THE WEATHER
&AXN TO NIGHT
AND TO-MORROW
Detailed Report, I'agf A
A r^ ED VOI, 77—NO. 1.
MONARCHS
AT FRONT;
HALT NEWS
With Emperor William
and Ring George on
the Battle Fields, Cen
sorship Tightens
THE DOMINATING
ISSUE IS POLAND
Result of the Great Clash of Arms in
the Eastern Arena Expected to Go
Far Toward Determining the Dura
tion of the War
London, Dec. 4. 12.4 7P. M.—A few
Indirect inferences, in the shape of pic
turesque sketches of the visits of Em
peror William and King George to the
respective battle fronts and the activi
ties of the Prince of Wales in the
trenches, constitute virtually the entire
budget of war nws which has reached
the British public in the past twenty
four hours, apart of course, from the
unilluminating reports given out at the
French, Russian and German headquar
ters. Ot the details of the fighting,
with its enormous tolls of killed and
wounded, the public hears nothing.
For the moment the dominating issue
remains in the eastern arena of the war,
■where the result of the great clash of
millions of men in Poland will go far
toward determining the duration of the
war, as well as its character during the
next few months, but those more or
less behind the scene* believe they see
signs that the deceptive interim of
relative calm which has marked the
operations in Flanders for the past few
days has aibout reached its limit.
Predict German Onslaught
The present activity of the German
artillery is believed to be a prelude to
another formidable and concentrated
onslaught somewhere on the allies' line.
T'aig line, however, is believed by both
British and French experts to have been
made impregnable since the last Ger
man effort was so nearly successful in
hammering its way through.
However this may be, it appears to
be established that in these recent ar
tillery duels the allies have found their
heavy guns capable of overbearing the
artillery of the enemy. This has been
emphasized in many of the recent dis
patches of General Joffre, commander
in-chief of the French forces.
Should the new German assault meet
with the same fate as have previous
attempts to reach the coast of the chan
nel, observers in London expect that it
will be followed by a general advance
on the part of the allies.
Signs of Activity in Alsace
There are signs of approaching ac
tivity in Alsace, where the French re
cently have been improving their posi
tions. At the same time the Germans
are said to have been heavily reinforced
in this section. General Joffre's re
cent declaration to the Alsatians that
•'we are back here to stay" may soon
be put to test.
The fighting in Russian Poland, in
the opinion of British observers, ap
pears to have had no effect on the Rus
siau operations against Cracow, to
stop which has been the main object
of the Germans. In the possession of
heights within three or four miles of
the outer forts of the former capital
of Poland, the Russions appear to have
the Cracow fortress at their mercy.
The very fact that the Muscovites have
been able to get to such close quarters
seems to indicate that the guns of Cra
cow are not so formidable as has com
monly been reported.
If this city falls it is anticipated
that it will have an immediate effect
on the campaign in Poland, it being
argued here that the Germans would
then be forced to double back to stem
the invasion of Silesia, which would be
the immediate sequel to the Russian
capture of Cracow.
The first story of the loss of a Brit
ish superdreadnaught, copied from
American news, is published here to
day with the omission of the name of
the ship and the locality where the mis
hap occurred.
The British superdreadnaught re
ferred to is the Audacious, which went
down off the northern coast of Ireland
October 22.
3:{,000 Russian Officers Lost
Berlin, Dec. 4. by Wireless to Say
vi lie, L. I.—Among the items of news
given out bv the German official press
bureau to-day is the following: "The
Ru.-sian military newspaper, 'Russkv
linalid,' states that the number of Rus
sian offiers killed, wounded or taken
prisoners now totals 33,000."
Caricatures of Kaiser Barred
London, Dec. 4, 2.12 P. M.—Post
cards caricaturing Emperor William
and the German Crown Prince have
been barred from the fighting line by
the English and French authorities. ,
This action is due to the discovery, it
is said, that the German military code
renders the possessors of such cards who
may be taken prisoners liable to sum
mary treatment.
Fractures Arm In Fall
Frank Addicks, 62 years old, of
Faxtang, fractured his right arm above
the elbow early last evening in a fall
from Mover's dam, on which he was
walking. He was admitted to the Har
ridburg hospital for treatment.
©)c Star- Jti&cpett&ewt
LATE WAR NEWS SUMMARY
The first, official word to indicate
that the predicted assault of the allies
on the German lines in Belgium may
have been begun came to-day. The Ger
man War Office statement says that
the French have made repeated attacks
in Flanders, which were repulsed.
