New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 6, 1924, Page 1

et News of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 'LOOMIS MAY BE CHOSEN MEEINIAAESFBEIAA[A]IA]IA(LEY[] | HEAD OF TRUST COMPANY Brands Means' Testimony as False But Miller Challenges Secretary’s Statement SAYS HE WAS PRESENT AT ONE CONVERSATION ed to Succeed Late James M. Cur- tin As President of Bank. hn C. Loomis, vice-president of me Lommercml Trust Company, will probably be tie choice of the board | 'of directors to succeed to the presi- dency of the bank, a vacancy having been caused by the death of James M, Curtin. Th an authentic source although no offi cial statement has been made by the bank. Mr. Loomis was {bank for a number been serving as vice-president of the institution for a year or more. He was formerly president of the Cham- | ber of Commerce, Mo s (IR, SEERS 0 SHIFT e e omo - BLAME T0 COMPANION Stella Mackowska Takes Stand in Own Defense in Murder Trial treasurer of the Alien Property Custodian Declares He RBrought Means and Gilbert Togeth- Means' Testimony and Offers To Bring In Additional Proof 1f 1t | Should Be Desired By Committee. Washington, June 6-—Secretary Mel- lon today entered a formal denial of charges levelled against his conduet the treasury department, by Gas- ton B. Means, in testimony before the senate Daugherty committes in a letter to the committee the sec retary denied in detail Means' story about his investigations into a report that Mr., Mellon had agreed to issue whiskey withdrawal pcrmits to Rex eldon of New York in return for money to help ‘make up the deficit of the republican national committee, Miller Denies Denial e denial applied in part te & con versation on the subject which Means said took place between himself and former Under-Seeretary Gilbert of the but as soon as the secretary’s n entered in the record, Thomas W. Miller, the alien property custodian, testified that he himself had been present at such a conversa- tion Miller Gilhert T can't cerned Rex Sheldon, the department Buffalo, N. Y., June 6.—=Stella Mac kowska took the stand in supreme court today in an effort to save her- self from death in the electric chair, the fate awaiting I'rank H. Minnick, whom she accompanicd when the August Hoyler jewelry store was rob bed and Rufus Eller, a clerk, fatally shot on May 10. 19 year old girl, indicted for first degree murder jointly with Min- nick and George W, Bittle, third mem of the party, mingled smiles with rs a8 she related to the jury the story of her life. She traced her ac tions since leaving her home in Painesville, Ohio, five years ago. She sald she had been in Buffalo only a few days when she met Minnick on ths Tuesday before the robbe and slaying, which took place on Saturd “He told me that he was rl|\o||-vl that he was a jeweler, and that it I would go with him to Cleveland I would want for nothing,” she said. “I fell for him,” she sobbed 8he related events immediately pre ceding the two trips 1o the Hoyler store, the first for the purpose of reconnoitering, and repeated her t timony given at the trial of RBittle, | against whom wshe testified for the state. 8he did not know, she testified, that Mi k and Bittle were discus. sing a robbery as they proceeded to the store In a taxieab., They con versed, she said In “pig Latin." treasury etter had | ught Means and s office, said he br together in 1 say exactly what was dis- continued, “but it con- Means then was of jus- an agent of tice o this point Seeretary Mellon had hits letter his is characteristic Means' tostimony Mr, Gilbert never met Mr. Me No interview took place.” Mellon's Tetter faking up point by point the eharges and Inferences mads in the restimony of Gaston 1. Means before the Daugherty committee, Becretary | Mellon sald in his letter to Chairman Brookhart (1)~ He refers to the Gucken- Petmer distillery in Pittsburgh x x % hi% was simply a case of violation of | and its prosecution by the pro- | of ans, Jaw, GASES NOLLED AGAINST 2) - Mr, Means states that banks, | Waterbury particularly the line of banks with | which T was formerly connected, have 1a loans secured by whiskey certi- f x x x 1 question whether such Jeans exist in this country to any ma- perly People Owned Machines But Have Bought Them Inno- cently, State Believes Waterbury, June 6.