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Paid Circulation Greater Than Any Other Evening Newspaper Published in Oklahoma
VOL. XXXIV. NO. 281.
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HAMON TOLD HER OF "DEAL.” MI
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AUDITOFOTEY
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BOOKS SOUGHT
To Continue
000 cut In school cos ts in the new
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Ida Hadley
hare always believed that there could
be some cuts all of the way down the
the efficiency of the nchools I will
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Got Ready For Death.
Local
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when it i
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Audit Never Made.
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trial, she
Sentence Sermons
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who gets tired of it.
word had come from his wife.
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Advertising
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KIS PAPER GIVEN
$2 DAMAGE AWARD
"Ydu saw a statement in the New
York Times, that you would tcst’fy to
such a donation?”
sensational
where she
DE TROUBLE WID ME EN
PAT LAWYUH, HE BIN HAP
A HEAP O’ ‘SPERIENCE
HANDLIN’ witnesses but
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PRINCIPLEOF
ECONOMY URGE
to the
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were
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Saturday
court.
Ida
Hadley,
once
figure in
sensa-
tional
Oklahoma
murder,
dies ’
present
consulted.
Ten n.,
Partain,
All in
n obile
School li
plan for $3
Former Head Of A. and M,
College Wanted Probe in
1920, He Testifies.
| for next year, beginning July 1.
This committee recommendg $300,-
“I o you know tho witness who juwi 1 ecord this year will have its third
lett the atand! ' asked Senator Walsh, I considerableboost.
and
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MITCHELL IS GIVEN
THIRTY FIVE YEARS
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•Sinclair Is Cited for Contempt
Two of the charges against J.
C. Walton, those charging grand
larceny and preventing a session
of the legislature, were dismissed
Former Governor Denied Re-
lease On Habeas Corpus
Writ in Appeals Court.
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ever.”
W. E. Fightmaster said that the
"Ye, but that story is untrue,
is false."
Story Tod in His Office.
Hays said lie had no ida as
sider $300,000 Saving Out-
lined By Business Men.
small, well built, with a mass of au- l
burn hair and dark brown eyes. Askeo '
once, while in the penitentiary, why •
she had been so bad, she mud "1 wm I
spoiled when I w‘as a kid. Then, I‘m
jealous."
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Miss Stinson with tears streaming
down her cheeks, sald Smith feared
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nal court of appeals was given in open
court by his attorney.
Mitchell. with Leo Gardner. is also
charged in district court with the
cobberx of the Capitol HlH*tate banK,
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Snow Will Fall Over Sunday;
Drop Irj Temperature
Seen.
was sentenced to ten years
PARIS, March 22.—' P)- Gen. Robert
George Nivelle, who commanded the
French troops at Verdun during the
European war, la dead.
HOI RL¥
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approve the proposals. I thardly
I think that the cuts agreed upon by
the board will total $370,000 how. I
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romise To Con-
Jess Smith Lived In Con*
stant Fear Of Attorney Gen-
eral, Former Wife Says.
WASHINGTON, March 22.
—(P?—Jake Hamon himself
told her of a “deal” at the re-
publican convention in Chi-
cago in 1920, by which he
wasto have a cabinet posi-
tion, Miss Roxie Stinson, di-
vorced wife of the late Jess
Smith, testified today before
the senate oil committee.
Smith also told her Hamon
was to enter the cabinet, she
said.
Daugherty got word. Miss Stinson
snid Smith told her. that "they" were
"double crossing him" and he. Daugh-
eity. went to the Chicago hotel con-
ference at 2 o'clock in the morning
which agreed on Harding as the nomi-
. ce, and by "strong arm" methods ar-
ranged to have Harding backed for
the nomination.
Smith Feared Daugherty.
Through Miss Stinson's testimony
she repeated often her charge that
Smith was * e "tool" of Daugherty
and "lived in fear."
Mias Stinson reiterated that Smith
was the "enmeshed tool of this man,
Harry Daugherty" and before his sui-
cide r. d given many nfanifestations
of fear
On his last trip home, Miss Stinson I
said Smith was in mortal fear and
added:
"I'm afraid; they’re going to get
me.**
On his last trip home, she said, he
weather in city had destroyed all of his checks and
banls books, and had “his house in or.
college, and that liter he
and colder
Marries Oil Man.
