Evening Star Newspaper, February 6, 1925, Page 11

LINGOLN DEFENSE CLOSES [T CASE Former Insane Asylum Head Says Lawyer-Florist Proved . . Dementia Praecox. By the Associated Press. GENEVA, 1lls,, February 6.—The de- fense closed its case yesterday in the murder trial of Warren J. Lincoln, eccentric Aurora lawyer-florist, ac- cused of slaying his wife and her brother, Byron Shoup, burning their dobles and sealing their heads In a block of concrete. The last witness for the defense was Dr. 8. W. Wilgus of Rockford, former superintendent of the Illinois Hospital for the Insane at Elgin, who express- ed the opinfon that Lincoln is insane. On cross-examination Dr. Wilgus sald he had examined Lincoln several times in the last year. He admitted Lincoln may have deceived him fre- quently “but not all the time.” Proves Dementia Praecox. “By all the known tests,” Dr. Wil- &us said, “Lincoln proved up a perfect case of dementia praecox, paranoid type.” Dr. H. T. Hulbert of Aurora, testify- ing for the defense, sald that “Lin- coln’s delusion that he had been be- trayed, his immense self-pity and complete lack of remorse for what he had done established that he Is in- sane.” The State in rebuttal offered a num- ber of lay witnesses who testified that Lincoln always appeared normal mentally to them, and planned today to place on the stand the State alien- 1sts. Observers to Testify. Lay witnesses for the State today tncluded Willlam Hoch, Detroit, at whose hotel Lincoln boarded for six months in 1923, and Mr. and Mrs, J. C. Kelly and Miss Blanche Berkley who knew Lincoln when he lived at Wichita, Kans., in 1919. Mr. Hoch said he noticed nothing unusual in Lincoln’s conduct as did the Wichita witnesses, The case will probably go to the Jury Saturday afternoon or evening. .. How much real value stands back of the stock you are asked to buy? Tablet Boy Used 4,000 Years Ago Is Received Here Two Other Babylonian Documents of Clay Go to Smithsonian. Three Babylonian tablets, more than 4,000 years old, are onm exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution. One is that of the tablet of a school- boy who was learning to write. It Is of sun-dried clay, nearly flat on one side and rounded or the other. It s evident that the teacher had written on the rounded side and the boy, on the flat side. After the boy had pro- gressed sufficiently, he wrote on the flat side without copy. The inscrip- tion is meaningless, merely words in- scribed for practices. The date of them. tablets, scientists have agreed, is told by other data collected with them. The other two tablets are of burned clay, rectangular in shape, skillfully written, but simply business docu- ments. One is the bill for a goat de- livered on the second day of the month, in the year of 2300 B. C. The other is very clear, containing the record of a receipt for nine goats at the temple, apparently for ofterin; It is dated the third year of Gimil- Sin, King of Ur, who ruled about 2350 B. C. Both tablets were found at Drehem, a suburb of Nippur. s il EDISON IN FLORIDA. Inventor Arrives at Fort Myers to Spend Remainder of Winter. FORT MYERS, Fla., February 6— Thomas A. Edison, accompanied by his wife, his son Theodore and cou- sin, arrived at Fort Myers last night 10 spend the remainder of the Winter at thelr home here. They were met at the station by Henry Ford and Mrs. Ford, who oc- cupy an adjacent residence here. Sun Yat-sen Growing Weaker. By the Associated Press. PEKING, February 6.—Dr. Sun Yat- sen, South China leader, who recently underwent an operation for cancer of the liver, gradually is growing weak- er. He is being treated with radium. THE MISSING TWO DAYS Police Hunt Thomas B. Rowen, Jr., Last Seen at Post Office Mail- ing a Letter. Spectal Dispatch to The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va, February 6.