4 LYNCHED ALIEN WANTED HIS BODY WRAPPED IN FLAG Mand Who Led Mob Testifies at the Inquest in Illinois By Asscciated Press Colli nsville, 111., April 11.—The in quiry into the hanging of Robert P. , Prager by a mob here last Friday niorning probably will be concluded to-night by Coroner Roy A. Low. De velopments at the inquest thus far, which has been secret, are said to indicate that at least one participant in the hanging has confessed. Joseph Riegel, 28 years old, a Col linsville miner and honorably-dis charged United States soldier, is said to have told the coroner's jury yes terday he was the leader of the mob. that he and another man dragged i'rager from the basement of the city hall and that although he did not pull the rope that hanged the man, he looked on. He asserted the dying >vlsh of Prager was that he be buried in the American Hag. Thts was com plied with when Prager was buried :it St. Louis while Riegel was testi fying before the coroner's Jury. Prager was hoisted into the air by boys from twelve to sixteen years old, Riegel is said to have testitled. lie is declared to have said that Prager denied that he was a spy, or that he had hoarded powder with the purpose of blowing up the Mary vllle mine. Riegel. it is said, paid a tribute to Prager's bravery, declaring that the latter never shed a tear when he kissed the flag, and that he did not beg for mercy. , Riegel made a confession early yesterday to n St. Louis newspaper man, and persons present at the in quest asserted last night that'Riegel bad reiterated before the tury every detail mentioned In his statement to the reporter. Itioscl Joined the Crowd According to Riegel's alleged state ment to the newspaper man, he said he was in a Collinsville saloon, at 10.15 o'clock Thursday night, when a policeman came in and ordered the ulace closed, explaining that a crowd had collected around the jail and a disturbance was feared. Leaving the saloon, he found the criwd. "The Mayor came out and made a speech and tried to 'get us to go away," the confession said. "He de clared the man was pone. I asked whether he would allow a United Slates Army man to go in and see, end, I showed him my army dis charee papers. "He told me to come on in. which I did, and the crowd followed. If we had found the man in the cell we would not have bothered him. but it made us angry to feel that the po lice had sneaked him away. We went outside, surrounded the place and decided to look again. "Another man and I went into the cellar and found Prager hiding in a pile of tiles. He came out and we grabbed him by each arm and led him out." Forced to Kiss the Flag Riegel said that en route to the scene of the hanging several persons were met in automobiles and Prager was forced to sing and kiss the flag r or them. At the tree, members of 'he mob questioned Prager for twen ty minutes regarding his alleged pro rtermanism. "We asked him if he was a Ger man spy and if he had tried to blow up the Maryville mine and why he did not keep his date at Edwartjs ville with Mose Johnson. He denied he was a spy and that he had hoard ed powder, but made no answer about not keeping his date. If he had kept that date we never would have bothered him." This date was with a district lead er of the mine workers' union rela tive to Prager's admission to the union. j Riegel's story then proceeds: "Somebody tied the rope around Prager's neck and several boys from twelve to sixteen years old pulled liim up. His hands were not tied and lie grabbed at the rope. They let him lown, and we said: 'N'ow.'are you 4oing to tell whether anybody is mixed up with you?' We told him Diamond Tires Are Fit For Battle TIRES, like men must be stripped for action if they're going into battle. 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He also said he had three partners, but refused to tell their names. "All the time the crowd kept get ting more excited and angry. Some one shouted: "Well, if he won't come in with anything string him up.' A boy produced a handkerchief and his hands were tied. I might have been the man who did the ty ing. I was drunk, and because I had been in the Army the crowd made me the big man in the affair, and I guess I was sort of puffed up over that. "Just as we were about to string him up Prager said: 'All right, boys. Go ahead and kill me, but wrap me in the Hag when you bury me.' "Then they pulled the rope. I merely looked on, but I know a num ber of persons whose hands were on the rope. "He was the bravest man I ever saw in my life. He never shed a tear except when he kissed the flag, and he did not once beg for mercy." Belgian Patrols Raid Enemy Camps; Bring Prisoners on Reiarn Pilris, Wednesday, April 10.— A Belgian official statement issued to night reads: "During the nights of April 8-P and 9-10 our patrols made several raids into enemy advance works, es pecially ' near Lombaertzyde, St. Georges, Dixmude and Zevecote. Sev eral prisoners were brought back to our lines. Similar enemy attempts against certain advance posts in the region of Merckem and west of Hou tholst were without result. Along the coast the two artilleries have been very active, employing a lcrge number of gas shells. German Squadron Lands Force in Finnish Lovisa; Transports Near Capital London, April 11.