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CAPITOL THEATRE TODAY VAUDEVILLE CAPITOL THEATRE TODAY VAUDEVILLE 1 TODAYS PAPER 20 PAGES Hkfl la .00 Tear. Cly Del tie Blnr'a Week. etarly Edition. 12 00 Tear. Coy REGINA, FRIDAY, JUNE 17, 1927 VOL.

XXTV, NO. 341 PROBS: MOSTLY FAIR Police Have Full Data Of Murderers Actions; Scratches Are Tell-Tale EVIDENCE AGAINST CAPTURED MAN IS HELD CONCLUSIVE STRANGLER IS ADRIAN HARRIS, COASTSLAYER Charged With Murders In Portland and Seattle Man Held as Strangler Is Same One Who Spent Last Week-End in City Giving his name variously as Virgil Wilson and Earle Nelson, the man who tonight was held in the cells at Winnipeg city police headquarters positively identified as the man who slew a woman and girl in the Manitoba capital, is the same man who spent last week-end in Regina, police declare. It is deduced from evidence which the police obtained that the strangler arrived in the city last Saturday and spent that day and Sunday here, leaving Monday morning. It was on Monday morning that city police were notified that the man possibly was in the city and they immediately instituted investigations which revealed this to be a fact The city, since then until the time the man was identified in Winnipeg, has been in a state of excitement and uneasiness. PORTLAND, June 16.

The strangler suspect who was arrest -J be ed Wednesday in Winnipeg has been1 identified positively a3 Adrian Harris, sought in connection with the death of Mrs. Florence Flthian Monks, of Seattle, and Mrs. Blanche Myers of Portland, according to a message received here tonight. The telegram, from Phillip Stark, acting chief constable in Winnipeg, to the Portland chief of police, was as follows: Murderer arrested, identified. Thanks for cordial co-operation.

Adrian Harris without doubt." Portland police officials were Jubilant when the message was received. If the Winnipeg suspect has been identified, they pointed out. It was by fingerprint, the only one ever obtained of the arch-strangler, taken from a bed post in the room where Mrs. Myers fell victim to his mad desire to strangle middle aged women. Almost two dozen, women from the Pacific to the Atlantic have been murdered In a similar manner.

Chiefs Cheer NELSON, B.C., June 16. Applause burst from tle International Anti-Crime conference delegates here tonight when the following wire from Winnipeg was read by Secretary Charles E. Long: S. May, president police convention, Nelson, B.C.: "Murderer arrested, identified. Thanks for cordial co-operation.

He Is without doubt Adrian Harris of Portland." (Signed) P. Stark, acting chief constable. Lieut. H. M.

Niles, of the Portland police force, head of the Portland bureau of Identification that obtained the fingerprint from a bedpost the existence of which has led to the identification or the Winnipeg strangler today, is in attendance at the international anti-crime convention here. declared In murderer of United prisoner read to him of Mrs. Lola Cowan, Nelson seriously officers of gorilla man he would comment He flatly time he or Winnipeg. cigarets and during to stories He joked jail facilities the ease able to pick fdom which night only Absolute prisoner as established his delivery at 6.35 accrdmg to Acting Chief and Chief Smith. The appears Chief Stark.

as murders. have seen The identification Nelson, rtatement, believed to cjffifp) FOUND REGINA TOO HOT, HIT 0 MANITOBA Freight Train Likely Method of Travel, Police Think City Police officials and heads of both the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Saskatchewan Provincial Police are positive that ti man captured in Manitoba and identified in Winnipeg ae the slayer of Lola Cowan and Mrs. Patterson, the same man who spent the weekend in Regina and who was the object of such an Intensive police search here. They believe that the after finding that things were becoming a hit too warm for him in the Saskatchewan capital, decided to double back Into Manitoba. All the evidence points.

to the fatt, they declare, that the wanted man, after travelling as far a Vibank by the aid of "lifts' given him by commercial travellers, continued on 'o KlUamev, Manitoba, either by hopping a freight train. or by getting rides from passing motorists. Same Mmv He Says Chief of Police Martin Bruton stated that there was no question at all about the man arrested in Manitoba being the person who was in this city. He received official confirmation from the Winnipeg police that the strangler" had been arrested and identified. In the absence of any definite proof as to how the slayer travelled from Vibank to Killarney the chief hazarded the opinion that he most probably beat bis way Into the Manitoba city by the aid of auto drivers.

