^ MURDERED HER
HUSBAND AND
GOES FREE
BAYEAUX, Calvados, France (by
Associated Press).— Self-confessed
sl^er of her husband, whom she ad
mitted having killed fifteen years ago,
Madame Huchez walked away from
k the local court house a free woman,
the police commissioner powerless
under the law, to arrest and arraign
her.
Madame Huchez and her husband in
19f)5 jointly kept the Inn of the Golden
Lion on the outskirts of this town.
Their married life was unhappy, vio
lent quarrels often breaking the
monotony of long periods of sulki
ness and mutual silence. Then one
day Monsieur Huchez disappeared.
I^dame explained that he had aban
doned her and eloped to America with
another woman. She sold the inn and
six months later left town.
A vicious horse lashed out with both
heels in the stable of the “Golden
Lion” a few days ago. The kicking
animal uncovered below the broken
planks of his stall, an old rusty trunk.
It contained the skeleton of a man.
> The police, remembering the disap
pearance of the former landlord, set
out to find Madame Huchez, whom
they promptly located in Grenoble. At
their invitation she returned to Bay
cauA,
^ Cool and collected, she accused two
former stable hands of having mur
dered her husband. Both had since
died. Encouraged, and wishing to
press her success, she linked the
name of one Montrov as an accessory
after the fact. He is still living and
was immediattly summoned. He ad
mitted digging a hole beneath the floor
of the stable and having placed there
in, at Madame Huchez’s request, a
large trunk which the landlady told
him contained silverware and linen
which she wished not to include in the
^ impending sale of the inn.
Madame Huchez broke down and
confessed. The police took her at
once to the local judge. He immed
iately discharged her from custody.
According to Article 637 of the
Code the crime is outlawed, as no legal
action or investigation had been taken
witlflR 10 years of the day the murder
was committed.
Before departing for Grenoble where
she will resume her occupation Mad
ame Huchez purchased a long, heavy
black veil. For the first time in
fifteen years, she was officially a
widow.
TWO WOMEN RETURN
FROM PORTO RICO AS
CREW OF STEAMER
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(by Associated Press).—When the
schooner Cornell P. White arrives at
Baltimore, Md., it will lose two women
members of its crew, Miss Georgie
belle Musser, of Denver, Colo., and
Miss Jane Waters of Bonner, Kan
sas, purser and assistant purser, re
spectively, who until recently, were
school teachers in Porto Rico.
The difficulty of obtaining passage
on any of the passenger ships, togeth
er with the desire for adventure, were
the reasons given by friends of Miss
Musser and Miss Waters for their
signing up as a part of the crew of
the Cornell P. White. They believed
they would arrive home safely, soon
y or later, if they went on a schooner
while there seemed to be no end of
uncertainty when they could get away
if they awaited for a regular passen
ger ship. So, after much persuasion,
the skipper of the Cornell P. White,
who has a daughter of his own in Bal
timore, agreed to take them.
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Best coffee in town served at the
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AUSTRIANS FORCED TO
EXCHANGE WEARING
APPAREL FOR FOOD
VIENNA, Aug. 14 (by Associated
Press).—Only Americans of a genera
; tion ago who traded farm products at
the crossroads store for everything
from shoes tp sugar can realize the
extent of barter in Austria today.
With bank accounts fat with currency
and legislation impending for a com
pulsory levy on fortunes, the paper
crown virtually is spurned by those
who produce the necessities of life.
For eggs or butter, cheese or white
flour, fat geese and ducks, pork pro
ducts and all the things that the Aus
trian city dweller must do without, the
peasant wants something more valu
able than the paper constantly turned
out by the Austro-Hungarian bank.
Prodigious offers of crowns fail I
where a linen shirt, silk stockings
(even much darned), rugs, musical in
struments, shoes and such things
bring results. The. story of how the
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bourgeois and poor nobility of Vienna
have parted with wardrobes and furni- j
ture, their pianos and carpets, for food ;
has been often told. Now everything
is getting back to first principles in
trade.
Visiting a retired officer in his little
country place the correspondent saw it
work. The officer could not pay 500
crowns a pair for gloves for a wife and
three daughters. But he had three
roebuck hides from animals he had
shot this season. He exchanged them
for two dressed hides. The village
glover made them into gloves, taking
in payment cider, mutton and some
veal from the little farm.
Then came the problem of stockings,
almost unpurchasable in Austria
There were 11 sheep grazing on the
' place. Sheared they yielded enough ;
wool to exchange for yarn sufficient
to knit the family hosiery for the
coming winter.
The apple crop of this tiny estate ;
has been mortgaged for grain to a
neighbor who has no fruit and the mil- i
ler will take his pay in toll. The
host who entertained in the little cot
tage now his home, filled with Amer
ican and English periodicals, once trod
the quarter deck of his own cruiser.
A uniform stripped of ornaments and ,
recut in civilian style, is his best suit. |
Graham Bread fresh every day at
the City Bakery.
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Don’t argue. The Club Billiard Hall
arries fresh tobacco. . 27-tf
NEBRASKA FARMERS
HAVE FORMED UNION
TO MARKET CROP:
LINCOLN, Neb. Aug. 14 (by Assc
elated Press).—What is said to be th
largest co-operative organization o
farmers in the United States has jus
been formed here. It will market th
grain of the 40,000 members of th
Nebraska farmer’s union and elim
nate middlemen and broker.
The organization known as the Ns
tional Co-operative Company, with
capital authorized at $2,000,000, at
cording to C. H. Gustafson, of Lincoln
president of the state union and oi
ganizer and president of the company
has 1,500 locals, 300 grain elevators
50 general stores, three creamerie
and two flour mills, besides nearl;
a hundred shipping associations.
The union also has a live-stock com
mission office in the yards of Omaha
Sioux City, St. Joseph and Denver
and a big wholesale exchange in Oma
ha that carries exerything from farn
implements to groceries to supply it!
retail stores.
The corporation, Mr. Gustafson said
expects to soon build or lease a bij
terminal elevator in Lincoln or Omahj
and negotiations are in progress foi
seats on the Lincoln and the Omalu
grain exchanges.
A regular commission business wil
be conducted for local companies par
ticipating, Mr. Gutafson said, and ne
pronts will oe pro-ratea on the oasis
of business done, after the companj
pays eight per cent dividenes on its
stock.
The corporation also plans to fine
a market for all farm stock, to lo
cate and build elevators and to give
technical assistance in bookkeeping
and accounting methods to participat
ing members.
Graham Broad fresh every day al
the City Bakery.
Just arrived—A shipment of the
250-3000 Savage Bolt-Action Model
1920 sporting rifle. Come in and give
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Shower and tub baths at the Club
Barber Shop. Open day and night 3-tf
Your eyes fitted. Compound and
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