New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 17, 1924, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 Butler Explains That! This Will Bring Total Of Three Million Dol- lars For Their “Vig- orous Campaign.” This Vast Sum Is Modest ' ¢ Compared With Expen-f ditures in Other Elec- tions, Witness Tells Com-‘ mittee. | i Chicago, Oct. 17.—The repiiblican national campaign organization n- tends, if possible to collect $1,300,- 000 more to carry on its work be- tween now and election day, Willlam M. Butler, chairman of the republi- can national committee, testified to- | day before the senate committee in- | vestigating campaign funds, Modest By Comparison { This sum would make up the $3,- | 000,000 budget which the republi- can campaign committee decided at the outset of the campaign would be necessary for the conduct of what Butler denominated as. a ‘‘vigorous campaign.” “That is a modest amount in view of expenditures that have been made heretofore,” President Coolidge's field marshal told the committee. Chairman Borah finquired as to the uses to which the funds had heen put and Mr. Butler said it was nsed by the various bureaus within the organization. “Are there any organizations which are raising money and ex- pending it for the republican ticket, other than your own organization?” asked Senator Borah. “None that T am aware of, ex- cept the different state organiza- tio; Butler replied. Senator Caraway, democrat, Ar- Lansas. took over the examination. Willing to Take Orders. “Are you the sole authority when it comes to the question of what <hall or shall not be done with the funds raised?” he asked. “That's a difficult question to an- swer,” Butler replied. “I take the advice of other peo- ple” he added. “But you are the final author- Jty?" pursued Senator Caraway. “Fou can answer that ‘yes’ r“Y;‘s. that's right,” the national chalrman said. “TWhen you made the estimate at fhe start of tha campaign dld vou declde how much was to be spent. an publieity?” U d T T noticed in your budget that there was approximately $36,000 al- Intted for the college ¢lubs and only £5,000 for the farmers.® “T think there was some mistake 1 don't fhink that's r|ger o or there. “Well, those are the figures vour treasurer.” Among Colored People. “T noticed an allotment of $30,- 00 for work among colored people. What's the nature of that work?" “They have their headquarters and speakers and correspondence. Then they have peopla coming to see them.” “T assume from your answer that the expenses of those coming to see them are paid.” “Are there any items of expense not disclosed in the statement of vour treasurer?” Senator Caraway continued, “T think not™ “As to the expense for publieity, does that include ‘boiler plate?” “A good deal of it.” ' “And ‘canned editorfals?'* Mr. Butler seemed nonplussed and the senator explained. “You get newspansm to print edi- torials got out by the epubliesn or- ganization without their disclosing their source.” “T don't know about that” witness said, the (Continued on Page Eight) NO PAPER BALLOTS Voling Machines to Be Used Next Month in Determining Preference: of Electors. It has been definitely settied that voting machines will be used in the coming election and the selectmen and registrars are no longer con- fronted with the possibility of using the old Australian ballot. It was“thought for a time that the cight parties having petitions in the field would * secure the necessary number of signers and since there are only seven .party levers on the machines used here, it would neces- sitate the use of the Australian printed ballot. Had it beem necessary to go back to the old system of voting, a count of the ballot within several hours ofter the close of the polls would have been out of the question. Hiring of many more workers would have probably been necessary and Increased expense would result. EPUBLICANS HOPE T0' GET $1,300,000 MORE TO SPEND BEFORE CAMPAIGN IS OVER earthquake shocks were on the Georgetown university seis- p. m. and 12:27 a. m. dorf placed the approximate ‘Washington. - NEW BRITAIN HERAL H. H. KOHLSAAT, FRIEND OF PRESIDENTS, DIES Famous Newspaperman and Publisher Stricken at Hoover’s Home Washington, Oct. 17.