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24' THE ENQUIRER, CINCINNATI, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 32, 1930 is relief from being "penalized for LAW REVISIONS VETERAN ACTOR EXPIRES. Pains In Chest Prevented Radio Skit Death la Sudden. VILLAGE FIGHT Taken To Commission. Bill's Tears Wasted! Young Married Woman "Fakes" Twin Sister And Kills Her In Motor Crash To Escape Entanglement. they separated October 10, last, and the wife sued for a divorce.

At the hearing, which was heiriin he for for all concerned that a divorce be granted, Judge Hoffman ordered a decree on the ground of neglect. It was after the parties left the Courtroom, however, that the attorneys divulged the remaining facts in the ease. They said that Mrs. Ledford had joined the coterie of ball players and their wives as Ruth Nolan, a student at the Conservatory, and Zitzman, with whom she paired off, knew her by no other name. She even arranged it so that when he called for her It was at the Conservatory and he took her back there, the always managing to be there on time and to get home by herself afterward.

Finally, the attorneys said, Mrs. Ledford became so Involved in tho whole matter that she began to look for a way out. and finally hit upon the idea of "faking" a twin sister named Ruth Nolan, and then ridding herself of that identity by having the supposed twin killed in an accident and burled away from here. In some manner she worked the hoax so that the fake accident and supposed death appeared in the papers, and then, as Mrs. Mavis Ledford, twin sister of Ruth Nolan, she sent a clipping of this "terrible accident" to Zitzman, along with the keys to his automobile, which she still had in her possession.

Just Covered Vp. After the publication of the story of ttio "fatal accident," naturally newspapermen and officials began investigating. According to the story the automobile in which Ruth Nolan was riding, met with an accident on the Dixie Highway, south of Covington, October 26. and she was killed. Then several other stories were told, one being that the injured woman had not died at once, but had been brought to the Good Samaritan Hospital here, and had died there.

Still another tale was that she diod at 696 Howell Avenue, the home of her "twin sister." Death notices inserted in Cincinnati papers said that she died at the Good Samaritan Hospital. At the Howell Avenue home the supposed twin sister is alleged to have furnished the information that Ruth Nolan died there and the body was shipped to Sullman, for burial. Further it was said at the time that Mrs. Ledford, who lived at the address, was the twin sister of Ruth Nolan. When all this was told to Judge Hoffman he declared it was the most remarkably concocted romance he ever heard of, but a remarkably clever way for one to lose an identity which no longer was desired, even If it was a failure.

Judge Hoffman further was told that Zitsman and the other ballplayers and their wives still are of the belief that Ruth Nolan met a sudden tragic death and that Mrs. Ledford was her twin sister, and only the publicity given the attorneys' story will apprise them of the true facts. mendation on this may be made at the oonvention. To Bpeed up litigation the committee will propose that the time limit for starting proceedings in error to reverse a lower Court be cut from 70 to 30 days. The committee also will recommend that a law be enacted which will provide for the filing and recording of contracts and options for the same of real estate.

Changes in the existing Juvenile Court code will be recommended by the Juvenile Code Committee, which will propose that Section 1569, General Code, be amended to give the Juvenile Court sole jurisdiction in the case of any child who violates a state or city law, whether felony or misdemeanor. It will recommend also that Section 1681 be amended to give the Ju venlle Judge the right to certify to the grand jury the case of a child over 16 years old who has committed a felony, provided such child shall have been examined by a properly accredited agency. Because of the work necessary, proposed recommendations on several other subjects will be deferred until the summer meeting next July, One Involves damages arising from negligence of officials and employees of the State Highway Department, defective bridges, etc. The Corporation Law Committee, which recommended the bulk of the changes that were made in the present law governing Ohio corporations, is drafting a new foreign corporation act, but may not have this ready In time for this meeting. Several Committees Rot Heady.

