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MRS. DAY PLEADED WITH SLAIN ASSAILANT TO SPEAK TO HER
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ad to the curtain wh?r? I saw his"
bulflni fortu.
"Oet out of hare, you " I nKI,
calling blm a vile nam*.
"He drew back, I thought he was
going to strike, so I (truck him; the
|un exploded. Book fell dead.
DMa't Mean to KID.
" 'My Ood, Daddy,* my wife cried.
'I didn't mean to kill,' I aald, my
flrst word*.
"My wife waa suffering Tou never
knew a woman to suffer so.."
Tears welled In the eyea of the
wltneaa. With hla teeth clenched, his
data doubled, he leaned toward
Proaecutor Korreet Hughea.
"My wife la a rood woman, a noble
woman, deaplte your atatementa In
the presa.
"Forrest," Day aald. "I want to
aay aomethlng to you."
"Ood In heaven knowa, that what
you Intimated In that atatement '??
not true.
"It la terrible to aay that, Forrest,
don't you think It waa not right?
"Tou have caat a reflection on a
good, pure woman."
Hughea, In a huahed voice, answer
ed: "Judge Day, I have tried to be
fair?to do Juat my duty. That la
why we are having thla Inquest."
"It waan't /air, Forrest?U waan't
?Mr."
Judge la Croea-Rxamtoed.
Hughes went Into a croas-examlna
tlon of the witness.
"Why didn't you cry out when you
aaw thla man attacking your wife?''
Hughes asked.
"Because I knew I could protect,
my wife In time?and I did It.
"I knew Beck was armed often.
I often saw hl4 gun.
"I got my revolver so I could be
In a position to drive him from my
home?he was my superior physical
ly?I did not mean to take chances."
Day continued:
"Imagine the back of his head
was toward me," Day said, illustrat
ing this by acting out the part.
"He dodged when 1 struck at him;
he may have had the back of hi*
head toward me. The reat of hla
. body faced me however."
Many women In the court room
cried softly as Judge Day, his voice
choked, answsred Hughes' questions.
"I went upstairs after the shoot
' tog. Ml tell you why," Judge Day
said. "When I sat up there 1
placed the revolver to my own
temple and then I said, 'No?I am
too bravs for that'?that Is why I
want upstairs."
The Wife's Story.
In a voice with a sweet Southern
drawl, scarcely audible two feet
away, Mrs. Day told her story.
With her husband standing beside
her, Mrs. Day, considered one of
Oklahoma City's most attractive
women, the State capital's recog
i nlsed social leader, took courage?
J slowly her voice grew louder.
" *Glrl. girl,, you har# swept me
i eff my feet?you must come to me
? now,' Colonel Beck cried to me when
t we were alone that night," Mrs.
? Day said.
"He had one am around my
waist?the other around and under
my knees.
"I cried out for Mm to stop.
And I cried out, 'I wish I were
dead.' And "I wish my daughter
was dead'."
"WhyT" Interrupted County At
torney Hughes.
"Why, Mr. Hughes, have you a
daughter??No you have not or
you wouldn't ray that.
"Oh, Mr. Hughes, Oh?Cant you
understand?it was not what would
have happened then that made me
wish my baby was dead. It Is the
afterpart, Mr. Hughes.
"It Isn't what you may think?It
la facts that I tell you, Mr. Hughes
?It Is the awful afterpart of the
tragedy.
"Tou ask me, Mr. Hughes, If I
thought then that Colonel Beck waa
trying to dlahonor me.
"I didn't think, Mr. Hiighes?I
knew he put his hands on my legs.
"What must women think?"
Knelt Beside Body.
"Why, after all these horrible
things you say he did?why then did
you kneel bealde htm and ask him
to speak?" Hughes asked.
"I saw his Hps move?I was
hysterical. I recall kneeling down
beside the body. I tried to pick
Colonel Beck's head up?It made me
run with blood?my hands and my
clothes.
"Why I did that, I don't know only
that I am a woman, perhaps."
Policeman Testifies.
Policeman Joseph Campbell testi
fied that, as Beck's body lay on the
floor of Day's home in the small1
hours of Tuesday, his skull blown
away from a revolver shot. Mrs.
Day, with blood on her arrn*. face
and the front of her dress,, knelt,
pleading with Beck to speak to her.