This brief reference does not make it
clear how extensive the movement is.
For several days it had been reported
unofficially that the allies had deter
mined on an assault which would lead
to one of the greatest struggles of the
war, with tha object on their part of
breaking the German line in the north
west and, if possible, forcing a general
retreat.
In Alsace, too. the French apparent
ly have made a new attack. The Ger
man statement reports that an attempt
ed advance northwest of Altkirch. Up
per Alsace, was beaten back with con
siderable losses fox the French.
Paris and London are curiously re
served concerning these reported de
velopments. So far as was related in
dispatches from those cities, no events
of great importance arc under way.
In the campaign against the Rus
sians, Germany asserts that she has won
a victory in East Prussia, inflicting
heavy losses in checking a Russian ad
vance east ot the plain of the Mazurian
lakes.
Emperor William has returned from
his trip to the battlefields of East Prus
sia and Poland for a short stay in Ber
lin.
The almost complete stoppage of
news of the wir to-day from official o*
other sources raised the question wheth
er a censorship of unusual severity had
been put in force. The cables brought
practically no information notwith
standing the fact that surely in the east
and possibly in the west there are now
in progress battles of the highest im
portance. On several occasions earlier
Continued on Fifteenth I'age.
SBOO,OOO IN ART DESTROYED
Fire in Hold of Freight Steamer on
Voyage From Havre
By Associated Press.
New York, Dec. 4.—"Paintings and
art objects of an estimated value of
about s<oo,ooo were destroyed by fire
in the hold of the freight steamer Mis
sissippi, which arrived here ou Novem
ber 27, it became known yesterday
when the shipment was examined by
customs officials and representatives of
insurance ''ompanies.
The fire started soon after the Missis
sippi left Havre, and no news of the
fire was given out. ('rates containing
other paintings were rot opened, but,
as they are badly charred, their cou
tenta are also expected to. be a total
lqss. The works destroyed were con
signed to New York art dealers.
Stonewall Jackson's Home Burned
By Associated Press.
Weston, W. Va., Dec. 4. —The boy
hood home of General Thomas J.
('•Stonewall") Jackson, a frame house
north of here, was destroyed by fire
last night. Leaves left burning bv
children are believed to have ignited
the building. The old Jackson mill
nearbv was not harmed.
FLOWERS FOR A
IIIID HOIGS
Autos Carry Bouquets
to Invalids To-day
With Compliments of
StoUgh Campaign
BIBLE VERSES
ARE ATTACKED
At Tabemacl* Last Night, Evangelist
Tries to Have Audience Visualize
Christ's Crucifixion by Presenting
Realistic Scenes of Calvary
To no less than a thousand homes
in this city and surrounding towns
this morning, automobiles brought
flowers for shut-ins, with the compli
ments of the Stough evangelistic cam
paign. Cut flowers and potted plants
were donated at the tabernacle last
night, "Flower Night," in great abun
dance and banked along the front of
the platform making a great display.
They were kept there in water until
this morning, when several hundred
women gathered to sort them and pre
pare them for distribution among the
sirk. Owners of automobiles responded
in large numbers to the call for con
veyances, and transported the women
to the homes, of the shut-ins.
The names and addresses of invalids
were collected last night at the taber
nacle. The same names were in many
instances supplied several times, but
they were carefully sorted to avoid
duplication. No distinctions were male
between members of different denomi
nations, some of the flowers going to
Catholics, Episcopalians and Lutherans,
nor was any distinction made between
church members and persons outside of
the church.
Each bouquet, before it went on its
mission from tbe tabernacle, was care
fully wrapped in a newspaper by deft
feminine hands, and a card attached to
it bearing th e name anil address of the
recipient and a passage of Scripture.
Continued on Milk Pace,
HARRISBURG, PA., FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 4, 1914 16 PAGES.
CHAISE OF TWO
A001T0RS»
Cassel Has Not "Yet
Submitted His Bill
for Going Over Coun
ty Records
HOUSTON WORKED
FOR 106 DAYS
Riegle Seeks Remuneration for 93 Days
Employment—Officials Say the York
County Audit Was Made in Two
Weeks
The annual report of the board of
Dauphin county auditors who examined
the 1913 accounts of County Treasurer
A. H. Bailey, as required by law, was
to-day turned over to Henry F. Holler,
the clerk of the courts.
