The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, March 17, 1910, Image 5
' MADE A DEAL 1
Letter Left by T. C. Piatt Exposes Alleged
Political Plot.
INVOLVES HARRISON
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The Communication, Which Has On- .
ly Come to Liglit Since the Death '
of the lCx-Senator, Charges Hen- i
jamin Harrison, Ijate President, |
i?rv mill I)ocention.
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The controversy as to whether i
President Benjamin Harrison promised
to appoint the lute Senator Thos. *
^ C. Piatt secretary of the treasury in f
return for the support of the New (
York delegation in the national ite- '
publican convention of 1888 contin- ]
ues. The story of Mr. Piatt's declaration
that such a promiso wus made
and broken is itself interesting.
tf
William E. Curtis, a newspaper
writer, of Washington, says that a
short while after the publication of
the John Sherman memoirs, in 181)5,
Mr. Piatt gave him a sealed letter not
to be opened until both he, Piatt,
and President Harrison should be
dead. Mr. Curtis says he opened this
letter the morning after Mr. Piatt
died, that is Monday morning.
The letter ho printed in one of the
Washington papers. In substance it
says that at the Republican convention
of 1 888, Stephen 11. Elklns, now
senator from West Virginia, went to
Senator Piatt, at the head of the
New York delegation and producing
a letter from General Harrison, said
that if the New York delegation
would vote for Harrison, Mr. Piatt
would be appointed secretary of the
treasury.
It further says that for the same
consideration, as further payment for
his prospective job in the cabinet,
JMr. Piatt gave nis personal chuck j?u
$150,000 for the election of Harrlboii,
which $1 50,000, Mr. Piatt says,
was what turned the election in
New York for Harrison and elected
him.
It is all interesting, being very ,
much like the case of Roosevelt and
Harriman. Roosevelt promised Harriman
that if he would raise a large
fund to bo used in the election in
Now York he would invite him to ,
Washington to assist in the preparation
of his message to congress. And
f~ as in the case of Harriman, Piatt do- ,
clared afterwards that the bargain
had been violated.
First of all come Mr. Elklns and
denies that he, in the name of f'en.
Harrison, promised Mr. Piatt rhe
place in the cabinet. He says that
he did promise that Mr. Piatt shon-d
be consulted about patronago in New
York. Now comes another alleged
popthumous letter, this time from
Gen. Harrison, saying that he never
piomised Mr. PI aft a cab.net ap^
I ointment, and that he never bad
?ny idea until after the election that
I Mr. Piatt wanted such an aiv dntment.
But J. Sloat Fassett, now a representative
from New York in congress,
who was associated with Mr. Piatt
and the New York machine at that
time, declares that the alleged posthumous
letter of Senator Piatt is
substantially correct, that Mr. Piatt
was promised the appointment, and
that he himself, Mr. Fassett, went to
President Harrison and urged upon
him the keeping of the promise. I
It is generally believed that there
was some kind of a deal with Mr.
Piatt for the New York delegation
and that when he produced that
$150,000 to elect Harrison lie had
some such thing in view, doubtless
believed he would surely get tho appointment.
as secretary of the treasury;
hut it is thought to have been
a misunderstanding. No such bargain
would have been put in writIn.
Gen Harrison did write a letter
during that convention of 1 888 to
Tom Piatt, and sent it by Steve 101kins.
But the cautious Elkins instead
of delivering the letter outright
merely read it to Piatt and
kept It. Exactly what was in it IOlkins
does not say though he says he
has it still. Perhaps he will produce
it. And perhaps he will not.
It depends upon what is in it.
But this is evidence to all of the
methods of bargaining and sale used
In these Republican conventions. It
Is not the first time; and it is doubtful
if it will be the last.
Heavy Snow.
^ Twelve inches of snow covered the
uccks 01 ino steamer uoiuninus arriving
at Now York from Savannah.
The Columbus ran into a violent
storm, off the Delaware capos, with
a heavy fall of snow.
Hums to 1>< nth.
Mrs. U. W. Jackson, wife of a
wealthy citizen of Electra, Fla., was
burned to death while fighting forest
fires near her home Wednesday.
vSUBS!
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CHARGED WITH MURDER
rilE MAX WHO DESERTED HIS
WIFE AND CHILD.