He said that he might possibly have made the trip, by freight train but added the facts of the case indicated that the wanted man travelled by car. That the man held hy the Winnipeg police In connection with the hunt is the man who stayed ln Regina, is the opinion held by R.C.M.P. officials in this city. The chain of evidence seems to Indicate, stated Superintendent W. P.

Lindsay, that the man left the city and fnad for Vlbar.k. Made for the Border Fearing that the police were het on his heels he Jumped aboard a freight train at this point and doubled back to Manitoba. It is considered likely that he knew the country in Manitoba better than in Saskatchewan. and was endeavoring to slip across the border at' some point in that province. The Mounted Police were also of-flciallv notified of the arrest and Identification of the "strangler in Winnipeg.

Probably Mart Who Was Hers Commissioner C. A. Mahony, Saskatchewan Provincial Police." when interviewed last night expressed tve belief that the man apprehended by Winnipeg police and identified as the slayer of two women, very possibly was the man who was the object of search here. He also had received official notification of the wanted man's arrest in Manitoba. The police detachments here we-e thanked by the Winnipeg for their co-operation ln the man hunt.

ALSO RECEIVED WIRE (By Staff Reporter) MOOSE JAW, June 16. Chief of Police W. P. Johnson received a telegram this afternoon from the chief of police at Winnipeg stating that the man arrested at Killarney had been identified as the gorilla" and especially thanking Chief Johnson and his staff for their assistance and cooperation ln the man-hunt. FALL WHEAT IS IN SHOT BLADE Neil Smith, sheriffs officer.

Regina, brought a sample of fall wheat into The Leader office last evening, from the farm of J. A. MacDonald, ex -ML. Fort QuAppeRe. The' grain measured 27 inches in height and la In the shot blade.

Mr. MacDonald has 27 acres of this -wheat-which he believes wMI be threshed about August He proposes to re-seed all this this fall. Mr. MacDonald believes that within a short time Saskatchewan will have a large acreage of fall wheat mininmmnininmiHTnmminmni IWillie Willis! 5 BY ROBERT QUILLEN aunmiiiiiiiiiiiimmuimmmiunitul The reason Ive got new pants is because I had some matches ln mjf hlg pocket when papa licked tna QUICKLY IDENTIFIED AND PEG POLICE BARBER OTHER BITS OF (By Canadian Press) WINNIPEG. June 16.

When taken aboard the special police train at Killarney, this afternoon, Earle Nelson, alias Virgil Wilson, an official police state-the strangler," alleged a score of women in the States and Canada, the heard a charge of murder charged with the murder Emily Patterson and of Winnipeg. refused to take his arrest and he talked freely with excepting whes the murders committed by the was mentioned. Then become sullen and his only was that "It was a mistake. denied that at any had ever been in Regina He beaded numerous from the officers, the trio from Kil-larney Winnipeg joked frequently and from time to time -foul fell from his lips. about the inadequate at Killarney and at with which he had been the locks of the cell he escaped early last to be recaptured today.

Identification of the the gorilla man was within 45 minutes after to city police authorities oclock this a statement Issued by Constable Philip Stark of Detectlvea George Appears Conclusive evidence against the man conclusive," declared Acting We have complete Information to his doings since the There are 17 persons who him and can Identify him. is absolutely complete." according to the police has scratches on his head have been caused by Mrs. Patterson in her desperate struggle with the man who strangled her to death last Friday afternoon. Tonight he was identified by motorists who had given him a lift from Warren, to Winnipeg. second-hand dealer identified clothes pnd boots which he sold Nelson on the day of the murder and a brown suit stolen from the Patterson home which he left at the local store.

Clothes found Ln the Patterson home are the same as worn by Nelson when he was given a ride by the mo SASKATCHEWAN RIVER RISING AT SASKATOON SASKATOON. June 16. Reported to have already flooded the low road to Pike Lake, a summer resort, and within five feet of the level of a residential section In Saskatoon, the South Saskatchewan River was continuing a sudden rise Thursday night. Albert Dawson, Dominion Government recording engineer, stated that the water bad come up six feet since Juno 4. A repetition of the situation of ttareo years ago hen the safety of the city's main traffic bridge was threatened may be expected if the water continues rise.

BERNARD SHAW SHOUTED DOWN LONDON, -June 16. Gearge Bernard Shaw, who holds decided views on vivisection, was shouted down this evening at a meeting ln Caxton Hall of the Society for the Abolition of Vivisection. Two hundred medical students, male and female, aided by rattles and whistles did the shouting. You cannot repudiate moral responsibility regarding animals, he said, without also repudiating it regarding humans. What common people in hospitals fear is being experimented upon.

