New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 12, 1924, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 REVENUE BILL CUTY | NEARLY a1 MILLION This Is Below Tfisury Surplus Available Tor Reduetion PROSPERITY MAKES IT UP; Chairman Smoot Claims Deficit wm’ Be Wiped Out by Improvement in ' Business Conditions Resulting From Sound Taxation Basis. \ Washington, April The rev- enue bill as framed by the senate fi- nance committee has cut taxes $50,- J,44¢ below the treasury surplus available for reduction, Chairman Smoot estimated today in the com- mittee's report on the bill presented tormally to the senate, This “apparent deficit for the next fmeal year will be wiped out,” Mr. $moot predicted, by an improvement in busin conditions expected to re- | sult from placing “these taxes upon an economically sound basis.” Comes Up Next Wednesday, The bill is to be taken up for con- sideration next Wednesday, A minor- | ity report, carrying the views of the | democratic members of the commit- | tee will be presented Monday. The committee bill provides for a net reduction In annual revenue in comparison with the present law of $5454,720,000, as against an estimated | of 5446,000,000 unger the meas- ure as it passed the house, The provision for a 25 per cent re- duction in the income taxes of 1923, payable this year will save taxpay- rs $252,750,000, the report esti- mated, Mr. Smoot detailed the many changes wade in the technical ad- Had Woman Not Conessed Chances | ¢oroon ministrative provisions as well as in | the tax rate schedule: | Provision for Iincreasing revenue | collections under the present law are | made in only three instances— | through the mew taxes on radlo and wah jongg sets and a change in lh" corporation tax, Radio and Mah Jong Taxes, The ten per cent tax on radio secty ind parts would net $10,000,000 | annually, it was estimated, while the 10 per cent tax on mah jong would ring in $1,000,000 annually. Increasing the corporation tax of 1215 to 14 per cent would bring in +104,000,000 additional revenue, the! ceport held, while elimination of the peelal corporation stock tax would cut off $55,000,000, The change vould decrease the cost of collection ¢ these taxes, it was said, and make | equitable distribution of the n of taxation.” reduction in nder the committee mount to $95000,000 and in sur- axes to $200,000,000, The house | 1l would have provided for a $130,- 000,000 eclash in normal taxes and | or only !1..r\ 000,000 in surtaxes, | JAIL FOR BIGAMIST Beacon, N, Y., n Stamford Court—Wife No. 1 Wil more wrd, The net h bill would | Take Wim Back. Stamtord, April 12.--James Mead, s James London of Beacon, N, Y., fail for six months for He married a woman r in Highland l'nI! and {1 February, 1924, | ied Grace Nolan her On tufi tter's complaint Mead was arrested v e where e was living with s fist by whom has two children, The court said it was ine ned 1o suspend sentence as Mrs, Mead, the first wife, was willing to ke back her husband, and because L cond marriage was not consum- umy today. Deek wife, e ited, SINCLAIR FIGHTS BACK Questions Authority of Senate To Ask | Him Questions Which Resulted In His Being Indicted, | Washington, April 12.-—The author- ity of the senate to ask him the gques- fons which resulted in contempt pro- coedings against him was attacked by Harry I, Sinclair today in a demur- rer filed bere in answer to his con- tempt indictment The demurrer followed in the main he legal contentions advanced by the | Sinclair lawyers when the oil magnate ind lessce of Teapot Dome last ap- seared before the senate oil commit- ce and refuscd to reply to & long | «tring of questions on the ground that | he inveslizators were without author- ity and that his evidence should be reserved for the courts, Sinclalr pleaded not guilty to the contempt charge immediately after the indictment was returned two wecks ago. The proceedings are en- tirely separate from the grand jury nvestigation of the naval oil leasing program itself, which will begin be- fore another grand jury here next TWO FARM MEASURES Washingtsr, Aprll 12.—Two farm casures, the McNary Haugen bill for tablishment of a farm export cor- noration and the Norris bi'l for pur- hase and sale of farm produc's were srdered favorably reported today by the genate agriculture committe. Seve- ral ammendments were attached to e McNary-Haugen bill before t was ven eommittee approval. TO OI'FR\TF ON COUZENS | Washington, April 12.