Indianapolis Journal, Volume 53, Number 58, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 February 1903 — Page 2

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 27.' 1003;

ycun man who confounll all the bowhiskered wise heads of Judea, and he was of opinion that the young man so arraigned might teach Senator Parks a few things. About that time senators -were prodding Park right and left, reminding him that he had led the tight to Increase the forester's salary. The senator from Marshall gave frlgns of an outburst. Those familiar with those signs took a long breath and covered their earn. "I am getting very tired of these personal remarks directed at me." said Parks. "Every time I get up to advocate a measure some senator, who ought to have better manners, violates the laws of courtesy by attacking me in some way. I want to Fay that if this thing does not stop I shall cease to be a member of the Senate. "If anybody can show me what this man has ever done In the way of real work I will feuv a dish of oysters for him." The mild form of dissipation proposed by the senator from Marshall In case he should

be Vshown' excited the risibilities or tne senators and he was given the laugh. "When it carte to a vote on the bill the only voice raised In opposition was that of Mr. Parks, whose "no" sounded like it was coming from he depths of ft. barrel. OPERA UOUFFE IN SENATE. But Tark3 was not yet through. He -played a leading part In some opera bouffe, with which the senators amused themselves later on. The Conlogue bill, to Increase the pay of County Commissioners In most counties of the. State aroused his ire. "When, No. 300 was called, Parks was again in evidence and thi3 time he moved to strike out the enacting clause, lie Informed the senators with such emphasis as only the senator from Marshall can use that this was a bad bill, a graft diu or the Yery worst variety, ana mat ne was first, last and all the time opposed to the enactment of any such holdup legislation. Senator Rail seconded the motion to strike out the enacting clause and the two senators, with Senator Matson. chased up and down the aisles tryinS to get senators to kilVthe bill. When it came to a vote all th Democrats voted for the motion and most or the Republicans against lt. ine bill was saved for a brief space. Then "Steve" Fleming, who is always on the lookout to do something for his Allen county constituents, sent ud an innocent 'sounding little amendjnent which struck oui ""tne woras twelve nunarea in une a of Section 1, and Inserted in lieu thereof the words fifteen hundred." All that the amendment sought to do was to Increase the pay of the Allen County Commissioners JjjO a year. Fleming grinned pleasantly, other senators caught the cue, and the amendment was passed, men tne re was a rasa to get in others like it. Every sen ator on the floor, with the exception of those actively fighting- the bill, wanted to get in an amendment to raise the salary of the commissioners in his own county. Paces were kept busy running back and forth and the reading clerk became hoarse as the senators sought to strengthen them selves with their people. Senator Gard got in one that sought to help out the CUnton county people. Senator Wolcott laughed and said he might as well help out Newton. Jasper and White as well as not and he sent up another of the "innocent sound ing little things." Walter Ball protested. lie said it was an outrage for the senators to do1 things like that. The bill was bad enough as it stood, he said, without making It worse by loading it down with amendments. While he was talking. Gray had been making hay and another amendment was adopted for the bene'it or the commissioners of rike county. - It rooked for a time as if every senator on the floor was to get In on the ooo! thing and slip in a little increase. It was a case of "all stand together and we will get what we want." Hut the recalcitrants had put their heads together and while the