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Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1921-12-10
Methodists Near
End, Selecting
Their Delegates
by Associated Press)

Orlando, Dec. 1O.-The Florida
Methodist annual conference today
elected the following delegates to the
general conference:
Clerical. C. Jenkins, M. H. Nor
ton, j. B. Mitchell, ]. T. Hilburn, W.
A. Cooper.
Lay. T. McCord, j. H. Thorell,
L. W. Duval, L, N. Pitkin, G. WIFI Ted
der, alternates, F. 7. Harris, E. T.
Roux, Mrs. J. T. Fuller.
The new board of trustees of South
ern college at Lakeland was elected
as follows:
j. M. Gross, G. F. Scott, R. |. Bar
nett, E. E. Edge, J. Edgar Wall, G.
W. Tedder, for enc year; John A.
Hendry, W. A. Cooper, J. P. Hilburn,
G. S. Roberts, L. w. Duval, L. T. Nc
Cord, L. E. Giles, C. L. johnson for
two years; L. D. Lowe, ]. D. Rooney,
j. Edgar Wilson, ]. T. Mitchell, E. T.
Roux, t. L. Hendrix, three years.
|. S. Patterson was recommended
by the board os missions for appoint
ment as missionary secretary. j. S.
Chapman and John V. Culpepper as
confederate evangelists; ]. R. Cason,
superintendent of orphanage, J. Ed
gar Wilson, editor of the Florida |
Christian Advocate and D. B. Sweat, !
assistant editor.
Authority was granted the trustees
of Southern college to sell property
at Sutherland and all other property
except that at Lakeland.
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1921-12-10
Post Card Week
Begins Monday
With Big Rush
CBy AsnncInted Pressl

Post card week begins Monday
Have you entered? 1t means the
sending from Palatka advertising
matter that cannot be bought with
dollars.
Secretary Hart has one hundred
thousand cards to be distributed to
those who want them. 20 charge is
made. You can get ten thousand.
Make it big thing for Palatka. Mail
them to everyone you know, or ever
heard of.
The New York herald., 1921-08-07

Cincinnati attorney. 10 represent me in
divorce action. In this got a judg-
ment of $4,000 for alimony but l never
received a cent of It,"
Miss Stone said she learned Mr.. Kin
kead had taken an Office at 176 Broad
way and that she made daily visits to
the building In an effort to see him.
"Oh. so many days / waited for him."
she continued. II showed him up to his
friends. that is. those of his friends
was able to see. I told them I dared
Ellis Kinkead to face me on Broadway.
but he didn't do 4. ] grew weary of
waiting and came to Brooklyn
did you know where Mr.. Kinkead
lived?" she was asked.
"A General always knows MS land be-
fore he sends his army out" she replied.
The nurse said she stood waiting for
Mr.. Kinkead at the corner of South
Elliott place and Lafayette avenue on
three different occasions but that she
had no success up to Friday evening.
That was the first time had seen him
since April" she said. The pistol used
in the killing of Mr.. Kinkead was in her
handbag when she met the lawyer. Miss
Stone explained but she said she had no
recollection of taking 1t out of the bag.
Mrs. Kinkead said that the nurses
The New York herald., 1921-08-07

alleged relations with Mr.. Kinkead was
not the first time Miss Stone had had
trouble with men.
About ten or eleven years ago." she
said. 'the Covington. KY. and Cincinnati
newspapers had long accounts of an af-
fair she had with a wealthy Cincinnati
business men. He had suffered a ner-
vous breakdown. like my husband. and
she was called in to take care OF him.
The Stone woman accompanied him on
a. trip to Europe and on the way over
there was trouble on the ship which the
captain had TO settle. Miss Stone later
preferred charges against the man, but
the matter was settled out OF court.
when she says she sued my husband
for divorce she tells of an occasion when
the whole matter was threshed out in
court and she was told that she had no
legal standing"
Mrs. Kinkead said Miss Stone fire.
quently wrote letters to her husband de-
manding money and that they came to
New York in the hope of losing her.
Mr.. Kinkead." she added. had just ar
ranged 10 set up offices In the Wander
bilt Building Monday. an sure.
though. he had a feeling she was here
after him.
This Stone woman is almost Hitter
ate,' she continued. "She is iot from
Covington or Louisville. as she has
The New York herald., 1921-08-07

