Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 37, Number 142, 19 April 1912 — Page 2

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THE RICH3IOXD PALLADIUM AND SUXTELEGRAM, FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 1912.

MANYTHEFTS

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Herbert Eschenfeller Tells Mayor Zimmerman Startling Story of His Own Depredations in Richmond.

WOMAN IMPLICATED; ARREST IS ORDERED

Confessed Robber Declares He Was Forced to Steal to Get Money." to Support Others. r

Stating that he stole to support a woman, Herbert Eschenfeller, age 25, now at the county jail for stealing brass, last night In a second confession directed to Mayor Zimmerman, made a clean breast of a number of robberies he has been implicated in, and after naming Mrs. Reba Bodkins, 445 North Twenty-irst street, as the cause of his downfall stated that four or five other men and boys were implicated in the many robberies. His complete confession is withheld as the names of some of his alleged companions In crime are named therein, and all of them have not been arrested. Mrs. Reba Bodkins was arrested this morning at 10:30 at her home and arraigned on the charge of receiving and concealing stolen property. She plead not glty and was in default of $2,500 bond hsrtd for trial. She will be given a preliminary hearing Monday morning and bound over to the Wayne circuit court. Eschenfeller In his confession to the mayor, written last evening, said Mrs. Bodkins had made him go but and steal to buy food for herself, her small daughter and himself, and to pay the rent with. In the Bodkins home, In a search yesterday were found three brooms, a carpet sweeper, and a pair of knucks which Eschenfeller had stolen on various occasions, according to his confession. He will be arraigned, on the expira-, ilon of his sentence in the county jail, on . three charges, burglary, larceny rnd hiding stolen goods. The stolen forjls found at the Bodkins home was fcurcl 'vhcre Eschenfeller told the officers' 'tey v.oujd find it. It was hidden in t' ttc, " ehind a partition in the :f--1la "Ho wjnan disclaims all knowjt f' t'i" -tolen articles. V i, .r-( j ' twekotte is being searched f--.- "-v tv- .-pert ft, he being implicated Jh " f ' T-bbcrtcs.. The police hope io t-p a number of mysteries by Iff rj irors confessions from Eschfr.fc',. A c''"( of car robberies on the I'fnn H'f!n:a yard3 which had troubled 'he rnilroad ofRcials and detectives .'or Fo?! f're were traced to E3chi flier' by railroad detectives Trump ord I. A. Burns. Theaffidavit chargin : Mrr, Dodkins with receiving find cc: real'ng stolen property was made ou end sworn to by I. A. BurnB. ' Eschei Teller wrote the confession last nighn at the county jail, where his mother h 1 corne to see him. The confession ci vers eight closely written pages. He asks for no consideration nor clemency, saying he thinks the facts should be made known. Several small boys under age are implicated by the confession. The following is a list of the robberies confessed to by Eschenfeller. March 13, at the home of A. C. Scott; stole a whip and some chickens. He sold the loot, He was accompanied by a small' boy whom the police are looking for. The same night he broke a lock on

on a corn crib and stole eight bushels of corn which, he. also sold. The lame boy accompanied him. March 4 he broke into a freight car In the Pennsylvania yards east of the city and stole a sack of flour which he says Mrs. Bodkins used at -the home in cooking, knowing where the flour had been secured. i March 4 he broke into a car on the Pennsylvania yards and stole fifteen one hundred pound pigs of lead.' He hid them under a platform nearby and sold some of them to a junk dealer. Some of the loot has been recovered. The junk dealer will also be prosecuted, as Eschenfeller says the junk dealer knew the stuff was stolen when he bought it of Eschenfeller. Stole Horse and Buggy. March 9 he stole four bushels of corn from the Gaar and Shurley stock yards, stealing also a horse and rig belonging to the same firm. He used the outfit to haul the corn to town, and after selling the corn, took the norse and rig back. March 13, he stole a whip, a hatchet, a pair of knucks. and a black jack from a smoke house at the Scott farm. He said he was lookinfffer chickens 'when he stole this loot. ' The Scott farm is situated east of the city on the National toad, about 2Vt miles east of the city." . Eschenfeller's sentence is not up until the tenth of June, and at this time he will be arraigned in circuit court for his many crimes. In the meantime the police are rounding up the remainder of the gang.

