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Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1920-08-14
LIVES WITH BOTH SPOUSES
Uses Prctext Of Business to Explain
Absence From One While LiV-
ING With Another

Baltimore. Md.-A confession that
he has two wives and that he has been
living with both since marrying the
second year ago Is said 20 have been
made by John w. Turner. thlrty-Six
years old of baltimore. Nd
The sclf-confcSscd bigamiSt married
Miss Jennie Grim In Baltimore In t912
and they have n child thirteen years
old \ year ago Turner married Miss
SalUc Frazier eighteen years old. Of
PrcStouehurg, Ky. while on u trip in
that state.
Turner took wife 40. . with him 10
Ealtimor" and s.u"c ihaf lIpr has been
uyiu- with both vi,c. he would
leave one on 20 rr',>' OF hu.iur~s to
visit the other iu auorhcr uart Of the
ely,
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1920-08-14


Her manner of knitting was charm
ing she knew that was watching
! r hahHS ana remarked win grace
tut urn "t the "ead'
FOR an English boy somewhere!
began by knitting for my brother
ana cousins, hut-hrr head bent
lower-'that isn't for me to do any
more. i'ef eyes. turned upon me Tor
Il moment, we're bright with tears.
1t had been years since the house
hnd known a woman'S hand, and 1t
was astonishing ho" humauizcd II
bad hoc"ln" I'D Few hours. The
long ''h'NS-'""In, always bare. for
hi"N'NE pace had b''n reduced io
cosy proportions ny screens. ana a
Nh.'' F"""a ''h'e f'p."''d the mas
~'>'. o''""S affair THAT always looked
"~ .n"H-h u t"d been hut, into the
mousse 10y ''' carpenters.
u found those lovely ~cIycuN in the
-"1E'l amt 'h"u-hl we might as well
'"lol u'W. aNA I.1l Lang lan jar
}"a se" "n ,hr ~ia"h"ard ou-hiht TO
ID hidden 10 the want.
"i am sure tucic Bash would he
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1920-08-14
Mouse Saved Miners Life.

st. Loui~.-frank Lucas Of East st.
Louis is feeding The mjce ia q mine.
Lucas was browsing ou bench ia the
mine after eating his IUpch A mouse
ran up his ,rou-cr leg. II" Spraug NJ
and forward, clutchiug his tr0H-cr leg
TO keep the mou-c from going higher.
At the instant "cIod' fen from the
roof. crushing the bench where Lucas
had SAT. Later In 'h" day another
miner was about 20 XIII mouse. Lu-
cas- intcrfercd Don't XIII it," he said.
"one OF them saved my life"
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1920-08-14
CHAPTER ll-Continucd.

This ~rraya 900, as tn plga~au,,,t
chm. wa-uunIc. THOUGH Wa, s,JlI
dazpd and nay tongue seemed to have
died w my mouth. This girl. this
wholly charming and delightful
young woman. was the monGtruus he
ing tud couiccturcd as the globe
troitin- widow who had kidnapped and
married my wc!ci Not only had She
married my uncle Bash and in due
course buried him; she had been
widow when she married him. The
thing was staggering, bewiidering.
She was clearly anxious to be friendly,
but nothing that I had thought OF
saying to her fitted the situation.
"ln the first place." | finally began,
81 must apologize most hHmbly for
the earnest efforts of the servants to
murder you last night, Mr.. Terrence
had promised to let me know when
you would reach here. but he must
have forgotten II. ] had motOred to
friends louise To dine and didn't ger
back until the mischief was done
I'm very sorry"
Not for the world would have
missed that" she exclaimed with
merry laugh. 1T was perfectly
delicious! And il was al my fault.
I meant Ia remain II day at Hartford,
you know, and send a message to Mr..
Torrcuce from there. but | found that
by pushing Oh ] could reach here
yesterday. And you know we English
always expect strange things la happen
I'm America. | don't understand yet
why those people al the gates were
~ jolly anxious to Kill us; but it
doesn't matter; you would spoil the
joke Ivy explaining it,
However. | did my heSt-it was Il
weak attcmpt-to explain the nervous
ness of tic veteran servants aud their
display of violence. Her arrival made
IL likely that we should soon know
more about the parties" whose visits
aud Inquiries had 40 alarmed Antoine
aud his comrades. told her with
ntt the humor I could throw into the
recital of The drilling of the bcll-h0ps
aud of the uncomfortable relations
be'"''1 me 'i'''" t"'''S ana tue
l'u'"'''' minority On 'nr estate.
wa ,''' WI '''N'''''" '"
provide home for these people;
wasn't hc cally TIE kindc>t soul that
ever liYrdt' She said softly.
N"' I'|'" WISH u''N N'a"a'"' ana
Il e A..
"a" 'H' -''''" 81 ''"." on HrF long
laSh'1. wy ""''' n"'' men, meant
'"'"''"''.- 10 "'' %" one, '' ~,'''H
az manner. ''"'" nave suggested The
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Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1920-08-14
Dads Part in Game

