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Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-01-18

The Security Benefit Association,
Border Council Number 2232, will give
a Tacly party and dance this eve
ming at the 1. o. O. F. hall, $40 p. m.
All members invited and visitors well
come Music by High School Or
chestra Refreshments.-Advt.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-01-18
In Bisbee Sunday

A party composed of Mrs. Whalen
Norris, Mrs. William Thaw, Miss Gene
Compton and Miss Marian Lawrence
motored to Bisbee Sunday to spend
the day.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-01-18
Local Girl Nun

Information received here from San
Francisco is that Miss Virginia Mo-
reno, 19-year-old daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank Moreno, formerly of this
city, has become nun in the Order of
Sisters of Mercy in that city during
the past week.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-01-18
Vfsiting Here

Mrs. M. A. Ingals of Tucson is here
visiting at the w, H. Meischer home.
Mrs. Ingals was former Douglas
resident.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-01-18
Daughter III

The small daughter of Mrs. Virginia
Fletcher is i'll at her home $50 Greene
street.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-01-18
Here for week

Jack Johnson, formerly employed in
the office of the county attorney in
Tombstone, is in Douglas for about a
week.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-01-18

The DeMolay boys will be assisted
by the Rainbow Girls in The Rejuve-
nation of Aunt Mary, at the Grand
Theatre Jan. 22.-Adyt
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-01-18
Returns From GI Paso

Mrs. George Motz of Douglas has
returned from.a visit of several weeks
in Ell Paso.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-01-18
Here From Pearce

Mr.. and Mrs. F. L. Bryant and fam
lily of Pearce were in Douglas Monday
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-01-18
TO Hear Chorus

Mrs L j. Tuttle and Mss May
Smith will leave this city Tuesday for
Tucson to hear the Ukrainian Chorus
sing there Tuesday night.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-01-18
Tackx Party

Visitors During Weekend
Mr.. and Mrs Thomas P. Maher of
Tucson We're weekend guests of Mrs
J. D. Guthrie at S55 Twelfth street
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-01-18
Spent Weekend Here

Mr. and Mrs. ]. P. Sexton, Jr, and
Mrs Harlowe Mills were in Douglas
over the weekend. They visited at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. j. P. Sexton,
Sr. The party came here from Nogales.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-01-18
Return to PARKWAY

relatives.
Return to PARKWAY
Mrs. W. H Meischer and Miss Scotty
MCGEE returned to Faraway ranch
Sunday after spending the weekend
in Douglas. Miss McGee was a house
guest at the Meischer home.
Purchase Property
]. E. Kenny of Sulphur Springs val
ley has purchased as an investment
the NJ. F. Morgan property at 1886 F
avenue.
Ad Manager Here
Julia Kirkhof, ad manager of the
General Light and Power company of
Chicago, is in this city on business.
Weekend at Paradise
Mrs. George Doubleday, Miss De Alva
Doubleday and Miss Bessie Epley spent
tn epast weekend at Paradise.
In Bisbee
Miss Clara, Blum spent Sunday in
Bisbee visiting Mrs Nora Burk of that
city.
Finance Campaign
The annual finance campaign of the
Y. w. c. A. will begin Wednesday
morning. Letters have already been
sent to all business houses.
Bisbec Monday
Mr. and Mrs. George D. Young mo-
tored to Bisbee Monday on business.
Return Tuesday
Mrs John B. Crowell and children,
Mary and Billy, will return to their
home in Douglas Tuesday afternoon.
Mrs Crowell and her children have
been in Fresno, Calf, for the past
four months.
Here On Business
Arthur Curlee of Phoenix, formerly
secretary to Louis Douglas, is in this
city on business.
Here From Forest
Mrs Earle Barnum and small son,
Earle, Jr., were in Douglas from For
est station Monday.
Confined to Home
Mrs. Ada Harwood is confined to her
home with slight illness. She is en-
ployed in the hosiery department of
the Phelps Dodge store.
Tacky Party
The Security Benefit association will
give a tacky party and dance at the
/. O.. Q. F. hall Thursday evening, be-
ginning at $50. The Bisbee council
of the organization will come down
for this affair in body. Visitors are
welcomed Music will be by the high
school orchestra. Refreshments will
be served.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-01-18
Here Tuesday

Here Tuesday
Mrs. E. r. Pirtle Of this city will ar
rive here Tuesday from Florence, Ala,
after. spending the past month visiting
relatives.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-01-18
En- Route to Los Angeles

