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ONDAY, MAY 2, 1927
OURT ROOM
n APPEARANCE
I MIGHTY DRAMA
H IG H
D’AUTRBMONT
(By C. J. Road)
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of a cross question or will he all
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The stage setting for Judge» dressed up Into.an integral part
I county's most sensational murttei of an eloquent argument, lay—
trial, the little antiquated court well phat do you suppose would
room that occupies the eaetekfl lie next to an Ink well— why, a
portion of the second floor of that pen, of course.
famous courthouse around which
That’s all there Is on the table
a memorable battle for replaee now, not even a scrap of paper
ment has been waged so fiercely mars the tidy appearance, but as
Präsident Coolidge to be the wlthln recent months, presents a the attorneys take their places, Many Lives Lost by Failure
sorry spectacle for the highly ad with grave faces that brings home
Principal Speaker at
to Evacuate Homes in
verMsed drama, that w ill he short the seriousness of the business at
National Gathering
Time to Avoid Water
tly unfolded within Its wall, whet> hand, as they deposit heavy vol-
TO DI8CÙSS CHANGES Hugh D ’Autremoat, youthful al­ umns of law books that they’have THOUSANDS HOMELESS
leged Siskiyou tunnell bandit, wlli tarried under their arms, the In­
make a desperate effort to -beep significant tables, will play their Leyeo Break Lcta Water Sweep
ls -neck from the harsh rubbing small part In this modern spec­
Over an Unprepared Town
f the hangman’s noose.
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In Northern Ixtulslana
The court room was built year*
Dlreetly against the east wall Is
WASHINGTON. May 4 .— <LP>— ago, and at one time, wo doubt the Judge’s rostrum. Here Judge
President Coolidge and
Sec­ occupied a prominent place In the Thomas, with all the dignity, with
retary of Commerce Hoover will minds of those who first gased up­
be the principal speakers at the on its early splendor'. But 11<
Fifteenth Annual Meeting of the has tailed to keep pace with pro­
U. 8. Chamber of Commerce con- gress, it Is a shabbyllttle wxf c
venlng here today.
now, the hallowed walls, frbm mand. Laughter, frivolity, idle plete evacuation before the levee
The national gathering of busi­ which has echoed and re-echoéd Joking, and other pastimes of a gave way entirely may cost many
ness leaders from all parts of the the spirited challenges of orators modern world, are laid aside, for lives. Thousands are known to
country will discuss important ec­ .from the bar of every city in here Is to be decided the fete of bo marooned. The first evidence
onomic changes in the nation’* the state, are none too clean, nad a man, and with a human life at of the tragedy in the northern
business in the past few years nt Its equipment la meager.
stake, with a man’s life hanging In part of the state came when the
a four day convention. The dls-
Jury Box
the balance there is little time, or levee broke near Glasscock. The
cussions will center around the
On the left side of the room es desire to be capricious.
town was not prepared and a
major topic “The New Business you enter Is seen the Jury box.
Judge Is Stern
great lose of life is expected.
Bra."
why It is called a box, I do not
The Judge does not In the least
President Coolidge will deliver know, for. It more resembles the resemble the latest best sellers'
MEMPHIS. Tenn., May 2. —
his address before a Joint meeting recitation room of a country idea of a Judge. His face is not
(IP)— New floods in Southeastern
of the National Chamber and the school honse. with Its twelve un­ the hard flinty-llke face that mod­
Arkansas and Northeastern Louis­
Pan-American Commercial Con­ comfortable looking chairii, stand­ ern fiction, writers love to depict;
iana was claiming the attention As hr speared on his arrival at
ference will be attended by repre­ ing In a row like so many, sol­ Rather is It the face of a gentle­
of the rescue workers. Levees of Jacksonville to face trial for
sentatives from Latin-American diers on an Inspection visit. The man, it reflects, behind its mask
mnrtirr.
