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THE ' SUNDAY OREGOXXAy. PORTtAJTD. MAY 21. 1D1C
MURDER MYSTERY
AS DEEP AS EVER
Scores of Auto Parties to Be
Enlisted Today in" Hunt
- ; for Ristman's Body.
NEWEST CLEW IS FAILURE
Grocer Says lie Might'Identify Pas
, Bcnger of Jitneur, but Ilia Tes
timony Tound Useless in tlio
race of Other Evidence.
I BAFFLING lIiATUBES OF
4 HIRDER MYSTERY.
Tuesday, May 16 Friends of-
J Fred Ristman, Jitneur. become.
I alarmed when he dges not return
I from night trip. Search party
4 organized finds his automobile.
blood-smeared, in driveway Of
t Gore ranch, between ' i!atin and
T Sherwood. Home of -ilrs. Helen
I Jennings, owner of ranch, broken
I into by Constable at request of
i Ristman's friends. Mrs. Jennings
found in bed, with head crushed.
Blood-stained sledge left lying on
the floor. House ransacked.
"Wednesday, May 17- Panama
hat, blood-stained, identified as
Ristman's, spattered election card
of Sheriff Hurlburt. and green
laprobe owned by Ristman and
covered with blood, discovered
in brush at side of road 300
yards from Jennings home. Blood
stained sleeve and cuff with gold
link found in roadway. A6sumed
to be Ristman's. Bennett Thomp
son, ex-convict, friend of Mrs.
Jennings, arrested on suspicion
"in Portland. Is not identified as
passenger of Ristman.
Thursday, May 18 B Iood
etained, grease - smeared shirt,
minus cuffs, found 440 yards north
of Jennings house on trail to
ward electric railroad. Mrs. Rist
man tells The Oregonian it did
not belong to husband.
Friday, May 19 Officers accept
;supposition that shirt belonged
to murderer. Thompson found to
wear 16 shirt. Shirt found was
size 15.' Clothes bag containing
family heirlooms is missing from
Jennings home. Suit of black
cloth hairline stripe of white, half
an inch apart, also missing.
Saturday, May 20 Search for
body of Ristman continues un
availing. No new clews un
earthed. Officers hope to fix
crime on Thompson, who may face
a charge of second degree mur
der at Hill6boro.
wore shirts with neckbands. A tight
neck-band would not bother if it were
not buttoned, it is contended. .
' Close examination ofthe. shirt showed
yesterday that the graphite and grease
with which it is smeared is over, not
beneath the blood smears. This is
taken to "indicate that' the murderer,
after killing his victims, found trouble
in starting the automobile. It is be
lieved that he endeavored to start the
machine in the Jennings driveway, but
that it was given up af ter several in
effectual attempts.
Ne-w Clew Unproductive.
Sheriff Reeves was in Portland yes
terday on the trail of an unproductive
terday on the troil of an unproductive
clew. With City Detectives Howell and
Goltz, he investigated the report that
a man of whom the jitney driver had
purchased gasoline- the night of the
crime, might be able to identify the
passenger.
A man in the J. C. Jellison , grocery
story asserted that Ristnian had
stopped there 1623 Macadam road to
get gasoline about 6. o'clock Monday
night, and that the. jitney had a pas
senger he thought he-could identify.
On cross-questioning.? he" clung to the
assertion that the Incident was at 6
o'clock, but as the officers had quite
as positive proof that Ristman was
paying for a new automobile in Port
land at that same hour they came to
the conclusion that it could "not have
been Monday night.
Detective Visit Home.
'.The detectives also visited the home
of Thompson on the East Side and
thoroughly searched. the place. If they
found anything of value, they said
nothing about it.
It is not unlikely that the jitney
men who failed to identify Thompson
as Ristman's .passenger, when they saw
the suspeet at the City Jail, -may be
taken to Hillsboro for another look.
Sheriff Reeves believing they might
change their minds. Numerous persons
who have reported to the authorities
that they saw machines corresponding
to Ristman's along points of the route
to the -Jennings home at various times
Monday nighx are being questioned.
Sheriff Reives took a little more
lively interest in the investigation yes
terday, but the chief work continues
to be done by Portland officials. Sev
eral deputies from Portland went to
the scene of the murder yesterday
and spent many hours in painstoking
search of roads and woods south of
the Gore ranch.
GOLF. STAND EXPLAINED
OPPOSITION TO MtMCIPAL LINKS
VETOED BY SIR. BAKER.
HILLSBORO, Or., May 20. (Special.)
.Sheriff Reeves brought from Portland
tonight an undershirt he believeB was
worn by Thompson the night of the
Jennings murder.
