Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 100, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 August 1926 — Page 1

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VOLUME 37—NUMBER 100

NEW HEADS ARE PICKED BY STRIKERS Committee Named to Call on Duvall, Ask Arbitration. MEN STILL CONFIDENT Told More Benefits Will Be Distributed Monday. Striking street car men picked new today, named a committee to confer with Majjor Duvall and heard a third distribution of strike benefits will be made among them Tuesday. Fully 350 strikers participated in the meeting in Plumbers' Hall which took the action. Albert 1023 Harlan Ave., was elected president; William E. Euliss, 913 N. Sheffield Ave., vice president. These two, L. J. Dugan, Mrs. Jeanette O'Brien and Mrs. Wilbur Stephens were appointed to wait on the mayor to inquire why he has not taken some steps to carry out a city council resolution requiring him to seek arbitration of the dispute. Hour Secret The committee refused to announce the hour it intends to see Duvall- Duvall was back in the city after a week’s absence. He has no moves in mind to effect the desired arbitration, he said. Though he believes the men unquestionably should receive .more money, Robert I. Todd, street railway president has refused to heed his plea for arbitration and he has no power to f6rce it, Duvall declared. The strikers were told by Joseph Fort, secretary, that national officers of the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employes have not withdrawn their support of the lical union because it rejected their advice to cfill off the strike Friday and that R. D. Bland, national treasurer, will arrive here Tuesday to make the third ■stribution of strike benefits among the strikers. Greeson read a section of the national organization's by-laws, providing that it cannot withdraw its support or suspend payment of strike benefits without action of the (Turn to Page 11) NEW ARREST AT CANTONjXPECIED Threatened Break Between Investigators Averted. Bn United Press CANTON, Ohio, Aug. 2—A threatened break between various agen- v cies investigating the murder of Don R. Mellett, Canton publisher, was averted today and the arrest of an alleged instigator of the assassination is expected before night. Following a meeting between Prosecutor C. B. McClintock, representing Stark County; Detective Joseph Cleary, Governor Vic Donahey’s investigator, Col. C. F. Bleume, representing the State, and Capt. C. P. Owen, Federal officer, it ■was announced that the reported dissension was “all a mistake.” McClintock and Ora Slater, spe cial county investigator, had been criticised by Clear;/ for handling of Steve Kasohalk. tne “mystery witness," revealed last week by Slater. Cleary charged the witness had not been properly questioned, no attempt made to verify his story and “higher-ups” he named unquestioned. Kaschalk, held in a nearby jail for safe keeping, has named rick McDermott, missing since the murder, as the man hired with him to “beat up” Mellett. He has also named thei)f alleged employers, one of whom may be charged with the murder on the basis of his testimony. CONFERENCE A FARCE B’i United Press NAGASAKI, Japan, Aug. 2.—The Pan-Asiatic conference here became a farce today when the responsible Japanese delegates withdrew and the Chinese delegates began /squabbling among themselves. A police guard was established at the meeting hall. GOVERNMENT SEIZES ARMS Bu United Pre.se LONDON, Aug. 2.—The Portuguese governmen today was reported to have ordered the conflcation of all prlvfitely owned arms and explosives.

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FARMER HITS DOG, DIES! Gun Explodes When He Strikes Animal. Bu United Press GOSHEN. Ind., Aug. 2. —Charles Rickey, 24, farmer, living near North Syracuse, was fatally injured Sunday by the accidental discharge of a shotgun. He struck a dog which had been chasing sheep with the butt end of the gun and it was discharged. BOND PLEAS REFUSED State Tax Board Denies Issues for Three Roads. The State tax board today refused to approve ( bond issues for the George T. Buck road and the Wesley Carrier road in Sullivan County and also the Gilbert L. jSpear road in Vigo County. All are county unit roads. Estimates for construction are $14,344.54, $15,730.41, $30,000, respectively. ORR GOES ON VACATION Board of Accounts Examiner Takes Family to Lake. Lawrence F. Orr, chief examiner | for the State board of accounts Is the latest addition to the corps of; vacationists from the Stat&house which now includes many State department heads. Orr and his family left Spnday to spend a week at Lake.j Webster. Later in the summer Orr will take another week’s vacation. Claire Dux to Wed Swift at Sunset Bu United Press CHICAGO. Aug. 2.—Claire Dux, grand opera star, and Charles R. Swift, millionaire meat packer, will be married at sunset today in the tiny Joseph Bond chapel of the Uni-. versity of Chicago. All of Chicago's “gold coast” no-! tables will be present. Tonight a reepption at the Drexel Blvd. home of the Francis Neilsons’ will allow a larger group to congratulate the bride and the groom she met when she sang at a south \ side benefit performance two years ago. Miss Dux announced a few days ago that her wedding would end her operatic career, in compliance, it is said, with the demands of Swift. LET ROAD CONTRACTS Accept Bids to Improve Two Country Highways. * County-commissioners today awarded contracts for improvement of Sherman Dr., in Perry Township, and Keystone Ave., in Washington Township, to the lowest bidders. Sherman Dr. improvement, petitioned by John L. Vandersaar et at., was awarded the'Emulsified Asphalt Company for $17,150. The ninetyfoot road will be made of asphaltic concrete. Oliver J. Larkin received the contract for improving Keytsone Ave., petitioned by G. Ct Williams et &1.. at a cost of $28,800. The fifty-foot road will be built of concrete. 4 —■ ■ ■ ' . ■ ■ STILL ARREST TRUCKERS

