Woodland Daily Democrat (Newspaper) - April 30, 1920, Woodland, California ISSUED DAILY EXCEPT FRIDAY APRIL 30, 1920 DAILY ESTABLISHED 1877. Kentucky Wires Officer Hold Young on Murder Charge 4-M- Wifebeater and Alleged Bigamist Embezzles From Says Wife fl I Religious Makes Partial to Sheriff Confirming the confession of Perry alias Frank of this to the effect that rfe shot and killed Alonzo Bledsoe in in December of 1906, is the following message received this morning by C. C. requiring that the be that he may be returned to Kentucky to be tried for the battery and alleged bigamy charges to give way to the murder April 30, 1920. District Attorney C. C. Gal. Hold Steele for Am sending ary by Frankfort for Agent will wire upon leaving J. B. Commonwealth Attorney 34th doth make cowards of us Though spoken many decades these words of Hamlet in his famed soliloquy came home again this morning in the county jail here when Perry alias Frank contractor and Holy Holler convert of this under bonds to keep the peace of his young whom he is charged with beating unmercifully at her 704 Fourth two nights confessed to Sheriff J. W Monroe and s. representative of the that he wanted to go to Kentucky immediately to clear his mind and soul of the charge that he shot and killed Alonzo in a barbershop In Whitney in the latter part of He left the south immediately after this and it for the first time here last In connection with this very matter 5 Steele admitted today that he married Ms present wife without securing a legal separation from his first whom he alleged committed bigamy in marrying Harry Skinner in several years BIBLE STOPPED could have gotten a said the Bible told me not to go to I now know I made a you admit killing this Steele was am informed by my brother that I am charged with murdering a he responded with a as his head Jerked back In con- his voice verging into yells during the narration of his am not ready to deny or admit It Is not time to I want to pay my own way back to Kentucky that I may clear myself of the charge which I can easily do for the Holy Ghost is on my and looking after me. I am anxious to adjust this ing that I may look after my 4hHdren. I hare three by the first one by Their names Travis and FLED frankly admitted that after Cat of the alleged shooting he MR. Kentucky and went to Although he would not ad- mit voluntary confession he to In the effort to with hit spiritual Local Speaker Starts Johnson Crowd Guessing Winning the cheers and approval of an audience that packed to the doors the Clunie theater at Sacramento last Mrs. Lydla Lawhead of Timothy T. T. C. San Francisco attorneys and Capt. J. F. Lucey of New were the principal speakers at the Herbert Hoover Mrs. Lawhead among other she had information which led her to believe that Hoover had voted for MeKinley and an tion that is bound to be challenged by that sound well in large Herbert Hoover was still chained to has desk in Washington finishing the task he began six years QUERIES McCLATCHY John F. Lucey of New of the National Hoover Be- elicited laughter when he declared that in other years he had worked for Grover L. Johnson when he ran for congress and was head ot the marching McClatchy declares that 1 ain an artistic autocrat in the Johnson Mrs. Lawhead j Vanderbilt New York day told the that Mrs. j said avers that one of Bobson of was her Timothy Healy who is a law partner of John L. aroused the ence to its loudest demonstration of proval when he declared that while Hiram Johnson was gyrating round the country uttering the and fraud that goes with meaningless phrases i i Hale Beet for Sick Fined lor Violation Because she pleaded she 100 bottles of beer for her sick O. Barnett of Fairfield was fined by District Judge William C. Van Fleet F. H. Todhunter of Knights Landing iwas a visitor Wednesday in he admits that he went into and only once returned to tucky in years of only went to the small avoiding the big In the er centers a man is never taken into i confidence and is let eo I felt I was reasonably safe he sail between body QUICKEN THE makes you yell and jerk your he was Lord tells me in the Bible In the Book of Romans to the Since the Holy Ghost came to me in at a church I have had no fear of Any bodily convulsions I have are manifestations of the spirit within and indicate that I am at rest with MEETS PRESENT Thus Steele rambled on as he ed up broken threads of his story which led him through a large number of the eastern states and practically every state in the Rooky Mountain and Pacific belt cones until at St. Mary's he met the girl to whom he is now wedded and who appeared before District Attorney C. C. ald yesterday as first reported in the and charged him with threatening kill severely beating At St he stated this ho met hie present clip of a on a who claimed that she wm to Steele's without mother and He said he found her mother and father subsequently on an ing SLIPPED INTO am not burdened with any thoughts of The Holy Ghost is with me. When I first saw the Lord I was sitting on a As the Holy Ghost alighted on me I ped from my seat onto the floor out being hurt or feeling any sensa- other than perfect calm and and with the explanation of his re- ception of the spirit Steele gave a couple of quick jerks and a few loud exclamations by way of em- Harry the alleged young man who Is charged by Steele wooing and winning his mother of hi's three George and seems to be the bone of contention throughout the trend of the confession of who seems to enjoy short lucid moments his reporters has called at that hotel in vain with four questions regarding Hoover for which he can obtain no called at the Bee office and was told that both V. 8. McClatchy and C. McClatchy were Just to show that I am a good aort of a fellow I asked to see any of the younger I was informed they also all were it not possible that I also was out when that