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GREENCASTLE, INDIANA. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 16. 1920.
THE WEATHER: fair and warmer.
INSANITY PLEA WINS; MUNCIE IS NOT GUILTY
SLAYER OF DR. L. L. WILLIAMS, BRAZIL PHYSICIAN, IS ACQUITTED OF MURDER CHARGE BY A JURY IN CLAY COUNTY
COURT
SHU HELD IN JAIL
TAXI TURNS OVER WHEN CARS COLLIDE SUNDAY
A Convert
BRAZIL, Ind., Feb.
Muncie, on trial for five weeks for killing f)r. L. L. Williams, was found not fcuilty because of insanity at the time of the act, according to the ver diet of the jury, which was returned
early this afternoon.
(The verdict as returned by t ie jury reads: “Wo, the jury, find that the defendant committed trie act as .■hanred in the indictment, but is not guilty becau s e he was insane at the
time he committed the act.’’
Judge Hutchison ordered Muncie returned to the jail until he may be examined by a commission to deter, lino his insanity at the present
time.
Muncie who appeared to
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Miss Mabel Jackson of this city narrowly escaped serious injury Sunday morning when the taxi in wnicli she was riding south on iniiiana! street collided with a machine at the! comer of Poplar and Indiana street, driven by Dr. A. E. Ayler of this city. The taxi was turned over by the force of the compact. The machine driven by Arthur Jones for IT. R. Nicholas of the Greencastie t ransfer Company, was going south on Indiana street. IThe view of both was obstructed by tho Christian church until both machines were upon each
other.
The rear right wheel- of the taxi caught on the spring of the Ayier {(machine % pulling it around s o that
l''*- Ceorge machin e driven by Dr. Ayier
started down Indiana street and the taxi turned over. The driver of the taxi escaped any injury but Miss Jackson’s hands were badJy cut by broken glass. She was taken to the offic^ of Dr. W. R. Hutcheson and her
injuries were dressed.
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HIGH SCHOOL NOTES
Tho basketball fans are looking forward to this week’s game with Wiley of Terre Haute with great interest. The game will he played on Thursday night on the local door. {The Wiley lads have fallen once to Greencastie, th t . s oore being heavy j be unn.-r | on the Greencastie side,
a s vore strain since the case was Superintendent E. C. Dodson angiven to the jury, jumped from his nouncorl this imorning that there will, chair when the verdict was an , a high school moving picture show! nounccd and embraced his wife. The I this week. The entertainment will) e-nfe-sion of the wif e concerning j be “Tho Hired Man,” in which Charie-
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ho pr -'ont in a few pnehnges only of any lot. There Is no method, the officials say. by which the packers or home canners can assure themselves by casual examination before canning that the product does not contain the bacillus hotiillnus. If the food was in all cases properly sterilized and perfectly sealed, the development of the poison would be Impossible, but no method of preserv- j Ing food has yet been found, the ! specialists say, that eliminates the occasional spoiled package. Failure to sterilize may not become apparent for weeks, or even months after the can- : nlng of the article. If signs of spoil-! age have appeared when the can is opened. It Is clear warning that the j product Is no longer edible. There Is no greater probability of botulinus poisoning in olives (ban in many other food products, either commercial or domestic. Tbiti! this year It has been more commonly found In string beans, asparagus,'and the like. If was originally found in sausage. It has been found in cheese; it is present sometimes In stock food, such ns. moldy hay and other kinds of spoiled forage, but it has never been found In the department investigations In any kind of food that was not spoiled.
ROCKVILLE DEFEATED BY GBEENCASTLE
I’ARKE COUNTY ROYS NO MATCH FOR HOME BOYS IN BASKET BALL GAME PLAYED HERE ON SAM l RDAY N IGHT—DEFEATED LOCALS EARLY IN SEASON
THE SCORE IS 35 TO 12
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DEPAUW NEWS
DEPAUW FACES NORTHERN TRIP
DEPAUW UNIVERSITY G!Rl DIES OF THE PNEUMONIA
LOOK OUT FOR POISON IN FOOD
hir intimate relaticns with Dr. Willi Tia formed one of the strongest point, in the evidence for the defendant, She related that thj physician violated professional ethics after hav ng been called to treat her at her home. Spine weeks afterwards she told the facts of the case to her husband. He procured a r volvor and waited for the physician at the stairway leading to his ofiic \ While tho physician was leaving his automobile, Muncie shot and killed
Dr. Williams.
