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VOLUME XXXI, No. 288 LEASED WIRE SERVICE.
SEN. BRANDEGEE KILLS SELF
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ZR-3 MAY REACH U. S. A. TONIGHT
GREAT AIR PARI
AT LAKEHURST IS
READY FDR SHIP
LAKEHURST, N. J.—Captain Anton Heinen, who
took the Shenandoah on her maiden flight, and F. W.
von Meister, American representative of the Meibach
Motor Company, delivered Tuesday upon arriving here to
await the coming of the ZR-3 that they had definite in
formation she would make a considerable tour of the At
lantic coast cities before landing here.
CHATHAM, MASS.—A message received at 11
o’clock, eastern standard time, from the giant durigible
ZR-3 by the Radio Corporation of America station here
gave her position as 47:20 degrees west latitude and
42:30 degrees north longitude. At that hour the airship
gave her speed as 75 miles an hour.
Earlier reports had shown the dirigible making only
25 knots an hour against strong southwest winds, and the
speed given at 11 o’clock indicated that the weather had
improved. The position of the vessel at that hour also
chewed that she was making rapid progress in her flight
to Lakehurst, N. J. The position was approximately 1,-
300 miles from her destination. .
DIRIGIBLK HANGAR. NAVAI*
AIR STATION, LAKEHURST, N.
j. —This huge air park, destined
home of the ZR-3, was ordered un
der emergency regime at 12 noon
Tuesday.
Its 28 officers and 400 sailors and
marines were on their toes at
dawn. Word had flashed over the
fie'd during the night that direct
c mmunication had been establish
ed with the big dirigible and that
all was well with her and that she
might be expected late Tuesday
night or early Wednesday.
So Tuesday morning there began
in earnest all the maneuvering of
nahaphernalia and personnel which
has been rehearsed long and often.
Whirring motors slid open and
shut the ponderous doors of the
high-domed guest room which
awaits the visitor.
Landing signals were inspected
again and loaded upon trucks,
ready for quick transportation to
the 'settling spot field aerologists
mav designate for the big bag when
it pokes its cautious nose over the
horizon. f
White canvass letters of heroic
proportions there, were to be laid
out facing skywards if the landing
was by day; and rolls of electric
lights for similar disposition if the
ship came in at night.
Out of the dim vastness of the
hangar and into the sunlight were
wheeled a Martin bomber and a
j)H-4 observation plan, big craft
of their kind, that had looked like
flies as they squatted overnight on
the floor of the ZR-3’s destined
guest chamber.
BIG PLANES ON
SPECIAL DUTY
These p'anes are on special dtlty
here Thev will be fueled and kept
at the taking-off line ready to dash
saaward on a moment’s notice if
the dirigible should meet any emer
gency as it nears the ends of its
long pilgrimage.
‘‘Bachelors’ barracks, the offi
cers’ mess, was ablaze with electri
city throughout the night. A Jazz
orchestra manned by Lieutenants,
captains and even lieutenant-com
panders, was doing its stuff, when
at -9:55 p. m., news was flashed
that the station communications
tower had for the first time pick
ed up a faint flash of wireless code
(Continued on Page Ten)
Inly 4 More
Days
Until the Georgia-Furman
football game to be played
here.
Saturday, October 18th
will be your opportunity to
see the Georgia Bulldogs
(“Dixie Devils”) in action.
It will probably be your
only chance to see the Red
and Black wonder team that
humbled the Blue of Old
Fi.
THE AUGUSTA HERALD
DAILY, sc; SUNDAY, sc.
HEAVY SUBSCRIPTION
AS AMERICA’S SHARE
OF LOAN IS OPENED
NEW YORK —Subscription
books for America’s SIIO,OOOOO
portion of the $200,000,000 Ger
man loan were opened at 10
o’clock Tuesday morning and
closed 12 minutes later with an
indicated heavy over-subscrip
t's!) great was the demand for
German bonds that several
large investment houses were
compelled to decline to take any
more subscriptions because
their allotment of the loan had
been sold. . 1
In the first 15 minutes of
trading approximately $350,-
000 worth of tho bonds chang
ed hands on the New York
stock exchange prices ranging
between 94 3-8 and 92 7-8 as
against the offering price of
92.
