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<LI)c Atlanta uri-llkckln Souvnal
VOL. XXVI. NO. 108
CM ASYLUM IS II
■ FIERHP
BY STATE AUDITOR
That the state sanitarium for the |
insane at Milledgeville is inadequate, :
that its financial condition is un
satisfactory, due to lack of funds , t
for operation, and that the general t
assembly should immediately take I v
steps to remedy the situation, is the ; K
recommendation contained in the re- |
port of the state audit department- (
on the sanitarium, submitted Tues- E
day to Governor Walker by S. J. \
Slate, state auditor.
y The fire hazard at the sanitarium j
>is much greater than it should be, r
according to the report, which rec- ?
ommends that the Southeastern Un- r
derwriters’ association direct a sur- j
vey of the property with a view to .
removing the deficiencies.
“1 regard the ’fire hazard, par- s
ticularly th e lack of fire escapes, as i
a danger to life not longer to be s
neglected,” says the report. r
The sanitarium now receives
SBOO,OOO annually from the state but 1
every year there is a large deficit, t
The non-payment of last year’s de- ]
ficiency oppropriation of $239,804.08
is responsible for the large deficit
shown at present, according to Mr. i ‘
Slate. The general assembly should 1
appropriate sufficient funds for the 1
proper operation of the institution, g
or should enact laws making it pos- ]
sNjle to operate on the present fi
nancial basis, it is stated. '
Th e failure of the legislature to 1
appropriate funds to complete the
nurses’ home, on which $130,000 al- j
ready has been spent, is causing
great loss to the state, the report *
declares, and no time should be lost -
j in providing funds for the comple- c
lion of this building.
The report, which covers the period
from January 1 to April 30, inclu- 1
sive, shows that $542,522.22, has been s
received in the general fund, and
that a balance of $10,528.31 remains
on hand to run the institution until
the close of the fiscal year, June 30. 1
The per capita cost per day is .644 >
cents, according to the report, which
is considered lower than the average
of similar institutions. The net op- '
erating cost of the sanitariuia for the t
per’ 1 designated was $316,141.78. v
The total deficit on April 30 was
$329,536.04.
Officers’ salaries for April, taken „
as a typical month, were $5,318.20, '.
and the wages cf other employes
ranged as follows: Eigh receive from c
SIOO to $125 per month; 53 receive ,
from $75 to $95 per month; 129 re- 1
ceive from SSO to $75 per month, and c
447 receive from sls to $45 per 1
month. |
Messages of Praise
Flood in for Widow €
Os Heroic Georgian ‘
SAN PEDRO, Calif., June 17.
Arrangements are complete for the '
funeral services at Trona field here <
today at which civilians will join <
with the navy in paying final trib- ‘
ute to the 48 men who died last
Thursday in the gun turret explo- j
sion aboard the battleship Missis- 1
sippi. ‘
Funeral rites for Lieutenant .
Thomas E. Zellars, of Grantville,
Ga., one of the victims of the disas
ter, were conducted yesterday at J
Long Beach. Among the messages
of condolence received by'the offi
cer’s l&idow were more than 100 let
ters from all parts of the United
States. the writers of the
messages knew her or her husband,
but read of his heroic death in news
paper dispatches. •
i
Almost 500 Women
♦ Officially to Attend
N. Y. Convention
WASHINGTON, .lune 17.—At
least 464 women will attend the
Democratic national convention as
delegates or alternates.
Os this number it was mads
kAown at* the Democratic national
committee headquarters here today,
143 will sit as delegates-at-large, 34
as district delegates, 78 as altqr
nates-at-large, and 209 as district al-I
rernates. These figures, it was ex
plained, do not include all of the. !
women delegates and alternates 11
from Virginia iwr any from Ala- (
tama.
The Democratic national commit-1
tee has had ‘‘so-50” representation
for men and women since 1920. In
1912 only two women took part in
the Baltimore convention; in 19.16, at
St. Louis. 15 delegates and seven
alternates sat, while in 1920 at San
Francisco there were 96 women
delegates and 202 women alternates.