pages were carrying armfuls of amendments to the reading clerk. Senator Matson arose and moved that the bill be laid on the table, lie had figured out that this aa about as good a way to kill a bill tis any other, and the result Justified ' BAIN PROBABLE TO-DAY. Fnlrand Colder Weather Throughout Indiana on Saturday. WASHINGTON. Feb. Friday and Saturday: Fit Indiana Rain ort high east to southeast 2ß. Forecast for Friday; brisk to winds. Saturday Xalr; colder. For. Illinois Rain on Friday; brisk to high - - southeast -winds. - Saturday fair; coiner. iror wwer Aiicnigan nam or snow on Friday and probably on Saturday; winds ueeoming east and brisk to high. For Kentucky Rain on Friday. Saturday colder and fair, except rain or snow in extreme west portion. For Iowa Rain In eastern, rain or enow In western portion on Friday, Saturday iair. x For Ohio Rain on Friday; increasing east to soutn winas; Saturday enow and coidtr. Foi Nebraska-Snow on Friday, except jar in extreme west portion. , Saturday fair. Fo. Wisconsin Rain or snow on Friday: Saturday fair; winds becoming east and lncrcaFlng. For Minnesota Rain or snow on Friday; baturday iair; variable winds. For Arkansas Rain and colder . on Friday; Saturday fair. For Oklahoma -and Indian Territory Cloudy on Friday ana Saturday. For North Dakota Fair on Friday, except snow In central and southeast portions; Saturday fair. Local Observations on Thursday. Rar. Thr. It. II. Wind. Wathr. Pre. T a. ;n 30.4 30 f 2 Kait. Clear. 0.00 T p. ii 50.22 4S 63 East. Clear. ' 0.00 Maximum temperature. 12; minimum temperaVitra 9 Comparative statement of the mean temperaxurs ana toiai precipitation on reD. :tr. Temn. Pre. Normal , 33 - .13 Jleaa 4) ,0i Departure J .n Jeparture since Feb. 1 78 .82 DepartUtti since Jan. 1 13 .89 rius. W. T. BLYTHE. Section Director. Yesterday Temperatures. Ftatkns. ' AMlei. Tx Amarillo. Tex. ... Antonio, Tex. .... Atlanta. Ga. ..... Jlimarelc. N. ,D.. 7 a. in. ... 40 ... 24 Max. 44 50 4 7 P. m. 42 2 IS 43 11 S2 HufUIo. X. Y 3 62 SH 2 24 43 U 4 So 34 4 : 30 43 41 4 62 2 42 44 44 70 40 ?Js .O? 64 41 M 34 M C4 4 rt 31 4 34 5 E? &) 4 30 3 42 M 42 30 62 41 'A 42 62 34 .Cairo. III. Calsrarr. N. AV. T.. Chattanooca. Term 6 :o 34 Chej-eine, Wjo. 2 30 20 40 M 42 Chkago. III. Cincinnati, O : Cleveland. O. Columbus. O 14 44 Concordia, Kan. Davenport. Ia. 50 2 m 2S m 40 2 28 Denver. Col. Dod.ce CUj. Kan Dubiwiue. la. C Duluir. Minn. 16 Kl l'aio. Tex S C.ahfftrn. Tex f.2 Grand Junction. Col 18 Ctrmnd Haven. Mich..... 3) Havre. Mont. 12 Helena, M"nt. 24 4: 38 41 M 32 34 28 40 Duron. S. D 1 M SO 24 34 Jacksonville. Fla. ... 66 40 Kanras City. Mo Llttl Rock. Ark 42 IK Iulvllle. K SO Marquette, Mich 20 Memphis. Tenn 40 V.V1 n. Utah 1 Montgomery. Ala. 16 40 32 M Nashville;? Tenn 58 60 New Orleans. La.. New York citj Norfolk. Va ro rs so 60 40 44 SO 34 34 60 4 44 4 48 32 24 M 44 M ?4 r. 4S :t t1UUI t UUr, Li. ........... , Oklahoma. O. T Oman. Palestine, Tex. Parkerpbure. W. Va. Philadelphia. T&. pltthurr. Pa Puetlo. Col 3 r 4 24 2S :4 10 1 Qu'-Arrlle. W. T Kapfd City. h. v 22 Ht. Ixu1s. M.M 34 Ft. Faul. Minn 2 Fait Lka CUt 2D" Fanta Fe. N. M Fhrveport. I.a. Fprlnrneld. 111. Fprintrfleld, Mo. 12 4 28 34 24 24 34 VaJentln. et. Vlckbur. Mls TVah! niton. D. C Wichita. Kan. 36 IIOVEHENTS OF STEAMERS. NEW YORK. Feb. K. Arrived: Palatla. from Genoa and Naples; Rotterdam, from Itotterdam; Koenlgcn 1-ulse, from Rremen. Sailed: La Champagne, for Havre. QUEENSTOWX. Feb. 26. Arrived: Germanic, from New York. Sailed: Oceanic, from Liverpool, for New York. CHERBOURG. Feb. K.-Sallcd: KaJ?er Wilhelm Der Grouse, from Bremen and Southampton, for New York. NAPLES. Feb. 26. Arrived: Trave, from New York, and sailed for Genoa. PRAWI, rOINT, Feb. 2. Paused: Mesaba. from New York, for London. LIVERPOOL. Feb. 2T. Arrived: Haverford, from Philadelphia. TO CI' RE A COLD IX 0.U DAY Take the genuine Laxative Bromo-Quinlne. Call'for the full name and insist on the box hieb beam the signature of E.V.Grove. 23c

