The Washington times., 1929-08-03
Shook Prosecutor to
Meet Dirt 7hrouvi1,g

urday. One saturday while clean.
ing the room, she met Miss Hix.
"She smiled. at me" the witness
related. "and in reply to q question
from me, said. 4 am Mrs. Sn00k.'"
Mrs. Smalley said she gave Shook
two keys to the room. She identi.
fled one OF them which was intro.
duced as evidence by the State.
She testified that when she saw
Snook's picture In the paper after
the Staying of Miss Hix she called
the police and went with them n
the county jail. There she faced
Shook.
Clothes Discovered
She then related how Shook told
her, in the presence Of police, that
Miss Hix was the wife" who had
occupied the love nest" Mrs.
Smalley said that while cleaning the
room she saw a pair Of pajamas. a
travelling bag. a powder box, two
pairs OF slippers and two tooth
brushes.
On cross-examination the witness
insisted she had never seen any
liquor In the room, nor hal she
seen any evidence that sandwiches
had been eaten there.
Mrs. Smalley seemed relieved
when she was excused and DR..
Oscar w. Brumley, professor of
veterinary surgery, Ohio Safe Uni
versity, was called to the stand.
He has been a member of the fac
ulty for 81 years and was Dr.
Snooks' superior at the university.
DIR. Brumley was shown two bot
ties of supposedly sex-exciting drugs.
The witness identified the bottles
as having been found by police Of
ficers in his presence-one bottle
in Snook's office and the other in
the drug room of the laboratory.
The State is seeking to prove that
Shook administered drugs to Miss
Xix.
Modest and Retiring
What type of a girl was Miss
HfxT' DR.. Brumley was asked by
the defense.
She was a modest, refined, re-
firing girl" he replied.
The witness said DIR. Shook used
the drugs in his lectures in teaching
medicine. Asked If, when professors
came to him for drugs, they had
to tell him why they wanted them,
the witness replied:
I'm some cases, but not always"
In dismissing the witness the
defense asked that he keep himself
In readiness for recall to the stand.
Detective Larry Vanskaik told of
the arrest OF Shook. When he ar
rived at the Shook home. Shook
came out on the front porch.
May I eat my. breakfast" Shook
said when the officer told him he
was wanted.
You may IL I may tell your wife
about this" the detective replied.
Shook then decided to eat down.
town. So they drove to headquar-
ters in Snooks car. stopping at a
restaurant en- route.
Charles F. Long, an analytical
chemist, was called to the stand and
was questioned by Prosecutor .Ches.
ter. ~.. ,s-.. 80.
Long was shown a>coat,, upon. the.
right sleeve of which was stain.
That stain was blood" said Long.
''It gave positive reaction as hu-
man blood"
The coat was previously identified
by employees as the Brown dye
house as one brought there for
rush cleaning by DR.. Shook
Chemist Long had examined
Snook's blue coupe and found blood
stains there, on the right side OF
the car. beneath and on the door
sill. They were human blood,
stains" said the chemist who had
made a microscopic test. e.
Then Prosecutor Chester showed
him a penknifs.
Did you find any blood on it?"
asked Chester.
Yes" replied Long.
'Dirt" Threatened
OF course, all the dirt concern.
ing the private life of Theora Xix
hasn't come out yet. And Incl.
IDENTIFY, in this connection, the bril-
liant young prosecutor. Handsome
Jack" Chester, announced today that
for every handful OF dirt" the de.
Tense casts at the dead TEeora he
will peg shOvelfulS at the SNUG Mr..
Shook, the philandering married
man who was old enough to be her
father.
Now and then, as this trial un-
winds, We hear casual mention Of
another man in her life-one Marion
T. Meyers, former instructor in
farm crops at the university and a
friend of Snook's.
But she knew Shook bfeore she
became acquainted with Meyers
and Shook knew her well enough
to set up q '1Ove nest" for her, but
there is no record of Meyers friend
ship having developed to that ex.
tent.
Confided In Dad
Prof. Melvin T. Hix, the slain
girls elderly father, now heart
broken over the tragedy, assured
International News Service that
until his daughter met Shook some
three and one-half years ago she
always confided in her dad"
In her letters to him. when he
was back home at Bradenton, Fla,
she related all of her experiences
during her early days at Ohio
state, but after she met Shook her
father detected a change in the
tone of her communications.
1t will be interesting to see just
what kind of a picture the jury
does get, of this girl.
On the prosecutors table in court
is a photograph of the girl, new
one, recently obtained.
1t shows Theora to- be a very
nice-loking, refined young woman
with an aristocratic tilt to her chin
and obviously intelligent.
The prosecutor tried to Introduce
this photograph as evidence, but
it was ruled out after objections on
the part of the defense, which