New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 11, 1915, Page 1

HERALD “ADS” MEAN BETTER BUSINESS NEW BRITAIN HERALTD PRICE THREE CENTS. NEW BRITAIN CONNECTICUT,THURSDAY, MARCH B 1915—~TWELVE PAGLS IDENTIFY SUSPECTS AS MEN WANTED BY POLICE FOR MURDER Peter Melba Admits Being in New Britain on Night Priest and Housekeeper Were Kiiled. S BONOWSHI GETS THREAT MAILED FROM WLHINGION Montvid and Melba Identified By Detective and Also By Charles Dehm—Prisoners Carried Key Ring Formerly Owned By FEva Gil- manaitis—Police Sure of Men “ Now. ernard Montvid, Petéy Melba, alias Krakas, the two men “held by the Wilmington, Dela- ware, police for the murder of a po- liceman and who are also suspected cof being the slayers of Rev, Joseph Zebris and’ Miss Eva Gilmanaitis in this city on the night of February 8, have been pogitively identified from their photographs in the possession of the Herald, and which are repro- duced herewith, as the men sought by the police for the atrocious mur- der. - A well known detective who has been working on the case and who has in his possession a complete ‘de- scription of the two men wanted for the murder, has identified them as the ones sought. Charles Dehm, the well known Arch street saloon awner, has also identified them both as two men who visited his place two weeks kefore the murder and acted in such a manner as to arouse his suspicion. Description Is Identical, According to the description in the hands of the detective, Montvid is a man of about twenty-six years of age, of medium size, stockily built an.l with high bushy hair. This cor- responds exactly with the accompany- ing photograph. Melba is described as light haired and full faced. His complexion is said to be ruddy and he has a dimple on either cheek. His hair is long and he parts it on the side. This also agrees with the pic- ture herewith attached. The hair takes a darker hue when photo- graphed. 2 According to the description given cut Melba has large, strong teeth, and a flat nose. In his picture his teeth are large and look strong and bis nose has a flattened appearance. Montvid Admits Being Here. This conclusive identffication of the two men, taken together with the fact that late this afternoon Montvid ad- alias Moras, and mitted to the authorities that he was | In New Britain on the day of the mur- del, now establishes beyond all doubt that he is one of the men wanted for the murder. Melba, of Krakas, has not yet been que: or not he was in New Britain on Feb- ruary 8, but according to Mr. Dehm’s statement he was. The detective also esserts that he was one seen here at the time and who have been sought for diligently since the murder was discovered. Gets Letter From Wilmington, Another startling development to- day, and one that drives another spike Into the box irto which the two Wil- mington prisoners are being nailed, is that within the past week Rev. Father Lileyan Bojnowski has received sev- eral ‘more letters demanding sums of money as high as $10, 000, with the accompanying threat that he would be murdered if he did not pay The significant part is that one of (he let- lers was posted from Wilmington, Delaware, and another was mailed from Waterbury. Had Victim’s Key Rings. The Herald's special representative at Wilmington states this afternoon that the most important development | nt that end of the case is the admis; sion of Montvid that he was in Britain on the day that Father Zebr! and his housekeeper were murdéred, and the discovery of two key rings taken from the prisoners and which | are identically like the ones known to | have been carried by Miss Gilman- pitis. The tell-tale beer check found on the men is marked “541 Main stree and the theater stub which they also had has been identified a shnll«\\ to those issued by a Waterbury ul'\vhon:e They bear the stamp *‘Col- onial” and there is a moving picture house in the Brass City by that*name. I.ate this morning, states the Wil- mington representative, Detective Ser- geant Bamforth, of the New Britain police, visited the work house five miles frcm the city where the two men ure incarcerated and he sub, ed Montvid to a rigorous question, during which he mezde the admission that he was in New Britain on the night of February 8. At press time Melba had not ben examined Priest Wore No. 7 Hat. The hat which Melba wore when arrested and which Sergeant Bam- forth identified as the property of the dead priest is size seven and w Boston. While it is not positively known if Father Zebris made a prad of the dun | ect- | Everything Points to These Men As Slayers