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BY GEORGE R. MEEK.
__We haven't been much concern-
ed as to who our nominee will be,
pecause anyone of them can be sup-
ported by the Watchman,
__After all, the little things in
fife do count more than most of us
give them credit with. For instance,
Roosevelt's name, alone, will be good
for a million votes and had Ritchie
peen nominated his looks would
have gotten him just as many.
_From the long list of Republi-
can notables mentioned as being in
attendance on our national conven-
tion in Chicago we infer that the
Democratic band wagon is going to
pe rather crowded, so much so that
those who slide off because of the
party's fearless declaration on the
Prohibition question won’t be missed.
_Those members of the Pennsyl-
vania Legislature who are insisting
that funds for unemployment relief
pe raised through savings in gov-
.ernmental cost rather than by im-
position of new taxes and bond is-
sues are eternally right. If they
‘have to stay in Harrisburg all sum-
mer they shouldn't yield an inch on
that sound proposal.
—The action of our National Con-
vention in seating Senator Huey Long
and his self appointed delegation
from Louisiana looks to us as
though that body was just as easily
worked by the “Kingfish” as Amos 'n
Andy usually are by the chiseler of
the Mystic Knights of the Sea from
whom Huey evidently appropriated
the title he has given himself.
— The King of Siam has fallen off
his throne. = When he visited this
country last year we got an impres-
sion from his pictures that he might
make an ideal door-to-door rug
salesman. And since the recent re-
pellion in Siam has pulled the regal
pedestal from under him, Projadhi-
pok has a chance to show that he
can make good, even on such a job.
—It makes us sick to view the
wreck that has been made of a
promising Democratic organization
in Pennsylvania by political oppor-
‘tunists. The spectacle of John
O'Donnell, made a Commissioner of
Philadelphia county by grace of his
subservience to Vare, bossing the
Pennsylvania delegation to Chicago
drives us to wonderment as to
.whether we are not a fool for being
a Democrat from principle, rather
than one actuated by what we might
get out of it.
—On May 26 a Bellefonte appli-
‘ment for a title and license plates
for a machine he had bought. On
June 28 they arrived here. A month
and two days seems like a long
.time to fill such a short order, but
we must remember that it was
:nearly two years ago that Pinchot
promised to reduce license fees and
the reduction hasn't gotten any-
where yet. The Governor and his
outfit work fast only when they
want something.
—Opening his second special ses- |
Assembly of
Pennsylvania Governor Pinchot im-
“Let it never be said of
this great Commonwealth that it
turned a deaf ear to the cry of the
hungry.” Of course nobody can tell
what this great Commonwealth will
do, but those familiar with what
the Governor has done by way of
salaries will never let it be said that
he has turned a deaf ear to anyone
hungry enough to lick his political
boots. .
—Anyway a Democratic Congress
forced a Republican Senate to agree
to its one hundred and fifty million
cut in the salaries of government
employees. Whether its efforts to
make those who have not been forc-
ed to take a day .off without pay
while those who provide the pay for
them are doing. that very thing will
be successful ' depends entirely on
Whether a Republican President has
the courage to. stand with the people
or yield to.the formidable bureau-
cracy that. his party has builded up
to make serfs.of them.
—Beginning today every employee |
of the Pennsylvania Railroad Com-
Pany will have to. take one day a
week off without pay. Of course
many of them are already taking
four or five days off every week and
to some a day on would be more
unusual than a day off, but we are
thinking of what the new order
means to president Atterbury. If it
be true that he is drawing a salary
of $122,000.00 annually his pay
Check will drop $17,368. Of course
that will be ohly a drop in the buck-
et to Bill, but it~ would be a full
dinner pail for' about seventeen other
men,
—Had we gone to the Chicago
Convention we would : have been
merely one of thousands milling
around in intense heat and knowing
less of what was really going on
than those who are at home in com-
fort listening to the broadcasts of
announcers who have more of the
“low down” thar the delegates. We
Would have been just another of the
herd, distinguished as a delegate
only by a big badge. As it is we are
he only Alternate Delegate-at-
Large from Pennsylvania who is
Sitting right here in Bellefonte writ-
0g a column for the only really
Democratic newspaper: in the world.
Democratic
STATE RIGHTS AN
D FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA. JULY 1, 1932.
NO. =v.
