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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 7, 1925)
vttrt mi f Th Weathr Predktlon .. Fair ami continued warm Marimu hi jresitenlay 18 Minimum lutluy 3BF0RB 1EIBUNE Weathet Year Ao Maximum 88 Minimum .., 4 flallj Twrntlfth Yur. Wkly Fitly fmirlli Vim, TWFJiVR PAfJRS MKDFORD, OTtKOON, FRIDAY, AlKirST 7, 1925 NO. 1!S LEA OF INSANITY Ml MAIL tlS, DM iuRDERER r CELL SHOCK SAVES scon 1 CHAR Ex-Canadian Financier After 'Dramatic Smuggle, Cheats " Gallows By Insanity Plea Jury Out Nearly Four Hours Relatives Rejoice While Father Slain Youth Mourns. CHICAGO, Aug. 7. (A. P.) Russell Scolt, saved from the (pil lows hy a jury's wrilh last night finding him Insane, unlay in Ills oell declared lie was wane. Well, 1 'sXio I'm going lo Chester today. Itul I'm no more Insane llutn any oih of yoiu! He will bo taken m the Clies ter asylum for. tiio crimituil In sane. Scott aililed flint "the right is just iM-ffiluflng." lie still insisted that he was Innocent of the mur der, pf which lie was convicted and tluu would In v proved even tually and he wo"M be freed. CHICAGO. Aug. 7. (A. P.) In tin Insane asylum Instead of on tho gallows, Russell Scott, erstwhile Ca nadian financier, will' expiate the murder of a drug clerk In a holdup. "Cell shock" Insanity resulting from IK months 4n-Jujl AiidOie--or-deals of two nlirrow escapes from the noose, was the verdict of a jury lost" night in a sanity test which! saved him. ' 1 I The Jury's finding ond Scott's ro-l moval to tho Chester asylum today! ended a fight for life that probably' was the most desperate in Cook, county criminal annuls. Seven bal lots and three hours and forty mln- u tea deliberation were necessary be-. fore the jury agreed. , I Five times . since Joseph Maurer wqb killed In a drug store opposite the city haTT in April. 1024. Scott has faced death. Within the Inst three weeks, a few hours before the death march, Scott was saved once! by a week's reprieve and again by n stay of execution Issued at two o'clock in the morning by Judge Joseph David on a petition declaring him Insane. Had he been found sane. Judge David would have imposed a 'death sentence once more. Even In the nsylum Scott faces death on the gal lows should he ever be found to have regained his sanity. Wnrned against a demonstration, .spectators and principals listened to lb verdict with a dramatic silence. , Scott's eyes never left the slip of ' paper the Jury foremnti passed to a bailiff who gave It to the clerk. His mouth twitched and he flgited. He was hurried nwny by guards.) His relatives heard the verdict with expressions of emotion. - His wife, Catherine, whose untiring efforts brought funds after the defense fight left the family penniless, leaned for ward In attitude of prayer. His mother wept and his aged and crip pled father, Thomas, on whose sixty third birthday Scott was sentenced, stayed close to hia son., "Thank Cod for the verdict." tho father said later. "That's what tho poor boy needs to bo ' sent down theren knew it would happen,'. (Continued on page six.) FOR THE DALLES THR DALLES, Ore.; Aug-. 7. (A. P.) Following negotiations between John O. Helmrich. president of the Wasco pine box anil lumber company and forestry officials In Portland lhe past week, erection of a mill with 160. nno feet dnll cnpaclty In The Dulles, Is 'assured. SALEM TRUSTY RETURNS TO PEN VOLUNTARILY. SO&RY HE ESCAPED -, o SALEM, Aug. 7. Floyd Hall, a trusty who escaped from the Mote prison Wednesday evening while at ork on the prison lawns, today vul untarily returned, and said he came bark because he was sorry he had violated the trust placed In hJVn. Hall was tent up from L'mntllla county to 7th of Water Power in U nited States On Columbia River WASHINGTON. Aug. 7. (A. P.) The geological survey has decided Unit about a seventh nf the potential water power In the rnlted States Is to be found I along the Columbia river, ex- elusive of the very large power S resources of its tributaries. More than 8,000,000 acres of land can he irrigated within fr the drainage area of the river, S 4 thn Hiirvey says-, of which amount about 3.000,000 acres Is 7 4 irrigated now. S AT LOCAL CAFE F. K. Lightfoot of Weed, Cali fornia, in Serious Condition As Result of Fight Jewell Cafe On Front Street, Last Night. P. K. Ughtfoot, 30, of Weed. Cal, lies seriously wounded at 'the Sacred Weart,,'hosiltnr'.u the result of being stabbed by Jack Phillips. 