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New-York tribune., 1920-05-05
Wife's Grave
Is Revealed
By Bluebeard
CONTINUED from paus sus)

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ing nearly five hundred people, had
made the trip across the desert from
Ell Centre.
Deputy sheriffs Of Los Angeles
County turned few bits of earth,
while cameras clicked. Then one Of
the men dropped his shovel and bent
forward. An instant later the canvas
shrouded form Of the woman was taken
from the small grave into which it had
been jammed, distorted and almost
broken by the force which had been
applied to thrust it into the narrow
grave.
The canvas was opened just enough
to make sure there was no mistake
Then it was allowed to rest until a cas-
ket arrived, and the prisoner, the body
of his victim and their escort Of hun
dreds started again for Ell Centre,
where an inquest was ordered.
Watson collapsed when the body
was uncovered and had to be assisted
to the ambulance.
The position Of the body bore out
every portion Of Watsons previous
statements concerning his course after
he had killed the woman. He had said
he had wrapped the nude body in can
vas, put it in an automobile at Santa
Monica, adjacent to Los Angeles, and
driven over the coast highway inland
through San Diego County and then
carried it in his arms to spot he
could not reach by automobile, where
he thrust it into small excavation.
At Ell Centre thousands surged
around the train and the restaurant
where Watson and his keepers had
breakfast. The man was nervous and
asked the deputies whether there was
danger Of violence, but when he was
reassured he talked indihrercntly on
many topics.
He objected seriously, however, to the
photographers, who tried to get snap
shots of his every move. He threw his
arms before his face and pleaded with
his guards to stop the photographing.
They declined to interfere.
Before boarding the train at Los An
Celes last night Watson ISSUED through
his attorney a long statement in which
he reviewed the acts set forth in his
alleged confession to the District At
torncy.
He described himself as ordinarily
"tender- hearted and easily moved to
wal dI lile SiSHl VI SduHeSS W ulSlEcSS
ard ever ready to help relieve such a
condition." and working as best he
could "do to make the world better
lie said he had lived with three
wives" at the same time in San Fran
cisco and risked detection by escort
Ing them to restaurants and theatcrs
and had done practically the same thing
in other cities.
81 wonder,' he continued, "if the
public cannot see the logical position
o1 my case and instead of clamoring
for revenge give my actions and men
tal condition just consideration.
MY every act shows I am to be
pltied more than to be blamed for
having developed Tbs strange and un.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-05
Skeptical Big Brother
Ends $25,OOO Romance
Alias DIR. Kelly, Bridegroom,
Goes to Jail to Ponder
~, Tho Doe%

Joseph Dooley. alias DR.. H. c. Kelly,
who says he halls from Harrisburg,
Pa, and who last Friday married Miss
Louise Baumann, of 106 Park Avenue,
East Orange, after whrlwind wooing,
is wondering to-day, in cell in the
Jersey city, how he happened to over
look the fact that his bride had big,
skeptical brother. He was arrested af-
ter fist fight in which he was coming
off second best, as the result, accord
ing to the brother, of stories of his
high estate he told to his bride which
have no basis in fact.
Miss Baumann fitted into her home
on Friday night and announced to her
father. Frederick G. Baumanns a New
York business man, that she was no
longer Miss Louise Baumann. She dis
played a check for s25 900, which, she
said, her husband gave her as a we'd
ding present.
the bride, manager of the Universal
Gutter Company, at Z West TWENTY.
third Street Manhattan, heard Kelly
had registered at the Pennsylvania
Hotel under the name of Joseph Dooley
and that he owed taXicab chauffeur
about $40.
He met his new brother-in-law IN a
Lackawanna Railroad train on Monday
night and put his suspicious to him.
instead of replying, Kelly jumped from
the train and Baumann followed, catch
ing up to him just after he had ducked
under somebody's front stoop He was
in the act of walloping Kelly when
Polceman Vctter arrested the pair
Baumann was released. Kelly's actions
are being traced.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-05
One BLuebenrd Victim
Aunt of Brooklyn Man
Raymond L. Noyes Identifies
Woman Watson Confessed
Numbering as His Relative

