Evening Star Newspaper, December 10, 1922, Page 6

1922—PART 1. if the law did not protect them they would protect themselves, When the fateful night arrived trouble was generally expected. One of Hatcher's so-called gang was heard to say he must be in town that night to sec the fight. Milton Furr and Aleck Furr went openly on the strect with THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., DECEMBER 10, |U. S. Relief Head |Self-Confessed Slayer Freed Says 7,000,000 g 2 i B Wh : Russ Need Aid ile “Innocent” Awaits Fate re Clemenceaw’s Visit Replete With Many Little Inciden can of beans in another store, etc. Two colored women testified that “Picky” was in their company when the shot was fired and that he left| when a boy came and called him. It is generally admitted, however, that within five minutes of the shoot- Hatcher's friends and was prepared tc take up the family quarrel. After Milton's confession “PicKy” was released. but later rcarrested and indictcd. Just before the tria! * in October a new star witness for the commonwealth was produced i stores of the village. was Irving Hatche Among them exoneratiol who was flour- ration of M { the judge stated ton, as shctguns in their hands. A child |ing, “Picky” Furr was on the street | the person of Phil L rhe > e NEW YO! c = than ARREN N, Va., December 9.—|decision is reserved and the country-| Wl e = the atcher. Lambert is a negro who has Tiger’s” Ability to Speak English Aided) oW 0Kk December s.—ore than || WARKENTON, Va. December 0. dciuiun Ja rorer Pihce. Shar; ‘B Biopie mworo:to Mearing | i "o AmEEEt 18 & Moo who has ,000, ssians must be g ' Through the case runs the vein of| On Saturday night a number of |his voice and hearing him sa¥. With | feeble-minded and also been in sail . . . . this winter, Col. William N. Haskell, |Which a self-confessed murderer was|feud, lawleseness, brutality and|Men were, according to custom, some variations in the report, thatlhsm.,....-.l...” in two counties, Him Greatly m Geumg His Message chief representa- |freed and his cousin, who protests| mystery. gathered in one of the principal|had some shells left. He was arrested | comviction ‘of “Ficky necessi- tive in Russia of his innocence, convicted, still is with- @f Mountaineer Stock. | . Given Self Up. that the common- | that night. &6, 2”9 the American Re-|out solution, The entire community The Fi {ishing an open knife th a f = " o wealth had not r T " S urrs of Loudoun and = sing v arl; rning Milton Furr ap- | t proved any conspira- Over” Bette Than P e.decesso S. lief Administration, | eargerly is waiting the decision of the | maunuicr county are n large bons|Ich blade and using violent ana)| Easly next/momingEIon confefisfll';i'ld"::“]“:“‘ part of the Furr family t abusive language about the Furrs. one shot was fired. declared today on|court in the case behind which Mrs.| nection, decended from generations of | sy ge. rrs. itito the shooting of Hatcher and gave y [romiecncrations stified. About 9 o'clock | - - > The Belmonts have upheid th his arrival on the |August Belmont threw her ““““’"“!&‘"‘f.’"ié&’i’fi‘"h‘;‘“;fl.&fi;l {uflk)l kurg Hatcher left the store. It i *:-sdl"i?{,‘?;‘*‘éa‘;"'fl ;{;flsflg‘wheh;?‘ot‘ihl‘?;:&( b A S T is ability to speak Eng- | riving—again at a luncheon. Accord- steamship Beren- |to engage tho most brilliant leial| \Jorked as stable boy for Mra, Jielo | the proprictor scnt him out - {ing and swen Te then ran away | couneil for i, amdng ‘the Tawyers _ Thanks to his abllity 10 8D o et | In& to his own reports later. Clem- garie. Of this num- | array to acquit the defendant. { mont, at her summer home in Middle- | & F e momente Aitor “me biesterjand went to Fures voom on | DOSE WAbN Ml S eiarverr ol lish, the Tiger of France, who s enceau rose to go shortly after greet- e et ~ A Op T ‘burg. Miiton Furr, a first cousin and | e a he € ¢SlePbed [the Belmont premises. Not finding his | 4% 3 a €e of Lynch- . four days here last week, is present-|ing each of these men. Mr. Harding s s Lot LY D Jabout the same age, works with hLis| oo jthe door t port of 4 gun | cousin there, he put the gun in the burs. v nessage to the American peo- | asked him to sit down and stay a lt- American relief| Why a man should accuse himsgelf. her at the miasterer's trade | vas heard. =~ There was much ¢X-|feed room and went on to his country | mghtsmensage foth o o | tie longer. workers will care |2 mother accuse her son and a boy!Charles Iurr, the plasterer, and his| Giement and confuslon as all rushed |home. Mrs. Furr, Milton's mother, tes- | ple more effectively than