—H, H. Kohlsaat, noted former Chicdgo | publisher and close friend of many | presidents, dled suddenly today at | the home of Secretary Hoover. He had come to Washington for a visit and although he had been | in poor\health for some months, his | condition had not been considgred | serlous. He was 71 years old, | For many years Mr. Kohlsaat had | been on terms of friendship with a wide circle of public men. He was consulted on public ques- tlons by McKinley, Roosevelt, Wil- son and Harding, and many times | had been a house guest at the| White House. Recently he had not' taken an active part in politics but remained the friend and adviser of those of his many acquaintances who are in Public life. He retired from active | newspaper work in 1913 and de- voted much time since to the writ- ing of historical sketches of public events with which he had had a personal connection. Death resulted from a stroke of paralysis suffered by Mr. Kohlsaat at the Hoover residence on Tuesday Mrs. Kohlsaat and their two daugh- ters, Mrs. Potter Palmer of Chicago, and Mrs. Roger Shepard of St. Paul, were with him at the time of his death, Mr. Kohlsaat had come to Wash- ington ten days ago for a rest and to renew old friendships here. He accepted Mr. Hoover's invitation to be his guest, and at the time of his arrival appeared to be in normal health, No announcement was made of the stroke suffered Tuesday, ang for a time there was hope for his re- (Continved on Page 23) STATE WILL PATROL HIGHWAYS TOMORROW Expect Record-Breaking Traffic to Game at New Haven Hartford, Oct. 17.—The state po- lice and the motor vehicle and high- way departments will co-operate with local police and automobile clubs of the larger cities in regulat- ing the heavy automoblile traffic an- ticipated on the state highways to and from the Yale-Dartmouth game in the Yale Bowl at New Haven to- morrow, the state motor vehicle de- partment announced today. The three state departments have endorsed four different routes by which automobilists traveling to the game from considerable distances may reach the Bowl, the routes hav- ing been protected by the New Ha- ven Automobile eclub. The routes mentioned are: No. 1.—Hartford route—enters New Haven by way of North Haven and Middletown avenue to the city line. No. 2.—New London rcute—enters by way of Branford and East Haven and will be directed by traffic offi- cers from the city line to the Bowl. No. 3.—Waterbury route—enters | by way of Cheshire, Mount Carmel | and Centerville to Dixwell avenue. No. 4—New York route—enters | by ways of Washington bridge at | Devon and Milford and over the Mil- ford turnpike to Forest street. The department announces that driving directions published by the state for distribution to out of state motorists, will be strictly =nforced. | Briefly, these directions are to stay in line, keep up with traffie, avoid lagging and loitering and, if neces- sary to stop to park off the high- way. State police have the instruc- tions and will be ordered to make arrests for reckless driving, with es- pacial attention to “cutting in.” Suspended Sentence Is Given Hanifin Springfleld, Mass., Oct. 17.—Su- spended sentence of two years in jall was imposed today on Willlam J. Hanifin, {ormer guard and mes- senger of the Union Trust Co., Who sometime ago disappeared with $90,000 of the bank's funds which he had been sent to the post office to get. A few days later Hanifin voluntarily returned and surrendered himself, after first ehipping the money to the bank from Chicago. The bank officlals declined to press a complaint against him when he was arraigned. - RECORDED Oct. 17, — Sharp recorded QUAK Washington, 145 on- loca- tion in a southerly direction be- tween 1,600 and 2,000 miles from between Father mograph ast night sionaries who had NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, 'FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1924, —THIRTY-TWO PAGES. JUSTICES DROPPED FORTURNINGE.0.P Democrats Fail to Renominate Roche and Brozozowy 1. I SHITH IS NAMED Rtxlslru"ol Voters Named to Run | With John F. Baldyga for Seats in Assembly — Town Committee Fills Out Complete Ticket. Thomas J. Smith, registrar of voters, and John I\ Baldyga, who s serving his first term as a member of the board of selectmen, are the nominees of the local wing of the Democratic party for representatives fn the general assembly. They will 'run with At- torney 8. Gerard Casale who was nominated for state senator several weeks ago. The ticket was fllled out at meeting of the town committee last night at headquarters on [Main street. Baldyga had presented & petition of candidacy and there were no other candidates. Exercising their power to fill vacancies on the ticket, the town committee placed thereon the name of Registrar Smith. The nomination was made by Edward J. Hennessey and was seconded by Judge Willlam F. Man- gan. Democratie Tour Justices Dropped. Fifteen justices of the peace were also named. TFour of the present justices were dropped, two of them because they have wchanged thelr registsation, and the other two to make places for prospective attor- neys who are shortly to take bar examinations. Attorney Henry P. Roche and Alexander Brozozowy, now being affiliated with the Re- publican party, they were dropped from the list. The other justices dropped are Building Commissioner Thomas Hinchliffe and Park Super- intendent Ralph B. Wainwright. Attorneys George W. Brady and S. G. Casale, both of whom opened offices here during the past year, were nominated for justices, as were James G. Hannon and John Begley, who are graduates of law schools and soon will take their bar exam- inations. Other justices selected are Attorneys David T. Dunn, Ber. nard F. Gaffney, George TeWitt, P, F. MeDonough, Wiillam F. Mangan and E. T. Ringrose; P. J. Murray, T. F. Riley, August Schaefer, J. J. Watson and ¥. M. Zimmerman. SAVED BY TREES Saplings Prevented Two Orash at Westport From Plung- Ing into the Saugatuck River, Autos in ‘Westport, Oct. 17.