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fEDF0RD. OREGON, THURSDAY. APRIL 9, 1925
NO. 1G
DECLARES "JAZZ"
JURY
G R
NSANE
FAINTS AS
VERDICT OF
JURY SREAD
Dorbthy ; EHingson, 17 Year
Old Matricide, . Will Go to
Asylum As Result of 11 to
. One Verdict Reached By
Jury in Less Than Hour-
Outbursts Are Convincing.
SAX FRANCISCO, April 9.
' IKirothy KlUiiKKon, 17 year old
Klayrr of her mother, was found
IiiHuno by a jury In superior
- court liere today.
Tho verdict means that the girl
will be committed to an asylum.
The murdor case for which another
Jury has been impanelled and in
readiness pending determination of
the girl's Banity, now will be held
In abeyance indefinitely. Should
she over be released from the asy
lum, the murder charge may be
tried.
Tho vote of the jury wns eleven
to one for Insanity.
The jury retired at 10:25 a. m.
and reported shortly after eleven
o'clock that ft had reached a ver
dict. As the verdict was read tho
girl fainted.
She shot her mother in tho bed
room of their home last January
13 after the mother had objected to
jazz parties and a life of indolence.
Tho girl was bitterly opposed to tho
efforts of .--her - attorneys to-'havo
. Her adjudged Insane and had sided
with tho prouocutlon in its opposi
tion to the move.
The girl was unconscious when tho
jury had been polled and the court
room cleared. Sho made no outcry.
Her head fell back and she rested In
the arms of a matron. When she
finally recovered consciousness the
former "jazz girl" was hysterical for
more than an hour. She refused to
see her father or her brother.
"God forgive them!" sho cried, re
ferring to all who had taken part In
the effort to have her adjudged insane.
She found no comfort in tho situa
tion, pointing out to tho matrons that
she was sure to be found sane some
day since she was sane and that
then Bhe must undergo tho murder
trial.
She was taken to tho lioapltal ward
of the prison and gradually became
more composed.
The; court indicated Hint the girl
would be committed to a state insti
tution of his own selection.
Members of the jury while reticent
in discussing the case, gave indication
that they had taken into consideration
all factors In the ense, the girl's deed
in killing her mother on what wus
said to be a trivial protoxt, the girl's
outbursts in the courtroom and the
testimony of alienists.
One Dissenting Juror.
The one dissenting juror was Jacob
E. Selleck, a retired shoe dealer. Ho
was firmly of the opinion that she
was sane.
The jury consumed but 45 minutes
in its deliberations.
The verdict closes for the present,
at least, one of the most unusual cases
in annals of American jurisprudence
Instructions Given
SAN FRANCISCO. April 9. Judge
Harold Louderback in superior
vcourt hero this morning' read his
instructions to the jury in submit
ting the issue of the sanity of Doro
thy EHingson, the 17 year .old ma
tricide, whose murder trial was in
terrupted ten days ago when her
attorneys moved to have her pres
ent mental competence determined
After the week and a half of
testimony, covering every phase of
the tragedy and the girl's demean
or since, the lawyers closed their
final arguments last night, leaving
for this morning only he court's
charge before the case was ready
to be given to the jury of nine men
and three women.
Civil procedure governs the mat
ter, despite the fact that it is part
of a murder trial. Thus the votes
f Continued on Page 8ix
BECAUSE Of
LONDON, April 9. Scarcity of
O blonde chorus girls is divulged by
London producers. The managers be
lieve this is due to the bobbing and
shingling vogue which in their opin
ion has caused abandonment of the
use of hair dyes.
Ben Turpin to Quit
Movies; Wife So III
. Must Do Housework
LOS ANGBLES, April 9. Bon
4 Turpin, motion picture comedian, 4
4 today announced that he has do- fr
cided to quit the screen. His ro-
4 tiroment was made imperative, 4
4 ho cxplnincd, by tho serious ill- 4
ness of his wife, who recently suf-
fered two strokes of apoplexy. 4
According to friends of the
fr comedian, Turpin is doing his own t
house work to bo near his sick fr
l wife, who cannot stand his ab- 4
4 sence and becomes irritated at
tho servants. 4
FRENCH LEADER
TURNS DEFEAT
NTD VICTORY
Premier Herriot Springs A
Surprise on Deputies, Aban
dons Defense for Offense
Carries Chamber Before
Him Future Still Uncer
tain. PARIS, April 9.(By Tho Asso
ciated Press.) The chamber of
deputies tonight voted confidenco
in the Herriot government 29 i to
242. -
PARIS, April 9. (By tho Associat
ed Press.) Premier Herriot, sudden
ly assuming the offensive in the
chamber of deputies today mado
sweeping charges of faulty adminis
tration of tho treasury against every
government since the armistice, blam
ing them for the present financial
crisis.
