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VOL. XXVI. NO. 150
GEN. JOHN L. HINES
HAS DEFINITE PLAN
TO KEEP MEN 'FIT'
Successor to Pershing Holds
Training More Important
Than Numbers
Milestones in Career
Os New Army Chief
1868 —Born. White Sulphur
Springs, W. Va.
1887 —Entered West Point.
1891—Commissioned second lieu
tenant.
1898 —Santiago campaign.
1901—Philippine insurrection.
1908—Departmental quartermas
ter.
Adjutant general’s depart-
/ ment.
y I*ll6—Chief of staff. Villa expedi
tion.
1917—Assistant adjutant general
A. E. F.
1922—Deputy chief of staff.
1924—Chief of staff.
BY LUDWELL DENNY
WASHINGTON, Sept. 20.—The
new chief of staff of the United
States army pushed back his chair
and thumped his desk:
“I don’t intend to be a desk chief.
I’m not going to stay around the
war department much. I mean to get
out in the field and see what’s going
on. The thing that counts in an
irmy is not numbers but training—
ind training men means inspection.”
Major General John L. Hines, Per
ihing’s deputy, who has succeeded
“Black Jack’’ as chief, has a reputa
tion In the service as a driver. But a
kindly driver, one who does not ex
pect more of others than he demands
»f himself.
His Army Ideal
Hines did not have to hunt for an
ir.swer when the United Press cor
’espondent asked him to put into one
lentence his ideal for the army. He
said it in one word:
“Efficiency!”
When officers say a regiment can
je “over-inspected,” he gets angry.
If you happen on an army post
vhen Hines is on one of his unaa
lounced inspection tours, the first
part of him you are apt to see is
iis legs* sticking out from under a
juilding. When he is giving a bar
•acks the once over, he crawls on
iis stomach and examines the foun
lations. He never asks the cavalry
jfficers if the horses are properly
ihod —he gets down and looks at
he shoes.
And if conditions are not right,
dines sees that they are speedily
v.afi*-.. right. He tells this story of
low he used “strong-arm methods”
o whip into shape his command in
France:
Tells a Story
“I joined my regiment, the Six
teenth infantry, in the Gounde Court
trea in November, 1917, and found
i large portion of the regiment
lazed or asleep. The equipment was
jot being properly cared for the
transportation was filthy. 1 1 tried
noral suasion for a short while. 1
yas not highly successful. I had to
•esort to 'strong-arm methods’ mixed
yith praise. Here was a case when
Iriving was necessary to get things
Itarted. I believe that a commander
yill often find it necessary to exer
jise a driving force to get a com-
Eiand to its feet and sometimes to
eep it there, too.”
Hines is fond of illustrating the
lesirability of commanders exercis
ng personal leadership with a story
ibout George Washington when the
♦ British crossed to New York after
lhe battle of Brooklyn Heights.
“General Washington was so in
lensed at two brigades of his troops
•etreating before a force of about
Ifty British that he belabored them
yith a stick —and came near being
japtured with his aide and hi~
jorse."
Absolute Obedience
Hines demands absolute obedience
bis subordinates. In listing the
■fllLfst virtues of an officer, he
loyalty first. When asked
as the most important thing
le hau learned in the army, he re-
Ried quickly:
“Loyalty first and loyalty last.’
Lnd he makes this a test of citizen
ibip:
“Obedience to the law because it is
ihe law, not because you approve or
tisapprove.”
Here is a bit of his instructions to
i jfficers: "You must accomplish your
ask whether you personally and in
lividually approve it or not. Criti
tism of the orders of superiors should
> e avoided and discouraged, for it
tan load only to disloyalty—the most
ricious characteristic a military
nan can possess.”
Attitude Toward Pershing
His attitude toward Pershing in
Mexico and France and as deputy
inder “Black Jack” at the war de
partment, has been a rigid exemplifi
lation of his doctrine of loyalty.
Much of Pershing’s success has
:ome from the unquestioning and
inassuming support given by Hines.
Whenever Hines makes a speech he
ncludes the name of Pershing with
Washington and Grant as America’s
freat military leaders. Secretary of
War Weeks, by the way, classes
dines as an equal with America’s
•utstanding generals of the past,
ind one of the best produced by the
World war.
