New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 13, 1925, Page 1

rr———— News of the World By Associated Press ARSI MBI LI | Eaaee e e ———————— ESTABLISHED 1870 . . 0] P10 mdad Lre1qv] CHAPMAN'S TRIAL T0 BEGIN MARCH 24; ACCUSED HAS NO INTEREST IN PROCEEDINGS Has Nothing To Say When Asked His Views As To Date But Says He Has Not Talked Much With Lawyer. Shean, His Alleged Accom- plice in New Britain Robbery-Murder Is in Court Room When To- day’s Hearing Takes Place. Hartford, Feb, 13.-—A writ of habeas corpus by which the state | of Connecticut will establish its legal custody of Gerald Chapman, the bandit, was issued in superior court today and Chapman was pre- sented in court this afternoon for a hearing. On instructions from the attorney general at Washingtoit, U. 8. Dis- trict Attorney John Buckley agreed to the cxecution of the writ. Application for the writ was made today by State’s Attorney Hugh M. ! Alcorn who next month will conduct | the prosecution of Chapman now under indictment for the murder of Policeman Skelly of New Britain last October. Shean Also There The plan was to have Chapman brought into court this afternoon by Warden Scott of the Wethersfield state pr.son, Mr. Scott acting as an agent of the federal government. Walter E. Shean of Springfield, held at the county jail since the attempt- ed burglary iu New Brifain and who says Chapmau was his companion at the time, was also in court. Chapman was produced in court 2t 1:20 p. m, Mr. Aleorn announced that he had been produced in com- pliance with the writ of habeas cor- pus issued by Judge Jennings. The assistant clerk, Lucius Fuller then read the indictment of the grand jury charging Chapman with the murder of Policeman James Skelly of New Britain on October | 12, 1924, When the indictment hz\di been read Mr. Alcorn ordered a plea of not guiity to be entered, and this was done. Mr. Alcorn asked Chap- man if he had counsel. Chapman re- plied: | | Chapman Statements i “Yes, but I haven't had a chance | (Continueé on Page Twenty-one) GIRL CLERK TAKEN T0 IDENTIFY CHAPMAN, Miss Larson May Strength- | en State’s Case Against Bandit Miss Edith Larson, an employe of | the Davidson & Leventhal depart- | ment store, was taken to Hartford this afternoon by Chief Willlam C. Hart and Detective Sergeant Wil- liam P. McCue, the purpose of the trip not being announced by the po- Yce. It is believed that Miss Larson will be called upon by the police to | say whether Chapman was the man | she saw removing the screws from a | lock on one of the front doors of the | store on October 11, the day before the burglary. It is understood that State’s At- torney Hugh M. Alcorn, County De- | tective Edward Hickey and the two local police officials will have their first conference with Chapman since his arrival at.the Wethersfield state | prison. No explanation for the ap-| pearance of Walter-E. Shean at the | arraignment of Chapman this after- | noon was forthcoming, and it is be- | lieved that his presence was for | turther identifying the bandit. He also will probably present when Chapman ls inter viewed. Sisters Rescue Workmen | Pinned in Wreckage New Haven, Feb. 13.—Louis Da- more of 21 Filmore street and H. Grossi of 128 Putnam street, work- men, were painfully injured and | taken to a hospital this noon when | caught under a floor which collapse in the new 8t. John's parochial | school under construction in ) street. They were rescued by ters in the old parochial school. Murdered Five, Confesses, } Pays Death Penalty Today | Wheaton, 11, Feb, —John | Kammerer, aged nged | here today for the murder of a fam- | fiy of five at Villa P.rk, June 2 1924. Previous t the execution, | Kammerer gave authorities a complete confession in which he told of siaying Otto Eder, his wife and three sons, after & asarrel with the father. o 'R X REVEALED AS PRIVATE AGENT Not on City Payroll, Mayor Paonessa Declares Today RUMORS REPORTED FALSE Gossip About Police And Firemen Sald to Be Unfounded — Tnves- tigator Has Court Record, Author~ ities In Other Cities Claim. “Mr. X" is unmasked. The mysterious investigator who has been checking up on rumors af- fecting the police and fire depart- ments as the personal representative of Mayor A. M. Paonessa, is Roy I Millon, who claims to be an out of town newspaperman. His home is on Allen avenue, Meriden, but the newspaper i8 located in another Con- necticut city. When Millon came to New Britain a