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Omaha daily bee., 1920-06-21
EXPECT ARREST
OF WOMAN FOR
ELMLL MURDER
Chain Of Evidence Tightening
Around One Responsible for
Death Of New York
Sportsman.


New York, June 20-The arrest of
the girl who sent As calibre but
let through the brain of Joseph
Bovine Elwell. society man, and in
ternationally known as a bridge
whist expert, is predicted within a
few hours.
The police have absolutely aban-
doned the theory that the weapon
that snuffed out the life of the
wealthy man in his home a week ago
Friday WIS in the hands of a man.
According to a story told today by
one of the detectives familiar with
the case, every move made public by
the police for the last five days has
been one of camouflage.
The police, so far As has been
made, have been purposely working
away from the murderess in order
that the woman who they claim shot
Elwell would rest secure in the I'M
preston that the laws tentacles
were graphing in another direction:
The motive for the coldblooded
shooting of the popular man-about-
town has been known to the police
for the last five days. 1t is, accord
ing to the plain clothes men, jeal-,
ousy. ~. I
The killing is the crime of a wom-
an scorned, woman SO crazed with
love that she knowingly destroyed
the object of the affections when
she realized that she had been
brushed aside for another and new
er conquest.
That is the theory the police, ac-
cording to the detective, have held
for the last five days. The clews
that lead detectives to Kentucky and
other states and toward men and
other women, have ben mere cur
tains hung in front of the real
guilty woman in order that she
might bask in assumed safety. and
figure herself beyond all suspi-
cion.
when an arrest is made" said the
detective, "we wish to have the links
of evidence so welded that nothing
can part them. We are determined
not to have in the motive a weak
link that will part the chain.
The woman in the case became
violently infatuated with the hand
some butterfly. He paid her marked
attention for a time. Then a new
interest came into his life. The old
love, if there had been such thing
on his part, was forgotten. He
turned to young woman i'll New
York. The scorned woman followed
him here. She learned of Elwell's
attentions to his latest conquest. She
demonstrated with him. He laughed
it off.
"Then she learned that Elwell had
begged his wife to divorce him that
he might marry the young New
York woman. Desperate. the woman
shot him to prevent the woman at
the other point of the triangle from
having him. That's our story. That's
the theory on which the arrest will
be made"
Omaha daily bee., 1920-06-21
MAN AND WOMAN
SERIOUSLY HURT
IN AUTO WRECK
Robert c. Martin and Made.
line Nugent Dangerously
Injured When Car Hits
Y Street Gar.

Madeline Nugent, 3O53 North
Twentieth street. and Robert c.
Martin, vice presideit of the Mutual
Live Stock Commission company,
$50 Park avenue, were seriously in
jured at TwentY-sixth and Leavef-
worth streets, about II 80 last night,
when the automobile In which they
were riding collided with a west
bound Leavenworth street car.
Martin and Miss Nugent were
driving east on Leavenworth street,
and the accident occurring when
Martin turned his car to the left in
an attempt to pass an eastbound
street car, according to witnesses.
His machine was travelling at a speed
of about IS miles an hour, witnesses
said. ~. -,.--
Martins car struck the front end
Of west-bound street car, which
was just ahead of the east-bound
car. throwing him through the
windshield and against the street
car, it is said. Miss Nugent> was
not thrown from the automobile
which was an enclosed car, but was
badly injured from the force of the
collision, and was severely cut by
the broken glass.
She was taken from the automo-
bile in an Unconscious condition by
B. Kruger of Hastings, Neb., and
rushed to the Nicholas Sem hospi-
tai. Her throat was badly cut, her
left leg was fractured and her right
hip was 2 dislocated. 1t is also
thought that she may have suffered
conclusion of the brain. Her con-
dition is serious, but it was an
nounced at the hospital early this
morning that, her injury probably
would not prove fatal.
Martin was taken to the hospital
in the police emergency car. He suf-
fered serious scalp wounds, internal
injuries of the chest and his tongue
was lacerated so badly that it was
necessary to take several stitches.
His condition is not critical, it is
said.
Omaha daily bee., 1920-06-21
Miss Margaret Wilson
Forced to BOrrOW Dime
From Bus Conductor

