Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 39, Number 23, 6 December 1913 — Page 10

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IN A HANSOM CAB Driver Discovers Man and Woman Dead in His Vehicle. PEN KNIFE WAS USED .Wealthy Produce Dealer - Kills Companion and Then . . Severs Own Neck. HARRISBURG. Pa., Dec. 6 A ' grewsome double tragedy in a haneom cab was revealed here early today when Charles Harbold, the driver, opened the door to notify his "fares," a man and a woman that they had reached their destination. Xo answer came from either occupant, and llarbold thrust In his hand to awaken them, thinking they had gone to sleep as they had been riding lor several hours. He was unable to arouse either and then he found that his hand was covered with blood, llarbold lighted a match and saw that both the man and the woman were dead. Man Killed Woman. The woman's head was nearly severed from her body while the man's throat had been cut from ear to ear. Both bodies were bolt upright in the eeat. The killing was done with a small black handled pen knife, the bladeB of which were about an inch and a half long and ground to a razor edge. Letters in the pocket of the man showed him to be M. F. Roberts ,a wealthy produce dealer of Gettysburg. The woman was Miss Anna Honsinger, of Paxtang. She formerly lived at Gettysburg. Robert is believed to have killed the woman then committed suicide. The cab driver heard no signs of a struggle although the pair were quarreling when they hailed him. S REPORT "BURGLARY" Make Attempt to Blacken Administration of Police Chief. At the instigation of men who wished to see Police Chief Gormon deprived of his position, and wished to make the last few weeks of his administration black with a record of burglaries and crime, Ernest Rockhill, an employe of the Harman Fetta cigar store at North Eighth street and Fort Wayne avenue, called police headquarters after opening up at 6 o'clock this morning and reported a robbery at the store. According to the story which he told at that time, and which he later repeated to newspaper men, the thieves had entered the store, taking pipes and tobacco and $4 in change from the cash register. There were no clues, the only evidence being ransacked drawers and an open transom above the front door. After newspaper men had called at the store and heard the details of the alleged thievery, young Rockhill realized what he had done, and went to police headquarters and told Chief Gormon all the circumstances. He said he had heard men talking around the store who were opposed to Gormon's reappointment and who were working against him. If necessary he said he could go into courts and produce the names and evidence. At their suggestion he reported the robbery this morning. Afterward the boy confessed to his part, said he had never been in trouble before and did not think when he did it what the results would be. Chief Gormon commended the hoy on his honesty. Vagrants Taken Out. Instructions to members of the police department to pick up all characters whose actions arouse suspicion is rapidly ridding the town of loafers and bums. Seventeen were released yesterday afternoon, being taken to the country in far corners of Wayne and adjoining counties. One man was released near Connersville. Eight of the men caught in the dragnet were given free rides to the country in test cars his afternoon, and told never to return to Richmond unless they wanted to serve a long term In jail. The policy of arresting all vagrants and ordering them from the city Police Chief Gormon said was a good advertisement, for the city. Will Avoid Richmond. He believes it will cause tramps and bums to go a long way 'round to avoid spending a night in the city jail. The men who were released will - spread the news of their treatment by ;the Richmond police force among their Comrades as a warning to stay away. Those who were hauled away this afternoon were Frank Dunlap, Fred Clark, Harry Daugherty, John McQuire, Joe Stone, Fred White, Fred j Smith and John Joyce. Someone living near Fifteenth and South A streets saw a person whom they thought was a suspicious looking man. loitering on the corner. A call was sent in to police headquarters that a "stick-up" man was laying for victims on South Fifteenth street. The red lights f police signals were flashed throughout the east end. Patrolman Cully, almost to Glen Miller park, was the first to answer. He was instructed from the call box at Twenty second and North E streets, to hurr to Fifteenth and South A streets and nab the robber. Boy Causes Scare. Cully made a rush for the place, lie ran to Seventeenth and North C streets where he borrowed a bicycle. Mounted on this, he made the remainder of the trip in record time. Stalking around under the street light was a boy. He was the only person in sight and was evidently the "suspicious looking character" for whom Cully was laying. Cully demanded an explanation and the boy told him he was locked out. He was the son of Frank Watts, 69 South Fifteenth street, and had been playing basketball at the Y, M. C. A.