A little later, Ida Hadley was mar-
ried to Jack Daugherty, an oil man
of Wichita Falls, Texas. From Wichi '
All to be Present.
Other members of the board, E. F.
Loughmiller, J. T. Spivey and L. O.
Brooks, could not be reached for state,
ments Saturday morning but all of
the bcard members are in the city and
will be present at the evening meet-
ing.
The proposals w hich are made by
the citizens’ commttee include the
abrogation of tho sliding scale fur
teachers salaries in so far as it applie 8
to those receiving $1,2000 or more,
leaving all salaries above that amount
unchanged for next year. Enrolment
in the highschool is fixed at thirty
students to a class. In the junior high-
school and the grades the enrolment
(Continned ou Page 2, Column 4.)
tion. Ho said
and inspector s
( Jack Mitchell, 20 years old, was for
mally sentenced to serve thirty-nive
years in the state prison on his con
vietion of highway robbery hy T. G
Chambers, district judge, Saturday.
Mitchell was found guilty on this
charge nearly a month ago, but sen
tence by the court delayed until his
motion for a new trial could be over
ruled. Notice of appeal to the crimi
“HARDING WAS
. the comimittee to go into campaign
contributions," Hays returned. “I as-
" sumo the committee considers that
• irrelevant as I do. Besides, lam not
• the source of information now.”
. The witness then began a long state-
ment ‘aiout the general subject of
* campaign contributors. Senator Stan-
♦ tield, republican, Oregon, objected
“Cwprriaht, im bs ru nen Ky nlest ina>
LOCAL FORE AST--Snow and colder
fonighti with minimum tempernt ure 28 to
34; Sunday vrobubly snow, colder.
SHIPPERS’ I OR E AST-- About treez.
ing northern and western Oklaloma to.
night.
. Will Hays denies sinqair wiped out
I G. O. P. campaign deficit with gift of
75,000 shares of stock.
Miss Roxie Stinson tells Daugherty
, probe committee that Jake Hamon
I told her of "deal" whereby he was to
। get place in Harding cabinet
Bllzzard raging in western Kansas
Imperils lives of 130 persons, inelud.
Ing many women and children, who
’ are trapped and Isolated by deep
Snow drifts.
Zoe Wilkins, Kansas City osteopath
was ve tim of own intrigues and in
sane, relativs claim.
1 has an exit for the man
Coliseum Ready for City9 s
Record Auto Show; Dealers
Busy Moving in Their Cars
AsatherEaBOAROFAVORS
farmer, w as
to Falls they went to San
the committee prosec utor. nanwie-T.....
Yez,u ,.Fo d8,“or ten PARKINSON GOING
"It has been testified to before an- TO SAN FRANeKen
other committee," went on Senator I• VMI TnHNUldUV
Walsh, "that Mr. Sinclair gave cer-
tain stock to wipe out a deficit of the
Editorial
(!TY commisaioners ought to call
in Dan Cummings’ committee of
twelve to see what they can* do with
the legal G mills for running the city
He Could Escape,
Ida Hadley Daugherty, the womeh
। who, eight years ago shot Sheriff
1 Jake Giles of Beaumont. Texas, in
an effort to aid her husband, Paul
Hadley, to escape from a moving
train, and who died Friday night at
__-_________________________ Snow will be general over the state
but members Indicated that no such by evening and will continue through- - ____
step probably .would he taken. out .Sunday. Une and so far as it doesn’t impulr |
Hays Takes Stand. With the forecast drop in tempera- 1
Hays followed the oil operator and | ture, the snow, will soon begin to ,
Teapot dome lessee immediately on stay on the ground, and it is prob- l
the witness stand. akle that when this begins March's
. NEW YORK, March 22.—The White
Star liner Olympic, outward bound for
England. oday collided with the
steamer Fort St. George of the Fur-
ness-Bermuda line in the Hudson
river.
Tho Fort St.* George had about 45
feet of rail on her suu deck smashed,
returned to her dock.
VERDUN BATTLE CHIEF
IS DEAD AT PARIS
awarded $2 damages in circuit
court here today from R. H.
Alexander, subscription solici-
tor for the Chattanooga Times,
for "mental anguish, worry and
loss of sleep" because of fail-
ure to receive the newspaper.
TWELVE PAGES- OKLAHOMA CITY, SATURDAY, MARCH 22, 1924.
