Evening Star Newspaper, October 15, 1929, Page 34

MAKES CONFESSON N SLAYING OF GRL Man Regarded as “Model Husband” Is Arrested Be- fore Body Is Found. ci—— 1 By the Associated Press. } CHICAGO, October 15—John E. | Preston, an interior decorator, whose | wife believed him a “godel husband,” | was held to the Dupage County grand | jury yesterday without bail on a charge of murder. He confessed, authorities said, to as- | saulting and slaying Miss Agnes John- | ston, 26, with whom he had a clandes- tine meeting Saturday night. Preston, at first denying he had killed the young woman, finally admitted strangling her to death. He waived a preliminary examination before a jus- tice of tae peace. The grand jury is now in session and probably will con- sider his case this week. Preston confessed to Sherlff Lawrence Hattendorf that with Miss Johnston and her companion, Miss Mathilda Murphy, he drove to a roadhouse near West Chicago, using a rented car. He had told his wife he would have to work late. During the evening Preston drank considerable liquor. The girls asked to be taken home. Miss Murphy saild he became offensive and they jumped from the car. He gave chase, catching Miss Johnston. In his confession Preston told of as- | saulting her and finally killing her as | she resisted his advances. He hid her | body under some weeds and brush, abandoned the rented car and started for home. His disheveled and unsteady condition aroused suspicion and a street car conductor notified police, Who ar- Tested him even before the crime had been discovered. 1t was not until Miss Murphy. alarm- ed by the absence of her friend, called the police and told them of the affair that the slaying became known. They found the body and Preston broke down after at first maintaining that robbers had taken the girl from him. FRAUD CASE REVIEW Convicted New Yorkers Contend Prosecution Evidence Is Not Sufficient. William P. Whitaker and John J. Me- Cann, convicted in New York City of using the malils to defraud, yesterday were refused reviews by the Supreme Court. Whitaker and McCann, with others, were chlrfed by the Government with having unlawfully used the mails from September, 1923, to January, 1928, in soliciting companies and corporations to employ them to sell their stock. ‘They would have the sentences im- posed on them set aside on the ds that the evidence was not su t for conviction: that the trial judge im- roperly instructed the jury and that e refused to give proper instructions as to what constituted conspiracy. PR ity Panama has started a house-to-house vaccination campaign. . THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1999, Tractor Driver Dies After Being Lifted From Seat by Plane Flyer Escapes as Craft Crashes, Crushing Worker to Death. By the Assoclated Press. CURTISS FIELD, N. Y. October 15.—A tractor driver engaged in plant- ing grass seed was fatally injured yes- terday by an airplane which knocked him from his seat and crashed on top of him. The pilot, & 17-year-old stu- dent fiver, escaped injury. The tractor driver, Steven Kosoko of Inwood, N. Y., was caught in the land- ing gear of the plane as it swooped down. He wns carried 50 feet and crushed as the plane struck the smashing its right wing and gear. Kosoko was hurried to a hospital, where he soon dled. The pilot, L. H. Green of Yonkers, told police he did not see the tractor. before the crash. He was given a sub- poena to appear before the district attorney tomorrow for an investigation. WANTS TIME EXTENSION. Portes Gil Would Draft Civil Code Under Special Powers. MEXICO CITY, October 15 (#).— President Portes &il has requested Con- gress to extend until January 31 the extraordinary powers granted him early this year for drafting and promulgating laws. He already has drawn up and has had published in the Official Gazetty a new penal code and now is working on a civil code. .- To stimulate flax growing in Russia the Soviet government plans to pro- mote lonmttl’c‘m of co-operate farming e . The Purgative for Colds With Constipation and Biliousness i wekoshinig reduces complications, and hastens recovery. We ay l! DAILY BALANCES 2% 3% 4% tific Interest on checking accounts on daily balances—com- pounded monthly. Interest on ordinary savings accounts—compounded quar- terly. Interest on special saving cer- ates—compounded semi- annually. Open on Government Pay Days Until 5:30 P.M. - The Munsey Trust Co. Munsey Building Pa. Ave. Bet. 13th & 14th Sts. N.W. Another Munsey Service—Real Estate Department Come To The HUB For Your d, finding | Prope MILLIONS OF ACRES COVERED BY FLODD Overflow of Drainage Ditches in East Florida Damages Lowland Areas. By the Associated Press. | MIAMI, Fla., October 15.—Drainage ditches overflowing from recent heavy | Tains caused an enormous lake to cun-J of Southeast Florida today. gigantic sheet of water, but the flood | was not expected to reach into Miami ‘ oper. Hialeah, in the immediate path of the slowly moving flood, was faced today | with the prospect of complete evacua- | tion. With water already standing from | a few inches to several feet deep in | Hialeah, a suburb of Miami, an in- | crease of six inches more would make | living there dangerous, said J. O. Frank, American_ Legion official, in charge of relief work. Emergency Funds Voted. An emergency fund of $21,000 has been voted by the Miami City Com- mission for cutting & drainage ditch in the southwest section of the city | to reduce the high water and allow it to flow more freely into Biscayne Bay. A fund of $1.000 likewise was appro- priated by the city council for emer- gency relief purposes. 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