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PARDON BOARD MAY ACT ON GIRL PRISONER Daisy Sullivan Case to Be Considered Thursday by Parole Group. LESLIE GETS FACTS Investigates Case With View Executive Clemency If It Is Warranted. While Daisy Sullivan, 18, of Bloomfield, mends clothing at the Indiana woman’s prison for forging a $2.80 check efforts will be made to mend the tangled threads of her life that resulted in her two to fourteen year prison sentence when the pardon board of the prison meets Thursday afternoon. The pardon board is composed of the prison trustees. They are: Mrs. Louise S. Swain (Rep.) Pendleton. Mrs. Charlotte J. Dunn (Dem.) Indianapolis. Miss Margaret Neely (Rep.) Martinsville, and Mrs. Alice Wilkie Poynter (Dem.) Sullivan. Mrs. Poynter is from the hometown of Jessup Bolinger, banker, who is serving the same sentence as Daisy—two to fourteen years—in the state prison for forging $150,000 in bank notes. Action of the pardon board on the appeals made by the public to free the girl from the Greene county hills is dependant on whether Governor Harry G. Leslie acts prior to the board's meeting. Cheerful in Prison The Governor has ordered state parole agents to personally investigate Daisy’s case, with a view of extending executive clemency should the facts w arrant. He is expected to meet with the pardon board at its session at the woman's prison. With the offer of the Columbia Conserve Company's shareholders to give the child of the hills a job, and several homes opened to her, only the report of the Governor's investigators is awaited by Daisy. Prison officials continue to refuse to photograph and fingerprint the girl until it definitely is decided whether she will remain as an inmate. They report that Daisy is cheerful in confinement and lacks the resentment so common in new prisoners in the institution. At the time of her arrest in Bloomfield for forging the check on the grocery to obtain 20 cents worth of fruit Daisy remarked to her father, Dave Sullivan. “I'll take my medicine”—and that's her attitude in prison. Times' Stand Approved Letters and telephone calls continue to pour into The Times, the Governor's office, and the state prison, requesting her release. A second offer of a home to house Daisy should she be released from prison was received today by The Times from Mrs. G. M. Pritchard, 1604 Sturm avenue. She says in her letter to The Times: "Congratulations on widespread human interest caused in the case of Daisy Sullivan. We need more of this 'love one another' that our Lord taught, but if. seems too bad it wasn’t shown in this case. I gladly, as a mother, offer her food and shelter if the Governor pardons her, which I hope will be soon.” Approval of The Times editorials telling of the case of Daisy Sullivan is expressed by Meredith Nicholson, Indinaa author, in a letter to The Times. He says: "You strike the right note in knocking the social conditions that make such things possible. It’s Greene county that’s in the pillory, not the girl and her two oranges.” An offer to take Daisy into her home also was made today by Mrs. John Grant. 736 Carrollton court. HURT IN 15-FOOT FALL Fsherman Injures Back in Plunge From Abutment. Alvin Delaney, 35, of 1621 Rembrandt street, was fishing in White river fro man abutment at New York street Monday afternoon. His foot slipped and he fell fifteen feet to the ground. He was taken home, but later it was found his back was injured and he was taken to city hospital. MYSTERY SHOTS FIRED Heard During Night by Neighbors Near 518 N. New Jersey. Neighbors in the vicinity of 518 North New Jersey street, today are discussing three mysterious shots fired Monday night at intervals of thirty minutes in the alley in the rear of that address. Several persons heard the shots and one man said he saw the flash of the gun fire. FOREIGNERS WARNED Danger of Fighting Is Faced in Hankow., China. By United Press HANKOW, China, April 2. American authorities here have warned foreign women and children that they should be prepared to evacuate the city on short notice if the foreign quarter should be threatened as a result of fighting between rebellious war lords and the Nationalist government troops.