Evidence s ubmitted at the trial -howed that Muncie had suffered mentally after his wife related the
tory to him.
The jury received instructioirs from
Ray takes the leading part. The
s iov\( will be given on either WedneS-j day or Thursday night. If on Thura-
lay night the film producHon will n '''j " ^ " H.l.
W ileyG rienow* tie
s hown after the basketball game.
Many of the high school room-. were too cold to hold recitation *n this morning, and (classes had to be dismissed. The reason given for tho low temperature in several of the rooms wa s on account of the grade of coal now being used in the
BE MET THIS WEEK--BASE
BALL CALL EXPECTED
After humbling the Wabash I.itt iBrothers by tho eonvin'-ing count ot 2 to . the renovated DtiPauw Tiger inach'iie turns its attention to getting into shape for the first real roaii trip
furnaces. Many students wor,. the r year. Monday the squad will c l ass , j leave for the annual invasion of the
wraps to
north, meeting Notre Dam,*
The death of Migs Juliett Annei Hess, age 21, a sophomore of De-j Pauw University occurred Sunday!
m ruing at the norm* of Arthur Hurst | FcddfBl Food OfiiCiRlS WdlTI Cofl*
| .‘-Touth Bend fTuesday and the* Michi-
Miss Olivette Sayior of St. Louis,' ( , an ,\(jgics Wednesday at East Laos.
Mo., arrived in this city Sunday eve- j n g The Old Gold team gave a brilliant
of this city, whev P she was rooming, [ following a short illness of pneumeuth was called to this city latter month was called to thi s city the part of last week by her (laughter’s illness. The body was taken over the Vandalia this morning to Ply mouth, Ind. Funeral will be held Wednesday afternoon at 2 o’clock at Plymouth. Miss Dorothy Girard and Miss Eleanor Lcssic, accompanied Mrs. He s s to Plymouth to attend the
funeral
sumers to Watch for Signs of Spoilage.
The Life Service Convention which was held at DePauw during the week end close,] Sunday evening with an . adilre s s in MeHarry Hall bv Dr. Richardrton, of the University or I Chicago, on the subject “Challenger; j to Christian Service.' Dr. J. V. | Thompson, general secretary of the | Young People’s Sunday School ot I the Methodist Church it, ( Cnicngo, j addressed a ma ^ meeting in Mi llar ' ry Hall Sunday morning at 9:po i o’clock on the subject “Print- iK;> Underlying the Choice 'of any Lift* j Work.” Many conference s were held I by members of tile committee rl, ) ing the convention with thus., stu i dents interning to enter Christian | Service.
RIPE OLIVES KILL SEVERAL
Prof. W. W. Sweet, of tho department of History at DePauw, delivered an address at the Merodian Street M. E. church in Indianapolis on Sun day evening on the subjtci, America’s Moral Obligation to Latin
America."
ning to assist Miss Alice hTompson
Judge Hutchison late Saturday i ,*e-' during the spring millerinerv rush, ning and entered into deliberations j
at once. After II o’clock today Ihe! The Ameru . an Zjnc Fro(iuc ] s Com- a jury asked to be mnstructed and) . vi! , tart w , ,| n ,. S( , ay morning I'nKsUtd against Curtis and Moffett
BARNABY NAMED ON THE
G. 0. P
Botulinus Pc'-rcn Responsible for Fa,
talities—No Method of Preserving
Food Found That Eliminates
Occasional Spoiled Package.
! Senator Albert J. Beveridge, n
! Washington.—Botuliniis poisoning, I graduate of DePauw Univcrs.ty with which recently killed six In one fain- I the class of 1885, will deliver an ad1 By In New York, is enused by e;it-id r .s s j M MeHarry Hall next Sun Ing spoiled food Infected with the bit- I ( | uv afternoon, February 22, at b:!..
POLICY BOARD s " v ,l "‘ 0,Ti,,|, " s of ! O’clock. Senator Beveridge is to be
The G. H. S. high school basket ball team easily defeated the Rockville High school five Saturday night in the game played on the local floor by the score of 35 to 12. The game was witnessed by many DePauw students, as the coach of the Rockville team. Joseph Royse is a graduate of DePauw and starred in athletics when in college. In commenting upon the strength of Rockville Friday night. Coach Royse stated t tat his team is now in a slumj) and was not playing up the standard. The Parke County lads won from Greencastie on their own floor at the beginning of tho season by the* s core of 18 to 10. Coach Shalt Ts lads showed some splendid team work Friday night and 1 xe-lied in defense plays. Rockville only scored one point during the first half while Greencastie* counted 22
points.
