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THE TIMES RECEIVES THE FULL LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF ASSOCIATED PRESS DAILY AND SATURDAY, NIGHT
THS WEATHER
Wiehite Falla and vicinity: To-
might and Duesday partly cjondy.
probably showers.
to mlailp Cinits
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WICHITA FALLS, TEXAS, MONDAY, AUGUST 16, 1926
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ACTING MAYOR FORT WORTH ANSWERS CHARGES OUSTER SUIT
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TWENTY ESCAPE TEXAS PRISON FARM; TEN ARE RECAPTURED
Former Secretary of War Leader
^Revolutionary Plot Against Mexico
'Arrest Band, Confiscate Ammunition
Named for 'Governor
CARL HAGENBECK
WALLACE CIRCUS
ARRIVES SUNDAY
WICHITANS WATCH UNLOAD-
ING AND VISIT GROUNDS
DURING AFTERNOON
ORE THAN 2000 VISIT
LARGE MENAGERIE TENT
Final Performance Will Be Given
Monday Evening Beginning
| at 8 p. m.
EVEN “DAD® IS GOINGI
Attraction
Date......
Hagenbeck-Wallace
........Today Only
Location ......
Canvas. ......
Main Doors...
Performances.
Side Show....
Seat Salet....
Near Ball Park
.....Waterproof
...1 aad 7 p. m.
...1 and tpm.
.....Continuous
.......Renfro’s
Near the ball park le a “canvas
city"—the great Hagenbeck-Wallace
Shows—here for today only, open-
In* their doors nt 1 and 7 P m. and
giving performances at 2 and $ P m.
veal
this
Sun
“all
amister of “The Kemp" re-
ta “overland section" of
van shuffled into town
our before the long
show trains brought the
orees, animals, tents and
here was not hotel room
gh for the motive power
of the "overland contingent"—"Wad-
dy." the globe trotting elephant—so
he was assigned to the barn, front
and tall traffic lights. end air
“Waddy” is registered from “India"
Receive Visitors Sunday.
All day-Buinday the show bosses
St
assistants were busy re-
dtors—Wichita Falls folks
SAN DIEGO, Aug. 16. OR—Ap-
proximately 150 men, mobilized for
a Mexican revolution under com-
mand of General Enrique Estrada,
former Mexican secretary of war,
were lodged in prisons here last
night and a large quantity of arms
and ammunition seised by American
authorities.
Agents of the United States de-
partment of justice aided by city,
county and other federal officers,
captured what was to have been an
armed party of invading insurrectos
three miles from the Mexican bor-
der Information gathered by gov-
ernment agents led them to the ap-
pointed rendezvous at Dulusera
while General Estrada and his staff
were consulting their forces pre-
paratory to a descent upon towns
just below the border. •
An armored truck, two 10-ton
truck loads of rifles, machine guns
and ammunition. Other trucks for
the transportation of men and sup-
plies, and about 15A Mexicans made
up the material and personnel of the
captured expedition while govern-
ment agents also captured documen-
tary evidence and complete sets of
plans for the insurrection.
The most important capture was
made yesterday when General Es-
trade and his staff, Including Earle
C. Parker, San Diego hardware and
arms dealer were captured and
brought into the city from Dulzura
while the munitions trucks were
captured near La Mesa.
The captured arms included 400
Springfield rifles, two machine
guns and 155.P09 rounds of ammu-
nition, and a miscellaneous assort-
ment of small arms. Later a truck,
protected with armor plate half an
inch thick and weighing nearly six
tons, was captured -near Dulsura
when the general roundup of the
rebel forces was made.
County Jail Tee Small.
The San Diego county jail, un-
prepared for such an emergency was
able to accommodate only about
one-third of the army and the re-
mainder were sent to Fort Rose-
arans. The leaders of the expedi-
tion were housed in the county jail
while the captured munitions were
loaded on the trucks In the court
yard of the jail.
