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Mitchell Evening Republican (Newspaper) - December 19, 1924, Mitchell, South Dakota Sixteen pages vol. Xxxix. City edition xvii i Chell South Dakota Friday december 19, 1924. Number 67cold claims More victims a Wasp so daughter flutters on Broadway kid Mcoy on stand in own Lucilla Mendez Shapp today in the chorus daughter of Cipriano Castro Trade places with Spanish girls says they bore her fill j of Pic Tator brought i i by 1 1 Vonic i Mother loves ukr Freedom by Gene Cohn n Kas let it writer new York. Dec. 19.�?it bag been lie that an Odd or romantic Story in be written sooner or later about Tny of tho 4 climbed army that make up the choruses of Broadway. And the time has come when Lucin Mendez momentarily can leave her place a a last girl in the right a to furnish another chapter. The event that makes this possible a the death in exile at san Juan de to a to Rico of Cipriano Castro color a ,1 South american despot who won a a us. Names As a the Stormy petrel of carib a the lion of the an desk and a the fifteen years ago it seemed that Astro theh presided t of Venezuela. Would brine half of Europe Down up on his Nick because he chose to con j f Cate property of foreigners from Many lands. During that period Cas fro put himself picturesquely upon a he map and became known a a Quot the Man who received More ultimatums than any person it May be that the name of Cipriano Castro has All but been forgotten. But 20 years ago the wires were not with tales of the a car costs Porcupine tie saw himself As a Napoleon of his part of the world and set out to Iii fill his imagined destiny. Before was through he had half of the foreign offices of Europe banging Isis upon desks and announcing that a a the darn Little nuisance should be the cables told of Castro s death but it was not recorded that upon hat night his daughter. Lucylla was con Jung to turn inherited fire into a he Blaze of Broadway Success. Which s to say that she was kicking away industriously in a my girl a a new jazz show. She did no to know until she sat in a Coffee House after the drop of the Rinal curtain Reading an Early edition of a newspaper. A i Haven t seen my father since i j was quite she recited later. In the midst of the South Ameri i can troubles he became ill and went j to Paris for treatment. When he came ack Gomez his Secretary had seized the government and was holding if my a her found himself an exile a such he has been Ever since. My i Mother and i had gone to Porto Spain. A like All South american girls of Money or standing i had been Edu j i ted to be a lady. They Are taught to do absolutely nothing and very litle of that. A my father a a romantic Span-1rdv which is synonymous with saving that he liked the ladies. There was a quarrel arid my Mother Separ ted from him. I was the Only child o that marriage. Loiter my Mother divorced. My father married again. But we often heard from him. I got Lovely letter just a Short time before he died. A they say he had a great Deal of Money hidden away. If this state sent is True i will try to make some a Lim. But to go backs we had been i cd to the usual South american luxuries and it Wasny to easy to Start out to make a living. I really did no to know what to do. I could dance and ends said i was funny. So i broke into the chorus. Just what that Means american behalf today Teuton Vampire who killed 24 forfeits life poultry expert denies epidemic exists Over West Ames. La., dec. 19.�?h. E. Bitten Bender chief of the poultry husbandry department of Iowa state College death stalks through Frozen Western states sex ring Campion sob. Out by Buck. I. Convicted t Zzz i 5&Quot a cd. Sl2 Story of his love for mrs. Mora tells suicide Story Sebby says he suggested going Kast and then woman killed herself of wholesale murder of Young men of City goes to death gladly Many of revolting details of trial kept secret accomplice guilty too los Angeles calif., dec. 19-�?�?okid�?