few weeks ago to run down stories ol alleged misconduct and malfea- sance on the part of firemen and po- licemen he was not acquainted with Mayor Paonessa, it 1s said. He was not brought here by the mayor. He conflded to an attorney that he was here for the purpose of investigats ing conditions in the departments and he related so many tldbits of gossip that the attorney thought the mayor should be advised. Millon was introduced to the mayor and proceeded to relate what he heard. The mayor is reported to have de- cided that a thorough Investigation of the stories should be made and is said to have told Millon to go at full speed and dig deep. If Millon is to be remunerated, his compensation will be from the mayor's own pock- ethook. The mavor sald today that Millon is not on the city payroll, Acted as Police Agent Million has already acted as a po- tige agent in two raids, it e said, at least one involving a disorderly house, The fee for acting as poiice agent is $10 a case, Tt {s sald that he visited one place and signalled to the police outside so they were able to break in and make a number of arrests, According to rumors, the investi- gator was told that firemen were seiling booze and that one police of- ficer was protecting a woman whose house was under suspiclon. It fis stated that Millon has been unable to securé any e\'idence_ to confirm these stories. The kno sledge that Mayor Pao- nessa had a private investigator run- ning down defamatory rumors has caused no little disturbance in the police and fire departments during the past few days. The mayor would not admit today that Millon is work- ing for him. He had nothing to say about the case. Chief Hart refused to make any comment yesterday al- though it is belicved that he was aware of Millon's purpose. It is said that Millon has made the statement that he is a lawyer. He is not listed as an attorney in the Meriden city directory. A man who said his \name was [Millon went to the home of a room- ing house keeper on Main street a tew days ago. He represented him- self as coming from the office of the mayor and said he wanted to fnves- tigate a complaint against a police- man which was made by a woman rooming in the house, Man Named Millon Has Court 7 Record Upon learning the name of the erious “Mr, X" an investigation was conducted by the Herald to learn more about him and to as- certain which of the professions he claims to follow was the correct one, In the Meriden directory, the name of Roy 1. Millon appears, but no oc- cupation is listed with his name. A perusal of the list of lawyers in the city falled to reveal his name. The Meriden police were called and when asked if they anything of a oy 1. Millon who lives in that city, they replied in the affirmative. The Herald w in- formed that he had heen arrested in that city on three pm‘:\sinnt, once for eckless driving, once for assault, nd once for the Middlstown police on a charge of fraud by passing a worthless check. The court record at Middletown reveals that in April, 1921, Roy T Millon of Meriden, m then {Continued on Page Twenty-one) COMMITS SUICIDE Treasurer of Fampton, N. H., School District, Short $10,000 in Accounts, Takes,His Cwn fare, 1., Feb. 13—Edward er of the Hampton | committed suicide early today by inhaling gas. audit of his account recently dis- closed a shortage of $10,000, town officials said. An attachment was levied yester- 7,| day on Brown's property here be-| White House took steps to run down cause of the alleged shortage, and a deputy sk was on his way to Portsmouth to attach a bank account and a camp owned by tire treasurer when news was received of his death. He had held the office two yease knew | An| ALL HOPE OF NEW TUNNEL T0 GAVE NOW 15 GIVEN UP Cannot Reach Collins Inside of Two or Threg Days, Explora- tion Official Declares SHAFT DISCOVERED TODAY PROVES DISAPPOINTHENT For Time It Was Thought Collins Would Be Reached Within the Day and Doctors and Nurses Were Prepared For That Might Rushed to Scene, Any Emergency Arise, By The Assoclated Prees. Cave City, Feb, 13.