Stains on the sleeves when tested
proved to be blood, and Thompson's
sister-in-law, with whom he lived on
the East Side, and where the shirt was
recovered, admits washing it. Reeves
rays he has found the dealer who sola
the gasoline on the night of the murder
to two men answering the description
of Ristman and Thompson.
Although five days have passed since
the discovery of the brutal murder of
Mrs. Helen Jennings and evidence
pointing to the violent death of Fred
Ristman, jitneur, the solution of the
mystery remains beyond the ken of
police and Sheriffs deputies.
For miles about the Jennings home
on the old Gore ranch between Tualatin
and Sherwood, in Washington County,
. the countryside has been combed by
search parties, which have been re
warded only with the discovery of a
blood-smeared shirt supposed to have
been , worn by the murderer, the simi
larly stained hat of the automobile
driver, and the green laprobe that had
been in- Ristman's machine, stiffened
with blood-clots. .
While the fate of Ristman is not in
doubt, no trace of his body has been
found, though the Tualatin River has
been dragged and posses have roamed
through the woods.
Positive Evidence Lacking.
In ' ascertaining the identity of the
murderer little more progress has bee
made. A man is under arrest, Bennett
Thompson, and the authorities belle. 3
they have the person responsible for
the crime. But no evidence which would
conclusively connect him with it has
been unearthed. He is found to have
. known the dead woman, to have been in
need of money, and is known to be a
hard . character, though a crime ap
proaching murder had never before
been laid at his door.
On the other hand, Thompson seems
confident that he has a complete alibi
his identification by other jitney driv
ers as the man who hired Ristman's
"machine has failed, and the gory shirt
found near the scene of the tragedy
has not been identified as his, and is-a
size smaller than Thompson wears.
Two other suspects have been ar
rested, one by Portland detectives, the
other by Sheriff Reeves, of Washin
ton County, but both arrests were pre
cautionary, and in neither case do the
officers believe they have the right
man. ,
Today Large Portion "Will Search.
Today a more extensive search than
has heretofore been conducted will be
made by friends of the dead man and
brother Oddfellows. A call for scores
of automobiles has been made by. jitney
men who will start from Second and
Alder streets shortly after 8 o'clock
this morning. Independent parties are
expected to be leaving Portland all day
The parties wll be organized at the
Core ranch and branch out in everv
direction. Many will devote all their
time to search along the banks of the
Tualatin and in the ditches that line
sections of the country.
There is much doubt that Thompson,
the suspect, could wear the bloody shirt
that was found near the Gore ranch,
for it is smaller, by an inch, about the
neck than that which Thompson wears
customarily.
By actual measurement. Deputy
Pheriff Phillips yesterday confirmed the
, size as 15 inches. Thompson, at
Hillsboro, is wearing a shirt with a
J6Vi-inch band. He says that he usu
ally wears size 16. but that , he ha3
been wearing larger lately, owing to
two small goitres on his neck.
- Cirease Is Over Blood Stnlna.
At one time Thompson wore a 16
fshirt, for his neck measurement at the
Salem penitentiary is 15. That was
taken nearly 10 years ago. The shirt
' found was an old one and; haj been
carefully patched on the left of the
hand, where the collar had rubbed. The
authorities contend, in support of their
; belief that Thompson is the criminal,
that in view of the shirt being an old
. cine, Thompson might have worn it be-
f ore his enlarged neck required a
' larger size.
Another thing to which Deputy Sher
iff Phillips points is that Thompson
Mas never in the habit of wearing a
-ollar, though he more often than not
Commissioner at Civic Club Luncheon
Says Cost of Taking: Vote "Would
Exceed Money Needed.
"I am not here to argue pro or con
on the question of a municipal golf
links," declared Commissioner George
L. Baker, at the luncheon of the Civic
Leagfue .yesterday.
"I am convinced from the investi
gations that have been carried on that
the people want the city to make the
experiment proposed for the establish
ment of this- recreation under munici
pal supervision: I am listening to what
the people demand, and I am in office
to put the wishes of the people into
eff'.ct, and I am willing to stand or
fall on that principle."
Mr. Baker made this statement in
reply to an argument advanced by John
is. Stevenson, who maintained that the
in.tial cost of $4000 for installing the
proposed links on the Ladd tract would
merely open the way for interminable
future expenditures. Mr. Stevenson
declared that it is a bad principle for
tne municipal, government to enter
upon a policy ' -.f providing recreation
for adults, although he favored strongly
the establishment of amusement cen
ters for childrsn.
It was suggested to Commissioner
Baker that the matter ought to be put
berre the people in the coming election.