—Physiclans a‘tending Senator Couzens of Michi- wan, decided today to operate an him carly next week. £300,000 LOSS BY FIRE April 12—Fire destrovs! lesale dry goods warchouse -f | MeLimont & Forl ‘l'!i" # loss Quebes, ¢ wh | Mrs, Johanna Tell, NEW BRITAIN HERALD | NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, N PAGES. Simmons to A. Uy Cash Bonus to Men Who Ask An Option Washington, April 12.—The soldier bonus bill passed by the house was agreed to with minor changes today by the senate finance committee and ordered reported to the senate, 1t provides for cash payments to veterans not entitled to more than $50 in adjusted service compensation and for 20 year endowment life insurance poli- cies to others. Senator Simmo: orth Car- olina, ranking democrat on the committee, announced he would propose an amendment on the floor of the senate to make full cash payments an option of the bill. Chairman would report the the senate Monday. No formal vote was taken today, Mr. Smoot announcing the report was ordered by general con- sent. 'T0BRING MRS, TELL BACK THIS EVENING Will Be Lodged in Haddam Jail | Awaiting Grand Jury Action CRIME WAS WELL HIDDEN Smoot sald he measure to “1‘],""6‘0’ ~ Dt s Ol-d | was | formal 3 City Is Gaily Decorated for Occasion and More Than 5,000 Take Part in Gigan- tic Parade.. N:tw Haven, April 12,—Tle 102nd | Feglment, famous for its World War [service, born on old Yale field in Aug- ust 1917 from the old First and Sec- ond regiments of the National Guard “home” today to celebrate in a Wi its official redesignation as the 102nd. The regiment, while re- organization of the state militia of the country was in progress, was the 170th {infantry while the other regiment in the state was the 169th, The latter will be known in the state as the First Connecticut regiment, A Glorious Welcome The city today welcomed the 102nd with gaicty not equalled in any event in m Probably never before | was the clty so attractiveiy decorated, |or so much effort the oce; m memo l‘)!‘ municipality pended to make able. The state, nd civie organiza- ns had provided money for carry- m..- through the arrangements swhile citizens had opened their purses to five the finishing touches to a pro- gram which was of unusual interest, The city streets were decorated vhvrmzl.mxt the downtown there were es of flags and bunting. The Cen- lrnl Green was fringed with decora- " tions and for attractiveness could only | be compared with the scene there at the time years ago. Big Military Spectacle The parade of the military and semi-military organizations in the af- included the 102Znd infantry of the Yale pageant some Are Murder of Blair Might Never the 160th regiment, the coast artillery Have Been Discoverad, According to Police. Killingworth, Conn, Aprfl 12— the murder of Charles Blair, whose body was bound buried in a fertilizer pit here yesterday is expected to arrive here late tonight if she waives extr: dition and agrees to come to Conn ! tieut with state police who left this v York with a war- charge of forenoon for N rant for her arrest on a murder, It is planned to take her at once before Justice Fall, who signed the warrant, It was expected that she would be held for the superior court | which is now sitting here, and taken norioa: taxes |10 Haddam jall to await the sction of | a grand jury. Autopsy Held Today The autopsy on the body of Blair, which was begun at Clinton this after- noon by Meadleal Examiner D. A, Fox and Dr. Jesse W, Fasher of Middle- town, would especially be toward a determination of the direc- !tion taken by the bullet which Mrs. Tell says she fired at Blalr, before she hacked his body with an axe, An ef- from the other wonnds on the body, belleved to be from the axe which Mrs, Tell says she used. The state police removed everything from the home on the farm of Dlair at Pea Hill, which might have a bearing on the case, Among the ef. fects were a number of Jetters received by Blair and Mra Tell. These have been turned over to State's Mlnrvw\ Ernest Inglis at Middletown, contents has not been disclosed. Blair Wanted Divores Attorney M. Eugene Culver of M dietown moade known today !M! had on February 28 last recelved a | letter from Blair which read as fol- lows: “I would like to make an appoiut- ment regarding proceedings necessary for a divorce. Please let me know when most convenient for me to call for an interview The letter was written in good hand was signed “C. Blair” and indicated that Blair, it he wrote the letter was a man-of considerable education, Relatives of Blair in New York had made it known that he had some last February with regard to a divorce. Mrs. Tell in her confession sald that Bilair had urged her to get a divorce | N 80 that she could marry him and that POx in New Britain. her refusal was the reason for fre- quent quarrels which culminated in one last Tuesday which ended when she killed Blair and buried his body. Meantime state police and agents of the state’s attorney were busy at the Blair home, checking up in detail the story of Mrs. Tell who declared that she kilied Blair by ghooting him after he had threatened her with an axe, over her refusal to marry him. A bul- let wound in the head and wounds on the body were believed to corroborate the woman’s story that she had first shot Blair and then hacked his body with an axe, Today's autopsy is expected to develop cer tainly the evidence in this matter. A finger print expert was at the | farm late yesterday and began a hunt for bloody finger prints in an effort ! to establish whether Mrs. Tell's sto | conforma to facts in every detail. Her thorough scrubbing of the house how- ever made the work of the expert dif- | ficult having obliterated all sign of the murder so0 far as state police and other visitors to the house could obh- serve, State police are on guard at the farm and will probably remain thers until the investigation of the state's attorney is completed. May Be Delayed. ew York, April 12.—Mrs. Johanna %0 far as to state that vaccination it T2, who &onfeased to the murder of Charies Blair on his farm near Kil- ling-sorth, Conn., where for thres yeace she was his housekeeper, prob- remain in the Bro coun- for i {radition papers frov Tristrict Attornty McGechan -xd 1o other | who confessed to! ! division, directed | ster, corps, the landing force of the U, 8. 8, Bruce which is in the harbor, the first and second compahies Governor's 1"oot Guards, 118th medical regiment, 192nd field artillery, naval reserves O, R, C. first squadron cavalry, artillery corpgs of Yale, tank company 43rd veterans from various war- time units and organizations who now live in the city or state, veterans of pre-war military organizations, Span- ish war veterans, American Legion posts and auxiliaries, war veterans of Dritish organizations, the Red Cross units and organizations, disabled vet. crans from the Allingtown hospital, overseas women's units, the' Boy Scouts, and many other bodles of vet- erans or war workers, In motor cars were carried a few G, A, R, veterana who were physically able to stand the excitement of the 5,000 In th The marching strength in advance {of the actual formation has been Nnn- ed at over 5,000 constituting probably | thie largest body of the military the city has ever seen, The reviewing stand was at I where General Andre W, representing the secretary of war, stood with Mayor David E., Fitz- Gerald and a group of military offi- city ! cers and especial gunsts of the day Man Gets Six Months ¢ort wil) also be made to learn wheth- w g °r death resulted from the bullet or con. 'v- | anti-vaceina | during one of a number of quarrels !Dis s true, The guests of the day upon arriva ere taken to Hotel Taft for Junch- In the early afternoon there was | a band concert on the Green Tm.!i,'h( in Woolsey hall there will he a mass meeting of a patriotic nature, At the armory there will be a mlilitary bal while at the Taft there will be a din« ner to officers of varlous commands with Cel. N. (G, Osborne as toastmas- ter, and another dinner at the shore for reservo officers, ™ ANTHVACCINATIONISTS AROUSE HEALTH DEPT. Pullen Not Realize What Smallpox Is Dr. with the meeting of at the Lyceum afternoon, In conncetion onists tomorrow theater | dealing with & lawyer in Middictown Richard W. Pullen, superintendent of T JORNSON INMIGRATION the health department, the following interview “We have had forty cases of small Five of these af- disease have died. | rumors against v with the wildest ci n do not one death in every cinated The decline in the number of small- pox cases at present is of course grati- fying. The news is accepted by a large | part of the public as sign that the danger is over. To a certaln extent but to this extent only:- those people who have been vaceinat- ed successfully during the recent cam- paign are They need no longer fear t discase, Those who are not vacei ed