Show TIIE SALT IAKL TRinTTXL SUXD'AY MORXIXiT APRIL 17 If) ’2 H rr Stone Childless Wives!” Was the Edict but Once More the Canadian Mounties Got Their Man At Left Typicel Eskimo Mother end Child from the Unger Y 1 u L months a strange hovered oer the' Eskimo women of the far-ofHudson Ray country f Into their midst had come a native evangelist preaching a distorted form of Christianity One of his doctrines accepted by awed followers was that women who boie no children should be stoned But before he could put this doctrine into practise the husband of one intended victim trekked hundreds of miles to the nearest post of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police In a frenzy of fear he pleaded for — help An officer of the “Mounted ” returned with him over the d wastes and had a long talk with the evangelist The latter was finally convinced through the officer’s eloquence that he had misinterpreted Christian teachings and many women were thus aved from awful sacnfice Here we have another remarkable example of the ability of the famous Canadian mounted police to deal with an emergency in the north country whether it calls for bullets or Bibles That their fame spread in fiction plays and movies is by no means undeserved has been demonstrated by many unusual incidents that never come to the atten-io- n of the public Few of them however match in weirdness the recent case of the evangelist and his teachings His name Is Atikomiak an Eskimo converted to He took as his circuit Christianity for preaching the Leaf River and Fort Chimo in the Ungava district far away in the north of Quebec east of Hudson Bay He had sensational ideas nd he attracted a wide following First he decided that the clothing of his flock should carry distinctive decorations running mostly to stars He as leader gauares and circles adopted flowing robes and turbans This made a hit with the primitive Eskimo congregation During the gorgeous hut brief days of continual sun Atikomiak (who called himself Miller) and his flork would march to places of service with flags flying banners blowing gaily and the lilt of hymns of praise in the air He and they became progressively more hysterical until at last the savage Win- - FOR snow-covere- - W J ' V 1 x 1 tr fiC wiuita£ AJxfAbVCn COY Are Popular Eskimo Belles of the Ungava District Note the Intricately Designed Mad Sweatera by the Thanki to the Native! Canadian “Mounted” a Dread Fear Wai Lifted from Their Livei 4 j jaw ' J1A ( Vfl iff i ( V— TH0U SHALT FANATIC OF THE NORTH ter of the Arctic closed in once more In the long night which epreads over many months in the far North Atikomiak had ample time to think ' out his program for the next Summer One Ho studied his Bible with carie night he came across a text from Job 2421 which read “He evil entreateth the barren that beareth not” This acted upon the evangelist like a revelation True he had totally mistaken the meaning but it was none the less potent for that That Eskimo marriages were frequently childless was common knowledge Here was the reason all set down in noly Writ It amounted in Atikomiak’s distorted judgment to a sentence on the childless women of his race Now it happened that among his flock was Oosootapik who had been married for some years His wife had borne him no children and there waa no likelihood that she would Thus when Atikomiak announced it was the will of God ns revealed m Holy Writ that all childless women should be stoned Oosootapik realized the announcement amounted to a verdict of death for his wife Ietchmena Here was a conflict to the Eskimo between love and religion Love won and Oosootapik decided there was only one way to save his wife from the fate awaiting her—the Canadian mounted JyrV Aof3&sfn4 s Lu''“i “When Evangelist Atikomiak will of God reeled READY TO GO Corporal F Mclnnu of re- - in Holy child-li- Writ that all a women should be stoned Oosootit apik nor and ii Fiction Ready For Any ency Emerg- Wc-Inn- m m this case the brave corporal found no need for diplomacy and quick thinking First of all he persuaded the evangelist to hold up the stoning until there was a conference During their ta’k Corporal Mclnnis went over the Scriptures with and finally convinced the evangelist that his version of the Job text was misleading The corporal was just in time For had he failed to arrive when he did or had ho been unsuccessful in his little conBible lesson several women demned because they had failed to bear children very likely would have been stoned to death In recent years the Canadian Mounted Police have had many such calls rt just