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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-05-15
BUSINESS CHANCES


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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-05-15
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.

To Oakland State Bank:
F. Bechteiheimer pt. lot 93 Quincy ST..
North Topeka IS
G. Lukert to NJ. A. Lukert, G. u NV.
u G-l2-lO L
F. Tobler to j. B. Wuder, e. u Sc. "a
S-l5-lO --.--.-.-.... .l1,-0O
S. NJ. Bratten to K. f. Skinner, lots
All TO 40 Lane St, Lindaie add. 1.C01
E. B. Billiard to $. c. Coblintz, lots
12-13-14 blk II. Auburndale. , 800
j. Takemire to f. Tobler, w l2asw.
V. I. r. Spear to NJ. Young. lots At
20 Kansas ave, Orchard Place. 5000
Receivers deed:
o. S. Allen, receiver. to J. L. Taylor.
pit. lots 146-4S Jefferson st. 1000
o. d. Guild to l.. E. Guild, lots 151-
50-61-3 Topeka ave.........s...
A. A. Rodgers to A. B. Shinn. pit. lots
add. .................. 200
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-05-15

Enid. Okla, May 15.-A suit case
containing the body of an eight months
old baby was found in the government
springs park here last evening. There
is no clue as to who left the suit case
in the park.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-05-15
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-05-15
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MALE AND FEMALE
TREE TRIMMING

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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-05-15

FOR SALE-J00 Jefferson street. rooms.
electric lights, gas. etc. 81 600: 800 East
Fifth street, > rooms. electric lights. gas.
city water, 1890. Rental value of both
houses. S31 per month.
Also two double houses. occupied by four
families, > rooms each, electric lights, gas.
etc, on tract 100 feet on First avenue and
100 on Quincy. rent for s64 per month. Fine
manufacturing site. side tracks of 2 roads
in front Sure TO greatly Increase in value
$1,000.
All these properties ordered sold by the
Shawnee county district court. See me or
phone 3145.
FRANK O. DRENSING. Attorney,
So Kansas Avenue.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-05-15
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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-02-15

Rochester The little party OF three, led
by the girl, moved over the fields toward
woods, near the railroad track. Stumb.
ling through the snow, suspicion that all
was not as represented must have come
to Kneip. II he cried out then no one
could hear him. The place was lonely
and deserted. And IL he cried out It fs
probable that those who held him prisoner
silenced him.
At any rate. they came to q split tree
well hidden in the thicket. Against It
Kneip was pushed. Quickly his hands
were released. hts arms bent backward
and his wrists again manacied. He was
now a prisoner to the tree. held there by
bent arms looped around II and held fast
by the handouts.
1t appears that at frst there was no IN.
tention OF killing him. Helpless he stood
as the girl he had loved who he thought
bad loved him, tainted him.
Then. her fury growing, she seized a
long file Odell handed her, and beat Kneip
with It over head and face, As she WELD.
ed the rasp her fury Increased, became
frenzied. A rain OF blows fell upon Kpeip's
head and face. tearing the skin from Il In
strings, beating him into Inconsistencies.
Pearl! Pearl!" they say KneIp grosaed,
You've killing met"
He sasged down, unconscious, upon the
red.spotted snow. The girl danced about
him. shrteking at him. Odell stepped over.
unlocked the handouts. But Kneip re.
yived and 61pped him. The two struggled
derceiy.
It was during this struggle that either
hs bride or the husband delivered souas
Great 1nhIl Ijsss xessrs.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-02-15

He never asked me who was" Odell,
the police say, told them. Il just flashed
that fake badge at him and told him he
was wanted on charge Of assault. He
asked. Who said so?' replied, Pearl
Beaver His face turned red and knew
then he was guilty"
The husband snapped pair OF hand.
cuffs over the former lovers wrists
There Is no doubt that Kneip went along
with Oder silently and INTERESTINGLY.
There was an automobile outside. Into
1t KneIp was thrust.
He saw Pearl Beaver sitting there: was
forced into seat opposite her. Odell
took the wheel and the car sped away.
What happened then within the auto is
not known. Certainly nothing that
aroused Kneip's suspicious. He appears
10 have accepted as matter OF course
the girls presence. He probably thought
TO make the charge against him in person
at headquarters. At any rate, when the
car broke down only few blocks away
ne made no effort to escape or to call for
help. OdeiI sought taxicab to continue
their journey. The chauffeur, as has been
said. first cautiously called up the real
police, with the results told at the begin
ming OF the story-thus forging the first
link Of the chain which was later to en-.
circle the Odells.
The girl close behind him, the hand.
ruffed prisoner entered the taxi They
stopped at the cross roads settlement.
Tho taxicab turned and made back to
&c, 1920. international Feature Service, Ise.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-02-15