his calculations. Ills motion carried and the bill died. The senators who had done

their best to help out their home folks looked at each -other and laughed. "Well we did the best we could for our people," they said, "and that was all we could do. A funny feature of the situation was that a Jew senators were so hard at work on amendments that they did not know the bill had been killed until too late. The wheels of the Senate are grinding fast. Twenty-four bills were passed by the body yesterday and four were killed. Sen ate MUS XO. 241, 153. 331. VJ3, . JZM. 2. 2. 112. 203. 214. a7 and 262, and House bills Nos. 31. 122. 117. 93. 148. 175, and 25H were passed, and Senate bills Nos. 23.1 and 3") and House bills Nos. 127 and 243 were killed. Twenty-four bills were advanced to en grossment. Senate bills Nos. 323. 372. 313, IM. ), El. and House bills No3. 170, 2S3. 7, 12, 87. 43, C5, 101. SI. 221. 152, 201, 33S, 2G. 112. 167. 113, 221 and 373 passed this critical stage. Senate committees reported favorably on the following bills: Senate bills Nos. 101, 317, 34, 373, and House bills Nos. 252, 30S, 72. 10. 174. 338. XX 24. 213 and 379. Senate. bill No. 357 and House bills Nos. 340 and Zb were indefinitely postponed. 1 - GAMUT OF LEGISLATIVE ACTION. Ollis In All Stages Ilefore the House In the 3Iorn I ii sr. The House ran the gamut, of legislative action during the forenoon session yesterday, receiving new bills and committee reports and considering bills on both sec ond and x third reading. Six bi!ls, all of them House measures, were passed, the moat Important being the Kirkman bill for the regulation of the practice of optometry, creating a state board of examination and providing that all opticians must be licensed, and the- Btechhan bill providing for a commission to Investigate the problem of convict labor and report to the next General Assembly. The optlciais bill met with opposition from Representative Boyd and other members, who Join with him In opposing all profession creating" measures, but it went through by a vote of 53 to 2S. The bill pro vides that practicing opticians must be licensed, but does not lnteiXere with men already practicing the profession and does not prohibit the selling of spectacles by persons who do not pretend to examine the eyes and prescribe. The other bills passed were local in char acter. The following bills . were reported from committee for passage: Senate bills Nos. 363. 250. 292. 2SO. 221. 271. 110. 256, 134. 272. and House bills Nos. 208, 270, 422, 300, 412, 438. The following bills were recommended for indefinite postponement: Senate bill Nos. 111. 142. 21S. and House bills Nos. 139. 37. 301, 138, 350. Senate bill No. 263. one of those recom mended for passage, is the electric railroad consolidation bill Introduced by Senator ugborn. The bill was introduced Feb. 20. advanced to engrossment Feb. 24, passed by the Senate the next day, handed down on nrst reading in Ihe House the same day it passed the Senate and reported from the House committee on railroads yesterday morning as the first business of the session. The following House bills were considered on second reading: Nos. 273. 268. 28. 404. 407. Sfi3. 390, 403, 382. 3S4. 299. 431. 3S3. 410. 327. 66. 421. All or. them were advanced to engrossment except No. 3S3 Pepple creating the Indiana navai reserve corps of BOO men. which was inaennitely postponed without discussion. House bill No. 362 Stansburv chaneincr tne law regulating: the letting of contracts for county printing so as to provide for the letting of the contracts in four classes in stead of three. . was taken ud on second reading Just before noon. Representative black onered an amendment striking out the provision that the county commission ers migni reject any and ail bids, and then, witnm ten days, without readvert sins. might let the contract to any person or 'firm that submitted a bid lower than those considered originally. Black spoke in sunport or his amendment charging that the provision he sought to strike out was one that would result solely in the Interests of the large printers of the State. "Under this bill as it now stands." he said, "the large printing establishments will not seek to secure the contracts on the first bid. but will induce the commissioners to reject the bids and will then submit a bid a shade lower than the lowest one orig inally onered and secure the contract. The commissioners should have the right to re ject any and all bids, but then they should reaavertise for proposals, and my amend ment makes that provision. It should be adopted, for the bill in its present shape will work a great injustice on the small printers of the State." . The House adjourned without takine final action on the amendment, but it was the first thing taken up at the afternoon ses sion and was adopted. The bill was then advanced to engrossment. GARD DILL IN HOUSE. Majority of the Committee Will Re port in Favor of It To-Day. The Iiouse committee on fees and salaries has at last decided to report the Gard bill. Increasing the salaries of county officers, but the report, which will be submitted to day, will be a divided one, the majority of the committee recommending the passage of the bill, with certain amendments. The minority report has not been definitely de termined upon, but three of the members refused to agree to the majority recom mendation and said that they would pre pare another report. The amendments recommended by the ma jority are as follows: Strike out the provi sion giving the county auditors 10 per cent. of the Interest collected on school fund loans; reduce the allowance to recorders from 50 per cent, of all fees turned in over and above the amount of their salaries to 30 per cent.; reduce the allowance to treas urers of 10 per cent, of ail delinquent taxes collected to 8 per cent., and to provide that the minimum salaries .of these officers in any county of the State shall be J1.000: in other words, in the smaller counties, where the population is. not sufficient to give tho ofheers a salary or 1,000 under the Gard bill, they shall be paid that amount. The Democratic members of the Iiouse caucused against the Gard bill in its original form, but one of the Democrats on the committee-Joins In the majority recommen dation for the passage of the bill with these amendments. Even In its amended form, however, the Gard bill will meet with determined opposi tion, and it is extremely doubtful If it can pass, the Iiouse. Some of the members of the committee wno join in tne majority report aro not unqualified in their Indorsement of the bill as amended, and they will not be sorry to see It killed. The report of the committee Is due in no small degree to the energetic efforts of the lobby of county officials to get the bill before tho Iiouse on some kind of a committee report. SALi: OF DEADLY WEAPONS. Illll Prohibiting It la Indefinitely Postponed In the Honse. The bill prohibiting the exposure for sale and regulating the sale and carrying of dangerous and deadly weapons was indefi nitely postponed by the House when it came up on second reading yesterday after noon. The bill Is one that was prepared in accordance with the suggestion of the Gov ernor that a law should bo enacted that would place greater strictures on the carrying of concealed weapons, and it was stated that it had been approved by the attorney general. Representative Bell introduced the bill. The bill provides that It shall be unlawful for any one to expose for sale in any win dow or showcase any deadly or dangerous weapon that can be carried concealed about the person, and that before any one can purchase such a weapon he must receive a permit from the county sheriff. Heavy penalties were provided for the violation of the provisions of the bill. Representative Luhrlng made the motion to indefinitely postpone, and he followed it with a speech in which he argued that the only effect of the bill would be to give foreign mall-order houses a monopoly of the sale of deadly weapons in Indiana. Inter state-commerce laws, he said, prevented the passage of a law that would prevent mail-order houses from -selling such weap ons in Indlav.a. The bill discriminated un justly against home dealers and would not lessen the evil of carrying deadly weapons and the crimes that result from such prac tices. Representative Boll spoke for the bill. urging that, while It did not prevent mallorder houses from selling weapons In the State. It contained provisions regulating the carrying of such weapons that would tend greatly to reduce the evil. The motion to kill the bill prevailed by a vote of Gl to 23. Honse bills Nos. 400. 417. 414. 347. 2t3 and 2S3 and Senute bills Nos. 216. 35. 200. 232, 213.

