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ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH. EVENING, AUGUST 18, 1926 VAGB 3 ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH Home of Slain Constable at Desloge, Victim of Hired Assassin ENGLISH MAGAZ1N HEARD 2 WOMEN ffii ON NIGHT OR WAS SLAIN SECT Jh -SSsh. tzjx? hp TH5 Doss residence at Desloge, through a window of which Samuel Doss (below) was shot and killed, presumably by bootleggers whose enmity he had incurred.

Sam Doss 'Bootleggers' Victim, Officials Think Then One Ceased and Other Began to Moan, Declares Bridgetender at Hall-Mills Inquiry. CRABAPPLE TREE SCENE OF MURDER Spot Definitely Fixed by Doctor's Chemical Analysis of Soil Underneath for Blood Traces. tit Associated P)res. SOMERVILLE, X. Aug.

IS. Testimony that the Rev. Edward Wheeler Hall and his choir singer, Mrs. Eleanor Mills, were murdered it the crabapple tree on the Phillips farm in New Brunswick, where their bodies were found, was given today at the hearing of Henry de la'Bruyere Carpender and, Willie Stevens. Dr.

John F. Anderson saii he analyzed the soil beneath the true and ascertained, by blood evidence he found, that the pair were slain within a foot or two of where the bodies were discovered. Belief that the mrrders in the Phillips farm house anl ether places had bern advanced. Miss Almeda Harkins. a member of Dr.

Hall's choir at the time of the murders, testified that she saw Br. Hall and Mrs. Mills going to keep their tryst. Mrs. Mills.

Miss Harkins said, was walking rapidly toward De Russey's lane, carrying a small package. She was WITH LI0UI1 AO Acting Customs Solicitor at New York Rules That It Is Prohibited Under Dry-Law. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK. Aug.

IS. All foreign magazines containing liquor advertisements will be barred from the United States if a tentative ruling, by Edward S. Barnes, Acting Solicitor of the United States Customs House here, is sustained. Mr. Barnes yesterday barred "The Key to London," a magazine published in England chiefly for the information of American tourists, because it advertised a place where "Grant's Morella Cherry Brandy" might be bought in England.

The decision was rendered pend-ing4an opinion from United States Attorney Buckner, now -on vacation. Barnes cited a section of the national prohibition act, which de clares It is "unlawful to advertise anywhere or by any means or method liquor, or the manufacture, sale, keeping for sale or furnishing of the same, or where, how, from whom or at what price the same may be obtained." Exceptions are made for foreign newspapers mailed to the United States, he said, but "The Key to London" is classed as a magazine, and was shipped by express. Barnes said that under his interpretation of the law all maga zines carrying liquor advertise ments would be barred from the United States. L. S.

Baynton Williams, an offi cial of the American Information Bureau of London, who arrived here from England, two weeks ago, said several thousand copies of "The Key to London" were admit ted without objection last month. Treasury Officials Uncertain As To Magazines. By the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Aug. 18.

Government officials are uncertain to what extent the prohibition act bars foreign magazines containing advertisements from this country. Ernest T. Camp, Director of Cus toms, said today the New York Customs officers were within the law in barring "The Key to London" printed in the British capital for the information of American tourists. But he suggested that in the absence of a general regula tion, it might be well to limit the exclusion Dolicy to those foreign maeazines that are published to so- licit American trade. BARRED FROM II HELD AS SWINDLER la.

A. IEIiAXO. field. There are a few funds which have not been audited yet, and Gov. Baker assured Becker that they be taken up after the auto mobile license fund, as soon any the Auditor's force can get to them.

It was expected that Beckor woKild return 'to Jefferson City tnis evening. Until he arrives, the bond will probably remain in the safe. Becker has said it is in the sum of $75,000, and that it secures the state against loss of any part of its deposit in the Englewood banic, variously stated as being from to $24,000. In the meantime preparations are being made to reopen the Englewood Bank. Finanee Commissioner French has ruled that the 10-day period, in which a bank may reopen, extends until tomor row night, as the two Sundays since Aug.

1 are not to be counted. Say That Englewood Bank Will Be Reopened This Week. Special to the Post-Dispatch. KANSAS CITY, Aug. 18.

