New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 13, 1924, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press - TR-3 FLYING OVER AZORES, HAVING MADE 1900 MILES IN ABOUT 35 HOURS TIME Apparently All Is Well On Board And Big Dirigible Is Making About 54 Miles An Hour. ] Weather Bureau Reports Moderate Storm in Mid- Atlantic, in Path of On- coming Aircraft — No Danger Feared. By The Assoclated Press. . Horta, Azores, Oct. 13.—The giant dirigible ZR-3 passed Fayal at 2:35 o'clock this afternoon (local time) on her way to Lakehurst, N, J. She was flying in a westerly direction travellng at a good rate of speed. Apparently all was well on board the alrship, which was clearly out- lined against the blue heavens, flecked here and there by clouds. «The weather was fine with a north- westerly breeze blowing. The approximate air line distance from Iriedrichshafen to the Azores Islande is 1,900 miles, The elapsed time the dirigible's flight to Fayal from Iriedrichshafen was 35 hours. On this computation the - average speed of the ZR-3 for this stage of the flight was approximately 54/ miles an hour, Storm on Ocean. Washington, Oct. 13.—A moderate | disturbance in the mid-Atlantic ‘\ds[ reported today practically in the path of the ZR-2 by the naval ships| on observation duty in connection| with the trans-ocean flight. The lat- est forecast relayed by the cruiser Milwaukee and giving the compiled prediction from all sources for the noon period today was as follows: "Disturbance south of Greenland moving northeastward with trough of low pressure southwest to Ber- muda. The Jowest (barometer) 29.42, Pressure still high Quebee south to Florida; highest 30:34 at Montreal. Strong shifting winds above latitud . but diminishing elsewhere. Mod- e to fresh northerly winds west of longtitude 60 and probably mnd.] erate sonthwest winds between lati- tude and 45, from longitude 60 eastward, On the basis of the forecaste offi- cials here predicted the cruiser would be assisted rather than hin- dered by the disturbance, They pointed out that from the Azores the ZR-3 might expect to have fa- vori now prevailing continue and by maintaining her present indicated speed would arrive at her destina- tion about 9 o'clock Wednesday morning. Menu On Board. By The Associated Press. Priedrichshafen, Germany, Oct. 13.—The menu for the crew and pas- sengers of the ZR-3 and the enter- tainment arrangements for the voy- aga were well worked out before the gible sct out for th transatlantic on board are belng served in accordance with the uenally followed on ships Breakfast ls served at 8 dinner at 12, tea at four and supper at 8 o'clock. A phonograph playing American and German airs luring the midday meal. There is a midnight lunch with coffee, sausages and biscuits at 4 o'clock each morn- ing for thoee on watch Today's breakfast menu includes coffee, zweiback, biscuits, apple jelly and weinerwirst. For dinner there will be buillon, ham with madeira sauce, butter beans, pudding and peach compote. For supper, the crew will have Hungarian goulash with rice, sausage, tea and blscuits, Sau- sage will be served to the crew at tea time, midnight and 4 o'clock in the morning. The Americans on board will have plenty of fruits which will supple- ment the ship's menu. All of the regular It westward winds if conditions| Hunter Mistakes Girl’s Bobhed Head for ’Chuck Attleboro, Mass., Oct. 13,—See- ing a bushy object thréugh a tree, James ¥, Kennedy, caretaker of an estate here, fired a lopd of buckshot expecting lo bring dnvm a woodchuck, v hard a scream, sa and swoon, and ¢ the buckshot had Jqi] Je)s HW scalp of Miss Lydia . wiite, without serfous {injury, The gunner had mistaken for a wood- chuck the young woman's bushy bobbed halr, 16 RUM BOATS AND 34 OF CREWS CAPTURED Two Coast Guard Cutters Bring Hauls Into New London Ni London, Oct. 13.—Two tugs, three small schooners and one launch whose aggregate crews total 34 men, were captured by the coast guard cutter Tampa and the coast guard destroyer Jouett last night, it was learned here this noon with the arrival in port of the captive vessels. One of the tugs was the ocean- going Underwriter, which was re- leased a few wecks ago under bond | after having been previously cap- tured for rum running. She was ,takon by the Jouett and had 1,000 | cases of liquor in her hold. ‘z‘nrgo was outward bound, when overhauled by the Tampa. Some of her men were at the time en- ];mgcd in painting the name Wijiam | Malloney on her pilot house. Oth- erwise thers was no clue to " her identity. She carried no papers and her officers were minus licenses. The three schooners, Amricold, {Lone Star and Aquidneck of New- port without liquor, were captuved last evening by the Tampa just as Ithey were leaving the French steamer Ancls, a memer of rum row. A fourth boat, the Madonna Della | Georgla, hearing the number C-3919 |and carrying a liquor cargo, at first managed to elude the Tampa, but |the Jouett picked her up and ! brought her in here. | The 34 men were held for a hear- |ing at the U. 8. customs house at 4 o'clock this afternoon before U. S. | Commissioner Earl Mathewson. At bers of the crew had been identi- fled. }State Trooper Arrested For Removing Insignia Corning, N. Y., Oct, 13.