Child Shot as Georgia
Farmer Resists Band
Os Masked Assailants
CUMMING. Go., .lune 17.—An ex-I
change of • shots between Wesley j
Neal, a farmer, living eight miles I
north of h_re ,and a band of masked |
men at his home after midnight one
night last week, resulted in the
wounding of his 8 yer.i'-old boy, ac
cording to information which became ■
public here today. The child was
shot in the breast, but latest news |
from the bedside is that recovery is
hoped fort
It is ?-id that the attackers, said
tn number 12 or 15. planned to ad
minister a whipping to Neal, but
were repulsed after he had fired on
the part- Tve times. The fire was |
returned', it is said, the child being
the only victim. It is understood
that the authorities are making a
quiet investigation in the hope of
rounding up members of the band >
that visited the Neal home. No ar-*
rests h ve been made, howexer
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408 Evans Buildin?.
BY THEODORE TILLER
WASHINGTON, June IS. —Contin-
uing on his triumphant way from
the Pacific coast to Manhattan Isle,
where the Democratic national con
vention will be held next'week, Wil
liam G. McAdoo, leading candidate
for the nomination, was given a
great ovation in the national capital
Wednesday morning.
Mr. McAdoo’s train reached Wash
ington at 8:30 o'clock, and for 50
minutes before it left for New York
Mr. McAdoo was surrounded by a
mass of admirers. He was escorted
to the eastern .concourse of the
great union station, lifted on the
shoulders oX—several cheering rail
road men in their overalls, and pre
sented a statement, signed by 15,000
railroad employes from all parts of
the country expressing the hope
that he would land in the White
House. •
This long document, spread out I
and carried through the union sta- '
tion by a half dozen enthusiasts,
headed by E. V. jDavison, general
secretary and treasurer of the Inter- I
national Association of Machinists, !
was called a ‘‘way bill to the White '
House.”
"He knows where the White
House is,” shouted an overalled Mc-
Adoo admirer, as he helped lift Mc-
Adoo to the shoulders of several I
companions.
‘‘Yes, and I know how to get
there,” smilingly responded McAdoo,
as the big crowd yelled.
Greeted All Along Line
Mr. McAdoo’s Washington recep
tion, according to those traveling
with him, including Mr. H. 11. Cot
ion, of Los Angeles, and Major John
S. Cohen, of Atlanta, was One of
the most triumphant. He has met
vzith great receptions at every stop,
even in the smaller towns. The
crowds in Ohio, Indiana and Penn
sylvania were said to have been as
lerge as those that generally turn
out to greet a presidential nominee
or a president himself. Even in the
late hours last night the McAdoo
car was surrounded by cheering
crowds at every station where the !
train halted.
The Washington reception was
not confined to railroad workers,
who were almost solidly for Mc-
Adoo. Every McAdoo club in the
District of Columbia was represent
ed, and in the gathering were busi
ness men, attorneys, members of
congress and persons from all walks
of life.
Among United States senators j
welcoming Mr. McAdoo were Sena
tor William J. Harris, of Georgia;
Senator Earle B. Mayfield, of Tex
as, and Senator Burton K. Wheeler,
of Montana. The large reception
committee included women as well
as men, prominent among them be
ing Mr. and Mrs. Daniel C. Roper,
of South Carolina, the former a one
time commissioner of internal rev
enue and first assistant postmaster
general.
Mercer Athlete Gives
Blood to Save Life of
' Nurse Who Saved His
MACON, Ga., June 17.—When
Robert M. Gamble, former Mercer
athletic star, went on the operat
ing table at a local hospital Monday
afternoon and allowed a pint of
blood to be transfused from his veins
to those of Mrs. R. R. Collins, he
was repaying a debt of gratitude
incurred eight years ago.
Miss Annie Louise Cahmpion.
I trained nurse, now Mrs. Collins, was
i credited with saving Gamble's life
when he was suffering from typhoid
fever while he was a high school
senior eight years ago.
He learned yesterday that she was
at the point of death and that doc
tors said she could be saved only
by a, blood transfusion operation.
Gamble responded. Mrs. Collins, al-
I though still in a critical condition,
I will recoxer, the doctors believe.
Sun’s Rays Not as Hot
As They Used to Be,
Says Noted Scientist
CHICAGO, June 17.—Because the
sun is not as hot as it used to be
spring is far behind, according to
Prof. Henry J. Cox, of the United
States weather bureau here, and
Prof. Edward Frost, of the staff of
Yerkes observatory, in Williams Bay,
Wisconsin.
Sun spots, which in reality are
I great swirling storffis of gas and
I fldme, cast up a haze xvhich obscures
I the sun's rays and lowers radiation,
I the authorities say. These sun spot
I disturbances occur in regular se
i quence and reach a crest about every
i eleven years. Resultant decreased
I radiation causes bad weather.
