oc-plain-dealer 1924-12-22

SPRICE DEMANDS MURDER VERDICT LOS ANGELES, Dec., 22.—"Kid" McCoy's attorneys unexpectedly played a legal trump card today and won when their move to place the case in the hands of the jury before Christmas by shortening the final arguments was accepted by Superior Judge Craig over the heated objections of the prosecution. It was expected that the case would go to the jury tomorrow night. Hardly had today's session of McCoy's trial on a charge of murdering Mrs. Teresa Mors started than his lawyers demanded that a limit be placed upon the time allotted both sides for addresses to the jury, that the nine women and three men might have the "Kid's fate in their hands by tomorrow night. This move was strenuously opposed by the prosecution. The psychological effect upon the jury deliberating upon a life or death verdict on Christmas eve was the focal point of the attack started by Chief Trial Deputy Dist. Atty Pricke. Defense forces, he declared, would rely upon the Christmas atmosphere and the sentiment of "peace on earth, good will toward men," as a strong asset in favor of McCoy. Pricke characterized the Kid's dramatic rendition of his story of Mrs. Mors' suicide as "an actor's trick, portrayed with skill gained during his years in motion pictures." LOS ANGELES, Dec. 22.—In a determined effort to riddle the graphic story told by "Kid" McCoy on the witness stand in his trial for the alleged murder of Mrs. Teresa Mors in which the former champion fighter declared the woman shot herself, Deputy District Attorney Pricke today began the states argument to the jury. The prosecution opened with an attack upon the defense evidence. HOW TO SOLVE THE CROSS-WORD PUZZLE The way to solve the Cross Word Puzzle is to fill in the white squares of the diagram with the words which agree with the companying definitions. The definitions are numbered to correspond with the numbers on the diagram. Any word defined in the text under "HORIZONTAL" will gin at its number, shown on the diagram, and will extend all ways across to the first black space to the right of that number, extending as far as the white squares continue uninterruptedly. Any word defined under "VERTICAL" will also begin in the white space that contains its number, but will extend downward as the white spaces remain uninterruptedly. VERTICAL 1. A color. 2. Incisions. 3. Weakened. 4. Regret 5. Flower. 6. Wager 7. Water fowl. 8. Fodder pit. 9. A grain. 10. Long life. HORIZONTAL 1. A chest bone. LOS ANGELES, Dec. 22. In a determined effort to riddle the graphic story told by "Kid" McCoy on the witness stand in his trial for the alleged murder of Mrs. Teresa Mora in which the former champion fighter declared the woman shot herself. Deputy District Attorney Pricke today began the states argument to the jury. The prosecution opened with an attack upon the defense evidence with the announced intention of getting to the facts at once. With two other attorneys for the state and three for the defense still to be heard, it was anticipated that arguments would continue until late Wednesday. A recess will be taken over Christmas. The case will probably go to the jury Friday. Ridiculing McCoy's story that Mrs. Mora short herself, Pricke demanded a verdict of first degree murder. Physical facts concerning the blood stains, position of furniture and the location of the empty cartridge shell, among other things, were cited by the prosecutor as disproving the Kid's version of how the woman died. McCoy's lapse of memory was also flayed as "convenient". The former boxer, Pricke declared, remembers incidents of value to his defense but, probed, strangely forgetful at other times. DAM NECESSARY TO SAVE IMPERIAL (Continued from page 1) Colorado water, which means that they will have an excellent claim on us for permanent use of the water, unless we act quickly, he said: America now has a legal right to use all of the Colorado water. If an all-American canal is constructed in place of the present Alamos viaduct, which carries the water by gravity thru Mexico, this danger will be avoided, he declared. Control works to be feasible and economical must be erected at once. Davis declared after exhaustively explaining why the last possible bank holding the Colorado VERTICAL 1. A color. 2. Incisions. 3. Weakened. 4. Regret. 5. Flower. 6. Wager. 7. Water fowl. 8. Fodder pit. 9. A grain. 10. Long life. 11. HORIZONTAL 1. A chest bone. 2. Goddess of agriculture. 3. Deep learning. 4. Track left by a wheel. 5. Fall behind. 6. Waistcoat. 7. Enclosure. 8. In direction of. 9. Dip. 10. Greek letter. 