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The Washington times., 1923-01-07

terward the sister called on Miss South
mayd.
g sfsSend Miss Ogden home," Susan
Wilkins asserted she was told, because
her sister had called on her and she had
dog that died.
And the cook testified that after she
had served some lamb from which the
bone had been removed, leaving hole,
Miss Southmayd sent for her and said:
" There must be some dog at it. Why
did you take such meat? / could not eat
it. It happened two or three times every
week"
"She said" according to another SER
want, "tYou go right out and tell that
ashman if he has q dog he cannot come
here any more,'" and when plumber
brought helper whose hand was band
aged and who explained that dog had
bitten him, she ordered him out of the
house.
When she saw the nillxman bring in
bottled milk she objected strenuously.
81 won't have any milk bottle in my
house." she is quOtedsas saying, because
they often come from sick rooms or
hospitals" and she then bought pail
for the milk and purchased bulk milk in
stead of bottled milk.
Surely here Miss Southmayd was stand
ing on a good sanitary foundation. 1t is
true that bottled waters and bottled milk
sit around in sick rooms in private houses
and in hospitals. Many people refuse TO
buy bottled water because they have no
confidence that the bottles have not been
used for very improper purposes, thrown
out in the garbage, taken down to the
ala ~ A1Nva Inh
the scavengeFs that everybody has seen
picking out water bottles and milk bot
tiles to sell to be used again. Perhaps
Miss Southmayd had had some personal
experience with filthy bottle.
She seems to have had dislike for
various kinds of containers. 1t was not
only milk bottles that she objected to;
a witness swore that she took spring
water bottles up to her room on the ele-
vator and broke them with a hammer into
a coal scuttle.
Now there was undoubtedly an idea at
the back of all this. Milk and water bot
ties are used many times over, and it is
possible that if such a container were
not sterilized after its use in sick room
some germs might cling to it. With other
testimony as to Miss Southmayd's habit
of washing up after visitors and so on,
it might be thought that she was merely
afraid of contagion.
She caused the servants not little
trouble, according to their testimony
Ope of them swore:
"She complained of the bakers bread
giving her Indigestion because there was
little holes in it, and she would not eat 1t.
So would cut slice off and fill in the
little holes, and she didn't see the holes
and she ate it. She accused me of put
ting blue streaks in the marble table,
She said the blue veins in the white mar
Bile never used to be there, and that put
them in, and the same about the white
streaks in the red marble"
She was very particular about her
brothers appearance, the servants said.
She would not allow them to help him
with his coat, but held it herself-so far
away from him that he used to go out
with the coat hanging about hira like
cape. He was old-fashioned in his dress,
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at the time Of Miss southmayd's death in
March, 1921?
A.Yes, / landed in New York. the
. day she died.
Q.--Was il your intention at that time
TO 80 to see her? y
A.Y Yes, sir.
,And ask her for gift? i
A.-Yes, sir
Now all this had been brought out by
the attorney for the proponents. Evil
IDENTIFY he wanted the jury to see that the
clergyman did not think the old lady
crazy. Of course, he would not have
taken her money if he had so suspected!
Then Lawyer Mooney for the contest
ants took hand.
QUESTION - You would take any
money from anybody who wanted to give
it to the church wouldn y you? r.
ANSWER certainly would. Other
people were going to her. And knew
she was giving away a great deal of
money and thought | should like to get
gift from her for our church. did not
see any harm in it. was not taking any
advantage of the old lady.
Q.-And when you went to her for
these good works of yours or what you
believe to be good works, you did not go
into the question as to medical certificates
or anything of that kind as to the person
you are asking money from, do YOU?
A.-No. ~
Q.-You take money for your church
for the sick, for the infirm, for the halt
or even the blind. You take it from
them if they have the money?
A.-Yes. l would not take advantage
of poor old soul just to better myself,
but l take money from persons whom
know have plenty of it. IL
And again the question-was old Miss
Southmayd simply very "queer" or was
she so crazy she was not mentally conpe-
tent to make a will?
The intelligent readers of this article
may like to think it over and decide for
themselves whether Miss Southmayd was
really crazy or only peculiar-so theide-
cision the jury made will be told next
Sunday on the next to the last pagei o.
this supplement.
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Continued from Preceding Pagel
Wen, that was an odd thing to happen
but was it an accident or craziness?
Besides doorlxnobs and furniture. Miss
Southmayd washed money Ellen Nom
teith saw a lot of money on shelf in
her room.
There was fves and ten-dollar bills
and ones and twos and silver quarters and
half dollars and so forth, and pennies in
another place." the witness testified.
'She always went to the bathroom and
8 washed the money-ran the water on it.
Afterward she came along the hall shak-
ing the bills like this"
"She would ring the bell," Susan
Wilkins swore, con Sunday morning, and
I would go down stairs and she would
say, Susie, have you a clean dollar, and
if you haven't ask Jennie or Kate and
bring it up to me right away. Which /
would do. I have seen her run the water
in the bathroom. | have never seen her
take a bath in the tub. She wore rub
bers, and have seen her go to the bath
room with the rubbers and come out with
them dripping wet"
QUESTION-During what seasons of
the year did she wear rubbers?
ANSWER-All seasons, Summer and
Winter.
Catherine Wilkins saw her "burn a
white serge suit in the spare room CRATE.
When she put on new suit it looked
very nice, but after she had eaten her
food for day or two it became mussed
with food and it got spotted down the
front of her dress. After Mr.. South
mayd's death she gave up using napkin
at the table"
Miss Southmayd, so several witnesses
affirmed, was afraid of contact with GER
tain persons, and would not touch them
or their belongings. Mrs. Strube's
daughter told on the stand how Miss
Southmayd acEed in department store.
"She carried large handkerchief"
the witness testified, land she would lay
it on the counter with her money in it,
and she would allow the sales person to
put the change and the parcel in this
