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SATURDAY MORNING. 8 AUGUST 21, 19S7. PART II. CASHIER TELLS HOW STORE LOST MONEY CENTER OF KIDNAP CHARGE Seaman Funeral Mrs. Fillmore Talks Finances Mary Miles inter's Sister Tells Jury of Various Transactions Brent Case in New Turn More Testimony to Be Heard as Result of Surprise Move Set for Today Civic Leaders to Serve as Pallbearers for Red Cross Treasurer K- 1 If Funeral services for Charles E.

Under cross-examination by Seaman, treasurer of the Los An geles Chapter of the Americarw Defense Attorney Clyde F. Murphy, Mrs. Margaret Fillmore yes terday detailed financial trans- By permitting defense attorneys to amend their answer to show good faith on the part of Red Cross and a trustee of the University o-Southern Califor actions dating back to 1920, in nia, will be conducted at 2:30 Constance Worth when sne mar an effort to convince a mixed p.m. today at the family rest jury that she may have been the ried George Brent in Tijuana May 10, Superior Judge Haas dence, 2151 South Hobart Boule owner of $47,750 which she vard. yesterday reopened the annul' charges her mother, Mrs.

Char Mr. Seaman died unexpectedly ment suit for, new testimony, lotte Shelby, removed from of a cerebral hemorrhage The surprise move came as at joint safe deposit box a year ago. Wednesday. He was 70 years of torneys were delivering their final arguments following testi SECRET FUND TOLD age. BORN" IN NOVA SCOTIA Mrs.

Fillmore, sister of Mary mony of A. Ronald Button, an attorney for Brent Miles Minter, screen star of silent pictures, testified that be He was born in Nova Scotia and for many years was promi Button testified Brent called him on the phone early last June and told him he had "succumbed tween 1927 and 1932 she had ac nent in Los Angeles educational cumulated secretly, a fund of about $20,000 which she said she to the idea of getting married' circles, at one time being president of the Board of Education. to Jocelyn Howarth, 26-year-old put away "for emergencies." Active pallbearers will be film actress from Sydney, Austra Asked why she had accumu lated the fund, she said her Henry O. Wheeler, Fletcher White, Frank E. Eckhart, Dr.

lia. ADVICE GIVEN mother and sister were threat f' Mb When Mrs. Dorothy Powell, left, identified Jean Eggers, right, as woman who cashed worthless check in downtown store, latter was held yesterday with another woman to answer in Superior Court to charge. Bond for Miss Eggers was set at $500. Times Ctndld Camera photoi Hill Hastings, Oscar Mueller, David R.

Faries, Grove C. Fiske ened with legal difficulties about that time and that she had put the money away for possible use Billy Corr, son of Mrs. Peggy Carr of this city, is shown in home at Muscatine, Iowa, where he is being cared for pending disposal of a kidnaping complaint. and Dr. J.

W. Oakley. HONORARY PALLBEARERS Button said he advised Brent that a Mexican marriage would not be worth the paper it was written on when the actor had told him he planned on being that connection. Women Face Honorary pallbearers will REALTY DEAL GAINS the boards of directors of the married there. In 1928, she testified, she had NINE MORE DOGS POISONED; PET OWNERS FIGHT SLAUGHTER IOWA POLICE SUPERVISING Sunset Club, the American Red Cross and trustees of the Univer realized about $133,000 in real Defense attorneys then moved that they be permitted to amend Trial on Check estate transactions, which was sity of Southern California.

kept in her mother's name. Docu Besides his widow, Mrs. Flor their answer. Brent has been seeking an annulment on the grounds that Mexican marriages ments, which purportedly refute her testimony, were introduced CARE OF LOS ANGELES BABY to the organization within the are not legal and that other legal past forty-eight hours, as evidence by Murphy. Explanation of Getting $50 at Downtown Store Told Court ence De Paw Seaman, the educator leaves two daughters, Mrs.

