Woodland Daily Democrat (Newspaper) - May 12, 1932, Woodland, California Second lUED DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY WOODLAND CALIFORNIA THURSDAY MAY 1932 ESTABLISHED 1877 THEORY SUPPORTED AS LINDY DEAD ARCHER IF LOCAL JURY SPLITS M DRAWS IN CHECK NG TRIAL Slain by Kidnapers Morton Sol fridge who the Bank of America in ind the Bank of at lout of each in July lerve five years in San Quentin learned in Woodland today fridge was tried on the charge He was convicted April for grand theft fridge operated through a series bank drafts representing Jlf as an Omaha Nebraska He succeeded in securing lioney on tiie drafts and before the forgeries were two years he evaded efforts of Irs to apprehend but was in an Oxnard bank when to cash a similar jas returned to and upon the charge there being by a jury overly Baker jear Death Injuries Collision Baker former Woodland who was injure in an near Gilroy Sunday is In a critical condition according Ird received here by friends from pother Mrs Nellie Kaker who to the bedside of her son Henrietta Smith of San is killed in the accident and Mrs Raker bride of a few weeks Isabel Saph sister of the were also injured cer according to the report has skull his throat was cut ear down the side of his number of his teeth were When taken to the Gilroy it was not believed that ne live ten minutes but slight hope i Iw held for his recovery It fed that Baker who was driving ir lost control for it turned estate Jurymen to agree and were discharged last night in the case of J Byron Archer former Madison rancher charged with issuing bad checks en the Bank of Esparto out sufficient funds The trial of the case was conducted in the Sacramento court Archer was tried on a similar charge last December and was ted Previously two cases against in the justice court were dismissed the court ruling that there was not sufficient evidence to warrant ing the defendant in the superior court The jury last night deliberated over the issuing of three checks the total value of which was An ment was impossible announced the foreman Judge Martin I Welsh then the jurymen discharged Bankers Testify Frank Nissen cashier of the Bank of Esparto was the chief witness for the prosecution The defendant fied in his own behalf and Dr M 0 Wyatt president of the bank also was called by Archer's attorney It was the contention of the defense that the Bank of Esparto had ed Archer to believe that his credit good because other checks had been honored without sufficient funds on deposit to cover them Paul O'Neil was attorney for the prosecution and Robert W Huston of Woodland was counsel for the ant Archer is now a Sacramento county dairyman He lived at son for year's NEGRO FINDS PARTIALLY BURIED BODY IN BRUSH NEAR LINDBERGH HOME BULLETIN HOPEWELL New Jersey May tonight clung to the theory that the kidnaping of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr was the work of a crank A dent in the child's skull prompted the police lo believe that the infant had been slain Discovery Accidental The body was discovered by William Allen a negro Wilson a friend was with Allen at the time The two men were moving along through timberland in a truck Allen saw a child's foot protruding through a thicket of brush He stopped the truck and investigated The body was found partly buried with its face downward There were evidences that the burial was done in a Recognizes Shirt The body was badly decomposed dent about the size of a quarter was noticed on the head This wound could have been made by the head of a hammer Allen and Wilson notified Hopewell police immediately Colonel Lindbergh viewed the remains and made tion certain when he recognized the tiny shirt as that of his baby's Worried Over Mother He and Mrs Lindbergh bore up bravely under the ordeal though physicians and relatives were extremely worried tonight over the condition of Mrs Lindbergh who is again an expectant mother Large Estate Left By Helen Cowell HOPEWELL New Jersey May Augustus bergh Jr kidnaped son of Colonel and Mrs Charles A Lindbergh has been found dead This was the startling announcement here today the arrival home of the child's father after a secret trip to the Rhode Island coast Colonel Lindbergh arrived home late this afternoon in an automobile with all of the curtains drawn Newspapermen were summoned speedily and were told that the details of the latest development in the famous kidnaping case would be told later in the day The body was found at ML Rose four and a half miles from the Lindbergh estate Governor Gives News Governor Harry Moore of New Jersey addressed the One of he last pictures taken of Baby Lindbergh officially reported to have been found dead He stated that Colonel H Norman Schwarzkopf had by Colonel Charles Lindbergh is presented above Official verification of the finding of the notified him of the discovery was made late this afternoon from the estate Il was said tnat tne Parents of the child had bean duped paying between and in ransom money to parties who falsely claimed to have been in contact with the napers Grandmother Courageous Mrs Morrow the mother of Letters Plans for State Convention iff administration in the Helen E Cowell daughter of the late Henry Cowell pioneer bruised while cement manufacturer were to S H Cowell of Perkins a brother and W H George general the Cowell interests in San Francisco County Superior Court Wednesday Bonds for each administration set at The estate is at more than S II Cowell and a HOFFMAN GETS CHECK Baker was badly Saph was seriously injured jeer and the former Miss Nancy I were married in Reno last lie has been managing the Saph near Ending nearly twelve years of gation during which the California higher court three times reviewed case R A Hoffman Merced rancher i son of Lee Hoffman and brother of Vernon of Woodland today received a check from the First Apricots Leave Winters For East Marts TWO GRADUATE AT ZAMORA SCHOOL Mrs Lindbergh accepted the news stoically From the time that her was kidnaped last March California's shipment of Winters late consignment first 1932 eastern ripe apricots left Wednesday The consisted of five over the it will be host to the Pacific Railway company for injuries Isabella received in 1920 when his automobile M Cowell of San Francisco are the was struck by a train at a sole heirs of the estate Part of the in the Oakdale road near Merced estate consists of extensive land The case was said to be one of in Yolo county According to Frank M Ostrander convention of the in Tasters association July 21 to announced by C A postmaster and president of