New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 30, 1917, Page 9

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30 S-H-E-E-P spells wool, and it takes real wool to make real good clothing. Our suits and overcoats from $18 to $35 are made of wool—real wool. ¥br this reason we guarantec them to give you satisfaction. Woolen Underwear $1.50 to $3.50. Woolen Sweaters $5.00 to $7.50. Woolen socks, gloves and caps. WISE ADMITS HE - CUT OWN THROAT (Continued from First Page) upon hearing this Mrs. Tobin cried bitterly and begged him not to do so. He said he left New Britain on Labor Day, after writing a letter to the wo- man's husband telling him that he was going to cease his attentions to his wife. Wise related going to New Ha- ven, New York and Bridgeport where he tried to join either the army or navy and finally being enlisted as a cook in the quartermasters corps at New Haven, from which city he was sent to Fort Slocum. He declared positively that while at Fort Slocum he did not communicate in any way avith Mrs. Tobin_until she wrdte to him. She sent him a telegram saying: “Come home at once. I must see you.” This telegram was supplement- ed with a half dozen or more lengthy letters written to the young soldier by Mrs. Tobin. Each letter breathed a passionate longing for the young man, begged him to return to her, even if he had to’ desert and threatened to take her own life in case he had ceased to caré for her. Woman Threatens Suicide. Each letter was addressed to “My darling BiIL” She frequently re- ferred to him in these letters as “dear- est” repeatedly declared she was “heartbroken" because he had left, protested she was “crying my eyes 2t for vou', and in the first letter ened with the protestation: “For God's sake come back righ away for Tl do anything for you. You will al; ways be my darling Bill. Each night I pray to God to send you home. I will end it all if you don’t, Dearest. I remain your heartbroken Anna.”’ In another paragraph the young wo- man wrote: ‘“May God forgive you for going, Dear, T can’t.” ‘Another letter written to the soldier has a statement: “I don’t want to live if 1 can't have you,” and after urging him to get home on some pretext, con- tinued: “We will go right away and we will be together all our liv The girl at another time wrote: “I wish God wouid take me and I'd have noth- g more to worry me. I am sick of staying with Ed.” This letter con- cludes with “love and kisses.” Again the married woman wrote: ‘Please come home before I end it all. T have got carholic acid and I tell you ths truth when 1 tell you I'll end it all I am sick of living. I'm crazy about you and only want to die if I can’t “have vou.” All of the letters read contained sim- flar passionate avowals of love for Wise, begged and threatened him to return and in one letter she ardently / urged him to desert from the army come back to her and go away to- gether. As an argument for this the girl wrote: “Lots of fellows are doing it.” From the phraseology of one Hote it appeared that Wise must have written to Mrs. Tobin ving he wished he had a little swéetheart to love him for the woman wrote that he need mnot express any such wish for he had a sweetheart who loved him dearly and it was nobody else but herself. Wise Tells His Story. session opened with Wise again on the stand. Attorney For- ward asked Wise his height and weight and was told that he is five feet three and three-quarter inches and weighs 112 pounds. Wise told 5f meeting Mrs. Tobin's husband thre=2 times and each time, promising to leave his wife alone. On each casion, Wise said, he wrote tp Mrs. Tobin gnd gave it to Tobin to read and mail. In these letters he told Mrs. Tobin he:was unable to support her and she had best go back to her home and ‘her hushand and care for her baby. On one occasion, Wise said. Tobin called him to sffice and in tears begged him to ceasc his attentions to his wife. That same day, witness declared. he got several telephone calls from the woman. Wise “3lso declared that while he was work- ing for Jack Hart in Kensington he always had to take the 11:30 trolley back, so her statements to Mrs. Mc- dopough that she was afraid to go "Toda | his home because of Wise were unfound- ed. The letters sent to Wise at Fort Slocum by Mrs. Tobin greatly upset him, witness said, and made him lose all faith in the army. He said he | used to stay awake nights brooding | over her threatening letters and was | worried for fear he would get up in the morning and learn she had made | 80o0d her written threats and com- mitted suicide. On September 16, Wise said, he left Fort Slocum and came to New Britain, paying his fare with money