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The Washington times., 1927-11-28
8 WOMEN, I MEN ON.
L|LU|ENDAHL JURY

ciety Of Friends, Henry w. Leeds.
millionaire Atlantic City hotel man,
asked to be excused. For the same
reason Nathan Jones, OF Atlantic
City, was excused.
Quakers Start Row
The appearance of the two Quak.
ers led to the first legal exchange
when Defense Attorney McCarter,
famous for his Hall-Mills defense.
arose and asserted that q. talesman's
refusing to take an oath amounted
to obstruction of justice.
The States willingness to accept
both Leeds and Nathan Jones after
they had pleaded that their religion
would not permit them to pass the
death sentence on the defendants. in
dictated that the electric chair would
not be the goal of the State.
Prosecutor Repetto had stated sew.
eral weeks ago that he would be
satisfied with nothing less than the
death penalty.
cused both Leeds and Jones, but
warned the remaining talesmen that
he would take "the proper steps" II
the oath was again refused.
Harry V. Cansant. Atlantic City
boat builder. and Mrs. Ella M. Die
trich were the fifth and sixth jurors
selected and sworn. OF the six jurors
SO far accepted, three were women.
Mrs. Dietrich also voiced objection
to capital punishment, but was &C.
cepted nevertheless.
Three or four days will elapse
before the jury box is filled, it was
estimated.
More than $50 witnesses will
take the stand to recount their
knowledge of the crime and gath.
ering Of three score reporters and
SPECIAL writers will send out over
the land countless words of copy
Widow Primps for Trial
Mrs. IIilliendahl had her black
hair washed and waved for the
ordeal. Her chief counsel is Rob.
ert H. McCarter. who led the de-
Tense battery in the Hall-Mills
trial.
Beach, whose friendship for the
comedy widow will be used by the
state to help it establish a case,
called a barber and had his hair
trimmed.
Beach is to hear two witnesses
for the State testify they saw him
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Is to become of her nine.year-old
daughter. Lorraine, II she IL exc
cuted.
Calling Governor Smith n kind
hearted person. she expressed the
belief that he will do something to
help her, because he will be able to
appreciate her situation better than
she herself can, she declared.
Hears Catholic Services
Mrs. Snyder spent q monotpnous
Sunday.
Warden Lawes declared she did
not overhear the Catholic religious
services which were held in another
section OF the death house by the
Rev. Father John j. Mccartney.
She sometimes hears the services.
it was explained, but cannot see
the priest or the communicates.
Judd Gray was somewhat heart.
ened following the news that his
chief counsel. Samuel l.. Miller. is
planning a move in Federal Court
this week for a habeas corpus in
an effort to save him from the
chair.
Gray is distraught, though, over
the failure of his wife. Isabel Gray,
of South Norwalk. Conn.,, to write
TO him for several days.
She has not even written to cheer
him since he received the news that
the Court of Appeals had denied
him and Mrs. Snyder a new trial
On the charge of numbering the
latter's husband. Albert Snyder, in
Queens Village, l.. l.
Has Died 1000 Deaths
Mrs. Snyder was somewhat ap.
peased through having seen her at.
torney. Joseph leonardo. and Frank
Bombara. law clerk, in the death
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Ren1us Unwritten Law
Defense Hard Hit
CONTINUED from First Page.)