Enrique Estrada, who gave him-
self only the modest title of civil
engineer, was known to the federal
John E Martineau has won the
Democratic nomination for gover-
nor of Arkansas, which is equiva-
lent to election In that state. Al-
though he said he was a prohibi-
tionist, the Anti-Saloon League
branded him as a wet and cam-
paigned actively against him. He
had a large majority.
agents as General Estrada, one of
Kan Insight into things the leaders of the De La Huerta,
T reenen.” revolution several years ago and at'
Sooner hoetier eave one time secretary of war in Mex-
mon X the horse stable feo and commander of the Vera
at me horse Crus districts. He carried $456 In
over 600 visitors I found
le took deepest interest In
(Billy Bunday.' wonderful
% The broadest backed
or saw. At Staunton, Va..
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and.
cash on his person, and other mem-
bers of his staff captured at the
same time had sums that brought
the total to more than $1,500.
General Estrada’s chief of staff
was General Aurelio Sepulveda, a
famous officer of the Mexican army,
who said he had been a resident of
ay. ths evangelist, visited
, Say, he preached to us.
up on his namesake’s
g the horse for a pulpit. . . .
ie me, told ua what in Los Angeles for two years.
He ad-
mitted that he was a general in the
at I
con
were over 2.000 citizens
trough tha menagerie tent.
Jumbo,” har hubby—"Old
—and their baby son, born
Ind., 11 weeks old, held the
” the stage. There ere it
) In the herd, and every one
performs.
Baby Animals Numerous.
The baby wild animals are num-
erous. And the full grown, of all
kinds and from all climes, make up
a soo unexcelled. The remarkable
thing about it is every wild beast
is educated and trained to perform.
alWhi wild animal acts abound In
the performances there are also the
best of museum, wild west, hippo-
drome and circus stunts. The "ace”
of the circus is Marcel Ripart, of
Mexican army and waa booked el
the county fall with that title.
While no airplanes were found in
the expedition’s equipment Faustino
Garcia, 30, arrested with Estrada
was designed aa an aviator. He
called himself a mechanic when he
gave his history at the jail. Ben-
jamin Roque, salesman; Lucas Ama-
dor. a laborer; Carles Alcantar,
truck driver; Jose Manzanares, a
mechanic from Texas; and Miguel
Valenzuela, laborer, all of Los An-
geles, were the others captured with
Estrada and before the main body
of troops waa rounded up.
Letters Are Found.
Papers found on the captured
Mexleans indicated that they had
been employed and given instruc
tions to gather near Dulzura las
ert
Nf Who goes to the very brink
irnity in midair balancing on a
te. There is no net under Rip- . _ .
To tell means for himself In- (Continued on Page », Colums
night. One man, Ospicio Sanches,
apparently a top sergeant, had a
7)
CITY OFFICIAL OF
FT. WORTH DENIES
CHARGES AS FILED
ACTING MAYOR THOMAS DE-
CLARES ALLEGATIONS NOT
BASE: ON FACTS
WILL ASK FOR EARLY
HEARING OF THE CASE
Twenty Six Property Owners Seek
To Oust City Council and 1
City Manager Carr.
LIGHT RAIN BRINGS
RELIEF FROM HEAT
OF PREVIOUS WEEK
COUSIN-VICTIM HALL-MILLS CASE
Twenty Texas Prisoners Saw Way
Out of Wooden Barracks Building
At Fort Bend County Prison Farm
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slant death. The only other person
to accomplish what he does wss his
father, who, two years ago, fell and
was killed. *
Rain for a time Monday afternoon
threatened to interfere with the
' toning performance, bat Indica-
uT as at 1 o'clock were the clouds
has passed in time for the ground
to dry off, leaving the route free
from what would have been a dust
nuisance on a dry day.
After the night performance the
caravan will take down tents. re-
load and more to Stamford. Next
Sunday will be passed In El Paso,
exhibiting there next Monday. From
there the big aggregation goea into
New Mexico and thence to Colorado.
