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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-04-26
What "MoonShine Judge" Says Of Dry
Rule: Kentucky'S Fame Lost

CINCINNATI. April 25-Reading
the newspapers Judge a. II. J..
Cochran. Of the federal district cOur-
Of eastern Kentucky, learns these
days that police are smashing moon
shine stills in tenement houses o.
the cities, that thousand gallon
stills are being uncovered in ciy
attlcs.. that mOonshiners peddle
their stuff on the crowded highways
Of the great centers OF civilization.
that men perish or go daft from the
poisons Distilled by the city moon
sinners
when he reads these things his
heart chuckles for his state which
has been much maligned as the
home OF moonshine, where the
mountainer disrller battled the
revenuers.
So he says:
Kentucky no longer f. THE
moonshine state It's status has
changed"
He lives IN Cincinnati when con-
Quoting court in Covington. Ky. a
part CT his district opposite Cincin-
natl.
Long ago he qualified as the ma
tons leading authority on moon
sinners and their ways.
When prohibition sGll was being
preached only IN churches, Cochran
was sending mooushiners 20 the
penitenuary.
In 20 years he estimates he has
dned or sentenced 10 prison $1,000
moonshiners and boOtleggers.
con one occasion 81 moonshiners
were taken TO prison from my court.
he says "A special car was needed
TO haul them all"
Those were the days when there
was romance IN mOOnshinintg and
the best authors wrote novels around
the moonshiner on his lonely noun
tain traii.
Judge Cochran has found them TO
be square men, being Kentuckians.
There have been occasions. he
says, when TO so to prison imme
diately would interrupt the moon
sinners spring planting or his har-
vesting. thus causing distress to his
family which depended on the crop
for its livelihood.
SO Judge Cochran has permitted
the prisoner 10 go home on bond,
finish his planting or his harvesting,
and then come back to begin serv-
ing his sentence.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-04-26
MidShipmen'S Cruise to
Be IN atlantic Waters

WASHINGTON. April 25. - The
annual cruise Of the midshipmen of
the United States Naval Academy
will start on June and VIII be con-
fined 20 American waters because
Of decreased fuel allowances, 1t was
announced at the navy department
Monday.
The battleships Florida, North
Dakota. Delaware and the cruiser
Olympia wiz be used for the cruise
The midshipmen will sail 10 the
West Indies and from there up the
Atlantic coast to Halifax
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-04-26
ErSkine and SChLGke VIII
address Builders B1n0uel

A. r. Erskine Of the Studebaker
corporation and William Schlake.
manager of the Associated Builders
OF Chicago and president Of the
Illinois Brick Co., will be the speak
ers at the banquet Of the Builders
ana Traders Exchange IN Kables
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-04-26
One Killed When Express
RIMS Into Circus Trdir

FORT SCOTT, kan. April rs
One was killed and several injured
when a Kansas city Oklahoma City
passen ger train on the Frisco road
crashed into the rear OF a train car
ry!ng a circus, near Girard, Tues
day
Pleas Hart, who was riding on the
circus train was killed. The circus
train was on the main line just rea-
dy 20 take a siding when struck by
the passenger.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-04-26
FINE-YEAR-OLD GIRL
STRANGLED To DEATH

NEW YORK, April 25.-Slain by
the hands of a stranger. the body OF
five-year-Old Lillian Givner was
found early Tuesday IN a closet OF
house behind the one IN which
her parents lived.
II an adjoining room, the door
Of which was broken in. police found
a man sitting on a bed, who said
his name was GeOfge Wasill 90.
He was held on a charge OF homi-
eide while the police also began a
search for another man who had
beer discharged recently by the
girls father, Isadore Givner, who
runs a butcher shop.
The girls throat bore prints OF q
mans fingers.
Rnanfrs meade 1a4+nv % -
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-04-26

banquet hall Wednesday evening at
$3.50 O'Clock. Besides the speakers
the program Will include a radio
concert and numbers by the Notre
Dame Glee club quartet.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-04-26

SO It must warm the judges Ken
lucky heart when he compares the
native Kentucky mOOnshiner. bad as
he is, with the sordid samples of
noonshiners who infest the large
cities.
II IS estimated by Kentuckians
that in a city like Chicago more
moonshine is produced In a week
than was produced in the Kentucky
mountains in a year in the old days.
Judge Cochran believes the Vol
stead law does not treat moonshin-
ers rough enough.
He points out that under the old
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-04-26

contest Saturday evening a. the ~.
2. church Plymouth Both Donald
Bame and Louise Ball viii 20 90
Gary for the preliminary meeting on
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-04-26

