South Bend News-Times, Volume 38, Number 265, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 22 September 1921 — Page 1

UTH nm wiiTin:n m Indiana und Michigan Fair Thurl.ty o4 probably Friday; m char.t ir. temperature. Morning Edition VOL. XXXVIII. NO. 265 SOUTH BEND, INDIANA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1921 PRICE THREE CENTS

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7 o n T- iff 77 mi t liiLiiU tie. WAR CHEMICAL 1ULL Iii Gigantic Explosion Leaves Wake of Dead and Injured, Wrecking Town. BUILDINGS DEMOLISHED IIu;:e Warehouse Containing 4,000 Tons of War Product Causes Tragedy. MAYKNCH. Germany. Sept. 21 A grat explosion today at the chem ical products plint of the Badlsche ' Anilvnfabrik company at Oppau, on the, Rhine, wrc kd the town and fpre.ad death and demotion on rverr hami. The number of killed to 1. 00. and the injured rlose to 2.000. One report says that there were ?."0 men on the spot at the moment of the explosion and it is Relieved that about hilf of these Were killed. Th town of Oppau to a .cene of litter desolation, more than a third cf th houses having been completely d5troed, while the roofs of the others were swept off a& if by a whirlwind. Here also many were killed or injured. Monster Hole? In Ground. The explosion la attributed by some to excess pressure in two adJoining gasometres, the whole of thl part of the. work being literrlly pulverized. Where the gasometres stood is now a funnel shaped hole 130 yard. wide and 4 5 yards deep, while twisted girders and deliri. of every description lie scattered about. For a distance of several hundred yards not a wall is left tt and inc. The directorate of the company is quoted as saying that the explosion occurred in a storehouse containing 4.0C0 tor of nitrous sulphates, vrhlch had previously been examined and believed to be free from dancer of explosion. Trains An Hurled. All the workmen's dwellings in Ihe vicinity were razed. At MannWim. rn th; opposite file of the river, 3". persons were eriousU injured and COO or more slightly injured. Ludwissohafen reports say that three workmen's trains were rmried under the wreckage and 41.1I1V I JUl'll I il "'li . . i ' ' " t nf. m mat town were injuiru. Heart -rending pcer.os1 were wltn.ed on all ides. At tho little cemetery on the ouUkir'n of Oppau there are already more than 200 bodies laid out en the grass. Nurnf rov. tomb.v.ones were lifted and hurled in various directions by the fY-rc,- of the explosion. There was riot a dorr or window left intact for n radius of three mil'. I'rtnch iiiediral unit. are aiding In the rescue work. Assistance a!f i;im boon rushed from all the neighboring towns, and all public and private motor rar? and vehicles Mere requisitioned. The roads leading to Oppau were pon crowded with people mnkinc their way to the scene of the di.-a-stcr. Troop Itu-h t lt-cwc. A regime!:! of colonial infantry and th- Firt Madagascar 'regiment fr'm Luilwi'shafen immediately pro ceeded to Oppau to pre.Te order' nn aid in the work of r ".- u. De- J robing the disaster, a captain of I th" nr?t lTcr.iii colonial infantry who was an ve vitr.ss. si'd: A .1. I ITIlK, VI''.1- iV Iii v. l ' i J et T:C0 in the norninc when sudde n!y earth in er. hot I heard a dull rumMinc. The seep.ied to quiver and. an ime column of tlame and smoke up a f-v hundred yanls from f. .".lowed imr.H" vi:ately 1 y an tp'.o.ion ar.d a rush of air which hurlt .1 Tie ar.d my hör. to the earth. "When I nicked mvelf U' an im tr.ense clcud of dust and smoke hid ! that par: of the factory er the ; h ams, h I o o k r. ft n o s ad b-icks ! ra'nc-d down cn the road. "Thought It rartlKiuake." . "Hearing cries behind me I turned . and rea'ii d that the village of On- ! jmu was destroyed ad by an earthc.uake. Shortly after, the main .' Vuildii'.gs r.f the plant burst into (lames and he air was filled with tt-.e fumes cf ammonia. Twenty ;..lnutes after the f.rst explofion there j was anolhcr. but lesi violent. "The alarm was quickly given and in Ie.s than half an hour after the -.n explosion help arrived. UnfortuVitely. as further exylcfior.R were feared, the rescue parties were not alle to Ft to work properly before $ o'clock." An Inquiry has been opened. A GOOD LISTENER Ears open, mouth shut isn't such a bad rule to follow. Read today's SUCCESSPOWER in the classified section.

