New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 21, 1924, Page 1

R — NEW BRITAIN HERALD [z NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 1924, ~SIXTEEMNgs, s News of the Werld By Associated Press “Iagy 04y PRICE THREE CENTS (N U. S. ROUND WORLD FLYERS LEAVE REYKJAVIK, ICELAND, ON 825 MILE AERIAL JOURNEY ESTABLISHED 1870 French Chamber in Uproar MYSTERY ENVELOPS |FRANKS BOY'S BODY As Premier Herriot Gives |UHECKS FOR §40,000( WAS POORLY HIDDEN His Report Of Conference Slate Officials Believe Gilpatric|Blse Leopold and Loed Would Put Part of Money in Bank Have Escaped, Says Savage Communists Force Sus- YACHT OWNER MISSING — sion of Silting Al- BUT $20,000 DISAPPEARS | FIENDISH INGENUITY SHOWN ter Speech on Dawes ; Former State Treasurer Removed to TLoss Expensive Quarters in Hos«| of Carefully Planned Killing Which Plan Is Made —Arbi- [Mystery in Disappearance Slipped Up In Only One Feature, tration Greatest Prin- of Seattle Man When on a Cruise ciple Established. OTHER COUNTRIES START LEGISLATION YOUNGSTER CONFESSES 'KIDNAP TRUCK CREY, ~[talian Aviator Hops O | ' With Them for Long- TOENTORTION ATENPT GET S30000 I 5K Wik Them o on --Ideal Weather Con- ditions Prevail. Two Boys Implicated in Armed Bandits Exccute Sending Letter to Franks , Daring Robbery as Scores | 21, ~The audit o he bod obe rank Y H v L—The audic of| atsetsaly cho bedy of Robart Frusks| Family After Murder | Look on | Nathan Leopold, Jr, and Richard | Loeb, according to the state's analyals | ., a1 srothe of the crime given today before Judge | CMIcaBo Aug. 31L—Two brothers, one 11 years old, the other 19, have John R, Caverly by Joseph Bavage, confensed, according to the police, | A0LT TEEY B Niper, maan o o] istant state's attorney, T, McCook said today. Particular ate | ™ 4 In impassioned denunciations of the | that they wrote a letter to JAcob |with the truck and its tias 8 e ¥ranks, father of the murdered Robs |estimated to have a value of $50,000, tentlon will be pald, however, to the defendants Mr. Savage deelared that ert Franks, demanding $5,000 ana |Scores of persons witnessed the hold- transactions of the past six months, 54 4 PPN It Leopold had forced the body well and those of the immediate preceding Into the culvert instead of pushing it threatening the death of Mr, Franks' |Up, Which urred In one of the wife and daughter it the money was (busiest sections of New York. six months period will also be scru- with his foot, it would not have been not pald. After being driven a few blocks tinized closcly. Gilpatric became state found treasurer in January, 1019, e 4 ot have been appre- JUSHow longitus i uals Dy Meerts, hon.ll:»‘;yln“?x:)(,’mrfl yv‘nr' hhq ml’-‘l? Earl 8mith, 11, was arrested yestor. |from the scene of the robbery, the Oakey and Miller, sclected yesterday Attempis To Get Money day as he searched through a rubbish |chauffour and his heiper were thrown to make the audit, will take, Is a8 $6t| o Goiorined the attempts to get|box for two dccoy papers, left there |from the sedan into which they had | a Matter of conjeeture, bt the Im-| 410,000 ransom from Bobby's father, |in place of money according to in. [been forced at the point of revalvers. ’,':,,",;' ',J,'i,," ‘,,.h:.:“\f‘,‘.'1(.."1:?.1“1\";; tor | pointing out that the identification of | structiona in the extortion letter. | Within a few minutes after the rob- aquired. Attorney General Frank 15, |the body became known to Mr. Franks| He implicated his older brother, (bery half a dozen witnesses had noti- Healy today drew up the contract|Only five minutes before he received | Fielding, who admitted, detectly fled police headquarters and a general with the accounting firm for signa-|M8 last message from “Great John-|gsald, assisting Earl. The letter {n. (Alarm was sent out. Two of the rob- ture, It s expected that the ac.|%on” the name used to sign tho ran- |structed Mr. Franks to place the bers escaped on the truck and four : E som letter, money In $2 and $5 bills in baking |5Ped away in the sedan in which the powder cans and throw them from |tFuck driver and his helper had been an elevated train into the rubbish box. |Kldnapped. R D BOWLS OVER OUSES | FLATTENS NEW YORK CROPS days, 3 o aferring _| fine that if the father had followed Mr. Healy, in referring to Gil directions and gone to a drug store Loeb, university graduates, and @&a- cided with their Grammar echool Loss to Property in Broome County Reported to Be $150,000 — pltal—Family Announces wi Sol P eht By The Assoclated Press. U Be 8ol (o Pay Debis, Chicago, Aug. #1.