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| the fatal shooting in a restaurant here
| last July Of Thomas A. O'Connell of
New Haven, Conn, was, started today
before a jury OF seven women and five
men today, after three days effort to
seat the jury. Eighty persons were OK
amined before tho jury was selected.
FRESNO, Calif..-while defense at
torneys sought to bring in the coroner
jury verdict OF justifiable homicide, to
secure release OF George Harlow, con-
fcsBed wife slayer. Justice Short of
O'Neils today passed upon the verdict
and held Harlow to answer to the SUI
perior court for trial on the charge of
murder preferred by F. L. Orr, father
OF the dead, wife.
WINCHESTER, va-Clifton NJ. Hodg-
son. member Of the city council. was in
dfcted by the corporation court grand
] jury here today on a charge Of petit
larceny in connection with alleged short
ages in his accounts as bookkeeper for
, the Beck Baking Company.
ST. LOU-s.-The case OF Mrs. Harry
Brenn, charged with grave robbery
and arson. today was continued for the
third time when called in justice court.
The case was set for Nov O. at the re-
quest Of the defense. Police are con-
tinuing their search for Mr. Brenn, who
is under similar charges.
CONSTANTINOPLE -- Ussuf Kennel
Bey, the Turkish Nationalist foreign
minister, has resigned, it was announced
here today.
CLEVELAND, ohio--N1rs. Hazel Burns,
20, whose badly mutilated body was
found buried in shallow grave near
gainesville Wednesday. died from suf-
location and strangulation, Lake county
authorities announced tonight, following
a pOst-mortem examination of the body.
Mrs. Burns was not shot, but was beat
en- with the butt of small calibre re-
volver then buried alive In a shallow
grave in a marsh, the authorities de-
clared. The marks at first believed to
be bullet wounds, were made by the butt
of pistol, physicians said.
ALEXANDRIA, Va. 49,, Attempts by
counsel for the government to withdraw
all charges of conspiracy and fraud laid
against Charles w. Morse, New York
shipbuilder. and his various companies
in the case now in progress here failed
today when Judge Waddill in the fed
eral court for the Eastern Virginia dis
trict refused to entertain the motion.
The court upheld attorneys for the come.
pany in their contention that it would
be most unfair to their clients to amend
the bill so drastically at this late day
after the charges had been so widely
published '." SIS -.' = - -
AGO.-Brigadier General VAN
horn Moseley, commandant at Fort
Sheridan, today summoned a court OF
inquiry to investigate whether a second
lieutenant by accident or intent direct
ed the harrsge from a one-pounder that
missed its target-Lake Michigan-and
shel1ed estates owned by Mrs. Edith
Rockefeller Mccormack, Cyrus II Nc
Cormack and Francis w. Farwell. late
yesterday. 'I have suppressed the name
Of the second lieutenant who directed
the 'bombardment' as / don't want any
one to know that such q blunderbuss is
on the muster roll of the army" asserted
General Moseley in an explosive tone.
NEW YoRK-Application of sound
economic and business principles to the
immediate settlement of tho German
reparations problems is the only hope for
adjustment OF the European chaos, A
G. Bedford Of the Standard OIL Co. of
New Jersey said tonight in an address
prepared for the convention of the
American Manufacturers Association.
OhLA4NDO-Nnr GEORGE bTOWny the
1s-year-old St. Cloud woman who was
shot last night by her husband, who was
latter found to have taken his own life,
lies in q hospital here tonight and there
is no change in her condition, attending
physicians said. The search for Brown
ended early today when his body was
found in the rear OF a, building near the
home. where he attempted. to kill his
wife. bride of three months. No mo-
tive, for the killing his yet been given.
OCALA, Fla. II. jeff Sharum, alias
T. ]. Sherwood, and A. c. Jeffries, who
was arraigned in New York today and
held without bail for examination Nov.
., has both federal and state charges
pending against him here in connection
with his alleged activities as a confidence
man wire Taper in this state in
the winter Of 1921 Sharum is alleged
to have been the leader of a band that
swindIed H. T.. Pointer and his father,
Of Kersey, Pa. of $4,000 in a faka stock
exchange transaction. The Pointers
were winter visitors here. .....
NEW YORK-William g. c. Redfield,
former secretary of commerce, today ex-
pressed the opinion that the letters of
the late Franklin *. Lane, secretary of
the interior in President Wilson'S cabi-
net, which have Just been published in
book form, contain instances of half
truths, which Mr.. Lane himself would
never have permitted to become public
and he himself had the opportunity OF
editing them. Mr.. Redfield was a close
friends of Mr.: Lane and sat next to him
at the cabinet table in war days. /
WASHINGTON-Major General VIII
liam NJ Wright, recently ordered home
from the Philippines, where he was in
of the American forces, re-
ported at the war department today and
officials here that conditions
in the islands were improving
rapidly.
ATLANTIC. CITY, N. J.--George B.
CorteIyGN. president of the Consolidated
Gas CO Bpany of New York announced
II fnday's session of fhe American Gas