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SPEEDY TRIALS

Judge Fortune Notifies Attorneys for Auto Crooks to Get Eeady for Hearing.

MYSTERIOUS INFLUENCES BUSY IN CASE EVEN THIS EARLY

Some Newspapers Disparage Work of Police, and Intimate Crooks Are Being Outraged By

Being Arrested.

The fire alleged auto robbam accused of holding up H. B. Lackey and Ed Broadhurst, lessees of the Hotel Plaza pool room, and four patrons, and fleeing to Indianapolis, where they were captured, in autos, were not ar raigned for trial Saturday morning, but Judge Charles .M. Fortune announced In continuing the cases that they would positively be tried early next week.

The case of William Miller was the I' first brought before the court, Attorney D. V. Miller appearing in his behalf. Judge Fortune continued the case until Monday morning at 10 o'clock. In reply to Mr. Miller's protest that it would be physically impossible for him to arrange to try the case by Monday the court said: "The case will be tried Monday morning at 10 o'clock, Mr. Miller. If the court errs you have your remedy at law."

Attorney Joseph Roach appeared for the other defendants. At his request "t_ their cases were continued until "Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock. The men are all in jail, having tailed to give the $10,000 bond fixed.

Deputy Sheriff Rudolph Nichols, of 5 Kankakee, 111., arrived in the city Saturday to try and identify the men as those who broke jail there after being arrested for robbery. He brought photographs along but could not identify the men as the ones he was looking for and returned to Kankakee at noon.

Police Congratulated.

Inquiries have poured into Chief Holler regarding the men. The polioe generally regard the catch as the best ever I made by the local department. Several cities have asked that pictures be Immediately forwarded as they believed that the bandits are wanted there.

Captain Larkin of the Chicago detective bureau congratulated the Terre Haute department on its work and said that after the robbers are handled here, th'ire will be likely demands from other piaces for them.

The money and all valuablos that were stolen from the men at the Plaza were turned over to J. W. Thompson, proprietor of the hotel, Friday afternoon, and Chief Holler took a receipt for the cash and for the valuables. Chief Holler said that since the robbers confessed the robbery and ft since that J. W. Thompson, the proprietor of the hotel, vouched for the men to whom the money belonged ft that there was nothing else for him to yp do but turn the property over. Thompson gave a receipt for the money and the police released it.

The attitude of several newspapers in the matter has caused a lot of comment around town. From the tenor of the news about the robbery it would appear that the men in jail have been greatly outraged by the police presuming to arrest them.

Some of the newspapers have sought to minimize the case, intimating that it was nothing more than a case of a gambler robbing another gambler. This is the explanation given by Burge in his suit to recover the money taken *^from the robbers' automobile, and the Jf^s police intimate that the prisoners, who jppfaa'e not ^vithout funds, would spend

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public sentiment for them and allow them to get off with light i*unishment. The way some of the newspapers have laid stress on this view of the case indicates that the men in •jail are not without influence soraewhere.

The police point out that while these ^newspapers are claiming that it "Is a case of one set of gamblers beating another set of gamblers" the facts cannot be overlooked that Captain Larkins, of. the Chicago department, identified one of the men as a well known crook.

Too, in their rooms in the Brevort hotel at Indianapolis was found the finest set of safe blowing and burglar tools ever taken by the Indianapolis police. Chief Holler said Saturday: "This lay-out of nitro-glycerine, fuses, guns, handcuffs, and burglars' tools would seem to indicate that those are not honest citizens who happened to be inveigled into a little crap game for a little amusement. This effort to .disparage the work of the police is fine support for law enforcement, isn't it?"

GERMAN HEAVY ARTILLERY 1 NOT YET BEFORE VERDUN

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Correspondent Declares French Are Too Strongly Fortified for Attempt By Kaiser's Troops.

GENEVA (via Paris), Oct. 24.—12:40 a. m.—None of the German heavy artillery has arrived before Verdun or Belfast as yet, according to a correspondent of the Tribune, who has returned to Basel after visiting the French and German frontier for a week. The correspondent says that Belfort is so well armed that it would ake "300,000 men with heavy artillery long time to oust the French, which irmy the Germans cannot afford." 4 The Swiss government has been officially informed that there are about 1'300 cases of cholera in Austria-Hun-l&ary.

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Jury Expected to Get Case Late Today, and Verdict May Follow Quickly.