Turning upon his accusers who have
had him fighting bitterly for his po
litical life tho past few days, ho took
tho rostrum and began a stirring
speech in which he promised to reveal
all tho Intimate secrets of the French
treasury.
It was forecast in cabinet circles be
fore the session that if the premier's
reception in the chamber and in the
senate, whero ho had also planned
to speak was such as to make th,o gov
ernment's position look dubious, he
intent resign without awaiting a vote.
PARIS, April 9. (By the Associat
ed Press.) Tho chamber of deputies
after threo 'o'clock this afternoon be
gan the discussion of tho financial sit
uation. The government seemed to have a
majority of about seventy in tho first
test vote by a show of hands as to
when the discussion should take place.
Premier Herriot began speaking
amid a terrific uproar, his followers
welcoming him noisily with the oppo
sition booing.
Every deputy was present, packing
the chamber.
Premier Herriot said he had de
cided to speak immediately because
of the "imprudent campaign now go
ing on In the financial domain, injur
ing France before her own public op
ion and what is moro dangorous, op
inion abroad."
He added that he -would show with
figures that the financial situation of
France was not so critical as broad
cast by his political enemies.
The premier said the present finan
cial crisis was a logical outcome of
the policies of all the governments
since the armistice.
"I won't speak of our foreign debt,"
continued the- premier, "because you
are aware of the uncertainty of the
situation. You know how heavily it
Weighs on our financial situation, even
at times Interfering with our very po
litical liberty."
Pandemonium broke loose at Hor
rlot's reference to the foreign debt In
terfering with pofitical freedom. His
supporters rose and cheered while the
opposition booed.
WIG HUE
A numbo? of druggists have ex
plained that the sale of peroxide has
fallen off alarmingly.
Since the war many girls have gone
in for office work and the managers
contend that the tea shops also have
lured many of their possible candi
dates for tho chorus.
SECY WORK
TOID TO FIRE
H.D.NEWELL
President Coolidge s Cabinet
Member Told What's What
in Hectic Klamath Meeting
Want Copco Power Con
tract Probed Mr. Work
Listens Carefully But Says
Nothing.
KLAMATH FALLS, Ore., April 9.
Discharge of Herbert D. Newoll,
project manager for tho reclamation
service on the Klamath irrigation dis
trict and Immediate Investigation of
the reputed secret contract by which
the power rights on the project were
sold by a former board and tho
reclamation service to the California
Oregon. Power company, were urged
by directors of tho district at a con
ference here this morning with Dr.
Hubert Work, secretary of the inter
ior, and Elwood Mead, reclamation
commissioner.
R. E. Bradbury, chairman of the
irrigation board, charged that , the
presence here of Minager Newell is
detrimental to the interests of '.ho
water users and should bo relieved
from office.
Bradbury and olhor members of
the board also contended that valu
able water anA power rights . wero
turned over to the power company
for $120,000 when they rightfully bo
longed to the district.
,It was pointed out that under an
act of the Oregon legislature In 1905
the waters of Klamath lake and the
Klamath river were deeded by the
state of Oregon to the reclamation
service for reclamation purposes in
this district but that contrary to this
deed of the legislature a former board
sold tho power rights to the Califor
nia Oregon Power company in per
petuity for $120, 00.
Claim Set-ret Contract
Members of the board charged that
this contract was entered into socret
ly In 1923, and it'was nearly a year
before tho water users learned of the
contract. At a special election last
year, it was declared, the water users
Instructed the old board to start pro
ceedings for tho revocation of this
sale, but the board refused to take
any action.
Secretary Work told the irrigation
directors that his department Is not
interested In water" power but that he
Is trying to aid the farmers and he
promised a full and complete Investi
gation into their complaints. '
Members of the Irrigation board
admitted that the water UHCd for
power purposes thus far had not de
pleted tho supply for irrigation pur
poses, but it was their contention that
tho farmers themselves should profit
by tho power projects and thus assist
them in paying for tho cost of the
irrigation project.
Secretary Says Nothing
KLAMATH FALLS. Ore., April 9.