'GIBSON and klp. 240, 233, 222. 184 and 8i were considered cn second reading and advanced without opposition. The motion to reconsider the vote by which the House on Wednesday defeated the bill authorizing telephone companies to erect their poles along public highways was called up by Mr. Miller and carried. Mr. Miller then offered a motion to recommit. with Instructions to report an amendment providing that the poles or the telephone companies should not be erected in places where they would Interfere -with traffic or ingress or egress to or from abutting property, and this motion prevailed. Tho report was at once offered and the Dili piacea on its passage. The vote showed 77 ayes to 9 noes. Mr. AVellona, of Brown, made an ef fort to defeat the bill, but he could accom plish nothing. House Din AO. 319. repealing ine law pro viding that township trustees shall be ineligible to re-election, was Indefinitely postponed on motion by Mr. Wellons. An effort was made to table the motion to postpone, but It failed by a vote of 37 to 55. Stechhan's bill nrovldlnsr ror an inheri tance tax was handed down on third reading, but it was found to be Incorrectly engrossed and it was recommitted with instructions to make the necessary correc tions. A number of unimportant measures were passed, all of which are shown In the legis lative routine. A resolution offered bv Mr. Somers. of Allen, providing that the stenographers of the House should be given an extra allowance equal to the amount paid by them for the rental of typewriters, was adopted without a dissenting voice. The Iiouse concurred in the Senate amendments to House bill No. 74, the Indianapolis police pension fund bill. Just before adjournment the committee on railroads submitted a unanimous favorable report on Senator Gray's railroad con solidation bill. STATE TUITION LEVY. It Will Not Be Increased from Eleven to Sixteen Cents. Despite ome belief that has existed to the contrary the General Assembly will not increase the stato school tuition levy from 11 cents to 15 cents. The Republicans , of the Senate have -decided that the Increase proposed Is unnecessary and would be a useless burden upon the taxpayers. They believe, however, that counties requiring more funds for local schools should be af forded some means1 relief, and a plan has been drafted which will give such counties the assistance asked for while at the same time preventing an additional levy in the whole State. Iiouse bill No. 10, which will be taken up as a special order of business by the Senate this morning at 11 o'clock, provides that the state tuition levy shall be Increased from 11 cents to 16 cents, but the bill will not be suffered to go through In its present form. An amendment will be introduced and adopted, undoubtedly, striking out the section providing for a general increase and substituting a section which will give counties in need of more money for their schools the right to levy a maximum local school tax of 50 cents Instead of 35 cents, as the law now provides. This plan is considered sufficiently thor oughgoing by the Republican senators since it gives every community that needs more money the chance to raise it locally. There is no wisdom in a bill, the majority believes, which forces a general Increase, since the necessity for relief Is not general. House bill No. 10 was called up In the Senate yesterday by a Democrat, Mr. Askren. An enort was maae to rusn it tnrongn but Senator Ball and other Republicans blocked the way and got through a motion to make the bill a special order for to-day. It is said that the Democrats in a body will fight for political ammunition the amend ment to be offered, but that the Republicans will stand together on the proposition that the people are not flemandlnsr a gen eral increase of 6 cents tor school purposes. Board of Commerce Bill. Representative Mummert, who stands sponsor for the State Board of Commerce bill repealing the Artman and Barrett, mu nlclpal Improvement laws and providing a new statute governing municipal Improve ments in cities of less than 20,000 popula tlon, stated last night that he had been as sured by Senator Ball, chairman of the Senate committee on cities and towns, that the bill will be reported to-day for pas sage. It was reported yesterday mat tne Senate would probably defeat the bill, or that it would be permitted to die in com mlttee. but Mr. Mummert has labored dill contly to get the committee to report the bill and he insists that II the Mil die it must meet death on the floor of the Senate, The bill passed the House with little op position. Telephone Pole BUI. The bill passed yesterday by the Iiouse giving telephone companies the same privi leges in setting poles on public highways and private lands that telegraph companies enjoy is said to be a' throroughly meritor ious measure. It will prevent the holdingup of telephone companies. It is pointed out, by those who might desire to take advantage of the absence or a definite statute covering the point. The bill pro vides that farmers and others damaged by the setting out of telephone poles shall be reimbursed for actual damages. The measure has cone to the Senate, and will probably be acted on finally the first of next week. Aftnlnat South Ilend Bill. It was intimated last night that the friends of the South - Bend charter bill. which has been called the "South Bend ripper." would not insist on Its passage and that it would bo quietly dropped. The Senate majority held two caucuses at which the bill was considered, and a caucus of the House majority was called, but at the request of Representative Talcott, of South Bend, who Introduced the bill in the House, the Iiouse caucus was called off. The sentiment against the bill was such among the Republicans that it has been decided inadvisable to attempt to force It through as a caucus measure. Against the Gray BUI. The members of the Cass County Bar Association yesterday morning held an indignation meeting condemning the Gray railroad consolidation bill passed by the Senate, and adopted resolutions denouncing the bill as a vicious measure. A committee of representative lawyers and business men was appointed to carry the resolutions to this city and use their best efforts to secure the defeat -of the bill in the House. Party lines were eliminated and the bill was freely denounced, by the attorneys present. Mr. Bamberger In the Chair. Representative Bamberger, of Marion county, was given a taste of the pleasures of presiding over the Iiouse yesterday afternoon. The speaker called him to the chair and for half an hour his friends on the floor endeavored to a muss themselves at his expenss. They seemed to derive some

