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LASKEY EXPECTED T0.QUIZ WPHERSON Way Cleared for Interview as Counsel for Youth Gives Consent. \ (Continued From First Page.) City. Mrs. Lindsay is said to have been acquainted with Mrs. McPherson and it was thought she might be able to shed some light on the motive underly- ing the tragedy. Mrs. Lindsay moved from the Park Lane two weeks before Mrs. McPherson's body was found. Controller General McCarl has step- ped into the McPherson case, it was disclosed today, when it was learned that he ruled the Bureau of Investiga- tion of the Department of Justice has no authority to contract for court re- porters to take the testimony of wit- nesses, but could engage temporary em- ployes under the Civil Service rules at rates specified in the classification The investigation has been proceeding for some time, with testimony being taken by a firm of professional report- ers, but details of the financial ar- rangement with the reporters have not been disclosed bv the department. McCarl was asked by the Attorney General if any objection would be made to payment for services of a court re- porter. McCarl said there was “no authority for you to contract with court reporters for reporting the contem- plated investigation. ‘If the regular employes of your department are not qualified to perform the necessary re- rting service,” said McCarl, “it’ may performed by temporary employes engaged under the Civil Service rules and at rates specified in the classifica- tion act.” It is understood the firm of reporters doing the work are to be paid at a flat rate per 100 words for their rec- ords of the McPherson testimony. In his request, the Attorney General further said “it will be absolutely essen- tial that the statements of witnesses be taken stenographically. Inasmuch as there are no stenographers in the department capable of doing this class of work, it is desired to employ court reporters, and to pay for such services from the appropriation ‘Detection and Prosecution of Crimes.’” DEFENSE OF FALL NEARS CONCLUSION IN BRIBERY TRIAL (Continued From First Page.) itted to repeat what Fall had said her about it. The first witness called today was J. Thompson Anderson of Los Angeles, Calif., general manager of Doheny's Pan-American Co,, ‘at the time of the negotiations. Gleaves' Report Withheld. Prom Anderson the defense elicited testimony tending to show that the Navy Department had made a bargain in the matter of ofl royalties over ‘which there has been much contention throughout the trial. Doheny spent an hour and a half on the witness stand during a seyere cross- examination by Government counsel before court adjourned yesterday. He had been testifying since early morning. Frequent clashes occurred between counsel and witness, especially during 8 serles of rapid fire questions about the $100,000 Doheny sent to Washing- ton in cash for the former Secretary of the Interior. Vehemently and wrathily, the oil man denied that he expected: gny favor in return for the money. . Roberts framed his questions in. dif- ferent forms and finally asked the wit- ness point blank if he did not think the money, which Doheny had loaned Fall on a personal note, would influence the Secretary in favor of the Pan- American Co. a Doheny concern, in|{ its dealing with the Government. “No, sir, I did not,” Doheny replied, almost rising from his chair in his in- dignation. “The money I gave Fall was from | my personal funds,” the witness ve- hemently insisted, “and I asked him for no favor for my company.” ‘The $100,000, which Doheny explained might mean a considerable sum to many people, was a mere “bagatelle” to | Doheny had testified fully about the | $100,000 loan which the Government charges was a bribe and Roberts prod- ded him repeatedly for an explanation | 85 to why he sent the money in cash instead of having Blair & Co., his New York bankers, forward it to Fall either by check or telegraph. Roberts’ Efforts in Vain. Roberts tried in vain to force the witness to admit that it was because he did not wish to leave any trace of such a transaction with Fall at his | bank. He also wanted to know why | Doheny had carried his half of the mu- | tilated note in his wallet for two and 8 half years, which brought from the ol man only the reply that he was accustomed to carry as much money or @s many -notes in his wallet for as long #s he pleased, Repeatedly the Government attorney confronted the witness with testimony given by Doheny five years ago before the Senate ofl investigation committee | to point out conflicts with his testi- mony given earlier in the day. In this respect, Roberts checked alleged state- ments made by Doheny to Rear Ad-| miral John K. Robison, chief of naval engineers, that his company would do the Pearl Harbor work at cost and his statement to the Senate committee that | he expects to make $100,000,000 profit from the lease of the Elk Hill reserves. Doheny admitted that “maybe” his | company expected to make a profit on carrying ofl to the Hawaiian base in its ships and that he was assured of $750,000 on the resale of ofl from the naval reserve at the time of his talk with the naval officer. The 73-year- old ol man could not remember every- thing he had told the Senate com- mittee five yvears ago and was con- siderable irked by Roberts' often re- peated queries as to when he had “refreshed his memory.” On the main, however, Doheny stuck steadfastly to his earlier testimony and Government _eounsel did not_succeed in eliciting much additional informa- tion calculated to destroy ‘the effect of the testimony of the main defense witness, Sy JONES MAY LEAVE ARMY ELEVEN POST | NEW YORK, October 19 (#).