The rule followed by Hines when
, tommanding under fire is best ex
pressed by his favorite quotation
Iroin Foch at the Marne: ' I am
leavily pressed upon my right: my
tenter is giving way; 1 cannot re
list ribute my forces; the situation
s excellent, and I shall attack.
Self-control Necessary
Self-control looms large in his eye
is a necessary virtue in military
r.rn. As a man of high temper, who
tas fought to conquer himself, he
•xpects as much from others. He
ells how the French command
■hanged orders on him three times
* * one night during a battle in
Trance.
“1 blew up and paid my respects
o lhe French in no unmeasured
erms,” he confessed. "In the midst
•f this tirade I suddenly realized
hat here was something I should
nobably encounter often and that
n.v actions were entirely wrong. I
•an remember no other instance in
rhtch I lost my self-control fn the
4 rar.”
Published Every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday
GENERAL JOHN L. HINES,
who succeeded General Persh
ing as commander of the Amer
ican army, and who has his own
ideas of how men should be
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CARPET OF ROSES
SPREAD FOB FLIEBS
IT SINTI MONICA
CLOVERFIELD, Santa Monica.
Cal., Sept. 23. —(By the Associated
Press.) —The three army world cruis
ing airplanes reutrned to Cloverfield
at 2:47 p. m. today, six months and
six days after they left, March 17, to
encircle the globe.
Santa Monica was groomed for
the return of the airmen who last
St. Patrick’s day set out on what
their skill and courage were to make
the first successful around-the-world
flight of history.
As benefits conquerors, tne return
ing airmen will alight on a field of
roses; for that is what Clover field
will be when the planes built in
Santa Monica for the world flight
come home to Santa Monica again.
All night trucks laden with flowers
trundled out to the field from com
munities that had stripped their
gardens to provide a gay and color
ful welcome to the fliers. From San
Pedro came a whole shipload of fra
grant blossoms.
ZANNI POSTPONES FLIGHT
ON GENERAL LU’S ADVICE
SHANGHAI, Sept. 23.—(8y the As
sociated Press.) —The flight of Major
Pedro Zanni, the Argentine ’round
the-world flier, to Shanghai from
Hong Kong, where he arrived yester
day, has been postponed as a result
of a communication from General
Lu Yung-Hsianm, military governor
of Chekiang province, it was dis
closed today by A. del Carril, the
Argentine consular representative
here.
The request from General Lu urged
postponement of the flight to
Shanghai because of the war.
Del Carril, in a protest presented
to the bureau of foreign affairs,
represented that Major Zanni in
tended to alight on th., Whangpoo
river at a point very remote from
the fighting, and insisted that a per
mit had already been granted for
the Hong Kong-Shanghai flight by
the central government at Pekin.
Del Carril has telegraphed to Ma
jor Zanni to delay his departure
from Hong Kong, but said it was
probable Zanni would proceed de
spite the protest by General Lu.
HOP TO SANTA MONICA
IS ONLY 150 MILES
SAN DIEGO, Cal., Sept. 23.—Three
United States army aviators, on the
home stretch of an air cruise around
the world, slept soundly this morn
ing while observers at Rockweßl
field expected a low fog to disap
pear under a southern California sun
before the scheduled departure of
the three airmen for Santa Monica
at 12:30 p. m.
The three fliers, Lieutenants Low
ell 11. Smith, Eric Nelson and Leigh
Wade, viewed the jump today along
the California coast as a cruise lack
ing the element of risk which char
acterized their flights through un
charted air lanes in other lands.
N. C. Governor Plans
Fight for Return of
Police Chief’s Slayer
RALEIGH, N. C., Sept. 23.—Gov
ernor Morrison has been advised by
California authorities that the hear
ing on the requisition for the re
turn to North Carolina of Dr. J. W.
Peacock, Thomasville physician,
who was captured near Los Angeles
several days ago, would not be held
until the arrival of representatives
from this state, it was learned here
this morning.
Governor Morrison, being advised
at Charlotte yesterday that Dr. Pea
cock intende dto fight extradition,
announced that he would direct At
torney General J. S. Manning to go
to California to appear at the hear
ing in behalf of the state.
