New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 31, 1924, Page 12

R R R ST > AT BT L Y SN S IR v e CONN'S DEBT 15 TALK OF HANGING LOWEST IN EAST' MAKES BOYS LAUGH Pe Coin Labiles Show 0 e Favorable Comparison Conneeticut has the debt per capita of 4ny o Eogland states and lew than of the Middle Atlantic states, ae cording to & report Just Lsued by th Department o immerce, The tola oy . debt of the state s 16,711,241 or a|,» ST S8 AL thorefors | por capita debt of $1164, but the fa ST oie e N deels floating debt les U] ENEL SR, S A TOR g s Imi=8. ol ; : A BOr L ndicuted thut alivnist testimony in capita debt of the y " o lowe pur capita L alate hoard by that eourt in the United Ntates, according to « (A (as ettt o " statistical burcay Mt locairg wid th ’ e L e RER e o gt (a 1A niu care it was beld that o debt is 81912, and plea of gulity automatically made the lsiand, $15.0 whils crine second degroe murder, He suld Shltg'e' ia' 8617 and Vermont's it wus held that the state might® then The per capita net debt of New Introduce testimony to raise the ofs 1s $17.82, and of Peunaylvania ense to first dugrce murder Assossedd Valuation Well, we have ralsed the olfense in The total assessed valuation interjeeted Robert B property In the state (s $1,96 "I «‘- stute's attorncy, "and unders 68D, or \valuation of proper ) sang capital of i The | 1 just winhed to make that point levy 18 32 which s § i, sald the court up)m:l ,nr an average tax rate for Clarence 8 Darvow, chief counsel the whole state of 11 mills, Massa- | for the defense, wanted a time lmit chusetts has total property yalu-|but upon the arguments as to the ad ation of $5,677,71 or $1,42% per | missibility of alienist testimony, capital and a total tax lovy er 312 Mr, Murshall insisted that the state 000,000 which is $3.02 per capita and | did not object to presentation of alien- an average tax rate of 21 mills ists' testimony as such The per capita property valuation| “The state does not ohject to alien of Rhode lIsland s $1,687, of Ver-|ists testimony if the procedings is at mont, 8871, of New Hampshire, | the correet stage for reception of such $1,886, and of Maine, $524, while the testimony,” he explaincd, “Under the per capita tax of hode Island is|law, insanity is a defense and unless it $2.02, of Vermont, , of New!lis so offered, alienist testimony is not Hampshire, $6.51, and of Mainc admissible, $5.15. The average tax rate 18 12| “Here we have on the court records mills for Rhode Island, 66 mills for a confession, meaning the highes Vermont, 47 milla for New Hamp- order of conviction, a plea of guilty, shire and 62 mills for Maine, The Analyzing the present situation, he per capifa property valuation of said that the mental discase testi- New York is $1,445, the per capila mony which the defense was offering tax levy, $2.00 and the average tax|ias the foundation of legal insanity. rate, 14 mills. “Legal insanity decides responsibility The state'a total receipts o' for crime,” he said, “First then they 1922 were 321,815,841 (rom revenuc | pjeaq guilty, acknowledge guilty re- and 87,440,556 (rom non Tevenut gpongihility, then offer in mitigation of sources. The expendilurés — Werej,ynishment testimony which tends to $20,050,565 for governmental r:r,\-sml remave that responsibility.” and $8,180,088 for non-governmental He emphasized again that the ques- costs. ion of sanity is one for a jury to de- ‘I t — | termine, ADM"\S AMEN MOTHER ! Mr. Marshall read further citations in support of his contention that WHOSE SON DIED ]N wAR “Depravity .of character and abandon- ed habits are not evidence of insanity, | neither is the commission of an unna- tural and atrocious crim “Well, if such depravity is not a. | evidence of insanity, then is it proper been entered and W 80 tar and mitig n of punishment had beer WS case Law Sct Aside for Woman Who Lost Mind When Boy Died; To Re- enter Country. A ititaton ity 8 Alitusting I mitigation of Punishment?” asked ROUBBLON; SN 82 T Judge Caverly. aside the technicalities of the immi- 0 f gration law, the governnient yesterday & (‘m“.r Again Interrupts ; ordered authorities at Ellis Island to Mr. (.rm\n JF”“I)"fJ Ilr:ln_ the argu- admit Mrs. Nunziata Susi-Liberatruce, | Ment saving it was “Mitigation of Italian mother of an American soldicr | *Fi® Perhaps, but not punishment.” Killed in France, who was being held hat is all nonsense, Your Honor, there following her’ attempt to re. | 53id Mr. Darrow, “it is competent to enter: this country. It was declared determine the effect upon the mind by the immigration Inspectors that | °f the defendant and that is ail. sife had tecome insane when notified | I8 there any mitigation