of Pr;'est Wilmington of the police murderers and forwarded to the Herald have been positively identified the features of two . men who lived on Arch strect frem January 20 until a short time after the Zcbris-Gilmanaitis murder. Chas. Dehm, the Arch street saloonkeeper, who was shown the photos, was positive .that they were the men who traded with him up on several occasions, One of the men has admitted that he was in this city upon the day in question. The pi¢ture in the oval is that of Montvid, alias Morag, and in the square, Melba, alias Krakas. Montvid objected to having his picture taken and owing to his partial success in averting his face the likeness is not-as good as that of Montvid. The above pictures, taken in tise of buyng his clothes in Boston ; posed to have exhibited some photo- is known that he had wisited there { graphs to the state’s attorney which several times. The size of the hat he 1 he aid to have received from the wore is said to have been number sev- | Wilmington police. Again today the en: i chief went to Hartford where he is Chief W. J. Rawlings of the local | Said to have been in conference with police department is known to have | State’s Attorney Alcorn and Super- visited State’s Attorney Hugh M. Al. | intendent Egan of the state police. corn at his office in Hartford yester- Dehm Identifies' Pictures. day {\nd had a long talk with him con- Charles F. Dehm, the Arch cerning the murder. He is also sup- | liquor dealer, examined the STOCH QUOTATION BiLL KILLED BY SENATE [N ;gr:lphs of Montvid 'and Melba at ths { Herald office this afternoon and at { once identified them positively as | pictures of the two picious men | who boarded in the back room of a boarding house at 330 h t s street during the two weeks previous to the murder of ‘the prlest and his hous keeper. Mr, Dehm said “There street photo- I (Continued Eleventh Page.) GERMANY ALONE AVOIDS GENERAL MORATORUM Credit Has Stood Test of War Better—Than That of Allies. on TOWNE RETIRES AS HEAD OF COMPANY Walter G. Allen Chesen President of House Forbids “Third De-| gree” Except With Hab-- itual Cnmmals. Hartford, March 11.—The Yale and Towne Concern at Meet- ing Held Yesterday. March 11—The reti . Towne, for fort ident of the Yale and Towne company, and the choice of { Walter G. Allen, the vice president, ¢ A ; : was made public today. Mr. Allen has | Berlin, March 11, killed the bill which would have com- | been with the company for twenty- | p. M.—The pelled telegrapi companies to fur-| three years and he started at the bol- | .01 Giderable space to the speech nish stock quotations to brokers. | tom. Mr. Towne's retirement is duc it st Piparial ¢ ; to advancing vears. The meeting at 3 Senator ell st ill was uncon- : 3 b gy i Bl pLad e 1 2 which the changes were made took Karl Helfferich, Senator Hewitt, who put | 1500 yesterday afternoon. | aay the budget: 4n - the in the bill, said that the matter When Mr. Towne became head of | Reichstag; and it is evident that his of national interest and the hearing | the plant about 100 men were em- : presentation of the financial situstion 2 ployed. Thé company had a capital @ is attracting favorable attention. had de\elo.\uli lh(,“ there was a mo 6530.00,000 70X, veiR sroinently 5,000 S neelS ER e nopoly in the furnishing of stock quo- { men were employed, and the capital | i DStiEY inan hak daat tations. He had a roll call on the | now is $10,000,000. - reat Britain or France,” Dr. Helffer- question of rejection and the senators | At the "W‘U;m .\'01“‘“““\3 other ich declared. “Germany alone o supported M. Hlewitt were Pisrs | JISSISVELS re-clacted, avoided a general moratorium. son, Tuttle, Peasely and O’Connell. French rentes have fallen 12 to 1 Bills increasing the staff of the gov- ; hd English consols about 7 points, ernor by four off: s detailed from while Ge ,-m,m.;; ,,m.:‘.[.m:; have | the line of the national guard, repeal- only points since the ing the prohibition against shad fish- ! gan | ing in the Connecticut river, giving towns the right to appeal to the pub- lic utilities commssion for a remedy from damage from electroly each adopted, the last named bill car- rying an amendment providing a fine $1,000 if a public service corpora- | the order of the Stamford, ment of Hen siX years pre aenole Via London, Berlin papers teday give with which the secretary Dr. submitted treasury, yester- stitutional, was the of- has MRS. FLORE! Take Every Marriage MAYO Legal Step to Manufacture March 11 of this wife £ 5 1-2 war be- To Prove to P Florence Weeks Mayo, who claims to be the ginius J. Mayo, of New whose marital affairs were through the suicide of his stenogra- pher, 1id today that her attorney would take eve ep necessary to prove th: married to Mayo on N at Bingham- | ton, N. Accordir to a record made public here purporting to con- tain the details of the Binghamton 3 2 wedding, it was MAyvo second mar- ’.