handkerchief, and she would carry it this
way Tin front of her).
ION one occasion she said, Il don't want
to go up in the elevator with those peo-
ple,' and she made everybody but me and
the elevator operator get out"
Rebecca Davies told of Christmas
morning when Miss Southmayd was al
breakfast and her brother came to greet
her.
"He said, 4 want to wish you Merry
Christmas and to shake hands with YOU
And the old lady jumped and she says
Don't touch me, don't touch me! You
are in no condition to touch me! After
breakfast she washed the chair he had
sat in"
miss Southmayd answered the phone,
Susan Wilkins testified "and Miss Ogden
told her she had little cold, and she
called me, Susie, Susie, come here and
talk to Miss Ogden. | don't want to get
a cold over the phone"
Was this a crazy freak-or a rather
humorous excuse to avoid talking to Miss
Ogden?
At another time Miss Southmayd came
20 receive some guests with her fingers
b1ndaged, would not shake hands with
-,er guests and washed up after them
Then she appeared without the bandages
and her fingers were unhurt.
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1'-' - ~ 10y
for The Old Maid to
Insist Upou Buying
hulk Milk Out u she
Bis Cans On alle Mill
Waasnsl
70 put It mildly and
wore high leather
boots on which his
trousers often were.
caught, and . high
silk hat.
QUESTION Did
you ever see her do
anything with his.
hat?
ANSWER have
seen her both brush
fl and wash Fl with
wet paper. After she
would have been do
ing the doorknobs she
would do the silk hat.
It was the only hat
he had got.
Her brother had a
great antipathy to
colleges and Miss
Southmayd seems to
have known it. Alice
Ogden testified that
Miss s GU tn m a Y d
''said several times
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Two witnesses testified that the old
lady did good deal of knitting, but that
after she had knit an inch or two she
would rip it all out. Never in one year,
Susan Wilkins swore, did the knitting
exceed four inches. She never made q
garment from it.
Miss Southniayd, according to testi-
many, carried good deal of cash about
with her on trips.
''She had several hundred dollars in the
trunk" Miss Ogden said, "but she could
not find it, and she cashed check with
the Kicker Hotel Company and then she
was under the impression that she had
borrowed the money from them and that
we could not leave until she had paid it
back"
Ministers were not the only recipients
of Miss Southmayd's charity while she
lived. Miss Winifred Holt, whose special
charity is the care of the blind, called one
day, according to Susan Wilkins
"After she left the house Miss South
mayd came in and washed the chairs and
door knobs after her and she came to me
and she said:
!" Susie, that is a wonderful woman.
She Is going to France to teach the men
how to play checkers and draughts. !, She
is b wonderful woman. don't know
how she can teach blind men to play
games
During the later years of her life there
were many people to whom she gave gifts
of money for themselves or for causes
which they represented. Among them
was Charles w. Fisher, the Congregational
minister at Stockbridge,
He testified that he had calleds to see
Miss Southmayd several times and he had
received several checks from her, he said.
QUESTION by Lawyer Choate-You
had no hesitation in taking check from
this old lady, did you?
ANSWERING.
Q-You think there was nothing IT.
rational in her giving you a check?
Al feel if had not the right kind
of conscience or a lack of it and played
the game, could get a good deal mores
il you want to know that part.
Didn't you come to New York just
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q knowing Perfectly Well That Milk BottIes and
- Bottled Water Sill Aso..hd II ,he s;cl Room.
II Hospitals and Private Residences. and Filthy
Bottles Are Retrieved frem the Street Cleaning
Dumps and Used over Again-Was Il Rather SEN
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Pretending to Be Looking
Up and Down the Street,
the Old Lady clandestinsly
Wiped or The Knob Of Ne
Front Deer With Wet Tiseua
Paper Every Tims ! Waiter
Left Was Til. ''PssuIiar. 7 =
crany1
A great many perfectly
sane people do not like dogs.
Miss Southmayd went further
than mere dislike. II was tes-
titled that Miss Ogden told
Miss Southmayd about the
death of her sisters dog. At
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The year OF her death man
was painting the extension roof.
"Wnen / came the next morn
ing she said, That roof is too
red. That win be an attraction
for burglars all around the neigh
borhood.' =
She made q gas filter, accord.
ing to his testimony, stop drilling
a hole in the basement wall for.
three or four hours because it an.
noyed her. And all the time
other workmen were saving and
hammering all over the house.
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Miss Emily E. South inayd, the 9O-Year
Spinster Who Left lkII Her Fortune
Churches and Char tiles, and, the Dish
herited Heirs Insist - So Peculiar
That II Amounted to Insanity and
Her VIII Ought to Be Set Aside.
showed badly and she asked me If the
snowstorm had anything to do with the
cracks. said, No, nothing at ar 1T
is funny she said, after the snowstorm
see the cracks | did not notice them
lofnro. 81 $3.50 sss4
Evening star., 1923-01-30
TWO ACCUSED OF BIG
THEFT FROM ARSENAL
Federal Civilian Employe and
Salesman Held at Rari-
tan, N. J.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
NEW BRUNSWICK, y. J.. January
3o.-Cecil X. Title, civilian en-
ploye of the United States Army ord
nance department at the Raritan ar
senal, near here, has been arrested
by Department of Justice agents,
charged with the theft of govern
ment property from the arsenal
Property valued at upward Of $780,
600 is said to have disappeared mys-
teriously from the arsenal in recent
months. The agents have been work
ing on the case for two months.
George j. Perpente. a cigar sales
man of Highland Park, a suburb, was
arrested later by the federal agents,
charged with receiving stolen goods.
Perpente, the agents said. was the
''go between" who arranged the sale
of the stolen property.
little is. specifically charged with
having stolen 100 automatic pistols,
valued at $4,000. The pistols were
sold in New York, according to the
Department of Justice investigators.
Title had sole charge of the ordnance
stores at the arsenal. the agents said.
Maj. J. Q. Mcdonald. commandant
of the arsenal. obtained an inventory
of the government property at the
arsenal to determine the governments S
loss.
Title and Perpente were arraigned
before United States Commissioner
Franklin NJ. Ritchie and committed ID
to Jail in default of $4,000 bond.
Evening star., 1923-01-30

