Evening Star Newspaper, March 1, 1927, Page 27

' Mrs. Margaret Schmith, the child’s " HANGING IS ASKED FOR SLAYER OF BOY State Denounces Harold Croarkin for Beating Child‘ to Death With Hammer. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, Farch 1. his cha B Slouched in his lips nervously, 26-year-old scion o i erday heard the S hang>d for slay.ng € year-old Walter Schmith, jr. i The child was be; *h with & blacksmith’s hammer in the loft of | the Devon Riding Academy last De | cember. Croarkin confessed the slaying im- mediately after he was surrendered to the police by his relatives, but since that has repudiated the confession. | &nd his defense will be insanity. | Called “Hally, the Goof.” “Hally, the goof, a boy who has never hecome a man.” began Patrick O'Donnell, in the opening statement of | the defense. “A child lackine in mind and man- bood and, when the protection of his father and mother was gone, bevond control, with the result that now he 18 here.” { . o capacity for learning,” | r. “In all his classes | among all the boys. in all the games | in which he tried to participate, he | was known the goof.” " | Miss Agnes Furlong, former sweet- heart of ¢ rushed immediately after he slew the | little boy, came to the courtroom yes- | terday afternoon to testify for the | Stat apd when one made a ght exposure she fainted. Bail- ent 15 minutes in trying to re- e her. . Jacob Goodman. coroner's physi- the fivst witn t ified con- cerning the injuries which caused the boy’s death. mother, sought to restrain her emo-| tions when she was cailed to testiiy, | but broke into t when shown a brown knitted cap, blood-stained, and | the trousers Walter wore when he was | slain. Her boy left for school atter lunch, she testified, and she next saw him in & hospital about 10:30 p.m. | “He was alive then, but his head | was wrapped in bandages and he looked at me, but could not talk,” she said. “I stayed at the hospital and about $:30 am. 1 was notified he had died.” PEABODY WILL FILED. » Trust Ties Up Estate for Three Years. SANTA BARBARA, Calif., March 1 (P).—The will of Frederick Forrest Peabody, former president of the Cluett, Peabody Co., who died here Wednesday, was filed yesterday. It makes a trust for three years, tying | up the estate, and ultimately cuts it into eight sections, three of which go to the widow and the others to each of the five children. 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Ivain joined the go ed Comedie 4 role in the French cl {rom Rodrique in Corneille’s Don Ruy Gomez in Victor “Hernani.” He never “makes up | the stage, but he savs he would like him and pester him with well < advice. | his friends says, has given ~in that combitive tem- perament which enabled him alone ind unatded eal from a_decree f nisters of France, countersigned by the President of the Rep and win out after a pro- | 1 battle. *afe de la Regence, the ess in France, opposite the quare from th long At th home ¢ P, ™ g M. ain bhecame n chess one . Two pantin, the cafe and h'm fhat 2.000 spectatcrs were W ing for him. “Away with i in his most sten theatrical style, ** 0 rise tonight untll U've finished. This Is ton fine a move to loze. to govern the taxation of property of TAXATION BILL DELAYED. [{f =Vo ‘R fomty "o New Fork scheduled for yesterday hefore the Senate taxation committee, was poned until next Monday Inability of NE SILVAIN. Jersey Off Until Monday. TRENTON, N. 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