—H, T, Car- michael in charge of operations and other officlals, who went down into the shaft being dug towards Sand Cave, where I'loyd Collins has been imprisoned for two weeks, came out of the shaft at 1 o'clock this after- noon and announced that the hope of rescuing Collins through a tunnel discovered in the shaft 50 feet down would have to be abandoned. The tunnel exploration failed to dis- close a passageway. Digging was resumed in the bot- tom of the shaft itself and Car- miclwel said it probably would take two or three days to reach the 70 foot level where they plan to begin lateral tunnels in an effort to strike Sand Cave. Are Discouraged The failure of the high hopes ralsed by finding of this tunnel no- ticeably discouraged the officlals of the rescue party, but *digging as usual” began at once, in the hope of finding a more promising cavern. | The drill hole In the center of the | shaft has gone to 70 feet without penetrating a limestone roof but an- other more penetrable cavern may | be discovered in the side wall as the | one found this morning. The hours of exploration were tense for the miners and spectators tand when hopes faded, the chances of extricating Collins alive were ad- mittedly greatly reduced.. The 70 foot level if no promising crevices are encounteréd on the way,doyn, {will not be reached until Tuesday, Carmichael said, because of increas- | ing difficulties. The& depth of the shaft was 560 feet at 1 o'clock. Car- michael admitted he still clung to the hope that a cavern or tunnel will be found again in the side wall be- {fore the 70 foot level is reached by the shaft. ! Early Morning Hopes H. T. Carmichael and two miners at 10 o'clock this morning began | exploration of a tunnel discovered early today in the side of the Sand | Cave rescue shaft. All spectators and reporters were ordered away from the mouth of the shaft to the | top of a hill a hundred feet or more | distant. Homer Collins, younger brother of | the imprisoned man, came out of | the rescue shaft at 10:45 a. m. and | said: - | “I have great hopes.” At that time no one had entered | the newly discovered tunnel. Additional timber was being taken | into the shaft a short time after the newspapermen and some 200 spec- tators were herded together at the top of the hill. Doctor is Ready Dr. William Hazlett of Chicago in charge of the medical preparations for attending Floyd Collins, if he is| found with even a faint spark of life | at 10 o'clock had completed appar- | ently every possible preparation. Dr. Hazlett is to be sent down into the tunnel as soon as Collins is Jocated, to determine if he is dead or allve, before any attempt is made to re-| move him. A report spread to the crowd as the timber was being taken down trat a lateral tunnel was being| started. No official word to this ef- fect has been made public other than a slatement made yesterday by the rescue workers that such wa their intentions if necessary. | Dr. William Hazlett of Chicago | left his room at a hotel in Cave City for the tunnel shortly before 11 o'clock. | The Red Cross reprggentatives | were instructed to be ready for any emergency, The military board of | inquiry at Cave City adjourned un- til 2 o’clock and tho members went | to the cave. Brig. Gen. Denhart, in command of the situation, said the | court adjourned because several witnesses called for this morning were actively on duty at the cave. News by Radio | Radio station BRK 9 was in- stalled during the night by the| Louisville Post and Herald, on the| hill overlooking the rescue shaft.| (Continued on Page Twenty-one) | | | fearing she would inform her par- | covered by insyra KING OF GYPSIES PUTS ON FORTUNE TELLING QUEENS Also Recommends That His Subjects Settle Down and Send Their Children to School—His Highness Him- self Wears Long Trousers and No Crown, New York, Feb, 13.—King Frank, newly crowned monarch of the gyp- sies in Amerlca has announced as the keynote of his policy the decrce that his subjects must stop fortune telling. He also advocates that his people settle down, vote and send | thelr children to school. ! Thus the king, whose title and Jurisdletion are based on customs and laws extending back to the mid- dle ages, advocates the abolishment of customs that the gypsies have followed for centuries, The Kking himself 1s quite a modern person, who wears long trousers and no crown, and {8 known in private life as Frank Mitcheil. His symbols of sovercignty are a ball and sceptre and a gold plated round hat. He liveg in a teeming Manhattan street. | | | “By Jove, It’s Fine Stuff,” Says Finder s A case of Scotch whiskey with 12 full bottles was found im- bedded iIn the sand at Osprey Beach, near New ILondon last night, according to information procured today from the wife of one of the finders, Several empty cases were seen floating about near shore. The finders were keepers and split the case equally between them according to the informant, whose father- in-law vouched for the whiskey's authenticity by declaring en- thusiastically: “By Jove, it was fine stuff, I haven't slept so fine in years."” 