One day when Herbert was riding
with his father In his machine, he told
Herbert not TO forget to remind him
Of a certain errand. After going lit
tie farther his father thought Of an
other thing he wished to he reminded
Of. Herbert thought seriously for
moment and then turned To his father
and said. well. dad, guess you'll
please have TO remind me to remind
you"
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1920-08-14

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Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1920-08-14
Convertible Ckatee

4 ChicaroHu has invented ron.
yertihlc skate. Which reminds ne
though It is nothing appertainlnr
20 the suhioct-dld you ever notice
how quickly a man sohers when his
wife sights him? The convertible
skate is not new by any manner on
mcanS-Bulalo News.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1920-08-14
Gain LiVinq From the Sea

The Japanese are the only people
who have ever undertaken the syste-
matte planting and harvesting of sea
weed and other marine vegetation
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1920-08-14
ASPIRIN
Name "Bayer" on Genuine

"Bayer Tablets OF Aspirin" is genu'
Inc Aspirin proved safe by millions
and prescribed by physicians for over
twenty years. Accept only an unbroken
"Baycr package" which contains proper
directions TO relieve Headache. Tooth
ache Earache, Neuralgia, rheumatism,
Colds and Pain Handy tin boxes of II
tablets cost few cents. Druggists also
sell larger payer packages Aspirin
& trade mark Rayer Manufacture Mon
DacetIcacidcstcr Of Sal!cyllcacid.-AdV
Musical directors beat their way
through the world by scores.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1920-08-14

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Arizona republican., 1920-01-28
PloWnen Wanted

Have large amount contract blowing;
 long time jobs for all kinds outfits from one man walking blow outfit up to tractors. Holmes Wooton Ranch Go Phone 1922. If
Arizona republican., 1920-01-28

PHONE@BRADMA PHOENIX EMPLOYMENT OFFICE RELIABLE HELP FURNISHED ON SHORT NOTICE. IF & 1ST ST If
Arizona republican., 1920-01-28
Money to Loan

Unlimited funds to loan on improved Salt River Valley ranch lands and in come business property
 DWIGHT B. HEARD REAL INSURANCE
 LOANS
 CENTRAL & ApAES =
Arizona republican., 1920-01-28
Wanted-To Rent

WANTED-By a refined Christian Iady, one or two furnished housekeep- ing rooms near carline, in Capitol 2d. ditiori. Address A. Anderson, 1858 W
 NaShington ZI
The Washington times., 1920-05-16

before the killing pointed very conclu-
sively in that direction, the District At
torney said.
The night before the murder Odell OBJ
tanned pair Of handouts in secondhand
store. Next he affixed a nickel-plated
badge to his chest and sailed forth on the
evening of January in his step-father's
automobile to make Kneip prisoner.
At the factory where Kneip worked he
called for him. He informed Kneip that
he (OdelD was an officer, with a warrant
for his arrest
Kneip asked the nature Of the warrant.
Felonious assault" was the prompt reply,
upon Pearl Beaver"
Without further discussion young Kneip
donned his coat and entered the auto
mobile that stood at a convenient distance
from the tool works. In the back seat sat
Pearl. The nature of their greeting has
not been explained, but the car was driven
to Odel's home, which was with his step
parents In Richmond street. There a con-
ference took place, and there Kneip, still
thinking Odell an officer Of the law, ia de-
clared to have admitted the truth OF
PEARLS statements.
Odell secured the sharpened file. hand
cuffed Kneip to his own wife, probably to
keep down any suspicion, and bundled
them both into the machine. Kneip
thought the trip was about to be made TO
police headquarters and that Pearl, as well
as he, wasIunder arrest Instead, Il event
ually led to lonely lane, where he was
handcuned to stout young tree and
beaten and stabbed to death.
(c) 1920 international Feature service. Inc.
The Washington times., 1920-05-16