Continued from First Page.l
the records the defense's first ''un-
written law testimony"
Shaw claims to know certain facts
concerning Mrs. Remus and Frank
lin L. Dodge. her alleged sweet
heart. Shaw knew them In Miami.
Defense Attorney Charles H. Els
ton had hardly began to question
Shaw when Prosecutor Charles p.
Taft rose to vigorously object on
the ground the testimony of Shaw
had nothing to do with the sanity
or insanity OF Remus.
''It is not proper to go into this
kind of testimony until they have
presented testimony showing con-
clusively that Remus had q dis
eased mind" declared Taft.
This Is simply a subterfuge to
get testimony before the jury along
the line OF the unwritten law. which
is not a legal defense in this
State"
Elston denied he was resOrting to
subterfuge.
I'VE are merely trying to show
tAAC ClAShAAiSSAhOCC
Remus to temporary insanity" de,
clared Elston heatedly. II resent
the suggestion we are using subter
fuge, and don't care who makes
it,"
Judge Chester r. Shook said:
"You must. Mr.. Elston, show in
dependent testimony of q diseased
mind before you can 60 into thes'
things which you claim caused thu
insanity.
Defense Il Hard Hit
Shaw, replying to Elston, said h
met Mrs. Remus February Z, 1927
Taft objected again and the jury
was excused pending argument.
Elston said the testimony Of
| Shaw and many more witnesses tC
come was necessary to show what
drove Remus to transitory insanity
Il challenged the State to show
any authority which says YOU
| can't show the causes OF insanity
| Elston shouted.
"Mr. Elston," said the court
at want you to tell me when you
| claim this insanity stopped"
II can't do it and 1 won't do IT.
retorted ElSton. I'VE have shown
by testimony that Kemus was In
sane and have a right to show
! the causes. We have u right {,
show what Mrs. Remus and Frank
| lin Dodge did
Judge shook finally stated tina
the defense would have to show
further evidence Of a diseased mint
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at the lonely murder lane. north
of Hammonton, at the time DIR.
Lilliendahl was shot. The prosecu-
tor says one is a Western banker
and the other from the south"
Beach's Wife Loyal
Assistant Prosecutor Kinkle said
there was no doubt OF the identi.
fication of the white.haired chicken
fancier or of the blue coupe which
was seen dashinE from the lane.
Beach owned and drove a blue
coupe.
On the other hand, Beach's
counsel contends this testimony
will be upset by that Of a reputable
Hammonton business man. This
man. according to the defense. was
driving a car along the Indian
Mills Road, near where the lane
turned off. 1t was he, and not
Beach. that William Driver, a con-
tractor of Norrisville, Pa, saw that
day, according to the attorney.
Beach's last visitor before he
faced trial was his gray.haired wife,
who assured him OF her loyalty,
The couple have grown sons and
daughters.
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before It could proceed to show the
alleged acts Of Dodge and Mrs.
Remus
Witness IL Withdrawn
The judge ruled that no indie ,
pendent evidence of a diseased mind
had yet been presented by the
defense and that Remus could not
proceed with his "unwritten law"
testimony.
Shaw was withdrawn a. . de-
Tense witness.
The judges ruling was q blow
to the defense.
Remus made a motion asking that
the three alienists who are observ-
ing him at the instigation of the
court to determine his mental con.
dition be permitted to visit his man.
sion on Price Hill. In this home
valuable paintings and other be.
longings have disappeared.
Remus also requested that the
alienists inspect his law library in
the county Jail. Remus just re-
covered this library on mandamus
proceedings. He claims the books
were damaged when removed from
his home when he was in Jail The
court granted the motion.
William Mueller, caretaker Of the
Remus mansion on Price Hill, the
next witness, testified Remus started
to rave and acted as il he was out
of his mind" when he returned from
the Portsmouth, Ohio, Jail last April.
He would wave his hands, clap
them together and shout, To think
that man would do that to me!
lis that the only time you saw
him act that way?" asked Elston.
''No, / saw him act that way on
four different occasions. The very
next day / became so worried 1 was
going to leave his employ. l thought
he was completely out OF his mind. ="
Mueller testified before Remus
left for Atlanta prison he acted
normal" - in marked contrast to
when he returned.
Mr.. Mueller, III ask you, did you
ever see Franklin l.. Dodge at the
Remus home in Cincinnati while
Mr.. Remus was in Atlanta PRISON.
Prosecutor Taft objected. The
court sustained him.
Did Mrs. Remus carry a gun?'
Elston asked.
Again Taft jumped to his feet with
an objection and was sustained.
Meantime Remus is going to place
a procession Of witnesses on the
stand this week to blacken the
character Of the wife he shot and
killed because he thought she was
unfaithful to him.
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As MORE DAYS
TO LIVE

With the date of
their execution likely to
be January IL, 1928,
in the evening, Ruth
Brown and Judd Gray,
slayers Of Albert Sny-
der, have just 46 days
to live.
If you had only IS
more days of life, uOh0t
GOOuld you be thinking
today?
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NAME ENTRIES
FOR REGATTA

