New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 24, 1914, Page 1

Q‘ at present. HERALD BEST OF ALL LOCAL NEWSPAPERS =t NEW BRITAIN HERALD HERALD “ADS" ME BETTER BUSINE | » PRICE THREE CENTS. NEW BRITAIN. CONNECTICUT, FRIDAY, JULY 24, 1914 —SIXTEEN PAGES. ESTABLISHEL 1876. CRIMINAL ACTION AGAINST DIRECTORS: 70 COME LATER ON Dissolgion Sut Most Be ~Furlhr hdwneed in Court 35 Pi6 minary. 'ANNOUNCEMENT MADE BY ASST. COHNSE[ GREGORY It Is Expeewd That Special Panel of Federal Grand Jury Will Be Called in August and Other Action Will Also Be Started About That Time | —Answer Must Be Filed by Cor- poration August 12, New York, July 24.—Not until the civil suit filed yvesterday to dissolve the New York, New Haven and Hart- ford railroad is further advanced will criminal action against certain direc- tors and officers be begun, according to an announcement today by T. W. Gregory, speclal assistant to the at- torney-general. Mr. Gregory and Frank M. Swacker, his associate, will. remain in New York for several days. Attorney-General McReynolds was pected to arrive here today for a con- terence with Mr. Gregory. It is expected that a special panel of the federal grand jury will be called for the first week in August and that the cases for alleged crim- inal violation of the Sherman anti- trust law will start about that time. Mr. Gregory has declined to say what directors he . would proceed against criminally. The answer of the New Haven com- pany to the suit in equity, brought yesterday, must be filled on or . be- fore 'August 12. It wag expeoted that E. C. Buckland, general counsel for ‘the New Haven, would file the com- pany’s answer and that {t wonld con- tain & general-@enial of the govern- ment's allégations. The defense probably will be under .the direction of Moorfleld Storey of Boston, who has been assoclated with Chairman Howard BElliott in the recent nego- tiations with the department of jus- tice. While the answer to the suit ORDERS RENOVATIONS IN TUBERCULOSIS BREEDERS Four Houses Must Be Cleaned and Fumigated, Says Dr. Reeks. ex- Dr. T. E. Reeks, superintendent of health, is a firm believer im preven- “tion rather than cure and following out this idea he has ordered the com- plete renovation of four houses in which he believes consumption germs breed. He has ordered the inter- fors of the houses scraped and thor- oughly renovated and he will fum- igate them when this is done. The work is being carried op in one house In one pigee he learned "ofe three cases of consmption which hdd their beginning there, in another our cases, in a third two'cases and * in a fourth three cases. *Dr. Reeks and his assistant, John _ X O'Brien, went out on the trail of garbage thieves this morning and lo- cated several. The physician told -‘them that they:would be prosecuted « 4f they continued to collect garbage 7 without permission. Dr. Reeks ex- plained later that Henry Furman, the ‘city garbage collector, has in- vested $3,000 in hogs and needs all the garbage he can get to feed them. He has complained to Dr. Reeks that considerable garbage on his routes s being removed nightly. There has inét been a case of a contaglous diSease reported to Reeks since July 16. ' WHO WILL SUCCEED JONES It May Be Omar F. Hershey or I, M. Fenton. Washington, July 24.--With the pitter fight in the senate over ¥’ confirmation of Thomas D. Jones Chicago, President Wilson’s nominee for the federal reserve board ended, the names of Omar E. Hershey of Baltimore, and I. M. Fenton, choice of - Senator Lewis of Illinois, were understood to be under consid- eration to succeed him. of v tant Secretary Hamlin of the trea- sury department would now be made <governor of the federal reserve board, pr. | the ' Bellet prevailed today that Assis- _ | and Quartier Morin, which were evac- ' who retreated to ' New Haven Railroad Directors Against Whom Criminal Action Will Be Brought i yet to be prepared it is known that exceptions will be taken to the ap- plication of the government for a re- ceivership, which, it was pointed out, is made in all dissolution suits, on the ground that the railroad is pay- ing its fixed charges and that for the past fiscal year there was a surplus of $111,000. The only official statement given ‘COLONEL TO CONTINUE ATTACK. 1 mnm Barnes, Murphy and Ma. chine Politics. nyter Bay, N. Y, July 24.