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Mitchell Evening Republican (Newspaper) - February 24, 1922, Mitchell, South Dakota V i the evening Republican third edition vol. , South Dakota. Friday february 24, 1922 number 12551 re slays her seducer f l i it i n g cause of murder Philadelphia woman goes on trial monday emotional insanity will be plea in defense of mrs. Catherine Rosier goaded into madness Tot to pretty avd wealthy defendant says husband As too Fhi eve Dey with. Typist Philadelphia feb. 24.�?where Doe v witless pleasantry end and serious f r. It Ion begin Between a Man and his s no Grapher this question Wil be answered when mrs Catherine Rosier 23 years old find Mother of a 4-months-okl baby s on trial for her life next monday Tho Young Mother on Jan. 2 2 went to it the office of her husband. Oscar it a Ier president of an advertising Heeney and shot and killed him and c 19-year-old stenographer. Mildred ii Bookie. Drama of a sensational kind is forecast in the trial. Ranged against mrs. Rosier supporting the prosecution Vav ii be the murdered Many a brother. Arthur Rosier and an attorney rep a seating the dead Many a interests. Jealousy charged the latter. Attorney it. S Bronk says a mrs. Rosier was Jeal i us of every woman employed by her husband j of this is to be the basis of the pros Rution s fight for the Young Mother s conviction a Sharp line will be drawn j in the harmless pleasantry of the advertising Man s relations with his Mon Grapher. Even Effort will be made. It is said. To Clour the reputations of the two victims. On the other Side seeking to save mrs. Hosier s life will be former congressman John it. K. Scott one of the most noted criminal lawyers in the state. While lie refuses to reveal the defense it is understood that it will log emotional goaded to mildness to establish this it is believed that an Effort will be made to show that Rosier flirted with his stenographer and with other worm n. Which goaded Newport pews bows in Silen As dead of Romage buried by associated press leased wire Newport news. A a., flt b. 24�?All business Here and at Norfolk and surrounding is was suspended today during tie Public funeral services for the .14 victims of the Roma disaster. Meanwhile the Aruny b Ard pressed its investigation a tit tis cause of the disaster today heart More witness behind closed res Republican ads Boom hog Sale mrs. Ca res stenographer. Of haying murdered. Kosier and Bulow Oscar Rosier and his Mildred g. It Dueitt whom she is accused a Beautiful control of herself. Young pretty with Home in the suburbs of Philadelphia Rani the Mother cd a Chubby Blue j eyed boy mrs. Rosier apparently bad everything to make her Happy none dreamed of the disappointment which she now says had entered her life. J immediately after the double killing in her husbands office mrs. Rosier made this statement according to Hie testimony of a witness a the Coroner s inquest a while i was in the Hospital with i my baby three months ago. They were running around together when i a can this afternoon i caught them a j Rosier and miss Reckitt died within r few hours after the shooting both protesting their innocence of any j wrong doing. Disinherited hts wife. Lying on the operating table in the Hospital a be minutes before he died Rosier dictated and signed a will leaving his entire estate to his brother Ami his 11 year old son. Oscar a. By his former wife. A Nee the shooting mrs. Rosier has been held in Moya Mensing prison re leased Only on three occasions to attend Lier husband s funeral to appear at the coroners inquest and to hear t e judge set a Date former trial. Six Sioux cm7. Prisoners saw Way from jail Drill. Piece of steel saw and 2u foot Kope i sad in Spet Taffe a la i Taw a Sioux City. La. Feb. 24�?sawing their Way through five steel barriers in the Woodbury county a tool proof Quot jail six prisoners three of whom had been convicted of felonies escaped i this morning. Those who gained their Freedom Are Quot Bud Purcell convicted of stealing automobiles Mike Purcell await i org trial on a similar charge Avii Ham Hildebrand found guilty wednesday of the aah Olliges fur robbery. Bert Lane to be tried for the same j offence Roy Burke recently sentenced to 2 0 years Iii the Penitentiary for robbery and Harry o Dell. An alleged Confidence Man. A Drill and a piece of a steel saw Blade and a 20-foot length of rope were left behind by Hie prisoners evidence of the manner in which the