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SIOO,OOO FOR LINDY BABY IS HINTED READY Lindbergh Deposits Large Sum With Agent in New York. CONTACT IS RENEWED’ Mysterious Meeting of U. S. Ship and Plane at Sea Rouses Interest. By Unite* Press NEW YORK, April 18. —Contact with supposed kidnapers of Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh's baby has been re-established, "Jafsie” reported today, as other sources claimed *IOO,OOO additional in ransom money had been deposited here. John F Condon, the negotiator, who paid a $50,000 ransom without effecting the return of the infant, chase to make his statement through a newsreel microphone, saying: "We are in contact with the kidnapers, and the baby will be returned soon, I hope.” Say Contract Is Renewed But behind Condon's announcement several significant reports stood out during the day’s developments, including: Deposit by Colonel Lindbergh of • large sum of money, in currency and gold, with an agent in New York. The Daily News today placed the amount at SIOO,OOO. Activity of United States ships in Martha's Vineyard, Mass., following the appearance of a mysterious amphibian plane at. night. Renewed interest in Norfolk negotiators said to be waiting a visit from the high seas as attested by three phone calls to John Hughes Curtis by Colonel Lindbergh. If Condon has renewed his contact, it must have been sometime Sunday morning, for Saturday he had said he ‘‘still hoped” to get in touch with the kidnapers again. He refused to amplify his newsreel statement and said the public "will understand why.” It was understood that the agent to whom the reported SIOO,OOO was entrusted was authorized to pay the ransom money at any time, day or night. He was bound by only one stipulation, it was said, and that was the money and the baby must be exchanged “on the spot.” Mysterious Sea Meeting The mysterious meeting of the plane with the coast guard destroyer MacDougall occurred early Sunday morning off Menemsha light, near Vineyard Haven, Mass. The destroyer and two picket boats hove to soon after midnight with all lights out. At 1:35 a plane roared overhead. Immediately a red landing flare was set off by the MacDougall. The plane landed alongside, and all lights remained out for thirty minutes. The contact between ship and plane was broken off abruptly by the destroyer turning on its running lights and heading out to sea. Nothing was seen of the plane thereafter. The second United States ship to arouse curiosity was a naval cruiser resembling the U. S. S. Milwaukee. It steamed through Vineyard sound and headed across water in the direction of New York. TAXI DRIVER ON TRIAL FOR MURDER OF FARE ftamiifl W. Wilson Alleged to Have Crushed Passenger’s Skull. Selecting of a criminal court jury for the trial of Samuel W. Wilson, R. R. 7, Box 96, taxi driver charged with the slaying of James Steinberger last Nov. 18, was under way today. Wilson is charged with murder. He claims that Steinberger, a passenger in his cab. was drunk and attempted to avoid paying a $1.20 fare by running across a vacant lot at Noble and Georgia streets. Wilson ran after him and is said to have admitted hitting Steinberger on the head with a rock. He then took $1.20 from Steinberger’s clothes, it is alleged. DRUNK COSTS HIM $lO Carmel Resident Found Asleep in Auto Is Fined by Cameron. Fine of $lO and costs, with the costs suspended, was imposed today by Municipal Judge Clifton R. Cameron in the case of James Howell, R. R. 2, Carmel, convicted of being drunk. Police testified they lound him asleep Sunday in an automobile parked in front of a church, and that twenty minutes’ effort was required to awaken him. • What do you want—a cup of coffee?” Howell is said to have inquired of the officers. Howell said he attended a dance Saturday night at which there was a plentiful supply of home brew.

