Evening Star Newspaper, March 14, 1931, Page 5

WIFE HURLS BABIES AND SELF OFF DOCK = Boy, 9, Only Survivor, Tells| How Mother Lured Three te Wharf. By the Assoclated Press. MATTAPOISETT, Mass,, March 14.— Mrs, William Chester Allison of Saylest ville, R. I.. last night hurled her three children from a Mattapoisett dock and jumped into the ocean \after them to her death. Wayne Allison, 9, who was found dripping wet and exhausted a mile from the dock, told the story to the State po- lice. The lad said that his mother had taken him, his sister Hope, 6, and his baby brother De Witt, 3, to the dock on the pretense of showing them the New York boat. She hurled them into the water, he said, as they stepped to the edge of the wharf and then jumped in herself. ‘Wayne, unable to swim, clung to rocks beneath the wharf and pulled himself ashore. The vicinity was de- serted and the boy started to walk for help. Ralph Purrington found him_ on the street and called a constable, Syl- vester Savage, who heard the exhausted and frightened lad's storys The boy was wrapped in bed at Pur- rington’s home, in New Bedford, and State police began a search for the bodies of the brother, sister and mother. They had not been recovered today atter several hours of grappling. ‘The husband and father, who learned Woob of the tragedy on his return from work yesterday, started for Mattapoisett im- mediately. ‘The Allisons have lived at Saylesville five years, coming from Fall River. Friends of the family and neighbors that Mrs. Allison had been de- spondent for several weeks. “THE GREAT CONFESSION” “The Great Contession” is the sermon topic of Dr. F. W. Perkins of the Uni- versalist National Memorial Church to- morrow at 11 o'clock. The sermon is “Dramatic Incidents in the Life of Christ.” The church school will meet at 10:15 o'clock, except the adult class, which follows the church service led by Miss Coralyr Wright. The annual meeting of the Mission Circle will be held Tuesday alfternoon. | 1owed by the monthly and annual meet- | ings. On Wednesday at 7:30 o'crock the | Boy Scouts will meet, The monthly | meeting of the Church School Associa- tion will be at 7 o'clock Thursday eve= | | ning. The Cubs will meet at 7:30 | o'clock. | LENTEN MEETINGS SET | Arranges Series to Be Held Friday Evenings. The Y. M. C. A. has arranged a | series of weekly Lenten meetings, to be held each Friday evening during the remaind Lent in the lobby of the | Central building, 1736 G street. | The first of the series was held last| Judge Isaac R. Hitt at the request of | night, when a_religious motion picture | was shown. | Biblical toplcs, will be used to illus- | trate talks to be given during succee | ing meetings. | __Rev. J. Harvey Dunham, pastor of the Western Presbyterian Church, and Rev. Charles Enders, pastor of the Concordia | Evangelical Church, will assist in the | meetings, which are open _to the gen- ! eral public. one in a series of Lenten sermons on | The Young People’s Christian Union | devotional meeting at 7 o'clock will be | frafe® B AT L Y e N, Auth | J. Auth, 25 years old, were dropped in | There will be luncheon at noon, fol- | goeS, GRSt KGERY, TOCh TIC0 Mareh 19 | the course of the attack, which took | place partly in his cab, one of the men Similar movies, based on | ROBBERY CHARGES ON AUTHS DROPPED |Assault Case Left Pending as | Victim Details Chase and Alleged Attack. While charges of robbery against| Francis A. Auth, 22 years old, son of | Provision Co., and his cousin, Lawrence Police Court today, both men were held on charges of assault growing out of an alleged attack on a taxi driver Thurs- day night. Assistant United States District At- torney Wilbert MclInerney, in refusing to make out papers on the robbery charge, declared that the circumstances of the affair, as explained to him by | John R. West, 28 years old, of 943 K street, the taxi'driver, did not show that Tobbery had been the motive of the Auths in the alleged act of taking $3 from him. West told McInerney that in lost his hat and then made a demand | for money to pay for it. Assault Case Continued. ‘The essault case was continued by | defense counsel. West told police the Auths had pur- sued him through the streets in their | expensive sedan, Thursday night, after | he had passed them near Fourteenth and H streets. West said they followed him, watched him pick up a fare, | trailed him until he disposed of his pas- senger and continued to chase him for | approximately _three - quarters of an hour. He told Mr. Mclperney today On Sale—First Time Monday . . 1847 Rogers’ Silver-Plated VASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY. that each time he attempted to pull his car to the curb the machine following him would cut in between him and the sidewalk. ‘Was Beaten in Alley. West claimed both the men beat him while in alley and -left him there. The number of the pursuing car, he told Mr. McInerney, was given him by a taxi fare earlier in the chase. Lawrence Auth was arrested early yesterday. His cousin surrendered later in the day and each was released on $1,500 bonds on a charge of robbery and a $500 bond cn a charge of assault. {AUTOIST RUNS HEADLONG INTO FREIGHT TRAIN! P TV ol 1 Thomas R. Stabler Hurled Out of | Car With Slight Injuries in York, Pa. Special Dispatch to The Star. YORK, Pa, March 14—Driving headlong into the sidé of a moving | freight train, Thomas R. Stabler of Washington was thrown out of the automobile today, while the machine was rolled haif a block beneath a box car. Stabler was taken to the York Hospital, where his injuries were pro- nounced not serious, Stabler told authorities that he was driving a machine, owned by George E. McNeil of Washingtoh. The machine plowed through safety gates and jam- | med itself beneath a freight car. A charge of reckless driving has been lodged against Stabler. Thomas R. Stabler formerly conducted an automobile exchange at 908 Tenth | street until about five months ago. His ' present address in Washington is not nown. McNeil, a local attorney, today aid Stabler has been making his home in Baltimore recently. In the English courts a prisoner et assizes or quarter sessions may call upon any junior barrister present in court and not appearing for the prose- cution to defend him at a fee cf $5. WARD & LoTHROP 10 11™ F anD G STREETS Cromwell Flatware—Half Price The Maker Has Discontinued This Pattern A rare opportunity to buy this nationally known silverplate at one-half its reqular price. 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