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j 2 A ITEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, GA . SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1913. HUES Aged Jurist and Wife Barricaded in Same House ESGAPESFRDM STEP NEARER TO Gunter Divorce Suit Stirs Ail Alabama Societg JflESitlBED Mrs. Kate Bragg Gunter and ehildren, for whom she fights in divorce proceedings against distinguished jurist. Standing, from left to right, the children are: Dodouine. Wallace and Richard, while those seated are Rodney, Thomas and Phillips. The children have been constant attendants on the court hearing, and visit both their father and mother daily. 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. 8.—The narlier experiments upon the preservation of life in animal tissues after removal from the «rro»s organism have net 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 fn 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 from the organism of which they haul formed a part Hitherto all tissue when removed from the ani mal onjanlem has been meat, these researches establish the fact that such tissue may continue to grow Indefi nitely. A6 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 be 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 Postpone Death. A distinct character of the progress reportb which I>r <>rrel presents Is simplicity and directness How each succe-SHive item of this Investigation may be adjusted to the scheme of life in general Is nowhere set forth; it Is left entirely to Inference; it Is entire ly a matter of interpretation of some ob* .ire hint. In the report now tsmied it may be taken that the mention of senility Is Intended to foreshsdow an ultimate object of this line of profound study That w'ould 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 port He confines himself to a rigidly detailed statement of tide aeries of experiments. He describes In terms of absolute accuracy the source of the cells upon which his research has been baaed; be 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 iiave been subjected. All this detail Is very recondite; 1t 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. The results of this series of re- •earches have the Interest that they prove conclusively that Dr barrel 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 hla earlier conclusion was that the’animal might die. but the cells of which the animal whs 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 after death, the survival of the cell. Time Has No Effeot. 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 out aide of the organism. The strain of connective tissue originally obtained from a 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 of 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 tissues 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 case in certain earlier experiments, but in a condition of real life, since the cells of which they -were composed. llk»* micro-organisms, multiplied indefi nitely in the culture medium.” PASSING OF 'KANGAROO WALK’ GRIEVES DOCTOR KIRKSVII.LE, MO, Sept. 6—"It wa« a mistake when the straight front corset and the kangaroo walk went out of style, as both were natural ana beneficial," said Dr. Ernest C. Rond, of Milwaukee, in an address to the American Osteopathic Association. 9 ^ •v»* Sensation Follows Sensation as Father of Montgomery’s Mayor Fights for Children. a* mm • Notorious Pickpocket Exchanges Clothes With a “Fair” Visitor and Makes Quick Getaway. * MONTGOMERY, ADA., Sept. « — Barricades and bitterness are stoutly established in the beautiful home of Colonel \V A Gunter, former Justice of the State Supremo 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 «et, made sensational charges each against the other, has o&used neither to leave the anceptral home on Clay ton street. They live each In a wing apart from the other. neither recognizing the other on the rare occasions when by chance they meet. Between them their six children pass each day. the younge.Nt of whom 4s but 4 years old, and tlie 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 month* of taking testimony, the pro ceedings in open court have been con cluded but no decree had 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 is little more than 40. Sons Politioal Powers. The case was full of spectacular features, chief among which was the figure of Mrs Gunter, fighting ulmodt single-handed against a powerful fac tion composed of her aged husband’* sons and daughters by a former mar riage, the sons being the acknowl edged 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 llv3 at the family home-all these have been features to arouse Montgomery Divorces among the best families of historic old Montgomery are so rare that when Mrs. Gunter filed suit, alleging that the jurist had threat ened on one occasion ‘‘to blow her head off.” to kill himself and end all marital unhappiness, it caused more than a flutter of excitement in fash ionable capital society. The approaching storm was dis cussed behind closed doors, but never on the streets. Montgomery was passing through experiences heret passing through expeiiemts ue..i« - to show cauge why she fore unknown where family scamiais | not want him appointed administ are not a part of the everyday uu. tor ln her husband’s will. 