New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 26, 1925, Page 1

A — _ News of the World By Associated Press —— ESTABLISHED 1870 REVENUE AUDITOR ARRESTED IN ALLEGED CROOKED DEALS 10 CUT TAX ASSESSMENTS - vsrew “wno) ‘progyey 4 Sruney o s yesur) Frederick Sutherland, Connecticut Appoin- tee, In Custody As Are Two Former Em- ployes. Mussolini Appears And Is Given Big Other Arrests Pending— Commissioner’s State- ‘ment Says Govt. Hasl Lost No Money. Washington, March 26.—Frederlck Sutherland, an auditor in the bureau of Internal revenue, has been ar- rested here in connection with al- leged attempts to reduce taxes by misrepresentation, Sutherland, who was appointed from Connecticut, was arrested ecv- eral days ago but the action was| kept secret while the bureau con- tinued Its inyestigation. James J. Clifford and John F. Mc- Carren, former bureau employes, wore arrested in connection with the case yesterday at Milford, Conn. Although the investigation is con- tinuing, bureau offictals said the end | apparently was near. While treasury officials are dis- cussing a course of procedure, Suth- | ‘erland Is free on a personal bond of | $3,000. PREMIER MUSSOLINI By The Assoclated Pross. his recent iliness, all the cabinet members. Expect More Arrests, Clifford and McCarren were taken in custody and held as fugitives. | Complaints sald they proposed to ob- tain large tax reductions for clients. The treasury declined to make any statement as to the sums involved or to name other persons than Sutherland although they declared two additional arrests were expect- land gave him an enthu onstration in which the joined. followers. ed the communists set up “Viva Communism, of the chamber s atose, s eply “Viva Mussolinl, viva Fas- No Loss to Govt. ) = z sl e Facist hymn. Internal Revenue Commissioner | ©'M" and sang the Faclst X Blair later issued a formal state- | ment declaring that at no time had ‘wlNI]SflR TflwN [;LERK there been any possibility of loss to | the government In connectfon with the "case “The defendants lrc charged,” the statement added, “with an at- tempt to defraud the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad | company of a large sum of money by means of representing to the company that the government about to assess taxes of over a mil- lion dollars against. subsidiary rail- roads and that the defendants could have this tax reduced. McCarren and Clifford, it 18 charged, appeared | in New Haven and solicited’ the | handling of the business. 60, Draft -Assessment Letter “It is charged that Sutherland subsequently drew up for McCarren and Ciifford a so-called assessment Jetter, showing alleged taxes due of | over one million dollars; that the | assessment letter was given to Me- | Carren and Clifford and shewn by | beyond his control, them to a representative of the| The tobacco shed railroad in substantiation of their | farm, statement that tax was to be as-|ing implements. Attempting to Stop Spread of Grass Fire Windsor, Conn.,, Treasurer Arthur C. was burned to death fire which he gra his o ing a tobacco shed. Roberts w on the Ovation in Chamber Rome, March 26.—Premier Mus- solini made his first appearance in the chamber of deputies taday since IS BURNED T0 DEATH A. C. Roberts, 60, Was| ® March 26.—Town Roberts, aged today, | when his clothes caught fire from a | ad started on | 'a land and which epread to the farm of Lewls P. Clapp, destroy- empting to prevent nttempting to ‘l!r Ose the spread of the flames which got Clapp | contained a number of farm- 1t was located on | San Francisco, March 20,—A pos- sibility that the defense may attempt to contest the charge of the state that Dorothy Ellingson actually shot and killed her mother appeared in a new phase of interrogation opened by the defense in examining a juror at today’'s session of the murder trial. Walter McGovern of defense counsel asked Mrs, Julla Ott, a pros- | pective juror, whether she would be prejudiced against a verdiet in favor of the girl should the evidence dls- close that Dorothy did not actually shoot her mother, but had admitted the act to shield someone else. Tl\u fourth culluphe u( the girl in SHEPHERD HUST STAY IN CELL, SAYS JUDGE {Bail Refused Chicago Heir | to McClintock Millions E Chicago, March 2 Willlam D. N. McClintock by giving him typhold germs to gain his million dollar es- tate, must remain in jail without bail pending trial, Hopkins of the criminal court has ruled, The fight for Shepherd's release will be carried to the supreme court William attorney, sald. Assurance of a speedy trial if! Shepherd wishes it, was held out for him in Judge Hopkins’ decision, made after three days of testimony | Scott Stewart, The whole question in the bail Mussolint stood by the center of \ hearing, the decision