Evening star. [volume], September 25, 1937, Page A-5, Image 5

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' GARR BROTHERS
FREE UNDER ROND
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Denhardt Slayers Await In
dictment by Grand Jury
October 4.
By the Associated Press.
SHELBYVILLE, Kv„ September
25.—Free on bond, the three Garr
brothers, accused of the slaying last
Monday night of Brig. oen. Henry
Denhardt, awaited today the action
* of a Shelby county grand jury sched
uled tn convene October 4.
Their bonds, totaling *50.000, were
quickly executed yesterday by six
family friends of the Oarrs after
County Judge Harry F. Walters bound
them over to the grand jury. The
brothers—Roy, Jack and Dr. E. s.
Garr—are charged with murder In j
warrants sworn out Tuesday, but can I
be prosecuted only on indictments.
+ Dr. Garr and Roy returned to their ;
homes near La Grange, in Oldham {
County. Jack Garr, 37-year-old |
“baby'’ of the trio, said he was going
to his home near Cincinnati.
Judge Walters’ decision to grant
the brothers bail was cheered wildly
by the crowd that had jammed the
court room all day and heard Roy
Garr, 46-year-old farmer and bird
dog trainer, assume full responsibility
for the death of the 61-year-old gen
eral. who had been indicted and once
tried for the slaying of his fiancee,
Mrs. Verna Garr Taylor, 40, "baby
sister” of the Garrs.
g “I Was Scared.”
Describing the shooting, which oc- i
furred on this bluegrass city's almost- j
deserted Main street as the former
lieutenant governor and adjutant gen
eral of Kentucky was walking with
his attorney, Rodes K. Myers of Bowl
ing Green, Roy Garr said:
"I saw Denhardt go for his right
hip. and by God, I went for my gun.
I was scared and I started shooting
and didn't stop until I had emptied
my gun.”
Roy disputed testimony by Myers
that he had fired a “coup de grace”
shot into the general's head after he
lay dead in the doorway of a hotel
toward which he ran headlong after
M the attorney warned "general, there
are the Garrs!” and shots rang out.
Dr. Garr. 48-year-old veterinarian,
testified he fired two shots, but did
not know w hether either struck Den
hardt. Jack Garr. according to
testimony, was not armed.
Cite General's Threats.
Further to bolster their self-defense
stand. Dr. Garr and Roy related
threats they said had been made
against them by Denhardt.
* At Bowling Green. Jesse Denhardt,
a brother, and Miss Bertha Denhardt,
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Garr Brothers Get Bail
The Garr brothers, Dr. L. S.. Roy and Jack, as they watched
William Belnap sign bail, a total oj $50,000. for them yesterday
in the Shelby County court, house at Shelbyville. Ky. The papers
were signed afrer an all-day examining trial in u'hich the
brothers were charged ivith the murder of Gen. Henry H. Den
hardt. —Copyright. A. P. Wircphoto.
I
spinster sister of the slain man. i,ssued
a statement asserting they would leave
prosecution of the Oarr case to the
commonwealth.
"We have no intention of participat
ing in another Roman holiday such
as disgraced the previous trial.” they
said, referring to the general's first
trial last April on a charge of murder
ing Mrs. Taylor November 6. 1936. The
jury reported it was unable to agree.
The statement continued:
"If the officers whose duty it is to
enforce the law are derelict in the
discharge of their sworn duties in the
case of an obviously cold-blooded
murder, there will rest on the State
and dignity of the commonwealth a
stain which will degrade them in the
eyes of the Nation.”
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$16,000 FOR RESEARCH
Amount Awarded Junior Chamber
by Brooklyn Institution.
SCOTTS BLUFF. Nebr., September
25 i/Pt.—Roswell Roaengren of Buffalo,
N. Y„ national president of the United
States Junior Chamber of Commerce,
said last night the organisation had
been allotted *16.000 by the Brook
ings Institution at Washington to be
used for “research purposes.”
Rosengrer. made the announcemen
at the Nebraska Junior Chamber o
! Commerce convention here.
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Gold in South Africa.
Gold produced In the Transvaal o
South Africa in July was valued a
more than $34,785,000.
HOUSING mis
SLIGHT NEW DEAL
Administration ignored as
Thanks Are Voted to
Five Men.
