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McKean Democrat (Newspaper) - December 29, 1927, Smethport, Pennsylvania Page four the Democrat thurs., dec. 29, 1927 Mckean Democrat r. Lyndsley editor manager Poslof Floe at Smith port. Pa., As scoop nil Cluiss matter a. Dote. 29, 1927 i with the most brutal murder in this county s history. In Bradford Jaet March two hold up men invaded a meat Market murderously attacking Tho proprietor with a heavy wrench. One of the was captured and made no being Given a maximum sentence of ton a pairs in prison for Tho crime. Ills pal escaped following Tho hold up but the Democrat wishes ill its a prosperous new readers tear. The league of nations continues to function despite Tho fact that some of our american statesmen have pro Jomn can it a failure. The Lengo s latest accomplishment was to Avert a bloody War Between Poland and Lithuania which appeared certain. For a failure the league is proving to be one of humanity s most valuable assets. Physicians it tie new York state Hospital blog Himton n. Y., have Whon he was finally captured he engaged Brilliant Legal counsel. His trial was a hard fought Ono and while the defendant possessing a previous criminal record was convicted to was Given a prison sentence Only half the length of that imposed on Bandit who in the Samo Culmo and who was unable to encase counsel to vigorously defend his Jisc. There is much ado Over the falling Down of american courts of Justice in t Tho Legal profession directly responsible for the present condition of affairs Tho remedy is not to be provided by laymen. As Long As Brilliant Legal minds can be hired to veg the Crow. Work of raising Tho sub in being rushed. Naval court will to fix blame for terrible collision be tween submersible and coast guard rum patrol destroyer. J. Pierpont Morgan in elected to succeed Tho late judge Elbert c. Gary As chairman of Tho Board of directors if Tho United states steel corporation. William e. Hie nmn charged with being the kidnapper and murderer of 12-Yoar-old Marian Parker of los Angeles is captured in pc Ulleton Oregon. At first denying that murdered the Lillo girl although admitting that he kidnapped the child and collected 51500 for delivering the mutilated body to Tho father. Hack Man on being returned to California by Angeles officers admits that he murdered his victim Ami Cut her body into pieces. Severe Earth tremor rocks Home Italy. I mrs. Frances Wilson of Nynn Willii her Crew consisting of Brico Colin i Borough Oskari of Melvil and Fred nos maj i v Perl ced Gratifying Success with a of Rousky defend depraved criminals Firlit inn in Currii forces 01 the new treatment for Paresis considered an incurable disease and one which has done much to fill state hospitals and similar institutions with pitiful human wreckage. By injection of malaria germs into Outmon overing Tho Legal forces of the prosecution american juries will Continuo to Render verdicts similar to the ones to have cited Here. It would almost seem that the Legal profession has reached a stage where its chief by injection 01 Nucaria. Germs Jimlu the blood of patients suffering from of cuon is to defeat the Law. In Mana Paresis physicians at the Binghamton Hospital Are bringing about the Dis charge of Ono third of patients so treated As very much improved and allowing Homes. Them to return to their Koehler who took off from Roosevelt Field new York for uni her Grace Newfoundland. The first leg of her proposed trans Atlantic night to Croy Don England in Tho amphibian plane the Dawn Are missing furnishing another Aerial mystery of the North Atlantic. Executive acts lending to crystallise Armetor chess Wilh he master into definite form the atmosphere of mind walking Oft with the fruits of reaper pachment Between Mexico and Victory. The Corpus Delict plays United states that surrounded pitifully insignificant part in the mod the Lindbergh night from Washington murder . Mexico City comes to surface in Japan is slave of her wrestlers Spain both capitals. President Calles mov of her Hull fighters ind America of her ases before Tho courts arc conducted Seventieth Congress opens health champions like a general View growing speaker Nicholas Longworth making the opening address As the Seventieth Congress look up its work. This View was made in the House. Photographs Are not allowed m the Senate chamber. Lawyers. The Democrat suggests one infill Ablo method of inflicting at least a degree of punishment on murderers wherever their heinous crimes Are committed. Bring them to Pennsyl Vania and charge them with Selling a pint of Moonshine in violation of the the Democrat is glad to note that senator Norris