May s. This meeting g phsiminary
90 the Northern Indiana oraforfcal
and defamation contests % De held
in Plymouth on Nay 17.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-04-26

Beauty needs no letter Of intro
duction.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-04-26

And no Kentucky moonshiner ever
has failed him.
The Washington times., 1922-11-26

Well. Mr.. Caswell is now \
his Show Girl bride. He know
his Follies Girl wife, but it is
a wealthy boy to get free FROM
For the general enlightenH
especially for the thoughtless, !
are caught in the spider-web E.
women, young Caswell has dec
of his experiences.
Among other things, Mr.. I
the great mysteries of modern
girl on her $50-a-week salary r
dress handsomely, provide hers
and often a limousine and cha
Daniel Caswell, it should be
the late multi-millionaire Dan
date for Mayor of Cleveland. {
Caswell left the first instalmer
of the fortune so that it wa.
This mistaken kindness put int
year-old boy the means for rui
In the story of young Dan {
may we'll be pondered by ricl
and mothers.
The Washington times., 1922-11-26

basis the reporters had for their story for Jessies
future protection well my own. | wanted to
know what sort of woman | had married So
had my agents poke around for the truth.
Some time later | received a bulky envelope
from San Antonio Texas and, opening it. found
large. stiff dose of the truth. 1t the court
record of the trial of Jessies first husband for the
murder of his supposed rival. In spite of what
wished to believe, there could be doubt about
my, wfes past
There it was in black and white. The record
showed that Jessie had been married long years
before to backface vaudeville comedian named
Ollie Debrow, and that after years of
married life Debrow had shot and killed man
named Leslie Nash because of his attentions to
Jessie Reed still have that record it lies before
me as write this page. will quote few excerpts
from to give the reader idea of the chill that
came over me as ! read the document for the first
time.
Ollie Debrow the first husband of my angel
bride Jessie, was put on trial in Texas for murder
ing LesIle Nash. ne was called to the stand and
the Questions and answers follow:
LAWYER BEE-What is your profession?
ANSWER BY OLLIE DEBROW-I am black
face comedian
Q.-Are you married single?
will A1Marrled H. ogs going On sevsp years Our baby
Q.-Whom did you marry?
A.-Mss Jessie Rogers. (Jesse Reed)
Q-How old was she when you maTrled her?
Q.-Where did you first meet her?
A.-Princess Theatre, Houston, Texas She was
working there about a week She had just gone
on the stage, and had just gone the stage.
Q.-What was she doing in San Antonio? AT
the time of the killing of Leslie Nash.
A.-Working at the Star Theatre-chorus girl.
Q.-Did you know Leslie Nash when you came
to San Antonio?
A,-No, sir.
,Q.ADid you know a man by the name Of Gus
Henderson,?
A.-Yes, sir.
Q.-Where did you him!
AT the Star Theatre. (Debrow was working
at the Star Theatre as a comedian in the same show
The Washington times., 1922-11-26

evidence, and had acquitted him of the murder on
the strength of the "unwritten law!
Shocks Nos. 4, and left me in daze
learned for the first time that my innocent little girl
bride divorce of several years standing; that
the courts had considered it fit to seal the evidence
which her first husband had obtained the divorce;
and that they had considered it wise to give her hus
band custody of the child for reasons introduced
by her husband!
What prospect for happy bridegroom to
face on his wedding day.
A thunderbolt crashing into that bridal suite
from a clear blue sky could not have stunned me
more than the questions asked by those reporters
| could not believe my senses, and was sure
that there had been a hideous mistake that in
dignanty drove the reporters from the room and
double locked the doors as turned to comfort my
weeping bride.
Jessie assured me, between hysterical sobs, that
it all terrible mistake Of identity, and that
~-n not lot anything that might say about
her have any effect our love kissed away her
The Washington times., 1922-11-26
By Daniel O. CaSWeH
CHAPTER Nv.
(Continued from Last Sunday

