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SEVENTY.FIFTH YEAB.
SALEM, OREGON- SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 10, 1925
PRICE FIVE CENTS
GENERAL HORSE PLAY
AT WILLAMETTE AIRED
HYDRO-ELECTRIC POWER
LA SALLE STREET WOLF)
VALfc-EY CREAMERYMEN t-
STATE SCORES IB
CONTROL BEING. SOUGHT
TAKEN TO CELL TO DIE
BAND AGAINST THIEVES
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'IS DELEGATES
TO SPELL DISASTER
ONE IS SUSPENDED AND AN
OTHER OX PROBATION ,
PORTLAND HOUSEWIVES
DE-
FINANCE j KING BROUGHT TO
MUTUAL PROTECTION TOPIC
SIRE NEW STATE BOARD
PRISON ON. STRETCHER
; AT SALEM MEETING
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GAME POSTPONED ON
ACCOUNT OF 'DELUGE
COMPETmDN SAID
TIL OF IlUf
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n Will Attend General
Executive Meeting to Be
Held Next Year :,
nm rinir mill POPKVFD
President of Reed CoDege, Port
land,' Talks lust Ntght; Thirty'
third Annual Session Near , i
Ing dose ' i !
Delegates to the general execu
tive meeting In 1926 were elected
at the Friday meting of the Wom
an's Foreign Missionary confer
t-aco, Columbia nrer branch, in
o 3rd annual session at the First
Slelhodist church. Mrs. W. H.
Forsythe. of Yakima, Wash., was
ciiouen for the Columbia rirsr
branch with Mrs. H. V. Carpenter,
PiUhaan. WashM alternate. From
the Idaho branca Mrs. M. L.. Hst
iland. Twin Falls, will be the del
c sate with Mrs. H. W. Parker,
1 Grande, alternate.' The dele
gates are elected a year in ad
vance. Sirs. Nelson Will3, Tacoma
Wash.: and Mrs. F. E. Dodds. of
Worrie
V Montana, will attend the general
riexecutive session at Kansas City,
illolhla tall. ' f-- -J
Norman F. Coleman,: president
" f Reed Cortege, Portland, deliver
, ed the main address last night,
dwelling upon the missionary sit
uation in the Orient and the rela
tion; of the white man's . religion
fth that of the Orient and of the
missionary endeavors In foreign 1
com-tries. Dr. Coleman has made
a personal study of conditions in
the Orient. The spirit of brother
hood must replace the spirit of
raeitl arrogance; he said.
Afternoon derotionals jwere
Jed by Mrs. W. H. Forsythe with
H memorial service.' Mrs. C. W.
Aid rich ; reported on the junior
work. 'Which now. has 4240 mem
bers. Work of the home base was
explained by Mrs.? Jesse E. Davis.
Mrs. Walter Gill, In the annual
report .on finances, reported $59,
4 G1T.4 9 f eneral receipts and.; dis
bursements: of ,$55,074.98 to Af
rica. China, Central Europe, In
dia, Jarian, Korea, Malaysia" and
1 the Philippine Islands. . Miss Flor
ence Hooper delivered the main
address of the session., havine as
I lier topic "Royal Roads and Some
fS v .-Who Tread Them." The roads.
T i she- said, were courage, pioneering,
1 yJu- elf-forf etfulness and increasing
VJ Other Teports were giren by
Mlsa Hngh , Cummings, Standard
Bearers; Mrs. John West, , supplies
arid money for , the Goyarat con
ference and Mrs. F. A. Gniler,
P.ellingham. Wash., on - Christian
stewardship. Miss Florence Say
les. who told of missionary work
Jn Cbina. 4 Miss Ruth Warner de
scribed missionary work in Sonth
America. ; An instrumental solo
was orfered by Miss Louke Find-ley;-'.'
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Roy. Thomas Acheson. pastor of
the Jason Lee Memorial church;
cohduct-'d the morning derotion
als. These were followed? by an
address by Miss Louise 'Godfrey,
of India. Mrs. F. A; Searvlc, Scat
tl'i. reported for the Norwegian
Danish auxiliaries while. Mrs. C.
