New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 5, 1925, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press o) ‘projIeH a1 JAPY 91399UN0,) S———ir] e REV. PATRICK DALY, PASTOR ESTABLISHE 5pent 32 Years In Priesthood, 12 of Them In New Britain, Administering to Spir- itual Needs of Flock. - Brought Debt of Parish Down to Small Figure ADHITS SHOOTING 10 FREE SUSPECT New York Taxi Driver Conlesses He Wounded Passenger MOTHER JIVES IN CONN. Is Hartford Xesident — Gunman and Was Planning Erec- tion of Modern School Rev. Patreick Daly, pastor of St Joseph’s church, and for the past 31 years a priest, died this morning at 2:15 o'clock at the parsonage of St. Joseph’s church on South Main street. Father Daly had been in poor|ly wounded Dennis J. Kenny, son of months, | an honorary deputy health for the past two Some time ago he suffered a shock from which he never really recov- Makes Confession When Told That Victim's Lady Friend Was Being Actused of the Shooiing, New York, Feb. 5.—Police re- ported today that John Leventine had confessed he was the taxi driver who, during a row over a fare from Greenwich Village cabaret to Brook- lyn, last Thursday shot and serious- chief of the New York fire department. With Miss Anhabelle Flower, Ken- ered, and a second shock about 11 [ny had spent the evening at a thea- alclock last evening caused his | ter and a village cabaret. The driver death several hours afterward. Dr.|agreed to take them to Miss Flow- er's home in Brooklyn, the girl said later, but when they arfived there at 4 a. m, he demanded more money. Kenny paid, put \vlllmclc a tip. g Shot By Driver Miss Flower's story was that the taxi driver pulled a revolver and fired, as Kenny was bidding her good \night, She failed to get any clue to the driver's identity. of other taxi drivers who told of being asked ecarly last Thursday by a chauffeur what fare should be charged from the Village to Miss Flower's home, onfesscs to Save Girl Leventine was arrested at a pub- lic stand near Brooklyn bridge, For hours he denjed any knowledge of the shooting, but finally, said the detectlves, they told Leventine that Kenny was dying, and that Miss IFlowers was about to be arrcsted. “Hubj 1 don't want to see any dame in a jam on my account. T'll come through,” he driver was re- ported to have said, The alleged -Leontession, fuhowed. Leventine said Ne | mostiy on account of his mother, who lives at Hartford, Conn. Police records indicated that he served a sentence at Etmira penitentiary in 1617 for grand larceny, and that in 1919 he drew a 3-year term at Sing Sing for a sccond offense. AFTER FAKE DOCTORS REV. PATRICK DAL was “sorry,” Peter 1"ox, who had attended him in hig last ilincss, and members of the prieste houschold were present when death came. ‘Born In Ireland in 1863, He Was born in Mulihal, Ireland, in 1863, and at thé age of 30 re- cefved his holy orders at All Hallows college in Dublin, Ircland, being or- dained for the Hartford. diocese. Soon after his ordination he came to America to take up his priestly duties. His first assignment was at Newtown. [Later hie went to Hart- ford and then to Plainy ° he compieted his gerv sistant pastor. He b urch at Sharon 5 ville, going fromthat church Toward Rescinding License of Dean of St. Louis College. stor of leaving St. Louis, Feh. 5.—The Missouri state board of health today issued to South Coventry, and then to | citations to.Dr. Waldo Briggs, d Broad Brook. From Broad Trook e | of the St. Louls College of Phy was transferred to the pastorate of | and Surgcons and 44 other 8t. Joseph's church, coming he about. 12 years ago. In 1018 o ed his silver jubilee as ns physi- he | a| show canse nses 10 practice medicine should not be re- Big Reduction in Church Debt. | voked. Father Daly achioved suce astor of Si. Joseplvs church, nating practic debt since o came purchased for the congregation the | valuable Volz property adjoining the prosent church building, and at the | time of his death was planning the ercetion of a modern school build- ing to provide for the growing necds of the present parochial s The deccased ed an important role i ious history of the cily of New an, He was a relative of Rev. Luke Daly, the first Catholic priest e nently assigned a pastorate , and th of St. H Fitzsimmons, who for e Wi E. P. North, p he board had just complete | Investigation of the pr onal rec- rds