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New Britain herald., 1930-03-13

q am Empress of the World" From then on that delusion followed her, and everyone admitted openly now that she was unbalanced.
 At last Edith went to live on the vast ranch that had been left her by her father, taking along only few servants. Relatives visited her there from time to time, but for the most part she lived virtually alone.
 She had two brothers, Ney Wolf skill, of MarshfieId Oregon. and Matt Wolfskill, of San Francisco. These men had been on bad terms for years. Rumor links their dislike of each other to quarrels over the management of Edith's fortune, which came into their hands when the girl was adjudged in capable of sanely administering it. Now Los Angeles bank Is acting as trustee.
 Meeting either of the brothers, one is struck at once by their grimly set faces, their air of stern preoccupation and bleak determination.
 At the time of Edith's disappearance from her home the only other people in the big ranch house were Mrs. J. E. Conklin housekeeper, and Mrs. Nelda Wolfskill, wifi of the heiress' nephew.
 Edith, as the aging mad heiress, had become a subject for strange tales in the neighborhood. She was a powerful hiker and the neighborns woodland trails frequently saw her stridng along swiftly, her long, old fashioned skirts beating about her in the wind She murmured to herself in a monotonous half whisper. Chil- dren, seeing her approach, would de- tour to avoid meeting her face to face
 But she was harmless madwoman. And residents of the neighborhood say they used to see her standing on some high hilltops, surveying the far dis tances from beneath cupped hands. Perhaps Edith Wolfskill was trying to survey the whole world in search of a vanished lover met during her convent days Perhaps all her queer ways, the very topping of her sanity, were due to some tremendous shock administered to the soul of young and sensitive girl-a shock deriving, it might well have been, from an unhappy love ex. perience.
 Who knows? Many psychiatrists de- clare that healthy people do not go suddenly insane without the influence of terrific psychic shock. And what a multitude of cruel mundane jolts lie in wait for just such a girl as Edith
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WolfSkill was, convent bred and care, fully guarded during her childhood!
 One day she walked out of her man. sion and was seen alive no more. Mrs. Conklin, the housekeeper, admits hear ing her mistress cry out, just before she left her bedroom, "l say will not leave, This is my home"'
 For the first few hours after the heiress disappeared no search was made for her. Surely she was merely engaged in one of her forest jaunts. She would certainly return before long. But she did not return. Days passed, weeks. A month Seven weeks.
 The whole countryside became in tcrested in the search for woman who was worth, at least technically. nearly Sl,000,000. The brothers were not drawn together by their sisters mysterious vanishing. They were still equally insistent in their demands that every resource of the police be brought to bear on finding Edith.
 At last, about two months after her disappearance. the high school youth
New Britain herald., 1930-03-13


 stead of too few. For example, the place where the body was found had been searched many times: Detectlve NJ. A. Harris, retained by the WollShlll family, declared there was evidence to indicate the body had been less than two weeks on that spot.
 The body was clad in sweater, pair of mems overalls and what ap- peared to be male undergarment cut off at the waist. She had worn light dress and a coolie coat when last seen alive. Edward Mcdonald, who lives near the Wolfskill ranch, re- ported that he heard the screams of terror-stricken woman coming from the vicinity in which the body was found.
 But perhaps the most astonishing development is the connection of grave found last March with the mystery. The grave was seven feet long and eight feet deep, with exca- vated dirt piled nearby. Did the murderers of Edith Wolfskill dig a grave for her far in advance of the crime? A grave in which, for some reason, she was never inferred?
 Sheriff Joan k. Thornton, of Solano County, believes the heiress was kid naped, kept captive in cabin on a neighboring ranch, and murdered be- cause she refused to sign a ransom note.
 Interviewed, her brother, Ney Wolf skill, shouted. My sister was kid naped and murdered At first l thought differently, but since the
New Britain herald., 1930-03-13