ONE MAN SLIGHTLY HURT
WHEN KATY PASSENGER
AND FREIGHT COLLIDE
Relief from the oppressive heat
of the past week came Sunday night
with showers through north Texas
and Oklahoma which sent ths mer-
cury tumbling from around the
100-degree mark to as low as 72
during the night. At I o'clock Sun-
day afternoon the mercury stood at
96 degrees after hovering about
the 100 mark through the day.
Showers totalling .07 of an inch
fell in the city. As much as two
inches fell st some points in the
district. No rain was reported to
the south and east of Wichita Falls,
but heavy rains fell to the west
and through Oklahoma.
The skies were overcast through-
out Monday and light showers were
falling at intervals Monday after-
noon. A falling barometer end
heavy clouds banked in the couth
and west indicated that the precipi-
tation would be heavier before the
end of the day
Scattered showers fell along the
Denver line from Dalhart to Wich-
ita Falls, no rain was reported on
the southern end of the division.
The Missouri-Kansas-Texas dis-
patcher reported heavy rains
through Oklahoma, north of Burk-
burnett, with no rain east of Wich-
ita Falla Cloudy weather and
promise of rain was reported along
the Wichita Falls and Southern
Monday, but that section was not
touched by the Sunday night rain.
Showers ranging from one-half of
an Inch to two inches fell along
the Spur line of the Wichita Val-
ley from Aspermont to flpur. Light
rains fell between Aspermont and
Seymour and scattered showers
were reported as far sa Abilene.
At I o'clock Monday morning the
temperature here waa 75 degrees
At 1 o'clock in the afternoon the
temperature had rlaen to 98 degrees
and a light southwest wind was
(Continued on Page 9. Column 8)
FORT WORTH, Aug. 16. (P)—A.
K Thomas, acting mayor, will is -
sue a written statement today in
which he win explain the position
of the city council and refute sever-
al allegation, made by the 26 prop-
erty owners who filed a petition
in 96th district court Saturday,
seeking to oust the council and
City Manager Carr to enjoin the
city from collecting alleged ‘exces-
Thomas declares that several of
the allegations made by them to the
court are not based on facts.
The 26 petitioners declared that
the allowance of $3,500, to Mayor
Meacham for a. trip to New York
was a "breach of trust’ ‘and an
“exhorbitant a mount." Thomas ex-
plained this allegation by saying
that the $3,500, was not allowed
Mayor Meacham—batulhst the.30,800,
was refunded to him because he had
paid, out of his own pocket, a sim-
liar amount as a retainer's fee for
attorneys engaged by the city in
efforts to have legislation enacted
by the New York legislature for le-
gatising city of Fort Worth bonds
for purchase by New York savings
banks Thomas declared that Mayor
Meacham had not sent the city a bill
for the amount, even though he
personally had paid the costs inci-
dent to the efforts for legalising.
Thomas declared that Mayor Meach-
am was partially successful in his
attempts to get the act by the New
York legislature because the act was
passed and failed to become a law
because a "rider" was tacked on to
the end of the act. He declared the
city no w la losing millions of dol-
lars on be nds.
"In him statement today Thomas
is expected to answer mere of the
alleged charges made in the suit.
F. Houtchens, attorney filing the
suit, has announced he will, appear
before Judge Hal S. Lattimore and
ask for a setting on the suit.
Petitions have assailed the elty
officials in tax equalisation work,
charging that property has been
assessed above its actual value.
They also charge the officials with
a breach of trust for extending wat-.
er and sewer extensions to thinly
settled districts and real estate ad-
ditions.
FORMER GOVERNOR
FERGUSON SPEAKS
TEMPLE SATURDAY
Henry de la Bruyere Carpender, New York stock broker, secial
registerite, next deer neighbor and eeusin ef Mr*. Frances Hall, sees
to a jail cell beetle “Crazy Willie- Stevens, charged with the Hall-
Mills murder. Me in escorted by a detective, left.
detective, left.
By LEON M SILER
NEA Service Writer
SOMERVILLE, N. J., Aug. It —
Destiny has picked from-e weird
assortment of human levels and
temperaments for its cast la the re-
born Hall-Mills drama.