BY PAYING THE COSTS
TWO CARNIVAL GAMBLERS
FREED BY THE COURT
Escaped Convict, Ca Caught in Alaska,
Given Added Term of Five to Ten
Years in Pen.
Last Thursday evening sheriff
John M. Boob, county detective Leo
Boden and constable H. R. Lamor-
eaux, of Philipsburg, raided a carni-
val company operating on the Cen-
tre county side of the creek at
Osceola Mills, and arrested three
men on the charge of gambling.
They were L. H, Parmer, of Bridge-
port, Conn.; W. P. Luke, of Daytona
Beach, Fla. and William Clark, of
Philadelphia. At a hearing the same
evening, before ’Squire Thomas
Byron, of Philipsburg, they were
each held in $200 bail for their
appearance before the Centre county
court. Parmer promptly put up four
$50 bills as cash bail and was releas-
ed. Unable to furnish bail Luke and
Clark were brought to the Centre
county jail.
At a session of court, Saturday
morning, the two men, after consid-
erable hesitation, decided to plead
guilty. In a statement to the court!
the county detective stated that the
raid had been made at the insistence
of the overseers of the poor of Rush
township who charged that men who
were receiving aid from the Talbot
fund had been frequenters of the
carnival and patronizing the gamb-
ling devices. And, further, that in
four days the company had cleaned
up about $1200 as pickings from the
people of that community.
Mr. Clark, who claimed to be the
peace officer with the company and
is an ex-prize fighter in the light
heavyweight class, maintained that
the various devices carried by the
company were the same kind carried
by all carnival companies and that
there was nothing crooked in their
operation. He stated that the
company was booked for Middle-
town this week and Bloomsburg
next week. The court discharg-
ed the men upon the payment of the
costs,
At the same session of court, at-
torney John J. Bower presented a
petition asking that a court order
against Guy Coll for the support of
his daughter be reduced from $25
to $15 a month. After some discus-
sion the court made an order reduc-
ing the sum to $15 a month after
Coll stated that he had only
part time employment and his earn-
ings since April averaged but $12.58
a week.
Charles Ohls, alias John Roberts,
was brought before the court to an-
swer to a charge of breaking and
escaping from Rockview peniten-
tiary. He is rather a clean cut look-
ing young man and does not carry
the appearance of a hardened crimi-
nal. He was convicted in Luzerne
county in 1921 of robbing a hard-
ware store and sent to the eastern
penitentiary for 5 to 10 years. In
June, 1925, he was transferred to
Rockview and nineteen days later,
or on July 1st, he made a success-
ful escape. He was caught in Alas-
ka about six weeks ago and brought
back for sentence. Speaking for
Ohls John J. Bower Esq. told the
court that since his escape the man
had married, had one child and his
wife is again in a delicate condition.
That in Alaska Ohls had worked as
a miner and so far as he could learn
had been living an upright life. But
the law is no respecter of persons
and he was given a sentence of 5 to
10 years for escaping.
ACADEMY BLANKETS
COMING BACK SLOWLY
Shortly after the close of the
football season, last fall, headmas-
ter James R. Hughes, of the Belle-
fonte Academy, discovered that he
was short ten football blankets. The
matter was brought before the stu-
dent body without bringing forth
any blankets. Finally Mr. Hughes
wrote to the parents of all his stu-
dents informing them of the fact of
the theft of the blankets and intimat-
ing that he would appreciate their
assistance in locating same.
Shortly before the Academy closed
for the school year one of the
blankets was found on the Academy
grounds, right beneath the room of
one of the students. Later Mr.
Hughes again wrote to the parents
of the students, impressing upon
them the fact that he did not intend
to let up in his hunt for the blank-
ets. He also stated that if they
were returned he would not per-
sist in finding out who had taken
them, and as evidence of good faith
the blankets could be sent to Mont-
gomery & Co's store. On Tuesday
one of the blankets was received at
that store and the postmark showed
that it had been mailed in Brooklyn.
That makes two of the ten and
he will persist in his hunt un-
til he gets the other eight.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
AT JACKSONVILLE MIGHT
BE CLOSED FOR GOOD
What might prove to be the final
services in the Lick Run Presbyter-
ian church, at Jacksonville, were
held on Sunday, when Rev, J. Shibli,
of State College, preached and held
communion services there that
morning and evening. With no regu-
lar pastor Rev. Shibli has been the
supply for some time but the
congregation, which at one time in
the history of the church was the
largest in the county, has dwindled to
a mere handful, not enough to assure
continued financial support. However,
an effort is to be made by Presby-
terians of Bellefonte and Howard to
keep the church a going concern
during the current year, at least, but
they are not very hopeful as to the
outlook.
