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LAST EQITIOX RAIX. PRICE 5. CENTS V0L.XVII1.V . . . . n- : : ZZZ f -- ASHEVILLE, N. C, MONDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 15, 1913. i ' ' : : 7- . IDS Kill FEDERAL WRIT 'CARTER SCORES 1IFRIC1 RELIEVES lift "HBIIlfi" SRMIV M1QI ;;--.t-tt V;, ' nnnrnrn until 11m 1 UnULflLU IslULnHLL FROM HIS OFFICE HOPE SCHMIDT Church Officials Are Investi gating the Life of i; Self Admitted Slayer of Anna Aumuller. THE ACCUSED PRIEST TELLS HORRIBLE STORY Is Questioned as to Kellner Murder Evidence to Show He Had Knowledge of Surgery. ID ARE REUN MACKFAILSTO APPEAR; SUES First Business Meeting of En campment at Chattanooga Is Held. By Associated Press. - New York, Sept. 15. In the hope of branding as an imposter and psuedo priest the Rev. Hans Schmidt, the al leged self-confessed alayer of Anna Mimulter, victim of New York's river murder mystery, church authorities began today a sweeping investigation of Schmidt's record and his preten tions to ordination. "We hope, of course, to be able to prove that this unspeakable monster was an imposter and that he had been using forged papers," declared Jionsignor Lavello, vicar general of the archdiocese of New Y'ork. "That is something which we are trying to clear up now. He came to this dio cese with credentials1 which' were ap jiarently every way authentic and gen Line, but we know practically nothing of him. His crime is too horrible to conceive. We can only hope that he may prove to have been a psuedo priest." Slept Well. In his cell In the Tombs, with his coat as his pillow, Schmidt slept soundly through the night and arose this morning to partake of a hearty breakfast. He had little to add to his alleged confession of last night in which he Is said to have told the police that he killed his victim as she lay in bed, cut up her body In the bath tub of the apartment where he had estahli&hed her, wrapped It In five bundles and dropped the bundles In the Hudson river. To the Rev. L. J. Evers, the Tombs' chaplain, Schmidt was said to have made the following declaration: , "I wm directed to kill her by St. Elizabeth, who is my patron, as a sac rillcc, to be consnmmnted as was the taeiitice of Abraham In blood." To the police Schmidt is alleged to have said: "I killed her because I loved her." The police believe, however, that he killed her because she was soon to he a mother. They believe that the gfrl accepted as genuine the marriage cer emony through which she went with her aliened Hlayer last February and In which he was both priest and bridegroom. Kellner Murder Recalled. With a view to clearing the mys tery surrounding the murder or fight years old Alma Kellner, whose mutilated body was found In quick lime in the basement of St. John's '"athollc church In Louisville, Ky., two nd one-half years ago, the police ought today to obtain from Schmidt some statement of what he might know of this crime. From August, 'son. till March, 1910. Schmidt was a visitor In Louisville, not officially connected with any church there, but suest In the home of the Rev. Henry H. Westermann, rector of the Church " immaculate Conception. Alma Kellner disappeared on December 3 i.mid. Her body was found nine months after. Joseph Wend ling, Jani tor at St. John's church, is now serv- ig a life term in prison at Frankfort, Ky.. for the crime. . Wenrillnv atmitlv denied his guilt, and the Jury did not consider tho evidence sufficient to lne against him a verdict ol first ccpree murder. His Story. Of 8chmldt' ancestors little Is known here, rave his own word. He born In Germany In 1881. was educated there, ordained by Bishop KetrHln In St. Augustine's seminary "1 Malm and came to New York In 190B. i ioj he went to Trenton, nd In December, 1910. was ap pointed assistant rector of St. Bonl faces church In this city. There he net the Aumultcr girl, who he snld "d come to this country rrom Ger many 1 few months before. P was attracted hy her beauty." f'sds Schmldt'a alleged confession. "I became Infatimttd with nor. I loved her. I kllleil h. ok. ,i ..v.. "Ill) W.M y I UrUlIU" Morris