tcD Weekly
A S | related last week, my honeymoon with
"a Jessie Reed, my showgrl bride, was couded
= - with unhappiness before it had fairly begun
l told how had left the grand celebration
staged in our honor by the other members Of the
''Foes' company and retired to our suite toward
the day following our elopement. AS we
gained the privacy Of our apartment experienced
the only moment of complete happiness that ever
had with Jessie Reed. For thing, it was the
first time we had really been alone since we had
met, forty-eght hours before. But it only for
a moment, as we had hardly entered our rooms when
the newspaper reporters began to arrive
1t was not the intrusion into our privacy that dis
turbed me, although it was annoying. That could
have been passed over But the questions that those
reporters asked my beloved bride were not easily
dismissed.
hN'o already mprtir ,sG wat those questions
wer'. ''' VI vat q OK th"v ccNnIn'c: too u, my
una ~ = ..rc>N> -'".. WITH Owe r''d"
jerk the cur,',ln roHteahng my wItes past
The Washington times., 1922-11-26
Stage FavOrites of Broadway
Chorus Girl in New York;"
lind the Scenes of How Sill.
Milli0naires Are Entangled

"HAT glorious creature, the Show Girl Follies
Girl or Chorus Lady can be seen from
chestra for anywhere from dollar to FIVE
dollars.
Young Mr. Dan Caswell spent quarter of million
dollars few months cultivatng the acquaintance of
these fascinating footlight favortes.
If the frontrow theatregoer gets hVe dollars worth
in his brief evening from his detached point of vision
what wealth Of experience intimate knowledge and
behind -thescenes revelations have been acquired
by young Caswe in his morning. evening, night and
anight membership of that charming circle of gor-
geous flowers of the stage! Not one brief evening
but all the time for months; a mere FIVE dollars
worth-but hundreds of thousands Of dollars worth
What an opportunity
Young Mr.. Caswell to have missed nothing
overlooked nothing and. among other things he
pshed the achievement of acquiring for his wife that
exquisite beauty Miss Jessie Reed known as the most
highly paid chorus girl on the stage.
Was il all worth the money?
The Washington times., 1922-11-26

in which Jessie. his wife. chorus girl) was
standing in the wings of the stage. He came to the
side window. He says: "Ollie. Id like to speak to
you a minute" walked out there, and ne asked
did know Leslie Nash. told him He
says: Hes looking for you with gun" said
What for?" And he went and told said
"All right" and | closed the door and walked down
stairs
Q.-Did you see Leslie Nash that night?
Ayes: back Of the Star. Right outside tn
door.
Q.-Where was Mrs Debrow? (Jessie Reed)
A.-Downstars in the theatre.
Q.-Was there any conversation between Nash
and yourself?
Ayes, sir. walked out there and asked him
was his name Nash He said, yes" introduced
myself. l said II heard you looking for me
with gun" He said who told you | had
gum" says: Gus Henderson," He says: 81
have got gun" I told him had heard he had been
out riding with my wife. He admitted he had.
told him he trying to come between my wife and
me. When he admitted it said: IL have been mar
ried going on seven years. and have got baby four
years Old | says: IL don't want to see you out
riding with my wife any more He wanted me to
shake hands with him. wouldn't do it, and walked
away.
Q.-When did you next see him?
A.-The next day. met him when the
way to the theatre after supper. He says: well,
I'll go down with you. Wen have glass of beer"
A.-No sir.
Q.-Was there any conversation between Leslie
Nash and yourself at that time?
Ale says: "Debrow,'' he says, Il love your
wife, but she's your wife and won't bother her any
more" says: That's all right. Just let it drop"
Then he asked me did and my wife want to go
riding with him after the show tonight l told him
no. ! went on down to the theatre.
Q.-When you got down to the theatre when did
you next see Mrs Debrow?
A.-She sitting in the dressing room |
walked in there. It's right down in the basement.
She was sitting there about to go out for supper.
Q.-When did you next see Leslie Nash?
AIT the window six or seven minutes after
ward-after had just left him. The window was
up. He was stopped down-looking in the window.
just like this (illustrating).
Q.-At the time that you saw Leslie Nash as YOU
have described, what, if anything. did you say to
your wife?
Al asked her if it true that she had been
out riding with this man. She admitted she had
said Here he is again, looking for trouble" |
looked up and saw him. Then l asked her if she had
been guilty of misconduct with this man. She con.
fessed she had. went and got my gun. She tried
to grab me. She broke down and cried | went on
right up the steps.
Q.-Where did you have the gun?
Ain my dressing room, behind looking glass.
! got it. Then ran right up the steps to see Nash.
He standing six seven feet away from the
door. called him. l says: you have been out
riding with my wife, and says: you have come
between my wife and me and broken UP my home,
She has just told me what you have done" He said:
To hell with you! and steps back like this (illuS-
The Washington times., 1922-11-26

