Evening Star Newspaper, December 22, 1922, Page 16

what was seen this morning, it nrob- jably would be saying: “Y certainly hated to take thome, two car tokens from that old Aady, Ernest. That was real gene/osity. When a person hasn’t any money, and tells you 80, and gives you two Street Santa Glaus Shortage, But Old Pot ‘Keeps on Boiling’ & B | son n"hnxmr, youl can £blder my 5 ii lan't generosity. bé $10 in some cases, or even $25. 'm glad 'you listed her /for a free Student of Human Nature, Christmas basket. 1t Ae u 0od | body around. Cheis 98t ©Yoye He's had his pulse on reactions of = o lesson of the bread cast om water re- | it sg? the public for the past few daye, and to the bow-wows? They ought to look / at this corner for a while. Every- body’s all right. Christmas is coming. The world getting a taste of happi- ness. Ah, madam, another contrib tion: let it drop gently, won't My sides are getting all nicked up.” That's probally what the o!d pot in thinking as it stands there day after day during the Christmas rush. And there's something ennervating and in- describable in the attitude of every- u? Thera's a shortage of street corner Santa Clauses. The employment boom is to blame for it. The yuletide landmark of a be- turning. Took at that ki, will you? = See her dragging that Aatchet-faced s 2 TS furred and bewhiskered bundle of |he has become a bellever of the doc- She g benevolence, Who stood gyard over trine that a good meal mukes & Food e e e T EalinE e, SHOT FOURTEEN TIMES. giver. His basis for this reasoning. alt of the earth, the kids are. Wha is that people on the whole are more |y sl | generous, after” the noontime meal Vead 20 wars “rhamk /sty 10T L | Ohio Man Believed Victim of an earler in the day. rst evi- | o 5 neson 3 { dence of good numor begins to UnEIe, | dotlar' Tl forblve o hens Faseian | , Black Hand Plot. and—sometimes—softly crackle, in the | hootn That fellofr roming. up- here SLAND, Ohio. December 22.— bolling pot just after 2 o'clo:k.” From |has been arrestedd half a dozen times bullet-riddled body of Anthor then .until 6 o'clock the pot gets a,for bookmaking,’ I hate to take this twenty-six yoars old. of Wi, fairly steady siream. Of course. there | Caun St 1t11 hkp put some. boor er- | Jorow; Wenly EIx years old. of Wil are many who make contributions|son.’ Lookout, /A dollar bill. Thanks, Cgar%ylo¥: MRS (ONMC thes morning not without the stimulus of a meal under | to ou- buday [ far trom his home in Willoughhy. fif- the belt, but, on the whole. Ernest| '“This is a good one. isn't it? Plain-|¢en miles eact of here. =Marshal Who discovered the body, declared / that in his opinion the slaying we finds, the contribdtions are neither 80 | cjothes copA ¢ a bookie with + | numerous nor o substantial and spon- | Contributioans Alwavs after them, eh? \ the outgrowth of a Black Hand plot taneous as after luncheon. It gets|iwell, theyre coming in all classes, into ‘the air. and I bet, it hurt that fellow more to the Salvation Army pot at 11th and F streets, is not there today, There's a shortage of help. at army head- quarters—more people getting work —and the army couldn’t spare a man for the job. A upiformed soldler of the is there, however. His name is B. W. Ernest, but he is not of the rotundity necetsary for & real Santa Claus. Generous Cenmtributions. This, strange to relate, is noi affecting the contributions. Possibl it is because Ernest can hold up his : v s ke them | Substantial Christmas gifts come | give a qu o rive | Maloney, examining the body with Ir ricnasinTiofinassiand ot boiling | from fur-coated and limousine-travel-.| §'5¢,1. e mnhelp e Y Eine | N. C. Tce, Lake county coroner-elec: curency. < Yesterduy from three | ing individuals, but the pedestrians’|{o‘s gog cause, eh? found fourteen bullet holes in it, ¢ in_the back. dressed neatly yet not richly are the There was no signs of a scuffle nes standbys. Persons of mode-ate means Vorld Not Out of Joint. appear to be the backbone of the| .../ the &pot where the body was foun charity pot. Yere are those birds who are al- | and there was no indicdtion of rol- [ If the pot could talk, judging from | ways/yapping about the world going | bery, Marshal Maloney said friends he extracted exactly $45. Everybody who knows him and passes him these days with a pleasant word gets this greeting: “That’l] cost you just $5.” It may TO THE CHILDR JUGE DENESPLE TOENDMINE CAGE Petition for “Not-Guilty” Verdict Turned Down at Herrin Trial. DEFENSE TO OFFER I\LIBI| Lawyers Summon Many Witnesses to Deny Allegations in Murder Charge. Iy the Associated Prees. MARION, Ill, December 22.—Motions | led by the defense asking that the t direct a verdict of “not guilty” we e denied today at the trial of five men on charges of murder in connec- tion with the Herrin riots. The motions of the defense, twenty in number, specifically named twenty- three of the state’s witnesses and asked that all of their evidence be stricken from the record. Judge D. T. Hartwell, ruling the motions, instructed the Jury that a conversation with Bert Grace, related by D. J. M. Ballance, | in which the witness had quoted Grace as having boasted that he had pre- vented one of the men shot down at the Herrin cemetery from getting a was admitted only as it applied after gover- The court also riled that testimony in which Mrs. Otis Clark, wife of a defendant, was identified by a wit- ness as having been seen in the crowd shortly before