The Weather
Virginia: Partly cloudy, with local
i thundershowers Thursday.
North Carolina and South Caro
j lina: Partly cloudy Thursday, prob
ably scattered thundershowers.
Georgia: Partly cloudy Thursday;
i probably scattered thundershowers
' in south portion.
Florida, extreme ncWthxvest Flori
da: Local thundershowers Thursday.
Alabama and Missssippi: Partly
i cloudy 'Thursday: probably local
li thundershowers near the coast.
Tennessee auxl Kentucky: Partly
cloudy and continued xvarm Thurs
day. probably scattered thunder
: shoxvers.
Louisiana: Thursday partly cloudv.
probably scattered thundershoxvers
lin southeast portion, continued
xvarm.
Arkansas: Thursday partly cloudy
to unsettled, continued xvarm.
Oklahoma: Thursday par 11 y
'cloudy, continued xvarm.
East and west Texas: Thursday
generally fair, continued warm.
IP arid News 1
Told in
Briefs
JOHANNESBURG, Africa. Pre
mier Jan Smuts is defeated in South
Africa general election.
NANKING, China.—Frank G. Car
penter, traveler and newspaper cor- .
respondent, dies at Nanking.
PARIS—Louis Barthou announces I
h e will remain head of reparation
commission despite reports to con
trary.
■WASHINGTON Treasury re
ceives semi-annual interest payment
on indebtedness of $9,000,000 of the
republic of Finland.
ALDERSHOT, England—Helicop
ter built by Louis Brennan, Eng
lish inventor, for air ministry, has
successful tryout.
BERLlN.—Fifteen were killed and
thirty injured xvhen an electric street
car ran doxvn a steep grade and
crashed into a factory wall.
NEW YORK. —A nexv cabinet in
Albania was formed by Bishpp Fan I
S. Noli, former foreign minister, an
once a student at Harvard.
MANCHESTER^N. H. Gordon
Woodbury, assistant secretary o?|
navy durin.x Wilson administration,
died suddenly at Manchester, N. H.
DETROlT—Charles B. 'Warren,
ambassador to Mexico, will return to
his post late this month, he says in
answer to rumors he had resigned.
SCRANTON, Penn. —Investigation
of causes of , unauthorized miners
strikes is ordered by John L. Lewis,
international president of miners’
union.
TEMPLE, Tex.—Mr# Miriam A.
Ferguson, wfe of former: Governor
James E. Ferguson, opened hes cam
paign for the gubernatorial nomina
tion.
DETROIT, Mich. —Jexvels Valued
at SIOO,OOO are stolen from Dtroit
home of Edsel B. Ford, president of
Ford Motor company, police an
nounce.
|
MINNEAPOLIS. Magnus, John
son, Minnesota’s farmer-labor sena
tor, is renomniated by overwhelming
plurality in state primary, lefeatl? g
two opponents.
LOS ANGELES —MarHage within
next xveek or two of Frank Keenan,
veteran'stage and screen actor, and
Miss Margaret White, music teach
er, is announced.
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.—Smoking
by women on beach will be banned
by Mayor Edward L. Bader, he an
nounces, if he can find any legal
basis for prohibition.
LONDON.—House of commons re
jects all amendments of house of
lords to government bill to prevent
eviction for non-payment of rent be
cause of unemployment.
BALTIMORE.—U. S. S. West Vir
ginia, en route to Prance with United
States Olympic team aboard, is forced
to anchor for repairs after running
into mud bank in lower Chesapeake
bay.
WASHINGTON. Senate com
mittee to investigate campaign ex
penditures plan to establish head
quarters at Chicago and begin activi-i
ties when campaign commences.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass—John D. I
Rockefeller, Jr., gives half million I
dollars to division of fine arts of
Harvard University’ in honor of
President Emeritus Charles W. Eliot.
WASHlNGTON— Ambassador Ha n
ihara forwards to his government re
ply of Washington government to
Japan’s protest against Japanese ex
clusion provisions of new immigra
tion law.
j INDIANAPOLIS, Inch—Jam ds M.
Lynch, of Syracuse, N. Y., is elected
president of International Typo
graphical Union to succeed Charles
iP. Howard, of Detroit, according
I to unofficial count.
NEW YORK.—Headquarters were
| set up for James M. Cox, former
Ohio governor, and arrangements
were made for caring for the family
lof 'William G. McAdoo during the
j Democratic national convention.
