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MOONEY’S KEY WITNESS GOES WEST TODAY MacDonald to Depart for California in Effort to Free Convicts. ATTORNEYS WITH HIM Baltimore Lawyers Expect Early Hearing Before Pardon Board. BV THOMAS L. STOKES Inited Pr Staff Correipondtnt BALTIMORE. July 16—John MacDonald was ready to leave today for California on a mission to free Thomas J. Mooney and Warren K. Billings, whom he implicated in the 1916 San Francisco Preparedness parade bombing by testimony he now swears was perjured. MacDonald expected to depart this afternoon, accompanied by his two young attorneys. Charles Ruzicka and Hilary Gans. and probably bv Edward N. Nockels. veteran secretary of the Chicago Federation of Labor, who secured his first affidavit in 1921 repudiating thr Mooney-Billings testimony. His departure will put MacDonald back upon the scene of the fateful explosion which killed eight persons and injured forty others shortly before the fourteenth anniversary of that disaster, which Is Tuesday. He will step aboard the train, a broken old man at 58. showing plainly the effects of ill health and worry. Decision Is Sudden The decision to leave for California today was rather sudden, the two lawyers had hoped to leave by the end of the week, but their plans were upset by indications that Governor Young of California wanted to postpone the hearing of MacDonald before the pardon board until after the Aug. 28 primary. This, they said, they could not afford to do Failing to hear further from Young directly, they decided to proceed immediately to California. Both were busy until early this morning preparing character affidavits for MacDonald from people who have known the quiet "Mr. Mac" for the last six years without any idea he was the missing key witness in the Mooney-Billings case. The attorneys will go west also with anew affidavit by MacDonald swearing that he did not see either Mooney or Billings at the scene of the bombing, as he testified in the California trials. Walsh Will Go West Frank P. Walsh, New York attorney, representing Mooney per- j sonally. also is expected to leave soon for California, but not with MacDonald. Walsh not only will seek another hearing In the Mooney case by Young, but will file a motion for a rehearing in the Billings case before the state supreme court, which recently denied the other prisoner a pardon. MacDonald says he is ready to face jail, if that is necessary, to "undo the wrong" he did to Mooney and Billings. Hearing Date Uncertain // ! nitrd Vrr** LOS ANGELES. July 16.—With John MacConald. key witness in the Tom Mooney-Warren Billings case, reported ready to start to California, vhe matter of his hearings before the state supreme court and the state advisory pardon board assumed increased prominence today. When informed by the United Press that. MacDonald's attorneys intended to leave Baltimore for California at once. Governor C. C. Young de -l’ned to say what effect this might nave upon the question of immediate hearings. Governo’ Young said he had received te.egrams from Charles Ruzicka and Hilary Gans, two of MacDonaic's attorneys, but had not answered Mem. He declit :d to comment upon the dates of he hearings MacDonald says he desires, in an effort"to do the right tning. regardless of personal consequences." * SITS ON POLE 25 DAYS "Shipwreck” Kelly Expected to Stay on lofty Perch Beyond Goal. Bu l nitrd Vrr** ATLANTIC CITY. N. J.. July 16. Perched on the top of his 225-foot pole above admiring throngs on the board walk. Alvin (Shipwreck* Kelly today drew near the end of his twenty-fifth day in the air. His failure to make any preparations for coming down is taken to indicate that he will remain atop his perch longer than the twentyeight days he originally set as his objective. DENY MUSSOLINI IS ILL Government Ridicules Rumors of Premier's Supposed Indisposition. ’’ r6mE,' July 16 Rumors circulated abroad about the health of Premier Benito Mussjlini brought forth the following official statement from the government today: “A number of foreign newspapers have published in the past few days information about the premier's health, going so far as to say he was operated on. Several thousand Romans who saw the premier in the last few days go through their streets, go to the shore at Ostia and visit tha Etruscan ruins at Cerveteri. can smile and laugh. They certainly will laugh at this one in an endless chain of nonsensical stories."

