Evening Star Newspaper, August 1, 1923, Page 1

—_— “From Press to Home Within the Hour” | The Star’s carrier system covers | every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. . WEATHER. Unsettied tonight, showers prob- ably: tomorrow generally fair, with rising temperature, Temperature for twenty-four hours ended at 2 pm. today: Highest, 72, at 3:30 pm. vesterday: lowest, 83, at | 8 am.today.” Full report on page . Closing_N.Y. Stocks and Bonds,Page 26 Entered as second-class matter post oftice Washington, D. C. PRESIDENT’S RECOVERY NOW THOUGHT CERTAIN AS PROGRESS GOES ON Crisis Is Passed and Cheerfulness Grows With Decrease in Pulse and Temperature. No. 28,916, “WE'RE OUT OF THE WOODS NOW.,” CHIEF EXECUTIVE TELLS DR. WORK Spends Restful Night and Takes Plenty of Food—Expected to Return Direct to Capital. By the Associated Press PRESIDENTIAL HEADQUARTERS, PALAC E HOTEL, SAN FRANCISCO, August 1.—An official state- ment issued at 10:10 a.m. today by the five doctors attending President Harding said Mr. Harding still was “much ex- hausted, but maintains his normal buoyancy of spirit.” At that hour the chief executive, according to the bulle- tin, was breathing with less labor than previously and there was but little cough. The statement follows: The President is fairly comfortable this morning after a few hours of sleep. His breathing is less labored, and there is but little cough. The lung condition is about the same as vesterday. He is still much exhausted but maintains his normal buoyancy of spirit. Small amounts of food are being taken regularly, and there is regular and satisfactory elimina- tion. The temperature is 99 degrees; pulse, 114; respiration, 30. While progress is being made, every care is necessary to assure freedom from further complications. S PRESIDENTIAL HEADQUARTERS, PALACE HOTEL, SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., August 1.—An informal statement is- sued at 8 a.m. today by Brig. Gen. Charles E. Sawyer, the Presi- ¢ T SSORRS S E THE FIRST CALL ‘R FOR 1924. VIRGINIA VOTERS Army’s Only Heavy Bombers TROUBLE MOONEY Postmaster Asks State to| Change Law So Notaries Can Sign Ballots. . Maneuvers | | satisiied that its airplanes can sink . . |vattleships at sea with aerial bombs, orced to neglect duties pertaining| Alr Service. will enter the | the arm to the postal service in order to help | Y in Few Training of Flyers and Ultimate Sinking of Two Batileships. dent’ restful night, and his pulse at th and respiration, 40.” personal physician, said that Mr. Harding had spent *“a very at hour was 114; temperature, 99, These figures represented decreases in the pulse rate and tem- perature, as compared with the last previous bulletin, the pulse rate being less by two and the degrees lower. The respiration the same. temperature one and two-tenths rate given in each bulletin was Secretary Work of Interior, one of the physicians in at- tendance upon the President, was one of the first to enter the sick chamber early today. After a few minutes there he returned through the corridor to his room, conversing with those who in- quired concerning the chief executive. “There is nothing to add to the statement Gen. Sawyer has given you,” Secretary Work told the newspaper men, adding that every symptom in the case pointed to “a most pleasing progress . " on the part of the President. Expect to Retarn Direet. There was an understanding today among members of the presidential party that the chief executive and M Harding would réturn direct to Washington, leaving San Francisco as soon as the physicians would give their permission for the President to begin travel. The route east was ex- pected to be via Ogden, Utah; Omaha, Ne and from Chicago to Washing- tos: Some of the President's advisers yesterday indicated their bLelief that t would be best for him, during his convalescence, to spend some time visiting with Mr. William Wrigley, jr.. on Catalina Island. off the Southern California coast. Mr. Wrigley has usked Secretary Christian to take the invitation to Mr. Harding as soon as the chief executive can be talked to about such things, but it was under- stood later that there was no pos- eibility that the trip to Catalina would be made. Railroad officials have given careful study fo the selection of the overland route east and have recomnu ded that the trip bome be made that way, the train running at a comfortable speed and probably stopping at nighes in order that the President might have complete rest. They had no idea, however, as to when the start would be made, and the physiclans attending Mr. Harding said the time depended entirely on the rapidity with which the President recovered. In the event improvement continued and there was no relapse, it was said, there was reason to helieve the start mizht be made in about a week. o Recovery Bolfeved Sare. The President seemed certain of recovery barring improbable devel- opment’ of new complications in his {liness or the equally improbable