BLOODY CLASH
In Mexico Reported—Over
One Hundred Killed
MEXICO CITY —A bloody clash
between political factions at Hux
tla Gutierrez on Sunday, in which
more than a hundred persons are
said to have been killed or wound
ed, is reported in press dispatches.
The Mexican war department con
firms the news of the fight, but is
giving out no details.
The press dispatches say the
trouble began when supporters of
General Carlos Vidal, governor
elect of Chiapas, organized a dem
onstration for his reception, a large
crowd gathering at the railway
station. Upon General Vidal's ar
rival, a score of shots was fired
into the crowd allegedly by bup
poters of Ramierez Corzo, the de
feated gubernatorial candidate. The
volley caused many fatalities,
among them women and children,
it is declared. „ x ..
Federal* troops, rushed to the
scene, were received with shots by
the alleged Ramierez supporters
who had taken a stand in the gov
ernment building. This was captur
ed by the troops after a short and
sanguine encounter. All persons
found Inside were arrested.
TC-5 RETURNS
BELLEVILLE, Ills.—The army
dirigible TC-5 returned to its han
gar at Scott Field, south of here,
shortly before Monday midnight
from its flight to Tulsa Okla..
where the army dirigible was used
for exhibition flights. The airship
left Kansas City, Mo., at 5 p. m„
Monday, covering the lap of ap
proximately 300 miles in less than
seven hours.
General Lu, Deposed Leader,
Finds Sanctuary In Japan
TOKlO.—General Lu Yung-Hslang, deposed military governor
of Chekiang province, China, and leader of tho defeated armies
which defended Shanghai, found sanctuary In Japan Tuesday when
he arrived at Nagasaki with his family, and Ho Feng-Ling, former
defense commissioner of Shanghai. The party fled from Shanghai
by water.
SHANGHAI—New Chinese administrators ruling Shanghai for the Pe
king government, as a result of the defeat of the Chekiang forces, Tues
day worked In conjunction with foreign authorities confident they
would be able to avert disturbances incident to the change in local
government.
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Dr. Eckener, in chargee of the
ZR-3, now on the way to America,
looks out at the passing landscape.
Walker Admits
Making Speech
toKian Meeting
at Kansas City
ATLANTA, Ga.—Gov. Clifford
Walker, of Georgia, admit* being
the “governor of a great state,” who
adddressed the imperial klonvoca
tion of the Ku Klux Klan in Kan
sas City on September 23, a story
published Tuesday in the Atlanta
Constitution says.
Besides admitting he addressed
the convention, Governor Walker
admits he joined the klan during its
early days, the Constitution says,
although the governor contends he
does not know if his membership
still obtains.
The governor was accompanied
on the Kansas City trip by J. J.
Brown, Georgia commissioner of ag
riculture, and Peter S. Twitty, state
fish and game commissioner, both
of whom also, according to the
Constitution, admit having been on
the trip. Governor Walker and
Commissioner Brow'n assert they
attended the klonvocation in their
capacities as private citizens.
DECLARES HE HAS
"NO APOLOGIES.”
Governor Walker Is quoted as
having said lie pleaded with the
klansmen for religious tolerance
and that he had no apologies to
make for his remarks at Kansas
City.
At the time he left here to go
to the meeting, the newspaper says
that the governor announced he
was going to Philadelphia, but went
to Kansas City instead. The gover
nor is quoted in the Constitution’s
story as having said that when he
left here has was undecided wheth
er to go to Philadelphia or to Kan
sas City, that what he wanted was
a rest.
He offered to make the same ad
dress he made at Kansas City to
any gathering, Catholic or other
wise, the newspaper says, and con
tends that he has offered the same
thoughts in addresses to other or
ganizations.
In the same article, Governor
Walker is quoted as having told of
a conference wlith Nathan Bedford
Forrest, grand dragon of Georgia
for the klan, the day he was inau
gurated governor of Georgia in
June, 1923. He said, says the story,
that in this conference he told Mr.
