New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 11, 1923, Page 1

Daily Circulation \ *10,059 NEW BRITAIN HERALD &5 LYON INVESTIEATS |WIlLIAMPlNI(ERTflN ,OPPO TION TO LEAGUE OF NATIONS [INMERMAN'S I]EATHi NOTED SLEUTH, DIES| AGAIN WILL BE KEYNOTE OF PARTY Average Week Endmg Dee. 8th ews of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 WHITE HOUSE IS IN FAVOR OF AMERICAN EXPERTS FOR Yut there WORK ON GERMAN FINANCES \Weiial braniver ot Saisio Spet More Than 50 Yurs Kot ONE KILLED. TWO HURT JUDGE TELLS GYPSIES IN BOOLEGGERS' WAR TO GET OUT OF TOWN Cannot Take Part Offi- cially, But Would Ap- prove Private Action By Economic Specialists Questions Refer to Capital | Removed From Germany and Stabilizing of Her Currency. Washington, Dee, 11.—The Wash- Ington government “would view with favor” purticipation of American ex- perts in the reparation commission in- quiry committees now under consider- ation, it was announced today the White House, It was emphasized that the govern- ment itself could not participate in any official way or appoint official re- | sentatives on the committees but it hy r wi American private 1l participation ecconomic experts in their ity gove the reparations vould he ment has been informed commission his that expert committees one to consider the means of hulancing the budget of Germany and the measures to be taken to stabilize her currency; the other, to take up the question of the capital which has beon removed from Grrmuny VERDIGT FOR WEBB IN $2,000,000 ESTATE ACTION Judge, However, Withholds Decision on Motion to Deny Probate of Wil New York, Dee, 11 verdict for Charles Webb, husband of the late Mrs, Gertrude Webb, who died this fall at the fashionable Westehester- Biltmore Country club in Rye, today was ordered Poley In the contet of Mrs, Web $2.000.000 cstate brought by her futhe 5. Jonnings Gorman of Bridge- port, Conn., and fonr other relatives, The surrogate, however, reserved deciion on a wotion to deny probate of the will law which will be argned next Mon. day. The contest was opened yester day. The ficiary, but the husband has frequent. Iy pledged himself 10 observe his| wite's wishes in the matter of fumer- ok Lequests The =il wan drawn shortly hefore the death of the society woman nnd Howard T. Kingsbury, who testified ! yest y that he had prepared the document, said he had nol had time to embody all the provisions Wehbb desired A Westchester county grand jury, which investigated reports that Mrs, ! Webh might have been poisoned, found death due to natural causes and exonerated the husband, HOBSON IS MISSING A Spanish War Hero and Brother Have Not Retumed After Trip Into| Junga Canyon in California. los Angeles, Dec, Richmond P. Hobson, hero of the Spanish-American war and crusader for prohibition, with his Major J. M. Hobson, are missing in the mountalns back of Tu Junga canyon. The brothers entered the Hile last night in search of Captain| Hobson's son and a neighbor's boy, who at that time had falled to re- turn from & hike. The boys came home safely later. DR. ROBB SENTENCED Physician Involved in FPamous “Suit- case Murder” Mystery Gets Five to Seven Years in Prison. Cambridge, Mass, Dec. 11.—-Dr Willlam M. Robb was sentenced to from five to seven years in the state prison in the Fast Cambridge court today for abortion. He pleaded guilty to performing an illegal operation upon Mrs. Allce M. Wolschendor! of Fast Bridgewater, portions of whose body was found in the Merrimack river at Tynnboro last September BALDWIN T0 REMAIN Announces Tt He Wil Not Retire as Premier. st Treast Until Parlia- | ment Has Convened By The Asse-inted Pie London, Dwe. 11— Prime Mimister Baldwin and his cabinet will meet the parfiament when it reconvenes and not resign in the interim, it was offi. cially announced this evening R WRICKS T " Vet PROI Algiers, Tw Mades of the oneord cul the tug 2¢ the Concord was pr 7he harber here tods were no ca The propeller ight ermiser " amid<hips pating to teave The tug savk, ua ities. is | { considering the establishment of two | returned by Surropate | ST obvaury, 1921, d on other questions of | will makes Webb the sole bene. | Mrs. | 11.