Mrs. Nina Lee Deloney Harvey, one
Of the women whom Walter Andrew
Watson, of Los Angeles. confessed to
having welded and murdered, was an
aunt Of Raymond l.. Noyes, 842 Myrtle
Avenue, Brooklyn. Watson married
her under the alias of Harvey. Moves
identified his aunt as having been one
of the victims through picture pub
lished in newspaper.
"My husband. noticing the picture,
said to me, Doesn't this look like
Aunt Nina?'" Mrs. Noyes sad last
night. "He Immediately telegraphed to
his sister at Floyd Knobs, Ind, and re-
ceivcd word that Aunt Nina undoubted-
ly had been murdered. She had
separated from her Bluebeard husband
eight or nine months ago, and wrote
to her relatives in Indiana she was
going to get a divorce. The last heard
Of her was from Spokane, Wash.
"Before her marriage Aunt Nina was
Nina Lee Young, widow of a Montana
ranchman. After she had come into
possession Of her husbands estate she
met Harvey and evidently they went to
Spokane. 1t was plain Harvey married
her for her money. My husband has
received no positive details Of his
aunt's murder, other than that her
picture and name correspond with one
Of the women Harvey confcsses he
murdered"
New-York tribune., 1920-05-05
Creenpoint Teachers to
Receive 500 Gifts
American Manufacturing Conn
pany Appropriates $4,000
IN Helm Vacations

Public school teachers Of the Green
point section of Brooklyn are to be the
recipients Of gifts of 500 each from
the American Manufacturing Company,
which has appropriated approximately
$27 900 to give the teachers real vaca-
ton.
The teachers affected are in Public
Schools q. 81, 81, SO, 10 and 1875,
approximately 270 of them. District
Superintendent james ]. McCabe has
received the following letter from
Charles D. McAllister, vice-president
of the company:
"As large employers Of labor in
Greepo;nt, we can in some measure
realize the great benefit Of the teach
ers' work with the children Of our en-
ployees and we are glad that they are
soon to receive salaries that will tend
to give them a standing in the COM
munity commensurate with the i'm
portance of their positions.
"While we congratulate the teachers
upon this condition. we. desire also to
New-York tribune., 1920-05-05
Overalls to- Invade Common.
Spats, However, Will Be Worn
to Soften the Shock

LONDON, May 4.-Overalls are abou.
to invade Parliament, but will be com.
bined with spats to relieve the historic
place of some of the shock Major
John Robert Pretyman Newman, mem.
ber of the House of Commons for tie
Finchley division Of Middlesex, will BE-
the man who will introduce denim to
Westminster.
Major Newman has admitted his in
tent;on to wear overalls to the Hous,
and says he has become firm convert
of this means of smashing clothing
prices, which was inaugurated on Msy
Day. He clings, however. TO spats, and
has told an interviewer he will wear
New-York tribune., 1920-05-05
Chauffeur Held to Grand
Jury in Death of Boy

William Jackson, negro chauffeur,
thirty-eight years DID, of 211S Madison
Avenue, who was arrested on April 2S
after an automobile truck said to have
been operated by him ran down and
killed Solomon Goldstein. ten years old,
Of 80 East Tooth Street, was held by
Magistrate rockingham in Harlem
Court yesterday in $4,000 bail for the
action Of the grand jury. He was ar
raigncd on a charge Of murder in the
first degree, preferred by the boys
father, Charles.
Young Goldstein was dragged by the
truck. The negro increased his speed
and was caught after an exciting chase
in which several shots were fired.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-05
ketcham's Successor Named
H. F. X. Severese Takes Place
in Board of Aldermen

The Board of Aldermen at it's meet
ing yesterday elected Humbert F. X.
Severesc, of 1852 Sixty Street,
Brooklyn, as Alderman from the 51st
Aldermanic District to succeed the late
Archie c. ketcham. The new Alderman
was sworn in by flayor IIylan.
For the first time in many weeks the
Aldermen had nothing to argue about
and the meeting adjourned in an hour.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-05

controllable condition, Tor I am any
thing but my natural self"
New-York tribune., 1920-05-05

give practical evidence of our ssot,.
ment and, as they cannot receive ths;.
pay under the new law until after tk.
summer vacation, we shall be please
to place at your disposal at any tims
before June 30 fund sufficient to CIV
to each member Of the teaching snd
force in the public scbool.
of Greenpoint (Nos. 81, 81, 81, 80, ia
1881 the sum of 800, with our hes.
wishes for happy and helpful vaea.
ton"
New-York tribune., 1920-05-05
Convention Whisky
To Be $4l a Pint

'u&r;ol nisnnfoA Yn yh, Tp;hu..

