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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-07
Marriage Certificate Put on
Material in Aid of
Comparison.
BY EARL Sparkling
Times Special Writer.

NEW YORK, Dec. New evil
dence in what he calls the greatest
legal mystery of modern times-the
claim of Thomas Patrick Norris
Scottish house painter, to the Wen
del millions revealed by Bernard
H. Sander Morris attorney.
Mr.. Sander believes it will get
Morris out Of the New York city
penitentiary on Welfare Island,
where he is serving six months to
three years for alleged conspiracy
against the estate.
Beyond that, it may eventually
give the uneducated, i'll and poverty
stricken house painter another
chance at the $30,000000 Wendell
fortune, which he contends is right
fully his as the secret son of John
G. Wendell.
The new evidence bears on the
authenticity of the purpOrted mar
riage paper certifying that Mr.
Wendell married Mary Ellen Devine,
an Irish serving girl (WhOm Morris
claims as his mOther) at Castle
Garden June II. 1876.
How the evidence was obtained is
a scientific detective true story, with
cellophane appearing in a new role.
Cellophane, custOmarily used to
cover things. has been used in the
Morris case to uncover thingS-Or SO
Mr.. Sander and his expert investi-
gators assert.
Those who followed the Morris
case will remember that Morris
claim was thrown out Of court, and
Morris eventually into Jail, chiefly
because lawyers for the estate were
able to make the famous marriage
certificate seem a forgery.
They made it seem a forgery by
producing in court an apparently
identical certificate which was not
printed until 1900 or afterward
Among those who read a series Of
newspaper articles last June analyz-
ing the testimony was Aubrey J..
Drummond, scientific photographer
and court expert. Mr. DTummond
did expert scientific work in the
Harry Hoffman and Hall-MillS
cases. among others.
A stout, sloW-mOving chap with
methods of his own, Mr.. Drummond
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could not make heads or tails Of
the Morris enigma. He started look
ing into things himself. Before Mr..
Drummond was through he had a
dozen other experts working with
him, all gratis.
Handwriting experts studied the
documents in evidence. Chemists
got to work on paper and ink speci-
mems. MetallurgiSts made their in
vestigations. Mr. Drummond made
photographs. Some of the photo
graphs he made-of the marriage
certificate and the purported will
were four feet tall. Then he got to
thinking of cellOphane.
Among the exhibits placed in evi-
dence by the estate during the sur
rogate's hearing of Morris claim was
a copper plate from which mar
riage certificate blank was printed
The estate lawyers proved that the
plate was made in 1900. The certi
flcate blank from this plate seemed
identical with the Morris certificate,
which was dated 1876.
Mr. DrummQnd decided to make
an imprint Of the estates certificate
on ceIlophane. He carried a porta-
bic printing press to the record
room Of General Sessions and
did it.
And let him tell the rest of it:
Il put the ceuophane print of the
1900 certificate over the Morris GER
tif1cate 1t was as plain as your
nose that they were not from the
same plate. If you made one half
coincide the other half was all off
You couldn't get the upper lines and
the lower lines together at the same
time to save your life, If you got
the rings of each print to coincide
everything else was off"
Herewith, Mr.. Drummond got
busy along other lines. He called
in the Lucius Pitkin Company,
chemical engineers, to make a me-
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IDENTIFY VICTIM IN
RIVIERA POISON CASE
Probe Death of Woman
Who Posed as Sons Sister.

EU Hittd Press
MONTE CARLO, Dec. Police
slowly pieced together today the
story of an American woman who
moved from one gay Riviera resort
posing as the sister of her 17-year-
old son and met death, apparently
by poison, at a hotel here.
The woman apparently was Mary
Agnes Doreen ELLINGTON, a British
subject by marriage to Frederick P
ELLINGTON, and a daughter Of j. VIII
son Gibbs of New York City.
While police vainly tried to get a
connected statement from the son,
found cranking the photograph to
play a jazz record while his mother
was dead on a bed, ELLINGTON was
found at Nice He said that his wife
received money regularly from New
York through LloydS bank at Nice.
Mrs ELLINGTON and the boy, Fred.
arrived here last week. They regis
tered as brother and sister under
the names Of Marie and Fred Will
son.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-07
ARMY SERGEANT
CHARGED WITH
WIFE'S MURDER
Confession of Staying Year
Ago Is Claimed by
City Police.

