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Omaha daily bee., 1921-07-31

Peoples Stores. 19th and Paul.
Peterson's Grocery, S6o2 Ames Ave.
Prairie Park Garage. 2605 Ames Ave.
Roberts. E. E.. and Son. Grocery.
2025 Sherman Ave.
Slobodinsky, N. 1902 N. Goth Ave.
Steck. G. L., AHA Grand Ave.
Walnut Hill Grocers. 4002 Hamilton.
Weiner's Grocery. 21st and Clark.
Western State Garage. 2622 N. 10TH
(West Side)
Blackstone Garage, 3sl4 Farnam.
Bonney Motor Co.. 1854 Farnam.
Cherry Garden Garage, 37o1 Leavenworth
Dundee Garage, 49ls Dodge.
Havlu, Don, Garage. 1853 Leavenworth.
Hill. Geo. A., A01l Cunning.
Kocher Bros. 215 S. 36th.
Leavenworth Heights Garage. 1880 Leaven
worth.
Peony Inn. 77th and Dodge.
West Farnam Garage. 1927 Farnam.
West Lawn Garage. 5Sl6 Center.
(Downtown)
Anderson. Carl. 1914 Jones.
Bingaman Garage. 112 s. nth.
Breeders 4 Farmers Sply. Co.. 313 S. 18th
Buffet, s. H. and Sons. SIS S. 1ath.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-07-31

Still the detective was not salts
fled that the proofs he had that the
will was forgery were sufficient,
and he consulted Mr.. Gurrin, the
well-known handwriting expert. The
latter said that Mrs. Blume's sig
nature was a forgery, and from
specimens of Brinkleys handwriting
he was convinced the forgery had
been made by the prisoner.
The detectives second point was
proved. He now knew the motive
for the attempted murder of Parker
an attempt which ended in the
death of Mr.. and Mrs. Beck. When
it came to proving the will in open
court it would be necessary to call
Parker to swear he signed the will
in the presence of Mrs. Blume. He
had refused to do this, and so Brink
ley had decided to get him out Of
the way.
The third question which Inspector
Fowler had to answer was, Where
did the prussic acid come from:?"
Brinkley's Mistake.
By trade Brinkley was a carpenter,
and the detective learned that he had
done some carpentry work for Mr..
Vale few months before. Mr.. Vale
was an expert in doctoring birds and
animals, and he told the detective
that Brinkley had asked him for
some poison with which to kill a
dog.
Mr.. Vale had given him some
prussic acid.
Now, if Brinkley could have
proved he had a dog at the time,
and had actually poisoned it, he
might have been acquitted, for it
would have been a strong point in
! his favor. But the detective found
that Brinkley certainly had no dog
to poison at the time. His three
great points against the murderer
were proved. The fact that he had
killed other people by mistake in
stead of Parker made no difference
to his guilt in the eyes of the law.
"If Brinkley took the poison to the
house on the fatal night" said Mr..
| Justice Bigham i'll his summing up,
with the intention of poisoning a
certain person. and some one else
was poisoned, he was guilty of mur-
der"
And of murder the jury did not
hesitate to find him guilty.
What did not come out at the
trial, though discovered by the detec-
Omaha daily bee., 1921-07-31

tive, showed only too clearly that
Brinkley was man to stick at moth
ing to gain his own ends, though he
strenuously denied his guilt to the
last.
One of his landladies did not like
her lodger, and gave him notice, and
she had the greatest difficulty in get
ting rid of him. "If people play
tricks on me-" he told her, II play
tricks on them. I always get my
own back
While with this landlady he kept
chickens, and it was because he was
always experimenting with these
chickens, giving them drugs of va
rious kinds, that she gave him no.
tice. Six of these chickens were
poisoned and died as a matter of
fact.
After the landlady have given him
notice, she was awakened about l
o'clock one morning by hearing a
crash, and, going downstairs to see
what it was. she found smoke COM
ing from under the door of Brink
ley's room. There were eight people
in the house at the time, and she
promptly gave the alarm. and the
door was forced open, but Brinkley
had vanished. He had gone to sleep
elsewhere that night! To have his
revenge against the landlady he had
actually endangered the lives OF eight
fellow creatures. Afterwards to show
the cool nerve of this man, he
brought action against an insurance
company for $1,000, the amount he
had insured the contents of the room
against fire! Needless to say, he
didn't get it.
Previous to this he had quarreled
with another landlady over the guam
tity of coal allowed him for his fire.
He suspected the landlady was TAX
ing some of the coal he ought to
Omaha daily bee., 1921-07-31

