St. Louis Post-Dispatch
March 17, 1925

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oo OS a ee OW: > ally to ae i... *, - TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 17, 1925. ° ST LOMIS PAST-NISPATCH SOMALLAW OF ~-FALLTESTIFIES TO HAVING HAD BONDS Everhart, Ordered by Court to Testify, However, Re- fuses to Answer Other Questions in Oil Suit. BANKER TELLS OF $140,500 TRANSACTION Colorado Witness Asserts the Securities Comprising Liberty Bonds Were In- volved in Deal. . Ry the Associate! Prees CHETENAE, Wryo., March 17 Ruling that M. T. Everhart, bank- er and rancher of Pueblo, Pome euit with ita attempt te ove a financia! liaison lbetwee Tat! and Warry F. Sinc'n' Ieee, of the big Wyoming oi! reserve. Judge Kenned@y's decision ).eld ?? a» . ete 7 . " effect that the actic of the wit- "eee Indicated that he was refus- if tO Five testimony ;} rae? . lie sien? -~* « ‘ ’ 2 : t! ita | Oe: \ Everhart yesterday refused Anewer the question on ¢!} round + . — " . @at to do £0 might cause him to incriminate himself Direct@®d to answer the aq vee of depositing with the Firs ional Bank of Pueblo certair nents ee cee et Tells of Irregularities 1n P. and S. College Centinued from Page One. Everhart. “I Rad in My possS@ss > lLibertr Bonds, but to ans. er fur. > . rer - ther concerning them wil! late me. Declines 160 Answer. “Were you in the eastern vr. of the United States :; Ma} 1$217?" asked Owen J. Reberts of (,overnment counse! rv . . > T must respectfu) Lg Ct my He to} answer.” Judge Kennedy ruled ihat Ev- rhart need not answer “Have you any knowledze that ~ecretary Fall received any bonds'| May, 1922?" “I deciine to aAnswer”’ Judge Kennedy again sustained| Un!v the refusa!. “rou did state to Il. T. Rule shier of the Pueblo Bank, that you had fone bonds that vou re-| ceived frog: Secretary Fal)?’ “I have no recoliection of i” The witness than was excused. A. S. Booth. vice president of th- lirst National Bank and secretary- treasurer of M.D, Thatche: Eis‘at- ‘0. of Pueblo, who followe) Ever- hart to the stand. told of a trans.- action with M. T. Everhart on May -9, 1922, involving $140,500 worth { Liberty bonds booth produced records of :} saction cver the obie flLense counse) Start to Trace Bond-. Everhart’s admission tha’ ad had “certain bonds” in his pos- ession gave the Government a new foothold in: its attempt to prove the passage of Liberty Bonds from Sinclair to Fall, and through a cozen witnesses called to the stand from banks in E) Paso, Tex.; (“arrizozo, N. M., and Pueblo, Colo., the Government brought out the bank account secrets of the former Secretary of the Interior Beginning with a statement by (;overnment counsel on b T. Rule, cashier of the } tlonal Bank of Pueb): l. Roberts, Government attorney, enid, would testify that he received through Everhart $90,000 in Liber- - — - ~ . — - ~ -- - ty Bonds in May, 1922, for Fall andj ¢ne , > , : ‘hat some time nstructions.from one whom he did . . . _ . A&ter he received fot retmhember to forward (the b bonds to some point in the South- west, the Government started to | trace the bonds. Roberts sald Rule would say ‘hat the interest coupons ~ bonds were deposited to the credit) of the Tres Ritos Lang & Cattle Co. of New Mexico, which “was mortgaged to the M. D. Thatcher i-state Co. of Pueblo. The Government then traced a deposit of $50,000 to the Exchange tank of Carrizoso to Fall's credit im May, 1923. Then through the ‘testimony of bank clerks, the Gov-'| ernment traced $875 worth of Lib- erty bond coupons to Fall's credit in the First National Bank of E]) i’aso. A. & Booth of the Pueblo Bank ditions wet testified to receivin $140.500 in bonds from Everhart, which were deposited to the credit of the Thatcher Estate Co. Increased $25.000 in Two Days. A further stop to connect Fall and Sinclair was attempted ty the (;overnment in the deposition of J Kk. Benton of El Paso, vice presi- dent of the Ej Paso Bank, woo t: ef how , % ‘*% i’ Le - a] . ; =e u Just where he came i! fold Him Not to