Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 10, Number 296, Decatur, Adams County, 12 December 1912 — Page 1

Volume X. Number 296.

AN INNOCENT MAN Said to Have Served Fourteen Years in Prison for ' Murder. ATTY. S. A. D. WHIPPLE Accused of Aiding in Fastening Crime on Him When He Knew Him Innocent. Indianapolis, Ind., Dec. 12—Pleading before the state board of pardons Wednesday for the parole of a nan who has been in prison fourteen years for murder in Portland, Ind., J 11. Conboy. an attorney of Hammond, Ind, r’targed that an attorney, who, with his partner, now dead, he alleged, were secretly employed to assist the state, helped to fasten the crime on the man. after another client, who had been acquitted, had confessed K that he committed the murder The prisoner is Albert Musser, sentenced for the murder of Mrs. Louisa Stole at Portland, and the accused lawyer Is S. A. D, Whipple of Portland. The client who was acquitted was Samuel H Marshall. Musser and Marshall were arrested after the body of Mrs. Stoltz, who lived alone, had been found February 12, I*9B. She had been killed while resisting robbers. Marshall was first to be tried and was acquitted. The law firm of Williamson & Whipple, the former n»w dead, represented the defendant Musser, who was tried In Blackford county, was convicted January fi, ItM, and was given a life sentence. Attorney Conboy charges that, following Marshall s acquittal, his attorneys secretly entered into a contract to assist the state In the prosecution of Musser. Conboy produced a copy of the alleged contract to sustain this charge, Th<- alh-g.-d contract provided that the attorneys were to receive 1250 in the event of Musser s conviction. but that they were not to be known in the case. George W. Bergman. now dead, an attorney who assisted the state as a representative of I the Stoltz estate, la alleged to have u-Kotlaled the contract. The alleged ■ contract wa* found among Bergman's effects following bis drath Mr. Conboy declared to the pardon board that Whipple, ten years after Mussers conviction, told him that Marshall, whose whereabouts are unknown, had confemted. following his acquittal, that be bad unintentionally I choked Mrs. Stoltz to death while attempting to rob her. and that Musser I and two other persons now dead, stood guard on the outside Conboy Mid Whipple told him Marshall's con session had not been mad<- to him un til after he had been employed to as •Ist in the prosecution of the Muaaer case. Conboy declared that Whipple bad made the same etatem-nt to other persons. Mr Whipple did not ap I l*ar at the hearing While the alleged confession that Marshall la said to have made to his attorneys Involved Musser the pr‘> oeer, Mr. Conboy said, still protests bis Innocence of any connection with the crime. Mr Conboy contended th..t if Musser merely atood guard while srx* one else entered the Htoltz home *° * n mmh robbery, and murder if n*« eaaary. be has been anfficlendv punish •d by almost fourteen years imprison I Bent ABOUT THE BICK. I Bu-I Herron. gmsUiant electric >n ■ the Interurban power house had )•><- I end nt the forefinger of the left ' « ! ■ Pushed off nt the first h»‘«' ‘ ■ at 10 o'clock, when " ■ ~u ’ ’ ■ l»'ween two heavy pieces of rna*’ 1 ” D ry. How the accident happened ’ ■ inetpilrable .as It happened so •»« 1 and unoSptH tcdly .that the nr ■»'"«« Mr Herron knew, the ' V’<*ed la on his finger and when ’>•' Jl'-- I "d hla hand away, the end of the ■f-tvnr was gone lie was hestib B'-MIU to the office of a phyalcisn thia city who tl>« injury |1 Mm W H ffheler. who has been ■oils seriously 111 for the pest week y»h gastritis and a compHraiinn y h >r diseases, la getting much he't<r. y ll in nm confined to her hed H* r • »'r recovery la predicted. £ Marguerite Orard 1 ’ V '"day at the Erwin office on «■ [E*" l * of Illness

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT < w—W—« —