—Constable :vf}rnrgn 8. Cock, of Painted Post ar- | rested State Trooper Porter at Jas- destruction of property. It is alleged that Porter stopped automobiles | bearing Ku Kilux Klan emblems and banners and removed the klan in- be arraigned at Painted Post this evening. MOVIE ACTRI DIE Los Angeles, Oct. 13-“'» Les- ter, motion picture character actress, died here today of burns received in a gas heater explosion in her dress- ing rooms at Universal City yester- day. NO JURISDICTION Washington, Oct. 13, — The su- preme court dismissed today for the Russian socialist federated soviet republic brought by M. Wulfsohn and Co,, raising the question wheth- er the soviet can be sued in the | courts of this country. e e e | which goes by way of the Azores to Bermuda. Weather conditions when the Zep- pelin reaches Bermuda doubtless wilt influence the German officers in cooking utensils, as well as the cups|command of the flight in selecting and saucers used at the table, are of aluminum. . Navy On Alert. Washington, Oct. 13.—The Zeppe- lin ZR-3 was floating today over the broad expanses of the Atlantic ocean, and the navy, on the alert, was standing by to render any help that might be needed by the great airship in its epoch-making journey from I'riedrichshafen, Germany, to Lakehurst, N. J. No direct word from the ZR-3 had come to the navy bureau of aero- nautics, because her radio range | had not reached a point where navy apparatus could make contact, but through ships at sea and through ts other sources of information ef- forts were made to keep in touch. Captain George W. Steele, Amer- ican naval officer aboard the ship, vho will take command of her upon her arrival at Lakehurst, told the javy department in a belated radio- wram today of her departure from rmany where she was built for he American government in con- formity with the terms of the armi- | stice, adding that she sailed smooth. v from the start and passed over the Bay of Biscay without iIncident. The southern route Is being fol- Jowed, putting the big craft in the steamship routsr”” ‘ross the Atlantic the route they will take northward. If the ship is headed on the regu- \lar steamship course she would | reach the Atlantic coast of the Unit- |ed States either at Charleston, . C., | or at the mouth of Chesapeake Bay. As the sovthern route is the long way round from Germany, however, it was assumed at the navy depart- ment that ‘the Zeppelin commander would follow the shortest course he could lay from Bermuda to Lake- | hurst in order to save fuel. Those On Board Besides Captain Steele, two other American navy officers and Major Kennedy of the army air service are |aboard the Zeppelin. The first stage {ot the journey was across France and Captain Steele reported an aver- age speed of more than sixty miles an hour with'all engines running. Only four engines were in operation when the ship pushed off for the Azores, however, as it was desired to conserve the fuel supply In preparation for the flight across the Atlantic the navy stationed ships along the great circie (northern) route which it was expected woula be followed as the shortest line to Lakehurst. The decision to take the |long southern route instead piakes her dependent to a greater extent upen land radio stations at various | Mrs, 8hirle [12:30 p. m. today none of the mem- | par last night on a warrant charging | | signia. The trooper is scheduled to | PERFECT LOVER IS NOW FREE T0 WED Mis. Rosamund Hart Gets De- creé From Her Husband THE HALL-QUEST CASE Man s Corespondent in Divorce Ace tion of Last Week in Which Unl- versity Professor Gave His Wife Her ¥reedom, Oct, 13.