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TATE eJTJMNAIL SIXTY-EIGHTH YEAR LANSING, MICHIGAN, MONDAY, JUNE 25,1923. PRICE THREE CENTS. Tonight Warm Unsettled Tuesday Warm Unsettled TSFTj MRS. W. SHOT ML EM I "Mayflower of the Pacific" ROB ARBAUGH'S; CLAIM REVENGE CLINTON IB $10,000 TAKEN YEGGS CRACK VAULT AND SAFE SOMETIME SUN DAY-SATURDAY NIGHT'S HEAVY RECEIPTS MURDERER'S MOTIVE SHERIFF PREPARING WARRANT FOR MIKE SPEPOYOLOFF AS OFFICERS CLOSE IN ON EX-CONVICT, ONCE CONVICTED OF LIQUOR CHARGE ON TESTIMONY OF CONTRACTOR WHOSE WIFE WAS KILLED COMPLETE CIRCUMSTANTIAL CASE BUILT UP AGAINST MAN-WAS IN TOWN FOR THREE DAYS AT TIME OF MURDER, DISAPPEARED, RENTED HOUSE, NEIGHBORS SAY.

NO CLUES TO IDENTITY FINGER PRINTS- locks with crow bars burglars MISSING-POLICE HAVE OF BURGLARS EXCEPT Breaking two combination broke into the large vault A -1 l' i. -i. niQuugn acpaiuuciu sluic hours of 7 a. m. and 8:30 p.

checks totaling approximately Definite figures as to the and $1 la small safe at the F. N. i (A- A warrant charging Mike Spepovoloff, S. Logan street, with the murder of Mrs. William Britten, will be obtained by Sheriff Claude Atchison Monday afternoon.

Atchison's men are in Detroit, where they are checking the whereabouts. be learned at the store Monday morning, fcs a complete sheriff is confident that he HLflRTS the climax of an investigation personally conducted of Spepovoloff, and the the arrest very soon. The warrant comes as by Sheriff Atchison day and contractor wife. That the motive for the crime was revenge is the claim of Sheriff Atchison. William Britten, husband of the murderer's victim, stated Monday afternoon that Spepovoloff had made threats to "get him" some years ago when as a result of information furnished by Britten, Spepovoloff was convicted on a liquor law violation charge and sent to Jackson prison to serve Customs Men Start Seizing Supply of Boats NO PROTEST TO BE MADE British Prime Minister Says U.

S. Within Rights in Breaking Seals LONDON, June 2 5. (By A.P.) Stanley Baldwin, the prime minister stated in the house of commons Monday that there was no ground for protest if British customs sbals were broken within United States territorial waters by officials of the United States customs service. His statement was in answer to a question whether Great Britain recognized America's right to break the seals on liquor aboard ships. Mr.

Baldwin said tt was tne practice for the British customs authorities to fix their seals as a matter of routine on dutiable ship stores taken from England in bond to prevent consumption of the stores in territorial waters. The seals must not be broken in British territorial water, but otherwise they were in no way inviolable. Foreign customs seals, he added, were habitually broken, when necessity arose, in British territorial waters. NEW YORK, June 25. (By A.

Two more "wet" liners (Continued on Page 14.) M.U.B.1ECK Interurban Jumps "racks at Parma; Demolishes Jail JACKSON. June 25. (By A.P.) Walter Green, motorman, was seriously injured and about 15 passengers sustained minor in juries when a Michigan Railway limited from Kalamazoo to Jackson, jumped, the tracks inside Parma village Monday morning at 10 o'clock, crashed into the town fire house and partially demolishing it. Green's injuries may prove fatal. The car was late, according to Conductor J.

W. Pilgrim, of Kalamazoo, and was running about 4o miles an hour when it suddenly left the rails on a curve at the west end of the village. It crashed into an automobile, whose occupants had left it but a few minutes before, and ran on into tlye cement block of the jail and fire house. The front of the interurban was demolished and two of the big cement blocks from the crumbling jail fell on Green. The car rolled partly over and the 35 passengers were thrown violently about, sustaining cuts and bruises.

