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BALER. M JOHN BARTON PAYNE WAS MURDERED Thomas Fitzgerald, Virginia Hotel Night Watchman, Confeesai % to Crime. •06Y PUT UNDER COAL PILE Cfonfeeses to Choking Child to Death in His Room--Confession Comes i-i • After Five Days Grilling-- i|> • %- Helps Police Find Corps*.'. r* Oiicago, July 29.--Thomas Fitxger- •M murdere<l six-year-old Janet Wilkinson. - .-. He enticed her Into his Hat with . <Sndy. He made advances. She f^reamed. He choked her to death, iiien he buried her body in the coal pUe in the basement of the building. 1 . •; .. He confessed the crime to Acting r lUeqt. Fred Howe at the Chicago avel- liiie station, where he had been held •>;."'*face 1 a. m. Wednesdny, 12 hours after Janet vanished. Then he helped N l|le police to find the corpse. . His confession came abruptly at the etod of the most remarkable grilling in the history of crime. It lasted throughout the entire night. It was a verita- •> We "fourth degree," in which psychol- Jv?. played a leading part. A detective dressed as a priest had f tried to iqduce Fitzgerald to confess. • The man said he had nothing to ML Tiny hands, taken from dolls, were K>*: (aid before him on a table in the dimly lighted basement of the police station as an appeal to his feelings. This tailed. - The police even took off his glasses because he seemed to lose his composure without them. But he bowed his and refused to talk. He was not physically abused, but $|be manbunters, feeling the end was ftear, pounded his muddled and sleepless brain with every mental shock Hiey could devise. Kind words, threats, thousands of Questions and suggestions were fired him with machine gun regularity. 3The ordeal had endured eight hours irhen he called for Acting Lieutenant Howe. . "Send Mr. Howe down here," he said irimply. Then he confessed everything. S'..< "1 was sitting In the window at ten kj," minutes after twelve Tuesday when I ,*aw Janet coming towards the build Judge John Hart on Payne of Chicago, general counsel for the United States railroad administration, who has been nominated to succeed Edward N. Hurley as chairman of the United States shipping board. ASKS DEMOCRATS' AID TAFT OPENS CORRESPONDENCE frlTH LEADERS OF PARTY. Also Suggests to G. O. P. Leader* Differences Be Patched Up With Administration. Washington. July 26.--Former President Taft, who has written to several Republican senators and leaders suggesting reservations to the peace treaty which might be acceptable to botn sides, has opened correspondence on the subject with prominent Democratic senators. Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska, one of the leading spokesmen for the administration in the senate fight, received a letter from Mr. Taft. The former president's communication to the Nebraska senator was not made public, but it was understood to be of the same general tenor as those sent to the Republicans. Senator Hitchcock and ether administration senators declared, however, tog/'"he ~ told "the* lieutenant! "When { *'ia* 'or the vrenent, at least, they AAntlmio IKAIM A#Prv»fa n>t 4-1A * •he came up the steps to the landing at *°",d ^"Jinue their efforts for ratifl- 1 cation without reservations. Expressjing confidence that there was no question but that the treaty would be ratified. they said the fight now centered on the resolution accompanying ratifl- .' cation in which would be embodied my doorway I said to her, 'Dollie, .trould you like some candy?' "She hesitated. Then I picked her *p in my arms and carried her into my ilpartment. , "She started to scream. Before I, ... f; - knew it or realized what I was doing, i an* or interpretn ion*. *.< I grabbed her by the throat and choked! on,ten,,inf; that ^nate rules re- ^ ^er to death j Quired a vote on each article of the f > „,t . ' . _ tieaty, the administration leaders said Ir i Having realized w_h at I had_ done,' I , they .b.el.ie ved, they h, ad. .th. e votes t.o d.e - then dressed, as at the time I was in 1 f amendments to anv section as a " - »>'bathrobe I then took Janet's body e mujorlty woal(1 be re. % i «i my arms, going down the front steps ou|rpfj jL'?, to the basement, where I buried the ' §|y"yii(ody under a pile of coaL" \ j Conceding that strength might de- , . velop to compel acceptance of a ratifi- :-r After signing a formal confession he cntlon remlutlon wlth qm,nfving ted the police officials, under direction Haus(is fhe adlnJnistrntion senators --* Act