are rtill in danger, and not only they in danger themselves, they menace to others, They will, smallpox be an expense -4 yers which is entirely it since means of prevention | been offered free. This | statemént may cause some resentment., | That Is unfortunate but it cannot be helped. When we realize that the pre- sent type of smallpox is the most fatal that h: twenty-five y the need o the way protecting oneself discase, many people who oppose do not realize what small- do not feel that the dis- Some have even gone hl.'r qa en the clght people vac- | are are a if they contract ! taxp: tifiable, rs, it only emphasizes in of against th “A great vaccination pox is. They ease is serious. worse than the discase, This statement alone proves that the person making it does not know smallpox. It has been | the aim of #his devartment to Impress | upon the people of the city the seve- | Ipox as it exists in New | right of expectancy In any estate {Thaw may leave should be protected. | | [to have his sanity tested. granted the | |amine him. lwer clans for the same agr T | Pennsylvania hospital for mental and |since !h after (u!vv ays They Do vor. Thaw disappeared and was found in an throat cut, fought s 1 [ Drleerned. cuse it of causing House Adopts Measure Which Would today approved provision of the John- ‘ e pires Jume 20, Amen ! J., a Colgate t occurred in Connecticut for inte a t taking proper precautions pole, t b | | | % EVELYN NESBIT DOES Former Wife Starts Action e APRIL 12, 1924. —EIGHTEEN Senator Watson Declares It Is | Attempt lo Weaken President \0PPOSED TO lNVESTlGATlON And Much Opposes Harry Thaw | |.\0 Good Can Come of it ! 1 May, Republican Scnator De- clares—Says Bureau Is Punctioning Properly. The special guting the Washington, April 12.- senate committee invest |revenue burcau found it *thoroughly und efticiently organized to transact {its business,” Senator Watson, repub- {lican, the committee chairman de- clared today in bringing before the senate the controversy as to whether |the committee should be discharged. Prefacing remarks with an e g us iil- of Senator Couzens, republican, inquiry reso- ness'" | Michigan, author of the |lution, Senator Watson reviewed the |expansion of revenue collections in the past seven years with “its consequent | unprecedented burden on the bureaw.” | Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania, {who has sharply ecriticized national | prohibition enforceemnt, suggested the employment of Francis J. Heney, as counsel for the senate commitiee |investigating the internal revenue bu- |reau, Senator Watson, republican, |Indiana, chairman of the committee, |declared today in the senate, Senator Watson said he was not at |liberty to repeat conversations, but that he had learned upon “indis- putable evidence that Governor Pin- chot had thrust himself into the con- troversy between Senator Couzens, re- publican, Michigan, prosecutor for the committee, and Secretary Mellon, Aimed at President, Senator Watson declared the at- 'tack upon Secretary Mellon was de- signed as “a careful attempt to weak- en Coolidge “Mellon is Mellon's sake,” Senator Watson said. “but in the effort to get the presi- The whole thing in my opinion is this: If they can weaken the sec- retary in any way, they weaken the fax bill he proposed and which the president had seen fit to endorse, in Interest of Her 13 Year Old Son | “Mr. Mellon is the main support of Mr, Coolidge and Mr., Coolidge un- 12.—Evelyn doubtedly wiil be the leader of this gide in the coming campaign. These |arrows have all been aimed at his NOT WANT THAW FREE Philadelphia, April J divorced wife of Harry K. today filed in common pleas | court a petition to be allowed to inter- | breast and today they lie broken at vene in the proceedings to determine | his feet. No investigation, however Thaw's sanity by jury trial, which be- | troublesome, will disturb the .