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MEDFORD, OREGON, 'FRIDAY. OCTOBER 1(, in'25
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GUILTY IN
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Leader of Prison Break to
Hang for Murder of John
Sweeney Loses Wager
to Deputy Warden Trial of
Willos and Kelly Is Now
Under Way
SALEM, Ore., Oct. 10. Tom Murray,
leader of the convict trio who shot
their way out of the Oregon peniten
tiary on the 'evening of August 12,
and a veteran of three prison terma
in the pust five years, must hang for
the murder of John Sweeney, one of
the two guards killed in the recent
break.
Tiie case against Murray for I lie
murder of Sweeney went to the jury
at S:64 o'clock yesterday afternoon.
At 8:45 o'clock last night, less than
five hours later, the jury sent out
word that it was ready to report.
Nearly half an hour was required to
bring Murray from the prison to the
courtroom and to gather the attorneys
and court attaches.
Except for a slight nervousness
evidenced by the manner in which he
rubbed his hands together as he sat
in his chair, Murray was as cool as
at any time during the trial. He sat
with his eyes downcast during the
reading of the verdict, biting his lips,
then turned to Will R. King, his at
torney, and smiled.
As the jurors filed out .of the court
room Murray rose. Deputy Warden
Lillie and two guards from the prison
stepped to his side with handcuffs.
He placed his cap on his head and
extended his hands, saying:
"I guess they won't arrest me for
putting my hut on in' court."
In the afternoon ns the jury filed
out to coiiHldev. Iita -cube, -ilurray
offered to wager the deputy warden
that he would not hang. -
Judge King announced last night
that an appeal would be filed.
This morning the trial of James
Willos and Ellsworth Kelley, com
panions of Murray In the break, also
on charges of killing Guard Sweeney,
was progressing In the circuit court
and tiie attorneys were busy selecting
the jury which Is to try them jointly.
SALKM. Ore., Oct 1(1. With eleven
jurors passed for cause in the murder
trial of Ellsworth Kelley and James
Willos, who were participants in the
state prison escape of August 12 last,
and who with Tom Murray were in
dicted for murder in the first degree
for; the killing of Guard John Sweeney,
the panel was exhausted just before
noon today and court adjourned until
tomorrow morning. A special venire
of 20 jurors was ordered by the court.
The defense has five peremptory
challenges remaining and the stnte
three. Hy stipulation between at
torneys for the state and the defense
all members of the jury that sat in
the Murray trial were excused from
the Kelley-WIUos case because of the
length of the previous case.
Wall Street Report
NEW YORK, Oct. 16. (A. P.)
Speculation in motor atocks fanned to
fever heat by reports of record break
ing sales, prospects of special dividend
developments and rumors of open
market buying for control broke
forth with unpreredented fury In to
day's stock market in gains in popu
lar issues running from 1 Mi to 11
points. Total stock. Bales approximat
ed two , and three-quarter million
shares, making it the most active
session since Deremher, 1 H 1 8, when
sales crossed three million shares.
NEW YORK, Oct. 16. (A. P.)
Professional traders acting on the
theory of the stability of the stock
market had been undermined by the
recent rapid advance in prices, poured
an avalanche of selling orders on the
floor nf the exchango around mid day
after prices of many stocks had been
marked up one to 13 points above last
night's closing quotations.
The market tottered for a while
under the weight of this selling, but
soon recovered Its equilibrium and
swept forward again on another wild
wave of bullish enthusiasm.
1 ST DEGRE
PICE OP WALES RETURNS HOME
)NDON. Oct. 16. (A. P.) London
gave the Prince of Wales the most
Affectionate welcome of all his home
comings this afternoon whefr he re
turned from his 25.000 mile voyage to
South Africa and South America. He
was greeted at the Victoria station by
the king and queen, other memhoffl
of the royal family and tWnisandnf
spectators.
