Evening Star Newspaper, December 18, 1928, Page 12

life at Colvin Run and conducted a|Park Lane, and four sons, Rev. Charles general store nearithe schoolhouse there | R., James J., Eiffel and Eugene C. WOMAN SUSPECTED an: 82 Asecssed OFPOISNING FIVE Hushand Accuses Spouse of Plotting His Death to Get Life Insurance. . e THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1928.° the store. Quarles was slow in comply- * 64 PDI-I[;E ARE HEI-D e S ivas anot down. Former Undertaker to Be Buried gemera s e Police Arrive, ur e lasf years. He was a | Mateer. P L = o senior partner in the undertaking fi Police arrived_before, Détoe could In Coffin Made for Himself in 1889 i b s v whon e made. the —t— W_ h L L o aupe. y started toenter, Deve coffin and stored it away. Besides his| A movement to induce people living it ove Lyrics o htives.: Tamos A Ditocads widow, Mr. Mateer is sufvived by two |in overcrowded cities to move to tha e Detective Capt. O. M. Martin _gnd | Special Dispatch to The Star. The note gave directions for the burial | Sainters, Mrs. Claude M. Adams of | country is being started by the Italian Patrolman W. P. Davenport and J, M.| PARK LANE, Va, December 18—In | exercises and described a suit of clothes - s. James Jenkins of ' government. Poiryenr Who was delivering soft drinks | a coffin constructed for himself in 1889, | for the last repose. The casket was By the Assoclated Press. MOORHEAD, Minn, December 18.—An 82-year-old man was penal- ized $1 for alienating the affections of Mrs. L. J. Bowman, 53, from her 66-year-old husband. H. C. Boyle, the defendant, a former mayor and justice of the peace of Clyndon, Minn, was sued for $25,000 by Dr. Bowman. Boyle wrote poetry and love Iyrics to Mrs. Bowman, her husband slightly | James T. Mateer, 73 years old, will be | made from an oak on thes homestead buried in the. cemetery of Brown’s|at Colvin Run. Mr. Mateer died here Chapel, Colvin Run, after services there | at the home of his son, Rev. Charles this afternoon. R. Mateer. He was born at Colvin Run He died Saturday, and a note was|on a farm that is now a part of the found in the coffin which had been kept | Joseph A. Wheeler property. His father all these years in the attic of his home. | was Robert H. Mateer. He lived all TORAGE 2 ) . |in “the’ neighborhood, were Arkansan Finally Killed in|vounded Battle Lasting for More |ROOSEVELTS IN RANGOON. Than Hour. Brothers Collecting Supplies for | Game Hunt in Burma. By the Associated Press. (m?AA!::GP("g\‘ d:B “mlfl?'fl Decle'fmbe:i hlig .—Col. Theodore Roosevelt an LITTLE ROCK, Ark,, December 18— | profner Kermit have arrived at Ran- Arnet Devoe, 40, a painter, was wounded | goon to_collect stores preparatory for MEMORIAL WREATHS By the Associated Press. POPLAR BLUFF, Mo., December 18. + —The word of a 37-year-old wife stood today in refutation of her husband’s contention that Mrs. J. W. Edwards ad- ministered the poison from which he is seriously ill in_a St. Louis hospital. With Mrs. Edwards’ assertion that she is fhnocent, authorities also had the word of her husband that she had poisoned him and killed his 15-year-old charged, and asked for her hand in marriage after telling her that her husband was becoming mentally unbalanced. Mrs, Bowman admitted the poetry 10 a Circuit Court jury of nine mar- ried men and three bachelors. Boyle, however, called the suit a “scheme” to “get money” from him, fatally yesterday in a gun battle with more than 60 officers after he had held a score of mien and women captive for an hour in a confectionery shop, and had shot and killed & colored man, Jim Quarles, who was slow in raising his | leaving for Upper Burma and Siam on their expedition for big game and zoological specimens. During their stay here they will be guests of Sir Charles Innes, governor of Burma. S ABSOLUTELY FIREPROOF T MODERN WARE- SEPARATE ROOMS FOR $ 2-50- hands. Unable to escape from the building the man battled police for more than an hour, wounding three and a spec- tator, before he was shot down. Devoe made no effort to rob any of his cap- tives, refusing money offered him by ! | the proprietor, witnesses said. The police said they believed he was demented. | Wrote Note to Wife. syrups do mnot reach. However,| - through windows and doors of the brick o, YEHCRES Cang e Y avery Second-Degree | throuh windows o 0o ote to his ||| first swallow. ‘It works on an en- wife and one to the public. | + h o . action, relleves the irritation and In these he announced he would fight i goes direct to the internal cause. son, Forest, the same way. Mrs, Edwards, under questioning, said Edwards carried life insurance, as | did her two former husbands, both of | whom died under mysterious_circum-4 stances, and her daughter, Ethel May | Padgett, 12. | In view of Edwards’ allegation and | the deaths of her daughter and former | husbands, authorit re considering exhumation of the bodies to determine ¢, too, had been poisoried. st husband, Fred Padgett, died , 1924, and her second, A. X. Harris, January 19 last. Her daugh-|Plag to ter, Ethel May Padgett, died April lli.i Charge Accepted After Hear- ing Alienists’ Testimony. HOUSES PIANOS AND WORKS OF ART T, Sure Way to Stop Coughing | This Prescription Relieves Almost Instantly Coughing Is usually due to causes ||| | | which patent medicines and cough T | A gift for a loved one who has departed. . 3 A thoughtful gift to be shipped home. OPEN STORAGE Blanket Spray of Spruce or Holly with Red Ruscus $10 REASONABLE RATES PHONE M. 6900 FOR ESTIMATES PRIVATE LOCKED | tirely different theory, has a double it ' Forest. her stepson, died recently. Upon his death Edw: brought suit against a confection re owner, alleging the boy had bei d poisoned fee cream, but dropped the action when | he became ill. | Physicians hgld slight hope for his| By the Assoclated Press. recovery. Mrsi Edwards is at liberty | NEW YORK, December 18.—A plea on $1,000 bon to second-degree murder was entered | sons, e in Supreme Court yesterday by Vincent | yesterday morning and ordered:a lunch. Rice, 17-year-old schoolboy indicted for | After eating he produced a pistol and first-degree murder for the slaying of | ordered the customers into the rear of Alice Joost, his 15-year-old schoolmate. ‘The district attorney accepted Rice's })l(‘an:)f dguffl!_v alte; two ‘aliem'sts. one g 3 jfor the defense and one for the 3 League Council Delays Action on| testinea fhat e soutis mmmf“}i‘;‘_} 5 i | velopment had beeh retarded, and that Proposal to Hold Next Session | ;ig%50¢"of “wrapping wire about the in Madrid. throat of the 15-year-old girl was not premeditated. The wire and not the to the end and this he did. The notes | otherwise were vague. When police ]U“{:"e ‘“"m cough )";c‘“f‘nesv finally were able to enter, they foundy| ThHoxine €oRtaie B CROrOTTR Devoo so badly wounded he no longer ||| dope, or other harmful drugs. Safe o 1its & gun. " He ‘died & few hours ||| for the whole family. Also excellent | for sore throat. 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