The lineup and substitutIon s were
as follows:
Greencastie, 35 Rockville, 12 J- Hirt Forward ...Thompson
Forward _ Havey
Allen Center Peare L. Ilirt_. . Guard McNorton Master; __ Guard --Calloway Substitutions Britton for Havt«y. Killion for MeNorten, Irwin for
Hirt, Talbott for Irwin. Referee—Miller of DePauw
J.
Judge Hutchison was called his home. The instructions
from
at 7 o’clock instead of Tuesday morn
,. the officials
i the bureau of chemistry. United States I., . , , - i i , . , , , ,, , , the chief speaker of roundels and
department of ngrlrulture, who have I „ , , , . . , . ,
his and other poisoning | 1U ' ne£actor * ^ wh “' 1 ,a to be , eU “
Charles H. Burnaby of Groencasth ,.. lst , s )n (M , nn( , c t;„ n n,,. jbrated at DePauw next Sumlaj, has been named as one of tnirtyj t m , n t „( tin* food and drugs act. In ! O. W. bifer, 1). I)., pastor of the
to pull together, reorganize, and tnen! members of a committee of Indiana the New York ease death was mused Central Averu ■ Methodist id 1 c *
exhibition of what a real “come-hn .'K means, when it recovered sufTie'ently from the shock of the inedigibility a t
TELEPHONE CO. WILL MAKE BID IMPROVEMENT
re read, thi s consuming aTsuit
ing as was announced Saturdny. Fail
h ur and a half, and after going back
ore of spelter to arrive is the cause
of the delay.
‘he jury room the jurv called the | J .ff and requested him to ask th ■
ejdgc to remain, as they were about The Domestic Science f'iub to reach a verdict. Ten minutes la- meet Wednesday afternoon with Mrs,!
the verdict was returned. J. P. Dunlavy.
form. Announcement of the appointmicits of th° members of this committee was made ye g ter<iay by tiiej
Republican state chairman.
‘Before and After” in the Near East
GEORGE SAGE RESIGNS TO ACCEPT NEW APPOINTMENT
‘BEFORE.’’
•‘AFTER."
trample on the Tiny Giants—all in three days. And although the absence of the htigky Moffett, was noth' able, [especially in the underbasket tussels yet both Gipson and Mendenhall show-
will tremendous form. . Miller “Opens Up."
Miller gnve the first flash of his last year’s class in his play Thursday. Especialy did he excel in ifi]derhaski't wriggling. Mbst of his sixj I field goals were results of clever feed- •
| rig snd his elusive twust Mendenhall | Gcorj{ , ; F S|l( , e> for thc pa , t flVe re,Mated hi* brilliant floor play. J voars ns , isl . int lhl . , shown in the second Purduo game. Sute Farmi hae rf . iiKneA his
Coach Buss is apparently not yet satisfied that he has the proper combination for defence, although* his first choice gave tho scnrT«*c Jossers food for thought. His use of the diminutive Young at floor guard, sending Mendenhall to forward and the use of Kepner for Gipson, indicates that furtner changes may come. With Bun Guild, football luminary, showing steady improvement at bnc!’. -yard, there i* the possibility that ho may tie among those to h ? trjed it Moffett’s old place. IPs size and speed are (decidedly in his favor, though it has been some time srnce he nlay^i basket ball, and it is this handicap which h t . is making up now
Republicans to formulate sugg* sted I*.' Inittillnii.s pul.son In ripe <>li\ij pal church at Indianapolis, juts ..* *'11 planks for the Republican state plat Fhe olives remaining in lln* bottle in | selected to conduct the revival st ■
tlii.- rase had on offensive odor. Tin*
! vices to be held at DulPauw Tut
s'uiie eoiidillon was found ill the I (1 W edm s da V and T.tursday nightin iilli(>r cases invesllgated by the de- 1 3 ------
partinent. All spoiled food does not
contain this poison, but any spoiled food, even though the spollnge he | slight, may contain II, and for this : reason, say the otlh'lals, all food show- i
; Ing even the allghtest uiinnlural odor, : Prof J. ; Honalural (•(dor, swelling of lln* ''"n* 1 department
I talner. sign of gns. or any evldcnee I u .. j of decomposition whatever, should be
discarded.
of the
from 7 to 8 o’clock in MeHarry Hall. Ur. Fifer was the chief speaker at DePauw when the day of Prayer fir
College's was observed.