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A POOR KtETt-R OF the: Mout fAS SOME UNIQUE CA to 5 T u c K. SK" for ONE little fun from it, but Bamberger presided with the dignity and precision of the tried parliamentarian and the efforts to Tattle" his were futile. LEGISLATIVE ROUTINE. Bllla on Third Ileadlns In llonnc. II. B. 150 Stechhan Permitting justices of the peace of Center township, Marion county, to appoint substitutes while they take vacations. Passed 72 to 1. IL B. 33&-Branch-Authorizlng Martins ville to issue $20.000 bonds to pay for a school house.- Pat-feed 76 to O. H. B. 51-Edwards Permitting Bedford to borrow money for school purposes. Passed 75 to 0. II. ß. 32SKirkpa trick Providing restric tions for the practice of optometry and for a state board of examination. Passed 5ti to 28. H. B. 2ra-Wilson-Providin: for a tax of one mill, instead of six-tenths of a mill, on th $100 for publie libraries. Passed 77 to 6. H. B. 2iG-Stechhan-Providing for a board to study and report on prison con tract labor question. Passed 66 to 6. H. B. 35 Boder Authorizing school trustees of incorporated towns to borrow money for school purposes. Passed 4 to 3. ' II. B. 305 jacKley forbidding the pay ment of wages in whole or In part by orders. Passed SO to 1. H. B. S13 Lewis, of Fountain Repealing law which makes township trustees inel igible to re-election. Indefinitely postponed. II. is. 367 Stutesman Authorizing gov ernment employes working on surveys of geological survey of the United States to enter Indiana. Passed 73 to 5. H. B. 401 Stansbury Changing the time of holding court in the Twenty-first Judicial circuit. Passed si to 1. II. B. 352 Somers Concerning the pay ment of - the cost of public improvements that affect school property in the city of Fort Wayne. Passed 76 to 0. II. B. 235 Sparks Enabling the city of Rushville to issue bonds for school purposes. Passed 64 to 3. II. B. 353 Harley Permitting telephone companies to erect their poles along public highways. Recommitted, amended and passed 77 to , , II. B. 356 Beckman Providing that land Bdld under school fund mortgage foreclosures may be, paid for in cash. Passed 77 to 0. -'.- II. B. 180 Cantwell Providing for the publication of notices of allowances made by common councils in cities of less than 20.000. Passed M to 28. H. B. 370 Boulden Providing for the placing of low-water alarms on steam boilers. Passed-O to 10. 11. B. 4 Zallman Enabling the city of Jeffersonville to issue bonds for school purposes. Passed 74 to L " If evr House Bills. No. 44S-Ba1rd-Raising per diem of township trustees from $2 to $3. County and Township Business. No. 449-Hamilton Raising . salary of recorder of Greene county from 11.500 to $2,200. Fees and Salaries. No. 450 Adair Limiting the pressure under which natural gas may be pumped to 100 pounds. Judiciary. m M No. 451 Pepple Providing that warden of State Prison shall conduct the artificial propagation of food fish and distribute the same. Rights and Privileges. No. 453-TaIcott Authorizing the city of South Bend to issue bonds for school purposes. Education. SLAYER OF WOMEN.. (CONCLUDED FROM FIRST PAGE.) , miles below the city, and having failed, the search for her body may be abandoned. In that event It is probable Knapp cannot be held here, as the only evidence against him Is his own conflicting statements. If he is not held here he would be taken either to Cincinnati or Indianapolis, where there are cases of record for Indictment. As he could be transferred to Cincinnati without requisition papers it is most likely that he will be taken to that city for trial on one of three murder cases there. Knapp talks much of the Pearl Bryan murder, and is afraid of being lynched. Despite assurances of no danger of lynch ing, he is frightened and does not want to be taken from the county Jail. Unless prevented by his attorney it is expected that Knapp will make further confessions. He is now suspected of Strang ling three women at Evansville, Ind., and to have assaulted and killed women else where. He was in the Cincinnati Houso of Refuge when seventeen years old, and new f records are being discovered almost hourly, It is alleged Knapp has served several terms In various prisons for burglary, lar ceny and criminal assault. THREE CINCINNATI MYSTERIES. The Crimes Alleged to Have Ileen Committed by Knapp. CINCINNATI, Feb. 26. The three raur ders which Albert A. Knapp confessed committing in Cincinnati could never be solved by the police. Two were dropped as "suicides" and the third as a "sträng ler" mystery. The dead body of Emma Littleman was found on June 21, 1894, in the lumber yard here designated by Knapp In his confes slon. The girl's body was about half un der a lumber pile. The police made an ex haustlve examination, but were able to secure no evidence of a tangible nature Despite the position in which the body lay the detectives finally said that it was their opinion that she had committed suicide. The finding of the dead body of Mrs Jennie Knapp in the canal a few years ago was a crime which puzzled the police of this city and Hamilton. The body was cut and there were marks on the woman's throat which indicated that she had been choked to death. The mystery in the case had remained as" deep as ever until the confession of Knapp. Mrs. Jennie Knapp was a Cincinnati woman, and before her marriage was well known - in Cumminsville. She was killed on Aug. 7, 1S94. Knapp says he killed the woman under the canal bridge at Liberty street, and then threw her body Into the water. lie evidently strangled her, Just as he hadk other vie tims. before the body was cast into the water. It is possible that in falling into the water the woman sustained cuts and bruises by coming In contact with stones alongside the bank. This case was worked upon by the police, but Knanp was never suspected. He said at the time that his wife had left home without telling him where she had gone, and he went to the home of her sister to search for her. The TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY Take the genuine Laxative Bromo-Quinina. Call for the full nam and Insist on the box which bears ths signature of E. w.Grove. ZSc

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police arrived at the conclusion that the woman had committed suicide. . ,, , . , , , . I The Mary Lckhart murder had been enshrouded In mystery until Knapp made his I confession. The woman was found strangled in a house on Walnut street. A towel had been used to. strangle her. This heinous crime was committed Aug. 7, 1S94. Headquarters detectives worked unremittingly without unearthing any tangible evidence. The late Colonel Deitsch and others tried to solve the mystery, and they wound up their efforts by declaring that the man

who killed Mary Eckhart also committed the circumstances of the murder to Warother crimes at Denver and elsewhere I den Harley and told the warden his sub-

