Evening Star Newspaper, April 21, 1933, Page 21

THE EVENING DESCRIBES ATTACK 10 “SAVE WOMEN" Baltimore Society Leader Tells of “Tigress” Break- ing Into Apartment. By the Associated Press. MIAMI, Fla, April 21.—Mrs. Ade-| laide A. Doirg, divorced wife of War- ner Stark of Baltimore, told a jury ye-terday that she feit she owed "her James Duffy, who interfered g an attack on her last Decem- Mrs. Freida J. Riley, wife of rney, Bart Riley. Riley, her son Bernard and y are charged with breaking into Doing’s fashionable Brickeli ave- aparti during a visit_there by ley, who represented the Baltimore woman in the divorce action, and as- sault to commit murder. Woman Declared Menace. Mrs. Doing was treated for a frac- tured skull after the alleged attack. She described Mrs. Riley as “a menace to the State of Florida,” and declored she believed she was “doing my duty to my sex and saving other women from attacks” in testifying against her. The statement was in reply to 1 question about her interest in the arosecution The attack occurred, Mrs. Doing tes- ified, on December 22. Riley drove here with her after she went to his i0tel apartment to confer about her vorce suit. Shortly after they arrived, she said. ome one drove into the yard. When sme one knocked at the door she Lquired who it was, and said the per- sn replied “Here is a telegram for yu.” She did not open the door, she sdd, but at that time she heard a cnsh and turned around to see Ber- ned Riley breaking in through the s porch. Father Declared Attack. Rley attacked his father on the staiwvay, she said, and knocked him un- consious. Then he grabbed her by the 1air, she testified, saying “Here's wher I take you to my mother, and she’sgoing to kill you.” Benard Riley struck her a terrific blow,she said, and then Mrs. Riley and Duffy to whom she referred as “Jimmy Duffy” broke in through the front door. 5 Whle Bernard Riley and Duffy held her, he said, Mrs. Riley “jumped on me lte a tigress.” fled, ‘pulled Mrs. Riley off me.” When Mrs. iley sought to attack her again she sail, “Jimmy Duffy protected me.” Mrs. Riley, her son and Duffy re- served heir plea when the charges were red to them at the opening of court. ROO: LIFTED BY WIND LINCCL.N, Nebr., April 21 (#).—Wind Duffy, she testi- | STAGE TERROR TO IRENE CASTLE, FACING RETURN By the Assoclated Press. CHICAGO, April 21.—It took a dog— | 140 of them, in fact—to get Irene Castle McLaughlin to change her mind and agree to return temporarily to the | glare of the footlights she deserted nine years ago. And today she admitted that next week's “debut” held more terrors for her than a mangy mongrel. As Irene Castle, Mrs. McLaughlin a few years ago danced her way across the footlights of a nation to fame. Now, as Mrs. Frederic McLaughlin, so- ciety matron and friend to the “for-| local boards as a dramatic actress—a | | new role to her. Play “A Return to Folly.” Surrounded by barking dogs of all breeds and descriptions, at the refuge, “Orphans of the Storm,” she estab- | lished for them, Mrs. McLaughlin re- | marked that it was a coincidence that the play in which she should be com- ing back in was named “A Return to| | Polly.” She said she wasn’t worried about any member of the cast “except my- self” and was thankful her role didn’t require any heavy acting. “T just have to be myself,” she said— | “a wife of my age.” But she didn't mention the specific age requirement. IN DOG BENEFIT Famous Former Dancer to Take Part Next Week in “A Return to Folly™ as an Actress. Attired in a riding habit over which she was wearing a smock in prepara- tion for a few personal calls on “pa- tients” at “Orphans of the Storm,” Mrs. McLaughlin admitted that nothing but the lure of financial support for the refuge could have persuaded her to take the part. She founded the haven for homeless dogs five years ago and until now it has been supported by donations of friends and its own earnings. But this year is different, she said, “and I de- cided T owed it to the dogs to accept an offer that would insure their liveli- | gotten dog” she's returning to the | hood Given by Society Group. * The play is being given by a group of North Shore society folk and three suburban performances have been sched- uled. In addition, Mrs. McLaughlin said negotiations were under way to put it on in a downtown theater. “A Return to Folly” was written by Harlan Ware and is & new play. Mrs. McLaughlin said she had been told several producers would be present to view it is a possible forthcoming pro- duction. “But, not with me in the cast.,” she declared. “I couldn’t accept even if I should be offered a part, for I spend three afternons a week out here at |‘Orphans of the Storm.’” ‘!ASBESTOS PANTS HANG IN HOME OF WOODIN ;Denver Democrat Who Made Gift | After Former Secretary Mills’ Fa- mous Remark Learns Fate. | By the Associated Press. | DENVER, Colo,, April 21.—A pair of asbestos breeches, G. M. Fiechtner, a Denver Democrat, mailed to Treasury | Secretary William Woodin, because Og- | | den L. Mills said Woodin occupied “the | | hottest seat in Washington,” hang like | a trophy, Fiechtner sald yesterday, on | |a wall in the Woodin home. |” Plechtner sent Secretary Woodin the fireproof shorts after Mills, former | Treasury Secretary, told Cheyenne, | Wyo., newspapermen during the na- | tional bank holiday that Woodin would need “a pair of asbestos pants” before | |the situation was cleared. | | "The storv Mills told while he was | | accompanying former President Herbert | Hoover to his Palo_Alto, Calif., homz.‘ found its way into Denver and Fiecht- ner had his mother fashion the breeches | for Woodin. ~Fiechtner said he had re. | ceived word the asbestos pants had been received by Woodin and hung “in | an honored place in the Woodin home.” Duce to See Predecessors. lifted the north roof of the Landis Base | Ball Fied grandstand yesterday and crashed t against the main power line of the bwa-Nebraska Light & Power Co., whth serves electricity to Have- lock, Waverly and Greenwood. 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