Miles Bassett, Dearborn, whose automobile was struck, was slightly injured. The list of injured passengers follow: Mrs. Bessie Blair, Homer; Mrs. Mary Swank, Homer; W. R.

Mosely. Aurora, 111; Mrs. Mary Buller, Kalamazoo; Laura Woods, Ypsllanti; August Moss, Albion; William Lane, Marshall; J. L. Tucker, Brooklyn, N.

Mary Halsey, Burr Oak; Margaret Durian, Kalamazoo; Mrs. B. A. Wilkins, Coldwater; Mrs. Ravard, Detroit, Silas Miller, Battle Creek; Scudder, Augusta, William Bartell.

Albion. Injuries to the foregoing consisted mainly of bruises and cuts about the body. DURAND, June 25 (By A.P.) Two persons were injured here Monday by an explosion of high test gasoline in the basement of the McEntee Tire and Battery shop, which partially wrecked the building and set fire to it. The injured are Russell Berry. six years old, right eye badly cut, may lose tne sight, and Louis A.

Norris, former proprietor of the shop. The Berry boy was passing the store when the explosion occurred and Norris was in the building. The fire was confined to the basement. Bomb Smashes Store Windows in Hillsdale HILLSDALE, June 25 (By A A bomb placed at the rear wall of Pete Cascarelli's fruit store here exploded at 3 o'clock Sunday morning blowing a hole in the basement wall and breaking windows in all the buildings for a blDCk. and sons, asleep in the" upper story of the building at the front escaped unharmed.

The building ig in the heart of the business district and the blast wrecked hundreds of dollars worth of windows. The bombing is be lieved to have been the work of blackhanders from out of the city but Cascarelli claims to have no enemies. No arrests have been made. I LIUOR SHIPS IV TWO 11 WAS will be successful in making murder of the prominent FALLS; 1 DEI Topples From N. Y.

Structure Crushes Two Autos NEW YORK, June 25. (By A. At least six persons were killed and more than two score injured this afternoon when a two-car train plunged from the Brooklyn-Manhattan transit elevated structure at Fifth and Flat-bush avenues in Brooklyn and were smashed to matchwood. Of the injured at least 5 were expected to die. The train comprised two cars.

After the first car struck the second piled on top of it. Fire aparatus and all available ambulances were rushed to the scene. Police reserves were called to handle a crowd running into the thousands which hastily assembled. Witnesses said that something lyent wrong with the first truck of the leading car and it plunged over the side of the structure, dragging its mate with it. Part of the structure itself was carried away.

In falling the train crushed two automobiles beneath it. As the cajrs crashed to the street, they carried with them a mass of high-tension electric wires and these, spitting sheets of blue flame ignited the shattered wreckage of the antique wooden cars. Firemen fighting amid terrified and screaming passengers, soon checked the flames. Two dozen ambulances, all available fire apparatus and a host of police reserves were on the scene in a few minutes. They were forced to battle a crowd of several thousand which quickly massed.

Ten clergymen rushed to the spot and plunged into the wreckage to administer to the dying. Four of the dead were women. The first identified dead were Alexander Lousky and Mrs. Louise Wright, of Brooklyn Firemen tossed aside their helmets and rubber garments and plunged into the wreckage, tearing at the timbers with their hands, when axes and crowbars could not be used without endangering the injured. Amid screams.

passengers climbed through broken windows, their faces streaming blood. Some were carried out. Others were able crawl. Two hospitals announced they had one dead and 13 injured. MARQUETTE OUSTS I.

W. W. ORGANIZER MARQUETTE. June 23. (Bv A.P.) Edward Hayes, of Butte, declaring himself an organizer for the I.

W. was denied permission to address a gathering of Finnish workers at Presque Isle Sunday and upon invitation of Sheriff Johnson and Chief of Police Martin Ford, left Marquette with a promise not to return. "We have been getting along here for many years without an I. W. W.

organization and I don't believe we need one now. The best thing you can do is to get out," the officers told him. Fresh Air Camp Needs Dining Room Chairs Dining room chairs are needed at the fresh air tamp. Anvone who has a straight-backed chair which might be restored for use at the camp can aid greatlv by donating it. The Ingham Countv Tuberculosis society will cal for the chairs and Miss Lucile Tenney, secretary of the society, is authority for the statement that even three-legged or broken-backed chairs will be welcome.

