New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 15, 1921, Page 1

£LSTABLISHED 1870. NEW BRITAIN, CONNECT o A ICUT. [UESDAY, MARCH 15, 1921.—TWELVE PAGES PRICE THR} JAMON GIRL TELLS SWN STORY ABOUT SHOOTING OF JAKE ith Tears in Her Eges, She De- clares He Was Crazy Drunk on That Fatal Night BLYS GUN WENT OFF AS @MAN STRUCK HER HAND | Accused Protests, Didn't Do It,” \s She Takes Revolver and Demon- pefton to Court Just How the Fatal | Bhot Was Fired—Declares That She iocsn’'t Know What Happened. 15.—Clara the murder of | the witness | today. | and | She | said “for how Okln., March with Ardmore umon, chargod ke L. Hamon, took nd In her trial here he defendant was composed ko in o well-controlled voice vaw 29 years old. She inown Mr. Hamon I don’t know just since I was a school girl : i | says Hamon Was Drunk. broke as she defendant’s volce u?zhm Col. llamon cursed her on wening he was shot and tears o Into her cycw. Her volce drop- low and she said ‘He Irunker and crazier than had L known r wn in all the years z ] him."” ‘ as Tells of Shooting. the defendant reached the her story’ of the actual she left the witness stand 1 tng the pistol with which umon was shot ‘Tn her hand, she ustratod how the shot was fired. "1 didn't go to do it,"” she sald. “The tol went off when he struck it, or pulled the trigger or something; know not what.' Finally Breaks Down. When Clara tried to tell how Col on after he was shot had said, wam hit,” and had showed her the pod spot forming om his shirt, she oka down. It was after a few preliminary. estions in which she said she knew . Hamon was married aAnd that he educated her so she might work him, that she was asked, to tell ja jury her stary. ‘e had Dbreakfast about 11 ek she sald. ‘““After breakfast Hamon left me; [ presume he 0 his office; he usually did on morning. 1 went back to my om and in the afternoon he came k to the room and we had a very ant conversation. “He lay down on his bed to rest jre only stayed a short time. Then went back to the office. “1 was bumy cleaning up my room gotting ‘my clothes roady to go y to California and I decided that ould like to have a little ride so I in my car. was about 7, dark enough for street lights to be on when T came | #k. When I drove up to the hotel | Mamon was sitting in front in a | wir Netween Mr. Hamon and the or of the hotel tnere was another air. - When nt in ing r. Graby Her by Arm. “He immediately grabbed me as I ssed and shoved me down in the ir and said he wanted to talk to and used profane language. I “I told him ‘pleane don’t curse here, 't make a scene. If you want to ! and be moan to me, let's go to room.’ He continued to curse me 1 noticed that the lights in the ear | ro on and I sald Wait a minute; I turn the car lights off.’ He meo loose and 1 walked to the r and switched off the lights. ' Wanted to Avold Scepe hon 1 passed by him, and turned geot the door he again grabbed nie the arm joerked me down on a air and again cursed. I sald ‘Go to e room Mr. Hamon If you want to use me there aré some men stand- g there, you must not talk that way ® in public.’ He got up and I went bstairs to my room. I was afraid of tamon, very afrald of him. I saw ook on his faco that I had never n before. He was drunker than [ d even seen him in all the years I d known him. He was drunk and may, I don't think the whiskey was d red whiskey as Mr. Nichols said. o usually drank good whiskey and he n't usually crazy like that. When I} o my room the doors were locked Yoen our rooms, and the bathroom bor was locked. I rang for the porter thought I had better eat something hadn't had anything to eat all day. t breakfast I could not eat Afrald of Hamon. Qn Bill the porter came in with er Mr. Hamon slipped with . I had to unlock the door for I 1 was afraid of Mr. Hamon. I nted him to keep away from me r 24 hours so I could go to Cali- roia and wait for him to sober up d ceme to me looking t sweet, o | vizier and minister of finance of Tur- PANAMA DECLINES | TO GIVE UP BOOTY | PN i Will Keep It As Partial Guarantee of | Indemnity—Washington Sure of { Peaceful Settlement. | (By the Asso- to Panama, March 15 ciated Press)—Panama declines return to Costa Rica three launches and other spoils captured when the Panama forces recently tgok Coto, | in the disputed territory between Panama and Costa Rica, according to a note made public last night. Pan- ama is holding the booty as a partial guarantee for the indemnification which it proposes to demand from Costa Rica for expenses incurred as a result of the conflict between the two countries. March 15.