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in in The News THE ONLY DAILY PAPER IN THE WORLD HAVING FORTY-EIGHT PAGES TODAY. RALEIGH, N. IN MEMORY OF THE COMMONER Photo shows Governor Austin Peay of Tennessee breaking ground at Dayton, for the university which will be constructed as 2 memorial to William Jennings Bryan. It was at Dayton, in the Seopes' evolution trial, that the Commoner made his last public appearance. BIG INCREASE IN ELECTRIC POWER Plants To Be Built By Early Next Year To Add 25 Per Cent To State's Power Electrical power developments umder way this year or to be started early next year will increase the installed capacity in North Carolina by approximately 275,000 horse power or more than 25 per cent of the capacity at the close of 1925, according to data gathered by Charles E.

Ray, assistant engineer of the Department of Conservation and Development. A compilation of the figures on the that there was an intotal resources available in power, stalled capacity of 1,060,150 horse power at the end of 1925. Of this amount capacity of trie power was 590,000, and 470,150 of steam produced power. North Carolina ranks fourth among the states in the magnitude of developed water power, and, of the states east of the Mississippi, is exceeded only by New York with her great Niagara powers. This state also ranks fourth in the amount of undeveloped water power as classified by the United States Geological Survey.

One of the most noticeable points in the advancement of the State are statistics showing the rapid strides that that bave been taken in the last few years in the extension of marked an increase than 126 electrical energy facilities, which per cent from 1919 to 1925. As a result of the greater availibility of economica ly p. duced power, the industrie: of the State have made marked strides. From a 19.80 per cent of the total electrical output of the Appalachian States which include North and South Carolina, Virginia, Georgia, Alabarra and. Tennessee, this State in 1925 increased its total output in 1925 to 25.22 per cent of generated power, North Carolina has risen from sixth to fourth place in the percentage of power produced by fuel, sixth place been held in 1923 and fifth pacing 1924.

Some of the latest developments which are helping keep the State in the forefront among those of the nation in the production of electrical power include an a a a 83,000 horse power plant of the Carolina Light and Power Company in the Yadkin River, near Norwood; a development of the Big Pigce River in Haywood River of 35,000 horse power and the program of the Tallassee Power Company on Yadkin River to develop 40,000 borse wer at High Rock. These developments will add terially to the present installed capaThe Carolina Light and Power project an the Tallassee Power project are already under way, and the Pigenn River project will probably be started during 1927. The Carolina Power and Light Company has also applied for a license for a development on the Big Pigeon River in Haywood County to have an installed horse power of 35,000 with a much larger ultimate installation. The largest of the New projects in line of capacity is the Southern Power Company's construction of a 100,000 horse power team plant at Salisbury, known as the Duek plant. REV.

DR. ROBERT B. DRANE STILL IN NORFOLK HOSPITAL Edenton, Nov. Dr. Robert B.

Drane, rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, is still in Sarah Leigh Hospital, Norfolk, receiving treatment. of THE WEATHER North Carolina: Showers and slightly warmer Sunday; Monday showers with mild temperature. VOL. CXXIV.

NO. 137. CIGARETTE TAXES TO RANK LAST IN REDUCTION PLANS Simmons Thinks Chewing and Smoking Tobacco and Cigars Hardest Hit REDUCTION PROGRAM NOT YET FORMULATED Garland Ferguson's Chances For Trade Commission Job Depend On Whether President Will Accommodate Arkansas Man To Whom He Has Offered Position Washington, Nov. in tobacco taxes on smoking and plug tobacco and cigars rather than on cigarettes will probably be sought by Senator F. M.

