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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."