Forrest that he intended to fight
mob violence, either masked or un
masked, during his tenure as gover
nor.
Mr. Brown also admitted, the
Constitution says, that he is a
memmer of the klan and that he
attended the Kansas City meeting
in hils capacity as a citizen. "When
the day comes that a citizen loses
his right of free assembly by be
coming a public official, I’ll resign
my office," he is quoted as having
said.
Governor Walker, in response to a
question by the Constitution's in
terviewer, is quoted as having said
that he had never made the speech
he delivered at Kansas City before
a Catholic organization for the rea
son that he had never been invited
to do so, but would deliver It if the
Invitation la extended. '
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 14, 1924 (associated press.)
Feature Judging Program
of Dog Show Here Will
Be Held Tuesday Night
About 2,000 People Paid Way Into Show on Opening
Day, and Crowds Continue In Evidence Tuesday. Show
Is Success From Every Standpoint
The feature Judging program
of the Augusta Dog Show will
come off Tuesday night, begin
ning at 8 o'clock, when variety
classes and the beet dog in the
show will be Judged. In the lat
ter, the winners in every breed
will be recalled to the Judging
and minutely examined to de
termine the best dog of all the
entries. The whiners of this
big event will be the recipient
of the biggest honor in the
show and many handsome
prizes.; Big offerings are also
made to the best of opposite
sex.
The Judging for these classes
starts at 8 o'clock Tuesday
night and everyone A has at
tended the show, bnWes those
who yet want to go will do well
to see this Judging.
It was estimated late Monday night
that about two thousand people paid
their way In to see the dog show
during Monday and Monday evening,
and Tuesday the crowds were coming
In In generous proportions. The fea
ture judging events on Tuesday’s card
are figured responsible for the at
traction that will even break Mon?
day’s record In the matter of attend
ance.
Monday night, at the judging of
English setters, there toas a great
crowd of enthusiastic lovers of sport
and hunting dogs, delighted by the
sight of the handlers running around
the ring, posting their charges and
the gentle dispositions of the mag
nificent animals entered In this breed.
The four beautiful dogs entered by
Hon. Mrs. Cecil, nee Miss Cor
nelia Vanderbilt (known among the
visitors now as the "Vanderbilt dogs”)
(Continued on Page Ten)
DAVIS CROSSES
WABASH FOR
HIS ILLINOIS
\ CAMPAIGN
ABOARD DAVIS SPECIAL TRAIN,
SPRINGFIELD, lll—John W. Davis,
democratic presidential candidate, left
Indiana Tuesday and campaigned his
way through southern Illlnlois. He
carried with him across the Wabash,
however, a hope of victory which he
admitted he did not feci when he en
tered Indiana, and which, he said, hRd
sprung up to absolute confidence dur
ing his travels in that state.
Ig his appeal to Indianans In Terre
Haute Mr. Davis restated his labor
creed—rights to all men and special
prlvilcgs to none—and left his promise
to “hold the scales of Justice fair and
equal between every man, woman and
child.”
From 1913 to 1921, Mr. Davis said
the country had democratic rule un
der the leadership of Woodrow Wilson
“and received more legislation bene
ficial to labor than had ever been
passed In any similar period of Am
erican history. It was then, he re
called that It was written on the
statute books for the first time that
the labor of a human being Is not a
commodity or an article of commerce.
In elaborating his appeal for labor
support, the candidate pointed to the
enactment of the law recognizing the
right to organize for the promotion
of labor’s welfare and to collective
bargaining. "You have the writ of
Injunction limited," he added, "the
clght-hqur day recognized and what
more could nngjabor party have given
you than did the democratic party
while It was In power?”
On the other hand, Mr. Davis took
occasion In Indiana to make a re
statement of democratic contributions
to business. While It was not a
business man’s party that was elect
ed In 1912, he said, business had de
vised the federal reserve act, the
greatest piece of financial legislation
this country ever knew.