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Governor ; 35, Licked World Until He Crossed the Women

By NEA Service BATON ROUGE. La., April 2. He fought the world from the age of 14 and licked it, rising from a bare-footed country boy to the governorship of Louisiana after battles classic in the history of a state with more than two centuries of battle history. Then he aroused the ire of the women. He hanged the first white woman ever hanged in Louisiana, despite strong protests and pleas for clemency. At his orders state militia, raiding road houses in a gambling war, stripped women, searched them and took money off their persons without receipt. Now he faces charges of impeachment on nineteen counts. The women, backed by a considerable number of men, are out to lick him. That, briefly, is the amazing story of Huey P. Long, Louisiana's 33-year-old Governor and central figure in a political hurricane the like of which has not been seen in Louisiana since reconstruction days. # # # CHARGES ranging all the wav from misuse of state funds to bribery, carrying concealed weapons, intimidation of the courts and the legislature and a plot to assassinate Jared Y. Sanders Jr., a legislator who had opposed him. stand preferred against Governor Long. The last charge is based on an affidavit by Harry (Battling) Bozeman, the Governor’s former personal bodyguard. He is also publicly accused of attending wild parties in New Orleans’ gay French quarter and of dancing, cocktail glass in hand, with a fair but scantily clad entertainer. He is also charged, in his less than a year in office, with having received more money, spent more money, borrowed more money and owing more money than any Governor of Louisiana since the close of the Civil war. He replies with the charges that the fight against him is being secretly directed by the railroads, the oil companies and other big corporations whom he has consistently opposed. And it is not disputed that he has fought the corporations, with taxes and otherwise, tooth and toenail. # # # BORN on a tiny farm in the red clay piney hills of north Louisiana, Long sought battle from boyhood. His parents were poor and he had to go to work when most boys were in grammar school. He became a typesetter on a country’ paper. He peddled books. He organized a medicine show, complete with naptha torch and banjo player, and traveled the northern parishes. He peddled flour from house to house and later organized cake baking contests for a flour mill. And then he married the Shreveport girl who won his cake-baking contest. He worked a year, saved his money and then went to New Orleans to study law at Tulane. He compleed the four-year course in one year. Graduated, he went back to the little town of Winnfield with his diploma—and 30 cents in his pocket. # # # FOR the next year he lived on $25 a month, but gradually his lawpractice grew. He decided to enter politics and came "busting out of the bush,” as Louisiana politicians put it, as a candidate for the state public service commission. He made a personal horse-and-buggy canvas of his remote district, his wife riding with him and talking cookng recipes and babies to the farmers’ wives while he talked politics with the men. Long was elected and later he became chairman of the commission. Right then he started his battles with the big oil companies and other corporations. # # # IN 1924 he ran for Governor and and was defeated by the New Orleans city vote, though he beat both his opponents in the country. He ran again in 1928 in another three-man race and was elected by a plurality of 40,000. Louisiana cheered him until Anally the time came, for the hangmg of Mrs. Ada Bonner Leßouef and Dr. Thomas Dreher in the state's famous murder case. Sentiment was divided. A delegation from a mass meeting of women voters sought to plead for them; Governor Long refused to hear the plea. In advance of the state pardon announced: “I'm going to hang that board's consideration of the case he woman and that man, no matter what the pardon board rccommends.” Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m.... 35 10 a. m.... 50 7a. m 36 11 a. m.... 54 8 a. m.... 40 12 (noon).. 57 9 a. m.... 44 1 p. m. 59

THIRTY YEARS—THEN MOMENT OF GLORY FOR CELLOIST, PROTEGE OF MASTERS

BY HARRY FERGUSON, 1 nitfd Fre*s Staff Corres.por.dfnt YORK. April 2.—Leo ' Schultz. who waited thirty years for a moment of glory, tucked his cello away in the corner today and looked about for a convenient mountain to climb. Schultz's triumph came Monday night in Carnegie hall where Arturo Toscanini, "the greatest master of them all." handed him the baton and told him to lead the

