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29 LI 3 ‘Sure Relief “MA ETTER" o KES You FEEL B R’ bBER THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, o . McPHERSON REUNITED WITH HIS PARENTS D. C. FRIDAY. NOVE MPHERSON DEATH iREMAINS UNSOLVE |Jury Will Draw No Conclu- 1 sions on Suicide or Murder | [ of Young Nurse. ALLEN DISMISSED BY COMMISSIONERS Blease Hints McPherson Case Will Be Probed by | Future Grand Jury. = | Hot water ~="| Sure Relief BELLANS FOR_INDIGESTION McPherson | 26¢ and 75¢ Pkg’s.Sold Everywhere 1929 — e Laskey’s announcement was as much of a surprise to Federal officials in SCRWENER PROBE charge of the investigation as it was to | newspapermen. An hour previously it was known the OPENS DEGEMBER 2 Government had obtained insufficient }c’vxd:-nc; to warrant prosecution of the | usband. Investigation by the grand jury into The sudden change of mind which resulted i Laskey's anhouncement was| tho death of Detective Sergp Asthur caused by the last-minute appearance Scrivener under mysterious circum- at the Department of Justice 0{ a slrc:t stances three years ago will com- car_conductor, who was “positive” he | mence on December 2, United States carried McPherson downtown at &0 | ¢iormey Leo A. Rover announced today. N . &, Pet-|” Mr. Rover explained that the opéning | worth, late on the night of the death. f{,e“;ia‘;’;cjgf;"““ W"lsxffila;ed]ta give opportunity clean up | Many Facts Brought Out. | & number of mIRGr investigations that Many facts that served to convince | piled up during the extende many members of the grand jury that| hearing Mrs, McPherson _committed suicide (Continued From Fi The Government's extraordinary in- tt Page) 1 d. These included not vestigation of the mysterious strangling | ‘"ege D{mme i I Church had any interest in this of Virginia McPherson fs closed. | Contions - the spertment wnen the (|| A MARK OF GOOD TASTE The death which a coroner’s jury an was* found, but testimony by Senator Walsh said that while it e death whic! o B A T R AND REFINEMENT | the Detective Bureau claimed was a suicide, which an “illegal” grand jury | held to be a murder and which a sec- ond grand jury decided was too much of a mystery to warrant the indictment might be possible that some individual member of the church was interested he said he thought it was “a pretty broad statement to say that the Catholic Church as a body would be interested in must have been tied loosely, and that the woman died a slow and horrible death, with life lingering perhaps for hours. There also was the fact that the physieal condition of the nufse at the “FLOWERS IN THE HOME” i We are encouraging the practice of putting more flowers in the Home, through Special Weekly Offers. $1.00 Dozen & murder case.” ) | Senator Blease obtained the floor | | of any one, will go down in police time of her death corresponded with the . hen the Semaie met by, rising on al Shnale as. Washinton's most. baling | condition which existed when she at- This Week question of personal privilege while a | detective case. X Tesctiition, Telating. to Tadio broadcast- | | G e iwime garroting case remains | _ J. Edgar Hoovew, director of the ROSES Bureau of Investigation, and Thomas F. Cullen, inspector in charge of the McPherson probe, said today the case | was closed on their books Their r port has been turned over to Laskey, who, in turn, will give the records to| Tt bacame known today, however, that | the Attorney General, with a final re- | the grand jury by the overwhelming|Pport formally ending the Government's } unsolved. The final records in the case, being | prepared today, will draw no conclusions on the disputed question of whether | Mrs. McPherson ended her own life or | was choked to death by unseen hands. ing was before the Senate. He began | by saying that in his State and othcr States judges usually instruct grand juries to bring in true bills in murder, cases. He said this was a good rule be- | cause when a man was indicted and | then acquitted by a trial jury, the case is settled forever, whereas the failure of a grand jury to find an indictment | does not prevent other grand jurics | from making new_investigations later Senator Jones, Republican of Wash- ington, acting = floor leader, inter- | upted to say that he did not beligve | Senator Blease had spoken on a ques- | and CARNATIONS vote of 19 fo 4 decided that her hus- | activities, The report of the investi-| band, Robert A. McPherson, jr. had |gators to Laskey expressed no opinion | ! nothing whatever to do with her strange | as to whether the case was a suicide or 1407 H st‘ Between 14th and 15th Sts. Telephone National 4905 - * Manuin B herson be- | eanwhile young Bob McPherson be- | Majority Favored Suicide. came the center of a constantly growing | | From a member of the grand jury) circle of friends and strangers, extend- | The Star also learned that a majority|ing their congratulations. The Mc- of the members of that body came to Pherson home on Upshur strcet was the conclugion that the young wife tied | filled with callers all evening, and more a pajama belt around her neck in a fit came there