Her shoes were off, he said.
"Shs was all alqpe when I got
to the house." the policeman said
"After a little while her husband
can* down stairs. She was awfully
hysterical and was crying some
thing about *Oh, my honor. Oh, mr
honor'."
"Then she talked about wanting
to die and said something more I
didn't undertsand," Campbell aald.
Men and women sat on the court
benches. Women stood on the chairs
and men perched on the window
?Ills.
Women crowded Into the Jury bo*,
sitting on the arms of the chairs of
ths Juror* So great was the crowd
that officers of the military coutt
sitting to make a report of the case
to the War Department were crowd
ed from their seats.
Richard Miller, another policeman;
W. R. Wlthlngton, prosecuting
attorney's detective, and others also
told of seeing the body of Beck,
stretched out on the floor In a pool
of blood.
Saw Liquor In House. ?
Wlthlngton told of finding a small
amount of corn liquor mlxod with
orange Juice at the Day home. He
then Illustrated how, In his opinion.
Beck was shot.
The officer said he believed the
bullet entered the back of Beck's
head, going toward the front and
downward.
Wlthlngton was followed by W. T.
MoAtee. coroner's undertaker, who
had charge of Beck's "body.
""The course of the. bullet was
downward and forward." McAtce
aald.
Prosecutor Hughes exhibited an
x-ray photograph of Beck's skull,
endeavoring to show ths course of
the bullet as going forward to prove
his contention Beck was shot from
behind without warning.
H Prltchsrd ene th? * i -?M at
th* I <y k'lirt at the party which
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ACTORS IN BECK CASE
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Lieut. Ool. Paul Ward Beck,, former Washington
aviator, who was shot dead by Jean P. Day, Oklahoma
financier and ex-judge, when the latter found the flyer
trying to attack Sirs. Day, is shown in the upper left
hand corner. The Other two figures are Judge and Mrs.
Day, both well known in Washington. '
TODAY
(Continued from First Pa**.)
of the Volstead law. Mr.
Speyer is also head man in
a drive to raise half ? million
for the Salvation Army. Miss
Booth, boss of the army, saya
Mr. Speyer must recant on pro
hibition or get out ef Salvation
Army work.
The founder of Christianity
changed water into wine, at a
wedding feast, that the guests
might nave wine, instead of
plain water. Would Miss Booth
have thought Him unworthy to
assist in a Salvation Army
drive? Those that break the
law should be scorned and pun
ished. Those that advocate or
derly changes act according to
the American plan, and within
their rights.
Managers of big corporations
have discovered a convenient
big word. It is "propaganda."
If men on strike declare that
they are deprived of a Consti
tutional right that is denounced
as propaganda, and you are in
vited to believe in a hazy kind
of way that Lenin and Trotrky
are back of it.
So it is in political matters.
If you suggest that the United
States ought to run ita own
shipping, attend to its own
affairs, be free from dictation
by others, you are told also that
that is "propaganda."
The blessed word. "Mesopo
tamia." used by the reverend
gentleman in place of profan
ity, wasn't half as convenient
as "propaganda." the beet little
word that profiteering ever had.
The Austrians' will invite the
descendants of Charlee, all the
young Hapsburg bfood, to live
in Austria. They might learn
something from that. Logical
French. No member of any
French "royal" famiLy can live
in France unless all claims to
the throne have been given up.
And under no circumstances can
a man descend from the kings
that France luckily got rid of
and be elected to parliament or
become an officer in the army.
The French learned their les
son between 1790 and 1870. The
Austrians evidently have not
learned theirs, but they will
learn it.
preceded the tragedy told of the
events of the early evening.
"I knew Mrs. Pay, Just one week,"
Prlchard said. I met her when she
and Colonel Beck were at the thea
ter last Monday. They were alone.
We ail sat in the same row by
chance. 1 had met Colonel Beck be
fore.
"I met them In the lobby of the
theater and asked them to come out
to my house.
"Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Anderson,
Major Paddock and my wife made
up the party.
"We didn't have any new records
at my house, so we went over to
Judge Day's home.
"We etayed there until t o'clock.
We left in Judge Day's automobile
?all of us, except Mrs. Day and
Colonel Beck.
"Everything seemed proper. There
were no quarrels," said Prlchard.
