be ready
$ 69.00
$ 75.00
$ 98.00
$123.00
$139.00
$154.00
$175.00
$199.00
3-roora outfit,
$ 6.75 Cash,
2- room outfit,
$ 7.50 Cash,
3- room outfit,
$10.00 Cash,
3-room outfit,
x $12.50 Cash,
3-room outfit,
$15.00 Cash,
3-room outfit,
$16.00 Cash,
3-room outfit,
$17.50 Cash,
5-room outfit,
$20.00 Cash,
for Spring cleaning,
a week Have your home
ready for the visi-
Thislsthe A lniv.iivv At Bargain
Time to Buy Aluminum priCes
112, 2 and 3-Quart Sauce Pans
Set
1' $1.45
See This Great " Bed Value
This is not cheap, light weight, short measure Aluminum that
warps out of shape. It is 99 per cent pure. The price is not
marked away up to deceive you. We have cheaper Aluminunu
This is our BEST regular line.
Rice Cooker BerlinKettle Tea Kettle
Dsn air Boilrr. Inret
holds two quarts full
measure. Base holds
tio and one-half quarts.
Heavy. 99 "per cent pur
aluminum. ( 1 og
Very special.
ElKht-quart, full meas
ure, 99 per cent pure
aluminum. Highly fin
ished. Not bargain-Hale
aluminum. Heavy
weight and Off O e
non-warping... 9 lifcJ
Tour wife has always
wanted an Aluminum
Teakettle. This one baa
a six-quart rapacity. 99
per cent pure. K x t r a
a"v.y..m?:'. $2.48
F
Regular $10
2-In. Con
tinuous Post
Has 5 Fillers
Enameling Is
White or
VerneMartin
and Smooth
Style Massive
Brass Beds
Go at Bar
gain Prices!
. " r" amSiwB pr F
mm mm nt r 1 totMPS zmm
$13.50 Brass Bed.
$19.50 Brass Bed..
$ 6.90
$10.00
$22.50 Brass Bed.
$27.50 Brass Bed.
$16.25 $45.00 Brass Bed... $27.50
$18.90 $50.00 Brass Bed... $29.50
$ 1.25
$ 1.50
$ 2.00
$ 2.25
$10.00
$10.00
$12.00
$12.50 month
Never
Will
month tors that will flock
through Portland on
month their way to the bijr
month
-:hows in California.
"Your
Edwards1
Credit Is Good" way
will help you.
Trade in Your
Old Stove on
This
$2925
non-ruull n Mtrl. I- In sre
I . . . I. . . I L." I .- V.
h Urse Hnd l fitted with d"ile
Itrnle. Top Jointed with lwt
plalrn. NU'krlrd part are highly
'inixhed and caxy to keep i It-sn.
Huy It for fl a Week.
IV Be as
umnerware Low Priced
Gas Plates for Less During the
Removal Sale
$2.25 2-Burner Plate. .....$ 1. 8.V
$.1.75 3-Burner Plate S2.95
$3.00 2-Burner Plate $2.40
$4.25 2-Burner Plate $3.-13
$4.50 3-Burncr Plate $3.60
$5.50 3-Burner Plate $4.40
$5.25 2-Burner Plate $4.25
$6.50 3-Burner Plate $3.20
A GOOD PLACE TO TRADE
1 00-Piece Set Worth $ 1 5.90 for $ 1 1 .25
This set comes in white and gold, blue and gold, white and
blue Dutch patterns, and in decorated blue and god. All loau
tiful and well chosen patterns and colors. This set will dolijrht
any housewife.
A $14.50 Rocker, $6
The Removal Sale Does
$12.50 Rocker big automobile seat
now $.0
$9.00 Fumed Oak Rocker with big
automobile seat $0.90
$14'.00 Big Fumed Oak Rocker with
springy auto seat $i.00
$14.50 Rocker a delight, cccxfortable
and roomy auto seat. . .$0.00
$14.00 Carved Rocker. Big cushion
auto seat $0.00
90 IrCnHnl
$9.50 Mattress, During (fJ C (CC
the Removal Sale . . . tpU.JJ
45 -Pound, Pure Cotton Felt
Imperial Edge
" " m.
iWE MOVE MAY FIRST TO FIFTJ AND OAKi
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