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The Washington times., 1929-01-10
DEEMS He
ENAS GIVEN
HEAVY
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aged, bent and almost toothless
,pow.wow doctor, who revealed to
Blymyer, he said, that Rehmeyer
was the one who was casting the
evile spell over him, Curry and
Hess.
They would not have beaten Reh-
meyer to death if he had not re-
sisted their efforts to clip a lock
from his hair. or get book he had,
called "The Long Lost Friend"
If they had buried the lock Of
hair eight feet under the ground or
had burned the book they were
after, they would not have muir
dered Rehmeyer, for either act
would have been sufficient to break
the spell"
The county of York is manifest
ing the greatest interest in the case
because of the accusations that
witchcraft flourishes hereabouts TO
a virulent extent.
Probably : no trial within the
memory of this old historical city
has attracted such wide attention.
Mrs. Anna Curry McLane, mother
of the boy defendant, is greatly
worried that the same fate will be-
fall her son that has come to the
wan-faced, gimlet-eyes Blymyer.
Mother Is Worried
ST am heartbroken," she told
International News Service today.
II never thought the day would
come when l would have to sit in
a court room and see my boy on
trial for murder.
John is a good boy. no differ
ent than the average American boy.
He was always good to me.
His father died years ago, and
I married again. 1t seemed that
John and his step-daddy, Mr.. Nc
Lane could not get along / had
sent John through the eighth. grade
and had hopes of putting him
through high school, but of late lie
got beyond my. control. He stayed
away from home more or less,
chiefly because, I think, that he
could not get along with my second
husband
II don't believe in witchcraft
S1AAA SdI A1lldSIII0 IlO" ~JOLll SOI
such spooky ideas into his head
It must be that he got under the
influence of Blymyer. Oh if he
had only never met B1ymyer.
r Never have I had any witch
craft books in my home, and if
John read any of them, I don't
know where he got them. John
really is a good boy at heart. He
writes to me regularly from the
jail saying he is sorry that the
trouble he is in is hurting me. 1
am sure that he is innocent. l
can't believe otherwise
Mrs. McLane has been in court
every day listening intently to the
trial of Blymyer. She is a woman
of about 40, but looks much
younger. She is accompanied by
her daughter, Elizabeth.
Mrs. McLane said that both she
and her husband are employed by
the American Chain Company.
Asked in what capacity she is EN-.
ployed, she replied "as a laborer,
I guess"
The defense is expected to con.
tend that Curry was so immature
in his mental development and so
influenced by the teachings of the
S3-year old Blymyer that he had
implicit faith in the powwow-
doctor and followed him hlindly,
even going so far as to help him
commit murder.
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L 1ISL EdSSt
gun in hand, ran from his hiding
place, shooting as he came.
Panic stricken. Taylor Pierce and
William Thompson. other members
of the murder band who had re.
mained in the car, started the
motor for a getaway.
They ran a gauntlet of deadly
gunfire for $50 yards unscathed,
coolly returning the fire. They
succeeded in hitting Deputy Thomas
Dunnigan. who raced alongside their
speeding car. They were finally
captured.
Detectives found Mrs. Wood in
her home here. She was partly
clothed and in bed. they said, pro-
testing she was suffering from influ-
enza.
Husband Greets Her
Assistant Prosecutor Buckley
ordered her arrested and taken to
police headquarters. When she
arose. she staggered about the room.
Buckley said. Holt had informed
authorities they would find her at
her home drunk. According to
Holt, Mrs. Wood had intended to
accompany the gunmen, but had
drunk so much they had to take
her home.
Wood met his wife in the homi.
eide squad room at police head,
quarters.
"Hello. Grace" he said, according
to witnesses. It's sort of awkward
isn't if1 don't know what to Say
Grace, but I can't feel sorry
killed that fellow when l think what
he intended to do to me-"
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GIRL ABANDONS.
SUICIDE PLAN E.
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and take me home to rest. l hope
YOU will. all forgive me. Do not
worry. / am not worthy OF your
worry. Goodby, dearest mother
Love always. arrvw
Note to Friend
Following is the note to MISS
Hewitt:
dearest Margaret:
"You too. try and forgive me. l
love YOU very, very much; and even
though / am committing very
great crime think God will forgive
me and take me home to rest. Some
day we shall meet again in another
world. Soodby, dearest pal: Good
bNs YouE old pah @DOLhfs
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HOOVER HEARS
job SEEKERS
IN SILENCE
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State of the old Solid South having
a State election this year.
It can be done, Slemp assured Mr..
Hoover, with the proper cooperation
of State and national Republicanisrn.