—The reply of Colonel Roosevelt to the $50,000 libel suit of William Barnes, today was a renewed attack on the republican state chairman and a promise to help the suit forward. He expressed the hope that he would have the opportunity to take the stand against Mr. Barnes before election. To make clear what he meant, the ex-president dictated this statement: “I'll do all T can to help hurry for- ward the suit. “I regard the action of Mr. Barnes as the most striking proof that could be given that the bosses recognize in me personally the one enemy that the type of machine government for which they stand has to fear, and further- more 'recognize that the most danger- ous menace to the present system of bi-partisan politics in this state is con- tained in the movement to elect Mr. Hinman as governor on a non-par- tisan ticket, which I hope will con- tain the names of such anti-machine democrats as Mr. Hennessy, as well as progressives and anti-machine re- publicans. “1 shall continue with increased ag- gressiveness to attack Messrs. Barnes and Murphy and the kind of ma- chine politics which they typify, which I hold must be eliminated from the state.” N —_ ( LINIMENT FOR COUGH. A member of the Maxinoff troupe, playing at Keeney's theater, gave her four months old baby girl halt a spoonful of a liniment made to cure | sprains and bruises instead of cough medicine last night. The child suf- | fered intense agony, this leading to i the discovery of the mistake. Dr. D. ! W. O’Connell attended the baby and ! does not anticipate any serious res- ults. b the ! HAITIAN TROOPS Cape Haitlen, Haiti, July tian government troops today took possession of the towns of Limonade WIN, { uted by the rebely Morine and Forgers, where fighting |wn.a still in progress this morning, 4.—Hal- | %8 LLIAM ROCKEFELLER EORGE DAC C: MéLLER S'CHARLES 'S:MELLEY. out by the company since the filing of the suit was to the effect that about one hundred boards of trade and civil and business organizations in New KEngland had passed resolu- tions sustaining the New Haven sys- tem in its efforts to retain control of the Long Island Sound steamship lines. A ligt of these organizations was issued. ONE MAN WAS KILLED, TWO MORE WOUNDED All Because Boys Struck One Person With a Stone. Pittsburg, July 24.—One man was instantly killed and. two others were wounded, probably fatally, as the re- 8ult of the throwing of a’stone by a small boy in‘ East Carnegie late last night. The dead: George Kunkle, 27, severed. Injured: Fred Hufnagle, lung. George Reitze, tack and breast. Two men sald to be Itallans, were walking in Idlewood avenue when one of them was hit by a stone. After accusing two small boys they left but later returned with three friends and attacked the boys. Kunkle, Hufnagle and Reitze interfered and in the fight which followed Kunkle was killed and bis companions severely wounded. Pete and Frank Krcklec, brothers, were arrested and are sald to have admitted being in the fight. Four men and a girl were detained as wit- nesses. Jugular vein 18, stabbed in left 20, gevere cuts in TROUBLE OVER CONTRACT. New Haven, July 24.—A petition for an injunction to restrain the city of Bridgeport from making an award of a $160,000 paving contract was presented to Judge George W. Wheel- er of the superior court in chambers today. The was signed Frank R. a taxpayer Bridgeport. a petition by Anderson, of FISHER POSTPONES TALKS. Willard C. Fisher, the independent democratic candidate the cratic nomination for governor, nounces that he has chan ! on which he will speak to the toilers in this city. Professor Fisher will make an address at the Corbin “screw shop” on Monday and will speak at | the factory of the Stanley Rule and | Level company on Wednesday, for demo- an- his dates FIRE DOES $3,500 DAMAGE T0 ROBERTS STREET HOUSE Effective Work By Firemen Saves Valuable Building From Total Ruin. Starting in the front attic shortly after 10 o’clock this morning, a fire of unknown origin quickly ate its way through the roof and nearby pard titiond of John L. Lorenius’ three tenement house at 70 Roberts street, causing damage estimated at $3.500. The loss is partly covered by insur- ance. The families of Axel Molander, Ed- win Nelson and Robert Dean, who occupy the first, second and third floors of the house, respectively, were heavy losers, their furniture being damaged to a considerable extent by smoke and water, Mr. Dean’s loss is in the neighborhood of $500, all of which is covered by insurance. 