New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 10, 1915, Page 1

*" g0 . closely ERALD BEST OF ALL OCAL NE\WSPAPERS NEW BRITAIN H ’ft' PRICE THREE CENTS. NEW BRITAIN CONNECTIC UT,WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10, 19] ‘TWELVE PAGES. NET DRAWS TIGHTER ABOUT SUSPECTS IN ZEBRIS MURDER CASE Men Held at Wilmington, Del., Had Dead Priest’s Hat, Asserts De- tective Sergeant Bamforth ALSO HAD CORD LIKE THAT USED ON YiCTIM rgeant Samuel Bamforth - Detective Arrives in Wilmington and Finds Out Facts That Point Directly to Prisoners as Murdercrs of lelcri | be used to convict the Gilmanaitis— it Father Zebris' body and Zebris Eva Priest’s Name in Notebook. Wilmington, Delaware, March '10.— ! *rhis afternoon a representative of | the New Britain, Conn., ‘“Herald,” | who has been working on the Zebris murder mystery, is able to ‘give out | positive assurance that the men who | . so atrociously murdered Rev. Joseph } Zebris and Miss Eva Gilmanaitis, hls" housekeeper, in the Church stret Pa- | agochial residence in New Britain on | the .night of February 8 are known | and that Bernard Montvid, alias Charles Moras, and Peter Melba, alias | Krakas, arrested here Saturday for the murder of a policeman, are either | the real murderers themselves or are connected with the real: murderers that their arrest makesi possible the solution of the mystery. | Detective Sergeant Samuel Bamofrth, of the New Britain police department, arrived here early today and whlle[ he did not see the two prisoners per- | he identified them as the men \ sonally, ~, wanted from a certain article in con- 1 ¥ and which was twisted around' the | ¢ ba. + -« starting off to see the two prisoners. nection with the murder that makes | the identification possible. While the Herald is in possession of the nature | of this convictisg evidence it is with- held out of courtesy to the authorities who fear that to publish it \Vou]d hamper their efforts to run down oth#¥ er members of this band of murder- | ers. Another article found on the | “ men that makps their identification | even more complete is a quantity of heavy cord, exactly like that which was ‘used to strangle Miss Gilmanaiti neck of Father Zebris after he was | shot. | Had Priest’s Hat. Late this afternoon the Herald re- ceived a message from Wilmington ! which stated that Detective Bamforth | identified the hat worn Mel- | alias Krakas, as the one formerly | worn by Father Zebris. The name of Rev. Father Zebris was also found Dlainly written in the prisoner’s possession. T goes to press Detective has by in a notebook As this paper Bamforth is Thus, today, through its special cor- respondent at Wilmington, the Her- ald is able to give to its readers the hrs’t&gositlve assurance that at least | * th& police are on the close trail of the dastardly murderers of the defense- less priest and housekeeper. Police Fear Lynching. Feeling against the two prisoners is running high in/ Wilmington and there is serious talk of a lynching. Because of this the police are not de- taining Montvid and Melba at the Cen- tral police station, but have spirited them away to a strong prison about 5 miles outside of the it would be practically impossible for a city where lynching party to break in and the prisoners. The Herald’s spondent tod: made ineffectual attempt to secure an interview with the two men, suspected of being the New Britain murderers, but the thorities would not permit such audience to take place. Before two men were placed under such strict survelllence they were inter- viewed by a Wilmington reporter and Montvid stated that Melba or Krakas as he is also known, is a stranger to " him. He insists that he is a watch- “dealer by trade and camé here from Taunton, Mass. When attempts were made to take photographs of the two men Krakas distorted his face and closed his eyes. Montvid however, brazenly faced the camera with a de- fiant smile on his face. Cord Clinches Identity. get corre- an au- an the It is expected that as soon as De- tective Bamfirth visits the workhouse and has a talk with the two men he more | it lay on the floor, face upwards, with linto the flesh. | around her neck, but in addition to . cord twisted around her windpipe, ex- | another