tears and promised to believe her
against the world; and after cas-
cades Of tears and fervent assur-
ances that those horrid reporters
were either crazy or misinformed
the incident was smoothed over.
And yet | could not drive away
the haunting fear that these re-
porters were right. How do re-
porters know those things: how
do they find out the terrible Sc
crets about people? | abused
them and called them liars and
threatened thcm-and yet in NY
heart l suspected they were right
reporters are very able people;
they are almost super-men; they
do not make terrible mistakes"
as Jessie insisted.
began to worry over the thing.
and set about to find out just what
The Washington times., 1922-11-26

that my blushing bride
had apparently been
married t w I've long
years before | had ever
seen her.
No. 2 was that she had
a daughter nine years
old.
No, 3. and worst Of
all. was that my prede-
cesSor in her innocent
affections had consid-
cred it necessary to kill
a man with whom she
had been acquainted;
and that the courts of
TovoS had hoard tho
The Washington times., 1922-11-26

was yanked aside, and long series Of
disturbing facts were made plain.
Jessie. my angel, who confessed
that she was "eighteen-well, really,
eighteen and half''-could it be pos
siblc that this sweet little maiden bride
had been married and divorced and
was the mother of a nine-year-old grill
Shock No. I was the information
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-10-26
Iowa County Real Estate
Transfers.

Mary Smith and John Smith tC
Harley Davis, land in section 8
township north, range east.
Viola Hill and William G. Hill
Platteville, to Lewis E. Bushnell
Platteville, land in section 18, town
ship 4, north of range / east.
Azariah Mitchell to Oscar Knud.
son, part of lot 4 in the Village, OF
Cobb.
Oscar Knudson to F. D. Ceotway
part of lot in the village of COBB.
S. N. Rockstad to Nicholas Mellum
land in section 26, township north
range east.
John N. Wambald and wife, Sun.
Prairie, to August Krene, lot Il
Kennedy and Delaney's add. High
land.
Hulda Thiede to Charles H. Thiede
lots, 3 and block 20, Rewey's Enc
addition, village of Rewey.
Gilbert Gilbertson and wife, to Ell
mer Stebnitz, land in section 8, town.
ship north, range east.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-10-26
Report of Red Cross County
Worker.

The report of the Red Cross for
the month ending October Is, 1922
shows a total of 20 visits to branches
made by Miss Cassie e. Lewis the
county worker, during vthe month.
S0e calls were made by her to homes,
county Offices or physicians, and Is
office calls received. In one instance
Is phone calls were made one after
noon and home calls beside advis-
ing with committee of church
ladies before aid could be secured in
a family where children were in need
of warmer clothing to attend school.
Three visits were made to the County
Home, in the interest of a family re-
Gently admitted there. A call was
made at Platteville hospital on an
eX-service man recently burned in an
explosion and who has been in ill
health since his discharge from the
army. Recently he received a
months treatment in government
hospital A Mothers Pension case
was investigated and reported to
county officials. Three school calls
were made and health talks given.
70 letters have been sent from the
office regarding service men or other
families Miss Lewis also sent from
the Office representative of the State
Board of Health, DR.. Hennika in Wis
it's to two towns and Miss Emily Ell
lott in plans for organizing health
center in the county. The annual
conference was held during the
month and voted to carry on the
county work another year. The
monthly meeting of the Executive
Committee was held in the Red Gross
Office Monday evening, October 16.
Plans for the annual Roll Call from
November 10 to 80 are being made.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-10-26
PLEASANT VIEW

The Ladies Aid will not hold reg
ular meeting until Nov. 18th, but all
members are requested to meet at
the church Wednesday afternoon,
Nov 1st, to help prepare for the
supper and bazaar.
Mrs. w. j. Terrill is suffering with
infection in her hand.
; Mr.. and Mrs. Nick Weber and fam
lily of Mineral Point, spent Sunday at
the Charles Raine home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Proctor were re-
home in Graysville.
Mr. and Mrs. Everette Thomas and
daughter, visited Sunday at the
Charles Thomas home.
: Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse James and son
and William Carter of Jonesdale, Mr..
and Mrs. Earl James and son and
Robert James, spent Sunday at the
Henry Terrill home.
r. j. Benson spent several days in
CulCdSO IllC past WCCh'
Mr.. and Mrs William Proctor and
two children, Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Terrill and two children and Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Day and daughter, at
tended family reunion of the
Griffith families at the Thomas Griff-
ith home in Mineral Point Saturday.
Mrs Marshall Day recently became
a member of the Eastern Star in
Mineral Point.
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Cant and son
and Miss Gertrude Lewis and Miss
Clara Godfrey, attended the bazaar
and supper at Waldwick Thursday
night.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Jungbluth and
son Willard, spent Sunday at the
James Waters home.
Miss Jane Fitzsimons visited re-
Gently with Miss Helen Jordon in
Mineral Point.
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Curry and Mr..
and Mrs. Lewie Knutson and family
of NeiIsville, visited last week with
the w. Proctor, H. Terrill and
Charles Day families.
Mrs. M ]. Laverty and daughters
and Joe Laverty, attended the funer-
al of Joseph May in Mineral Point
Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. J. Benson and Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Dunn and son, at
tended the foot ball game in Mineral
Point Friday.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-10-26
BIG FARM FIRE

