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Witness Changes Story
The trial of T. J. Morrison, indict
ed by the Carroll county grand jury
for the murder of Deputy Marshal
John F. Conway on the night of
May 21, is scheduled to begin this
week, before Judge E. O. Albert.
It is known that John Berg of
Forest City, who appeared as one of
Morrison’s "alibi witnesses” during
the primary hearing has changed
his mind as to Morrison's where
abouts the day the muYder was com
mitted. Berg swore at the prelim
inary hearing that he was with Mor
rison in Sibley, lowa, on the day of
the murder and that they played
poker together in that city.
Berg, who was in Carroll a few
days ago to appear before the grand
jury, admitted outside the jury room
to one of the prosecuting attorneys
that he knew nothing of Morrison’s
whereabouts the day Marshal Con
way was killed, but that he had tes
tified falsely at the preliminary
hearing at the request of Morrison’s
counsel.
It is asumed that Berg corrected
his previous testimony when he ap
peared before the grand jury, and at
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LATTER PART OF NOVEMBER
any rate he appears to have been
eliminated as a witness in the case.
Boys in Jail at Adel
The life of a bandit is exciting
and sometimes pays big—but it has
its drawbacks. Two Carroll county
boys who are now in jail at Adel
can testify to this fact, as a prison
or reformatory sentence stares them
in the face.
The boys are Howard DeWiess
and Carter Harrison, both of whom
live at Glidden, where it is said,
their relatives are highly respected
people. The lads are about 17 years
old and are members of the Glidden
high school. They left home Satur
day on Sunday in a Ford coupe, In
tending, th?y said, to drive to Des
Moines. Whether they reached the
capltol city or not is unknown, but
they were exceedingly active at oth
er places.
Monday afternoon the boys were
arrested at Redfield, charged with
breaking and entering a number of
farm homes in that vicinity. At
first they stoutly denied their guilt
but the officers secured enough evi
dence against them to warrant their
arrest several times over. Four or
five farm houses were entered south
and southwest of Redfield and from
each place they stole something. In
the collection secured by the officers
were four or five watches, two cam
eras, a number of flashlights, some
old coins, fountain pens and nu
merous other trinkets and keep-
THE AUDUBON REPUBLICAN. AUDUBON, IOWA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1921
BOAR
A CONSIGNMENT OF GOOD INDIVIDUALS
sakes.
A preliminary hearing was given
the boys before a justice of the
peace at Adel and they waived to
the grand jury. In default of bonds
they were placed in the county jail.
Friday a couple of men from Coon
Rapids appeared in Adel and identi
fied the boys as those who held them
up near that town « Sunday night.
Watches stolen at that time were
identified and returned to the own
ers. The boys told several conflict
ing stories when the officers first
questioned them and the Harrison
boy first said his name was Durand.
Later they decided that the more
they said the deeper they became in
volved and they finally declared they
woul tell It all to the judge.
At the best, they are “In bad”
and a lot of trouble Is in store for
them.
Delil>erately Walked Out of Jail
Charles Logsdon, sentenced by
Judge Bradley to fifteen years in
Anamosa, walked out of the jail at
Sibley an hour after Sheriff Lowry
had returned the criminal to his cell
on Friday. •
About 5 o’clock Logsdon was seen
leisuriy walking back and forth near
the jail. He went a few blocks west,
jumping into the box par of a north
bound freight.
He was sent up for stealing autos
at Sioux City and Ocheyedan. He
served in the world’s war and re
ceives a pension.
Des Moines Bandit Caught
Following a raid Friday after
noon which nearly cost the life of
Detective "Pete” Pedersen and
which resulted In the arrest of three
alleged motor car bandits, auto theft
bureau operatives announced in Des
Moines that they believed the men
in custody were members of the ban
dit band participating in the gun
battle with officers near Murray
several days ago.
Those arrested are .Tack Lewis, a
taxi driver, Toronto, Canada; Har
old Handley. Des Moines; and Carl
Bengston, Clinton. lowa. All are be
ing held without bond at police
headquarters. They were taken in
to custody by Detectives Alber. Gag
en, Artis. Rosecrans, Pedersen and
Walker working with the theft
bureau.
