Winslow Daily Mail (Newspaper) - December 21, 1927, Winslow, Arizona EDITION A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE | The Weather | Fair gentle to moderate cast and VOLUME 36 NAVAJO DECEMBER 21, 1927 NUMBER 9 ASKS OF HARRY K. THAW NOT IN WIFE SHOOTING Freedom Rests With Plea In Probate May Confine Him To State Hospital OUT 19 MINUTES ( Dec. 20- Ceorge who made a million dollars breaking the laws against was acquitted today on a charge of first degree A jury of ten men and two women found him not guilty of murdering his on the grounds that he was insane on the morning of October when he shot her to death as she was to court to testify against him in a divorce plea that his alleged infidelities with Franklin L. a former prohibition had driven him temporarily was accepted by the He was acquitted in 19 minutes on the first flat acquittal of the former millionaire bootlegger was made by the instructions given the jurors by Judge Chester Not guilty on the grounds of insanity was the moil favorable verdict they were allowed under the instructions of the it means that unless Remus can convince a probate court that he now is he must be sent to the stale hospital at Lima until he regains his There exists no doubt in the minds of those who interviewed the jurors after it was over or saw some of them rush up to the jail cell and congratulate the tearful that if Judge Shook had permitted a verdict of absolute acquittal it would have been The judge held that since the killing was admitted by the very defense of insanity Remus could not be walked of the court room where he has sat for five weeks and two days while a million words of argument and testimony went into the Technically the case went to the jury at 12:4J) p. m. until the peers went out to lunch they did nothing but elect a who turned out to be Harry ( a old ] They came back from lunch and j started talking it Just nineteen minutes later they sent word that a verdict had been Judge Shook was not in the court and it was almost A p. m. before he came to the That means everyone but was silence as the jurors filed to their hard There was not much of a crowd in the already graying from the short December Remus smiled at Byrd and Byrd smiled and gentlemen of the Judge Shook asked you reached a said the Sherman clerk of the came forward and relieved Byrd of a sheet of lessly folded Judge Shook interrupted to caution the spectators against any Palmer intoned the the on the issue find the defendant not guilty of as he stands charged in the on the sole ground of There was an instant of Then an involuntary sound from the crowd who could on Pago Kidwell Turns Tables On U. S. Attorney Takes The Witness In Trial STATEMENT FALSE Pretty Cowgirl Loses Her Asks For Search Forest Hope Wall of Culver is Harry K. Thaw for for breach of promise to marry She she has lots of letters from Harry to prove her EDWARD HICKMAN'S MOTHER IS STAUNCHEST SUPPORTER OF THE ALLEGED MURDERER KANSAS Dec. 20-A white haired overcome by the shock of police is the staunchest supporter of Edward Hickman's integrity and In tragic can't be so boy could not do a thing like Eva 4S. disavowed with an expression of mother love the deed that Los Angeles police have attributed to her sensational kidnapping and gruesome murder of 12-year-old Marion Surrounded by friends who bony her in her beliefs and hopes that it was not Edward who murdered the as an honor high school had hoped to enter the Hickman is confined to her recovering near nervous Confidently and hopefully she spoke of her son and the crime of which he boy is a clean she said could not have done it. will not believe it until he toils me with his own is a mistake Mrs. Hickman answered questions with perceptible effort to keep back the he had some trouble at the bank where ho was employed in Los but it had been has been such a wonderful boy -bo could not have done she the weight of the incident affected Informed of the fingerprints upon the death which police say are Mrs. Hickman said she did not know about the finger I know my boy would not commit such a what if Ed. as his family knows should admit the would disown she said I know my boy is not ' Her weary from worry and loss of took a new light as slie pictured the growth of her sou from childhood to of the honors he won at his scholastic ability and her undaunted defense of his Mrs. Hickman believes Ed is in went there in and I know he would have told me if he had gone back to Mrs. Hickman and a daughter live in Kansas rooming on the third floor of a modest Formerly she had owned a but since one son and three other sons live away from she has given up her Mr. and Hickman separated seven years and are according to Mrs. She said she did not know of her husband's Since he left she had j received only one letter from Hickman if he left he would have told me. If he came here in as thov he would have come j he was a fine everybody liked she 20 The condition of Mrs. Lemira mother of Mrs. Calvin Coolidge who has been seriously ill with influenza December 11. was described as by Dickinson hospital Although Mrs. Goodhue's temperature