in the of ‘Ner 'sén's'death, and although now | ¥orid:” Mr. Darrow asked Mr. Crowe. fully recovered they held that she Yes,” replied the prosecutor, pro- might become a public charge. | ceeding to explain that if a man killed Many persons and organizations, in- ALt s eluding the American Leglon, became | the"® “"’”'1'_" be ":ux«;"";:r;' interested in the case of this “war gt :‘“:n o i:l e mother” who was being refused ad- g QT: '3 VIHk|. s“h Mr. Dar- mittance to'the country for which her | "2 at is talking about the un- son gave his life, 'Following an in- | N'itten law and there i nothing:to it vestigation by ' the department of )“";l‘;‘ e labor the clause of the law requiring | ¢ clash was w"ur;ltav'f'd 7\hon‘|n that five years must elapse bhefore an | |o29INE from vhhnAla ama law, Mr, insane person may be admitted and | Marshall reached “An frresistible im- e 2 0 pulse is not a defense.” BERL . Wdnity: muit ‘be proved' was /RN AL T LK B EOEN o ite ssth waived, She was ordered released on |, y $7%00" bond, | that the same did not apply in Illinois, - | and the prosccutor and defense dis- OKLAHOMA QUARANTINE. puted as to whether Mr. Marshall had A | been asked by the defense to read from Qu(a”:“l:"‘&":fl“:;‘ii;;r"'(‘"j:wa‘l‘:"‘”-‘ the Tilinois records a case in which it AR LA ORI kb Trom. . the | hog, been eld ‘that Depraviiy ; of T e O oM< | character and abandoned habits” do Miesiasippl, hecamse of the existence | 'O CONSHIIe Ineanity . C o of anthrax in Sections of those states, | ¢ be GICR% M0 m;“;‘m :m‘; was ordered today by John A. White- | [0 el (O the t hurst, president of the state board of |\ b b L AEEIRulturs, | Are they going to prove it by allen- | ista? Are they going to produce some- s e one to ‘T saw a depraved act com- mitted?’ That would be hearsay and FEEL CERTAIN NAMES ~ |mivea ro he occupied the position now held hy Judge Caverly, he had not heard ex- pert testimony in the case of Thomas Coingressman Nelson Thinks Coolidge and Dawes Will Be On Wis- { for a court to consider it merely as| | another hecause of a family affair| NFEW RRITAIN DAILY HERALD.THURSDAY, JULY 81, 1924, v« IGHT WITH CLERY letermination al out pers er that of first (Continued trom First I'age) ) of thum were wounded The bLattle began when & patrels mah attempted to caplure the wen y for suspiciuns, When he them they sped away 10 thelr autes 1 the state moblle, returning his e, The other for a few mo. | Policemen commandeered o taxicab it declured a @04 Joined in the chase, ‘The rear only five min. Slass window of the Landite' automos bile was shattered by the policemen's bullets, but the car outdistanced the policemen ur o Argument,” Mes" After 1 photegvaphers 1 in the inter. esting minntes oding the in.| Another Gun Fight terval were rebitked by a bailiff at the ! Another pistol battle was waged In nstance of Judge ¢ erly Wouldn't | Brovhiyn butween bve dutectives and you like to get up here? the bailiff | four men who attvmptud to eseapu sald pointing to & spmee at the judge's | With & stolen automoblle, After & immedinte right | ehuse of more than & mile the bans e, White who all the time had | dits desorted the stolen cur, which wa the withess stand, moved | punctured with bullet holes, Later the y the floor ufter the recess, | allveed driver of the abandonud car finding it somewhnt more comfortable | Wan, left wounded at the door of, & there’ than it had* been in the high | brooklyn hospital, A steaight chiir in the witness | Stock Broker Shot had ocenpied all of yesterday | Harry Mack, a stoch broker, was 15 today, He had heon in the | Killed iu lus room in the theatrical hadre five hours and forty-five minutes. | rouming district carly today follows Mr. Marshall took np his argument | ing a4 party which had lasted until Treesistible tm- | wicr nudinght. A young womun who was @lone with him when he was shot, vho hid pr inta the realm of pulse,” holding that it was not recog nized In law as an excuse for erime It such impuise was given ag an evi- | hair dresser, of Philudeiphia, was denca of mental disease,” he argued, | questivned by the police, it hecume * % feh was | Miss Cook, Who guve hur age as 1Y, not “recognized as an - independent geciared the shooting was accidental. mental state.” She had remained atter the other Iundge Caverly hud him vepeat gycsts left, she suld, and when she il quotations on that point | noticed & revolver an, the room she “Mental disease, functionals In na- | usked Muck to put it away because it ture,'” were placed in the same cate-{yjgpiened her. He took the weapon, gory as “impulse.” in Mr. Marshall's |, gatd, and opened the chamber, al- rgument, He read a Pennsylvanta | jocine