Only Existing Photograph of Edith
 Irene Wolfskill, Taken Thirty Years
 Ago, While She Was Young and
 Beautiful. The Discovery of Her
 Body Not Long Ago Posed One of
 the Great Mysteries of California's
 Police History. At the Time of Her
 Death She Was Known as "The Mad
 Heiress of Solano County" finding of her remains l am convinced she was made a prisoner by kidnapers and then done to death. l never in- tend to drop the investigation until those responsible are convicted"
 And Matt Wolfskill, the other brother, contributed to the case the fact that he had discharged his sisters housekeeper and nursemaid, Mrs. Bessie Ritchards, and hired Mrs. Conklin shortly before the heiress disappeared. "To make Edith happier" he explained. During an argument over funeral ar- engagements the feud f1ared up again. Ney said: "I haven't seen my brother in years and l don't want to see him, ever. There's nothing but bitter en- mity between us."
 The foregoing is the dark story of the life and death of Edith Wolfskill, the beauty whose mind became inex- plicably deranged, who grew old and died amid mysterious circumstances.
 It may have been only a sudden heart attack-and it may have been murder.
 Make your own guess!
New Britain herald., 1930-03-13

his Girl of the Island of Bali, in the Dutch East Indies, is Carrying on Her Head 50-Pound Hat Composed of Apples, Bananas and Oranges As An
 Offering to Her Temple Gods. 5
New Britain herald., 1930-03-13

one knows what battles to regaln it's equilibrium, E dit h's beauty became less dazz- ling, too. It never entirely left her, even up to the time of her death at ffty-seven, but it began to react to the m e n a l blight that set tied swiftly upon her.
 She began to murnlur to her self, and one day she announced to a g ' 0 u D 0 I
 .
New Britain herald., 1930-03-13
Lend Me Your E,ars" "-and He Did!

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New Britain herald., 1930-03-13

T mad heiress of Solano Valley"?
 What tragic series of events preceded the discovery of her body on the dry bottom of Wooden Valley Greek, California?
 Up to the time of her disappearance people had remarked her weird obses- sion in the belief that she was Elm press of the World," noticed the rem nants of past beauty that still chung to her features, discussed the implacable, old hatred said to exist between her two brothers-and exclaimed over the million-dollar inheritance that would have been hers had she been sane.
 Now the manner of her death is ex- ercisng the minds and imagnations of all newspaper readers on the West Coast. When Bernold Glashotf, high school boy of the neighborhood stumbled upon the almost unrecogniz- able remains of Miss Edith Irene WOltSklll, the mad helfesS, at lonely point along waterless Wooden Greek. he became eligible for the S5,000 re, ward offered to anyone who found her dead or alive.
 One mystery thus was solved. But another immediately posed itself. Was she murdered or did she meet with ac- cidental death?
 No one knows certainly. But here, for the first time. is the astounding story of family whose mode of life and habits of thought were so strange that the most fantastic imaginings of the fictioneers are rendered pale by comparison. This tangled scroll of sane and insane impulses. of hatred and unreouited love, must be unroled before the reader can make his guess as to how the mad heress met her doom. And youl guess or mine is as valuable as any at the present stage of the affair.
 Summon, if you can, these two pic lures Of Edith WofakiII; one recalling her as she was in the flush of beautiful
New Britain herald., 1930-03-13

ple signs or that faith. But a few of the wooden and metallic idols escaped the general demolition. These are thought to be of pre- historic origin, and date back to before the era of Captain Cook, famous navigator and discoverer of Hawaii.
 This particular fetish, a photograph of which appears at left, is curiously composed, you will observe. Note the . bear-like feet with their pad ded toes, and the wild, staring eyes, like those of lion peer. ing out of a thicket.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-13

ern residents of Hono- lulu wouldn't dream of invoking the aid of this image in their distress.
 How did this name letss saint survive? That is a question which no one can answer. But his survival is little short of miraculous, for most of his colleagues were ruth lessly pitched into bon fires with the coming of the Christian mission aries.
 First the newcomers eXtirpated t h e an cult of the island; then they set about removing the "outward and visi-
New Britain herald., 1930-03-13
Once Idolized; Now Scorned