P. Root, Mine Superin tendent, Cut to Pieces While Attempting to Defend Property. WESTERN MEXICO IS IN TATE OF ANARCHY Matteawan Fugitive to Be Judge Declares the Reckless- Taken before Federal Judge Aldrich at Lit tletown Tomorrow. THAW LAWYERS WISH TO DEFER ARGUMENTS Refugees Tells of Anarchy in If Hearing Is Had Thaw May Rebel-Controlled Districts Report of 100 Re. fugees in Desert. By Associated Press Chattanooga, Tenn., Sept. 15. As sembled for the first time In a south ern city, more than 14,000 union vet erans were here today for the open ing of the 47th annual encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic. Several thousand representatives of al lied organizations, meeting in this city simultaneously with the annual en campment, also are in the city. Incoming trains throughout the day swelled the attendance and a record crowd Is predicted during encamD- ment week, which ends Saturday. To day was designated as "Lookout mountain day." Despite a light con tinuous rain, which began early today, hundreds visited the famous battle field along the side and on the point of Lookout mountain. Commander-in-Chief Alfred B. Beers and National officers of the G. A. R. and allied organizations, were guests of the local committee thia morning at a breakfast on board a steamer in the Tennessee river. Tho glneer, who arrived on the Peru, was Extravagance of the Age Is One Great Cause of Crime. AUTOMOBILE SPEEDERS HAD BETTER LOOK OUT Former Democratic Chairman Brings Libel Action Against Sulzer Ally Who Made Charges. By Associated Press. San Francisco, Cal., Sept. 15. News of the murder of Morris P. Root, American superintendent of the El Tigre mines at Tepic, Mex., was brought here yesterday by the steamer Peru, which had nearly 100 refugees from Mexico aboard. Tho mining en gineer was Intercepted by a few ban dits as he was on his way to join em ployes of the company who were pre paring to defend the mine property, lie was disarmed and cut to pieces. Root waa 50 years old and had been In Mexico about 16 years. Max Lambert, another American en Be Freed; Then What Might Happen? By Associated Press. Colebrook, N. H., Sept. 15. Harry Kendall Thaw, fugitive from the New York State hospital for the insane at Malteawan, awaited anxiously today the arrival of United States Marshall E. P. Nute, bearing notice to Sheriff Drew, of Coos county, that the fugitive must be produced on a writ of habeas corpus before Judge Aldrich in the Some May Even Get Road Sentences Judge's Charge to Grand Jury Brilliant Lawyers Say. Former Congressman Cole Makes General Denial of Lobbyist's Charges. Extravagance was the main theme of an extraordinary charge which Judge Frank Carter delivered today to the grand jury sitting with Superior court. Judge Carter considered ex travagance as a cause of crime, and private extravagance as leading to public extravagance. In passing on to debt he said that it is a wonder that people who are carrying a load of MACK IS BLACKMAILER HENNESSY'S RETORT first business meeting of the encamp-1 left for dead by bandits who attacked safety In the face of so many kid United States District court at Little ton tomorrow morning. : debt do not commit more crimes than The notification to Sheriff Drew!thpy do- Hp n!l(' RmthlK to , , , say ot the telephones, declaring that Places Thaw under the protection of f)Me of tne most dollorable con(litions the United States, pending disposition : of modprn so(.letv waa tne 1Urtln , of the -writ, and this guarantee of . . VQ IinH .. ment was held this morning when the executive council convened. of administration By Report of Agricultural Depart ment Declares. Weather Work. ' Is -Very , Iuu . portant. his home in the state of Teplc. Lam bert's wife and child escaped by crawl ing through a rear window, and he remained to greet the bandits whose approach was noticed when they were a mile away. They fractured his ikull and left him for dead. When they departed Mrs. Lambert returned and secured aid. The refugees were from points along 1 the west coast of Mexico, and they brought repetitions of stories of refu gees