� Hanover Germany dec. 19�?up a Mccoy took the witness stand in the Fritz Haarmann the a wholesale Mur Superior court today in his own be Derera whose trial for the slaying of half determined to win his fight for Twenty six persons has stirred All Ger Freedom on a charge of murdering mrs. Theresa mors divorced Wrife a wealthy antique dealer who was found shot to death in an apartment which she shared with Mccoy. The old Legal admonition to a witness to a Tell your own Story in your Many was sentenced to death today. The extreme penalty was also ordered in the Case of his accomplice Hans Grous. Haarmann was found guilty of Mur a Dering Twenty four Young men the own Way a was hardly necessary in Mccoy Case for he has shown the Criffis extending Over a period of six same Independent characteristics Dur years. Long the trial which marked his ring his co defendant was condemned Demic exists in the Middle West. The huge losses i transit which in part prompted the Eastern embargo on poultry he said. Were due to unfavourable weather for shipping and i to the scant feeding of fowls which in their weakened condition Are unable to withstand colds and Ordinary j / infections and consequently die in i Large numbers. Unelected to take place of Sam Gompers forecast for great lakes and Mississippi Region wires snap in cold Lucilla Mendez woman refutes bribery Story of Mortimer ample warning of cold wave saves cattle career when he refused to listen to advice shouted from his seconds. The a a kids was expected to stick to his Story that mrs. Mora committed suicide in his presence. Mors threatened wife defense testimony yesterday was confined largely to establishing the fact that strained relations existed Between mrs. Mors and her divorced husband. Albert a. Mors before for inciting to murder in one Case. Many Bones found Haarmann a Hanover Butcher was shown at his trial to be a criminal degenerate who lured men and boys to news York n. A a a dec. a William Green of Ohio was today elected president of the american federation of labor. Or. Green is by years old a native of Ohio a product of the Ohio Coal Fields and is a former president of the his lodgings and there killed them by Ohio state Senate. His Home is co Llis Teeth Choc on Ohio. He is a Mason Elk and Odd fellow a member of the american Academy of political science and of the Baptist Church. He tearing their throats with and sucking their blood. The crimes were committed in his r room on the top Story of a decrepit they knew met of and be Tore their Cli a tenement House facing the River Leine has been vice president of the Amer Vorce. Mrs. Clara Simpson a and the bodies were disposed of by ican federation of labor since 1913 Friend of the slain woman described throwing them into the Stream. Many animus. The keynote of his adminis a terrific fight Between or. And human Brines were found when the traction he said would be a a construct mrs. Mors in their antique shop. And bed the River was dragged after his live Lewis s. Jones mrs. Mots attorneys arrest Early last summer. J in a formal statement or. Green described a similar affray in which the testimony at the trial which said that he would carry out the pol mors shrieked at his wife a Titi kill you Iti get you yet a aroused intense horror throughout Germany was revolting much of it to a court room packed with spec to the extent that witnesses were International brotherhood of dictators and unusually still the former heard behind closed doors. Among prize fighter told his Story. Women sobbed and the prisoner himself seemed at times almost overcome by his own recital. A did you love mrs. More a his attorney queried. A yes a Mccoy replied. A did she love you a a did you kill her for her jewels a a a that is absurd a Mccoy stammered Brokenly. After identifying Safe Deposit the allegations was that the murderer As a Butcher had offered his customers human flesh for consumption. Haarman confessed the slaying of fifteen youths Between the Ages of 15 and 22 but declared he could not remember the exact number or the names of his victims. The crimes were spread Ourer a period of several years. Lost his courage for a time after his arrest Haarmann seemed to revel in the notoriety which the Case brought him and for b is Kontak y i exies former Bureau head saw gent of june 20 a Al Ken reports 25 below a Mercury starts up Ward i rom 23 at Watertown boxes and opened by officers As his once boasted he would go Down in his own and explaining that some of mrs. J tory As the greatest murderer of All mors jewels found in them had been i time but As the tale of his deeds was placed there at her request Mcco it a unfolded he began to fear vengeance described the scene in the apartment at the hands of his victims relatives where he and the woman had been and pleaded for a Quick ending of the living As Man and wife on the night Case. Of