escape was made. The three fells containing the six men Are on the seventh floor of the county building and All face the cast corridor. England now plans Cut of 16 million in army estimates. J. Kendall Maki it seasons record with Hamps Viires by Ising la Blu Al space of a Jill of the most successful Hampshire hog sales of the season was that of c. J. Kendall held at the a. K. Bates Sale Pavilion on feb. 21. Or. Kendall a Sale made the highest average of any Hampshire Sale held in the Vicinity of Mitchell this season. The average for 3g sows was $33.30 with the top sow a Beauty first a going to i. O. Gullekson of Mitchell for $63. This was or. Ken Dallas initial entry in Hie pure bred bog game and the High average of the season Speaks Well for his future Success. / there was a Good crowd and the bidding was spirited. Auctioneer judge Bros. Bandied the Sale and Frank Velch of the Ethan state Bank clerked it. One feature of the Sale was that not a sow went to a regular Hampshire breeder but went to men who j Are just getting interested in this popular Breed. Or. Kendall i ays a great Deal of the Success of the Sale to his Adver Tising. Which wan bandied by the advertising department of the Mitchell publishing co. Newspaper advertising was done exclusively in tin Mitchell daily Republican and several bidders from a distance attended. London eng. Fob. 24.�?sir loading Worthington Evans speaking at Chor Ley last of Glt amino uned that on the basis that it was better to face Uncertain naval and military risks than encounter certain financial and be comic risks the a overment was prepared to recommend a reduction in the army estimates by 16.300,000 pounds Sterling instead of 20.000,000 pounds Sterling As proposed in the Geddes report. This said the Secretary of War would mean a reduction of the army by 33,Omo men. English relations hit sudden muoi Unm Evi of Ard he Els caused i adn Don to delay action on pact Mitchell sends giant shipment of Corn abroad three Hundred carloads of seed Grain dispatched through government 93 potential Chicks Force cessation of Des Moines blasting id \ olt Salt Ltd la Ess leased Wirt Des Moines. La. Feb. 24�?-ninety three potential Chicks caused suspension of construction work on two $ i 0.00m residences Here yesterday i when mrs. Wayne Helm an called in the police to Stop dynamite no until j egg in Ber incubator have been give in a c Hance to Hatch. The workmen agreed. Is record shipment Dakota improved so i p company. Mitc hell organization. Handles by. Deal sales tax plan beaten report hardings idea iou Honts Sll. Meets of i Nitro Al in Hoise Boda to twelve die in big storm one woman near Langford is ski Imp wolves. Driven la hunger attack Stock Landis action still pending Welty asserts former hid congressman urges Harding to Dina slim. Its resign Ati on f by associated in ass Foch Al a ire Washington. I it. Feb. 24�?a proposal to finance the soldiers Bonus by a sales tax is understood to have been rejected today by the special subcommittee of the Republican members of Tho House Waytz and Means committee. Opponents of the sales tax appar-1 entry were confident of another Victory. It was understood to be their idea that tile committee should report out a Bill with the finance plan either made a direct charge against the Treasury or contingent upon the disposal of refunded foreign Bonds. Some sales tax opponents thought that the whole question might again have to be referred to president Harding. what t ire Snow Xref. 14. Inn by associated arc is leased wire i ago. Iu., feb. 24.�?the Middle was beginning to recover Somo today from the storm which a a sudden drop in the tempera it below freezing and brought end sleet which fell Over a Large from Montana. The Dakotas Costa and Wisconsin and Down to a e Northern part of Texas. Arkansas and Oklahoma. I e Northwest where the storm was St. According to dispatches re Ltd a it d Here reported a death toll of a a v and several Hundred thousand dollars damage to property. Five per a death in a train wreck near when a passenger train into a Snow plough four men sons n min Nea Polis bashed by associated pros leased wire a Ashington d. Cd. Fob. 2 4�?benjamin f. Xvi Ltd. Former democratic member of the House front the fourth Ohio District made Public today another letter to president Harding urging that the resignation of Federal judge lands now before the president be not accepted. The former Ohio representative. Who As a member of the last