Phil Philvin and parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. P. H. Philvin, Sr., were in Doug
las Sunday en- route to California from
their home in Pueblo, Colo. Mr.. and
Mrs. Philvin are proprietors of the
Congress hotel in that city.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-01-18

"No Breakfast Complete Without
The Dispatch"
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-01-18

'tNo Breakfast Conplete Without
The Dispatch"
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-01-18

Here From G1eesOn
Mr. and Mrs j. w Benny were i
Douglas Monday from Gleeson.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-01-18
Dispatch TeIepnones-S1 and 81

D!SpdLCn I6TephOnbS-oI anu 81
MOOSE CARD PARTY
Commencing Wednesday, Jan. 10Th,
the Moose Card Party will start play
at 8 p m. sharp. Doors open at 1880
p. m. This is to accommodate those
who wish to leave early.
MOOSE CARD COMMITTEE.
Advt.
See Aunt Mary rejuvenated at the
Grand Theatre January 22.-Advt.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-01-18

Ill at Home
NJ. E. Irwin is i'll at his home, 1851
Eleventh street, with Influenza.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-01-18

James, Bod Ford
"UNDER THE
Also '.sCOTTY OF I
And ''NON-STOP,
--==- =-= #
DOUGLAS D.
Civil Service Exam.
The U IS. civil service commission
has announced an examination for the
position of clerk-carrier in the post
office service at Douglas, for which the
receipt Of applications will close Feb
ruary 8. Further information concern
ing the examinations and application
blanks can be secured at the postoffice.
Meeting Tonight
The regular monthly business and
social meeting of the Fidelis class of
the First Baptist church will be held
this evening at 8 o'clock at the home
of Mrs. H. c. Sherfick, 1852 Twelfth
street. All members are urged to at,
tend and bring friend. Tie members
of the T. e. L. are also invited.
Returns From EI PasO
Mrs George Motz of Douglas has
returned from.a visit of several weeks
in FL Paso
Here From Pearce
Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Bryant and fam
lily of Pearce were in Douglas Monday.
Visiting Here
Mrs M. A. Ingals of Tucson is here
visiting at the w, H. Meischer home
Mrs. Ingals was a former Douglas
resident
spent weekend Here
Mr. and Mrs. j. P. Sexton, Jr., and
Mrs Harlowe Mills were in Douglas
over the weekend. They visited atI
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. J. P. Sexton,
Sr. The party came here from Nogales.
En- Route to Los AngeIes
Phil Philvin and parents, Mr. and
Mrs p. H. Philvin, Sr, were in Doug
las Sunday en- route to California from
their home in Pueblo, Colo. Mr.. and
Mrs Philvin are proprietors Of the
Congress hotel in that city.
Graduates Pictures
The pictures of 70 graduates in the
IL
the window of Irwin's studio on GI
avenue.
III at Home
Miss Mary Frost was unable to.teachI
at the grammar school Monday, due to
a severe attack of influenza.
Bisbee Sunday
Mr. and Mrs Raymond Salmon spent
Sunday in Bisbee.
Move to New Home
Mr.. and Mrs. George D. Young Of
McWhorter's confectionery have moved
to the Fisher apartments.
League Meeting
Mrs L. j. Tuttle held a unit meet
ing of the League of Women Voters
at her home Monday night.
Here From GIeeson
Mr. and Mrs. J. w. Benny were in
Douglas Monday from Gleeson.
c. E. Pettingall, proprietor of the
Cochise Overland company, and R. E.
Webster of the FL Paso Sash and Door
company made trip to Cananea last
week in a Whippet sedan. They made
the trip in one hour and 43 minutes
without shifting gears, and report that
they drove an average of % miles to-
the gallon of gas.
'fNo Breakfast Conplete Without
The Dispatch"
Dispatch TeIepnones-S1 and 80
MOOSE CARD PARTY
Commencing Wednesday, Jan. 10Th,
the Moose Card Party will start play
at 8 p. m. sharp. Doors open at 1880
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-01-18

c. E. Pettingall, proprietor of the
Cochise Overland company, and R. E.
Webster of the FL Paso Sash and Door
company made trip to Cananea last
week in a Whippet sedan. They made
the trip in one hour and 43 minutes
without shifting gears, and report that
they drove an average of % miles to
the gallon of gas.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-01-18

III NJ TIUNMG " =
Miss Mary Frost was unable to.teach
at the grammar school Monday, due to
a severe attack of influenza.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-01-18
Grnduates, Pictures

