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, PRICE THREE CENTS
LABOR SECRETARY
MOVES TO HEAD OFF
PACKERS’ STRIKE
Good Offices of Depart
ment Offered Following
Conference With
President
Basis of Row Be
tween Workers and
Big Packing Houses
— Each Asked to
Name Two Repre
sentatives
Washington, March 11—The ser
vices ot the Department of Labor in
settlement of the controversy be
tween packing house employes and
the packing concerns growing out of
proposed wage reductions wjre of
fered in telegrams sent tonight to the
unions and packers by Secretary of
Labor Dav is.
Secretary Davis, who dispatched
the telegrams after a conference
witfi 1’resident Harding, also re
quested the packers and the em
ployes each to designate two repre
;• n atives to meet with Department
id Labor agents in an attempt to re
adjust the dispute which threatens
to develop into a strike.
The telegram sent to Dennis Lane,
secretary of the Amalgamated* Meat
Cutters a:;d Butcher Workrr^pn, af
Chicago, which was practically iden
tical in text with that sent .the five
big packers, follows:
"The federal government is deep
ly concerned about the maintenance
of industrial activity in fullest un
derstanding and hopes there will be
no Interruption of the continuity of
(Continued on Page 4—Cel. 8)
Threatened
New Haven Road
Head Seeks Calm
Wage Adjustment
New Haven, Conn. March 11 —
Wage readjustments on the New
York, New Haven & Hartford rail
road, President E. J. Pearson hopes,
"ill come without the least disturb
unce. In referring to conferences
with employes begun today Mi'. Pear
son said that ^1 other expenses on
the system ham been cut first before
the question of a wage reduction was
taken up. He added that the com
pany did not intend to take “drastic
steps.” Should the representatives
of the various groups accept the cut
the matter would end there. If they
hesitate the company would have no
objection to these representatives re
turning to local boards or organiza
tions for consideration of the reduc
tion.
President Pearson lias given no
figure for the proposed reduction.
Men who were in conferences said
afterward that the impression they
got from General Manager Bardo was
that it would be “around ' 20 per
rent.”
FILES
Send fop Cat. 32
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Portland, Maine”
Kenney & Greenwood
STOCK and BOND
BROKERS
Direct wire to oar correspondents
Elmer H. Bright & Go.
Members w. y. and Boston Stock Ex
changes
335 Water St.
to Augusta
«»th Phone 1018 tewlston
I—
JAPS STANDING PAT
ON YAP MANDATE
NEXT MOVE UP TO U.S.
AA'ashington, Mar. 11. (By The As
sociated Press.)—Diplomatic ex
changes between the American anil
Japanese governments concerning the
i status of the Pacific cable center of
A'ap have left the situation unchang
; t‘d and it remains for the Harding
administration to dictate the next
' step.
Japan’s reply to the protest against
Japanese control of the island sent by
the AVilso administration through the
, American embassy at Tokio is under
i stood to have contained a reiteration
| of the Japanese claim to exclusive
jurisdiction b” reason of the mandate
i awarded by the supreme council.
! As to Japanese control of the fpr
j mer German cables entering in the is
. land, against which the American
; government particularly protested,
I Japan is said to adhere to the prin
; eiple of free use of the cables by all
! persons, but with operation and con
! trol remaining under the power that
1 is in possession of the ends of the
cables.
Japan holds that this arrangement
exists in the case of the cable that
runs from the American-owned island
i of Guam, in the Pacific, to Yokallamn,
! Japan. The American company
which laid the cable, it claims, ad
mitted the right of Japan to control
the end which was landed in Japan
with American controlling the end in
Guam.
| The Japanese view also is under
. stood to be that since direct cable
j communication between the” United
l States and Asia by way of Guam and
] Manila already exists the line from
the Guam to Asia via Yap is only an
indirect over-flow connection unnec
essary in ordinary times and there
fore settlement of the question of
control is not urgent.
Meanwhile it is suggested that
since the 'League of Nations council
has referred the American protest
addressed to it to the allied nations,
a reply may come from that quarter
which may contain the germ of a bas
is for adjustment.
One incidental result of this sus
pension may be the preparement of a
settlement by direct negotiation of
the issue between Japan and The
Netherlands arising from the claim
of the Dutch government to control
of one of the former German cables
extending from Yap to the Dutch
East Indies.