Handley admitted to the police
that the gang had stolen three motor
cars in and about Des Moines dur
ing the past two weeks.
Surrounding a deserted shack at
Woodland avenue, which contained
the underground rendezvous of the
gang, operatives afrested Lewis Just
as the bandit leveled his revolver at
Detective Pedersen. Lewis, who
had escaped from a side door, had
drawn his weapon when he was sur
prised by Detective Artis, who ap
proached from the rear and pressed
a gun to the bandit's side.
On entering the shack the officers
discovered a complete underground
headquarters which had been dug
out beneath the flooring. A tele
phone had been installed in the
place and a quantity of goods be
lieved to have been stolen were
planted there. Tn the loot siezed
was a complete dope outfit, includ
ing a supply of narcotic drugs.
The telephone rang while the of
ficers were searching the place. De
tective Artis answered the call. Im
personating a member of the gang,
Artis carried on a conversation with
another of the bandit trio who later
proved to be Handley. The suppos
ed bandit was warned that the police
would raid the place and was urged
to do away with stolen property con
cealed there and make his escape. A
“date” made by Handley by tele
phone resulted in his arrest late in
the afternoon at East Fifteenth and
Maple streets.
Bengston was arrested shortly be
fore Handley was taken into custody
'in a rooming house on Locust street.
Set Fire to Hotel Building
As a result of a fire at the hotel
in Ricketts, at an early hour last
Wednesday morning Clarence Han
sen of Sioux City, is lodged in the
county Jail at Denison, charged with
intent to burn and will appear be
fore the grand Jury at its next ses
sion, having waived the preliminary
hearing. Hansen was unable to fur
nish bond for the sum of *I,OOO, so
was committed to Jail.
Hansen, who is about 30 years of
age, arrived at Ricketts last Tues
day afternoon by train and register
ed at the hotel under the name giv
en above and requested a room. He
posed as a piano salesman and dur
ing the afternoon solicited the town
of Ricketts. He retired to his room
on the second floor. Mrs. Brink,
wife of the proprietor of the hotel,
heard a disturbance but thought
nothing of it. About 1 o’clock Mr.
Schroeder, a passenger agent who
rooms in the hotel was awakened by
the smell of smoke and making an
investigation found a blaze in one of
the pedrooms and gave the alarm.
The fire department responded
promptly and the flames were extin
guished before much damage had
been done? It was also discovered
that a fire had been started in the
bath room, but this was out.
Hansen was arrested Wednesday
morning at Ricketts by an officer
sent there by Sheriff Greene and he
was brought to Denison and after a
grilling by officials made a com
plete confession.
According to his story, so it is
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reported, he was to receive the sum
of SBOO for setting fire to the prop
erty. He admits having used a mix
ture of gasoline and kerosene which
he took into the hotel in bottles. He
sprinkled the contents of these bot
tles on the floor of a vacant bed
room and the bath room about 10
o'clock Tuesday night but it was not
until 1 o'clock that he was able to
muster up enough courage to apply
the matches. Hansen claims, ac
cording to his confession, that he
feared for the lives of the other oc
cupants of the hotel, especially for
the two children of the proprietor
and his wife, which he saw playing
about the hotel in the afternoon. He
however, finally managed to muster
up enough courage to commit the
rime at 1 o’clock. Hansen opened
a window in the bathroom to give
the fire he started there some draft
but the window came down and the
blaze then smothered without doing
much damage.
Railroad Taxes Reduced
■A temporary reduction of railroad
taxes amounting to about 17 per
cent of the amount assessed last
spring by the state executive coun
cil.was awarded to seven of the nine
railroads suing for an injunction
against collection of the taxes in fed
eral court in Des Moines Friday.