Vow Under Suspicion of Killing the
Young Woman With Whom lie
Elopeil.
Dr. J. H. Weeks, of Wagener, who
i few years ago deserted his wife
uid children and w nt off with a
,'oung milliner, who hud been workng
at Wagener, is now under sub)lclon
of having put the young wonan
he eloped with out of the way
>y poisoning nor. It is also thought
hat he killed a little baby the errug
woman bore for him. .
Weeks is now in the Spartanburg
lail charged with bigamy, ho having
married the young woman he is now
hought to have murdered in that
jounty. Th? people where Weeks
ived in Georgia under an assumed
[tame are taking steps to ascertain if
Weeks did not poison his wife and
baby. If they llnd that he did, he
will be taken over there and *r'od
for murder.
It seems that after I)r. Hamilton,
the name under which Weeks passed
after deserting his wife and chll'lien
and going off with the other woman,
drifted hack to Georgia and located
at Morgan witli his second wife,
where he began the practice of medicine
and built up a good business.
This is where .Weeks was arrested
when brought hack to the State.
After the birth of a child at Morgan.
Mrs. Hamilton died under suspicious
circumstances, and also the
child, but the people of that place
suspected nothing, as his record was
unknown to them at that time. Hut
now it seems that there is considerable
suspicion about the matter, and
the indications are that lie poisoned
both the mother and child.
It is reported that the body is to
be exhumed and examined to see if
there is any foundation for this suspicion.
Under the law Weeks w"!
not receive punishment for desert;
hu r.? 11.. *? * * <* "
.us ma iniuii.v, i.iin ii u ia can lie
proved that he poisoned his second
wife and baby to get rid of them,
ho will get what he deserves if it
can be proved.
There was $3 00 reward offered for
his arrest, raised in the following
manner: The relatives of the first
Mrs. Weeks offered $100, the Governor
of the State $100, and the
Knights of Pythias of Wagoner $100'
This money will be divided between
Mr. J. II. Tyler, the gentleman who
recognized him in Morgan, and the
Sheriff of that county. *
.11 STICK OYEKTA KEK OFFICER.
Poli co Inspector Tried to Convict an
Innocent Man.
A dispatch from Kharkoo, Russia,
says Inspector Eagovsky, of the Ruben
police department, lias been sentenced
to four years in the penitentiray
for manufacturing evidence on
which three innocent studonts narrowly
escaped courtmartial and death
for terroists attempts. Lagovsky,
hoping to shcure promotion, concocted
terroist proclamations and cipher
correspondence which he concealed
in the houses of the students, showing
their connection with the rimes
buried a number of bombs and revolvers
in their gardens and as s
clininx shot himself in the arm tc
stimulate an attempt on his life
swearing that he had identified on<
of the students as a perpetrator. <
HAVE PRIVATE PHONE.
One Arranged for the President anc
His Brother.
A private telephone wire from tin
home of Charles I*. Taft, in Cin
cinnatti to the White House in Wash
lngton is being arranged with tin
American Telephone and Telegrapl
Company, it was learned Friday. Th<
72f> miles of wire will be at the ser
vice of Charles P. Taft from 6 p. m
to fi a.m. No outside heads will man
ipulate the switchboard plugs am
no outside ear will hear the persona
conversation of the brothers. T.?
wire, it is said, will cost Mr. Taf
$24,000 a year. 1
Last Legal Hanging.
The last legal hanging in Nortl
Carolina took place at Ellzabethtoi
Friday when Henry E. Spivey, col
ored, was executed for the murde
of his father-in-law, John Shaw, las
November, over domestic difference?
The last legislature made clectrocu
Hon the legal method and Spivoy wo
the last condemned man sentence
under the old law.
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Strike Settled.
The strike of the employes of th
Trenton Street Railway company, o
Trenton, N. J., which has been goin
on "for the last two days, was settle
late Friday afternoon. The settle
ment resulted in the men gettin
practically everything that the asP
ed for.
