New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 27, 1923, Page 1

Average Daily Circulation Week Ending 9 ,299 April 21st PRICE THREE CENTS g ; /8 of the World Associated Press ” { BLISHED 1870 JARLSON PLANNED MURDER OF WIFE MONTH BEFORE DROWNING HER, AUTHORITIES SAY; | HELD WITHOUT BONDS FOR HEARING MAY 1 | MYSTERIOUS GUNMEN KILL —————— Newington Road Man, 3 PROLE I ONE HOUSE | | Showing no Emotion, Okll:;m:dl'l:‘::: ::«-fi:::l ::-sh- Pleads Not Guilty to by Two Unidentified Men [ Holding Woman's Head Haworth, Okla,, April 27.-~Thomas | Under Water Till Death EW BRITAIN HERALD NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 1923, —~TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES IALERT PATROLWAN | - PREVENTS SUICIDE™ {Police Think Carlson Was Trying| to Take Own Life JUST BEPORE MIDNIGHT| e —————— ———————t—— e —————" ——— S ————— AP R 12 PERISH IN FLAMES WHICH SWEEP N. Y. TENEMENT HOUSE; FAMILY OF 5 AMONG VICTIMS City Employe, Sounding Alarm, Saves Many ALLEGED SLAYER AND VICTIM Hammill, & planter, his wife and their daughter, a Mrs, Tope, and the lat- ter's ten year old son were shot to death when they were called to the Lives—Taxi Driver Uses Top of Cab as Life Net—Six, Hanging From Window Sills, Res- cued—Another Family New York, April 27. swept through a tenement in ea: of Three Is Wiped Out. ——Twelve persons perished in a fire which st 109th street early today. A family of five were among the victims dying in a fiftth floor apart- ment. Scores fled the flame-filled structure by way of the fire escapes, while a dozen others were spectacularly rescued by police and firemen, Many more persons according to the police, City Employe Is Hero. would have been trapped by the flames, city employe living acmg:dfxi'(t)ll?ogh:eir\;lfr?:dA\éiflzafi:ax}t{.mgm)maialNEEnLE lN wnMAN’S H covered the fire. Seeing smoke and flames shooting from a fourth floor window Kaufman telephoned a fire alarm and immediately | rushed across the street into the burning structure and ran through tween shouts of “fire.” spreading flames enveloped the the halls of the five floors blowing a police whistle be-| As he fled from the building the rapidly wooden stairways driving the 40 or more tenants still in the building to seek safety through the windows or on the fire escapes. SABOTAGE RAMPANT | IN OCCUPIED ZONE Five Bombs in Rubr District Demoralize Traffic ATTEMPT 10 RUN BLOGKADE Make During Excitement. Germans Effort 10 Slip Quantities of Goods | { | Past Guards Into Intevior Germany, | But Are Prevented. 27 (By Asso- Duesseldorf, April separate bomb clated Press).—Five explosions on the Juhr rallroads during the night cut rallway tclt‘-‘ graph and telephone communications, temporarily disorganizing traffic. French headquarters said the explo- slons had caused most serlous damage since the beginning of the occupa- tion. During the confusion the Germans: made a series of eiforts to run the/ customs barrior into Interlor Ger- many, but large quantities of goods; | which the Germans were trying to| | get through were seized by the! | I'rench, Tracks Are Demolished. The explosions tore up sections of | track and blew down the wires along- | | side in cach finstance. In one case | near Bomann a French troop !rnnlw | heavily loaded had a narrow escape.; | The explostons cut the line from the | castern Ruhr to Duesseldorf which is| much used for troop movements and | the carriage of supplies. Four other llnes were cut In the vicinity of Hat-| tingen. Attempted Train Wreck, | Besldes these cases of violence, the| Trench authorities report that an| Many Thrilling Rescues 'wenty persons were injured and firemen made spectacular rescues of many of the 200 living in the build- ing. Seven of the dead were members of the family of David Mandelbaum a painter who had planned to move today to a iittle farm up-state. They wege: Afrs, Mandelbaum and her children, | Alexander 4, Benjamin 8, Morris 10, Michael 12, Minnfe¢ 16, and a year old baby. The other dead were Aaron Kluxis, his wife, their daughter: Bertha 21, thelr son David 18, and a relative, Mrs. Isaac Brownstein, who was visit- ing them. Little Boy Saved Mandelbaum, who was rescued by firemen and police after he had made desperate attempts to rescue his fam- ily, sald he was awakened by smoke and when he opened the door