after supper and while on his way He Sauer th to his photographic laboratory Husband in th Weird had veiled for help but a second blow knocked him unconscious Aked if he Mystery- carried life insurance he said he had 000 double indemnity Dr O N Arrington his physician testified that a man in Sauer’s condition could not have driven a car from the Sauer home to the pit where the wrecked car was found Other witnesses testified they had seen Mrs Sauer driving the car awray from her home a few minutes after the photog rapher testified he ’ was attacked Mrs calm Sauer self possessed took the 3tand and said she was also hit just as she was getting into the car He Another Below V' A Mis u ev rV Ii IrVkv t-- i i V HmT ‘Witt r realised heart-to-hea- he reached Tort Burwell on Hudson Bay'" He got word through to the is Mounted Police and Corporal F was assigned to go and stop the The evangelist’s fanatical plans officer started traveling by dog team until he reached Leaf River 500 miles Jt nconati mpkan & txrrth away In ototype! of iV f"i ns-t- iftrtvij' i'lSC1”""1 wm Tint Gat tad u K to fsUov tfu Screen Mounted devr " y Y HtMtofer kHk-Vita ini wtwit a mu ratmnw frB e'er wiVi (MilDER w ?££ vm RQ Police Who Like Hit Pr- Royal Canadian police There was no time to lose however before Summer returned “Atheh It would be possible for Evangelist Atikomiak to adopt his method of death by stoning For days the Eskimo husband traveled over the snow and ice until ai an L 10 V 00 amounted to a verdict of death for his wife so he trekked hundreds of milei to the nearet poll of the Royal Canadian Mdunted Police and got help” the She Told One Story She Was Convicted A 04 Al Her Solemn Warning Posted by th Mounted Police in Every Desolate Outpost It Appears in English snd Fskimo A upon individual ingenuity as well as One of the mobt dramatic braverytales was revealed in the recent reports of a hqnt by the force for a fur tiapper who had gone crazy from long yeais of loneliness in the northern lonely waste of snows Then the mounted force decided to drive the man out and in so doing adopted modem methods now being used in the Arctic They bombed "his cabin with dynamite from airplanes He was not found however Meanwhile the “Mounties” are engaged in such tasks as finding persons who disappear in the desolate wilderness of the North preventing quarrels among Eskimos and charting the waste that to this day defy modem civilisation A D t I I i A- V ' rT J i Right Ralph Greenlee Young 1 Now Awaiting Trial for Alleged Assault With Attempt to Kill er Jk DEATH WAITS BELOW The Lonely Spot Where th Unconscious Forms of Mr and Mrs Ssuer Were Found Below a Highway Bridge in Brookhaven Mississippi PRISON GATES AHEAD? Not Long Befor Her Arrest and Conviction Mrs Myrtle Love Sauer in a Po for “Assault with Attempt to Murder” Har Husband Thay Later Became Reconciled the glare of a headlight on a embankment far below a highway bridge a man and woman lying uncon-iciou- s were found one nigh — evidently the victims of a terrible automobile accident From the moment of that discovery there followed a scries of revelations that brought more excitement to the little town of Brookhaven Mississippi than It had known In a generation The outcome of a series of chaiges and two trials wus and counter-charge- s the conviction of pretty and popular Mrs Myrtle Love Sauer on a charge of “asarslt with attempt to murder” her The first lury refused to husband convict but the second jury found her Meanguilty and sheW'as sentenced while an admirer of Mrs Sauer was to go on trial for the same charge INlonely If this seemed the climax to the strange drama that occupied the attention of Brookhaven for many weeks x —as there wns yet to be an dramatic as ironic as though it had been penned by a de Maupassant The story goes back to the night of December 29 when two men walking slon£ the bridge that pans the Mississippi Central Railroad tracks saw automobile lights shining in the void thirty feet below ’Ihey crawled down the embankment and found a man lying unconscious In the driver’s seat A few feet of a convertible coupe distant was the body of a woman They hurried to the nearby store of Mrs Mack Smith and told her what they had A fanner joined them in returnseen ing to the spot and reeogmzed the man as A 1) Sauer Brookhaven photographer The woman was Mrs Sauer An ambulance rushed the couple to anti-clima- a hospital Although Mrs Sauer was released next morning safe and sound her husband hovered for days between life and death Meanwhile Sauer told her Mrg frienda a most distressing story She said she