A WEEK AND A DAY. V.,..!.. „7„ 0 ,„„ |h< Public Schools. At a meeting of the city school 'K’ard Wednesday evening, it was de- ;'’ dCd 10 g ' Ve lh( ‘ Public schools a hoi‘day vacation of a wart „„. * 001 for i !. I h‘ ilSniißß Pr “' Uy - ,)eC " n ’^ r Ing un ■, i* ?, Pek ° f ( ' ,lr ‘Htmas, tak- ' i hnn M °“ day ' Derei "ber 30th. ' i — d inauditing BOOKS. T- B. Frazee, assistant auditor for ’he Indiana Lighting company, of Lafayette. who was here a day and a half, auditing the books of the local ' office, has completed his work here, i finding the books in excellent condii Hon and everything satisfactory. I —— — . IN BIG VAST CITY Bert Green Says He Be- > friended Stranger and • Offered Him i; — i ! 'A NIGHT'S LODGING ) I I , Instead of Giving Him the Cash—Fellow Had Him Arrested. i r ‘ ’ Bert Grran was fined $25 and costs i on a charge of loitering. The real charge against Green, however, is that . on December 4th be tried to induce several young men to spend the night , with him at his room on Baker street. , The young men were entire strangers to Green, and it was not clear to , Judge Mungovan just why Green want- ■ ed company for the night Green halls i from Decatur, where he says he taught . school two terms —Fort Wayne Sent!-1 , nel. , Bert Green paid this office a call . this morning and asked that he be given a chance to explain what he be ! ' lievea was a dear case of graft against | , him. the advantage having been taken ' ol bls good ellowahip. , He says that on the evening of the fourth, when he was In Fbrt Wayne, doing some shopping, be was accosted • by a fellow named Burke, a cocaine fiend, who represented himself to be needy. Green declined to give him money to buy cocaine, and the fellow then asked him whether he had the price of a room. Green said no. but that be bad a room rented for himself, in a private family, as he wished to spend the night In Fort Wayne, and told the fellow If he had no place Io go. he could come and spend the night with him. Before doing so. however. Bert, who was auspicious, and feared that he might be held up and robbed, left his money and valuables, Including about fift«*n dollars and a diamond ring, at a cigar store, where he was sequaioied. After fhey went to their mom a tap came on the door and a plain clothes official appeared It seems that there bad been some conversation between him and the man Bert had befriended, and be heard hla guest tell the plain clothes man who hU fr, ‘' nd ' that Bort had left some money at the cigar store He then arrest-d Bert on the charge of loitering, aa he said Bert had been spending the day in kri Wayne rimirariy Bert I. firm In hla belief that his money, which would help pay his fine, and give the official a mk*off. was the bait of the ( wrreat. and that he was Imposed upon „, B p|y be. .use of hl. good n.I UM Slid pity for friendless mankind, DOT A CROCODIUBFrom the »«""y •* s»*t by tsprasaamw nroa. th. .peaking, have •» It la. however, literally speak- » crocodile, measuring abrnit twj in lena'k. from ,hP _ ’ «,<ith that waa shipped them *“ . ( they are wond-Hiut what to and nm» 'h-' WB rm rt |. T L flurry Wcdneaday The boys .e-s-»”22 had a menu . (ftM him to send he left. 1 r * || remembered made go* “ The by X-'lotml K»Prt*» crocodi'e from r-nMcoin-

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HEAR S year .ti For Orphan Which They Reared and Then Relinquished—Went BACK TO GET HER The Next Day—Mr. and Mrs. Philip Heffner, Foster Parents. The strong attachment that is lornied between adopted children and their former imrents was touchingly illustrated here Wednesday, when Philip Heffner of Monroe township, Adams county, came to Bluffton to see Probation Officer W. A. Lipkey and Charles Dailey, members, asking board of children's guardians, asking that he be permitted to take home with him again a little twelve-year-old girl w hom he and his wifs had cared for in their home for several years, but whom they ivrrendered to the proba- | tion officer Tuesday, with the state- < ment that they did not feel that they could care for her longer. They already had two other children, taken from the Wells county orphans' home bet ore it was discontinued, and they felt that three wards were too much of a care for them. Therefore, they wished to turn back to the board the one child, one of the Emenheiser children. Probation Officer Lipkey took , the child to Marion Tuesday. Mr. Heffner went after her again today' with the statement that he and his ! wife could not get along without her, j and that their home appeared sadly lacking without her presence. Mr. Heffner was so deeply affected that he cried in telling of their yearning for, 1 the Bttle girl. He was given the prom-. Ise that he and his wife might have , her attain and Mr I.lpkey will bring, her back from Marion Saturday.