New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 28, 1922, Page 3

WOMAN, 75, STARVES SISTER, 82, 1S DYING Blind N. Y. Recluse Raps. on Window to Get Aid New York, Dec, 28.—A little boy and a little girl were playing In Ka- tonah avenue, The Bronx, late yes- terday afternoon when they heard a sound as of some one knocking on glass, and then they saw the wrinkled hand of an aged woman tapping on the window of the house at No. 4280, Itiis a five room two story structure, in which for many years Miss Amelia Christensen and her sister, Miss Lo- sinde Christensen, had lived alone, And during( all these years Miss Amelia, who is 82 years old, had béen blind, and her sister, who is 75, had been deaf, See Hand Tapping. The little boy and the little girl thought it curious that the hand of an aged woman should be tapping against the glass, The hand was all that they could see. Other children Joined them after a while, and the little group stood on the sidewalk laoking at the windgev and the wrinkled hand. Then Patrolman Smith of the Wakefield police station t’mw along and the children told him “what they had been looking at. Finds Cold Room. The policeman tried to peer into the window, but the pane of glass was dirty and he could see nothing. 8o he went to the door and when he found it locked he broke it down and went ‘in, He entered a cold room, with no sign of there having been a fire for a long time, and on a bed in a corner, near the window, he saw the blind woman, Miss Amelia, still raising her hand and tapping on the glass. She asked him who he was, “I'm a policeman,” said Smith, “what is the matter?” “1 think my sister is aged woman said. One Sister Dead. In another corner, lying on the floor, the policeman found the body of the dead,” the younger of the two women. She was dead, and when she was examined later by Dr. Warshaw of Fordham hospital he found that she had died of starvation. It was starvation, too, that had made her sister &0 weak that she could not call for help and could not cook food for herself. She was sent to Fordham hospital, where it was said that she probably will die. Neighbors told the police that no one knows how many years the two women lived alone in the house. They used but one room. The four other rooms were thick with dust and cob- webs. The dust was so thick on the|i floors that the shoes of the policemen were outlined in it. h Inside the house the police found a|r two dollar bill and $1.17 in cash apd | on a table a hpttle of milk, still cap- |1 ped, and a scrap of bacon and a few potatoes. These had been bought for I the aged women early in the morning by Jack Byrne, the eight year old son of James P. Byrne of 317 East 235th street, who said that he ran errands 1 , but had never been inside|by prescribing more dpecifically the :;)x: tl:-;::e They handed him the|lighting equipment of automobiles, : said.[and increasing the penalties = for money through a window, he #And the police could find no one who|s t: R e T Y ELTlN[i by the state agricultural department. fil]AIJ PII.tE M eracy test for voters. ERR R DELAYS women, which will put them on an o 1o b e and wglfare matters. Tess Fuel on Hand Than Ever Be:|&e ‘sace ¢ fore, Dealers Report b, New Britain, according to several coal dealers, has less coal on hand now than it ever had, and, although| there is some in transit, shipping ac- commodations are so inadequate that| . cars enroute since December 4 have| g not yet arrived. Local dealers are very much Ais-|, pleased at promises they claim were made them by the fuel administrator, |, ¥. W. Christ, who forced down the price by telling them he thought they could buy coal at prices agreed upon between the operators and the Penn- sylvania Fuel Commission ranging from $8.00 to $11.00 per ton, whereas the companies will not sell coal at this price, and in order to get it the dealers are compelled to pay in the neighborhood of $14, they say. For this reason, one;dealer states, they are beginning to feel rather dis- couraged, Buckwheat coal, which they expected to get for about $3.76 to $4.00 at the mines is quoted at $5.50, according to another dealer, This would bring domestic size coal to $22 cost in' New Britain, instead of the present, price of $18.50, and would bring bucklvheat to $14.00 instead of $12.00. Buckwheat coal is not so plentiful in the city as it could be, and soft coal is reported as going up in price. a month ago for $3.50 to $4.00 at the mines is being quoted today at $7.00 and is expected to go to $8.00, accord- ing to coal men. One coal dealer reports that with what he has on hand and at the present rate cars are coming in, he “will be cleaned out by the middle of Januvary. This dealer says he filled his bins to their maximum capacity last fall. Another dealer says he has 1¢ss coal on hand now than ever, and unless he gets some soon, he will be entirely out. All" agree that anything which might happen. at the time to tie up the railroads would throw the city, in. to the midst of a coal famine. “Unless people are willing now to purchase their coal with 20 per cent substitute, - they soon will be buying 100 per cent substitute,” said a dealer. [ Where this coal could be