—Two saplings on the bank of the Saugatuck river probably saved the lives of five per- sons today when two automobiles’ colliding went down a 20 foot em- bankment. The forward automobile, @ passenger car with three women occupants besides the driver, aécord- ing to the police, crashed into a motor truck owned and driven by Karol Kohoszki of this place. The passenger car was held by one tree while the truck was held by another tree, just preventing its weight from being added to the first machine. Concetta Alarlo of this place is the owner of the passenger automobile. The police are .searching for the driver, who left the scene following the accident. ATHLETE IS KILLED Harry Haynes, Well Known Al-‘ont- ball Player, Shot at Oswego Soft Drink Resort. Oswego, N. Y., Oct. 17.—Harry D. Haynes of Oswego, well known throughout northern New York as a football player, was shot and fatally wounded early today in a eoft drinl place. He died a haif hour after the shooting in an ambulance while on the way to the hospital. Domenico Chilbine and Ruzzio Calvaigno were held by the police, who say Chiioine has confessed to having shot Haynes with a shotgun. Chilbine said he shot in self-defense after Haynes had ordered him to throw up his hands and had threatened to shoot him. The po- lice say Haynes was unarmed. The prisoners told the poiice that they were awakened by the crash- ing of glass and said they found Haynes behind the bar in the place when they went to investigate. Miner Killed When He Drills Into Dynamite Batavia, N. Y., Oct. 17.—Dominick Gianni, 85, was Instantly killed in the mine of the United States Gyp- sum company at Oakfield today, when he drilled into an unexploded charge of dynamite. Arico Capanoll, his helper, was severely injured. The blast was far under the surface and the two men were the only ones within range of the explosion. Staffordville Girl Runs Off With Concessionists ‘Westpott, Conn., Oct. 17.—Mabel ‘West, 16, of Staffordville, for whom the state police sent out a state-wide alarm lgst night was taken into cus- tody here today. According to re- port to the state police, the girl joine ed a party of travelling fair conces- been at the Rockville fair this week.. She will be detained until the arrival of her parents. al | | | 14 People, Including Native By The Associatad Pross. Nome, Alaska, Oct, 17.-~A colony intended to establish British title to Wrangell Island in the Arctic Ocean north of Siberia, was carrled off by | the Russlan armed transport Red October, which raised the Russian flag there August 20, it was learned here today. ) 14 People Captured New York, Oct. 17.—Vilhjalmur Stefansson, who a year ago founded the colony on Wrangell Island, which was reported from Nome to- day to have been carried off by a Russian transport, sald there were 14 in the colony, consisting of 13 I3skimos led by Charles Wells of Uniontown, Pa., a native born citi- zen of the United States. Founded for U. 8. The colony was not founded in hehalf of Great Britain, but in be- half of the United States, through anAmerican corporation in Nome, Stefansson declared, *"This situa- tion is up to the United States,” he sald. Russian Claim Wealk “The Russian claim to Wrangell Island is so weak as-to be negligible from the historical or legal point of view,” Stafansson continued. “No Russian ever saw Wrangell Island a8 far as we know until 1911, That SUES FOR $230,000 Colorado Man Seeks Damages Charging Alienation of Affections . ~Wife Died in Torrington Oct. 8. Colorado Springs, Colo., Oct. 17.— Alleging alienation of the affections of his wife, who died in Torrington, Conn.,, a week ago, John McMahon, in a suit on file here, seeks $250,000 damages from General 8. H. Wad- ham, ot Torrington, H. C. Atkins, Indianapolis 2w manufacturer, Clarn Wadhams and Colonel T. B. Dugan of Colorado Springs. Me- Mahon, who owns a hotel and other property here, charged that the four brought about the separation of him and his wife in 1907 and forced her to bequeath to them half of her property, which included several business blocks here. McMahon is sixty years old. The funeral of his wife was held here Tuesday. Torrington, Oct. 17.