Li BoTard, Helena, Mont., report
ed for her jstate. Mrs. H, , W.
Parker, La Grande, recently of
Boise, Idaho parrish, told of con
ditions la her part of the state and
Idaho. '-. -.- - ' . j
"A Study in Brack and White.'
was the topic of Miss Maud Cone.
Ji'jm f roJi Africa on tick leare.
Mrs; C. W. Hnett, Oresham.
hmi r.h play upon the imagina-
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I. " autuence; on an
A" Airship view" of foreign lands.
ft --'jrAt paul Edwards, wife, of the
-, -k pasior or bunnyslde chcrch. Pr.rt-
land, :ca the "quiet hour."
Musical: numbers during xhe
morning session Included ' a vocal
solo bv Mrs. Clyde Williamson
Albany, accompanied by Mrc. G
V. Fallis. wife of the Methodist
pastor, also of Albany. Miss Hel
en Johnson, of" the ; Sunnyside
church pf Portland, sang, accom
panied by Miss,, Dorothy t Bar her.
Canas, Wash. Both n stodr-nts
at- Willamette university.
Toui g people's night will he ob
rerved today, with roll call,' songs
and : stunts at 51 30 Vcloct, with
Mrs. Hugh Cummings , presiding.
The conference will close Sun
TAX LET HIGHER
V7.A.LLA1 WALLA, ,Wash.. Oct.
3 . The cou n ty , ; commisg ion e re
this afternoon formally , adopted
the county4 budget for the year
1925., The total tax. levy for the
county will be-' 9,7 3 mills as com-
part'd with 9.22 mills last year,
' This does hot" Include the state
levy, the county assessor :now be
ing occupied In working on these
figures,
Group Ousted From City Library
and Restriction Made at
State Ruilding
General horse play on the' part
of Willamette university students
has resulted in a group of them
being ousted Iron the city library,
all students being requested to sit
at a special table in he supreme
court library, in the suspension of
one student, the placing on proba
tion or another and the possible
placing on probation of three
others for conduct in the univer
sity library. - ;
" It seemf that a general good
time was planned at the university
the other evening, with the pro
gram consisting of roping Dr. F.
G: Franklin, university - librarian,
in his office. At the recent recep
tion of the YWCA-YMCA held in
the library, a piano was moved in
to assist In the program. Accord
ing to the report, the piano was
also used in the program of the
evening ln question, being used as
an anchor; for a rope whose other
end- was tied to the knob of the
door of Dr. Franklin's office in
such a manner as to make impos
sible the opening of the door in
the ordinary way. Dr. Franklin
unscrewed the door from the in
side, jerking the-door open and
tearing the outside knob tied to
the rope. I He thereupon declared
that the library would be closed
for the remainder of the evening.
It Is not quite clear Just how
the names of . those implicated
were obtained, but because of the
episode, Cornelius Bateson, step
son of W.'i C. Culberfeon, Portland
hotel many and associate editor of
the Willamette publication, the
Collegian,; as well as interclass ri
valry chairman, was" suspended
from school for two weeks, accord
ing to the report. It was said last
spring that he was to be placed on
probation? for an escapade Involv
ing the return of some university
girls to Lausanne hall, the girls'
dormitory, at an early hour of the
morning, j t
Warreh Day, president of" the
student ibody, whose father, J. W.
Day, is on the Willamette board of
tmsteesv Is alsormpllcatedi
, Kenneth McCormick, who has
been identified t with religious
work on I the campus, Is also In
volved. His father is a professor
'in the Kimball school of theology.
Loyal i Warner. Salem TMCA
worker, and manager of this year's
WallulahL and ; Bruce Spaulding,
whose father is a Methodist minis
ter, are also said to be itxea up
in the affair.
Shortly after this occurence
and on the same evening, a group
of Willamette students made such
a riot in? the city library that the
librarian! in charge, was compelled
to ask the .Willamette students to
leave the building. She called Dr.
Carl G. j Doney, president of the
Institution, informing him that if
such conditions should continue.
the WillameXte students would not
be allowfed to use the city library
after 6 o'clock in the evening.: Dr.