The Commilteo on Revision of the Probate Laws and the Committee on Reform of Jury Laws are expected to have their, recommendations for tht summer meeting. The Insurance Code Committee is working on a revision of the Insurance laws, but it will not be able to report until July. More than 300 Cincinnati lawyers are members of the association and a large percentage of them are expected to attend the meeting. Four Clncinnatlans are Chairmen of Committees: Criminal Code Committee, Judge Thomas H. Drby; Motor Vehicles Committee, Former Judge Robert S.

Marx: Reform of Jury Laws Committee, Anthony B. Dunlap, and Juvenile Code Committee, Judge Charles W. Hoffman. Judge Darby Is also Chairman of the Judiciary Section of the association. Local Delegates Named.

President Mills of the Cincinnati Bar Association has named the following delegates from that association: William A. Eggers, Michael G. Hcintz, Simeon M. Johnson and Judge Walter A. Ryan.

The Lawyers' Club delegates ars Anthony B. Dunlap, Judge Chester R. Shook, Judge Dennis J. Ryan and Judge Joseph H. Woeste.

Thomas M. Gregory, former United States Commissioner In Cincinnati end a member of the Ohio Industrial Commission, will address the convention Friday afternoon. Former Mayor Murray Seasongood will be one of the three speakers at the annual din Hold Bar's Attention. Mechanics' Lien Law Is Outstanding Target As Ohio Attorneys Gather Tomorrow At Dayton To Begin Work Of Correcting Evils. Further Important changes in the General Code of Ohio, as part of the revision process now under way, will be recommended, and discussed at the mid-winter meeting of the Ohio State Bar Association at Dayton tomorrow, Friday and Saturday, with Cincinnati attorneys having a prominent role in the proceedings.

Committees which have been studying specific sections of the code for months will make complete or partial reports at the meeting, their reports to be the basis for recommendations to go before the General Assembly later. The Committee on Judicial Administration end Legal Reform, of which former Judge George E. Mills and William A. Eggers are the Cincinnati members will recommend the -repeal of the present Mechanics Lien Law. The committee approved this recommendation by a 7-to-2 vote, but voted unanimously that the present is not the proper time to present the matter to the State Legislature.

Instead, It will recommend that a special committee of the association be named by. William G. Pickrel, President, to conduct further hearings with attorneys of the state, building trade associations and others interested, to consider the problem further and to submit the proposal to the Legislature later. Burden Falls On Home Owner. The committee believes that the law has "outlived its usefulness, if it ever had any," that It imposes a burden upon the home builder and property owner and that its advantages are outweighed by its disadvantages.

The committee believes that the building trades would fare better and suffer less loss if they followed the credit methods of other businesses, rather than their Hen rights. If the law is not repealed the committee favors drawing its teeth to sues an extent that it would be almost nullified, particularly in many existing provisions. Most of the members of the committee also favor a repeal of the Tor-rens landT registration law because of conflicts between it and the mechanics' lien law in counties where the Torrens law Is most used. A recom All the sadness which may have been caused Bill Zitzman, former out fielder for the Reds, and other Red ball players and their wives, through the announcement last October that "Ruth Nolan" had met a sudden and violent death in an automobile acci dent on the Dixie Highway, somewhere between this city and Lexing ton, Ky.p will be dispelled by a story which came out in Judge Charles Hoffman's Domestic Relations Court yesterday. Likewise the "mystery" which surrounded the "death" of "Ruth Nolan" and the failure of newspaper re porters and Kentucky officials to find where the accident occurred and what had become of "Ruth's" body was cleared up by the story yesterday.

As a matter of fact, the develop ments tend to show that a young married woman made it up out of whole cloth, as an "out" lor herself, after she had been much in the company, of Zitzman and other ball players and their wives, posing as Ruth Nolan, a single woman. As Twin Sister. Incidentally this young woman, who so cleverly hoaxed so many persons, later passed herself off as "Ruth's" twin sister, thereby passing out of the picture gracefully, as the pseudo Ruth Nolan, and dropping back entirely into her place as a young married woman. It was through information imparted to Judge Hoffman by the attorneys for the plaintiff and defendant in a divorce suit that the entire matter became public property, but it waa after Judge Hoffman had granted the young wife a divorce that' the Court received the lniormauon, and now he is in a quandary as to what to do about it. However, as both sides were aererd that a di vorce should he granted, and the wife's testimony was sufficient for a decree, it is likely that the order made will not be disturbed.

