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iMurderer Plays On
| Woman’s Sympathy
\ To Aid Jail Break
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■ POTTS VILLE, Pa., April £—
prhe role of Good Samaritan, which
I|has brought forth many strange
Btales of adventure and intrigue,
■has ended tragically for Mrs. Clara
Fessler, 31, demure schoolteacher
l and welfare worker here. Doing
[ what she said she thought was an
g act of compassion and mercy for
1 young and handsome murderer
sentenced to die for the slaying of
f lis sweetheart, she furnished him
. with a gun with which to shoot
lis way to freedom from the county
jail, 10 days before he was schedul
sd to be executed.
The woman, happily married and
he mother of two children, now
jis implicated with Alverez Miqued,
Cuban youth she befriended, and
awaits trial for conspiracy as an
accomplice in a jail bread.
Mrs. Pessler declares she has no
i regret for what she has done.
Sentenced to Die
Miquel was to die in the electric
? chair at Rockview penitentiary
soon for the murder of Louise
Macks, 19. whom he shot a year
jago when, he asserted, she jilted
him for another man.
The murderer, tne son of a
wealthy Cuban sugar cane grower,
gainer the confidence of Mrs. Fess
ler last October when she visited
the jail with her class of boys and
f:lrls. Prior to that time she had
ndulged in welfare work among
prisoners, furnishing them with
: reading matter and bibles.
Being of a sympathetic nature,
i Mrs. Fessler, who is attractive and
[pretty, listened to Miquel’s story of
s W'oe. She paid him several visits
l in murderer’s row and promised to
1 aid him. She furnished him with
books on several occasions and ex
changed several letters with him.
One day Miquel suggester that
she obtain a revolver so he could
escape from jail. At first the
■Good Samaritian remurred, but
gave in on condition Miquel would
mot use any bullets In the weapon
and merely use the gun as a fake
f “scare,., officials say she confessed.
How It Was Done
Mrs. Fessler purchased the gun
and cut the Inside pages of a
• bible and buried the weapon in It.
On her next trip to the prison she
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Alverez Miquel, above, and Mrs.
Clara Fessler, below.
presented it to the man in full view
of the guards and the warden, It
is alleged.
Miquel escaped by shooting a
guard and seriously wounding him.
He was recaptured 16 hours later
after a gun battle with Pennsyl
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He wounded one patrolman.
Upon Mrs. Fessler’s arrest, she
not only confessed giving the gun
to Miquel, but insisted that she had
no ulterior motive in befriending
the murderer other than a “full
faith in humanity,” and a detesta
tion of seeing or hearing of any
one dying in the chair,” according
to authorities.
Wonders About It All
.. “I don't know why I did it... Why
didn’t I think of what the conse
quences might be? God knows that
I thought I was innocent of any
wrongdoing. I should have known
that I would have been caught
when he escaped.” she kept saying
over and over in her cell when
questioned concerning the affair.
What hurts Mrs. Fessler most,
she avers, it that Miquel betrayed
her by obtaining bullets with which
to wound or kill the guards.
Her courage is stoical.
“If I have to take my medicine,
I guess I can take it,” she says,
but what about my two kiddies?”
Her home is at Summit Station,
near here.
BOOSTEXPORT
OF GRAPEFRUIT
Great Britain Used 751,000
Boxes Last Year, Re
port Shows
WASHINGTON, D. C.. April 4 —
(A5)—Imports of grapefruit into the
United Kingdom during 1928
amounted to the equivalent of 751,
000 boxes as compared with 606,
000 boxes in 1927, according to sta
tistics issued by the British Em
pire Marketing Board and receiv
ed in the foreign service of the
Bureau of Agricultural Economics.
The main sources of supply for
the grapefruit imported into the
British market are the United
States, the British West Indies and
British South Africa. Most of the
American grapefruit shipped to the
United Kingdom comes from
Florida, but some quantities also
are shipped from California. The
West Indian supplies come almost
entirely from Jamaica. The South
African shipments come mostly
from the Transvaal and Cape
provinces. The other most import
ant sources of supply are the Isle
of Pines and Porto Rico.
The increase in imports during
1928, acocrding to the British statis
tics, was due largely to heavier
shipments from the United States.
Imports registered as having been
consigned from the United States
during 1928 amounted to 592.000
boxes, or approximately 79 per cent
of the total, as compared with 502,
000 boxes in 1927.
In this connection it should be
noted that the official figures on
exports from the United States to
the United Kingdom are consider
ably smaller than the British sta
tistics on imports from the United
States.
Tomatoes of West
Coast Moving Out
In Boat Shipments
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LOS ANGELES, April 4.—The j
present revolution in Mexico has (
caused the Mexican government to ;
see fit to place railroad embargoes
on all shipments of tomatoes as
well as for other commodities. As
a result, no shipments of tomatoes
are being made by rail and prices
have risen rapidly, some stock sell
ing as high as $4 a lug box.
All tomatoes at this season of
the year are grown either on the
West Coast of Mexico or in Baja
California. Those • from the West
Coast of Mexico arrive bv rail,
while those from Baja California,
where there are no railroad facili
ties, are shipped by boat to Los An
geles harbor.