aug. 12. J an attempt to mitigate the punish a we returned to the apartment Merit by establishing insanity fell about 10 30 p. he said. A mrs through alienist declaring him sane mors complained of her feet being sore and i took off her shoes. I mixed one or two drinks and made some sandwiches. She said the sandwiches were too Large so i got the Butcher knife from the Kitchen and she Cut them. A a then she fell into a reverie toying with the she said things were a in a terrible state actions Tow in the eyes of the Law and thus accountable for his acts. His accomplice. Grans who is also sentenced to death was charged with encouraging Haarman in his crimes and of buying the clothing of his victims. Kips to death gladly i go to the decapitating Block Joy Haar Marin de before sen investigation of the hours jewels. I Tynce was pronounced. Then he head Ier Blo stat of due to morn fun a and Happl a hat a j Lier and the govern-1 care 1 to the just Chicago Iii., Eric. 19.�?up a defense testimony refuting Elias la. Mortimer a allegation that he Charles r. Forbes former director j of tho veterans Bureau $5,000 in the Drake hotel in Chicago on june 20. J 1922, remained unchanged today through a rapid fire of Cross examination by government counsel. Miss Edna Breeze Forbes Steno several of the lot of jewels later were seized As smuggled property a i suggested that i would go to u new York until this blew Over. Then warning of the approach of the Tiit she said a Norman would you leave paid ing cold wave is believed to have Huron s. D., dec. 19.�?ample me sub Zmij and it nil. And pointed the Butcher Ai Lea do Ritz a Landru. Loeb and j i for at her breast holding it with Jeo Pond to he declared. I n a Vij # ilk it for the season last night with i degrees below Zero reported by the local weather Bureau office. Brookings s. I dec. 19.�?after rather at the hotel during his visit to Chicago on june 19, 20 and 21, 1st2, repelled every attempt of the prosecution to shake her Story. Her testimony on direct examination yesterday was that Forbes wast not in the suite at the time Mortimer j said he gave the official Money. Fhe also denied that she saw j. W. Thompson co defendant with Forbes on charges of conspiracy to defraud in not be Plain to an american j government through veterans who knows Little of the was a Hospital contracts in the suite at any South american girl is . I a jump during the Day a degrees below Zero the coldest of the a anyway they Tell me that i in now Mortimer had testified Thompson g .as0n waa recorded at the govern on my Way up. The funny thine about handed Bim 10.000 in the same room weather Here Early to a is that she Oiler night i we it to a a few minutes before the Forbes dinner Given for some Spanish girls j transaction. Re they were All Adf it Ladylike and might a Breeze reiterated in her Cross rim that i was bored. I found i Hadj examination today that she had been ingrown that and i done to think at work in the reception room of shall Ever want to go Hack no mat Forbes suite a1 Day. June 20. And a or what the death of my father May t had seen no one in the Aji Arment sex generally precluded severe livestock i a i explained that it would be Only losses Here a Farmers in this com tor a couple of weeks but she jumped Unity heeding the warnings of five up screaming that she was going to Days ago of approaching temperatures made provision adequate care of their Stock usually permitted to run in pastureland Corn j a she drove it in and the Blade Fields during the Winter months. To cuff buckled at tho Hilt cutting Lier on Pera Tures Here were slowly rising til is j t la wrist As Well As in the breast morning after recording the Low Mark grappled with lir and the Knite a flew up and Cut her knife wounds explained led a a done to Send me to the insane Asylum. I would rather not Grans attorney reviewing the history of the Case resented the charge that such an affair was possible Only in Germany As claimed by some of the newspapers. A a Long Chain of cases leads from Telegraph and Telephone com Pant is suffer rail commo r action broken Chicago 111., dec. Io.