Show POUCE TRYING I ITO TO LINK TWO TO MURDER GASES CASES W Working ork ng Upon Theory That Same Men Who Slew Los 03 Angeles Movie Man Also Killed John T. T Brunen NEW JERSEY MAN NIAN IS SHOT THROUGH NECK Theatrical Theatric 1 Producer and I Former Friend of Taylor i r Mysteriously ly Slain as He 1 Sits Reading in Home Homei CAMDEN N. N J. J J. J March 11 United Press Press police Police today are working on the tho theory that the man who killed John T. T Brunen theatrical l producer In his home at Riverside Riverside near here last night are the same men that murdered William Desmond Taylor In Los Angeles February 1 B Brunen nen formerly a n close friend of Taj TaYlor lor was killed by a shot in the the neck as he was sitting In the kitchen n of his hs home The assassins three assassins three men mEn were were seen to drive up to his house In an automobile ne one lne entered then hurried out and they hastened away Wiping out scores scores' was the basis of theory that Brunen was killed by Taylors Taylor's slayers Both Taylor and Brunen it Is believed may hav have o been Leen marked for death by a gang with which they had quarreled possibly years before The assassins methods were tho the same In both murders In both the tho victim was shot ahot behind Taylor TV was as killed with a bullet Brunen with small lead Brunen's home had been robbed under under under un un- un- un der mysterious circumstances sometime sometime some some- time before he was slain Just as Taylor's Taylors Taylors Taylor's Tay Tay- lors lor's was County detectives have a a. description description description tion of ot the man who entered Bru- Bru rens ren's house h se and are and are checking It up with the description of Edward 1 F. F s suspected lip d r slayer sl Burlington county det detectives said sali today that the murder was wa's one of the most baffling crimes ever encountered encountered and that the only tangible clue consisted of footprints on the sodden lawn awn and gardens surrounding the tho rouse house and In front of the window where Brunen was murdered Last t year year two young young motor bandits entered the Brunen home and at the point of a pistol compelled Mrs Bru- Bru ren to reveal hiding places of more moro than In jewelry and money As they left one of ot the gunmen said Well come back some day and get t Ihl will h ln repay the money hes he's cheated us ui from fre Brunen displayed great n nover over the robbery and retained private detectives to run down the bandits Shortly afterwards telegrams signed with fictitious names and bearing the statement We haven't got what we want yet began arriving from different different different dif dif- dif dif- ferent cities The description furnished of two 0 ot of the three men mer who were seen to park an automobile near the Brunen home a short time before the murder 1 Is identical al with that of the two bandits bandits ban ban- bari- bari who committed the robbery During DurIn dinner said sald Mrs Brunen my husband talked with great enthusiasm enthusiasm enthusiasm en en- of how the work was pro pro- gressing Afterward he sat reading of Mrs trial and remarked remark ed that It seemed unlikely the d' d T n mond Taylor would ever e b be apprehended d d. d I I went to the I floor There was a terrific re re- re re-I re port I ran downstairs and found my husband still seated In the chair with the newspaper r clutched In his hands and part of his head torn away It Is is' is believed the barrels of the shotgun were placed directly against the window pane as ns the shot had hadnot hadnot hadnot not scattered and left a a hole in the glass only five Inches In diameter Clerk I I Bound Over COUNCIL BLUFFS la Ia lIar March h 11 William J J. J McDonald postal clerk on the Milwaukee railroad on trains running run run- running ning between Omaha and Marlon Marion who was arrested Wednesday night on a technical charge harge of detaining op openIng open open- n Ing lug and secreting United States tates mall mail was arraigned before United States tates Commissioner W W. A. A Byers Dyers here today I I McDonald waived examination and was bound over to the federal grand grandI Jury on 2000 bond 1 Body Found In SHERIDAN Wyo March 11 TIle The The body of Ge George rge W. W Perry local banker bank bank- found In a n gulch on the outskirts outskirts outskirts out out- er was skirts of this town this morning with his head blown ot off and with a riot gun clutched ia in his hands Coroner C C. C C. C Stevenson said every Indication pointed for to suicide no motive such action has hns been found Perry was