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Mitchell Evening Republican (Newspaper) - March 10, 1922, Mitchell, South Dakota The evening Republican third edition vol. South Dakota Friday March to 1922 number 138chaster trounces Egan finally wins fight for life Fordney says Bonus will be new yorker sat in Shadow for two Long years governors reprieve came just seven minutes before hour of execution now Cohen is freed sing sing i no ate of i tit frn ass in Iii be in famous Penitentiary f special to the new York x. Y., March two years at the door of death the Crim. Preen door in sing sing Jos it pm Cohen has come Hick. Freed front the charge of murder which had been hanging Over his Ead Tor nearly five years lie is hard work on his old jobs unloading Hickens in the Washington Market. But he is no longer the same Power fill fearless a King he says wish a rasping voice a i was within several minutes la the chair. The govenor a re a Rieve came just in time. If it had been delayed i be Here Cohen had been convicted of instigating the Raff murder which rivalled the Rosenthal Case in popular interest. In 1917 he was sentenced to the death House. Reveals emotions during his trial a i was in a Daze from the Start of he trial Quot said Cohen today. A the whole business was so unbelievable. Hut when i found myself in the Little a Gray House up the River i knew that j it was real All too real. I could t Bear to look at the i bars. So i slept with my head toward the door. One night i heard a buzzing noise on the other Side of j the Wall. It was the electric chair j i was nearly frantic. A thirteen men passed by my cell it n the Way to their death. As each would go by. There would be a noisy j goodbye from the other men. Most terrible sound Iii work suddenly we would hear the Buzz of the motor. It s the most terrible j found in the world absolutely indescribable. We would lose our Heads and scream. But soon everything \ was quiet a Ain. A it is not the Man in the chair who is being punished a t Ohen said Ca nest i. A but the men who Are left behind. Theirs is a living death. Any of them would rather die ii me j Diatel than linger in the death House a it wanted to die. The Only thing a hat kept up my courage was the thought of my innocence and the stigma that would have been left on my family. A one Day a youngster broke Loose from the keepers grasp As he was by ing led to the chair. He ran Down in front of my cell screaming. The boy was Only is. We began to yell. It was ail Over in a Little while. The kid went through the Little Green floor a none of us slept that night. I was taken from my cell and put in a Dungeon. It was punishment for cat ailing with the rest. For three Days and four nights i Lay in solitary when i got out i to ult t talk. A sometimes the men told jokes. Sometimes they laughed. But it Wasny to often. They could t forget iat Little door and the buzzing a a Ohen shuddered. A there is something he continued a about giving a Man a Pood feed just before lie goes to the hair. I have never been Able to figure it out. I remember one younger who did no to eat. He had been a i Quot a Ted with three others in a Bronx to order his Side kicks told me that r was innocent. He just read and it Rote until his Day i in ally taken from Deal ii House passed soon chairman of ways and Means committee declares Bill will be rushed thru to suspend the rules cheaper to pay Boni s than to Haye paid taxes if Germany had won its not the Man in the Char. Who is being punished but the men who ape left behind.1 study of to amp eff Cohen by a i ast As Cohen told his dramatic Story. Quot third in men passed my Ccu. Of tht1r Way to death. _ e. It. Higgins sketched earldom a heir prefers to be citizen of u. Self made Chicago lawyer says his present title is big enough for him by associated press leased wire Chicago. Iu., March Woodward Clubley Armstrong self mad Chicago lawyer whose Smiggil for a living has i a fun. A Tiik o 3 is t # i y successful today was informed til at he is sole heir to an English earldom. But the news had Little effect on him for he calmly informed newspaper reporters that he already pos Essed the greatest title in the world that of american citizens and desired no other. Atter Cohen was reprieved his san i be was commuted to life imprisonment. And lie was taken from the Loath House. A i was so weak that i Quot Alk a he said smiling for the first me. A after a couple of weeks in in Hospital i began to come to and j Quot it courage returned. From then on j i never gave up Hope. A and one Day my dream came True. Vis granted a new trial. A everybody in prison seemed to j f e my happiness. I was nursing re r Iheria patients in the Hospital r in in the doctor came in and told me j a hrs to ready. I was going to new Turk. It was the greatest moment of my i a i was released on bail. But it on y a few Days ago that the j a its finally freed me. I m still dazed. Rut i m going Toa tart All is self made Man or. Armstrong received a communication which had been sent to friends of his by the consular depart ment in Washington in response to queries from relatives in India ask ing that he be located. He produced Many letters and documents to prove that