—Failure to hide Harttord, Aug, the booka and accounts of the state treasury department will, In many of its phases, cover the entire period of G, Harold Gilpatric'a service as stato treasurer, State Treasurer Anson HAVE BEEN TIED UP SINCE AUGUST SIXTH Now York, Aug, 21, — Bix armed Imen held up a silk truck 1o Madison | Beattle, Wash,, Aug, 21.—A yachting Bquare today ‘and, after kidnapping | party, the personnel of which included three unmarried women of Beattlo, ended in tragedy and mystery today when it was discovered that C, N, Sea~ born, Seattle shipbuilder, was missing from the craft, the Tenino, which he commanded, K, H. Scheel, navigator of the yacht, told pollce that Seaborn became 1l four miles north of here, and that he left his friend lylng with his head against a coll of rope and went for a robe., When he returned Seaborn was missing. The craft then crulsed back to \Beattlo, In reporting to the police, Scheel was reluctant to give complete in- formation as to the identity of his women friends as he had agreed to protect them from publicity, but gave their names to the police later, he sald. Besides the three unmarried women, Mrs. Scheel was aboard with her hushand, when Seaborn disap- peared. Friends believe Seaborn fell over- board and was drowned. By The Asseciated Press. Reyljavik, Iceland, Auvg. 21.—~The American round-the-world filers and Lieutenant Locatelll, Italian airman, hopped off from here at 8:15 o'clock this morning. The weather was beautiful and fly. ing conditions were excellent when th aviators set out. Lieutenant Smith's plane lifted from the water a few minutes after elght o'clock and Lieutenant Nelson's plane was off two minutes later, Lieutenant Locatelli, who caught up with the Americans to accompany them across the Atlantic after a lone flight from Pisa, Italy, got off eleven minutes after Lieutenant Nelson, All of the take offs were made easily, nons of them having the slightest diiculty in jockeylng from the water. Lieut, Smith, the flight commander, had been up all night recording weath- er reports and working out plans for coping with weather and mechanical conditions which he and Lieut. Nelson might encounter during the hazardous Jjump to the shores of Greenland. Lieut, John Harding, Jr., mechanio | on Lieut. Nelson's plane, also had been J up all night but he left his room only dents of Conklin center and other |to go on board the plane, declaring it communities near here today were | was his duty to take care of the ma= estimating their losses suffered last | chine during the last hours here. Be- By The Amsociated P Parls, Aug. 21.—Premlcr Herrfot put the Dawes reparation plan and the London agreement for making it effective before the chamber of depu. ties this afternoon and told the mem. bers: “I, for my part have chosen, but nothing final has been done and pars liament, in its turn, can choose." Evacuation of the Ruhr, the premier sald, had dominated every- thing at the International conference in London and he had “to choose be- tween the reestablishment of an inter- allled entente and the continuance of isolated action.” M. Herrlot emphasized that arbi- tration was the great principle es- tablished, at the London conference and asserted that France would galn by it for it would need a great deal atric's manipulation of two $20,000 :hncka for u:m funds to be deposit-|in & cab furnished by the kldn:flpperln. ed in June in the First National bank | he would have been sent .scur}l‘-y nf] 0 of Putnam, said that late in July the|a raflroad depot, there to board a|education they could imptove on the state recaived a Putnam bank state- |train due to leave a few mlnuten' la ori tormer's plan, officers said. ment signed by Gilpatric, in which| “In the parlor car, the bovs Rad| “mne arrests were the second tims placed a letter addressed to M| oyiortionists, attempting to get money from Mr. Franks have boem selsed through decoy packages. Three othes of optimism to believe that France in the state was credited with $125,000 the future could again get the majori- E NS D G MM E 0 000 ranks and giving full directions on D FE E AY 0 lTT E cn deposit, and with the statement how to throw the money from the boys were apprehended two monthe ago under virtually similar circum- ty of