—~Captain ' brother, | With Results Thus Far HAD $120 ON SATURDAY Jitney Driver Said to Have Overheard Conversation of Suspicious SENATE DEADLOCK ON CUMMINS IS UNBROKEN No Election Possible Today and Adjournment to Wednesday Is Taken ‘Was Accidental, That there may be more to the Washington, Dee. 11.—The scnate again found itself in a deadlock as it resumed balloting today for the elec: tion of a chairman of the interstate | commerce committee, Senator Cummins, republican, Towa, who now holds thed ual position of chairman of the committee and presi- dent pro tem. of the senate, received 41 votes for the chalrmanship on the first ballot to 3% for Senator Smith, democrat, South Carolina, and 7 for Senator La Follette of Wisconsin, leader of the republican insurgents, This left Cummins three short of the| Other circumstaces have developed | necessary majority, | which points to suspicious features. On the second ballot Cummins| #immerman had a sum of money of | again was short three votes of the | Which there seems to be no trace. necessary majority, la Follette held | Mfforts being made by the his votes; Cummins got |and the modical examin ) a Zimm s movement evening have with % Smith holding his § | He is reported to have been seen after “;IKII.“V‘.‘,:}'VCV h.l.:...\v":l)"‘v ling his 3 | 9 o'clock Saturday evening by Willlam With Cummins four short of 4 ma. | N¢idle of 81 Linwood street, who says ity . " | he was not drunk, although Neidle jority, the senate went into executive . ” did not have any conversation with session and later adjourned until to-| morrow when there will be more bal- | "1 at that tim: . loting. “Other Two Pellows Got Away, The police also are Investigating a conversation which occurred on a Chapman street jitney coming from the scene of the fatality the day after Zimmerman met his death, Two men on the jitney were holding a conver- sation in low tones, when the remark, “Well Zimmerman got killed but the other two fellows got away,” was overheard by the driver, Joe Martino, who was busy with his did not look around, so is unable to tell who the men were. The jitney was crowded and he could not tell as they got off, who did the talking. The jitney conversation bears out the statement of Henry 8. Carlson, | night watehman at the Cremo brew- ory, that he heard volees when Zim- merman drove past the office, Raliroad officlals hiave notified the police deguriment that a “woma whose name they do not know, knows something abaut the affair. Whether lor not she has been located s not ' known. Thore is some conjecture conoerns | ing Zimmerman's actions and his re- Introdueed to Cleve- | lations with another woman who lives Sound waves of [on Main street, Last summer the| [ music and volce are “photographed” | dead man introduced her to his| fon the fims as pictures of the speak- | cousin, 1. M, Zimmerman, as the! or or players are being taken, The | woman he was going to marry sound is released by radio, The dem-| The woman has shown some inter- | onstration last night was pronounc O success, \WILL PROTEST CONFESSIONS IN TRIAL FOR MANSLAUGHTER HIGH RENT FORGES G. A. R. when his auto ran onto the tracks day night is the beliof of Medical Ex- aminer Dr. Waterman lyon, who is | canducting an investgation on the supposition that Zimmerman was done away with by others or com- mitted suicide, Dr. Lyon on investigation day satisfied himself that the man had not been drinking and was | not under the influence of intoxicants | at the time of his death. seven race wind Smith 29 Cummins vote again rmau Saturday met BUCCHSS, dropped to 39 EXECUTED BY MEXIGA NS Heron Proal, Sometimes Called “Len- ine of Mexion” Is Put to Death by Piring Squadl, San Antonio, Tex., Dee, 11.