MEDFORD MATT, TRIBUNE, MEDFOTiU. ORE&Oy, THURSDAY. ATOtTST 25, 1938.
PACJfi FTfB
WOMAN IS GUD
SHE HACKED OFF
HANDWITH AXE
Relief Felt After Mutilation
Refuses to Reveal 'Sin'
for Which Deed Atoned
Husband Is Liberated
Mother And Daughter Die On Railroad Crossing
By ROBERT F. WH.COX
(United Pi" "toff rorreponrtfht)
MERCED, Cal., Aug. 25. 1 UP)
Mentally alert and apparently un
conscious of pain, Mrs. Ola Irene
Harwell 36, today said she waa "glad
she had followed the dictates of a
virion" by gouging out her left eye
with a pair of aclsnors and hacking
off her right hand with a heavy
chopping ax.
"I feel relieved now," said the
woman who came here with her 30-year-old
husband, Woodrow, and two
small sons from the dustbowl re
gions of Oklahoma and Texas four
months ago.
Two hours after she mutllRted her
self during a family prayer session
last night, physicians said she ap
psrently suffered no shock While
they worked over her, she described
what had taken place.
Sin Not Revealed
Because her eye and her hand had
sinned, she severed them, Mrs, Har
well explained.
' "I knew the time would come some
day. When the moment of the su
preme test came. I did not hesitate,"
she said. She would not reveal what
the "sin" was.
After the evening meal. Mrs. Har
well and her husband gathered their
two small sons about them In their
one room cabin for the nightly read'
Ing of the bible.
After praying, Mrs. Harwell an
nounced she had a vision and was
going tot cut off her arm. Her hus
band attempted to dissuade her.
They walked out to the woodshed
after she had picked up a pair of
scissors. Mrs. Harwell asked her hus
band to cut off her arm. He refused
and returned to the cabin.
Mr. Harwell gouged out her ye
with the scissors. Then she placed
her hand against a slab of concrete
and swung three times with the
axe. Her hand fell to the floor.
With the aid of her husband but
still In full possession of her mental
faculties she returned to the house.
Mid. her clothing and body soaked
with blood, lay down on the bed.
Help Summoned
After praying for two hours, Har
well sent the oldest of the two boys.
who were Mrs. Harwell's by a pre
vious marriage, to a neighbor's house
for help. Btate Highway Patrolman
Curtis Farr was summoned.
Parr brought the woman to a hos
pital, where physicians removed frag
ments of her shattered eye and am
putated her arm near the elbow.
When newspapermen were per
mitted to see her she talked cheer
fully and freely.
Harwell was taken Into custody
and questioned. He was released after
officials said bis wife's story exone
rated him.
Police described the family as typi
cal of the hundreds of itinerants
who have come to California from
the dust bowl sections of the mid
dle west.
Reese Creek
REESE CREEK, Aug. 35. (SpJ.)
Re, w. E. Stram. pastor of Church
w Christ ol Med ford, called oa my
tbI families In this locality August
nth.
J. I. LUh ol Valley view dta-
trlct. who formerly owned the place
where Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Sotte live,
was delivering peaches to some of
our residents August 19.
Mr. and Mrs. Orover coo of Med
ford were out Sunday looking over
the real estate situation and hunt
ing a location.
Mr. and Mrs. Qeorge Montgomery
and little daughter mored on the
Johnson place from Brans valley
August 18. He Intends to farm the
land and mMV --airy cow. He lifts
a nice herd of cows at present. We
welcome Mr. and Mrs. Montgomery
to the community. The little girt will
enter school her first year. They came
from California a year ago.
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Merrltt. Janet
and Jimmy, motored to Crater lake
and Diamond lake August 31. They
saw a beautiful wild deer on the
Diamond lalte road.
Donna Orteres of Central Point
spent last week visiting her eouslne,
Conrad, Byron and Judltbt Lynn
Twedell. here.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Humphrey,
Ralph and Darlene. visited Mr. and
Mm. C. . Lamb of Deruy August "
Mrs. Kern Hanlford and Evelyn
Jar, who are working In the fruit
in Medford. were home over the
week-end.
J. B. Oraw spent the week-end
with Mrs. Oraw and Eileen, wno are
worklna In the fruit. In Medford.
Mrs. James Twedell entertained
with a party on her aon Bryan's
sluth birthday. Ice cream ana
were served the little gueate. aamet
were olared and a general good time
enjoyed. Those present were Janet
and Jimmy Merrltt. Stanley Martin
and Donna Grieves o: Central Point,
besides the three Twedell children,
Judlthe Lvnn. Conrad and Bryan
Mrs. Edward Cowden was out from
Medford Tueday looking after her
home Interest here She worn at
Huson's confectionery In Medford
Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Rusho. Gladys
and Charles, alao Viola Jackson. at
C. L. Perkins
DOCTOR Of OPTOMETRY
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Phone V.t. ISS . Central At
MrdfnrrJ. Ore.
