The Yale expositor., 1922-12-21

at White Cloud, to serve life in the
Detroit house of correction. Media
Hodell was convicted by jury sew
eral weeks ago, after a sensational
trial, of having poisoned her aged
father-in-law, David Hodell, while the
mother was convicted two weeks ago
after a long trial of having killed
Ronrie Hodell, the husband Of her
daughter. Both women protested
their innocence to the last.
Governor Groesbeck has paroled
Francisco Coma, life term inmate at
Michigan State Prison at Jackson,
who has served eight years and seven
months on conviction of having shot
and killed Patrolman Charles School
OF Detroit the night of August 10,
1918. The parole is on the ground
that the evidence offered at the trial
did not warrant conviction and
that there is strong presumption that
he is innocent.
Refused a kiss by his wife, Claude
Frits, Lansing, 81 years old, walked
across the street and shot himself
with a shotgun. He is in a serious
condition. Mrs. Frits told the officers
her husband returned from work and
asked her for a kiss. She said she
replied that she was too busy and she
blew" him a kiss as he left the
room. She said her husband had been
despondent for several days.
Is an autoist entitled to damages
from the city If he wrecks his car in
running into a tree allowed to grow
in the center of the street? The Kala-
mazoo city commission has answered
that question in the negative in the
case of r. Ghainer. The latter com
planned he could not see the tree un
til 1t was too late to avoid the col
lision. The case may be carried to
the courts.
Three years ago Sydney Boyd of
Battle Creek was answering to
front" as a bellboy in a local hotel.
Last week he was registered at the
same hotel as a musical comedy com
pany star, while one Of his old bell
boy chums carried his luggage. Boyd,
who took vocal training while "hop-
ping BELLS" went to New York a few
years ago and engaged with a musi-
cal comedy company.
With the discovery at Flint of
box containing 80 sticks of dyna.
mite, concealed in a woods on the out
skirts of the city, on which finger
prints are plainly visible, Flint police
believe they have evidence which may
lead to the arrest Of the bandits who
recently attempted to blow safe con-
tanning several hundred dollars in
the Office of the Genesee Iron Works.
AS part of his penalty for violating
the prohibition law, Con Winske, now
serving 40 days in the county all at
Owosso, was compelled to carry out
the liquor he had so carefully made,
and which had been confscated, and
dump it in the sewer. Fifty gallons
Of moonshine and IL stills, confiscated
by sheriff's officers, were destroyed at
the county all at the same time.
Paul r. Wilson, Detroit, director of
the Michigan Union orchestra, and
Eric Lowell, also of Detroit, both
students in the University Of Michi-
gan, have announced that they will
take the orchestra to Europe this
summer, and that bookings are already
being made. These bookings include
a trip through Italy, France, Germany
England, Switzerland and Spain.
The Washtenaw County Fair asso-
citation has voted to erect a $1,000
merchants building at the fair
grounds at Ann Arbor to house the
exhibits of merchants at the fairs.
The building will be 125 by 151 feet,
and will be devoted to an exhibition
of Washtenaw county products only.
The structure will be ready for occu.
pancy in the fall Of 1923.
Mrs. E. r. Latham, of Olivet, has
charge of organizing the Lansing dis
trict of Congregational churches, for
the campaign to raise the S2,Q00,000
fund contingent to the gift Of ST..
100000 of John d. Rockefeller for
the Laura Spelman Memorial Seven
missions are to be the benefciaries of
this fund, three in China, three in
India and one in Japan.
After a dramatic reconciliation with
his wife, following his attempt to
commit suicide by slashing his throat
with a razor, Louis Lymon, of Kala-
mazoo, is making a desperate fight
for his life in the South Haven hospi-
tai. Learning of her husbands at
tempt on his life Mrs. Lymon told
the attendants that a reconciliation
had been effected.
Colonel e. M. Margham, district
engineer OF the United States govern