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Woman Battles Prowler, Saves Money in Church Poor-Box

Frustration by a woman of an alleged attempt to rob the poor-box of Holy Rosary church, 520 Stevens street, Tuesday night resulted In police grilling Clifford A. Hughes, 21, Atlanta. Ga., today. Quick wit of Mrs. Rose Carlson, 515 Stevens street, church caretaker. who said she locked a prowler in the church, caused his arrest, following a battle with Mrs. Carlson and the parish priest. The story of the capture, as related to The Times and police by Mrs. Carlson today, teems with anger at the violation of the church's shrines, but contains only modest words for her own

NAVAL TREATY IS LASHED AS WAR BREEDER Secrecy of London Parley Stirred Bad Blood, Is McKellar Charge. Bu t nitrd Vrr*n WASHINGTON, July 16.— Charges that negotiation of the London naval treaty almost brought on a war between France and Italy were made on the floor of the senate today by Senator McKellar (Dem., Tenn.), in a plea for rejection of the pact. McKellar denounced President Hoover’s refusal tc disclose all related documents to the senate. "No public official," McKellar said, "has the right to transact the people's business in secret. That is why It Is not a real peace treaty. "We almost brought on a war between France and Italy while we were making this treaty in London.” He said the secrecy surrounding the London negotiations had produced "bad blood.” McKellar opened his attack on the treaty with a denunciation of the Washington arms conference, which he emphasized was conducted during the administration of President Harding and under the leadership of Charles Evans Hughes. Senator Shortridge (Rep., Cal.) asked McKellar how he voted on the Washington arms conference treaty. McKellar said he did not vote. Shortridge then read from the record of 1922 to show that McKellar’s colleague had announced when the vote was taken that McKellar was unavoidably absent, but, if present, would vote for the treaty. "My colleague was in error,” McKellar replied, and insisted he had corrected the record, although Shortridge showed that the record still showed McKellar would have voted for the treaty if present. "The Washington agreement was the greatest injustice ever put over on the United States, and the London treaty puts us in an unpardonable position of inferiority to Great Britain,” he declared.

MILLION IS GUT OFF I. P. and L. Valuation Is Slashed by Tax Board. One million dollars was slashed from the assessed valuation of Indianapolis Power and Light Company properties by the state tax board today. Originally the board had set the IJ3O valuation at $33,758,850, but upon rehearing today, changed it to $32,758,775. Last year the valuation was $31,508,775 and the new figure is an increase over 1929 of $1,250,000. Chairman James Showalter of the board stated that at the first hearing this year the increase had been $1,000,000 too high, so the reduction was made. KINGSFORD-SMITH DOWN Southern Cross Commander Has Engine Trouble With Small Plane. Hu United Press SAN FRANCISCO, July 16. Major Charles Kingsford-Smith, round-the-world filer, narrowly escaped injury when a small biplane he was flying developed engine trouble near here late Tuesday and was forced to the ground. With him was Captain J. Patrick Saul, pilot and navigator of the Southern Cross on its recent trans - Atlantic flight. A relief plane from San Francisco was dispatched quickly to the scene to bring the two noted filers here. Neither was hurt. Whiting Boy Missing Bu United Press WHITING, Ind.. July 16.—80 y Scouts and radio have gone into service to aid in search for Orville Helpingstine, 8, who failed to return home after going on a fishing trip Saturday. Police believe the lad fell into Lake Michigan and was drowned.

BRIDGEPORT, Conn.. July 16. Chester Taylor's last desperate hope to secure support for his wife —based on the offer to give his eyes for medical experiment on trachoma —appeared a forlorn one today, but the frail World war veteran persisted that he was ready to offer his life for science. Taylor was informed that the physicians at Albuquerque. N. M., who sought a man to inoculate so

efforts in preventing the alleged robbery. “Several days ago, Bud, my son, who helps take care of the church, saw a red-haired man prowling near the church. Last night I saw a red-haired man. He went inside the church. I followed him and entered the church by a rear door. nan “T SAW him as I peeked through -*■ a little door in the sacristy, standing near St. Anthony’s shrine, where the priest had placed a poor-box. Money dropped in the box lights candles and there are quite a few dollar candles burning.

