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Show THE POISONING WIFE ANSWERS LAST CALL REPORTED III EAST NESOTA Deadly Potion In Coffee and Water t0 Ease Pain of Wife and Friend; Signs Confession Places Mount Vernon, 111. Rev. Lawrenct Hight, pastor at Ina, 111., has confessed to poisoning his wife and Wilford Sweetin. In his statement to the authorities Hight declared the murder of his wife was prompted to "relieve her of her sufferings." According to his statement he placed the poison in her coffee ort the morning of September 10. Hight was questioned until 4 o'clock Monday morning before the statement on the death of his wife was obtained. A few minutes later, according to the authorities, he confessed also to causing the death of Sweetin. He asserted he was temporarily out of his mind at the time. Rev. Hight said he had put poison in Sweetin's water to put him out of pain. This was on the morning of Sunday, July 27, at the Sweetin home where Sweetin lay ill. Hight declared in his confession that there had never been anything between himself and Mrs. Sweetin and absolved her of any complicity in the double crime. The text of the two confessions follow: "I, Lawrence M. Hight, of my own free will, voluntarily, without threat or promises and having been fully informed of my rights, that what I say may be used against me, make the following statement: "That while temporarily beside myself, with grief at my wife, Anna Hight's condition, who was suffering intensely and was surely to die, and wishing to save her pain, I put arsenic in some coffee and gave it to her in the early morning of Wednesday, September 10, 1924; while Mrs. Lucy Laur, my daughters, Mary and Mildred Hight, were in the kitchen in my home at Ina, 111., Jefferson county, III., and my son, Robert Hight, was in bed at home. "That my sole thought was to ease the pain in her dying moments. (Signed) "L. M. Hight." The second confession follows: "I, Lawrence H. Hight, of my own free will, voluntarily, without threat nr promises and having been fully informed of my right, that what I say may be used against me, make the following statement: that on Sunday morning, July 27, 1924, at the home s Wilford Sweetin at Jefferson county, III., I placed some arsenic in a glass of water and gave it to Wilford Sweetin, who drank it. I did this to ease his plain. Elsie Sweetin knew nothing of this and there was never nnything between her and myself in anyway. (Signed) "Lawrence M. Hight." Sheriff Ilolcomb and State's Attorney Thompson are now awaiting the result of an investigation in White county of the circumstances under which a high school girl died in Centerville three years ago. M. McAdoo Decline to Talk York. William G. McAdoo, returning on the Levathian after scv-r-iweeks in Europe, declii.ed to comment on politics at this time, although he asserted he would "have cnething to say later." "I h.ive been 't of touch with the political situa-:irfor more than three months," Mr. "cAd.io said, "and am therefore un-'? to discuss it intelligently at the New :i ent." PHYSICIAN TO LATE PRESIDENT HARDING DIES AT HOME AT MARION. OHIO TORNADO Death Due From Heart Failure Comes aa Noted Doctor Sleeps at His White Oak Are Left Homeless As Storm Crosses Over States Destroying Property and Lives as It Traveled Many Ashland, Wis. Six persons were killed and seven were reported injured on farms near Sanborn, a village twelve miles south of Asland, in a tornado, which cut a narrow path through Marengo valley from Lake Namakagen northward to a point near this city. Many farm buildings were reported totally destroyed in incomplete reports available. ERR OT Medical attention was sent to the WASHINGTON D. C. Sanborn from country surrounding Ashland and several of the injured were taken to ATTACKED Property damage was reported as amounting to thousands of dollars, but no accurate checks was available. FIRST BALLOT ELECTS NATIONCROWD USES CANES AND STICKS Owing to lack of communication AL COMMANDER OF LEGION IN EFFORT TO INJURE with the afflicted area, it is expected AT ST. PAUL, MINN. FRENCHMAN that reports of the additional damand age with possible injuries deaths will be reported later. James A. Drain Will Succeed John R. Police Intervene at Marseilles When Quinn of California; General Thorp, Wis. Five known dead, two Two Hundred Angry Comothers reported killed and between Pershing is Very Highly munists Rush at twelve and fourteen injured besides Honored. Herriot a monetary loss is the toll of a tornado which struck this section of the state last Sunday. St. Paul, Minn., James A. Drain Paris. Premier Herriot, of France Although the number1 of injured of Washington, D. C, was elected naescaped injury in Marsiel-le- s