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the house guest Of Or. and Mrs. D. G.
Davis Of Mckinley street.
Book Club Hears Review
OF mansions Of Philosophy"
The Thursday Book Club met at the
home Of Mrs. p. M. Anderson on Broad
Branch road. Mrs. Parker Dodge re-
viewed Mansions of Philosophy" by
Will Durant,
Miss Edith Chamberlin Of Orlando,
Fla, was the house guest for a few days
of Mrs. Edward C.. Sassar of Hesketh
street.
Miss Merkling Of Mission Home. Va,
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College. Frederick. Md. Mr.. and Mrs.
c. w. Hartman of Hagerstown, Nd. are
the house guests of Mr.. Harman's
brother in-law and sister, Mr.. and Mrs.
Dutton.
Mrs. David H, Silver and Miss Mar
garet Silver Of Whiteford, Nd. are
spending the week end with Mr.. and
Mrs. Burton Corning at their home on
Leland street.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Rapp entertained
their club at bridge-supper Tuesday In
their home on Nebraska avenue.
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Hotel at . o'clock. Other patronesses
are Mrs. Lowell r. Hobart. president
general D. A. r.; Mrs. william Sher-
man Walker, vice president general
d. A. r.; Mrs. William A. Becker, or
ganizing secretary general; Mrs. josiah
Van Orsdel. registrar general; Miss
retary general; Mrs. Flora NJ. Gillen-
tine, historian general; Mrs. Samuel s.
Kramer, curator general; Mrs. David
ID. Caldwell, State regent: Miss Helen
Harmon, vice regent; Mrs. Henry D.
Patton. chaplain; Miss Nellie Grant
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tanned at bridge-tea Thursday afternoon

tanned at bridge-tea Thursday afternoon
in her home on Elm street.
Mrs. A. E. Corning entertained the
apron committee Of the Y. w. G. A. at
luncheon Tuesday night in her home
on Cummings lane.
The Woman's Missionary Society Of
the Chevy Chase Presbyterian Church
viii entertain at luncheon Friday, Oc-
tober rs, at the church.
Mrs. Ralph Smith entertained at
luncheon and bridge Thursday In her
home on Elm street.
Mrs. Emma Ellis of Xenia, Ohio, is
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Cabinet Ladies Head
Gard Party patroness

Mrs. James w. Good, wife of the
Secretary OF War, and Mrs. Charles
Adams. wife of the Secretary Of the
Navy; Mrs. Proctor L. Daugherty, Mrs.
Sidney s. Taiiaferro and Mrs. William
B. Ladue, wives Of the District Com
missioners, have honored the Dorothy
Hancock Chapter d. A. r. by acting
as patronesses for the benefit card
party to be given by the chapter on
TIIesdaY October %. at Wardman Park
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Ross. recording secretary; Mrs. u
gar Smith, corresponding: secrd
Mrs. George Hfllyer, tree aiurer:
Harry Grove, historian: MAS. job
Beavers, State chairman OF bull
and grounds Of Constitution Hall:
z. H. w. Howard, former national
president; Mrs. r. e. Cla'nghton
firing State director of c.. "A. r.
her successor, Mrs. James H. Har1
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The Soviet government has Just
shipbuilding contracts WORTH so
to an Aberdeen, Scotland, finn.
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Accuracy and Dpedbhtyf New CnmeDewhon Devices of TRAINED nmilIsP Provide
Weapon Against Underworld -ConvhonsO Obtained on Determinations Daate Instruments
there Old Pn Methods Would B. Fm.

Of parent metal. One Of the specimens
had been used as the release mechan-
ism on a bomb which killed q mar and
manned his wife. The other had been
found in the shop of a farmer-me-
chanic suspected of the crime.
Chemical analysis of the two Speci-
mems would not yield the desired in
formation. The expert hence resorted
to metallographical examinations and
found that the two samples were Of
identical crystalline structure. He
then etched the exhibits with acid and
a~scertained positively that they were
twin products. This scientist also iden-
titled scraps of wood recovered from
the bomb as elm. A thorough search
of the suspects home eventually
brought to light some elm lumber hid
den in the hayloft. Handwriting and
ink Identification tests provided addi-
tional evidence OF guilt, the parcel In
which the bomb was sent through the
mails having been preserved. The
amateur bombmaker was convicted on
this compendium Of evidence and now
Is serving a life sentence in the peni-
Tertiary.