—l Bluffton News. CHURCH CIRCLES Program of Sacred Music Will be Given Sunday Morning. AT PRESBYTERIAN— A. W. Conner Campaign Gains Interest With Each Service. A program of sacred music will be given by the choir of the Presbyter- 1 lan church next Bunday morning in place of the usual morning servk-ea The program consists of several splendid ebourws, a solo by Mr. Hubbard, a duet by Mr and Mrs, K. D Kngeler. and special ••<gan numbers by Mlm. Hdna Hoffman A cordial Invitation; is extended to the public to attend this, service The mu»l<al numbers nrw aa follows: -Te Drum in F' - Kotachman. -Hal>» I.HI ‘ Michael Watson “Allelulatle ftequenrw" — Dudley Buck “I Waited for the la>rd‘‘ Mendels--How lively Are the Messengers" -—Mendelssohn Bartton- Hubbard "The City IB vine" Borheur Duet Mr. and Mrs K D Kngeler.--Aa Parts the Hart" Henry ffmsrt Organ Pf*lude snd Offertory Mias Ed nr Hoffman ■■The Worst Boy In Town" will be the theme of the Rev. A. W. Conner the Merimdist rhurrh this evening Thia wIU be one of the host lectursa Os the serie. William Jennings Bryan. who heard Mr Conner give this ,ajv gt Halem. Indiana, said that every person should hear It He said he Simply hie own life over again. in hearing 11. and be considered It a rare privilege indeed, to hear Mr <’on n „r who has the ability to so aptly hoy life A silver offering will be taken at the door Thia however. I* optional with the attendant If von cannot give, com* anyhow The object Wednesday evening was The

Decatur, Indiana. Thursday Evening, December 12, 1912.

Big Boy," ranging in the age from Ilf- I teen to twenty-one, ami was delivered j In Mr. Conner’s usual happy vein. The afternoon meetings for the parents,' at 2:30 at the ITesbyterlan church, the girls at the same place, and for 1 the boys at the M. E. church after ■ school, continue in interest and attendance. Everybody cordially invited. \ i DOUG WHITE FOUND DEAD. 1 The body of Douglas White, 51, a house painter by trade, of Bluffton, ; well known here, was found Wednes- < day morning by Carl Coover, a barber, employed btf Dan Wandal, whose shop is in the basement of the court house, on an improvised cot in an unused bath room in the rear iof his shop where White had been allowed to sleep for the last two weeks. Death was either an act of self-destruction or 1 was the result of a sudden attack of heart trouble. The remains were discovered about 7 o’clock and had probably been there since early In the night. The coroner's verdict will be required to tlx the cause of death. White had been without work for some time and was despondent over his repeated failures to obtain employment. He had led a most precarious existence for several months and had been sleeping in the unused part of the barber shop through the charity lof the barbers. The body was found by Coover when he opened the shop and in the investigation which followed a small paper bearing the label,' "Poison,” but with the name of the drug firm torn away, was found In a nearby room. White had been talking of suicide for several weeks and his conversation last night indicated that bls mind was still running on that subject. Several years, ago he received a terrible blow on the head in a fall, ' and his friends believe that his mind j was affected thereby. The funeral will be held Friday afternoon at two o'clock at the M. E. church, in charge of Rev. J. B. Young. The interment will be held In Fairview. Once well ; to do and reapected. White has some ' prominent relatives here. When he waa found this mo?ning he had ffl.KO , in his pocket