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San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-18
PHOTO sY &c. CHADWICK

wilderment at the distressing sight, then, convinced
that he had discovered cruel murder, he rushed
up into the open air. He sent for the landlord and
summoned the police who Immediately arrived
the scene.
The police at on got to work to discover the
last tenants of the house, and not long in learn
ing who they were and two curious facts in connec-
ton with one of the two families that had lived there
The lower fiat had been occupied by wooden-legged
man named Frederick Ernest Robertson and his wife,
and strangely enough they had had three little chill
dren of an age similar to those whose bodies had
been found under such extraordinary conditions.
The second fact, more remarkable still, if it were
only coincidence that their three children had
disappeared.
Robertson was not left long at liberty. One even
ing shortly after the dreadful discovery in the house
in Saratoga Road, Detective Hagh with
wooden leg go "taptapping' past him in Sheperdess
wanted for what already the newspaper
ton of the hour as "the Cellar Cemetery Mystery"
the detective went up to him and touched him the
shoulder
81 am police officer" he said. SIS your name
Robertson"
eyes," was the reply, upon which the detective
went on:
81 shall arrest you suspicion of having MUIR
dered your three children at Saratoga Road You
must come with me-.
Robertson started crying, and said, 'All right"
and when the detective caught hold of his arm he
said, Don't take hold of me- will go quietly
He was taken to the police station, nearby, where
he asked, "Why are you OBTAINING me?"
"The dead bodies of three children which are
believed to be yours have been found buried under
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-18

|e Cavity Behind the Wall, Mr.. Liddon Stood
lows He Saw the Silent Faces and Forms of the
Ear Old, and the Twins, Nellie and Frederick.
Three Months.
w the chaplain kindly consented to do as l had
ked But, as / shall show presently, Jacoby him
If deliberately caused delay.
He rose quite bthely on the morning of his exc
|tion and in accordance with his own request
hiss of brandy was taken in to him.
Outside his cell there gathered just before eight
flock small, silent knot of high officials, in the
|dst of which the governor stood with his watch in
3 hand. The others also took out their watches
Id compared times with him, and when they had
breed that it was just minute before the hour the
|vernor nodded to me and said in low, tense
ice:
"Get it over, Ellis!"
At that pushed open the cell door and entered
|th one hand behind my back, holding the pinoning
zap. Jacoby was sitting on the edge of his bed,
liking with the chaplain, and as he saw me enter
arose and shook hands with the clergyman. He
bked more a child than ever, but he stood bravely
In as pinioned his wrists behind him.
Look straight at me when you get there, laddie"
huttered, "and it will soon be over"
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-18

81 want to thank you and the officers for the kind
ness you have shown me-" he said in fairly firm
voice.
1t was an episode that almost moved everybody
to tears. Then the boy moved on and walked
straight to the drop He showed the slightest
sign of faterng, and easily the most collected
being in that prison yard.
The rest was soon over. Harry Jacoby was dead
within ten seconds of his involuntary pause outside
the condemned cell.
But if | felt sincerely sorry that it was by my
hand that poor young Jacoby was hurried into the
next world-well, certainly felt no regrets for end
ing the wretched life of one-legged BRUTE Frederick
Robertson.
scrap of newspaper and portion of torn
blanket formed the determining clues in this most
extraordinary crime which am able to relate. BY
their means the murder of three little children was
brought home to their father and these apparently
trivial articles demolished his very cleverly con-
structed plans for covering up his tracks.
house in Saratoga Road, quiet working class
thoroughfare in Hackney, had been standing empty
about month. 1t was usually let in the form of two
fats, and when the tenants moved into the upper
fiat they complained about unpleasant smells arising
from the lower part of the house.
The landlord instructed firm of contractors to
investigate the matter, and they told a workman
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-18
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named Liddon, who lived next door
to the house in question, to find out
what was wrong. This man had a
look at the drains, but satisfied HIM
self that the smells did not come from
there. So he sought the cause in
another direction.
Liddon lifted two planks in the
back room, revealing a large cavity,
beneath which it was impossible to
adequately explore from above. The
man accordingly went down into the
cellar, and to his surprise noticed
that the cellar wall had apparently
been taken down and replaced, the
topmost bricks having been filled in
with plaster of Paris.
He procured some tools, and with
little difficulty made large hole just
beneath the floor, which enabled him
to see into the cavity, which was
about eight feet square, with depth
of several feet. Peering into this
hole, he observed a quantity of sack
ing and old blankets, and he shouted
for a rake, which was fetched by
someone in the house. The man then
put the implement into the hole and
drew toward him what seemed to be
some bundles-and to his horror
there stood revealed the bodies OF
three children.
For moment he gazed with be-
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-18