C. K. McDowell, superintendent of the mine, was slain, should be considered only in Te- jation to the defendants other than Clark, as a wife's testimony could not be used against her husband. State Rests Case. The defense was ready toda gin Introducing testimony ¢ to be- hich, it was announced, would be designed to prove an alibi for each of the accused men. The several hundred witnesses d were in court, but it was tical as to! how many of ould be called to the witness stand before court adjourns tomorrow evening over the holidays. The state rested its case yesterday afternoon, and adjournment was taken to permit the defense to gather its witnesses. A. W, Kerr of counsel for the de- fense in a statement yesterday afternoon said he would seek to prove that the accused men could have had no part in the killings. He asserted that the defense would seek to im- peach testimony given by several state’s witnesses that they had seen the defendants with guns the day of the rioting or had seen them shooting at some of the victims. Under the Illinois law there are no degrees of murder and the jury will be compelled to return a separate verdict for each of the defendants and also, if it finds them guilty, to fix the penalty, ranging from one vear's imprisonment to death. ‘The holiday recess will be until January 2. After eight days spent in the in- troduction of evidence. the prosecu- n rested yesterday at the trial of five men charged with murder in con- nection with the slaying of twenty non-union miners during the Herrin riots last June. Survivors on Stand. In the testimony of its last few wit- nesses the state completed its rela- tion of tha events from the time three mine guards were shot while driving in a truck from Carbondale i) the Les- ter mine on the morning of June 21, to the attack on tRe mine that afternoon, when three union miners were killed, the surrender under a white flag the mext morning of forty-eight men in the pit and the slaying of twenty of the pris- oners. All five defendants have been pointed out in court as having been seen with guns during the riots, and several of them have been named as having shot down some of the victims. During the course of the presentation of the state's the scenes of horror which they sald accompanied the kllllnfs. The cross examinations by the de- fense have been brief and apparently Pretty Blond Girl And aShining Gun Aid Bandits’Coup “Which way to Maryland ave- nue? called a dashing, vouns blond from the wheel of her auto- mobile to Joseph A. Boczkowsky of | 130 C street northeast, as he was walking along D street last night. “Keep straight ahead” replied the gallant pedestrian as he drew closer. An instant later be found himself staring down the shining blue barrel of an automatic pistol, held in the hand of a man seated in the tonneau of the machjne. Another male occupant of the car leaped nimbly to the payement quickly relieved Boczkowsky of $37.50 and sped down the street, the pretty blond girl still at the wheel and apparently not caring how many speed laws she broke. to show that Dr. Shipman was not there at all. He added that other Wit- nesses would be introduced in an ef- fort to_disprove testimony given by other of the state's witnesses. He further said that the defense would put on the stand hundreds of witnesses who would testifs that thel defendants now on trial had no pes- | sible connection with the Killings charged. —_— GIVEN ‘USUAL SENTENCE. Five Get Ten Years Each for Rob- bery—Others Punished. Five colored men received ‘the usual sentence of ten years” from Jus- tice Stafford in Criminal Division 1 to- ay. They had been convicted of highway robbery and _pocketbook snatching. John Carter stole $130 from Lewis Jackson, April 6 last: Charles White took $540 belonging to Ellen Joyce, July 1; Thomas Kent and William Smith robbed John Page of $55, Novem- ber 11, and Joseph Carter snatched a pocketbook, October 29. - Bartholomew Kidwell, colored, a dope peddler, was sent to the penitentiary for three years. He is an old of- fender. Woolsey L. Baxter, white. was given a term of three years for selling dope, but was placed on probation. A sentence of three vears was imposed on William A. Brooks, colored, who assaulted Joseph M. Broderick with a knife, October 29. The stealing of lnl automobile caused a three-year sen- tence to be given Henry C. Tyson, col- ored. —_— FOUND GUILTY OF FRAUD. DES MOINES, Iowa December 22.— Miss Mary Frase, sister of former Park Commissioner Frase, and erst- while secretary of that department,! was found guilty last night of a pay roll fraud against the city run- ning into thousands of dollars. Conviction on the charges on which Miss Frase was tried carried with it a penalty ranging from a term in the county jail to seven years in the penitentiary. . 1A dittle AUTO TRIP SOUTH ENDS | IN DEATH OF PARENTS | Four Children Left to Charity in | Columbia, S. C., Where Bodies of | Couple Lay Unclaimed. COLUMBIA, S. C., December 22.—| over three w their way from Pine Level, Thomasville, Ga.. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Burnett and their four children, the oldest seven years and the youngest six months of age, reached Colum- bia on the train from Riltmore, S. C. At Biltmore the automobile ‘truck in which they Avere making the trip had to be sold for ready cash, with which to buy the necessities of life. and at Biltmore the Sextette had | boarded the train for Columbia, where it was hoped work would be found. Burnett claimed as his profession | steeple painting. 