—Mrs, Harriet | A. McMahon, a sister of General Sanford H, Wadhams' wife, died in a hospital here October 8. Ehe had been visiting the Wadham family for a considerable period. Henry C. At- kins of Indianapolis is a brother of the deceased.. Gen. Wadhams ac- companied the body of Mrs. Mec- Mahon to Colorada Springs, where the burial took place. RECOVER ALL BUT 88,000 | Mail Pouch Containing $60,000 Run ARMED RUSSIANS MAKE PRISONERS OF COLONISTS, THEN CLAIM ISLAND Born American, Reported Taken—Stefansson Says He Founded Colony in Behalf of U. S., Not Great Britain. ‘pao; puo)) ‘P f 40V HAo) e was 62 years at y covered It and . NS United States MAY3 7 Lol and Rogers planted the United States flag there in behalf of their government.” The explorer pointed out that he was a Canadian by birth and a long time resident of the United States. All his work on the island had been In behalf of these two countries, and he was convinced from his historical studies that Great Britain and the United States were the only nations that had a claim to the island. Turned Down By England “For two years 1 sought to fm- preses the British government with the need for colonizing Wrangell as a futurs base for {intercontinental dirigible and airplane traffic, as well as a valuable immediate com- mercial asset, especially for furs and reindeer breeding, walrus hunting, and sealing,” said Stefansson. “But the British and Canadian governments, although recognizing thelr claim to the island by right of discovery and exploration, could not see my plans for colonization. So a year ago I transferred my personal interest to the American corpora- tion in Nome and supervised coloni- zation of the island under the lead- ership of the man from Pennsyl- vania.” Aged Mother Certain Convict Is Her Son, Believed Killed In War Wisconsin Woman Insist- ent, Despite Fact That Fingerprints Prove That Prisoner Is Another Man, and She Waits His * Liberation. Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 17.—Confident she will emerge victor from the con- fliet between mother love and merci- less science, Mvs, I'. W. Bergeron o Menasha, Wis., has refused to accept fingerprint evidence indicating Rob- ert E. 8t. Clair, Atlanta federal pris- on inmate, 18 not her son, Urban John Bergeron, reported killed dur- ling the World War, today’s Atlanta | Constitution says. The aged woman declares she will remain here until prison gates re- lease the man she believes her son, the newspaper says. Meanwhile the protecting mantle of the Red Cross has settled about the woman who refuses to believe that mother love and instinct are at fault. The Red Cross here took charge of Mrs. Bergeron upon receipt of a letter from the Secretary of the Red Cross chaptr at Menasha, who wrote that she had known Urban John Bergeron since his childhood ard that there was no doubt that thg body of a war victim buried in the family plot was his. St. Claire has served two months of an eighteen months sentence im- posed in New Orleans conviction for Over and Bills Are Scattered | Along Penn. Countryside, I Pittsburgh, Oct. 17.—Search was | continued today along a three-mile | stretch of railroad track near here | for $8,000 still missing of the more | than $60,000 in small bills that was | scattered along the tracks Wednes- | day when a Pennsylvania passenger train ran over a mail pouch con- taining the money. A total of $52,~ 594 had been recovered last night. The pouch containing the money which was being sent to the Federal | Reserve bank here by two banks at | Ambridge, a suburb fell from a | truck at - tha Ambridge station across the tracks and was cut to shreds by a passenger train and the | money scattered along the track Post Oftice Inspector Craighead declared that his investigation in- dicated that th truction of the mail pouch was accidental. 0ld Man, Armed With Knife, Drives Out Robber | v York, 65 years, Elias §a Oct inders today frus- | trated the robbery his jewelry shop In Trinity Place, Manhattan, | and drove a lone holdup man from the store wit carving knife which he grabbed from a counter when the intruder ordered him to throw up his h Waterbury Police Fail To Arrest Murderer | Waterbury, Oct. 17.—With the re- lease under bonds of $5,000 today of Patsy Santora of Rridgeport, who | has been held here by the police since the murder of John .\|Il.\.\fll1m,; 37, of Bank strect. this city, early | on the morning of September 25, all | the msterial witne: 1d suspects have been reléased, all under bonds of $5,000, with the exception of Y\\n! women, who were released under | bonda of $500 each, THE WEATHER | —0— Hartford, Oct. 17.