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ROTARY CLUB HOLDSINFORMAL BANQUETandEd.theMEMBERS AND GUESTS ENJOY EVENING IN COMMUNITYCLUB ROOMStinder the influence of liquor, that lamgley had a tight with Rnddlt; r at Cortnnd earlier in! day.Declares Life Threatened- kens .sfole repeated a eonversa tion in which Langley was said to ihave railed Pfeiffer foul names and threatened to get him” at the first ha nee. Mayor Sauanut n identified a » a 1 ihie revolver which he had Uurned over to Sheriff Schiek on theiIRlNUMBER MAKE BRIEF TALKSmW. H Davis Tells of His Trip Rotary Club Headquarters ht( icauo.to'night of the shooting. The gsupposedly Lang ley’s, panned thrmigft * viral hands, j p. lt;vn»nn. pm* prtetor of the store, o ufied that mgley h,iid he would not tradeThe Rotary club of this eitv held nn Informal banquet last * vi ning in the Community club rooms whichwas well attended 1 members oi the organisation mid a nufttbta of citizens as guests. President E. L. Hevelone presided. •» ffW. IL Davis, who recently returned from a trip to Chicago where lie visited Rotary headquarters, toluinof the work that is being done there by the club. Others who gavebrief addresses were John Keen, secretary of the local oganlzation,A. H. Kidd and VV. W. Scott.Review Rotary Head MovementThe program of the meeting war devoted largely to a review of tie origin of the Rotary imminent, and its growth during the past fifteen years An outline of the poilej and program of work of the international association of Rotary dubs*the directing body of Rotary, especially as this work relates to the further organizing of Rotary lt;lubtthere If Pfeiffer continued to he clerk. Langley, Mr. O’Brien id.threatened to get the justice. John Lutes stated he had warned I .angry of danger Ao \ he lnfjter’s haystacks from fires set by railwayengines, and that Langley uslt; d con . sideiable profanity in voicing his M»H mil that (Mrilfi ml p« opps setthe fires. The language used by he drIVndant led the wiflo • to fi 1.a complaint. lt;\ (% Wolfe test it tedLangley had said Cortland people had better keep out of bis at la or business. and that he would make ribbons of the first man’s brains who bothered him about liquor. -*UfPai tv in Town*Tim Sullivan, barber, said Langleycame into the shop and told Ed. Onlland that all of you-—4iad belter stick around for there fs going to be a hell of a party in town tonight Arkel Rutter, one or the deputies, testified he went to his ear and got a gun after volunteering and being tsworn in, and thinRepvW1Iandi$; , Idecsettvisibet*COD;t lieFre1disjbadWalie borrowed a gun for Bierstedt.m * t ... iDoth guns were of 32 calibre, hein foreign and domestic countries, i ... . 1 . V. «. .. . ! tided. BiersTedt. with Us gun nof the clubalso comprised a part programThe story of how Rotary origin-]ated, and how the institution has grown during the last few yearn un-l til it Ik extending to all of the civl lized countries of the world* is intensely interesting, especially as reviewed by the speakers on the pro-gram. jRotary came into “being” with a group of four men seat* d around aluncheon table in a Chicago hotel. The four men were business acquaintances and for several v\ ek-had been meeting together forluncheon. These informal ings were held at the different members’ places of business. As it happened, each one of the four represented a different calling one a coal dealer, one a mining opnator.one a merchant tailor, and tie-fourth an attonrey.The attorney was the one w hohis right hand and the warrant in I his left then approached Langley with Rutter, according to the for*msr, c*jh !The question arose as to who fired the first shot—Langley, Bier-stcrit or Rutter, Lungl^T was shot several times. Birrfttedt was shot through the hand as he tried to fix the jammed cylinder of his revolver.'V t hecudt he mm byW ■!dcp11tileto .uebroiwotcommicmat com e n 11 ver: ii