—Heron Proal, sometimes called “the lLenine of Mexico,” was executed by a firing squad in the plaza ut Vera Cruz short- Iy after the revolution broke, uceord !ing to EI Demoerata, Callista organ of Mexico City, | De L Huerta troops are reported to have directed the exeeution, Proal was the president of the Inguilinos and took a promincat sart in the eom- munigt eonvention in Mexieo City in TALKING MOVIES SUCCEED Cleveland, Dec, 11.-=Talking movies have just been lund theatergoers (f‘tmumud on l‘ngo 17) Counsel Will Claim Police| Failed to Warn Prisoners | Evidence Would Be Used' Against Them. Veterans of Civil War Will Use Rooms in City Building, Mayor — Shos When the cases of Joseph Migatz,| Rooms for Stanley Post, G. A. It | Btanley Budniek, Edywd fotash nnm‘m be provided in city hall, the vet Charles Pierkowsky of this city come | grane of the Civil war baving boen up for hearing before Judge Haines| roricq to give up their headquartors in the superior court at Hartford to-| g, Sovereign's building because of it morrow morning 1t is expected that creased rental, Mayor A. M. counsel for the defense will protest announced this mf\v’nlnz after & against the admission the signed| poren oo with Chatrman ¥, H. A confessions of the four as evidence, of the city hall commission The objection has been raised, it is al- .“."_ voriuns Wil give | leged, on the grounds that the men g . o0 0 headquarters shortly :t;"‘!:u :,n?r(y“n‘\lvr;'i"vld )\T\ “;:u :m‘;“,:w.;hnfl will occupy the rooms formerly o - e e by the registrare of voters on ::fl':, against them when arraigned 10| joureh floor of city hall. The new Tha h headquarters do not front on the result of the death of Frank David- fooms If the rear of the building | owicz at the New Britain general hos- * acn are not knos pital on September 23, 1t is viaimed ‘Vien the New Britain club vacates [ that these men, who are alleged to 118 headquarters on the third floor bave figured in a drunken brawi, 1ty ball much more space will [ struck Davidowics as he was leaving Svailable und it is the mavors p an Orapge street restaurant carly in 0 e veiUrunn & r hea the mofning of the same day that he duariers toa part of the present New died at the hospital. These men, with Britain club rooms. Austin Zawalick and Tony Ceruli A meeting of the city hall commis- | were arraigned in the New Dritain S0n will be held this week 1o prepare police court on a charge of first de- [OF Lurning over the new headquarters gree murder preferred against them 0 the veterans. by Prosecutor Joseph Woods, The charge was Iater reduced to man slaughter against the four be a raigned tomorrow, while Zawalick and Cerulick were discharged upon turn | ing state’s witness. Paonessa con of ford their and used the up of be Five Ton Truck boaded With Toys Crashes Car New York, Dec. 11.-=A five ton truck Joaded with toys crashed into a cur knocking it onto parailel tracks in the path of another car at Pacific street and Ralph avenue in Brook'yn today helpers aboard the truck were serjone Iy injured and twenty of the cur pas- sengers hurt Holland Formally'Anh Release of Rum Vessel New York Dec 11.—~The Dutch consulate today demanded the release of the steamer Zeehond of Dutch reg to o street PLEADS NOT GUIAY Rochester, N. H 11— Sumner ‘Jow, the farm hand who in a sign ed confesslon admitted that he shot |to death Samuel Houston, aged farm- ler and cattle dealer, at the latter's home in North Barrington last Friday, pleaded not gulity in court here to- | day to a charge of first degree mur- | der. A continuance uwntll December 28 was granted by Judge Samwel D, | Felker. Dee istry which was seized Jast Friday by | | coast guards off Fire Island inlet with PRE NOT TO RESIGN | its cargo of $250.0600 worth of Nqunv Washington, Dee. 11 -Governor J.