votes which enabled her to enter d 4 was enclosed the bank's check to the thetRut iy o Asrns APPOINTED BY MAYOR | state for intorest on $125,000 on de-| train. o osiogne posit. Mr. Healy sald that he un- S poThe reparation problem in which | derstood the bLank has a record of| (Continued on Thirteenth Page) |y ,qq rance was the most interested party 5 eposi New Britain Will Respond to Cool-| $105,000 on deposit, thers being no - had not been taken from the political pol record of the $20,000 which was to Jacob Franks, father of the kid- idge Proclamation Setting have been been deposited June 27 and napped and slain Robert Franks, for A 820,000 check, also providing for into the economic fleld, the permier continued, and “We have given a very Anids bert 13 for which a check was drawn in the whose slayers, Nathan Leopold and [nIght when a severe wind storm |cause of the early deparfure, thers 27, and Richard Loeb, Mr. Franks has advo- [Which at times reached cyclonic pro- | were very few persons present when Mayor A. M. Paonessa this after- "F Ffl”“ YEARS A[i state funds to be deposited in the Putnam bank, and drawn June 3, s tami ; (Two Men Taken in Miami large role to American citizeng in our organization, which was done de- Nattonal cated death, asked mercy for the [POrtions passed through the eastern |the machines set out. noon announced the appointment of eleven year old and 19 year old broth- |8ection of Broome county. The total The fliers pased the United States {a committee to plan the local ob- was similarly cashed in the Boston bank. The state officials conversant on Suspicion Of Ki“i“g Society Givl Three Injured. Binghamton, N. Y., Aug. 21.—Res}- state treasurer's office June cashed by the Merchants’ bank of Boston. threatening death to Mrs. Franks and (head of cattle were killed when a American companions, Lieut. Lowell her daughter. He told them they were {barn on the Seymour Derick farm col- | H. Smith and Lieut. Erik H. Nelson, misgulded in trylng to seek money in |lapsed. Twenty head of cattle were | by five miles. 4 such a manner to open a grocery, the (taken from the debris almost unin- motive they had edmitted actuated [Jured. , slgnedly, ‘for we can only refoice’ to have associated with us the great ers, Earl and Fielding Smith, loss will exceed $150,000 it was said. | crulser Richmond, on patrol about 70 our sufferings and which has all the |8ervance of National Defense Day in Mr. Franks had a long talk with | At Conklin center three persoms| miles off the coast from Iceland, at accordance with the proclamation of authority necessary to supervise the ten the letters demanding $8,000 or (&t the helght of the storm and five Licutenant Locatelli was leading his due in a large part to its initiative.” tember 12 for the mobilization of the with the Glipatric case wers today of the opinion that the Putnam bank American public which has witnessed the boys who confessed they had writ- |[were injured when a hcuse collapsed | 9:35 o'clock. execution of the program which was | President Coolidge setting aside Sep- had a record of this deposit. But| France's freedom of action, M, |oountry’s man power. Herrlot suld, had besn defended to the | The mayor has recelved a request Fred- utmosi in London but the situation had become grave. FPrime Minister MacDonald of Great Britain in two letters had reminded the French and Belglane of the declaration they had {7 uhr SRdB g 0n Loy ahiete | 1S Hul the machinery used in the selective that they had done so merely to en- force payment by the Germans. And the German delegates at Lon- don, through the British prime min- Ister, had made it Reichstag would not accept the pro- bin Baeliel, Bdward Ogren, James D, posed plan unless the Ruhr were evacuated. Nevertheless, M. Herriot sald, he had come before the cabinet in Paris “decided to limit to a maxi- mum of one year, the military oc- cupation of the Ruhr."” France Would Be Alone. “To go beyond that was to risk again a rupture of the conference,” the premler added, and he became convinced that if “France remained in the Ruhr except for a definite stay, she would stay there absolutely alone.” The advantages he had obtained at the London conference, the premier insisted, “do not strike the imagina- tion but they are substantial advan- tages. They will appear considerable to all of those who belleve with the experts that defaults and penalties must be avolded as