She says that there is a camp "doctor" who mends furniture invalids and makes them like new. Mrs. Floyd Haggerty Victim of Shot From Husband's Gun ACCIDENTAL, SAYS MAN Woman Shot Early Sunday Night, Case Not Reported Until Monday Morning Special to The State Journal LAIXGSBURG, June 25. Mrs. Floyd Haggerty.

residing three and a half miles west of this village in Clinton county, was shot and instantly killed about 8 o'clcok Sunday night by a re volver in the hands of her husband. Floyd Haggerty, it was learned this morning. Clinton county officers, who were at the Haggerty farm investigating the case, were not notified of the shooting, it is said, until about 10 o'clock this morning. Floyd Haggerty told the officers the killing was accidental. He said that he got out his re volver early Sunday evening in order to shoot a crow in the back yard and that the gun caught in the door and was accidentally discharged.

The bullet penetrated Mrs. Haggerty's back, passing through the heart, it was said. It is declared that the Hag-gertys had never known to have any domestic trouble. Haggerty was her husband's second wife. Besides the husband.

Mrs. Haggerty is survived by a four-year-old child, a mother, Haley, severay sisters and a brother. She is reported to have been about 30' years of age. KILLS TI, Louisville Church Picnic Ends In Tragedy LOUISVILLE, K. June 25.

(By A. Fishermen hauling in their lines near here Monday, recovered the body of Sara Con nelly. 16, girl who was shot and killed by William Zinsmeister, who also killed his daughter, Mamie, 16, wounded three other young people, and then on the point of being captured, turned the death gun upon himself and committed suicide at a picnic given by a church club on the banks of the Ohio river near here Sunday. Friends say he was angered because his daughter attended the picnic in company with a young man to whom he objected. Zinsmeister, after killing and wounding the young people, stood on the river bank and terrorized the picnickers by firing over 15 shots.

When his body was lound he had 62 cartridges in his pockets and five in his revolver. Miss Connelly was shot while running toward the river and her body fell into the stream and floated away before it could be rescued. Gertrude Franciona, Charles Eifler and Thomas Mullaney, ail wounded by Zinsmeister, are said to be resting easily Monday. ofV Torrid Spell Record Duration Mark of 95 Degrees Saturday Third Highest for June in History; End Not Yet That it is hot and has been hot begins to be admitted even by those hard shelled ones who have been saying, "Huh! you ought to have been where I was. Frying eggs on the cement sidewalk was just common." Tes, even the hard shelled have to admit that it is and has been quite tepid of late.

Even Mr. Seeley, out at the 'East Lansing weather station begins to admit some astonishment. He points out that while there is record of hotter June days, yet never since he has been digesting the statistics has ihere been a spell when June was so coi.inuously warm for so long a period. The present sizzle began a week ago Sunday with a temperature of 88, next day it was up to 90, Tuesday 85, then 90 Wednesday, 93 Thursday, 92 Friday, 95 Saturday, a new mark for the year and S3 Sunday. Monday the official mercury had again gone above 90.

A corresponding hot spell in June was back in 1913. The warm weather began on the 25th and ran through to June 30, when the mercury touched 98. This year, when the temperature reached 95, on Saturday afternoon, at 3 o'clock, it established the third highest mark recorded for June. It is hoped that that is the high spot for this torrid spell. There was not a great deal of recession Sunday, but the warmth was modified by a breeze that stirred throughout most of the day.

The heat record for June is an even 99 degrees attained June 25, 1895. M. A. C. Butter 40ea.

lb. Market Basket. Brooms 59c each. Market Basket. Ml WOUNDS ummay sometime Detween the getting away with cash and 0,000.

amount of the loot could not check had not been made. A -part of the loot was made up of pay checks cashed at the store Saturday together with cash taken in Saturday afternoon and night. Local detectives believe that the same burglars who recently rifled the safe of the New York Central freight sheds and stole a large amount in cash and checks, may have broken into the vault and safe at the Arbaugh store. Efforts are being made to locate men whose names have not been divulged, in connection with both jobs. The small safe broken Into was kept Inside the large vault and both the vault and the safe had been rifled.

