New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 9, 1923, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 ALLEGED WATERBURY FAKE DOCTOR SUPPOSED TO HAVE DIED IN FEB. REPORTED ALIVE AND PRACTISING Dr. Glttens Dled Friend Say, While Peath 0: One Of His Patients Was Being Probed By Coroner. Undertaker* Brinds Report as Absurd, But Governor| Templeton Orders al Thorough Investigation by Detective. Waterbury, Nov. 8.—News of start- ling developments resulting from the | probe of medical conditions in this| state ordered by Goyernor Charles A | Templeton hecame Lm.nn today Licut. Milton MacMullen of the| ccal detective department left this| this morning for Cambridge, a result of information dis- closed to Governor Templeton at the capitol yesterday afternoon. _It was reported to the governor at that time that Dr. OMar I°. Gittens, who was Lelieved to have died in this city Feb- raary 28, was still alive, Using Assumed Name, A doctor, whose name has not yet/ been revealed, called on the governor yesterday to tell all that he knew about operations of the so-called “diploma mill” in this state, and in- cldentally made the startling elaim that Dr. Gittens is practicing in Cam- bridge, Mass, presumably under an assumed name, The governor's in- formant stated that Gittens has an office with a doctor of Italian ex- traction Governor Templeton has not divulged the details of the conver. sation, but he took prompt action In‘ the matter upon his return to Wa- l terbury last night, Warrant Is Ready | A warrant was asked for to he served 10 Gittens should by any chance be located, the charge b ““‘l illegal practice of medicine, There was {nsufficlent time to .get the war. | rant out last night, but Lieut. Mae- Mullen, whe knew Dr. Gittens, was| gned to the case with orders to to Cambridge and investigate the wort He was instructed that in the event hie should find Gittens there | NTTACHES HIS PROPERTY| | Plaintift Charges Cruclty and Infidelity |fendant on North Washington street \I‘Inln\‘llh‘ church eireles, Co?-'-‘a;'.fs'&e"”l VER SUFFOCATED koo " NE.TOPPLES OVER MOTHER OF TWELVE SUES FOR DIVORCE Mrs Sophie Hemmgway Hired Detectives to Watch Husband Boston Man Killed and Com- | panion Badly Injured in| Accident Near Manches- | ter This Morning. Manchester, Conn., Nov. 9—Francis W. Pierce, 23, of Dorchester, Mass., | was suffocated and Martin Feeney, of the same place was seriously hurt to- day when their motor truck skidded while coasting on a grade on the Bolton highway and was overturned on an embankment. Plerce was caught under the cab and died as the machine sank into-the soft earth. The men were drivers for the F. Mutrie Transportiition Co. of Bos ton, which concern has & contract for |delivery of groceries and provisions for the Berry and Wales Co. of Bos And Seeks Custody of Minor Chil- dren and Alimony—Couple Married | B. For 32 Nears. thnecial tu. The Eaenitis ton and makes deliveries here every Plainville, Nov. 9. — It became|grigay, The truck deft Boston last known today that Mrs. Sophie Hem- |night fully laden. On the Boltonv‘ - it for divoree | Manchester road this side of Bolton | SRy, hian BEOREE: M s there is a long grade down which against her husband, Lewis Heming- wiy. An attachment for $6,000 has Lbeen placed by Deputy Sheriff Ralph A. Harger of Hartford, on property and an automoblle owned by the de drivers who are acquainted with the road are accustomed to coast. In this way a long distance may be covered without the use of power. Suffocated Under Car Plerce and Feency probably were coasting the truck. On _reaching here, - The wr!t_ is_retarnable in the Lewis corner in this town the truck superior court in Hartford, the