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He Sktrait Ww GREATEST NEWSPAPER VJ WEATHER Snow or Rain EDITION 7 2 THREE CENTS PRICE MRS ORD CHARGED WITH PLOT TO KILL HUSBAND JAILED WET DRY ROW Her Battle to ree COUZENS TAKES SOUGHT TO HIRE YOUNG HIS DEATH HER AIM IN BREAKS ANEW Brother May Succeed GUNMAN TO DO POISON DEATH CONSPIRACY CHARGE OVER RUM BILL JOB IS CLAIM PUZZLES POLICE I ap NEY ORD AND WIE MAY A IRISH DEPUTY NEGROES SLASH WAY OUT CAR SHOT TO DEATH 3 ARE KILLED IN ACCIDENTS LATEST WIRE LASHES atal to Donor In Police Insp Breault Served 47 Years Dies Daughter 4 Upholds His Stand 3 I CHAHLES BUEAILT INSPECTOR Exclusively in ree Press 1 Or 4 POLICE ACCUSER MRS ORD AS MURDER PLOTTER re Pfvm and Chloro Tribuno New a big Tonight Isadora Duncan at chestra halL Adv VICTIM ORMERLY HAD ROOMING HOUSE HERE $20000 REPUTED OER OR COMMITTING DEED Returning the doorway and re $150000 l6ot BARED IN IGHT LIEVT EDWARD Grand Masquerade ToalR ht prizes New Majestic Adv VOL 88 The has to chemist to AVERS KU KLUX KLAN IS LINKED IN BATTLE I Mlnh rrsvoklac Amateur Contest AVENUE THEATER TONIGHT uture create in Adv DETROIT MICHIGAN RIDAY DECEMBER 8 TWENTY SIX PAGES Detrait ree Ptm Ru mu 302 Metropolitan RinU Bfdr wahlnrtnn SENATE OATH STARTS WORK and as a Preventive taka Laxative BROMO QUININE Tablets The box bears the signature of Grove (Be sure you get BROMO) 30 Adv COIN LOSING IN RACE OR CUSTOMS POST Ijgv Washington Dec 7 James Couzena was sworn In as a sen ator from Michigan at noon Thurs day He arrived in the capital in the morning in a private car with a number of Detroit city officials and admirers accompanying him The new senator's first official work was taken up at the con clusion of the session when he con ferred with his colleague Charles Townsendover a possible com mittee assignment for himself and over the appointment of a nutnber of federal officials In Michigan in cluding the selection of a new fed eral judge As a result of his conference with the senior senator th appointment of a judge will probably be an nounced today illing positions such as collector of customs and appraiser of the port of Detroit will pe taxen after the was said authority sheriff of definitely Los Angeles Dec Edna Pur vlance leading woman for Charlie Chaplin is Hl with pleurisy accord Intc to an announcement from har home 304 SPEEDERS JAILED Los Angeles Cal Dec Two speeders were sent to jail by police judges here today The total number of persons sentenced to jail for speeding since November 20 Is 304 Mrs McGubbln who conducts a rooming house nt 3169 Woodward avenue discussed the transaction reluctantly Thursday afternoon She admitted he le undertaking to fore close her mortgage on the automo bile of the dead woman which Is supposed to have Seen turned over to Wlsler and alleges that Instead of Mrs Lotz having been a loser Continued on Page Two Column our the case because I feel that I have been deprived of the fatherly love which one reigned our family The memories I have of father are more than pleasant fulfilled every childish fancy possible and played a most Important part In my recreation being a companion as well as a father homo was a rendezvous to all the neighboring children as father had charge of the story hour In winter months while snow was on the ground Monrue street was a most popular place due to the great big snow hills father built for our enjoyment We actually looked up on him as a builder and sure enough he is for from his first small maga zine started at our home on Monroe street four great magazines have started which are complete in them "I and don't blame any one for falling In love with such a man as father who has a combination of good looks and extraordinary ablH New York Dec Brew ster told the eworld Thursday with the naivete and candor of a pretty girl 21 years old that she was for her editor father Eugene Brew ster publisher of motion picture magazines In his effort to win his trpj11 so Corliss Palmer screen beauty for hl3 third wife Moreover she Issued a statement to that effect painting her daddy as anything but a gay roue She made him out a genial Indulgent parent and the favorite of all the childrenIp the neighborhood Here Is the endorsement of Papa Brewster she gave out flanked as she was on one side by her best beau Kenneth A Lane and