Saunders to Fight for New Fortune

Former Piggly Wiggly King Admits Insolvency, but Declares He’s Not ‘Down.’

Bu United Prrss ~ MEMPHIS, July 16.—Clarence Saunders laid plans today for another

financial battle to retain a position at the top of the chain store field. The one-time millionaire head of the Piggly Wiggly grocery chain, who Tuesday admitted the insolvency of Clarence Saunders Stores, Inc., operators of 150 groceries in the south, hopes to build another fortune • through other chain store companies he controls. The story of Saunders' financial rise and fall, and subsequent rise again, climaxing with the present setback, is that of a Tennessee country boy who started out to learn the grocery business, found he could give his entire energy to development of it because of the ro- | mance he found, and succeeded. At 14 he was a grocery clerk. Thirty years later he was the millionaire head of the gigantic Piggy Wiggly chain. He lost control when he attempted to corner all stock of the company on Wall Street in 1923, but his success ud to that disastrous time had been phenomenal.

Then he started his comback — almost from the bottom, but with years of experience behind—and started the Clarence Saunders Stores, Inc., and other companies, which are not involved in the present admitted insolvency. More than 400 stores throughout the country are partly under his control. Today he said he would seek aid in reorganizing the insolvent company and that Pacific coast groups he heads were well off financially. “My whole business career has been a huge scrap,” he said. “Each time I have to come out of the battle a little wiser, a little stronger and a little better prepared for the job ahead of me. This time is no exception.”

Needs the Rest Governor Harry G. Leslie left Tuesday to join his family at the Indiana Dunes state park for his annual summer outing. He expects to return July 22, for an extradition hearing, and will resume his office hours again Aug. 4, he said. During his absence, redecoration of the offices will proceed. Leslie returned last week from the Governors’ conference at Salt Lake City. Utah. His winter vacation he spent on the Florida gulf.

SEWER PROTEST HEARD Speedway Taxpayers Sue to Block Town Trustee’s Action. Hearing on the petition of taxpayers of Speedway for an injunction to prevent town trustees from constructing a sewer, opened this afternoon in circuit court before James Berryhill, special judge. Taxpayers allege that the contemplated sewer, to cost $45,860, would not benefit persons on whom assessment for the project would be made. The suit alleges town trustees also refused to consider a remonstrance filed against the project and are preparing to assess property. HANG HARDING PORTRAIT Picture Is Placed on White House Walls After Long Delay. Bu United Press WASHINGTON. July 16— A portrait of the late President Harding finally has been placed upon the walls of the White House. Upon order of President Hoover, the oil painting by Luis Mora, prominent portrait painter, has been hung in the entrance hall across from the portrait of President Coolidge. Mr. Coolidge is at the right and Mr. Harding at the left. ARMY FLIER IS • KILLED Lieut Frans Tyndall Loses Life in Practice Night Flight. Bu I nitrd Press WASHINGTON, July 16.—Lieutenant Frank B. Tyndall, one of the most experienced and best known fliers of the army air corps, was killed Tuesday night near Mooresville, Va., when his plane struck a tree during a practice night flight, it was announced at Langley field today. Infection Fatal to Boy Pu Times special , SOUTH BEND, Ind., July 16 Herman R. Giefing, 13, is dead here from infection which developed in a small burn suffered while discharging Fourth of July fireworks.