he was the Man sought but said he knew nothing of the title he is supposed to have inherited for he became separated from his family when a child and had worked his Way up to membership in the bar through night schools. Previously he sold newspaper subscriptions for a living worked on Canadian farms and finally became a reporter pm the Quincy 111., whig journal. The letter asking that or. Armstrong he traced was written by or ran Phonson. British vice Consul in charge at Nairobi East Africa to the state department at Washington it stated hat the armstrongs ret enly had fallen heir to an earldom that Cyril was the immediate heir and that his younger brother. Captain St. John Shelverton. Was seeking Cyril. The letter was forwarded by Washington to mayor p. J. O Brien of quince who located Armstrong in Chicago. Not a this Firic Quot yet or. Armstrong denied his identity w Hen lie found a dozen newspaper reporters waiting in his office but Coal strike menace now real threat by associated press encased wire Columbus Ohio. March Ion unless Coal operators and miners meet in joint conference within the next week a nation wide strike of miners. Probably one of the most serious in history was predicted today by president be the Ohio min upon return from Indianapolis. 7. Tbs lev Fras the Jast for he miners to vote on the strike Issue and reports received at Union Headquarters Here indicated an overwhelming majority favouring a walkout unless a new wage contract is signed by april i. K the strike vote was cast Only by soft Coal miners in both the United states and Canada. Situation in India adds to Cabinet crisis refusal of i. To attend Genoa meet May prove Factor in resignation London eng. March Ion the Earl of Derby former Secretary for War. Has been offered he Secretary ship for India in succession to Edwin s. Montagu who resigned yesterday according to reports in the parliamentary lobbies today in the event of lord Derby s refusal the Duke of Devonshire is mentioned As the Likely a p Pointer. By associated a Russ leased wire Chicago. 111 March 9.�?the soldiers Bonus is going to be passed for Humin Stariat reasons and not As a political measure. Joseph w. Ford Ney. Chairman of the House ways and Means committee declared today in a speech before a meeting of the wholesale lumber association. A we Are going to report tile Bill saturday morning ask for a suspension of the House rules on monday morning and Rush it through anything else a lie said. Insurance a the Bonus Bill As we have it now. We ill pay the Soldier a Dollar a Day for five Hundred Days of Home service. Or $1.23 a Day for five Hundred Days of overseas service. He also can receive a Twenty year paid up insurance policy on which he can borrow fifty percent of his compensation j from a Bank. I a during the War while these boys were overseas fifty five Hundred strikes were carried on. They were striking for Shorter hours and More pay and they were doing it so Suc a Cess fully that up to november la. 11918. Not a single american steel piece had been fired during the War. War Bomi a you men sitting before me cheered them madly and marched with them to the depot and you did no to go a Damn step further. Suppose Germany had w on the War. What do you think your taxes would have been they would have been Twenty times More than the Bonus. Dur ing the War the ways and Means committee authorized the issuance of Over 151 .hoo,000,0 my Worth of Bonds. Up to that time since the founding j of this government we had Only i spent $31,000,000,000.�?� discussed Tariff congressman Kornev also discuss a cd Tariff assailing the a profiteering. 1 criminal merchant who bought Jack knives for $7.62 at dozen Aud sold j them for $102 a do a the Pew Rorr a Fife manufacture of articles abroad which can be manufactured Here is keep i ing our labor out of he continued. A the Only fair and just plan for a Tariff is for an american valuation instead of a foreign valuation. The United states to collect duty on. A valuation fixed by tile United states. A thus the one Hundred and eleven governments from whom we imported last year All of whom had different prices on valuation would pay the same duty on the same articles on a comparable article when it enters this country. No More $2 Salt a knives will be sold at $2,800 percent of u. Asks pay for expense of army on Rhine Allied finance Board requested to Settle $241,000,- 100 claim it St have you a Ami Princess in your Home by associated inns leased wire Moscow. Russia. March Little princes and princesses by the score Are available in Russia for adopting by wealthy or Eigners. The parents where there Are any willing and even anxious to let their children go because of their own poverty and inability properly to care for and educate them. The Mother of Little Chafi Khan. Prince had Jar. A near pretender to the throne of Persia is one of Tho Many we care willing to part with their sons. House gives million for seed Grain of by associated Presa leased wire Washington iyc., March a before i vote of 99 to 82 the House today pass Jed a Bill authorizing a $1,000,000 a i Propri Tion for the Purchase of seed Grain for Farmers in drought stricken areas of the Northwest. As previously approved