| A. O. Preas of Mingesota today de- | = 3 nied & report that he would resign as| New York, Dec. 11— The state at governor 1o enter private business, He |torney general’s office today took 4 be had no intention of leaving | Preliminary steps to compel the New nesota unthl completed his | York anti-saloon league to file an ac- but after that his plans were |count of its fall primary and general | etection expenses for 1922, w &T I‘ll Ll \l'li‘.'il .. h v term. | somewhat indefinite. —Official Does Not Believe Fatality | | | death of Frederick W. Zimmermag, | who was killed by a southbound tral®, | near the end of Belden street Satur-| either | yester- | dead | muchine and | T0 SEEK NEW QUARTERS, The driver and twad | nuing Down Criminals |HUMANITARIAN | Was Not Sentimentalist, But Always | Gave Helping Hand to Crooks Who | Really Tried to Go Straight—Spe- cialized on Bank Robberies, Los Angeles, Dee. 11—William Pinkerton, famous det: died here today at the Hotel Biltmore, One of the first noted American criminologists to advocate and prac- tice humanitarian methods in dealing with felons, William Allan Pinkerton, head of the Pinkerton National Detec- | tive Agency, was credited with having | reformed more safe blowers and bank thieves than any other man in the | country. Primarily a thief-take (ton spent more than 5 |life running down criminals of all | classes, yvet he always stood ready to !proffer a helping hand to the un- fortunate malefactor whose repent | ance was genuine and whose desire to reform was sincere Own Reform eriminal a t weg nd the perhaps no other man Pinker- , Mr. Pinker- years of his Measures Knowing methods, their { human side of his time had known them |ton mever sympathized with the theorist and the sentimentalist who sought to reform desperate, hunted men by kind words, but he did know | that. a little help and a little encour- agement at the right time and in the right place were frequently more ef- fective than imprisonment. Scores of former criminals scattored over the country are now living honest and useful lives as a result of the rcform measures practiced by the urch enemy of their criminal days, Waming to Bandits William Allan Pinkerton and his brother, Robert A. succeded to the business of their father, Allan Pluker- ton, when the latter died in 1884 after founding the detective agency which bears his name. This was before the powerful armor-plated vaults, eloctri- | cally operated and protected, were | heard of, and safe blow were fn | thelr hey-day. Deterviined to specis) fza In bauk protsetion, Willluin Pinkerton 2 asted e support of | leading tpanclal institutions of the | country and then made a detailed {study of the men who were preying | upon them. Mo warned noted bank robbers as they were arrested: “You leave my people alone ‘l" leave you alone. 1f you don't, I'll | follow you to the end of the ecarth.” This warning made a decp impres slon upon many the most dunger ous thieves, and after a few convie tions had been obtained there was o noticeable d #¢ in the number of bank robber Bome scoffed al the | big detective’s warning but most of [them were caught in time William A, Pinkerton was born in Dundee, Illinols, April 7, 1546, He was educated in publie and private scho und when ready for college entered | Notre Dame university. At the age o married Margaret B Ashling drian, Michigan, who died in 1 Two daughters, Mrs, Joseph O, Watkins and Mrs. William C, Puliman were born to them Mr. Pinkerton made his home in Chi DIES OF STARVATION 5508 ir he Omahan Woman, 80, Pound Dead With Ol Love Letters and Copy of Paper ’ About Civil War Beside Her 11 With scver. with ni old in the sty Je wi lying ms, found kitehen of beside more dead her cottage. Not found in the kit On the bed ir D C tha from starvatic particle of food was the next newspaper of 1864, victorious march of s in the room was | Washington which told « the Union sold south FIERCE BLIZZARD RAGES Kl Paso. Texas, i< in Grip of Worst METHODS| and | Others Arrested | Alleged Flimflammers After Bloody Battle Near Providence {Three Al- | lowed Until Noon Today !‘ to Leave is| Mary |ordered to return zewski and Ros were ordered to and Marquan Yous: 354 to Joh and Thomas Adams return $ Johi Providence, dead, Dec. 11.