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KIDNAPER HOLDS GfRL 3 WEEKS Boarder Steals Child, 14: Caught in Cabin. E v United Press CAMDEN. N. J.. April 2.—Captured after a terrible battle late Monday when he tried to escape from an isolated cabin near Sewell. N. j., where he held a 14-year-old girl a prisoner. Gaetano Adelino, 47, of Philadelphia, was to be arraigned in central police court of that city for a hearing today’. Adelino. who is said to have been under bail in Philadelphia for attempting to shoot John Rego. a policeman, on March 3, will be given a hearing on charges of taking Rita Carulo, 14, of Philadelphia, from Pennsylvania to New Jersey for immoral purposes. Police records also disclose that he is under SI,OOO bond for deportation as an undesirable alien. Adelino was a boarder at the girl's home at the time of her disappearance. When found yesterday in the lonely cabin fcy state toopes and the gil's father, Anutino Caulo, the girl told a story cf indignities she had been iorced to undergo since March 8 when, she charges she was abducted by Adelino from her home. HOLD BOY.TerAS THIEF Bound to United States Grand Juryon Charge of Taking Auto. Hollis Wells. 16. Dayton. 0.. was held to the federal grand jury under $2,500 bond today by John W. Kern. United States commissioner, on 4botor theft charges He was charged with driving a Chrysler stolen at Dayton, to Indianapolis, abandoning it here, and stealing a Ford sedan here which he drove to Lenoir City, Tenn., where he was arrested. NAMES WIFE KILLER Issue Verdict of Murder in Chloroform Case. E ' i nil' tl Pn ss HARTFORD. Conn.. April 2. Coroner Gilbert J. Calhoun issued a finding of murder today after an inquest into the chloroforming of Harry E. Adams, Buddhist weather man. He named Mrs. Olive Adams, diminutive wife of Adams as the ■ murderer.

New York Philharmonic orchestra. For thirty years Schultz obscurely has heen sitting back among the bass viols and the French horns, adding the clear, true note of his cello to the music of the philharmonic. During the thirty years he found time to compose an overture, and the philharmonic played that overture Monday night as a farewell gesture.

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 1929

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Competitor's Letters Unfairly Confuse Malt Buyers, Suit Says.

WHAT a whale of a difference a few’ Xs make—especially in bread making, cake baking and other "kitchen pursuits.” Robert F. Friedman of the Hoosier grocery. 469 West Washington street, says it makes $2,000 difference, and in a suit filed today in superior court two he asks damages and an injunction against Sam Koby. Hoosier Malto Distributing Company, 427 West Washington street. Koby. the suit alleges, Is giving unfair competition to the grocery by infringing on a malt trade mark which tho grocery has copyrighted. Many housewives seeking malt for bread making, cake baking and other kitchen pursuits buy Kcby's malt, which is marked XXX Triple XXX. believing they are getting the grocery’s malt, which is marked XXX—Triple EX XXX, Friedman alleges. This “unfair competition” started in March. 1928. the suit alleges, and Friedman wants it stopped, so that housewives will know they are getting genuine XXX—Triple EX—XXX malt when they go about their bread making, cake baking, and other kitchen pursuits.

WIFE, FRIENDS TO MEET DR. SHUMAKER AT GATES

A motor cavalcade will escort Dr. Edward S. Shumaker to Indianapolis Thursday when gates of the Indiana state farm at Putnamville are opened, giving freedom to the dry leader, who will have served fifty-three days of a sixty-day sentence for contempt of the Indiana supreme court. Members of the league's headquarters committee, ministers and ether intimate friends of the superintendent. and their wives, will meet at league* headquarters in the Roosevelt building and leave for Futnamville at 7:45 a. m.. according to Elhan A. Miles, Anti-Saloon League attorney. (The cavalcade is expected to reach the state farm at 9 a. m. Dr. Shumaker will exchange overalls for civilian clothes and step out of the administration to be greeted by his wife and friends. The return trip ■Rill start at 9:30, with the Shumaker home at 2232 Broadway, the destination.

TODAY he retired to devote the rest of his life to climbing mountains composing and loafing. At 11. Schultz was touring Germany and Russia with a cello so large he barely could reach the top of it. Four years later he had played for the czar and the kaiser and, while still a stripling, he pulled a bow in .the orchestra that helped introduce Richard Wagner and the “ring" music to Berlin.