IRIBE N
LIVELY CLASH
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Between the Chairman of the Investigating
Committee and
PIXCHOT'S COUNSEL
The Attorney Resents "Reflection" >
Vpon Him IttH uiiso of His Efforts
) ed
to Make Davis Refute Statements is
CO
of Secretary Da Hinder.?Mr. Davis ^
Flatly Coutrmlicts Dallin^or. sa
v Ct'
Chief Engineer Arthur P. Davis \ wi
of the reclamation service, who Fri- th
day flatly denied the truth of many ^
statements made by Secretary Ballin- ^
ger to President Taft and others, 0f
continued Saturday as the witness \vi
before the Hallinger Piuchot inves- 9,
tigating committee. sp
Attorney Pepper read a letter re- tu
cently addressed to tho house coin- en
mittee on ways and means by Sec- ca
retary Hallinger In support of the to
$30,000,000 land issue and speaking he
of the hardships which had result- he
ed to settlers on some of the pro- A
jects where cooperation agreements of
had been entered into by former
Secretary tiarlleld. Mr. Hallinger tli
claimed inducements had been held w
out to settlers to come on the land ai
and that at Toluea, Mont., there had ti
been erected a large signboard inviting
settlers td come there. This 11
sign included the statement: 11
"Settlers can work out their pay- M
ments." el
Mr. Hallinger said ho ordered thin
part of the sign painted out. '
Mr. Davis contradicted practically
every statement in the Hallinger letter.
He said he was with Mr. Halling<
r when he saw the sign; ihal no
orders had been given to paint out
the words and up to a few days ago
they had not been painted our. Mr.
Dj vis said there had eon no cooperative
agreement or certificates d<
at Toluea; that no such signs had as
in" II erecieu anywnere eise, an l mat . ,
undue inducement had never h? en
made to settlers to go into the co- or
operative work. /.t Toluca tiie ?v- Ti
claniation work had been completed
and there was mors water availridc 1?
than land under cu'tivuHon The
lands were public and it was decided M
that they should he taken ip. ^
Chief lOngineer Davis was questionod
further as to the int' i v iew a with ilt
Secretary Ballingcr. lie d-3clareed cc
that the head of the interior ?icpartment
had continued constantly to s*
criticise the reclamation service ti;
and that within the last week told
'the witness he thought the snaries s'
were too high and that he p" ^posed
a new salary scale. Mr. Davis de- ft
clared that the rumors had persist- v<
ed that Director Newall was slated *o t(
go. H
The witness referred further to the ci
enmity against the service in some hi
communities in tho West. Senator h
Sutherland sought to sliow that much c<
of tho dissatisfaction was duo to ci
tho fact that on some projects the P
original estimate of tlie cost of waj
ter had been increased from $20
to a final charge of $30 per acre.
Mr. Davis admitted that this "might" e
' be tho cause of some discontent. c
Mr. Davis testified that Director a
Newell was repriminded by Mr. Hal- p
linger for roauestine the resignation #
' I of E. T. Perkins, who. It was charg- *
ed, received an allowance from the I
Marriman lines while lecturing to ad- ii
vertise the reclamation service. n
A sharp clash between Senator v
Nelson, chairman of the Hallinger- f
1 Pinchot committee, and Attorney
Pepper, counsel for Gilford Pinchot. r]
was precipitated near the close of the I
sessions of the inquiry, when Mr. f
. Nelson accused the lawyer with i
"trifling" with the committee. o
e White with anger, Mr. Pepper de- i
I, manded to know if that was the l
a i judgment of the committee, and s
when several members exclaimed,
"let it pass," he said a reflection, I
which lie resented, had been cast v
j upon him and he questioned the t
j senator's right to make such an as- d
b cusation. s
t Mr. Pepper was referring to sev- a
eral letters in the record in an on- a
deavor to have Chief Engineer Davis. 1
of the reclamation service, who was
on the stand, r.fute fccvoral state- f
1 ments attributed to Secretary Ballin- t
1 gor fo the effect that restoration of , 1^
certain lands in the west to pub- r
^ lie entry after thoy had heen with-J t.
drawn under Secretary Garfield, had | I
!' heen made on recommendation of j v
the reclamation service, Chairman 1
Nelson thought it was a waste of j v
time to go over ground air ady cov- t
ered and objected to the reading of a
I the letters. In each Instance in I
I which the question was 'put. the t
o j witness replied that Mr. Bnllingcr v
r had made a misstatement. ! t
& "Now, I have come to the point f
(i f was after," said Attorney Popper. (
?- "At the conclusion \f your direct 1
g | examination this morning you said, i
[- 'I want it understood that I don't >
* ! wish to insinuate in anything that i
OW TO
CREW HEARD FROM
U1TOSKI) TO HAVK BEEN LOST
BUT WERE SAVED.
