: WOMAN IS FOUND
GUILTY BY JURY IN
BLACKMAIL CASE
SELF DETERMINATION
OF POLITICAL
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Joint Reolution Is Introduced in
Senate by Gallinger; Meas
ure Is Referred.
Mrs. Margaret Jackson Hirsch Is
Given Year on Prison Farm
and Fined $1000.
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$500,000 SOUGHT, IS CHARGE
Attempt to Ensnare Multi-Mil-,
lionaire Mayor of Atlanta Al
leged in Complaint.
Atlanta, March 16. (I. N. S.) Mrs.
Margaret Jackson Hirsch late this after
noon was convicted of attempting; verbal
blackmail fipon Asa G. Candler, multi
millionaire oft drink manufacturer and
mayor of Atlanta, for' $50,000 and waa
sentenced to serve one year at the state
prison farm and to pay a fine of $1000,
the extreme penalty.
Mrs. Hirsch received the sentence
without a tremor and without comment.
-Judge Tl. B. Russell, for the defense,
served notice of appeal and the court
fixed the ball of Mrs. Hirsch at $3000.
Mrs. Hirsch was taken back to her cell
to await bail.
The Jury was out 25 minutes. In sentencing-
Mrs. Hirsch, Judge Hill said:
, "Blackmail Is a terrible crime, as bad
sas highway robbery. The robbery of a
man's character or the attempt to rob
: nim of his character by extortion of
money la as bad morally as the robbery
of his money on a public highway, if not
classed In the same degree by law.
"Many a man would rather face a
pistol of a highwayman than exposure
, by fraud.
"1 do not know what tt do with the
woman. She Is not able to work on a
public road. A woman of her breeding
and past refinement and position is not
able to work in this manner. So I am
not going to put hr on publlo work.
Instead, I am going to place her on the
state prison farm at Mllledgevllle."
Mrs. Hirsch said tonight that Bhe had
not decided whether she would furnish
the bond for her freedom pending the
. outcome of her appeal.
Governor Whitman
Wants Third Term
New Tork. March 16. CI. N. S.MJov
rhor Charles 8.. Whitman has definitely
decided to accept the nomination for a
third term. He has also persuaded the
entire Kepublican state ticket to accept
renomlnatlori. This announcement fol
lowed a conference at the St. Regis this
afternoon.
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Lrft tp right Mayor Asa G." Candler of Atlanta, Ga., and Mrs. Margaret
Jackson Hirsch, who Saturday was found guilty of having conspired
with James W. Cook in a plot to blackmail Mayor Candler out of
$500,000.
Murder and Suicide
In Secluded Spot
Bodies of Man and Woman Fosnd la
Small Wood Sear San Francisco;
Thought to Hare Ocevrred Friday.
San Francisco, March 16. (I. N. S.')
After shooting through the heart a man
j believed to be R. M. Holmes, of Man-
teca, Ohio, In a small woods here, a
woman, evidently his wife, sent a bullet
through her own heart. The bodies
were found this evening:. The double
tragedy probably took placfl late Friday
night.
The only article found in their cloth
ing that would serve to Identify the
two bodies was a postofflce receipt fo.
a package sent from Manteca to Mrs.
Holmes in San Francisco on February
22, 1916.
Both were well dressed.
The revolver was found beside the
woman's body, which was several feet
from the body of the man. It contained
two discharged and four undischarged
cartridges. In her coat pocket were
four more cartridges.
The woman Is described as 35 years
old, dark, stout, weighing approximately
160 pounds, while the man was 40 years
old, five feet nine Inches tall, dark com
plexloned and weighed approximately
160.
People of Coqs Bay
Want Week-End Rate
Soathera Faelfle Petitioned to Make
Bonnd Trip Bate to Portland Apply
Friday to Allow Portland Bnslneis Day
The people of Coqullle, Bandon, Myrtle
Point, Marshfleld and North Bend want
better railroad connection with Port
land, so they can do more trading here.
With the request that It give its sup
port to the movement, the Chamber of
Commerce Saturday received a com
munication from the Coqullle Commer
cial club Inclosing a, copy of a petition
the commercial clubs of those places
have forwarded to railroad officials.
"We want the Southern Pacific to
make a rate of one and one third far
effective In this territory from Friday
of each week to Monday morning fol
lowing, so that we may have Saturday
in which to transact business in Port
land," says the communication.
The rate now, It is pointed! out. Is good
only from Saturday tolonday, which Is
of little commercial value.
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Stray Dogs Under Ban
DuBois. Pa., March 16. A campaign
is on to rid Clearfield county of all stray
dogs. Fines of $25 and costs are being
imposed on those who, allow their dogs
to run at large.
Washington, March 16. (I. N. S.)
Self determination aa to their political
future la proposed for the people of
Ireland in a Joint resolution introduced
late today by Senator Gallinger of New
Hampshire.
The action follows the visit of a large
delegation of Irish Americana to con
gress yesterday.
The joint resolution reads:
"Resolved, that the application in case
of the Irish people of the great principle
of self determination as interpreted by
the president of the United States In his
discussion of the fundamental and in
dispensable condition of a lasting peace,
will constitute a source of genuine grati
fication to the people and government
of the United tates, sincerely, solicitous
as they are for the harmony and pros
perity of the two great peoples.
"And be it further resolved, that the
two houses of congress concur In the
belief that the effect of willingness on
the part of the people of the government
of Great Britain to permit the ascer
tainment of the will of the Irish people
by means of a plebiscite of the adult
population (men and women) will be
viewed as a. precedent of the most pro
found Importance by all peoples of dis
tinct national character seeking to ac
quire in an orderly manner final vindi
cation and sanction of their titles of
sovereignty."
The measure waa referred to the sen
ate committee on foreign relations.
Save Postals for
Aero Squad, Urged
Save your picture postal cards for
the 433d aero construction squadron of.
200 men getting out spruce at a camp
near Olney, Or.
There are two recreation halls near
the Olney camp which until recently
were bare of diverting features. Women
of Portland, however, have donated
boftks, games, a phonograph and records
and $25 cash.
Letters galore were received from the
men at the camps expressing their ap
preciation. Then a projecting machine
was donated and soon the soldiers ran.
out of postal cards to project on the
screen by means "of the 'scope.
All kinds of picture postals are de
sired old and new. Those wishing to
donate them should send them to the
accommodation desk of the Meier &
Frank company stdre.
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