New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 7, 1916, Page 5

NEW, BRITAIN DALY HERALD, FRIDAY, APRIL 7, MEN, 1916. DRESS UP April 10th to April 16th WOMEN AND CHILDREN THE MERCHANTS OF NEW BRITAIN ARE READY FOR YOU WITH STORES Everybody is IN on this. FULL OF NEW SPRING MERCHANDISE Every human being in this community must do something, be it little or greattowards “Dressing Up” during the coming Week Be Good to Yourself Go To It Dress Up The Sky Is The L.imit! WHOLESALE RAIDS TO BEGIN WORK ON NEW MAIN ST BLOCK N Y. Deteotwes Posed Among Gamblers as Men of Wealth New York, April 7. than 700 race track bettors, crap shooters and stuss players were put to flight yesterday afternoon in seven gamb- Ifitg house raids by Lieutenant Costi- gan of Police Headquarters, members of his staff and fifty “rookies” from the Police Department Training school. » The raids, which netted thirty- seven prisoners, were accompanied by the crashing of doors with axes end the holding up of gamblers with wevolvers. _ Twenty-three of sixty warrants issued by Chief Magistrate McAdoo before the raids were not served, as the men named in them got away. Acting under orders of Police Com- missioner Woods, Lieutenant Costi- gan, who for six weeks has had men fnvestigating the operations of pool tooms in the downtown and Harlem gections of the borough, assembled ghortly after 3 p. m. fifty young policemen in his office. He had ar- ranged to have detectives, who had pbtained evidence against the places to be raided, to mingle with the gamblers at 4 o'clock, the time set for the service of the warrants. .« Posed as Rich Contractors. Posing as wealthy contractors who had a sure system of “beating the pool rooms ix of Costigan's men gained the confidence of a group of New Jersey ironworkers and a ward leader in Jersey City to such an ex- tent that they had entrance to six pool rooms and a telephone betting place. The New Jersey patrons of ese houses were led to believe that hey would share in more than $100.- 000 by playing the system outlined to them by the detectives. As the time approached for the raids five police automobiles, cap- tained by Detectives Horton, McGlynn Roos, Hickson and Chrystie, started for the various place under suspicion. Costigan and several de- tectives in a touring car preceded the rty, stopping long enough to super- tend the detalls of the work At No. 102 Fulton street, on fifth floor, the raider 'stopped in front of an office bearing the name of “John Miller.” Two blows with an axe broke open the main door fifty men inside were surprised by the detectives, who, with their re- volvers drawn, told them to stand in their places, while seven men for <s/hom warrants had been issued were identified. A quantity of racing sheets were seized. the and | Streets To Be Auto Excl hange Building. Attorney George LeWitt has com- pleted all plans for the erection of his new busine: house at the corner of Elm and XMain streets. He intends to begin rthe work of razing the old Stanley house, situated there, about May 1 and will begin digging the cellar for the new block at the same time, Completed plans of the new block show it to be a three story affair of | brick, with the first floor of limestone There will be five stores on the Main street side and three on the Elm street side. There will be a dozen apart- ments upstai This block is to be known as the Auto k> ing al\ri will cost in the neighborhood of $75,000. With good working weather and a prompt delivery of materials, Mr. Le- Witt expects to have the structure completed and ready for occupancy within four months of the tims work is started. CONTINENTAL ARMY SCHEME IS UPHELD On Close Vote in Senate Lec Amend- ment to Kill It Is Beaten. Washington, April 7—By a vote of to 36 the Senate late yesterday after five days of debate, refused to | ! strike from the army reorganization | | 34 | bill the section authorizing the pres- ident to organize a volunteer army analogous to the Continental army commended by President Wilson and Secretary Garrison. This vote, which came on an amendment offer- |ed by Mr. Lee of Maryland to strike out the volunteer scction, cut across all party and factional lines, though | it was noteworthy that twenty-four of the thirty-four votes hostile to the volunteer force came from | ocrats. Only ten republicans voted to the volunteer section of the bill, { enteen republicans voted to save it, while nineteen democrats did like- wise. The progressive republica were almost equally divided, four voting to strike the section out, while | three—including Mr. Poindexter of Washington, who is a Roosevelt pro- sressive—voted to preserve it. The final vote suggested that the fear of the formation of negro volunteer regiments had its weight with twen- ty democrats voting to kill the sec- tion were from the south. Fourteen regular republicans voted for the sec- tion recommended by the president and only six voted against it. kill 5 block and apartment hange Build- | ; Cameron went there when the dem- | HEART BREAK LIFTS HER HEAVY BURDEN Wile of Comvict Tried to Live Down Friends’ Sneers Syracuse, N. Y., March 7.