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THE WASHINGTON TDEES, TUESDAY, JULY 8, 1919. GLAD SHE KILLED LAWYER, GIRL SAYS Declares He Betrayed Her While Obtaining Divorce for Her Mother. CHICAGO. July 8. "When Benjamin Burr, attorney here, took the case to secure a divorce for her mother he became friendly with Miss Margaret Selthamier.

'aged seventeen years. Today the girl shot and killed him. She and her half-sister, Mrs. Marie Herms waited for Burr in his downtown office. -Well, what about itT asked Miss Selthamier.

Burr smiled indifferently, and, before he could speak the girl drew a revolver and opened Are. Two bullets hit the lawyer, one In the neck and one in the back above the hips. "For God's sake, stop shooting, Margaret," he murmured, as he sank to the floor. Empties Revolver. She continued firing until the six chambers in the revolver had been emptied.

The three were alone In the office. Stanley F. Suchana, machinist, working on the third floor, found the girl standing beside Burr, the revolver still in her hand. Her half-sister was near her. I wish there bad been more bullets." she said, calmly.

'He's still alive. I meant to kill him." One bullet went through his hand and another into his neck. He was rushed to a. hospital, but died in a few minutes. Tells of Betrayal.

The girl waited calmly until the police arrived, handed an officer the revolver and went quietly to the station. She and the half-sister were arrested, and while in the police station word came that Burr had. died. "Gee. I'm glad of that," she said, "he had it coming to him.

He threw me down." Subsequently the girl told a long story of alleged betrayal by Burr while he was obtaining a divorce for her mother two years ago. According to the girl's story, it was some months ago when her mother sought Burr's aid In securing a divorce that her friendship with the lawyer began. "One evening he asked me to go out with him," Margaret told the police. "We visited the cabarets and had several drinks and then went to his home. The next I remember was the following morning, when I awoke In a room with him." Showed Her Girl's rieturc.

Then followed other nights out and finally Burr's infatuation for the girl began to wane. "A days ago when I was in his office he pulled out his watch and showed roe the picture of a blonde and told me he was going to marry her. It made me mad, and- I decided to get even with him. I'm glad I killed him," saia Margaret. NEW YORK AI 3 Pi (Continued from First Page.) "and other official craft will escort the transport up the North river.

The Pennsylvania had on board Vice. President Marshall. Secretaries Daniels and Baker and their wives. Secretary Tumulty will meet the President at Hoboken. Ten thousand schodl children will Kreet the Presidential party at Ho-boken.

They will be stationed In Hudson Park; which the President -Mil pass In the brief parade arranged for him. They will sing patriotic Rongs and each a flag. The route. Is. guarded by 1.000 policemen in addition to soldiers.

housetop will be under sur-veiUance. Mayor Qriffen of Hoboken nvited the mayors of all municipalities In Hudson county to participate in the reception. When the President enters the Twenty-third street ferry In Manhattan he will be welcomed by Governor Smith. Mayor Hylan, State and city official, officers of the army and navy. Accompanied by the officials and S0O -other members of the mayor's C-mmittee of welcome, the Presiden- PR NT LANDS Triplets, 10 Rabbits, And Two Kittens Join Household In 6 Hours NEW YORK, July 8.

Within the space of six hours, the stork left triplets three boys at the home of Fidele Cataldo, his rabbit presented him with ten new bunnies and- the family cat announced two new arrivals. Cataldo. who was already the father of ejght children on per day, is looking for extra work. tlal party will motor to Carnegie HalL A regiment of soldiers and thousands of policemen are to provide a guard for the President along the route. The streets from the hall to the station were also carefully guarded.

The President, it was expected, would begin speaking immediately. His speech was expected to occupy 15 minutes. It will be preceded by brief addresses of welcome by Governor Smith and Mayor Hylan. President Wilson, returning to thn United States today, is confronted by many Important Issues. A great number of bills are on h's desk at the White House awaiting signature.

In addition, he is expected to name a charge d'affaires for the American embassy in Berlin, con suit with Secretary Redfleld with regard to resumption of commercinl relations with Germany after the trading with the enemy law expirei upon proclamation of peace; take action on the persistently reported desire of Secretary Baker to retire; decide when demobilization shall be declared ended and war prohibition may be lifted; and take a hand In the plans ior returning the railroads to their owners. Among the bills before him are the sundry civil, army and navy. District of Columbia, general deficiency, the act returning telegraph systems to their owners, and the agricultural appropriation bill. The latter contains the clause repealing saving. Petitions have been recelvM against this repeal.