several cartridges to tall to decision n support of this point 13b% Aor: Mr. Marshall emphosized the case 1t Wasn's Londoa" of People vs. Finley, 38, Michigan | pyan he placed the revolver against u.x, . hig temple, she sald, and, arter pulling Everyone who h‘.”"" COMPOS MEN- . trigger, remurked: “See, it isn't ths is irresponsible,” he read, “One| o o ;n ho indulges that convenient form of | "5 o0 ) pulled the trigger again nsanity which lasts just long enough o BAMAIL Soramisslon (af &4 crime Fix | AA0ILaere WY & o] EbDasiERLS ALy i e % k serted, Mack was dead when an am- just as responsible as a drunken man. < iled || *The law has no theorics on insani- pRIAnce Ay reol, A EL) 9 | ty. Tt holds responsible everyone who 1is compos mentis | He also cited irom People ve. Me- | Carthy, 115, California, 255, the fol- | lowing: “In law there is no distinction be- FROM WAR KALL AGGUUNTS | tween moral insanity and mental de- 5 | rangement as an excuse for crime,” | Wil Pay $850,000 to Two in Settle- | Mr. Marshall went to England for| , further authorities, citing a decision rendered in 1860 | “Why so ancient?” suggested Mr. | Darrow. Washington, July 81.—Accounts be- I “Well it lays down the rule T am |tween the government and eight rail- interpreting,” said Mr, Marshall. “I|roads arising from the \\'uru.me uper-fi will now read an English decision of |ation have been closed and the rail- | 1021, which is quite modern.” ! road administration will collect $10,- The cases upheld the rule that legal | 805,000 from six of them and pay Insanity is not a matter of degree, a|$850,000 to the other two. point which the defense has not dis- The roads indebted to the govern- | puted. . ment were the Chesapeake & Ohio, Mr, Marshall finished his reading of 187,000,000; Texas & Pacific, $1,400,- citations when court recessed for|000; Chartiers Southern, $1,200,000; luncheon. Hocking Valley, $700,000; Waterloo, | Cedar Ialls & Northern, $500,000, and the Atlantic Terminal company, $5,000. N | The Lake Erie & Western railroad | was found to be entitled to $700,000 Coolidge Said to Favor Tncrease for |,ng the Toledo, St. Louls & Western Ey o .1 $150,000. Postal Employes 1f Bill is Correct- ™) ( junts with three short lines which were controlled temporarily by S the government during the war were i Washington, July 31.——National of- | gettjed by the government paying to | ficers of the association of post-office|ty, gpringfield Electric railway, $5,- clerks announced after a conference|yggon; the White Sulphur Springs today with President Coolidge that| 4" vojjowstone Park railway, $3,000, | they had been assuved of the execU-|gnq tne gt Louis & Hannibal rail- | tive's support for any postal pay In-| oag gy, cregse bill gcientifically drawn, and 3 carry:ng provision for raising the President (,'ets Inquil‘y necessary revenues. Mg. Coolidge vetoed the postal pay From GOVH’I\OI‘ Br_van bill passed by the last congress be- 2 cansed it carried no revenue provision Washington, July 31.—Request for and because it was not based on the| further information regarding the post office department's, cost survey. government’s plans for observance of | This survey wiil be completede in Sep- | “defense day” was made in a tele- tember, and a bill based upon it with | 8ram reccived today by President a revenue producing section will be | Coolidge from Governor Charles W. introduced when congress meets in van, of Nebraska, the democratic December, r-presidential nominee, who recent- “The president promised us he | ly announeed he would not co-operate would support such a bill and author- | wWith the federal authorities in some ized us to make such a statement to| features of *the celebration on the the meeting in Minneapolis in Sep-| ground that it would amount to & tember of the natlonal rural letter| military demonstration. ! carriers association, the national post The message was referred immedi- office supervisors association and thelately to the war department without United St national association of | being made public. post office clerks,” C. P. Iranciscus, | president of the clerks' association, | |said after the conference. noral insanity ment for Operation by the Government, Iy Drawn. HOG PRICES TUMBLE Chicago, July 31.