and her husband were driving at night when Mr Sauer blinded by the lights of an approaching automobile missed the approach to the overhead bridge and plunged over the embankment Mrs Sauer jumped just In time she said That story was accepted and everybody felt sorry for the photographer and his popular young wife But soon rumors began to fly Everybody in Brookhaven was “talking” and Chief of Police Ed Smith decided to investigate As soon as Sauer rallied from his spell of unconsciousness he told the police chief a different story He said ne remembered nothing of an automobile accident He said he had been struck over the head in his home- - and had a faint recollection of being carried away Chief Smith visited the Sauer studio-hom- e and discovered an iron buggy axle covered with blood under the Then a new porch of the house came into the case Mms Dot Owens fig-ur- e CopTUh RUi Sauer petit studio employee of Mr Sauer She said Sauer’ nose had been bleeding and that th axle wa thrown under the porch to hid it from the two Sauer children But the police chief was unsatisfied In fact he swore out affidavits for the arrest of Mrs Sauer and Miss Owens Miss Owens1' protested her innocence insisting that Mrs Sauer had told her to put the axle “out of sight of the children " Convinced the police chief eventually released her The mystery of what really had happened remained hut the town gosup-per- s got busy This time they linked Mrs Sauer with the name of Ralph Greenlee Brookhaven taxi driver and sixteen years younger than the photographer’s wife who is 37 The two had been seen together frequently according to witnesses not only in Brookhaven but also in Paris Tenn Mrs Sauer a former home Indictments were returned against Ahe two for “assault with attempt to muider" The ensuing trial caused a tremendous sensation since Sauer not photogonly was ProokhHven’s leading rapher but his family was well known throughout southeast Mississippi The invalid photographer was the first witness lie had been brought into the courtroom on a hospital cot accompanied by a nurse and his physician Propped up in bed he told the Jury that ne wag struck on the head rUir byodij-- Im laid aha “faint She had a recollection of riding in a car and screaming" U e r attorney Cal Jean Youngest Child ef the Sauers made a powerful plea for the acquittal of Mrs Sauer on the grounds that the State had introduced no proof that she had attacked her husband Twenty-thre- e hours after the case went to the jury it was dismissed 'ihe jury was unable to change its line-uof nine to three for conviction But the smile that swept across Mrs Sauer’s face at this news soon turned to tear when the presiding judge entered a mutual ordered the sheriff to summon a special vfnire and announced he would reopen the case immediately The second jury deliberated only thirty minute before returning a verdict of guilty It recommended the mercy of the court and the judge Mrs Sauer to five years The defense however played what it thought a trump card by filing a motion for a new trial based orT juror’ failure to eat breakfast one morning during the trial A jury must not be separated during a trial according to MisHiRHippi law and one juror had remained in the courtroom while the other eldyen went to breakfast Then the presiding judge called the He threatened a third defense’s bluff The defense then trial immediately p Pretty Mias Dot Owens Assist In th Sauer Photograph! Studio and a Star Witness la th Famous "Murder Plot” Trials ant got together with the prosecuting attorneys and offered a compromise The result was the withdrawl of a motion for a new trial and the reduction of Mrs Sauer’s sentence to thiee yearn She was granted a bond of $5000 pending an appeal to the Supreme Court She made the bond with some difficulty and was released Meanwhile Greenlee’s case was continued until the Fall term 'then Mrs Sauer faced new troubles Her husband filed suit for divorce churging unfaithfulnei-- and citing her conviction He aaked custody ol the two children Jean 3 and Charlotte 12 But while the divorce and appeal were pending Mr and Mrs Sauer had a reconciliation The suit was dropped And here’s the anticlimax: Remorseful Mr Sauer announced that he now believed his wife’s story was true and that she was not guilty of attacking H e dei lared that he would rehim quest the authorities to drop the case against her But the law is remorseleis The prosecuting attorney declared that Sauer's views had nothing to do It had with the State of Mississippi proven Mis Sauer guilty — therefore the law would take it couise s |