The President's attitude toward It is not known. Immediately upon his return to Washington, he is expected to call an Important Cabinet meeting, at which for the first time In months he will discuss domestic affairs with his official advisers. Early decision is looked for on the question of whether peace may. be proclaimed at once, or not until after the Seriate has ratified the peace treaty. Demands for removal of Postmaster General Burleson, some of which have taken the form of petitions, are not believed likely to move the President to action.

To Appeal for Deb. Friends of Eugene V. Debs and other radicals imprisoned for violation of war laws are expected to take their appeals to the White House at an early date. The 1920 Presidential campaign Is already beginning to loom, and some expression from the President as to a third term may be forthcoming. An utterance he made In a speech in Paris has been taken here as being a hint that he did not want another term.

A conference with Democratic Chairman Cummings, who Is at present in the West, will probably be arranged before the President leaves Washington for his League of Nations' speaking tour. To Resume Social Fnnetlonsf There is considerable interest In whether, now that the war is over, the White House will become a center of Washington society life, with the brilliant diplomatic functions that marked other Administrations. President Wilson will spend most of Wednesday going over his address Lo the Senate, It is believed, and in conferences over the itinerary of his tour. He may also sign some of the moi important bills. Washington has arranged a picturesque welcome, with illuminated tableaux along the streets Wilson will traverse dopicting events of the war, and Columbia greeting the returning President with open arms.

GRAIN OF CORN IS. CAUSE OF LITTLE GIRL'S DEATH GREENSBURG. July 8. Funeral services were held yesterday for Mabel Marie Doggett, aged seven, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Samuel Doggett, living near St. Omer, west of here, who was choked to death Sunday night on a grain of corn. She was playing with several other children and they were using the corn as "money." A grain caught in her esophagus, and before a physician could, remove the particle she was dead. Besides the parents the girl is survived by two sisters and one brother. FOR ANY 1 fly 1 I Just enough II ft tTurIrfshw jj iV how uracil Is jj that? NEW WILL BAnLE 10 SAVE HIS LIFE (Continued from First Page.) ton by Senator New.

in which he was quoted as admitting that he had known the accused man's ratneJ thirty years ago, and which concluded with a declaration that he would not shirk a responsibility, was taken here as proof that Harry NeWs expressed confidence that the man whom he claims as his father would aid him has at least some foundation. BOYHOOD DRAMA IN LIFE OF SENATOR NEW BARED BY ALLEGED SON'S CRIME A high sense of honor and of duty, which caused him to carry a responsibility he never acknowledged as nis, is the story of the life of Senat-ir Harry S. New, unfolded by his frienda here today. An incident of the dim. past dur ing his days of unmarried life has, risen again in the career or a man high in the affairs of a nation, at a time when his prominence only serves to accentuate the dramatic cfatures of the situation.

What is the bond between Harry S. New. Senator from Indiana, and Harry S. New, who confessed that he killed his sweetheart on a lonelv road near Los Angeles when she refused to marry him? Here is th story, as told by intimate friends of the Senators Met Mother When Widower. The Senator was married in 1880 to Kathleen, Milllgan, who died a few years later.

Shortly after this time New met Lulu (or Lillian) Scudder, a girl In her late teens. They became good friends. The girl was well known in the community, and New was seen with her often, although other young men also were seen with her In public places. A boy baby was born. In the ensuing scandal the names of three or four men were mentioned, some of them now prominent In Indiana affairs.

Miss Scudder named the boy after Harry S. New. at that time a rising! young newspaper man ana son oi a prominent publisher. New did not openly acknowledge fatherhood of the boy. Court action was it was understood, but no actual action was taken.

New was eager to make amends for a wrong which he considered might have been his. He decided to neip the girl and the boy In their difficulty. Arrangements were made for a home for the' girl, and for the care of the boy in an institution. Boy Wouldn't Study. The boy was sent to the Notre Dame University Preparatory School.

He was irresponsible, however, and refused to study. Mr. New then tried to get the youth to study mining engineering, and paid his expenses at the Denver Schoql of Mines for two years. The youth spent money freely, but did little with his studies. In spite of the boy's Irresponsibility, the Senator did not give up his self-imposed guardianship over him.

He tried to see that the boy got along in life. The Senator's aid to the mother had ceased In part by this time, the girl having been married three times since the affair with New. A second child had been born previous to her marriage and died aa the result of an accident. The Senator absolutely repudiated any connection with this child. Court action was brought against him, but the case was never decided.

Boasted About "Father." Harry S. New, was brought up by his mother in the belief that Senator New was his father. All through his life he has made no secret of tqe assumed connection; in fact, has openly boasted of it. Acquaintances of Senator New say he has given the boy and his mother assistance many times, and that he has discharged any obligation which he might owe either or both. In a statement today Senator New explained his attitude toward the claims of Mrs.