—One man two others are known to have been wounded and three are in cus- | tody of the police as a result of a gun and knife fight early this morning | at the Majestic hotel, Marieville, The police scent a rival bootlegging gang war, Andrew Cicillano, of this city, is dead from bullet and stab wounds. Albert Costanz and Nicolo Durenzie, ny Montelbano, 21, are in the custody police have not ) of the two wounded men, oon Britain when arraigne B. W. Alling today on taining money under f The former were arrested at their BYPSYy camp at L A\-fl street last pight Policera®® Thomas Feeney and Patrick O'Mara while the % tter were urrested by Sergeant Wil- : % s, m P’. McCue and Policeman O'Mara Cicillano, believed to be n'l\v heir camp on East Main street loaded into a taxical and brough ests were brought about fo tor's office here in an ll'lm complaint made at head ‘ast night by Kryzewski that weal the crime according to the police. A the body g n “gyped $564 by the % being carrvied Dr ~cording to his story is Lapo Laporte ome tir f the physician trio until assistance arrived the ec men were arrested i “We all drinking and singing, | mother, when somebody on the stairs opened | took the fire” the prisoners say which is the | $100 bill, sprinkled water on it, threw most they yet have told of the begin- |it Into the fire and exclaimed “Your ning of the fight in the big open bar- |bad luek is go He did not com room of the Marieville resort. There- | plaint to the police until last night, after they meagerly describe u free |although he visited the camp Sun- {for all fight which terminated when | because he said he was looking the lights went out. Who hegan the | for his good luck but it never came. shooting and who shot and stabbed | He was looking for his good luck when | |is a matter for Investigation now be- ‘ he walked into police station, he sald, |Ing conducted by the corener's office Sergeant McCue testitied that s |and the police of Providence and | monte went to the Fast Main ot [ North Providence . |establishment against his will be- | 1 KILLED HIN BECAUSE {tor s he wen passing the place. Ac. | I'LOVED HIM,” WIFE SAYS oording to the sergeant the woman to leave before Judge | ob- | by e of patrolman into t saw isit f mp to ith t the od $54 ing his eld | ot and | Mary Marquan, who i appeared upon the money, produced a ane the was te fortune whey were ne fake is st 1o | succeeded in seeuring $22 for La monte, who recently returned from Italy. The wanted $100, he said, but could give it to her the $22, spoke to { him and told him to return In n few days with the rest of the mone Ats {torney 31, H 2 ite Sappearcd for {the four mnecused BIRMINGHAM'S BLOODY AX SLAYER 1S CAUGHT Negro, (apluu‘d by Police, Believed to Be Long Sought Fiend womar Lamont not %0 she took New York Woman Fires Two Shots at t Hushand Across Breakfost Tahle This Mormning Kesie nus offico the apartment on New York, Dee. 11 Mrs, (iross, today shot and killed her band, Irving 1. Gross, post | clerk, firing two shots scrc breakfust table in their the upper west side “I killed him because declared when she was e didn't me more The shooting followed quur fending Rose Calmer, | told the police with love a arrested love uny rels ex Mrs. dead man, over several months sister of the the fe was Gross, had 10 her husband's pluce ened to kill him, When she was taker quarters, Mrs. Gross told sion of the shooting fired in selfidefense, over a had frequently ened to After v that her Mrs, gone and ire m, Ala, D 1 I'red Glover, neg 1's she s waniug freguently Witk and tehet offi for enged ghan iden of work to pol ead ¢ g of a bloo: umvhrr ver in his room the county rting sh ong hunt ruggle she said and threat. after Her husband beaten her her their quarrel this m reached for de her struggle to keep it from weapon was discharged. pistol divoree a pistol, she in the him, “MOVIE STAR MILL" e Birmingham Chicago Police Arrest Men Ace cused of lake Proposition and Cheating Girls Out of Money Chicago, mill” alieged students it would AWNIHG ROD STUNS WOMAN Head sted