Francis W. Hiegle, one of the three
auditors, submitted a bill for 93 days'
work on the audit at $3 a day. or $279,
and a bill for mileage of 1,512 miles
at 6 cents, or $90.72, making his total
charge $369.72.
Fred. W. Houston charged for 100;
days' work at $3 a day, or $3lB, and
for mileage at 32 miles at 6 cents, or
$1.92. His total charge is thus $319.92.'
The bills of the two auditors who,
j have submitted their charges thus to-i
j tal $659.64.
j *The third auditor, .1. W. Tassel, presi-1
I dent of the board, had not submitted i
his bill late this afternoon. He said
i he has been too busy to make it out
and that he would be unable to do so
to-day. He added that he does not;
j know how much the amount will be
ami cannot tell until h e consults his
! records of the time he put in at the
; work each day.
At the time the audit started Judge
Kunkel and members of the board of
| County Commissioners said that tliev
j estimated the thirty days would be ail;
the time necessary for the auditors to
complete the work. County officials re
marked this afternoon that only two 1
weeks were required to make the' audit j
in York county. They asked, too, why]
Mr. Houston, who lives in the city,
had a bill for mileage.
The charges cove.- the time the au
ditors spent on the examination of the i
county records, from July 27, when the j
Treasurer's books were given to them j
by virtue of a Dauphin county court de- j
cision, up until to-day. County Treas- |
urer Baiiev examined the report imme
diately before it was given over to the !
Commissioners and he stated that the i
auditors' balances do not differ from I
his.
The report is a resume o fthe coun- j
ty's financial transactions for the fiscal
year of 1913 and is bare of anything;
save Ihe actual accounts. No comment I
is made by the auditors, they simply j
certifying in an accompanying affidavit
as to the correctness of the report "to'
the best of their knowledge ami be- I
lief. *'
$142,362 Balance at Year's End
The funds or balance iu the hands!
j of the County Treasurer at the close;
|of the 1913 fiscal year,—January 5,
j 1914, —the report shows, was $142,-
| 562.02. The assets, including the
(treasurer's balance, were made up as
Cunttnu<-<1 on Twelfth I'niif.
c. O.TCIIEFS ARE HERE
; Ponrose, Oliver, Crow and Mayor Arm- i
strong Will Confer With Gov
ernor Tener To-night
United States Senator George T. Oli-!
j ver and Mayor Armstrong, of Pitts- j
1 burgh, arrived here this afternoon to be !
the guests of Governor Tener, anil it is ;
understood that during their visit the !
political situation in Western Pennsvl
j vania with reference to filling vacancies
in certain offices will be considered.
The matter of appointing a successor
I to Judge Prazer. -vho goes on the Su- j
j preme Bench in January, will not be
one of the subjects taken up, as it is
said that Governor Tener has already j
decided on that appointment.
Later it was learned that Senator j
'Penrose plans to arrive here to-night \
and that William E. Crow, chairman of J
the Republican State Committee, also j
will be here.
The political conference will be held !
to-night at the Executive Mansion. One 1
of the things that will be discussed, i
it was learned late to-day, is the selec- ]
tion of the man who will become Speak
er of the House of Representatives.
Beyond that it was impossible to learn I
• what would be discussed at the confer
i ence.
SAYS WOMAN ROBBED HIM i
Edgar Hicks Charges Her With the
Larceny of $23
Rebecca Thomas, colored, was arrett
ed this morning by Policeman MeOann
and taken to police headquarters where
she was identified by ildgar Hicks,
1304 North Third street, as the wom
an who accosted him on Cowden street
near Xorth 'last night and robbed him
of a pocketbook containing $25.
Hicks is a ina.il clerk and waa on
his way to work when he was stopped
by the woman who succeeded in get
ting his pocketbook out of his pocket.
He went to police headquarters and
11 p«crit«d his assailant and Rebecca
Thomas was picked up. He positively
identified her. She was given a hear
ing in police court this aifternoon.
ANALYSIS OF POWDER WILL
FICORE IN POISON CASE
Besult Will Be Submitted in Testimony
When Man Accused of Causing the
Illness of tH Persons Is Tried Be
fore Alderman Nicholas To-morrow
Analysis is being made to-day of a
white powder which iMrs. JaQin Pollicic,
No. 1101 South Ninth street, said she
removed from tie top of sauerkraut she
was preparing in the kitothen of her
home last week, and the result of the
analysis, it was announced to-day, will
be made known at the hearing of An
drew lMeloctiwick, who will be arraigned
before Alderman Nicholas to morrow on
a charge of having poisoned IMt. atwl
Mrs. Pollicic, their five ilhildren and
eleven boarders in the Pollicic home.