first skidded and left the road te Tuesday in December. — Attorney | ,wn anont 200 feet of state Charles F. Conlon and Plerce . andfe 0 o telephone pole and an “l'Y'“ Pierce of Bristol will appear for the g0 0 ) G0 T0ler an embank- plaintiff and the defendant will al80 | yant overturning. Both men were be represented by counsel, caught under the eab but Feeney was The plaintiff clalms intolerable | naptiy free. He was taken out at onee cruelty and statutory charges a8 | py persons who reached the truck a grounds for hor suit for separation. | few minutes later, Pleree was com On the latter charge, she claims sev- | piotely under the cab and it was ne eral instances wherein her husband |cssary to get bloek and tackle to lift has been unfaithful to her, although |the machine, Every time the ma wo corespondentsin the case has been | chine was lifted, it would siip and the named, machine went deeper into the soft The Hemingways bave Wved here earth. It took an hour and a half to for many gears. They have been |get the truek Into position from which | Merce could be reached. Death had come before this. Medical Fxaminer W. R. Tinker found no bones brojen and decided that Pleree had been suf- married 32 years, the ceremony being performed in New Britain, and at |the present timg 12 children who have been born of the union are NHving. Mrs, Hemingway is connected with | focated. u great ‘many socloties fn which she| Plerce lived at 289 Hancock stroet has at times held prominent lncal and |04 eency at § Myrtle Place, Dor- [state offices. She is prominent in | chester, Mass McCARTHY-CUNNINGHAN i b i e g NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT; FRIDAY NOVEMBER 9, 1928, _THIRTY-TWO PAGES, " PROMINENT WOMAN i CALLED TO REWARD Mrs. Elise Traut Dies Today af. Her Home on Arch Strest !TO BE BURIED AT. SUNSET | Led Movement For Municipal Christ. | | mas Tree and 'Was Otherwise Active | In Civie Projects—Has Membership | In Many Societies, Mrs. Elise Traut, widow of the late | | Justus A. Traut, died this morning at |3:30 o'clopk at her home, 249 Arch |street, never having regained her strength after an operation for acute appendicitis performed 11 weeks ago at the New Britain General hospital, | MH‘ was taken from the hospital to | | her home about the middle of last | month, and death came not unexpect- | edly. b Funeral services will be held at the residence Monday at 2:30 p. m. and interment will be in Fairview ceme tery at sunset, in accordance with her often expressed wish that this hour, symbolie of the sunset of life, should be the time of her burial. Dr. Ozora F. Davis, of Chicago, former pastor of the South Congregational churcl will officiate and Mrs, H. . Horto | The beagers will be Edward Brandt of Hartford, Vernon Bruerley of thi city, Karl Lockwood of West Hart ford, William Honer of Hartfrd, Carl Sternberg Jr. of West Hartford, and | Charles Spring of this city Mrs, aut is survived by two step gons, George W. and Frank L. Traut of this city; a sis Mrs, Huge | Moench of New York: a nephew, Dr. {G. Moench of New York: three cou | sins, Mrs. Charles Hass of Boston, Mrs, Osear Fathrmann of New York nng Walter Schurmann of Germany, und by six granddaughters and two great-granddaughters., | Came Here in 1888 Mre, Traut was born in Gotha, Ger many, April 24, 18 Coming to this country in her infancy she was mar- ried in 1885 to John E. L.um of New York, who died soon after the death of their only child, Edith. TIn January, 1588, she was married to Justus A, Traut in New York eity since whieh time she made hee home in New Britain, It was soon after her arrival here that ame interpsted I the | genera) celebration of “hristmas Lay