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IS TIIE -SUNDAY OltEGOXIAX, PORTLAND, SEPTEMBER 17, 1916. THOMPSON IS SENT TO JAIL FOR LIFE Prisoner Tells Sheriff That Others Will Have to Go With Him for Crime. TESTIMONY IS REVIEWED Jerrold Owen Declares That Those Who Think Justice Miscarried Are Misled, as Chain or Evi dence Was Complete. t t t THOMPSON INKERS OTHERS WERE IMPLICATED. HILLSBORO. Or.. Sept. 16 (Special.) Declaring his inno cence and that the truth would be known some day, J3ennett Thompson, convicted of tha mur der of Helen Jennings on the Gore farm May 15. was sentenced this morning by Judge Bagley to life imprisonment. He was plainly nervous when told to stand for sentence, and supported himself by the back of his chair. When asked If he had anything to say he declared his innocence In a shaking voice so low that what he said was heard by few. His counsel asked for and was allowed 60 days to file a bill of exceptions, but Thomp son will be taken to the peniten- tiary at once. Since he trial ended he has paced the corridor of the jail and at times has ap peared willing to talk about tha case. A remark made to Sheriff . Reeves, that If he had to serve time others would have to go with him, is regarded as significant. BT JERROLD OWEN. There is a current belief surpris ingly widespread that Bennett Thomp son is a "victim" of persecution. In this instance the forces, summed up in the comprehensive term "authori ties," seek to fasten on Thompson the dual murders of Tualatin, because he Is an ex-convict, because murders, too many, have gone unpunished in this section, and because of the glory of capturing the slayer. Thompson is not the "goat" for po lice persecution. He Is a victim, in another sense, of tha strongest align ment of circumstantial evidence this state has known. How did the idea become fairly gen eral that Thompson is to be pitied? Why are his strongest supporters among the fair sex? Is it only be cause the evidence against him is of & circumstantial nature? Let's see. Thompson Is a man of unique per sonality a personality which strange ly attracts women. Ha is not the super-criminal of the Iron Claw type. Not by any means. Yst ha is not a low-brow, for his wits are keen and his reasoning shrewd. He Is the per sonification of ruthless cunning, say some who know him. Human life means little to him, save, perhaps, his own. , Eyes Are Striking; Feature. The truly striking thing about the man are his eyes, fringed with heavy lashes and peering beneath unusually thick brows. They are small, dark brown, and at times flash a malignity , which caused soma observers of Thomp son at his trial last week to remark of spinal chills. But in the main the eyes seem the unblinking eyes of a reptile, with as little expression. A firm, brute jaw, wavy, dark brown hair, worn long, and an easy smile dis closing Jagged, stained rows of teeth complete the picture. It is a picture quite pleasing to the casual feminine observer, particularly from a distance. During the trial murmurs of "per secution" were sometimes heard from fair spectators as they filed from the courtroom at recesses. Thompson gained a large measure of feminine popularity and sympathy which spread beyond the confines of the courtroom. Perhaps it was his personal magnetism for he seemed to possess such. It could hardly have been the conviction of innocence from an impartial view of the testimony presented. Pose at Trial Easy. Thorrfpson assumed an easy, loung ing pose throughout the trial, and, ex cept for occasional lapses of nervous ness only apparent to a close observer, ho might have been a disinterested witness awaiting his call to the stand. He did not dispel this fancy when he began his testimony. He made a good witness too good. His frequent smiles and careless air would not sit well on an Innocent man accused of a revolting double murder, confronted with a strik ing array of circumstantial evidence, and fighting for his liberty. He showed himself to be a man of iron nerve. Thompson's ' personality, however, could not have attracted many sym pathizers who knew only of his trial through news reports. One Is forced to conclude that the belief that Thomp son might be an unjustly accused man, trapped by a coincidence of circum stances. Is responsible. Doubt is ex pressed because he was found guilty by circumstantial evidence, evidence which criminologists say is the best kind of evidence, and results In one undeserving imprisonment to a dozen attributive to perjured testimony. Evidence Is Complete. The chain