The Lick Run church was organ-
ized about 1798, almost a century and
a half ago. One of the leading men
in its formation was Thomas Mc-
Calmont, who gave a portion of the
ground for the church lot and c¢eme-
tery, and his son, James McCalmont,
was the first person buried in the
new cemetery. The settlers were so
few and far between in that valley
at that early day that Mr, McCal-
mont dug the grave, made the coffin
and almost single handed performed
the burial rites for his son.
The first church erected was a
small log edifice, with hewn logs for
seats. It was built about 1799. The
little congregation increased as addi-
tional settlers made their appear-
ance in that fertile valley and as
years passed a larger church was
deemed necessary. Consequently, in
1829, the present church was built at
a contract price of $1900. It isa frame
structure 55x65 feet in size, with
wide aisles and spacious pews, and
small doors opening into each pew.
The pews are made of white pine,
painted and grained in imitation of
hard wood. In fact it is probably the
oldest and most primitive church in
Centre county today.
Following the erection of the
new church the membership of the
congregation increased steadily until
1843 when its membership reach-
ed 307, the largest of any church in
the county. A few years later large
delegations of citizens of Little Nit-
tany valley emigrated westward and
this resulted in a big loss in mem-
bership in the church. From that
time to the present day there has
been a constant Arop in numbers
until now there are not enough left
to keep up the over-head expenses of
keeping the church open as a regu-
lar place of worship, and unless out-
side aid is given it looks as if it
will have to be closed permanently.
DIGGING THE DITCH
FOR SANITARY SEWER
PROVING HARD JOB
Most everybody knows why water
runs down hill but what we would
like to know is why practically all
water courses, whether they are
small streams or big rivers
are over a mass of stones and rock.
And contractor Harry E. Dunlap is
just now finding out how many
stones and how large the rocks are
in the bed of Spring creek as it
flows through Bellefonte.
When borough council decided to
lay a sanitary sewer down Spring
creek they knew that they would
have to dig through stones to open
up a ditch for the sewer pipe, but
they hardly contemplated the size
of the stones that have been upturn-
ed by the men digging it.
There are stones from the size of a
man’s fist to rocks weighing several
tons—rocks that had to be blasted
with dynamite in order to get an
open ditch through them. Fortunate-
ly the worst part of the work has
been done and while it has been
slow so far it will probably
move along a little more rapidly in
the next week or two.
MRS. SOMMERVILLE
RESIGNS AS MEMBER OF
MOTHER'S ASSISTANCE
Mrs. John S. Sommerville has re-
signed as a member of the Mothers’
Assistance Fund board of Centre
county, which constitutes a vacancy
that Governor Pinchot will have to
fill by the appointment of a new
member. Her resignation leaves but
two members of the old board still
in office, Mrs, Frank D. Gardner, of
State College, and Mrs. Charles Mc-
Girk, of Philipsburg.
While the County Commissioners
have not made any decision in re-
gard to their position on the moth-
ers’ assistance, it is quite likely the
fund will be continued during the
current year for which the county
was obligated a year ago. Just what
will happen then is a question,
| BELLEFONTE FIREMEN
| INJURED IN COLLISION
mere. WITH BIG COAL TRUCK
Accident Happened When Logans
Responded to Call for Help at Fire
at Snow Shoe Intersection.
The first serious accident in which
Bellefonte firemen have figured since
the department has been motorized
occurred at ten o’clock last Friday
evening, when the squad truck of
the Logan fire company, carrying a
dozen or more men to a fire at Snow
Shoe Intersection, collided with
Lloyd Wingert’'s monster coal truck
on the sharp curve in the State
highway near the old Central Rail-
road of Pennsylvania roundhouse.
The coal truck was being opera-
ted by Marlin C. Wingert, of Du-
Bois, who was on his way from
Snow Shoe to Bellefonte with a load
of almost twelve tons of coal. The
driver of the Logan squad truck
was Gilbert Morgan. He suffered a
fracture of one of the small bones
in his left ankle, cuts and bruises
and is under treatment in the Cen-
tre county hospital. Hoy Royer, who
was standing on the running board
of the truck, also sustained a frac- |
ture of one of the small bones in|
his left ankle, cuts and bruises and |
is under treatment in the hospital.