has risen slightly since this it was said she was resting Her pulse and respiration were Dec. 20 - Defense lawyers in the contempt trial today brought against the government the charge that it intimidated one of its own A faltering young man in the witness Edward J. who served as a juror in the supported the Kidwell testified he made statements naming two Burns Frank J. and Barton as having approached and with him during the trial then said under defense that he was coerced in said his statements were ' ' George P. attorney for Harry F. in this case as well as in the oil charged assistant U. S. Attorney James J. with having compelled Kidwell to sign the statements in the last few days over protest that they were untrue Kidwell verified this U. S. Attorney Peyton Gordon indignantly denied the intimidation Gordon also made public six affidavits and statements made by Kidwell and his parents outlining the government's testimony and asserted that all of them were made Col. James S. who was appointed by Justice F. L. to advise him in this backed up He told reporters that he went to home before Kidwell made his first statement on December S and said Kidwell told him the statement was entirely Kidwell told he had asked permission to make the Hoover's charges came in connection with a motion that Justice forbid the United States or anyone in his to talk with Kidwell before session of Kidwell was on the stand most of the day and had testified he was approached in a park by an unnamed man who asking him for the of a Justice Siddons termed the charges and ordered Kidwell not to talk with anyone he resumed the stand in the Formal Funeral For Hardings Is Today i iv Dec. 20 Preliminary to formal burial the bodies of former President and Mrs. G. Harding wore removed from the temporary vault in Marion today to the new Memorial The heavy each weighing were moved a distance of nearly a of a mile on a truck and placed side by side on a platform within the where tomorrow they will be lowered into the Simple ceremonies will mark Unfavorable r has caused a slight change in the plans and although national government officials were notified of the it is not chat the government will be officially * * * * * * + * * Dec. 20' pretty 18-year-old stalked into a police station and demanded that the officers up every maverick in until they find her rodeo Harry a nephew of She and Cody played the rodeos of the west together all season and came to Indianapolis for the she told police he left her to look for He did not keep the rendezvous set for later in the was too square a shooter to desert Genevieve has happened to him and you fellows have got to find out what it is. ' Navy Officials Continue Efforts To Save The Sailors But Hope Is Faint WEATHER HiNDERS ri CHARGED WITH THE OF MARION PARKER BY COAST OFFICERS Coast Police Establish Identity Of The Kansas City Youth Thousands Join In Southwests Largest Man Hunt For Parker Girl Murderer 54 KILLED AS SEVERE STORM WEEPS EUROPE Dec. 20 cold wave is sweeping Europe has taken a toll of at least 54 with the possibility deaths from extreme and storms at sea might mount to 100. Thirty two persons died in 15 in a mine that collapsed due to a sudden drop in and 17 among soldiers on guard along the Ten deaths in Great Britain were attributed to the coldest weather since 1S95-, while seven were reported in Five sailors went down with the schooner wrecked off ' Sub-zero temperatures were recorded throughout the British Isles and the Six rescued from entombment when the Bauxite mine in Jugoslavia collapsed from extreme died in a Nine others were killed Half of the historic St. Peters in sunny was converted into the first skating pond the children there ever had High winds carried jets of water from the fountains to the right half of the Thousands of children enjoyed themselves by making None had for there had been no ice in Home in their The Pope stood in the windows of his Vatican apartment overlooking the enjoying the of the happy Cardinals halted their carriages and automobiles to watch the In the English heavy gales delayed both and Many ships were forced to seek shelter in Several sailing ships have foundered in the Black Dec. 20-Naval officers have abandoned hope for the men entombed in the sunken submarine Admiral Frank pronounced to the 72 hour of the vessels smd under his to sine them in an interview with the Press lute this afternoon on the deck of the r S. have lost hope Tor trie Admiral have put no divers down and we cannot put any down It is too rough weather ont for any attempt al A few minutes the six trapped in the torpedo room of the 102 feet below the surface of the might have heard a dull rumble that presaged their The sound was the clash of the Falcon's anchor chains as the mother vessel of the rescue fleet prepared to turn back into But the man who had to make the decision doesn't believe young Graham Newell Fitch and his five companions in their dark steel cell on the ocean bed heard tomorrow be the United Press correspondent afraid Brumbly gray Brumbly said the that was heard from the was at 6 a. m. face was drawn