president of the Sheridan SherIdan Sheridan Sher Sher- idan National bank and of the Sheridan Sheridan Sher Sher- bank idan Trust and Farmers Farmers' T Tyro Two o Are Shot Rv fly j CLARENDON Ark March 11 11 Sheriff James Ryals and Jack Camp sp special deputy today were shot an anc an killed and and William Camp deputy and father tather of Jack was probably ably fatally wounded at Monroe nea neal here while attempting to arrest tw twi Continued on on page 3 WOOLLEY DEATH Continued from page 1 1 unidentified men wanted wante on a a. robber charge The bandits escaped aban abandoning their automobile Wealthy Woman to Aid Mrs Peete LOS ANGELES Cal Cat March 11 B H United Press Press Mrs Angela philanthropist and wealthy sods socia worker today announced that she ha Interested herself in the case o of Mrs Mr Louise Peete now serving life Imprisonment imprisonment in San Quentin for the murder of f Charles Jacob J Den Denton Denton en enton ton wealthy mining manI man I 1 have retained S. S S. S Hahn exper expel in criminal defense in an effort to reopen re reopen open Mrs Peete's case Mrs Iau Kauff Kauffman ma man 1 told the United Press ress Hahn left lert for San Quentin last He will take depositions on the Dento murder from Mrs Peete and Monday with her signed statement which will immediately be laid District Attorney Woolwine I I 1 have been convinced all alon that Mrs Peete is not guilty but merly mere mer merely ly shielding someone Mrs Kaufma said She says now that she Is ready t tell the whole startling truth o of th tb Denton affair and the name of the rea rca slayer Mrs Iau Kaufman angel of ot Erie Mul and other unfortunate who have been on trial in Jn Los Angele criminal courts on various majo charges said that three other wealth persons persons' were interested with her i re reopening pe Mrs Peete's case caze Fourteen Rioters Found Guilty PRINCETON Ind lad March 11 B Press Press Fourteen Fourteen of the me indicted on a riot charge following th activities of miner vigilantes in thi vicinity last summer were found guilt by a Jury In the tho Gibson circuit cour here A sentence of ninety days and i fine tine of was imposed in each case sE The vigilantes drove a large numbe o of foreigners who had been importe to take their Jobs from the southwest southwestern ern era Indiana mining district Payroll Bandits Escape With PITTSBURG Pa March 11 Fou Fou armed bandits held up and robbed J W W. Bishop and R. R E. E Malone l paymaster ter for the Bernard Gloekler compan I at t Penn avenue and Twelfth streel wt L i and escaped with company payroll ol oj Six Arrests 1 Are Reported Reported- ST. ST LOUIS Mo March 11 Sh Sis arrests had been made today In connection connection con with the holdup last night oj oja o a limited electrics electria train near EaglE Park Ill m. in which Samuel H. H Wyss president o of the Alton Banking ancy am anc y Trust company was robbed of I I. I About fifty passengers in the twe Li coaches were forced to hold up theli hands Wyss was the only I. I robbed A woman offered tho the bandits bandit her purse but one replied d Keep it kid we only want big dough Bandits Loot Distillery t. t LEXINGTON Ky March 11 a Twenty bandits In two detachment rl a swooped down on the D. D L. L MoorE Moon to distillery at in Mercel Merce Mercele e county early this morning The Thea captured ten persons looted the distillery dis g tillery warehouse and loaded fifty tc seventy barrels of whisky on motoi motol a 1 trucks and sped away Posses later found an 0 truck containing seventeen barrel e and continuing their search discovered LI ered three thirty-three barrels In a barn The first detachment of ot eight b ban bandits n n captured a government guar S some distance from the Moore plan and and- using him as a shield advanced ance r upon the distillery where they covered cov coy y ered the other guards with pistols am anc a tied all aU up T Telephone wires had been cut anthe am anc the band looted the warehouse ai al leisure Confess to Four Holdups e 5 OMAHA Neb March 11 Castle Castle C Pritchard 19 and Roy W W. Troutman 21 whose homo home addresses were giver 1 as Mansfield 1 0 O. and Hawarden Ia la respectively have confessed to fouL holdups and six burglaries in In I Omaha ci according to Charles Van Deusen Omaha detective chief When arrested last night Pritchard who says his father Is a minister an ani anc that he left home to avoid entering t s theological school was found to b bE wounded by a shot said to have beer fired when he made an attempt to hold up a drug store lag lai r Thursday night A priest is alleged