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Halls of Capit ol WASHINGTON, Sept. 21. Two bills affecting prohibition and prohibition enforcement were among the j bath of measures Introduced Wed- ' ne?lay In the senate. V-n. -Stanley, democrat. Kentucky, author of the. controverted opinion of the anti-beer bill regarding search and seizure, introduced a hill to punish government officials "for murder and other high crimes and misdemeanors" committed In discharge of their duties. It would penalize use of unnecessary force by officials and subject them to the laws of the states in such caseg. Son. Dillingham, republican, Ver mont, introduced a blll to punish counterfeiting stamps and labels of bonded distilled spirit?. The penalties proposed were a fine of 11,000 and five years Imprisonment. A bill to punish offenses asralnst banks of the federal reserve system introduced by Chairman Nelson of the Judiciary committee. It would make bank robberies punlahabl by finee of 13,000 and ten years' Imprisonment for the first offense and up to 25 years for a repetition. Penalties for forgeries also would be provided. Anü-Bccr Iii IL Sen. Sterling, republican, South Dakota, who previously had conferred with Tres't Harding, called up at the, first opportunity the conference report on the Willis-Campbell antiliquor bill, which the house had adopted before the recess last month but a call for a quorum, a motion to adjourn and other obstructive tactics prevented any real consideration of the bill. Sen. Reed, democrat, Missouri, refused to agree to fixing a definite date for a vote and the senate then after an executive session adjourned until tomorrow. Sen. Sterling promised Wednesday to continue pressing the conference report but final naetment remained much in doubt. With opponents blocking a vote republican leaders are insisting that the senate proceed with the tax revision bill. This would head off action on the antibeer measure and leave its disposition subject to later senate consideration of the railroad bill, peace treaties and other measures. NATION'S TAX BILL IS COMPLETED BY SENATE COMMITTEE Revenue Measure to Raise $3,500,000,000 Will Be Sent to Senate. WASHINGTON, Sept. 11. The amended house tax revi.ion bill was p resented formally Wednesday to the senate by Chairman Penrose of the finance committee, who gave notice that he would submit the majority report Thursday and urge at thai time that the measure bo considered as soon as other business of tho senate would permit. Republican leaders have not yet determined when the tax bill will be taken up for debate, but Son. 1'enrose faid Wednesday it probably would not come up before Monday as it was desired to give members vt the senate ample opportunity to dis-mss It. Designed to raise approximately ! ?r..:oft.000.0OO in revenue this fiscal n-- """-""rn ih-jcui tIUmIihx TradU! Hates. "Repeal of the excess profits tax ! on Jan. 1. 1922, as proposed by the i hou-?. j Reduction of the maximum in come surtax rate from 65 percent to 3 2 percent, effective next Jan. 1, as provided in th house b.ll, but with changes made in the lower brackets so as to reduce the amount l sunnxt paui oy an inaiviauais. Percent In the normal corporation I Income tax, effective Jan 1, 122. in ; lieu of the 2 1-2 percent advance aqreed upon by the house. ! Repeal of the corporation capital , stock tax. beginning in 1922, a new : prov ision Reduction of the freight and pas- ' sengr taxe from three ar.d eight percent to 1 1-2 and 4 percent, refpectlvely effective next Jan. 1. with (Continued on page two) $80.350 NECKLACE IS SUED FOR BY JEWELER SAX FRANCISCO. Calif.. Sept. 21. Claims that Mrs. Sidl Wirt Spreckels. widow of John D. Spreckels. Jr.. of Fan Francisco, never paid for her famous pearl necklace were set up in a complaint on file here Wednesday by Tiffany & Co., New York Jewelers. TlffAny's alleged that 180.350 ii due them as the purchase rrice for