�?up1 a tho Middle West today was added to tho Domain of the storm and cold that for five Days have held the Northwest and Rocky Mountain Region in Ian icy grip. Snow and sleet was generally forecast for the great lakes Region the upper Mississippi Valley and portions of the Southwest while temperatures already hovering below or near i the Zero Mark were expected to sink i still lower. J death stalked in the Wake of the cold As it extended its scope wire communication in Many sections was interrupted and trains were delayed. Three died in the Rocky Mountain Region one was reported dead in Oklahoma and two were dead in Chicago from causes attributable to cold and lice and Snow. Injuries were numerous due to Falls on the ice in fires or accidents. Thousands of Deer North of the grand Canyon in Arizona which refused to be herded to Greener pastures on the South Side of the Canyon were reported perishing As vegetation failed. Cold Breaks rails the extreme cold in Montana where the Mercury dropped As Low As 34 below at Miles City caused tho derailment of three pullmans of a Northern Pacific train near Bear Mouth 35 Miles from Missoula due to a broken rail. No injuries resulted reports said. Wire communication in the Plains states was most seriously affected. Telephone lines Between Oklahoma City and other Points in the state were Cut off and Telegraph service was impaired. More than 2,000 Telephone and Telegraph poles were reported Down in the state. Companies reported about 235 towns were Cut off. Jefferson City Missouri a capital was virtually isolated and wires Between St. Louis and Kansas City were crippled and All Central Missouri was similarly affected. A crust of Snow and ice several Dent Harold Foght of Northern state inches thick covered Kansas and teachers College has completed his Western Missouri and temperatures study of Japan a educational system were being drive downward in okla As a guest of the japanese govern j homa Arkansas and Texas ment and in response to urgent in j press uses radio citation of the authorities of Formosa has gone to that Island for a fortnights investigation. He will arrive in the United states january 5. Known to the japanese people As Foto san the noted american educator has devoted the last three months to an intensive study of schools in All parts of Japan. Banquets have been an almost daily occurrence according to a letter received at the school from him. He ides of Samuel Gompers. James p. Noonan president of the trial workers was elected eighth vice president to fill the vacancy on the executive Council caused by greens promotion. Foght flashes work in Japan Formosa next Aberdeen s. D., dec. 19.�?presi-i both hands. A she drove Telegraph communication was badly handicapped in Illinois As lowering temperatures heralded the Zero blasts moving eastward. Springfield Bloomington and Jacksonville were completely Cut off from the outside world by wire and tho associated press was compelled to resort to radio casting its news dispatches to the newspapers in the cities so affected. Interurban or View was abandoned 800 to last night in parts of the storm area chosen when sleet and ice brought Down trolley wires from Peoria to Bloomington and Springfield to Jacksonville Iii. Trains coming into Chicago from the Northwest in some cases were eight to ten hours late causing delay and congestion in the transmission of tho heavy Holiday mail. Icy sidewalks and streets caused a. Two deaths and More than a scor of Huron s. P., dec. Skull fractures and other serious in the attorney pleaded liar there was a possibility this noon that. Juries in Chicago. Mafia of the injury Roann was the a master mind in j tho trial of A. Hay at de Smet cd were policemen. The Hazard was has lectured to audiences of 1500, reaching about 55.000 delegates in 43 prefectures or states. Hay murder trial May be concluded by night belief series of murders and that Grans was but his tool who did not know the i charged with the murder of g. E. I not expected to be reduced in today s this recital marked the thirst explanation of the various cuts found three Days of sub Zero weather the in a Mars body besides the pistol 2 4 below Buet Hole in the head. Mccoy then described How Mercury dropped Down to this morning twelve degrees under yesterdays lowest Mark. Christmas shopping was almost at a standstill j Yankton s. D., dec. 19.