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New-York tribune., 1922-02-25
Girl, II, Stays
Ex-Minister in
Courtroom
Opens Fire OH Texan A.
ter Leaving the Witness
Stand at His Second Trial
on a Charge of Assault
Murder Complaint Filed
Victim Sentence Of Nine
Years Had Been Reversed:
Slayer Free on $4, ,OOOBail
sp>cio, Dispatch to The Tribvns


WACO, Tex. Feb. "a - While J. S.
Crosslin, real estate dealer and former
Baptist minister, was being arraigned
In District Court here today for Grim
ina assault two years ago on Marcine
Matthews, seventeen years Old the girl
drew pistol and shot Crosslin dead
"Hc ruined my life, forced me out Of
school and disgraced me- she said
after the shooting. "Now he can never
ruin the life Of another girl"
Miss Matthews was placed under
arrest and later released under $4,000
bail
Two years ago Crossln was tried
and convicted on the assault charge and
sentenced to nine years in the peni-
tcntary. This decision was reversed
however, by the Court OF Criminal APP
pcals and new trial ordered.
The girl had just left the witness
stand after testifying against Crosslin
Sitting opposite the accused, beside her
eleven year old brother, she was watch
ing the proceedings calmly when
she suddenly rose to her feet and
walked toward the defendant She
drew the revolver from a coat pocket
and fred three shots. All three took
effect, one in the forearm, one in the
back and the last in the heart. Crossin
died within five minutes.
The first person to suspect the girls
intention as she rose was Crosslin. He
attempted to get up from his chair and
was almost on his feet when the first
shot struck him. He screamed, re-
coiled and fell The girl stood still {
Op,nnt and thor, 1Ourr in her nu,r r
chair again. physician was called
but found that Crosslin had died al
most imme edately.
The girl showed no emotion. She
smiled as a deputy sheriff stepped w
to arrest her for the murder.
"You don't need to carry me-" she
said as he led her away to jail. "In
not going to faint
Several leading citizens of Waco
signed the bond for Miss Matthews's
release, and half dozen others callec
by telephone later in the day offering
to go bail if needed
The sound Of the pistol shots brough'
a crowd about the courtroom from
which spectators had been excluded. II
another room in the building a dam
age suit for $50, ,00o0 against Sheriff
Bob Buchanan, in connection with tn,
X X. K. disorders at Lorena, Tex, las
October was being heard. and the spec
, tators at that hearing flocked to the
lower courtroom Four Texas range r.
were among those in the crowd which
gathered but no guard was required
a5 there was no disorder
The second trial of Crosslin begal
yesterday morning. The murder charg'
against Miss Matthews will come befor,
the grand jury in two weeks.
New-York tribune., 1922-02-25
Cost of Living Drops
22.9 Per Cent From Peak
Reduction Is Made Chiefly in
Prices of Food, Other Items
Changing Slowly

The cost of livrg in the United
States on February 1922, was SIT
per cent higher than IN July, 1914, ac-
cording to monthly figures collected by
the National Industrial Conference
Board, and made public yesterday
This is q decline of 2z.o per cent since
July. 1920. when the peak was reached
Between January and February there
was decrease of 81 points
There was no change in average
rents the country over between Jan
uary and February, and the average
decreases in the cost of clothing. fuel,
light and sundries were very slight.
Food prices, however, showed a
more important decline. and since
food carries heavier weight in the
budget than any other item this drop
was the most important factor in the
decrease of the general cost of living
within the month.
New-York tribune., 1922-02-25
Drug Ring Clew Followed