who preceded them. Western Mexico is In a state of anarchy, they said. Rebel chiefs do not recognize each other, and when they are not looting and committing murder they are fighting among themselves. Amer- I' cJMS LI Ulll Hie DlLK ui uuiaugu US' I scrtcd conditions there are beyond i napping stories was a source of rMf to him. "T to Littleton until tomorrow morning," j By Associated Press. Washington, Sept. 15 Former Rep resentative Ralph D. Cole of the eighth Ohio district told the house lobby committee today that Martin M. Mul hall's testimony and correspondence regarding his conduct as a member of the house was so full of half-truths and false statements that he would confine his own testimony to a gen eral denial. He denied flatly that j Mulhall helped him get his nomina tion to congress. , "I never received a contribution from the National Association of Man ufacturers," declared Cole. "Mulhall once came to my office and started to tell me that I had to slop my fight on Speaker Cannon. He never got any further than that. 1 ordered Mulhall out of the room and I told him If he ever returned I'd throw him out of the window. From that day to this I've never seen Mul- iholl. That is the way I've served the I National Association of Manufactur ers. That Is the first time and the last time I ever talked with anyone Sulzer Inquisitor Makes Grv- est Charges Regarding Campaign Funds and Alleged Hold-ups. j phone; that they would say things over i the telephone that they would not haw nrobably will not be taken I '" ",r" y. "l '"t , from that association about legisla . i mimu, luriner, mai ine leiepnone naS',inn,. causeu on is io run up J or ,u per rnIe that nt the timp hp ord(r cent. -Aiiouicr iiueroaung siaronienc said Sheriff Drew today. "There is ai train leaving here shortly after ilx which would bring us there in plenty i of time to be In court at 11." William Travers Jerome, New ; York's special deputy In the Thaw natter, planned to accompany Thaw I to Littleton, as did Franklin Kennedy, deputy attorney general, and Sheriff ! Hornbeck, of Duchess county. The i Thaw lawyers desired to have argu j ment continued in order that the writ may be avallaMe 'at a later date, I should it be found necessary to block I extradition. If Judge Aldricli should insist that overrun with bands of drunken peons v ho commit unspeakable crimes. J'utrlUves In Desert. Washington, Sept. 15. One hun dred Americans, fugitives on the Mex ican desert between Torree" and Sal tillo. haiaesed by bandit bands, ac cording to unconfirmed reports. wre not mentioned In the early official dis patches today, and the stato depart ment had no other Information of By Associated Press. Washington, Sept. 15. Hurricane warnings Issued by the United States weather bureau have resulted In a marked decrease In ship wrecks In re cent years, despite the great increase in shipping. This Is the declaration of the department or- agriculture which today called the attention of mariners to the fact that the season 1 ... V. .. n .1 rfiiplncr tvhlfih hlirrt-- canes might be exncted on the east- movement stoutly maintained the crn coast of the United States. I Americans were In no danger at all The bureau's most recent efforts to nd would be protected by cons-Itu-provide ample warning of the ap- . Snails forces against any rovmg ? ILL .. ....!.. .,., hvn wn marauding bands. pointed out that the Americans passed That town Is in the hands of constitutionalist I trnom. h.ivinir been taken last May. An American consular agent recently them. Officials here were inclined to be lieve the Americans were. In no grave danger. Agents of the constitutional- out made by Judge Carter, in commenting on extravagance, was that he had been told by the secretary of state that many of the checks sent to him for state automobile licenses were re turned to him marked "no good" by tho banks. Superior court for the trial of criminal cases opened a two week's ( term this morning. The drawing of the grand jurors wag the first work taken up and the following men were selected to serve on the grand jury: W. T. Weaver, foreman, E. F. Buck- i