ng Chief Alcock, to the bast;- jia(j not yet heeu advised bv ®ent of the flat building at 112 and 114 ,,Iesident wllson whether he would be Past Superior street, where he lives, to aocept Hnv interpretations. »nd there pointed out the spot where It wag sald< however> that the adminis- ;^a net's body was concealed. I trution would oppose to the last any NEWS f ROM FAR AND NEAR riMMiMMMMtMMmMi :.4c. He showed no emotion as the police qualifying clauses which would re- • <hief lifted big lymps of coal from the quire renegotiation of the treaty. forpse. Only once be betrayed weak-1 . •ess. This was when several men in .the throng gathered outside the buildtog shouted: "Hang him! Hang him!" On the third floor above Mr. and ; Mrs. John S. Wilkinson, parents of the Aead girl, waited in awful suspense. They did not know of his confession.: Atlanta. Oa., July --The Ceoi-ia 4 i But th* crowd below PresaS«l impdr- state stnule, by a vote of :i:> to 10. k? ^|'ant developments. refused to ratify the suffrage amend- V" - After tte had been removed j ment to the federal ConstUutlon. from the basement the police broke ; Paris, July 26.--Miss Mary Bishop the news to them. Mrs. Wilkinson fell of New York was decorate^} with the |o the floor in a faint Wilkinson mut- Cross of the Legion for her relief fered a prayer that the slayer would work under fire in the Paris and Sois- |aeet death for the murder. j ttons areas. A few hours later the wheels of Cook .Portage La Prairie. Man., July 26.-- county's prosecuting machinery were Mrs. 8. P. Kerr and Lieut. "Buster" in motion. I Cross were killed and Lieut. S. P. "Red Necktie Jimmy" O'Brien, mar-! Kerr seriously injured when an airder ca*e specialist of the state's attor-; plane In which the trio were riding ney's office, was called in. fell here. He bad Fitzgerald removed, under a Boston. July 26.--The legislature (heavy guard, to the criminal courts ended a session which began January j__ . 2. During the session a bill was I President Tells Senate U. Forces Needed to Guard •J: ffj Great Railway. HELP RUSS WITH SUPPLIES Anothtr Purpose of th* Expedition M to Giv* Relief to Russian P«op|»i.- In 8iberia--Wont Interfere " With Sovereignty. Washington, July 29.--President Wilson advised the senate that the American military expedition in Siberia was there primarily to protect ami maintain operation of the Siberian railroad and indicated that the expedition would remain as long as such protection was necessary. Another put-pose of the expedition •as outlined by the president was to give relief to the Russian people in Siberia by supplying food, clothing aud other supplies. The retention of American troops to protect the American railroad forces under John F. Stevens, the president's letter stated, is a "vital element." By agreement ywlth Japan, the president stated, rtfgf American troops are to remain there as long as the railroad expedition i? engaged in maintaining operation. The president's communication, detailing at great lehgth the activities of the American military and railroad forces in Siberia, was in response to a resolution of Senator Joluison (Rep.) of California, inquiring regarding the America policy in Siberia and how long it was proposed to retain the troops there. • . The president's message to the senate follows: "For the information of the senate and in response to the resolution adopted June 23. 1919, requesting the president to inform the senate, if not incompatible with the public interest, of the reasons for sending United Stntes soldiers to Siberia, the duties that are to be performed by these soldiers, how ^long they are to remain and generally to advise the- senate of the policy of the United States government in respect to Siberia and the maintenance of United States soldiers there. I have the honor to say that the decision to send American troops to Siberia was announced to the press on August 5, ,1918. In a statement from the acting secretary of state, of which a copy is inclosed. "This measure wan taken in conjunction with Japan and in concert of purpose with the other allied powers, first of all to save the Cy.echo-Slovak armies which were threatened with destruction by hostile armies apparently organized by, and often largely composed of, enemy prisoners of war. "The second purpose In view was to steady any effort of the Russians at nelf-defense, or the establishment of law and order in which they might be willing to accept assistance. "Two regiments