Evening Star Newspaper, March 17, 1926, Page 13

COURSEY IS IVEN e S e He Sought Treasure T8YEAR SENTENCE Stepfather Convicted of Beating Boy to Death. Turns Against Wife. ! i TOWSON, T. Coursey was convicted of gree murder and sentenced in the Maryland penitentiary by i judges in the Circuit Court here late | vesterday. He wus convicted of cau death of § year-old Eldridge the son of his wife, 13dna May After beinz informed b the T. Scott Offutt, Frank I, Du Walter W, on, that he hoean | convicted, Chief Judge O! i Coursey if he had anyth to say | before sentence was passed. “Yes." sald the prisoner. *If Mrs. ¢ {8 granted a trial 1 want the | Wb Ordering the priconer (o stand. | Judge Offutt eaid: { “We find vou guilty of murder in| the second degree und s 18 years in the M v, the maximum charge.” Resentment Toward Wife, In stating the verdict, Judge Offutt | ®aid he and his colleagues had consid- ered the case long and carefully. “But we find no extenuating circumstances in this crime.” Coursey showed no emotion when the sentence was passed except bitter resentment against hia wife. Ars Coursey was one of the chief wit.| nesses against her husband. She her- #elf is awalting sentence for man- slaughter In connection with her son's death, having been convicted last Sat- but has filed a motion for a Coursey admittea on the witness stand vesterday that he wrote a letter to his wife, in which he stated i “T am glad Eldridge is dead.’ | The defendant’s admission came dur- ing cross-examination by State's At- torney H. C. Jenifer of Baltimore County. Mr. Jenifer pulled several letters from his pocket. Coursey was vixibly surprised. All the letters were written to Mrs. Coursey by Coursey | while the latter was in jail. Coursey admitted the authorship of all of them. | Planned Insanity Plea. One stated that the writer intended. when brought to trial, to plead in- wanity. He sald he believed he would not get over two years in an asylum, ; after which he and his wife could live together happily again. “If you didn't cause the death of the boy why did you say that you planned to plead insanity?" asked Mr. Jenifer. “Well,” was the answer, “all the neighbors and the police were accus- ing me of killing him, and T knew that T would have to face a trial. That's the reason 1 was going to plead in- sanity.” i Coursey then directly accused his wife of beatinz the child with the broomstick the dav he died. He stated, stll under questioning nv Mr. Jenifer, that the confession which Mrs. Coursey made to Capt. Detectives Charles H. Burnes was true. Mrs. Coursey. in the statement she signed. admitted beating the boy the day he died. ! RAIL BILL UP NEXT WEEK. S re: @ unan- | sent & to vote at March t ne a railroad | n intermed;- the remaining ti devoted to the o propriation bills ¢ Benate. Most of the Sen: desire to be heard on the bill have spoken. 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May, scholar, chemist and adventurer, will sink be- neath the waters of- the Pacific to rest upon the treasure trove that he sought so hard but failed to find in 1 May died vesterday in the county hospital here from knife wounds self- inflicted as a result of disappointment over repeated failures to reach thej treasure box of the schooner Gen. rant. which sank in a storm off the ng a group of miners from the Baliarat gold flelds in Ausiralia to their homes in England. There were | 83 in the ship's company were saved. One of the survivors showed May vhere the Grant was sunk in but a w fathoms of water. He also told im that there was $10,000,000 in Bal- 15 larat bullion and dust in the ship's strong box. Fired by the nearness of the treas- ure, May fitted out an expedition in Australia in 1912. He was ready to square away to the Aucklands when the Titani ent down. There was a hue nnd cry around the world for costlier and safer ship equipment and May could not meet the demand. He abandoned the expedition after losing some $60,000. Later, he tried again. planning to start from Californiz. But once more the scheme failed, while the $10,000,- 000 in sunken gold continued to taunt him. All overtures collapsed, and sick and disappointed he finally gave up and put a knife to his wrists in a cheap Oakland lodgings. F. H. Simpson, a friend, is to take his ashes to the Aucklands with aa expedition that he is fittng up for another try at the Grant's long sub- merged treasure. The ashes will be spread over the ocean where the Grant went down. POPULATION DRIFT FROM CITIES SEEN Engineers Say Economic Factors try than has obtained in the past,” | says the survey. ‘“Among these are | the pressure of poulation in urban aress, more uniform distribution of prosperity and the decentralization of industry.” 1 It is estimated that the greatest here population will be in Michigan, the probable figure is set at 5,800,800, or 101 to the square mile. 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Reports of automobile fatalities re- ceived by the department from 79 large cities showed a total of 377 for the four weeks ended February 27 and brought the total since January 2 up to 811. The dally averages for the two four-week periods was given as 18.5 and 16,5, respectively. New York City alone had 53 deaths in auto accidents during the four- week period ended February 27, against 75 for the preceding four weeks. The department attributed the low er number of automoblle futalities throughout the country for the four weeks last recorded to diminished use of machines in bad weather. MODEL IS COMPLETED FOR STONE MOUNTAIN Casts Being Made—Work to Be Begun Immediately, Head of Project Says. By the Associated Press. ATLANTA, Ga., March 17.—Augus- tus Lukeman’s master model for the central group of the Stone Mountain Memorial has been completed and plaster casts are in process of being made from it, Hollins N. Randolph, president of the Stone Mountaln Mo umental Association, announced here today on his return from New York. One cast will be placed on exhibi- tion In the fine arts department of the sesquicentennial exposition at Phila- delphia, Mr. Randolph said, while an- other will be sent to the Stone Moun- tain operations. Mr. Randolph also said that work at the mountain will be enlarged to full scale immediately after acceptance of the mastar model by the directors. Appreciation of the coin sale cam- palgn in New York was expressed by Mr. Randolph, who said it was going forward rapidly. D. ©, WEDNESDAY, MXRCH 17, 1928. PARENTS AND 3 CHILDREN KILLED IN HOME BLAZE Woman Makes Heroic -Effort to Save Family, But Dies Before Reaching Hospital. By the Associated Press. CARLISLE, Towa, March 17.—Mr. and Mrs. Donald Trichel and thelr three children were burned to death in thelr farm home near here yester- day despite the brave efforts of the mother to rescue her family. 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