He did not answer me, but | could
see he understood me. Leaving him,
/ hurried off to the scaffold.
Almost at once Jacoby followed me
out of the condemned cell, but when
he caught sight of the governor he
stopped short.
The Coconino sun., 1925-10-30

s~ Rimmy jim Giddings says the .un-
'mckiest man he ever knew was in an
accident and for ten days in the hos
pital they kept him alive on brandy
The Coconino sun., 1925-10-30

of NINE HUNDRED EIGHTY FIVE
THOUSAND EIGHT H U N DRIED
SIXTY FIVE MILLIONTHS (.00O98-
58651 MILLS on the dollar of and on,
the assessed valuation of all real and
personal property within the corporate
limits of the Town of Flagstaff, Coco
nino County, Arizona, as shown by
the assessment roll Of the current
year for the purpose of defraying the
salary of Librarian and the ordinary
and contingent expenses of the public
library of said town for the fiscal
year ending May 91st, 1926.
SECTION a
That a levy and assessment of
taxes be, and the same is hereby
made Of ONE CENT, SIX AND
THREE HUNDRED EIGHTY ONE
THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED
ONE MILLIONTHS
MILLS (.016381621) on the dollar of
and on, the assessed valuation of all
real and personal property within the
corporate limits of the Town of Flag
staff. Coconino County, Arizona, as
shown by the. assessment roll of the
current year for the purpose of pay
ing interest on One Hundred Twenty
Five Thousand ($125,O000O) Dollars
Sewer Bonds, Sixty Thousand $780,
100000 Dollars Park Bonds and -Four
Hundred Seventy Five thousand
($475,0O000) Water bonds and estab-
fishing sinking fund for above men
toned Sewer Bonds and Water Bonds,
of the Town Of Flagstaff and for the
fiscal year ending May 31st, 1926.
SECTION 5
All ordinances, resolutions or Nor
tions in conflict with the provisions
of this ordinance are hereby repealed.
SECTION 6
This Ordinance shall be in full force
and effect from and after thirty days
after it's passage, posting and publi-t
cation according to law.
Passed by the Mayor and Common
Council of the Town of Flagstaff, Co
conino County, Arizona, this 21st day
of September A. Sd, 1925, and pre-
sented to the Mayor for his signature
and approval, and by him signed and
approved this 21st day of September,
A. d. 1925.
APPROVED:
T. E. PULLIAM,
Acting Mayor, Town of Flagstaff
ATTEST:
Clarence Puliam,
Clerk, Town of Flagstaff. 9-25-5t
The Coconino sun., 1925-10-30


(002507411) MILLS on the dollar of
and on, the assessed valuation Of all
real and personal property within the
corporate limits Of the Town Of Flag
staff, Coconino County, Arizona, as
shown by the assessment roll Of the
current year for the purpose of con-
struction and repairing streets, side
walks, sewers, cross-walks, bridges,
and culverts upon the streets, alleys
and sidewalks of said Town for the
fiscal year ending May 31st, 1926.
SECTION s
That a levy and assessment Of
taxes be, and the same is hereby made
The Coconino sun., 1925-10-30

Doc E. S. Miller was highly in
censed the other morning.. He
slammed hunk of yellow stuff down
on the counter at Jerry Duffy 8
grocery and then leaned back an !
bawlei jerry out for sellin' ITO him
for soap. 'S'pose that's the kind of
soap that does the was3lin' Of itself =
he said. Reckon If a wornaFsused it
Mondays it ud make the day a gloff1
fled bean feast; her linen would be
as white as snow an sweet as a hazel
nut by dinner time; she could spend
the rest of the day playin' with the
children; but fer ole bach to wash
his hands an face in it's the bunk
yessir, the pure an unadulterated
bunk, not to say bunlSum and bQnkeri-
no, an it amt got so muchiiathaf IN
it as a concrete brick, an
SAY said Jerry, who had just
come up the third time for air.
The Coconino sun., 1925-10-30
ORDINANCE NO. 2s7

AN ORDINANCE LEVYING AND
ASSESSING THE TAXES FOR
THE TOWN OF FLAGSTAFF,
ARIZONA, FOR THE YEAR OF
1925, AND ORDERING A WAR
RANT DRAWN FOR THE SAME.
Be it ordained by the Mayor and
the Common Council of the Town of
The Coconino sun., 1925-10-30

FelIer | used to like told me the
the other day he had case of lunl-
Ibago, but he never offered me
drink, complains Alf Dickinson.
The Coconino sun., 1925-10-30
CROSS WORD PUZZLE NO. As
HOW TO SOLVE A CROSSWORD PUZZLE