Definite announcement has been made that the Citizens' Security Bank of Englewood, a suburb. closed Aug. 7. is to be reopened this week. R.

L. Train, one of the directors, and Judge Harry Truman are among the business men interested in the reorganization. By increasing their own deposits and realizing on some of the bank's assets they expect to have more than $50,000 available when the bank is reopened They hope there HARRY WHITE A I "KT OITR Low On AH Sizes of Tires. rv yob arr gnoRT or READY CASH. USE Ol'R EASY PAYMENT Plan Re Tape.

No Delay KANSAS CITY WANTED HERE BY U. S. Federal Warrant Issued for Return of L. A. Delano for Postal Swindle.

Federal authorities have asked for the removal to St. Louis from Kansas City, where he is under arrest, of L. A. Delano, a man of many aliases, who is charged Jn a Federal warrant Issued here yesterday with utlng the mails to do-fraud. A Deputy United Staffs Marshal has gone to Kansas City for him.

As Robert Spaer, Delano advertised in St. Louis newspapers last June for branch managers for a large enterprise, promising a monthly salary of $J25, but ra-qulrlng a $2500 cash bond. How many bonds he obtained. If any. is not known, but Postoffice Inspector Noah says the enterprise waa fictitious.

Delano also advertised for stenographers, and persons who answered complained that they required to post small cash bonds, but received no employment. D-i-lano stopped at various hotels hero and in his room at one of th i collection of photographs of young women was confiscted. With a partner, Delano Is alleged to have frequented conventions ln St. Lotus and other cities, their specialty being to obtain tho name and address of a convention delegate and then telegraph to his home for funds, impersonating the delegate at the telegraph office. Thy are said to hare obtained $500 by this method at the recent Qrot-to convention here, but were arrested while collecting funds in the name of a convention delegate at Topeka, being removed to Kansas City.

Delano is ln his early 80s. wall educated and a flsLshy dresser. Sir Jantes Craig 111 on Steamer. By th Associated Press. Aug.

It. Sir James Craig, Premier of Northern Ireland, arrived here last night on the steamer Doric from Liverpool. Sir James was suffering from om illness, but the ship's doctor aald he was well enough to continue his vovatre to Montreal on the Doric. The Fremler is accompanied by his wife and a son and daughter. will no continuance of tha "slow run" which causeJ the closing.

The gradual withdrawal of business followed reports of the difficulties caused by questionable paper, representing loans to associates of Secretary of State Becker, who were connected with his paper, the Missouri Stata Journal of Excelsior Springs. GOODTRAR PATH- FINDER TRI5AD S7.80 rilnt-her $8.65 ssw ri. rr $15.90 Balloon S-f A 7c 29x4.40 IV-ftl of Furniture PRISONER rt KENTUCKY DEPUTY SHERIFF SHOT TO DEATH AT HOME Fired Upon From Amhtisht When He Appeared on Porrh In Dark Fought Bootleggers. By the Associated Press. HARLAN, Aug.

18. Jams Fee, '58 years old. deputy Sheriff at was shot and killed from ambush late last night. Fee was preparing to retire ani stepped out on his front porch when shots were fired, five or six striking him and killing him instantly. Fee had been deputy Sheriff at the camp of Harlan Fuel Co.

at Tancey for the last three years and has waged a relentless war on bootleggers. He had a num ber of persons before the county Judge yesterday and obtained war rants for several others. No r-rest has been made. FOUR MEN DENY BEING ON $75,000 BOND TO BECKER Continued from Pasre One. posit, varying from $10,000 to $50,000 a month, ln the First Na tional Bank of Jefferson City, and that no interest is paid on it.

The State Penal Board also an incidental fund averaging about $4000 in the same bank, with ho Interest paid. Highway Department officials explained that no interest was received on the funds of that department, because the numerous checks drawn against it required a large amount of clerical work by the bank's employes. A note of exasperation crept into the communications of state officials, growing out of the Engle-wood bank closing, after Attorney-General Gentry made a fruitless visit yesterday afternoon to Secretary of State Becker's office. Becker had just sent an official message to Gentry, telling him that bonds given by the Englewood and other banks to secure deposits of State automobile lincense funds could be seen at Becker's office. Then Becker departed for Kansas City, leaving the bonds locked in his When Gentry arrived.

