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Show THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE, TUESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY -- a' The Peoples Store Owned and Operated By and Por the People res the Hundreds Whitneys VALENTINE MATERIAL Storm Offices of Wizard Bischoff and Shout Exe- - cration at Latest Genius. Relates Story of Bizarre Money Career to Judge K. M. Landis. Accused Feb 13 White CHICAGO, Ti'ty erwiiuHiv" 3i"'t for Awvw vyyAAAAAAAVVVvAAyvv'VA AAaAAAA A AAAA A7 Special- - Today Riond TV'itniTr ing to Judge Kenexaw M. Landis what had become of eppi oxlmatoly 17,000,000 JuLnmLed. to him- - by thousands of turn- -. llles in Cft U ago atoikvards district, (fv. eral hundred persons today stormed lia office searching for the man who, thty deilared, had brought them f.nancial ruin Extra police were called to control the crowd which etrmited threats against the WTherr and U us or assured that IHschoff was behind lull d bars that It mpet .el He s making us starve1" "He ruined xis, let us at him1 and other tlong filed the tr for nearlv an hour Wme Bischoff, whf admitted h wa short $4H0(kiy, Inals cd h had plavel a lone hand In his rperulathms, BCariii was bigun fur fta eustir, who was to be on or en route to the Pa tific coaat. Search 14, 1922. d fuhl The police deslie to question her rt loOti.fldd worth of I ihei tv- - bonds g Intrusted to Bischoff bv customers w to speculate in oil securities, ho -re of been foitiui, tea the. t Bischoff s pond F, O blind step'ather Jtavig, and his cotisln, K F Herr, were others spoken of by authorities in w the bottom of the souths tangled finances They were questioned by Jude land's today broiling anLwlthmit alztble embarrassment, Bischoff told Judea Landis lb story of hi (financial ventuifS, maintaining throughout hi Innocence of any intentional wrongdoing I have always lot ed adventure and loved to tnko n chance," tie said In reply to questions from his reoe.virs attormy. "While am pin ed at a loi al concern, 1 dabbled In the stock market Then Just at a time whin 1 was about $10,000 to the good, a friend naked me to raise montv to par Interest on a mortgage on his home He put in $38) anil, cddibg an equal um, 1 gambled In stocks. We won won b'g. ich-in- ffernt jrrvfths mv b frionl Bonds. Kw Lad truKief to in Inventing, aifa thg mony my They Tn ft to com in uith thatr savliw, but for many davs L have refused to take a for Investment, T told them they ent aoul t hnve to wait until I completed -1 tui-ki- Money Is Invested. of ft ends then hi ought me Incest for than 1 decided 1 was wasting my time m a packing plant and opened an offhe, annotating that 1 would deal In finances generally. Aly friends and their friends brought me their money and in return 1 gave mv personal promissory note I gambled in stocks mainly oil and frequently won Mg returns for mv Investors I played absolutely fair with them. "Then I tried to obtnln control of tin oil wed In leouiBlana I put hundreds of thoti-anInto it and just when 1 thought 1 had won, I learned I had been d by , bucketshop stockbrokers and that I wa a not even cose to controlling investors the well money my My tnnnev wa gone. "I decided to reorganise my company. "Dozens money to ds double-oroSse- rnfmrtT7Y Declares Honesty. I wus honest with them Then a few got iineiui and fib d receivership proceed rtgk. Sunday night they told mo they would drop the proceedings If I wished I leftmed I want all of this to com out In The open," for I have been honest BT Films left before 10 are though unfortunate and 1 hat nothing to fear." Judge Landis questioned Plschoff close. Iv as to whether ho had dealt with the He Bolan syndicate of FI Paso, Texas said be had not and the Judge ordered o unitors it goLla touch with the syn- dic Un '1 hen Judge Landis took at ready 5 personal of the examination, shooting ibje Ihe questions at Hsehoff tapld fit judge then called Mr Pavls and learned from him that B'schoff had supplied the money for their $20,00 V homo and three expensive automofitle, And where did you get that fur overcoat the Jqdgq Baked'. Itaymond gave me the money, was