Of the stab wounds. using a email pocket.
knife whose blade was only IN inch long,
Again Kneip was oyerpowered lay
stunned.
Then he was stripped. His head was
smashed in with heavy stick, his body
cut and mutilated. Not for an instant
does the frenzled, vengeful fury Of hli
slayer seem to have abated.
The body was dragged to the bridge
and pitched over the side The clothing
was rolled in a bundle and hidden beneath
a bank some distance away. snow had
begun to fall. If 1t kept up as 1t promised
the slayers would be safe, for its blanket
would hide the marks Of murder and cover
the body Of Kneip.
The Odells made their way back to their
home, the police say.
But the snow ceased falling. the train.
man glimpsed the body, the taxicab chaut-
feur gave the clue!
And an hour after the torn thing that
had been Knelp was carried to the morguo
the snow came down in the worst storm
OF the Winter, hiding everything in a
mantle that lay uubroken for many days!
Mrs. Odeil showed no remorse, the pc.
lice say. Kneip had gotten what he de.
served" Only when the plight OF her hus-
hand as accomplice was made plain to
her did she break down, wailIug that It
.
The prosecuting attorney OF Rochester
says that Mrs. Ella Odeil Arnold, the hus-
bands mother, told him that at 1880 on
the morning after the murder. Mrs OGes,
entered her bedroom and said:
Mother; have done it.. Ibid It alone:
Louis had nothing to do with It.
slammed him."
The chauffeur Of the taxicab has identi.
fled the Odells as the man and woman
with the handcufed prisoner Blood.
stained garments were found at the
Odell home.
Both odell and Mrs. odell talked freely
to police and to newspaper men before
their attorneys warned them to be silent.
Ode1l himself, after his first statement to
the police, has made every effort to shield
his bride and to take all blame upon his
own shoulders.
When the two were allowed to meet in
the Jail they showed the deepest affection
for each other. They had planned. 1t ap.
pears, to leave Rochester Immediately and
to lose themselves in the Pennsylvania
coal regions But for the cessation OF the
snow they might have accomplished this.
District Attorney Love, Of Lancaster,
mas begun to take steps to combat the "un-
written law defense which Attorney El.
mer Shoffer, their counsel, has been quot
ed as saying he will bring forward to save
the two. He said that the State had ample
evidence to show that the crime was pre-
medltated and had been most carefully
planned in every detail
When Odell was discharged from the
navy after having served three'year
terms in the naval militia, It was written
on his papers that he was mentally de.
fcient. A petty officer who had chance
to observe him during his service says he
Is not of the criminal type ct all, but the
by woman for whom he had affection.
The father OF Mrs. Odell, 4 prosperous
miner. said that his daughter had always
been wilfu! girl. When che Was eight
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-02-15
Beat H Ter Lover to Deathn F|erNkn8efu Fur
Like Poe Murders of the Rue Morgue' =
Brutal Ferocity of This Crime of Passiic
and Woman Long Nursed Ha,
for Which the Defense Will Be IT

the manacled man had been the one slain.
had he accepted his capture so calmly:
The settlement was not far from where
the body had been found
Taken to tho moreue, the chauffeur
thought that the disnsured body he looked
upon might have been the prisoner-but
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-02-15

Mrs. Pearl
Beaver Odell,
the Bride,
Who Is
Charged by
the
Rochester
IN. W
Police
With the
Murder of
Her Former
Lover. Below
Her Is
Edward J.
kneip,
Whose
Stripped
Mutilated
Body Was
Discovered
Under a
Bridge
the Morning
After He
| Was Slain.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-02-15

mere they found Mr.. and Mrs Odell they
say with suit cases already packed and
ready to depart. They were arrested.
They went TO the Odell house. There
they found Mr.. and Mrs. Odell, they say,
with suitcases already packed and ready
to depart. They were arrested
And when the pair were put through an
examination they told story. the Roch.
ester police authorities assert, that has
no parallel either in detective fiction or
the literature OF crime At FIRST the youth.
full husband took upon himself all blame.
Later the young bride controverted him
and confessed. the police say, that it was
she who had so mutiiated Knsip's body.
III my husband goes to the electric
chair. want to 80. too. did It alone"
she rnoansd, they say
The two were held for hrstdegree muir.
der.
According to the confessions which the
Rochester authorities say the Odells made
to them and other evidence they claim to
have secured they have reconstructed the
tragedy as follows:
fearl BEAVER precocious, developed
more than is usual for her age. met young
hneip when she was barely sixteen. She
ilheu nlm a romance was in progress
Then, she says, he wronged her Beyond
her word there is, however no evidence
OF this statement
Not long after came to Rochester
James Odel. He met Pearl Beaver The
two loved each other, and after q brief
courtshfp they were married
Before the ceremony the bride had told
Odell OF her affair with Kneip. The two
men, husband and former lover, had never
met. AS the days Of the honeymoon went
ny, instead OF the peace and Joy that are
supposed TO fill a brides heart during that
enchanted period, there grew in her an
intense desire for revenge. 1t turned into
an obsession. fixed idea that became
ever stronger.
She planned, the police say she has con.
iessed. the details OF that revenge with
her husband.
The day before Kneip's body was dis.
covered Odell called At the place he was
employed. He showed police badge,
said he was Detective Arnold" ana do.
mandcd that Kneip be brought to him
kneip came,
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The Tree to Which Kneip Was
Bound, Tortured and Finally
Beaten to Death. The Ring
Around its Base Was Trodden
BY His Murderers az They
Killed Him.

