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Hope to Ascertain Guilt ot
Accused Man.
USE ELECTROCARDIOGRAPH.
Prisoner Caught Through Confession
Made by Ally When He Thought
Death Was Near —Crime Fourteen
Year# Old —Believe Instrument Will
Tell True Story of Killing.
Omaha, Neb.—As the result of a con
fession made by another man on what
be supposed was to be his deathbed
Charles Kotf of Vallejo. Cal., Is to be
brought back to Nebraska and tried
for the murder of Julian Buhuard, a
miner, of Julian. Neb., fourteen years
ago. On a charge of being Implicated
In the same crime Fuller Shellenberger
of Burlington, Kan., also will be tried,
the prosecution being based on the con
fession, made when he thought he was
dying, last July after being prostrated
by beat.
In questioning Kotf about the mur
der the authorities will use a very deli
cate Instrument known ns the electro
cardiograph, which records on a mo
tion picture film the electric Impulse
generated by the human heart under
the stress of emotions. Evidence thus
recorded would not be admitted during
a trial of a person for murder, but the
record will be vuluable for scientific
reasons.
There are only five electrocardio
graphs In America, four being In the
east and the one to be used on Kotf
being nt the University of Nebraska.
The instrument records the hearty
fluctuations through a fiber so delicate
It cannot be seen by the naked eye.
The movement of the fiber Is therefore
passed through a small telescope, and
by the aid of an electric arc lamp Its
shadow Is recorded on the film. The
Instrument was Invented by Professor
Elnthoven of Leyden. Holland.
According to fihellenherger’s confes
sion. Buhuard kept his money In a tin
can, which was cut open with a hatch
et after the aged miner had been slain.
In removing the money from the can.
Shellenberger says, Kotf cut one of
his hands so badly on the jagged tin
that a scar was left and may be seen
today. In examining Kotf the au
thorities will show him a can like the
one described by Shellenberger and
without letting him know Shellenber
ger has made a confession will refer to
things of which Shellenberger spoke
concerning the crime. Scientists say
he may be able to control his facial ex
pression and appear perfectly calm,
bnt that the electrocardiograph never
theless will record the telltale varia
tions in the beating of his heart as lie
hears or looks upon things associated
with the murder.
Shellenberger bas repudiated ids con
fession. saying he was delirious when
he made it. He is in a Nebraska jail,
however, and must face trial. Kotf
lias been employed at the Mare Island
myy yard at San Francisco for the
last nine years. After Shellenberger
confessed detectives took up Kotf's
trail and arrested lilm.
SEES WILSON ON TOY MAIL.
Philadelphia Girl Asks Him to Back
. Plan to Befriend Children.
Washington.—President Wilson grant
ed un interview to Miss Olive May Wil
son, the seventeen-year-old girl from
Jenklntown. a suburb of Philadelphia,
who came to Washington to ask public
men to indorse her project for sending
toys through the mails next Christmas
to S.(XX) destitute boys and girls of
Philadelphia.
Mins Wilson told the president of her
jtiflbition to develop the mail distribu
tion of toys into a national undertak
ing. and Mr. Wilson promised to con
sider her plan before officially indors
ing it as president. She has already
obtained the support of Vice President
Marshall.
IN RUNAWAY WITH DYNAMITE.
Y*low Jackets Attack Horsea, and Ex-
plosive Is Toassd About.
Wilkesbarre Pa.—While driving a
team of horses attached to a wagon
which contained 1.000 pounds of dyna
mite George Willis had an exciting ex
perience when a swarm of yellow jack
ets attacked the horses and they ran
* Forthree miles the team dragged the
wagon dynamite and driver over a
S road. Willis realized that if he
Jumped the team and wagon would
surelv be blown to pieces, and be de
cided to take a chance and keep them
iu the road
Several times the wagon nearly up
set and the dynamite was tossed
about The horses stopped when ex
hausted.
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President Orders Investigation
of High Prices.
Washington.—An investigation Into
the reasons for the high cost of living
which Is nation wide in its scope has
been going on quietly for some time
at the direction of President W ilson.