No Relenting Until Agreement With Kentucky Is Reached. * Secretary of State Frederick E. Sfhortemeier today announced that there would be no relenting in the arrests of drivers of commercial vehicles from Henderson County, Kentucky, for failure to display Indiana license plates. No agreement has beeh reached with Kentucky officials so far- with reference to unrestrained interstate automobile traffic and until one is reached Schortemeier said arrests would continue. His* order was given after Henderson County officers ordered arrest of Indiana truckers who do not have Kentucky licenses. l ROTOR SHIP A SUCCESS Bu United Press NEW YORK, Aug. 2.—The new 3,000-ton rotor ship Barbara has been found a success after trial trips, according to word received here today by the American representative of Anton Flettner, inventor. STOCK PETITION GETS 0. K. The public service commission today approved the petition of the Indiana Service Corporation of Ft. Wayne to issue $740,000 worth of stock at 6 per cent instead of the authorized 7 per cent. The $740,000 is she balanqe of a larger issue, which remains unsold.

4,000 PHONES OUT BECAUSE OF CRASH Wire Felled When Bus Backs Into Pole Causes Heavy Damage on North Side, Bell Officials Say. Four thousand telephones on the in order, those in charge said.

Humboldt and Washington exchanges were put out of Commission Sunda ywhen a street railway bus backed into a pole at FiftySecond St. and Cpllege Ave. and knocked a street car feeder wire onto a telephone cable, Indiana Bell Telephone Company officials said today. Forty-five men working on repairs, but it will be five or six days before many of the phopes will be back in working order, Bell officials said. When the trolley feeder wire came in contact wit hthe telephone cable, an electric flash, the result of the short circuit formed, passed from pole to pole down the cables, it was said. Phone repairmeq found wires in the cables burned in two in eleven places and must examie the cables Inch by inch to put lines back

PRESIDENT OF MEXICO 15 GUARDED % Precautions Taken After Discovery of Plot—Sixteen Under Arrest. NATION REPORTED QUIET Labor Parade Held Without Violence Sunday. Bu United Press MEXICO CITY. Aug. 2.—With i authorities of church and state keenly watching public reaction, | Mexico's traditionally devout people began the first week of life under the new religious laws today. Additional guards surrounded i President. Calles, after the arrest of 16 persons charged with plotting to take his life. Archbishop Moray Del Rio, heading the church forces, remained in his home, slightly ill from exhaustion after the hectic U. S . to Send Note Bu United Press MEXICO CITY, Aug. 2—A strong note is expected soon to be sent Mexico by the United States Government, it was learned from Ia reliable source today. The note, it was said, would concern Mexii co’s irrigation, colonization, forestry and mining laws, but would not touch upon religion. T s | scenes at the closing of the churches. The city was quiet. There was much comment on the lack of interest displayed when 50,000 persons paraded Sunday in a great laborite demonstration in favor of the government's stand. Ten (per cent of those who paraded were women. The men were members of unions joined in the C. R. O. M.. or regional confederation of labor. The few spectators on the streets watched apathetically. Quiet prevailed and the several squadrons of police, armed with bayonets, who rode beside the paraders, were not needed. Late in the afternoon Attorney General Ortega declared that messages which had been received from various pacts of the -country re ported all tranquil. No disturbances marked gatherings at the Villa Gua(Tum to Page 10)