ACCUSED WOMAN CONFIDENT AFTER DEFENSE IS FINISHED

Testimony of Unimportant Witnesses and Arguments of District Attorney and Defendant's Lawyers Ends Case.

BULLETIN.

MINEOLA, N. Y., Oct. 24.—The defense of Mrs. Florence Conklin Carman, on trial for the murder of Mrs. Louise Bailey, rested shortly before noon today. Counsel prepared to sum up and indications were that the case would reach the jury late this afternoon.

MINEOLA, N. Y., Oct. 24.—The testimony of unimportant witnesses and Lhe arguments of District Attorney Louis J. Smith and counsel for the defense today remain to be heard by the jury in the trial here of Mrs. Florence Conklin Carman, accused of the murder of Mrs. Louise Bailey on June 30, last. It was expected that tlie jury would be given the case late this afternoon and the opinion prevailed that a verdict would be returned before night fall.

After testifying on cross examination and after listening to the testimony of her little daughter, Elizabeth, and other relatives, the accused woman returned to her cell last night predicting that the jury would return a verdict of ac quittal. She sent her parents, her daughter and husband home happy with her assurance that she would be free and would spend Sunday with them.

Story Aids Defendant.

Rudolph Loewe, first witness called today, testified that he was on his way to Dr. Carman's office and within fifteen feet of he window wh^n the shot which kill Mrs. Bailey was fired. Loewe he -d the shot, looked up and saw a man mn across t'.ie lawn and leap over tht ence.

Mr. Loewe was ery deaf and spoke English with a pro punced accent. Geo. M. Levy, Mrs. Cai.ian's lawyer, went close to the witness stand an-y^hout-ed questions into Mr. Loewe's ear,

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U. S. WEATHER REPORT.

TEMPERATURE RECORD, OCT. 24. 6 a. 54 Noon 69 9 a. 58 2 p. 58

LOCAL CONDITIONS AT 7 A. M., OCT. 24, 1014. Temperature, 53 highest temperature yesterday, 76 lowest temperature last night, 53 precipitation, 0 direction of wind, north velocity of wind, 7 miles per hour state of weather, clear relative humidity, 97 per cent.

FORECAST.

TERRE HAUTE—Rain and cooler tonight. Sunday fair and cooler. INDIANA—Local rains and cooler tor-ipht Sunday fair and coolcr.

ILLINOIS—Lierht showers this afternoon .*ind possibly tonight colder tonight Sunday partly cloudy.

OTHER LOCAL REPORTS. Temperature by Buntin's thermometer 7 a. m., 55 2 p. m., 60.

River staee—1 foot

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THE TERRE HAUTE

Germans Gain St Mihiel

Big Forts Are Useless

Southern Senators Agree to AMndon Fight, and 4 O'clock Is Fixed As Closing Hour.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 24—The filibuster which has been holding congress in session collapsed coday and leaders of both sides agreed to adjourn at 4 o'clock this afternoon.

At the conference which agreed upon the adjournment southern members fighting for legislation to relieve cotton growers, pledged themselves not to block the plan with points of no quorum or other technicalities. The plan was accepted by senate leaders, where the filibuster also had collapsed and adjournment seemed assured.

Senator Smith, of Georgia, who has been the head and front of the filibuster in the senate, said he would not block the adjournment If the majority of the southern senators were decided to abandon the filibuster. That appeared to be the situation.

Immediately after it reassembled at 2 o'clock, the house passed the resolution to adjourn at 4 p. m. by a vote of 56 to 27.

The senate then also passed the resolution for the 4 o'clock adjournment, and both houses marked time for the clock to record that hour.

Thus ended a three-day fight during which eleventh hour disappointments were the principal feature.

KAISER NEAR CAPTURE.

LONDON, Oct 24—8 a. m.—The Petrograd correspondent of the Central News sends the following: "Soldiers from the Warsaw front say that Emperor Williams was personally on the field of battle. He was almost taken a captive, barely escaping by automobile." ....

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Houses in ruins on the street known] dlers aro patrolling the street and as the Marche aux Souliers in Antwerp two of them are shown in the photo, after the city had been riddled by four The tower In the background is that thousand German sheila. German sol- of the Belgium prison.