The prince stepped from the train
which brought lilra from Portsmouth,
8 Ostriches Dead
As Result of Truck
. Ride in California
rrtKRXO, Oct. 10. Trans
porting ostriches by nulomobile
truck Is a costly enterprise.
Eight dead ostriches valued nt
$fiOU a pair were turned over to
the pound master here after
succumbing to the rigors of the
trip from Los Angeles to Fresno.
The twelve survivors of the
original shipment of twenty
r proceeded toward San Fi'anoi.soo
4 where they are to be exhibited.
Baseball Experts Claim Tide
Turned When Veteran First
Sacker Took Field in Fifth
Game Put Will to Win in
Pittsburg Team
PITTSBURG, Oct. 16. (A. P.) A
star of the bygone years came to
hover over Pittsburg In its hour of
'greatest darkness and by its brilliance
drew about It several little planets
which for a time had been obscured
by baseball's great smoke.
Rain and fog were dispelled by the
illumination of the great constella
tion. For the Pirates of Pittsburg today
are champions of the world once
ngain after 10 long years and all of
them are stars of magnitude, with the
central planet carrying the grand old
name ot Mclnnis.
Great figurea were many in the
Pirates' epoch-making drive that cut
down the mighty Walter Johnson at
the last. Klki Cuyler's double won
STUFFY WMMMI S
the deciding game after K renter's re
lief hurling saved It, hut the greatest
guiding influence of all was that of
the old first baseman of the old Ath
letles, the teammate of Jack Barry.
Eddie Collins and Frank Baker, a
man who' had played behind the
superb Jack Coombs, the peerless
Chief Bender and ' the remarkable
Eddie Think. In the fifth game. Jack
McKechnie. Pirate chieftain turned to
Mclnnis and sent him out on the field
before a hostile throng In Washing
ton to claim the title which was fast
slipping from his grasp. Washington
had won three games and Pittsburg
one.
When Mrlnnis went out to first
base he took confidence with him.
From then on the Pirate team was
reformed. The old head, stationed at
the first corner of that youthful In
field, worked marvels. When trouble
threatened there came the firm words
'of Mclnnis across the field of ploy.
(When a moundsman faltered, the
i first baseman was at his side, urging
him on. Stuffy can not be considered
the hero of Pittsburg's victory, but he
was the pawn that checked.
Heavy Fog, Pngot Sound,
BEIjUNOHAM, Wash., Oct. 1(1.
j Shipping was delayed on account of
the lag that has prevailed for three
I days here.
wearing the uniform of the Welsh
guards. After shaking hands with the
kir.c. the young heir apparent bent
low over the queen's hand. Then
dropping all formal salutations, he
placed an arm about his mother and
kissed her affectionately on bothJ
rhfk W V
His sister. Prints Mary, and his
new sister in law, the Duchess of
York, were the next to greet the hump
coming "ambassador of the empire."
sniffy minis
GIVEN HONOR OF
PIRATESVICTOfiy
l
AN A
CAPTURED BY
Chekiang
10,000
Commander, With
Troops, Takes Chi
nese Gateway Without
Firing a Shot Defense
Units Rushed to Protect
Foreigners
SHANGHAI, Oct. 16. (A. P.)
Shanghai, gateway port of China, fell
into the hands of a new military ruler
today. General Sun Chuan-Fang, the
Chekiang commander. Without fir
ing a single shot 10,000 of his troops
took possession of the city while
15.000 troops of General Chen Tso
Lin, who have held the city for many
months, withdrew toward central
China.
More than eighty Chinese sentenced
to death were turned over to foreign
authorities by General Sheng Chi
Lien, the retiring commander, who
was unable to execute the offenders
after sentences had been Imposed by
mixed courts.
The change of military rulers in
Shanghai was not without disorder,
however. A train on the Shanghai
Nanking railway on which Silas H.
Straw n of Chicago, American delegate
to the Chinese customs conference at
Peking, was riding was seized by Chi
nese soldiers. Mr. Strawn, his daugh
ter and Mahlon F. Perkins, technical
expert of the state department, were
forced to return to Shanghai before
they were allowed to proceed on their
Journey.
