New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 25, 1925, Page 1

LV AIE T (X T\ MRS\ (Ol . #pecifically with the theft of bonds led home yesterday. e e e News of the World By, Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 wwo)) ‘projyrwy “03q Wpy L CRLET ELTAY SLEIGHT OF HAND EXFERIS HIRED BY WALL ST. BOND BANDITS TO STEAL LOOT of Gang Said to Have INDAN B“Y—flflfi— Reve:lllegd Methods by STARTEMA[ WAR Which Messengers R 0. Marsh, “White Indian” Were Robbed. Explorer, Gives Facts §0 LIVES WERE TAKEN American Explains That San Blas Arrest of Six Members | | {n One Case Expert of Ma- ‘ gician’s Art Is Said to Have Obtained $1,500 From Behind Cashier’s !ement When Youth Suddenly Murdered Two Soldiers, Cage. Tribe Was Secking Peaceful Set- Rochester, N. Y., March 25.—How |an elghteen year old Indian boy started a revolution that took more 3 than forty lives, won certaln rights elx men early today as members of i/ ™ Otloor the San Blas tribe and caused gangs that have preyed on Wall| Wireatbond aha Brokdoass housm‘”m expulsion from P:mnma' ?r f i 4 B Richard O. Marsh, Brockport, N. Y. or months, has revealed that the |“white” Indlan explorer, was r bands employed slight-of-hand ex- |yealed today in a copyrighted story perts to steal bonds and securities puplished by the Rochester Journal from messenger boys in crowded |and the Post Express. trains and elevators, the police sald. The “inside” story of the revolt | The six prisoners are charged |was given by Mr. Marsh who arriv- | The explorer and securitios of a total value of [who was “Merlka epu” to the In- | raore than $50,000 belonging to four |dians and believed by them to have firms in the Wall street district and [been sent by the Great Spirit, sat are suspected of other thefts in the councils of the San Blas chiefs pmount to $200,000. The police also (and wrote for them their declaration | expect to clear up other robberies of independence that was to have ind thefts which have caused firms |been presented to the United States In the financial district the loss of 'and the Panaman governments. ‘housands of dollars. i Met With Chiefs As a result of today's arrests,| Theexplorer met the Indian chiefs sonds and securities valued at $5 when he penetrated the Darien jun- New York, March 26.—Arrest of )00 have been recovered already, the gle on a second “white” Indian ex- OTORMAN 1§ HELD, CONDUCTOR FREED Hartnel Decision fo Be Ren- dered Friday Morning ROULINS FOUND NOT GUILTY Witnesses Say Car Which Tipped Stanley and Chestnut Over at Streets Was Going Fast—Engi- necrs on Stand. | | The continued cases of Robert | Hartnett and John Roulins, motor- | man and conductor respectively of the trolley car which left the rails | and was wrecked at the corner of | Stanley and Chestnut street on | Thursday evening, February 12} were heard before Judge Willlam C. | Hungerford this morning, that of | Hartnett belng continued until Fri- | day, while Roullne was discharged. | Expert testimony, es well as that of | the passengers on the trip, was in- | troduced by Prosecutor Joseph G. Woods in his attempt to show crim- inal negligence on tae#part of Hart- nett, who has been employed by the Connecticut Co, for four years, but Attorney William F. Mangan, coun- sel for the defense, asked for strict interpretation ' of the statute and the case was continued. Arthur W. Bacon, eivil englueer, presented a map of the scene of the wreck. .Joseph P. Wadhams, civii | engineer and assistant consulting engineer for the public utilities com- mission, testified that he had con- ducted an investigation on the spot before 11 o'clock and found the track, as well as the wheels and treads of the car in good condition. he marks in the road, Mr. Wad- hams said, indicated that the trolley | travelled 50 or 60 feet after leaying the ralls. To be sure of safety, a car must round that curve at less than ten miles an hour, he went on. It might be safe at 18 or 20 miles, but this would not be good prac- Harry Savage's Letter Asking for Old Ball Brings 12 New Ones i T Chicago, March 25.