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DAILY EAST OREGONIAN, PENDLETON, OREGON. MONDAY, JULY 17, 1916. PAGE THREE CHOICE I I CREAM I FED I 7 T I Y Aimr 1 AO mi i i ii ii iu v f n i will just about melt in your mouth. WE SELL IT 1 Q Q II TFI F.PHONE 1 OO I I I nnunin'e U ID VET I IuuVTiiLid rmniiLi i Dean Tatom Co. Grocery Telephone 688. ' "' ' WILLIAM OKI N01 GUILTY IS I 3Z , , , .......mm,.,,,,,.,,,,,,, mmjj verdict am BY HE JURY WAUKBQAN, 111., July 17. Wil liam H. Orpet, the University of Wis- onsln student charged with murder ing Muriun Uiinhert, a nigh ssnwH girl und hi former sweetheart, was found nut guilty Saturday night by a Jury In Judge Donnelly's court alter five hour' deliberation. The lurv retired at 2:50 o'clock At C o'clock It" memtmrs were taken; to dinner at a boarding house where: they spent half an hour. i-ift Await WrUict. One hour later came the flash that a verdict had been reached I'mlm-l bly fifty person were still waiting fori it. orpet, who had taken his even-, lng meal, was sent for in his eel!, j judge Donnelly, u cripple who had beta seated In a chair un the court-, house lawn chatting with the lawyers made his way painfull) upstairs on aj crutch The defendant, as usual, was seat ed between his mother and Mrs. Ed- i win Taylor, his lancrtady ut Madison,, when the Jury filed In Woman In itlk Makes gonad. Duly one sound broke the stillness with which for a few seconds the ver diet was received It came from a woman about 50 years old, dressei in black who had attended every sea lion of the court. She made an In articulate sound something between a sob and a shriek. She had never explained her In! teres! In the cuae except to sa that e was 'a friend or humanui Orpei t'eels Kmotion. Orpet wiis silent through excess of lotion. He waa barely able to re stav In Jail as comfortable as pos sible. The party then were, taken home In an automobile by Leslie V. Hanna, Waukegan attorney for the defense. Crowd Lines Itoute. The usual Saturday night throat ,,f farmer.! and their families In for the week end shopping and recrea tion was present in extra force and crowded the route wnlch Orpet took after leaving the jail He went first to the of.ice of Leslie P Hanna, his local attorney. r started for me m inlercepted and la officet Mr. Hanna mobile, however. and that orpet had aJf of freedom if let four months' incarceration. The route lay parti., along the shore Ol Lake Michigan. In which Orpet dur- Ina his com inenu in expressed a w ish to swim, past Helm's woods, In which place Marlon came to her death, and the orpet home on the McCornmit estate. Summer Romance lu-gnii. last summer young orpet, then a pallid, slender youth of 19, ot sharply regular features, somewhat vain of his college opportunities an 1 undlacfnllnnd as to character, return ed from the University of Wisconsin at Madison for a vacation at home. He fell madly in love with Marion, according to his letters. She rn'l eomoleted her irnior year at the The Orpets ha terurhan when ken to the law sent tor his aut. It was from ih:.i first full breath A FEW REAL BARGAINS RECKLESS OF " ON V IN OUR READY-TO-WEAR DEPT. We have some of the nicest and neatest THREE PIECE BREAKFAST SUITS you have ever seen in town for only, 98. These come in Copenhagen, pink, lavender and stripes of all kin" Remember, only 98 PARASOLS INCLUDING EACH AND EVERY ONE Hi OUR STORE AT Vs REDUCTION. SELECT THE ONE YOU WANT NOW. 1 III DearfMd high whom and was then IT and known for her gaiety and laughter "the Hie "1 the party," as A SCENE FROM "THE IRON CLAW," CHAPTER No. 6, 1PATHE) 006V TOD AT Swine provided 60 per ceent of the total mitit consumed In the Herman empire lust year. MONTANA OIKS ON Let Resinol Make Your Sick Skin Well That itching, burning skin al most certainly be bot 'I i The first UM of resinol olntmenl widen (an to give instant relitl. ln the l.em oi res.no, r j soap, tins NHitinii);, healing ointment usu ally clears away all tfaCC "f mrma, ring worm, rash or similar tormenting, sleep pre venting sKtn-ojernaei quirklv and t little cost. Physicians have prMcribtd resinol ointment regu larly lor over twenty years, so you need not hesitate to use it Irccly. Kold by all druggists. la Your Toilet Soap Injuring Your Skin ? Many toilet snaps contain harsh, in iurious alkali. Resinol soap contains absolutely no free alkali, and to it is added the resinol medication. This gives it soothing, .healing properties which clear the complexion, comfort tender skins mid keep the liair healthy. ANSCO CAMERAS BsSPEEDEX FILM F RETURN TRIP AFTER ATTENDING FUNERAL 1.1 t- HKItMlsTON FOR GREAT i i kim. immm: ( llll llltl.N UACK. Had Minuted Last lilt' Of Woman, mid I tab Burned to IKatli; .lames Todil Is SO on the Border With Henna k Regiment, liev. und MM. Jones