Declares War Experiences Show Forts Useless Before Big Guns

LONDON, Oct. 24.—5:20 a. m.—The Times today prints a long dispatch in which its correspondent at Nancy, France, tinder date of October 15, gives a vivid picture of the fighting on the right wins of the French army. "Though the French official communications continually state that thfc situation on the right is .unchanged," he says,, "they do not mean that the opposing armies are marking time. The Germans have made fierce efforts to get Verdun. These efforts were as flercly rpelled and the French field army still stands between the army of Metz and the coveted fortresses of Toul and Verdun.

"In the attempt on Saint M(ihiel the Germans were more successful. Hard fighting will be necessary to eject them but the German objective—the junction of the army of Metz with the right wing of the crown prince's army of Argonne—has been prevented. The French are praying for a heavy fall of snow which would seriously hamper the enemy's movements of supplies and might even drive them into the open like wolves. "The enns of Verdun have never yet been In action and there Is no prospect of the fall of Verdun unless the French field army allows the Germans to get their big guns within range.

"The whole history of this war, however, goes to prove the utter uselessncss of forts under present conditions. The best type of fortifications seems to consist of batteries from which the guns can be easily moved to a new point as soon as they are located by the enemy. After the Germans had entrenched themselves at St. Mihiel their big guns made short work of the French forts at Tryon. The guns of the forts had range of only five miles against the German siegers' range of seven miles. "The Germans have placed a battery of Austrian 42-centimeter on the site of Camp Des Romaines which overlooks St. Mihiel. It Is Important that the French recapture this position but It will take the most severe fighting to do so."

•KEEP STEP WITH TERRE HAUTE?

VOL. XXXIX.—NO. 146. TERRE HAUTE, IND„ SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24,1914. FOUR O'CLOCK—ONE CENT

Antwerp in Ruins: First Photo of Belgian City After German Bombardment

DESTROYERS TO LEAD THE WAV FOR CECELIE

Will Conduct Big Vessel Now At Bar Harbor to Boston—Allies Agree to Movement

"WASHINGTON, Oct 24.—Captain Polack, of the G«rmeua liner Kronprinzessin Cecelie, interned at Bar Harbor, lyie., sine© her dash back to safety after bedng in sight of European shores, conferred with navy department officials today about the course his ship is to take next treek while being transferred to Boston. Great Britain and France have consented to the movement and the ship will be guarded by probably two United States destroyers. Belligerent cruisers In the vicinity will be notified that the Cecelie is in the hands of the United States courts.

One of the objects of a naval escort of destroyers is to ensure tho reten tion of the liner In the jurisdiction of the United States courts. The efficacy of the court's writ outsrtde the three mile limit never has been tested, officials say, but the fast dfwtroyers could prevent the Cecelie's escape if there was a possibility of it.

HOSPITAL SHIP AGROUND.

Vessel Carrying Wounded French Soldiers Calls for Help. LONDON, Oct. 24.—10:25 a. m.—The French ship Marie Henriette with wounded soldiers on board, is ashore near Cape Barfleur, 16 miles east of Cherbourg, according to a telegram received here from Lloyd's signal station at Cowes, Isle of Wight. S. O. S. signals from her have been received at the wireless station at Niton, Isle of Wight. A French ship is standing by the Marie Henriette-

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Life and Death Struggle Now Raging for Possession of Dunkirk

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FULL STRENGTH OF TEUTONS IS HURLED AGAINST ALLIES

Ptetrograd Reports Continuation Pursuit of lijvaders Near War*s saw, and Claims Successes

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LONDON, Oct. 24j—10 02 a. What a Germain military expert has called a life and death struggle for Germany Is still raging along the coast end of the western battle front and every indication shows that the invaders are hurling their full strength against the allies In a determined effort to capture Dunkirk and Calais.

Strange reports come from various captured cities In Belgium of the evacuation, or the preparation for departure, of the German forces holding them, but these movements may merely mean that every available man is being thrown forward to the FrancoBelgian frontier and does not necessarly forecast the abandonment of positions occupied by the Germans. Antwerp is said to have been practically deserted by the Germans and the wives of German officers in Brussels are said to have received orders to leave within forty-eight hours.

Paris reports that the action on the allies' left wing continues with great violence, especially around Aryas, Labassee and Armentiers, where some of the most desperate fighting of the war has taken place during the past fortnight. Here the usual see-saw occurs, first the allies giving some ground and the Germans doing the same at some other point, but without

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Today's reports throw little new light on the course of the battle now raging most intensely on the FrancoBelgian frontier. Upon the fighting on the plains of Flanders in the opinion alike of German, French and British observers, depends in large measure the outcome of the whole campaign and perhaps the future of German operations in France. The official French statement indicates with what Intensity the opposing forces are contesting the issue.