-g(hnuv: gins here nest Monday, The actlon, in which he is held by the peoply it is stated, is .o the Interest of her Scnator Watson said “the inves 18-year-old son, Russell Willlam | gation of the internal revenue hnruu Thaw, should not go on The p~~|1ll(m sets forth that Thaw! “No good purpose can he con- should not be r ed as he is men- served by that investigation,” he said, tally unfit and will, if released, “dissi- | “and it may produce much evil." pate his own estate and nvn life in- He served notice he would call up terest in his father's estate.” Thaw's at an early date his resolution mov- Brew- | tate is estimated to be worth about |ing the discharge of the revenue ba. reau invest Im\llnx committee, COUNTERFEITERS HELD $1,000,000, he petition avers that her son's that filed a petition in his mothcr, | The court petition and five alien- named in his belialf to ex- Trustees of his estate 0 permitted to name physi- purpose Thaw Thaw which he recently was joined by Ists were Winkle and Others Indicted for Making Spurious Bank Notes The alienists named for have | that he is sane, has been confined In the nervous diseases in West Philadelphia 1917, He was committed after court which will hear his case Honday had adjudged him insane and the of Pennsylvania re- to honor requisition papers to ave him removed to New York to charges of whipping Freder- N : a Kansas O ,,"'"m, schoot | il Brookiyn as a result of the raid N ult in ‘hursday afternoon on the house at the assauit In New York | payport, L. 1, at which the men are allegad to have been engaged in the manufacture of counterfeit $20 Two women, the wiv of arres men, were ordered released, as the grand jurors decided that they had nothing to do with the counterfeiting operations of the gang. Bonds were set for tive of the at $25,000, and the other six placed under bonds of $10,000, No intimation h been received from the Secrct Service men as to whether Winkle was acttve in the dis tribution of $10 bills in this eity, his arrest being made in connection with a gang that appears to have been i erested exclusively in the raising of genuine $1 bills to $20 denomination. The $10 bills in circulation are not made on regnlation government paper but on very thin paper into which silk t 1s been woven, and the bill fnally made by sticking two which would fix picces of the paper together. A counterfeit $10 bill was ered in the deposit of Frank Gentile of South Main street at the New Brit- ain Trust Co. yesterday afternoon. An- other counterfeit $10 bill was ed this morning at the same the Buckley Macaroni Co. of 143 Maple strect, president of the New Britain Window Cleaning company, and John Cian- fione, a former resident of New Drit- aln, were among the 11 men inticted the federal grand jury Jacob Winkle, state answer yesterday Gump, After apartment house here with his and his former wife have sational court battles over he parentage of the boy which ended for her so far as obtain- | for the child con- Thaw imfavorably ng support was men were BILL APPROVED TODAY Fix Quotas at 2 Per Cent on 1800 Census, Washington, April 12.—The house on immigration bill juotas at £ per cent based on the 1890 ensua. Under i ligcov- w which ex- next, tas are 3 per the 1910 ecensus imonts were offered to change he Johnson bill, but all were reject- 1 by overwhelming vote existing t based on Saved From Drow mng by Height, He's 6 Feet 6, Hamiiton, N. Y., April 12.—When yonald G. Carbe rl_\‘ of Westfield, N. senfor, was playing golf his driver flew from his hands lake. Taking a boat he at- empted to retrieve his club with a but the boat capsized. He sould not swim, but the water proved | o0 be only six feet deep whereas Car- perry stands six feel six inches. With Coolidge on Judge Washington, April 12.—John 1. ! Lewis, p Mine Workers conferr dent Coolidge regarding a to Yederal Judge A. B. Andersc Indiana, who probably will be elev ed to the federal court of appea Unit Mine Workers' officials recommended the appointment Representative Sanders as his cessor oday ol ve THE WEATHER o Hartford, April 11 —<Forecast for New Britain and vicinity: Will Have to Go to School Pasadena, Cal, April 12.—Married unmfin under 18 years of age, living Increasing clondiness tonight m Pasadena, will be compelied to at- and Sunday: possibly becoming | |tend school, according to 8 - ruling unsettled, slowly rising temper- | made public today by John Harbes ature. Cirector of child welfare. Special lasses for such brides will be gon- - ot being attacked for BY BROOKLYN JURY bills. | | ASKS FORD SHOW-DOWN JAILED FOR Average Daily Circulation Week ndmg 10 551 April 5th . PRICE THREE CENTS vious Welcome Accorded 102d DRIVE ON MELLON GIRL WHO POSED AS GROOM Ja "leglment In New Haven Today AIMED AT GOOLIDGE FIVE MONTHS; BRIDE GIVEN THIRTY DAYS FIFTEEN TENNIS MEN NAMED AS ELIGIBLE Til:ien‘ Johnston, Richards and Williams Included on Olympic List New York, April 12.