11. Jealousy. Despite the fact that all attempts to reach the top of Mount Everest have failed, Swiss alpinists will try to climb the world's highest mountain next year and there will be another English expedition in 1926. out of the valley is being slowly filled by sediment. Davis predicted that there should be a scramble of corporations and municipalities to loan money for the project so that they could purchase power at cost from the government should the dam be completed. Senator Ashurst of Arizona declared that corporations considered the power possibility of Boulder dam so valuable that an offer had been made to build the dam and present it to the government free if they were given the power rights. A statement followed a series of questions by Chairman McNary of Oregon, as to why it not be better for a private corporation to build the dam under the provisions of the water and power act. Davis in reply declared that the interests seeking water and power rights and the sections wafered by the Colorado needing flood control protection were so many and varied that government control would be the only practical means of settling the various disputes as they arose. HOW TO SOLVE PUZZLE The words start in the numbered squares and run either across or down. Only one letter placed in each white square the proper words are found, e combination of letters in white squares will form word The key to the puzzle—the word—is given in the draw Below are the keys to the words. (Running Across) Word 1 a state. One of thirteen colonies. Word 4 a short way of w ing Railway. Word 5 the missing word the sentence: "Were you—sel today." Word 7 the first word of Command referring to y father and mother. (Running Down) Word 1 what soldiers do parade. Word 2 what you hate to when playing tag. Word 3 to go in. 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The Jewel Box Fashion for Christmas 223 W. CENTER Arthur A. Cohen Prop. WHY NOT BOOST INSTEAD OF KNOCK Wm. Starbuck, who introduced the speaker at Friday night's mass meeting aid the citizens com had been subjected to criticism from those who had never turned a hand to aid in law enforcement. "Anytime anybody comes along to do the work, we'll be very glad to step down, because it's hard work, day and night," said Starbuck. "One man told me he had been a school trustee 12 years and said we didn't do it right. I told him I had been a trustee 15 years and asked him how long we had waited for him to do it better. "We are criticized for spending $11,000. Wouldn't it be worth that to know that your boy or girl in high school would no longer be subjected to the influences we now know to be existing. We are putting money i very city treasury than we are taking out, not to speak of the federal cases which are the biggest and are being handled in that way because it would be impossible to deal out justice in local courts to such men as Pape, Henry, Edgar, Garecia and Shorty Myers. This sort of thing shouldn't be measured in dollars and cents. "Who is this presumptuous committee that attempted this job we are asked. Well, we started with four men and intended to limit our operations to Pullerton, but we soon found leads running everywhere. We told the operators not to bother with the little fellow with a teaspoonful on the hip but to go after the big ones, the sources of supply. "We had to branch out and we invited Rev. Myers into our committee. I want to say there are few superior to your Rev. Myers and that we appreciate him if some of you do not. He was a tireless worker and, night after night, he would be with us until 1 or 2 a.m. His advice was considered with highest regard. "It seems to me that if I were on the outside watching someone NEAR DEATH FROM GAS FUMES Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Oliver of Los Angeles, parents of Mrs. J. S. Freeman, and grandparents of Mrs. W. J. Llewellyn and Donald DeVinney, are recovering from asphyxiation Saturday when both almost lost their lives. Mrs. Oliver has been ill and her husband had carried her to a rocker, then started toward the door. He fell, cutting a gas in his head, and was unable to arise. Mrs. Oliver attempted to go to his rescene and also fell. A niece chanced to run in for a moment, and found them tooth on the floor unconscious. They responded to restoratives, and are today getting along very well. The Olivers have recently moved into a new home and the escaping fumes was soon traced to faulty gas connections which had been performed by the plumber who connected the equipment. MYERS, MOSLEY MAKE STATEMENTS Rev. Leon Myers, taking cognizance of a statement made Saturday my C. N. Mozley chief deputy district attorney, in which the pastor was termed a "falsifier," a "ranting blatherskite" and a "sealawag," today issued a short reply, censure the prosecutor for not replying to charges made by Dr. Montgomery, Anti-Saloon League chief. Montgomery's letter to S. M. Davis, Santa Ana attorney was published several weeks ago. Mozley answered it today. The prosecutor after declaring in effect "that after the liquor traffic, Rev. Myers is the greatest menace to Orange-co," called upon the pastor to appear before the grand jury tomorrow morning and present his asserted evidence against certain county and city officials. In his reply today Rev. Myers did not indicate whether he would do this. Rev. Myers' statement follows: "I notice in the paragraphs above." DREAM THEY CAN OBTAIN FREEDOM MOUNT VERNON, Ill., Dec. 22. The defense in the trial of Lawrence M. Hight, unrocked minister and Elsa Sweetin, charged with the murder of Wilford Sweetin, rested late today. The state immediately began to bother