—The Sun says today that Capt. “Bifi” Jones will resign as head coach of foot ball the United States Military Academy at the end of the present season and ‘will be succeeded hi" Maj. Ralph Sasse, Wwho now coaches the Army ends. The War Department has assigned Capt. Jones to the Infantry School, at Fort 8ill, Okla, and he will be ac- companied there by Capt. W. H. Wells, who has been in charge of foot ball publicity at West Point for several years, the Sun says. Conference Scheduled. ANNAPOLIS, Md., October 19 (#)—A eonference between Naval and Military Academy superintendents to formulate a sef of ility rules for all their athlette relations is the only matter gen between them, Rear Admiral . 8, Robison sald today. A full Army schedule, followed by examinations at West Point and then a ‘Pacific Coast, will prevent acceptance of Navy's offer of & mfi-mm ity rules, + pear withaus-eligil 4 game this HIGHER EDUCATION IN U. S. HAS A STORMY BEGINNING Tat_tzrecl Papers Are Intense Struggle relating to the history of Colonial Higher education in America, as a picturesque and stormy beginning. Hon. Prancis Nicholson, veteran of the fight ended with the burning of the of rowdies one Winter night in 1705. Of Special Interest Now. The papers are considered of special interest because of the restoration of ‘Willlamsburg to its pre-revolutionary condition, now in progress with funds provided 'by John D. Rockefeller, jr. Nicholson and the clergy of the estab- lished church, at least a considerable faction of them, soon fell afoul of each other, the letlers reveal. Complaints began to pour in to the headquarters of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel for. transmission to the Bishop of London, detailing the scan- dalous conduct of the governor. Thus writes one outraged clergyman: “After supper the said Col. Nicholson went out with Col. J. into the garden and there fell out with him into a very ened to kick him, using to the best of deponent’s knowledge, the names of rogue, rascal and thief. Deponent further saith that once on a Sunday said Col. Nicholson called at the house of deponent and kept walking to and again for nearly six hours, together with furious discourse concerning his designs on his mistress’ father, brother and other relatives, swearing his suit must end In blood and he would have satisfaction of Maj. Burnett, his mistress’ father., Fit of Passion. “Deponent saith that while waiting on Col. Nicholson with Mr. Shropshire (a clergyman recently turned out of his parish by some leading men of the vestry without any just cause) at a meeting of the college the said Col. Nicholson fell into a fit of passion and, cursing the wives of some of the company, then turned on some of the members present and said he would beat them into bet- ter manners. He told Mr. Blair he would certainly cut the throats of three men if his mistress be married to an- other than himself—viz, the minister, the bridegroom and the justice of the peace that shall give the license.” Tells of Insult. ‘The uphappy clergyman continues to recount that he was attending the fa- ther of the governor’s “mistress,” who was ill, and was ordered by Nicholson not to go near the house again. One day the governor overtook him on horseback and “turned short upon me, laid hold of my hat and pulled it off my head, and asked me how I had the lm?ud:nce tw ride with him having my on.” Rev. Mr. Blair complained of Nichol- son that “I have heard him villify the gentlemen of the council using to them the opprobrious names of rogue, ras- cal, cheat, dog, villain and coward and swear that he valued them no more than the dirt ynder his feet and would reduce them to their primitive nothing. I have often heard him immediately after prayers rap out such volleys of oaths that I never saw greater pro- fanity nor so profanely timed in my life and I have heard from the best hands of his wicked rudeness to gentle- women in various parts of the coun- With the clergy and the governor at swords points the college suffered. The principal was one Mungo Ingles, & pa: tisan of the governor. The papers col tain Rev. Mr. Blair's complaint that when he stopped at the college on Christmas eve his door was barricaded by the students and he learned after- wards that they carried arms. He was unable to believe that this was an in- stance of spontaneous rowdylsm. This charge so aroused Ingles that he wrote to the governor: “I think it my duty to inform your excellency that I intend to quit the grammar school, commonly but very improperly called the college, because he, Blair, has highly disgraced my school and myself in an aflidavit by which he has done what he could to make my scholars bethought a company of cut throats or a crew or bandits that make no more of the life of a man than the life of a hen, though they are the best gentlemen's sons in the coun- try, and of such virtuous disposition that they are not easily to be matched in most grammar schools.” Cloaked Like Gentlemen. The burning of the college & few months later Ingles blamed directly on Blair, reporting to Nicholson: “When I first heard of its being burned 1 had 50 much charity for all mankind that I was of the opinion that none under a fury let loose from hell could be capa- ble of so much mischief. He