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TITE . MORX1XO PRECOMA??. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1911. , PRINCIPALS IN PITTSBURG DIVORCE CASE WHICH LAWYER FEARS WILL HURT PUBLIC MORALS. AUTHOR ARRESTED MORALS OF PUBLIC FACTOR 111 SUIT Police Come as McConnell Is Writing ' Statement of Shooting Wife. Lawyer Says Jury Trial of Mel lon Divorce Case Will Have Bad Effect. I H fHlLE CONFESSING 1 1 : V V DECISION NOT YET MADE Kiinjr and Cab Klck-s Figure In Ac tion Brought bjr Pittsburg Mil lionaire, Who Names British Officer as Co-Repondent. PITTSBURO. Dec. 23. (Special. ) Will the hearing of testimony in a Jury trial of the dlvorra suit brought by Andrew W Mellon, the millionaire banker, aKaimt hia wife. Mrs. Nora Mr Mullen Mellon, injure public morals? .lame 11. Beal. attorney for Mr. Mel lon, araued before Judaea Kvana and Davia that It would and urjred further that the puhlirity that bad been riven the ease would prejudice the jury. He said the publicity had been a-iven to humiliate Mr. Mellon. The arguments of Mellon' attorney rame after the Judaea had already de rided Mrs. Mellon waa entitled to a Jury trial under the new Scott divorce law. final disposition of the point. In view of the new arguments, has not yet been made. The case is a sensational one. The banker, in bis suit, names as co respondent Captain Oeorae Alfred Cur phey, an officer of the British Army. Salarteae laetaeat Told. In railing- attention to his declara tion that the teatimony would injure public morals, attorney for Mr. Mellon said that it would relate of klsstna. embracing, fondling;, cab rides, visits to hotels and other incidents calculated to be of no benefit to the public mind. As to- the publicity. Mr. Beals said that 3000 copiea of one newspaper alone, containing; a story of the case, bad been circulated In Allegheny County. He spoke of a "highly sen sational" interview with Mrs. Mellon in which the accused wife waa quoted as saying that Mellon with his gold was trying; to. crush her. Mel lea Klad. Kays Lawyer. Mr. Mellon' attorney told the court how kind and generous the banker waa to his wife. He bad aettled upon her and their two children the sum of It. 700. 000. so that she would not begin suit for divorce, and that he was al ways a good husband to her. Then, said Mr. Beal. he discovered that she had been faithless, so he commenced suit. Harry B. Wassel. attorney for Mrs. Mellon, objected to the Introduction of depositions by Mr. Beal. As to the publicity given the rase. Mr. Wassel said that the circulation of newspapers telling of the suit and printing pictures of the principals was done by the Pub lic Defense Asaot-tatlon. which mailed copies to members of the Legislature and preachers, with the hope of hsving the Scott divorce law repealed. It la stlU in effect. The judices have not decided Anally whether the Mellon case will be heard by Jury under the Soctt act. GOVERNOR'S TRIP DELAYED Presence at I.and Board Meeting Half Crater Lake Vi.-il. SALEJI, Or.. Dec. I. (Special. The necessity of being in the city Wednes day, when the question of the Central Oregon Irrigation Company and what will be done in relation to the recent proposals made by the Desert Iand Hoard will come up. Is given by Gov ernor West at his reason for postpon ng his trip to Mcdford and the Crater Ii k e road. When Oovernor West hurried away from St. Paul and did not remain for the Governors' Congress at the close of tlie trip eastward on the Governors' special, he said that he had promised men at the convict camp be would spend i-hrixtmas with them and therefore did not wish to remain longer in the Fast. "The question of money for the Cra ter Lake road and National Park Is ..imlni up In Congress." he said today, "and I will make a trip to Medford end the road shortly after the first of the year. I wish to rive sufficient t:me to the trip to become fully ac quainted with conditions." SHIP HITS LINER IN GALE Itarkrntine Mabel Mer C'olli.los With Orotava Off Hallrra. NORFOLK. Va, Dec. Zi. Driven many miles off her course by a strong northeast gale, while trying to find her way, the barkentlne Mabel Myers, from Searsport. Me., to Richmond. Va, col lided with the Royal Mail steamship Orotava. bound from New York to Havana, about Ti miles east of Cape Hatteras. early Saturday morning. Neither vessel sustained serious dam age, and after an hour's deiav pro ceeded on its way. The Royal Mall liner's passengers, a-bo were asleep when the accident oc- urred. were badly frightened, and they were quieted with some difficulty by the officers of the vessel. The Mabel Myers had her railing torn away for about 2 feet, and several plates on the Orotava were slightly dented. LYNCHERS SLAY MURDERER Mob Takes BliK-k From Jail and