Evening Star Newspaper, November 22, 1928, Page 24

24 THE EVENING PHILADELPHIA DRY IKING GEORGE, ILL WITH COLD, STAR, WASHINGTON, | CANCELS TWO ENGAGEMENTS British Ruler Remains in Bed ! PLAN'S OFFERED on- ‘Advice of His WOMAN IS GIVEN LIFE IN AGYLUM DL rangement known as paranoia which, they said, was incurable. Showing the effects of three months in the county jail, Mrs Gifford, who is 53 years old. was ushered into the court- room to hear her sentence by Gene Gif- ford, her farmer husband. Judge Breuer read the verdict, but she sat as she had during the trial, silently, almost stolidly, with her hand supporting her face. No change of expression was noticed as she THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29 1928. tending the annual State Baptist con- ! vention here agreed last nizht to sign a pledge affirming their disbelief in the | theory of evolution. | The agreement was reached, leaders sion of evolution on the floor. of the association said, to avoid discus- Dr. | Charles H. Brough, former governor of | Arkansas and president of Central Col- | lege, at Conway, was one of those who signed the pledge. listened to the brief reading by the judge. | As the testimony was unfolded during | the three days of the trial the story was told of her desire for morbid enterain- ment. The jury heard of her passion for | | attending sick beds, for partaking in | arrangements for funerals, for being so | often in the midst of tragedy. | Over it all hung, not only her ad- | mission of three murders, but 15 other cases for which she has been questioned | nstances where death occurred under | mysterious circumstances while she had acted as a volunteer nurse, Combination of City, State and Federal Forces Is Suggested by Mayor. Physicians. | Found Not Guilty of Murder Because of Insanity. ‘ 5" g Prisoner’ in Poison Cases | > % | | |Queen Mary Substitutes at Ceremonies Attending | | By the Associated Press. | 0 : f Market | ® PHILADELPHIA, November 22— ening of Market. | Holding that responsibility of enforcing | p 9 - | prohibition laws_had been mainly re- sponsible for police corruption as re- vealed by the grand jury investigating bootlegging and gang murders, Mayor Mackey has suggested a combination of | was suffering from a cold and a slight city, State and Federal forces to pro- “ LAt vide more drastic enforcement of these | feVer today. He was forced to cancel | laws, | engagements to open the new market at | In requesting the City Council for an | Spital Fields and the rebuilt “old hall” | appropriation for 200 additional police- | o¢' 1y coinee 1o By the Associated Press. UNION, Mo., November 22—The “good Samaritan,” Mrs. Bertha Gifford, who was always ready to “sit up” with | | the sick and who watched 18 persons | | die writhing in paroxyisms of pain | ! caused, the State believes, by poison she | administered, must spend the rest of her life in_an insane asylum. A jury last night found the “poison woman’ | | Brinley “on the sole ground that she | The King is santor ] ; ] | was insane at the time of the commis- | firm Disbelief in Theory. men, equipped with automobiles, mo- g 1s senior | 2 . A ¢ i 8 e ense has not recov- | X i tor cycles and modern armament, who | bencher of the inn. Queen Mary sub- | 12123 ?fogx] sx‘x)ginmcs:x?i?y.!"s The verdict ‘(/PTFYARKANA' Sl would function as a “bandit-prevention | stituted for him at both ceremonies | | was reached after 3 hours and 25 squadron,” the mayor said: A bulletin issued at Buckingham Pal- | minutes of deliberation over the testi- | “The paramount duty of a policeman |ace and signed by Dr. Stanley Hewett | mony that showed she had calmly 1s to protect life and property. Every |and Lord Dawson said: | poisoned one man and two small chil- time you take a man off his beat to| 'The King is suffering from a slight | i | By the Assoctated Press. | LONDON, November 22.—King George EVOLUTION DENIED. not guilty of the murder of Ed | Baptist College Instructors Reaf-| | November 22 | ructors of Baptist colleges at- | KING GEORGE. | dren. have him investigate or raid a saloon |cold and some fever and is remaining in | | the citizen who walks that stretch of | bed.” 3 | week the King had become convalescent, the highway left unguarded is cxposed | It Was stated that the advice of physi- | and within a month he was able to leave | _Judge Breuer will sentence her within to thc hazards of banditry and acci- | cians for him to remain in bed was sim- | with the Queen for a Mediterranean | three weeks to one of the State insti- dents. im.\x'(?‘?a(gicr go! eI | trip that speedily restored his heath. — | tutions for the insane. Tr;um{my of ex- | S8 » 5 ng George ordinarily enjoys such | kR ert psychiatrists from St. Louis yes- ..., Clean-up Detail Proposed. = |gooq health that even a slight indispo- | % Pty Sflathton wis 1o fha effect ik ‘Tentatively, I propose that initially | sition tends to create a certain amount she was suffering from a mental de- 50 patrolmen be detached from their |of surprise. duty in the bureau and assigned to co- |~ There was nothing, however, to indi- operate in a clean-up of liquor estab-|cate that the illness was more serious lishments and the illegal sale of alcohol. | than had been stated. It probably I hope to have the authorities at Har- | would not have been made the suhjpp}} risburg assign a group of State police 0 | of a physicians’ bulletin but for the fact co-operate. The entire personnel would | that there have been instances in the be placed under the direction of the|past when a trifling indisposition orl rFedrml pr!nhibinflndfl,dmimslmlmr hflg | the King led to startling rumors. The | or a_simultaneous drive on violators of | result was s a o the Volstead act and the State enforce- | mak SR e hocmela e ment law.” Disclosures concerning gambling con- ditions in Philadelphia, declared by Dis- trict Attorney Monaghan to have been “amazing and complete,” have been ade to the grand jury by Dr. Thomas “English Tommy” Giichrist, convicted gambler and narcotic peddler. Says He Told Everything. Gilchrist, brought from the county prison at Holmesburg and questioned by the grand jurors, “withheld absolutely nothing,” the prosecutor said. » Reports were current that his statements had involved _politicians, including ward leaders, police officials, high and low, and gamblers. Gilchrist’s wife, who since he was sentenced to three vears in prison last Spring, has several times as- serted that her husband was “framed,” is to be questicned later by the inves- tigators. : ¢ “This phase of the investigation,” Dis- trict Attorney Monaghan said 'today, “has two important features. One 1S that Gilchrist is the only member of the gambling fraternity here who has - o vanisd, judl aa exclusive-and |} ever been arrested, tried, convicted and fldA 7 Wfiifl Eou fit at=il ~ sent to jail as a gambler. That seems | mun VXPIAWE q =3 |fi;all (oalinqu)i‘ry. Also, T P'A'm sntis&;d ke . = PR 1] ambli n with- t gambling houses cannot rus S %l’efilafi I30.'_|3 G'Sfi' EX-PREM@ERU DIES ‘ ; Suffers From Paranoia. Brothers For Friday a Beautiful Collection of Evening Gowns 09 In tulles, velvets, taffetas—exquisite in mate- rials and designs. We suggest having one or two of these remarkable values for holiday wear. 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