The day book. [volume], March 02, 1914, LAST EDITION, Image 5

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.ELLIS SAYS HIS ANCESTORS
WERE MENTALLY UNFIT
William Cheney Ellis, former Cin
cinnati leather manufacturer, on trial
for the murder of his wife, attacked
his own. ancestors as mentally and
physically unfit when he was recalled
to. the stand today in an effort to save
himself from the gallows on an in
sanity plea.
"My grandfather was a religious
fanatic," swore Ellis . "My father was
stricken "blind when he was a young:
man because of some constitutional
defect. I, myself, was subject to faint
ing spells and fits when I was a boy."
Robert M. Hosea of Cincinnati and
his wife, aged parents of the mur
dered woman, sat within fifteen feet
of Ellis when he mumbled these sen
tences. A deputy sheriff watched
them to prevent a possible demon
stration. Hosea's lips quivered as El
lis left the stand, but he remained
silent
THREE MEN HELD ON WHITE
SLAVERY ACT CHARGE
San Francisco, March 2. Edmund
H. Damon, who professes to be the
son of a Jacksonville, Fla., million
aire, and Frank J. Corbett and Jos
eph Schwartz will be arraigned here
today on charge of violating the
white, slavery act.
Corbett and Schwartz, alleged prize
fighters, with two girls giving the
names of Anna Thorp of Jacksonville
and Lillian Lynch of Knoxville, Tenn.,
arrived here yesterday from Los An
geles. The men were immediately
arrested and the girls held as. wit
nesses. Damon was originally a
member of the party, but he left his
companions at San Luis Obispo,
where he was arrested on telephone
instructions from San Francisco.
Damon says the trip was merely a
frolic and that, so far as he knew, it
was innocent
bullVing METHODS CONTINUE
The .persecution' of the locked-out
raincoat makers on the part of the
Conrad B. Shane Company, 501 S
Jefferson street, still continues.
Last Saturday four of the raincoat
makers weer captured by a gang of
Shane's hired men and dragged into
Shane's rivate office. There Shane
attempted to put the men through
the third degree, but they demanded
that if they did anything they wanted
'to be taken to the police station.
The four men were released after
much bullying.
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MATHEWSON OFFERED $65,000
TO MANAGE FED CLUB
President J. A. GDinore of the Fed
eral League today wired Christy
Mathewson an offer of $65,000 to
manage a Federal League club for
three years, and invited "Big Six" to
meet him in New York on Thursday
to consider the offer. Gilmore's tele
gram, addressed to Matty at the
Giants' training camp at Narlin
Springs, Tex., follows:
"Newspaper reports state you do
not take Federal offer seriously. Get
acquainted with Federal League offi
cials and be convinced we are not
four-flushing. I will give you $65,000
for three years' services as. manager
Federal club $15,000 in advance. If
satisfactory, meet me Waldorf, New
York, Thursday at my expense. Wire,
answer, Chicago."
Chicago Federal club headquarters
announced today that ground will ber
broken at 10 a. m. tomorrow for the
new Federal ball park here, j
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PUTS THE BAN ON. STORK i
"It is a child's right to know where
he came from," Prof. Winfield Scott"
Hall of Northwestern University told
a class in current events. "The storyf
of the stork is a lie and no mother'
should tell it to her child.
"Tell the girl when she is veryr
young shw her that future mother-j
hood depends on how she keeps hen
body and she will not permit familiar-!
ities. Teach the boy when he is ,101
years old.