Doney, It is, reported, gave the li
brarian Specific authority to phone
the police station if such an afrair
should recurr, and to have the stu
dents taken Into custody.
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WRONG MEN ARE HELD
MISTAKE IS MADE IN ENDEAV-
OR;
TO FIND KUiLERS
YAKIMA, Oct. 9. Two men
were arrested by mistake in El
lensburg this morning for the
murdeV of Thomas Dovery, Kelso
editor; accoding to the story'they
told here Friday. Merril A. Craker
and William Wilson, the two men
temporarily detained, were re
leased when: the Ellensburg police
judge recognized Craker as a for
mer police officer of Pasco. The
two men. were taken from a load
of apples to Easton where they
were met by Mrs. Crakerr who
was on ihef way back from Seat tie.
Mrs. Ciaker,, who was taken into
custody- with her husband, claims
she. is a niece of Jesse James, fa
mous bandit of the mi'ddlewest
several ' yesrs ago. ;
DUCKS AND GEESE DYING
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UNIDENTIFIED MALADY RE
SULTS IN DEATH .TO FOWLS.
KLAMATH FALLS. Or., Oct. ..
(By jAssociated Pre.) Thous
ands of ducks and geese lie :dead
in Tula Lake as a result of a
strange malady, believed induced
either, by alkali water or by rank,
stagnant ponds, U became known
to-iayi To cope with the situation
the United States biological sur
rey has been notified and will con
duct an examination to determine
what is the cause of the wholesale
deaths in the ranks of thousands
upon (housings gi gacio birds.
Jupiter Pluvius Obliges Se:
nes Management to issue
Ram Tickets
NEEDED REST PROVIDED
Both Camps Take Advantage of
Delay; Blaege Will Be in Line .
Up in Today's Game, Is Said
WASHINGTON, Oct. 9. (By
Associated Press. ) Rain drops,
curved .across the landscape by
that ; 'familiar old veteran, J. Plu
vius,5 silenced the batteries of
world series forces today and put
oft until torr arrow tne renewal of
hostilities between the deadlocked
Washington Senators and the
Pittsburgh Pirates.
Th finwnnnur started at 8
o'clock this morning.' It kept up
almost continually until noon
when a deen sea conference, par
ticipated in by Commissioner Lan-
dls, ! President Griffith of the
Washington club and Manager Bill
McKechnie of the pirates, conclud
ed that the field at Griffith stadi
um was In no condition for cham
pionship combat. ,
Then iust to play a prank on the
thousands of capital rooters disap
pointed in their hopes of seeing
the first game on home soil. Old
Sol checked the watery attack
and gave a balmy finish to the
afternoon. The chief encourage
ment in" this, however, was the
nrosnect that tomorrow and the
following two days would provide
suitable weather for the play to go
on tender its delayed schedule.
The washout provided an unex
pected and yet needed reBt for
most of : them In the warring
camDS. " desDlte the impatient de-
Sire of the competitors to keep in
stride, but it. was especially a
blessine In disguise to Bucky' Har
ris and his gallant champions.
The Senators came back to their
home port with ranks somewhat
shattered and shaken in sustain
ing Iheii first defeat of the series
in the second game yesterday ana
todsr'a rest oresented an opportu
nity to consolidate their lines once
more. It not only provided an in
terval which will permit the two
Washington sharp shooters,
Johnson and Coveleski to come
back to the firing line earlier than
had been hoped, -but It also was
expected to assure the return to
the llneuD of Ossle Biuege, cm
liant third baseman, who was laid
low by one of Aldridge's fast ones
yesterday.
'Biuege tonight was prpnounced
entirely out of danger of any ill
effects of the blow that struck him
down and cast an added bit of
gloom over the Senator game in
the midst of defeat. An X-ray of
the third Backer's head revealed
' (Continue nn pg S)
MORE
Original Members Named in Pro-
posca constitutional Amena
ment Is Filed I Here
Establishment of f an Oregon
Water and Power board through
an amendment to the; constitution
Is sought by the Housewives
Council, 'Inc.;. of Portland J and
Sam A. Kozer, secretary of state,1
requested to give it title and place
it on the ballot at the; next general
election. Members of th council
signing the petition are Josephine
M. Othus, president; Clara Mil Si-
monton, director and Mary A.