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the home of her mother in
Texas, belleved that women i
more loyal than men.
She had reason for her belief.
division. Anderson drew $70 for room 1, •---
which was claimed by G. M. Ander What HUS DCWIM of--
son. According to the warrant at this A. G MeFeels. former owner of
time the Prosecution brought out he lone ot the fimt bakertes In the elty? . _______________
He is now in Monrovia, Cal., where he being "exposed," and also being shot
' ... or killed.
National
Harry Sinclair is cited to,sennte for
contempt when he refuses to testify
before the senate's oil investigating
committee.
f a m.
7 a, m.
Herm tor Stanfield then called Hays'
) attention to the law of entempt to
1 indicate to him that he did not have
4 to answer irrelevant questions. The
Acceptance of eleven pro-
posals of the citizen’s corp-1
mittee to reduce the school
budget 8316,710 will be with
reservations, five of the eight
members of the board of edu
cation said Saturday morn-
ing.
The first meeting to consider the
budget and the proposals of the
citizen's committee will be held Sat-
'unlay evening at the board of educa-
tion building.
"The suggestions are in line with I
our present city necessity for low !
ered taxes," Charles Evans, prestdent
of the board, said Saturday. "I fa
vor them with some few modifica
tions. As I have heard them dis
In a fairyland of wisteria blossoms,
southern smflax, rose garlands, soft
lights and palm trees, Oklahoma City
automobile dealers were moving ex
lican national chairman sald ho dia pensive show cars Into the coliseum
Somewhere between Los Angeles
and San Francisco, Tred Parkinson.
Et‘e examiner and Inspector, wanted
as a wit 25s in the impeachment trial
of John A. Whitehurst, president of
the state board or agriculture. is rid.
in., the cushions of a railway car.
Mrs. Parkinson said Saturday she
received a telegram from her hus.
band Etating that he was leaving Los
Angeles for Ban Francisco.
LINER OLYMPIC HITS
HUDSON RIVER SNIP
Saturday, for the opening of the
eighth annual automobile show Mon
day noon.
All is in readiness for the opening.
The 13,000 foot dance floor was being
polished, the last touches put to the
extraordinarily lovely decorations, the
big-time muslcal show arranged, and
dealers of accessories busy with the
biggest and most expensive exhibit,
ever seen at an Oklahoma automobil
show. Twenty-nine accessory booths
are placed, and there are to be from
150 to 175 automobiles, the largest
number ever shown here.
Twenty thousand dollar* has been
spent on the show this year. Edgar 'I
Bell, manager, estimated. Five hun
dred automobile dealers from over th»
state have accepted invitations to be
present at the Wednesday show, and
to attend the big noonday luncheon.
the source of the Times stutement.
“Would it surprise you to know that
that information came from your of
flee?” asked Senator Walsh.
“It could not have come from there.”
was the reply, "hs it is not a fact.”
Hays identified Joe O’Neil, a forme.*
newspaper man, as an employee of bls
office. Asked if O'Neil had not given
the statement to the Times, Hays said
he could not have dore so as there
was no basis for the story. *
"Please tell us what Mr. Sinelair’
had to du with making up the deficit,’
said Senator Walsh.
Hays Argues With Committee.
“I assume it is not the purpose of
jailbreak at Muskogee,
was imprisoned during her
republican national committee. Tell
us about it.*’
। “I can't tell you about it,” returned
Hays. “It is not true.”
in the state penitentiary. Six of
attempting to override the ruling of
W. P. Hawkins, justice of the peace
who bound Walton to the district
court on five counts charging him
with diversion of state funds after
he had overruled a motion to dis
a PV
Berry Doubtrul.
"I will vote tor the sugiestions
only in part,” J. W. Berry said. "I
Earl Leech sald that ther wer
several nt the proposed cuts to which j
he would oppose his vote’ atthouph ■
the general idea of reduction met ids
favor. He refused to stato which
items met his disapproval, saying
that be would make that known at I
the board meeting.
Grant Landon and A. C. "arsohs |
superintendent of schools, were in
conference over the proposals of (be |
citizens committee Saturday morning
"I've not et considered them long
enough to make a statement," Lan-
don said. "But I will probably stand
for some, of them and sit on others
at the meeting tonight. "Ill say that
much.
audit was |
Markets
Chicago wheat closed firm, %01
to %c h gher. May $1,054 01,056
July $1,06%.
