Evening Star Newspaper, March 20, 1923, Page 4

MAY LINK THREE. | PRIEST MYSTERIES Slaying of California Cath- olic May Be Connected With L Maniac’s Vendetta. CONVICT DENIES GUIL New Theory May Bring Freedom to Prisoner Convicted on Cir- cumstantial Evidence. Epecial Dispateh to The Star. 3 SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., March 20.( ~—A mentally deficient man, today serving a life sentence for the mur- | der of a Catholic priest, yet may secure his freedom because of two widely separated crimes against!| alergymen. Similarity in the disappearance and supposed murder of Father John A. Viniak of Virden, Ill, and the slaying last October of Father Arthur Belknap at Lead, S. D, to- gether with the abduction and mur- der at Colma, Calif., two vears ago “ather Patrick Heslin has caused to investigate the theory that the three are linked. Suggestions of a “death vendetta”. have been made and are being probed. Two Lured Away. Information recelved by the San Francisco police indicate a startling parallel in at least two of the m: teries. Father Viniak, like Father Heslin, was enticed from his home to administer the last rites to the dying. Like Father Viniak, the Colma priest left home in his auto- mobile never to return. And Father Belknap was wantonly shot to death| by a stranger. | A terious “Andrew Orlando’* | 1\ mentioned in the case of| ppearance of Father Viniak | _the murder of Father Belknap. is described as a small man, p Iy an Itallan, and the fact that originally such an individual was | sought for, following the murder of | Father He caused the local | authorities seek all possible in- | formation in the case. Body Found on Cliff. l Father Heslin was well beloved and, so far as was known, had no enemies, He was a poor, although worthy, parish priest and no motive, either of revenge or blackr ail, ever| was established for his slaying. He Wwas missing for many days, as has been Father Viniak, before his body ‘was discovered in a shallow grave, dug on the shelf of u cliff which | fronts the ocean of Salada Beach in San Mateo county. ! Willlam A Hightower, mentally | Weak and forty-four years old, who | discovered the grave and led n«ws~‘ papermen and deputy sheriffs to ft, | was later convicted on purely cir- | cumstantial evidence of the murder. | He now Is serving a life sentence al- | though there are v including po- | lice themselves, who have always had | and still maintain doubt that he is ! sullty. | Sticks by Story. Hightower told the same story! from the outset and he has stuck to | it under the most severe cross g tioning. He insisted that he learned of the murder from a woman mcquaintance who had been told | where the grave was located by & chance male acquaintance. The fact that Hightower was unable to locate this woman after he was arrested and she never appeared to save him proved the most telling link . in the chain of evidence on which he was | convicted. H Great emphasis is toda y b Pplaced on the fact that before he led the officials to tho grave Hightower ver from the wom “short, He also said informed him that | the killing w in no way due to blackmail or revenge, but fimply to & maniacal hatred of all priests by | the “short, dark man." e The arrest of in had where he | audience to acquaint | the prelate with his information. To- ' day from his cell in San Quentin he reiterated the truth of his original | ory. SU1 Relieves in Innocence. E. J. Emmons. an attoruey of Bakersfield, who defended Hightower, | has commenced un investigation | which he believes will link the dis- | @ppearance of Father Viniak with | < of Father Belknap and | * hopeful that he | : to show that the “small, | describe Hightower | was, in reality, the ividual who | Brutally murderec dead prt #nd who decoyed Father Viniak from | his home on @ fanciful misslon that Tie was needed to administer the last Tites of the church to a phantom per- sonage. “Hightowe mons today the lax Nietim that he murder Now the similarity in the siavings of Father Heslin and Father Belknap, and the disappearance and supposed murder of Father Viniak m o eful Investigatio probably, | small,” dark ms with acal vendetta against Catholic . was responsible for all three f-wit.” sald Em- (Copyright, 1923.) CONVICTS CHOKE KEEPER WITH CHAIN; ESCAPE! Force Trusty Out of Auto and Flee in Car, Still Fastened to i Each Other. | By the Associated Press. JOLIET, T, March 20—Two con- the ‘state prison here late ¥ choked a guard Into sub- ! ssion with a chain on thelr hand Y5, routed a trusty from an automo- | Dile in which the party was return- §ng to the prison from the honor farm, yorced the guard into the drivers’ seaf @nd compelled him to drive toward Chicago. The trusty returned to the prison and reported the escape and Chicago authorities were notified to be on the watch, The escaping convicts were John Hale, doing ten years for burglary, From Cook county, and Thomas Pruet o©of Mercer county entenced to fifteen rs for murder. According to Crisse the trusty, the two convicts succeed- ed In getting the chain connecting their handcuffs around the neck of «’. N. Welby, the keeper, and choked m until he was helpless. They then were apparently unable to free their Jiands and ordered Crisse from the aachine, forcing the keeper to_take the driver's seat and start for Chica- £0. Crisso returned to the prison. Tater word was received from the Jeoper that the convicts had thrown him from the car at Lisle, twenty- five miles west of Chicago, and had then proceeded on in the automobile, still handcuffed together. Always the Same. ¥rom Pearson's Weekly. For an hour the teacher had dwelt with painful repetition on the parts played by carbohydrates, proteids and Fats in the buflding up and maintain- ing of the human body. ‘At the end of the lesson the usual test questions were put, among them: any girl tell me the three 0ods required to keep the body in ealth?" 