Dean, chairman of the legislative
committee, all of Portland. 11
The proposed amendment would
give the board power! over the de
velopment and distribution of wa
ter for domestic purposes. It also
prorides that no plant shall be
purchased for a consideration of
more than $500,000! without the
proposal being approved at a gen
eral election. Bonds of the State
of Oregon not to exceed five per
cent of the assessed valuation,
payable in cot more than 50 years.
are to be issued to carry out the
provisions of the amendment The
board is given power to issue and
sell interest bearing public certifi
cates for the construction of ac
quisition of any public utility au
thorized under the I amendment
Rates of service shall be estab
lished by the board. Revenues
are to revert to the state treasury
'Continued on ptgt 8)
MANY AUTOS LICENSED
INCREASE OF 21,004 ' OVER
1921 PERIOD SHOWN
The total number of motor ve
hicles, passenger cars, commercial
cars (less than one-ton capacity),
busses, stages, ambulances1 and
hearses, trucks and trailers, regis
tered by the department of the
secretary of state for the period
of January 1 to September 15,
1925, inclusive, was 204,354, an
increase of 21,004 oter the corres
ponding period of 1924. Of these
16,004 were trucks Hand tralhrs,f
&8 compared to 14,268 for 1924,
and 188,350 were Of vehicles of
the former group of classification,
an increase of 19,263 over the
registrations for the like ! period
of 1924.
The total number of motorcy
cles registered for the January
to, September 15 period of 1925
was 2,429, which was 228 less
than the same period of 192 4; the
1925 chauffeur registrations num
bered 13,738. which was 581,
which was but three short of the
number registered for the 1924
period. The total number of mo
tor vehicle operators registered
to September 15, 1925, was 353,
740. Since these licenses are not
required to be renewed under the
law the number given is cumula
tive since the law went into effect,
July 1, 1920. I
TROllBLE AT THE MOORING
Lart Desperate Stand By Attorneys
Is Unavailing; Career
' Notorious ,
CHICAGO.-Oct. (By Asso
ciated Press.) John W- Worth
ington, "the wolf . of La Salle
street," who yesterday -came back
to Chicago to die, tonight was on
his way to the i Atlanta -penitentiary.
The "wolf" Whose career in
frenzied finance netted him a for
tune and impoverished thousands
of investors of moderate means.
was taken from the federal build
ing to the railroad station on a
stretcher and started for the pris
on to serve a two year's sentence
for using the mails in a scheme
to defraud. As he was being tak
en to the train, his attorneys made
a last desperate effort to save
him from tse penitentiary. They
sept a telegram to Attorney Gen
eral Sargent at Washington ap
pealing to him "In the -name of
humanity" to delay the removal
off Worthington because it might
caiise his death, an appeal that
had been successful in the, fed
eral courts once before. No re
plf had been received when the
train left with the prisoner in
charge of deputy United States
marshals.!
Worthington, accompanied by
his daughter Alice, came back to
Chicago yesterday from Mexico
whence he fled from Los Angeles
last summer. He summoned his
attorneys and announced he had
returned to the scene of his fin
ancial operations to make hla will,
to - make peace with the govern
ment and to die.
:. This morning his attorneys ap
peared before Federal Judge
Adkm C. Cliffe and asked for a
stay of execution from thirty to
sixty days to allow Worthington
to arrange his affairs because
of -the condition of his health.
jtnatead deputy marshals were
dispatched to his hotel, carried
Worthington forth on a stretcher
ann brought him to the federal
building where orders were issued
to wiurx mm lur ausuw iiuuicu
lately. i
Worthington's attorneys said
tsfcn ; his -wilL he -disposed - ef
about $2,000,000 bequeathing
most of it to two daughters. Des
pondent creditors, who believed
him penniless, were heartened by
the reports of his will and began
considering whether they might
not recover some of their losses.
