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The Washington times., 1926-06-19
OFFICER
WEBS He RE
TODAY
Miss Margaret McLaugh-
lin Bride Of Lieut.. Com.
Philip Weaver


The marriage Of Miss Margaret
Mclaughlin, daughter Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Angus Az Mclaughlin. and
Lieut.. Comdr. Philip Weaver, United
states Navy, il taking place this
afternoon III the Bethlehem Chapel
81 the National Cathedral, with
i reception afterward 1T Rauscher's.
The pink rambler roses filling tho
altar vases are the only dissertations
ii the picturesque little Gothic
chapel. The Rev. Charles warner
rector Of ST. Adams Church, will
officiate. The bride win be given
/ in marriage by her father and viii
have but one attendant. Miss Katll-
crime Shoemaker.
Miss McLaughlin has chosen for
her wedding gown. q heavy soft
cream satin. It III made on the
modified princess lines SO much IN
vogue this season with slight
flare Ut the hem. The neck line Id
round and rather high, the sleeves
long and the gown III guiltlesS OF
trimming, depending for It's charm
on It's grace and the richness of the
material. Fer veil ID of tialle, with
q panel of lovely DucI1esse lace ana
shes will carry white roses and
lilies of the valley.
The maid Of honor Is wearing =
smart frock of rose color crepe
roma and her pictuRe hat of rose
straw has 8 crown Of rose velvet.
She IS carrying yellow roses shading
to pink.
Lieut. Comdr Henry Bailey Is
best man for Commander Weaver
and the group 81 uahers included
Lieut.. Comdr. Thomas @, Latimore,
Lieut.. Corndr. Benjamin Killmaster.
Lieut.. Conadr. John I1task, Lieut..
Langley and w. VIZ. RapIey.
Comnlarer Weaver and the naval
officers who are ushers are wear.
ling crisp white uniforms giving 4
touch of military pomp to the
wedding
AT the reception Mr.. and Mrs.
AfcLaughIiDS win be ii the receiving
line with the bridal party.
Among the guests from other
cities at the wedding viii he Mr.
and Mrs. James Cox Davis. of Iowa.
After 8 months honeymoon hi
the Adironda clks, Commander
Weaver will take his bride To the
Brooklyn Nevy Yard, home port
or his ship. the q. 81 s. Hopkins
Of the scouting fleet
Commander Weaver whose home
Ii III Newport r.. Il. was stationed
In Washington for several years
and has many friends here.
4 ~
MISS EOAIMERS TO WE'D
N ALL SAINTS CHURCH
The wedding Of Miss Helen
Elizabeth Sonmers, daughter 0f
Mr.. and Mrs. Burtis w. sonlnets,
and Walter Young, son Of Colonel
and Mrs. Robert III. Young, viii
take place this evening ait $50
o'clock at All Saints Episcopal
Church III Chevy Chase. The
rector. the Rev Henry Teller
Cooke. viii officIate. Following the
ceremony there will be 4 reception
&C the home OF the brides parents
at I'll Elm St., Chevy Chase, Md.
s. The bride will have as rnaid-of.
honor Miss Elizabeth s. Scharf and
as bridesmaids, Miss Helen Han.
ford and Miss Dorothy Young.
cousin Of the bridegroom.
Mr.. Young Will have as best man
william b. Hill and the ushers will
be Frank Davis. Hubert Young, or
Baltimore. cousin 81 the BRIDE
groom, Everett Embrey, Edward
Pardoe, Don scharf and Harry
Gibson.
The Washington times., 1926-06-19

HALF a page Of College COmlcs,
the bright snappy things the col.
lege boys and girls are thinking
and doing are served 40 each
Sunday ~ Fen1els % The Wash
lngtoR heFalo. OrdeR youg copy
n0W.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-25
Walks 45 Miles
to Deliver Ballots