claimed, but from the mountains of Ten
nessee. and she has all the fiery charac-
teristics of the .mountaineers. | believe
she is mentally unbalanced"
Neighbors of the Kinkeads in the
South Elliott street house stated that
three months ago Miss Stone threatened
to kill both Mr.. and Mrs. Kinkead and
that the lawyer had difficulty In getting
the nurse out of the house.
Records in the New York County
Clerks office show Miss Stone started a
suit for divorce from Mr.. Kinkead on
June 3 last naming Mrs. Kinkead core
spondent, alleging she was the lawyers
common law wife. The nurse asked for
alimony pending trial. but Justice Whit
taker denied her claim. Mr.. Kinkead
stated in his answer to the nurses COM
plant that he was Unconscious and de-
lirious" while in the care of Miss Stone
and that his mental condition was such
that he had but vague idea Of what
had happened.
Dispatches from Louisville, KY, said
that Mr.. Kinkead was married to Miss
Marie Louise Gormley in that city two
years ago. Miss Julia Gormley, sister
of Mrs. Kinkead, described Miss Stone as
being 50 years old and said that after
the marriage of the lawyer to her sister
the nurse sued Mr.. Kinkead for breach
of promise. but lost the suit
The New York herald., 1921-08-07
NURSE HAPPY SINCE
SLAYING KINKEAD
Continued from First Page.

that this was deliberate murder. She
admitted as much herself. She admitted
she had been following this man for q
long period with intent to kill lin. She
will doubtless be indicted for murder in
the first degree. I am convinced that
she is entirely rational. She told clear,
connected story of the affair and seemed
quite pleased with her work.
Mrs. Kinkead told reporters she
wanted 1t understood she had no malice
in her heart against Miss Stone. "She
Is about A years old" she added. "and
is passing through very trying period
of life Mrs. Kinkead explained that
she had closed out a bank account
preparatory to taking her husbands
body back to Covington.
Miss Stone told her story to reporters
while being taken in patrol wagon to
the Gates avenue court. She said she
graduated as a nurse in 1911 and first
met Mr.. Kinkead In Cincinnati In 1918
when he was suffering from a nervous
breakdown. Three weeks after / was
called to attend him" she said. Tho be-
gan to make love to me. Yes, he was a
fast worker. Oh. my, he was very f. st
WORKER.
The nurse said that at about this time
Mr.. Kinkead borrowed 81 900 from ser,
which. she said, he wished to invest in
one of his ventures. II didn't have much
money" she added, ''but I gave him the
81 900. That was the last l saw OF It. ]
believe he spent it on the Gormley girl
(Mrs. Kinkcad)."
Asked how Mr.. Kinkead had managed
to leave her, Miss Stone said:
II could see his love was waning and
growing cold and decided that he must
marry me. / consulted with the dean
of the Cincinnati Law School, where
KinSead was member of the faculty.
II told the dean Of our relations and
insisted that the dean use his influence
to bring about the marriage. The dean
said he would have to marry me or be
discharged. Well. ! got him discharged
all right Kinkead refused to marry me
and was asked to sign his resignation
That was in 1920.
''Ie remained In Cincinnati for about
eight weeks after his discharge, and in
the meanwhile he married the Gornley
girl He then disappeared from town
and his political friends said he had gone
20 England. l did not believe this and
employed detectives. who located him In
New York within ten days.
II retained Theodore Horseman, q
The New York herald., 1921-08-07
SCHOOL TEACHER HELD
ON BURGLARY CHARGE
Miss Greenberg Pronounced
Sane at Hospital.

Miss Sherley Greenberg. 22, Brooklyn
school teacher, charged with burglary,
July q. on the complaint Of Michael
Silverman Of 3012 Mermaid avenue. was
arraigned in Coney Island court yester-
day and held In 81 900 bail for the Grand
Jury. Following her arrest and at the
request of her brother. Miss Greenberg
was sent by Magistrate Reynolds to
Kings County Hospital for observation.
She was returned from the hospital to-
day with the announcement that she was
sane.
The young woman was said to have
been seen by Silverman coming from his
apartment. He missed 500 and a pair or
slippers and 1t was said when the young
woman was arrested she had on the slip
pers. Members of the family at the first
court arraignment testified that Miss
Greenberg had caused them anxiety by
unexplained absences from home. she
had been doing settlement work In New
Jersey for the summer short time prior
10 her arrest Magistrate O'Neill heard
the case to-day.
The New York herald., 1921-08-07
POLICE SAVE DRIVER
AFTER BOY Is KILLED
Car Sweryes to Sidewalk Into
Crowd of Children, All
Escaping but One.