One of them buried to court
and instituted a claim against
Worthington for FloTida Road
and Bridge bonds stolen from him
and .which a former employe of
the "wolf" tried to dispose of.
GRAIN CROP LARGER
SPOKANE, Oct. 9. (By Asso
ciated Press.) Spring grain yields
ner acre considerably above the
acre yields of last year and equal
to or greater than the 10-year
average for the statet of Washing
ton are forecast.
MAST
Sproule Says Southern Pa
cific May Build ITrans
continental Route
PROJECT IS CONDITIONAL
Work Will Not Be Started, Direc
tor of Finance Declares, if Or
egon Trunk Invades Field
PORTLAND, Ore. Oct. 9 (By
Associated Pre3.) fA transconti
nental lihe to the east will be pro
vided by the Southern Pacific com
pany, declares its president, Wil
liam Sproule, testifying today be
fore Charles D. Mahaffie, director
of finance of the Interstate com
merce commission, provided there
is no competition in the Southern
Pacific territory which the Oregon
Trunk has asked permission to en
ter. "Competition, however, would
be disastrous," he said. "It is fine
in theory- but in practice it spells
ruin and this is shown not only in
the .railroad business1 but in tVe
lumber manufacturing business
and other similar enterprises in
all sections of the United States.
"When the market is good, all
of the mills commence to cut and
the market is glutted. Then the
price falls and business slumps
There is no business for any of
them. The same would be true if
the Oregon Trunk were allowed to
make its extensions,; because the
Klamath basin will net provide for
many years enough : business for
more than one carrier.
"Plans of the Southern Pacific
will give Portland and Oregon a
new transcontinental line to the
east, so located On the one. hand as
to serve the greatest agricultural
and timber sections of Oregon,
and on the other hand, provide a
mid continental route fixing these
sections direct service to the ma
jor part of the United States."
The Union Pacific system lent
its support to the Southern Pacific
company's projects when Carl R.
Gray; president, sent a message
which M r7 proaY read, pledging
the Union .Pacific to cooperate
with the Southern Pacific in pro
viding cars for the! new service,
The Union Pacific and allied lines,
with a total of .61.240 miles of
track, will assist the Southern Pa
cific in getting all of the cars nec
essary for the state, said the mes
sage. .' '
The Klamath Falls project was
planned 20 years ago, said Mr.
Sproule, and the time has come
when a new main line east is need
ed to take care ot the growing
business of the country. Threat
ened entrance of the northern
lines into the territory had noth
ing to do with the prosecution of
the work, he said, j
FOG HAMPERS! SHIPPING
TWO VESSELS COLLIDE; ONE
GROUNDS IN HEAVY MIST
PORT ANGELES, Wash., Oct. 8.
(By Associated Press.) The
steamship Texan, which . collided
this afternoon with the Admiral
Dewey "in . the; Strait of Juan de
Fhca three 'miles eas"t of Dunge
ness, arrived here tonight. T Be
sides some scraped paint and one
rivet cat off, the vessel was un
damaged, if-.
Tom Duffy, pilot aboard, the
Texan, said the steamer's engines
were gofng full speed astern wheff
the Dewey scrapd the side of the
ship. He said- the impact was so
light that it could nffc be felt from
the bridge of the Texan. Duffy
Bald that visibility Was limited to
50 feet because of a! heavy fog.
VICTORIA, B. C:, Oct. 9. (By
Associated Press.) ---The Canadian
Pacific Steamship princess Kath
leen went ashore In Victoria:, har
bor this afternoon ja few minutes
arter; casting off for Seattle in one
of th heaviest fogs1 in years. The
vessel pulled .herself off five min
utes (later and returned here for
an examination. The extent of her
damage was undetermined at an
early hour tonlght.l The Princess
Kathleen plies between Victoria
and Vancouver and- Seattle. , .
MONDAY NOT HOLIDAY
PIERCE WILL NOT ISSUE: ANY
PROCLAMATION ' !