of infantry, with auxiliary troops--about 8,000 effectives-- comprising a total of approximately 10,000 men, were sent under command of MaJ. Oen. William S. Graves, ^fhe troops began to arrive at/Vliidivosriftk in September, 1918. , "Considerably larger forces were dispatched by Japan at about the same time, and much smaller fjo*i*e& by others of the allied powers. "The net result was the successful reunion of tlie separated Czechoslovak armies and the substantial elimination in eastern Siberia of the active efforts of enemy prisoners of war. "In February, 1919, as a conclusion of negotiations began early In the summer of 1918. the United States accepted a plan proposed by Japan for the supervision of the Siberian railways by an international committee, under which committee John F. Stevens would assume the operation of the Russian railway service corps. In this connection, it is to be recalled that John F. Stevens, in response to a request of the provisional government of Russia, .went to Russia in the spring of 1917. A few months later he was made official adviser to the minister of ways and communication at Petrograd under the provisional government." . , tY, It, iPMaada iEN RILLED IN-CHICAGO-RIOTS Mayor Thompson Calls on Govtr- ,f.',oor Lowden Jaltt", Charge. U > STAJE MILITIA MOBILIZED ; - 1 I" Mj.-building, where the murder story was repeated in detail before official ate- ^'nographerg. P Coroner Peter M. Hoffman personally impaneled a jury at Caroll's un- . dertaking rooms and opened an inquest over the body. . \y. Acting Chief Alcock and others demanded an immediate special session V°f the legislature to enact laws provid- •*'-\'infc for a farm colony for defective* of the Fitzgerald type. 11 Fleet Enters Pacific. - Pajtama, July 2J1--The Pacific flaet, en route from Hampton roads to rhe iwe:.t coast of the United States, reached the Pacific here, having successful)!' passed through the Panama canal. passed to raise $20,000,000 by taxation to pay a $100 bonus to all Massachu* setts men who served In the war. Tacoma, Wash.. July 28.--The Mutual Home association on Joe's bay. Puget sound, formerly known as the "free love colony." was dissolved, after twenty years' existence, by court decree. Fight for control between two factions brought the affairs of the colony Into court. Germans Negotiate Loan. Berlin. July 28.--Negotiations.of th# Deutsche hank with New York financial institution* for a large loan of unannounced proportions are proceeding favorably, according to Information in official quarters. Italy to Recall Envoy. Rome, July 29.--The usually wellinformed Popolo Romano says it learns the Italian ambassador to the United States, Count Di Cellers, will soon be recalled home by the Italian government. ^ • Jap Princes to Visit U. 8. Tokyo, July 28.--Japanese newspapers announce that three brothers-ln law of Emperor Yoshihito will soon visit the United States, Great Britain and France. They will stay abroad for about three years. Name Russ Labor Arbiter*. Omsk. July 28.--Committees of working men who shall act as mediators in disputes between the workers and manufacturers of the government l.uve been .establlKhed by the ministry of labor. . honorary ti^oltntosi oner of the Argentine government, is in Washington to study the operation of the United States patent office and to present recommendations with a view to improving the patent office at Buenos Aires. De Marvai is also to visit London and Paris for the same purpose. HITS MOONEY TRIAL FORMER FEDERAL AGENT CONDEMNS PROSECUTION. f • Report to House Declares Condifet of Tri^ Shows Interference by,; •.-^Labor's Fo«*. Washington, July Mooney did not receive full justice In his trial at San Francisco for alleged connection witty the preparedness day bomb explosion, for which he is serving a life term, according to a report by John B. Densmore, former special agent of the department of justice, who investigated the case for the government. The report, dated November 1, 1918, was .submitted to the house in response to a resolution calling for information as to activities of the department of labor in the case. Mr. Densmore's report* was forwarded by Secretary Wilson, accompanying his swn statement. Much of the Information obtained by Mr. Densmore and his assistants,, the report said, was secured by use of dictagraphs placed in the office of Charles M. Fickert, district attorney of San Francisco, where they were Wpt sev-. era! months. Mr. Densmore's