Michael Mills and Earl Custer were
treated at the hospital dispensary
for minor injuries while John Smith,
Orrie Kline and Andy Saylor also
suffered slight injuries which were
attended to by physicians.
Just who is to blame for the ac-
cident has not been determined as at
last accounts highway patrolmen
had rendered no decision. The squad
truck carrying the firemen was
struck by the left front wheel of the
coal truck about two feet in front
of the left rear wheel. The impact
smashed the running board and
knocked the wheel and axle about a
foot out of position. The front axle
of the coal truck was also badly
bent. No arrests have been made.
The fire which the firemen were
going to was a turkey brooder house
at the home of Martin Harnish, at
the Intersection. The Undine pump-
er followed the Logan squad wagon,
but as the seriously injured had |
been rushed to the hospital before
its arrival at the scene of the ac-
cident it proceeded to the fire
When it reached the Harnish
farm the house was practically
burned down and thirty-three ten
weeks old turkeys perished in the
flames. An overheated brooder is
supposed to have been the cause of
the fire. Not counting the trkeys Mr.
Harnish’s loss is about $300.
“CHAPPIE” WARD LANDS
A BIG DOG FISH FROM
WATERS OF BALD EAGLE
On Monday evening “Chappie”
Ward was one of a party of men
who went down Bald Eagle on a
fishing trip. Along about dusk he
had a bite and from the pull on his
line he knew he had something big.
Pulling it ashore he found he had
hooked a dog-fish. He managed to
get it ashore and stowed in a buck-
et of water, but he didn’t like He
looks of it enough to remove the
hook from it’s mouth. He brought
it home and had it on exhibition at
Heverly’s auto supply store on Tues-
day.
The fish, which is a member of the
shark family and bears some re-
semblance to an alligator, was al-
most two feet in length, with a flat
head and somewhat rounded mouth.
The species is very destructive of
all kinds of fish life and so far as
the writer can recall this was the
first one caught in the streams of
Centre county. They are said to be
quite plentiful in the Susquehanna
river, near Williamsport, and this
one was probably making it's way
upstream.
CLEARFIELD CO. FARMERS
TOUR CENTRE COUNTY AND
VISIT STATE COLLEGE
It required fifty automobiles to
convey the 250 farmers of Clearfigld
county, Wednesday of last week.
on their tour through Centre county,
Their first stop was at Stormstown
where they inspected the Peters
Bros. dairy farm, They were much
impressed with the fine herd of Hol-
stein cattle they saw there as well
as the Poland China hogs and a field
of 48 acres of alfalfa. One thing
that impressed the tourists at State
College was the flock of 900 turkey
poults on range and in confinement.
From the college quite a number of
the farmers went to the A. C. Kep-
ler farm and inspected the 45 acre
field of potatoes there, which is one
of the best fields to be found any-
where. The trip home from there
was made by way of Warriorsmark.
—We do your job work right.
WHITE RIBBON WORKERS
FOR CENTRAL REGION
MET IN TYRONE CHURCH
Representatives of the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union from
fourteen counties composing the
central region of Pennsylvania, held
a two day’s conference in the First
Methodist church, of Tyrone, last
Thursday and Friday. Nineteen of
the 69 delegates present were from
Centre county.
Mrs. W. A. Broyles, of State Col-
lege, presided. The opening prayer
was offered by Mrs. Margaret God-
shall, of Centre Hall. Mrs. T. E.
Jodon, county president, submitted a
report of the work done in Centre
county.
Miss Beulah Harnish, of Wingate,
a graduate of the Bellefonte High
school, entertained the conference
with a recitation, “Carry On.”
Mrs. J. Thompson Henry,
Martha, made a talk on
Adums—What and Why ?”
The election of officers at the
Friday morning session resulted as
follows: President, Mrs. W. A.
Broyles, State College; vice presi-
dent, Mrs. Mary Sawtelle, Altoona;
| secretary, Mrs. Annie C. Fairchild,
Northumberland; treasurer, Mrs. M.
I. Jamison, Lycoming county. In ad-
dition the president of each county
unit was made an assistant vice
president of the regional organiza-
tion.