Mrs. Tobin had sent him for that purpose. He met the girl and waited for her while she took her child back i to its father, finally meeting her at 7:30 on West Main street they strolled through Walnut Hill park until 11 o'clock the accused said, and during the evening Mrs. Tobin told Wise of her great love for him and sald he had come back to her just in time as she surely would have killed her- self had he not visited her. On Mon- day Wise said hé spent the morning at the Jewish .synagogue. He said that following the death of his mother and up to the time he met Mrs. Tobin he was a ,falthful attendant at the services at the Jewish Synagogue. n the same afternoon he met Mrs. obin by appointment and took her to Hartford. Here she told him she had packed up a suit of her hus- band’s clothes and his draft registra- tion card and was ready to elope with him. She also suggested that Wise g0 under the name of John Edward Tobin. The woman suggested going to Rockville and there to Philadelphia, Wise sald he declined to desert as he was proud of his army uniform and did not want to deflite it. They got back to New Britain that night at 10 p. m. and he sat up in the lobby of the Regal Hotel till the next morning when he went to the Y. M. C. A. and took a cold shower, then to the syna- gogue. Wise also related how O’Brien, the barber had voluntarily sharpened his razor as had been previously testified. Wise said the girl tele- phoned for him to meet her on Tues- day afternaon at 2 p. m. at Fox's. He met her in the theater and told her he couldn’t see her that night as he was going to the banquet. This caused her to cry bitterly and she said she would call him up at the Hotel Nelson at 10 o'clock that night. ‘Wise said he made a speech at 9:45 o’'clock, in which he told how he liked army life and was going to Te- turn to the ‘fort in the moningz At the tearful request of Mrs. Tobin, Via telephone, he met her at the corner of Myrtle and Washington streets from whence they went to Walnut Hill park. While there Mrs. Tobin begged and pleaded with Wise to = desert the army and elope with her, saylng it was easy “to get away with it.” They left the park at 12 o’clock, ‘after the woman had threatened to kill her- gelf should Wise leave her. En route Home the couple stopped at the Cor- bin Cabinet Lock doorway, an old trysting place. While there Wise said the woman ‘“‘said she’d be dead in the morning if I went away.” He pro- tested with her unavailing, but she insisted she could not, would not love her husband and wanted only Wise. ‘Wise replied that he would kill him- self before he would desert and be shot as a deserter. Then he took his razor, slashed his face, neck and throat and fell over onto the side- | walk unconscious. Wise said he | wrote with his right hand and uses his left hand for other things and it was his_left hand in which he held the razér. The girl jumped up and said: “Bill, BNI, dom’t, I'll get the blame.” That was the last he remem- bered forwhen he came to he looked around and saw the woman lying out in the road. Wise Insisted that he really tried to kill himself. He also said that when he became uncon- scious he had.the razor in his own hand. Wise said he thought he was going to die and told the police a fake story because he didn’t want it known that he committed suicide. He was also afraid, he said, the police might blame the girl for cutting him and he was also afraid he might not be accorded a military funeral if it be- { came known he had taken his own | lite. The accused denied having any { talk with Officer Hellberg en route to the hospital and said that when he talked to Dr. Elcock and also with the | police and Prosecutor Klett he was in agony. - For four days, Wise sald, he thought he was going to die and it | was a lie that he told the police at the“hospital. He lied, he'said, because he thought he was going to die and | he feared the police would blame Mrs. Tobin. “What I've told here is the truth— God's honest truth,” said Wise. On re-direct examination by At- torney Forward Wise said he did not mean to say that he cut himself in such a way as to cause suspicion to | be directed toward someone else. He | said he did not understand the ques- tion. Mrs. Lillian street said on | was with her husband and visited | the Economy New England drug store when she saw Mrs. Tobin use the telephone. A letter sent to an acquaintance in New Britain by Wise was excluded on objection of the state's attorney. Policeman Cornelius Cully, who zuarded Wise at the hospital, said the first time he heard anyone mention the death of Mrs. Tobin was when he heard Lawyer Greenberg tell him that he was charged with murder. He was