Special Dispqtch to The Tribune
CHICAGO, May a. Captain
Hubert Howard, state prohibition
commissioner, was notified to-day
that bellboys in Chicago hotels
had held a secret meeting last
night and agreed that the price of
whisky for thirsty guests during
the Republican convention here
in June will be SAL pint.
Captain Howard instructed his
agents to find out if possible
where the bellboys expect to get
the whisky to carry out their re-
ported protiteering plan.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-05

Colorado Delegates Named
DENVER, May 4.-Republicans of the
1st Congressional District to-day named
two uninstructcd delegates to the Re-
publican National Convention.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-05
Underwood Aids Enjoined
Union Labor i'm Alabama Pre-.
vents Publication of "Ad'

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, May 4.-Clerks
OF the Circuit Court here were serving
papers to-day in an injunction obtained
by union leaders restraining the pub
Ncation of portions Of political ad-
vertisement prepared by the campaign
committee for Senator Underwood,
Democratic leader in the Senate, who is
seeking reelection.
The complainants, William L. Harri-
son, R. r. Moore, R. c.. Cadden, J. r.
kennemer, w. W. Lane and c. M. Dins-
more. charge that the Underwood cam
paign managers in their advertisement
sought to convex the impression that
union labor in Alabama was favorable
to social equality, between the white
and negro races.
Lloyd Hooper, state manager for SEN
ator Underwood; several newspapers,
newspaper syndicate sand a Birmng-
ham advertising agency were named as
defendants.
Store Cuts Working Hours
Beginning this week Bloomingdale
Bros, Lexington Avenue and Fifty
ninth Street, shortened the hours Of
their employees. The store will open
at a. M, the usual hour, but will close
at $3.50 p. M, instead of 6 p. M, as has
been the closing hour heretofore. The
arrangement is expected to be perma-
mt.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-05
Store Cuts Working Hours
Doctors Plan to Use Radium

ST. LOUIS, May A committee to
determine to what extent radium may
pc used for the treatment of malignant
diseases will be appointed by the Amer
lean Surgical Association, it was an
nounced to-day at the convention of
the organization in session here
New-York tribune., 1920-05-05
Peg Leg Man Doomed to Chair

ALBANY, May 4.--The conviction Of
John Egan of murder in the first de-
gree was upheld by the Court of Ap-
peals day. Egan killed John Klein
in the Bronx on June last. Egan, it
was said, will be the first man with a
wooden leg to go to the electric chair
in this state
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1920-12-15
Proposition to Hard Surface This
Road From Decorah to Locust
Put Through by Super
visOrs Last Week.
WORK TO START
in THE SPRING
Will Cost $4,000 Mile to Put il to
Grade and This Work Will Take
About Two Years

The proposition for hard surfac-
ing the Decorah-Locust road came
up before the board of supervisors
last week, and the proposition car
ried, and the work will be commence
ed as soon as possible, in the spring.
The first work to be done will be
to put the road to grade, and it
is estimated that this work will take
about two years. The road contains
a little better than nine miles, and
reaches from the city limits to Lo-
Gust. After the grading is done the
road will be hard surfaced with
crushed rock.
The cost for cutting the road
down to grade will be $4,000 a mile,
and when the crushed rock is ready
to be put on this will cost $1,000 a
mile. The roadway will be % feet
wide and the crushed rock spread
on the road will be about IL inches
deep.
There will be no state aid on this
road and the county foots the bill
for putting the road to grade. The
county will also pay rs, per cent of
the cost of laying the crushed rock
and the property owners along the
road rs per cent. The assessment on
land owners for this crushed rock
laying will extend back one mile on
either side of the road, which means
that farmers owning land mile on
either side of the main road will
help pay for the work.
The cost to property owners will
average about $500 an acre, SO that
a man owning 800 acre farm along
this road it will cost him 5000, and
he will have ten years in which to
pay the assessment in.
The county owns rock crusher
and will crush its own rock for this
road, which of course will be a big
saving.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1920-12-15
What Makes q City Great!