did either R for '$.000,000; the | his brother, and yet be acquitted, has | son Milton, both are sald’ to have| [Tom the store to the street. They |tified before the coroner's jury and in OLEN. Briand or Viviani. speaking in others will receive |been bating the Loudoun —county | patroni irving Hatcher an allegeq | found Hatcher dead from a charse fcourt that her son came home greatly | = o nce. but |, But for hesitancy on the part of relief from the |court. Yet, that is what happencd 10| hootleg; ; B¢d|of bhuckshot, the knife still In his|excited and told her he had shot S French, at the arms conference, {both Congress and the Clemenceau e areemument. | Milton Furr. His mother sald her | Phe furrs are declared to have got. | 1and and several packages of buot- | Hatcher: that he did not go to bed | Samuel Gasscnhotmer's private col even the Tiger was difficult to un-{party, the Tiger might have appeared 5 son told her he killed - Irving Hatcl 5 St it t- | leg whixky on his person. that might, but went out next morning | lection of aged Dent whisky, cdy- i ‘While there is no ten into Hatcher's debt and a bitter : £ derstand times. His ve stll{in America’s national legislative gemeral famine injon the street in Middlebury I e T e Confiletng Testimony. {o make hi statement to the authorities. | 5 gl five full cases and u couple . According to info - ¢ 3 i estified he saw | o . - L S 3 : . had not seen “Picky” since the | ol s on the side. Were stole full of French accent. scintillated n‘-eosgn::e. particularly, [ oop :(‘E“,fs'“,;,‘ih"l' ,,fl,“]’_ Q,',',“';,m{;;‘;;"‘{“"f.‘:,'“' “;:,:,"; 11:',:“~1..“,< e 'f',"l h”f'ii"“' mantabusediandi|Bg Now lice very confusing and| g nnti;g, D 2 | from the top floor of his home, 1761 With riving inflections and sometimes | would have been glad to accord him - BASKELL. Kell o, o e | DUt the acquitted man's cousin Louls. | oacion metached and best M s | Soaficling toslimony 25 a0 the whiere | Johnny Furr. Miltonis brother, fifteen | Lanfer place northwest. where it hiad trailed o falling inflections indis- | the courtesy of granting a formal|prevented the proper distribution of |or ‘Picky” Furr, beenil found!|ses stputh smalles thas h“;hw"'"““ e S ul-":' i U""E years old, testified that he saw Milton reposed five vears 2 . tinet for the majority of his audi vrlication to the Vice President, a8 |grain and other foodstuffs, resulting in | guilty of first degree murder and|icrs grew so bad that la Bhi hioihe nete bt Piboie| o R A C e R e Ty sl S incefagthe BRIOEIEOB IS presiding officer, to appear. Clemen- | Flioy “00 ot 4 o N o T 0 e i (S 5 agt. 2 = ) £ | “Picky” and teil him. “Picky,” on hear- terday to police of the te H B want. Clothing, tob, is badly [sentenced to twenty years in i Charles and Milton Furr went to a|is variously accounted for by s - ‘ner afte - There was no mistaking. however, his { cecau would have been willing to £0. | needed, he added. b 2 itentiary. “Picky” maintains that he!juitice of the e e 5 or by wit-, ing the news, hurried to the feed by th ner after forty S { ‘ eded, ! 4 ains stice o c peace and laid their | nesses who contradict themselves and | roc he kept a el of de ation following message. It was an unhappy p th -‘:\.Afnl:i?»:?:l‘d'rrg‘r-‘:d u::\e Ol‘;:;"flj'xd"‘ 'r]hpw will be forty to fifty million |is innocent. It before him, asking for legal pro- | each other on trivial points. He 'xiu-{.‘u(;.mh:hregsndtm-m :“fn"nr'ay?“rficdk"x‘u‘m the t 3 ture he painted of France, but so|RUGh tendered rom (e oihel SArat {People who could be relieved in Russit| A rehcaring of the case on an ap-|tection from Hatcher. ; or did not buy cigarettes in a cer- |the street. The inference would natu. | Entry was gained throush u sky- bright was his presentation and his|step he got no closer to the Capite ,},;km"‘flm ‘"‘f!n'l;;‘@':r “wpbn:?elmh (‘fi":’pval to set aside the verdict wasl I'resumably the Furrs decided that!tain store; he did or did not open a |rally be that he expected trouble with ' light, the police were informed, keen the curiosity of r the great went personality, s Americans to see and h Clemenceau that where there was evident eagerness. While Col. E. M. House of T T he who represented former Prosident| it have said to him? SR ' son at Paris, was the much-liked | < II E, as| LSl u's tour and the i i ghoxAcentsiand E antersficlash fo) E o ANSE 2 BlSHOP & TURN P Our Northeast |, cretary, M. Lefevre | But Clemenceau, the grand old war | at Louisiana T-wn. pen Lvenings y = B h f s a favorit premier of France, was well received, e paper men accompanying feted and honored wherever he went VICKSBURG, Miss.. December 9.