much as possible and that the reparation problem must be solved peacefully and righteously.” Arbitration, he continued, had “im. proved most markedly the method of transfers such as was deflned in the Dawes plan and has transformed the regime of payment in kind which has (Continued on Page 13.) DAWES IN NEW HAVEN Vice-Presidential Candidate Causes Little Excitement on Way to West- brook. plain that the pointees: from Adjutant General George M. Cole at Hartford asking that New Britain join with other Connecticut cities in following out the executive's wish, The local draft boards have been asked to meet to set in motion draft and military organizations will be asked to get out their full strength. Following are the mayor's ap-| Harry C. Jackson, Clar- ence Callahan, Nathan C. Avery, Al- McKenna, Mason Andrews, Rev. Henry W. Maler, Joseph C. Andrews, Gerald P. Crean, 8. Gerard Casale, Dewey Selander and Robert C. Vance. In accordance with the preparations being made for National Defense Day, September 12, pledges to be filled out by local men of milltary age who de- sire to participate in the celebration have ben received by Captain Edward P. Dunne of Co. H and Captain W. ‘W. T. Squire of Co. I, C. N. G, from Adjutant General G M. Cole. No pres- sure will be brought to bear to force anyone to sign these nor will any slgner be forced to do anything which he does not wish to The pledges read as follows: “New Britain, Con., “Sept. 12, 1924, “We, the undersigned, being of military age and believing that our serivces are due our country in case of emergency, hereby, voluntarily as- soclate ourselves with Co, I, 169th In- fontry, for this day only, thus show- ing our appreclation of the work be- ing done in the cause of National De- fense by the National Guard com- ponent of the army of the United States.” Aside from this, the local National Guard officers have not recelved any information about plans for Defense Day and are awaiting orders from headquarters in Hartford. ESCAPE DROWNING there was no statement forthcoming from Recelver Coffin to indicate just ed with on the bank's books. Mr. MoCook said that an inspeetton had shown that no other bank in the state besides that in Putnam, had & state deposit greater than the maxi- mum permitted by its capltal surplus. Coffin Silent on Deposits Putnam, Aug. 21.—Efforts to learn here today from Recelver George W. Coffin of the Iirst Natlonal Bank or from other sources what disposition was made of $40,000, represented by two checks for $20,000 each, drawn on the state treasury by G. Harold Gilpatrie, former state treasurer and alleged defaulting cashier, and which endorsements indicated were cashed by the Merchants’ National Bank of Boston, were without result. Recelver Ciflin -declined to discuss the transaction in any way or to say whether the money was deposited in the First National Bank by Mr. Gil- patric. Neither was it possible to con- firm the report that the money was used in a local building project. known that a close friend of Mr. Gil- patric was engaged in an extenslve building operation. But whether any of the state funds mentioned had any | th part in the financing could not be con- | Ci firmed. According to the information from a state official one of the checks was drawn June 3 and another June 27, with the explanation of Mr. Gilpatric to Deputy Treasurer Judd who pro- tested against increasing deposits of the state at the Putnam bank that they were for a speclal account, that they ewer to be used in connection with & building project on which the Put- nam bank had becn advancing money di the state school fund would be ad- Receiver Coffin sald today that the Miami, Okla., Aug. vulged, was sald is alleged to have Hanna and Rowder denied ey were implicated ty murder. They declared Kansas City, Mo., Aug. 4 21.