Entered Front Door The entrance is thought to have been made through one of the front doors of the store, the only door which unlocks from the outside. The crowbars were found near the rifled vault, the combination knobs were found lying on the floor and papers and a number of department sacks, containing money, were found scattered about the vault which is situated in the office at the rear of the store. John Lindquist, 911 Bensch, night watchman at tha Arbaugh store, states the robbery must have been perpetrated between the hours of 7 a. m. and the time he returned to work at 8:30 o'clock (Continued on page 2, col.

2) Former Submarine Chaser Captured With Liquor Cargo Valued at $100,000 NEW YORK, June 25. (By A. The Mary E. Gulley, formerly a United States navy submarine chaser, was brought in by the coast guard cutter Seminole Monday wltit a cargo of 1,500 cases of liquor valued at $100,000 which was seized after a chase beyond the three mile limit last night. Coast guard officials refused to confirm reports that the Seminole had' been compelled to fire a number of shots before the craft answered a command to halt.

The Mary E. Gulley, which put out from New York for the rum fleet several days ago, carried papers purporting to show both British and American registry, it was said. Her crew of six was held on charges of violating the Volstead act. Captain Reed, chief of the coast guard service for this district, said today that rum-running had greatly increased since repeal of the state prohibition en-'forcement act. LAY CORNERSTONE OF NEW SCHOOL MONDAY Laying of the cornerstone of the new Everett school at the corner of Holmes road and Cedar street, was to have been held Monday afternoon at i o'clock with exercises appropriate to the occasion.

The new school is the third to be built in the distract No. 3, the original school having ben a tir.y wooden building with a seating capacity for about 25 to 30 pupils and was one of the first -district schools in this part of the state. About eight years ago the old structure was removed to make way for a larger brick building. The building now being erecte adjoins the original brick structure which will be remodeled and devoted to kindergarten work. The need of constant enlarge ment of the school has been the result of the rapid deveiopmcnt of the district from farm land to city suburban property.

Tha new structure will have eight rooms and a library with a capacity of 320 pupils. The building was designed by and is being erected under the supervision of Breznor and Gay, Lansing architects and it is believed will allow for the growth of the district for many years to come. HUM PTAKEN 1 HIT BY LEAGUE BODY Association Challenges Harding's Position NEW YORK. June 25. (By A.

The League of Nations Nonpartisan association Sunday night addressed a telegram to President Harding challenging the presi-dent statement in his St. Louis speech "That the League of Nations is as dead as slavery." The message was signed by George W. Wickersham, president of the organization's council, Everett Colby, chairman of the executive committee, and William H. Short, executive director. "There are millions of people in the United States who differ from you," the message read, "some of these are now members of the League of Nations Non-Partisan association and more are joining crvery day.

"In the few weeks that have passed since our president, former Justice John H. Clarke made his notable New York speech in favor of joining the League of Nations, those who believe the matter of American membership to be still an issue have created organizations in 36 states and a large number of additional branches in cities, counties and towns." ''Issue Alive." The supporc given to American membership in the league, the message states, makes the issui very much alive. "You declared on Oct. 2, 1920," the telegram continues, "that the League of Nations was 'already scrapped' and not worth paying (Continued on Page 5) E. '1 u.

n. CASE City Council Will Attempt to Force Lowering of Tracks on G. River Ave. The East Lansing council members are preparing to carry their fight ahead and force the Michigan Railway Co. to lower street car tracks to street level on Grand River avenue, acoprding to A.

J. Nash, of the council. The attorney for the College city has been authorized to take any legal steps necessary to accomplish this, and a battle in the courts is expected unless the traction company lowers the tracks in accordance with the terms of its franchise. The East Lansing council made the first move Friday afternoon when it ordered the police to stop a construction gang from replacing ties at the old level. The track is said to have been declared unsafe by the company's inspector, so it is thought that some definite steps will be taken by the railway company at once.