The eighteen j>ersons who became ill
aPter eating the sauerkraut in tlhe
boarding house were all reported to
day to be out of danger and they prob
ably will appear as witnesses at tihe
hearing which will be held ait 7.30
o'clock in the evening.
The powder that Mrs. Pollicic
removed from sauerkraut she was pre
paring may not have been wlaait caused
the illness of the eighteen persons. The
belief was expressed ■to-day that the
white powder was intended as an
antidote for something that previously
had been put into the food. There is a
strong belief, in fact, that the white
powder that is being analyzed to-day is
nothing more than epsom salts.
None of the original baitch of sauer
kraut, which is said to have caused the
illness, is available for analysis, so far
as could be learned.
THIRD lILJEFT ARRETS
William F. Frasch Held in Bail
for Connection With Parcel
Post Robbery
William P. Frasch, 1710 Carnation
street, a baggageman at the Pennsylva
nia railroad station, was arrested' last
night by Captain Barclay, of the Penn
sylvania railroad police, and W. K.
Lucas, postal inspector, on a warrant
issued by the latter charging Frasch
with larceny from the United States
mail.
Frasch was arraigned before United
States Commissioner Leßoy J. Wolfe
this morning and pleaded guilty to the
charge and was held under sl,ooo bail
for United Staates Court.
This was the third arrest in connec
tion with the larceny of parcel post
jai-kages in the Pennsv station.
Frasch was released on bail furnished
by his father.
Income Tax. Order to Consuls
By Attociattd Press.
Washington, Dec. 4. —Bv an exeou
tive order just issued American consuls
are required to perform any necessary
service in connection with the execu
tion of income tax returns without fee.
M mm
in n
Mr. and Mrs. Newton
Miller Take One-
Year-Old Son to a
Pittsburgh Surgeon
HIS LIFE HANGS
IN THE BALANCE
Presence of Open Pin Discovered Yes
terday Afternoon by Physician Aft
er X-Hay Examination at the Har
risburg Hospital
With an open safety pin lodged in
his aesophagus, point upward, Fred
erick Miller, the one-year-old son of
Mr. and Mrs. Newton Miller, 1221
Market street, was taken to Pittsburgh
last evening and placed in the hands of
the famous surgeon, Jackson, for an
operation in the hope that the child's
life could be saved.
Arrangements for the operation were
made by physicians at the Harrisburg
Hospital and the anxious parents left
here at 7 o'clock last night with the
baby. The result of the operation was
not known here late this afternoon.
Ijate Wednesday morning the baby
was playing on the floor of his home
and picked up a pin. It was at first
thought that it was an ordinary pin
and after choking a while the baby
seemed to get better, but the mother
bundled him up and took him to the
Harrisburg Hospital. He was plaeed
in the care of physicians. The child
was smiling and it was hard to believe
that he had swallowed anything as
dangerous as a pin.
He was watched carefully and yes
terday, when he seemed to grow
worse, an X-ray examination was made
and the presence of the safety pin,
lodged in the gullet, the tube which
leads from the mouth to the stomach,
was discovered. Throat specialists were
called to the hospital at once and when
the dangerous position of the pin was
discovered it was decided that heroic
measures would have to be taken if
the child's life was to be saved and
his parents were advised that he be
taken to the famous Pittsburgh spe
cialist.
Arrangements were immediately
made and the baby was taken to Pitts
burgh last night.
13,000 WILL GET
HOLIDAY CDS
Union Trust Com
pany's Christmas
Saving Fund Will Be
Released Next Week
MEANS A BOON
TO THE SHOPPERS
Money Accumulated by Small Deposits
During the Year Is About to Be
come Available to Santa Claus or
for Permanent Investment
Thousands of dollars will be put
into circulation in Harrisburg and sur
rounding towns next Thursday or Fri
day when the Union Trust Company's
Christmas Saving Fund will send out
its checks to its 13,000 members. This
announcement was* made this morning
by Charles S. 8011, president of t'he
Union Trust Company.