ner, John Sugg. P. M, Loving, J. S, re, Arthur L. Sluder, Gwyn W. Roberts J. R. Murphy, W. B. Nixon, C. E. B. Brown, J. L. Williamson, W. A. Bryson, P. IT. Wil liams, A. E. Young and F. O. Edwards. Four men failed to respond to their names and the court ordered that ln Gtanter capiases 1 c bsued for them. They were Hall Sumner, H. E. Mc Daris, J. A. Wilson and G. L. Clay. nf the question, and both d .V" " havo n lot of nr Vlltn detect Vej " ...... ed Mulhall out of his office, C. R Painter of Bowling Green, O.. a friend, was there and heard It all. He pro duced an affidavit from Painter cor roboratlng his own testimony. description. They said the country Is au P" ; .,s.y; M Brobkshl :en peons , ! "Tu -V- .7" 1" " Chambers, J. F. Toms, J. ai oiu e, prior io me rMiiiuuiuii itrra. I ing which Governor Felker has set fur j Wednesday. With Thaw free again serious com plications are possible. His lawyers would be acting within their rights if they attempted to rush him from the state. Jerome and his forces would I of course seek to hold him. A physi cal struggle between factions is not THOUSANDS PAY HONOR to no tim wm Body" of Politician Passes Through East Side Streets for Last Time. j will on hand. i Thaw retired early last night after Sunday spent entirely within doors at 10:45. The charge was commented upon by many of the lawyers present as being one of the most brilliant and Most of the day he conferred with the forcible delivered here in many years. throuch wireless reports of wind, I . i A tr,n,IIHnnK from wea.uer ou i" - - "--,- parras on September 11. vessels plying In the gulf and lam-. . . ., - bean waters, and from a number of; iunri Mtntlonn of the bureau In Judge Carter confined most of his re marka to the high cost of living now prevailing in all 'arts of the countrty und especially did he pay his respects to extravagant living, saying that the West Indies. "The work thus being done," It la declared, "is of greater Importance than ever before. In lew of the In crease of ocean trufilc that Is destined to follow the opening of the Panama canal In the near future. During the lust 33 years, the state ment adds, "ubout 88 per cent of these storms have occurred during the months of August, September Hnu o . iol.r Mptitember showing a greater number than I others." ! took 12 days with a fast automobIM . to make the run between Torreon and Saltlllo. The fugitives hampered by women and children and more primi tive means of transportation nre ex- I pected to require much longer. ! The territory through which the Americans are traveling Is controlled entirely by the constitutionalists and their agents have been given to under- .iiliiu Hiana mat me I'lium ouut- ,.,,.r,r, ny of the m lor their protection of the fusl- j family representative, former irov ernor Stone of Pennsylvania. ISequlsition Bequest Filed. Concord, N. II., Sept 15. The olfi- for,, mat nf th F.I H 1 0 (if WW York for the extradition of Harry K. Thaw , there are people living in Ashevtlle oi.j ..,.!, ..ui f finvm nnr Kel- . today riding in automobiles who WftS MICH ttl Lll v. I ker todav ill the state house by Bcr- : ought to be walking, and if put to nurd Jacobs, a lawyer of Lineaster. j the test to pay all their debts they N H., who was acting for the New j would not have money enough to buy York-authorities. J shoe leather. Oovernor Felker'8 desk was buried I lb went on to say that It always beneath a pile of letters and tele- seemed hotter to him to investigate grams relating to the Thaw case. Most causes of crime, alons this line he of these messages appeared to be the considered extravagant living to be result of a movement originating !n , one ?reat cause of crime, saying that Kansas to create sentiment favorable it ajfectcd the middle class of society to Thaw. and did 1101 reuch the lowest strata of The eovernor was not expected at human society, for these people usu- the stale house. iTENE! f'ti. o good. I could not let her live HIGH POINT POLICEMAN SUPPLY OF COTTON IS 'ft MONUMENT TO GAVNOH ally live within their incomes. I He said that it was the middle ' class