On Friday afternoon a fire started
in the barn on the farm of Edward
Murrish, four miles north of Mineral
Point. When the fire was discovered
it had advanced SO far that the barn
could not be approached. The fam
lily car was driven at once from the
garage adjoining the barn. In an
swer to the alarm given when the
fire was discovered, the Dodgeville
fire company arrived in time to save
the house which was being showered
with sparks and pieces of burning
wood from the big blaze.
Practically everything but the
farm house was destroyed, two full
silos, the winter feed of oats and hay,
the milking machine, cream separa-
tor, sets of harness, two head of cat
tie, and much more farm property
being consumed by the flames. A
big farm wagon full of bran was also
in the barn when it burned.
The cause of the fire is not known,
there being nothing in or near the
barn which could ignite the feed or
loose material It is thought that
spontaneous combustion in the feed
might have started it.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-10-26
FARMERS INSTITUTES.

The University of Wisconsin Press
Bulletin states that E. L. Luther,
superintendent of Farmers Insti-
tutes, is laying = plans for holding
many important Institutes for far
mers Throughout the State. Lining
the soil will be the keynote of these
Institutes" Other no less important
topics will deal with dairying, poul-
try raising, alfalfa, and clover rails
ing in preference to the long practic-
ed growing of timothy. Practical,
well-informed farmers and county
agents are the principal speakers at
these meetings, which are held for
two consecutive days in school
rooms, town halls, or large COM
munity halls. The Institutes will be-
gin in December.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-10-26
Two Horses Die, Man Near
Death i'm Hornet Battle.

The Milwaukee Journal: A battle
with maddened hornets resulted in
the death of two horses and almost
fatal injury of Emmett Hagen, a
du Lac. Hagen's life was saved by
his bride of few months who, al
though she had never driven a team
before, hitched up pair of colts and
drove at breakneck speed in the dark
to neighboring farm for help.
Hagen had gone out into the barn
Wednesday night, planning to hitch
up a newly purchased team of horses
to drive to a barn dance. When he
took down the bride from a peg in
the wall, he accidently dislodged a
hornets nest The hornets attacked
the horses, which began to kick their
stalls to pieces. In attempting to
lead them from the barn Mr.. Hagen
was kicked in the head and fell un-
conscious.
Mrs. Hagen heard the noise and
rushed out to the barn. When she
opened the door scores of hornets
were swarming about. Noticing her
husband on the floor and the mad
dened horses, she ran to a shed,
hitched a pair of colts to heavy
farm wagon and drove to neighbor-
ing farm, a mile and a half away.
Two men, who returned with her,
were unable to get to the horses, be-
cause the hornets were still swarm
ing about the lighted stall. They
threw a brick at the lantern, extin-
gushing it. Then one of the men
crawled into the darkened stall and
dragged out Hagen, still unconscious.
The horses, which Mr.. Hagen had
purchased only the day before, were
so seriously injured from wounds in
f1icted when they dashed against the
walls of their stall, that they had to
be shot. Mr. Hagen suffered three
broken ribs, deep scalp wound and
his body is covered with hornet
stings.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-10-26
WOMEN OPPOSED TO LIGHT
WINES AND BEER.

Recently the convention of the
New York state federation of wo-
mems clubs voted unanimously
against the legalizing Of light wines
and beer or otherwise modifying the
Volstead act. Referring to this &C
ton, The Springfield (Mass.) Repub-
lican says that '..the convention rep
presents a siZable cross-section OF
public opinion and voting strength" :"
1t can be depended upon that the wo-
men will see to it that the country
will continue to stand by the Eight
eenth Amendment, which is now as
much the law of the land as is any
other part of the Constitution.