The uproar became so great that G.B.S. left the platform and the meeting terminated ln a free-for-all tight. STUDENT SHOOTS SCHOOL TEACHER ACCIDENTALLY SASKATOOM, June 16. Accidentally shot by F. Bartlett, student minister of the United Church at Theodore, about she oclock this evening, Edward Urvansky, 21, a teacher, died five minutes later.

The bullet, fired from a .22 calibre rifle during taget practice near Forest-nook school, 16 miles from Theodore, entered the victim's head behind. No inquest will bo held. EVIDENCE CONCLUSIVE, SAY IDENTIFIES SCRATCHES EVIDENCE FIT IN torist. A barber Identified scratches on his head. Nelson, according to the barber, was a.

customer at bis shop late Friday afternoon, June 10, and his head was scratched. It is also understood that the police have evidence of a medical or scientific nature which cannot be controverted. Tracing his movement, it is shown that Nelson, following his Winnipeg invasion, started west, going to Headingly, 12 miles to the West of Winnipeg. From there the trail led westward and qt various points persons were found who had seen him makng hs way across the country, sometmes begging rides in automobiles, sometimes beating his way on freight trains and sometimes walking. He was traced to Regina, being- in the Saskatchewan capital Saturday, Sunday and early Monday morning.

Completely Hemmed In Hemmed in to the west with the search in the Regina district becoming keener every hour, he doubled back on his tracks. For a short time the trail was lost but Tuesday evening was picked up when a ticket agent in Regina remembered selling such a man a ticket for a point a short distance east of that city. A squad of police' officers acting under Inspector Smith of the Manitoba Provincial Police and on information received from Winnipeg left Regina Wednesday morning in four automobiles heading east. They scoured the country and again picked up his trail at Boissevain, Man, where he bought a straw hat, and from there started south, heading for the international boundary. He was given a ride by a man near Boissevain, but the motorist did not carry him far, returning to Boissevain and notifying the police.

When this Information reached Winnipeg orders were issued for the police officers to converge on the south country. Trace of him was next found at Wapoka, Man, where he secured a meal at a house last night. The women of the house and her husband notified police and neighbors. In the meantme, contnued nalkng toward the border, only five miles away. He was sckvi overtaken by.

police officers from Killarney. He surrendered quietly. Then came his escape, and his subsequent capture. Questioned last night, police officers here said they had no knowledge of the four automobile loads of Winnipeg police leaving Regina Wednesday and were inclined to doubt the report. CUSTOMS JOBS GO BEGGING AT QUEBEC PORT Collector Complains Before Royal Inquiry About Slowness of Ottawa Department QUEBEC.

Que June February I asked the department to replace seven officers who are re tired or dead. They are still to come. ThUs Alexandre La Rue. customs collector here, suggested to the Royal customs commission today his difficulties ln obtaining an adequate staff to handle the growing business of this port. Thats what they call money-saving, Mr.

La Rue said ln commenting on the slowness with which imcancies are filled. In the sales tax audit division, audits were be-Jilnd. There was only one sales tax auditor attached Jo the port, and It was impossible for hljn to audit all of the 573 soles tax licenses ln a single year. Consequently a number of them were not audited. You have to get permission from to buy a typewriter 7" queried Commissioner Ernest Roy when Mr.

La was describing some of Ms difficulties in getting the work done with the too at our disposal. We have to get permission from Ottawa -to have a typewriter repaired. declared the collector with emphasis. He wound up his statement by saying: "When I leave the office at night I am satisfied that I have preformed mv work conscientiously, and to blazes with the rest He had given up worrying, he said. Mr.

Rowell examined him. at some length in connection with automobile seizures at the Port of Quebec. The Importance of seizures made at this" port was ln the following order, said Mr. La Rue. First, automobiles: second alcohol and third cigarettes.

L1NDY GETS CHEQUE NEW YORK, June 16. Charles A. Lindbergh, the well-known flier, receiver a cheque today from Raymond Orteig. who had agreed to pay that sum to the first man who flew from New York to Parist Virgil Wilson, Also Giving Name of Earle Nelson, Denies All Charges and Appears Unconcerned WINNIPEG, June 16. The brutal slayer of Lola Cowan, 14-year-oM school girl, and Mrs.

Emily Patterson, 27-year-old choir linger and mother of two young children, strangled to death here last week, tonight is confined in a cell at central police headquarters, heavily guarded and manacled. lie was positively identified as the strangler. killer of the Winnipeg victims, and the gorilla man, sought by United States police for two years for the slaying of 18 women and children in cities from the Pacific Coast to Detroit. "The man arrested at Killarney, this morning is the strangler, and he will be arraigned in city police court tomorrow morning and formally charged with the murder of Mrs. Patterson and Lola Cowan.