the people who come out of 'the churches, clubs, etc., that forge the. checks, embezzle money, cause . breach of trust and do these other 'crimes that are above the Intelllicnce of the poorer criminal. ! Judge Carter then turned his re- IS J. W. Witcher Expires from Bullet Received Attempt ing to Arrest Negro. Gaiette-Newi Bureau, . Dally News Building, Greensboro, Sept. io. , LESS TflMJJST YEAR Total Supply Is 16,156,221 Bales Compared With 17, 896,226 Last Year. Money vto Be Raised by Popu lar Subscription, To Be Paid Penny a Week. By Associated Press. New York. Sept. 15. Timothy D. Sullivan, familiarly known as "Big Tim", passed through the streets of the east side for the last time today His body was taken this morning to the old Cathedral of St. Patrick, a short quarter of a mile from the rooms of the association bearing his name, where it had lain in state sine! Saturday afternoon. Tens of thousands of men and worn en from every section of New York had gazed on his Teatures there and a throng such as only the east side can furnish followed It today to the Ca thedral and to its last resting place In Calvary cemetery. Brooklyn. A delegation of congressmen headed hy Representative Kinard of New Jer- ; sey led the mourners. In this delega j tion marched the longest funeral train the cast side has even seen. The i streets througli which they passed i were sombre with crepe on the shop windows. I The Timothy I). Sullivan association (sent Its thousands' of marchers behind the body of Its standard bearer, eacn man with a bit of crepe on his sleeve, over the long dusty road to the ceme tery. Dozens of other east side or ganizations and the army of the bow ery's poor were also In the line. Seldom has the east side mourned more eloquently. In the army that passed by his bier as the body lay in By Associated Press. ' Albany, N. Y Sept. 15. Norman E. Mack, former chairman of tha Democratic national and state com mittees, failed to appear today before John A. Hennessy, Governor Sulzer's special investigator, to answer charges of having failed to account for moneys contributed to him in the last guber natorial enmpaign. Instead Mr. Mack. through' his secretary, served Mr. Hennessy with summons and com plaint in a $5000 action for libel. Mr. Mack complains that Hennessy has caused to be published "charges In effect that the plaintiff unlawfully appropriated to his own use moneys contributed by others as a campaign fund toward the election of John A. Dix as governor of the state of New York and said publication also charges in effect that the plaintiff blackmailed indiv Iduals and corporations In con nection with the collection of cam paign funds. Following the publication of Mr. Hennessy's charges, Mr. Mack an nounced his willingness to appear be fore the investigator at any time and place he might designate. Mr. Hen nessy then fixed the hearing at Albany this morning. After waiting with stenographers for half an hour Mr. Hennessy an nounced that as neither Mack nor Ar thur A- McLean, of Newburgh, treas urer of the democratic state commit tee, had appeared the session stood adjourned. He added that Mr. McLoud hal been served with a subpoena and had accepted the usual fee in that connec tion, also that Mr. Mack had specifi cally agreed to be present promptly at the appointed time. Slack's Secretary Appears. Mr. Hennessy had hardly left tho hearing chamber when Mack's secre tary appeared, explaining that a de layed train was responsible for his failure to appear promptly. The ser vice of the legal papers followed. Mr. Hennessy In a statement today says he has personal knowledge that canal and highway contractors and others were blackmailed out of large sums. "I said," the statement proceeds. "that $150,000 had been collected through Mm-'; that had never be m reported. It . my belief now that the figure is nearer $300,000. "Mr. Mack, instead of coming, sent his secretary to serve me in a unci suit. In the letter explaining this suit he announces that under instructions from his counsel he will answer the suit for libel they will guarantee me a speedy trial in the courts. I will make a speedy answer. . predict the case will never come to trial. Mack coul;'. not be drawn into the court even by his two bosom friends, Charley Murphy and Boss Fitzpatrlrk marks to debt the causes of it and the state men in silk hats rubbed sboul great burden It is. He said that about iprg wltn bowery tramps and women By Associated Press. New York, Sept. 15. The death of Mayor w. j. "" -- - ... .e . ... i.n. 