Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-12-30
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Louisville Physiejan's Attor- nevs Say Another 0lrl
 Proves AIibi
DNAD GIRL FIANCEE
 or ALLEGED SLAYER
Police Declare Physician Wanted Woman t0 Marry Soldier, to Fiji Her as His
 Wife

Louisville, Ky. Dee. 29.-Dl Christopher C. SehetJ, ehagee' with bjuuG Miss Elizabeth F"o Griffith. his office assistant and central figure in fin, most mysterious Eeui@e II' murder ease in many years refused to furnish &l5,090 oai bond, at the conclusion eff argu nlents on motion for bail in police court here today, and elected t' stay in iaii pending his eXamin inc trial later in the week.
 Dr.. Schoot's attorneys assert ed the amount was eScessive II view of the showing that had peer made for their client by Laufeil Gardner, a girl of l3, who has as serted that she was in the pny- sician's company, deliverins Christmas presents, at the time It is believed Miss Griffith was ShoI and killed.
 Miss Gardner, liter beng con fined in the detention nome on the charge of dciquency' was re- leased on nominal bond PeHdla& a trial in juvenile court.
 Novice Wife Not Wanted.
 A feature connected with the case which excited interest was a police announcement that Df: Schott, in effect, had adVocal9o q, ca1.3 a trial marriage of Miss 1rIiiith' his one tine fiance, and 3 soldier The theory of Dr. Schott, accord inc fo the version. was that such a ma1riaae would fit her eventual ly to become his wife. o,.
 Girls Body in His Office.
 These developments have come to the front since December 2}' when Elizabeth Ford Griffith, Dr Schott's IF year old assistant, was fo1nd dead on the floor of the pbvsician's office with a bullet through her heart and his auto matic pistol by her side.
 Examination by the coroner es, tablished that Miss Griffith had been killed between 1 and 5 o'cloch in the afternoon. Questioned by the. police, Dr. Schott declared be had been delivering Christmas presents to a number of his pat ients between those hours. The little Gardner girl stoutly main tained to the authorities that she was in his company. The next move of the police, however. was to cause her arrest on the charge of delinquency.
 Dr. Schott asserts the belief that Miss Griffith committed sui eide, while the coroner points to the absence of powder marks on her clothing as evidence that lt would have been extremely diff cult for her to have shot herself
 Testimony at Dr, Schott's pre- liminarv examination disclosed what the police term a curious tangle.
 Was Engaged to Marry Girl.
 The physician admitted, the record shows, that he had been to marry Miss Griffith but that the engagement had been broken aften he had ob- iected to attentions she had re. ceived from other men. Some time afterwards, witnesses related, she became engaged to Captain George K. Jordan, an officer of the first division now stationed at Camp Zachary Taylor; that the date for their wedding had been fixed for about the time she met death. Dr. Schott on the wit ness stand, however, said he ap- proved the proposed marriage. Pressed to amplifv the statement he asserted his belief, according to a transcript of his testimony, that she would live with the soldier but comparativelv short time, during which, he said, she would be willing to return to him and eventually make him a good wife.