St. Louis Post-Dispatch
December 6, 1924

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PRICE 2 CENTS da 1 FOLLON Pils ANGELES I # PLAZA PROCEDUR S TRYING To KEEP, — “Be Louis Chapter of Archi- “tects Chooses Eight Mem- bers by Secret Ballot to Draw Plan. + a ee 4 — FOR DESIGN TO BE ONE DOLLAR | “on tis sive | af ms | > Cs owe é >A aD * , w 4 . 2 P MER THAT LAODER. a r 1s for Buildings to "Be Paid for on Regular 1 Scale and Fees to Go to ’ pollowing publication in the and editorial columns of the “Dispatch this week, of the , adopted by the City of Los es and the Allied Architects’ Mation of that city, whereby architects contracted to design municipal center for a fee of $1, became known today that the louis City administration has nt and obtained the co-oper- of the members of the St. Chapter of the American In- wie of Architects, to carry out milar plan in plaza designing Bpecifically, the St. Louis chap- was asked to institute, and has ried out, a secret ballot to nom- te eight St. Louis architects to as a commission to design plaza plan and the buildings be erected upon it, under the nd issue. The ballots, circulated me the chapter's 62 members asking for nominations both n and without the chapter, opened Wednesday afternoon the office of William B. Ittner, hitect, Board of Education ding. The eight names receiv- the highest number of votes certified to the City filliam A. Hirsch, president of /St. Louis chapter, and Louls ume, chairman of the chap- vic Improvements Commit- ated to a Post-Dispatch re- today that the request for nation of a commission of architects to design the made by a high city offi- y. The request was re- us the committee, headed by gume, which reported back chapter Friday, a week ago. Was Adopted Unanimously. report, which sought “the method of securing high ds of architectural design | all features pertaining to the femorial Plaza and other items the new bond issuc,”’ was adopt- unanimously. It follows, in "This committee has devoted th time and thought to this, the important architectural pro- Lin the city’s history. Citizens St. Louis, as well as others Murhout the country to whom we of our bond issue program #eeread, will expect this monu- Mita’ civic center to represent our m professional study, and reflect pskill of our most efficient mem- ; EGYPT “TWO ( WEEKS PEFORE! . CHAPRISTHMAS choice of architects to i this work will be delegated matter of high importance n@ to the city administration i with the expenditure of the '’ money, but to every tax- as well. It is the mature tofthis committee that ity’s interests will be best by the appointment of a on to consist of eight Mects to supervise the design ' @xecution of the memorial and the various buildings Ss the memorial itself, the courts building, the municipal -orium, and any bpthers that f later be embraced in the gen- POR SE, THE SIMPLEST CUT OF ALL YOUR. WokeRIEes Is ANE THE COUNTRY. ae Al rift | Commission should estab- the general character of the abutting on or adjacent Plaza, and its decision in all relating to the final effect have the weight of author- commission should, be maintained during the Period of the realization of ; The duties of the “mmission should not only to the designing and ang of the separate bulld- im the group, but should em- , al} details of parking, plant- “Seung. sculptural or other mai features, al! of which w&egreat scheme of design ™ 8s important, if not more so that of the buildings them- this commission should be =n the basis of fitness alone and we, therefore. that the St. Louts ef the American Institute . # make specific nomina- Ht the Proper municipal au- P for their help and guid- = We believe that the St. Louls qualified to estimate mcter and attainments of Opposing Lawyers Quote Shakspeare and Bible In “Spite” Damage Suit sfaitst'e Counsel Demands “Pound of Flesh’ in Lindell Boulevard Case Involving 2-Inch Space. When Circuit Judge Wurdeman inquired of Attorney James Here- ford at Clayton today why he had brought an injunction and dam- age suit involving only a few inches of ground, the attorney using the words of Shylock in Shakspeare’s “‘Merchant of Ven- ice,’’ replied: “The pound of flesh which I demanded here was dearly bought; it is mine and I will have it; if you deny me it, fie upon your law; I stand for judg- ment; answer, shall I have it?” Attorney Joseph McAtee, rep- resenting the defendants, coun- tered with a recital of the words of Jesus Christ, completing his argument with the following: ‘‘Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.”’ The suit was brought by Mr. and Mrs. Armand F. Alphonse.of 7216 Lindell boulevard, against Mr. and Mrs. Peter Kiefer of 7214 Lindell boulevard. It asks for $500 dam- ages and an injunction, charging the Kiefers with extending a win- dow sill and water spout one and one-half inches and a garage two inches into easement property be- tween the homes of the two famil- ies. {The alleged offenses were committed after construction of a driveway by mutual consent be- tween the two homes. The defense charges the plain- tiffs with building a fence between the two homes in violation of the agreement. Judge Wurdeman took the case under advisement. ROCKEFELLER'S GRANDNIECE IS A COLLEGE INSTRUCTOR Miss Isabelle Rockefeller Teaches Biology at Columbia University; Made Debut Recently. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, Dec. 6.—Miss Isabelle Rockefeller, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Percy Rockefeller of New York and Greenwich, Conn.., and grandniece of John D. Rocke- feller, is an instructor in biology in the Teachers’ College of Colum- bia University. It also was learned that Miss Rockefeller has been on the faculty ever since the fall term began. Miss Rockefeller, who is also the Sranddaughter of the late James Stillman, for many years president of the National City Bank, was in- troduced to society two months ago, but has never taken a con- spicuous part in social activities. She has devoted much of the time Since her debut to study and the many charities with which her mother is identified. She could not be reached for a statement, but form a friend it was learned that Miss Rockefeller has been studying advanced biology at Columbia for a year or longer to prepare herself to teach. — ——__.__p WORE $12 OVERCOAT 44 WINTERS, THEN GOT $10 ON IT By the Associated Press. WINSTON SALEM, N. C., Dec. 6—R. F. Baker, a prosperous Forsythe County farmer. bought an overcoat for $12 44 years ago, wore it every winter and then traded it in for $10 toward a new one. The coat, which fs on display at the store from which it originally was purchased, was bought in 1880, according to a sworn statement made by Baker. He asserted, in the statement, that he wore it ev- ery winter. The coat is in good condition. In Tomorrow’s Sunday Post-Dispatch Strange Story of Poignant Trag- edy a Love Child Brought to Two Fond Sisters—What hap- pened when-the married one saved the other from disgrace by taking baby as her own. **America’s Wickedest Town’’ Squirms as Judge Wars on Its Sins—Cromwell, Ok., was a tough little burg, but lo! It was a place of sweetness and light comparatively speaking after the Judge, with six-gun buck- led on his hip, got through wielding the mop. ow the ‘‘Eccentric Millionaire’’ as Fugitive $2,000,000 Swindler «Leo Koretz thought himself a smart man, but it developed that, although he fled from Chicago, he could not flee from Leo Koretz, who loved wine and the ladies. Health With a Tape- line—An Italian physician worked 40 years to learn the relative proportions of a nor- mal and healty human body. Now his findings are being used in diagnosis and preven- tion of disease. What Maternal Love Will En- dure—The true story of & woman’s heroism and supreme sacrifice for a little child. And as thrilling as any make-be lieve you ever saw at the movies. Order Your Copy Today om Page 2, Column 4. ————————$$$——$$—————— ee ————— POLIGEMEN ARE INDICTED IN RUN SMUGGLING PLOT Commissioner and Ten of Weehawken, N. J. Force Named as Result of Priest’s Crusade. JERSEY CITY BROKER ALSO INDICTED Signals From Town Hall mitted to Liquor Ships by Policemen. Special to the Post-Dispatch. JERSEY CITY, N. J., Dec. 6.