Evening Star Newspaper, December 30, 1924, Page 3

MEDYHELDGULTY OF NANSLAUEHTER ‘Former Prize Ring Dandy Convicted of Slaying Mrs. Theresa Mors. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, December 30.—Klid McCoy, former star of the prize ring, was found gullty of manslaughter, which carried a penalty of from 1 to 10 years in prison, by a jury of nine women and three men, which reported terday after 78 hours of consider- mtion of the case, in which he was charged with the murder of Mrs. Mors. s the best we could do,” said the jury foreman. “It was a compro- Pears came to McCoy's eyes When he heard the verdict. “I don’t believe it was just,” he sald. “If I am not guilty as charged, I am not guilty at all.” Defense attorneys, sharing his view, announced notice of appeal would be filed next Friday, when McCoy will be sentenced. Mrs. Mors was shot to death in the apartment she shared with MecCoy August 12, last. The former prize Ting dandy maintained Mrs. Mors kill- ed rself, despite his efforts to pre- vent her. Shortly after Mrs. Mors' death ) Coy appeared at the Mors antiqu: #hop, robbed four men and shot wounded Mr. and Mrs. Sam &nd Willi G. R In expla ng that action MeC, rted h lights went out™ after Mrs. Mors died, and that he had nothing further to live for. The State main- tained McCoy was motivated by a desire to kill all who had sought to bring about & reconciliation between Mrs. Mors and Ler divorced husband, Albert Mors. For the antique shop affair McCoy Bext Monday will go to trial on four counts of robbery and three of as- sault with a deadly weapon with in- tent to kill E—————— = SPECIAL NOTICES. BIGITGRADE \N D A POSIT logal t tive experience standing will_be of [ NOT HOLD N0 T any debiy I myself. KORERT ~ of 1314 s.e. 10 OF THE FIREM ympany of Washington and Georgetown, Seventh street and jana avenue north: the Firemen’ of electing ee og sexr. Polls om 11 am ALBERT W HOWARD. 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Bost T You NY Al drugless vatem for relief. D. C.. 1603 R. 1. ave. n.e. R orth 4549, ¢ Tth and | 8620-W. | | and to submit them to Congress pro- Collier, are hereby notified to | ng been sold free | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. . TUESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1924. Leopold and Loeb Lawyers to Get By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, December 30.—The lawyers who saved Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, jr., from the gallows after they pleaded gullty to kidnaping and killing Robert Franks will receive $150,000, it be- came known today. Clarence Darrow, veteran crim- inal lawyer, and Benjamin and Walter Bachrach, brothers, will share the fee, though the propor- tion of division has not been made publio. The lawyers, it was stated, asked for $200,000 at the conclusion of the trial, and, though the Leopold family made no objection, the Loeb family thought the amount exces- sive. After some discussion the $150,000 was agreed upon. Mr. Darrow, in Denver visiting MURDER OF FOUR LAID TOINSANITY Woman Held in Killings Re- fuses to Talk Beyond Charge of Abuse. By the Associated Press. LOGANSPORT, Ind., December 30.— That the vagaries of an unbalanced mind were responsible for the slay- ing here yvesterday of four members of the family of Mrs. Emma Ho- baugh, 33 vears old, was advanced today by officlals ingestigating the case. ~ Mrs. Hobaugh, who is being held in connection with the slayings, was known to have been demented, though thought to be harmless, for the past 12 years, according to in- formation to police. A sanity com- misston has been summoned and will examine the woman today. Hobaugh, who was taken in yesterday after the discov- : bodies of Henry Bassler, . her father; Catherine Bassler, 60, {her mother; John Bassler, 22, her brother, and Viola Hobaugh, aged 3, her daughter, with their heads prac- ally shot off from shotgun charges, { continues uncommunicative. The only words authorities have been able to wring from her are: “They were mean to me. The neighbors knew they didn't treat me right. They refused to eat with me. They did not get me any Christmas presents and would not let me have a tree for Viola." No Charges Filed. She repeated the allegations re- garding abuse by her family time and again, officials said, but did not nake a confession to the slayings. No charges have yet been filed against the woman. John Bassler, the youth slain, was to have been married in a few weeks. His father was planning to build