PIKESVILLE, Ky, April 24.-D
b. Blankenship, farmer, whose homo
is on the Paw Paw forks of Knox
county, walked into the county clerk
office here with ballot box swung
across his shoulder in a coffee sack
He had walked 40 miles to reach
Pikesville, he explained, and would
walk back home. He had Travelled
along swollen streams and crossed
rugged mountains in the performance
of his simple duty as judge of the
election in voting precinct No. n.
Pike county, in the special congress,
Sional election.
In return for his services at the
polls and the three days required for
the round trip to Pikesville with the
ballots box. he was handed a check
for $3.50 BY the clerk.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-25
SCHOOL H0N0RS
WON BY BLIND

( PHILADELPHIA, April "a. =
Francis ]. Cummings of Wilmington,
Del, and Harry ]. Ditzlcr Of Dan
vile, Pa. are two blind University Of
Pennsylvania students who have
scholastic records which place them
among the leaders Of their respective
esllings.
Cummings already has won honorS
for scholarships in the United States
and abroad. He is now holder Of 4
scholarship in Romantic languages.
Ditzler is an accomplished o1galiSl
and has won the annual pr,za award
ed by the univcrsity's school Of fire
arts TO the student showing the most
promise in music composition.
These two students have ur,um
plished this over their fellow students
although they are afflicted with blind
ness.
Cummings has not been able 70 $50
since he was u years Of age. due TO
an attack Of spinal meningitis. He
attended the Pennsylvania Institution
for the Blind for four years at Over
brook. and then specialized at tn
Philadelphia high school.
DitZler became blind after an at
tack Of diptheria when be was = years
Of age.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-25
Movie Films Aid
ViVisection Curb

PARIS, April 2i.-The movie cam
era is going to do away with repeated
vivisection if the plans of a group
of eminent French surgeons and
scientists can be carried through.
Repeated vivisection of cats, dogs,
rabbits and guinea pigs will be IN.
necessary in the future. There will
be only one and the cinema camera
will do the rest. Films will be male
showing in clearest detail each phase
of numerous operations which have
been performed perhaps some time
previous. There is no necessity for a
poor animal to be sacrificed every
time some information is desired. de-.
clare the members Of the faculty Of
medicine of the University of Paris,
whccr the initiative has been taken.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-25
Giant, Helped by 9,
Gets ST. by Banditry

PHILADELPHIA, April n. -
Three bandits, apparently under the
influence Of liquor, staged a daylight
holdup and secure, a crumpled 81 bill
for their pains.
Bernard Burns, a taxicab driver.
was doing behind the wheel of his
cab shortly before s a. m. when he
was awakened by some one shaking
his shoulder. ..
He opened his eyes and gazed into
the muzzle of an automatic. 1t was
in the hands of a veritable giant. +"
Burns later told the police-a man
well over six feet in height and weigh
ing more than 200 pounds. Behind
him were two other bandits, much the
worse for liquor.
stick 'em up"' commanded the
giant
The three men ran down an alley
and escaped.
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Leaves House Twice
in Her 81 Y ear S

LYNN, Mass, April 24-Miss Mary
Elizabeth Newhall of Salem celebrated
the Tooth anniversary of her birth 4
few days ago. Among those who have
congratulated her is William F. Whit
ney, who will soon reach the century
mark.
Miss Newhall has been a cripple
since babyhood as the result of an at
tack of infantilc paralysis. She has
been out of the house only twice in 81
years.
For many years Miss Newhall, the
Oldest woman in Essex county, lived
next door to Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Her father was town crier of Salem
from 1871 until the office was abol.
ishcd in 1882, and the bell he carried
was given to Miss Newhall by his,
tOricnl society.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-25
GAS ENDS LIFE
Of GIRL AS
LOVE DIES
Cast Off by Sweetheart,
Youngster Finds Refuge
in Death.

