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HRST PAGE TWO ALa t.ii ii imm rr. Brutal Treatment of 'Scandalous Ucture9 brings On Divorce 1 "WASHINGTON. D. Nor. Mrs.

Mrrle Greem, S423 TStrty fourth street, Northwest, has asked the District Supreme Court for a limited Jiprce from ihjrr huaband, Henry Green, whose UtfOrtsa is given as the Columbia JjCoontry Club. Mrs. Green chart 'that her husband deserted her October 36, 1924, after a course of brutal of an unuiual and scandalous nature. They were married In the District of Columbia, August 20, 1324. Green Is represented by Attorney Garfield C.

Thompson. IAS FU1ES (ILL GIRL 2 mm WASHINGTON, D. Nov. 11. Catherine Mercer, 11, 20 street, northeast, came to her death from monoxide poisoning', November 6, due to a defective flue, a coroner's jury held Monday.

No" inquest was held'Jn the case cf Mary Stewart, 21, of the same address, who also died from the same cause. Coroner J. Ramsey Nevitt decided that it was not necessary. About 9:30 o'clock Saturday evening, Mrs. Gertrude Mercer found her daughter, Catherine, and the Stewart woman who lived in her home, dead in a gas filled house.

Catherine was lying on the floor in a room joining the kitchen. Mary Stewart was lying on a table in the kitchen. The Casualty Hospital ambulance was summoned and both were pronounced dead by Dr. Anthony Sidone. The testimony at the inquest showed that the flue was choked with soot and there was.no way for t5e gas fumes to escape.

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Address Mystery Clue To used House Wife's Furnished Infidelity Which Ended Tragically Husband, Held For Killing Wife, Says He Caught Her and Lover Following "Tip" By Wife's Married Brother By LOUIS R. LAUTIER WASHINGTON, D. Nov. 11. A coroner's jury Monday ordered Charles Henry Hawkins, 27, 1504 Thirteenth street, northwest, held for the action of the grand jury in connection with the fatal shooting of his wife, Catherine Hawkins, 23, at her home, 1718 Thirteenth street, northwest, last Saturday night.

Hawkins shot his wife twice with, October when his wife went to a 8 cahoer pistol which he had I the country without his knowledge, purchased only a few hours earlier! he said. They quarreled over this at the Seventh street store for this trip. On October 11 the brother of purpose. The fir.it shot was fired his wife took him to a house in in the hallway in the basement of Deanwood and told him that their the home. The fecend shot was fired wives were in the hou.e with two a Via vc'ifa SVo fpU a few men, Hawkins said.

When he was feet away in the dining room where denied admission he forced his way her mother, sisters and their child were sitting. Jealousy is the motive for the killinar. Hawkins made a confusion in which he charged his vife with in fidelity. Tbe mother of Catherine Hawkins, Mary Dyson, and her sister, Margaret Booth, testified at the inquest that there was no quarrel between Hawkins and hi wife the shooting. The co'ipl hml been separated fr sometime, but he occasionally visited his Satur day nijrht wa at her home await into the They talked a few minutes.

Then, the first ptol shot we? heard. Th srrond shot was fired as she ran back into the dining room. Hawkins fed, but was arrested later at 1504 Thirteenth treet, northwest, by Detective James K. Lowrey. At the time of his arrest he was sitting in his room with the pistol in his hands.

It was loaded. Detective Lowrey found no exploded i shells in tte chambers. Hawkins offered no resistance. At the No. 2 police station he told Detective Lowrey that he killed his wife when she told him she "Didn't give a damn whether I went or whether I came or whether I stayed." He accused her with running around with a man whom he knew as "Leroy.

His suspicions were first aroused into the house and looked for his wife. Entering a room, he said, he saw his wife and Leroy jump out of a window. Again he and his wife quarreled when he saw her later. Hawkins said that he asked his wife to do right an live with him. She told him to come to her place of employment Saturday morning.

He went. Her sister told him his wife was too bu. to see him. He returned to the apartment in which his wire was employed in a few rrnn utes and knocked on the door. His wife answered.

He declared that he mo: her return from wcrk. hen mnm itV. Uo. ie came in r.it"r th mn I re led. room with family for a fewi v.

He thoueht the matter over. Haw ss sw icj, AIIU lCr cMcd to end it all by killing his wife. About 5 o'clock Saturday afternoon he purchased a .38 caliber pistol at THE PITTSBURGH COUIUEH 'Love Ch ildren 9 Men tion edAs Ceri tra I Figures In Sensational Divorce Suit Wife, in Sait, Tells How She Overlooked Numerous Escapades "In Order to Avoid Publicity." By L. R. LAUTIER Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON, D.