New York, June 2O.-Miss Mar
garet Wilson, daughter of the presi-
dent. discovered she was broke"
while riding on a Fifth avenue bus
recently and borrowed 10 cents from
a conductor to pay her fare, accord
ing to the current issue of Bus Lines,
the bus company's periodical.
She mounted the bus and protered
coin to P. G. Lynch, the conductor
He looked at it and remarked:
I'm sorry, Miss, but this is
penny. not a dime
The young woman searched her
purse and then, embarrassed. said
I'm afraid | must get off, that
penny is all / have -
Remain where you are" the con-
ductor replied, who was unaware of
her identity. "Ill be glead to lend
you 10 cents =
She accepted his offer and took his
name. A few days later he was sur
prised to receive a note written on
White House stationary and signed
Margaret Woodrow Wilson,"
thanking him for his courtesy and
enclosing a dime.
Omaha daily bee., 1920-06-21
BAREFOOT Thief
PLUMBERS TWO
HOMES SUNDAY
First Attempt to Rob Fails
When Father and Son,
Heavily Armed, Chase
ProWIer.

A barefoot" burglar made his
first appearance in two Omaha
homes early yesterday morning and
was routed from both places.
The soxless thief was discovered
in the home of DR.. John R. Nilsson.
1925 North Thirty-third street,
shortly after 2:30 a. M, after he had
gained entrance by using a jimmy"
on dining room window.
DR.. Nilsson, who, a few minutes
before had received telephone call.
heard the window crash. He aroused
lis son, John, high school cadet.
The boy armed himself with his
army rifle and the doctor got { re-
volver. They advanced cautiously
down the stairs where the thief was
fansacking the house. He ran out
the kitchen door and made his es-
cape in a waiting automobile which
was driven by an accomp,ice.
Find Footprints.
, DR.. Nilsson discovered an i'm
print of bare foot below the win
dow where the thief entered. The
burglar also had unloosened all OF
the electric light bulbs on the first
floor to prevent being seen in case
he was discovered in the house.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. Rich, 1882 North
Twentieth street, was called upon
by the barefoot" burglar shortly
before 5 a. M. Sunday morning.
The thief was frightened away by
Mrs. Rich's screams of ''robber." He
carried away pair of trousers and
a blue shirt. The thief gained en-
trance through a front window.
The thief was in the act Of loot
ing their bedroom when Mrs Rich
awoke. Her husband chased the
thief from the house who escaped
in the darkness.
Mrs. J. S. Lavat, Fort Wavne. \.
Y, lost s. and railroad ticket to
Seattle while riding on street car
near the Union depot, according to
report to the police,
Steal Mans Watch.
Thieves mysteriously gained en-
trance to the room of John John
son. Fargo, n. D., i'll the Palm hotel
by unbolting the door and carried
away gold watch valued at $40
Boxcar thieves broke into a
freight car near. the Chicago &
Northwestern freight depot, Fif-
teenth and Webster streets, and
hauled away l9 automobile tires.
Burglars who attempted to enter
the grocery store Of J. Casala, 2702
South Tenth street, by saving the
iron bars on a cellar window were
frightened away by pedestrians. The
thieves left an auger and a bolt
clipper behind
Omaha daily bee., 1920-06-21
CHICAGOAN KILLS
FAMOUS GANGSTER
WITH HIS OWN GUN
Jimmy Buttons Meets Fate
After Wounding Wife
Of Saloonkeeper.
Chicago Tribune Omaha bee Leased Wire.


Chicago, June Jimmy" But
tons, gangster, mankiller and no
torious thug, thief and crook who
has worried the police for years, is
no longer with us. sHe stepped
away last night when Stephen
Dopninick, a saloonkeeper back of
the yards" wrested one of Buttons
own pistols away from him and
killed him with it.
Buttons had just shot the wife
of the saloonkeeper in the face be-
cause she advised him to go home
to his wfe and 3-week old baby
Before she could finish the sem
tence, Buttons drew one of the pair
of revolvers he always carried and
shot her in the forehead. She
crumpled at her husbands feet and
Dominick sprang over her and
tackled the killer. In the struggle
Buttons dropped the revolver with
which he had shot the woman, but
reached for the other one. Dom
mick, however, beat him to it and
pumped two bullets into Buttons
at close range. He was a perfectly
good corpse when the police ar
rived. Mrs. Dominick was hur-
ried to hospital, but there is scant
chance for her recovery.
Buttons had a record of having
shot and killed two men in open
battle. Both his known victims
we're killed while he was holding
them up in the street and in, both
cases, although the evidence was
clear. he' was acquitted.
Omaha daily bee., 1920-06-21
Sister Denies Report
Former Mrs. Astor Will
Take Up Life in Reno