William D. Witherspoon and Mrs. James H. Meriwether of requirements had not been ful Latest outbreaks of poisoning Billy Carr, 11-month-old son filled. By reopening the case for new Aroused pet owners joined with Tail Waggers, charitable dog protective organization, yesterday, in seeking means to combat widespread destruction of pets, as nine more deaths of According to Mrs.

Carr's complaint, Johnson had repeatedly of Mrs. Peggy Carr, who as- have been in the Laurel Can-ip rrTl yon, Montrose, San Gabriel and IN f- MHY Coldwater Canyon, Beverly Hills VI 1W 111 I II I I A story of cashing a check, lat sertedly was kidnaped from the home of Mrs. Carr's mother at Los Angeles, and two grandchildren; a brother, Clifford G. Seaman, also of Los Angeles, and his mother and two sisters in Canada. er returned dishonored, for eld testimony, Judge Haas will have to rule on the question of good faith on the part of Miss Worth in addition to legality of Mex districts.

Miss Alice Brady, Tail Waggers' vice-president, said. erly Mrs. Charlotte Potts of 221 1022 South Bonnie Brae street valuable animals were reported West Ninth street, yesterday was She also reported that two ican marriages. related in Municipal Judge last Monday is being cared for in a home at Muscatine, Iowa, anonymous telephone calls were "WIFE COLLAPSES asked her to marry him and she had asked him to discontinue his attentions. At Muscatine, however, Johnson told police he had married Mrs.

Carr in Mexico in 1934, and was the child's father. He had brought the child to Iowa, he said, to visit Mrs. Carr's received at Tail Waggers' head under police supervision, accord Schienman's court by 27-year-old Miss Jean Eggers of 438 North POLICE BRIBERY Mrs. Brent suddenly broke Rising from the extra ranks to stardom, Donald Duck threatens the place held by Mickey Moum quarters yesterday threatening ing to word received here yes Bonnie Brae street. She and down in the midst of her testl terday.

destruction of dogs. One, from a man, said the or Mrs. Potts were being examined in the hearts of theatergoers. So far it's nip and tuck. For details RAIDS SUCCEEDS Lone Establishment Found Functioning Odds of catching an illegal race track bookmaker in operation in Los Angeles county territory yesterday were fixed at fifty to one by Sheriff's investigators after they had checked fifty addresses and found one estab The child wu located In the mony and rushed sobbing from the courtroom.

She collapsed in on a charge of cashing a check Iowa city when police there ar read "Wanna Fight" in next Sun with insufficient funds. ganization could find two dead dogs on one piece of property day Times! rested William Johnson, former HELD FOR TRIAL in Laurel Canyon. roomer in the Carr home and Both women were held to trial ailed him in connection with Another, from a woman who in bupenor Court by Judge the asserted kidnaping. said she lives on Lookout Moun tain avenue, said: Scheinman who set bond at $1000 for Mrs. Potts and $500 for Miss "I'd like to poison the own TWA Plans Cachet lishment functioning.

Eggers and who committed both 'Mi i orHi Accompanied by Henry Deitz, to jail in lieu of same. ers of every dog in Laurel Canyon. I'll take every dog I can get hold of, so far away from here, they'll never get home." special investigator for the At on Inaugural Flight TWA will carry first flight cov "Airs. Potts gave me the check the arms of friends and attorneys, necessitating a recess. Before her collapse she testified she had had a conversation with her husband at his ranch in the San Fernando VaUey last June in which he had told her that he was not a "good man for her to be married to." "I'm tired of being married and I'm not happy," she quoted him as saying.