-—-Judge Frank D. Haines in the criminal superior court here today nolled cases of nine | men Nmrlml with theft of high priced POLICE AGENT BUYS HOOCH, = ., it e ARCH STREET RAID POLLOWS s, "2t State At [torney Lewls said Hv.. Toward Jackson, Stewand at Colored (Continued on l‘al' ) accused per Sons had parted with their good money for the cars not knowing they | were stolen He sald they merely had posscssion of the stolen automo- biles and the state lacked evidence to convict them on charges of theft, Club, Arrested When Sleuths Find Liguor in House lice and Insurance company joined in the crusade to loca stolen cars. The men whose [were nolled are Dominic James Martin Claneiolo, | Asa 1 George Mason, Fred | Galida Lauria and Louis Ruzzo. Ralph Pe separate from guilty to theft of a ¢ some months ago to jail for six months agents te the cases rd Jackson of 88 Arch street, eolored, steward at the colored club which has quarters in the same bu¥l- was arrested this morning fol g a raid on his tenement by ¥lynn and Police- Thomas J. ¥eeney. The police to the man's home and an gent” went into the house for them | and succeeded in buying a bottle of | liquor. When the “agent” came out nd turned the lquor over to the po- they went in and searched the cmises, findicg a small quantity of | alleged moonshine. BIG KANSAS ROBBERY Mow ng, Coviello Burr, George " Michael J. man went e of New York case others, pleaded r in Southbury and was sentenced More Indictments Against Forbes Are Now Reported Chicago, June 6.-—Indictments in the second federal grand jury investi- gation of the administration of the Untied States Veterans' Bureau under Colonel Charles R. Forbes, its for- mer director, are reported to have been returned yesterday and immedi- ately suppressed John W, H. Crim, assistant attorney ge who con. ducted both investigations, refuscd to divulge how many indictments or what number of persons had been named. There ports that one or more persons the previous indictme the latest grand could not be testimony in the been given particuls present grand jurors investigation Monday Jour Armed Bandite Hold Up Rank Praying Teller And Flee With £26,000, ~Four bandits neral, today held Lodde, paying teller, and . Haake, cashier of the main street bank, as they were returning from the First National wnk and robbed them of 6,000, CHILD 'FOUND DEAD Two Year Old Girl Expires In Sleep Kansas City, June 6 were e not ts w named i re involved in report, but this woman's d to have ion by the wgan their fury confirme: \ who At Home On Orange Strect From DENTAL COMMISSIONER Waterbury, June 6.—Dr. Artl o | Ho! s today pointed a and Mre £ Wilkinson Med od to the Pro- mistration ral causes three years The Natural Causes. A ' e Imes of this city w ofefa ged two . cmak Gern Ruduka vund dead at her home t £he was the daughter of Mr & Tiuduka of 72 Orange street ical Esaminer Waterffan Lyon nounced death due to na Ly al e of e whi board « amis Martha reappoi ation and a term of from July 1 made of nurses f dating tments we or heid tomorrow a Sacred The wil i e bs merning hireh At T:30 o'clock, followed " " in Sacred Heart cemeters MARRIAGE LICENSE e following been issued at the office erk: 1 aw and Wink ] 182 Green- w Vance of 31 and Miss Buell stre marriage licenses of tie Miss Prohibitionists Are to Rcmam in the Race ed Press June € e ntion today machine its have town « Pauline wood street Broad strect, Plain H B. Juengst of us, 0., probi- s voted nom- usual "t rejected a sutton, 11lin t be plae continue th ndidate 4 * POSTAL l\l REASE 2l parts . and make APPROVED. confer- salaries in- memi today by and order amaiga mation of forces. to the president of years and has | Vesastro, | NEW BRITAIN, REMMEL DELEGATES | ARE GIVEN SEATS {Republican National Committee. Settles Arkansas Controversy | e s SENATE s information 1s from | Chairman of Credentials Committee Appointed. Cleveland, Jun vote the tee seated toda large from tional Committeman H. 1., Little Rock. The committee of a bolting Scipio A. Jones. mel in the contestees case as absurd, a clegation had resentatives from Pulaski, Scipio A. ing delegates, pr behalf of himsel Gieorge Scott, R. | Hibbler. Jones contende headed by temmel, h state conventior which had been by county tants man Arkansas headed delegation Committeman Rem- | concluding the argument for| Jones' nd contended that his by Jones e 6.