The Mena weekly star., 1920-01-22
Mocking of Social Laws
 Death
 Disgrace Ruined Homes
By IMAGERY REX. International News Service Stan

New York, Jan. 10.-Elizabeth Ford Griffiths, seventeen, of Louisville, Ky, was to have been married Christmas Day to Captain George K. Jordan, of Camp Zachary Taylor. but she changed her mind at the last minute. Christ mas Eve. Jordan thought, might be a good time to call on Elizabeth and set another date.
 And while he hurried along, think ing of the girl he loved she lay, shot to de,th, in the office of a well-known dentist, Dr. Christopher G. Schott. She had been his office girl.
 Dr. Schott had an alibi 10 offer. He had, he claimed, been out riding with little fifteen -year-old Laurene Gard ener. delivering Christmas presents. It was a good alihi till Babe" Ryan, well-known football and baseball um. pire. said he saw Dr. Schott come out of his office between 2:30 and 2:40 on the afternoon of the murder. Dr. Schott said he had returned at S:10.
 But Dr. Schott admitted he had been in love with the dead girl and that he had broken off an engagement Wltn uGI. llt dtoO SdAu bC DCtitfNA the girl was jealous of him, and that he thought her a suicide.
 At 2 o'clock on the day she died, however Elizabeth is said to have phoned a friend, saying she had noth- ing 10 live for, that she was engaged to marry captain, but he was visit ing his people and the wedding was postponed. She said she didn't know whether she loved him enough to marry him or not.
 A chronicle of love. rivalry, jeal- ousy and death.
 From Mount Clemens comes the story of the Browns J. Stanley Brown, millionaire's son, was killed a few days ago on lonely road Mrs. Ruth Provost Brown, his widow, now nineteen, was married at the age of thirteen and is the mother of two children. Brown is said to have filed suit for divorce against his youth full wife. but later to have withdrawn the action and become partially re- conciled.
 A Mount Clemens druggist has tes- tified that several months ago Mrs. Brown sought to buy prussic acid from him, saying she wished to kill her husband because he was suing for divorce, had the goods on her" and she would be cut off without alimony.
 But the life of Brown himself was by no means unsoiled. A warrant has been issued for Beatrice Vester. of Battle Creek. who is said to be a friend of Lloyd Provost, Mrs Browns s cousin Letters have been found writ ten by Provost to Mrs Vester, in which he offered her a home if she would come to Mount Clemens. The day of the murder Mrs Nester is re ported to have said she was coming to Mount Clemens to rob Brown if she had to kill him" to get his money.
 Another tale of illicit love, jealousy, greed, riches and revenge.
 Frenzied by her husbands refusal to believe her innocent of his charge Of unfaithfulness, Mrs Mervin Uhl. of Cumberland, Md, killed Bryan Pownall who had forced his way into her apartment and had been found there by Uhl
 Mrs. Uhl. twenty-five, and the mother of three children, says her husband had been summoned by a phone cali to go to a dance and en- tertainment not far away when short ly afterward Pownall came to her apartment. entered and locked the door. He then proceeded to make love to her. she repulsing him.
 This lasted about an hour, when jhl returned finding the door locked and finally seeing Pownall dashed hurriedly up the stairs to another apartment in the building where he was visiting, accused his wife.
 Jlhl wouldn't believe his wife had not been unfaithful He ordered her to leave his house before noon the next day In desperation she pleaded with Pownall to tell her husband she had done no wrong. but he refused. Pownall repeated his advances of the evening before. whereupon Mrs. uhl reached for a long thin knife and stab bed him to the heart. The injured man ran from the Uhl apartment with blood streaming from his breast and died one hour and half later.
 Mrs. Uhl said he had been bother ing her for weeks and it was not her fault he had been paying her at tention
 Love, intrigue, lack of faith and a desperate woman fighting for self preservation
 Miss Daisy Rogers, a manicurist was killed in Boston, and a young man. Francis Caverly. was found uncon scious outside her door fatally wound ed. Miss Rogers was also known as Dorothy McCloud and was a Canadian who had lived ome years in the Uni ted States. Caverly is said to be a married man with children. and for some time had been friendly with Miss Rogers.
 After the shots were heard by ten. ants of the building where Miss Rog- CTS had her place of business a young man was seen to hurry away from the scene. Another triangle'
 Captain Raymond Potter. out in Los Angeles, shot down his wife, Wanda Potter, from whom h had been sepa- rated a month her companion. Orin Fitzwater. and two others seated in rear in a Venice beach car.
 Potter and his wife were married in Battle Creek, Mich, year ago last March, and after their recent separa- tion Potter attempted reconciliation. but failed.
 Mrs. Emma Banner, Wanda Potter's mother. said her daughter had been receiving attentions from other meu lately, but that Captain Potter had been crnel to his wife and was ex. tremely jealous. Fitzwater said he met Mrs. Potter recently and thought she was single. He admitted posing as a single mana 'Mr. Sillers"-and