Evening Star Newspaper, June 2, 1937, Page 3

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2, 1937 wwex A—3 CHILDREN INJURED INTRAFFIC HERE Two Are Treated After Being Struck in Street—Woman, 92, Hurt. Two children were injured in traf- fic accidents in the District last night. Two-year-old Gordon Saunders, 319 D street northeast, was injury and bruises about the body after being struck by a street car as he crossed the street near his home. The motorman was Bascomb L. | Padgett, 27, of 1527 B street north- | eAst The other child victim, Sally Pen- hallow, 5, of 1830 Jefferson street, suf= fered cuts and bruises when the car | in which she was riding with her mother, Mrs. Kathryn Penhallow, was in collision with a truck at the Speed- way exit. The truck driver, William H. Nor- ris, 43, of Gainesville, Fla, was re- leased under $300 bond on a charge of colliding. treated at | Casualty Hospital for a severe head | | Close-Ups of Principal Figures and Evidence in Keene Mystery A third child was knocked down and elightly injured hy an automobile to- | day at Twentieth and P streets. He | was Edward Thompson, 7. of 2148 O | street. At Emergency Hospital his in- | juries were described as not serious | and he was expected to be released | early this afternoon so he could re- | turn to school | Mrs. Margaret McGavin, 92, of omt 1, street was knocked down to the | sidewalk a few doors from her home when a truck backed into the curb. She was treated at Emergency Hos- pital for injuries to the right eve | and arm. The driver was Thomas | Butler, 24, colored, 1212 goutheast, police said While yesterday's accidents few, statistics for May, relcased by the Department of Vehicles and Traf- | fic. showed the trend in fatalities and | injuries on Washington's streets was 11l upward Eight persons, including six pedes- trians, were killed during May, twice the number of fatalitics in April and | bringing this year’ th toll to 48. | were | | skullbone.” ADply_above ad 4 GOLD CROSS. on F st.. between Oth_and 10th sts. a.w. Thursday, May 20. 1619 A st ne. At after 5 BILLFOLD. conta viemity of 14th » money. Return to J. Wal A nw BRACELET— White Sunday._Atlantic BRIEF "CASE con £10 bills and key; 1409 K st nw returned 10 Room 1515 16th st now DIAMOND RING Gardens and | missing): reward DOG—Part Mugssy: straved from Baltimore. _ Reward FYEGLASSES —Pinch rim turday nigt Tth e Ak FRENCH POODLE. bl “Cosette.” _Reward. 1 Columbia 5316, GLASSES. tortoise shell piece: in taxicab Priday Return to Lewis Schools ave. nw. is LEATHER CASE. Xeys: reward. | PERSIAN CAT | Md Please con Shepherd salt wat Plea 300, on Hotel. or lady's th and P n Potomac Scottie. bl “mose small, Call_Apt brown. contail 500, North contaning eve- at 14th st. an lesn‘n BOOK lost May Hotel. Finder please r P 7!’\"1«!(4 & e REPORT DESERTED siray unwanted animals to_the Animal Protective Assn. | Telephone Hillside 0394 _before 10_a.m EMALL. CRYSTAL FOB WATCH. lost on June 1. in vicinity of Shorcham Hotel. Reward, W. E. Cumberland. District 5180 TRAVELING BAG. left in cab around mid- nisht May Reward. 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We thought the lethal bullet was 2-caliber of the same type as the bullets found in Keene's pockats, but we can't be sure now,” said Brubaker, “We will have to make furthor tests. Of course, there is a possibility that a few pieces of the lethal bullet may | have chipped off when it struck the State's Attorney F. Kirk Maddrix, who is directing the investigation here, sai ‘We have not enough evi- dence to say whether Keene was mur- | | dered or committed suicide.” Maddrix said evidence which might | support a suicide theory is Keene was known to have owned a 3"-(‘ iber gun, which was last seex in his possession about two years ago. . The presence of three .32-caliber s in his left vest pocket. | 3. Discovery of a woman's silver mesh handbag, with his keys in it, in the brief case. 4. Testimony of Dr. Norris that |he fatal wound could have been self— inflicted. ! Blood Spot on Bunk. “But then,” Maddrix said, “we must try to explain the blood spot on ths on the washstand from his cabin. Obviously, the man didn’t shoot himself through the brain, | tie a brief case to his neck, climb out | of the window and clamber along a catwalk to the aft-deck rail before he went overboard.” Solution of