HOW SOLVE CROSSWORD
rsarepl i'm the white
headed
bTaes the
thu
the
ndicated in the &
The Coconino sun., 1925-10-30

ing street peddlers yelling in London.
For instance, this:
First Fruit Peddler: Green ap-
pies! Fine green applesm
Second Fruit Peddler: "Gripes!
Fine gripes!"
The Coconino sun., 1925-10-30

- WOAlCtt Will lCCld ali SOllS OIa dQ-
vertisements how to develop her bust,
but all a man has to do is not to adj
vertise.
In 1893, when Doc Harry Scher-
mann was thinking seriously and most
all the time bout getting married,
said nuptials being imminent and al
most due, he dreamed one night the
following dream:
went ashore in a foreign port, an
the people was givin' a, humty -roodEe-
doc in honor of the king.
''Why?" I asks
""Cause he's licked ev'ry other ma
tion within reach of him." says a ma
tive, "put down 46 revolutions an a
dog fight, fooled all the other coun-
tries Of the earth in diplomacy, caught
all the criminals, cured all the sick,
cheered the unhappy, wrote histori-
cal novel that's had a bigger sale than
'Eben Holden solved the servant
problem, squared the circle. found the
philosophers stone, Strengthened out
the currency mudtlle, done away with
tariff arguments, drove an eight
horse team with the reins in his teeth
and a flag in each hand, broke the
record for the runnin' long jump, and
learned the bible SOS he can reeite
it backward with his eyes shut and
pebble in his shoe"
Mercy on us!" says |. "He's a
great king. Amt his people happy,
though? But what makes him look so
kind of worried ~
"Oh," says the man that was talkin'
to me, that's because. he wants the
queen to go to the seashore this sum-
mer, and she says she's going to the
mountains"
: Cant he make her go where he
wants her to-" ] asked.
MAKE her?" says the man. "Why,
she's his wifeI"
"Ohw says |.
Dallas Tirnes-Herald has this head
line:
"Church Folks Asked to Pray for
Bootleggers."
Wouldn't telephoning be equally eff
fective, and much more direct and
quick?
We are in receipt of letter from
a fellow way out in California who
is wanting to get out of that section
of the universe and come to Lub-
book. He claims to be a business
man, yet he writes to US on scrap Of
paper with rubber stamp heading on
it. He said he wants to go into busi-
ness in Lubbock, and wanted a copy
of the Avalanche that he might get
better line on things around here.
II his stationery is any indication
of the kind of business man he is, we
are not wanting him in this country;
in fact, he would not last three
months in business in competition
with the hustling, progressive business
men of this ommunity.-Lubbock
(Tex.) Avalanche.
Milt Powers at Rotary last Tuesday
sprang (sprung) a pair of new ones.
A Hollywoodite, beautiful young
woman from the sticks who eventually
went back there and handed her dad
$4,000 to lift the mortgage on the
dear old home, was told by her dad !.
Daughter, this is a lot Of money.
Have you been good 2"
"YOu have to be good in Hollywood
to get $5000," she told him.
The other was of a man who was
greatly terrified over letter he got.
The~writer told him he was going to
shoot him if he didn't keep away from
his wife.
"Well, why don't you keep away?''
he was asked.
"He didn't sign the letter." the un-
fortunate, terrified man explained.
The Coconino sun., 1925-10-30

A woman will read all sorts Of adj
vertisements how to develop her bust,
but all man has to do is not to adj
vertise.
The Coconino sun., 1925-10-30

Dallas Times-Herald has this head
line:
Church Folks Asked to Pray for
Bootleggers."
Wouldn't telephoning be equally eff
fective, and much more direct and
quick?
The Coconino sun., 1925-10-30

"phwat are yez handin' me, anyway? !?
f1s it gone crazy We are entirely al
ready? Phwat do yez expect of a in
nocent little hunk O. Swiss cheese,
anyhow, you gray-bearded spalpeen
yez?''
Cheese, you call it," gasped Doc.
"Cheese ] calls it, an cheese it be, .
says Jerry, firmly.
3 "Well, I'll be damfounded, says
Doc.
YES" says Jerry. "You will. You
come in here yes'day an bought
cheese an soap an this is the cheese"
"An' I mus ate the soap!" says
Doc. II thought it was darn funny
Cheese"
The Coconino sun., 1925-10-30

