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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-01-24
Train Victims
Buried Today
Large Concourse Of Railroad Men,
Relatives and Friends At
tend Three Funerals

The funerals Of the three rail
road men who. were killed Sun
day afternoon at Inlet, Va, nea-
Culpeper, when a boiler of a
Southern Railway locomotive eX-
ploded, were held today and each
funeral was attended by a large
gathering of railroad men, rela-
tives and friends Of the men.
\ The first funeral held was that
of Engineer Samuel Harrington,
which took place at $3.50 O'Clock
from st. Rita's Catholic Church.
Mount Ida. Services were con
ductcd by Rev. Michael Cannon,
pastor of st. Mary's Catholic
Church and burial was in Bethel
cemetery. Members Of the Broth
erhood VI Locomotive Engineers
attended and members of that or
ganization acted as pallbearers.
Rites for Brakeman George ".
Allensworth were held at ! o.
clock from the residence of his
father-in-law, W. $. Wood, 212
South Patrick street and con-
Quoted by Rev. DR.. f. B. Jack
son. pastor of the First Baptisc
T Church, and burial was in the
Presbyterian cemetery. Pallhear-
ers were Douglas Merchant, Harry
Lynch, Frank Purvis, w. f.
Brown, c. H. Leakc and Mr.. Wal
ters.
Fireman John T. Curtin's fun
eral took place at 2:30 O'Clock
from Christ Episcopal Church and
was conducted by Rev. DR.. Will
liam ]. Norton, rector. Burial
was in the Presbyterian ceme-
terry. Members of the Elks at
tended and conducted services ~
the grave. The members OF the
Flks and Odd Fellows sen ved ns
pallbearers.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-01-24
Threatened By klan,
Leaves Fredericksburg

Richmond, Va, Jan. 24-Syi-
man Ollie, ordered b. the ku
Krux Klan in Fredericksburg To
n,ovc out or be burned out be-
fore July ], has acted on the sug-
qestion. He conducted large
grocery store in Fredericksburg
. WFLTER WEIGHT MARRIED
Elizabeth, N. j.: Micky Walker
worlds welterweight champion
was married Monday night in St
Columbia's Roman Catholic
Church Newark. n. j., to MISS
Maud Kelly, of Rumson, N. d.
it was announced by Jack Bulger
walkers manager. The couple
met two years ago when Walker
was training in Rumson.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-01-24
yirginian To Serve Year
For His Part in Lynching

Richmond. Va, Jan. 24.-Re-
fusing a writ of error, the Nir-
oinia Supreme Court Of Appeals
Yesterday decided not to inter
fere with verdict of one year
in the penitentiary for voluntary
manslaughter which a Wise
county Jury returned against A.
L. Napier.
Conviction of Napier grew out
of the lynching Of Dave Hurst
a negro, after he had been lock-
ed up in Wise county jail on the
charge of assaulting the wife OF
a citizen of the county. Although
admittedly a member of mon
which went to the jail to get the
negro. Napier sought a reversal
of the judgment of the lower
court on the grounds that he had
no hand in taking the negro from
the jail nor in the subsequent
lynching. According 10 represen-
tations in his petition, he and w
N. Ball, husband of the negro's
victim. and several other mem
bers of the mob practically had
been dissusded by Sheriff a: L
1 Corder from interfering with ths
course of the law when the re.
mainder of the mob broke into TIN
prison and carried Off the negro
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-01-24
Commander of United
States Marine Corps
Accepts Invitation
WILL BE MARSHAL
Expected That Col. J. Y. Williams
VIII be Chosen Aide to Chief
! Marshal-Route For Parade to
! be Decided Later.

Maj. Gen. John A. Lejeune, com
mander of the United States Mar
inc Corps, has accepted an In
vitation of the Washington Birth
day Association to be chief mar
shall of the big military, fraternal
and civic parade to be held hero
February %, under the auspicea
of that association in observance
of the birthday of George Wash
ington. The invitation was tend
cred Maj. Gen. Lejeune yester
dav afternoon by a committet
composed of H. B. Cation, chair
man of the association; Capt
George H. Evans, chairman oI
the military committee and ker'
meth w. Ogden, chairman of -th'
music committee.
The committee feels proud tha'
III was abie to secure the serV
ices of Maj. Gen. Lejeune Il
head the big demonstration OF
that day.
The aide to the chief marsha
will be selected from the ranks
of the birthday association and j
is expected that Col. Julian !
Williams will be named aide i
the chief marshal.
The marshals for the variou
divisions in the parade have al
ready been named by the assocla
4ion The hour for the parad'
and also the route will be dter
mined upon later by the associa
tion. :.
Another meeting of the associa
+ion will be held next Monda,
nioht The various committee
in charge report that things al
now rapidly being whipped INT
shane for the big demonstrated
This will be the first parade hei
in nine years on Washington
hirthdav. the last celebration be
ING in 1914.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-01-24
Million Dollars Sought
To Boost Industries