In view of this the council is marking time, waiting for the traction company to make the next move. AUTO DEATH TOLL Thirty-eight persons were killed and 1S4 injured over the weekend as a result of automobile accidents in 33 large cities of this country according to reports gathered by the United Press today. Twenty-two were injured and four killed in Detroit. Dallas. Texas, Johnstown, Cuyahuga Falls and Denver, each report three killed.

Fatalities also occurred at: Kansas City, Erie, San Francisco, New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Portland, Zanesville, Ohio; Milwaukee, Houston, Texas; Brookline, Cambridge, Newton, Chelsea, North Andover, Mass; Alexandria, Elliston, Ohio; Toledo, Ohio; Greensburg, one each. It it's from Bopp's it'3 good. 10 lbs sugar 99c. Market Basket. Insure with McManus, Fhons 2953 USING WON DROP IS WEEK night since the date of the Sheriff Atchison has traced the one or two homes.

Bith Miss Fenge and Reet testified to having aeen a man running across the wooded lot to the east of the Fenge home. A dog barked and the man turned his course, running back toward Sparrow avenue. There is a vacant lot between the Fenge home and that of Father Leo P. Szypowicz. Father Szypowicz was awakened by the screams in the neighborhood and looked from an upstairs sleeping room.

He saw a man run across the lot between his home and the Fenge home. He called to him asking what was wrong. He re- ceived no reply. Agree on Description. Father Szypowicz.

Miss Fenge, and Mr. Reet agree in their description of the man whom they saw running. AH tT.cy saw lb" rord sedan folio wine in the general direction the man was running. The description of the man agrees with all descriptions ot bpepovoloff. The description of the car agrees with the car the Russian drove here from Detroit.

Sheriff Atchison then traced the assassin to the home of George tsrenan, Slz- Sparrow avenue, where the sheriff found fresh footprints across a new lawn at the time of the crime which agreed with the footprints at the Britten home. That the running man headed back to Sparrow avenue after running for a distance back of the Brenan home is indicated by the fact that three 32-calibre shots, the type of bullet used by the as sassin, were found on the lawn at 1008 Sparrow avenue. One of the shells had been discharged. The other two were intact. The sheriff, 1 in tracing his man this far, then considered the direction he might next take.

To the south were open fields. To the north were houses. The man had twice changed his course and was evidently headed toward a destination. Canvasses Neighborhood So Atchison started a canvass of the entire foreign community about the Logan street bridge. Piece by piece he patched together his story.

He learned of the old hatred of his criminal record, of his reputation as a "bad man'" in the neighborhood, of the fact that he was in the city the day of the crime, of his threats against others in the neighborhood, of his dress, and othe rinformation which he says completes lafs case. It was also learned that the week following the crime, Spepo voloff returned fcr a few hours to Lansing, packed up, and left with his wife either for old haunts in Detroit or for Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Before leaving he rented his home to a family of foreigners from Cleveland and made arrangements with them to pay rent on the property to the McKibbin Co. He told his tenants not to tell anyone where he was going and showed the woman of the house where to leave rent money each month. He then left town and immediately Sheriff Atchison started his men on the trail both in Detroit and the Pennsylvania city.

He is confident that he will be successful in arresting his man. Police Hold Negro Sheriff Atchison believes that John H. Stewart, 39, the negro from Philadelphia, whom the police hold, has no conneccion with the case but may "be useful later when Spepovoloff is arrested. Atchison claims that Stewart is a Detroiter and has been associated with a crowd of bootleggers in that city and that he may know Spepovoloff through the latter's operations in that line in Detroit. Spepovoloff, it is said by neighbors near his home, was heard to remark the day following the murder: "It's too bad they couldn't have got Britten too." Others in the neighborhood testify to remarks made by Spepovoloff which would indicate that he had some knowledge of the crime.

These will be brought forth at a trial when Spepovoloff is arraigned but the fear for the safety of the witnesses has led the sheriff to keep secret tlieir testimony. to HARDING. PARTY I Trip Continues; Despite i Deaths and Injuries June 25. (By A. Thomas F.