our me charges of conspir Scores sche s and 1 tial Mae McDonald Struck on e ame of had made i Miss tuit aged me payments of | tectives sa Miss Murie Harold ¥. Mc it was said Store by Iron Bar While Passing 4 many ted e prese to MceCarmick had smowstorm That Has« Occurred Dar. ing Past 20 Years El Paso, Tex today was experic worst blizzards in cording Snow had fa iy than 12 hours while a steady gale caused amage to hom other properties through, Granade e cing twenty burcan 11—Et Paso the years, records, to Weather stea for more has arms o it the Rio valley ton Woman Aged 87 Is l)norced From Husband Bridg: por e the tow her for te vidence that pported the Bennett, 87 by Judge 1 today Deser present had swesented in Harriet & 1 & divores case of |who was grant Kellogg the from Ol D tion wherrat superior cow Bennett, Ber know was et [ Y—— | . | ! THE WEATHER | - | Hartford, Dec. for New PBritain and vicinity: Fair. colder tonight. Wednes. | day fair. continued cold, north- | west wind- | | [ , - 11 —~Forecast Bower, viee retary-treasu es manager g held Mayor Threatens to Put Fence Across I)\uyzhl Mayor A. M. ¥ wit t Co. r ortly g autoists from it end of J A% confercnes ties Commissio the required | needed od 1o place company’s « wee M trarks Insane Man, Missing Since |Kellogg's Name Favorably August, Found as Suicide Acted Upon in Committee » ', Dee 11 tor ashingt logg, former Ming Rritai h of Frank ed States send |be amhassador to Minnesota and several others have argued They their roll call vote. ag confirm o<t fight, however, | ity This, And Adherence To Causes To Which Hard- ing “Indirectly Gave His Life” 'Republican National Com- mittee Meets at Washing- ton and Seeks to Enlist Aid of Women Voters: Wasl |:.K1ni\, Dee. 11.-~The meeting of the republican national committes today was opene .J by Chairman Adams with a brief iress in eulogy of President Harding. Referring to the outstanding events of Mr., Harding's two and one half years in office he mentioned limitation of naval arma- ments, reorganization of the national finances and post-war adjustments Harding Fulogized at “They they Harding Is not nortal form, but \Imost had to die expended. V with us today in the the glow of his personality, the pure of his patriotism, and the high example of manliness devoted to na- tional needs, linger everywhere about. They are here in this room. They abound throughout the entire govern- mental structure. They are the ac« knowledged and pledged inspirations of the man who has taken his place and power. “It is therefore possible, this sense of personal loss, to greet you wholeheartedly, secure in the faith that all is well with our nation and our party, We have only to carry on, and to make sure that he who has died, died not in vain' Men and Women There ren even with committeemen wemen the national committes the opeuing of Forty-nine and 42 assoclate were prosent at wenston orge B slected secretgry He has filling unexpired term of Clarence Appointments to nine v the previously wore v Lockwood of Tndiana wus the eommittee appointment the B. Millor weles 10 announced, of wer committer Wified Sounds Senator Willis of Ohio ated Preside Hurding cago convention of 182 late Keynote, who nomin-* at the Chis dolivered a president and convention keynote, party must ever stand which Mr. Harding, his life wiogy of the ounded u pre saying that th for the causes for Indirectly gave “It may as well be sald Benator Willis, “that the can party stands, s Warren G. Hard ing stood, for the constituion of the United States and not for any of the variol advanced by so- called ¥ would like nothing it torn to tatters thing, 1o the proposais substitute hetransitory for hie understood republis s proposals formers better than to s 1 refer now who or one pending our may as we of congress 1 b republican the rs of Unite power of understood that party in this govern= 1 States will ander ne the league of while is charg ment circumste derstood that in party is Want Women's Al head the mes