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VOLUME 43—NUMBER 294

Auto Industry Opens Attack on Tax Bill as Pay Roll Peril

Proposed Excise Measure Is Menace to Efforts to Regain Prosperity, Is Plea. By Unit'd Press WASHINGTON, April 18.—The automobile industry today began its well organized attack upon the motor excise taxes contained in the house revenue bill. George M. Graham, vice-presi-dent of the Rockne Motors Corporation and spokesman for the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce, appealed to the senate finance commtitee to “avert the tax which threatens to frustrate the motor manufacturers’ program of economic recovery through increased employment.” “Our appearance here today is 100 per cent representative,” Graham said. “Your spokesman represents a united industry. The house ways and means committee expected to raise $56,000,000 through a 3 per cent tax on manufactures sales of passenger cars, 2 per cent on trucks and 1 per cent on tires, parts and accessories. The witness said the industry believed such taxes would be “a direc# blow at the nation’s wages.” Graham introduced to the committee many of the leaders of the automobile industry for whom he spoke. “Our business is sicker than it ever has been since it started,” Graham told the committee. “Our chief concern here today is

SENATE PROBES MARKET CRASH Committee Fails to Elicit Cause From Head. By United Press WASHINGTON, April 18.—The senate banking and currency committee studied documents and questioned President Richard Whitney of the New York Stock Exchange for more than two hours today, but failed to bring out in any specific detail the story of the stock market crash. Whitney delivered to the committee a mass of data, including some 24,000 slips supposed to contain orders to sell the market short. This evidence was submitted in accordance with a request of the committee made ten days ago when the committee began its investigation of short selling. Committee members looked hastily through the mass of papers and said they saw many “nationally known names.” A spokesman for the committee added, however, that no names of cabinet members had been noted thus far. It had been reported that a member of the cabinet was on the list. Whitney, in his testimony, continued to defend short selling as a necessary function in the stock market. He maintained that liquidation by security holders was one of the main causes of the falling market. In response to questions, he denied with emphasis that short selling caused the depression in the market. Whitney admitted that he had sold the market short himself In 1929. “I thought the market was too high.” he said when asked the reason for selling short. “But I was wrong.” He doubted if any ' bears” had ; made large profits. SIO,OOO BALM IS ASKED City Man Charges Boarder Alienated Affections of His Wife. Charging aliefiation of affections, William H. Allen, of 55 South La i Salle street, today filed suit in Marion superior court three asking SIO,OOO damages from John L. Mar- [ shall, 2843 North Gale street. Allen charged that Marshall lived lat his home as a boarder for | thirteen months and alienated the affections of his wife, Cora. Earthquake Felt in Chile By United Press SANTIAGO, Chile, April 18.—A short, strong earthquake shock was felt here at 7:05 a. m. today.

Chauffeur for Pershing, Broke, Pleads for Bonus By United Press WASHINGTON, April 18.—A man whose skill as an automobile driver once carried President Hoover and General John J. Pershing across shell-torn battlefields of the World war today told the story of his poverty as a plea for enactment of the veterans’ bonus.

Appearing before a house committee, Edward C. McConnell related how he had been supported by the New York department of charity, unable to obtain a job of any kind. He was chauffeur for Pershing during the World war and for Mr. Hoover when the latter was administrator of Belgian relief. McConnell said he passed a civil service examination with an average of 97 per cent, but had not been able to get a job. He also tried to see Pershing, he said, but had refrained, on the advice of the general secretary. “I am going back to New York now,” McConnell said, “with a ticket a member of congress bought me. But when I get back there, I won't have any more job or anymore home than I have here. shall have to apply to the

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the American pay roll,” he continued. “Every other consideration is unimportant; what the country needs is employment, wages. These are the only factors that can bring permanent economic recovery. “We would not object to a uniform manufacturers’ excise tax,” Graham continued. “We don’t want a bit the best of it, but we don’t think we should get the worst of it.” “Just at the minute the federal budget is balanced, we think the business upturn will begin.” Radio concerns, pointing to “a 50 per cent mortality” and an 80 per cent employment decrease since 1928, protested “being selected out of a large list of manufacturers for tax.