her Pomeranian Marie Theresa firewater being the youngest of Eugene Brew ster's three children feel it my duty to express myself I am more than la hopes that my father will win ARCADIA DANCING TONITE Spectators Adv Visit THE GRAYSTONE TONIGHTnu remember our Sunday night Darty Adv Overtures Made to Detective Posing as Kansas City Des perado Officers Say ft 5 Three persons are dead In De troit as the result of accidents Wednesday and Thursday Mrs Elizabeth Slivers 45 years old found on her bed In a room at 244 Adelaide street Wednesday morning died of gas poisoning in Receiving hospital Thursday after noon Police who found her be lieved at first she had committed suicide but further investigation Indicated she had been the victim of an accident One burner of her small stove was open ana the gas had filled the room until it was difficult for anyone to enter it Mrs Silvers according to her landlady Mrs Jncob Locher wu an ardent church' worker Sbe was Contlaued Un Page Column 3 up by ths two senators judgeship Is settled It Thursday by excellent that Irving Coffin Wayne county has been dronned from considera tion is collector of customs Until now uonins ensnees ror me pointment were thought to be cellent Mayor Would Jail All Coal Gougers SCARED BY MONEY THROWS IT AWAY got some candy for have it" responded Senator Couzena was cordially greeted by a number of senators as he entered the chamber at noon Senator Hiram Johnson of Cali fornia being one of the first tu extend his hand After the custom ary prayer by the chaplain Senator Townsend obtained recognition from the vice president and pre tented credentials from Governor Groesbeck senator will come forward and take the oath of office" said vice Coolldga with an In different manner and his usual Yankee drawl Imemdlately Cousens was on hla feet starting to approach the ros trum Senator Townsend who ac companied Cousens to the ehair of fered to escort the new senator dnwn the nlsle but Couxena ap parently did nut notice the proffered arm and started two or three steps ahead of Townsend The latter quickened his pace and put his hand Cootlnued on Psge Three Column Seven Bootleg Gang Admits Murder for Which LecTSauerman Was Sent to Prison years has detention Leo Sauerman now serving a Mfe sentence In Marquette prison for the murder of Alex Dombrow ski a Brownstown township fann er will be granted a chance to re gain his liberty That Sauerman wff! be granted a new trial virtual became a certainty Thursday following announcement by Chief Deputy Sheriff Arthur A Kitchen that Homer Noel 24 years old of Lowell Mass and Melvin Brown of Grand Rapids held In Wayne county jail on a charge of complic ity In the Dombrowski murder told authorities that Sauennan was not a member of their gang If auerman is released the event will be a fulfillment of the prayers of his 68 year old mother Mrs Louisa Auton formerly Sauerman of 472 Morrell avenue and of hla sister Mrs Helen Bowman both of whom have never faltered In their belief that Leo was innocent of the murder have known right along that my son Leo was innocent of the murderof Dombrowski and I have prayed that his prosecutors might be enlightened as to the truth" said Mrs Auton "And when they told me this morning that Leo may be let out of prison I knew my pray ers were granted" she said her eyes filling wlfh tears as she told a reporter how her heart was glad dened by the news Mrs Auton who lost her first hus band and separated from the sec ond lives In a tumble down frame house at 742 Morrell avenue With her live her son rank 32 and Mrs Helen Bowman her daughter who with the aged mother had been persistent in her faith In in nocence There was joy under the old roof Thursday night and Mrs Auton al ternately wept and chuckled as she Continued on Page Three Column our ollowing an illness of five days Police Inspector Charles Breault 69 years old one of the best known police officers died in his home 932 West Euclid I avenue at 11:50 Thursday night Inspector Breault for Wn In charae of the home Previously he had been in command of the truant squad sta tioned at police headquarters Hq was born In St John's Quebec and came to Detroit when a lad Shortly after he reached his major ity he became a member of the po lice department and only recently celebrated his forty seventh anni