Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-10-13
|PH|LBROOKS PENN|LESS,
/ court NAMES COUNSEL
Man Accused of Numbering
Employer to Be Given an
Early Trial.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch 10 The Star.
UPPER MARLBORO, Md. October 13.
1 Harry W. Philbrooks of Newport. Me-,
who was indicted by the grand jury here
| yesterday for the murder of Frederick
Springmann was arraigned before Chief
Judge John P. Briscoe this morning. and.
upon representation that he had no
| friends nor means To employ counsel.
Attorneys Marvin Beach and George Mer-
rick We're assigned to defend him. The
case was set for trial next Tuesday
| In answer to questions OF the court.
Philbrooks said his parents were dead.
| He said his brothers and sisters We're
scattered over the state of Maine. An
aunt and! uncle lived at Newport, he told
the court but said they could give him
no financial assistance. even though they
were communicated with.
| Counsel for Philbrooks held a confer
ence with Prosecutor NJ. Hampton Ma
| gruder immediately after the arraien-
ment, and it is expected a date for the
| trial viii be determined upon late this aft
| ernoon.
schuchardt Pleads Insanity.
Attorney T. Van Clagett. representing
| Edward Schuchardt.. charged with shoot
| ing and kill ng his wife, Gertrude. san
| day. September "A. near Collinston, Prince
| Georges county, entered special plea of
| insanity.
States Attorney Magruder, in outlining
the peop.e's ca-e, said he would snow
that Schuchardt came to COllington the
day before the alleged murder, -four .shing
a revolver and making threats to use It.
He said Schuchardt slept that night at
| the shack in VIII CHI his wife lived with the
children. and that she succeeded in ob-
tanning the revolver and locking it UP in
a trunk. SclIuchardt. he said. obtained
the key to the trunk on the pretext that
he wished to get can of coffee kept in
the receptacle. He said Schuchardt's
wife ran in fear from the place, but
! stumbled and fell, the man overtak.ng
her. turn ng her over on her back and
firing bullet through her heart. after
which he went to the adjoining woods
and made a feeble attempt to end his own
life with the gun. He was taken to a
Baltimore hospital. and recently removed
to the Jail at Upper Marlboro.
Considerable trouble was experienced In
getting jury, many of the talesmen as
serting they did not believe in capital
punishment, one Of them explaining bis
attitude by repeating one Of the Ten
Commandments, Thou shalt not kill. :"
Says He Feared Wife.
Attorney Van -Clagett said IT would be
shown on behalf of the prisoner that his
wife once attacked him with a butcher
knife and that he had reason to fear she
would take his life. The taking of testi-
mony started at o'clock this afternoon.
Witnesses from Baltimore will be ex-
| amined tomorrow.
Hillary Bacon. colored, who sc eral
weeks ago set fire TO a house at Chillum.
Prince Georges county, from which he
| had been evicted for non-payment of rent
| by the owner, Enos Ray, sr.. was sem
! fenced today to seven years in the pehi-
| Tertiary.
! 1t Is likely John W. Morgan, alias
| jackson, the youth who confessed to
| holding up the bank at this place. AMI
who Is charged with the theft two years
| ago of $l,15O from George A. Gill of
Hyattsville, Nd, will be sentenced to-
morrow. &c. J