If a bullet is fired into sand, 1t usually
mushrooms and is so badly deformed
that 1t Is valueleSS as court evidence.
In another killing case, a bullet which
the. murderer fired at his victim went
wild and was found in the loamy soil
Of a river bank adjacent to the scene
| Of crime. This bullet wa about spent
when 1t embedded itself in the loan so
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that it was recovered in perfect condi-
ton except for a slightly fiattened nose.
A second bullet fell from the clothes of
the murdered man when his corpse
wa examined. The gun of the
suspected murderer was also recovered.
The criminologist who investigated
this particular case proved that the
rifling marks on the gun barrel and
bullets were identical. He also showed
that the dimensions of the Glands and
grooves in the rifle barrel and the i'm
pressions on the bullets conceded. The
pin fire marks on the shells as well as
the shell ejector impressions demon
strated that they were fired from the
weapon in question. The testimony of
this criminal expert was so iron-clad
that the man charged with the murder
confessed as o o as he was confronted
with the evidence.
In a third case two bullets and three
empty shells were recovered as the out
| standing exhibits in a murder trial.
The ~criminologist made precise meas
| urementS OF the bullets and demon
| strated conclusively that both bullets
were fired from the same weapon. Then
he fired three test shots from the sus-
poets gun into a bullet catcher and
subsequently measured the experimental
bullets. The measurements of these five
| shells when carried out to the thou
| sandths Of an inch were practically
identical. The scientific investigator
| also used a fllar micrometer-an instru-
! ment 30 accurate that 1t gauges faith
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did not expect in John Graham-ter-
ror.
IT swear to you I am Innocent
he stammered. II did beat her four
days ago. I'll admit to that and
take whatever punishment is coming
to me. But since then I haven't
laid SO much as a finger on her. Be-
fore God I swear i'll"
The constable was puzzled. Ora
ham was pleading guilty to the charge
against him and apparently was ready
to face the penalty. Why. then, the
terror? Was he hiding anything?
Where is Susan?" the constable de-
manded.
Graham slumped to a chair.
II don't know. I don't know. She's
gone away somewhere. I don't know
where. All I know is that I don't
know where she isl"
Guilt and fear in the mans voice,
in his manner, spoke more loudly than
his protestationS of innocence. He Of
fered no resistance and in the police
station, where he was detained pending
investigation and trial, he sank into
IN apathy of despair.
X X + X
LIS arrest and the disappearance Of
- the girl threw the countryside into
a fever. The men who in the past
had uneasily decried their wives
prophecies that some day John Ora
ham would kill his daughter were now
still more uneasy. 1t did not take
much to start a countrywide search for
Susan Graham.
When the girl could not be found
the neighbors began to search for her
body. BY this time mob passion was
in full cry. And a mob it was that
came down on John Graham's now
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tried for murder unless the body was
produced or unless he himself confessed.
At the examination Graham did
confess that he had been a hard father,
that often he beat his daughter. In
the morning after the last beating he
missed her from the house, he said.
Two days search of the neighborhood
brought him nothing but alarm. There
remained only the hope that she would
return of her own accord. Then came
the arrest.
What Graham's lawyer pointed out
the Judge confirmed. Graham would
not be tried for three months.
During these three months" the
judge said to Graham. II advise you to
search for your daughter. Make your
search as widely advertised as possible.
Spare no effort. You are in grave
difficulty, and only finding your daugh-
ter will get you out of it,"
When Graham left the courtroom
it was with a strong guard Of police.
This time the police acted not to detain
him but to protect him. The sight Of
John Graham going free was almost too
much for the self-control of his neigh
bors. 1t needed a show Of force to get
Graham unscathed out of town.
The county took the courts tempered
verdict bitterly. For three months
Graham would be free to travel. The
man was a murderer. Instead Of going
in search of his daughter Graham
would use the three months in putting
as much distance as possible between
him and England.
The fact that nothing was heard of
him in those three months only con-
firmed his n~eighbors' bitter ~prophesying.
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fully to the one one-hundred- thousandth
of an inch-in measuring the lands and
grooves on the rifle barrel and in COM
pairing these results with the distinc-
tive rifing marks on the bullets. The
resultant data when introduced as EVIL
dence at the trial resulted in convic-
ton.
