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The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-06-12
WOMAN
ACCUSES YOUTH
OF MURDER
TELLS SHERIFF, WHEN PETER
SONS BODY Is uNEARrHEp,
YOUNG MAN AND COMPANION
KILLED HiBb--ARREsTEp.

BAY CITY. Mich, Juno 12.-Guided
by Mrs. Chas. Barnett, held on sus-
picion OF having knowledge OF how
Oscar Peterson, q neighbor, met his
deathsand why her husband has van
ished, the sheriff and his men In q
lonely spot, about 200 yards from the
Barnett shack. dug up the body OF
Peterson.
The woman, whose admission that
she knew Peterson was dead came
etfty after having been put through
the third degree" by the sheriff,
on a youth, Frank Peters, who works
on farm IA miles from here. and
companion. She says she saw the
body OF Peterson dragged from the
cellar Of his home and buried in the
spot she revealed.
Peters, who is also under arrest.
admits having visited Peterson
on Memorial day and that he saw
him the day after. but denies he had
any part In his death. or any knowl-
edge OF how he met II.
An autopsy on the remains failed. TO
reveal any marks OF violence. The
viscera were turned over 10 Drs. Brad
ley and Scrafford,E who are testing
for poison.
Love as Motive.
As the woman stood on the brink OF
Peterson's grave in the sand ridge,
she dramatically declared that her
husband Is the only man she loves
and while she admitted that she was
Peterson's mistress. she said she
yearned for her husbands return. The
woman has been married four times
II Is suggested as theory that she
might have accomplished fetersUus
death and secured false deed OF the
Peterson home. where she was living
when arrested, 10 entice her husband
hack TO her.
An alleged false deed TO the 40
acres occupied by Peterson was found
in the register of deeds office this
morning, II having been filed Two
weeks ago by the woman. The pur-
rorted owner was Cora Miller, of Mid
land. but the records show no sucn
person owning property here. Attor-
ney John Golden drew the deed, as
well as the false bill Of sale, and says
he prepared both documents for the
signatures. They were brought back
to him properly signed and witnessed.
but the signatures OF principals ana
witnesses are all In the same general
handwriting and style indicating
education. Mrs. Barnett is nearly SIX
feet tall. gaunt, muscular, with SKIN
tanned almost as dark as an Indians.
while her black, coarse hair, now IN
clined TO be straight heightens the
effect.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-06-12
O u r F l. A G
BY THOMAS j. DAWSON.
Detroit, Mich,

Beneath its folds bravest bled;
Beneath its stars heroes died,
And the heights where soldiers led
1t hoated DER CORY tide.
Then lift it on high and let ,-1l
This type of sacred liberty,
Forever floating DER land and
1t is greater than King
1t is dyed in the wool with the blood of the brave,
Its stripes not stains from the lash Of slave;
They crimsoned streams from wide
That burst from the heart Of nations pride.
Then here in the glow OF a newborn day;
Here where freedoms for aye
Shall CLEAN DER the land Of the blue and the gray,
To thee our flag, we sing.
Beneath its stripes of burning light,
Beneath it's of heavenly hue,
Brave swords flashed forth~in freedoms fight
For you, dear flag. for you.
We uplift you now/in the azure morn,
You shall float forever where liberty sings;
May tyrants fear our patriots scorn
We pray Thee King of Kings.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-06-12

