New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 10, 1924, Page 3

EW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD w SLAYS MAN WHO HAD _ HELD HIM PRISONER Louisville Has Astounding Case- Victim Was to Operate on Captive Louisville, Ky. March 10.—Police had before them today the confession of William Gates, 31, a salesman, who sghot and killed his erstwhile friend and former employers, Richard Hea- ton, 33, a member of the merchandise | brokerage firm of Heaton and Fisher, after Heaton had kept him a prisoner for two days in a room while Le methodically prepared to perform an operation, Frank Cordell, a private detective of Indianapolis was under arrest in that city, charged with He is to be returned to Lonis- whence he fled Thursday night after having aided Heaton, the policc | in ng Gates and removing him to a house in Thirty which apparently was v ton with the view of mutilating Gates, Was Tied in Bed Three other persons have been ques- tioned and two of them releused. » Conrad, a theater organist and friend of Heaton, who spent the night in the house Thursday, was held on a conspiracy charge. W. A, her, Heaton’s partner, said he had guard over Gates, who was tied to Led with a sheet covering him, while leaton went to his ewn home to cife, over whom the police say trouble arose, Ifisher has not heen ne he was rveleased, Mrs, a Chicogo detective, quit assignment of keeping Mrs. Hes under surveillance v Gates was kKidnapped. 8he said she saw nothing questionabie in the woman's action, Kills Anmate es told the polic Thursday night office and taken to the house, His captdrs took one from him, hut overlooked an ol joned .41 calibre Derringer he had in his vest pocket. He, it in the excitement when Heaton was preps upon him he discove night as Heaton wus him to a bed after to a bathroom, as his captor attempted pistol, shot him to death, Mrs, Heaton was on the first floor when the shooting oceurred, She had Just arrive and had been admitted by her husharl, who went h shooting ocenurred soon phy sielun, atteacted by the went into the house and tound Heaton dead Gates 1oft, hut later wis tound at the home of relatives, Jealousy Is Motive to a his the seen Moore, on the sSurgeon + that he w in Heaton's I4th street too, had forgotten but that od 10 operate 4 11, Saturday bout to handeuft W pistol and to obtain he drew upstairs after, A shots, im- bt bhecanss pressed too e was e the portunt ph Nhis condition closely, Jonsy over Mrs Heaton s n attributed by-the polie papping and attempted planned by Heaton, In his confession unfolded amazing dr seeret plotting and <tark two days—from Thursday night until time the slaying of Heaton Gates said hie was hield a prisoner wax aware of what he thought his Kills Colds*Quick/ .Guaranteed Relief in 5 Hours Why hang onto a Head Cold for a wosk when Dr. Platt's Rinex Pree seription is guaranterd to krfock it in B hourb—or it costs you nothing, Tinex gets at the infernal cause i the blood and removes It. 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The Organizatiol conduets research mation on the structure, and activities of commercial and trade | nizations, This hureau issues pamphicts on such subjects as build- ing and maintaining Chamber of Com- | me membership, industrial devel. ! opment, community advertising, retail | trade extension like, Brown, of the is an example interests of mod- | United States, Washington, will address the team \ = Service Bureau wnd supplies infor- technique | New | at the a dinner Brown is chief of bureau in the department, Thi ed with workers and members of the | Britain Chamber of Commerce Burritt Hotel, Thursday, at 6 o'clock o M iization at | the elvie development department which is conecr sueh subjeets housit | ning, education, citizenship, us | tor intended to do to him Hidden Pistol saved Him His vitimate escape, he told the | thorities, due o the old doubls barrelled Derringer which his captors Kidnapped him exeitement had with him, It id, that he | mude to telephone his aunt in Logans- port. and tell her to mail the letters to him in Louisville, MHe then was v turned to the house and ticd on a bed During the day he said some other person came into the but that he was atraid to say anything for fear Heaton