New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 9, 1925, Page 1

News of the ¥* ™ By Associated , ESTABLISHED 1870 " o) ‘pIOJITH ‘o PV m QS NPIUU0) CROOKS STEAL GEMS VALUED AT $40,000 FROM HOME OF MRS P. CORBIN IN FLORIDA Opens Jewel Casket Before Going To Din- ner With Friends And Finds Precious Prop- erty Gone. inkerton Detectives Now On Way to Palm Beach —“Inside Job” Indicated, Local Sleuths Say. Jewelry valued at $40,000 was stolen from the Palm Beach home of Phillp Corbin, vice-president of the American Hardware Corp, some time between January 12 and it became known today., The robbery probably occurring on the alternoon of Saturday, January 17, when Mr. Corbin, who was seriously ill with pnumonia, became delirious and ‘badly gashed himself with a water piteher, leading to the report that he had attempted suicide, The theft was not discovered until January 29, when Mrs. Corbin at- tended a dinner at the home of Mrs, Russell C. Love, this being the first tiine she had been out since her hus. | band’s {llness, When she opened the Jewelry box she found it empty. Detectives Frankling Carty and Willlam A. Casey were notified and they said that the theft was an in- side job, as a professional crook would not have overlooked other jewelry lying in a nearby drawer. This conclusion was reached in a New York investigation, and Pinker- 1on detectives are now on their way to Florida to look into the robbery further, Among the stolen articles were a | pfatinum bracelet set with square cut diamonds and sapphires, and two valuable pins which were heirlooms. The loss was -only partly covered by insurance. Tragedy still continues to dog the Corbin family, Mrs. Corbin narrow- ly escaped serious injury Saturday morning when her automobile was run into by another maclhine oper- | ated by Mrs, Frederick Wads worth, Mrs, Corbin's ed sgainst a tree. and” demolishcd, vut she escaped with minor cuts and bruises. Mg, Corbin and does not know GO-GAS CONPANY HAS GONE TO A RECEIVER| Delaware Corp. Has Many | Stations Operating in This State E. is still eritically i1l of the robbery. New York, ¥eb. 2 CGio-Gas company, a Delaware corporation operating gasoline service stations, was put into the hands of receivers today in an equity action filed in federal court by the city service re- fining company of Boston, a credit- or with a clalm of $164,29 sented by a moftgage on r and service stations in Ne I"ederal Judge Goddard appointed Robert H. Gay of New York and John O'Connell of Wilmington, Del., receivers under bond of §15.000. The liabilitles of the company are esti- mated at $451,229 and the assets ar 34,599,041, state England. a.—Papers filed with the clerk of the U, 8. District court hiere today showed that be- ldes John O'Connell of Wilmington, Del., Harry & Gorton of Norwalk, Conn. had been appointed u receiv- er for the Go-Gas Co. which many ofl stations in this state. Cities Service (o, sets up th holds notes of the Go-Gas (' ed by mortgage of $164,205. bonds of the receivers were at $25.000. was believe that Mr. Gorton would auxillary receiver for cut district of the court and the papers ask authority for the receiv ers to continue doing business in this HOUSE IS ROBBED Men Disguised As State Troopers | Take $7,800 Cash and Keg Wine From New York State Home. Washingtonville, N, , Feb, 9 Meveral men posing as st entered the home of John Row ski. a farmer living near here, last | night when only four children were home and stole $7,800 in cash and a keg of wine, the authorities were in- formed today wife were \isiting relatives at time, The children were prev telephoning while the men were in the house but informed their parents after the impostors left. The vietim told the authorities he left the mon ey in the pockets of a pair of trous- ers and that he had carried t Jarge roll with him for some days to | pay off carpenters who were build- ing a house for him. The authori- tles are checking this bll)l)‘. en, J The it seenr- placed It here ve as OLDEST GRADUATE DIES. Portland, Me Leander M. Nute, t umni of Dart- mouth rc today in his 94th year. Hia college year was 1554 He was widely known as a maker of flae violins, car was dash- has The, e troopere | Rowskowski and his | DR, AHLQUIST FLAYS “SNAPPY’ MAGAZINES Would Drive Out Publica- tions Appealing to Sex Ideas Suggestive sex magazines and sex novels were severely flayed by Rev, A. A. Ahlquist, Ph.D., pastor