CHICAGO. June 12.--Contests for
seats have now reached the Lone Star
state in the Republican national com
mittee which is preparing for the tenn
porary roll call seats for the conven-
ton proper, on June 16.
The program OF yesterday settled
cases involving Two delegations-at-
large and y district delegations. a
Total OF 30 delegates. The uncertain,
delegate Is from Tennessee, the eighty
district. He belonged TO the OlivYf
crowd, which has been instructed tyr
Taft When the committee adjourped
Yesterday, counting the numbeW or
votes. gained by Taft as so. his hnan-
oager$@Aaimed a total number OF dele
gates On the temporary roll cQl actu-
ally instructed and not including dele
rates for TAFT, either by Endorsement,
or declaration to be 554. The allies
estimate is 539.
The hearing Of the Texas cases pro;
duced the only picturesque scenes OF
the day&rJesse NJ. l.ittleton, counsel
for the Oliver delegates, asserted that
the Hale men cafur-ipto the hall arm
ed. and displayed a huge Ratchet with
WHICH ilt EAlu lilt llNtS VI AiC OiiNNi
men had been threatened
Newell Sanders, chairman OF the
state central committee. supplied a
counter irritanl TO the Littleton hatch
Of exhibition by telling. in his argu-
inent. of the desperate fight which the
Hale men were compelled to make
before they We're allowed in the hail.
and OF now a big colored man was
about to chop him with an Oliver
Ratchet before some OF the Hale men
put the Negro suddenly into state
of coma His account OF the struggle
by thescommlttee with much Interest
II was made apparent that any at
tempt TO put into the Republican plat
form plank committing the party to
enacting legislation designed 10 re-
strict the power of the federal courts
In the issue of injunctlons Will cause
bitter battle.
There IL going to be mighty
struggle, too II an attempt is made
10 put In the platform an Endorsement
OF the Seth Lowe Samuel Gompers bill
TO amend the Sherman antitrust law.
Van Cleave Is Bitter.
James w. Van Cleave. of St Louis.
president of the National Association
Of Manufacturers, and chairman of the
National Council for Industrial De-
Tense. got here with the officers OF the
organizations OF which he is head, and
Samuel Gompers, president of the Am
erican Federation Of Labor, and the
0 other members Of the executive coun.
Gil Of the federation, landed in Chi
cago this evening.
Mr.. Van Cleave anticipated the
labor conference by issuing a formal
statement in which he bitterly at
tackled the position which the union
labor men are expected To assume,
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Grocery Clerk Bridegroom
Rudely Torn From Daughter
Of Governor Cutler

SALT LAKE, Utah, June 12.--
Thomas Edward Butler. who eloped
TO Ogden on Tuesday with Mabel Cut
Ter. daughter OF Gov Cutler, appnr>
emily has lost his bride Mr.. and
Mrs. Butler returned 10 Salt Lake yes
terday and Gov. Cutler induced his
daughter to go home. He said she
would stay there. Young Butler Is q
clerk IN a grocery store.
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Trumpetings From
the q. o. p. Elephant

CHICAGO, June Geo. w. Ston-
or, az years old. who passed through
Chicago II years ago in wagon
drawn by two horses. is I'm Chicago
-frem Madison Wis 30 attend HIRE toff-
vention. Mr.. Stone is the oldest resi-
dent in his home town and has been
interested in politics almost since the
time his father finished a log cabin
on the shores Of Lake Mendoza. Sept.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-06-12
IN SUPREME COURT.

LANSING. Mich, June l2.--The SUI
preme court heard the following
cases: Reed VS.. Loudans; Stuart VS..
Greatnyea: Tefft vs. Tefftt Spearman
VS. Alberts; Bethuen VS. Albert. In the
matter OF Phillips. Eleven and ~
were the only additional cases added
TO the call for Friday. ~
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LABOR PLANK TO
CAUSE LIVELY
STRUGGLE
CAPTAINS OF INDUSTRY AT RE
PUBLICAN CONVENTION WOULD
BATTER DOWN UNIONS INTER
EsTs-554 VOTES FOR TAFT.
sIruATInN IN rIGunrs.

A revised table showing whore Taft
stood after tho four needed votes were
captured follows. tho nsuros being con
coded by tho allies"
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Boy FratrIcIde Guilty.

MOUNDSvILLE, w. Va. June IL.
Lyman Owens, 14-year-old boy. was
found guilty OF murder In the first
degree yesterday. with a recommen.
dation that his punishment be life i'm
prisonment. Owens killed his broth
er.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-06-12

