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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-08
Mrs. Beutinger Is Freed;
RuSheS Home to Babies
Husband Picture on Wall Of Room Where Woman Romps
with Little Ones-Jury, Out Three Hours, Returns
Christmas Verdict They Had Quickly Agreed On

any demonstration. in case OF disap-
pointment or approval.
Have you reached verdict, gentle
men of the jury?" he asked.
I'VE have, your nonor. IL is Not
guilsy,'" said the foreman of the jury.
There was a burst of quickly sup
pressed applause at the words.
"Oh, thank YOU" Mrs. Beutinger said
as she held out her hand to the jury
foreman. Then she wavered for a mo-
mcnt, and dropped into a chair.
God Bless Those Good Men,
God bless those good men," she
sobbed, with her hands clasped.
Walter j. Brandley and Rober. Fl.
McCarter, her counsel, came up to her
and Mrs. Bcutinger, still sobbing, h4'i
out her hands 10 them.
"The children are waiting for you,
you know" Mr.. Brandley said, and
Mrs. Beutinger rushed through the
crowd that rartea to make way for
her TO the front row, where her young
sters were waiting for her. with her
sister, Mrs. Jennie Heron, of the West
Indies; her brother-in-law, and John
II. de Baus. of Manila, whom Mr.. Beu-
finger had once tried TO induce 10 bring
false affidavit against Mrs. Beutln-
gers character.
A moment later she went out of the
courtroom with Billie, three years old,
in her arms, and the other children
hanging to her skirts, all chattering
at once. She had seen the youngsters
at noon, through the order of Judge
Martin, who said that he did not know
that the prisoner had been previously
denied the privilege.
81 think that the evidence warranted
the verdict that was reached. | am
quite content, and only glad that it is
over" said Prosecutor Newman.
Prosecutor Acts Humanely
The prosecutors summing up in the
forenoon was not a severe one. and his
cross-examination the day before was
mild. Mr.. McCarter said that he had
never heard anything more thorough
ly human" and sent him a note, con-
graduating him on the way in which
he>haC.handled the case.
The courtroom was crowded in the
afternoon with the club women OF
Montclair and Caldwell, among them
Mrs. Fred Gordon-Smith, Of Mont
clair, who had started the first petit
ton for the release of Mrs. Beutinger
from Jail.
Mrs. Beutinger was not discharged
entirely by the court, but was released
on parole, in charge of her counsel
Walter p. Brandley, since she will be
needed as plaintiff in the charge
against Ernest Ryman, director Of the
Board of Freeholders, of alleged as
sault and battery upon her while she
was in the County Jail at Newark
She said last night that she had nc
feeling Of animosity against Mr.. Ry-
man, but that she was interested in
seeing justice done.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-08
WIFE CALLS WAX
JUST A "SPECIMEN"
Continued from page I

couple OF small, bespectacled reporters,
was doing his best to look unconcerned.
But this time II was a poor best. The
color already was leaving his cheeks
and was quite gone before word had
been spoken.
She Admits Her Marriage
The prosecutor repeated his formal
question. Did the lady know any one in
the room? Emphatically she did. She
was looking right at him, so frostily
that his tentative smile died a-borning.
ar know his-SPECIMENi"
"Did you marry him." Mr.. Wood
wanted to know.
81 did," said Mrs. Nye grimly.
And with the two words she ceased
to be Mrs. Nye and again was plain
Ethel Brooks, spinster-victim Of mar
riage that couldn't have taken with the
bridegroom parading under an alias.
Turning her back squarely and I'M
compromisingly on Wax, Miss Brooks
answered questions for the record. She
had met "Nye" at her home, she said;
had been introduced to him by Mrs.
Lillian Miller, her sister. with whom
he was boarding. He had proposed
speedily and whisked her away to Ho-
boken, where a church ceremony was
gone through.
do you know this woman7" Wax
was asked.
"Yes," he admitted family. ~ took
her over to Hoboken and married her.
"Whewl" he calculated when she had
vanished through the door. "And she's
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-08
WOMAN BEATS SLY WASHER
He Attempts 20 Hug Her, and Almost
Gets n Knockout