Congress sought to have judge i Landis impeached after he had accepted the baseball arbiter ship also made Public a letter to chairman volstead of tile Lapper. Republican Kansas today House judiciary committee in which i Quot As elected unanimously As chair to quoted the chairman As saying non Eft he unofficial agricultural that the impeachment proceedings capper is head of farm bloc i a sax is unanimously elected to is l l i d Kenyon. Who Lewes Senate by associated press i a ase i Avic a Ashington. Fob. 2 4 a i senator by associated press encased Vire London. King. Feb. 2 4.r-the embarrassment and uncertainty into which the Ard files agreement to postpone the free stat parliamentary elections has thrown the relations Between England and Ireland arc emphasized by Tho newspapers. The political writers however do not profess to clarify the situation. Being Content to take the attitude adopted yesterday by Secretary for the colonies Churchill in the House of commons and lord Chancellor Birk head Iti the lords that not enough was yet known concerning the action of the sinn fein convention to form mature judgment upon it. The writers endorse the governments suspension of further consideration of the Anglo Irish treaty Bill in the Imperial parliament until further knowledge is gained but believe the measure May be taken up nex thursday or Friday if the matter meanwhile has been straightened out satisfactorily. Aerial policy May be altered i Kai a disaster Likely to cause revision in plans of i. S. Government for the first time in the history of South Dakota so far As is known a train Load of seed Corn to be exported to Russia leaves Mitchell monday. The train Load which will soon Start on its Long journey is part of a shipment of 360,000 bushels of tested seed Corn which the Dakota improved seed company is to ship to Russia. The vast Quantity of Corn is part of an even larger amount which the United states commission for Relief in Russia is buying for shipment to that country. The contract was let a Short time ago and tile Mitchell company was Given tile order. Government Grade no. 2. A dry Corn for Export in various varieties suitable to the russian climate was stipulated. Lao Bon bag Iii shipment one Hundred and fifty thousand bags. Each containing 14� pounds net. Will be used in sacking the Grain for i shipment. The entire consignment will require 300 cars for shipment to the coast making a train Load approximately four Miles Long. The Grain will be sent to Baltimore and sent overseas from there. Although prices were not Given by the Dakota improved sed Compaq today it is estimated that the Mammoth shipment of South Dakota Corn is Worth nearly three quarters of a million dollars at present local prices of seed Corn. The contract was let competitive bidding however so the Export Price would not be that High. Speaks Well for Mitchell shipment of the Large amount of Corn from Mitchell is considered to be a substantial testimony to tile value of South Dakota Corn to the importance of Mitchell As a Corn growing Center a id to t he Confidence of Ute Relief commission in the Dakota improved seed company. The contract for the c Orn provided that it be delivered at Baltimore one month after the contract was let so it was necessary for the Dakota improved seed company to buy the Corn As rapidly As possible securing it in Minnesota North Dakota and South Dakota. The company s elevators were overtaxed by the Large amount of Grain and a one of it is to be prepared for shipment at other Points. Lac ii hag labelled Mitchell each h of Tho 150,000 bags containing the Corn will have tin Dakota improved seed company stamp on the outside. Together with Quot Mitchell South Dakota. I Quot. S. A.,�?� so that the City of Mitchell will receive considerable publicity through the shipment. When the first train Load is Rady for shipment arrangements will be made to have a photograph a taken of the train. Among the Parsons to appear in photograph mayor ii. A. Robb or. B. A. Bobb. President of the chamber of Commerce a ii. King acting Secretary s. Of. Scallin. Vice president in Ltd. Raines. Herbert Hitchcock and Whitney Morris respectively of the kiwanis rotary and Lions clubs a. In Ronald of the evening Republican l. A. Robinson of the Mitchell Gazette j. J. Sullivan travelling freight agent of the Northwestern railway company Alan Burdick local agent for the company and a. S. Hill. Richard Burn. And t. A. Colley officers of the Dakota improved seed com Pany. Chinese drug ring May have killed Taylor a is Angeles Folke Gix in n i a Lee following arbes a of Xian in Detroit court room in Texas town is murder scene miss Matthews called to stand draws pistol and fires three times second trial is ended c ase. Reversed on error. Is brought to Abri it a lose by sudden to Ageda tale is plausible Detroit. Mich., feb 24 fresh details of the alleged conspiracy which brought Sabojr the killing of William Desmond Taylor. As Given today by Harry m. Fields a forgery prisoner in the county jail. Were declared by sheriff coffin to be a very by associate press leaded a ire los Angeles. Cal., feb. 24.