"I'm going off into the desert alone to think it over." HOT LEGAL, HE SAID When she asked Brent if he wanted a divorce she said he Hold her: "A divorce isn't necessary. torney General, George Contrer- ers imprinted with a special CHARGE FALLS Identification Fails at Line-up of Officers Forty Negro police officers appeared before Municipal Judge Guerin yesterday while William J. Denton, 37-year-old truck driver who declared a Negro policeman accepted $5 from him on July 4, vainly tried to identify one of them. Denton, who lives at 4314 South Arlington avenue, was charged with making a false report to police after investigation of the asserted bribe, growing out of a traffic violation, failed to reveal any foundation for it. The remainder of the Negro officers from Newton station were to appear later in the court for $50 and I presumed it was on account of $1S0 I'd loaned her," Miss Eggers stated.

"I'd cashed it at a downtown store and when I came out Mrs. Potts was wait cachet stamp aboard inaugural trips of its new San Francisco- as, chief of the Sheriff's vice detail, and a squad of men raided every suspected place between Long Beach and Los Angeles. TWO MEN SEIZED Finally, at the close of the day, to-Winslow air route, line offr 11 I I I I I I NSA Vlllll II Mil cials said today. Start of service ing for me with a man named James Brown who stated he was Pneumonia Attacks Cameraman's Wife Stricken with pneumonia, Mrs. Rudolph Mate, wife of the cine-matographer, today was reported in serious condition at St.

Vin urgently in need of money. I will beon September 5, and letters intended for the cachet should be addressed to postmasters at San Francisco, Fresno, Las Vegas or Winslow before that date. Envelopes should gave him the $50." CHECK IDENTIFIED the officers found two men operating a small bookmaking establishment at 5714 Cherry street, Long Beach. They arrested Earl cent's Hospital. Mrs.

Mate was R. Clone, 33 years of age, of 527 be addressed to destination, and taken to the hospital a week ago when she developed a nervous breakdown. She is being attended by- Dr. Karl Lewis of Beverly Miss Eggers and the check were identified by Mrs. Dorothy Powell, cashier at the downtown store where the check was cashed.

East Twenty-fifth street, and sent under cover to postmaster Tony Angiro, 23, 1105 Miaa street, at one of the four towns Hills. Los Angeles. room. Mexican marriages are not legal nyway." Several experts on the legality Mexican laws were called by both sides to testify in the week-old action yesterday. Among 'them was Dan O'Neil, also Brent's attorney.

At the close of the day the trial was continued until September 3 at the request of atttorneys who desire additional time to look up legal points brought out during the day's testimony. GLENDORA GIRL 4l Mite KILLED BY GAS Found Dead in Kitchen of New York Home Illustrated on Pag 16. Part I Miss Adelaide Hughes, 20-year-Id daughter of a Glendora ranch it's fun to be practical! for well do collegiennes know these quaint flannelettes at bullock's uilshire will be gay coquettes in the dormitories! pastel print gowns and pyjamas strewn with posies, polka dots and stars 2.93 matching bed booties 1.50 hot water bottle 'cozies' 1.95 on the third floor er, was found dead yesterday in. a gas-filled kitchen of her apartment m. the fashionable East River section of New York, 4 1 according to dispatches.

The girl, who had been employed as an entertainer and chorus girl in New York, left a note saying, "Consider this an accident," and asked that her parents be notified. The parents, Mr. and Mrs. K. Hughes, who operate a citrus grove near Glendora, said their daughter left two years ago for New York with the intention of attending Columbia University.

They said her death was accidental. Dispatches said friends of the feirl reported she had been embarrassed financially. Dwarf Cows Arrive From Netherlands Two Celebes anoas, or dwarf mountain cows, arrived at San Pedro yesterday on the Dutch liner Manoeran, a gift to the San Diego Zoological Society from The Netherlands government zoo at Sourabaya, Java. They are said to be the first of their genus ever brought to the Western Hemisphere. Under the direction of Dr.

L. r. Contl, chief of the San Diego too hospital, they were transferred directly from the Manoeran to Capt G. Allen Hancock's Diesel cruiser Velero III, which look them to San Diego. China Forum Topic "The Case for China" will be the subject of discussion at a of the Municipal League Forum, scheduled at noon Au MizL V.

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