n' the physicians elimi- urch heri The boardalso has aske od | T.ouis grand jury rges cal diplomas and lcenses. long fight ation- Dr., decisive action in the against the operations of [ wide diploma mill rin North, “With the fssua tations today, Dr. Jam w board sccretary, a new list of names tions will by INSURANUE REPORT Finds hool. family the early pastor's 1o of & Stewar ne on tion 1]a and addi- to d within founder was also relatc o tev, Luke many years late Conception bury. Three Rtelatives in Religion, Included amonz his curviving rela- ters who are nuns | PHIESt- | portunate—Asks Court Hartford, Teb | Commissioner Howard {in a report Hariford Lif surance Co. says that the situation of the ¢ business “is un- | fortunate, ' He recommen Monica that the asked for ins Good Shepherd | tions disposition niece, | the in the | vision A large majority n advanced age . out of a total membership e over 70 years of age or 45 per cent. or 16 per cent over 80 and 156, or 5 per cent over $5. aturally the mortality be | Assessments therefore a point where members circumstance cannot to continue membership. The ratio, caused by failure to y inordinately high assessments, been rapidiy increasing, and thi further tended to increas ments. Thus the situation has de- veloped into a vicious circle, My recommendation is that instructions be requested from the court relative 10 the disposition of the safety in the that 1tb company - take proper distribution of its stipa premium funds, waa pastor church ¢ d 1 | Commissioner Dunham Con- re two s ditions in Hartford Life Very Un- the Catholic Action — Insu P. Dunk Margaret and Wiljam Do iving in Ire- Sister Marg Mary J a "brothe the Jand; a sistc of the Order tioned dt St, ford; a sister, of the Order of the in Shelbourne, Austra Miss Della Daly, a teacher Washington school, Rev. Peter Daly seminary. Roc The body of Iather taken from the rectory church Friday afternoon o'clock, escorted by priests members of the copgregation, the office for the dead will chanted In the evening Pontificial Mass Saturday Morning | Rt. Rev, John J. Nilan, bishop of | _Hartford diocese will be the cele- brant of a pontificial high mass Saturday morning at 10 o'clock and | Leo Sullvan, pastor of St. Barnabas church, North Haven, for- mer assistant to Father Daly at St. Joseph's church, will deliver the Other officers of the mass | Rev. Williah Fitzsimmons ph's chureh, New L¢ Rev. John McCabe ¥ an et 16 of St s rancis’ mp indec court be relative to fety fund in the Sister c- of L woman's di- a of its members Daly to at the 4 and and There wera 4 re reaching a wverage afford apse of possibly ¥ has 3 has be: of St. Jos + deacon; women's division: steps fo efiect a Detectives found, however, a group | | shooting of Policeman Edward Man- Missouri State Board of Health Acts | On December | heavy. | | | 1N | sehe uns in Missourl and elsewhere, to| paratively warm d | #ppear before the board March 9 to| to heat some of the rooms and t esident, eaid | 1| in a pgriable school hous ted and had | feel d to place them on trial before \ school build of fraud in obtaining medi- | “Missouri 16 now taking final and | ci- | the | rted work | { | | | ted | ZMURI]ERS IND2D |CHAPMAN AT WETHERSF IELD; OF ST. JOSEPH’S CHURCH, IS | HOLDUPS BLAMED | ARRIVES AT PRISON TODAY DEAD AF TER LlFE OF SERVICE []N SLAIN BAN[“T Bandit Brought to C New Haven Police List This Number Against “Big Mike” Riceitelli, Killed in Stratford ALL THESE 0CCURRED IN LESS THAN YEAR'S TIME According to Elm City Authoritics, Victim of Policemen’s Guns Killed Darien A. & P. Storckeeper and Barmney Muzan, Fruit Ssurc Pro- prleaor of New Haven, New Haven, Feb, 5.—Up to noan today local police had listed two murders and over 20 holdups and robberles extending in chronological order from April 5, 1924, down to yesterday as the work of Michael Blg Mike" citelli, shot down by Stratford police yesterday as he was attempting to escape after the hold- up and robbery at the Guarantee | Watch Co. here Two Murders Charged The murders charged to his ac- count, according to the police were those of Herbert May, manager of a Darien store of the A.