! looking on marriage as a business
proposition, there's lot of bunk
| spoken about II. I'm a suffragist, but
have you noticed that within hvo
years or SO OF obtaining the vote me
woman legislator lis being releKated
to the background? The reason Is
that women have not learned to be
practical in politics"
Mrs Mary Hamilton smiled sardon-
ically when the eight-hour day was
suggested.
ever wash dishes?' she asked. "You
can't legislate human behavior, nor
can you legislate for the personnel
Of human needs. Suppose. IL the
eight-hour wife is such q good idea,
III should be made so by law Then
We would become a real nation of
slaves 1t sure would be awful to be
so limited. but, after all, that is what
the idea means.
Have 1t Pretty Easy.
Between you and me, the American
wife and the housewife have 1t pretty
easy after all. She can drop into a
rocking chair and let the dishes walt.
She can flop on the couch with a
| magazine when she feels badly.
Where's the foreman who is going
work?
Homes are not run that way
Housework is different from office
work. 1t can follow q certain sched-
, ule. but there always will be inter-
ruptions. It's too diversified to boil
down into any eight hours.
! Whats the matter with insisting
, on an eight hour day for tho man In
/ the home? Make his sleep eight
hours, beat the rugs eight hours. and
walk the dog the other eight. In a
couple of days you'd neither have
! man nor home"
r tCopyrisht 1897
Evening star., 1923-01-30
EIGHT-HOUR HOUSEHOLD DAY
HAILED WITH MUCH DERISION
Snecial Disnaich In The Star