Mrs. Florence La Tempo, of 2ls4
Second Avenue. felt an arm encircle
her waist last night rs she gazed into
shop window at 10th Street and
Second Avenue. As sturdy as she IL
pretty. Mrs. La Tempo chased the
owner OF the arm 10 18th Street, over
took him, and only a policeman saved
Giuseppe Cardovsno from knockout
He was arraigned in night court, and
seemed vastly relieved when sentenced
70 ten days in the workhouse.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-08
Witness Testifies Novel
Was Written Between
Opium Whiffs
CORRIGAN AGAIN
TAKES THE STAND
Admits He Knew Chorus
Girl with Whom Author
Was Friendly

George Bronson Towards novel
Gods Man" was a pipe dream, accord
ing to testimony adduced in the Su-
preme Court yesterday at the trial OF
the 100000 libel suit brought by
Magistrate Joseph (. Corrigan against
the Bobbs-Merrill Company for pub
fishing the story.
In that dream, according to another
witness. Howard conceived the idea
that Magistrate Corrigan was trying TO
win Theodore Gerard, a Broadway
chorus girl, with whom Howard had
been friendly. And thus, it was al
legged, was born the novel in which one
"Cornigan" was criticised and lam
pooned as the son Of Irish peasants, a
tool Of Tammany and "an educated
ape"
Patrick L. Francis, better known on
Broadway as Jack" Francis, Tender
loin encyclopaedia, who described him
self in court as a newspaper man and
manager, said that he met Howard one
night in front of the Eltinge Theatre.
Howard said to him, congratulate
me, Jack, have just finished my book
Gods Man You know | am getting
even with Corrigan. You know how
he tried to railroad me. Corrlgan gave
me dirty deal and | got even"
Chorus Girl in Case
Francis said that he asked about the
possibility of libel, to which the author
Is said to have answered, 81 have
spelled Corrigan 'Cornigan.' The pub
fishers are willing to take a chance on
the libel. You know how Corrigan
treated me for the purpose of getting
Teddy Gerard away from me-"
Magistrate Corrigan was again called
TO the witness stand TO tell about Theo-
dora Gerard. He had seen the chorus
girl only few times, he said. He was
introduced to her, and he thought II
possible that he saw her on the stage
of the Casino Theatre when he attend
ed box party there. The magistrate
saw her again when Howard was ar
raigned in jefferson Market court, and
possibly once afterward. The magis-
trate SAID tnaC ne ndu NOT seen Wise
Gerard at any other time.
Hans n. Johnson, jr, who occupied
a cottage with Howard on Long Island
was the witness who testified that
Gods Man" was written by Howard
between whiffs at his bamboo opium
pipe. 81 saw him smoke OPIUM" said
Johnson. Justice Golf cautioned the
witness that he should describe the
material that Howard smoked as "a
substance"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-08
MAYOR TO IGNORE WHITNEY
?. S. C..Board Of Estimate Feud Re-
ceiyes Impetus from Mitchell

The standing controversy between
The Board Of Estimate and the Public
Service Commission received an I'M,
pstus yesterday when Mayor Mitchell
announced that he would ignore open
letters and communications from Com
missioner Travis u. Whitney, and con-
hhe his communications with the com
mission to It's chairman, Oscar D.
StfAus
The Mayor received letter yester-
day from Mr.. Whitney, which the Com
missioner had made public the day be
fore, asking that the city experts in
yesiigsting the pending West Side i'm
provement plans with the New York
Central Railroad be prepared to testify
before the commission as 10 how u
would affect suburban traffic conditions
from The Bronx
The recent controversy became acute
when the Board Of Estimate passed a
resolution requesting the commission
70 explain what methods il was taking
70 stop the congestion on the subwsys.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-08