IT WAS MISS X ANDJTAIMEE Ormiston Files Affidavit Regarding Love Nest. Bu United Press CHICAGO, Aug. 2.—Kenneth G. Ormiston, radio operator at the Angelus Temple at Los Angeles In an affidavit made public today admits having occupied a cottage neat; Carmel, California. May 21 -with a mysterious "Miss X.” The affidavit was made in order to clear Aimee Eempl'j McPherson of any suspicion in connection with the renting of the cottage by a “Mr. and Mrs. Mclntyre.” Ormiston said he left San Francisco May 19 with “Miss X,” toured through Salinas—where he claims to have learned of the disappearance of the evangelist—anad then rented the cottage on May 21. introducing the girl as Mrs. Mclntyre. INVESTIGATION DROPPED New Evidence Too Vague for Re- , sumption. Bu United Press LOS ANGELES, Cal., Aug. 2. The promised resumption of the Los Angeles county grand jury’s investigation into the Aimee Semple McPherson “kidnaping" has been dropped. New evidence is "too vague.”

According to t,he phone officials, burning of the cables set phones in the neighborhood ringing. Smoke, caused burning of rubber insulation, flashed from- the bell boxes when the phones were answered, they said. The phones out of order are north of Forty-Ninth St., between Keystone Ave. and Meridian St. Police and fire squads were sent to the scene to guard a wire which fell to the ground. At the office of Superintendent James P. Trettpn of the street car company, it was said that there had been no report of the accident. The foreman in charge of the bus bafn at Twentieth St. and College Avk, said he had heard ar. unofficial report that one of the busses bumped into a pole, but said none of the drivers reported the crash.

INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, AUG. 2, 1926

POSTAL RECEIPTS GAIN Bryson Reports 2.54 Per Cent Increase in July. Postal receipts for July increased $9,335 over July, 1925, a gain of 2.54 per cent, it was announced today by Postmaster Robert H. Bryson. The total for last month was $375,553, as compared to $366,217 for July, 1925. JV orris Asks His Church for Funds Bu United Press FT. WORTH, Tex., Aug. 2.—Rev. J. Frank korsis, pastor of the First Baptist Church, who is under indictment charged with D. E. Chipps, Sunday called upon his Congregation to contribute funds to battle the alleged conspiracy against him. "I hope several put down SI,OOO as their contribution,” said Norris at the close of his morning sermon, when check blanks and envelopes had ' been passed among the members. The jpembers responded with heavy donations. FIGHTS FACTORY SMOKE Cily Prosecutor Announces Start of Campaigns. City Prosecutor Arthur B. Dinsmore today announced the start of a drive against factory owners who are disobeying the anti-smoke ordinance. Dinsmore said that police will arrest all flagrant violators within the next few days and that he will prosecute ttoeir cases vigorously in the municipal courts. HOOSIER VICTIM FEARED Brazil Man Leaves to Identify * Brother’s Body. Bu United Press BRAZIL. Ind., Aug. 2.—William Gaeaway left today for West Portal. Colo., to identify the body of a brother killed in the collapse of the Motfatt tunnel last week. WEST PORTAITUoIo., Aug. 2. One body remained buried in the slide at West Portal of the Moffat tunnel tpday and five had been recovered from the debris, which claimed half a dozen lives Friday morning. WOMAN REPORTS THEFT Boys Steal $.50 Bond Money Front Basket in Yard. Police sought three boys alleged to have stolen basket containing a SSO bond, pocketboook. $5 and bank book from the rear yard of Mrs. Anna Marcum. 620 Arbor Ave. Mra. Marcum told police she "Has pulling weeds in the yard when the boya stole the articles and ran. BOOZE TOLL NOW 45 Hear Man Sought for Questioning Slain. Bu United Press BUFFALO, N. Y., Aug. 2.—New York and Buffalo police /today were investigating a persistent underworld report thst Nathan Sapowich. Buffalo,, one of the men wanted for questioning in the investigation of the Niagara frontier bootleg alcohol distribution, has been slain. One accidental death from poison alcohol occurred Sunday when Alex McDonald, 50. of Youngstown, N. Y., died at Niagara Falls. This brings the the total deaths to 45. SUNDAY GOLF BLAMED Church at New Haven May Have • To Be Abandoned. Bu United Press NEW HAVEN. Conn., Aug. 2. Sunday golf and motoring, were blamed for the condition of the Grand Avenue Baptist Church here, which may be forced to disband its congregation and liquidate its property. Nelson A. Beebee, clerk of the church, today sent out notices to the remaining members o L the once large congregation, calling a business meeting for tomorrow night to consider abandonment of the church.

