Evening Star Newspaper, March 15, 1925, Page 3

» FATHER WHO SLEW CHLDREN MAY D Wounds Self With Hatchet Used to Kill His Three Girls and Boy. | Associated Press. H KANSAS CITY, Mo, March 14.— Ellin Gibson, 34, lies dangerously in- jured by his own hands in a hospital tonight, the slayer of his four little hildren. He killed them—Marjorie, i; her twin brother, Maurice Lee; Hazel, 5, and Helen, 11 years old— with lather's hatchet while they slept in their beds early today at his| at Prather Hills, near North Kansas City. After the tragedy Gibson fled to (he nearby home of his sister-in-law, AMrs. Nell Prather, where he attempt- d to take his life with the hatchet and ‘later by slashing his wrists. Physicians said he probably would die. home, Called to Quiet Baby. bson's wife called to him this morning to quiet the baby. Then going herself to do so, she met her usband on the stalrs, the bloody hatchet in his hand. Gibson raised he hatchet, but did not strike. He an to Mrs. Prather's home, where he was found stretched on the floor sleeding from many wounds in his head and wrists At the hospital Gibson regained onsclousness for a moment, but be- ame violent and was strapped to his bed. Gibson was said to have putsall > his money in a garage that did not pay. He had brooded much over financial troubles. He was chara terized by neighbors as a slow-think- ing. kindly, home-loving man. FORMER DIPLOMAT JAILED FOR THEFTS Taken After Egyptian Wife Was Imprisoned on Shoplifting Charge. atch to The Star. W YORK, March 14.—He thought | could keep his wife in the style which she had been accustomed In her home In Alexandria, Egypt, but Redmond R. Headley, member of # wealthy Kentucky family and!} former attache to the American lega- tion at Cairo, found it could not be done on a salary of $25 a week and @ monthly remittance of $50 from his father. That is why this week Mrs. Head- ley was arrested on a charge of shop- lifting and why her husband is in the Tombs charged with larceny of goods from Ovington Bros. Co.. where he was employed as shipping clerk. Mrs. Headley's case attracted con- siderable attention a week ago when she was reported missing. She was | found a prisoner in Jefferson Market prison, accused of stealing a pair of gloves from a store. Later she was released on a suspended sente; “This is the first time I ever was arrested,” Headley said. “Expensive living and my small earning capacity has brought us both to this un- fortunate position. It hurt me to see my wife have to put up with the lit- tla T could glve her from my salary. “I knew she had lived in a home of wealth. T served throughout the war and later was made secretary to the Amerlcan military attache at Cairo and later at Alexandria. Jonquils—Violets Exquisite home-grown blooms de- veloped by Gude, 1212 F.—Advertise- —_—— SPECTAL NOTICES. ; LAWNS PUT [N FIRS N ORDER WITH | tich ail and manure. Al kinds of hedges. Secgreens. and . shribbery forniahed and F. A HERROLL. eurfener, 126 1018 PLUMBING, HEATING, TI G. 20 years' Just_service’ to all; 1.000 satisfied *custom: 3.°c. FLOOD & CO.. INC 6663, PAPERHANGING. cheerfully ' given, Botoma, CHARLES 21i-S. jnew bonnet of star magnolias and a soiled brown rompers this week and puts on her first party dress of the Springtime—a delicate yellow lace affair of weeping forsythia, cornelian cherry and Winter Jasmine, with a e Ppetticoat of wild violets. By and by she wlill wear more elaborate dresses—a coming-out gown of cherry blossoms and some gorgeous draperies of roses and lilles, spireas and weigelias, But she will never wear a prettier dress than her first. All this week she has been practicing with it. Next week she- will be able to woar it to| perfection, like the little lady she is Bushex in Fall Bloom. All this by way of saying that the forsythias are in full blos om, about a week earlier than usual and with | a wealth of flowers seldom seen Washington so early in the year.| These slender bushes, popularls known as the Weeping Forsythia’, like long, pale yellow watertalls, can De seen this week in almost every | part of the District. Today thev are | in almost full blossom on the Capital grounds. about the Sylvan Theater south of the Washing: around the Tidal Basin, along Mary- | land avenue mnortheast and along Massachusetts avenue between Thomas and Scott Circles, where the finest display in the city is to be seen. I sides, “there are few suburban fron vards which do not have one or mo bushes. These bushes have an uncanny babit of blossoming with the first few days of warm weather in March and usually pay the price of their im Petuousness when they are caught by a later frost, which ends their bloom- ing for the season. The blossoms come first and the leaves follow. It is not uncommon to see them bloom- | | ing With patches of late snow on the ground. b The popularity of the rorsythia has grown rapidly in the District in the | last few years. It spreads quickly sending up each Summer dozens o new shoots, which are covered frof the roots up with vellow blooms, tiny | bell-like delicacies, the following Spring. Once started, the shrub| propagates itself. | The cornelfan cherries, also coming into full bloom, are not so common, but are even more showy. The shrubs grow 8 or 9 feet high and the a B » fu b Monument, | | fo Little Miss Washington discards her | w sunlight to do their best. House Japanese cherries about the Tidal Basin e of April. probable date of their blooming are re- ceived. last week double cherrles { wi possible so that the garden will be in early | tover. |lowed as last Radlances, Madame | that | mass effect that the idea Dbeauty wit | hensive rose gol | used are restra flowering branches extend from the top | umbrella fashion. There are a dozen | or more about the Capital grounds, | f a number of scattered bushes In East | ||| Potomac Park, and singie bushes in practically every park area In the There are masses of them in East Potomac Park near the inlet bridge, where they are next-door | neighbors to the Japanese cherries. | Jasmines In Flower. The Winter jasmines are old-fash- | foned. but somewhat neglected shrubs | about Washington. They grow about | 3 feet high and today are covered with starlike yellow blooms, about the size of forsythia blossoms with a reddish interior. There are fine dis- plafs of them on the Capital grounds, in Lafayette Park and in Washington Circle. These also are likely to be caught and ruined by a frost. During the week the star magnolias, the earllest of the magnolia family and the queens of Washington's early Spring time, will be in full bloom. The buds were bursting yesterday on the Capitol grounds and in parks where isolated specimens have been set. One of the finest in the city Is in the White House | grounds near the offices. The wild violets are opening and with a little warm weather this week there will be great beds of them in Rock Creek Park and in all the stretches of woodland about the Capital. 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[ S e L L e R e e e R e S e Rd B 0000000000000 0000000000000000000000000060000000000000000000000000010000000000800000040000000000009000040440000800004 D Sasaasssass st S RS 222 ' THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, SLIM FORSYTHIA BUSHES FORM YELLOW LACE DRESS OF CAPITAL Massive Banks, Like Pale Gold Waterfalls, Are in Full Blossom, With Cornelian Cherries, Jasmines and Star Magnolias Coming Into Flower. hich do not require a great deal of| There is every prospect, according to harles Henlock, in charge of the White greenhouses, that the single ol in_ full bloom on the 13th| Dozens of inquiries about the be Mr. Henlock inspected them 1d found every prospect for | display of bloom. The East Potomac Park 11l blossom two weeks later. The rose garden at the foot of Four- | street, last year one of the s of the Capital, has been injured by the unseason- cold of two weeks ago, and a| many replacements from the| reenhouses will be necessary. It ix| lanned to make these as soon a magniflcent flush of June The same po! vear | bloom in late May and| continuing until late Oc- will be fol- using the hy- Coltmbias, red and pink Pilgrims, Ophelias and 1t has been found the best 11l rid teas, utterflys. varieties give Mr. Henlock explained | is to p-oduce a place of out any idea of a compre- ection. The varle d to those emplo )¢ foreing in the greenhouses during these | auring Washington branch of na- tionally known concern sell- ing a widely advertised ar- ticle needs one or two men for its sales force. The man we are looking for is prob- ably now employed, but is looking for the opportunity of connecting with a firm with progressive policies and an assured future. We want a man that will come in with us and work hard to make a success. To such we will make an attractive proposition Address Box 27-D, Star Office the Winter, which renders impossible | the duplication of such a collection as that of Kew Gardens, in London, or | the famous - Bagatelle Gardens in Parls. Mr. Henlock said he aims to use such varietles as do best in the climatic and sofl conditions of Wash- ington in order to give local resi- dents an idea of what to grow in their own gardens. Attracted Wide Notice. The singular beauty of the garden last Summer, particularly the red Radiance beds, where the bushes at- tained a helght of five or six feet the Fall and were continu- ally covered with blossoms, excited | favorable comment last year from all over the country. It likely that the hybrid tea roses in many private gardens about the city also suffered greatly from the cold weath- er. They had begun to send out shoots W the frost nipped them, and col ently they are bound to be later th usual in coming into I bloom. ‘These freezing days probably did not njure the hybrid perpetuals, which send out shoots ater, or the hardy climbers, but Washingtonians who are experiment- ing with noisettes, teas and climbing suffered badly The exceptionally beds and th et sage gardens in the various p « will be dupli- cated this year, but little effort will be m to tend the floral effect. e beautiful canna LUNCH WH'H US TO-DAY BTaF { é’ffl% 1203 G ST HEALTH CANDIES 404 80+ Ib APARTMENTS | At Reasonable Rentals 23rd & N Streets NORTHWEST 3 to 4 Rooms & Bath $50 to $65 Now Ret;dy for OCCUPANCY Open for Inspection | WARDMAN 1430 K Street Main 3830 | —_— OFFICE SUITE FOR RENT OTIS BUILDING North of H) Favorable Parking Location Rentals APPLY TO MANAGER AT BUILDING or phone T. W. McKnew, Cleve. 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