Nov. 11. Through Attorneys GeorgB E. C. Hayes and Ernest J.

Davis, Mrs. Corrie Pannell, 243 Florida avenue, northwest, has filed a suit in the District Supreme Court for an absolute divorce from her husband, Jerry Pannell. She names Hassie Ferguson, who is also known as $Hassie Pannell, as the co respondent. Meet The Judge! v. I JUDGE W.

C. HUESTON GARY, Ind Nov. 11 Judge W. Hueston, Bepublican, received 7,897 votes in the race for magistrate last week, beating his opponent, William Bray (white) who received only 2,549 votes in a county where the Negro population is only one eighth of the whole. Judge Hueston was appointed to this position in September, 1924, and was nominated in May of this year, lea ing fifteen candidates, 14 white one colored.

His term expires Jan rai ary 1, 1931. 1 Judge Hueston is also Commissioner of Education of the I. B. P. O.

E. of W. and recently announced the award of scholarships throughout the country to youths by that body. The Elks convention in Cleveland voted him a salary of $2,000 a year for the carrying on of an extensive educational program among the Elks. IN According to her bill ox complaint her husband has been holding the co respondent out aa his wife and as a result of the illicit relations between them two "Jove" children have been born.

The couple were married March 21, 1900, and lived together until 1912. During this time he failed to support her, she says. A year prior to their separation, Mrs. Pannell charges, her husband became the father of a child born to a young girl in Deanwood. She overlooked this incident and continued to live with him, she states, in order to avoid notoriety.

Mr. Ferguson and the co respondent, Mrs. Ferguson says, are living together at present in the janitor's quarter's at No. 1818 Riggs street, northwest. Dies At 117; Forecast War CLEVELAND.

Nov. 11 Par allee Cobb, who predicted the coming of the Civil War 40 years before the conflict, died at her home, 1265 W. 25th street, Tuesday. She was 117 years old. Mrs.

Cocb was born into slavery in the little town of Culleka, in 1809. She was sold to a Southern family in Decatur, when a child and served the Decatur family for 50 years. During the Civil War she acted as nurse for Confederate and Union soldiers alike and was placed on government pension in 1919. She has lived in Cleveland since 1917. Her son, Dan Holt, a youngster of 70, with whom she lived in the W.

25th street home, tells of his aged mother's Civil War phophecy: "When I was just a lad my mother used to tell me about the multitude of stars that fell from heaven in 1821. 'I knew, then, that the big war was coming she said. "'I saw the gray and the blue a marching and I to the Marse that there was goin' to be big a with guns a blarin, she vto sat MrA Cobb's mother lived to the tre xiv 115. according to Holt. "MyOriother would have lived longer If she hadnt contracted pneumonia soon after she came to Cleveland," said Holt.

'After that she never was very well. She had a stroke in 1923 and we knew the end was near. Roland Hayes, Vho May Ved Countess i N. 1 1 'v" a i r' A I 'ST V. Texas Boy Shoots As Two Men Seek To En te rHis Home SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Nov.

11 Firinir three shots through a front screen door, Robert Bruce, 14 year old boy, Wednesday killed one of two unidentified white men who were trying to gain an entrance to his home. Only one of three bullets fired struck the man, but it caused immediate death. He fell at, the foot of the steps near a corner of the house around which he apparently had tried to escape the detectives said. Detectives took the finger prints of the dead man. These will be sent to the war department in an effort to verify a theory that he was a soldier.

HELD ON SERIOUS CHARGE BOSTON, Nov. 11. Charged with assault on Ruth Wooten, 40 Monroe street, his pretty 17 year old office girl, A. L. Gomes, wealthy Portugese realtor, with offices at 62 Columbus avenue, was held in $2,500 bail for Suffolk grand jury, when given a preliminary hearing in Municipal court.

Thursday. The alleged assault Is said to have been committed in the office of the realtor, Wednesday eVening, October 13, at 6 o'clock. Torn wearing apparel, belonging to Miss Wooten, was exhibited at the preliminary hearing. Same was said to have been damaged by Gomes when the alleged assault occurred. In an effort to interview Miss Wooten.

she referrr I to her attorney, who could not be reached. Pend Labor Leaders Organize Race Factory Girls CHICAGO. Nor. 11. President Fitzpatrick and other officers of the Federation of Labor are aiding colored girls whose low wages at a date and fig factory forced them to strike.

