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Dnrrnrir'AT venc 'A A7n Trrrre AND TEXAS CAPITOL FIRST IN The Weather Austin and Cntrl Texas: Tuet-day and Wednesday fair, littla change in temperature. onr 11. On Sunday in Auititu Over 1H.000 Daily in Au.tla. 20,000 In Central Tnu Dslly And Bunas? Tine Amstii AumeriGan Number 200. Volume 13.

-AUSTIN, TEXAS, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1926. COLLIER FREED; To Mexico for Divorce? SON LURED TO DEATH IN CARD She Carries Few Clothes LANGHORN GETS Meet to Raise Norris Prosecu tion Fuftd Is Denied By Meacham IN CONTROL OF NEUTRAL ZONE LIFE SENTENCE GAME, HE SAYS Is Hassell Makes Confession Of Slaying Wife and Children. Nicaraguan Government I Forces Warned to Keep i Out of Area. Wichita Falls Mayor Pardoned By 'Ma' Monday. Meacham Testifies Before Hearing of Chipps' Sort'.

Damage Suit. Man Pardoned By Ma Wanted In California KILLED 8 AT ONE TIME LIBERALS WIN BATTLE MRS. CHIPPS ON STAND LONDON, Dec, 27. OT. Carrying only one small suit-case containing 20 pounds of clothes and toilet articles, Lady Maud Hoare climbed into a large passenger airplane at Croydon this morning and, with her husband, Sir Samuel Hoare, British air minister, aailed off on a journey to India, and return.

The air minister will inaugurate a new Cairo-Karachi service and will visit scattered British air posts on the northern frontiers of India. For days Lady Hoare will fly over territory that never before has been visited by a white woman. She intends to make her suit case wardrobe serve her needs in all climates, but has sent ceremonial clothes in advance for a great fete which will be held tt Delhi, Ufa SERVED HALF OF TERM Acted 'Under Great Excitement' Says Governor In Proclamation. More Than 1,000 U. S.

Citizens Being Watched By Soldiers. Reconciliation Night Before Murder Recounted By Man's Wife. SACRAMENTO, Cal, Dec. 27. The governor of California whij has pardoned very few convicts during the past fou- years, today asked Gov.

Miriam Ferguson of Texas for the extradition to California of A. J. Lane, aliaa George Murray whom "the governor recently pardoned shortly after he was sent to Texas nriflon to fterv a 10- year term for-forgery. Lot-'l ngeies auinormes w.ni Lane for alleged forgeries committed there last year a few months before he was convicted and sentenced for another forgery in Texas. Undfrwood nd limwrwooj Charlie Chaplin, film comedian, will sail his marital ship back to Mexico, says a report from Nogales, but this time he will seek to have it torn to bits and destroyed instead of launched, as was the case about a year ago.

Picture shows Mrs. Chaplin with her, youngest child, Sidney. She refuses to live with Charlie. ONE MILLION JAPS DEAD. MIKADO 300 FAMILIES MADE HAPPY BY CHARLIE WASHINGTON, Dec.

27. (IP) Rear Admiral Latimer, who landed American blue-f jackets at Puerto Cabezas, i Nicaragua, and proclaimed a neutral lone last week, advised the state department today that he had notif id Nicaraguan govern-; ment forces recently defeated by liberal troops that would be 'disarmed If they -were forced into the Blueflelds neutral zone. The Blueflelds zone was established last October by agreement of the two Nicaraguan factions. The government troops, the admiral said, had retreated from Pearl Lagoon, where they met defeat, to Salse Bluff and El Bluff, and might driven Into the neutral zone by lack of food. Government forces had sustained losses at Pearl Lagoon, the message said, and had left dead and wounded on the field.

General Moncada, commanding the liberal forces, had granted tba government commander permission to send sn unarmed force to bring in the bodies nd the wounded. It was emphasized at the state department that the Blueflelds neutral zone agreement was still in ttaft am thnf ihn military lead Then Murdered. Oldest Boy When He Returned to His Home. FAR WELL, Dec. 27.