—Harry Savage, Jr, New Britajn, Conn, 156 year old captain of a base- ball team, will recelve a dozen brand new big league bascballs Instead of an old wne for his team, The youngster wrote Major John L. Griffith, executive vice- president of the Natlonal Ama- teur Athletic Federation, which Is conducting a campalgn to re- vive amateur baseball among youths, asking for an eld ball, The boy added that the finances of him organization had been re- duced to thirty cents. When George Huff, director of athletics at the University of Illinois, and a firm bellever {n Boys' sports, was advised of the appeal today, he volunteered to send the balls, COMPENSATION I3 GIVEN WIDOW OF SLAIN PATROLMAN Mis. Skelly Will Receive $5,080.85 Distributed Over Period of 312 Weeks ENTIRE CASE T0 COST NEW BRITAIN §5,388 Hospital Other Bills, Surgical Bills and penses Coincident With Fatal Shooting of Policeman Skel- Iy Must Be Borpe By Oity—Com- | | | ed eyewitness to the shooting | confident that the attack would re- NEW BRITAIN HERALD NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 1925. —SIXTEEN PAGES. GONJEGTURING ON LAWYERS' ATTITUDE State and Defense Stress Cir- cumstantial Evidence —— WILL BANDIT TAKE STAND? —_— Attorney Groehl Asks Prospective Jurors it They Would be Preju- diced by Prisoner Not Testifying in ¥is Own Behalr, (Spectal to the Herald,) Hartford, March 25.—What inter- | pretation can be placed upon de- velopments thus far In the trial of Gerald Chapman was the question on the lips of everybody about the | county bullding today. Everywhere | during the recess little knots of men ! | were propounding thefr theories on | | what the line of questioning follow- | |ed by State's Attorney Hugh M. Alcorn and defense counsel Indi- | cates, | One thing all seemed agreed on, | and that was that the extensive | questioning of prospective jurors on their attitude toward circumstantial evidence by both defense counsel | and State's Attorney Alcorn was| significant. Tt appeared that de- | fense counsel were planning an at- | tack on evidence that might be given by Patrolman Alfred Atwater, reput- of Patrolman James Skelly, and were sult in Invalidating the patrolman’s testimony, leaving the state to es- tablish a circumstanial evidence | case against the “gentleman yegg.” | The fact that State's Attorney Al- corn took up this questioning and made certain that prospective jurors would convict on circumstantial evi- dence before accepting them as jury- men was taken to indlcate that he considered the possibility of such a situation developing and was pro- Average Wally Circulation For Week Ending March 21st , 12,041 PRICE THREE CENTS OPENING EPOCH IN CHAPMAN DRAMA DRAWS T0 END IN JURY SELECTION; GROEHL TO SUBPOENA NEW WITNESS Chapman’s Arrival at Courthouse Defense Chief Receives - Letters From New | Britain Residents on | Talk With Atwater. {Eleventh Man to Pass on Guilt or Innocence of Prisoner Takes Place in Y PANEL GONE, | COURT ADJOURNS | (Special to The Herald) Hartford, March 25.—Fred- |erick J. Groehl, senior counsel !in the defense of Gerald Chap- man, charged with murdering Policeman James Skelly in New Britain on October 12, 1924, 'stated to a Herald reporter this afternoon that he had received |two letters from New Britain residents in which the writers claimed they had spoken to Po- liceman Alfred Atwater and had been told by him that he tecting himself against it in the se- | lection of the ju | ST e . did not see the face of the | erald Chapman is brought daily from state prison at We | q 5 fleld, he is hurried to the Hartford county courthouse at the corner of ‘ba'fldlt \VhO ShOt Skelb. pedition, He said: “\When we arrived at Allegandi, on |the San Blas coast, a congress of |Indian chiefs was in progress, called |tor the purpose of determining some | |means of putting an end to the o or |cruelties of the Panama Negrolds securities o5 were invading their territory. | “I attended this congress and! compiled the declaration of inde- | pendence and human rights while it was in progress. Governor Mo- solice said. Through the arrests of the six yrisoners today, the pollce hope to sapture the leaders of the gangs. Specific Charges The prisoners are charged with ie theft of bonds and from the firms of Logan & Bryant of lower Broadway; Butler, Herrick | and Marshall of Broad street, Car- ligle Mellick & Co. of Exchange Tiace, and J. R, Sclimeltzer & CO. Of |jice of San Blas, hearing of the | Wall street, 5 gathering, nssembled soldiers and | - Dreigofives who made the Err""”"(’:u.