ITALIAN AID IS ASSASSINATED Consular Agent Shot Down in Springfield (III.) Street. By United Press SPRINGFIELD. 111., April 18Police were hampered by lack of clews today in the slaying of John M. Picco, 46, Italian consular agent, here, but were convinced an antiFascist plot was not responsible for the death. Picco was shot down by three gunmen wielding sawed-off shotguns as he started across a street with his son John Jr., 12. The boy escaped injury. Giuseppe Castruccio, Italian consul at Chicago, was making an independent investigation, but announced he found no motive for the slaying. “Picco was a wealthy and honorable citizen,” Castruccio said. “He held the appointive position as consular agent for twenty years, but was an American citizen.” Picco had wide business interests, and it was believed a motive for his murder might be found in these. His home was bombed some time ago and more recently a warehouse had been destroyed in a mysterious fire. His business partner, Caesar Sansone, was shot to death in 1930. Governor L. L. Emmerson received a request from the state department at Washington to file a complete report cn the killing as soon as possible.

DISCUSS PRISON WORK State Officers Consider Plans for Binding Books for Libraries. Plans to bind books for public libraries and others wanting binding done in small lots were made at a meeting today of the penal institutions work allocation board in the office of Governor Harry G. Leslie. John Moorman, Knox, chairman of the Indiana state prison board, explained the binding can be done there with little outlay for tools and no machinery. It will help solve the prison unemployment problem and bring in some revenue to the institution, he predicted. JAILED IN OPjUM CASE American Business Man in Shanghai Sentenced as Smuggler. By United Press SHANGHAI, April 18—Paul S. Crawley, prominent American business man in Shanghai, was sentenced to two years in prison today when he pleaded guilty to charges of smuggling opium into the United States aboard a naval transport.

department of charity again. It's an endless chain, but I believe if you pay the bonus it will help the unemployed veterans a great deal.”

BOY, 7, TOO INFLUENTIAL,’ SAYS CITY

FILING an affidavit asserting that Edward Sosbe, 7, of 2333 North Gale street, wields “undue influence over the citizens of Marion county,” attorneys representing the city today filed for a change of venue from superior court two in a $25,000 damage suit, filed by the father of the boy. The boy was injured last June 26. when run down by an auto driven by slrs. Mollie Chasteen,

PARENTS ARE CHARGED WITH BABY’S DEATH Father Admits Leaving Body of New-Born Infant in Alley, Police Claim. CHILD ‘WASN’T WANTED’ Couple Involved in Sordid Case Were Leaders in University Life. Once the leaders of social life in two mid-western universities, a young couple today faced charges of murder for the alleged slaying of their few-hours-old baby. While the mother, Mrs. Josephine Duckwall Tozier, 25, of 1335 North Alabama street, is receiving medical treatment at city hospital, her husband, Joseph Tozier, 28, today attempted to avoid questioning at the county jail. Formal charges of murder were lodged against the couple by Detective Morris Corbin, who, with Detective Stewart Coleman, unraveled the mystery of a baby’s body which was found in an ash can in the 100 block East Fourteenth street, last Thursday.

“We Didn’t Want It” “We didn’t want it,” was the statement attributed to the young couple after their arrest late Saturday. But today Tozier, worn from the strain, pleaded, “Don’t ask me any more questions.” “I am a graduate of Illinois university and my wife attended De Pauw,” he said. “We met each other in a downtown apartment store where I was employed and Josephine worked last year. “From then on, there’s not much to say. We’ve been through plenty of trouble. Don’t ask me any more questions, please.” Married Last Wednesday Tozier and his wife are scheduled to face arraignment on the slaying count before Municipal Judge William H. Sheaffer Thursday. Tozier and Miss Duckwall were married in Noblesville three days before the baby’s birth Wednesday, at 1510 North New Jersey street. They moved to the Alabama street address Friday. According to friends of the couple, both were prominent in school and social affairs. Their romance originated while both were employed in the gift shop of the department store. Mother Unattended Mrs. Tozier had resided on the north side until several months ago when she made her home with her mother in Noblesville. Detectives said the mother had no medical aid at the birth. Immediately after the baby was born, it is charged, Tozier placed it under a bed and later wrapped it in newspapers and tied the bundle with twine. He earned it to the alley where it was found, detectives charged. Strangulation and a broken neck caused death of the infant, according to Dr. W. E. Arbuckle, coroner, and Dr. John Wyttenbach, deputy. They held it was possible the injuries were suffered at birth. Papers Lead to Arrest “I planned to get rid of it whether it was born dead or alive, boy cr girl,” detectives say the statement of Tozier reads. He says he does not know whether the baby was alive at birth. The papers wrapped about the baby gave the clew which brought arrest of the parents Saturday by Coleman and Corbin. The officers noticed that from one page had been clipped a list of apartments and houses for rent. They obtained a whole page of the paper and began calling at addresses given, resulting in finding the Toziers a-t the Alabama street address.