Charged with the murder Of his
wife Helen on Jan. s. 1888, Sergeant
Otis II. Edge, Company Z, Eleventh
infantry. was held IN the Marion
county Jail today after being bound
over to the grand jury by Judge
Dewey Meyers IN municipal court
late yesterday
It was the solitude of the Brown
county woods which drove the SOL
der 10 confess his crime which Of
fciany had been called a suicide by
county officials. on detached duty
in Nashville with ire reforestation
corps. Sergeant Edge is alleged to
have told police he bro0ded con-
tinuaIly over the Staying of his wife
nearly year ago in their cottage
on Thirty-eighth street near Pen
dletOn pike
Blames Dope Habit
i discovered that my wife used
dope Edge said IN his purPOrted
confession. when she was under
the influence Of narcotics. she beat
the two children, Claude. y, and
Noel. TO-"
On the day he killed her, Edge is
alleged to have told police, his wife
insisted on being driven to a Gene
terry TO put flowers on the grave Of
her former husband.
IT was raining and the day was
sloppy said the soldier in his al
legged confession so I told her it
was too muddy to drive to the Gene
terry She went into a bedroom and
began rayinp. I saw her reach into
a drawer and take out a bottle that
contained dope. I guess I lost con-
troll Of myself
Suicide Plan Fails
Selling q revolver, I shot her
from a distance Of five or six feet.
I realized that I would be arrested
for murder So I took q napkin
that she had been Wiping her face
with and tied it around her fore
head TO stop the flow Of blood
Then 7 took a metal pencil ana
punched a hole in the napkin to
make it appear as though it had
been made by a bullet"
COnsCienCe-stricken. Edge told
police that he borrowed a pistol
from the sheriff Of Brown county
and decided to return to the scene
OF the tragedy and kill himself On
the way he weakened and called
police
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tallurgical study of the copper
plate.
The actual analysis was by Pro-
fessor Sam Tour of Columbia uni
versity. Professor Tours findings
were equally interesting, but to I'M
derstand them it is necessary to
know a bit more about the copper
plate.
The plate belongs to A. j. Hol-
man & Co., Bible printers of Phil
adelphia. The company has used it
since 1900 In the lower right-hand
corner is a metal insert containing
the date line, "19-." The record
is not explicit as to when this metal
insert was made, but William K.
Holman's testimony indicated it was
made around 1910
Concerning this metal insert,
Professor Tour reported as follows:
ut would appear that this portion
of the plate was made since 1920.
He explained that the insert con-
tained' chromium and asserted:
Chromium plating did not be-
come a commercial process until
after 1920. It's application to
printing plate only was being eXper-
imented with at the United States
bureau of standards and at the
United States bureau of printing
and engraving about 1920. Chro-
MUM contamination could only be
expected then in recent years"
Mr.. Sander announced he would
demand a new surrogate's trial on
the basis Of this new evidence. He
has petitioned the appellate di
vision for permission to perfect an
appeal from the criminal convic-
ton without the costly printing of
minutes, an expense impossible to
the pennilesS house painter.
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Aged EVo.nan Rrenks Arm

Falling at her home late yester-
day. Mrs. Matte Ousler. 10. of 544
South West street sustained a frac-
ture of the ann She was taken to
city hospital by police.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-07

Thirty makes of motor vehicles
will be displayed at the forthcoming
national automobile shows in New
York and Chicago.
Evening star., 1933-11-25
AMATEURS PRODUCE
THREE-ACT COMEDY
"The Nut Farm" Provides Plenty
of Amusement for a Large
Audience Last Night.

An entertaining and diversified play,
The Nut Farm" a comedy in three
acts, was given last night before a
highly amused audience by the Mutual
Improvement Association Dramatic
Guild at the Latter-Day Saints Church.
Without doubt, the work Of Wayne
Brown as Willie Barton. the pampered
son. was the highlight of the entire per-
formarce. Wiliie's antics and With
cisms throughout the play kept the au-
dience In pleasant h1mor and more
than once he came forth at the critical
moment and blossomed out with witty
joke or a comlcal gesture. Perhaps the
most natural portrayal was that of
Evelyn Iverson as Helen Bent. the wife
Of a selfish but loyal husband. enacted
by Thomas L. Jones. Vera Rollo as
Mrs Barton, the mother of Willie and
Helen, gave splendid version Of the
overweight mother who is anxious to
see her children make a success of life.
Others who had a large share of the
laurelS tafter Willie took hiS) were
Fannilynn Tompkins as Agatha Qater
the devoted wife to young Willie). Ezra
was the countrified father of Agatha;
Othell Carlston as Hamilton T. Holland,
the movie director; Garland Smith and
Milton S. MuSSer as the two assistants
to Carlston, and Hilda the maid, por-
trayed by Beth Ross.
Robert N Anderson did a good job
Of directing and should receive a good
deal of the credit for the success of the
play. The performance will be repeated
again tonight at $50 o'clock. R. H. B.
Evening star., 1933-11-25
PAUL MUNHS PICTURE
HELD FOR SECOND WEEK