The pictures of 20 graduates in the
class of 1927 are now on display in
the window of Irwins studio on G
avenue.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-01-18
League Meeting

League Meeting
Mrs. L. T. Tuttle held a unit meet
ing of the League of Women Voters
at her home Monday night.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-01-18

IBIHWtC oWIludy n
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Salmon spent
Sunday in Bisbee.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-01-18

Here VISltIhS
Charles Wease arrived here Tuesday
to visit Mr.. and Mrs. Grover c. Wease
at 627 Seventeenth street. Charles
Wease may settle in Douglas.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-01-18

Confined to Home
Mrs. Ada Harwood is confined to hel
home with slight illness. She is EN-.
ployed in the hosiery department o1
the Phelps Dodge store.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-01-18

Mr.. and Mrs. George D. Young Of
McWhorters confectionery have moved
to the Fisher apartments.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-01-18

RetuTn to FaraWay
Mrs. w. H. Meischer and Miss scotty
McGee returned to Faraway ranch
Sunday after spending the weekend
in Douglas. Miss McGee was a house
guest at the Meischer home.
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overwhelming surprise next morn
ing; but not a pleasant one. During
the night a burglar had broken into
his office, cut through the door of
his steel safe as though it were made
Of Dashboard, and walked off with
not only all the money he had re-
ceived from the secretary of the
anonymous donor, but certain sum
besides.
The newspapers had rare treat
that day Here We're two seasonal
stories that made one gorgeous one.
Anonymous millionaire makes gifts
of coal to 1000 poor families; and
equally anonymous burglar walks off
with the money paid for the coal.
The two events, apparently Joined
by coincidence only, stirred the
Imagination, and there was much
public and private speculation as TO
who the phianthropist was. The
police, of course, were much more in
terested in who the burglar was and
where.
They were doubly interested. not
only because he had committed a
burglary involving a goodly sum of
money, but because he did the job
and concealed his tracks with such
battling experiences. Not a single one
of those slips that give police their
start in the hunt was left by the
burglar.
1t was a job so workmanlike that
even the university experts who help
out the Vienna police in difficult
cases could do nothing about this
burglary but admire.
In the midst of public speculation
and discussion of the case. there
came to the offices of every news
paper in Vienna a carbon copy of the
same letter. / need not inform my
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whipped out the bar he had wrenched
loose and knocked the guard sense
less with a single blow.
Reaching out, he caught the man
coat. pulled him toward the cell and
aged to get at the cell keys.
~
AN hour later another guard came
4 on duty to relieve the night man.
He wondered why the other did not
show up at the rest room where the
exchange of guards usually took place.
He went to the detention block to
look for him. He was nowhere IN
sight. Yet everything else seemed as
1t should be.
In each cell lay prisoner huddled
in sleep, one of them with blanket
over his head.
When the relief guard had searched
in vain he aroused the warden and
the two aroused the prisoners. 1t
was then found that in Breitwisser' S
cell the sleeper was not a prisoner
but the guard, dead.
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He was partly clad in Breitwisser's
clothes. His own were gone.
Hanging from the bars of the cell
window, one of which was gone, was
a rope made of twists OF newspaper
bound together with stripe Of mat
tress ticking cut to stout strings
When tested the rope was found
strong enough to bear considerable
weight.
/ would not have believed this
strength had ! not had the opportu-
nifty TO prove 1t for myself. For this
rope Is one of the exhibits in the
"Breitwisser ROOM" at the Vienna
Crime Museum.
Then l realized that a newspaper of.
say. 10 sheets. If rolled into a sort of
club and then twisted. with stout
strips of mattress ticking bound
to keep the paper from untwisting.
makes surprisingly strong rope.
The prison officials decided, OF
course. that Breitwisser had escaped
by way of the window and the rope
though it was hard to believe he
could have squeezed through. They
hunted, therefore, in that direction.
In vain.
For Breitwisser. after planting his
deception, had really sneaked down
the corridor and hid in a ventilator
shaft for three days and nights until
he saw his chance. Then he slipped
out of prison.
Fortunately for him there was
sounding at that time throughout the
world the rising thunder of calamity
The great war was swooping down
on humanity like whirlwind Aus
tria was In the forefront of events.
A FEW days after Breitwisser
broke prison Vienna had some
thing vastly more disturbing than
his escape to think about
For four terrible years Vienna had
increasingly something else to think
about.
When the armistice was signed
Breitwisser was all but forgotten.
In the economic misery that fol-
lowed the conclusion of war Austria
was one of the worst sufferers. 1t
sank prey to dissolution and near
~ died. AS with carrion, so with
sick nations, vultures are attracted.
Profiteers of the meanest caliber
f1ourished on its meager flesh and
bones-gross, Overfed human vul-
lures.
One of these was former butcher,
Schwartz, the very man the police
had used as decoy in Turing Brett
Wiser TO his trap. This man, who
was played up as a profiteer in the
decoy, had really become one. His
wife and daughters now wore jewels
that We're really theirs and not
loaned them by the police.
These birds of feather socially
fiOcked with their kind, other gross,
conscienceless profiteers, or sheiber,
as the Austrians called them.
They had more Nancy than ways
of spending it. and dissipated CORE
spondingly, but got comparatively
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in December of the same year enough
money had been raised TO buy the
place which had fallen into strangers
hands, but mortgages remained and
do remain. There are still 1875 of the
original money mortgage bonds given
by the foundation on the purchase
price, each of these being in $1,000
denominations. and in addition to
them there is outstanding the under
! lying first mortgage of 100000.
When they have been paid, Monticel-
10 will be free from debt, and it will
belong TO the foundation.
The foundation is composed of Re-
publicans and Democrats, educators
and authors, and bears among it's very
many names those of Senator Simeon
ID. Fess, Representative Robert l..
Bacon. John w. Davis, Col. Theodore
Roosevelt, DIR. Edwin A. Alderman.
Claude G. Bowers and Breckenridge
Long.
AS the Spring of 1927 dawns upon
lis there is an impetus to push over
the final payments and to know that
the good work commenced several
years ago is at last completed. Wash
ington, the Capital, Thomas Jeffer-
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ninal Prepared for Career With University Course

