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Mitchell Evening Republican (Newspaper) - July 19, 1921, Mitchell, South Dakota The evening Republican de Quot vol xxxv Imitchell s. D. Tuesday july 19, 1921 number 222sheriff Langley disappears Safe blowers crack crib in i r. R. Station Nitro Glycerine is used by eggs in Omaha office robbery Here loot is Only $33.69 concussion stops clock on Wai l Ano soap is spattered i everywhere easy by comparison a a unprintable scandal now bared in Navy is cd him. To Iii la Xiii to Lemom in till. In i or i Lii is in lit. Xxx of int kit a Tiv it l Dis aum am unto a in secret Aries Daniels and Roosevelt Are charged by r. I. Clergymen a a evidence is secret Mitchell s second Job of Safe crack j ing to occur within two weeks took place at the Omaha railway station at i o clock this morning when flu Safe in the office was Idowu open with nitroglycerine. The other Safe mowing took place in the office of the Standard Oil company on july 4. Only $33.60 was secured by tin wife blowers As tile greater part of tile Money taken in each Day is ranked after tile ticket office closes in tile evening. No Trace has been found of tin robbers. Tim Force of Hie concussion when the Safe was blown stopped a clock in the office at 2.12 a. In., so it was possible to determine just when the robbery occurred. It was not discovered until 7 of clock however when Peter Fixmer. An employee in the freight office of the company Ca nato work. Two drafts one for $73.7 and the other for $420, were left untouched and a drawer full of checks was not dist or bed. Pencils arc Quot loot three dozen indelible pencils in the Safe were taken and Tho personal Cheek Book of if. M. Knudson cashier in tile ticket Riff ice was also part of the loot if the robbers. The Check Book showed tile amount of or. Knudson a balance in tin Bank by was otherwise of no value. Instead of drilling info Tho door of the Safe to pour in the Nitro Glycere inc the thieves bad evidently pried j Back a steel bar across Tho do it or Ani poured the explosive into the crack. Soap put on the Safe door to Hgt a hold the Nitro Glycerine. Was sputtered Over the Walls of the ticket office. Some of the soap was also spattered on the outside of the door into the office indicating that the door a open when the concussion occurred. Turn Biers broken the tumblers of the Safe wer broken Loose and the dial was blow off and could not be found in la of flee. Tile Force of that Phi Ion broke an electric Light Lull an i slut a one of the desks in the room but Iii i not damage anything else. If appeared that the robbers had gained Entrance to the ticket of Fie through a window As the catch on j me of them was broken. Scratches j made by coarse shoes were to be seen on the desk just inside the window. Considerable trouble was experienced by the Omaha railway official in Mitchell last Winter when the Cash drawer at the ticket office was rifled several different times. Only pennies were left in the drawer however so the loss did not amount to much. Burns squeals in sox trial form or of fic i xes ii old Nib Spon sible Kok in Al Puac the is in training St it Ion o a amp Elf l tim i to it wills x k i a in unt i ant he Milt Lull a Kukk in of la to Blanks a amp a. To i Ili Kloi j i Man forty ring callous proves dead Man her husband says wife in strange dynamite death paid $5,000 to free Bergdoll Lily i a Ltd i cased xxi Roseburg Ore. July i of or. I. It. Brumfield missing dentist today were making plans to Ltd establish that the body found under Bis j wrecked Automo do was his and not the o i sell. The labourer for bist in ii re v Brum m is. La no re i Wari a is uni thursday f Dennis bus whose alleged it against i it Rirs. By urn held body is that of to is positive in Lier father or. J. Ii. I Ville. In i., ise pet for mph Rig k pit ukr Pho miss to tem a it v Quot i did a Stoke Fok six i tin i Larry re. Re file associated in it leaded xxx ire us Ira go Iii. July dbl Bill Burns. I Field former major league Pitcher took the Juno stand in the trial of the indicted White sox players today to Tell his Host hand Story of the alleged conspiracy to throw the 1913 worlds series. Burns was it id i Ted As on of the turn