Evening Star Newspaper, August 5, 1929, Page 15

FARMHAND ADMITS PLOT TOKILL WIFE Niece, 6, Died After Eating Candy He Had Poisoned and Given to Mate. By the Associated Press. OTTAWA, Kans., Pennebaker, 22, Diagonal, Iowa, farm hand, faced arraignment in Justice Court here today on charges of at- tempted murder of his wife, following his confession he put poison in candy | intended for her, but which caused the death of his niece, Elva Irene Barnes, 6. The chlld, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Barnes of near Ottawa, died after eating the candy given to| her by Mrs. Pennebaker, 19, who came from Diagonal to visit her sister. Three | other Barnes children who were made, 111 by the candy recovered. | Pennebaker gave his wife the candy | when she left Diagonal, she said, and | urged her to eat it and think of him, | She said she put the candy aside and forgot it until she arrived in Kansas | City, then decided to save it for her sister’s children. In 1927 Pennebaker's first wife died five months after their wedding under circumstances which caused an investi- gation, but no evidence was developed against the farmer. Pennebaker was calm as he told his story to officers vesterday. He gave no reason for wanting to kill his wife. Why did I do| August 5.—Ray | “I made a mistake. 1t?” was his only comment. POTOMAC BAPTIST GROUP TO GATHER WEDNESDAY ¥ Convention of Association, to Be Held at Broad Run Church, to End Thursday. Epecial Dispatch to The Star. POTOMAC, Va.. August 5.—Del Ray | Baptist Church will be represented by | seven delegates at the seventy-ninth | annual session of the Potomac Baptist Association, to take place Wednesday and Thursday at the Broad Run Bap- | tist Church at Warrenton, Va. | The delegates are Rev. John S. Sow- ers, Miss Ella Lee Sowers, Mrs. Jennet- | fer’ Broaddus, Mrs. W. C. Robertson, | Mr. and Mrs. A. V. Brooks and J. H. Carpenter. Miss Sowers was named to | serve in the place of her mother, Mrs who left Wednesday | John S. Sowers, for a three-week vacation with friend: at_Cincinnati. | The convention also will attract dele- gates from Baptist churches in Fau- quier, Prince William, Loudoun, Arling- | ton, Fairfax, Stafford and Culpeper Countfes and Alexandria City. | The association will convene Wednes- day morning at 10 o'clock. Rev. H. B. Jennings will lead the devotional serv- ices. Rev. Ryland T. Dodge of the Baptist Temple, Alexandria, will preach the annual sermon. while an addres: on “Baptist Brotherhood” will be made by Rev. Sowers of the Dcl Ray Baptisi Church. | Afternoon sessions on both Wednes- day and Thursday will be given over o the reading of reports. The evening session Wednesday is to be opened twith services by the Rev. V H. Council. Dr. George T. Waite will speak_on “Personal Evangelism,” and Rev. Dodge will make a_report on th Baptist Young People’s Union. Rev. U. S. Knox will speak on “Young People’s Work " The morning session Thursday will open with devotional services by the W E. H. Puryear, and Rev. Fletcher Fokj have charge of the afiernoon services. The convention will close at the end of the afternoon session. | the former Senator, SOCIETY (Continued From Fourteenth Page.) is arriving in New York tomorrow on the Olympic and will be at the Savoy- Plaza. Mrs. Ralph Worthington is visiting the Governor of Georgia and Mrs. L. G. Hardman in the executive mansion in Atlanta, where she is being exten- sively entertained. Mr. and Mrs. Edward T. Stotesbury entertained at luncheon yesterday at their Bar Harbor home, in honor of the team of British naval officers, who are playing in the international maritime tennis tournament at the resort. The British team won the Ilast matches from the United States Navy rivals yesterday afternoon, thereby gaining “another point on the Mount esert Trophy. The score on the trophy ow stands three for the British and | two for the Americans. Mr. and Mrs. Perry Belmont will en- | tertain at dinner this evening at Bel- court, their villa at Newport, in bonor of their house guest, Mrs. Charles H. Mitchell. Mrs. Mitchell was the guest | last. week of Brig. Gen. and Mrs. Cor- nelius Vanderbilt, at Beaulleu. Mrs. Chauncey M. Depew, widow of wjll arrive in New York this week on the Homeric, and will be at the Briarcliff Lodge, Briarcliff Manor, until the first of Oc- tober. She will come to Washington for the Winter season. Mrs. Woodbury Blair, who is spending the Summer at Newport, entertained at luncheon yesterday. Mrs. Jacob Leander Loose of Kansas City and Washington recently enter- tained distinguished guests at Sea | Rocks, her palatial estate at the end of Eastern Point, Gloucester, Mass. Senator David I. Walsh was there en- joying the view and gardens of Sea Rocks and the social activities of the North Shore. Gen. and Mrs. Edward . Logan with Theodore Logan of Cohasset, and