--Hog prices to- eonsin Slate Chicagn, Juls 31, = Fears on the | New York Kids Have New Sport part of republican leaders that un- usual steps may be required to place the Coolidge and Dawes electoral ticket in the field in Wisconsin are unfounded, in the view of Representa- tive John M. Nelson of Wisconsin, nattonal manager of the La Follette- | Wheeler campaign Apprised today of reports from | Washington that republican managers | had been advised that the La Follette | electors would Le entered under the republican party designation, Mr. Nel- #on emphasized that the La Foliette | electors will be entered in Wisconsin ““ap in every other state, namely in an independent column.” i Mr. Neleon, who viewed the report- | ed perturbation of the republican | managers “as a tempest in the tea- | pot,” also pointed out that under the | Witconsin election jaws the -r..l«u\‘ entered in the general election wist | east their vote In the electoral col- lege for the candidate under whose entered on the elec- name they were tion ballet This clanse, Mr. Nelhon said, pre eiuded. the possibility of la Foliette elactors, or electors fasorable to anv- | one but the republican eandidates of winning places In the electoral col lage on the republican ticket Young Woman Attacked On McClintock Road Claiming that she had heen at- | tacked by a strange man, a 19-year- | old girl who declined to make known | her identity conipiained to Policeman | Willlam . Hayes yesterday afternoon The alleged place of the attack was at the cornor of McClintock road and | Allen strect. The screams of the giri ! caused the assailant to make his es- | cape into a nearby woods, she said 1 Erom the description furnished the | wate down to 20 cents a mile. pofice it is believed that this man I8 | 0 Ciddos Snatead of candy. the same one who attacked a woman - - < Zn Richard strow last weck. enjoyed a mile ride, The war among taxi drivers received one of the severest set- backs ever noted for a 24-hour period. All classes of buyers were insistent on a sharp reduction of values, and were pointing out that receipts of 35,000 hogs here today with mere than half that number left over unsold from yesterday gave the trade more swine than the immediate demand called ales wore effected at $1.00 under s best time, $10.00 a hun- Iweight being the top figure offered for prime butcher hogs as against a limit of $11.00 yesterday. JUDD HAS NOTHING TO SAY Asked today if he had any comment to make on the letter sent him by Mayor A. M. Paonessa yesterday, Al- derman W. H. Judd replied: “Nothing at all.” His reply was the same when he was asked what he intended to do as a resnlt of the mayor’'s proposals contained in the letter. Have you a garage that’s empty and bare? Advertise — rent it — garages are rare. in New York has b It;theli USEA in New York has brough | WANT An Now the kids save their pennies At two cents a head these kids a After their actions had aroused his | approached | and who sald she was L'vggy Cook, & | FALLON PREAKING " DOKN WITNESSES Succeeds in Gelting Pani (o | Change His Testimony | New York, July 3t.=William 3 Fallon, the eriminal lawyer charged | with bribing Charles W. Rendigs, » jurer in the Durrell-Gregory mall | traud case nearly two years ago, cons tinued in federal court today his ef- forta to break down the testimony of government witnesses yesterday. Conducting the cross-examination | ;hlmuell. allon succeeded in making | Joseph L. Pani, proprietor of the Iltrmu Inn in which Fallon s alleged |to have given Rendigs a bribe of §1,- )mm. change one of the answers Pani gave on the stand yesterday, The witness had denied knowing Edward lteynolds, an attorney, | Reynolds was in court today, Point- | Ing to him, Fallon asked Pani: “Do you know this man?" | “Yes," sald Pani, and then admitted that he had known Reynolda four years, | Panl said he remembered talking to Fallon about a banquet to be held in the Knickerbocker grill last wine | ter in regard to obtaining protection \lroln interference by prohibition agents as long as the restaurant com- plled with the law. Panl admitted he had expressed fear to Fallon that some of the guests would bring liquor with them and Fallon had told him, he said, that as long as he did not serve liquor he could not be both- ered, “You didn't tell him that as a mat- ter of law?" asked the court, “Well," sald Fallon, “That's pretty good law around this district.” | | "It isn't in my district,”” remarked | | Judge McClintic, who comes from { West Virginia. 2 “I wouldn't like to live in your dis- trict,” commented kallon. | Although Pani would not admit that | he asked Kallon to send two men to | the restaurant to protect him from interference he admitted he “heard there were two men there. evada Will Have Names Of La Follette-Wheeler Chicago, July 31.—Sufficient signa- tures on the petition to place the La | Follette-Wheeler ticket on the No- vember ballot in Nevada were secured | today and the petition will be filed this aftérnoon or Saturday, M. J. Scanlon of Reno reported in a telegram to Donald R. 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