by the Senate the Hill carried $5,000,000 and the difference As to the size of Hie appropriation must be comprised before the measure goes to the president. Radio Lato Are recommended at conference disorder among Egan crowd Marks gathering governor bares opponents past record nearly 9,000 people Jam into Sioux Falls coliseum for big event of Campaign Egan supporters break up meeting when they carry him out on their shoulders. Hoover says receiving stations have increased by. Hundreds in last few months Washington d. A. Location of Twenty five various classes of wireless senders and government control of Besand scout history i for Amateur Ranson it Ting of a Hub file agreeable details 8 March log Al lengths among telephony of establishment of All commercial wireless transmitting Telephone stations Are recommended by the three committees of the government radio conference made Public Here today. Amateur Bilio. The recommendations do not provide for government control of receiving stations which Secretary Hoover has gait hive increased into the hundreds few months stations under the committee s proposals. Would be Given exclusive use of wave lengths from 130 to 200 meters and share with technical and training schools wave lengths of from 200 to 275 meters. Wave length other recommendations Are that wave lengths below 6.000 meters should in a general Way be reserved for radio Telephone service but that those wave lengths which have become fixed in service for Telegraph service within this Range such As s o s signals shall he retained. The committee s report expresses the Hope and expectation that the radio Telephone May ultimately keep the whole Range from Zero to 6,000 meters. By special correspondent Sioux Falls s. D., March a tremendous crowd that packed the City coliseum in Sioux Falls fully an hour before the chairman. A. K. Fairbanks appeared on the platform. La. My master candidate for renomination at the Republican primary and i Corgi. Egan his opponent staged a political debate last night which rivalled in red tire anything that has Ever been seen in the state. Experts estimated that at least 9,000 people crowded into the big building which has an Ordinary seating capacity Quot of Only 4,000. Egan demonstration Egan $ appearance was the signal for a demonstration that kept him on his feet bowing right and left for fully two minutes while the governor was greeted with just As enthusiastic an outburst though not of so Long duration. Egans supporters were Well distributed throughout the Corners of the House and twice during my masters rebuttal chairman Fairbanks had to Rise and urge the crowd to remember that they were a gentlemen and in his opening statement Egan gave voice to the desire that the governor might not engage in personalities but his Hope passed unheeded for the governor ruthlessly Tore aside the veil which the Sioux Falls Man sought to draw Between himself and his audience and read a Long list of questions affecting egans personal life which in the end he was compelled to Lay aside because of the hoots and jeers from the Well placed Egan supporters. As far As the debate itself was concerned it developed Little of political value save a few facts regarding taxation and the Bonus which were hammered Home by the governor. Spectacular i Ose the debate spectacular As it was. Came to an even More spectacular end when half a dozen Egares. Headed by Rollie Dickenson of Sioux Falls and Douglas Odell of Montrose rushed Forward six minutes before egans final ten minutes was up. Seized him raised him to their shoulders handed him Down from the temporary stage and bore him in a sort of caesarean triumphant procession through the crowded Hall. Opening the debate with an hour to talk. Egan declared the a state machine must be smashed now. Assails machine a the be declared a has saddled itself on you and the governor is now its titular head. In 1910 i told you that Mcmaster was to be governor in 1920. I could name you four men who Are to sit in his seat in succession As a proof of the Power of that machine. No Man dare run against the machine for any office in the state unless he is willing to submit to the assassination of his character. This machine has Cost the taxpayers of the state in the past two years just $41,300,000. There once was a time when there were Only 200 employees in the state and the assessed valuation of property for taxation purposes was one third. Today there Are god Only knows How Many state employees and for taxation purposes the state property is assessed at full value. Before closing his address. Gov a machine was after you were you error Mcmaster hand so or. Egan a so wealthy then that evil minded peo list of. The it ufos pc Fco Ltd you out from All the rest blackmail. A is it not. True that at this a time of egans past. But the latter made no attempt to answer them. The questions were As follow s Mcmast cry a questions i. Was the supreme court of this j state right or wrong when the judges j said of you in vol. 22 at Page 364 j a the conduct of the accused your j self. In this Case the of Grady Case j not Only shows his unfitness to be a you stand accused in Federal court of concealing your assets and defrauding