\fl to the scgne. At that time charged that the prisoners employed | {}cr0 was no infention of war. sleight-of-hand experts to commit| «A mere Indian boy of cighteen What Atwater's testtmony will' be | Trambull and Allyn streets, Hartford, and taken into the bullding from | ONe Of the letters was signed. when he takes the witness stand | an alley running off the latter thoroughfare. This territory is guarded con- | M i |The other was anonymous, 1§ the trial i3 not known, as no | stantly and no one except authorities allowed to enter. Picture shows | Judge G i iden- officlal announcement has been | Chapman being taken from the automobile to the building. |Judge Groehl said he had iden: tide. missioner Noonan Makes Finding Crew Statements Differ Mr, Wadhams sald he had inter- Hartford, March 2 viewed Hartnett and TRoulins and [of Policeman James J. —The murder Skelly of produced and read their statements. The motorman claimed [tion with which Gerald Chapman, in his that he knew the road, that |the bandit, is now fighting for his the car had stopped at Churen street | life in the superior court here will and that the speed was about five to [cost the city of New Britian ap- ten miles an hour as it approached | proximately §5,338. the corner. He applid the brakes,| At a hearing before Compensation but the car siid. He did not re-|Commissioner Leo J. Noonan at his member hearing the buzzer calling | Office here vesterday afternoon com- | for @ stop at, the corner where the |PERsation which will amount to $5.- e l»ap[ivmd 0189.85 when paid, was awarded to | ! The statement of Roulins satd that | M'* Katherine A. Bkelly, dependent | made as to wh ek signed | New Britaln, October 12, in connec- | Whetherior not heildent] fled Chapman as the man who cons| fronted him with a revolver on th | morning of the murder here and | ordered him to duck behind the| counter. Atwater's testimony in the local police court was that he duck- | ed when ordered to do so by the| burglar who had been surprl!efl‘ while at work on the safe, and hatl remained behind the counter uatil | the burglar had shot Patrolman | | Skelly and made his escape out a| As He Is Today ] [ Defense Counsel e st | 88 the man. who shot down |tified the writer of the signed |letter and would subpoena him |as a witness if Atwater at- tempted to identify Chapman 'Skelly in cold blood. Judge Groehl was not complimentary sy |in discussing Atwater and said % 'he could not understand why the policeman should remain the oar started fast from the cop. | Widow of the deceased and her two behind a counter in the David- | minor children, Leo V and Frank W. ‘he thefts. The messenger boys in Ul the cases have been absolved of tlame for loss of the honds and se- | curities. Those Under Arrest Those arrested gave their names .3 Salvatore J. Florentine, Joseph Mulholland, Francis Kinnally, Cor- neliug J. Kelly, Robert J. Leighton and Frank Hart, all of New York. Florentine, Mulholland, Kinnally and eKlly are charged with implica- tion fn the theft of bonds valued at $5,000 from a messenger while rid- ing on an elevated train last Febru- ary. Leighton is alleged to be im- plicated in the robbery of another messenger carrying $15,000 in bonds, rted the war. Attacks Suddenly “Unarmed he walked up to two Panama soldlers. Suddenly he sei ied an axe and with a terrific blow buried it in the head of one of the |soldiers who fell over dead. Quick |as a flash the boy secized his rifle, levelled it at the other soldier, pull- ed the trigger and he was dead. The Indians then attacked the fail, | where six more soldiers were sta- | tioned. “So quickly did they charge that all were slain. | years “That afternoon the islands of Tigri and Ticanti were captured by !the Indians and the soldlers killed. “The revolt later was ended when | driven ft. while Hart 6 charged with com- : an agreement was reached between P e tram ainird |the Panama officlals and the chicfs. messenger, S S e Nimble Fingered Crooks The slelght-of-hand experts, the nolies satd, followed the messenger hoys on their routes, When the messenger boys entered trains or olevator, the thleves would brush against them and take the securitles trom their pockets. In one of thej ., e thefts charged against today's pris-|Disharred Practitioners rs the sleight-of-hand thief ven took bonds worth $15,000 trom | Must Personally Appear behind the cashier's cage of a| Broadway concern, where they had | Before Legislature been dellvered by the messnger, the police sald. The thief had followed the messenger. ) State Capitol, Hartford, March In another theft, one of the|25.