>
hooner Sailed from Charleston and
W as Wrecked ami Lost In (iron!
Storm.
The News and Courier says that ,
ipt. It. P. Quilliti, of the schooner
igar it. Itoss lias been safely landin
Buenos AyreB, South America,
the substance of a telegram reived
in Charleston Wednesday by
essrs. Cohen and Wells. The mesgje
was sent from Baltimore by
ipt. W. J. Quillin, father of the
recked sea captain, and master of
e schooner Herbert D. Maxwell.
The schooner Itoss sailed from
larleston on the 22d of last Dcc11
her, with a cargo of 3 75,000 feet
lumber for New York. Nothing 1
us heard of the vessel until Jan.
when the schooner Minnie Crosby
oko to her In longitude GO, latide
39, which is about X00 miles
st of Cape May, New Jersey. The
ptaln of the Minnie Crosby wrote
the agents of the Ross, saying that
> had spoken to her and supplied
?r with provisions for twelve days,
t that time the Ross had lost part
her sails and deckload.
Nothing further was heard from
le vessel until January the 23d,
hen she was reported waterlogged
id abandoned In longitude 4 9, latiide
39.4 1, which is about 900 miles
ist of Capo May. It was believed
tat all on board had been lost,
lereforo the news in Charleston on
/ednesday announcing the safety
p the popular captain will be learn1
with great pleasure by his many
lends along the water front.
Sl'IClDM RV SIIOOOTIXCJ.
aft's lirothei'-in-liUw Shot lliniself
With Pistol.
Suicide by shooting caused the
?ath of Thomas McK. Laughlin, the
isistant treasurer of the Jones &
aughlin Steel company, and a broth-*
-in-law of President Taft and Mrs.
aft, at Pittsburg Friday.
Tlio confirmation of mnnv rnmm-a
i this effect was made by Coroner
iinuel C. Jamison after a visit to
r. Lnughlin's home in Woodland
oad Saturday afternoon. While
r. Laughlin is reported to have died
, ten o'clock Friday morning, the
>roner did not receive news of it
itil 1 p. ni. Saturday when the phycian's
certiftcate of death was roirned.
This stated the cause of tie
ath as cerebral appoploxy and was
gned by Dr. T. M. McKenna.
Persistent calls |flor information
0111 the coroner caused him to instigate
the case, and after a visit
) the Laughlin home he said that
le physician's return was technlilly
correct, although the cerebral
omorrhage had been caused by a
ullet. Effort had been made to con3al
the fact that Mr. Laughlin had
tided his own life because of the
roininence of the family.
Tons of Hud Eggs.
At Boston, Mass., four tons o*
ggs Intended "for use in baker's
akes and pies, have been taken from
cold storage ware house on comlaint
of Dr. George II. Adams, govrnment
food inspector.
have said that Secretary Ballingor
las intentially or consciously done
, wrong act, I don't believe he had.'
Vlll yon explain your statement more
ully?"
Mr. Davis said ho merely meant to
lisclaim any intimation that Mr.
lallinger had done wrong. He re
erred only to his acts, lie continlod,
and not statements, for ninny
if them were wrong. Tie did not
ndlcate whether lie thought Mr. Ralinger
had "intentionally or conciously"
made a misstatement.
Mr. Davis concluded his testimony
icfore the committee Saturday and
van excused at the end of the afernoon
session. lie flatly contralicted
Secretary Itallinger in several
tatements and said the two did not
gree on many reclamation matters,
ilthough both had been and he
loped, still were good friends.
The so-called "black tent" affair
igured conspicuously in Mr. Davis'
cstimony. He said that 10. T. I'ercins,
purchasing agent for the reeclnmation
service at Chicago, went
hrough the west lecturing in a
dark tent to advertise reclamation
vork under orders of Secretary Malinger.