DAUGHERTY TO
REVIEW PALMER’S
RULING ON BEER
Washington, Mar. 11—Early re
view by Attorney General Daughtery
of the recent ruling of Attorney Gen
eral Palmer making valid the pre
scription of beer as medicine under
the Volstead act is expected. Mr.
Daugherty says he is aware that the
whole country is interested and that
he probably will give the opinion
careful study.
Regulations to accord with the
opinion handed down by Mr. Palmer
last week are being drafted by offi
cials of the Interal Revenue Bureau
but no date has been set for it to
become effective.
Regarding the general subject of
prohibition, Mr. Daugherty says the
department of justice! is not seeking
additional powers and that it has not
been suggested to him that his de
partment take over the enforce
ment work now under the treasury
department. He added he had his
onw personal views on the subject,
but declined to disclose them.
Greenville Constable
Held, Charge Intent
to Kill “Y” Secretary
Dover. Me., March 11—Henry N.
Barley, a constable of Greenville,
today was indicted by the Piscata
quis county grand jury for assault
with intent to kill in connection with
an alleged ejection of Joel Baker
Smith. Y. M. C. A. secretary at
Greenville^ from a house in that Vil
lage during a raid last November.
Smith had complained of tbe house
as a place where liquor was sold and
an officer was sent to raid it. The
offleqr forgot his badge and sent for
Mr. Smith to Identify him. A dis
turbance was said to have arisen and
Bartley in his capacity as constable
was said to have ejected Mr. Smith
with "undue force."
Thirty-two indictments were re
turned by the grand Jury. Joseph
Mclntire of Fort Fairfield, John
Flanagan of Boston and Thomas
Gerry of Garland, were indicted
charged with wholesale robberies of
summer homes on Moose head lake.
FOR
Handsome residence property
Location second to
Co
WE DO
SALE
Winthrop and Elm Streets.
,01ft 15,000 square feet of land.
Augusta, Maine
O IT WELL
WIFE BELIEVES
HUSBAND GUILTY
DOUBLE MURDER
Claims He Killed
Mother and Daughter
Last April
Victims Slain in Their Home at
Martin’s Ferry, Ohio, on
April 17 — Says Husband
Threatened to Kill Her if She
Betrayed Him
Wheeling. W. Va., Mar. 11—Andrew
Surgent ol this city was arrested to
day in connection with the mysteri
ous deaths oT Mrs. John Burkhardt
and her daughter Lillie, at Martin’s
Ferry, Ohio, April 17, last.
Chief of Police Hyland said that
Mrs. Surgent had called him to her
home and told him that her husband
killed Mrs. Burkhardt and the daugh
ter. She said that her husband, who
was a real estate agent for the Burk
hardt’s, went to the Burkhardt home
on the morning of April 17 and de
manded $500 from Mrs. Burkhardt on
the pretext that he vfaa in trouble,
“lie took a hatchet and a gun with
him,” Mrs. Surgent said. The chief
of police quoted the woman as con
tinuing:
“Mrs. Burkhardt replied that she
had no money for him and he struck
her over the head. The daughter then
; appeared and she consented to give
I my husband $300. He took the money
| and then struck her down. He came
home with his clothes all over blood
|and I took the hatchet and the clothes
I to at) old shed on our lot and burned
I them.
“It is a horrible thing to implicate
my husband, but I can’t help It.
; From the time he told me about the
crime, I have been constantly tor
mented. I wanted to kill myself at
times, but I could not leave the chil
dren behind. My husband saw that I
was beginning to weaken and he told
I me a few days ago that he was going
! tq kill me and all the children for
fear I would give him away. I final
Trotzky and Rebel
General Trying to
Out-Ruble Each Other
Warsaw, Jlar. 11. (By The Associ
ated Press)—Leon Trotzky. the Rus
sian Soviet war minister, according- to
Russians here who are In daily touch
with their country, has offered a re
ward of five million rubles for the
body, dead or alive, of Gem. Koslov
sky, the revolutionary leader in the
Petrograd region. Gen. Koslovsky, in
return, is reported to have offered ten
million rubles for Trotzky’s body.
It is pointed out here that a mil
lion rubles now is worth about $50.
A dozen or more insurrections are
in progress throughout Russia and
the anti-Bolshevik movement daily i»
encouraging other uprisings, accord
ing to the local Russians, who assert
that they are gaining confidence of
the ultimate success of the counter
revolutionary movement as they
learn of fresh anti-Soviet forces ap
pearing from Odessa northward.
Besides a dozen more mq.ln insur
rections many anti-Bolshevik bands
are reported to be operating under
stimulus of the Kronstadt movement.