that first discovered the fire says in his deposi- tion that he saw three men, cloaked like gentlemen, run from the college across the New Kent road. I hope if there be such devils out of hell God Almighty will bring their work of dark- ness to light. Beverly and some others of the party kept drinking and ranting and carousing all that night after the fire and when the stone cutter went to save the smoke house from being burned, one of them cursed it and bid him let it go with the college. “Another of them, but I cannot learn who, said that if some thunderbolt of WEST VIRGI trip to thel loud and outrageous passion and threat- | ‘The West Virginia Wesleyan foot ball squad when it arrived by Represent Recovered Revealing Between Church and State in 1705. This is the third of a series of articles on hitherto unpublished papers .America, obtained by Dr. Samuel F. Bemis, chief of the Enropean mission of the Library of Congress, who has returned from two years’ research work abroad. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. represented by the pioneer college of William and Mary in Virginia, chartered by the British crown in 1693, had Much of the story is revealed for the first time in photostats of a chestful of tattered papers found in the cellar of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts in London by Dr. Samuel F. Bemis, chief of the European mission of the Library of Congress. It was a struggle to the death between church and state. fragments of letters, yellow with age, emerge the colorful figures of the Right Out of these ar with the Moors.and royal governor of the colony, and the Rev. James Blair, “commissary” of the college, whose buildings at Willlamsburg by a band lightning should destroy the capitol, | they might have some hopes of having | the seat of government again in James- town. Its happening at so silent a time of night has left us all in the dark about its cause and nothing but a large fleld of conjecture to lose ourselves in." ‘Thus ended, for the time being, the project that Lad started a few years ago with the blessing of the celebrated English philosopher, John Locke, for one of the first letters recovered was | a fragment bearing his signature, dated 1699, which reads: “I hope that the college flourishes under your care. I would be glad to know whether you car- ried over with you a barascope and a thermascope for I think a constant record of the air kept there would not only be of general use to the improve- ment of natural philosophy, but might be advantageous to the plantation. I would appreciate, most particularly, all seeds of all strange, curious plants with account of the soyles they grow in. Among other things you will do me a favor to send me a plentiful stock of peach stones of the best stock of peaches.” Photostatic copies of the papers in the cellar of the Society for the Propa- gation of the Gospel were taken by Mrs. R. B. Burnett of Washington, research assistant on the European mission under the direction of Dr. Bemis. JURY T0 CONSIDER POLICE SHOOTING Killing of Navy Yard Boiler- maker to Be Reviewed Before Coroner. A coroner’s jury was to decide today whether Policeman B. F. Howze of the eight precinct was justified in fatally shooting William Douglas, 40-year-old navy yard bollermaker a week ago, after Douglas had broken the officer's night stick on his head when Howze entered an apartment at 1321 Belmont street to quiet a party. Howze, who was severely beaten by Douglas, was released from Emergency Hospital yesterday. The inquest was delayed to permit his presence as a wit- ness, Companions at Liberty, ' Douglas’ three companions at the party, which was being staged in honor of his impending departure for New York the following day, Thomas Ed- ward Smoot of Ballston, Va.; Margaret Elizabeth Frye, 23 yea d, of the Belmont street address, and Mae Vir- ginia Campbell, alsp 23, of the 1600 block of Riggs place, are at liberty under bond. Smoot is charged with assault on Howze and the two young women were put under bond as material witnesses. Howze said that he was patrolling his beat when he heard noises in Miss Frye's apartment. He went to investigate. Admitted After Delay. After considerable delay, he declared, Miss Frye admitted him. Then, he asserted, Smoot knocked him onto a lounge with a blow of his fist and Douglas began beating him on the head with the night stick, which he snatched from beneath Howze's arm. The officer pulled his gun and shot Douglas three times. Smoot and the young women admitted to police that they had been drinking. BOILER EXPLOSION FATAL. Ten Killed, 20 Injured in Foundry Blast in Spain. BILBAO, Spain, October 19 (#).