piece of similar cord. | searched the house from cellar to at- | tie | cranny | clusion lis also wanted i ties they had a beer check from a New Detective Sergeant Bamforth is in Wilmington, Del., has seen the time of the Herald going to press the detective had not seen the forth is expected back in New Britain tomorrow and it is believed ‘ound, and that the mystery which has so baffled local and state p. MYSTERY PROBABLY SOLVED. upon the persons of Melba and Montvid, arrested there for the murder of Policeman Tierney and is satisfied that they are the slayers of Rev. Joseph Zebris and his housekeeper. moved to the workhouse, about five miles from Wilmington, for safe-keeping, and to prevent lynching. The sentiment against the men is very strong in Wilmington. information to prove that the murderers of the priest and his housekeeper have at last | | | some of the goods iound Up men as they have been re- | | i Detective Bam- that he will have sufficieit been olice has been solved. founa written cther highly important thing on them is an in the script and from Mass. This is regarded as of the greatest import- ance the police. The writer urged Melba to exercise the knowledge of the affair than is now | known, but his absolute identification of the one particular article referred seemes to clinch the suspicion with- out a dolibt and fastens the guilt upon at least one of these two men. When they were first arrested one armed with four thirty two calibre automatic revolvers and they had pre- viously proved themselves to be dead shots. It was with a thirty two cal- ibre automatic revolver that Kather Zebris was shot. The cord is another link in the chain of evidence that will men. When was discovered unsigned letter mailed letter Lithuanian Cambridge, by was greatest In case however, caution and not get caught. his plans should miscarry, and he should be caught, warned Melba the writer | 5 not to own information about give his name or to give any (& himself. This letter from Cambridge is con- sidered highly important inasmuch as| ? Michael Malinowski, interpretor, who has working with the state police, vestigating clue in for the past few of that time been in the vicinity That both men criminals of the worst type is shown by their fight the police last | Saturday and their subsequent actions in jail. Policeman Francis X, Tier- ney, Willard S. Sharpless, Horace Mc- Dannell and James T. Scott were sent arrest the two had of st an ) on the 3 has been Massachusetts and during is said to of Cambridge. bloodthirsty been case four bullet wounds over the hearc. ! o Twisted tightly around his neck was a piece of heavy cord, cutting deeply When Eva Gilman- aitis’ body was found in the attic two | lengths of heavy clothes line was tied in- W a weeks have a part are this there was a piece of the heavy with actly like the cord around the priest's b neck. Around her left wrist was tied | Although the police and detectives men stolen several | them was | on sus- out to picion \‘.ha't they watches which known to have in his possession. The officers surrounded the two men who were hiding in a packing house plant vard behind a large cari. As the of- ficers approached them Krakas quick- ly drew an automatic emptied its contents at the onrushing patrolmen. Tierney was almost in- stantly Kkilled and the other two offi- cers were mortally wounded. Scott was only slightly injured. Immediate- ly. after delivering this of shots both made lib- erty and Montvid succeeded in break- A running pistol duel fol- lowed and finally front of the post office. and peered into every nook and i they were unable to find an- other piece of cord that corresponded to the kind used to strangle the two victims. They finally came to the con. that the had brought it with them. The discovery that Montvid and Melba had me of his same kind of cord in their pockets seems to prove beyond a doubt |that they are the men wanted. one sl murderers revolver and ‘Wanted by Taunton Police, Montvid, who asserts he is a watch dealer and\comes from Taunton, by fusillade a men a dash for Mass., in that city for larceny, it being charged that | he is one of the gang of thieves who fdtota’’ éonsiderable jewelry there last | month. His own assertion