New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 23, 1916, Page 1

HERALD BEST OF ALL LOCAL NEWSPAPERS NEW BRITAIN HERALD! HéRXLD “ADS” MEAN BETTER BUSINESS PRICE THREE CENTS. NEW BRITAIN CONNECTICUT, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1916 —TWELVE PAGES. ESTABLISHED "NARGOTIC DRUG LAW VIOLATORS IN COURT \»Jleavy Fines Meted Out by Judge Edwin §. Thomas Today THREATENS ~ JAIL TERMS Post Office Off Also Assessed For ials Not Conforming to Regulations Re- Ac- Keepi of Their garding counts. New Haven, ¥Feb. .—The search of federal agents for violators of the nar- cotic drug laws has had results which were evident in the United States d Trict court today. Several physicians and druggists were fined for failure to register their sales or for carlessness in keeping records of sheir prescrip- tions for narcotic drugs. After Clar- ence F. Hotchl a druggist of Derby had been fined $75 and costs for fail- ure to properly record transactions, Judge B S. Thomas said he desired it .to be understiod that persons convict- ed “wer playing with fire if they dis- regarded the warning.” He said that there would be jail sentences for sec- ond convictions. United States Attor- ney Spellacy recommended a fine of £100 but counsel for Hotchkiss made awDlea for his client and the amount was made a smaller figure Waterville Doctor Fined $100. Dr. Joseph S. Holroyd, a physician of Waterville, was charged with failure to keep records of sales of narcotic | drugs after properly purchasing the name. Holroyd said he had been careless. Mr. Spellacy said that in some measure this might have been due to the defendant’s habits. A fine | of $100 and costs was given and the warning of a jail sentence repeated. Wanted “to Explain.” Dr- A. S. Gale, a veterinary surgeon of Hartford, who appeared to be near- Jy blind when he was in the court room, was led to the bar. Mr. Spel- lacy explained that Gale had used con- siderable drugs and had failed to keep records, saying that he claimed to have uged these in colic cures while the government believed that he had dis- pensed it to habitual users. Clark Pickett had difficulty in getting Gale to say whether- he was guilty or not guilty as he wished “to explain™ Ow- ing to his age and limited practice Mr- | Spellacy recommended a $1 fine and reprimand by the court and Judge Thomas imposed this. Used Dope Himsclf. Dr. Edward E. Rowell, of Stam- | ford, a widely known physician, was | charged with giving away narcotic tablets which had been obtained on preseriptions in other persons names. Dr. Rowell declared that he had never dispensed the drugs, but in his office he might have given patients a tablet. #Tis own failure to record disposition of tablets was due to the fact that since an operation had been per- formed on him he occasionally used a | narcotic to ease agonizing pain. The court gave a fine of $50. Refilled Prescriptions. Frank Smith, manager of a drug company at Willimantie, was charged with refilling a preseription for nar- Potics in violation of the law. He was fined $50 after the court had re- minded him that a small fine was not to be mistaken for leniency. A. L. Embrey, a druggist of Stam- rd, who is said to have filled pre- criptions for Dr. Rowell, was fined $50 for failure to record sales. coder Federoff, who altered naturalization first paper in order to get a position in Bridgeport and who has been in jail for three months, was fined $50 without costs. Marion Postmaster Fined. Herbert W. Neal postmaster at Ma- rion in Southington was fined $50 for Violation of the postal laws in that he deposited $75 of postal funds to his ewn account one day intending to send a check to Hartford the next day to balance his funds. The postal inspec- tor dropped in that day and found the money had been wrongly deposited. Neal told the court thas he never had stolen a dollar or had any intent to embezzle. He simply deposited with his own funds money that should have been kept separate although it was only for an overnight period. Husband and Wife Fined. Maria and Myron W. Tucker who keep the post office in Middlefield in their home the wife being postmis- tress were charged the latter with se- curing $439.32 by overcancellations in a two year period and the husband with embezzlement of postal funds in ‘that he used postal orders his wife is- sutad to pa balancing the account menthly with hiz own money. Mr Tucker