Becker's clerks told him the boss was away, and that no oni el-je was authorized to open the afe and exhibit the bonds. Gentry went to the Gov. Baker sat down and dictated a letter to Beckei, ending with a formal and official request that Becker "forthwith" transmit to him a certified copy of the Englewood bank's bond. The Governor cited sections of law authorizing him to require Information from State officials, and empowering the Attorney-General to file suit on bonds executed to protsct Jstais funds. While he was about it, the Oov-ernor clso sent Becker a reply to the letter in which Becker had suggested that all other special state funds as well as the automobile license fund, should be audited.

Gov. Baker replied that. In the year and a half he has been in office, most of these funds have been audited by the State Auditor, including the moneys of the state penal and charitable institutions, and most of the educational institutions. The auditor's deputies re just completing an audit of Sj3uth west Teachers' College at Spring- tVsU v.s for im- STREETS shown the package of letters foundwants to kill me man he sought possibly had a hand in his death. Renominated for Constable.

After his defeat for Sheriff, he sought appointment as a deputy, but failing to get It contented himself with his duties as payroll guard. In the primary this month he was nominated for" Constable. Doss gave the impression of being entirely without fear. Taciturn at times, and at other time!" loquacious, he generally insisted on having his own way and the only man in the lead belt who dared cross him, it is said, was W. H.

Comins, manager of the lead company. He designed the fortress-like home, not from fear of assault, but because he leaned toward that style of architecture. The building is built of brick, looks hard and thick, and a four-foot wall of surface rock surrounds the entire lot. On the Jawn Doss erected a flagpole, on which an American flag hangs at half-mast today. Story of the Tragedy.

Monday night Doss and his wife went to Elvins, a mile away, to visit relatives. Returning, they had luncheon and at 9:45 o'clock -decided to retire. Doss walked to the dining-room door, which is a fnw feet from a window which opens to Cherry street. He reached for a towel to wipe his hands when a shot was fired. The assassin? apparently fired a sawed-off shotgun from the street over the wall and grass plot under the window.

Nine slugs pierced the screen and a scrim curtain, and seven lodged in Diss's head. He fell forward into the dining room, dead. Mrs. Doss, who was only two feet behind him, ran to the door and out to the lawn. She saw a cloud of -white smoke, but could see no man or vehicle in which he might have fled.

No one, in fact, has been found who saw the slayer, although one citizen reported that he heard an automobile in the neighborhood at the time. St. Francois County's hardest man will- be buried tomorrow afternoon, with services at his home. Oontlw Qy-d from Page One. in other parts of the county wanted to arrest a dangerous criminal, they called up Doss.

"Send for Sam Doss," was the phrase when there was a dangerous Job to be done. And Doss, It Is said, always came. He never killed a man in pursuit of his duties, and had a trick of walking boldly up to his "bad man" and striking on the Jaw with the side of his pistol. The National Lead Co. payroll never was threatened by robbers.

It is related "that on one occasion an enemy drove from Klit River to Desloge with the avowed intention of shooting Doss at sight. Doss was at the station with the payroll when the man's buggy came in sight. "Well, there's so-and-so," said Doss. "I'll run over And see If Tie He started to ward the buggy, which swung around and moved rapidly back to Flat River. Killed One Man.

Doss killed one man, so far as is known, in 1915, at a Fourth of July picnic. The man was an Ott Huitt, who, according to evidence at a trial, was shot when he attacked Doss with a knife. Doss, then a deputy sheriff, was acquitted. Political aspirations came in 1922- when he ran for Constable of Randolph Township on the Democratic ticket and was elected by a large majority. In 1924 he was the Democratic nominee for Sheriff of St.

Francis County and was Ig-nominously defeated. It is believed that the Ku Klux Klan opposed him. Doss was so bitter against the klan that at times he would stop on the streets of Desloge to denounce the organization to anybody who would listen-Contributing to his defeat was the fact that photographs of him in convict garb were widely distributed through the county. swore he would "get" the man responsible for the pictures. and when he died rumor had it he had narrowed the field of suspects to four men.

