Evening Star Newspaper, July 1, 1924, Page 14

14 AN, 73, KILLS SELF AND DAUGHTER, 4 Double Slaying in Flower- : Covered Home by J. S. Pollock Unexplained. WOMAN SHOT AT RADIO w‘A; Listening to Convention Pro- ceedings—Father Lived Apart Maple Cottage, at 734 Varnum Stfeet, which has been transformed into a flower-covered home by seven- teén years of care and the artistic grouping of shrubbery, was the strange setting for a homicide and sulcide late yesterday. John Simms Pollock, seventy-five, shot and killed his daughter, Mrs. Margaret Isabelle Davis, forty years oid, as she sat lis- tening to radio retxrns from the Democratic convention, and then turned the pistol to his temple. Maple Cottage is a home in every sense of the word. A huge maple stands sentry at ghe right side of the orch, shading the doorwar. Ferns Tn protusion morder the approach to the house. Little Jdwarfed SD!‘“C; trees lend a rich air to the lawn an aid other shrubs in effacing “"‘““X‘ lines from the side of the house. At the rear an oak more thi\p 100 feet high rises to hardy follage from enc cireling ivy vines. Thousvnfl!‘ o blaoming rambler roses a shori time ago covered the rear porch with arim- son. pink and white blotches. “ Thick clusters of grapes already have shown themselves in an arbe." bepeath the oak. Actually, the house Destles in flowers and shrubbery. Made Him Comfortable. It was in such a setting that Mrs. Davis vesterday sat down to hear the returns from the convention. She sat on a_ stool brought from the kitchen. She had given her father a more com‘ortable seat at her side. On the table was a freshly ironed shirt, which she had made ready for him, and a few bundles of little delicacies she had wrapped for him to take away. She sat with her left hand to an earpiece and her rfght hand hold- ing a pencil. . K “pitol shot broke the. stillness. She crumpled and fell to t{e floor. Her head went down, her bagy re- mained on the chair. A second.shot, and the father slumped back in_the chair, a bullet hole in his brain. That was all except that blood trickled all the we' down to the cellar before the two bodies were discovered. It was after 5 o'clock when William C. Jackson, a relative, who resides at thé house, returned home. He found the bodies of the principals of the dotble tragedy of Maple Cottage. And as he passed into th kitchen “ae noted in a dazed way that a pot of coffee was still boiling and two eggEs watre broken in a bowl ready to be drdpped into the frying pan. The daughter was in the habit of pre- paring such things for the father when he visited her, a few times each wesk. These articies probably were evitlence of a delayed meal so that father .and daughter might check con- Vedition returns. . COmuse Not Established The cause for the act, according to yegidents of the house, cannot be ex- plained, except that Mr. Pollock might haye been suffering from a_mental aberration. Although there was not Yoom for him in the house. according to Mr. Davis. her. husband, Mr. Pol- logk was a frequemt visitor there. O Mook “was 4 former resident of Cincinnati, Ohio. He had been re- tiréd from the Smighsonian Institu- tioh on account of ‘advanced.years. He’had a pension and had been room- ing at 1212 K street. His more yedent residence he lkept a secret from residents at Maple Cottage, they sajd today. Petectives Ira Keck and B. W. Thompson conducted the police in- vestigation. _Coroner Nevitt gave certificates of suicide aud homicide. While the detectives awaited the ar- rival of the coroner they Nearned that Lynwood Partello, ten years old, who Jives nearby, at 3 o'clock' yesterday afternoon had sought permmssion at Maple Cottage to regain possession of a ball he had thrown in the yard and received no response to ringing the bell. Detectives belleve that, therefore, the double tragedy was en- acted between 1 o'clock, when Mr. Pollock arrived, and 3 o'clock. Funeral arrangements have not n completed. The funeral of the father will be under the auspices of = fraternity of which he was a mem- ?. Mrs. Davis will be buried dur- ing the latter part of the week, with fumeral services from the Fourth Presbyterian Church and interment in Rock Creek cemetery. EXANDRIA. ALEXANDRIA, Va, July 1 (Spe- clal).