of his bedroom he was met with a rush of flame. His little son, Hyman, who aiso had been awakened, crawled on his hands and knees behind him, Mandelbaum placed the youngster on| the fire escape and told him to climb down and walt for the firemen. He was rescued. Fire Cuts Off Hope When Mandelbaum, meanwhile shouting “Fire!” turned to go back %o his apartments he was horrified to see flames shooting from the hall. Valnly he tried to get in his rooms but the flames beat him back. He was stag- gering in again when firemen, sum- i moned on three alarms pulied him to |safety. By this time the building was a roaring furnace and the firemen were driven out of the buiiding. The Kluxis family which occupied, an apartment opposite the Mandel-| baums was trapped. Mrs. Brownstein was pulled out of the room uncon-| scious by firemen and taken to a hos-| pital where she died. | PBride-to-Be Killed. Bertha Kluxis, who was to have been married June 17 lost her life because she went back to her apart-| ments for her wedding dress. Two policemen, James Corcoran { Al of the persons shot were sleep- door of the Hammill home near here early today by two unknown men on | horseback. A five year old daughter | of Mrs. Tope was probably fatally| wounded. | ing In a front room of the housa when the horsemen called them to the { door. Two boys in another room es- caped injury. 1 Neighbors declared that they saw two men on horseback ride rapidly| away after they heard the shooting. They sald Mrs. Tope and her hus- | band were estranged and she had come to her father's home to live from Texas, WRIST SINGE GIRLHO0D {Plainville Doctor Discovers Article by Using 1 X-Ray | o SREIH (Special to The Herald), Plainville, April 27.~—~A needle which had evidently been in her arm since childhood was extracted yester- day afternoon from the wrist of Mrs. Antoinetta DeRose of New Britain by Dr. L. H. Frost. Mrs, DeRose called at the office of Dry Frost on Wednesday. afternoon, | complaining that a pain in her left| wrist had made her hand useless, and asked the doctor to make an examina- tion of the member. Dr. Frost im- mediately took an X-ray picture of the hand and arm and told the woman, ! to come back the next day and he would tell her if he found anything. | ‘When the plate had been developud.l | the doctor discovered that a needle, | with the eye In plain view, was lodged | in the back of the woman's hand, Jjust below the wrist. When Mrs. De- | Rose returned yesterday to the oftice, the doctor told her what he had found but the woman insisted that he was wrong and that he had gotten the pic- ture of another hand mixed up with hers. The doctor, however, convinced the woman that it was impossible, and she consented to allow him to operate | i and extract the needle. | Locating the spot, Doctor Frost drew the needle from the hand. It is of the small stitching variety, meas- uring about two inches in length. Only about three quarters of the needle was left, the sharp point having been broken off. Dr. Frost questioned the woman, | asking her to recall, if possible, any | time in which she had plunged the needle into her flesh, but the woman stated that she had no recollection ot‘ ever having done such a thing. She said that the needle must have been in her wrist since childhood. | She had been bothered with the wrist for many months and bad visit- ed nine doctors in the state within| that time. She said that most ot them had been treating her for rheumatism, sclatica of the arm, or neuritis. Dr. Frost, in discussing the case this morning, stated that he has never at- | tended such an unusual occurrence | before. Sometimes, he said, he has | cide attempt, the policeman took | Noise in Celiroom Attracts At- tention—Prisoner, Shirt Torn, Found Huddled On Floor— Refuses to Talk to Bluecoat. | Prompt action by Patrolman| § Gustav Hellberg shortly before midnight is believed by police officials to have prevented John A. Carlson, held on a murder | charge, from committing sui- cide. ! Attracted by a noise in the| cellroom, the patrolman has-| tened down and found Carlson JOHN A. CARLSON | MRS. GERDA NELSON CARLSON Lot P Lone Guard, Aged 50, Armed With | Shg@, Frustrates Jail Break the shirt away and asked if he had tried to kill himself. Silence was his only answer. ! Carlson had evidently been stand- ing