today made good the mwone) verdrawn on cancellation accounts. Tucker said he did not realize that borrowing postal funds was Wrong when the accounts were properly bal- anced at the end of the month. Mrs. Tucker said she did not know that in drawing her salary througlh cancella stlogs she had made excesdive claim: Spells id he could not under- nd why the couple had done this ¢« both had bank a ounts and prop- erty. Fines of $200 each were given ' Myra J. Bushnell for 19 years post- mistress at Westbrook was charged with embezzling $358.07 although the shortage had been made good. Bonds- men sent a letter in her behalf sug- et thot if there a shortage it his (Continued On Eleventh Page.) | At the request of ¢ [ TWO CHILDREN ARE VERCOME BY GAS Use of Pulmotor Saves Lives of Little | Folks on Hartford Avenue Today, The seven month’s old baby of Mr. and Mrs. James Murphy of 226 Hart- ford avenue and the five ‘years old Nettie M. Gordon of > Hartford avenue were almost suf- focated by illuminating gas this morn- ing and their lives were saved only by the heroic measures of Dr. J. L, Kelly and the efficient use of the fire depart- ment pulmotor by Chief R, M. Dame. The family of Patrick J. Dixon was moving out of the tenement at 223 Hartford avenue when Edward Pitney, a Gas company employe, came to read the meter. Seeing the famliy was moving out he disconnected the meter and after a short argument over a slug found therein he left. The Gas com- pany officials assert that the gas was shut off by a stop-cock. Mrs. Carl Noe, grandmother of the Murphy child, was caring for the baby and the Gordon girl and when she entered the room after a short ab- sence she found both lying uncon- ious on the floor. Investigation showed that the stop-cock on the gas daughter of Mr: | | | | | one not in their employ in trying to detach a length of lead pipe from the shut off accidentally turned on the| flow. Both children have entirely recov- ed. MILITARY TRAINING AT WESLEYAN PLANNED Appoints Alumni Council Committee to Develop- Volunteer Service. Feb. council Middletown, —The Waes- leyan Alumni at a meeting held here yesterday appointed a com- mittee consisting of Judge B. L. SLEUTH CHUMS WITH HARTFORD AVE. GANG Poses as Tough Character and Gets Evidence Against Colley LEARNS 0F HOUSE WRECKING Clever Work By State Policeman Re- \ sults in Conviction—Gypsies Tined $50 For Telling Fortunes—Charity Department Aids Polic John Coffey, Jr., was sent to jail for thirty days by Judge James T. Meskiil: in police court this moning when Thomas A. Mitchell, a member of the state police, testifieq that after Hen- ry Emmett's home cn Elm street had been partially wreckea by gangsters on the morning of June 6 he came to this city to wark on the case. He cured empleyment in local factories, made friends with members of the Hartford avenue gang and finally, aft- er he had been accepted as one of the bunch, succeeded in getting a conres- Henry Emmett testified that short- ly after 12 o'clock on the morning of date of the house wrecking. State Policeman Gets Confession. Steele, 94, of Hartford, W. D. Leon- ard, ’78, and F. W. Frosat, '94, of New | | York, and E. M. Eustis, '14, of Mid- develop the plan of vol- aining at Wesleyan ptain W. H. Hin dletown to untary military t of Company €, F Infantry, C. ; G., of Middletown, Adjutant General | Cole has authorized the use of the armory and guns of Company C by a company of Wesleyan volunteers, 100 | of whom are already enrolled for | signal corps, machine gun and in- | fantry drill. | The council voted to raise a Lewis | . Gordon memorial fund in honor of | Major Lewis E. Gordon, '94, of Hart- ford, recently deceased. Mr. Gordon was one of the best full backs of the college period when he played on the Wesleyan eleven, and was one of the most popular among the alumni. For 15 years he represented the alumni on the athletic council and for three | vears was a member of the univer- sity board of trustees. WROY WITH CLEVELAND Former American Secretary and Red Sox Magnate Going With the Naps. Chicggo, Feb. 23.