24. a local laborer, ut 11:40 last night In the Jewell cafe, a Front street establish ment, during a fight over a young woman named Edith Maxey, an em ploye of the cafe. Immediately after the stabbing affray Phillips disap peared, but the police and sheriff's staff are searching for. him. Light foot's condition is serious. According to local police. Lightfoot recently came to the city from Weed, where he had kept company with Miss Maxey, who has been in Medford for several weeks. During the time she has been in the city she was much in the company of Phillips, and when Lightfoot became aware of the fact he became jealous, it is believed. Last night Phillips and Miss Maxey attended a moving picture show. This so enraged Lightfoot that he waited in the cafe for their arrival, and after a few words with Phillips on their return, he attacked the" latter. Phil lips, It is said, picked up a sharp In strument, which Dr. K. J. Conroy, the attending physician, thought was an Ice pick or knife, and stabbed Light foot In the abdomen beneath the right ribs, in the wrist and on the leg Lightfoot had his fighting spirit sn high that he was not owaro he was stabbed until he became weak and fell blood trickling into his shoes. At this point Phillips fled from the scene. The Injured man staggered out of the building and made his way to lirown's, Main and front afreets, where Dr. Conroy and the ambulance were summoned, first aid treatment given ond the wounded man was rushed to Sacred Heart hospital. When the fight began Miss Muxey fled from the cafe through a back door Into the alley, but when she was Informed that Lightfoot was stabbed she Immediately hurried to the hos pital. Attaches of the cafe state that on Ice pick could not have been used In the stabbing, as there Is only one In the establishment, and that one had been picked up at the beginning of the fracas to prevent It from being used. When Phillips fled from the scene of the affray he was clad in blue trousers and a khaki shirt. It Is be lleved that lie had roomed at some local rooming house, but which one It is not known. The only Information Lightfoot gave about himself was that he was from Weed, and that his father's home was at Helm, Ore., to whom police Bent word of what had happened. Miss Maxey was questioned this forenoon by Allison Moulton, assistant district attorney, tor information in connection with the cone, but what was learned is not known. serve six ye.s for assault with In tent to kill, and has served half his time. Out of coaylderatlon for Hall's voluntary return, Warden Dalrymple snid he would be allowed to continue as a trusty. Hall said he went as far as Sherwood. Washington coaaity. and read the account of his escape In Portland newspapers yesterday. MAN STABBED IN M OVER GIRI CINDERELLA SORRY SHE LEFT HOME Jewels and Laces Do Not Make Up for Troubles As Ward of Millionaire Denies Engagement to Plumber's Helper Another Cinderella Entertained By Browning. MOW VOIIK, Aug. 7 (A. P.) Mrs. Anna St. John of Hye. X. V., foster molher of llorolhy Sunshine Browning, adopted six years ago by Kdward W. Browning:, wealthy real estate oiicralor, today took steps looking lo the cancellation of the adoption. It was with the announced object 'of providing n companion for Dorothy, who is 9 years- old, that Browning recently adopted Mary Ijoulrto Spas, daughter of Immigrant Bohemian parents. This adoption has since, been made the subject nf Inquiry by the bourd of public wel fare. Mrs. St. John today appealed to Bird S. Color, head of tlie bureau, to take steps to Insure tho retnrn to her of her daughter. -NBW OnR.-'AuKr T. ( A. P.) The story of a-year-old Sylvia Mullen that Edward W.. Browning, wealthy realtor, had promised to adopt her, was denied by Browning today. He also denied the girl's account of a party lust night with him and his newly adopted daughter, Mary lionise. "There was no party last night, Drowning eald. "I retired early and the last time I saw the Mullen girl was in my office yesterday." . Sylvia, a blue-eyed girl with flaxen bobbed huir. who disappeared from her home yesterday morning, returned in the small hours today. She ex plained her long absence by Baying that she had been the guest of Mr. Browning and Mary Louise at a party and then, with flushed cheeks and sparkling eyes, announced that Daddy ' Browning had promised to adopt her within two weeks. "Mr. Browning made me very happy," said Sylvia. "He said that in just two weeks he is going to adopt me. Then I, toq, will be a sure enough Cinderella. . "Oh, I want a real education so much, and I so want to study music. "Mother couldn't cam enough to give me these things, and I had given Hp hopes when Mr. Drowning told me I was to be Sylvia Browning. Doesn't