— Twelve persons, one the Commis- sioner of Police of Weehawken, N. J., and 10 of them policemen, were indicted yesterday by the Hudson County grand jury, in connection with a bootlegging. scandal which came to light through the activi- ties of a fighting priest. The twelfth man indicted yester- day is William Griffin of Jersey City, said to be the leader of the ring of liquor smugglers. Charges of misconduct in office and of con- spiracy to violate the State prohibi- tion enforcement act were con- tained in the indictments against the police officials. Griffin was charged with conspiracy. filed with the county authorities, and presumably part of the testi- mony before the grand jury, signals were flashed from the tower of the township hall in Weehawken to policemen stationed along the water front. They, in turn, flashed other signals to inform rum ships that it was safe to land. Nine of the policemen indicted were ar- rested Thursday. Police Conumissioner Named. Harry J. O. Stearns, member of the township council 6f Weehawk- en and chairman of the Committee on Police—otherwise known as “Police Commissioner’’—was in- dicted. He will surrender or be arrested today. Griffin, has offices, as an insur- ance broker in the First National Bank Building in Jersey City. Back of the crarges against the policemen of the Weehawken force, who are alleged to have been in league with the rum Funners and to have guarded the shipments of wet goods as they were being land- ed and carried on trucks through the streets, stands the Rev. George Bennett of the St. Lawrence Cath- Olic parish in Weehawken. Priest Starts Crusade: Father Bennett was incensed by many of.the saloons in the neigh- borhood—and there is not a tough- er one within a thousand miles of New York—keeping open throughs out the night. It was while agitat- ing for the closing of these places that he ran into John Dorsey, a salesman, and Thomas Heagney, a Weehawken fireman. Both ap- peared before the grand jury and testified regarding what they had seen in the early hours of the morning along the water front. A third witness was Charles D. Kirk, a nephew of William P. Ver- don, Republican leader in Hoboken. All three are held as materia! wit- nesses. Dorsey, well aware of the swift vengeance of the bootleggers, is still in the county jail. Weehawken is, in many spot, a desolate place. No part of it is more desolate than the ghore near Baldwin avenue. which stands in the shadow of the heights, known as “Dead Man's Leap,” because of the number of suicides there. Here the bootleggers are said to have landed their cargoes, which were then loaded on trucks and trundled through the streets to the Hudson Count boulevard. Here, accord- ing to the stories on which the in- dictments are based, patrolmen in uniform and high police officials in civilian clothes directed the op- erations for compensation that varied from $10 a day and a bot- tle of liquor to a share in the prof- its. There is eternal wartare between the bootleggers and thieves who prey upon them. FIND $10 BILLS IN OLD BOOKS Discovery Makes Auction of Old Maids’ Ldbrary Lively. } By the Associated Press. WINCHESTER, Va., Dec. 6.— Spirited bidding today followed the discovery yesterday of 10 and 20 dollar bank notes in books that sold for 25 and 30 cents at the public auction of the contents of the home of the late Misses Shu- mate. When the last of three spinster sisters died several weeks ago ex- ecutors of the estate found over $10,000 in gold and notes in vari- ous recesses but thought they had uncovered all assets. Said to Have Been Trans- | According to one of the affidavits | CLOUDY, PROBABLY WITH RAIN TONIGHT; COLDER SUNDAY THE TEMPERATURES. 3 | Ot “IA OM COD 2 PPP ee p Highest yesterday, 50, at 12:15 a. m.; lewest, 36, at 11:45 p. m. ' Official forecast OHOW YOUR | gor st. Louis and vicinity: Oloudy tonight and Sun- day, probably with rain late to- night and Sun- day; colder Sun- day. Lowest tem- perature tonight will be ‘above freezing. Missouri: Rain probable tonight ér Sunday. Colder Sunday. Illinois: ain probable tdnight and Sunday, mixed in north ' portion with snow, Colder Sunday. Sun rises at 7:07 a. m., sets at 4:39 p.m. Stage of the Mississippi River at St. Louis, 3.7 feet at 7 a. m.; rise of .1. Missouri at St. Charles: 12.7 feet, a rise of 3 feet. —— Week’s Weather Outlook. By the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Dec. 6.