—~Forecast | | for New Britain and vicinity: | Felr tonight and Saturday; || cooler tonight. r \ | | ‘ | | | {on to transporting a stolen automobile from ona state to another. He is said to be wanted in a number of western cities. The Constitution quoted Red Cross officials as saying Mrs. Bergeron had told them St. Claire had ‘urged her to turn all the family property into cash by the time his term in |prison expired so she, “father” and | he could go to the far west and start life anew. Prison officials sald they had heen |Informed by Mrs. Bergeron, accord- |ing to the Constitution story, that her husband and daughter were en route to Atlanta,'and that she ex- pected her daughter to substantiate her belief that St. Claire was her son. Mrs. Bergeron came to Atlanta upon receipt of a mysterious letter from N Orleans signed, Lucille Oldhorn,” which requested information regarding a young man named “Urban John" and gave other details which led Mrs. Berger- | believe her son lived he identified St. Claire as her son when she reached here. —Despite his| The War Department a few days| ago declared that the fingerprints of St. Ciaire did not coincide with those of the man who enlisted as Urban John Bergeron Finds Children Playing With Sticks of Dynamite Pottsville, O. by school teac 3 dynamite {m their posses: lice after an investigation ed today that thre der 12 years of a tanking a stick of the Sherman Coal here and had used sticks for kindling wood to the police the boys bullding a fire with forty sticks because they mad “pretty blue flames." The —Informed pupils had . the po- announc- pupils, all un- . had confessed dynamite m compa plant the amite | confiscated the remai loot. HEARING ON NOV. 6 Washington, Oct. 17. — Further hearing on Pullman rates be held by the interstate commerce commission at Chicago November 6 The Order of United Commer- cial Travelers of America are con- will {tending that present Pullman rates | placed by are too high ‘|take his place among the NEW LONDON PAYS TRIBUTE T0 DEAD Impressive Funeral Services for oy nator Brandegee Bl6 CHURCH IS CROWDED Many of The Stores And Factorles Of The Whaling City Are Closed As Testimonial of Esteem—Many Distinguished Personages Attend. New London, Oct. 17. — From Washington, capltal of the nation, whence he was first sent 22 years ago, U, 8. Senator Frank B. Bran- degee, this city's most illustrious con, returned homs today. Cold and still in self effacement from the worries of depleted finances, the body of Senator Brandegee rested in a private car attached to the Fed- eral Express which crept from the early morping murk of the west- ward into the light of the Union railroad station here at 5 o'clock. In the cold and still dawn, brake- men uncoupled the car, and a sec- ond car carrying United States senators and representatives and of- ficial delegation of the state of Con- necticut and persoral friends of the late statesman, and placed them upon a siding. And there for three hours, attended on the {nside by leaders of the nation with whom he had served, and guarded on the out- side by a squad of police officers who had watched his rise with that peculiar pride with which people always view the success of one of their townsmen, Senator Brandegee remained. All Ts Changed The campaign is at its height, but Senator Brandegee had not come home to campaiga. His campaign- ing days are over. The big white house on Hempstead street was not open awaiting him. Andrew and Margaret Bradley, his aged colored servants, who had served him so faithfully and long, were not, as they have been upon the occasion of former homecomirgs, standing on the spaclous veranda watching for him. Now everythng was changed. Frank Brandegee came home to city's noblest children who have crossed over, and in that group are many brilliant statesmen, warriors, pio- neers and statesmen. He came hume to sleep in the soil of his be- loved city, and semators and con- gressmen, the governor of the state, (Continued on Page Four) DORFMAN BRINGS SUIT FOR DEPOSIT ON LAND Names Gorbach Defendant in Action for $1,000 This Afternoon Abraham Gorbach, who brought |suit Wednesday against David Dorf- man asking $20,000 for alleged de- | | famation of character, was this af- |ternoon named defendent in $1,000 action brought by Dorfman who al- a deposit on a parcel of land, and return the money or execute the deed, Klett and Alling are coun- sel for Dorfman. The land in question had been | under consideration for a new | school site, as was a parcel of land that Gorbach had offered to sell the school hoard. After it had been stated that Gorbach had an interest in the second plece—the D'Angelo tract, so-called— Gorbach fssued a {ror his motor car and after holding leges that he paid Gorbach $100 as | that Gorbach has refused either to | CONFESSES MURDER OF PENNA. TROOPER Philip A, Harfman Admits Rob- hing Bank at Abbottstown CHAPHAN MYTH EXPLODED Desperately in Need of Money, He | Holds Up Cashier—Shot Down’ Pursuing Policeman When Cor- nered 25 Miles Away. Reading, Pa., Oct. 17.