Evening Star Newspaper, October 6, 1927, Page 7

'I'l l D F\'FNT,\'C STAR. WASTINGTON, D._C. THURSDAY. OCTOBER 6. 12 19, * BEACH CONFRONTED WITH 3 WITNESSES suspect in Killing of Dr. Lil- liendahl Surrenders for | Jury Probe. | MAYS LANDING, N. T. Octoher Willis Beach, charged with aidns nd abetting in the killing of Dr. A Niam Lilliendahl, who surrendered today afier being 10 was taken to the g witness' room for identific Feach was confronted by three men who said they saw a coupe similar to one owned by Beach leave the scene of the killing. Later he re‘urned to jail. It was not Xnown whether he was identific the driver of the car. Weeps After Quiz. Teach appeared to be in gay spirits when he was being taken to the courthouse and smiled at the crowd ! on the courihonse lawn and waved his hand Four minutes later of the grand jury attitude was ippeared te with missing for ind jury tion eai 1vs, when he came witness room ely chanzed and wiped eves hief. He ound returne surrendered ! State police and Trooper | Robert Wopdward. He was ace panicd by Edison Hedges. his counsel. surrender took place shortly 7:30 a.m. on the State highway ont 4 miles out of here. Beach and his counsel drove from one direction 1 automobile, the police from an ey Lawyer Keeps Word. was in by his coun surrende ch's appearance with a_promise made hat his client would It whenever he could aid th Mr. He called up Prose or Hinkle st night to inform v that_be would have Beach before the wrand jury Landing today <o that he could aid the prosccution g up the mystel | told the prosecutor that had been waiting for the court | 10 take some definite action he heard that the case was to go be- | fore the grand jury today, he tool immediate steps to get in communi- catioa with his attorney. At that time, according to Hedges, Beach was near Medford, miles below Camden. Mr. that he has been in indir communication with Beach. Mr. 19 ect | WOMAN IS UNABLE | TO RECALL WEDDINGi Justice Hitz Seeks Further Light| on Reported Marriage in Maryland. e “ | “I avant to hear from some one “hn; does know something about this af-| fair,” said Justice William Hitz when he continued the suit for annulment of Mrs. Rave Wvatt, an employe of the Navy Department, who cha that she had been drugged June 1926, just prior to her marriage at| Springs, Md.. to William T. who had béen “indicted in vland for a serious offense, she stated. “This lady says she remembers | nothing from the time she drank a cup of coffee in a hotel at Marlboro,” continued the justice, “on the after noon of her wedding day, until she | was brought to the home of her sis- ter that night. See if you cannot | take the deposition of the clerk who issued the license and also that of the preacher who performed the ceremony. I remember one case where a lady | said she remembered absolutely noth- ing about her marriage ceremony. but it later developed that she herself ob- tained the license several days hefore the ceremon: Mrs. Wyatt told the court she was much,surprised when she discovered on the morning of June 5, that she was a married woman. She ha:l not considered Wyatt as a husband and knew nothing of the securing of | a license by him June 26, whip on this lady,” r‘nnrlud“d Hit *“but hefore T s l!prrpn l want to hear from one who knows more about this marriage than xhe appears to know Wyatt brought home of her sister the marriage and left town been located, it the court, by Henry M. Fowler, who' rep: wife, to the after and has was ex Attorney ents the | POSTAL RECEIPTS SHOW GAIN IN MONTH Postal receipts for Washinzton @ sptember, 14 totaling $46 represent an_incrense of 5 per cent over the volume of the same month in . according to fizures mada public todav by Postmaster G eral New. The actual increase as| computed from receipts of September, | 1926, amounting to §440,608.03, was | $23.315.54 | | in The percentage increase in receipts of 50 selected cities for the hewever, was only .59 per cent total receipts of those cities for tember, 19, were £30,152,17¢ phis, Tenn.. showed the highest with a 21.80 per cent increase Jersey City was nd, with cent, and Dayton, Ohio, with 15.48 per cent Increases in other Atlanta, month, | The | Sep- | third, ichmond, . 