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HE.\RST'S S! M)AV AA'EKK'AN. ATI. \NTA. V. SI’NDAV, SEPTEMBER 7, 1913
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Aped Jurist and Wife Barricaded i
irs All Alabama. Society
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.
Mrs. Kate Brapg Gunter iunl children, for whom sac
are: (Jodouine, Wallace and Richard, while those seated ar
visit both their father and mother daily.
fmhts in divorce proceedings against distinguished jurist. Standing, from left to right, the children
■ Rodney, Thomas and Phillipa. The children have been constant attendants on the court hearing, and
COMING
NEW YORK, Sejjt. 6—The earlier
experiment!» upon the preaervatlon of
life in animal tuwuea after removal
from the frtifi organism have set Dr.
Aloxln Carrel at the Rockefeller In
stitute at the threshold of a yet more
imj>ortant 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
By 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 had formed a pert 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. Carre! 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 througli the discovery
of a technique 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
reports which Dr. Carrel presents is
simplicity and directness How each
successive item of this investigation
may be adjusted to the scheme of life
1n 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 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 describes in terms
of absolute accuracy the source of
the cells upon which Ills research has
been baaed; he describes the medium
in which they have been preserved;
he gives working directions which will
enable other studegta to repeat the
treatment to which the specimens
have been subjected. All this detail
is very recondite; It is Information
which will interest only tltbse stu
dents of higher physiology who may
seek to check this experiment by con
trol testa performed independently.
The results of this series of re
searches have the interest that they
prove conclusively that Dr Carrel
has taken yet one more step toward
the goal of Ills 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 efTect his earlier
conclusion was that the 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 after
death, the survival of the cell.
Tims Has No Effect.
The later investigation has estab
lished « knowledge of the character-
iatlcH of the growth of connective tis
sue. This has led to a new result, the
indefinite proliferation of a strain of
connective tissue cells outride of the
organism. The strain of connective
tissue originally obtained from h
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-dav-old embryo.
"It appears, therefore. ' Dr Carrel
reports in summation, "that time has
no effect on the tissues isolated from
the organiem 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-
• nstrates that the tissues were not in
a Mtate of survival, as was the case
in certain earlier experiments, but in
• condition of real life, since the cells
of which they were composed. Ilk*
nicro-organ isms, multiplied indefi
nitely in the culture medium.”
PASSING OF ‘KANGAROO
WALK’ GRIEVES DOCTOR
Sensation Follows Sensation as;
Father of Montgomery's Mayor
Fights for Children.
MONTGOMERY, Al.A', Sept. 6
Barricades and bitterness are stoutly
established in the beautiful home of
Colonel W A. Gunter, former Justice
of the State Supreme Court and a
leading lawyer of Alabama. The di
vorce suit in which Colonel Gunter
and his wife. Mrs. Kate Bragg Gunter.
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 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 sjTnputhy 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
feature's, chief among which was lhe
figure of Mrs Gunter, fighting almost
single-handed against a powerful tar
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, ‘be
litigation lor absolute divorce, the
possession of the six children, the
possession Of a fortune of $40,000. the
fact that both parties continue to ID
at the family home—all these hav •
been features to arouse Montgomerj
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
bead 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 closet! 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. 1
The parties were very prominent.
Then when the aged man answered
the divorce charge with a counter
suit, filing 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 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
stated that when he had married the
pretty Kate Bragg, a descendant of
I General Braxton Bragg, he thought
KIRKS VILL/E, MO., Sept. 6 —"It , he W as marrying a jewel without a
was a mistake when the straight front j flaw ." but that he had found out in
,, .. . the fourteen vears of married life
corset and the kangaroo walk " < >nt I ,{J a , her temper was ungovernable,
out of style, as both were natural and , im -j though she be as fair us the
beneficial." said Dr. Ernest C. Bond. I fair Ophelia." he could no longer live
of Milwaukee, in an address to the! with hej
American Osteopathic Association. i Juilgt.-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 he engaged was
Police Commissioner McIntyre. City
business was practically abandoned,
and a line of automobiles thronged
tlie 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 limy 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 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. Darlington 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. Kirkman 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
second Moor of the court building. He
bounded down the stairway and rush
ed into the Chancery courtroom,
where he declared in heated tones j
that he would make a personal matter
of the case If anyone dared lay hands I
upon the elder man.
Hostilities almost opened again been in buslne
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 gufir- i
dian for my children; he is dishon
est and r.ot to be trusted.’’ The city
"boss” later assailed her from the
stand as being an adventuress who
had married his father fey money.
And se> sensation after sensation
followed. Pathos had its place when I
the children romped in the corridors )
of the court building while their fa- J
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 j
sleep oblivious of the court proceed
ings for the time being.
All through the long spectacular le- I
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 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.
Notorious Pickpocket Exchanges
Clothes With a “Fair” Visitor
and Makes Quick Getaway.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 6.—Jim
Cummerford, alias Frank White, a no
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 i
slipped off a white duck suit and a
picture hat and stood forth in the
man’s* 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 1 girl at the gate. He
heard a giggle and thought it was a
sob.
Stachler missed hi« prisoner a mo
ment later, and gave the alarm, but
the man and the two confederates who
had helped him to escape had disap- I
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- j
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 talf girl dressed in
white stood at the jail door waiting to
j be let out.
Stachler wap busy, but he remem
bered the very agreeable young 1 couple '
who had called to see v VC r hite.” and he J
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 lie 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 Ilove.
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 j
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*- I
sault with a deadly weapon.
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him out of a part interest in the Klbel , v , as saV ed from a death blow when the
Brothers’ music store. Herman Elbel j Federation of Women's Clubs voted
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ert Klbel. asking the appointment of a , rear platforms of the ears was not ob-
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