Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1908 — SCORNS UNWRITTEN LAW. [ARTICLE]

SCORNS UNWRITTEN LAW.

Philadelphia Man Maintain* Ha Mia. took Wife’* Admirer for Bnralar. - Andrew Jackson Detsch, who killed Harry Ferree in a fashionable boarding bouse in Philadelphia last November, refused to rely on the unwritten law, to •void the public degradation of his wife, and was acquitted of the crime of murder, the verdict of the jury being greeted with tumultuous applause from the crowded court room. Steadily maintaining that ap to the time of the killing of Ferree he had-.no suspicion of his wife’s alleged misconduct and that he mistook her wealthy admirer for a burglar, Detsch made it impossible to put his wife on the witness stand to play the role of Evelyn Thaw and also made it impossible for the prosecution to introduce evidence intended to show that deliberate murder bad been committed to avenge his honor. Detsch, who is 23 years of age, lived with , bis young wife and child in an uptown boarding house. On the night of Nov. 5 policemen heard shots and traced them to the house. They forced an entrance and in the third floor hallway, in front of the door of the Detsch apartments, they found Ferree dead, with three bullets in his body. He was in his stocking feet. ' , CLERK 18 HEIR TO A FORTUNE. Poatofllee Employe I* Bequeathed 850,000 by Hi* Aunt. Haywood F. Norton, aged 26, was up to Saturday night a hard-working and amhitious clerk in the general postoffice in New York. Mrs. Mary Ahearn, a •weet-natured widow of 55, was his aunt. When she died a week ago and her will was opened, it \yas found that her nephews, Haywood F. and William Norton, and her niece, Mrs. Mary Giauss of Brooklyn, had inherited her fortune, amounting to considerably more than SIOO,OOO. A house at 134 West 06th street was left to Haywood. When, after the funeral, Norton was asked to stay and hear the will read, he tried to beg off en—the strength of getting back to work. When he learned that to him had been left nearly $50,000 he was speechless. His brother William, an electrician, is in Denver wiring the auditorium in which the Democratic national convention Will be held. Deep Snow Delay* Traffic. The snowstorm which swept over New York City late Thursday .developed into a blizzard during the night. The’ streets were covered in places with drifts and street car traffic and the movement of ferryboats and other harbor and liver craft was hampered. All the Eastern States were affected, and there was rough weather on the Atlantic. Store* In. Gonlil Home. The old Jay Gould residence, at Fortyeeventh street and Fifth avenue, New York, has been leased and the four-story brownstone house will be altered to accommodate places of business. B’or years the building has stood vacant, but Miss Helen Gould finally has been Induced to lease for a long term the building which was her father’s home. Fopeed Into Receiver’s Hand*. The Beaumont Iron Works Company, of which O. B. Greves is president, one of the largest foundries and machine shops in east Texas, having been in business in Beaumont for a quarter of a century,. has been forced into the hands of • receiver. The panic is held directly responsible for the financial difficulty of this large concern. Mother and Son Sentenced. Justice Barnard in the Criminal Court in Washington imposed a sentence on Mrs. Ruth McCracken of three months in jail, and on her son, William M. McCracken, n similar term in the worlchouse. while her two daughters. Jane and Ruth N. McCracken, were discharged. All of them were charged with conspiracy to defraud merchants of the city. Obi* Bank Close* Door*. George B. Harvey, proprietor of the Lisbon Banking Company.nssigncd in Lisbon, Ohio, to Albert G. Mason, and the bank is cloVd. Mr. Harvey’s real and personal property are estimated to aggregate $125,000, and the bank deposits *150,000. Kill* Hlnaeli in Buay Street. In crowded Fountain square, Cincin—a&ti, at the busiest hour of the day Andrew Fixari swallowed the contents of a bottle of muriatic acid and died soon after reaching the hospital.

Music and Slot Machinra Go. Officials of the Chicago Liquor Dealera' Association have decided to banish anisic, remove slot machines and closely observe all dramshop laws. Boy and Girl Skaters Drown. Lewis Woodman, aged 22, and Miss Blanche Adkins, aged 15, were drowned in Lake Gardner, near Ainosbury, Mass., while skating. - Goa«**aa The Senate and S|>eak4r Cannon in the House have agreed that this session of the Sixtieth Congress shall adjourn about May 1. Eaarllah Novelist Dies. Louise de la Harney, known the world over as "Ouida." the novelist, hat died la poverty in Italy/ Calls for Veto on Liquor. The North Carolina Senate by uuanianous yote passed the bill providing for a State Section on prohibition on Aug. G. Rmlktsn(i Art Com In* Back. TMttsturn to Italy of emigrants from the Lilted States is gradually stopping, while tjpigration to that country is being resumed. Steamers leaving Genoa nnd Naples (before the end of January take bock to Ajtoerlca at least 5,000 emigrants. IllWt Railways * hanare Hands. The properties of the Union Traction Company in Chicago were sold at auction to tba Chicago Railways Company and tho work of improving the traction system la expected to be pushed without