Worry. . - - - ” + . = [. was figuring on the whole proposition falling throug nd I nt ~ ( g } S i ‘oe a Sher Ors > le 5 of the wv hobe plan was working out all right and that Faiman should net wor . ~ ? t ‘ tear he Sa i ; i = Asked aa \- he ; Y »¢ed. t 2 Tr an ' . s ii } Ral | = ° ‘ fon ‘ _ 1 a f yt js Fair ia caid o 4 tel . . she eT . i * ve $: 4 Vv s ink I Liié€ S j t Li ‘ " ng » > _ * - AT - t c ar r - @ THney lp - ~~ oe. % ’ a | ‘* “Tw + h simesea 4 —— * “ > “a> ; _ ’ } s > | ’ ae > ~ ‘ f ~ as i A‘ ves ? = “7 mi A ~ Atter a an was , . . aah taken staurant and iater ~ A Million-Dollar Deal. } aimar jas nigh after three lays of quest ge. sf : s fin- ger Shepherd's fa d said [| ga those p} l germs to Shepherd. Hie told i plain words ?t wanted the to in- ~ vit! 1 that it was ai! n ‘ oo ~ ? a } " of r=) I . } e ! ia told a 4 . gen" > ‘ | = of - ~ - IEG a. for a i ; ,ssert >| t? , ca resibie reason for SPECIAL SALE ‘VICTOR COLUMBIA PREMIER $59.0 Will buy splendid up- right models. 1008 Olive St. .ed citizens. investigatinn—‘“to break the will in which Mect‘lintock left me his es- tate.” “an innocent :ran does not need defense,”” he declared. An indictment containing 19% counts was drawn up by Assistant Prosecutor Marshall for submission to-the grand jurs*today. If a true bill is voted, Faiman will be the State's star witniss, State’s Attor- ney Crowe said, and would prob- ably gain the rfinimum penal if not complete immunity for his part in the case. Faiman, who earlier yesterday admitted Shepherd had offered him $20,000 to keep his mouth shut, | amplified last night the details of myjthe relations he said he had wit office and told me the big proposi-| Shepherd. § Mieged Bribe Offer. Faiman’s statement culminated the story he began relating piece- meal Saturday morning when ce } said Shepherd had attended his echool and that three test tubes of typhoid germ cultures disappeared ° at Faiman sat Shepherd had given him $50 for a letter written to the schoo! inquiring about. bacteriolog- ical courses. State’s Attorneys, believing 1e ,* ; ~ Sen, £ ge 4 . . still withheld information, cou- tinued their questioning, and o0»- tained an admission yesterday of the alleged $29,000 bribe offer for | his silence and the stpry last night. | In Shepherd's statement, he pic-| de Sa . “ o> on . st x. tured himself as standing “on tice sidelines watching men and worn-;} rm . | - terme te aa > % ied vreave Loge er ~-OSumMOnS , * | > } -~- . . ; : ’ - a. ment continued I had a perfect * >: > e > rignt aS a pra ns att rne;, . I -ouldn’t know what :o yhofd eerms if IT had ae ee -- °e ~ * ‘ “ > —_ 4 Ny *her nd never had any in my possession. furtherrmere Said He Could Clear Himeclf. “All the: is against me is a dead bod and a motive. The-ze > 7° . , 7 two facts, supported by a iot of! babble, gossip and suspicion, are intended to break me down. I have! a defense, if ‘it is necessary to pro- ; . , : ‘ a. _duce one. to clear myself in a m%- - — > Bat w= iw 7 iment before any jury Of iair-minc- s . . ~* —_—— +. a Judge Harry Olson, WSO asakeCG | si afl for the investigation, Shephered 'said. “has gotten a few witnesses, aii Of Whom areé irrespons.oie _ _ - ? > 1¢ » 4 a hl He reviewed his own lite history . ; —_ fy 67 - and that of young MecClintoci ade- rq ; : . ~~. iat hia imied thataroung McClintock s room was uncomfortabiy or poorly. fur- nished and asserted that Louts Kles, cardener and chauffeur tor 5 hoerAl an “ , ; =hepherd and who has made state- ments involving Shepherd in the case, is a “dementia praecox case.” Miss Isabelle Pope, young Me- Clinteék’s fiancee, was disposed of n the following paragraph me trying to keep know whether that is a f act or not | . na 3 , ae . . [ know that I had Billy's good up- permost in my mind and did invthing that might have appeare: hat I was trying to separate them was because I was doing everv- thine I could to save tme boy from ) More Witnesses Sought. faces the prospect leasing Shepherd at 2 p. m. tomor- | row unless an indictment has Deen | returned