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BY FRANK P. STOCKBRIDGE. What about the roads that lead into Richmond? Unless you are very much different from the general run of American communities, they're an awful bad lot of roads. The worst of it is, there isn't any excuse for bad roads. Bad roads leading into a town mean just one thing. They mean that the people of the town are a thriftless, shiftless lot. You don't believe it? I can prove it. It is thriftless to throw money away. It is shiftless to allow bad conditions to continue when you have the means j at hand with which to remedy them. 1 Good Roads Mean Money. Bad roads take dollars out of the pockets of every man, woman and child living in the town that permits them to exist. And good roads are so easy to get that no community can truthfully say: "We can't help it." How? By community effort. One man can't build a road, although if he is a millionaire he may hire other people to build it for him, but any live group of men working together for the common good, can build all the roads any town needs and build them right. Did you ever hear of M. J. Dowling, of Oliva, Minn? Mr. Dowling lost both f-t, one hand and part of the other hand, through being frozen up in a Minnesota blizzard when he was a young man. But what is left of him has more energy than a god many complete men that you and I know. He's always starting something, and a couple of years ago he got the notion that Renville county, where he lives, needed some good roads. Mr. Dowling proposed to the couni.v cummisiuiieis ium mtj pui up to help improve 55 miles of road. Then he got -very village in the county to j put up from $10 to $25. Then he went 1 around in his automobile to see the ! leading men in the villages and all the 1 farmers whose land abutted on the roads. He asked them to help for one week and promised them good roads at the end of that time. All but one agreed to help. That one said he didn't need good roads and that this was just a scheme to work the farmer for the benefit of them city automobile fellers. Job Done in Week. In one week the job was done 55 miles of smooth, solid, level, hard. 1 dirt roads, clear across Renville County. Right in front of the farm whose owner had objected, too. And when ; he saw that road and his neighbors : building it he got ashamed of himself ,: and came out with his team and haul- J ed a king drag all the rest of the week, j Renville county went road crazy. ! When they saw how easy it was, they appropriated $5,500 against an equal j Coming home late, he found that the family had gone out for the evening and he could find no entrance into the house. MOTORCYCLE CLUB HOLDS NOMINATION Officers Will Be Elected On First Friday in January. At a meeting of the Richmond Motorcycle club last night the following members were nominated for club offices: President, Walter Moore. Charles Tangercan, A. Stolle; Vice President. Howard Oesting, Frank Cook. Ned Cook: Secretary Paul Mcy?ride. Clyde Smith, Everett Moore; Treasurer. Carl Kemper, Xed Cook, Howard Oesting: Captain, Carl Kemper, E. Moore, Ned Cook: First lieutenant, John Brown, Ernest Wilt, Pete Tillborg; Second Lieutenant, Earl Wright, E. Moore, H. 'Oesting. The officers will be elected from this list of nominations at the next meeting to be held the first Friday evening in January. Arrangements are being completed for the annual banquet of the club to be held December 10 at the Westcott hotel. More than forty are expected to be present. New York city has 92,013 regular municipal employes.

amount from the state to put in stone roads on some of the stretches where

the traffic is heaviest, and almost ery man in the county now keeps a split-log drag handy, and uses it intelligently on the road in front of his place after every wet spell and they still have good roads in Renville county. Now, there is an example of good roads obtained through community effort on the initiative of one man and a cripple at that. To be sure, Mr. Howling never would have become Speaker of the Minnesota Legislature if he hadn't been a good deal more of a Illan to begin with than most of us are. But what he did for his home county the Commercial Club can do here. There isn't any group of a dozen men in Richmond who couldn't, if they wished, and had enough civic spirit to do it, start a good roads i movement that would put your town j on the good roads map with a great i big red circle around it to indicate that it is a live town, inhabited by live people. Assistance Needed. I don't need to argue with you about the dollars and cents side of this good roads proposition. I don't care if you lay brick pavements at a cost jof $20,000 a mile. Richmond and the ! country people nearby, and you and j everybody else in the community, will j get your money back many times over. Some towns need brick pave- j ments others can get along for a i good many years yet with dirt roads. But no town can prosper long with bad roads. If the enthusiastic community workers who are trying to make Richmond a better town, never do anything else than put in some good roads vou haven't any excuse left for not do'ing your share

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