NEW YORK.—Keynote speech
Democratic national convention will
be delivered during evening session
on opening lay in o’der to reach
larger radio audience, national Demo
cratic committee announces.
CLEVELAND—Warren S. Stone,
grand chief engineer of the Broth
erhood of Locomotive Engineers, is
elected president of all brotherhood
activities, including banking, insur
ance and labor organizations.
POUGHKEEPSYeT—University of
I Washington for second successive
year wins intercollegiate rowing
championship at Poughkeepsie, 'Wis
consin takes second; Pennsylvania
! takes first place in freshman and
j junior events. 8
ST. PAUL, Minn.—Radical element
at National Farmer-Labor Progresive
convention at St. Paul. Minn., suc
ceed in electing convention officials
favorable to their faction, and in
blocking regular program <jf proced
ure.
( HRISTIANIA. Members of
( hicago Norwegian male choir assist
in rescues xvhen Norwegian steamer
is sunk in collision with steamer
King Harald outside Christiania;
twelve passenginers and five of crew
j believed to have perished.
' CHICAGO. Ill.—General Charles
iG. Daxves, Republican vice presi
| dentia! candidate, at informal recep
j tion to friends and neighbors at his
; Evanston, 111., home, declares that
I in coming campaign no quarter will
I be £iven demagogues.
NEV\ YORK. Erection of larg
j est building in world, devoted entire
l iy to amusements, is planned at New
1 ork to replace Madison Square Gar-
I den. soon to be demolished, by Tex-
Rickard xx’ho announces purchase of
site, adjacent to Nexx- York's theatri
; cal cent eh.
Jack Frost, Foo Hefty
To Navigate Stairway,
Draws Fine by Proxy
BINGHAMTON, N. Y.. June 18
Jack Frost, former hotel man. es
| eaped arraignment before Federal
Judge Frank Cooper on a charge of
possessing liquor xvhen his •■mi -
said that Frost, xvho xveighs 490
pounds, couldn't climb the stairs of
th- fe.Urd hr ’ "ing. The judee ;•<■-
I a pt.ra of guilty and fined the
1 defendant s4’s.
WORDY SPARKS FLY
IS WOMAN JDUSTS
WITH SEN. WHEELER
WASHINGTON, June 17.—As the
chief official of the department of
justice charged with enforcing pro
hibition, Mrs. Mabel 'Walker Wille
brandt, assistant attorney general,
submitted a defense of the law’s ad
ministration today before the senate
.Daugherty investigation committee.
Many times in the prolonged hear
ings witnesses have made charges
against the enforcement regime, and
Mrs. Willebrandt went into details
of these accusations at length, in
troducing at one point a letter from
Attorney General Stone, which said
that much of the testimony dealt
with ‘‘half-traiths and impressions.”
‘‘The point I am making,” Mrs.
Willebrandt said, ‘‘is that many wit
nessed have given you testimony
against the department of justice
when in fact their real grievance (
lay against another branch of
government.”
On several occasions she told Sena
tor 'Wheeler, Democrat, Montana, the
committee ‘‘prosecutor,” to “wait a
minute” when he sought to intervene
in her spirited account. Senator
Wheeler finally- broke in.
Proliis Get $13,000,000 z
“Oh, I knew that this whisky busi
ness is continually kicked around
betxveen the prohibition unit and the
department of justice,” he said, “but
the department of justice has re
sponsibility which it cannot evade,
and has a $2,000,000 annual appro
priation for detecting crime.”
“Yes, and the prohibition unit is
given $13,000,000,” Mrs. Willebrandt
exclaimed.
“Notwith s anding, the department
of justice is not justified in saying
that it won t du any of the detective
worg v against beetlegging,” Senator
Wheeler retorted.
“Os course-the national prohibi
tion act places upon the commis
sioner of interna', revenue and the
department of justice joint responsi-1
bility for en’.oicement of prohibi
tion,” Mrs. Wiaebrandt interjected,
“but members of congress know
xvhen they enact legislation that it
i s not reasonable to have one bureau
of the government running over and
taking up the duties and responsi
bility of another"
Mrs. Willebrandt remarked that
Section 26 of the \ olstead act was
a “fool provision,” because it did
not allow the effective confiscation
of automobiles or marine vessels
used in unlawful trartfportation of
liq uor.
