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THE SUNDAY OREGONIAX. PORTLAND. JUNE 2, 1913 IIITEflT TO WOMAN SLAIN NEAR WHITE SALMON, HER HUSBAND. NOW ON WAY TO FRANCE AS ARMY OFFICER, AND THEIR CHILDREN. COOS TALKS RECALL 15 CLEARLY SHOWN Archie Philip Charged With Ex travagance in Office. Letter Left by Bishop Indi cates Double Tragedy Was Premeditated. WATSON MAY BE INCLUDED Commissioner Denies Accusation of Opponents and Says Threat ened Recall Is Result of Personal Matters. SUICIDE PACT SUGGESTED iV 10 MURDER V X Xack of Evidence of Struggle or Se rious Powder Burns Inolves Death of Sirs. Dewey More ; v. or Less in Mystery. GOLDEXDALE, Wash., June 1 (Spe cial.) The Investigation made by Prosecuting' Attorney John R. McEwen aud Coroner Merle Chapman, of the double t-ragedy at White Salmon last I'riday. which ended the lives of Bert 6. Bishop, construction foreman for the Pacific Lig-ht & Power Company, and Mrs. Chester T. Dewey,, wife of an officer in the United States Army, seems to prove that the affair was carefully planned beforehand by Bishop and cleared up a number of wild theories in relation to the killing: ad vanced in Western Klickitat County after the bodies were discovered. After going- over the ground care- .officials say it is possible that there was a suicide pact between the couple. The bodies were found in a secluded spot about BO feet from the road and the weapon which was still in the dead man's right hand was a small caliber cheap revolver. No evidences of any struggle was found on the surrbunding turf. Three Revolver Shots Fired. The gun had evidently been placed In the woman's mouth before being lired, as neither her features nor teeth "were powder-burned to any great ex tent, and the same condition applied to the man. Three shots had been fired and the weapon contained one unex ploded cartridge and one shell that had been snapped and missed fire. The wearing apparel of the couple was not disarranged and the woman's hair was in perfect order. A letter n the stationery of the Pacific Light & Power Company dated May 31, penned by Bishop in neat long hand and believed to have been written a short time before the couple started on their ill-fated trip, -was found,' on Bishop's body. The missive discloses the fact that the affair was premedi tated on his part, and the text of the letter indicates that a liaison had ex isted between the couple for- some time and that jealousy prompted the deed. Letter Discloses Pnrpose. The letter, addressed to an aunt of the dead woman residing at White Sal mon, in part, said: "I have decided on a course which Is going to be a sad affair for you." At the end there was a postscript, "For give me if you can." Mrs. Dewey was about 22 years old and had resided at White Salmon for about 10 years.. Her remains will be taken to Portland for cremation. Blsh fin's hodv wan belnir hold At Whitft Salmon this morning, pending advices from his family. An official of the Pacific Light & ' Power Company from . Walla Walla - was at Goldendale today on his way to White Salmon to check the accounts of the dead man. A lone automobile tourist from Ore gon, who first discovered the aban doned car that carried the victims of the tragedy, made a wild flight across Klickikat County last night to Yak ima to escape being held as a witness In the event of an inquest. His car carried an Oregon license numbered 84319. V x " ' : a X f --. - . , ST 1 v LIEUTENANT CHESTER T. DEWEY AND FAMILY. end both of their lives the next day. This was written and dated at 8:10 P. M., May SO, the night before the trag edy. In this letter Bishop requested that his family physician at Walla Walla be notified and asked to Inform his wife and family there, a family containing three children. It was evidently a case of Insane in fatuation. The morning of the tragedy Bishop ipformed Mrs. Dewey, who acted as his clerk and bookkeeper, that they would nave to go over some newly constructed lines and check up on the poles, which would aqcount for her accompanying him. That morning he carried a postal from her husband. Lieutenant C. T. Dewey, written from an Atlantic port. telling her of his expected sailing for t ranee with his artillery comrades, to her at her house, at which time he told her of the checking tour, they