versary as a member of the force He had been in the department but a few months when he was promot ed and within a few years he was appointed lieutenant then captain and a few years later inspector During the greater part of his long service he was stationed at police headquarters Resides his widow he is survived by five sons and one daughter George rank A Charles Al fred Louis and Mrs George Rudell He was a member of the Holy Name society and Holy Rosary church uneral services will be arranged riday V' DIES AITEH BOUT Akron Dec Mike Vm 18 Barberton died In a hospital here tonight several hours after he had engaged In a boxing bout with Johnny Jlanlson IS a crippled news hoy boxer of Akron The bout a preliminary to the Valgar contest was stopped In the fourth round After Vemlty nad been floored twice once tor a count of nine Accused Wife Rich Dearborn Resident Wedded Yearj Divorce Suit Pending Mrs May Blenn ord 5011 Pacific avenue wife of Ney ord weal thy Dearborn resident was arrest ed by police detectives late Thurs day evening on the charge of at tempting to commit murder Police allege she solicited the services of a gunman to kill her busband from whom she has been estranged since August A divorce action started by Mrs ord still Is pend ing Chief Assistant Prosecutor Robert Toms following statements of De tective Lieutenant Edward Kunath and three other headquarters men said a warrant for Mrs ord's ar rest was Issued upon his recommend ation Thursday by Judge Harry Koldan Mrs ord Is held In th Women's detention homo Sleuth Peaes as Gunman In their statements Thursday night detectives allege tnat Mrs ord unfolded a plan to do away with her husband at a meeting be tween herself and Lieutenant Ku nath disguised as a "gunman from' Kansas City" and three other offi cers In an especially rented apart ment on Park boulevard near Char lotto street Wednesday night Detective Sergeant Ovid Stralth Kunath's partner and another de tective previously had removed a piece of a partition adjoining the kitchen In which the mooting was held The hole they covered with a newspaper and several cooking utensils permitting them to hear the alleged conversation between Mrs ord the "gunman'' and hla Intro ducer Mrs ord la alleged to have shown diagrams of her husband's 100 acra farm on Town Line road near Ply mouth road where he has been liv ing since the divorce action and to: have explained various plane for bls removal According to Kunath she said she would pay him 810000 tor his services as soon as she came into her husband's property According to Kunath Mrs ord gave him a wedding photograph of herself anti ord In order that he might make no mistake tn the iden tity of his victim The photograph Is the same as the one reproduced herewith According to Mrs ord her husband is worth more than 83SOOOO Said te avor Cremation Of several death methods she ts alleged to have discussed with Kunath she preferred that ord bo knocked on the head when he en tered his milk barn carried by automobile to a hay barn then burned to death after hla body and the hey had been saturated with oil the detective reports At this moment of the alleged confession Kunath declares Mrs ord suggested he take hla pocket knife and remove her husband's gold teeth to' prevent hla Identifi cation If th body were found Kunath la aald to havn urcrrf by way ot reply that he use pair of pliers for this task Sketches of various roads leadW in from farm and all othe2 means of exh also were produced detectives assert The woman also 5 la alleged to have sugrested that tentlHard on Pare lliree ('damn One $4 Mrs Elizabeth Silvers GaiVictim Boy Hit by Auto Mrs Koster Burned Whitney Home Among Those Invaded by Thug Gang New York Dec 7 The theft by a Kang nt Negroes of 150000 worth of valuables from the summer homes of Harry Payne Whitney and other wealthy New Yorkers was revealed tonight by detectives after a battle In Kitchen on the edge of the uptown theater district The detectives made two arrests and re covered loot valued at 150000 Most of the recovered loot has been Identified as the property of Mr Whitney according to the authori ties ENGINEERS PICK HOWARD Richmond Va Dec 7 Hen ry Howard of Cleveland was re elected president of the American Institute of Chemical Lngineers at today's session of the annual convention