THlS ferocious-looking fellow used
 to exert a tremendous influence
 upon native Hawaiians. When drought set in; when the volcanoes sputtered ominously, when the crops failed, he was prayed to fervidly. He was literally idolized.
 Today he is just curio, rather pathetic. rather laughabie. and mod
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Ssurdjv built Chairs and Drop Leaf T2ble to match. Liven up that sunny breakfast spc~isr c. ' '.'.'.' e'1Gj5 coMpLErE ; l4.5 50
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-03

ton of Oscar Alexander, ticket
broker, and representatives of the
Adelphia ticket agency, that specu-
lators were forced to pay the patrol
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man on the beat S. day for pro-
lection"
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Amos, is in the state prison for his
part in the crime.
During Amos trial it was revealed
on the witness stand that Armfield,
in on the plot, had given informa-
ton to police enabling them to trap
the bandits. The two slain were
Carl Kittrell, %, and Otto Price, 40.
Amos has sworn revenge when he
is freed from prison, but other
gangSters and KittrelIs wife may
save him the trouble by obtaining
it in the near future, Armfield told
police.
Armdeld said he long has known
he was marked down for gang
vengeance, but that it was only
Monday night that his former pals
really turned on the heat"
Then, he declared, a maroon Sc
dan in which Mrs. Kittrell, one of
the Prices and another man were
riding, passed his rooming house
several times, and once a man in it
leveled a sawed-off shotgun at him.
During the night there were
knocks on his door, and man tried
to peer beneath his window cur
tains, he said.
Tuesday woman upbraided Mrs
Laura Renfrow, his landlady, for
letting him live there, Armfield told
police. Three police squads were
detailed to watch Armf1eld Tuesday
night.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-03
SEVEN COPS TO
FACE TRIAL ON
BOOZE CHARGES
Second Police Conspiracy
Case to Open in u. S.
Court Thursday.

Seven Indianapolis policemen, in
GLIDING a sergeant, are scheduled to
90 to trial Thursday in federal court
before a jury on charges of con-
spiracy to violate the national pro-
hibition law.
Charged with demanding and ac-
cepting money and liquor from &C.
Gil pete McDaniels, operator Of a
pOolroom at 1913 East Twenty
second street, the seven we're in
dicted in September by a federal
grand jury. Eleven brother officers
named at the same time in another
indictment, have been freed
Officers to be tried Thursday in
clude Sergeant Joseph EversOn and
patrOlmen Claude Reidenbaugh.
Ralph Lambert, Otis Tyner, David
=. CuTan, Thomas Gray and
Martin O'Brien.
In addition to McDaniels, five
otner civilians were named. Two
Of them, John Price and George
Spinks, Negroes, have been arrested
and the other three are at liberty
All originally were scheduled to be
tried Nov. y but the trials were
postponed because Of critical illness
Of one Of the prosecuting witnesses,
Chicago dry agent.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-03
BURGLARS ARE BUSY
Loot Valued at More Than
$4OO Obtained.

Loot valued at more than S4OC
was obtained by burglars and ban
dts in Indianapolis Tuesday night
Four Negroes robbed Emory
Standeford, 906 East Seventeenth
street. attendant at Shell filling
station at Bellefontaine and Seven
tenth streets, of $40.
Shattering a window, a burglar
stole $34 of church funds of August
Longerich, 2O34 West Twelfth street
Old coins, bed linen, silverware
and several pieces of furniture were
taken from the home of Cumber-
land ridden, 5119 Sangster avenue
Loot was valued at 1854.
Other robberies:
Miss Helen Barry, zoos North Penn
sylvania street. clothing. old coins ano
cash. $50; Miss Erla Frazier. Y. w. C. A.
clothing. 500. and Madden-Copple garage
st. Clair street and Capitol avenue, spark
piugs. S3750
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-03
GANG INFORMER
FEARS REVENGE;
COPS ON GUARD
TipSter Tells Police Pals of
Dead Bandits Threat
ening Ride

Herman Armfeld's number is
up" he insisted to police today.
Harangued two years by ex-gang-
mates, Armfeld, of 223 North
Liberty street, believes he finally is
ION the spot for having tipped
police to a plot to rob the F. w.
Hohlt & Son dry goods store in
West Indianapolis Dec. 8, 1928.
He begged for police protection.
Two of the gang were killed by
police and two policemen were
wounded in a gun battle that en-
sued as the holdup was attempted
with police plant in the store.
One member of the gang, Lloyd
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-03

Colonial, and burlesque at the Mu
tual.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-03
TICKET CRAFT Barred
Policeman, Clerks Are AC-
CuSed of 1855, 900 Rakeoff.
Initial Press

81 United Press
NEW YORK, Dec. 3.-Graft in
the theater ticket speculation bust
ness netted policemen and clerks in
magistrates courts about 1865 900 a
year in addition to free tickets, &C
cording to testimony before Special
Counsel Isidor j. KreSel, head of
the appellate divisions inquiry into
vice conditions in New York City.
1t developed during the eXamina-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-03
NEW STORE WILL OPEN
Chain WOmen's Apparel Shop VIII
Be in Hotel Building.

