Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-12-06
Scraps and faets.

federal court at st. Louis, by the |
Falstaff Corporation, local brewery |
Attorneys for the brewery declare in
their petition that it was not the
purpose of congress to prohibit the use
of LIQUOR for non beverage purposes,
as is evidenced by the wording of the
title Of the national prohibition act"
They also quoted the opinion render
ed by former attorney General Palmer
permitting beer for medicinal pur-
poses. The brewery was granted
permit to manufacture medicinal beer
November S, and manufacture was
started soon afterwards, the petition
states with orders from a large num-
her of druggists and physicians Nov
efnber 2S the anti beer bill was pass
I'd by congress and two days later the
brewery was ordered to stop making
beer. ' : ....'
Harvey w. Church, who a few
weeks ago proudly boasted how he
had murdered Bernard j. Dougherty
and GaEf.M NJ. .Ausmus, automobile
statesmen, who he had lured to the
basement of his home, under pretense
that he wanted 10 buy car, presented
a sadly different appearance in the
Chicago court where he is: on trial Tor
the double crime. He was carefully
dressed, shaved and groomed, but he
sat beside his lawyers twisting
wrinkles in his trousers and his eyes
shifting from object to object along
the floor, but never looking at the
Judge or jury. Work of selecting
Jury is proceeding slowly. SO many
nersons have read of the atrocious
crimes, that it is difficult to find
twelve men who have not formed
opinions, all hostile 10 the defehse:
Church's lawyers will make much OF
the alleged fact that he was arrested
without a warrant and told his story
before he had the advice OF counsel.
- Homicides in the United States !
during 1920 totalled approximate!
Q 600. n decrease of 500 from the 1919
record. according to computation ID!
Frederick l.. Hoffman. third vice presi
dent and statiStican of the Prudehtlai
Life Insurance Company of America.
The figures. made public throNeh
The Spectator showed MeiiipiiIs,
Tenn. still di the lead with killing
record of GA persons for every iUo,UVo
of populati6ifI. The safest of thirty-one
cities for;wheh figures were tabulated
was Rochestela y. Y, where the rate
was but l.3 for every 100000. In gen.
eral the tables showed that southern
states. with large negro populations
had the highest homicide fate and that
the propeftioTJ Jof- negroes slam was
from three and n half TO seven times
that of whites. The average was
slightly in excess of four TO one. TaDu-
lafions for the period 19l5-19l9 group
ed geographically, showed the New
England states to be most law aplu
ing so far as homicide was concelileu' deu
with, o. rate of 2.S for each ioo,VvU.
had the hl2heSl
rate 1O.S. . In the middle Atiantic
states. the rate was 81. Central At
lantic 6.I Rocky Mountain states "a
and Pacific coast states 80. Oh the
largest cities Boston had the lowest
rate 5Il New York was second WIN
so The Chicago rate was lO.3; Sa"
Francisco 7.6: Philadelphia So ~.
Louis 1875 and Cleveland, l2o.
Lena NJ. T. Clarke was found to
he insane and not guilty on the charge
~ mTrderine +. A. Mltimore at Or
1anda Fla. on the night of August l.
last by a Jury in circuit court late
Friday. Baxter Patterson, indlctea
with Miss Clarke, was acquitted. me
inrv deliberated about two hours ana
TX minutes. Judge Andrews sald ne
would continue to hold Miss clarke III
xii until he had gone further nIo
fhe evidence in the case. The acllOh
Srf the court in holding Miss Clarke
until investigation of evidence Is 'ah-
en- TO indicate that he may oroel nei
incarceration in the state insane as!
lum at Chattahoochee. Ihe jury .
tired at 1926 Friday AFTERNOON an an
listening to Judge ANDREWS lS;"S occnn,ed ,ass1S
s,aarI, nalf an hour. AT 5:l5, ~
minutes before the verdict was rem
dered tine Jury reentered the court
room andreauested Judge Andrews
fo,. f,rthEr information relative 10 the
wording of a verdict and that part oI
tho ind se's instructions was again
road Once more the II men hlea OUT
of tho chamber and their next aP
,,aarance marked the close OF the trlal'
Miss Clarke received the verdict cam,
lv and after embracing her dseu
father. who has been with heI uuIInS
the trial, turned to receive tne CoL ho
pratulatfbns of several women VIZ
rushed to grasp her hand as SOon 40
the verdict was reto. MlSa H., of
Srs+ remark following the reading OF
tho verdict was: ITO tell the truth; !
didn,t =. care~;much one way or lhe
other" ..,.
With all the conflicting statements
90 oIIegad focfs and expressions oil OPP
inion from bresumably high sources, 1t
is difficult indeed to arrive al Il SaliS-
factory idea of the issues which '!no
etiII standing in the way ot cntlie
q oereement among the nations parIlCi-
Mating in the arms conference
aneech of premier Bri&nd before san
ING left a disagreeable flavor poth III
England and France, in England ~.
comse II seemed to advertise the desire
of France tSGmch her dominating pos
eition inEur6pe, and France because
tho nremier did not go far lhouSH ~
that direction. The dispatches ln"ic".t
thot NJ Poincare, who is at present
Prer,ier Brands principal poIitlcai
anta ponist. has become the open lcau+
or of the large element in France S .il",
10 favoring n stiffer attitude '"Walu
Greot BRITAIN as well rs the seizure q.
ali of Germany's resources as asaihsl
a. renorations she has been bound 10
nay while England is strongly oi?
noSed in favor of agreeing 10 a Iloil
torium under which there VIII pc
Efmrthcr suspension Of the time OF pay
,oont of all that portion of the German
daht which is rot payable IN eO"uS'
premier Lloyd George, "i hnEi"iiu,
;s ranrescnted as feeling that II Is very
assnntiaI. for him to come TO lne coh-
t%roncc as soon as possible in the nope
nF trdgbtening out the present con-
VI =, that he cXDctlS