Iff) A three thousand word statement in which George J. Hassell is said to have confessed the slaying of his wife and his eight step children, and also to the killing of a woman and three children in California, three years ago, was made tonight by Hassell, police announced. Mrs. Hassell and the eight chil-drej. were found Friday in a dugout on the Hassell farm near he.

The statement, police said, relates that the wife and seven of the children were killed with an ax on Dec. and that the oldest boy, aged 21, was Bhot to death two days later as he played cards with his stepfather. The children were the sons and daughters of Hassell's brother. The oldest boy was away from home when HasseU dispatched the wife and the other- children, the statement says, and when he returned Hassell told hlra the others were in Oklahoma. He then induced the son to play cards with him.

They played until the boy fell asleep when Hassell says he shot him and placed him with the mother and the other children in the shallow dugout 10 feet from the kitchen door. Hassell made his statement today, but none of the contents was permitted to become public until tonight. Hassell refused to give the names of the persons he said he killed in California, or the place. "It was a good job and no one ever will know." the statement says. Feeling against the prisoner was TOKYO, Decl 27.

stlent and bareheaded, more than a million ARMY LASSIES GO TO MEXICO FOR 'DIVORCE mourners lined the four-mile route from Harajuku station to the impe Approximately 300 needy familiea of Austin gathered at the Salvation rial palace as the body of the late Emperor Yoshihlto was returned to Toyko this evening from'the royal Army hall 307 West Sixth street, NOGALES, Dec. 28 OT for the annual Christmas tree Mon villa at Hayama, where he died on Christmas day. The Herald says tiiit afternoon that a "prominent attorney of Her- day night. All were given bundles FrrTm the railroad station to the place the streets were sprinkled with mosillo, capital cf the state of Sonora, Mexico, aays he ha been white sand as a ceremony of purl of fruit, candy and nuts and toys, stationery, scooters, were given 150 children. A program preceding distribution In communication with Charlie fication.

On either side the way ers of both sides bad entrusted to of gifts consisted of a violin duet was fringed with soldiers and po licemen 15,000 of them. played by Ola Bell Colley and Kutn Chaplin, motion picture comedian, relative to obtaining a divorce under. the Mexican laws." The Chap-lins were married in Mexico. Abner, with Ruby Colley at the The cortege was preceded into the capital by tin new emperor, Hlro-hito, and the-, new empress. The body, escorted by officert of the piano, and readings by Miss i.uen Ray, Chester Paton, Mary Henes-sey, Minnie Hart and Ruby Henes-sey.

bfs is the second time the Sal American naval forces the task or seeing that neutrality was observed within the lone. State department records show that there are from 1000 to 1100 American nationals living In this area, the great majority of them being employes of American lumber and other companies. Charges made by the agent In ii.rn r'ltv tf the Nlcaraaruan lib imperial guard, headed the cortege LITA WON'T ALTER PLANS FOR SUING LOS ANGELES, Cal Dec. 27. proper and Sadako the dowager empress, followed shortly In a car vation Army has assisted the poor CP) Lloyd Wright, -attorney, for riage.

Then came troops of cav of Austin, 100 baskets of food be alry, princes and princesses of the ing distributed at headquarters OIL WELLS MUST BE DRILLED 300 FEET J.PART DALLAS, Dec. 27. VP) The Texas railroad commission's rule prohibiting drilling of oil wells within 300 feet ef each other or within 150 feet of a property line was upheld here today In a decision by Federal Judge William H. Atwell. The case was brought by the Oxford Oil company and others against the Atlantic Oil and Producing company and the railroad commission, and Involved the proposed drilling of 10 oil wells on a strip of land in the Powell field neaf Corsicana.

The railroad commission in 1923 gave the Oxford company permission to drill four wells and when the company prepared to drill the. original, 10, the commission Btopped tbem by an injunction. At that time owners ot adjoining! leases, among these being the Atlantic company, were preparing to drill. The plaintiff alleged they had been damaged $14,000,000 by the refusal of the commission and brought suit in 1925. The complaining company contended that the legislature had no power to delegate the regulation of ell and gas to the railroad commission, and that the commission was created by the constitution solely to regulate railroads.