“'“‘ e the interruption riage, he being 31 y A the | foreign trade and the fact that v m.:;lu\ balance ‘l».; ad could not Seawe, woush 4‘w ected. I sh ridicule of RIEHE denid ey “:.l",“ ation exchange et e grown rarer, speaker decl sterling had I since the po s value for the purchas of made the of 'he Reichsbank.” the secretary the treasury continues, a far better showing than Bank of England or the Bank France. The Reichsbank has a gold reserve of 356 2-10 per cent its reulation and depos gures for the Bank 31 5-10, while for England -they are below The unfavorable condition of for eign exchange for Germany had noth- ing to do with the intrinsic monetary situation. Dr. Helfferich declared, but resulted entirely from technical Scranton, Irs. “has has city, of Vir- Haven, Conn., of Similar rance show Bank 30 per cent. ot revealed tion refuses to obey commission. The resolution for Spanish War vetera ! grounds was adopted as were in | coneurrence with the house Dill 'amending the charter of the Kingsley | 'rust Association at Yale, the re- | solution memorializing congress to | .pass an amendment prohibiting poly- | gamy and the fire balloon bill, the | last mentioned bearing an amendment | maling the fine $7 instead of $100, and the imprisonment thirty da; | Senator Isbell saving that offenders would be young boys. The Dbill ex- empts wholesalers and jobers of bal- loons. In the house from its calend were adopted bills forbidding the u of the “third degree” except with ha- bitual criminals, creating a police | commission in Milford and requiring physical examination of Milford’s | police officers, making a close season on wild ducks,etc., conform with the | natignal law, consolidating the build- | | ing *and loan commission with the bank commission. Senator Shafroth after the house had adjourned addressed some of the members who cared to linger, on the spread of the suffrage movement in | the western states. TO OPPOS h \Ill‘l I n. When the hearing on the applica- tion of Barney Miller for a liquor i- | cense on Main street is held tomorrow morning a remonstrance will be pre- sented from the New Britain Liquor | Dealers’ association Kirkham & | coula l(‘or)per represent the remonstrants. | shore. the « memorial to capitol a on the as of Ger- be the has red, s at counsel was ever his he last Germa mar- erman the nd & per cent. of of dollars. Germany CONVICTED O ARSON. Hartford, March 11.—Joseph koski of Bristol was today of arson two counts by the sentenced state B. Gager; | one to three years on one eount and | one year on the other. Frederick Stremel of Terryville. who turned | state’s evidence, tes ing that Cai koski agreed to pay him $50 for burn- ing his barh, was sent to jail for two terms of six months each. | *cording to the secretar | the treasury, has a better | ization for mobilizing her financial re- sources than have her enemies. organization for floating the present oan has been perfected. The post ffices, local magistrates, clergymen ind teachers have been enlisted to so- icit subscriptions. Germany is keeping Austria-Hungary and speaker said, with the { tending them financial | Germany and her allies have n con- | siderably lower war cost to meet the r | have their enemies, whose total daily expenditure amounts to almost $20,- 000,000, Cai- y of o convicted the jury criminal court and to | prison by Judge I. in touch Turkey, the view of ex- tance. with SCHHOONER IN DISTRESS, York, March 11.—A nasted schooner reported to ashore and in distress off the New Jersey coast opposite Little Egg har- bor rd Station, about mile Sandy Hook. Life s the station put out for the The identity of the schooner | not be ascertaised from the | | three- be ew wi WEATHER. witord., March ht and Friday: not much ¢hange in temperature. e e e coast th o gu o 1. —Fair ers at sel. 12:18, fallen | The BRTISH ADVANCE ' THREE-QUARTERS OF A MILE IN fRANCE[ vCap!urc Neuve- Chapelle From Ger- | mans and Take 1,000 Prisoners | and Severai Machine Guns. AllI[S REPRISAL MEASURES SIGNED BY KING GEORGE Germans Gather Large Torce Along | Prussian Border in Northern Poland | and Begin New Movement Against Przasnysz—Allied . Fleet Resumes Bombardments of Turkish Forts Along Dardanelles. FField Marshal Von | made another of