—By four delega b, > out the threw characterized elected single been a cou sented the ca f M. Caver and d that national ad been 1, the the o comn major fraudulently elect conventions held wi hieaded IS RECOGNIZED enator William B. McKinley Chosen ~—Other Seoators Also Likely to Be unanimouse republican national commit- tes at v claim ity one of the contest- se on J. A ontes- nittees | selected by ity of pted ithout al notice in buildings where negro republican party, in control in Arkansas had prive more th lectors could | There was a further the the of of repu organi not attend, allegation that blican zation “conspired” to de- an 100,000 negro repub. lican electors of the right of suffrage Credentials Chairman, The first in arrangements national convent with the B, McKinley of for ion the repu was given Tllinois as cha of the credentials committee, In ator MeKinle; Massachusotts, p zer for Presiden ther recognition accorded to the lon other eor be organized Senator MeKiy first term in the |1y he had sorved en congresses Yo Second Former Senate Now York Yor nr the New he on. seventh :.umnlmq speake re-convention t Coolldge, probably sald would tes which ey senate, in the house § 1 Nomination o N. A, AL k Helegation ® announced v MAN SHOT ON RUM BOAT STILL 1S IN HOSPITA Won't Be Able to Leave For Some Time Bridgeport Today New London, Brooklyn, N ,rm. ged managing m of va :T ‘Block land the coast g Memorial for nearly the severe when the Seminoie Stack to be Vereigr in said 1 financially wound in June 6 Y John ht Vereign, Wednesday cay hospital Is serving recognition of the senate Na- Remmel of | CO\\*ECTICUT FRIDAY, JUNE 6, 1924. .—————fi REICHSTAG VOTES IN FAVOR OF DAWES PLAN By the Assoclated Press Berlin, June 6.—The Reich- stag today approved by a vote f 247 to 183 the position of the government of Cancellor Marx in favor of the Dawes report. SMALLPOX PAT[ENT ABROAD FOR THE PAST FIVE DAYS Paige Went to Theaters and Mingled With Public, Health De- partment Learns. The health department learned to v that G. D, Paige, the latest smali rox patent, the city, attending public places amus:ment and mipgling with general public for five days after had contracted the disease, and of the he he had been walking about | WELLS MAY GO AS GARAGE BOARD HEAD' ‘King or MeCarthy May Displace| Him at Monday Meeting NEW BRITAIN HERALD —TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES * TAMERIGAN REPLY 10 1P PROTEST IS COMPLETED No Hint As to Tts Contents Or When It Will Be Dispatched to Tokio Washington, June 6.—The reply to | the Japanese’ protest against the ex- | clusion section of the new immigra- WALTER WAGNER RESIGNS Made About Lack of Complaints Service Fvenings Which Will Be Furnished in Future nased In- crease in Charges. At a gatheri commissioners an an “informal commission last night merous changes in Lhe present g conference” | discussed nu e ‘]m! also been about his regular em- policies and there were whisperings by | and his associates, | blican | today | lection of Senator William irman announcing the selection of Sen. d fure Id be n sev. as a “= Vereign Taken to Stack , super-cargo and g owner of the rum- vtured night by ard cutter Seminole, [ New York and Connecticut state po. | 0t be able to leave the Lawrence and | Assoclated fwo months as a result of his leg, sustained will | was fired on by the Y interested customs men here in a flect of yachts similar to the Vereign which has bee Authoriti looking for t held under Captain Johr | 11 are held in e bonds ageregatis will be tried n s say t is g rd at Wilson and the erew of | June hey have While the mar ho il hie ® o in defa 19, before States commissioner Manned by ¢ | Vereign port in Han $100,000 key and alc | yaeht wit Authoritics vessel at £200 able to hour: today w comm of the & we cot en be t g as taken Lie to 1 of minole mpagne, will be stored uation 8he is said ird sailors, Bridge- L where of in operation for some time, long been he s