1135

Date 1912-12-16

From 1135

sids ITC. 1 Paper. one 698, elninfnfoininintoinininint Population REDCLIFF IS IS GROWING 1913 NOT BOOMING BUT IT MIGHTY FAST, AND THE MOMENTUM IS INCREASING EVERY DAY. Find Out About it There are GOOD opportunities in Many Places. There are BETTER opportunities in fewer places. But for the BEST values in Real Estate you must go to The Swing of Industrial Development will Make pe for che leva Redcliff Realty Company Limited REDCLIFF, ALTA. R E DCLIFF, THE SMOKELESS PITTSBURG. Stoner, Lockwood Wheeler, Limited montoatecfoatecteey Rortoateatecgesteatectecteages (Stoner Agency ) MEDICINE HAT, pee oageteetedteetectecdeeteatentec ALTA. PLOPROTIODIOLPOS LOOLS OOSOLTE SLOT LOOSE OOSOO OIE ANE MAY ESCAPE GHAIR Great Interest Being Taken in Case of Buffalo Mur- derer. INSANE PASSION TO KILL BOYS HAD GRIP ON HIM Will Probably be Found In- sane and Sent to Asylum. Buffalo, N. .; Dec. 16 Not for many years has any criminal case aroused so much country-wide inter- * est among all classes of people as the case of J. Frank Hickey, the self- confessed murderer of: boys, whosa, trial upon the charge of having mur- dered the seven-year-old Joseph Jo- Seph ut Lackewanna, N. Y., on Oc- tober 12, 1911, will come up. before the Supreme Court in this city today. For many reasons this case is one of the most unusual and n- teresting in the criminal annals of this State, if ot of the whole country. Pronounced cases of a dual person- ality are not common and the psy- chological problem which they pre sent makes them intensely interest- img to every student of human na- ture in its abnormal state. It has long since been recognized that when Rc- bert. Louis Stevenson wrote his fam- ous: book Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde , he did not pregent a psychological impossibility, but that he gave a mas- terly presentation of a clear cut and typical case of a dual personality, en- tirely-within the limits of possibility, though perhaps a trifle more extreme and sensational than most of the eases which occasionally come to public notice, The life history of J. Frank Hick- ey and the circumstances connected with his arrest and ndictment: pre- sent many peculiar features. Hick- ey's 2 man of middle age, of good ad- dress .and from his appearance no- body would suspect him of being a man of abnormal or criminal charac- ter. He received a good education, be- came a pharmacist and then an ex- pert chemist and filled various re- sponsible positions to the satisfaction of his employers. In his normal condition a man of culture, kind and pleasant in his ways, he became fiend filled with the lust. of-murde when the poison of aleohol benumb- ed his better self and released from its latent state the sinister part of his personality. When under the control of his evil ego Hickey became filled with the in sane impulse to kill boys, an impulse which he could not resist. According to his own confession Hickey tried to commit murder twelve times, but on- ly twice did he succeed. One of bis victims was little Joseph Josephs, for whose murder he Is to be tried next week, the other was Michael R. Kruck, a newsboy in New York City whom te lured to.an unfrequent y part of Central Park where he stran- gled him. fn both caves it was believed that the boys had been-kidnapped. The body of Michael R. Kruck, was found after a while in Central Park and Hickey was arrested on suspicion. After his arre t In Buffalo he made confession. but repudiated his statements after he had recovered IF YOU HAVE ANYTHING TO SELL, WE WANT TO SELL IT. IF YOU WANT TO INVEST WE SOLICIT YOUR PATRONAGE. MORGAN FOX 318 South, Railway St. from his intoxication. As there were no proofs against him he was releas- ed by the police. Joseph Josephs was the son of a wealthy merchant of Lackawanna, and after his disappearance, his fath- er, believing that the boy had been kidnapped, instituted country-wide search. The boy s: dismembered and decomposed body was not found un- til after the police of Lackawanna had received a postal card from Hic- key, mailed from Boston. and in- forming them that the writer had strangled the boy and thrown his dismembered body tuto a cesspoll back of a saloon in Lackawanna. Tt was his mania for writing pos- tal cards to the police authorities of different cities, confessing to crimes and giving information as to where th bodies of the victims would be found, which led to the capture of Hickey. Facsimiles .of the cards were reproduced in/the newspapers and some persons, who fecognized the similarity of the writing with Hickey s chirography, informed the police. An investigation was made which disclosed that Hickey had been under atrest for the murder of the Kruck boy, and after some further search Hickey was found in an inst - tution for inebriate at Whiting, N. J. arrested and charged with the murder of the Josephs boy. Hickey did not resist arrest and declared his willingness to be taken to Buffalo without formal extradi- tion. On the way from New York City to Buffalo Hickey made a full confession of his erimes, including the murders of Joseph Josephs and Michael R. Kroc He sald that when under the influence of liquor he could not resist the desire to kill boys, while he deeply regretted his crimes when in a normal condition. It 4s believed that Hickey will prob- ably be found insane and be commit- ted to the Dannemora asylum for the remainder of his life. FRESH WATER IN SAN FRANCISCO BAY San Francisco, Dee. 15 San Fran- cisco bay appears, to be underlaid wtih a hasin of fresh water. A pie 10 feet long, driven in the bay bot tom at the foot of Mission street to- day, tapped a pressure vein that Is still gushing. Thefirst spurt rose four feet above the galt water. The Jet was about ten gehie in diameter and continued ,ugdiminished at last repongs, A: chemical anaiysis was or- deredand g olog'.al experts will be alled in and divers gent dewn to ex- amine the source of the flow Subscribe now for the Dally News MILES OF FREIGHTERS IN BUFFALO HARBOR Laden With Grain Valued At 20,000,000 - Unload 1000 Cars a Day. Buffalo, Dec. 16 Three miles of giant freighters, their hulls filled with millions of bushels of grain, are riding -at anchor inside the break- water of Buffalo's outer harbor to- day, forming one ofthe heaviest blockades of grain in, the history of the port. Fifty-three vessels in this line carry cargoes aggregating 15,- 00,000 bushels of export grain, prac) tically all of it being wheat. In the funer harbor ar twenty more ves- sels and a like number is expected from upper lake ports before the lake becomes unnavigable. i The total cargo value of the fleet in winter quarters: here is estimated at 20,000,000. The grain will bg trans-shipped at the rate of 500- to 1,000 carloads a day during the win- ter and the remainder will be ship- ped. by canal in the spring. The pub- lic service commission, second dis- trict, is now investigating a com- plaint from the elevator interests that, jailroads are not supplying a suffi- ciept number of cars, Since the close of navigation an Javerage of 500 cars daily have been placed at the disposal of the eleya- tors, while a capacity of 1,000 cars aily on the elevator switches is claimed. The railroads claim there is no car shortage. The Christopher the yanguard of the fleet en route here, with Canadian grain from Port William, arrived today, covered with ice. She reported hard blows on the way down. Subscribe now for The Daily News.

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