—Robert How, mich (h clale Dan Losn/orichr Hanna, 24, and Frank Rowden, 21, taxicab drivers of Picher, Okla., were held here today in conection with the death of Miss Florence Barton, Kan- sas City soclety girl who was slain and |under mysterious circumstances sev- eral years ago. A third man giving his name as Marvin Wright, is under arrest at Jop- lin, Mo., according to information re- ceived by authorities here. Hanna was arrested on the strength of a remark by a woman formerly a friend of Hanna, “that he ought to be strung up; he is the man who mur- dered Florence Harton City." The woman, whose name was not by atthorities to have become offended at Hanna while he was in the Ottawa county jail sev- eral weeks ago, charged with rioting. Hanna, according to the sheriff’s in- formation, Howard Winter, in Kansas shot Miss Barton's com- panion on an automobile ride, believ- 1t is|ing him to be a Kansas City detective against whom Hanna was said to have harbored a grievance. that in the Kansas that their only knowledge of the Barton case was gained from newspapers. At the time of his arrest early today Hanna was under $5,000 bond on a rioting charge, growing out of a shoot ing affair at Picher several weeks ago, when one of his alleged companions was wounded by a policeman. 21.—Miss Florence Barton was shot to death on the night of October 2, they were for a special account that|g.s ang her flance, and that when completed moneys of | ware motoring on a lonely road near here. After the shooting Winter drove vanced for a mortgage on the proper- |, 5 a farmhouse and called a phy- W sician, 1920, while Howard Winter, Miss Barton, mortally wound- ed, died on the way to a hospital. them. The letter, Mr. Franks told them, had caused him much anguish, but that he would recommend leniency and ask that they be released and glven another chanca, WALTER P. STEELE DEAD Chestnut Street Resident, Long Iden- tified With New Britain, Passes Away at Age of 80 Years. Walter P. Steele, one of the oldest native residents of New Britain, died this morning at the age of 80 years at his home, 260 Chestnut street. He was the son of the late Edmund Steele, and with his brothers he founded the firm of Steele Bros., for- merly extensively engaged in market gardening and small fruit growing. Mr. Stecle was an expert gardener and frult ggower, and besides the home market, the firm for many years sent teams to Hartford, Meri- den and Bristol and shipped large quantities by freight or express to Rockville, Waterbury, Danbury and other places. He was the father of the late Dwight W. BSteele, former deputy tax collector, and of one other son who died in infancy. Besides his wife, formerly Miss Ida A. Bristoll of Branford and the sister of Truman H. Bristoll of this city, he leaves a brother, Charles E. Steele, and flve nephews and nieces, Miss Mabel Steele, Mrs. Ruth 8. McKirdy, How- ard M. Steele, Jr., all of this city, Henry B. Steele of West Haven, and Herbert G. Steele of New Haven, The funeral will be held from his late residence at 3 p. m. Saturday, Frederle L. Fay officiating. Inter- ment will be in Fairview cemetery. Barns and houses were blown down or twisted while the damage to crops, orchards and wires was heavy, BABE'S BANKROLL AT BAT —— Maharajah of Maul Helps Pay Fine of Chauffeur Who Cit in Front of Mre. Ruth, pl New York, Aug. 21.—Babe Ruth | g, knocked a home run in the Good |y} Samaritan league today. A motor truck chauffeur, Barney Shane, fined $50 in traffie court for having driven his truck in front of the Babe's car while Mrs. Ruth and the wife of Mike McNally, Yankee utility infielder, were driving it, had &l only $35. The court sald Shane would have to pay the difforence by impris- onment in the work house. Then the Babe came to the plate. “I'll'pay the fine, Judge,” he volun- teered. “Here's $50.” But Shane insisted on giving over his $36 and let the Yankce swatter make up the $15 difference. “Today's batting average for you &k 1,000 Mr. Ruth,” Magistrate Smith re- marked as his clerk took the money. SINGLAIR MAKES PLEA Indictment Charging Him With Con- ce. re] 3: to spiracy to Defaud is Attacked An- other Time—Based on Radio Speech. Washington, Aug. 21.—~—An addition- al plea in abatement attacking the in- |dictment charging him with consplr- acy to defraud the government in connection with naval off reserve fce and weather conditions in North Atlantic had forced them to abandon their original make the shorter flight to Angmag- salik or to another miles north of there which later also was found to be icebound. Reykjavik time (8:15 a. m, 21.") parenthetical explanation time" message after its receipt in Washing. The fliers are heading for ericksdal, near Cape Farewell, at the southern tip of Greenland, a hop of about 825 miles, according to the ans which were adopted after bad the intention to harbor twenty The Americans arrived at Reykjas vik from Hoefn Hornafjord on Aug. intending to continue their flight to the east coast of Greenland, within a few days but reports on weather and ice conditions, which were unusually bad, forced them to wait, Washington, Aug. 21.