Dawson, Colorado stale historian, and nationally known newspaperman, died Monday morning in a Denver hospital at 4:40 o'clock, the third victim of the automobile accident in Bear Creek Sunday. Mr. Dawson 'was with the group of newspaper-ment'no. President Harding's party which arrived here Sunday morning. Burdened with grief over the tragedy of Sunday, President Harding Monday aced his program with a heavy heart, but compelled by necessity and lack of additional time, to carry on as the original plans for his stay required.

Tnese include a parade through the city, a greeting of school children at the state house (Continued on Page 5) TDRNAQFRTTS- Siy 10 Killed; Farm Coun- try Is Laid Waste ABERDEEN. S. June 25. LBit, A.P.) Ten persons are said Tohave perished and scores of others were injured when a tornado laid waste a wide stretch of prosperous farming country for 40 miles in the vicinity of Reeder and Hettinger, N.D., Adams county, Sunday evening. according to word received here Monday.

IS 'Driver of Car in Collision Taken to Hospital; Woman Struck by Machine Kenneth Elizzard, 1137 n. 'Pennsylvania avenue, was slightly 1 injured Sunday afternoon about 12:30 o'clock when the auto he iwas driving collided with a machine driven by Harry Tank, R. D. 11. at Pennsylvania avenue 'and Saginaw street.

1 Blizzard was offered a ride by motorist, it is reported, who left the scene of the accident tleajving his damaged auto, according to sheriff's officers. His identity had not been ascertained i Monday morning. Blizzard was removed to Edward Sparrow 'hospital where his injuries were An unknown woman was stuck by an auto driven by Fred Silke, address unknown Sunday night, when the driver of the machine attempted to back out from the curb but ran onto the sidewalk instead, according to the police report. TAKE ESTIMATESFOR TWO NEW APARTMENTS The Black, architect, announced Monday that he is taking estimates for work on two apartment buildings, plans for which have just been completed. One of the new buildings is located in Lansing and the other in East Lansing.

The real estate firm of Faunce-Schepers is building the East Lansing apartment which will be a seven-family structure on the corner of Albert and Grove streets. Mrs. Agnes Wilson is erecting thte building in Lansing which will contain four apartments. It is to be located in the 600 block on W. Hillsdale street.

Teuton Killed DUESSELDORF, June 25 (By A.P-) A German employed by the French was shot and killed while loading coal at Rheinau today. The French say the shot, which came from a revolver, was 3 Viv ntio nf a prnnn sf rA, imans supposedly former members 01 tne oei-uiriLj uiiuc. JQRTH DftKDTA 2 SLIGHTLY HUH HAPS HERE Here is the "Mayflower of the Pacific," the V. S. transport Henderson, which is to carry the presidential party to and from Alaska.

Inset is Captain Allen Buchanan, comanding officer of the Henderson. DECISION ITS' HMBIID Can't Juggle Budget Items City Attorney Rules Raises in salaries of employes of the city health department aggregating $700 per year including raise of $200 per annum the salary of Dr. S. Rowland Hill, city health director, may be invalidated by a decision announced Monday by D. G.

F. Warner, city-attorney. The city attorney expressed the belief that it is illegal for the department to transfer funds from one item to another on the budget okehed by the council. This was the plan which was intended by the department to provide the funds for the salary boosts. The budget approved by the council provided certain specified amounts to be used for various phases of the health work.

The amount allowed for salaries was not sufficient to take care of the increase in salary allowed by board of health in its meeting last Thursday and it was decided that the necessary $700 would be transfered from the fund allowed for the venereal disease clinic. This plan brought down the wrath of Alderman O. C. Howe and the matter was referred to the city attorney resulting in the decision against the board's right to juggle the budget allowances regardless of the fact that the manipulations would not cause the board to exceed the total amount allowed. LOCAL PEOPLE, FLINT CRASH, HURT Mrs.

Frederick Schier and Son, Maynard, in Car Thrown From Road in Collision Mrs. Frederick Schier and her son, Maynard Schier, of 913 E. Shiawassee strret were injured near Flint Fridap- evening when the car in which they were traveling to Flint was struck by a car driven by Glen Penabaker of Owosso. The force oif the collision was so great that the Schier car was hurled clear of the road through four fence posts against ar tree in a farm yard. Mrs.