Had the government been devoted
to business need" alone during the
years of the Wilson administration
It could not have made a greater
contribution than the reserve act, he
said.
MAKES APPEAL
TO THE FARMERS.
Neither did the candidate fall to
Include In his Indiana campaign an
appeal to the farmera for eupport of
the democratic ticket In November.
On the agricultural record of the
Wilson regime also was sounded In
th* Terre Haute addresa.
"There was no farm party elected
In 1912," Mr. Davis said, "hut the
farmers of this country received for
the first time in the farm loan credit
act the same sort of credit as the
business man of the country hsd en
joyed for years, They received the
warehouse act and a long list of leg
islation pseiillarly sdvsntsgeotis to
themselves, What more would a farm
party have given you If they had
been In power than that?"
Agalnat the rechals and prnmlaea
Mr Davla painted for the Indiana
voters a picture of republicanism
which, he said, had heen revealed by
the Harding and Coolldge adminis
trations.
"As a matter of fact.” he declared.
"If you return to power President.
Coolldge and Uie last congre«s. most
of whose mcnMtan are candidates for
re-election, you will have the same
sorry spectacle of governmental im
potence that has afflicted this coun
try In the months that have gone
by."
JUDGING RESULTS
AT THE AUGUSTA
DOG SHOW
MONDAY
(Airedale Terrier results announced
previously.)
ST. BERNARD
Limit Bitches
Minna, owned by Edward J.
Barry, first. 1
GREYHOUNDS
Open Dog Class
Lansdowne Pengower Spring,
owned by Mrs. Bennie F. Lewis,
first.
Open Bitch Class
Lansdowne Liskeard Aurora,
owned by Mrs. Bennie F. Lewis,
first.
WHIPPETS
Open Dog Class
Lansdowne Sungauge, owned hy
Bennie F. Lewis, first.
DOBERMAN PINSCHERS
Open Dog Clast
Hamer of Bornholm, owned by
Carl N. Hansen, first.
Kidodemus von Wensabrook,
owned by H. F. Precht, second.
Also Judge best dog of the breed
in the show.
Novice Bitch Class
Lady Bell, owned by Miss Alex
andra Anderson, first.
American Bred Bitch Class
Lady Bell, owned by Miss Alex
andra Anderson, first. Also judged
beßt of the breed In show.
SHEPHERD DOGS
Dog Puppy Class
Hello Wolf von Bonn, owned hy
Hello Kennels, first; Roland von
Mlahelm, owned hy R. A. Stearns,
second; Benno, owned by Walter
C. Miller, third.
Novice Dog Clast
Hello Wolf von Bonn, owned by
Hello Kennells, first; Wolf Fritz
von de Heco, owned by H. M. Haw
kins, second; Jasper of Durnback,
owned by Mrs. P. D. Carlisle, third.
American Bred Dog Class
Hello Wolf von Bonn, owned-by
Hello Kennels, first; Wolf Fritz
vonder Heco, owned hy H. M, Haw
kins, second; Pascha, owned hy C.
A. Deas, Jr., third.
Limited Dog Claes
Hello Wolf von Bonn, owned hy
Hello Kennels, first; Wolf Fritz von
Heco, owned by H. M. Hawkins,
second; Prince, owned by Moses
Blusky, third.
Open Dog Class
Ajax von der Gelrergucke, owned
(Continued on Pago Ten)
SIDELIGHTS ON
THE DOG SHOW
(BY HENRY F. BAXON)
The dog show has certainly
proved a center of interest during
the two days It held forth, and
throngs of women and children,
and men, too, have gloried In th
many splendid dogs exhibited. It’s
hard to say which of the many
breeds of dogs en-benched claimed
admiration of the women most,
but lots of the women were notic
ed to hover around the stalls
where the little Boston terriers
were chained. They are right cute
looking, but beyond a nice little
toy I can’t see much to them.
However, they are popular and
those who own them think there’s
nothing else lri the dog kinghom
worthwhile: so there you are.
Among the Boston Terriers there
Is one, though, that particularly
attracted me, that was Banda, be
longing to Mrs. J. M. Caldwell.