Fifty men and women whose chief
interest in life is the eradication of
city slums snubbed the Roosevelt ad
ministration today in voting thanks
to five men for bringing into exist
ence the national housing law with
Its $520,000,000 available for low
cost housing.
The delegates to the'two-day con
ference of the American Federation
of Housing Authorities at the Hay
Adams House adopted resolutions of
pleasure at the efforts of these men
on behalf of housing:
Mayor La Ouardia of New York
City, Representative Steagall of Ala
bama and Senator Wagner of New
York, the nominal co-authors of the
act: Paul B. Betters, executive secre
tary of the United States Conference
of Mayors, and William Green, presi
dent of the American Federation of
Labor.
The resolutions neglected mention
of the P. W. A. Housing Division guided
by Secretary of the Interior Ickes. al
though that agency has been the chiei
factor In America's war for slum elim
ination during the past four years. In
deed. Catherine Bailers, executive sec
retary of the Labor Housing Confer
ence, ' put the administration out of
the picture altogether when she re
marked about the Wagner act:
"This law was not dictated by the
White House. It is the result of a na
tional demand.”
Labor occupies a strategic position
in improvement In housing in the
United States, Miss Bauers told the ex
perts, because the laboring men and
women demand Improved dwelling fa
cilities. To spur her hearers to de
mand adequate Federal aid for remedy
ing the housing situation Miss Bauers
said:
"Two years from now we will be
facing the biggest housing shortage
in our history."
The chief housing need after low
cost slum clearance projects is a
13,000 to tS.ooO house for small in
come persons not poor enough to
demand public housing, John Fahey,
chairman of the Federal Home Loan
Bank Board, told the meeting. He
suggested that such housing should
Interest private financing, which can
not foot the bill fof slum-clearance
projects.
The meeting closes this afternoon.
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Martha Raye Divorce Quiet.
LOS ANGELES, September 25
| (#1— Hi-de-ho Martha Raye will have
I a quiet divorce.
Percivai Westmore yesterday was
appointed guardian of Brother Buddy,
! a minor. He dismissed Buddy's answer
! to Martha's divorce complaint in which
: Buddy blamed his mother-in-law,
! Mrs. Mabelle H. Reed, for his marital
i grief. Buddy now plans to make
only a general denial to cruelty
charges. The couple has been married
but six weeks.
Father, Three Sons, Deputy
and Another Man Held to
Wise Grand Jury.
fey the Aasoclkttd Prett.
WISE, Va.. September 34.—Five
men yesterday were bound over to
the Wise County grand jury by Trial
Judge J. T. Hamilton In connection
with the Blackwood Coal and Coke Co.
pay roll holdup September 15.
Deputy Sheriff C. W. McNutt, one
of 10 persons arrested in connection
with the robbery, waived preliminary
hearing and four others against whom ;
warrants had been Issued were dis
missed on motion of Commonwealth's
Attorney Fred B. Greear
Sent on to the grand jury at yester
day's hearing were John Cleek and
three sons, John R. (Buck) Cleek,
Carl (Zeke) Cleek and Harry (Hack)
Cleek and Roy Palin.
“Just Like Picking Cherries.”
At the hearing In a packed court
room Buck Cleek testified the first
suggestion of the robbery was made
by McNutt about two months ago. He
said McNutt, who accompanied the
two pay roll ofllclaU of the coal com
pany, told him it would be "just like
picking cherries."
Buck Cleek told Trial Justice Ham
ilton that the booty was to be spa
three way*, with McNutt and ”tw
men from Tennessee.”
Cleek testified he had several tele
phone conversation* with McNutt, on
two days before the robbery. He sai:
the officer told him there would b
two other person* in the car carryin
the money but that they would b
unarmed
Other witnesses called by Greea
were Lyle Bellamy, a deputy employe:
by the coal company; Sheriff J. t
Quillen of adjoining Scott County; ;
L. Osier, manager of the coal com
pany; E. F.^Buell, pay roll auditor, an
Hasel Bellamy and Mrs, Joe Davidsor
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The two women testified they new
) Buck and Harry Cleek and Palin in
three automobiles which "came down
. the road” after the holdup.
. Buck, Harry and Zeke Cleek are
1 charged with being the masked trio
» which halted the pay roll car.
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