Slemp himself has been proposed
by Virginia Republicans for the Sec
retaryship of Interior and for Post
ma ster General, but he denied today
that he was Interested in his own
candidacy.
81 am not a candidate for any.
thing" he said. II just love the Re-
publican party"
Felix Davila, the Porto Rican COM
missioner, urged Mr.. Hoover to visit
that dependency, and obtained
promise that it would be included IL
Mr.. Hoover finds he is able to make
| the projected Caribbean tour before
| inauguration. There is considerable
doubt of this now. but Mr.. Hoover
| told him if he didn't visit Porto Rico
before March he would do so some
time during his administration.
A candidate for Secretary of Labor
was put forward in the person of
| William n. Doak, chief of the Broth
erhood of Railway Trainmen. The
recommendation was made by G. W.
Lauehlin, Legislative agent for the
| brotherhood.
Earle 5. Kinsley, Republican ma
tional committeeman from Vermont,
| was another New England caller
who discussed New England APP
pointments with Mr.. Hoover.
A Good Listener
Mr.. Hoover listens, occasionally
asks a question, but for the most
part permits his visitors to do the
! talking. II he has made any COM
mitments at all-save that concern"
ing the retention of Andrew w. Mel.
Ion as Secretary of the Treasury
noIitical Washington does not know
of it, despite its ear-to'the'keyhole
The stock question asked all
visitors as they emerge from the
President-elect's office, which is
buried deep in the center of his
twelve.room layout, is: And what
did he say?" Invariably the reply
is: "Well, he appeared interested,
and he listened"
AS a listener and as one who
can keep his own counsel, M.
Hoover Is proving daily that he
hasn't been sitting at the foot of
Mr.. Coolidge's Cabinet table five
years for nothing.
The reticence Of the President.
elect concerning his Cabinet ap-
pointments has given rise to many
rumors, and it Is giving q good deal
of left-handed courage to those VINO
are backing various candidates for
jobs. They apparently feel that SO
long as there Is reticence there is
hope.
There are rumors that Mr.. Hoo
YER already has made up his mind
concerning his official family, and
that he is merely going through the
ceremony of listening to this endless
stream OF recommendations merely
out of politeness and o sSrsa oS
Ipolitical duty.
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PlOtters Planned to
Kill Woods Partner
Also, Holt COnfesses

. De T e OFT, Jan. 10 H.N.S.).
Following is the confession, as
gtven TO police, of Mrs. Grace
Woods alleged plot to kill her
husband, Ralph Wood, IS, million
atre real estate operator.
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MASONS PLAN TEMPLE

NORRISTOWN, Pa, Jan. To-
Masonic organizations here plan
erection of a modern temple in the
west end, replacing the structure
in use in the business district for
many years. Charity Lodge has
approved, the proposal and ratifica.
ton by Norristown Lodge IL ex.
pected on January Il. D. a..
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FORGERY MILL
Barred
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America, and acted as press-censor
on the trip.
Senator Borah, 1t was shown, has
dema nded that the American State
Department request the Russian
government to take immediate ac-
ton against the forgers of the docu-
ments.
II feel that my Government owes
it to me to clear 1t up" said Borah,
"and l believe that it could he
cleared up. feel that they could
get to the bottom Of it,"
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Why bother looking about town for
For Rent" sigma when In all prob
be located through tOday'a ClAasifled
rental columns.
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Blw1yer Hex Killing
Due to Old Gods

YORK Pa. Jan. 10John Bymyer, the convicted witch.
ayer testified that he is glad Nelson Rehmeyer is dead;
that he is happy to have killed him. that with Rehmeyers
death the curse hex, that the old warlock is alleged
is null and void
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Wife Held In Plot On
Husbands Life

Sullivan woods partner and
Wood. Later we decided only on
Wood.
Preyed on His Mind
This thing preyed on my mind
and l told my wife. She told me
to go to the police. Instead l went
and told Earl, bookkeeper for
Wood, and he told Wood and Sui.
livan.
Sullivan went to Roy Smith,
Riverview police chief, and we
framed it so the police would be
there when these men came.
Mrs. Woods plan was that l
was to drive Haggerty and Thomp-
son to Woods office. l was to go
in and speak to him, come out and
| tell them if any one else was there.
! Wood was to be black lacked ana
! thrown into his own car.
I'VE were then going to wreck
the car and plant some dope on
! him. Wednesday of this week l
met Haggerty and Mrs Wood and
! had lunch with them in a restau-
! rant The plans were gone over
while we ate.
"At $50 after work. l went to
Mrs. Woods office. She had been
drinking. Haggerty was there at
| the same time. We ate again and
went out and had some drinks. Then
we went and rented a car while
| Mrs. Wood sat on a bench.
