New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 23, 1923, Page 3

N@W BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 923, * ARRESTS ARE LKELY Prominent American and British Busi | e e et - RALSTON IS SILENT Denies He Himselty Ever Belonged to Ku Klpx Kilan, Fall Restores Memory Lost on Wedding Eve Buffalo, N.'Y.,#ov. 23.—Ralph 1. Condon, 23 years old, who disappear- ed a month ago shortly after leaving a bank in New York city, left Bufalo | yesterday for his home in Merrimack, | Mass., a fall in the street here having restored his memory, believed to have | been lost as the result of an attack | by thugs. Condon, his father said, | disappeared on the evening .of his | wedding to Miss Winifred Hekking of | - MRS BALLANTYNEIS DEFENSE WITNESS Says* Murdered _Husand Had Threatened to Kill Family Kiux with the latter, regarding the Kn Klan and questions associated that organization. Three of the questions referred to Senator Ralston’s © views regarding Senator-elect Mayfield of Texas, who was sald to have been supported by | the RKu Kilux Klan, and whose right | to sit in the senate will be contested The senator said that to pre-judge this 5 case would “be a gross violation of of- PAPINL SR In. o letter (0dey i) du!y‘und would render me unfit to Jacob Morgan, president of a local| 1o hold a seat in the senate.” persons indieted yesterday at Sa\an»“(;;(“-g‘;‘ grand jury's action had | nah, Ga., werc alieged to have been |gpurred federal agents here and else- | involved | where to a fever of activity in order according to officials | to round up the alleged leaders of the invested vast sums in the transfer of | liquor combine before they get under Business Men Believed Involved in |y uor from England to this country, | “°*¢" The eombine, But where it was bootlegged wholesale | Big Liquor Conspiracy. FACES MURDER CHARGE Portiand, Me., Nov. Alexander that the [ Hawkins, mate of the ooner Mary only a |1 Barrett was sent back to Baltimore in | today where he is to answer to an in- dictment on a charge of killing his a well organized system in | castern states. through Nov. 22.—Local federal prosecntors disclosed today that they New York, principal cities of There were intimations arrest of several | gyvannah indictments were prominent Englishmen and Ameri- | portion of the number expected cans as members of the international cther states, chiefly New York a 1d % Indianapelis, Nov. 22.-—~8enator were planning the Salt Lake City, Utah, Nov, 23.—The story of the events which immediately | preceded and followed’the shooting of [ 1. ..04 1o have restored memory to his E Benjamin F. Ballantyné may be told in todd¥y's session of the court by Mrs. Jisie Browning Ballantyne, wife of | the slain man and sister of John| Browning, Jr., who, with his cousin, Marriner A. Browning, is on trial on a first degree murder charge for slay- ing Ballantyne. During her testimony yesterday Mrs. Ballantyne told the story of her life from the time of her marriage in 1913 until just a short time before the slay-| ing of her husband. A hostility for her relatives was developed by Bal- lantyne, she te 4, beginning a short time after her marriage and de- | veloping until it reached a stage where he threatencd death to Hw[ Browning family. Ballantyne threat- ened that he might begin by killing | her, she testified. | Threatened to Kill, Mrs, Ballantyne testified that her husband had threatened John Brown- | ing in particular by saying “1f Jack | ever tries to interf in any of my affairs 1 will kill him just like I anyone else who would inter- | The first time Ballantyne had shown any resentment toward John | M. Browning, her father, Mrs. Ballan- tyne said, wds shortly after marriage | when Mr, Browning paid for some | furniture BaMantyne had purchascd on credit, Ballantyne claiming he hud | been humiliated and saying that the money should have been given to him that' he might pay the bill him elf. Other « lated I outlining stated it would had threatened 5 were re the defewse show that Ballantyne the Browning family, that he had a pecullar disposition, and was erratic. The defense sald it also “ would prove that Marriner| Browning, who admitted firing the fa- | tal shot, did not hear Ballantyne's or- | der to John Browning to stay out of | the Ballantyne home under penalty of death and that Marriner fired only when exhortations for g(’:l(l‘ were use- Tess - o BARNES BUYS BONDS Gireenwich, Conn,, Nov, 2 its cuse An is- sue of $125,000 town highway bonds by a4 town mecting was oifered to Mdders toduy. Rtoy ' M. Burnes of Hartford who offered $126 for the issuc was the highest was given the ard,' There : bldders from N ork, Bridge- and Greenwich. The original ap priation of the town for gool roads $600,000 made in 1914 and the expenditure has been in various amoui from time to time. The 125 borrowed today makes up e totyl. | recently vote Long Irland. , He had been living at a hotel here under the name of Robert | Russell and worked at odd jobs until an accidental fall in the street is de- identity. . The interrupted wedding, the young man said, would take place a onfe. ~ New Britain Firm Gets Town Home Annex Job The charity board at a special ses- sion yesterday afternoon v d to let a contract for the town home annex to the C. L. D. Co. of this city. A meeting will be held with the con- tractor and the architect in atten- dance in a few days and plans will be madé to start work at once. 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