—Following the meeting next Saturday which will wind up the affairs of the Federal league, players still controlled by the league will be offered for salt. Bidding for Gene Packard, left handed pitcher promises to be keen. In connection with the transfer of the Cleveland Americans to J. C. Dunn and his associates, it is said that Rob- ‘ert McRoy, formerly the American league secretary and later part own- er of the Boston Red S0, is to be al- lowea to purchase a small block of the Cleveland stock and will be made sec- retary of the club. O’DELL LEFT $44,016. Estate of Park Street Man is Mostly ‘mon'h. 0Old Emmett put the police and the state bulls on the case but I fooled them both.” Lawyer Mangan cross examined the sleuth closely. He asked him why, if he was a member of the state po- lice, he did not arrest Coffey at the time of the confession and if the | house wrecking was the only thing Coffey talked about. State Police- man Mitchell replied that he had no authority to arrest Coffey at the time and he reported to Superintendent | Egan the following day. He also de- clared that Coffey had talked freely of “his gang” and of a girl, but Judge Meskill refused to admit the conver- sation about the girl. Coffey Denies Everything. Called to the stand in his own de- { vestment GETS FREE ROOM IF HE DOESN'T MARRY ~ IN MILFORD CRASH Rev. J. W. i)emon Gives Graphic | Account of Train Disaster WERE ABOARD THE LOCAL ‘Will of Mrs. Commelly Provides for Her Son If He Remains Single—Two Sons’ Allowance Cut. The will of the late Mrs. Margarct s filed in the probate court today. The will, which was drawn on June 1910, and witnessed by B. W. Alling, Patrick Hehir and F. B. Hun- gerford, left the residue of the estate Connelly wa of the deceased, hoth real and per. sonal, to her husband, Martin Con- . ' g i nelly, ;and in the event of his deatn | Train Left New Haven Minute After the remainder of the estate would press and Was Going 10 Miles an divided as follows: To Michael F. | Connelly, $1,000% to Martin C. Con- Brakes Were Applicd nelly, $200; to Patrick Connelly, $50; | to Sarah Connelly, $300, and a piano, | M- Denton Bruised. and the remainder, consisting of land | ., =t and bulldings at 375-377 Pack strees, | Rev. J. William Denton, pastor of to Mary A. and Elizabeth A. Con. | the¢ Plainville —Advent Christian nelly. The testator named Marthy | °hUrch, Who with three other Plain- Connelly: executor without bond, and | Ville beople, was a passenger on the bequeathed to Michael I. Conmelly tne | New Haven local which crashed with ; such disastrous results into the New life use of the home without charg providing that he remained single. On July 6, 1914, a codoeil w drawn by Judge G. W. Klett and wic- | nessed by F. B. Hungerford, Daniel J. Commane and Fred Winkle revoking | the legacy of $200 to Martin and $50 to Patrick Connelly and bequeathing the sum of $10 to each. The testatoi York bound Springfield express at Mil- ford yesterday, tells a graphic stor of the wreck. Mr. Denton was slight- ly injured when the crash came, re- ceiving a heavy blow on the nose and a bruised shin. His companions were Mrs. . Wheeler of 38 Broad street Plainville, Mrs. Edward L. Swift of 20 Church street, Plainville and Gur- pive was turned on almost full. sion from Coffey in which the latter | had at various times in life loaned | The Gas company cfficials deny “’_"; admitted wrecking the house’ The| money to the above sons, the codocii | don Hartsen of New Britain, the mail possibility of the cock being Ieft| .onfession was not given kmewingly, | read. | carrier in Plainville. turned on hy their employe, as intim- | however, and was told by the accused| A change was also entered in the | The four were delegates to a Sun- ated by neighbors, and state that| g, nis supposed friend Mitchell in a | paragraph which gave Michael F. |day $chool convention in Bridgeport their version of the affair is that Some | <uinit of bravado. Connelly the use of the home on Park | and boarded the Springfield express at The train was then twenty late. At New Haven the street to read ‘‘use of room if he re- mains single.” | Meriden. | minutes June' 6 o stone wasthurlag through The report of the executor, filed | party changed to the local which left one of the front windows of his house | Monday, has been approved by the | that city about a minute after the smashing the glass and ripping a h(,lei probate court. | express, but on another track. At through the window shade. Benny A (Rcodmon ERC e e R T e oy T Katz, of 89 Hartford avenue testified | { to the local track and then ame to that he was passing Paradise uark at | fiERMANY flPP"SE" Tl] | a stop because of a broken air brake. the time and saw Coffey throw the i Hurled