Authorities at the international
settlements here today started adopt
ing precautionary measures. AH de
fense units were ordered to stand by
and barricades of barbed wire were
erected about ; -the settlement boun
daries.' ' ' ' -
While Shanghai Is the center of a
maelstrom of militarist activity it ap
peared evident tonight that any real
warfare would be fairly remote.
Late messages tonight reported
that Fengtlenese troops were contin
uing their retreat beyond Soochow
where the railway line meets the
Grand canal. It apparently was their
purpose to establish, n defense line no
closer- to Shanghai than Wusih, 80
miles away.
The retreating troops were report
ed blowing up bridges and tearing up
rails to Impede the following Cheki
ang forces. The retreat also was said
to he accompanied by considerable
looting. Traffic between populated
centers was wholly suspended, due to
the troop movements.
Mr. Strawn and his party arrived
in Nanking safely and intended to de
part for Peking tonight, taking the
train nt Pukow, across the river from
the Ktngsu capital. .......
The foreign settlements here were
tranquil tonight.
DAYTON, Ohio. Oct. 18. (A. P.)
Three filers killed today in the acci
dent at New Salem, Pa., were partial
ly Identified by- Wilbur Wright, field
officer as Lieutenant George H.
Burgess of that field and Maurice
Mutton and Verne Timmermnn of the
Dayton Herald, staff. The three had
piloted the "Honeymoon Express" to
the air races at New York.
The. ."Honeymoon Express" wna
built (luring the World war and was
said to have been condemned several
limes. It whs one of the obsolete
types hit by Colonel William Mitchell
In his toHtimony before the aircraft
investigation board.
NEW SALEM, Pa., Oct. 10. (A.
I.) Three men met death late today
when an army airplane crushed on u
farm near here.
According to eye-witnesses the
plane while passing over the Buffing
ton farm . exploded and crashed,
catching fire before It struck the
ground. The three occupants were
burned fatally before they could be
taken from the blazing muss of
wreckage.
Clothes worn by the victims, were
burned from the bodies and It whs
impossible to ascertain If they had
been dressed in army uniforms. He
ports here were that the plane was
from Washington.
A ca rd, pa rtly burned and recov
ered from ne of the bodies, ri
talnrd the name of Maurice Hutton,
Dayton, Ohio, . A camera, the kind
used by newspapermen was found In
the wreckage.
According to Ao who wltnwed
the crash, the Ill-fated plane cfme
Into sight, flying nad of a second
plane. The latter ship disappeared
flying west, ns the first plane came
down.
N
UN
3 DIE WHEN AIR
PLANE CRASHES,
PENNSYLVANIA
Reel Beauty in
, Divorced from Tom Moore, film leading man, Renee Adores
(above), screen heroine, is acquiring a new husband, Douglas
Gilmorc, also of the movies.
CIVIL ENGINEER MISSING SINCE LAST
JULY FOUND
PITTSBURO.Pn., Oct. K. (A. P.),of berries and herbs, but. did not
Thal 'the happluess'of children ' should . thrown any" light bit where". -he had
t. . . fiA ..iu ,.. i.i,. I been prior to entering , tho cave. .
anee seemed to be the thought upper- seim.n of nnisiroomBi wno waH at , ur j, pt Reddy, on the stand for
most in the mind of Paul Blose, 40, tract ed to the cave by moans, Blose, the applicant, stated that there is tre
rivll engineer mysteriously missing j unable to talk, was In a very weak- mondous ore tonnage at Copper and
since last July and found in a cave ened condition and unable to stand, the Blue Ijedge that sooner or later
near Pittsburg yesterday when he ne was huddled In a corner of the will have to come out by rail, and that,
regained consciousness In a hospital Cave and his body was almost do--there Is, according to United States
hours after having been admitted. void of clothing, an old sack being ' government reports. Il.OOO.OOQ feet of
His first words were of the roll-
dren, then he told hospital attaches
thut he had wandered Into the cave
a week ago and had existed on a diet
Ghastly Find Made Today on
Highway Near The Dalles
Police Believe Youth Shot
Girl and Then Killed Himself
THK DALLKS, Ore.. Oct. 16. (A.