According to the information given tn Hoffman, it was Mrs. Mavis Ledford, 696 Howell Avenue, Clifton, who masqueraded as Ruth Nolan and then had Ruth pass out in true motion picture style, so that she might appear as her twin sister, with nothins: to entangle hep with any thing that "Ruth" may have done. Mrs. Ledford was born In Ken tucky 24 years ago, and was married to John W. Ledford, 31 years old, 124 Lyons Street, a printer, employed by th Snnkesmnn Printinor ComDanv.

in Kentucky, March 21, 1920, when she was less than 15 years old, and Led ford was only 21. One child was born to them, and Judge Hoffman on1 Monday, Mrs. Led ford said they had separated four times. She also said her husband did not provide for her properly, and one time he forced her to borrow $100 from her mother, then took this from her and gave it to his mother. They bought $600 worth of furniture six years ago and have not paid for it yet, she averred.

She also said her mother had paid $3,300 on a home for them, but it was not paid for. Ledford took a course at the Uni versity of Cincinnati, but flunked, she said, and then he began to drink. He came home drunk and blackened her eyes. Margaret Leonard, Harlan County, and Ann McKendrlck, 1405 Elm Street, took the stand for her and corroborated her story. Then Judge Hoffman was informed that some ballplayers had been going out with Mrs.

Ledford and she was asked about this, but denied it. However, when Carolina Davis, Auburn Apartments, was called as another witness, she sprung a surprise by saying that she and Mrs. Ledford had gone to Marlcmont with two men, who, she said, she thought were ballplayers, but she did. not know their names. Husband On Stand.

Ledford was ordered sent for and he appeared yesterday, and declared that his wife had taken no Interest in their home, but had represented herself to others as an unmarried woman and a student at the Conservatory of Music. Once, he said, she told him she was going to visit her sister In Chicago, but he later learned that she passed the time with a woman friend In the latter's flat at Race Street and Opera Place. He also said he heard she wixs associating with ballplayers, and with Bill Zitzmann in particular, and that when Zitzmann was on the road with the teams she had the use of his automobile. So, he said, when he saw Zitzmann's automobile in front of a certain residence where a party evidently was in progress, he watched and saw Mrs. Curt Walker and Mr.

Ivy Wingo come out with their husbands. Later, he said, he saw his wife and Zitzmann together. Asked about this, Mrs. Ledford said it was fact She declared that her husband told her to go out and find her pleasures elsewhere and she took him at his word. However, she said, she went under an assumed name, creating the pseudo Ruth Nolan and telling all her friends that she was single.

Zitzman and the other ball players and their wives knew her only as Ruth Nolan, ahe said, and they had no idea that she was married. There was no wrongdoing shown, and when the attorneys for both sides, Clarence Smith, for the wifs, and Lawrence Lytic, for Ledford, said they believed that It would be best Annexationists Give Cheers As Debate Waxes Warm. Covedale Citizen Favoring Incorporation As Village Are Outnumbered In Appeal To County. Indicating that a great majority of the residents and property owners of the hamlet of Covedale, lying between Westwood and Price Hill, do not want to incorporate their community into a village, but seek to have it annexed to the City of Cincinnati, a petition signed by several hundred property owners, seeking annexation to the city, was filed wltli the Hamilton County Commissioners yesterday. This petition was filed coincident with the hearing by the Commissioners upon the former petition filed, in which incorporation of the territory Into a village was sought, and it precipitated considerable argument, if not ill-feeling.