and gray with fatigue chiseled by the day and night battle with the North Atlantic for the lives of the trapped He is a crisp man of about 55 don't realize how hard it is to put down a diver to attach a line to that he said in his incisive is too rough out there to endanger the men by putting them tapped a hammer on the inside of the on Page LARGE MOBS THREATEN LYNCHING LOS Dec. 20-"The a vexed and weary was making a desperate attempt to escape the hunters And though he darted hither and yon he appeared balked at every turn and it seemed impossible that the fiendish murderer of 12-year-old Marion Parker could escape detection through another 24 Since early this morning when authorities announced evidence that Edward 19, formerly of Kansas was the butcherer of the daughter of Perry local bank police have crossed his trail again and * Each trail strengthened the evidence pointing to Hickman as who abducted and killed the mutilated her body and returned her disemboweled form to her father in exchange for Each crossing seemed to bring nearer to the The of the crime career of brought police the important questions of what to be done in case he was Sullen crowds that gathered at all police stations and threatened various suspects arrested gave evidence of what might happen when is Major developments following announcement of identity of the slayer included his appearance and chases in several sections of the apparent discovery of tho room in which the Parker girl was the arrest of a university student charged with complicity in the crime and almost serious outbreaks of citizens seeking to revenge the brutal That previously thought to be a seasoned and veteran criminal was instead a pleasant faced youth it's too late was first announced shortly before dawn soberly shaking his Calling weary newspapermen to his of chief of detectives Herman for three nights oil the j have without a possible doubt that Edward man is 'The Cline man on the force is Hickman is in the We expect to have liim in 4.S ' Five minutes later police cars i trap captains set for The first trace of came just as Los Angeles headlines screamed the news that he had He had stopped at a garage and gotten gasoline was waiting lor a new bulb a headlight when a corner wailed Kidnapper Without hesitating a I loaded with determined men his car to every outlet to the I pictures of Hickman and pamphlets describing his appearance their way to every law enforcing station in the state and the news wives had flashed the word to The garage attendant police who failed to intercept Later the attendant after viewing pictures said his customer was Later he was reported speeding LINDY TAKES MEXICAN AND U. S. OFFICIALS FOR JOY FLIGHT OVER MEXICO CITY Investigation Of Explosion Started l SAN Dec. 20-A naval board oi inquiry will investigate the explosion of a gasoline tank which took one life and injured three men aboard the aircraft S. S. here j The dead man was identified as James R. 41. of D. C. The injured were S- D. and George chief and Clarence and Raymond home is in j MEXICO Dec. 20-Charles | A. Lindbergh had an aerial field | day making seven flights j Valbuena field where he I landed last week at the end of his | journey from C. J He carried distinguished including President Callos and General Alvaro the | candidate for the who j made their first and W. Other members of the Mexican government and American newspapermen also saw the sight with On flight the ambassador took his guests over the entire capital pointing out Chapultepec the president's the bull ring where he saw Mexico's national sport and the States Possibility of unfavorable weather conditions for Mrs. Evangeline Lindbergh's flight to City was indicated The was there was I ' fog and the weather was ' j mely apparently because of j a north wind blowing from the of These ally last one to three days while they are sometimes scarcely felt they nearly always indicate storms brewing on the The Lone mother was not expected until Wednesday morning at the I hergh said she might not arrive before j Despite the tact that she has been invited by the Mexican Mrs. Lindbergh's visit ' will Ambassador | Morrow even though it may fake an official color because President Calles may greet her as greeted her through Maywood on a motorcycle but he escaped again from the tightening The motor vehicle department announced Hickman purchased an Indian here I Throughout the day and from j scattered points of the city came j word of the movement of the slayer last Thursday when he napped the evidently as a gesture of He was seen he I to purchase gasoline at this from the corner drugstore he chloroform and even to very room which he mutil his One of the towels bearing filename of tho arms apartment and which had been stuffed Marion's body after she was emboweled led to the discovery oi ' the Pieces of black a a Brazil bloodstains and other clues led police to announce definitely the finding of the death It was in apartment 315 in the Arms where Marion Parker was held captive three where her kidnapper wrote and signed to ransom notes and where the school girl was on
