Billings Weekly Gazette (Newspaper) - March 23, 1926, Billings, Montana THE BILLINGS GAZETTE VOL. 35. MARCH 23, 1926. PRICE FIVE CENTS WETS GAIN HEARINGS SCORE IN N. Y SUSPECT GANG OF BANDITS IN SEEK MILLION DOLLARS LOOT OF ROBBERIES Maryland Trying to Get Leader From New York to Try Him for Killing Prison but Like Crimes in Big City and in Buffalo Incline Authorities to Hold on to New March de- posit box which ii of the loot crimes in four cities 10 liccn liy a anl Is being also working on evidence tending to link gang to seven murders committed in a i than rt in New City and New PRAYERS FAIL TO CLOSE ROAD TRY RAID Monday supplemented eri by residents of com- In northeastern for the closing of roadhouses of the dis- when they raided resorts In the district with warrants for the arrest of 18 persons for Volstead act Several weeks ago the Rev. G. Brown Inaugurated a campaign of prayers for the closing of the resorts group which began praying with him grew steadily until Several roadhouses closed The group had announced that it would not ask trie help of but would continue its praying campaign until the houses were converted into missions Little Woman Sleuth Plucked Out of Underworld Grew Into Bitterest Rl .Ma hospital room reporters and even Stales marshal Daisy erstwhile Kan was to as the result nf an al suicide in a jail where was lield on a charge of violating the Harrison narcotic wt. a 10 be arrived and at tn tlie where she but and nurses were to In allowed see to interviewers nr to any in- as to is or where phr Belief the name at has liccn to avoid was by the Officials slates Monday wero for the trying Indicted in New for first degree robbery hi for murder uf tn a In last men a woman as was Ills They were in loot laline between 57.50.000 anil was connection other still wus papers for to to stand trial for tbc mimler of a prison miard last were Governor for Inn action was deferred at I lie of He ho need in nil case Plate's Attorney of raine to question and lo immediate said Ihe confused lie the guard of the evidence lo Ihc jury comprised con- i fissions by members of Hie of i i which was tlic alleged I indictments his Anthony j and Jake with PEKING FORCES ABANDON TAKU Outpost Metropolis of Chinese Capital in Panic as Concealed Soldiers of Victorious Faction Appear From Fleeing Troops Form New Rearguard Line; Fire Kills March city of tants was completely evacuated Monday by the or national army in their retreat toward 8C before the victorious troops of Chang the and those of his from the ince of The was thrown Into a panic the appearance of hundreds men wearing armlets of former civil governor of They Exceed Mellon But Republican er Sees Indications of Deficit Next that lax returns for the first to be col- under the exceed by estimate of Secretary little It Is however villages along ibe line of from by Ibe re- treating soldiers of tlie third Javanese and on Ihe settlements and rushed into the city was Monday -n while the last Chang s forces from 1-eng nent of Hie was Hen but lo the station to lake trains Inward a. sea port at ibe toward j of the Pel river near was Few slow owing to tho seizure of telephones few stragglers were ami other essential instruments of com- by the in Taku was evacuated during the and Ihe situation al Hie lias become BUSTER AND WIVES CAN'T GET OUT San March 22. fast rules which yielded to permit Buster and motion picture to become tlie season's first automobile visitors in thp were in effect something like a stone wall Monday a special to the Examiner And because Thomas cliffe of the San Quentin prison camp at South near let the movie drive over roads on which prisoners were he Is out of a Ben H. superintendent of prison road revealed that Arbuckle and and their wives were permitted to drive Into although the rule is that auto- mobiles containing women pass prison road the dls patch Guards were posted on the roat so that the Arbuckles and could not drive shall not Millike put it. Which means two stay In until the road is complet for the or a railroad trip out for- themselves and a flat ride for the shot by hi Gen. M was reported to lie al the Central railway station while Chung of Shantung lua look of. Hie west thousand of the were numerous in the have at anil city owning to the drills by arc lines to temporarily hold but there I Ilic to the WALSH ALONE BACKS DRYS Senate Judiciary Com- Picks April 5 i for Opening sion of Prohibition by Experts and cal Champions of Two New York Senate Rejects of State En- forcement Into 73- TE I LS with Til son of loot was worth of ot a treasury deficit for the fiscal and j year because WAS San Marcii day a few years a nice old wearing a bit of bonnet j 10 accentuate sweetness of her and a worn plaid out of the prohibition ment In customs house and in moment was lost to in the throng on tho An hour the quarters were in- formed that a a brace of from licr bad raided a vicious 1 on lower Lacked five up and held them there she rang for The women were and The loyal worker HIP the that city lias ever terror to liquor ami the nemesis of the Would Mimic Old encomium is from tho rf Captain of employed lior bolli as a member of and as a general in I fie 1 Hie laid at 1 arc nf former i thr I budy was in Trinity churchyard f In New seventh is former Captain Henry who after hand held uji jewelers on Fifth ami caped willi of