‘and P. Tea Co., April 5, 1924, who was shot and killed by a man who held him up and robbed the store till, and Barney Muzan, proprietor of a Wsahington avenue fruit store, who was shot and Kkilled here December 27, 1924, by a holdup man who robbed his store. Evidence has been obtained by the police, they said, that besides the chester in Stratford after a robbery in that town, Riccitelli had shot a Mount Vernon, N. Y., policeman last January, one of the revolvers found | on Riccitelli being identified as hav- ing been taken from the Mount Ver- non policeman who was shot: Gas Station Thefts The robberies included a long list of gasoli: 2 :‘ations the looting of wh' " cau.cd the robber to be popu- larly know as the ‘“gas bandit” throughout this section. Police are anticipating the extra- | dition from New York state of Phil- 1ip Tomassi, alleged by them to have confessed to the holdup and rebbery (Continued on Page 13 PROTEST CONDITIONS AT LINCOLN SCHOOL [Parents and Teachers Send Petition to Education Board At a mecting of the Parents and| Tea, dissatistaction For Murder of Accompanied only by Deputy Warden Bcott of the federal peni- tentiary at Atlanta, Gerald Chap- man arrived at state prison In Wethersfield this afternoon and will be held there until he is brought before a Hartford county judge and jury in superior court next month to answer to a charge of having shot and killed Policeman James Skelly in this city on October 12, 1924, Chapman's transfer from Atlanta, where he had been fined since being recaptured in Muncie, In- diana, was effected with the utmost secrecy -as 1t was belieyed that an onnecticut to Await Trial in March | Policeman Skelly prison authorities are believed to have breathed a sigh of relief when | the door of a ccll at Wethersfield | clanged behind their famous pris. oner. State's Attorney Hugh M. Alcorn | told the Herald this afternoon that did not wish to prediet his next | move. It is thought that one of | the first moves made by the stato will be to establish the identity of Chapman as the man who was with Walter J, Shean of Springfield, Mass., when the Davidson & Leven- thal store in this city was burglar. fzed and when Policeman Skelly was shot, Chief Willlam C. Hart of the New attempt to rescue him’ might oe made by his pals if the time of his departure were announced, Federal Jack Nutting, 12, Son Of Missing Sea Adventurer, Reported Stolen Britain police recelved official no- tice this afternoon ‘that Chapman was behind bars at Wethersfield. Jacksonville Police Asked to Aid in Locating Boy—New | York Friends Say Youngster Was Affected With “‘ulllns from tion of the Lincoin| St. Augustine, Fla., Feb, 5.—Dis- appearance of Jack Nutting, 12 year old son of Captain Willlam | Nutting of New York Arctic explor- er, yachtsman and author, was made public today when Jacksonville po- lice were asked to aid St. Augustine authorities in - apprehending four men believed to have kidnaped the boy. The boy failed to return home from St. Joseph's Academy five days ago. Yesterday his mother sald she saw him driving an which thers were four men. When she, called to him, she sald, she heard one of the men say “step on it, son,” ed. One of the kidnapers is said to be a man who entertained the boy at motion picture theatre scveral times last summer in New York, while residing in the same hotel with Mrs. | | Nutting and her two chiidren. that time, according to. Mrs. Nntt- |ing, the “man’s infjnence oter the |boy seemed undesivable and Jack | was forbidden to see him. Two days before his disappear- ance the boy failed to return home [for tunch and later told his mothe that he had lunched with tbe same the Wanderlust That Gripped His Father. automobile in | and the machine disappear- | At | man in St. Augustine. Again he forbidden to s man, Jacksonville, Fla., Feb Average Daily Circulation For e - 11,642 NATURE ENTOMBS | NAVAL OFFICERS FREE To COLLINS JUST AS | EXPRESS VIEWS FULLY, IS ESCAPE WAS NEAR Earth and Tunnel From Above 15 Tast Chance of Salvation —_— Y.ORK OF RESCUERS MAY BRING ON FATAL SLIDE | N0 ONE IS SUSPECTED | Peculiar Swelling of Earth in Cave Blocks Entrance and May Even Now Be Crushing Out Life of Vie- tim, if He Still Lives—Father of Prisoner Has Spent All His Sav- ings Furnishing Supplics, By The Associ, A Presa ., Feb. 5.