—Lieutenant ayton L. Bissell, acting advance offi- r for the army world fliers, officially ported the departure of the world flight squadron from Reykjavik, Ice- land for Greenland in the following message to Major Gen. Patrick, chief of the air service: and Locatelll lefg Greenwich mean our time, August “Smith, Nelson 8:15 This fixed the time of departure at 15 a. m. eastern standard time, the “8:15 our having been inserted in the n. FOUR MEN KILLED AS TRAIN HITS TRUCK Auto Laden With Crushed Stone Dee rails Engine — Twenty | Persons Injured Tk | 21.~Four Cranford, N. J., Aug. leases has been filed in the District of men were killed and at least 20 pere Columbia supreme court by Harry Sinclalr. ; JOHNéON BILL HELD UP sons are believed to have been in« New Haven, Aug. 21.—Politics was cast aside temporarily by Charles G. Dawes, republican vice-presidential nominee, on his arrival here this aft- ernoon for a day and a half's visit with his old friend and business as- sociate, Walter H. Wilson of Chicago. Reaching New Haven shortly after 1 o'clock this aftarnoon, Mr. Dawes motored to Westbrook, a coast resort on the Connecticut shore, 30 mifles east of thie city, where Mr. Wilson has a summer home, The nominee has no conferences planned for the time Four Men in Fishing Sloop Hit Bub- merged Object Off Stonington - Are Rescued Just in Time. New London, Aug. 21.—Four men barely escaped drowning this morn- ing when the fishing sloop Peggy H. of Lord’s Point sank two and a half miles off shore from Stonington after the vessel had been tossed by a wave onto a submerged object, opening up a large hole in her hull. (Continued on Page 13) WILL OF JOHN SHEEHAN Man Disposes Estate to Members of Family— Residue to Wife for Life Use. The will of the late John S8heehan filed this afternoon in probate court Winter said that three bandits had held them up and, when she made a move as if to reach for a revolver, the bandits commenced shooting. Winter was wounded, Miss Barton was the daughter of Kimber L. Barton, presi- dent of the McElwain-Barton Shoe |company. Denzel Chester, underworld charac- ter, later was arrested in Great Falls, [J° Mont., and. charged with the orime, |h While being returned to Kansas City | P he madb a spectacular escape in|YP Broken Bow, Neb. However, he was I‘:I The bill of Alderman J. Mayor Will Not Approve Alderman's Claim for Services Until He Item- izes His Account. Gustav hnson for services as voting ma- ine mechanic, automobile hire and yment of assistants s being held by Mayor A. M. Paonessa and 11 not be approved until the mayor shown awm §temized bill. attacked. A radio speech by Senator Walsh of Montana, prosecutor of the senate ofl Investigation, which was cited in a similar document filed recently by 1, L. Doheny, Jr, {s made the basis of the new Sinclalr plea. E(ary Albert B. Fall, from whom S8in- |clair obtained the Teapot Dome lease, {8 named with him in the indictment) Thompeon, 24, of Newark, driver of Former secre- Killed Freeing Body of jured when a Philadeiphia and Read« ing local passenger train 604, travel- ing today at high speed on the tracks of the Central Railroad of New Jer« sey, struck a truck of the Newark Paving company, loaded with crushed stone at a crossing on the line bee tween Cranford and Garwood. The {dentifled dead are Harry the truck, and Luther Martin of South Fontaine, Pa, fireman. One of the wnidentified dead was riding on the truck with Thompson and the other he will spend at Westbrook and ex-| Captain Louls Wilson, of Stoning- pects to rest preparatory to resuming|ton, owner and master of the vessel, tomorrow night his trip‘to Malne to|E. W. Barnett and B. J. Fenneyer of ereak at Augusta Saturday afternoon |Springfield and Frank Thomas of at a state-wide republican rally. Hartford, the captains’ guests, were There was not a ripple of excite-|rescued while clinging to the water- ment at the station today on the ar-|filled fishing sloop, by Antone Henry rival of the republican vice-presiden-|of Stonington, who rowed by the tial candidate. None of the local re-|scene an hour after the accident. publicans was at the station to greet the candidate and his arrival attract- ed little attention. He and his party made their way from the train to the station entrance and Immediately boarded a