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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1922-10-20
OBITUARY

Mrs. LaRue p. Parsons (nee
Frances G. Meacham) was born at
Bloomingdale, ILL.,, August 4, 1870.
She came to Minnesota with her
parents Harvey and Vilura Meacham
in July, 1854. She was married June
26, 1869 to LaRue Parsons and set
tied on a farm with him at Kerns,
Mimi, where she lived until her
two years ago. After the death Of
her husband she continued to live
on the old homestead with her
daughter Pearl, who gave her ten
der care and loving devotion. Nine
weeks ago Mrs. Frances Parsons
was taken very i'll, which caused her
to be bedfast; but she bore her i'll
ness most patiently until October II
when the Lord took her away. She
was a charter member of the Con
gregational church at Kerns and a
loving, Christian woman. Nine
children we're born to this union.
three having died many years ago.
Five of the remaining children were
with her during her last days, Civ
ing her all the care and comfort
possible. The children are: Mrs.
Edith Hendley, Nicollet; Edmund
Parsons, Spokane, Wash; Mrs. Col
cen Hendley, North Mankato; Har-
~ Parsons, Kerns; Mrs. Ruby Howe
Stevensville, Mont, and Miss Pearl
Parsons of Kerns. She also leaves
to mourn her loss thirty grand
children and two sisters, Mrs. Ellen
Fletcher of Belgrade and Mrs. James
Wilson Of Mankato.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1922-10-20
THREE KILLED IN
NEGRO DOPE Den
GUN RATTLE IN ROCK IS
LAND UNDERWORLD
TWO POLICEMEN SHOT
Authorities Sought To Stop
Quarrel Between Colored
Man and Wife
[Associated Press Dispatch.f

Rock Island, ILL.,. October 16.-
Policemen James Green and Edward
Minor and Robert Scott, a negro, are
dead as a result OF a gun fight last
night in an underworld negro dope
den. The policemen 4 sought to stop
a quarrel between Scott and his wife
that was disturbing neighbors.
Scott turned his gun on the officers
when they entered his place. Green
was instantly killed and Minor and
Scott died after being removed to a
hospital s-. '.. O.
Came From ST. Paul
Scott came here recently from st.
Paul. A rifle and several revolyers
were found in his home. which is
thought to have been distributing
agency Tor dope among underworld
negroes. Scott lived in district
the police have been seeking for
weeks to free of vicious conditions.
The three latest deaths bringing
the toll of lives lost in underworld
warfare in the city in few months
to seven, and the Billburg and Loon
ey gangs still are yowing vengeance
upon each other. Looney, whose son
was slain in a street battle between
underworld factions, Is barricaded in
his home surrounded night and day
by armed guards. Anthony Bill
burg charged with being leader of
the gang that killed young Looney.
Is at large on $4,000 bonds.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1922-10-20
ESCAPED FROM JAIL
Walter Long Got Out Of Jail At Wa
basha Very Mysteriously

Waiter Long Got Out Of Jail At Wa.
basha Vey Mysteriousiy
Wabasha, October 16.-Walter
Long, twenty six years old, escaped
from the county, Jail at Wabasha
early Saturday by saving bar on a
corridor window at the rear of the
second floor and dropping distance
of twenty five feet to the ground.
Sheriff Edward Fitzergerald mott
fed authorities in neighboring cities
Immediately upon discovery of the
escape, and Co operation was assured
in efforts to recapture the prisoner.
Long, who was alone in that por-
ton of the Jail was awaiting trial on
a charge Of robbing the sporting
goods store of Fred O'Rielly at Wa
basha, August 6: He was arrested
at St Paul with three companions
August 20. 80.
How Long whose real name is
Shinn, procured the saw, is not
known, according to information OBJ
tanned from County Attorney John
r. Foley. ..n..
Long is believed to have been in
the corridor at the customary time
for locking cell doors last night. All
that stood between him and liberty
was the necessity of saving one bar.
This accomplished, he dropped to
the ground and made his getaway in
the darkness. Other inmates of the
Jail had no opportunity to share in
the escape, it VS. believed.
The sporting goods store of Fred
O'Rielly was robbed on August of
arms and flashlights valued at $500.
Long and three companions were
arrested at st. Paul, August 20,
when they were found in an auto
mobile containing quantity of arms
and flashlights similar to those
stolen at Wabasha, according to the
authorities. The automobile, a
Mash touring car, had been stolen,
police reported.
The men arrested with Long were
Harry Taylor, twenty one years old.
Hugh Durham, twenty -four years
old, and Henry Morey, twenty eight
years old. Taylor confessed to COM
plicity in the robbery according to
County Attorney Foley, and impli-
Gated the other three men. All
pleaded not guilty when arraigned
August %. :,
! An attempt was made several
nights ago by prisoners in the Hous-
ton county Jail at CALEDONIA to saw
their way to freedom, it was learned
from Sheriff w. H. Abbotts. They
were detected after they had partly
sawed several bars in the corridor
grating. Clarence Hastings and AL
bert Goroboshek, who escaped from
the Jail several weeks ago only to be
recaptured, and John Davis, held in
connection with the robbery of the
La Crescent bank are inmates.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1922-10-20
SPECIAL SERVICES HELD
Bishop Charles Bayard Mitehe
NArAA .,