of Nebraska launched a senatorial investigation of the giant Power Combine which seeks to control All sources of electric Power in the exploit what should rightfully to classed As the Public Domain without opposition. This newspaper Lias disagreed with sex governor Pinchot in Many things liquor Law. They Are then sure to but has always endorsed his stand a stiff jail sentence and a heavy government control of Public utilities. Certainly Tho nation should have considerable to say regarding the harness ing of Public water courses to generate electricity to be sold to its citizens. In fact it should produce such Energy and Market it to the end that any profit which accrues will Benefit the individual purchasers National and states treasuries. Ine to Boot. The Industrial interests which resist any movement for government ownerships of utilities which people have gaming in the Job printing business in opposition to thousands of print establishments throughout the land printing envelopes at a financial loss at an absurdly Low Price with which no privately operated printing establishment can compete. Oil to Amend his Republic s Laws in conformity with the recent decision of Tho supremo court of in the lox can Petroleum co. Drilling permit Case apparently to eliminate Retro Active features which american com Inion have appealed to Tho mexican Stirts. President Coolidge revealed iat Tho Washington government was preparing to ease the arms embargo against Mexico to permit mexican in Ort Nylon of air planes and munitions rom Tho United states. Atter All there was nothing particularly surprising about Tho ver dict practically amounting to acquittal rendered by the Cincinnati jury in the Case of George Remus former Bootlegger who shot Hub wife to death and who in addition to refusing to express regret for Tho crime has never for one moment since ceased to proclaim that he did a Good Job for society. Despite the fact that the prosecution failed to disprove Remus charge that Hia wife had conspired with a Fedora prohibition agent to Send him to Pris on for violation of the liquor Law and had then carried on a passionate affair with the modern javert of the jaw robbing him of his Hugo Fortune Wyllo he was in prison there is Little question but Tho defendant would received the extreme penalty of the Law had his defense rested in the hands of a hired attorney less Brillian than himself. As it was Remus formerly one Chicago s leading criminal lawyers fought his own Case and those we followed Tho trial were convinced Fror the outset that he would win. A emmy turn he far out general cd the Legal forces of the prosecution and i the sheer audacity and brilliancy i his defense gained Hla right to live. Anyone who has Ever owned a Dum beast pet which becomes such decided nuisance that the owner finally decides to humanely end its life and then changes his or her mind because the pet with almost human intelligence sensing its impending Fate dumbly but eloquently pleads its Case with such effect that the owner relents and continues to endure a four legged nuisance until it Dies a natural death can appreciate the psychology of the Remus Case and hundreds of similar ones in american courts of Justice in which juries refuse to convict. Clarence narrow gave the greatest demonstration of what a Brilliant Legal defense can accomplish when he saved the worthless lives of two Chicago youths who confessed to one at the most brutal crimes in Chicago s brutal criminal history. The Mckean county court Bonce in Smethport was the scene of a. Parcel Ling Darrow Al feat a few years Ngo when i Brilliant criminal defense the lives of two youths charged news Brevi ties shortly after new year s there will be Public tests of on apparatus invented by Austin g. Cooley for sending pictures by radio. The Way it is done Edgar h. Felix radio expert associated with Tho inventor told the associated press is to transform Light Waves from a person or group at the microphone into sound Waves their transmission by in Flo a nil then that they reproduce a picture of the place they started from. Italy returns to Gold Standard with he lira established at the ratio of jul the Dollar. Bomb explosions which wreck ranches of the National City Bank o new York and the Bank of Boston in Enos Aires Argentine Are blame i Sacco Vanzetti sympathizers. Colonel Lindbergh Flics from Mexic Fly for Guatemala City starting a found of Good will visits to Centra Merican capitals before returning t jolted states. As a result of a feud Between polic and sheriff s of face forces officers c he two departments shoot it out i Tho streets of South Pittsburgh mar an county Tennessee. Five i killed and