New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 18, 1924, Page 1

r—————— News of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 ‘W BRITAIN """) p'unwh MRS. SWEETIN TAKES STAND PROMISING THAT SHE WILL TELL ALL IN MURDER CASE Characer_ Witneses STATE ACCOUNTS ARE. Declare Woman's| gy 10 B INTACT Reputation Was All Right Before She Met! Speflal Auditors Make Rc-‘ Hight. Books 1 port on Gilpatric's [ l Another Tells of Sitting Up | #arttora, pec. 1820 auait of {the treasury department made by nd Miller of New With Dying Husband as scarie, oakey | York to ascertain if there had b Former Preacher Pra)cd Ny migappropriation of funds by fornter Treasurer G. Harold Gil- for His Soul’s Salvation, |ratric was mado public at the of found no evidence of misay itlsie Eweetin took the witness stand deposit in the ut oon tod Lawrenc M. Hight for the murder so considered. poison of her husband, Wilford eetin, Robert E. Smith, her at- ., promised she would “tell || the whole story."” methods in vogue in the s Mrs. Bweetin's previous appear- urer's office do not adeq inces on the stand were in the ab- guard t 1ce of the jury in connection with |ed out that in the + fight to exclude conf Reputation Was Good. arles for At the opening of court Attorney $2,500 a smith called character witnesses for $4,000 for Mrs. Sweetin, These witnesses, who called utterly | uded C. C. Sweetin, father and | responsible for th Mra. Alex Bumpus( sister of Wilford | 600,000 annually. Sweetin, testified that prior to the their responsibility “alleged esc 1e” with the Rev. Mr. rests on officers of Hight, the reputation of Mrs, Sweet- | they should be i had been good. 18 also recommen Mrs. Eva Milliner, a cousin of |tre Mys. Sweetin, who was her compan- | fina ion on a number of rid taken in |office, mmendations we ions. state dc sald ilight's automobile, was asked by | Tt is held that the state freasurer Prosecutor Thompson regarding the &hofld not be the s rity in ignt before Sweetin died, when she regard to the | sink- .nd Hight up” with him, | ing fund and t nge of Prayed Vor Slek Man, securities but tha fon should Vas that the night the preacher come up for revi saved Wilford?” he asked. the state 1 ont “Yes, the preacher called me to be | meeting, that 1 is witness, We knelt down ,while [Pass on the uninvested e the minister prayed for Wilford.” sale or exchange of securitics, “Was the minister praying for Vilford to get we ing for his sot vation was praying for his soul.” A Wilford say he was saved?"” “Yee, he sald he felt all right and was ready to go,” said Mrs. Mil- )h,”* said Thompson “the preach- told him he was going to go, e “Well, he had told him he was a ry sick " replied (e witness. GETS ONE T0 THREE YEARS || e acroon varl Miller Sentenced For Assault 1t I8 recomn st ; "‘“ And Robbery of Greonwich Wom- maintuined i sur '8 office an In Her Hotel, i i ree years today hy HARRBIN SUCCESSOR 1. Malthie in supcrior court on his Wash e 1 Attorney ea of guilty to assaulting and rob- Gien, St 1 led npon a suc ng Miss Martha Meeker of Gres eseor Att as a porter and will 1 m 3 aom where he | Mr ¢ 1 to i Child, Kidnapped Six Months Ago, A 6andoned Returned To Parents Mother and Father, Duving | BRIDE TAKES POISON Long Search, Had Sold T Their Home to Provide Funds to Hunt Missing conaition serions, Baby, Tablets Tn Mist er having Dbesn in the hand of Kidnappers for six months, two and e half year old Russell Earl Ste ng, Jr, formerly of ( rd M near Mahanoy City, Pa, iting comy al nicalities before being restored o his parents ninor e n of tion Last night, after the mother had S