Simmons at the coming session of Congress, it was learned today with reference to a report soveral days ago that Senator Simmons would ask tobacco tax reduetion. This does not mean that the senior North Carolina Senator would not favor a reduction in the taxes on cigarettes, but that he believes the other tobacco products suffer more from the present high taxes. Simmons' Position. Senator Simmons, who is leading the fight for tax reduction against the administration plan of refunds on individual and corporation income taxes, has not yet fully made up his mind as to the specific reductions he will urge in his tax plan, it was stated here today, but the Senator feels more strongly the need of reduction in taxes on other kinds of tobacco than on cigarettes. Consumption of cigarettes has increased by leaps and bounds in spite of the heavy federal taxation, it was pointed out, but other tobacco products have been hit pretty hard by the federal taxes.

Cigarette taxes make up the largest part of the huge federal tobacco tax total paid in North Carolina, but large taxes are also paid on other forms of manufactured tobacco. The tobacco taxes paid in Carolina during the year ending June 30, 1925, was $146,989.075, or 42 per cent of the national total. Of this sum, $125,289,252 represented taxes on cigarettes. The tax on manufactured tobacco paid in the state was $21.296.779. The tax on was $166.888.

Special taxes on cigars and cigarettes was $232.630 more. Miscellaneous tobacco taxes amounted to. $2.920. State Well Ahead. While North Carolina is chiefly known as a cigarette producing state.

having produced 39,682,292.489 in 1924, and even more in years since that time. However, the State also produced 18,023,965 large cigars and 11,700,790 small cigars during the same year. The State also manufactured 43,855.494 pounds of plug to bacco and 74,907,084 pounds of smoking tobacco during the year. So while. the State ranks first in the manufacture of cigarettes, also is ahead of the whole field in the pro duction of smoking tobacco and second ouly, to Missouri in the manufacture plug tobacco.

There are in North Carolina 4 43 factories engaged in the manufacture of tobacco. Onl, cight of these manufacture cigarettes, while 23 produce cigars and 17 tobacco and snuff. Chief demand for reduction in tobacco taxes has come from the cigar manufacturers, who have already received oue reduction. These manu facturers showed that it was impossible to produce a good 5-cent cigar under the old tax rate and that the high price of cigars was ruining their business. The business of manufacturers of plug and smoking tobacco bas also been hurt, it is said, but cigarettes go on growing in yearly consumption.

Ferguson's Chances, The chances of G. S. Ferguson, Jr. of Greensboro, to be appointed a member of the Federal Trade Commission depend upon whether or not the President is willing to hold open the place until January 1 for Edgar Allen McCullock, chief justice of Arkansas, to whom the place has been offered, it was learned here today. If the President refuses to hold the place open, Ferguson will have a chance for appointment, with former Senator Shields of Tennessee as his chief rival.

MeCullock, bowever, has accepted the place if the President will hold it open. According to reports here, Chief Justice McCullock was President upon the recommendation of Senator Joseph Robinson of Ark: ansas, Democratic leader the Senate. Following the offer of the place to McCullock, however, the Arkansas jurist asked the President to allow him to wait until January 1 to take office so that the next governor of Arkansas and not the present governor may appoint his successor. The present governor is said to be unfriendly to the political leadership of Senator Robinson. The President's reaction to this proposal is awaited with interest here.

If he agrees, Ferguson and other candidates are out of the running, if not, the Greensboro man will have a chance. Two Women Killed Greenwood, S. Nov. women killed and two seriously injured when the automobile in which they were riding was struck by a Seaboard passeuger train No. 6 northbound at Berkeley, Ga.

this afternoon cording to a report received in the railroad office here. and Observer MORE SUBSCRIBERS THAN POPULATION OF CITY IN WHICH PUBLISHED Yesterday's Paid Circulation 36,388 Same Day Last Year, 33,466 1926. FORTY-EIGHT PAGES TODAY. PRICE: DAILY. SUNDAY VIVA TEN CENTE CENTS 14, McLean Says Marplots Seek To Discredit Budget System Governor Specifically Disclaims Intention To Fasten Charge On Any Individual But Statement Follows Walter Murphy's Assumption of Attitude of Open Hostility To Budget Plan "I believe the people of the State will refuse to give serious notice to few marplots who for purely selfish reasons will endeavor to dis credit the business system which has been set up in connection with the administration of the State's fiscal operations," declared Governor A.

