Evening Star Newspaper, October 2, 1923, Page 26

WEBB CASE HINGES * ONPOISON REPORT Arrest Due at Once if Toxicol- ogist’s Analysis Bevea!s Foul Play. i 3 Special Dispatch to The St WHITE PLAINS, N, The complete report by Gettler, toxiologist, on the result of his examination of the viscera of Mrs. Gertrude Emily Gorman Webb of New York and Philadelphia xpected t show definitely that Mrs, Webb died in the West Chester-Biltmore Coun- try Club of poisoning. Dr. Gettler's report is expected to reach the office of District Attorney Rowland of Westchester county to- a. Jdmmediately upon the receipt of the report, to Mr. Rowland, an arrest probably will be made or the whole theory that althy wife of Charles Webb, broker, was poisoned will Arrest. report in the d r. Row oven to arrest at toxicolos ite poisonin * said “If on the otther ha dications of the preser called corrosive substan Webb's kidneys cannot be trac definite s like there will b, little further for the authorities to do, unless something develops along an entirely different li 3 with the receipt of report, if ison is . the early in- ordered by Morschauser of the Supreme reliminary Report. The preliminary toxic port indicating the ~ “irritant poiso who ¥ conference . an agitated Corone: stened into im- with the prose- _was learned that Rowland plan- ned to question a number of person before proceeding before the srand - ing called You can purchase Pratt & Lambert Varni “61” Floor Varnish, Vitralite, ti York | RECALL CONFESSION ABSOLVING FRANK Georgia Officials Admit Dying Negro’s Statement Was Partly Ignored. | By the Associated Press. of the famous Leo Frank case were revived here yesterday when the At- lanta Journal published a story de- laring a reputed confession that a negro, and not Frank, killed Mary Phagan, had been brought to light again with the discovery that the confession had never been fully in- vestigated. Frank, after his sentence of death ment by Gov. Slaton, was taken by a mob from the state farm at Milledge- {ville to a point near Marletta, the home of the slain_ girl, and hanged. | According to_the Journal's story, the reputed confession was made by a { negro believed to be named Freeman | when he thought he was dying in the nta federal prison. e conf . _the Journal said, ed a negro, Jim Conley, whose testimony in the trial of Frank was regarded highly instrumental in | Frank's conviction as the real slayer. j Local officials to whom the confession was reported ten vears ago declare remember some details of the r and recall that after they had falled to make progress in investi- | sating it they ga t up, beifeving e conf { the con lana Mrs. John udge and M Mr. and Mr I F. McIntyre, former Robert S. Johnstone, Irving Burdick, Dr. enport West, who at- in_Roosevelt Hos- uncle and aunt 1so probably Wil- . 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An increase in tha enrollment in the Hamilton Health_School on Bladens- burg road northeast was reported to- day by the officials. Ten more-pupils than last year are attending the in- stitution. The Hamilton is the school con- ducted exclusively for public school children found to: be. tubercular in- feoted. One pupil who was cured at £chool last year was -assigned geveral days ago to the regular graded schools. Congress some time:ago appagpri- ated - money for the erection ‘and equipment of a school to replace the Hamilton, but litigation in the courts has prevented the construction of the building. The money for the equip- ment has gone back into the Treasury, officials sald, and will have to be re- appropriated. CAPTAIN KILLS SELF. MANILA, October 2.—Capt. Arthur . Rhine of the United States Army Medical Corps shot and killed him- self at Camp Stotzenburg. He had been despondent. He s survived by'a widow and two children. — i AT L CONENTION " STARTS ONGHIND Real Work Underway After Day of Oratory—Seattle - Central Warned. By the Associated Press. PORTLAND, Ore., October 2.—The annual convention of ‘the -American Federation of Labor was ready today to settle down to a grind after the opening day of oratory and the sub- mission of reports. P Recommendations of the executive committee, presented yesterday, were {in the hands of various'.committees | today after assignments made by Presldent Gompers at the close of the | first day of the convention. 1 El Paso, Tex., has entered the list as contenders for the next annual{ convention. President Gompers announced last night the decision of the executive Central Labor ‘Council would be vwe- voked unless the Seattle body within thirty days decides to abide by the federation’s laws and renounce . its QUAKES NOTED IN ITALY. o'clock yesterday morning registered a serfes of violent earth shocks. 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