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ITEATtST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN. ATLANTA, (5A . SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1013.
CARREL TAKES Aged Jurist and Wife Barricaded in Same House ESMSFftDSA
JAILATTl.il
Mrs. Kate Bragg Gunter and
are: Godouine. Wallace and Riehar
visit hotli their father and mother
•hildren, for whom she fiphts in divorce proceedinps against distinguished jurist. Standing, from left to right,
I while those seated are Rodney, Thomas and Phillipa. The children have been constant attendants on the court
daily.
the children
hearing, and
Connective Tissue Preserved Per
manently in Condition of Ac
tive Life by Scientist.
GROWTH IS UNDER CONTROL
Constant Relation Found to Ex
ist Between Cells and Me
dium of Preservation.
NEW YORK, Sept. 6 —The earlier
experiments upon the preservation of
Jife in animal tissues after removal
from the pros* organism have set Dr.
Alexin Carrel at the Rockefeller In
stitute at the threshold of a yet more
important discovery. These experi
ments established the facts that not
only could connective tissue be pre
served permanently In a condition of
active life, but that under certain eas
ily controlled conditions growth could
take place.
In Dr. Carrel’s laboratory cells have
been proliferating rapidly for more
Than sixteen months after their re
moval froip the organism of which
they had formed a part. Hitherto nil
tissue when removed from the ani
mal organism has been meat; those
researches establish the fact that such
tissue may continue to grow indefi
nitely.
As this discovery became more fa
miliar to the investigator it was dis
covered that a constant relation ex
isted between the rate of growth of
the cell and the composition of the
medium in which it Is preserved. This
fact, Dr. Carrel now announces in
The Journal of Experimental Medi
cine, indicated that certain cell phe
nomena of the higher animals, such as
multiplication, growth and senility,
might now he Investigated profitably.
At first blocked by lack of proper
method, this investigation has now
become possible through the discovery
of a tecnnlque which permits strains
of connective tissue to multiply in
definitely in the test tubes, like micro
organisms.
May Postpon® Death.
A distinct character of the progress
reports which Dr. Carrel presents is
simplicity and dlrertness How each
successive item of this investigation
may he adjusted to the scheme of life
In general is nowhere set forth; it la
left entirely to Inference; it is entire
ly a matter of interpretation of some
oba .ire hint.
In the report now Issued it may be
.taken that the mention of senility is
intended to foreshadow' an ultimate
object of this line of profound study
That would seem to mean that this re
search Is advancing toward the dis
covery of some means of postponing
The approach of old age.
But Dr Carrel says nothing of the
sort. He confines himself to a rigidly
detailed statement of this series of
experiments. He describe* in terms
of absolute accuracy the source of
the cells upon which his research has
l>een based; he describes the medium
In which they have been preserved;
he gives working directions which will
enable other students to repeat the
treatment to which the specimens
liave been subjected. All this detail
is very recondite; It is information
which will Interest only those stu
dents of higher physiology who may
seek to check this experiment by con
trol tests performed Independently.
Tire results of this series of re-
•e-arches have the Interest that they
prove conclusively that Dr Carrel
has taken yet one more step toward
the goal of his Inquiry His earlier
reports established the sufficiently
startling fact that the death of the
gross organism by no means entailed
the simultaneous death of the com
ponent parts. In effect hit earlier
conclusion was that th»- animal might
die, but the cells of which the animal
was composed died in a secondary
sense only by the failure to supply the
culture medium which supported their
Individual life The first conclusion
reached was the proof of life alter
death, the survival of the cell.
Time Hat No Effect.
The later Investigation has estab
lished a knowledge of the character
istics of the growth of connective tis
sue. This has led to a new result, the
indefinite proliferation of a strain of
connective tissue cells outside of the
organism. The strain of connective
tissue originally obtained from s
fragment of chicken embryo heart
which had been pulsating in the test
tube for 104 days, was still actively
alive after sixteen months of Inde
pendent life and more than 190 pas
sages The rate of proliferation of the
connective tissue sixteen months old
equalled and even exceeded that
fresh connective tissue taken from
an eight-day-old embryo.
"It appears, therefore." Dr Carrel
reports in summation, "that time has
no effect on the tlMRues isolated from
the organism and preserved by means
of the technique described. During
the sixteenth month of life in vitro
the cells increased rapidly In number
and were able in a short time to pro
duce a large quantity of new tissue
This fact, therefore, definitely dem
onstrates that the tissues were not In
a state of survival, as was the
in certain earlier experiments, but in
a condition of real life, since the cell
of which they were composed, lik
micro-organisms, multiplied indefi
nitely in the culture
medium ’
Notorious Pickpocket Exchanges
Clothes With a “Fair” Visitor !
and Makes Quick Getaway.
Sensation Follows Sensation as
Father of Montgomery’s Mayor
Fights for Children.