W. McLean in an official statement issued yesterday on the hearings now being conducted by the Advisory Budget Commission. Former Governor frequently used the word "tomtit" in diseussing those who disregard with him but the word "marplot" is a newcomer as far as the torances of recent governors are concerned. Webster's dictionary fines the word as follows: "Marplot: one who, by his officious interferences, mars or frustrates a design, plan or plot." Governor McLean in a talk with newspaper men at the time the statement was made public disclaimed any intention of any fastening his charge upon any individual. However, the used the phrase "will endeavor" instend of endeavored." which would seem to indicate anticipation of future action.

The Governor's statement follows publication of an interview in which Walter Murphy, prominent member of the Legislature, stated he would fight the budget plan in the next Legislature. Mr. Murphy has declined to sit with the advisory budget commission although a member of that body. He is also meinber of the executive committee of the trustees of the University of North Carolina and came to Raleigh to attend a joint meeting of the two bodies, leaving after listening to about 30 minutes of detailed discussion. The Governor also declared emphatically that he and the other (Please Turn to Page Two) William Rand Kenan, Gives University Memorial Stadium CANNON FUNERAL SET FOR TUESDAY Friends of Uncle Joe To File Past Bier Today: Numerous Tributes Danville, Nov.

between the rows of leafless elms which span Vermillion Street, messengers scurried in- the rain today to the home where Joseph Gurney Cannon lies dead, bearing expressions of condolence and sympathy from around the world. But not in the formal phrases of bereavement could Danville's grief be couched, for the man a nation knew as a ruler in the councils of the great was to his townspeople never more than Uncle Joe, neighbor, benefactor and comrade. For others was the paying of scholarly tributes. Danville's token of sorrow arose from the home memories of a man whose civic spirit and whose benefaction touched the lives of his townsfolk, not only collectively, but individually. It was Cannon money that gave Danville electric light and power and 'that built the city railway.

It was Uncle Joe, the Congressman from Danville, who brought a soldiers' home to the city and rot the appropriation for a federal building. But more than this, it was Uncle Joe who got positions in Washington for scores of Danville boys, enabling them to work their way through college and law school. And it was Uncle Joe who befriended scores of others and got them started toward substantial careers. Widows of the Civil War and veterans of the World War owed gratitude to Uncle Joe for pensions obtained for them through special bills on personal efforts. Tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock a long line of those who loved him will begin to file through the broad rooms of the Cannon home past the bier, nor will the line halt until the doors of the home swing shut again at 5 o'clock.

The funeral service at 3 o'clock Tuesday afternoon will be as simple as the man they honor. Rev. T. N. Edwing will officiate at the St.

James Methodist Church, of which Uncle Joe was a. member, 0 and past commanders of the Danville American Legion post will bear the coffin to the grave. President Coolidge will be represented by Charles G. Dawes, Vice President, who wired the family today that hie would attend the services. Court at Windsor.

Windsor, Nov. Court. convenes here Monday for a two weeks' term with Judge T. H. Calvert, of Raleigh, presiding.

It is a mixed term of court Prominent N. Y. Engineer, Native Tar Heel, Makes Gift of $275,000 WORK ON STRUCTURE WILL START AT ONCE Will Be Known as Kenan Memorial Stadium; To Accommodate 24,000 Persons By R. W. MADRY.

Chapel Hill, Nov. of a gift of $275,000 by William Rand Kenan, native North Carolinian, and prominent chemical and electrical engineer of New York City, for the construction of a stadium at the University of North Carolina that will seat: 24,00 persons, was made here tonight by Dr. H. W. Chase, president of the University.