might also be hand, Opportunity to Escape About § o'clock urday night some one—it later developed that it Mrx. IHeaton me to the house, | 8hortly thercafter, he declured Heaton entered th it his (Gates') request, 1 him and led him to the bathroom. Upon arvising he said the derringer in his vest pocket moved and he realized what it was, he turned to leave the bathroom, he stated he drew the derringer and or. | dered Heaton to put up his hands, In. stend, he lared Heaton reached for a pistol he had laid aside while he had unlocked the handeuffs, -and | then he fired two she both ot which hit Heaton, | Coatless, Gates stated that he fled | downstairs and told Mrs, Heaton that he had shot her husband, he | rushed to an adjoining house and told what he had done. Returning, he was told by o physician, who had been at tracted to the by theshots, that | Heaton was dr e got a coat, he | 1, and departed. Vinally he sald Wi ot to Lhe of relatives at where he was found this morning after police had| been notified of his whereabouts Plans for Operation Llaborate preparations ad been made for the operation, according to the police. Anestheties, surgicad in- | Heaton would be the responsible per. | strumen bandages, sulphuric acid, son a hatchet and hand axe being found This ruse, he declared he confidently [ in the room. In addition three large believed him, as Heaton | boxes and a quantity of rubber sheet- abandoned his plans and left the room. | ing was present. These, coupled with | Vriday at noon he said he w the presence of the hatchet and axe | en, handcuffed, to Heaton's offi bofh of which had been sharpened, led police to believe that these prepara- tions were made to dispose the body, in the event the operation prov- ed fatal Police said that Gates felt the der- ringer for the first Thursd night when Heaton loosened his eloth- | ing before administering the anesthe- | tic. The first chance he had to use it {came Saturday night when Heaton | was preparing to again fasten him down to the mattress after having taken him, to the bathroom Soloist Engaged for Concert Here April 6 committee arranging for the annual concert to be given for the | benefit of the Children’s Home, an [ nounces that It has secured as a goloist Mme. Inga Orner, suprano Mme. Orner comes highly recom- | mended by musical eritics as being an ‘aerm exceptional ability. he | | has toured Europe and Australia and | traveled extensively in this country, having been connectod with the ! Metropolitar Opera company of New York, the Chicage Opera com- | pany and the “ovent Garden in Len- | don. As tenor soloist Gosta Nystrom has been engaged. Mr. Nystrom is a comparatively singer in this| country, but is weil known in Eweden, where he has’been soloist in the Roval Opera He has been recently | visiting th relatives in New Jork ! and has consented to come to New | Pritain and sing. After his engage- ment here he will immediately return to Sweden The concert in the! Capitol theater, aftern®on, | April 6 at 2:13 | Y- Winds are produced by differences in atmospheric presswre in adjacent loralities These pressure differ. | enees are due principally to differ- e in temperature was overlooked when they L and which, in the forgotten ahout having was with this pistol, h shot Henton and escaped, Gates told the that, at Hea ton's request he e to the offiee | of Heaton and 1Mish: merchandise brokers Thursday night and that Hew ton und o “mysterious strange held | Nim up with pistols and handeufted | him About ten minutes later he stated, he was taken in an automobils to u hoy Ihirty-Fourth street and finmediat to a room on the second | floor that had been fitted up like an operating room where he was tied to| 4+ mattress which was pegged to the floor When he was seized he was relieved of a pistol he was carrying in his coat pocket, hv declared Prepared to Opervate Heaton, nccording to Gates' related by the police, immed gon to prepare for an operation chlore 1 funnel with cotton, Gates feigned de- when the anesthette was ads | d, he told the police, and be.! gan muttering, His muterings, he attracted Heaton, who got down s to him and fn a eajoling vol | urged him to talk. He said that he then mumbled something about some | letters he had written to an aunt