that sound grand?" Mrs. Mullen told reporters that the millionaire had already entered Into negotiations with her for the adoption of her daughter. Sylvia's father died when she was a baby and her mother, she says, has had to work hard for a living. There is a 17-year-old brother, who is working In Atlantic City. While Sylvia was on her party the authorities wore threatening prosecu tion of Mr. Browning ontl Mary Louise's parents under the law which prohibits barter and sale of children. Mr. Browning frankly admitted giv ing each of Mary's parents 1500 after the formal adoption as a "surprise present" and to express his good will toward them. . B. R. Color, commissioner of public welfare, branded the adoption as highly unmoral and as a merchandise transaction. He said he would confer with District Attorney N'ewcomb of Queens county and Investigate all the details. . , Commissioner Color sold he had re ceived protests from citizens against the adoption. Mr. Browning obtained a divorce In Paris last year, his wife keeping one foster-daughter and he the other. Dorothy Sunshine. His attorney said It was Dorothy's longing for a play mate that led, tho millionaire to adopt Mary. The fact that school board records show Mary to be 21 years old Instead of 16 as sho claimed, did not worry either Mr. Color or Browning. The former held tha law against selling and buying children applies to all ages. The Society for tb,e Prevention of i rueity to i iiunren, Muperintenneni Vincent Pissaro said, would ac.P If Im proper guardianship was shown. , Mary Louise, driven to tears despite the luxuries she has enlnved for lust two days, frantically denietr one rumor after another aboiit her past life and parents. She especially denied stories that aha had been engaged to several men, one a plumber's helper and an other a dentist. "I would rather be the poorest girl In New Wrk than go through all this." she nobbed. "Yes. If I had known that this was going to happen t would have starved to (Continued on Pag Big) . Stvedish Favorite Snubs U. S.- Popularity of Kann Gardtman. "lifjlit opera queen" pf Sweden, with American tourists, has caused her to receive offers from Broad way producers, but she refuses to desert Stockholm, where she r the reigning favorite. E TO THE PENDLETON, Aug. 7 (A. P.) -W, L. "Young" Sti-lbling and his-entourage passed through Pendleton this morning enroute to Portland and Cal ifornia points. The famoitH Cleorgia school hoy boxer was accompanied by Pa, Mu and Babe Strihllng. The party Is traveling In a huge motor van known as "Young Stribling's mobile SPITE OF PLEA Sheriff Fails in Effort to Save Life of Colored Prisoner When Mob of 500 at Ex celsior Springs Attacks Jail Girl Unharmed- KXCKLSIOK SrWN'O.S. Mo.. Apk. 7 (A. P.) .Miller Mllihell. hold In Jail here for an aliened assault last night on a while Kirl was lynched by n mob of about dOu persons here lute tuduy. The mob took Mitt-hell from the J.-iil to a ravine about a quarter of a mile from town, where be was hanged to a tree. Two unsuccessful efforts were made by authorities to remove the nearo to an adjoining county but each time the mob forced the officers back into tne Jail. The mob smashed the Jail door with a sledgehammer when they gained entrance to the city hull thru the door of the fire department headquarters which hnd been opened on u false alarm. They carried the negro nway from the building and then let him down lo his feet and forced him to march down Kansas City avenue pnst the fnshinnuhle Kims hotel, , On the way a member of the mob procured u rope and It was tossed over the victim's head before the crowd arrived at on ouk tree, Its des tination. The tree stands near a railroad track and the crowd, swelling over the tracks forced a passenger train to stop. The passengers witnessed the lynching. Following the h.mghf the mob dispersed. 4 - KANSAS CITT, Mo., ug. 7 (A. P.) Thirty-seven policemen armed with riot guns were dispatched here today for Kxcelslor Springs. whre a man aclng crowd was reported to have Kuthered ouikI.W t he jail in which AMI- (Continued on page alx.) NEGRO LYNCHED FOR ASSAULT "PA" E RIVER VALLEY bungalow" and a roadster. Accord ing to - Pa Strihllng, the Georgia school boy will have two fights in California, one in Oakland nbout Au gust 3 2, and one later In Los Angelos, Pa Strihllng, the young fighter's man ager, was uncertain as to the Identity of the opponents to be selected, hut appurently, did not care much who ( they were. . , Hill Lines Give in Detail Pro: gram . of Construction to Klamath Falls Ready to Start Work Next Year New