About o'clock we set out for
! Thompson's home. When we got
there Haggerty went IN to get
| THOMPSON.
Dressed AS Cop
| "Then man named Taylor
| Pierce, dressed in a special police
uniform. came to the car. He said:
Hey, what's this all about Mrs.
Wood said: You'd better get in on
| this and come along with us APP
parently Mrs. Wood knew him but
| didn't.
pierce went back to the house
and came back in A few minutes in
civilian clothes. He got into the
car and we all started for Wyan-
ION the way | was scared to
death, thinking of my wife and
baby.s / was particularly nervous
because Of this third party. Be-
fore we got to Wyandotte, Mrs.
Wood was SO drunk that. although
she first said she wanted to come
with us. we had to take her home.
''She left us, saying: Remember,
tonight I am staying with my
mother We got TO Wyandotte and
drove to the office. | went in and
| spoke to Wood. | told him We were
all going back down to WyandOtte
for a little while TO get a few
drinks because / needed them my
self to steel my nerves.
Told Wood All
when 1 came hack again, I was
to go to one side OF the door. 1
told Wood all this.
| Then we went back to get some
more drinks. Then we
came back and Haggerty and 1
went to the door.
When Wood came out, as was
our prearranged signal Haggerty
pulled his blackjack which he and
Mrs. Wood had bought yesterday.
\ He was about to slug Wood when
the shooting commenced. You
know the rest"
| Taylor Pierce, one of the alleged
conspiators, in his statement to
Assistant Prosecutor. Paul Buckley,
i said:
." d" didn't intend to kill Mr..
Wood, was impressed by Mrs.
| Woods promise of easy money"
/ William Thompson, former men,
her of the marchant police, related
corroborative story, police said.
"She said we could plant dope
and whiskey on him and the police
would believe him to be a runner,
who had been ha-iacked." Thompson
said. when L first met Holt, /
was suspicious of him and re.
marked to Mrs. Wood that Holt
didn't look all right. Mrs. Wood
replied he was all right and could
be trusted"
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To the prosecution, the spectators,
the array of writers covering the
case, this doubtless appeared as an
amazing attitude Of frankness-per.
haps a confession of insanity. And
yet, with alienists looking on, and
doctors testifying, the adolescence of
Blymyer's mind was, not nearly so
remarkable as the out and out primi'
tive character of his faith in truly
fundamental religio~.
"Killing the witch" is not a new
motion; nor, is ia a proof of insanity.
But. after all, sanity resembles suc'
cess, it is a relative thing, and Bly,
myers happy mood sinre the slay1nS
is not without a background curious
to trace.
All peoples have old and unusual
traditional practices that deal with
the combating of evil. Religious
history of the world bubbles over
tales of the scapegoat, the medium
bv which evil is thwarted or ex-
pelled. When Singalese is i'll. the
devil dancers conjure the SICKNESS
away: they wear the masks OF the
devils they hope to please. Otten
the evil is transferred to ANIMALS
again, to men.
A Parallel Case
| Tn 1890 a peculiar and parallel to
Rlvmyer's case occurred. Agnes
sampson, in Scotland, was convicted
of curing Robert Kers of disease
laid upol him by w ano wal
lock, and kept the same N,.th srea'
sroaning and torment till the nlo. H. ~
at whilk time there was a great oiii
heard in the house. witch
This noise was made ny We We
Sampson in her struggle 10 slll - :
| the illness which she had ass -, -
TO a dog or cat. The attempI M
carried: instead it hit AleAanue'
douglas, of Dalkeith. VINO oleu
while Robert kers recovered MS
Sins of New Zealand tribes are =
expelled by having one man actaH. 800.
them. He then ties a fern 80. SO"
about himself, dives into RIVER
| uQDl0QS lIIC Sldih N''N -
away the sins disappear
Belief that gods-good or pad
must be "salved" in the modefh
| sense, is as old as the seas. Nature
and her elements. wind, rain ana
particularly fire are the innoVatorS
of such convictions. In Europe
chiefly in the medieval times, the
Old MYTHS played definite parts IN
the lives of all nations. And eVe1
TODAY well-known "wart cures" are
still in vogue; they in reality are
nothing but witchcraft schemes toi
the shifting of Illness or evil. You
rub a wart with a stone, throw IL
over your left shoulder and 10. the
bump is gone. Thousands believe II
in the face OF modern science.
A Cough Cure
A Northamptonshire. Devonshire
and Welsh cure for a cough Ia bodily
eviD is to put a hair from the pa.