Dr. Peacock escaped from the
criminal insane department in 1923
after being committed there follow
ing his trial in connection with the
slaying of Chief of Police Taylor, of
Thomasville, the jury having found
him not guilty of murder, and de
claring him to be a paranoiac.
I ndispatches Saturday night, the
identity of Dr. Peacock was con
fused with Dr. J. W. Peacock, of
Thomasville, Ga., who had no con
nectio nwith the shooting of the
chief of police of Thomasville, N. C.
Posse Surrounds
Armed Desperadoes
In Georgia Swamp
ALMA, Ga., Sept. 23.—A swamp
near here, in which two armed des
peradoes are believed hiding, was
surrounded today by a sheriff's
posse.
The fugitives are Carlton Johnson
and Olin Wages, state convicts who
escaped from the Bacon county jail
here Monday. The pair escaped from
the Coffee county chaingang a
month ago. and were recaptured
three weeks later.
They were brought here to be
tried for shooting Wash Nelson dur
ing their first escape.
The fugitives are heavily armed,
and are expected to put up a stiff
battle if overtaken by their pur
suers.
I \ ■
DAVIS REITERATES
CHARGES AGAINST
HARRY DAUGHERTY
Democratic Nominee Writes
Former Attorney General
He Will Not Retract
NEW YORK, Sept. 24. Having
served notice that there is to be no
obscuring of the issue that the
American people shall be aroused
to condemn and not to condone the
betrayal of official trust, John W.
Davis prepared today to return to
the stump, determined to hit out
harder than ever on the subject of
“corruption in government.”
The notice from the Democratic
presidential nominee was contained
in a letter writen yesterday to Harry
M. Daugherty in reply to one in
which the forme attorney general
protested against what be charac
terized as the “usually vague and all
the more reprehensible” references
which Mr. Davis has made during
the campaign to his official conduct.
Agreeing with Mr. Daugherty that
“there is something more important
in this year of grace than election
to office or political success,” Mr.
Davis said the isue of honesty of
public officials could not be becloud
ed “by your forced effort to repre
sent the real contest of this cam
paign as one between the defenders
of the constitution and those who
seek to overthrow it under leaders
‘fresh from a baptism of Bolshevism
in lurid and suffering Russia.’ ”
“If the constitution is to endure,”
Mr. Davis wrote, “the first requisite
is that men who hold office under it
shall be honest and faithful to their
trusts. Its real enemies are not the
Reds and Bolshevists of whom you
speak, whose shadows frighten you.
but corrupt and impotent public of
ficials and their associates.”
Aserting that instead of being
“quite veiled,” his allusions in the
campaign to Mr. Daugherty had
been “both direct and specific,” Mr.
Davis declared that he found no war
rant whatever for withdrawing a
single one of them.
Daugherty Appointed Means
Brushing aside Mr. Daugherty’s
statement that his “self respect” de
barred him from appearing before
the senate investigating committee
because of the malice exhibited to
wards him by it, Mr. Davis said that
it seemed to him that under the
circumstances “the malice of the
committee and the falsity of the evi
dence -would rather increase than di
minish the natural desire of any
man, much less an attorney general
of the United States, to meet his ac
cusers on their own ground.”
“I confess that your failure to do
so,” Mr. Davis wrote, “as well as
the refusal of your brother to furnish
information demanded of him in re
turn, produced on ine, and I think
upon the country, an exceedingly
painful impression.”
With respect to the testimony of
Gaston B. Means, before the com
mittee and his subsequent repudia
tion of it and his still later repudi
ation of the repudiation, the Demo
cratic nominee said it was Mr.
Daugherty who appointed Means to
a confidential position in the depart
ment of justice.
“You brought him into the circle
of your official intimates,” Mr. Dav
is said. “You created him a govern
ment agent. You gave him his cre
dentials. At the time you did so
his character was already notorious.
I can imagine no maladministration
in any governmental department
more vicious than the employment
of men of such character.”
Adverting to the indictment of
Senator Burton Wheeler, of Mon
tana, “prosecutor” for the senate
committee. Mr. Davis said “the sig
nificant thing" was that no effort to
find such an indictment had been
made until Senator Wheeler “had as
sumed a leading part in the criti
cism of the administration and of
yourself.”