of the First Lutheran church, who spoke to |the Everyman's Bible class yester- |day morning. Dr. Ahlquist referred to the large numbers of these magazines which | he said were or display on ne: stands and sald & man had to search to find reading matter of the better type. He sald If he had his way he would wipe out all the suggestive type of books and substitute some better material, There were 649 men present, in- cluding between 150 and 200 from the First Lutheran church. The Wennerberg chorus sang threc se lections. | WANTS CENSOR FOR ESTATE OF DAUGHTER IN JAIL Mrs. Mary Hayes Petitions for Ad- ministrator Over Mrs, Helen Pratt, Her Child, ment of an administrator over the estate of her daughter, Mrs. Helen Springficld jail. The action is scheduled for hear- ing in probate court Thureday morn- ing at 9 o'clock and will be contest- ed by Attorney Michael A. Sexton in the interests of Mrs. Pratt, The ap- ing a vicious life and her properties are in danger of being wasted. SENT T0 ASYLUM Cambridge Confessed Murder, Dr. Thiery, Physician Who will Spend Life in Home for Insane. Cambridge, Mass., Feb, -] | Raymoend Thie Somerville ph; | cian, who shot and killed his broth- ast, was committed to the Bridge- | water state hospital for the insune for life by Judge James Sisk in Middlesex county superior court to- day after a jury had returned a (li.w(‘t verdict of ‘ot glliU) of ‘murdnr by reason of insanity."” The accused physician said l((‘l[ neither grief nor remorse he over | the killing of Noble but believed he | {had been directed by a higher T\r\\'-\ ler to perform the act, the assistant | district attorney said. Ha told the | jury that the alienists reported that | Dr. Thiery was insane and had prob- ably been mentally irresponsible )mn‘-‘.\ or his life, {Vandal Ransacks House But Takes No Valuables | An unidentifie] visitor was at the |home of Roderick J, Dixon of YI ton place yesterday morning and {thoroughly ransacked the rooms, but, {1t is understood, left without taking ‘h of the valuables that were on| {the premises, A report made to the police and an investigation is re- ported to be under wa Bordeau Says Conditions |Secretary in Some ing Proprietors Into Feb, 9.—Alpt and treasurer State Commission of Ex Barbers, made it known today |the attention of the hoard of exam- liners has been called several times to conditions in and around many |barber shops in New Britain He stated that the board has taken |cognizance of the complaints and | wiil make a tour of inspection cf the ghops in that eity which will in a claen-up campaign | Members of the board have {working throughqut the |specting £hops and and Ir found it nccessary to threaten dras- nge J of aminers | Plainviile | Bor {the result sanitary co tions many 8 Mr. B s it been necessary to make t to the health auth a shop owner lom, however | states, i campla ities 1o fore to clean his | place up | Mr. Bordeau says that litions |in some of the barbershops in New |1 Imost intolerable. Th this tes governi places states that hus been | kir secifically rtai) standar canliness ita I the must be ohserved red B tion Dritah owners | shops ' New Mrs. Mary Hayes of this city has| filed an application for the a])[loi)\l-; Pratt, who is now confined to the| plicant clalms her daughter is Jead- | | “Itis m o, er-in-law, David M. Noble, August 8 | 13 | Places Warrant Brin;r-} the Connecti- | instances they | NLW BRITAIN LON"IELTILUT MONDAY FEBRUARY RADIO TESTS SHOW COLLINS &EHAPMAN TRAPPEI] MAY STILL LIVE; MEANWHILE BY l]WN OVERSIGHT 'PROBE OF R UMORS IS BEGUN ‘Express Tag on Handbag Led: - Detectives to Indiana City | Military Court to Investi- gate Reports That (1asej Is Hoax and Also That; Man Is Murder Vietim— | Rescue Party Continues | Digging, Hampered by‘ Heavy Rains. By The Assoclated Press, Cave City, Ky., Feb, 9.