Fellef USED 10 Ike tOld me the
the other day he had case of lum-
kbago, but he never offered me a
drink, complains Alf Dickinson.
c.. B. Wilson was hurrying along
the other day in the rain thinking
about one of his legal cases and when
the rain stopped he put up his hand
to unsnap his umbrella to let it down
and then found out that he'd left the
darned umbrella in his office.
Clarence Kunselman says the time
he was maddest was when a girl he
proposed to told him she didn't love
him we'll enough to marry him but
she'd always admire his taste.
Tom Rickel says this is one rea-
son why grocers don't get right away
TO be millionaires:
"a customer Of ours who had
bought an automobile on time couldn't
meet monthly instament and was
going to lose the car. So he comes to
us and got $50 worth of groceries,
having them charged, and took them
to a friend Of his and sold them for
$25, then paid the $25 tosthe man who
sold him the car."
Which recalls Toms famous retort
to Walter Durham Walter was tell
ing Tom how well he looked "You
seelnsto be gaining flesh every day.
he said. HThe grocery business must
agree with you. What did you weigh
last?n
Tom said: "Well, | really forgot
now, but as | recollect it it was a
pound of lard"
Tom Bellwood says it's highly in
teresting, amusing and sometimes in
structive to listen to the early morn
The Coconino sun., 1925-10-30
Arizona as follows, to-wit:

SECTION 1
That a levy and assessment Of
taxes be, and the same is herebyamade
of THREE and THREE HUNDRED
THIRTY TWO THOUSAND TWO
HUNDRED TWENTY TWO MIL
LIONTEfS (.Oo3332222) MILLS on
the dollar of and on, the assessed
valuation of all real and personal
property within the corporate limits
of the Town of Flagstaff, Coconino
County, Arizona, as shown by the as
.sessment roll of the current year, to
defray the salaries Of officers and the
ordinary and contingent expenses of
said town, and not herein otherwise
provided for, for the fiscal year end
ing May 91st, 1926.
SECTION 2
That levy and assessment of taxes
be made, and the same is hereby made
of TWO AND FIVE HUNDRED
SEVEN THOUSAND FOUR HUN
DRIED ELEVEN MILLIONTHS
The Coconino sun., 1925-10-30

"We certainly need more game
wardens to protect the poor fish in
the sea of matrimony," observes Ben
Doney.
The Coconino sun., 1925-10-30

Il bin feelin' right good for some
time ontil one Of these DANCED insur-
ance agents come long. other day an
toP me | was liable to die at any
time," laments Carter Joy.
The Coconino sun., 1925-10-30

and the poor cuss was unconscious
every minute of the time.
Evening star., 1925-04-28
ARGENTINA AND BRAZIL SET US
AN EXAMPLE In DOING POLITICAL
AS WELL AS FINANCIAL EQUITY

Capital through Congress, why should
not the Americans in the District
of Columbia be treated as a part Of
the Nation which is to exercise this
exclusive control, and be permitted
in proportion to their number repre-
sentation in this Government which
is to control them, to tax them, to
send them to war, to dispose of their
property and of their lives? The
Americans In the District of Colum-
bia, constituting much more than the
average number OF Americans repre-
sented by each member of Congress,
exceeding In population seven of the
States; living within we'll defined geo
graphical limits and possessed of more
than the average of intelligence and
& Dod citizenship: paying all national
taxes, direct and indirect, and re-
spending to the Nations call to arms
in time of war, are entitled on gem
eral principles to representation in
the National Legislature, and would
enjoy 1t if this Legislature were not
also their exclusive local or municipal
Legislature. This fact. instead of
barring them from representation,
ought to be viewed as giving them
a double right to such representation.
OF all Americans they would seem
to be most entitled to a Legislature
which is their own nationally to the
same extent as In the case of all
other Americans, and which is in
addition their exclusive State Legis-
lature. their board of aldermen and
common council.
Why should not the United States
follow the example of Argentina and
Brazil in giving the capital repre-
sentation in the national government,
in the Congress, which is TO the CAPT
col hDtl l. L. %
What possible injury can the nation
suffer from permitting this American
representation? What possible plausi-
BILE excuse can be devised for deny
ing 1t?
In 1910 believed with many observ-
ers that the South American repub-
lies, while excelling as city builders,
failed in some degree as the builders
of representative republics obedient
to the law and ruled by ballots and
not bullets, and were thus deficient
in practical appreciation of the true
principles OF representative govern
ment. May they not. OH the basis of
our handling Of the problem of repre-
sentatiOn i'm the National government
for the District of Columbia, turn the
tables OH us and suggest that i'm fi1is
matter we betray that we have no
real appreciation of those principles
ourselves?
If the republics of Argentina and
Brazil can spend millions on their cap.
itals and retain ample national con
troll of these cities of the nation with
out either depressing the local COM
niunities with excessive taxation or
humiliating them by denunciation as
mendicants or robbing them of their
rights OF representation i'm the nation
al government, may we not expect
that the greater and weather. and
prouder republic of the United States
OF America will i'm the end be as
eqUitably considerate both of WASH
ington the capital and of the nearly
half million defective and defenseIess
Americans who now live i'm it,
Evening star., 1925-04-28
PRESSURE SYSTEM
DRIVE IS RENEWED.
Board of Trade Plans vigor-
GUS Action to Improve Fire
Protection Here.