Acquitted yesterday afternoon OF
the charge of murder on second
trial, Mrs Margaret Claire Beutinger
returned last night to the home in
Caldwell she had not entered since
the morning she shot and killed her
husband, Christof Beutnger, five
months ago Her five little children,
shouting with joy, ran to meet her
and to throw themselves into her
arms.
"Oh, it's the grandest kind Of a
Christmas present just to be free
again" said Mrs. Beutinger, as she
tried to hug them all at once.
From the wall behind her. as she
clhsped the children, there looked
down an enlarged picture of the man
she had killed for his ten years OF
brutality toward her and the children.
Nothing had been changed in the
house, and il was said that Mrs.
Beutinger would sleep last night IN
the room where the shooting had oc-
Cured
Priest Hides Cartridges
A few minutes before she came home
Father Dawkins, the prison chaplain,
who had preceded her to her home,
happened upon box of cartridges
there, and asked the servants 10 put
them where Mrs. Beutinger would not
come upon them TO remind her OF
the tragedy.
The only emotion that Mrs. Beutin-
ger showed was that of JOY.
Take off your wraps, babies; you'll
4 II. . rlr-a.Na
who had run as far as the street TO
meet her ooh, it's so good TO be
home again | can never say how
grateful am TO the men who defend
ed me. to the press that was so fair
and to the public that showed its
sympathy in so many ways"
The jury retired when Judge Mar.
tin finished his charge, at 1884
o'clock 1t filed into the crowded
courtroom again at 3:4l. One of its
number said later that the verdict
had been all ready at 2 o'clock. but
that "they had rct wished not to seem
to give the matter the proper consid'
Grafton"
One Juryman Weeps
There was silence in the courtroom
as Mrs. Beutinger entered, leaning
upon the arm of Miss Mary Kelly, court
attendant. The children, sitting on the
front row, leaned forward to wave to
her. and for the first time during the
trial she did not smile in their direc-
ton. There were tears upon the face
Of an emotional Italian who was a
member Of the jury as he tspk his place
in the front of the room, and the wills
per that the verdict must have been
for conviction or for another disagree
ment went through the crowd. Judge
Martin warned the courtroom against
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-08

the only one of the lot I did marry,
too"
what about the woman in Chi
cago?" suggested Mr.. Wood.
"Oh, | never married her. She's
somebody else's wife-separated," was
the explanation.
Wax tried another smile and again
lost his composure with its total fail
ure when Mrs. Miller took her sisters
place in the centre of the circle and
pointed at him.
81 know that man." she announced.
(Which one? Go to him."
Mrs. Miller walked over to Wax and
drew back well-developed right, with
which she beat a tattoo on his shirt
front:
Thwack! "This one" Thwack! "This
one" Thwackl "This one"
Wax gave vent to another "Whew!"
Of relief when she had gone.
"Sure | know her." he said. 81 mar
ried her sister. Do you know, they
don't like each other? Jealousy. l was
afraid she was going to hit me-"
Another Recognizes Him
The fifth person of the dav to iden-
tify Wax-making total of fourteen
former friends seen and recognized
was Mrs. Charles Smith, wife of the
traffic policeman who remembered him
AS George Newell. Her story was a
duplicate of that told by her husband
Wednesday.
In another burst of confidence Wax
told Mr. Wood that 81 Love the Ladies"
had always been one of his favorite
songs. He INDUCED, too, in this bit of
philosophy:
"No man, no matter who he is, can
flirt with and talk to q woman unless
she's agreeable. The woman who can
be firted with never fails to give the
first sign"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-08

ADVERTISEMENT
When You Spend $40 for a
Saks Suit or
a Saks OvercOat

you are also buying $40 worth, which
is a distinction worth remembering!
q A buyer for big house, such as Saks, Tor
example, is-or ought to be-a man who IS
competent to get the best merchandise the
market affords for the least expenditure of
his employers money. The average buyer
gets the same values as everybody else
gets. The good buyer gets something little
better
4 You as a buyer for yourself, are either
average or good. Either you just spend
money, or you get something for it. Now it
is one thing to lay out SEQ IN money and another
to lag in $50 in merchandise, but both are en-
braced in one operation at Saks'.
a We make our own $40 clothes, which means
that we can put into the making and styling
the money which, in other clothes, must be used
to support the middemen.
Think it over-better still,
look them over and Judge for yourself.
Sak5&G!'untpanu
Broadway at 34h Street
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-08
FIVE KILLED AT CROSSING
Train Crashes Into Auto Carrying
Carpenters Home from Work

Stafford Springs, Conn, Dec. IA
north bound train of the Central YER
mont Railroad crashed into an automo-
bile at grade crossing a mile south Of
the railroad station here to-day and
five men were killed.
The dead are Henry st. Pierre, A. B.
Clansman, Preston Austerhaut, a. S.
Swanson and an unidentified man. w. ID.
Lasem was severely injured and is in
a hospital here. He may recover.
The six men were carpenters from
Willimantic who were on their way
home when the accident occurred. Two
were tossed into brook by the colli-
sion. High embsnkments on either
side OF the crossing hid the railroad
tracks from view until it was too late
for the autoists to stop.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-08
Dog Catcher to Cut Living Cost

