Evening Star Newspaper, September 22, 1931, Page 23

e CHILD, 6, WILL TELL | OF FATAL SHODTING Prince Georges Sheriff May Show Boy Capable of Handling Gun. By & Staff Correspondent of The Star. UPPER MARLBORO, Md, Septem- ber 22.—With the State's attorney and numerous local residents still not com- pletely satisfied that children were re- sponsible for the shooting of Alem K Marr, 78, at Mount Calvert, Saturday the sheriff's office today completed ar- rangements to present the evidence it has gathered to a coroner’s jury tonight. | The question which has divided public | opinion here, and will be passed on, at | least by implication, when the jury ren- | ders its verdict, is whether or not. a! child of 5 or 6 years can wield a shot-‘ Demonstration Planned. | Sheriff W, Curtis Hopkins and Deputy | Sheriff Thomas H. Garrison, who have | had charge of the investigation, arej convinced that & child is physically able There is even a possibility, they ad- mitted, that this may be demonstrated ! before the jury. | The inquest is expected to hinge, as| has the sheriff’s investigation, on the testimony of the children of George Mc- Kinzie, caretaker of the Glebe Gun Club, in whose home Marr was shot. ASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1931. Stray Dogs Raid Poultry Plants FAIRFAX FARMERS SUFFER HEAVY LOSSES FROM CHICKEN KILLING CANINES. FOR RAIL TERMINAL Hearing Monday Before Util- ities Commission on Alex- andria Lines. Special Dispatch to The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Septemher 22.—An- other hearing before the Public Utilities Commission in Washington on next Monday, September 28, in order to make formal application for a new ter- minal north of Pennsylvania avenue for the Alexandria & Fairfax Railwa; was decided to be asked by the Virgl Chamber of Commerce Committee at a meeting here yesterday. The committee appeared before the Utilities Commission seveml weeks ago in the same interest but at the time did not make a formal application fot a new terminal north of the Avenue. It preferred to increase its stand by first obtaining data on traffic conditions in other large cities, and on the number of passengers riding these railways who have business interests north of the Avenue, Permission for the Virginia car lines to cross the Avenue at Fourteenth street will be asked by the committee. Sta- tistics on congested intersections in Chi- cago, New Yerk, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Cleveland and Jersey City have been obtained by the committee to show that with the Virginia lines crossing at Fourteenth street traffic at this intersection would still not be as great as in most other large citles. Twice as many street cars pass one PI_AN APP”GA"UN | Climax in the W. & J. Sloane Autumn Sa’lc' Tremendous Reductions in Genuine Hand-made 'Oriental Rugs There is no precedent in our many years’ experi- ence in retailing for the rémarkable prices which conditions make possible »= in this climaxing event of The children summoned are John near Merrifield, Va., which were killed in less than an hour by two stray dogs. Dashing through the field, | B Henry, 11; George, 8; Beckie, 9; Joseph, P hcing on ohe bird afier another as it fluttered in terror before their advance, the dogs during one noon | &fe handled at Pourtcesith _sirect 400 6, and Philip, 5. George has told police hour left a hillside covered with white fowls, killed not for food, but wantonly for sport. Several neighboring f;;’:iyl‘tve:g‘fii;‘f““" kol e ) Playing With Gun. £ o 5 . : ying S OME of the 75 pedigreed chiekens, part of a flock of 2,000 white Leghorn pullets on the Windsor Hill Poultry Farm intersection in Chicago in an hour as that he and his younger brothe —Star Staff Photo. | “giitictics compiled on the 1,500 ques- peultrymen have suffered similar severe losses. playing with the gun when it exploded, | - b s B R s MaaTt “Whb. was - malbepviin a2 mchgn chair. The sheriff also says his "GRAND JURY SELECTED investigation shows the children had been drinking from a jar of liquor in the kitchen. Others who will be called on to testify are Rudolph Brady, Mildred, his wife. | prnect Bell and Katle Vermillion, her mother, who were jaled for qustioning during the early ‘stages of the investigation and freed after the children had taken the blame for the shooting. Two Others Called. 5 George McKinzie, father of the chil- dren, and a Washington lawyer, who ‘was at the gun club at the time of the shooting, have also been summoned, Sherift Hopkins said. Although the sheriff is convinced the children are responsible for the shoot- ing, State Attcrney Alan Bowie de- clared today he was'not completely sat- isfied but would give the sheriff an opportunity to convince the coroner's jury that his accident2l theory of ths shooting is correct, before taking any possible further action. HYATTSVILLE JUSTICE FACES DAMAGE CLAIM Suit for $10,000 Damages Is Filed Against Mrs. Retta Morris by I Robert Carroll Morris. By & Staft Corretpondent of The Star. UPPER MARLBORO, Md.,'September 22.