objections to the trial, as enumerated In his report, Include the following: "The apparent failure of the district attorney's office to conduct a real Investigation at the scene of the crime; the easy adaptability of some of the star witnesses ; the irregular methods pursued by the prosecution In Identifying" varioits defendants; the sorry type of men and women brought forward to prove essential matters of fact in a case of gravest importance; the seeming inefficacy of a well-established alibi; the sang-froid with which fhe prosecution occasionally adopted an untenable theory and then changed, to another not quite so preposterous, and the refusal of the public prosecutor-to call witnesses who actually saw the falling of the bomb. ^ "In short, the general flimslness and improbability of the testimony adduced, together with a total absence of anything that looked like a genuine effort to arrive at the facts in the case. "The reading of the testimony in this case is apt to cause one to wonder at many things. Tliesp things are calculated to cause In the minds of the most blase a decided mental rebellion^" . Action of District Attorney Fickert in asking for a new trial after the testimony of Frank C. Oxman was proved perjury and then refusing to agree to it, was attacked In the report. ' YANKS OUT OF FRANCE AB#.1 LIPTON WILL TRY AGAIN Tactic* Learned In War, Ho Say*, W"l Give Him Victory or Next Attempt.* London. July 26.--Sir Thomas Lipton Is confident he will lift the America's cup next year through a new principle of sailing that was discovered while his old yacht Erin was in government commission during' fjh|| inrar, he told the Dally Kxpress. r '•' > Japan Press Conciliatory. Tokyo, July 29.--The Japanese prews Is showing a conciliatory spirit with Regard to the Shantung question and the anti-Japanese utterances made in the United States senate in the- debates on this problem. * ' Japafcet* Against Trial of Kaiser. Tokyo, July 26.--The citizens of Ftlkushima have started a movement against Japan's participation In the international tribunal to try the former Oerman emperor, on the ground that such action would have a bad effect. United 8tates to S*ll Hor** Shoo*. Washington, July 28.---iwo million pounds of horse and mule shoes comprise the latest item of surplus material to be offered for gale by the war department. Scaled proposals will be Ay^ist 14. & L?..i . . Fountain Supplants Famous Bar. New York, July 26.--A soda fountain has replaced the famous old bar in the Hotel Waldorf-Astoria, where political fortunes have been made'and unmade for many decades and where man; baseball deals tw* Fattest Man in World Dies. ~ New York, July 29.--Jack Wilson,- fattest man in the world, died of paralysis In the Holy Family hospital. Brooklyn. Wllson weighed (WVl pounds, although he was only five feet five Inches In height. / • U. 8. Sells Platinum Siippfy. New York. July 28.--^Thirteen thousand ounces of platinum have been sold by the ordnahce department of the army, it was announced here. The mineral was withdrawn from the a*- say office and sold at $15 an ounce. American Soldiers Having No Business .ma. Ordered to Brest 911 Mil: Next Train. •= Paris, July 26.--An American uniform on the streets of Paris will be a rarity by the first of August if plans being vigorously pushed by A. B. F. work out successfully. Acting under orders from general headquarters, the military police are making a general cleanup of Paris. Today every officer and soldier on the streets was questioned us to his authority for being in Paris, and unless his papers showed he was in the city on official business lie was ordered to take fhe next train for Brest. Negroes Fire on j^jolicemen, WHo Kill Four of Them in Return--Adjt. Dickson in Charge *« # H. th* Military Situation. Chicago, July 30.