in- crease of the present ones. Gen. Sawyer, chicf of the staff of physiclans ‘on the President’s case, still was standing by his statement of last night that the crisis had been passed and that “the President ix well on the r to recovery.” Added to this was the declaration from an authoritative source that the only reason’ for concern was because the atient was the President of the Jnited States and not because of new symptoms or likelihood of “Since we have our toxin well under control, I feel safe in raying that we have passed the peak load of trouble,” was the way Gen. Sawyer summarized the situation in an in- formal statement. “I don't want to be too emphatic about it, because we always face complications, but [ feel that the crisis is over and that the President is well on the road to recovery.” Feeling Shared by This feeling was manifestly shared by all of the other physicians and by members of the President's imme- diate party. Mrs. Harding. who has been by the side of her husband throughout this fight, as she has been in all struggles he has waged, was understood to be even more optimistie, and the President him- self was convinced that the battle has been won, for he was quoted by Secretary Work as having said late yesterday: “Work, 1 think we're almost out of the woods.” The President's own feelings were expressed at a time when hiy condi- tion was not so satisfactory as it became as the evening wore on and in turn grew into the night. He was said to be extremely cheerful when he awakened at 9 o'clock night from what Dr. Sawy scribed' as the best and most HARDINGJOHNSDN " WARBELIEVED President’s Address Consid-| ered Acceptance of Sena- tor’s Challenge to Battle. BY N, 0. MESSENGER, Staff Correspondent of The Star. SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., August 1.— Open warfare between President Harding and Senator Hiram Johnson of California is said to have been de- clared last night in the President's statement issued in lieu of the speech he was to have made here. There is an interesting story in con- nection with the issuance of the state- ment. Some of the President’s friends and advisers yesterday counseled him not to take issue with the Californian at this time and in the peculiar cir- cumstances of the case. This advice was rebutted by other members of the party, who contended that now was the time and place to deliver the mes- sage he had penned for the American people on the world court. Urged by Hoover, It is understood that Secretary Hoover was mainly instrumental in inducing the President to release his statement for publication. It is said the President felt that Senator John- son's speech in New York on the world court on his arrival from Eu- rope was a direct challenge which he could mot encourage and honestly overlook. ! The senator's difference with the presidential views on the question of the world court, of course, are well known. ator Johnson has aired his opinions on the floor of 1he Senate and in the public press, while the President has made his views known in an address to Congress and sub- sequent speeches on his trip from Washington westward across the con- tinent en route to Alaska. But when Senator Johnson came to New York and made his address he accentuated his difference with Presi- dent Harding on the subject. There was no longer any room for doubt in the President's mind that the Cali- fornian had taken up the cudgels in behalf of his own opinion and was determined upon a fight to the finish. It was probably this consideration which led the President to overrule the advice of those who spoke against making his statement public at this time. It was suggested to him that the country might think because of his illness he was throwing down the gauntiet to an adversary who might hesitate to pick it up in view of I Ut e President . ut the President determined to la his cards on the table.g And the, ure on the table face up. Virginia voters by mail, Postmaster William M Mooney of the Washing- ton city post office to have laws changed so that Vir- ginia voters here may have their ballots sworn to by a notary public. Voters not only ask the postmaster, and his assistant, Willlam H. Hay- cock, to affix their signatures to bal- lots, but also request -ihem to set down their ages, color of their eyes| lat rest rumors that the attack on two and hair, and other information. Not | annual | coa | today asked the |°f { secretary of state of the Old Dominion | off the Atlantic ks with the object maneuvers tin a few w ecuri for the Second Bombardment Group at Langley Field, Va, (the only bombardment group in the ser- vice and obtaining statistics and other valuable data on the performance of various types of aerfal bombs drop- ped on armored ships from different {altitudes. In these words the Air Setvice set only is it difficult to ask a woman!Navy battleships this year would re- voter her age, but the work requires given over to the proper affairs of the Washington