and this seems to have j been the extent of his worldly posses- . j sions. He waa a life-long resident of ' Wells county and was very well known in Bluffton and In Adams , county. In hia early life he a drug clerk, but later drifted into the trade of a bouse painter. —~ ■ O - r • NOT AFTER DECATUR LlhlE. In reply to current rumor that a deal is being negotiated between officials of the Fort Wayne & Northern Indiana and the Fort Warne A Springfield line, for the purchase of the latter ■ ompany. Sum W. Greenland, assistant general manager of the local traction company, declares that nothing of this ' sort I* being considered. It Is true that officials of the line operating between thia city and Decatur have made numerous visits to Fort Wayne within the last week, but their bust • ness waa not pertaining to a deal with the F. W A M. I. company Mr. Greenland states this morning that the company which he represents has no Intentions of bidding for either the Toledo A Chicago or the Fort Waynn A Springfield property. French Quinn, receiver, and W. H. Fledderjohann. general manager of the Fort Wayne A Rpringfield company were business I visitors In Fbrt Wayne Tuesday, but were not In conference wl'h officials i of the Fbrt Wayne A Northern Indi- I nag Traction company—For' Wayne Sentinel. — - o i - ■ ■ TO WASHINGTON SATtIROAY, I MB —« | It Earl I'eters for the past year I employed as political writer on the I Journal Gazette staff, leaves Saturday t for Washington, where he will rferve < as private secretary to Congressman t < yrua Cline, Mr Fetero has shown i a keen insight into the political game, > la a fluent and easy writer and Congressman Cline has «-ho«en a very ca- I pable nffiNstanL Mr. F- ters will not i take hla family to Washington before i March anti in the meantime they will < be at the home of Mrs Peters' parenta, i at Waterbio —FI Wayne Journal Gs- t sette. t« 1 1 >OOF WAB at AZING. ,» — 1 1 While the Will Fvana family. r«sid tng north of town, was away from 1 home thia morning at 11 o'clock fire t t aught In the roof of Ihe bouse and I waa blaring away merrily. Passing t neighbors discovered the blaze and I forming a bucket brigade anon had It i oytlngulsbed before damage waa don » The roof was only slightly burned. I but had It not been for the llmelv dis 1 covery, the consequences might have I been serious Indeed |t

IT IS A BEAUTY New Muensterberg School House in Monroe Township Completed. WILL BE DEDICATED Saturday, December 14—Is One of Finest in the Country. With the completion of the Mtienaterberg school, Monroe township. District No. 9. can boast not only of having the best district school house in the county, or in this part of the state, but one of the very finest In the conn-1 try. Trustee Beer and his advisers put into practice the Idea that the way to Implant an artistic spirit In the minds of the youth Is no to have them spend their school day* In unsanitary, dilapidated structures, but to give them the best the commonwealth can afford, to make our school buildings 'masterpieces of architecture and In keeping with modern methods of sanitation ' The Muensterberg school build lag Is a model of its kind. Built of brick, with pressed brick veneer, and ornamented with Bedford rock, it presents a grandeur undreamed of by the sturdy pioneers who laid the foundation of the present wealth and prosperity of the country. Its architectural style Is grand and imposing and In keeping with the rules laid down by the state board of education, and is a permanent testimony to the skill and Ingenuity of Architect Boegly, who is rapidly taking rank as an artist in architectural beauty. Thia model school building will be dedicated with appropriate ceremonies to the education of the youth of the district on Saturday evening, December 14th, to which the public is cordially Invited. FIGHTING AGAIN Greeks and Turks Are Again Embroiled in War—The Turks Are Repulsed. WRECK KILLS FIVE 1 ~ When Train Crashes Down Embankment — Crusade Against Alimony. (United Press ffiarvlcel Athens, Greece, Dec IS—tSpecial to Dally Democrat) —It waa reported to day