The many members of this fund who
had the acumen last year to look a year
ahead will soon receive the reward of
their tihrift. For the last several weeks
Andrew S. Patterson, treasurer of the
Saving Fund, has been working day and
night at the tiresome task of signing
these 13,000 checks, which range in
value from $12.50 to $63.75, according
to the classes that the members en
tered.
The checks coming right at the time
when every person is wondering where
he will be able to got enough nvoney to
buy all of the Ohrifltinas presents he
wishes to give, will be a boon to the
Christmas stoppers. The issuing of these
checks will mean not only crowded
stores and happy Christmas awakenings
but also that many persons who never
before could start a saving fund will
now deposit their checks in their bank
so as to have simething toward a rainy
day.
Any of t'he local merchants will be
glad to cash any of these checks, which
are in the same form as those issued
last year except for tihe fact that this
year the checks bear the picture of an
u|>-to-itate Claus who is driving
au automobile instead of the old J tinio
sleigh and rei:i<leers.
Iu the four yenrs of t l hi«* saving
fund's existence its growth has been
remarkable. During the first year the
vlub had 3,500 member*, but tihis vear
it has almost one-fift'h as many inen,
women and children as constitute the
population of Harrisburg.
Next year's club opens Monday, De
oember 21, at which time new mem
bers will he permitted to join. This
club has tonight many people to save
small amounts who, without its aid,
were accustomed to look forward to
Christmas with apprehension that they
would be uuable to purchase presents
for all the friends they wished to re
member. It has also aided many in
buying that home ' which for maiiv
years had been looked at with envy."
Many memberships are kept tip by
husbands for their wives as a present
and by many wives to present to their
husbands. Fathers often practice self
denial so as to be able to keep up their
fund, and when they receive the dbeck
immediately place it in bank to help
pay for "Johnnie's" or "Marys"
education.
ENTER PLEASOF NOT GUILTY
William Rockefeller and Other Former
New Haven Directors Change
Their Former Action
By Associated Press.
New York, Dec. 4. —The pleas in
abatement made by William Rockefel
ler and seven others of the twenty-one
directors and former directors of the
New Haven railroad to indictments
charging them with criminal violation
of tbe law, have been dismissed ami
pleas of not guilty were entered in
stead to-day.
In addition to Mr. Rockefeller, Rob
ert W. Taft and Charles F. Hrooker,
Frederick F. Brewster, D. Newton
Barney, Henry K. McHarg, A. Heaton
Kobertson and James S. Hemingway
were the defendants who entered pleas
of not guilty. The new pleadings were
ma le necessary by the dismissal of the
pleas ill abatement, which contended
that the iddictments were improperly
drawn.
William Skinner, James S. Elton and
George F. Baker entered pleas of im
munity on the ground that they had
testified before the Interstate ' Com
merce Commission at Washington.
These pleas and the ones already filed
by John R. Billard, K. D. Bobbins and
T. DeWitt Cuyler, will be argued be
fore Judge Rudkin on Monday.
ACTOR'S RELATIVES FOUND
Heart Trouble Cause of Deatb of Co
lonial Performer
Valvulat heart troulble is given as
the cause of the death of the actor who
was stricken suddenly at Second and
Chestnut streets yesterday afternoon,
the cause of the death being determined
by Dr. George R. Moffitt, who conducted
a jiost-mortem examination under the
direction of Coroner Kckinger.
The Coroner has learned that his
name is James Driscoll, brother of Dr.
W. Cyril Driscoll, of Charleston, 8. C.
His name, given first as Carter Hotch
kiss, was taken from mail matter in his
poiket. His brother is making arrange
ments for the funeral.
COVERNOR A LIFE MEiBER
Unusual Honor Granted to Executive
at Golfer's Dinner at Harrisburg
Country Club
At a (tanner given by the golif play
ing members of the lin rrisburg Coun
try Club at the club house last even
ing, Governor John K. Tener was
tendered the honor oif the first life
membership ever given by the club. It
was proposed by Carl H. Elly, a fortius*
president of the chub and the proposi
tion whs roundly cheered, for Govern
or Tener has become an- ardent de
votee of golf since his residence in
Harrisiburg, where he first started to
plav the game.
Charles H. Beraner presided at the
dinner tlhe feature orf which was the
presentation of the cups won during
the vear.
Governor Toner's handsome presen
tation loving cup, which was won by
George W. Roily, finally reached Mr.
Roily after a series of speeches that
began with the Governor and went
through officials of the club. Walter P.