in Logansport, Tnd., teiling her, in effect, that if anything happencd to him room e had was o room and s us fust tory as V into | flled lirium ministere seene wlate he Anchora home | a s saved time TARTI e $2, 100.000 I'he new R by RAFAEL SABATINI Adapration and Continuity by WILLIS GOLDBECK Featuring RAMON NOVARRO ALICE TERRY LEWIS STONE Photographed by JOHN F. SEITZ Directed by REX INGRAM win he Sunday o'clock | Try the New Cuticura Shaving Stick | George B MUNDAY, MAKUH 10, 1924, STATE CHEMISTS T0 MEET | IN THIS CITY SATURDAY Electric | Greatest Body Builder Will Witness Operation of Furnace at P. & F. Corbin Division Foundry. | | The Chemical society Connecticut section, American will hold a meeting |in New MBritain Saturday. The mem-| bers, and their friends, of the Chem- ical society and all other engineering, ocieties of the state will meet at the | state trade school at 2 p. m. and in- | spect the plant. From there they will £0 to the modern foundries of the P.| & F. Corbin division where, through the courtesy of the management, “pours’ will be witnessed of both iron | ! and brass, the latter from a large Bai- | ley electric furnace. This will be a | rare opportunity to see such large foundries in operation. After an informal dinner at the Burritt hotel at 6 p. m.. Dr, Colin G. | Fink, professor of electro-chemistry, Columbia university, and secretary ‘of the American Electro-Chemical so-| ciety, will address the members and | their guests on “The Hydro-metal-| lurgy of Copper, Zine and Iron.” Dr. Fink will outline the recent ad- vances made at the large copper| mines in the process of leaching low | grade ores and electro depositing the | metal from the solution. The new| process for the electrolytic recovery of zine which has attained an output| of 0 tons per d will be deseribed. | He will also discuss the production of | | iron directly from ore, without the in-| tervention of the blast furnace. | Dr. Fink for several years was chief of the research laboratories of the Chili Exploration company which was recently acquired by the Anacond terbury. { American Brass Co., and therefore The fire rted in the variety | well fitted to discuss the modern store of Frederick Fenn ou the first {methods of obtaining metals from floor from a cause unknown and |their ores. This talk will be of much spread to the drygoods store of S.|interest to the engineers and manu- Epstein, next door. The fire|fzcturers of New Rritaln, where so drove out the tenants of six t- | mueh copper, zine and iron are used ments on the upper floors. five to fabricate the varied hardware months old baby which had 1.,..‘,"“‘.,,',,"%' left in its erib on the third floor The committee consists of Messrs, while its parents went to the mo- Joseph C. Andrews, Harry W 18 vies was rescued by a policeman. | and George B. Hogaboom. to the upper floors hut the damage Biddeford, Me,, there was caused largely by smoke Which Breaks Fall of Child from ONFR SIXTY-TIGHT YEARS OF SUCCESS “Whenever my children have colds or are run-down I give them Father John's Medicine and it never fails to bring them right h: to health.” (8igned) Mrs. Arthur Hall, Hazel| street, Uxbridge, Mass, FIRE IN TORRINGTON Damage of About §45.000 is D¢ Block to Three Story Dusiness on | ‘Water street. 10.—Fire, last estimated at the three story business | block on Water strect owned by the | L. Lilly company of Wa- Torrington, right caused $45,000 in Warch damage A Considerable damage was done to two stores on cither side the Fenn and Epstein stores, Mr. Feun placed his loss at $10,. 600, Epstein at $15.000 and the rest is divided among the tenants and the building itself, 1 Men Hold Garment Third Story. Biddetord, Maine, March 10.