spital, ult of The men a United the ae B, the whis- The brought back here the to be attain a speed of 29 knots per 10 HAVE n PARADE Swarthmore Chautao Open dune Handle Young Squire Junio 24 in this ot today tha th parade as has fiot 3 At the Roostors usual Chaut ut hildren. T voung folks who of Junior ed 1o the tickets, Peter H and Mr quire sal the C% lquarter prizes prople chase 346 tickets Were this 1 th mailed tamerros jbe s0id as rapia 21w sales foree w Folks. ement T as been app r o tauqua fi be a but that the ctor starts announced Junior m For 1924 To T. Squire to Wil ointed or the June Adate definitely sottled A last 3 as formed of children comprised the for the erman, will have car a about and the offices Town last year will be add- sale of Junior mayor charge of Junior tickets and amber of Com arade th nes, lLast year hemseives to 2 Chant o 10 bri amher of Com e batance as possible, of 700 merce will be Iocal pur- auqua tickets will be meree will his but previous- senate in filling places | hody with the actions remain to rre of has been selected to second [the nomination of Coolidge on hehalf apgeared. fe s woman | ployment in the Stanley Rule & Level plant after the discase had broken ou Paige worked yesterday and in the afternoon was about the city, going to a physician’s office for treatment late in the day. The doc tor found symptoms of smallpox and immediately notified the health de- partment. As a result, arrange- ments were male at once for his re moval to the isolation hnx;.vm HARTFORD MAN MAY BE INVOLVED IN MYSTERY! Woman's Stran_ze Death at Troy Possibly Linked With Him N. Y, June 6.—The body of 'k Rogers, clad only in & to- Troy, Mrs, light day Frede one-plece dress, was found in a ditch one half mile outside the city limits by Clayton Allen, a boy employed on a dairy farm. The woman had been dead for six hours and the authorities expressed the be- ¥, Willlam M. Butler, of | jjar that she had been brought to the | presence in the garage evenings. mana- lonely road in an automoblle, The police of Albany and Troy were seeking to connect the finding of the of a man whose automobile broke down miles south of Rensseclaer early day, This man telephoned to Albany for assistance and his machine was towed to Albany. ‘The gerage from which he has asked assistauece s di- rectly oppoite a police station and when the man saw the station he | leaped from the machine and dis- In the car, which bore a Connecticut license plate, was found a driver's license bearing the name of Willilam J. Carson of Hartford Conn,, the police announced Sheriff Willlams said that sometimes known Rogers, and that of residence the as ast in Mabel known place was | Troy Clinton Coons, who lives a short distance from the place wihere body was found, said that during the | night he heard a sharp knock at his | vehicle department | day !tady and towns in their vicinity. door but that when he answered it there was no cne there Coroner Nurtis informed the Rens- selaer county district attorney’s office that the woman had met death through foul play. The coroner raid that the position of the bLody when found indicated that it had been hurled from a passing vehicle 1t was learned that Mrs had planned to go to Florida a from today with her husband, a marine engineer. Rogers week Harttord card found in Albany bore Carson” and Sargeant street B. Carson, of 226 Sargeant street, a steam fitter, said today that a car he had turned into an agency here {1ast October was sold erday to Edward Jacobucel o 347 Wind- sor avenue, Hartford registra- tion number of the car left in Albany is 88,642 According to the motor this is the num- ber of a car owned by Jacobuccl The registration number 85,642 was issued to Jacobueci at 12:30 p. m. yesterday, the motor vehicle depart ment's records show Mrs. Edward Jacobuc to- to tell what her husband's busi. but she said that he fre- goes on trips to cities in June 6 the car the name the address Hartford. A registration being held in ‘William No. 22 26 No. The i refused ress is, quently northern this w Schenee- She 5 years six to visit Albany, described 1 cld, very im as being 24 or dark of complexio feet tall and quite robust and muscu- | lar. ence He has a great deal of experi- in mechanism, she said. Three weeks ago he and Peter Champ, of Hartford, went to New York state in two while they were there, one of the machines was stolen, Mrs, said at care and Jacobucei The here yeare old ree police headquarts that Edward Jacobue was arrested Tisc on two for breach for issuing a Elks Contribute $100 To the Fresh Air Fund At & mecting of the New Britain todge of ¥ to contribute $100 to the Fresh Fund. which is being solicited by New Britain Herald. Air the Hartford, June 6.