have had, and he determined to put
a stop to it.
He did it effectively! He took a
large piece of coal. drilled a hole in
it, and inserted a quantity Of dyna-
mite. He took that piece of coal and
placed it in prominent position in
the coal cellar, where the landlady
was bound to pick it up. AS result,
the fire. CRATE was blown out and the
landlady only escaped death by a
miracle.
Finally, the detective discovered
that some years previously Brinkley
had been living with a girl, whom he
undoubtedly poisoned. He admit
ted at the inquest that he kept a
number OF chemicals in the house
which he used for experimental pur-
poses, and said the girl might have
accidentally swallowed some. He
was severely censured at the time
by the coroner and jury, but if they
had known as much as Inspector
Fowler knew later he would have
been tried for murder.
Next Sunday watch for another
worlds greatest detective case).
Omaha daily bee., 1921-07-31

thing at all for Brinkley in the last
few weeks?" asked Inspector Fowler
well, the only thing | can think
OF was petition Brinkley was get
ting up of some kind. He asked me
to sign it as matter of form, and
l didn't read it. As a matter of fact
l signed it in a saloon"
The Inspector made a mental note
to visit the public house, the address
! of which Parker gave him, at the
first opportunity.
did you know Mrs. Blume?" he
asked finally.
81 never heard of her." replied
Parker.
An important point here occurred
to the detective. He knew that, ac-
cording to law, will must be wit
messed and signed in the presence Of
the person making the will. When
Brinkley was confronted with Park
er's statement he said bluntly that
he was not telling the truth, but that
Heard and Parker and Mrs. Blume
were together in Fulham when the
will was signed and witnessed. The
detective thought of a way he could
test this.
He found bottle of ink in the
house at Fulham, and he also OBJ
tanned some of the ink which was
kept in the saloon. where Parker had
said he had signed the petition for
Brinkley.
With the bottles and the will he
called to see Dir. Mitchell, one of the
foremost authorities in England on
inks.
81 want you to tell me-" he said,
"if this will was written and signed
in the same ink or not. If not. was
either of these ink bottles used?
DR.. Mitchell's reply a few days
afterwards showed the clever reas-
oning of the detective was correct.
"The signature of Parker to the
will" replied the ink expert, rs
written in the same ink as that you
have obtained from the public house.
The signature of Mrs. Blume is
written in a different kind OF ink,
while the body of the will and the
signature of the other witness is
written in a totally different kind OF
ink. Neither of the latter inks cor
responds to the one you have OBJ
tanned from Fulham."
The reply was as conclusive as 1t
could be-that the will was not wit
messed and signed at the same time
as the law demands-and this
proved one of the most damaging
pieces of evidence against Brinkley
at his trial. At the trial Brinkley &C
counted for the three different inks
being used by saying Mrs. Blume
kept three different kinds in tht
house. When asked what had be-
come of them, however, he gave the
lame excuse that he had given them
| away.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-07-31

ror safe oy Beaton Drug company, iSth
and Farnam strssta- and all retail druRaists.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-07-31
OMAHA, NEBRASKA
fCn,,&h S;d.N

I.... (SOutn SideD
Arbor Garage. 2506 S. 32d Ave.
Avery Store, Avery Junction.
Boulevard Grocery. 3005 Haskell
Elasassor Garage. Goth and Vinton.
Radunziner Grocery. 1904 S. 32d Ave.
Roth, Jno. and Sons. 5503 S. 45th.
Stahmer Bros. 2702 s. goth Ave.
West Side Garage, 3001 q"
Whitesel Garage. 1888 S. 18th.
North Side)
Ames Grocery. 2s13 Ames Ave.
Bee Hive Grocery, No. 2, 3618 N. 30th
o. M. Smith Grocery. 26th and Hamilton
Bloom Grocery. cath and Sprague.
Boulevard Garage. 34l9 S. Goth.
Chons. B.. Grocery. 2s1l Ames Ave.
Dansky. H.. Grocery. 3935 N. 21st.
Davis, H., Grocery. 1901 N. goth.
Dorinson. R.. Grocery. 1914 N. 27th.
Fairfax Grocery. 36th and Spaulding.
Finkel. j.. and Son. 1882 Sherman Ave
Gonick's Grocery. 49o4 N. 3oth.
Jackson Auto Shop, 1921 N 30th.
jacobson Grocery. 4202 Hamilton.
Kelly. C. F.. 5720 N. 2dth.
Kulakofsky Grocery. 24o2 Ames Ave.
Moeller Garage. 23d and Ames Ave.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-07-31
How Inspector Fowler.
One Of the Famous
Chiefs Of Scotland
Yard, Caught Brink
ley, the Poisoner.