the reply. "And ho got It from hundreds, of poor, families whom he swindled, btaenv shouted the Judge "Thai coat that keeps you go comfortable represents swindled money that would have kept many a poor child warm this winter The Judge Issued Injunctions restraining any one from disposing of the Bisch off home or automobiles although all are in thie name of the etepfather or of B mother. After Bischoff had told Judge Landis that he had Joined the Canadian army In seaich of adventure the judge asked him If he had been hdnorablv discharged 'That matter has not been settled yet was the reply. Specially Grouped Commercial hard-worki- Specially Priced $ Photographers i44 South - Main- - tel last Wednesday aa Mrs ZabeBe El Ruy, placed no address upon the register According to a abatement made by hotel employee to the police, since coming to the hotel she had kept closely to her room. hen approached earlier in the day by local newspaper men and addressed as Mtsk Prevoat, "Mia fc.1 Buy stoutly maintained that she was not the miesmg Career in Iowa. hhe declared her intention of ictrcas D' S MOINFS, ra Feb. 13 Raymond raving today for Cuba. Police and newspaper men were d J. Bldclioff, dftn'ned by Chicago police as to how she escaped from her In connection with his financial deallnss, room and she was able to take ail her is well known In Pes lolnes He arris td here during 121T. posing as luggage without observation. tergeant I) C Hreckenrldgs of the Princes Pats Canadian regiment. He held audiences spellliound with his tales of SEEK RELEASE with the famous Caexploits performed ACCUSED WOMAN He was nadian fighting the hero of the hour here, until he was PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 13 Efforts to exposed as a deserter from the Ameriobtain The release of Miss Hazel Whitcan army. 1 hilo In Pes Motno. Bischoff, or aker, Philadelphia school t earner, on writ Brfti kenrldge, was widely entertained by of habeas corpus, were btgun today before United States Commissioner Manley, civic organisations. (S who on Saturday held her tn $2(KN ball to answer to an IndlctmentTesued in Los -R"T)ATTVTrORTna:,FebnS aymond tn Bischoff la a former Pavenpotr bov. as Angeles, cliarglng her with complicity motor car thefts. Norman V hltnker, a youth, he gained attention when he started a subscription agency for leading her brother, and another brother and siswere named In similar indictments newspapers "and periodicals, collected in ter, 1s Nbrmarr Whitaker town Internationally advance and then left returned to Pav- - known aa a chess player Some vears latep-n- e Today Aselstant United State Attoreopoit posing as "a wounded hero of the ney T Iienry Ma'nut sought a writ of He had changed Princess Pat regiment removal and her counsel countered with his name to "Sergeant Breckenrtdge a n He said be feared toije known by a petition for a writ of habeas corpus Commissioner Manley reduced her bail . nsufne In Cansda, to $1000 and set February 2 for hearing on the petition for habeas corpue. Career in Omaha. OMAHA, Neb. Feb. 13 Raymond J Bischoff detained by hlcttgo police In con- - NINE NEGRO rintion with his flnaru lal dealings Is re e mem bored here as "Sergeant P C. ARRESTED TEXAS who claimed ho was one of the fiw surviving m mbers of the Princths Pat WACO, Texas, Feb 13 A dragnet by regiment, almost annihilated In the battle county and city ofticers around Conof J pres during the world, war, according cord, a village near here, where W H to the Omaha Pec Barker, merchant, and his wife were 1317 In Bis boff was hero after pibBia night, and Homer Turk, tlon in a weH known weekly M a etory bv slain Saturday son of a neighbor, dangerousCorporal Edwards, one of the regiment ly wounded, had resulted today in the arsi,! vl ore Two of them cornegroes I'd words" he was quotid as saying rest of nine to dei rlptione given by the hute 1 Know him We wxsre buddies, la respond daughter fat t, hexiwes me $10 borrowed just before Barker Officers said they e unpertain wheththe battle, but I know hes good and 1 er or revenge the " motive wgs robbery y my get mopi Barker had beer shot through the head hi and head