The King Applebaum Company of
New York, operators of a women's
apparel chain store system, viii open
an Indianapolis branch about Dec.
20, under the name of the Virginia
Dare Dress Shop.
A storeroom at 80 East Washing
ton street, has beer leased from
the Washington Hotel Company for
ten years, gross rent being in excess
Of 500 GOO.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-03
RAE SAMUELS WILL
TOP BILL AT LYRIC
The Blue Streak of Vaudeville viii Open Weeks Engage
ment Here Saturday With New Program of Songs.

MISS the streak vaudeville" the
1NA Lyric weeks engagement starting Saturday
heads
which
Is starring Lewis Ayres with Velez
Samues Of vaudeville and musical com
seemingly and willing put her entire self into
every little thing she does.
telling story when she smiles
make audiences happy
n her which will ,,, - ,,uo - +no Nm
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-03
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IT i : " IS 4

Hear bells of ancient missions. See cowboys, In
dams. the mesas, the deserts. Take the L. & N. to
New Orleans. Stop off on the Gulf Coast. Through
trains from New Orleans to Houston, San Antonio,
Dallas, FL Paso. Los Angeles, San Francisco.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-03
$50 Jobless Register
~ Times Special

10 Tunes np6cluI
BLOOMINGTON, Ind, Dec. B.
Registration Of unemployed here
has reached $50. DR.. Mary VALID
ron, in charge of compiling the
names, says that many of those
registered are .iobless for the first
time in their lives.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-03
0 "a

Why wait till California to reach summer sun.
Take the L. & N. from Cincinnati or Louisville.
Next day hnd yourself beside the sunny blue waters
OF the Cult Then observation platform, warmth
and sunshine all the way. Stop over on the Gulf
Coast. Fine trains from New Orleans to California
through the romantic Southwest. Costs no more.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-03

In her new act, winch SIG VIII
present here next week, Rae prom
ises a host of unusual songs.
east Is West the feature pic
ture, is an adaptation Of Fay Balm
ter's well-known stage success,
which tells a romantic and intrig-
uing story of the love affairs of
Ming Toy, a beautiful little Chinese
girl who falls in love with a
wealthy American youth, who res
cues her from the Chinese "love
boat"
Lewis Ayres, whose rapid rise to
stardom on the talking screen has
been the talk Of the motion picture
industry, portrays Billy Benson,
young American, his first romantic
role.
Lupe Velez is said to make an
ideal Ming Toy, while Edward G.
Robinson, a stage actor, plays Char
lie Yong, vicious king OF San Fran
cisco's Chinatown.
Five other RKO vaudeville acts
are featured on the stage. HARRY
Cardiff and Mary Wales offer a
comedy speciality called Divorce;
Dance Aristocrats" is the title of a
lavishly staged dance revue; Har-
riet Nawrot and Boys do stunts on
roller skates; Ned Haverly, black
face comedian, sings, talks and Of
fers a novel sand dance"
The Deviners present a classical
revue with the assistance Of Esther
Deeter.
indianapolis theaters today offer:
Aunt Jemima at the Lyric, 1.-The
Santa Fe Trail" at the Ohio,
Laughter" at the Circle, Half Shot
a5 Sunrise" at the Indiana, "Old
English" at the Apollo, Min and
Bill" at the Palace, movies at the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-03

The area of the Red sea is about
$4,000 square miles
The Washington times., 1930-11-06
''Too Tough for Gangsters"
The Foreign Legion Bars Them.

