New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 2, 1914, Page 10

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, MAY 2, SAY PASTOR GOT $200 10 PERJURE HIMSELF Charch Charges Ragsdaic With Actepting Bribe in Frank Case. | | 1914. — ESTABLISHED 1886 — Globe Clothing House THE Hart, Schaifner & Marx Name Guarantees yon that alltheir clothing must wear satisfactory to the purchaser. A special exhibit in our window. CHEVROLET LIGHT SIX This Is a Car that Will In erest You. Type ¢L” Light Six Touring—$147500 F. O. B. Flint, Mich. Atlanta, Ga., May, 2.—The Rev. C. B, Ragsdale, pastor of . ‘the. Plum Street Baptist church, was paid $200 to swear that he overheard the negro Jim Conley confess that he and not Leo Frank murdered Mary Phagan, according to the report of a commit- tee of the church which investigated the ¢ircumstances under which the preacher made the affidavit, The report of the church commit- tee asserted that the minister con- fessed that he had perjured himself and that he then tendered his resig- nation, The committee said the preacher told them that in the pres- ence of his attorney, Col. Arthur ! Thurman, Detective Burns, Detective Electric Auto-Lite Starting and Lighting System Regular Equipment. SPECIFICATIONS 3 5-16 inches bore, COOLING—Thermo-syphon with fan. BRAKES—Service, external contracting, emergency, internal expanding. TIRES—34x4 inches, Firestone demountable rims. SPRINGS—Semi-elliptic front, three-quarter plat- form in rear; extra length to insure easy riding. DRIVE—Left side, center control. STEERING—Worm and worm steering wheel. 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Haven,, in the finan- eia] transaction by which the control of the Metropolitan® Steamship com- pany of New Jersey passed into the trol of the New York, New Rova o ‘railroad in 7910 * was disclosed in -~ testimony takén here in-the suit ‘brought in be- half of Charles W. Morse for the ap- _pointment of a receiver !vr the, Met- | Fopolitan company. i The suit seeks to ent dummy, owners of the majority tock of the~ Metropolitan tn the cempany property alleged t beén!disposed of in order to Metropoman as a comllefl- 1 the pres- | ; Vera Cruz, | the Unitea States seamen and marines ! killed during the capture of this city | will be returned to the United States in metallic coffins on a battleship. The illustration shows some of Uncle Sam’s dead heroes in a launch, being | tor In the passenger traffic to Boston. i The suit is brought in New Jersey : in the name of Miss Jennie R. Morse, ! gsister of Charles W. Morse, and many, witnesses have been examined here under a commission issued by the supreme court of New Jersey. Testimony was taken by Nicholas W. Bindseil as commissioner of the New Jersey court in the rooms of the New York County Lawyers’' association at: 1656 Broadway, and it has revealed that the owners of all but 600 of the 16,000 shares of Metropolitan stock is the Chilmark company, a corpor- ation owning stock having a par value of $1,437,600. The directors of the Chilmark company hnhave admitted that they were dummies, acting in the interest of a lawyer alleged to be the New Haven’s representative. Juggled Purchase Checks. Among the witnesses who tes- | tified were James McNeil, assis- | tant cashier of the Bank of the Man- hattan company and Lewis A. Keidel, assistant cashier of the Nafionial Bank | Comymerce. 'examlnatlon by Conover English iland Securities company, ito the credit of the i Steamship May 2.—The bodies of | taken from shore to a warship. This interesting photograph is exclusiva and was made by Adrian C. Duff, the veteran of the American Press Asso- clation staffl of camera. experts, who snapped the first pictures ever taken of New York city from an aeroplane. of counsel for the plaintiff wasto trace checks which figured in the purchase of the control of the Metropolitan Steamship company. The checks ag- ' gregated $3,166,000. McNeil testified that on March 5, 1910, an account was opened in the Bank of Manhattan by the New Eng- posited $8,166,000. positor was introduced by John Billard and Mr. Hemingway, a New Haven banker who has been identi- fied with financial transactions foF the railroad company. The account was taken personally by Vice Presi- dent Jay of the Bank of Manhattan. On the same day the account was closed and both checks were placed Metropolitan company, which also opened an account that day. One of the checks was for $1,500,000, was drawn on the National Bank of Com- merce and was pald two days later by He sald the de- | that bank. McNeil could not identify the check The purpose of their | which made up the deposit of the ' had been charged. which de-. L.' New England Securities company. Assistant Cashier Keidel of the Na- tional Bank of Commerce produced records showing that the check had been paid through the clearing house, but failed to bring records to show the account against which the check The hearing was adjourned until today. Want Lease Broken. L. Stone, member of the Stock Ex- change firm of Hayden, Stone & Co., who was a director of the Eastern Steamship company and was familiar with the deal by which the control of the Metropolitan Line was sold, tes- tified that in the appraisal of the company’s property for the purpose of the sale its passenger equipment cut no figure, although the steam- ships+Harvard and Yale were then be- ing run at a profit. One of the ob- jects of the Morse suit is to break the lease of the Harvard and Yale to the Pacific Navigation company, which is now operating these steam- ers on the Pacific coast, and to have them returned to the company to be put in commission on the Atlantic coast, N. B. Lumber and Coal company will close their yard and office Sat- urday afternoons until further notice. Bills may be paid and orders left at Dickinson Drug Co., Main street.