29 YEAR OLD MAN HELD | FOR SLAYING GIRL OF 11 Coleman, Michigan, Police Say Su- spect Has Confessed Killing I"ol-{ lowed Assault. ! Coleman, Mich., Feb. 13.—Mar- | guerite, 11 year old daughter of Mrs, | and Mrs. Martin Todd, living near | here, was stabbed to death on her i way- home from school late yester- | 1daL,-, it was learned today with the | Stamford, Conn., whi arrest ofVictor Badgeley, 29. Thomas Balley said Badgeley confessed killing the girl pocketknife, Badgeley was taken to the City jail this morning and formal charged with the girl's murder. Sheriff Bailey and Prosecutor B. | B. Morris of Midland county said Badgeley confessed that he killed the child after an attempted assault | Sheriff had | with a ents, {train on the N, Y. The keynote of the ruler's polley | —the dictum against fortune telling | —18 classed under the head of for- elgn policy, because it is here that King Frank's subjects have their grawt difficulties with the constitu- nts of Uncle Sam, “Ifortune telling for (stop" sald King Frank, his eyes flashing resolutely. - “It must stop entirely. It has practically stopped already.” “Another thing I want fo do is to Americanize my people, They wan- der too much, They should sett vote and send their children to school. They are fine mechanica, When they wander they are ac- cused of evemything. It is ail false. But they will have a bad name as long as they wander.” § TUMBLE FROM TRAIN KILLS HARTFORD MAN John F. Carey, Amnesia Victim, Only Yesterday Identified by Wife fees must Stamford, I"eb, 13.—John F. Carey of 217 Retreat Hartford, who jumped or fell through the lav- atory window of a moving express H. and H. rail- road near here last night, died at the Stamford hospital at 1:30 this afternoon of injurles to his head. It is belleved his skull was fracture: Carey was being taken from Atlan- tic City to his home in Hartford b his wife and brother Thomas. He has been in a hospital at Atlantic City suffering apparently from am- nesia. Carey had gone to Atlantic City to | recuperate following an illness, His wife received word that a man in the hospital there was believed to be her | husband and identified him after | reaching there, avenue, VAtlantle City, Feb. 13 Carey of Hartford, Conn, jumped or fell from ~John T, who either a traln near le en route to| his home in the custody of his wife and hrother, was ta from the At-| tic City hospital yesterday over| thesprotest of staff doctors, Miss| urran, the superintendent, | 1 Nellie McG sald today. “We did not want him to leave be- | cause the doctors did not think he| was In proper condition for the trip | home,” she sald. “His wife and| brother insisted, ing that the could not stay here. They wanted to| rch for the child was started | when she falled to come home at | the regular time yesterday aftor- | noon. The body was found half a | imile from her home in a clump of | last Sunday evening bushes perhaps 75 feet from the | road. Posses were formed Badgeley was questioned when he | sald he had seen the girl alone at | the corner near his place after school had closed. Later quosnon-} ing brought out the confession, of- | ficers said. | Badgeley children. FIRE IN WATERBURY $10,000 Blaze Drives Out 15 Girls! is marrled but has no | | | . and Two Men, Employes of Elec- trical Appliance Company. i Waterbury, Feb. 13.—Fifteen girls | and two men, employes of the Elec- | trical Appliance Mfg. Co., rear of | 568 Watertown avenue, this city, | were driven from the building, at 7:40 o'clock this morning by which started from a slight ex-| plosion in the lacquer room. Dam- | e estimated at $40,000 was done. The building and were | fire, conte T ed fron of the concern we building in which the flanies spre rapidly, without their strect cloth- ing. One fireman, Private James | McDonald, fell from the roof to the | second floor of the two story wood | and brick building, sustaining an ry to his spine. He was tre by the fire surgeon, ated TRUCK DRIVER KILLED Boston Man Pinned in Wreckage When Big Van Goes Off Road, | Hits Building at Spencer, Mass. Edward pton Spencer, Mass, Feb. 13 B. Wils 4C years old, and Tremont streets, Boston, uck |Rumors