modest appearing automo- bile for Westbrook. He remained in the local gtation but a few moments. Mr. Dawes was greeted at Bridge- port en route here from New York by Mayor F. H. Behrens and a delega-| Nearly a year. She was born in Buf- tion of aldermen of that city, who ex- | falo, March 14, 1847 and married in tended the city's greetings, invited|Grand Rapids, Mich., March 31, 1869. him to speak in Bridgeport during the | After residing about a year in Chi- campaign and assured him Bridgeport | cago where Homer 8. Cummings was would give a 3,000 majority in No-| born, the family removed to Buffalo, |dren, are named as executors of the vember for the republican pational|N. Y., coming here in 1893. Her hus- |will which was drawp November 2, band died ip 1910, (1923, i a Wwas a passenger. Included among the injured is Engineer Harry Gil« bert, of Philadelphia, who was @se« verely scalded and received a broken leg. The engine left the track 500 feet beyond the crossing, was ripped from its trucks and turned in the opposite direction dragsing the truck with it. The teain consisted of two coaches and two Puliman cars. Both coaches left the rails, one turning over. Pas« at 6 o'clock this morning to start the | sengers in the Pullman cars were un« electric blowers, he found the body |Injured. of Burhans. In attempting to release < the body Lashaw also was killed. Cutter Bags Schooner b | With Big Load of Joy Worcester, Mass, Aug. 21.—Fred| Savannah, Ga, Aug. 21.—Loaded Peterson, aged 52 years, a widely | with 1,600 bags of liquors, each con- known Swedish citizen, was fetally |taining six quarts, the two-masted and crushed under the wheels of a 1gaded [turbine driven schooner Charles H. coal truck at Rice Square this morn- | Hyde was towed up the Savannah ing dying in an ambulance on the way |river today by the cutter Yamacraw Electrocuted Workman Watertown, N. Y., Aug. 21.—Two employes of the New York Air Brake re-captured, brought to Kansas City, tried and acquitted. Johnson's bill of $110 was held up at the July meeting of the common council and an {itemized account asked for. Johnson refused to item- |company were electrocuted in the ize his statement, declaring that the |brass foundry of the company’s plant councll has no alternative to pay In this city last night when they came since the selectmen have approved [in contact with a high powered eir- his bill. At last night’s meeting an [cuit. The dead are: Clyde W. Bur- effort was made to have the bill [hans, an electrician, 38 years old, of again held up, but payment was voted this city; Lee Lashaw, 30, of Black after a debate, River, When Lashaw arrived at the plant directs the payment of $100 for masses for the repose of his soul, a similar sum for the care of his burial plot and that of his father, Thomas | % Sheehan, and provides for disposition I of the remainder of the estate among members of the family. A bequest of $500 is made to a sis- ter, Catherine Sheehan of West New York, N. J.; 110 shares of Stanley Works stock is left to a sister, Mary, of West New York, N. J.; the residue is left to the widow, Bridget Sheehan, and at her death it is to be divided among the children with an equal share set aside for the education of John and Helen Sheehan, grandchil- dren. Sarah and Fred Sheehan are trustees of this amount and it is pro- vided that the balance shall be pald the children when they become 21 years of age. Barah and Thomas Sheehan, chil- HIGH TIDES—AUG. 23 (Standard Time) —— At New London— 2:50 a. m.; 3:21 p. m, At New Haven-— 4:41 a. m.; 4:55 p. m, MRS, CUMMINGS DEAD Stamford, Aug. 21. — Mrs. Audie Schuyler Cummings, wife of the late Uriah Cummings and mother of Homer 8. Cummings, former chalr- man of the national democratic com- mittee, died at her home here today. Bhe has been in falling health for FELL ASLEEP AT WHEEL. Btratford, Conn., Aug. 21.—Mrs. Helen Jacobson, 74 West 101st street, New York: Martha Dowling, same address and Lawrence Marcaccio, 369 Merrimac street, Methuen, Mass, were hurt early today when a ear driven by Harry Lokas of Lawrence, Mass., in which they were passengers, struck a telephone pole. Lokas ad mits he fell asleep at the wheel. Mrs. Jacobson with a fractured leg, re- ceived the most serjous injuries. A KILKED UNDER TRUCK. Hartford, Aug. 21.—Forecast for New Britain and vicinity: Friday fair followed by increas- ing cloudiness, not much change in temperature,