For those characters closest to
the footlights of official Investiga-
tion it has chosen women, mainly:
women who, one or the other, can
be identified with almost every
stratum of womanhood save those
which classify unusual beauty.
The only woman in iha Hall-Mills
ease who waa especially comely, by
ordinary definition of appearance,
la dead. Her mutilated body was
found stretched alongside that of
Rev. Edward Hall under tha De Rus-
sey’s Lane crab apple tr.. four
years ago thla fall
Rut tha men on whom th. Hall-
(Continued on Page 3. Column 6)
lord Kitchener
Coffin Empty Is
Official Report
LONDON, Aug. 16 (P)—The Brit-
Ish home office today announced
DEFENSE PRESENTS
MORE EVIDENCE IN
MEW CASE
WEATHER FORECAST
HEN People START
OVERLOOKING You,
rou’b eetrer Look
OURSELF OVER -
Passengers on the M. K & T. train
foslm Dallas, scheduled to arrive in
Wichita Falls at « 1* o'clock Mon-
day morning, were severely shaken
and one man received n cut over his
eyic-hen a head-on collision oe-
cucred with a freight train at Bel-
cherville about 4:55 o’clock Monday
morning. *
The freight had come to a stand-
still when the accident took place,
and the engineer on the passenger
train had slowed un to: about 10
miles an hour. — Both the fireman
and engineer on the nnamenger train
jumped and escaped with only minor
scratches, according to a report lo
officials in Wichita Falls.
The passenger train was delayed
in its artim" * W’bie Fatts about
three hours1 1
GUTHRIE, Okla., Aus. 11 un-
Further evidence intended to create
a “reasonable doubt" In the minds
of the jurors that William K. Hale
and John Ramsey killed Henry
Roan, Osage Indian wee presented
today in their trial in federal court
here.
Defense witnesses continued to
tell of relatione between Roy Bunch,
Fairfax meat eutter and Mrs. Roan,
before her hueband was killed.
Attorneys for the defense de-
Flared that it has erroneously been
stated that Hunch had married Hr*
Roan a year after Rean’s body was
found. Records show Bunch and
Mrs. Roan were married two months
after Roan's body was discovered
they said
Mrs. Quiney Hogern, who lives
two miles east of Greyhorse said
aha had seen Bunch and Mrs. Roan
together for long intervals of time
before Roan died. A
“They stayed at the Roan home
for as much as two or three days
at n time,” she said. “A month or
so before Roan was killed I invited
the three out for dinner. Mrs.’ Roan
and Mr. Bunch came but Roan did
not. . /7 .....
urrrim Jon.
♦
/WICHITA FALLS AND VICINITY-
Temperature: Maximum 96 degrees: mimi-
mum 78, at t p. m. Monday, 92; precipi-
tation .074. Partly cloudy: southwest wind,
average velocity t miles per hour Baro-
meter 19.03. (As reported by the Govern-
ment Co-operative Weather Bureau, op-
er ated by the Wichita Falls Electric Com-
EAST TEXAS: Tonight and Tuesday
“Dus-,Yexis: Tonight and Tuesday
partly pieedr probably showers in ex-
ortaions file and Tuesday part-
AUSTIN, Aug. 16. vn)—Governor
Miriam A. Ferguson and former
Governor James E. Ferguson will
go home to Temple to open the cam-
paign Saturday, for the run-off
Democratic primary election, Satur-
day August 28. The former gover-
nor made this announcement Mon-
“Yem I'll open services in the old
home town Saturday night at 8
o’clock,” the former governor said.
"I expect to epeak in Galveston, but
my itinerary la not yet complete."
The former governor Said that he
expected to conduct % brisk cam-
paign during the laat week.
Cha des Spradley, who accompan-
ied the former governor In his
speaking campaign In the first
Democratic primary, said that the
former governor has something to
tell certain persons In Galveston
and Temple Temple is the gover-
nor’s home town.
