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Newspaper
Linton Daily Citizen
Location
Linton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1925
Page
5
Mrs. Anna Cunningham, 47, accused of feeding arsenic to her children to reunite with the dead, collapses in her cell as authorities order a bedside arraignment on murder charges. She claims she took some arsenic herself amid deteriorating health.
Mrs Anna Cunningham 50 is expected to plead guilty today after confessing to poisoning four of her children, killing three. She says motive was to join her dead husband in death, denies poisoning her husband or eldest son, and claims May escaped due to her being her least loved.
United Press dispatch aboard the U S S Seattle reports the fleet steaming toward Hawaii with the flagship leading. The plan is to approach the islands and attempt to capture them as part of the war effort.
The state election board issued instructions to local officials on the 1925 primary law. Key rule: Republican and Democratic chairmen will name primary election officials, not city councils. In first and second class cities May 5 voting will auto register electors for the fall election.
Indianapolis dispatch reports George W. Herscheman of Crown Point will assume duties as the state highway commissioner Friday succeeding Walter G. Gerhl of St Wayne. Governor Jackson also announced Clyde H. Jones of Lafayette to replace Maurice Daughiss of Flat Rock on the public service commission. Public service terms begin May 1.
Indianapolis April 16 Judge Cox refused to quash five indictments against D. C. Stephenson former Ku Klux Klan leader and not guilty pleas were entered by Stephenson and two lieutenants. Trial likely May 25 as docket clears. The alleged assault on Madge Oberholtzer and her subsequent death are central. The coroner’s inquest heard the physician recount her statements of planned retaliation with Stephenson’s revolver.
In Paris on April 16 wartime tensions flare over financier Joseph Callaux. Antoine Bamosin, a disabled veteran, was arrested while waiting with a loaded revolver to assassinate Callaux, who had faced exile for alleged enemy dealings and was recently restored to citizenship.
In Great Falls a federal trial opened for Senator Burton K Wheeler with jurors largely seeking excuses from service. Judge Dietrich began jury selection as Wheeler, former vice presidential candidate, faces charges of misuse of office and frames his defense against the Borah committee findings. Clyde Glosser, a key government witness, is expected to testify about Wheeler's discussions to represent Gordon Campbell for a large fee.
Blackie Linton walks out of Spencer jail as jurors are chosen in the Wheeler case. The defense argues Wheeler represented Campbell in Montana courts, a claim not illegal, while witnesses including William Spry are set to testify Wheeler did not appear before the interior department for Campbell. The indictment cites a federal ban on senators representing private clients before government departments, with possible two years in prison or fines. jurors from oil fields and ranches are being selected as the trial begins under Judge Frank S. Dietrich.
A convict known as Blackie Linton and accomplice Abe Baur escaped from the Owen County jail in Spencer Indiana by unlocking a cell door with a key. Guards slept as the pair fled around 4 to 5 am while outside help likely assisted their exit. Linton, called the second Gerald Chapman, had been held on bank robbery charges and faced a retrial. this marks a second dramatic escape from the same jail.
Indianapolis postmaster Robert H. Bryson met with Postmaster General Harry S. New in Washington to discuss a proposed air mail route from Chicago to New Orleans via Indianapolis. New advised the route would be impractical at present due to insufficient mail volume.
In Anderson Indiana on April 16 J O Palmer aged 62 is in serious condition after a chicken bone lodged in his throat could not be removed despite several attempts and an operation was contemplated to save him.
In a terrifie gale a British airship R-33 broke from its Pulham moorings at 10 a.m. and drifted into the North Sea. Twenty crewmen aboard. Lowestoft tugs assisted briefly as the craft vanished to sea with its nose torn from the mast similar to the Shenandoah incident of the prior year.
City authorities halted paving work in front of Secretary of War Weeks home at Mrs Weeks request roped off the street and posted guards Weeks still suffers stroke on April 1 though family reports a good night with no change in condition He has not been able to rise in the two weeks since his stroke
The Kansas City Journal Post and the Baltimore Post challenged indictments over publishing individual income tax returns. The lower court ruled the publication legal, and arguments were heard at the Supreme Court to determine the issue.
Chicago reports three killings last night as lawmen scour the city. Officer Lawrence Sullivan was mortally wounded while stopping two men for questioning and died in hospital. Richard Hill, a colored preacher, was slain during a pawn shop robbery. Joseph Giordano was shot by two unknown attackers amid an underworld feud.
A miniature hurricane swept sections of Massachusetts last night causing property damage estimated at more than 300000 dollars. Lightning heat winds and rain combined to destroy at least eight structures and prompted a temporary traffic tie up over a wide area.
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