not, however, present when Dr. Elcock visited the accuswd at the | hospital or when he was with Officer Hellberg in the patrol. The defense endel its case with this testimony. “Do vou know how Mrs. Tobin re- ceived the wounds of which she died?” “No Sir,’ Wise said. He declared he had told all he knew of the tragedy and furthermore, he said, he had had no quarrel with Mrs. Tobin but one of the last things she said was that he would learn of her death the next morning. He did not know of Mrs. Tobin's death until the following Sunday when his lawyer, A. A. Greenberg, told him, he said. The wording of the ques- tions put to him by Prosecutor Klett were such as to cause him to think Mrs. Tobin was alive, Wise said. ‘Wise Cross Examined. State’'s Attorney Hugh M. Acorn subjected Wise to a grilling crass ex- Pleasant 18 she Simons of 39 September amination. Wise admitted that he has referred to Mrs. Tobin in unsavory terms since her death. He insisted that Mrs. Tobin was a burden to him and he wanted to have her return to her husband. He said however, he did love her. He denied choking or her once when she ““was talking dirty.” Explaining why he brought his razor to New Britain, Wise said he brought it up to get it sharpened, but, he de. Getting down to the night of the mur- der the state's attorney asked Wise where the , woman was when he at- tempted suicide. He said she was sitting in the doorway and he standing in front of her about four feet away. He insisted that Mrs. Tobin constantly begged him to desert | during their last visit and finally | goaded him until he cut himself. Wise sald that Mrs. Tobin cared absolutely baby. Wise dramatically demonstrat- | ed how he had cut himself and as he dia so everyone in the court room craned their necks to see. He denied absolutely that he cut or slashed Mrs. weak to get up after he had cut- his own throat. He said he shouted for | help because he was suffering agoniz- ing pains. Wise said Mrs. Tobin car- ried her purse in her left hand and he denied that she carried a flower in her right hand. Wise admitted to a pointed question from the state’s at- | torney that he cut his own face and neck in such a way as to lend strength | to a story that someone else hed | assaulted him. The state’'s attorney read Wse’'s statement over and the | latter admitted that most of it was | false, concocted on the spur of the minute. Goces to the Jury. Summing up for the state the as- sistant state's attorney, Newell Jen- nings, told the jury that if they have any doubt ag to the truth of any state- ment made they have the right to doubt his entire testimony. He called ‘Wise’s statement .a ‘‘fanciful one.” The statement that Wise did not know of Mrs. Tobin's death until the Sun- day following the murder was absurd, he said, since it was proved that the accused was normal ‘when the police found him and Dr. Elcock and po- licemen had told him of her death. His defense, Mr. Jennings said, has been buflt up as the case proceeded. He then gave a resume of the whole case and declared that Mrs. Tobin became the victim of a strange fas- cination for Wise and that the state yond any question Mrs. Tobin was cut in the C. C. L..doorway, then staggered into the street where she died. Greenberg Pleads For Wise. A..A. Greenberg recounted the letters sent to Wise by Mrs. Tobin, saying that they discounted allegations that she feared him and wished to have him leave here. He made much of Mrs. Tobin’s many written threats to kill herself and said they showed that she loved him, was sick of living with- out him and did not fear him, but really wanted him. Letters of this { kind will turn the heart of a man o stone, the lav of Watchn rer said. The testimony n Molander that he heard berg said, that Mrs. Tobin really diad cry out, as Wise said, when he tried to commit suicide. The lawyer also re- called Dr. Wolfe's statement that he knew of one woman who cut her own throat from ear to ear and then went down four flights of stairs. This, he said, shows that it was very possible for Mrs. Tobin to have cut her own throat and then ran some distance. If Wise had premeditated the murder, why didn’t he kill sion of Walnut Hill park rather than on Pearl street, their #sual parting place. The lawyer ered that tHe facts pointed to the be- lief that Mrs. Tobin made good her threats and committed the heinous crime upon herself. The razor was found four fpet away from the wo- man’s Head, indicating that it was a case of suicide, the lawyer argued. He declared that it is up to the state to prove guilt bevond any reasonable done so. GAN-SHERIDEN, Pretty Wedding Takes Place at Joseph’s Church. The marriage of Miss Sheriden, daughter