narrowly was reported as between twelve and tional commander of the American 200 communists swinging when to fourteen, this figure is expected at the closing session of its canes be swelled as additional reports are legion sticks and shouting, "Amandn sixth annual convention here. made after wire communication is reDrain's election came on the first nesty," made a determined effort to established. ballot and he had a majority of all surround and mob the premier in the accredited votes before the rollcall Rue Cannebiere, the main thoroughMilwaukee, Wis. One man was was members of the premier's party completed, and as fare, killed, several others were rescued the on his arrival here. disclosed been had his total poll ended, from a foundering yacht in the harM. Herriot was rescued from the swelled considerably. bor, and windows were broken, wire excited crowd only after the police were two names other preOnly blown down and trees uprooted by who arrived belately upon the scene a thirty-similes gale which swept sented to the convention those of had forced back the communists and R. McQuigg of Cleveland, and John Milwaukee and vicinity. dispersed the gathering. E. E. Spafford of New York. The disturbance, due to storm The premier ran into the hostile Rev. E. C. Clemens of MinThe areas, which was created by a tornado because of his insistence gathering national chaplain, retiring that killed several persons and in nesota, that he be permitted to walk through elected Chapwas of the president jured scores of others in the vicin-- ' lains' association, and the Rev. W. the streets. When he landed from Ity of Chippewa Falls, Wis., caused P. Callahan of Montana named secre- a torpedo boat which brought him a temperature drop here of 21 degrees from the warship La Provence from tary. within an hour. name of the deck of which he had witnessed Minnesota presented the The fatality in the Milwaukee Mr. its state adjutant, Staf- a great naval review he refused to was due to the breaking of a ford Drain, King making the nominating ad- enter a limousine which awaited him high tension power wire on the Green dress. Peyton Hogue of Kentucky, at the wharf. It was more fitting, he Bay road a few blocks north of the national executive committeeman, said, that a Democratic premier city limits. Ralph Oberheie, 45, seconded the nomination. fiould walk. , , was electrocuted when he came in His progress from the water front When the roll call had been comcontact with the wire. election of Drain was through the Rue Cannebiere was a pleted the made unanimous on motion of King continuous ovation, the crowds beUtah Mine Entombs Five of Minnesota and amid a rousing de- coming denser and greater as he Spring Canyon. Five men were Drain was e.scourted to walked further into he city. He was entombed by an explosion at 6 o'clock monstration as the band played loudly acclaimed and congratulated the platform last Sunday night in the Rains mine demeanor and the Gang's All Here." for his democratic cheer, 'Cheer, of the Carbon Fuel company, and at commander great cheers came up from the people on national vote The an early hour Monday morning memit un- as he stopped to shake hands with bers of five rescue crews expressed before the convention making was: Drain, 175; McQuigg, the common people and sailors. animous doubt that the men would reached 21. Suddenly there rushed from a side alive. The five entombed are ma 112; Spafford, 96; absent, headed street about 200 persons, compos-eTexas The by delegation, rhine men who entered the mine early Miss May Peterson, atop the "Old of representatives of the younger cleSaturday afternoon to block out work Gray Mure," paraded to the plat- - ment in the communist party. They for the miners. Mine officials are "The Old were swinging their hats at the end bind flaring Torm, its practically certain of the number of Mare," one of the songs made of the canes and shouting "Amnesty." the men in the mine, although the The manifestants manuevered a convention. the nous by force of the explosion blew the minflank movement and soon had the ers' checks from the board near the wasSoon every ondepartment the platform around premier surrounded, unable to make grouped The entry of the coal properties. as the cheers further advance and unable to extrinew commander, the zheck of five is based on the number demonstrative le- cate himself from the hostile crowd. of the and songs of lanterns taken from the lantern continued for several min- The sticks were swung dangerously hou.se. There was no regular opera- gionnaires until Retiring Commander John close to his head and the attitude of utes, tion of the mine Sunday except for V.. Quinn of California restored order. the shouting communists was anythe work of the machine men, alThe convei.tion, on motion of the thing but reassuring. in were Stan "lissduri current though reports The premier remained cool amid delegation, voted to make dardvil'e that from ten to sixteen General the Ihe uproar and in the face of the purJchn J. Pershing men had been entombed. distinguished gueyt of this posely swung canes until a belated and every other American legion police charge scattered the crowd Ariz&.ia Governor III and permitted him tj enter a passing Phoenix, Ariz. 