—Weath- er outlook for the week beginning Monday: Upper Mississippi and Lower Missouri Valleys: Clearing and decidedly colder Monday; rising temperature with snow over north and snow or rain over south por- tion about Wednesday or Thursday; colder again at end. CHASE BAG CO, TO HEAD MERGER OF SIX CONCERNS Manufacturers of Burlap, Cotton and Paper Sacks Will Com- bine Next Month. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, Dec. 6.—A consol- idation of bag companies, manu- facturing burlap, cotton and paper bags, has been formed made up of the following companies: American Bag Co., Memphis, Tenn.; Buffalo Bag Co., Buffalo, N. Y.; Chase Bag Co. of St. Louis and Kansas City, Mo.; Cleveland- Akron Bag Co., Cleveland, O.; Mil- waukee Bag Co., Milwaukee, "Wis., and Northern Bag Co., Minneapo- lis. Operations will begin Jan. 1 and the organization will be known as the Chase Bag Co., each branch re- taining its original identity. Exec- utive officere will be established in New York. The Chase Bag Co., a Missouri corporation with authorized capital of $1,000,000, has a plant and of- fices at 4-26 North Main street. El- liott K. Ludington, president, was away from the city today and other officials wquld not make a state- ment regarding the consolidation. | UNFAVORABLE TO GERMANY Effect in France of Charge That Nation Is Violating Treaty Feared. Copyright. 1924, by the Press and Pulitzer Publishing Cos., the New York World and the Post-Dispatch. LONDON, Dec. 6.—The report of the interallied commission of con- trol in Germany has been drawn up and is unfavorable to Germany. ‘ This fact, which the New York World and the Post-Dispatch learn on unquestionable authority, is of serious international jmportance. The effect in France of the charge that Germany in maintain- ing armaments contrary to the peace treaty is feared, as well as the consequent reaction in Ger- many. For years France has been in- sisting that Germany is preparing under cover a huge army and gath- ering immense military stores. The control commission, created t>» in- spect German military resources, was not allowed to function during the Ruhr bBccuRation and after that Berlin accepted resumption of con- trol only after much delay and pro- test. Threatened with an ultimatum Germany capitulated, and the in- vestigation began last August. Fac- tories, the police force, warehouses and documents have been inspect- ed and an “unfavorable report” would indicate that Germany has not kept her forces within the lim- its set by the Versatilles treaty. GRAND DUCHESS ARRIVES Wife of Pretender to Russian Throne Has Police Escort. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, Dec. 6.~-The Grand Duchess Victoria Feodorovna, wife of the Grand Duke Cyril Viadimi- rovitch, who recently proclaimed himself heir to the Romanoffs on the throne of Russia, arrived here today aboard the steamship Paris and was escorted to ber suite in the Waldorf-Astorja Hotel by a squad of motor cycle policemen. the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 6.—Rob- ert C. Wright, general! traffic man- ager of the Pennsylvania Railroad, dropped dead in his office here to- day. Wright was 55 years old and By had been with the railroad for 36 years. : 3 BOYS CONFESS COMMITTING 21 HOLDUPS IN MONTH Youths, 16 or Under, De- tail Their. Operations After Remark of Ac- quaintance Causes Arrest “THEY’RE OUT EVERY NIGHT,” FRIEND SAID Leader Tells of Robbing Man of Auto and Then Abandoning It to Ride Home in Taxi. Three boys, dubbed by police “the Illinois avenue gang,” are held at Wyoming Street Police Sta- tion today while they detail, gs if the whole business were a joke, the circumstances of 21 highway robberies gommitted during the last month. Christ Herdibu, 16 years old, of 3414 Illinois avenue, admits he is the leader. His companions, Fred Cookson, 15, of 3539 Illinois