Evening Star Newspaper, February 14, 1923, Page 11

THE EVENING ST SAYS POLIENAN FREDONHERFIRST Mrs. Minnie C. Tribby of 3925 Morri- Bon street, Chevy Chase, on trial before Justice Bailey and a jury in Criminal Division 2, on an indictment charging an assault with a dangerous weapon, took the stand in her own defense yes- terday afternoon and testified that Po- lceman J. W, Stevens fired a shot at her ‘before she fired the shot which struck Prohibition Agent Ralph Ruby. The defendant said she was awakened from sleep by the crashing open of her kitchen door and grabbed a gun from under her pillow and rushed into the Kitchen, where she was met by a shot from Stevens' gun. She was alone in the house and mistook the intruders for burglars, Mrs. Tribby sald. No warrant was shown her and no intimation given that her visitors were officers of the he accused woman sald. When his head and & pistol under his chin. Ruby’s hat was also pulled over his face, the defendant asserted, and she saw no badge or other in- signia of a police officer. Neither of poke before she fired, bby is forty-nine years old, o t statue, and was dressed en- tirely in black. Mer answers were given in a low tone and counsel had to request her to speak louder on I occasions. She said the of- after she had admitted them to her bedroom, following the shooting, refused to let her dress. One of with an oath, told her she e accused said. She :d from her room and , although she weighs ree pounds, Mrs. Trib- from the ho only ninety- ted, and was thrown into the of one automobile and then other before being taken to ion. Under _cross-examination by As- sistant United States Attorney Emer- son, Mrs. Tribby could not recall that she had answered her telephone about thirty minutes before the shooting. She ‘Insisted that no warrant was displayed and no_notification given by the officers. She even shot, she declares, while she was still running from her_bedroom In response to the crash. She admitted she almed at Ruby, but explained that it was be- cause he was nearer to her when she Teached the hall. The case will probably go to the Sury today. T N — 3D 0 O A R S R will do. | ! ] % : g price. FIND BABY DROWNED IN CREEK NEAR HOME Theodore Warffemius Missing But Fifteen Minutes Before Dis- covery of Tragedy. Theodore Warftemius, jr., two and one-half years old, was drowned in Oxon run, near his home, at 124 Yuma street southeast, yesterday. The child left his home about fifteen minutes before his body was found. Members of the family missed him, made search, but were unable to lo- cate him. Robert H. Wall and George T. Hayes found the body floating against Livingstone bridge, over Oxon run. They summoned a physician, who pronounced life extinct. It is belleved the child was playing near the run when he fell into a hole, and the high water, resulting from last night's raln, washed him as far as the bridge before discovery was {nlde. Coroner Nevitt is Investigat- ng. —_— PRESOENT LTS LK. ON REORGANEING PLAN Expected to Go to Committee After Copy Goes to Printer. President Harding late today placed his final O. K. on the plan for reor- ganization of the government depart- ments. At a conference with Walter F. Brown, chairman of the joint con- gressional committee, in charge of the matter, the President went over the final draft, some minor changes were made and the completed copy was to g0 tonight to the government print- ing office. As soon as the matter is printed, which is expected to be with- in a day or two at the most, it will be officially transmitted to the joint com- mittee. Enactment of legislation which the committee will draw is not expected at this session of Congress. The joint committee, however, will make pub- lic the entire plan as drafted by the President in co-operation with Chair- man Brown, members of the cabinet and numerous unofficial technical ad- visers. 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Send For The Spencer Book and Information of Local Installations Get this detailed description of Spencer Heaters the reasons why they are o efficient. Also, we'll g' No “sitting up at GRL IDENTIES NEERD SUSPECT After he had been taken to the bed- side of Miss Thelma Harrls at Cas- ualty Hospital yesterday afternoon, Clarence Brooks, twenty-elght-year-old colored man of Falrmont Helghts, Md., was charged by the police with having attacked the girl at Capitol Helghts Saturday night. According to Detective Sergt. Scriv- ener, the girl identified Brooks as her assailant. The detectives say, how- ever, that the colored man steadtastly denies any connection with the case. Inspector Grant, chief of detectives, eald Brooks told them ho spent the eve- ning at_two *houses in the city and later was taken in an automobile by five other men to the vicinity of Capitol Helghts. When first taken into custody, he was in an automobile in Capitol Heights. Both Inspector Grant and Detective Scrivener say that they could not verify | the account given by Brooks of how he | spent the night. After his name had been entered on the blotter at police headquarters with Miss Harris as the complainant, the col- ored man was locked up at No. 2 police station. . He will be brought .to Police Court tomorTow. WL EXPRESSES W TOWEAR N MOURAING The will of Lieut Col. Robert Fish- er Ames, U. S. A, retired, was filed yesterday for probate, In it he expresses a wish that ‘no person wear the conventional garb of mourning by reason of my demise.” He also re- quests that his body be cremated un- less it be necessary to carry it too tar, remarking, “I am supremely In- different as to where my remains are laid to rest.” The entire estate, valued at $40,000, is left to his wife, Madeleine. Col. 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Two nieces, Julia O. Mirabello and Alice Carrick, each to have §50. The re- maining_estate, valued at $15,000, is left to Joseph A. Burkhart, the ex- ecutor, in trust, to convert into cash and to pay $200 each to the Little Sisters of ‘the Poor, St. Joseph’ phan Asylum and St. Ann's I Asylum of this city and $1,000 to St Joseph's Sanatorium at San Diego, Calif. The balance is to be divided between St. John's Catholic Church at Forest Glen, Md., and the Church of the Nativity, at Brightwood, D. C. By the terms of the will of Mrs. Nellie F. Zevely, $400 ara left to her brother-in-law, H. B. Zeverly of New York, and $200 each to Amelia G. Rice, Dorothy T. Rankin, Nannie J. Godeéy of Washington, Marlan F. Wellman, Julla Zeverly, Mrs, Harry L. Ellis and Julia V. Colt of New York: The remaining estate goes to a cousin, Mary Hume of Ayer, Mass. H. B. Zeverly is named as executor. 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