As beginners they were paid 54 to So a week. After one year, they make $9 a week. There is no dressing room and work and sanitary conditions are bad. The girls have been organized and the trade unionists are directing them how to conduct their fight for better conditions. ing the outcome of this case.

Gomes, who is reputed to be wealthy, it is said, will be made a defendant in civil action, brought by Miss Wooten. In an Interview with the realtor, he was non committal, but said that he was th victim of a frame up; tnai me charges were brought by his refusal to desert his wife. On the other hand. Gomes' charges were denied. It is said that Miss Wooten will be married early next year to a prominent professional man.

Interracial Aid Saves Boy's Life Condemned to Die, Friends Secure Retrials and Ultimate Acquittal. HOUSTON, Texas. Nov. 11. An interestinir case of In terracial co operation, in which the life of an innocent Negro was saved, culminated here a few days ago.

Some months back a grave crime was committed against a woman in this city, who declared that a tall Negro was the oflei.der. A col orel boy, fresh from the country, wno answered tne lc5cnption in a general way, was arrested, tried, and sentenced to death. The Negroes of a store in Seventh street, northwest. Houston believed him innocent and $1,000 Will Swing This Deal FOR SALE Beautiful solid brick 4 room house. Bath, stationary tuba, electric light, garase, modern improvements.

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The Commission also had doubts about the matter and took action at once. They delegated two colored men to go to the jail and interview the boy. On receipt of the report of these men, which convinced them that there was grave doubt as to the prisoner's guilt, the Commission employed a lawyer, went into court, and asked a rehearing and change of venue. Their plea was granted and in the second trial the boy was sentenced to 99 years of imprisonment. Still the Commission was not satisfied as to his guilt and secured another trial, making bond for the prisoner in the sum of $2,500.

A few days ago the third trial took place and the boy was declared not guilty and was set free. Lynching (Continued from Page 1) ramshackle frame house aa what is known aa "Share meanings that they were given half the crop they raised for cultivating the land. "Hot Supper" Reported The complaint which turned the attention of Sheriff Henry H. Howard of Aiken toward that small dwelling on the edge of his County has never been clear. One accusation made publicly has been that a Negro preacher in Monetta wrote to the Sheriff protesting that the Low mans planned to hold a "hot supper" on tne mgnt ol one of his church meetings.

A "hot supper" in this country meant food and liquor mostly liquor, and the preacher, this tale goes, feared his congregation all would get drunk. The only other story told In Horse Creek Valley is that a complaint the Lowmana were making and selling whiskey was sent to Sheriff Howard by a white man who had quarreled with his neighbor, Hartley, when the latter foreclosed a mortgage on two mules and turned them over to the Lowmans to use. No official story ever has been related. Sheriff Howard's successor, Nollie Robinson, declined to reveal the original complaint, "because he might get into trouble," and contented himself with this reporter by saying it was from a white man. Whoever complained, the result was that SherifT Howard, a member of the Ku Klux Klan, and highly popular here for his courage and unwillingness to permit his deputies to beat prisoners, went with three others to the Lowman place.

The Lowmana' Reputation Much too far in the background, behind controversy and confusion, lies the reputation of the Lowmans in Monetta. Men who favor lynching describe them as "bad niggers," whiskey dealers and killers, in spite of the evidence. Those who disapprove lynching say they were "good niggers," meaning they were sober, not quarelsome and worked hard for white men. Their character does not affect the fact that the sheriff and his three deputies were stupid if not far beyond their rights in their manner of seeking to search the house. With Howard were Deputies A.

D. Shepard, Nollie Robinson and L. McElhenry, all of whom have been accused in one or the other of the two affidavits made since the lynching of having participated in them. At the curve of the road, a quarter of a mile from the State highway, the two automobiles carrying the Sheriffs party stopped before a field where Demon and Clarence Lowman were loosing the mules after ploughing. The officers asked Demon where the Lowmans lived.

He pointed across the road to the weather beaten house. The deputies leaped from their automobiles and ran toward it. In the rear, Bertha was sweeping the yard. Old Annie had her arms buried in a barrel, making soap. Birdie, a younger Negress, also was sweeping.

Rosa was in the house, and old Sam Lowman was down the road at the mill, getting some meaL What followed was a confusion which two trials never entirely straightened. Howard, with Robinson at his heels, started around the right side of the house. McElheney bounded into the front door and Shepard, at a more leisurely pace, went around the left side of the house. Bertha, Annie and Birdie took one look at the white men running toward them and raced for the rear door. Rof a cut across the porch and into the house, but Howard cut across the path of the lumbering Bertha and her white woolcd old mother.