forged by the state to con nect Thompson with the deaths of Mrs. Helen Jennings and Fred Ristman was remarkably complete. One link alone seemed missing motive though sev eral logical hypotheses were offered. but not proved. Without rehearsing too thoroughly what was gone into at the time of the trial, it may not be amiss to recall a few of the circumstances condemning Thompson. The movements of Thompson - the night of the crimes were traced to within the approximate time of the Ristman slaying by witnesses who saw a man climb Into the death jitney, leave Portland, and stop at Fulton for gaso line. Thompson was picked from a dozen prisoners in jail as the man. Not a jitneur who saw Ristman's passenger declare Thompson was not the man all saw a resemblance. From tha time an automobila was heard on a lonely road near Tonquin where Ristman's body later was found, all direct testimony to Thompson's probable movements ended. Circum stances, however, completed the link. Sheriff Reeves, of Washington County, assisted by Deputy Sheriffs and detect ives of Portland, began the evidential chain. Each tinlt Fit In. The stained shirt cuff and blood spattered election card found in the road near the hat of Ristman were two links. The cuff was linked to the blood and graphite-stained shirt found in the woods three days later, connecting it with the murder. The card was linked to an Incident in Portland at 6:30 the night of the murder, when a deputy sheriff handed Thompson a similar card. Then there was the brown wrapping MASTER OF VIOLIN TO BE HEARD SEPTEMBER 19 ; - - . Mischa Elman Will Open Steers & Coman Season of Music at Heilig. Schumann-Heink and Other Artists Follow. Mm v - A ? - ' ' frv r " - - - 'H-V'- i -tV hi: ' ' - h U ' - V MISCHA KWIA, WHO WILL PLAY AT HEILIG SEPTEMBER S8. THE world Is music hungry: that Is the effect of the war, so the phil osophers say. The more the world- discord grows, the mora the peaceful nations turn to tha concord of sweet sounds. Harmony Is heaven's law, and discord Is intolerant to those who view life and Its problems aright. This explains the joyous anticipa tion that is greeting the opening of the Steers & Coman season, which is now so near at hand that music-lovers should look sharply to their dates in order that nothing may conflict with the opening concert at the Heilig Sep tember 28. Mischa Elman is a most happy choice for that event, the most daring, orig inal, inspired, lovable type of genius that violin music has ever given to the world. The enchanting freshness of youth, the mingling of audacity and authority which amazes yet awes the critics; the rapture which the magic of his bow brings on an audienca, the depths and heights of beauty and pas sionate individuality in his interpre tations, combine to place him aloof from all other violinists of the world's history. Schumann-Heink. whose grandeur of soul and womanhood and glorious awakenuig voice have so pre-eminently adapted her for Wagnerian opera, will this season give Portland some of her big arias. She will later be the chief attraction of the Metropolitan season of grand opera. New York. The Flonzaley String Quartet with Its exquisite nuances and harmonics, is also booked for Portland by Steers & Coman. Others will be Rudolph Ganz, "who makes the piano sing ecstacies." with Albert Spalding, violinist, in joint recital; and Julia Culp. whose entranc ing voice is said to suggest the spirit of dawn. All these artists will be heard at the Heilig. paper, stained with blood, and tied with binding twine. This was linked with a paokage tha deputy sheriff noticed Thompson was carrying that night, and also to the blacksmith's cutting ham mer with which Ristman was killed. for tha paper creases fitted about the death instrument. The evidence of tha shirt found In the woods, however, was the damning bit. for blood and graphite smears were fitted exactly over similar stains on an undershirt recently washed and found at Thompson's home. Shirt Forms Strong Point. Strong though that was in Itself, to make more absolute their certainty Thompson was the murderer, the inves tigators proceeded to put metaphorical ly the stained outer shirt on Thomp son's back. It was a gift to Thompson and was traced to the original donor, whose husband had worn the shirt. She identified it without seeing It by patches she had sewn on it. That shirt and another found in Thompson's home had come from this woman. The woman with whom Thompson was making his home identified two clean shirts as those given her. This was where another shirt