—M Rosa- ibtained a divorce from illlam Hart, ‘“perfect 1over” of Mrs. Alfred Lawrence Hall-Quest, In the court of domes- tic relations here today. Allmony, agreed upon out of court, consisted of 85,000 cash and one-third of Hart's income for the rest of Mrs, Hart's life, Mrs. Hart is likewise to have pos- session of the furniture and effects which were located in the Hart's apartment here, In the event that one-third of Hart's income at any time is more than $200 a month, the contract specifies that his former wife i to recelve one-third of the income. She is to be given, in ad- dition $300 for attorney's fees and court costs. Judge C. L. Hoffman immediately | after the hearing of testimony grant- ed Mrs. Hart the decree on the grounds of extreme cruelty, Throughout the case the name of Hall-Quest came in for frequent mention. Hart was not in court although dispatches stated that he left Chicago Sunday night, ostensibly for Cincinnati, In con- sequence of Hart's failure to mnpear, Judge Hoffman said that, #Tthough he had granted the divorce, he would not issue the formal decree until Tuesday. This, however, is but a technlicality. Pale, with her voice but a whisper, Mrs, Hart told of the alienation of her husband's affections by Mrs. Hall-Quest. She and Hart were born in Lon- | don, England, she said, and married The other tug, which was without | there August 23, 1905. After tney had come to Cincinnati to live, she sald, she learned about the other woman. Her husband, she sald, “ad- | mitted that he loved her and said he could not change his mind.” His assoclations with Mrs, Hall- Quest continued until May of 1923, Mrs, Hart said. Then her husband took her to England, saying he wanted time “to think it over.”” “We were there'blit two weeks,” Mrs. Hart related. “Then he sald he was going back to Cincinnati. He didn't say why. He left me in Lon- don. He came back to Cincinnati and resumed his associations with Mrs. Hall-Quest. He wrote me, say- ing he could mno longer live with me as his wife. He went to Chicago some time in November. Mrs, Hall- Quest went with him. They have lived In Chicago since then. He said to me.he couldn't live with me any longer because of his love for tkis other woman. He admitted he was living with her. He sald ‘T ex- pect to marry her as soon as T get a divorce.’” Professor Alexander Wilson, & cinnatl, testified he was familiar with the Harts' family life. He de- scribed Mrs, Hart as being of very high standing. He related a conversation he had had with Mr. Hart before hs went to Chicago. “He sald he had decided to do the thing,” Wilson said, *“and that they were going to Chicago together, and that it was the best they could do before they should be free to marry each other. But they were or not.” Can Marry Now. Chicago, Oct. 13.—With a divorce granted today in Cincinnati to Mrs. Rosamond Hart, the last obstacle n |the marriage of Mrs. Shirley Knox Hall-Quest, whose husband obtained a divorce here last Tuesday to en- want of jurlsdiction a case against |Able her to wed Frederick Willlam Hart, was removed. Mrs. Hall-Quest departed from her hotel last Tuesday night after the news of the divorce granted to Dr. Alfred Lawrence Hall-Quest, dean of the extension department of become public. Major Hart, a public accentant and a member of the firm of Rauer and Hart, remalned at his offices here but left the city last night His partner, Elmer Bauer, said today that the major was away on busi- ness and would not return before Thursday and that the marriage of Mrs. Hall-Quest and Major Hart| would not take place during the early part of the week, he was sure | couple he referred inquirers to Ma- jor Hart. |natl home with Major Hart in Octo- avolded any mention of Major Hart in his divorce hearing. The files of |Mrs. Hart's divorce suit ignored | mention of Mrs. Hall-Quest. Dr. Hall-Quest merely introduced {into evidence letters from his wife, with the name of Major Hart deleted |in which' she sald she had not de- cided in haste but had waited before loved another. The soclal sanction for marriage, she write, would bring greater con- not be, she was prepared to go on in the new love. . Major Hart in a briet interview last week said Mrs. Hall-Quest had left the city but was nearby and that they would be re-united and married dicorce. points. “We are just waitin, | Tears streamed down his face as | stoutly maintained he was a de artment of justice sieuth who ¥as | Rt rinin o {heun was 2 POLICEMAN JAMES SEELLY TRIBUTES PAID TO POLICEMAN SKELLY Clergymen Refer to His Heroism at Sunday | dress in that city given | Britain been stirred to a depth url SHEAN WEEPS AS HE TELS STORY 'Breaks Dovwn as He Is Grilled| at Police Headquarters —_— | HYPNOTIZED, HE CLAIWS| ;spfln:flcld Man First Posed as Gov- ernment Sleuth Engaged in Run- ‘ing Down Gerald Chapman, But | Finally Admits His Identity. “He had me hypnotized. I was a d— fool, I guess,” xplana- tion of Walter pring- fleld, for associating with Gerald Chapman, notorious mail robber bandit who is sought as the slayer of Policeman James Skelly during | was the Shean of |a robbery