'The other tenants suffered less, Harry Yuknot, a sixteen-years-old boy, was sitting in a baker’s wagon which was standing in’ front of the house, when he suddenly perceived flames shooting out from under the eaves over the third floor veranda Shouting “fire,” he aroused the entire reighborhood:in:a few moments and an iceman, seeing the blaze gaining rapidly. rang’in an alarm from box 23 at the corner of South Main and Fllis streets,” but an instant after a still alarm was sent in.to the police station and.was relayed to No, 1 engine house.’ The chemical auto trucks from engine houses' Nos.'1 and*2 responded in short order, being ' reinforced later 'by No. 1's hook 'and ladder apparatus and No, 3's hose cart. Di- recting his men with great skill, ‘As- sistant Fire Chief Willam J. Noble soon had several streams playing on the blaze, which was burning flercely when the apparatus arrived and within twenty minutes had the fire under control. He issued his orders from the third story veranda, about which the flames were burning treacherously. In the midst of all the excitement, Mrs. Edwin Nelson, who lives on the second floor, suddenly became aware of the fact that her little daughter, Beatrice, was nowhere to be seen. Concluding that she was entrapped in the attle, she was about to rush into the house to save her when a neighbor discovered the little one watching the fire from a lawn on the other side of the street. The story soon speead that a child had been burned alive in the attic and it (Continued on Fifteenth Page.) i WEATH 2 or Part- Satur- Hartfors July Hartford and vicinity Iy cloudy tonight and day. e e, MARCHES IN TRIO AT POINT OF GUN Officer Mechan Captures Gang Single Handed. SUSPECTED OF STEALING CHICKENS Accompanied by Three Hunting Dogs Officer Runs Down Hobo Oampers Shortly After 4 o'Clock This Morn- | ing and Conducts Men Into Town. Three desperate looking characters ! were arrested single handed by Officer Patrick Meehan at the point of a gun early this morning when he stumbled | upon their camp, sitvated on the south shore of No. 4 reservoir near the West Hartford town line. The three men say they are Tony Doneki, of 103 Grove street, Wadislaw Caliski, of 56 Grove street and William Lavis- laski, of 26 Silver street and they are | supposed to be the gang of chicken thieves that has been infesting the outlying sections to the north of this city. Complaint Recelved at 1:40 a. m. At 1:40 o'clock this morning Mrs. Knowles, of 356 Osgood avenue, tele- phoned into the police ’station that chicken thieves had just visited her hennery and had got away with seven- teen plump hens. Officer Meehan heard of the complaint and when he went off duty at 4 o'clock he deter- mined to try and run them down. With his thrée hunting dogs as his only allies the officer started north and before 4:30 o'clock was wander- ing through the woods near the Hart- ford -eservolr. Runs Into Hobo Camp. Suddenly Officer Meehan's dogs pricked up their ears and the next moment, with their master close be- hind them, they dashed into a hobo camp which was hidden in a clump of high bushes. Seated around =a blazing camp fire were three husky looking individuals who leaped to their feet in alarm when they saw a stranger burst in upon them. One of them, a large powerful man, showed fight and, throwing out his chest started towards Officer Meehan with the intention of either intimidating him or else doing him bodily injury. Marched Into Town. ‘When the officer calmly pulled out a wicked looking revolver and leveled it at the approaching man’s breast however, his courage disappeared and he became very peaceful and docile as did all the rest. After asking them a few questions concerning the thefts of chickens to which the big man re- plied: “Well, you didn’t catch me eat- iug any of them did you?” the officer gave the order to move on. They were not so disposed but a glance at the revolver held steadily in Officer Meehan's hand and a side glance at the three dogs who were crouched nearby awaiting a word from their master to ‘“start things,' persuaded them that they had best obey. So with the three men marching ahead of him in single file and flanked by the three dogs, Officer Meehan paraded his prisoners into town, where he was met by the patrol wagon. The three men were locked up on a technical charge of vagrancy but without doubt the evidence collected will warrant an additional charge of being chicken thieves. Evidence Is Collected. Early this morning Officer Mgehan, accompanied by Officer Wagner Jagain visited the hobo camp to collect all the evidence agalnst the