your creditors in your present. Pending bankruptcy proceedings 9�?if All or any one of these judgments. Charges or accusations Are True have you the Hardihood to face your fellow citizens and ask for a position of to ust at their hands Job of none of these judgments Are just if none of these accusations Are member of this court but shows that j True How comes it that so Many judges so Many of your fellow Citi by associated press leased wire Baris. France. March de a Mand from the United states that by associated press leased wire $241.ooo.ooo for its expenses in Eon-011 Don eng., March Ion removal Section with occupation of the Rhine of lord Reading As Viseroy of India j land be paid before any reparations it is believed in some quarters will wore paid was presented to tile Allied also take peace. There is nothing finance ministers at their meeting this tangible on which to base this belief. Morning. The probable effect in India of or. J Hughes is silent Bobb to run for mayor As Reese opponent mayor announces ills candidacy for re election to Day in Brief statement Montagu a resignation is the subject of much curiosity and there Are some misgivings lest the removal of the announcement was made today by mayor e. V. Bobb that be will be a candidate for re election for another term at the time of the Spring election to be Beld april 18. Sof far the Only opposition to mayor Robby a re election is entered in when they refused to leave he Fin-1 Champion of Indian political Reform ally said a Well lets have it Over j have a dangerous effect there with. Boys. In a equally momentous is the effect a your Grace a began a reporter. 1 the affair May have on the fortunes a can the Grace he broke government especially As to a i just told you i was Armstrong. The position of prime minister Lloyd in. Did no to but i. Maybe not i will be chances Washington r. C., March Secretary Hub is refused today to. Comment on the news from Paris that the tax reduction party headed by representatives of tile United states Rev. John b. Reese As candidate government presented a demand to for mayor. The Allied finance ministers that sex mayor Bobb declared that he would Pense. Aggregating 241,000,01 0 sus stand Ori his record and that he trained by the United state sin the of i would pledge himself to carry out curation of the Rhineland he paid be i the policies inaugurated by him and a weather report South Dakota fair tonight prob becoming unsettled saturday much change in temperature. In Al temperatures by the Republican thermometer earthquakes recorded on Western coast Light tremors Felt at los Angeles Fresno and other California Points his Grace George. Some believe the that the Premier will make Good his threatened resignation have been j ult t at considerably increased and that if j it he also takes the View that american abstention from the Genoa conference lessens the Prospect of Success j there the country May soon learn of his definite retirement. Fore any reparations. There was nothing that could he said on the Sunborn time or. Hughes Declaro Sioux Falls wins opener in Iowa Cage meet rail office Safe robbed nearly $15,000 believed to be taken when combination is worked his administration during the past two years. Discussing briefly the statements of the tax reduction party or. Robb said he was willing to leave the question of tax reduction and of whether his administration had reduced taxes or not to the voter. A one Only i has to look at the to rate in Mitchell As compared with other cities to see what we have done a he declared. To English Gulf champs plan visit to states s recording thursday p. In. 33 p in. 30 a p. In. 24 in p. In. 19 maximum 40 at minimum 14 at by the official Cornetet from a it on today maximum 40 minimum 21 at Sioon 4 0 Friday 3 a. In 18 6 a. In. 14 9 a. M. 25 12 in 36 \ 3 p. M. 40 3 p. No Friday 6 a. In. Friday los Angeles. March Ion a Light Cherokee downed by Sov the earthquake Shock was Felt Here at. Dakota players in open i 3 27 of clock this morning. The them a round i or lasted but a few seconds and no j _ a damage a been reported. By associated press leased wire at Porterfield a Sioux City la. March narrow Porterfield cal., March Ion Resi margin victories featured the opening dents Hare. Were awakened about round of the annual invitation High by an earthquake which 3 30 a rattled their hinge i around. People in. Wtnd3s$k government ther j rebut no noon yesterday to de moved doors off threw furniture rushed into the damage was report fre no. Cai., March i quake Shock was Felt i this morning but no i done. Ion an Earth Here at 3 25 a mag w s school basketball tournament which opened at Morningside College yester Day when 70 teams from North West in i Iowa. Blueth Dakota and Nebraska gathered Here to compete for championship honors. Sioux Falls High a school won its first game in class a i of the Iowa tourney last night when Cherokee went Down by a score of 15 i to 3. By associated press leased wire Omaha. Neb. March Ion the Saf in the office of w. H. Sanford treas j user of the Union Pacific Railroad. J seventh floor Headquarters f building j was found open this morning Accord Jing to a report to the police. Be j tween $14,000 and $15,000 is a id to be missing. G. E. Bisnett auditor is checking the contents of the Safe. Police detectives assigned to the Case said the combination had been worked. Both police and railway officials1 refused to disclose details of the j Case. One elevator is said in have j been running during the night and one night watchman was in the building. The missing Money is said to have been a payroll for Union Pacific shop men. $ by associated pros leased wire new York City March Abe Mitchell and George Duncan noted British professional golfers have decided to make another visit to the United states this your according to Cable message received today. They plan to leave England june 28. 