poPand Rutter was shot through the lower hack. The two deputies were not seriously wounded, though Langley still carries his five bullets.Five 5?worn in tBierstedt testified that five meet-|tie« were sworn in. includingpelf, Rutter. Perry Ste wartFern and Floyd Miltenherger.Sullivan was deputized inter, he said. Replying to cros* examination by Judge Haslet t. Bierstedt(b puli im-ClemTimLlo;plyandsinet h edrawerIniFsaidfirst advanced the * a club. His nanuris and to him rstarting the greata of formingIk Paul P. Hat*t \ v c. rt credit for Rotary movehe knew nothing of the cuttingof the wires in Langley** car.thor did he hear Pfeiffer say arrest him and shoot him if have to, ’ said the witness. Bier- dea f tedt decared he had not said that j bee if Langley was acquitted Beatrice staore' vilt; t h n dra Nei-1 Ho| go ’ t ha you | w nment. The meeting of the four gt would be made to look worse than larwhich it wa actually d ■ ded to Organize a club was held February23. 1905. EOmaha after the rfot.” Langley didriot give the deputies a chance to read the warrant, but said get thela— -11 out of here, and drew his conIitei4t,atWITNESSES REG JJNTSTORY OF SHOOTING(Continued from page I)lay on the floor. The near lyio 1.0thebefore soberer heads conn oil* situation was then described. .aig-ley was sick when being broughthere by the officers, ‘‘didn’t know where he was at” when his wife reached his side, and still carries five bullets, two in his back. i*t- iI gun. pointing it over his left arm, tflierstedt asserted. The deput lea Had their revolvers in their hands, according to the deputy. The na~I * im id ; lu* nn it ness’ reply to a ques-jt on led to his being excused by the attorney for the defense from fnr-t$4£ questioning.H. F. Baer, real estate man, cave a well connected «tory of the affair us h»* witnessed it from his car. It was lute enough to he quite dark.idecbewitentamtoIhe said hut he sat in hishis attorney. In ref ere netivv Bieistedt. apparentlycar and with iogun battle with the deputies, wt H Judge Jlazlett characterized ; ;ihepjun in one hand and a paper in thitlier. approach Lar.gley wiili ter. Langley seemingly sw€,Rut-hisattack by the driven off by was said theyback.”As the firstdeputies, who were thand upward, there wwe kH.Us andthe defendant,” it“shot him in theBierstedt ran behind an auto whileR i’Vr dor ppcared between s onebuildings, according tm Mr. Baer,witness. County Clerk! Dr Claybrugh testified he had w i-Mumford identified Judge PfeitTerV no «d pan of the battle \nhbond.Editor Masters of the Cortand News testified relative to the location of the village streets and Mayor J. P. Sausmnn said that no recmds of cases against Langley appeared on Judge Pfeiffer’s books. Karl Schmidt, state agent. testified IndcpuM s and later saw L.an/.h*r»T.ewith his gun drawn. Langley** lo-and Agent S. M. ^lelick vntted Langley’s farm, seemed a ipmiuity of liqwor, then arrested Lang!*-y. who gave bond when appearing be.comotion was apparently normal,* according to the doctor.Rutter bad replied to the fendant’s attorney that he bad t n atco bet\\ een the buiIdings •cause “he didn't want to shoot ftrts.” Onyl a few minutes elapsed between the fight in the street and i he sound of *hots from the O'Brien -tore, according to the physician*de-re*b -atfore the justice. The justice, said; The doctor testified that the wound Agent Schmidt, had asked Langley Jin Judge Pfeiffer’s stomach wa, fa-“not to feel ore at him.” J. J. Dal. The justice, said the phy ician.Clare testified Langley visited his was also shot near the heart, andfarm on the evening of the tin: miy died almost immediately after thePhysician Testifies d*-c ioi reached the store and admin-Bieratedt had replied to the d • I a h\poderniic..
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Beatrice Daily Sun
Beatrice, Nebraska, US
Wed, Feb 25, 1920
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