the pected strokes which have marked his ; against the Russians, gath- Hindenburg has | swift and unex- | i campaign cring a large force along the Prus- | northern Poland, he south- an border in as begun movement intending to a new ward, apparently at Przasn) recently met general important battle has of this move- it been again mans the their retirement An as | preceded | the north. result of which, yet developed a ! ment, the result is said, lin Petrograd, has not in- ated. With the diminution of activity the western battle front The German mili- that the al- complete defeat undertaking Be pres- fight- along where almos condi- lull di in Champagne, has grown quieter. tary authorities assert lies have suffered a in Champagne after offensive movement believed in to have been designed to relieve sure on the itu Desultory ling continues in but the castern end of the line, | there have been active and | continuous battles, weather temporary | | tions have enforeed ans. Bel telgium, a Resumed. resumption mbardment 1at the tteries under Bombardment tell nelles b of vester- aris x,)mvu o Mr day h is said fire Turkish I pereeptibly attack during the en- of the slackened gagement. Despatches from News Washington the German auxiliary Eitel i‘riedrich, which vesterday in Hampton interned. both Newport indicate that cruiser Prinz took refuge Roa will be nd | British Forces Advance, i London, March 11, Pritish forces in France advanced three-quarters of a mile yesterday, | capturing all the intervening po: of the enemy, according to an annou given out today Britishh Captare Neuve Chapelle. March 11, 11:56 nder of the fire of French artlllery British troops capturcd Neuve Chapelle, three one-hali to the north of Ba This suce 1,000 chine side ed e it 4:40 p, ions official cement in London, a. m.o— heavy have and La- 1 cover miles ess in prisoners guns malkes ble advance ‘luding and it the most con of the allies report. | from the north of France for moriths past If made in force s strategically of great importiance, the position commands the between L. and Lille. IPurther- raore, it makes the German hold La Bissee insecure, and gives a for operations the straightening | of the allied in front of Lille ! This advance unexpected, a< | lately the principal activity fro mthe British front h the dircction other lin The of now g by Smith-Dorrien the taking = of several mg sev- road | Basse hase for lincs was reported | heen a ritish the further- General last October s in the are e within point L. with to gain LaB: ay Vpres two mil when one army IFourn 1ssee W far to the northeast but after Htremendo tire. corp: on the Lille Abuers, two miles of Neuve Chapelle, fighting against | forced to in an e road be he fort tween and forced his ad desperate odds, was re Favorable for Germans, despatches reaching here | rlin repost the failure of the | an attempt to break through the ierman lines at Augustowo, while the battle of Ostrolenka continues. According to this information, which is from official sources, the fighting to the northwest and west of Przasnys is developing favorably for the Ger-) mans, ‘ The British admiralty continues si- lent concerning the operations in the | Dardanelles, but reports given out in France set forth that armored ships ated the narrows of the is not considered like- that the attack will land forces oceupy both | straits That such land veacy for this tasl report that a great he 1 the e almost ited by the pressed sides of iv indi IZleventh 1 1; (Continued on { German front | enemy and their heavy losses.” strike | where the Ger- | defeat which | in ‘ m.— | London | | arsued lei | & | nave VOUTIERS OBJECTIVE OF FRENCH FORCES = ! | Major Moraht Says French Campaign | in Champagne Closed With a Complete Defeat. Berlin, via London, March 11, m.—Major Moraht, military expert | the Tageblatt, explaining the sig of the French campaign ‘n which, he closed with A complete I"rench defeat ' de- clares the city of Vouziers (on the Aisne in &he Department of Ardennes) | was unquestionably the point which | the French sought to take. | “This city,” he says, “commands to | 1 great degree the northern entrance | to the Argonne and this distriet would have been evacuated h\ the Germans if the F'rench had taken'it, or else the there would have been forced into an angle toward the west, where it would have been exposed to .mm»lu both from the west and south “Another result would have been the \\unl(l'umg of pressure on Verdun, which the Germans then would have | been able to menace only from the east and southeast. To the material | aspects of the victory must be added | the physical and moral effect on the a of nificance Champagne, says, QUESTION OF THAW'S SANITY RULED OUT| Justice Page Declares Issue | Is Improper in Conspir- acy Case. New York, March 11.