—TFive elec- trical tests conducted with voice am- [plifiers have convinced H. T. Car- | ‘mlL)I.I’l in charge of the Floyd Col- lins rescue work at Sand Cave that Collins is still alive after 10 days' imprisonment, Thinks He Hears Heart Beat H. G. Lane, Nunfordville, operat- ing the lighting system which sup- plies current for the bulb left & |Collins' head, said Homer Collins, after listening 20 minutes on the |wire, was satisficd he had heard ‘Mn,dq heart beating at the rate of 20 times a minute, Lane said Floyd was breathing | and his heart beating 18 to 21 times a minute. “While we were in the cave we at tempted to compare the breathing of |Homer Collins with that of his im- prisoned brother but we couldn’t do | this successfully because Homer was |50 excited,” T.ane added. The test was made on the wire which had been placed around Col- ! ling' chest last week by rescuer |“Many people on the outside would not believe our test proved Collins was alive,” Lane said, addipg that [he would prove that Colling was alive, | To Probe Rumors Circumstances surrounding the trapping of Floyd Collins in Sand Cave and the efforts of volunteer | rescuers to release him will be made | {the subject of a military court of in- quiry, Brigadier General H., H. Den- hardt, in command of guardsmen here, announced today. To Lay All Suspicions | “I hope by this court of inquiry to | |lay at rest all suspicions, whisper- lings of the efforts to block rescue |work and rumors that Collins’ en- | {trapment was not genuine,” said |General Denhardt. The commander | |said his plans for the military nves- {tigation had been sanctioaud by | |Governor’ Fields and Adjutant Gen- leral Kehoe. | v purpose to determine | exactly why the efforts to re Collins through the natural passage failed” Denhardt continued, “Wheth- er Colling went into Sand Cave |through the regular entrance and was caught coming out and whether | he knew of any other way out are | matters which will be delved into.” Wants All Facts | T have yecelved information that the eye of suspicion has been turn- ed on Kentucky and its officials and |the wonderful cave region by per- Isons unfamiliar with the cave sce- tion. I propose In the inquiry to {bring out every fact. | It is hoped that the findings of the board will be so definite and {thorough from the testimony we |hear that the underground whisper- | ings will he quicted. Every witness will he summoned to testify and will {be heard in full.” { | Members of th wiil be named today. | Hearing At Once The court will be conducted in a |tent at the scene of the rescue work ’Hmr the entrance to Sand Cave. |General Denhardt deemed it advis {able to hold the hearing before Col- [lins' fate has been determined be- d on court probably (Continu Page 11) State Board Will Act Against |"! Insanitary Barber Shops Here ihave prepared their places for the | routine visits of the members of the | |esaminers’ board and after this, | |haven't followed the rules of the in the establishments, Speaking of the barber v Britain Mr. Borde at the ority of the owners conperated with the board in jan excellent manner. In most of the chops In that city, conditions have {been such that it has not been nec “f'.’&nr\' to order the awners to do any {cleaning. In fact few cases which heen i to the attention of the ones the and action if t state ir | ops in | u stated | t ma | have the board owner who have violated |standards consistently 'deau promises drastic do not change their methods. commisioners have the po lask the health department objectionable shops and, the can be called into court for tlon of the sanitation codé He would not when th would he made to New Britain, las the time expires in June m are same er to to close ow viola- | ors say present hoard th visit w ade very COMMITS SUICIDE N. Y., Feb, 9.- > Mee { Saratoga Spring per ging civilian commirt toda Lis office grounds, son for his act a suiclde himself | Yried uld give He was unm JUMPS 19 FLOORS TO DEATH New York, 9.—J bottom Rams urseryman Jumping peommi lay by ron \ w T 19 OT n MecAlphin, e had bee at the hotel ‘Eycwltness Declares Na-| | By The Assoclated Press. lot the |in Sand Cave, learned of the military Jlins went down, llittle later (time he was In the | furnish all other necessit I'cbruary 4. i) tives of Cave City Inter- MYSTERY WOMAN IN CASE fered With Rescue Work | —Hints That Volunteers | ‘ Had Been Drinking— | Questions Whether ori ot They Really Did Aid. R. Corresponded — With Bandit and Sent Him Money, A small pasted on the | found in | Ad i1 Louisville, eb. 9. — When|anq o ) iy |nul(nml Robe n A, ]!mrlfm, one of | () |y the predicament o vm_\‘l Collins ()0 capture of Gerald Chapman, per bandit, awaiting trial at Wethersficld prison for murder of Pa in the Davidson & ment store on the American Express the office of the compa ong, tedious detectives at inquiry ordered by Licutenant Gov- ernor Denhardt today, he was em- phatic in his assertions that therc {had been definite