that fierce fighting between the Turks and Greeks was resumed before the besieged town of Janina. A batallion of Greeks occupied a nearby village after several hours of deeper ate fighting Many Turks were either* kill'd or wounded and the survivors were utterly routed Cumberland. Md, Dec. 12 tSpe<lal to Daily Democrat)—Five of the train crew er* rep«x-t*d dead and four are injured In a freight wreck on the Bal ' titnore a Ohio early today, twenty ‘ eight miles west of this city. The i dead and Injured are under a mass at wreckage, the train of fifty roal rars plunging down a steep embankment Denver. Colo, Dec IS—(ffipsclal to Daily Democrat)—"Wanted Address i at Denver of every man in Denver whn I la up against the alimony paying pmn osttlon; quick action necessary” This ad published in a local parx-r today was the opening gun In a brand new crusade started In an effort to anni hllate the system whereby husbands are compelled to pay alimony to <n wives. A' i 1 -—— William P Hart of Huntington. dliKriet arent for the Union Central Life Insurance rnmnany. waa here today on miriness Mr, Hart waa formerly superintendent <ff the el’y schools gt dluntingion, and was grand rhaacellor iff the Knights iff FytMaa. He Is plsonlng •«» »"*• *»'* rovwilr to Fort Wayne l» the near future, wheca he will have hia rradquarten as district insurance agent

TEN THOUSAND CIGARS. j Order for Lose & Thomas’ "White Stag" from Missouri. _» Ix>se &. Thomas, the cigar makers, have an order from Gideon, Mo., for a case of their famous "White Stag” cigars. A case is ten thousand cigars and that is no small number. The factory force is kept busy day and night at present to get out their extra large Christmas orders. “ 11 1 U ■ —- MAKES SOME ROPE. Joseph B. Knapke exhibited his |3.So rope making machine at the Fashion Stables Wednesday night and in little less than an hour made an inch rope one hundred and sixty-threo feet long from binder twine. He has just secured the agency for four counties and will sell the machines In locality. COURT HOUSE NEWS Court Makes New Ruling Regarding Time of Naturalization Hearings. GUARDIAN IS ASKED For Aged Polly Barrone— The Steele Case is Still On. 1 The case of John A. Hendrick* v*. Nelsofi Fozsnlght. set for December ‘ 17, has ben left off the trial docket, r— — . 4 Mary Opliger vs. Lawrence Optiger, j divorce. Motion to make defendant'* >' cross-corn plaint more specific was susi tained a* to items 3,5, 6,7, 9, 10, 12, . 13 and >5. Separate and nevrral ex . captions by crons-complalnt and over- 1 . ruled as to 1. !, t. 8. 11 and 14. Exception* neverally by defendant to cross-complaint. Ferdinand Bleeke.v*. T. Adel Nep Jtune, partition and quie title. Appearance by Heller. Sutton A Heller ior | Adel Neptune. Rule to answer. Real estate transfer*: Mary V. Clark et al. to Daniel N. Erwin, lot 24J. Decatur, |3.50U; Chalmer C. Schafer to H. G. Boyd, lot 104. Decatur. lx.500; Otto Fran* et al. to Mar ianna Bracket, lot 29.1, and pt. lot 202. Berne, |BSO. Licensed to wed: Dorcie Broadstock, tenmstress, of Berne, born NoI vemln-r 20. 1891, daughter of Cyrua ■ Broudriock, to wed Edwin ARolder, ; threahvr. born February 10, 1892, non of Fred Affolder. Judge Merryman today made a new ruling regarding naturalization. After thia date the hearing of naturalization 1 petition* shall be held uu Ihe first i Wednesday of the February and Sep-1 ■tembor t«rma. The petition* now I | pending and pooted to be held the ‘ firot Monday In the February term. 1 ' ah* II bA reported and heard on the ' first Wednesday <ff the February term. 11918. Henry Hite and John Craig were raappointed jury commissioner* to serve for another year. Th* EB W Steele trial I* dragging slowly along Mr. Steele was put on the w.tnrss stand thl* aftemdon at 3 jo'clorg. for the flrat Th« caae will prolusbly o<>< be finished (hl* week. D E Smith, attorney for William i J. Barrone. filed a suit in < oust asking : I that a guardian be apputated for Fully ' I Barrone, who la eighty three year* old. i land who on aerrant iff age and in I nrmity la said tc be Incapable of man I aging her e*tate and iHtalnaaa I R. A M. NEW OFFICIRB. It The Royal Arch Mason* elected,of I (leers WMnrs.lay night far the eMu- I Ing year They are 1 « High I’rieat D. F. fimltb I Rcrlhe J D Hale i Klug F. I* AnArawa I lleeratary -De Roy Archbold. f Traa*'irwr-C. R Dunn • Captain tff the Hosta lohn Tyn t Ball. Frinrit'al Hojourner L C Helm. Moyal Areh Magoao—C. A Dugan, i Vella W F ffit hmek, E H Adam*, t Dun Rprang I Guard-Harney Kaiver <