— | U t-l 10 P M 1221 F Street N.w. ranc | there arose between the scribes a in the nation’s capital. He sails for his | Three men were Kkilled and three ntu V. 900 H St. N.E i cial member of the con- another o ducting party, whose name need not e RS i ‘[Bvein labor agents and planters at be mentioned, a feeling of distinct ST 9 uckport. L. on the Mississippi e a me i misunderstanaing. From i Urges “Tiger” to Promote river. near Here carly tod place to plac complaints of the he dead are an uniden d white “upstage” attitude of this alleged farmer and two negroe offending party grew, until at Mount Vernon there came a showdown be fore Col. E. M. House, which involved the colonel, the newspaper men and resulted in a gracious incident, in- cluding Clemenceau himself. Having heard complaints from the scribes, Col. House, diplomatically calling the attention of Clemenceau to the gathered newspaper men, in the picturesque garden back of the mansion. began a little friendly ex- planation_to Clemenceau. “These boys here have been mighty good to you, id Col. House. “They have treated vou fine. They have ten good words about you." this while patting the Tiger on the shoulder. The Tiger smiled knowingly. He was a journalist once. | think,"” said Col. Hous:. .\'f;‘" f'“ffie'l'l fiber of his being he was a humane, | | o tiiion vaue LiacftoXencachanS benevolent democrat. He kept alive ! @ “What." said Clemenceau, his eves|faith in victory through the darkest | | i< snapping in glee. “only my hat?’ And off came his hat in a sweeping gesture of gratitude to the correspondents. * kK K In thanking Supt. Dodge of Mount Vernon for the pleasure of his pil- grimage to Mount Vernon and in mentioning the gold medallion from the city of Mulhausen which he will for- ward to Mount Vernon, Clemenceau told the superintendent to watch for its arrival. The medallion was_given to Clemenceau as the savior of Mulhausen and of Alsace Lorraine. Having sufficiently conveved his me- dallion message, his eves twinkled with than an awuto trip around the grounds one morning while motoring to_the navy yard to embark for Mount Ver- non. What would the Tiger have told the Senate, which refused to ratify the treaty of Versailles? What would | beloved France next Wednesday. United States of Europe (Continued from First Page.) ate to be judged as unfit to rise to ! | the presidency because your own peo- iple considered you useful only as a steel’ instrument of war? The same would have been the fate of Lincoln had he lived, and, after victory, con- ! tinued to treat the southern states as deadly enemies. But the patriarch | vou praised at Springfleld was made | of different stuff. In iron will power, | humor and ready wit he was at least | your equal, Clemenceau, yet in every hours, but from Sumter to Rl(‘hmflml: his aim always was for reconciliation | and lasting peace. l ‘Will you now close your ears, as at : Versailles—where perhaps it was ex: cusable—to the voice of a great peo ple who always will be your neigh- bors and who won't consent to hobble | lamely through centuries? What | Germany must—and can—pay as an | indemnity is a dispassionate business | matter, such as is settled daily be- | seven to eight million now in mind, the worst of the situation will be met.” —— THREE DIE IN GUN-FIGHT. wounded in a gun and pistol battle be- Right When You Want a Beautiful Hardy FERN Kramer Offers You Fine Washington’s Leading Victor House BUY A GENUINE ICTROL HERE! NOW! “C e R 3 [l & i deb \ 7 < L P R i & 4 ed With | tween private debtors and creditors, . / 2 ! E O O nother thouglt And D e e dider. | with a thorough examination of books, Home-Grown Specimens || { ; : It see you Wl E 1 (;')me but without rattling the sword. And i \ s o= back in fifty-seven vears.” he said. z : s : . i b i 5 & ( ( 3 sck in fifty-seven years” he waid. . |once united the new world won't re Specially Priced at :‘ : 2 5 J 4 3Ly - B "y 0 fest surprise. Surely the Tiger had fuse the necessary credits to this| strong concern, which could effect the | 1 his_English mixed. | — T s aconomicnniylefiRurope. $¢).49 $).981 ¢ N FENGN Y & ey G el e o yeare § | This, Citizen Clemenceau, is the way . . ! P ‘ g came fifty-seven years ago, and in fifty- | Lincoln’s memory should point to you. | = = i p ; — seven years é v;‘ii"hretl,l_rm You will be | Your Paris home is in a street named | | b 3 3 é J Berfie G ey for Franklin, and you know that no- | é ¥ : { ; Y = ble citizen never misused the scepter i - (&= s 3 At the state Tuncheon at the White e Really Worth Up