—With the hearing over on the nimble-fingered thieves stole bonds [ Holden blil to revise the medical worth $5,000 from a messenger's | practice laws of the state the judi- pockets in the crowded elevator of a |clary committee has entered in the broadway building. The other thefts |legislative bulletin the assignments ECLECTICS ARE GIVEN HEARINGS AT CAPITOL: charged against the prisoners were (on hearings to be given eclectic| committed in crowded trains. In|physicians whose licenses were re- none of the cases was the messenger voked by the state health council aware that his pockets were being |last year during the inquiry by an rifled. inquisitorial grand jury into the “fake diploma"” situation. The hear- ings will begin today after the SURPRISE AWAITING Stamford court judgeship resolutions are heard and will be co morrow and Friday. are PLE about 50 applicants for restoration of rights to practice the healing art It 18 understood that a decision was reached prior to opening of the legislature that each eclectic who had been debarred from practice was to apply indlvidually for resto- ration of right to practice. This will mean that the committee will | hear each application on its merits. | The applicants to be heard today Greenwich People to Be Informed They Are Not Legally Married ere: Stamford, March 35.—When La- w;r:’mk W. Webh, Frank BE.| saro Pelayo a native of the Phillp- | Gayles, Etamar A. Mower, Anthony | pines and resident of Greenwich, |R. Carap Leventhal, | Conn. and his bride Ella Swenson of | Roy A. Iong, Raymond C, Prisque. New York, return from thelr honey- |Samuel Slabotsky, Harry Chaimson, moon Rev. Charles Rabbow, of |gamuel Lerner, Gerald R. Richard. | East Portchester, N. Y., has promis- son, James W. Cotner, M. J. M ed to inform them that they are not | A thony, Leon F. Desaunier, Joseph legally married and to tie the nup- M. DeGaetane, Harry Braverman, ! tial knot over again in a legal way. | George D. Noeling, William Feld- The couple secured a license to wed !yyan, William D. MacCormack, in this city on December 28 last.! Nicholas A. Ferri, Monte Val Rob- But they delayed the wedding until | 25k March 21 when they went to Rev.|s. Deiley. e snl Bl Mr. Rabbowwho performed the | AR ceremony in East Portchester. The | C. BARRON VERY ILL clergyman returned the marriage | Battle Creek. Mich., March 25.— Icense here to the town clerk today |Charles W. Barron, ,editor of {he | and was told that the marriage was |Wall Street Journal,'is seriously ill | not legal as the license issued Was at a Battle Creek sanitarium. He| only good within the confines of 'arrived yesterday suffering from in- Stamford Rev. Mr. Rabbow then {fluenza, it is sa 1 this morning promised to make amends for his his condition we error as stated. ed somewhat {worse ner of and was going at 15 to 17 miles an | hour, that the buzzer eounded and | that the car was going faster than | his regular motorman would have | Sergeant Wiiliam P. McCue testi- fleld that he had been one of the policemen answering the call to the | scene and said that there had been | a squall of snow just previous to the call. Civil Engineer Tippett, | the rails at precisely the spot where Prosecuting Attorney Woods read from the regulations of the Connec. tlcut Co. in an endeavor to show | anley and Church streets | | police force was | course of his employment by- elly, 13 and 15 years old respec- *llomml:‘.&'\\)n"r Noonan found that the late member of the New Britain the the police department and died as a re- injured in sult of the injury on the same day. | entitling a person dependent upon him to compensation for the maxi- mum length of time, 312 weeks. It was agreed at the hearing that the | DIES AFTER FALLING| Pleasant Street that her whole life, as far bac | front door of the Davideon & Leven- | | Groehl immediately s | | teet and said that it was not his in thal store. No Indication was glven at that time that he had identified pictures of Chapman as the man he met in the store. | Tlare-up Between Lawyers | % The only semblance of a clash| between counsel in the case came late yesterday afternoon when Judge | Frederick J. Groehl, senior counsel | | for Chapman has finished question- ing Lawrence Klein of Enfleld, one | of the accepted jurors. 