—At least 10 workers were killed and about 20 injured in a series of boller explo- sions in a local Witnesses sald that at least seven ex- plosions shook the building. They were believed to have been caused by water coming in contact with molten metal. Four mutilated bodies were found in the still smouldering wreckage late to- night and the search was continued by the light of flares in the ‘belief that other victims were still entombed. A silent crowd, made up of families and friends of the missing, stood as near the ruins as the police would permit. It was estimated that 10,000 persons attended the funerals held for the first victims this afternoon. tative Wolverton of West Virginia. Y foundry today. | HOOVER MAY GIVE NAVAL PLANS DATA Expected to Take Country in Confidence in Armistice Day Speech. __(Continued From First Page.) the United States is the bone and sinew of any disarmament and peace program that can be put forth with any prospest | of realization. opinion informed fully and informed | promptly. Naturally leadership in that | direction must come from him. The him with &n ideal opportunity for tak- ing the Initiative which is called for. Public to Be Told. ‘The President is certain to clear up various misapprehensions which have arisen from the Macdonald visit, as well as to enlighten the country along pesi- tive lines. He is sure, for example, to re-echo the recent declaration by Sec- retary Stimson that nothing remotely savoring of an Anglo-American “al- lance,” either naval or political, was discussed or negotiated at Washington this month. Secretary Stimson asserts that “the understanding which we af at is a moral understanding. * * * The influence which we are seeking to exert is & moral influence and not a military one.” These are rather cryptic terms. President Hoover may choose to run along more specific lines. The Nation is anxious to know in particular to what extent “freedom of the seas” was talked about with Premier Mac: donald. President Hoover holds well- defined views on that subject and may air them—Jiterally—cn Armistice day. One passege ‘n the Macdonald-Heover joint statement is known to have orig- inated with the President. That is in the affirmative that the United States “will never consent to become entangled in European diplomacy.” In plain Eng- lish, that means thet the United Siates will have nothing to do with any naval disarmament and _peace-preservation plans that could officially link it with the League of Nations. The League covenant provides for “sanctions” of force to prevent or stop a war. The Hoover program calls for “sanctions of public opinion” as the “American sys- tem” of preserving peace. It is appar- ently based on the belief that if Amer- ican public opinion decries war on an emergency occasion, hostilities are more than likely to be averted. (Copyright, 1920.) SENATORS AID TO CAUSE. Selection to London Conference Prompted by 2 Considerations. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Decision to send members of the Sen- ate to the London conference on naval armament is prompted by two con- siderations—first, the subject is con- sidered one for diplomacy and not tech- nical experts, and, second, the ratifi- cation by the Senate of any agreement reached is considered likely to be given more readily if Republican and Demo- cratic members of the Senate act as spokesmen for the treaty when it comes before the Upper House. The last conference at Geneva was saturated with the arguments of tech- nical naval experts as the Shearer case has revealed, so that the atmosphere was not one conducive to an agree- ment. It is believed that the presence of a civillan commission will keep the discussion on a broad plane of inter- national relations and good will, rather than in the domain of bickering and technical dispute. This is in keeping with the visié of Prime M'nister Mac- donald and his conferences with Presi- dent Hoover. Stimson Well Informed. It was natural that the President should select Henry Stimson, Secretary of State, to head the delegation because he has followed minutely the proceed- ings on this side of the Atlantic and has kept constantly informed through the embassies and legations on the state of opinion throughout the world. Mr. Stimson will be aided, of course, by Hugh Gibson, American Ambassador to Belgium, who is perhaps the best posted man in the American Government on the, whole naval armament question, having had the background of the Geneva conference, where he was the personal representative of President Coolidge. Mr. Gibson is an intimate friend of Mr. Hoover from the when the latter was engaged in war- relief work. It has often been said thet Mr. Gibson's position at Geneva would have been stronger if he had had a higher rank than that of Ambassador. By having at the conference a Secre- tary of State, the American delegation will be immeasurably strengthened, as it will, too, by having important mem- bers of the Senate. Principle General Thus Far. The problems to be dealt with in London will involve of course a parity between the United States and Great Britain, but this is only a general prin- ciple thus far, and it remains to be seen whether this means reduttion or increase of building. The Japanese want reduction so their financial bur- |den will be diminished. Having an- | nounced to the world that they will re- |1y on mora! force primarily, the United States and Great Britain will find lit- tle support for the maintenance of large navies and the other nations will not object to America and Britain being equal, but they will wish to see both navies reduced in size. In other words, the conference may not be a limitationt against upward building alone, but a downward revision of naval strength. Now that the American Government has emphasized the importance of the Kellogg-Briand treaties as outlawing aggressive war, the question is how much armament is needed for defense and against whom. (Copyright, 1929.) versity C. B: | He wants that public Armistice day celebration will provide | | went into the ditch and caught on fire. THO HURT N GRAS: FRE DESTRDYS BUS E. H. Simpson and Wife Are| Injured in Collision on Bal- timore Boulevard. Two persons were injured and a Peo- ple’s Rapid Transit Co. bus demolished by fire, following a collision on