tFowler was one OF the famous
Council OF Seven in Scotland Yard
in 1919. He handled many famous
cases and was concerned in most of
the sensational crimes of London.
Later he became the chief Of the
Yard
In 1918. he traced the thieves who
stole Queen Alexander's miniatures
and recovered the property for her
majesty,
A year before his promotion he
was assigned to the famous Park
Lane. Wertheimer robbery. when
$500. 900 worth OF Bank OF England
notes were stolen, He captured the
thieves and recovered most OF the
booty.
The case OF Brinkley. the Croy-
don prisoner. Is one OF the best known
of Inspector Fowler's successes. an
account of which Is given below)
Copyright. 1921. by the World Wide
News Service, Inc.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-07-31

Next Sunday watch for anothe
worlds greatest detective case).
Omaha daily bee., 1921-07-31
Wants to Shoot Baby!

Charles A. Taylor's enthusiasm
often makes him somewhat abrupt.
The director of Oliver Morosco's
"The Half Breed" was looking for
a baby to photograph in one of the
scenes. Walking down Los Ange-
les street he saw just the youngster
he wanted being wheeled by its
parents. Taylor dashed forward. ex-
claiming: Il want to shoot the
baby! using the studio vernacular
shoot" for photograph" Only
hasty explanations saved him from
being flattened under the parental
wrath
Omaha daily bee., 1921-07-31

Douglas st. Garage. 1915 Douglas.
Hollander. H., 1921 Leavenworth.
Howell. T. G. and Son. 1913 Leavenwcrth
Jourdan Grocery. 1901 Vinton.
Marsh Oakland Co.. 20th and Hafnsy.
Meeks Auto Co.. 2o47 Farnam.
Middle State Garage, 2026 Farnam.
National Tire Shop. 1924 Capitol
Nebraska Service Garage. 2l8 8. 10th.
White Garage, 723 S. 27th.
PAPILLIoN. NEBRASKA
Boyer Garage.
Eaton, VIM, Garage
Miller. S. A.
LA PLATTE, NEBRASKA
Brothers. A. r.
BELLEVUE, NEBRASKA
Bellevue Lumber Co.
Trent, VIM. General Merchandise.
ELkHoRN, NEBRASKA
Witte. Nick-Ford Garage.
FORT CROOK, NEBRASKA
Newman, A.. General Merchandise.
COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA.
Wilson. Roy. Garage, 1905 Broadway.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-07-31
From Our Own Wells
to the Consumer

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Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1921-09-16
SAFE CONDUCT FOR
j. M. ". MEN DENIED
Supreme Court Holds 1t Has
No Jurisdiction.

Charleston, Sept. 14-Request TO
the Kanawha county circuit court
and TO the state supreme court to-
day by counsel for c. F. Keeney and
Fred Mooney, missing president
and secretary-treasurer of District
il. United Mine Workers Of Amer
lea, that bonds should be granted
the officials as a guarantee 10 thair
safe conduct in Minco oyr2,r. 'sas
denied by judges of the courts.
Teaney and Mooney = ne.ae -
t.atment on charges % ca25.4o. y
IN killings in Mineo county during
three day battle there laet May.
IGi ge A. P Hudson, Of the circuit
cod.t, said he had been approach
ed By II. W. Houston and c. V. Van
feet attorneys for the miners Off
ciaIs, who had requested bond for
their clients but that his court
was without jurisdiction Judge
Hudson said he referred counsel 10
the supreme court where it was de.
clared the request was denied on
the grounds that the courts would
not act inasmuch as no arrests
have been made,
Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1921-09-16
MORGAN COMPUTES
SENTENCE OF DEATH
James Stophar Given Life
Imprisonment.

Charleston, Sept. 14.-GovernOr E.
F. Morgan issued an executive or
der today committing the death SEN
tence of James Stopher, of Poca-
hontas county, to life imprisonment.
Stopher was under sentence 10 be
banged at the state penitentiary at
Moundsville Thursday.
1t is the first order Of its kind
Governor Morgan has issued since
ne entered office last March. Stop
hor was convicted, the governor
points out, of murder in the first
degree at Marlinton at the June
iorm Of court this year, and the
iury returned the verdict without
recommendation. He was sentenced
. be hanged by the trial judge, An
'rew Price.
Governors Statement.
Stophor Immediately appealed his
'ase to the governor. His appeal
IS accompanied. the governor said,
statements from majority of
be iurymen who sat upon the trial
= the case and who recommended
sir communication to life imprison-
nent and upon the recommendation
f Andrew Price. the trial Judge that
aid sentence be committed and
lpon the statement Ct A. P Edgar,
,rosecuting attorney of POcahontas
ounty, that in view of Il the cir
fumstances in this case I do not feel
hat | should resist this mans eff
orts TO save his life, the commit
Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1921-09-16
GIRL
SHOOTS WHITE
{sy international News Service. J