The only point of supply left Is
Baja, Cal., and several boats with
large cargoes of tomatoes have re
cently arrived from there. These
boats are inspected under the di
rection of Paul K. Wilson, deputy
horticultural commissioner of Los
Angeles country, when they dock
at San Pedro.
3 FIREMEN SUSPENDED
AFTER DALLAS BLAZE
DAI LAS, April 4—(/P)—With three i
firemen, including an assistant :
chief, already suspended, investiga
tion continued today into the effi
ciency of the Dallas fire depart
ment in fighting a fire that de
stroyed the Rogers Lumber company
here Tuesday night.
Fire Chief Gambrell declared 30
or 40 per cent of the lumber yard
might have been saved had addi
tional equipment arrived in time.
Those suspended were Assistant
Chief D. D. Barnes, John Filling
ham and V. Ludwick.
DR. HAMMONDS GIVES
UP OKLAHOMA PLACE
OKLAHOMA CITY, April 4.— \
<JP)—Much political speculation has i
been brought to a close with the i
announcement that Dr. O. O. Ham- j
monds has resigned as head of the
state health department, and the
resignation has been accepted by
Gov. W. J. Holloway. The resigna- |
tion of Dr. Hammonds, husband of !
the woman secretary of Henry S. j
Johnston, former governor, has
been forecast for several days.
While the name of Dr. Ham
monds was drawn into the im
peachment trial, which resulted in
the removal of Johnston, the health
director did not play as prominent
part in the trial as did his wife.
WORKS TILL DEATH AT 10ft
DONEMANA, Ireland.—William
Nelson, who died at%he age of 100, 1
worked on his farm till the day j
of his death.
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HEART BEATS AFTER DEATH
BIRMINGHAM. Eng.—Miss Alma
Curtis’s heart was kept beating for
four hours after her death.
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HOOVER TURNS
TO HARD WORK
President Arises Early And
Spends Many Hours At
Desk Each Day
By RICHARD L. TURNER
Associated Press Staff Writer.
WASHINGTON, April 4.—</P)—
Attaches at the White House have
come to the conclusion that hard
work is to be an outstanding char
acteristic of the Hoover adminis
tration.
It was just a month ago today Mr.
Hoover took the oath of office. Al- I
most immediately he, embarked
upon a strenuous and exacting pro
gram. Social invitations customar
ily accepted by his predecessors
were declined so that his evenings
might be free.
From the president’s desk have
come in rapid succession announce
ments of significant new public pol
icies and appointments to offices
of high responsibility. The presi
dent has written the message to be
sent to congress which he sum
moned by proclamation, and in ad
dition he has attacked many other
problems of state.
Arises at 7 a. m.
Customarily, Mr. Hoover arises at
7 o'clock and, mindful of the edict
of his personal physician, Lieuten
ant Commander Joel T. Boone, that
hd must have exercise, he turns
first of all to that. Several times
a week he proceeds with a group of
freinds to a secluded spot on the
White House lawn and they toss a
medicine ball for a half hour. At
eight o’clock, he is at breakfast, and
at nine, he is at his desk. For an
hour he devotes himself to his mail.
It is usually after one o’clock be
fore the chief executive finds him
self free to return to the White
House proper for lunch. Hardly an
hour later he is back again at his
desk.
Likes His Radio
Only infrequently does he leave
before six o'clock. More often it is
six-thirty or seven.
The interim before dinner Mr.
Hoover likes to spend in relaxation.
His favorite way is to lounge in a
comfortable, big chair and listen to
the radio, usually music, but some
times a speech. Dinner Is at seven
thirty. and afterward, unless there
are guests, the president frequently
works in the library until about
ten-thirty, when he ordinarily re
tires to his room and reads until he
is drowsy.
Rev. F. X. Gaynon
Installation Held
By Weslaco Group
(Special to The Herald)
WESLACO, April 4.—Special in
stallation services were held Tues
day morning at the St. Joan of
Arc, local Catholic church, for Rev.
F. X. Graynon, pastor, formerly
of Ontario, Canada, who succeeds
the Rev. Y. Gourmelen of Mer
cedes who has had the parish here
under his charge.
The Weslaco parish is now un
der separate jurisdiction. Solemn
high mass and sermon made the
nine o’clock service, which was fol
lowed by a banquet at Mercedes
with Rev. Gourmelen as host and
Rev. Gaynon as guest of honor.
Priests from San Juan, Pharr, Mc
Allen, Alamo. Donna, Harlingen,
Mercedes and San Benito were
present for the services and the
banquet.
There will be two masses on
Sunday morning, one held at eight i
o'clock for the Spanish speaking i
people and one at ten o’clock for j
the English speaking people. The
rosary sermon and benediction in '
the evening will conclude the Sun
day services. Heretofore there
was but the one service each
Sunday.
CHILD BITES PARSON
LEEDS. Eng—Biten by an un
ruly boy in Sunday school. Rev. M.
H. Calper may lose his left arm.
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