prisoners they could, and they found plenty. A short distance from the site of 'their camp is a long stone wall and hidden beneath these stones the officers found a great quantity of chicken feathers. In another place they found feathers three feet in depth buried in stones. Lying about the camp proper were seven pint whiskay bottles and one quart bottle, showing that the occupants had not been temperance advocates, two long fish poles with tackle showing that it is likely that they had been poaching in the Hart- ford reservoir, several blackened pots and pans which gave evidence of having been used to boll the chick- ens in and a large bag of salt. In another hidden spot were found a large number of chicken's legs and heads. A comical thing found in the camp was a tin drinking cup with the inscription, “A present for a good child.” 1In addition to a few old clothes there was nothing else found at the camp. Dend Hens in Swamp. Subsequent investigation in the vi- cinity of Mrs. Knowles' residence brought to light seven of her stolen hens. They were all dead and were hidden in a swamp behind her house. The hens were all plump Plymouth Rocks and the seven that were found weighed twenty-seven pounds. Later the officers found a large quantity of | leg bands in the swamp and about the hobo camp. These bands correspond with those worn by Mre. Knowles chickens. Sald They Didn't Work. Officer Meehan says he told the three men they shouldn't be fishtng in the ervoir and they sald to him: “We don’t work so we havye to fish to get a living.” Two of the men (Continued on Fifteenth Page.) REV. DR. WOODWORTH ACCEPTS PASTORATE Clergyman, Well Known Here, Will Take Charge of Church at Somersworth, N. H, Rev. Dr. Frank G, Wooaworth, who | is well known in this city where he has preached many times, last year occupying the pulpit at the South church for several months previous | REV. DR. F. G. WOODWOR’I‘H. to the calling of Dr. Hill and also | caring for the pulpit supply aurln;‘ Dr. Hill's illness this spring, has just accepted a unanimous call to assume | i the pastorate of the First Congrega- . tional church at Somersworth, N. H. ! Dr. Woodworth will take charge of his | new pastorage on Sept. 1 where he will make his home with his wife and | | daughter. He is at present enjoying a rest in New Hampshire, Berlin people are also familiar with Dr. Woodworth as his father was | one of pastors of the Berlin Congre- gational church and last summer he himself made his home in that town while preaching in the local church. Dr. Woodworth is an alumnus of lowa college and before coming to this city to take charge of the South | church pastorate temporarily was for | many years the president of Tougaloo university at Tougaloo, Miss. CLEARY SHOOTS HIS SON-N-LAW - DEAD Latter Had Told Him of His Marriage to His 18 Year Old Daughter. Haverstraw, N, Y., July 24—In his cell in the county jail in New City, where he was taken after he had shot and killed Eugene B. Newman, | nesday evening, his 19-year-old son-in-law, Willlam V. Cleary, prominent in county poli- tics and for fourteen years town clerk, refused today to discuss the murder or tell why he shot the young man. Young Newman, son of one of the owners of the Rockland County Mes- senger, secretly married Cleary's 18 year old daughter, Anna Cleary, on last Saturday in Weehawken, N. J. Yesterday the couple confided In their respective mothers and New- man was afvised to tell Cleary and ask his forgiveness. It was while on this mission that Newman was shot. He entered the town clerk’s office where Cleary was talking with three friends, Bernard Fox, a brewery .agent; Patrolman Sheridan and “Josiah Felter, : county supervisor. ' Newman extended his hand and naked for Cleary’'s blessing. Cleary,, Wl(h Jhardly a word, and be- fore hlp friends could interfere, fired four’ bulléts into the young -, man’s body. Nuwmnn died instantly, .and Cleary nhortly afterward. surrendered himeelt; to ‘the“authorities. Newman and Anna Cleary, had been sweethéarts.. from, their , first , meeting six years ago and it was an accepted belief in . the village that they would marry. | Newman's parents did not object and -Cleary, himself, , never showed any bitter opposition to . the match, although It is said, he did not look upon it with favor. . % TOURIST AT BURNS' HOUSE Thought to Have Taken a Souvenir and Is Arrested, Dumfries, Scotland, July 24.