'Suffering an. attack convention." his for automobile in which he proceeded to convention the Tharl;ing n r Cm fi of Hunt of Mr. Drain the railway station and boarded a flection to commander, !t si Arizona m.s taken h fir )i;; accepted the pofct "l ecause he be train for Paris, n oH'ration last Smd iv. r Tim III In the bci i me executive icve in the American legion a.d Airship Drops Explosives !'f'ecs at n m tin. went home to ro?t. the IcMornnires." who always are. give. rharghai. Collapse of the C'hek-lanthey can be snf ,crei a'lit" thinking of Slmrtly aft'Twurd forces defending Shanghai from was Immediately rushed to 'mote than what they can yet. pains armies of Tuchun Chi Kiangsu ;he St. Joseph's lniHjiit.il. At l:1"i p. m. Irishman Wins Fa:e Plan Contest. .shieh Yuan is imminent. Lu Ilit governor A resident ef lrela'id.j wim on fie ipirntin.' London, g commander of the r.n-.y- . i d. Wick table attendant of ar.noii bdU n Walter County forced to fee from his armies, low, f.i the winner ef the first prize irnincial Grant Given Reprieve capital, Ilangchow, by the :.. i. !..::. u . ' i revolt of his hone roiense force, the Ucrnard Grant's face, w is iftition for Chicago. s, under, peaie r'an issued a per hektang third wreathed in smili- -t Sunday f"r tli th award establn-heby hdward ional statement urniy, . hia will- , , , exptesinng li" win pl.nfd In . . .... time nln-limt r Iieiie, vi ti.nu. inMirr ifiv to of retire tuchon at ingness "dentil row." at lliH county Jail to i I be divided among thirty five ito-!e- r Bwnlt (tenth on llie K'lllows in 4700 contest selected from Britons, 17. It mvaty" ants who submitted essays from all but Mi'k R d ced win n tifni was tie cried, brought part of the empire. Of the th:rty-fivWnati. Miik Is to be deSeattle, him of tlie I'O days' reprieve irranteH In nix reside winners, twenty Imme at ! cents a Is I in by Governor Sma'I, pi ndlng ac F.npland, two each in Scotland, Can livered to Seattle a pin1, the Seattle 0 vnd cents I "I adsi. and New Zealand, and one each rpiart tl"n oa Ills petit 'n pardon. I ilinn ii Milk Snippers' has anfefl.lt In my bums that I'll set a in South Africa and Tasmania. The nounce!. is - cents lower than This consaid. 'A'illiam Sine Grant thr are Wilkie Edrar madians p.ird'.n." nmition I,eito!d I,el( of the department of labor at Olta it has bren and, iiccerUlnij to the clusion of itie tlie lowest milk has been murder case, the Grunt case ban held wa and Major Gladstone Murray of ini-prewar diiya. the center "f Interest of the country. Ilriish Columbia. PREMIER IN COIIIER hos-pital- & Rio Ciitn.- rn - II-t- will ln $17,!i.".ii.TlMJ. French Dutes Are Cut Paris. A recent villi I n of the 1,1 Journal renting a iin tiv re-- ; iti or cnn I'llin th 1 port dii.Ioa . In lulled la ,x wnimis ::n" are milk, rice, I ar-!- . . n.vtiHiti.'P and pi cu rved vej;e. f Franks Sale Draws Crowd f'hicago. A crowd of the curb us p'Vi'.ipil and far out numbered buy-- c at an auction of the household effects of th fanii'y of Jacob Franks -- ho.'-e son Robert, was kidnapper! murdered by Richard Loeb and "ithan Leopold, Jr A few belong-- i its of thea slain boy, Including a blackboard still showing rvlio set, thildish drawing, some games ani a desk were included in the sale, while a number of his treasurers' wen withheld. HOB x ct "rer-manc- gov-srnn- ' i'-- Yung-Hiian- Che-kian- g . . Che-kian- fr m e Port'and Must Pay O'd Officer Pastor to Face Murder Charge Mount Vernon, 111. The Rev. Law Portland, Ore. Ole Nelson was fir rd from the police force three years renre M. Hight, 41, pastor of the church at Ina, and eiiht months ago. On an order Methodist court he got his Iom a village ten miles snuth of here, ha of the supren-in wages ' back and Portland will waived preliminary hearing on a Kpi.