Financing Unnecessary . ' HAL KM, Aug. 7. Transportation conditions in central and southern Oregon, from the point of view of the Oregon Trunk railway, and which are the basis of itn uppllcadon to tho lu temtate commerce commission for a certificate of public convenlenco and necessity for the extension of lis sys tem from Bend Into Klamath county, are set out in tho Oregon Trunk's an swer to u questionnaire by the Inter state commerce commission. A copy of the company's replies to lhe ques tionnaire has been received by the Oregon public service commission. The questionnaire- states that nil kinds of transportation will be car ried by the line, and thnt while it Is not yet possible to state where sta tions will be located It Is likely that stations will be established a La Pino, Crescent, Skookum, Realty, llouuiiMi, Olene and Klamath Falls, Service Is On I lined In a note unpenned to the answer tho Oregon Trunk withdrawn Its appli cation as to the Hue from the so-called Junction point Bfi miles oouth of Hend southerly to and along the upper Klamath Lake to Klamath Fulls. It has been decided that construction of the line to Klamath Kails von the east erly route will sufficiently serve the public convenience and tiecesslty. In reply to a question as to what common carrier service the above named places have already, the an swer slates; that Hkoolyim has the Southern Pacific, that Olene has the Oregon. California and Kastcrn, that Klamath Kails has the Oregon, Cali fornia and (Eastern and the Southern Pacific, while La Pine, Crescent. Ileatty and Itonanzi hove no common (Continued on page six.) OREGON TRUNK OUTLINES PLANS FOR EXTENSION Bend Votes $600,000 for New Supply of . City Drinking Water BUND. Ore., Aug. 7. Ily o ma- Jorlty of 120 votes tho citizens of Bend yesterday voted for the f tiOO.OOO Tumulo water project, In an effort to better tho drinking water of the city. The election r polled more thun 1(100 votes, con I sldered a large total for the city, the population of which Is csti- muted at K000. FATHER SLAIN BY ONLY SON MOM SHOT 17 Year Old Boy Admits He Killed Parent- M. E. Minis ter of Iowa Town Over study Given As Cause First Denied Crime. - PARKERSBURCJ. Iowa, Aug. 7 (A. P.) Warren Vnndcrvoor', 17, today confessed he shot and killed his father, Rev. R. J. Vandervoort, Meth odist Episcopal , minister, here last nighty Jojnea . Mltchellthe Paxkers burg marshal announced today. - -The youth also admiltedvthe murshal said, that he shot and wounded his mother when she uppeured In the doorway of tho pastor'H room, apparently to In vestigate the shot that killed her hus band. Then bo followed her Into the bedroom and shot here- again. The bny gave no explanation for the shooting. A coroner's Inquest Is be ing held, Mrs. Vnndervoort's only words since she was found at 2:30 in the bed to which she had dragged herself after the shooting, which took place in the hallway, several feet away, have been n moaned "Warren, he did It; he did It." Young Vandervoort was taken into custody at Reinbeck. iowa. about z o'clock In the morning, after a -Rein-berk physician had found him In the Vnndervoort automobile, which - had gone off the slippery hlghwny, about two miles from town. The hoy told the physician, "some one" had shot his purents. and thnt the murderer then had forced him to take the fam ily car and help the killer escape. The physician immediately upon reaching Reinbeck culled the Parkers burg marshal, James Mitchell, and ro tated the - lad's story. Mitchell, ac companied by James Spain, mayor, went to the Vnndervoort resldonco and found tho body of the minister lying In the hallway before his bed room and the mother upon the bed. 1 Residents nf the community said they believed the boy had given top much time to study last year and to have added to the strnin during the summer by preparation rov college. Appearances of the man's body and the bloodstains about the hull and bedroom floor Indicated to the of ficers that Rev. Mr. Vandervoort had been aroused, donned his bathrobe, and stepped Into the hall, being shot as he came through the door. The wound caused hy the bullet from a .2'i calibre rifle was In the right eye. Mrs. Vandervoort wus shot above the right temple and in the cheek, apparently as she went to her hus band's side. ' Kmpty cartridges were scattered on the floor, but the rifle Is missing. Of ficers learned this morning young Vandervoort hod bought the rifle at a harclwure shop, about G o'clock on , Thursday ofternoon. ' Reconstructing the tragedy from the Appearance of lhe place, officers believe the bny shut his