Maguire was presented with the vice
president's cup, a hardy annual, and
Mr. Beily also receive! the golfers'
cup, another annual. The board of
governors' trophy, which carries with
it the club championship, was won by
Jackson IT. Bovd and the cup given to
him. Ross A. Hickok and Carl W. Da
vis were winners of the second and
third sixteens, respectively.
Those at the dinner were Governor
Toiler, Mr. Rergner, I)r. Wright, A. S.
McCreath, Leslie McCreath, Robert
McCreath, William McCreath, B. 11.
Kvans, R. Boone Abbott, A. Boyd
Hamilton, Donald McCormick, R. V.
McKay, T. I>. Baldwin, C. M. Kaltwas
ser, W. W. Davis, l>. M. Dull, H. L
Hosford, E. Kiester, Paul Hooker, Ross
A. Hickok, H. B. Bent, F. .1, Brady,
Theodore .1. GoulU, Carl W. Davis,
Charles 11. Bergner, R. C. Goldsbor
ough, George W. Reilv, F. D. Carney,
C. E. Rvdor, W. B. M. Caleb, B. P.
Rover, E. L Miller, Clarence B. Mil
ler, S. C. Tod I, W. H. Gaither, F. J.
Hall, .T, H. Boyd, Frank Payne, Lew
If. Palmer, A. Morris Sides, Carl 11.
Ely, lie wis E, Johnson, John Fox
Weiss. E. J. Bevan, W. P. Maguire, R.
P. M. Davis, John P. Dohoney, J. U
Shearer, Jr., John E. Ericson* W. L.
Gillespie, J. 11. Forsythe, F. Herbert
Snow, Dr. H. M. Stine, .1. A. Clement,
Neil E. Salsich, T. O. Williamson, W.
C. Fowues, Sr., and George R. Moffitt.
Policeman Has Narrow Escape
Had not Policeman Jwhn Hess stopped
at tflie foot of the steps in the Market
street su'bwav yesterday afternoon to
stop two men from drinking from a
thisk 'he wouH have been un ler Ulip
headstone when it was knt>ik»'d -Joust
by an automobile. The "porticenran lad
to jump as it was to escape fhe falling
stone and bricks. A machine contemn
ing K. E. Currv, of Now York, and E.
H. Kyle, of Philadelphia, struck the
iron railing when fhe steering mechan
ism of t'he msvelhiine failed to work.
Representative Merritt Dies
By Associated Press,
Watertown, N. Y., Dec. L—-Repre
sentative Edwin A. Merritt. of Pots
dam, died here to-dav.
KILLS mini
OF MIND
Toledo Woman Opens
Fire on Gang That
Invades Home and
Shoots Spouse
AIR OF MYSTERY
ABOUT TRAGEDY
Sensational Shooting Affair Last Night
in Residence Section of Toledo
When Louisville Gunmen Call
Former Saloonkeeper to Front Door
By Associated Press.
Toledo, 0., Dec. 4.—One Louisville
gunman is dead, three others are hid
ing in the underworld section of the
city, a Toledo man is in a hospital
with perhaps fatal wounds and his
wife is held by t'he police as a Cor
orner's w-itney as the result of the
shooting, which took place in the resi
dence section last night.
The wounded man is Harry C. Plum
mer until about a year ago a saloon
keeper at Louisville, Ky. His wife is
said to have fired the shot which kill
ed the unidentified man.
The shooting occurred at Phlnuner's
home when the man rang the door bell
anil said: "we have a message for you
from Louisville, Harry." Plummier
opened the door and the men opened
fire. Plmraner fell to the door with
two bullet wounds. His wife, in her
room upstairs, heard the shooting and
seized a retolver from beneath a pil
low on her bod. Hurriedly deweuding
the stairs she fired at one of the in
truders. They made their exit through
a kitchen window. The dead man was
found by the police in the rear yard.
A dragnet was thrown onit. The men
were traced to the tenderloin where
they were swallowed lip.
Phtmmer says he knew the men m
Louisville, but does not remember
their names. The police discredit his
story. The theory is that the »hooting
is the result of an infraction of under
world rules and that the four men
come here to wreak vengeance.
POSTSCRIPT
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PRICE, ONE CENT.
