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CARREL TAKES
JAIL ATTIRED
Mrs. Kate Brat'tf Gunter and
arc: (iodouine, Wallace and Richar
visit both their father and moth
from left to right.
children
•hildren for whom she fights in divorce proceeding's against distinguished jurist. Standing, .
while those seated are Rodney, Thomas and Phillipa. The children have been constant attendants on the court hearing, and
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. 6—earlier
experiments upon the preaei'vation of
life In animal tissues after removal
from the gross organism hawp set Dr.
Alexin Carrel at the Ror4i«tfeller In
stitute at the threshold of a yet more
important discovery. Tlaese experi
ments established the facts that not
only could connective be pre
served permanently In a comdltion of
active life, but that under certain eas
ily controlled conditions greswth could
take place.
In Dr. Parrel s l*boratory*c«lls 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. Parrel now’ announces In
The Journal of Experimental Medi
cine. indicated that certain cell j>he-
noinena 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 De*th.
A distinct character of the progress
reports which Dr Parrel 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
ob* 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
gort. 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 w’hich his research has
been based, he describee the medium
in which they have been preserved.
he gives working directions which will
enable other students to rej>eat the
treatment to which the specimens
Ilavo 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 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, rlls 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 his earlier
conclusion was that the animal might
die. but the cells of which the animal
whs <*ompoBed 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 Effect.
The later investigation has estab
lished a knowledge of the character
isticp of the growth of connective tls
sue This has led to a new result, the
indefinite proliferation of a slraln 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-
oendent life and more than 190 pas
sages. The rate of proliferation of the
connective tissue sixteen months old
equaled and even exceeded that of
fresh connective tissue taken front
an eight-day-old embryo.
‘ It appends therefore." Dr Carrel
reports in summation, “that time has
no effect on the tissues isolated front
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 *tate of survival, as was the case
In certain earlier experiments, hut in
r. condition of real life, since the cells
of which they were composed. Ilk**
micro-organisms, multiplied indefi
nitely in the culture medium."
Sensation Follows Sensation as
Father of Montgomery’s Mayor
Fights for Children.
MONTGOMERY, AI,A„ Sept, fi —
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 w’hich Colonel Gunter
and his wife. Mrs. Kate Bragg Gunter,
a leader in Montgomery’s intellectual
wot. made sensational charges each
against the other, has caused neither
to leave the anoeatral 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 hut 4 years old.
and the oldest In her early ’teens. It
is about the children that the fight is
the bitter***!.
The Gunter divorce case has stirred
Montgomery to its depths. After foul
months of taking testimony, the pro-
ce‘dings in open court have been con
cluded. hut no decree has come yet
The city in its sentiments is divided
bet ween sympathy for Colonel Gun-
tor, who is 79 years old, and for his
wife, who is little more than 40.
Sons Political Powers.
The case was full of spectacular
features, chief among which was the
figure of Mrs Gunter, fighting nlmo.fi
single-handed against a powerful fac
tion. composed of her aged huMband
*»>n* 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 '*
wife’s counsel in the
litigation tor
fight with his
ourtroom. The
absolute divorce, the
uonsm-ton of the six children, the
possession 1-f a fortune of *40.000, the
fact that both parties continue to ltV->
at the family home - all these ha\ 1
been features to arouse Monlxomep
Divorces amend the best families
of historic old Montgomery are so
rare that when Mrs. Gunter filed suit
alleiflnir that the Jurist had threat
ened on one occasion "to blow her
head off." to hill himself and end all
marital unhappiness, it caused more
than a flutter of excitement in fash
lonahle capital society.
The approaching storm was fits
cussed behind closed doors, hut never
on the Streets Montgomery was
passing through experiences r
fore unknown where family scandals
are not a part of the everyday life
Newspapers were discreetly oblivious.
Tiie 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 t null
head, former Mayor and now ac
knowledged political boss' of Mont
gomerv, It created a furore Imme
dlately the city began to take sides
tn the affair W. A Gunter, Jr- an
other son of the defendant h\ tiist
marriage and present Mayor of the
city, began to attend every session
of the hearing along with Police t’om
missioner G Patrick McIntyre,
mainstay of the city political
thine." who was named
counsel for the defendant
premc Gourt 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
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 trial
Colonel Guilt er created a sensation in
the courtroom when in a fit of anger
he interrupted his counsel whUe an
alienist was testifying about Mr. Gun
tor’s mental condition. Following ;
heated dispute with the opposing
counsel regarding the admission of
ertain testimony tending to show'
that his wife was possessed of a vio
lent temper he ran across the room
ind raising his clinched fist attack*
the opposing lawyer. '’lose behind
him came Mrs. Darlington Semple
laughter 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. I
swooned away and had to he carried
from the courtroom News of the
melee reuched 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 ! tng that his two brothers have “frozen”
hounded down the stairway and rush- J him out of a part Interest in the Elbel
d Into the Chancery courtroom, j Hrothers’ music store. Herman Elbel
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
attend his
divorce trial
Notorious Pickpocket Exchanges
Clothes With a “Fair” Visitor
and Makes Quick Getaway.
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’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-
i 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
j heard a giggle and thought it was a j
sob. j
Stachler missed his prisoner a mo- .
i ment later, and gave the alarm, but
I the man and the two confederates who
had helped him to escape had disap-
pea red.
A handsome young man and a pret
ty girl called at the Jail in mid-after
noon, just at the time when the cor- I
I ridor of the jail was thronged w’ith |
I visitors. They asked to see “Frank |
j White.” Stachler, remembering the
: alias, called in Cummerford and gave
1 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 wap busy, but he remem
bered the very agreeable young couple
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 j
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, lie 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. 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 twp-
j year term at Folsom prison for as»-
I sault with a deadly w’eapon.
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PASSING OF ‘KANGAROO
WALK’ GRIEVES DOCTOR
KIRKSVILEE. MO., Sept. 6.—“It
was a mistake when the straight, front
•orset and the kangaroo walk went
out of style, as both were natural and
the
ma-
associate
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 6;> years old.
and the bride was 2t> when the mar
riage was performed. His petition
stated that when he had married the
pretty Kate Bragg, a descendant of
General Braxton Bragg, he thought
he was marrying “a jewel without a
flaw.' hut that he had found out in
the fourteen years of married life
that her temper was ungovernable.
J and “though she he as fair as the
beneficial," *aid Dr. Ernest C Bond, I fair Ophelia, ’ he could no longer live
oi Milwaqgt e. in an address t.o the 1 with her. t
i Judge Juft:
i
American u^ieopathic Association.
Tyson, former Su-
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
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 hushand’s w ill.
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 not to be trusted." The city
"boss" later assailed her from the
stand as being an adventuress who
had married his father fry money.
And so sensation after sensation
followed. Pathos had its place when
the children romped in the corridors
of 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. 601> Clay
ton street was divided, yetjundivided
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.
SUES TWIN BROTHERS ON 1 STREET CAR SMOKERS WIN
FREEZE-OUT GAME CHARGE 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
has tiled suit against Richard and Rob
ert Elbel. asking the appointment of a j rear platforms of the cars was not ob-
rereiver to sell the concern and divide . „
tHe proceeds. The Elbel Brothers have | jectionable. ^ ^
been in business here nearly thirty The street car company and the board
'•ars The plaintiff alleges he offered J of health requested the Womens b .der-
s share for $25,000, but that his ! at ion. comprising delegates from all the
ell his i
brothers refused to buy.
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