"Yes. we could do that. oerhaDs." re
marked Mr. Baker, "and it would only
cost us about $4000, which is what it
will cost to install the golf links as
the matter now stands."
Grand Jury Drawing Is Tomorrow.
A grand jury will be drawn tomor
row at 2 o'clock by United States Dis
trict Attorney Reames that will con
sider 50 or more cases now under in
vestigation by the Federal authori
ties. Among the other investigations
to be made are four counterfeiting
cases, in two of which it is charged
that bogus Federal reserve notes were
made and in the other two instance
it is alleged that counterfeit coins
were manufactured.
MR. COOPER CAPTIVE
Sellwood Carmen,, on Picnic,
JVIake Official Go, Too.
BULL RUN PARK OPENED
City Superintendent, "Who Believes
IIo Should Stay at Home. While
Otliers riay, Does Not Get
Clianoe; Concert Given.-
It was regular "Nick Carter" stuff
the carmen of the Sellwood division
pulled on Fred Cooper, superintendent
of city lines of the P6rtland Railway
Light & Power Company, yesterday.
Mr. Cooper had been Invited to at
tend the annual outing of the Sellwood
carmen and their families, at Bull Run
Park, but he thought he ought to stay
at home and "do the chores," Inasmuch
as quite a number of the other officials
were going to be away, and It wouldn't
do to leave the general offices deserted
entirely.
Some of the boys got Mr. Cooper down
to First and Alder streets on a "fake"
errand, just before the big five-car
trainload of picnickers was ready to
start for the trip..
Desperadoes Capture Official.
Mr. Cooper started in to introduce
General Superintendent Coldwell, an
other, of the invited officials, to the
outing committee, when a couple of
armed "desperadoes" seized the. athletic,
young superintendent from behind and
blindfolded him, while Lou Wagner,
the company's "clew" expert, clapped a
pair of handcuffs onto his wrists. Mr.
Cooper was carried bodily aboard the
train handcuffed to a couple of the
ringleaders in the escapade and held
prisoner until the train, was 20 miles
from Portland. He was then released
on condition that he "be good."
He was good.
The picnic was a great success
throughout, more than 400 of the car
men, their families and invited guests
forming the party which left town at
9 o'clock in the morning and put in the
entire day at the company's scenic re
creation park near the end of the
Bull Run line. Thfis outing was the of
ficial opening of the park for the 1916
season. "
Employes' Band In Concert.
Besides an elaborate programme of
amateur vaudeville acts, athletic stunts,
games and other pastimes, the Carmen's
Band of 31 pieces gave a concert and
furnished the music for the dancing in
the pavilion. Many of the pleasure
seekers took their fishing tackle with
them and a number of good catches of
trout were made.
The committee in charge of the out
ing consisted of Motorman C. TJ. Taylor,
Division Superintendent J. J. Miller,
and Charles H. Savage, secretary of the
Brotherhood of Electric Railway Em
ployes of the company.
The picnickers arrived home at 7:30
last night. '
CATHOLIC FORUM FORMED
Discussion of Curent Topicg at St.
Francis Hall Meetings Plunned.
"The Catholic Young Men's Forum
has been organized for educational pur
poses," said Rev. J. H. Black, spiritual
director, at the opening meeting Mon
day night at St. Francis' Hall. He
outlined the object ot the club, which,
he said, is for an open discussion of
current topics of all kinds.
"We find great ignorance among men
who are thought to be highly educat
ed," said Rev. Mr. Black, "even in com
mon affairs; and one of the purposes
of the forum is to remedy this lack
through the addresses of learned men."
TJosebnrg Drinkers Get No Liquor.
ROSEBURG, Or., May 20. (SpeclaL)
A number of local "topers" were
disappointed here yesterday when they
were refused liquor by the. offices of
the common carriers operating in this
city. Refusal to deliver shipments of
liquor was based on an opinion of the
Attorney-General, who held that such
a delivery would constitute a violation
of the prohibition law.
MURDER OF WOMAN IS
LAID TO ANOTHER'S NEED
Officers Form Hypothesis of Crime to Fasten Responsibility on Bennett
Thompson, Who Was Saved From Prison by Woman.
Hypothesis Something not proved but as
sumed for the purpose of argument, or to
account for a .fact or an occurrence. Webster.
TO fasten the double tragedy of Mon
day night at the Gore ranch on
a man whom they suspect inves
tigators have several hypotheses. They
set out with the belief that acts of de
liberate violence are not ordinarily
committed by persons of previous good
record; that minor offenses have pre
ceded the major one. Therefore, they
argue, find a criminal who had access
to the scene.