—Voluntar- ily surrendering to the local polict Philip A. Hartman, of Annville, Pa., early today confessed, according to the authorities, that he had shot and killed State Trooper Francis L. Haley after having held up and robbed the cashier of the Abbotts- town, Pa., state bank of more than $1,200. He said he had planned the robbery hifhself, was alone when it was committed and shot the state trooper, who had overtaken him after a chase of 25 miles, when he was cornered. The authoritles found $1,280 in cash in Hartman's room at a local hotel and he told them this was all the loot except about $100 which he had spent for silk shirts and two new sults of clothes, Admits Holding Up Gas Stations. Hartman said that he had started his career as a bandit after losing | his job in Columbus, Ohio, a few weeks ago and that he had robbed gas stations in Columbus, and Can- ton, Ohio, and had held up a man in Canandaigua, N. Y. ‘When he first walked into the po- lice station and surrendered, Hart- man told a story involving “George Roth, of Columbus, Phio,” in the Abbottstown holdup ‘and denying any knowledge of the killing of the i state trooper. Under further ques- tioning by Chiet of Police Strople and Captain McKinney, he admitted that he alone was responsible. Desperately In Need of Funds Declaring that he was desperately in need of money and that “they also needed money at home,” Hart- man told the police that he had de- | cided to"rob the Abbottstown bank and then quit, He said he had a wife and child at Palmyra, Pa., with his wife's parents. After losing his position in Columbus, e sald, he went to Rochester, N. Y., wherc he obtained a New York license plate up a man at Carandaigua had driv- en to Abbottstown. | “I fought with myself for abonf | an hour before deciding to rob the | bank, Hartman's statement said. | “Then I went in the bank. One man was on duty. T pushed a gun | at him and took all the money I could put in my pocket. Then I ran from the bank and jumped in the | car and drove down the Lincoln highway.” Tells of Killing Policeman. Shortly before reaching Graeffen- | bullets from the stronghold was besieged.. Average Daily Cireulation For Week Ending Oct. 11th ... 11,771 PRICE THREE CENTS Explosives Turned QOver To Police Here Were Found In Shean’s Office In Springfield Damaging Evidence Against Alleged Safe- Blower Discovered In Rooms Of His Ad- vertising Concern. Minister Positively Identi« fies Chapman as Man Who Put Up $5,000 on House in South Hadley, Center. Springfleld, Mass, Qct. 17.—Chiet of Police W, J. Quilty admitted to« day in connectfon with reports ree ceived from New Britain, Conn, that a quantity of nitroglycerin and other explosives, several fur coatsy sawed off shotgung, ammunition and other articles, belicved to be the property of Gerald Chapman, no« torious bandit, had been turned over to Chief of Police Hart of New Brit« ain by relatives of Walter E, Shean of this city, who was arrested last Sunday in New Britain. y Shean is said to have heen the companion of Chapman, who 18 wanted for the murder of Police« man Skelly, one of a squad thaf sought to arrest Chapman while in the act of robbing Davidson & Leventhal store in New Britain. The weapons and loot turned over to Chiet Hart are said to have beed found in a rear room of the advere tising agency of which Shean was the head. First information reccived here was to the effect that the explosives and loot had been found in a house in South Hadley which was pur= chased some time ago by Chapman and is said to have been intended { for use by him as a headquarters of {the manufacturing of ‘raised” | money. Hart Will Not Comment Chief Hart declined to comment this afternoon when the foregoing spatch was read to him particu- Jarly with reference to the state- ment that “the weapons and loot turned over to Chief Hart are said to have been found in a rear room of the advertising agency of which Shean was the head.” Chiet Hart's only statement was: “I don't say s0." The house in South Hadley Cen< ter, Mass., is described as being located on a corner property which commanded a view of the approach from several directions. On its roof is a cupola where an observer could sit unseen but seeing and watch all who drew near. If the gang of counterfeiters were sufficiently des- perate, they could send a storm ef cupola of their Positively Tdentifies Chapman The authorities have learned that burg in Franklin county, he said he | | saw a state policeman following and | | had fired his pistol ahead of the | | puursuing machine in an effort to| frighten the trooper. The policeman | refused to slow up and when he | pulled alongside the