Chattanooga, Tenn. Sept. 10
Race rioting which broke out at
Mont Lake late yesterday afternoon
continued until all negroes had
been driven from the village. news
reaching here today said. The dis
order followed the shooting of four
white girls by Jewel c. PIPER. a
negro girl about ten years old, af-
Ter an argument over using a string
Edna Barnett, 10 daughter ol a
miner, was wounded by a charge OF
buckshoht and 1t is feared she may
die Three younger sisters Of the
white girl also We're wounded less
seriously.
Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1921-09-16

tation of Stolphor's sentence was
granted"
Stolphor and companion held
up and robbed a lumber camp near
Marlinton and, according to testi-
mony at Stolpher's trial, they killed
two men. His companion was sen
fenced to life Imprisonment and
shortly after he entered Mounds
vile prison he died "of a self-im-
posed hunger strike, in protest
against his conviction" the COVER
nor said.
Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1921-09-16
PEEVED MAN
TRIED SUICIDE

Returning to Hagerstown from a
party in Pittsburgh Guy NJ. Grove,
Western Maryland Railway shop
employe, became angry when his
wife demonstrated with him. drew
a pistol and attempted to take HE
own life in the Maryland city. TIE
bullet grazed his chest and entered
his left arm. It is alleged Grove
was drinking. While his wife was
pleading with him to drink no
more and threatening TO leave him
he drew the pistol and pulled the
Trigger.
Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1921-09-16

pass through Logan from the Kama
wha and Coal River fields to Mingo,
according to ]. Byron Nickerson,
department commander. in a state
ment today. Commander Nickerson
said in his report that he believed
the cause of the outbreak was the
so-called mine guards system and
that the weight of the organization
will be used TO eliminate its alleged
existence
Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1921-09-16
MAI ROBBERS
ARE RIDDLED
lsX International News servleel

ISY THteTHatToHdF VIEWS vt V'Vu'l
Fort Worth, Texas, Sept, 10
Two train robbers were instantly
killed near here today when they
attempted to secure a registered
mail pouch from the mail car on
train No. II of the Texas & Pacific
Railroad. Government agents had
been tipped OFF that a holdup was to
be staged and operators waited
with sawed-off shotguns and rifles.
When the robbers put up a fight
they were riddled with bullets.
Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1921-09-16
and turned over twice.

Read the Martinsburg Journal.
Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1921-09-16
ATTACKS HIS FAMILY
AND COMMITS SUICIDE

c. L. Austin, store manager at the
Elk Ridge Coal Company at North
fork. the other morning crushed the
skull of his three-year-old son by
striking him with a pistol, also
struck his ten-months-old son with .
pistol, shot his wife and committed
suicide Wife and children are in
a hospital at Bluefeld and there is
no hope of recovery for the oldest
child lie had been drinking for
several DAYS.
Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1921-09-16
STATE LEGION
IN WINGO PROBE

Wheeling. Sept 15,--Memhers Of
the American Legion In the West
Virginia department viii he called
upon to conduct thorough investi-
CATION of the recent disturbances
along the Boone-LoFan boundary
when armed bands attempted to
Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1921-09-16

officials took no action. 1t was eX-
pected that a petition. protesting
against Sunday baseball, would be
presented at the meeting but none
was handed in. The petition favor
ing baseball was signed by the VIII
Transport baseball club members
and a large number of fans
Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1921-09-16
WOMEN SHOT
BY RIOTERS
lsv international News service.D

(BY TnternatI0haT NEWS SeTVICe,1
Belfast. Sept 1.-Two women
we're shot during a violent outbreak
of rioting here this afternoon Tae
fighting ceutered in We're street.
Revolvers were fired and stones
were thrown The police were pow
erless to dispense the mobs and sol
diers with machine guns were sum
moned. The machine guns soon
eoMed tie rioters.
Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1921-09-16
WfLLlAMSPORT FANS
SEEK SUNDAY Baseball

While the burgess and comm, s
sioners Of Williamsport. were in
session Monday night a petition,
numerously signed. was presented
in favor Of Sunday baseball. The
Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1921-09-16
HURT WHEN AUTO hit BUGGY