One theory is that the ARREST MADE IN MADISON COUNTY SLOT MACHINE EOW Proprietor of Soft Drink Stand Held on Information Issued by Court. Dominick Oberto. proprietor of a soft drink place and restaurant on the highway near Collinsville, was taken into custody yester day at Edwardsville on an infor mation issued by the Madison County Court charging operation of slot machines. An attempt to seize the slot ma chines Monday night resulted ln the arrest of Constable Hawes and two other Constables and a Justice of the Peace by a deputy from Sheriff Deimllng's office, who hap pened to be passing while the ma chines were being seized. Constable Hawes charged In a statement that Sheriff Deimling or his deputies had sought to interfere with law enforcement by Constables, particularly In liquor and gambling cases in Madison County.

Constable Hawes and the other officers were taken in custody before Deimling and later released, without explanation of their arrest. Sheriff Deimling today denied he had Interfered with law enforcement or with any legal raids by Constables. He also denied that prisoners in the county jail gambled on the slot machines seized at Oberto's place, as charged by Constable Hawes in his statement. U. S.

COMPTROLLER HOLDS UP A. B. BIELASKTS PAY VOUCHERS McCarl DisallowB Items Aggregating $15,000 in Year for Prohibition Under-Cover Man. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK.

Aug. 18. Salary vouchers for A. Bruce Bielaskl, under-cover man for the Government, are being held up at Washington by Comptroller-General McCarl. A letter from McCarl to Representative Celler of New Yorkfl says: "I have to advise that the records of this office disclose no payments to him (Bielaski) for salary as an officer or employe ln the prohibition service.

It does appear, however, from vouchers in the Treasury Department that Walter A. GreenJ chief prohibition investigator, has during the past fiscal year mede numerous payments to Mr. Bielaskl aggregating more than $15,000 for confidential information and assistance. "I may state that credit has not been allowed for any of these items, final action thereon having Deen suspended pending further MERCHANTS TIRE CO. (aneSryatit 2T1 WASHINGTON Open a.

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(as High as $6.75 between the bodies and said this mieht have been the package. About 15 minutes after Mrs. Mills passed, Miss Harkins saw the rector hurryin? toward the lane. Pru ning Shears Pound. The State's attempt to prove that a pair of pruning shears was used to slash Mrs.

Mills' throat apparently was disposed of when Peter Tumulty, former gardener-chauffeur for Dr. Hall, testified te had broken a pair for which the State had been searching. Harry McCabe, tender at a canal bridge about half a mile from the crabapple tree, told of hearing screams about midnight Sept. 14. At first it was two women he heard screaming.

Then he heard only one. Finally, he said. the screams of this one woman changed into pitiful moans. The first screams, he said, came from near the Phillips farm house. The last moans came from the vicinity of the crabapple tree.

State Senator Alexander Simpson, special prosecutor in charge of the investigation, said today that he had a number of reserve witnesses who would be called. If necessary, in the hearing of Stevens, eccentric brother-in-law of the slain rector, and Carpender. Wall street broker, a cousin of the rec tor's widow. The new witnesses, Simpson said. Included a young woman and the scion of a well-known family ho had been In De Russey's lane, which traverses the Phillips farwt N'ew Brunswick, where Dr.

Hall and Mrs. Mills, were slain. Dr. Hall's widow, Mrs. Frances Stevens Hall, is accused of the murders.

Her brother and cousin are accused as her accomplices. To Offer AliM Defenses. Counsel for Carpender and Stevens have intimated to Judge Clrary that alibi defenses will be offered. Carpender, during the investigation of 1922, accounted for his preaonoe until 10 o'clock on the night in question at the home of E. IC Rice of New Brunswick.

The etate haa fixed the time of the murders as between 10 and 11. Stevens md wag at home with his sister. Mrs. Hall, through the night. A.n extraordinary session of the rrand jury will be called.

Simpson y. if Judge Cleary decides to Carpender and Stevens, who feione are affected by the present hearing, if they are held, Simpson Plans to move to have Mrs. Hall's bail vacated and seek to have her returned to the county kil. where she spent 5 0 hcrurs after arrest July 29. The New Brunswick Board of de has sent Gov.

Moore of New a protest against what It re-r as the "unethical and hasty" nduct of the murder inquiry. Mrs. J. ln New Brunswick. Thus far the State has devoted efforts to a corroboration of the "Jmony of Mrs.