ALEXANDRIA, Va, July 49,
The entry list for the Southern
Rowing Association regatta at Balti-
more on Saturday was made public
by Emmett E. Lawler, jr., president
Of the association, today. Edwin E.
Carver and Carl J. Mueller. Of the
Old Dominion Boat Club, were ap-
pointed judges at the finish line.
Post entries in many of the inter
mediate and senior events will be
made by crews winning a lower
class race before the senior races
are run off. The entry list is as
follows:
Junior single SOULS, Ariel Rowing Club,
Virginia Boat Club; Junior double souls,
Ariel Rowing Club. Virginia Boat Club
Junior quadruple SOULS, Old Dominion
Boat Club: Virginia Boat Club; junior
eight-oared shells, Virginia Boat Club,
Potomac Club; junior four-oared gig.
Arundel Boat Club, Old Dominion Boat
Club; intermediate four-oared gig, Ariel
Rowing Club and winner of the junior
Rowing Club, Arundel Boat Club, Po-
tomac Boat Club; senior eight-oared
shells Potomac Boat Club, Ariel Row
ing Club.
The officers of the Southern Associs-
ton are as follows: E. e. Lawler. ir,
Old Dominion Boat Club, president
Charles I. Howard, Ariel Rowing Club.
vice president; Charles l.. Haslup, Arun-
del Boat Club, treasurer. The regatta
committee is as follows: Paul j. Bereh.
Ariel Rowing Club. chairman; William
2. Crawford, Virginia Boat Club; Charles
L. Haslup. Arundel Boat Club; William
G Mckinney. Potomac Boat Club, and
Emmett e. LAWYER, jr., Old Dominion
Boat Club.
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Alexandria League
Starts Second Half

ALEXANDRIA, Va, July 49,
The second half of the Alexandria
Commercial League schedule will
open tomorrow with the Alexandria
Gazette nine facing the Merchant
combination in the inaugural. The
Gazette team will start Pharr on
the mound with Jack Tulloch or
Peyton behind the bat, while Horne
and knight will probably be the
battery for the Merchants.
Columbia Engine Company meets
Alexandria Postoffice on Wednes-
day, and the American Legion and
American Agricultural Chemical
Company. winners of the first half,
play Friday. All contests are played
in the Dreadnaught Park at S
o'clock.
Charles Corbett has been named
to succeed Jake Preston. manager
of the American Legion team. Ten
new players will appear in the
games.
The new players are Honey
Boy" Peyton and Goodies" Owens,
Alexandria Gazette: Ralph Scriv-
ener. Stanley Swan and Aleck
Cabell, Merchants: Buddy thinner.
man, Louis Latham and Earl
Cronin, Columbia Engine Company,
and Allan Dennis and Rodgers,
Alexandra PostofficA
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-07-18
: johnson Day Tickets
Placed On Sale
At Ball Park

Tickets for the johnson Day
Game" at the Griffith Stadium
on August 2. with the Detroit
Tigers as the visitors, were
placed on sale at the park this
morning. The occasion will
commemorate the twentieth an
niversary of johnson as a major
league pitcher.
Only box seats will be re-
served, but general admission
ducats can be purchased now.
Holders of these seats will gain
admission, but they must arrive
early to find seating place.
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{ { / R | 6
IN DUEL

With interest in the pennant race
practically killed by the Yankees
repeated successes, American League
fans today turned their attention
to the Ruth-Gehrig duel. GehriE
picked his 30th homer Yesterday
and is again tied with the Babe.
Tie blow tied the score In the
lankee.BrOwns contest. and
aROtheR homer by Bob Meusel
on the next ball pitched enabled
the New Workers to win. s to 4,
for their ninth straight victory
over the Brownies.
Detroit climbed to fourth place
by Bosing out the Athletics in the
ninth, to 4. McManus tripled
and scored when Jimmy Dykes con-
verted a bunt into a touchdown
instead of 8 put-out.
The Cardinals got rough with
DazZy Vance, Brooklyn ace, in the
ninth and won, to 8, on Schulte's
triple. Reinhart, who started on
the mound for the worlds cham.
pions, was batted out of the boz
by foul. A long. hard foul by
Carey in the seventh convinced the
st. Louis board of strategy that
trouble was in the offinz, and Rein
hart, much to his surprise, was
waved out of the picture.
The other eight teams were idle.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-07-18