Mr. and Mrs. Mason B. Starring of New York were the other guests of Mrs, Loose. Sunday, July 28, Mrs. Loose gave a luncheon in honor of her gue: and on Monday evening they went to Stillington Hall for the first performance in America of “Prohack.” Mr. and Mrs, W. Stuart Symington spent a short time recently with Mr. | and Mrs. Thomas R. Symington in their place, Homeland, near Baltimore. Mrs. Anton Heitmuller is a visitor | at Ocean City, .Md., and before re- turning to Washington will go to Nova Scotia, British Columbia. Mr. George E. Allen was host at dinner at the Plage Deauville at the Wardman Park Hotel on Saturday evening. Mrs. L. A. McCord_entertained at dinner at the Plage Deauville at the Wardman Park Hotel on Saturday evening. Mr. and Mrs. James Colbert had as their guest for a week, Miss Leone Fissell, who returned to her home in Ellicott City last week. Mr. Leonard Smith of Jacksonville, Fla., is the guest of Mr. Jens M. Otter- ness of the Sherman Apariments. Mr. and Mrs. John E. Fowler and Miss Dorothy Fowler have returned to their apartment, 1426 Sixteenth street, after an automobile trip to Cincinnati, Detroit and Toronto, Canada, Miss Margaret Wylie is visiting Miss To shires, Mrs. John S. Scully entertained at luncheon yestc:day ~ at Mass., where she is spending the Sum- mer season. The party was given in honor of Miss Harryette M. Zimmerle. Miss Leila Lymburn and sister, Miss Rosalie Lymburn, of Flint, Mich., are at the Hamilton. They will visit also in New York hefore returning home. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY, AUGUST: small children are guests of Mr. and Mrs. George Walson of Washington at their Summer Tlome at Wild Rose Shores on South River near Annapolis. Former Representative Walter M. Chandler of New York is in Paris at the Hotel Continental for a siort stay before going to Russia. . At Ocean City, Md., For Rest of Season. Mr. and Mrs. George Mallette Ferris and children of Chevy Chase, Md., and Mrs. H. W. Hamilton are spending the ;;a.mn at Hotel Mayfiower, Ocean City, Mrs. Marshall King is spending sev- eral days in New York. Miss Violet Elizabeth Winter of 1832 Biltmore street northwest, after a cruise on the Atlantic, is spending the re- mainder of the Summer in Kissimmee, Fla., the guest of her aunt, Mrs. M. D. Alexander, Mrs. Herbert Weaver and daughter and Mrs. Claribel Card have just re- turned from Delaware Water Gap and Stroudsburg, Pa. Dr. and Mrs. Charles Stanley White have returned to the city after spending the month of July at their country place near Lessburg. Early in August Mrs. White and her small daughter will go.to Poland Springs, Me,, to remain until after Labor day. Miss M. M. Jackson of Columbia, 8. C., is visiting her cousin, Mrs. K. E. Watts, of the Gordon Hotel for a week, and will then go to Asheville, N. C., for a visit before going home. As the season advances Point Look- out, Md.,, has become established as a favorite Maryland seaside resort. Not only is the hotel full to capacity most of the time. but every cottage is occu- pied and some new ones are about to be_built. | 1t is getting to be a favorite resort for | yachting parties. Col. and Mrs. Paul Henderson were there last week on their yacht Encore, with their children, and | Mrs. Henderson’s mother, Mrs. Madden, widow of former Representative Madden of Illinois, staved at the hotel while the | | family went da short cruises. ’Wml)ow SHADE WADE TO ORDER An: size — any__colo “Mr. | nor R. Flick at Lenox in the Berk- | Stockbridge, | v r. Guaranteed to fit and work properly. Low Factory Prices | | fi‘ 7MED7E“V171 Ifi n‘?:f:arllz?"s'?'.lj GUSTAVE SANDER Jately of the Biltmore Hotel, New York City Has opened his Washington Beauty Salon at 736 13th St. N.W. 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A. gld-time camp meeting 15 being held | SECTERYY & T JAPRR WG S8 O e I 1 ey owred o e ot to apeutt e Tast month ot D e Aget 1 wad | er stay in America visiting friends in will_ continue until August 11, with | California. Miss Mather, who is return- special services for children. | ing to Tasmania, will sail September 4 The list of preachers includes Rev. | from San Francisco. Fred H. Ross of California, Rev. Millson | . Thomas of Maryland, Miss Bertha | 4D Jorge Boyd was host fo a pasty at dinner at the Plage Deauville, at the Munro of Massachusetts, Rev. H. H. §197! bt Ysmpnin and Rev. J. € Bugger | & eotmen Pork Botel, wu | Satindey of Virginia. Alvin Young of New York | ¢Véning- s it is the soloist and song leader, with J. I | Mr. John H. Clapp has gone to Alex- gl:r'rar:'ot z::hlasfn}\;- ?-i Cz' o gg;:‘; andria Bay, where he is at the Thou- stant. Mrs. H. H. Hoyt is ist | sand Island Cou Tub. | and Miss Virginia Cabel of Maryland | pASIsIEnd BO iy IO, Ter assistant. 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