The Washington Board of Trade
Will begin at once another campaign
for the installation OF Il high-pressure
water system for fire protection in the
downtown section.
At meeting Of the executive COM
mittee of the organization yesterday
afternoon David NJ. Lea. chairman of
the boards insurance committee, was
unanimously instructed to urge upon
the District Commissioners the ur
gent necessity OF including the high
water pressure system in the esti.
mates to be presented to the new Con-
gress. The committee also authorized
Mr.. Lea to obtain the cooperation of
all the civic and trade bodies in the
District.
Cost 81, 500, 900.
The installation of a high pressure
system in the proposed area from First
10 eighteenth streets and from X street
TO the Mall would cost approximately
VI ,5OO.O 900. 1t is proposed to spread
thls over a period of three years with
an appropriation OF $500, 900 each year
The Board Of Trade has already writ
ten the Commissioners asking them to
include this item in their next esti-
mates.
The establishment of the system
would call for the enlargement Of the
water mains IN the downtown area
and the erection of a pumping station
on the river front.
The Board of Trade feels that the
system would result in great economy.
II states that it would preserve fl
tered water for home consumption
and permit the transfer Of much ap-
paratus now in the downtown section
10 sections now without proper pro
lection. Large decreases in fire in
surance premiums in the downtown
area and protection of Government
buildings containing valuable records
are also features
Has Wide Support.
MIR. Lea, who states that the Ma
uonal Board of Fire Underwriters will
actively urge the high water pressure
system here, left for New York la st
night to confer with authorities on
the subject.
More than year ago practically
every civic organization in the Dis
trlct EXPRESSED its desire to see such
a system in the downtown area. The
Evening Star at that time sent letters
TO every Senator and Representative
urging the passage OF such an appro.
prtaion, and received scores Of favor.
able replies.
Evening star., 1925-04-28
PRE-WAR LIQUOR FALLS
TO 10000 GALLONS
Maryland Supply Virtually Cut In
Half Since Dry Law Be-
came Effective.

Special Dispatch to The Star
BALTIMORE. April 2S.-Removal
of $4,000 barrels of pre-war whisky
was started here yesterday. The
whisky is being moved from the Con.
centration Warehouse Co. 10 the Bal
timore Distillery Co, and the transfer
is on orders from David II. Blair. com.
missioner of internal revenue The
removal, II was explained, is because
of bankruptcy proceedings against the
Baltimore Concentration Warehouse
Co. in the United States Court, and
the inability of that company to carry
on the business of concentration and
storage successfully. Each truckload
is guarded by detail of heavily arm
ed revenue men.
The supply of pre- Volstead whisky
in Maryland is dwindling fast, accord
ing to Galen l.. TAFT, collector of in
ternal revenue.
Only two diStilleries in the State
it is said. now have whisky in storage
amounting to 1000, 900 gallons. The
amount in storage in Maryland when
prohibition went into effect in 1920
was estimated at nearly 1000 900
gallons.
Evening star., 1925-04-28
SOUTHWEST TO GET
MOONLIGHT SCHOOL
National Parent Teacher
Body Plans Widespread
War Upon IIIiteracy.
BY the Associated Press.


AUSTIN, Tex, April 2S.-Iliteracy
in the Southwest is to be attacked by
the National Congress of Parents and
Teachers, which went into the second
day Of its annual convention here to-
day, The convention opened last
night. Effects of illiteracy and the
work started to overcome 1t are dis
played in a poster exhibit.
Because of a large foreign popula-
ton in Texas and Southwestern bor
der States, it was said. illiteracy in
these States is high. Efforts to com
bat 1t with the plan of moonlight"
schools. conducted at night for adults
who desire to learn reading and writ
ing Will be proposed.
Receipts for child welfare work
throughout the country show a deep
interest in this activity. according to
Mrs. David Mears of Washington, d.
c., organizer and chairman of the
child welfare department. The con-
rributions TO this work she said, in
dictate that 1t Is perhaps the most i'm
portant activity Of the organization.
Today's program opened with me-
mortal services for Mrs. Milton p.
Higgins, formerly national president.
and Mrs. l.. l.. Hills, a former ma
tional official.