AMEND! ONLY PUNISHMENT FOR SLAYING Judge Decrees Payment of $25 a Month to Son of Dead Man. KILLED ‘BEST FRIEND’ Voluntarily Began Caring for Orphans of Victim of His Rage. The wraith of Samuel Fassman must have hovered over criminal court today and breathed a soft "amen” as Judge James A. Collins administered justice to Harry Pilz, 26, of 923 South Illinois street. Verily, an “amen,” although Pilz killed Fassman, his best friend, admitted it in court and walked out with nothing bu a promise to shackle him. Those who heard the case could not help but believe Fassman would have approved the judge's decision, the meat of which is: As long as Harry Pilz continues to contribute $25 a month to the support of Isaac, 10, son of Fassman, left an orphan by the shooting, he stays out of prison. When he ceases to make amends a suspended sentence of one to ten years will be invoked. To Right Wrong Between the lines of the dry legal verbiage of the judge's “sentence” was written a story of an unusual attmept of two men to right a grievous wrong. On Dec. 8, 1927, Ruben Cohen, of 1420 Union street, walked into Fassman's barber shop, 805 South Meridian street, and got into an argument with Pilz. who was in a chair. The argument got so hot that Pilz drew a revolver. Fassman, hoping to keep his friend, out of' trouble, forced Pilz into a back room. Pilz, white with fury, wrestled with him. The gun was discharged and Fassman fatally wounded. Three weeks before this Mrs. Fassman had died. Little Isaac and Clara, a daughter, now 13, were left orphans. Fassman exonerated Pilz just before he died in city hospital, declaring him “my best friend” and vowing the shooting was accidental. Started Voluntarily Pilz. however, was indicted on a murder charge and reindicted on manslaughter, Oct. 28, 1928. Meanwhile, without the authorities knowing anything about it, Pilz started paying $25 a month for support of the two children, who are with an aunt in Chicago. Cohen, under no legal obligation to do so, but mindful of the fact that his part in the argument preceded the shooting, also has been contributing $15 a month. These facts became publicly known for the first time in the courtroom today. LANTERN FEAST AUG. 1 Brookside Civic League Picks Graup for Festival. Brookside Civic League's annual feast of of the lanters will be held Aug. 1, in Brookside park. W. M. Demmary was named chairman of the arrangements committee Monday night by Clyde V. Montgomery, league president. Harmon Snoke. Chamber of Commerce director of public relations, discussed the chamber's industrial program.

There, the doctor's friends will join in a formal reception for him throughout the afternoon. He is to be the guest of honor at a dinner at the Broadway M. E. church, Friday evening. Dr. F. Scott Mcßride, Anti-Saloon League general superintendent, will be the principal speaker, according to the Rev. O. R. McKay, First Baptist church associate pastor, who is chairman of the arrangements committee. The public may attend by making reservation at the Broadway M. E. church. The supreme court today denied Shumaker's motion for a rehearing on the court's order committing him to the farm. Judges Clarence R. Martin and Willard Gemmill prepared a dissenting opinion. The high court’s action marked final disposition of the Shumaker case.

"That was something to see and hear," Schultz said. He and his cello saw service under Brahms, Liszt and Von Juelow; he was in, the orchestra at Leipzig when the king of Saxony arose and demanded the “Lohengrin" prelude. "Braluns,” Schultz said, “was one of those blustering Hamburg fellows. He was a great musician but he could not play the piano very’ well."

STORIES OF DRY SLEUTHS CONFLICT AT INQUEST IN ILLINOIS RAID SLAYING

Storm Social Leader’s Yacht in Search for Liquor. CONGRESS QUIZ ASKED 'Lucky We Didn’t Turn Our Machine Guns on You,’ Says Agent, 111/ United Press NEW YORK, April 2.—The customs enforcement bureau admitted here today that its agents had boarded tiie yacht of Stuyvesant Fish, member of one of New York s oldest families, and searched it for liquor near the Statue of Liberty Saturday night. Fish announced he would ask Representative F. 11. La Guardia to institute congressional investiga- I tion to determine why a private yacht owned by a law abiding citizen should be fired upon in the New York harbor. La Guardia was said to be determined to link the fish episode with the sinking of the Canadian rum schooner I'm Alone in his efforts to start a congressional investigation. The raiders were not coast guard men, as Fish thought, but were customs agents, it was definitely established today, and the boat they were in belonged to the special customs harbor patrol. Incident Is Admitted While Colonel William Conrow, deputy surveyor of customs, in charge of activities of the enforcement bureau in the harbor patrol, cautiously admitted the incident today, others in his office were not so restrained. They fully admitted the harbor patrol's responsibility, explaining that the yacht had been intercepted because the enforcement bureau had received information that a small yacht was transferring liquor in the harbor. The customs service later admitted that custom? agents had fired pistol shots to stop the Fish yacht and that these agents were not clad in uniforms, but in dungarees, ordinary overalls. They also said the yacht had been halted without the use of machine gun fire, in perfect good humor, and that Mr. Fish and his party took it all as "a great joke,” Fish, however, gave no indication he thought the matter a "great joke.” He charged that when he first sighted the patrol boat he had given it a chance to come alongside. No Apologies Offered Instead, he said, the patrol hoat fired several rounds at the yacht. A man from the patrol hoat boarded the yacht, cursed and was most offensive to the members of the Fish party, he added. No apologies were offered when the men found no liquor on board. Fish said his determination to ask I La Guardia to start a congressional inquiry resulted after waiting vainly for two days for an apology from the custom agents. Fish appealed to La Guardia. wet congressman, rather than his cousin. Representative Hamilton Fish, because his cousin is known as a “dry,’’ he explained. Armed Men Storm Vessel “My propcllor was twisted and I knew from my previous run that I could not make more than twelve miles an hour. “The guard men told me later he had been speeding and that they had to chase us for an hour. Perfectly absurd. Fish said a boat pulled alongside and his wife and two sons were confronted by six men with pistols. Then one man cli,mbed aboard, while Fish protested that he was a peaceful citizen and was bringing his yacht home. “One of the men said ‘you were very lucky not to have our machine gun turned on you,”’ Fish said. Walks Mile With Foot Severed En Untied Press DOVER, 0.. April 2.—Henry Jones of Columbus was in a hospital here today after walking a mile into Gnaddenhutten, 0., with his left foot severed. He was caught under i the. wheel of a Pennsylvania freight I train from which he alighted.