—State de- | partment officials are confident that the way to an early adjustment of the Panama-Costa Rica boundary dispute had been opened by the Am- | erican note dispatched to Panama yesterday. TURKISH OFFIGIAL IS MURDERED IN GERMANY Minister of Finance Assassi-| nated By Armenian in City of Berlin. Washington, March 15.—(By Associated former grand | Berlin, Press.)—Talaat Pasha, key, was assassinated in Charlotten- burg, a western suburb of Berlin, to- day. He was shot to death. The mur- derer, an Armenian student, was ar- rested WILL BE CUT ANYWAY Although New York Central Workers Object to Reductions, They Will Bo Effective April 1. New York, ,March 15.—Representa- tives of common labor employed by the New York Central railroad today promptly rejected wage cuts proposed by the road and declined.to join in a request to the raliroad laber board to u’;\ut the matter. Thereupen officials ] of the road notified the men the re- ductions would become effective April ‘ 1 in any event. In a statement covering the confer- ence officlals of the New York Cen- tral announced they would immedi- ately request the railroad labor board to authorize the reductions. HIS WINE STOLEN Sam Gretano of Oak Street Complains That 50 Gallons of Rare Old Vint- age Is Missing at His Home. ! Sam Gretano until recently lived at 278 Oak street, and was the pos- | sossor of some very fine wine. Sam a y few days ago decided to move from the place, and before doing so he se- cured permission to transport the wine, After everything had been removed to his new place of residence, Sam re- turned to his cellar, and much to his consternation he found that over 50 gallons of the wine had been stolen. GETS INFERNAL MACHINE Former Army Doctor Suffers rible Injuries When he Open Pack- age—One Hand Blown Off, Ter- | Madison, Me., March 15.—Dr. John L. Pepper was severely injured today when a package he had just received at the post office exploded as he open- ed it in his residence. One hand was blown off and his face was seriously lacerated. Dr. Pep- per served as a lieutenant in the med- ical department at a camp in southern Ohlo during the war. FIRST BASEBALL FATALITY 13-Year-Old Chicago Boy Dies After Being Struck the Head with Pitched Ball, Chicago, March 15.—Baseball claimed its first fatality of the season here yesterday when Joseph Mattloa, 13 years old, was struck on the head by a ball in a game with playmates and died several hours later. He was dazed at first by the blow but recov- ered quickly and collapsed last night at his home. City Continues ngTh in j D) gmmunican EXTRA' SESSION OF | SENATE CONCLUDED Adjourment Withont Waiting | for Shipping Board Appointments BLISS IS THIRD ASST. SEC. New York Man. At Present in Gov- ernment Work, to Enter Secretary. of State’s Department—Harding Busy On Income Tax Return. Washington, March 15.—The ex- | tra session of the senate which began March 4 ended shortly before noon | today. After confirming a few ad- ditional nominations by President Harding the senate adjourned sine die. No Shipping Board Names. The last day's session of the sen- ate was convemed at 11 o'clock in expectation that the president might be able to send in the nomination of shipping board members. The | White House however telephoned . Senator Lodge, of Massachusetts, the republican leader, that there was de- lay in selecting the personnel, of the board and Senator Lodge then moved sine die adjournment. Bliss is Appointed. Robert Woods Bliss of New York, now chief of the state department division of western European affairs, | was nominated. Mr. Bliss' nomination was con- firmed immediately by the senate. “Everybody is Doing It” While job hunters cooled their heels around the White House office today, President Harding toiled over his income tax return. Like many other Mmericapns he, had left the job to the last moment and only folks with urgent business got in to see him until he had told the income tax man all about himself, his family, and his means of livelihood. FIVE BURN T0 DEATH Terrible Railroad Tragedy on Denver and Rio Grande—Rear Pullman Destroyed by Fire. Pueblo, Colo., March 15.