KHAL EONCEItN WILL SPEND I RDM S25.0U0 T()$30,(1U0 IN MODERNIZING ITS PLAN l M.w SWT|T( H BOARD Wll.L HE INSI AI.LED WORK TO BEGIN APRIL 1
State Farm, hn s resigned
position there and has accepted the appointment as chief clerk to E, K. Chenoweth, superintendent of the new State institution, the Colony fov the Feeble Minded, at Butlerville, Ind. Butlerville is 7 miles east of Win
Chester, Ind.
P Naylor, head of the of physics at DeFauv.-,
( has received word tiat two of his ! former students. Dr. Artnur L. Fotey,
Trace Poisonous Food. I head of thl? ^Partmvnt or pnys:cs The* deiMiTti’H'fit nf uiLrrimlturo hns | at Indiana an( r<} iisci! ovrry possible olVort nfifl gom* tn Stuart, head of the (U-paitment of tlie limit of its lepil authority to re- j physics at the University t>f Iowa, move all dangerous foods from tlio have been, appointed as members of market by seizure under the food and i na ti on al committee to encourajr*
HO MORE RINGING THE BELL
dings net, s.iy the olHclnls. Each time
I and
direct research work in sound.
botulinus poisoning hns I _ nQt on , an honor - 0 the food inspectors have traced through j , ■ i , . r t..,ti I the Chntmels of tin* hatch P r ‘^‘ nt P h * V8 !‘' < 1e P* rtm 1 tnt ° f InH '
Mr. Sage during fiv.. years at thi
State Farm has provi-n himself a'*'"'d hnve used all measure' under most capable clerk and In selecting I ' l "‘ ,n ' v r,, ' n,,v “ 11 fro,,, ,l,e " ,nrk ‘* t -
a man for thc new in*titution, whoj was familiar with tie wont to oo done, there was no hesitancy in sclcc I
hut also to Prof.
from which the poisonous food came i ana University,
Naylor, former head of tho depart
1' i oin misery to comfort and self-respect in five days lime, simply through magic of nil Anterlrun ten dollar hill, Is a tmiisfur.iaatioii that is being a roughl daily in W estern Asia by the Near East Belici of I Madison Avenue. N'-w York City. The group of five Armenian children slmwn In two pictures "i'e have reason to bless the American donor <>f that ten dollar bill. \\l,h 'bis money, the expert workers of Near East Belief in Armenia were aide to ''Id the poor children of their loathesonie rags and In cintlie them with new -ariaents of alaju cloth, woven In a Near East Belief Industrial plant a *1 '“wd Into giirineiits by the mother of tin* children. Ihe mollier "as als Paid a small fee for her services In uiakiiig the garinents. This was a lucky family. There are ilimisaiids of others not so lin ky the Near East, simply heciuise of u lack of other ten dollar bill*. N,, ar East Belief Is asking the American people to contribute Dunls ,0 s "ve the starving In the Bible lands. It Is estimated 'hat over l.'JT-O.OOO “bills are lu desperate need, and 250,000 children are orphans and innst be cared for. For the sam of $ISO n year Near East Belief can not only feed !l “d clothe and shelter an orphan child, but can also give a course In edtiea "on towards ultimate self-support mid Indopenffenoe. Many of these orphans *ie being ••adopted" by Americans who ure providing funds foi the suppon of one or more over a given period.