"The SherifT said, 'Stand said Robinson in his testimony later, 'and Bertha grabbed the Sheriff and the Sheriff said, to McElheney as we heard a racket inside the house." McElheney, upon entering the door, had been followed by Demon Lowman, who had run to protect his family. Demon got an immense revolver before McElheney discovered his entrance. T.hcy struggled. At about the same Shep ard, going around the left side of the house, saw a door fling out in front of him, and Birdie and Rosa came out. He turned to ask them where they were going when he heard a shot from the rear.

A moment later, from the same door, catapulted Clarence, a shotrun under his arm, and sped to the field nearby. Shepard ran after him, but, on turning the rear end of the house. raw Sheriff Howard lyin? dead. De mon, after some shooting in the front of the house, escaped. Old Annie, plunging at him with That Baby You've Longed For Mrs.

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MedicsJ College of Philadelphia, 1SSS Th Vt' mother she waa descended from Paul Cuffe, Negro patric lutionary war. mv an ax. ha said, Shepard ahot down. Sheriff Promised Protection When Clarence was. captured near a natch of wooda later, he received a serious wound.

Bertha, struggling with Robinson and AlcUheney in the front of the house, was shot through the breast and abdomen. She was so excited, she testified later that she did not'know she'd been ahot un til she began to grow weak. She was taken to the hospital at the small cotton mill town of Leesrille. When Demon, Clarence and old Sam were brought into Aiken that afternoon a crowd filled the lawn be tween the court house and the lau, which stands behind it. Nollie Rob inson stood before the crowd and said: "If Sheriff Howard was here he would say, 'let the law takes its course.

tin the acting fcheriif now, and I'll protect these men. Without more ado the crowd dispersed. Nor was there further evidence of trouble until months later. At the first trial, which was rushed as only trials of Negroes charged with killing white would be In that country, men seemed satisfied that the law would take its coarse according to their liking. There was no evidence of disorder, as it was apparent from the first instant that Solicitor, Judge, jury and witnesses intended all three Negroes to die for Sheriff Howard's death.

Perhaps there have been "trials In this country in which the defendants rights have been equally ignored but not the record of which has been read by this correspondent. Counsel for the Negroes was appointed by the court. Against all but Sam Low man were brought the charge of murder, although Birdie and Rosa admittedly had fled before the shots were fired. This Judge H. F.

Rice, presiding, eouldnt stomach, and ordered the women acquitted. Defense Lawyer's First Case But the other three never had a chance, in the face of the testimony which showed no evidence of conspiracy to murder and placed Demon definitely out of sight of the Sheriff during the entire fight. Bert D. Carter, assisted by R. L.

Gunter and J. B. Salley, prosecuted all three. The lawyers appointed to defend the Negroes were T. L.

Hahan, a young man named Drummond, trying his first case, and John Edwin Stans field. In his extraordinary charge to the jury. Judge Rice apologized to them and to the public for the lawyers for the Negroes. "Some person, he said, 'might be so foolish as to condemn these attorneys for undertaking the defense of these defendants. But I want to nay that they were appointed by the Court.

None of them wanted to do it but it was their duty. While it was very disagreeable on their part, they came here and under appointment of the Court undertook to i brinsr ont tVn fa. best they could, so that the (vSt? a avis rroporasii.tr for tst I Apparently none of then fe3 JLJ to do it. None of then, appeal the case, and th utH might have passed in appeal must be filed lawyer. Is.

J. Frederick, in decided something out CT' Demon and Clarence hj beeVSf tenced to die in the etv' and Bertha to life iJ when Frederick appeiM' rhe Supreme Court upheld nln pletely. a eo Sopreme Coart Rulinr Supreme Court djdej the judges apology to the yryu the defense attorr.ers wis mount to. an acknowie.eirett there was a deep feeKrc tSec munity which made a partial trial impossible It also held that tK v. I eluded from his charre the nrhr against search if they tiid r.oVkae that the parties makinr tU were officers." It nUr.

VT1" smracy had been Jzl have existed unless planned heW the officers arrived. "Taking the setting of. the case," the Supreme Court ruled, the conditions which surrouroei tti defendants at the trial, and th rors pointed out in Hii charge, which affected all of tha j. fendaots, a new trial is granted to all of them." The new trial was under way tt? in ucioDer last, i tie state a cast in. and although it new testimonv bv old witn.tc.

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