the | Baltimore Boulevard near Beltsville early this morning. The injured are Eugene H. Simpson, 29, of 820 Connecticut avenue and his wife, Mrs. Mabel A. Simpson, 28. The couple were taken to Casualty Hospital in the automobile of W. T. Shipley, a passing motorist. Simpson was treated by Dr. J. Rogers | ‘Young for lacerations about the mouth and head and shock. His condition is not yet fully determined. Mrs. Simpson was treated for shock. ‘The bus, bound for New York and driven by Oscar L. Houser of Baltimore, was thrown off the road when a pas- senger machine bearing Rhode Island license tags cut in front of it in pass- ing. Both machines left the road, the private vehicle falling under the bus. Houser escaped injury, as did W. T. Baker, 3100 block Fourteenth street, and Charles M. Robinson, 200 block of Sev- enth street southeast, the other passen- gers in the bus. Four occupants of the other machine, said to be colored, boarded a Washington-bound car which stopped at the scene and have not been located since. According to State Policemen Blu- baker and Booker, who investigated the accident, the fire started under the hood of the passenger car and spread to the bus. Several explosions occurred when the flames reached the gasoline tanks. In leaving the road the machines hit a telegraph pole, which was also dam- aged by flames. DEBENTURE PLAN VOTED.INTO TARIFF BILL BY 42 TO 34 (Continued From First Page. against it last Spring because he feared the President would veto the farm bill if debenture were carried in that meas- ure and so prevent all farm legislation. Senator Thomas declared that he be- lieved the use of the debentures should be made mandatory instead of being left to the discretion of the Farm Board, as provided in the Norris amend- ment, and that the full tariff duty should be employed for the issuance of debentures instead of only one-half. Senator Norris replied that the Sena- tor from Idaho must be seeking to make the debenture amendment so unpala- table to the President that he would veto the tariff bill if it came to him with the debenture clause in ft. “There is no chance for this to be- come law.” said Senator Norris, “unless we give the President some discretion. If we make it too strong we may get a velo out of it.” Senator Norris said too, that the Na- tional Grange, which sponsored the debenture plan, had decided that fits use should be discretionary and not mandatory because it was an entirely new proposition, and it should be dealt with in a conservative manner. Even under new arrangement for speeding up the tariff debate, consider- able doubt has been expressed as to the possibility of reaching a final vote on the tariff before the close of the special session and thus fulfilling the understood desire of President Hoo- ver that the debate not be extended in to the regular session, beginning early in_December. The circulation of word that this was the Chief Executive's attitude, drew from Senator Borah of Idaho, another leader of the Independent Republicans, an assertion’ that tariff revision “in the interest of agriculture” would be obtained “at this special session” or he and his colleagues would “demand it and get it at the regular session.” This was regarded as an answer to the current impression that. President Hoover would not recommend tariff re- vision at the regular session in event the special session failed to agree on the pending bill. ‘Two important amendments were dis- posed of yesterday. One was adopted to limit the time in which Canadian wheat may be held in domestic ware- houses before withdrawal to 10 months instead of 3 years as provided in exist- ing law. The amendment was spon- sored by Senator Nye, Republican, of North Dakota, and is aimed to prevent lutting of American storage facilities at a time when domestic wheat requires additional elevator space. By a vote of 60 to 14 the Senate went on record against a proposal by | Senator Waterman, Republican, of Colorado, to abrogate the Cuban-Ameri- can reciprocity treaty, under which each country grants the other preferential tariffs on hundreds of commodities. Several opponents of the proposal, in- cluding Chairman Borah of the foreign relations committee, said they agreed with its intent, but thought the matter should be approached in regular diplo- matic channels and not as a part of a tariff bill. This was the same stand taken by many opponents of the King { amendment looking to early independ- ence of the Philippines. G. U. REPORTS QUAKE. Bevere earthquake shocks, lasting three and a half hours, approximately 14,300 miles in a southerly direction from Washington, were reported today by Director Tondorf of Georgetown Seismological Observatory. Dr. Tondorf said the disturbances be- gan at 5:23 am., and reached their maximum about 1. BAND CONCERT. By the United States Soldiers’ Home Band Orchestra, Stanley Hall, this eve- I ning at 5:30 o'clock. John 8. M. Zim- {mermann, director; Anton Pointer, assistant director, March, “On the Go”..........Goldman Overture, “L’Exultante Tendresse,” Gabriel-Marie Descriptive fantasia, “A Hunting Scene,” Bucalossi Scene from musical comedy, “A Con- necticut Yankee" -Rodgers | Fox trot novelty, ere e Sweet 'W:fi;’" Me-Nots Remember,” Warren “Neapolitan Nights,” ' Zameenik Finale, “Huki”..... “The Star Spque! Berger The photograph shows all that remained this morning of a bus and automobile after a wreck near Beltsville, Both —Star Staff Photo. MGR. G. A, DOUGHERTY, Controller of Catholic