Portsmouth, Va, Jan. 24-ll
starting out to organize for eff,
fective work in bringing new in'
dustries to Portsmouth and Nor
folk, the newly formed industrial
and industrial fnauce commits
sions have set in motion machin-
cry to accomplish d number Of
important results.
Details of the plan for admin
istering the S1,OOO,OOO revolving
fund based on the experience of
Easton, Pa, and about twenty
other cities where the idea has
been applied, have been made pub
lie.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-01-24

Crane Breaks, Killing 1S
Employees of Newspaper;
Stone Smashes 4 Floors
French Start
Miners Trial

: Mayence, Jan. "a. -
= Omitted Pressl-Trial by
!. courtmartial Of Dritz Thys-
!. sen and six other German
: industrial leaders opened
: today. The court of justice
!. here was packed. Many in
!. ternational journalists were
J. present.
!. French troops with bay
!. oietteG rifles guarded the
: court room inside and out.
: Thyssen, who was taken
). i'll on the eve of the trial,
!. steutly maintained he would
!. obey only the German law.
:. >. :. !. = !. :. :. = :. =. = =
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-01-24
Orders All officers
Back With U. S. Force
nv United Press.b

Washington. Jan. "a 4.-Secrc-
tarv of War Weeks today instruct
ed Major General Henry I. Al
len. commander Of the American
.roops on the Rhine, which are, to
leave today. that any American
army officers acting n iiaSon- Of
ficers with the French or Be, i;san
army of occupation Of the Ruhr
should, be Withdrawn Immediately.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-01-24
cRFB WILL DEFEND TITLE

New York: Harry Trep, ADleTI-
can light heavyweight champion
has been signed to defend his title
against Tommy Loughren, Phila-
delphia in a fifteen round bout
next TUESDAY in Madison Square
Garden. The boxing commission
has ruled that Greb will have tc
go through with his bout with
Gene Tunney, former champion
which was arranged some time
ago.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-01-24
PITY THE BRITISH

London (By Mail to United
Press)-The statistical genius has
been at work again. This time
he has fgured cut the total
weight of the printed matter Is.
sued by the four British parties
in the recent general election. HiS
total reached the staggering ng-
ure of $50 tons, or 200 pounds Tor
each of the 1900 candidates IN
volved in the campaign.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-01-24
SUES FOR 100000

New York: William ofdway
partridge, sculptor. brought SUIT
for 100000 because Thomas JeI-
ferson and other masterpieces IN
p,asters were buried beneath sew
eral tons of coal by a careless
caretaker.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-01-24

3 yCARL ID. GROAT
United Press Staff Correspondent
Essen, Jan. 2i-French troops
in the Ruhr were withdrawn
from the larger cities today, and
quartered in nearby villages. Pa
trolls and staff headquarters re-
mained in Essen, Bochum, DOr,-
mund and other industrial cens-
ers, but the bulk of the army Of
occupation were scattered among
Ruhr farms.
Whether this move presaged
further conciliation on the part
OF the French, or was prelimi-
nary to establishment of Il mill.
tary Gordon around the frontiers
was not made known.
Germans today charged the
French with deliberately spread
ing untrue reports Of troop
movements in Germany" The
French stated they had informa-
ton of such; German officials and
the war office officially declared
the reports unqualiiedly false.
Headquarters Of the Thyssea
plant at Hgmborn announced that
workers al he Thyssen industries
will resun4 their labors pending
outcome %, the Mayence trial.
Many wofAers at Hugo SHINES
plants may return under the same
conditions.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-01-24
Expect Mysterious Witness
TO End Mer Rouge Hearing,
Jones, is said to be Missing Link Witness-Expec
End Today-It is Said He Saw Bodies
on Road to Lake

.heif bodies were placed in Lake
Lafcurche only a few hours after
they were made captives.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-01-24

Oldest Daily Newspaper in the
United States and Best Advertis-
ing Medium in Northern Virginia.
The Washington times., 1923-04-01
Mrs. Rose Emma Gooding, Twice
Imprisoned as "Poison Pen"
Writer, but Eventually Proven
Innocent. The Boy Is One
of Her Two Children.