The gift is in memory of the late Mary Hargrave and William Rand Kenan, mother and father of the donor, and is to be known a as the Kenan Memorial Stadium. Construetion of the stadium will begin mediately and the plans call for its completion in time for the opening of the football season next fall. Mr. Kenan presented the gift in person here this afternoon at a meeting in the office of President Chase, in the presence of the University president, Graduate Manager Charles T. Woollen, Robert Lassiter, of Charlotte, and Dr.

Foy Roberson, of Durham. Mr. Lassiter and Dr. Roberson are chairman and secretary. respectively, of committee which had laid plans for a campaign among the alumni for funds for a stadium.

Mr. Kenan's gift means that this drive will not be necessary. The site will be a natural amphitheatre just back of Emerson Field, the present athleite field. Bound to University. Himself a university graduate of the class of 1894 and an outstanding campus leader during his college days.

Mr. Kenan is bound to the university by close ties on many sides. His father entered with the class of 1864, but left before graduation to enlist with the Confederate Army and was afterwards awarded a degree. His mother was a Chapel Hill girl. Her family homestead formerly occupied a large tract on the northeast corner of East Franklin nad Columbia streets.

Besides his father, who was a trustee for many years, a number of other close relatives have taken an active part in University history. Two uneles, Thomas S. Kenan and James G. Kenan, the latter a trustee, and three cousins, Owen H. Kenan, Thomas S.

Kenan, and Graham Kenan, the latter a trustee, attended the University. The donor of the is native of Wilmington, before stadium, entering the University of North (Please Turn to Page Two) Football Tactics Halt HoldAnd Put Bad Bandit In Hospital New York, Nov. dolph Beck, "innocent bystander." employed football tactics during robbery today and his man" with a flying tackle that thrilled Times Square crowd. Beck's man was one of three who attempted a daring daylight holdup of Henry Silberfeld's jewelry store on Broadway and Thirty-ninth street. That same robber shot a policeman and a jewelry salesman be fore a second policeman laid bim lc with a bullet under the heart.

The bullet that wounde the rob: ber, however, passed through the flesh of Beck's knee, jammed deep in the robber's stomach as Beck held him pinned to the sidewalk, before ic gained its objective. Bandit Badly Wounded. Of the wounded, only the bandit, identified by police as Benjamin Grogan, was in serious condition. David Jacobi, the salesman, had 8 LOVE LETTERS OF MINISTER READ TO HALL -MILLS JURY Mrs. Hall Calm as Missives Abounding In Endearing Terms Are Revealed JUDGE INTERVENES IN CLASH OF ATTORNEYS Simpson Says Some of His Witnesses Not Exactly Hostile, But Are Friendly To Defense; Nearly Fifty State Witnesses Have Been On the Stand So Far Somerville, N.

Nov. Frances Stevens Hall sat in a little court house here today and heard letters, telling of the professed love of her dead husband for another woman, also dead, read to a jury, which seemed less interested than the curious throngs in the court room. The widow of the slain rector sat between her brothers and co-defendants, Willie and Henry Stevens, as extravagant phrases, represented as those of her husband addressed to Mrs. Eleanor R. Mills, singer in his church choir, were read into the record by the state, which charges the trio with the murder of Mrs.

Mills. A slight quiver of the lips as the reading was started and the woman defendant was calm again, a very possessed but sorrowful figure. Reading of Letters. Most of the letters were written from Maine, where the Rev. Edward W.

Hall was on vacation in 1922. A Christmas card in December, 1921, was among the letters. Only two references to Mrs. Hall appeared. One told of Mrs.