1,500 AT "Y” MEET Bu United Press HELSINGFORS. Finland, Aug. 2. —The International Y. M. C. A. conference continued here today with representatives of forty nations in attendance. Thej-e were 1,500 delegates. PRIVATE PERSHING NOW Bu United Press FT. SNELLING, Minn.. Xug. 2. Warren Pershing, 17-yea.r-old son of Gen. John J. Pershing, today was a buck private in Company K of the Citizen's Military Training Camp here. MISSIONARIES BESIEGED Bu United Press LONDON. Aug. 2.—Seventeen missionaries, none of them Americans, today were reported to be besieged in the walled city of Tatungfu, 170 miles west of Peking, in dispatches received here. - - SPIDER BITE FATAL Bu Unitjrd "Press _ TOMS RIVER. N. J.. Aug. 2.—A spider bite on the ankle today proved fatal to Carl Eckhardt, 38, automobile mechanic. 1 BRIDGE WORKER KILLED Bu United Press . LAFAYETTE. rfid . Aug. 2. Charles C. Ware. 28, of Omaha, Ark., is dead here today from injuries received when a piece of timber at the Wea bridge, under construction near here, struck him ort the head, fracturing his skull. RETIRED ADMIRAL DEAD Bu I pited Press I LITTLETON. N. H.. Aug. 2. Rea.- Admiral Thomas Hall, U, S. N., I retired, died here Sunday at his summer home. •- ’ A I

FATHER IS . MURDERED; SONSOUGHT Denied Aid in Eluding Law, Hoosier Climbs Into Home and Shoots Parent. ♦ MOTHER JUMPS, ESCAPES Five Bullets Found in Elderly Man's Sody. Bu United Press LIBERTY, Ind., Aug. 2.—Because his parents refysed to give him money with which to live while eluding authorities., Willard Carson, 30, entered his home here early today and brutally shot and killed his father. C. C. Carson, 60, retired farmer. Willard Carson has been a fugitive since last May, when in a drunken brawl he shot up a restaurant here, stole a fur coat and some silverware and escaped from police' in a running gun battle. He evidently has been in hiding near Liberty, as his parents have received threatening letters from him. demanding money. < 4 Uses' Ladder He entered the home, situated on the main street, by placing a ladder against the upstairs window. v As he entered the father awoke and before he could defend himself|his son shot him five times with a Revolver. The mother slipped from bed while the son was shooting, jumped twenty feet from a porch roof and ran to a nearby hotfie. Escapes in Auto The gon escaped by the ladder and taking his father’s auto w-as seen by neighbors to start toward Connersville. His description has been broadcast from a Cincinnati radio station and armed posses are aiding authorities. A reward of SI,OOO for his capture, dead or alive, has been posted. * Coroner E. R. Beard of Union County will delay the inquest pending developments. Alleged Killer Finally Captured After eluding Federal authorities for almost thre# years, John (Humpy) Hurst, 46, alias Joseph C. Allan, was held in the Vigo County jail at Terre Haute today, pend ing removal to Indianapolis. Hearing for his removal to Hickman County, Kentucky, where he Is wanted for the slaying of a deputy United States marshal, will be held here. Deputy Marshal Harry Wertz left Indianapolis this' morning to get Hurst. He will be brought -before Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell the last part of the week, when the judge returns from Evansville. Hurst was arrested on the streets of Ter?e Haute Saturday night on suspicion. He first degied he was the man wanted, but later admitted who he was. Hurst is charged with killing the deputy marshal in a running gun battle in the Kentucky hills in 1923. when Federal prohibition agents attempted to arrest him for operating a still. Several months ago Department of Justice agents, deputy marshals and prohibition agents went into the Whitewater Valley, in southeastern Indiana, after him, but Hurst had fled from his shack in the woods when they arrived. Reports hWd reached Federal officials a short time ago that Hurst was barricaded in his shack, guarded by heavily-armed members of his gang.