It is admitted that the Germans have advanced to the north of Dixmunde and In the neighborhood of Labassee but as a counter stroke, it is said, the

French have pushed forward to Nieu-1 ter attaoks of the Russians.

WAR BULLETINS

AMSTERCjAM, via London), Oct 24. —3:43 p. m.—A dispatch from Vienna brings the following official announcement by the Austrian government under date of Oct 23: "Strong Servian and Montenegrin forces which had penetrated the southeastern frontier districts in East Bosnia that were without offensive works, were defeated on Oct 22 after a severe battle lasting three days, in the region of Nokro, and forced to retreat hastily. Details will follow later, as the results of the pursuit are not yet known."

LONDON, Oct. 24.—3?24 a. m.—A private Berlin dispatoh, according to the corresposdent of the Central News at Copenhagen, states that the battle raging between Nieuport and Dlxmunde is the most violent and the important engagement of the entire war. He adds that Zeppelins are said to have given the Germans considerable support.

LONDON, *Oct. 24.-2:40 a. m.—The German ring around Verdun, according to the Cologne Gazette, is becoming closer daily, says a Central News dispatch from Copenhagen. All the French attaoks have been in vain.

Colonel Grey, a brother of the British foreign secretary who was oaptured near Perrone, France, when a British aeroplane was brought down by the Germans, has been sent to the prisoners' oamp at Darmstadt.

TOKIO, Oct. 24^—4:15 p. r»v—It l« officially announced that the navy department now believes that the Japanese cruiser Takachiho whloh was sunk in Kiao Chow harbor, ofi Ootober 17, was torpedoed by the German torpedo boat destroyer S-90. Previous official announcements had it that the cruiser had been sunk by a mine but German and Chinese reports credited the 8-90 with the feat.

WASHINGTON, Oct 24—The German ambassador, Count Bernstorff^ said today that early in the European war he had assured the United States 'government that whatever the outcome of the conflict Germany would respect the Monroe doctrine.

TWO MORE BANDITS ARE SHOT BY POSSE

Pursuers Open Eire After Trapping Outlaws on Bridge, But One Escapes.

BEDLINGHAM, Wash., Oct. 24.—Two more of the five bandits who robbed the First National bank of Sedro-Wol-ley of $20,000 last Saturday night, killing a boy and wounding two citizens as they fled, were shot and instantly killed by officers early today. One of the five was killed and another wounded and captured last Thursday after a fight with a posse, one of whose members was slain.

The three remaining bandits eluded American and Canadian officers pursuing them yesterday, but it was oelieved they would attempt to cross the Great Northern railway bridge at Ferndale under cover of darkness. Wilson Stewart, a deputy sheriff in charge of a posse, prepared an electric light with which to surprise them. Shortly after midnight foot steps were heard on the bridge and one of Stewart's men gave an order to halt. Stewart switched on his light and the three bandits stood revealed.

Before they oould fire, the posse began to shoot. Two fell dead, the third escaping by a foot path near the bridge. The posse expects to capture him today.

Both dead men carried heavy money belts. One had $1,544 and the other $1,543 in goldi

More than $6,000 of the stolen money was recovered from the bandits who fell in last Thursday's fight.

TRAIN KILLS TWO GIRLS.

WINAM'AC, Ind., Oct. 24.—Myrtle and Olive Kelso, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. O. S. Kelso, of this place, were killed today by a fast train on the Pennsylvania railroad. The accident occurred in front of the station when the girls stepped in front of the *Tain.

SUMMARY OF THE WAR

Two months ago today the British army began its retreat from Moris. Today the battered forces of Sir John French are fifty miles to the northwest of MonB. In the intervening period the impetuous German advance penetrated almost to the gates of Paris, only to be hurled back again in the crucial battle of the. Marne and now the hostile forces are deadlocked on a line which extends from Switzerland to the North sea.

port in the region of Langemarck and between Armentieres and Lille. These, in the languages of the French war office, are "inevitable fluctuations of a contest waged so fiercely." The war office contents itself with the general statement that tho line of combat as a whole has been maintained.

Over the remainder of the long battle front the deadlock continues. Slight progress is claimed by the French at various points in the Woevre distriot, but the general positions of the opposing forces is changed in no important particular.