ave- nue, and William Kauffmann, 16, of 3509 Illinols avenue, agree that Christ planned the jobs and that they took turns helping him. The trio were arrested yesterday after a woman residing in the 2000 block of Utah street telephoned po- lice she had geen three young fel- lows prowling in the alley behind her home and trying garage doors as if planning to steal an automo- bile. Police Lieutenant John Mc- Carthy, who went to investigate with two detectives, did not find the suspects but they arrested a fourth boy who resides in the neighborhood. “They’re Out Every Night.” “What are you arresting me for?” this lad demanded. “I'm honest. Why don't you get John and Fred? They’re out almost every night sticking people up.” The Fred he referred to was Cookson, and the John was Kafff- mann, known by that name as well as “William.” Cookson and Kauff- mann were arrested at their homes and they promptly involved Herdi- bu. Most of the holdups to which the three confessed were minor robberies in which only a few dol- lars were taken. However, Herdi- bu confessed he was the youth who asked a ride of R. E. Klinkhart, 8119A South Alfred street, Nov. 28, and then robbed him, taking his automobile also. Herdibu re- counted his betrayal of the “good Samaritan.”’ “I was standing by a Ford coupe on Seventh boulevard, near Wyoming street,” he related, “and signaled that guy to stop. He did and we drove on Seventh to Poplar street. There I pulled a gun and said, ‘Well, brother, we've gone far enough. Hand over your money.’ He gave me $5.75. I said, ‘I'll take the car, too, and you'll have to do the walking. I ain’t. My § health’s bad.” So I drove the car to a fill- ing station on Shaw avenue, not far from Grand, called a taxi and left the machine there, riding home in the taxi.” It was Herdibu working alone who held up his friend, David Schmidt, 18 years old, in front of the latter’s home at 3431A Texas avenue, Nov. 23. The holdup oc- curred at night and Schmidt did not recognize Herdibu as he turned over $5 to him. But the young robber easily recalled the holdup when Schmidt appeared at the po- lice station this morning. Recount Funny Expericnces. With Kauffman the gang's lead- er held up John Lukas, 22, of 3326 Pennsylvania avenue, Nov. 28. They took $32 and a fishing li- cense. Lukas begged them to re- turn the license, saying he wished Continued on Page 3. Column 5. An Estate in Miniature 4 A house, with shrubbery, charming carefully kept and a driveway to a little garage. bright kitchen, Inside—large, airy, rooms—a modern and the most hospitable- looking open fireplace in the living room. What raore in the way of hominess has @ Make that little estate yours —buy it for your wife and kiddies’ Christmas. In the “Real Estate” col- umns of the Post-Dispatch many “miniature estates at reasonable cost and on “termes to suit” await your inspection. The Post-Dispatch: St. Louis’ One Big Want Directory | big estate to offer? ; The Perfect Market-Place ; ‘ POLICE BREAK IN FINED $26,000 FOR CUSTOMS VIOLATIO GANGSTERS’ CLUB 0 GET ROBBERS Two Men Found in Max- welton Club Are Identi- fied in Theft of $11,355 Payroll. —— : MOTORIST CERTAIN THEY ARE THE MEN Leslie J. Nichols, Who Was Halted During the Hold- up, Says Suspects Had Sawed-Off Shotguns. Maxwelton Club, county head- quarters of the crippled Egan gang, was broken into yesterday after- noon in the search for suspects in the robbery of an $11,355 payroll of the St. Louis Mazda Lamp Works of the General Electric Co. earlier in the day, and two men known to detectives as associates of Eganites were arrested. These men were identified less than two hours after the robbery as two of the robbers, the police announced. Breaking into the Maxwelton Club rendezvous of Egan gangsters and their associ- ates is an act previously unheard of, although officers have been ad- mitted in the past in carrying on inquiries. The “club,” which is virtually a roadhouse, is on Olive | Street road, west of Olivette. Things are not the same there in the absence of “Dinty’’ Colbeck and four of his close associates, who are serving 25 years at Leav- enworth for