The secretive Leo Podunkus
Flynn states that Dempsey will do
"a little work" Tuesday after
which he will begin 10 pack his
bags ready for the jaunt to New
York.
Jack may go alone to New York
by train Tuesday night" added
Flynn, and then, again, might
change his mind and not send him
along until Wednesday by auto.
Any way, he'll be in New York
sometime Wednesday at the latest
and will hang up his hat in. the
Belmont Hotel"
And then Dempsey added a
couple of words:
"The gIaddest thing that's
happened to me today is to
know that it'll only be three
more days before the fight.
It's been tough waiting around
tpr that day to come.
For I certainly want to get back
within the ropes again and show
the folks that the hollow SHELF
thing is all wrong and that even
If ] am the old man. I'm still
good enough to bust Sharkey
through the ropes and then take
runney for the title"
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Skeptics in no small number
are whispering that Jack Demp-
sey is through and that he is
back for the Sharkey fight
purely for the monetary gain;
but that viewpoint is far from
the one gained by the over
signed in a weekend romp at
Dempsey's White Sulphur Spring
camp last week.
In a fanfest with the former
heavyweight c h ampion we
CLEANED the conviction that
money is the farthest thing
from Jack Dempsey's mind to-
day. Jack IS well fixed. Better
fixed than one out of a hun
dred who may read these lines.
He's very well off, as they say
out in Hollywood where for
tunes are quite common.
In effect Jack made this point
clear-he feels he is gambling
as little with humiliation and
modification in the Sharkey
fight as it is possible for any
man to gamble when he is
principal in a ring encounter.
Modification and humiliation
are worse enemies of Dempsey's
than pauperism. He doesn't
want any of those things to
happen to him, but having
travelled from the brake beams
to the leadership of the heavy
weight pack, he yearns only to
regain that honor. The finan-
cial reward is a very secondary
consideration.
So here in 1927 we have a
Dempsey who believes he is in
better health than at any time
since 1928 when he underwent
an operation for intestinal
trouble. If he didn't think he
was in the best of health and
the toughest of condition, he
wouldn't be back taking an I'M
necessary risk of adding aston
ishment to the chagrin of Sep
TENDER, 1925.
The man Dempsey is conf
dent of victory in the Sharkey
fight and he is confident of de-
feating Tunney. Many we have
talkeN with share his confidence
with him and still have him on
that dizzy pinnacle he occupied
for seven long years. Jacks
comeback is to be a comeback
indeed, according to his own ex-
pressions, for what greater a re-
turn to fame is there than to be
cast out and then work ones
way back to ones former emil
nence? That is the mark of a
true warrior-one who won't
take "no" for an answer.
We have in Mr.. Harry News
mail a letter from Jack "Silk"
Kennedy offering hi s selection
of Walker to defeat Dundee,
which we call keeping strictly a
jump ahead of events. for Wal
ker and Dundee have not vet
been matched. However, we'll
keep the selection in mind in
case Mickey and Joe do fight
and in all probability they will
tangle gloves before 1927 is
very much history.
Also a post card from Ray
Brennan out in st. Louis gloat-
ing over the fact he warned us
a week before Paul Wanninger
was sent back to the st. Paul
American Association club by
the Cincinnati Reds, that such
an event was about to transpire.
As our personal ambassador
to Missouri and points east and
west, Brennan has a splendid
record, Away last January he
informed us Whiskery was "in"
for the Kentucky Derby. Ray,
who's going to win the Demp-
sey-Sharkey fight? There's q
couple of million people. not
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GYM Handicap
To BOSTON LAD
Rv Davis ]. Walsh

NEW YORK July 1s-Put glass; let the rays Of
work and will thrive and flourish and grow Put
house under similar conditions and
grow too won't be tall He will lazy, torpid,
and slow.
wondering today if anything like that has been
happen shouting Jack Shakey the with the
Sharey today that he before the
Maloney fight without for did his
permitting the train at Madison
Square prevailed there during
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And all of the work is concen-
trated upon development of a left
hook attack for The body; the some
thing that Dempsey hopes will be
certain fistic death for Sharkey and
give him another crack at Gene
Tunney, the celebrated monk of
the Adirondack Mountains.
Dempsey was on the road early
today, just how far he went is a
secret. But he was absent a long
while, and what he did while on
the road is another secret. But the
birds around here whisper that
somewhere along the line he met
Dave Shade and also Burke and
that they practiced a bit of this
and that in the noble art of dis
arranging human compilations.
Burke is still nOn-cOmmittaI
about stories that he has been
labOring in some sylvan dell, or
in the cottage of Jack Dempsey.
He is also nOn.committal as TO
how he came by messy look
ing eye and well skinned nose
bridge. But he isn't at all non
cOmmittal about his ideas of
the outcome of Thursday nights
brawI.
II think Jack is copper riveted
cinch," he said. He's going 10
pull a few little things in that
ring thatll surprise the customers
and surprise Sharkey most of all
The assumption il that because
Burke is Dempsey's sparring mate
he merely talks optimisticaliy as a
tribute to the boss. But that idea
is busted when it is remembered
that just prior to the Tunney fight,
Burke said:
Jack isn't right. He's far from
right. I don't think he can stop
Tunney. His only chance is to out.
step him and outpoint him and
that's tough job for him to put
over against smart, fast man like
Tunney."
The camp Of Dempsey, which
once tsemed with sparring part.
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.TODAY'S
STANDINGS

Yesterdays RESULT
st. Louis, 5; Brooklyn, 3.
Chica go-New York (wet grounds).
(Only games scheduled.l
GAMES TO-DAY
Cincinnati At Boston.
Pittsburgh at Philadelphia 1.-TWO
games).
Chicago at New York 1.-TWO Esmes).
ST. Louis at Brooklyn
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Hero It IS!