The decision was handed down in
federal district court and was con
curred in by Judge Martin J. Wade,
Judge Kimbrough Stone, and Judge
Thomas Munger. The state is allow
ed by the decision to collect taxes
from the Milwaukee, the Chicago &
Northwestern, the Rock Island, the
Minneapolis and St. Louis, the Bur
lington and the Fort Dodge, Des
Moines & Southern railroad compan
ies equal to 90 per cent of the 1920
assessment on the roads.
The Illinois Central company will
pay taxes equal to the 1920 assess
ment. The Wabash, and Atchison.
Topeka A Santa Fe were denied
were denied their appeal for an in
junction. They will have to pay the
full amount of taxes set by the ex
ecutive council.
In the decision the judges found
that land values in lowa are much
in excess of $76.66, the value upon
which the council based its farm
assessments. They agreed that lowa
land is worth more than $125 an
acre.
Couple Again Estranged.
Love for their child, which drew
Mr. and Mrs. Justin B. Murray of
Maquoketa together after his acquit
tal at Newport, Ky„ for the murder
of Howard Phillip, also of Maquok
eta, and Murray’s former business
partner, was not strong enough to
keep the couple together.
A dispatch from Evansville, Ind.,
says Mrs. Murray has filed suit
for divorce from her husband, in
which she charges that he showed no
affection or interest in their home
life and told her that he did not de
sire to live with her any longer. She
alleges she left her husband on July
30 because his treatment became un
bearable. She asks custody of the
child, which was the means of re
uniting them temporarily after Mur
ray was acquitted of murder.
Murray and Phillip owned a
chain of bakeries in Kentucky, in
cluding one at Newport, a city
across the river from Cincinnati.
Mrs. Murray and her husband were
living apart and when Mrs. Murray
and Phillip stepped from a rooming
house together one night during the
latter part of 1920, Murray shot
Phillip to death.
Mrs. Murray was quoted at the
time as saying there had never been
anything wrong between her and
Phillip and that she hoped her hus
band would be convicted. Sly? was
quoted as saying that she cared
nothing for her husband, and never
had.
But she forgot about baby Jack.
A short time after his acquittal
Murray asked his wife to come back
to. him and help him bring up the
child, and a few weeks later they
were united at Evansville, and ap
parently lived happily together, for
a time.
The murder created a sensation in
Jackson county, where the Murrays
and the Phillips were connected with
wealthy families. The father of
Murray engaged the best attorneys
he could obtain and rushed to Ken
tucky to the defense of his son. The
Jury gave Murray the benefit of the
doubt and acquitted him, and it was
predicted at the time there would be
no conviction because southern jur
ies usually’ acquit a man on the un
written law when a woman’s honor
is at stake and a husband takes the
law into his own hands.
Heart Didn’t Beat for an Hour
Medical circles have been gently
stirred through the fact that the
heart of Miss Cecil Kerstern, victim
of rejected fiance, -near McGregor,
was silent for more than an hour be
fore death came to the young wom
an. Although the case is not un
parallelled when death comes from
gunshot wounds, according to Dr. D.
C. Steelsmith, health commissioner
“In my practising days,” said the
doctor, “I had the case of a boy of
18 years who was shot through the
pit of the stomach by the accidental
discharge of a shot gun loaded with
small shot. For more than an hour
before his death the stethoscope fail
ed to record any heart action at all.
Yet the patient was conscious and
talked."
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BHJA’ SUNDAY IN DES MOINES
First Visit to lowa Capitol Since
His Big Meeting There
Seven Years Ago.
Billy Sunday in town —and hands
reached out in greeting from all
corners; reporters and photogra
phers besieged him after an after
noon of meeting trains and interur
bans; small boys peered on with
open-mouthed admiration while he
posed for his picture; dinner waited
but that didn’t matter; talk and ges
tures and smiles and more talk.
He didn't have a minute of unin
terrupted peace after he reached
Des Moines on Monday afternoon at
five o’clock. Even his way to the
Hotel Fort Des Moines from the in
terurban station was interrupted by
the greetings of those who recog
nized him. In the lobby he didn’t
have a chance, and from the coffee,
room he was routed out half a dozen
times by folks who had been trying
to locate him all afternoon and
couldn’t risk the meeting at the
church.