Des Moines, Iowa, Dec. Taking
cognizance of a councilman's assertion
that the number of dogs in Des Mones
boosted the cost of living, the City
Council to-day voted to appoint an
official dog catcher.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-08
Witness Sure About Pipe

"Was there any vapor Ginning from
the pipe or from his lips2" inquired
the justice.
yes" replied the witness, "and
saw him cooking the pill to put in mis-
pipe"
Johnson said that he had seen Carl
Bernhardt, employed by the Bobbs-
Merrill Company, at the home of How
ard while the latter was whipping his
novel into shape, and that the two men
went over the proof sheets together
He said that he heard Howard tell
Bernhard that he had written Gods
Man" to avenge himself on Magistrate
Corrigan. Howard once had been ar
raigned before the plaintiff and was
held by him for General Sessions
where he was fined 800 for carrying
a concealed weapon.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-08-29
Proposed Ordinance
Concerns Motor Vehicles

An ordinance will be introduced at
the next meeting Of the city council,
Tuesday, September 5, that is of special
interest to automobile drivers as well
ss the small brother, the motorcycle.
Signs will be placed at the city
limits on all roads entering the city
with the cheering news that 20 miles
Is the limit of speed until the fire
limits is reached, and then it will be
advisable to slow down to Is miles an
hour. While passing school house
during school hours, the limit is 10
miles an hour and the same is the
limit of speed for paved alleys.
No one under the age of IL wears
shall be permitted to drive car in
the city limits, according to the pro.
posed ordinance. This has become
necessary on account of the number of
children driving cars and is in line
with the ordinance of other cities.
Another provision Of the proposed
ordinance is that no one shall leave a
car standing with engine shut off with.
IN 20 feet of fire hydrant. OF course
the ear can stand that close TO a
hydrant if the driver is in the ear and
the engine running.
All eut'outs must be closed while
operating in the city limits and this
will be enforced, if the ordinance is
passed, to apply also to motorcycles
and auto trucks.
All cars will be obliged to be sup.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-08-29
.PRES|DEN! TELLS
CONTINUED From Page One.)

that mediation under the existing law
had failed and that arbitration had been
rendered impossible by the attitude of
the men, considered it my duty to
confer with the representatives of both
the railways and. the brotherhoods and
myself offer mediation, not as an arbi-
traitor but merely as spokesman of the
nation, in the interest Of justice, in.
deed and MS friend of both parties,
but not us judge, only as the representa-
tive of one hundred millions of men,
women and children who would pay the
price, the incalculable price, of loss and
suffering should these few men insist
upon approaching and concluding the
matters in controversy between them
merely as employers and employees, rath-
er than as patriotic citizens Of the Uni.
ted States, looking before and after
and accepting the larger responsibility
which the public will put upon them.
"It seemed to me, in considering the
subject matter of the controversy, that
the whole spirit of the time and the
preponderant evidence of the recent eco.
nomic experience spoke for the eight
hour day. 1t has been adjudged by the
thought and experience of recent years
a thing upon which society is justified
in in insisting as in the interest of
health, efficiency, contentment and u
general increase of economic vigor. The
whole presumption of modern exper-
fence would, il seemed to me, be in its
favor, whether there was arbitration or
not, and the. debatable points to settle
We're those which arose out of the ac
ceptance of the eight hour day rather
than those which affected its establish
ment. therefore proposed that the
eight hour day be adopted by the rail
way arrangements and put into practice
for the present as a substitute for the
existing 10 hour basis of pay and serv-
ice; that l should apopint, with the
permission of congress, small commits
sion to observe the results of the
change, carefully studying the figures
of the altered operating costs not only,
but also the costs of labor under which
the men worked and the operation of
their existing agreements with the rail-
roads with instructions to report the
facts as they found them to the con.
gress at the earliest pssble day, but
without Recommendation; and that, aft
er the facts had been thus disclosed,
an adjustment should in some orderly
manner be sought of all the matters now
left unadiusted between the railroad
managers and the men.
Cannot Arbitrate Theories.
"These proposals were exactly in
line, il is interesting to note, with the
position taken by the supreme court of
the United States when appealed to to
protect certain litigants from the fin
ancial losses which they confidently ex.
peeted If they should submit to the
regulation of their charges and of their
methods of service by public legisla.
tion. The court has held that ii would
not undertake to form judgment up.
on forecasts, but could base its action
only upon actual experience; that it
must be supplied with facts, not with
calculations and opinions, however sci.
entificolly attempted, To undertake
to arbitrate the question of the adoption
of an eight hour day in the light of re.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-08-29
Young Jap Arrested
On Charge Of Murder