6.7 Hous and Fort Weorth, 0.15. Decre chown at Baltimore, 364 New Orleans, 3.11, and Jac 15.85. sonville, | ROBBER OF TOURISTS | | accord- | When | Hedges de-| pe | thrown the revolver in th GEORGE REMUS KILLS HIS WIFE ON WAY TO DIVORCE HEARING Once “King of Bootleggers" Surrenders After Fatal Shooting in Street. Follows Taxi Into Park and Mortally Wounds Spouse as She Tries to Flee. - MEETING th Nation: sale organiz men’s ociat By the As v CINCINNATE Mrs. Imozene Re pital heve today tion, which h: Octoher 6 National Capit emus ¢ in a hos from a bullet wound inflicted by her husiand, Georze Re | mus, once “King of the hootlexgers.” | \ few hours before her suit for divorce been heard Ohio in the ind whose h hed here, last t informal get-toge 1o was to have Mrs. Remus was en route b to the office of her attorney for conference resardin v suit for divorce, due for a hearir tay, when she encountered mus another car in a park. Remus followed her ind. becoming alarmed. she jumped from her taxi when tratlic slowed her | b ess and started to run. in a taxi- uen, marked the are to be held in way. of REnaB et Chester Leasur Commerce of the the pr addrd value of o nization cted other i said that he viewed f machine revolver shot from his Pressing a e fi one Kemus sprang nd abbed her to her abdomen Mrs. Remu sereams atty motorists, who took her to the hos where she d a few minutes i an operation was performed sttt | field \fter witomotive The speaker brougl calesman is the shac dustry,” and declared on the firing al has di tact w ing public, “he shou o hroaden his useful wed against Remus o his employer and cctives Kirgan. He will be held ¢ lars: bail. ‘ 1 ainst his wife. ih wional 1o let 1 Ascocition is ey nizht's meetin css which the o its organ Remus Surrenders to Police, n confusion Remus left the | cene and a short time later, while | detectives were searching for him, he | walked into the central police station | and surrendered A charge of first des th e without Remus was bit a e told poiice he did not inten: zet aw with what sk Automa who 1 2 . and Franklin e sin Dodge, ir tment local salesmen a agent, whom he named as corespond 0. snt 10 his counter divorce action, Re Mr. Ochsenreiter mus declared he had “spent thousands of the sales staft of dolla in an effort to find them facal Mo the out that the Remus’ adopted daughter, in 14 1t the hospital while preparations were o drove him as far as the Livie. | being made to operate on Mrs. Remus 1 Depot, from where he i that Mrs. Remus had been | taxi to police headquarters r of her husband Dooley sald he believed the Remus has beaten wan who drove at the time of tened my mother Jting also took Remus to City The detectives began a search e driver of the e Justic - Uppe MRS Lower RGE REMU RGE REMUS, W = Co., He said shooting Pennsy i mobile, v the hecame of his aut Ruth, 19, | 5 “some one members met Bruce sihic (hat the N. A, 8. A, vast amount of good The meeting w port of present or from Philip B veetor of the mistr 1l thi id. like this would hap fie She said Rem and cur Mrs. Remu taxi with shooting. temus told the police he had lain in wait for his wife and that he was driv ing the car himself when he followed [llv‘ taxi into th arkway e daus] r man was driving the car, but she did not 1« nize him. She said she recognized the car as one that ¢ used by | one of Remus' chi ints and < eloxe friend in his bootlegxing opera tions. In charge of Detective Sergt. Georse Sl Dooley and a squad of detectives. Re- | | mus was taken to Bden Park to re- $20,000 Damnges SJ“BM t the shooting | Tsanc The detectives doubted many parts of his story. Remus climed he Eden detectives severai the shoot- trace of s was greatly excited > turncd the gun on he daughter was in the Remus and saw the of kis bootlegging operat prison sentence about | M | be worth | 00,000 in . reputed then to . paid out about §1 and departed for Atlanta with £3.000.000 saltea away, some of of friends that he harged cheated him of and $1,000.000 in securities ion of his wife Mrs a4 today children, death of their lev, who was last when a truck driving was in_ collisi cab. The children interest in premises outheast and in a covered from the Yel for the death of the fi Attorneys Martin J. 916 Fateakiit nivcet | Michaell AT SDOVIE, Ao {reeL. 1 leave of the court to Atking, owner of [month for the childre street, where ] e wis crushed in| Despite the domin m el accident Augnst 18, He | France in the manuf asks $20000° damages. | Attorney T the United St Morris Wampler represents the pliin: tifr. Leapl l who wer fath > money ind cash in the pe Mrs. Remus sued for divorce while he was In prison and Remus declared it the time that he feared for the 31,000,000 he had intrusted to her. Behrman, today sued Joseph seventh declare < arm premises 2 drive. He