East of Kiev arid the Volga river re
gion there are five main oands, the
most important of which is headed
by General Makno, the Ukranian an
ti-Bolshevik leader, who recently con
solidated his forces with those of
General Antonoff. These bands are
said to number from ten thousand to
! fifteen thousand men, all mounted
land well equipped. The band defeat
! ed the- Bolshevi.ki in several encoun
I ters .east of Kiev, but the Bolshevik
1 have tightened their hold in Kiev and
are preparing to defend it from with
in and without.
Harding Holds
Long Conference
with Cabinet Heads
Washington, March 11.—Many prob
lems of departmental organization, to
gether with various pressing questions
of public policy, were discussed by
President Harding and his cabinet to
day at a three-hour meeting.
The threatened strike of packer em
ployes and the selection of a new ship
ping board arc understood to have oc
cupied first attention, and after they
had been put aside the president asked
each of his secretaries in turn to re
port conditions in his department as
they had revealed themselves during
the first week of the new adminis
tration.
The replies started several extended
discussions, w prolonging the session
that Mr. Harding took the members
of his official family to lunch with
him ’ the White House.
Departmental patronage is said to
have been one of the subjects left out
of the canvass, and although several
of the secretaries were ready to rec
ommend important appointments with
in their departments, their suggestions
were put over to be discussed private
ly with the president at later dates.
- was said that few decisions were
reached, most of the discussion being
of an informative nature. The reor
ganization plans to be inaugurated
soon are understood to have been
touched on only incidentally, the cab
inet members agreeing that steps of
that kind should wait until they had
more fully familiarized themselves
with general conditions.
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ABANDONED
BABY'S BODY ON
AUGUSTA DUMP
Police Seek Parents of
10-Days Old In
fant
Found on Bridge Street Rub
bish Pile Few Feet from
. Pasteboard Suitcase, Used as
Coffin—Was Fully Developed
Female Child—No Mark on
Body
The finding of the body of a fully !
developed female baby on the dump '
pile in the rear of the house at 77 '
Bridge street, was reported at about ;
4.35 o’clock Friday afternoon to City i
Marshal James O. McKenney. Coun- !
ty Attorney Walter M. Sanborn, !
Sheriff E. D. Harwood and Medical 1
Examiner William H. Harris, M. D.,
were immediately notified and,they
together with City Marshal McKen
ney at once went to the place and
began their investigation which was
continued through the remainder of
the afternoon and evening. Many
places were visited by the officers in
the effort to clear up the mystery
and by order of the sheriff and the
city marshal the investigation will
be continued today.
Tho body of the baby, which had
apparently been born a week or ten
days ago, was found lying a few feet
away from a pasteboard suit box,
in which it had apparently been
placed and had slid out, the end of
the box having broken off. The only
clue as to the time when the body of
the baby was placed in the box and j
the box put on the pile, lay in the
facts that inside the box was found
a Kennebec Journal of the date of
March 7, and that the box and paper
were entirely dry, showing that they
1 had been put there since the recent
j heavy rains. A string was found
i tied about the middle of the box. The
! dead body was found by soce chil
| dren. There were no marks on the
body.
Both the sheriff’s department^ and
police department are working on the
case.
REPEAL OF N. Y.
DAYLIGHT SAYING
BILL IS SIGNED
Albany, N. Y., Mar. 11—Governor
Miller today signed the bill repeal
ing the state daylight saving law.
Municipalities will be allowed to
operateu nder daylight saving by
local ordinance under the new law,
if they desire.
The signing of the bill brought to
an end a two year fight over day
light saving in which cities were op
posed to rural districts.
The legislature passed a repeal
bill last year but it was vetoed by
Governor Smith, who said a vast
majority of the people of the state
approved daylight saving.
THE WEATHER
—
PARTLY CLOUDY
Northern New England: Partly
cloudy Saturday; Sunday unsettled
and colder.
Southern New England: Fair and
somewhat warmer Saturday: Sun
day, cloudy and unsettled with mod
erate temperature.
Eastern New York: Fair and
somewhat warmer Saturday; Sunday
cloudy and unsettled, colder in north
portion.
Boston Forecast
Forecast for Boston and vicinity:
Saturday fair and somewhat warm
er; Sunday unsettled with increase
in temperature. Moderate south
winds.