ADMITS SUICIDE HOAX George Remus “Bodyguard” Hesfi in Buffalo for Questioning* “Cops pestered me,” Earl W. Curry, alleged to have perpetrated a suicide hoax in Indianapolis, in July, 1931, is said to have told police of Buffalo, N. Y., where he was taken into custody today. Police here recall a suicide hoax last summer, but were unable to fix the date. Curry said he was at one time a bodyguard for George Remus, “king of bootleggers.” Arrested as a suspicious character, Curry. 40, is said to have explained that clippings from an Indianapolis paper concerning the supposed suicide related to him. SNOVTIN NEW ENGLAND Northern, Central Vermont Under Heavy White Blanket. By United Press BURLINGTON, Vt., April 18. Northern and central Vermont was under heavy snow after a spring blizzard which blocked all but the main highways.

3250 North Olney street, while he was playing with a number of other children under a shower hose, operated by firemen of Engine house 21, at Roosevelt avenue and Olney street. Filing for change of venue irked attorneys for the boy and Judge Joseph R. Williams, who asserted that the “venue change statute is very much abused.” “This is strange, indeed,” shouted Walter Carey, attorney for the boy, “that on the day set

Hoover Will Be Swamped if He Turns Wet, Mcßride Warns

“IF President Hoover succumbs X to some of his advisers and declares for 4 per cent beer or any weakening of the prohibition laws, he will be beaten pitifully in the 1932 election.” This was the warning sounded today by Dr. F. Scott Mcßride, general superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League of America. “Not that President Hoover will make any such pronouncement,” Dr. Mcßride hastens to reasurre, “but if he does, the overwhelming defeat of William Howard Taft in 1912 will take second place to that experienced by the incumbent President. Dr. Mcßride, here to address tonight’s season of the two-day state-wide temperance convention held under auspices of the Indiana Anti-Saloon League in the Roberts Park M. E. church, is optimistic over the future of prohibition. “You know what happened in Illinois in 1930 when Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick ran for the Republican nomination as a dry,” Mcßride said. “Immediately after the primary she switched and talked wet and those who believed in prohibition and thought Mrs.

BONUS FORCES FINISH APPEAL Opponents of Measure Will Be Heard Tuesday. By United Press WASHINGTON, April 18.—A plea for the cash bonus as a desperately needed unemployment relief measure for 750,000 jobless World war veterans was presented to the house ways and means committee today, as proponents of the veterans’ payment concluded their case. Advocates of the .Patman bill to issue $2,000,000,000 in new currency to pay the veterans concentrated cn an emotional appeal, backed by a seemingly endless stream of witnesses from all sections of the country. From Detroit, hard-hit industrial city, came David V. Addy, representing Michigan legionnaires. He described unemployment conditions in the Michigan city and declared that 600,000 people were depending on charity, 12 to 15 per cent of them veterans and their families. J. H. Hoeppel of Los Angeles, legion official, presented the ease of California veterans, while Bert Davis of Barberville, 0., told the committe of Ohio’s sentiment for the bonus as unemployment relief. With a motto of “better an unbalanced budget than a revolution,” Representative Sweeney (Dem., O.) backed Davis’ stand on \he need for unemployment relief for the veterans. Opponents of the bonus bill, will take the stand for the first time Tuesday, with Representative F. H. Laguardia (Rep., N. Y.) and Representative Royal Johnson (Rep., S. D.), both war veterans, announced as the first witnesses in opposition.