—Names of fifteen players eligible for the Ameri- | can Davis Cup team were anuounced team will defend the in- trophy. rs selected are Tilden, Il., of Philadeiphi M. Johnston, Howard Kinsey and Robert K of San Francisco; Vin- cent I irds, of Yonkers, N, Y., R. Norris Williams, Carl Fischer and allace Johnson, of Philadelphi rancis T. Hunter, Frank T, nder- son, Dr. orge King, Watson M. ‘Washburn and Hugh G, M.Kelleher, of New York; Harvey Snodgrass, of Los Angeles, and Clarence Griffin, of San Francisco. This list was made up according to the 1923 rankings of the U. except that the two (0”'11’.’" stars the first seventeen, Brian Norton South Africa and Manuel Lonso Spain, have been eliminated. The selections mark a radical de- parture in Davis Cup procedure, mem- bers of the team previously not being | selected until a few weeks prior to the matches. It is viewed aiso as somewhat of a concession to the de- mands of a number of players, notably | Tilden, the national champion, that !less secrecy surround the make-up of | the team. The committee makes it piain, how- ever, that while the defending team in all likelhood ‘will be chosen from among the 15 players named, its selec~ tlons are not necessarily confined to this list, Others who may jump un-/| expectedly into prominence also will | be considered. The chief purpose of |the “Davis Cup Squad,” picked practi- cally six months in advance of the challenge matches in September, will be to enabla the committe to focus its attention on the outstanding players, who also will have the knowiedge, in arranging their plans, that they are looked upon as eligibles, NO DANGER OF GONTAGION William T, in of AT CITY'S SANITARIUM Building Used as Tuberculoske Sani- tarium Not Affected by Germs, Dr. Pullen Says. building formerly used as tuberculosis sanitarium and reecently ! converted into an isolation hospital |can again be used for the treatment of tuberculosis patients when the smallpox epidemlic subsides, and there will be no danger of infection, Dr. Richard W. Pullen, superintendent of the heaith department said this morn- | ing The superintendent fecls, there is greater need hospital in this city e health however, that of an isolation than there is for a tuberculosis sani- | tarium. He explains that the latter cases can be cared for in state instl- | {tutlons, while under the old system | there was no hospital to which quar- antine cases could be removed. Had | there been an isolation hospital at the | outset of the smallpox epbdemic, the doctor feels that the discase could have been more readily controlled Dr. Pullen has been assured that there is sentiment in the common | council for a continuanc the iso- Jation hospital in preference to a tu- berculosis sanitarium Michigan Democeratic Leader Wants Defing Answer on His Political Intentions—Hasn't Got It Vet. tated April by Detroit been asked chairman of the tral committee political intentions, at Monday's stat president the The request, was unanswered Henry Ford has Willlam A omstock, democratic state cen- to state definitely his s a result of his ~wide demo- made to- endorseme primary for cratic ticke three days day. Editor of Norwich Record For 35 Years Found Dead Norwich, Conn., April 12— Edward Browne, city editor for the Norwich lecord for 35 years and long a newspaper ecorrespondent, died while during last night He had for two months. e wi this cit June 11, 1850 and printing trade Many years ago he served as correspond- ent for the Ne Haven Sunda ister for this scction. Woman l)i;s of Assault ssailant Is in Prison ord, N. H.. April 12.—Mrs. Helen A. Richardson, an a 1 wom- un who was assauited and robbed at her home in Pembroke on March 19 by Daniel ¥. MeGinn, died at a hos- pital here today. McGion began sery- {ing a five years' sentence for the as- ast Thursday. ago, aslecp been ill born in 'n the w sau't PAVORABLY REPOWT ’ Washington, April 12—A favorable report on the MeNary-Clark forest biil enacted after several months of investigation and designed to conserve the country's forest resources, Was voted today by the senate agriculture | William | | Lefore Judge " Al of | | before the Miss Klmball ln Court In Men’s Clothes, Re- tains Composure Ard Says She Will Appeal. Miss Dans ba)s Her “Hus- band” Was “Always Per- fect — Met Him Dressed as Woman. Gentleman” The queerest case ever to come bee fore the local police court was heard William C. Hungerford when Ethel Kimball, Wilson, and *his" wife, alias Ambie P, Hill, | were arralgned on perjury charges. Miss Kimball