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2 A HE.\RST'S S! M)AV AA'EKK'AN. ATI. \NTA. V. SI’NDAV, SEPTEMBER 7, 1913 CARREL MS 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. Creator 5og55SSSgggSgag£gSSoScS^< 28th-Year of the World’s Greatest Indoor Show —28th—On a Plane of Magnificence Beyond Compare. “THE MINSTRELS OF THE NATIONS” An International Specta cle. The Military Powers of the World in Review. The Songs of All Na tions—the F’ags and Em blems of All Countries. 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