Thus, when two Portland youths
were murdered on the Whitehouse road
a few years ago. Jack Roberts, convict
with a long record, was sought by
every officer in the county long before
there was the merest vestige of evi
dence to connect him with the murder.
That time the theory checked out to
the full satisfaction of the jury and the
officers.
So Bennett Thompson, 'ex-convict and
friend of the murdered woman, stands
accused of the murder of Mrs. Helen
Jennings and the automobile driver,
Fred Ristman. How justified this ac
cusation may be remains to be seen.
Here is a story told by investigators.
It must be remembered that it is but
a theory and that someone has said
that there are no other limits to hy
potheses than those of the human
imagination.
Woman Obtained Release.
' Twelve years ago a masked man
stepped out from behind some trees on
a wood-lined road near Portland. He
took, the chance of losing his life or
liberty. In the week that followed he
forfeited freedom, and the steel doors
of the Salem penitentiary closed be
hind him, remaining shut, to him, for
10 years. They released him because
of the importunities of a woman.
The sentence was 20 years. Shortly
after his incarceration, a brother in
Portland married. He took his wife to
the penitentiary to see the imprisoned
felon. The man who peered between
the bars with defiant look was hand
some in a rough, primitive fashion, aid
had been known as a gay devil with
the women, before his wings had been
clipped.
His brother's wife came again to the
prison with her husband. Then she
went alone. The man attracted her
strangely and she began to wish .for
his release. Nine years had gone by
when she first appealed to the Gover
nor of the state for a pardon. She
was met with deaf ears. Sh went
again, and again, begging, on her
knees, for the freedom of her husband's
good-looking brother.
At last the repeated appeals had
their effect, and the executive listened,
at first with indifference. The man
left the prison walls under a condi
tional pardon to start what he said
would be a new life.
But he did not intend to live this new
life alone. With him he desired the
woman who had taken up the fight in
his behalf. She was his brother's .wife,
but he had forgotten that, or did not
care.
When he left prison she left her hus
band. Together they defied convention
and lived, happily for a time. Mean
while she sued her husband for di
vorce. She later dropped the case, but
the husband did not know this, and
remarried. She secured his arrest for
bigamy, but did not press the charges.
Soon there came hard times and a
baby. The man worked harder than
ever. A finger was mashed in some
machinery and he lost his job. The
woman and child needeI food and cloth
ing. She told him she must have money.
He was afraid of her. She knew his
secrets. She, who had secured his re
lease from a living death, knew that
which might send him back again 'if
she wished to tell. He had ten years
more to serve on his old sentence, at
the end of which time he woujd no
longer be young. And then, perhaps,
he loved her.
Another Woman Recalled.
He remembered a woman who had
been kind to him when he had worked
in the fields for some Japanese- near
Tualatin. She was a woman who had
allowed him the freedom of her home
before she knew of his penitentiary
record, who was afraid to deny him ac
cess when she did know the truth.
He remembered noticing that she had
worn several diamonds of large size,
and that she was supposed to be worth
much money. He had told someone
once that he was very friendly with a
"fat woman with lots of rocks and
kale."
His case became desperate. He did
not like to work, but he tried hard to
find something, and failed. He was not
a man of fine moral scruples, and he
was not a man to be deterred by fear
of the hand of the law, though in his
career he had always eschewed vio
lence. Possibly he had never needed
violence, for his mien was forbidding
.enough to frighten those who would
cross him. Somehow he had won the
reputation of being a man not safe to
trifle with. He bad once said that he
asked one more favor before ha died.
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and that was to "get" the man who
had put him in "stir" for 10 years.
What had society done for him?
What did he care for human life? He
must get the money and diamonds of
the other woman. He must take no
chances. If she recognized him, it
would be. back to the "pen" again for
many long years. He must "croak"
her.
He laid his plans carefully. He vis- I
ited her several days before the night
planned for the crime. He found from
idle gossip in the neighborhood that
she expected a large sum of money
from the sale of some property that
week, v He planned his escape. He de
termined on the night. He found the
woman's nearest neighbor had moved.
How to get there was the question
which next presented itself. By train?
Walk? Neither seemed feasible. He
was well known about the ranch, for
he had worked in that country and had
mjet many people. . It would never do
for him to be recognized by a chance
passer-by that night, and it was sev
eral miles from the train station to
the woman's home.
Jitney? But that cost money. Yet
he could rake together a dollar. He
would have the jitney man leave him
near the farm. Could he find a jitney
driver who would take him as a pas
senger for $1 an hour? He was poor
ly dressed. He did not dare try to get
an expensive machine. The driver
might look at his clothing and demayid
payment in advance. He must find
someone to take him for his dollar,
which he could produce at once on
demand.