"What makes city great? Huge
piles of stone
Heaped hoavenwGrd? Vast multi
tudes who dwell
Within wide circling walls? Palace
and throne
And riches past the count of man to
tell
And wide domain. Nay, these the
empty husk!
true honor dwells, where noble
deeds are done.
And great men rise whose names
athwart the dusk
Or misty centuries gleam like the
sun.
In Athens. Sparta. Florence, twas
the soul
That was the city's bright immortal
part,
The spiendor Of the spirit was their
goal,
Their jewel the uncomfortable
heart!
So may the city that we love be
great!
TIL every stone shall be articulate!"
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1920-12-15
That's the Amount the Christmas
Savings Club Members Got From
Citizens Savings Bank
1921 CLUB WILL ~
OPEN DEC. IS
Certainly Nice Sum That the Club
Members Can Have to Use for
Their Christmas Buying

In 1917 the Citizens Savings Bank
of this city started Christmas Saw
ings Club and the club has been in
operation now for four years. The
first club had about 400 members
and the 1920 club about 500 men,
bers. The starting of this club was
a mighty fine idea, as it taught
hundreds the value of saving, who
never thought much about the mat
ter before. In the four years the
club has been in operation the bank
has paid out $92,083.4S, certainly a
handsome sum, and coming as it
does right in the holiday time, when
most everybody needs a little extra
money. The club has proven won-
derful thing for our people, who be-
lieve in thrift and the saving of
few dollars for a rainy day.
The members of the club are work.
ing men, women and children. Some
join to take care of life insurance
premiums, others to make payments
on their homes, while some take out
a membership in name of a dear
relative, and then have the bank
send the Santa Claus Check to them
with their compliments. A great
many others place their checks on
an interest-bearing deposit with the
bank, and quite few use. the money
for Christmas shopping, to buy
clothing, etc. ,zss,s
1t is fine thing for the children,
as it brings them into the bank reg
ularly to make the small payments,
ahd they acquire the banking habit
while older people get banking ac-
quantance which they find very val
liable.
The Christmas Savings Club offers
you your choice of seven classes of
membership as follows:
Class members starting with 2
cents and increasing two cents each
week for fifty weeks, get $3.50.
Glass 2A-Members starting with
81 and decreasing two cents each
week for fifty weeks, get S25.0O.
Class 5-Members starting with 5
cents and increasing five cents each
week for fifty weeks, get $63.75.
Glass 5A-Members starting with
$3.50 and decreasing FIVE cents each
week, for fifty weeks, get $6S.75.
Class 5B-Members starting with
5 cents and increasing five cents
each week for 26 weeks, then de-
creasing 5 cents each week to 50th
week, get $32.50.
Class 10B-Members starting with
10 cents and increasing 10 cents each
week for 26 weeks, then decreasing
10 cents each week to 50th week, get
$65.00.
Class 100-Members paying 81
each week for fifty weeks, get
$4,000.
You can join any one or as many
classes as you choose. The 1921 club
will open at the Citizens Savings
Bank on Saturday, Dec. 1S, and it is
expected to -outdo any previous club
in the past four years.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1920-12-15
Decorah Stores Teeming With Pro-
ducts of American Energy and
Responsive to all Needs of
Highly Developed Com
munity
STOCKS AND PRICES
TO PLEASE ALL
Pleasure to Walk Through the
Bright Stores These Days and
See the Wonderful Stocks
They Have for Their
Customers.

If the people of Decorah are wise
they will not send out of town a
single dollar of their Christmas mon
ey. The home stores can afford to
Isell cheaper than the big city estab-
lishments, because their overhead
and operating expenses are less. And
their close touch with the great
wholesale markets enables them to
offer everything that an up to date
community can desire for holiday
and winter supplies.
1t takes a great deal of enterprise
for business men to invest the big
sums of money that are tied up in
these stocks. If you want your home
town to reach still greater prosperi-
ty, it is mighty good idea to back
up your home merchants when they
branch out in such a courageous way
and lay in assortments that in some
places is considered impossible ex-
cept in much larger cities.
1t is pleasure to walk through
these bright stores, so teeming with
the products of American energy and
so responsive to all the needs of a
highly developed community. 1t gives
one thrilling sense of achievement
to see what the producer is doing
to mi&ster to modern needs and
howath retailer distributor has COM
ed the world to provide the things
the people want. The merchants of
Decorah are anxious for their towns
people, and visitors from far and
near, to come in and get the whole
story of their Christmas prepara-
tion, and see what a splendid de-
veloping of modern merchandising
spirit they have to display.
If all the Christmas money that
this community spend can be kept
at home, it will bring a wave of
that will be felt the year
around in all local activities.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1920-12-15
Farmers Predominate in the House
of Representatives of Iowa,
While Lawyers Have Slight
Advantage in Senate
MANY NEW MEMBERS
IN BOTH BRANCHES
1OS Members in House are Repub-
licans, Six Democrats, in Sem
ate 4S Republicans and
Two Democrats