Answering tills, the defendants asserted that the constitution left th legislature free to delegate from its own general power the authority to regulate oil and gas operations, and that this duty could bo placed on any executive department that the legislature selected. In this they were sustained by the Judge's ruling. Notice of appeal to the United States Circuit Court of Appeals at New Orleans was given by the plaintiffs. Intense in Farwell tonight and the imperial family, court ladles, cliam eral faction that the landing of berlalns, the household minister, the lord steward and "more Imperial Charles Spencer Cliaplin, said here today the film comedian had no indention -seeking a divorce from his estranged wife, the former Lita Grey in Mexican courts as Intimated in a report from Nogales, Ariz. naval forces at fuerto uaoezas constituted armed Intervention in nntitical affairs and guards, a spectacle as impressive as It was solemn.

Subjects Line Route. was not in response to. any request "There's nothing to Wright Frank Collier, former mayor of Wichita Falls, received his freedom, and William H. Langhorn of Chapel Hill, was placed in the category of those sentenced to life Imprisonment Instead of to death in the electric chair as a result of clemency acts announced Monday by Gov. Miriam A.

Ferguson, i was sentenced to three years for manslaughter at the March, 1925 term of the Wichita county district court. His sentence was affirmed by the court of criminal appeals here, and shortly thereafter his attorneys withdrew the motion for rehearing and Collier began serving the sentence. About two months ago he was granted a 30-day furlough because ot illness. Mrs. Frank Collier, sentenced from Haskell county to 10 years for murder, in connection with the slaying of Robertson, was granted a full pardon about a month ago.

The killing grew of opposition of the Colliers to Robertson's marriage to their daughter. "'The defendant is granted a full pardon because he has served approximately one-half of his sentence with a clear record, being the same clemency that is extended to. others with short sentences," the governor's proclamation recited. "This application for pardon Is signed by 11 of the Jury who tried the case and approximately 400 others, including business men, laboring men, farmers, bankers, railroad men, prominent women, ministers, doctors, lawyers, oil men and various city, county and state officials in Wichita county, in fact people from every walk of life." Acted Under'Excitement." "While I da not mean to say that Collier was free from blame, 1 do not think he is a criminal. He acted under great excitement, and for the moment was not conscious or responsible for what he did.

The Jury must have thought so, at.d for that reason gave him only three years. "He hag suffered for his act. He lost his office of mayor, he lost his liberty, he lost his estate, he lost his name, and he lost his standing. I am sure he is deeply penitent and regretful. His neighbors want to forgive him.

Therefore, 1 grant him pardon so that with the coming of the new year he may be with his family and begin life over again." Boy's Mother Protests. A number of petitioners have ap peared before Governor Ferguson in Collier's behalf, among these being B. Y. Cummings and C. C.

McDonald, Wichita Falls attorneys, and Representative Roy Daniels of Wichita Falls. Mrs. Hattie Robertson of Wichita Falls, mother of the young man killed, protested to Governor Ferguson the pardoning of the Colliers. Her protest was voiced a short time before Mrs. Collier was pardoned.

Mrs. Robertson was with her son the night be was killed, Frank Collier firing from his automobile In which, be was seated with Mrs. Collier. Langhorn Geta Commutation. The number of men" Governor Ferguson has saved from death in the electric chair reached nine Monday, when ehex commuted to life imprisonment the death sentence from Fayette county of William H.

Langhorn, Jr. Langhorn, son of a prominent Chapel Hill family, was convicted of the slay-ins, Feb. 3, 1925, of Valeria Zapa-lac, 17, who died in the effort to prevent Langhorn from criminally assaulting her sister, Minnie Zapa-lac, 15, the record shows. Governor Ferguson declared that "after a careful consideration of the evidence in Lie record of this case, I have come to the conclusion that the said William H. Langhorn, Jr, was at the time of tha commission of the offense for which he was convicted, and is at the present time, of unsound mind and was and is not now responsible for his action." said.