Stock mnrket closed irregular; Cool
idge’s attitude on tax bill strengthens
stocks.
Okiahoma la in for more snow and
colder weather.
‘The snow started Saturday morn-
ing and there is more of it sched-
uled for Sunday. The latest sweep
began in New Mexico, came over
Colorado and the panhandle of Texas,
and is going over Oklahoma from the
west to east.
Tbo snow and rain will be accom-
panled with a temperature ot 28 to
Nu degrees. This.will average 10 de-
drees under Friday, when the maxi-
mum was bl and the minimum 37.
Snow Melts Fast.
Though the snow started early in
the morning, it melted and ran off
without giving a boost for the March
records already broken. Only .3 of
an inch were recorded at the bureau.
Rain began at 7 o'clock and turned
into allow about 9 o'clock. The wea-
ther man paid the chances the
snow turning to rain later were slim.
Livestock Warning.
Livestock warnings were sent out
for Oklahomu by the bureau Friday
The wave hit the west of the state
about 7 o'clock, progressed to Okla-
cor' charging Walton with grand
larceny of $5,000 was started before
Judge I wkins in the county court
room Saturday. In this case It is al
AContinued on I',,, 2 Coluun •
in the junior high schools. The com-
l mittee recommends that these wj
abandoned.
For not to exceed $000 each, these
three pools can be maintained dur-
ing the hot summer vacation months
and give blessed recreation and re-
lief to 10,000 taxpayers and twice as
many children.
The board can cut $300,000 and be
easy on sick leave, substitute teach-
ers. playgrounds and swinmfng
pools.
Efficient management can grow
and still economise.
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S7I OKLAHOMA CITY TIMES
tanbenhoneonaenenntedan Entered st ib, Oklahoma Qt. Outaboma, powtortiee as vecond cinua mall undo, sot of atareb t U7$
arternoon in justice
cussed by the members of tho board
they meet with favor from the entire I
body."
MAN WHO MISSED
Will Hays Denies Flatly Sin-
clair Wiped Out G, 0. P,
Fund Deficit With G ft.
WASHINGTON, March 22.
filed.
The state criminal court of appeals
did not fssue a writ of habeas corpus
after he had appealed to that court
for such a writ.
The court ruled to show cause, re.
t enable April 2, when a hearing
will t>e held. The court required Wal-
ton to put up a bond of $5,000 to in
sure his appearance at that time.
board of agriculture in 1920 with n
request an audit of tho books be
made. He said Whitehurst acceded ,
and a resolution was passed author-
izing the audit. He was told that
the resolution could not go into ef
",
• —(A)-, By unanimous vote
, the oil committee today voted
4 to certify Harry F. Sinclair to
, the senate for contempt as a
. result of his refusal to testify
, further before the commit-
, tee.
The decision a to the exact pro-
9 cedure will be held in abeyance until
• the return of Atlee Pom ere ne and
• Owen J. Rbberts, special government
. counsel in the oil lease case.
Senaters said two courses were
* Qpen—contempt proceedings before
• the senate itself, or certification of the
• ■ an to the distrlet attorney of the
. District’ of Columbia for grand jury
proceedings.
• Sinclair refused to testify atter the
« committee had voted unanimously to1
. overrule the objctions of hs attor-
neys. Despite the committee's position,
ha said, he must reserve whatever
• i vldenco he Ima for the courts. The
Preipitation to time. ........ 3.86
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March 22. — M.
north Georgia
her part in tho murder of sherirt
Gilts she was acquitted, but for a
has a large bakery and confectionery.
Mise Stinson declared that in dis.
cussing whisk) deals, Smith told her
specifically that it was "only through
Mr. Daugherty’s influence" that they
1i ould be "put through.”
Mi is Stinson also told the commit-
" her version of the affair in a
Cleveland hotel, in which the attor-
ney general charged she was regie,
tered with A. L. Fink, of Buffalo. N.
1 .as man and wife, and made an at-
'•■nipt to blackmail him (the attorney
general) for $150,000.
Charges "Frame-Up."
Miss Stinson's reply to the attorney
general’s charges in that regard was
I that it was a "trame up.”