Puis Him to Death. HALTIMORK. Pec. Zi. King lavls. a nmrro ho Saturday night shot and killed Kredertck A. Schwab, white, at Kalrfleld. Anne Arundel County, was taken from the Brooklyn. Md.. Jail early today and killed by a mob. The lynching was conducted with necrery. the town authorities having no tnkllre of it until Chief of Police Ir win a as notified by a newspaper car rier, who found le body a he was delivering his papers. No guard Is kept at the Jail at night, and there is iu view to the perpetrators of the deed. The front door of the Jail was found to have been burst open and the lock had been cut of? the door of the cell In which I 'avis was confined. Twenty Rilled In Meslean Clah. V:i. PASO. Tex . fw rs. Twenty per ns are reported killed In a fight be tween rnrales and rrb-h beta sen Iar ,.n and Martero. are advices re ceived from Colonia Dublan. Mexico, today. Although no official confirma tion can be obtained. Federal reinforce ments have been dispatched from Casas Orandea. i LOVE CAUTION HALS Man Who Married Yale's Charming Widow Is Happy. THREAT GOES UNHEEDED Now ex-Mayor of New Britain Owns Controlling; Share of Cutlery Firm and Directors No Longer Kind Fault. NEW BRITAIN. Conn.. Dec. (Special.) Just before Mrs. Kitty San ford Sheffield, Yale's beautiful college widow who has caused, goodness knows how many undergraduate hearts to flutter, was marrted in July to George Marcellus Lander. ex-Mayor of New Britain and one of Its wealthiest young, business men. the happy bride groom was taken severely to task by Charles F. Smith, president of the Lan ders. Frary Clark Cutlery Company, who told him he w2N making a great mistake. Moreover, lie told ex-Mayor Landers thst If be persisted In his mat rimonial alliance with the college wid ow, he would be ousted from the Job of secretary of the company. He waa backed up by the board of directors. But Cupid laughed at jobs Landers had plenty of money so they were married and were happy. Now Lan ders' grandmother has died, leaving a controlling Interest in the cutlery com pany. It Is said, to Landers. Cupid seems to have won at every point, and what are Smith and bis directors go ing to do now? asks New Britain. Perhaps Smith's objection to Mrs. Kitty Sanford Sheffield as the wife of Landers, in whom he took a great In terest, waa based upon the fact that her two previoua marriages had turned out disastrously. Widow Haa 4. 000.000. In 1S06 the beautiful college widow was Kitty Sanford, daughter of Pro fessor Samuel S. Sanford, of Vale, and granddaughter of Henry Sanford, founder of the Adams Express Com pany. She was worth $4,000,000. Husky undergraduates wept in disappoint ment when Victor Corse Thorns, wealthiest member of his class, mar ried her. Their wedding day is still known as "blue Wednesday' among the "fussers" and "rushers" of the period. Three years later the couple were divorced. Then Kitty became the wife of another Yale man sighs and tears now from the undergraduates of 189 this time the lucky fellow being George Sheffield, a New York banker and grandson of the founder of Shef field school. He bad been Thopies classmate at Tale and an usher at his wedding. Kitty Returaa ta Caaapna. Again Yale's Incomparable Kitty se cured freedom in the divorce court and returned to New Haven. Great Joy on the campus! She built a palatial borne. It wis the students' shrine. Football men. glee clubbers and "grinds" filed past the house and gazed soulfully at the pile, in the hope of catching a glimpse of their goddess. If they did. it begot them little, for George Marcellus Lander won her. He waa a Yale man. The undergraduates, even their gloom, were thankful that he wasnt from Harvard or Princeton. When Landers and his bride returned. from Europe, the bride Insisted on liv ing in New Haven. The advantages of New Britain did not appeal to her. . President Smith, of the cutlery com pany smiled a grim "I told you so" when he heard this. He had predicted that marriage with Kitty would spoil the ex-Mayor s business career. What be thinks, now that the death of Mrs. Josephine M. Judd. the richest woman in New Britain, has given George Mar cellua Landers considerable to say about the cutlery business. ' It not known. But New Britain at large, which likes Mrs. Landers even though she does like New Haven best, is rather pleased at the turn Cupids af fairs In the commercial world have taken. WIFE SLAYER IS SUICIDE Hotelkeeper. FaclnR ArrcM for Crime, Takes Own Mfe. WICHITA. Kan.. Dec. !S. Rather than submit to arrest for killing bis wife. Mrs. Myrtle Wright. John W. Wright, a hotelkeeper. today com mitted suicide by taking strychnine. Wright and his wife separated some time aao and he went to Colorado. When he returned and learned that his wife, had sued him for