—Five pfir-' sons were burned to death when a! rear puliman car on th< Debver an. | Rio Grande rallroad caught. fire early today between Pueblo and Walsen- burg. The origin of the fire was unde- | termined.. . Seven persons were asleep in the car | when it caught fire. Two of them es- | aped by jumping from the windows | and were slightly injured. The car| was destroyed. The bodies were| dragged out of the wreckage when the train came to a stop. Two of the dead were identified as F. 8. Steelman, traveling passenger agent of the Missouri Pacific railroad and A. B. Jack of Lajara, Colo., stock dealer, BUY GOVERNMENT BRASS Chase Companies, Scovill Mfg. Co. and Bridgeport Brass Co., All of This State, Buy Cartridge Cascs. Washington, March 15.—Announce- ment of the sale of 30,000,000 pounds of brass cartridge cases were made today by the war department. The metal. has been divided among three Connecticut firms, the Chase compan- fes of Waterbury, the Scovill Manu- tacturing company of Waterbury and the Bridgeport Brass company of Bridgeport. The sale will net the government approximately 60 per cent. of the market value, it was said. \KNIGHTS TEMPLARS T0 OBEY 18TH AMENDMENT Grand Commander Issues Recommendations At Annual Conclave. Waterbury, March 15.—The grand commandery Knights Templars of Connecticut held its 94th annual con- clave here today. Upon opening the session today Grand Commander Coe made his an- nual address. In this he said in part: ‘We are at the close of a very suc- cessful year as far as membership is concerned, inasmuch as there have been 499 knighted and a net gain in membership of 390, surpassing the gain in any previous year by 103, with ! a total membership of 5,267. But that important question as to wheth- er we have done all that we could to carry out the principles and teachings of our order must be answered by every Sir Knight individually. Peace | and harmony prevails and we have great reasons for encouragement. Let 'aged 19. JRock Mfg. Co., an eighth of a mile MYSTERIOUS MURDER | PUZZLES OFFICIALS One Man Identifies Victim As His | Brother—Another Says He TIs His Son. Warsaw, Ind., March 15.—A (‘or—| oner’'s investigation to be held at] Bourbon, Ind., near here loday into the death Saturday night of a youth apparently about 20 years old, who was found in a dying condition near a railroad crossing 12 miles from Warsaw is expected to shed some light on one of the= strangest cases to come to the attention of local au- thorities. 3 It was at first believed the young | man had been struck by a train but ¢ investigation by the authorities is said to have disclosed the fact that he had been beaten to death in a ! shack nearby. Several hours after the body was found Fred Decker, a farmer, identi- ficd the body as that of his brother, Virgil Decker, 20. He asked that he might bury the brother immediately ; but was refused permission to do this until after the coroner's inquest. A new angle in the case developed ! last night when John Lovett of Elkhart arrived here and identified | the body as that of his son Leroy, It was also brought out that Virgil Decker was last scen in the company of Leroy Lovett. The young men are said to resemble each other to such an extent that it is almost impossible to tell them apart. Neither has been seen since the tragedy. DALY T0 CONTRIBUTE Former Editorial Writer for ‘‘Herald™ to Submit ‘“‘Lights and Shadows’’ for Local Readers. formerly of the New Britain Herald, and well known in this city, is mow editing a ‘‘column” con- | sisting of verse, which is being issued from Washington, D. C. It is entitled “Lights and Shadows'' and consists of comment upon news happenings and contributions in other