The evening world. Newspaper, November 28, 1922, Page 3

WIFE ONLY STANDS BY HUSBAND TRIED FOR KILLING SISTER {Two Other Sisters, Mother- ~in-Law and Brother-in-Law All Against Him. HAD INSURED WOMAN. eat Teacher to Death and Set Fire to Kitchen, It Is Alleged. (Special to The Eventng World.) GREELEY, Col., Nov. °8.—Bert J Lowe, thirty-six, prominent in busi- ees circles, married and the father of ree children, is being tried before a@ jury on the charge that he mur- @ered his sister-In-law, Edna Fern Skinner, pretty school teacher, last July. : On the one side is Lowe and tis wife, a sister of the dead girl, Ins ing on his innocence. On the other is his mother-in-law, Bis two sisters<in-law and his broth- wr-in-law, equally insistent that he ts & red-handed murderer—a murderer for paltry money. In the background !s Clarence Law, ® youth of the town, to whom the girl ‘was afBanced. Adding a grewsome touch to tue ensemble is the skull of the deud rir! —an exhibit by which the State hopes to f its chain of evidence against the @efendant. Lowe asserts his sister-tn-law's @eath was the result of a gasoline stove explosion in the kitchen of the Lowe home. SLAIN GIRL’S RELATIVES, EX- CEPT WIFE, ACCUSE LOWE. The girl's relatives—all except Lowe's wife—allege Lowe beat her to th with a heavy tron window ‘weight, and set fire to her body and to the kitchen of the Lowe home to make it appear that*her death was accidental. They assert he insured her life tn the amount of $3,500 and made the policies payable to himself as the first step in a plot which, if proved true, will be set down as one of the most fiendish in the crime annals of Col- orado. Tt was on Sunday morning early In July, while his wife and children were at church, that Lowe rushed from hiy home with the cry of "Fire!’* sound- ing from his lips, Sthoké was pouring from the doors and wimiows of the house and firemen, on their arrively found the interior of the kitchen an inferno. When the flames had been ex- tinguished, the body of Miss Skinnor, who had been living with the Lowes while attending summer sessions ot @ Colorado State Teachers’ Col- lege, Greeley, was found on the kitchen floor, burned almost beyonJ recognition. Lowe sald the fire was started by the explosion of a gasoline cook stove; that his sister-in-law had been knocked senseless by flying particles of the wrecked stove, and that the blaze enveloped the kitchen so quickly he was unable to save her. His own story was a plausible one, after a perfunctory inguest, at vhich the jury returned a verdict of accidental death, Miss Skinner's re- mains were taken to her old home at LeRoy, Ul., for burial. Lowe and his: wife went to Le Roy for the funeral and thag-returned to Greeley A month clapsed and tho tragic death of the pretty, young schwol teacher had about faded from the minds of all save her ives and close friends*when lowe doposited (Continued on Ninth Page.) —--- PSsTHUMOUS AWARD FOR FLY BROOKLINE, Mass., Nov. 28.—Re lognition of the courage shown by Har- id Ernest Goettler, ing Lieuten- nt, shot down while pplies » the “ost battalion’? in the Argonne ‘orest, came to-day to Mrs. rtrude joettler, his mother, in a ni from he War Department of the posthumous werd of the Congressional” Medal of] oner. i \ Mrs LIDA DOOLEY Sisters A ‘Ace MISS IDELLA + MISS EDNA SKINNER. ’ _THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, = | MRS. ALBERT LOWE is Your Marriage Certificate Your Insurance Policy; Married People Live Longer Than Single Insurance Cn. Physician and Statistician Produces Fig- ures to Prove It—Disparity Between Married and 1) MARRIED PEOPLE live longer than single? Y know 5, of ingle Longevity More Marked Among Men Than Among Women. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. course, you don't—it only seems longer. But is there not a more scien tifte, ir the has answered less question. in cynical, which answer to incidentally, just been raised again and the affirmative by two distinguished British physi- cians—Dr. alienist, head of Service. And the British Say it with capitals— "MARRIED PEOP! LONGER THAN THES right, Or, marriage certificate is Bernard and Sir the Holla: Bruce Army nder, Porter, Medical doctors are [DO LIVE INGLE as it might surance policy. It was chief statist! Dr. be put, your your in- Louis I. Dublin, n of the Metre politan Life Insurance Company, who furnished me with the Jo} -wedded er-life-to- se They're not Di but they were collected by figures. Dublin's figures, Pre Walter F. Wilcox, of CorneffUni- versity, cian to and ¢ the New sulting statisti- York State Health Department. And here they Death rate condition, outside New York City marital “The most obvious these figur of mal —=Maiivat Con ccordin classified