'row among the children of the Bam to mm lor-me ''- Expressions or their sorrow anu the only difference between debt and hell, Is that debt ends and hell doeB not. He said "the wonder of it la that more people of thlg kind do not commit crime. 1 am speaking of that debt that men make when living be yond their means. The embarrass- ment of debt Is so Intolerant thnt men sometimes fly the ills they know for those of the unknown." He said that the secretary of state told him that many of the checks sent In silks and furs mingled witn tneir poorly clad slHters from the tenement houses. Many wept as they passed the colli n. "I'OOIlt ma. f ha I ... - - iO..T up III? III.IIU iK 1 houl1 v o- Ptether. I was a priest and must re ""'n with my church. I could not '' : h.Pr Ko awy from me. Fo I open 9 the door of the flat I wkend "rr' I told her I had com- to fulfill " ' "m. Then I drew the knife ro hPr throat" Knowledge of Surgery. mil witn which the young woman'- hodv h.n Hi.n..n,h.r.4 rued ,h, po,oe ()) b.,ev nrtl ,'' tn work had been don- by a surgeon. In the rut occupied for five " by Brhmldt and th Klrl. dt-c il .7 ,ot,nd 500 Printed cards which Indie, -a tb,t grhmldt h, maJl. 1 M ur.un and waa po. efl of morn ttiun an ordinary lay- ZJ' know's- of aurgerr. Thea- r-d aa follow.: . En,l r:-ller-. formerly aral-t- 'li..T.'rfw" ot ,n" Munloipal Wom-n'i .IUI r,H, ,..,. R-pre-enU. ""tiirln, company." . Mimldt Under ftnanerwlnit. ''. O-rmany, Hepf 15. Th CContlnuad on paa 1) , By Associated Press, .'-..', Cant 1KThA MinnlV KtllfV nwmiuaiv, " ' i ' " . l Mr. Oav. of cotton In the i syrnpainy nor in -.;.: k - ,v, was -hot an aisiriiiuiiiui . Policeman W. eher who wa. ot Au rh.rrn,.Uo'cTocrr'gu.t ,1. 1,13. was announced by the waa shot through the aide and Chief censua bureau aa follow. of Police Ridge through the hand ati To,al ,uppiy 16.156.321 balea, corn- High Point -hortiy neioro """" ""' pared wlth 17.8S6.226 bales last year, while attempting to arrest a negro v The letter speaka of of: Stocks I .... i. . in.,r rti llvered yesterday at her Brooklyn home by a delegation of 10 little hoys. M I h that his death Is regarded hy the East Side aa an "Irretrievable loss." More than 1000 children of the tene- demanded by the state, came back from the banks marked "no good." Judge Carter paid his respects to the telephone, saying that one of the most deplorable condition of modern r. Gaynor as "Indeed a champion of f society was the courting done over weak and defenseless, " ana aayB.uie hhi-huii. ...v .v break down the purity of womanhood; that boye and girls said thing to each other over the wire that they would not think of saying In the santlty of ouse, whose name ( coma " LI telephoned held at the beginning of year, 1,776.. 'ment dlstdlct will participate In mem- not think of say ng m tne santit trouble at High Point waa toiepnoneu n - 1.176.01I 1 rnr M.r fiavnor to be' the home. The telephone In the h io the Greensboro Pol. .Tast year; ginning. 14.1H.MI heVd ext Saturday 'afternoon In an j the court said, caused the b.lU to be stating mat ' -r p comDttred with 16.088.987 balea EaBt Bla park. There will be a pa-1 run up at least taken to me nopn.. . . oo, imrta 225.403 raA. f the children, each carrying a higher. . .ht tha trouble atarted bale, compared wltn 3,z oaiea nag draped in uiacK ana a row . .'V Ti?" ...m !d to ar-! last year. laid on the coffin of Mayor Gaynor at W Vllivvi - ... J HE KILLED HIS WIFE'S Memphis Police Looking for Edward Baxter, a Line manWife Escaped. 