spit a tors hut agreed on Promise Trinity to turn states evident. Tell of contract William a a kids Gleason and lira bluer manager and secret ape trively. Of the Chicago White sox testified for the stat today in the baseball trial telling of the contracts Between the indicted players aril Tho j club. Their testimony was designed to prove the pm cution s Contention j that the men were under contract to the club during the worlds series and not just in the regular of the defense contends. Testimony of the two White o facials brought some interesting Side play among the players on trial. As Grabiner recited details of the contracts. The players remarked in att undertone a a there a a double a by that on on the nose. Bonus mentioned when the Secretary iou of Given Eddie Cimott and it i i in is one of the defendants Roh Hoy a triple with a but there Arentt any yet a said cieott1 and a contending that the r husband said she identification. Her ers Ford of Owens Ted to it arrive thursday to counsel with mrs. Brumfield. It was said a Reward for Russell May he offered on the theory that he murdered or. Brunt add. If course. I am posit Ive that it is the dam try a said mrs. Brum-�?ot11rough years of association becomes absolutely familiar with contour with every curve. I know the body by the Cut of shape of the Unger Nail Lous made by his ring Peculiar Corn on his foot to hair the by the Calami by the la is ridiculed in i oils to think that ii is not his Hod a Why should 1 a officers believe that the doctor hits committed this crime a mrs. Brumfield asked. A Wisn t the theory that i Ennis Russell committed a murder for robbery just As plausible what motive would tile doctor have for such a crime a i know his financial condition. He was not pressed for Money. He had debts let course but he had property enough to Cov a till of his indebtedness an even if to did not my folks had enough to tide us Over. My Mother i i heir to aaa last fall Ami if to had needed Money to could have borrowed All to needed. A it was Bis policy to take out insurance to cover his mrs. Brumfield said that her husband frequently went out with his Ritie in the car. So ties Rill the gun its being a to Caliper automatic Rifle and declared that he took to gun out for a Hunt sunday an that it was still in the car wednesday Wight. The Rifle was found in the car when the wreck occurred. The inquest Over the body found in the wreck is to Start today. District attorney George Nettlie stated. Mrs Bergdoll says army m Jor dam and my $100,000 Xxiii la she of. I ski to Ivy. Washington d. july 19�?former Sec ret a by Daniels and former assistant Secretary Roosevelt of the i Navy department Are denounced for methods used in investigating the War time scandal among enlisted men at the Newport training station Iii the majority report of a Senate sub committee made Public today. Tile charges made by clergymen of Newport Tkv i., and th1 Providence i journal the report says a have been i proved to tile satisfaction of the committee and both the clergy and the a journal says the report a deserves the thanks of the people at at the same tint today or. Roosevelt issued a statement declaring that senators Ball of Delaware and Keyes i of new Hampshire the two republicans who constitute the majority of the investigating committee had issued their findings without giving him a hearing after promising to do so. Which or Roosevelt in his statement contended Quot shows a premeditated and unfair purpose of socking what they mistakenly believe to be a partisan political a senator Kink of Utah the democratic member of the investigating committee will file a minority report later. Not of printable nut lire most of the details of the Newport scandal As it is disclosed in the investigation Are of an unprintable nature the Crux of the majority report charges is that with Ute knowledge of or. Daniels and or. Roosevelt enlisted men of the Navy were improperly used As participants in immoral practices for the purpose of securing evidence on which to dismiss offenders from the Navy. Or. Roosevelt under whose office the investigating was conducted was held t v the majority to be a morally responsible for tit orders. The findings of