Mississippi, Red Qnachlta and
countries.
chaire look none too combortable of sterness, as he sweeps the conrt Black rivers have given away in
with their highly varnished fin­ room with a kindly look, a sym­ Arkansas and Louisiana.
The
At the Chamber meeting the ish, but there It la that twelve pathetic* understanding of the
dead from the floods are now
new competition with the entire cltisens, tried and true, w ill sit >hort comings of human nature.
estimated at three hundred and
groups battling for markets, hand- day by day, there serenity marred He makes yon feel that here Is a
fifty. It is estimated that more
to-mouth buying. installment sell­ oihy by an occasional yawn, - or man who believe» In human na­
than a hundred thousand square
ing. improved business standards, some other gesture*, that involun­ ture. He makes you feel that
miles has been inundated. The
adequacy of statistical Informa­ tarily denotes boredom, as they here Is a man who believes in
numbar of homeless in the en­ Oonstebulafy Officiaft’Say
tion, simplification, elimination of hear the questions asked and the justice? who still thinks that the
tire flood qrea has reached three
They Have Not Mad»
hundred'thousand
developmeats will be
e. man who would be true to his
Lillie M c K e e , Applegate
Housewife is the ï ü î t
Juror Called
ASK DEATH PENALTY
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JACKSONVILLE, Ore., May 2.
•— (IP)— H ig h D ’Autremont, alleg­
ed train dynamiter, went on trial
for his life la circuit court here
today.
■ The dapper youth who was the
object of an International search
for more than three yean, ap­
peared to be In his nanal good
spirits as the session opened nt
10 o'clock this morning. He still
maintained his academic Interest
in the procedure, for Hugh In­
tends to become n lawyer if he is
successful In his legal battle to es­
cape the gallows or confinement 04697262
in a federal prison.
Tour counts of first degree
murder are against ITAutremont
and his twin brothers, Ray and
Roy. Hugh la being, tried on only
one bnt the reenlt of it probably
New Process That Will Help
will determine the fate of all four
Evade Pitfalls to ho
counts.,
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— Adopted
Bat. even ‘thongh.the fight for
life Is woq^D’Autremont w ill not
VICTORIA. B. a , M a r 2.— ftp)
go free. I f (he state falls to hang - Old ideas of education must be
him. federal authorities will claim thrown overheard in favor of
the prisoner and the scene w ill be some new process that will en­
shifted to Portland for Jrial la the able children to dodge the pit-
United States Court on chargee of falls that beset the lives of young
attempted robbery pf a mail train.
If Hugh la convicted at the state
trial here. Jbe penalty Is death by
Columbia teachers* convention.
vrtlthe SA pease apprised, i
? T h rM te T o r Ha«h B’AetfWpoat
brings to a climax, one of toe most
noted crimes in the histoi?-- of
Oregon, Involving the murder of
four men and the endangering of
the lives of scores o t others.
On October 11, 192$, a South­
ern Pacific train left the little
station bf Siskiyou, near the Ore­
gon California line and rolled In ­
to a death trap. Entering Siski­
you tunnel, a bore in the moun­
tains half a mile long, It wan held
np.
Three trainmen, resisting at­
tack, were shot down In cold
blood. A large charge of dyna­
mite was placed under the mall
car, the car waa wrecked and the
mall clerk was killed.
Authorities and special investi­
gators assumed at once that the
crime was the work of amateurs.
I t was too bloody, they said, and
the over-charge of explosive de­
noted a lack' of experience. Had
the train carried valuable loot,
which It didn’t, it would have
been torn to shreds .by the force
of the blast.
Suspicion did not fasten Itself
on the D ’Antremonts until cloth­
ing belonging to Hugh was fonnd
near the murder scene.
Posse
members then learned that the
Delegates from 1400 chambers
of commerce In every State to the
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Individual Invitations were dis­
patched to outstanding business
executives, leaders in
various
branches of industry, finance and
commerce.
“In many respects, a statement
from the National Chamber said,
the meeting w ill be one of the
most important ever held by the
Chamber.