—An ap- peal for funds to supply food ang| clothing to workers to free Floyd his entombment nd was issued to T Collins, the imprigoned man’s father has exhausted all of his money in'| purchasing overalls, coffec and food, it was stated. Sealed in the Cave Collins has been pormgnently en- | tombed in his S8and Cave prison 12 | feet underground by a rise in the floor of the cave and all hopes of escape through any natural passage | have been abandoned. Only One Chance today were asked to gustine police in arresting a who yesterday was reported to have | kidnapped Jack Nutting, aged 12, son of Captain William Nutting o pNew York city. Mrs, \ulllng and her son were in | St. Augustine to spend the wini | New York, T k Nutting, 12 year old boy reported kidnapped in Florida, is the son of William | Washburn Nutting, commodore of the Cruising Club of America, who been missing since September 5, | | when he sailed with three aom panions from Reykjavik, Iceland n\‘ the 40-foot sloop Leif Ericsson to follow the trail of the Vikings. | Friends here described the boy as | {affected by the wanderlust which | gripped Dis father, and said the lad | had, occasionally - departed from home for shiopt "cursluns inta, near- by territory. i Mrs, Nutting remained here until after the disappearance (wr ]mr hns band until January 5, whe t with Jack and Lea, a rmug‘xlm, about five years old, for Florida, " DRIVEN 8 MILES WITH BULLET IN HIS BACK \York State Farmer, Al- | though Paralyzed, Has Chance for Life was expressed over the condition of | | the school building. it i difficult ventilating system is very poor, it i 6aid. The school is conside crowded t has been necessary to house a large number of the children | or &ix | rs. There s a strong the erection’ of a new g should be begun at new plot of land pur- or seven yea ng that once upon to Investigate | chased by the school board last year | cartridge cn Steele str The following petition sent to the echool board: “Voted: “That ciutio that t 1001 bu has been the Parents and of the Lincoln school be- is urgent need for a lding in this district, a. Neve new and named as to act with the officers | ociation and the principal | with a view to secur- W. . Attwood, Dr. Gertrude icarge Taylor, Judd, C. Germond, Mrs. Robert T. 1. Chamber- it the foilowing a commilt of the as he school h a buildi sartlett, ing suc William 1 W. I‘w Marsh Humphrey, Dr. M. L. nditlons at the been partially the removal there room build: 1H Monroc "8l 14 rooms, but 10 rooms in able schoo mmodation: q Monroe sc relieved b portable t 1y located & The enrol is large er wheneas the the - bullding avith two rooms and acc for 80 pupils, has eomewhat reduce the pressure. The in connection wi have been © the front of make room f will be L ing. Ice Houses Burned With Loss Totalling %100 000 | Arlington, Mass, I The rarge -houses of th ,\mngtnw Be H\H\M [4 ¢ Company here were des- troyed by fire at $1 I local force. It was believed that the originated M a boiler room. v of a at th ment In th ugh to are the o Osgoo port h the Stanle school property the addition whic to the main build- today 000, Firemen from and Medford tire iven upon com- | hers' | two portable bulldings used | rom the rear to| with Joss esti- | | Pean Ya b ~—Harry | Cole, a farmer of Crosby on Keuka | Lake, is in a Penn Yan hospital to- ably over- | day with a chance for his life after | having spent nine hours with a bul- let in his back making the cights mile trip through snowdrif ed roads [to this village. | Cole's 13-year-old son afternoon was cleaning a rifle which lie thought was mot loaded. A in the rifie exploded, the yesterday builet striking Cole, by. A wide leather belt the farmer s believed to have his life. The bullet passed through the belt. Immediate paralysis below the waist was caused | Sixteen horses. working in shifts, | were used in bringing Cole to the | hospital. Snow here is three feet | deep on the level, with the highways entirely dri '\ln(‘ Year Old C Inld Is | Killed by \uto Truck | Waterbury, ¥ lv\ | cis Onors of Main etreet, Wa- | | tertown, ruck and kitlvd today | by & truck owned by t cut Oil Co. and operat Hannon at 10:30. { curred a : and | Watertown, near the h the lad att o was sliding 1 and f ad been to use the worn by saved s. w tripp un poste hi hidding NE \\ |(\[\I() \I \Iln\ Chicago, ) station, to be known az WHT, be on the air shortly. It w the Wrigley building. William Hale Thompson, former m of ¢ cago, whose initials make up the station's call, is president of the op- erating corporation. radio will MACAULEY-CONNER |n\ mes McHugh @ her sister, A K.Macau ley left Wed P— THE WEATHER Hartford, Feb, 5.