tae Ration Ins for the three-day convention will take hundreds of to Sacramento are now being by a committee appointed by letti following a meeting M the Sacramento The long awaited plan whereby trs association at Woodland j California's vast prune industry I the committee arc Harold J Prune Growers Launch New Statewide Cooperative Plan hopes to effect state-wide Harry Todd and put into operation a program kisco T 11 tri i w O James Tyrrell Grass designed to meet present and future Alameda economic fluctautions was made fluctautions owning Santa Clara and today The plan and program i perfected to a very distinct degree oi i i i i Id Oakland Stolen From Local Warehouse feasibility and effort of selected I workability is the representative com from within the in- by the experience j guidance and advice of the three agencies of federal farm Brown and Collins warehouses board state department of the theft of a hose ture and University of California police headquarters Thursday j The outstanding feature of the ing The hose was stolen is that it was originated by the y night j growers and developed by them tr loss it was stated at the point where it is ready to be pul i especially lamented by Dennis to the test A particularly active and s associate owner of the j widespread campaign s because it has been his growers has been mapped out am equipment in nursing the will be started ns soon as all him r garden along the parking on j been advised of the details of th In between Fifth and Sixth program ts Reorganization As a result of its effort the REWARD FOR GIRI reward offered of Mary Emerich 15 fornia prune industry may claim the credit of being among the first of California's big agricultural tries to reorganize and con- solidate its meet the ent emergencies of disrupted kets and sharply ou nailed demand It contemplates first of all a plan that will insure a normal natural flow of the product through j the existing trade channels a lation of consumption through conceived and appropriately placed J advertising and a financial setup crates of seedlings They were shipped to New York The fruit came from the bert Laycock orchard in Pleasant valley Apricots from the Roy orchard which adjoins the cock farm set the pace for the 1931 and 1930 shipments C H Sackett and Percy W of he California Fruit exchange handled last night's shipment The first shipment of peaches is expected to be recorded before the week is ended The school Mrs Morrow had secretly felt that lion exercises were held in the town i hali reeling was running high nail evening 1 here were v two plays presented The one i by the upper and primary grades was I American The upper grades also presented a play The Colonial j i There were two graduates Rominger and Harold Wild Vernon gave a talk on Washington's boyhood and Harold j Wild gave a talk on George Washing i M Duke Tilden Sr ton as a farmer president of the lilden Lumber com- The school orchestra played four i and a sands of telegrams poured into the offices of Governor Harry Moore urging that every possible resources be to track down the ers and slayers President Contacts Governor It was unofficially stated that President and Mrs Hoover were both Continued on Page Six Edward Tilden Drops Dead At S F Boxing Exhibition i selections Mr Hughes j resident played jhy Mrs h by Mr Hughes with the violin and Mrs Robinson at the piano Her ber entitled Land of the Sky Blue A large crowd tended j f Woodland collapsed two violin solos j esday night while attending the Kd Robinson and Mrs 1 matches in the Oakland both Towle sang a song accompanied a short time later at the Emergency hospital Tilden who was dropped to the unconscious during the match He was removed to the i hospital but died before members of i the family could reach his side His sister-in-law Mrs Carrie Read for- j of Monterey who has been visiting in his I Woodland with relatives and friends I William F of Berkeley merly of Woodland is visiting To Spencer Ranch J F Laurence and family are brother Amos Roth was notified and she in company with other relatives in this section He Mrs J D and Mrs J H will return to Berkeley Thursday left early Thursday morning ning for the family home in Richmond T cer ranch immediately south of town that in so far as possible will moving from their home at First the grower and packer against Thursday to the and the ultimate unwarranted price differentials i The main feature of the plan is rho Siim Transfer pooling both by the California Prune j pany is removing the household and Apricot Growers association and The Spencers recently iy the independent growers who conic parties to the plan of two- thirds of each season's crop and the feeding of this supply through attorney and counsel for Nation and packer facilities onto the j man the ruling set a precedent In i market as fast as it is needed All i California by fixing liability for j Press Time Bulletins A native of Maryland Tilden came to California as a youth Much of his early life was spent in Woodland For a number of years he was manager of the old Sierra Lumber company's plant in Woodland When he sold out about 32 years ago he moved to Richmond and con- in the lumber business He was formerly president of the Builders Ex- change of Alameda county and one of the largest owners of lumber and planing mills in the state He is survived by his widow Mrs Margaret Jane Tilden and two sons: Edward M Tilden Jr and Waverly The family home is at 5300 Silva nue Richmond The body was taken to the Wilson and Kractzer funeral parlors in mond Funeral arrangements are pending MRS HUGHES NOT POISONED SAN FRANCISCO May Jessie Hughes was not poisoned Coroner 1 eland announced today adding further complications to the mystery involving Public Defender Frank Kgan this takes control place under full grower One-third Froc The other one-third of the crop un- der agreement remains as free Continued on Page Three accident occurring in a fog at a road crossing i Hoffman's machine was struck he started to cross the tracks in a i dense fog and it was his contention the locomotive's warning signals were not being sounded at the time KILLS TWO Tex May K Judy 56 William Scuffield men were killed quarts of nitroglycerine exploded ARMY PILOT KILLED SAN FRANCISCO May R H Dean SI Army air flier wax killed today when his automobile was hit by car corp SULLIVAN HELD FOR TRIAL HERE T E Sullivan charged with driving while intoxicated appeared morning before Justice of thf J A Murray and was held to to the superior court mn arrested May 3 by tain Henry R kw held in the county jad in lieu of f 100 -J