OMEWHERE in the charming English
seaside town of Littlehampton lives a
malevolent creature of almost super
human resourcefulness and genius who
has managed to bedevil the people of the
famous seaside resort and thus far to defy
every effort at detection.
For more than two years poison pen
letters have upset the peace of mind of
the little Summer resort, until every per-
son looks with suspicion upon his neigh
Dor, and wives have misgivings about their
husbands, and husbands are not sure
whether to believe the shocking revela-
tons about their wives that have come to
them day after day through the mails.
The wholesale food of unspeakable let
tiers stirred the community to activity, and
at1ast, it was thought, the hand that held
the poison pen was discovered. A woman,
it turned out to be, and no time was lost
in her trial, conviction and safe retire
ment behind the bars of cell.
Scarcely had the convicted woman been
released when the flood of letters began
again and, once more, no time was ! st in
SdbhciHlS III Inc same WOHldn dS the Gull
prit. Again she was convicted and again
sent to prison, this time for good, stiff
sentence.
No sooner had the people of the little
seaside town begun to breathe easier and
smile once more, however, when, to their
establishment, the food of poison letters
was let loose again. But with the woman
tad of CT in, bo..
in jail, how could this be?
The unfortunate prisoner had protested
each time that she was convicted that she
was completely innocent. Now, however
there was no longer any doubt that an in
nOcent woman had twice gone to Jail while
the real culprit was still at large.
Naturally, she was released.
The local police redoubled their efforts
Wise men and women from neighboring
towns took up the scent, citizens hired de-
tectives to follow clues, but in spite of
every effort the mails were loaded day
after day with the shocking letters.
One of the most active officials in pur-
suing every clue was Police Constable
May. And as compensation for his activ-
ity, the poison-pen writer at once turned
his attention to Officer May and began to
poster him and his wife, Mrs. Violet Lily
May, with series of especially outrag-
eous letters.
Finally, in despair the authorities of
LittlehamptOn turned to Scotland Yard for
help. Would the great detectives, whose
The Washington times., 1923-04-01

and her soldier sweetheart in India In
deed, for time the relations between
Miss Swami and her sweetheart were
strained as result of the communica-
tions sent to him overseas and bearing the
Littlehampton postmark.
The jury found Mrs. Gooding guilty
and Mr.. Justice Roche, who presided at
the trial. sentenced the woman to ten days
imprisonment taking into consideration
the fact that she had passed two and one
half months in Jail awaiting trial. She
was released on December %, 1920, and
during that Christmas-tide the postal
Campaign of annoyance and calumny
ceased.
Early in 1921, however, the poison
pen" became active again, and once more
the hand of the Law fell on Mrs. Cooling.
and in March, in the same Assize town
where she previously had been convicted.
she again was indicted-and again on the
complaint of Miss Swami.
On her conviction, Mr.. Justice Avory
sentenced Mrs. GOoding to years i'm
prisonment, observing that the leniency
shown her on her previous conviction was
not warranted, and that she must be
taught more severe lesson in order to
put a stop once and fey all to the
alleged persecution of Miss Swami.
Mrs. Gooding had been in Jail only
few months during her second term of
Imprisonment when the campaign of
scurrilty broke out afresh. Then it was
decreed that she was entitled to the full
benefit of acquittal on both charges for
which she had so unjustly suffered; the
convictions we're quashed, and she was re-
leased while the Government awarded her
$3.50 as compensation for the five months
she had been in prison for crimes she had
not committed.
The release of Mrs. Goodng was fol-
lowed several months later by the arrest
of Miss Swami. her accuser, on a charge
The Washington times., 1923-04-01