TENTS hair between two slices oI
buttered bread and feed it to dog
who will thereupon catch the cough,
the patient recovering.
Blymyers mind Is of primitive
mold, and among the dark, ominous
medieval beliefs are firmly set there
expulsion of evil ritual is prominent
He is still sensitive to haunted
glades, fiery demons. all dramatiza
ton of evil. He is untouched by the
philosophical and scientific march OF
intelligence.
He killed "the witch" and is con
WINGED he did the thing for the best
of all concerned.
He is loyal to his gods-the Gu
rious creatures he sees in his dreams
and whose symbols are emblazonsc
on the pages Of his witch books.
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the M. P. can be made to impart
underspin or overSpin to the ball
or hit 1t directly in the back.
Human opinion is next to value
less on putting surfaces because Of
the nicely of balance regarding fes-
cue and bent, annual bluegrass ant
other. grasses. Each has its per-
fervid proponents and its inveterate
enemies.
It was demonstrated not long ago
that the man putting experimental
ly at the six green's invariably holed
more puts on his favorite grass.
His mental attitude attended to that.
The mechanical putter has no
mental attitude, using carefully reg
ulated springs and aluminium tubes
instead. And it caused three very
good golfers to feel excessively fool
ish, according to John Monteith. jr.,
in the Bulletin of the u. S. G.. A.
Green Section-a most useful publ
cation.
The visitors were asked to select.
by looking them over, the fastest
and the slowest of the six greens.
They all chose "a" as the fastest
and the adjoining one, 3D." as the
Slowest.
The mechanical putter then was
introduced and reversed the decision
on both upgrade and downgrade
puts.
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Has Auplane Landing Field FLOWERS Add Hazard British Course

and that is fiat golf courses. Golf is
much farther today from being an old
mans game than Ii ever was, because
OF the tendency Of architects to impart
to a course the mountainous, saw
toothed aspects of the high Sierras.
And the practice undoubtedly Is kill
ing more golfers of ages running from
80 upward than high blood pressure,
apoplexy or almost any deadly thing
one can name.
1t would be interesting could a study
be made Of the physical condition Of
elderly golfers on certain nat midland
courses, links on Long Island, Peter
boro, N. j., and elsewhere, and COM
pare these men with their fellows Of
similar age who are obliged to tackle
the up-and-down courses which pre-
dominate in this country.
Some one has estimated that a person
walking at the rate of four miles an
hour over an average hilly golf links
covering 6,l00 yards spends as much
energy as he would by lifting himself
five times to the top of the Woolworth
Building. And that's a tough days
work for an oldster.
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STRAIGHT OFF THE TEE

7 r AIRY G. PITT has had a good
deal of trouble with his driver
this season. The Ions. hitting
n II Mandorite has been hooking
many of his tee shots and has
been worrying, about the sharp diving
hook that robbed him of many yards
of distance and left him playing his
second shot from the rough on many
holes. That is, he was worrying until
the other day, when G. I. Putnam Of
Columbia came along with the solution
of what Pitt hopes has cured his hook.
LET me see that driver, Harry" Put
nam said during round of golf at CO.
lumbia. Don't 1t look to you as II
the face is hooked In considerable"
Now that you speak of 1t, Put, 1t
does look that way" Pitt replied.
SO Putnam took the driver to Fred
Mcleod, who removed the hook and
Strengthened out the face, and now
looking AIRY" is hitting the ball
straight down the alley.
Pitt, however, disdainS to take a
chance on the hooking driver very much
these days Of hard ground, claiming
that, he can get nearly as much dis
lance with his brassie-and keep the
ball straighter.
Few golf courses change as rapidly
in character with changing winds as the
layout of the Annapolis Roads Club.
The golf course Is built on a peninsula
between. the South and Severn Rivers,
and almost always breeze blows across
the layout. Yesterday, while storm
clouds came in from the southeast and
north. centering over Chesapeake Bay,
the wind changed directions three times
while a four-ball match was playing
one round Of nine holes Annapolis
Roads is hard enough under any con-
ditions, but when a strong wind comes
veering In from three points of the
compass it becomes the most rugged test
of the game in this part Of the country.
Ray Wise Of the Washington Golf and
Country Club hooked up a pair Of big
wooden-club shots yesterday to reach
the fifth green, $40 yards from the tee,
in two wallops. But his ball was on
the wrong side of the green, which is
bisected by bunker, and he did we'll
to get down in three puts. So big are
the greens at Annapolis Roads that
Walter F. Hall, the club pro, holed a
putt Of 100 feet in length. Forty yards.