Life Offered Science to Save Wife From Poverty

that they might experiment with new treatments, had expressed interest in his offer, but did not have the funds to guarantee the wife’s support. “Well. I'm still ready,” was Taylor’s comment, when interviewed by a United Press correspondent in his meagerly furnished flat of four rooms. "I'm still ready to go to work for any doctor who wants to experiment on the same terms. It's my last hope, I guess. I don't care

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"He walked down to the altar and kneeled in front of it, pretending to pray. He touched the altar cloth, the dirty dog! “Then he got a screwdriver out of his pocket and walked back toward the poor-box," she said. Mrs. Carlson said she then took off her shoes, and, running through the church's basement and through a door, gained the outside of the parish house. "I locked the front door. Then Father Marino Priori, the pastor, and Bud, my son, came to help me. The prowler escaped from a church back door into a courtyard with iron grating. He bat-

PACIFISM FAILS AT RAVENSWOOD Board Member Turns Down ‘Peace Pipe’ Session. Movements for “peace and harmony” in tempestuous Ravenswood failed today, when Robert Stamm, town board member, turned down overtures to meet Godfrey Yeager, attorney for the residents, in an effort to smooth out troubles in the White river suburb. Stamm said he did not care to attend the meeting because he had not had an opportunity to see his attorney and would not act without legal advice. He also announced that a meeting of the board will be held on Thursday night. William Hubbs, board member, is out of the city and Charles Ford, the other member, has not attended previous meetings and may not be present Thursday night. At present the town is agog over whether “blue laws,” passed at a recent board meeting by Hubbs and Stamm, will go into effect Sunday. Stamm today indicated some moderation on the laws, calling for closing of beach concessions, groceries and the bath house, might be effected.

GALEN IS NOMINATED Holds Big G. 0. P. Lead in Montana Primary. Bu United Press BUTTE, Mont., July 16.—Justice Albert J. Galen early today virtually was Conceded the Republican nomination for United States senator from Montana. He will oppose Senator T. J. Walsh. Democrat, whose place on the ballot was uncontested. Late returns Indicated that Galen’s margin over O. H. P. Shelley, Red Lodge publisher, would be 2 to 1. Rreturns from 159 precincts in twenty-eight counties gave Galen more than 5,000 votes to Shelley’s 2,500. PATROLMAN DISCHARGED Edward Haas Is Convicted by Board of Misconduct. Patrolman Edward Haas has been discharged from the police force today by the safety board following his conviction on charges of conduct unbecoming an officer, according to President Charles R. Myers. Evidence at the trial Tuesday showed that Haas heat John Ma-I-.an, insurance agev, c, when arresting him for disorderly conduct June 2 while Mahon was seated in his automobile in 3000 block East Minnesota street. $246,000 Bank Shortage Found Bu United Press PROVIDENCE, R. 1., July 16. Federal bank examiners have found a shortage of $246,000 in the ac*. counts of the National Bank of Commerce of this city, officials of the institution admitted today.

what happens to me as long as I can get someone to take care of Ruth.” While he was talking, his wife returned from a search for work, looking worn and dejected. She shook her head in response to his unasked question. “Please don’t let him sell himself to some doctor,” she implored the correspondent. "I’d rather starve than have him die from some awful disease. If he dies, I want to die.

tied with us and tried to climb the grating.” m a a WHEN police arrived the prowler, who gave his name as Hughes, was attempting to scale the iron church fence while the priest and Mrs. Carlson and her son fought him off. Hughes refused to talk at police headquarters. He said he had been in the city three days. He is held in city prison on a vagrancy charge in default of a SI,OOO bond. Detectives found four screws on the poor box loosened. Efforts are being made by police to discover whether Hughes has a police record.