—Forecast for New Britain and vicipity: Showers late this afternoon and tonight : clearing Saturdasy somewhat lower temperatare, - morning | two | to- | who is ! William New York and had left early | ks last might it was voted | of a change in the chairmanuship at next Monday night’s regular meeting. George H. Wells, a2 republican and former member of the council, is the present chairman. It is understood that he will be displaced by either ex-Councilman Michael ¥. Wing or Charles P. McCarthy, probably the latter. Mr. McCarthy is in the auto mobile accessory business and has ln-Hl a member of the board for two ears. Assistant Mechanic Resigns. The commissioners had befpre em last night the resigpation 4 \\flller Wagner, assistant to City Mechanie Lincoln May. No action was taken on the resignation. | As a result of last night's discus- sion, the charges for scrvices will probably be increased. The present fee is 76 cents an hour with all parts sold to boards cost, The actual | labor cost has been figured at cents an hour, leaving but two cents | for the purchase of equipment and the expenses incidental to maintaine ing the garage. Members of the board of finance and taxation have expressed themselves as of the belief | that the garage commission should make a higher charge. Will Give Evening Service The board will probably have Mr May's assistant put on a new work- ing schedule that will require his Un- der the present scheme, both me- chanies work from 8 a. m, to 6 p. m, and no one I8 in the garage evenings to look after cars coming in or go- | Ing out. There have bgen some complaints |that eity ears cannot be washed be cause they are busy during the day and no one i3 at hand in E ning to do the work. TIf the propos d change Is maae, | assistant |nnL after this work in the evening. D06 SCARES BURGLARS AT 73 wil HAMILTON STREET HOME Police Find Foot Marks and Finger Prints While Tnvestigating Pros- ence of Intrader the ! A barking dog 1s belleved to have frustrated attempt by & man 1 {enter the home of M. 1. Mullen at 54 Hamilton street about 9:30 o'cloek last night. The mald who takes care of the Mullen children was upstairs |8t that time and she heard a noise lat the back door. The dog in the house ran to the door and started barking and the would-be intruder | teft, only to return again in a short time to continue his attempts to en the door. When the dog re a4 his barking, the man left and did not re. turn | Mr, Mrs an Mullen York and the af was in New Mullen was absent house, and upon her fair was reported to fied the police and Policemar K. O'Mara went to the investigated. He found footpri the back porch which fe around the house to several windows on the sills of found finger marks. A scarch of made but no trace of t found, from retury the noti Patrick and She honse w owed which he the inity intruder was ;Meaderl\ppfiihtcd Head Of New Haven Normal | Hartford, June 6.—The state board of educat has appointed J. Law rence Meader of Hartford to be prin cipal of the norn in New Haven to take the Arthur B Morrill who has been retired on a pension of $3, a year, Mr, Mead |is a graduate of Bates college and has been connected with th board of education in various c ies for a number of ¥ Export Bounty Planned As Relief for l‘armers Washington, June In tempt to secure farm at this session, t the senate and support to the Bureum bi ing the secretary of agriculture an 35 ¢ P pacit v a final of legisiation hoth house export bounty of bushel on whe 3 wheat prode The bill favorably reported day by the ser agriculture mitter and tor Norbeck, republi can, South Dakeota, asked for imme diate consideration He declared sufficient vof passage had been pledged to it both