— advt. Tedder and R. L. Barber, the affidavit was secured from him upon the offer of $200 at a time when he was sorely pressed for money and that he did not realize what he was doing. He said that when he did realize the enormity of his offence he went to So- licitor General Dorsey and told him his affidavit was false. Ragsdale did not tell the committee who offered him the bribe. Burns Denounces Charge. William J. Burns, in a long dis- tance telephone message, denounced as an unmitigated and outrageous lie the charge involving him in the ‘‘con- fession.” Burns said: “I am coming back to Atlanta im- mediately. This Ragsdale story is a most cowardly lie by a cowardly liar. You cannot denounce it too strongly. I had absolutely no connection what- ever with the affidavit.” At the Ragsdale home the efforts to shield the pastor were continued. No outsider has been allowed to see the minister. One of the remarkable aspects of the latest developments in the case is the fact that C. C. Tedder, who is in- volved in the charges, is attached to the office of William M. Smith, at« torney for Jim Conley, and a close friend of Chief of Detectives Lanford. He denied yesterday that the alleged bribery was a police “plant.” He also denied that he had helped induce the old man to make the affidavit telling of the alleged Conley confes- sion, Mind No'. Sound. The son, W. A, Ragsdale who has refused “to ‘fet any Jone_ see the old man, said his fat! ot's. m(al( ‘condi- on was 1ot ‘soun He was inclined to believe the bribe plot &tory, and said that threats to expose a land deal in which the minister’ was con cerned had evidently figured in''the salleged effort- to’ make him swear falsely. Arthur Thurman, Ragsdale’s 'law- yer, who was also named in the con- fession, also denounced the story as a complete lie. Frank issued another appeal to the public yesterday in which he declared that popular clamor was alone re- sponsible for his conviction, and ask« ing for vindication in the eyes of the general public. SIX MONTHS SENTENCE, German Acronaut and Passengers Re- ceive Severe Penalty in Russia. Berlin, May 2.—Hans Bertiner, the German aeronaut, who was made a prisoner at Kirgischansk, Russia, last Tebruary, when he came to earth at the end of a balloon trip from Bitter- feld, Germany, and the two passen- gers who accompanied him, have been sentenced by the Russian authorities to six months solitary confinement. This news was received in a dis- patch from Perm, Russia, yesterday. Kirgischansk is in the Ural mountains. The aeronauts landed there after a | balloon voyage of forty-seven hours, in which they made a distance record of 1,865 miles. The Russian authori- ties took the travelers into custody en suspicion of esplonage. STATE CONVENTION. W. C. T. U! to Hold State Convention in New Britain in October. The W. C. T. U. met at the home of Mrs. C. V. Shepherd, 22 North Glen street Friday afternoon and held & lengthy discussion on the as- sociation of temperance and the Sun- day school. Mrs. W. P. Corbin had charge of the program and an ex- cellent paper on the pledge signing campaign was read by Mrs. Stella Irvine. It was voted to hold the state con- vention in New Britain in October and a committee, consisting of Mrs. John Northend and Mrs. Willlam Doolittle was appointed to secure a church. = The Hartford County con- vention will be held May 20, in the Wetharsfleld Avenue Parish House, Hartford, at 9:45. Mrs. Martha Al- len, u national W. C. T. U. worker, will be the speaker. It is hoped that a large New Britain delegation will attend an institute to be held in the Episcopal Parish House {on Satur- day, May 16. The next meeting will be held at the Y. W. C. A. May 15 at 3 o’'clock. ORDER IS AFFIRMED, New York, May 2.—The appellate side of the supreme court yesterday affirmed the order of Justice Green- baum refusing to grant an injunction restraining the directors of the Union Pacific Railroad company from dis- tributing approximately $80,000,000 among the common stockhelders as an extra dividend. The action was brought by the Equitable Life Assur- ance soclety, a preferred stockholder, against the officers and directors of the Union Pacific. Copyright Hart Schafiner & Marx $18 upto $30 We want youto come come see the Men’s Suitsat $12 and $15. Extremely light weight Underwear is the Crepe Union Suit at $1.00 Dont buy Washable Neckwear! until you have seen ours. All are imported. 25¢ and 50c each. A new pattern of Boys’ Worsted Suits at $6.00is greatly admired. DANCING CARS FOR SHRINERS ON TRIP “Ten Million Dollar” Band Will Also Accompany Them to Atlanta to Attend Countil Session. 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ROPE OF DIAMONDS FOUND ON NEGRO Arrest of Circus Roustabout at Berkt eley, Cal, Leads to Recovery of $100,000 Gems. San Francisco, May 2.—The arrest of a negro roustabout of a traveling circus in Berkeley yesterday for fighting led to the recovery of a rope’ of diamonds valued at $100,000 for which the police of the Pacific coast have been making a secret search #he past week. The diamonds are the property of Mrs, Frank G. Hogan, of Pasadena, who lost the diamonds while at- tending the circus in her home eity. They had been picked up in the sawdust of the circus ring by the roustabout and were found in his clothes when search, by the police was made. - Th negro said he had no idea of their lue. GITY ADVERTISEMENT. . Proposal for Garbage Collection, Sealed bids for the collection of garbage of the City of New Britain will be received at the office of the Clerk of the Board of Health Com- mission, 10 Franklin Square, until 6 P. 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