city post office Postmaster's Dificulties. “1 desire to call vour attention to the difficulties experienced in follow- ing the provisions of the law of the state of Virginia requiring voters by mail to execute their ballots in the presence of a postmaster,” said Post- master Mooney. “This office has endeavored to as- sist to the utmost the voters of your state living in this city, but during the period of the primaries and the regular elections the work nection therewith becomes so burden- some and requires so much of the time of myself and the assistant postmaster that it is necessary neglect duties pertaining to the pos- tal service,” con! tal head. “While the statement on the back of the ballot envelope is supposed to be filled out and signed by the voter.| as a matter of fact very few of them do more than sign their name and| request that the other portion, indi- cating the precinct, county. name of postmaster and the name of the post Office, Dbe filled out by the attesting postmaster. This, in connection with filling out the coupon supplying the name, color. height, weight, age, color of hair, color of eyes, occupa- tion, place of birth and place where| last voted, requires considerable time. Voters Wait in Line. “At the presert time some of the | counties are holding primary elec- tions, and before 11 o'clock this morn- ing six voters applied for this serv- ice on the part of myself or my as- sistant, and frequently during elec- tion period we have the voters wait- ing in line for the execution of their ballots. “Of course, this service is not ob- ligatory on the part of postmasters, and I understand that some post- masters decline to assist, but up to this time we have co-operated, and 1 shall be glad to continue to do so as long as conditions permit, but am calling the matter to your attention with the suggestion that the ballots could be executed before a notary public, which, in addition to reliev- ing the post office of this work, would result in the saving of much time to the citizens of your state who can always reach a notary public resi ing or doing business in their own neighborhood, whereas, under the re- cent law, it is necessary for them to come to the post office. “If the law were changed, making it possible to execute the ballot be- fore notaries public, the voters would have several hundred places in this city where they could perform the transaction, whereas under the pres- ent law there is only one point to which they can apply for the service. 1 am taking the liberty of calling the matter to your attention in order that you may consider the advisability of bringing about such changes in the law as will relieve the situation.” i | | in con-) {new the old controversy between the many minutes a day which should bi, Army and Navy over the value of the BANDITS GET §16,000 INBALTIOREBANK { Three Beat Up Teller and Es- cape After Becoming Alarmed. 0 | By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, Adgust 1.—Three ued the local pos- |bandits entered the state branch of the Baltimore Trust Company, Balti- more and Commerce streets, before banking hours this morning, beat Russell K. Forsyth, paying teller. into insensibility, and cscaped with $16- 000 in bills. Forsyth was alone in the bank ut the time. He was found a few min- utes later by the negro janitor lvinig half in and half out of the cpen vault. When he was able to talk, Forsyth said that he had come to the bank early to get through with a press of work und had opened the vault. One of the robbers, he said, cbtained admittance by ringing the bell and asking for a statement of the account of a supposed customer. He invited the stranger in and did not observe that two other men followed the first man inside. He was ordared to throw up his hands, and, facing a pisto backed across the lobby ti the op=n door of the vault. There the robbers Seized the packet of bills. Frightened Dy the sound of the elevator, which the janitor started at that moment, one of the bandits struck Forsyti on the head with the butt cf revolver. TRILLION MARKS A DAY. Record of German Presses During 3 July. Ry the Associated Press, BERLIN, August 1.—The Ger- man money presses ground out a trillion marks per day during the third week in July, and then threw in an extra 333,000,000,000 for good messure. The reichsbank home gold reserve decreased by 40,500,000 marks, which amount Is reported to have been sold abroad. The official bank now has slightly more than 500,000,000 in bul- lon in its Berlin vaults and 110,000, 000 on deposit abroad. Its holding: in treasury notey of discount in- creased by more than nine trillion paper marks during the same period. A Significant Fact According to the compilation of the latest reports of the Audit Bureau of Circulation, printed in the Editor and Publisher, the circulation of both THE EVENING STAR and THE SUNDAY STAR in Washington and its suburbs (a radius of 25 miles) is approximately 50% greater than the nearest