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COMEDIAN TOLD ACTS IN CRIME, STATE ASSERTS Chief Deputy District Attorney Gives Testimony to Grand Jury Quiz. 'POSSIBLE' DEATH CAUSE Alleged Testimony by Zemcnacher to State Involves Arbuckle's Fate. LOS ANGHLES. Calif., Sept. 21. Admission declared to have ten made by Roecoe (Fatty). Arbuckle that he had used a foreign substance in an attack ujon MIsa Virginia Rapp during a paxty at the Hotel St. Francis In San Francisco were described by Al Zemenacher, a friend of Arbuckle. Wednesday before the Los Angeles county grand jury, according te W. C. Doran, chief deputy district attorney. Eoran said Zern enacher swore Arbuckle had told of applying ice to certain portions of Iiss Rappe's body. Doran outlined the te.timony in confirming reports that Zomenacher had made Identical statements to him at an earlier time and then had declared that he had not, even at the San Francisco-Inquiry, told of the alleged admitted facts. Zerconaeher testified that on tlie morning following the party Arbuckle told him in the presence of Lowell Sherman, actor, Fred Fischbaok, director, and Harry McCulloutrh, chauffeur, that he had taken Miss Rappe Into a room with 'him and had committed certain acts in connection -with the alleged crime. May Have Cauctl Death. These acts, according to Chief Deputy Doran, wore of a character likely to have caused the Injury from which Ml?a Rappe's- death resulted. The grand jury session was called by Doran in order . to hear this testimony, Information concerning which was immediately conveyed to DLst. Atfy. Brady at San Francisco. Harry McCullough, chauffeur for Arbuckle. who was present when tho alleged statements were made by Arbuckle, according to Zemer.acher's testimony, also was examined by the grand jury Wednesday, but his testimony was not nude public. Zemencbcr announced after the xamination that ho would leave Los Angeles for San Francisco at once. ski:k anotiiitk witness;. SAX FRANCISCO. Sept. 21. Lowell Sherman, actor, will be compelled to return to San Francisco from his present whereabouts in or near New York state "as he is n most necessary and vital witness in the Arbuckle case." DIt. Atfy. Rrady ."-aid Wednt5lay whfn advised that Sherman had left a train at Harmon. N. V., presumably to escape detention by Dist. Atfy Edward Swann of New York. "We want Sherman to come back of his own accord," Brady said. "If he does not we will compel him to come back. He I evidently trying to dodge ' us. We will figure on bringing a charge against him Wednesday. I do not want to say what the charge will be until I have consulted with my colleagues as there ar two serious charges we can brin? against him." ROY KfLTj:n IIY ntrcK INDIANAPOLIS. Sept. 21 Frank Blackwell, five years old. was killed Wednesday when he was struck by a heavy motor truck while playing in the street near his home here. BRITISH DOUBTFUL OF DISARM SUCCESS Utmost Pessimism Reigns in English Circles on American Conference. LONDON. Sept. 21. British officialdom has adopted an attitude of utmost pessimism regarding the success of the Washington conference on limitation of armaments and far eastern affairs. This was revealed Wednesday in official quarters. Marquis Curzon. secretary of state for foreign affairs, returned unexpectedly "Wednesday from his holiday. Almost simultaneously the official agenda of the Washington conference was published here. From a source close to the foreign ' secretary the International News Service obtained the British official viewpoint, based upon the official 1 program of the conference, and it was a most amazing revelation. Th Washington agenda, it was declared, lacks practical suggestions. Great Britain had been led to expect

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'4 ' ... 17-7 V-". 7 . 7 ; . , - 7: V ; ' 4 ..V- - ." 7 Hi ' : , vi.: V.- - ;-77vvvy" til si i.-n MKvs Neva Monroe, one of the Dowajriac triple "club" murder victims, holding a ncighlcs cldld. HIMERS' STRIKE NOW LOOMS IN DEMANDS FOR WAGE INCREASE Officials of Federation of 515,000 Imply Threat of General Tie-Up. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Sept. 21. A demand for wage increases next year for coal miners, expressed Wednesday by reports of international officers- of the United Mine Workers of America, to the union's convention in ession here, carried an implied threat of a strike involving the largest number or" organized miners in the history of the United States. This outstanding development of the convention did not get before the delegates for considerattlon, but opportunity for their discussion will come later the officers reports are placed before the convention Thursday for acceptance or rejection. However, the convention was told by Lee Hall of Columbus, O., chairman of the wage scale committee, that he was opposed to any reductions." The threat of the strike was seen in the report of Vice President Philip Murray, who said it was a foregone conclusion that the convention would favor improvement of present wage agreements that expire next 'March. 31. The report of Secretary William Green gave the union's membership for the lat year more than 515,000 members. Officials Differ. The tirst outspoken reference to differences between international and district officials was made Wednesday night at a . caucus- of more than 200 delegates from the two West Virginia districts. After several delegates had attacked Frank Farrington, president of the Illinois miners, the delegates unanimously adopted a resolution pledging the West Virginia vote as a unit in support of policies advocated (Continued on 'ppe two) CAN ESTATE'S INCOME BE TAXED? U. S. QUERY WASHINGTON. Sept. 21. Solicitor Gen. Beck asked the supreme court Wednesday to review an income tax case which he declared of vital importance to the government, involving the question whether incomes of estates are subject to the income tax. The proceeding was instituted in the United States district court of Chicago by the First Trust and Savings Bnk as trustees of the estate of Otto Young, deceased, to recover $39.667. which the government had collected as tax on the income of the estate during 1213, 1914 and 1315. 'The government won but the court of appeals reversed the decision. SUPERSTITIOUS? THEN READ THIS SEA YARN SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 21. A thrilling tale of an escape from a burning ship In Mid-Pacific was told Wednesday on tho arrival here of the steamship Marama, bringing 23 members of the crew of the Ita'ian bark Monte Blanco. When they left the burning ship in a life boat, they were 4 CO miles from land. After rowing for days and passing through a school of sharke they finally reached an uninhabited island. where they subsisted for 54 days or berries, fish and game. A steamer finally took them to Papete.