Among the topics discussed, on
Friday, were “Poster Work,” by Mrs.
of
‘“‘Referen-
Scott Crain, of Port Matilda, and
“The Story of Youth’s Roll Call,”
by Mrs. Homer Gaunt, of Houser-
ville.
Mrs. F. P. Knoll, of State College,
was made chairman of a committee
in charge of arrangements for ef-
fecting regional organizations.
FURTHER RETRENCHMENT
POLICY ANNOUNCED BY
THE PENNA. RAILROAD
As a means of further retrench-
ment in the matter of expenses the
Pennsylvania Railroad company has
announced that, effective today,
every employee connected with the |
entire system, from the president to |
track laborers, will be required to |
take one day off a week without |
pay.
Of course this won’t mean much
to the president of the railroad |
whose salary was given in a New
York paper, on Tuesday, as $122,000
a year. His one day off a week will
cut $17,381 from his payroll but will
still leave him $104.619 to worry
along on. But the track laborer is
the man who will feel the pinch.
Assuming that he is getting an
average of $4.00 a day, which he
isn’t, the most he would get by |
working six days for 52 weeks!
would be $1248 in a year. Lopping |
off one day a week for 52 weeks |
would mean $208, leaving him the |
sum of $1040 for the year. And to
get that he will have to work five
days every week. But trackmen to-
day are getting only from three to
five days a week as it is, and their
pay is less than $4.00 a day.
BIG MONEY ASKED TO
TRANSPORT CHILDREN
TO AND FROM SCHOOL
Nine men or firms have submitted
bids for the transportation of the
school children of Ferguson town-
ship to and from the new community
school building now being erected.
Bids are to be awarded on the basis
of a three year contract. They were
opened by the school board of that
township, last Saturday evening, but
no award has yet been made. Fol-
lowing are the bids, the figures be-
ing for one year:
B. M. Johnson
G. M. Nerhood
McClellan-Chevrolet Co.......cccovuneee
A. F. Woodring.
C. S. Meyers
Kline & Son
F. J. Gearnart......c....oiommmun:
G. D. Krumrine
C. Lauck and J. Keller.
WILL WE HAVE A
SAFE AND SANE FOURTH?
Some eight or ten years ago a
movement was started in Bellefonte
for a safe and sane Fourth. It bore
fruit and the day was spent without
fear and trembling over the likeli-
hood of serious accidents.
But during the past two or three
years the spirits of Young America
have been breaking out afresh and
the explosion of firecrackers and the
toy pistol have been going on for a
week, Of course it isn’t our funeral
and we trust it won't result in that
of anybody else.
——Announcement has been made
that WPSC, broadcasting station at
the Pennsylvania State College, has
been closed indefinitely, which will
probably mean until the opening of
the next college term in September,
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE
—Judge White, referee in bankruptcy,
will decide later whether the sale on
bids will be confirmed. It is stated that
the $8,000 bid would barely pay the ex-
penses of the proceedings.
—Eighteen sheep were killed an @
six severely wounded on the farm of
James Farabaugh, Bradley Junction,
Cambria county, by maurauding dogs,
recently, according to A. C. Ackerman,
of the State bureau of animal industry.
—Joe Bartolovich, Scott Haven miner,
thought his $2300 wasn’t safe in a bank.
He withdrew his money and hid it in a
trunk. He missed it Saturday. State
police arrested Bartolovich’s brother-in-
law, Harvey Duffy, 23, and three other
men.
—William H. Roelofs, teller of the Al-
toona Trust company, is under $10,000
bail following his arrest on charges of
misappropriating $21,929. He waived a
hearing. Roelofs is active in civic and
church circles and had been employed at
the bank eight years.
—Orval Sees, 27, of Riverside, was sen-
tenced on Monday to a term of 10 to 20
years in the penitentiary on four charges
of breaking, entering and larceny when
he pleaded guilty in Cambria county court.
Sees had admitted 20 such crimes in that
locality in two months.
—The grand champion Hereford steer,
owned by Reuben N. Harnish, of Lancas-
ter county, was sold last week at a price
of 55 cents a pound in the sale of 1400
head of cattle which marked the close
of the Lancaster cattle show. The grand
champion carload of 14 head, weighing
17,470 pounds, brought $9.20 per hundred.