here Other officers re elected are John Olsen New York sec retary rerlchs New York treasurer and Charles McKenna auditor Was in Charge of Truant Squad Later in Command of Detention Home Hill in House Asks Slashes in $9000000 Requested for Enforcement Buffalo police agd friends are not satisfied evidence of suicide is con elusive and have been Investigating the report that a man visited her In her room a short time before she became 111 Involved transactions In Detroit rooming houses seeming certainty that she unknowingly was the third side of a Buffalo love triangle and the belief she had grown despond ent possibly because of realization her wealth had become dissipated or because she had become aware of hopelessness of her love entan glements form the background for the suicide theory Officers are Inclined to regard as authentic scribbled notes on pack ets of papers cancelled checks and stock certificates which she mailed to Karl Vernon Wisler of Buffalo the day before she was found Hl They Indicated that she contem plated self destruction police say Came Here In Spring 'Mrs Lotz came to Detroit last spring shortly after her husband Edward Lotz met death from a gunshot wound in March Her re sources are supposed to have con sisted of about 140000 In Insurance money She conducted a rooming house on Woodward avenue for about six months disposing of her interests there October 4 it is said During a man she In troduced as Karl Wlsler her hus band is said tohave spent several week ends here She explained that he was a traveling salesman The Karl Vernon Wlsler who Buffalo police have linked with the tragedy has a legal wife In that city Upon selling her house here Mrs Lotz went to live with friends at the Cassel hotel 4434 Second boulevard and flnany open ed negotiations with Mrs Louise McGubbln owner of that hotel for its purchase It understood terms agreed upon required the payment of 12000 by Mrs Ixtz In cash there being other conslderatlons The Initial payment wax only 3100according to Mrs McGubbln but a chattel mortgage was taken on Mrs Lotz's expensive automobile Buffalo Seeks Clue in Detroit Hint Murder in Strange Hotel Tragedy Confers With Townsend on Appointment of ederal Officials Here WISTER GARDES A New Amusement World Adv Killing of Parliament Member ulfillment of Open Threat Dublin Dec the Asso ciated" Press) Sean Hales a deputy ot the Irish parliament was shot and killed Thursday as he was leaving the Ormond hotel for parliament accompanied by Brigadier General Patrick who was sworn In as deputy speaker of the house Wednesday General O'Mallle was seriously wounded being shot in the head and arm A lorry load of British soldier arriving on the aeon opened fire on the assailants who were scat tered and'puraued Il la not known whether any of th attacking party was Injured When theahootlng began Hatea and O'Mallle enter a cart order ing the driver to taka them to the Jarvis street hospital Males died almost at the moment ot entering the hospital General O'Mallle underwent an Immediate operation and Thursday night reported as doing as well as could be expected An official state ment from army headquartera at Portobello barrack eatd that'hU condition was not critical The ahootlng of the deputies Is In fulllllment uf a constant threat The names not only ot the zulnlstera who ordered the recent executions but ot all the meqibers ot the Dall Elreann who voted fn favor of re preasive meaaurea were published In a black Hat and the men were warned that they would be held re sponsible Hence some ot tbs ministers and aeveral ot the mem bers ot th Dall have for some time past taken uptthelr residence In the government offices But 40ms ware willing td risk 'their lives by re siding outside Hales was a prominent supporter ot the government and has been a Coutloy on rage Three Colenut Six Blame Anyone for Loving 21 Year Old Girl Declare RY WILLIAM RICHARD A sample cax containing 16 omen a hats in the hand of Jasper' 2f of 1558 East Lafayette tI as he etrpped from thensing apartments East Adams avenue early this morning groused the curiosity of Patrolman i awara Simmons of Central sta politely inquired its des and Brady a taxicab driver ft had been requested to de it at a certain address Sim nons accompanied him and when produce a satisfac address for' the