at the Davidson & Lev- enthal department store Sunday | morning. Shean ‘wearily made the admis- |, sion after a severe grilling at po- lice headquarters, during which his carlier storles were pulverized. he |finally breke down before a bar- | rage of questioning that bared him s the black sheep of a prominent | Springfield family who associated {with Chapman, one of the master | criminals of the age. Shean, president of the Shean Ad- | vertising Co., of that city, and son of Charles H, Shean, owner of two hotels, and brother of the owner of the Springfield baseball club, did not admit his identity until thoroughly grilled at police headquarters last night. It was after a watch charm medal bearing his name was found on his person that he finally ad- mitted his identity. to members ot a rowing crew for winning a race, and on it was the insignia, “Walter, 1. Shean, Mgr.” Posed As Detective York detective and officials of the police department Shean at firs Week Endlnz o tith . 11,771 The watch charm had been given | ‘ ? Before local policemen, a New | |in the city to shadow Gerald Chap-~ John B. Clark of New York, but New York police quickly ascertained ! there was no such man at the ad Shes w's first story from Meriden, where they spent Sunday night at the Colonial Inn, arriving In New Britain about 6 a. m. They parked their car, he said, in front of the Herald office, when Chapman told him to wait in his where he was going. At this point ‘the police began to that police had first ding at Church and Main streets professor at the University of Cin- | feeling such as it [ when it became known nu Patrol- \cw in which a kit of burglars had died in the | tools were later found; and that he | nmn James Skelly v Britain Gen the bullet of > performance | | Church street, where he was grabbed GERALD CHAPMAN CHAPMAN BRAINS OF GANG | IN $2,400,000 MAIL ROBBERY HARTFORD WORRIED Chinese The! conversation, » deceased policeman golng whether they were divorced | "at the autog t ad worked side ey and Dolan, with Patrolman Skell Fugitive Described as Mild‘ Mannered and Luxury | Loving With Penchant | for Flashy Clothes. t the inquest and were visibly affected. | terman Lyon, > Fear That Tong War May Be Extended to Their Own » worked with {man he had seen with Chinese Sectlon of City. “ollowing the disclosure that Joe Chung who in the war between the | the University of Pittsburgh, had |Hip Sing and On Leong tongs killed | luxury lov A mild-mannered, flashily dresse g, gentleman yegg ) expressed their | gave addresses as Hartford, f s hsclaie ot ireut haulboch e |the description reprisals here & ditional police protection. tra policeman has I the short section of strect at night. \,,m, o8 Whomn Hartford is an On Lcong tong ¢ mrm.r, Sityiin and while there Is no Hip Sing hm;‘w br In Hartford they fear that Hip ~u~zlm,\ death of Policeman Skelly. In October 1921, zed with a fear of 1 has demanded ad- | of Gerald Chapman, ed o caped convict, Chinees aoonlalareriatiing the streets in the As to the marriage plans of the | down Broadwa en and a good offic ry sorry- this thir Thinke"lm;)man | I§ ‘I'\ll He Ha\ Seen \Irl 1ail rob p of a \(nJ.rl Mrs. Hall-Quest left her Cincin- | |ber, 1923. Dr. Hall-Quest carefully x\:\ll his first visit to his o 0il gas stati f that town today, he had witnessed xw cked up by sembled Haroid Ch through on truc e to whom a conf several times be- in the federal penitentiary prior to the store robbe; Britain yesterday. He has not seen would have referr going away until she knew she truly | and on the second he was wounded. being treated are checking up on th {tentment and ease, but if that could only in night clothes Chapman's wh 13.—Forecast C | til members of the New Britai for New Britain and vicinity: staring into calibre revolver yesterday and an in stant later Policeman Skelly dropped # |to the floor fatally wounded. expressing at as s00n as his wife could obtaln her || slowly rising temperature. (Continued on Page and that was carrying a brief subsequently walked down Church | street, deposited the bag in the au- tomobile and continued down in front of Delaney hotel by Po- | liceman Malona. Shean at the time | |* told the policeman he did not own | the | the hag in ‘the car, claiming it was a newspaper he had thrown into it. Shean got tangled up in his story as the grilling progressed and said he could not explain how the money got into the automobile. Identified By Johnson As Bhean began to wilt Edward Johnson, the man who had first in- formed the proprietor of the stor at marauders were in it, and who d seen the pair loitering nearby, | was sent for. Johnson identific Shean as the Then Shean