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Homo of Monroe family at Dowaglao, where triplo murder occurred.

Many "Ax-Club Murders Are Unsolved The middle west has been the scene of many so-called "ax" and "club" murders in which whole families havo been wiped out. Th-3 murderer In only a few cases has been caught. Experts usually lay such crimes as the one in Dowagiac to insanity. Recent "ax-murders" in the middle wen: Colorado Springs, Colo., 1911: II. C. Wayne, wife and child, an I Mr3. A. J. Burnham and two children. Monmouth, 111., 1311: William E. Dawson, wife and daughter. Ellsworth, Kans., 1911: William Showman, wife and three children. Paola. Kans., 1912: Rollin Hudson and wife. Villisca. Ia.. ID 12: J. B. Moore, four children and two guests. Columbia. Mo., 1912: Mrs. Mary Wi'.on and Mrs. George Moore. Chicago. 1014: Jacob Nesesla, wife, daughter and granddaughter. Chicago. 1914: Mr. and Mrs. J. Milien and granddaughter. Aurora, 111., 1915: Mrs. Jennie Peterson. Turtle Lake. N. D.. 1920: Jicob Wolfe, five children and chore boy. St. Paul. Minn., 1921: Mrs. Jcseph'.ne Dervichousky. Dowagiac Mich., 1921: William Monroe, wife and daughter. DRIVER IS CHARGED WITH CRASH DEATH Hohart. Ind., Man is Killed and Wife Injured in Truck Collision. Special to The News-Times: IMPORTE. Ind.. Sept. 21. Alva Fisher, formerly of Union township but more recently a real estate dealer in Hohart, Ind., wa. instantly killed Tuesday night and his wife seriously injured when an automolile in which they were riding collided with a truck west of Deci. River. Finher was attempting to cross a concrete stretch of the Lincoln highway when the truck, going at high speed, crashed into them. The maChine was driven by William Angelas of Chicago. Angelas, his M.fe and child, were taken into custody immediately following the collision and the former wa. charged with speeding by William G. Fisher, a brother of the man killed Prosecutor Dwight M. Kinder ordered Angelas under a $10,000 bond on a charge of manslaughter which was filed at Crown Point We3r.es-day.