previously. Assessment of $10,000,¢ That was the Satur4éay when Shepherd's counsel agreed to per- him to remain in custody and | precipitate an immediate mur-| charge by fighting for his re- lease on a writ of habeas curpus. Squads from the ‘ney’s office were sent out last night) to find a woman and a man who, | Dr. Fatman said, would corrobor- is story about Shepherd's of- fer of hush money. A new angle of investigation was afforded when Elmer Indianapolis, now employed in a | Chicago packing pliant, ‘the State’s Attorney that Louis Kles, the Shepherd family chauffeur, had informed him that Shepherd had offered $19,000 if also would “keep his mouth shut.” “Kles told me Shepherd wanted him to say only those things he told him to say,” said Scherf. Mail Order Medical School. ~~ . —- stock in the Ford Motor Co. & tate’sa Attor- ‘of their interests to Henry , assessment made abainst the chauffeur " - ~~ene ’ eo | } ’ time. A few hours iate.r, f heirs of the Dodge brothers) 'Seiences here, the head of which | Pees 4 is Charies C. Faiman, was charged today by John W. inspector of the State Department of Education, with being a By the A lated Press, ms | CONSTANTINOPLE, March -villaces within 12 It was once a recognized second- class schoo] and was chartered in but had become bankrupt. According to Follmer, its courses were mail order courses ' advertised intensively in New York | rural] districts. Law, divinity, med!- languages, chi-. ropody and other courses were of- | its literature, bacteriology and pathology. Listed on its staff were 15 faculty mem- ' bers, all with degrees, alt school occupied only an old man- sion two and 6ne-half stories hich, in a. residential section. ‘in which Turkish troops i Pee ' Toa? —_ ' di: Vv : hf upon were destroyed, lavenue late Saturday night. ' Pasha is quoted as irebels was unlikely, “928 =; P , ‘Suppose, for the eake of argu-: ‘Taiman Former Stadent of : uion of the medical practign ies of Dr. Waldo Briggs, dia college, said today that) tional Univers suffixes his name with is not a graduate . . . : censed to practice medicine in any' | Minneapolis tn 1899. headquarters Medical Association. sota, 1917. Pacific nvestigation of the death chief beneficiary o¢ the $1,000,000 estate is expected to be continued. Attorney Orville Taylor, represent- — . . he Faiman’s recor dcredife® ee ing cousins who are contest oy medical schoo! work Defers at igned by the McClintock or- | weeks after he became of legal! age, he would ask Pro-

. 7 . ” eAad : =! | oris ’ , . : ward Conley, 20-vear.- Turks Suppress Angors City youth, tried to steal for the trip ome died at -ost him his life. He —Reports from Angora my of a bullet4 ta) laet nignt nd in the left lung, inflicted by ‘fraffic Policeman Henry Reinsch | ‘at Lindell boulevard and Theresa Diarbekr,. Kurdistan, have. 4 cleared of rebels. ree wit a party meeting, Pa .* _ The fatal shot was fired after the Heee routh had thrown his own revolver further offensive actiOg’ Bpeaway during a chase and was emerging from his hiding place behind a box at an oi! filling sta- ‘tion to surrender. His father, [Thomas L. Conley of Kansas City, cane here yesterday and waa with [ae himat his death. His mother, who SN was a member of a prominent Har- ame rison\ilie (Mo ») family, died 15 | years “go. Young Conler, who roomed at $697C Olive street, recently hadi been employed as a tomato packert at a commission house, but illness had caused him to lose his job and |} he was unable to find another. In! @esperation Saturday, he 6aid be- ifore his death, he resolved to steal | —— —— later were xeleased. Thay they came here at the tous Mrs. Shepherd,: whe § she was lonely. College of 2G Faiman is a formera the St. Louis College of Piya and Surgeons. Dr. Leo ies retary of the school, Who ta today in the hearing oen® | showed Faiman atten@ « an automobile in an effort to get in 1920-21. The show that Faiman Pback to Kansas City. He took a re-| : p¥olver belonging to Earl Taylor, a fellow roomer, and was trying to] ' ‘@art «1 Buick