Evening Star Newspaper, December 21, 1929, Page 4

1 STILLRAID MURDER VERDICT NEXT WEEK Court Takes Data in Case Under Advisement for Decision. @pecial Dispatch fo The Star. HAGERSTOWN, Md., December 21.— A verdict in the case of Leslie Clark, Hagerstown, and Charles Lewis, Fair- mont, Md., charged with murder in con- nection with the fatal shooting of Deputy Clyde: L. Hauver during a raid on a still last July 31 will not be handed down until early next week Chief Judge D. Lindley Sloan announced after the arguments had been completed lasd night. Judge Sloan stated that the court would have all testimony pre- sented in the case transcribed and a date fixed later for announcing the verdict. Before adjournment Chief Judge Sloan and associate judges Frank G. Wagaman and Albert A. Doub, who tried the case, were given the clothes, guns, bullets, photographs and other evidence presented during the five-day trial, which included three night ses- sions. State’s attorney, William M. Storm of Frederick concluded the arguments by five attorneys, two for the State and :h.rea for the prosecution, late yester- ay. . REV. PEARSE PINCH RUN DOWN BY AUTO Aged Former Herndon Pastor in Critical Condition in New York Hospital, NDON, Va., December 21.—Word has just been received here that Rev. Pearse Pinch, D. D., for many years of the Herndon Congregational Church, had been knocked down by a taxicab in New York City, where he is now mak- ing his home, and is lying in a critical condition in the Long Island College Hospitai in Brooklyn. Dr. Pinch had an arm, a leg and four ribs broken. He will be 83 years of , December 24. He formerly made home at Glenn Dale, Md.,, with his son-in-law and daughter, Maj. and Mrs. D= Walk. One of his sons, Maj. Pinch, is living in Washington. ROCKVILLE. ROCKVILLE, Md, December 21 (Special).—Charging that when she was married in Rockville on July 4 last to Ethelbert L. Winston, known as Bert L. Winston of Washington, by Rev. Bertram M. Osgood of the Baptist Church, Winston hed a wife living and from whom he had not been divorced, in the person of Mrs. Mary L. Winston of Duval County, Fia., Kathryn Belle Bishop of Baltimore has instituted proceedings in the Circuit Qourt here for annulment of ths mar- %e. She is represented by Attorney liam Pinkney White, jr., of Baltimore. The petition states that the plaintiff ‘was deserted 25 days after the marriage. Bethesda_Lodge, No. 204, A. F. and A. M. of Bethesda, this county, has elected these officers, who will be in- stalled at the next meeting of the lodge «Worshipful master, Edward Fag: senior warden, H. S. Langdon; junior warden, Clarence C. Keiser; secretary, Philip A. Rosendorn, and treasure: Lewis Keiser. Licenses have been issued by the clerk of the Circuit Court here for the mar- riage of Harvey R. Colley, 45, of Rich- mond, Va., and Miss Ruth Woodson Gleason, 28, of Charlottesville,. Va.: George Condon Apostolides, 28, and Miss Thelma May Dodson, 19, both of ‘Washington, and Cardinal C. Crusoe, 21, and Miss Laura E. Lewis, 18, both ©of Washington. [ In the hope of increasing the attend- ance of parents at the monthly meet- ings of the Gaithersburg Community and School League, the league will, it 48 announced, present & prize to the le of the Gaithersburg Public School wving the greatest number of parents present at each meeting. At the last meeting, held early in the week, the fifth grade made the best showing. ‘The trial of criminal cases, which has been in progress off and on for several weeks, has been concluded in the Circuit Court here and the jury has been discharged until January 8, when trial of civil cases will be re- sumed. Boyds has joined the neighborhoods of the county that will have community Christmas trees and a committee, con- sisting of Harold Lewis, James Kerr, Jr.; Charles Israel, jr.; David Maughlin and Earl Hoyle, is making the neces- sary arrangements. The tree, it is stated, will be erected between the Presbyterian Church and town hall. ‘Within the next few days, electricity will, it is stated, be available for use in the homes of the Browningsville, Cedar Grove, Lewisdale and Woodfield neighborhoods. ~Workmen have for some time been engaged in erecting poles and stringing the wires and it is thought everything will be in readiness by Christmas for the current to be turned on. Many of the homes, it is sald, have been equipped for lights and other electrical appliances. At the December meeting of the Da- mascus Homemakers' Club, held at the home of Mrs. Belle Hawkins at Wood- field, these officers were elected for one year: President, Mrs. Lola Stanley; vice president, Mrs, Helen Boyer; sec- retary, Mrs. Blanche Higgins; treasurer, Mrs. Elizabeth Bowman; director, Mrs. Belle Hawl Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. HER! REPORT ON PASTOR. Staunton Church Holds Congrega- tional Meeting Today. Special Dispatch to The Star. STAUNTON, Va., December 21.