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.. -3. I . -Zsf.'it 'V..v--Vf' i e . vv : : i . , O '. ,: . - ' ... : .' SENATOR HARRISON ATTACKS HARDING IN BITTER SPEECH Mississippi Democrat Flays Republican Administration for "Deficiency.' WASHINGTON, Sept. 21. Sen. Harrison, Mississippi, ono of the democratic spokesmen in the senate, Wednesday attacked Pres't Harding for taking a vacation trip last week and charged the republican administration with fai'ure to carry out' its campaign pledge to bring increased prosperity to the country. The Mississippi senator in his speech which enlivened the reconvening of the senate, declared that while Pres't Harding and several members of his cabinet were enjoying the vacation trip, "millions of Americans were hanging their heads In shame," because men who "helped win the war" were being offered on the auction block in Boston. "The American people want more work and lesa play," faid Sen. Harrison, looking across to the republican side of tho senate chamber, "more results and fewer recommendations; more meal tickets and fewer bread lines; more prosperity and fewer poor hous?s. "Deficiencies Of Party.' Sen. Harrison made the letter recently written by Pres't Harding to Sen. McCormick of Illinois, chairman of the republican senatorial campangn committee. recounting the achievements of the republican congress, the basis for his address, although upon Inquiry from Sen. Penrose of Pennsylvania, a republican leader, as to his "text" he said he was speaking on "the deficiencies and delinquencies of the republican party." The president; letter to Sen. McCormick. Sen. Harrison said, "shocked and almost pained some democrats." and was written in the interest of the candidacy of Sen. Bursum, republican senatorial candidate in Tuesday's election in New Mexico. Sen. Lodge of M isachusetts, republican leader, in this connection read & telegram announcing the election of Sn. Bursum and explained that he was net presenting it as an argument, but merely as information. 7 FOOT DETROITER IS , A REAL "ODD FELLOE TORONTO, Sept 21. A rarade of more than 20,000 Odd Fellows was the principal event on Wednesday program of thj sovereign grand lodge convention In session here. The biggest man scheduled to march was George Montgomery", of Detroit, who is 7 feet inches Uli.

HERBERT SMITH, DRUG ADDICT, IS NABBED BY POLICE; SEARCH DETROIT FOR LOVER OF NEVA

Neighbor, Missing From Home Since Night of Crime, is Taken From Kalamazoo Sanitarium to Cassopolis Jail as Witness in Triple Murder Club Mystery Hunt is Being Waged for Former Resident, Said to Have Been Lover of Neva, Victim of Fiend at Death Shack. BY A STAFF CORRESPONDENT DOWAGIAC. Mich., Sept. 21. Was the M onroe family destroyed by some irresponsible maniac, some crazed and ferocious animal whose mind was gone and only blood lust left, some drugaddict who lived in a world of his own distorted dreams? Or was it the deliberate result of a plotting, cunning intelligence with a motive of hatred behind it The very atrocity of the manner in which Will Monroe, his wife and 18 year old daughter were killed, and their younger daughter probably fatally injured, suggests insanity, or a mind nerved to the act by drugs or drink. The human mind does not comprehend hatred resorting to such

Fitzmorris Will Not Seive Term, He Tells Jurist Chicago Police Chief Rushes Plans to Appeal Cage to Supi rernc Court CHICAGO, Sept. 21. Charles Fitzmorris, general superintendent of police, convicted Tuesday of contempt of court by Judge Joseph M. David and sentenced to five days In Jail and fined $100, will never pay the fine or eerve the eentence, the corporation counsel's office declared Vednt3day. Preparations are being made to carry an appeal to the supreme court. Fitzmorris was found guilty after he reiterated in court criticisms directed at an insanity hearing given Carl Wanderer, convicted murderer, before Judge David. Commenting on the fact that Wanderer twice had been found guilty by juries, once for the murder of his wife and once for the murder of a "ragged stranger" whom he hired to stage a fake holdup and that his sanity had already been passed upon once, Fitzmorris declared at the time of the second sanity hearing that "if murderers continue to be released on Insanity pleas, they are not half as crazy as the policemen who are working day and night to Fend them to jail." Judgo David and the police department have had numerous clashes in the past over the jurist action in granting habeas corpus writs for prisoners held on suspicion and issuing warrants for detectives charged with making illegal arrests. "I face a jail sentence? because I dared to say that a double murderer should be hanged," Fitzmorris said. "If Judge David is let alone he will have a lot of policemen in cells, even if the criminals have to be turned out to make room for them. While criminals are turned tout of Jail, sometimes without even a trial as they have been by Judge David and the police threatened as they have been by Judge David for doing their sworn duty, I am going to talk as much as I like, jail or no Joil." CONFESSED SLAYER OF MOTHER GOES ON TRIAL BOO.WILX.E, Ind., Sept. 21 William Deffendoll, 17-year-old boy who Is alleged to have confessed to having shot and killed his mother, Mrs. Laura Deffendoll, laet July, declaring the shooting accidental, will go on trial here Thursday. Mrs. Deffendoll's body wa.5 found in a woods near her home ten days after the ehooting. Both William and Dolly Deffendoll, sons of the dead woman, were arrested. William accused Dolly, who, according "to neighbors, had Wn the pole support of his mother for eight year3. Later ho exonerated Dally. One version of tho tragedy a related by the accused youth, was that his gun went off accidentally while hi.s mother and he were in the woods searching for squirrels. To end her suffering, he said, he fired again. INDICT COMMITTEEMAN ON CONSPIRACY CHARGE FRANKFORT, Ky.. Sept. II Maurice Gahin cf Covington, republican ftate central committeeman, was indicted by the Franklin county grand Jury here Tuesday oa .a m!sdeTieanor charge of conspiracy in connection with tecurir.g a pardon several month ago, for Frank Blair, a convict at the state reformatory here. Blair was sent up from Louisville for robbery. The gTand Jury charges that Galvin represented to Gov. Morrow that Blair never had been In trouble before, whereas when Blair walked out of the prison fates here he wa under Indictment in Indiana on - bank robbery charge. Blair has disappeared.