WOULD PURCHASE EXPRESS CONCERNS WASHINGTON. April 19. A bill for the purchase by the government of all express companies wa favorably reported today in the House by the committee on interstate and foreign commerce. The bill provides that the prices to be paid are to be fixed by arbitration.

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(National News Association) MEMPHIS, Tenn., April 19. One hundred persons have perished in the flood stricken district in the last 24 hours according to government engineers. Some were drowned. Some died of exhaustion and starvation. Whole families are wiped out. The levee's standing at Rosedale and points below the break are crowded with women, children and men, cattle, horses and mules. The government is sending them help from Memphis. They have been without food for 48 hours. The small towns in the delta such as Malvina, Lobdell, Shaw, Lamont, Kuhn and Symonds are twenty feet under water and the current is washing the buildings away.

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Mrs. E. H. Harriman, widow of the multi-millionaire railroad magnate, who is one of the leaders of the movement that started with the first news of the disaster among all of the society women in New York to make preparations for receiving and caring for the survivors of the Titanic holocaust that were brought to New York on the S. S. Carpathla, the only vessel to reach the scene of the disaster in time to pick up any 'of the living survivors. Mrs. . Harriman and all other prominent society women in New York set . aside all society and business . obligations to confine their efforts and time solely to the humane work of alleviating the misery and grief of the survivors, a large majority of whom are heartbroken at the loss of one or more of their relatives or friends, who went down with the great ship. In a good many cases, especially among the steerage pas

sengers the survivors lost all of their possessions and are completely destitute.

COLE RELEASED BY JUDGE: HOT INSANE

Man Says His Wife Wanted to Get Rid of Him Got Clothes and Left.

Lonnie Cole, who was arrested at his home, 239 South Seventh street, on the complaint of his wife, and against whom an affidavit was filed, charging that he was insane and should be returned to the Eastern Indiana Hospital for the Insane, was this morning released from the county jail by Judge Fox, on motion of Prosecutor Ladd and Cole's attorney. Judge Fox declared that Cole did not act as if he were insane and that if the authorities at the insane hospital desired to secure Cole, It "was up to them to get him." Cole declared that his wife had had him arrested because she wanted to "get him out of the way." Cole averred that his wife did not want him to live with her and that she refused to cook for him or do anything that he asked of her. In a weak voice Cole, who is a man of small stature, asked the judge that some one accompany him to his home in order that he could get his clothes, saying that hia wife might not allow him to enter the house. Rice Miller, caretaker of the insane at the county jail, was instructed to go with Cole to his home. - Cole has been confined at Easthaven before, but was released about one year ago.

City Statistics

Deaths and Funerals. BROWN Nancy Brown, aged seventy-two years, died Thursday afternoon at her home, 306 South Tenth street. She is survived by her husband, LI ndsey Brown. The funeral will be held Saturday afternoon at two o'clock at Centerville. Burial in the Centerville cemetery. Friends may call any time. . LEV1NE Bernard Levine , three months old, died at his home in Cincinnati. The remains arrived in this city this morning and taken to Earlham for burial. NILL Delores Nill, aged eleven and one half months, died Friday morning at seven o'clock at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Nill, 636 North Tenth street. The funeral will be held Saturday afternoon at two thirty o'clock from the home. Burial will be in Earlham eemetery. Friends may call any time.

INSPECTEDJACTORY Says Underwear Factory the Best in State.

Declaring that the building recently erected at North Tenth and Elm place by the Richmond Underwear company 13 the most modern in its sanitary equipment, Its provisions for comfort for the employes and its excellent ventilation and light. State Factory Inspector McMahon also added that it was the best arranged factory for the employment of girls In the entire state. He said he had not a single fault to find. The Richmond Underwear factory is gradually" increasing its force of employes, but has not been able to secure as many girls as it needs. It is said that a laree niimher of eirls will ho

given employment upon application. )

Inspector McMahon declared, following his inspection yesterday, there is no machinery, dangerous pulleys or shafts which are exposed or might cause serious accidents to employes.

More than 60 per cent, of the" railroad cars built in the United States this yeaT wil be of stel construction.

SMELSER TO MEET ACCOUNTS BOARD State Board to Examine Medical Board's Books, on Thursday.