Now when the standard sized putting
green is supposed to be 20 yards square,
it makes Of approach putting quite
skillful business when the puts be-
come 40 yards in length.
Maurice ]. Mccarthy Of Georgetown
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University, holder Of the metr 1politan
and New York State golf titles, has de-
cided to forego playing In the national
amateur championship because to do so
will interfere with his scholastic obli-
cations. The amateur championship
starts on September and runs through
September Z, and Mccarthy has some
work to make UP, which he lost because
Of the golf he played earlier In the year
in intercollegiate championships. In
many quarters Mccarthy is looked upon
as q contender for Bobby Jones
amateur title and Is ranked by some
as the third best amateur In the
country. -.
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PLAYGROUND STARS
! BUSY WITH TENNIS
Journeys in Various Classes
Advancing-PIayers Halt
Match at 16.AH.
.wo decisive victories scored in

TWO decisive victories scored in
the senior bracket and one un-
finished match in the junior
Il featured play in the inter-
playground tennis champion
ships yesterday.
George Wood of Rosedale and James
Thompson of Montrose scored In
straight sets in the senior loop. Wood
defeated Avery Mayhem of Virginia
Avenue, 50. 90. while Thompson
6 6ssted Bernard Bergman OF Twin
In the junior class, Vernon Robey
Iowa Avenue. and Albert Bahee Of Co
lumbia Road fought bitterly for the
first set of a spectacular match. but
neither was able to win two in a row
to break the tie knotted first at SIS
Games piled up until the score stood
1916, at which point halt was called
GIRLS DOUBLES.
DSrS EhrmentToIt and Doris Grimm i
snf Rl.esof s1snk ds And F HI.n:
ensafs Eng Msr ss' Sdlln sna Elzssstn Fee
n @s Rose Ps sIi ds SeaI Howard "a
Morgan Jacobs (Mentrossj defeated :;
EveTett pusche gD' tdeorSetownS defeated
Harry r Fine lPart View defeated Frank
schaefer Irwin oaks; So. 81; Albert
iowa Avenuel tied. 16.all; John Meehan
plaza defeated Mike Raedy New York
6H fo defeated rom Williams Van Ness:
6-4, rs: Gilbert Hunt tGarneldl defeated
Hubert Hinchey Virginia Avenue(, 6-3:
So; Waiter Gray (Rose Park defeated
James Hopkins (Howard), 81. So, SIS;
Robert Caldwell (Cordoza) defeated Harry
Liberty (Willow Tree. 6-2. Ga.
BOYS SENIOR.
George Wood tRosedale) defeated Avery
Mayhem (VirgiAia Avenue), so. 81:
James Thompson tMontrose) defeated
Bernard Berryman Twin Oaks; 62: SIS;
Joseph Sewell Howard. as. 81. 64;
Jack Robinson tCordoza) defeated Milton
Jones (WilloW Treel, Is, 6-3.
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EIGHT NETMEN LEFT
IN. JUNIOR TOURNEY
Nv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CULVER. Ind, August 15-Eight Of
the Nations younger stars. thwarted
once by the elements, today were after
places in the semi-finals Of the ma
tional junior tennis championships at
Culver Military Academy.
The three Californians, Keith Gled-
hill of Santa Barbara, Ellsworth Vines
of Pasadena and Hugh Macarthur Of
San Francisco; along with Earl Bossing,
Cincinnati sensation; Robert Bryant Of
Atlanta, Southern hope; Karl Kam-
rath of Austin, Tex; Junior Boehmer,
st. Louis, and Fred Roll of Philadel-
phia, sole remaining fastener, were to
play In the quarter-finals, postponed by
yesterdays rain.
Several doubles matches were worked
of yesterday, with favored teams adj
yancing without upset.
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BY SOL METZGER.

AL watrous, member of the u. s.
Ryder Cup team, is one splendid
iron player. In the 1928 Los Angeles
$4,000 open his fine iron play, after
. terrible upset In q barranca, q
hazard our leading amateurs will
soon learn too much about at Pebble
Beach, attracted about as large a
gallery as did the winner, MacDon-
aid Smith.
Al follows the old saying In that
he controls his long iron with his
straight left arm. When that Is
done, when the straight left takes
the club back and then does the hit
ting through. one Is bound to con-
troll the swing, providing the body
keeps out of the stroke.
Most of us try to get some body
lurch into long iron. Wherein we
defeat our purpose. When we do
s that we can't skid the face of the
club through and under the ball, as
! the body leads. Hold back the body
and hit through with the left and
straight on through. Then You'll
! come into the ball from inside the
line and your clubhead will follow
through on the line, insuring dis
lance: direction height and bite.