In writing Mr. Daugherty that he
was mistaken that such references
as had been made to him were “un
usually vague and all the more rep
rehensible,” Mr. Davis said he
begged to call attention to them.
Jazz Artist, Fired
Because Too Noisy,
Puts End to Life
BERLIN, Sept. 23.—“ The days of
jazz music are gone and as there is
nothing else for me to do I have
decided to hang myself,” were the
farewall words of Kurt Krar zler.
bass drummer in a Berlin jazz Land.
Kranzler was discharged because
he persisted in dominating the
band’s performances by too lusty ap
plication of his drumstick and cym
bals. M hen told that modern dance
music no longer liked excessive
noise. Kranzler was seized with a
fit of melancholy and disappeared.
He was found hanging bv a stran
taken from his bass drum from a
tree m the Grunewa’t
Traffic Policeman
Unwittingly Delays
Davis-Smith Talk
NEW YORK, Sept. 23.—A police
man on the Willamsburg bridge
i Monday prevented John W. Davis
, from keeping an engagement with
. Governor Smith.
Mr. Davis’ chauffeur was driving
| across the bridge on the way to Lo
| cust Valley to bring the Democratic
i presidential nominee to the gover-
I nor’s hotel when the officer arrested
i the chauffeaur because the car car
| ried police department card. The
chauffeur was taken to a precinct
i house, where It was ascertained that
' Mr. Davis’ machine was privileged to
use the sign.
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IN SPECIAL SESSION
Brookhart to Issue Call.
Means Charges to Be
Given Airing
Government Tax Lien
For $267,614 Filed
Aainst Gaston Means
WASHINGTON, Sept. 23.—The
federal government has filed in
the supreme court here a tax lien
against Gaston B. Means, star
witness in the senate department
of justice investigation, amount
ing to $267,614.40 for alleged un
paid income taxes for years 1921,
1922 and 1923.
The lien assessed the unpaid
taxes at $214,091.52 and the pen
alty $53,522.88.
CAMP PERRY, 0., Sept. 23.—A
special session of the senate commit- ,
tee investigating the department of ;
justice will be called immediately, '
Senator Smith W. Brookhart an- •
nounced here today. .
Senator Brookhart had just receiv- i
ed a telegram from Senator Burton
K. Wheeler, authorizing the hear- ,
ing.
Harry M. Daugherty, former at
torney general, is to be called be
fore the reconvened session, Senator
Brookhart said, in an attempt to
sift the truth from the many ru
mors, charges and counter charges
resulting from Daugherty’s open let
ter to John W, Davis and the alleged
repudiation statement of Gaston B.
Means.
MORE LIGHT IS SOUGHT
BY DEMOCRATIC LEADERS
NEW YORK, Sept. 23.—Demo
cratic leaders moved today to get at
the facts behind the disputed re
pudiation of Gaston B. Means of his
sensational testimony before the sen
ate committee which investigated al
leged corruption in the department
of justice under former Attorney
General Daugherty. As a result the
inquiry is likely to be reopened.
While Democratic leaders have
some faith in Means’ assertions that
his “repudiation” was merely a trap
set for Daugherty, their chief desire
to keep the matter before the pub
lic, since Daugherty has once more
brought the question of "corruption
in government”—the paramount is
sue of John W. Davis, Democratic
presidential candidate —into promi
nence.
Means undoubtedly would be call
ed to tell his story If the inquiry
were reopened. Democratic leaders,
however, want to have Daugherty
and Means’ attorney, Thomas B.
Felder, put on the stand to explain
the circumstances surrounding the
“repudiation” and certain documents
said to be in Means’ possession.
Senator Ashurst wired Senators
Brookhart and Wheeler, chairman
and “prosecutor” of the senate
Daugherty committee, as follows:
“In view of the statement of Gas
ton B. Means that his repudiation of
his testimony was procured frojn
him by promises of assistance made
by some friends of Attorney General
Daugherty and in view of the further
fact that Means now urges that the
committee be assembled so that he
may lay before it the circumstances
and reasons leading to his signing
the repudiation, I therefore suggest
that a meeting of the committee be.
called at once and that all persons
involved in these alleged transactions
be subpoenaed to testify. Kindly ad
vise me.”