on Collins Upset Washington Washington, Feb. 13, — False re- | ports that Kloyd Colling had Dbeen | rescued early today from his Ken- | tucky cave prison serfously upset | business in Washington. | The most widely disseminated plece of misinformation was that Collings had been rescued alive, | weighing only 80 pounds. Even the | | | | | | | this rumor. | Newspapers were flooded with in- | quiries, one seeker for information | declaring word that Collins had been | rescued, came “through the state de- partment.” the T. Libby - ¥rench of Bost#n was instant- 2:30 o’clock this morn- ing when Dis truck left the 1 at | Dead Man’s curve on the main | street hill here, crossed adjoining property, ripping up four sections of fence, dropped over a six-foot embankment wall, crossed Marsh Square and crashed into the end of the Peter A. Richards block, ripping away a section of the wall and smashing the plate glass win- dow in a hardware store. The front of the truck was demolished, the front part of the cab pinning Wilson's body to the rear of the seat. The truck was on the way to Hartford with a load of flower pots. driver for Trucking Co. ly killed at take him to the train in a taxicab, | but we insisted that he go in an am- | bulance 6o that the doctor could be | with him until the last mi | Carey was taken o after he had| about the| been found wandering could not recall his name or addres: until after several daye’ treatment. s | VARSITY NEN DROPPED | Childress and Moore, Wesleyan Basketball Players Among 24 Students Who Have Flunked Out. Middletown, Feb, ress of Washington D. C. ter Moore of Torringtc bers of the universi team are among a list of announced today by Dean W. Nicholson to have been dropped | from the unive for failure to pass their mid-year examinations at | Weslevan. A member of the basket- | bafl team and & member of the swimming team were placed probation. Among lents | dropped were 19 members of the freshman class and five sophomores. Fighteen in all were placed on f tion, including or sophomores and 11 freshmen 13.—Don C and Les- | two mem- | s | 24 men Frank on the FRESHETS CURBED | Colder Weather and Snowfall Puts Stop to Rapid Rise of Conn. River in New Hampshire. { raiiroad Colebrook, N. H., ¥ weather bringing a nches in the night freshéts on the Mohawk ticut rivers here and averted for th es and dams. which were hen ge lce cakes ms on the Mohawk were brok- amite were being cleared - lephone cor nication 7 the outside wor last night had been resto The rivers were rec: rmal stage. The kup reveled rivers had been frozen mor than for many years, loca | office THE WEATHER For New Britain and vicini- ty: Mostly clondy tonight and Saturday; somewhat colder saturday. | i\ |to rob the [to reach Gould’s body LW BRITAIN HERALD APy 0s ‘m“;a\flo.v) ] " ~ NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1925, —TWENTY-FOUR PAGES CREW OF WRECKED IN TELLING Average Daily Circulation For | Week Ending l l )685 :‘ Feb, Tth . PRICE THREE CENTS TROLLEY DIFFER ABOUT SPEED OF CAR: 22 INJURED, 8 GOING TO HOSPITAL STORRS 15 REPORTED | A ABOUT TO RESIGN President of Connecticut Company Declines to Comment on Rumor | New Haven, Feb. 13.—The retire- | ment of President Lucius Storrs as| head of the Connecticut company which under a federal trusteeship controls and operates the Connecti- cut trolley lines by the N, Y, N, H. and M. railroad will take place in the immediate future, it is under- stood. President Storrs declined today to make any statement bearing on the report, | | | Luciug 8, Storrs, president of Con- | necticut Co. since 1914, was born in Buffalo, N. Y., January 4, 1869, He graduated from the University of Nebraska in 1890, recelving a mas- | ters degree from the same institu- tion in 1904, After leaving college he held various technical positions | with Union Pacific raflway, the N.| Y., N. H. and H., and the Colorado | Fuel and Iron Co. He was presi- dent of the New England Invest-| ment Co, from 1907 to 1911, From 1912 to 1914 he was a vice-pres dent of the N. Y, H, and H. rail- road in charge of its electric comprising what 1s now the Con-| necticut Co. When these lines were separated from the New Haven com- pany by federal decree Mr. Storrs became president of the Connecticut Co. | In 1916 Mr, Storrs was elected | president of the American Eleetric| Rallway association, During the | war he was chairman of the asso- ciation's committee on national de- fense in charge of the transporta- tion and general cooperation of rail- | ways through the national council| of defense. | Mr, Storrs !s alio vie sident | the Berkshire Street Railway | Co., the New York and Stamford | Railway Co. Union Trust Co. of Springfleld, Mass., and member of | numerous clvic and englneering or- | ganizations, FRUSTRATES ROBBERY, KILLED BY BANDIT of y | Oxford, Michigan, Bank Watchman | jmer Mayor Joseph M. Halloran. Slain as Would-Be Cracksmen Flee From Scene, Pontiac, Mich.,, Feb. 13.