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, January 80. New
York housewives and professional
women do not take kindly to the sug-
gestion of Mrs. Dora b. Ptnkham.
the first woman member of the Maine
legislature, that the eight-hour wife
is the next achievement to be evolved
by civilization.
Three women, leaders of their SEX
Mrs. Frank B. Gilbreth. member of the
American Society of Industrial Engl-
neers, noted as an efficiency expert In
Industrial plants, and incidentally, the
mother OF eleven children; Mrs. Harry
Chester Arthur, democratic leader Oh
the Bronx, pioneer suffrage WORKER
mother of eleven children, ana Mrs.
Mary Hamilton, policewoman, anu
mother of four children and adopted
mother of a fifth, discusses the plan.
They agreed that the suggestion OF
Mrs. Ptnkham was absurd. Carried
to its logical conclusion, 1t would dis
Eupt the family.
Recreation With Children.
II can't take care of my household
IN an eight-hour day." asserted Mrs.
Gilbreth in her Montclair. n. j., home.
surrounded by seven of her huskles
"Perhaps some women could arrange
affairs so that they could do 1t all IN
eight hours, but how that is possible
with babies to care for l cannot
imagine.
My day-and I try to plan it as
efficiently, as possible--"begins at 6
sn the morning. l am busy until
hours for recreation. well, no mother
can get or would dare to take eight
hours away from her children. AS a
matter OF fact mother gets her best
good times chiefly through playing
with her offspring"
Mrs. Harry Chester Arthur was
even more emphatic 1T is absurd"
she said. NO real woman, who is
not a shirker. would limit herself to
eight hours at housework or of fam
lily cares any more than a captain OF
a steamship would leave the bridge
when possible storms impend. Being
r. housewife is a Neutrality-suspicious.
eob-in fact, twenty-four hours seems
Hardly enough.
What IL Baby Gets Group:
'.-1 home is not a profession nor a
business. You cannot impose busi-
ness standards on a home. About 90
per cent of the working class is made
up OF men who bring home their
wages to their wives. He's got to be
g. rich man now a days who can af-
ford much more than his clothes and
1000. Inc least MS Wite can do is
TO keep clean and comfortable home
for him.
Il have been married thirty-two
years. | have had eleven children,
the youngest now seven years old
How am | going to arrange my work
so that I'll have only eight hours of
Ut day? Suppose the baby gets
Group in the middle of the night? Do
] let him wait until the next morn
ing to give him his medicine?
There are som IiLa IN nm
600 people in the United States. OF
these. about 100000 employ SER
wants. You can see that the eight
hour day won't work for most wom-
en-at least not for serious minded
honest women who look on marriage
as something more than a graft. The
eight-hour day is only for those
wives rich enough to afford a d.
Sorce.
Just because people insist on
Evening star., 1923-01-30
SLAYER MUST DIE.
Negro Who Killed Manassas Mag
istrate Judged Sane.
Dispatch TO The Star

Special Dispatch TO The Star.
RICHMOND, Va, January 30.-Alvin
Harris. colored. who shot and killed
Magistrate Thomas S. Meredith at
Manassas several months ago, will
go to the death chair February s.
This was the announcement made by
the governor. Harris having been judged
sane by an examining board.
Harris was beating his wife when
Che magistrate was sent for, and
when made to desist he turned on the
officer.
Evening star., 1923-01-30
Shoes for boys
Shoes for girls
$3.50

Out they go regardless of
their actual worth. New
goods are arriving daily and
we must avoid congestion, so
we disregard the fact that
these shoes are far and away
above their price-you reap
the benefit.
FOR GIRLS-Patent. dull
and tan leathers-not all sizes
in any one style, but all sizes
2Iz to 7 collectively. Some of
these shoes are valued at So.
FOR BOYS-Black and
brown feathers with Goodyear
welt soles; leather and rubber
heels; sizes AZ, and 5H only.
Originally priced up to So.
tThe Hecht Co.. third noor.)
Evening star., 1923-01-30

Copyrisht. 1927
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-09-26
Appealed Cases September
Term Supreme Court