P.) Harold Steel, 26, and Miss Cressa
Crane, IT, wort found shot to death
in an automobile on a rond In a re
mote district on Benson hill.1 four
miles south of The Dalles today.
Coroner C. M. Zell, who brought the
bodies to this city expressed the opin
ion that Steel had shot the girl and
killed himself.
The hurtles were found by Paul
Lemke who drove past the parked
car and saw the two seated side hy
side. He went on, paying no further
attention at the time, but when he
passed later on his return and xnw
the young man and gfrMn Identically
the same positions he investigated
and found them dend.
Steel bad been employed at The
Dalles by the Creat Southern railway.
H e drew h Is pa y y est erd a y , mm y I n g
that he was going to be married. Miss
Crane was a student nurse at Hamil
ton hospital at The Dalles.
A note found in her pocket, stating
"please notify Hamilton hospital,"
caused authorities to believe that she
had been anticipating trouble of some
kind. The girl was shot In the temple
and the youth had a bullet In his
head.
Officials reported this afternoon
they had learned that Steel and Miss
Crane had been engaged to be mar
ried but that her father had object
ed. Yesterday while at the home of
Mrs. C J. Westfall. at Friend, the
couple had n quarrel, but later they
made up ami went together to The
Dalles. They started yesterday after
noon to return to Friend.
Florida Papers Please Copy. '
HARTFORD, Conn. Half a billion
dollars worth nf earthquake Insurance
has been sold In California in the last
month. State Insurance Commissioner
l)unim aunounces.
BOY AND NURSE
FOUND DEAD IN
CAR NEAR DALLES
Real Romance
Central i'r;.. I'hotoi
NEAR DEATH IN CAVE
1 -When discovered hv n man In
his only covering. His hair was
long and his heard shaggy nnd mat
ted. Ills condition Is critical, due to
I exposure.
DISEASE ALSO
w t k n . h
UOCtOrS DeClde Decayed FOOd
Il0t DangerOUS King
Rflnrfip' nnrffir Prpcrrihp
ueurges uocior rrescnues
Theatre and Golf for People
With 'Weak Hearts'
ST. PAUL, Oct. 10. (A. r.) Ptn
mnine poisoning Is only a myth. Nu
merous authorities were quoted o
PTOMAINE ONLY
A MYTH; HEART
prove this contention by Br. Milton of Foots creek; that this timber was
J. Hosenau. professor of preventive ready for the market privately . own-
., ' , , , ed, and thnt a rallrond would be the
medicine, Harvard university.. vetev -eieKl wnv tn brng u out.
dny, before the Interstate post gradu-l r're(i J. Flclc a merchant nnd tlm-
ate assembly of America which closed beruian of Jacksonville, said that it
Ub unnunl session here toiluy. wns not profitable to haul Uws and
1'tomalne wns thought to be a lumber by truck from Applegate valley
degenerate product of protein foods, and these sections, where this rail
hut five yenrs experimentation has read with an extonslon of seven or
proven proteins can not yield any- eight miles would tap the timber, and
thing which gives the ptomaine that it would be more doBireble nnd
symptoms, Dr. Hosenau suited. profitable to manufacture this timber
These are duo, he said, to Infected, In Medford or Jacksonville along this
not decayed food, but this Infection railroad. He also said that there was
cannot be deterred. Tho sickness great convenience and necessity for
takes the form of piiln, vomiting and the preservation of this line and thnt
diarrohrn and Is seldom .fatal, more sentiment was In favor of It.
so ,now than in the pnst when food
was not so carefully handled, tirr,
Hosenau said.