unset then employed ns a private fired cm the who are In have killed him lo prevent j year because of i Fall Short of Last The collections for which included only those for first nf the from individuals and totaled at the 1 close of business but expect them reach 5120.000.OOP. or j about 5il.000.000 less than was for the same quarter a year when the tax were j Mellon the LOVED CHINESE SLAYER TO KILLED FAMILY 5IE1 N m 51 ion of ncs of a With t h e red net ion months he business generally had made investments in a direction would prove helpful revenue Year's Total On the face of the March tho' treasury estimates Ihc total tax collections for the fiscal ending SO. will amount to Whose Generosity Knew No Bounds in Midst of Celebration at Home Shot Down Welsh Wife and Two Beautiful Daughters Without Apparent Denied i March Associated itc as due beloved known in anticipation j towns of New San Francisco and many other cities of the indeed wherever his people are will be in sight hanged Tuesday for the murder of tiis wife and two beautiful and 20. was benevolent that he was by his countrymen in the seven corners of tho but at the end some change took place in In Ihc midst of a celebration at bis shot seemingly without his nn The variety of her in- Armed with Die she gained a narcotic addict in and while heating her back to respectability anc with an Iron The and the of po down into the she bad and clean with n gun in tlie folds of her and which the always to Raid Weeks later appear in or New for she the country over for the n I bat nnd and drink and in high levels at a supper club or some other night that knows only the royal spenders and royal A lew there be a lineup of women and and men at the nearest lice Began on Morals iMor to 19I.i. Captain Daisy Simpson was an underworld figure whose weakness for narcotics did not take the keen edge off her she joined the police morals in 1917. Her chief duty was lo who Fold liquor to pot into one place near the where she was For n time it as hrr career would V there by a knife or a whipped out pun and shot brr way the ripped In on the Later was n federal prohibition here and her work reached the apex of Us William then federal enforcement of- ficer in and later her on a campaign and she like a flame through many an Divorced Customs Jiho was H years from Bert n and a narcotic Khe off drug then a a slift might strike at HIP had trapped Sinkins hy the kill Lu I Inii tht iv turn and he not be Man Makes Confession in Woman T-I T i T 1 money In Ihc 1 Lille appropriation During Boy's would have been collected this year tinder ihe old These do not include collections of miscellaneous many of repealed new iFat Check Book Mr. in Iho to appropriations fnr I ral year declared is in j the unhappy position of a man who fat check book without any The new revenue already i now give an estimated deficit The t's bank account for he he da tbe calmly telephoned natural j in reached many girl Ills influence 1 Ie befriended of his needy Chinese in all parts of antl America subscribed a fund for his Sir Marshall one of thr lawyers of receiving fo whom hoi this what declared to have as against a year j all the luxuries The and which it been Then the a man of came to from Ite became for thai mind business He was and as er tho Hoy during a he stated in a sion taken by John A. He he by drinking iwlson durinK Dor land said he shut when his wife lo him phe had been be- trayed by Iho will he Tuesday on a. charge of first degree The look tn Iho vanl of William Pager on the night of March fir bis brother William and Ills four other women and man bad gone to the farm for a drinking Mystery surrounded tho revolver could be leund although It was known ho had worn of pun along the the party hart in returning to dusky led lo abandonment of suicide nnd of lo his Shot Wife Four j Before Turning would leave a of he Oil has for an -A cor- jury Monday round that principal In it marital to liis us a D JOHNSON'S MAN SAYS HE WAS PUT IN DOPED March Magnus Johnson will help him in contest for a senatorial 5cal, told n police court he linil been drugged anil placed In on a charge of failing to Man Who Shot Policeman Now Out Without March After i out a over 10 com- to an the jury In the of Michael with j murder Monday charged liy The jury came in first tbe that there no for an hnl the courl asked them to make one more effort In reach a 1 Judge that his by wlm had been separated from his wife lass secreted himself In her al when she ennui home shot her four limes before turning the Pistol on Mrs Hazard's sou by a former saw the Mrs. suit inp was to been tried Jit the lerm In urd leging who i Hoovered the that ard had been habitually intoxicated and had repeatedly abused anil threatened his and his two tn the df hta a payment was on probation nnd forbidden to the His court followed the of son's sont Sunday night to In asking for In final action on 1 1 A I T rlJ m of a witness in W nnl 1-. fi thai he bad found the loon rolled the each one i inp that was no possibility of an j agree men I. The for the the would be held without 1-onds. though a motion with regard to that matter would be heard After the jurors slated that they slood for anil four for ly the whole they were was asked by when ihe next trial would but said tin's lime he was to Mute Riser with ihe Policeman Frank in 1ml when into t