The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1924-03-07
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January IS following his arrest 1
San Diego on charge of passin
worthless checks, has confessed tina
he had killed his wife and s month
old baby in San Pedro last December
according to an announcement b.
sheriff's officers investigating tn
case. Warren, according to the re
ported confession, threw the bodie
into pit that later was swept b,
an oil fire
Joseph II. Hutchinson. lieutenan
governor of Idaho in 1898, and IL
1900 Democratic candidate for con
gress from the Gem state, was grant
ed a decree Of divorce in the district
court at Reno, Tuesday from Helen
Hays Hutchinson, to whom he was
married in 1896. The decree was
obtained on simple grounds of deser-
ton. Governor Hutchinson testified
that he and his wife separated in
1920 In San Francisco.
trio OF police detectives sent out
to arrest three bandit suspects at
Los Angeles brought back eighteen.
They said they found the three men
they sought In the midst of what ap-
peared to be and sounded like a con-
vendon OF bandits planning their
next series OF holdups. They arrested
all In attendance and booked them at
the city Jail on charges of suspicion
OF robbery. Four of the eighteen
We're soon afterward recognized as
men wanted in connection with re-
cent holdups, according to the police.
Between $4,000 and $4,000 in cash
was stolen from two bank messengers
or the Metropolitan National bank OF
Seattle by armed bandits in front of
the federal reserve bank branch in
the heart of the business section
here.
Mrs. Enrichetta Raschi0 told a
jury at Portland, Oregon in the cir
Quit court Thursday that when she
confessed to DIR. A. ID. Stephanova, a
dentist, that she had not the money
wherewith to pay for bridge work
which he had just installed for her
the dentist threw her on the floor
and forcibly tore out the bridge The
jury awarded her $4,000 damages.
GENERAL
American DICTIONARIES of New
York are pushing their campaign for
an ex-service mems bonus with re-
newed vigor after a sensational
squirt Monday In which the treasury
department was accused of juggling
Its estimates against the project and
Secretary Mellon was charged with
misleading the late President Hard
ing and President Coolidge
Described by police as "girl with
the financial wizardry of a Ponzi or
a Lindsay" Miss Helen L. Beckett a
stock broker was imprisoned ON com
plant of socially prominent patrons
or Fifth avenue corset shop of
New York that she had defrauded
them of $4,000.
Clothes worn by Abraham Lincoln
when he was assassinated In Ford's
theater, Washington by John Wilkes
Booth, were sold at public auction at ,
Philadelphia for S65O0 They consist ,
ed of an old black suit, the collar ,
stained with the life blood of a
martyred president; the trousers, {
badly torn overcoat and I
4 faded silk sock.
thrilling rescue in midair saved {
Miss Rosalia Gordon, Houston chorus I
girl, from death while more than 5000
Fortified spectators gazed skyward
Vt Ellington flying field near Houston,
Texas. Miss Gordon, who formerly !.
vas an aerial stunt performer was
attempting to make a parachute leap
rom mile-high plane, when the :,
luge umbrella became entangled In !,
Equipment on the plane. =
Science hall. the oldest building on h
he Cornell college campus at Mt.
'ernon, Iowa, has been destroyed by
Ire. Along with the building, the T.
lost numerous valuable e
ecords and exhibits OF research o
FORK and large number of manu- Z
cripts The cause of the fire has o.
ot been determined. n
~~ORAANf <hA0odAhd has Ot6u btitGl6ul l.,
S the 1925 convention city for the -
nnual gathering of Masonic Shrine y
irectors according to private advices
'om Oklahoma City. where the SEES in
ion is in progress. Los Angeles was 0(
he other competitor for the conven- W
on. to
Approval of the three-year contract
n bituminous miners for the CEN a
al cmpetitive field was voted I'M De
limously by the policy committee of 10
le United Mine Workers of America
Jacksonville, Fla.
The net material value OF an aver Ell
se human being is 9S cents, ac- co
riding to analytical research made IA
2 Or. G. A. Pierle, head of the de err
lrtment of chemistry at the West Al
sxas Teachers College at Canyon, ST.