f iwkcr, Vlws, I K .1 i DON'T let another summer ro by without an Ansco. It will add more to the pleasure of your out inw than anything else. All winter and long afterwards yovi can live over again with your pictures those Rood summer days. Let us show you the Ansco line. $2 to $55. Tallman & Co. Leading Druggist! ren mlan UK KM 1ST' IN, ore.. July 1, K. M Fryhurg and Mrs. J. C. Uen son or Greet Falls. Mont , who were here for the funeral or their cousins. Mrs PO'ton Boon and baby, left last night tor their homes They were accompanied by Virginia and PeytOtl Boone. Jr., who will make Ihelr home with Mrs. Kryeburg .with Whom their mother lived as a girl The muny friends of James Todd I will 1k interested to learn of his ! having enlisted In Company A of the I Kentucky stale militia at uouurvui., I a few weeks ago. lie Is now at the ! border. Hev. and Mrs. O. F. Jones of Ha ker City, were here the first of the week looking after their farming in terests. They were en route to Min i nssota for a few weeks' visit. Mrs Francis It. Ueeves and son. e .i.. Jr.. left Wednesday for PorBand where they Will spend the summer with relatives and inen" Nick Codd Ot Spokane, presiuem of the Hermlstun Light & Power Co.. Is looking after business interests here this week. Mrs Harry Diver, formerly of Umatilla but now living Bunny side, Wash., is a visitor in the City today. ' ,., . in.. ,iorub. Skinner left Wednes- -la'v for Portland for a visit with her Islers, Katherlne and Helen Munnei ibert islrohm of fortianu. mt this week on business Ueorgc Patterson came m Irrigon Thursday for a short l the home or her lister, Mrs-. Harrison. K. I. 1 av is and little daughter Mlgnon. visited friends in r-cno Thursday. K 0 Walber, ll T. Maltby, Ton Campbell and Dr. J. A. Campbell pent Sunday at Hlngham Springs, motoring IH) fn Mr. Maltby's car. BUNGALOW APRONS Just the thing you cannot get along without. Think how they save your dresses. Only, each 69? GINGHAM WASH SKIRTS In all sizes for Misses' and Women. A large assortment of patterns, each 69r. CORSET DEPT. In this department you will find such bargains in corsets you won't be able to believe yourselves. Regular $1.25. $1.50 and S2.00 corsets in all sizes at onlv 69f . Can you beat it? PIECE GOODS DEPT. Fancy Lace Cloths, Voiles, Lawns, Dimities, Marquisettes and such like. All at a sacrifice. These are divided in to three lots. LOT NO. 1. consisting of Lace Cloths, Voiles and Lawn de Soies; regular 35c to 50c values, 25f the yard. LOT NO. 2, consisting of mostly all lawns and an exceptionally large range of patterns. Regular 20c, 25c and 30c values, 15 the yard. LOT No. 3, consisting of all lawns and dimities, with a large assortment of patterns to choose from. These are reg ular 15c and 20c materials, all at lie the yard. VISIT OUR GROCERY DEPARTMENT . . t thf BEECHNUT BRAND goods, such as Peanut Butter, Os nd sample a few of THL BttLnnui DIUM,U B ' nilTTON 'car Sauce Mustards and etc. now being demonstrated by MISS DUTION. alexMders Th. Davlieht Store; Better Goods, Lateat Styles, Prompt and Courteous Attention. The Daylight More, p&y posUge I llLnmmm ..n..M.H,n.u...Hnn...nm.l.nmmml.m.mm WJLU An H. ORPET. fe imtl Ft-ri service. i turn the handclasps of his attornevs. i u Hwnbd the hand Of a reporter. but muttered a scarcely perceptible 'pieaae don't " Up made his w honk th the juri and one, smii- ,..,,l one ' L.. .vinir nothing. Wan' Mother 1. her 6eU orpet nro - .v. m M is lie here Mi from visit Frank Mrs. CASTOR I A ?r TnfantQ And Children rvi In Use For Over 30 Years Always bears the Signature of ed the verdict as . (nil, "',r,;"w tn to .naP J 35 tftS5 warned tim. w,Daper. ,.r ; m- Jamea H. W f"r ??h. tenr snd they tricKlc. keep back the tear, n ih Wfl s. from hi- "'fhWF rotter and Le-l" L0e,a.es. ""Jelvlng congratu P Hanna, a11 lations. . hld Mr WllKerson " i i K.i,, more ;n:iu opinion orpet n declared not (turn.. ,. He was proved innocent. " Mr Wllkerson "He is jglni With bis 'th-r ow' Th,'n 'U' ! Mim: into the country for a un. Ota necled rest after hL, erve-racWlnS experience brought on him by a Ml marknble. if not nnpre ' ,' ,-ies of clrournatanees. Then he will c6me back home and make a man of himself.'' spend Ha" llonr in ltni. The defendant, his father and mother, his brother. Mrs. Taylor and Intimate friends made their way in to the witness room, wnere una i" v o v was snfecuarded by a bailiff. Hall an hour later they emerge. "We'll Ko home now. William, said Mrs orpet. and they made th. ir way down the back stairs and to the jail. . , . . Orpet'l few belonninss which He had In his cell were already Packed He had recovered his seTr-possession by this time and thanked Shent. Orltftn tor makini nlafout months one witness put It. Wher orpet returned to collet li !be fall