lem. When the ballot finally stood eleven
to one the latter juror agreed.
On the Sunday following Odel's convic-
tions, with Sheriff Wiedenmann's consent.
Odell was permitted to see his wife.
Flafiked by two deputies and 0dell's step
parents the couple met in the matron's re-
ception room. They rushed into each
others arms and cried bitterly.
"You see how it all came out, Pearl"
sobbed Odell; "all for you" ...
81 couldn't help it, Jimmie" was the
despairing reply.
But still nothing transpired to throw
any light upon the frenzy of the murderer
of Kneip. And upon this the Rochester
chief of police, Joseph M. Quigley, has an
interesting theory. '.''
81 believe" he said, that this young
woman murdered her former sweetheart
because she still loved him and wanted
revenge for being Tilted and because she
did not love her husband. Her love for
Kneip, believe, was so great that abe did
not want anyone else ever to have him.
She was angry because he had Tilted her
and married because Sne nad decided sne
would never be married to the man she
loved. But she did not forget him.
IL think that is a popularity with wo-
men-they do not easily forget those with
whom they we're first in love. She found
that she did not love her husband and
then she told these stories which enraged
him. And when Kneip was taken out into
the country Odell told her that II Kneip
had ever done anything wrong to her she
might do with him as she desired.
Does that not show that she was the
one who had the grievance? Women who
have been deserted by their husbands and
who feel toward them as did Pearl Odell
toward Kneip frequently come to my office
and complain. L do not expect he will
come back to me, but do not want any
one else to have him., they frequently say
when they ask us to .ook for husbands
who have left them and who are not likely
to come back and whose support Is not
asked. ..>- .
"Pearl Odell should not have told her
husband the secrets OF her past-probably
would not have done so II she had really
The Washington times., 1920-05-16
Edward J. Kneip, the Lover Whose Murder Has Just
Resulted in the Conviction of Pearl OdeIs
Husband-What Will Happen to HERR

loved him. There is no reason why any
woman should tell her husband what her
past has been. How many men would tell
their wives what their past has been?
I'VE should not tell of sins that will
either bring harm to ourselves or to
others. Had she lived an upright life with
her husband she would not have been re-
quired by her conscience to tell. of a
mistake that she had made what he did
not know would do him no harm, and II
she had forgotten Kneip and kept her
secret she and her husband might have
led a happy married life. ..e-s
Most people have skeletons I'm their
closets, and If they tell of them to others
they all help to bring humiliation and un-
happiness to themselves and to others.
What Is passed cannot be changed; and so
long as we resolve that there shall be no
mistakes in the future and live up 70 that
resolution we should not tell secrets which
are sure to bring sorrow. s-t.s
There should be no double standard Of
morality. Yet a good many would 1ike TO
have such a standard nowadays. n9s ue-
cause so many have this belief that I,think
the greatest charity should be showd to a
woman who has erred. No one is SO, help.
less and none other is so pitiable.fos they
are Stunned by those who know them ard
call themselves charitable, but wno~all too
frequently are not willing to reachsout
helping hand to the woman who has erred.
Il cannot conceive such a thing .ten~
possible as the theory that Pearl Odel
killed this young man because haf hus-
band was bitter and sought revenge for
what had been in the past lives OF the two.
Crimes OF this nature are not committed
for any such purpose. Its hendishness can
be accounted for by me In no other way
than that she loved him, was jilted and
was after revenge and his life because she
wanted no other to have him. If.she had
loved her husband she would not have
cared what happened to Kneip. btf she
found she was not happy with him.
Yet Inevitably the question viii not
down: odell will go to the electric chair,
but the wife-will she7
The Washington times., 1920-05-16

She swore that she had been drugged
and attacked. and that when she recovered
consciousness she had forced Kneip to
agree to marry her. The wedding was
postponed from time to time, she testified,
but their friendship continued, always with
the promise Of final fulfllment. The end
came in July Of last year when, she
claimed she dismissed him and their en-,
gagement ended.
Then, Pearl testified, odell came into
her life. They met and liked each other
In December they married. Before the
knot was tied. Pearl testified, in direct
controversion OF the District Attorney,
new sweetheart Of Kneip and the wrong
he had done her. She said Odell forgave
her and they were welded. Her husband,
however, brooded, and finally he COM
PEELED Kneip to visit their home and ad.
NIT before his step-parents that he had
m!streated her. She swore there had been
no threats, no plans, no intents to do
bodily injury to Kneip. She related in de.
tail the trip from the house to the Mosquito
road, where the murder had taken place,
but when she had about reached the point
where the pair handcuffed their victim to
the tree her attorney interrupted. There
Pearl Beaver 0dell's testimony ended. She
had painted black picture OF Kneip; she
had told OF her own surrender and dis.
grace, but had not given an indication as
to who had really done the killing.
When 0dell took the stand in the final
effort to avert conviction he corroborated
ell his wife had previously testified to.
Then occurred his testimony printed at
the head OF this article. During the cross.
examination OF 0dell District Attorney
Love inquired why he had taken the pre-
caution to carry a heavy steel file, with a
sharpened end, out into the automobile
that fateful night. Odell replied that he
had done II for Pearls protection.
"If he got the best OF me-" declared
odell, "she would have It to defend her.
self"
what induced you to change your plans
from going to police headquarters to a
point on Mosquito road7" odell was asked.
because Kneip said Pearl was no good;
eres, Britain Rights R~--rved
The Washington times., 1920-05-16