I never beard of Chaplin being in communication with a Her- FORT WORTH, Dec. 27. (IP) H. C. Heacham, mayor of Fort Worth, swore before a notary public today that no meeting of Fort Worth citizens was held to raise a fund to prosecute Rev.

Dr. J. Frank Norris, Baptist fundamentalist pastor, who killed D. E. Chipps.

lumber holesaler, here last summer. The case comes up for trial In Austin Jan. 10. The mayor, Mrs. MaeaChlpps, divorced wife of the victim, and other witnesses made depositions for use in the J150.00O damage suit against tho preacher by Dougherty Chipps, 14.

the lumberman's eon. who claims loss of support and education as a result of the killing. Depositions are being taken by County Judge H. O. Gossett as ex-officlo notary public Meacham's deposition followed the same general line of his testimony in the two-day change of venue hearing last November when the pastor's trial on a charge of murder was transferred to Austin on a showing of prejudice In Tarrant county.

Never Saw Pistol on Chipps. The mayor said he was a close friend of Chipps, but that he had never seen him with a pistol. Meacham said he belonged to no church, but once did. "What church was It?" he was asl.ed by Marvin Simpson, representing the pastor. "Not the Catholic" replied the mayor.

"Why did you say, 'not tha "Because. I have heard some talk that there was a conspiracy among Catholics to prosecute Dr. Norris," replied the mayor. Meacham said that a boy was ordered out of bis dry goods store for selling "all about Norris and Mtacham" when he sold the Searchlight, which is published by the pastor. He said that this as done "and properly so." W.

1L McLean, attorney for the boy plantiff, insisted that the court reporter be sure that be received the "properly so" part of the answer. Meacham said that no other nev.sboy had ever been ordered from the store-Reconciliation Recounted. Reconciliation of Mr. and Mrs. Chipps was discussed throughout the night before he was shot and killed by the Rev.

Norris, Mrs. Chipps said Monday when her deposition was taken. Mrs. Chipps was the first witness examined. She was followed by Mayor Meacham.

The statements W'lll be transcribed and presented In the damage suit. The son of the slain man in his petition contends that the pastor damaged bim by killing his father, represented as the boy's sola and education. Repeatedly Mrs. Chipps denied that she knew Chipps was married and divorced before her marriage to him. She said she had heard of a former marriage in which a child was born but insisted that Chipps never told her of it.

Takes Over Business. Confronted with the problem of earning a Iteing for herself end her sou, Mrs. Chipps said that upon the death of Chipps. she took over his lumber business. She said she borrowed 1.000 from Mayor Meacnam.

Before Chipps death, he gave her $150 a month to help support the youth. Mayor Meacham testified that he did not have a kind feeling toward Nurris. "Then, your feeling toward him Is not friendly?" the mayor was (Continued on Page 8, Col. 4.) mosillo, Sonora attorney until I As the body was borne from the villa at Hii.yama, 4S mourning guns sounded from a battleship which rode at anchor nearby, and other ships of war fired farewell salutes lor protection or American cuiacus and their property were met at the state department with the official reiteration that such requests had been received. Women Gather to See 1 What Will Be Done In read it In the paper today." Lita Gray Chaplin's plans to sue her millionaire husband, Charles Spencer Chaplin, for divorce, will as the special train proceeded toward Tokyo.

Tb rout- from Hay Friday. "BERGEN MAY RECOVER Arouses from Coma for Short While Sunday Night. Robert G. Bergen, who was conscious for the first time Sunday after an auto accident late Thursday, was reported greatly Improved Monday at Seton infirmary, where he is suffering from a basal fracture of the skull. Physicians who at first gave up all hopes for him, now say he may live.