a work that she continued without in termissio up to the her death The annual municipal Christ mas troe was supported by her energy |and mearts and was an oceaston when the ehildren of the eity always and learned of her devotion to them Bach year time she en. tertained the it i time of waw it Christmas ones of the 1o have Lim gld as'a fogitive from {‘\‘:L‘"&m'"""’ has been a resident dren's Home at her own residence, justice pending sending of the war. |2 nville nearly all his lite and has "prosenting them with gifts and mak- rant worked as a moulder for Edward (‘ur DA"AGE SUIT SETTLED ing them happy with refreshments Lieut. MacMullen left for Boston 1"'\ ! Land o view of her own Christmas tres on the i . express out of New | Mo Hemingway also wants vhn - - placed there each year and decorated Haven today for the purpose of mak. | CUstody of two minor chlldren ..M‘]l‘lnlmm sought $5.000 Vor Infuries only with the propor symbols of the Gt o “am- |Alimony. 8he also claims that ing u search for the man in Cam- | alms that on | : ¢ De. | Testival Lridge umerous occasions her hushand has Sustained While Guest of Dx Rhe gave interesting and informing Died” During Inyvestigation treated her with eruelty avhich was fondants on Autn Ride lectures hefore many clubs and or et prior 1o his sudden death, [\Inbearable. It s stated That @etee. | ganizations not only in this city but Gittens was figyring prominently in !tives wern hired by the wife to wateh| Just before the ixsnes of the case |aiso In New York and other cities o n investigation into the death of Miss | her hushand, !v.n-. to e placed before a jury in | this state ong the trne meaning of of this city.. Git the young woman In her last i) . and returned a death cortificate of acute appendieitis. I The funeral was held jup, however, and Jfter avtopsy, an Investigation was | the find. Fanuie Comardo, 19, tens had attended hegiun A few days hefors ing of Coroner John ‘I, Monzani ‘was 10 have been given out, Gittens died, Harold 11 Lawlor, undertaker, who took care of the body, stated at the time, it was absard 1o suggest Git- tens could be alive, as he had known Tim in i 1 had embalmed him. T'he v was supposed to have been taken to New York ety and burled in Woodlawn cemetery Officials of | the cemetory and Thomas H. Kierton, New York nndertaker, have affirmed the interment of Gittens' body at Woodlawn Dr. 1% G. GRaves, who attended Git. tens, signed the death certificate, assigning influenza and pneumonia as cavses of death, and pul- primary a contributing monary hemorrhage as Cae pr. « ves is a physielan of many vears practice and high stand ing in this city Doctor Says He's Dead . Frederick G. Graves of this eity who was in attendance at the bedside of Dr. Osear 1. Gittens, negro doctor, who was supposed to have died here VFebruary 2%, stated today that there as not a possibility that the man s st alive “f was at Dr. Gittens' bedside when | he died,” sald Dr. Graves, = “and though 1 did not know the man per wonally, 1 knew who he was 1 h{nn not the slightest hesitation in saying that Dr. Gittens is dead.” o Lieut. Com. Bartlett to Fly Over Old Home Town New London, Nev. 9 When the dirigible Shenandoah formerly the %M-1 fies over New England, Monday, it will have on board Lieut. Com- mander H. T. Bartlett, 8 N, for- merly of 014 Lyme. He }"l\m[ the trip th be on the first dirigible to pass Fhe burcan of that it will take over his native towy aeronanti o photographs from the air of the coast guard academy here 3 Children Suffocated In Fire at W onetler Worcester, Fov. 9—Spencer oy lien, aged 3: Hazel Boyken, 2, children § Mr. and Mrs, Spracer Boyken of his city and Psther Geary, 4. daug r of Mrs, Eether Geary, a sister of Mre. Bosken, who came 10 Wore ceently from Camden, = wer tiffocated today during a fire whick | hey started while. pin with ! atelies. All were negroes ——— wuperior conrt in New Haven yesters day. th principals in the snit of George A. McCarthy of New Haven against Fi lipino Murderer Must | Mary A. Cunningham et al of this Die in Electric ("‘l"r’rn peached an agreement and the e was withdrawn, The terms of re not made public New York, Nov. 9.