primitive methods of destruction, if hate was the impelling purpose. The officers of the law, upon whom the duty of solving the mystery is laid, are following such clues as they have which may find a solution in a plain purpose to kill, as the motive. They are asking who might have wished for the deaths of this entire family and why. They are seeking for the person with a possible motive, and in this search the lightest word of gossip, of whispered scandal, of faint rumor which would have been forgotten a unimportant or untrue before the tragedy Is being scrutinized and followed to th end that the truth may be known. Ileal Ividenoo Now- Gone. For upon such rumors ar.d gorsip depend the sole hope of any euch solution unless chanc should brinj? tho guilty man to them with a confession upon his Hps. The hopo of real evidence in the form of fingerprints ha gone. Too many men handled th dath club, to make possible any impressions left upon it usrful as evidence or even for pointing in the direction of the murderer. The fame ia true of the clothes of the murdered family and of the portions of the houst which he mlcht have touched. In the first ghastly hours after the finding of tho bodies, many persons came to help and in helping loft their own impression upon the weapon. Val Smith, a Subnet, Hopes in the ablution of tho "spiked club triple, murder" has now centered down to two men. Following the night of tho murder, it has been learned that Herbert Smith. 4S. colored, disappeared from his little shack adjoining thu.t cf th' Monroe His wife repeatedly toll the police and r.wspap-r:mri that she would tdl them n thing. "I'll tell you the whole truth." shc muttt-red this morning when quizzed atam by detectives in a severe srill. "He left Monday to go to a sanitarium at Kalamazoo. He's been suifering suffering, from jLHthma. That's th v. liole truth, I iwe.ir it is." Detectives rushed to jCal.irrazoo rind brought the suspect buk h-ne tonight. - Hunt Lover of Neva. In Detroit tho officers believe- to be hiding a former resident of thia city when hore a painter by trad-?. Sheriff Uyman i tluro enlisting the aid of Detroit o;ficl.ils In crumbing tho city for him and it was whL-p-ered here tonight that he was not found at his hrrm, where hi wifo and daughter reside. Hf: was In Ixwagiac Saturday, locil people Siy a visit about which the o.'.'icn aro interested. It is Fail further and apparently to th sitisfauicn cf the cilicer, that h wa-s seen with Neva Monroe Saturday night and it Is whisrrd that he had beon with Neva r.ften in the past. It is wills;, '-red. too, that he suddenly sol ! his hon.e here a year ago this summer, loaded his family . inte an automobile newly purchased and rush d away to Detroit, after Mor.roe h3d objected to hi friendship with the daughter.

And arc und tli.it hi? of evi1.-r--.ce m cciT? nave rormea a wel which they hope som u .olv. Stories are numerous. o are nmors, and the o:";il cup i runi ning over with them. T.ne orf.cers have reached the fork in th road, ! rtrA h.a'A HivMr.,1 In f -.'.- V....W ..it'-. .I..V . ...-J" A J AVi. LJ k.A trails. Smith Quamled Saturday. Over in the city Jail at Kaiimizoo Herber: S-nlth der.IeJ tint he had seen any one enter er leave the Monro home here Faturday nl?ht or 'Sunday. Smith, taken into custody late la the afternoon at the Dr. Baldwin Sanitarium, also denied that he had entered the hon or that he vu fuilty of the atrocious crime. Suspicion.? were directed toward Smith after it became known Wednesday that he had Quarreled Saturday afterrroon with Monroe. Ilia uddeti disappearance from the city Monday aroused the suspicions of the officer who learned. It wu sail, that Smith was under the lnfiuexyc