A mother and a daughter irwt their lives Monday when a nrolhfmriml passenger train struck an nutomnblle ami frailer at a crtilng near
Oregon I'ltv. Mrs. Maynie A. Heti her, 40, nf Porllauil, Mrs. Lorraine Ren 82, were killed. Mr, rielrlier' llii'liana, mn an graRttflitttEhter were
Injured. (AP Phoio.)
tended the Church of Christ In Med
ford Sunday.
Calling at the Lamb home during
the week-end were Mr. and Mrs. C.
E. Lamb and son Robert, also Mrs.
Edward Scanlln and son Arthur and
niece Margaret Wheeler, Mr, and Mrs.
Orover cook of Medford and C, A.
Arthurs of south of Ashland on the
Klamath FalU highway.
Mr. and Mrs. H. Ball were In M-d-
tord August 19 on business and doln
their weekly shopping.
Improving but still confined to her
brd. MIhs Ethel TulIIs la helping
care for Mrs. Segessman. ,
Little Msr? Segeasman stayed with
Mr.?. Mlnnte BSries-i while her mother
waa In the 'hospital.
where they camped and fished w!tit j . Dr. and Mrs. Maliory have returned
Mr. and Mrs, K. S. Hutchinson of j home from Eureka, Cl after apend
.ilamatb Falls. ' ing a week looking after their prort-
erty then, Ray Mflrrtmatt, who ac
companied them, remained to do
soma painting and decorating.
Mr, and Mrs. a. R. Kughe sua
aon Albert ana Mr. and Mn. Walter
fteasecar made at pleaaure trip to
Klamath relit, August St,
Mr, and Mrs. Walter Young of
California are her to spend their
annual vacation at sunset oa the
Rogue,
atlas Minnie Blaeaa ia earing for
little Jimmte Meftbee while hie moth
er In working at packing fruit.
Mrs. Alma Mailery spent Tuesday
afternoon visiting her eon Our and
family at Eagle Point.
Mr. U L. Yaney end son Bob. Mrs. !
JertrtSe Hutchinson and granddaugh
ter Sh!r.-y spent Tneeday In Med
ford shopping.
Carroll Watson has gene to Cnl r.
Creek where he hat employment at
a carpenter.
Mr, and Mre. Ralph Wataon and
aon Cordon and their house goeata,
Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Scott, all drove
to Union Creek Tuesday evening and
had picnic dtnner with Carroii,
Traffic Death: rteg Fli.f
PASADENA, Cal. jCPi The Feat
den city council la, considering a
project of providing a whit flag ith
a Biut erosa that will b lowered
to half Tat for 34 hours every time
than la traffic death, long Beach,
which already has the plaa la oper
ation, bellavaa St has resulted !a a
decrees In accidents.
Whes Mr, and i!rs. Oaerg Oibsoa
of Boviey, EngiarMl. cisrve3 their
goMen wedding asstversaryr tey in
vlted: their five bridesmaids who aa- '
slated is the festivities 5$ yeara ago.
Negro Flees Skeletons
BAKERSPfBJJJ, Cat (BPi wp
rolls here auddeaiy lost one worker
H was a negro and wa working
alone with a grading machine whee
he turned up two human skeletons.
The foreman later found the skele
tons and the grading machine but
even the sheriff's office haa been un
able to get any tract of the ttegro.
Phone 543 We ll haul away your
refuse. City Sanitary Service. .
Bed Bugs!
RiBtpty sprinkle Bl'HAt H ea M
ml bed clothing, and dust into cracks
art crevices around lh room.
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sect pests guaranteed safe for human
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In Hand- Sifter Tons SSe up at I!rj,
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W. Q. Kutchlnfcjn
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vacation at Sunset
Trail
TRAIL, Aug. 25. (SpU H. I
Johnson has return-tt to his home at
Sunset on the Rogue after spending
several weeks In CalJfornla where he
was engaged in carpenter work.
Mr. and Mrs. L. I. Yancy and aon
Bob were dinner guests at the Mailer
home August 19.
Little Miss Shirley Hutchinson of
Klamath Fallft Is spending the week
with her grandparents, Mr. and M'-c.
8. W. Hutchinson.
Mrs. Ernie Segessman, who was
confined to the hospital hi Medford
for 18 days, was brought home Au
gust 22. Mra. Segessman is alowty
Mr. and Mrs.
of Oakland. Cal.
spending their
;nito camp.
Mr.- and Mrs. Charles Leigh, who
lived on the Boyd Tucker place for
the past eight months, have moved
to Chlloquin.
Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Scott of Klam
ath Agency are visiting here for a
week or more and are house guest f
of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Watson.
Jim Sawyer and his bride have re
turned to their name here afte
spending several weeks visiting dif
ferent parka and points of Interest
en route home.
Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Hutchinson
returned home Sunday after spend
ing a week at Hamaker campgrounds,
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