--Chicago's black belt was a battlefield Monday night. Negroes and whites fought over an area approximately six miles square within two miles of the heart of the city. Pistols and rifles Hashed and bullets crashed through street cara and buildings and on the streets, finding hundreds of victims. Police patrols ahd hospital ambulances chargea through the mobs amid a hail of bullets, rescuing the wounded arid recovering bodies of the dead. The police placed the number of dead at 15 with more than 250 wounded, many seriously. Four regiments of National Guard infantry were mobilized when Mayor William Hale Thompson Informed Governor Lowden and Adjutant General Dickson he was unable to control fhe situation. The battle started when negroes in groups of 50 and 100 began firing on Isolated policemen. One of these was Policeman William Kross, one of the first to be wounded. Another was Officer Walter Brooks of the mounted squad. Brooks, when hit,' forced his horse to lie down and fired from behind him. Meantime riot calls went to the Stockyards station, Deering station, the Fiftieth street station and the Cottage Grove avenue station, and patrol loads of bluecoats began to pour intg the battle. The battle came as the climax of a bitter day. Sporadic outbursts flarpd up all over the black belt during the day. Then Mayor Thompson decided the situation was out of control of the police and asked Governor Lowden to turn out militiamen. The governor ifl turn notified Adjutant General Dickson to mobilize all available state troops and form them at the armories. Before the soldiers could be notified an0 gather in numbers sufficient; to be 01 use In quelling the disturbances the buttle at Thirty-fifth and State streets was under way. The Eleventh regiment, under Col. James E. Burke, with Its machine gun company, was ordered to assemble at the old Second Infantry armory, 2653 West Madison street; the First reserve, under Col. A. F. Lorenzen, In the old Eighth infantry armory At Thirty-fifth and Forest avenue; the Third reserve, under Col. Anson Bolte, In the old Seventh infantry armory at Thirty-fifth street and Wentworth avenue. The Second reserve, under Col. Joseph Wilson, was ordered to hold itself in readiness for assembly at a point to be designated later. General Dickson said he would remain in Chicago in charge of the military situation. He pointed out that the Eleventh infantry ami the First reserve regiments have machine gun companies with experienced machine gunners and that the line companies of these two regiments and the Second and Third reserve regiments are armed with new Springfield rifles and Krttg- Jorgenson carbines. "They all have plenty of riot ammunition," said General Dickson, "and If all the race rioters on the South side were to combine the militiamen would be uble to handle the situation." One report was that South side colored men have more than 2,000 Springfield rifles of the type formerly used by the government and placed on sale throughout the city department stores after their condemnation for govern* ment use. This was denied by colored aldermen. but it was admitted that many of the negroes were possessed of arms of one kind or another and were prepared to defend themselves against aggression. The chief fear expressed was that the young hotheuds might organize and start general trouble. CHICAGO TRAVELS ON FOOT ; Bitot on Ship Kill, Six. ido lioard the U. S. S. New Mex'ico. July 29.--Six men were killed In a boiler explosion on the U. S. S. Melville. a naval tender uttached to th« Pacific fleet, Captfn Twining, the chief of staff, has been advised. Deputy Kills Constable. &a#enport. In.. July 29.--Khraged becnuse Elva Cooper, deputy constable, had found two cases of whisky in searching his home. Deputy Marshal Mike Azlzian of Bettendorf fehot Cooper through the head. Agricultural Bill 8igned. ^ , Washington. July 28.--President Wilson signed the agricultural appropriation bill from which congress has eliminated a rider repealing the daylight saving act after the president had vetoed the original measure. •Mtmk High Taxes to Continue. Washington, July 26.--To meet the country's war debt, taxes on the American people will run as at present for the next ten years, unless there are unforeseen changed conditions, -!»-. tbe opinion of Secretary Glass. . 1 Explosion in Oil Plant. ' : Bayonne, N. J.. July 26.--The explosion of a tank car set fire to several other cars, resulting in a series of explosions and a fire at the plant of the Texas OH company here. Six or eight peraons were iptarsd. Employee* of the 8urfac* and Elevated Lines Walk Out Aff$r Week'* Conference. ' * 1 ' Chicago, July 30.--Chicago iS' walking. After a week of fruitless conferences between heads of the trolley men's unions find company officials the order was given for a walkout and the surface aud elevated cars were run into the barns. The men demand 85 cents an hour, an eight-hour day 60 per cent of the runs to be straight time nod, time and one-half for overtime. Ransom Paid for American. Washington," July 30.