Her version was that she went to
Cleveland to meet Fink, to "talk over
a big deal" and had him to dinner in
■ her room. There, she said, Finle told
her he had registered them “under n,
fictitious name " Miss Stinson said
was incensed when she learned of
I it. Later she said Fink camo and told
her they both were under arrest for
l "registering under tictitous names"
and they were "headed for the bars
unless she promised to say nothing
damaging to Harry Daugherty."
Miss Stinson said she was told that
a man named Ellis had mnde an affi.
davit that $150,000 would lie paid di.
vided between her, Fink and Ellis, if
she would prom lac her silence.
Refused to Yield.
Fink told her, she said that "thest
were holding Ellis" and that she wan
in danger. He called up Samuel Unger,
lelder. broker, she went on, and told
him ’I can't make this woman under*
stand the serlousness of things."
Ungerlelder came up to her room,
she said, and told her that he "didn‘
understand much about it, but It
seema there is a conspiracy against
Harry Duugherty."
"Ungerlelder told me that 1 would
he behind the bars,” she went on. "I
told him to take me, that this was a
frame up pure and simple."
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fect until two men
who had not been
was passed were
then governor, stating that the audit
could not be made because the books
I ngerleider Mild, she recounted, that
Fink and Ellis "were being held under
850.000 bonds,” and pointing to Fink
said, "he is so scared he will testify '
to anything." •
“Can't Strongarm Me."
"I asked Ungerlelder why Mal
Daugherty or Harry Daugherty, or
whoever was engineering the conspir-
acy, didn't come over themselves,"
She went on, "and Ungerlelder said
‘they just want your promise not to
tnik about Harry Daugherty.’"
She told Ungerlelder that “they
couldn't strong arm her," and that
there isn’t going to be a convenient
bullet through my brain," and thot
she would testify in Washington.
HL Mum Stiuson said, sho heara
charge the defendant. It was necee where she became ill and was taken I
sary for Walton to be without bond home to her mother, Mrs. Ella Me |
before such a writ could have been | Claln. at Hull.
She was just 30 years old when she
died. Sho was an attractive woman. I
Testimony of J. W. Cant-
well, former president of the
Oklahoma A. & M. college,
concerning his efforts to se-
cure an audit of the books of
M. J. Otey, forint financial
secretary of the institution,
found $133,00(1 short, and
evidence from the state audi-
or’s office relating to the
shifting of Jack Anderson
from one salary fund to an-
other, composed the proceed-
ings of the impeachment
court Saturday.
Transfers Rapid.
Testimony relating to Jack Ander
son showed one month he was em '
ployed us clerk of the dairy depart-
ment at $100. Later as Inspector of
livestock department at $105 and
again us an employe of the dairy <11- 1
visions at $125. As clerk of the dairy !
Gheliny
TIMES STRONG U
INTO VICTORY'
Publfshed Daily xcept Sunday
50c per month; $8.00 per yenr in advance.
E
Wednesday nt the Huckins, when the
Oklahoma City motor car dealers will
be hosts.
With Benson's orchestra the big at-
traction, and an unusual novelty
vaudeville show in addition, the en
tertainment has reached a new high
»• 1ard. Cert Inly, with its festoons
of georgeous flowers, its hundreds of
colored lights for which $1,000 worth
of "juice” is required, and the build
I( - fragrant with incense, the dealers
never have offered the public any
thing so exquisitely lovely. In a ma
terlal way, everything to add to the
< omfort of their guests has been done
Workmen are busy draining puddles
around the coliseum so trere will be
plenty of clean parking space: seven-
ty-five oil heaters burning night and
day are taking the dampness from th.
"how room; a lovely rest room with
easy chairs and 1 maid in constant
attende nce, has been furnished, and
there la a model kitchen where hoi
KCoutluued on Fage 2, Coluwn 3,)
homa City by 9 o'clock, to Enid by
10 o'clock, but had not touched cast-
< committee's only recourso now is to -tn towns by noon.
, cortity him to the senat for contempt.
Walton. in his application for a
writ of habeas corpus alleged there1
was no legal evidence to authorize
his being held for the district court
on five charges.
Larce y Cpunt I’p.
John Barry, assistant attorney gen
eral, appeared for the state at the
request of J. K. Wright, county at- ।
torney. Ben Willams, one of Wal
ton’ attorneys, appeared before the ,
court and filed the application for ,
the writ. ,
The preliminary hearing on the ।
diness for opening of auto
w Monday.