1 Columbus -dy will not be pro
claimed a legal hotiday. Governor
PJerce said today. ; The attorney
general refused to render a de
cision, holding that it was outside
his Jurisdiction as state business
is riot concerned, j The::: statute
lists legal holidays; in Oregon and
designates Coiurabhs dav. October
12, as a "public'1 holiday Re
ouest that a, proclamation , be Is
sued declaring holiday was made
by the PprtUnd clearing house, :
Cooperative Association to Re
main With Northwest Group "
Another Year ' .
Members of the Capital City C1
operative Creamery held a lunch
eon Friday noon ' at which there
was a meeting of the board of
director. There "were also sev
eral vi<inr representatives of
outside creameries who gathered
for the purpose of talking over the
matter of mutual protection from
butter thieves that have shown up
in the Willamette valley lately.
General routine business was' dis
pensed with at the meeting of the
directors.
H is at this time of the year that
notice has to. be given to the North
Pacific cooperative creamery asso
ciation as to whether or not the
local company means to stav in
the association during the coming
year. The local company intends
to stay in 'the association for an
other year, according to word re
ceived from its office. All the
creameries are toSetay in the as
sociation, and it i highly prb-
abin that four others will Join.
. he highest average scores In
all butter contests for butter ex
hibitions in Oregon, Washington
una (.aliiornia during the last
eight months have been made by
members of the association, it was
rt.waled at the office of the co
operative creamery ,.nvjany,
Members of L the association won
first r nd second prizes at the Ore
gon state fa?r. Average scoies
t:ade.by the members of the ae
.sociaticn were two points higher
than those made by outside com
panies. It was a member of the
atsotiitlon also that Made the
highest Oregon score at th-! na
tional ' buttermakers' convention.
First places were aTao taken by
associ-u.'on members is the Wash
iagten -and California state fairs.
The average scores of the :tsso
ci.itibn members has been raised
during the laet eight months from
SJvj. to 93.-
MOTOR RECEIPTS HEAVY
STATE COLLECTS $3,05l77.Sf
DURING YEAR
Net receipts from motor ve-
mcie, motorcycle, dealer, chauf
feur and operator registration fees
collected r.by the department pf
secretary of state for the annual
period September 16, 1924 to Sep
tmber 15, 1925, inclusive amount
ed to 15,0 or. 377.59. Of this
amount $1,262,844.40 was ap
portioned among the several coun
ties of the state, being, in accord
ance with the law, one-fourth of
the net receipts apportioned Upon
the basis of the number of regis
trations within such counties, on
March, 15 and. September 15, and
$3,788,5.13.19 was credited to the
state highway fund.
The total nft receipts for the
September 16, 1923 to September
16. 1-924 period Was $4,559,744.73
of which the counties'-share, upon
the one-fourth basis, was $1,139.
93648 and that apportioned to
the highway fund was $3,419,
808.55. ' ' Marion , county contributed
$313,706.56 and received in re
turn one-fourth," or $78,426.64.
From the county the state highway-
fund received 02 S5,2 7 9.9 2.
SAYRE'S NAME URGED
HARVARD MAN, WANTED FOR
UNIVERSITY HEAD
Pressure is being , brought to
bear upon the board of regents
of the University of Oregon to
consider, the name of Francis B.
Sayre, son-in-law .of the late Pres
ident WoodrOw Wilson, as presi
dent of the university to fill the
vacancy created .by the death of
P. L. Campbell. Sayre; professor
of international law, at Harvard,
is said to be unaware that friends
are urging his name upon the
boards .
GRID MATCHES LISTED
TWO CONFERENCE OA ME 8
SCHEDULED FOR TOtAY
, SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 9 ..-(By
Associated Press).---Two confer
ence games and an inter-sectional
clash top the list of - football
games scheduled for the Pacific
coast tomorrow.
The' Universities of Utah and
Sonthrn, California will meet at
Los Angeles. In- the; conference
engagements, Oregon and Idaho
line up at Eugene, ; Ore., while
Washington entertains Montana at
Seattle. - . .. '-.
k-At Berkeley; the University of
California is to face its first real
test of the season against the
strong San Francisco Olympic
team. ' : '. : ' - 'rr'kk.y? v ':';:"
Stanford is expected to have a
fairly" easy time with Occidental
college, in their, game at Pslo Alto.