General Forecast
In the New England states the
weather will be fair Saturday and
become unsettled Sunday with low
er temperature in Maine, New Hamp
shire and Vermont. In the middle
Atlantic states cloudy weather will
icrease on Saturday and be followed
by rain on Sunday with moderate
temperature. i
Winds: North of Sandy Hook —
Fresh south winds, fair weather
Saturday.
Why we are Proud
of our Showing of
Spring Stetsons
STRIKINGLY smart — the
first interpretation of the
•eason’a style note—with that
leng established Stetson
Quality which keeps your
Stetson fresh and trim to
the very end.
Our reputation for provid
ing excellent hat satisfac
tion to the men of this city
is unapproachable because
This means a Stetson Hat
which becomes the wearer—
holds its style and shape all
season.
Our assortment in the
spring styles andt shapes is
complete.
H. G. Barker Go.
The Proven Value Givere
Two Stores
Augusta and Gardiner
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HISTORY TO REPEAT
IN SOVIET’S FALL
BELIEF OF KERENSKY
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ALEXANDER F. KERENSK.'
London, Mar. 11. (By The Associat
ed Press)—Russia today is in the be
ginning of phases of upheaval which
will have essentially the same result
as the memorable occurrence of Mar.
12, 1917, said Alexander P. Kerensky,
Russia’s'former “man of destiny” to
day. . -
“The fundamental causes of the
outbreaks in Russia,” Kerensky de
clared, "are the same as those which
brought about the first revolution just'
four years ago, and the, outcome in
evitably will be the same—the over
throw of the dictatorship.
"To the Russian working masses
and the peasantry” Kerensky contin
ued, “Czarism and Bolshevism are in
continued on Page A—Col. 8)
Damaging Flood
of Connecticut
River Subsides
Brattleboro, Vt., Mar. 11—The
Connecticut rivbr freshet passed its
hifh'mark here early today after
flooding the tracks of the Central
Vermont railroad, surrounding the
factory of the White' River Chair
company, and damaging a thousand
bags of gain in the basement of the
Crosby Grain Elevator. At one
time the water was within two feet
of the high mark of last season
when the Connecticut river bridge
was carried away. As the new bridge
is being built six feet higher than
the other structure it was in no
danger.
The West river branch of the Cen
tral Vermont was three feet under
water at the Bradley meadows north
of this olty while along the Hunt
meadows a mile south of here 900
feet of track was moved from the
roadbed. Central Vermont trains
were routed over the Boston &
Maine.
After an ice jam at Putney gave
way last night there was a sharp
rise in the flood and the water was
nine feet over the crest of the dam
at Vernon, but it had fallen to seven
feet today.
Big Library and
Heavy Mail Chief
Worries of Wilson
Washington, Mar. 11—Woodrow
Wilson rounded out the first week
of his return to private life tonight
with a private dinner at which B. M.
Baruch of New York and Norman H.
Davis, former under-secretary of
state, who has been retained in the
Harding administration as the Amer
ican member Of the international
communications conference, were the
guests. It was said to signalize Mr.
Wilson’s intention to keep in touch
with men and affairs. Both Mr. Ba
ruch and Mr. Davis were among Mr.
Wilson’s advisers in drawing up the
economic sections of the treaty of
Versailles.
The former president, it is said, is
now fully established In his new
home and has suffered no set-back in
health. His principal household dif
ficulty, his friends report, has been
to find room in his new house for his
library of some eight thousand vol
umes. Mr._ Wilson spends some part
of every day dictating to a stenogra
pher attempting to dispose of a very
heavy correspondence, and with Mrs.
Wilson, frequently takes a motor
drive in the afternoon.
Germans Vote
Confidence in
Reparations Delegates
London, Mar. 11—Dr. Walter Simon,
the foreign minister and the other
German envoys to the London confer
ence have received a vote of confi
dence of the cabinet and it is not
considered that there is any danger of
a governmental crisis. This, despite
the criticisms rr ide at the sitting of
the foreign affairs committee today,
during which Hugo Stlnnes, the capi
talist. atacked in violent terms not
only Dr. Simons, but the entire cab
inet, says a despatch to the London
Times, from Berlin.
Herr Stinnes in bis attack declared
that the government was pursuing
no definite or clear policy, and that it
was suffering from an absolute lack
of ideas.
Dr. Sitnons is reported to have said
that the German government has no
immediate intention of making fresh
reparation^ proposals, ... .
