Evening Star Newspaper, May 1, 1931, Page 7

N e b v iaaNG STAR, WASHINGTON, D C. FRIDAY, X MARYLAND FATHER FREED IN STABBING Branchville Man Cleared in Killing During Quarrel Over Children. By a B@f Correspondent of The Star, UPPER MARLBORO, Md.,, May 1.— After & scant 15 minutes' deliberation, 8 Circuit Court jury last night freed Paul E. Nement, 56-year-old Branch- | ville brickiayer, of a murder charge in | connection with the fatal stabbing of | Claude L. Hughes in a neighbcrhood quarrel, | In spite of the court's caution against | any demonstration, Dement, exclaimed, | “God bless you,” when the verdict was | announced. A moment later, as the | Jury was being polled, he commented, | “It's a true verdict,” and was embraced | by his wife. Stabbed With Knife. Dement has been in jail since Febru- ary 23, when he stabbed Hughes with | a penknife during a neighborho.d | quairel which started over their chil- dren. The blow grazed Hughes' hear and he died in Providence Hospital few days Jater. The ~defens~ offered * t=st'mony o show that the stabbing was entircly un- mediated 2nd periormed as an act elf-defense | Dement himself gave the mest dra- | matic testimcny in describing the | events prior to the stabbing. He was | the six-hour trial were Mrs. Huchn,'members of the club have pre\'lmlsl,vérullnn was received and h’v!d, over ffll“ widow of the victim of the stabbing: her fon Richard, Mrs. Dement, wife of the accused; Deinent’s son and grand- son, Miss Helen and Gertrude Apple- ‘man, and Dr. C. Frank Maguire. Dement was defended by Attorneys J. Wilson Ryon and Albert R. Hassal. Judges Joseph C. Mattingly and William M. Loker presided. Members of the jury which freed Dement were James B. Bland, foreman; ccllus Buckler, James Prout. Charles Binger, Howard M. Perrie, Willlam A. Gailahan, Ru- dolph Entzian, Charles N, Brown, P. E. Clark, William H. Brooke, and William ; Richards, Dement has been named def2ndant in a civil suit for $5,000 camages filed by Elizabeth A. Thomas, 3900 block of Mili- tary road, Washington. The suit is the result of an automobile accident. At- torney: John S. White represents the plaintif, REFERENDUM FIGHT! MAYBEABANDONED Alexandria Mayor Proposes Council Be Enlarged to Nine Members. BY HOWARD M. BAGGETT, Staft Correspondent of ‘The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1..—~Wheth- er or not the movement backed by the Independent Vcters' Club to force a referendum on a change in form of city government here will be carried through is expected to be decided at not able to describe the actual stabbing, however, contending his mind was | klank on that point, 1 "The defendant said some of the | Hughes children called his. prandson, Donald Dement, and he told the child | not to go over to the Hughes property | for fear he might wander away in play- | ing and be injured by an automobile. | I{ Mr. Hughes had called the child at | first, Dement said he would not have | objected. | Victim of Neuritis. The gray-haired bricklayer, who | ghowed no emotion while listening to | others testify, but whose voice broke at times as he told his story from thc witness chair, claimed he "had been suffering from neuritis and was feeling bad when Hughes rushed up to him and the argument started. Dement and his witnesses claimed Hughes threatened to “break his jaw- bone.” Dement said the man struck him on the nose and he remembered shoving Hughes away. After that, he | said, everything went black, and the | next he remembered was seeing blood on_Hughes' shirt. | Dement told of using a penknife to | prepare feed for his chickens and ad- | mitted he had the knife in his hands | all during the argument, but declared he “never gave it a thought.” He was | unable to identify a large two-bladed | penknife shown him in ecourt as the one he used and could not say which | blade was used. Clings to Story. | ‘The defendant was unmoved and did | not. alter his story under a barrage of | questions fired at him during cross-ex- amination by Special Prosecutor Leroy Pumphrey. Dement answered most of the questions by first addressing Pum- phyrey as “brother.” After the trial he | shook hands with Pumphrey and mem- bers of the jury. Among the witnesses called during | P R | composing a meeting of the club tonight. The most startling development, which may have some resuit on the plans of thoe secking larger body the city government, oc- curred _yesterday ~ afternoon, when Mayor Edmund P. Ticer proposed, at a special meeting of the City Council, that the size of that body be increased from its present membership of five to seven or nine men, preferably nine. Petition Filing Planned. 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Angelo, secretary of the Inde- pendent Voters' Club, which was formed {about a year ago, stated last night that while he did not know what effect Mayor Ticer's proposal would have on the matter, he did not bclieve it will forestall contemplated action of the club in secking the referendum. The club contends too much power has {fallen in the hands of a few men. When Mayor Ticer presented his pro- | posal, in the form of a letter addressed to the Council yesterday, the communi- of Circult Court, when that court con- | “BELOVED"” | further discussion. | Councilman Clyde C. Lamond, how- ever, openly expressed himself as very much in accord with the preposition, | {while Councilman Arthur Herbert | stated that he believed the various sec- | | tions of the city should be represented | {on the governing body. . Hawks Hops to England. 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