Bishop Charles 5ayard Mitchell
Preached at Centenary Yesterday
Special services we're conducted
at Centenary Methodist church yes
terday morning and evening. The
occasion was the presence of Bishop
Charles Bayard Mitchell, ID. D., l..
L. D., who preached in the morning
taking as his text from st. Mark,
the quotation HE Could Not BE
Hid" In the evening the Bishops
text was Every Man Shall Bear
sermon Bishop Mitchell brought out
very forcefully the presence of
Christ everywhere on earth. No
matter how big sinner one might
be or how he tries to avoid the
presence of Christ he will be con !
dnually faced with 1t either through
the appearance of some messenger
OF the Lord or by more striking
example of dates. Every paper,
magazine and business documents
are dated from the year of our
Lord. What. could better show that
he lives eternally. Great phiIoso-
piers, Plato, Socrates, Homer,
writer's and poets sculptors painters
great war lords, ali who have died
seem to be of the dim past, but the
Christ is ever living presence. It
does not seem that over thousand
years ago Christ lived on earth. To
those who observe and learn he IS
always here and will remain with us
to help and teach us even unto the
end" .E.~
The Centenry church was recent
ly finished in redecorating and re-
modelling and now presents a very
nice appearance with its freshly
painted walls and frescoing and the
enlarged balcony.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1922-10-20
NetD Clues of Every
Nature In Staying
Phone Tapping Latest Development
In Connection With New
Brunswick Tragedy
IAssociated Press Dispatch.

New Brunswick, N. j., October 16.
"A charge that the telephone be-
longing to Mrs. Edward Wheeler
Hall, whose husband was slain with
Mrs Eleanor Reinhard Mills, had
been tapped, was the latest develop
ment today in the investigation of
the double murder.
This charge was made by Sally
Peters, who lives in the Hall house
hold. She said that no important
calls now were being made over it.
A similar charge was made by
Ralph " NJ. Gorsline, vestryman OF
the Church of st. John the Evan
gelist, who at one time was ques-
night of. the murder. Mr.. Gorslne
declared he was not greatly con-
cerned about the wire tapping, as
he had nothing to conceal. County
Prosecutor Stricken, of Middlesex
also declared he had good reason to
believe that the wires leading into
his Office had been tapped.
Porch Light On AL Night
Mrs. Hall, whose counsel has pro-
tested against "bungiing investigat-
ing, which, he asserted, had turned
iii founded suspicion against his
client, had her porch lights turned
on ali last night It previously was
learned that she had surrounded her
self with bodyguards day and night,
for the announced purpose of pro-
tecting herself.
investigators today claimed to
have learned that shortly before the
murder the slain couple had spent
a day at Manhattan Beach, near
Coney Island. AS tending to prove
that an affection existed between
Mrs. Mills and the rector, letter
alleged to have been written by the
choir singer was made public today.
This letter apparently referring to
the Manhattan Beach outing, read
in part:
Yesterday was happy in way,
in the boat, and in the water but on
the way home, l was thinking hard.
=. oh. my darling babykins, what
q muddle we are in. But l will be
content. Twill be-" ..--s
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1922-10-20
NEED NOT PAY NOTE
Jurors At Fairmont Stand BY Johs
~ SchaaI Of Blue Earth