said, rested on the ministerial bench bowing to his | When silence was restor- | head of a science school and jointly a cry | The remainder shouted in|knowing they were to be used on the testimony of Charles C. Faiman, indicted with Shepherd, to whom he sald he gave typhoid fever germs McClintock, Shepherd's faster son. “It Faiman is telling the truth there was a conspiracy to murder this boy,” said the ruling. “If Fai- { man is not, this defendant has been | the eubject of a monstrous {injus- tice. He has been enmeshed in a| net of circumstances \lnproced"nle'l and painful to contemplate. is not for the court to decide m a hearing of this nature.” j spherd may not be transfe to “Murderers’ Row” in the mnmu | jall, jail officials said, but may con- | tinue to occupy cell 13 where he has been kept, due to the possibility (.f‘ | an early release. Most of the prison- | ers on the “row” are young men | {and authorities said they feared Shepherd might be subjected to In-. sults and even physical abuse, Coroner Oscar Wolff announced |today he would issue an order for | [the exhumation of the bodies of | Mrs. ma Nelson McClintock, \mmhfr of the dead orphan milllon- | William N. McClintock, and | ar Olson. | The coroner's decision came soon lafter counsel for D. Shepherd, had | announced he would fight on in an | attempt to frec Shepherd on bail, | dented late |which was yesterday. | pessed and they had influence with Palisades avenue. The fire d(pm'h““ McClintock died stxteen yzars‘ persons in the department and |Mment extinguished the blaze. oo ad Dr. Olson threo years ago. would be able to have the tax re-| Roberts had been treasurer of the town for a number of yea CAN'T ARREST ONE TWIN duced. “The railroad company has co- operated fully with the bureau in its investigation. The intelligence unit of the bureau began work ml-‘ | | medlately upon its investigation and et no time hag there been any pos- gibility of loss to the government.” AUTO DRIVER CARELESS; RENONSTRANT IS SHOT| s in Quandary Over Punishment for Speeder, la, March 26.—T WITHOUT TAKING OTHER And Traffic Policemen fn Manila Are | 'THREE NEW STAMPS POR | LEXINGTON ANNIVERSARY | Special Series on Sale April 4—Also | New Half Cent Nathan | | Hale Stamp. | Washington, March 26.—The spe- | _lelal series of three postage slumpsl May Try To Show Ellmgson Glrl Was Not Murderer Of Her Mother | Shepherd, accused of killing Willlam | Chiet Justice Jacob | with a petitlon for a writ of habeas Coolidge to sign the bill, He entered the | corpus, chamber at 4:15 o’clock followed by At the moment of his appearance the entire body, except the communists, rose | stic dem- gallerics | and argument. I morning Governor Trumbull said he his | | pension of drills by National Guard jout pay and having the state pay the i was enough money to pay National Defense Counsel Hints Possibility That She Has Con- | fessed to Slaying to Shield Somebody Else court yesterday during the day of the trial, led her attorneys to announce last night that they must petition the court today to have the girl examined by a physiclan every day before she is brought into court, The girl's father was quoted as ex- pressing the belief that his daughter will not be able to stand an inter- rupted progress of the court pro- ceedings and that & postponement might be necessary. The girl, from all apparent evidence, which all prospective jurors are be- ing subjected and obviously is losing her early indifference and charac- teristic control, TRUMBULL ASKS FOR - APPROVAL OF BILL I | | Wires Coolidge in Behalf of Pay for National Guards | Governor John H. Trumbull today wired President Coolidge on behalf of the state of Connecticut asking him to approve the deficiency pay bill of the National Guard. Governor Trumbull was visited at his office yesterday afternoon by Major General Morris K. Payne of the 43rd division and Adjutant Gen- eral George M, Cole who discussed with him the refusal of President Three plans were considered: Sus- outfits, having the men drill with- men for drills. In a statement to the Herald this had already wired the president ask- ing him to approve the bill, This action {s similar to that taken by governors of other states, Captain Edward P, Dunne, com- manding Company H of this ecity, said today that he understood there Guardsmen for the present quarter, He said he thought the deficlency was caused by the intensive drive | for new members of the Natlonal | Guard which created;a demand for more fund FUNDS RAISED LOGALLY LOWER TANES IN STATE ISo Says Governor Trum-| bull at Drive Luncheon | —$33,000 on Hand | It community chest movements were supporicd as they should be it would only be a short time until the | result would be material reduction in state taxes, according to state- ments