reporter FOUR I want to know upon what terms is Johnson receiving the support of W. B. Hearst 1 We all know that Hearst's patriotism does not extend to doing thing recompense and I would like to know the exact ar- how is it that Mike De Young is supporting It is rumored that Mike wants to be ambassador to Pans at the hands of the man whom he has described with unerring truth as a humbug of the rankest why is it that Johnson is opposed to a league of nations with reservations when both re- publican and democratic parties have endorsed What party does he really belong what is the nature of this that Johnson If the Bee will an- swer these questions I shall be glad to reply to McClatchy 'e Wife Alleged Fugitive Slayer Is Willing to Take Witness Stand A. A AND TAKEN UNDER THE MOTHERLY CARE OF MRS. THE ATTRACTIVE LITTLE WIFE OF PERRY ALIAS FRANK UNDER ARREST HERE CHARGED WITH BATTERY AND ACCUSED OF A MURDER COMMITTED IN KENTUCKY FOURTEEN YEARS DE- CLARED THIS MORNING THAT SHE WAS DETERMINED TO CUTE THE SENSATIONAL BATTERY CHARGES MADE AGAINST HER AND IS WILLING TO GO BACK TO IF SHE IS TO TESTIFY IN A MURDER TRIAL WHICH IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP IN THAT With her a good-looking little playing by her Mrs. Steele today recited the story of the extreme domestic that have existed in her household since her marriage to Steele at Ceuer de July 25, 1917, while was of the and plain Mary Of St. Mary's The third district court of appeals today reversed the courts of this away from the captivating jn the of the caae tbe pic against William head of the Dutton Dredger and 1 fined here by Justice or the Peace R of the spirit balm that has placed him ic the rank with religious fanatics by local SKINNER The accused man states that wife met Skinner at a party of some sort in and that from that point tbe stranger followed him about and to In Southern where he had a vague that they were married six or seven years There was no legal and so far as he knew there was no legal But he he both Whether or not Skinner had anything to do with the Williamsburg shooting is a matter Steele would not He married his first wife September 22, 1898, he this NOT your wife to the his Harrison for failing to pay a dis- charged employe within the period Steele referring to his present The Lord has nothing to do on page 1.) prescribed by The case will be i in the courts Johnson forces are preparing an attack on this the ters battle having ended favorably for Hiram last according to press reports given out by the Woodland John L Relth ad- dressed an army of seventy-five at Winters and expects to meet a squad at the University Farm town tonight An authoritative estimate has placed the 1920 California hop crop at Oregon bales and ington This estimate may fluctuate If weather conditions should Mrs Steele admitted that her edge of the alleged murder is little things that my husband told I am under the impression that he was drunk in a barber shop at the Two girls were with A don't know whether he was a policeman or to open the front door of the shop and Steele shot was the version Mrs. Steele gave the reporter this According to his Steele was unable to get a divorce frim his first wife because she threatened to ex- pose the and so be left her at and she married a man named Not until a few months after their did Mrs Steele learn that he is a got five letters from this woman ani I opened them while he was Prom these I learned of his first wife and also got the pictures of his three other said Mrs Steele In 10 his out of with that had been advanced to him for L E for whom he was a house left me and our baby at Spokane dead said Mrs sold our furniture for and then had to give up our home which he had turned over as security for his debts The next time I heard from him he wrote from mento under the name of Frank He sent the letter to a colored who was our and enclosed for me to Join Being known here as Mrs. Steele was unable to communicate with her in with the she that sLe and her baby have barely had enough to live baa given me la three years to buy clothes for myself and stated Mrs. he had only treated me way I could have continued assured the young attacked me with a Jerk knife while my baby Was but three months and he began to beat me only a few weeks after I married Often he has said that he was not the father of our little Had the authorities not held Steele In custody last Mrs. Steele feam there would have been a have killed the other we had our last he said that saves you is your baby in Steele declared that the cost of living held no terrors for her husband when he is house oa Fourth street will show that potatoes and onions were munition for him while I was the get and the other night he even tore the top off the apple box and clubbed me with it after he had knocked me down and kicked she according to his is often bragged that he could pick up with most thing he and didn't to be tied to according to his recently tried to express his affection for one of the Fourth street matrons and was given a tongue If it is proved that Steele had not been divorced from his first wife be- fore he had married the second the authorities will be able to call on Mrs Steele to testify against him in Baur Estate Worth The administration of the C in Esparto 1'. progi easing idly in ihe supenor of this with Grant attorneys for Mrs Elizabeth the trix appointed hv Judge V. V. The estate is valued at and has an annual income of at least Besides the widow there are two children viving to the aged 9, aged C. Were You Relative of Rich State Controller John S. bers yesterday received from San Francisco which he Is desirous of giving to the woman or child who can prove right to Twelve months ago Harry who in Saft Francisco hotels many died and left an estate totaling nearly a result of his polite attentions to No or others with legal claim to tko money have been