Chicago Tribune Omaha Bee Leased Wire.
New York, June 20.-Miss Cath
rine Force indignantly denied in
most emphatic terms today the re-
port emanating from Reno, New,
that her sister, Mrs. Madeline Force
Astor-Dick. had leased house in
the Nevada city in the hope of es-
tablishing "a domicile in that state
xand was to take up her residence
there this week.
absurd, ridiculous and malicious y
was the way the sister of the widow
of Cox John Jacob Astor character
lied the story. set is absolutely un-
true and has not the slightest basis
of truth in it. Mr.. and Mrs. Dick
at present are out on their boat to-
gether or they would deny the story
themselves.
81 have no idea who would. start
such a malicious story. There is
no one, to the best OF my knowledge,
who would wish to do either my sis
ter or Mr.. Dick any harm. There
is possibility that the dispatch
from Reno relates to some other
Mrs. Willianl~K. Dick, although |
do not know of anyone else of the
same name.
Omaha daily bee., 1920-06-21
Paris Artists Parade I
: Streets Dressed in
Overalls and Aprons
New York Times Chicago Tribune Cab
W COpyright. 1920.

New York Times-C Chicago Tribune Cable.
Copyright. 1920.
Paris, June 20.-The artistic world
OF Paris amused. itself today with
an overall parade. F orty of the best
known Partisan, poets, prose writers
and actresses invaded almost all OF
the fashionable resorts clad in blue
Jeans and aprons, like plumbers and
scullery maids.
In the morning they promenaded
in the famous Avenue! !Des Acacias in
the Bois. ldnched al the Ermitage
restaurant, took tea at Claridge.S
held a reception at the Maison Des
Tournalistes, and from midnight till
2 in the morning, had ball at Olym-
spia, at which only those wearing
blue jeans we're admitted.
Although much of today's pr
Torrance was only good feeling. it
is likely to have an effect in popu-
iarizing these cheap summer suits.
Omaha daily bee., 1920-06-21
Man and Wife Are
Arrested as Suspects
In $400 Robbery

Vic Fuller aud his wife. Clara.
2420 Cunning street, were arrested by
detectives yesterday. and are being
held by the police for investiga-
ton. Their arrest was the result
of a complaint made by c. P. Riley
of Southwick, Wyo., who way ar
rested yesterday morning on a
charge of intoxication. IL
Riley was confined. to the city
Jail after his arrest. A short time
later. after the Effects OF the drink.
ing had worn away. he explained
to the police that he had met Fuller
at Sixteenth and Douglas streets
yesterday morning and had been in
vited to Fuller's house. While
there, he was robbed of $D0, he
said,
Omaha daily bee., 1920-06-21
Nebraska Democrats
To Leave Wednesday
For San Francisco

Lincoln, Neb., June 2o.-The Ne
braska delegation to the democrat
ic national convention will leave
for San Francisco Wednesday
morning. A carload will be made
up OF those delegates and alter
mates who are aligned with the
Bryan faction party in the state, to-
gether with their friends. w. ].
Bryan will join the party at Ogden,
Utah. Supporters of Senator G.. NJ.
Hitchcock will occupy another coach
on the same train. The Nebraska
party expects to reach San Fran-
cisco the evening Of Friday, June IS.
Omaha daily bee., 1920-06-21
TWO KILLED IN
RACE RIOT over
BURNING OF FLAG
American Sailor Among VIC
Tins of Outbreak in Chicago
"BIack BeIt"-Negro Po-
Iceman Wounded.