were to make and which proved to be her last trip. The men who first noticed the bodies thought from the position of his body. with eyes wide open and revolver rigid in his hand and pointing at them, that he was still alive so hurried from the scene, shortly meeting Roy Skill, also employed by the Pacific Power & Light Company, and other employes and in formed them of what they had seen. With his mates Skill crawled through the brush carefully and suddenly grabbed the revolver out .of Bishop's nd, but instantly found he was cold in death and replaced tho gun as found. The tragedy has cast a ploom over the community, ss Mrs. Dewey has lived here for years; had attended the public schools and had marrlod Mr. Dewey as soon as she was out of school at the age of 16. Bright, popular and the mother Of two beautiful children. David, aged 6, and Frances, aged 3, who live with their grandmother, Mrs, Gray, she will be missed by many. C. W. Dewey, father of the Lieutenant, is employed at the Standlfer Shipyards. The body of Mrs. Dewey was taken to Portland this afternoon for crema tion. Word from Walla Walla is being awaited as to disposition of Bishop's body. consequently the charge of forgery was placed. LEBANON CELEBRATES DAY Home Guards Take ' Part in Me morial Day Exercises. LEBANON,- Or., June" l-(Special.) Memorial services were held in Leba non beginning at 9 o'clock in the morn ing with march and review of the Lebanon Home Guards. County Judge D. B. McKnight addressed the home soldiers. This was followed by the presentation of a flag to the company by the Woman s Civic Club in a short speech by Mrs.: Wllma Wagoner, presi dent of the club. The guard company then marched to-the Masonic Cemetery accompanied by Civil War. veterans in cars and other civic societies and school children, where the G. A. R. and Woman's Relief Corps held their ritu alistic, ceremonies.' In the afternoon a patriotic song service was conducted by Mrs. R. G. Miller. SHIPPING EXPANSION HUGE America Has 2,200,00 OTonnage in Trans-Atlantic Trade. WASHINGTON, June 1. Representa tive Caldwell, of New York. Democrat, in a statement prepared today for the House record, declared the total Ameri can shipping tonn engaged in the trans-Atlantic trade had increased from one vessel when America en tered the war to 2,200,000 tons. Mr. Caldwell said that after next January the United States will be able to produce at least 600.000 deadweight tons of shipping each month. MA RSHFIELD, Or., June 1. (Spe clal.) Next to the war In Interest In Coos County Is the ffort to get the scalp of County Commissioner Archie Philip, of North bend, whom his oppo nents charge with extravagance in ex pendlture of the county funds. The pursuit of Mr. Philip has a side feature which makes It naturally impolitic to lnstsr on his recall while Judge James watson Is left to survive as the last of the present three officials. G. J. Armstrong, who was up tor re nomination and re-election, was beaten for the nomination nearly six to one by John Yoakam. of Coquille. To fur ther the preliminaries to the proposed recall, a taxpayers league was organ tzed last Thursday at a convention of 30 electors In the. county seat. They were unable to agree upon policies, however, and laid over the final de cision until delegates could return home, sound their constituents and re turn for another discussion a week hence. In the meantime they are to learn whether there is. sufllclent animosity to Judge Watson to warrant the league in 'including him in the recall. One thing which bothers the reformers is to find suitable candidates, or at least ones they believe could carry the elec tlon against those who are to be re called. Prominent among those opposing the County Court, and particularly Mr. Philip, is H. G. Kern, foundryman and bank president of North Bend, who charges poor construction of a rook highway between Empire and South slough. Another objector is M. C Maloney, editor of the Coos' Bay Times, who was chairman of the league meet ing; W. Taylor Dement, ex.County Commissioner: Henry Sengstacken, sec retary of the Port of Coos Bay Com mission, recently defeated for renoml- nation; A. H. Powers, head of the Smith Logging Company, and W. U. Douglas, a Marshfleld attorney. Mr. Philip makes the open charge that