SENATE 0. K.S
HARDING CHOICE
OF COMPTROLLER
Confirmation Also of
Asst. Sec/of State
Dearing
Many Nominations Must Await
Special Session in April—
Senate Adjournment Sched
uled for Today—Boston Man
Named as U. S. Marshal for
Mass^
Washington, March 11.—Nearly a
score of nominations were sent by
President Harding today to the Sen
ate, .which in turn confirmed a num
brOnly one day probably remains
for the Senate to take action on nomi
nations because of its expected ad
journment tomorrow night. Thereafter
nominations to be effective before the
j special session of Congress next month
1 will have to be of recess nature.
Nominations confirmed by the Sen
a today were:
D. R. Crissinger of Marion, O., to be
comptroller of the currency; Fred Mor
ris Dearing of Missouri, to be assist
ant secretary of state; Elmer D. Ball,
reappointed assistant secretary of ag
riculture; William J. Keville of Bos
ton, to be the United States marshal
for the District of Massachusetts; Wil
liam S. Culbertson of Kansas, reap
pointed to the tariff commission; Cap
tain Charles B. McVay, Jr., to be chief
of the navy bureau of ordnance with
the rank of rear admiral; and Ernest
Lester Jones of Virginia, reappointed
as director of the coast and geodetic
survey.
Former Representative John J. Esch
of Wisconsin and Mark W. Potter of
New York were nominated to the In
terstate Commerce Commission and
their names were reported favorably
by the Senate interstate commerce
committee, but final abtion was not
taken. It was said that opposition
might develop to Mr. Esch on the part
of Senator LaFollettc, Republican,
Wisconsin.
Other nominations sent to the Sen
ate . today by President Harding but
not acted on included: Thomas O. Mar
vin of Massachusetts, to .the tariff
; commission ; William H. Joyce of Los
1 Angeles, renominated to the Federal
Farm Loan Board; Walter Lyon of
Pittsburg and former lieutenant gov
ernor of Pennsylvania, to be United
States district attorney for the west
I em district of Pennsylvania; and Clar
ence C. Chase of New Mexico, to be
collector of customs for District 24.
Col. Gustave Lukesh was nominated
for membership on the Mississippi
River Commission and other service
nominations included Chaplain J. T.
Axton to be chief of chaplains of the
army with the rank of colonel, and
Medical Director Edward K. Stitt to
be surgeon general of the navy.
Smedley D. Butler, Logan Feland
and Harry Lee were renominated to
their present rank of brigadier general
in the Marine Corps.
Reappointment of Carl A. Mapes of
Albion, Mich., as solicitor of the bu
reau of internal revenue was recom
mended to the president today by At
torney Daugherty. Mr. Mapes, 'who
was formerly an attorney In the bu
reau. was appointed solicitor last No
vember.
MAINE CENTRAL
SOON TO STATE
PROPOSED CUTS
Portland, Maine, March 11—The
Maine Central Railroad management
will anonunce soon a proposed reduc
tion of wages of certain classes of
employes, including clerks, mechan
ics, machinists, maintenance of way
men, station men and heads of de
partments, it was stated today.
Announcement already had been
made that wages must be reduced,
and the first conference will be held
on Monday with representatives of
unskilled labor on a cut proposed for
them. -
It is estimated that about 3,300 em
ployes on the Maine Central lines
and nearly 1,000 listed with the Port
land Terminal Co., will be affected.
Dept Justice Sticks
to Ruling on Foreign
Booze Shipments
Washington, Mar. 11.—The depart
ment of Justice was said tonight by
prohibition officers to have refused
to review its recent opinion holding
trans-shipments of liquor from one
foreign country to another via this
country illegal and ships touching at
American ports with intoxicants
aboard to be violators of the national
prohibition act. The refusal was
made on the ground that search of
the authorities revealed no reason for
reversal.
Request for the review was made
some weeks ago by the State Depart
ment to which the British embassy
made representations and by the
Treasury Department. The review
was asked because of the internation
al questions said to be involved.
The Justice department’s refusal is
not expected to end the matter ac
cording to prohibition officials, who
say they have been informed that
the British embassy will urge the
| State department to reftew its request
and in doing so will cite e fating
commercial treaties, especially with
regard to Canada.
Until the question is finally settled,
officials said customs regulations on
the subject would be held in abey
ance and the status both of trans
shipments of liquor and vessels
and vessels touching at American
jjorts would ‘remain unchanged. ^
GERMANS SHOW
SIGNS HEDGING IN
INDEMNITY STAND
Berlin, Mar. 10. (By The Associated
Press)—Foreign Minister Simons dis
cussed the events of the London re
parations conference with the foreign
relations committee of the Reichstag
until late in the evening, when the
session was adjourned to Friday.