Late Sunday night Bergen aroused from his coma and smiled, and spoke to his nurse, afterward lingering between consciousness and semi-consciousness. As soon as his condition permits, it is said, physicians will trepan his skull. sheriff was taking every precaution to "protect Quarreled With Wife. The confession quotes Hassel as saying the slayings were prompted by persistent quarrels with bis wife which had grown out of bis alleged intimacy with one of the stepdaughters, "I had just quarreled with my wife and gone out to the barn and taken a drink of whiskey," the statement says. "When 1 returned, my.

wife began quarreling with, nie. I grabbed a hammer, where it came from I do not know, 1 struck her and she fell to the floor. "About that time tha smallest baby began crying and I reached dow and choked it. Then 1 secured a stocking and tied it around the baby's neck. "I don't know why but when I saw what I had done, I decided that I had best go and kill the whole outfit." not be altered in the least, even if ama to Tokyo -as lined not only with troops, but also by thousands reports from Mexico that the comedian has engaged a Hermoslllo of his majesty subjects.

Ormiston Indictment attorney relative to filing papers of The new ruler met the casket at the palace entrance and conveyed it LOS ANGELES. Dec. 27. his own, prove true, she announced through her attorney, George Beebe, here today. Kenneth G.

Ormiston, under Indict' ment in the McPherson conspiracy case, was granted a continuance until January 2. when he was to Shlnden hall. Prayer marked the end of the day's ceremony. Hundreds of cabled condolence from other sovereigns and from Japanese abroad have been received. Cablegrams from President and Mrs addressed to the dowager empresa and the new emperor were among th.

first to be received. brought into superior court today to be arraigned on charges of con spiracy. Ormiston acted as his own coun sel, explaining to the court that he ha I been unable to close negotia tlorts for an attorney to represent him. Only small crowd, mostly worn en. gathered to see the former Prince Carol Leaves Beauty Who Lured Him From Rumanian Throne PARIS, Dec.

27. Magdu Lupescu, auburn-haired beauty for whom Crown Prince Carol of Rumania renounced his right of succession to the throne, has apparently parsed out of his life. Those credited with knowing his affairs, say the romance which began with the flight oi the couple from Rumania a year ago has ended. The former corn prince now plain Carol Caralman has left his Nuilly villa and is belioved to. be somewhere on the leaving his charming companion behind.

Aneelua Temple radio operator, whose unexpected arrival here Dec RAILWAY PROGRESS Freight Trains, Bigger But Faster, Are Reported. CHICAGO, Dec. 27. JP) Continued railway progress marked 1926, longer and heavier freight trains moving at greater speed, each ton-mile of freight service and each car-mile ot passenger service being handled on less fuel, and, despite the tendency of rates to decline and of taxes to Increase, net earnings advanced. 17.

created the most recent sensa tion in the disappearance case of Semple McPerson, evangel ist BROKEN DATE FATAL Boy Kills Self After Sweetheart Rides With Rival. CHICAGO, Dec. 27. W) His Wilkin Plans to Hop Off for Arctic Early In 1927, He Reports DETROIT. Dec.

27. W) To pick up his Arctic exploration work where he left off last spring, Capt George H. Wilkin plans to leave Seattle for the north on Feb. 6. Two airplanes, the Alaskan and the Detrolter, are stored at Fairbanks, and Captain Wilkins plans to place the wings of the JDetroiter on the fuselage of the Alaskan and then fly from B'airbanks to Point Barrow.

At the latter point 3,500 gallons of gasoline has been stored in preparation for the flight toward the north pole. A series of mishaps delayed the start of the expedition last spring until weather conditions made Arctic flying Impossible WIFE QUITS, KILLS SELF ELECTRICITY KILLS MAN 2,300 Volts Goes Through Body Of Houston Groundman. HOUSTON, Dec. 27. J.

M. Hosea, 30, groundman for the Houston Lighting and Power Company, Monday was killed when 2,300 volts of electricity passed through his body while he was assisting in measuring the heighth of a telephone pole. His companion, G. W. Darrow, had climbed to, the top of the pole and dropped one end of a cloth tape measure for him to hold.

Hosea arose to a stunding position when the measuring was completed, and the breeze carried the slack of the tape against a high power wire Officials of the company were unable to explain how the cloth line carried the electrical charge. SAN MARCOS PAGEANT Methodist Sunday School Holds Christmas Observance. Spceiai In Th Austi AmmieaH SAN MARCOS. Dec, 27. A Sun- sweetheart having broken a date Farmer Commits Suicide After OIL MAGNATE DIES Death Claims Charles Page, Millionaire Philanthropist of Tulsa.