by w York Stu 1 Buffalo: ‘fact indicated by to Prof. Wil cox, “is that the death rate for hus- bands is much lower than that fo ngle men at cach age group except the highest, where it is about the same. The percentage of difference is greatest at the ages of 30-39 and 40-49, where the death rate of hus- the vaudevillian’s reply: ney bands is somewhat less than one-half that of bachelors.” Which is surely a warning to marry before thirty, at the very latest. “The table also shows,’’ continu Prof. Wilcox, ‘that the death rate of widowers and divorced men is consid. erably higher than’ that of the hus- bands of the same age and between 30 and 80 is not far from the death rate of bache!. “If husbands lose thetr wives, the ors of the same age. then, lose much of chance of ty which marriage cures, and, in general, the younger y are, the more they lose."” good self-pr Moral—Be on grounds of to your wife, ervation! fo holds for m: This 1s Prof. And the same r ired and single women Wileox’s table in proot Death rate of fem dition, y York: classified by ow York City and Buf Wil 1in,"? comments P: striking fact is thut the feath of wives lower than of single women of the same ge. “The only exception th perhaps due in of child-bearing srs on the mortality of art to the greater » of the wives in that group. A women marry at the average aver yut twenty-five, the ay of wives between twenty 1 be noticeably above the aver uge of spinsters tn the same group. The advantage of wives ov pinsters, however, In the matt f husbands over bgchelors, ‘The mor : than that of also exce that of wi much as the mortalit and divorced men exceed rtality murriage is benefit to women than “What d 1 think ?"? f asked Dr Du “How do you accuunt for the greater lorigevity of ( The chief n pre y is that it is the more fit who marry in the f place,"" 1 a. “Of course not mean there are not nty of bache rs who ure phys But numbers | and abnormal pe | not marry are a te who natu that th » death ra ma inwed “Tt Jp also true, however, ¢bat mar use Him of Slaying Sister, Wife Who Believes Husband Innocent i BERT 3 Lowe TWO FIANCES ‘CLAIM BODY OF WOMAN Sister Finally Obt Miss Mildred BE, Reynold The body of Miss Mildred ¥. olds, thirtysseven, who entered the sani- tarlum of Dr. C. B. Reinle at Summit, N. J., last Friday for treatment for a ay from an veronal, was bre for transsh in Columbus, taker Brewst. the woman died idental overdose of ught to New York to- nt to the Woman's sald to-day that man who said aimed n= after he was Miss Brewster's flance the body and ordered it buried in ( wood Cemetery, In with the order, the undertaker engaged a burfal plot in that cemetery. Meantime, however, another man, who said he was the real flance of the dead woman, ap- peared and demanded that the body be buried in Woodlawn Cemetery. ‘The un aker was at a what to do until der p er of the d rived at Sun ay tt and ia n finally a tifled herself, to a chapel in th rvices this morning bus. body was taker r before going te ~ FORMER NEW YORKER NOW THE BRIDE OF MGVIE ACTOR Divorced Wife of Alvin Unter Wedded tn Los Angele to Eliott Dexter, ANGELES, Nov, 28.—Adeibert | hitott Dexter, known in motion pietur s Blliott Dexter, formerly the husband t Marie Doro, actress, and Mrs C. Untermyer, formerly the wife of Ai vin Untermyer, New York attorney were married here li night, a few hours after they ad? obtains d thelr license, The bride gave her place of residence as Riverside, Cal., where she recently was 6 nal decree of divorce. age 1s the normal life for the nornial man and woman. Other things » equal, it would be my judgment that a@ person living in the relationsh'p of marriage, with physical and a needs fairly well satisfied by } and the companionship of @ part would outlive the bachelor or the married woman. There ar extra hazards in childbirth for the warried woman, but these doubtless are !n large measure counterbalanced by the foct that her physical life is goacr functioning more smoothly than if sie were not wed. The married n some worries which the bacholor e4- capes—but also has many comforts n bes un bee Whatever the ewplanation, the No- ures don't lic. And they do say: “Get @ wife tf vou want @ long jis!” NOVEMBER TIERNAN WEDDED LEGALLY TONO, 2, HER MOTHER SAYS Divorce Record Shows. She Was Free to Marty Professor. SAYS HE WILL JOIN HER. Méanwhile, Law Teacher Is Trying to Rewin His First Wife. HANSELL, Ta., Nov. 23*=Mra. Chaties H. Hawn, mother of Mra. Blanche Hawn Rash Brimmer, back here to-day from Marshalltown, Ia. where they spent yestorday Investigi gating the marital status of Mrs.Brim~- mer, announced that her daughter legally was entitled to wed Prof. John P. Tiernan tn their Crown Point, Ind., mony last Saturday. Tt is “Mrs, Blanche Tiernan" defi- nitely, said Mrs. Hawn, and Prof. Tier- nan and Mrs. Augusta Tiernan must settle their legal status in Indiana. “My daughter never intended to marry Tiernan when she went to Chicago last Thursday” night,’ the mother said. “Tiernan wired her to come to Chicagd that day, and she went. They had expected to be mar- ried at Christmas time, but Tiernan, I believe, got excited and tho hasty e at Crown Point was the re- cor fy daughter never has been a very calm thinker, acting frequently on the impulse of the moment, and this, to- gether with Tiernan’s insistence, no doubt easily won her ove “Sbe did nothing wrong. She ts the only legal wife of Tiernan, as the court records in Marshalltown havo cleared her divorce record, which Mr. Tiernan seems to worry about.’* The daughter's main idea now ts to prove to the world that she 1s the legal wife of Prof. Tiernan, Mrs. Hawn said. Looking toward that end two motion picture offers have ben refused, she sald, She may write books, Mrs. sald, for she has such a fund agination that it is easy for Hawn of im- her to 28, 1922, Engaged to Every Man in Office, 30 Give Clock of Rings at Wedding ; ’ MISS END ERT YVORTH Unique Timepiece to Remind Stenographer How Much She Is Loved. Miss Enid Wentworth, stenog- rapber in a British concern, been engaged to every male mem- ber o ftho staff, there being thirty in all. Although she is only twenty-six has years old, she has the firm for ten years and | last declded worked with at to settle down y one of the owners of the place. All her old lovers will be chureh to and at the wish her will, while the thirty engagement rings, which she returned, have heen set in a clock which the firm is presenting to her as a reminder of how she is loved. good Produce, great numbers of hand- written pages in a short time. The daughter plans to spend sev- eral days at the home of her first husband, Floyd Rash, in Marshall- town. His parents live there, and her four-year-old gon, Kenneth, is with them. SOUTH BEND, Ind., Nov. 28.— With the threads of the domestic af- fairs of Prof. and Mrs, John P. Tier- nan becoming more tangled by many new dovelopments since the start of the Tiertan-Poulin paternity case, the next move of the principals toward a restoration of harmony in the household with interest. to- Despite the fact that Prof. Tiernan nounced last night that the recon- ‘ation with his first wife wes mov along satisfactorily, a despatch Marshalltown, Ia, quoted Blanche Brimmer Tiernan, the| ca professor's “bride of a day,” as say- ing that she was the latter's ¥ ind was going to live with him, She d she expected Tiernan to arrive ut the Towa city Wednesday. ou Whether the professor will carry | ot his announced intention of di the divorce petition against + Mrs, Tiernan and have the al of the Poulin was being watched from Mrs. out dismissed, or ion to ha ad Mrs eps whether | at © his mar-] 4), jernan pro that romain future develop- lage to the sec need legal o be determined ments, tr by aoe res REPORTED LOST AT SEA, ARRIVE SAFE AT HOMES Jersey Men Had Th ence When 8 ing Bxpert- ept Out by Storm, Frank Heller, of No, 129 Newton treet, Newark, and Louls Stage of No. 02 Harrison Ay Srey. (are J lost at 10 were reported sea while Anna, returned late last night to Ha i afte rhaving been g: Imost a They hud left with only two da visions when they were swept to sea storm last Tuesday. They drifted uround until they found their way back inside of Sandy Hook Police of Harrison and New York had ‘n requested to search for the pair. —_ MRS. ALICE MIOYNELL, LONDON, Nov. 28.—Mrs, Alice Me ell, well known poet and ¢ 5 re Yesterday, She was the wife, of iifred Meynell, author and journalie ho @pent much of her early life in Italy, RADIUM DROPS $50,000 PER GRAM, CLOSING MINE IN COLORADO Big Pitch-Blende Discovery ta Belgian Congo Cais Price; Now Only 870,000, DENVER, Col., Nov. 23 Radium has dropped $50,000 a gram in price, and the Standard Chemical Company has * heen forced to close Its carnotite prop- erties in Faradox Valley, in West- ern Montrose County, Colorado, throwing 250 men out of wor! ding to an announcement by company officials to-day Discovery of yast deposits of pitch-blende in the Belgian Congo 8 said to be responsible for the decrease in price of radium, which 8 #aid to sell for $70,000 a gram now, compared with § oo a avam fosmerly, Harlem Apartment paternity case against} the WOMEN CARRIED DOWN FIRE ESCAP WITH CHILDREN amecaeeiie trance Cut Off by Flames—Oth- ers Escape by Roof. Two women and two children were arried down fire escapes this morn- n flames cut off the entrance » apartment house at No, 201 1d Street. Other tenants got ut by way of the roof, crossing tu her roofs. The blaze, however, did