made at a gathering of the workers in the United Community corporation drive for $62,147.00 at the Burritt hotel today. { Governor John H. Trumbull, a member of the local Rotury club and chief executive of the state opened his address by telling the workers they were salesmen, “Sell-| ing the best commodity ever man- ufactured—happiness and health.” | He reminded them that the entire sum asked was less than $1.00 each | for every resident of the city. He said the work was that of} “Starting to do the business of char- | ity at its source.” “If this type of a community drive had been started years ago as it is| third | 18 breaking | under the searching examinations to | | men to the annual conférences alto | fect yesterday's ballot, o {but might have a far reaching in-| Which was filed | sefzed woolens, silks, leather goods, [ with grain alcohol, valued, they es-| jo, T CONNG FOR UNFIGATION Poll of Entire Methodist Church Is Far From Gompleted — APPEAL BALTIORE. YOTE Average Daily Circulation For Week Ending 1 2’0 41 . March 21st . PRICE THREE CENTS BHAPMAN JURY STILL INCOMPLETE; DEFENSE BUILDS UP APPEAL BASIS; ALCORN CALLS ATWATER T0 OFFICE Adverse Actlon There Will Be Car- ried To Methodist College Of Bishops, It Is Believed, In Hopes Of Change In Decision, Chlcago, March, 26.—Fourteen conferences of the Methodist Epis- | copal Church have voted in favor of unification with the Methodist Eplscopal Church south, Dr. R, J.| Wade, secretary of the general con- ference of the northern church, an- nounced today. The question of unification now is before the annual conferences of the | | | church and will not be completed for some time. Ministerial votes cast by the fourteen conferences showed 911 in favor of unification and 36 against. At the lay electoral conferences, the vote was 599 for and 6 agali un- {fication. The Baltimore conference which vesterday voted against unification, 141 to 137, was the first of the southern conferences to pass on the question, Dr. Wade announced the votes in some conferences as follows: Kansas—For unification 177; against none; lay electoral confer- ence 96 for, none against. Southwest Kansas—JFor unifica- tion 130; against 4; lay electors 111 for; none against. Central Pennsylvania—TFor unifi- catfon 208; against none; lay elec- tors 88 for; 2 against. | Mississippi—For unification 82; | against none; lay electors 47 for; 1 against, Louisiana—For unification 120; against 99: lay electors 9 for; 3, against. | “Voting on the admission of lay- | i8 proceeding,” sald Dr. Wade, “The total ministerial vote for admission of laymen to annual conferences s| 434 for and 452 against; the lay| electoral vote s 505 for and 56| agalnst.” { At present laymen have no vote g . in the annual conterences ana by | Amed guards surround him. action of the general conference the annual conferences are voting on| WA 5 | ARGE BEQUESTS IN Appeal Is Likely Washington, March 28 —An ap-| peal probably wifl be fHizd With the College of Methodist Bishops in con- nection with the.adverse vote by th Baltimore annual conference on the | proposed consolldation of the | s Z * northern and southern branches of | Gifts Of $50,000 and $25,000 the church. Are Specified in Testament Review will he 'sought, unification | Ir*adors declared today of the r\|lln;:[ | ot Bishop Candler that one fifth of | the delegates could order an a)\\ and nay vote. The question will be | X presented to the college at the May| Mrs. an Tl meeting to be held in Nashville, | city has been granted a bequest of Tenn, $50,000 by the will of Mrs. Elizabeth The decision is not expected to af- | vt ©y 0 leaders sald, | yer Newton his recently deceased, 1 the pr fluence upon the 40 southern con-|today. Willis M. T ferences yet to vote. | a nephew, was lef Bishop H. H. Sherman of Nashej ., .. -, ville, of the joint commiasion on | 1°78€ &1 07 0L st unification, in an address to the | together with the furn conference today referred to the | Another bequest o C " | made to Burdette &. Chandler ruling as “surprising. | SEIZE MUCH L0OT ate court ayer of Hartford, $50,000 and also lot on West Main st t, therein. 00 was brother, house_ Point, the following receiy - i ohop | the above amount ice Phelp Woolens, Silks, Dyes and Alcohol | Mation Bhaos Mo e Worth Upwards of Milllon Found Elizibeth Thompson Wolcqtt Bid 1. To the sons of her broth Hezekiah Bissell, $25 by New York Police. 5,000 each was left, those receiving the bequests be- ing Paul and William Bissell of West Medford, Mass., and Hugh Bis Keokuk, lowa. In of any of the New York, March 26.