—Forceast || for New Brifain and icinity: || Fair tonight and Friday; Warmer tonight. i 8 2 who was near- | 1l be in | i 1 liARVEY’S BONDS OF $13,000 ARE Fl]RFElTEI] | %Bench Warrant for Arr 1 When He Does Not Ap- { pear for Sentence | | New York, Feb. A be {rant for Marcus A. Garvey sued by I'ederal Judge Hand today when the president of the Afr | under conviction for us to defraud, failed to app | tence. | Fifteen thousand dollars Amy Jacques rdercd Is and agents of styled republic, | nished by neglo’s wife, was |and federal mar the department of warra stice were | dered to serve the Garvey was to I before noon. Wher pear, federal rne | bench warrant, saying they formation that Garvey had troit yester 1 was here at m. He lappear in c however. | tian uit court rrendered failed*to ap- vs a De- expected failed to Garvey's con was red upheld by the ci a He five years and to pay HELD FOR LARGENY Two Boston Women Arrested in New was & a York, Charged With $12,000 Bond Innocence. Theft—Protest New York, Fel and Zetta May of Boston, were court today as fu, more where they n on with a §1 After Magistrat placed them in custody offl v gald they extradition | The defendants ary 29, Insisted they in Baltimore. Mrs | she had taken two $1,0( | collateral for a loan in Bostor bonds, aecording to Baltimc were among rities t city Janu Th 1 they came Gallag Forting of Baltimore would fight arrest 3 1d never been lagher said bonds as e N po- n wom- mil- | ry 14 here to buy | was a Left Toyr trips into th ca have man | oonvinced the geologist, coal miners | Who died. and military authorities in charge of | the work that their only chance to | reach Cpllins s by sinking a shaft from the top of the hill and ng to tunne! to the imprisoned mdn Any attempt to mine into the cave probably will be fatal to Collins, it eed, but the plan adopt- ed as a last resort and Major W. H Cher the governor's agent, has been sent in an automobile with in- structions to get mine machinery wherever any can be found. Cave Floor Rises low rising of the floor within began shortly after mid- The the'covern night, A resque crew, which entered at 1 a. m,, found that the floor ap ently had swollen from below at the innermost squeeze only a few feet | from Collins. (Continued on 2 11) MAY PAY WITH LIFE FOR HIS DISCOVERY Floyd (ollms, Cave E: plorer, Had Achieved Great Ambition Sand ( oyd Colli y explo hoyhood, b cave sinee a wonde cave lost his in the warned by na t mhay mpt who dared ul 1sms, pass; in scarch or-| o as now. him captive Competition region wa find a natural Cave City, the ne beantiful W “ave to at the inr tuous passa than a man's s cave. He w was canght haif standing, half murky pas deavors to rescuc many of them ex; tried every corlcei saving him Man devices were valu plied a means ¢ sageway ox | use, W cel jay at his Owing to the rnor Simeon brating his $sth t | home in this city to ex-gove which has preve la customed the day home. Ay state of the was passed quictly at his In the down to Collins when they n was lying betw on his foot, narrow for human bei srevent The sandstone formatior An unt 100 pass, t and ¢ erous. | IN POISON (ASES Ohio State Univ. Cerfain Strych- nine Was Given Purposely Sixty Medical Students Being Exam- | Incd In Mystery Case But No Clue | Is Found—>More of ¥atal Drug s | ¥ound By Teacher, [ | Columbus, Ohio, Feb, 5. today was called apon to unravel the mysteries of its own teachings and furnish a solution to the doling out | | | | | Science SEC. WILBUR'S STATEMENT ' Seems Permanently Sealed mMURflERflUS INTEN’[ Tells House Aircraft Committee That They Have Not Been ged, As Claims Have 1 Been Made. | Insists However, That Cone fidential Information Be Withheld — Navy Dept. Accused of Deceit, Washington, Feb, 8. —The house |alreraft committee which 1s conside |of death-laden concoctions to Ohio | | e ( | Police and prot faced {not only with determining the cause for the death of two students and sudden and mysterious illness of a half dozen others, but must find a | motive for crime if it is found that | poison capsules were intentionall administered to the vietims. | Analysis has revealed that strych- nine caused itiness of some of the students and traces of the poison were found in the vital organs of one State university students, ors are Knowing these facts, the authori- | for a might killing: search vho of ties have begun to | youthful “intellectual” have killed for