Governor Miriam A. Ferguson had
not appeared at the executive of-
fice early today. Former Governor
Ferguson held a conference in the
executive offices with Hal Moseley,
chairman, and John Cage,® member
of the state highway commission
and Eugene Smith, secretary of the
commission The conferees did not
divulge the subject of the confer-
ence. I
Moody at Greenville.
AUSTIN, Aug. 16. UR—Attorney
General Dan Moody, who led Gov-
ernor Ferguson In the first Demo-
cratie primary election by a large
plurality, Monday left for Green
ville where he speaks tonight. He
plans an intensive campaign for the
next two weeks, the date of the sec-
end primary being August 28.
Killed While Cleaning.
BEAUMONT, Aug. 16. VP)— Mr. C.
T. Barnes of Nome, was accidental-
ly killed this morning when a shot
gun was discharged while she was
cleaning out g closet under a stair-
war. 1
HOUSTON, Aug II .0—Officers
of the Imperial conviet farm near
Sugarland, 25 miles from here, to-
day reported that 10 of the 20 con-
viets who sawed their way to lib-
erty at the farm late yesterday had
been recaptured without resistance
None of the men were armed All
were short term convicts.
The 20 men sawed their way out
of a wooden barracks building late
Sunday afternoon, officials said in
a telephone message to Houston to-
day. No complete check had been
made of the men, the message added
but said that several men serving
life sentences were included in
those escaped
R. J "Buck" Flannigan, manager
of the Imperial farm waa said to be
trailing a group with bloodhounds
Cateh Tom Ceen Fugitive.
BAN ANGELO, Texas, Aug 16. (n)
Odle Benton, who was one of six to
escape from the Torn Green county
jail Friday, was, retaken Sunday
morning on the road near Sterling
City and returned to a cell here. He
was being held here on a statutory
charge from Coke county. Chester
Moffett, his companion in a small
car they stole and which they were
forced to desert by the roadside
when Sheriff Vern Davis, cloard in
on them escaped in a pasture and
later secured a ride to Illg Spring,
officers determined Two others
are still at liberty also.
MEAT MARKET SAFE
YIELDS 5300 AND
WATCH TO YEGGS
DEPARTMENT STORE SAFE
SUCCESSFULLY RESISTS
EFFORTS TO OPEN
KNOB KNOCKERS BUSY
HERE OVER WEEKEND
Market Entered Through Front
Door and Department Store
Through Skylight. N
\ WOMAN PIG RAISER
IS CORROBORATED IN
PART BY TESTIMONY
TWO IN CUSTODY
IN MELLETT CASE
FOR QUESTIONING
officially that a packing case re-
cently delivered at Waterloo sta-
tion and alleged to contain the
body of the late Lord Kitchener
“was found to contain an empty
coffin."
Scotland Yard officials Imme-
diately aought to get in touch with
Frank Power, British newspaper
man who bfought the packing case
from Norway where h. said the
body of Lord Kitchener had been
picked up after the sinking of the
cruiser Hampshire during the world.
YEGGS GET 51.000
FROM DEPARTMENT
STORE IN ELECTRA
Special to The Times
ELECTRA, Texas, Aug 16.—Cash
and checks totaling $4,000 were
taken early this morning from the
safe of the Thomas, Slaton and
Brush department store here.
The burglars broke the glass in
the rear door of the store, which lo
at the corner of South Main and
Cleveland street, presumably about
2 a. m. After reaching In and turn-
ing the key, they entered and
knocked the knob from the safe.
A finger print expert was called
from the Wichita Falls police de-
partment. but it is feared the burg-
lars wore gloves and left no clues.
The store carried only $500 in
burglary insurance.
Half a dozen men were arrested
on vagrancy charges early today
and one of them, who had three $20
bills in his pocket and was unable
to account for them, has been held
for further questioning
Local Hotel Raided.
ELECTRA, Aug. 16 —A raid on a
local hotel early this morning netted
half a gallon of liquor and two
SOMERVILLE, N. J., Aug 14. V)
The testimony of Mrs. Jane Gibson,
woman pig raiser was partially cor-
roborated today at the bearing of
Henry Carpender and Willie Ste-
vens, charged with the murders of
Rev. Edward Wheeler Hall and
Mrs Eleanor Mills.