today. of hysterla and strangled herself to| Mrs. McPherson, mother of the youth, death. said today-her son planned to take a 1t is understood there was some dis-| vacation for several weeks at the out- cussion as to the propriety of express-|of-town home of relatives. After that, ing an opinion on this point in the|she said, he would return to his book- jury's report to the court, but that it keeping job at a local bank. was agreed finally such a move would be improper. ‘The fact that the grand jury should have voted so large a majority to ex- onerate the previously indicted hu: band caused considerable surprise, in | view of the announcement just prior to the second grand jury that the Gov- ernment had sufficient evidence to war- {rant pressing of the murder charge against McPherson. Surprise to Officials. | _The announcement was made by | John E. Laskey, special assistant to the | attorney general. There are reports that tion of personal privilege thus far. ! The South Carolina Senator replied he was going to take the floor some- time during the day and suggested that his colleague “might_as well give it to me now.” Senator Blease added that any one who did not want to hear him | was free to leave the chamber. | Intimates Future Action. | After emphesizing that the action of | one grand jury does not prevent the | case from being gone into in the fu-| ture. Senator Blease continued: “Therefore, T say, McPherson has not gained any victory. If any victory has beer: gained it is the Police Department | n their fight to vindicate themselv: and they have made a tool out of poo: little McPherson, but still stands in the same position that he stood in before | eand at any time hereafter he may be | reindicted. Another grand jury may | take up the case, and if it is proven ! that some of the alibi witnesses testi- | Above: Robert A. McPherson, jr., as he greeted his parents after his release yesterday from the District Jail. Left 1o right: Mrs. McPherson, Robert Mc- Pherson, William H. Leahy, McPherson’s attorney, and Robert A. McPherson, sr. Below: Another photograph of Me- Pherson, taken just as he left the jail. —Star Staff Photos. Ask for our rates on Furniture Storage —then compare our facilities and serv- ice and you'll find it to your advantage to store your furniture in our modern fireproof warchouse. | had taken to have the investigation re- | newed, but declared he proposes to use | every means at his command to force a new hearing on the basis of “certain | information” in his possession. | “If T had been allowed to sum up the facts and evidence in my own way before the grand jury which exonerated | Robert McPherson as I did before the | first grand jury, which indicted him, {and had I been allowed to propeund | questions to witnesses,” Allen declared, | “the findings of the second grand jury would have been different. Of that I am confident” Private Individual Locked Rooms MOVING . . . 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A telephone call save you time Tell followed another clipping telling of the fact that the receiving of a pension from the Government makes a person ineligible for jury duty and renders voidable actions of a jury with such a member on it. The letter then sug- gested vhat some new laws are needed, and continued: “Some of the friends of the police are already bragging about how they have already bested the Senate, and that they will run things to suit themselves from now on.” Statement Placed in Record. The statement which Senator Heflin, Democrat, of Alabama placed in the Record was headed as follows: “Staff of Leo A. Rover with affilia- ns. “Leo A. Rover, John W. Fihelly, Wil- liam H. Collins, Neil Burkinshaw, Wal- ter M. Shea, Charles B. Murray, William A. Gallagher, Arthur G. Lambert, James F. Hughes, Phillip F. Biggins, chief clerk; Charles A. Birmingham, Eliza- beth R. Magruder, Michael F. Keogh, James J. Crogan, John C. Conliff, Alan J. Krouse, John J. O'Leary, John R. Fitzpatrick, —— Evans, colored assist- ant attorney; —— Orcutt, all listed as Roman Catholics. “—— Camalier, Mason; J. B. Wil- liams, said to be Protestant; Gold- stein, Russian Jew; —— Newman, Ro- man Catholic; Schwartz, Jew and Ma- son; J. R. Kirkland, Mason.” Following these names was a notation which read: “It is understood that Mr. Rover ob- jected seriously to putting Mr. Kirkland on, but that the Senators from Dela- ware raised such a howl that he was compelled to put him on.” . Tl"\f memorzndum contained the fol- lowing additional names: “David Hart, Mason; lady telephone operator, Roman Catholic; Mrs. Great- house, religion unknown. There are said to be three other clerks, all Roman_ Catholics, two men and one woman.” Senatcr Blease declared that he was told over the telephone last night that Mr. Laskey was to be rewarded with an appointment “as a judge in the District. Allen Finding Confirmed. The career of Allen as a member of awashington’s police force ended at 11:30 o'clock, when the District Com- missioners confirmed a finding of the Police Trial Board and removed Allen from the rolls of the department on charges of conduct prejudicial to the