Evening Star Newspaper, November 18, 1924, Page 13

EAPRESSED DESE TOKILL DANELS Letter of Wilspn’s Naval Aide Read as Evidence in Di- [auced the nux | autographed by Orville Wright. Com- | fo voree Suit. a1 By the Associated Pre w NEW YORK \ sire to *bump sepht s, |osserting that he since had learned when he was war the Navy X written by Lieut. ¢ Comfort late Prerident Wood his wife's parents, the mitted in Brooklyn Supreme aa n t in & letter owland M. to the lson, to | Court lo pu H tr letter was written to Mrs. Com- fort's parents, according to the of- It was prompted, rs from the office of of the Navy which ‘aused a temporary separation from his wife. Reference in Letter. H The letter said: “If murder were Dot an ecclesiastical and civil crime, 1 certainly would like to bump off one | Jons Comfort a¢mitted that J. 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NOVEMBER 18, 1924 ALLEGED MURDERER OF POLICEMAN HEL real name was withheld, as the po- lice feared Stuyvesanf's friends, said to be gunmen, would attempt to in- Jure the man who identified him. Gerald Chapman, who still is at large after his escape from the fed- eral prison at Atlanta, where he was serving a sentence for his share in a $2,000,000 mail robbery in New York a few vears ago, was first sought as Shean’s companion. The police admitted that Chapman was not concerned with the New Britain crime and that announcement of his connec- tion with the case had been made to throw the real criminal off his guard. POSTAL BLAST PROBED. | Authorities Seek to Learn if Gas Mains Were at Fault. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., November 18.—Work of baring the gas mains in the vicinity of the post office, which was pl!lllll( wrecked by an ex- plosion last Wednesday, causing the loss of 3 lives and injurles tc 13 others, will be started today, officials of the gas company announced. 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