that he has been there also strengthens the Taunton police department’s claim on him. the police H ing away. a he was caught in f tv W Tries Suicide in Cell. 2 Krak his the Since his incarc ion has tried life. and repeatedly off the bandages in an attempt bleed himself to death. is he that the physicians have decid- | ed not to dress his wounds any more. | Last night he tore the shects on his { cot bed into strips and was believed st several times to take own | ¢ He was wounded in arms |} Cambridge Cluc Tmportant. When Montvid and Melba searched by the Wilmington has ripped | to i legs and were authori- S0 persistent | Britain saloon in their pockets well as the theater tickets and road tickets already referred to. DECLARES “SEX WAR” DOES NOT EXIST Deafi of Columbia Law School Replies to Rev. Percy S. Grant. as rail- An- | WILL SEPARATE THE SAFETY DEPARTMENTS Resolution to Amend Charter That End in View Will Be With | S Presented to Council. If Mayor Quigley’s plans are car- | ried out a resolution will intro- | duced into the commen council this | ! evening calling for the appointment | of separate commissions for the police and fire departments. “I think the police department | hig enough to have one commis over it,”” said the mayor this afte noon. “The services are really dis- tinct and different, the work ' they perform is rllfi'(‘xvnt and I think sep- ‘arate commissions should - be over them. Mayor Quigley said he would have a resolution presented for the appointment of a civil service exams= | ining board to examin€ . applications for positions on the ])u“(‘ and fire departments. The purpose of be New York, March 10.—George . Kirchwey, dean of the Cdlumbia Law School, told the Women Lawyers’ as- sociation here last night that “There is no such thing as a ‘sex war.'” " His | statement was made in a debate in re. ply to the assertion by the Rev. Percy S. Grant that a male and female class consciousness existed, A w and that essen- Mr. of suf- placing of | women judges on the bench of the in- ferior criminal courts. also tially the two sexes are at war. B | Grant advocated the extension frage to women and the <k the meeting is to discuss the charter changes. The only disagreement is expected to be “on | the number of assessors and it is the ! general opinion that the council will make it three. The council will receive also a copy of the contract drawn detween the ity and Edgar Rhoades of West Main street for the sale of the municipal ice supply. S0 far as differences exist between | i men and women,” replied Dean Kirchwey, “they are explained through differences oft*individual temperament. I @o not believé that the male judge is wilfully unfair to the woman offender. T do not believe woman judge would he more disposed to bhe fair in her judgment, but I do-: know she would have a sympathetic knowledge, which for ‘physiological reasons the man could never hope to attain. “I believe women have their right- ful place upon the bench of the ju- venile courts, because my knowledge of child psychology compels the belief that a boy or girl will confide his or her secrets to the mother rather than I.m equally loving father.” n tk a ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCED. » At dinner party given to a few | friends last evening, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Bdward R. Ramage on West Pear] street, the engagement of Miss Grace Baird, house secretary at.the Y. WL A., and William Blair was announced. t1 COAD MINERS MAY ¢ Prestonburg, K strike of several thou ers working in the ecastern Kentucky fields was threatened today when s e¢ral hundred miners gathered here and voted not to accept a cut of twen- ty per cent. in wages, the Middle Creek Coal company. CHAUFFEUR AR TED. Elliott, a chautfeur em Denison’s Main street ested at the corner Main streets Officer Lamphere number be heard UK. 10.