—Jane Louise Cameron, the young girl who eloped from Auburn a year ago with an ex-convict, died yesterday in De- troit of a broken heart. She gave her life to the man she loved, and her friends finally disowned her. She married a man just out of jail, confi- dent that she could make him re- spected and honored, and all those who had known her well turned their backs on her. With her husband, West, hoping to hide ‘“‘convict’s wife.” Now heartbroken. The body will be brought back to Auburn for burial. On April 15 last year Jane Louise McCarthy, nineteen, pretty, a debu- tante in Auburn society, married Roj R. Cameron, a man who had done ten-vear retch” in Auburn Pri and who was fighting to ‘“‘cor with the aid of Thomas Mott Osborr She was a light-hearted, perhaps light- headed girl. He was a grave, hand- some man of forty, whose hair had been turned white by his prison life. Met Cameron at Prison. Mr. Osborne had opened in Auburn a “rest house'" to which ex-convicts might go, while trying to eect work. “is time ‘While looking for work he met Mi McCarthy. Perhaps it was girlish sympathy. Perhaps she really loved the man. He told her he would make good, would begin all over, if she would help him. At last she consented. Together they came to Syracuse and were married. Cameron had got a job here through the influence of Osborne. He remained in this city, and the young girl went home to tell her mother what had happened. Mrs. McCarthy fainted when her daughter announced the wedding. When she was revived she expressed her anger, and finally Mrs. Cameron went back to her husband in S cuse. But the story of what she had done— of what her husband had dene—fol- lowed her. She became morbid, de- spairing. racism visited upon extended to her! last Mr. Osborne, thz only friend of the ex-convict, the only friend of the girl who had once pos sessed so many, sent the Camerons to Detroit There the man got work, and his wife, still brooding over her family’s resentment, the friends who had sneered at her, wastad way quietly and died, as the easiest solu- tion to her plighé she fled lo the the brand of she is dead, was up. ACCUSES MOTHER OF PLOT TO EXILE HIM | Heir to $500,000 Says His Tried to Get Him Out of Country New York, throp Hanson, late United stanford, April 7—Walter La srand-nephew of the States Senator, Leland of California, and heir to 0,000 of the Stanford millions, charged in an affidavit submitted to supreme court here yesterday that mother, Mrs. Aimee Lathrop Hanson of Brooklyn, N. Y., and her lawyer, former Judge Nash Rock- wood of Saratoga, N. Y., conspired to have him declared incompetent and then exiled to Canada as part of a scheme to deprieve him of his in- heritance. Hanson's affidavit was filed nection with a suit brought wife, Mrs. Henrietta Reutti ITanson, formerl for §100,000 damages against Aimee Lathrop Hanson for alleged alienation of the affections of Hanson A suit brought the elder Mrs. Hanson to have annulled her son’s marriage, which followed an elopement in 1912, is pending in Columbia county. Young Hanson' affidavit today caused the court to direct that the alienation suit be tried in advance of the annul- ment 71('1101] FIRST WIFE GON TAKES HIS SECOND by his Retired Sca Captain’s Initial Vénture Into Matrimony Ended After Seven Weeks. New York, April 7.—A s rch of more than twenty years for his bride of seven weeks ended yesterday, when Frederick Grimmius, eighty, zpolied for marriage license to wed Anna Brinck, seventy-four, same house with him, at Street, Brooklyn. “I have given 90 Coffey my first wife every chance to return,” he said. “She must be dead, for the last 1 heard from her was in 1894." Grimmius is a re- tired sea captain, and was married to Sophie Schafer on Novembar 16, 1873, in Brooklyn. Their honeymoun seven weeks ended suddenly Mrs. Grimmius dropped out of sight. One day they met accidentally in Brooklyn, and she informed 1im that she was about to start for Germany, never to return. MRS, WHARTOD HONORED. April 5015 a. m French government ha conferred Mrs. Edith Wharton, th American novelist the v of Honor for her velief work of hrench war sufferers. Paris, in behalf Parent | ticket. in con- | who lives in the | | per cent. of | when | REPUBLICANS ONLY HOPE FOR COUNTRY That's What Candidate Fairbanks Tells Delegates Who