box at the Assize Court, bore out manJEof
her statements as to her movements at the
time under investigation, and eventually
she was acquitted. This was just about a
year ago. a~s
AS result of the recent recrudeScence
OF the scourge, however, the highest police
skill in the Kingdom has been invoked in
another effort to run down the miscreant
poor residents of Littlehampton have
offered to sacrifice their life's savings if
only the mystery can be solved, whilerthe
weather. folk, jealous of the reputation
of the town, have expressed willingness
to subscribe literally to the efforts to rid
the community of this pestilence
The recurrence of the poison-pen writ
ing at Littlehampton comes almost coin
cldentally with the recent conviction in
Tulle, France, of Mile. Angelo LAVAL a
beautiful young French woman, who was
sentenced to one month in prison, with
suspended sentence, and to pay 100 francs
fine for public defamation and five francs
fine for private defamation as we'll AS
ZOO francs damages to several persons.
As a result of Mile. Laval's "poison
pen" activities, which for period of six
years virtually terrorized the simple in
habitants of the ancient cit of TuIle,
and which puzzled the police authorities
of the whole of France, the young woman's
mother committed suicide-in suicide
pact" which was not kept by the daugh-
ter-an official of the Correze Prefecture,
in which Tulle is located died insane; one
or two others lost their minds and several
suffered nervous breakdowns Many
homes were disrupted
The cause for Mile. LavaIs poison
pen" letter-writing, it was found, was
jealousy of another woman who became
the bride of M. Moury, chief of the Sec
ond Division in the Tulle Prefecture, I'M
der whom Mile. Laval previously was en-
ployed, and whose wife she herself had
hoped to become.
The Washington times., 1923-04-01

minds had unravelled international mys-
teries and had pried into secrets of world
wide Importance, come to the rescue of
the little seaside resort and put their
hands upon the writer Of the poison-p pen
letters?
They woodland did One of the first
results of their activities was the arrest
OF the very woman whose accusations had
caused the conviction Of the unfortunate
Innocent neighbor previously incarcerated.
The evidence against her, however, was
so slight that the presiding justice re-
leased her.
Once more, therefore, the sinister per-
son responsible for the vile letters that
scourged the town had cheated justice.
There was lull of three months in the
activities of the poison-pen author, but
recently the venomous stream flowed
forth again, and now all Littlehampton
once more is undergoing a siege of dis
trust and suspicion Virtually all social
intercourse has ceased
The Washington times., 1923-04-01

Husbands and wives have been
estranged, sons and daughters cast out
of their homes in disgrace for mythical
misdceds, families have been broken up,
lives wrecked, and suicides and murders
even have been laid at the unknown door
of the person or persons responsible for
the foul and untrue charges with which
the "poisOn" letters are filed.
The authorities, as we'll as recipients of
the letters, are convinced the writer of
the slanderous letters and postcards is a
woman. The handwriting, evidently dis
guised, would seem to indicate this to be
fact At first the defamatory letters
were written and addressed in block
capitals, out recently the writer turned
to ordinary round-hand characters
still disguised by an evidently forced
back-hand stroke.
The only clues that the local, Sussex
County and Scotland Yard detectives have
to work on are these:
1.-Hundreds of the libellous letters,
tCt 1928 by American Weekly. !
The Washington times., 1923-04-01

making atrocious charges against bankers,
clergymen, business men, wives, sweet
hearts and even mothers and children
some sent as far as India to relatives and
friends of the innocent victims.
2.-The conviction that none of the
persons thus far suspected could have
written the letters
3.-The probability that woman is the
author-perhaps some one whose life has
been soured through sorrow or secret
sins or some personal unhappiness or mis-
fortune.
The letters have been as prolific as
their charges have been varied-immoral-
ity, unfaithfulness, dishonesty, deceit
depravty. diseas.. Affecting at first only
a particular neighborhood in Littlehamp-
ton, the letters spread over the whole
town, then circulated to London, and
finally reached the outposts of the British
Empire-wherever a husband or sweet
heart, relative or friend of the victim
could be reached.
All the letters show an intimate knowl-
edge of public and private affairs in the
town.
In practically every case, the letters
are couched in filthy, vulgar and ex-
tremey offensive phraseology. The
poisonous darts they contain have M
hedded themselves so deeply wherever
they have struck that not only have
family relations been strained. but the
business and commerce of Il town have
been actually undermined. The con-
fidence of business men in their employees
has been shaken, and innocent children,
even, have suffered through the knowl-
edge that their parents were drifting
apart for what reason they could not
understand.
Women watchers have passed long
hours of vigil in back prem SEES, hoping
to catch the writer of the poison notes
in the act of personally delivering them.
Frequently the offensive scraps of paper
have been dropped over garden walls or
pushed under doors, so that they might
not be traced by the postal authorities.
r . efforts of these women watchers,
however, thus far have been un- =
productive.
In the Fall of 192O-about year after
the stream of iniquity had begun to flow
the authorities thought they had clue,
and arrested Mrs Rose Emma Gooding, a
Young married woman living with her
husband and little son and daughter in a
side street Of Littlehampton She was
prosecuted in the Sussex Assize in
December of that year. at the instance
Great Britain Rights Reserved.
The Washington times., 1923-04-01