Into Seats. Z:)n‘e't:::]rsznfl; tthhr(;‘r\:gzofi;xvn:ngu{n\n\liq | _In telling of the accident tod prevented by a rfiend. Officer Patricks PP M e e ¢ by Lol < | erroneous statements which have ap- EO‘-‘ lr(\y said he saw Coffey go down | peared in the mmmers concerning the artford avenue after midnight on the ey | wreck. His party was in the third ar of the local and he declares that second before the crash came the Von Bernstorff Claims Vessel a of motion picture interests went to Albany today to at- tend a hearing by the codes commit- tee of the assembly on the motion pic- ture censorship bill. Tt is asserted that the delegates represented an in- aggregating $500,000,000 and an industry which employs 000 persons. It was announced here that a committee of 175 representa- of representatives es ¥ | gro porter and an unidentified man. | These with several others who had been killed were laid in a row to the south of the freight track. From the broken windows of the rear Pull- man injured passengers crawled and most of these were helped aboard the forward section of the express, which ! left for Bridgeport about ten minutes after the wreck. In the meantime a Boston train had reached the scene | ‘\',‘(; kl)f Fho,]‘ hibitors’ league of New | ¢~ Bridgeport and this train was York will attend the hearing in the | (i5)10q opposite the scene of disaster. interest of owners the hearingin the | yranyv of the injured were taken ture theaters in New York state. aboard this train and after an hour _John P. Holland, president of the | },54 elapsed it was backed to Bridge- New York IFFederation of Labor, and | port. eleven other officials of the federation, ¥ accompanied the moving picture men to present the arguments of the wor Saw Dead Flagman, One of the first sights which greet- the Plainville party when it left ed fense, Coffey calmly denied every- | ers in that industry. s o e boay oelaT thing that the state’s witnesses had | The bill provides for the establish- | (o8 “45 WA T08 POV 00 - (& OO | said. . “I wasn't even there,” he said, | ment of a board of censorshib of |1, rinly mangled by RN s | in refuting Katz's testimony, three members with power to exclude | 1pecal. = The local was traveling ,-‘,:;,f | “Did you ever see Mitchell before?” | all films regarded as sacrilegious, A0 e T eald A Dot e e when the wreck occurred and the im- 5 Eh S s 0% % R pact was terrific. ~ While he would it o SLeyenRihrowQthat futons, L. F. AND C. RE-ELECTS. not deny that the boiler of the local | i | | i | I in P "y, P rted. e also @k 1 k s i in Property. :‘i = ]“‘:)t:‘vm. 1"’”“:_‘:“‘“f"l’i‘;‘mg:“:}:n At the annual meeting of the stock- | had exploded as stated in many of the According to the appraisal filed (0- | {0 it admitted that he had heavd | 10lders of Landers, Frary and Clark | dispatches. Mr. Denton said his par- day in the proate court y Patrick 4. | (', iatd police were atter him. . Te | LIS afternoon the following directors |ty heard no explosion. The year Curtin and James T. Meskill, the 1ate | o1 o octaied that e Looe o warrans | ¥OT¢ re-elected; Charles . Smith, | Pullman they found across the track icha ) ft o v il . b SIS ant ! George M. Lande - . freig rai The Pla . |2 ,011.58. Mos g this sum Is | cpn ORS00 told his I : s party le e scene of the accident | represented by Park street property. : : ar about 2 o'clock and reached Bridge- e property at the cornes. of | 8nd his father had told him. Later | i SeaticATthur Gl ol o Lo PP 2 e Soe o | e i e e G o e SR ey s meaae | e stet b : 5 S o and said he simply heard that the po- | Tjoy- A s e L e e o " 5 at | ® | Tloyd. At a subsequent se o B R 302.306 Park street at $16,000 and a | NS house after him but had taken | as follov President and trs 1 Schappa, Brother of Gardes Seer . his father's word that he was not | Charles Smith; o e ZArCen ot in the rear of Park street at $2,- : . arles £ 5 wice presidents Strees Man A Victim. 200. Land and buildings at 145-147 | there. e said he has been living at | . A. Searle. A. G. Kimball ; lanle oivect are apnraied at $5.000 | home since December 1 and has | Joseph F. Lamb; assistant treasurors Tabhe of Falidanc st and a lot at Roxbury road and Weit. | Passed all the policemen on the force | J. Stanley and A. W. Kempton; S v ctims he : but was not arrested. e admitted | M. A. P pulfordawzeckivestendaygiiond edlost ington street, Belvidere, at $600. An- s : i fi M. A. Parsons. S elrotiio o 1 at 1 1 Ty .