BANDIT VICTIM . DIES Efforts to Save S4OO Costs Life of Grocer. Bu United Press WASHINGTON. Ind., Aug. 2. Six children were left fatherless today by the death of Charles Engle, 46. fatally wounded by a bandit who attempted to hold up Engle at his grocery. Engle slammed the heavy drawer of the cash register shut on the left hand of the bandit when he reached for a' sack of money and was shot for his efforts to save his day’s receipts of S4OO. \ VANDALS RANSACK HOME Owner in Europe—Careaker Makes Report to Police. Thieves and vandals visited the home of Stacey Stanley, 5240 N. Illinois St., over the week-end, took furniture and other loot, and did damage that will total a large sum. police say. Mrs. Stanley Is in Europe. John Boone, caretaker, discovered, when he arrived at the home today, that acid had been poured on flowers and bushes. Some of the vines had been pqUed from the ground and porch furniture broken. Garden hose valued at $lB had been taken. iPLANE KILLS FIVE Bu United Pres* BERLIN, Aug. 2. —Five persons were reported to have been killed pnd ten wounded when a stunt flyer crashed into a fence behind which spectators stood in a field near Stuttgart, The airman was not injured.

Three New Witnesses in Hall Murder Found

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Mrs. Frances Hall leaves the Somerset county jail at Somerville, N. .J., after giving $15,000 bail on the charge she murdered her husband, Rev. Edward Hall, and the comely choir singer, Mrs. Eleanor Mills, four years ago. At her right is Attorney Augustus Studer, and at her left, Attorney Timothy Pfeiffer, of her counsel. Inset is Rev. Mervin Pettit, who succeeded to Rev. Hall's pastorate and who called on the widow in the jail just before she was freed.

rWill Be Brought Today Before Special Prosecutor in Charge. Bu United Press NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J.. Aug. 2.—Fast moving developments today ■n the Hall-Mill case will bring three new witnesses before State Senator Alexander Simpson, special prosecutor. Who w'ill begin his investigation into the murder four years ago of the Rev. Edward W. Hall and Mrs. Eleanor Mills. The new witnesses are: Robeft Erling, farmhand, whose testimony is believed to show that the "pig woman,” Mrs. Jane Gibson, was not near the murder scene on the night the two were killed, as she. professes. An unnamed girl, who is said to have been with Erling in a parked automobile and to have seen the pig woman ride by’ on- her mule. An unidentified woman. She was in New Brunswick on the night of the murder, according to Erling, and told him she found bloodstained leaves near the murder spot. The message from a Milwaukee woman, Mrs. Howard Harding, who told of being accosted on a road near where the two bodies were found, by three men, is being investigated. The turn of inquiry today spread to a religious colony—the Zarapeth or “pillar of fire” sect. Mrs. Harding's daughter was said to have been placed there. - Police were interested to ffnd if the Milwaukee woman’s story could be accurately ' checked, before they accept her as a material witness. The quick denial Saturday night by the usually silent James Mills, husband of the murdered choir singer, of the story that Mrs. Harding made public of being stopped on the lonely road, has made him a new object of inquiry. She had intimated that he was one of the men who stopped her. The middle-aged sexton, reticent and quiet, broke his silence to tell again his whereabouts the night of the murderers. His remarks were voluntary.

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British Lawmaker Angered Because Twenty English Subjects Are Poisoned by Bad Booze. y

By Clifford L v Day United Pns Staff Correspondent LONDON Aug. 2.—American “poison liquor" and its effects on twenty British subjects who were alleged to have drunk some of It caused an exciting , moment in the house of commons today. It was alleged that liquor was being smuggled from the United States to Canada. Frederick MacQuisten. a conservative, asked Sir Austen Chamberlain, foreign secretary, whether he was aware that “twenty British citizens had been poisoned by liquor smuggled from the United States and whether, in view of that, it wouldn't be best for General Lincoln C. Andrews to return to his own country and put afi end to the disgraceful state of affaire there.”

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Apples Baked on Tree Bu United Press GREENWOOD LAKE, N. J„ Aug. 2.—An old gnarled apple tree stood near the Mountain spring Hotel when the hostelry burned down here. The apples were baked by the blaze. When the hotel ruins were dampened by a shower, neighbors plucked the baked apples and ate them.

PLANS ON CIVIL SERVICE GIVEN Mayor Works to Get Machinery Going Soon. Appointment and promotion of both officers and men of the police and fire departments will b© entirely in the hands of the new civil service boards to be named, Mayor Duvall announced today. "The boards, composed of two citizens to serve with the police chief and two with the fire chief will examine applicants for appointment and promotion, as to character and mentality,” Duvall explained. “Then the board of safety will name the persons whom the civil service boards believe best qualified.” Duvall, who returned Saturday from an automobile tour in Michigan with his family, today received an opinion from Corporation Counsel Alvah J. Rucker as to legal procedure, and announced he would call a meeting of the city cabinet and would ask that body to adopt a resolution paving the way for the civil service. HOURLY TEMPERATURES 6 a. m 70 10 a. 76 7 a. m 71 11 a. m..*.... 79 8 a. no. 73 12 (noon) .... 79 9 a. 75 1 p. m 80

