New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 11, 1923, Page 14

New Yorker Murdered a5 He L Sits on Steps New York, Aug. 11.—While 100 members of the Congregation Minsk, on the first floor of 22 Rutgers street, werg holding services for the respose of the soul of the late President Harding yesterday afternoon, Louis Bchwartzman, 20 years old, living in the same building, was shot dead in the hallway outside of the synagogue. A girl friend, Miss I2dna Churgin, 16 years old, of 17 Rutgers Place, was sitting beside him at the time. Schwartzman, who lived with his mother and two sisters, Lena and Frances, on the second floor, had just left his home. He told his mother he was going downstairs to get some air. ‘When he reached the sf89p leading to the street he met Miss @hurgin. They stood theredtalking for.a while, and then sat down in two chairs in the hallway. They had been sitting there only a few minutes, when two men came walking up the street and without warning drew revolvers and began fir- ing ‘at Schwartzman. Three shots were fired, one. bullet striking Schwartzman in the left side of the chest. The other two went wild, one of them narrowly missing the Chur- gin girl and others standing in front of the house. The gunmen ran to a taxicab which ‘was standing a block away, threaten- ing, with their revolvers, several by- standers and Miss Churgin, who ran toward them. The murderers leaped into the machine, the’ engine of which had been running and sped away, go- ing west on Madison street. The screams of those outside of the house and the sounds of the shots caused a panic in the neighborhood. orshippers in the synagogue, hear- ing the screams of the Churgin girl, rushed into the street. Some one in the crowd, recognizing the young man, notified ' the mother and his sisters. Mrs. Schwartzman, who with her daughters came running down the stairs, at sight'6f her dead son col- lapsed. Bchwartzman was taken to Governeur hospital. Doctor Levinsky said the young man had been killed Anstanfly by a shot through the heart. Al Captain of Detectives Corne- Uus Wilhemse and the reserves of tfie Clinton Street station soon arrived on the scene. Witnesses gave fairly good descriptions of the two men and the number of the taxicab to the police. Detectives questioned Miss Churgin, but she would throw no light on the shooting. The police believe that Jealousy prompted the murder, and .are checking up former admirers of lives at 151+ West 53rd street, Man- hattan. FIVE MORE WOMEN DIE FROM SCALDING Succession of Patalities Follow Nyack Bus Wreck New York, Aug. 11-—8ix women and girls, all employees of the, Christian Herald, have died so far from burns received in the accident near Nyack, on Thursday, when a bus carrying 60 skidded into a concrete mixer, in such a way that the stepcock was snapped off on a boiler filled with live steam. Three more are in. a serious condi- tion, \ The youngest of the girls, Miss Jean Reda, 18, whose death was announced yesterday, was first to succumb, and the eldest was the last to go, up to a late hour last night. Miss Louise Arzt, 30, of 90 Corona {avenue, Long Island, died at 5:30 o'clock in the morning. Miss Lillian Johnson, 28, of 1169 Avenue A, who, like Miss Reda, had been engaged in the charity department interested in the colony for New York children, died at 7 o'clock. Miss Loretta Ydunger, 18, of 120 West 137th street, did at 8:50. Mrs, Jessie Townsend, 41, of 255 West Thirty<third street, died at 2:10 in the afternoon. Mrs. A.'V. Beekman, 64, of 266 West 121st street, died at 8:05 o’clock last night. ‘Woman Shows Fortitude. Mrs. Beekman's fortitude astonished physicians and nurses. Suffering in- tensely herself, she tried to tell them that she did not need immediate at- tention and that the younger women should be taken care of first. Three of the women whose injuries had been considered serjous at first returned yesterday ot their homes and their recovery is assured. Hope was expressed also for Miss Ruth Epstein of 815 Fifth avenue and for Miss Ella McBride of 830 Quincy street, Brooklyn, but the best that could be said for Misses Emily Ehren- terg of 4565 West Forty-seventh street, Kate 8. Benedict of 1337 Clintén ave- nue, The Bronx, and Goldie Leiner of 84 Hast 112th street was that their recovery was doubtful. The physicians in attendance are Drs. G. F. Blauvelt, president of the Nyack Hospital board; G. A. Leitner, John Sanson, John L. Sly and Leo Weishaar. An inquest was started by Dr. Ed- ward . Flenders, coroner of Rockland county, N, J., and testimony was taken in New City from Cornelius Vander- bilt, president of the Vanderbilt Con- struction company, operating the con- crete mixer, from his son and from the fireman on the job. Others who testified, or who will testify, because the inquest will. be completed today, are Graham Patterson, publisher of the Christian Herald; Ray D. Henkle, managing editor)’ and a policeman. Known_in New Haven New Haven, Aug. 11.—According to Hunt's intimates in this city he left for New,York early yesterday morn- ing discouraged because he had not sufficient means to make the trip to the English channel, He had hopes, it is said, of picking up some addi- tional funds in the metropolis, but it is evident that he failed. For weeks he had planned on the trip, and had gotten himself in wonderful shape for the blg swim. He had a good under- standing of the difficulty of the feat and had worked hard to be physically fit. S YHis enthusiasm was unbounded and his confidence in his ability to meet the test knew _no limit, Hunt lives ‘in Meadow street. is manried and has three children, His main object in seeking outside aid was to see that his family had the where- withal to live while he wag abroad. He is 33 years old and it is under- stood that he was born ih the Virgin Islands where he learned t§ swim and there his prowess in the |water was first given recognition. H s known'| {as the "Human Tug" because of his lability to tew while swimming unbe- lievable weights carried in boats which he pulled along by means of a | harness ahout his shoulders, His most recent feat, the culmina- tion of his training for the channel swim was his swimming across Long Island Sound on July 15, At that time, accompanied by Dot Taylor, they swam the Sound in a little over 14 hours for the 23 miles. DRY LAW AGENTS SLAIN IN MOONSHINERS' FIGHT Only One of Party of Four Returns From Ambuscade in Ken- ' tucky Mountains. Linnut, Aug. 11.