parents from . the nead ot tne stairway wnicn euun Just opposite the bedroom door. Warren Is the only child. The family has been noted for the devo tion of Its members to one another. : and the last few months has been given by nil three tn pluns for. the itjmttiiiuMri on Pag Rial PHILADELPHIA REFUSES TO ALLOW KU KlUX CELEBRATION, 1926 EXPOSITION PHlI.ADKf.PHIA. Aug. 7. (A. P.) rA vqueet from the Ku Klux Klan to set aside three days during the 8eUl-Cent0nnia! exposition here next year as "Klan days" was rofusea ytaterday by the executive commit tee of the exposition. In declining to. reorganise the klan aa an order at the Independence celebration, ICr neat T. Trigg, vice-president of tha POLICE GET PHONE IIP ON MURDER Unknown Person Tells Police to Find Out Where Theodore White Is Hints Man Mur dered By Schwartz To Search Oregon Boat for Missing Chemist. MARTINEZ, Cal., Aug. 7. (A. P.) An anonymous telephone call to the police authorities today advised them "If you will find out what has become of Theodore White, forrtierly of Fresno, you will know who the dead man in the Pacific Cellulose labora tory mystery Is." A street address given by the In- tormont In Berkeley, Cal., was visited and no one was found who professed to know cither White or anything about a telephone call. The man who telephoned Bald that White had an appointment with Charles Henry Schwartz, chemlBt of the company for ' whom the police are looking, despite clulms of the wife that ha perished in an explosion in the cellulose labor- " atory a week ago yesterday, H hours before the time of the explosion. He said that White until a few weeks ago was employed as a chemist, by "some scientific ice cream company" of Fresno anil had been forced to find . some other employment when that company ceased business.' " v - - White's address is desired by the state Industrial accident department Tor some reason unknown to the anony mous telephoner, he Bald, and he con; eluded his conversation with the ' words, "I'll let you know more later," Search Vessel at West port , To check the theory that Schwartz may have stowed away on the freighter Nordic, which sailed a day or two ago for Portland, enroute to aweden, this vessel will be searched at Westport, Ore., late today, local officials stated. Today, as a week ago, new clues and new evidence were brought to light and were destined to lead to the result an abrupt ending neither in dicating the whereabouts of the miss ing chemist or the Identification ot the burned corpse which will reat in the San Francisco morgue. - Standing In the foreground of every avenue of Investigation is the phantom figure of Schwartz, a German chemist who studied at Heidelberg. In this country community he was the centrul figure In a corporation which depended upon li 1 in to perfect a process for the manufacture of artificial silk. As a hobby he dabbled In a study of "the perfect crime," and although a man of family, he was recently made defend ant. in a $76,000 breach of promise suit riled by an Oakland girl. Wife Still Firm. Toilny his wife, his family physician and' intlmato frlendB insist that he wus blown to bits while experimenting In his laboratory. The official view point is represented hy a complaint charging Schwnrtz with the murder of an unidentified person, killed In the explosion. In rewards posted for hl8sapprehenslon. and In an appeal tn Governor Richardson to Increase tho price on Schwarts's head. Koch bit of Information has been minutely Investigated and several n:en hove been given the role as the victim, but the supposed dead man has re appeared or It was discovered that he did not fit into the part. Other clues are still In hand, however, which mav lead to the apprehension of Schwann or the Identification of the body, but virtually all evidence Is fragmentary. An unidentified letter found near the hotly, which Is the latest clue that mny lead to the Identification ot the victim, was made public last night. This also Is of a mysterious nature. The letter contains no signature. It is dated "In the big trees, Santa Crur, May 24, 1925." and begins "Dear friends " ft was written by a man, handwriting experts say, between Ho ond 40 years old, and deals with reli gion, encouraging Its recipient "In fOnnrlnlied on Page Hit: I exposition, wrote Paul M. Winter, locnl field representative of the klan: . "It would be neither good builaess nor good policy to authorise special days which, for any reason, good or bad, mlKht lead to misunderstanding or prejudice, and accordingly, al though tha necessity Is regretted, your request cannot be allowed."