Jane Gibson, pig ho testified she saw Car-nder, Stevens and Mrs. Hall at scen an heard shots. Three Persons at Scene. tM a contractor, Ufied yesterday he saw at the 1 whera the murders occurred Womaa resembling Mrs. Hall mirM int" courle he thought -SSt be the rector and Mrs.

Mills. "a not hear the conversation Th man. O'Rourke said, looked bgl(, "au- -A- woman standing a ehort heavy man In dark ott. Mrs, Mills. An-nd larger woman.

who to be' berating the- others, could not identify positively. He HalLd DOt knW lf WM O'Rourke waa asked if De Rus- il rn not noted tryst- Piaca for love trm. He replied. many lovers in Printed Voiles Shantungs, Rayons, Broadcloths, Voiles Values Value Values Think of buying Dresses -that nnlv recently sold for a much Discounts: 10 to 40 Lucks-Orwig-LeRoi FURNITURE DECORATIONS DRAPERIES 1117-1119 LOCUST STREET f) higher price sacrificed l( rU9nr at VS There la No Substitute for a Lane Bryant Slenderixing Garment ma i rfwg 1 TTFI changed clothes some time in the night. 1 nese details nave been marshaled before the jury in great detail.

And, as the climax to the State's case, an unexpected witness appeared last Friday afternoon, Harry R. Wurster, automobile mechanic, who testified he had seen Gaines' old roadster parked on East Green Lake Way, 50 yards from the murder scene, at the Jiour of the murder. County Commissioner Gaines has charged that his brother is the victim of a political plot to discredit him. The commissioner is a candidate for renomination in the September primaries. Gaines's first wife divorced him after he deserted her and Sylvia, then a child of 5 or 6.

He remarried here and his first wife also remarried. The daughter was planning to return to her mother's home when she was murdered. day calling on him to end the "unethical and hasty" manner in which Prosecutor Simpson is conducting the Hall-Mills murder investigation. The Governor said he was satisfied with the way Simpson was handling the case. Diary Referring to Murder Case Found in Maryland.

th Awwic'iwi Preen. WASHINGTON. Aug. 18. A diary containing references to the Hall-Mills murder case has been turned over to the Somerville.

N. authorities by Washington police. Apparently written by a woman, it was found recently in a pile of trash by a girl In a nearby Maryland town. Nicknames and given names were used in, the sections relating to the murder, police said. Time and fire had damaged the book to some extent.

$SOO Fire Damage to Six Trucks. Damage estimated at $800 vas caused by fire at 1:35 a. m. todrty in a building in the rear of 4705-07 Delmar boulevard, occupied by the Imperial The lire started in a pile of waste paper, presumably from spontaneous combustion and damaged six trucks Continued from Paste One. home, he added.

according to Stern: "Well, that's what's happened." Wife Tried to Kill Self. Then the Sheriff learned the present Mrs. -Gaines, the defendant's second wife, had shot herself in a suicide attempt last November, a. few days after Gaines and Sylvia had been guests at a downtown hotel, where they had registered Mrs. Gaines also.

Only the father and daughter, however, occupied the two-room suite, Gaines' attorney offered to let the State scrutinize the father's clothing. The offer was accepted quickly, a.nd a chemist found minute blood stains on his sweater blouse. Evidence was uncovered that two hot fires were burning in stoves in Gaines' home the night of the murder, and that he there that there wasn't room for me to go in." This occasioned loud laughter from the crowd in the court room. Judge Cleary promptly ordered the room cleared of all but intere-swd parties. "People who hare no more brains than to laugh at a murder hearing should not come to court.

he said. The crowd, after its ejection, sat on the steps of the court house and waited for news of the hearing. Two Cans Parked in Iane. O'Rourke ftxed the time he saw thehree persons as 8:55 p. m.

The StaTe maintains the murders were committed at about 10:30 o'clock. Barbara Tough, talkative Scotch maid formerly employed by Mrs. Hall, told of surprising Dr. Hall with Mrs. Mills on his lap ln his study at the church and of Dr.

Hall's rising without his wife's knowledge from a sick bed to drive through deep snow to the hospital where Mrs. tlills was a patient. Governor Will Pay No Auction to New Brunswick Protest. SEAGIRT. N.

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