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TAFT OFFERED JOB President Taft Tendered a Chair at Yale—Aeroplane to Cross Ocean. FLYNN GETS LICKED Luther McCarty is Now in the Lime-light as Coming White Hope. (United Press Service) Los Angele*, Cal., Dec. 12 —(Special to aDily Democrat) —Both eyes closed, hia right ear pounded to a pulp, his nose broken and hi*' lips torn to shreds by the terrible battering he recieved at the hand* of Luther McCarthy, Jim Flynn of Pueblo, made no comment on bls defeat, except his statement: "McCarthy was too damn big.” And McCarthy paid a tribute to the gamenes* displayed by bi* opponent: "I didn't know they ever made men so game. 1 did not believe any living man of Fylnn's giae could have stood up so long under the punistnuent 1 aduiinjriered.” With thl* fight out of the way fan* are looking forward to the battle on New Year'* day between McCarthy and Al Palxer, the only other ' white hope" regarded here as being in McCarthy'* claa*. Copenhagen. Dec 12—Danish suffragettes, confident that the coming session of parliament will grant them the vote, now have on foot a project •q compel the government to introduce military service for women. Many of the suffragettes are said to be anxious to join the army. , i Cologne, Dec. 12—(Special to Dally Democrat) —Richard Beekman i* building a hydro-aeroplane of extraordinary aize In which he says he will cros* the Atlantic in forty-eight hours, starting from the'Azores and landing at HqjHax. Rome. Dec. 12 —(Special to Dally Democrat)—Angela Barto, seventy, ' brother of Pope Pius, carries mail ten I mile* on foot, daily, for f>o cent* a day and applied to the postoffice department for an increaae. He got hia salary doubled. Washington. D (’., Dec. 12—(Special to Dally Democrat) While It waa admitted at the white houae that ITvrident Taft had been offered the Keat professorship of law at Yale. It was denied that he had aecepted. The president ha* dl*<-u**ed the offer with hla prieuds. but ha* not determined a* yet whether he wllrpurau* hl* original Intention of returning to Cincinnati or accetx the place. Th* president h*« told hl* friends, that to him the Invitation wa* most nattering. Since hl* defeat the president has re(reived *o many offer* that It l» reported he I* just now slightly bewilderr-d I by the multitude «ff thing* for whic h J lie finds b* la wanted. The Kent professorahlp stand* highest In the role of Yaie honors It cover* lecture* In tenth constitutional *nd In let national law* and would afford the president a wide field fnr hl* Ira al power*. The salary is li.ooo a year. Washington, D C.. Dec 1! t Special to Dally |>emnrraO’ While Wall street bankrra looked on with laughter n witness before the m'frw trust Investigating committee, iold ho* stock* were juggled by •peculator*. *nd the New York Stork ezrhange. Htallstlr* were produced by piwteore Kt udder, a riallriical expert, who an- * lysed the mov-oienls and salra of the leading stock* on th* exchange since HMM The figure* show that the capital atark of several companies have iceen sold from five to twenty time* over In a month From Wuddera evidence It wa* evident that a very large percentage of th* transection* of Wall Street al* Speculative gomhllng He used the word speculative very often In referrin* to H* figure* Kt rl hl ng among the figurea wa* the record of Reading steel and Union Pacific, the figures Indicating th«t th*** watered stock* had b**n traded In from four to nineteen time* In a year «M**ua>*» Th* Decatur ha*k*« ball tram will to to Fort Wsyne thl* evening, where they will pIAY Ifie Ttlriler* of that flare A number of rooter* from thl* city will go sloug