Banda Is pert looking and Is a real
pretty dog. He was a blue ribbon
winner at the show held here the
early part of this year. His coat
Is sleek looking and snows that ex
traordinary fine care Is taken of
him. He Is a wonderfully bred dog
and comes from a strain of bench
show winners. In markings he Is
mode color with white collar and
vest, white topped front feet and a
blaze In his face.
One dog In the show that has at
tracted quite tt bft of attention Is
the big Bt. Bernard. Particularly
among the children was this dog
a favorite. These big fellows are
seldom seen now-a-days; but there
was a time were quite
common about Augusta. They are
yery fine dogs and are especially
noted as watch dogs and as care
takers for children. They are af
fectionate In nature and are very
loyal to their masters. Little Jim
Walker, son of John W. Walker,
the Insurance man, went Into
ecstacles over the Ht. Bernard and
declared to his dad, “e's a regular
papa dog."
As to numbers the hunting dogs
(Continued on Page Ten)
ELECTRICIANS OP
INTERNATIONAL
ASSOCIATION
MEET HERE
President J. L. Caldwell, of
Colorado Springs, Presides
at Opening Session—Del
egates Welcomed to City
J. Tj. Caldwell, president of
Colorado Springs,' Colo., Tues
day morning at 10 o'clock, rail
ed to order the twenty-nintli
annual convention, October 14th
17th. inclusive—of the Inter
national Association -of Muni
cipal Kllctrlcians at the Par
ridge Inn. Following the invoca
tion by Rev. B. F. Fraser, of St.
.lames Methodist church, fyluyor
Julian M. Smith delivered tho
address of welcome and Clark
Diehl, of Harrisburg, Penn.,
responded.
After the president delivered
his annual address, Wm. R. Ar
buckle, secretary, called tho roll
at which time those answering
were given three minutes to
relate to the meeting tho things
of importance relative to their ,
occupations that happened In
their respective rlties during
tho past year. These reports
covered development of various
projects In the electrical world
and were very Interesting.
PAPER FMftAD BY
CHARLES BERST
An Interesting paper was read on
“The Development of tho Fire
Alarm Box,” by Charles Berst, dis
trict sales manager, The (lamewell
Company, Atlanta. A brief history
of tho development of the standard
street box was given relating the
history what is now known os the
Gamgwell System, telling of Its
origin and the patent secured by
John N. Clamrwell, its Inventor, in
1817.
"There has been very substan
tial improvement made in the
standard of fire alarm boxes,” said
Mr. Berst. “The old style boxes
which met every need iri the day
of their designing are today as
obselete ns a kerosene lamp; yet
as we travel through the country
we find different type boxes.” He
pointed out that the safety of a city
demands the latest In modern con
struction, and Ui a number of In
stances cities have not hesitated to'
Junk obselete methods. Attention
was called to the millions of dollars
worth of horse-drawn apparatus
that, has been substituted with
motor apparatus.
DISCUSSES STREET
LIGHTING SYSTEM
Walter C. Well, assistant sales
(Continued on Page Ten)
SAY HENRY FORD
10 WITHDRAW
RIB BID FOB
SHOALS
WASHINGTON—OfficiaI Wash
ington Tuesday was considering
what effect the Collier’s Weekly
announcement of the withdrawal of
Henry Ford from the bidding for
Muscle Shoals wotijd have on the
political situation and the develop
ment of gigantic government prop
erties.
Apparently the Detroit manu
facturer after occupying the center
of the stage in a heated con
troversy that consumed the atten
tion of congress for two years, vol
untarily has withdrawn and an
nounced Ills position through the
magazine. As far as can be learned,
the White House, war department
and congressional committees deal
ing directly with Muscle Khoals
have received no official notice of
the withdrawal.
Washington was equally Interest
ed In Ford’s reported advocacy of
the administration's proposal to
create an Impartial comrnisalon to
atudy the Muscle Hhoals question
and submit recommendations to
congress and also in his quoted
statement that he helieved the ar
my engineers could carry the work
forward If unhampered. During the
committee hearing the Ford sup
porters opposed both of these pro
posals and charged they were mere
ly measures to thwart the Ford bid.