"Kvervhody lanced and had a good
time."
Government Forcee Will Not
Intervene Unless 8tate Au
thority Is Failure.
By WARREN W. WHEATON.
By International N?w? U?i ilss.
McMECHBN, W. Vs.. April 8.?
Mayor G. O. Morris today an
nounrnl that unless Governor
Morgan forthwith withdrew the
State police or greatly curb* their
activities hereabout*, he would ap
peal to President (larding.
By WARREN W. WIIKATON.
International Newt Service.
While Congress made further ef
forts yesterday to end th* naUon
wide coal strike by bringing th*
operators and miners Into a Joint
wage conference, the Government,
through Secretary of War Weeks,
served official notice that Federal
troops would not be used to put
down disturbance* incident to th*
strike until the State* proved their
inability to maintain order with th*
national guard.
The announcement of the Govern
ment's policy with reapect to th*
use of the army In th* present con
troversy was made In. a War De
partment telegram to Gov. Merritt
C. Mechem, of New Mexico, who re
quested Federal troops to "prevent
destruction of life p.nd property" In
the mining regions near Gallup,
N. M.
? "States must first demonstrate
their inability to preserve order
within their border* oefore Federal
troops will be sent to assist," Secre
tary Week* wired Governor Mechem,
adding that this applied to th* en
tire counttr.
The decision of Secretary Weeks
not to Interfere In New Mexico
or anywhere else was reached fol
lowing a conference with President
Harding within a short tlms after
Governor Mechem's request for
troops was received.
The gains mads Among the un
organized workers are regarded by
union leaders as th* outstanding fea
ture of the week's developments.
By this cutting down the country'*
daily coal producUon they said th*
lssu* will be forced to a climax much
sooner than if th* United Mine
Workers fought ths battle alone.
The Congressional bid to a peace
conference extended through Chair
man Nolan of the Hous* Labor Com
Third Degree Fall* to Shak?
First Story of "North
Carolina Jo?."
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Taken to the acen? of the ?lay
ing of Mrs. Margaret K. Weber,
who waa criminally aaeaulted and
?hot to death on May 1? last In a
thicket of woodland near White
BUUon, Md.. James Brown,
eighteen-year-old negso youth, also
known ai "North Carolina Joe,"
waa subjected yesterday to the
third degree In an effort to obtain
a confess ion of guilt from him.
But deaplte the fact that the
crime, as the police believe It oc
curred, waa re-enacted in the pres
ence of the negro, he stoutly main
tained his Innocence of any connec
tion with the slaying of the young
bride of seven months. He re
mained oool and deliberate all
through the rehearsal, declaring
that he had never been anywhere
near the scene.
Stoutly Denies CHmfc
"If I killed that woman I would1
be afraid to coma near this place,
said the negro. "Tou can tie me to
a tree right here at the spot where
vou say I killed her. I will stay
here all night and If I killed her 1
would not do that.
"Should Mrs. Weber's ghost come
to you here tonight,, would you then
admit that you killed her?"
"If the woman's ghost came and
?aid I kilted her. yes. 1 guess I would
admit ltr?-'cauee Qod would sand,
her ghost But no ghost la coming,
aa I did not kill Mrs Weber
All through the cross fire of ques
tions flown at the young negro, he
remained calm. Ha did not for a
moment loee his head nor did he
?ay a word that would Incriminate
him aa the slayer of Mrs. Weber.
It was within thirty foet of the
?pot where Mrs. Weber's body wea
found that Mlsa EatsUa K. Nalley.
daughter of Floyd Nallsy, farmer
of Huntsvtlle, declared that she
saw Brown talking with Willie
Washington, a District employe,
also colored, on May 1?. ?hr~ day.
before Mre. Weber had been "hot
to death.
Brawn I. Identified.
Reginald Nallsy. a nephew of
Miss Nallsy, also told the polioe
that he beUsved Brown was the
negro be aaw talking with Wash
lngton The Utter also partly Iden
tified Brown as the man who ap
proached him in the woods on May
II, asking where work oould be
fotttn. *
"I wu afraid of the man. and
when Miss and Mr Nalley came
along, I left him and walked along'
the path with them*"
Brown denies he Is ths negTO
they claim they saw. He also de
nies that be applied for^work on
May 16 at ths farms of Floyd Nal
ley and William Cameron, just
acrosa Sheriff road, which divides
the woodland* from the Nallsy and
Cameron farms. -
"I was never near their farms.