Hubert Work, secretary of the. Inter
im.. nnA ihn dii-flpifira nf tho Klamath
iiotinri rtiRti-lnt ffirft.1 pnch other at
a public meeting held in Kiamain
Falls this morning called lor tne pur
pose of hearing general complaints
by all who are discontented with the
manner in which the government
project in Klamath is being conduct
ed. The cabinet officer listened quietly
to tho complaints made by directors
of the district against tho reclamation
service. He paid close attention to
all the proceedings of the meeting
but declined to take part in tho ver
bal pyrotechnics that featured the
gathering. '
This afternoon tho secretary and
Elwood Mead, reclamation commis
sioner, will bo taken through the
Merrill. Malln and Tule lake recla
mation districts on a general inspec
tion trip.
Following tho conference with tho
directors of the irrigation district,
Mr. Work conferred with a delegation
of the sportsmen's association on the
question of re-flooding tho lower
vinmath la I nnd creatine a bird re
serve; and with a delegation of the
local American Legion posi wnicn is
anxious to have the secretary open
seven thousand acres of homestead
land In tho Tule lake district to settle
ment. Yesterday Results.
At Los Angeles 4, Portland 0.
At San Francisco 6, Seattle 11.
At Sacramento 4, Oakland 2.
At Salt Lake 9, Vernon 8.
Not Gerald Chapman,
Gerald Chapman, da.ln.
nail
robber, who was tried at Hartford.
Corin.. accused of killing Police
man James J. SltcIIy when sur
prised during tho robbery of a
store in New Britain, is shown here
Hal Donahey, Son of Ohio
Governor, Placed Under Cotl
trol of Juvenile Court Until
He Is 21t Girl Companion
' Placed on Strict Probation.
ZANKSVILLE, Ohio, April 0. (By
Associated Press.) Hall Donahey, 19
year old son of Governor Vic Dona
hey, today was fined $100 and coHts
by Probate Judge Clarence Graham
on a charge of contributing to the de
linquency of Miss Lillian Vogcl, 16
year old Zancsvllle girl, whom he
took to Columbus last Sunday night.
Ho was remanded to tho custody of
Sheriff O. E. Bradford of Muskingum
county until tho fine was paid. He
also was placed under he control of
the Muskingum county juvenile court
until he reaches 21 years of age.
Miss Vogel was placed under strict
probation of the court for twelve
months.
MI'S. Donahey who wns In court
with her son und the girl, paid the
fine and costs.
Judge Graham said he wns con
vinced that there had been no Im
proper conduct betwoen the gover
nor's son and Miss Vogel and that
the only reason he fined Hal wns
because he hnd not told tho truth
to him last Tuesday when the Judge
questioned him about tho disappear
ance of Miss Vogel.
"It Is too bad that your father
bought you tho fine roadstor," Judgo
Graham said. 'I hope that you
will sell It to pay this fine. It In
like you told me yesterday you
have too much sporting blood - in
your veins to own an automobile."
Judgo Graham told Miss Vogel
that she must not appear at public
danceB and that sho would he
watched continuously by court au
thorities for the next year. . -
ZANKSVILLE. Ohio, April 9. The
formal charge of contributing to the
delinquency of a tnlnor was filed
against Hal Donahey, 19 your old son
of Governor Donahey, by Probation
Officer Bernard Holt In Juvenile
court here today, as a result of his
having taken Llliiati Vogel, 15 year
old school girl to Columbus In his
automobile Sunday night.
The whereabouts of tho girl ; re
mained a mystery from Sunday night
until yesterday when she wns discov
ered in a rooming house at Columbus
by Mrs. Donahey. -
Hal until confronted with the girl
at the executive mansion at Colum
bus yesterday had denied that he took
her to Columbus. Miss Vogel declared
that Hal was guilty of no wrong
doing. Hb,e said she hnd spent Sunday
nfght with a friend in Columbus and
she had gone to the rooming house
Monday with a friend of tho girl with
whom she hud stayed all night.
Judge Ornhnm of the prohate court
had asserted he would prosecute
young Donahey as far a facts In the
case warrant.
He said he was determined that
"everything be brought to light."
(Continued on Page six)
GOVERNOR S SON
FINED $100 AND
DENIED LIBERTY
.... ... , .... , ,:, . ,
but George Chartres
reading his lawyer's papers. He
went ovor hlfc own defense care
fully while tho State was present
ing witnesses to prove him guilty,
of murder.
DR.E1F
SUES BANKER
A suit for $10,000 damages - wus
filed in the circuit court Wednesday
by Dr. E. H. French, county humane
officer, -against Delroy Qotcholl,
banker. The action is tho result of a
fistic encounter March 25th last, be
twoen the two men, in tho hallwny of
the Medford National bunk building.
George A. Mansfield, domocratlc war
horse and candidate for the United
States senate at the last primary elec
tion, Is attorney for French.