THE World Changes" and SO do the
lives of the men who change the world
but their traditions do not change.
that is the theme of THE World
Changes" the Paul NUM- picture held
over for a second week at the Metro
politan.
This Is not the first time a picture OF
pioneer life from the early years OF
American life has been filmed, but it Is
perhaps the first time it has been de-
picted so sweepingly full from the early
stages in the 1S5O's to the present day.
And although Orin Nordholm lived to
see many changes throughout the world
there we're none so heartbreaklng TO
him as the change within his family.
Paul MUM portrays with sincerity the
life of this pioneering Nordholm who
knew Buffalo Bill Cody and who did
not follow in his fathers footsteps and
settle on the soil on which he was born
but started a pioneer trail of his own
from West to East and became one OF
Chicago's leading meat packers.
Nor is it unjust to say that Muni's
portrayal of the elder Nordholm is so
far above his younger that this part OF
the film might have been left out COM
pletely. It is this "Granddad" Nord-
holm that lives after the film has
fiickered to an end That shaggy-hair
beetle -browed old man yho fought the
traditions of the new blood in his fam
lily with little success. but who never
ceased his passive fight to save the
name of his family. j. N. H.
Evening star., 1933-11-25
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing.

National-"Alice in Wonderland at
2:45 and 8:15 pm.
Gayety-"Burlesk Stars of 1888" at
2:15 and BIS pm.
PaIace-"Dancing Lady" at 1l;40
am. lao, $40, $40, TAO and $40 pm.
Rialto-"Only Yesterday" at 11:1o
am, ITO, $40. $40. tbs and 9:25 pm.
Loew's Fox-"White Woman" at
1890 am, 12:45, 3, Sis, TAO and
1915 pm. Stage shows at 1l:5o am,
2:10. 4:25, GAS and 9:20 pm.
Columbia-"Walls of Gold" at II
am. 12:45, 2:35, 4:2o, 6:lo. 1855 and
GAS pm.
Metropolitan-"The World Changes, "
at 1870 am, 1:3o, $3.50, $50. 7:25
and 9:25 pm.
R-K-O Keiths-"The Right to Ro-
nance" at 1l:15 am. l:0l. 2:47. ABB
and SAC pm. The Three Little Pigs"
at 1880. 2:36, 4:22. Sal. 7:50 and 9:59
pm. Little Women at 8 and 1000
pm.
Earle-"Female," at 1915 am, l2:40
$40. $40, sos and 1926 pm. Stage
shows at 1885 am, 2:O5, 4:35, ana
$50 pm.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. jack" at 2, 4,
sos. 7:5O and 9:40 pm.
Ambassador-"Lov Honor and Oh
Baby" at 2:10, 4:10, 6:l0. and S:4o
pm.
Evening star., 1933-11-25
LeCtureOn
Painting AS
Club Event
Friday Morning Music Or
ganization Hears Mrs.
Temple, With Soprano and
Pianist.
BY ALICE EVERSMAN.