wife en had b cleft with Another Swindle Exposed. an axe. Homer Turk e skull was crushed CitlC UlO, If Three men we-- e and hla condition Is critical. WU.ie Lou laXeaJtUtt. t uatudy by II id jpcUte tonight Barker Ihe litU. daughter. was-a- a. eye-w-it after ft raid on a euite of ofrn.es o nee to the tragedy The I ttle g.rl remained In bed and by the Aim.rli.an Novoulivte tonuwny The Cf.Di vi n w,ts declared by' the police alone In the house from the time of the t email attack, whk,h was about 10 o c,o k Sathava inado large jaxrt ts nvestor 'the 1x1 f was expressed that urday night, until after davllght Sunday losses may tohul $1001)000 The wounded bov lyiv on tne floor beThose arres'ed in the raid w VI e Luke side her bed unconscious and she, hearof the company, Thomas ing him com In, thought he was one Kyme president Moran, treasurer, and Anton Lebecul, of the assailants and waa afraid to move uork fostrUi was also made for XkHe .She was in bed when J. the who to hose boy s father, enered the nouseTurk, was derLred Harrington and disteen tne real head of the company' covered crime the r ttr the police, th com ern was Interested in the xnaklng of roadway ma- Forced to Break Fast. terials One of the inventors the mother CHICAGO, I eh J3 Harvey X'hOrcii, of fm r children tnd the.pohee that he had Invested tl re on the promise that she condemned to be hinge I next Friday lor murder, must live to die on the gallows, won d be sotld l per nt interest, nfil lala decided today, so county Jail When the police ittpeaied several hundred Investoi were etormlng the office they broke h's hunger strike by forcibly In the hope of gelt ng their money At feeling him through a tube. "Church will die. but It will t the one ad howevoi, wa a email group of men and women waiting patiently to add rope grown 1 his neck and not the hut tvl around that will he tightened," tu tboir Invest nens Tiny refused to eald Wardenwaist Westbrook in announcing tcaeie thil the comtapy w.ts unsound With the airnai of the polka the that the rieoner ha begn fojuj.y fed. erosvds he. ame inure dismdtly, and aa the prisoners were led out there were District Attorney Accused bark! and Let lynch them' SUREV EPOR r, La, Feb 13 lavk' and "Let a lymh them! against I mted States District Jutor-ne- y Hugh C Fisher filed by Federal tl W. Jack, el cgtng em-rJudge pracSUPPOSED WITNESS tice end Involving Emil Kunt of New Orleans, Repubiltan national committeeELUDES OFFICERS man for Louis ana, were bogua today In federal court here The action gins nut measures alleged foerclf against NEW ORLEANS, Feb, 13 A pretty of emtsher to secure d wnlesal of a bank voung woman, thought by police to be Ibezzlement case against Trace S. Zev Prevcist, the missing Arbin kle witR A of Ulddens, a ness, escaped from a hotel her today lloinihlli an state committeeman. while detectives were watting In the hotel lobby for aqUior.ty from Ban Francisco to take her Into eustodV. She was Football Star Accused. said to have lowered herself on a rope SACRAMENTO, Cal. Feb 13 Goverfrom a third story room to a courtyard nor Stephens office Issued today a n below. upon the governor of Texas for the The woman, who registered at the ho extraiUuosi of It C. Midler, former foot-- ri y' sell-off- 's mvs-tlfte- Ifa 1 ,.IW OF B v tier-ma- 4 . 4 z :1 You want thbm to be entirely safe wheat on deposit, and available at a moment's notice w the hour of special need! This bank tncnsuroaT tip to an exceedingly bijjh standard, oabotk counts. 4 per-ce- h Breck-emldq- k nt paid on deposits SUSPECTS IN C k jj four-year-o- ld Zion's Savings Bank L, tHTR-- ST CQ tt Ul a-- 11 CSj, Su d f-- yliiiininuii iimiiiiihiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiij ,v A Short -Story With a Big Martin delivers coal that is satisfactory in Acctn-dttn- v 1 1 son-in-la- w rcqut-eltlo- a The Seasons Newest Conceptions in Silks and Cloth. Just like a "breath of spring are these delightful new dresses-taffet- as, tricotines, cloth, velvets, and Canton crepes, trimmed in soutache braid, organdy, flowers and silk crepone, the new fashionable dress fabric. These models have the graceful flowing lines