MONTGOMERY, A I, A., Sept. 6 —
Barricades and bitterness are stoutly
established in the beautiful home of
Colonel W A. Gunter, former Justice
of the Btate Supreme Court and a
leading lawyer of Alabama. The di
vorce suit in which Colonel Gunter
and his wife, Mrs. Kate Bragg Gunter,
a leader in Montgomery’s intellectual
wet. made sensational charges each
against the other, has caused neither
to leave the ancestral home on Clay
ton street.
They live each in a wing apart from
the other, neither recognizing the
other on the rar«* occasions when by
chance they meet. Between them
their nix children pass each day, the
youngest of whom Is but 4 years Old,
and the oldest In her early ’teens. It
Is about the children that the fight is
the bitterest.
The Gunter divorce case has stirred
Montgomery to Its depths. After foul
months of taking testimony, the pro
ceedings in open court have been con
cluded. but no decree has come yet
The city in its sentiments is divided
between sympathy for Colonel Gun
ter, who Is 79 years old, and for his
wife, who 1 s little more than 40.
Son* Political Power*.
The case was full of spectacular
features, chief among which was the
figure of Mrs Gunter, fighting almo
single-handed against a powerful fac
tion composed of her aged husband 3
tv* and daughters by a former mar
riage. the sons being the acknowl-
dged political powers of the city.
Then there was the figure of the
aged defendant himself, engaging in
a rough-and-tumble fight with his
wife's counsel in the courtroom. The
litigation for absolute divorce, the
possession of the six children, the
possession cf a fortune of $40,000. the
fact that both parties continue to Jive
at the family home all these hav ‘
been features to arouse Montgomery.
Divorces among the best families
of historic old Montgomery
rare that when Mrs.
alleging that
enad on one
are so
unter filed suit,
the Jurist had threat-
occasion "to blow her
head off ” to kill himself and end all
marital unhappiness, it caused more
than a flutter of excitement in fash-
lonable capital aoclctj
The approaching storm was riis-
cussed behind closed doors, but never
on the streets. Montgomery was
passing through experiences hereto
fore unknown where family scandals
are not a part of the everyday life.
Newspapers were discreetly oblivious.
The parties were very prominent.
Then when the aged man answered
the divorce charge with a counter
suit, tiling It in the court of his son.
Judge Gaston Gunter. City Court
head, former Mayor and now ac
knowledged political "boss" of Mont
gomery, It created a furore Imme
diately the city began to take sides
In the" affair W. A. Gunter. Jr., an
other son of tile defendant by tirst
marriage and present Mayor of the
city, began to attend every session
of the hearing along witti 1’olice Com
missioner C. Patrick McIntyre, the
mainstay of the city political "ma
chine.” who was named associate
counsel for the defendant. The daily
sessions of the trial begun to as
sume the aspects of a municipal cau
cus. bent on solving some problem
confronting the administration.
Says He Was Defrauded.
In his counter suit the aged man,
who assisted in his own case, inti
mated that he had been defrauded
in marriage. He was 65 years old.
and the bride was 26 when the mar
riage was performed. His petition
WALK’ GRIEVES DOCTOR “ X^St'or
— I General Braxton ljragg. he thought
KIRKSVILiLE, MO., Sept. 6.—"It | was marrying "a Jewel without a
was a mistake when the straight from flaw." but that he had found out in
corset and the kangaroo walk w «*« ^as'ung "emabl^
out of style, as both were natural ana , tn( j -though she be as fair as the
I beneficial,” said Dr. Ernest C. Bond. 1 fair Ophelia," he could no longer live
of Milwaukee, in an address to the! with her.
America^ Osteopathic Association. 1 Judge John It. Tyson, former Su
preme Court chief justice, was em
ployed as special counsel by Colonel
Gunter. When Mrs. Tyson objected
to her husband prosecuting Mrs.
Gunter because of her own personal
friendship for the plaintiff, he aban
doned the case.
The next counsel to be engaged was
Police Commissioner McIntyre. City
business was practically abandoned,
and a line, of automobiles thronged
the curbing in front of the County
Courthouse all during the trial. A
large number of the city’s fashion
able leaders were witnesses and spec
tators in the hearing. Those testify
ing on the stand totalled 114. most of
whom were women and residents of
Clayton street, the society neighbor
hood in which the Gunter’s live. At
one time the six small children took
the stand to say who they wished to
live with in the event of a permanent
separation. They unanimously chose
the mother.
Lawyer’s Face Slapped.
During the first week of the tria^
Colonel Gunter created a sensation in
the courtroom when in a fit of anger
he interrupted his counsel while a:
alienist was testifying about Mr. Gun
ter’s mental condition. Following
heated dispute with the opposing
counsel regarding the admission of
ertaln testimony tending to show
that his wife was possessed of a vio
lent temper he ran across the room
and raising his clinched fist attacke
the opposing lawyer. ’’lose behind
him came Mrs. Darrington Semple
daughter by the first marriage and
head of a fashionable school for girls
In New York city. Brushing her fa
ther aside before the astonished vie
tim of the attack could defend him
self, she seized the latter and vigor
ously slapped his cheeks.
The fight was stopped when Mrs.