veins. The New | Britain Herald has become a subscriber, is one of the first in fact, and the first ' poem will be found on the editorial page this evening. It is believed that Mr. Daly’s efforts will be received with wide approval, therc being real lyric value in them and a philosophical trend | that fits with the spirit of the times. Mr. Daly has had long experience in | the newspaper field in several capacities. | ‘When the outbreak of war came he was employt | as édite of the: Horald, He enlisted': nd was scat. to, San Antonio, Texas, where he served in the aerial corps. He worked for a time, after his discharge, in San Antonio and later came to Hartford where he wrote for | the Hartford Post. Lately he has been in Washington where he worked for the United Fress. He believes, however, that his best efforts will be as a ‘“‘columnist.”’ Hence the poetry which | we are introducing. FATAL BOMB EXPLOSION Several Policemen Wounded and Civil- ians Killed in Dublin—Outrages in Other Sections of Ireland. Dublin, March 15.—Five police re- cruits were wounded by the explosion of a bomb here last night while searching a house in Great Brunswick street. Three civilians were killed and several were wounded by the explo- sion. All troops in Dublin were con- fined to their baracks last night, officers fearing that there might be | disorders as a result of executions of | six men in Mount Joy prison early in the day. ! John J. Daly, Cork, March 15.—Several officers who were wearing citizens clothes were held up by unknown persons at Crosshaven last night. In the fichting Thomas Hennessy and | Michael Murray were killed. John | Moyasta, a farmer of West Clare, was | shot and killed when he opened his ' door in response to a knock. Several | other murderous attacks were report- | ed here during the night, BIG FIRE IN ROCKVILLE e Loss is $100,000 When Rockville Coal and Grain Elevator in Center of Oity is Destroyed. Rockville, March 15.—Fire totally destroyed the elevator of the Rock- ville Coal and Grain Co., in the cen- ter of the city early today. The loss was estimated at about $100,000. The | insurance on the building was be- | tween $£50,000 and $60,000. Ten minutes after the first alarm wvas given all apparatus available was at work to hold the flames in check. As it had rained all night brands which fell over a wide area especial- | ly on the wooden buildings of the British away did no harm. The Rockville Coal and Grain Co. bought the buildings from Edward White in 1919. It had a consider- able supply of grain and coal on hand. | disguised the note so well that SOVET MASSACRES IN GITY OF MOSCOW Machine Guns Mow Down Givil-' ians Sympathetic to Rebels 'REDS APPEAL FOR LOYALTY Bolshevik Party Conference Extols Followers to Stand Firmly Against Uprising—Situation in Odessa is said to Be Scrious. London, March 15.—Disturbances are reported to be occurring hourly in Moscow and the soviet authorities in rounding up sympathizers with the revolutionary movement have massa- cred several hundred persons with ma- <hine guns, says a Helsingfors dispatch to the Central News today. A major- ity of the reports regarding the sit- uation in Moscow are most gloomy, | the dispatch adds. Fugitive Tells Story. A fugitive who arrived in Reval from Moscow asserted that soviet of- ficers refused to participate in the op- crations against Kronstadt and that thousands of laborers have joined Gen. Antonoff’s anti-Bolshevik army in the south. It is reported the soviet troops on the Rumanian front have been order- ed to the Ukraine to suppress extens- ive risings there. The situation in Odessa is said to be critical, the gar- rison, with the exception of two regi- ments isolated near the harbor hav- ing joined the rebels. Appeal For 'Loyalty. London, March 15.—(By Associated Press.)