THE popular type Of bullet catcher
l. used in the experimental firing of
mystery" guns Is a wooden case one
foot square and five feet long. 1t con-
tains one and one-half bushels of
sieved sawdust saturated with two gal
Ions Of lubricating oil. Sheets OF tissue
paper are placed In cross-section po-
sition at 10-inch intervals throughout
the mass Of sawdust, as they aid meas
urably in finding the test bullets after
the open end of this container, which
is covered with paper, usually pene-
trates to q depth Of from 20 to "a
inches, while high-power rifle bullets
do not stop until they have bored into
the oiled sawduSt barrier for from 3
to 4 feet.
The kinetic energy changes into heat
energy so that the bullet deforms by
melting when 1t Is shot into a medium
such as sand. However, when dis
charged into oiled sawdust, the test
bullet slides along uniformly without
reformation while the heat Is absorbed.
Lead bullets which are not reinforced
with copper Jackets can be shot sue
cessfully and recovered from such a
bullet catcher.
A new tangled comparison micro
scope is of the latest aids added to
the equipment Of the modern criminol-
ogist. It features two microscopes
mounted together in one setting. These
twin microscopes are so provided with
rejecting mirrors that the two images
are concentrated in n common field
for detailed observation and photog-
raphing. Slides can ultimately be made
from the films SO that comparative pic
lures Of bullets, shells, the crystalline
structures and atomic arrangement in
metals may be exhibited as court EVIL
dence on one and the same screen. The
magnification employed in such cases Is
usually 100 times actual size.
The firing pin of every rife OF
pistol used for any length Of time makes
a distinctive impression On the primer
and is q source Of positive identification
by firing test bullets, saving the shells
and comparing them under the micro
scope with unknown shells. Frequently
the firing pins are off-center or can
be identified by characteristic hicks on
their surfaces. Various firing pins make
distinctive crescent = shaped marks,
haloes and rings which are as indi-
vidualistic as the nose on your face.
A clever little test has been devised
as q check on firing pin Identification.
It Is based on the fundamental fact
that q definite relationship exists be-
tween the depth and diameter Of a hole
made by thrusting q lead pencil into
a ball Of putty. Science measures the
taper of the firing pin on a suspected
firearm and also gauges the impression
dimensions which that particular pin
makes in test shells. From these minute
measurements diagrams are graphed
which can be used reliably In deter
mining whether the test and crime
| shells were fired from the am weapon.
An automatic pistol equipped with
a shell ejector makes a distinctive
imprint which can be used o. certain
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| INTENDED farm to search for the body
of his little daughter that was surely
hidden there.
The mob went through every room
in the house. The floors were torn
up, crowbars went into every wall,
| closets were smashed in, the well ruined,
outhouses demolished, growing fields
dug up. The search wrecked the farm
and yielded no results.
A mob does not act judicially, and
its failure to find the body only
strengthened the belief that a body was
to be found somewhere. There in the
small provincial jail was the man who
could be made to tell where he had
hidden the victim Of his brutal murder.
He must be made to tell or pay the
penalty at oncel
Perhaps among no people in the
world does the lynching spirit appear
so seldom as among the British. But
on this occasion the farmers about
Gotham were beside themselves. Again
they formed a mob and marched to the
county jail. Their cries for Graham
reached him in his cell. A violent man
himself, he recognized the voice Of un-
leashed passion.
I'VE want Graham!"
The jail warden had to call on all
the police power Of the county and
threaten shooting before the mob be-
came again law-abiding farmers con-
senting to wait for the law to take its
course. But the authorities had to
promise that the man would be tried
for the murder of his daughter.
X v X X
TT was a promise the court could not
= keep. For by the time the trial came
Graham's lawyer had informed his
client of his rights. He could not be
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The law. contemptibly cautious, had let
a murderer escape!
X X X \
THEN day the town got a shock.
l. At twilight q wonan crossing the
town square saw a big ma leading a
girl by the hand. A young voice called
| out:
How do you do, Mrs. Benson?"
Mrs. Benson stared and recognized
| John Graham. She looked again and
| almost did not recognize Susan Graham,
| so changed the child looked without
| terror in her face. But so was the
man changed. The ordeal of the last
three months seemed to have thrown
the fear Of God into his heart and made
1t for once gentle.
"Is that you, Susan? Where have
you been all this timer" Mrs. Benson
asked breathlessly.
The adults let the child do all the
talking.
II ran away. I helped women
found me. But now I am going to
stay home and help him."