a naval court martial which lit scandal Are introduced in Hie record for the first time. It held til action of or. Roosevelt a unfortunate and Secretary Daniels disapproved the portion of the findings which condemned the method of investigation and on that Point the committee rep it today says a the committee agrees hot Franklin d. Roosevelt a action was not. Only unfortunate and ill advised but most reprehensible and or. Daniel s disapproval of this opinion of the court is to be severely today a baseball n ution Al la in St. Louis. Ilia tm_2 3 o at Boston. By ooh 3 j Walker and Lemons i i Hoofer Watson and of Neil dowdy. Pittsburgh. Nan Tun new up or i at new York. Non Alo oho i 7 j Adams and Schmidt Ryan. Salle Benton Zink and Smith. Chicago. 000 000 001 000 at Brooklyn Oto too too too Beeves x Ork Martin and Daly Smith and Miller. Cincinnati. 030 too 021�?6 12 i at Philadelphia. Too Loo 030�?4 9 3 Leary lug tie and Hargraves Winters and Peters. Mystery veils strange trip of co. Officer resignation sent to county Board but remains unopened is report Rumor women in Case am Erh new York. At Detroit. Hoyt and seining Ler. In Lex Elk. 131 too to. Too 203 of Dausman i Bass wife admits receiving letter from him but refuses to disclose Washington at Ltd level lid. Erickson Ami Nunu maker. Picinie. Fill of. ,02 mails and Boston. At Chicago. Bush and Schalk. St. Louis Philadelphia Morris and i Erkins. Kuel. Ooi too of. Too too of Mcweeney and Severeid i Lasty 002. Olm and of Hunts office to be closed Federal prohibition Dirkx Board tors 1ikadq�?Tarters will by discontinued in few Days Roy Langley ulva has held the position of sheriff of Davison county for the past three years left Mitchell mysteriously a week ago it was disclosed today. Letters postwar own i Minneapolis were received monday from or. Langley in which lie wrote that he did not expect to return to Mitchell. He gave no reasons for his Unen rated Sapir it was said by the Ull of whom the letter was and Diflo of to resignation Host a i t a. The Davison of a a missioners but Langley a resignation is Iii the court House in Mitchell now according a 1 it i Lehman chairman of the county Fly 4pre leaded xxx ire Minneapolis minn., july 19.�?the mystery veils facts i attle could be Learned today concerning or. Langley a strange de of ii it of supervising Federal Prohi-1, an j officials remained Sil bit Ion director of the Northwest Divi a 1 Aion will be discontinued within two or thro Days or As soon As the assignment of agents to the various state offices and the separation of the state records is completed Emerson e. Hunt supervising Federal agent dared today. Closing of the office supervising in love l Force mint in the five states of Minnesota. North and Mouth Dakota Iowa am Nebraska is in accordance with the plan of the prohibition commissioner it. A. Haines to make enforcement hereafter a stat Altair under j the direction of the state prohibition directors. De Rno Sevelt shuls blam or. I Roosevelt in Bis statement Sai i that at no time was the work of investigating supervised by himself per tonally and that not until september 1919 was he and the acting chief of by a a clip Tel pro a leaned xxx ire Washington. D. . July 19.�?mrs. Emma c. Bergdoll of Philadelphia today told a House committee invest the Bureau of navigation inform Ligating the escape of Grover Cleve that members of the investigating land Bergdoll her slacker son. That squad a had used highly improper she gave $5.ooh to major Bruce Damp and revolting methods in getting Evi-1m 11, an army officer at governors is Landfa or us a among High officials at a the insinuations that i is sewed up season. Or a the surgeon Nek do Xvi thread six is boys Lui. I Tek x knife i in Eshi Xiii xxx ire a Frank is recoveries heart was Aerial with a knife and then wed up. Was work in in by it Impi it la re leaded a w York City july he Farino do of Brooklet ing today after dentally pier promptly the boy was working Vest a factory which but the Blad the heart hovering and cutting thru the heart Muscles. Ile was hurried to 1 Hospital when surgeons of nod his Chest Wall took four stitches in tile heart Muscles and three in the covering. Kidnappers get business Man pin n is Lvi xxx Heid kor 50.