throughout the country. His methods were likened to those of "Jack the Ripper." The parents of Knapp to-night said Al1 1 u! 1 .14 bort was insane and his confessions could not be believed. Albert had irlven them so I much trouble they believed he would be KttA AaoA r. ai ivÄ,öt vi. ,!,,,. I better dead. Mrs. Sadie 1 enzel. his sister. on hearing of the confession went to the Cincinnati police headquarters and thence A T T II. I . . . 1 1 I iu -I1U.II111LUI1. one eaiu ner uroiuer wneu 1 five years old was kicked by a colt at Twenty-mile Prairie, 111., and later struck by lightning at Terre Haute, and but tor her parents she would have. had him adiudered insane. She said Hannah Kntnn separated her from her husband, who lives In Chicago. She denounced those who charged Albert with giving her Jewelry, that had belonged to his deceased wives. Began Ills Career at Terre Haute. TERRE HAUTE. Ind., Feb. 26.-Albert A. Knapp, the confessed murderer, began his career of crime In Terre Haute. He mar ried his first wife. Miss Emma Stubbs, in Terre Hauto on Nov. 19, 1883. He was arrested on Jan. 25, 1884, for larceny and on l eh. Z7 pleaded guilty and was sentenced to the Jeffersonville Reformatory for one year. His wife, who was only seventeen years cr age. secured a divorce shortly after he was sent to prison and later left In diana. LOUISVILLE. Ky.. Feb. 26. Efforts to night to locate Emma Stubbs Knapp, who is said to bo in this city, proved unavailing. Was Disagreeable at Mnncte. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MUNCIE, Ind.. Feb. 26. Albert A. Knapp formerly lived in Hunde. In 1S95 he was employed by James Boyce in the construc tion of the Boyce block. Wallace Sessilne, the foreman In charge of the work, re members the man well. Nothing is known of the woman with whom he lived while here. Ivnapp remained here for some time. öessune says mat tne man was generally disagreeable while here and made few friends. The Evansville Cases. EVANS VI LLE, Ind., Feb. 26. The police do not believe Knapp had anything to do witn tno muruer or tno tnreo women strangled to death here in 190L Policeman Sherwell was Indicted for the three crimes, acquitted of two and the third is still pend ing. There 13 no evidence that Ivnapp was ever in Evans vine. WniTES TO .WIFE NO. 4. Knapp Kills Ills Letter vvith Protes tations of Affection. Mrs. Albert A. Knapp, No. 4, formerly Anna Gamble, yesterday received the fol lowing letter from her husband, dated from the Hamilton, O., Jail: Hamilton, O., Feb. 25. "My Darling Little Wife: 'l will drop you a few lines to let you know how I am getting along. It looks very dark for me, and we will have to ex pect the worst. I don t know what they will do with me, but I expect it will be life in prison at Columbus, O. They are on ths track of Hannah, but have not found her. but may have found her by the time you get this letter. I won t write much this time. but as soon as you answer this letetr I will WTlte more. "O my darling sweetheart. It is hard to be parted from you. Be a good girl for Allle, and take good care of yourself. Tou know what l mean, don t you 7 write me a nice, long, loving letter, and don't you forget your 'kid,' and he will never forget you, his little sweetheart, as long as he lives. 1 will xeu you an in my next letter, write just as soon as you get -this. How is 'daddy 7 With love and kisses I will close. "Your loving husband until death. Get our marriage certificate from the police. Write at once. "From Allie to Annie. "Address Alfred A. Knapp, Hamilton, O. Butler county Jail." KNAPP IN THIS CITY. Ills Career Filled vrlth the Atrocious Crimes. Most The confession of Albert Knapp at Ham ilton of the murder of little Ida Gebhard in 1S95 clears up one of the most mysterious cases of assault and murder ever known to the people of Indianapolis, and solves tho mysteries attached to acts of incen diarism that have visited country residents of Marion county during the past three months by connecting Knapp. the self-con-fessed wife murderer, with the burning of the barns of Albert A. Womack, ex-sheriff of Marlon county, and Omer Boardman, a resident of the county, who was one of the jurymen who sent Knapp to the neniten tlary for ten years for committing a crim inal assault on Kessle Drapier, of this city. The known Indianapolis crimes of Knapp were the murder and assault of the three year-old West Indianapolis child Ida Geb hard, whose mother subsequently died of a broken heart: two incendiary crimes: crlml nal assault on Miss Drapier, for which he was imprisoned in the Indiana Prison for six years, and later the deception of Anna Gamble, his fourth wife and a woman of

Indianapolis, whom he married in October Nothing has been heard from him since last. This marriage was thought by the then. police to have been a commission of The confession of Knapp recalls to West bigamy, and should it have been impossible Indianapolis people the suspicion that restto convict Knapp of wife murder he would ed on him temporarily at the time of the have been brought to Indianapolis and murder. Knapp lived with a sister in tried for bigamy. The murderer expedited rooms over J. C. McCain's grocery and dur.

Justice, however, as by his own confession

no i ma euusiuuieu me crime ot muraer for I wle cuuu b wwjf iuib. .icv&in spoKe tO her bigamy and made possible his conviction hvsband of the possibility of Knapp knowin the Ohio court on his own admissions. ing something about it, as she had observed

Since the facts of Knapp s many crimes have become known in detail It has de veloped that the infamous crime of the murder of Ida Gebhard has been known to several men in Marlon county for several years since 1836, and has nver been made public before. Neither has any attempt been made to bring the murderer to Justice for the crime. He executed a written confession to 8herlff Albert A. Womack of the murder and also of the crime of assault, for which he had been imprisoned, in the presence of omack. Warden Charley liar ley and an official stenographer, Mrs. James O Bear, who now lives in Delphi, MIGHT HAVE SAVED LIVE3. Persons who have been familiar with facts heretofore unknown say that 11 Wo-

mack and the West Indianapolis men who heard of the Knapp confession several years ago would have made the facts public and secured Knapp's Indictment for