University, who died last night of heart disease. —Harris-Ewing Photo. ALLEN REITERATES PLANS FOR PROBE OF ATTORNEY’S ACTS (Continued From First Page.) specifically refers to is to the effect that I intended to investigate the dis- trict attorney's office. “Now that both you and your im- mediate superior, Commissioner Proctor L. Dougherty, are reading the daily papers with such absorbing interest, you will, of course, be able to fully appre- clate the.fact that I, too, am following the daily news with an eye equally attuned to detail and the veracity of all personal quotations. “Therefore, when this newspaper reached my doorstep yesterday I, of course, perused its pages (as you prob- ably did also) with exceeding care. The following is one of the first para- graphs to meet my eye, which same I will quote verbatim: Gives Quotation. “‘Allen frequently has been quoted in the newspapers, however, only to deny that he was quoted correctly when he was questioned about the matter by his superior officers. Commissioner Proctor L. Dougherty said yesterday that he would be surprised if Allen did not again use this defense.’ “If Commissioner Dougherty is quoted correctly you will, of course, realizé that he has declared that he will be ‘sur- prised’ if I do not deny the quotation which your letter concerns itself with, regardless of what original statement I made. In other words, if I really said I was going to investigate the District attorney's office then Commissioner Dougherty would be surprised if I did not_lie out of it. “You will, of course, realize that such an insinuation upon the part of a su- perior and directed toward a subor- dinate would be a serious matter if the insinuation itself was untrue. Not Called Before. “Therefore, T must take this occasion to nform you that I have never before, to my memory, been called upon by your office to certify as to the correctness of any newspaper quotation atttributed to me. I am sure your records will bear me out in this. Therefore, if the article appearing in yesterday's paper quoted Commissioner Dougherty correctly you will realize that my hitherto good name has been serlously impugned and I would most respectfully request, in turn, that you ascertain from Comissioner Dougherty if he was correctly quoted. “As for my remarks about the dis- trict attorney’s office I am perfectly willing to admit that I received several complaints about one William L. Moffatt to the effect that they were afraid that they would be unable to secure justice from" the district attorney's office, be- | fore whom I informed them they must appear to obtain criminal proceeding against Moffatt. When I asked them for their reasons for this attitude they informed me that they had heard that he was indicted several years back and had_never been brought to trial. Also he had been indicted since that time, they said, and has not yet been tried. Therefore 1 unhesitatingly informed them that I would look into that angle of the affair also. * * ¢ “Now to specifically answer both you | and Commissioner Dougherty permit | me to say that I expressed to Capt. Doyle and certaln newspaper men my determination to investigate why a con- | dition should be allowed to exist where a man under indictment should be per- | mitted to operate for two years ater | said indictment had been returned. Why | such a man should be allowed to con- | tinue in a business already cited in complaint to the Police Department and | to the district attorney’s office. Still Doing Business. ! “Furthermore, if you have been cor- ! rectly quoted in the newspapers you| resent the fact that I did not transmit | my information to detective headquar- ters, where specially trained men could have been assigned to the case. Now your records ought to show that your| trained men already had knowledge of this man's operations in that he was arrested on numerous occasions. But| he is still doing business at the same office in the Hill Building at Seven- teenth street northwest. H “As far as the impropriety of my investigating any particular offices is | concerned, I wish to state to you here and now, or to any one else that may be concerned in this matter, that I would and will investigate any one whom I suspect of transgressing the law. And I will continue to do so as long as I am a regularly accredited policeman, whose sworn duty it is to uphold the law. My only concern in following the above course will be to avoid exceeding my authority and to report such facts as I have gathered to my superior offi- cers after I have first assured myself that I have secured enough evidence to warrant police action. Approval Expected. “No doubt this attitude on my part ‘will meet with your hearty approval, be- cause I am sure your first concern is to bring criminals to justice. “In closing I would like to get back to this quoting business once more. I notice that you were quoted in The Evening Star as saying that your hands were tied by the rict Commissioners in regards to disci me. .I really wonder if this attit on your { morning newspapers, NGR. DOUGHERTY DIES SUDDENLY Catholic University Controller Victim of Heart lliness in 69th Year. Death resulting from a sudden heart illness last night claimed Mgr. G. A. Dougherty, controller of Catholic Uni- versity, with which he has been as- soclated 26 years. Mgr. Dougherty died in his apartments in Caldwell Hall at the university. He was in his sixty- ninth year and seemed in excellent health. He had been assoclated