More than a hundred residents of the little community crowded into the County Commissioners' room, and It did not take long to disclose the fact that the pro-annexationists and anti-incorporators were greatly in the majority. This was attested by the applause upon any argument against Incorporation and for annexation, as well as by the groans to be heard when the alleged advantages of incorporation were extolled. Mayor Russell Wilson, City Manager C. O. Sherrill and Assistant City Solicitor Edward F.

Alexander were present on behalf of the city. Opposing the incorporation, Mayor Wil-on declared city offilals feel that incorporation would handicap seriously ny program for annexation of the territory. He pointed out fchat with the creation of a village anl organisation of village politicians naturally would be created and they would fight annexation and provide an "almost Insurmountable wall against the progress of annexation to the west of the. city and probably, defer It for many years." "We.1 have a very hospitable attitude toward the residents there," the Mayor said. "We would have them join us.

If you do not present the offer the invitation will come from us to the citizens of Covedale, and in this way we expect to provide expansion toward the west." Mayor Wilson's remarks were re ceived with a round of applause and the feeling of the people present eemed to be expressed by Attorney William P. Hohman, a resident of Covedale, who, after declaring that what really is wanted for Covedale MARIEMONT INN Desirable Single Rooms and Suites Available Now. I Special Monthly Rates. BRAMBLE 1300 Dine at the FLORENCE LUNCHROOM 119 West Fourth, Second Floor Delicious Food Table Service Extensive Menus ROBERT ROBERTS. Death came suddenly to Robert Roberts, veteran vaudeville performer, at his home, 3671 Vine Street, yesterday morning.

Roberts was a member of a team which had impersonated "Adolph and Otto" over WCKY. He went to the radio station Monday night as usual, but complained of pains in his chest, and was unable to give his performance. Roberts hurried to his home and took medicine, but a few minutes later his wife heard him fall over a chair. She called her daughter, Mrs. Horace Herring, 3693 Vine Street, but Roberts died shortly, after her arrival.

For more than 25 years Roberts had been engaged in the show business. He made many phonograph records of Negro melodies and comic selections. He had been appearing recently with Charles Egelston, but told his wife Monday that he was expecting a new partner next week. He failed to give the new partner's name. Roberts was a son of the late Nicholas Roberts, veteran showman, who was proprietor of the Nick Roberts's Tantomimo Company, and once had an interest in the old Standard Theater at Canal and Vine Streets.

Nick Roberts won national fame with his character, "Humpty Dumpty." He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Katherine Roberts, and his daughter, Mrs. Herring, who married only a month ago. Born in Cincinnati 51 years ago, Roberts spent most of his life in this neighborhood. although he traveled extensively with shows.

Thysicians said his death was due to a heart attack. Funeral services are to be held Friday morning, with requiem high mass at St. Louis Church. Burial is to be in Spring Grove Cemetery. I MRS.

REBECCA IELT0N ILL. Atlanta, January 21 (AP) The condition of Mrs. Rebecca Latimer Fclton, 94 years old, the only woman ever to hold a seat in the United States Senate, tonisht was reported to be "slightly improved" at a hospital where sho has been ill for nearly a week. city water," and other matters which the community has trouble with, declared that what is sought is "a remedy no matter what it may be." Then he said: 'The former Mayor talked of bring ing 'economic pressure' upon us to come into the city, and our blood boiled. If you want to reach our people, do it in the spirit you have shown this morning, not as though the city were running a pawnshop.

Tho wrong Impression seems to be out. We want something and we don't care where we get it." This brought forth a shout from one enthusiast, "He's wrong; we know that we do not want a village." This brought forth a burst of laugh ter and applause. Colonel Sherrill then arose and ex tended a "hearty invitation to the Covedale people to come into the city," and this also met with applause. Both Sides Represented, William Deddens and John M. P.en- ner, attorneys representing Covedalj residents against the incorporation proposal and for annexation, spoke at length.

When argued that John D. Trout, who owns the most valuable real estate in the community" would have to pay occupational taxes and increased real estate tax if annexed to the city, Attorney Ded- dins refuted that with: "That property is owned by the John D. Trout Real Estate Company, and Mr. Trout conducts a barbecue and restaurant. The highest occupational taxes he could have to pay would be about $18 a year.