He was identified by 17 persons this evening when paraded at headquarters, said an official statement issued by Chief of Detectives George Smith, of the Winnipeg city police department. Terrorized Prairie Cities ') This is the man, police positively declare, who has struck t-error into the hearts of residents of Winnipeg and Regina in the I last two weeks and who has roamed the continent for-four years, brutally slaying women and children in San Francisco, Buffalo Detroit, Portland, and Winnipeg. Re-captured at Killarney, Manitoba, this morning, after once the man was brought to Winnipeg on a special train. He has made no admissions so far, but he has already given two names and two birth places, and his first story that he had been working for a farmer in Manitoba has been proven false. When the man was first taken in charge by Winnipeg detectives at Killarney this morning he gave his name as Virgil Wilson and stated that he was bom in Lancaster, England, and that he had never been in the United States.

When he was taken to the city police station tonight asked to write his name and place of birth he wrote, Earle Nelson, bom San Francisco, 1897. Is a Former Convict The strangler says he is of Spanish and English parentage. IU is said to have admitted to police that he was convicted in San Francisco in 1911 on a housebreaking charge. The man who identified him in the police station tonight was W. E.

Chandler, of Eugenie Street, Norwood, who recently arrived home on a motor trip from Detroit. Chandler stated that on June 8, he picked the man up five miles north of Warren, and helped him on his way to Winnipeg, via Emerson. Mrs. J. W.

Hill, rooming house keep, at 133 Smith Street, at whose home the strangler was a roomer, professing strong religious beliefs and at whose home he assaulted and strangled little Lola Cowan and left her naked body hidden under the bed, has not yet been called upon to identify the man. The Winnipeg public generally believed here that her evidence would be the most important, but police declared tonight it would be secondary and merely corroborative. The police have overwhelming evidence against the man which they have not yet divulged, they asserted. From the time the strangler was placed on board the train at Killarney this morning placed on board guarded by a posse -f officers while a milling crowd yelled, Kill him, Kill him, police had not a single doubt that he was the man who has baffled police of the continent for five years, the man who has murdered more than 20 women in cold blood. Hustled Off In Auto The prisoner was taken off the special train at Westside and bundled into a closed police car.

Another preceded it and a third swung in behind. Two motorcycle' policemen cleared a lane and the machines roared down the city streets. The cars were driven to Martha Street and headed up the lane hack of the police station. The prisoner was hurried from the car into the back door of the station. The elevator was waiting for its passenger and he and his guards were whisked upward to the cells.

Before 2 oclock this afternoon the crowd started to gather at the central police station on Rupert Street. Singly and in couples they came and formed into little groups, muttering to one another; muttering their thoughts of the. capture, the escape and the re-capture of the man police believe strangled little Lola Cowan and Mrs. Patterson. The crowd increased with each passing minute and many women came.

By 3.30 p.m. there were more than 200 in the crowd, by 4.30 p.m. nearly 500. All eyes were turned on the windows of the police station. Any movement inside would send a rumor through the crowd like wildfire.

Each time a car nosed its way out of the garage door, next the main entrance, fhe cry went up: They're going after him They did not know what time the special train would reach the city, hut they seemed determined to wait indefinitely for a glimpse of the man it was bringing. Police were taking no chances of mob violence. When the crowd grew to large proportions officers were stationed at points in the throng. As the time the crowd thought the prisoner should he nearing1 the station drew closer the excitement rose almost to riot pitch and it took every officer on the scene to keep the throng in check. The least excited of all the people in Killarney and of the police themselves was this man, known by many names.

He was completely tired out, it was true, but he soon recuperated and on the train trip into Winnipeg he regaled the officers with shady stories which he told with fluency, ability and wit. The prisoner showed no fight when arrested last night and little concern afterwards. He insisted the police had the wrong FOSTER GIVEN ACCLAMATION IN N.B. SEAT No Opposition to tbe Former Liberal Member Who Succeeds Horn J. K.

Flemming WOODSTOCK, N.B., June Albion Foster, Liberal, former sheriff, was today declared elected by acclamation to the House of Commons for Carleon-Victorla. No other candidate appeared. The election was to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Hon. J. K.