purchased ,', | { GASOLINE TAX FOR Unique' Method Employed to Pay of taxation system, cut down the cost of state government, develop the state as an agricultural center, en's rights will be asked, along with other proposed changes in the laws, of the Michigan legislature when it convenes in regular session in Janu- ary. augurated fwo years ago, by curtail- ous liquor punishable as manslaugh- the state encourage idle lands not suited to legislative district, fore the legislature by virtue of the state interest. money to retire the $61,650,0000 state to the tax burden on real property; the income tax, | SALE OF FINE | WRITING PAPER to clean up our Goxed Paper before inventory we ¢ are offering the remaining boxes at 20 per cent off. MICHIGAN PEOPLE Gost of New Highway Lansing, Mich., Dec. 28-—Enactment legislation to remodel the state's tighten” the ‘blue sky'” laws and broaden wom- Outstanding in the prospective leg- slation are the following proposals: To provide a gasoline tax to finance highway development and mainte- nance without a real property tax. To make more compact the central- zed state government which was in- ng and combining departments. To make the furnishing of poison- er. To tighten the motor vehicle laws, peeding and reckless driving. To delegate to the state agricul- ural ‘college much of the work done To provide what amounts to a lit- To provide a bill of rights for qual standing with men in business To enact a land certification law enable non-residents of he state to invest in Michigan's un- developed lands and to provide that reforestation of agriculture y reducing taxes. The reapportionment of the state which comes be- 920 federal census, stands high In Oother measures in- lude provision for a eugenics law; to evise ways and means of raising onded indebtedness without adding nd to make insanity grounds for di-| Bentley.” The Giants agreed to pay orce. the local club, $66,000 casi®and three An attempt may be made to revive|players, The other players have not which was initiated Also Few Leather Pieces and ADKINS 66 CHURCH ST. Valera replying to the recent criticism of his attitude by public is acting as trustee of the government and it is prepared to surrender its authority the moment the rightful parliament of the nation—namely, Dail—is allowed to meet, and the su- preme court of the republic is allow- ed to determine the legal and con- stitutional sides are now trying to solve by force. pitcher, has been turned over to the Baltimore Internationals by the New York Giants as part payment for Jack been named. A chance to stock up on High Grade Paper at very low prices. Horace 0. Wetmore, 21, a day la- borer in a Chicago packing plant, soon will wed Mary Helen Shipman, musical comedy star. However, Wet- more is just learning the - packing business “from the ground up” at present, as some day he will inherit the millions of his father, Frank O. Wetmore, 'Chicago banker, ' Pictures show the engaged couple. by the 1921 legislature and defeated by the voters. HOW TO TELL GOOD STENOGRAPHER, READ! Head, Chin and Cheeks Figure in Test Devised By .Chicago Expert. Chicago, Dec. 28,—The National Commercial Teachers Federation con- vention got a few tips here on how to tell an intelligent stenographer. “If a girl has a long pointed chin, bigh cheek bones and a large for head she is the ideal girl to do steno- graphic work,” said Dr. J. M. Fitz- gerald of Chicago, speaking on “The Application of Practical Applied Psychology to Student Management and Direction.” “Thd front, or first section of the head is composed of the powers of in- telligence,” he said, *the middle part contains the mental powers or pep, and the back of the head the ablility to think and act quickly. “If a young iady has a iarge fore- head it denotes that she is intelligent; if she has high cheek bones it shows she has the power to carry on or, we might say, pep: and if the girl pos- sesses a long pointed chin she has the ability to think and act without first pondering the subject.” DE VALERA'S VIEW — Says Authority Should Be Given To Second Dail Dublin, Dec. 28. (By Associated Press)—The Irish Bulletin today prints a statement from Eamon De President Cos- grove. In the communication the re- publican leader says: ‘‘The present government of the re- the emergency the second differences which both VbR ey GIANTS GIVE “RED" CAUSEY Baltimore, Dec. 28.—"'Red” Causey, velties tod an the the she louse to see Theresa while she was alone in the daytime, her duri any one the MUSSOLINI MAY NOT ATTEND |been sent to Governor Lake. The re- port shows that Connecticut banks Paris, Dec. 28 ( By the Associated Press)-—Reports Brooklyn Girl Possibly Acciden-| heart, disclosed by the autopsy another child of similar uge was re- sponsible for the tragedy. The deduction was that the bullet's course would &ave been rather than upward, had an older and taller person fired the shot, and in this bellef the search was continued for ohe of Theresa's playmates, frightened ‘|into silence by quences, The police angles in hope of the merest clue and with a dragnet over have in custody James P. Grace, Brooklyn, 25, a collector, on compiaint of the father of a six yecar