Although the deliberations were
supposed to be confined to cabinet
and committee members only, it was
observed that Hugo Stinnes, who
was one of the government’s pre-con
ference advisers, also was present.
After the meeting ended, it was
learned that Dr. Simons admitted
having exceeded the limit which the
German experts thought safe in pre
senting the counter proposals to the
Entente and also that he was more
optimistic than his colleagues re
garding Germany’s ability to float an
international loan. Dr. Karl Helf
ferlch, former secretary of the tr«s
I ury, who is a nationalist, and Dr.
| Gustav Strezmann, of the People’s
party, were among the foreign min
ister’s critics. The bourgeoise par
ties generally were not inclined to
disavow him, because some public
opinion favors the attitude of Dr.
Simons and because they believe any
parliamentary opposition to «him
would be bound to create an unfavor
able impression abroad.
The Reichstag on Saturday will
discuss the situation resulting from
the failure of the Londbn negotia
tions.
Tariff and Tax
Experts tp Hurry
Along Bill Drafts
Washington, March 11.—Speedy ac
tion on tariff and tax revision at the
special session of Congress was prom
ised today by Chairman Penrose of
the Senate finance committee. He said
the object of the conferences arranged
for Monday between Republican mem
bers of congressional committees and
Secretary Mellon of the treasury was
to arrange a program ‘‘behind which
all Republicans can put their shoul
ders.”
If necessary, Senator Penrose said,
it is planned to resort to caucus action
to push through the legislation. There
would be no attempt to thwart proper
discussion, he added, but caucus action
might be resorted to in an effort for
harmony.
‘‘We can not look for improved busi
ness,” said Senator Penrose, ‘‘until the
tariff and internal revenue legislation
are outlined and government extrava
gance stops. Even the promise of Jhe
Dingley tariff law immediately pro
duced better cr-’dltions in business.”
Urging less interference by the gov
ernment in business, Senator Penrose
said he favored abolishing "all .of the
autocratic mushroom government
boards, all the Wilson boards, which
rose during the war.”
‘Tin Shot by Clara
Hamon” Declara
tion Stricken
Millionaire
Clara Smith Hamon,
Accused of Murder,;
Re-arranges Furni
ture in Death Room
in Presence of Jury
— Bloodstained Un
dergarments Offered
in Evidence
Ardmore, Okla., Mar. 11—Clara
Smith Hamon, on trial here charged
with the murder of Jake'L. Hamon
today returned to the hotel rooms
occupied by herself and Mr. Hamon
and in the presence of the jury re
arranged the furniture as It WM'on
the night of the shooting. A short
time later, when taking of testimony
was resumed, Bhe heard the testi
mony of Dr. Walter Hardy that Mr.
Hamon had come to his sanitarium
with the declaration: *Tm shot by
Clara Hamon.” A subsequent state
ment of Hamon Is to the effect that
he was shot while lying in bed, also
was quoted by Dr. Hardy.
While Dr. Hardy was on the stand
the state offered In evldenbe the
bloodstained undergarments of Ha
mon, which previously it had been
said, were burned to prevent his ’
wife's seeing them.
Dr. Hardy testified that Mr.
Hamoni staggered toward him, pqle
of face and kissed him on the fore
head. In reply to the doctor's ques
tion, he said: "I told you she would
do it. I'm going to die. I am wehk
and I want to go to bed.”
/Accompanied by Sheriff GarerU>
and Clara Hamon, the jury visited
the hotel where Hamon was shot,
Arts inspecting the room occupied
by Clara Hamon and joined by a
connecting door to the one occupied
by Mr. Hamon.
Clara Hamon personally are
ranged the furniture and effects as
near as possible to the location on •
the day of the shooting. It was no-!
tlced that only by extreme effort
did she maintain her composure,
dropping into a chair Just as soon
as she had completed the few
changes.
Dr. Hardly told of caring for Mr.
Hamon when he came to the sani
tarium and quoted an admonition
given by Mr. Hamon, thus: "Doctor,
take my right hand. I want you to
promise me you never will reveal
how I was shot except in opjen
court."
As Attorney General Free ling dis
played the underclothing Hamon.
had worn and a gown he was placed |
in at the hospital, both Mrs. Jake !
(Continued on £a*je 8-—Col. 6)
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