3 There was silence until one malden held up her band and replied: “Yes, teacher: Yer breakfast, yer funner and yer supper. | not i ' |Horse Population | An Tllu Falls 11 Per Cent In Past 10 Years Man's clifef beast of burden—the horse—has decreased in numbers in the world at large about 11 per cent in the last ten years. TFigures made public today by the Department of Agriculture showed & falllng off in the total head in elghty-five countries trom 116,500,009 to, 103,550,000. The . decreases, however, occurred largely in_ Russia, where the decline was nearly 50 per cent, and tho United States,” where the total' has dropped from 23,145,000 in 1914 to 20,550,000 Russia’s total in that year of 34,700,000 has dwindled to 18,507,- 000, giving_ this country the.greatest number. Against decreases also re- ported ~for. the United Kingdom, France, Gérmany and Japan, offset- ting gains wore shown In Argentina, Canada, Spain and the Scandinavian countries. There was'a &light decrease in the number of mules and asses. of which this coyntry’s total of 5,898,000 is the largest. SECT HEAD'S WIFE FACES JURY TODAY Tradition Bars Purnell, Whose “House of David” Is Sued for $80,000. By the Associated Press. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich,, March 20.— Hearing of the suit of John W. Han- jsell against the Israelite House of David, a religious colony of Benton Harbor, in which Hansell seeks to recover property and pay for his labor, valued at $80,000, proceeded in federal court here today, Judge John E. Sater having declined to consider a motion by the House of David at- torney that the case be heard by an ecclesiastical court. Another motion seeking @ jury trial was likewise ruled out, the court holding that sim- ilar contentions had appeared In other forms in preliminary hearings, and were overruled. Hansell < take the stand again today for cross-examina- tion by Attorney H. J. vhirst, a member of the colony and a former superior court judge of California. Indications were that the hearing might be concluded late today or to- morrow. Judge Sater having request- ed counsel for both sides to speed up the case. The number of wit- nesses called by Attorney Dewhirst would be small, only a few members of the colony being present. Among them was Mrs. Mary Purnell, wife of Benjamin Purnell, head of the sect. Mrs. Purnell was to be one of the witnesses, her husband being barred by tradition of the cult, from partici- pation In court action. florts of tAtorney Walter H. Nel- son of Detroit, counsel for the plain- tiff, to bring out practices and be- llefs of members of the cult were blocked, in a measure, by a ruling by the court that such testimo: was admissible unless it related to sible fraud as charged by Han- 1l. The plaintiff aileged he signed to to |- Charming T HELLo,0t sSR! How's EV6R: THinG T H vau! H'van' H YaH, SPoRT! C'von ! THANS A GooD tit DoGGIE! away his property when he joined the | stead, cult in 1912, and expelled, with hi Purnell refused to retu stration of Indflfqrence. H yaH! H yant NiCE oL Boy! HEH - HEH! He's A CuTE LIt FRIENDLY LiL CUSS AINTCHA ? KINDA Copprighe, 1820, M. T. Webseo Mrs. Hansell testified. One of t when he was | the teachings of the cult, the witnesses | then ecxplal 1920, | testified, was that immortality might be him, *Ex t and that|attained on earth by obeying the laws C'mor oL Bov! | WON' T HURTCHA ! WHAT'S YOUR MAME T REX ? | USED B HAVE A LIL DOGG\& JusT LIKE You the that Purnell “In witnees uc the children did not need officers of the cult, by threats forced | of the sect, which provided that hus- | school him to sign a paper he later lea a release upon the property. | Both Hansell and his wife testified | vesterday that they had knowledge of immorali that they believed the teachings of the sect and accepted Benjamin Purnell “‘as the vounger brother of Jesus and the seventh messenger angel.” | “Purnell sald he was set up in Jesus' asked. Mrs. Hansell testified no children no personal | were born in the colony, to her kno at the colony; | edge, except to newly admitted members Attorney Nelson asked Hansell if six children were ¢ cated in the colony. 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TRAILED BY DETCETIVE Said to Have Divided Affections After Return to City—No Tes- timony of Third Woman. NEW YORK, March 20.—Lou Tel- legen, actor. who is being sued for divorce by Geraldine Farrar, former Metropolitan .Opera star, was de. scribed as a “Don Juan” of stage, | seashore and ghetto by witnesses tes- titying for the diva before Referee | Thomas B. Mahony. These witnesses named two “strik- ingly beautiful” young women as co- respondents. One was Miss Lorna Ambler, an Australian actress. The other was referred to only as “Miss | L.* an American actress, who played me company with Telleger { hird Woman Wentioned. d to be known in Besste Clifford, was no men- | hearing. W. ¥. 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In to live with frien, ment on t 37th stre 605 13tk Street, N. W. WASHINGTON, D.C. PHONE MAIN 8638° Slde, where they stopped in Italian restaurants for midnight svln:hsem. Bht suppers of it September, after the openi: Don Juan.” with Tellegen i 1rr‘:enfn?: role, the actor began dividing his at. tentions between Miss Ambler and ‘Miss L,” according to Fitzsimmons, Operator Testifier. Immediately after the performa; he would heil a taxi and taxs - Mies L" to her home on Riversiie drive, :gend & moment or two with her In to meet Miss Ambler. The last witness for the plaintift was Josephus Brandt, a negro ele- vator and switchboard operator at the house in which “Miss L" rented an apartment. Brandt said he had se; frequently with “Miss He ap- peared with her at the apartment house and at first did not go upstairs. 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