—Kulogin Lova-|the agresment do, who was convieted of sirangling | On gune 2 1921, MeCarthy accept Blossom Martin, a nurse, 1o death lagt | g nn inyitation to ride in the detend June, was sentenced to die in the elee. | automobile, The machine wa tric chair at Sing Sing during 1he weok rturned in Guilford and MeCarthy of December 17, by Judge Hosalsky | was injured. He sought damages of today. L 35,000 Paris Has Report That America Has Refused To Enter Into Any Reparations Parley As Planned BOYS GETTING BETTER, {""fl'm Expresses Surprise hen Informed But De- . GIRES GROWING WORSE. - ctincs o Make Any Com- ment in Situation, ay (‘lharels and Cheap Literature Turning Fair [+, +. « . Prom ’ Pari o A somi-official Sex \Mlfl\ tatement fssued by the French for cign office throun the Havas Agfey Ry i e that 1) [} b government Chicago, Nov. 9 upon the limitations to t) aration inguir hich have are becoming better the girls betwees State the | ges of 12 and wayward, ae- 1 20 are becoming more - Sheh cording to Mrs. Mina C. Van Wink ; Ao '_\"; Heht : ehtef of the women's division of 1 - .r o R v < nhaesa department of police of Washingtor A N e Ml r D. C, here to study police condition d publi tion © Hughes' declara Gay cabaret Jife and cheap liter - - ture are waking A M tion regarding the proposed expert American gitls nnfit 1o . | reparation committee is taken here - - ~ . indicating that the United States and mothers, Mrs. V g oo A “Too many women want iy ? mmittee. The chanees of the com in business, away from home,” sh serted only career in eve mitte & organized cohsequently . are regarded as shight gir1S lite should be the developing of N o Wachington <ilem p ' Most of the wayward girls turned . over to policewomen come from 1} Washington, Nov. 9 To what ex middle and ric Americn, yont 14 of Fran has she cxpiained 1 American partici. families think r ¥ s discusdons homg than dan I a question which the Americas governm " yet pre pared to SNOW IN HOSTON Informed of the Paris seni-offich Toston, Nov. %+ The first snow « wineement ne was leaving a the season here, falling laft night and jong ses of the cabinet, Secretary carly today, Yeft the ground with Hughese oxpresscd groat surp but white covering in the sSuburbs. Welined tn make ane ramment HOnristmas [ Contributed Her interest i keen until the hour of the products of her pen were containing delicacy of sentiment To Literature remained and nimer. literature her death, oue, and fine intellect which diselosed ra appreciation of the fine qualities of human nature. Many of her articles appeatred in varions publications, her bhook "hristmas in Heart and Home being published i 1901 LAt 1913, being a Brauns” app {delightful tale of the a volums 3 Chrlstmas Tree in New (othes after, and Memory's Garder Her last work to appear was a translation of the fine work “Envy translation res h favera omment from civing muc authoritative eriti Her sent ristmas ut to friend were characteristi ringir Christmas timasn) into many omes Active in Welfare Work Mes, Traut was e of the incorpo wtors of the New tain hospital, for four yenrs president of the Wonan's Board o fte ine ' ' She me-mbe \ o cluh of Now Rrit the hye 0 partment of Congress « Contfetiout, v « the society for Rocinl Hye of Hartford, | the Motherhnod ¢l Hartford, |the Woman's elub of Hartford and the Humane =oric & ax one of the founders of the Camp Fire Girls of America, mer Honseuives South Congree Her jded quietly w '(\\l\iuvil:l%l 1 OF $4.000 son, near her 1% nd ascancd = 1 TALKS WITH PRESIDENTY Washington, N v Adolph Tew fsohn, New r, conferred today with President Coolidge bt fined Tie th suh. eets % HE WEATHER Harttord. NSov. 98— orecast for New Peitain and vicinity i, continoed cold tomight Saturday fair with rising tem- perature; westerly winds - - * 014 Thoughts | g the true | Average Daily Uirculation I Week Ending 9,944 Nov. 3rd PRICE THREE CENTS LUDENDORFF AND HITLER CAPTURED BY GOVT. MEN; - REVOLT QUICKLY ENDED CUVILLIER IS HELD FOR CRIMINAL 'Von Poehner, Revolu- | LIBEL BUT CORR]GAN IS ABSOLVED {Judge Crain in New Yolkr | | “Hi:ds Zsselmbly:lan for E[IVT STARTS I]RIVE ‘ | Grand Jury as Result ofi flN PENN. BREWERIES Enright’s Charges. ! —_— ‘ ‘Dozen Seized in Philadelphia-- ‘ New York, Nov, 9.—Judge Crain| Score w Be Padlo{;ked today sustained the criminal libel | charges brought against Assembly. man Louls A. Cuvilller by Police S~ o reea ot potice baotel grar ’Ill’d‘{GOY PINGHOT IS DELIGHTED tionists’ Premier, Also Reported Under Ar- rest —Frontier Is Closed To Travelers —All Is Quiet In Ber- lin Today And Bavar- ian PutschIs Believed |nerd him for the grand jurvh l iviaen ;dge dismissed the libel charges| 0 e umictrate Joseph Corrigan. |Yellowley Personally Directs Rtaids— UVET. an Exonerated. Corry, Stmilar Campaigns Are to be fer i in bond of § S ——— In dismissing Magistrate Corrigan the Launched in Various Parts of the inteds out that the magis- 8 . in the performance of his judi- ~ Country. | ADERS CAPTURED, clal duties, day after f“,:’l' ‘:’:"::i: Washington, Nov. 9.—A wholesale|l| By The Associatod Pr with indignation and righteo b 5" raid on breweries in eastern Pennsyl- Berlin, Nov. 9.—Gen. Luden« the »vm\nm'nnw consequences ¥ vania, to shut off the supply of beer dorff and Adolph Hitler, leaders lice corruption. admitted tq be flooding a large part{|| of the Bavarian revolt ha 5 g ! Vs olt, have He further sald he was convinced o¢'tho ‘east) was hegun today by Dro- ||| poen waptrecy by m’en:-mom that Magistrate C orrigan rullz_ed his | 1 ibition forces. An oietis u»n‘mun!que o152 moral responsibility to make this cor-| " penos to Commissioner Haynes PRt presrbgion e e o ruption known to the people and that| ;¢ Philadelphia said twelve brews- 1516 KoATALRRtLE Saiilinic the magistrate’s purpose Was 10 erjes were seized early today aed that [/l o aulich was taken this afte arouse the public conseience and en- (5 goore would be padiocked before [ on oL TS ALED U troope list the citizens in the cause of de-|yjght e S cency, honesty and truth Libsl procecdings, Commissioner ||} L0 0 Bl T urred on Not Intentional Libel, |Haynes sald, would be brought late l-nt;v sldd “ml’ Libondo &l Judge said that the alleged | to close up the breweries tem- b el gy Hbel on (nmmx\unn‘r Enright ap- ily untik the department of jus- o peared in but one newspaper because|tice can get into action to close them r_— of the faet that Magistrate Corrigan|for a year. Vs 9 < had tried te prevent its publication The campaign is in charge of B, C.|By The seocisted l'russ. and that while libel cannot be com-! Yéllowley, chief of prohibition agents The Nationalist Putsen staged mitted unintentionally or hmd\-orlm;u -.u.lI has l”A en i: PTMH“““ \'m ‘";;'ln Munich, capltul of l»d\ana. "1y, Mugistrate Corrigan was not the eral months, imilar eampaigns a G ral off consolous publisher of the objection-|to be launched agatnst brewers in Ryd I }e"]ela] L}‘:dendm and able matter, other purts of the country olph Hitler an been sup- Addresses Cullives 2 -— pressed, and Von Poehner, The judge, told Mr. Cuvillier that ‘.? .