Albert Younkins. Bolivar. Md,
was severely hurt about the back
when the buggy in which he was
bile near Boonsboro. Md. Tho auto
mobile, said to be owned by a Bal
tmoreau, crashed through fence
The Cordova daily times., 1921-04-23

ments, Alaska has developed a com merce of $100,000,000 per annum with the United States, pouring into chan nels of trade in the republic a volume of business that has not expanded simply because the government would not create conditions that would per init it to grow.
 "The Harding administration can start right by centering Alaskan gov ernment in Alaska and giving to the territory the greatest possible meas ure of self-government
 "lt can attract capital northward by permitting the use of natural re- sources under conditions that will render investment profitable.
 What an absurdity it is to permit timber to waste in the territory when it could be gainfully employed in building, in paper-making and in thousand other ways!
 Flf it will do so, it can expedite settlement by aiding the man who is willing to take up a homestead in Alaska and till his land. These are not desert acres. They are we'll watered, rich and, so far as the coast al districts are concerned, blessed win a climate milder than that in Iowa or Ohio.
 To one so constructive in thought and purpose as MT. Harding the de- velopment of Alaska should appeal as the biggest opportunity of his ad- ministration.
 Ut will so appeal to him, the Times IS confident, if he can be induced to visit the territory early this year and see for himself what it has to offer the investor, the farmer and the American manufacturer.
The Cordova daily times., 1921-04-23
THE SALMON TRAP CONTRO-
 VERSY

When all is said and done the sal mon trap proposition in Alaska is simply an economic question. The oD- position to the salmon traps is chiefly due to the circumstance that they are labor saving devices and make work Tor fewer fishermen than are required by other methods of taking fish It is conceded that, generally speaking, the traps afford not only the most eco- nomical method of taking salmon but the most sanitary. Salmon caught in traps remain alive in tho traps until they are removed and taken directly to the cannery. On the other hand, salmon caught by other processes die immediately after they are taken out of the water. If a vessel continues fishing for several days without taking it's cargo to market the fish first caught are several days old when they are sold.
 And, at that, the trap is not as great a labor saver as one might think. It not only requires men to operate it and watch it, but it takes pile drivers and piles and lumber to build it. It re- qUires mon to operate pile drivers, to cut and tow piles, to make lumber from which the lumber is made. The traps greatest advantage is that it catches and holds fish alive until they are needed it always works for the same canneryman. it does not go out on strike in the middle of the season, 1t never gets sick or lazy, or goes off on a bum, and the canner always knows where it is when he wants it.
 It is absurd to try to stop scientific and economical methods of operating any industry or business. It is not only absurd, but it is not the right thing to do, Yet it is not new, Thirty years or more ago printers were organ izing strikes against newspapers which installed linotypes or other type-set- ting machines. They frankly opposed them because they did the work with fewer men. The writer recalls being requested about thirty years ago by the foreman in newspaper office to dis continue the editorial subscription to the Louisville Courier-Journal because that paper was unfair to labor when it installed linotype machines. But the printers learned not to fight against progress, and they became linotype operators by thee thousands Salmon traps may reduce the number of fish. ermen required to supply the canner ies but they make work for people in other iines.-Juneau Empire
The Cordova daily times., 1921-04-23

A man has a lot of crossing to do who runs bills on both sides of the street.
 A lot of fellows who long for the brotherhood of man never had a big brother.
 A woman tries to understand her husband for while, and then she just tries to stand him.
 Some fellows go about making up with their wives as gently as freight crew making up train.
 There is one man who gets more than he expects, and that is the short man in a claw-hammer coat.
 A wife always wants to start for home about the time that the evening begins to get good; that is why she wants to start.
The Cordova daily times., 1921-04-23
MANY YATrACKS GROWN FORCES
 IN PAST WEEK

DUBLIN, April 23 (by Associated Press) 1.-The government review of Irish conditions says there is no change in the situation. Twenty at tacks were made on the crown forces during the week, with thirty casual ties. There were fifty raids on mills and sixty arrests for political offenses. Two thousands six hundred and sev- enty-nine persons are now interned
The Cordova daily times., 1921-04-23
CABINET DISCUSSES
 RAILROAD PROBLEMS

WASHINGTON, April 23 (by As sociated Press) s).-President Harding and the cabinet yesterday discussed the railroad problems and their rela- tion to industry and agriculture, but no decisive action was determined upon
The Cordova daily times., 1921-04-23
THINGS WE THINK

Things Others mink and What We Think of the Things Others Think.