TULSA, Dec. 27. Charles Page, 65, millionaire oil magnate and philanthropist, died. at his home in Sand Springs at 4 o'clock this afternoon. Mr.

Page had been ill of Influenza for about two weeks. Mr. Page was known as the "industrial king" of Oklahoma, being widely Interested In a variety of Industries. He was owner of the Sand Springs railroad and of numerous other Tulsa enterprises. He also was one of the foremost clvio workers in the city and one of the greatest boosters of the possibilities of Oklahoma as an Industrial state.

He was also variously engaged In mining, lumber and land development In other states covering Idiho, Colorado, Washington, Oregon, Wyoming and British Spouse Goes Horn. PRATT, Dec. 27. Herbert Rolf, a wealthy young farmer near here, committed suicide with a shotgun at his home late Saturday, a with him to go riding with a rival, Alfred Weiburgh, 20 -year -old Wheaton, youth, committed suicide by inhaling gas. Ills body was found yesterday on theyfloor of the kitchen at his home, all the jets In the gas range open.

time atter nis wue. iouuw-Ing a quarrel, went to her father's FINDS WIFE SLAIN PROBERS TO MEET Laws to Remedy Evils Uncovered To Be Recommended. The nine member of the bouse Investigating committee next week will gather here to prepare a report to be made to the 40th legislature, which convenes here Jan. 11. Representative Lee Satterwhlte of Amarillo, chairman, said Monday.

Chairman Satterwhlte is engaged In summarizing approximately legal size pages of testimony compiled by the committee. "It is certain the committee will recommend passage of a number of laws, which it believes will go far toward remedying evils uncovered by the investigation," Satterwhlte home, nearby. Mrs. Koit had Dean visiting at Omaha, and had returned that morning. An inquest will be held.

TO SELECT SP HEAD HOUSTON, Dee. 2T.W Announcement regarding selection of a new president for the Southern Pacific Texas and Louisiana lines to succeed the late W. R. Scott was HEALTH CENTER GIVEN Nathan Straus Donates $250,000 For Jerusalem Institution. day school pageant was held Sunday night In the auditorium of the First Methodist church, with musio Mrs.

Bonnie Pace Strangled to Death in Home. KANSAS CTTT. Mo, Dec. 27. Mrs.

Bonnie Pace. 23, was found dead In ber home here late today apparently strangled to death. Her husband, Raymond Pace, employed by a contractor, found the body, he said, on his return from work. Dr. C.

E. Nelson, deputy coroner, said the woman had been murdered. expected from New York Tuesday. directed by Mrs. John Gerhart.

Many children took part in the HAMBONE'S MEDITATIONS service, which marked the. last of LEGION PLANS DANCE Christmas observances hers. Most of the churches held services the His Wives Agree While He Awaits Death Ht No. 2 Departs; o.l and Kiddies Stay Sunday before Christmas In order NEW YORK, Dec. 27.

(Announcement of the donation of $250,000 by Nathan Straus, philanthropist, for the creation of a health center In Jerusalem, was made today by Mrs. Irma L. Limheim, national president, at the third annual conference of Hadassah, the women's Zionist organization of America. WEN THINGS 15 PUMTiFUL. that students at colleges here might participate.

CHtAP GEPM LAwYuHS fcN QUIET CHRISTMAS Only Nirui Minor Accidents And Fife and Drum' Corps to Be Organized Here. Legionnaires gathered for their regular meeting Monday night, but adjourned to the Knights of Columbus hall to complete the decorations for the dance they will give New Year's eve. Before they did. however, the ex-service men decided they will have a fife and drum corp for Austin post. This veteran's martial organization will be enlisted to peace time strength of two dozen, 13 fifes and 12 drums.

PAGE OLD MINERS Airplanes Carry Gold in Latest Rush. SIOUX LOOKOUT, Dec. 27. OT Plans for aerial transport ot prospectors to the gold fields north ot here were being rushed today following the arrival of Capt H. A.