—A German squadron with several transports is reported to have arrived at Lovisa, midway between Helsingfors and Vi borg. Finland, according to a Router dispatch from Petrograd. The squadron came from the direction of Reval and a small force was said 1 to have landed and occupied Lovisa. STEELTON NEWS ITEMS BONUS HELPFUL TO EMPLOYES Schwab Declares System Re sponsible For Good Show ing of Plants The bonus system is responsible for the unusual efforts of all em ployes of the plants of the Bethle hem Steel Company, including the Steelton plant, to aid the govern ment, Charles M. Schwab, chairman of the board of directors, declares. Effects of the bonus system are evident at the local plant, all em ployes working hard to increase xheir daily wage through this method. The bonus system which is used in ni iny departments of the local plant has without a doubt stimulated the pro duction of the local plant, in the opinion of officials of the local plant. Mr. Schwab talking after the an nual meeting of the directors of the company held at Newark, N. J., re cently declared that the company's output "is showing a splendid im provement, as compared with the previous earlier months in the year, owing to the improvement in trans portation facilities." "Steel plants are now running at 80 per cent, capacity, compared with only 50 per cent, in January," said Mr. Schwab. "Our shipbuilding de partments are running at 100 per cent, capacity. Practically all our . plants are working for the United States government and the allies." E. G. Grace, president of the cor poration, presided over the .nect ing, at the opening of which about twenty-five stockholders were pres ent. Mr. Schwab did not address the stockholders. He told reporters that the bonus plan had stimulated pro duction. He said the bonus system was re- 11 sponsible for the unusual efforts of ; : all employes of the plant to aid the, government. He declared that j though transportation facilities were j. improving, he could not say the same of labor. In 1917 $3,913,838.07, or! six per cent, of the total earnings, j was paid in bonuses. FIRST AID COURSE Women of the borough desiring to take a course in first aid are urged to register. Officers of the chapter thts morning issued the following statement: "Every woman In Steelton desir ous of taking a course either in First Aid or in Elementary Hygiene and Home Care of the Sick, each course j consisting of ten lessons. Is urged to j register at the Red Cross headquar- ' ters at once as classes are now be- I ing organized. FOREIGNER WAS NOT ROBBED Chief of Police Grove declared j this morning that Sanchlo Sanchez, i of Lemoyne. who it is alleged was struck on the head and robbed of I $250 in Steelton on Tuesday night,; fell down the steps of a West Side i hotel and was not attacked. The I chief said that Sanchez did not have | any money with him. TO AMPUTATE LEG Fred Morris, colored, 63 Frederick i street, Steelton, will have his leg i amputated at the Harrisburg Hos- \ pital as soon as he recovers from the shock he sustained in an acci dent at the steel plant, last night. : Besides the injuries to his leg, he j was injured internally. CLASS MEETING Class No. 4, of .the Grace United j Evangelical' Sunday school, taught by the Rev. J. K. Hoffman, pastor, will meet this evening at the home ! of Mrs. Glattacker, 417 Lincoln ! street. The weekly rehearsal of the i church choir Will be held Friday ; evening in the church at 8.15 o'clock. 1 J. C. DOUGLASS DIES i J. Calvin Douglass, aged 68, died i yesterday morning at the home of I his daughter, Mrs. Charles Bricker,' 246 South Second street. Death was caused lty apoplexy. Surviving him are his wife and four children. FORMER RESIDENT DIES Joseph H. Gore, a former resident 1 well known here, died yesterday j morning at 10.45 o'clock at Detroit. I Mich. He is survived by four daugh- : ters, Katherine, Georgia/ Gertrude Gore, and Mrs. Mary Shepherd. ST. JOHN'S CHOIR The weekly rehearsal of the St. ; John's Lutheran choir will be held in the church this evening at 7.45 ; o'clock. DEVIL IS KAISER'S GOD, DECLARES TUT \ Carbondulc, 111. —In an address ; William Howard Taft, former Presi- j dent, declared the United States to j be fighting "the German people, led ! by William Hohenzollern," adding : that "Germany has mistaken the devil for God." Mr. Taft was addressing a conven- ' tion of the Southern Illinois Teach-! ers' Association. Roosevelt Nephew Would Force All Idlers to Work wMS Senator Theodore Douglas Robin son, member of the New York State Senate and nephew of Golonel Roose velt, has introduced a bHI to require all idlers, rich and poor, to go to wcrk. He Insists the fact that a man has enough money to malnttin hirr self without work is not suffi cient, and that in these war times he must do enough to pay his way. Adam Masters Saves Girl From Drowning Adam Masters, the flfteen-year-old son of Night Sergeant Valentine Masters of the borough police force, yesterday heroically saved a small girl from drowning in the canal in the vicinity of Booser's creek in South Front street. "The child was chasing an umbrella, which had been blown from her hands, and tumbled into the canal. Young Mast ers who was passing the place at the time, heard the cries of some of the girl friends and ran to the canal and rescued the girl after she had sunk the second time. The little girl was taken to her home on the West Side and resustitated after much difficulty. Meeting of Loan Workers Will Be Held Tomorrow Frank A. Robbins, Jr., chairman of the Third Liberty Loan drive in Steelton has called a meeting of the borough's prominent businessmen to be held in his office to-morrow af ternoon at 3 o'clock. At this meet ing preliminary plans for the drive to be held April 21 to 27 will be made. Letters were sent out to busl; nessmen this morning requesting their presence. CHARLES ROBERTS LEAVES Charles A. H. Roberts, an em ploye of the local post office for fif teen years, selected by the Post Of fice Department for foreign postal service, left this afternoon for Wash ington to take up preliminary train ing. Mr. Roberts is the second em ploye to be taken for foreign service from the local office in less than a year. SCHOOL BUILDING CIjOSED Sessions at lite Fothergill school building were suspended this morn ing when a Oase of diphtheria was discovered in the building. The build ing will be properly fumigated. Allen Drawbaugh is principal of the build ing. LAST DAY SATURDAY I At 5.30 p. m. 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