--Acting upon the advice of the Mexican government, J. W. Thompson, an. American living uear Mexico City, has paid 1,500 pesbs ransom demanded by bandits for the release of his fourteen-year-old son. Illinois Com Is Damaged. Bloomlngton, 111., July 30.--Central Illinois has entered upon the third week of intense heat and without any rain and farmers say unless there is immediate relief the damage to corn will reach tremendous proportions. SSI House Takes Vacation. Washington. July 30.--Without record vote the house adopted a resolution providing for a recess from August 2 to September 9. During , this time, the senate is expected to continue to debate the peace treaty. 18,000 Officers for Army, Washington. July 30--Without $ record vote, the senate pflwed aud »mnl to the house the admlni^tpitlon b;ll au thorizing an increase from 9,r»(X) To IS 000 in the numl>er of commission officers to be retained in the urmy. - ' I FEDERAL PRISON Gigantic Swindle Operated From 'Within wills of Fort ^5^1 Leavenworth. _ SCORE UNDER ARREST Subtreasury Checks and Check* on Private Concerns Printed In Prison , -- Confession. . . Reveals Amazing Wot " diffcago.--An amazing story of gery and counterfeiting, carried on by a band of 25 men in the federal prison in Fort Leavenworth, was revealed in this city through the arrest of several of the participants. The arrests, which were made after six weeks' work by Peter Drautzberg and W. G. Harper, assistants to Capt. Thomas I. Porter, chief of the Chicago district of the United States secret service,, turned up the entire conspiracy. The forgery, from which perhaps $100,000 has been realized through the use of many names of prominence, involved the printing of 1,000 subtreasury checks, calling for $100 each, as well as checks on private concerns, such as the United Fruit company of New Orleans. The printing of these was done in the prison printing office ajt Fort Leavenworth. Also Forged Letterheads. In order to get paper on which to print the private checks the prisoner^ had to obtain supplies of tVe best bank paper. So they wrote for samples to the leading supply houses of the country. On a large number of the phony' checks the name "C. Skelton Williams" was written. These checks passed pere readily than any, it being hastily assumed by the recipient that it was drawn at the Instance of John Skelton Williams, high treasury official. The denouement came through the arrest of an Innocent man, a former soldier, who had been a prisoner, but who, it developed, had .taken no part in the swindle. This youth was seized on the* complaint of a St. Louis bush nted In Prison Print*bop. ness man who met him on the train. He was chummy and told all about himself to his chance acquaintance, and it was no trouble to find him in Chicago after the St. Louisan learned the check he had cashed was bogus. .On being questioned by Drautzberg he convinced the operative he was innocent of actual complicity. While walking along the street with the youth after he had been freed Drautzberg opened a letter he had Just received from Kansas City. A photograph dropped out. "Why, that's Bob Jones." the youth said. Grab the Star Trusty. Drautzberg read the letter and it called for the arrest of Robert Jones as one of the ringleaders. The youth knew where Jones was and steered Drautzberg to him. ' Jones had been a star trusty--he )wore a star that passed him through all departments of the prison. After his arrest at 168 Hill street he confessed and Implicated 15vto 20 men. Among these were Arthur Matheson, 1937 North Marshfield avenue; Alfonso Jones, a colored man, and Joe Wllson. They were all held in $10,00Q bonds each. The checks have been passed promiscuously lu all parts of the country. A dispatch from New York told of the arrest there of Ralph Vaserberg. a Jleutenant. who, it was said, escaped Jn a major's uniform from Leavenworth .and cashed forged ShfitJw, Ifl. many cities. . vVl SAVES WIFE Kv Geitx^ Vegetable CompovadL || ^^Pfttsbttrgh. Pfe--" For many mont&i I was not able to do my work owing to a weakness wnidi caused backache and headaches. A friend called my attention to one oc your newspaper advertisements aad immediately my husband bought three bottlea of Lydia E. Pinkham'a Vegetable Conpound for ma. After taking tw* bottles I felt fine and my (roubles caused by that weakness are a thins of the past. AUwomea who suffer as I did should try Lydia S, Pinkham's Vegetable Comjxrand."4i>. Mrs. JAS. ROHRBERG, 620 Knapp N. 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