Oi.ks In a Fokker monoplane In which he flew from Teterboro airport. New Jersey, Nine Drunks Reported. In spite of having nine automobile collisions and nine cases of Intoxication reported to police headquarters during Christmas week, local police are pleased with the comparative quietness that eisaraeter-ized this Christmas. Chief of Police Llttlepage said Monday. No serious injuries resulted from collisions reported to police h3adquarters.

No hrnwle resulted from arrests made for drunkenness. DEMAND MORE CHILDREN Hard Work and Discipline Prescribed by Mussolini. R6ME, Dec. 27. W) Hard work, discipline and large families these are the three goals which Premier Mussolini has set for the citizens of Caltaglrone, Sicily, who hope to have their region elevated to the rank of a province.

Answering an appeal from the citizens, the premier said that he did not intend to create any new provinces before 1932. and added: "Theri I'll reward those regions which show themselves laborious, disciplined and 6 MISSING IN BLAST Five Others Probably Will Die From Oil Explosion, VENTURA, Deo. 27. Wl Six men are missing, seven others are seriously Injured, five ot whom probably will die and property damage estimated at was done in the destruction by explosion and fire of the General Petroleum company's refinery two and one-half miles east of here today. 1 Clean Out the Attic Thi3 week and start 1927 Right.

Many articles will be found and by advertising them, plenty of extra money can be earned. Phone Wants to Want AdDep't' 4391 -Mr) i agreed on his sanity. Another jury last week held him sans and he wa sentenced to be By agreement with Wife number one, who was then ill In St Louis, wife number two came here last September to make a fight for Vestal's freedom. "1 have known Ermnetl; a long said Mrs. Vestal number two.

"I married him whHe he was In a period of mental derangement. I know that now, but I loved hiiu so much I did not know tt then. He told ma that he Was divorced, that he had been freed from the charges against him in. Texas, and that we could start life all over. "My husband had died two years earlier aud 1 thought I would find happiness with Emmett There Is no bitterness In my I loved him and was willing to gamble everything on him.

I am going to take my 10-year-old daughter bark to educate her If I can ever aid Emmett. though, I'll be right on the DALLAS, Dec 27. tfl Two wives fighting for the life one condemned husband have uared accounts with each other through a Christmas "council of friendship." While Emmett lay on his bunk in a jail ce)i here Christmas day, a sentence of death hanging over him for the second time in eight years, the two women who had married him conferred, and one agreed to withdraw. Mrs. Vestal, number two, announced that she Would return to her heme In Queen City.

Mo, le' ving Vestal to wife number one and her six children. Vestal in 1918 escaped from a state asylum atiRusk. Texas, to which he was committed after he had been sentenced to death tor the murder ot a tourist. He went to St. Louis, was marrkd.

became the father ot six children, disappeared from St. Louts, again married, and several months ago was rearrested and brouulit to Dallas to be resentenced. One jury dis WOMAN ALLOWED BAIL Mrs. Edith Bishop, Allegtd Husband Slayir, Put Under Bond. OKLAHOMA CITY, Dec.

27. Mrs. Edith Bishop, charged with the murder of her husband. Luther Di-hop. was admitted to ball this afternoon by Thomas G.

Chambers, district Judge. Bonds was set at $20,000. She hr.d not made bond shortly after Him court admitted her to ball. Bishop, state detective, was killed as he slept In his home here Dec, POISON LIQUOR KILLS Sherman Dougherty Released From Jail Drinks Bad Whiskey. DISS''.

Dec 27. Washerman Dougherty, SH, whose S0-day sentence for intoxication had bpen commuted Christmus eve so that he might enjoy freedom over the holidays, died yesterday after drinking poison liquor, EX-GOVERNOR DIES Masons to' Be in Charge of A. M. Dockery Funeral. ST.

JOSEPH, Dec. 27. Tre Missouri Grand Lodge of Masons will have charge of tho funeral of A. M. Dockery, former governor, who died at Gallatin, 1 -4r.