—A coal min- Berdette ployed at garage, was Main and morning tailing to car, morrow of | e s | for plates on in court by have h He will morning, made will be able to glean even 5 to be on the point of trying to himself ot the state te the Lithuaniang triet, in connection with the at Wilmington, 1ine days, ‘aunton, about made up his mind to spegk to the police about him when the fellow suddenly disappeared. been that a photograph of the man under arrest several to the murder mystery, of Melba are the men sought. Moras, came to Waterbury, the police have learned, Zebris and 1y Moras and that he was Taunton, in Waterbury. loon conducted by Povilaika and Ber- nota drinking inquired where he might gct told that he mig 44 Charles Moras, P daughters, v manufacturer, city of his clerk, led to disclosur "Mayo is listed as the widow iug Mayo, in years and Wi years came when she Mayo declared she w from her | engaged counsel | steps against Mayo looking to the sup lotta, It asked member. Governor's Foot Guards. l | i hang when he was discovered. Waterbu 10. police force Police in member to Wa- among Waterbury, March came rbury today and is working of the securing information Brooklyn di concerning ernard Montvid, alias Charles Moras, Zebris murder ase. Montvid, who is under arrest | Del., claiming to be looking for stopped here for place in which to open barber | hop. a He claimed to have come from Mass. Frank Mulosky, with | hom the man boarded, as suspicious of the said today he | man and had A letter has mailed to Wilmington asking be sent to this city. In Waterbury where the police ave been lead to important clues in reference the police the firm opinion that Montvid and | Montvid, of are | ho travelled under the alias two days after Father his He told residents in the Brook- housekeeper wcre ain. n district that his name was Charles | barber in Mass., but wanted to locate | He called at the at 804 Bank street, and while h family. He was get room with a ome informse on from M. Dvileckis, who condu butcher market at 814 Bank street. The butcher market proprietor an irn referred him to Frank Muleskey store at ‘he ho conducts a confectionary Bank street The latter took ranger to his home and gave him a bom. He occupied the 11 to the room from ebruary 20th and was very retiring. , Man Changed His Name. At first he went under the name of but later was recog- (Continued on Eleventh Page.) SCRANTON WOMAN SAYS SHE iS WIFE OF MAYO uicide of Miss Cook Brought . | surface First News of Him in | tube Fifteen Years. Scranton, Pa., Mayo, March iding with 1.0—Murs. lorence res on venue, this city, her the New three be wife the claims to Mayo, of irginius J. Haven whose ith the sensational suicide in Miss Lillian M. concerning his dnal that Cook, fe in New Haven and Ln the Scranton Brooklyn. directory Mrs. | of Virgin- and she explained today that | e had not heard from her husband when a friend informed he was dead she assumed she | as a widow Mrs. Mayc he had rec er 1ded that the first news ed of him in fifteen read in the brought out by ook girl. Mrs never divorec She says she has and will take ewspapers the he suicide of story the hus nd. ort of herself and aged 23, 21. daughters, Marion 19 and Cur- Doro- hy New Haven, March Mayo, it was stated today, ha to” be permitted to give up | hip in the Second company, | 10.—Virginius S e e WEATHE § rtford. ~ March 10.—Fair tonight and Thursday. ST belteve there were | * | ternea | priation. . | ment | miralty | of Sunset | identification | { three ! submarine i ations | mornin | ditions were ! Turkish | broved j10 south | 'GERMAN SUBMARINE U-20 1§ SUNK BY BI1TISH DESTROYER i § renders and Is Saved. ALLIED FLEET ADVANCES IN DARDANELLES NARROWS Itallan Put to Sca danelles — Allies Forward in Warships Reported Bound Push to for Iy Trenches \rgonne— Russiany "\ | | 1 | 1 1 ol Rams Submersile-—Place of inking Not Disclosed---Crew Su:- | ! correspondent Have | | shells, Capture Several Villages in South- | cin Persia. Another of which have gone to the ralty U-20, built stroyed in The German auxiliary Friedrich, Eitel in evading for of" Brit there, Allied Fieet of interrupted conditions, have fleet Bombardmer hich was favorable ported sumed, and made further Berlin and persist in damage ha the weaker trance to from that Italian and probably Dardanelles. stantiation, Germany tt the Bundesrath of steeks | ten. 1t he been Germany’s naval war bottom. announced 1913, warships, today, again weather unofficially st Geneva, give The today had and the to 1lied inflicted aits, a on their This report has | vres to conser ve is