Mlet. he considers. Is the single
most Important fnctor in health.
l,ord Dawson, personal physician
to King Oeorge, lidded to the list of
shattered medical myths by prescrib
ing for heart disease a quiet day in
lied, followed by an evening at trie
theater, with an easy round of golf
on the following dny. Ilenrt mus
cles, according tn l,ord Dnwson, are
better for exercise ns well as rest,
especially in younger patients.
To the average Individual, IiOrd
Dawson stated.
heart disease means,
down In his subconsciousness, sudden
death." The heart, however, Iord
Dawson pointed out, has a flexibility
of snfety morgln not of B0 per fent,
but of 600 ot 700 per cent. All that
is necessary. Lord Dawson said, Is
care III the use of tea and coffee and
In exercising. ...
Charge Attempts to
Tamper With Jury,
Klan Goblin Case
NOBLERVU.LE. Ind., Oct, 10.
(A, P.) Veiled Insinuations of
efforts to approach men who
4 might serve on the jury which fr
will try D. C. Stephenson, ex-
klan goblin, and tho two body-
guards, for murder of Madge
Oberholtzer of Indianapolis, are
4 enlivening the slow, process of
4 obtaining a jury In Hamilton 4
county circuit court.
This wan the fifth day of the
attempt to fill the Jury box. 4
4
PLEADS FOR THE
FXIENSION OF
i'VULE RAIL R.
Witnesses Before P. S. C. at
City Hall Declare Barnum
Road Should Be Retained
and Extended to Copper and
Timber Districts
An all day hearing was held before
the public service commission yester
day In the Med ford city hall on W. S.
Harnum's application to be allowed to
tear up the rails of the Jacksonville!
Medford railroad, which concluded
last evening. The mutter was taken
uuder advisement by the commission,
whose decision Is expected within two
weeks.
A number of witnesses on each side
of the controversy were examined.
W, S. Barnum, owner of the erst
while carrier, stated that the railroad
at present, If prorated, would not pay
expenses, aud that he was too old to
! extend the road Into the timber on the
AnnleiratR WAtnrsheil
' Pine, and fir ready lor cutting, to reach
which this line nuiHt be extended.
The wltneud also stated that Grants
Pass had built, constructed and Is
maintaining a line at an Investment
of a qunrter of million dollars or
more; that the railroad lines are
fighting to reach 40,000,000.000 feet In
the Klamath basin at a cost of two or
three hundred million dollars, and that
It would seem logical that the people
of Jackson county, and especially
Medford and Jacksonville, ought to be
ready and willing to preserve the Med
ford and Jacksonville line for three
billion feet or timber and hundreds of
thousands of tons of rich ore, for ten
or twelve thousand dollars.
The protratantn, through J. B.
Coleman, county nsscsHor, showed
the vast amount of privately owned
timber In the Mule Applegate and
niiuiiw limn wmcimiDun mm i-vum
he reached hy an extension of the
I Jncksonvillc-Mcflford road to nuch.
where It would tap a great body of
(timber on Forest creek.
Mayor Wilbur Cameron of Jack-
vlUe t0Bfled tnnt pub,ie ,,,,.
' man( ivn. In fnvnr nt nrPNftrvlnir this
rallrond and thnt It is of great con
venience nnd necessity, ns transpor
tation for timber and product of
Applcgnte vnlley.
.1. W. Opp declared It would only
require n short extension of the rail
rood to reach a heavy body of pine,
and fine timber In the divide he.
tween Forest creek nnd nt the heed
fContlnuert nn psge
PAHIS, Oct. 16. (A. P.) Dome
Fashion's latest vagary has been to
wt nil the women in wearlnir snec-
i --.. im,- nreitv eves of the 1S26
.ari8ienne Rro no weaker than those
of 1024 hut the celluloid frames of
the eye glasses, made In many vari
eties of colors aro novel and chick
when they mntch her dress.