1 tioned the man to find out whether jumped to tentlon in asking the question to counted on h son & Leventhal store, where the shooting took place, and not fire a single shot even though the gunman had 200 feet to go before reaching the streets. Detectives O'Mara and McCue of |the New Britain police department were gpectators at the session of the trial today. Eleven jurymen chosen up to late | employed by the Connectleut Co., |policeman's avcrage weekly wage | wwould you, if there was a doubt this afternoon are as follows: had examined the scene the next|had been over $36, which allows the | jn vour ming’ stand pat on your| & i Fred W. Viets, East Granby, day and corroborated Wedham's evi- | & | judgment and refuse to find the de- farmer. dence, “W. H, Cadwell, who 14id out | (Continued on Page 12.) fendant guilty f it took five minutes | Thomas 8. Rourke, Farmington; the trolley line, sald that the curve | T g R | or five days in spite of the fncon insurance. had been changed later, but stated | { venience that it might cause?” A. W, Burrows, Bloomfield, hook- that 5 or 10 miles an hour was the MRS PRICE AEE Bq Groehl asked the witness and the keeper. speed limit for rounding that curve U f) s | answer was yes. [ y Lawrence Klein, Enfleld, sales- | safely and that the car had ,1umwd§ Alcorn then stood up and ques- GERALD CHAPMAN | man. | FREDERICK J. GROEHL | “\yyter g, Case, Canton, merchant, this would be expected of one mov- | he would be willlng to listen to| = — SR Emerson E. Olcott, Glastonbury, | ing at an excessive rate. i arguments by his fellow jurymen | retired merchant. As Chlef Motorman Owen D. e S0 Bs resdy 1 ehnsiwe Hla vivales LUEAL EUNEERNS Hfl”} [;AMERA MAN [;AU[iH'I‘ | Charles H. Islieh, Marlborough, Houso was paced on the sind Ininey to Hip Fatal to|!f these arguments were worthy tarmer. | George G. Hubbard, Bloomfield, SNAPPING PICTURE . urance, Garvan §. Fallow, Wethersfield, ANNUAL MEETINGS tance with Chisf that Hartnett was breaking the com- | Resident { the foundation for a disagreeme | retired merchant. pany's rules at the time of the ac-| | the jury. Alcorn said: “I think that | Yiats William J, Crockett, Manchester, cldent. Attorney Mangan said that | your purpose was evident from the war_ . " ‘engineer. | tho rules al not appiy as they were | 3y Mary Jane Pioree, ago 59| question.” Groehl then made an ab- New Directors at Am. Judge, Ire Aroused, Orders " -\;‘hv;:efi»lfi:’:f;"-]:‘:“p";““‘" xe: printed in 1924 and Hartnett had| vcort” ol known resident of this|Jection te the court on the th SRR 3 . ired advertising manager. S HE S o o RS R e st o the state’ attornes. " Outide of Hardware Corp.—Lan- Him Placed Under The second panel of jurors ma ex in 1920, House said that they were ght at her home, 101 Pleasant|this incident counsel for both sides s Cii , hausted L ft g 3 Y substantlally the same at both f\,p,, She had been i1l with grip| worked harmoniously throughout | ders Elects Officers Arrest o'clock, making it necessary 'nnTr:] times. Questioned by Mr. Mangan, | and was recuperating, but on March | the proceedings. | gurn court to }f"])“‘f‘:"‘ b:““!“m‘_ the chief motorman said that a trol-| 15 in walking about the room &he T\\lll Chapman :I'BLA‘ Stand? KL the VaRLiAl . miet) : . . :1::"!‘! l:(n(\(h\'r panel will ley such as used on the Hartford-| fell and f-actured her left hip. Her hat Judge Groehl will rest the annt ceting of the She o the Herald, one 3 ,\'3“' Dritain line, if going at 15 miles | inability to stand the sh(ul]\, be-| defense case without putting Chap- |American Hardware corp., held in 23 no in: ~ Resume ]h‘Llllt:)v’“"'!‘ - an*hour, could be brought to a stop | of her advanced age, made|man on the wit stand was indi- | {h€ company offices at 2 o'clock th 1 The choosing ¢ ‘v‘_l“f‘ i s in about 100 feet. He would not recovery impossible and her| cated by his questioning of jurors "fi’“f““mn George P. Spear. John B ey “fv"h*"‘;"”‘ ‘(‘”,""m_“‘;m‘c;‘ s venture an opinion on how far it| sult during the afternoon as to whether [ Minor and A. N. Abbe were elect Char “_“]-'lf“:‘mmni“ B s | must go to attain that speed. but th of Mrs. Pierce will t not they would be prejudiced !0 the directorate of the corp N o LI sald it would “pick up pretty fast.” | mourned by a legion of frie against the defendant 1f cc | de-|In addition to other t U“““*“ el AR o Car Under Full Power she had made by her beauti cided not to call upon him to were re-elected to serve for Lo S it H. J. Connelly, master mechanic | sonality which had gained the witness stand in his own t coming year. C. 8. Parsons, form i aavonhoncdltprhe at the local car barns, ‘said that, | the name of “Mother.” It was not{ Although these questions a a vice-president of t1 L iy | upon investigation at the scene, he | unusual for her to recelve post cards| taken to mean that defense co on chosen first vi bl St I had found the controller handle in | addressed to ".