the baffiing case, Mad- drix said, may hinge on identification | of the auto jack and tire iron and the | mechanic's hammer found in the brief | case. Investigators are proceeding on the theory Keene owned the brief | case. but it has not been positiveiy identified yet. Maddrix pointed out. “If we found that Keene went aboard that boat with a suit case loaded with metal and with pistol shells in his pocket, we could hardly avoid the suicide theory,” Maddix said. “On the other hand, we must remember that | Keene did not own an outomobile, but | the tools were readily accessible to a murderer in the cars in the hold of the ship.” (Friends in Washington were at a | loss to explain the presence of auto- | | mobile tools in the weighted brief | case. They said Keene did not have | a car aboard the boat and had not driven one for almost a year. Keene's automobile was damaged in an acci- | | dent some time ago, they said, and | he never drove after that.) Maddrix said he is anxiously await- | ing the arrival here today of Smith, who told a Star reporter yesterday of | the marlin rope around the dead man'’s neck. “I had heard only of the strand of cotton rope which held the brief case to his neck,” Maddrix said. “If there was a second strand of marlin rope around his neck the murder theory will be greatly strengthened.” Cut From the Neck. Smith said the marlin rope was tied so tightly it had to be cut from the man’s neck, while the cotton rope was loosely tied. “I just put a stick under the cotton rope and lifted the loop right over the man’s head,” Smith said. “The rope had cut into the back of his neck from it's a wonder it didn't slip off in the water. You know, rope shrinks in the water and stretches when it is dried and put under pressure. “That loop must have been even looser when the man was killed than it was when I found him. But that Marlin rope was plenty tight. I heard somebody say it looked like a piece of iron might have been tied to that Marlin rope.” Marlin rope, it was explained, is used in the strongest lines on a boat. It is treated to withstand the effects of water. Smith said Keene’s left hip-pocket was turned inside out when he found the body. No money or wallet was found. Keene, his family believes, had about $40 when he boarded the boat. He changed a $5 bill when he bought a bottle of soft drink at the refresh- SUMMER CLASSES FRENCH GERMAN SPANISH START FOR A CONVENIENT HOUR ENROLL TODAY £0-Minute Sessions—Native Teachars Small Classes — EASY PAYMENTS. The Berlitz School of Languages 1115 Connecticut Ave. NAt. 0270 A | vest, trousers and socks. | Jury because ment stand on the boat nickel was found in his cabin. “If this is murder, then robbery is Mad- Only a drix said Thinks Death Was Immediate. Dr. Norris said there would have been very little blood from the bullet wound. “If he had been lying on the bed when he was shot, only a little spot of blood, perhaps as big as a quarter, : would have trickled down on the sheet.” Dr. Norris said. “If he were lifted there might have been more |~ blood. It would have been impossible D mesh bag., which contained Kevne\‘ for a man with a wound like that to walk. I think he died instantly.” Keene evidently was killed about !1:45 am.on May 14, when the steamer | District of Columbia was off Point | Lookout, Md. It was at that hour that William H. Bowen, 38, of 1269 Oates street northeast, Washington, night watchman on the ship, heard what he | believed was a shot. Keene's cabin was dark, Bowen said, and although h? walked back to the after deck he 'saw nothing suspicious and was lulled into the belief that the noise he heard was steam cracking in the radiators. | Smith said that if the body had | been thrown from the boat near | Point Lookout it would have drifted ' | to the spot where he found it, 5 miles offt Smiths Island. Smiths Island is 10 miles out in the bay from Crisfield. The body was attired in a shirt, Keene's shoes and coat were found in his cabin. Smith towed the body to the island, which is isolated from all communica- | tion with the mainland. Magistrate Bradshaw convened the coroner's jury Monday night and, after exam- ining the body, 12 fishermen unhesi- tatingly returned a verdict of murder. First word of discovery of the body did not reach Sheriff Dryden until yesterday morning, when the fishing fleet from