PHYSICIAN IS
BEING TRIED
FOR MURDER
REDWOOD CITY, Cal., June 19 (by
Associated Press).—The death of Miss
Inez Elizabeth Reed, for whose alleged
murder Dr. Ephriam Northcott, San
Francisco physician, is on trial here, has
stirred the whole country. Miss Reed,
a San Francisco and Fort Riley, Kan.,
army nurse, came here from the latter
place in February, presumably to
visit friends and relatives. On Satur
day, March 8, her body was found by
a workingman in a ravine on the
Crystal Springs highway near San
Mateo with all marks of identification
removed from the clothing. An autopsy
disclosed the fact that she had died
as the result of an illegal operation,
crudely perofrmed. Until Thursday,
March 13 the body of Miss Reed re
mained unidentified in the San Mateo
and San Francisco morgues, despite
the fact that hundreds viewed it. A
brother, Arthur Reed, and a sister Mrs.
Evelyn Stevens finally identified her.
Friends and relatives of Miss Reed
were closely interrogated by the po
lice,. and the army also assisted in the
case. On Tuesday, April 1, Dr. North
cott was placed under arrest and his
nurse Mrs. Francis Cronin detained,
following evidence that Miss Reed
on the day before her body was found,
visited a house leased by Dr. North
cott in San Mateo. The police an
nounced also that they knew the name
of Miss Reed’s betrayer, but would not
make it public.
Dr. Northcott was held without bail
until Wednesday, April 30, when he
was released on $8,000 bonds. On May
7 he appeared in the superior court
here and pleaded “not guilty” to the
charge of murder.
Ever since his arrest Dr. Northcott
stoutly insisted that he had no part in
Miss Reed’s death, and expressed the
conviction that he would clear himself
easily. Captain Duncan Matheson of
the San Francisco police and District
Attorney Franklin Swart of San Mateo
insisted, however, that they had com
plete case against him.
An interesting angle of the case was
the suspension and subsequent resigna
tion of Allen E. Noreen, a San Fran
cisco traffic policeman, following
police charges that he had concealed
evidence in the case.
Sergeant William B. Taschek, of
Juneau, Corporal William Clary of
Petersburg, Corporal Nels H. Mork of
Sitka have received personal letters of
praise and commendation from Major
General J. F. Morrison, commander
of the western department for their
services in the coming to Juneau in
an open boat from Admiralty island to
secure assistance and care for the re
mains I of Sergeant-Major Harry E.
Mason, who was accidently shot on
the 21st of last October, according to
word received by Captain J. J. Finne
gan, head of the military department
in Alaska.
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FAMOUS
PEACE TREATIES
By H. IRVING KING ~~
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TREATY OF PARIS, 1783.
Peace Pact That Settled Questions Opened by American Revolution Not
Signed for Two Years After Surrender of Cornwallis.
As Is being proved now, It Is a sim
pler thing to start a war than to end
one—a “more complicated matter to
take such a show off the stage than
to put It on."
The surrender of Cornwallis In Oc
tober of 1781 practically ended the
war of the American Revolution; but
it was not until September 8, of 1783,
nearly two years later, that the de
finitive treaty of peace was signed at
Paris. Almost all the Intervening time
was spent In negotiations. Franklin,
John Adams, Jay and Laurens had been
sent to Paris to be ready for the for
mulation of a peace. All sensible Brit
ish statesmen were convinced that the
Independence of the colonies was an
accomplished fact; but the king, and
the reactionaries with whom he had
surrounded himself, were stubbornly
bent on continuing the war. It was
proposed to make It a "war of posts”
as the futility of transporting anoth
er great army to America was appar
ent. Gibraltar was besieged by the
Spanish and the success of the Ameri
can arms had Inspired Holland to break
off relations with England In the very
year Cornwallis surrendered and had
Induced the northern nations under
the guise of neutrality to form a league.
Nothing Succeeds Like Success.
England wanted peace and America
wanted peace; the question was who
should make the first move. At last
General Conway, on Washington's
birthday, February 22 of 1782, made
a motion In the house of commons
against continuing the war. It was
lost by one vote, but carried five days
later by a majority of 19. This meant
the downfall of the ministry and the
formation of a new one favorable to
peace. Rlcklngham’s ministry came In
on March 20. Lord Shelburne was
secretary of state for the home de
partment and Chnrles James Fox for
foreign affairs. Now, If America was
Independent, peace with America was
a matter for Fox to handle—If It
wasn’t, the task belonged to Shel
burne. Franklin saw two strings to
his bow and wrote to the home minis
ter, preferring to deal with the Machi
avellian Shelburne than with the chau
vinistic Fox. Shelburne quietly sent
Richard Oswald over to Paris. Frank
lin was alone. Adams was In Holland
negotiating a loan; Jay had gone to
Spain and Laurens, who had been cap
tured on his way from America and
confined Tn the tower, had Just been
released on parole and had gone to
Holland. Franklin had a free hand.
He calmly suggested that England cede
Canada to the United States. Oswald
went back to London with this propo
sition. coming back to reject It and to
ask guarantees for the loyalists In
America and the payment of British
debts, and offering complete Independ
ence with the Penobscot as the east
ern boundary of the new nation. Frank
lin wrote to Jay to come back from
Spain saying, “She has been for four
years considering whether she will
treat with u»—let her take forty."
Fox got wind of what was going on
and sent over Mr. Grenville with the
proposition that the Independence of
the United States should be granted,
but to France I A proposition reject
ed by both Franklin and France.
Treaty of Pacification.
King Louis and his government were
filled with anger when they heard of
the signing of this treaty In which
they had not been allowed to meddle.
But they calmed down and on Septem
ber 3 of the next year, nine months
after Franklin’s treaty, a “Treaty of
Pacification” between Spain, France
and England was signed.
Franklin’s treaty became effective:
Conquests made by France and Eng
land during the war were exchanged;
Tobago and the Sengal river were
ceded to France. Pondicherry (French
India) was enlarged. Spain was con
firmed in her possession of Florida and
Minorca. Holland recovered all her
possessions except Negapatam in India.
In the boundary negotiations Great
Britain Insisted that the western line
of the United States should be the Al
leghenies. The Americans replied In
effect:
“Gen. George Rogers Clark la 1778-9
captured Kasknskla add Vincennes and
took possession of the 'Illinois coun
try.’ We have been In possession ever
since. We are In possession now. The
country Is ours clear to the Mississippi
and we are going to keep it.”
The United States had Its way. Now
mark the result! The fact that the
United States owned to the Mississippi
caused It to make the “Loulslnna Pur
chase” of Napoleon In 1803, by which
It got more than one million square
miles of unexplored wilderness extend
ing to the Rockies. In the next fener
ation the Americans had explored this
wilderness end were settling lit and
were In full march westward, with
their faces set to the Pacific. Follow
ed the war with Mexico, the capture
of California and the completion of
the march across the continent]
The guiding hand of Pnjldence
raised up George Roger^ClM^
capture of General Hamilton at Vin
cennes should be listed In the "de
cisive battles of the world.” The fix
ing of the Mississippi as America’s
western boundary, next to the recog
nition of her Independence, was the
most Important article of the treaty of
Paris, 1783.
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