Wheeler is on a tour that will take
him to the Pacific coast and it is
unlikely he will abandon his trip
even to re-open ihe investigation. So ■
if it is reopened it probably will be ,
conducted by Ashurst and Brook
hart, who is at Camp Perrv. Ohio.
Palatial Franks Home
Dismantled and Sold
As Echo of Murder
CHICAGO, Sept. 23.—An after
math to the tragedy of the death |
of young Robert Franks, for which I
his kidnapers and slayers are now ;
serving life sentences in prison, took
place Monday at the palatial home
of Jacob Franks, wealthy father of
the murdered boy, when the luxu
rious home was dismantled and its
costly furnishings sold to the high
est bidder under the auctioneer’s
hammer.
Gale Sweeps France
As Autumn Arrives;
13 Persons Drowned t
PARIS. Sept. 23.—The worst sum
mer France has experienced for
many generations blew itself out to
the accompaniment of a deluge and
autumn opened with a hurricane
blast wreaking havoc on sea and
land. The coasts are being swept
by a northwesterly gale.
11 The Weather
Forecast for Thurdsay:
Virginia, North Carolina and South
| Carolina: Generally fair; not much
; change in temperature; moderate
I northeast winds.
I Georgia: Generally fair, except
; showers and thunderstorms in ex
■ treme south portion; moderate east
I and northeast winds.
Florida: Probably local showers
anil thunderstorms; moderate north
i east winds.
! Extreme Northwest Florida: Gen
erally fair; moderate northeast
I winds.
Alabama and Mississippi: Gener
ally fair: rising temperature; mod
erate northeast winds.
Tennessee and Kentucky: Brob
, ably fair.
Louisiana: Fair.
Arkansas: Partly cloudy to cloudy,
I probably showers in north portion.
1 'Oklahoma: Partly cloudy to
I cloudy.
I East Texas: Increasing cloudi
' ness.
j West Texas: Generally fair.
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ciated Press.) —Germany in the near .
future will make an effort to enter
the League of Nations on an equal (
footing with the great powers, it ■
was officially announced today in a
communique issued at the close of
a cabinet meeting.
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ENGLAND CAI’ITI I ATES
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GENEVA. Sept. 23. —(By the Asso
ciated Press.) —Great Britain has
come around, even if reluctantly, to
the position of approving regional
defensive alliances, like those made
by Frame in central Europe, as an
additional guarantee for the protec
tion of national territorial integrity.
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tion and security which was sub
mitted to the disarmament commit
tee of the League of Nations assem
bly yesterday automatically will
bring sanctions into play against
any aggressor state, but France,
with the memory of 1914 vividly be
fore her and with active support
from Belgium, fought tenaciously for
the inclusion of regional alliances
and agreements in the general pro
tocol.
The British delegates now have ad
mitted that the absolute prohibition
of the inforcement of sanctions, un
less and until these have been decid
ed upon by the league council, large
ly lessens the British objections to
special accords, when they operate !
as part of the machinery of the en
tire protocol.
Atlanta, Ga., Thursday, September 25, 1924
! World News
I Told in
Brief
I MOSCOW.—Leon Trotzky, war
commissar, urges Chinese revolu
tionaries to join world proletariat.
MARION, Ohio.— Brigadier Gener
i al Charles E. Sawyer, personal phy
sician to Presidents Harding and
Coolidge, dies suddenly at his farm
near here.
SAN SA LVA DOR.—Negotiations
for armistice between government
j and revolutionary forces in Hondu
! tas have been started, and advent
I of peace is near, advices say.
WASHINGTON. —Secretary of the
Navy Wilbur refers to the navy gen
> eral board the problem of determin
ing ratio of submarines, surface
[ ships and aircraft in navy next year.
HONGKONG.—Major Pedro Zan
ni, Argentine world flyer, and his
i mechanician, narrowly escape drown-
I ing when launc h in which they are
riding in harbor here collides with
another.
SANTA MONICA, Cal. —One hun
dred thousand persons greet Ameri
can world fliers on their arrival at
Clover field here, where world cir- 1
cling planes were built and out
fitted.