Hall's wondering "why I am taking only three Sundays off." The other said: "I can't talk to you any more in the presence of Mrs. Hall or Jim." The letters were introduced by the prosecution as having been found with a diary, said to have been that of Mr. Hall, found in Mrs. Mill's home after her death. They were printed.

in part in 1922, James Mills, the husband of the slain woman, and the "Jim" of letter, having testified that he was paid $500 by a New York newspaper for the publication rights. The letters were signed for the most part L. but some were read as bearing the name of the minister. The use of the initials was not explained. "Queen was often used, "Gypsy queen" being a favorite expression and once "royal queen." "Dear, dear angel sweetheart" was a salutation, as were "my own dear wonder heart," and "dear, dear heart of mine." The impatience of the lover was reflected in an expression, "darling, only seven more days," referring to a separation, and a suggestion for meeting was alluded to as "sceing you on our road." Endearing Terms.

One letter spoke of "burning kisses," and another of "holding you for the peace that nothing else brings." "I am not wild nor fierce," said the writer in another letter, "but peaceful and exalted." "I waut to feel the wonder of the nniverse with you, hold you close with my (Please Turn to Page Two) WANING AFFECTION LEADS TO SHOOTING Hickory Man Turns His Gun' On Woman Who Had Ceased Loving Him Hickory, Nov. affeetion Carl Pearson resulted in the injury of Mrs. Ethel Reed of Longview early this morning when her alleged lover shot her through the right hip with a 32 calibre pistol, according to the woman'e story a after Pearson had submitted to arrest. Mrs. Reed, who is married but has been separated from busband for some time, works with her daughter, Mary Reed in a local cotton mill, on the night shift.

When they returned home about 6 o'clock this morning they found Pearson in bed, asleep, they said. Mrs. Reed went into the kitehen aud was some when sho WaS the room by preparing, work, Pearson who asked her if. she still loved him. "Ask me no questions and I'll tell you 110 lies," the woman is quoted as replying.

It is then alleged that Pearson drew his gun and shot her through the hip, the bullet penetrating about six inches. It was later removed by physicians and it was said that the woman 18 not seriously injured. Pearson was held by the woman antil her daughter came into the room and wrested the gun from his bands. Later Pearson came into Hickory with friend and related the af fair to the police who have a 32 calibre pistol and 17 bullets that they claim was the property of Pearson. One bullet was missing.

Pearson was placed in the city jail and later taken to the county jail at Newton where he will be lela without bail until Monday morning when he will be given a preliminary hearing here. It was said today that Pearson and Mrs. Reed nad been going together for some time but that her affection for bim was on the wane. HUNG JURY ORDERED TO CONTINUE WITH ITS DELIBERATIONS GARNER PRESENTS TAXATION PROGRAM JOHN NANCE GARNER Washington, Nov. reduction of the corporation tax from 13 1-2 to 12 per cent and abolition of the automobile tax was urged here today by Representative Garner, of Texas, ranking Demoerat of the House ways and means committee, and a leader in formulating the fiscal policies of his party.

CONFERENCE WILL MEET IN RALEIGH Methodists Select Edenton Street Church For Next Session HEAR REPORT FROM NUMEROUS BOARDS Bishop Delivers One of Strongest of His Morning Address; Committee On Budget Makes Amended Report; Class of Six Young Ministers Received By T. A. SIKES. Durham, Nov. Edenton street, Raleigh, as the meeting place for the conference in 1927, receiving seven young men into full connection, listening to the reporte of many boards and committees, endorsing the school of religion nt Chapel Hill and appointing Rev.

W. A. Stanbury on the board of direetors of that school and a great dress from Bishop Mouzon on "The Minister's Three Supreme Motives" were the features of the fourth day's session of the North Carolina Conference meeting in Trinity church, this city. Promptly at 9 o'clock the bishop called the to order and announced "My Faith conference, Looks up to Thee," which was sung in the usual Methodist enthusiastic way. Bishop Mouzon then rend part of the fifth chapter of Second Corinthians and stated that he was going to talk on "The Minister's Three Supreme Motives," which, he said, were the hope of heaven, the fear of the Lord and the love of Christ.

Bishop's Strong Address. Taking these three motives as those which should be uppermost in the mind of every preacher as well as every Christian he delivered what is generally considered the strongest of all his morning "There addresses to the conference. are," said bishop, "many motives which actuate men. Some to. be good husbands or citizens, some by duty and others one thing or another.