6. 1897. when the boys only play
mates were Indian papooses.
The colored contestants from the
south who have been unseated are
lee ping up their agitation and are
slill threatening tronhle-.I-C- Man
nipg. one OF the white members OF
the, Alabama delegation which was
refused recognition, addressed an aud
iencs of 500 colored men In Odd Eel
lows hall, Safest.
They tell as" he declared, that
there wifi be more Negroes In this
convention than ever before, but the
Negroes want TO say for themselves
who their representatives shall be and
not have them ground out by the
Hitchcock machine"
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Senator-elect w. O. Bradley, OF
kentucky, says his experience before
the national committee I'm presenting
the Kentucky contests before that
body. which he lost by a wide mar
gin. reminds him of the scrap between
the woodpecker and the hawk. You
know the hawk got after the wood
pecker one day and give him the time
of his life. The poor old woodpecker
was being pressed when he espied
"a hole in an old tree TO crawl into
and he made a bee line for II. Just
ss he got his head and wings in. }
the hole, the hawk amputated the rest
OF him. AS the woodpccker fell down
inside the tree he shouted back at
the hawk: Than God. MIR. Hawk,
for saving this much of me-
Quartet music has taken the place
Of political discussion among the man
ayers lof the allied candidates for pres
identI Whenever they assemble to-
getheg the treble -of Jimmie" Burke
and Che cultural of Joe" Keaitng.
surmoNnted by mellow squeak from
billy" Mckinley and a growl from
issA7-B-SS A4HaHpfFe arise off-tife
ambient arr Even the Taft men
paused with bowed heads. awed by the
expression OF grim death which over
cast the countenances of the sad but
sweet singers. Keep On Keep on
Keeping on" seemed TO be the re-
frain.
New York state has sent just 80
millionaires as delegates to the Re-
publican national convention. As a
delegation the men from the Empire
state will carry more ready money in
their clothes than any other represen-
tation from any state. There being %
millionaires out of rs delegates from
the state. the remaining o53 will not
have far to go when they want 20 Dor
row money. Politicians around\ head
quarters scattered throughout the
Michigan-ave. hotels professed TO see
certain coincidence between the %
millionaires and the busted" Hughes
boom.
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TWO WOMEN KILLED
AGAINST SAFETY FENCE

GREENsBURG, Pa, June r.
Caught between "a fast moving Penn
sylvania passenger train and a safety
fence at Lockport. last evening. one
woman was torn 10 pieces, dying in.
stantiy, and another was SO crushed
that she djsd an hour later They
were: \-13---~.~
MRS. GEO. SAUERS. aged 90. in
stantly killed.
MRS. VIM. ROBERTSON, aged %,
legs severed, otherwise injured, died
al the hospital
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. A-weMafs I4s-se- tfsed-to- pinnfrg
things that she can't understand why
a man should make so much fuss about
a missing button.
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Some people are 80 cautions that
they do not attempt TO climb the lad
der OF fame because they are afraid
OF getting q hard fall.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-06-12

Busines--iike Printing. No fuss and
no feathers. The plain, neat kind that
looks right. Times Printing Co., 10
John R.-st Phone 1923.
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Job Printing done right. Times Print
ing Co., 10 John II. -st.- Phone l4SS.
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Job Printing Zone right. rfm~~ Print
tina "a. Is John R-st. Phone is9&
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Job Printing done right, Ttmes Print
Ing CO., Is John II. st. Phone 1&sA.-
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Total -. $50 4ls 49l 2l2 394 26I .
The evening world., 1908-03-28

bomb didn't see 1t drop. 1t seemed
to me that 1t exploded in his hand rs
he drew back his elbow TO throw it."
Panic in a Theatre.
After Silverstein had told his name
iAd made his br cf statement, the no.
liceman frightened the tourniuuet again
nd ;hen an ambulance arrived from
Bellevue. in which he was placed. Ills
r.ght leg was badly mangled. the sur
geons found and there $ no vope Of
Ms surviving morei than a few hours.
Richard Marche, an opera singer, VINO
ives at Thirty-seventh street and Sew
nth avenue. told the police that he
saw the bomb thrown and tlat he and
four companions were kno ,ked off their
feet.
He says that as he fled he saw the
*. Il +. moving picture crowd leave
the place, screaming and shouting, and
that pedestrians and shoppers ON Four
teenth street took refuge in stores and
in the 1--WE cent show places and penny
acades He saw Peter Genease, a
Greek cigar manufacturer, thrown to
the ground by the explosion, and
friends carried him to his office at NO.
L; East Fourteenth street.
The evening world., 1908-03-28
TREANOR

