davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
, 1921-07-14

Dean Il. F. PhilbrOok. Mrs. Phil
brook. Mrs. Merrell. Mrs. Heath and
Mrs. Huntington returned yesterday
evening from the Snake River sec
ton. where they spent several days
visiting Mrs. VIM. TOOle and with
other relatives and friends there.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clayton banks left
yesterday for their home on Snake
River after spending several days in
Rawlins on matters of business.
a day or so in the city the first of
the week being registered at the
Ferris.
F. G. Healy. H. w. Sullivan and
l.. C.. kOebuch we're business visitors
in the city for a few days the first
of the week from the Medicine Bow
section attending to matters OF bust
ness.
[. J. Rendle and family left the
latter part of last week for the
Rendle headquarters IN the Slavery,
where they will spend the remainder
of the summer.
Mrs. Anna Frew and daughter,
Miss Ethel. returned the latter part
of last week from Salt Lake and Og,
den where they have been spending
a two weeks vacation. Mrs. Frew
has resumed her duties at the Raw
Inns Mercantile Co.
Mrs. Louis Larsen and daughters,
Miss Edith and Billie spent Sunday
at the Larsen headquarters on the
Slavery, where they enjoyed an out,
ing. returning home the same eve
ming.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ole Nelson and fami-
ly spent Sunday last fishing and en-.
jOying a picnic on the Slavery. return
ing home the same evening.
l.. H. Startzell a among the Odd
Fellows who left Rawlins on Sunday
last for Casper where he is attend.
ing the sessions OF the State Conven-
ton meeting there this week.
ID. G. Musselman spent Monday in
the city from Laramie attending to
matters of business.
The New York herald., 1921-04-10

Il might have told her not 10 worry
ana everything WOGld come ou1 all
right he added
"Our marriage looked good at the
start, but turned out \ failure he said
He was quite upset by The news that
hisiwife was uncertain that size would
ever go back to him. "Weli" he sale,
II don't know whether Id go back to
her II isn't because ! don't love her,
though. / think the world Of hen. lie
smiled when told that hrs wife aai said
the same thing about him.
lie said the comedian Ben Welca IS
his mothers brother He thought Ir
Welch or otner relatives IN the theatr.-
cli line ought 20 have taken hiIa In.
ne wanted TO be an actor.
"They took strangers in and paid them
800 OF $3.50 i week. he remarked
when / saw the show / knew l could
do the same thing just as We'll
TITS queer my wife should say she
never knew my name was Harris until
was arrested here. Why, she visited
my people and they knew"
Harris explained that he was rejected
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says she never knew his name was Har-
ris until the moment Of his arrest, when
a Buffalo detective said. "Hello, Roy
Harris"
Harris listened eagerly to his wifc's
story when reporters relayed it to him
tonight He conceded the truth OF most
Of it, but contradicted all the parts that
conflict with his confession. He laughed
at the alibL Jesse was up in Ontario
when Elwell was killed" He did not
fear death, he said. nor did he welcome
II. He feared only God.
Are you relgious?" he was asked.
In my heart | am"
He described himself as having been
gypped ever since he was born" He
agreed with his wife that a relative had
taken money that belonged 70 him. He
said that suicide was cowardly. while
admitting that he had looked the idea
over on one or two occasions" He said
he never had pointed out Elwells house
10 his wife. They had been riding on
bus through Seventy second street
and ut Amsterdam avenue he merely
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hy the army because OF his feet Then
/ went 70 the Canadian recruiting office
* ESQ Broadway, AS Rov Harris l was
rejected i went back 70 the same doc
tor under the name of Benny Leonard
ana was accepted. How's that for
joker"
Detective Harry Oswald of New York.
who has had Harris under observation
for two DAYS and IL puzzled, although
pretty certain he's 4 faker, mailed 10
New York this morning nifty typewritten
sheets 81 a stenographic report Of his
examination Of Harris and his wife
Oswald believes that il Harris's yarn y
not disproved here It will be III New
Yorl, II the authorities decide TO take the
prisoner there. AS for Harris, his last
word of the day isi
"It doesn't nurt me any TO have these
New York detectives calling me a nut,
a movie scenario writer. a publicity
seeker or SO on. They have way of
doing things that II hopelessiy rsces-
sary. I've told my story. It's in;,sa
terial d me whether they believe II o.
not"
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wanted 20 Go on stage.

lie denied that he told his wife any
where that his confession was false.
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Romance Ended, Says Wife.