TWO PRIZEFIGHTERS HALED INTO COURT Purvis Pays Traffic Fine; Holloway Gets Liquor Case Delay, Two prizefighters appeared today as defendants before Municipal Judge Clifton R. Cameron. Paul Purvis, 21, of 1921 Houston street, who is Jackie Purvis in the ring, drew a suspended fine of $1 and costs for failure to have a driver’s license. Judgment on a charging of disregarding a traffic signal was withheld. Glen Holloway, 27, of 1718 North New Jersey street, known in the ring as Red Holloway, won continuance of trial on a drunkenness charge Thursday. HINDUS, MOSLEMS FIGHT One Killed, Nine Hurt in Battle Over Religious Insult. By United Press CALCUTTA, India, April 18. A slaughtered pig found in a moslem mosque at Gourrepore, near here, caused rioting today in which one Moslem was killed and nine Hindus and Moslems seriously injured. Moslem worshippers, entering the mosque, discovered the carcass of the pig, an insult to their religion, and attacked the Hindus with knives and staves. Thirty were arrested.

Camera Doesn’t Lie, Judge Rules in Discharging 12 MOTORCYCLE OFFICER HARRY SMITH placed two photographs among his souvenirs today and chalked up a victory for a woman’s ingenuity. The woman is Mrs. Eloise Watson of Golden Hills, who appeared today before Municipal Judge Clifton R. Cameron to face trial for failing to stop at a preferential street.

Mrs. Walton was one of twelve persons arersted Sunday by Smith for disregarding a traffic stop sign at Thirty-sixth street and Northwestern avenue.

for trial, after three delays, the city of Indianapolis, with all its facilities, should ask to have the case taken out of Marion county because this 7-year-old boy has ‘undue influence over the citizens.’ ” The suit asks $25,000 from the city, Mrs. Chasteen, and Sherman Chasteen, husband of Mrs. Chasteen. Parents of the boy claim he is injured permanently in that he has suffered an impairment of speech from the accident.

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‘Oil’s Well!’ A SERIES of five colorful stories on the greatest gamble the nation ever saw, creator of sudden and tremendous wealth which has now been ended' by hardheaded business methods as the oil industry shows other lines of business a path out of the depression. The First Will Appear Tuesday, April 19, in THE TIMES

BINS PRISON LABOR Michigan Governor Orders ‘Furniture Holiday.’ By United Press LANSING, Mich., April 18.— Governor Wilbur M. Brucker announced today that manufacture of furniture in state prisons has been ordered discontinued for at least six months. More than 190 prisoners were employed in one furniture shop in lonia reformatory. The prison commission ordered the suspension at the suggestion of the Governor, who outlined unemployment conditions in Grand Rapids and elsewhere, which, he said, should not be increased even slightly by competition with prison labor. MOTORIST IS KILLED Ft. Wayne Company Official Is Traffic Accident Victim. By United Press BLUFFTON, Ind., April 18. Henry B. Safford, 35, vice-president of the G. E. Bursley Company, Ft. Wayne, was killed instantly near here when the auto he was driving overturned. He was returning to his home from Indianapolis, where he had visited a sister, Mrs. John Rogers. Raymond Wilburn, Ossian, suffered a leg fracture when a motorist drove into a crowd which gathered at the scene of the accident. MAYOR SERIOUSLY ILL Jack Edwards of Marion in Danger After Tonsil Operation. By United Press MARION, Ind., April 18.—Condition of Mayor Jack Edwards, suffering from infection following a tonsil operation, was reported critical today. Edwards underwent the operation Saturday. Physicians said they believed he will recover.

