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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1911
Page
9
Governor West states capital punishment will be voted on by Oregon voters at the next election. A proposed measure would make life imprisonment the rule for murder, with pardons allowed only on supreme court recommendation. Death sentences would be postponed by reprieves if the public rejects hangings.
Jules Antoine, aged watchman aboard the British steamer Aldersgate, was killed when a shark dragged him from the harbor waters as fifty men watched. The shark surfaced briefly with the body, then disappeared, prompting one onlookers to faint during the grisly scene.
Mrs. Sarah Walborn, 52, of Orwigsburg, died after an explosion in a cellar caused by a jug of stove polish. She hurled into a wall, hair burned away, clothing aflame, yet she summoned her son Maurice by telephone before dying several hours later in Pottsville, Pennsylvania.
Milwaukee’s Socialist era Bureau of Economy and Efficiency proposes a free legal aid department linked to city government. In a Fred A. King paper the bulletin notes abuses in defense of the poor, citing lack of counsel for petty offenses and court-appointed lawyers urging guilty pleas.
Huntington businessman George Bechtold regained memory after a month while reading the Bible and recalled a fatal October crash near Hammond. He described a Wa bash flyer collision that killed Mr and Mrs Sterling Drubba and their baby and maimed Bechtold. He remembered a stone smashing his windshield causing blindness before the emergency stop.
Eva Powell a 20 year old woman alone in her home in Bakersfield Calif confronted an intruder who made three attempts to break in. She shot the burglar three times in the face and head with a pistol. The man sought aid from Dr Fred Crease and left after his wounds were dressed.
A girl’s description led to identifying a man involved in a home entry attempt. On the second attempt he forced a way through a window but fled after Miss Powell’s screams. He return trips and actions followed as authorities reviewed the case and sought restraint. Mallard's Snow Liniment advertised with medical claims and pricing followed the narrative.
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