Andrews last week concluded an agreement with the British government whereby there would be greater Anglo-American cooperation against rum smugglers. MacQuiston challenged Chamberlin to give a single instance in which an American citizen had been poisoned by liquor smuggled into the United States. He asserted tljat the smuggling was done by Americans, not Britishers. There were cries of protest from the commons. Chamberlain replied, urging MacQuisten not to become indignant and reminding him that such allegations against a friendly power were most unusual. He was sure the United States Government was doing its utmost to suppress smuggling.

Forecast Partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday; possibly showers early tonight; little change in temperature.

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WIFE KILLED AS HUSBAND HOLDS GUN Man, Street Car Employe, Unloading Revolver, Not Arrested. ACCIDENTAL, SAY POLICE Weapon Purchased for Protection After Dynamiting. When a revolver in the hands of her husband* Rucker Todd, 24, an Indianapolis Street Railway Com pany conductor, discharged as he was unloading it, Mrs. Mary Todd, 27, of 935 Church St., was fatally wounded this morning. Todd said he bought the revolver, a 22-caliber weapon, to protect himself, following the dynamiting West Indianapolis of two cars on which he was working/" Police and Coroner Paul F. Robinson declared the shooting was accidental and Todd was not arrested. The shooting occurred in the bed--room of :he Todd home, a threeroom half of a double cottage. Preparing to Hide It Todd told police he had just returned from work and was unloading the gun, preparing to hide it under the pillow of the bed terom their two children, Betty Jean, 2, and Junior, 4. His wife had her pocketbook in her hands, as he had just told her he was late returning from work because he had made an extra tripper run to earn a little extra money and had stopped* to buy an alarm clock, and they were discussing family finances, Todd said./ He broke open the revolver as they talked, he said, and removed six of the seven shells in the gun. Forgot Seventh Shell The gun exploded, according to his statement, as he closed the chamber, forgetting about the seventh shell. Shot in the right breast, Mrs. Todd ran into the front room and collapsed. She died a few minutes later Coroner Robinson said the bullet glanced downward, causing death. “Lord have mercyj I was fooling with that gun and I’ve shot my wife just as I was going to put it away,” Todd told Mrs. Lillie Lynn, 228 W. Ray St., and Mrs. Maude Thompson, 910 Church St., when they ran into the house after hearing the shot. Becomes Hysterical Todd became hysterical when police arrived. He told his story later between sobs. “I loved her. I'd never have done anything like that." he said. The two children in the family were out at play when the shooting occurred. The son. Junior, 4, came into the rodm where his mother’s body lay, as police were questioning the father. Neighbors took him away when he saw the body and burst into tears. John Mulvihill, 1010 s. Senat-i Ave., Mrs. Todd’s father, said he met Todd on his way home a short time before-the shooting and Todd told him he was late because of the extra work. Mulvihill said he warned Todd that the children must, be kept from playing in the street or one of them would be struck by an auto and tragedy visit the family. Afraid for Children “I knew something would happen when he first brought that gun into the house,” Mulvihill said. “I was afraid one of the children would get hold of It and kill himself." Mulvihill said his daughter and her husband had had some domestic trouble sometime ago, but that recently they have had no quarrels. "Rucker and I are getting along so well. I’m so happy,” Mrs. Todd told them last week, Mrs. C. B. Folsom and Mrs. Helen England, 825 Church St., said. Married Five Years The couple had been married five years. Todd was employed by the street car company In September of last year. Sergeant Volderauer and Detectives Russell and Conway made the investigation at the home. Superintendent James P. Tretton of the street railway company said he was unaware that any of the street car employes had been carrying weapons since the strike. The men have been warned not to, he said. . , i Lightning Brands Tree on Man*s Back Bu United Press MIDDLETON, N. Y., Aug. 2. Abram Hittman of Ellenville is lightning-marked for life. He was standing under an electric light when he was knocked unconscious by a bolt. It burned his back, leaving a mark designed like a tree—branches and all. 4,000 DROWN, REPORT Twenty Villages Destroyed la Lo Yang, Says Dispatch. LONDON. Aug. 2—A dispatch to the "daily mail” today reported that 4,000 persons had been drowned at Lo Yang as a result of heavy raina which swelled , mountains stream*. Twenty villages wer* reported to havij been destroyed.