Missing Man Found Chopped Up in Tree March body of John S. Sunday from his ho DC in Von chopped in and into a hollow two miles from county authorities were unable to assign n motive fur the but nt night were holding four men In at PLEADS QUILT THAT MEANS ONE TO TEN YEARS PRISON Son Law and Father in Latter's March his 2P, bolh were wounded throng the nnd Pearl the In escaped through the acti of her 10-year-old wl aside the gun alleged to been wielded by Joe aft be had his father and law and the at bis shortly before 7 o'clock Monday The which occurred al the Sinkovich was said to n Iho of a divorce in J Ihe when father granted a in Judge Carroll's last according to the Ft told by both men al Ihe enured his father's T and leveling Ibe firM his In an ther he nad turned on is sending bullet through gun was then Paul lo have teen pointed at his An in plant be- fore the third shot sprang forward and ihe gun The misled mark nnd was buried In the kitchen tion From Old Man If He Got cide Pact Says Other Xew Starch tria Cowan for the allege of Ms 51. was b Connly Taylor until he rulp on of Her a tor A. 13 Lewis of This was outlined us the effect Miss Burton to on the al 15 on Hie night of the on mbcr 2S, previously ied that he was with her from those 5 until 10 p. m. Cowan is alleged to have shot in her He said she He is Mind as Ihc of his suicide Monday was questioned closely his relations with lie lie intended lo jarry divorce saJtl he had a 42 years r other His divorce still s Ihe 73-year-old man old of his friendship for thn 2S-year-olil Lewis stitd thriL liis with Miss began over Uvo years agy in a purely way nnd thai his regard for lier the before her death lie her to marry received a from my in Plating Hint he liad in divorce said itor showed It lo and told her UiM if Ihe care was I got my freedom and she still was I give her my Court did not develop what bad been MIPS Burton's Ho said Miss Burlon re- garded him as a He described himself as a stock a gold mine in hr was interested rmd said that during years bis income hail not been bo did not possess the amount which Cowan in a al the time uf Ills said to obtain from Hi run ph March ion which has agitated louses of congress at this session ias no is to be given a airing before a senate during the two beginning 5. This was determined upon Monday the juri which approved with but a single dis- of Senator tlie by Is subcommittee of five for Hie measures for tion of the dry Senator will have charge of the hearings and he will attempt to hold both the wets and drys strictly to ihu subject of the bills at Karb side will have alx days for the presentation its the wets taking stand Pigeonhole Edwards approving the program for the the Ihe action of subcommittee in in- definitely postponing en era turn n by Senator Xew for repeal of the Volstead This mensure was on was because its passage leave the government without to enforce the dry tional Would Restore Wet first measure that will be con- will be that by Senator to change eighteenth amendment so states and communities which were wet when the dry law went effect again lie but would have to depend upon federal government their limited supplies of Ihe licer bills and tbe Edge measure to remove the restrictions on whisky will liave their m- are three Leer lillls 4 per 2.7u per in r New author of the and sponsors the oi her Create Official have no Hint will report any of the They asked for iho they so can elicit Die opinions of enforcement and others liow dry laws should lie .co as lo make their ment kss voted based on the ground lhal they merely for the purpose uf spreading wet Tirne to Act en Home was touched upon In the Senator a on tlie to he to bring senile back to a of a rions a poll showing 2.727.57J and 5M.W7 In favor of Means IP ol i and tlic other arc Senators ee irf and ENFORCEMENT STATUTE DEFEATED IN NEW YORK N. March 22. Ail effort lo restore to the books a slate enforcement act was defeated in the senate Monday night to i- j March (i j formor siato lo lav uit any I lie Male the 1 from W ID I. ANTENNA KILLS FELL OVER CHARGED WIRE St. March broken radio which two ago a power the Monday of and in an delivery whu said by the lo nf men whd ally 5tvung up aerial ncross DIE TOGETHER AS THEY LIVED FOR 52 YEARS o2 years of married life the enforcement He was Si years old ami she j packed known wealthiest the public in applause from the women's his was dying from threat j Chamber Packed for Mr. Kill national in the same at c on Past 2. Col. 5.) BOY SAVES BABY BY UNCLE TOM STUNT OVER ICE March years nicer across floating of tee In Ihc inaw river to tlie when two houseboats loose from their moorings liy floating Ice here Monday The two boats broke loose and floated down the river for half a mile before lodged against a Arthur mother of cakes of Ice and swam through Icy waters to the shore while U years lo swim lo when small boat In which he at- lo put off from of the Six UK hoats wore by and luit lhAy I lie Hie end flt 7 fl. in. his lintl in Me al 111. Think Prisoner Is 1 Montana Fugitive i New H. March -A man who his name as heM by I In formal ion from the Montana Malo penitentiary by which they hopft to as n who in 1S20 serv inn 3 burglary Annak was arrested in connection with the blankets from a his finger prints rt wilb those of the Montana PIONEER PUBLISHER ILL. dition of H. Is ill WAS