New Era Statement Is Intro
duced as Evidence? Re
volver Is Identified '
DEFENSE IS OVER-RULED
Links in Chain Being Tightened;
Eye Witness and Others Give
Mach Damaging -
1 Testimony'
The state scored twp , decisive
points, yesterday in the Murray
trial. The first, when the writ
ten and signed statement made
by the three convicts at the New-
man home In New Era, wag in
troduced In evidence over the ob
jection of the defense, and the
second, when Mortis W. Miller, '
principal keeper at the state pri
son, ihdentified the revolver used '
by Murray In the escape, as be
longing to him. , These two links
in the chain' of evidence, being
wrought about the escaped con
vict accused of killing John
Sweeney, a guard, are declared to
be the strongest yet forged by
the state. : , ?
Charles L- Newman was called
to the witness stand late In the
afternoon, and identified the writ
, ten and signed statement made by
Murray, Keiley and Willos. The
account was written by Newman
himself, and was dictated by Mur
ray, the witness declared. In every
instance in the narrative, where j.
the first person 'L" was used.'
"ewman said, it referred to Mur
ray. -
The entire document was read
aloud to the jury by John Carson,
district attorney. It contained
several statements, evidently dam
aging the cause of the defense,
and was introduced ; as evidence
and read after the defense had
filed objection, but was over
ruled by the court,
"I took two revolvers," Mar?
ray is said to v hare dictated , to
Newman, "a .38 Colt and .32
.20 Smith and Wesson . . . . ... I
threw Willos the .38 Coif
Probably the. most '"damaging
statement occurs "farther; down
the narrative. ' The escape, from
the turnkey's office Is described,
after which the three convicts
took refuge behind an oak tree
in the prison yard, not; far from
tower one. During this time, the
guard in the tower was firing at
them, and the convicts, were
shooting' into .the tower; ' .
i Murray, dictating the state
ment, said: "As it was his life or
ours, I shot him in the head with
the pistol, the .3 2-.20, and he fell
dead. I then ran up the "steps.: I
called to Lute Savage to ' come
over as we wanted to use him, -but
he did not come. I took a shot at
him with my pistol. 1 " f
I District Attorney Carson of
fered the statement ? to" Newman
and asked : him ' to identify " the
handwTitlng.' It is my" hand
WTiting," Newman d eeiared.
"While at rny house, Keiley, pro
posed writing a narrative of ihe
escape, and made several attempts
offering the result to me to read.
It ws a jumbled affair; and' I
proposed that I should write it for
them. ' Murray dictated it to me,
word for word. When it waa fJn
inshed, each of the three convicts
signed it and. attached, their fin-;
ger prints." Newman identified
the signatures as welt as the fin
ger prints, and declared, they were
made: in his presence. ' The de-.
fense had previously objected to
permitting the statement being
offered in the court. records, de
claring it was not competent and
was irrelevant. . .
Morris W Miller, the principal
(Contlnoad Q pm S) '
TANGLED KIN IRKS
k - ' .
INVOLVED RELATIONSHIP
IS AIRED IN COURTS .
CHICAGO, Oct, 9-( By As
sociated 4 Press.). Mrs.; Anna
Shunk, : 2fr, summoned into
court today by Iter husband,
John. 50,; for going out wights,
complained that , her relatives
were so much related .that re
lief in the form of diversion,
was necessary. .
s -My mother ran away, from
my father .- Ja Germany find
came to America, wiib. Skunk,
she said. " adopted rat broth
er, Edward, 14. J and became
his mother. " Then y; mother
died, and I rao to America
and married ity tp father,
and we had a. son, John, 10.- -?
v ''So 'i-. I am - my elder - son's
mother and sister, my husband
Is tny etep father. ad hlso ihe
grandfather of his younger "sooi
the' sons are -hair brolherj:,. tat
the older in 4hs uaclc of the
yo'jRger." ! " ' : ' ' ' :
; The court wrote it all down
on' a place of paper and took
the case under advisement.