"Give my regards to Mr. So-and-
So; say Hello to Mrs. Thls-and-
That.” He hadn’t forgotten anyone
it seems, in spite of the eeven years
that have intervened since his evan
gelistic campaign and the thousands
of people with whom he has worked
since.
“Hello, Mr. Sunday! We were
just talking about you.”
A group of men passing by as he
faced the camera hailed the “Babe”
Ruth of the pulpit.. He didn’t know
The Spirit
of Service
Dominates every transaction, no matter how
small, that takes place in this store.
We’re never satisfied merely to sell you some
thing and get your money. Anyone can do
that.
We feel that it is our business to be ever
watchful that you get the right thing, at the
right price, and a sale made here is never com
pleted until you, our customer, are complete
ly satisfied.
This spirit, and this service, will, we believe,
bring us our greatest success in the long run.
We’re
we’re
In Underwear, we have the Incom- You can buy here your choice of
parable ‘‘Vassar” Union Suits at almost any style or cloth in Hart
$2.00 and up; others as low as Schaffner & Marx or the Famous
$1.50. “Frat” clothes at $25 up.
We now have an especially attractive line of Dress
Shirts, priced from SI.OO up to $3.00 for percales,
Madras, etc., with an especially strong line of Madras
Shirts at $1.50 and $2.00. Silk and Fibre Silk Shirts at
$4.00, $5.90, up to SB.OO.
Just received a new shipment of the Van Heusen
Soft Collars. They won’t last long, get h
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AUDUBON,
any of those who so jovially accosted
him. but that didn’t matter.
’ "That's right. I get It on all
sides. Sometimes it’s an uppercut,
sometimes it’s an undercut, some
times it's a smile. Glad to see you!”
He kicked out and posed to throw a
ball at them, as if he had been a
football star instead of winning his
tame first in the national game.
“Say, I’ve got some red-hot stuff
to give Des Moines —red-hot stuff!
‘Safety first!’ That’s the subject.
A 100 per cent Americanism talk
and some stuff about how to live
right. I’ll take a crack at the girls.
too, 1 for wearing their skirts so
short ” He chuckled at that.
"Good to be back? Say!” He
tapped his foot on the sidewalk,
leaned up against a pillar of the
hotel and talked away. “This is
some live town. It beats all. I
wouldn’t have recognized it even
after seven years."
"You know how I first remember
it? I used to walk down these pave
ments when I was a barefoot kid.
There isn’t any experience that I bed
that beats my memories of that. My
father enlisted from this town years
and years ago. Y’ know that? He
marched away with Company E,
Twenty-third regiment, right from
this spot."'
"It’s a go-getter town, you bet.
That's why you get all these con
ventions and everything.”
GOOD PUPS FOR SALE
Have for sale a few Fox Terrier
rat dog pups. See Phil Mogg. 43-2
proud of the values
showing this fall
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BIG WRESTLER COMING
Stanislaus Zbyszko, the world’s
wrestling champion, is on his way
to Des Moines, to resume his train
ing tor his match in Des Moines on
next Monday night, with Bari Cad
dock.
The title-holder telegraphed Oscar
Thorson from New York last Friday
night that he would leave there Sat
urday and would come directly to
Des Moines. He requested that ar
rangements be made tor training
quarters tor him, and assured Thor
son that he was in splendid condi
tion to tackle the lowa expert.
Arrangements were made immed
iately tor the Pole to train at ths
American Legion hall, Fourth and
Locust streets. Argonne post is pro
mpting the match as a benefit, with
the assistance of Thorson, and do
nated the training quarters, so that
the champion would be where all of
the legion members would have a
good opportunity to watch him work
out. His workouts also will be open
to the public.
Zbyszko's message to Thorson fol
lows:
“Just a short message to let you
know that I am in wonderful condi
tion. Will leave New York Satur
day for Des Moines to train. Please
make arrangements for training
quarters.’’
W. 11. HALLORAN
Physician and Surgeon. Office In
Howald block. Phone 485. Audu
boa, lowa.
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