with the little fellows with a teaspoonful on the hip but to go after the big ones, the sources of supply. "We had to branch out and we invited Rev. Myers into our committee. I want to say there are few superior to your Rev. Myers and that we appreciate him if some of you do not. He was a tireless worker and, night after night, he would be with us until 1 or 2 a.m. His advice was considered with highest regard. "It seems to me that if I were on the outside watching someone do this which we believe to be bad work that I wouldn't care who it was that was doing it just so it was being done, not even if it were being done by a Hottenot. "When the supply of evidence began to mount in my bedroom I was told we would need a guard because if the bootleggers ever got next to it they might attempt to dynamite the house. The guard appointed was a Catholic and a Knight of Columbus. He was there for weeks and knew everything that was going on and everyone there. I am a Klansman I learned to love him as a brother. The Anti-Saloon league sent down three stenographers. The one that came first and stayed to the last was a Jewess. She corresponds with my wife. The head detective of the federal prohibition department was a Catholic. A speaker the other night remarked that it might be all right to contribute to this work if someone responsible were in charge. In order to qualify as treasurer I might state that I helped to found Fullerton high school and trustee inaugurated the first horse-drawn transportation to pupils and later the first auto transportation; helped to inaugurate the first salaried physical culture teacher in any high school or college anywhere; helped to found the Fullerton hospital and was a director until it was sold; was a member of the board of the Orange-co Y. M. C. A., first county organization of the kind in the west and for years was a member of the Fullerton Y. M. C. A.; the forensic prize for which Orange-co high schools compete annually bears my name, I have been a member of the official board of the Fullerton Methodist church since it was founded and for 30 years was in business in Fullerton. I believe I can qualify. DREAM THEY CAN OBTAIN FREEDOM MOUNT VERNON, Ill., Dec. 22. The defense in the trial of Lawrence M. Hight, unrocked minister and Elsa Sweetin, charged with the murder of Wilford Sweetin, rested late today. The state immediately began to bother with the little fellows with a teaspoonful on the hip but to go after the big ones, the sources of supply. "We had to branch out and we invited Rev. Myers into our committee. I want to say there are few superior to your Rev. Myers and that we appreciate him if some of you do not. He was a tireless worker and, night after night, he would be with us until 1 or 2 a.m. His advice was considered with highest regard. "It seems to me that if I were on the outside watching someone do this which we believe to be bad work that I wouldn't care who it was that was doing it just so it was being done, not even if it were being done by a Hottenot. "When the supply of evidence began to mount in my bedroom I was told we would need a guard because if the bootleggers ever got next to it they might attempt to dynamite the house. The guard appointed was a Catholic and a Knight of Columbus. He was there for weeks and knew everything that was going on and everyone there. I am a Klansman I learned to love him as a brother. The Anti-Saloon league sent down three stenographers. The one that came first and stayed to the last was a Jewess. She corresponds with my wife. The head detective of the federal prohibition department was a Catholic. A speaker the other night remarked that it might be all right to contribute to this work if someone responsible were in charge. "I notice in the newspapers that Deputy District Attorney C. N. Mosley joins in a trade of abuse against myself and issues a public invitation to appear before a grand jury with charges against public officials. "So far as Mr. Mosley is concerned, I only referred to Dr. Montgomery's letter in which Dr. Montgomery, of the Anti-Saloon League, publicly declares in an open letter to the public that C. N. Mosley and Sheriff Gernigan, with the facts in their possession, misrepresented certain facts to Judge Williams in order to discredit the raid. Montgomery referred to the victory thus obtained as only temporary. Later events proved him to be correct." "Before witnesses, Mr. C. N. Mosley, in hot anger, threw a paper on the desk before him and said: 'There is my answer to Dr. Montgomery.' But Dr. Montgomery still awaits the answer." Mr. Mosley's hot attack on me is only published because he wants to evade answering Dr. Montgomery. Let him squarely face Dr. Montgomery's charges of misrepresentation. "In referring to the Bastanchury case, I only read a criminal complaint, docket No. 105, in the Justice court of Fullerton charging operating a motor vehicle, while under the influence of intoxicating liquor, which was dismissed for lack of prosecuting, by Dist. Atty. C. N. Mosley." "LEON L. MYERS." Weymouth, chief of the dry forces in So Calif., "does not only appear to