LOS ANGELES, Feb. District
attorney Thomas Lee Woolwine to- day
stepped into the investigation Of the
drug ring theory in the Tavlor mur-
der mystery. This is the only good
that has come out of the storv told
by Harry NJ. Fields, under arrest in
Detroit. The deputies working under
the direction of Under Sheriff Eugene
blscalluz have quit trying to verify
the statements made by Fields, be
ileV'ng them pipe dreams but thev
are checking up on the theory that en-
ragged narcotic pcddlers slew the film
director because he sought to protect
from them movie actress whom no
loved . =
1T appears to me-" says Bscailuz
that Fields wants to be taken here
ihen he could get out on writ and it
would not be possible to take him back
to Detroit legally. He would put up
the defense that he was taken from
the State of Michigan against his will.
We have nothing on him here. A clever
scheme and that is all"
Woolwne went to work on the mar
cotic angle when he learned that Tav-
lor had appealed to government agents
some time ago to break up the done
ring and had subsequently thrashed a
member of the ring who had venturcd
onto the Lasky lot
Officials Pessimistic
Woolwine, Biscailuz, Captain David
l.. Adams of the Police Department and
others who have been working on the
case for more than three weeks with
out uncovering single real clew, have
become pessimistic lately. They do not
believe, they say, that the murder will
be solved soon, if ever
Mabel Normand's chauffeur, William
DAVIS, was questioned for the fourth
time last night it became known to-
day All Manning, head of the criminal
investigation department of the Sher-
ms office. and Deputy Sheriff Harvey
Bell asked him number of questions
have of the operations of the drug
peddlers. He knew nothing, it appears.
Mabel Normand is not i'll "to the
point of DEATH as has been reported
officials at the Mack Sennett studios
declare she is merely suffering from q
cold and that she is expected to begin
working on new picture within q few
days DR.. Dudley Fulton, who is in
attendance, says there is no danger of
her dying and that he hopes she will
begin convalescing shortly She is q
victim OF influenza, he Declares
New Yorker Offers Clew
A New York attorney supplied the
latest clew in the mystery to day. He
telegraphed Woolwine that man had
come into his Office saying he knew
who killed Taylor. But inasmuch as
the lawyer admitted he had no faith in
the man Woolwine admits he has even
less faith.
The hunt for Sands, the missing
valet, still continues, and new clews
to his whereabouts continue to come in
daily. The Sheriff's force is also seek
ing Chinese, known to be a gunman
and smugIler, who has disappeared
since the murder. This man is not the
Wong Lee mentioned by Fields in his
"confession" but the man the deputies
believed Fields had in his mind.
w. A. Pinkerton, head of the Pinker-
ton National Detective Agency, visited
the Sheriff's Office late this afternoon.
He denied, however that he was inter
ested in the unraveling of the murder
mystery except casually.
Just social visit he explained.
New-York tribune., 1922-02-25
Fields n lanes
Actress i'm Plot
To KILT Taylor
One of Four Responsible
for Murder, Prisoner at
Detroit Declares; Identity
Is Withheld by Sheriff
Chinese Cunman Sought
Los Angeles Officials Go
Into Drug Ring Angle,
but Hold Out Little Hope

DETROIT, Feb. "a motion pic
ture actress who ranks higi, in tho pro-
fcssion was one of the four persons
who plotted the murder Of William Dcs-
mond Taylor film director, according
TO tho story Of Harry NJ. Field, under
arrest here, Sheriff Irving j Coffin. Of
Wayne County. announced to-day. The
Sheriff withheld tho woman's identity.
1t was said also that additional cvi-
dence had been uncovered here which
served to strengthen Ficlds's story Of
his knowledge Of the crime
A search Of his effects disclosed re-
ceipts showing Fields was in Los An
geles late in January. Among these
was rent receipt for a place in Venice.
Calf, where Fields has maintained the
details Of Taylor's Staying were ar
ranged.
Fields, according to the Sheriff, said
that the actre IS was not present when
Taylor was shot and reiterated that the
only participants at the scene of the
crime we're the three he describes az
Wong Lee, a Chinese. who did the
shooting; Johnny Clark, white man,
and Jennie Moore, all Of whom we're
hired to take their parts in the murder
Bank Book Is Missing
Authorities here have been unable to
find bank book which Fields is said
to have had in his possession at the
time of his arrest, bearing the name of
Sam Coplin,' an alleged alias, showing
a deposit of $3.50 in Chicago on Feb
ruary 2, the day after the Taylor mur-
der
Fields has. however. offered the ex-
planation that he maintained the ac
count in Chicago for the benefit of his
daughter, and made deposits by mail,
through friend. Officers point out
that this would clear up the issue that
was raised by the supposed presence of
.he suspect il Chicago the day after
ne says he was in Los Angeles Cali
fornla authorities have been acuuaintcd d
with the new Developments
New-York tribune., 1922-02-25
W omen Rouse
Mob to Attack
Against Rectory
Continued from pane on,)