up, according to Policeman Hell- berg, who in his report to Chief W, (. Hart said that the accused did not have his coat and vest on. He also had removed his shirt and it was torn in several places as though he might have endeavored to make a strong cord out of it. Policeman Hellberg took the shirt away from the prison- er and turned it over to Lieutenant Samuel Bamforth. | PLAN FOR McALL VISITORS Supper Avranged For Wiclnesdiy: 5 A oy People of Oity Desired ug.mumoc 10th National Meeting. Mrs. Stanley T. Goss, In her capa- city as quasi-supervisor of the mate- rial comfort of delegates and visitors expected to attend the Fortieth An-. nual National meeting of the Amerl-| can McAll association to be held here | Wednesday and Thursday of next| week, has made arrangements for a | supper to be served Wednesday after the afternoon session for the conve- nience of those who do not care to hurry home immediately. The “low cost of ltving” price of 75 cents will obtain on this occasion, while the “Dollar Luncheon” for members of the McAll association which will be held is expected to be another of the pleasurable features of the two-days’ meeting. While all members of the New Britain McAll Auxillary are expected to evince esperial interest in all the sesslons held during the two days at St. Mark’s Episcopal church, and at the South Congregational church, the officers of the New Britain branch are hoping that the people of the city | interested in the work of the Misgion in France and in the welfare of the | French children, will give their ap- | 18 Prisoners at St. Louis, Using Iron Bars an Clubs, in Vain Attempt to Escape—Six in Hospital,, Rest in Dungeon. 8t. Leuis, April 27.—(By the Asso- clated Press)—Eighteen prisoners armed with iron bars and clubs, who | attempted to escape from the city workhouse today ‘were overcome hy & fingie guard, and as a result six ace In the city hospitai suffering from buckshot wounds in the legs, and the remaining are in solitary confinement. The prisoners sawed through bars in the cell room and let themselves into the prison yard by a rope. One of the prisoners, with a clever image of a pistol carved out of wood, attempted to hold up Fred Giese, 60 year old guard, and obtain his keys. Glese opened fire and two of the group of prisoners fell, The shots at- tracted five other guards who sent volieys into the crowd of prisoners, wounding! four more. A police riot call was sounded, but by the time the officers arrived the guards had sub- dued the prisoners. The other prisoners of the group which attempted to escape later were founding hiding in the yard. ‘BABE’ IS EXONERATED, CHARGE WAS FRAME-UP Dixon zirl Withdraws Action and Admits It Was preciated moral support to the cause by attending these sessions which will | be addressed by prominent men and women speakers whose work and in- | terest have taken them all over this country and into the heart of France. | Part of Conspiracy New York, April 27.—Miss Dolores Ixon, who reeently brought suit for CLAIMS SPIRIT LETTER Toledo Medium Brings Forth Purporting To Come From Sir A. Conan Doyle’s Mother. Note Toledo, O., April 37.—A scribbled' note purporting to be a message from his dead mother was received by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle last night during a seance with Miss Ada Bessinet, dis- tinguished Toledo medium. The letter béginning “My dear son” informed Sir Arthur that his mother bhad tried to come to him in spirt, but teiling, apprised him of her presence by means of the note. The English novelist also received what he sald was a whispered mes- sage from his nephew, Oscar, kiile in the world war. Several “spirit” faces appeared before him and before other members of the party but none was recognized during the evening. J. Malcolm Baird, associate editor of | the Scientific American, attended the seance. WANTS 10 HANG T00 Brother of Condemned Georgia Man, ) Himself Given Commutation of Sen- tence, Not Satisfied. Rome, Ga., April 27,—George Baker who was to be hanged today for the murder of J. W, Morton, deputy sher- ift of Walker county in March, 1922, | was removed from the county jail here at an early hour today and tak- en by the sheriff to Lafayette, 46 miles away in an automobile, The sheriff, according to officials, | observing that feeling in Rome was | running high, lll"i‘hw to get Baker to the Walker county seat by motor. Baker's brother, Ralph, whose death sentenc® was commutted by ! Governor Hardwick to life imprison- ment, begged to accompany his broth- er to the gallows. | SR Lafayette, Ga., April 27.