Smiths Island put in here. Smiths Island is in Somerset County as is Crisfield. Jury's Findings Weighed. | Maddrix said little weight would be placed on the verdict of the coroner’s the fishermen acted without sufficient evidence or knowl- edge of the background of the case. He predicted that eventually the case may be laid before the Somerset County grand jury. | Sergt. Brubaker said his search for the mysterious, taciturn ‘red-faced | * last person seen with Keene, has been futile. J. M. Eby, manager | of the refreshment stand on the Dis- | trict of Columbia, said the red-faced | man appeared at his stand shortly | before midnight on the night Keene | disappeared and ordered a bottle of | beer. When he placed the beer on | the counter, Eby said, Keene, who was wearing a red beret, walked up. With- out a word, the red-faced man shoved the beer to Keene, ordered a soft drink | for himself, and then walked away, leaving Keene at the stand. Eby thought the red-faced man‘ might have been a resident of the | Old Soldiers’ Home at Hampton, Va. | Brubaker said he has talked to five | residents of the Soldiers’ Home who were on the boat the night Keene | died and who disembarked at Old Point Comfort. None knew Keene or had talked with him, Brubaker said. Investigators admittedly are puz- zled by the testimony of Mrs. R. F.| Loper of Virginia Beach, who occu- pied the cabin adjoining Keene's. She said she is an unusually light sleeper, but she heard nothing unusual in the | cabin adjoining hers. The investiga- tors are convinced the report of a shot fired in Keene's cabin have awakened even a heavy sleeper | in the adjoining cabin. A crytic note found in Keene's vest pocket also is puzzling investi- gators. Written in pencil, it said:‘ “All over $30 is yours—F. B. C."” Cards of several real estate men were found in the pockets, and on a scrap of paper were penciled thc‘ names, “Sen Reynolds, the Shoreham, George Marshall and Mr. McDonald.” Contents of the brief case, in ad- dition to the auto tools and the silver AUDIPHONE Bone or Air Gonduetion DEMONSTRATION OPTICAL DEPARTMENT Jeuelers, Platinumemiths, Stationers A. KAHN INC. Arthur 3. Sundiun, President 45 Years at 935 F St. *however, | body | John W. Tilton, the handbag The bag was en- with the initials Close-up of and keys graved F.R. K —Star Slafl Phulns ll MONTH DEFICIT Articles taken from the leather bag, including automo- hand corner was in the mesh bile jack, hammer and tire iron. The tea strainer in right- bag. The three bullets were jound in chncs vest uhm his hndu 0 a& px(‘krd up keys, were: The real estate section of a Wash- ington paper of January 13, 1937; a handkerchief, a collar button, a rusty | pocket nail file, a broken piece of comb, two Tusty beer can openers, a pearl-handled pocket knife, a silver tea strainer and a box of paper matches and an aspirin box contain- ing two tablets wrapped in silver foil. The jack was stamped with the number S-J 710 and the name of the Automobile Specialty Co. of St Josephs, Mo. BRIEF CASE NOT FOUND. Landlord Uncertain if Keene Took It With Him on Boat. Charles S. Osborne, a dealer in jew- | elry. from whom Charles F. Keene rented office space in the Union Trust Building, said today he knew Keene | had a leather brief case, but was un- . certain if the real estate agent took it with him when he left for Norfolk Efforts to locate the brief case here, have been unavailing, it was said. The widow said today she did not know whether her husband took the brief case with him Keene's son, Charles F. Keene, fr., a former naval lieutenant, who re- signed to go into business in New York City. came to Washington yesterday upon being notified that his father's had been recovered, and today was arranging for the funeral. PUBLISHER GOES TO JAIL | Friends Seek Presidential Pardon | for Parole Violator. SYCAMORE, Ill, June 2 (®) — {leaders of his home town sought a presidential pardon because his efforts |toward community betterment in a measure repaid his debt to so- ciety.” The young publisher was paroled by a Federal court five years ago after pleading guilty to charges of perjury. Tilton said he violated his parole by leaving the State to obtain medical | treatment. as well as serve the sentence. - Prairie dogs can be killed for less than 3 cents an acre, according to ex- periments conducted by