Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-04-05

of Colorado. Thursday. for review.
| Mrs l.. b. Taaae. county Judge OF
Eagle county. fined the Muller Mer-
camille Co. 5000 and costs for selling
liquor in dry territory. The company
| appealed.
Seth Nichols merely imagined that he
murdered DR.. Helene Knabe at Indianap-
! oils, last October, according to mis- own
admission, Thursday to the jailer at the
| county Jail at Portsmouth, \. II. Nichols
! said that he had been laboring under a
| great mental strain, due to the death of
| his Wife. He had read all the details
| of DIR. Knabe's death, he said and was
so familiar with the story of the crime
that he honestly believed that he had
slain the woman and was honest when
/ he made his sensational, but false. con-
fession to the local police. last Monday.
Pleas of not guilty to charge of con-
spring to bring iii and land certain
aliens not permitted TO enter the United
states, were entered before United States
Commissioner Hayes at Boston Thurs
day, by Andres Sehiafiino and Giovanni
Gagsro, interpreters on the White star
liner Celtic, who Were arrested, Wednes-
day, after q stowaways had been found
in one of the ships tanks Each prison.
er was held in $1,000 for a continued hear
ing, next Saturday, and I'm default OF
sureties each was committed to Jail.
A mother, with her baby clasped in her
arms, and an 1S-year-old sister were
crushed to death. Thursday, when Chi
cago Alton Railroad freight train
dashed into a Kedzie avenue street ear
at Chicago. Eighteen other persons We're
injured, some perhaps fatally. The VIC
Tins were Mrs. J. f. Brown, rs yea IS
old her 2-mouths-old baby and sister,
Miss katherine o.Brien. The car con-
tanning so passengers was In the middle
of the grade crossing when the freight
train plowed into it.
The arrest of Careuy. one of the auto
mobile bandits who Killed a chauffeur at
Viiieneue-St. George, and held up a bank
at Chintily. killing two of the employees
and stealing $S000 has not put a stop to
the extensive series of highway crimes
which have thrilled France for some
weeks past. A gang of four bandits,
Thursday morning, leaped on an express
mans wagon in the vicinity of Croisy-
Le-Roi, about six miles from Paris, kill
ed the driver by strangling, looted the
wagon of large quantity of valnables
and then tossed the corpse to the road
side The bandits fled and no trace of
them has been found.
Because of an attempt to influence
the jury. the trial of Victor NJ. We'll,
dealer in mining stocks, charged with
illegal use of the mails, was stopped
in the United States district court
at BOSTON. Thursday, and the jury
discharged. The case began two
weeks ago and the prosecution was
still engaged in putting in evidence,
when Guy A. Ham, counsel for We'll,
notified Judge Dodge that a man had
approached his client with an offer
TO influence the jury. About the same
time, one of the jurymen notified the
court that he had been interviewed
by an unknown man with similar
proposition. The case will be tried
again.
j. a. DeBaroneelli. editor of the
Wasp. was. Thursday, at New Or
leans, La. awarded s1O0, damages in
the United States district court
against the estate of Armand Gapde-
veille, who was editor of The Bee.
The editors of these two French pub
leations after a controversy through
their editorial columns in which
singing French epthets were freely
used, came to blows on the streets al
New Orleans several months ago and
MIR. CapdeVeille stirred the French
colony by issuing a challenge to
duel TO his contemporary NJ. Baron
cell declined the challenge and
brought suit instead for $4,000. Aft
er the filing of the suit NJ. Capdeveille
died and the damages granted by the
! jury We're awarded against the edi-
tors estate