taken food ordered with certa barley furt t cruiser which has succeeded | months a large reached may of A Vienna warships have put way lacks supplies, the German submarines seeking to zone decree has British adA enforce that th been de- Pri Newport be in- Advances. Dardanclies, | un- | re- by is been to re- however, no except the en- despatch her T he metric German Submarine Sunk. London, the issued maralty March 10 German submarine U7 bottom, submarine ) the stroyer Ariel The members crew It of Location The location submarine is The all ipture yecial case of t and they connection the U-8 in surrendered Not of not he will with merchant vessels. The U which steamer vesterd: The subn She hac s and a and was equipped stern, the She w German imum radius of Las been at 2,000 mil marine malke. submarine to beginning of the Loendon, by the Britis August; U-18, Iiritish patrol giver s Sicily toher . declare 0 to 1 which rch 4 silence Paris, March of the danelles, by afterno to the reported progress Muatin to in th Renkui, the fi its maneuver Russians Tiflis, March 9, Via m., and Turkish have of being I'he who districet sia, are siung to foro n Turkish Russian into poss, which tered statements stoppe unfavorable h: Ay 20 probably sunk RBlackwood. according today by the according announcement, British torped went the and the disclosed announcement. 1 crew privileges will by men be the on uilt ine with two in the tt be th given These hoats and I 1 d re troops Information re; s to the (Continued on speed 12 in 1913, U-20 of 17 bow, and one of the he e h cruiser rammed hoat unidentified wits Turkish 0, allied veste an batteries Capture Transc in retreat already f from troublesome fect submarines. boats of the 1 in The loss of venth marine destroyed war, out are: 3irm and destroyed sunk o 540 fleet a in rday Athens The made narrows, on the to wcasia, Petrograd, London, forces been Khol, 3 e and wly force to the ha v b everal had here that Eleventh to 2 British ad- was held was a displacement of 840 knots on knots submerged. “four ace November 23, submersibl d lost on October bruary Batter m (T weather resumed vigorously warships March the concentrated northwestern to 0 boat in the ¢ deprived as done board for is the submarine the British built in larger The max- U-20 type authorities the sub- rding Micially U-15, ingham sunk in by and 26, Oc- The sixth was the fl Dover, ies. -Oper- the Dar con- in the despatci are additional stlencing | He heights which the of had fleet Villages. Tuesday, 10, h a.m in the Per the d by southward, | ve come illaze een quar- from the a large Page.) serious to meas- expro- in exceptions of exceeding a all the rammed | i( de- to the bottom. submersible’s were saved. Disclosed. the She | torpedo two in the | of n | by | number | | Pass of Balmaha have | progress in the narrows, Constantinople, statements that been fortifications report | to sea | to the | sub- 2:35 P. M.—The | American bark Pass of Balmaha has ) has been sent | e- | taken sjnking of the ton and ad- in | ic the trial sinking of | take u off | | ain Institute | tion | ton concern | other ~ |FRENCH WARSHIP HIT BY TURKISH SHELLS | | Fragment Pell at Feet of (‘nm-; ) mander of French Division Oper- ating in Dardaneclles, 10, 5:30 A Paris, March fragment of a Turkish terday (Tuesday) at the Admiral Guepratte, commander French division operating wllied fleet in the Dardanelles was directing the operations | battieship Suffren, which had ¢d a daring maneuver by penetrating the extreme limit of the mine fields 1vs a Tenedos despatch to the Petit Parisian sl are reported have warship, but m. { A shell M feli ye Rear | of th feet of the the - Pz B - W of the execut a veral s struck the malkes damaged yperations crew of the battle- Gaulers was warmly praised by | Admiral Carden, the British for the assistance lent in reduction of the Dardanaug re- doubt, Powerful Turkish Dbatteries were silenced by the Gaulers, which was herself struck by two six-inch| ulthough the damage done is said to have been insignificant | Operations of the French warships have been delayed for a few hours the necessity of taking aboard coal | ammunition | 10 Lier having been After atch says, vesterday's the ship Vice commander the - - United States ondaga Go Pake Up itrality | ington Offic Be Done Wi and i Newport Nej German auxil rich, another dea rovers, W AMERIGAN BARK SEIZED BY BRITISH CRUISER i ez presumal French ¢ in need of repi for her crew prisoners tak Last night | =hip appeared | not enter un ‘] she passed q her anchor al | ficers preses The | and her cap from 1 a message tel the condition: by | AT em sy | Guard Kirk- | Taken to Kirkwall, England—Has Large Cotton Cargo. Galveston, T March 10 American bark Pass of Balmaha, York of British Bremen, 6,000 has New to carrying seized to bales cotton, been taken | wall, England, according to private reports received here last night at the offices of B. E Harriss, cotton l\l'nlu-r, who chartered the barR. Mr Harries =aid the bark lately had been | changed from Britiah American registry and sailed from New Yorl January 28 The of 1 cruiser and No sooner | chored than guard ship ¢ to take up wi trality of th ficials at Wi all be don Friedrich Scarred by of her month iliary was p and black o ported in mu Friedrich h three mile 1 but as the d the lips of confirmed, Marin Ihak Marine ol 1 the long. L guishable by German Liog bay and intd into 1 attempt at 4 tine and thd where she Within Eitel had request News Shipbul pany for info cern could repairs, kY immediately quest to the ington and States would! Dan Rear Ad the Norfolk ing the arri received fng Pass of 4198 tons Balmaha is a vessel displacement York, Mavch Galveston announcing New from 10.—Despatches that the British was the fate of seized by a to Kirkwall receive:d here of the ell Fears that she had up already had arisen, however, was learned that the Vincent, which left herc en short time before Balmas had arrived at cruiser firs that heen and news ves- held been ling for ship Bre- Pass of destina the ha, her came Both vessels were loaded with about thirteen the first time the old time once made the imous in every port sailed almost port. The Vincent course through the English while the Pass of Balmaha pass north of Scotland Harriss of a which chartered the said today that he received further news of the than a brief diegram from captain announcing that she had taken to Kirkwall by a British From the message Mr. Har that this had occurrea Danlels to nf send him Rudolph Norfolk shi the Bitel commander dicated thaty Newport Ne? man captal trouble wit ery, He @& would inte Mr. Schul uns, about steamer, passengers childres C Pring cot- cailed yart Tt was years that two of jammers which an flag world, had from this hours fifty wind- Amer the together was o in Channel, was B to (D] member cot Pass had barl of Balmaha, no her heen cruiser. riss inferred last Sunda “If the vessel sonable time Mr. Harris a of course, take the with the state department ington.” a is we released will be “If not matter at within 9 satis- we up | Wash- PROY, PAINTING OF CAMP. Will Be Presented to New Britain Institute, the Charles Noel Flagg, the weil known Hartford, has Professor artist of completed a | and D old painting of N. Camp, New The inch “grand man New Britain's and it will be presented to the Brit- in a short time, probably tomorrow uesday) | - | Kurds | were | ' morning | the word Wallace | Walnut | the City ed dilig blaze was onut It is proper that there should b Americ The capt ing #hip Wi caitd als Eitel Fried lea Cap Seattle, No has ne passed Tato Aay. | | Professor s Britais painting of New of imp in some one s public buildings is a citizen of whom the Hardware ire and enjo justly proud the re gard and esteem of local re has Institute idents, by long been conected with the | and '"REETS MIXED, As nearl; the Prinz was sunk b have been war No No. to whethe this | gite] or ano age | Surgeon for | Customs hoth companics respond- | Jopye was Waulnut stret. A on Janu curch locate tuken off @ Noble nd all the discovering h Fire rtment Street Instead Goes 1o of Wallace Walnut Street., and a still alarm tuking the was mistaken Engine companies No, 1 caled out by ¢ but in mess and 4 No to most (he nsed failed (o and Assistant Chief phone t in vtel o advantage erron the street, Both companies treet where fire the n the e Prin her hurried to Wal- ther had been rear of No, 33 department The 4| cut on It arrived, | I in i (Conting