an Oklahoma farm agent. First the ' hurricane 24-year-old news- | | paper publisher, started serving a six- month jail sentence today while civic | “have | He must pay a $2,000 fine WILL WED TONIGHT Maryon Curtis and George Givot to Join Marriage Parade. HOLLYWOOD, June 2 (4. —Maryon Dorothy Curtis, film actress, and George Givot, radio’s “Greek Ambas- sador.” tonight will join the June wedding parade in Hollywood Friends since school days in Chi- cago, the couple will be married at the Little Church of the Flowers. Bridesmaids will include Sonja Henie. Norwegian skating star. Among the ushers will be Monte Blue, Tyrona Power, Johnny Downs and George Jessel. HURRICANE TOLL 545 MIAMI Fla. June ) —The shallows of lower Matecumbe yielded 18 more skeletons yesterday, bring- ing to 545 the number of known ci- vilian and war veteran dead in the which swept the Florida Keys on Labor day, 1935 Two other skeletons were recovered last Sunday 2 GOING AWAY? 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Eliminating provision for debt | tirement, it ended cal year re- the net deficit stood at § 5.519,219. For the entire fiscal year ending June 30 Pres Roosevelt forecast a net deficit of 000,000 Aggregate receipts for the 11-month period were $4.426,140.342, Receipts for the ire vear were estimated by Mr. Roosevelt at $5.224.- 000.000, and officials said heavy sec- ond-quarter income tax this month probably would push reve- nues past this figure Expenditures for the 11 months to- taled $6.803.404.361 For the entire vear outlays are estimated at $7,781,- 000.000. At the end of May the Treasury said Efild holdings stood at a new $11.989,- 258.268 record high, having increased | $757.934.558 since the first of the yrar, ! due principally to an undiminished inflow from abroad, State railways of Argen 42 additional Diesel rai] na will buy cars WHERE TO DIN] SPECIAL TOMORROW MAID’S NIGHT out WE FEATURE Our Regular $1.50 Dinner for ® Floked Chicken and Virginia Hom with Mushrooms ® Broiled Boned Shad and Roe ® Sirloin Steak, Minute RESTAURANT MADRILLON Washington Bldg. 15th and N. Y. Ave. N.W. ine Here in Cool Comfort Popular Prices 8:30 to 8:30 |6!4'C°NN Ave The Smiirpdsbord Many Washington visitors come to this noted restaurant where interesting and varied Scandi- navian foods follow the jamous smorgasbord (hors d'oeuvres table). No liquor served. Luncheon—Dinner 1632 K St. N.W. 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T know he had a .32-caliber pistol years ago, a ramshackle affair between us. “He had a distaste for blood. I'm sure he could never have planned suicide or turned a gun upon himself Buch a thing was impossible to a man sensative nature.” Boxer Sued by Indlan Girl. LOS ANGELES, June 2 () —Cefe- “Under the circumstances, a suicide theory is in direct conflict with Char- ley’s whole life and nature.” Walter Blount, distant cousin of the late Charles F. Keene and perhaps his most intimate friend, phatic in his opinion, Blount discussed the strange mys- tery today aboard his yacht Sunshine, was em- | where Keene stopped for a chat just before me embarked on the night of May 13 on the steamer District of Columbia for Norfolk. At that time, Blount was able to give his friend of 30 years some busi- ness tips which the real estate man noted on a slip of paper. The paper was found on Keene's body yvesterday This was tangible evidence to sup- port Blount's conviction that Keene left Washington intent on business the future, and with no thought of ending his life during the Norfolk voyage Two notations on the slip—"Bra- love” and “Hendricks '—were entered by Keene, Blount said, as a result of conversation aboard the Sun- ne. which lay at anchor near the | District of Columbia Blount said he tipped off the real tate trader, who dealt in a variety of commodities, that a man named Bralove had a boat for and that an interior decorator named He dricks was interested in purct several acres of a country estate, “I'm sure Charley made the notes from our conversation that afternoon with a view to r them down on his return from 1 3 need of money, I know, mined to mend his fc “Too, Charley was about his chances of clc able deal in No not say whom , nor did he deal, but th an agent’s rties to a nned to see in uss details of s natural. 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