of Mr. James Sheriden of 565 Stanley street, to Willilam G. Egan of Pittsfield, Mass., Katherine St. Josepd's church. Rev. Patrick Daly, pastor of the church, officiated. The couple were attended by Miss Helen F. Sheriden, sister of the bride, and by John McDermott of Pittsfield. they will spend their honeymoon. On their return they will reside at 400 Park street, this ci CALLED BY PEOPLE'S| CHURCH. Pulpit in This City. R. C. Stelnhoff of Bridgeport a a call to accept the pulpit h on Court street H. Harriman, Rev. has receiv at the People’s chu to succeed Rev. N whose resignation w 1 unless a successor Rev. Mr. Steinhoff i the Christian Missionary church, an independent organization and is highly praised by Rev. Mr. Har. riman. He spoke at the local church at a convention some time ago. is not secured. ARRESTED FOR ASSAULT. Robert J. Pape of Cherry street was arrested this afternoon charged with assault on Jullus Rovenski. The af- fair took place this noon time in front of the Corbin Screw Corporation shop where both men are employed. Ro- venski went out to dinner and was bringing in his wife’s dinner when he was stopped by Pape. In the black eyes and his face was badly bruised. Pape was liberated until to- morrow morning under $100 bonds. beating the girl, but said he did slap nied that he asked O’Brien to hone it. | was | nothing for either her husband or her | Tobin and insisted that he was. too | had proved his guilt beyond all rea- ! i v sonable doubt. He declared that be. | ""ocT80INE treatment for his eves. Summing up for the defense Lawyer | cries of “Help” proved, Lawyer Green- | had come from Fort Slocum to do it, | her in the seclu- | i eI | assaciation dance and entertainment | Saturday evening at the N. B. Machine doubt, and, he said, the state has not | took place this morning at 8 o’clock at | Following the ceremony they left . for Boston and the Berkshires where | | said he consid- | !a member, Paul K. Pszejolk went to ! police ! ported the matter to Officer Malone. | nowski, o | H. Barnes, Bridgeport Pastor Invited to Accept ! | thews, 1 take effect Nov. | connected with | Alliance | | daily to the war department, | Baptiste | day that his bicycle was stolen from lin front of a Main street store last St. | { ported to the local police that Denis and Mrs. | Faerv. i WL JELLICOE’S NEPHEW SPEAKS IN NEW YORK | 3 | i were increasingly i /1 | i Photo From Newspaper Union™ Lieut. H. V. Jellicoe, nephew of: Admiral Jellicoe commander of Eng- | land’s grand fleet and hero of several | naval battles since the beginning of | the war speakjng in the plaza at Central park, New York. He is in the | Royal Flying corps of Great Britain. | He is living up to the fighting tra- | ditions of his family and has been | mentioned for his notable feats in the | air several times. | CITY HEMS Anything doing Saturday night? Sure! There’s a blg time on at the N. B. Machine Co. factorv—dance and entertainment. Don’t miss it.— advt. C. M. Hultgren of Arch street is Mr. and Mrs. C. N. Emmons of 45 Camp street left today for Klorida where they will spend the winter. Chief R. M. Dame of the fire de- partment motored with Building In- spector A. N. Rutherford to Camp Devens, Ayer, Mass., yesterday. Maurice H. Clauson has been. ap- pointed administrator of the estate of Alma Clauson. A. W. Carlson and Aaron Danielson were appointed ap- praisers. Attorney M. D. Saxe returned home last evening from the conference of the Jewish War Relief committee held in the Hotel Astor, New York, Sun- day. William who recently fall rececived Hartford, tal. The Camp Real Estate Co. sold to- day for Mrs. Eliza Hadley, adminis- tratrix of the estate of Reuben W. Hadleys, a house at No. 295 Dast street to Adolph Hein. About 30 members of St. Jean de society attended a whist given by the Franco-American club in Redman’s hall in Bristol yesterday. Don’t forget the Mutual Benefit Sanderson, a local painter, suffered injuries from a while he was working in 1s at the Hartford hospi- co. factory.