— Thomas B. Rowen, jr, 25 years old, clerk in the paymasters office of the | 9a¥: Southern Railway Co. in this city, has been missing since about 1 o’clock on Wednesday and the police are searching vainly for a trace of him. His friends say he was at the post office Wednesday, where he mailed a letter. Since that time neither his wife, parents or employers have heard anything from him. His work at the rajlroad office was satisfactory and there was no domestic trouble. Rowen resides at 606 Queen street with his wife and one child. LIGHT SHOWS 36 MILES. Most Powerful Coast Beacon in South America Turned On. BUENOS AIRES, February 6.—The most powerful lighthouse in South s. | America, situated on the Island of Kl Rincon, off Bahla Blanca, Argentina, was placed in operation Wednesday night. Its beams are visible for 36 miles. Two more lighthouses farther south on the Patagonian coast will be in operation within & month, making navi- gation much easfer for ships bound for South Atlantic regions. COldS Grippe Be Quick-Be Surey Get the right remedy—the best men know. 8o quick, so sure that millions now employ it. The utmost In a lax- ative. Bromide-Quinine in ideal form. Colds stop in 24 hours, La Grippe in 3 days. The system is cleaned and toned. Nothing compares with Hill's. Aldrggions " @ALRY Prcades | CASCA ) o Get Red Box FORCED TO Vi FORCED ARMY SERVICE IS ADOPTED BY SPAIN Recruiting Law Goes Into Effect This Year—Wealthy Draft Dodgers Balked. By the Assoclated Press. MADRID, February ¢.—The recruit- ing law, under which all young men found fit for military service must Join the colors,awill be put into effect this year. A statemont to this effect wae {ssued at the war office yester- ‘When the new law becomes effec- tive the old system of drawing re- cruits, and which permitted wealthy persons to evade service by offering substitutes, will end. RUM SHIP DATA FOUND. Chpture of Vessel in 40-Mile Chase Yields Valuable Maps. NEW YORK, February 6.—Charts and maps which, it is sald, give the exact positions of more than 15 for- eign vessels on the lists of customs authorities as rum-runner suspects were taken from the yacht Mary, which was captured after a 40-mile chase by the Coast Guard cutter Semi- nole yesterday. Authorities are hold- ing six prisoners taken from Ithe Mary. The Seminole fired 23 shots at the yacht, all of which missed the mark. The cutter finally captured the yacht after ramming her, * PLAN DEDICATION OF JEFFERSON ROOM Feature of Historical Costume Ball at Mayflower Hotel, Evening of February 21. In conjunction with tne historical costume ball to be given at the May- flower Hotel on the night of February 21 for the benefit of the Thomas Jef- ferson Memorial Foundation, the Jef- ferson room in the hotel will be dedi- cated with appropriate exerclses. Sen- ator Claude A. Swanson of Virginia will deliver the address and scores of relics associated with Monticello and the life of Jefferson will be on exhibition. The room, which will be used as » small dining room or conference chamber, {8 furnished in reproduc- tions of early American pleces. The walls will be decorated with a por- tralt of Thomas Jefferson, loaned by the Memorial Foundation and painted by Franklin Barber Clark, after the Andrews portrait in the White House. On one side of this portrait will hang a copy of the Magna Charta. Also on the wall will be a copy by the late E. F. Andrews of the Gilbert Stuart portrait of Dolly Madison, a /portraft of Lafayette, painted on the occasion when he was a guest at the White House on his last visit to America, and a picture of Monticello, by the late Max Weyl of Washington. This EVENING S'I'KR, ‘WASHINGTON, D. U, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6, T1925. | ALEXANDRIA CLERK . last portralt {s loaned for the occasion by Frank Fletcher. Mrs. John Speed Morris, a great- granddaughter of Jefferson and chair- man of the loan exhibit, announced today a number of other relics would be loaned by Col. Jefferson Randolph Kean, Mrs. John Speed Morris, Miss Fanny Burke, Mrs. Alexander B, Ran- dall and Miss Cornelia Taylor. In addition to Senator Swanson those taking part in the exercises will include: Dr. Edwin A. Alderman, president of the University of Vir- ginla, and Mrs, Alderman; Stuart Gibboney, president of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, and Mrs. Gibboney; Col. and Mrs. Jeffer- son Randolph Kean, Capt. 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