If Ford actually has retired from
the bidding, members of congress
favoring his hid probably will es
tablish affiliations with other
groups before December when the
Muscle Shoals Issue will come up
on the senate calendar as the first
order of business.
Officials said no sleps would he
taken until It was learned officially
that Ford definitely had withdrawn
from Muscle Shoals.
18 CENTS A WEEK.
Body Is Found
With Gas Tube
Held In Hands
WASHINGTON—Senator Frank Brand&gee, of
Connecticut, prominent for years among the republican
leaders of congress, committed suicide at his home hero
Tuesday.
Worried and distracted, his friends said, over finan
cial difficulties, he went to an unused bathroom on the
third floor of his house and just before dawn took his
own life by inhaling gas.
He left in his bedroom below a note to his chauffeur,
telling him where the body could be found. He was a
bachelor and for years had lived alone.
FATE OP SNIDER
AND HATTAIY
RESTS WITH
THE JURY
WARRENTON,’ Ga.—The
evidence has been closed, the
argument of the aolicitor-gen
eral for the state and counsel
for the accused is finished, the
charge of the law of the case
has been given by the trial
judge, tho immense crowd that
gave Warrenton the appearance
of a city of twenty thousand
inhabitants hat departed, and
tho fate of Eugene Bnider and
Charlie Hattaway, who are
charged with the murder of
Hattie Evans, rests in tha
hands of twelva jurors.
Warren superior court was call
ed to order at ten a. tn. Monday
by Judge K. T. Shurley and after
counsel for the state and accused
announced ready the selecting of n
Jury to try the ense commenced.
The trial was replete with thrillls
and tears as the witnesses disclosed
the scenes of that tragic Hunday
morning In August when Hattie
Wimberly, a wayward girl, from
Augusta, came to an untimely
death. Seated with tho solicitor
general was the aged and care
worn mother of the deceased and
across the table sat Snider, his
counsel, and wife and eight chil
dren, ranging In age from two
months to sixteen years, nnd Hat
taway, and hls wife and children.
NINE WITNESSES
FOR THE BTATE
Nine Witnesses were Introduced
for the state who testified that
Snider and Hattie had previously
had a altercation In Greene county,
In which Hattie was badly beaten
and that she swore out a warrant
for Snider at Greensborq,
Other witnesses testified that on
the Sunday before the killing Snid
er and Hattaway had remarked In
their presence that unless the girl
refrained from talking that they
would put her In the river. The
state then Introduced expert testi
mony to show that the pistol used
In the killing could not be fired by
having the hammer struck, which
caused the defendant to change his
previously published statement as
to how the accident occurred.
Tile state closed and defease put
Hattaway on the stand to make his
statement which was Intended to
exonerate him and explained that
Holder had accidentally killed the
woman while he had his hack turn
ed, hut that he heard Snider say
Immediately after the shot was
fired that it was an accident.
SNIDER IS PUT
ON THE STAND |
Snider then took the stand and
tearfully related the Intimacy that
had existed between him and Hattie
he told how they had spent the
night previous to the killing In an
unoccupied house some half mile
from the home of Bloom Thompson,
drinking and carousing and at sun
rise the next morning he had taken
her up to the Thompson home, and
that after arriving there he went
to take his pistol from the car and
In some unknown way It had fired
and killed her. He stoutly main
tained his lnnoneence, stating It
was an accident and could not have
been avoided.
The solicitor-general Introduced
a physician who examined the body
(Continued on Page Ten)
Sheriff Sentenced to Two Years
For Breaking Dry Law
HUNTINGTON, W. Va,—Con
victed of having violated the Vol
stead act, Don Shafln, sheriff of
Hogan county, West Virginia, win
sentenced Tuesday hy Judge G. W.
McCMntlc to serve two yeara In the
fedcml penitentiary at Atlanta*
Ga„ and fined SIO,OOO.