�?fifteen ment Day. Relief is promised however and Quot the weather was Clear today Only a was a cad be a used ,1pr the iring weather forecast Iowa fair tonight and saturday continued cold tonight rising temperature saturday in West and North portions. Minnesota fair tonight and sat urday not so cold saturday. North and South Dakota fair tonight and saturday not so cold. Nebraska fair tonight and Satur Day not so cold saturday in West portion tonight. I Oca i the Nipra lures maximum and minimum temperatures As recorded by Rife official government thermometer from 7 a. In. Yesterday to 7 a. In. Today maximum 6 below. Minimum 17 below. At 8 a. In. Today 17 below. Cent officers of the veterans Bureau and mrs. Mortimer. The latter she said was in the reception room twice during the Day for Brief periods. A o big fire loss. Jefferson wiz., dec. 19.�?fire of undetermined origin last night swept through the feed Plant of the Ladisch Stoppenbach company at Jefferson Junction causing a loss estimated at Between $250,000 and $300,000. O Aberdeen s. P., dec. 19.�?a farm hand named Murray aged 29. Employed by William Quade living near Wilmot Roberts county was found dead in the Highway. He is supposed to have fallen from a buggy for his Skull was fractured. Trace of Snow Fol Here last night. I Aberdeen s. D., dec. 19.�?continued cold carried the temperature in to sub Zero Depths thursday night when the minimum of 25 below was registered Here. Moderation marked today Ami warmer weather is in Prospect Sioux Falls Ftp d., dec. 19.�?sioux the woman still holding the Knif Iii her right hand grabbed a pistol from a table and they struggled for Possession of it the weapon exploded a and a moment later i Felt her body he said he tried to stanch the flow of blood and when he realized she lips lifted the body from the Couch to the floor folded the arms placing his own picture Over her heart and covered the corps. Afterwards he said he Lay Down beside tho body and intended to kill himself with his own pistol but did not and he declared he did not know i be Siriph Pear Carthage last summer real purpose of luring the Young men might he concluded Date Oday Thyl to Haarmann a rooms. J livelihood was that the Case would Haarmann addressing Tao i not go to jury until late tomorrow afternoon. The defense introduced several witnesses yesterday and this morning to carry out its Contention that Jesup varas trespassing on the A. Hay farm and had threatened j or. Hay who it is alleged shot in self defense. Weather and roads Mitchell partly Cloudy 17 below roads fair. Huron Clear 17 below roads fair. Aberdeen Clear 25 below roads fair. Watertown. Clear 23 below roads fair. Sioux Falls Clear is below roads far. Pierre Clear la below roads Good Yankton Clear la below roads food. A avoid the annual shopping Row do your Christmas shopping now with Republican advertisers. Mitchell merchants ready. 4 # _ buy now Why he failed to end his own life. To. ,.then he added lie became dazed fails faced its fifth successive Day of. 4 u and he a didst bitterly cold weather today with the thermometer registering eighteen do Grees below Zero this morning Mer i chants of the City estimated that the cold spell coupled with the heavy i snows of last week which blocked the roads were costing them thousands of dollars in Holiday business. Watertown s. D., dec. 19.�?the Crest of the cold wave apparently passed at Watertown before Daybreak when the government observer reported 24 below. This was the lowest temperature during the present cold snap and a record for december for Many years. At 8 30 of clock the Mercury 5?Tood at 23 below and was slowly rising. Defense moves to show Hight had sick mind showed no remorse for his gruesome deeds. Would murder again a were i set at Liberty i would murder he said. A Why i k ill is a mystery to the prisoner remarked without a Trace of emotion. His plea was full of recriminations against his dead father and his Friend Grans. A in Grans hands i was As soft As Wax a he said a but i needed him As i was alone in the claiming his condition was a morbid one Haarmann said a How i got into this condition i done to know. I simply saw that in the morning there was a Corpse next to me a he declared a Large proportion of his potential victims escaped. A i never acted with premeditation a and a i done to understand Why my victims did not offer resistance were Oil conservation Board is named by the president Washington. A. Dec. 19�?an Oil conservation Board consisting of the secretaries of War Navy Interior and Commerce was created to Dav by president Coolidge. The Board will study the governments responsibilities in Oil conservation and will seek the full co opera other declarations the prisoner made i lion of the Oil Industry to that end. In his plea. Shoals deadlock is Likely to hold till after recess fancy lot of Cash wheat bring $2.10 in Mill City pit Minneapolis dec. 19.