| that he called up Captain Thomas | — S— & v i L other lot at Islip, long Island is G iy 1 told ¥ | burr injuries he received, was valued at $200 and the stock and fi A g L L s s nily Tt o e ior e druniaore At 20kl e he would surrender if he could get o § Dforer of B : b ! 16 S i VEATHER. Garden street, this city. street at $3,890.57 and land and build- ~‘! bong. o Ssgac sateceon W. J. Sehappa is employed as o ihgs at 312 Pa str p 3 the streef. s St s SCHS S ings at 312 Park street at §3,000. | . Hartford, — Tor clerl: at the Dickinson Drug company Cash in bank totals $2,021.01 di Says Son Was Home. Tartford and vicini Prob- | and last evening received an urgenr | vided as follows: Society for Savin: John Coffey, Sr., father of the ac- ably rain or snow tonight and telephone call from New Haven, ap $874.38; Burritt Savings bank $547.55 | cused and a supernumerary policeman, Thursday: somewhat colder praising him of his brother's injuries and the Farmington Savings bani JEHT sday and closely approaching death. 599 { ~onti : . E closely & oaching deatl o $599.01. It (Continued On Ninth I’age.) e~~~ ~~ | it once left for New Haven Lafter the accident yesterds Light on “New Vice President Whaley Says Bleck Sig Locs Set Against nals We ashed Into Stalled Express Which ¢ Fireman of Latter ngineer and nd stioned by Coroner Mix Bel Qu Closed Doors, New Haven, Feb. 3—Official and formal inquiries into the wreck -7 4 two passenger trains on the New York, New Haven and Hartford rail- road in Milford yesterday, with the will begin tomorrow. closed loss of ten lives one behind and each will be is now doors so far as information given. The hearing to be conducted by the interstate commerce com- mission and at which the public util- commission and representatives of the railroad will sit, will begin at the offices of the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad here at 10 a. m. A request has been made for permission to have newspaper men present Engineer ities nd Fireman Quizzed. Railroad officials and members of the public utilities comm on con- PLAINVILLE PARTY |DEATH LIST REACHES TEN; TRAINS DISPATCHED WITH ONLY A MINUTE BETWEE Coroner, Public Utilities Commission a Interstate Commerce Commission Seek Haven” Wreck SIGNAL SYSTEM IS REPPORTED TO BE MOST UPTO DATE IN THE COUNTR <1 Resident of Ansonia Fearfully Cr and Not Expected to Live Thro the Day—Three Score Injured ing Taken Care of In Hospitals pPrivatec Homes—General Greel covering. —The ded the Feb, of Haven, the result collision of two passenger trains the New York, Haven and Hal ford railroad yesterdi |stooa at ten, this morning. Of md score of injured passengg who have been or are at D under medical observation at hoi tals in Bridgeport and New Ha) |and at hotels and private homes |both cities and Milford, only Fra McNamara, of Ansonia, who is in | Raphael's hospital here, is repo |to be in danger of death. McNami vras terribly crushed. It is feared will not live the day out. revised New list rear as New in Milford, {than thre tod The list of dead as follows: : |" Wwiliam R. Curtis, 30, Stamfo which caused engineer of train collision. Merrid who Tourtellette, L. 79 ducted separate informal inquiries to- day while Coroner Eli Mix held hi Then it was that the state delivered . air brakes were applied, but the col- e e i aston its coupe d'etat. State Policeman Must Remain As Cap' lision followed so clpsely that it was ‘ l]“‘]‘“” (nl‘:t;(dni’\‘?-n:"\u“,Sxi\ |l|\‘.‘m:m:\nw | Tromas A. Mitchel! was cailed to the . h | almost simultaneous! They, with the | at this time Mr. Mix had before stand. He sald he has worked with tured Prize. j other passengers were hurled into the | S el e Kernedy tand the state police for seven vears. He | seats ahead, but none v worse in- | mireman Charles Courtz, of train 79, said that he was assigned to the Em-| e ijnrcnl than Mr. Denton. A moment| (16 were on ground under the firse mett house wrecking case during the | Washington, Feb, 23 Formal rep- | Jater they had left the car and were | poneh of their train trying to locat latter part of June and by reference | oAt O TER ST W state | Walking forward to the scene of dis- i {rguble in the air hose from th to his diary he said he came fo this| * . i 987 | aster. ladtiic, mator to the coach, Neithor| city on June 29. He secured employ- | department today by the Germay | Aid Tn Rescuc Work. S dEfoisy Burt, Several Milford ment at the Stanley Works and later | embassy against the proceedings | Running parallel and in the G hol\rork armbiy the Atet bh el went te work at Traut & Hine's. He|brought in the federal courts at | direction as the passenger trair cone after the crash were also wit- aints o “Mick tyan, o es )ecame involvec » wreck when | ignals Set Against No. 5. Scott and “Pat” Dixon and said that|liner Appam to her owners [lEste i niaratai e fe ot L i | Dixon eventually introduced’ him to| In note presented by Count Von e e s e m,m_} The day’'s developments as to & | Coffey as a supposed frien | Bernstorer ‘he German mu:.,m\ium. ima st e Ce R S _‘p;n{w ”I’ the ‘»(,“,,l‘;,.\ \\,;.7\\‘1(*\\ K he On the night of Jul, Siatcipony s sontendod Abnt AR anyepreceads & aihioe tolih tieht e [maiivoadl companyithrough! ViceSPress loeman Mitonell eaid lre met Goffey in |25 well as the terms of the Prussian- S ”l‘)h‘ ""']"_‘“ 1;::»‘)\ “:_h“,\“*:”“';‘ | ident Whaley, issued a statement to Heym's saloon on Hartford avenue. He [ 1 merican ireaty, provide that no i (SICEADE Pole which brevented it | ¢, cfrect that the signals in the Mil- | remained in the saloon with Coffey, |lcgal action can lic against the Ap- | oW Dk i B0 bank.® Mr. | "% 100k were properly set against Dixon, Scott and Ryan until after 10| 5am, held by a German crew as a [ cnron and Mr. Hartsen immediately | ;. in No, 5, and that the brakes on D Dt e avening he played | Drize of war, nor against Licut. Bers, 11\;;:.}.\ a hand in the rescue work which | e S0 SOG FEC 0 e’ No pool and cards and had a “very few” | her commander. It is also contended | Pe8an as soon as the uninjured pas- | .oforence is made to the condition of drinks. Asked what he termed a|that inasmuch as Lieut. Berg has j SCEers were able to gather their wits. | )" prakes on the engine of this “very few dmnks,” the detective told | extra-territorial rights, no legal ac- They found the engineer and fire- | 4,4 Lawyer W, I Mangan, counsel for|tion can lie against him. man of the local to the right of the The death list stands at ten. Thé Goffey, that he had but cne or two. He| The note suggests that when the | Wrecked locomotive. Both were dead, | o4y of Engineer W. R. Curtis was generally took a cigar when it came|case comes up in court March 3, | the engineer having the top of his | xen to his home in Stamford. Per- time to drink again, he said. Finally | that the state department inform the head cut clean of They aided in | jssion had been given by medical e anaged to et Coffey to talking | court of the terms of the treaty. carrying them across the tracks where | axaminers for removal of other about the prowess of his gang and | SR the bodies were laid. Here the men | qgjes for purpose of burial. ebout 10 oelock that might the ac-| (IPNCORCUTD POR MOVIES | were fgund by a party of newspaper- | A statement on the wreck issucd | cusea openly confessed tha¢ it was he | | men and this gave rise to the story | today by A. R. Whaley, vice presi- who threw the stone through Tm-| R, | that the engineer and fireman had | gent in charge of operation says that mett’s window. Referring to his not i | been threwn with the boiler of the | i} signals were properly set to pre- ook, the detective said the confes- | Delegates to Hearing at Albany Today | cngine Ilf]n'uup,h the freight tradn. g | vent the wreck ana that the brakes si ri wn within an hour of S A half dozen freight cars, several of | on train No. 5, which rammed the ex- :;:en ‘;\r:eu;: (:Sc\eli]ved"in \was as fol-| Represent Investments of $500,000,- | them of steel, were heaped in the | ;‘;f“‘w were in proper working order o G610 st AN e middle of the wreck and under one |Inspectors of the interstate com “John Coffey told me he wrecked of them they saw a man and WOmen | merce of Connecticut. the statement old Emmett’s house with a stone last| New York, Feb. 23.