little pleasure out OF it. 1t takes a
gift to know how to play plea surably.
In cafe Schwartz was fattered
one day by the friendliness of a
dashing young cavalry officer who
had sat down at his table and proved
laxative. He was a Count Won
Richard, he said. Former Butcher
Schwartz was thrilled at being deep
in cups with Count Won Richard
He invited the young officer to his
home; and TO his delight the count
accepted.
He not only accepted Schwartzs
hospitality but became apparently a
boon companion. For weeks he
taught Schwartz how to play de-
lightfully. Then he said to him:
why don't you give a party that
will be remembered? Make 1t a cos
tune affair. AT your house. Get the
best string orchestra. The best
French champagnes. Get up special
illumination. Make II a carnival. III
you wish | will take charge
Schwartz was delighted. He glad
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years. He called it Monticello, the
Italian for Little HILL"
OF all this Jefferson was himself
the architect, and much of his
knowledge is traceable to his early
days in the College of William and
Mary at Williamsburg, where he was
one of the distinguished group that
often met at the table of the royal
governor. Francis Fauquier, and
where one must believe he first be-
came acquainted with the works of
Andrea PalladiO, the Italian archi-
tect OF the sixteenth century, for
this home upon the hill was modelled
after Palladio's design.
Beautiful it stands today, as it stood
in 1873, overlooking the valleys that
surround it: peaceful is the garden in
which the owner planted seeds from
France and Italy, more peaceful still
the grave in which he lies close by.
A few years ago a tardy nation
awakened to the need of owning Mon
ticello. the need to retain this symbol
of great life passed on. and in the
Spring of 1923. under the leadership
of Stuart Gibboney. the Thomas JEFF.
ferson Foundation was formed, and
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possibly heard that faint rasping of a
steel file.
But suddenly the lights flashed on
and four men advanced on "a figure
crouching before the safe.
The four detectives surrounded the
slim young fellow with the bag of
burglars tools spread out in front
OF the safe. The detectives were so
sure of their prey that only one of
them had his revolver drawn.
This requires a short explanation.
In England the criminal so seldom
resorts TO firearms that detectives
carry revolvers by special permission
from their superiors, given only for
special coca sions.
/ In Austria detectives do carry re.
Voivers. But they have little occa-
sion to use them other than as threats.
The Austrian criminal Is ordinarily
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From a renewed study of the bur-
glary committed at the Office OF coal
dealer Metz, the commission decided
that it was robin Hood" who was
behind the whole series of burglaries.
For every time he made a haul-and
it was always a good haul-some dis
trict inhabited by poor folk was
showered by gifts of money sent
through the mail by an anonymous
donor.
We'll, If we can't trail our bird to
his nest, perha ps We can lure him to
ours decided the commission in
effect So they prepared the decoy.
There appeared in the newspa pers,
soon, stories about a wholesale butcher
who was growing rich as the result
of some sharp profiteering in meat.
He had just closed a large deal with
the Government for the feeding OF its
Army, according TO these stories. and
had bought his wife and daughters a
famous collection of jewels a formerly
prosperous Prince had to sell.
To substantiate the story this
butcher, his wife and daughters
entirely unknown up to then-began
to appear at the opera and charity
balls dazzlingly clad in jewels.
But the family kept early hours.
BY midnight there were no lights in
the windows of their new mansion;
and presumably every one was asleep
there.
But in the darkness of the. living
room, where an old-fashioned safe
was ostentatiously placed, there might
have been heard one night tiny sounds
like a mouse gnawing. No one who
was not awake and waiting could have
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dealer a brief contract to sign for the