Dr. S. G. Smelser, of this city member of the state board of medical registration and examination, will attend a meeting of the state board of accountsnext Thursday at which time the board will take up the question of the pay of the members of the state medical board. It is said that the board has overdrawn large amounts in salaries. Dr. Smelser says that he owes the state $24 and is under the impression that other members of the board owe more than this amount One year ago Dr, Smelser conferred with Governor Marshall on the question of pay for night sessions of the medical board and he also petitioned the members of the state board of accounts to go over the books of the state medical board. "I knew at the time that I petitioned the board of accounts to go over the medical board's books that I wad indebted to the state to the amount of $24," said Dr. Smelser. "I had been under the Impression that the members of the board were entitled to $6 per day and that in case of a night session they were entitled to an addition $6. I ascertained after drawing money for four night sessions that the law only provides for $6 per day. even thoueh

a session lasts for twenty-four hours. !

I believe that when all of the overdrawn money is returned it will amount to several hundred dollars."

FISH CAN LIVE IN

WHITEWATER

Little Oil and Refuse in the Stream Arrange for Banquet.

After several years of being so polluted with oil and refuse that fish could not live in it, the Whitewater river, for a number of miles below

Richmond, is now comparatively clean and has had less oil and refuse in it within the past four months than for many years past. Officers of the Wayne County Game and Fish Protective association declare that they are considerably encouraged over this fact and believe that the fish can now thrive in the river. At the meeting of the association last evening It was reported that through the efforts of Congressman Gray, the association has been able to secure the promise of a number of small mouth bass, to be placed in the Whitewater, from the Department of Commerce and Labor. Notice has been received that an allotment haa been made and that the fish will be sent some time within the next three months. It is believed that Commissioner George W. Miles will submit plans for a fish ladder to be placed at the Main street dam within a short time. Already fish of various kinds are trying to ascend the stream and are being held at the dam where they are caught. A general meeting of the committees in charge of the annual banquet of the association was held last evening. The banquet will be held in the I. O. O. F. hall. The members of the ets are being sold rapidly. .'The committee has been informed that a number of fishermen ' from Indianapolis, New Castle, Cambridge City, Milton and other places will attend.

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REACHED THE SCENE TOO LATE TO HELP National News Association) BOSTON. April 19. "We were too late," were the simple but tragic words of Captain Stanley Loyd of the Iyland liner California which arrived at Boston today from Liverpool. "We hurried to tho Titanic when called and reached the scene shortly before S:S) o'clock. We found the Carpathla as she was taking the last boat load of

survivor on board. For three bouts we circled the scene. Starting at the center and running out for a mile or , more, but we saw no bodies. We then headed for Boston."

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WILLIAMSBURG, Ind., April 19. The Rev. C. W. Whitman, will deliver the class address at the commence-

WASHINGTON, Kpril 17 Henry F. Aashurst, - who has the distinction of being one of the first two Senators to represent the new born State of Arizona in the national legislative body.

haa received the nickname of the "Cowboy Senator." Senator Ashurst received the title because of the fact that from the time he quit school in Flagstaff, Arizona, at the age of fifteen he followed the life of the range for several years. The young statesman was elected to the Arizona legislature when ' he was only twenty-one years of age, and served In the position of 'Speaker during his second term. He is a typical westerner. Big, hearty and aggressive. When making his campaign for election to the U. S. Senate he made the following announcement: This will not be a mollycoddle campaign, no pink-tea, and those who can't stand a jolt on the jaw had better keep out of the race.

ment exercises of the Williamsburg commissioned high school and Greene Township gramamer school which will be held Saturday evening at the M. E. church of this place. The program is as follows: Music. Invocation Rev. J. W. Zerbe. Music. Class Address Rev. C. W. Whitman Music. Delivering of Diplomas Supt. C. O. Williams. Music. - Benediction. Seven students will graduate from the ' high school and eight from the common 6Cbool. Those who graduate from the high school are Russet Hinshaw, Opal Duke, Lucinda Hollingsworth, Mary Harvey, Ruth Kennedy, Maude Stephens and Marie Wooley. Common school graduates: Claude Alyea'Lestei: Cain, Lydia Cox, Clifford Duke, Alice Kennedy, Frank Starr, Hazel Williams and Asher Woolley. Instructors in the schools are George Hanlin, principal; Gertrude Mc Arthur, Stella Colvin, Elma Alexander, Bessie Meadows. Helen E. Helm, Henri F. Kampe, Marie Pegg. Mabel Kind. William E. Brown is trustee.

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