San Francisco, Aug. 29.-Hidetaro
Sakana, a Young Japanese, was arrest
ed as he stepned from the liner Mat
sonia TODAY. charged with the murder
of James b, Castle, a Honolulu mil.
'ionaire. He will be returned to Homo.
lulu on the next steamer.
Castle, who is one of the most promi.
nent figures in Honolulu's financial
world, was murdered on the night of
August II at his home at Waikiki
Beach. Sakana, Castles chauffeur,
disappeared the same night, Simultan.
eously, Sakana s wife, aged IL was
found in the Castle home, terribly cut
and mangled and she charged her hus.
band with Castles murder.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-08-29
Or. Mendelsohn, specialist, fits glasse,
- correctly. U. s. Bank. Blds.

The August weather is now back to
the regulation fine summer climate as
the maximum temperature yesterday
was ) and the minimmn 5G The river
is Just holding its own at - of foot
below zero
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-08-29
Notice-To those whom have con-

Notice-To those whom I have con-
tracted with for Bartlett pears, those
solicited and others, will receive same
commencing Monday, Aug. 2Sth at the
hop ware house of the Oregon Electric
railway, corner Center and Front street
Salem. Bring in your Bartletts regard
less whether you have peen solicited or
not. Grade them up carefully and re-
eeive the highest market price, the
better the grade and quality the high
er the price.-J. B. Olinger. Phone
66F12. aug30
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-08-29

Hop picking began today at the
Hvesley yard at Lake Brook Saturday
picking will begin at the Livesley up
per yard at Livesley station.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-08-29

A farmer living at Parkersville in
the Lake Labish district was in town
this morning in search of help in har-
vesting mis- crop of beans. He stated
that he could furnish work for 25 pick
ers for ten days. He pays one cent a
pound
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-08-29

The case against George Bevier of
Rutteville. charged with assault and
battery, was dismissed this morning by
Justice Webster on the grounds of in
sufficient evidence.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-08-29

: 1OlllSuI.
< Cherrian band concert, Wilson
< Park, s p. IN.
< Aug. 31.-Dr. Howard H. Rus
< sell, founder of Anti-SalOOn
< League, address at First
K Christian church.
< September labor day.
K Sept. 7-S-9.-Willamette Valley
K Tennis Tournament, Salem.
< September 9.-Barnum & Bail
K ey's circus.
( September 11.-Monthly meet
< ing Salem Floral society, Com
K mercial club.
K Sept. 1S.-Opening day of city
K schools.
< September 20.-Monthly meet
ing Commercial club. Address
by Harwood Hall.
k Sept. 25-30-Oregon State Fair.
2 II - II IL IL IL 4. l.. Il 4. L.. 4.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-08-29

George M. Davis who recently died
at a state institution was buried at
o. 'clock this afternoon from the parlors
of Rigdon 4 Richardson, under the
auspices of the local Elk lodge. He
was member Of the Ia Grande lodge
of Elks. Burial was in City View Gem
etery.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-08-29

While others are reducing we are
increasing our stock. There's a rea-
soni ask us. Gardner & Keene, jewel
ers and opticians.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-08-29
Several former Salem musicians have

been heard from lately. C. f. Lazen.
dorfer writes from Miles, City, Mon
tana, and says that he is doing well.
William Maeder is now located at
Butte. Hans p. Schmidt, formerly pi.
anist at the Bligh is located at Eugene
and has lately applied for naturaliza-
tion papers and when he comes to Sa-
lem the next time, his name will be
Smith.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-08-29

Shippers of pears are just now vi
tally interested in the railroad strike
situation. One shipper said that he
had seven ear loads that had to go
within the next few days and naturally
he was standing around the bulletin
board reports scanning anXiously the
latest from Washington.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-08-29

Go to Derby's for Crawford canning
peaches 4 mile east of Kaiser school
house.-Frank Derby. aug3l
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-08-29

Arthur v. Kent, the mail clerk on
the S. p, running between Eugene and
Portland on train number II was ar
rested yesterday charged with robbng
the U. $. mails. Many OF the remit
tances with which he is charged with
taking, We're for the Salem postoffice
as Salem is depot of deposit for a
bout 100 post offices, including Rose.
burg, Grants Pass and Falls City.