T cognized a newspaper picture of & ok aby abandoned in a houss here as et that of her missing child, a joyful tion was stil] s injon bety little Ru sell and - ES4: - ‘After Russell had been kinapped, | CO-0rdinated Action in Mr. and Mrs, Steimling moved to Air Pul(hd\(‘ |~ Ur Philadelphta where they directed | Washing! he search for their missing baby. avy part To obtaln funds they had mortgaged se of aircraft and later sold their home. Mr. sed | aries Wilbur Stelmling early today left for Ma- |and Weeks wit H. Have, t bhanoy City to bring back the child's | former postmaster g birth certificate and other ideéntifica- after Mr. H, h t fon papers proving his parenta his devising before ¥ tent ( Russell, Jr. in the meantime lidge at a breakfast e at mains with his mother at the the White H of srael Shatz, where he was found | Mr. Havs' | (o T loned by a c holxented | minats sug oom Tuesday night. Shatz, re g the finding of the baby to pol and unaware the child had ¢ 1a kidnapped, asked to be allow adopt Russell. Tha man and w e aiiiton 1 X who had aband ed h h e!} R W 1 s ¥ ity described by s g The Jopting th chiid had apparen 1 well cared | tary Wilhur s p for, and was dressed in new clothes, | ey jate In a h of Governor Templeton today, The cxpert New York aceounting firm ropria- Mount Vernon, Iil, Dec, 18,—Mrs. |tion of funds by Gilpatrie, unless the 1 National in her own defense shortly before bank after that bank was insolvent in her joint trlal with |by reason of his defaleation may be At the same tlme a number of > made, It lug stated by the firm that the cly safe- state’s funds. 1t 1s point- st place the hat casurer and y treasurer is for men . It that the state 7o in other luring his term of Ansonfa Woman Takes Mercury ake For Aspirin— RABBIWISE MAKES FUNERAL ORATION Delivers Forceful Eulogy for Late Sampel Gompers } At the Grave In Tarrytown Sleepy | Mourn Outside Hall, | funeral services were hield today for Samuel Gompers at the Elks club, after which the hody was taken hy wuitomobile to Tagryt for inter- ment in historie Sleepy Hollow cometery, Ihe great assembly hall of New York lodge No, 1, draped fn the mourning purple of the order, was crowded to capacity with co-workers ind friends of the late president of the Amcrican Federation of labor, Tn the throng were men high In the and ci FFifteen hu galn admittance into the ha sembled fn the Town hall ind heard the se isands stood rev- carhy streets, held in 1ils ot pol e Officers Enter Officers of the lodge, headed by Sol Tekulsky, the exalted ruler, tearched inio the hall and conduc of the fra- 1 oificer wore a car Tn the culogy that followed, Dr “tAmG 1 the characterizatior of Samwel Gompers 1 1 e is more he in the milf tary for his was the mi wout his life he eer Gom- t cause, not MAY FIX SALARY FOR FINANGE BOARD HEAD Increase for Chairman of Public Works Commis- sion and Mayor An effort will be made at the ¥l th r- n board of f s and 1 to incre salary of « f the board of public v i both on the same Lasis vater board chairman, s $1,000 a year anship of the board ' and gther boards, etings of the com- DR. BAST RELEASED Danish Supreme Court, After Yong Deliberations, Orders Methodist Clergyman Freed, Hollow Cemetery, Masonje and | Elks’ Rituals Are Uscd—Hundreds | New York, Dce, 18.