—An overcoat did duty as a fire net in sav- ing the live of 16 months old Richard B. Fowler when the child fell from a third story window of his home here ster He was unhurt, Richard saw hix father's spectacles resting on the window gill of the front rcom of the KFowler apartment and thinking his father might need them, climbed up to the sill by means of a conch and reached for the spectacles, They fell from the window sill to the streot helow and the child made his| way to the sill to wateh them drop. Charles Bradbury, who was pass ing under the window when the glaas- es fell, looked Richard perched uncertainly three wtories ahove the street, He calied to Thom. as . Doyle and H, ', Laporte and the three men had barely time to stretch Laporte's coat as a net when the ehild came tumbling Five minutes later Richard was laughing with his parents, unharmed by the adventure City Items See Mary b spring dresses, s—adrt, Stella Rebekah lodge, vited to visit zabeth for quality T W. Main, Prof, Bldg. No. 11, is in Magnolin Rebekah lodge of Bristol Tuesday evening. The mem hip will leave New Britain on the b trolley, Stella Rebekah ! sewing cirele will meet with Mre, J R. Hess, Madison street, Thursday afternoon. Vietrolas and Planos, Henry Morans ~advt, Karl ¥ day through Co., a three lace street, William Zoeller, Lunch at The Sewing Court, No. 8 be entertained by Andrews at her home, § street, from to 5 tomorrow after-| noon | New Brunswiek records cvery week at John A. Andrews & Co.-— advt Lady Wallace lodge, No. Danghters of Scotta, will * held regnular meeting Wednesday in Jean de Baptiste hall Hear “Al Jolson” on Brunswick up to see Carlson and the Camp family house at & Wa! to Charles IR, Hoffman, Buechner, Jr, and John | wife sold to. al Estate down Hallinan's. anvt Cirele of Taurel Order of the Amaranth, Mra, John A 5 Rassett tional Park in the visitors Mountain Visit pligrimage Rocky was the conntry most in | making the Still a Rival | that _— fool your furnace OUR furnace is an ex- pert. To human eyes, coal is coal. To your furnace it is a mixture of so much ash, so much gas—and so much heat. It's the job of your furnace to get all the heat from every shovelful of coal. If poor coal goes into your furnace, little heat and much ash will come out. If you feed it coal, you'll get a lot more heat and a lot less ash. It's just plain arithmetic. You get out of your furnace just what you put in. And it doesn't cost any more to put in the best Old Company's Lehigh ,i Anthracite. ¢ That's the beauly of it! NN ) 0 Theve is less ask amd more heat in Buckwheat coal Always use it for bw firm and banking, The Citizens Coal Co. Berlin Yard Uptown Office opp. Berlin station 104 Arch St, Tel. 267 Tel. 3268, Yard and Main Office " l;lrl ht Court, ANTIEE CONTENTS COPYRIMTES HOVT MISSING Wil | One Thin Woman of Aged Branford ¢Gained 10 P ound! Worth 863,000, Have Not Yet Found One. | in 22 Days North Branford, Conn., March 10 Search is still being made by rela. tives of Harrison Barker, 87, found dead a week ago near his home where he lived alone, for a will According to local relatives the fact Barker left the sum of $63,000 in cash was nol wo great a surprise a8 the fact that no will was found Relatives of the old man said today that he known by fhem to be well-to-do and that considerable sur. prise was evinced among them, that the amount of money found was not Relatives Man, Whose Estate Is Skinny Men Can Do the Same All weak men and women, All nervous men and women, All skinny men and women Can grow stronger, healthier and take on weight in 30 days by just | taking MeCoy's Cod Liver Oil Tablets | four times a day—as samy to take as candy And what a hit these flesh produe- was records at John A. Andrews & Co.— advt. . 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Ask the Dickinson Drug | Co., or the Clark & Brainerd Co., or any good druggist anywhere, of his parents many years ago, rela. tives today declared that up to with years he had a housekeaper considered by though he had no hermit war in sense them to be a fow 1'nless be hegun effect distribution farm wan Haven o visitors A will to His New part the 4 U shortly found expected his estate Meps it s of wold to the in te hecome to be used by resorvolrs, i which Water irea for 1 stat HASTENING TO FUNERAL « York., March 10, —Mrs Al gmith speeding castward , speeial train to reach this funeral her New York Killed having The | & i n president of the Saturday his in after from horse fake place Wednesday hurch after 17 AR RESCUED AT SEAL Mareh 1 nteen A dered at P ) 1 wa Scotia Rat picked uy 3 - "Good to the Last Drop’ \'F.\RQ ftaught us the art of creating the lasle that is “Good o the Last Drop.” L2 the - oats by ungshol or prised the npGey gpur. 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