Some say that duty is the greatest word in the world, but I do not believe it. There is something that should go 011 before every man and if led by correct motives, men go on to high and holy things. All of u8 need to be dominated by the highest and truest motives and that was just what the apostle was' endeavoring to get the Corinthians to Paul gare what he considered the greatest motives possible when he told those whom he loved to set these three ever before them. "The hope of heaven is something worthy of every man. We all have yearnings and longings not to die but to live.

No man whose mind is right wants to die. Christ came that we might hare the more abundant life. "In the fear of the Lord we persuade men--not call them names. Since our hope of immortality is fixed we strive to be well pleasing to God. We do not try to please all the people.

If we do, we are fail. ures, but if, you please God, and speak to men in the fear of God, you will please and lead them to sublimer heights. "It is the love Christ which constraineth us. Christ's love for us and not ours for Him. Our love moves, but Christ's is st.ong and true." After the roll call, on motion of (Please Turn to Page Two) Fate of Rev.

George Wood, of Kinston, Still Rests With Wake County Superior Court Jury JURORS LOCKED UP FOR NIGHT AFTER FAILURE TO REACH AGREEMENT Solicitor Evans In Eloquent Appeal For Conviction of Minister Guard Declares That State Prison Management Has Interest In Outcome; Strong Appeals For Defendant Made By His Three Attorneys With Closing Speech To Jury By James H. Pou; State Introduces Other Witnesses To Contradict Contention of Defendant That Convict Grabbed Gun After Attempt To Make Escape On Montford Avenue LUMBERTON HAS DESTRUCTIVE FIRE Quarter of a Million Dollars Damage Done In Business Section of Town Lumberton, Nov. of unknown origin at an early hour this morning did damage estimated at more than a quarter of a million dollars in the business section of Lumberton. The hardware, furniture and grocery departments and five storage houses of the firm of L. H.

Caldwell were complete losses. The clothing department was damaged 100 per cent by water. The shoe store, dry goods and ladies' ready-to-wear departments in the same building were partial losses through smoke and water. The store of M. Rozier was a total loss and that of M.

B. Robbins and McMillan's drug store was more or less damaged in a fire that came near sweeping a whole block on Elm Street. The flames caught in a storage house containing inflammable substances belonging to L. H. Caldwell containers of linseed oil, turpentine and denatured alcohol exploded and spread the fire to buildings close by, the Robbins Store first.

Calls were put in for fire trucks from Fayetteville, Fort Bragg and Maxton to assist, the local fire department and for the assistance of Fayetteville the whole block probably would have gone up in smoke. Fort Bragg truck broke down twelve miles away and the men sat there powerless to assist in. the fire they saw in the distance. The stock of Caldwell was perhaps the most complete in Robeson County and his loss is heavy, partially covered by insurance. The other buildings also, were partly covered by insurance.

NEW HANOVER MAN IS KILLED BY TRUCK Wilmington, Nov. Saunders, carpenter, was struck and almost instantly killed about o'clock tonight just outside the city limits on the Castle Hayne road by a truck driven by R. J. Armstrong, of Rocky Point: Armstrong was taken into custody following the accident and lodged in jail, where he will remain pending the coroner's inquest Monday morning. Police are inclined to believe the accident was unavoidable.

According to Armstrnog, he did not see the man, who was riding a bicyele, until after be had struck him. Armstrong immediately stopped his machine and pulled the body of Saunders from the highway, remaining with it until Sheriff Jack son arrived. BOY'S BODY IS FOUND SWINGING FROM LIMB Fayetteville, Nov. lifeless body of Judge Richardson, 13-yearold negro boy, son of John Richardson, this afternoon found hanging from. a limb of tree in the yeard of the house where here he lived at 411 Chatham street, this city.