A Paris optician in the Rue Rlvoll
Who advertises himself ns an "Amer-
Icon optician," displays In his win
,
DAME FASlON DECREES STYLISH
UN MUSI WEAR SPECTACLES
i
MANIAC IS
HOLDING 61
IN THE HILLS
Beauty Parlor Girl From
Eureka, Missing Since Mur
der at Fortuna, Is Reported
Prisoner of Crazy Home
steader Near California Line
Posses on Trail
RURKKA, Col.. Oct 16. (A. P.)
Carmen Wagner, 18 year old beauty
parlor operator of Ferndale, who has
been missing since Sunday, Is the
prisoner of a demented homesteader
near Shower's Pass, sixty miles north
east of here. A posse of twenty men
has surrounded the district and plans
to close in on the couple this after
noon. This Information was brought here
today hy Deputy Sheriff Clyde Handle
who returned from the :Shower's Pass
region.
The Wagner girl and an unidenti
fied man have been sought since the
discovery Sunday of the body of
Henry Sweet, shot to death beside his
automobile in a wild section of the
Humboldt mountain country. Sweet
and Miss Wagner were on a hunting
trip with the other man.
Karly in the search the theory was
advanced that Sweet was shot and
killed hy this man who then abducted
Miss Wagner.
Deputy Handle made a hurried trip
to Eureka today for food and ammu
nition and was to return immediately
to the Shower's Pass section Avith re
inforcemenis to capture Miss Wag
ner's supposed abductor and to rescue
the girl. '
Handle said he had not seen the
couple, but had authentic information
that Miss Wagner was being held cap
tive by the demented homesteader.
I'UTRISKA, Cah, Oct; 16. Leland
(my mil, iminoiur tuuviivr,' wan - quw
tloned hy the Humboldt .county dis
trict attorney before a coroner's jury
'at Kortuna last night Investigating
the death of Henry Sweet who was
found dead with a bullet In his hack
after he had left on n hunting trip
with Miss Carmen Wagner, 18, n
.beauty parlor proprietor. Miss Wag
ner dropped from sight after the kill
ling and a seurch Is now being con-
uiH'it'u ior hit,
The pointed questions put to
Bryant by the district attorney last
night were significant. He brought .
Bryant before the Jury and a brother
of Miss Wagner and asked In rather j
dramatic fashion:
"Mr. Bryant, can you look these
people squarely in the eye and say
you do not know where Miss Wagner
Is, or who it was killed Henry'
Sweet?" snapped the district attorney.
"Yes," Bryant answered calmly.
"Your conscience Is perfectly
clear?" again asked the Interrogator."
"Clear as a bell," answered Bryant.
Bryant was not detained.
Wire Report on
the Pear Market
NEW YORK, Oct. 16. (U. 8. Bu
renu of Markets.) Heventeen cars of
California pears; 3 New York; 7 Ore
gon; 0 Washington; 1 New York by
boat. Market steady on California1
fruit and strong on northwestern
fruit, Oregon hose, four cars, extras
14 to 6.25; nvernge $4.68, fancy $3.90
to 6. or,; average 34.53. Anjotis two
cars fnucy $3.60 to 4.45; average
Daily Report on
the Crime Wave
I MILWAUKEE, Wis.. Oct. 16. (A.
P.) The first arrest In the hunt for
the slayer of Mndalynne Latimer, 19-year-old
Milwaukee girl, and her
fiance, James Sears, Kenosha, whose
bodies were found In a field near
Kenosha early yesterday, was made
at midnight Inst night when Milwau
kee and Kenosha deputies took How
ard J. Pratt or Milwaukee Into cus-
, tody. The deputies said they thought.
I Pratt could throw some light on the
case.
dows a large tray filled with celluloid
frames In mauve, green, beige, blue,
rose and, In fact almost any concelv
able hue that might be required to
harmonise with mademoiselle's suit
or frock.
"1 sell nhout 100 pairs of spectacles
with plain glasses, through which
anyone can see, every day," said the
optician. "The correct thing is to
have the frames made In colors to
match tho dress."