murder and rearrested him when ne was released from the penitentiary in 1902 that his third wife, Hannah Goddard Knapp, who was murdered by him In Hamilton, O., on Dec 22, 1912, and her body thrown in the Miami river, would have been still alive and unknown to Knapp, and that his In dianapolis wife, formerly Anna Gamble, would have been in no way connected with the man. It would also hav saved the loss of about S11.000 In property and two acts of incendiarism by the versatile criminal, who Is Kullty on his own confession. of nearly every rrime from petit larceny to murder. In the confession given to v omack Knapp detailed the murder of the little girl, which had ud to that time been a mystery, lie described how he had killed the child in a barn in West Indianapolis by beating her with a hatchet, assaulted her and finally crowded her body Into a small box and left it lying in the barn on July 19. 1S6. He described his connection with tne assault of the Drapier. girl and told of all his ac tions while living in Marion county. The confession was properly attested and was secured through the agency 01 Charles Jones, another prisoner sent to Michigan City from Indianapolis. Jones had been closely associated with Knapp during his confinement In the Jail In this city and from several remarks Knapp had made unguardedly he became convinced that his fellow-prisoner knew something of the Geb hard murder, which was still fresh In the minds of the people, a number of arrests on suspicion of complicity In the crime having kept the case alive. Jones insinu ated several times to Knapp that the mur der mystery worried him .and during nis sleep, which was in the same cell with Knapp, he would have fake nightmares, in which he would talk of the child's mysterious death. He continued these nightmares and reported to Womack that they wer having their effect and he was more 111 IIIIV lunv 11r.ru man ivrr l IIa. u ivnapp k at)0Ut tne murder than he Dre. tended. SECURED A CONFESSION. When Knapp was taken to the Prison North to serve his sentence of ten years. which was secured for him by Sheriff Womack, who found much of the evidence that landed him in the penitentiary. Jones was sent with him, having been tried and awarded . imprisonment shortly after Knapp.. At the prison the. sheriff related prions. Mr, Harley coincided with him jn the belief tht a continuation of the taotics adopted would do no harm and placed Jones and Knapp in the pame tier of cells, emitted them to associate with each nth,r Klnall v the effort was successful. and Knapp informed the prison officials max. ne wisnea ia mass a. Mdiemtiu ui a . th t he had committed, but on which he had never been tried. Mr. Harley telegraphed for Sheriff AV omack, who went I U Ul 1SUI1. UU, .HCl 1UU.U ViUT.llVililbt .1 - t. r lilt: Jr uicn iumy uv oivi vr uu w . the picst atrocious and brutal crimes ever visited orr the community. he public ihen It w dUcore3 three weeks after her disappearance from her home. 12 Wood burn avenue. West lnaianapous. on juiy iy, ijtjo. xne cnua naa been searched for all over the city and descriptions of the little one as she had last appeared, wearing a little pink pinafore and considerably larger than the average three-year-old baby, were telegraphed and communicated to all small towns in the vicinity of Indianapolis. Little children were picked up on the streets for Ida Gebhard and the police and detective force, assisted by the newspapers of the cltj', spent tneir entire time in searching for the little one. The mysterious disappearance had ceased to be a matter of news interest when J. J. Williams and William Silvers found all that was left of the little one. Prayers had been offered in the churches and hundreds of men had devoted much time to the search, when Williams and Silvers, who lived on River avenue, went into the alley in the rear of their home to play baseball. The position taken by Wil liams to catch the ball thrown him by Silvers was close to the woodshed of the Gebhard home on Woodburn avenue. While standing there Williams detected a pecu liar odor that seemed stranse to him. and when he called SUvers's attention to it the two men began a search for a cause of the stench. They soon found that it came from a box, which, heaped with other boxes m the Gebhard stable, was securely fastened by a board cover. They pried the uoaras joose and were hornned to find the mutilated and decomposed body of the little girl, her pink frock soiled by her life's Diooa ana her pretty little face mutilated I beyond recognition bv the cruel blows from I a hatchet; her hair matted with blood that had flowed from an uelv wound on her head. The hatchet, rusted and corroded with blood, and the little hat. bloody and masnea out of shape, wero found lying under the child. The body showed evi dences of the fiendish cruelty and brutality 01 tne murderer. EXCITEMENT WAS INTENSE. After the discovery of the murder excite ment in West Indianapolis and In the city was at a fever heat. The Gebhard home attracted hundreds of men, and talk of lynching was as frequent as expressed suspicion of the supposed murderer. Had the murderer been captured it seemed cer tain that he w.ould have summary-justice. as the indignation of the entire community was so great that the police officials were fearful lest an innocent man might suffer from the vengeance of the mob. After some plan of search had been for mulated and many rumors - and theories proven groundless, John R. Llnson, a railway engineer of dissolute habits, was sus pected as the guilty man. Llnson was an uncle of Silvers and at one tims lived with him. The old man had been seen in the neighborhood of the Gebhard stable at the time of the disappearance of the child, and nia inaDiiiiy to satisfactorily explain nis whereabouts or establish an alibi because of his poor mental condi tlon rrom the use of alcoholic and narcotic stimulants, led the do lice to believe that in a state of idiocy Llnson had committed the crime. After he had recovered from the effects of the morphine and whisky with which he was Influenced when arrested Llnson explained where he nad Deen and arter a tew days was re leased. One of the chief reasons for sua I pectlng him was that he seemed to have something bothering- him, and, durinc his connnemeni. ne ioia tne story of his past. wnich was interesting at the time. Llnson had. It seems, been sent to the penitentiary in California for murder and had been released from prison by a pardon from the Governor, who had been an uttorney for his defense. Linson's extenuating motive ior tne crime saved him from the gallows. Ills story was that a sixteen-vear-olrf sis ter had been ruined by his victim and that he had followed him all over the world to be avenged. From India to Australia he had pursued him, and when he found him in San Francisco he murdered him in cold Diooa. Vinson excused himself for the crime by saying that his baby sister had been left in his care by his dead mother, and that he reproached himself for his neglect and tne subsequent ruin of his sister until he had atoned for it by killing Via lsrAla AM PARENTS WERE SUSPECTED. After Linson's release little was heard of the Gebhard murder. George Gebhard, the father, and hl3 wife moved to Michigan and shortly after their departure from here were suspected of knowing more about the murder than was. at first supposed. This suspicion was without foundation and a few weeks afterwards Mrs. Gebhard's death was announced. The broken-heared mother had been prostrated with grief, ami after the details of the horrible crimo had been told her she succumbed and after a lingering illness died of excessive grief. The fa ther, George Gebhard, broken-hearted and dispirited at the cruel death of hin oniv cn.iu aim mc iuss oi nis Wlie, SOld his Michigan farm and left for Germanv to Join the friends and family of his vouth ln8 the excitement after the discovery of that he was more than ordinarily Interested in the search for the murderer. McCain discredited his wife's suspicions and thought nothing more of It. The Common Council ot west Indianapolis, of which Mc Cain was a memoer, ottered a reward for Knapp's arrest, and A. Ii. Tolin. then mayor of the suburb, made every effort to secure information that would lead to the arrest and conviction or tne murderer, but without avail. In 1S96 Charles Jones, the prisoner to wnom j.ni& ioia me story or nis crime, applied to the West Indianapolis author ities for ths reward. He told th itnrv but it was not believed, and although detectives were employed to substantiate the confession, nothing was accomplished. Ths written coniession or Knapp and the state-