competitor, morning or evening. In Washington and its suburbs just. about every one who reads a newspaper reads The Star. & training in target prac- | the | - To Attack Ships Off Coast Weeks Will Seek of 1921 time in the ane and battleship in | war. The tests conducted | proved conclusively, and { board of « | stated. that battleships now can be sunk by aerfal bombs, it was explain- ed. _“Therefore the excrcises are | simply of a nature of training to in- crease the efficiency of bombing per- sonnel of the Air Service,” officials stated Must Sink Boats. The maneuvers of the second bombardment group will culminate in an attack on the battleships Vir- ginia and New Jersey, anchored twenty-two miles east of Cape Hat. teras. The exact time for the ex- ercises has not yet been determined, | but it is certain they will be held (Continued on Page Z, Column 4.) TWOBURN TODEATH N APARTHENT FIRE One Probably Fatally, in Hagerstown Blaze. | Special Dispateh o The Star. HAGERSTOWN, Md., August 1.— | Two persons were burned to death and four others were severely seared, one of them probably fatally, fire which gutted an apartment house here early today. An attempt to liven the smouldering coals in the kitchen range by pouring Kerosene over them caused the fatal blaze The dead are Mrs. Ida V. Carbaugh. fifty-seven years old. a paralytic, and her eighteen-year-old sister-in-law, Miss Geraldine Carbaugh. The in- jured are John H. Carbaugh, husband of the woman who lost her life; his daughter, Mrs. Pearl Jacobs; his brother, Kellar Carbaugh, and Miss Katherine Jacobs, eleven years old. The clder Mr. Carbaugh is said to be dying. Uses Kerosene to Start Blaze. Miss Carbaugh started to prepare, breakfast shortly before 5 o'clock this morning. To hasten the fire in the kitchen range she started to pour ion no one knows, but before she could even cry out she was enveloped in flames and her body burned to a crisp. lying in front of the stove. Mrs. Jacobs was the first person to discover the flames. By that time the jentire first floor of the house was afire, and she leaped from a second-story window after giving the alarm. Mr. Carbaugh and his brother rushed into Mrs. Carbaugh’s room to save her. The woman, however, confined to her bed by paralysis, was already dead from the flames, and the elder man was so badly burned himself before he retired that physicians hold out little hope for | his recovery. Child’s Clothing Ablaze. | Before little Katherine Jacobs could |be helped out of a second-story win- idow her flimsy night ciothing became ignited, and she, too, was painfully seared 'about the body. Her mother sustained a broken leg, besides severe burns. Kellar Carbaugh escaped with burns about the shoulders and face. Two other familles, living on upper floors, were assisted down ladders by firemen and were not injured. ‘While city firemen were rescuing the trapped victims, however, the flames gained so much headway’ that {t was mpossible to save the house. It was burned to the ground. —_— {FRANCE BARS COLOR LINE. PARIS, August 1.—“Foreign tour- ists, forgetting they are our guests and therefore bound to respect our customs and laws, recently on several occasions have forcibly manifested thelr aversion to seeing colored men, born In the French colonles, sit by their side in public places. 'If suech incidents are repcated, punishment | will be ezacted.” Four Others Severely Injured, : inal a quantity of kerosene over the coals. | Whether or not there was an explos- | Her charred remains were found ; ening Star. WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Yesterday’s WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1923—THIRTY-EIGHT PAGES. * CABINET OF BRITAIN CAREFULLY WEIGHS REPARATION POLICY Difficult to Deal Single-Hand- ed With Germany and Pre- serve Entente. ALL 1923 NEGOTIATIONS SOON MAY BE REVEALED Premier Baldwin Expected tol Withdraw Veil of Secrecy Sur- rounding Parley With French. By the Associated Press. LONDON, August 1.—The British cabinet resumed its sessions today| in Downing street, with the prospect that the proceedings would develop into one of the most important con- feren of British ministers since the war. The attempts to formulate a British policy to be adopted in the reparation settlement with Germany will be con- tinued throughout today and tomor- row. The ministers are expected to remain almost continuously around the conference table until Prime Minister Bald is ready to make his statement in the house of com- |mons tomorrow night on the status {of the reparation negotiations Encounters Difficulty. It is understood the government is encountering the greatest difficulty | in framing a policy which will allow | single-handed action with the Ger- | {mans and at the same time insure| the continuance of the entente with | the Frenéh and the Belgians. If) | Great Britain decides to act alone, | ! full publication of all the recent ne- | gotiations may be expected imme- | | diately. | | . The recent