entered tha maze. By a laundry mark it was shown that one of these shirts had be longed to the fiance of Mrs. Jennlng3 and had been taken from her home, supposedly on the night of the murder. There were other minor links in the chain such as Thompson's familiarity with the roads about the Jennings farm, his intimacy with the woman, etc Except as it proved a criminal tendency in the man, once known throughout Oregon as "The Lone High wayman." the fact that he had served 10 years In the Penitentiary was the least important angle of tha circum stantial case. Thompson's Story Contradicted. Facing this striking array of facts, linked into a convincing chain, was a flimsy alibi, supported only by the woman with whom Thompson lived and whose infatuation for him had caused her to leave her husband. She. and no one else but Thompson, testified that he had been at home that night. A neighbor who was in his yard a dozen times between 7 and 10 o'clock that night saw Mrs. Thompson moving around her house, but not Thompson. Thompson said he talked to this man the man denied seeing or speaking with him. The stained outer ehlrt and tha pres ence of a shirt taken from the Jen nings home at Thompson's house was explained away by the assertion that he left a soiled shirt at Mrs. Jennings' four days before tha crimes and wore home one of her fiance's, which she had given him; but the graphite and blood on the undershirt, found and marked by detectives in the presence of Thomp son's only supporting witness, the woman, remained unexplained. By any chance may Thompson be Innocent? So convinced were 12 men in Washington County, after hearing his alibi and noting the evidence against him, that he was guilty, that they broke speed records for bringing In a verdict. There was not a doubt ful vote and only one ballot was taken. Circumstantial evidence? True, but unusually complete! Second Offense Committed. ROSEBTJRG, Or., Sept. 16. (Special.) Apparently chagrined because Sheriff Qulne engaged a driver to operate their machine as far as Camas Valley, Perry Standley and Frank Smith, who were arrested here on a charge of drunken ness, attacked Bert Wells who was at the wheel of the automobile and threat ened him with bodily harm. Persons who witnessed the affray telephoned to Sheriff Qulne and he placed the men under arrest. Standley and Smith over turned their machine a few miles west of the city, while intoxicated, and were fined 10 each in the Justice Court. Klreworlcs are said to have been first used in Europe In th city of Florence. In 1360. . . . TRAILS CLUB TO PICNIC OUTING AT EAGLE CREEK WILL BE HELD NEXT SUNDAY. Special Car Will Take Excursionists to Bonneville Scenic Trail -to Be Inspected. Eagle Creek 'trail now unrlor in struction near Bonneville and other forest trails in that vlcinltv win h the objective of a special excursion rrom -ortiana which Is to be held next Sunday under the auspices of the Trails Club. The club, which has been rreitlv in strumental in securing the opening of the trails there, has arranged for on.. cial car to accommodate those who care lu inspect ine trans ana every accom- uiuuttLiuu win db proviaea Dy the O.-W. R. & N. Co. for the convenient of t going. The special will leave Portland on that dav at 7:RCi A xr v. - will be made directly at Eagle Creek so that there will be no long hike uccessnry on me part or the excursion ists. Returning tha train will leave there at 6:30 P. M. The Eagle Creek trail, which is being opened up by the Forest Service, is to extend for a distance nf 19 nil.. Within the 12 miles there is a total of 20 falls which will be opened for the public Four miles of the trail has i, ... i Those narticlrjatlnc In thA ,Yi.iiAn will take their lunches and enjoy a picnic in mo open air. mere are ample camping places along the creek so that tnia 1ft rAfldilv fAnoihla & T."" .. I Creek trail Itself has no heavy grades ana is an easy ascent ana may be readily explored by the women and children as well as mora exnerienoH hikers. The Trails Club has as Its object the building of trails In Oregon. 