-cop- al have to pay him tW20 unearned, but accrued during the time he was on the blaik list. Nelson was found "incoirpetert" by the civil service board three yearn ago, after he had been in the city employ twenty-nin- e years. I Notes News From All Parts of ! UTAH 1 : t Salt Lake City. There are 320 cells in the Utah state prison, and according to the figures given the board of pardons, 299 of them were occupied las Friday. This is almost three times as many prisoners aa were confined there on January 1, 1920. Bingham I 1 his wife 'With charge of murdering He wi!' be held in the irenie. Jefferson co 'ny jail here without first degree bail on the murder charge preferred by a coroner's jury until October 13, when ths grand Jury will lake up the case. French Observer Goes Mad Over Mars Vienn i- ,- lbs mind iinlialaneed by excessive p nibvinu on Use cpiestion In'iaMted, Krnn. whether Miirs H a m"!ianlc at the. Vienna ol'S'Tvatory, walked Into the street here without clothing and street, nr shouting jumped Hhoard a lie was perf.ir a ticket to Mhts. suaded that an automn!,iU would eel In shorter Mm t" his destination Urn, and was removed bi on Insane asylum. The town board will con- struct additional water tanks in order to provide better fire protection, if The last Marion, Ohio. Brigadier General the funds are available. Charles Elmer Sawyer, who was per- fire, it is said showed that the water-- " sonal physician to the late President main would not give sufficient pres of hose were Harding, died suddenly from heart sure when several lines disease at his home, White Oak attached. It is hoped to have some of the tanks completed before winter. Farm, near here, September twenty-third. Dr. Sawyer who was chairman of the Harding Memorial association returned to his home early in the afternoon and complained of not feeling well. His son, Dr. Carl Sawyer gave him some medicine and had his father lie down in his office. General Sawyer immediately went to sleep, and died while sleeping. been the White Oak. Farm has home of Mrs. Harding since her husband died a little more than a year ago. Mrs. Harding was present when Dr. Sawyer was found dead. Dr. Sawyer, a close personal friend of President Harding, was appointed the president's personal physician soon after Mr. Harding was inaugurated. Later he was apointed a brigadier general in the army. He accompanied President Harding on the trip to Alaska, and personally attended Mr. Harding when he became ill at San Francisco. It was General Sawyer who notified Mrs. Harding and other members of the party when the president took a turn for the worse and died at a San Francisco hotel on August 2, 1923. two-thir- dis-tri- a Farm j Grande to P Sold The ltn.or & Itlo railroad w'll !. u,t :.;jn.;.' We-te... i u. i ,'iiK ti n nn Octoht r tic ro .lini i o an announcement lu re by . 1'.. '.. int"n Hp'S'lal ninstcr to .iii'i'i' t the sale named by Jiuk'e J. lo'v'-The rtiinlni'im lld to Sjmes. . received under tli direct! .n of tin; r-- BRIGADIER GENERAT THIRTEEN KNOWN DEAD IN TERRIFIC WISCONSIN AND MIN- PASTOR MAKES COMPLETE CON. FESSION OF CRIMES AFTER MUCH QUESTIONING Denver :.. n.cr, NEPHI, UTAH . Our Pet Peeve SEVERE STORM IS PASTOR ADMITS ; TIMES-NEWS- Cleveland, O., The story of how a man sat quietly in the operating room, perfectly conscious, while drilled a hole in his skull and removed a tumor from his brain, was revealed here at city hospital. The man is David Burke, 21 years old. A tumor developed on his brain as a result of an accident several years He came to city hospital here ago. August 15 last. His condition would r.ot permit his taking an anaesthetic, so he sat calmly in an operating chair, according to hospital attaches, while physicians bored a hole in his kull and removed the tumor. Burke K j,s on the road to rocevery. phy-licia- McAdoo to Aid Davis New York, William G. McAdoo is ready to do whatever he can to contribute to the success of the cam- Democratic paign, John W. Davis, said after a presidential candidate conference of two hours with the former treasury secretary. "Our interview was highly satisfactory," Mr. Davis said, summing up the results of the conference, which covered a range of subjects, including the general political situation and operations of the league of nations at Geneva. Attorney and Klan Minister Battle Richmond, Va. The Rev. James A. Fulther of Michigan, an Episcopal clergyman and Ku Klux Klan speaker, did not- like the sermon delivered by the Rev. R. D. Tucker, Jr , D. D., rector of St. Paul's Episcopal church and said so loudly upon stalking out of the church, only to be subsequently knocked down by Andrew Christian, prominent local attorney and membei of the congregation, who engaged him in a fi.t fight on the portico of the edifice. - Boy's Search Ends at Morgue Boston, A frightened 11 year old boy Theodore Mara, who had been spending all day trying to find his mother, two Filters and brother, was taken to the Noithern mortury andn there identified as his mis.'