other stations, but by the time they
arrived order had been restored De
tcctives sought rnglcaders Of the mob
up to late hour, several men being
pursued over roofs Of tenements. No
arrests we're made.
When news of Father Oppici's traus-
fer reached the congregation protest
was sent TO Archbishop Patrick J
Hayes, who vas asked to rescind the
order. Archbishop Hayes replied tna'
it was a matter outside his jurisGic-
ton.
Trouble Two Months Ago
Two months ago mass meeting vas
held in protest against the transfet
At that time twenty men led mob to
the church rectory bent or evicting
Father Merighi. Police reserves dis
persed the gathering after a tight that
lasted nearly an hour.
Father Merighi. IN a sermon follow
ing the previous disturb bance, Informed
his parishioners that he was "a good
soldier" and had to obey orders He
pointed out that he had been ordere J
to the church and hoped they would
support him in his efforts TO admins
ter its affairs.
Since then the resentment had been
apparently overcome. i famed OF
last night when news was received
that Father Merighi's appointment had
been permanently confirmed.
The priest is critically II with preu
monia in the parish house. Physicians
attending him feared last night thai
the demonstration might aggravate HE
condition.
New-York tribune., 1922-02-25
Throat Tube Didn'tki!i ~
$4,000 Suit Against Two Doe
tors Dismissed

A suit for s25, 900 which Josef Mar
arek. Of College Point. Queens. broueht
against DR.. John d. MACPHERSON and
DR.. Alfred s. Amber, alleging that the
death Of his son. Emil, was caused b.
his strangling on = tube which th-
physicians inserted in his throat. va
dismissed yesterday by Supreme Court
Justice Faber in Long Island City
George w. Whitesidc. counsel for the
physicians, moved for tho dismissal Of
the action after the Gaze for the plair
tiff was complete and his motion wa
granted.
The testimony showed that th-
child's death was duo to the effect ~
diphtheria on his heart, that his par
ents delayed several days in calling fhe
physicians and that the insertion 81
the tube in his throat vas necessity
and was not the cause of his dca.n.
The boy died December 26, 1920, and
his body was exhumed the following
April for an autopsy.
New-York tribune., 1922-02-25
No Pay, No Rites, Edict
Of Negro Pallbearers

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. Feb.
IA strike Of negro pallbear-
ers, furnished here by under
takers to servo at funerals for
members of their race, was
threatened to-day. A committee
which asked the Chief of Police
If they could legally organize
pallbcarers' union declared they
wanted pay for their services and
that they proposed to strike if
they did not get it. The police
head told them they might go
ahead and organize.
New-York tribune., 1922-02-25
Deputy Facta Will Attempt
To Form New Italian Cabinet

ROME, Feb. "a (By The Associated
Press Deputy Facta, who has held
the portfolios of Minister of Justice
and Minister of Finance, informed the
King late to-day that that he will at
tempt to organize new Cabinet to
take the place of the ministry which
was headed by Signor Bonomi: An Of
fetal announcement on the Cabinet sit
uation ID expected tomorrow.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-01-19
Farmers May Build
Large Warehouse
at Rockford Soon