in the senate and | the the Wil {#81d it was intended only as tempor- ary legisiation to relieve wheat grow ers who fae bankruptcs ate com tes for house. Supporters of JONE ADS GOL) The Associated Press Detroit, June Bobby lanta, defending his title open golf champlon, today in his third round for a tota and led the field. BNl = ® had tied Jones vesterdar on the first 26 holes at 147, today 76 and one stroke behind the Atlanta amateur, ERS. By 6 Jones, At- as national scored & of strokes Mehihorn. took was | the usual course it would be | themselves very their interview and believe that New | tion law has been virtually completed at the state department but there are | no indications as to when it will go | forward. conference with Secretary Hughes had a President Coolidge Average Daily Circulation Week Ending 10)526 May 31st PRICE THREE CENTS TWO INDI ' RETURNED TODAY - AGAINST SLAYERS Lepold and Loeb Both Held | Without Bail--Prosecntion to Push Case at Once today but it was not disclosed what | plans had been determined upon as to makjng the document public. In made the had “hlic under agreement between ‘~ies after its text ouv. R P. 0. SERVICE FOR CITY EXPECTED Erwin and Grace Pleased at Reception in Washington [ 6. —Added Britain, Washington, D. June postal facilities for New in cluding additional clerks and earriers in the very near future, appear prob- able as the result of a visit to Wash ington by Postmaster Herbert E. E win and Superintendent of Malls James Grace, The New Britain postal officials who a here on postal business, call- ed at the post office department this morning and wera presented to Post- master General ew, and First As- sistant Postmasie General by Congressman ¥, Hart Fenn, They went over the entire situation at New Britain, explaining what was ne in the way of service, personnel and material At the conclusion of thelir visit to the department, Erwin, Grace and Congressman enn well satisfied with Britain will receive added postal facil ities, Erwin and Grace éxpect to leave Washington this afternoon for home. They will make the trip back by au- tomobile, and expect to arrive home Monday. WATERBURY CELEBRATES B50TH ANNIVERSARY Gig Time Tomorrow, With Parade Other Enjoyable Festivities Waterbury, June & This 250th anntversary colebration proached the climax today with physical training exhibition with near Iy 8,000 school children of the city participating. Tonight the historical meeting, at which all descendants of early settlers, ‘and old residents, are expected to be present will he held, Tomorrow morning the mammoth anniversary parade, in which approxi- mately 20,000 will mareh, will be the | first event of a busy day encampments, held in connection with the anniversary will convens during the morning. These are veterans of foreign wars and the Yankee division association. Tomorrow evening the magnificient pageant, reproducing the history of the city its founding. wil in Proprietor's Com- mo More Jight cantile part city's ap " since be staged than 12,000 persons last visited the industwal and exposition progress 0tl anniversary The big state wsition 1 w ring t g and mer in as a of the 2 week celebratior capacity cked er a s entire a r 8 o'clock noon and eve last night. several thousar ted prospe spectators, I the sidewalk: nir s and street for ke were persunded to IS MARBLE CHAMPION George Leoanox of Baltimore Defeats Tomms Wright of Chicopee In Fi. nals At Atlantic City Atlanti Lennos, nationa today by 4 Chicopee, first th three in of Raltimore, marble efating " Mass. 1 games. row. T and took PALLS T0 HER DEATH George captured, the ipionship here mmy Wright nnox n Wrig e Baltimore the las ree a came back & Wife of Vice-President of General Motors Found Dying Undermeath Her Bedroom Window 6.—Mre. Et Mott Motors cor b floor of their Fiint Mott presiden poration fell from i en the second Mich., 1 ife of Char toof t - en vice o Ge killed & window o was todas =t o1 bedroom home Mra. Mott taker of the estate, iying bene window. She died a half hour later No one saw the accident Jack La“ lor, Bo\er. Shot After Hitting Policeman Omahba, Neb., June 8.