Will Sup- vort Him in Convention. Indianapolis, Ind., April T7—The thirty Indiana delegates pledged to vote for Charles W. Fairbanks as long as his name is before the re- publican national convention called on Mr. Fairbanks at his home here late yesterday, following adjournment of the state convention, and gave a renewed assurance of their allegiance. A declaration of purpose as adopt- by the candidates on the state and the delegates to the na- tional convention was read. The doc- ument guaranteed the heartiest sup- port to Mr. Fairbanks. “This is a little trying, my friends,” Mr. Fairbanks said, “and I am glad you have come in this informal way, for now we can tall informally. T am glad you have come as friends in a common cause, that of republi- can succ Our democratic friends, with that ability which amounts al- most to genius, have involved the na- tion in troubles that the republican party and its sane policies only can eliminate.” e then their generous ship and said that of Indiana decreed the Chicago convention answer the call. ed thanked his callers for expressions of friend- if the republicans that he go before he would $350,772 CHECK FOR INHERITANCE TAX Biggest Amount Ever Paid For That Purpose Is Sent to Treasurer Chamberlain, Hartford, April 7 check for 4, which the state treasurer has received from the executor of the estate of th elate Joseph Millbank, of Greenwich, to pay the inheritance tax, represents the largest sum rceived by the treasurer since the tax was first levied. It is a little over forty-three of the total amount received from the tax during the last fiscal vear. The tax added $807,293 to the revenues of the state, last year, and it is expected the income from the in- heritance tax thisyear will be consid- erably over a million dollars The tate of Mr. Millbank inventoried $12,- Jargest amount from was $241,302.68, an paid | Lawrence, 10 next inheritance tax on the estate Sebastian of New London, in 1911, The Law- | rence estate inventoried in the neigh- horhood of $11,000,000. If Mr. Law- rence lived a few weeks lang the law changing the rate of the tax and other gonditions pertaining to it went into effect shortly after Mr. Lawrence died. SUICIDE IS NOT CRONE Found Hanging in Not Chicago Chef. Milford, April 7—Investigation has definitely determined, Chief of Police James M. Maher said today, that the body of the suicide found in the woods here about three weeks ago, is not that of Jean Crones, a chef, who is being sought in connection with the poisonihg of soup at a banquet given in Chicago several weeks ago to Bishop Mundelein of the Roman Catholic church. Impressions of the fingers of the dead man and photographs were sent to Chicago and New York. Word was received from New York today that the body was not that of Crones. Man Stamford WAN SONG. “Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes” His Last Number. New York, April 7.—Shortly after singing faintly, “Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes,” John Bardsley, a tenor who formerly was a member of the Covent Garden Opera company in | design | goung girl | streets today London and the Century Opera] pany here, fell back on his be| died yesterday at hls home, 520) 120th street. He had been dei for the last two days and sang stantly until death put an end sufferings from pneumonia. Mr. Bardsley was an Engli and studied abroad. After sing Covent Garden for several sems came to American and sang af Century Opera house in 1913. that time he had sung in conce: leaves a wife and three small dren, in addition to four brother of them are now with the Britig my in Flanders, ARE HURRYING TAG D/ Solicitors on Streets Today, Al Tomorrow is Designated. tomorrow is ofl for fi num Although ated as the tag day relief for the Belgians, a solicitors were abo: selling tags. These Belgian flag tags are definitely “April 8” and the action of s girls in annoying people by tryil sell them today is not n:ceting approval. The tags sell seven cents each be worn for the sct p; and are suppo! tomorrow and Sunday. Saturday Special 15 Ibs of pounds of Coffee. 3 cans of Choice Corn for 2 one half pound cans Best Pure Lard Fresh Western Eggs Fresh Native Eggs . All kinds of Crock etc. tax would have been nearly fifty per cent; lar; An amendment to thed $1.00—with a purchase of one pound of Tea 3 Ibs of Choice Carolina Head Rice for ........ 2 1bs of Large Meaty Prunes for 3 cans of Choice Peas for «mean . . . e 2 cans of Choice Tomatoes for em....... 3 cans of Sliced Pineapple for w.......... ery, Glassware, UNION TEA CO 317 Main Street Fine Granulated Sugar-fd or % 25 23 25 23 25 Cocon) ..o UTTER AND EGGS Finest Quality Fresh Butter ...pound 14| 5¢ doze .....35¢c doze “nameled War