CRASH HALTS NONSTOP HOP TO ARGENTINA Three Fliers Descend in Parachutes; Plane Is Total Wreck. Bu United Pres* BOSTWIUK, Ga., July 16.—The projected 7,700-mile nonstop refueling flight of the ijl-fated StinsonDetroiter monoplane K, from New York to Buenos Aires, came to a spectacula- end here today when its three pilots leaped to safety in parachutes and the plane plunged 600 feet into the sage brush, being totally wrecked. The airmen were forced by a rapidly dwindling fuel supply and inability to see land because of heavy rain clouds to take to their parachutes after circling over this town for two hours. The fliers motored to Monroe, Ga., after salvaging what they could of personal effects from their plane. Crowd Stes Drop The roar of the monoplane as it circled the town hunting a rift in the clouds so it could dive through and make a landing attracted 500 persons to the airport. The pilots held a hurried consultation in the fluttering plane and decided “to step overboard.” The clouds broke a little from time to time and enabled them to see the rough ground and the crowd watched to see if the pilots could extricate themselves from their predicament. Watchers saw the "K” emerge from a cloud, and saw one of the crew walk out to the end of the wing, gracing himself until the force of the flight opened his parachute. He swayed downward into a cloud. A moment later a second man crawled to the rear of the fuselage and leaped off. The plane rapidly was losing altitude Then the third member of the crew cut off the ignition to prevent any possible explosion of the craft and leaped out “over the wheel.” Joke Around Wreck The crowd found the air trio gathered around their ship, joking about their experience. The only semblance of an injury was one slightly wrenched shoulder, not serious. The plane, carrying two pilots and a radio operator, left Roosevelt field Tuesday at 3:23 p. m. (E. S. TANARUS.), and after four initial refueling contacts over the metropolitan area, which filled its tanks to maximum capacity of 630 gallons, headed south soon after 7:30 p. m. Aboard the “K” were Garland Peed and Jimmy Garrigan, pilots, and Randy Enslow, radio operator. If they reached Havana on schedule they were to be refueled this afternoon. If successful, the flight would have been the longest non-stop air trip ever accomplished. The route included Panama, Lima, Peru, and Mendoza, Argentina. AIRPORT BUDGET READY Request for SIOO,OOO Operating Fund Regarded Likely. The municipal airport budget for next year probably will request SIOO,OOO for operation of the port the first year, according to tentative estimates made by Superintendent Paul H. Moore and the works board. A conference was held between the board and Deputy Controller Francis Coleman to determine whether the cost of lighting the field should be paid from th* budget or bond issue. The request likely will ask for fourteen employes, including an assistant superintendent at $3,500 and superintendent at $3,600. Pastor Fined as Smuggler Bu United Press JAMESTOWN. N. Y., July 16. The Rev. Stephen Vzuturos, pastor of the Magyar Presbyterian church of Cleveland, was given a suspended sentence of one year and a day and fined SSOO for smuggling aliens into the United States, when he appeared before Federal Judge Simon P. Adler here today.

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I’d rather live on like this than have him suffering and me in comfort.” Living “like this” for the Taylors means a continual round of factories and shops without result; their funds long since have dwindled and the rent was due. Taylor was a baker's assistant until two months ago, when poor business forced his discharge. The small savings were dissipated quickly, as he and his wife made

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Mrs. Rose Carlson, caretaker of Holy Rosary church, standing at the door which she locked .to prevent the escape of an alleged prowler of the church’s poor box. Inset, Clifford Hughes of Atlanta, Ga., who Mrs. Carlson alleges attempted to rob the church.

BANDIT IS SLAIN; COP SHOT; $60,000 LOOT RECOVERED

Robber Trio Stages Holdup on Steps of Canton (0.) Postoffice. BV United Press CANTON, 0., July 16—A gunman was killed and a special policeman seriously wounded when three bandits held up a First National bank messenger on the steps of the postoffice here teday. Shortly after the holdup, police found the .oot, totalling $60,000, in the lodgings of a man who said he was James Romeo of Canton. He was held. The dead bandit was identified as Charles Williams, alias Charles Tish, a Cleveland gunman with a highway robbery record. The wounded officer is N. R. Riblett. Two bandits escaped, although the holdup occurred just around the corner from central police station. Open Fire on Policeman The messenger, Jack Morris, a bank teller, just was mounting the steps of the postoffice, guarded by Aiblett, when one of the bandits approached him and pushed a gun against his ribs. Morris dropped the bag of money and at the same time the other two bandits opened fire on Riblett. The officer fell, rose up on one arm, and emptied his revolver at the gunmen. Williams went down under the fire, his gun clattering on the sidewalk. As though determined to finish Riblett before he died, the wounded bandit began dragging himself painfully toward the weapon. Kicks Gun Away A bystander, W. R. McNeal, kicked the gun from his reach and he died within five minutes. Meanwhile, squads of police were streaming into the street from headquarters less than a block away. So rapid was the bandits’ getaway that none of the pursuing officers had opportunity to fire a shot. MERCURY IS ON RISE Temperature Above 80 Is Forecast for Today. The mercury today continued its gradual return to normal temperatures, after one of the coldest waves to hit Indianapolis in July in many years. At 6 a. m. today the thermometer at the United States weather bureau registered 61 degrees, about ten below normal. At 9 a. m. it had risen to 75 degrees, and promised to go above 80 degrees this afternoon. Continued fair weather is in store for the city and state through Thursday, the weather bureau’s forecast this morning stated. MAIL PROPOSAL VETOED Pos an aster-General Puts Foot Down on Business Suggestion. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, July 16.—A proposal suggested by business houses under which the postoffice department would undertake the delivery of unaddressed advertising matter to city residences was vetoed today by Postmaster-General Brown on the ground it would flood the mails with material of that type.