opposition to the [rescue of Collins by some of the na- tives while lie was there early last mor 1t was left for the clue the small tag to “turn up” sought convict and alleged murde when the combined efforts and state police, post office tors throughout the country and | department of | their efforts to trace ven "pon going back to the eave Wednesday morning,” said Lieuten- ant Burdon, fter resting from our tremendous efforts with the jack un- der the boulder Tuesc evening, they told me there had been a cave in that had blocked the passage and that I couldn’t go in, They wouldn’'t let me get by. Miller's Weird Experience “Skeets Miller managed to sllp‘ past them and he and Homer Col- When he came out he was looking more scared than 1 ever saw him during the whole time, | His n s bleeding. “He wouldn't tell me what m\,“\m the matter but told me not to go hack in there and to see that Homer Collins didn't go in again. “He went back :n by to take the back and T think that was the cave.” Had Been Drinkin ate in the afternoon I Theard somebody calling for me. T was told | that T could go back In the cave if | ¢pi 1 wanted to now and that they had | leads the | woman was not bandit but wa qmnf other wi In one of the letters written Chapman, he is quoted sce !Mu,u are not going so w New Britain.” This is the justice ¥egg | from the Atian ary two ycars ago. Woman in the Case Disclosures a reve ence of a woman in t though her position clearly defin ed to in t Beeswas,” | wife of a prominent 1., business man who himselt a | PeBUIar correspond telephone | man, and who within Jast | Sent him about $2,000 {ten by Chapman to the lin the hands of the st It is said yesterday complete lack of sentiment This lack of police to believe that a sweeheart of S0 al the has not ¥ disclosure, to be Proviience, has been with Ch six we Letters w woman is said ((.Onlll\ur‘rl on I‘:\gh 11) AMERICAN RED CROSS GUARANTEES T0 PAY 'Will Finance Collins’ Re: cue Work—New Fissure Discovered Today lettr letters tained inwny of tie the voman. The signed “W.” and it is woman knew Cl e name of Waldo W. he used stay in » the acquaintan promi \pman fi name montl | wh Springfield, Ma man of Washington, Feb. 9 oA can Red Cro y assumed th tire expense roviding mater needed to rescue 1 Col tombed in Sand Cay {yv. Drilling machines and men to work them are being donated by pri vate firms, but the Red ( - murde ct. hean has giv | much valn | Chapman, his confession giving local po tp partner in the local hurglary and man who had Skelly blood when the additional appropriation for this' him' in the store, 5 rpose was authorized today Ty s T Gl 23 v case of the stat inst toq hrene has heen built aroy City, Ky., Feb. 9.—Work w36 | who has not cd today on a the murder cha wvered some i) to Sand g I8 entombEtl, is disposed of 1 At the connt Jame: r as an accessory ins, en- nformation e first s will s and an shot wag up IS e i fissure, Witdlies st the mur nce Cave 3 which D. , helieves may ine ‘unkhe prove porte over “face rge. sy e e No#ip From Pal n T When €1 Muncie, reported apn e mai mo former crony | Ied to his cap 1efinit mored,” locs ne Monday Shcor tine that Co I will grand j st ins pr Glasg ed to him might 3 that 1] that Collin Nand Cave mprisoned in 1 revolver a quantity of 1 to be burglary ur expensive ¥ (Continued on Pag ' Widow of Gen. Hawley Dies ord v, widow Hav United te Wi in d was bu Civil war States mid THE WEATHLER Washington, I added c eb. tor New Britain and Rain tonight and mornin Colder vicin- proba- warm Tucsday ity bly er Tuesday tonight; [ , 1026, bottom of a suite Shean s saying 1 in authoritic about ot Mrs, Beeswits,” Wife of Providence, I, Business Man, Said to Have | Notorious 156 1wy in Springfield, months address 2 for the —SIXTEEN PAGES. | | | | T —— Average Daily Circulation For Week Ending l l ,685| i Feb, Tth , ... PRICE THRLh CENTS TWO KILLED, MORE THAN 50 HURT ON NEW YORK TRANSIT LINES IN SERIES OF CRASHES DURING FOG SPECIAL PRIVILEGES Obscuring Mists Also | SODATLL S, PRISON Tie Up Harbor Ship- Goes to Jail But Won't Pay His Tax Hamden, 1eb, 9.