Reverting to their married life. she
said "Our romance didn't turn out well.
He meant we'll, but couldn't earn a liv-
ing. Then in 1918 he was arrested in
Toronto on a bad check charge. He
was set free in ten DAYS. ] was detained
three, hours. Then he went TO work for
a rubber company at Merriton. Ontario.
I'm anxious to save him. but | don't
believe / would go back to him." she
said later. MY parents have forbidden
IT, That's one Of the reasons he wants
10 die. He knows he can't go back to
my home in ST. GATHERINGS. ! know.
too, that he loves me and that he cries
when I am mentioned. Whenever he got
in trouble. the people he chummed with
beat it. He'll tell you / always stuck
with him.
You know. Benny is a nephew of Ben
Welch, the Jewfsn comedian. Ben Welch
vas staying at the Gaiety Theatre in
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Wanted Daughters Respect.

Benny worships our little girl,
Marge," Mrs Harris went on after the
albi depression. 1T Is to atone to her
as well as to me that be has thought up
this murder confession. Marge's grand
mother said to her one day that Benny
is q miserable young devil That has
stuck in the childs memory, and Benny
is now trying to do something so Marge
will know when she grows up that her
father came through clean at last"
Mrs. Harris says that Benny has had
loads OF hard bumps in his life and that
he believes a relative cheated him out
Of $4,000 when he was a child. She
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good disposition. He is generous
when he has money, but seldom has il.
/ hear he says lie lost part Of the
money he got for the Elwell murder
betting against the horse Man O. War.
He did gamble when we lived In To-
ronto. but not on the horses. There
was night watchman at B6 Fffsa
avenue where Benny-she calls him
Benny because ne married her under
the name of Benny Leonard-was rum
ing an elevator at the time of the El-
well murder. This watchman was al
ways talking about Man o. War That's
where Benny got the idea OF explaining
where the money went that he got Tor
killing Elwell, which, of course, ne
didn't get at all
"At the time OF the murder Benny
didn't have a cent to bet on anything
AS Harris's motive for calling hlmselt
a murderer If he, isn't one is what Is
puzzling everybody. his wife was asked
II she knew what II was.
Loved to Read of Crimes.
We'll" she said, The told me one
time in Toronto, before the Elwell MUIR
der, that he was going TO shoot NM
self. He often talked that way when
he was broke and discouraged. and lie
was nearly always broke" The girl
laughed and proceeded But he saio
he had not the remotest reason Tor
such idea. He was terrible scared OF
death. He objected when others men
toned the subject. He did not like to
look at anything that reminded him of
death. But all of us read about the
Odell murder the Elwell murder and
others His other reading? Well, he
was a great hand at reading Jesse
James and things like that
HAS he told you here in Buffalo that
he hadn't anything TO do with the Ell
we'll murder?'
"He certainly aid; once in the District
Attorneys office and once in the Tenth
Precinct Prison. He just told me not
to believe a word of it, as it wasn't
true, but each time we were separated
before he could say more"
Can you tell us more of your theory
why he invented such story?" the
girl was asked.
well" she said slowly, as If working
into words a difficult idea that had been
shaping itself in her mind. II think he
figured he had brought so much trouble
on me and the family that he is willing
to give up his life for it.
"You mean atonemcnt2
That's it. He wants to atone. He
thinks he would rather die than cause
any more trouble. And know he hasn't
enough nerve to kill himself"
$50 he would let the State do it?"
That's it. / think he has thought 1t
over and chosen this method of dying.
Whatever he says about the interior OF
the Elwell house he got from the news
papers. / could tell just as good story.
/ read it so thoroughly that | could de-
h.
lingerie. the stains on the furniture and
ayarythinp"
The New York herald., 1921-04-10
HARRIS CONFESSED
AS 'ATONEMENT'
Continued from First Page.