Brown declared.
It is the positive Identification of
Brown by Miss Nalley and the
partial Identification of the negro
by others, with his sudden disap
pearance from the vicinity of the
crime, that make Constable Thomas
H. Garrison, of Hyattavllle, and De
tective Sergeant Thomas Walsh, of
the Central Office, feel certain that
Brown la the slayer of Mrs. We bar.
Car Fares in Chicago
, Reduced to Six Cents
CHICAGO, April ?.?Faroe on Chi
cago surface car lines were ordered
reduced from I cents to 6 cents?a
cut of J cents?by the Illinois com
merce commission today.
The reduction la effective May 1
and will continue until January 1,
1921, as an experimental measure to
determine if car lines oan operate at
a profit on that basis.
No additional charge is to b? made
for transfers.
mlttee, during a probe Into "dis
eased condition of the coal industry,
fell on deaf ears?for the operators
almost unanimously declined to psr
ticlpate In the conference Intended
to be held In Washington negt Mon
day. They protested fear of Fed
eral prosecution for violation of the
anti-truat acta if they entered such a
conference and declared they would
deal with the workers by district*
and not nationally.
Ths operator* are persisting In thl*
view deapite assurande from Attor
ney General Daugherty that proee
outlon will not be Instituted In the
courts If the owners and miners get
together to make an end to their
?trike. . _
All hope that ?uch a conference
will yet be held has not been
abandoned by those conducting the
Congressional qui*. At Indlanapolla
today, however. Elite Searles. editor
of the Mine Workers' Journel, de
otared the strike would continue *s
long a* the operator* "damned
pleased," and e*preased the belief
that a Joint conference would not bo
held in less than tw6 month*.
Petition for Soldier
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Bonus and Sales Tax
1?TE respectfully petition Copgress to pass the
? ? Soldiers' Bonus Aot without further delay and
also to levy a Sales Tax to obtain the money to pay
the Bonus
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Past? additional paper harm for mora wfiwhim
and addromoo*. Forward petition whmn comploto to
PETITION EDITOR. Tko Washington Tim mm. Wad*,
ington, D. C.
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DOROTHY AND HER DOUBLE
Mrs. Mary T. Baylia, 1884 Colombia Road Dorothy Dalton.
MIJl'S WIFE WIIIS
JH EASTER OUTFIT
(Continued from First Pip)
She natdn with her slater. Mr*.
P. P. Bain, at 1S84 Columbia road
| She oonfessed herself surprised ]
j and overjoyed when adviaed that
her photograph had been decided
by the Judgee to be the one which
bore the cloeest resemblance to the
I star of "Moran of the Lady Letty,"
| a Paramount super-production now
playing at Loew's Columbia Theater.
"I never dreamed I would win
this generous prise," said Mrs.
Baylts. "I am thoroughly delighted
! over the news you bring me. My
sister and I went to the Columbia
the other night to see Dorothy
Dalton and we met several friends
who Insisted that I resembled Miss
Dalton. I had been told that many
times before, but I never dreamed
It would mean anything to me.
Photo Sent by Sister.
"My sister sent the picture to The
Washington Times, and although she
remained quite confident I bore as
close a resemblance to Miss Dalton
as anybody In Washington I never
paid any attention to the matter
until now. I find myself quite thrill
ed by the compliment carried by the
decision and as for the Easter outfit
?well, the woman who has enough
clothe* hasn't been discovered^yet."
Virginia Klndon, fashion editor of
The Washington Times, will accom
pany Mrs. Baylis on a round of the
smartest stores and shops in tho
National Capital Tuesday afternoon
to purchase the Easter outfit.
Tickets to Loew's Columbia The
ater, good for an entire year, will
be mailed to Miss Martin and M(ss
Heillman as soon as they are deliv
ers! by the printer and signed by
Manager Gates, of Loew's Columbia.
Party for Winner*.
One evening this week the three
winners will be entertained at a
party at the Columbia.