An automobile swerved on to the side
walk at Eldridge and Canal streets yes
terday afternoon. killing Waldecko Ia
loga, aged 8. or Allen street. An ex-
cited crowd vas threatening the driver.
Edmond Fedullo. 20 years old. of 81
Mott street. when the police arrived.
Fedullo said three men started to cross
the street directly in front of his car
and to avoid them he swung to the side
walk
Several children scattered out OF the
way just in time. but the Zaloea boy
was struck by the bumper and thrown
so heavily that his skull was fractured.
Fedullo was taken to the Clinton street
station on a technical charge of homi-
eide.
Mrs. Carrie Thompson, aged 40, OF
544 Evergreen avenue. Brooklyn. may
die as a result of injuries received at
Jackson avenue, near Harris avenue,
Long Island City, when she was struck
by an automobile driven by David Nc
Phee, 1890 Central avenue. Glendale.
She had stopped while crossing the
street to let one automobile pass, and
then stepped in front of McPhee's ma
chine. She was taken to St. Johns
Hospital with fractured ribs. broken
right hip and possible internal injuries.
Victor Weisberg, aged Is. book
keeper, OF 23 East 104th street. a pas
senger on taxicah going east in 18TH
street, The Bronx, was killed when a
touring car going south on Park avenue
struck the rear end of the taxi and
threw II against fire hydrant Weis-
berg. who was buried In the wreckage.
was found 10 have died from a COM
pound fracture of the skull. John PEN
dergast. Ir., SO years old, OF 533 East
t34th street. driver of the touring car.
was detained for questioning by an AS
sistant District Attorney.
Mrs. Rose Peritzman. 35, OF S42 Myr-
tie avenue. Brooklyn. was run down by
an automobile which jumped the curb at
Moore and Humboldt streets. Brooklyn.
late yesterday afternoon. She died at
St GATHERINGS Hospital last night. The
driver. Samuel Aantell. Of 212 Van
Buren, street. Brooklyn. said he tried to
avoid q collision with another automo-
bile. He was held on a technical charge
OF homicide
The New York herald., 1921-08-07
ALIMoNY FOR MRS. MARTIN.

Supreme Court Justice Martin yester-
day granted weekly alimony of SIS and
$500 counsel fees to Mrs. Ethel Edna
Martin. who is suing Harry Thornley,
Martin, landscape architect, for divorce.
The complaint says they were married
August 2s, 1912; that troubles began
when her husband came home intoxi-
Gated one night and she had to undress
him. Mrs. Martin says she smelled per-
fume on his underclothes. and that later
he admitted his fondness for women of
various cabarets.
The New York herald., 1921-08-07
DR.. TOWNSEND SUED,
DESERTION CHARGED
Wife Starts Action Against
Throat and Nose Specialist
for Separation.

DR.. Irving Townsend. throat and nose
specialist or $50 West Fifty-ninth street.
was named defendant yesterday In an
action for separation begun by Jane c.
Townsend. through william Donohue OF
A Cedar street her attorney. Mrs
Townsend Is living with her eleven-
year-old daughter at 269 West Seventy
second street. She charges cruelty and
desertion and in her complaints cites
that when she was married In Hoboken
June &C. 1909, her husband had wide
reputation as a surgeon and that he had
an income Of more than $4,000 a year
Argument for alimony will be heard
August ~.
Mrs Townsend alleges that in 1917
the family moved to Flushing L. l.. for
the sake of the daughter. At about the
same time. Mrs. Townsend alleges, that
her husband established stopping
place" and office at $50 West Fifty
ninth street. Frequently thereafter she
charges that he became intoxicated. On
one occasion, 1t Is alleged. he returned
TO his Flushing home in such condition
that he arrived at the wrong house In
his neighborhood and proceeded t. rre-
pare fer the night 1t IL further
charged that later he was run down by
an automobile and required attention in
his home. Mrs. Townsend also charges
that for several months her husband has
not paid for her accommodations in tho
West Seventy-second street house and
has fallen behind in her weekly allow
ance
During the last twenty years DR..
Townsend has been assistant surgeon
and surgeon in the throat department
of the New York Ophthalmic Hospital.
lecturer on the diseases of nose and
throat in that institution and laIyngoIo-
list in Hahnemann and Laura Franklyn
Free Hospital The papers In the ac-
ion fled yesterday were served at his
Fifty-ninth street office.
The New York herald., 1921-08-07