James Pendlebury, manager of the
potato warehouse at Blackfoot and
Wapello, reports that they shipped
six cars from the Blackfoot ware
house last week and three from Wa
pello. They had about $50 cars of
potatoes still In storage in the
Blackfoot warehouse. They have
about fifty cars left in the Wapello
warehouse and about fifty carloads
in storage cellars among the farmers
in that community.
Out of the 1921 crop Wapello has
shipped sixty-four carloads and the
Blackfoot warehouse 149 cars. Mr..
Pendlebury states that the Wapello
warehouse has been a source of great
help to the people of that commun-
ity. 1t enabled them to handle their
potatoes without hauling them to
Blackfoot or Firth and furnishes
them with facilities for sorting and
marketing at the time it was to their
best advantage.
People in Rockford are consider
ing the matter of building such a
at Rockford the coming
spring and summer. A good many
Of them are interested in the matter
and are Offering to lend us their as
sistance.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-01-19
1--------
STATE SOLD SOME BONDS

The state of Idaho is trying an
experiment in its financial arrange
ment for the year 1922, instead of
issuing warrants for current ex-
penses and having the warrants
draw per cent interest until paid,
they have issued $1,000,0 in treas
ury notes which they sold to the
highest bidder and will redeem the
notes at the end of the year and use
the money to run the government on
a cash basis during the year. The
treasury notes sold week ago for
H,O0O,750 bearing interest at S Ito
per cent per annum.
The affect of this is to save some-
thing on the interest bill and have
that million dollars on deposite or
circulating in Idaho during the year
instead OF on deposit in New York
City to the credit of some one else.
The bonds were purchased by the
Guaranty Trust company of New
York City. .,.,,..,..
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-01-19
new PLANS AT THE ASYLUM; MODERN
HOSPITAL AND CLINIC FOR INSANE

and hinges made especially for asy-
lum work, and the windows have
the metal ventilators. All lights are
controlled by the key switches rather
than the hand switches. There is
no stove nor furnace in the build
ing, all heat and hot and cold water
being piped in. At the southern end
of the building is a solarium, an
enclosed sun parlor built of steel
and reinforced glass with large
shielded ventilators where patients
can have the effect of being out of
doors.
The receiving hospital is three
stories high and built of buff brick
with the same fire proof finish as
the other building and having six
solariums, three at each end of the
building. On the floor where the
sick and helpless patients are to be
kept the radiators are built into the
wall and are screened so that pa
tients cannot receive injuries from
falling or leaning on them when hot.
The same shielded ventilators are
built thruout, so that patients can
have the effect OF the out doors, but
not even q fly nor a mosquito can
enter. There is large electric
elevator for use of both goods and
and there are operating
rooms for surgical work and for dem
tistry and x-ray work with complete
I'll. .
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-01-19
Citizens Arranging for
Free Voluntary
Service

The opening of the new buildings
at the Blackfoot asylum and adopt
ing Of the new plans and methods,
and setting them into action dates
from the board meeting of Monday
afternoon with Governor D. w. Davis
presiding. For the past three years
it has been the desire of the man
agement to carry on more curative
work, but until now the room and
equipment for it have not been suf-
ficient, and now this is to be started
with a clinic, period of examina-
tion by several physicians and Of
special treatment for each case that
holds out any hope of cure. r.
The visitors at the institution
were shown thru the Oldest part OF
the buildings and the new ones, and
some of the things that were of
special interest to them were these:
The new building for housing the
criminal insane is of solid concrete
with floors of the same, material,
and no combustihle materials ex-
cepting doors and a very slender
strip of wood In the windows, and
a little wood in shelving in closets.
All the doors have the special locks
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-01-19
TWO KINDS OF ROADS
ON WHICH MONEY
CAN BE EXPENDED
State Highway Parallel
ing Railroad Track
and the Roosevelt
Highway
ROCK OR PAVING
Bitulithic Favored More
Than Concrete
Paving
CHAPTER III.