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I wis taking Dr. Miles Restorative Nervine for nervous trouble and saw it was recommended for fits, so I thought I would see if it would help hira. All three doctors had riven him up. One-half bottle stopped the fits and his limbs straightened, ana anotner ootue curea him. He is now a strong, healthy boy goinjj to school. I have waited to see if the old trouble returned, before writing; you.4 but it never has. I cannot praise Dr. Äliles Nerv ine enough, as 1 know it saved ray boys life." Mrs. Uriah Nelson, Lansing, Iowa. All druggists sell and guarantee first bottle Dr. Miles' Remedies. ind tor free book on Nervous and Heart Dif eases. Addrca Dr. Miles Medical Co, F.lkhsrt, lad. DR. SWAIN S HEALTH HOHE 73 Middle Drive, Woodruff 1'Jncf. Superior accommodations Cor cliront an4 ncrvous cases. Aftrrnoon office, 807 N. Illinois st. ment of Jones were kept secret in the hope that evidence might be secured on whlca could bo based a prosecution for the crime. CONFESSION . NOT. SUFFICIENT. Sheriff Womack submitted the confession to Judge Frank McCray, of the Criminal Court, Charles Wiltfle, prosecuting attorney,and his deputy, Fremont Alford, now Judge of the Criminal Court. He suggested that Knapp be pardoned by the Governor for, the crime for which he was undergoing imprisonment in Michigan City and that he be brought to Indianapolis for trial on the charge of murder. Judge McCray and the prosecutors ad vised that nothing be done until Knapp was released from prison. They thought that If ha was released from the one crime he micht escape entirely by refusing to in criminate himself by his own te?timony. and his confession could not be introduced aralnst him. For this reason the caso was dropped without the confession bring made public. It was decided to wait until Knapp was released irora prison ana men arrest him, but when bis release came In 1902 nothing was done, as no persons interested in the case Knew oi me conie?ion. Knaons conviction and sentence to. the penitentiary caused a monetary loss to A. A. Womack and Mr. Boardman. two farmers of the county. Boardman was one of the jurors that convicted Knapp and Womack was instrumental In securing nis convic tion. A few weeks ago Womack s barn. on the Allisonville pike, was burned, causing a loss of $8,000 and about the same time lioardman s barn, in Broad Ripple, was burned. The fires were of incendiary origin and Womack immediately remembered Knapp s threats and because of the motive the man had surmised that Knapp had t nre to the place. He sent to Michigan City and found that Knapp had been released rrom the penitentiary, nut was unanie 10 trace him to Indianapolis. Since the discovery of the man's many crimes Mr. Wo mack thinks it likely that he set nre to both his barn and Boardman's. The crime for which Knapp was sent to the Indiana penitentiary in June. 1S3. was that of criminal assault on Bessie Drapier. Knapp was a rig-picker and while working In the southwest part of town met the, Drapier girl on West Chesapeake street. Ho asked her to come to his home at Wrst and Ray street and take ser-tce as u nurse girl for his child. She agreed and accompanied him. but when he took her by the place where he said he lived she became afraid of him. Her suspicions were cor rect, for on passing an alley Knapp grabbed her and despite her screams and strug gles carried her into the alley. The struggle attracted attention, but Knapp escaped, but later was captured by Sheriff Womack. who. with Matron Buchanan, of the police station, led him Into a trap by using the girl as a decoy. When he was arrested and convicted he promised Womack faithfully that he would live to regret his con nection with his Imprisonment. Another local connection of tho Knapp murders was the visit of Knapp's third wife, the woman murdered In Hamilton, to Lt. E. Ilelnhold. an Indianapolis attorney. Mrs. Knapp called on Relnhold In October last and asked him to secure for her a divorce from Knapp. stating that she was afraid to live with him. tecuse of his threats against her life. It was Impossible to apply for the divorce, because Mrs. Knapp was not a resident of the county. VISIT TO 3inS. KXAPP. Things Learned by Captain Kriger on a. Xlfcltt Visit. Mrs. Albert Knapp was visited last nisht by Captain Kruger in her squalid apartments in the basement of the building at 620 Indiana avenue, but she could toll little concerning her husband. She exhibited a letter she received early yesterday morn ing in which he spoke as though he would get a life sentenco from the Ohio authorities. Mrs. Knapp seemed much perturbed over what she had learned through the newspapers and police concerning her hushand's actions and sId that if he did admit killing the five persons he was surely insane. . She said she will not believe him guilty of the crimes. She said she knew he was weak mentally, for he always com plained of severe pains in his head. She said he was agreeable at times, but had never shown any nervousness cither whoa asleep or awake that would give any Indication that he was guilty of the crime of murder. Mrs. Knapp gave Captain Krugcr a num ber of letters that Knapp had received from his sister and mother in Hamilton. O. Mrs. Knapp said she did not know what they contained. Each of the letters warned Knapp to remain away from Hamilton, as the police were looking for him. One of the letters written by his iter informed Knapp that he had been disowned by his father and mother for some crime that he had com mitted. Hin sister in the letter reprimanded him strongly for bringing 6hame upon his aged parents, saying that he should try and reform, as he had spent the greater part of the forty-one years of his life behind prison walls. Among the letters found In Knapp's trunk was one written by Emma. Webb, his first wife. The letter was written to hira while he was serving sentence In the Michigan City penitentiary. It was a long letter and only contained such matter as would pass from a young woman to the man with whom she was in love. Mrs. Knapp is now in almost destitute circumstances. Captain Kruger before leaving her last night found that she had nothing to eat nor any coal in the houe. Capt. Kruger promised her that h would provide her with these things early this morning. He said the Indianapolis police would take care of her until her foster father is abls to leave the City Hospital. 31 las Alice ItooscTClt's Movements. NEW ORLEANS. Feb. W.-Mlss Allca Roosevelt and Miss Root and a party of New Orleans society people, including Miss Myrtle Stauffer, queen of the Comus ball, left to-day on a special train for Avery's Island, where they will be guests of the Mcllhenny family until Monday. Miss Roosevelt and Miss Root will start for Washington Tuesday. 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