Of Miss Edith
Emily Swami, a
neighbor e m
plo We d as a.
laundress n d
living with her
aged father.
Miss Swami
accused Mrs.
Gooding of be-
ing the author
Of u series of
shocking letters
the former had
received, aiming
to cause trouble
b e t w e e n her
The Washington times., 1923-04-01

of ibelling Mrs. May,
wife of the police Con-
stable, living next door
to the Swans. "A
scrap of paper contain
ing the usual nasty iac-
cusations was found in
the Mays garden, and
it was alleged by wo-
men detectives who
had hidden themselves
in a neighboring out
house that Miss Swami
had placed it there.
Miss Swami protest
ed her innocence, as
had Mrs. Gooding, and
her aged father, totter-
ing into the witness
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-08-03
LAST PLEA OF
HARDING FOR
C0URTPRAISED
Premier POincare of France
Declares it Beautiful Le-
gacy to American People

Paris, Aug. 3.-Premier Poincare
today made the following statement:
"All France bows in deepest SYM
pathy in the bereavement Of the
United States, Only recently the
press of the world recorded the noble
words of President Harding, a mag
nifcent legacy in which he recon-
mended to his fellow citizens that
the United States should participate
in the permanent court of interna-
tional justice whose essential char
acteristics he outlined in admirable
language.
us not this last act of a man about
to give up his supreme power to en-
ter the silence of eternity the most
beautiful counsel of a chief Of state
to the country he governed and to
the great people who had given him
his mandateT'
The Premier drafted a cablegram
to Secretary Hughes, while President
Milierand sent a message to Mr..
Coolidge. Premier Poincare shortly
afterwards received Andrew NJ. Mel
lon, the American Secretary of the
Treasury and Ambassador Herrick
and expressed his grief to them.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-08-03
GREAT TRIBAL
CEREMONIES
AT FUNERAL
". T1sA --p.ao,
Tribute Paid Major McLaugh-
lin by Thousands at Me-
Laughlin, South Dakota

Great ceremonies are being held
today at Mclaughlin, South Dakota,
at the funeral of Major James Nc
Laughlin, an employee of the United
States Bureau of Indian Affairs for
81 years and one of the most noted
of government officials dealing with
the Indians. He died at Washington
last Saturday.
"All Fort Yates moved out to Nc
Laughlin for the funeral yesterday"
said a message from Fort Yates. The
procession included hundreds of In
dams who had known Major Nc
haughlin, many of them when he
was agent at Standing Rock reser-
walton.
Tribal ceremonies were conducted
by the Sioux nation Indians at the
funeral. The Indians regarded Major
Mclaughlin as great friend.
The town Of Mclaughlin was named
for the deceased. His family resides
here.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-08-03
WASFRIEND
OF NORTHWEST
Tribute to President Is Paid
BY Governor Nestos

When informed Of the death of
President Harding Governor r. A.
Nestos said:
II am so overwhelmed with grief
that I can hardly express myself. 1t
is a great calamity to this nation to
have to suffer the loss of so great
q man as President Harding. In his
death the Northwest has lost one Of
its most loyal friends. q
"When was in Washington last
year and had a personal talk with
the president ! was surprised at the
vast amount Of study he had given,
the problems Of the farmers and
knowledge he had of conditions here.
ut is impossible for me to express
the high regard l have had for Mr..
Harding. The appreciation we have
for his untiring efforts for the well
fare OF the people Of this great ma
ton, the human. interest ne took in
the many problems, Of the nation and
world, the wonderful personality he
possessed. The loss will be keenly
felt by all this nation and find no
words adequate to express my feel
ihgs."