the endless and discouraging search for a job that was not available. “I’ve been to every factory and shop in town since they fired me at the bakery, but there are a thousand men for every job and nobe ’y wants a man in my physical condition,’’ Taylor said. He has been operated on eight times since the war. The experience has made him bitter. “Life is a rotten business, anyhow,” he said. “I gave the best years of my life over there—re-

Home Stars The stars who shine across the nation a:e not the only stars in the field of radio. You have entertainers right here at home who give you as much pleasure as many of the headliners, i,heir programs coining into your nome every night. You’ve read columns and columns auout the great and the near-great on the big chain programs, all about their lives, their nabits and what-not. Now The Times will bring to you the stories of Indianapolis’ own radio entertainers, with a series starting Thursday. First of the stories will be about Dessa Bjrd, whose organ programs have pleased thousands. Watch for the first of this series, by John T. Hawkins, Times radio editor, Thursday.

BOY PILOT CRITICAL Youth in Serious Condition After Plane Crash. Bu United Press BENNINGTON, Vt„ July 16. Frank Goldsborough, 19-year-old aviator, who suffered a skull fracture when the airplane he was piloting crashed in a fog-obscured mountain forest near here Monday, remained unconscious at Putnam hospital here today and his condition was described as “very serious.” The youthful holder of the junior transcontinental flight record, had lain pinned beneath wreckage of his plane for almost eighteen hours after the accident. He was unconscious when Donald Mockler, New York publicity agent, whom Goldsberough was flying to Keene, N. H., for a lecture engagement, left him in search of help after finding it impossible to extricate the pilot. HOOVERS HONOR HEROES 800 Crippled Veterans Invited to White House Lawn Party. lift I'nitrd I're** WASHINGTON, July 16.—Eight hundred crippled World war veterans were invited to be guests of President and Mrs. Hoover today at their annual garden party on the White House lawn. On crutches and in wheel chairs many of the veterans were coming from Walter Reed and Mt. Alto hospital to hobble or be wheeled in lines past the President and First Lady. It was scheduled to be the first appearance of Mrs. Hoover since she was injured in a fall three months ago. She has recovered almost entirely from a sprained back. Free Hand for German Chancellor Bu t nitrrt Vree* BERLIN, July 16. —Sweeping authority for the cabinet to remain in power regardless of what the Reichstag does, was granted to Chancellor Heinrich Bruening today by President Paul von Hindenburg. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 61 10 a. m 75 7a. m 66 11 a. m 78 Ba. m 72 12 (noon).. 78 9 a. m 75 1 p. m 80

inlisted after two stretches when we went into war—and now what am I fitted for? I haven’t even a trade. “A soldier can’t be a man and get veterans’ compensation,” he went on. “You can’t take their back talk end keep your self-respect. A man has to be a politician to get help from the veterans’ bureau.” Taylor said he served fourteen months with the 30Cth field artillery, 77th division.