t tt te 1 have hare been among Pritchards Pritchard's holdup victims Estabrook Is Isi i 2 Given Two Years BOISE Ida March 11 H. H. H C. C Estabrook Esta brook automobile dealer of and Boise Ida convicted by the federal federal fed eral Jury of violation of the Mann act was sentenced by Judge F. F S. S this morning to two years at McNeil Island Washington Mrs Mullins society woman of Nampa j convicted on a Joint Indictment wItt wit Estabrook will not be sentenced April 10 The stay of sentence was wai I granted upon the request of her attorneys to give them time to decide whether hey would appeal to the appellate ap cou court on a n. writ of error Estabrook left with three other prisoners pris in the custody of a a. a deput United States marshal for McNeil Island this afternoon Shot Times And Still Lives CAIRO Ill III March March 11 John 11 John Gray Gray a farmer o of Benton Denton Mo who was Wal shot approximately times in the head and an indeterminate numbe of times in the body Thursday afternoon afternoon after after- noon was still alive this afternoon Physicians expressed the opinion he would recover John Merrick a s neighbor emptied an automatic shotgun shot shotgun gu gun at him five times after a quarrel I Gives Himself Up to Officers i LINCOLN Neb March 11 Davic Davi W W. Simpson whose address is reported reported re reo ported as s I Oregon Mo today sur aur rJ rendered to Lancaster county official gJon i joa on a a. grand jury Indictment l J I C i I Simpson with obtaining property under un un- under der false pretenses I Sale of stock in a questionable enterprise enterprise en- en is charged in the indictment Arrested on r Bench Warrant Wan r HOUSTON Texas March 11 Web Web ster Bishop president of the South 3 Land Realty corporation and connected connect connect- ed with the Texas Teras Oil Produces Producer company cornI comi com corn i I pan pany is in custody custody of police here today today to to- to day on on- ona a bench warrant issued in Des Moines Iowa charging him with obtaining money under false pre pre- r tenses Bishop stated ted he would fight extradition and that he has been having trouble with stockholders J I whom he has sued for unpaid salary Triangle Case Claims Third Life PEORIA Ill m. March WIlliam U 11 William Hudson 65 today slashed his throat with a razor and di died d. d His was the J 3 third death in a triangle case In court 1 here in the last year The case had its beginning last June r 3 3 when George Hath aged Janitor shot and killed his s housekeeper Elnora Laut whom he accused of conspiring with Hudson to get possession of his home I Indicted for murder Hath hung himself him him- 5 self in Jail jaU Two Held Held in in Diamond Robbery OAKLAND Cal Cat March Max U. Max I Harris one of three men arrested on suspicion J in connection with the theft I of ot diamonds from the Jewelry store of oft t Gus in St. St Paul Minn was released today by the police The other two Jack Harris and Gus Schaefer are being held on telegraphic warrants from St. St Paul pending the arrival of extradition papers The attorney for Jack Harris and Schaefer obtained a writ of habeas corpus for them returnable on Mon Men day The district attorney of Ramsey county Minnesota Is reported to be on his way here from Los Angeles to take part In the proceedings Single Bullet i Kills Two MenFORT Men MenFORT I. I FORT SMITH Ark March 11 A A I single bullet from Deputy ty Sheriff McClure's McClures McClures McClure's McI Mc- Mc Clure's gun killed Roy Price 17 and t fatally wounded Fred Evans 25 at a dance at Panama last night Evans I died this afternoon McClure says he Jabbed his gun into the side of Evans with no Intention of shooting The bullet passed the body of ot Evans and struck Price Just above the right eye killing him Wm instantly Woman Bound Home Fired I I LOS ANGELES Cal Match March 11 By I United Press Press Mrs Mrs Ji Alvaredo was bound and gagged by two mysterious strangers thrown on the tho floor o of 1 I her bedroom and the house set afire I here her today The unexpected arrival of the womans woman's husband saved her I from being burned alive He released her and stamped out the fire tIre The floor had been soaked with kerosene Alvaredo reported to detectives that the marauders had been harassing his home hom for days Diamond Broker Loser by Trick CHICAGO March 11 Unset Unset diamonds diamonds dia dla- I monds valued at 2000 were taken by two men from Robert Young a diamond dia dla- mond mend broker today after he had been tricked Into visiting a lL room in a R. d downtown hotel he tol told 1 the police |