SutChBO lfeUuue-om0Ho IcbSSO " hSs
Chicago. June 20-The burning
of an American flag started race
riot on the South Side tonight that
in its first stages cost'the life of an
American sailor and another white
man, the wounding of negro po-
liceman, and serious injuries to
others.
The available police of three sta
tions were rushed to the scene of
conflict-Thirty-fifth street and
Prairie avenue. Chief of Police
Garrity left his office to take COM
mand of the situation, and took
with him Chief of Detectives
Mooney and his rifle squad.
The policeman shot is James B.
Owens, negro, who was wounded
in the abdopen.
The rioting began with some 200
members of a negro society who
planned to go back to Africa. They
were on their way to a meeting.
They paraded west in Thirty
fifth street, and built bonfire in
the middle of the street. in front
of a cafe. Into this some one
hurled an American flag.
The crowds gathered, negro and
white. There were threats and
shouts, and the brandishing of guns.
Y Jackies Take Part.
Another flag went into the flames.
And theh Policeman Owens and a
hitepatrolman rushed up. The ne
groes crowded about. threatening.
jeering, surrounding the two men.
A party Of jackies pushed through
the crowd, indignant at the sight of
the burning flag.
II don't know just how it hap
pened," said James w. Osborne, a
spectator, "but suddenly Owens drew
his gun and there was number of
shots. Then everybody scattered,
it seems, except the members Of the
negro society," ...
Nearby was an automobile filled
with rifles, it is said. The negroes
made a dash to it and seized the
guns.
The policeman fell at the first vol
ley.
The sailor dashed for protection
into the United Cigar Stores shop
on the corner. He was unarmed.
Three of the negroes, it is said,
ran to the door of the shop, took
aim and fired.
The chauffeur of a taxicab stand.
ing on the corner was fred upon by
another of the negro band. The
bullet missed him, went through the
windshield, and sent showers of
glass all over.
The other man killed is Joseph
Hoyt, 50 years old. He was the
clerk in the United Cigars store.
He was killh. in the same volley
INT killed the bluejackeet.
Ordered Out Reserves.
When Chief Garrity arrived he
ordered out all the reserves of
eight police stations. y .
(, An investigation WAS begun i'm
mediately. 1t was found that the
Organization which burned the flag
was composed of Abyssians. They
had with them on their parade their
own flag-red, yellow and green.
with lion rampant on one side of
lii.
The police that poured into the
territory had hard work to keep
the great crowds moving. Thou
sands of negro men and women
surged about the place where the
jackey and the other dead man lay,
and about the Entertainers cafe.
There were threats on all sides.
and sullen glances. The police
feared it would lead to a recurrence
of the race riots sof last year with
their heavy toll of white and negro
j dand
Omaha daily bee., 1920-06-21
Life of Presidential
Nominee Far From
FIOWery Bed of Ease
Chicago Tribune Omaha Bee Leased Wir

Chicago Tribune-Omaha Bee Leased wire.
Washington, June 2O.-Trials OF a
presidential nominee have been
brought home to Senator Harding
every day since he was nominated at
Chicago. Here are some that he
has had to contend with:
Having his negro cook interviewed
as to what he has to eat;
Having elder" John Sims, the
colored barber, who prayed for him,
interviewed on the text OF the
prayer;
Having a cigar named after him
without knowing its quality;
Having to explain to prohibition
lists how he happened to own three
shares of brewery stock;
Having to buy presents for Children
named after him;
Having photographers spoil your
drive on the golf links;
Having women reporters write
that Mrs. Harding wore rayed
gloves when she came home after
the nomination:
Having to act pleasant to the fel-
low who always say; Il Just want
cd to shake your hand
Omaha daily bee., 1920-06-21
About 100 Other Are Injured,
Many Seriously, Durin 9
Fresh Clashes Of National
lists and Unionists.
MILITARY CALLED OUT
TO QUELL OUTBREAK
Many Persons Suffering From
Minor Wounds Taken Home
Without Treatment-Sing|e
Shot Precipitates Trouble.

Londonderry, June 20.-Five per-
sons were killed, 10 others seriously
wounded, several of them probably
fatally, and about 100 others were
less seriously injured during a
period of rioting in this city Satur-
day night. The fighting was accom-
panied by several attempts at in
cendiarism, one of which resulted i'll
the burning of large store.
The rioting was continuation OF
Friday night disorders when nation
alists and unionists engaged in
clashes for several hours and the
military had to be called out.
An unrecorded number of per-
sons Suffering from minor wounds
went home without receiving treat
ment. Among the wounded are sew
eral Shipyard workers with bad
gunshot wounds.
The military, fully equipped, had
taken positions at the head and foot
of Bridge street, which is the, ma
tionalist quarter, and on Fountain
street. the u1ionist quarter. An ar
mored car Was drawn up at Car
Isle road, between these localities
Nevertheless another night of terror
followed,
Continuing Two Hours.
From shortly after 9 o'clock until
II o'clock pandemonium reigned. A
shot fired from one party into a
crowd of rival partisans developed
with ominous speed into violent riot
ing.
The nationalists did not seem to
be so we'll provided with weapons as
their opponents, but they maintained
a vigorous defense.
In the elrly stage of the battle,
two men were shot dead in Long
tower street and a number of per-
sons, including a baby in arms, were
wounded.
In the midst of one melee man
who knocked down small boy was
chased by an angry mob Of men and
women. He sought shelter in the
City club and insistent demands for
his rejection being ignored, the mob
stoned the club.
A large crowd assembled in the
nonresidential quarters in the cen
ter Of the city where fierce fighting
also occurred. Two girls were among
the combatants here. Before the
militia arrived the mob flared to
greater intensity and the fire became
so hot that people were seen to be
crawling along the ground to- places
of safety.
Unionists Gain Control.
Gradually the unionists gained
control of the entire district in the
center of the city, chasing the ma
tionalists into their own locality. In
their retreat the latter fired into the
Masonic hall, the windows of which
were broken.
The unionists posted small groups
CONTINUED on Page Two, Column Four.)
Omaha daily bee., 1920-06-21
Root Suggests Plan for
World Court of Justice