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 plalntlfT, 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 ('layton street, the society neighbor hood in which the Gunter’s live. At one time the six small children took the stand to Hay 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 trial Colonel Gunter created a sensation in the courtroom when ln a fit of anger be interrupted his counsel while an alienist was testifying about Mr. Gun ter’s mental condition. Following a heated dispute with the opposing counsel regarding the admission of certain testimony tending to show that his wife was possessed of a vio lent temper he ran across the room and raising his clinched fist attacked the opposing lawyer. '‘lose behind him came Mrs. Darrington Semple, a 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 vic 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 swooned away and had to be carried from the courtroom News of the melee reached the ear of Judge Gas ton Gunter ln his chambers on the second floor of the court building. He bounded down the stairway' and rush ed into the Chancery’ courtroom where he declared in heated tones that he would make a personal matter of the case if anyone dared lay hands upon the elder man. Hostilities almost opened again when Mrs. Gunter took the stand. She openly defled Judge Gaston Gunter, branding him as dishonest when she did ra- Colonel Wil liam A. Gunter, former Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama and one of the South’s most distinguished jurists, as he appears on the streets of Montgomery. This picture . was taken as he walked to the court house to attend his divorce trial MOTHER OF 17 IS DEAD. COLUMBUS, OHIO, Sept. 6.—Fol- lowing the birth of her seventeenth child, Mrs. John O’Donnell, aged 39, died at a local hospital. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 6 — Jim ' Cummerford, alias Frank White, a no torious pickpocket and ex-convict, es- . caped from the Alameda County Jail J by exchanging clothes with a young woman caller. The exchange of clothing was made j while the corridor of the jail was j filled with Sunday visitors. The girl j clipped off a white duck suit and a picture hat and stood forth in the mai>’p costume she had on under this. | The prisoner put the girl’s suit on j 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 his prisoner a mo ment later, and gave the alarm, but the man and the two confederates who had helped him to escape had disap peared. A handsome young man and a pret ty girl called at the Jail In mid-after noon. Just at the time when the cor ridor of the Jail was thronged with visitors. They asked to see "Frank 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 be let out. Stachler was busy, but he remem bered the very agreeable young couple who had called to see “White.” and he promptly unlocked the door for them. As they’ were passing out. a tall, slen der young man stepped to the door 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 wap awaiting trial on a charge of grand larceny. He was ar rested June 29 with George Hoye. alias Burnes, alias Riley, by Inspec tors Green and Gallagher of the Oak land detective bureau, for picking the pocket of K. lato, a Japanese, of a wallet containing $10 and a small check, as he boarded a street car with a baby in hla 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. MANNING- FALL OPENING SALE Newspapers \veri 1 dlsereetly oblivious. The parties were very prominent. Then when the HReit man answered the divorce oharne with a counter suit, filing It in ttie court of his son. Judge Cast on Gunter. City Court head, former Mayor and now ac knowledged political "boss" of Mont gomery. it created a furore Imme diately the cit\ began to take sides in the affair. \V. A. Gunter. Jr. an other son of the defendant by ttrst marriage and present Mayor of the city, began to attend every session of the hearing along with Police 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 began 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 ln marriage. He was 66 years old, and the bride was 26 when the mar riage was performed. His petition stated that when he had married the pretty Kate Bragg, a descendant of j General Braxton Bragg, he thought 1 he was marrying "a jewel without a itlaw." but that he had found out in the fourteen years of married life that her temper was ungovernable. . and "though she lie as fair as tiie j fair Ophelia " he could no longer live w ith her. 1 Judge John R. Tyson, former Su- < SUES TWIN BROTHERS ON FREEZE-OUT GAME CHARGE SOUTH BEND, I NR., Sept. 6.—Charg ing that his two brothers have "frozen" him out of a part interest in the Elbel Brothers’ music store. Herman Elbel has filed suit against Richard and Rob ert Elbel. asking the appointment of a receiver to sell the concern and divide the proceeds. The Elbel Brothers have been in business here nearly thirty years. The plaintiff alleges he offered to sell his share for $25,000, but that his brothers refused to buy. STREET CAR SMOKERS WIN ONLY WITH AID OF WOMEN 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 of health requested the Women's Feder ation. comprising delegates from all the city clubs, to pass on the subject. 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 r.ot to be trusted." The city "boss" later assailed her from the stand a.* being an adventuress who had married his father fey 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 I differences through four mnoths of j testimony. Sometimes little Rodney. { 4 years of age, would craw into his mother’s lap She would ni k him to sleep oblivious of the court proceed- j ings for the time being All through the long spectacular le gal battle the home at No. 606 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 uf>per 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. 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