American runmen will be barred from the French Foreign
Legion Since its foundation hundred years the legion
for adventurers of all nations It welcomed
them its ranks No question was asked Inc AmeracS9
gangster 1880 model is the only type OF recut In tne "Or0
the legion does not want. ....... = ,
This is not tribute the ferociy OF our trigger men,
m Won might think The American killer is not too tough for
the legion the legion is too tough for him. Under It's hard
fightinr and gruelling marches he can't stand up.
forty miles in the stretch usually at night but In
emergencies the full glare of the African SUM- He goes
with little water carries heavy pack, and frewood
En- route or at the end he may sh with ibesmen whose
bullets effectively his Or he may spend months in
mud fort hot oven in the iron grip Of the sternes
discipline in the world.
Our gunmen who ride in lmousnes and themselves
with drugs before they Shoot not men enough to endure
that.
The Washington times., 1930-11-06

7 read this the other day
zone should not make the mis-
take Of taking other people or
oneself too seriously. Life on
this planet is so short that one
ought to crowd it with enjoy
ment, with laughter, with jokes,
with a devil-may-care manner
that characterizes true youth
fulneSs."
And there you have a fairly
accurate statement Of our twenti-
eth century attitude toward life.
The philosophers say that 1t is
a reaction against the Senti-
mentality Of our nineteenth
century elders who took them
selves so seriously that life be-
came a sour and sloppy affair.
But I suspect there's more to
it than that. We're secretly
afraid, we smarty moderns.
Afraid Wen make ourselves RI
diculouS by aiming too high
and hoping too much. And
afraid Of cheating ourselves
out Of today's fun by planning
for tomorrow'S adventure.
Why are we here? We don't
know. Where are we going?
We don't know that either. So
what's the use Of acting Seri.
ouSly about a life that may end
tomorrow? Better to play! Grab
while the grabbing is good!
Then If the end comes. we'll
have the laugh on Death in
stead Of Death having the
laugh on us.
So we reason in our smart
ness and fear. But it's weak
and silly reasoning. FOR EVEN
IF THIS IS ALL THE LIFE
THERE IS, ALL THE MORE
REASON FOR LIVING IT IN
THE GRAND MANNER.
We smile at the seriousness
Of our grandfatherS-we think
their lives were dreary and drab.
But they actually treated them
selves much more handsomely
than we do. They took them
selves seriously AS gods do.
They acted as if they were
lords over life and death. They
sacrificed with a splendid reck-
leSSnesS like great gamblers.
They took risks and went on
large adventures with their
souls. Their lives may have
been somber but they moved
through them with dignity and
Solemnity. Maybe life is q
trivial joke, as these moderns
would have us believe-but they
staged it like grand opera.
AS for us, we made it vaude-
vile. Kid Komics. We gaily re.
fuse to grow up. We cling to the
viewpoints. interests and amuse.
ments Of Sfxteen-year-oids. we
duck responsibility dodge risks
The Washington times., 1930-11-06
MARRY-GO-
ROUND
Helen Rowland
Are You "GOing Feminine"

Are You "GOing Feminine?
Women are going feminine
but they'll have to go a long
way before they get there.
They have dolled themselves
up in bangles and bracelets,
petticoats, frills and peplumS,
and fastened funny little doc
dads all over their frocks,
until they look like Christmas
trees on New Year morning.
They have let their crown
ing glory have it's own wild
way, and then rolled it into a
demure little bun at the nape
Of the neck; let their skirts
down to a nice, awkward
length, and gone in for puffed
sleeves, waistlines and Laura
Jean Libbey shoulder-bows.
And all this after summer
in Suntan backs and manniSh
pajamaS!
But If they want to keep 'in
character" they'll have to make
a much more radical gesture.
They'll have to stop saying
"Damn!" at the discovery Of a
run in the stocking, and begin
saying "Oh, dear!" or "Oh,
bother!" or ''Heavens!"
They'll have to sneak up
stairs and puff their cigarettes
out Of the bathroom window,
as mother did when she was
girl. And to talk about "Sex"
and blessed events" only in
hushed whispers behind their
FANS
They'll have to give up hik-
ing and golfing and petting,
and take up tatting and burnt
wood for exercise.
They'll have to wipe off the
war paint, desiSt from powder
ing their noses, or restoring
their facial effects in public,
and learn how. to ask a man
his intentions" before letting
him spoil a marcel.
In short, they'll have to
crawl back into the cotton
batting and crinoline Of the
mauve decade, or the whole
motif" Of the picture win be
lost"