�?cash wheat maintaining its spread of More than j 30 cents Over december futures Here i passed the $2.05 Mark today. Some fancy consignments Selling close to $2.10 a Bushel my wheat climbed to $1.73 is december sold As High As i1.6s 1-2. Washington C., dec. 19.�?pros- peels for breaking the muscle Shoals Jam in the Senate before the Christmas recess had faded almost to the vanishing Point today with the oppo Bill Unyi eld mount Vernon Iii. Dec. 19.�?up a trial of Lawrence m. Hight and mrs. Sweetin. For the alleged poisoning of her husband Wilford Sweetin. Enter Underwood a new Phat Toda it when attorney. And the leaders prepared to in Nelson Lyman presenting Hight. Be. J a the pers it Jasion of night sessions Gal an attempt to show that his t0 Bulf action it client was Superino rom mental Dis failure of the attempt of senator orders. J our test Republican Leader yesterday the first witness called was or. A a Jig for a final vote had left it. W. Walker of Creal Springs. To the leaders of the two main factions who said he was a Cousin of Hight. Senators Underwood deny it crat. Of he said Hight s fathers mind was Alabama and Norris. Republican of bad for seven years and entire by Nebraska firmly entrenched today in gone six months before his death. He the determination to fight for their told of an Uncle of Lawrence Hight. Respective Bills. Senator Curtis serv who died in an insane Asylum and de notice that he would move for also mentioned members of Lawrence Hight a family on his mothers Side who were of unsound mind at the to axe of their deaths. Night sessions after senator Norris had blocked two attempts of the Republican Leader late yesterday to bring the debate to a close. Dan barrys a daughter by Max Brand of these things she dreamed wild winds that sweep the dry grass of the Prairie mad adventure in a Mountain Paradise. Glowing sunsets on the great Range the Beauty of the Hills at Dawn and the strange sad happiness of a Western night. When mad Cap reckless Joan Barry heard the shrill crying of wild geese in the Moonlit sky a fierce exotic urge stirred within Here a vague longing for unattainable things the Story of How Stalwart Harry Gloster curbed the strange desires that raged within her is one of the greatest romances of the new West. not fall to read a Dan barrys daughter a starting december 22nd in the Republican continued cold. No Relief in sight Kansas City mo., dec. 19.�?tho Southwest awoke this morning to find the coldest weather of tho Winter with no Relief in sight. The Mercury stood below the Zero Mark at Many Points in Kansas and in Western Missouri southward in Oklahoma Arkansas and Texas. With the cold wave tightening its grip. Temperatures were being driven downward toward Zero. Already marketed under a crust of Snow and ice several inches deep Kansas and Western Missouri Wero promised fair skies during the Day Snow however was predicted for Are Kansas Oklahoma and a Large Are i of Texas. Much colder weather was in Prospect in Eastern and Southern Missouri. Wire communication Over tho Southwest was still badly disrupted today and it will be several Days at least before lines and stretches of poles carried Down by sleet and Leo can be restored. In Oklahoma alone yesterday it was estimated 1,000 poles had been snapped off. Trains Are delayed train services was delay on virtually air roads. One death has been reported. L. F. Pennock 66, died in a Hospital at Enid. Okla., from exposure. He had left his Home in Kremlin okla., monday and became lost in a Snow Drift. His body partly Frozen was found yesterday. Telephone and Telegraph compan lies reported that 135 towns in okla homa Are isolated. Denver colo., dec. tem perature3 still sinking the Rocky Mountain Region today was settling Down for an endurance contest with j Winter. Entering the fifth Day of the sting Jing cold Colorado crossed hands with Montana in carrying the Brunt of the storm which came growling out of the North in undiminished fury. Early today the Mercury in Denver had skid tied to ten degrees below Zero while j Many Points throughout the state had j sub Zero readings. Trains entering a Denver were running several hours i behind schedule while Telephone j Telegraph facilities were seriously i felted. And of

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