a house for him and turn part of his | 160-acre farm over to the youth. The bride to be, Dorothy Mahoney, was prostrated when she learned of the traged The Cass County grand jury will recelve the report of the sanity com- mission when it convenes January & and will begin an investigation into the slavings. WOULD MAKE PARK OF DISTRICT'S FORTS| | Senate Passes Bill for Survey to Connect Civil War Posts in Washington. Plans for a proposed parkway to | connect the old Civil War forts in the District of Columbia would be pre- pared under the terms of a bill passed by the Senate today. The bill} now goes to the House for consider- | ation. | The Senate passed the bill without | debate. thorized to make a surve The Commissioners are au- | and plan viding for a continuous parkway of sultable width connecting the sites of the following old forts: Fort Gra- ble, Fort Lincoln, Fort Carroll, Bar- rety Rickets, Fort Stanton, Fort Wag- ner, Fort Baker, Fort Davis (now Dupont (now owned by the United States), Fort Shaplin, Capital A Bat- tery, Fort Mahan, Fort Bunker Hill, Fort Toppen, Fort Slocum, Fort Stevens, Fort De Russey, Fort Bayard, Battery Kamble, Battery Vermont (now owned by the United States) and Battery Par- rott. Expenditure of $£5,000 is authorized for making the plans. 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Milton Beavers told the police five dozen eggs, two hams and $80 in ash were stolen from the Piggly Wiggly store at 8§21 Upshur street, of which he is manager. The stor was burglarized between Saturday night and Monday morning, Beavers sald. The store of the Sanitary Grocer: Co. at 2314 Pennsylvania avenue w entered early vesterday. Property taken.included three hams, four pies, eight pounds of butter and two bot- tles of cream. Francis, R. Hillyard, Jjeweler, at 1832 Seventh street, told police his place was robbed: between closing hour Saturday and yestérday morn- ing. Two manicuring sets, two baby sets and three silver match boxes wére’ stolen. Another business place visited was the lunchroom of John Paulos, 1208 U street, between 2 and 5 o'clock yesterday morning. A quantity of smoking material and $30 in cash were stolen. Seven loins of pork and a carton of cigarettes were stolen from the store of James A, Pattieger, 2316 Pennsylvania avenue, early yester- day. CARS TO STOP IN ECLIPSE. = SRS 51 e WE BUY, SE‘%:II(A“:\ EXCHANGE Herman’s Violin Hospital 11th and H sf Main_8763. THAT OLD ROOF Consuls us shout it and save worry and dollars, t50, We'll gladly estimate. 119 3rd St B.W. hos CHURCH ANNOUNCEMENTS. METHODIST EPISCOPAL (Colored). D St. Bet. 2nd and 3rd Sts. 8.W. & WATCH NIGHT BERVICES. 8 to 9, Prayer Meeting; 9 to 10, eulogy of the deceased member: flurlnq the year; 10 to 11, sermon by the Pastor; 11 to 11:43, Experience Meeting: 11:45 to 12 M., Silent Prayer; 12 M., begioning of Revival Meet- All Are Welcome. L REV. E. B. WATSON, PASTOR, = Passengers in New Haven to View Phenonenon. NEW HAVEN, Conn., December 30. —At the request of Prof. E. W. Brown, who will be in charge of the Yale astronomic observatory here on January 24, the day of the total eclipse of the sun. President Lucius S. Storrs of the Connecticut Company agreed yesterday to halt all trolley cars in the State during the period gers may view the phenomenon. A second object, Mr. Storss said, is to obviate the necessity of lighting street lamps which would interfere with a proper view of the eclipse. S | mayor's witness-stand | railroad man.” of the total eclipse so that passen-| $150,000.for Services in Murder Trial his son, said Saturday an agree- ment had been reached and would he submitted to the Chicago Bar Association in accordance with the original plan that the assoclation fix_the amount. 1 Other expenses to the families of the two vouths serving life sen- tences in the Illinols State prison were considerably more than the amount of attorneys' fees. Four alienists who testified at the trial received $250 a day for their serv- ices, their testimony disclosed, and 10 or more other medical men re- ceived upward of $25,000 for their parts in the case, It became known today that Judge John R. Caverly, who sen- tenced Leopold and Loeb and im- mediately retired to a hospital to recover from a breakdown, again is in a hospital for a rast until January JURY NAMES KING ASBRADY'S SLAYER Verdict of Coroner’s Inquiry Charges Nally as Accessory in Killing. George M. XKing, whose where- abouts is unknown to the police, was named as slayer of Thomas Brady, colored, in