years old she went away from homo 10
i've with sister and he had not heard
rom her for many months until a week
oeiore the murder. when she wrote that
sne was going to visit him soon and bring
with her her husband,
NO murder so strange, SO ferocious, so
iul fury as this Rochester tragedy is on
the records Of the American police,
IL IT true, after all, as KiplIng wrote:
ny. The female Of the species is more deadly
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-02-15

ho Soulu uot 10 QUIZ
He had. however,
noted the number Of
the car which had
broken down.
It was found to be.
long to a former naval
militiaman named
James L. Odcll. Odell
was now an expert
machinist, earning a
large wage, it was dis.
covered. He had mar.
ried a month before
Peal Beaver, the good.
looking daughter OF q
Woodworking miner,
who lived in the little
coal-mining town of
Lopez, Pennsylvania.
Their regulations
were good.
Before the detec
tives could set forth
to question Odell,
what is known as a
missing case" was
turned In. The police
were asked to search
for Edward ]. Kneip.
a young Rochester
man, who had not,
been at his home all
night and who had
not turned up at his
office.
The description. OF
kneip happened TO
como to one Of the
men who had found
the unknown's body.
There were certain
marks that made It
seem likely that Kneip
and the murdered
man were one and
same. Quick inquiry
showed also that
kneip and Pearl
Beaver had been close
friends before Odell
had arrived In Roch.
ester. The chain Of
circumstances unfold.
ed determined the po-
lice to act quickly aud
vigorously. They went
to the Odell house.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-10-03
AUSTRIANS WILL
 ELECT ASSEMBLY
 ON OCTOBER 17TH
Partisan Fights Marks Ap- prOach of European Bal
 lOting for Control

Vienna, Oct. 2.--Just three weeks before the presidential ballot in America, Austria will elect on Oct IT new National Assembly and the campaign is now at the top of the cure.
 Beginning with the recess of Parli- ament the two dominant parties, the Christian Socialists and the Social Democrats, went on the stump and the contest is waging with all the bit telness and reproach, recrimination charges and counter charges that are tic natural outcome of an enforced coalition government which failed to satisfy the mass of either party. On the one side are grouped the radical elements and on the other, under gen eral titles of Christian socialists, all
 the conservative factions that range from real democracy along modern western lines to monarchists.
 In the center stands the Crosse Deutache party. Broadly it is group ed with the Conservatives, but it's course in the present Assembly has DCCu LO NOlc JIlIS way anu IIIdt Oil VT
 tai measures to preserve it's strong
 balance of power in the house and to
 strengthen it's hands in the coming
 election by an appeal to both factions Social Democrats Lead.
 The assembly now stands 79 Chris tian Socialists, 81 Social Democrats and 26 Crosse Deutsche deputies.
 Political observers generally agree ! that the complexion of the next As sembly will not be materially altered
 and that another coalition ministry must be looked for. They predict
 that both the big parties will lose slightly to the Gross Deutsche giving it position of greater advantage and strength in new coalition ministry
 than it has yet enjoyed.
 General opinion is that in such an
 event the Crosse Deutsche group will ally itself wholly with the right in all important measures and issues. This is conceded by the election appeal of 1 the Socialists which joins the Chris l tian Socialists and Crosse Deutsche parties in blame for the failure of the present government to put thru 1 the reforms the Socialists advocated
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-10-03
Will Sell Most Unique Office
 Building in London; is Palace

When one enters the offices he is confronted by magnificent carved staircase which occupies the greater portion of the center of the house Oak beams, mahogany panelling, mar ble floors abound throughout and many of the fittings have been de- clared priceless by experts.
 Holds Many Treasures
 The house holds many rare treas urers. Among the most important are the folio Shakespeare, the first edition of Spencer, 18th century beck of colored maps, many inlaid tables and cabinets and q ponderous fourposter bed with Gobelin hangings The first Lord Astor spent much of his time in the building, managing his American properties from here and directing his newspaper The Pall Mall Gazette After his death, the volume of business to be transacted became less and less and the present Lord Astor having no use for the building it is to be sold but will al ways be a monument to the memory of the late William Waldorf Astor.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-10-03
Correspondence the A. P.)


 London, Sept. 15.-The most unique office building in London, for more than quarter of century the busi- ness headquarters and home of the late Lord William Waldorf Astor, is to be sold. Built at cost of more than S1,000,000 this office palace oc- cupied one of the most commanding positions on the famous embankment
 Architects have called it the most original structure of it's kind in the world, in that it combines many of the old world with all the modern de- vices of present day business It is constructed of gray stone, in Tudor style and never has any building of fered such Encouragement to burg lars. A strong, though artistic iron railing surrounds the house, all the many windows have iron bars and en- trance can only be obtained through massive gateway of bronze.
 Above it all is little gilt galleon in full sail, and exact model of the carave in which Columbus crossed the seas, happy reminder, as someone has pointed out "of the American.