—After & hospital | frustrating an attempt of six men 0 | possible facture of the skull, She is rob the Oxford Savings bank at Ox- | ford, near here, early this morning, | and | Chelsea scction by a policeman, He |Jay Gould, a watchman, was shot and killed by one of the bandits as | the sextette made their escape in an | automobile. | Zarly reports of attempted | robbery said that the six men ap- | peared at the rear of the bank and | were surprised by the watchman | who covered them with a revolver. | They fled to the front of the build- | ing, entering a waiting automoblle, | one of the men firing as the car sped aw: One of the robbers’ bullets struck and instantly killed the watchman An abandoned found by Sherift James al miles from the bank. rly reports that Gould while frustrating an attempt Oxford Savings bank were discounted when it found no effort had been made to enter the building. Howard McComb, whose home across from the bank, was the first I id he aroused by Gould's shouts and looked out of his Gould advancing toward a pa automot Me- Comb turned 1d went door, and as he did so he heard a gun discharged. When reached | the street Gould g on the i k and the car was speeding th automobile was Butler kille is when window he saw ;\nsoni; S aloon R}\{ded. Alleged Booze Is Found equipment debts, where Haven, Feb. 13.—Prohibi- tion officers here ra 1 the »on of John Milnick, 7 rect, Ansonia, ed six five-gal and two bottles Milnick apeared before U missioner Lynch here today waiving examination he w over to the next term of I court er $500 bonds. ew rom and | hoi | ey eral [ Is Tendered Farewell Haven, Feb. 13.—Deputy tor of Customs Arthur E. Howard of the Hartford customs| who has reached the age 70 years and who retires on count of age was tendered a din- ner at the Hc Garde here yes- terday by a number of deputy agents | throughout the state whom were present. Resolutions passed felicitating Mr. Howard ith a gold watct - of of were and he was presente James L. former collector of customs, Bridgeport vas an McGovern of # | invited guest. | American |avenue, Hartford. wel | Though sti 1 List of Injured In Motorman And Con- Trolley Wreck ductor Released Under SR SRR | Robert Harthett, motorman, Hart- 511000 Bonds After ferd. Back injured, John Roulins, conductor, Hartford. | Bemg Charged With Criminal Negligence. {ead cut, | | | i John T. Jackson, 319 Chestout | treet, insurance agent, 65 years old. Scalp lacerated and shoulder | wrenched, Under care of Dr. John Purney. Mrs. Nellle Dow, 12 John street, dressmaker, Scalp wound requiring 18 stitches and other injurfes, In | care of Dr. George W. Dunn. | Thomas Croshy, 33 Whiting street, | aged 65 years, Two fingers on left | hand amputated by Dr. E. T. Fro- | men. | Miss Florence Burns, 156 Glen atreet, 20 years old. Employed by the Connecticut Light and Power Co, in Hartford, Back wrenched and itti i finger on right hand Injured. At-| Hitting a curve at the cor- tended by Dr. E. T. Fromen, {ner of Stanley and Chestnut Miss Myrtle Russell, aged 17, 609 | Streets last night at a speed on East Main street, employed at the | Which the motorman and con- Hoslery plant. Back | dy B w{rcrnchod and head injured. In carc | Ca:tgll‘led?nn%e\(‘llgfixei’tai tr})"ey of Dr. A. J. Savard. 1tain. from Mrs. J. O. Phelps of § Forrest| Hartford at 5:45 was torn street, Hartford, wite of Judge J. 0.| from the trucks and over- Phelps of the probate court at Sims- | typ i valk. iniur Bury, . Nervous shock. Dr. Dawia | Lined on the sidewalk, injur- Lol | ing 22 of the 80 passengers. Mrs. Bertha Battye, 578 Staniey | Eight of the passengers went street, Fractured right elbow. Dr.;to the New Britain General Msz;;‘l,\'[‘:\or'sh. (In hospital.) | hospital for treatment, Connell, 1128 Stanley street, | o4 lacerated rght hand. (At home.) | oiotorman Robert T. Hart- nett of 154 Oak street, Hart- Treated by hospital internes, i Arthur Jones, 139 Church strect., ford, and Conductor J ohn Both hands badly lacerated. Treat- | Rouli p s ed at hospital by internes. Went anfns.