much is to be gained by further ques-
tioning of Mrs. Harris. Her loyalty
for her husband. her account of his
whereabouts on the night of the Elwell
murder, is detailed to the last minute.
1t corresponds with what the New York
police believe to be the fact. Eventual
establishment of the truth of Harris's
confession is regarded as SO improb-
able. and the anxiety of the investi
gators not to be trapped into merely
giving the young man free ride to
New York so natural that it is believed
Mr.. Whitman and Capt. Carey can
best settle any doubt in their own
minds by meeting him and Mrs. Harris
face to face in Buffalo. They also
want to talk with the alienist, Dr. James
w. Putnam OF Buffalo. who accepts
the confession as probably true.
Wrote Movie Scenario.
Mrs Harris is in comfortable quar-
ters in the Division Street Prison Jail in
the care of matron. She is the daugh-
ter of night watchman on the Welland
Canal Her name was Jessie Walters.
She was married to Harris in 1915, when
she was 16 years old and he was in the
Canadian army. Twenty-one now, she
has a daughter years old, now in st.
GATHERINGS
Mrs. Harris is slight and has reddish
hair and blue eyes. She mas a gentle
face and manners. She was questioned
thoroughly for the first time this after
noon.
She said that she would know the FL
well house in New York If she saw 1t
again, for Harris had pointed 1t out to
her few days after the murder while
they were walking by. He indicated "a
house on a corner" she said. The house
is not on corner. She said her husband
not long after the murder wrote a
moving picture scenario. There were
twenty-five pages Of it. but she didn't
read it or know its nature. She thought
little Of his occupying himself in that
way. Don't you know writing paper
costs money!" she asked him. She
spoke of her husband writing her fool
ism letters Wnen tley were separated, as
they often were. Full of such things as
oh, my Cod" she explained Mother
said a man must be crazy to write such
letters to his wife" She said the
troubles Roy got into We're usually due
to his "chumming with bad fellows"
Heard Plot for Subway HoIdup.
AS an explanation. she said that one
night IL May or June, 1920, two men
came 10 the house where she and Har-
ris were living, 80 West Eighty fourth
street, New York. They talked with
her husband outside the door She
overheard them. The strangers talked
Of holdup When they left Harris
said to her, "They wanted me to go out
tonight and help them rob a paymas-
ter on the subway. They're elevator
men that knew" She made sure that
Harris didn't leave the house that night.
Mrs. Harris described one of the stran-
gers as tall and dark, the other as short
and chubby. The short one was known
as John.
my husband the wife went on, has
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Toronto when Benny, my husband, was
arrested there. l went TO Mr.. WEIGH
and told him Benny was in jail and
needed $500 bail. He promised 10 help
| out"
Harris describes himself as an Amer
lean Jew who was converted to Catholt-
cism because a priest was kind 10 him
in hospital. Mrs Harris is Protes-
| tant. II was suggested 10 her To-Day
that religious scruples prevented di-
vorce. She replied that when she was
desperate for lack of money she had
sometimes written her husband that she
was going to divorce him II he didn't
s, nd her some. His answer was If
| can, do anything TO free you ! VIII, put
| hope you won't go that far.
Then Mrs. Harris outlined her hus-
| bands alibi. She was able TO remember
what he was doing when Eweu was
killed. she said. because 9oy's, or BEN
iy's. birthday was June 13 and Elwell
Was murdered two days before that.
In Bed at Time of Shooting.
ION June 10,' she said, Benny
worked from in the morning 70 I at
night running an elevator at 1856 Fifth
avenue. At O'Clock / went to meet
him, as I did nearly every day we
went from $3.50 Fifth avenue TO the mousse
where we were living. 33 West Eighty
| fourth street. We intended to go IN the
| evening to the home of his sister, sylvia
/ Weinmann 100 Central Park South.
We started out, but as Benny and MS
brother-in-law. Simmy Weinmann, were
not on good terms we wanted TO make
sure that he was not at home. Benny
/ telephoned from a drug store at Goiuhl-
bus avenue and Eighty-feurth street
The Weinmann's number was Circle
5S05.
Benny learned that Simmy and his
10y Jerry mas gone out TO see show
| So we went to the Weinmanns home
ard stayed there until about quarter
| cr H. Then we walked home and got
! there about five minutes after II. for
| about twenty minutes we talked with
Mrs Hammond and her sister, Miss Har-
mon, who live in the same house, at 35
| West Icighty-fourth street. AZ about
| | As we went to our room. we Went
| L Fed at midnight. Benny did not leave
the house unti about twenty-five min
| ltes after the next morning lie
alwavs slept as late as possible, then
rushed to get to his elevator job by
| o'clock When we We're together ne
was never away from me one night !
did not like to have him away. because
| was nervous. / used to be very
strong girl, but got all shot up, 50
vas afraid to walk in the dark. Well,
the next day he worked as usual and at
o'clock / met him again.
If Harris's story is true all the minu-
tiae of his going and coming as related
| by his wife are fiction. Harris says he
was out Of work at the time Of
/ the murder. that on the evening be-
! fore the murder he and his fell
| low conspirator, Duncan, met Mrs.
Fairchild' and drove to Van Cort-
landt Park, then came down to when,
on the morning of the murder. they
went to the Elwell house. According to
the wife he was tumbling out Of his own
bed in his own house to go to work
about an hour after the time fixed as
| the moment of. the Elwell shooting.
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pointed north and said That's the
street whore Elwel lived He IS not
certain now whether the house was on
SEVENTEEN or Seventy-first street
AS to THE movie scenario. his wife
Was talking through her hat he said
lie had never written one. lie had not
written foolish letters" TO his wife, out
she may nave thought they We're too
sentimental. Her mother thought ! Was
crazy from the first" he chuckled. II
did not like her nor she me" He agreed
TO the truth of his wifes story Of the
acquaintance who wanted his assist
ance In robbing 4 subway paymaster.
Ibid YOU object when death was
talked Off"
III didn't like to hear Of death after
Elwell was killed
Ever read Jesse James,"
mo, sir; that's not my kind Ike
editorials. I'm great reader of the
Literary Digest
wanted 20 Go on Stage.
He denied that he told hts wife any
where that his confession was fnlse.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-16
Two Irish Raiders Slain
During Attack ON Train
Folice Pensioner Executed nv
Republican Forces as Spy;
Constables Injured

