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2 A IIUARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA. CA , SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1013. CflRRLL MS Aged Jurist and Wife Barricaded in Same Housei STEPNfflTI Gunter Divorce Suit'Stirs All Alabama Society Mrs. Kate Bragg Gunter and children, for whom she fights in divorce proceedings against distinguished jurist. Standing, from left to right, the children are: Godouine. 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. JAIL ATTIRED 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 life in animal tissues after removal from the ffrosa organism hav«e 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 lly controlled conditions growth could take place. In I>r Carrel’s la*>omtory cells have been proliferating rapidly for more than sixteen months after their re moval from the organism of which they had formed a part Hitherto all tissue when removed from the ani mal organism has been meat, these 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, Buch 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 technique 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 I>r. ('arrel presents Is simplicity and directness How each successive Item of this Investigation may he 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 oba jre hint. In the report now Issued 1t may be taken that the mention of senility is intended to foreshadow an ultimate object of thla line of profotind study That would seem to mean that this re search Is advancing toward the dts covery of some means of postponing the approach of old age. But Dr Carrel says nothing of the gort He confines himself to a rigidly detailed statement of thl-s series of experiments. He describes In terms of absolute accuracy the source of the cells upon which his research has been based, he describes the medium In which they havo been preserved; he gives working directions which will enable other students to rej>eat the treatment to which the «perimenn have been subjected. All this detail la 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. The results of this scries of re searches have the interest that they prove conclusively that Dr Garre] hag taken yet one more step toward the goal of his inquiry His earlier reports establlnhed 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 whs that the animal might die. but the cells of which the animal was composed died in a necondnry 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 Hue No Effect. The later investigation has estab lished a knowledge of the character istics of the gTowth 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 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 fcitate of survival, as was the case In certain earlier experiments, but in e condition of real life, since the cells of w'hlch they were composed. Ilk* micro-organisms, multiplied indefi nitely in the culture medium." PASSING OF ‘KANGAROO WALK’ GRIEVES DOCTOR KTRKSVILLE, MO., Sept. 6—■It was a mistake when the straight front corset and the kangaroo walk went out of style, as both were natural and beneficial^’ said Dr. Ernest C. Bond, of Milwaukee, in an address to the Amerljft * Osteopathic Association. 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, AI.A,, Sept. Barricades and bitternesa are stoutly established In the beautiful home of Colonel W A. Gunter, former Justice of the fltate 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 *et. 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 rare occasions when by chance they meet. Between them their six 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 bittor«»t. The Gunter divorce case has stirred Montgomery to its depths. After foul months of taking testimony, the pro- ee ‘dings in open court have been con cluded. but no decree has cotne 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. Son* Political Powers. The case was full of spectacular features, chief among which was the figure of Mrs Gunter, fighting almost 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 « rough-and-tumble tight with his wife’s counsel in the courtroom. The litigation for absolute divorce, the possesion of the six children, the possession i f a fortune of $40,000. the fact that both parties continue to liv-j at the family home—all these lmvo 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 llutter 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 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 churge 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 the defendant by first 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 Wa* Defrauded. In his counter suit the aged man, who assisted in his own case, intf- mated that he had been defrauded in marriage. He was 65 years old, and the bride was "6 when the mar riage was performed. His petition I slated that when he had married the pretty Kate Bragg, a descendant of I (reneral Braxton Bragg, he thought I he was marrying "a jewel without a i flaw." but that he had found out in the fourteen years of married life that her temper was ungovernable, j and "though she be as fair as the fair OpherMa,” he could no longer live . with her** * Judge John R. 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 prin t D ally 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 flr3t week of the trial Colonel Gunter created a sensation in the courtroom when in a fit of anger he 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 in his chambers on the second Moor 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 j openly defied Judge Gaston Gunter, branding him as dishonest when she sought to show cause why she did i not want him appointed administra- j tor in her husband’s will. Calls "Boss'* Dishonest. "1 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 being an adventuress who had married Ills father for money. And so sensation after sensation j followed. Pathos had its place when the children romped in the corridors the court building while their fa ther and mother wrangled out their differences through four mnoths of 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. 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 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 lo 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. 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 t-aken as he walked to the court hoihse 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. : i SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 6.—Jim i Cunimerford, alias Frank White, a no torious pickpocket and ex-convict, es- j 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 j over his own clothes, fastened on the I 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 hip 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 Jay 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 I i be let out. Stachler wa« busy, but he remem- j j bered the very agreeable young couple i 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. FT* was ar rested June 29 with George Hove, alias Burnes, alias Riley, by Inspec tors Green and Gallagher of the Oak land detective bureau, for picking the pocket of K. la to, 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 ap- sault with a deadly weapon. MANNING SUES TWIN BROTHERS ON FREEZE-OUT GAME CHARGE SOUTH BEND, IND , 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 F:der- ation, comprising delegates from all the * city clubs, to pass on the subject. $5 GOME TO ME I Examine YourTeeth Free! I point with pride to the fact that hundreds of patient* have been treated successful ly and satisfactorily by me since the opening of my Atlanta ofboe some months a go, amplv demon strating that I do Dental Work Painlessly and that my service is *triotly MODERN and agreeable in every re spect. I want to thank the people of Atlanta and vicinity for their kind patronage so gen erously extended to me and I promise faithfully to give the best Dental Service for the least money.' My prices are th* lowest: Set of Teeth $5 Gold Fillings $1 up Platinum and Porcelain Fillings 50c to 91 Gold Crown* and Bridge Work $3, $4, $5 Teeth without Plates, $1 per tooth. Work guaranteed for 15 years. Terms, Don’t worry; theee are arranged to suit. 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