machine in front ot | pthe Elks Club, on Lindell just west | of Grand boulevard, when he was. Observed by Louis Pyror, a negro Watchman. | Returned Watchman’. Fire. Pryor tried to capture the youth and he fled east in Lindel! The watchman fired a shot and the fugitive returned three. ‘Traffic Of- ficer Feinsch. on duty at Grand | continues “Hopking, School, 1917. (hivers 1910 to 1014." The m@ crepancy between the and universty dates @ explained by Dr. Lillie also unable to explajn§g to high school. and Lindell. then took up the! ‘ the oe al . : . " ag Ry the Asaeciated Preas. nase. pursuing Conley east in Lin- | * HOPKINS, Minn. Geil). firine it him. At Theresa ; ~ renue, Conley ducked into an ofl |‘ illing statibn and hid behind a box. | ‘ ving thrown away his weapon | , mthe flight from Grand. ‘ | There the officer approached | . mautiously, calling on the youth to | P irrender. When Conley raised up} fom behind the box, the police Charles G. Faiman is here, according te say they have known hg®@ many years. Faiman sician, according tot lie\ was born — here, they andg*lived here until] years ago. For several = “. 2 - a : qPETRRAVTN TT Cewy ww \ \ ~" ME LE A A A LM LL LM Me A LM ML Me he Me ee LM Le LP Leeteune \ CLL LLOLL EL LLL a 4 \ ‘ \ ‘ 4 ' \ \\ VAAN \\\ \\) \ ' \ ’ \\ . \ _ —————— L . \ \ \ \ = N \ sill A OY Pe MM a \ \\\\ JN qeeeeenneet® \\\\ , a de we a \ SANK B if . f a th : ag ° a ~~ “* Feseue or assassinatio 4. est Bank , , . *PPear in court teday for ‘ e on , a} . SVVVWVA Lew eaenagas SVVBLELE Gea ceaae SAVUBEBELRasaeed said, he worked as a Gti in, mistaking his move for fur- |‘ store delivery wagon, S)9mmeet” Tesistance. fired at him at ; Hopkins is a suburb of @ loss vance; the bullet passing!. olis. . Pe Mrouch his chest The youth was — Behe) to the hospital and his dis- — Viele Iver later was found on the iewal in front of 3563. Lin-'! de| a Never in Trouble Before, r 7 ' ’ , ; ' arrival of his {father - Tester toile — : eh : ‘ onsey told : ~ eTorv Sdrri- 9 » +7 athe . e, J Mtting e attempted theft of he oo —— es : : et : : , . was tne property of +" mr. Sam're] C. Abrame of 6696 En-!p Tight avenue He -« . dorrn wed tha intentio- at aid he only revolver. w ith the! returning it The | uth's father said he had never /|@ arrested or.in trouble before. |r Mrs. Rose. Young. at whose 1 roomed, described him as. @°. hard-working hoy . 29¥ Will be taken to Har- : ‘Ar vi rin} 2 beside his er rT ;_3 , esides his father. he is b rec 3 two h others Charlies a) Tnond, both of Kansas PRISONER BROUGHT TO GIVE Overstreet tm 4 i Appear Against Four Accnsed of Salem (Tll.) Holdep. | the Post Dfepa toch ; tl DANVILLE, Til., March OF sill mes Overstreet, alias Jimmy | ™ i Diey ec-. a o- ‘ a ds , > : tn lah ‘ing 23 years in the Oxk- soma *T) It enti . ua ; ri . sary oor *? i ro i= ; hd . = | - J - ‘ : (OR.) bank, ar- i ; _ | io ve at: red . int the go * ‘ ; . Oe. . : ; + | Veputy United States, b — — ee tt? hia 7 : Ty ail a see] a¢ a ‘ Terr, _- , ’ nese ,tomorrow ‘ny rr am: : ran, Arthur Richardsan, | g¢ i $s and George Diefeas}h = , 7 . ~. . + of St. Clair County, in! BH 4 On the charge of rob-/'! se , “& Mma ’ - E . r : ~~ : | * istrict: Court against | C apse Ks at the Salem dep >t i La ‘Per when the robbecs! = >. ~ os 009 payro}! wy age ar : a itice Inspectors elp -a a ‘Dey from McAlester to} ¢, ‘©.-and “he will be heavils ror ring his stay here and 4, Sa -. : ar , ‘-rchoff, East St. Lovwls, é . ate * a liquor charge. and bi« sa >... “Te forfeited and a bench. "sar > «ie ‘ —_ Vis d for his arrest. e a Tru a ———E ' Pe_. Driver Robbed of $20. in ie” 143 Sarah street, re 7 ss. © _ ‘ . . - o ~ Or tt e Frank Selmier ™¥ " ““PrPiy Co... was robbed of am ca 2 hve , Oda) 5 a man who ve ® oes eed . Ss £)} ruck ae S386 i nes- ant 4 e ‘we ~~ 2 * -VODe!r covered him with “Cf and made him drive to. FIRST IN SIZE AND IN SERVICER (srs Scr wie ve) a 4nd escaped in an au-/an ae . vith another man whe] Ce “sae “4 Waiting there. tor

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