SMITH CASE
WILL GO TO
JURYTO-DAY
Impression Strong That
Youth Will Be Ad
judged Insane Late
This Afternoon
STATE'S LAST
WITNESS HEARD
If Lad Is Declared of Unsound Mi..a
He Probably Will Be Sent to Par
view Hospital and Escape Trial on
Murder Charge
Whether Edward G. Smith now is
jane and able to make a rational de
so to thc charge of murdering his
grandfather, John E. Bush, at Ingle,
nook on December 17, Ust— a crime
for which he stands indicted—will be
decided late to-day by the special
criminal court jury which for five days
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S I Kir a , ' W,,,U ' MS - lJr - Thomas
enM. i ' an . ,,l " ~UBt ' who «*i«l the at
iused. now is sane, loft the stand at
the Conn'.vP """''ling session and
sol fVir ! l r °secutor, as well as coun
w.n.l' i;u"'. ,K ' l ' USlM ' 1,0,11 sa ''' the case
Mfiibl likely be turned over to the jury
late this afternoon.
This morning court attaches and
spectators who have hoar,l practically
all of the testimony were predicting
tin probable decision of the jury. The
opinion was almost unanimous that
will be declared insane and that
'ounscl thereupon would make a
motion have hin- sent to the State
Hospital for the Insane in Farview, Pa.
Xuch a decision would remove the
possibility of a trial for the murder of
the grandfather, Bush, so long !4S
Smith s mental condition remains the
same as now. However, if lie is held
to be insane, is placed in an institution
tor such unfortunates and bis reason is
restored through treatment, he then
will be compelled to stand trial for the
alleged murder.
Scott Trial to Come Next
Upon the decision of the jurv in this
present special inquiry, court "attaches
say, hangs the proliaib.e length of the
present continued term of criminal
court. District Attorney Stroup is
planning to go rijjht ahead with all un
tried cases, a plan which, it is be
lieved. will mean continuing the court
term for at least one uiore week and
probably two.
If Smith is found to be sane and
able to make a rational defense to the
murder (thnnge it is nol believed that,
his trial on that issue will l.e begun at.
once. The case of Robert I'\ Scott, the
city patrolman charged wth murdering
a colored man in tin Eighth ward, it is
said, will be opened immediately after
the present hearing
Judge Mc< arroli who has officiated
in the present Smith inquiry, will in all
probability take charge of the Scott
trial. Judge Albeit W. Johnson, of
the Union-Snyder judicial circuit, who
has been holding court here this week,
will not be here next week, so he an
nounced from the bench this morning,
and the District Attorney at noon to
day said he is unable to say whether
another visiting Judge will be called
in.
Dr. McKinniss Cross-Examined
L>r. C. R. McKinniss, one of the
alienists who had testified in behalf of
the accused, was this morning called to
the stand on cross-examination. In his
original testimony he said Sinitill is suf
fering from dementia precox, a form of
insanity. To-dav he declared positively
that it would be impossible for the ac
cused to feign that particular type of
insanity without being informed before
hand just how such subjects act.
Dr. Klair, the State's alienist, this
morning said that Smith is suffering
from a mental inaccessibility—-a foriiV
of dementia precox—and that affliction
makes it difficult for him to ronfeT in
telligently with his counsel; but, Dr.
Blair added, Smith is able to make a
defense to a criminal charge.
The Distrivt Attorney and John For
Weils, of counsel for the accused, had
verbal tilts that frequently caused the
spectators to laugh. Mr. Weiss many
times interrupted the witness, Dr. Hlair,
objecting to wfyit he considered "ir
relevant" testimony. The remarks
passed between counsel undoubtedly
wore "friendly" but they did not al
ways lack a touch of ridicule.
SNIPERS KILL A MEXICAN'
U. S. Soldiers AIBO Wounded in Firing
From Trenches
Naeo, Ariz., Dec. 4. —Snipers in the
trenches of the Mexican combatants
across the line, fired into American ter
ritory to-day, killing a Mexican civilian
and wounding a United States soldier.
Private John Miller, of the Tenth
Cavalry, was shot in the thigh while in
camp.
Miller is the fourteenth soklier to
be hit by Mexican bullets. Kighteen
Americans and twenty-eight Mexicans
on this side of the border have been
killed or wounded since the fighting
at Naeo, Sonora, began.
Dies of Pneumonia at Hospital
Furhman F. Kuft'man, 28 years old,
5G4 (amp street, died at 1.45 o'clock
this afternoon •at the Harrisburg ho»-
l«tal of pnpumonia, two hours after ha
was admitted to that institution.