Powers, Sengstacken, Maloney and Kern are against him purely through personal reasons, rather than Tor any remissness in county affairs. r'nonn your want ads to The Orego nisn. Main 7070, A 6095. Minnesota Society to Meet. There will be a Minnesota meeting at when a special - musical programme, prepared and in charge of Minnie Thompson Carty, will be heard. There will be refreshments, dancing and general good time. All members are especially Invited to attend and bring their friends and meet the people from their home state. Drain Dedicates Flag. DRAIN. Or, June ' 1. (Special.) Following the exercises at the ceme tery Decoration day the honor flag of tho third liberty loan was unfurled while the High School Orchestra played "Keep the Home Fires .Burn ing." The address was delivered by L. J. Simpson, of Marshfleld. Drain subscribed 240 per cent of its quota and was the first city in Douglas Coun ty to report. AFTER CHAPTER IS SAD ONE Woman's Body Taken to Home of Grief-Stricken Aunt. HOOD RIVER, Or.," June 1. (Spe clal.) As the result of frivolous indis cretions on the part of a young mar-v ried woman and an insane infatuation aroused in her employer, the sad after ehapter of a double tragedy wherein Bertrand Bishop, construction super intendent of the Pacific Power & Ligiit Company, yesterday shot and killed Mrs. Chester T. Dewey and then in flicted instant death upon himself, was played this afternoon at the White Salmon home of Mrs. K. W. Gray, the young woman s aged aunt. Brought for a brief moment to rest the last time beneath the cottage roof, where Mrs. Dewey and tier two email children had been making their home, the body was followed by friends and neighbors, and the casket was covered with roses and bouquets of wild flow era freshly picked from the hillsides. W hile the two babies played in mere! ful ignorance and innocence at a near by home, neighboring women mingled tleir tears with those )f the grief stricken aunt. Somewhere on a transport in the Atlantic, the father, recently commis sioned a Lieutenant at a Camp Lewis oificers' training- camp, also mercifully unaware of the tragedy, was sailing for France. . The body was then taken to Port land, where services were held tonight at the Portland Crematorurn. Mrs. Dewey was only 21 years old. Her husband In the Army, she had re cently become a clerk in the Mid Columbia construction department of the Pacific Power & Light Company, of which Bishop had charge. Mrs. Dewey was known for her vivacity, apparently an attraction for Bishop. An intimacy that aroused comment, but at the time was considered by their friends as no more than a comrade ship, sprang up between them. The young woman, it is said, had recently realized an infatuation on the part of Bishop, and on the removal of the construction department from Hood River to White Salmon had applied for a position with a White Salmon hard ware concern that she might sever her connection with the power company and avoid the man. MURDER DELIBERATELY DONE BIshop-Dewey Case One of Insane Infatuation. WHITE SALMON. Wash.. June 1. (Special.) Following the . first shock of the double tragedy in the outskirts of White Salmon Friday afternoon, de velopments conclusively show that it was a case of premeditated murder on the part of Bert Bishop, of Walla Wal la, trusted employe of the Pacific Power & Light Company. Covered with a shroud, where they lay in the thicket, the two bodies re mained until nearly midnight, when the Coroner and Prosecuting Attorney from Goldendale, 60 miles . distant, reached the scene. After careful ex amination of all details surrounding them, the bodies were taken to White Salmon. Two letters were" found on the body of Bishop. The first was addressed to John Wyers, of White Salmon, in which he stated that be bad. decided to FORGERY CHARGE BROUGHT Sam Shove Held to Grand Jury in Roscburg Under $1000 Bond. ROSEBURG, Or., June 1. (Special.) Sam Shove, arrested on a Southern Pacific train near Myrtle Creek- by De tective Coturri, was arraigned in Judge Riddle's court on a charge of forgery and held to the grand Jury under $1000 bonds. Unable to furnish the bond, the prisoner was remanded to jail. - Shove passed a worthless, check . on the Hotel I'mpoua May -25. 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