expectation that Prime | { Minister Baldwin's statement in fhe | house of commons on Thursday with | | respi to the negotiations with the | the premier will explain the Htua- | tion "fully, withdrawing the veil of | diplomutic secrecy which hitherto has kept every one guessing. i See Separate Move. | The government is credited with {the hope that it will be possible to publish before Thursday the whole |correspondence between Britain and her allies since June, but the docu- ments are so numerous and so lengthy that time will not suffice for their ar- rangement, printing and circulation |in parliament. If this cannot be done Mr. Bald- win, according to political writers, | will' take parliament and the public {into his confidence and will give a | verbal outline of what the printed | correspondence would disclose. jreported decision is taken to indicate ( that the government is convinced I nothing can be gained by further | negotiations, and that it must now |take a fresh course | _The present supposition is that the government will decide to seck an immediate separate settlement with Germany. Opinions differ as to whether Italy would associate herself with Great ! Britain in such a move or whether she would act independently. The {prevalent view here is that the | ltalian attitude in the main is iden- i tical with that of the Brish. FEAR FOOD RIOTS. | Farmers Withhold Potatoes and Other Supplies as Mark Falls. ! By the Amociated Press. DUESSELDORF, August 1.—The | effects of the fall of the mark are beginning to show themselves in a pronounced food shortage through- | out the Ruhr. The farmers are re- tusing to exchange good potatoes for badly depreciated money and. in con- | sequence. potatoes, meat and other staples are almost unobtainable at any price. The farmers simply will | not bring to town anvthing that will | keep. This is true, not only in the {Ruhr, but elsewhere in Germany. Yesterday, for example, 485 car- loads of foodstuffs entered the oc- cupied territory, but not a single carload of potatoes was among the shipments. Both the French and the { German authorities are seeking to reassure the growers so that po- tatoes may be procured. but it is recognized that there is no way of { forcing the farmers to sell. | The situation has become so acute that an aggravation of the present shortage, it is felt, would make food s not improbable. Latest Police Fair and warm may be the hope of most folks tomorrow, but whatever the weather might seem ‘twill be gray as the graveyard mist for dogdom. | The formal nose-printing of Wash- ington’s bowsers is to begin at detec- tive headquarters. In the quiet little room where De- tective Sergt. Fred Sandberg has | mugged criminals by the score, an {aristocratic canine from one of the city's kennels will be obliged to stick printerg'ink and transfer the impres- sion to an official blank. His will be the dubious honor of setting the ex- ample for his brethren and sistren. It is a new wrinkle, Detective Sand- berg admits. Asa m all grew out of his discovery a year ago that the noses of cattle bore dis- similar lines, like the fingers of old homo himself. nalogist now ninds, it is with dogs, no ‘matter what might be their station in ilfe. It was first tried on the unsus- pecting cows at the Soldiers’ Home; it 1s to be finished, the canines think, on the perps. 3 o on with wiioh Bowser ‘nce chased his neighbor's cat, safe in the knowledge that his identity was secure. The presept gencration may expect o i it is now feared the| This | atter of fact, it | So, the great crimi- | Farm Bloc Lays Plans to Boost Railway Reform By the Associated Prey TOPEKA, Kansas, August 1.— Resumption of the activities of the “farm bloc” in the United States Senate, upon the opening of a new session of Congress next December, is predicted by Sena- tor Arthur Capper of nsas. chairman of the Senate “bloc” during the latter part of last ses- sion. “Our legislative program prob- ably will not be as extensive as it was at the last session, but still we believe, Congress should enact certain measures with a view to aiding agriculture,” sald Senator Capper. “The most important of these is to secure a reduction in freight rates through the repeal by Con- gress of the so-called guaranty provision of the ch-Cummins transportation act Also, while it ix not our desire to annul the supervisory powers of the Interstate Commerce Commis- sion over the rail lines. we hope o obtain u restoration to states of some of the power of jurisdiction over railroads that ~was lost through the Esch-Cummins act.” U..5. MAY HOLD UP COURT ACTION UPON SHIP RUM SEIZURES Government May Await Con- gress Before Adopting Definite Policies. The government is considering seri- ously postponement until Congress re- convenes of forfeiture proceedings in inst thousands of gallons of ed from foreign vessels in aters twist court liquors se American This new liquor snarl came Treasury officials to up were the old ship today when confronted