—George Baker was hanged here today for the | | Police Failed to Investigate . ' Until Urged to by Mayor | Paonessa, Who Ordered Them to Get Busy. John A. Carlson of 36 Newing- | ton road late yesterday after-, noon confessed to the New Brit- | ain police authorities that he had killed his wife, Mrs. Gex’da! Nelson Carlson, on the night of | March 24, when a Ford coupe in ¢ which they were riding toppled| over a steep embankment at the! foot of Sand Bank hill on South, Main street, into Willow Bmok.i In police court this morning he| entered a plea of not guilty to a ch;:ltge of first dfegree murder and on request of his attorney, P. F. McDonough, Judge Gecprg'e1 W. Klett continued his case untilj Tuesday morning of next week without bonds. The “Herald” heard to- day that the police investi- gated the “accident” only after being instructed to do so by Mayor Paonessa. The mayor confirmed this report this noon. He said that he had had several calls con- cerning the “accident”, had investigated the case per- sonally by visiting the scene and inspecting the automo- bile and had called in the police the following day, suggesting that an investi- gation be prosecuted. While the police claim credit for unraveling the mystery, they failed to act until or- dered to do so by their su- perior. e According to the alleged con- fession made to the police Carl- son had premeditated not only the killing of his wife but of himself as well for more than a month. Mrs. John Swanson of 62 Newington road and a friend lof the family told him that Mrs. Carlson had told her that she was going to kill her husband and a Mrs. Arthur Taylor of 60 Newington road and then throw herself in front of a locomotive to end her own life, Carlson ad- mitted to the police. This was told him more than one month before the murder took place, he said, and from that time on, the police say, he made plans as to which would, be the easiest way to get rid of himself and his wife. He told the police that he did not be- lieve in hanging or in shooting attempt was made to wreck a pas- and John Malone, a taxicab driver, 1 4 of h dis # ear vhera o e b Aok e B o $50,000 damages against “‘Babe” Ruth|murder of Deputy Sherift J. W. Mor- [ senger traln near Mayence by placing | | huge pleces of iron and stcel on the | | tracks. | | The German efforts to run the | French customs barrier into unoccu-! pled Germany resulted in the largest| havl of merchandise made since the| oceupation. The French selzed six “w.otor trucks, loaded with bolts of| silk valued at 16,000,000,000 marks | that had just left the silk mills near | Vowinkel, The Germans claim a trap had been set for them in this| case. They asserted a Frenchman | came to them and offered for a con-| slderation to show how the customs| blockade could be run along a certain | load left unguarded at night but that when the silk caravan they arranged | to send arrived at this road a detach- | ment of French soldiers surrounded | the Germans and confiscated the en- tire outfit, | Much Goods Seired. A truckload of scissors and knives| | and other fine cutlery from Solingen| likewise was selzed in the same | manner in this district. Thh con-| signment was valued at 700,000,000 marks. j Two trainloads of goods also were | seized last night while trying to run| the gauntlet. The French at Apler- beck got 19 cars loaded with coal and | merchandiee consigned to Berlin, while the Belgians at Glapbech seized a trainload of manufactured articles. City Hall May Observe | 1 Daylight Time Monday City hall offices will probably ob- serve the daylight saving time sched- ule beginning Monday of next week, lalthough this had not been definitely [ dectded today. Mayor A. M. Paones- sa and City Clerk A. L. Thompson feel that, if business houses offices land stores change their schedules, it lwill make it more convenient for tax- pl.yers to have the city bullding on a |similar schedule. | Group to Probe East End Needs }elsl end of the city Louis Maskowitz and a local pugilist, | ‘Mannie” Freeman, made heroic res-| cues. The bluecoats carried Mrs.