the j | who Imly admin | determine its effect | There is no motive, officials agree. No Clues As Yet Sixty students in the medicinal de- partment are to be questioned hut little hope is held that any worth while information will he gained. Police believe that a person know- ing how to administer the poison might be artful enou, to evade ons. Suspicion is directed towar ! one, police and university o insist. The has not adv [ to that stage Officials have the facts are m All that is k gh ! s need | only the facts—und ywn is that Chinrles ering cparges that amry and navy officers are gagged by superiors on questions of military policy, was informed by Secretary Wilbur todly that naval officers are free to'exs press their views full I wish to assure you,” the secre- tary sald in a letter to Chairman Lampert of the committee, “that they aré perfectly free to state fully and y all facts within their knowledge not of a confidential or et charcter and fully to express their opinions on any matters into {which your committee desires to fn- | ered poison 1o | F. Huls, \' Logan, Ohio, and David | are dead Har- nton, Ohio, orge B. Thompson, P and that ¢ “Intent” Is Evident s motive has been elim- ccident theory is dis luctions have led offi jeve poison was adminis- tered \\u‘w deliberate intent. They |are convinced that the “intent” was from within the university. 1t such proves to he scientific knowledge must the workings of a diseased mind to reach any worth while conclusion, | authoriti A new hottle presence of which was discovered last night by Dean €lair A. Dye of the College of Pharmacy at Ohio State ty. in check stock. The grains univ a of the Dr. n’vhw\mv casioned of two students at t one of whom is known to ! returne by tl unive ol death e ‘!v‘ v 1 to ter midnig hnine poisoning, sary shortly a the entire 1t out of sit filled of str; the disper stock yund the half © polson got there He Colleg not know. has SETTLES FOR §15,000 Against Sufficld Case People Drop Connecticut Company on Payment of Heavy Damages. b quire, Reported As Afraid Yesterday the committee was told Perkins, repubs that three naval officers had 'asked to be excused from testifying because of a fear of disciplinary mecasures, and that he had been informed that Rear Ad= sniral Moffett, the navy's chiet of aeronautics, might lose his post be- cause of his persistent efforts for a larger alr force. My, Wilbur's letter was placed be= fore the committee at a session call= ed to consider resolution which wonld express dissent from any plan to deprive Brigadier General Mitchs ell of reappointthent as assistant chief of the army air service. : The re\p ointment is being held Wecks pending an nation of some of the gener- ‘s statemehts on aviation polleles. After referring to the three unm- d navy officers who were. said to have asked that they be not sum- moned, Secretary Wilbur's said: “I wish to assure you and the members of your committee that the s of these officers as thus ex- sed are entirely unfounded. aval officers are constantly ap- ng before the committees of 1lly advised as to y fully and com- pletely to the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth in re- sponse to the questions of congres- sional comimittees or members thereof. ) “Of course, naval officers, like rs and doctors, have confided to them certain confidential informa= tion which cannot be released by em without voilating a fundamen~ 1 duty of their confidential posi- tion; unless such information is given with the consent of the de- partment. ® Personal il o New Jer: up | exp! their duty to K. ir own, atters COH-\ they are state those at variance Views O. bl i g asked perso o m rvice, liberty to n if they b plans of the department. rt in such cases, hows be > clear by > is not giving the rent but his because part to ms as those officers, but not even inferen- committee by the velws ws of Ve with the ay that h ma \is not on his op ling, Is Charge subject & »use today, Reps ic of Oklahoma, coms \ offi had mislead the facts bing of naval Boston Hotel Guests Flee Fire in *rflnt\ Clothing ¥ Nearly 200 gnestq e Hoilis hotel in theatrieal the street 1 early today I ling. The members ment at 1 scanty d cd. The: 5 arly 1 to part ISSUE Three mors by the feders ¥ today in cons® yesterdny of e local rall v surrendered harged with -;» laws. BENCH WARRANT! N Haven, Feb w 1 was aition of the liquor