—A congregational meeting of the First Presbyterian Church has been called for tomorrow morning to hear the report of a committee, named some time ago, to secure a pastor to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation last Novem- ber 1 of the Rev. Dr. A. M. Fraser, It is sald that the committee will have a definite recommendation to make. This was the home church of the late former President Woodrow Wilson. OIL PERMIT ACTION OFF T0 JANUARY Sun Case Postponed by Plan- ning Authorities to Allow Study of New Proposal. ‘The National Capital Park and Plan- ning Commission yesterday decided to defer until the January meeting action on the proposal of the Sun Oil Co. of Philadelphia to construct a wharf north of the Key Bridge at Rosslyn, Va., to be used in transporting petroleum products and to erect tanks there. ‘This action was taken after repre- sentatives of the Sun Oil Co. had laid before the commission a Froponl de- signed to permit commercial and park development in it area to go for- ward side by side. This proposal will be studied by the commission and 1ts experts, Maj. Brehon Somervell, District en- gineer of the War Department for the ‘Washington area, told The Star, after he had been advised of the commis- sion’s action, that he will withhold any move on the application by the Sun Oil Co. for a permit to construct the wharf, until after the commission’s January meeting. This will be dcne, he explained, as the Federal Govern- ment is claiming title to part of the land on which the wharf is to be erected. The United States Engineer Office, headed by Maj. Somervell, has had the question of a wharf permit before it for some time, but the major agreed to defer action on the request until after the commission had had an op- portunity to inquire further into the matter. Capt. E. N. Chisolm, jr., the com- mission's engineer, said that the attor- ney and engineer for the Sun Oil Co. had been in consultation with the com- mission at today's meeting and had presented a plan calculated to fit in with the commission’s program of hav- ing a pretentious riverside drive up the Rosslyn, Va., side of the Potomac River to Great Falls, but at the same time permitting construction of the wharf and a rearrangement of the oil storage tanks and designed, altogether, to per- mit both programs to go forward. The commission expressed the desire to study the Sun Oil Company's plan further and decided to withhold recom- mendations until its next meeting, to be _held next month. Representatives of Arl n County, Va., interests appeared at the commis- sion’s meeting and the answers to the questionnaires recently sent out by Lieut. Col. U. 8. Grant, 3d, the commis- sion vice chairman wand executive of- ficer, were considered. Dr. J. N. Rob- erts, a property owner in the Rosslyn, Va., area, and Mrs. Florence Cannon, representing the Citizens’ Association and the organized women voters, took part in the deliberations. The Sun Oil Company’s plan will be carefully studied from all angles during the coming month by Col. Grant, Capt. Chisolm, Charles W. Eliot, 2d, the commission's city planner, and other experts of the commission, before a gzfinm stand is taken on the sugges- n. HIT-AND-RUN DRIVER CAUSES TWO CRASHES Forces Pair of Machines From Road and Escapes Appar- ently Unhurt, Special Dispatch to The Star. STAUNTON, Va, December 21.— Valley officers are seeking the - pants of an automobile which is al- leged to have caused two motor ac- cidents on the Valley Pike, near here. ‘The most serious of the mishaps in- volved Noah Harris and his son, John, of nearby Grove Mill, when the hit- and-run driver side-swiped the Harris car, forcing it from the road, down an em! <nt and through a fence, where it overturned. The elder Harris was severely cut and brufed, while his son suffered a broken a mong other injuries. The car caught fire just after the men had been freed from the wreckage. Following this and a short distance further along the pike the apparently crazed driver struck another car, forc- ing it into a ditch. The driver of the “wild” car was apparently uninjured as he was able to make a get-away and when last seen was northward at a rapid rate. Rites Held for Yachtsman. WINCHESTER, Va., December 21 (Special) —Funeral services were held yesterday afternoon in Christ Episcopal Church at Millwood, Clarke County, for Henry Brooke Gilpin, widely known Maryland yachtman, retired business man and world traveler, whose death Tuesday in a Baltimore hospital fol- lowed several days' illness of bronchial pneumonia. 23 Big Auto Bargains Compare These Prices No Finance Charges You may drive any car three days and if not satisfied exchange for any in stock. Chevrolet Coach Essex Coach.. Chevrolet Coach Flint Sedan. Ford Coach. Chrysler Sedan. Chtysler Coupe. Willys-Knight Touring. .299 Peerless Coach... Marmon Touring. Buick Sedan.. lBiuiek Roadster..... Marmon_Sedan. . ...