Evening Star Newspaper, September 23, 1924, Page 4

LS HOLDS HAL VIOLATEDDRYLAW Attorneys to Act in Matter of Maryland Representative’s “Cider Party.” As cider presses all over the coun- try continued to flow with apple juice the Government today prepared to move against Representative John Philip Hill of Maryland, leader of the “wets” in the House, in connection with the cider party staged at his home in Baltimore Saturday night. The matter was said at the Depart- ment of Justi be in the hands of the United district attorney Amos Woodcock, at Baltimorg. who, it was strongly intimated, may act “this week.” | Just what steps will be taken by the Government wore not revealed. Mr. Woodcock will have the matter wholly in his hards, it was announced by Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, tamt Attorney General, who said: Whatever is done will be done this week." “CMer Party,” Topic at Conference. Mrs. Willebrandt discussed the Hill cider party with Prohibition Commis- sion Hayvnes at her office today in the course of a conference on prohi- bition enforcement though there was no to what course of actio determined upon, it was believed t the district attorney at Baltimore has been fullp apprised of the attitude of officials her. Commissioner Haynes last night, for the first tim broke statement which dec has violated the statute The commissioner had been formal- ly apprised of the cider party in advance, by Representative Hill, who pointed out that he wished to test whether per cent cider was in- toxicating, 0 tg test the Treas- ury regulati cerning the home manufacture of cide Several months Ar. Hill manu- favlurml wine at his home from fruit juices, for which the Gavernment in- stituted injunction proceedings. Statement by Haynes. *“The prohibition " said Mrn Haynes, in at all times kept ith the activities of Representative John Philip Hill in the manufacture of wine and cider in his home of both were taken an_official “Mr. Hill uni Samples and tested and analyzed at the time of their manu- | facture and deposited with the De- partment of Justice for evidence. In each instance, definite and ag- gressive actio been advised, and in the first in it wa e view of both depa nts that injunctive process would, in the circumstances be the most fruitful of result. In the last instance, that of the manufacture cider, skilled chemists were v dispatched to test his cider, were deposited with the of Justice. and a inite Pleasing the Particular —palate is the one thing Stoneleigh *‘good things™ are best qualified to do. Oandies. Ico Oream and Fountain nks that are revelations in de- liciousness 3% Tempting Sendwiches are fea- tures of our TEA ROOM menu. 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THE MINISTER, ADMITTED POISONER, " WENT TO PULPIT FROM RACES Rev. L. M. Hight “Got Religion” While a Jockey. Always Admired Beautiful Women, Fine Horses, He Says. By the Consolidated Press. MOUNT VERNON, . September that willingness to take the Iber’s chance that has led now confession in the poisoning of his spouse and of complicity in the pois- oning of Wilford Sweetin, a neigh- bor, whose wife he coveted. Rev. Mr. Hight tells that sackcloth was not always his customary garb. Only 15 years ago he, was togged out in the glaring riding garb of the county fair jockey, astride his own ed at jerKwater exhibitions. My father's speedy old gray mare got my blood up when a youngster, and [ hit for the race track,” the minister explains. He raced the mare until it was sold and then for a time went back to ordinary farm life down on the Hight farm near Me- tropolis, 111 When his father brought another speedy animal to the farm, the fu- ture clergyman got astride and start- ed out jockeying atethe run of south- ern Illinois county fairs. Jockey Hight later began to enter his own horses while the season lasted, to re- treat to the farm during quiet times. He was admittedly a gay young buck until religion “got” him, and he de- cided to forsake the race track for preaching. He says now, however, that he never did give up an ingrain- ed admiration for xood-looking horse flesh and beautiful women. After a few years in a seminary the jockey became a full-fledzed preacher The minister is now beginning to course of action is agreed upon by the two departments, the character of which I am not vet at liberty to speak. That Mr. Hill has violated the statute, in both instances, there can be no doubt.” Mr. Hill's Challenge. Mr. Hill, who has been endeavoring for some time to obtain a ruling on the legality of homemade 2.75 per cent fruit | juices, in announcing his “cider party,” | declared - that “anybody who wants to help me to force Prohibition Commis- sioner Haynes to_testify for 2.75 per cent beer and is willing to take a chance of arrest is invited to inspect and try a glass.” The cider was made from apples on Mr. Hill's own property. The party, at- tended by about 1,000 guests, was not molested —— . ascor Horlick's : The ORIGINAL Malted Milk For infants, Invalids, Children, | 2 The Aged Digestible—No Gooking. A Light Lunch ¥~ Avoid lmitations — Substitutes wonder whether his life would not bave had a more logical outcome had he stayed with his horses and away from the pulpit. As a preacher he was jounced about in little southern Ilinois parishes, always having small congregations. Now he has two murder charges to answer, the outcome of an admiration for the other man's wife and a willingness to take a chance in disposing of im- pediments to a realization of his de- sires, While unwilling to express an opin- ion about the desirability of reform- ing sportsmen into ministers of the gospel, Rev. Mr. Hight is not so sure that his life in the pulpit has been successtul. The slayer maintains that “other women™ have played little part in his life. As a youth, he says, his farm work and jockeying kept him busy and away from girls. Then he mar- ried and became the father of six children, three of whom died Through this time, the minister ex- plains, he was an admirer of good- looking femininity, but never one to break the bounds of propriety Just one thing, the prisoner de- clare causes him to be thankful for his attachment to the pulpit In his present predicament he gained solace from the religious teachings he has used in the p fortunates of his flock. = a U. S. 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Mr. Hight also has three children at home, the oldest daughter having been married. Firet Denled Crime. During the night's questioning, nine newspaper men were allowed to interview Mrs. Sweetin. She told them they were “not gentlemen.” She still held to her denials. ‘“‘Could you face your Maker one reporter asked her, “with that lie upon your lips”” “I'm telling the truth and as far as this case is concerned my con- science is clear” she answered. “I can face my Maker, but I don't want to yet, for I am not a Christian.” The reporters asked Mrs. Sweetin if she believed that the pastor would lle in facing his superior, District Supt. C. C. Hall, who procured the second confession involving her. She answered that she believed “he would do anything.” “He prayed awful prayers at my husband’s side as he was dying,” she added, “after he had administered poison to him.” Pastor Gives Love Views. Loveless married lives, both the min- ister and Mrs. Sweetin told the State's attorney, drove them together and led to the poison plot, so that they might marry. “I'm a preacher, but I'm human—all too human,” Hight told reporters. He wept as he held to the correspondent’s hand and thought of his children. “I had lived for them,” he cried, “before I met her. 1 had planned not to poison my wife until I left Ina, but she fell sick with ptomaine poisoning and suffered such agony I thought T might relieve her pain and free myself at_the same time. “How sorry I am now. I agonized in D. ._C, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1924. prayer to God, and he heard me. forgiven. “There is a lesson in this,” the pastor philosophised. “Marriage must have passionate love as a basis or.there is no bhappiness. Had I met and married Mrs. Sweetin first our lives would have been 1am unutterably happy. But ehe married a cold, indifferent man, and 1 married that kind of a woman. 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