Burger (formerly Miss Scudder) and the boy: "More than thirty years ago, when I was In my twenties and unmarried. I knew Mrs. Burger. There was never at any time a question of marriage between us. "Conditions arose which I do not cafe to dispute, which resulted in my doing everything in my power to make amends then and later.

Affair Ended Thirty Tears Ago. "Whatever I did then was of my own accord, and no one else had anything whatever to dp with it. The See Thursday's Papers NOT AN ADVERTISEMENT PARTICULAR CIGARETTE It may even make you like your "present cigarette better FIRST ARMY CHIEF RETURNS HOME BRIG. GEN. HUGH A.

DRUM, Chief of staff of the First Army and the youngest chief of staff in any allied field army, returned home recently aboard the Noor-dam. He Is thirty-eight years old and Is a son of Capt. John Drum. Tenth Cavalry, the first officer killed at San Juan Hill. Brigadier General Drum wears the D.

S. War Cross, and the Order of the Crown of Belgium. Also he has been made a commander of the Legion of Honor and a commander of the Order of the Crown of Italy. He left America with General Pershing and was at most of the fronts and with the Army of Occupation. affair ended about thirty years ago.

"Since that time the people of my home city are the best judges of what my life haa been. I have never shirked responsibility that has come to me, and I never shall." MOTHER SAYS SENATOR NEVER DENIED HE IS FATHErTOF HER BOY By LEOLA ALLARD. (Copyright by Chlcago-Herald-Examiner.) CHICAGO, July 8. To the world United States Senator Harry S. New of Indiana may "refuse to be Interviewed" about Harry S.

New in California, who has confessed to the murder of his sweetheart, but to Mrs. Lulu Burger, the mother of that California Harry S. New, self-confessed slayer of Frieda Lesser in Los Angeles, the reports of the Senator's attitude carry no weight. She said: "Imace of Vnther.n "Senator New never denied that he is Harry's father. He isn't that kind of a man.

Why, he has acknowledged Harry from the day of his birth. He has supported him, he has educated him. The boy Is the very image of his father, even to the little brown spot in his eye a mark of the New family for generations." "But Senator New says your boy has no claim on him." I told her. "He says he won't help him. The little woman looked at me steadily, and her eyes told her unbelief.

"Never!" she exclaimed. "He never said it; Harry isn't that kind. He didn't treat me fairly, perhaps, and maybe he doesn't want to acknowledge the boy before the world, on account of his position, but he will help him in his own way. He must always do things In his own way. That's Harry.

He won't fall. Oh. I know he won't. He's got the biggest heart, and today he loves me better than anyone in the world. I know that." The mother did not approve of her TODAY (Continued from Fir3t Page.) they used to be.

The wealth of heat and metals below our feet, and the ocean of oxygen and rich nitrogen above our heads will both be absolutely controlled and exploited by men long before the day when the cold of death shall settle down on this planet, millions of years hence, and freeze solid both air and ocean. There is much that is gruesome in profiteering. Adding a cent a quart to the price of milk, occasionally, fills many small white coffins and booms the casket industry as well as the Milk Trust profit But of all gruesome business details read of the gruesomest, which shows how the high cost of living affects everything, even death. They have doubled the wages of the public killer in New York State. He was getting fifty dollars for every murderer that he officially killed.

Once the State paid two hundred and fifty dollars for an electric killing, when it was a novelty, and science asked a high price for degradation. But some one decided that testing an electric machine and throwing a switch after the miserable creature had been strapped down was hard work. In one morning the State execu-tioneer made fifteen hundred dollars killing six men that had robbed and killed Mrs. Mary Hall. A careful State cut the price to fifty dollars per electrocution.

And there was no trouble finding a man for the job. Offer the price and you will get your work done. Now the price has been raised from fifty to one hundred dollars, the executioner having protested that ho should share in the general prosperity. DANCING SLAYER TO DIE IN CW NEW YORK. July 8.

William Walters, nineteen years old, who waa convicted of the murder of Leo Rubin, a grocer, on the testimony given by his sweetheart, May Berry, aged sixteen, has been sentenced by Judge Rosalsky to die in the electric chair. Walters shot Rubin on March 29 In an attempt to rob the grocery store In order to get money to- take his sweetheart to a dance. He waa arrested a few hours later. While he was In the Tombs prison awaiting trial an attempt waa made by hi sister Margaret, May Berry, and a trusty In the prison to enable him to escape. The two girls were arrested, however.

