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Family of Slain Bandit Spends Several Hours at ChiefYoung's Home..'•'•'Finis was written In Waterloo's murder tragedy at 12:50 a. m. today, when the body of Stanley C. ,Davls, forger and outlaw' accompanied by his mother, brother and widow, -was placed on. board an Illinois. Central train bound for Fitzgerald, Ga. The transportation was routed by way of Chicago, and Birmingham, Ala.•-That Retta Davis, the young widow of the dead bandit, will be taken into the family and treated as a daughter by the mother, who is also a widow, was stated by the elder Mrs. Davis to several of the officials and confirmed by the fact that she accompanied her to Georgia.Retta, who is under 18 years of age, maintained to the last moment of her trtay in the city, including her sworn statement to the coroner’s. jury, that she is ignorant or the crimes committed, by her husband and is herself innocent of any complicity in wrongdoing.Remain in Seclusion.Tickets to Fitzgerald ware purchased yesterday afternoon by B. lsT. Davis, the brother, who engaged a stateroom for the two women and a section in the sleeper forhimself. •It was shortly after 9 p. m. that the Davis family arrived at the Illinois Central station in Chief H. H. Young's car. In order to avoidfurther publicity the chief invited the two women and man to spend the last few hours of their stay her© at hie home, and they went directly to the depot from there. They immediately entered the sleeper, unobserved, and retired to their berths.Curious DisaiittiitocLlater as the time for the departure of the train neared, «• large number of people, anxious for a last look upon the central figures in the tragedy, congregated at the station. Automobiles were dined up for a block adjacent, while the curios surged up and, down the •platform, peering about for the group.When the train pulled in, all they saw was a plain pine box, on a depot truck, rolled up to the express car and placed within.Two Girls Hurt by Torpedo Same Way; Both Bit ExplosiveHere is an odd coincidence In Fourth of July accidents, in the injury of two little girls.Maxine, three-year-old daughter of Mr, and Mrs. Elmer Phillips of Cedar Rapids, while walking down town with her mother, saw what she thought was a stick of candy.She picked up. the object and bitinto it. It exploded. It was a torpedo. Part of her face was blown away and she %vas terribly lacerated.At the same hour Florence, four- ; year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. N. R. Kennedy of Waterloo, while walking along the street with her mother, picked up a torpedo and bit into it, causing an explosion, terribly lacerating the girl’s mouth and cheelc. She is reported as recovering satisfactorily at'St. Francis hospital.A great deal 5s now beJng learned about the Koreans and the statement is? made that these people made gunpowder in 200 B. C., and it Is szdthat they used ironclads against theJapanese away back In 1597.Advertising is always NEWS.■■ft - — ■ ■
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Waterloo Evening Courier
Waterloo, Iowa, US
Wed, Jul 07, 1920
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