Administration officials are devoting
particular attention to marketiug meth
ods In an effort to get at the root of
the matter. The greater part of the
work has fallen on Secretary of Agri
culture Houston and bis department.
The problem of the high cost of liv
ing embraces two divisions, so far as
the investigators are concerned. These
are:
How to afford means to the farmer
to increase the production of his land
and how to lift the burden of the stead
ily Increasing cost of food from the
masses-
It is recognized by administration
officials that scientific farming alone
will not offer a solution of the prob
lem. but that a study must be made of
marketing facilities, organization and
community effort in order that some
thing effective may be done.
It Is admitted that there Is consider
able alarm over the fact that Indica
tions point to n sharp rise in the price
of foodstuffs during the coming win
ter. This Is particularly the case with
eggs and beef. The former, it has
been said, will rise to 75 cents per
dozen, while warnings have been Is
sued that beef may reach the dollar
mark before long.
Secretary Houston has formulated a
list of questions which are being sent
to fanners in all parts of the country.
These questions deal with ownership,
tenantry and credits, and from the an
swers Secretary Houston to
build the groundwork for his investi
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Portland. Me. - A story which for
novel features bus few - parallels is told
by the crew of the schooner yacht Ly
dia, scuttled about ten tidies off this
port late in August, with the cremated
body of her owner. James Freeman
Bush, a wealthy paper manufacturer,
resting on a table In the cabin. The
Fending of the handsome craft to her
final anchorage with the allies- of Mr.
Bush aboard was the result of a dying
request made by him to his wife It* a
hospital here, where he had been oper
and on tind where he died Aug. 24.
According to the story told Ly mem
bers of the crew and not dented by
Mrs. Bush, the Lydia, aboard which
Mr. Bush had spent a great deal of
time In late years, left Portland late'ln
August with all sail set and towing a
motorboat. Mrs. Bush was aboard!
So were two close-friends of Mr. Busftt
On a table in the cabin lay the ashe
of the owner. Captain Frank M. Skol*
field of Cundy's Harbor, who had sail
ed' the vessel for Mr. Bush, was at the
wheel. About ten miles off the port
the vessel was headed into the wind,
the persons aboard were placed in the
motorboat and with a hole was
cut in the craft Slow?* she filled and
sank to her grave.
CANT REFORM; WANTS TO DIE.
Youth, Arrested In St Louis, Says He
Will Commit Suicide.
St Leals, Ma-Sidney L. Pincus,
twenty years old. who says he is the
black sheep of a prominent New York
family. is going (o commit suicide the
first time he has a chance because be
is an habitual forger and 1 can’t reform.
He told directives this when they ar
rested btsn> on a charge of trying to
pass a forged check.
"It’s no use trying to bo good,” Pin
cus said. "“1 have no resistance. I have
no power to control myself when the
impulse to> do wrong seizes me. I am
going to kill myself at the first oppor
tunity."
Pincus says he left home when he
was eighteen years old because be was
bad and couldn’t help iL
Wanted.
To buy two Thousand pairs of
old sli.oesi F.
mayapply: —
When I moved from Bethlehem
to Ashburn, I; left about all the
clear money that I bad made
still in that vicinity. Some gave*
notes for their account, some did
not. Last year, your crops were
bad and I didn't worry you much
about what you owed me. Tyns
year. I am informed that crops
are good. Now, you owe me t.ie
amount set opposite your name.
I| wllbe up some time in the
near future after this money and
positively will not accept an ex
cuse. I want the money. Glet
yourselves ready to pay me and
save time and trouble to both of
us. Remember, this is the Dst
Bail. No foolishness this time.
I ask to remain,
Your friend ,
Dr. R. P. Adams.
NOTICE,
All persons indebted to me
will greatly oblige by making
prompt settlement this fall, as Tj
need’ the money. If you call in
my absence please pay the young
man iin the office.
Respect ful Ty r
L. C. Allen, M. D.
IToschton, Ga. r Sept. 22. TO 13.
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As To Dyifcig.
When some men die if is as if
you had lost your penknife and
were subject to- perpetual incon
venience until you could get an
other. Other men’s going is like
the vanishing of a great moun
tain from the landscape .and the
outlook of life is changed for
-1 ever. —PlnTlips! Brooks