—Wounded in the shoulder and left leg and crawl- ing and stumbling along, Alex Gay- heart of Perry county, one of the prohibition enforcement officers in R. L. Stewart's force, made his way into the railroad station at Linnut early vesterday, reporting that he was the only man ieft of a party of four pro- hibition men headed by Stewart who entered the mountains late Thursday afternoon to capture a band of moon- shiners said to be near Cockerill's Fork, on Lost Creek. The other, thfee men in the prohi- bition party were R..lL. Stwart, J. D. Carpenter of Jackson and C. D. Mor- rison. Gayheart says the men were trap- ped in a small valley by the moon- shiners and surrounded in this, the most remote and inaccessible section of the mountains of Breathitt county, and widely known as a haven of monoshiners and fugitives, The prohibition band was practical- ly at the merey, of the moonshiners, Gayheart said, who were in the rear BRIDE OF 18 GOES BLIND IN “SIGN OF SCORN” SUIT Ories, “Father, I Can't Seel” on Stand for Parent in Husband’s Action For Idfe-Marking Norfolk, Va., Aug. 11.—Mrs. Earl Dugan, eighteen,. suddenly became blind in court yesterday, when testi- fying for her father in a suit of $20,- 000 brought against him by her hus- band because the latter charged the girl’s parent cut the “sign of scorn' on Dugan's cheek with a knife, Jan. 7. Dugan and Rosa De Rosa eloped to Camden, N. C., and were married. When they returned and sought for- giveness of the girl's father, the latter scarred his son-in-law's face for life, the youth alleged. The girl on the stand said she loved Dugan, and added her eyesight had become impaired since her marriage. Suddenly she cried out: 2 “Fathen, father, I cannot see at all! 1 cannot see anybody.” The girl was led out of Court, total- ly blind. DETROIT FAVORED BY RECORD OF PROSPERITY Total Bank Deposits in City In- erease by $140,- 000,000. Detroit, Aug. 11.—In the fipst seven months of this year, Detroit has ex- perienced what probably was the most prosperous period in the history of the city. Clearing house banks to- day show an increase of $66,000,000 in savings deposits in that time. Total bank deposits have increased $140,- 1000,000 and loans have only fhcreased $53,000,000. An indication of the thrift of citizens here is found in the per capita statistics which shows sav- ings of $260 for every man, ‘woman and child. In addition, large sums have gone into building and loan so- cieties. Jewett Special Sedan—Perfectly Equipped Comfort Adaptable to Every Need . Thelinesaregood. 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HERMAN HUNT TRIES TOTAKE OWNLIFE Well Known Swimmer Discour- aged gbout Channel Trip New York, Aug. 11.—Disappointed because of his failure to raise money to go to England to try for a 1,000 pound sterling prize for swimming the English channel, Herman Hunt, 33 years old, tried to end his life yesterday by shooting himself with a revolver at the home of Dorothy Ashford, 380 West 76th street. Hunt is well known as a swimmer in New Haven where his home is at 171 Meadow street. Clippings found on his person showed efforts had been made by friends to ralse $700 for him to go to England to try for the prize which was won last week by Henry Sullivan, a swimmer, of Lowell, Mass. Hunt was visiting Miss Ashford yesterday. She left the apartment for | a few minutes to make some pur- ' chases and when she returned she found Hunt on the floor wounded. Bhe called Patrolman Henry Nullet of the West 68th street station, who summoned an ambulance from Knickerbocker hospital Hunt was taken to the hospital in a critical condition ' suffering from a bullet wound near the heart. “I am tired of life,” was all he said to the police. | A eister of Hunt, Mrs. Anna Keger, | and on all sides of the mountains and who kept up a contsant*ire until ear- ly.this morning. During the battle in which Gay- heart lost track of all the remaining force with him and at which time the moonshiners were attacked from the rear by a sheriff's posse, the wounded man took advantage of the opportun- ity to escape, He expressed little hope that any of the prohibition officers were left alive. Gayheart was taken to a hospital in Hazgrd. CATHOLIC CHURCH HOLDS BOXING AND ALSO DANCE Blackwood. N. J., Priest Screens Altar and Then Permits Young Folks Trying to Fix Responsibility. At the hospital it was said by friends of the editor of the Christian Herald that although the driver of the bus which skidded is blameless, so that the accident in that regard was unavoidable, there might be an inquiry about the concrete mixer, which rested diagonally in the road and partly across it. This road, being repaired now, is narrowed temporarily to the Dbare width of a bus, and {18 rough. The workmen at the conerete mixer had quit work for the day, but the man who was on watch had beekoned the driver of the bus to come ahead. There were about 60 persons in the bus, all adults, and all employes of The Christian Herald. At the time of the accident they were discussing the celebration just over and singing songs. Even now the children at the Mont Lawn Home do not know of the accident, and ‘yesterday 100 more joined the throng on the laws and in the woods. However, the road on which the accident occurred is not being used, CINDERS FOR SALE CR{,)XVII&EI%ESR([)*S.% Cis A. H. 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