—advt. & TED SLUR ON POLES. Resenting remarks made to him bout the Polish army which is sta- tioned in Canada and of which he is and headquarters today re- F. J. Crewosey reported to the police this afternoon that a brown robe and a raincoat were stolen from his automobile last evening. Robert Denslski told the police to- | evening. The Thomasville police have re- a Portuguese wanted in Thomasville for the theft of $30. is RAIN HAMPERS The meeting of the Christmas tree committee of the chambér of com- merce, scheduled at 5 o'clock this afternoon in the rooms of the organi- zation was postponed on account of | the inclement weather. The general committee which met last Friday has named the following members of the | committee to meet this afternoon Mortimer H. Camp, chairman: Re F. Cook, Rev. A. C. T. Steege, | Patrick Daly, Rev. Lucyan Boj Mayor George A. Quigley, C. D. McMillan, Peter Cur- | Charles Spring, George B. Mat- | Gieorge K. Macauley, L. P. Slade. Mrs. Herbert L. Mills and Mrs. | J. A. Traut. The committee will meet Thursday afternoon Rev. ran, That Number of Military Inventions | Are Received ch Day. | ‘Washington, Oct. ifty new | to cnd! the are prn])osr‘di for that | war, | many military inventions are submit- | 1 fight | home here today aged 70. that took place Rovenski received two | master mechanic of the Danbury and Holyoke Water Power. ted each 24 hours and nearly every | inventor claims his device will revo- | lutionize warfare. Ninety-nine out | of 100 are discarded as impracticable | in the war emergency. but for the | sake of possibilities in the one, :’,ll‘ are welcomed and investigated. i 'NVENTOR DIES | M. died at his He was Danbury, 3 George, retired inventor, Norwalk railroad before that road was absorbed by the New Haven sys- tem. i Am | O | Western U | American Financial STOCKS SUFFERED AT THE OPENIN Short Selling Is Noticed—Cana- dian Pacific Being Weak Wall Street—Stocks suffered fur- ther impairment at the active opening of today’'s market, leaders recording additional recessions of 1 to almost 3 points. The movement bore the fa- miliar marks of liquidation, with a sprinkling of -short selling.” Invest- ment rails reflecied their recent pres- sure, notably the Pacifics, Canadian being the weakest of that group. Equipments, including U, S. Steel, heavy, with ship- pings, coppers, oils and motors. New York Air Brake featured the special- ties, losing 5 points. Temporary suspension of business on the Montreal stock exchange added to the unsettlement and appre- hension of the morning session. Canadian Pacific made an extreme de- cline of six polnts to 132 5-8 its lowest quotation in a number of years, and other rails extended their early losses. U. 8. Steel dropped to 101 3:4 after ally ing to 103 1-4 and other indus- trjals including war shares sagged 2 to 4 points specialties showing greater losses. The decline was checked before noon, prices rebound- ing from substantial fractions to 1 1-2 points, Liberty 4’s sold at par to 100.02 and the 3 1-2's at 99.94 to 99.96. Firmer tendencles prevdiled during the dull intermediate session. Canadian Pacific recovered to 134 1-2 and other rails rose an average of a point. Shippings and metals held relatively strong, but industrials were less responsive to support. New York Stock Exchange quota- tions furnished by Richter & Co. members of the New York Stock Ex: change. Oct. 30, 1917 High Low Close T4 T3 3% 3% 3% 3% 65 627% 63% 40% 39 39% 56 55% 56 831 81 -81% 10314 102 102% ..183% 180 113 113 62 61% 91% 91% 59% 57% 563 56 6513 513 8154 80 19 1934 .138 1341 703 70 a0 4914 427 4214 461 46 37 363 87 87 64 623 9914 9814 367 36% 1614 25 Am Beét Sugar .. Alaska Gold .. Am Car & Fdy C Am Can = B Am Loco B . Am Smelting .... Bugertclc i Am Tobacco Am Tel & Tel Anaconda Cop A T S Fe Ry Co. Baldwin Loco B & O BRT.. . Beth Steel B Butte Superior Canadian Pacific Central Leather Ches & Ohio Chino Copper .... Chi M1l & St Paul. ColF &I . ol Cong Gas Crucible Steel Del & Hudson Distillers Sec Erie 5o Erie 1st pfd 56 Genera] Electric .131 Goodrich Rub 391 Great Nor pfd 9944 Gt Nor Ore Cetfs. 271Y Tllinbis Central ..100% Inspiration 441y Interborough 7Y Interboro pfd 45% Kennecott Cop 334 Lack Steel 7814 Lehigh Val & 57% Louis & Nash ....118% Max Mot com 31 Mex Petrol .. 8314 Natl Lead L. 45 N Y Air Brake . N Y C & Hud . 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TEL. 2040. 100 Shares COLT’S ARMS. 100 Shares NORTH & JUDD. 100 Shares SCOVILL MFG. CO. UNION 50 Shares MFG. CO. BRISTOL 100 Shares BRASS. Landers, Frary & Clark. J R Montgomery National Marine .Lamp. New Britain Ma®*hine.. New Departure pfd North & Judd ...... Peck, Stow & Wilcox Plimpton Mfg Co Pratt & Whitney Russell Mfg Co Smyth Mfg Co .. . Standard Screw pfd A Standard Screw com .. Stanley Rule and Level. Stanley Works Swift & Co Taylor & Fenn . Terry Steam Turbine..140 Torrington Co pfd ... 28 Torrington Co com 49 Traut & Hine ...... Union Mfg Co N B U 8 Envelope pfd U S Envelope com Niles, Bement-Pond ...135 Scovill Mfg Co ..500 R. R. and Street R. R. Stocks. Hfd & Conn W R R guar 30 NY¥NE&E&SHRR..... 28 7 27 Banks and Trust Companies. Am Ind Bank & Tr Co 150 City Bank & Tr Co ....130 Conn River Bkg Co ...145 Conn T & S Dep Co ...500 Fidelity Trust Co . First Natl Bank . Hfd-Aetna Natl Hfd Morris Plan Co Hfd Trust Co 5o Land Mtg & Title Co ... 