the $54,000 Staunton (Ill.) mail robbery. “Cocky” Walah, 28 years old, who gave his address as 6417 Sub- urban avenue, and Louis Mulcon- ery, 28, of 5719A Baston avenue, were the men arrested and identi- fled. The robbery was in the county, just west of the city limits, on Et- zel avenue. Three county Deputy Sheriffs, whose basis of action has not been explained—whether it was suspicion or a “tip’—called four city detectives and a uniformed po- lice Sergeant to join them and vis- ited the Egan gang hangout. Found in Bedroom. When the raiders rang at the front door of the place there wag no answer. Neither was there an answer to their knocks at a rear door, so Deputy Sheriff Kick broke the glass in the upper half of that door and unfastened the lock in- side. The first floor was deserted, but in a bedroom upstairs Walsh and Mulconery were found, Walsh in the act of changing his clothes. Identification of Walsh and Mul- conery as two of the five payroll robbers was made py Leslie J. Nichols of 5960 Plymouth ave- nue, the police announced. Nich- ols was driving his automobile west in Etzel avenue and encoun- tered the holdup of three execu- tives of the lamp works. He was made to stop at the scene by two of the robbers, who weré armed with sawed-off shotguns, and who took the keys of his machine away. These men were Walsh and Mul- conery, Nichols declared. Deny Complicity. “Applesauce” and “bolonev”’ were the chief answers of Walsh and Mulconery to the raiders’ ques- tions, indicating their denial of par- ticipation in the robbery. They added that they were at the club all afternoon. They were taken to Police Headquarters. C. A. Dalton, manager of the lamp works, and R. F. Baker, as- sistant manager, two of the execu- tives held up, said Walsh and Mul- conery resembled two of the rob- bers, but they could not be posi- tive. The robbery was at 2:45 p. m. and was about a block east of the lamp works, which is at Etzel avenue and the Wabash tracks. Dalton was accompanied in his car by Baker and L. G. Bauman, of- fice manager, who guarded the money in a satchel In the rear seat. The robbers, who were masked with white handkerchiefs, were in a Lincoln touring car and crowded Dalton’s car to the ditch, then made the plant executives alight. They seized the money, disabled Dalton’s car and sped west. in Etzel avenue. The Lincoln car later was abandoned in University City. It was stolen from the Milk Wagon Drivers’ Union Oct. 9. Thirteen Others Picked Up. In addition to the raid on the Egan gang loafing place, county Deputy Sheriffs and city detectives invaded other gang headquarters to make arrests, and during the afternoon and evening 14 men and one women, in all, were. arrested in the investigation. Two Officers Shot for Inactivity. Ry the Associated Press. REVAL, Esthonia, Dec. 6.—Two air force officers were sentenced (Ito death and shot yesterday for re- maining inactive in the commun- ist outbreak last Monday. ite house its employes. —Underwood and Underwon] Photo, RS. JULES 8. BACHE, wife of M a Chicago banker, recently ar- N rived in New York from Paris ith $13,000 worth of clothes which she did not declare for duty, claiming that since she maintains residence abroad 11 months a year she should be exempted. U. 8. Col- lector Elting ruled against her and fixed the amount of the fine. CHLORINE GAS PROVES FECTIVE FOR COLD Doctor’s Questionnaire Shows 656 Cases Cured: Out of 1029 Reported. Special to the Fost-Dispatch. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Dec. 6. —Chlorine gas has proved its ef- fectiveness in the treatment of colds, whooping cough, bronchitis and other diseases. This came ont in a questionnaire answered by leading physicians throughout the country, Lieut. Col. Edward B&B. Vedder, chief of the medical re- search division of the United States Arsenal at Edgewood, Md., de- clared here last night at a meeting of the New Jersey health commis- sioners. He raised the possibility of hav- ing gassing chambers in all hos- pitals and of putting chlorine cas to prophylactic use in school rooms, theaters and other crowded places to prevent epidemics