A lecture recital was the program OF
the Friday Morning Music Club at its
second morning concert of the season
held yesterday at Barker Hall. Grace
Temple talked on Mature in Painting
and rlusic," and the musical numbers
were given by Ruby Potter. soprano,
and Fanny Ross Henbest. pianist.
Mrs. Temples lecture covered the
entire history of landscape painting. be-
ginning from the earliest times when
but a tree or rock was figured in the
picture to the present day and the
highly developed form of this division
of painting The lecture was illustrated
with the finest representative pictures
ing the Chinese. Mrs. Temples ex-
planation was poetic as well as concise
and she built up her talk with dramatic
effect, the screen pictures being aptly
chosen as to variety of mood and craft
manship to aid in forming stirring
story of the growth of appreciation OF
nature by the great artists.
Before the lecture began Fanny Ross
Henbest opened the morning session
with the "Pastorale Sonata" by
ScsrIatti. At certain appropriate and
IiC IIlCulS1IS MID 4CAiPlC 4AieSA-
rupted her lecture for Mrs. Henbes5 to
play Chopins "Etude in c Minor"
Op. 25, No. u. sometimes known as the
ocean E5ude"; the Chopin "Nocturne,
Op. Is, No. /, and the first movement
of the Beethoven Sonata" Op. %, all
of which blended with particular ap-
propriateness with the moods of the
pictures being shown.
The pleasure OF the audience in this
unusual and artistically arranged COM
bination of painting and music and
their exposition by both Mrs. Temple
and Mrs. Herbsst was expressed in
enthusiastic applause at the finish.
At the end of the lecture Ruby
Potter sang short group OF songs, &C
ccmpanied by Louis Potter. Mrs. Pot
ter's numbers we're "Pastorale,' by
Veracini; Invocation to the Sun God,"
by BroeckX. an effective arrangement
of a Pueblo Indian theme; Little
Brothers Lullaby" by Troyer; Song
OF the Open" by La Forge. and as
encore The Wind" by Spross. Mrs.
Potter sang easily. with careful atten-
ton to proper shadings, and the
audience showed great appreciation Of
her artistic work.
Evening star., 1933-11-25
EDWARD JOHNSON SINGS
IN SYMPHONY CONCERT
Metropolitan's Leading Tenor Fea-
tured With Capital Musicians
Tomorrow Afternoon.

The music of Brahms, Wagner and
Tschaikowsky will play an important
part in tomorrow afternoons concert by
the National Symphony Orchestra at 4
o'clock in Constitution Hall. DR.. Hans
Kinder ras arranged the entire second
half of the program from Wagner's mu-
sic. and the first half includes compo-
sitions by Brahms and Tschaikowsky.
Edward Johnson. leading tenor of the
Metropolitan Opera Co.. will sing Wag-
ner music in the second part.
Edward Johnson has been leading
tenor at the Metropolitan for a decade
and has the distinction Of having ere
ated more leading roles than any other
tenor on the opera stage today. Wash
ingtonians have heard him in the title
roles In Deems Taylor's two great Amer
lean operas. "The Kings Henchman"
and Peter Ibbettson" He created the
leading part in the American premiere
of Fra Gherardo," as well as the Amer
ican premiere of one of the most sue
cessful performances in recent years,
the POLITICALLY beautiful Russian opera,
"Sadko." by Rimsky Korsakoff. He Is
also the only member of the Metropoli-
tan ever to interpret the romantic title
role in the Debussy- -Maeterlinck opera,
"Pelleas and MeliSande."
Evening star., 1933-11-25
SANGE LIFE
is LAUGHTON
III BACKGROUND
Kate Smith in ReUue
at FOx Has Group
Sho,OingTa

T ONE figures representing the gruff
- and sensuous people of the world,
when made real by the accepted traits
OF Charles Laughton, as on the screen
at the Fox Theater this week, furnish
a certain kind of theatrical emphasis.
For one thing, the results are different
from all the other shows, partly be-
cause Mr.. Laughton has no rival in his
line. In addition, they represent a
thing which impresses audiences of
every degree of taste. That IS the in
evitable fate of those who have never
learned the lesson that every dog has
his day." and nothing afterward. The
end being destruction, which is more
than defeat, there is awe in watching
the tyrant as he approaches his exit
and shouts defiance of those who al
ready are bowling for retribution.
Mr.. Laughton has studied this type
of role until he has created genuine
character, with the facility to be ex-
pected as he learns the many reactions
that come to one who enjoys animal
glory
This achievement by Mr. Laughton
is likely to receive the attention that
is accorded to any form of personal
distinction, and in White Woman"
with scenes laid in a Colonial land of
savage natives, he is able to swing the
lash over two classes that would escape
his cruelty If they could. The natives
fear him until he is disarmed, and
some fugitives from Justice are afraid
that their offenseS will become known.
Into this situation comes Carole
Lombard delicately endowed actress.
who creates a new type in that environ
ment and succeeds in creating revolt
after she has been made the wife OF
the king of the River" as the man
who rules by force is known. 1t is a
play of distinction for both these lead
ing members of the cast, while their
personal experiences are silhouetted
against the drums and Warlike activities
of the natives, which are quickly trans
formed from a celebration OF her we'd
ding to violent attacks. Supporting
actors. who engage in normal emotional
DEVELOPMENTS, are Charles Bickford.
Kent Taylor. Percy Kilbridge, Charles
B Middleton. James Bell, Claude King
and Ethel Critics.
Kate Smith, featured in the stage
program, produces revues with the same
ingenuity and appreciation Of values
that she has put into her own personal
performances. Her ''Swanee River
feature has its contributions from Miss
Smith. but also includes Jack Millers
band and an aggregation of young and
talented persons that justif1es the
praise of the popular leader. Miss
Smith sings old and new songs. featur-
ing Dear Little Boy of Mine" Cherry
and June Preisser combine oddity with
dancing talent. Cookie Bowers Is an
innitator. whose range covers about
everything that produces noise. acting
with a snap that is impressive, while
the Four Franks are gracefully ener-
petic and seem to offer a whole show
Of their own. d. Z. Z.
Evening star., 1933-11-25