American
business
sweeping forward under the play
of new economic forces, finds it
more Inecessary than ever to look
into the future. What do changes
that are taking place foretoken?
How sharp la the break from the
conditions before the war?
In
what direction are we headed?
Are we approaching ever more
Important readjustments Jhan we
hare seen In the recent past?
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i n w r a r w w vw or stiray tw at-'«-
ery pupil must absorb is an edu­
cational monstrosity.’’ declared
Dr. Cnbberley. *
“The old, simple home or town
life of , two generations ago has
gqpe, probably forever, and onr
young people haVe great diffi­
culty in charting their Uvea be­
tween pitfalls. Devoid of home
training, most of them are thrown
into the world to shift for them­
selves, and many o r them go to
the devil. This has called for an
entirely new conception of the ed­
ucative process.**
The speaker declared that the
modern theory was to prepare pu­
pils to meet emergencies of their
lives.
“We are training the young
people in many ways, endeavoring
New Bra
to develop character,” he said.
“The New Business Era de­
“I know of nothing of more value
In this «work than that gained mands the careful weighing of
from the boy scouts movement many problems. It calls for study
of
complicated
relationships.
and similar activities.”
Trades and Industries are enter­
ing new fields. Business units and
conditions are changing.
New
points of contact with govern­
ment and within commerce and in­
dustry are being developed.
“Business Is achieving so many
new things even the beat observ­
Oorset Salesman Given All ers cannot keep* abreast of them
Credit for Killing
hll. Industries are changing with
of Man
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LONO ISLAND C IT T , May 2. —
A woman who never did anything
to make her husband unhappy eat
In the witness chair tcylay and
dented that she had participated
in hia mardar. Rath Snyder, res­
olute and confident, Judd Gray,
bad acted alone in the killing of
SAN FRANQIflCO, May 2— (IP)
Albert Snyder.
— A month after Ignats Luts died,
Snyder, she said, never hnew apparently a poor man, it has
that she was unfaithful to him.
been discovered that he was the
owner of a genuine Stradlvarius
PECULIAR D EA TH
Violin, valued nt more than $10,-
MADRAS, Ore.* May 2.— Vic­ 000.
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tim of carbon monoxide gas, which
Luts was a violin maker sad
was generated by the truck he the Stradlvarius was his favorite
was driving north of here, enneed instrament. He knew it
was
the death of Rom Oedney, an em­ rare, but did not know it was n
ploye of the Stato Highway com­ Stradlvarius. Devotedly attached
mission. Oedney dropped dead nt to the violin, he refused numer­
the wheel.
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ous o ften ot purchase end it was
practically hie only possession
HAS THRBR CALVES
when he filed.
B U O M . Ore.. May $___ (IP)
Then Henry Boyen of the pub­
— . This Holstein cow, belonging lic administrator’s office later an­
to Bd Nye. a dairy rancher, ap­ nounced, that (he old violin which
parently believes la paring for Lnts had played with for years
her hoop, Nyt expected she would had been pronounced a genuine
deliver one celt to Mm hat was Stradlvarius by experts in New
astonned when he found three. York.
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Poor Man Had
Unknown Fortuite
convictions regardless of the pen­
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posing attorneys adds some -«b-
.^ttement to the affair. Yea— anti
here R w ill be on that final day?
with the evidence all In. the last
argument made, that they » will
tile In, take their places and give
to the world their decision as to
the guilt or Innocence of Hugh
D’Autremont.
alty.