be a fatalifier," but he "deliberately and wilfully deceived Sheriff Jernigan and tried to place him in a position in which he would be liable for false imprisonment." This is part of an answer issued today by C. N. Mosley, chief deputy district attorney, to a statement of Rev. Leon L. Myers that Mosley misrepresented the facts in habeas corpus proceedings conducted before Superior Judge R. Y. Williams involving dry raid prisoners. Weymouth furnished Dr. Montgomery of the Anti-Saloon League with the information on which he acted, says Mozley. Mozley alleges that he told Weymouth on the phone that the sheriff "had nothing in his hands to authorize the holding of said prisoner, and that unless some au- DREAM THEY CAN OBTAIN FREEDOM MOUNT VERNON, Ill., Dec. 22. The defense in the trial of Lawrence M. Hight, unfrocked minister and Elsie Sweetin, charged with the murder of Wilford Sweetin, rested late today. The state immediately began calling witnesses to refute the insanity evidence which Nelson Layman, attorney for Hight, had introduced. Judge J. C. Kern announced that court would be hold tonight until all evidence is in leaving tomorrow for arguments. The case is expected to be in the hands of the jury by tomorrow night. MOUNT VERNON, Ill., Dec. 22. The brand of insanity was placed upon Rev. Lawrence M. Hight to save him from the gallows today. Three medical men, one of them an expert in mental diseases, were called to the witness stand here where Hight and his "perfect love" Elsie Sweetin, are on trial for the murder of Elsie's husband, Wilford, and each testified that in his opinion, the Ina pastor was a high grade moron, a degenerate, a madman. MOUNT VERNON, Ill., Dec. 22 There are two dreams of the future being shaped in the Jefferson-co courthouse where Elsie Sweetin and Lawrence M. Hight are standing trial for the murder of Wilford Sweetin. It may be useless for Elsie Sweetin to dream of going back to her yellow bungalow. It may be useless for the former minister to plan to return to his old love-horses, but no matter what the jury does, the two accused spend the odd moments in their trials—the moments of move and counter move of attorneys of leisure recess in restoring their houses in order. "I am going back to Ina," says Elsie Sweetin. "My bungalow is waiting for me." "I am going back and face my little world and keep house for my boys. Where else could I go?" "Let Ina talk. Let the old gossips gossip. It isn't going to hurt me." But I know now who my friends are and who just pretend to be. If I get out of this, I am going to just wrap myself up in my own affairs and live my own life. I'll have my boys and I'll have time to think." But the pastor who graduated from farming into jockeying and from that in the ministry, is thinking of places and employment far afield. "I don't suppose they're going to let me preach any more, so may be I'll go back to dealing with horses. And maybe I won't. I'm sort of thinking hard. But I figure on going away." The defense is on its last lap of presentation of evidence. Court convened today after a week-end adjournment due to the illness of Nelson Layman, attorney for Hight, and additional witnesses were called to the stand to further the pastor's insanity defense. REMODEL STORES ON EAST CENTER Plans announced today for the modelling of two stores on East Interst, between Los Angeles and Claudina will mean a further improvement to that part of the business section. The buildings are those now occupied by the Mills Cafe on the east side of the street and the stores and offices opposite now exist, formerly used by the Anaheim Shoe Hospital and the Anaheim Realty Co. The structures are owned by Dr. F. H. Houck and Herbert Johnston, and the alterations will be decided upon after the first of the year, when the new owners, who acquire the property by purchase from Edgar Hartung, take possession. The character of the changes will depend upon the tenants, but the buildings will not be enlarged. Dr. Johnston said today. New fronts will be put in and other alterations suitable to the lessees made. Measurements were being taken today by O. E. Steward, former city manager, of the buildings comprised in the former Luneburg estate, for the purpose of settling the estate. The exact legal location of the buildings must be given in the deeds. E. Guy Hiserodr of Euclid-ave rancher and nephew of Mrs. Luneburg and one of her heirs, is owner of the stores now occupied by Fred Marsh at the northeast corner of E. Center and Claudina and the place adjoining occupied by Higgins and Vanatta's barber shop. Other buildings in the estate comprise everything on the south side of E. Center between White's hardware store and Locke and Macaulay's shoe store. WHOLE BARREL OF HARD CIDER Walter Herr and M. L. Fauch, ranchers of Yucalpa, were arrested at Brea today and lodged in jail on suspicion of possessing intoxicating liquor. The "stuff" is hard cider, according to Marshal McClure, who brought it to the country laboratory at Santa Ana for testing. A barrel of the product involved was confiscated. 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