fugitive’s ma- | chine In Graeffenburg, Hartman said he saw he was cornered and had fired at the officer. Later his automobile became stuck | in the mountains and when he | found he could not move it he said | | he had poured gasoline over the car statement of denial. Dorfman then consulted an attorney and told him price of which was to be $7,500, and that despite demand made on him had refused to give up the money or put through the papers |of transter, | Following publication of Dort- | man's allegations, Gorbach through | | Attorney S. Gerard Casale, brought an actlon for defamation of charac- ter. | The Dorfman suit in the court of common Hartford on the first { November. fs returnable at in pleas Tuesday - HITBY RUNAWAY CAR . | ‘ cefved When Uuguided Machine | | Backs Into Him This Morning. | | | | Naugatuck, Oct. 17.—Herman Schoenberg, 39, raking leaves on the awn of Platt'’s Mills between here and Waterbury, today was and hurt by an automobile which unattended at the time, ba denly started and backed dowr incline of which the lawn is Schoenberg was taken to St. ) | bospital, Waterbury. He lived at the Boys' club in Waterbury. The car | was used for dellvery purposes by | an oll company. He died at the hospital later. | struck {Engineers Demand Dept. | Of Interior Be Dropped | ago, Oct. 17.— a unani- vote the administrative board of the American engineering couneil agreed to imsist on the abolition of the deprstment of the interior of | the federal government to be re-| epartment of public a 4 | | works. | and tried to burn it. After aban- }dnnlnp his car, Hartman said he| | From there he came to Reading. | A few hours before he surrenfiered | 1ast night, state officials at Harris- | burg learned the license was fssued to Hartman Hartman’s Confession “I drove through Abbottstown at ‘]"3” Tuesday afternoon,” said the | statement. “I decided to rob one more bank and quit. I was ate and needed money. T needed money at home “I put on a raincoat | car standing around | Then I went in the bank a and 1eft the the DIVORCEES MARRY Hall Knox-Quest and Mrs. Shirley Frederick W, Hart Are United in Marriage at Chicago. Chicago, Oct. 17.—\Mrs. Shirley Knox Hall-Quest weeks ago by Dr Hall- Hart Hart, ed Lawr erick Wi Mrs. Rosamond of cinnati, last Monday, | we married at a hotel ere last night by Judge Denis E. sullivay. They left immediately Minneapolis, home of Mrs. W. M. | Konx, Mrs. Hart-Quest's mother, | A few moments before the o« l‘(’—i mony Hart and Mrs. Hall-Quest met | for the first t since two weeks ago, when they left their E after the publication of Dr.| Hall-Quests's divorce. She id no arrive here until after the marriage | license bureau had closed and some t was spent in obtaining = ‘i- cense. Judge Sullivan was sum- moned from his home near “he hotel | where the wedding took place. two m anston | home ne the minister from whom Chapman and his gang tried to buy the prop= erty has positively identified Chap- man as of the men who dis- cussed the sale with him. He 18 equally as sure that the other man was George Anderson, Ilike Chap- man, a refugee from Atlanta prison and who is supposed to have been associated with Chapman in the counterfeiting enterprise. It was agreed that the men could buy the place for $15,000 and they deposited a certified check for $5,000 to take an option on it. Positive identification of Chapman one that Gorbach had taken $100 as a | walked to Mt. Holly Springs, Where | has also been made hy witnesses and part payment for the tract, the sale | he boarded a train for Harrisbwe. |clerks in restaurants which he pa- tronized. It is said that in one West Springfleld restaurant where he fre v ate, he made a prac- 4 a certain seat door so that he would ve the entrance covered at all times. Walter E. an, in the hapman's al raid on the is a Hartford 1 he talks and Ander- ing his own admitted that went from department claiming that into his hand vou have to.” May Have Had Confederates, Efforts of th e now bent blishing | mafes, he was armied when he to st trip, is antomobile the store on the f a gun “Use it if apman put olice a taw: ¥ esta and Shean came 1 Sunday e morn- another one theory of v f 1 partment » visited Meriden going to the O1d Color Ch of yesterday, inn where p lust Sat. to leaving there ning for this eity. spent considerable time estioning the proprietress of the inn and employes regarding the dress of the two men when they are rived there, and their actions. Other hotels in Meriden were visited to a man and woman had there Saturday night, the being that they had stopped another el and joined Chape for the trip here. Chief Hart said that as yet ne word has been received from a tele- gram he sent yesterday to another ¥ nan § ) rn if stopped the n and She (Continued on Fighth Page) . .