| ‘(Continued on Uage Twenty-three) | MAYOR NAMES COMMITTEE | | Fourth Ward Members of Council on For Playgrounds and Schools. Alderman J. Gustav Johnson and Counclimen C. Adrian Carlson, George Molander, John A. Larson and Law-! rence P, Stanley, were named today by Mayor A. M. Paonessa as a com- mittee to investigate the needs of the for additional accommodations and play- Those named comprise the in the school gronnds. fourth ward representation common council. The new committee will take up for consideration a petition from residents of the east end, asking that play- grounds be provided In the summer, more class rooms provided and that portable school houses be dispensed fith at the East and Smith schools.) NONAGENARIAN DES | | South High Street Woman, 90 Years|,.conization. | 0Old, Dies Early This Morning at| Homie of Son. Mrs. Harriet A. Bell, widow nf} James Bell, dicd this morning at 6:15 o'clock, aged 90 years. She is sur- vived by a son, Elbert W. Bell of this: oity with whom she made her home, | and a daughter, Mrs. Edwin Tidlund of Pittsburgh: The funeral will be held tomorrow at 2 p. m. from the home, 58 South High street and in« terment will be in Falrview cemetery. passed through a person's body, but it had always been intact and with a| point. He belleves because the point | had been broken off the needle in Mrs. | DeRose's hand, leaving the end blunt, that it was the cause of so much suf- fering on the part of the woman. | He said that the fact that.the needle | | | | | was blackened, showed that it had been In the woman's body for some | time. Mrs. DeRose said that the pain which had been intensa had left her, | and she whs elated to diecover that the cause of her ailment had been removed for good. Mrs. J. J. Mulvihill Honored | By Pride Circle, Foresters Members of Pride Circle, Lady For- esters, presented their commander, | Mrs. John J. Muivihill, with a hand-! some bouquet of red carnations at a | meeting of the Circle Jast night, the occasion being Mrs, Mulvihill's birth- day. Past Commander C. W. Holmes | made the speech of presentation, af- | ter which Mra. Mulvihill was escorted | to the banquet hall where a delightful | luncheon had been provided in her honor by members of the circle. The many friends of Mrs. Mulvihill extend- ed their congratulatons and well wishes, She has been one of the most active members of Pride Circle for several years and is now serving her | first term in the highest office of the ('ambrid-g'r-efili‘[an Pleads Not Guilty to Murder | Framingham, Mass,, April 27.—8al-| vatore Letteri arrested in Cambridge yesterday, pleaded not guilty to a charge of murder in the djstrict court || here today in connection with the shooting of Patrolman Willlam H. Weleh on-February 3. The case was continued until May 4 and Letter! was remanded without bail. I IS AWARD Col. Blanton Winship Gets War Deco- | ration for Bravery Under Fire With | 110th U. S. Infantry. Paris, April 27, (By Press).——American Ambassador Her- rick today presented in the name of President Harding the D. 8 C. to Col. Blanton Winship, now attached to the Associated ‘ | dinary and heroic action as colonel o the 110th infantry near Lachausse: on November 9, of the New York Yankees, home run king, alleging seduction and assault, withdrew her case today. The with- drawal was made just as the case of Robert McChesney, who was to have been examined in supreme court as ta the record of Miss Dixon, was about to be called. McChesney did not appear when cailed and Herman Bushel, Ruth's at- torney asked that the case be dis missed. He produced a stipulation signed by Mise Dixon, her guardian ad litem, Barbara V. Escoe and her attorney, George Feinberg withdraw- | ” - | reparation commission for ‘‘extraor ling the suit Bushe! announced he also had ob- ained a confesslon signed by Miss dixon in which she admitted the suit The ambassador also conferred the | D. 8. M. upon Col, Nelson Dean Jay, “for exceptionally meritorious and distinguished services.” | Stamford Cobbler Slashed | Across Face by Opponent | Greenwich, April 2 John Mahar- | is, who cobbles shoes hers, was slash- ed across the face with a razor in the hands of G. Grinaldi while he was leaving a leather store in Stamford last night, according to a police re- port today. Maharis is in the Stam- ford hospital in a serious condition from loss of blood. Grinaldl has dis- appeared. THE WEATHER st Hartford, April 27.