The Hague, June 20,-Among
plans for the creation OF an inter-
national court of justice suggested
to the commission of juusts now en-
gagged in working out the project is
one by EEhu Root, former American
secretary/of state, which provides
that one panel of nominees for places
on the court be chosen by the assem-
bly, of the league or nations, in
which all the powers are repre-
sented. and another panel by the
council of the league of nations, in
which only the great powers have
places. The judges thief, would be
seated from the two pane1s.
Omaha daily bee., 1920-06-21
Second Case Of Plague
Discovered in Galveston

Galveston. Tex, June 20-A sec
.ond case Of bubonic plague has de-
velopef here, DR.. w. +, Fox of the
United States public Health service
announced: The victim, negress is
under serum and vaccine treatment.
The first victim. a l7-ycar-old boy,
died last "Wednesday
Omaha daily bee., 1920-06-21
Police Chief Eating
Oft Mantle as Result
OF Bolt of Lightning
chicago Tribune Omaha Bee Leased Wire.

chicago If1D0ne-Omona nee L0ooe0 wire.
Clarified, Pa, June 20-As the
result of a little experience with
Chief of Police McHenry
Is eating his meals from the mantle.
! Caught in a sudden rainstorm
while near a Pennsylvania railroad
siding, the chief ran for shelter un-
der a convenient box car. Shielded
from the downpour, he sat ora rail
and waited for the storm to pass.
A Lightning bolt struck telephone
wire several hundred yards distant,
communicated to the rail, and a ball
OF fire as big as a keg of beer shot
down the track. McHenry was
thrown unconscious into a field be-
side the car. The cool rain falling on
his face revived him and he made
his way home The seat of his
trousers was singed, but aside from
the necessity of spending most of
his time on his feet, Chief McHenry
is little the worse for his experience.
Omaha daily bee., 1920-06-21
Wire Worm Is Damaging
Corn in Saunders County

George A, Olson of Wahoo was
a visitor at the local live stock mar
kst Saturday with a mixed load of
cattle and hogs. and he told oi the
new menace to growing corn, the
wire worm, which he said was cauS>
Omaha daily bee., 1920-06-21
Bolsheviki Assemble for Drive

Warsaw. June 20.-The bolsheviki
are reported to have assembled so
divisions for the midsummer drive
against Poland, which military OBJ
servers consider to be now in1Iull
swing, the reds attacking at various
points along a 1900 kilometer 'front.'
Omaha daily bee., 1920-06-21
The Weather

Forecast. s.
Nebraska = Showers Monday;
Tuesday partly cloudy; not much
change in temperature.
Iowa-Showers Monday; TUESDAY
partly cloudy; not much change in
temperature.
Omaha daily bee., 1920-06-21
Begin Extra Session Today

Mexico City, June 20.-Both
houses of congress will begin IN
extraordinary session on Monday.
for the purpose Of recognizing:
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-10-17
CITY ATTORNEY R0MPS
ON CONSUMERS LIGHT
AND POWER COMPANY

City Attorney Mason romped all
over the Consumers Light and Power
Company at the meeting of the board
of commissioners Friday night, and
expressed great Indignation, stating
that it was funny that the com
pany didn't show enough courtesy
to the city by informing the munich
pal administration Of their proposed
increase in rates before writing the
state corporation commission about
it."
The city attorney stated that he
had received a letter from Chairman
Walker, of the state corporation COM
mission, informing him that the Con-
sumers company had advised the COM
mission that after October 1st, the
company desired to raise their rates.
Mason stated that he would insist
on hearing before the commission
permits the increase Of rates. He said
that he had done his best to find
out whether or not the Consumers
company had made single connec-
ton to supply sufficient amount of
gas to the city, and had been unable
thus far to find out thing.