Bnt let there be no mistake
about this, he may have s friendly
countenance but It is decidedly
apparent that the law Is the thing
in his mind, that the law mnst be
served as long as It is in his cus­ Sixteen Bodies Have Been
Recovered From Satur­
tody, and as he gives out his crlqp
day’s Explosion
descisions, you have a feeling of
confidence that the law w ill be
FAIRMONT, W. V., May 2.—
Counsels' Table
Near the jury box is the coun­ served, and that Justice w ill be Seventy-seven miners, at work in
the E&BrettsviUe mine were still
sel’s table. The attorneys for the done.
entombed in the workings forty-
defense are seated 'directly in,
Witness Chair
front of the judge and at right
Directly to the . right of the two hours after the explosion Sat­
angles to the jury. Tiny ink wells, Judge sets the most famous chair urday afternoon. Sixteen bodies
three in number, break somewhat of the many that clutter up this have been recovered and sixteen
the monotony of a too well ar­ dingy little room.
From this escaped alive. The fate of the
ranged table, and by their sides, chair will come the sordid story others is unknown. There were
one hundred and nine working at
ready to jot down lengthy notes
the time of the blast.
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that later will appear In the form
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JACK8ONVILLE, May 1. —
(Special) — Hugh D’Autremont,
the 23-year-old yduth whom the
state charges with the murder of
Charles Oran Johnson, Southern
Pacific trainman. In the Siskiyou
hold-up of October 11, 192$, went
on trial for bis life in the little
county court room here this
morning.
When court took its noon ad­
journment, five prospective Jur­
ors had been examined, but hone
had been chosen.
That the state w ill attempt to
build up a strong chain of circum­
stantial evidence, and demand
the death penalty, was indicated
by the questions hurled at the tal­
isman by George Nenner, N. C.
~ Conatahu-
lary officials today denied that
they had arrested Ray D’Autre-
moaLons eg the Tr~ntBi------*rnrnid
with murder Jn connection with
the robbery of a Southern Pacific
train in the Siskiyou tunnel, la
Oregon, October, 1923.
Hugh D ’Autremont is now on
trie having been arrested ’ here
several weeks ago.
Star Pitcher Prom House
of David Helps to De­
feat Locals
Using one of the star pitchers
traveling with the House ot David
baseball aggregation Grants Pass
was able to defeat the fast Ash­
land team yesterday in the first
frame of the season by a score of
5 to 0.
The game was fast
throughout, and Ashland fans who
attended the game were well sat­
isfied with the first showing made
by the locals.
Strenuous efforts will be made
this wee); to place the home
grounds In first class condition,
and everything points to a record
breaking crowd when the Ashland
team makes their first appearance
hero next 8unday.
Klamath Falla defeated Med­
ford at "Medford In their first
league game of the Beason by a
score of 3 to 2.
New Step Taken to Secure
All Weaker Lines in
Territory
ST. PAUL. May 2.— The Orest
Northern railroad today complet-»
ed another step In a move to as--
i quire the weaker lines in their
1 territory. President Ralph Budd
announced that the Interstate
Commerce Commission had grant­
ed them an application for tho
purchase of the Spokane and East­
ern Railway and Power company
l and tho Inland Empire road.
The sum involved le mote than
IIS ,000,000.
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R or eburg may soon ' have
great poultry plant.
NEWTON B. CHAMBT
Prosecuting Attorney, who
handle case for state In D’A
moat trial.
Chaney and George Roberta, th e *
state’s attorneys. - AU tansmen
were naked their views upon In­
fliction of death pentnl for murw
der In the first degree, and wheth­
er they would follow instructions
of the conrt in regard to inflicting
the death penalty If a strong chain
of circumstantial evidence proved
beyond reasonable doubt th a t
Hugh D'Antrenjpnt was guilty of
Johnson’s murder.
Lillie McKee, Applegate house­
wife, Was the first prospective Jer-
or questioned. Joehna Hibbard,
Talent
merchant, was seeoad.
Cheater Wendt. young Jackson­
ville farmer, was third. P.‘ ' B.
Sandos was excused without exam­
ination. F. B. Wiley, Central
Point merchant, waa the fearth
man qalssed and R. W . Bay
Medford farmer, wee helag exam­
ined when court adjoaraed.
Of those examined, all . exeept
Ray have served oe Juried before.
All declared that they believed la-
laflictloa of the death penalty fev