1 It is not known whether the lad's death was intentional or by accident. No cause of suicide is known, and it is thought that he might have been playing in the tree with the rope and noose. The body was discovered awl cut down by Carl Smith, 10-year-old negro boy. No agreement was reached last night by the Wake county jury in the case of Rev. George Wood, Kinston Universalist minister, charged with the murder of J.

B. Vickers, State prison convict. It was locked up at 1 o'clock for the night after deliberating for four hours. The jury got the case shortly before 6 o'clock and had not been out more than half an hour before it came back for additional instruetions as to the difference between second degree murder and manslaughter. The State did not ask for a verdict of first degree murder.

Four hours of argument by the lawyers preceded the charge of W. M. Bond which took up little more than ha an hour. The taking of evidence was completed by noon. Solicitor Single Handed.

Solicitor Evans matched his wits against John G. Dawson, of Kinston, and James H. Pou and W. B. Jones, Raleigh lawyers, ard for two hours marshalled an imposing array of evidence before the jury that tended to disprove the contention of the defendant that Vickers grabbed for the pistol before the fatal shot.

The three attorneys for the defendant divided their two bours, so as to give James H. Pou bour to close the case for Wood. By admitting the killing with a deadly weapon, the defense assumed the burden of satisfying the jury that it was justifiable homicide, but secured the advantage of baving the closing the jury. Mr. Pou made the most fo his adventage, and presented a forceful appeal The for defense his cuent.

emphasized the fact that Wood was a man of good chraacter, was engage din a lawful occupation as an agent of a State institution, and that a duty was on him to return the prisoner to the State prison. Defense attorneys did not try to impea bethe testimony of the dozen State witnesses, whose testimony tended to disprove their contention that the prisoner was killed because he grabbed for the gun in Wood's hands, but emphasis was laid upon the fact that there were conflicts as to details and the witnesses were far enough away to make it difficult to say in just what attitude the hands of the prisoner were at the time of the fatal shoot- ing. Prison Has Interest. Solicitor Evans declared that the State prison had an interest in the outcome of the case as a conviction of Wood would tend to reflect upon the judgment of Supt. George Poss Pou and other executive office in permitting an inexperienced man like Wood to be sent for a prisoner who had 011C8 escaped from officers.

He declared that the interest of the State prison in the case had been proven by the efforts of Dr. J. H. Norman, and Mr. Pou to make it appear that Wood' was justified in the killing through the introduction of the statement alleged to have been made by John Lowry, a prisoner at the State institution.

He declared that Lowry was not free agent, and that his life was not his own. He paid a tribute to the war record of Viekers, who had gone into the army before. war was declared, and declared that to the last he was trut to the instinets of a soldier. He never admitted the killing of the man for the murder of whom he was given ten years in the State prison, and the Solicitor argued that the feeling of unfairness might have contributed to his bullet wound in his left shoulder and Patrolman John Lanigan bad a bullet wound in bis right side. It all began when Grogan and two accomplices appeared at the jewelry store.

Two stood outside, Grogan entered. Jacobi, the salesman, was helping the store manager dress the show window. Hoffman left the window to serve door for the to pass out. He Grogan and Jacobi, beld open locked the door b. ind the porter without thinking a robber was in the store.

"1 want a cigarette 'said Grogan. Hoffman showed him a few. Grogan whipped out his revolver and forced Jacobi and Hoffman into the back room. The porter returned and the robber, holding his revolve leveled at Jacobi, ordered him to open Turn to Page Two) desire to escape. Defendant Is Unmoved.

The defendant sat in court terday apparently unmoved by the dramatic events of the trial. He listened with no show of emotion ad Solicitor Evons declared that it was simply a case of putting the, testimony of oue man against halt dozen men and women of animpeachable character. Nor did he manifest more interest in the ape peals of his attorneys, who emphasized his good character, his unselfish devotion to an ideal, and pointed to the misfortune that had come (Please Turn to Page Two).