J. Klrkman Jackson, her sister. I
swooned away and had to he carried
from the courtroom News of the
melee reached the ear of Judge Gas- —-
ton Gunter in his chambers on the SOUTH BEND, IND, Sept. 6. Charg
second floor of the court building. He j ing that his two brothers have "frozen"
hounded down the stairway and rush- j him out of a part interest in the Elbel
ed into the t hancery courtroom. | Brothers’ music store, Herman Elbel j
wlH-ro he declared in heated tones , has Ruit inst Richard and Rob-
that he would make a personal matter
of the case if anyone dared lay hands
upon the elder man
MOTHER OF 17 IS DEAD.
COLUMBUS. OHIO, Sept. 6.—Fol
lowing the birth of her seventeenth
child, Mrs. John O’Dmnell, aged 39,
died at a local hospital.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 6 —Jim |
Cummerford, alias Frank White, a no- j
torious pickpocket and ex-convict, es
caped from the Alameda County Jail
by exchanging clothes with a young
woman caller.
The exchange of clothing was made
while the corridor of the jail was
filled with Sunday visitors. The girl
slipped off a white duck suit and a
'picture hat and stood forth In the
man’p costume she had on under this
The prisoner put the girl’s suit on
over his own clothes, fastened on the
hat, which had a wig and veil at
tached. and the couple, accompanied
by another young man, walked out of
the door past the unsuspecting jailer.
Deputy Sheriff Stachler was hood
winked so badly that he shook hands
with the bogus girl at the gate. He
heard a giggle and thought it was a
sob. *
Stachler missed hl« prisoner a mo- .
merit later, and gave the alarm, but
the man and the two confederates who
had helped him to escape had disap- I
peared. i
A handsome young man and a pret- j
ty girl called at the Jail in mid-aftjpr- I
noon, just at the time when the cor- I
ridor of the jail was thronged with
visitors. They asked to see "Frank i
White.” Stachler. remembering the |
alias, called in Cummerford and gave
them a corner of the corridor in which
to visit. Then he was called to an
upper floor. When he returned, the
young man and the tall girl dressed in
white stood at the Jail door waiting to
let out.
Stachler war busy, but he remem
bered the very agreeable young co\iple
who had called to see "White." and he I
promptly unlocked the door for them.
As they were passing out. a tall, slen- |
der young man stepped to the door j
and crowded out with them. Stachler)
knew he was not one of the prisoners
and. although he did not remember
letting him In, he assumed that he
was a visitor. He shook hands with
all three and dismissed them.
Cummerford was* awaiting trial on a
charge of grand larceny. He was ar
rested June 29 with George Hove,
alias Burnes, alias Rllev. by Inspec
tors Green and Gallagher of the Oak
land detective bureau, for picking the
pocket of K Into, a Japanese, of a
wallet containing $10 and a small
check, as he boarded a street car with
a baby in his arms. Three pickpock
ets were Implicated and but two were
arrested. Cummerford served a two-
year term at Folsom prison for as
sault with a deadly weapon.
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PASSING OF ‘KANGAROO
LATENT
SUCTION
I
ert Klbel, asking the appointment of a
receiver to sell the concern and divide
I the proceeds. The Klbel Brothers have
Hostilities almost opened again | been in business here nearly thirty I
when Mrs. Gunter took the stand. She
openly defied Judge Gaston Gunter,
branding him as dishonest when she
sought to show cause why she did
not want him appointed administra
tor in her husband’s will.
Calls "Boss - ' Dishonest.
"I would rather be in my grave
than to see that man appointed guar
dian for my children; he is dishon
est and rot to be trusted.’’ The city I I
"boss" later assailed her from the
stand a* being an adventuress who
had married his father for money.
And so sensation after sensation
followed. Pathos had its place when I |
the children romped in the corridors
of the court building while their fa- |
ther and mother wrangled out their | |
differences through four mnoths of J
testimony. Sometimes little Rodney.
4 years of age, would crawl into his
mother’s lap. She would rock him to |
sleep oblivious of the court proceed
ings for the time being.
All through the long spectacular le
gal battle the home at No. 6ftfi Clay
ton street was divided, yet undivided.
After a day of bitterness, charges of
cruelty and domestic infelicity, the
aged man and his wife with the six
children would return to the house.
Mrs. Gunter had barricaded herself
in the upper wing of the house, while
the aged father and husband occu
pied the lower one. The children
went to and fro. but the two princi
pals ignored the presence of the oth
er. never resorting to speech or show
ing recognition.
Despite its sensational features, the
Montgomery newspapers did not pub
lish details of the hearing. In fact,
the proceedings were ignored alto
gether.
ST. JOSEPH, MO., Sept. 6.—The
practice of smoking on street cars here
was saved from a death blow when the
Federation of Women’s Clubs voted
overwhelmingly that smoking on the
rear platforms of the cars was not ob
jectionable.
The street car company and the board
..... The plaint iff ulloges he offered j of health requested the Women's F der- j
to sell his share for $26,000, but that his J ation. comprising delegates from all the
brothers refused to buy. ' city clubs, to pass on the subject.
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