Special to The Evening Worldo
JENNINGS RAdE-TRACK, WASH
enxton, d. c.. March 2S.-The handicap
Hteeplechase here to-day proved great
magnet for Washington society. They
nocked into the inheld to see 1t. The
race was a great spectacle and held
The interest OF the crowd from flag
fall to finish.
Newt Fisher. one of the Galloway
entry, an extreme outsider in the bet
Ting, opened up gap OF nifty lengths III
the first round of the field and had the
hackers of the favorite. Kara. who car
ried thousands. uneasy, to say the least
It looked as il Newt Fisher would make
n runaway race OF 1t, until the last jump
was reached There he began to slow
eip and Bersi and ESSEX hhiiiy caught
The favorhe. we'll ridden by Mclner,
ney, trailed along In the bunch until
Hhe stretch was reached. Here Mclner-
ney let Kara down and he came away
hike a champion Newt. Fisher and
Bersi meanwhile had dropped back.
leaving Essex and Huddy to night 1.t 9ut S1t
for the place honors. Essex JUST DID
Last long enough to get It,
Books Hit on Workman.
'IhN St1It ol ulle ieSo WSs ~
layod ten minutes because OF the troll
ley breakdown. Workman and Greene
even fa vol-tes in the opening scramble
tinished one-two, half a lenpth apart
with Servile third. two lengths back
Venus broke in front. but after the first
eighth Mccarthy sent Workman INTO
Abe lead and kept him there. Shaw. on
Greene. closed some In the stretch, ana
although he went to the bat he couIdht
get his mount UP. The books were all
tt hsrd nr the wise money was sent
In ON Workman.
Easy for Oraculum.
With BegRarn.hn, Right and True and
QAA Pry out, OrACllum was made =
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81 Did 1t for the Cause" Says
Anarchist Who Threw Bomb
"The Police Cubbed Me; l Alone Did It,,
He Declares to Inspector Who Tries
to Save His Life.

District-Attorney Marshall rushed over
70 where the bomb thrower had fallen
Schmttberger turned to German po-
licelnan and ordered him to strip off n
belt and make tourniquet about the
shattered forearm, from which the blood
WAS pouring from dozen arteries The
man was still conscious and evidently
suffering no pain until the policeman
ttghtened the strap on his arm. Then
he wrlthed. Assistant Dist rict-Attorney
Marshall asked the man his name. He
said in German that he did not UNDER
stand English Then the policeman
asked his name.
"If you will undo that strap I will tell
you he replied,
lie wants to bleed 70 death" said
Mr. Marshall. You better not"
The Anarchist said he would say moth
ing unless the tournlquet was loosened
Schmittberger ordered It undone and
the blood spurtei again. The man
spoke, however, and his first words
were:
II did II for the cause"
Then he told his name and said mat
his wife and two children had died. He
The evening world., 1908-03-28

The hoynp t'hrower, a slender, Smoo'h-
faced man of thtrty-five, stood just
so,,th OF the fountain in the middle OF
tho plaza, alongside an understood man
with a sandy mustache. to whom he
smoke IN German. They were In tine
front of crowd that had just been
driven back by the police.
Suddenly the younger man are"
.ang brass cylinder from his pocket ana
;lipped back Of his companion so as
10 hide It from the police. A. Bene-
ietti de Monte. a spectator. who STOOD
.an feet away. saw Silverstein Nght n
match and apply It to a fuse. Then.
"a he drew his arm back TO ming the
,omb at the police. the explosion oc-
,urred that fled him in the air, blow
ng of his right hand above the wrist
nd tearing out his eyes.
The older man. who stood beside him.
vas also lifted In the air and terribly
nanglsd by the explosion. Instantly
here was a tremendous panic through
Tut Union Square, IN which the police
,urtously charged the screaming mob
Inspector schmtstbsrser and Assistant
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POIcem Blown From His
Saddle by the Explosion
O. Brien and His Comrade, Mccormick, Who
Were Injured, Try in Vain to Prevent
Throwing OF Bomb.