ty! 1t was clear by the imprints in the
snow that a woman had danced about
while the torment of the victim had been
going on!
The body was identified later as that Of
Edward ]. Kneip, a young mechanic. A
few hours after Identification Pearl Odell
and her husband, to whom she had been
married but few weeks, were arrested
and charged with the murder. They con-
fessed, according to the District Attorney
Of Rochester The motive OF the murder
had been. they said, wrong which Kneip
had wreaked upon Pearl Odell when she
was barely sixteen-two years before she
had met Odell
But what remained inexplicable was the
ferocity OF the attack upon Kneip, the un-
paralleled brutality of his murder. II
Pearl Odell had ever loved him, how could
she have inflicted, as the police said both
she and her husband confessed, such
wounds? Even II she had hated him, how
could she, a woman, have given way to
such animal frenzy?
The State decided to put the young hus-
band first on trial Interest was so great
that fully five thousand persons filled the
square near the courthouse while the trial
was In progress Feeling ran high against
the accused and unusual protective meas
ures had to be taken.
The Rochester District Attorney out
lined the course Of the tragedy as follows:
Pearl Beaver, winsome and pretty, mar
rie1 Odell, Just out of the navy, In Decem-
Der last. Odell did not know that for more
than two years previously his girl-bride
had had an amour with Kneip, and. that
during the last year prior their affair had
taken on an Illicit aspect.
SO when Pearl told her husband, soon
after their marriage, that Kneip had
wronged her. hatred arose in the breast
OF Odell. Neither OF the men knew the
other Odell, II Is alleged planned
revenge.
Together the couple decided to take
Kneip by surprise-to make him a pris-
oner-and in some distant, unfrequented
spot punish him. II Is barely possible that
Observation-Disclosures not actually contem-
plated at the outset, although the fact that
Odell sharpened one end OF his step.
mothers heavy file to point on the night
The Washington times., 1920-05-16

~ EADERS of this page few Sundays
~ ago will recollect the story of the
l. - very remarkable tragedy which took
place on the night of January Z at Roch-
ester, N. Y, when Mrs. Pearl Odell, with
inhuman ferocity, beat her lover to death
Her newly welded husband, James L.
Odell, stood by while Edward J. Kneip,
and mutilated.
Odell has recently been tried and con-
victed for his part in the murder Of Kneip,
and now shortly Pearl Odell will be put on
trial for her part in this tragedy Of love,
woman scorned and her savage vengeance.
Will the jury convict Pearl Odell, soon
to become a mother, for beating in the
skull Of her lover? And If she is con-
victed, will she pay the penalty in the elec-
trio chair which her husband is certain to
pay7
In the course of the recent trial of Odell
Odell himself. From this 1t is plain that
the husband Of Pearl Odell was trying to
shield his wife somewhat. OF course, he
knew who struck the fatal blows.
But that is not all the evidence against
Mrs Odell. In a confession which the
young bride made Immediately after the
murder to the District Attorney she is al
legged to have frankly said that she was
the one who struck the fatal blows, and in
her vengeful fury mutilated her lovers
body in a shocking manner.
'If my husband goes to the electric
chair, want to go, tool I did it alone"
It Is said she confessed.
The evidence that will be produced at
the approaching trial of the woman will
be no less direct and positive than the evil
dence which convicted her husband.
Odell is now in the death house at Sing
Sing and will 60 to the electric chair. The
same facts that send him to the chair also
enmesh his wife-but will her punishment
be the same7
Properly to understand the truly ex-
traordinary features OF the case a brief
recapitulation of the circumstances is nee
essary. On the morning Of January s the
engine crew Of freight train drawing into
Rochester, N. Y, thought they saw hui
man body lying In the snow beneath
small bridge just outside the city. They
reported their suspicious to the Rochester
police. sheriff and deputies going to
the spot indicated, discovered the body Of
a murdered man. The corpse was shock
ingly mutilated-its condition, indeed,
more representative OF the tearing Of AMI
mails than the work of even cruelest man
The skull and upper Jaw were crushed
IN; the ears had been torn to shreds; the
skin had been scratched away from face
and forehead. Six knife wounds, each a
half inch in diameter, ringed the skull
base; two more were on each side Of the
neck. There we're deep cuts in both wrists
and over the backs Of the hands. In the
left side OF the chest we're eight stabs and
another below the left collar bone. One
ear had been penetrated by a knife. A rib
bad been broken ano one OF the lungs had
The Washington times., 1920-05-16

At Odell's trial he faced
he jury with . calm front
Toward the end of the case
for the defense his wife wa,
called to the stand.
Looking like a young girl,
collected and calm, she seem.
ed anything except woman
who could have killed in the
way photographs and de.
scription showed Kneip had
been killed. She smiled at
her husband and took her
seat with no more trace of
nervousness or concern than
as though she were attending
an afternoon tea. And with.
out the slightest hesitancy
she began to bare her life
history.