“Do you plead guilty?” Mrs. Walton was asked. “I do not,” was her answer. “And why?’ ’asked the prosecutor. “Because,” she retorted, “because of this.” She produced two photos she had taken of views of the stop sign. The judge examined them. “Well,” said Cameron. The photos showed the sign was* bent and twisted. Its warning was illegible. “Discharged,” said Cameron —to Mrs. Walton and eleven other defendants. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 37 10 a. m 49 7a. m 40 11 a. m 51 Ba. m 46 12 (noon).. 53 9 a. m 1 p. m 55

WHY, she should get more votes in the primary than in the general election—all our people turning in preference to the avowed wet, J. Hamilton Lewis, rather than voting for a deserter. “That is what would happen to Hoover, if he turned, but of course such a possibility is remote, because the President is a sincere believer in prohibition." Mcßride knows his politicians and he knows how they temper to every wind. "Pressure scares the politician and he cringes under it," he said. “In every congressional district two or three wets are running for the nomination against one avowed dry and thus the opposition vote is split and this will result in a victory for us. Mcßride said he isn't worried greatly about the overwhelming wet vote in the Literary Digest poll. Such a poll is purely part of the wet program because it is a wet magazine and the returns are (Turn to Page 12)

WAGE SKIRMISH WON BY HOOVER Entire Economy Program Is Put ‘Under One Tent.’ By United Press WASHINGTON, April 18. The house economy committee today decided to submit President Herbert Hoover’s economy program in an “omnibus bill” embodying all phases of the proposed $200,000,000 saving in government costs next year. The announcement was made as the economy committee took its recess after a bitter morning session. The move was regarded as a virtual surrender to President Hoover. Mr. Hoover had been pounding away in his fight to get the entire program “under one tent,” and the committee, after hours of bitter wrangling, came around to his views. Chairman McDuffie said the omnibus bill would be placed as a rider on the legislative appropriations bill and that the committee would use the Hoover draft of the measure as the basis for legislation which eventually will be submitted to congress. He said that while the committee had agreed to include the federal pay reductions in a single bill, it still was undecided whether to adopt the President’s plan of enforced furloughs for government employes or the committee’s original proposal for a direct II per cent wage reduction for one year. MARKET ORDINANCE TO BE GIVEN DELAY Probe Groups Recommendations Not Ready for Council. Proposed ordinance making changes and improvements at city market recommended in report of the market investigating committee will not be ready for submission to city council tonight, as originally planned, it was announced today by Herbert M. Spencer, assistant city attorney. The council also will be asked to defer action on the proposed ordinance regulating and licensing coal dealers, at the request of C. A. Kamey, representing coal dealers sponsoring the ordinance, Spencer said. Among proposed ordinances to be submitted tonight will be one making Illinois street a preferential thoroughfare from Thirty-eighth street north to the canal. PLAN TO ENTER JUNGLE Expedition to Leave Wednesday to Hunt Lost Explorer. By United Press CUYABA. Matto Grosso, Brazil, April 18.—The Stephan Rattin expedition to seek Colonel P. H. Fawcett, lost British explorer, in the Brazilian jungles, will leave here Wednesday for Diamantino, last outpost of civilization before entering the depths of the jungle. This leg of the journey will be made by muleback and afoot. TWO DIE IN AIRCRASH Airplane Dives to Ground and Bursts Into Flame. By United Press LEWISTON, Me., April 18.—Two youths were killed when their airplane crashed and burst into flames at Livermore Falls today. The dead were James Malloy, 28. of Berlin, N. H., and the pilot, Fred Maxwell, 22, of Livermore Falls. EXTRA! BIG RAIL HOLDUP Robin Builds Nest on Car on Siding: Eggs’ Hatching Awaited. By United Press TURNEY, Mo., April 18.—A stock car on a Chicago, Burlington & Quincy siding here has been withdrawn from circulation indefinitely. A robin has built a straw nest at one end of the car and has laid two eggs. M. P. Hole, station agent, said he would not release the car until the eggs have hatched and the young birds are able to fly. FIR M~q"n~UQUQRSTA N D Roosevelt Repeats States Should Be Given Prohibition Control. By United Press BOSTON, April 18. Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York in a letter to the Liberal Civic League, Inc., today reiterated his opinion that control of intoxicants should be returned to the several states. _ Jr