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LAST MEAL OF WIFE MAY FIX FATE OF KOLB Amount of Breakfast Eaten by Victim Becomes Crucial Point. DOCTOR AIDS DEFENSE When Poison Was Taken 1$ Important Issue in Death Trial. BY BEN STERN Time* Staff Correspondent GREENFIELD, Ind., July 16. Upon the breakfast eaten by Mrs. Edna Dagler Kolb the morning of her death last fall today probably rested George Kolb's fate with th® Hancock circuit court jury trying him on a charge of murder. Expert testimony introduced by the defense this morning tended to show that any strychnin* administered by the 55-year-old Rushvlli® farmer would have killed her several hours before she died. The Kolbs, on the morning of Oct. 27, 1929, left their home about and drove to the home of her mother in Rushville. Mrs. Kolb died' at 12:10 p. m. On the witness stand today, Dr. Henry R. Alberger, Indianapolis, diagnostician, consultant, formerly professor of pathology at Indiana university school of medicine, and pathologist at several Indianapolis hospitals, said under ordinary circumstances that the recipient of a lethal dose of strychnine would be dead in thirty minutes. Time Is Important “In my opinion, the strychnine was administered subsequently t<J the time they (referring to the Kolbs) left home, if before, the woman ordinarily would have been dead before they arrived at Rushville,” Dr. Alberger testified. On cross examination by Paul Benson, chief of the prosecution, Dr. Alberger said there were rare cases when patients survived more than two hours with full stomachs when the poison was taken. “It’s possible, but very improbable. I should hate to be the recipient,’•* he said, answering Benson’s questions as to whether the patient could have lived two hours if th® stomach were full of.food. The defense then put on tha stand William Kolb, 17-year-old son. of the defendant, who said his stepmother ate only cereal and drank coffee an' 1 ater for breakfast that mornir Tries to Impeach Testimony His younger brother testified simU larly Tuesday afternoon. Benson attempted to impeach their testimony by proof that, before the grand jury wr.ich indicted Kolb, they had said their stepmother ate heavily before leaving the house. Kolb-is charged with having administered a capsule of strychnine to his wife, telling her it was quinine. The defense seeks Kolb's acquittal, counter-charging suicide Irascibility is being exhibited by attorneys for both sides, resulting in frequent flare-ups. . " If the young man for the prosecution would keep quiet, we could go ahead with our examination and so expedite matters," comes frequently from John H. Kiplinger, veteran criminal lawyer, when Paul Benson, former Henry epunty prosecutor, objects to the line of questioning. Crowd Well Entertained Benson’s answer invariably contains some reference to the "elderly gentleman for the defense.” Under the questioning of Ray-, mond Springer, Connersville, a defense attorney, Raymond Kolb, 16, told how, when he was 8, his mother, Louise Abernathy Kolb, - the defendant's first wife, died and he helped his sister in the housework and with the cooking. Then, when, he was 12, he said, he became the housekeeper for his father and elder brother, William. Raymond corroborated previous testimony that Mattie Rhoades Kolb, the second wife, was nervous and irritable, subject to fainting spells, had a shelf full of medicine and, on one occasion, had threatened to drown herself. Testimony Corroborated This was corroborated by the testimony of Mrs. Eessie Kolb True, 25, Spiceland, w'ho defended her father and denied that her mother’s death was similar to that of the two stepmothers. Botr exploited much emotion In discussing oie third wife, Edna Dagler Kolb, and declared that she was extremely kind and motherly to them. Sxillfuliv led along, they told that a depression settled upon Edna three weeks before her death, as th® result of the death of her son, Russell Degier, who was killed in an automohit® accident at that time. FIND UNCONSCIOUS MAN Unable to Tell Police How Injuries Were Sustained. Found lying, severely injured, in the coach yard west of the Un.on station early today, Hildred Howard, 50, of 1133 West New York street, was unable to tell police how he was hurt. He told police he intended to board a train, but he did not know what occurred. Howard was found by F. B. Shane, H. T. Gray and Steven Allen, Big Four railroad switchmen. Howard sustained a cut over th® left eye, a possible skull fractur® and broken ribs. , 'mt

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