force and insubordination. The trial board found Allen gullty on the hasis of a statement made to newspaper men that he intended to in- vestigate the District attorney’s office List of Church Affiliations in McPherson Case Religious affiliations of persons connected with the McPherson case and named in the Senate to- day as pdssibly being of the Catholic faith follow: Robert A. McPherson, jr., ex- onerated in the death of his wife, Virginia—Presbyterian. Attorney General Mitchell— Presbyterian. John E. Laskey, special assist- ant to the Attorney General, in charge of the McPherson case— Episcopalian. Thomas F. Cullen, special as- sistant to the Attorney General and inspector of the Bureau of Investigation, who directed the Federal probe—Catholic. Commissioner Dougherty—Uni- tarian. Inspector William 8. Shelby— Catholic. Lieut. Edward J. Kelly—Cath- olic. William E. Leahy, counsel for ‘McPherson—Catholic. the McPherson apartment window onto the adjoining roof. Conducts Own Probe, Starting from this point, he conduct- ed his own investigation into Mrs. McPherson's death and it was largely as a result of this that her husband was indicted by the July grand jury. ‘The official action as to Allen is con- tained in the following order: “R. J. Allen, a private in the Metro- . politan Police Department, District of Columbia, was tried November 6, 1929, upon the following charges: 1. Conduct prejudicial to the repu- tation, good order and discipline of the Metropolitan police force, in viola- tion of paragraph S, section 22, chapter 17 of the manual governing said force. “2. Insubordination, in violation of a:l’mlph lD section 22, chapter 17 of e ua “He was found guilty by the Police Trial Board of charges and specifications thereof and sentenced by said board to be removed from the force. Upon consideration of the testimony, appeal of counsel for the defendant and pro- ceedings of this case, it is hereby ordered: “That the finding and sentence of the Police Trial Board are in all respects | Invited Jurors to Testify. The board to investigate Shelby and Kelly was set up shortly after a copv of the grand jury's report was trans- | mitted to the commissioners and or- dered to inquire into the matter and draw up charges against the two ac- cused men if any should be warranted | The board proceeded to invite all mem- | bers of the grand jury to testify before {1t as to what they found wrong with | the Detective Bureau's work on the case. Only"five of the grand jurors accepted and it was understood that | those five had not been in favor of | | the report. | board intended to ecall es who appeared before the grand . but before this was done, the Commissioners ordered the investigation suspended. Neither of the members of the board | state how the investigation would be | continued. Mr. Bride said that he had nothing to say and would have nothing until the investigation had been com- pleted and a report made to the Com- missioners. Maj. Davison said he would confer with Mr. Bride on the subject later today and that pending that he would have nothing to say. The order adopted by the Commis- sloners was on motion of Commissioner | | | | |} CHEVROLET COACH—SERVEL RADIO—PR BABY CONTEST Each day 3 P.M. Age limits over cne, under four years. Prize, $2.50 in gold. | Adm. Mat., 10c; Night, 25c—AUDITORIUM THIS WEEK 2 to 5 P.M,, 7:30 to 19 P.M. el will nd trouble. NATIONAL DELIVERY ASSN. 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In the first case Allen was found guilty of an unauthorized use of his revolver in firing at a colored boy fleeing from the scene of a crap game, Allen appealed from the de- cision and the Commissioners set the verdict aside. On the night that Mrs. Virginia Hurley McPherson died at the Park Lane Apartments, Twenty-first street and Pennsylvania avenue, Allen was found seated in an automobile in front of Emergency Hospital by a sergeant of the third precinct and charges were ordered prepared against him. Allen said that he was watching for a man 4 | suspected of stealing automobile acc CINCINNATI sorfes in this vicinity. He later said confirmed and approved, and that the said Pvt. R. J. Allen is hereby removed from the Metropolitan police force of the District of Columbia from and after November 23, 1929.” “Now isn't that a surprise,” was Al- len’s comment when informed of the action of the Commissioners. “But I'm not licked yet,” he added optimistically. “I am going to take the case to the courts to see if I can get justice there.” H. Ralph Burton, counsel for Allen, deplored his removal from the force and declared that it constituted ‘‘major punishment for a minor offense.” The lawyer, however, sald he had made no phrrl:s yet to carry Allen’s case to the courts, Wants Third Probe. Still maintaining his theory that Mrs. | McPherson did not commit suicide, Al- len also announced that he had taken steps to force another hearing of the case before a new grand jury. Allen did not reveal what action he ~PUBLICITY MAN Experienced, well known. capable, s connection With responsible ization. AlL or part time. 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