The com plaint alleges, "that the
dofendant did unlawfully mako an
assault upon tho person of the plain-
j tiff, and did unlawfully strike, beat,
oruise, ana greviousiy wouna tne
plaintiff, causing bodily Injury and
mental suffering" to the extent of
$10,000.
SAYS RAILROADS
WILL BE ORDERED
TO EXTEND LINES
PORTLAND, Ore., April 9. Confi
denco wus expressed hero by J. M.
Devors, assistant attorney .general for
Oregon that the Inter-stute commerce
commission within the next sixty
days will Issue an order requiring the
railways now touching the outer lim
its of interior Oregon to build an east
to west lino from Burns to : Bend,
from Bend to a conned Ion with the
Southern Pacific's Eugenu-Klumnth
Falls cut-off and from Klamath Fulls
to Lakevlew.
Devors had Just roturncd - from
Washington, whero he argued the
Issues raised by tho Oregon public
service commission to compel . tho
railway construction desired by com
munities and Interests now without
transportation facilities.
W. D. SHEPHERD'S LAST
E!$.
CHICAGO, April 9. William T).
Shepherd's Inst chance for release
from Jail pepdlng his trial on charges
of killing with typhoid germs his
foster-son, William Nelson McCllntock,
orphan millionaire, lies with tho Illi
nois supreme court in Springfield.
Decision by the court on a motion
for a writ of habeas corpus, filed by
his counsel yesterday for presentation
to the court today, Is ordered- within
a few days.
William Scott Stewart, Shepherd's
counsel, said he expected tho writ
would be made returnable as soon as
possible.
ChiaaKo B ut hnrlt Inn mennwhlln
awnlted a report tonight or tomorrow
from the coroner's chemist, who has
been making poison tests on the body
of Dr. Oscar Olson, formerly McClln
tock's physician, who lied two years
ago shortly after he received a visit
foncShepherd.
RENCH
FOR DAMAGES
Alleged Victim of
Klan Dragon Can't
Recover Says Doctor
IND1ANAPOUS. Ind.. April 9.
Miss Madge Oberholtzer, In-
dinnapolis, alleged to have been
i aasaulted by J). C. Stephenson, !
former grand dnigon of tho Ku
Klnx Klun in Ittdiaua, cannot ro- 4
fr cover from solf-adminiBtered poi-
son, according to her physician,
Dr. John it. Kingsbury.
! The young woman may live 4
several days, tho physician said.
I Sho has been unconscious a week. 4
An infliction caused n Blight
chnngo for tho worse last night.
Some hope had been entortalned
for her recovery becnuso of hor
vitality.
.
Home Run King Falls in Faint
in Pullman and Suffers
Concussion of the Brain
Carried Unconscious to Ho
tel Hospital.
NEW YORK. " April Babe
Ruth, Yankee slugger, suffered a
slight concussion of the bruin this
afternoon when ho fell' in tho wash
room of tho car that wus bringing
him homo to Now Vork' from Asho
ville, N. C, where ho was taken 111
last Tuesday. '
Iluth, unconscious, was rushed i
the emergency hospital in the Penn
sylvania, station. Dr. J. M. Murphy,
Pennsylvania railroad physician and
Dr. Edward King, Bubo's personal
doctor, who examined him as soon
as the train reached tho terminal,
said ho had received tho concussion
when ho fainted in the wash room
as the train was entering tho Hud
son river terminal at Manhattan
trnnsfer, New Jersey.
Mrs. Ruth, dressed in her Easter
best was at the terminal to greet
her husband. On learning of his
condition she was nearly prostrated
Paul Krltchell, Yankeo scout who
accompanied Ruth from Ashevllle,
said- the famous home run hitter
had stood the- trip north admirably
and apparently was feeling better
at tho terminal where he entered
the wash room to wash his hnndn
and faco and brush his hair prep
aratory to saying "hollo" to tho
friends who wore to; moot him at
tho station. Kritcholl - went to the
Babe's compartment to get a comb.
When ho returned Ruth was on the
floor unconscious. An ambulance
that was waiting at tho terminal
to take Ruth to St. Vincent's hos
pital, hroke down as ho was being
lifted Into it and it was necosnury
to remove him - to tho emergency
hospital whero an -examination re
vealed tho concussion.
Another convulsion seized tho pa
tlont as he was being carried from
the ambulance Into the hoRpltal and
the physicians admlnlstorod a hypo
dermic. When he became conscious
a doctor asked: "How do you feel?"
"Rotten," muttered Rutin Then he
smiled and spoke his wife's name.