This series OF articles on the yell
lowstone highway, commenced sew
eral weeks ago, has been brought
down to date and is just in time
to have the public informed on the
problem, that has been pending for
the past week or SO as to where the
county, state and federal money
shall be expended that is now made
available. The federal government
and the state highway department
have two kinds Of road on which this
money can, be expended. One is
known as the primary road and the
other secondary road. The state
highway extending thru Bingham
county, paralleling the railroad is
what they call primary road. The
Roosevelt highway, extending west
from Blackfoot thru Aberdeen is
what they call a secondary highway.
They do not usually expend any
state or federal money on a primary
highway, excepting for smooth hard
finished road, such as bitulithic or
concrete paving. For secondary
highways they will spend money for
crushed rock, or other rough hard
surface materials. What we said in
our article of last week, was made
on the supposition that the crushed
road could be used on the primary
highway and still get state and fed
eral money to use In connection with
the county money, but this does not
seem to be true. Therefore the only
way to get the state and federal aid
Tor the present project is to extend
the bitulithic paving or to depart
from the plans we have followed
heretofore, and lay concrete paving.
There. are some people who favor
concrete as against. bitulithic, but
there are fewer people favoring con-
crete each year In this part of the
country as they learn more about
how the bitulithic roads last and how
The concrete roads go to pieces.
There are features Of both kinds
of roads that are worthy of study
and analysis when people contem-
'late making choice between them,
md we bring this to the attention
u our readers: Crushed rock usu-
lily has sharp edges that cut tires
Ind Keep up q constant wear upon
hem. 1t cuts the surface of the
Tres into what are known as "fea-
her edges" and these feather edges
tay on and bear for some time even
'fter the first cutting is done.
Ito Be Continued)
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-01-19
MEETING HOUSE IS
DAMAGED BY FIRE
Much Damage Done; Is
Covered BY
Insurance

On Sunday morning at about .
o'clock fire was discovered in the
roof Of the first ward meeting house.
AID the fire company responded
promptly to the alarm. The build
ing Is heated by a furnace excepting
one room, called the annex, and the
fire started from the chimney re-
ceiving the smoke from that stove.
The fire spread slowly in he roof
and walls and not withstanding the
three streams of water that were
available the building was a total
loss down to the caves. It took It
about an hour to burn down that
Tar, and there was no time that the
fire company could get control of
the situation. -
The first hose was put to action
promptly after arrival of the equip
ment, but there was some delay in
getting the second one. attached and
into operation. At first people were
SO sure that they would get the fire
under, control In few minutes that
none Of the furniture was, removed
excepting the chairs and the organ
and the floor runners from the main
building. Relying on the success of
the fire department they waited some
time and then seeing that the fire
was breaking out in new places, they
the task of removing the !
seats and the piano and some other
articles of furnishing. The men
worked in very dense bank Of
smoke to do this and only part Of
the seats were taken out. The seats
that were left in the building were
damaged by water, but it
is estimated that $4,000 will repair
the building. The insurance is re-
ported to be $500, so that it is
hoped the repairs can be made and
paid for out of that.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-01-19
FUNERAL OF MRS. MALCOM

Mrs. E. T. Malcolm departed this
life at the family home at Blackfoot
the fourteenth of January, after an
illness Of several months.
Besides her husband she leaves
a daughter Glendora to mourn her
loss. Mrs. Malcom was one of the
leaders in church work in this COM
munity and had a large circle of
friends. r..She was born at Plain City,
Utah, married, to Mr.. Malcom in
1892 and settled in Bingham county
in 1895, taking up their residence
near where Rockford has since been
built. ,.. ~. p. ...".
The. funeral was conducted from
the L. D. S. tabernacle on Sunday
afternoon and was attended by a
very large number of people.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-01-19
May Get Refund
for Money Spent
on Powell Tract

Some Of the settlers, who took
land and paid money on water rights
on the Powell tract about ten years
ago, can now get refund from the
reclamation department at Boise.
We are unable to give descriptions
of lands to which this measure ap-
plies, but 1t was authorized by house
bill number 246 of the 1921 session
OF the legislature, the total amount
appropriated being $4,000. Per-
sons interested should write to w.
c. Swendsen, state engineer, Boise,
Idaho, and explain what lands they
made entries on, and the depart
ment will make remittances to those
who come within the provisions of
the bill.