divorce he be came enraged and shot her. MOSQUITOES MADDEN CREW In-ectH In swarms Follow Vessel for .Miles. Sailor Jump Overboard. NEW TORK. Dec. IJ. A moKquito baunted ship for hundreds of miles was the Norwegian bark Fricdlg. which has " t , -" SJH i v k - I - f -f K n n nn ii f- W- . of Above. Mrs. Nora Mc.Mullen Mellon. Below, Andrew W. Mellon. Just reached here after an adventurous voyage from Hatavla, Java. The crew suffered terribly from malarial fever as a result, and off Padding. Sumatra, one man threw himself overboard while delirious and was lost. i he crew literally ate quinine, a lib eral suply of which the ship's skip per. Captain Hansen, bad in his cabin, but for days at a time only two of the whole ship company, the mate and tl. second mate, an American, were able to navigate the vessel. MARRIAGES 'GOLD MINE' COVPLE WEDDED 75 TIMES; AS MAXV CLERGYMEN BILKED. 'Happy Bridegroom" Gives Offici ating Parsons Bad Checks and Gets Heal Money in Change. NEW YORK, Dec. !5. (Special.) Marriage has proved extremely profit able to one couple In New York; so profitable that the plausible young man and his blushing bride have been wedded no less than 75 times, at a total boon of .750 to them. That is why the police and 75 clergymen are look ing for them. Their system was very simple. They appeared at the home of the "officiat ing clergyman" and requested that he tie the knot that would make them one. The dominie, glowing under the pros pect of a fee, would perform the serv ice and extend his blessing to the happy pair. Then the bridegroom would present the preacher with a check for 20 and inform the parson that he could have the amount if he would cash the check. The parson would cheerfully hand over $10 in cash, pocket the check and the newlyweds would go happily away. First word of matrimonial graft came to the police from Rev. W. S. Kerney. 3J West Twenty-sixth street, who said that Ernest Keller, ti' West Thirty-sixth street, had given him a worthless check and made off with $10 in good money, as a result of the mar riage transaction. Then the complaints of the duped clerics began to pour in from every section of the metropolitan district. The address given by Ernest proved to be an office building where he was not known. The paper chase of the newly weds led to One Hundredth street, where the police lost the scent. SIGNS OF MURDER FOUND Trail of Blood and Hair Matted on Iron Bar Evidence Crime. OLATHE. 111.. Deo. 25 Spatters of blood across the loading platform of an abandoned factory building are part of a trail which this morning led the curetaker of the place to an upper room of the structure where. In. the opinion of the aut. cities, a girl was murdered recently-. An Iron bar. to which were clinging strands of hair matted with dried blood, was found In the room together with beads and sev eral hair ornaments. A theory that the body waa thrown in a pohd nearby lead to the dragging of the pond without result. Tonight the officers believe the body was carried away in a buggy. Circumstances point to the probable date of the crime as being December . No young woman of this neighborhood Is reported missing. Emperor Confers Honor. BERLIN. Dec. !&. The Emperor hss conferred upon Herr von Klderlln Waechter. Secretary of Foreign Af fairs, the brilliants and oak leaves of the order of the Red Eagle of the first class. The Secretary already possessed the order. Ex-Got rrnor In Senatorial Race. LINCOLN. Neb.. Dec. 15. Ex-Governor Ashton'c. Shellenbarger. of Alma, celebrated Christmas today by filing with the Secretary of State Jtls appli cation as Democratic candidate for United States Senator. NEWSPAPER OFFICE SCENE Magazine Writer and Lecturer Says He Was Forced to Try to Kill Woman Who Divorced Him. Her Condition Not Grave. NEW YORK. Dec. 23. Andrew He Conell, magazine writer and lecturer, was arrested at a reporter's desk in a morning newspaper office tonight while it is alleged he was writing a confession of shooting and wounding his divorced wife, Mrs. Marian D. Mc Conell, of Ocean Grove, N. J. The shooting is said to have occurred late Saturday night. McConell was operating a typewriter in the Time office when detectives ar rested him. The. paper in the machine bore these words: "I was forced to shoot the woman who was my wife. Absolute divorce was obtained last Spring. Not one word was said regarding the divorce the night I shot her. She has tried to villify an innocent woman." Wriltr. Account Found. Beside the typewriter, the detective found a paper upon which was writ ten in an almost Illegible hand: "Everv person who has helped me to hnild" nn mv work has been villified by a woman who is either hopelessly I insane or a designing neno. i made discovery In the electrical basis of life, which (three illegible words) years later." The detective said that McConel had amplified his alleged confession by de claring he shot his wife, "because she was always making me believe I was insane. She has run my character down." McConell was locked up on a charge of felonious assault. He gave his age as 37 years and his address as the Grand Park Hotel. Chicago. He ap pears in biographical records as au thor of a volume of poems, a work on organic electricity and another on sci entific mind healing. Suggestion Readily Met. In- 18U8 he was proprietor of the Al kahest, a magazine published at Atlan ta. Ga. He was the founder of a con sumers' co-operative union for reduc ing the expenses of worklngmen and also established a lyceum system of popular and educational entertain ments in southern towns. For many vears he made Birmingham. Ala., his home. He came to New York in 1908. It was said at the Times tonight that McConell drifted In there making in quiry as to what he had better do re garding stories that had appeared in local papers regarding the shooting of his wife. It was suggested that it he were guilty he should confess and be arrested. He agreed to the plan and was engaged on the confession when the detective was called. Wife May Recover. It was learned from Ocean Grove late tonight that Mrs. McConell's wound was in the neck. It is believed she is in no great danger. 8he was able to talk somewhat and said she and her husband had been separated for several years and that he had been desirous of obtaining an absolute divorce in or der to marry again. TAFT BARS FAKE PHOTOS PICTCRES OF "MYSELF WITH PRESIDENT" PROHIBITED. Visitors at Washington Who Send Freak Prints to Friends at Home Denied Conceit. WASHINGTON. Dec. 25. Week-end tourists who want to go back to the folks with photographs with a real Washington label on them, showing President Taft In the act of shaking them by the hand or In earnest conver sation with them, arot an unexpected Christmas present from Mr. Taft. for the President hss put the official ban on the "fake" photographs. Several days ago a Pennsylvania photographer, whose window exhibit contains many pictures of Mr. Taft in the act of shaking hands with various citizens whom he probably never met. was instructed by United. States Attor ney Wilson to leave Mr. Taft out of such pictures in the future. The pho tographer appealed to the White House, but the President upheld Mr. Wilson. In a recent decision the Supreme Court held that a photograph was a person's own property and it is not likely that the present case will go to court. President Roosevelt once ap peared in a fake picture apparently talking statecraft with a negro coal driver. He registered an objection im mediately and the practice was stopped. Twins Maimed In Same Way. WACSAC. Wis.. Dec. 25. August and Jacob Harrske. of Lincoln. Wood County. Woman's Ills Masrr woaca (offer needlessly from girlhood to woman hood and from motherhood to old age with backache, dizziness or bead one. 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Mion Stores MidWinter SALE begins today. V3 Off from original plain marked price tickets. COME TODAY and take your pick of Suits, Overcoats, Rain coats, Hats, Shoes and Furnishings at genuine savings. ft off everything that men and boys wear. We carry no stock over from one season to another. TTHNCLOTHlNGe UrSJilGusKuhnProp. 166-170 THIRD ST.- are twins, as like as two peas, and seemed by fate to be destined to re main so. For a short time they could be told apart, as Jacob had lost three fingers of his left hand In a feed cut ter, but now this mark of differentia tion ha been obliterated by August los ing three fingers of his left hand in the same kind of machine. Fall to Paving Not Serious. SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 25. After falling from a third story window last night, Edward Futrell. who styles him self lightweight champion of Hawaii, arose and Invited eyewitnesses to his fail to Join mm in a anna, ruiren alighted upon a pavement in front of a Tehama street apartment house, but suffered no broken bones. He was treated at the Harbor Receiving Hos pital for an ordinary laceration of the scalp. TO CERE A CO LI) IN ONE DAT. Take LAXATIVE BHOMO Quinine Tablets. Druggists refund money If it falls to curs. E "W. SHOVE'S tlgnnture Is on each bos 25c Portland to Los Angeles IN 45 HOURS Via Flyers Harvard and Yale Through special arrangement pas sengers are routed from Portland to California's balmy southland metropolis, making transfer at San Francisco, the K.xpo. City, to i'8-mile turbine steamers Harvard and Yale, the unchallenged giayhounds of the Pacific. Speed, mod ern equipment and salon service are features. 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