Taking issue with Senator Wheel
er, who 4 insisted that the main trou
ble with prohibition enforcement
was a shifting of responsibility on
the part of officials, Mrs. Wille
brandt contended that political con
trol over agents was the most se
rious factor.
Senators Given Blame
“The real trouble,” she declared,
“is not passing the buck but the in
fluence of politicians through some
senator or congressman in aiding or
blocking an agent’s appointment.”
Mrs. Willebrandt said three
months’ training should be given an
agent before he is placed in the
field. She defended agents of the de
partment of justice, certending they
lacked funds and numbers to cope
with all classes of law violation.
The letter sent out by the depart
nt of justice to its agents in
i structing them not to undertake origi
i nal investigations in bootlegging
I cases, she declared,hadbeen circulat
; ed at the instance of the treasury
I department xvhich was fearful that
I there might be an overstepping of
i authority.
Insisting that the department of
I justice had been doing all in its
I poxver to punish laxv violators. Mrs.
I Willebrandt asserted that during the
I closing days of the \\ ilsbn adminis-
I tration —from election day 1920 until
j March 4,1921 —“ things ran wide
j open” with regard to the issuance
| of liquor withdrawal permits and
I other phases of prohibition enforce
| ment.
Graft at ( hicago
With reference to the executive
I clemency obtained by Phillip Gross
| man, of Chicago, Mrs. Willebrandt
| said there was “no doubt but that
I the corrupt local political ring out
I in Chicago kept him out of jail.”
John W. H. Crim, special assis-
I tant to the attorney general inter
i vened when Mrs. Willebrandt re-
I peatedly refused to say whether
local officials of the department of
! justice at Chicago had concealed the
j facts in making up the pardon rec
ord.
I “There’s no doubt at all that some-
I body in the United States marshal’s
i office in Chicago knexx’ that Gross
, man was being kept out of jail,”
I Mr. Crim %aid, “and that's all there
I is to that case.”
| Mrs. Willebrandt declared the suc
| cessful prosecution of large scale
I bootleggers at Atlanta, brought up
■ in the testimony, had been a most
I successful endeavor of the depart
’ ment of justice and that the evi
j fence had only been procured for
conviction by many months of per
sistent and patient “under-cover
■ work" of secret agents.
Says Reed Aided Remus
A more spirited phase of Mrs. WU
lebrandt’s examination was entered
upon when the names ol George
Remus, whose Ohio bootlegging op
erations involved immense sums of
1 money and huge quantities of liquor
before he landed in Atlanta peni
tentiary, and of Jesse Smith, to
whom Remus testified he paid $250.-
000 in bribe money, were brought
\ in. She said Remus had fought
conviction “clear along the line up
to the White House."
“I'll be frank with you,” she
continued. “A request for a stay
of sentence in Remus’ behalf was
: sent to the White House by Sena-
I tor Reed (Democratl, Missouri, fol-
■ lowing a visit to the White House
; which Senator Reed made. The de-
I partment was then asked to make a
I report.”
•wVasn't the request signed by
I President Coolidge?" Senator W'neel-
I er demanded.
| “1 don't so remember.’’ Mrs. Wille-
I brandt said, “but m spile of the
OTHERWISE IT WILL BE A PLEASANT SUMMER
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m NOVEMBER X'llwwro X
Fl FOLLETTE PARTY
REPORTED GROWING
STRONGER BIPIOLY
-•WASHINGTON, June 17.—The
conference for progressive political
action, whose convention in Cleve
land on July 4 is expected to nomi
nate Senator La Follette for presi
dent, in a statement today declared
organizations have been effected in
24 states, with the number growing
almost daily.
Activities, it xvas said, have been
stimulated by the treatment of the
I La Follette delegation at the Cleve
I land convention and the nomina ß
I tion of General Dawes as a running
I mate for President Coolidge.
Regardless of the action taken by
I the St. Paul convention nowi in ses
sion, the statement asserted, the
I cenference will follow
plan it adopted at its irapeption,
“steering clear of any communist
influence.” Delegates to the Cleve
land convention will be allotted as
follows:
National and international trade
unions; nationally organized politi
cal parties, nationally organized as
sociations of farmers, nationally or
ganized cooperative societies
entitled to three delegates each.
Districts of the United Mine
Workers, legislative boards of trans-
I portation brotherhoods and other
■ trade unions; System committees,
district and state boards of trade
unions; progressive political organi
zations of state xvide scope; state
boards of the C. P. P. A.; state or
ganizations of progressive women;
stare building trade councils; allied
printing trade councils and similar
bodies—entitled to two delegates
each.