DUBLIN June 15.-A train bound
from Limerick to Ennis was fired on
to-day. Soldiers returned the fire, kill
lLg two members of the ATTACKING
party. One soldier was wounded
u. >. Walls. civil bill officer, sixty
hye years old, was murdered to-day by
an armed party near Cashel.
James Kane, police pensioner and
an inspector Of fishermen, was shot as
spy, to-day by members of the Irish
republican army near Listowell, County
Kerry.
farmer named Boyle was shot dead
near Killesty, County Tipperary. The
body was labeled, "tried and sentenced
to be shot by the Irish republican army. .
The house of Bernard Reilly. near
Athboy, County Meath, was burned and
Seiliy's wife and child, who were un-
aole to escape, persisted in the flames.
District Inspector Sully, sergeant
and two constables were wounded in
Tne explosion of mine in a road at
Ballydwyer. County Kerry.
BELFAST. Ireland, June Is fBv The
Associated Press Several police bar
RACES notihed military headquarters at
l.Ap o'clock this morning that whistles
had peeh blown, revolvers fired and
erses o. murder raised in their dis
I'c!S' followed by genuine screams OF
panic from women and children who
-assoclated the noises with renrisa1
RAIDS. This happened in one distr;nt
Yesterday, but to-day il assumed a
widespread character.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-16

have been taken for the evacuation of
the portion of the province held ty the
Japanese, the military force having
been reduced to between 5000 and
$500 soldiers, Advices from TOXIC
have said that this force would be
withdrawn as soon as China provided
guards fer the railroad and property
IN the towns.
Japan Retains Equal RIGHTS
Japan. il is stated, will retain only
such privileges in The province as are
common TO the other nations, such as
q portion of the International eou,-
pound. which China is to be required
to establish at the port OF Ts;Ugtau on
the BAY OF kiao Chou.
Japan, it is explained, never has
taken, over al of the railroad prop
critics formerly operated by the Ger
mans IN Shantung. confining her claims
to that portion of the railroad from
Tsingtau to Tsinan-fu and leaving the
important line crossing the province
at the latter junction IN tho hands. OF
the former operatives under the num-
NAL control OF the Chinese government
j. is proposed that Japan operate the
Tsinan- flu Tsingtau branch Jointly with
the Chinese.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-16
Far Eastern Republic
Decides 10 Join Soviet