1 Three we@g:s ago Mr. and Mrs. | Burnett within a few hours of each other succumbed to pneumonia. Ef-| forts to locate the families of de- ceased resulted in a telegram from the mother of Mr. Burnett to the effect that funds for the return and burial of the body were not avail- able in the old home In North Caro- lina. A sistgr of Mrs. Burnett wired from Florida that she was on her way to_Columbla, but she never arrlved. The four little children have been placed temporarily in the Children's Home here, where it is the purpose to keep them until the first of next vear and then if no word from rela- tives has been received, efforts to locate homes for them will be made. A fund has been started to defray burial expenses. Should the fund be | oversubscribed the remainder will be used for the care of the four or- phans. —_— FIND BODIES OF PAIR. Authorities Say Penniless Couple Were Stabbed in Back. POTTSVILLE, Pa, December David Bretz and his wife, living in a small village on the outskirts of Frackville, near here, were found dead in their home yesterday after having been missed for five days. Both had been. stabbed in the back and the house showed evidence of a struggle. So far as is known the pair, who were about fifty-two vears old, had no money. The state police are investi- gating the case. 22—! CUBAN EDITOR ARRESTED.' HAVANA, December 22 —Tomas | Julia, director of La Discussion, was arrested last night on a charge of having shot Capt. Adelberto Jiminez, | aide to the president of the republic | and Cuba’s best known polo player. Jiminez was wounded twice and is not expected to survive. He and Julia _aré brothers-in-law. Recently they had been engaged in aiding in the settlement of the estate of their millionaire father-in-law, Emeterio Zo- rilla. | carolina, Feudist Is Shot To Death on Eve Of Wedding Day Ly the Assoclated Pres STEUBENVILLE, Ohio, December —Roy Ledson, twenty-five, is dead, his brother William, thirty- two, severely wounded and James Pearson, fifty, s belng hunted by deputy sheriffs and West Virginia state police to face a murder charge as the result of a fight which came as the climax of a feud between the two families existing for many weeks. The battle was staged near the Ledson farm at 6 o'clock this morning on the hill east of Weir- ton. W. Va,, across the river from Steubenville. Roy Ledson was to have been married tomorrow to a young woman of Weirton, it was stated by members of the family. The cause of the fight this morning is unknown, however, members of the two families declining to make any statement. STUDENTS’ TRUNKS BURN Four From Smyrna .Among Losers in Mt. Holyoke Fire. , SOUTH HADLEY, Mass., December Four foreign students at Mount Holyoke College, refugees from Smyrna. were among the many who lost all their belongings yesterday when fire destroyed Rockefeller Hall, a dormitory. The girls had packed up in readiness to leave for Christmas vacation and their trunks. stored in the basement of the building, were destroyed, The fire, college authorities sald to- night. has brought ;about an acute housing crisis_at the college, the college having been already cramped for dormitory space. The bullding, with accommodations for ninety stu- dents, was presented by John D. Rockefeller, twenty-five vears ago. To rebuild would cost $300,000, it was estimated. The junjor class today voted to give up its annual prom and devote the money to making up the iosses of the fire sufferers. = COLD SHORT-LIVED. South’s Wintry Blasts Fade Under Sun’s Warm Rays. ATLANTA, December 22.— The fouth's first wintry blast this year was of short duration, with indica- tions early today in practically all sectiors of fair and warmer. South cloaked vesterday in ice, has thawed out and higher tempera- ture is expected today. Due to a slight rainfall at Miami and other points on the Florida peninsula, the temperature in the southern section of the state drop- ped to a minimum of 68 degrees yes- terday. Forecast today calls for clear and warmer weather throughout Florida. Backed . CHRIST! CIGAR by a Reputation! “DEER HEAD” CIGARS +—in boxes of 10, 25, 50 and 100. MAS THOUGHTS Briar Pipes.. And Smokers’ Accessories Ash Trays.......25c to $18.00 .25c to $15.00 .$1.00 to $15.00 ‘For “Brother” 21 =(lllI", ,‘:1‘!’/\\\/ ) 7, Zill Y O - Sor your (hristmas ';Brealgfafit | “Peace on earth, good will to men”™— and the spirit of good will is much enhanced by a good breakfast. 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Cases and Pipes. designed to bear out its contention that the non-union men in the mine and their employes had incited the riots for the purpose of having state troops called out to protect the pits; that the guards in the mine were armed, and they disregarded warn- ings that the operation of the mine ‘would result in outbreaks. In .their cross examination, at- torney’'s for the defense repeatedly referred to the non-union “workers in the - mine and the guards as “scabs” “gunmen,” “private detec- tives” and “sples.” B Guards Ridiculed. A. W. Kerr, chief counsel for the defense. said he expected to prove that the “guard or gunmen” were the aggressors in the riots and brought on any attack that .was made upon them by their acts of provocation and challenge. He made special reference to th testimony of Donald M. Ewing, Chi~ $1.00 to $12.00 a Box “LA ANITA”. 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