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J! )MITS SLAYINGSlayingWatchmanV R AGE EMPLOYE\FTER QUARREI¥IWARTS RENEWS16 Year Old Studentplicates Others InTTACK60CDrunken Partv.ERVICECHARGEN AME WITHE LI)Arrest Follows Return Ofeaks At Five Meetings,Broken Cars Owner ToDiscusses BallRepair Shop.Platform.:peats promiseys He Will Devote En-Energybuilding: City.ajor Swarts Thursday eveninge at five meetings in the homesanton people, discussing the is-of the campaign. He contln-making a pledge that as mayorill devote his entire time and lie* to the performance of his al duties and the up-building of n. lie took the position that nayor of Canton should be a r of industrial and business meuta and should organize thenshlp of the city for the pur-of securing new industries forn and the enlargement of Itsit industries.renewed his former attack* on ts ordinance saying that a Re-an Council, with Mr. Ball is saident. enacted this iniquitous nee—contract. He contended he ordinance, as enacted by funcil and its president, Mr.itinued on Page 13, Col. I.)W PLOWS ATDRK ON STARKCO. HIGHWAYSTime In Historyy Have Been Operatcd So Early.AKRON, Oct. 30.—Joseph Ober-meir, 50, was slain and his bodyset afire in the Grant Ilvde garagehere Wednesday night by a drunken and Infuriated automobile driver.This announcement was made today after police had spent 15 hours grilling four suspects, two of whomare said to have confessed to detectives Ed McDonnell and BertEckerman.Details of the crime are reported to have come from a 16-year-old student, one of the party of four whose machine broke down Wednesday night and was towed to the garage This lad implicated the others. According to the alleged confession, the owner and driver of the wrecked automobile asked Ober-meir. night watchman, at the garage to make immediate repairs or a financial settlement, the car having been bought of the Hyde company The autolst was intoxicated, according- to police, as were the others. Obermeir tried to explain that he was not a mechanic and could neither make repairs or financialadjust men fa.Suddenly the owner, in a frenzy, seized a hammer and struck the watchman on the head. Obermcier fell forward and hi*? assailant conUnued to beat him until the hammer finally sank into the skull and the handle was shattered.In order to conceal the cripie, another member of the party poured gasoline over the corpse and ignited if. Then all fled. Firemen found Obermeier s charred remains and put out the blaze oVfnro much damage was done. This was about 12 o’clock Wednesday night.Late Thursday, tno owner of the car called again about his machine and was arrested by waiting officers who had built up their casefiom sales records of he companyand absence of a repair tag on the damaged machine. This theory was subsequently confirmed, police say,by the confession of the boy and another of the party.*kcv(WASHLNGTON, Oct. 30.—Photo shows a scene in Washington. In the photo may attorney and Mr. Miller.be seen, Col. andMr^ William Ml!!* el^^dTe'r^C ’ plaiB col* n ^ H Ms!rh11 *rlal |neu, jud^s F. C. Plain, Col. H. A. White. Mr. Webb. Pep Held, Mitchell sDAVID ATKINSWILL SOON KNOWLEAGUE PAYS HONORJURY'S VERDICTTO WILSON’S MEMORYPAI1IS, Oct. 0.—The memory of Woodrow Wilson was revered today jas the Lfasue of Nations councilVI ni' i. 1 m6t lt;0 conclude ,hc real peaceMCCIintOCk achievement of the leapue. avoidAsks Death For Negro anc® of a Greco-Bul*arlan *«lt;•FresecutorYouth.iAristide Rriand, French forelRnminister and president of the council. reviewed the Oreece-PulRarliinsituation and stated that peace nowDavid Atkins, year old color-; rcipned where a 1, “ed youth, probably will know be- _ 1 ek ngo’ a new' formation of the league.Balkan war threatened.I sugaest that we dedicate this meeting to Woo?!row Wilson the in-splrer of the league.*' said M. Rri-and.The suggestion of M. Rriand was adopted and thus the succesful conclusion of the league's first effort at war avoidance was dedicated to the memory of the ex-president, who played so important a part in theCOL. MITCHELLDENIES GUILTIN FORMAL PLEAPleading Follows Direct bOn Heels Of Anotherlt;1 r«t hr*c! HiReverse.fore night whether he is to die in the electric chair for the slaying of Harry Malone, railroad policeman.Prosecutor C. B. McClintoch, In,the closing argument of the trial’ before Judge K. W. Diehl Friday asked the jury to return a verdict which will mean the capital penalty. Atkins was indicted on two counts, a plain charge of premeditated murder and the special charge of killing a policeman on duty and he asked a verdict of guilty on both counts.Attorney E. L. Mills, counsel for the defendant, plead self-defense in behalf of his client. The testimony showed, he said, that Malone had fired at Atkins from the railroad tracks near Justus as the prisoner and two other negroes were running through a cornfield and that when he came upon them a littlelater, he shot Atkins in the armand breast without warning. Atkins then drew his pistol and shot the officer, Mills said.McCIintock's version of the shooting in his closing argument was that Malone had seen the three negroes committing a misdemeanor and had foil owed i HaiyiAUDIT OF HIGHRepre-Repu biiSCHOOL ATHLETK4FUND DlStudents And Many Citizens Want To Know Hownr editin'WASHINGTON, Oct. 30 eentatlve Frank R. Hr id.r#n of Illinois announced this afternoon lie would probably demand n subpoena bo issued for President Coolidge hi a wilne** )n lt;**oi •'Rillj Mitchells court martial.As Mitchell's chief .counsel, Reid declared that the president bad been named by the war department a,v.the flying colonel’s accuser and prosecutor.j WASHINGTON, Oct. lt;0.—All his technical defences swept away Col, Mitchell, storm center of the nation* air craft controversy wan for-! mally arraigned today before bintlO Ann t\»„j If„ 13 »«■ 1. • many arraigned today befon’ I und Hds Boon Handled—Board Head!s^nerais- and pleadedf tReticent On Giving1 Information.notBoard|guilty'* to charges of conduct prcju dlcia.J to military discipline by hi?vigorous verbal denouncements of American aviation policies.Mit. he]j made his plea of not gullIt \VW saved for the purpose of making it the beginning of n fund tohe raised for the nurnose ofSt ntoh erecttone.T ho iiIaoiHand spoke in a firma ft iMoedI shet he \t h -eig!of 1W r jbec I A wit r to 1 j guet A Urtop inmenT!ercdw li e w inr edfourTfBrucWarBob iN W', st N with boy.lt; n nearw e r ediifoi
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Canton Daily News
Canton, Ohio, US
Fri, Oct 30, 1925
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