Los Angeles herald., 1905-01-14
GROOM FREED ON
ASSAULT CHARGE
PASADENAN MUST NOW FACE
TRIAL FOR BATTERY
High School Honors Father Cooke.
Joint installation Of Officers.
Body Of Dead Woman Is
Crushed In Wreck
Pasadena Agency,
114 East Colorado Street.

Pasadena Agency,
114 East Colorado Street.
PASADENA, Jan. 1S.-Last Sunday
morning Marshal w. Groom, a brother
in-law of DR.. S. M. Woodbridge of
South Pasadena undertook to chastise
the doctor for something said about
Mrs. Woodbridge, who is separated
from her husband. Woodbridge had
Groom arrested ON charge of as
sault. A Jury in G.. w. Glover's court
in South Pasadena returned a verdict
of mot guilty" Groom will have to
stand another trial tomorrow morning.
before Judge II. II. Klamroth in this
city. Woodbridge was advised by the
prosecuting attorney that the charge
should have been battery rather than
assault, but Justice Glover would not
change the original charge. Judge
Rossiter, who is defending Groom, will
endeavor in the morning to have the
case dismissed on the ground that
there should have been but one charge.
Shakespeare Club to Study Wagner
An afternoon of exceptional interest
will be the Wagner Parsifal program
women. The literary discussion will
be heard tomorrow, to be followed by a
musical-recital by Miss Alice Coleman
a week from tomorrow, all the music
to be from the "Parsifal." For tomor-
row Miss Edith Ames will read
paper upon Wagner, the Musician;"
Miss Edith Hill of the high school one
on "The Parsifal. Its Literary Sig
nificance,' while Miss Lucy Chamber
lain will read extracts from. Howard
Duffiend's celebrated essay upon Wag-
ner. Miss Ada Trotter will give per-
sonal recollections of Bayreuth. The
Interpretation of the Swan Song
from the Lohengrin and of the Sub
lime, Sweet Evening Star" by Revel
Lindsay English will add to the pleas
ure of the occasion.
High School Honors Father Cooke
1t has become the well established
custom each winter to show at the
high school some especial honor 70
Rev. Henry Cooke, the venerable Bap-
tist minister, who comes every season
from Boston TO Pasadena. This morn
ing Father Cooke as the aged man
delights to have the young people call
him, was at the new high school build
ing and presented the school with Il
handsome set of Dickens, giving also
one of his characteristic talks. A
musical program in charge of Miss
Harriet Rice was given.
Joint Installation of Officers
There was a large attendance last
evening at the joint installation of the
new officers in the Grand Army of the
Republic, the Woman's Relief Corps
and the Sons of Veterans organiza-
tions which took place in the G. A. r.
hall, which was gaily decorated for the
occasion. Many strangers, visitors
in the city, were present.
Wife's Body Crushed in Wreck
In the wreck of the California linz
tied near Las Vegas yesterday the
body of Mrs. w. H. DEMO of Alham-
bra, which the husband was taking
east for interment, was crushed and
the iron casket smashed as If it were
kindling wood. Mrs. DEMO died at
the family home between Alhambra
and Pasadena on December 10, and the
husband was accompanying the re-
mains to the old home in Rochester,
N. Y, for interment. According to
the kilograms from Mr.. DEMO the body
was dug by the train men from be-
meath several feet of snow, and will be
taken on to Las Vegas and after rear
rangement the sad journey east will
be continued.
Pasadena Brevities
The Winslow inquest conducted this
morning by Coroner Trout brought out
no new facts in regard to Mr.. Wins
lows sudden death on Wednesday.
The jury returned a verdict that death
was due to valvular disease of the
heart. The witnesses examined were
DR.. Crance, who arrived at the house
just after the mans death, and sew