30,000 readers More than 6.000 families representing 30.000 readers read tile Republican every Day place your want and before this big audience saturday free with two other issues his perceptions of the duties and responsibilities of an attorney Are such As to Render him an undesirable associate of a highly honorable profession. And dangerous or clients who May seek his assistance As an 2. Were you telling a truth or an untruth when on july 9th. 1920, you filed a petition praying for reinstate j ment As a member of the bar. And when in support of that petition you stated to the supreme court As shown in col. 27 at Page to a i believed when i filed my petition and i believe now that the court acted conscientiously and honestly on All the facts that it had before it. Or could j get before it touching my affairs. I whether for or against 3. Was the supreme court right or i wrong when on your second Dis bar i ment. The judges declared in vol. 37. At Page 168, that As an attorney for one Theodore Kirkland. Your con a duct was a unprofessional dishonest and fraudulent a a and was the court right or in the Avn opinion at pig a 169 the judges say your conduct As attorney for one Jacob Hatfield was. A unprofessional and dishonest ? a and was the court right or wrong j in finding in the same opinion a Page 174. That your conduct As attorney for one Urbain s Terra it was \ i a dishonest unprofessional and fraudulent ? 4.�?was the supreme court right or wrong when after twelve of your own fellow citizens had found you guilty of a dastardly crime that court pointed out a technical error and gave you another trial in 52 cases 5�?why have you found it necessary to be a plaintiff or defendant per 1 tonally in 52 cases in your own coun j to during tire Short time you have j lived Here 6�?you claim that you Are the vie a tim of a machine a South Dakota a machine. Was that machine in a per 1 i action in Iowa before the people of South Dakota Ever heard of you is it not a fact that you were twice charged in civil complaints with rape in the courts of your native state that you were accused of crib j ing witness in a criminal Cam that disbarment proceedings Mere lodged against you there and that a commission of three of your fellow citizens. Appointed by the court found you guilty of dishonourable and unprofessional conduct As an attorney also is it not a fact that you left the state of Iowa to avoid disbarment there Iowa record 7�?if you were also persecuted where you had grown up from boyhood and were Well known can you explain to the people of South Dakota How a Mother of seven children and How a Young girl of 17 should each accuse you of rape and How a committee appointed by the court should pick you out for an attack ? were you to prominent there that a Iowa ens a re wrong and you alone were right ? egans rebuttal a Laking less than half of Bis time in hit ten minute closing summary before his All too ardent enthusiasts bore him from the platform nearly knocking half a dozen women off the stage. Egan said a this governor whom we All love says i Haye Cost the county something in the last few months. Why he pays my old Friend Charlie Day and Egan singled or. Day out of the crowd on the platform �?o$1,500 a year for doing Egan made a hitter attack on the nonpartisan South Dakota lender., a paper representing a party he de continued on rage two hand grenade cargo explodes Many killed unusual sea disaster damages nearby town where munitions Arf stoked constantinople Turkey match a a fifteen of the Crew of the Bol Shevi transport Gorki were killed and Many wounded when toe ships Cago of hand grenades exploded a Trebizond on the Black sea. Tim explosion also did damage to Tow town where great quantifies of munitions have been received lately from Russia. Roads Are so bad even spooks can to travel Over them Halifax. N. S., March Ion urging on the provincial government the importance of Highway improvement. August Mcgillivray Farmer member for Antigonish. Said in the House of Assembly today that in his county the roads were so bad in Wanter that even the spooks could not get around when a Wise Man from Gotham was waiting to meet them. To changer ies on election of Pope Rome. Italy March Ion a papal decree will be made Public shortly extending to fifteen Days the interval Between the death of a Pope and the beginning of the sacred conclave to elect hts successor. Cardinal of Connell archbishop of Boston told Lig associated press today

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