Evening Star Newspaper, October 12, 1936, Page 3

BURLY MAN CLUE INTORSO MURDER Visited Home of Widow 48 Hours After Crime, Say Police. By the Ausociated Press. ‘WEYMOUTH, Mass., October 12.— Crack detectives hunted a burly “mys- tery man” today in their search for solution of the slaying of blond Grayce Asquith, 40-year-old widow and one- time photographer’s model. Investigation turned in that direc- ¢ tion with a report from a Weymouth cab driver, Louis Pratt, who told Capt. John F. Stokes chief of the Massachusetts State police detectives, that he drove a thick-set, dark-com- plexioned man to the widow’s lonely, lakeside cottage September 21. That date was 48 hours after the hight police have fixed as the time the widow was slain. Even as the hunt for the “mystery man” opened, a corps of police searched for clues they hoped would V- lead them to John A. Lyons, friend ©of the widow. Simultaneous Disappearance. Whether Lyons, a Boston salesman and war-time aviator, is alive or dead remained uncertain. He dis- appeared at about the same time as Mrs. Asquith, police say. Stokes, with Boston and Weymouth police, continued to question Oscar Battalini, 50, Quincy chef and odd- Jobs man about the Asquith cottage. From Barralini, now under voluntary detention at the Quincy police head- quarters, police learned, Stokes said, that Lyons and Mrs, Asquith were at « the cottage September 19, but insisted he never saw either again. While' investigators continued their frenzied hunt for clues, hundreds of Ppersons gathered yesterday around the cottage. Their automobiles blocked roads in every direction. Fearful the crowd might spoil clues, officials as- signed guards to keep the curious back. From their vantage point on the birch-bordered banks of Whit- man Pond, spectators saw Ralph Wal- lace search its bottom. Print Found in Home. Inside the cottage, fingerprint ex- Perts groped through its five rooms dn a search for fingerprints and foot- prints. A single print, if found, said | Btokes, may send the widow's slayer to the electric chair. With chemists directing the work, husky policemen ripped up the blood- spattered linoleum and floor boards of the bath room and the kitchen— both apparently bespattered by blood. In the kitchen Mrs. Asquith prob- ably met her death. Police chemists took to Boston with the linoleum, e floor boards and towels, the ashes from the cottage stove and fireplace to determine whether any of the missing parts of Mrs. Asquith’s body— her head, arms and torso—had been burned. Just & week ago today four W. P. A. workmen found a burlap-wrapped woman’s leg in the murky waters of Boston Harbor, 15 miles from here. A few hours later its mate was found. Identification of the victim came three days later. ATWELL-TOLLEY RITES HELD AT HARRISON, N. Y. By the Assoclated Pross. HARRISON, N. Y., October 12— Town Clerk William Wilding disclosed last night that Mrs. Ethel Atwell, ex. wife of the stuttering comedian, Ro Atwell, and Cyril Tolley, golfer, were married here yesterday. Wilding, who had stated he would hot grant the pair a license if they 4 came here, explained he had done so when Mrs. Atwell, publicized as a shorts-wearer, appeared in more con- ventional costume. The ceremony, performed by Justice of the Peace Leo Mintzer, ended a series of mishaps which started last week when the couple were arrested in Westport, Conn., on charges of in- toxication and breach of the peace after a pre-marriage celebration. The second chapter occurred Friday night when a marriage ceremony planned to take place in the window of a Westport tavern failed to mate- rialize because somebody forgot the license. P —— FOUND. FOUND—WRIST WATCH, vicinity 15th and Monroe sts. n.e: give description. Ad- ess_Box 357-M. Star office. = LOST. 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Estimates free. 23% and _thelr JOWA Democratic _ voters 8 b ie) ting Monday, A X 500 Rhode Island ave. n.w. Address person conversant with the present ministration. i & e service as one costing $300: sam 't waste “insurance money.” Call !o'om'. 