joint | allies would hanlly be very informa- | with the problem of the Pessaquid, a bservers in its final report|tive has now vielded to a belief that! British schooner, with 1,400 cases of {liquor, captured yesterday south of Cape Hatteras, within the three-mile l1imit, by the coast guard and being {towed into Norfolk today to be turned lover to customs officials. | While no general policy had been laid down by the Treasury in vegard | to the treatment of foreign vessels in i rum smugsling. there was a plain in {timation that the government would proceed with caution, seizing the liquor. at least, with the possibility of ! continuing ite former practice of al- |lowing the foreizn captain and vessel to o free of arrest and seizure Should it be necessary to hold the captain under formal procedure until his cargo could be officially weized and <tored in the customs warehouse, it was plain that officials were perplexed over the auestion of what to do with the cantain, erew and vesse: The liquor itself was considered in some quarters in a class with that seized off foreign liners bringing in liquor in violation of the ship liquor tion of a rum runner. opment that the government in the case of the Pessanuid, and, perhaps. in the case of all liguors in many ports seized from foreign liners, might delay libel proceedings to con- summate the legal seizure with an order from the court, Officials of ‘the Treasury, and State departments singularly evasive when with this question of the postpone- ment of libel proceedings against the forsign liouors now choking cus- toms warehouses in New York, and in_other ports There have heen plain intimations from certain sources that the gov- ernment was disturbed over the per- plexing matter of final disposition of the liquors. They were seized bv customs nfficlals and the coast guard, <tored in customs warehouses amd in seme cases. turned over to pro hibition officials for disposition un- der the federal prohibition act Later however. it was determined by the Treasury that a better method af procedure would “be. under the Smugeling nrovisions of the tarift act. A1l nrohibition authorities were avthorized tn return tn the customs officials all liauor so seized. 'n order that proceedings mizht be filed by the Department of Justice under the tariff act. No Libel Proceedings. So far as could be learnad today from officials and records in Wash- ington. no libel proceedings -have been instituted in any American ports against the foreign liquors, with a view to getting an order from the court completing the forfeitures. 1f such proceedings were to be in- definitely delayed. it would be pos: ble for e government to simply hnld (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) Justice, have been Nose-Printing of District Dogs Protective Move l witness earnest men gathered around the trunk of a tree. examining nose prints thereon to determine definitely whose dog it was that treed Kitty and almost scared her out of her minth life. The bone of contention may even become evidence upon which more than one poor dog is convicted. No longer will the finest bit of meat go to the sturdy and the strong. Should dispute arise, Detective Sandberg, with his big magnifying glass and catalogue of nose prints, will be able to decide the issue more quickly than dles of antiquity. With the same -ertainty that De- tective Sandberg can determine Sadie from Lizzie when the keeper of the wmoldiers’ Home cows gets the mem- bers of his herd mixed, he will be able to say whether Rex s Towser, or really Rex after all, by merely looking at the poor mutt's shiny nose. No question. perchance. will be too ’deep once the nose prints are com-; plete. —_— ASKS ALL TO PRAY. DALLAS, Tex.. August 1.—The Rt. Rev. Alexander C. Garrett, presiding bishop of the American Episcopal IChurch, yesterday urged all peoples of every religious faith to offer prayer for the speedy recovery of President Harding. 4 ban. while other officials thought the | case would fall under the classifica- | But more important is the devel- | approached | Net Circulation, 88,621 TWO CENTS. PASTOR MURDERED, WITNESSES TESTIFY AT GARRETT TRAL Declare Brothers Showed No Mercy and Riddled Body With Bullets. WIFE COLLAPSED OVER BODY OF TRAGEDY VICTIM Ran Frantically About Yard With Babe—Sensational Features at Cumberland Court House. Associated Press MBERLAND COURT HOUSE, Va. August 1.