in .the latest styles and cuts, including dark"and gay light tolors appro-priat- e for spring. t OUR DRUG STORE 13 AT SOUTH MAIN ST. 113-1- ball star of southern California, who is wanted In Los Angeles on & charge of embezzlement and drawing a check without (.ufficient fund jn the bank He la under arrest In Fort Worth, Texas Two extradition warrants also were Issued by the governor' office On was for the return of JJ A Luxon and R. C Fine and wife to Denver, Colo , on a cnarg of burglary and receiving stolen goods They are in custody at Ban Bernardino. The other warrant was against Ohares H gtoupe, under arrest tn Los Ange.es and wanted In Junction City, Ivan , on a burglary charge t Huge Theft Reported. AT LOUIS. Feb 13 Jewelry estimated hotel the to be valued at by management $100 000 wa obtained by bandits who y rerr tunny agpmrrc-BTOrat the Washington hotel H. A Croftoo, night clerk, was compelled at the point of a revolver to open the safe The Jewgg iT elry was the property of guests. Fearful Crime Alleged. 16 II. Chargei' WINDSOR, Conn , with having attempted to take hi wife Ufa by hokllng her upon the trolley tracks before sn approaching car, Joseph Btroff was held at the Windsor JaU her today. The woman right leg was (rushed by the car and subsequently wa amputated. She la now In a serious com! ('em The motorman of the car w Stroff bending over the track and attempted to stop his car The man hold bis position mull the car was nearly upon him When the car was stopped It was found Uiat Btroff s wife was under the wheel house strikebreaker. The police claim to member know the names pf twenty-thre- e ef the lynching party. Two of the rm n tn euatody are policemen of Mijee city, the egburb In which re located. the packing house TEXARKANA. Texse, Feb IS Grand jury investigation is scheduled today mto the lynching on Stturday night of Conviction Is Upheld, Norman, a negro, which closed four days her of huo led men In adof activities J beb Conviction of llArry brolawki, broker and reputed dition to the lynching floggings were adto four whit men, two of the ministered state-Vis head of a illicit whisky ee told they were punished for ring, and his codefendant, Douglas victim beingone for w'fe beating and the Newton, laxkab company proprietor, on bootlegging, a charge of violating the federal prohi- other for intimacy with another a wife. bition enforcement ai t. In that thby purchased and disposed of large quantities Mount of Ihpior, was upheld today by the t nitod pi.iteA ( m.u ci'urt i.r ii.ipcaTs Time in Broiiiiki and Newton were sentenced in the trial court to two putt Irrxrovin-men- t each in the McNeil !! ind teniten-tlar- y TAOOM A, Wash , Fob 13 Mount RaiIn sdditlon Jlrolaskl was fined nier was climbed under midwinter $10 0WJ and Nvwton $a000 for the first time tr it htetory Jean and Jacques laindry and today Alleged Lynchers Arrested. and Jacnue mountaineers, llergiies. a motion picture FORT WORTH, Aexas, Feb 13 After ( harlcs Perrvman, accompllshad tba feat sixty days' investigation, three men were ciunora-oprato- E. considered under arrest today aa a rcsylt of the . heretofore Impossible. The lynching of Fred Bouse, negro packing quartet left on thoir itoal dadb from Anvil i Rainier Ascended for First History Bock, thair base, 10,000 feet high, at 4 this morning. They returned flf- teen and one-hahours later, exhausted and numbed by the chitling Arctic winds. W made it W left our names tn a bottle on the summit. W are too exhausted to talk," This wa the message from Perryman tonight. Immediately, after he had stuin-4j14 into camp at AnvU Bock o clock lf P. Plans Attempt to Fly Across the Big Pond BT. LOUIS, Mo, Fob. 13. An to cross the Atlantic by airship attempt will be mad woon according to a placement mad a by Br?g&dir tnerctl Mtmon Patrick, hero tonight before the Aero club of Ht. Louis Beyond this statement General Patrick would not discuss the matter. DECREASE IN FLU CASES. NEW YORK. Feb. 13 A (ailing oft Iff Influenza and pneumonia cates wa eel by the board of health today. In- 59 wilh Cases of yesterday. touted 102. a decreaae of k2 overpneumonia Uiuutey, re-p- T |