25 ‘vears' experience. Lin- CHAMBERS & szt o o R e e b o ) 2.60. rnace ing and heatin 302 Weynoal ¢ Upper: Sheriff Clarence Wa men _in their escape. THREE DESPERATE CONVICTS ESCAPE Federal Agents Join in Five- State Hunt for Indiana | Gunmen, | Prtne Assoctated Press. | INDIANAPOLIS, October 12— Donald F. Stiver, superintendent ol‘ Indiana State Police, said today De-, partment of Justice agents had joined a five-State search for three desperate | Hoosier hoodlums who escaped yes- terday from the Hancock County Jail ! at Greenfield, where they were await- ing trial for murder of an Indianapolis | police sergeant. “This is a search to the finish” ‘Sf.iver said. “Every available Indiana | | State policeman is on the job and ill stay on the job until these des- | peradoes are behind bars again. In | addition to the Pederal agents, State | Police in Ohio, Michigan, Illinois and :Kentucky are participating in the | He explained the Federal agents have | jurisdiction in the case because the | gunmen last Spring transported into | Indiana a part of the $35,000 loot ob- tained in a jewelry store stick-up at Lima, Ohio, on March 19. The hoodlums, Alfred Brady, 25; James Dahlhover, 29, and Clarence Lee Shaffer, jr., 20, slugged Sheriff Clarence Watson with an iron bar {and the butt of a stolen revolver and | fired three shots at Edgar D. Ridlen, | who came to the sheriff’s resctfe, in | their brazen break for freedom yes- | terday. One of the shots pierced Ridlen's coat. Shaffer bragged at one time that | the Brady gang's activities “would put Dillinger in the shade” and that the weapons owned by them “made Dil- linger look like a piker.” Stiver estimated loot seized by the gang in Ohio and Indiana robberies | “exceeded $150,000.” The gang spe- cialized in jewelry store hold-ups, he explained. He attributed to the ban- dits the slaying of Edward Linsey dur- ing a grocery store hold-up in Piqua, Ohio, on April 21, and that of Sergt. Richard Rivers, who attempted to arrest them in Indianapolis April 27, Typhoon (Continued From First Page) 17 fishermen off the coast of Pan- gasian Province, northwest of Nueva Ecija. Most of the missing were lumber workers at three mills in Bongabon, near Cabanatuan in Nueva Ecija. Three hundred mill workers were re- ported lost when the sudden torrential rains sent the Pampanga River roaring over its banks. Chinese Donate Rice. ‘The known dead also included four in Tarlac Province, west of Nueva Ecija and south of Pangasinan; and one of Zambales Provinces, on the coast west of Tarlac. Other bodies were recovered in Nueva Ecija Province, where Santa Rosa, just south of Cabanatuan was one of the hardest hit towns. ‘The Chinese Chamber of Commerce of Manila donated a large supply of rice for typhoon sufferers. Manila, on the outskirts of the storm, was swept by high winds and rain but escaped damage and loss of life. ‘The storm raged over the provinces just north of Manila Bay for 40 hours Friday and Saturday, and again for a few hours Sunday. A new typhoon was reported moving northwest from a spot 400 miles east of Northern Luzon. Weather observers said it probably would miss the Philip~ pines, but might strike Southern Japan. —_— Lecture on Free Will. Prof. Edward E. Richardson, presi- dent of the Society for Philosophical Inquiry, will speak on “Free Will” at & meeting of that group at 4:48 p.m. tomorrow at the New National Museum, l T - ws THE EVENING. STAR, WASHINGTON, D. 0. MONDAY, “OCTOBER 12, “19%: tson of Hancock County, Ind., who was beaten about the head by three members of the Alfred Brady gang as they escaped from jail at Greenfleld, early yes- terday. He is holding an iron bar similar to that used by the Lower: The three convicts who overpowered the sheriff when he was taking them to breakfast. Left to right: Alfred Brady, Clarence Lee Shaffer, jr., and James Dahlhover. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. D. C. BAR ASSOCIATION PLANS “POLICE NIGHT” Among the features scheduled for the District Bar Association’s “police night” tomorrow in the Mayflower Hotel will be a demonstration by Alwyn Cole, examiner of questionable documents of the Treasury Depart- ment, of the latest ultra-violet ray machine employed in the detection of counterfeit money. The device also reveals erasures and alteratiops and is used in proving official documents. The meeting is the Bar Association’s first this Fall. It is under the aus- pices of the Junior Bar section, Scientific methods of crime detection | will be demonstrated by members of the Police Department. Among those on the program are Lieut. John Fowler, pert; expert and photographer; Lieut. James Kelley, developer of the department’s | two-way radio, and Asst. Supt. L. I. H. Edwards. Those arranging the exhibitions are James R. Kirkland, chairman of the Junior Bar section; Ernest Henry, vice chairman, and Justin Edgerton, | secretary-treasurer. The meeting will close with a buffet supper. LAWYERS' BRIEFS RUSH PRINTING BYRON S. ADAMS ballistics ex- | Ira Gullickson, hand writing | WIDOW 70 TESTIFY IN WIFE SLAYING State Summons “Other Woman” in Case Against Embalmer. By the Assoclated Press. OREGON, 111, October 12.