City central labor bodies; local
building and allied printing trades
councils; local co-operative and agri
cultural societies without state or
national affiliations; joint boards of
adjustment in needle trades; local
branches of the C. P. P. A., where
no state organization exists —entitled
to one delegate each.
effort- made in Remus’ behalf he is
in Atlanta.” «
Pressed by Congressmen
Senator Jones, Republican, Wash
ington, asked if Mrs. Willebrandt
under Attorney General Daugherty’s
administration had ever found her
self hampered in seeking to enforce
prohibition.
“My hands were never tied in any
respect,” she asserted. “Mr. Daugh
erty did not interfere; he stood back
of me xvhen I got awfully hard
pressed.”
“Who brought the pressure J” Sen
ator Jones. Republican, Washington,
asked.
“Senators, congressmen and at
torneys,” she retorted, “seeking
; postponement, delays in prosecution.
' Mr. Daugherty stood by me in every
I instance but on&.”
“What was the relation of Jess
| Smith to Mr. Daugherty?” Senator
j Jones queried.
Glorified Valet
“I thought he was a kind of glori
: fied personal servant,” Mrs. Wille-
I brandt responded. “He bought tick-'
I ets. carried the attorney general's
I brief case, had something of a sta-
I tus of a valet pet baps, or a personal
' servant.”
i "Did Mr. Daugherty ever tell you
I hoxv to treat him?” Senator Jones
: asked.
‘Yes, in one instance,” Mrs. Wille
brandt responded. “Mr. Daugherty’s
eyes were bothering him and Mr.
Smith brought me a memorandum
about some Ohio case. This sug-
■ gested that I do something or other
i about the matter —I think it was a
I postponement he wanted, but I paid
t little attention to it. Later I spoke
to Mr. Daugherty and he said: ‘Oh,
1 don't pay ;:;iy attention to Jess. It
j I've sot any instructions tn give ynit
1 I’ll give them myself. There's a tele
jphone on my desk.'”
Atlanta, Ga., Thursday, June 19, 1924
REAI STORY OF FRANKS CRIME
WILL NEVER BE TOLD-LEOPOLD
Slayer Says Secret !s Locked
in Breast of Attorneys and
Alienists World to Be
Kept in Daik
CHICAGO, June 17.—Nathan Leo
pold, Jr., college graduate and mil
lionaire’s son, with Richard Loeb,
awaiting trail on charges of kidnap
ing and slaying schoolboy Robert
Franks, xvhich they have admitted,
declares the real story of the boy’s
will never be told, according
to the Chicago Herald and Exam
iner.
Both boys are being given intri
cate physical and psychological tests
by alienists, whose reports will be
the basis of the defense in their trial,
set for August 4.
Leopold is quoted by the newspa
per as saying only the two defense
attorneys, two examining alienists
and Loeb and himself will ever know
anything of the plan or execution of
it that resulted in the indictment of
the two for capital offense.
“The world will be kept in Ignor
ance," Leopold is quoted as saying,
“as to how long it was in the mind
MABEL NORMAND, ON STAND,
TELLS OF DINES SHOOTING
' Has Seen Too Many Bottles
in Her Life to Identify Posi
i tively the One Offered as
; Evidence
LOS ANGELES, Cal., June 17.
• A battery of sidelights on the New
1 Year’s night party at which Court-
I land S. Dines, Denver oil operator,
i was shot and seriously wounded by
■ Horace Greer, then chauffeur to Ma
bel Normand, film actress, was ready
[ to be turned on before a jury of ten
: women and two men at today’s ses
sion of Greer’s trial oi. a charge of
attempting to murder Dines.
Greer does not deny that he shot
but will seek acquittal on the
ground of self defense, according to
his counsel. So far no jritness has
taken the stand to .deny that Greer
shot in self defense, and even Dines
; himself has exhibited no eagerness
. to testify against the chauffeur.
Miss Normand’s description of the
| party at Dines' apartment, given on
I the witness stand yesterday, was ac
. | companied by many gestures, sor-e
j of them illuminating, many of them
, amusing. •
She began with the day she hired
I Joe Kelly to be her chauffeur. He
: was Joe Kelly then, “she explained,
■ not Horace Greer. Sh e did not
I learn his name was Greer “until
I all this trouble popped up.”