not rise above the ground floor It was in the Tiyoll dress shop on ground floor that the fire started about 9 o'clock, eating its way rough a wall to the apartment en ance, TI 2062 dress shop entrance is enth Avenue, but its rear joins the apartment house entrance. joke was pouring from the se Let Fatima smoker tel ond floor windows of the apartment house when John Cutter, No. 77 Fast 119th Street, came along. Patrolman He: Kelly, who drives a Ford for Inspector McGrath, saw the smoke while he was waiting in front of the West 123d Street station, and he ar- rived at almost the same moment, as Cutter. Cutter and the policeman the ftre-escape to the third floor, which by that time was filled with smoke, broke the windows end car- yan up ried out Mrs, Violet Amato and her two children, Sarah, nineteen months old, and Emil, nine years. Then Kelly carried out Vrs. Marthe Osthein from the second floor. All the other tenants meanwhile had climbed to the roof after discovering that they could not use the stairway to the street The damage has not been estimate nor has the cause of the fire learned leading _— DEATH TAKES THIRD VIETIM ON PIER 13 en Hampo, thirty, was killed at Stapleton, Ste 4 master rig- Pier 13, erday w ger, Prospect Stree a joist fell from # derrie ull ik and crushed his Hampo had been working on a scut fold below the derrick. He {s the third ran’ to be Killed accidentally on Pler 13 In two months —and after other cigarette UNWED MOTHER WINS HER FIGHT TOENTER THE U. ts Wealthy tsivoieaa Who Ap- pealed for Girl and Son Won't Comment on Reason, There is good in the world after all, according to Nancy Jordan, un- wed British mother, who had been detained on Ellis Isiand with her three-year-old hild of a war- time romance and who Department of r officials finally have decided anter the United States on the posting of a bond by love-c may be permitted Mrs. Frank G. Warren, wealthy divorced wife of the Kansas City lawyer who knew the girl in Eng- nd Mre. Warren is expected here to- day from Kansas City to put up two bonds of $500 each to guarantee that the English girt and her boy will not become public charges and take them back to her hi elty * Meanwhile, speculation is rife on just what is behind the reticence of principals tu the ease. Warren, who was divorced by lis wife upon his re- turn from overseas, will net affirm nor dony that he is father of the boy, explaining that {¢ he were to claim paternity he would be calling the Eng- lish mother a Har and if he denied it he would be answering a charge that never has been made, His divorced wife will say nothing with the exeep- tion that if any light 1s thrown upon the unusual case it must come from Mr. Warren: Most reticent of all, perhaps, ts the blond Jtnelish pant Board of Inquiry of the Department of Labor has decided, after reading a report on the case, that the child rep- resents a moral mistake rather than an immoral character within the meaning of the Immigration Law. Perhaps the most énlightening tea~ ture of the whole matter is a state- ment given out yesterday in Kansas City by Warren. Hé said: ‘fhere was no scan in our divorce. Misa Jordan and her boy did not enter into the matter in any way.” For this reason, there are those who believe that Wapren is in some manner fut- filling a debt of honor and fs playing the game Despite the divorce, Warren and his former wife are on the most friendly of terms. She owns considerable property and he has continued as her counsel in the management of her af- fairs, It was she whe suggested to Mixs Jorfan that she come with the child to United States and then fur- nished the money for het passage. KANSAS CITY, Noy. 28,—Naney Jordan, pretty Englistt mother de- tained at Ellis Isiand, and Frank @. Warren, whose divorced wife has of= fered Miss Jordan and her child a home, have never discussed marriage, the wealthy Kansas City attorney de- clared to-day. “Miss Jordan will find a welcome home with my former wife here. All that can be done for a girl who has made one mistake will be done by, Mrs. Warren," he @ sald: MRS. CLARA PHILLIPS SENTENCED FOR MURDER Slayer of Mrs. Me Years to LOS AN¢ a8, Nov. Phillips, convicted of murder for killing Mrs, Alberta Mead- ows with « hammer, was sentenced to serve from ten years to life in the State Penitentiary at San Quentin. Counsel asked ten days to prepare an appeal ‘The Trial Judge and the attorney who defended Mra. Phillips wero ill, Judge Pant J. MeCormick denied a motion for a new tris! and imposed sentence, — » Mrs, Phillips, a had any thing to say before sentence, answered “no” and heard the sentence without evidence of emotion, dows Gets Ten fe. 28.—-Mre, Clara cond degree all, what so highly respected by so many men? i