CHICAGO, April 24.-Since time
began man, in prose and verse and
deed, has sought to define true love
Turn now to the instance of Lucille
Suffer, who killed herself just at the
age, 10, when life should be in is
spring.
She took careful steps to keep the
man who had vooed and won her from
even the slightest faint of suspicion.
He had alienated her from her moth
er. then cast her aside. to sleep
in the snow" if she could work out
no better fate.
The man is Charles Nabor, -.
Ten months ago he met Lucille. He
painted a rosestc picture Of a "loTe
nest for two, and she capitulated.
HAPPY? OH. BOY!
So they went TO live in a flat. NJ,
but the little bride without a wed
ding ring was happy. her husband SAID
happy even though her mother had
t1DSlu INT Npuln VI LN4 WV AN.AS ~
her.
Love was bigger than all.
That's what she thought Her pitt
ful little note of farewell told the
pelice different story concerning tue
man.
Recently his love started cooling.
Then he told Lucille that they would
have to Give up the flat and that h
was going 10 sell the furniture. He
left her alone and went to his meth
er's home.
HE DIDN'T CARE.
He told her. the note says. that b.
didn't care If she slept in IN"
snow" Her mother wouldn't take
her in.
Lucille went back into the lonely
Hat. She probably wCpt a littIe a.
She looked around for the last time at
the Lares and Penatcs in which sue
oDce found joy.
Then she sat down and wrote 20
Nabor:
After my mother wouldn't let ne
In and you said you didn't give Il
damn if ! silent in the sEow' and
showed that you don't care for me
any moro, | think / am better off
where / am going"
Then the little girl in her teens
who had wearied of the battle Of lif"
turned on the gas. laid down. closed
her starry eyes-and died.
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Old Hickory
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Less 1917 for Cash

A sturdy rocker that
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San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-25
Man freed by Bear
Spends Night Aloft

WINCHENDON, Mass, April "a.
freed by hungry black bear, Joseph
Stone, a woodsman, was forced to
spend the entire night on a slender
limb, the bear meanwhile patiently
waiting at the foot of the tree.
When rescued the next morning By
a passing motorist Stone was exhaust
cd and almost frozen.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-25
No More Salt Pork
for British Tars

LONDON, April 24.-Salt pork,
the traditional ration in the British
navy, is no longer to form part o.
the sailors menu. The naval au-
thorities announce that it has beer
removed from the scale Of rationI
for ships on all stations, ri
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Mohair Liuing Room Suite w1
$3.50 Net

upholstered
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Slept With Coffin
Underneath Bed

LONDON, April "A. Aftei
sleeping with his coffin under his Jed
more than twenty years, Henry
Quinion finally has been placed in it
When his wife died twenty years
ago, Quinion ordered coffin Of the
same pattern as hers, and requested
that it be used in his own burial.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-25
British Irish Grant
e Stirs TAXPAYERS

LONDON, April 24.-The British
taxpayer got mad when Winston
Churchill, chancellor of the Exeche-
quer, proposed an annual grant of
five millions yearly for five years, TO
Ulster. for unemployment benefits.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-25
Tons Of Fortified
OYSTERS in Arizona

WINSLOW, Ariz., April IL
Charles Thomas, Winslow newspaper
man, has discovered an odd mineral
claim, a bed of "petrified" oysters and
clans, twenty miles from here. in what
seems to have been the bed of pre-
historic lake.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-25
Fiesta Duchess
Gem Staff Stolen

Theft Of a jewel staff belonging to
! duchess in the Fiesta de San ia
Linto celebration was reported to po.
dee Saturday by Miss a. Weston.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-25
Races at Night,
Healthy at IS

BRADFORD, England, April "a.
Lord Barnby, who has passed his
S5th birthday, is 1.-The grand old mai.
Of the north of England" After
working fourteen hours daily Lord
Barnby INDUCES in running exer.
cises in his garden each evening to
keep fit.
MY fitness is due to work, and
plenty of it," said Lord Barnby.
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In Our Gift Shop