156 PROTESTS FILED J. Malarkey Wants Assess ment Reduced. M0Y BACK HIN COMPLAINS Value or Hotel Put at $80,450, but Assessed at 907,200 Men Who Have Left State Want Names Cat Off the Tax Roll. That property belonging to Dan J. Malarkey at tne northwest corner of Union avenue and East Burnslda street has declined In value because of the diversion of streetcar and other traffic which formerly crossed the Burnslda bridge, is the assertion of Mr. Malarkey In a protest filed with tha Equaliza tion Board yesterday -in which ha objects to the assessed valuation placed on the property. The property was assessed at $33,600. Mr. Malarkey asks a reduction of $5000. The Moy Back Hln Company in a protest filed yesterday relative to the valuation of property at the southwest corner of Second and Yamhill streets declares that It was an error of judg ment to build such an expensive build ing for hotel purposes at that location. It says the location is obsolete for hotel purposes and that as a result the rental value has declined greatly. Immediately following the erection of the structure in 1909 the monthly rental is said to have been $1950 compared to the present monthly rental of $5SG. The total valuation of the property is placed at $97,200 by the Assessor's office. It is asked that this be reduced to $80,460. E. J. Kelly protests the valuation of property in the vicinity of Gresham. The valuation was $2260 for the land and $60 for the building. He asks that the valuation of tha land be reduced to $1800. J. C. Costelli declared in a protest received yesterday that ha would give a quit claim deed to property which he owns on Macadam street for $2000. The property Is assessed for $2475. H. Giebelhaus. formerly of 794 Rod ney avenue, who says he has been liv ing near Bethany, Wash., for tha past two years, filed a protest against pay ing taxes on personal property to tha value of $280 He says his property is all in Washington. The Joseph Closset estate asked for a reduction In tha valuation placed on property at the Intersection of Third and Jefferson streets. The protest de clares that the property, which was assessed at a total of $48,300, is for sale at $50,000. A protest against paying taxes on an automobile In Portland, when he Is now a resident of Idaho County, Ida ho, was filed by W. O. Fray. A total of 166 protests have been re ceived by the Equalization Board. The session will end Monday. COLLEGES TO OPEN LATE Delays Are Decided On Because ol Infantile Parlj-sis Plague. On account of the continued prev alance of Infantile paralysis in certain sections of the East many of the lead ing universities and colleges in that part of the country will not open this year on the usual schedule. The following revised list of open ing dates has been received by tha Portland office of the New York Cen tral Railroad: Cornell University. Ithaca. N. T. Openi October 9 instead of September 25. Welleeley College. Wellesley. Mass. Opens 30 P. M September 25, for freshmen; 10 P. M., September 29, for all other students. liana Hall Opens 10 P. M., September 27, for freshmen: 10 P. M September 30, for all other students. Wella College. Aurora, N. T. Opens Octo ber 12 Students should arrive before noon of the lltb. Bennett School, MUlbrook, K. T. Opens October 4. Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Mass. Opens October 5. Vassar College. ' Poughkeepsle, K. T. Opens October 4. MILL CREDITORS TO ACT Affairs of North Pacific Iumber Company In Committee's Hands. A committee of flva men, represent ing tha leading creditors of the North Pacific Lumber Company, will handle the affairs of the $2,000,000 concern in the future. It was determined yes terday. Circuit Judge Gantenbein fixed the compensation of Henry P. Dutton, who has been acting as receiver for six weeks, at $1500. Joseph Simon, attorney for the First National Bank, indicated yesterday that the creditors will not reopen the mill, the sale of the mill and all its proper ties being contemplated. Walter Mackay, creditor and stockholder, filed the suit petitioning for a receivership, agreed to by the company. Jitney Knocks Man Down. John Ward, aged 25. a laborer, was struck Dy a Jitney last night at East Sixth and Hawthorne streets and knocked down. It is thought his skull was fractured. He was taken to St. Vincent'e Hospital by the Ambulance Service Company In an unconscious condition. 