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Thirty-six years ago he first com- menced working for the Stanley ‘Works and retained his position with this concern for 21 years. After this he went to work for the Connecticut company and worked in the car‘barn situated on Chestnut street, From here he went to P. & F. Corbin’s, where he has been working until late- 1 Mr. Wallitte is well known and his many friends in thjs city and sur- rounding towns wish® him success in his new venture. He left yesterday for his new home. READY TO GO “OVER THERE'. Harry C. Kemmerer, a member of | the medical corps stationed at Fort | Ethan Allen, Vt., will return to his camp this evening after a four days, | furlough at the home of his paron's| Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kemmerer of Maple street. He expects to leave soon for “over there” having been sup- plied Wwith all the acessories for ser- vice. He has also been examined for a sergeantcy in the company. i A case of scarlet fever on Pleas- | ant street was reported to the health | department today. i | December 1 | In this city | cander; | dofe Johnson, wife of the well known | police sergeant, street, for 36 years a resident of this | DEATHS AND FUNERALS Bernard \. Wicander. \ Bernard A. Wicander, a /leading Swedish resident of this city for many vears, succumbed to an ilihe of a « year's duration at his home, 117 Jubi- lee street, Prior to at 7 being stricken’ o'clock last eventhg. with illr SS | that terminated in his death, Mr. Wi< cander was a faithful employe of the Corbin Screw Corporation. He w a native of Gottenburg, Sweden, ho 1849, and has resided vears., He leavéa his wife and two sons, former Councilman David A. Wicander and Willlam Wi three danghte Mrs., Theo- Mrs. Fred Yeoman Mrs. Oscar Kallin, all of this city, and several grandchildren. Ho / was a member of the First Baptist church. The funeral will be held to- ! morrow afternoon and services will be conducted in the Brwin Myrtuary chapel in Tairview cemetery. and William Arthuy Crabtree. The funeral of Willlam Arthur Crabtree was largely attended from his late home, 35 Cedar street, at 1 p. m. today. The floral offerings wera | numerous and beautiful. The bearers were A. J. Amberg, J. F. Kelly and H. A. Consldine of New York, H. B. Clark and $. H. Hager of Boston and Samuel Forbes of Phila., close busi- ness associates and friends of Mr. Crabtree. Burial was in Peabody cemetery, Springfleld, Mass. ~ Lena Casavalla. The funeral of Lena Casavalla, the two year old daughter of Mr. ahd Mrs. Rosomo Casavalla of 485 Main street was held from the house this afternoon. Burial was in the new Catholic cemeter Samuel Knight, Mrs. Laura Knight, one of the old-, est residents of Pilainville, died last evening at 8:30 at her home on East street in that town. Death was due to infirmities incident to old age. Mrs. Knight who was horn in England had passed her 88th milestone. She had been suffering from several ail- ments for a number of years but until * lately her death wds not expected. She is survived by two sons and two daughters, Mrs. Horsfall, Samuel Knight and John Knight of Plain- ville and Mrs. Royal of Brooklyn, N. Y. Samuel Knight is a well known photographer of this city. The funeral arrangements are yet in- complete. Interment will be in West cemeter Saybrook Man Takes Local Worker for Bride This Leon Stanley Davis of Saybrook and Miss Blsie Catherine Oshorn were married at the home of the brid mother, Mrs. P. D. Osborn, 22 Pros- pect street, at 4 o’clock this after- noon. The ceremony w performed by R Henry W. Maier, pastor of the Fi Congregational church. The couple were unattended and the \\'(’(l.- ding was a very quiet affair. They left on an auto trip south their return they will make future home in Saybrook. Mrs. Davis was for many years one of the leading charity workers in this city and was known the ‘“Angel of the Poor.”” As agent of the New RBritain Charity Organization, her ef= forts obtained great relief for the poor of the city She was also the woman prohation officer for two years, and her work in ehis capacity was praiseworthy. The groom is engaged: in the furniture manufacturing line in Saybrook. Charity Afternoon., and on their as TO RAISE $50,000. At a meeting of the board of direc- tors of the Y. M. C. A. last evening it was voted to raise $50,000 for the $35,000,000 national fund for war work. The campaign will be carried on her during the week of November 11 and the surounding towns of Berlin, Plainville, Newington and Southington will be v Executor or Administrator. CAPITOL $750,000. M. H. WHAPLES, Pres't. 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