case he was yrefited and is held for investiga tion Simons is avored as Judge Wiley Baxter and King Also Race 'Swindle Love Triangle Enter Into Quiz Over Mrs Marion Lotz or Wisler Solution of the strange death by poison of Kirs Marion Lotz or wealthy and pretty young widow who conducted a rooming bouse here up to October of this year and who was negotiating to acquire another Detroit property tn late November was sought In Detroit Thursday by Buffalo in vestigators Mr a Wlsler as ahe was known tn Detroit was found near death Thanksgiving day In a room tn th Lafayette hotel In Buffalo She sommoned the house physician When ahe became 111 but the potaon oua potion could not ba overcoma and she expired Monday The wom an who left Detroit just two days before told Chief Zimmerman ot tn Buffalo police an had been awln died out of aorna money and ah kept calling for her auppoaed hus band Karl Wlsler oes Charge He is Trying to Bring Open Saloon Back Into Country Denver Dec Poison liquor in 11 months of 1922 killed more persons in Denver than in any other year since national prohibition became effective according to figures compiled Thursday by the bu reau of vital statistics Up to December 1 twenty six per eons had died in Denver from drinking poisonous liquor ac cording to the bureau records EpcU! to Th Washington Dec 7 The first dash between the wets and drys in congress since wet successes in the November election took place In the house Thursday when the treasury appropriation bill con taining 9000000 for prohibition enforcement came up Although the wet appeared to be headed for certain defeat In this particular fight their effort clear ly forehdowed a merry war over the liquor Hsuo In congress during the next two years Meun Sharp Wight The lasue presented to the house Thursday was that of upholding the recommendation ot the appro priations committee reducing the annual allowance for prohibition enforcement from 8250000 to 80 VOOOOO or cutting It still further This question is expected to provide a test of strength for the present session which however will have little or no bearing on the relative xtrength of the two factions dur ing the next congress Representative Hill Republican Maryland leader o( the wets pre tontinued on 1'sse Column ive Man and Wife Start ight With White Passengers our Are Wounded our men wern wounded and more than 50 pasaenaeni thrown In to a panic Thursday nfght whn Charles Jefferson 41 years old 3866 Hudson avenue and his wife Georgia are alleged to have started a fight with white passen gera and to have cut their way out of th car The couple and a third Negro were arrested Jefferson and hla wife boarded the crowded car at Mt Elliott ave nue At Rlopelle street Mra Jef la to have atarted the trouble by shoving another pas Michael ftawlckl 36 old 1871 Superior street the motor man halted the car and started back to give asUlance to the con ductor Stephen Mathews 21 years old 2160 Llvernoia avenue who was trying to quell the battle As the motorman pushed his way into the fight Jefferson is alleged to kave drawn a knife with a alx inch blade and to have slashed Sa wicki In the throat The knife did not penetrate deeply and Sawicki w'as able to swing his controller which he had brought into tbe car as a weapon and knock the knife from hand before he col lapsed Mrs Jefferson then Is said to have picked up her knife and to have slashed the conductor on the left hand and to have cut Robert Shock 24 of 2419 East Grand boulevard a passenger on the right forearm Shock also wn bitten on the left hand by Jefferson police report As the knife flashed other pas sengers crowded back from the Jef teraona and gave them a clear pas sage to the door Mrs Jefferson was the first to esrapo from the car She was followed by her hus band and Charles Holleyanother Negro 30 of 8740 Cardonl avenue who is said to nave also pulled a knife and threatened hla pursuera The two men were captured by Patrolman Clem Woodbury of the accident Investigation squad and red Schulz of Central sta tion who were in the neighborhood Later Mrs Jefferson was arrested She and her husband are charged with felonious assault Holley was held on a charge of disturbing the peace i John Kobiak Is Generous With What He Had in His Hip Pocket "White gave John Kobiak 39 years old a wildly