BY 1889, Schultz was in America to play in the Boston Symphony and to teach in the classrooms at Yale. Thirty years ago he joined the New York Philharmonic and has been here ever since. Monday night a distinguished audience, which had gathered to hear Toscanini's last concert of the season, arose to cheer as Schultz was introduced. There was a check for $5,000

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Morgan Is Cleared in U. S. Probe Didn’t Have Booze in His Luggage. District Attorney Finds. By United Press NEW YORK. April 2.—No liquor was found by customs officers in the baggage of Representative William M. Morgan of Ohio, when he arrived here recently aboard the liner Cristobal from Panama, United States Attorney Charles H. Tuttle announced today after a preliminary examination. Tuttle said thorough interrogation of all the customs men associated with the Morgan case disclosed that “no bottles of liquor were found, handled or seen by any of the customs officers.” In a report filed several days ago two customs inspectors charged Morgan had four bottles of whisky in his luggage when he arrived here aboard the liner Cristobal from Panama. They said the congressman admitted he had the whisky, but insisted he was entitled to free entry because of his official position. Morgan, a Republican, who has been a consistent supporter of prohibition legislation, has denied that he had the whisky or that he ever took a drink. Michaelson Posts Bond By United Press CHICAGO. April 2.—lndicted on three charges of violating liquor laws, Congressman M. Alfred Michaelson of the Seventh Illinois district will face trial at Key West, Fla., May 6. Michaelson surrendered to federal authorities here Monday after they had looked three days for him to serve a warrant sent from Jacksonville, Fla. The congressman appeared unexpectedly at the federal building, saying he wished to surrender “with as" little publicity as possible.” He posted a $2,000 bond in four $500 bills to insure appearance in Key West federal court. Michaelson was indicted in Jacksonville last October after several of his trunks had been seized and, according to federal prohibition agents, found full of fancy liquors. By United Press WASHINGTON, April 2.—Despite the alleged abuse of port privileges by Representatives William E. Morgan of Ohio and M. Alfred Michaelson of Illinois, the treasury department will continue to extend the courtesy of port freedom as in the past, Andrew J. Mellom, secretary of treasury, has indicated. AUTO SCHOOL OPENS Women Are Instructed in Safe Driving, *‘l believe in rapid driving sometimes, if it is safe driving,” said Mayor L Ert Slack Tuesday night, in the opening address of the first session of the lecture course in efficiency driving. Following Mayor Slack, Mrs. M. Earl Robbins, president of the Indianapolis Council of Women gave a welcoming address. Tonight's session of the lecture course will take up the reasons of the different units of the car, the "how” and "why” as well as the "what” of this pedal and that. Miss M. Etta Simmons, general chairman, will open the meeting. the Hoosier Athletic Club, open at The meetings in the ballroom of 8 o’clock. All women drivers are invited to attend and may get ticekts free at The Times, the Hoosier Athletic club, or the Hoosier Motor Club. DIES IN POLICE CHASE Auto Pursued by Officers Leaps Curb: Kills Man. By United Press CLEVELAND, O., April 2.—A man standing on a corner here today was killed when struck by an automobile pursued by police. The fleeing auto leaped the curb and crashed. The driver was held by police, A passenger in the car was injured.