�?growing disbelief in the Story of the murder of William Desmond Taylor film director Here. February a related in Detroit within the last three Days by hurry m. Fields in custody there was expressed Early today by los i Angeles offi als investigating the Case. They pointed out two changes Field mad in his original Story. One was the reduction of a $1,000 Bill to $100 Bill in connection with his statement by associated press leased a ire Waco. Tex. Feb. 2 4 a miss a rein Matthews it years old. Shot anti killed j. S. Crosslyn today during proceedings in the District Coni Here. He was charged with criminally attacking the girl two years ago. A convinced once Crosslet was tried convicted and sentenced to nine years in the Peni a tertiary but the Case was reversed on an error in the admission of Testi a Mony and remanded for trial. The preliminaries had been completed and miss Matthews had been Calif j to the witness stand. A file disgraced me ruined my health and deprived me of school privileges a she stated aft la killing a but he will never ruin another Crosslyn was 5ti years old. Fires three times miss Matthews walked to the witness chair then turned with a pistol in hand fired straight at a Rosalyn who sat i ii a chair beside ii is attorneys 13 feet away. She took two or three Steps Forward Ami fired again. Advancing to within thre feet of the Man. Who had Collit used in his chair she shot a third time. The Bullet penetrating Crosslyne a Side. Ave. In Forrester counsel for to Rosalyn seized the girl just after the Tomt to was paid $90# for having drive j third shot was fired and almost at on a Rhino so a White Man and a 1 the same time officer Burton reach. Lion a Ril fint of it of Iii Hiu arms. White woman to the Taylor apartments. The other was in his changing the location where he said the pistol with which Taylor was shot would be found. The officers said they found it at neither place he named. Bank Teller recall Bio a Bank Teller was found however who told of a Man entering a Bank and acting Quot suspiciously with a $1,000 Bill about the time Taylor was slain. Iii addition Thomas Green Deputy United states District attorney. It was cd her. And taking her in his arms i carried her out of the court room. He took the weapon from her and locked her in a room in the sheriffs offices. Confusion reigned in the courtroom. Judge Munroe dismissed the jury definitely. A Rosalyn a body was taken from the chair and Laid on the i floor. Few Iii c ourt room the shots were heard in every part of the courthouse. Few persons were present at that Early tour. Rosalyn was in the real estate quoted As having stated a Man he be business and when the charge was lit by Vas tailor bad sought Bis Aid flied against him it created a sense i s Var Iff Sam pig out the drug traffic Jav this latter was pointed out As a pop sible partial proof of Field s statement that the film director was killed because of his alleged interference wit ii the drug traffic. Chinaman diet a it a hrs the officers Learned also that a chinese named Wong Lee the name Fields said was born by the chinese in the alleged murder party had left i los Angeles Chinatown three Days i ago when it was first intimated Fields might have important information concerning the Case. They said How Eyer they had nothing to connect i Wong Lee with the Taylor murder and recalled Fields had said the Chi need in his party went East with him. Tile officers said they were unable to learn anything of the Quot White woman and Whit Man whom Fields named As Jennie Moore and Johnnie Clark. Or any persons who knew anything of them. Tion. He had a wife and children the Matthews girl then Only 15 years old. Testified to her condition for which she said crossly was responsible. She had Given birth to a child which necessitated an operation. She