Just as they were handing a package of hacksaws to the trusty. son marrying Frieda Lesser, and now she despises herself for leaving California to visit hor sister In Indiana. Says He Wasn't Sane. "He wasn't sane, of course. I know the when the girl he loved told him she was Jn trouble, but that she wouldn't marry him, that his mother's past must have loomed big before him and he couldn't bear It," Then Mrs.

Burger told the chapters of the story, that explained the boy's being, the love she felt for Senator New. the marriage she contracted after he left her and married another, the daughter born of the second marriage, and the tragedy of July 5 thai lb like a knife Inside, cutting loose her hearstrlngs. She showed no self-sympathy and no malice. She said: "Senator New lived In the same town I lived Indianapolis. His father, John C.

New, was a fine man, like himself. He was at one time Consul-General to England. When I was Blxteen I fell madly in lovo with Harry. There waa nothing In life so sacred to me as that love, and all through the years It has remained so. I was his slave.

For sixteen years I lived with him and was true to him. "When we had been everything to each other for twelve years a son was born to That was Harry. "Supported the Child." "Well, the years went on, and Senator New always supported the child, and when he grew old enough he sent him to' school and. paid all his expenses. Then I finally married Sam D.

Burger, about twelve years after Mr. New had married. Again my sun crept back under a cloud, and, after a few years, a woman separated us. For years before my husband died I did not see him. We had a daughter a lovely girl now twenty-two and a great comfort to me In my old age.

"I felt that I must get away from the old surroundings, and Harry and Edna and I went to California, where, in Glendale, we made our home." MOTHER IN LOS ANGELES TOMORROW TO BEGIN HER FIGHT FOR LIFE OF SON LOS ANGELES. July Harry S. New will fight for his life but only for his mother's sake, he said today. He employed an attorney, and in? sanity is expected to be the defense when the man who claims to be the son of United States Senator New, of Indiana, is arraigned on a charge of slaying Frieda Lesser, his fiancee. The name of Senator New will be brought before the court.

It was Indicated by the slayer's lawyer. Possibly no legal case has before presented so complex a problem. Alienists who prepare the hypothetical question upon which will be predicated the defendant's insanity will. It was stated by New's attorney, refer with elaboration to his birth and the Influence which knowledge of his birth has had upon him. A defense without this element.

It is admitted, would be extremely weak. First Story Stands. Developments clearly brought out that the first story told by New will I be the one for the jury to hear, that Is, I that he shot his fiancee because she had told him she was going to evade The question which developed the defense theory was this: "Did Frieda say she didn't love you just before you shot her?" "Don't answer that question," Richardson interrupted. "It is an assumption that she said she didn't love you. Any questions about her purpose to have an operation performed will be allowed." It was later revealed that the effort to save New from conviction will dwell with emphasis on the irresponsible madness which came over him when Frieda finally and irrevocably said she would not become a mother.

That he wants to live solely for the sake of his mother and sister was New's repeated declaration today. New was plainly more harassed mentally today than he has been. His nerves are getting the impact of realization. His face has taken on a heavy flush. His eyes are less clear than they were.

His cheeks are more hollow. He sits with his face in his hands and rumples his hair a good deal. His half sister. Edna Clancy, visited him yesterday. New was waiting for her in the entrance section of the Jail.

The meeting waa very affectionate and tears came into the man's eyes as his sister put an arm about his shoulders. As his story Is to be that he took the life of his sweetheart because, with deliberation and even carelessness, she told him their child should not be born, he was asked particularly how he regarded such an act on the part of a woman "It's this way," he said, "the child was as much mine as hers. It was ours together. When I first learned that she was to be the mother of my child my love for her increased wonderfully. She had more of an Interest for me by far than she had ever had before, although I had loved her." BURNSTINE'S ESTABLISHtDYEARS DIAMONDS l-And OtherPreciouSS.tones rurnjsnea ana rurtnusea ij rnTniiKMiin rvncrffel Ofc'Tl iuir.wwwu i 5t! if 3tl KLIHJMA.

AVt. PHONE MAIN 5382 Gold, Silver, and l'latlnum -TarcluueU tar Manufacturing furyiiHi Let the Wedding Bells Ring Out By JEAN KNOTT. 1 I (m vwipe I 1 (eHKPooS -v cunrrMI wnyso (SUM, BIU? y-l V.m NeveR ferVNj 1 POILUS KILLED FUJI FIGHT ROME, July S. Ten French soldiers were killed and twenty injured In new outbreaks between the French and Italians at Flume, according to dispatches received from that city today. In deacriblnjr th fight the Milan correspondent of the Corriere Delia Serra reported that the trouble started when a few drunken French soldiers opened Are on a passerby.