Regarding the situation in the east there is, as heretofore, a conflict of claime. The French war office asserts that the Germans are falling back to the south of Warsaw as well as to the west of Ivangorod. Advices from Russian and Austrian sources agree that one of the bitterest battles of the war is in progress along the river San. An official Austrian statement reports the repulse of Russians, who had been permitted to cross the river and were then attaokod. Dispatohes from Petrograd, however, state that the Austrian assault was ropulsed by vigorous coun-

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WAR OFFIG ADMITS GAI

French Announce That Kaiser's Forces Have (Blade Progress to North of Dixmude.

RUSSIANS ANNOUNCE BEPULSE OP AUSTRIAN ARMY IN EAST

Chief Attention Is Centered On Plain* About West Flanders, Where Fierce Struggle Is Takf'n .« ing Place.

PARIS, Oct. 24.—2 54 a. m.—The o£»j ficial communication given out at the war office this afternoon says, that tha X^ermans have made progress to tho north of Dixmude and in the vlctnitjr, of Labassee, but that the French hav^ made material advances to the weat of Nieuport, in the' region of Lange-j marck, and between Armentleres and Lille.

The text of the communication la asi follows: "The battle continues on our left! wing. The enemy has made progress to the north of Dixmude and the vicinity of Labassee. We have madsj very perceptible advances to the east] of Nieuport in the region of Lange-I marck and in the region between Armentleres and Lille. It la a Question* of inevitable fluctuations in the lonei of combat which, however, maintain* Itself as a whole. 4-J-"On the rest of the" frotft severatl German attacks by day and by nighti have been repulsed. At various plaoeo we have made slight progress. In thai Woevre district our advance has continued toward Mortmare to the south of Thiaucourt and in the forest o£ Lepret®, north of Pont-a-Mousson. "Russia—The Germans are retreating to the south of Warsaw, as well! as to the west of I van go rod and NoVai Alexandra. Desperate lighting oon-l tinues in Galicia on the Sandomir-wi front. At Przemysl the Russians havg taken 2,000 Austrian prisoners."

AU8TRIANS REPULSED. I

Correspondent Tells of Large Numbers in Bitter Battle. LONDON, Oct. 24.—4:44 a. m.—• Telegraphing from Vladir in the Russian governmest of Vo' ^el, under date of Wednesday, the -iJitSpondent of the times says: "A battle which for numbers engaged and the bitterness of the fighting, is probably one of the greatest of the present war Is now raging on the line from Samber, along the river San to1 Przemysl and Jaroslau and then to tnai southward. I traveled over a distance' of about 65 ijiiles, in the rear and parallel to the Russian position on which at all points, cannonading was terrific and uninterrupted, the battle having lasted for eight days. "It is difficult to get details but it appears that the Austrians started the! attack at Samber but were thrown back by vigorous Russian counter attacks. Then a concentration of the Austrian corps attempted an advance against Lemberg with the object of bisecting the Russian line. This attack was defeated with heavy Austrian losses and the capture of 5,000 Austrian prisoners. "Towards Jaroslau the Germans are co-operating with the Austrians, who took Jaroslau earlier in the fighting but the Russians are now said to have recaptured the town."

EVES FIXED ON FLANDERS.

Frenchmen, Although impatient, Ar* Confident of Outcome^ PARIS, Oct. 34.—6:55 a. m.—Attention remained fixed today on the rifle struggle on the plains of Flanders, and other points of the long battle line in France received secondary consideration. Frenchmen as usual-1 studied the war office statements with' the greatest oare and, although they are Impatient for a conclusion, apparently they are as confident as ever.

Independent of the contest in the north, actions in other sections serve.' to strengthen the positions of the opposing sides. Some, of these, while appearing separate, are in reality combined, such as that between the frontier of the east and that of the Argonnes. This has for its purpose tho control of the vicinity of Verdun and the formation there of a base for an offensive movement.

LONDON, Oct. 24.-1:30 p. m.—The Norwegian steamer Heimland which had been reported from Amsterdam as sunk by a mine, arrived at Aberdeen today bringing the crew of the British steamer Camorant, which was destroyed by a mine recently. The Heimland came from Amsterdam.

MORE PEACE TREATIES.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 24.—Ratification of two treaties with Portugal were exchanged here today. One extends for five years the special arbitration treaty, and the other 407s?.ace commission convention.