ProHulcnt Itopllcs to Peru.
WASHINGTON-, AAprll D. Presi
dent Coolldge's reply to the Peruvian
jnomorlal on tho Tacna-Arlca case wns
delivered today to the Peruvian am
bassador. It is prohabln the reply to
gether with tho memorial will he made
available for publication In morning
papers tomorrow.
China Minister Apnolnlrd.
WASHINGTON. April ft. John Van
A. MarMurrny, an aslsntant secretary
of state, was appointed today to be
minister to China.
BABE RUTH IS
SERIOUSLY ILL
WIFE COLLAPSES
J
A WIFE IN LESS THAN 36
METUCHEN,' N. J., April 9. Pat
rick Krops, owner of a tuxicub busi
ness which he wagered yesterday
ngalnHt tho restaurant businesB
owned hy William A. Klchbnunt In n
bet that he could get married In 36
hours although he had no feminine
friends. Jeft here toda for Elkton,
Mo., accompanied by his prospective
bride. Miss Agatha Esther Hollls.
' Kepsnld that he expected to be
or
R. II, BANDIT
Gerald Chapman, Picturesque
Mail Robber, Sentenced to
Death for Murder Is Geo.
Chartres, Brother of Well
Known N. Y. Educator
Clue Furnished By Chap
man in 1907.
NEW YORK, April 9. Tho mys
tery of Cicruld Chapman is a thing
of- tho pust. The stick up man ex
traordinary who is under sentenco
to bo hanged June 2B, and who has
persistently refused to make known
his identity, has been declared hy
Connecticut authorities to be George
Chartres, a son of Irish parents and
a brother of a man who now holds
n responsible educational position
hero. , .
Since Chartres, alias Chapman,
was found guilty of tho murder of
Policeman Skelly of New Britain,
Conn., officials of that state have
been Investigating his past life. The
convicted man himself, put them on
tho trail. On April 13, 1907, when
he was convicted of grand larceny
In Now York county, , ho gave his
right name. Ho was sentenced then
to serve ten years in prison but was
paroled Juno 19, 1908.
On his release he gave the name
of his nearest relative as Mrs. .Kath
ode Connors, No, .171 lQ7th strept,
,New York city,
1 Mrs. Connors, it was said, Is an
aunt. She is still allvo but no long
er resides at this address. Chartres
also, has a slstor, t was said.
Officials refused to divulge tho
names of tho brother and . sister.
"Chartres," records show, was an
undersized boy, mentally alert but
always prono to get Into trouble
His parents died when he was very
young and his aunt brought him up,
bringing up also his brother and
sister, George was given a gram
mar school and high school educa
tion. Ho was fond of reading but
.Bcornod class room work and study,
passing examinations easily, .
His first arrest came in 1907.
i Ho was then twenty years old.
Released from prison he returned
to his aunt's home here. Soon ho
was re-nrrosted charged with the vlo.
Union of parole. , Whilo awaiting
his return to tho state prison at
Almlra, he was Identified by two do
tectlves at tho Tombs as "Curloy"
of the "Park avenue mob." Those
detectives charged him with burg
lary and on Soptombcr 22,' 1908, ho
was sontencod to three . and one
half years in Sing Sing.
It was then, according to tho story
that his relatives disowned him.
From this point on. Chapman's car
oor Is well known. From this point
on, however, he refused to give his
correct namo or anything about hla
family.
George Chartres has no, home,
moreover his relatives , refuse to con
cedo his very existence. The broth
er, who is married and has threo
children, and who Is a regular
church goer, was interviewed by re
porters, who did not mako public
his namo.
"That man 1b dead," ho said
slowly. "I tell you I have no bro
ther. He Is dead. I want to Hvo
my own life."
Jury Can't Reach Verdict
PORTLAND. Ore., . April 0. The
jury trying tho suit of Frank M.
Arnold, former soldier, against tho
veterans bureau was discharged this ,
morning by Federal Judgo Wolver
ton. Its members declared they could
not agree after arguing yesterday
afternoon and Inst night.
Judge Wolverton refused to set tho
enso for re-trlnl so it will likely bo
several months before it comes up
again,
S HIS BET; GETS
married about one p. m. In Elkton
and told Eichlmum that when he re
turned he would take over the latter's
restaurant. Both men signed an
agreement to their wager before a
notary. It was tho remilt nf Eirh
biium Joking Kreps about his unmar
ried state.
Miss Hollls is employed in tho
office of a New Brunswick hosiery
shp. She Is forty years old, the
same as Kreps,
DENTTY
DISCLOSED