Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-15
THIEF WORKS SHREWD CAME
Walks Away with Valuable Seal Cloak
While Clerk Looks On.
LEvlcH CASE is DRAWING A BIG CROWD
OficiaIs DO Not Know How Go Proceed
I'm Case of walter E. stone, Ar
rested In Cleveland on n
Charge of Bigamy.
prom a star Correspondent

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DIES MONIES, Nov. II
theft OF a $3.50 sealskin woman's coat was
accomplished at noon today by a stranger
In a bold manner. but with cleyerness
The stranger, who was well dressed. went
TO a department store and looked over the
clcaks. He picked out one worth $3.50 and
said he thought his wife would like It. hat
she was at a hotel and unable to come "a
the store, that he would like to take the
CLOAK to the hotel and have 1t tried on
and would like 1t IL the clerk could be sent
along to do the fitting. The program was
carried out. but once ab the hotel the
stranger slipped away from the clerk with
the sealskin on his arm and walked out
through the office and into the street. IL
was all done before the clerk could realize
how the game was being played and the
stranger was out Of sight in a minute. for
it was raining and he turned down an al
ley. The man had no room at the hotel.
but had been there previously and said he
would take aroom and that his wife would
come back with him. A description OF the
man was given, but he is not known here.
Continuing the LevIeh Trial.
The trial of Harry Levich continues in
the district court and is the center of at
traction in the city. The states witnesses
today took up the circumstances which sur
rounded the murder and testified to various
circumstances leaving an indication that
LeVich had planned the murder. Wit
nesses testified that Levioh made sundry
threats against Isaac Ffnkelstein, that on
the night in question he borrowed a re-
volver at a saloon, that he was seen near
where the murder was committed. that he
was seen with a negro, etc. There was a
great crowd at the hearing and as the
courtroom is in an old business block now
used for a temporary courthouse, the Judge
moved to one Of the lower rooms for
safety, stating that he feared, the walls OF
the building would give way under the
strain. This announcement came near pre-
cipitating a panic as the crowd started
to leave the room.
stone Will Answer for Bigamy.
1t is expected that Walter E. Stone of
Cleveland, O., will be brought back to Des
Moines next week to answer to accusations
made against him by Miss Alice Donahue,
who lived with him several months and
claims he imposed a mock marriage upon
her. He has been arrested in Detroit,
where he had gone after marrying a
woman in Canada. The woman he married
there was a Miss Van Wagner and she at
first announced her intention Of accom-
panying Stone to Des Moines to face the
other woman, but 1t is learned she will
not come. 1t is a question puzzling to the
officials to know what to do with the case,
as they feel that they may not be able to
make any charge against Stone in court.
The only way he can be prosecuted will be
to accuse him of bigarny on the claim that
his marriage in Des MONIES was in fact a
common law MARRIAGE
Preparing the GaIIows.
The execution Of Lewis Brooks and AL
bert Phillips will occur at the state peni-
Tertiary at Anamosa December Is II moth
ing interferes Herewith. When B. W. Gar
rett, the governors secretary, was at Ana
mosa this week he met Sheriff Parker OF
Buena Vista county. who was there getting
ready for the execution The gallows will
be ready in due time. No Interference from
the governor is expected, but the supreme
court may grant a new trial and prevent the
carrying out Of the orders OF the lower
court.
History of Fraudulent Preacher.
A letter has been received here from e. p.
Speer, secretary of the board of missions for
the Presbyterian church, in which he gives
=" ANAA ~ VI WV MAJ III oCOA6 O DdhlNAt
who has been lecturing in Iowa churches
and passing himself off as a reformed
brigand engaged in missionary work and
raising funds for a school in Syria. Mr..
Speers shows by his record that Daniel has
been engaged in a work OF deception for a
number of years; that he became engaged
to a young English woman while he had a
wife and family living and obtained a large
amount of money from the English woman's
brother; that his credentials are unreliable;
that he never was a brigand and that most
Of the stories he tells are fiction.
Requests OF Mrs. Callahan.
The report on the estate Of Mrs. Martha
C. Callahan has been submitted by the ex-
ecutors OF her Will through her attorney,
C.. A. Dudley. AS has been previously stated
Mrs. Callanan's requests were in excess of
what is contemplated in the law, which
stipulates that a husband or wife cannot
leave by will more than one-fourth of his
or her property to corporations during the
lifetime Of a spouse. Mrs. Callanan's largest
requests we're $4,000 to the Tuskegee in
stitute and $4,000 to the Home for the
Aged, Des Moines. After all debts were
paid II was found that the balance for dis
tribution was $40, AS. The tax ferrets re-
duced the sum total materially. The I'M
divided requests were very much cut also
by the collateral, The individual requests
OF $1,000 each to Mrs. c. P. Holmes and to
Mrs. Sarah Whitney of Waterloo were re-
duced by the payment Of taxes to $3.50 each,