erf 1S15 freonent letters wen exchanged. Orpet flestroe,l hers; Site eaved Mis. and they remained aft er her death to 'speak of the great' fear of exposure that came upon her. Orpet. in testifying, said that hot was certain that these fears were! groundless Once ne mailed her bottle of montMei and water 't" : ease hev mind.' anil he brought s similar compound with him for the same purpose when heentered Helm's woods, near Lake Forest, with her ion the morning of ..'ednesdaj', Feb ' ruary 9, last. Efforts at Alibi suspicious, j orpet testified that he made th trip to allay her fears and to explain a story which had reached Marlon that he was engaged to one Celestla I l'ouker. but theelaoorate efforts 1 which he made to keep the trip sc- ret. and his subsequent oonflicting statententi of it to officers of the ! i.iw developed into the most damag ing evidence against him. It led u e menacing question of Mr. Joslyn reiterated again and again "Why Why'.' Why? Why did "u come'. You brought no relief: you brougtv medicine von tirouKhl no lend," ness no ' Is of loVe. Why did you come?'' On February S. Orpet at Madison left three letters, postdated Febru ary 9. with his friend Otto Peters n, to he mailed on the latter dale One waa to his mother, one to Marion, and u'e to Marion's friend Josephine Da vis. They were worded to make it appear that the writer was in Madi son on February 9. the day he kept hit tryst in the woods with Marlon, Hid she CP me tO her death rjMtfBM Explained. , ' orpet explained on the stand that the alibi letters as the came to ' known were written .0 thai if cy ;" ' i wn parents who expected him to re main faithful to college duties, they ! would accept the "etters as covcW s,ve evidence to the contrary. W 'etter to Josephine was to corrobor ate that to Marion. Josephine bastl (led that she never received It On the afterr-con of the 8th. hi a nark overcoat which ne had borrow - , ... ..oe u-iih dress suit to a rtv which he expected to attend on e 1 "th earning the bottle ol mo-t-sea and watei In his pocket, an.lj ,ving behind him the alibi le'ierdj il a bed rumpled to deceive, h'a n.Hadv the student proceeded by di.watikee wnere no o between trams vi L,ake Forest. Arriting Ihere he arranged bv tele phone to meet Marion on her way to school the next morning, walked j about for a while to make certain his parents had retired and entered the UeCormlck garage, where he spem the night on a cM. .Ttxik Walk ru Woods. In the morning he and Marion met and walked ihrougn the snow inf. the WOOdS, orpet testified that there j was little conversation and he coul 1 1 recollect only the purport of it Be offered her the "medicine" and shei refused it He started ;to leave but, she called him Baca ana aaw .Mr. Pruitt is Heppner Lexington. lone. Condon. Fossil. KOCK urees., McDonald. Wasco Moro, Grass Val ley, Shaniko Antelope. Madras. Me tollua, Culver. Redmond. Bend, prine ville. Burns, Canyon City, John Day Prairie City. Long Creek and Ritter At Ritter Mr. Pruitt will return to Pendleton and Mr Carson will pro ceed on the O.-W. to Boise Pocatello and' then to Missoula. During the last two weeks Spokane. North Yaki ma, Ellensburg. the Puget Sound country and the Grays Harbor terri tories will be covered by Mr. Carson. He will finish his whirlwind cam paign September 20 and by that time there will be lined up for Pendleton the largest crowd wnich the city has ever held in Its gates. 1 M hour was going ! He said th of it. aad s -1 write her any moie. seemed to be no use led away again, n ade me look armwdl w what and 1 saw', Marion lying In the snow." related j Ihe defendant on the stand. "I re-: turr d. kneeled ov,r her for maybe i u minute l noticed the moist now-, ,ler In the lines of her hand. Her e were i ed. Th. n a kind o fog came or! my brain and 1 don't remember much after that except on reaching the road I threw away the "medicine" and made my way on foot to Highland park caught a traUl and that eVenln. arrive", back at Madison." iin.lv Found Next .Morn tag MUimi waa missed that night and her hod) found the next mornin?. Orpet vis arrested and told numer ous Conflicting stcries prior to the tria'. these bell I used against him at the trial. During his cross examination, which lasted three days, he repeated ly took refago in "1 don't remem ber.' He spoke In a low voice with apparently studied effort, but never- he less be, ame mvoivea m www .xtricated himself by "correcting my mvloiia teatlm ilty." His manner ,ro,is. and he rarely looked at lUlaltor Attorney Joslyn ItOl NH-l I BOOSTORS. . i, - iiiiia.Tmriii Loans on Farms If you desire to borrow money on farma, our officers will be glad to have you call at this old, strong bank and consult with them. 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