—A suit for $10.000 damages for al- leged procedure without jurisdiction and | false arrest was filed in Circuit Court here today by Robert Carroll Morris against Mrs. Retta Morris, Hyattsville | justice of peace. ‘ ‘Through Attorney J. Frank Lillard, Mr. Morris tells the court his three children, John Carroll, 7 years old; Russell, 6, and Paul, 8, were taken from his home during his absence and placz~ in two institutions at the direction of the magistrate. ‘They were first placed in the Central | Union Mission, Washington, and later removed to the Brentwood Day Nursery, the declaration alleges. When he attempted to see his chil-| dren, Morris declares, he found the jus- tice of peace had given orders not to permit him to see them. Later, he charges, she caused his arrest and de- tention at the Hyattsville Police Station, | although no charges were placed against him. ‘This arrest caused him great em-| barrassment and the expense of counsel | fees, he tells the co | A divorce suit ainst Morris on ounds of abandonment has been ought by his wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Morris, and is now pending in Circuit Court. The wife ¢lso had Morris ar- rested on a‘non-support charge, to be investigated by the October grand jury. The children were finally placed in the custody of Morris’ mother after he resorted to habeas corpus proceedings to secure their release from the nursery. Ball to Be Planned. RIVERDALE, Md, September 22 (Specidl).—A meeting will be held to- | morrow evening of the Women's Guild of St. Luke's Episcopal Church of | Bladensburg at the home of Mr. and | Mrs. Henry A. Friday, Jeferson road, East Riverdale, Md. Plans will be made | for the annua] masquerade ball to be held at the Parish Hall. Births Reported. The following_births have been reported g’ - Health Departmy t past 24 hcte G, snd Hedw fracte ) d g : b Prank and Elmeter G Estelle Says She Won’t Recognize Dempsey’s Divorce: | Will Seek to Invalidate| Reno Decree; Charges ‘Poor Sportsmanship.” | By the Associated Press CHICAGO, S-pt:mber 22.—Estelle | Teyler maint2ins she is siill Mrs. Jack ) Dempsey. i Although the former heavywe'ght | fighter of th2 worid obtained a divorce | from her at Reno yestcraay, she said she would not recognize it and accused Dempsey of “p-cr sportsmanship.’” “Jack may feel very free at this mo- | ment,” she said yesierd:y, “but until | the California courts, where we both | maintain our resdences, declare me | free, 1 shall still call myself Mrs. Jack | Dempsey.” | Miss Taylor who is appearing at a | Chicago theater, said her attorney, | Joseph Scott, advised her “not to worry | as he has full confidence that the courts | of Califcrnia will protect me.” She sdded that action would be taken to have the Reno divorce invalidated when her own divorce complaint is heard in “I'm sorry that at this cruclal time ©f Jack's career he should do anythin, s like,” Miss Taylor said. Apparently the “crucial time” referred to his plans to go to Midas, Nev., to ‘work as a laborer in a mine of which he is part owner, in an effort to condition himself for a comeback campaign for the heavyweight championship. At the divorce hearing 1n Reno yes- that his wife's motion ferday he testified immmymmm.kup Foreman of Inquisitorial Body. | inciudes the following men: John 8. Bean, Frederick V. Dunbar, Stephen ‘The founding of the great European | Bradburn, Bevins Morris, R. Warren | banking business of Rothschild is said Evans, Michael Evans, Thomas W.|to be due to the youthful passion of LEONARDTOWN, Md., September 322. | Briscoe, Benjamin M. Springer, Henry | Meyer Amschel Rothschild for collect- —Court opened for its September term | Adams, Charles R. Price, Oliver B. Mil- ! ing old and rare coins. Docket Very Light. Special Dispatch to The Star. Beautiful ‘ in the Leonardtown Court House yester- | burn, J. Clyde Abell, Joseph M. Hazel, | day, with Judge William Meverell Loker | George W. Magrogan, Kenneth B. Duke, 1 | Thomas B. Abell, Paul Russell, T. Hol- L -dto d Judge W. Mitchell FOR ST. MARYS COURT | ign f ' Binta Md . both of tha sev- | land Herbert, Joscph Wathen, Gorman | enth judicial distrfct of Southern Mary- | Bussler, John | land, presiding. bert and B. Grover Alvey of Pearson Named| Ernest Bell of Pearson, Md., was se-| The docket is very light. Jected foreman of the grand jury, Which s R. Raley, Guy W. Her- 10™ 11™ F anD G STREETS e | tionnaires sent to passengers show that by far the majority either work or have other business interests north of the Avenue. | " Yesterday's meeting was presided over by J. William May, vice president of the Alexandria Chamber of Com- merce, Others attending were A. K. Shipe, representing the Washington Board of Trade; W. U. Varney and Commonwealth Attorney William C. | Gloth of Arlington County, Franklin Williams, representing Fairfax County, and Prank W. 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