—Harry K. | Thaw’s attempts to get evidence con- Neutrality man Orul Be Permi as Would Under Supg Naval Aw Washingtos lowing statem White House “The Presl garding the sailing ship auxi | Friedrich, sal “'A most German made and wh will be based inquiry.’ " cerning ‘his sanity into the record of his trial for conspiring to escape from Matteawan failed today Justice Page ruled out all testimony of this character except just enough to show that Thaw had the mental ca- | pacity to enter in a conspiracy with his five co-defendants to escape. TIn his ruling, Justice Page asserted that the injection of testimony designed to prove the sanity of Thaw was improp- er which was purely to try an indictment charging the exist- ence of an illegal conspiracy to affect the escape of Thaw. The state byought its case close this forenoon and the immediately made the usual to dismiss the indictment in this case, | to a defense motions on_the | | prove its contentions. The motions were all denied. Later a motion was made by the defense in behalf of Mi chael O'Keefe on the ground that no evidence had been adduced to con- neet him with the alleged crime. Jus- | tice Page granted the motion and dis- charged O'Keefc Thaw was still and shawl when today. i It was learned | opened, that John we he ring ame a sweater into court today, W when court Anhut, the | Sing for trying to bribe the superin | tendent of the Matteawan hospital and who was brought down to testify in | this case, had been taken back to Os | sinning, Justice Page, having ruled | out a question regarding the attempt- | | ed bribery, the prosecution decided not to attempt to have Anhut testily The first witness was John R. Ran- | kin_of Kast Rochester, N. H. He cor roborated testimony given yosterc [ by his daughter, Hazel Rankin, | garding the arrival of Thaw at | Rochester, and the placing of the au- tomobile in a barn there | | Jernard Kelsey, a deputy sheriff of | Colebrook, N. H., told of meeting Thaw on a train which passed through Rochester, N. H. Thaw admitted his identity and asked who the torneys were in that part Hampshire, Thaw said he to go to Pittsburg. Roger Thompson witness said. Kelsey constable Walter Drew, notified he zeen Thaw, and how he and Drew chased Thaw into Canada Upon their arrival at Coaticook the sheriffs located Thaw hi | best of was | the New trying | | was with told Thaw the ow got him I he and caused arrest On cross examination the said Thaw made no effort his identity. When Ths back to Colebrook, by the witness had in the same for about Thaw on always witness to conceal brought his deporta AW Was after anadian him in charge room and ate Ht ta a number of subje tion - authorities, the He slept with him ed with ts. Thuw the wit was well a week 1k was neatly e on W Thaw prosecution Immeaia and was sustained. The jury then excused while the attorneys upon the admission of lay tes. regarding the santir of Thaw the jury had retired Justice | he had admitted just much testimony regarding Thaw's anity as would show that he was | capable of entering into a conspiracy., | He did not sce, he said, how the ques ticn of Thaw’. anity or insanity en- tered into the case. In arguing for the admission of all timony regarding the canity of Thaw, John Stanchfield said it was the idca of Th he escaped, that it he could not get away from the asylum he might by association be- come insane. * Further being sane, Thaw, considered he had right to N any manner possible, M. | nchfield said, adding that “the | ape no crime . Py 1id the been effected Aresse T subjects ness said informed Kelsey thought The ected thought a1 ™ w asked wa whether he rational sly ob timony When Page sald e W, when | Ve Justice 2 release shoulq | according to law l ground that e state had failed to | | Thaw lawyer, serying a term in Sing | The neut | report, which | mends that be permitted | would make | supervision thorities, if | German ship Chare: The Britis| to have bee | prizes, sunk | November, property of | New York, New York t at the time | Omcial Oficial Wi | the sinking | that the ves | for Queenste | as contrab ship was officials ast its faoe hol unfriendly as | diplomatic @ | If the de | | considered underetood |ably would amends as | owner: i | officers are | the Unitea |and ner ca | ceedings to | property. 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