Her narrative had progressed as
• far as her arrival at the Dines apart
| ment where sh e found her friend,
. Edna Purviance. with Dines, when
■ she again referred to Greer as Joe
> Kelly. Reminded thgt his name was
not Kelly, at least In this trial, she
apologized.
.:. “You see, I don’t know the law,
/ I mean the defendant. How’s that?”
Then Greer Arrived.
“Well." she continued, “I cleared
away all the cigarette butts— you
know what those are. your honor—
and then we s at doxvn and talked.”
, And then Greer knocked on the
door.
Greer was not intruding, she said;
; he was there because he had been
• sent.
“He arrived with a package?” in-
. quired defense counsel.
“Yes, with this,” she pointed to
a box of military brushes on the
counsel table.
“Mr. Dines' said: ‘Just a minute;
just a minute'—just like that: and
I got up and left the room."
■ "Bur where was' Greer?” asfifed
. counsel.
' I told you. Mr. Dines had just
of either of us, who proposed the
matter, who was the persuasive one,
who executed it.”
He said both he and Loeb had told
the entire truth to the examining
scientists.
He dropped the nonchalent cynical
attitude that had characterized him
since he xvas first taken into cus
tody in connection with 1 the slaying
as he mad a plea for public under
standing.
“They have pictured me as In
ordinately 'cruel, inhuman, unfeel
ing,” he said. "But ‘Dicky’ Loeb, evi
dentljr because of his guileless ap
pearance, his winsome smile, his
soulful eyes, seems to have won the
sympathy of the public.
“If the public only knew what
I know about ‘Dicky’ Loeb,” the
newspaper quotes Leopold as saying,
“they would know that behind that
mask of innocence there is a brain
that is much more acute and subtle
than mine and that he can maintain
that appearance of innocence after
having done things a short time be
fore at xvhich I would shudder.”
Leopold indicated the tests being
made are an annoyance and a bore,
lie admitted, however, that his case
rested entirely in the hands of those
“who are able to judge me better
than I can myself.”
let him in.”
And" then the shooting began. At
least that was how .Miss Normand
said she remembered it.
“All I heard was three noises,”
she said. “Like three fire crackers.
Edna, and I ran back into the liv
ing room and there was Dines all
bent over; all coveretfx.with blood.
“He said: ‘l’m plugged.’ ”
“Edna and I took hold of his
arms—you know how it’s done, your
honor—and a little while later some
fellow came with a little satchel or
something. I guess it was the doc
tor.”
At this point defense counsel
turned to a table where stood a
squat brown bottle, the bottle which
the defense claims Dines was about
to use as a weapon against Greer
when the latter shot him.
“Is this the bottle you saw in
Dines’ apartment?” she was asked.
Has Seen Lots of Bottles
“It looks like it, and it doesn’t
look like it,” she replied. “I've seen
lots of bottles in my young life. It
was just a bottle.”
“How much whisky was in it.”
The exponent of silent drama held
up her hand. With thumb and fore
finger spread apart, she indicated
a space of approximately two
inches.
“That was all,” she added, lapsing
from sign language back into ordi
nary speech. ‘Just enough for the
three of us to have a little drink.”
“How big a man was Dines?” she
was asked.
The witness turned her hack on
the attorney, whirled in her chair
and gazed at Judge Crail.
“Your honor,” she began coyly,
"I think Mr. Dines was just like
you, your honor. May I say that?”
she smiled.
The judge frowned.
“We had better not make the mat
ter too personal,” he reminded her
sternly.
Later, however, when asked about
Greer’s conduct New Year’s night,
she again appealed to Judge Crail,
ignoring counsel.
“Your honor,” she said, “he must
have been crazy or wild. I don't
know.”
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WITNESS DECLARES
State Intimates Boy Slew
Parents to Get Money
for Broadway Life J
CLEARWATER, Fla., June 18.—
Frank McDowell was described on
the witness stand today b- R. G.
Payne, »St. Petersburg insurance
man, as having shown great agita- |
tion when he was told that his fa
ther planned to return to Decatur,
Ga., and buy a newspaper. Mr.
Payne and Mr. McDowell shared
office space together, the latter deal
ing in real estate.
This point was developed during
testimony of Mr. Payne regarding
the delivery of an insurance policy
,to the elder McDowell for $5,000,
carrying a double indemnity clause
in case of accidental or violent
death.