Mrs. Benson hurried to spread the
news, and in a little while others shared
her experience at first hand. Susan
called out the names of one after an
other Of Graham's neighbors as she and
he strolled about the town.
The news did not bring unmitigated
Joy. Every one was glad, of course,
that the child was alive, and practi-
cally every n was sure Graham had
been taught a lesson. What worried
those who had ransacked his farm was
that o Graham would be free to sue
them for damages. In their fury the
mob had not thought of Graham as a
possible plaintiff. Now they remem-
bered the damage they had done his
farms and how perfect a case he had
when he should go to court against
| them.
Graham thought Of It, too, next day,
| when he saw what had happened to
his home. It was impossible to live
there, and he took lodgings in town
for himself and the child. At the
same time he let it be known that he
would u his neighbors to the last
penny for the damages they had done.
First, however, there was his trial
terest in it was slight. Few of Ora
hams neighbors relished seeing the
look Of triumph that would be his
when he should leave the dock a vim
| dicated Few of his neighbors,
therefore, were in the courtroom on the
day of his trial.
X X X X
THE procedure was expected to be
purely formal. Susan Graham was
called to take the witness stand.
Clearly, intelligently, she told the judge
of her running away, her service with
farmers wives and Of her terror when
n day she saw her father hurrying
toward her.
But father told me I need not be
afraid. He would lever strike me
again. If I came back to Gotham and
showed myself to the court I could
then go and live with my aunt and
he would pay for my keep. But now
that he is kind to me it is with him
I want to live"
The rest Of the examination was
perfunctory, and the judge was about
to dismiss the case against John Ora
ham when he was startled at a cry
from among the spectators.
A oma had been edging forward
during the examination. Suddenly she
seized the young girls wrist, peered at
it, then cried out:
This Is not John Graham's child!
Susan Graham had q scar on her
wrist where that brute NICE hit her
with a stick. There is no scar on this
| child's wrist"
! It was Mrs. Simmons. the woman
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The ejector mark on the shell can also
be identified under the microscope for
any given firearm by its curious stria-
tions. the results Of special machine
marks.
The effective diameter Of a cartridge
shell Is always greater after the bullet
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is fired. The pressure and heat of the
explosion when the weapon Is dis
charged cause the shell to expand so
that it fills the barrel of the gun or
pistol. In . certain murder case, the
diameters of three shells found in the
pistol Of q man suspected Of the crime
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identification Of that weapon. This
ejector mark always bears a definite re-
lationship as to position with the inn
print OF the firing pin on the shell.
This distance when measured carefully
is q typical guide to the gun-if 1t can
be found-in which the shell was used.
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HE RECOGNIZED THE VOICE
OF UNLEASHED PASSION IN
THE MOB'S CRY, I'VE WANT
GRAHAM"
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TT was tribute to the toughness of
= her stock that his daughter vas
able to survive 10 years with him as
she did. ne gave her no schooling and
less tenderness. She could not write
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"A CASE in point which illustrates the
"A value Of scientific research in
crime solution concerns the metallic
graphic examination of metals. The
prosecution submitted two specimens Of
steel to a leading American chemist
and asked him to determine II the an
piles came originally from the same piece
The Washington times., 1929-06-22
BANNER CLASS
GETS DIPLOMAS

LEoNARDToWN, Nd, June -.
The commencement Of River
Springs High School had the big
gest class in the whole county re-
ceiving diplomas.
The y program opened with q
march and the students filed in
pairs and took their places.
Presentation Of diplomas was
made by Miss Lettie Marchall Dent,
superintendent of St. Mary's coun-
ty. and Miss Pearl s. Cutler, prin.
cipal of the school. Address to the
graduates was delivered by Prof.
Edgar F. Long, principal Of Hy.
attsville High School.
Miss Dent and Miss Cutler gave
out the awards for perfect attend
ance to the following: Misses Gene.
veive Bailey and Eleanor Guy, and
Messrs. John Choporis and John
Blakiston.
Awards for the national flag con-
test were given to Mesrs. Foxwell
Burch, gold medal. first place. Ger
tificates OF honorable mention to
George Choporis. Louis Gibson
Frances Thompson and May Rus,
sell
The Washington times., 1929-06-22
P D SSE TRAILS.
VA. SLAYER
fcontinued from First .Pagel,

Continued, from First Pagel
Sheriff Murphy for transfer to
Chatham, county seat Of Pittsyl'
vania county.