! « ying that 'Ibis question is immna
f Bilal and Irrelevant." but Senator
(alsh Insisted the question lie put
Ij as relevant. There was a long
Ywrangle.
Motion Voted Down.
% Senator Stanfield's motion finally
. .4 was i oted down 6 to 4.
I dor” for his death.
Court d.amlsses two counts against , Smith also told her, she said, that
J. — walton, ._____ |,e feared Mr. Daugherty himself. She
Audit of otova w0L. nt t ana w told of an incident at “the aback” in
comege oncht 8 1020 cotht inddaonio when Mr. Daugherty "swore at
in Whitehurst. ua. land abused shamefully Jess Smith.
dhlsh went to a hardware store and
bought a gun, she said, and had de-
ided to kill himself.
Daugherty "Put Through Deals."
PRICE THREE CENTS
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citizens committee had done no more
than voice the sentiment of tee
board. "They haven't sprung any- l
thing we weren't trying to ry ■
out.”
UIL MAGNATE
BALKS WHEN
mo to TALK
these years she served. betng granted
a parole in 1922.
He Deserted Hrr. were nine months behind. j
,Hadley hnd been paroled before On close examinatton Cantwell said 1
that ti me, by Governor Robertson, /te 1921 legislature appropriated;
rom the day of his parole he never s10...... to make up a ded It in col
attempted to communicate with her lege tunds. He snia about the time I
| or aid her in any way. Then he was he lett he was intormed a further I
arrested and convicted of the murder dericlency of $50,000 nad been dis
| of an aged couple m Arizona. This covered
tne h wan Eiven the death penalty Two questions which Cnntwell was
J. C. Walton, deposed governor, 1,1 Ihe.weeks preceding the hang. « ontimued „„ Fuge .. , olumn S,
was committed techatcally to the Ok- IK A Hadley again sprang into the---- — __
lkhom county jail Saturday when | limelight. Would she again try to
his counsel refused to kt his formersave her husband by desperate
bond of $5,000 stand. means, was the question asked. Ferj
Tiie former chief executive did not , she had declared just before her re |
have a private cell in-the county Jal), I lease from the penitentiary that she '
however, but was in the custody of, still loved him although he had de !
the court while a writ of habeas cot ' serted her.
pus was being filed before Hie crim- 1 The day of the execution arrived
Inal court of appeals, ana Hadley was taken from the heavy '
Writ Denied. Isuord which had surrounded him.
On the writ defense counsel was ! puid. the. penalty for his crimes.
a sharp letter from IL I- Willams,
Cantwell testified the
never made during his
I ' question; that he would state again
• that the story about Sinclair giving
a 75,000 shares of stock was false.
"I could only give my best judg
’ment,” Hays said, “ as to Sinclair’s
‘subscription."
• "My judgment is that It did not ex
Eceed $76,000."
. Sinclair’s Statement.
. In a statement made after the corn
mittee had refused unanimously to
' oncede his plea against the authorit5
"t the investigatora, he declared he
slid not desire to plead that his replies
/ night tend to incrlminate him. bo-
, ause there was nothing in the facts
elating to his Teapot Dome lease that
was incriminating.
4 I shau reserve any evidence I
uay be able to give," Sinclair said to
. 4Camtiuuuad au Faze 2 Calum 2
,u
made exp
favors business
WOKEN LUYAL
SET 101 SAID
.. living at Hua city. The testlmuny j
.. . , n--------- . |o George F Clark, assistant state
Husband Deserted Her After auditor, wan interrupted when Cunt
She Had Slain Shefiff So
FaUs schools.
Sunday.
Cantwell told of coning before the ;
THE WAY OF THE
TRANSGRESSOR—
Wouldn’t be so full if it looked
hard,
is fenced in with red tape.
Is frequently eaklet than the way
of the prosecution.
Is often . rowied with sentiment
al sympathisers.
is no longer sin but a series of
psycho-complexes.
nen- a pm.I budget. Superintendent Parsons, with
’ ‘ Il AnAD ( his request for a $67,000 increase, and
yh rAKN
F — — ’ • ■ ——lEIIE— Most of the citizens’ recommenda-
tions are good. A few of the ideas
are too harsh and false economy.
For example we hav $75,000 in-
vested in three fine swimming pools
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