—Twenty young men from Alex- andria and ten others from Arling- tori County left this morning for Camp Meade, Md., where they will undergo a month of intensive mil- itaty training. Arlington County and Alexandria are the banner group of the four states comprising the 3d Army Area Corps. Alexandria prob- ably will have the largest and small- est man in the encampment, Whit- comb Bayne and David Houston, who stand six feet four inches and five feet one inch tall, respectively. Six new busses this morning started operation between Washington and this city, expecting for the present to maintain a twenty-minute sched- ule along a route which will include some of the isolated districts of Ar- lington County. Robert L. May of Barcroft is operating the new lime, which is working under ‘a_charter, the legality of which is mow pend- ing, it is understood, berore the state corporation commission, where it was contested by the - Washington-Vir- Eimia Electric Railway Company. Gardner L. Boothe, counsel for the railroad, this morning said he had been unable to find a copy of the tariffs supposed to be filed. s Believing that victory is already -within their grasp, hotel stock sales- men who, last week, peddled $288,800 in stock to 849 Alexandrians_are pre- g tonight to enter their last report at a dinner to be held in West- mipister building at 6:30 o'clock. neral services for Carlisle Rich- ard Stephens, 517 Duke street, who disd Sunday in an attempt to save two gisls from drowning in Occoguan Creek, will be held tomorrow after- moén at 3 o'clock at the Free Meth- odfst Church. Services will be con- duéted by Rev. J. M. Jennings, pastor. Burial will be in Bethel cemetery. Funeral services will be held at 9:30 o' clock St. Mary's Catholic Mithael T. Burns, sixty years old, who diéd_Sunday night_at the home of hid daughter, Mrs. M. J. Walker, 203 South Royal street. He is survived by; four children, Mrs. Walker, Mrs. Kgthrine Cox, Arthur E. Burns and Thomas A. Burns. He was a well knpwn painter. He had suffered for fl:xa years from a paralytic stroke. A canvass is to be made shortly of a]ibusinels and industrial houses in 1he city in an attempt to secure ex- hipits for the southern exposition.to be; held in New York January 16 to 31; 1925, for which Alexandria has rved space. TeBoren Anderson has sold to Sam- uel A. Tucker a house and lot located on the east side of Fayette street be- twen King and Prince streets. s. O. H. Smith, thirty-six years ol of Lincolnia, Fairfax County, died this morning at the Alexandria Hespital. She is survived by two “sen and her husbaad. [ JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLS LAUDED {BY N.E.A. SPEAKER Sees Pupils in “Early Adolescent Age” Caved for in Present “Explaratory Period.” Pupils in the “early adolescent age” were described as taken care of in this “exploratory period” by the junior high schwol grades 7 to 9, in an address today by J. T. Shriner, head of the science department of Latimer Junior High School at Pitts- burgh, Pa, spe:king before the de- . AUAAR SRR S IR AR AR AR AR R AR partment of sclence instruction of the National. Education Amsociation, at a meeting in Central High School. “The content of the sclence work of this period,” sald Mr, Shriner, * not a delicately balanced conglomer- ate of physics, biology, chemistry and physical geogr: s but a course based upon the social, hygienic and economic needs and interests of pu- pils of the early adolescent age. The progreesive and normal development of a pupil, for example, as an increas- ingly worthy member ‘of his home, needs to be ‘traced by step, and subjects brought to bear upon a solution of the problem involved. “This | the period when amateur scientists are developed. Witness widespread interest among boys and girls of this age in the recent ex- tensions of the use of the wireless 'and the automoblle. The science club, both curricular and = extra-curricular with its opportunity to develop and play with scientific hobbles and toys, is admirably adapted to this period and should be encouraged.” ‘The procedure of classes was de- scribed iy Mr. Shriner under the dif- ferent heads: “Science club, visuali- zation ‘work, notebook work, recita- tion and demonstration, reference material and correlation.” e There are now thirty national mon- uments established by presidential proclamation’ and administered by the mational park service of the De- partment of the Interior. o Sacrifice Too Great. ¥From the Newark Advocate. = It s going to take an awful lot of helpers to figure out and distribute the soldlers’ bonus, but many of the poli- ticians have friends who would consent to sacrifice their personal interests by taking some of these jobs. (JIIIZI 7771777777177 1777 774071111117 070 777778 DURANT “Just a Real Good Car”’ UL LLLLLLLLLLLLLL L AT 121 L AR AR AR AR AR S LANSBURGH £ BRO. 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