generous Im pulse Thursday night and then it registered a final kick to John rom his home reported to be "somewhere on Hancock avenue" John started out carrying a loaded revolver and Intent upon acquiring another load By early evening hie quest had been successful and he visited friends boarding at the home of Mrs Julia Koval 3270 Hanley avenue Hamtramck All were seated in the front room of the house when John left the room ror a snort time he halted in marked: "Boys Ive you" "ine several Reaching into hts pocket John drew hts revolver and started shoot ing One bullet struck Nick Hudy 50 years old in the right leg An other wounded Mrs Koval Others mhud the boarders who scrambled to places of safety The fusillade ended There was one pellet of left John turned the weapon piecing the muzzle against his right temple and pulled the trigger He died in atantly Boston Doc 7 Mayor Curley to day urged jail terms for profiteering coal dealers The mayor asked Charles 3 Wooley sealer of weights and measures to request Chief Jus tice Bolster ot the municipal court to Impose Jail sentences Instead of fines This action followed In formation received by jayor that peddlers were selling coal con sisting largely of slate In small lots at prices that were at the rate of 25 a ton 16 Hats Get Man in Bad MRS HELEN BOWMAN' Sister Who Has Worked Without Ceasing to ind Slpyer London Dec New Zea land haa given a big vote against prohibition In a refer endum taken concurrently with the parliamentary elections ac cording to a despatch to the Daily Express NETEllAX ENGINEER DIES Chicago Dec Wel ler 76 veteran railroad engi neer on the Baltimore and Ohio who drove the first engine from Springfield to Shawneetown 50 years ago died today al lora All Western Eleven 1 Walter Eckersall foremost football critic in the west has selected THE All Western football team exclusively for The Sunday ree Press Nobody conversant with thegreat college sport is so well qualified to select an All Western as Eckersall who besides being an able writer on the game is regarded the premier official in the middle west With the care that is characteristic of him Eckersall selected the men No prejudice enters in his placing of the athletes and he did not confine his choices to the Conference elevens Look for his first second and third All Western teams in Sun ree Press The ability of each man has been weighed in an intelligent manner and agree if you know football that the groups represent the cream of football players in the west I I had occasion to use a Want Ad I'd want it first of all to be on the job first thin? in the morning not after lunch sometime when the day is half gone then want it to reach the kind of people it was my purpose to reach and finally want it to be productive of QUICK RESULTS you? Another thing because ree Press Want Ads fill ALL of these requirements that they have the record of bringing results most always before noon Ad Taker Main 9100 mcUJ to Th rw Pna thS Chloro Trtbon Scranton Pa Dec Twenty minutes after they had partaken of the contents of a quart bottle containing what was supposed to be whisky Paul Wiesnewski 48 years old a saloonkeeper of Dickson City Pa near here and John Schedneski 40 also of Dick son City dropped dead at the same instant on the floor of saloon this after noon In the opinion of physi cians the alleged whisky was a mixture the principal in gredient of which was wood been sent analyze At Least What Bank Messenger Tells Police Declaring the right of 81000 350 bills which he was carrying a package from an automobile the bank frightened him so that he threw the package Into an alley Haaeland Dereu S38 Garland ave nue 17 year old messenger boy for the irst National bank Thursday afternoon faced the grilling ques tions of detectives who were seek ing to solve the disappearance of the money on October 9 The youth Is held on the charge of grand larceny Prior to his arrest by Detectives Yank and Whitman Dereu was questioned for several hours by officials of the bank De tectives say he admitted accepting the money tq take to the bank but that In the rear of the irst National bank building he threw the package Into a driveway and fld Present Hurt Guests Are Edna Purviance Ill With Pleurisy W' dSli yui LA ''7 xc wm ifei xvxxcvx a 4 am wi 2 a a Nix VW I a 'X7 I 2 IBmi 1 5.