took the e hundred feet from the pl {ing actually occurred. the weapon tound Romus said he did not know No what of cosmeties He'll find a friend in the baggage car of every Pennsylvania train Variety is the law of life baggage-master on the LIBERTY LIMITED “The animals went in two by two orted in his caravan. The elephant and the kangaroo.” p Gasks of precious stones, bales of shimmer- AUTO SALESMEN'S [ More Than 150 Members At- tend First Session at Racquet Club. members and their lquarters now are pointed {thering of t night, @ Uni wiih considerable satisfac Ochsenreite spoke concluded by a re. anization activity SEEKS GUARDIANSHIP Killed the mother 1o that country about §100,000 worth annually. GIVEN SEVERE PENALTY Stern fstn measures to protect otomac Park from il Judge Robert 1. Matii ‘ourt today when he 1 jail sentence of 21, vea Edwards, colored, of vith 1wo destruction of Governme tour- im and s to the evidence, T tourist eamp wearing apparel Blenks of Pennsylvaniaand mmbers of Jamestown, N so alleged to have gained rance to one of the tents pro hy the Federal Government b; off a side. Al the clothes iwards were recovered by B. Edelkamp, P whi ziven a straight on one of jail the | another ind $300 ne or the than a fev dize moie OT that the baggage car of any Pennsylvania train is a Noah's Ark on wheels, nor are Pennsylvania baggage-masters se- lected because of their affection for animals. But the natural lik- ing which mest of them have for pets is typical of the friendly spirit of Railroad Men. Marco Polo crossed the moun- tains of Tibet laden with the won- ders of the Orient. Thirty camels, a hundred elephants have been re- ing silks, chests of gold medallions, ivory, jade . . . these he brought back to blind the City Council of Venice. And his baggage told a stranger tale than any he could frame with words. v ¥ W More than 7,000,000 pieces of bag- gage are handled each year in the baggage cars of Pennsylvania trains. And the tales they tell of miraculous travel dwarf the won- NEW BUSSES INSPECTED. Rush-Hour Service Will Be Start- ed Here Soon. } inspection of the first of the| 31 new busses purchased by the| Washington Rapid Transit Co. to | [arrive in Washington was made yes- | | terday by members and attaches of | the Public Utilities Commission in | | front_of the District Building. The | | remaining 30 busses, according to 2. D. Merrill, president and general manager of the company, are sched- uled .o arrive at the rate of four a day. As soon as all of them have heen delivered the company will wan 130 local au- | start its rush-hour express service. The new busses have a distinctive | " [two-tone color scheme of light blue | Automotive |, pg cream, the combination that won | formed | the nrize in the contest conducted by | | the company pmn- to ordering them JAPANESE BEFTLE < HEARING IS HELD Federal Horticultural Board Gets Arguments Against Extending Quarantine. An ISHELD ol 1, newly 1 its inception Al a few wecks its night held ther at the out as automot first of a ser here under au- il Automotive and is par n which, the Chamber of | ted States made | in busin ormation of the 1t the M\”"“’ sther”” finally his phase of the Although the Japancse beetle is a very tiny creature, it succeeded in | calling together more than 100 men and women today for cussion of methods onslanght at a_heaving before Pederal Horticultural Board in National Museum. question he- L e O S fore 7L 1% wicihts thteniayan W0 be orsanized| e qvea quarantined on account of s to himself | e beede to include Maryland and | 2t the Distriet of Columbia. Five heetles | have heen found in the Distriet and | small numbers at various points in | Maryland. It was urged by representatives of the icultural interests of the Dis- trict and Maryland that for the pres- ent these areas be left out of the | quarantined region while an_effort s ade to treat the infestated regions n them up. im F. Gude, the District. viand r ot Unives “the in it out that K trooper that since < I the time. and ot to o ne to the public r. president of stive Salesmen’s esided last briefly on the sociation has ion by a group | ew scant weeks ho is a member | | Motor pointed cady has florist, appeared Among those from were Dr. T. B. Symons, agricultural extension at | 1 Maryland; Dr. I state entomologi ce of the Towson Nurseries; st Hemming of the Canterbury ies at Kaston, Dr. F. B. Bom lmn..nr, president of the Pelmarva Association, Salisbury, and M. 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