—Jack L ler, of Omaha, a {eatherweight boxer today by Patrol- following a dis- The police was found by care ath the w- was fatally shot here man N. E torbance in a 1 Lawler struck the patrolman and eq the officer. Neilson, ata B Bartlett, | ed ! exprossed | Two state | armory, | Four ehots were fired | '3 AND 14 YEARS IN PRISON | MININUM FOR EACH COUNT ‘iflv)fle\@r. Bollh Kidnapping For Ran« som And Murder Are Punishable by Death—Third Indictment Charging Conspiracy To Murder Also Prob. | ably Wil Be Brought Against | Youths Who Show No Emotion Chicago, June 6 —Two indictments i charging Nathan Leopold, Jr, and Richard Loeb, post graduate students and sons of millionaires, with the kid« napping for ransom, and murder of Robert Pranks, schoolboy, which they have confessed, were returned by the county grand jury today. Held Without Bail yvouths were ordered held without bail by Chief Justice Caverly of the g¢riminal court, Kidnapping for ransome and murder each are capital offenses in Tllinoils, with a minimum penalty of five years in prison for kidnapping for ransom, and 14 years for murder, The prisoners were indicted jointly, The murder indictment contained 11 counts and the kidnapping indictment 16 counts. Seventy witnesses gave testimony before the grand jury, With the state preparing for an carly trial—the prosecution may ask for trial on July 15—the next step in the prosecution will be arraigment of the two youths, probably Monday, Third Charge Likely The two advanced student-prisoners ~l.copold, a law student, and Loeb who had begun a post graduate course | In history-—are expected to be named In a third indictment now pending before the grand jurors and charging conspiracy to murder. It is not ex- pected they will go on trial on this charge which carries only a penalty of one to five years In prison. That indictment will he sought by the state merely to place before the grand jury the testimony of additional witnesses, The numerous counts. of the mur- der and kidnapping indietment wera drafted for technical purposes, to meet all phrases of the statutory pro. visions and to prevent any possible technical dofenses, the state's attornes said, The statute covering kidnapping for ransom, distinghished from ordin- ary kidnapping, uses both terms of ransom and money. Consequently tha kidnapping indietment, eloventh eount charged “inveigling for the purpose of extorting money,” and the twelfth count, “inveigling for the purpese of | extorting ransom.” Both Play In Jail Yard The return of the indictments was a mere formality at which the pres. enee of the two prisonsrs was not re. auired. They were, in the meantime, playing indoor baseball in the bull pen of the county jail, eonducting themselves much as ordinaty prison. ers. Warden Wesley Westhrook said. Their arraignment probably will be Both (Continued on Third Page) ROMANICK SENT 0 JAIL Man Arrested Here Also Pined 8250 Claims He Did - Not Own Liquor Stored W Tenant's Home, t of 131 North street two charges of law in superior 1 was fined ed lays in jail, alty which was imposed senjamin W, Alling in the court on May 12, and Romanick took an ap- or liquor police from which Romanick that he had ing to iquor secized by police in a tenement in the rear his store and which was occupied The police elaimed 14 not live in the e88 1o it 10 carry Attorney represented NEW RUM TREATY United States and Canada Sign Agrees aimed do with nother family a'though nt, he had a iquor business ¥ McDonough ment Regarding Smuggling of Liquor Afrose the Rorder 6.~ A treaty de. smuggling of .- Can- hers today American Washi ed to a hour suppress rep! Jary wa esentatives of ¢ d Canadian gove The agreement. which has beefh whs jor negotiation Al monthe A for the United States by Secretary Hughes and for Canada by Erncst Ta Points, the Canadian mi ister of justice Fines n;drhil for Two New Haven Rum Runners Middlctown, Conn., June §6—Edwird 1 Miteri, of 206 Hamilton street, and Luigi DeChristofaro of 197 Congress avenne, New Haven, pleaded gullty in city court today to transporting liquor and were ecach fined $200 and costs and given 15 days in jasl by Judge Warner. The men were arrested by state officers on the Portiand-Middle- town bridge early Sunday morning. They were on & truck laden with | iquor. rnment for = was signe