\mqlw Plerce. She| have decided on not placing C and other officers re-e by TE wad ok he first notch of the second serles, | was born in Middletown January 6, | man on tt e is con cing which indicated that the car had 1844, the daughter ot ey ik N6t the Herts { been running under full power. The | James and n White Coats. EAREDERED r ol r B. Goodale emergency brakes had been applied, | 15 years residence in that city her | the hopes of he dire Americar on e his examination revealed. W. E.|family removed to New Rri 80 hey " | | Quiity, master mechanic at the \'m} ; e he 20th ce : g | Williar Hart of the New Britatn non street barn in Hartford, testl- | ’;“"‘ sl “”;"fl““s‘i- A:“:*R "‘y‘ own story. ) Rice of xaw:; fled that trolley was the same as | Dere- b S - 2o c bench said n to N 1 X Wilson H. Pi of T J S DIVORCED { Corbi A 1 o se. o & 'f‘v"'}‘,‘.’.‘;‘ eIl “',‘I'",;L':M"“:f\"”"l'” Mrs, Pierce’s stories of Civil War| New Haven, e e i st g v rles e ediy e Colchee Lo i 'n’gn and caused a serlous n’rwi days in this city were especially in-|1.ouise MacLeod, of Norwich, € Bogirarsc) Jiites Daily News, i knew none of the Skelly fam Alaent | teresting as she was one of those an actress, now playing fn “The Love | Charles T b : g€ to say for| Arthur A. Woodford of Avon ‘was The state then commenced calling | "0 remained at home and was|Song,” a musical comedy New ! I ours g ngs 1 ey tuselihatanaloti inre. n " the vassengers on the car. H. E.| oPliged to endure the hardships in-|York city was today granted a di No." T 1 William Ly gttt ad! | cident to wars. On January 6, vorce from her h ¥ irs pok § Biaclrbdlwas Jnrt‘tun f'( 19K nut street m»l‘ rated her $9th b lay with a| \lacLeod, by Ju Tai ik “"’ w‘ pushigd, thejk for the car 101 ity at her home. She was then|the superior cov I Ray H. Morss, a farmer stop at Stanley and Cheatnut streets, \ apparently in very good he wfl}r:n-n' Sttest ¥ Y it eatieh il according to his own testimony, but |\ o5 forward to the good weather|Norwalk, Conn., June 2 | Ben s P s 12k o™ He stated he had reac med that the trolley had con-| ypioy the spring would bring. lalleged. The case was un sted. |President; Carlisle H. Baldwin, Vic® giajre ordered a i 0 tha New Beitaln ¥ ed at full speed. Mr. Mangan| = gho yway 5 member of the Trinity —_— President: Albert N v puty sheriff 1 the Hartfor sked whether the witneas had heard | yrotnoqiat church and of the Wom- COOLIDGE, MAY SPEAK | President V T Glastonbury Man Accepted the buzzer sound in the front of the | ;g Home Missionary society and| Washington, March 25.—President | Preside s s 1t releascd first man to be accepted thig car, and Mr. Jackson, who Is some- | 14 [ gdjes’ Ald society of the church. [ Coolldge today assured a Grand |urer; th, Ass | ¢ sixth man to be ace e e wurtved by on RO At fagismation thet (fj poefiEizs) ol .S Station WCBD Heard in ekl ould n ositively state suc djerce of this city, and fo would accept their invitation to|retar = N \ Oleott of Glastogie the fact. ‘ Merwin C. Pler speak on Memorial Day at Arlington. | ent Secretar Far Off New Zealand Ly, Passengers Say Car Swayod crecn, Albert Scr — | Landers Meeting ty, Ill., March 25.—Radio ymas of East Hartford The swaying of the car on the Soreen, * - # | At the annual mreting i ) ¥ reported | wng opposed death penalty, | trip was mentioned by all the suc-| Funeral services will be held to-|| || Frary & C 1 y H Charles H. Ruoff of Glastonbury was ceeding witnesses, Mre. Nellle Dow | morrow afternoon at 8 o'clock from || THE WEATHER day, directc sm N nd opposed death penalty. of 12 John street, Arthur Jones of | the late home and at 5:30 | P ected ¥ 1t tion Monday ard 1. Stevens of cky Hill 138 Church stre Miss Florence | from the Erwin chapel. Rev | For New Britain and vicini. The officers now spraker, using ¥ nged by the defense, Vine Burns of 156 Glen street and Mrs. | ersn Ford, acting pastor of the Tri ty: Fair tonight and probably « r s Vier of Canton had a fixed Gladys Lake of 26 Liberty street.| ity Methodist church, will officiate Thursday; warmer Thursday dir 1 t this w r f on t ase and he Was exe ~ and interment will be in Fairview{| ' | recey — g (Continued on Page 13.) cemetory . - (Continued 1In from Zi tinued on Page 12) .