Mrs. Gibson testified Friday that
she was in De Raapey*s lane near the
Phillips farm saw two men and
a woman and heard shots fired. She
identified Stevens and Carpender
As the men. The woman she said,
waa Mrs. Frances Stevens Hall also
charged with the murders
Mrs. Hall is at liberty on $15,000
ball. 4
Henry Fenling Millwright tesd
fled he was In DeRussey’s lane the
night of September 14, 1*22 and
saw Mra Gibson there on her mule.
He saw no one except Mrs. Gibson
and heard no shots.
The witness had kept silent for
four years to shield a girl who was
with him.
Charles A. I- Faugh a taxi driver
testified he saw a sedan parked In
Easton Avenue near DeRussey a
lane while he was driving by. He
saw two or three persons slide down
a bank toward the car. But he did
not know whether they were men
or women.
William Phillips night watchman
at the New Jersey College for
Women told his four year old story
of seeing "a woman in gray" enter
the Hall residence about 2 a. m.,
the night of the murder. He la un,
der $2,500 ball aa a material wit-
ness. He was not permitted to
answer a question about detectives
being employed by, Mrs. Hall threat-
ening him if he said he saw this
woman enter.
CLEVELAND, Oble, Awa. 16. ()-
Lewis Maser and Carl Studer, prom-
Inent figures in Canten’s under-
world, were taken inte eustedy for
questioning late today by federal
agents. United States District At-
torney Berastern announced.
Studer was brought here by De-
teetive Grether of Canton, while
Maser was takes inte custody at
Canton.
Joseph R. Reach. Chicago atter-
mer, appeared in Mernateen’s office
shortly after Studer was brought Iw.
Meet immediately west late eww-
CLEVELAND, Aug. 16 Wn—The
United States government prepared
today to strike at Canton’s under-
world and its iquor activities.
The first federal attack on the
Canton liquor situation was to
come in the form of a warrant
which waa to be issued during the
day, according to United States Dis-
trict Attorney Bernstein
The warrant, Bernstein declared,
will name a man who "knows aa
much as anybody about the mur-
der of Don R. Mellett, Canton pub-
lisher."
He intimated that the arrest of
thla man would be Instrumental In
clearing up the killing of the pub-
lisher and also that the man named
in the warrant waa one of the
leaders of the underworld of Can-
ton.
Exiled for Slander
MANILA, Aug 16 (Ah-Rosario
Almario, member of the Manila
municipal board, has been sentenced
to banishment for two years to a
place not nearer than 1,500 miles to
Manila for slandering another mem-
ber of the board at a public session
of that body last June. His convic-
tion also carried a fine of $100. *
women. They pleaded guilty
were fined $50 and costs each
paid and the other is in jail.
and
One
BASEBALL
BOLT KILLS TWO
OKLAHOMA MEN
DURANT, Okla, Aug I*. (P)-
Leland Busby, 17, and Willard
Ballard, 19, farm youths were
killed, today by lightning) Porter
Davis, another youth was seri-
ously injured and the team of
horses they were working were
killed.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
PHILADELPHIA, Aug 16.-()-
Cleveland-Philadelphia game post-
poned; wet grounds, two games to-
morrow
BOSTON, Aug. 16.4)—American,
first game: RH E
St. Louis ......001 000 032—6 15 0
Boston 910 000 000—1 4 2
Vangilder and Hargrave; Wiltse
and Gaston.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
PITTSBURGH, Aug. 11 (P)— Bos-
ton. Pittsburgh postponed wet
grounds, double header tomorrow.
Evidence te Grand Jury.