—A delegation | dead. ~ They they were unable to are now making an investigation reach. Nearby lay the bodies of a ne- | The statement follows Official Statement. engineer, foreman modern) H. Morrison, signal and G. W. Campbell, signal yeport the signals (the mo: lieen properly set to prevent the ac- cident. Mr. Campbell was on train 5, which crashed into No. 79 and made immediate investigation to that effect and was later joined by Mr. | Morrison. “Chief Inspector spector Howard of the interstate | commerce commission, and Commis sioner Elwell and others of the pub- lic utilities commission of Connecti- cut, together with the operating, me- chanical officers of the New Haven are making an investigation as to the cause of the accident. Belknap and In- “The Tear end car on train 79, which No. 5, in charge of Engineer Curtis Tan into was one of the very latest and had most modern steel | cars. | ‘Investigation shows that the | brakes on train No. 5 were in proper | working order. : “Engineer Curtis took charge of | the train when it was made up at| New Haven and had run ten miles. | The grade was slightly descending, ! 1ot more than half of one per cent. | “Flagman Tourtellotte of train No. | ' had gone 'k seven hundred | feet from his train to warn No. 5 and was evidently killed he was stop- ping to place torpedoes on the trac “Engineer Curtis had been engineer on the road seven years with a very fine Tecord. He a clean living upright man, w “Fireman McGinness of train No. 5, Ilngineer Curtis' associate, had just passed his examinations to be an en- gineer and was shortly to be pro raoted. He also was 2 good man in every particular Thé statement says S0 that all 1 local trains today fre running on time except two, these two be f frem ten to twenty minutes late four tracks are now open but it is (Continued On Eleventh Page.) | ' for of train | Ma , flagman {1un back to flag No. | Charles E. Allen, man of Groton, Foughkeepsie, N. Y. 4 | Miss Susan B. Hyland, New Hawi iemployed in the railroad office he | Patrick Connor, 143rd street, York city, died at hospital dward McGinpis, fireman on, traveling sall with offices Joseph J. Frye, Springfield, po |of last Pullman on train 79, died$ | lospital. Harry Schappa, New Haven, di from s d in h ital Railroad employe, thought to bé fireman named Werner, who wi dead-heading to E port ! Man aged about 45, thought to Hovhannassian, an A probably a deal reason of letl faddros De: renian merchant, in precious stones (in his pocket Coroner Mix Starts Inquest. inquest into the cause of M was opened in a prelimina way by Coroner Mix this mornin iWhether or not the coroner’s inguf !will be open to the public has g been decided. In previous Wré stigations by Mr. Mix the do been closed, notably that ing wreck at North Haven on 8¢ 2, 1913, when twenty I hat wreck now the New Haven road accident in which a pi his her life, on since that tig the Westpo bad disasters o line in Fairfigl inquired into by | | An wreck jvet inv Ihave |the | tember were lost. fcalled as | rnot had senger end of the On the other | Stamford other {that section of the county were publicly Coroner Phelan of Bridgeport, Other Be Held. At the inquiry today Chief Insp r Trumbull of the public utili comm jon sat with Coroner The commission was representedi s the scene of the wreck yesterday Ccmmissioner Charles C. Elwell, 16 an lo: system hand and bid Probes to merly a railroad official and lak chief inspector of the commission whose duty it was to investigate T series of wrecks dating from June well, a pre examin most 1911 to September 1913. Mr the commission opened liminary inquiry last night, ing a number of witnesse them railroad men The comm could not resume today it had hearing previously scheduled but £og morrow the commission will sit 8 this city and a member of tife inkes state commerce commission and railroad official be present at thi hearing, Word came from Washings ton that a federal probe into the dis4 aster will be opened. This W the, procedure in inquiry into previous in this section F Fog Hinders Wreckers, of the about o will v recks wreck near Indig river bridge half mile eg of the station in Milford, had faiel well cleared up this morning, On thi wreckage remains The place embankment much and this will disappear slowly as @ heavy fog obscured the tracks thi morning, hindering work and delay= ing tratic on the line in both diregs tions Aside from an interview given @ by President Howard Elliott at a 18 hour last night, no statement hearil upon the wreck and its causes has S8l been issued by the railroad. A list the dead and injured revised was given out but this had been practi Iy covered by individual reports from hospitals and the undertakers Local Minute Behind Express. A report on the ru g time of the Lrains was also issued showing that train 79, which had come inte (Continued On Eleventh Page.)