PAUL ALBIN RESIDENCE. IS DAMAGED BY CONFLAGRATION
ting Mr. Sage. Although he is still actually found at the State Farm. Mr. Sage already; to contain polsoi has taken up his new duties. } only nn occasion
Samples from nil other brands put out by the packer have heen examined. Since tin* law iiutlinrlzes seizure In such cases only when (In* foods uro
Five former student, of Prof. Nay-
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
> hi* deonmposod or »us ingredients, since pnckugtt in millions
is infected wlfli hacilhis botulinus,
! nn<l since it is physically possible to I physics departments
open ami examii i hut a comparatively j tutions. 4* At... ...til ... . ,.4-’ .j I
incut, inasmuch as two members are men who began their work in physic s under Professor Naylor,” said Dr. Foley. “Largely to h s influen-,# Is due the enthusiasm in research work
t lat those men possess.’*
lor me now at thc
head of various in statu insti
/The home of Paul Albin, on east Seminary street, was badly damaged by fire Sunday afternoon at near 1 o’clock when burning soot from the
chimney fell upon the roof and the j Hathaway, land in
shingle* caught fire. Virtually the $5,700
entire roof burned oft - before ti.. fire) Morton L. Acord to Vergni En •I* partinent got (be lire extinguish*-1. giish. land in Greencastie, $1,400.
W’iliiam K. Davis to Glen O, P c. kel, (>3 acres in Jackson township,
6,300.
(Thom a * J. lUck-, ti Orlando M. Lyd'ck, lot in Russellvil It*, $500. John L. Foudray, administrator to Clyde W\ Hutcheson, lot In Green-
castie, $2,000.
William A. Durham to Rex R.
M.ad : son township,
few of the mill si. of cans entering j
Indianapolis Receipts
Hogs,
50 G i
n,
The building is a two story house. Mr. Albin had insurance sufficient to cover his loss. Mr. and Mrs. Albin and family probably will move to their farm, just cast of town, until
their home is repaired.
Stella Perkins Peck, to Cyrus U.
Wade, lot in Greencastie, $4,200.
Claude C. Baili-y to Paul Hurst,
lot in Greencastie,-$11,760.
Elizabeth Craig to Paul F. Priest, I
Interstate cornnn tee, it Is beyond the um'IDTC O Ann . power of the c mliorities to protect | KtUtlrlS. tMJUU, Ha* public cniiipl tely. For this rcu-| PRICES REMAIN STEADl
n (lie* cmiili 1 /.c I lie necessity for;
scrupuious cuie on lln* pnrt of per- |
sons opening and serving foods to (discard anything w lilch Is spoiled. In*,
products not obvi usly spotlcil. if there j 01 M; cattle. 1 ,(JU; calves. ;»iit ; sh*'(;',
Is doubt In the n * "gnttiii.. of Hu *» ■ 100.
protier to lln* product. thiiriiUKli cook-I Hogs were steady with Saturday"-. Ing will remove tla* possibility of dan- j ices selling from 14.25 to 15.50, gor from botulism. If spoilage is ap-] witl t h e top at 15 75 General sales parent, destruction Is recommended by . e fr(ml 14 76 to 15 5() p] Kg
♦he speclnlists. i
15 2i» down
Mystery About It. ... , i. Nobody knows just how the bsclt- Ix>,al l,u y‘ ,rs took B “’ 00
Ins botulinus gels Into any pnrtleti- | Cattle prices were steady. Good
1 In* Greencastie Telephone Company has announced that it will soon begin work of installing u new switcn board and modernizing its phintTho work will begin about April I and it is expected that the Work \<ill be completed bv September 1. Between $25,000 and $30,000 will be spent by th" company in making the improvi-nients. The chief improvement will be t*".e installing of a new modern 1,600 line sw teh board. The new *witi*h board will be of the most modern type and vill enable th company t * do away with the “urging” ti-lenhore i With thc icw sw.ich bofiril, the jicrson us big the new phone will call central Liy simply removing the reel ver from thc hixik. Tin improvement work was planned more than two years ago, but when tie government took over the telephone compare all plans vv< re cancelled until the lines v. re restored m private owrirship. The corupany h;i> cortracte 1 for th" delivery of the new *wlt . *i bear I ic ' not l ite r thr.;i Jmi l. i •cli.ai' i‘' work will l cgin a lout April l, an.i it is he lieved tha* tb< work will be completed by September l.
MARRIAGE LICENSES
Inr food. It Inis been found In nrtlcles put up in the luuiie by the curefill housewife mid In goods pu ked ill
ulves lower.
were steady and others
Sheep were steady.
lot in Greenca s tle, $2,000.
| cuinm'M'c'iid c tiiblisbiiieiits.
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FOR THE HERALD
Edith Alma Carrington, age 18, daughter of James Carrington of this city and Walter Earl Alexander,
age 22 of Putnamville.
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