Evening Star Newspaper, September 20, 1928, Page 31

‘THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 20. -1928. | VAT PRIGPALS N FARM MURDERS California Officials Suspend Probe Until Mother and Son " Are Returned. _ (Continued from Page Twenty-six.) - [ Bs tha Associated Piess. LOf ANGFELES, September 20.—The search for human bones and other evi- dence to substantiate the sinister story of the Northcott murder farm was temporarily suspended today by south- ern California officers pending return here of the principals in the case, & 21-year-old youth and his mother, who were arrested in Canada yesterday. The center of activity in the case shifted to the Riverside County dis- trict attorney’s office, which began ex- tradition proccedings against Gordon Stuart Northcott and his mother, Mrs. Louisa Northcott, who have been sought for nearly a week. The former has been named as the slayer of at least four boys on his chicken farm at River- side. Murder charges have been brought here against both. { Certain of Principals. Authorities here were confident that; the youth arrested in Vernon, British Columbia, and the woman held in Cal- gary. Alberta, are the two principals named in the story of torture and mur- der told by their young felative, San- ford Clark. Immediately following reports of the arrest Rex Walsh, Los Angeles city chemist, reported that samples of stain- ed earth from shallow graves found on the Northcott farm revealed traces of human blood. | Last night authcrities were informed : that a boy, brought here from De Kalb, 71l., under the identity of Walter Col- lins, kidnaped here months before, had admitted that he was not the abducted youth, and that his assumption of young Collins' name’ was a hoax. Walter Collins, nine years old, was named by young Clark as one of the four boys abused and then murdered on the Northcott farm. Own Name Unknown. Amitting his deceit, the boy here gald he did not know his own name, and that his only knowledge of Walter Collins was from what he had learned through newspaver accounts and from talking with people in Sycamore, IIL The boy previously had convinced lice that he was Walter Collins. and is mother, after her refusal to admit he was her boy, was held in the psy- chopathic ward of the general Thospital for observation. Prior to the chemist’s report officers had unearthed bones on the Northcott farm which palelontologists identified #8 human bones." The murder charge against Northcott and his mother was based on the death of an unidentified Mexican boy, whose headless body was |+ Hoskins, teacher, from Cranch- ‘Tyler t¢ Brent-Dent School; Miss E. E. Chamberlin, teacher, from Henry-Polk to Cranch-Tyler School; Miss M. K. Mc- Cauley, teacher, from grade 3, Wal- lach-Towers, to grade 4, Wallach- Towers School; Miss A. H. Ewers, teacher, from Thomson to Wallach- Towers School; Miss K. E. Greenwood, teacher, from Taylor to Madison Scho Mrs. Z. A. Haugen, teacher, from Mad- ison to Taylor School; Miss V. H. Muir, teacher, from grade 1, Benning, to grade 2, Benning School; Miss N. R. Castwell, teacher, from grade 6, Blair- Hayes, to grade 5, Blair-Hayes School Miss Eloise Mace, teacher, from grade 5, Blair-Hayes, to grade 6, Blair-Hayes School; Mrs. R. F. Kennedy, teacher, from Medury to Seaton School; Miss K. S. Fowler, teacher, from Bunker Hill to Brookland School: Miss G. R. Dice, teacher, from Brookland to Bunker Hill School; Miss Dallas Keith, teacher, from Brent-Dent to Truesdell School; Mrs. A. C. Van Natta, teacher, from Cooke to Whittier School; Miss Clotilde Flo- ria, teacher, from Keene to Truesdell School; Miss L. A. Helliwell, teacher, from Seaton to Keene School; Miss A. S. Thompson, teacher, from Truesdell fo Burroughs School; Mrs. L. C. Raben- horst, teacher, from Brookland to Bur- roughs School: Miss E. R. Hic PRODUCE Golden-Hearted CELERY CARUSI CHARGES D. C. HEADS USURP SCHOOL BOARD'S POWERS Law Does Not Require Commissioners to Submit Board of Education's Budget Estimates, He Declares. teacher, from grade 4, Bunker Hill, to grade 3, Brookland-Bunker Hill School: Mus. O, C. Jones, cteacher, from grade b, Brookland-Buzker Hill, to grade 4. Brookland-Bunker Hill School: Mrs. M. M. Barston, teacher, from Wallach- Towers to Brookland - Bunker Hill School; Mrs. J. M. Schmitt, teacher, from Brown to Cooke School; Miss Lahuna Clinton, teacher, from grade 2, Truesdell, to grade 1, Truesdell School: Miss K. 1. Brown, teacher, from ‘grade 1, Truesdell, to grade 2, Truesdell School: Mrs, G. R. Heyman, teacher, from Pierce-Webb to Emery-Eckington School; Miss F. C. Wallace, teacher, from Emery - Eckington ~Sehool _to Speech _Correction, Division 9; Miss G. G. Rutherford, teacher, from West School to Speech Correction, division 9; Mrs. K. C. 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Engram, teacher from grade 1 to grade 5, Cook School; Mrs. K. P. Carr, teacher, from grade 5 to grade 3, Cook School; Miss Eliza- beth Dougherty, teacher, from grade 3 to grade 1, School; Mrs. G. J. Reed, teacher, from grade 4 to grade 5, Cleveland School; Miss M. B. Robinson, teacher, from grade 5 to grade 4, Cleve- land School; Mrs. J. P, Harrls, teacher, from grade 4, Cleveland, to grade 4, Garrison_School: Mrs. M. C. Cottrell, teacher, from Armstrong High to Shaw Junior High School, all effective Sep- tember 1. Prisoner Sent to Gallinger. Upon recommendation of Louis Seltz, manager of the Raleigh Haberdashery, Police Court Judge Gus A. Schuldt to- day ordered a 10-day mental and physi- cal observation period at Gallinger Hos- pital for Daniel Searles, 45-year-old salesman of the haberdashery, who pleaded guilty to four charges of petty larceny. . Books Given Laurel Library. Special Dispatch to The Star. LAUREL, Md., September 20.—Charles E. 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