The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1924-03-12
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w. 81. Warren. who has been In tn
county jail at Los Angeles sine
January Is following his arrest Il
San Diego on charge of passin
worthless checks, has confessed tina
he had killed his wife and 8 month
old baby in San Pedro last December
according to an announcement b,
shertff's officers investigating tn,
case. Warren. according to the re
ported confession, threw the bodie,
into pit that later was swept by
an oil fire
Joseph II. Hutchinson, lieutenant
governor of Idaho in 1898, and In
1000 Democratic candidate for con
gress from the Gem state, was grant
ed decree Of divorce in the district
court at Reno, Tuesday from Helen
lays Hutchinson, to whom he was
married in 1895. The decree was
sotained on simple grounds of deser-
don. Governor Hutchinson testified
that he and his wife separated in
1920 IN San Francisco.
A trio OF police detectives sent out
20 arrest three bandit suspects at
Los Angeles brought back eighteen
1ney said they found the three men
&hey sought In the midst of what ap-
psared to be and sounded like a con-
Nentaon of bandits planning their
next series of holdups. They arrested
III In attendance and booked them at
sne city jail on charges of suspicion
OF robbery. Four OF the eighteen
were soon afterward recognized as
mem wanted in connection with re-
cont holdups, according to the police
Between $4,000 and $4,000 in cash
was stolen from two bank messengers
o. the Metropolitan National bank of
seattle by armed bandits in front of
he federal reserve bank branch In
tho heart of the business section
here.
Mrs. Enrichetta Raschio told
jury at Portland, Oregon In the cir
su1t court Thursday that when she
confessed to DR.. A. D. Stephanova, a
oentist, that she had not the money
wnerewith 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.
i GENERAL
American legionnaires OF New
York are pushing their campaign for
An ex-service mems bonus with re-
newed vtgor after a sensational
squirt Monday in which the treasury
department was accused of Juggling"
Its estimates against the project and I
Secretary Mellon was charged with 9
misleading" the late President Hard t
ing and President Coolidge d
Described by police as a "girI with =
the financial wizardry of q Ponzi or :,
Lindsay" Miss Helen L. Beckett =
stock broker was imprisoned on COM
plant OF socially prominent patrons
OF Fifth avenue corset shop of b
New York that she had defrauded ]
them of $4,000. O
Clothes worn by Abraham Lincoln
when he was assassinated in Ford's .
theater, Washington by John Wilkes
Booth, were sold at public auction at p,
Philadelphia for $65O0 They consist +.
ID OF an old black suit, the collar w
stained with the life blood Of a q.
martyred president; the trousers, r
wrinkled; badly torn overcoat and %
faded silk sock. y,
A thrilling rescue In midair saved &C
Mss Rosalia Gordon, Houston chorus pi
Ifrl, from death while more than 5000
fortified spectators gazed skyward :.
Y Ellington flying field near Houston, -. ~.
Cexas. Miss Gordon, who formerly ~
vas an aerial stunt performer was 70
ttempting to make a parachute leap
rom a mile-high plane, when the "a
uge umbrella became entangled in -
Quipment on the plane. A'
Science hall, the Oldest building on ho
he Cornell college campus at Mt.
ernon, Iowa, has been destroyed by
Ire. Along with the building, the Hf
1stitution lost numerous valuable err
ecords and exhibits of research OF
'ork and large number of manu- Pr
cripts The cause of the fire has da
OF been determined. ha
Mobile, Alabama has been selected 10
the 1925 convention city for the opl
nnual gathering of Masonic Shrine pu
irectors according to private advices {
'om Oklahoma City, where the SEES in
ION Is In progress. Los Angeles was 00(
he other competitor for the conyeu. will
on. tor
Approval OF the three-year contract Z
n bituminOus miners for the CEN a {
al cmpetitive field was voted un- bel
1imously by the policy committee of loa
le United Mine Workers Of America fr'
Jacksonville, Fla. wy
The net material value of an aver Gig
se human being il SO cents, ac- cor
riding to analytical research made fan
2 DR.. G. A. Pierle, head Of the de- ers
lrtment Of chemistry at the West Ag
sxae Teachers' Collere At CANYON alta