The winner of the $2(0 Raster
outfit will buy her hat at the Leon
Millinery Company, 1227 F street
northwest; a string of Du Barry
pearls at Sellnger's Jewelry store,
120 F street northwest; her shoes at
the Val Rltcher shoe store, 2S04 F
street northwest; her suit or dress
at the Bertram Cohn Company,
Twelfth and O streets northwest;
her handbag at Gkis A. Kneessl's
leather goods store, 1IS1 'O street
northwest; her fur piece at Zlotnlc's
I fur store, 1110 Fourteenth street
northwest; her lingerie at the 8.
Susukl Company's store, (14 Four
teenth street northwest; her co*t at
Splttell's, 720 Fourteenth street
northwest; her toilette accessaries
at the Emlle Beauty Parlor, and her
Easter bouquet at Shaffer's flower
shop, 900 Fourteenth street noith
west. All these merchants have
combined to provide the wlnnfcr with
the last word In fashion, frills and
flowers.
EAGLES HERE SEEK 3,000. !
Membership of 8,000 In Wash
ington Aerie, Fraternal Order of
Eagles, by next January Is the aim
of the local organisation. President
James M. Rlnehart said In the
opening address in th% ceremonies
attending the opening of the new
lodge room in the Oyster Building.
Ninth street and Pennsylvania
avenue.
LECTURE AT PARKVIEW.
C. 8. Greenwood, of the Fine Arts
Commission, will deliver his Illus
trated address on projected park
plans for Washington at the month-/
ly meeting of the Park View Cltlsens'''
Association In the Park View School
Tuesday night. A. musical program
win be offered I
Detective Chief Shot
' By Two Hold-up Men
DKTROIT, Mich., April ?.?Chief
of Detective? Edward H. Fox was
?hot through the cheat and fatally
wounded thla afternoon and re
moved, dying. to the Receiving Hoi
pltal, in trylar to arreat a pair of
hold-up men who entered the Ham
mond Standlnh atore at Twentieth
atreet and Vandlah avenue.
AMITIE CLUB TO DANCE.
The AmJtle Club will hold an "Baa
tar Monday Dance" at Un. Dyers'
?tudlo. It waa announced yesterday.
An Invitation will be extended to
other organisation* to Join. The
board of director* meet this week to
make arrangement* for poet-Lenten
aetlYltiee. Adolph J. Fugltt la chair
man of the board.
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Leaders Will Make Fight to
^ Keep Peace Minimum at
That Figure.
B/ Win. K. HUTCHINSON,
IMmMM
A minimum p?M* time army of
1(0,000 man will be the goal of ad
ministration force* in the Senate,
it wma announced laat night by "big
army" loader*.
Th* present army of 111,000 men
would bo reduced to 111,000 andor
tarma of tho army appropriaUon bill
aa it paaaod th* Houae. It la against
tho prorlalona of thla moaauro that
th* administration will conoentrat*
It* attaoka.
Th* demand for an adequate land
fighting fore* numbering at l*ast
150,000 men. It wa* Indicated, will
be supported by President Harding
before the also of the army la laid
before the Senate for decision. The
fight over the army opens this
week before the Bsnats Army Ap
propriation* Committee, which hax
the power of fixing it* also through
limiting appropriation*.
Senator Wadsworth (Rep.) of Mew
York, chairman of the committee,
haa advocated the 1(0,000 minimum.
In the committee fight, be Will be
eeconded by Senator Bpenoer (Rio.)
of Miaeourl, and Senator New (Rep.)
of Indiana, both of whom have acted
for the Admlrtistratlon on the floor
of the Senate.
"The reduction In the army as
effected by tho House Is altogether
too severe," Senator Spencer said last
night. "To cut th* afmy to lh,
000 men would be suicidal to the
aafety of the nation and dangerous
to the efficiency of the army Itself."
The "big army" men were oon
fldent they could at least prevent
further reduction In the present mili
tary force even though they failed
to hiereaao th* minimum to 160,000
m*n.
Indication* last night were that
the fight of Senator Borah (Rep.)
of Idaho, to further slash ths army
to 100.000 men Would not find suf
ficient support to Insure passage.
Justice Appropriation
Put Off Till Tomorrow
Consideration of the State and Juh
tioe Departments' appropriation bill,
carrying approximately 1X6,000,000,
waa completed yesterday by the
House, but final action was deferred
unUl Monday, due to the absence.of
a quorum at th* afternoon scsalot^.
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