Schier who was seriously bruised and cut was removed to a hospital and later to the home of her daughter, Mrs. Stanley Bigelow of Flint. Maynard Schier's injuries were not so serious, consisting only of cuts and minor bruises. It is believed that both will recover. STATE'S NEW LAWS TO BE DISTRIBUTED SOON Copies of the new public acts of the 1923 legislature are expected to be received by the state department from the state printers about the middle of next week.

This indicates the spaed with which the compiling division of the department has handled the prepared, proofread and approved the 'printed matter, and also the promptness with which the state printing has been done. Clark W. Brown, head of the compiling division, and one assistant, have handled this work for the state department. The volume will contain 348 new laws, enacted by the 19 23 legislature, the joint resolutions passed at the session, and the fiscal statement of the state treasurer required under a constitutional provision. Bopp's for the best meat, from six months to one year.

In his work on the case, movements of the assa: from the scene of the crime 1 to the neighborhood -at Logan I and Braman streets. Spepov- oloff's home is at the foot of Braman street. Sheriff Atchison convassed the entire foreign settlement in the neighborhood. He has three per sons who will testify that Spepo voloff was in Lansing, driving here from Detroit, the day before the murder. He was here the day of the crime and the day following, these witnesses say.

Known as "Bad Man" Spepovoloff is known as a "bad man in the neighborhood and Atchison has considerable addi tional testimony from foreigners in the locality which he would not disclose until he had his man under lock and key because of the fear felt by his inform-, ants for their safety while Spepo- voloiff was at large. The accused man is a Russian. He has been in difficulty with the authorities several times on liquor law violation cases. At the time Britten opened the subdivision centering about Britten street on which he lived, Spepovoloff was one of the few residents on S. Logan street, south of the bridge.

Britten, desiring to develop a high class community, objected to bootlegging operations in the neighbor hood where he was to make his investment. He made complaints but was told thatsome sort of a case musfbe framed against the Rus- sion before his operations could be stopped. As a result, some three years ago, Britten stood in the window of a house at the corner of Braman street opposite the Spepovoloff house and sent one of the painters in his employ to the home with marked money. The painter bought liquor. Britten then went to the police, the Russian's house was raided, and as a result, Spepovoloff was sentenced to Jackson prison.

He was released in February. 1922. Threatened Britten He made charges, Britten says, that he would "get" the man who was responsible for his prison term. Since that time, neighbors testify that he had made a threat that he would "blow up" the home of a Mrs. Hilly, of the neighborhood, who since his release maide complaints about his alleged bootlegging operations.

That the description ot tnose who saw a man running from the Britten home the night of the murder fits Spepovoloff is the claim of Sheriff Atchison. The man wore a dark serge suit and cap and was dressed in greasy clothes. Atchison has testimony to prove that the Russian he accuses was dressed in such a fashion the night of the murder. Spepovoloff drove to Lansing from Detroit, where he has been recently, in an old Ford sedan. Such a car went west on Sparrow avenue following the crime.

It is the belief of Sheriff Atchison that there was an accomplice waiting in the car. Grease spots were found on the walls in the hall where Mrs. Britten was shot. This detail tallies with the kind of clothing Spepovoloff always wore. Finger Prints Tally.

Perhaps the most important clue Sheriff Atchison has is in the matter of finger prints. After he had traced his man and his suspicion rested on Spepovoloff, Atchison started checking finger prints. Thn.w taken on the porch of the Britten home and believed to have been those of the murderer were compared with finger print records obtained from tne prison caia Inrue of Spepovoloff. An outside finger print expert was called in and testified that in his expert opinion those found on the Britten premises and those of Spepovoloff were one and the same. In tracing through the movements of his man, Sheriff -Atchison started at the home of John H.

Fenge, 717 Sparrow avenue. At this home Miss Irene Fenge was fitting in a front room with a Clarence Reet of this city. Both testified to having heard screams from the Britten home, a block north across a block with but.