Are many perfectly individual pieces such as ex-
act copies of od-time desks, tables, hanging cab
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many other pieces of fine furniture which add so
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ing poor men condemned to death and of
companioning them to their place of exc?
cution. Their faces were hidden by
pointed cowls and they carried in their e
hands lantern in which was miniature
head of st. John the Baptist in the basin I,
upon which it was brought to Salome, the
daughter of Herodias 49,
"The imaginative reader can easily p
picture the awakening of the Cenci if
indeed any of them had slept" writes
Professor Ricci, "when at about midnight u
they saw these brothers entering then,
cells, bearing lanterns and with faces
covered in their sinister hoods" s1,,,
At nine thirty the next morning the
procession to the scaffold began. JON
Two carts appeared. In one was Giaco-
mo and in the other Bernardo. Giacomo
was bound and bare to the waist. With him
in the cart was an executioner, at his feet
a brazier filled with hot Goals. As they =
progressed the executioner gripped and
tore away his muscles and tendons with
red hot pincers. Bernardo was seated in
the other cart without bonds or sfackes.
As the two carts approached the scat
fold Beatrice and her step-mother Luz
crezia were led out of the prison.
"Lucrezia," says Professor Ricci, twas
livid and lettering. She was unconscious.
when the axe descended, seyering her
head. Then arose a great stir amid the
crowd, a subdued murmur, repressed
sobbing. Beatrice has appeared; she
makes her way quickly; she climbs rapidly
to the scaffold and very courageously'
lays her head on the block; it is severed
at one stroke of the axe. Bernardo mean.
while had swooned for the second time;
the COmforters might be seen succoring
him. When he came to his senses, he
began to weep; and his tears never ceased;
"Giacomo, torn and mangled, is
brought forward The Comforters help
him to his feet and set him on the scaf-..
fold. From that place he again pro-
claims Bernardo's innocence Then he >
lays his head on the block; the headsman
brushes it with a single sledge-hammer
blow. As the body slumps, the exectr
toner cuts the throat, quarters tine trunk,
and hangs the quarters, butcher-fashion,
to the hooks protruding from the scaffold..
"On September 25th this note was en-
tered in the Libro della Depositeria Z
Generate: 1925 scude (about $50 in
cash, by mandate of the Vice Regent of
Vicar, TO Capt Domenico Marsilii con.
stable, TO give to the Executioner of jus.
tice for the justice performed upon the
Cenci!"
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graduated after she had endured the rope.
The torturers stripped her, raised her arms
and tied the bruised wrists with, the cord,
bound her delicate ankles TO the bar and
suspended her above the tripod.
She endured that incredible torture for
nine hoursl
Even the hardened tormenters were
amazed at her fortitude. The strongest
men had never been able to support more
than five hours of "la Veglia."
The Cenci were condemned to die on
September II and the sentence was as
dreadful as the tortures that had pre-
ceeded it.
There was that time in Rome fratern-
ity known as the Company of st. John
the Beheaded. The duty Of these monks
was that of visiting, aiding and comfort
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killing me! But though you tear my arms
out of their sockets ! will tell nothing"
When it was plain that no further rack
ing that day would be of any use, the
surgeon present set her arms back in
place" and she was returned to her cell
And day of two later she was again sus-
pended from the rope and dropped from
various heights. After repeated trials
that met with no success in wringing from
her the desired confession, a 'severer
form of the extraordinary question" was
decided upon 1t would seem that there
could hardly be anything that could pro-
duce more agony than the rope, but there
was. 1t was 'the torture called la Veglia,"
GA Veglia" means "the vigil" A
vigil is defined as "sleepless watching"
''Ths horrible ordeal" writes Professor
Ricci, CONSISTED of an apparatus of ropes,
belts, hooks and pulleys which held an
unfortunate suspended above a tripod
The belts were frightened about the pris-
oner's chest, the wrists were fastened be-
hind his back, and we're then pulled up
over his head and attached to a rope
froM the ceiling, as in the torture Of the
cord. The feet were dashed to a bar"
The ceiling rope was then pulled tight,
the ropes attached TO the bands around
the chest were each fastened TO a side Of
the walls, and another rope On the foot
bar was tied TO another wall. The pris-
oner was then in a stretched-out position
above the tripod, and suspended by wrists,
ankles and chest bands. Now there
was placed upon the tripod a sharp
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the facts and circumstances of the said
parricide; but she would say nothing diff
ferent from what she had already said,
nor reply in any other words than these:
You are killing me- You are killing
mer
ave caused her to be raised still higher,
TO the height of about four feet, but she
pretended TO swoOn.
I'VE caused a jar of water to be thrown
upon her head; the cool shower revived
her, and she cried, MY Cod ! am dead!
You are killing me! My GodP But would
make no different reply.
ave then caused her to be raised still
higher, during which she struggled and
sbrieked, saying, again and again, My
God! My God"/
Being questioned yet again as to said
parricide, she refused to say anything ex-
cept that she was innocent, and immedi-
ately tainted.
Again We caused water TO be thrown
upon her; she recovered consciousness,
opened her eyes and cried, oh, ye cursed
executioners You are killing me! You
are killing me! But would say nothing
more.
"Thereupon the torturer raised her to
the height Of ten feet, and we urged her
again to tell US the truth, but, whether
because she had lost the power Of speech
or because she did not wish TO speak, she
made no other reply than motion OF the
head which signified that she would not
OF could not say anything.
Consequently, we mOtioned to the exc
cutiOner TO loosen the rope, and she
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"'After the defendant is settled,
the room is shut-that is, the window is
shut with cloths and boards and curtain
is drawn across the door. And within this
room are only the Judge and the notary
and small table with two lighted lamps.
Then the subject is bound with most low
ing care. After the tOrtuIe he is carried
to bed and is fed chicken-Moth, fresh eggs
and good wine and for some days is treat
ed in the manner of women in childbed-
Further, if the torture chamber is ex-
tremely cold, a fire Of wood embers is
kindled behind the patient at a due dis
lance, and his stomach is warmed with
heated clothes"
All this, of course was TO enable the
patient" to suffer more later.
So IL was to "la Veglia" that Beatrice
&c. Grsa, Britain Rights Reserved.
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va ~ A( 20
Before causing
her to be lifted
from tn e floor,
we questioned her
again concerning
the alleged parri-
eide; but she per-
sisted in her de-
NAL, saying, Work
your will upon me;
| have told you the
truth ana l VIII
tell you nothing
else, even though
/ be torn limb
from limb
"Whereupon we
caused her to be
raised 10 the height
of about two feet
by her hands,
which were, as we
have said, fastened
to the rope; and,
having left her in
that position for
a short length of
time, we questioned
her yet again as to
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A Brother of the Company
Whose Duty Was to Console
All Those Condemned to Die
by Beheading.