—Shad R. Wilson, an eye witness, testified at the trial of L C Garrett this morning that when he Was attracted to the Pierce home by the screaming of women on the day Plerce was rhot to death, found Larkin Garrett sitting on the minister and beating him in the face, while Robert Garrett stood by with a pistol In his hand The witness also testified he saw Robert O. Garreft fire several shots into the minister's body, both before and after he fell to the ground. He saw no other shots fired. The witness s a carpenter and was working on a building near the Pierce home when the trouble started Did Not See Pastor Fire. The witness said he would not answer that Pierce did not fire, but he did not see him fire and so far as he knew R O. Garrett fired first 1n reply to a question from the bench he made the flat statement that R. Q Garrett fired the first shot. There were mauy objections by state at- torneys to the line of questioning by the defense, and in most of these they were sustained. In telling his story the witness was Ipositive he did not see Rev. Mr. Pierce shoot R. O. Garrett in the back N “The first shot I heard I saw the preacher begin to fall. 1 did not see Mr. Pierce shoot at all” he said. He also stated that both Garretts had pistols in their hands as they passed out of the Plerco gate after the shooting. Saw Only Garrett Fire. J. T. Godsey. another eyewitness, testified the only shots he saw fired were by R. O. Garrett. He testified that after the minister had been beaten by Larkin Garrett he entered his-home and returned with a.shotgun and pistol; that. Rob- ert Garrett, who coverad him as he ¢merged, wrung the shotgun frém him with his left hand and fired pistol shots into the preacher's body with his right hand, Mi<h his Fight hand, both befors and The defense sought to show that Mr. Godsey and his_employer, Ollle Flippen, were bitter political enemies of the Garretts, but wero overruled {on many of their questions. The wit- {ness denled he had contribyted any- jthing to the prosecution fund and said he did not know that his cn- iployer ha Woman's Startling Stery. The most startling story of the tragedy was given by Mrs, B. F. Hen- dricks, the first woman witness to appear on the stand. She told an uninterrupted story of the fight and {shooting and made the unqualified statement that R. O. Garrett fired the first shot and that Pierce did not even raise his hands after he ob- tained the shotgun. | Miss Louise Hendricks, twenty-two, daughter of the previous witness, tuid another vivid story of events at the Pierce home on the eventful day. She witnessed the fight and subse- quent shooting from the second-story j window of her home next door. She saw R. O. Garrett three times throw Mrs, Pierce aside as she tried to aid her husband and heard R O. curse both Mrs. Pierce “and thing you've got in your arms,” | ferring to Mrs. Pierce’s. baby. story of the actual shooting of the minister corroborated that of her mother. She did not see Pierce fire a | hot. | ‘Tells of Shooting. | wilson testified_he was working ion the homs of J. R. Sheppard on the morning of the tragedy. when he i{heard Mrs. Plerce scream. He sald ! he saw the fight between the minister land Larkin Garrett and that the lat- {ter was astride the minister, beat- ing him in the face while R. O. Gar- jrett stood on one side with a pistol {in his hand. He said he saw Common. {wealth's Attorney Smiin come yp and | heard Mr. Smith tell R. 0. Garrert when the latter stguped him with a “You 15 will have to shoot for { About that time. he said, Larkin Garrett let the minister up and { Pierce went into the house and Rob- fert Garrett and Larkin Garrett had | started to the gate. When the min- jister came out again.. the witness, {R. O. Garrett went toward him. Wil | pistol: I T'm_com ison said a shotgun was taken from | the minister by Robert Garrett and {that he saw the latter fire at Mr, Plerce and then saw the preacher { gink to the ground. e “l then saw Robert Garrett shoot down toward the preacher.” The court would not allow his at- | torneys to.question the witness more specifically on this point, saying that the question had already been an- swered. Falls Across Husband’s Body. | "Mrs. ‘Pierce was there screaming !and shouting for help with the body in [Ber arms,” Wilson added. “When Mr. Pierce came out of the house with the " !shotgun, Mrs. Pierce was out in the itront yard, running around and | screaming. ' Immediately after the | shooting Mrs. Plerce fell across the ibody of her husband.” i Wilson said he was about thirty. ifive feet from the Plerce gate,when ihe saw all this. Replying to proses his outraged nose upon a pad of [old Solomon himself solved the rid- cution questions, the witness said he was a colored man. L. O. Wenden- iburg of defense counsel, brought from the witness that after the fist fight both L. C. and R. O. Garrett {had gotten near the gate, and wers {leaving when the. Rev. Mr. Pierce |came out of the house with the shot- |gun. ‘Mr. Wendenberg failed to have witness say that Mr. Pierce “jumped oft” the porch. The witrass main: tained that Mr. Pierce ‘stepped” off. The defense brought out that Mr. Pierce had come down the steps he would_have had to pass Judge Smith, the defense claiming that Judge Smith was at the steps. Did Not See Minister Shoot. Mr. Wendenberg also tried to have the witness say that R. O. Garrett turned toward the gate after taking the shotgun from the minister. “Didn't you see the preacher shoot Mr. Garrett in the back?" He asked. No,” said the witness. “R. O. Gar