four wounded. Air line is attached to sunken sub Marine s-4 off Provincetown. Mass. By the of tigers failed to net any of late to save lives of survivors of Dence. One dead four injured in automobile Accident Kane Republican dec. Cong 26, of Johnsonburg was dead and four other Johnsonburg and Wilox men suffered from serious injuries n a Punxsutawney Hospital today As result of an automobile crash yes erday at big run. The machine in which the five men Wero Riding head on into a Telephone Polo Wyllo avoiding another machine rounding a curve. The Driver of the other Auto said to have been on the wrong Side of the Road failed o Stop. 3cing succumbed in the Hospital from x fractured jaw and internal injuries. The injured Are Elmer Nichols 25, of Wilcox five Robst fractured. Thomas Nichols 31, Johnsonburg right shoulder fractured. Geo. Nichols 28, John Sonburg lacerations of Scalp. Chas. Frank 26, Wilcox Skull fractured. Officers raid Kane hotel monday morning county detective Jack Allison sheriff Barton and Deputy a Halsey Allison of this Borough paid an unannounced visit to the Kane House in Kane in quest of Ille Gal liquor. It is said that numerous complaints have been undo against Tho hostelry but a three hour search Evi or. Frank Crane Don t be one sided on prohibition underneath nil this Wordy warfare j Monitor establishes the fact that Between Tho wets and the and Sinco Tho Advent of prohibition there Between Tho Noble and free born souls that enjoy the privilege of getting drunk whenever they please and the fanatics who want to interfere with other people s Liberty lies the ques Tion what after All. Is the net condition of the common Man for to arc not so much interested in crime among the Rich and fashion Able nor with the of the Down has been an amazing increase. In the productivity of the wage earner embracing almost every Industry in the country. For instance the output of the rubber tire worker was 139 per cent greater in 1925 than in 1919, and this is a typical instance not the exceptional one. Labor bodies opposed the passage of Tho prohibition amendment but the and outer As we Are concerned with j United states Bureau of labor Sta the condition of the Ordinary aver i Ristics Calls attention to the almost age Man. I unbelievable increase in the product perhaps it is True As asserted of the worker during the past the wets that More liquor is drunk i few years. Under prohibition than Ever before More gilded youths Are carrying Gin in As a matter of fact Tho much cursed prohibition amendment has placed the their hip pockets and a More Mur United states industrially in Tho fore Siimes. But the fact remains that the aver age Man who has to work for his Liv ing and gets a modest stipend therefor does not drink liquor simply because he cannot afford it. Much More Derous Brand of booze is being of the world. It May have been an unwarrantable interference with our personal Liberty but the effect of it has been to increase our personal efficiency and Tho Effort of most men is in the direction of increasing their efficiency by learning How to restrict nor May be drunk now but the work their liberties. Ing Man does not care to pay fifty cents or one Dollar for a drink. A recent Survey made by prof. Her Man Feldmark of Dartmouth College published in the Christian science some people May think that being the most industrially effective nation in Tho world docs not mean much but most of us think that it does and Are willing to pay the Price. An especially Potta portrait of chief of the Titre Ftp of Dairy depart to tent of agriculture who hat re cloned to director of National Dairy Coon i january 192o. John Fieldi vice president of the Federal land Bank of Wichita serving the states of Kansas okla homa Colorado and new Mexico who was elected pc Trident of the american farm Congress at Kut City to Marie Antrim of Kingman kan., who scored 99.15 out of a possible 100, and j. Fred Christe Seru of Blanchard la., who scored 99 of 100, and were declared America s health Champ ions in the club contest held in connection with the International live Stock exposition in Chicago. Miss ant rim is five feet five and a Quarter inches tall and weighs 125 pounds. Christensen is five feet and ten inches tall and weighs 152 join our Christmas club and look Forward to the Gladsome yuletide with a full purse and Happy smile just a Little Thrift just a Little saving deposited weekly in convenient amounts will bring you a Christmas Check that will provide abundantly for Holiday expenses. Everybody adults and children Welcome to join. Enrol now and you la be right Hamlin Bank Trust co. 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