-inrelatives the bodies of 4 of the victims of the auto which Sunday niht crashed throutrh a bridge and plunged into Ft. Point chanel. Its five occuThe fifth vicpants were drowned. tim was identified earlier as Michael Dobroval. Prison Break Fatal Chester, Iill. George W. O'Malley if St. Louis, serving a life sentence for murder, was shot and killed, and John Weger, another long term convict, was dangerously wounded when uards of the atate prison here frus-'rate- d a delivery of six inmates. Conscious While Tumor Is Retrieved Editor Files Big Suit Las Angeles, E. C. McEldowney, former newspaper editor, may have nose for news, but he also has an ear for radio, or did have until he mixed in a fist fieht with L. C. Saf-forMcEldowney alleges in a $10,-0damage suit on file here that Saf-forenraged at articles published in , the plaintiff's beat him severely and injured his left ear until he was unable to listen to radis concert, as had been hi custom news-paper- Spanish Fork. Benjamin, six and miles southwest of Spanish Fork was visited by a destrictive fire in which a recently constructed barn filled with 1500 tons of hay, many outbuildings ,a large strawstack and farm implements of various kinds were destroyed. The property belonged to L. K. Stewart and his loss is estimated at $3000. notes In Price. Tax anticipation the sum of $100,000 were negotiated by the Carbon county schol board with Ross Beason & Company of Salt Lake at the regular meeting of the school board held this week. , Salt Lake City. Arrangements have been made between members of the state road commission and the Garfield county board of commissioners for the expenditure of $6000 this year for improving and maintaining the Panguitch-Kan- e county line road. Work already has been started. It is expected to continue the program of improvement next year. Spring Canyon. A blast in the Rains mine at this point Sunday entombed five miners whose fates are as yet unknown. Efforts of rescue men were rendered by dangerous dangerous gases. Salt Lake City. Bank deposits In Salt Lake banking institutions for the second quarter of the present year show increases over the first quarter, 1924, anrl the second quarter of 1923, reflecting an advance in general prosperity not only in Salt Lake, but also in the country tributary to the city. Smithfield. Citizens of Smithfield decided at a mass meeting held recently that a chamber of commerce was needed in this city. The meeting was called by the city council and representatives of all civic organizations and business atjd industrial interests were present and expressed their wish that an organization ba completed in the near future. one-ha- lf Ogden. If a resort is established on the shores of Great Salt Lake near Ogden, it will be in the vicinity of Hooper, about fourteen miles west of the city, in the opinion of directors of the chamber of commerce who took a trip to Promontory on the Southern Pacific route to conduct a reconnaissance. Ogden. The game refuge bill now before congress which is of much consequence to Utah, was upheld before the Weber County Fish & Game Protective association by Chapin A. Day, prominent Ogden business man, who attacked State Fish and Game Commissioner D. H. Madsen for opposing the measure. Congressman Don B. Colton discussed the measure and, although he did not commit himself, he indicated that he was favorable to its passare, although he stated that he voted against the first bill of itsr kind introduced in congress. The highway to YellowOfrden, stone park from rtnli will be In splendid condition with the improvement of the stretch from Ashton to Warm River, In Idaho, which Is about to he done ns the result of arrangements made by the I'nlted States bureau of public roads with John A. , . i . . . n neeier, contractor, or Idaho Kails, Idaho. ti-- . Stilt Lake, Ifabbl William nice, Salt Ike formerly of and well known In ecclesiastical circles, was killed by a I'nlon Pacific train near Log Anseles as he was walkina alon the trucks, reading a book, accord-Into reports reaching Salt Lake. Salt iAke City, Plans for a well organized year's work have been laid Tor the VM4 Jil'Jo seiison at the I'nl. rerstty of Ctah. Everything Is In readiness for registration which takes place Sept. 2.", 20, and 27. A diligent faculty working under a well outlined course of studies Is waiting to serve the students In cleaned ond' renovated quarters. g Provo. Principal L. B. Harmon reports that the registration of the Provo high school has alreaJy passed the high point reached in January, 1923, and establishes a new opening record in the local high school. Salt Lake City, Certificates to tecch the elementary grades of Utah nchools have been granted to seventy-on- e applicants, the certification committee of the state board of education has announced. |