\I"‘\‘N‘lfl?‘lfil: named premier by the Revelu- ') delp! + Nov 9. Twenty " : : o 15 o 1 g ‘" | tionists, is under arrest, accord- he, with a majority of his fellow leg- ors v governor and othe vell | breweries in and vear Philade \;u ia :TL:,.‘ 1”. altz 1‘"|r ¢t i ulinn. | were searched and selzed foday hy!ing to advices received through G prohibition enforcement law | prohibition ugents aesembled hers various trustworthy channels. was the source of graft which en-|from different parts of the countrs Ludendorff and Hitler, who rehed and degraded and m:.u-r:lw,h;-v“v'\: rfl\: :.‘}.v)-h.‘.:,.\’”f.'m,?-;«"‘mv"' last night proclaimed themselves ,p,,.',‘ 4 at the last sessdon of the|tained Ibels turning thom over to the land chancellor of all Germany, legiglature, largely through the ef. | federal marshal lare reported to be harricaded in forts of Mr, Cuvilk vho introdueed H ;-r_r-m.m. n agents started their (e woa ministry building in iipliniene s work at § a. m., and reported during | y b it R Ok Vanda We the day to It €. Tellowley, who estab. | Munich, which is surrounded by | A l,“,,"\":'“:v"\,‘ el ',“,,',.’ judge | ished headguarters in a hotel troops loyal to the government. lcontinued: [ The agents took ‘-v-'m..m on Advices ‘frnm Berlin and u“'i(’l' “Vou approciated that, as a resuit, | S!h s Aol ens "';I, hem :'1‘\ o centers show that Dr. Von setle bronght | Telinguis eir hold on a brewery w5 : [the entire force was unjustly brought | FEAGIEE CEAl AEIC B8 & b war | Kahr, Bavarian dictator under inte disrepute vl because of this M ! . he V' Knilling d S | contended by orneye for broweries | Lhe on Kknilling regime, an lor to canse the law's repeal. To fur. ' A o ‘“ 3 the Reichswehr commander Von |ther this purpose yon dispatched a ; 1" ssdbediiphy '3 "“‘ " ',” MY Lussow ranged themselves telegram. Your zeal outran your dis ":m‘”“\mv'rmt W B o nst the Ludendorff-Hitler to the complatnant-—falls within the | 'ernal revenue eoliccte 'v\’«i-\;‘f»lvfiln-li. ..h‘:m‘ ulmll_\' _tln |eondemnation of the statute.” — N e unic wewhouse in which Last May, Commissioner Enright| o h'"r""‘:_"" r’" ',." 1t sounde |1t Was staged, flled snit ngainst \Mir. Cuvillier and | ':‘ ‘” . S ety ok At T Bertin 1« Quiet [““-w. te Corvign leging that they o P Sy A Wi Goveraey Tt nt e e t Beritn which [h.}l,g'u\‘. ; H ,‘.'T- v‘,.')vybv-,‘ Sheihet tedey wi infler . g " ¥ owd the ont telogr n! " et diey r the eapital, and o HALF MILLION DOLLAR that the poilce guatds were |police department i witha from 1 government FIRE LOSS IN CAPITAL "o, ©7 " ™ from traf wped, and an | \ Apparates Callidd Out to Two et insned by Way nieter Gessler ! ‘ 1 ing piublicaty of other than L. Wiares repors 1 ling events fin ' ai g . R Y Biens Vrance 1s Watchtal Numerals of Senior Class aarm = dres today nent, whit : s Washingt warning 1§ Painted on Pillars and on i ; ‘ i ' not toterate e ! i1di il ey s o t o t milita Building t many thousands of s ' bt Vhile severa nnante " : el i, B troggiing with a coff \ onference with s 1 " t 1= b ¥ > re of 1 " Air . o DT : the r 3 s acts v € h ¥ [ < W . ' b HHing o front o \ M the \ "y § . 4 port From Munic) | & 7 san e 1 s & SHIP NEWS = B N 4 v‘ L N Y ~ . work . . long & schor r = - ] ted . 8 Finland, Cr N : b o from New York), fot San Francis G Yo e 5 = y ia, Hamburg., N " T WIFE 18 ACCUSED sl F \ N A warrant States - St tstent that Fromtior Be Closed v s . 1, was = N miw ~ - 1 Schang ¥ - «m B o « lsmiss pos ries & salary of $6,0 (Continued on Twenty-Ninth Tage)