—Forecast | | for New Britain and vicinity: Generally faiv tonight and Sat. unday, somewhat warmer to- night. Saturday continned mild variable winds. *. was the result of a frameup in which several parsons were involved. Ruth's attorney declined to reveal the docu- ment, saving he would show it to “Babe” in Boston today then turn it over to the district attorney here for investigation. The stipulation signed by the plain tiffs which Ruth’s attorneys submitted to the court was in the form of an party against the other, an order to that effect to he entered without no tice by either party to the other.” ‘When the suit was announced, Ruth vigorously denied that he had ever known or seen \liss Dixon and was Joined by Mrs. Ruth in denouncing the case as a blackmail scheme. | |Draft lio:i-éer Bergdoll Reported in Lower Cal. Los Angeles, April 27.—Reports that Grover Cleveland Bergdoll is in the northern part of Lower California and spends his time between Ensen- ada and Tajuana were brought today to Los Angeles by private individuals. /He fled to Germany from the Unites l?utes. ton at Durham in this county in March of last year. DEATH OF OLAF ADOLPHSON i | Resident of New Britain for 60 Years | Dieq at Hospital at Age of 70— Vuneral Tomorrow Afternoon. Olaf Adolphson died at the New Britain general hospital last yesterday afternoon at the age of 79 years. He was a resident of New Britain for 60 years and has been retired for some time. He leaves three sons, Henry of Hartford, Willlam of Springfield and Arthur of New Rritain, and three | danghters Mrs. J. Young of Man-| cnester, Mrs, J. Leanreaux of Hart- ford and Mrs. D. V. DeMers of New Britain. Tuneral be held to- morrow afternoon the Demers home at 31 Fairview street and will be private. Rev. G, K. Pihl will offici- ate. services will at |agreement by which the suit was to! Ibe withdrawn “withont costs to either |y tanley School Extension Is Practically Assured; | At least one matter is practically | decided upon as a recommendation of |the city meoting board’s school sur- lvey committee, that being proposed | extensions at the Stanley school at the |eorner of Stanley and Wells streets, lin the Belvidere section of the cit |The survey committee is reported to | b unanimous in its belief that exten- |stons are needed here and that the )FGNHMA should be dona mway with, | QUITS RESERVE BOARD | Washington, April 27.—~The nation of John R. Miller of St. Panl, " rosig- | {hought his wife | mitted that an a and after passing Willow Srook on South Main street near the Berlin town line, he thought that drowning would be the best means. Continuing with his story the police say, Carlson said that on Saturday aft ernoon, March 24, at abont 1 o'clock he and his wife left New Britain and went Plainville. From Plainvilla they went to Southington and on ton Meriden where they had luneh in a down town restaurant. From Meriden they returned to New Britain and stopped at the house a few moments before continwing on to Hartford. They did not stop in Hartford but went on to South Manchester ana on their return trip they stopped at Hart's Fur shop on Trumbhull street, Hartford, where the prisoner said he fur coat He ad- ument ensued rela- purchasing of the coat in- ited one which and he did not to tive to the asmuch as his wife cost mora than $300 |feel as though he could afford to pay more than $160. He hought the $150 and paid for it with a check, knowing at the time that he did not wve any monev in the bank on which the cheek was drawn on. Taunted Him About Male Friends They returned to New Britain by way of Blmwood and Stanley street until they reached Fast Main street, passed North & Judd's and continued to Kast street going directly past Newington road. They again turned on to Stanley street to where tha murder occurred He said that she argued and tormented him all the way home from Hartford because of the fur coat and said that if he did not want to furnish her with good clothes she could get them from orher men. Carlson said that . these re coat | from the federal reserve board was presented to President Harding today | by Secretary Mellon, marks caused him to make up his (Continued on Page 23.)