A large crowd gathered and one Frenchman waa Wiled. A company of Italian marines, lana-ed from cruisers, were attacked by a number of French soldiers, who wounded one of the 'marines. Merchant aallors attacked the Frenchmen, who fled and barricaded themselves in a store, opening fire through the windows. The mob returned the fire and seven Frenchmen were killed and twenty injured. One merchant sailor waa killed.

Several Italian soldiers rushed to restore order were wounded. This city Is quiet following: the arrest of anarchists who were plotting to seize public supplies and establish a reign of terror among the population by use of explosives. The police raided an anarchist meeting and made ten arrests. Later another group of plotters went to Pletra Alata Fort, outside of the city, and attempted to Induce trnnn tn dasart. but were fired upon.

The eoldlers left the fort and arrested many of Hie anarcniat dmu. CLARKS0N SAYS DEFENSE COUNCIL AIDED VICTORY Answering charges made yesterday by Congressman Graham, chairman of the House special committee on War Department expenditures, against the activities of the Council of National Defense, Grosvernor B. Clarkson, director of the council, states: "It was my deliberate judgment that if the council, utilizing the greatest experts in the leading industries and utilizing them in a wholly nonpartisan way, had not taken its fore-handed steps, America would not have laid in time the foundation for mobilizing its industrial resources which made possible the winning of the war. Intimations made against the members of the council's committee on supplies died of their own weight at the end of Senatorial hearings, more than a year ago, the statement continues. Council members under stress of Liberty Bonds Bought For CASH Based on closing prices on N.

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'ITl'lOai FOR ROSE. PARIS, July Slgnor Tlttonl, Italian foreign minister, left for Rome today to obtain instructions from King Emmanuel and the government with regard to Italy's claims in the peace settlement. Business Hours: 8:30 Store Closes Saturday During July andA.niist PARKER-BRIDGET CO; Two Ounces Is the Weight of These Panama, Bangkok and Leghorn Hats for $4.85 YOU can't judge a Panama, a Bangkok or a Leghorn hat by the way it looks, in the -window, but by the way it wears' and washes. Theres the rub, but the rub don't effect P-B hats, for the simple reason that they are made of the right stuff in the beginning. The Panamas are made from genuine South American Palm and sun bleached to retain the original shade.

The Bangkoks are made by the natives of the Philippines from tough grass fiber. The Leghorns are made in Tuscany from a peculiar variety of wheat. These Hats are of a quality that many stores sell for Extra Special' Men' 8 $3 Straw Hats $2.15 mh The Avenue at Ninth HOUSE 'DRYS' BEGI! FIGHT ON Z7 5 BEE! (Continued from Itrst Page.) to enforce this artlele'by appropri- Jte legislation' and the bin resented is wholly upon the theory that the action of Congress Is supreme and totally ignores the concurrent power of the several States.r "That the bill goes beyond the prohibitions of the Constitutional amendment; particularly In denning 'Intoxicating liquors' so as to Include Beverages that are not hi fact Intoxicating." Hew York Cases Qsdted. The views of tho minority as to enforcement of the wartime act were set forth as follows: The act of November 21. 1918.

prohibited the sale of dlstUled splriu for beverage purposes, and also beer wine or other intoxicating malt or vinous liquor for beverage purposes. In the recent cases -in New York, where the statute was construed. It was held that only Intoxicating bev erages were included and that be-iz containing 2.75 per cent of alcohol by weight was within the statute only 11 Intoxicating, which was to be determined as other questions of fact. "Whether or not the original act of November 21, 1912, can be sustained. as valid under the war power, Jj.

mems to us that at this date, undfr the peace conditions that now ex'' Congress Is wholly without power to; extend the provisions of that act as to Include all beverages which contain In excess of one-half of .1 per cent alcohol and them Intoxicating. This legislation cannot be Justlfled on the theory that the original act being valid and in force, any amendment thereof extending Its provisions would likewise be valid, "The power of Congress rest wholly on the war powers, and the conditions existing at this time art such that not only should the act no: be extended, but It should be repealed. "War" activities nave ceased, the treaty with Germany has been signed, orders for the of the army will have been carried out In a few weeks, contracts for supplies for the army have been canceled, control of the wires by the Government has been ordered terminated, and restrictions- upon trade have all practically been removed. As to all other subjects of legislation. Congress is proceeding upon the theory that the war is over.

"On May 20 last, tn. the message to Congress, the President said; "The demobilisation of the military forces has progressed to such a point that it seems to me entirely safe now to remove the ban upon the manufacture and sale of wines aad a.m. to 6p.m. daily.