VLADIVoSTOK, June Is (By The
Associated Press) Reports received
here declare that the government Of tha
Far Eastern Republic. following con-
tinuous conference Of three days, has
decided to join Soviet Russia. Anti
Bolsheviki have destroyed bridges
across the Amur River between Blago-
vestcLensI. and Khabarovsk, and Com
munist gunboats on the Amur have
bombarded villages taken over by the
insurgents
General Semenof. who came here
from Da'ny to take over the leadership
of the elements which ousted the So
cialist government three weeks ago,
left the Kyodo Maru, on which he en-.
tered the harbor and on which he was
held virtual prisoner. and boarded the
Russian steamship Patroci yesterday. 1t
is reported that he intends to land at
some point on the Siberian coast of
Amur Bay
TOXIC. June Is (By The Associated
Press) Charges made by the govern
mcnt Of the Far Eastern Republic that
the Japanese assisted the anti Bolshe-
wiki in the coup d'ctat which resulted
in the custinG Of the Socialist govern
mcnt Of Vladivostok are denied by
General Tachibana, Japanese COM
mander in that citv
New-York tribune., 1921-06-16
Reds Here Driven
To Cellar, Moscow
Congress Is Told
Mime. Kollontay, Before
men Communists,
Paints Rosy Picture for
the Soviets Elsewhere

RIGA, June Is (By The Associated
Press We in Russia are exhausted.
but must hold AT all costs. Ycu On the
outside must help and strain every ef-
fort in order to make impossible the
existence of capitalism" This partial
explanation of the Soviet's present
changes was made by NJ. Bucharin,
head of the left wing of the Soviet
Central Committee and editor of the
Moscow Pravda, speaking in the name
of the Third Irtcrnationale before the
" orld Congress Of Women Conmu-
nists. which was held AZ Moscow in
connection with the meeting OF the In
ternationalc.
According to the Prav5la OF June 12,
NJ Bucharin, in addition to making this
pronouncemcnt, said in explanation Of
EusSia's preRent deviation from com
rnunsm: awe know that perhaps our
revolution must yet take many round
about ways, but the final end for us is
just the same
Before the women Communists. the
speakers, who included Nine. Kollontay.
one of the leaders in Russia, and Clara
Hetkin, German radical, painted rosy
pictures from the Communist view
point, excepting in the United Statea,
where, according to Nine. Kollontay,
the position was extremely difficult, for
the reason, as she put it, that "the
Communist party there has been driven
to the cellar
She went on to assert, however that
there were 100000 organized women
workers in the trade unions in Amcr-
lea. among whom the Communists must
find way to conquer.
The names Of the American deleqatc9
to the various Third lnternationalu
groups have apparently been kept Sc
eret. except in the case of William D.
Haywood, who was openly announced
as one Of the speakers at the moet ting
Of June IL, together with delegate
named Bluer, who was said to be a
South American.
The instructions Of the Third Inter.
rationale, the Pravda reported, would
be in the direction of increasing the
proletarian struggle in majority Of
the capitalistic countries, using all
methods to operate through trade
unions. At the same time dsagrecng
groups, such as some of the Italian
Socialists and the German Communists
Labor party, would be punished.
The plenary sessions Of the Inter
rationale were opened June IL by NJ.
Bucharin.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-16
Lip Sticks and Rouge
Assailed by Monaghan
Deputy Health Commissioner
Urges Natural Glow as Sum.
mer STYLE for Face

The summer style for faces, so far
as New York is concerned, should be
natural glow of perfect health, at
tanned only through right living and
without the assistance of the "vanity
box" DR.. Frank j. Monaghan, Deputy
Health Commissioner, said in an ad.
dress before the conference on summer
problems of nutrition at the City Hall
yesterday.
DR.. Monaghan deried the depend
ence of the women of to-day on their
lip sticks and face powders to produce
presentable faces. He emphasized the
Importance of nutrition in relation to
health and advocated more general
use of milk for both children and
grown-ups.
DR.. e. V. McCollum, of Johns Hop
kins University, an authority on nutri-
tion, also addressed the conference.
He advocated two changes for the
American diet which, he said, if they
could be accomplished would prove one
of the greatest boons to the health of
the nation.
Increase very greatly the consump-
ticn of dairy products" he said, "and
cultivate the habit of eating more
greens and salads