—The tenth All-Russian con- ®ress of the Bolshevik party in session in Moscow has issued an appeal to the , workers of Petrograd to stand ‘‘firm- ly to the end for what was gained four vears ago,” says a wireless dispatch from Moscow today. The appeal says: ““The enemies of the working class- es are trying to kindle the flame of a new civil war and are striving to fling us into endless calamities by means of risings, strikes and the de- struction of the railways, thus pre- venting the movement of fuel, food and raw materials. This at the mo- ment when the congress is consider- ing better organization of the trades tunions and how their direction can be brought in closer touch with pro- duction; how production is to be in- creased; easing of the fuel and food crisis; reduction of the Red army and the ‘arranging of more stable peace conditions with all states. The leader of the Kronstadt rising, Tyurkin, is a former Czarist secret policeman.” BARBERS’ STRIKE ENDS Union Shops Cut Hair OCuts to 30 Cents and Non Unions Shave Shaves Down to 20 Cents. Youngstown, O., March 15.—A four day strike of union barbers was ended today when the men voted to agree armies of occupation are first to be ! earlier i to the master barbers’ reduction of the price of hair cuts from 75 to 50 cents. Non union shops, which have been charging only 50 cents, today reduced the price of shaves from 25 to 20 cents. Yale Track Men Will Meet Harvard On May 14 New Haven, March 15.-—The Yale university track schedule announced today includes the meets with Prince- ton at Princeton, May 7; with Har- vard at New Haven, May 14; the in- terscholastics at New Haven, May 21, and the intercollegiates at Cambridge, May 27-28. The freshman team sched- ule is, May 7, Princeton at New Hav- en; May 14, Harvard at Boston; May 21, Yale Interscholastics. ESHOO FINED $50 FOR PASSING RAISED BILL Mpyrtle Street Restaurateur is Found Guilty—Hotel Keeper Fined. Detective Sergeant A. J. Richard- son arrested Samuel Eshoo, proprie- tor of a Myrtle street restaurant, last night on a charge of fraudulent- ' ly passing a cleverly pasted $2 bill for a $10 note. Numerals were pasted on the corners and the word ten” glued to the center of the bill the counterfeit was not easily detected. Joseph Lopez, to whom the bill was given, reported the matter to the police department when Eshoo re- fused to make good for the error and the arrest resulted. It was the second time in a few weeks that bills simliarly raised had been found in the neighborhood of Eshoo’s restaur- ant.Although the accused denied {WOMAN IMPLICATED [ IN JERSEY KILLING i Sold Liquor to Negro Who Brutally Murdered Perth Amboy Woman —In $5,000 Bonds. Perth Amboy, N. J., March 15.— Mrs. Sarah Strum, owner of the saloon where George Washington Knight, al- leged confessed murderer of Mrs. Edith Wilson, said he purchased liquor before committing the crime last Saturday night, today gave her- self up to the police. She was held in $5,000 bail on a charge of '‘“selling liquor without a license.” Prosecutor Joseph E. Stricker today congratulated . everybody concerned in tracing the negro’s movements after the organist’s body was found here early Sunday morning. He particularly mentioned Motor- man Hauser, who gave information zbout Knight's bloodstained clothing as he was riding on the trolley car late Saturday night. This informaton, it was said, led directly to the negro’s arrest. GERMANS HAVE SCHEME T0 OUTWIT FRENCHMEN tDeveloping Alliance To Make | Them Independent of ‘ French Iron Ores. Berlin, March 16.—Plans for mak- ing Germany independent of French iron ores have been perfected, it is fsmted here, by persons explaining the assumption of control by Hugo “Stinnes, the German industrial mag- ‘nate of the Siemens Schuckert Co. of Berlin and the Trans-Alpine Corp., an | Austrian company. Under working agreements, Herr Stinnes plans with the aid of Austrian coke to convert German iron ore into |steel. This he expects to sell in Italy and then buy foreign coal with the {proceeds under more favorable con- | ditions than would be possible than [if he was operating as a German con- cern and meeting 'difficulties of ex- change rates. (By Asso- communist Duesseldorf, March 14, clated Press).—Radical carpenters invited a number of French soldiers to assist at a union meeting here tonight. The soldiers, 'because’ of the revolutionary charac- ter of the addresses refused to stay and it became necessary to call in the local police to assist in quelling ‘the fighting which ensued. None of the soldiers was injured. ~ ' Paris, March 16.