Jurors At Fairmont Stand BY John
SchaaI Of Blue Earth
Fairmont, October 16.-Julors
took but an hour to arrive on YER
dict that John Schaal, farmer, need
not pay the $4,000 note held against
him by the Kewanee Illinois State
bank. -..-
The jurors concurred in the de-
PENDANTS claim that the note was
obtained by false representations,
fraud trickery and article.
The claim that Schaal was piled
with liquor and did not know what
he was doing when he signed the
note, and that there was no ,valu-
able consideration, was evidently
upheld by the jury. w..
Just before court adjourned FIJI,
day evening Canada Pete" Peter
Nelson in the records, was called
before Judge Nelson to plead to an
Indictment returned by the grand
jury earlier in the week accusing
Pete OF making moon.
Pete, through mis- attorney, Mr..
Dougherty, waived the reading Of
tho Indictment. Asked If he plead
gully or not guilty, he answered
guilty" -...
Judge Nelson told Pete to come
back In a week and receive his SEN
tence, continuing his bond in effect
for that period.
A second indictment returned
against Pete for having booze in his
possession was dismissed with the
consent of the county attorney.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1922-10-20
spUDs FORECAST IN STATE
Price viii Average About $t.46, Per
Hundredweisht In Twin Cities.

st. Paul, October 14.-The price
of potatoes f. o. b. Minneapolis and
st. Paul will average about $1.46
per hundredweight for the present
season, present conditions indicate,
says a forecast by the division of
Agricultural Economics OF the Uni
yersity of Minnesota 10
AS the average price for October
is normally 1886 per, cent OF that
for the season tSeptember to May,)
S1.29 per cwt. is a fair average for
this month, the forecast adds, ad-
hitting that the actual price, how
ever, is about SIS per cwt.
This forecast is based upon fun
damental demand and supply con
ditions as they appear at present"
the forecast reads. II is based upon
the knowledge of the effect of the
Important factors" influencing the
price of potatoes in Minneapolis
and st. Paul, obtained from a
study of records covering twenty
years.
"The price at any particular time
is determined by a great many fac
tors which cannot be predicted, but
the average price for the season is
determined Dy sinai HuInoCi vi
important demand and supply con.
ditionsy it states. "If the actual
price is lower during part of the
season than is justified by these
fundamental demand and supply
conditions, it is certain to be cor
respondingly higher during the re-
mainder OF the season and vice
versa so that the necessary aver
pe will ha struck"
The forecast assumes from the
estimates of the United States de-
partment of agriculture that there
was an average increase in the
yield.
Regarding general business con
ditions as they affect the potato
market, the forecast declares that
inasmuch as present conditions in
dictate further advance, 1t seems
probable the price of potat0s will
have a corresponding effect.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1922-10-20
MISSING LORRAINE
LOCATED, REPORT
PARENTSTHROWMYSTERY
SHROUD OVER AFFAIR
HAVE RECEIVED LETTER
Albany Girl Disappeared Fron
Minnesota Hotel Some
Months Ago
ASSOCIATED Press Dispatch.i

st. Cloud, Mimi, October Ia
"Sure Lorraine is alive. We heard
that several weeks ago. She has
written us but we do not care TO
say where she is, The other things
that have been printed as to where
she is located are not true. We
have not told anybody. We have not
not told anybody. We have not
heard from her for two weeks now
and she may not be in the place
where she was then"
This is the statement made by
the mother of Miss Lorraine
Schneider, missing Albany school
teacher over the long distance tele-
phone to The Times today.
Shrouded In Secrecy.
Albany, Mimi, October Ia
Whatever knowledge her parents
may have of the whereabouts OF
Miss Lorraine Schneider, missing
Avon school teachers, was shroud
ed in secretary today. Repeated at
tempts to get statement from her
father or mother, Mr.. and Mrs. An
ton Schneider, met with consistent
rebuffs, although over long distance
telephone to a reporter in St Cloud.
Mr.. Schneider is said to have ad
mitted knowledge of his daughters
present residence.
Sure Lorraine is alive" he told
this reporter. 1--WE heard that sew
erla weeks ago. She has written
us but we do not care to say where
she is. The other things that hayc
been printed as to where she is To-
Gated are not true. We have not told
anybody. We have not heard from
her for two weeks now and she may
not be in the place where she was
then"
The Schneiders refused to com
ment over the telephone, on pub
lished reports that Lorraine was in
a convent in "a southern city" and
that she might return home within
a month /"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1922-10-20
Leo Stuttgen Was
Put Under Arrest
Defendant Was Charged Today With
Operating Auto While
intoxicated