port of her sufferings as they were set
down. by the clerk present:
''As she refused to admit anything
whatever during the whole examination,
we ordered two sbirri (guards) to take
her to the torture chamber, where the tor
turer awaited her. There the torturer
made her sit down upon little stool, I'M
dressed her, removed her shoes, bound her
hands behind her back and tied the
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stone. By holding
the muscles rigid
the touch of this
stone could be
avoided, but any
relaxation brought
the body in contact
with it, and, Pro-
fessor Ricci writes,
"whcn this (the
stone) was touched
it gave him, at
every slightest mo-
ton, spasms of
unspeakable afro
city" It<was be-
yond human power
TO keep clear of it
for any length of
time. Here, then,
is the explanation
Of the name ia
Veglia" it was
ineed a vigil, a
"sleepless watch"
for the tormented
one. since at every
relaxation of the
muscles new ago
MES would rack
him.
IAN eye=wit-
ness" writes Pro-
fe ssor Ricci,
gives this descrip-
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fell with all her
W weight from a
height of ten feet
to a point two feet
from the floor;
her arm S were
twisted completely
around by the sud
den wrench, she
shrieked aloud and
hung there appar-
emily without life.
eve caused wa
ter to be thrown
in her face; she
came to herself
and exclaim g d
again, Infamous
~s,sVp ,rnrr 1wa
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Beatrice Cenci-from the Painting
by Guido REM, an Artist of
Her Time.

(Pictures from 'Beatr.re Cenci."
B0ni * Lyeught.l
The Washington times., 1926-07-27

ALMOST SIMULTANEOUSLY with the filing in Palm
Beach of the will of Edward Russell Thomas New
Yorker Mrs. Elizabeth Finley Thomas, second wife,
divorced of the deceased brought suit to restrain
The picture shows Mr.. Thomas with his second wife,