—Impressive | 45 SCARLET FEVER tion in the Bell City \|n)n|h_v of Patients Living In Fed- Home In This City, (8 complicating matters, the loca scarlot fever situation did not see improved this morning when a 1e port of 45 cases of the scarle was made by Health Officer Wolsard, Several of the cases hia shown diphtheritic symptoms hut health officer feels heen placed on the scarlet fever hopes to show a decrease on. le helieved ¢hat the been reached and annou the source had en practica traced down but did not care make public any statement t morning as to the cxact center the disease, Milk Dealer Under Quarantine One milk dealer was sto is under quarantine. His pr s not being blamed for the start of the spread of the discase The health officer said fases of diphtheria with the scarlct f ed any great Lealth officials. rurses, Misses M Eugenia Norton, 15y on follow-up wo had not cu among y Mulligan 4 been k , while ¢ cer Henry Jeglinsk! of tho police department has boen employed by Dr. Woisard to tack up quarantine signs. Federal Hill Section Hit The majority of are located in ¢ tion of the ci e map on file at the health t fices. Although 45 cases ar ed, a few cases ha unreported, in th ysicians Dr. P. ¥. Knowiton of the sta hoard of health arrived tod went over ti on with cal health offi day that Miss Anna Furlong, teacher in the had been forbidden to return to ! Lome {n Pomfret, ever. Pomfret today this when a Herald repo 1 to him by telep} e, QUARANTINE ON GIRLS Ith officer of AT CHILDREN'S HOME Two Cases of Scarlet Fever Found in Institution in This City arlet fever quarantine has t Children’s home, follow of two cases of 1 se, and t patients togethier w e 10 days, The not suffep t} loss of any gth of tin classes since t tine will carry school vacat peried Senate Has Memorial In Making armed nd laid down a sr L] Stolen Automobiles Are Rccm ered in Ih’l’im‘nm ( H. Kelly H v s Alex S n } Y Bridgeport Autoist ("\ en H(‘a\\ ( mn‘ Fine r‘l”L'l'ne in W nNM l.\L(‘ THE WEATHIR Hartford, Dec. 18—Forecast for New Rritain and vicinity Unsettled tonight and Friday probably rain, eral Hill District—Quarantine On Girls Dormitory At Children's Bristol, Dec. 18.—With diphtheria ed from bringing milk into the city this morning as a scarlet fever case had developed at his home and his place two city schoc @ probably been opinlon of local reported around town to- leral Hill sclool, Service for Gompers Robhers Use Smoke § creen Aw ay With Roll SERVICES ARE IMPRESSIVE CRISIS BELIEVED REACHED TRIAL SET NEW RECORD L Cont Lasted 181 Days—Action Recover Sums Clalmed Plaintiff in Conspiracy—Winner is Critlcally 111 With Typhoid, Dedham, Mass, I dlet of $10 1 11f was 1 I the Lrought by Robert 1 Doston | lays. The ing #ince Monday Sets New Time Mark in American cc ler was by m Herrfe recover f ing gre ost Ly p deprived of cor Felt and Da compani Tichborne ond period of 188 days. In t toa ered the vous coll counsel ¢ fon was arg CROOKEDNESS CHARGED Mayor-Eleet of Hadkensack Is Acensed of $200,000 Of Loan Company. nton, N. J,, De 18 W A 4 s 1 Tt he v A beginning Congressman Kahn Ne Death After Hemorrhage | Average Da Week Endin lllllh IER CONNECTICUT, THURSDAY, DE LLMBP R 18, 1924, —EIGHTLI ly Circulation Fop PR l( E HIIII I 5 CENVTS 1034100 AWARD | DEPT. € CASES IN BRISTOL 1N MASS. LAWSUIT Diphtheria Comphcates Snua- Plaintili - i Wille{t-Herrick | Banking Case Gets Judgmént Rfiw R fr—e ses Anpreciation of Voters’ Support Through Congressman Tilson ad been t history POPE IS Vi{E” RAPPING ~ ees Grave Dangers 11 Jurors I 1l and wa Communizm J'USHCE INVESTIGATIN T THAT SENATE COMM "“’Fu, m’? HAS SOLD His S INFLUENCE nexpecied Developments® Result in Several Confers ences With President Past 21 Hours. V { Dee. ~= The de- £ n an ine § that an em= Las ace 1ence in s ation. ( ¢ nounced cmploye o refused 's at< ) the re- had no ans today sman Briften solution on Race sue Despite Protests of | i | \ and f