a near-beer saloon, at 807 North Capitol street, Sunday after- noon, in a verdict reported by a coroner's jury at an inquest at the morgue today. Joseph Francis Nally, who surrendered to the polics in con- nection with the investigation of the affair, was named in the verdict as an accessory, and was held for the action of the grand jury and committed to Jail. Every effort is being made by mem- bers of Inspector Grant's corps of detectives to locate George M. King, alleged actual slayer of Brady. Search for King was conducted in lower Maryland last night, detectives thinking he possibly went there :n}(_}\ufiptl! el oy seck a hiding place with one of the numercus moonshiners said to be op- erating in that section and who, it was suggested, may have had deal- ings with him. No trace of him was found, and the hunt was renewed today A young woman, friend of Beavers, who was seated in the automobile in front of the near-beer saloon when the shooting occurred, last night dis- cussed the affair with detectives. She explained that she knew nothing of an intention on the part of any member of the party to use a gun It is likely that she will be used as a witness when the case reaches Criminal Court Detectives this afternoon said they had no clue to the whereabouts of the alleged slayer. King, former resident of New York, it is stated, is belleved to have had a considerable | sum of money in his possession Sun- day afternoon when he is alleged to have gone out the rear.door of the saloon and disappeared. MAYOR HYLAN “FIRED” FOR “L” TRAIN SPEEDING Lost Job as Engineer for Taking Brooklyn Curve Too Fast, 1897 Record Shows. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK. December 30.—John F. Hyl mayor of New York, was “fired” from his engine-driver job on a Brooklyn elevated railroad on Feb- ruary 1, 1897, for having “taken a curve too fast,” it developed today as a sidetight to the transit tangle in- vestigation being conducted by order of Gov. Smith. Clarence J. Shearn, attorney for the State Transit Commission, falled to get this information into the Investi- gatlon record vesterday when he asked for it in connection with the ertion that he knew about railroads as “an old Officials of the Brook- lyn-Manhattan Rapid Transit Cor- poration said today their records showed Engineer Hylan had been dis- charged by the late Supt. Barton be- cause he had jeopardized the lives of passengers. The mayor today answered the al- legations with the statement that he had never learned the cause of his discharge. He denied the curve- speeding incident, declaring he was driving so slowly'that he was enabled to stop his train in time to save the life of Supt. Barton, who had stepped upon the tracks in front of his engine from behind a signal tower. High street is the name of the principal street in almost every small town in England. There Is a Good Home | at 1353 Kennedy St. N.W. 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Most of the people of Bethesda, including the subdivisions of Alta Vis- ta, Huntington Terrace, Battery Park, Edgemoor, Leland, Bradley Hills, Drummond, Somerset and Friendship Helghts, are employed in the District, | many of them in the government service. Urges Bus Line. “They are vitally concerned in any rearrangement of the Wisconsin ave- nue traction system. We therefore urge your commission to consider the prollem as a whole and to include the suburbs lying across the District line in any schere of reorganization. In the discussisn of the subject which has been gsing on in the press re- cently there has been little mention of this aspent of the question, except the suggestion that the so-called Rockville cars bs diverted at cr near the District line so as to connect with the Capital Traction line on Connecti- cut avenue “While we recognize the value—in- deed the necessity—of a cross-town line from Wisconsin avenue to Con- necticut avenue, north of Tenleytown, and would be glad to ses it in opera- tion, nevertheless we are convinced that the only loglcal, proper and adequate solution of this problem Is |a modern bus system replacing the car tracks and operating through from Bethesda to the city, via Wis- consin and Massachusetts avenues. In- stead of terminating at Dupont Circle the line should go.south from Ma either Twenty- Twentieth then second, Twenty-first or street to Pennsylvania avenue, east to the Treasury.” The commission also received a brief letter to. from Admiral Cary T. 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