ten feet. His foot was broken. His
horse was knocked flat
so far as can learn probably
twenty people were knocked down by
the explosion. PROBABLY half of these
were policemen in the group of re-
serves.
The man with the assassin was in
stantly killed think. His body was
literally cut to pieces by the wire nails
and scraps of jagged iron with which
the bomb was loaded. i am sure that
ne must have been standing on the right
side of the bomb thrower. The woman
was standing to the left of the other
two and. although she was knocked
down, she WAS not seriously hurt.
Lieut.. Dodson, of the Mercer street
station, and five other policemen ran
forward instantly. They arrested the
woman and the man Rufkin. who ap-
peared to be standing just behind tho
other three and WHO may lave been
member of the same party"
After giving these details the Inspcc-
tor hurried back to his post to direct
~ ice operations The man Rufkin
gave his first name as Samuel He
said he was "A printer and that he lived
at No. ~ GolNerneur street. He de-
MED knowing anything OF the other
tp' ae. The woman appeared stunned.
7 e declined to tell her name.
All the prisoners were sent 10 the
West Twenty-seventh street station.
Among teose whom the police detained
was man named Cohen. OF No. u
Park street, Brooklyn. who was near
the spot where the bomb exploded and
who, according 10 one reS<rt, mad been
in company with Silyerstein and Beek-
The evening world., 1908-03-28
WASHINGTON SOCIETY
SEES JUMPING RACE
BENNINGS RESULTS.

FIRST RAcE-Workman Is to 2
and even) I, Greene (even for place)
2, Servile 3.
SECOND RAcE-oraculum (11 to
10 and 2 to 81, I, Billie Hibbs Il to S
for place. 2, King of Bashan 8.
THIRD RAcE-Personal (6 to 1
and to y 1, Takahira (s to 8 for
pIace) 2, BaIhek 3.
FOURTH RAcE-kara W to 5
and to q I, Essex u to S for
pIace) 2. Huddy 8.
FIFTH RAcE-JubiIee rs to 10
and out) I, BeIIwether Tout for
pIaee) 2, Winning Star 3.
SIXTH RAcE-Ferry Landing q
to and to p I, Billy 3. Van q
to for plaee) e. Grace Cam.
eron 8.
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From reports made to him bv his men
Chief Inspector Cortright was soon able
to furnish a fairly complete circumstan-
tial STORY of the tragedy. To an Even
ing World reporter the Inspector said
The crowd had been pretty we'll
broken up and there were only Few
lingering groups in the square FIFTY
reserves under Capt. Shaw and twenty
five men under Capt. O'Reilly were
moving through the square going
north They had reached point Just
south of the fountain in the centre or
the square when man was seen to
rise from a bench where he had been
sitting in company with another man
and a woman.
..At least two policemen saw THIS man
draw from his pocket long brass cy
inder and touch fuse to one end OF
t. The group of reserves We're onIE
about twenty feet way. The man with
the bomb raised his missile to fling 1t
at the policemen. His hand tremoied,
and the thing dropped from his grasp.
struck a patch OF asphalt at his feet
and instantly exploded.
Policeman Tries to Stop Him.
However, l am told that an Italian
newspaper reported said the bomb eX-
ploded before 1t ever left the hand OF
the Anarchist. on this point there Is
some confusion.
policeman George Mccormick had
realized what the nan meant TO do
and had started toward him. He was
tsi,,,o bodily over IA bench Mounted
Policeman O'Brien was also squirting
toward the anarchist OF Bren was
blown out OF mis- saddle and thrown
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Academy of Music where William Faversam giving matinee
forrance of "The Squaw Man"
RIDE AFTER MOE INTO THEATRE LOBBY.

RIDE AFTER MOB INTO THEATRE LOBBY. ~.
Three of the mounted policemen rode right the steps and into
the theatre lobby after the mob They guided their horses in such
that the fleeing driven out into the street again. where
other policemen waiting None of these escaped the police
clubs or the hoo of the horses.
Burke the Traffic Squad who Eighteenth street
and Broadway the time of the explosion bareeaded man run
ming naed him. He proved be Max Donge OF No. l
Suffolk street, urrer.
derby hat which Dolnger admitted was his was found OH
the ground close the bomb exploded Dolnger then admit
ted that he had been Svee and Becan He was locked
up in the West Twentieth street station accomphce
The explosion would have been much destructive but TOR Pc
car set of circumstances Immediately preceding it. Sudden orders had
been gven calling about half policemen duty Union Square
return their saiollhouSe
The group at the bomb directed by Slversten had moved
away from the bombhow obedience to this order linen Capt
Oren at the head of twenty started to march north through the
SQUARE and the crowd plaza scattered So there not many
naone close by Siversen when his bomb went off.