CANTON, Ohio, Aug 16 ()-
While Joseph R. Roach, Chicago
criminal lawyer was at work to-
day preparing his discoveries In the
Mellett murder case for the con-
• •deration of the Stark county
grand jury next week, employment
of special aid In the prosecution
was being considered
Roach, following his announce-
ment that while investigating an
alleged liquor conspiracy in Canton
he uncovered In the murder case
which should convict several men
decided to prepare to accept the In-
vitation of Prosecutor C. B Me-
Cilntock that all persons having
knowledge of the crime present it
to the grand jury
The criminal lawyer had said that
political pressure and the Influ-
ence of various forces were being
brought to bear to block the mur-
der investigation and that the case
should be considered by the grand
jury at once. McClintock forthwith
announced a change in his plans
and said the case would go to the
grand jury which opens its session
for the consideration of other cases
tomorrow
Over the weekend conferences
were held between officials concern-
ing the suggested employment of
a special prosecutor or an assistant
to McClintock Action In this con-
nection la expected today Hereto-
fore McClintock has refused to ar
cede to a special or assistant prose-
cutor. He turned down the pro-
ferred services of Roach, who later
waa assigned by Mayor S. M. Swarts
aa advisory counsel to Acting Chief
Earl H.’Hexmar.
Roach investigation of the liquor
conspiracy has been conducted with
the Idea of placing the case before
a grand jury early, in September.
Roach declares evidence in his
hands involves several members of
the Canton police force in a liquor
conspiracy and that at least one
police officer la involved in the
murder.
Knocking the knobe off safes a.
the Sanitary Meat Market, 616
Seventh street, and Williams* de-
partment store, Seventh and Ohio,
late Saturday night or early Sun-
day morning, burglars took $300 in
currency and a gold watch from
the meat market but missed $2,098
in cash when they were unable to
open the department store safe
after knocking the knob
The doors to both safes were
locked when the robberies were dis-
covered Sunday afternoon. They
were opened Monday morning by
Andrew Young, local safe expert,
and his assistant, Horace Robin-
son. The William’s safe contained
$2,013 in currency, $80 in silver and
$3,600 in checks, according to T. J.
Brock, manager.
About $100 in checks had been
thrust back Into the safe at the
Sanitary market, along with other
signs of the robbery. John Hays,
proprietor, said that at least $300
in cash had been taken from the
safe and that a check-up might
show a greater loss. A gold watch
had also been taken
When Hays passed by the mar-
ket Sunday he found a new pad-
lock on the front door, one he had
never before seen. It is believed
that after smashing off the front
door lock, one burglar went inside
and lot his companions in at the
back door after they had put an-,
other lock on the front door to de-
ceive night watchmen and patrol-
men. \
The burglars entered William's
department store, owned by William
Levin, through the skylight. Break-
ing a small panel of the light, the
burglars pulled apart two iron bars
underneath the light and dropped
to a counter below A freshly opened
package of Chesterfield cigarettes
was found below the skylight.
It is believed that one man, who
had to be small in order ‘to drop
through the skylight panel and
squeeze between the iron bars, en-
tered the store by this route and
let his companions in by the rear
door, which was found open Sun-
day afternoon.
A check-up Monday showed that
no merchandise was missing. E M.
Winfrey tried to open the safe ear-
ly Monday morning and was fol-
lowed by Andrew Young and Horace
Robinson who succeeded after
working several hours.
FIRE DESTROYS 23 CARS
GRAIN AND OIL, TEMPLE
TEMPLE, Texas, Aug 16. on—
Eight eart of grain and 15 cars of
oil were destroyed by fire about
midnight Sunday night when a
southbound Santa Fe freight waa
derailed near Heidenhetmer and the
wreckage caught fire. The track
was blocked to all traffic and Santa
Fe trains were being detoured over
the Katy here today No estimate
of the damage was available Mon-
day morning
MOTORCYCLE RIDER
FRACTURES SkillIN FALL
Loyd Berry aged 16, is 1a a eriti-a
cal condition at the Wichita Fans
Clinic hospital following an acci-
dent which occurred on the Fort
Worth pike wear Holliday ereel
Sunday afternoon. Berry suffered
a fractured skull when he ran art
his motoreycle.
The boy lives at 1526 MeGregor
street and delivered packages for
the Haley Dres Company, , .
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