-000 r whom Sis note sent to wife Washington to help obtain ins tree Dom. Campbell site said. First demanded $100,000, but so refused. Mrs. Bergdoll said she took the Money to the Island and handed it to Grover by whom it was turned Over to Campbell. Campbell she said told her he had pass the Motley to another officer for the purse Ose indicated. Major Campbell rec in by told the committee he did not receive one Dollar from tit Bergdolld. He has been summoned from Camp Bike ark., to answer the charges of mrs. Bergdoll. Mrs. Bergdoll said she did not know must have known that i supervised the operations and that i was morally responsible a said or. Roosevelt a statement a Are nov Here supported by the lieutenant Eramus n. Hudson of the medical corps who was in dire a charge of the investigation the report says a showed utter Lack of moral responsibility a and should Haxo been court Martiale. The Nax a personnel a would be benefited the report says. If the name of chief machinists mate Ervin Arnold. Hudson a assistant in the investigation a were stricken from the Rostrum of the. an mentioned by the report notes that no commission the regular naval Stab big rum ring million i it is and nation famed party leaders May be meshed in booze Case. Ent when questioned As to the truth of reports that me had become entangled in affairs in which several Mitchell Young women were said to have been in a a sets a yes he is gone a was the explanation by Ferd Bulgier. Deputy sheriff. A fall i know in that i had a Lefter from him be stent saying that he did not think he would be Back. Ile did not give any reasons for a or. Wingier do lose the contents of of few Fetter. Wife gives no information or. Langley a wife today gave no information concerning a Langley a Leavings a the left Home etly last week a said mrs. Latag Eye and lie told me that he was going to Sioux about where he a 1 ? mrs. Langley admitted that she or or j-1 had heard from has a a but a St in Detroit. They # sold Between $73 she also refits to disclose the pc lived from Kina a i am not going to say what was in the hitter where it 0 a a the Nam of t in in Campbell As having received the de officer of by but asserted a him was an agent of Lish ment was involved the government a Campbell told me be could not be j cent any Money Tor himself a said Oti Iago faced dived v is Bergdoll. A but that be wanted a wimp i i Lith $100, for Hight ups at Wash then drowns in foot of water in Tou and new x Ork to a Bonus id Wilm Ark cd two on. Home runs t Grabiner became a Little confined by the a Iier tons a a Happy Felsch whispered a Rbt lost that one in the Sun. A lost it a said Joe Jackson. A the just booted if. That the state has a Surprise witness was Learned today when a will Bill Donovan manager of the Philadelphia National league team appeared in the witness room assistant states attorney John f. Tired sat i Donovan would testify to information taken t of the alleged conspiracy which he evening obtained from Bill Burna. Receiving treatment. Day when a it Inch knife with was cutting rope slipped. Entered his Chest piercing City a a of at cd pre i fool xxx Irr Sharon. Pa., july 19.�?thomas d Randolph a leading business Man i Here was kidnapped last night and is being held for $50, Ransom according to information Given police by mrs. Randolph today. Or. Randolph did not return Home English golfer is Winner Over Jock Hutchison i steel hits to s. July 19.�?�?~ buds Missel. Employed in Tell Gersony a garage was so unfortunate a re be sax afternoon while he was repairing a car As to be struck in the let Eye by in Small piece of Hying St cd. He was a it the Hospital at Pierre that by Jake Spears where he is by associated Presa wire Washington d. C., july 19.