--Harry Buthing, former chief clerk in
the delinquent tax collector's office, of
Pittsburgh, pleaded guilty to embezzling
$18,000 in tax funds, on Tuesday. and
was paroled for three years. Walter J.
Christy, former delinquent tax collector,
testified that the county had not lost
any money since he made good the
amount lost.
—County superintendent William F.
Wilson has certified the closing of the
Mt. Airy public schools in Hopewell
township, York county, to the State De-
partment of Education. This makes a
total of 38-one-room schools in the rural
districts of that county to be closed since
1907 on account of the condition of the
buildings, small enrollments and the
transferring of pupils to more central
schools.
—Governor Pinchot last Wednesday,
presented to Paul C. Louther, 14-year-
old Johnstown Junior High school stu-
dent a $6000 scholarship for three years
at Culver Military Academy. Louther
was named the winner in a competitive
examination in which 404 students par-
ticipated. Dr. F. B. Haas, of Bloomsburg,
chairman of the scholarship committee,
presented Louther to the Governor,
Louther’s mother and uncle witnessed
the presentation.
—Thwarted in a suicide attempt by the
alertness of a motorman when she threw
herself beneath a street car at Washing-
ton, Pa., Saturday night, Mrs. Leota
Johnson, 28, pretty brunette divorcee,
was more successful in Pittsburgh on
Sunday. She drowned in the Monongahela
river after throwing herself 150 feet from
Liberty bridge. Identification was made
at the Pittsburgh morgue by a sister.
| Mrs. Johnson, according to her family,
| had been morose since she got her
| divorce.
—Liquor comes high in Scranton, Frank
Rasedemus, a miner, of North Scranton,
found out, he told police on Monday.
Rasedemus, attired in a new blue serge
suit, new shoes and a new straw hat, was
walking through a field on Sunday when
two men asked him for a match. When
they got the match they offered the ob-
liging miner a drink of liquor. Rasede-
mus took one drink. That was all he re-
membered until he awoke Monday morn-
ing and found he had been stripped of
his entire new Sunday outfit, along with
$7 in cash.
—The McCable furniture factory at
Salamanca, valued at more than a million
dollars several years ago was placed un-
der the hammer last week and after a
session of slow bidding brought a bid of
only $8,000. Efforts to secure placement
bids on the machinery and equipment
brought offers so small that auctioneers
refused to entertain them, some of the
bids amounting to one-tenth of one per
cent of what was said to be the actual
value. Big switchbaords were bid in at
$2 and machines valued at more than
$25,000 brought bids of approximately
$100.
—While his wife and two children at-
tended Sunday school in Yoe, York coun-
ty, on Sunday morning, Ervin Wolga-
muth, it is charged, robbed a nearby
store. The loot was recovered from its
hiding place in a barn and the accused
man has been committed to jail on a
charge of felonious entry and larceny,
the prosecutor being C. R. Gibson. After
Wolgamuth had taken his family to Sun-
day school in an automobile, the police
say, he was seen coming out of the Gib-
son store carrying a bag. The defendant
was arrested while taking his family
home from the church.
—Secretary of Revenue Clyde L. King
has announced the transfer of Benjamin
G. Eynon, of Scranton, commissioner of
motor vehicles, to the active directorship
of the recently created Governor's com-
mittee on strect and highway safety.
Eynon will be succeeded as director of
bureau of motor vehicles by H. Richard
Stickel, of Dauphin, who was formerly
chief of the division of titles, registra-
tions and licenses. The bureau of high-
way patrol and safety will continue as
at present with Captain Wilson T. Price
as superintendent of State highway pa-
trol, and Walter W. Matthews in charge
of the safety section. Perry R. Taylor
| will continue as office director.
—A jury in U. 8. court at Scranton,
last week, returned a verdict for $57,-
758.27 in favor of Mrs. Flo Skinner, wid-
ow of Orville Skinner of Lewistown, in
her suit against the New York Life In-
surance company. Mrs, Skinner sued to
recover $54,447 on a policy she had on
the life of her husband with the defend-
ant company. Skinner was found dead
at his home on May 18, 1931, with a bul-
let wound in his head. The policy on his
life included a cause which made it void
in the event of self-destruction. The
company contended Skinner committed
suicide, but Mrs. Skinner declared her
husband was slain by a prowler. The
jury awarded her full claim with inter
est.
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