Appealed cases. September term,
supreme court-State VS.. B. A. Cur
ney, reckless operating motor veh1-
Gle; State VS.. George Lachance, reck-
lezs operating of motor vehicle while
intoxicated; State VS.. George L a
chance, intoXication; State VS.. Alton
Richardson, reckless operating of
a motor vehicle; State VS.. Lorenzo
Starbird. cruelty to animals: State
VS. John Sivencilzky. assault and
battery (Weeks & Weeks); State VS..
Philip Tabarge, operating motor We
hicle while intoxicated: State vs..
Lester Brown; sale: State VS.. Le-
roy w. Bracket, intoxication (Thur-
lough): State VS.. Levi Nutting. OPP
Grating a motor vehicle while in
toXicated: State VS.. William Petley,
neglect of child: State VS.. w. O..
Chase, violating town ordinance;
State VS.. Steven Collins. larceny:
State VS.. Sarkis Donigan, assault:
State VS.. Alton Lachance, operating
motor vehicle while intoxicated:
State VS.. Lewis Munster. sale Of
Intoxicating liquor: State VS.. Mrs.
Lewis Munster. sale of intoxicating
liquor: State VS.. Robert Packard.
sale of intoxicating liquor: State VS..
Fred Roullard. sale Of Intoxicating
liquor; State VS.. Fred Roullard, sale
of Intoxicating liquor: State vs.
Divide We're, search and seizure:
State VS.. Daniel Quigley. nuisance
(Boyle): State vs.. Daniel ,Quigley,
gambling house.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-09-26

Sunday guests Of Mrs Lancaster's
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. D. e. Taylor.
Mrs. W. p. Forsyth, who has been
passing the summer at Forsyth pass
ed the week end with her sister, Mrs.
Jessie Rogers.
| Mr.. and Mrs. D. L. Jones were in
, Augusta Sunday.
There Is to be radio demonstra-
ton at the town hall on Friday eve
ming.
j. j. Smith of the Overland stores
was a business visitor in town Fri
day.
DR.. and Mrs. w. F. Brown attend
ed Pennington fair on Wednesday.
On Tuesday Oct. 2, will occur the
next regular meeting of the Marshall
p. Hale Circle, G. A. r. 1t is de-
, sired that there be a large attendance
| in order to rehearse for inspection of
| the lodge. Each member is asked to
, bring candy or some other light re-
! freshment.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wilmer Stevens of
| Somerville, Mass, arrived in town
+. Monday and went at once to the Var
! ney cottage on the shore of North
pond, where they are to pass their
| vacation.
Mrs. Chester Luce of Cambridge is
the guest of her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. David Rushton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alan Hoar are the
| parents of baby boy born last week.
Verne Rushton has gone to work
for the Maine Central r. R. He will
act as freight brakeman from Wa
! terville to Bingham.
I Miss Pauline Go3s has returned to
I Boston after passing the summer
with her mother, Mrs. Joshua Bige-
low.
+, Mrs. Julia Fields went to Farming
| ton Friday.
The first Rebekah supper of the
season will be held on Friday night.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-09-26
knights of Pythias Convention

The arrangements are nearly COM
pleted for the annual Somerset
county convention Of the Knights of
Pythias, which is to be held with
Skowhegan Lodge, No. 10, on to-
morrow, Thursday evening, Sept.
9th The committee, which has
been busy making preparations for
this important event, is composed or
Frank Sterry, Ernest NJ. Ames and
Harold Priest and the largest at
tendance at a county meeting is ex-
pected. There will be visitors from
Kennebec, Penobscot, Piscataquis,
Franklin and Oxford counties. he
sides many from various lodges in
Somerset county.
At . o'clock in the afternoon at
Fairview Park there will be base
ball game between the Haverlock
Lodge of Waterville and Knights
from Madison, and other athletic
sports. Music will be furnished by
the Skowhegan Citizens Band and
the knights will be permitted to
bring the members of their families
to the afternoon sports.
The knights will parade from the
park to the Grange hall. where the
ladies Of the Ella F. Mitchell Phila-
thea class of the Bethany Baptist
church will serve a chicken supper.
At 7.15 at the Russell street band
stand there will be speaking. In
the evening there will be work in
the Page rank. Among the speakers
will be Past Grand Chancellor Lewis
Jack of Lisbon Falls. Past Grand
Chancellor Sylvester of Auburn and
Grand Keeper of Records and Seals
Ed. ]. Brown of Waterville. Every
thing has been done by the inter-
tanning lodge to make this conven-
ton one of the best events held in
Skownegan end it is expected that
there will be very large attendance.