declares her Lien till was destroyed. So is a Little girl weighing not More than ninety pounds and was As Calm As any Man win Quot shooting and remained so. Agreement near on Pacific pact n eat Blanket Reser a Aikin said to be at kit Able to Harding is offered zen to death in Minneapolis a a it Rock for were i St. Pm i a woman was Frozen to sea i near Langford South Dakota. Was electrocuted near Minn., and ii Man was Oil wort la Minn. Or deep Creek and Millegan a it it of Montana wolves in droves driven by the heavy Snow to j a districts and attacked do a animals. Seventy head of cattery reported killed at one Point. Wisconsin was battling with an in inn Mantle of Snow to restore a conditions. Railroad service he in paralysed by the blizzard i wrought damage estimated at 6 vers million of dollars Nebraska Felt a thirty mile wind Ai i n hied by sleet which put 20,-n-Ijes of Telephone lines out of Sion while South Dakota Dis he a a said that heavy damage had a a used in that state by wind and Bleet cold wave was moving rapidly i Ward today. I a in were still pending and its promising to Call up the matter As soon As urgent legislation was out of the Way. Quot there is no doubt that the impeachment proceedings against judge Landis Are still pending in Congress Quot or. Welly wrote in his letter to the president Quot and i Felt in Justice to judge Landis As Well As to the Public that the matter should be disposed of by Congress. Judge Landis is either innocent or English Cabinet gives gift to Mary by associated press leased wire London eng., feb. 24�?another Brilliant wedding reception was held at Buckingham Palace this afternoon. Premier. Lloyd George and Marquis Curzon took occasion to present privately and informally to Princess Miry the gift of the Cabinet ministers three Beautiful pieces Ai antique Silver. Man Oft he unofficial bloc of the Senate succeeding former senator Kenyon of Iowa. Weather report forecast South Dakota increasing Clouds i Ness tonight and saturday probably i Snow South portion not so cold. Local temperatures by the republicans recording thermometer thursday Friday i 3 p. In. 2 below 3 a. Mil 20 below i i 6 p. In. 7 below 6 a. In. To below i j 9 p. In. 12 below 9 a. In. 6 below 12 p. In. Is below 12 in. 0 3 p. In. 9 above j maximum 9 above at 3 p. In. Fri Day minimum 20 below at 3 a. In. Today by the official government thermometer from noon yesterday to noon today a maximum 13 minimum 12 below at noon 3 by associated pres l annl wire Washington. D. Feb. 24�?the Roma disaster and possible Neces i sary changes of aircraft policy to suiting therefrom. A it Ira understood to have been discus d at today a Cabinet meeting. Secretary fall on entering the meeting said Congress would be asked through the War and Navy departments for an appropriation of $5,000,000 for production of helium Gas the non inflammable Pas used for dirigible. The Secretary today took with him into the Cabinet meeting a map showing Gas Fields in Pennsylvania. Ohio. Indiana Kansas and Oklahoma which might in addition to the Texas ffet4, furnish helium. A condolences on the Roma disaster were received today by president Harding from King Albert of Belgium. It was announced at the state department. Three convicts at san Quentin escape As minister preaches by associated press leased wire san Raphael cal., feb. 24�?while Rev. C. B. Forbes a san Francisco clergy Man was delivering a religious lecture at san Quentin Penitentiary last night three convicts took advantage of the Assembly to scale the Walls and escape. A fourth convict donned the minister s Robe and hat and Walker past several guards but was re colonized and stopped at the outer Gate when he betrayed a strange nervousness in the Way he said a Good evening big blackmail plot is bared Federal employee in w Ashington is arrested in connection with scheme Mabll Normand Sukhu sly ill in Pasa Den a suburb j los Angeles calif., feb. 24�?�?the i condition of Mabel Normand. Aim actress reported critically ill by her physician last night remained unchanged \ this morning according to the most j reliable information obtainable Here. Miss Normand. Who secluded herself sometime ago in a residence in Altadena a suburb of Pasadena in a a Aid to be suffering from an aggravated Case of influenza Quot. She moved to the Altadena residence shortly of i ter the funeral Here of William Desmond Taylor motion picture director who was slain in his apartment on the evening of february l although her condition last night j was regarded serious. Her physician said he had a Hope she would recon j miss Normand a close Fri Etui of j Taylor and one of the last persons i know ii to have seen him alive col j lapsed it the funeral services and at j that time it was stated she was on the verge of a nervous breakdown. By associated press leased Avic a vhf hit ton d. Or feb. 2 4.