Seen in Alley
When the bus reached a spot
near Danyille. the colored man
broke away and fled amid a hail
of bullets from the sheriff's re-
volver. Kidd returned to Alex.
andria, 1t has been learned, and
police have information from sew
eral sources that make them posi-
tive It was Kidd that McClary ac.
costed in the dark alley while he
and Sergeant Sims were closing
in on a house suspected Of being
a liquor cache.
Immediately after Kids escape
from Sheriff Murphy, Alexandra
police learned that he was wanted
in Wilson, N. c., for the murder
of a policeman and that the Tar
heel community had reward OF
81, 200 posted for his capture.
A reward of 81 900 has been
posted by Mayor Smoot, Of Alexan'
dria, for Kidd's capture. Every
road IL watched and freight trains
are Systematically searched at all
points on the three main lines, tne
Richmond fredericksburg ana foto
mac; the Southern and the Chesa'
peake and Ohio.
Take Collection
McClary left a wife and five chl'
dren. A committee of Alexandra
business men civic and society
leaders have divided the city into
zones and a house-to-house canvass
is being conducted today to raise
fund for the widow and her chlidren,
The slain officer, who died almost
instantly when a 80 calibre steer
iacketed bullet crashed through ms
| neck. was the pal of Sergt. Eltor
r. Hummer, who was slain less
than a year ago under almost identi
cal circumstances. Like Hummer
McCIarv win receive all the honorS
the police department can oes'o"
upon him.
Funeral Monday
| His funeral will be held at
o'clock Monday, conducted by th'
Rev. William s. Hammond, pastol
Of the M. e. Church South. Th'
services will be held at the hom
of his sister, Mrs. Nettie CoomDs
at 427 Queen Street. Burial will b
in Bethel Cemetery. The America
Legion ana the Independent Orde
OF odd Fellows, in which he he'll
memberships, will participate !
the funeral services and at tn
burial.
Alexandra police continue to hol
for further questioning eight coiore
residents Of their city who they bt
Iieye have not told all they know Q
the Staying. Among them ar
Eugene and Mary Price, who lily
in the house in front of which tn
staying occurred; Thebe Reynolds
who watched the shooting from
window of her home across tn
street, and Clyde C'Crip'0 NelsoI
recently liberated from the Alexal
dria, city Jail after serving a SCI
tence for bootlegging..
The Washington times., 1929-06-22
FEWER WOME \
WORKERS. SEEN

More than a million and half
colored women were gainfully en-
ployed in the United States in 1890.
a decrease Of 100000 from the 1910
census figures. according to a new
bulletin Of the ,women's bureau, De-
partment of Labor.
The report, written by Mary Eli =
beth Pidgeon, supplements an earlier
study. made by the bureau in 1920
and covers the occupational distribu.
ton, working hours, earnings and
personal history of 17,134 women in
Alabama. Arkansas. Georgia, Illinois.
Indiana, Iowa, Kansas. Kentucky
Mississippi Missouri, New Jersey
Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee and
Virginia.
The great drop In agriculture Is
given as the explanation for the de-
crease, the 1910 census being taken
In April, when much farm work was
to be had, and the 1920 figures being
taken in January, when little work
was being done in agriculture.
The greatest gain was In manu-
featuring and mechanical industries.
A distinct, IL somewhat slow indus
trial progress is being made. A con-
siderable number have deserted gem
eral labor for machine operating,
some requiring dexterity and skill.
A few were found in supervisory
p.sts or in positions involving more
or less responsibility. One colored
religious paper was found where
colored women carried on all parts
Of the work, including monotype
operating, composing and proof
reading,
The Washington times., 1929-06-22
3 Hagerstown Plants
Sold to N. J. Concern

HAGERSTOWN, Nd, June 22.--
Announcement has been made here
Of the contamination OF q deal in.
volving the purchase Of three local
companies-the Terminal Storage
and Ice Company, the ice and stor-
age department OF the Federal Mill
ing Company and the Bester Ice
Company-by the Jervian Corpora
ton. of Newark, N. j. The amount
involved in the deal was not an
nounced.
The three plants will be merged
under the operation Of the Cassco
Company. which derives its name
from the initial letters of the com.
pany's name, the Central Atlantic
States Service Corporation.
The Jervian Corporation is the
holding company.
Harry z. Bester, former owner of
the Bester Ice Company, will be
named manager Of the three com.
| panies here, 1t is understood.