Totals 1915 " III Totals s512271s
1Batted for Kamm in eighth.
2Batted for Barnabe in ninth.
WASHINGTON ...... o 100 / 90
Chicago .......... 0 0O1O3 ca
Runs-HarriS. Speaker. Judge. Ruel
Reeves az, Blueke. Peck. Barrett
Clancy. Ward. Error-Ward Two.
hasa hits-Rlce t2l. Speaker (2l. Clancy
l21. Three-baSe hits--Ward McCurd,
Hits-Oft Lyons. ? in 5 2-S innings
stolen base-Harris. Sacrifice hit
Lyons. johnson. Bases on balls-Off
johnson I; off Barnabee. g. Struck
out--By Johnson. /, Double play-Bar-
rett to Mccurdv. Kamm TO Ward 10
Clancy, Harris 10 Judge Pnesed ball
:-Mccurdy. um piresI McGowan. Hid e.
brand and Evans. Tfns-3:Oo.
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1t would be bad enough to send
a fighter into crowded, smoke
filled gymnasium in the recent heat
but when skylight, ideally located
TO defract and concentrate the rays
of the sun, magnifies its heat di-
rectly upon the ring itself. the ulti-
mate limit in non-thinking has been
reached,
The writer always will believe
that Tom Gibbons pitifuI show
ing against Gene Tunney was
due in part to the fact that the
sun got him in training and
that what the sun missed the
heat of the arena the night OF
the bout managed to complete.
Gibbons trained in a rOOflesS
ring at COney Island and the
final seven days were killers.
I climbed to the edge of the ring
for a word with the fighter while
he was resting between rounds of
training bout. Then I climbed
right down again. / had thought
for moment that the soles of my
feet were fondling the lid Of a red
hot stove.
The sun is something of a cure
all for invalids and a kill.all for the
athlete who gives it too big play.
1t saps the vitality and leaves one
listless and without any great heart
for violent exercise. Add a skylight
to make that sun really burn and
blister its way into your haircut
and it wouldn't be long until you
were as dry as an ex-cocoanut.
OF course, the answer to the
difficulty is to cover the sky
light, either from within or with
out, but then, as / was saying,
the Sharkey camp is not paid
to think. Offhand, / would say
that it is paid merely to listen.
In his workouts of Saturday
Sharkey looked the part Of a man
who was laboring at his play and
not playing at his work. After he
got in the ring he was dead on his
feet and could escape neither leads
nor counters and only in flashes
which were forced from him. Only
through the realization that he was
getting showing up. did he look
like a fighter who soon. might be
battling for the heavyweight cham
pionship,
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Two-base hits-Delehanty. Ross
man. Three-base hit-Nill. Home
run-Crawford Stolen bases-Dele-
hanty, Cobb ~, O'Leary. Sacrifices
-Heydon, Blankenship. Double
plays-Cobb to Schmidt, Cobb to
Rossman, Left on bases-Washing.
ton, 6; Detroit, Z. Base on balls
OFF Johnson, 1: off Siever, 4. Hits
Off Johnson, in innings; off
Hughes, nj inning. Losing
pitcher-Johnson. Umpires-Sheri-
dan and Evans. Time of game
l hour and 35 minutes.
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Harris cleaned up smart
hounder in the sixth to leave Falk
on third, and in the eighth his
nifty work on Neis' roller, starting
a double play, saved Johnson from
a lot of trouble.
The really great defensive play
though came in the ninth when
Goslin, racing like wild man to-
ward second base. just succeeded
in grabbing Wards fast dropping
fly inches from the grass while CO.
ing at top speed. A moment later
McCurdy's triple amounted to moth
ing. instead of scoring a run and
starting a rally that quite likely
would have driven johnson to the
showers.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-07-18
SECRET|VE AIR SHROUD5
DEMPSEY CAMP
BY George Barry

SARATOGA SPRINGS NJ Y. July 18.-Theyve padocked the
gate that leads Jack Dempeys great
secrecy around the quarters of the exboss of managers
All of which is being done feeble effort the fact
Dempsey isn't all through with his with
bag his cottage and that he works in close
MARTY
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You can feel confident that when
firm listed In the Times and Herald
who's Who" column serves you, Won
will be pleased. Sc their pnnOunco-
menta sntnext to the last page today,