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ALISKY 725 Yeon Building MULTORPDRS TO MARCH MEETING TOMORROW TO CONSIDER WESTERN OREGON TOUR, Active Part la State Republican Cam paign toBe Flayed and Rallies Are ta Be Entanaed. Active participation .n the Presi dential campaign is the plan of the Multorpor Republican Club, which has been identified with the politics of Multnomah County for a quarter of a century. At the weekly meeting to be held at 333 Oak street tomorrow night the club will give further considera tion to a proposal to send uniformed marching members on a tour of West ern Oregon some time in October. The marchers are being drilled under the direction of general Charles F. Beebe, their commandant, and when they are fully organized and equipped there will be 60 of them. The plan now is to send them first to Ashland and have them stop off at Koseburg, Medford. Eugene, Salem. Al bany and other cities on their way back to Portland. At each place they will take part in rousing meetings in behalf of the Re publican National, state and local tickets. Republican organizations in the various towns of Western Oregon will co-operate to make the Multorpor movement a success. In the days gone by the Multorpor Republican Club was noted for the amount of enthusiasm it could inject Into a political campaign. Its march ing branch always was in demand for Republican rallies. In 1892 it went over to Vancouver and helped the Washington Repub licans in their great fight for Gov ernor. In the big torchlight parade which preceded the Presidential elec tion in 1896 it was conspicuous among the McKinley marchers. Since the election of State Senator Gus C. Moser as president, the club has taken on new life, and its meet ings are full of Interest. President Moser is working hard to increase the permanent membership to 250. and the COMPLETE COURSE IN AGRICULTURE, DAIRYING, ART, TEXTILES, FLORICULTURE AND INDUSTRIES The Fifty-Fifth Annual Oregon State Fair Salem, Sept. 25 to 30 Grounds beautified ; buildings repaired and renovated ; sew age system enlarged; pure, cold water in abundance; rest room and toilet facilities (both sexes), comfortably ap pointed, under trained and courteous colored attendants; strict sanitation to prevail in every department and feature. Unprecedented Livestock Exhibit ; Spectacular Night Horse Show ; Best Speed Programme in Northwest ; Biggest Poul try Exhibit Ever; Auction Sales of Horses and Cattle; "Sales Classes" in Poultry; Lectures and Demonstrations in Cow-Testing, in ftlilk-Testing, Silo-Filling; good Roads Building, Irrigation and Every Department; Four Big Con cert Bands; Seven Talented Vocal Soloists; Three Big Carnival Attractions. "OREGON'S GREATEST OBJECT-LESSON SCHOOL" Excursion Rates on All Railroads A. H. Lea, Secretary Salem, Oregon degree of support which he is receiv- and George TazwelL Burdette Thayer ing from his associates Insures success . presided. A number of women" attend to his efforts. I ed. all wearing Hughes buttons. Republicans Are Heard. Speakers at the opening Republican meeting of the campaign in Montavilla Friday night included D. C. Lewis. Prank S. Grant and Judge John P. Kav anaugh. who spoke on national cam paign issues, and Joseph Beverldge Grandview Girl Goes to Hawaii. GRAND VIEW. Wash.. Sept. 16. (Spe cial.) Miss Winifred Bell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C E. BeU. left Thursday for the Hawaiian Islands, where she will teach in a mission school. She ex pects to be gone several years. if i ? iff- vl i ' tt it'll;!. n Li 5 : ?,Vv& Wis H lis m 1 PRIZEWINNERS Senator Side Oats and Vetch Grown This Season at Napa vine, 5 to 7 tons to the acre, is a fair crop from this 6oil. The best dairy sec tion from the market standpoint in Washington. Write Today f or Information Beginning: this week I am putting on the market about 1000 acres of the best level Lewis County, Southwest' Washington, logged-off land. This land adjoins the Napavine land marketed by this office. WILL SELL in 20, 40, 80 or 120-acre tracts at about $40 an acre on terms of from $1 an acre cash to 10 cash and the balance to suit, at the rate of 60 cents an acre monthly; in terest at 6 per annum. No rock, no gravel. A fine silt clay soil with clay subsoil. Several running streams across this land. Good county roads ; within two to four miles of Napavine, on the main line double-track road between Portland and Seattle. 18 passenger trains daily the best railroad service in the state, w ith the lowest freight rates to all the big markets. NOTICE Due to the fact that there are only about 1000 acres in this tract, no trades can be considered, but this land is of fered on terms that make it pos sible for any family to buy 20 acres or more. No hills to climb to get to mar ket or railroad. A level country with roads on the section lines. The best land to be had at this money. It passes in location, accessibility to market and soil much of the land held at $100 to $150 an acre. It costs you nothing to inves tigate. Map and booklet sent free on receipt of your name and address. You can visit the land and return to Port land in one day. Write today to David P. Eastman 1308 3d Avenue, Seattle ' 1