Leo Stuttgen, an old ofiender in
the police court was, again in the
tolls yesterday ana to-day. About
4:S0 yesterday afternoon officer
Henry Kachelmyer received a call
to the intersection of Madison ave-
nue. and North Fourth street where
collision had occurred between a
car driven by H. W. Langhoff OF
St. Peter and one driven by Leo
Stuttgen. According to the state
ment Of Traffic Officer Kachelmyer
Stuttgen was under the influence OF
liquor when he reached the scene
OF the collision. Officer Rachel.
myer alleged that the defendant
of the intersection and collided with
the Langhoff car damaging the ma
chine considerably. A front and
hind wheel was broken of the
Stuttgen in the mixup and the car
otherwise damaged.
When arraigned in the police
this morning, Stuttgep admitted
taking two drinks of intoxicating
liquor, but said that he was able to
operate the car. He entered q plea
of not guilty to the charge OF oper.
ating q car while under the infiu-
ence OF liquor. and his hearing was
set for this afternoon at two O'Clock.
Police records show that Stuttgen
was arrested on May /, 1921, on
the charge of drunkenness and was
sentenced to pay fine Of 1855.
On July 16, 1921, he was arrested
on the charge of selling intoxicat,
ing liquor and was bound over to
the grand jury. but pleaded guilty
to an Information. Judge WI. Com
stock sentenced the defendent to
pay a fine of $3.50 and spend thirty
days in the caunty Jail. He was pa
rolled before his sentence was serv-
ed out, but broke his parole by get
ting drunk on August 20, 1921 and
was sent back to the county jail to
serve out his sentence. He was a
gain arrested on Secember 25 by
the police on the charge of drunk
enness. Judge Golf on that occasion
sentenced the defendent to sixty
days in the county Jail, but suspend
ed this sentence upon conditions
that he stay ont of the city. On
July 2, 1922, Stuttgen was arrested
on the charge of drunkenness, and
was sentenced to pay fine of $40
and thirty days in the county Jail,
but this sentence was suspended
upon conditions that the defendant
remain sober for four months.
According to the statement of
Officer o. F. LAnghooff, Stuttgen
resisted that officer when he was
locking him in a cell at the police
station. e
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1922-10-20
RlNkER SEEKS SYMPATHY
Convicted Murderer Of Mobiles Coun
ty Sheriff Claims lnnoeenSs

Convicted Murderer OF MOBILES Soun-
ty Sheriff Claims Innocence
Jackson, October IA. : William
Rinker, serving a life term at Still
water for the murder of Sheriff T.
]. Mccall of Mobiles county at Milo
ma on August 8, 1920, is again pro-
testing his innocence of the crime.
This time he has written q sym
pathy" letter to Deputy SheEin M.
B. Dunn of this city. Mr.. Dunn or,
ganized the posse that surrounded
Rinker in cornfield near Butter
field several DAYS after the murder.
In his latest attempt to gain SYM
pathy. Rinker admits he was at Mil
oma when Mccall was killed. His
next letter will probably tell where
the gun was hidden.
"Stillwater, Mimi, October 1,
1922.-Mr. M. B. Dunn, Jackson.
Dear Sir-I trust you will pardon
me for taking the liberty to write
you from this place. l really have a
great respect for you, because well
know that it Is your desire and
most ardent wish that all men be
given a square deal. ! well know
YOU would not wrongfully deprive
one of ones liberty for all the gold
in the world. for such a method is
only a scheme to keep the bad bad
by pretending that it is good. ihi
81 have been made a victim OF
the fiimsiest kind of circumstantial
evidence, for an offense that / real
ly did not commit, and which | am
indeed absolutely innocent OF. When
one had carefully listened, one
could easily perceive the unveracity
of the niulatto boys testimony. 1t
really was evident that he was ly-
ing in order to clear himself of all
blame. He even betrayed the sher-
IFS trust by making his escape. |
really did not take the suitcase out
of the Worthington depct, nor do l
know whether the muiatto boy did
or not, because l. really did not see
him take 1t. ...%
"Mr. Fosters fabricated tale real
ly was Just as untruthful as the mu-
latto boys. OF course, you are aware
that Foster told the jury that ne
was shot twice. That one of the
bullets entered his mouth while his
mouth was open and lodged in his
shoulder blade, and which he said,
the surgeons had extracted. pre-
sumo that every official in court,
we'll knew that this was sham, a
lie. 1 know that Foster was shot
only once, for i was at the railroad
junction when the shooting occure-
red.
There really were some good
men on the jury which tried my
case, and If 1 had been allowed to
take the witness stand and testify
in my own behalf, they very likely
would have exonerated me. Wish
ing YOU abundant success and con-
tinued prosperity in your business,
am, very truly yours. William Rim
ker" . ." .s-. ..rff
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1922-10-20
HEALTH WORKERS
HOLD CONVENTION
SESSIONS ARE OPENED AT
CLEVELAND TODAY
NOTABLE MEN THERE
American Association Together
With Four Other organiza-
tons At Gathering
[Associated Press Dlspatchl