NEWARK. —United States Sena- i
tor Walter E. Edge leads National
Committeeman Hamilton F. Kean in
I New Jersey primary race for Re
publican nomination as United
States senator.
LONDON. —Said Zagloul Tasha,
Egyptian premier, arrives on infor
mal visit during which he will con
fer with government as preliminary
to negotiations for settlement of
Sudan question.
WASHINGTON. State depart
ment orders all consuls to refuse
■ clearance to ships bearing liquor for
: beverage purposes destined for Phil- <
ippine islands on basis of legal rul- i
ing that eighteenth amendment ap- ;
plies to them.
WASHINGTON. — Plans for cross- I
country flight of naval dirigible!
Shenandoah, announced by navy I
department, provide for westward
journey to San Diego via Fort
Worth. Tex., and thence north to
Camp Lewis, Wash.
NEW YORK.—John W. Davis, re
plying to letter from former Attor
ney General Daugherty containing
: repudiation of testimony given be
fore committee investigating depart
ment of justice, declares real ene
mies of constitution are not reds,
but “corrupt and impotent public
l officials and their associates,’’
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GOVERNOR AL SMITH
WS HE'LL ACCEPT
WNENHENOMIIUTEO
ALBANY, N. Y., Sept. 23.—Gov
ernor Alfred E. Smith today predicted
the renomination of the entire Demo
cratic state ticket.
Asked whether his prediction
meant that he was willing to accept
renomination, the governor said:
“I’ll let you judge that for your
selves.”
NEW YORK STATE CHIEFS
FLOCKING TO SYRACUSE
SYRACUSE, N. Y., Sept, 23.—The
first scene in the political drama of
the state Democratic convention will
be unfolded here this afternoon with
the arrival of Governor Alfred E.
Smith on the Empire State Express,
accompanied by virtually all the elec
tive heads of the various state de
partments and numerous Democratic
leaders of all ranks.
Pre-convention conferences at
which details of the Democratic, plat
form will be whipped into shape and
unofficial gatherings of the scores
of Democrats who will be hero by
late afternoon, will start tonight.
REPUBLICAN NOMINATION
MAY FALL TO ROOSEVELT
ROCHESTER. N. Y„ Sept. 23.
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, assist
ant secretary of the navy, looms as
the strongest contender for the Re
publican nomination for governor, in
consequence of the announcement by
11. Edmund Mac Hold, speaker of the
assembly, that he had definitely
withdrawn bis name.
Roosevelt’s name will be presented
to the Republican state convention,
opening here Wednesday.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Sept. 23.
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■ as the “Oiler,” running between El-
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lat Isabel today. The cause of the de- I
railment was not determined.
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PASTOR'S STORY OF
DOOOLE POISONING
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Husband Rallied Twice, So
She Gave Him Third
and Fatal Dose
MOUNT VERNON, 111., Sept. 23,
After an all-night vigil, Mrs. Elsie
Sweetin confessed this morning that
she was implicated with the Rev.
Lawrence M. Hight, of Ina, in a plot
to poison her husband and Mrs.
Hight in order that she and the
minister could be married, thus com
firming the confession made yes
terday by Hight.
Hight and Miss Sweetin were re
moved from the county jail here to
day -because of reported threats at
Nason, a small town near Ina. The
minister was taken to Salem and
Mrs. Sweetin to Belleville, 111.
Arrested yesterday evening at her
> home in Ina, twelve miles south of
here, Mrs. Sweetin steadfastly de
nied any part in the alleged poison
plot, as had been admiUed by the
minister, but broke down this morn
ing after being closeted in the same
cell with the minister, with State’s
Attorney Thompson and newspaper
'men listening at the door of the cell.
The text of the confession made
and signed by Mrs. Sweetin, follows:
“The first time that I noticed that
Lawrence M. Hight had any feelings
of affection for me was in April,
1924; my husband for some time had
treated me without affection.