admitted ow the bag, and that trips into store, and t given him by Ch Shean still de thing to do wi claiming he was not in the and denying he knew 2 committ b criminal work ed to d as a “dangerous ed for his life if ad hypnotized, T was a d— fool, I s’ Shean replied. Met nn;umn Last Junc. Shean then began to wilt further He said he first beca “hapman in June, wien ( mv 1 him and intec me acquaint himselt as Mueller, and sad b Il on him by a mutua ed Brown, now doing a in Atlanta prison 1 one Anderson we birds,” \lways on the move, strang. he said nd out of Springfield ane r giving any Information about thew | i \ (Continued on Page 13.) man, He first gave the name of | o oy e | Woods w | did, anything h and Chapman came to New Britain | . % {him, Policeman Thomas J. Feeney, car, that he would be back soon | and giving no information as to | tear apart his yarn. He was told | seen him | | skeptical of First Degree Count Against Springfield Man In Connection With Killing Of Po- liceman Skelly. Atwater Tells of Threat to Kill by Chapman—Ma-~ lona Weeps as He Re« views Events Ending in Death of Friend. Walter E:. Shean, sclon of & wealthy Springfield, Mass, family appeared before Judge Willlam C, | Hungerford in police court this morning to answer to a charge of murdering Policeman James Skelly, veteran policeman, who died on the operating table at the New Britaln general hospital yesterday morning after being shot while attempting to frustrate a burglary in the Davidson & Leventhal stores, shortly after T o'clock. Shean was ordered held without bail for the next term of the superior court. An air of gloom hovered over the oom as thie police went to the stand and testified to the events leading up to and after the shooting of thelr “buddy” of 18 years in the service, Walter Malona, the police~ man who placed Shean under arrest, could not restrain his tears us he was testifying, and towards the end of his story he was overcome by his feelings and the words refused to come. Accessory Before The Fact Shean is specilica charged with | being an accessory before the fact, the warrant reading that he “felon- wilfully and with malice ‘nrx,m}mugm, did aid, assist, abet | and comfort” Gerald Chapman in the burglary and subsequent mur- der, He was not represented by at- torney at this morning’s proceedings |and no members of his rmmy were lin the-courtroom ‘When the police had hwm!cd and ¥ ked it hie cared to say secutor Joseph G. rned him that he was not y anything, and if he d could be used against him in he future. Shean wnswered that he had nothing to say. A heavy police guard surrounded anything, compelled to sitting beside him in the prisoner’s pen, other police being stationed just outside. 'The prisoner listened in- tently to the charge as it was being read and to the testimony of the police, Police were stationed at the foot of the stairs leading up to the court~ | roam long before the opening of court, and no one up who did not have official busi- ness, A crowd of scveral hundred tollected outside the station in L of gaining admittance to the urtroom, but Chief William C. allowed to g0 nuu orders to prohibit outsiders trom entering rt frustrated their plans, Shean'‘s pal i crime, whom he said was Gerald Chapman, national- y known criminal and yeggman has n soug by police since his es- cape from the federal penitentiary in Atlanta, where he was serving a 25 year term for a $2 4'wrv“'u bond robbery in New York in Insists Friend Was (lmpman The federal and local police are an's story that Chap- man was his companion, but the prisoner has steadfastly maintained the truth of He iden- ed Chapm picture, picking it m a number of circular pictures t were shown him with the s and identifications concealed. The local police are of the opinion an is ing somebody, ames Chapman t crime, een grilled and quiz- many times since ally chang- t in each pman. He 1s deseribed him to the police, and h s |hnn given by him who caught a glimpse of 1 the shot that of the veteran escription of the the pc st and has ory each tin he involves Ch re report- it Chap- 1 week ago a e tip without re- c v tel officials, s s by Sh an to ivi ler the name of emphatically at the n ing at the lo 1 r the name of Miller y have been Chap- mar Ammunition Tn Room The § y searched the hotel yesterday morning occupied by Miller, supe 1 to be Chapman, and found a ibre re a holster for & of Indianm ration plates, The which the two men came to New Britain w a high powered machine and bore a Massa- tts registration under the name > application for the r was stated that the m purchased in Fort Wayne, Ind., ir The machine is now in the custody of the police