old Bronx girl who was attacked by a man M a hallway of her home December 6. The prisoner, the police said, is being investigated in similar complaint concerning a girl in day: McCarthy girl. nothing has .been police said, to connect this man with child’s mother has been unable to aid “There are very few Theresa ever played house,"” to play.” Scores of mothers and children in tioned in an effort to trace the owner of a 22 calibre weapon. The pupils of St. Cecelia’s school nearby also|in the last vear, and the assets of have been asked to help the detec-|these institutions show an additional tives but none could recall knowing a child having one. WOLVES DEVOUR 3 MEN IN FAR NORTH INK CHILD HAY HAVE BEEN SLAYER An FElderly White Trapper and Two Indians Fall Victims to a Horde of Hungry Boasts, Port Arthur, Ont, Dec, 28.—A great roving band of hungry timber tally Killed by Playmate | left his cabin in the woods 70 miles north of Jgnace to mush down to the settlement for his Christmas mall, He |arrived in safety, There was no mall, however, and the old man said he would come back Christmas morning. At noon he had not arrived. The postmaster sent two Indlans to fol- low the trail yntil they found him. About two miles from the settle- ment the Indians found a spot pound- ed down in the snow. There was blood. Bits of dog harness torn to shreds were scattered about. In the midst of them the Indians found and ay inclined more to the theory that downward the' tragic conse- working on various the city, Important Commencing January 1st, 1923 THE COLONIAL EXPRESS New York, New Haven & Hartford's popular daylight train will carry bones. They 'hastened back to re- port their - discovery, The lure of the bounty on wolves, however, urged the Indians to take of Yolves hay dovoured three men, ac- through sleeping car daily between New York, Dec., 28—Brooklyn's|C0rding to meagre reports sifting in N keenest detectives, puzzied for a solu. from the snow-covered tralls of the BObTON and ST. PETERS URG' FLA. tion of the mysterious . shooting of :ll;:lrxe’on r]lvelr country. These reports Leaving New London ..... 11:40 a. ' m. Theresa McCarthy, ten year oid school 1014 of a losing battle fought by two Leaving New Hayv i 3 girl in Wér home Tuesday, took note|Indians after a white trapper had Ieuving Brid :llr:n ' 1%:;% ¥ B of the slightly upward course of the|been downed and killed, AWVIE gepors. g & P W 22 callbre bullet that plerced her| last Saturday an elderly trapper Arriving Jacksonville 8:35 p. m. next eve- ning, and at St. Petersburg, Fla. second morning 8:40 a. m. Direct connection made at Jacksonville for all East Coast Resorts. ONLY through Florida sleeper with day- light departure from Connecticut points and morning arrival in Florida. Make reservations now. Consult your local ticket agent or SEABOARD AIR LINE RY. 142 West 42nd St. Notice New York City the -trail agath, with extra ammuni- tion, They sped behind the dog team into the woods as the villagers waved good-bye. . They did not return, Yesterday a new searching party de- parted. They found another, patch trodden in the snow, with much more blood, "about two mijes beyond the first. The two guns the Indians had carried were lying in the crimsoned snow. Scattered about were bones, bits of clothing and empty shells. The carcasses of 16 dead wplves— some half eaten—lay stretched in a circle about the remains of the two, Indian hunters, connection with &« East 89th street Manhattan two s later, and also in the case of the Thus far however established, the Brooklyn mystery. The slain police in identifying any person thinks may have entered the She had asked to permit no boys in the house ing her absence. girls that with dn the she said, ‘“and never had boys here. Occasionally she had or two girl chums in the house CONNECTICUT SAVINGS GROW Deposits Increased $27,850,000 in One Year. Hartford, Dec. 28.—Deposits in sav- ings banks and trust companies in Connecticut have increased $27,850.11 neighborhood have been ques- increase of $30,658,751.96, according to the annual report of Bank Com- - missioner John B. Bryne which has never before were in a more heathful received by the|sondition. A Christmas Club Membership Makes It Easy To Save (said today to indicate that the Italian French foreign office of conversations with Premier Mussolini in Rome were state cial deposits of all banks 427,519.08 in 1921. on collateral show slight while loans on real estate have premier may be prevented by ques- tions of interior politics from attend- ing next Tuesday's conference of The total of savings and commer- $594,277,679.19, compared with $553,- Loans by banks increases, in- JOIN THE* NATIONAL BANK premiers in Paris. Don't stay stuffed-up! ing and snuffiing! Qmpound" every two three doses are taken. opens clogged-up nostrils and air pas- sages of head; relieves headache, Special New Years Midnight Frolic New Years Eve at 12:01 BIG AUGMENTED VAUDE creased approximately $15,000,000. . CHRISTMAS CLUB ‘ ~————THIS WEEK : LOLDS “Pape’s Cold Compound’’ Breaks a Cold in Few Hours Quit blow- Take “Pape’s Cold hours until The first dose ness, sneezing. 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