“At first I wag horrified, but he
talked so plausibly and I had such l
confidence in him that it seemed to
me to be right to do it. We then
finally agreed that I was to admin- 1
ister poison to my husband, Wilford
Sweetin, and he was to administer 1
poison his wife, Anna Hight. And
when a week or two later my hus
band was hurt in the mine, Law
rence Hight gave me a paper pack-j
age which he told me contained
poison, and he told me to give Dome
of it to. Wilford in anything.
“Wilford was hurt in the mine ori
the night of July 16, and the follow/
ing day we went to Benton and
went to a drug store and got som4
ice cream and sodawater, and ori
theXway home I gave Wilford, msl
husband, some chocolate candy, iii|
which I had mixed some of the*
poison. He became very ill, bu<
seemed later to grow better and oil
Tuesday I gave him more poison in
oatmeal, Mr. Hight having given xna
more poison in the meantime.
Had to Give Third Dose
“With medical attention Wilfor.4
seemed to grow better again anq
after Dr. S. A. Thompson had wait/
ed on him Friday, July 25, I admiul
istered the final dose of poison and
he grew worse and died July 28, thd
final dose having been mixed in to 4
ma to soup.
“Every time Mr. Hight came td
the house during Wilford's illnesd
he gave me a note of encouragemenj
to give Wilford more poison. I dij
not know and he did not tell md
when he poisoned his wife, but whed
she became ill and died I supposed
he had poisoned her. Until I becanrt
infatuated with Mr. Hight I had led
a blameless life and had always beeq
a true wife and mother and it :’4
true, so help me God.
(Signed) “ELSIE SWEETIN.”
After signing the confession, Mrs.
Sweetin, accompanied by the stata
attorney and the clergyman, wend
to breakfast. Immediately afutd
breakfast she was taken before ai
justice of the peace, waived a t»*e/
liminary hearing and th e case was
turned over to the grand jury.
In telling of his life this mornings
the preacher related how one nigho
he was praying to find the right way/
and suddenly a great light shon4
upon him and he became converted/
That was thirteen years ago, he said,-
and since then he had converted 2,J
500 persons, 133 during his stay in-
Ina, He did not want to go to
he said, but when the members of
the congregation called on him
urged him to accept the charge, he
did.
Tells of Meeting Woman
It was one day in church, he said,
• when he met Mrs. Sweetin. ThejH
I met in the aisle of the little country
church, and from then on he had!
entertained a feeling of more than!
friendship for her, he said. His af
i section for his wife, he said, began
to wane, he had found his “natural
’ mate,” he added.
The first indication that Mrs.
■ Sweetin was weakening and ready to;
admit the part in the poison plot the
minister had attributed to her in his
; confession yesterday morning was
given when the two met in the cell'
: together. Attendants of the jail and;
the state attorney, spying on them.j
saw them caressing one another and
weeping, seated beside one another.
His original plan, Hight said, in his
confession, was to poison his wife
after leaving Ina, as he ha-i expect
ed to be transferred to a large con
gregation at the meeting of the
church conference in Carbondale to
day. However, he said, when his
wife became ill, he was inspired with
the thought that he could carry out
his plan sooner than anticipated.
Mrs. Sweetin has been described as
a woman with attractive features.
She is the mother of three small
boys who are still at the Sweetin
home in Ina. Hight also has three
children at home.
Both Blame Mates
Loveless married lives, both’ the
minister and Mrs. Sweetin told the
state attorney, drove them together
and led -to the plot to poison their
mates so they might marry.
“I’m a preacher, but I’m human, all
too human,” the Rev. Mr. Hight said
today.
He wept as he talked of his chll
dien.
“I had lived for them,” he cried,
“before I met her. I had planned
riot to poison my wife until I left <
Ina, but she fell sick with ptomaine
poisoning and suffered such agony,
I thought I might relieve her pain
and free myself at the same time.
“How sorry I am now I agonized'
I in prayer to God and He heard me. i
I I am forgiven. There is a lesson in !
this,” the pastor philosophized.
“Marriages must have passionate
love as a basis or there is no happi
ness. Had I met and married Mrs.
Sweetin first, our lives would have
been unutterably happy. But she
married a cold, indifferent man, and.
I married that kind of a woman.
My wife was good, but nothing I
did would please her. Nagging was
all I got. God forgive me.!”
As he wept, the citizens from Ina
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