— Frank De- luecia, fined In town court for re- the | olman James Skelly Leventhal depart- ing of Ocf to- by the long rer the al- wom as ‘LIFE INSURANGE 1S of city | inspe had failed in | entleman escape ederal penitentl- all membe {taken today when s attorney that there is the tenderness the the attachied to him in by into the only ref- erence to™New Britain that was con- sent to were his four Ge! of: 11 in co policeman surprised hor ipman n indicted on \hfldlf' Liner ¥ fusal to pay his personal tax, to- day declared that he would go to jafl rather than pay ft committed to jail until he pays it | ping And Ocean Lin- : Priest, Former Chaplain ers Postpone Their s o snelien t']!;vllv‘:;‘l at Atlanta, Admits sald he was poverty stricken and Aiding in Graft Departures. had to have a gun and a dog to wolf from lis was fiied $1 on each against him and then whole sum with costs. Conditions Exist All Along Atlantic Coast and Norfolk Ferryhoats Collide in Mid-Stream. He complaint paid tho laor., Similar artain and L. flicials of 1t nitentiary and Columbus, () Hayden, former Cath- at prison, today rticipated in a con- Sa Fletcher and privileges | Lawr lm‘w lic ct ,‘ Un the spiracy with = Riehl to scll he institution .\*wr the convict men in the Savannah (font’erence of .\ll Natiuns‘. posure in 1 to Be Held to Decide e Upon This Matter clal LABOR'S NEXT MUVE at! New. York, Feb, 9.—Two men Killed and more than 60 per- sons were hurt In a series of col- fons on New York's transit lines while one of the heaviest fogs years enveloped the city. Harbor and river {raflic was virtu- iy stopped as results of the lower- ing fog that clung close to the sur- e of the water, The fog was re- S D G GH vorted general, extending along most Iniallanta) the fres ; of the Atlantic scaboard and affect- nthodnent ey Wt ing shipping over a wide arca. d them. At this time, he con- __ Elevated Hits Subway h R LR bl arly reports indicated that the e 5 sk t serfous of the series of aceil lo heineld for dents on the city's transit lines oce where an ele- 10 0R 12 DIE DALY St vated train s ed ain on the elevated | This Is the Toll of Moonshine Whis- by Two were known to have fed- | n of several rings” said had G 24, Hayden Fle t | offe | ments and that the money should be Kept from “outsiders.” Hayden said he Braughn, one of the er step hich the ation of Labor hopes toward a vast project by L American Fe to provide life insnrz polictes for rs of organized labor was the members of the federation’s executive council de- | cided to call a confe liated stion in detail cemc ma en, president of the at the end of today confere probably 1 in Washin he time to be chic uce question 1 to the ncil by the El Paso convention. committe cnce of the been killed in this collision, while the estimate of injured ran well above forty. Women Trampled Several women were reported to ve been knocked to the floor and 12| trampled when panic seized the “ crowd in a car on the forward train liquor | in the Corona line collision. This HiTe S agy | WEs ved due to a report that the Train guards Patton today at leath of Charles fears of the 1 liquor. 1y other ez not (dqEq, “wher s icians and where, out ati death fs dise or kidney be inter lelphians arc by the poison heads of its union to iam key in Philadelphia, Coroner Re- eration, E n. | WO be lded, at a > life in- ports At Inquest Today. b Pt 9.—Ten due to dr hine or later. k- 1S T 100 car had quickly stille crowe come da ypointed to work | ¢ S ite yroner H. C “fhere Y L Two Brooklyn Crashes wére two accidents suburbs, Two trains of the an Transit Co, of line came togethe: inflicting in- and women e Corona line, near Long Island a steel train of the I R. T. d into the rear of a wooden the Brooklyn-Manhattan Co., injurying half a dozen It is estimated that these recks ted fully 40,000 , fic on both lines ied up for ho Street Car Accident surface car accident added to eneral confusion. 1'our persons tnjured when 1vo cars came or due to slipp fog waa teporied oneof the ‘s history and w the weather ir combination change from the the vecorde B «d by ph ing to hanisiol hands o year wae | stop at nott were togetl The worst Race Between Airplane And Dog Teams To Nome Startmg Today : warm, covering absence of wind. low fog that clung eartll's surface, Both Are .\‘pecrling Anti- toxin to Stricken City— Temperature 35 Below it Subu ez Prepare to .. : / 5 (hiitransI ot T t 9 1in bound for iries added Zero as Fliex Hop Off. prift bown River their and down n ft t finally o< One Hand upper W Luisa Garvis Minne- itsch Stock- Cun- and muda cted that this after- Reward Is Planned speed Relays x accident motorman ains, and tendant in sions. 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