with the university since 1903, at which time he became secretary to the rector after having served the 8t. Augustine’s Church here as curate. He was made monsignor in 1907. The office of con- troller was conferred upon him last year. Arrangements for the funeral were being completed today. Mgr. John A. Ryan, president of the university, who announced the passing of the prelate, said that the body probably would lie in state in the Shrine of the Immacu- late Conception at the university, and that the funeral services would be conducted there. Mgr. Dougherty was born in Balti- more, May 21, 1861. He attended St. Charles College at Ellicott City, Md., and later the American College in Rome and from the latter institution received the degree of doctor of divinity. He was ordained at Rome, September 3, 1890. Mgr. Dougherty is survived by his | sister, Sister Assumpta of Holy Cross | Academy here. | A - = WOMAN FALLS NINE FLOORS TO END LIFE AS WITNESS WATCHES (Continued From First Page.) policemen emerged onto the roofs from windows of the Raleigh. The woman's body. terribly crushed, lay across the corner of a skylight, which had been broken by the impact. Mrs. Sicussat is of a wealthy family of Houston and her husband’s family has long been one of the most promi- nent ‘socially in Baltimore. At present he is a professor of history in Phila- delphia. He formerly was a member of the faculty of Sewanee University. Mrs. Sloussat is survived by two sis- ters, living in Lynchburg, Va.; another sister, Mrs. 8. H. Schoolfield of Mullias, N. C., due to arrive here today for a visit, and two brothers, Willlam D. Cleveland, jr., and Alexander Sessum | Cleveland, large cotton factors and wholesale grocers of Houston. Friends here attributed Mrs. Sious- sat's act to physical suffering follow- ing an operation six months ago. Since May, with the exception of one month, | she had been a patient at the Washing- ton Sanitarium. She left there October 6 and the same day registered st the Carlton Hotel. According to her nurse, Miss Ethel Williams, she planned to make her home here, Seeks Room “High Up.” ‘The first intimation of the impending tragedy came last night when the vow- an entered the Raleigh Hotel and aske® B. Koontz, assistant manager, for a “room high up. Charles Green, 20-year-old bellboy, escorted her to a rucm ¢n the seventh floor. Green sald she went to the win- dow and looked down and then asked to be shown a more desirable room higher up. Accordingly he took her to the tenth floor, where, after again gazing out of the window, she seemed satisfied and told the bellboy that she would come down in a few minutes and register. Green returned to the desk. He be- came apprehensive at the woman's long delay and suggested that a telephone call be made to her room. No response was received and Green went to the tenth floor., Peering out, he saw Mrs. Siousatt’s body on the roof nine stories below him. ‘The Emergency Hospital ambulance, with Dr. I. Rutkoski, was summoned. ‘The physcian pronounced her dead of a compound fracture of the skull, & broken neck and other injuries. Lieut. Joseph C. Morgan of the head- quarters homicide squad and Detectives Arthur T. Fihelly and Benjamin Kuehl- ing arrived a few minutes later and started an investigation. A card bearing Mrs. Sioussatt'’s name and address at the Carlton were found in her purse lying on the table of the room. A clerk at that hotel viewed the body at the morgue and definitely es- tablished Mrs. Sioussatt’s identity. Letters and papers in her room at the Carlton gave police the address of her brother, Willlam Cleveland, and he was notified of her death. Friends Offer Help. Learning of her death through the Hampson Gary, local attorney, and E. Pendleton Turner, both old friends of her family, offered their services in any way they could be useful. Mr. Gary said that one of Mrs. Sloussat’s brothers, Alexander Sessum Cleveland, was named for Bishop Ses- sum of Louisiana, an intimate friend. Although police said that they had little doubt as to the manner in which | Mrs. Sioussatt came to her death, Cor- oner J. Ramsay Nevitt ordered an in- quest for this morning at 11:30 o'clock. For the past five years Mrs. Sioussatt had had no settled home, traveling ex- tensively in Europe and this country. She is said to have intended to estab- lish a permanent residence here. Cub Pitcher Takes Bride. SANTA MONICA, Calif.,October 19 (#). —Arthur Teachout, southpaw pitcher of the Chicago Cubs, and Lilllan Morrison, Pacific Palisades, Calif., were married here last night. Teachout is 24 years old. He was purchased by the Cubs this year from Indianapolis. part is not in turn dictated by the fact that I am innocent of any wrong- doing in connection with those various crime investigations in which I played some small part and also that almost unanimous public opinion abhorred the thought of poor little Virginia Mc- Pherson being adjudged a suicide when in reality she was murdered. As you know perhaps, best of all, I have no seifish purpose but am merely de- termined to see that justice shall pre- vall always.” AL CAPONE LINKED WITH RUM PROBE Check for $1,500 Payable to Atlantic Coast Syndicate Sought by Authorities. By the Associated Press, NEW YORK, October 19.