or “Mr, James Wile s charged with perjury in ses maryiage license and sentence d to five months in jail. His, or rather her, wife, Miss Davis, was charged with subornation of perjury and sentenced to 50 days. “Mr. Wile son’ said that she intends to take an appeal, but Miss Davis said she would serve the senten | Appears i The “groom” in the marriage ceres r.ony that was performed here om March 17 by Rev. Dr. George W. C, Hill, appeared in court nattily dressed 15" men's clothe “He" wore a brown | overcoat which *F took off and | threw over “his” left arm in a very, | mannish way before taking a seat. “lnnn.r he” showed a feminine Jmul by failing to remove “his" hat, A policeman nearby debated for a minute as to whether or not this act | was, necessary, considering the faet that he was a she, and women are not obliged to remove their hats in the courtroom. idently the polices man decided that it would be proper | to eonsider her a man until evidence was produced in the court to the cone trary, and requested that the hat Le | removed, “Mr. Wiison™ had long curly hair, | brushed back in pompadour style, and ‘at the hairline at the “siders” were small cuts evidently from a razor, “He” wore a gray suit with a sort collar and bow tie, Both Plead Not Guilty When called to plead to the chargs | of perjury, Miss Kimbail stood up and in a very good attempt to simulate a masculine tone, pleaded not guilty, The “wite” in the case, Miss Pearl | Davis, also entered a plea of not guil- ty. She presented a refined appears in court, ceman Thomas J, eency was | the first witness called fn the case and {he told of the investigation he made following the notitication of the local police by the Hartford authorities of | their arrest in that city, His testimony was corroborated by the other wite nesses, Dr. John 1. Kelley testified that he had made a thorough examination of the “groom™ and his finding was that “he was a she.” Miss Jean Cochrane, clerk, testified that she was the one who had fssued the Jicense to the cous ple. She said that “Mr, Wilson" had appeared at the office alone and ses cured the license, that the bride- was not pregent. On March 12, “Mr, Wilson"” called at the office and secur- | ed the information regarding the mars rlage laws of Connecticut and filed the ys notiee of the intended mar- this morning allas James W’ Pearl A. D cur Male Attire deputy city ve da ria Bev. Dr that calle about 6:30 had perforn: Groom ¥ Asked by the i1, identified the couple at home on March 17 » i for whom he d a marriage ceremony. s Nothing to Say. court if she wished to 2 anything, Miss Kimball, or Mr. Wilson, sald, “No, I do not care to ay anything now. Before the trial opened, 1 expressed a wish that 1 be given opportunity to employ counsel, trial went on, but as there was evidently no attention paid to my request I shall say nothing.” The “bride” then took the witness stand and told the court of the inel- dents that led up the marriage, She said that she is a married woman, having married a man in Boston over 20 years ago, but has not been living with her husband for some time, She said that she met “Mr. Wilson™ last August and took a liking to him, that gradually ripened into love, and final« ly marriage in this city, She said that has no positive knowledge even that “Mr. Wilson” is a wom- an. ®he found, durir quatnt- ance with “him” that “he was a pers fect gentleman,” and the most conside crate and kind that she has ever know To her knowledge, “Mr, | Witse done a single thing that 1 to she now her has never right ‘rading” “Mr. “he s not “Masqu When met 10id the court that ASquUers ading as a woman, xplained 1o lier that “he” had to masquerade in order to !Il‘l«\'fll\ a real estate 1‘ Questioned riage, presented to the Woman, wi was 1 she and complet about her previous mar of which no evidence had been court, she said that she bad married a man who sid he wag an orphan but she has learned that he married her under an assum- ed name. Asked if she thought that it was right for her to enter into an- other marriage without first seeking 1 divorve, she said that she had bees informed that as her husband had martied her under an assumed name, the marriage was void, and no divores procecdings were necessary. Askad who gave her that information, she sald “Mr. Wilson.” Miss Davis's nephew was in courd and as the sentences were being ime. posed, jumped to his feet with & desire to say something to the courty