It was taking a chance to haggle
with the Jitneurs over the price, but
that "was the penalty of poverty. He
stood slouched over and chest drawn
in. He looked many pounds lighter
and several inches shorter than he
really was. He carried a pipe or some
thing of the sort wrapped in a news
paper. He was going to repair a well,
he said to the Jitney men, to allay
suspicion.
It was still light when he started.
Dusk had not descended - when he
reached Sherwood, near his destination.
He gave the driver Instructions to
carry him further on, dawn a road
passing through a wooded tract. It
was dark under the trees. He had
once when he had money almost bought
an automobile of the same make, in
tending to go into the Jitney busi
ness. He knew a little about its opera
tion. A thought struck him. Why not
"bump" the Jitney man too? Dead
men tell no tales and he knew enough
about the automobile to drive it to the
farm of the woman if it was not
necessary to stop the engine and get
it started again. There waa less chance
of his being caught and in the event
he should be discovered, he wouldn't
get a longer term for two murders than
for one. Thank goodness, there was no
capital punishment in this state.
Irlvcr Told to Halt.
He called to the driver to slow down,
but not to kill his engine, as he wanted
to see if there was a. lake beyond the
trees. He was not sure, he said, that
he waa going in the right direction.
The driver obeyed. No sooner had the
emergency brake been set than the
passenger brought the paper-wrapped
tool in his hands down with great
force upon the head of the driver, as
he sat on the seat in front of him.
The man. partially stunned, half rose
from his seat, but another blow fin
ished him. The murderer pulled the
body back into the tonneau. put it on
the floor and placed the' floor mat over
It. He climbed into the front seat him
self, released the brake and made his
way slowly from the spot. He was
afraid to linger for the noise of the
engine may lia.ve attracted persons near
by.
The next time he stopped he disposed
of the body. He threw it into the,rivr
or concealed it in the brush. His' shirt
found showed a stain on the bark,
where the dead man may have been
carried. When the murderer neared
the woman's house, he again stopped.
His cuffs showed blood stains beneath
his coat. They might attract unfavor
able attention. He tore them off and
stuffed them in his pockets. One, with
the link still in the cuff, dropped un
noticed to the road.
The stained laprobe and panama hat
of the dead man were hidden in the
brush.
The murderer proceeded to the wom
an's house, stopping the engine when
he halted in the yard. He knocked on
the front door. Throwing a cape about
her the cape was found later on the
foot of her bed the woman went to
the door. He stepped in. "I'm hungry."
he said. She showed him where some
food was. "Don't stay up." he told her.
"I'm going to sleep in D. V.'s room."
D. V. was the son, who was not home.
. He finished his meal and lay down
on the bed in the rear room until the
woman's regular breathing told him
she slept. Then he arose. With the
sledge he had found near the rear door,
he killed the sleeping woman. He then
broke open a box, hoping it might con
tain valuables, and found it held only a
cornet. He ransacked drapers and took
all the money he could find. It was not
a large sum. He could not find the
diamonds.
Heirlooms Are Taken.
A suit of clothes was taken. His
own garments were blood-btained. He
took a clothes bag from the woman's
closet in which to put the clothing. In
the bottom of the bag he was delighted
to find gold watches and heirlooms
that had been hidden there.
He needed no light. A full moon
shone through the bedroom window.
He covered the face of his victim with
a pillow as he worked. The sight
threatened to unnerve him.
He found a house-key. and after let
ting himself out. locked the door be
hind. Several times he tried, fruit
lessly, to crank the engine of his ma
chine. He was afraid someone would
come along at any time, though it was
early morning, and finally gave up,
fleeing on foot.
A fence barred his way to the rail
road, but he knew there was a pathway
the other side of the fence. In the
shelter of the woods he took an in
ventory of himself. His shirt was badly
stained with blood. He changed his
clothes, washed his bands in a muddy
pool and wiped them oiv the shirt. He
threw the shirt aside, nut put his old
clothes in the bag. They might bo
identified more readily than the shirt.
He reached the railroad and, crouched
low, followed the track to Sherwood.
His brother was living near there, and
he knew he would give him shelter.
It was easy to return to the city that
morning by the early train, and to begin
establishing h perfect alibi.
1-
u. s.
BarrackShoes
Solid leather soles and heels, leather
tips and instep. Cool and easy on the
feet. Nothing to equal them for com
fort. Nice for office, shop, home. Di
rect from Government. Sizes 5, 6, 7, 8.
Price
75 c
Pair
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94 Third St., Portland, Or.