—A check for $1,500 signed by Al Capone, Chicago gang leader, was being sought today among the documents seized by Federal authorities in their raid on the head- quarters of the Atlantic Coast rum smuggling syndicate. James E. Wilkinson, assistant United States attorney in Brooklyn, said pay= ment had been stopped on the check, which was made out to a member of the syndicate and sent last month. He said he did not know how Capone sent it from the jail in Philadelphia where he is serving a year's sentence for carrys ing concealed weapons. One official said that although the Capone check was a slender link its po= tential possibilities of revealing the ram- ifications of the syndicate's operations were such that, if it developed, it would “blow things wide open.” % See Gang-Syndicate C'ombine, Federal authorities professed to see another possible connection between Capone's gangsters and the syndicate in the mysterious kidnaping last June of Willard H. Elliott, vice president of the Hobart Trust Co. of Passaic, N. J., when Elliott returned after six days he could not explain his kidnaping, but described his abductors as “Chicago gangsters.” Two representatives of the United States attorney’s office at Trenton went to Passaic to investigate the possibility that Elliott had been held in connection with efforts to force financial aid from his bank for the smuggling operations. Investigation of the banking connec- tions of the syndicate, which is credited with having' made $2,000,000 in six months, brought out that one of the seven banks in which accounts were car ried recorded them in code. This ac: count, Robert B. Watts, United States attorney in Brooklyn, said was entered on the bank’s books as “XL.” Firm of Lawyers Involved. Mr. Watts sald he also was seeking evidence upon which to base indictments of a firm of lawyers in New York, who, he said, acted as advisors to the syndi~ cate. He refused to name the firm. Search was continued today for 21 per- sons mentioned in the indictments against the ring, who have not been captured. A score of arrests were made during the raids Wednesday, but only 13 were under indictment. Among those sought is captain John McLeod, master of the motor ship Shaw-~ nee, which Federal authorities say was | operated by the syndicate. Capt. Mc= Leod protested against the shelling of his vessel by a Coast Guard boat Sep- tember 11 The protest has been taken up with the State Department by the Canadian Minister at Washington. PATRONACE CROLP TOCALL ATTRNEY Former Dry Agent Tells Sen- ate Committee Official Fail- ed to Push Cases. The Senate committee investigating patronage decided to call a Federal dis- trict attorney of South Carolina, for questioning after hearing the testimony yesterday afternoon of a former prohi- bition agent to the effect that. the prosecutor had failed to press prohibi- tion cases. The committee meet again Tuesday. The former agent, A. B. Seabrook of North Charleston, S. C., told the com- mittee that J. D. E. Meyer, the district attorney, had failed to prosecute about 50 cases and that one of them, a _charge against G. D. McKnight of Berkley County, S. C., was “one of the most important” in the history of the State. Says Case Not Pressed. McKnight, whom Seabrook described as a bootlegger, was arrested, the for- mer agent said, but the charge was not pressed, and afterward Seabrook him- self was arrested, tried and acquitted on a charge of accepting a bribe from McKnight. Meanwhile, the former agent added, McKnight was made a prohibition agent, although he testified in court he was a bootlegger. Senator McKeuar, Democrat, Tennes- | see, asked what evidence McKnight had produced at Seabrook's bribery trial. The former agent said he had “tried to show I had received marked money,” and that he had “paild me $36,000 a year for protection.” “I only had $600 when I was ar« rested,” he added, smiling. This was saved, he said, from his salary and a farm he owned. Given Dry Position. McKnight, the witness went on, was appointed an “undercover man” several months after Seabrook was arrested. “Did he give up the bootlegging busi= ness?” McKellar inquired. “No,” Seabrook said. “I had infor- mation he was receiving a carload of sugar every week at his place in Hell Hote.” Did he have a license?” McKellar asked. “I don't know,” Seabrook responded. “I notified Gen. Andrews.” Andrews at that time was in charge of prohibition enforcement in the Treasury Department. GROCERY OFTEN HELD UP IS ROBBED AGAIN Young Bandit Holds Employes and Customers at Bay to Get $20. A youthful, well dressed man, armed with a .22 auto pistol, held up employes and customers of the Sanitary grocery store at 1211 Fourth street northeast this morning and escaped with about $20 in cash. It was the second time the store had been robbed in a month and about the tenth time in the last year. At about 11 o'clock J. H. Stuckler; clerk, and E. E. Hannon, the manager, were told to “put them up” by ynut? who appeared to be about 18 years old, Four customers in the store, a man, a woman and two children, were also coy- ered by the youth. After the money in the cash drawer was handed to him he ran through an alley alongside the building into Fifth street and escaped. A description of the youth was fur nished to Capt. J. E. Wilson of the ninth precinct, who investigated - sonally. Sergt. C. R. Brown and cinct Detective W. B. Saterwaite im- mediately began an investigation. The grocery store, located in a section where ouses in the immediate vicinity ‘are few, has been a problem to the pre- cinct station for several months. Most night. atic of the robberies have occurred a Those interested in attracting tourists bring " hotel Taies down 5o, Lo of e » of \