50 or 40 per cent i,.rn. tha negro resisting and ultimately breaking away from M.ceB The distribution waa: Consumption, 8,786.081 balea, corn- Chief of Po- pared with 6.J67.B8I balea last year: tuiatatance about the time the negro got looae. The negro ran toward Ridge and Witcher and waa nabbed. A crowd of negroea, eatlmated at ap proximately 100. gathered and aome one In the crowd fired, the hullet atrtk Ing Chief Kldge In the hand and paaa 1... iK-nh nlxred Officer Witch. er a arm and then penetrated tha aide, talea last year, He went on to say that more people were living on their wits In this coun try tan any other; that the thlcal tandarda of buslnesa were lower here than In other countries. Judge Carter then passed a few re mark about the apeeder and the reck City hall. Citizens of the Brownesvllle eectlon of Brooklyn, a tenement district have and atarungfln " ". - ' t ! ' ort, g.800,862 balea, compared organised a committee to raise a fund lice Kldge and Officer Witcher, wit I Prl" T' . ... . ,., v... ,BK1M . mnlim.nt In memory of neaalng the trouble Officer Mcuee wa. wn "-"V " I .."; " 1. h. h.en decided less driver of auomobllea. Bald the having with hie man, atarted to the mocn " ' :K.Km..' Z". " " f..r th. monument by time had come to put a atop to reck ....r. with 70.. 'nm.ni.!- nbu rlntlon. resldenU and less driving; that the Police Judge (46 balea last year. 'achool children contributing one pen- Independent warehousea 47,650 ny a week until aufflclent moncv haa balea, compared w ith 861,139 balee .been aubacrlbed to build the monu- lut vear. ' t ment. must put on a little more pressure In these cases. He aald that If any of these cases came up to him at this court, from the Police court that ha u.m i.v hr holdera estimated) No declalon hna yet been reached as would give wir warning, 11 ...e cwir. ... i'i.. nnmn.rn with ir,0 000 to the coat and kind of monument to Irled by a Jury, the defendant can be erected. (Continued on page I) By Associated Presa. Memphis, Tenn., Sept. 15. Charged with murdering hla wlfe'a father, mother and 6 yeara old brother early today. D. E. Baxter. 35 yeara old, a telephone lineman, la belnr sought by the police of this city. Baxter and hla wife had been eopa- rated several month. Early thl morning. It la alleged, Baxter went to the home of hla wlfe'a father, Henry Smith, where Mr. Baxter had been laying and opened Are on the family with a revolver. Smith, hla wife, and son Oscar, were klllnd almost Instant ly, but Mrs. Baxter aucceeded In elud Ing her husband and escaped from the house. After the shooting Baxter Is alleged to have reloaded hla shotgun and , walked leisurely away. I Alleges Other Blackmail. "I was ready today to ask hlin ques tions In relation to his operations In the year 1911 and 1912. 1 know the, men who have been blackmailed, not only the canal barge men and the road contractors but others. "Of course 1 am rather Itching to make public the evidence which I have collected and I would have modo public what I have because I trust that Governor Sulzer will be able, when relieved of the Impeachment resolution, to call an extraordinary resslon of the grand Jury In Albany eountv and there I will prove every thing that I have said respecting Mara and McLean." Concerning Mr. McLean, treasurer of the democratic state committee. who also failed to appear today, tne statement says: McLean, of course, doea rl osre to come in any event. His case l tor the first grand jury we can take It to." Charces of the gravest nature re specting the alleged misuse of cam paign fund are Inciuuca in ir. nw nessy's statement. ODD FELLOWS ARE AT MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. By Associated Press. MlnneaDoll. Minn.. Sept 15. With addresses of welcome by Oovernor A. O. Elbhardt, and Mayor Wallace U. Nye, and a brief response by (Jenerai A. H. Stock er of Miamlsburg, O.. the eighty-ninth sovereign grand lodge. Independent Order of Odd Fenow. formally wa opened here today. Del egatra are present from every part of the United Rtatee aa well aa Canada. Europe, Philippine and Hawaii. An addition to the Odd Fellow order, representative of all Rebekah lodges, the woman's auxiliary of the order, are here, 1
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