Farmers predominant in the house
of representative in the Thirty.
ninth general assembly, of Iowa
while in the senate the lawyers have
a slight advantage in numbers.
According to the information com.
piled in the Office of the secretary OF
state for the "herd book" copy fol
which has just been sent to the prin.
ter, there are forty-five members OF
the house giving their occupations
as farmers, five listed as bankers
and farmers, two as lawyers and
farmers, ten as bankers, and thirteen
as lawyers. There are a few editors
and publishers, some real estate
dealers, loan agents and insurance
agents as well as other vocations
listed.
In the senate thirteen members
give their occupation as farmers,
sixteen as lawyers, four as bankers,
four as farmer bankers, and one as
lawyer banker. Other occupations
are also represented.
On the whole there are many new
members both in the house and sem
ate. This is another reason why the
handling of the code revision will
probably be postponed to be taken
up at special session, as the new
legislators do not care to undertake
code revision and regular session
work at the same time. Is
Out of 108 members in the house
101 are republicans, six are demo-
Gratis and one is listed as independ-
ent. In the senate which has fifty
members, there are forty-eight re-
publicans and two democrats. This
is larger proportion of republi-
cans than usual altho there has
not for years been sufficient num-
ber of democrats in the Iowa legis-
lature for any particular division
on party lines.
The early indications are that the
coming session as a whole will be
characterized by conservation. The
business situation will cause conser-
vative action and will bear down on
appropriations and there will un-
doubtedly be a disposition to- keep
state expenditures down to as low
figure as possible.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1920-12-15

"A pound of butter is now worth
more on local markets than bushel
of corn and dozen of eggs are
worth considerably more than a
pound of butter" notes the Webster
City Freeman-Journal.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1920-12-15
Economy Assured by Kendall.

Governor-Elect Kendall has made
Recommendations to the members of
the legislature that will convene
early in January, that will effect
a saving of many thousands of dol
lars to the tax payers. The greatest
saving will be made in che elimin-
alton of useless secretaries, clerks
and stenographers that have hereto
fore swarmed the Senate and House
chambers. This recommendation will
have the hearty approval of almost
everyone and is in complete accord
with Mr.. Kendall's policy as stated
at the beginning of his campaign
early this year.
The governor-elect believes in put
ting theory into practice and in his
campaign his expense account was
held to the minimum while his op-
ponent almost reached the maximum
apparently. The same line of reas-
oning will be employed in state af-
fairs as is evidenced by the recon-
mendation to the General Assembly.
1t is Mr., Kendall's intention to hold
all appropriations and expenditures
to the minimum that will insure eff
ficiency and then insist on a dollars
worth of service for every dollar ex-
pended and in this policy he will
have the support and approval of ev-
eryone except the CRATER.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1920-12-15
The Prize Boob.

Council Bluffs.-Police Judge
Capel had the prize boob before him
today. He gave the name of William
Zahrlie, and said he bad read in
the papers last night of the rob-
berry of the Glasgow Tailor Shop
of several hundred dollars worth OF
suitings, and remembered that he
had thrown a brick thru the glass
door of the store, then walked away
Zahrlie declared he threw the brick
just to accommodate two strangers
who accosted him on the street and
asked him to do so. Zahrlie is held
for examination.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1920-12-15
Rep. Haugen Gets Bill Through.

The first Legislative action of the
house at this session was taken on
Wednesday with the passage of the
bill authorizing the president to is
sue medals of merit for distinguish
ed service performed during the
world war by officers and men of
the. United States merchant marine.
The vote was 315 to 7.
The house passed as its second
piece of legislation a bill by Rep
resentative Haugen of Iowa, chair
man of the committee on agricuI-
ture designed principally to pre-
vent deception of the public in the
purchase of manufactured articles
wrapped or boxed as to make them
appear of greater quantity than the
are by actual weight or
volume. The bill, would require that
the quantity or the contents be
plainly marked on the outside of
the package in terms of weight.
measure or numerical count.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1920-12-15

If you have to die in order to be
you're not worth it.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1920-12-15

Those who contemplate the be-
stowal of a really fine gift during
the Christmas period, might hit up
on dozen eggs. By starting early
the amount might be attained with
in the month";" suggests the Water
loo Courier.