Is that what is forcing him to fight for ft village?" Earl Westerfield, attorney for the would-be incorporators, went into the entire matter in detail. He declared there would be approximately 000,000 worth of real estate in the proposed village, and that although the tax rate there now is $14.68 for each $1,000 of valuation, a village with street lights and fire protection could be sustained upon a tax rate of $17.48 for each $1,000. This was questioned, however, by other speakers. Assistant Solicitor Alexander de clared that Covedale "practically is an integral part of Cincinnati," and. referring to the position of Norwood and other municipalities that now are altogether within the city's lim its, though separated municipalities, ho said: "The city does not want any more of them to become, like Norwood, parasites on the city.

Norwood needs the boulevards as much as the city does, but Norwood gets the benefit of them without cost." At the conclusion of the hearing Jacob Krollman, Chairman of the County Commissioners, announced that the incorporation matter will be considered and passed upon later. The new petition for annexation to the city was received and was filed for future action. BISHOP ORDAINS HIS FIRST. Et. Kev.

Joseph H. Albers To Officiate In New York. Kt. Rev. Joseph H.

Albers. Auxiliary Bishop of Cincinnati, will be the officiating prelate at the ordination ceremony Sunday at the seminary of the Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America at Maryknoll-on-the-Hud-son, N. Y. This ordination will be the first conferred by BiBhop Albers since his consecration last month. The group of Maryknoll students to be raised to the priesthood at the ceremony are: Rev.

Charles Murphy, Ansonia. Rev. Anthony, Too-mey. New Bedford, Rev. Thomas Donovan, Pittsburgh, Rev.

Leo Hewitt. Cumberland, Rev. Francis McRae, Wakefleld, Kev. George Gilllgan, Brooklyn, N. Rev.

James Pardy, Brooklyn, Rev. Thomas Quirk. Portsmouth, and Rev. Norman Batt, Buffalo, N. Y.

After a brief visit to their respective homes the newly ordained priests will return to Maryknoll to continue their studies until June, when they will be subject for assignment to tho Maryknoll mission fields in China, Manchuria or Korea. Tho Maryknoll Junior Seminary, recently opened here in Cincinnati at Mount Washington, serves as a preparatory college In the mldwestern section of the United States for the Maryknoll Major Seminary in New York. The other two Maryknoll Junior Seminaries are located in Pennsylvania near Scranton and in California near San Francisco. POLICEMAN IS SCORED For Conduct la Making Arrests- Judge Dismisses Two Prisoners, Scoring the arresting officers for their conduct and actions. Municipal Judge A.

L. Luebbors yesterday dis missed John Furlong, 2615 Hackberry Street, for disorderly conduct and William Fuller, 33 years old, Peebles Corner, for interfering with an officer. The defendants are newsvenders. Patrolman Itskln testified that he arreBted Furlong in a restaurant at 2456 Gilbert Avenue, because he was talking too loud. He said he was taking him.

to a patrol box, when Fuller appeared and attempted to talk to the prisoner. Itskln said he warned Fuller and then the defendant picked up a paper weight and threatened him Itskln said he struck Fuller with his mace. Patrolman Grossmann verified Itskln's testimony. Fuller and Furlong testified that the officer objected when Furlong attempted to give Fuller a number so that he could notify his wife of his arrest. Fuller was struck with the mace when he was bending over to pick up papers to put on a street car, the defendants said.

In dismissing the charges, Judge Luebbers stated that the officer went out of his way to make an arrest when there was no complaint against Furlong by the operators of the restaurant In which the arrest was made. He said that a prisoner had the right to communicate with his relatives and that the officer did wrong in trying to prevent him from sending a message by Fuller. Judge Luebbers stated that he did not believe force was necessary with two officers present at tho time. COLD WAVE TO BACKWASH. 1 ner Friday night.

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