to $5 | - - ¥ House with President Harding. the Vice President, cabinet officers. leaders of the House and Senate, naval and mili- tary aides, in all their gold braid and =old_swords, it was said Clemenceau had been most engaging. His conversa- tion was reported by one who had been present as delightful, and his person- ality attractive. * k% % The huge wreath which Clemenceau laid on Washington’s tomb was so heavy that the Tiger himself could not carry it. Albert, his valet. did the actua]l work, while Clemenceau touched his hand to the tribute as it was being placed in position. * ¥ Xk X Holly trees. brilliant in their holi- v green and bright red berries at Mount Vernon, peculiarly attracted the Frenchman. He inquired about the tree. Was the berry a fruit? Supt. Dodge reached up to lower branches of one of the trees which Washington himself had planted there and broke off a twig. The Tiger took it in his hand admiring. 1y. In front of the house the largest holly tree was in true gala attire, a beautiful sight. * ok ok x Whether the presentation of a glass of water to Clemenceau in the middle of two of his speeches in Washington was for the purpose of giving him relicf from thirst or op portunity to crack a good little je still remains a myster College and before the Southern S which he received from a tyrant to become a tyrant himself. And you also have honored Washington, whose | greatest of all deeds was that which ' prepared the way for the union of the states exhausted by war. i Those who admire the fire of your | proud spirit must hope that before jit flickers out you will kindle the! flames of gospel of a United States! of Europe. It was s&uperfluous to! brave Atlantic storm just to prove! that Prussians, who belleve only in | force and not in the gentle power of | | friendly reasoning, exist also in Ven- { dee, your home. | The last page of your biography ! will determine your place and rank { lin nistory. You want your enemy's : scalp, who, you say, cah never become | i your friend or business partner. You ! | will only consider the welfare of your | iown race and scold angrily at those { ! nations which are not ready to make | , every sacrifice for France. i Germany Punished. | i | 1 personally share your disappoint- ment over the failure to ratify the | | American-British-Franco guarantee | ! pact which would have quieted France | | and rendered the occupation of Ger- | many ncedless, thereby blunting the ! claws of our monarchists and bring- Your friends would appreci- ate one for a Christmas gi Rubber Plants, $1.29 NARCISSUS BULB Yellow Narcissus, each, Narcissus, ood Chinese Lilies, 20c, 3 for 50c Freesias, dozen ........60c s vorct? 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But wasn't it rejected | I i the " Tiger had been speaking for | precisely because London and Wash- | out red tape or at the time you may appoint. some time, the aide approached across the platform. poured a glass of water and. nearing the speaker, held it out | to him. }a new world order and wanted more | In both instances the Tiger! rours than clear-sighted rea- ! i stopped in’ the middie of hi s...,;...h;:"D:\"‘;"'.‘l;l:iiw,‘ € 2 ) If this stamp i and said hen the xentleman i TALKING MACHL comes and hands me a glass of water it means I had better go.” At both places there was hearty laughter. * ok ok x Clemenceau resented about his onion soup. He stopped eating it, in fact. shortly after his arrival, it was learned, because of the newspaper stories, which made s0_much of his unusual breakfast. 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Clemenceau wore dark conservative- 1y cut clothes, gloves, always usually gray, a soft hat when convention did not absolutely call for the high top- per, a straight stiff collar with bow tie, and heavy-soled blucher high shoes, which Albert, the valet (we ;suhpyoae) kept shined to a satin fin- sh. * ok ok X The greeat war premier of France went to see his former associate in making peace, Woodrow Wilson, once. He saw Warren G. Harding, President of the United States, twice—once dur- dag a formal call shortly, after are HAWAIIANS GIVE LUAU. By the Assoclated Press. HONOLULU, T. H, December 9. Democrats of the territory of Hawaii today celebrated the recent election of William P. Jarrett, as delegate to Congress with a Luau, or Hawalian feast, at which seven tons of assorted food was served, and to which every- body was invited. The Luau was said to be the largest given in_the territory since the days of the Hawaiian monarchy. . 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