‘;)fflfifi L‘a\u'ence Stmet‘. home but was forced to return to | .ot vord, the crew in charge of hospital. the trolley, were arraigned be- Miss Gertrude Johnson of 77 Com- | fore Judge Benjamin W. Al- monwealth avenue. Stenographer in | ling i i : risfiy the office of Attorney §. G. Casale. | jno- orrl, pol}l]ce court this morn- Sprained back and lacerated left el- | N8 ON. charges of criminal bow. Dr. David Waskowitz, (At Negligence and the cases were | continued until February 21 for | trial. - The men were released | under bonds of $1,000. home.) . Mrs. Joseph A. Blsaccia, 101 Arch Chief Willlam C. Hart and Detecs! tive Sergeant William P, McCue, street. Wrenched neck, lacerated who were on the scene of the ac- neck and left forcarm and possible fracture of left forearm. Dr. David Waskowitz. (At home,) Miss Esther Riccio, 91 Franklin [ a0 - Lett leg lacerat- ‘(hncmm‘rseo;zn :I\m:r it occurred, made omrlucmrst} t is reported that the | cor old them that the troliey wag t'ra\'eling at a speed of about 17 miles an hour when the accident Al |occurred, while « the motorman (At |clalms that it was proceeding at a |speed of about five miles an hour. |After the court session, Assistant | Prosecutor William M. Greenstein |sald that there were three passen- |gers who were to leave the trolley at the corner of Chestnut and Stan- |ley streets, and the conductor said ; (that he had heard the buzzer sing- “]‘w‘::"‘”trlzg I nal to stop, while the motorman said mervous shock and o | that he did not hear any stop signal. e In court today Mr. Greenstein read the warrants and entered pleas not guitly. Hartnett and Roulins were not represented by counsel. Hartnett spent the night in a cell, being unable to secure bail. Investigations Under Way Willlam J. Bryan of the Connectlcut company had no statement to issue today regarding the wreck. He sald reports had been secured from the crew and had been sent to the central offices of the company at New Haven. Mr. Br expressed the conviction that ralls were not icy when the reached the curve. Mayor Paonessa is in accord with Chief Hart of the police department in pressing an investigation to the {imit. The mayor was at the scene early and assisted in rescue and first ald work. He said he belicved the trolley car must have been traveling at a speed too great for safety wher curve and that the a4 reckless Passengers Piled Into Heap as Body Leaves Wheels and Turns Over at Stanley and Chestnut Streets. ed. (At home.) Gladys Lake, 26 Liberty B Shock and bruises. (At home.) Miss Elizabeth ien street, home.) Probably one of the most seriously injured is Mrs, James R. Halloran, whose husband i3 a brother of for- Hosanna, 337 Shock and bruises. Mrs. Halloran, who lives at 1693 Stanley street, is suffering from con- cussion of the brain, shoulder, lacerations of and shoulder, at her home in care of Dr. Peter | Fox and a trained nurse. Five others whose names were not | secured were treated for minor in ries at the scene of the wreck by Dr. David Waskowit | ROCKWELL CASE UP AGAIN Arguments Over Royalties and Pat- terns to Be Made in Supreme | Court of Errors Next Month. (Speclal to The Herald.) Bristol, Feb., 13.—A the argument in the gommission on royalties hearing on matter of ¢ and terns of ball bearmgs, brought by Albert F. Rockwell against the Ne: Departure Mfg. Co. will be heard | the first Tuesday in March before the supreme court of errors in New Haven. Attorney Samuel W. Moore of New York and Arthur L. Shipman of Hartford 'will represent Mr. Rockwell. The New Departure Co be represented by n & wson of Hartford a T ¢ Detrott. n involved is lion dol and has ect of controversy for s It was decid well Wil pat- | | it reac the | circumstances indica igatior wo separate Secretary public ngineers e scene 1 J. vision of B the police invest wh P Henry sides h is are bins John patients 1, althoug ng froi as pr court with all . found an e in amc for a an \ ing and th king nd wires Rockweil r $225 Over Alleged Bad C 2 Sues fo heck n ed Sihay The plaintif lant, on July worthless che 921 paymen gave t of 19, RIVER AT 12.50 FOOT MARK. j.on § 4 Page) 50 A BARREL. &, Feb. 13—Flour prices ed more than a dollar rocent high recorc . mills today quoting e at $9:50-80.55 & bar t top o $10.75. FLOUR drop icut river ros here and stood hat the ause of the cold on