of colds, bronchitis, influenza and ther diseases. Estimating that from a fourth to a third of all diseases which in- capacitate school children are in- fections acquired through the res- piratory tract, he said breathing of chlorine gas probably wotfd pre- vent spread of measles and scar- let fever, although not curing such cases where already developed. The result of the questionnaire showed 1029 cases reported. on these 656, or 64 per cent were cured: 312, or 30 per cent were im- proved, and 61, or 6 per cent, showed no change. The cases were chiefly acute colds or bronchitic. Favorable results were shown in treatment of a few whooping cough cases. The prophyla@ic effect of the gas indicated, Col. Vedder said, by results in treating cases of whoop- ing cough in families with several children. One child in the family. having a fully developed infection, would show improvement. who otherwise would be expected to “catch” the disease, woud fall to do so after being treat with gas. | SECRETARY DAVIS GIVES REAL BEER PLANT THE “ONCE OVER” “l[idke ‘Auld Lang Syne,’ He Says, as He Inspects Argentine’s Biggest Brewery. By the Associated Press. BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 6.—Secre- tary of Labor Davis yesterday vis- ited the Argentine brewery which is claimed to be the largest in the world since the American brew- | eries stopped producing real beer. Davis was told that the : plant produced 700,000 q bot-. tles dally and that there ‘were 3000 men on the payroll. “This looks like ‘Auld Lang Syne,”” Davis told the brewery manager as he was shown around the building. a He was informed that the brew- ery was Ne See ee STATE'S CASE ASSAILED BY ATTORNEYS FOR MOTLOW Pictures of Interior of Car in Which Pullis Was Slain ~Presented in Attack on Testimony. ee D ‘ TRAIN CONDUCTO CALLED BY DEFENSE Contention Arises Over Ad- missibility of Part of His Testimony and Case Goes Over to Monday. In support of the plea of self- defense, attorneys for Lem Mot- low, wealthy Tennessee distiller, introduced in evidence today six photographs of the interior of Pullman car L-20, in which Motlow on March 17 shot and killed Clar- ence T. Pullis, Pullman conductor, on a Louisville & Nashville train, following an altercation between Motlow and the negro porter, Ed Wallis. Objection by Circuit Attorney Sidener on the ground that it had not been shown that the car pho- tographed was the one in which the shooting occurred, or that it was made up as it was at the time of the shooting, was overruled by Judge Hamilton after satisfying himself by an examination of the photographs that they agreed with the porter’s description of how the car was made up. : Garesche Had Pictures Taken. Vital W. Garesché, of counsel for the defense, testified he arranged for the taking of the photograp‘s and was presenty when they were taken, that the car wa’ the one in which the shooting occurred and that it was made up as it was on the night of the shooting. The Circuit Attorney asked if the porter was present when the pho- tographs were taken. Garesche said no, he did not want the porter there and was afraid to have him there. He did not explain what ne feared. The apparent purpose of the de- fense was to try to show by the photographs that Joseph Broida, a passenger, witness for the State, could not have seen the shooting while standing im front of berth No. 10, as testified by him. The shooting occurred in the space of berth No. 2, which had not been made up. Between that space and berth No. 10 were berths which had been made up. Defendant Displays Interest. Motlow sat as usual between his two St. Louls attorneys, Patrick H. Cullen and Garesche, with his five Tennessee lawyers grouped behind him. Dressed in a dark blue serge suit and a soft white shirt, without a necktie, he listens with amiable interest to the testimony, but sel- dom consults with his attorneys. M. ‘®R. Patterson, former Gover+ nor of Tennessee, testified he had known Motlow for 18 years and. that his general reputation In Ten-— nessee was good. On cross-examina- tion he did not know what his reputation was here. When former * a