delivery Of the coal in time for Christ
mas and departed without another
word.
The coal dealer was too late for
the bank that day. SO he put the
package Of bills into his safe, saw
TO the wiring OF his burglar alarm,
rubbed his hands with satisfaction
at the windfall of a large order at
higher than market price.
Then he summoned small army
of trucks and truck drivers and set
them to work.
One thousand families in the poor
est quarter of Vienna were electri-
fed that night and the day before
Christmas by receiving unexpectedly
gifts of several sacks of coal each
with a cordial message of cheer from
an anonymous donor.
And the coal dealer himself got an
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ly let Count Won Richard take
charge of the preparations. and in
vited all the profiteers and their
jewel-clad wives. daughters and
mistresses to come in costume.
They came. each vying with the
others for show. The wines flowed.
the guests grew rackety. Count Won
Richard took his host aside.
Look here, Johann. the guests are
going to he more than gay. Go
around to those who have big jewels
and tell them you want no losses to
mar the party.
You know how these things have
a way of dropping off and getting
lost. They trust you. Tell them you
will put their biggest jewels in your
safe until they leave.
"Then put them away In your safe
| for the night"
| Even if the suggestion had been
| foolish one Schwartz would have
listened to Count Won Richard. In
a matter so practical Schwartz not
| only listened. but followed. So did
! a score of his guests.
The result was that in half an hour
Schwartz went to his bedroom with
hatful of blazing jewelry. Opening
his strong safe, he dumped 1.-THE gilt
tering hatful In, carefully closed the
safe. locked it with all it's modern
safety devices and then rejoined the
party.
He found Count Won Richard hila-
rious with drink. The young officer
went Keeling all through the house.
shouting Viennese cafe songs. But
feeling sleepy. he found himself in
his hosts bedroom and lay down for
nap.
Schwartz's valet. knowing how
much his emmployer trusted the
young nobleman, saw nothing wrong
in letting him fall asleep on his
masters bed.
TOWARD morning some of the
= guests began to leave and asked
for their jewels. Schwartz went to
his safe to get them. When he
stepped into his bedroom he thought
he was seeing things through the haze
of drinks; nightmarish things.
His safe door was blown wide open,
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reaeers that il appeared in every
newspaper at once.
What / took from the safe Of coal
dealer Metz on the night of Dec. %
was largely my own money. He and
his fellow coal proHteerS have sucked
so much money from the veins of the
poor that il was only fair he should
be made to disgorge some of it.
$50 | ordered him To deliver to
] 900 poor families sacks of coal and
paid him in cash | took back that
cash the same night plus ~ per cent
of the sum from other money | found
in his safe,
Il took the extra 10 per cent as
my fee for making A leech disgorge
the human blood he has sucked"
The message was signed, robin
Hood"
1t was Hugo Breitwissers own in.
PRODUCTION to the public. D..
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There followed at fairly frequent
intervals thereafter a series or bur
glaries such as Vienna had never be
fore experienced.
Safes up to then considered i'm
pregnable were opened up by bur
glars-was 1t the same band or only
an individual?-as easily as though
by their owners. The burglary ex
perts from police headquarters FOUND
their knowledge almost foolishly IN
adequate.
Here was a new technique employed;
indeed. several different lines or new
technique: new kinds of tools; an In
side knowledge of safes and metals,
of locks and doors: a bewildering Skin
in celebrating tracks that might help
the police: battling of experts at
their own game.
Finally special commission OF
these experts in criminal hunting from
the universities was organized to hunt
down the astounding burglar. For 1t
became clear after while that there
could not have sprung up suddenly
group of super burglars, and that 1t
must be some one genius at work.