But. Mrs. Barber you just called him
Pete"
"Oh, yes, that is so. know him,
Hicks quotes Mrs. Barber as having
said.
who shot him?" the physician then
asked.
This question, Hicks says, caused Mrs.
Barber to lean over Bender and say
Now. Pete. you know who shot you
you shot yourself"
Whereupon the wounded man IS SAID
TO have replied
'Yes. shot myself.
Party Preceded Tragedy.
Mr.. Hicks says that he searched the
lawn near where MI. Bender was lying
and came upon an automatic pistol not
more than six feet away.
Inquiries at the home of Mrs. Barber
this afternoon elected the information
that she and her niece, Miss Alma Ia
Rock, left for New York city In an auto
mobile. Servants in the house all denied
knowing Mr.. Bender or ever having seen
him before, but neighbors told the au-
thorities that they have seen him half
dozen times during the last month or so.
Mrs. Barber told Prosecutor Mills that
she had a party at her house last night
but that everybody retired about mid
night. That hour. as best The authorities
nan make out. was when Bender was
shot, as 1t was about IL I'D A. Nj. when
DR., Plume called at the home of Mr..
Hicks and asked that he accompany
him to tho Oaks. DIR. Plume has denied
that he was summoned by Mrs. Barber.
Mrs. Barber told Mrs. Charles !. King.
Il neighbor, yesterday that her husband.
from whom she had been separated for
hospital In Rutland, 1T. The body was
cremated at her direction. Mrs. Barber
said. and the ashes sent to Canton. Ohio,
the home of the Mckinley family
The New York herald., 1921-08-07
SHOT BY SHERIFF; KILLS SELF.

AURORA ILL.,, Aug 6.-James Witt who
has been hunted for three months in con-
nection with the murder Of Chief Of Po-
lice George Rehm of West Chicago, last
night shot and killed himself after he
had been wounded in a pistol fight with
Sheriff Martin Hextell of Kendall county
in a country road near Yorkville Ill.
The New York herald., 1921-08-07
MYSTERIOUSLY SHOT
ON WIDOWS 'SLAWN
Peter Bender, Insurance
Agent, Recants Admission of
Attempted Suicide.
PARTY BEFORE TRAGEDY
Queer Colloquy Between
Wounded Man and Mrs. Bar
Der Reported by Witness.

srecior Despatch TO THE New YoEK HERALD
SuccAsuNNA, II. j., Aug. 6.--Mystery
surrounds the shooting late last night
OF Peter Bender. an insurance agen~
with offices in New York. Chicago ana
Detroit on the lawn OF the oaks the
estate here of Mrs. George Barber,
whose husband was a nephew OF Mrs.
william Mckinley, wife Of the Presi-
ident. Physicians at the Dover General
Hospital, to which Mr.. Bender was re-
moved in a serious condition, assert that
he first made a statement that he had
attempted suicide, but later recanted
and thereafter refused to discuss the
shooting at all.
Mrs Barber told County Prosecutor
John y. Mills and Detective Edward
l.. Brennan that the first she learned
about the shooting was this morning at
breakfast when maid Informed her
that a man had been found lying on
the lawn last night with bullet wound
in his chest. She said, according to
the authorities. that she never knew
or heard of Bender. but. on the other
hand, the local police officials have
been informed that letters signed by
Mrs. Barber have been found In the
mans room in the McAlpin Hotel, New
York city.
George Hicks, a mechanic. living about
a quarter mile from the home of Mrs.
Barber. told Prosecutor Mills that he was
aroused about midnight by DIR. Clarence
Plume. who asked that he accompany
him to the home Of Mrs. Barber as there
had been some trouble there. Hicks
says that he got into the physicians ma
chine and that as they turned into the
Barber estate they heard groans. Stop
ping the machine they found Mr.. Bender
lying in the roadway. his head resting
on stones and his body partly on the
lawn
Says She Called Him "Pete.'
II want some water-bring me
water" Hicks quotes Bender as having
plead ed.
Hicks says that he then went UP to
the house and aroused Mrs. Barber,
who came down the roadway and
glanced at the man lying in the road
way.
do you know this man. DR.. Plume
inquired.
mo. / do not" Hicks quotes Mrs
Barber as having said.
The wounded man asked again for
water. and, upon hearing his voice Mrs.
Barber. according to Hicks. leaned over
and said:
why. Pete. what have you done?"
DR.. Plume again asked Mrs. Barber If
she knew the wounded man and upon
receiving a negative answer again the
physician said, according to Hicks:
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-01-19
TO REVIVE SHIPBUILDING.
Heads of Unions to Confer at
Washington on Industrial
Situation.