�?a modified reservation to the four Power Pacific treaty said to be satisfactory both to president Harding and to a majority of the members of the Senate foreign relations committee was debated by till committee today and an agreement reached to vote on the treaty itself and All proposed reservations at. Tomorrows session. Acceptable to Harding the new reservation was Laid before the committee by senator bran Degee. Republican. Connecticut after a conference with president Harding. The senator was said not to have represented it As embodying the president s views but tim understanding of committee members was that it would be acceptable to the Whin House. The text of the reservation follows Quot the United states understands that under the statement Iii the preamble or under the terms of his treaty there is no commitment to armed Force no Alliance no obligation to join in any new York n. Y. Feb. 24.�?alleged to have defrauded thirteen or fourteen society women of at least $560,000, Alfred e. Lindsey a broker of South Nyack is being sought to it face the charges that lie made off with the entire personal Fortune of mrs. Lillian d. Duke divorced wife of Janies b. Duke. The a tobacco King mrs. Duke charges Lindsey got All her Cash. $325,000. And jewelry Worth $50,000. George e. Long. 40 years an employee of the Bureau of insular affairs in the War department was arrested today and held for investigation by department of Justice officials in connection with the blackmail plot. Threats of death Wero made in Case the Money was not Forth coming. Long denied authorship of the letters. Chief William f. Burns of the department of Justice said the writers of the letters had been traced by a peculiarity in the handwriting and by a water Mark used in War department stationery. Of drainage ditch decision made Lodge Elliot says City Hul and Power companies. And to be assessed i negro is executed Baltimore. Md., feb. 24.�?samuel l. Smith negro chauffeur was hanged at the Baltimore county jail at Towson today for attempted criminal assault upon miss Marita Lyon of Glen Ridge. N. J. Coucher College student and Volunteer settlement worker. By As Oci acc press leased wire Sioux Falla s. A. Feb. 24�?judge Elliott in l United states court late yesterday rendered a decision in what is known As the drainage ditch cases involving planned assessments for paying the Cost of constructing ditches known As numbers i and 2, we hich Drain immense Bottom lands North and West of Sioux Falls. The Chicago. Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad. The Northern states Power company and the City of Sioux Falls i resisted efforts to have their proper i to assessed for this work. Judge Elliott holds that the Law under Winch the ditches were con j strutted is constitutional but that i the county commissioners exceeded their authority in assessing or attempting to asses the Railroad and j Power companies and the City and that these assessments Are unlawful. Drainage ditch warrants. To the amount of $250,000 Are in Possession of Sioux Falls Banks and the decision of judge Elliott leaves their i status temporarily in doubt. See to fix wree blame five trainmen killed whew train hits Snoap plow near Minneapolis by associated its leased wire Minneapolis Minn. Fob. 24�? Railroad officials attempted today to place responsibility for the collision of a Snow plow and train number to known As the Winnipeg flier on Tho great Northern railway. In w hich five trainmen All St. Paul and Minneapolis met death Ami a dozen persons were injured late yesterday. The wreck occurred Between Delano and Montrose Minn. 30 Miles West of Here. The flyer coming from Winnipeg was eleven hours late and was speeding toward Minneapolis. It carried an extra heavy Load having picked up passengers from two other trains stalled along the line in Snow drifts and was drawn by two engines. The three engines and a mail car plunged Down a ten foot embankment and Early today four of the dead were still buried beneath the wreckage

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