—What the defendant's trlendu describe us being merely a case of souvenir hunt- ing led to a charge of theft being brought today at the police court here against ' David Graham Carmichael, described as a wealthy American tourist. According to the prosecution Mr, Carmichael and his friends, who are staying in Dumfries while making a tour of Scotland in an automobile, visited the Robert Burns cottage in Ayr on Thursday. After they had left the caretaker noticed that the brass handle of an antique bureau was missing. A hue and cry was sent out and Mr. Carmichael’'s motor car was stopped by the police on a Dum- fries street. . The police declared that one of the occupants of the car threw the miss- ing handie into the street the police appeared on the when scene. CORONER PHELAN 18 HOLDING AN INQUES ON TROLLEY VIC Witacsses Summoned to Tel They Know of Death of Negry, Aged 11. | PROCEEDINGS HELD N UNDERTAKING Public Utilities Commission w Hold Joint Inquiry, But Com ticut Company Is Represented Counsel.—Most of Early Is of Technical Character. Box Burned Brightly. Westport, July 24.—The inquest to the collision of a trolley frejght with a passenger car laden with day school picnickers from Brid at Nash’'s corner in this town in which coll four persons were killed and than a soore injured was opened by Coroner John J. Phelan today. public utilities commission did hold an inquiry jointly with the joner as has some times been case, but Chief Inspector Elwell in town with a stenographer was engaged In securing ovldonoo dependently. The coroner's inquiry was n.ll { Fable's undertaking rooms and than a score of witnesses had summoned. The Connecticut pany was represented by 'nh Baldwin of Néw Haven, J ttes superintendent of the hulk ! sion and C. H, Chapman, super| dent of the Bridgeport division. David E. Fitzgerald‘of New Haven reprs sented the trolleymen and partioulas ly Harold Nadin, the motorman the wrecked car, who 1s in the walk hospita , A number of the witnesses could not attend the hearing by son of their infuries had made positions for the coroner, ‘Yechnical ‘lestimony. Most of the testimony taken in the hearing was of a character. The inquest was upon body of Frank Negry, an eleven old boy of Bridgeport. Dr, H. Huntington, medical e Norwalk and Di, E, Powers of port testified to their autopsies the bodles of the victims of the lision, Coroner Phelan spent several at the scene of the collision of ington Heights and was famil the locality. Walter H. Smith, a moto twenty-one years who was the witness testified as toyhis ob tions of the strength of the el current about the time of the dent. He did not see the wreck' was about to run over the stretch track between the signal box at th Junction of the main' line Bridgeport to Norwalk, and the of another line which starts at- Westport bridge. and the Coun club at the west end where there another signal box and between two signal boxes the accident curred. Smith with his car and other car had run to the Wi bridge to change their trolley for a return trip. A short d away was the Westport. signal box. The freight car came down main dIlnc\ from Bridgeport « towards Norwalk. According Smith, Raymond, the l.::te the freight car called out “Is, 4l your light?"” meaning the signal 3 in the box, Dorn.:, conductor ‘ the other car which was th Smith’s car and Dorney that | it was. Raymond then said that he would take the light and flag the t cars over the switch, meaning he freight car would go ahead apd the two empty cars would follow Country club signal box. The gl car started up the steep grade ahead | with:the two other cars remaining the foot of the grade until the 3 car got over the crest of the hill. At this time the picnfc car had left the Country club signal box and was headed towards Westport. The od, lision occurred shortly after of Smith’s sight. The coroner tioned Smith as to the nnm‘ the light in the Westport signal box. He said it “barned brightly” and could be seen a distance of 400 feet. Lot | Nadin Pak South Norwalk, July 24.—All of the six victims of the trolley crash who are at the Norwalk hospital are doing as well as can be expected, was the report today from (he authorities of | that institution, None will be charged today, thelr injuries such as to prevent them from. Ing. n" Ruth Jones of Bridsepost Sl Mrs, has a fracture of the skull, 3 Motorman Sun in Great. The bailie, or police magistrate, of Dumfries remitted Mr. Carmichael to the sheriff of Ayr for trial, what tmproved, and Harold Nedin, [ — (Continued on Fifteenth M. m I