The ofllcials of the service
vore substantially informed, he said,
hat I'1 rlclns was getting an allowin
ec of $500 per month from the
larriman Railway Lines, in addiion
to his $?.,r>00 salary. Mr. Dads
said Perkins proved his fidelity
o the I landman lines by shipping
lfty-nine per cent of material from
'hicago to Me/a, Arizona, where the
eclamatlon service has been engaged
11 a project, by way of their lines,
vbich made the longest and most ex
MMiKive route.
THE HI
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WAGES OF SIN
Sensational Case of Three Persons Charged
With Murder.
SCANDAL IN HIGH LIFE
The Murder Was the Hosult of the
1
Intimacy of a Doctor and the Wife ,
of a Prominent Citizen, Who Was
(
Slain hy the Doctor and His Accomplices.
The Sayler case, which is now on 1
trial at Watseka, 111., is one of the
most sensational murder cases ever
tried in that State. The intensity
of the interest taken by the community
in the oase is duo not only
to the sensational .details of the
crime and of the conditions which
led to it, but also to the fact that
the murdered man and those accused
of being his slayers and their
respective relatves are known to everybody
throughout Iroquois county
and even beyond its limits.
Immediately after the crime was
committed, on duly 11, 1909, popular
feeling in the county was so
strong, that it would have been practically
impossible to obtain a jury of
twelve unbiased men to try the three
persons charged with the murder.
Hut since then the excitement has
cooled down considerably and it is
believed that the selection of the
jury will not be exceedingly dillicult.
The accused, having wealthy
family connection, will be represented
by the ablest counsel that money
could proeue and no effort will be
spared to save them from conviction,
which would mean hanging or lifelong
imprisonment.
The persons to be tried for the
murder of John Byron Snyler, the
Cresont City banker and live stock
broker, are II r William e \iiii,-...
, , , * . i nun n. , iti inn ,
Mrs. Lucy Savior, the widow of the
murdered man and her father, John
Grander. Ira Grander, a brother of
Mrs. Sayler, is also under indictment
hut merly as an accessory after the
fact, IState's attorney John C. Pallissard
will conduct tiie prosecution
and lie professes to feel sure of the
conviction of the accused.
John ltryon Sayler was ki'led in
his own house by William It. Miller
about ten o'cIock. on the nieht of
July 11, 1P00 The defeuc; will
claim that the deed was an act of
self defense and that Dr. Miller di 1
not lire the fatal shots until after
Sayler had attacked with a hatchet.
The prosecution, however, will
try to prove that the act was premeditated
murder and was tho result
of a conspiracy between Dr.
Miller, Mrs. Sayler and her father.
It appears that for many years,
Dr. Miller and Mrs. Sayler ent rlained
Intimate relations which w *re the
talk of the town and caused the community
socially to ostracise both tho
doctor and his affinity. It Is known
that Sayler, the victim of the mur
der, had knowledge of tho relations
existing between his wife and Dr.
Miller for many years, hut that for
the sake of his daughter he refrained
from taking legal steps to obtain
a divorce.
Dr. Miller's wife, a lovable and
hignly respected woman, also knew
of tho scandalous relations of her
husband, but would not seek sepe*. !
ation, fearing that the scandal connected
with a divorce suit would
blight the life of her hoy.
I It is said that Dr. Miller and his
affinity made several attempts to rid
themselves of their respective legal
partners and even tried to inveigle
Sayler into the appearance of an
entaglement with Mrs. Miller, but
failed in every Instance. It is believed
and will be charged by the
prosecution that becoming desperate
the doctor and his affinity resorted
to tho extreme remedy of killing the
man who stood in their way.
What happened at the Sayler residence
on the night of the murder
only the persons charged with the
murder know. They claim that Sayler
came into the room in which
Mrs. Sayler, her father and Dr. Miller
were about to play a game of
cards, that they urged him to join
the game, but that he refused and,
without further provocation attacked
Dr. Miller with a hatchet.
They insist that Dr. Miller merely
acted In self defense when he shot
Sayler. Witnesses who entered the
room of the murder shortly after tho
shooting, assert that there was no
hatchet in the room at that time and
if one was found there, it must have
been placed there later in an attempt
to manufacture evidence.
\VolVor<l Summer School.