which someone slipped into his hand as "a token of appreciation.” Toscanini retired to the side of the stage and Schultz decided to make a speech. "Mr. Toscanini is the greatest conductor I ever have served,” said Schultz. Toscanini blushed furiously and fled from the stage. “I knew he wouldn’t like that,” Schultz confided to the audience, “but I just had to say it.”

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Deny Liquor Purchased From Woman as Warrant Charges. SELF-DEFENSE ALIBI Deputy Wounded by Boy Says He Thought Victim Would Shoot. BY W. F. SULLIVAN loitrcl Press Staff Correspondent GENEVA, 111., April 2. Before a large and partisan crowd which expressed its sentiments with hand-clap* ping, booing and laughter# witnesses at the inquest into “dry raid killings” of Mrs. Lillian De King of Aurora today gave conflicting versions of the evidence behind the warrant on which the De King home was searched. Eugene Boyd Fairchild, who was employed as a prohibition investigator for State's Attorney George D. Carabary's office, admitted that he had not. bought any liquor from Mrs. Dc King, but, said he had sent a friend into the house and that the friend had come back with a pint of moonshine. He swore out the warrant against Mrs. De King. "I was riding around with Phillip (Tooley) Johnson and he suggested we buy a drink, r stopped in front of the filling station which stands between t lac roadway and the De King house, and ‘Tooley’ went inside. I gave him $5 to make the buy. Denies Buying From Woman “Pretty soon he came out. and handed me back $3, saying the pint oi moonshine had cost him $2. Wo drove down the road a few rods and tasted the stuff, but I didn't like it. The moonshine was a poor grade.” Fairchild said that the buy was made on Saturday and that on Monday lie went before Police Magistrate John A. Weber, where the warrant had been prepared and that he signed it. Johnson was called next, and ha denied tha the had bought the liquor from Mrs. De King. “I didn’t even enter the house,” Johnson said. “I met three men in the driveway and got the liquor from them.” The crowd laughed when Coroner Herman J. Vicrke brought out from Ole Nelson, one of the dry agents who entered the De King home, that he had drunk wine with Joseph De King before Deputy Sheriff Roy Smith entered. When Smith rarac in. according to his own testimony, taken in a deposition today at a hospital In Elgin, he bashed De King over the head with the stock of his shotgun and then shot and killed Mrs. De King because he believed she waa going to shoot him. Deputy in Deposition Johnson, Fairchild’s companion* did not remember whether he ha<s bought the liquor from Joseph D King or from George Stafford, the operator of a filling station nearby, 'but. was certain he had not entered the house and had not seen Mrs. Da King. Nelson testified that he was siting at the kitchen table with Deputies Treadv/ay and Anderson and Joseph De King drinking De King’s wine when Deputy Smith came in through a side door. Nelson said ho saw Smith club De King to the floor but that h (Nelson) went out on the porch then and did not see the, shooting. A deposition made at his bedside by Deputy Smith in which the deputy said that Mrs. De King had a revolver in her hand when he killed her, was introduced at the inquest. Smith also deposed that Mrs. De King's husband, Joseph, liafl threatened to kill “any one who comes through that door" and that he (Smith) had reason to believe that his life was in danger. j Thought Life in Danger “I thought that Dc King and I were alone in the house when I entered, and I thought best to strike him down,” the deputy's deposition said. “I turned the gun around and hit him with the stock. As he fell I heard a woman scream. I did not know up to that time that a woman was in the house. “I looked up in time to see her reach for one of h c r husband’s guns. When I saw she had it in her hand I fired, but I aimed at her hip. not at her shoulders. “At the same time my gun went off I fell backward with a pain in my leg. I thought the woman had shot me, but then I saw the boy (Gerald De King, 12-year-old son of the slain woman) come out from behind his mother and say: “‘I got him, mama; I got him.’'* Smith’s deposition was taken in Elgin, where he is under treatment in St. Joseph's hospital, and brought here by Coroner Vierke.