But it seems that white rhinocerii
are found from time to time: This one
when captured, managed to break loose
and gave its captors their most exciting
day in the wilds. They caught the
albino monster again, thanks to the
pluck of Nicholas Cavalerie, the camera
man, who risked his life dozen times
over photographing the struggle and
was too excited even to realize he'd
been in such danger.
king cobra snake of record proper
tons is another of the treasures which
Frank Buck will bring back with him
This type of snake is the most danger
Gus foe to man to be found in the
jungle. 1t was Bucks ambition when
on his last trip to make Photographic
record of a king cobra capture, but
while they encountered several cobras
of this type, they never found one large
enough to make the sequence as thrill
ling as they wanted it to be. This
snake is q monster. it seems, and the
picture of its capture is a knockout.
Buck is going to call his picture
wild Cargo"-since he can't resist
capturing anything extraordinary that
he encounters, his boat is full OF
souvenirs of his trip-all alive-all
W1lC-all unusual.
A casting director has to have plenty
of wit to obtain the required types for
a picture every time. When c. B.
De Mile asked for two dozen Amazons
mot less than six feet TALL" there
weren't any girls of that type registered
at the casting Office of Hollywood.
But Datig made a canvass OF the
Swedish massage and Turkish bath
attendants and got the required num-
ber. There was the request for a Negro
who could speak Yiddish-that almost
stumped the casting Office, but finally
one was found who had been raised
from pickaninny by a local Jewish
family.
Twelve German girls, who can dive,
swim well, and speak German-yes,
and be pretty-were asked for by Josef
Won Sternberg when he was making
Blonde Venus'-and they were pretty
hard to find, although a local turn
verein supplied most of them.
The studio was paralyzed one time
because it could not find a type who
could double for Lloyd George. The
wearied casting director took day off
and went out to the ocean to rest his
befuddled mind. A hamburger stand
attracted him with the sight Of an old
codger peeling onions in back room.
The c. D. leaped over tire counter with
low cry of delight-scared the old
man half to death when he seized him
by the shoulder-swung him around,
peered intently into his face for a
moment. then yelled-"Ive got him.
Evening star., 1933-11-25
HOME WRECK
IS UNFOLDED
At COLUMBIA
Sally Eilers Plays
in Norris Story of
GiIded Life.

KATHLEEN NORRIS wrote the novel
~ which has been turned into
motion picture revealing the rocky road
that is Travelled by family in which
great wealth is a complete substitute
at the Columbia. is a rapidly moving
story Of the misfortune that comes to
a business woman whose marriage ex-
perience is a continuous battle in the
hopeless struggle to achieve the ideals
of home which were before her when
the romance began. 1t is one of those
stories in which woman of unusual
talent gives up the high position that
she held in professional life. and is
compelled to use every resource that
she possesses to overcome the handicap
Of life with a man who ignores all the
domestic standards.
1t is a plot which runs directly to
the natural climax in which the man.
threatened with pistol in the hands of
one OF his victims. dies of heart dis
ease. with the result that the husband
is removed from the scene in time to
prevent the final action in proceedings
for divorce. with which he has been
threatened.
The merit of this. as well as of other
tales frcm the pen of Miss Norris, is
in the literary quality Of the work, and
the faithful portrayal of character.
This is aided materially by the acting
CT Sally Eilers, whose record and pres
ent practice are indicative of the type
of wholesome persons who are impressive
by contrast with the wealthy rounder
with whom she is in domestic associa-
tion. Miss EilerS' ability to present the
person of simple charm gives her the
clear position in this play that carries
the plot on the plane that was intended
by the author. Norman Foster plays
opposite her in the real romance of the
production while Ralph Morgan, as
the unfaithful husband, is true to type.
Incidental scenes of the life Of the
husband are colorful, and introduce
some picturesque characters, particularly
Rosita Moreno, the Spanish dancer, who
shares in the dissipations of the man
of wealth. ID. c. G.