1 The meeting of tho county school
| superintendents at flnlnmhio i
w .. ... wi?* ?? i:'inosday
endorsed the Wofford College
Summer school, and adopted resolutions
urging tho district trustees
throughout tho State to aid their
teachers to attend.
WRY HE
PATTEN MOBBED
IN THE MAXCHE8TEH COTTON
KXCIIANUE.
?
WliHe I'nliurt .Mr. Patten Wan Creatly
Chagrined by Display of Hostility
to llini in Manchester.
A hostile demonstration on tho
lloor of the cotton exchange at Mancluster,
England, and one directly
contrasting it for friendliness on tho
com exchange at Liverpool were met
with Friday by James A. Patten, the
Chicago wheat and cotton operator.
In tho first Mr. Patten was mobbed
and probably escaped injury only by
being rescued by the police; in tho
latter ho was greeted with chee-s and
other manisfestatIons of friendliness.
Mr. l'atten sailed from Liverpool Saturday
for New York on board the
Canard line steamer Mauretania.
The brief visit to England of tho
Chicago operator lias been spent
mostly about the Liverpool markets
and Friday lie made up his mind to
run over to Manchester to sm tho
city and visit the cotton exchange.
It was known to Mr. Patten that
there had been threats of an unpleasant
reception should lie visit "Cottonopolis."
but lie refused to believe
they would lie carried into effect.
Those threats, it is said, emanated
from persons on the exchange who
had lost large sums as a result of
Mr Patten's operations in Chicago,
and from others, who held him responsible
for Thursday's rise in tho
price of cotton and v ho bellev? 1 tb.it
his visit to England had for 'ts pu'poso
the manipulation of the market.
Hardly had Mr. Patten touched the
floor of tho Manchester exchange before
the outburst came. Ho was
hooted and jeered by tho throng and
then surrounded ami nustlod Iipo this
street. The crowd followed even
hero nnd <H<1 not desist its manisfestution
of dislike until the American
had been placed in a cab by the police
and started for the railway station,
whore he took the first'train
hack to Liverpool. While unhurt he
was greatly surprised and irritated
at the dislike the people of Mai
Chester had shown for him.
Arriving in Liverpool, Mr. Patten
just had time to visit tho corn exchange'
before it closed for the day.
The floor was crowded with members,
who evinced their sympathy for
him for tho treatment that had been
shown him in Manchester by taking
off their hats and cheering him when
ho referred to the incident,
FAMILY OF MNF IU1LNE1).
North Carolina Negro's Mumble Callin
Destroyed.
John Wagstaff and his wife and
eight children, colored, were burned
to death at their home seven miles
northwest of lioxboro, X. C., on Friday
night in a tire which destroyed
their home.
Particulars of the holocaust are
meagre for the reason that the humble
Wagstaff home was remote, and
no one saw the fire and nothing was
known of it until next morning when
a farm hand on his way to work
found the house in ashes and the
charred hones of the occupants in
tho ruins. Mow the victims wero
! trapped is a mystery as the house
was a one story affair.
Tlie theory is that the fire caught
in the kitchen and suffocated the occupants
before they could escape. The
house is on the farm of W. E. Farley,
a prominent farmer of Person county,
and Wagstaff was one of liis most
trusted tenants. *
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MILLION OF (iHKMS.
Found oil the Examination of One
I/onoNOPio Dollar Dill.
A dispatch from Washington says
ninety-two millions of germs, of all
varieties were found on a one dollar
hill, microscopically examined at the
request of Representative Wiley of
New Jersey, according to the latter's
statement to the house committee
j on banking and currency Saturday,
i This was his argument in support
| of his bill to provide clean currency
J for the people. Among the diseases
circulating with this money were
smallpox, typhoid and scarlet fever
with tuberculosis.
Kills Self.
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Mr. J. J. Rushing, a well-known
man of South Marshvilie township,
N. C., committed suicide about foil**
o'clock Monday afternoon at his
home, the weapon used being a pistol,
the ball going entirely through
his head.
Wants Her to <>o oil Stage.
Mrs. "Jack" Cudahy, whose husband
tied and cut banker Jere F. Idllis
Sunday morning at Kansna
V?VJ,
Mo., when tho latter was found in
the Cudahy home, says she has received
a score of offers to go on the
stage but had declined them all.
RALD