Flemming. Mr. Foster was defeated as Liberal candidate In the last general Dominion elections in September, 1926. RAISE LIMIT ON BEER PURCHASE TORONTO, June 16. The ban on large purchases of beer by permit holders at one time, which was imposed by the Ontario liquor board a week ago to relieve the rush on store stocks, has been lifted and the limit for a single purchase, beginning tomorrow, will be 10 dozen pints or six dozen quarts.

POLICE PUT ON KILLERS TRAIL BY A WOMAN man, and said he had worked for a rancher near Wapoka named Harry Wilson. Afterwards he admitted this was a lie. He lay back in the car with his head against the back of the seat, asking continuously for cigarettes. All the time he was talking he gave the impression of continual steady thought behind his narrow eyes. This habit of apparent constant thought was the first impression his captors got last night.

In Killarney they fed him a good meal in the jail. They gave him ice cream for dessert. The arrested man said it was damn good service and lay back on his bunk and smoked. The cell he escaped from is a good steel-barred cell, loekee with a clasp and Yale lock. The man left to guard him went across the street to buy a box of matches and when he came back the strangler had shown his appreciation of the good service by leaving the Killarney jail flat.

He had picked the lock with an old nail file how, nobody knows. Asked about it now, the man just laughA, Not Easily Forgotten Man The strangler has a peculiar shade of light blue eyes, that sometimes appear grey, tousled black hair brushed back from his forehead and fine gleaming white teeth. A striking feature of his smile is that he bares both rows of teeth, drawing the lower lip down. The man is not handsome but striking in appearance and once seen, could not easily be forgotten. The Spaniard in him is discernible in his speech, not by accent but by.

soft modulation. He talks rather slowly and at times with a sort of lisp. He is a movie fan, he told police, and his favorite stars are Wallace Beery and Buster Keaton. After questioning in city police headquarters tonight he went to his cell and in ten minutes was asleep. His preliminary trial will come early but the main jury trial is not likely to come until next fall at the autumn assizes.

Woman Gave the Alarm The strangler was taken into custody last night following a telephone report to police from Mrs. Leslie Morgan, wife of a general merchant at Wapoka, 18 miles southwest of Killar ney, that a suspicious looking man was hovering in the neighbor hood, which is five miles from the international border. The stranger entered the store and asked for a meal and provisions. Her suspicions aroused, Mrs. Morgan seized upon the first opportunity to acquaint the authorities.

A few minutes later the suspect was in custody: When questioned by the police, he ignored them and slumped into a sulking mood. The prisoners shoes were removed and two padlocks put on the cell. When th police officers returned' 15 minutes later he had vanished. The news of the' capture of the man was flashed to the Winnipeg police who were about to leave for the scene by special train when the report of his escape was received. A heavy downpour of rain during the night had precluded a spurt by motor car to Killarney.

Chased to Exhaustion An official account of the chase which led to the capture of the suspect contradicts earlier reports stating that the fugitive surrendered quietly after being: surrounded by the police in a bluff south of Killarney. Newspapermen who followed up the chase early this morning flashed a running account of the dramatic capture. A crowd of excited townspeople had gathered at the railway station awaiting the Winnipeg police special when a woman noticed a man hiding beneath a freight platform. As she gave the alarm a figure dashed across the railway tracks and headed cross the prairie. Almost at the same moment the police train arrived and armed detectives joined the townspeople in the chase with the fugitive three hundred yards ahead.

He sought refuge in a slough flanked by low willows. A cordon was thrown around the slough while armed officers followed the retreating figure. He emerged a few minutes ne was brought to earth with a flying tackle by one of the fleet-footed pursuers and held securely until the police handcuffed him. The hunted man was in a state of complete exhaustion and could scarcely. walk back to the jaiL WINNIPEG.

June 16. Women and children were the victims of "the strangler, and a woman is responsible for the apprehension of the man identified ljre tonight as the alleged murderer of Mrs. Emily Pat-teroon and young Lola Cowan in Winnipeg last week. Entering the little store of Mrs. Leslie Morgan, wife it a farmer-storekeeper at Wapoka, near the border, last night, the man asked for food.

Something told me he was the wanted man, and I thought his appearance the same as that broadcast by the Winnipeg police, said Mrs. Morgan. Without fear the woman prepared a meal for the man. watched him carefully, and after eating hurriedly, he departed ln the direction of the border. Immediately Mrs.

Morgan telephoned provincial police at Killarney, motor cars roared past her door, and within a few minutes the police were back, the man a prisoner. Mrs. oMrgan. as the result of her cool nerve and prompt notification of the police, will. It Is believed, receive the $1,600 reward offered by the provincial and clvio authorities.

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