Semi-weekly herald., 1909-11-15

tically prevails. The negroes today
are going about their regular business
There has been no demonstration
against them.
DENVER. Nov. l2.--Despite the fear
that Mrs. Allen r. Read would not
recover from her collapse of yester-
| day afternoon. the defendant in the
famous Phipps blackmailing case ap.
peared in west side court shortly be.
fore 10 o'clock this morning and the
trial was resumed promptly on time.
Mrs. Phipps was called to the stand
| Immediately upon the reconvening of
court and c. W. Waterman, attorney
for the defendant. resumed his cross
examination. His questions were di.
rected along the same lines as those
of forcing Mrs. Phipps to vary her
straightforward recital OF Wednesday
afternoon.
Mrs. Read appeared much improved
In her appearance In court this morn
ing, She came as usual. supported on
one side by her husband and on the
other by her sister.
/ DENVER. Nov. 12.-This afternoon
the state in the Phlpps case rested,
after Mrs. Phipps. her children and
maids testified to the visit of Mrs.
10. al, hoo.
Nothing sensational today
PARIS. Nov. Eff Nine. Steinheil
Is acquitted Of the murder of her hus-
band. us all Paris is certain she Will
be. the government will Immediately
resume an investigation of the crime,
| Authorities are convinced that grave
secrets of national importance lie be-
hind the garroting of the artist In his
home in Impasse Ronsin. and they are
determined to ferret out the mystery
After two years of constant effort they
have succeeded in learning little be-
| yond what was known on the morning
the murder was discovered But the
acQuittal of Nine. Steinheil would
place the French secret service in a
position of being utterly defeated and
/ II is expected they will go at ,he
case with redoubled energy If the Red
Widow is freed The authorities are
disregarding the death of Nine. Japy
who they now believe was frightened
to death by the murder of her son.
in-law.
Weeping at every fresh attack on
her. Nine. Steinhei today listened
closely to the continuation of the sum
marking speech of Prosecutor Gen
eral Paul Rouille. She is confident
that she will be acquitted and scarce
| ly anyone differs with her, but she is
continuing her emotional appeal to the
jury to the end
| OMAHA, Neb, Nov. 12.-"Guilty as
found in the indictment" was the ver-
dict rendered last night by the jury
in the case of ID. w Woods, William
Matthews. Lawrence ]. Golden, Frank
Grigware and Fred Torgensen. who
have been on trial in the federal court
charged with holding up and robbing
the mail car of the Overland Limited
train of the Union Pacific railroad on
the night of May %. The jury was
sent out at o'clock In the afternoon
and the verdict was returned four
hours later.
Penalty for the crime is life impris-
onment. Attorney Mcfarland signi-
fled his intention to file a motion for
u new trial, and was given until this
afternoon to prepare It,
Woods was the only one of the
five prisoners who would say anything
With his usual gusto, he declared
well, they would have hanged us If
they could"
DECATUR, H., Nov. l2.-JTnable to
stop them, and Mortified that the rival,
ry for the hand of Miss Beatrice Con
nell, prominent young society wom
ried the matter to such an extreme
friends of Edgar Stevens and William
DeForrest Fairbanks. nephew of the
former vice president, stood aghasi
yesterday while each paced twenty
steps, then turned and emptied the
contents of their revolvers toward the
other. BY prearranged understand
ing between the principals the guns
were loaded with blank cartridges
their decision to dupe their friends fol
lowing settlement as tc which should
wait on Miss Connell.
Both young men are students at The
John Milliken university. and move IN
exclusive circles. The rivalry for the
attention of Miss Connell has beer
; rife among the young set for months
: A week ago they planned a fight Will
I fists, but not satisfied with this agreed
to settle the matter with guns Friend,
tried to dissuade them but they pro
fessed hatred for abandonment of the
plan. The pair and their seconds witt
a dozen other friends gathered yes
terday afternoon near Fairview park
the fashionable section of the city, ant
there carried out their plans