BY Associated Press TO Every Evening.
Washington, Jan, ia meeting of the
heads of international unions whose mem
bers are employed in the shipbuilding
trades has been called for tomorrow to
consider the industrial situation growing
out of the continued depression In Ameri-
can ship yards, it was announced today
at American Federation of Labor head
quarters.
The general situation will be discussed
tomorrow, it WAS said, and on January
"a the labor officials will confer with
representatives of the Bethlehem Ship
building Co, and on January q with n
committee representing shipbuilders OF
the Atlantic coast district.
The purpose of labor it was stated, II
to cooperate cordially with the ship
builders in the effort to reduce the cost
of production to a point where the IN
dustry may be revitalized
Charles M. Schwab of the Bethlehem
Company, was said to have expressed
the opinion that the present price OF
Sl90 to 5000 per deadweight ton would
have to be reduced TO $3.50 per dead
weight ton if the yards were TO continue
in operation.
The statement also was made IN the
preliminary conferences that not private
contract had been placed with the larger
building companies IN the past month
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-01-19
WORCESTER SUFFERS
FROM FIRE EPIDEMIC
Twenty BIazes in Various Parts
of City Keep Firemen Busy
Incendiarisn Suspected.

by Associated Press to Every Evening
Worcester, Mass, jan 10 This city
was spotted by fires early today With 0
loss that ran upwards of 81 100000
Two business buildings on Main street,
heavily stocked with merchandise, were
burned out. a score Of tenement structures
we're overrun BY sparks that caused rool
blazes, ard guests ~ the Bancroft and
New Park Hotels. which were situated
between the business ard the tenement
district fires, stood ready To follow the
tenement dweIIcrs into the zero tenn
persture Of the streets The hotels were
saved however
While this epidemic of fres ~ the
south engaged al the city's apparatus
'snother fiery pot developed several
blocks to the pcrth. whore the wood
working plant of The " X Smith Cor
poration was burned with a loss q
100000.
The origin of none Of the principal
fires was determined definitely, bHt he
police said they had only the faintesi
suspicion that ineendiarisrn was involved
The FIRE area was too great 70 be ade-
quately covered by the city's FIRE depart
ment and aid wa summoned from other
cities Engine 2G, motorized unit came
over the "a miles Of bleak road from Boston
IN orJlek time
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-01-19
ZERO WEATHER At LAST;
COLD WAVE GRIPS EAST
Mercury Reported One Degree
Below at Exposed Section
Along the Brandywine.

Today is the coide.t of winter
with the mercury at It's loves point Of
the year. II is reported that the Their
momoter recorded one degree below
zero last night AT sections along the
Brandywine which were exposed TO
the sweeping wind. In Less exposed
places, however, the bubble in the bulb
descended 10 eight above and by six
o'clock Il has ascended TO ten
wilmington is suffering less from the
cold than many other sections. a,
Cumberland Md tho mercury was
three below last night. and throughout
New England and Pennsylvania II was
below the zero notch In sections Of
Canada the cold seems to have reached
the greatest degree Of intensity, On
tario recording temperature OF 40
minus. which ia really Arctic weather.
Yesterday was the first real taste Of
winter In this section. The thermome-
ter measured the cold at ten degrees at
six o'clock I'm the morning. but the
mercury rose to 20 by noon. The cold
est period previously recorded this sea
son was &c, several days ago. Other
wise the winter suggested the golden
October days, in glow and warmth.
Ice rs reported on the surface of
still waters and gives promise of skat-
ing In "a day or two. II is recalled that
there has been one fall Of snow In the
winter. which. according to the calen-
dar. is more than half gone.
1t may he emphasized again that the
anxiety OF householders who are with
out their winter supply of coal has in
creased many fold since the cold wavs
drifted in from the North on Monday
night, and necessitated the operation
of furnaces to full capacity.
Meantime the supply Of coal In WI
uington yards has almost reached itf
vanishing point. but the price has not
gotten below SIS IA ton for domestic
sizes Of anthracite.
There is no warmer weather in siahi
so the cold may continne the rest of ths
week. ns was predicted before It's ar
rival.