The charge agalnat Chafln grew
out of the operation of a notorious
roadhouse ip Hogan county. Ilia ar
rest followed a raid on the estab
lishment by state troopers two
years ago. A forty-day stay of ex
HOME
EDITION
U/PATMEQ Augusta and vicinity: Fair tonight
IICHinCD and Wednesday.
NOTE ASCRIBES
NO MOTIVE
The note ascribed no motive. A
verdict of suicide was returned by
the coroner after he and the police
had made a complete investigation,
Pencilled in an uncertain hand
on senate stationery, the senator’s
last message said:
"October 13, 1924.
"Dear George:
"I enclose SIOO for you and SIOO
for Emma and Rufus. I am up in
the bathroom on the top floor near
Seventeenth street. The top floor.
The floor above the one I aleepon.
"If you or Lundy come up tberd
beware the gas.
“Good-bye,
‘FRANK B BRADEGEE.’'
Pinned to tho note were two SIOO
bills. Emma and Rufus, referred to
by the senator, are Emma and Ru
fus Konney, negroes, servants of
Mr. Brandegee. The chauffeur is
George Jonea.
The two sentences in the note,
"The top floor. The floor above the
one I sleep on” were written in red
crayon, as though inserted as an
afterthought.
The senator was last seen alive
by Jones and W. D. Lundy, hie
secretary, Monday morning. At that
time he went for a ride with Jones
about the city. Jones said he seem
*d then to be in the best of spirits
and health, remarking time and
again during the ride about how
beautiful a day it was.
In his dying moments the 60-
year-old senator had crumbled in a
bath rug beneath hit head for a
pillow. The end of a email rubber
tube, attachced to an open gas jet,
still was in his hand.
Senator Brano'agee had no living
immediate relatives, Mr. Lundy
took charge of the funeral plans and
announced that the burial probably
would be in New London, Conn.,
Mr. Brandegee'e birth' place and
home.
The residence occupied by Sena*
tor Brandagee had been owned by
him for some time. It is a rather
spacious dwelling close to tha
downtown section and had been tha
acena of many important confer
ences among tha leaders of tha
senate.
Although he was once a compara
tively rich man, his friends said
Tuesday thaht he had suffered
heavy losses in recent years. Ha
was a lawyer by profession, but for
tome time has been heavily inter
ested in real eatate.
CORONER RETURNS
SUICIDE VERDICT
The eixty-year-old senator was a
bachelor and lived alone. The body
was found by W. G. Lundy, eecre*
tary, who told the police he was at
tracted to the third floor by tha
odor of gas upon hit arrival at
the house this morning.
The coroner, after an , investiga
tion, returned a verdict finding that
the senator had committed suicide.
The certificate issued by tha
coroner said he had accomplished
hie own death by the inhalation of
*“*■ a- .
LIVED ALONE IN
APARTMENT HOUSE
WASHINGTON—Sanatqr Frank
B. Brandegee, of Connecticut, lon#
leader in republican politics, wa.t
found dead In his home here early
Tuesday. The cause of Senator
Brandegee’s death could not be Im
mediately ascertained. Police re
ports said a gas Jet was found turn
ed on In hla home.
Senator Brandegee lived alone In
an apartment house on Rhode
Island avenue. He recently moved
from his home on K street, which
for a long time had been a gather
ing place for prominent persona.
Tho senator was found In tha
bathroom on the top floor of hia
home by W. D. Lundy, hts secre- J
tary, and George Jonea, his chauf- I
feur. The odor of gas, Lundy told ■
police, led him to make a search of
the upper rooms, when he arrived
at tjie house this morning.
Police said Lundy told them that
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ecutlon was granted to permit
Chafln’s attorney to prepare an ap
peal. Chafin was released after his
bond of $5,900 was Increased to
$20,000. Chafin gained much pub
lic attention several years ago when
as sheriff, he led the defending
forces aga.nt armed marchers who
threatened ta invade Logan county,
a non-union coal field. The march
ers enmo from the union fields Im
mediately north of Logan. The
forces battled along Spruce Fork
ridge for a week before federal
troops were sent Ju.