Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-02-28
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worth of jewelry that had been insured
for $4,000 has confessed. She said
that she had been desperately embar-
rassed as the result of real. estate
transactions and she had adopted that
expedient in the hope Of recovering
herself. The police suspect that she is
the same woman who collected $4,000
from an insurance company for the al
legged theft Of gems in Columbus, Ohio,
a year ago.
: - Alleged to have defrauded fourteen
or fifteen society women OF at least
$56O,O00,, Alfred l.. Lindsey, a broker OF
SoIfthis Nyack, New York, is being
sought to face charges that he made
off with the entire personal fortune OF
Mrs. Lillian D. Duke, divorced wife OF
James B. Duke, the tobacco king.
Mrs. Duke charges Lindsey got all her.
cash, $325,000 and jewelry worth S5O,-
600. Papers filed at New York allege
that Lindsey, who was known also as
Alfred e. Post and Richard Roe. with
Mrs. Lindsey, said to have gone. by the
name Of Elsie Behr, ""learned Mrs.
Duke was a woman easily influenced
and deceived and they deliberately con-
triyed to take advantage OF her.. Mrs.
Dukes attorneys say she had sunered
a nervous breakdown. Lindsey's home,
an extensive country villa at South
Nyack, is one of the show places OF the
west bank of the Hudson river. Mrs.
Duke, declared in her complaint that 1t
had been bought and improved with
money she lent Lindsey.
1t will be new experience for the
peasants of the ,Volga area to be corn
fed when the famine supplies from
America arrive there. Whlle ndlan
corn has been generally used Tor oread
and cassia in the Ukraine, which Is as
much of a corn country, as Indiana or
Iowa. the Volga area has confined its
cultivation chiefly to small grain. 1t
has short seasons and less precipita-
lion than ideal corn country. SO the
reasants know little about corn meal
and the art of making corn bread,
hominy and cornmeal mush. When II
became known that the American re-
lief administration would send large
quantities of corn through the Black
sea for the immediate relief OF the
famine, Soviet officials in the Moscow
food administration, wired to all otfl-
cials along the Nolga urging them TO
be prepared to instruct the peasants
in the use of the strange grain. PIans
were made. to rush II Immediately TO
Rostoff- -on-Don and thence to famine
Volga. area and into the hands of the
peasants without any effort at milling.
The Volga country is full of, wind
driven mills which can probably be ad-
justed so as to grind the corn, Or In
case the peasants cannot get 1t ground
in mills, the Soviet officials say the
Russians are so accustomed to pound
ing up grain in mortars that they will
manage somehow to crack it sniff
ciently so that IT. can be boiled into
coarse mush. Russians are fond of
cassia, or mush, which is made of mil
let, ,buckwheat and other coarse grain.
-. The beginning of the sixth week
in Rhode Island and the third week in
New Hampshire of the strike which
closed many cotton mills finds mill
owners and strike leaders in both
states apparently determined to main
tain their positions, Some $4,000 ope-
ratives are idle, In Rhode Island the
state board Of mediation and concilia-
tiopi. has. asked manufacturers and the
tstfaa had derss pt7ttp8 RaEuIxet and
Blaclostone sIaheyss totfeply' by Tues
day afternoon to its proposition that
its chairman, Judge ]. Jerome Hahn
be appointed sole mediator Of the
wage dispute. This proposition would
involve the return of the operatives to
the mills at once at rate Of wages to
he determined by Judge Hahn and to
be effective until his final decision and
at the hours of labor that prevailed be-
fore the strike. He would make no
decision in regard, to working hours,
which the board considers q matter for
the legislature to determine. No me-
diation move is pending in New
Hampshire, The governor and council
last week refused to call special ses-
sion of the legislature to consider the
enactment of a 4S-hour law for mill
workers. on the ground that bill for
such a pufnose was decisively defeat-
sesisat The -4ast regular session and that
it's success at a special session was
improbable. Disturbances last week
in the Pawtuxet and Blackstone val
deys. in one of which a man was killed
at PawtuXAt by shots from the police
when they drove back crowd making
q demonstration near one of the mills,
have not been repeated. National
guaTdsmen are on. duty in both" Of
these strike areas.rIn New Hampshire,
where the principal strike center is the
great plant of the ,Amoskeag mills at
Manchester. there has not been any
disorder since the walkout.
Miss Marcine Matthews, II years
old, shot anda instantly, killed J. S.
Crossiin during proceedings in the dis
trict court at Waco, Texas, last Fri
day. He was charged with criminally
attacking the girl two years ago.
Crosslin, aged SO years, was tried. con-
victed and sentenced to nine years in
tie penitentiary but the case was re-
versed on an error in the admissionsof
testimony and remanded for trial. The
preliminaries had been completed and
Miss Matthews had been called to the
witness stand. HE disgraced me,
ruined my health and deprived me of
school privileges" she stated after the
killing. But he will never ruin another
girl" Miss Matthews walked to the
witness chair, then turned with pistol
in hand and fired straight at Crosslin
who sat in a chair beside his attorneys,
Is feet away. She then took two or
three steps forward and fired again.
Advancing to within three feet of the
man who had collapsed in his chair she
shot at him for the third time officer
Burton seized the girl in his arms and
carried her out Of the court room. He
took the weapon from her and locked
her in a room in the sheriff's office.
Confusion reigned in the court room.
Judge Monroe dismissed the jury in
definitely. Later a murder complaint
was, fled. against the girl. Crosslin
was in the real estate business and
when the charge was filed against him