Cleveland. O., october 1.-THE
fifty first annual meeting of the
American Public Health association
opened here today with hundreds of
city, state and national health com
missioners, as well as other public
health workers from the United
States, Canada, Mexico and Cuba in
attendance. The convention will close
Thursday. October IS. Allan J. Nc
Laughlin, NJ. D., assistant u. S. surg
con general, is president.
Four other public health organiza-
tons are meeting simultaneously
The National Council of Health, The
American Social Hygiene association,
The American Medical Editors asso-
citation and the Ohio Association of
Industrial Physicians.
Among the national and interna
uonal public health figures who will
be active at the meeting are Surg con
General Hugh s. Cummings, of the
United States Public Health Service;
Newton D. Baker, former secretary
Of war; DR.. Royal S. Copeland, health
commissioner of New York City; DR..
John Dill Robertson, DR.. w. A.
Evans, health editor of the Chicago
Iribune; E. W. RoutZahan, OF the
AhuaoOiI ooSC y. MAC
phail, superintendent of cital stats
tics Of the Dominion of Canada; DR..
c. Z. 4. Winslow, of Yale university:
DR.. A. J. Douglas, of Winnipeg,
Manitoba: DR.. Alphonso ,Pruenda of
New Mexico and DR.. Juan Guiteras,
Ideal Health Department
The Ideal Health department by
DR.. Winslow, will be a report drawn
from a survey of health departments
of SIS large cities in the United
States.
The Next Step for, State Health
Departments" will be discussed
by Health Commissioner Eu-
gene II. Kelly, of Massachusetts, w.
S. Rankin of North Carolina, Ed
ward Martin, of Pennsylvania, l. D.
Rawlings, of Illinois and Z. G. Will
liams of Virginia.
The. administration of the Shepard
Towner bill, taking politics out of
public health, the relation or the pri-
Vate physician to. public health, cur
rent knowledge of yitamines. and
proteins, nutrition to infant mortality
the effect of transportation diff
culties on the food supply and pub
lie health are among other import
ant subjects to be discussed.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1922-10-20
FOX FARMING IN STATE
New Industry in Minnesota Inereas-
ING in Popularity
ASSOCIATED Press Dispatch.1


Minneapolis. October 15.-A new
industry, increasing npopularity in
recent years and known as the black
silver fox fur farming, is to be cen
tered in Minneapolis. sFoxes will
not be raised here, but exhibited In
specially laid out park, the an
imals to be brought from the finest
stock in the whole northwest terri
tory,
The enterprise is the. result OF the
.amalgamation of the interests some
who have organized into the Silver
Fox Producers association.
It is explained by the officers of
North America of black silver foxes
of the most important breeders in
the association that the silver fox
breeding establishments are so
widely scattered over this country
and Canada that is has been virtu-
ally impossible for an interested
buyer to obtain adequate selections
because of the many travels that
must be made. Hence, the prospec
tive fox fur buyer will be able to
come here and select the hnest
specimens from the best bred
ORGANIZATION of the association
came after nine months prelimin
airy work. Robert T. Moore, of Ona
wa, Maine, is president of the fox
producers association; George. l..
Morrison of Northan. Prince Edward
Island, Canada, vice president, and
T. A. Teigen of Minneapolis. secre
tary.
The association which is compos
ed of the fox breeders from this
country and Canada, has purchased
a tract of lis acres right out of the
city limits of Minneapolis. 1t Is
wooded with a growth of virgin tim
Der. The place viii be beautifled
resembling park and zoo, accord
ing to officers ofNthe association.
In addition, the organizations
maintains local office from which
is sent to all interested, information
relative to fox breeding, 1.-THE market
value and breeding records OF dit
ferent families and strains. 1t will
also establish herd book for pedi-
gree registration.