—Germany yester- day was called upon by the Allied i reparations commission to carry out | Article 236 of the Versailles treaty which stipulates Germany miust pay xbafore May 1, 1921, the equivalent of !120,000,000,000 gold marks. The treaty provides that this payment may be made in gold, commodities, ships, se- | curities or other valuables and that ' ot of this sum the expenses of the | met. { 'The commission also took steps to jcarry out Article 233 of the treaty | which provides that Germany must be notified before May 1 next the total amount of war damage imposed upon her by the treaty. JUMPS FROM BRIDGE Unidentificd Stranger Leaps to His Death From Brooklyn Bridge— Killed When He Hit Water. New York, March 15.=An unknown man apparently 50 yvears old, today | jumped off the Brooklyn bridge and was killed on striking the water. A} tug passed a rope around the body | and towed it in to the Brooklyn shore | of the East River. The captain of the tug boat, a| government craft, explained he did not have the body taken aboard be- cause it was against the regulations to take aboard a floating body. He said | he had no doubt the man was dead | because a lighter had passed over the | spot where the body came up, { Spaniard Supporting 60 | Of His Nationality Here ' As a result of the labor depression, Francisco Ferra, proprietor of Fonda Espanola, in the former Bollerer block on Commercial street, is now cloth- | ing, feeding and furnishing sleeping quarters for 60 Spaniards, all of whom are out of work. The facts were brought out in police court this morn- ing in connection with liquor charges preferred against Ferra. His hotel : the is filled to capacity but out of the guests but about half a dozen are working. G. B. A_ Baker Will Seek Reelection in 3rd Ward Councilman G. B. A. Baker has an- acy for re-eeétion STANDARD T DAYLIGHT 10 BE VOT] Senate Action To ises to Be Spicy- pose Change EYERY SENATOR BE SEEN Major Russell of to Any Halfway 3§ Wants All State o] or the Other—C. F. draw its Intimidatio Hartford, March 15 daylight saving time only spice to the a proceedings of the G today. Neither branch do. The Farmers’ the day because of its bers to “go after the arguments against d time.| It looked as if bill to be debated sin morrow would be ms extraordinary. ‘The Farmers' as the session began to pending in the senate, § adopted by the ho prevent official adop saving time. The n their desire to get © by the senate and to { matter deadlocked b No Half Major Russell of M presided, said that th for each farmer repre after the senator . and argue into him thy jections to daylight s milk producers, market gardeners, 1 others have, He said ing time was a nie people, but he had | that small children sléep, going to bed &4 rising an hour } the number of h wated in Conneé timated. People get station too .early often & whole day i8 The optional sche icipalities to enact ing ordinances, Mr. ridiculous because it fusion. He said it sl time or daylight sa the state and not Major Buckley 16 invitation said he ki way to fight the bill | to impress upon the desirability of Mr. Fillow of D that factories, sto ,an hour earlier July and change in Lobby to A motion was o] member present int from his district. It as soon as the house of member went chamber to begin th to convince senators of standard time. The special comi fered with the as to change of light saving time Sentor Drew in the vored adhering to convening, at least puts its new sched) In the house same committee rep effect, adding, that| hour earlier it maj begin session at 10:18 tunity to point out legislative days rem ought to spced up ought to work fasts Walting Mr. Baton of house and Senator ain, in the senate, priations committee waiting for other appropriation bills It was announced ticut Federation withdraw its intimi judiciary comj upon the committe bill to conform t which Attorney Gei port to the commiti DIVORGE ACT Both Sides in Stil ‘White ‘Plains, N Court proceedin for absolute divos Stillmap, pres! City bank of | needing