�?jock Hutchison of Chicago the British open Golf title Holder was out pointed by i Abe Mitchell. English contestant in last night. This morning his wife the qualifying round of the National i a a i. M i a w. Received a note signed a a kidnappers demanding $30.ooh for the Many a release and giving instructions As to How tit Money was to be paid. A second note from Randolph told of his . Of Dis of la Merit Yard fire etcher s. P., Putty fire was overed in one of the Coal Sheds the Anderson lumber company saturday morning. The fir whist brought people out of their Beds at the Earl hour of six o clock. I it the excitement was soon Over for the fire which was Only slight a. Soon taken care of. Open Golf championship tournament Here today. Mitchell card for the 18 holes was 38-27-75 and Hutchinson a 40-36-76. The match does not eliminate either Man from final play since finalists will be select d for Low scores in qualifying play. Of Bull dogging in i. 4-5 Chicago 111., july 19.�?mike Hastings of Cheyenne xvyo., yesterday came within two fifths of a second of th1 world s record for the time taken to bulldog a slyer at the annual Cowboy championships contests Here i time being nine and four fifths Aurora. I. July i a Alber j friers on of Lisbon swam across th1 for River at Sheridan 111., and then fell exhaust in a foot of water and drowned. Fly associated pre lenses wire Chicago 111 july 19.�?revelations which May involve several politicians pay s on a Case. He Hasni to come of National Fame were promised by a assistant United states attorney j. Back Blit i clot to Knox anything Egan today in connection with the Federal grand jury a investigation of Chicago a latest whisky ring. Said to be headed by or. Walsh under arrest in a alleged to hav too and $ 10o,ohm Worth of liquor to contents of of fac a Clef she a it it prominent chicagoan Many of them millionaires. While or. Egan refused to amplify his statement it is supposed that he referred to operation of the liquor ring during the Kep Buca National came from us Tel i Atlow definite in about it a mrs. Langley continued. A i d<5n�?Tt k\1owhvhere tic is nor anything r a ankle hero inu9l4 or. Langley came to Mitchell in 1914 and has connected with the sheriffs office practically All of time since. He brought his wife three children to Mitchell a to to at the time he ram tha Dren two daughters and one Are All practically grown up it was Only a Short time an Ingley a arrival in the City to was appointed Deputy Sherif w. Owens then holding the of. Sheriff. Or. Langley served As derm three years and then was a i sheriff. Ile in to a until i to when he was re elected again convention Here last Var. Eight wit Nesses were to be examined today. $36,500 Bandit nabbed in s. F. Suspect in Jefferson City Robbi Ryoe March i is taken in Sioux Falls by associated pre i ended xxx ire Sioux Falls s. A. July 19�?john Blair alias James Weston tak ii into custody Here last thursday this morning was id notified by postal authorities As the Man who held up a mail truck in Jefferson City mo., March i and escaped with $36,500. Ii will be taken to Jefferson City for trial. The and hic. Son by Harvest hands travelling by Auto seeking jobs nowadays aristocrats among the Harvest hands travelling by car to find work in the Grain Fields of the Northwest have arrived in South Dakota in Force this year. According to t. 8. Welch of the Mitchell employment Agency. These men have no difficulty in avoiding the i. Xxx. W. Organizers. Two Young men who travelled from Thio in an Overland car. Arrived in Mitchell today and applied for work at the employment office. They were easily placed and plan to work for a time and on to see More of the then go count of. Monday two Young men Arrix de in Mitchell by car from Illinois. One oar from Tennessee carrying in wanting work in the Harvest Fields arrived last week and another was also in Mitchell last week from Arkansas. Fost of the men who travel by car seeking work Are Young men who have adopted that plan of see ing the country according to or. Welch. Most of them Are a Good class of men and Are merely seeking a Little adventure. Continued on Page Anco a weather report forecast South Dakota fair Toni Aud wednesday slightly warmer tonight extreme West portion. Local to of weal u ropy tile republicans recording thermometer tuesday 3 a. In. 65 6 a. In. 62 9 a. In. 75 12 in 83 3 p. In. 8o p. In. Yesterday 90 a. In. Today 6 2 by the government there Rometer from noon yesterday to noon today maximum 90 minimum 59 monday 3 Jan. 90 of p. In. 8 9 9 p. In. 76 12 in. To maximum minimum noon today 83 it

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