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MOD STORMS JAIL; LYNCHES CHILD’S KILLER Kidnaper Is Hanged to Tree After Abduction From Cell. SHERIFF HELD PRISONER Keys Taken From Pockets of Officer by Leaders of Avengers. By United Press ST. FRANCIS, Kan., April 18.—A mob of western Kansas farmers early today lynched Richard Rjead. 53, confessed abductor and killer of an 8-year-old girl. Dorothy Hunter. The mob overpowered Sheriff A. A. Bacon of Cheyenne county, forced him to unlock the jail, seized Read, took him to an isolated rural j spot near McDonald, and hanged ; him from a tree. As he stood beneath the tree with ! the noose about his neck, Read, i former Colorado convict, again ad[mitted his crime and told the mob: “You are lynching the right man.” He said he was intoxicated at the , time he kidnaped the girl at Selden, Kan., Thursday afternoon, assaulted her and held her captive more than twenty-four hours before he killed i her. Nearly 200 men were in the crowd | that drove in automobiles to St. Francis when the carefully-guarded secret that Read was held there finally spread across the western Kansas prairies. Forty of the men approached the courthouse, where the jail is situated, and overpowered Sheriff Bacon. No Resistance Offered The mob entered St. Francis quietly, and surrounded him before he had opportunity to prepare to resist it, the sheriff’said. “The men came running up as I was standing outside the courthouse,” Sheriff Bacon said. “Before I had a chance to run inside and lock the doors behind me, I was overpowered and carried about 200 yards, where there were other members of the mob. “I pleaded with them to allow the law to take its course. “Cries came from the mob to lynch Read. The leaders found keys in my pocket and unlocked the jail. “Read was dragged from his cell, pleading for mercy. “We’ll give you the same mercy you gave that little girl,” one of his captors answered. Read was dragged to an automobile. It drove eastward from St Francis with other members of the mob following other cars. Sheriff Is Kidnaped The sheriff, placed in one of the cars, was driven to a point about four miles from St. Francis, where he was released. “We’re not going to take any chance on you getting out your deputies and stopping this lynching,” one of the ringleaders told the sheriff. The procession continued east across the Kansas plains into Rawlins county. Midway between McDonald and Atwood it stopped on the banks of Little Beaver creek. A rope was thrown across th c limb of a tree, and the noose was tied about Read’s neck. Facing his captors in the glare of automobile headlights that formed a circle of light into the night, Read said: “I am guilty, your are hanging the right man. I was drunk when I took Dorothy. If I had been sober. I wouldn’t have done such a thing.” A moment later he was hoisted up. The crowd stood watchinc silently as he died. Girl Vanished Thursday Sheriff Bacon meanwhile walked to a farmhouse and telephoned to officers of nearby counties that the mob had Read. Before deputy sheriffs could organize to rescue the prisoners, word came that he had b'jon hanged. Dorothy Hunter disappeared from her home at Selden Thursday afternoon. At nightfall, her parents became alarmed at her absence and a hunt was started. Read was arrested late Friday at Rexford. He was intoxicated. He was taken to jail at Colby, where he admitted killing the child, but refused to say where her body would be found. Child’s Skull Crushed Early Saturday a mob went to Colby. It surrounded the jail and prepared to storm it. Sheriff McGinley told the men the child’s body might never be found if Read was lynched. The crowd quieted. Read, terrified, agreed to lead officers to where he had hidden Dorothy’s body. As soon as the crowd dispersed, McGinley took his prisoner to a farm east of Colby, where Read pointed to a haystack and said: “There she is.” The officers searched under the haystack and found the body of Dorothy. She had been killed by a blow that crushed her skull. VOTE FRAUD IS^HARGED Candidate Who Lost Delegate Seat to Mills Scores Recent Primary. By United Press NEW YORK, April 18.—Simeon J. Beckerman, unsuccessful candidate for the seat of the Thirtieth congressional district at the Republican national convention, today charged widespread fraud in the primary in which Ogden L. Mills, secretary of the treasury, was the successful candidate. >