Mr. Payne testified that following
a talk with the boy’s father, he told
Frank, who xvas acting as a sub
agent and had written the applica
tion for the father’s policy, that his
father told him he had received an
offer for his home, intended to sell
it and return to Decatur and buy a
| newspaper because he knew that
• business, but did not know much
j about real estate.
The janitor of the building in
which Mr. Payne had an office testi
fied that he had seen McDowell re- '
turn to the insurance office about 9
o'clock on the night of the killings,
and he later found, when cleaning
i the office, pieces of paper from which
heart-shaped portions had been cut.
That the state is attempting to
weave a web of evidence around
McDowell that will send him to the
electric chair for the murder of his
mother in an effort to obtain money
to defray expenses of a life in the \
while-lignt district of New York was
' indicated in arguments on the ad
missibility of testimony.
Wanted Broadway Apartment
M. .1. Kelly, St. Petersourg plumb
er, testified that while he owned a
[ grocery store in the Sunshine City,
i McDowell often came to his place o£
. business and talked of his ambitions.
- The youth told him, the farmer ■
grocer testified, that it was his de
sire to go abroad, and later to take
up life in a bachelor apartment on
Broadway in New York. McDowell,
in these conversations, the witness (
stated, would complain of the lax-k
’ of funds to defray exnenses of such
3 a life, but admitted that the only
; way to obtain it was by honest ef
forts.
t Defense counsel strongly objected
J to admission of the testimony of
, Kelly, but was overruled and the
t testimony xvas allowed to go to the
t "jury for what it is worth’’ by Judge
1 Mullen, who stated that he would
i later rule it out if the state failed
• to show its materiality.
“The state will attempt to show,”
declared the special assistant state’s
j attorney, “that a craving for money
and a life on the white way o(
} New York was the motive behind
j the crime.”
I Under cross-examination Kelly said
only one of the conversations with
McDowell took place in front of his
grocery store. Replying to a ques
tion of defense counsel, Kelly said ha
never noticed anything peculiar about
McDowell; that he appeared to be a
devoted and obedient son.
Pastor Testifies
E. T. Poulson, pastor of the First
Baptist church of St. Petesburg, -
testified the McDowell's were mem
bers of his church. The defendant
t came to his home about 2 a. m.
j following the crime, and seemed
horror stricken, but showed, it
> seemed to him, genuine grief. The
boy told him he couldn’t believe in
1 Gori because of the belief of others
1 that God xvould punish persons
guilty of crime.
The minister’d description of con
s versations with McDowell tallied
r with those of other witnesses us to
3 details of scenes surrounding the
r crime. The boy did not appear to
. him to be a religious fanatic, but
I he had conversed with him regard-
I i ing so-eallefi modernism. He did not
( 1 regard the boy’s views regarding re
j ligion as peculiar.
t A confession of McDowell, in
I which he admitted killing his father
and mother and burning his sisters
t in Decatur, was placed in evidence.
D. C. Wilkerson, St. Petersburg
notary public, declared on the wit
t ness stand in response to questions
! from Judge M. A. McMullen, during
t the absence of the jury, that the
confession was voluntarily and free
ly made and signed by the youth.
I The court ruled, however, that un
i less the state could show the ma«
’,! teriality of that part of the confes
j sion relating to the sister!, that sec
; tion would be later stricken from
' the records.
Only that portion of the confession
• , relating to the slaying of the mother
! and father by the boy jyas admitted
■ as evidence in the first trial.
The court room was half flllea
’ with women and girls and a smaller
number of men who listened atten
tively to the testimony.
Twenty witnesses were sworn for
the state. The number that will ap- 1
i pear for the defense was not statati.
Drug Addict.
J Testimony that McDowell had
, i been a drug addict prior to })is con
finement was introduced during th«
i afternoon sessoin of court. Dr. L.
i Lambdin. St. Petersburg physician,
testified that during an examination
■ of McDowell last Sunday at the re
i quest,, of the state,s atorney, the de
l fendant told him he had been taking
> drugs, getting them by forging
names of physicians to prescriptions.
Dr. O. M. Knox, of St. Petersburg,
repudiated a signature purported to
have been his to a prescription call-
. ing for a narcotic.
Neighbor Describes Tragedy
W. 1.. Stone, a neighbor of the Mc
j Dowells, in St. Petersburg, was the
i ■ fir- -t witness called by the state.
> ' Young McDowell watched indiffer-
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