—The at- tractive red-haired widow for whose love the prosecution charged Em- balmer Guy Tallmadge slew his aging wife faced the bespectacled under- taker's assistant today as a State- summoned witness in his trial on a murder charge. She was Mrs. Frances Birch, 30, of Moline, Ill—24 years younger than the wife whom State's Attorney 8. Donald Crowell asserted the 58-yeal old Tallmadge killed so he could marry the widow and retire with her to a chicken farm. Crowell said he would qualify the Jury to inflict the death penalty. Mrs. Bessie Tallmadge was shot to death last May 19 on & rural lane near Chana, Ill. Tallmadge related a gun- man stopped their car, robbed him of his watch and purse and his wife of several rings and shot her when she resisted. Dissatisfied with his story, investi- gators jailed the embalmer. They questioned Mrs. Birch, a former drug store clerk in his home town of Rock- ford and mother of an 11-year-old daughter. The widow, Crowell said, told them Tallmadge had given her a ring, held her promise to wed and had announced he would divorce his wife. Confronted by this information and questioned with a lle detector, Tall- madge, Crowell declared, signed a statement setting forth he killed his wife with a gun obtained at a Rock- ford pawnshop. At the slaying scene deputy sheriffs picked up a pistol they said was identified as the death weapon, ENGINEER TO SPEAK Dr. Polakov to Discuss Construe- tion Needs Tonight. Dr. Walter Polakov, former Works Progress Administration engineer, will be the speaker tonight in the weekly symposium conducted at 1703 K street by the Federation of Archi- tects, Engineers, Chemists and Tech- nicians. His subject will be “Con- struction Needs and Plan Capacity.” A detailed estimate of the Nation's construction needs and its capacity to provide adequate housing, schools, hospitals, parks, playgrounds, public buildings, equipment for prevention of stream pollution, water works and rural sanitation will be presented. The purpose of the symposium is to diffuse information on trends in con- struction industry and their effects on technicians. . Born in Yorkshire. Miles Coverdale, English Bible translator, was born at Cocerdale, Yorkshire, in 1488. It is not fair to think your child is stupid be- cause he fails in school. It may be his eyes. Bet- ter have them examined now. ETZ Optometrists 608 13th N.W. (Bet, F and G N.W.) 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Last week he declared that Cough- lin’s monetary views were “90 per cent wrong” and said charges of Com- munism against President Roosevelt were “calumnies.” Saturday night Father Coughlin renewed his charges that the President has “communistic tendencies,” and referred to Father Ryan as “the ecclesiastical spokesman for the Democratic National Com- mittee.” “Misuses” Encyclicals. Father Ryan said last night that the Detroit priest “misuses” one of the Pope’s encyclicals which touches on money and credit. “The Holy Father,” the Washington priest declared, “does not say that the private control of money and credit exists everywhere and at all times. He says when it exists it is extremely bad and is practically irresistible. “The Pope is talking of a condition that sometimes obtains. He does not say that it obtains always and every- where or that it exists in the United States. “As a matter of fact, it does not obtain in the United States.” To back his charge of misquota~ COLONIAL FUEL OIL, INC. 1709 De Sales St. N.W. Colonial Dealers Names in Yellow Section of Phone Book tion, Msgr. Ryan referred to a page of an encyclical where, he said, Fa- ther Coughlin substituted the phrase “cannot’ be defended except by force” for the phrase “can be effectively de- fended against the forces of revolu- tion.” At another point, Futher Ryan said Catholic voters are being misled by “an enormous amount of exaggera- tion.” “Father Coughlin,” he added, “pro- fesses to find a contradiction between the Catholic ritual for blessing fields and the destruction of some cotton, wheat and little pigs by the A, A, A, The latter, he says, 1. sinful. “Well, the ritual does not, say that the killing of little pigs is murder, Dor that some goods may not be de- stroyed in an emergency for the good of the community.” RICHBERG TO SPEAK To Address Georgetown Law Alumni on Supreme Court. Donald Richberg, former head of the N. R. A, and Seth W. 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