+ . Pierce Arrow Roadster. PIERCE USED CAR DEPT. 1437 Irving St. N.W. Adams 5688 TAE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, BLACKWELL DEATH LEADS 10 SUICIDE Carpenter Ends Life, Act Evi- dently Induced by Shoot- ing of Clerk. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. FORESTVILLE, Md., December 21.— Apparently induced into experimenting with a shotgun as a result of the acci- | dental shooting last Monday of James C. Blackwell, Prince Georges County clerk, George Clarence Sacrey, a car- penter employed on Government build- ings, this morning committed suicide in his home here by shooting himself through the heart. The man was found in bed with the muzzle of a .20-guage, single-barrel shotgun against his heart. The gun had been propped on a chair by the open clocks, W, side of the bed and fired by & stick with a nail driven through it. Bachelors Lived Together. Sacrey was 46 years old, unmarried and made his home here with John C. Carpenter, a poultry and truck farmer, who is also unmarried. The two have been close friends for 27 years and have lived in Forestville since 1923. Carpenter told Prince Georges County Policeman Frank Prince, who investi- gated the case, that Sacrey retired early last night, but arose about midnight for a glass of water, and at that time told Carpenter not to call him this morning, as he would not go to work. An_hour or so afterward, while mak- ing Christmas wreaths in the kitchen, Carpenter heard th2 shot and found Sacrey dead. Carpenter ran to_the nearby_home of his sister, Mrs. Ber- nard Padgett, and then police were called. Interested in Shooting. Sacrey is sald to have exhibited much interest in the newspaper accounts of the death of Blackwell, who was found with a charge of shot through his heart in a duck blind near Alexandria. The county clerk’s death seemed to prey on_his mind, police were told. Followirg_ the police investigation Justice of Peace Thomas D. Griffith, acting coroner, and Dr. James I Boyd ({2 s AED. | D. C., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1929. Three Boys Fined After Spit Ball Hurling Interrt;pts Elder’s Prayer at Services Special Dispatch to The Star. ‘WINCHESTER, Va., December 21.— The conduct of & group of youths was so “unseemly” Sunday evening during services at St. John's Lutheran Church, near Mount Williams, that Elder James B. Snapp found it necessary to stop offering a prayer and lecture the lads, it was testified yesterday in County Court, where fines of $13.92 were' im- posed upon Medrick Farribee, Guy Fauver and Hesler Cannon. Elder Snapp testified that soon after he had asked the congregation to bow in prayer the “unseemly” conduct be- gan. There was logd talking and laugh- ing, and as he opened his eyes in the of Forrestville, coroner’s physician, is-. sued a certificate of suicide. Sacrey is survived by a sister, Mrs. Ida V. Jacobs of Washington, and three brothers, James E. and Benjamin C. of Washington, and another brother living in_ Pennsylvania. Funeral arrangements had not been completed this morning. 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Other witnesses corroborated the elder in his testimony. o KILLED IN AUTO CRASH ON WAY TO FUNERAL Mrs. Winstead of Martinsville, Va., Dies in Head-on Collision of Cars. Special Dispatch to The Star. DANVILLE, Va., December 21.—Mrs. P. R. Winstead of Martinsville was in- stantly killed, her son-in-law, T. I Turner, and Mrs. L. D. Rodgers of Petersburg seriously injured yesterday evening in Halifax County in a motor collision. Mrs. Winstead was on the way to at- tend the funeral of her sister and was pinned under the wreckage of her car, driven by Turner, which collided head- on with that driven by Mrs. Rodgers, who was taking her two sons home from Danville Military Institute for the Christmas holidays. The two cars met on the crest of a rise while going at considerable speed, both machines turning over when they caromed off the side of the road. Wellersburg Resident Dies. MOUNT SAVAGE, Md., December 21 (Special) —Frederick Fechtig, a pio- neer resident of Wellersburg, 3 miles north of Mount Savage, died at the age of 80. He was a son of the lats Dr. Samuel C. Fechtig, one of the first physicians of that section, and was un- married. OT T Happy Hul:ting Ground or { Boys and Girls Bt i 8 e 8 to 10 yr Suservised activities in, the evmna- Y. W.C.A. 17th and K Sts, 22222222272 Furniture New and Slightly Used Oriental and Domestle Russ—Also Ant Hich-grade Eo Tow Drices, 41 Dawes Furniture & Specialty Co. 2447 18t% St N.W.. ot Col. A, PAMEASSADOR] DINING ROOM CLUS CREAKFAST 50¢ SPECIAL 65¢ LUNCHEON TABLe D'HOTE DINNER $1.50 Also A La Carte. 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