—Police| dyes and automobile trucks loaded Ent above tion- conducted today the present state |to commemorate the 150th anniver- | institutions would not be overflow- jsuinran RAUECAIAILR S sary of the battle of Lexington and ing. The money being subscribed Detroit Man Almost Rum Down, deal with Simpileio and Lucio | Concord will be placed on sale April [ now wiil bave a lot to do with re- ; jdina o Rl et i who were | P on the same day the new half- } lieving congestion in the state fn- Expostulates and Gets Bullet | Joined mgr.v;v : h. The twins N‘)m ot T2 it ms il bE Lot et SHCns i e itie e stated) is He: e | fered to the public | " “The money now being expended | S ppdihaseidevelonet aon | b Lesington-Concern' _stamps| nere at the source of trouhle, taking | Detroit, March 28.—A man was | for speeding within the € TR0 E i) be sold first at Boston, Concord. | care of inclpient cases will come | shot to death shortly after midnight | offfcers 1"‘: St “‘;::"‘J‘ ,m‘m 12| Concord Junction, Lexington and | pack to your community in enorm- uis morning at Cadilluc Square, | for exceeding % FEC Th0 L N a|Combridge, Mass., and at Washing-| gus dividends later. A withinlairons i throwiothaelelly |80k e e Savsiner (Lon: tie Natinn Halepanine 84 SRV very dollar goes into the work, hall, by one of three men who es- | arrested without taking the LA,y and Washington. | no person connected with the United eaped in an automobile. The dead | tVin Info Custody wed, The Lexington-Concord lssue &re| community corporation draws one | man is Barl Maher, 26 years old. | The twins, hos ,""”«' the sizo of the special delivery | cont of salary.” Maher and two compenions, Lle- | Oith ft¢ W‘]“l“fl SR : nditicinEaubjects Are: | " The governor urged the teams to wellyn Brill of Windsor, Ont, and Leo Stransky, Detroit, the square when they narrowly es- caped being run down by an auto- mobile containing three men. The| car stopped across the atreet and | Maher, Brill and Stransky went over to it and remonstrated with the d wor for his carelwosness, In reply| one of the men in the machine fired were croseing | dent commissioner at They have been cxamined by geons in various parts of the worl but they r eration t Another \ew York Club uld separate them. Washington. Now Is Under Padlock | 1, to submit to an op- green, ‘“‘Washington at | representing General | aking command of the | army. 2.cent, T “Birth of Liberty, representing I!m battle of Lexington and Concord, | | &-cent, blue, “The Minute Man,” | representing the statue of the Con- cord minute man at Concord, Mass., one shot, the bullet entering Ma-| w York, March 26.— Club | hetween two columns, to the right her's chest inflicting a wound from |Borgo, a supper club in West 55th [and left of which are two tablets which he died before he could b:-‘m. , followed the way Mou- [hearing the inscription: “By the rude taken to a hospital. Thé gunman|quin's, the Piping Rock Restaurant |pridge that arched the flood their then escaped in view of scores of [and the Beaux Arts Club foday |flog to April's breeze unfuried. Here persons. when the owners agreed to padlock [once the embattied farmers stood e |the place d May. The padlock land fired the shot heard round the 3 |agreement was obtained in fed world."” | Seven Mothers Die for ‘rlourl by United States District A The stamps will Zo on sale later | Every 1,000 Babies Born |tornéy Buckner, who recently New York, March 26.—Sévan|stituted a padiock campaign a mothers give up their lives for|supper clubs, cabarets and oth every one thousand babies born in|places violating the prohibition law 86 cities In the United States, l'r.i CANOE! in- at all post offices. -|No. Dakota Pl'mrle Fire weeping All Before It George T. Palmer, director of re- T MARSEILLES Mandan, N. D.. March 26.—An search of the American Child Health| Marseilles, March 26.—George H. |extensive prairie fire, which is re- association, told the national con-|C. Smythe, Canadian, who is on a|ported to have swent a territory In terence on child health in eession {canoe voyage from London to Rome, | Sioux County, forty miles wide and here. Dr. Palmer said his survey |arrived here today. He left Paris|70 to 100 miles long, destroying a of the 86 selected cities showed that |Feb. 28 and canoed here by way of [number of homestead shacks and in some of them ten per cent of the the Seine, the River Yonne, the Bur- {some k. was reported In babies horn died becausq of a lack of |gundy Canal, and the rivers Saone |(elephone advices today from Fort »re-natal clinics. |and Raowe. Yates, | go out and convince people that evary dollar invested in the work in New Britain now will help relieve congestionin state institutions. | Expenses of Institutions “The state of Connecticut spends 5 million dollars annually on in- stitutions, a large portion of which goes into maintenance, and we have calls to increase every charitable inetitution, provide new buildings | and start new charities right along. We will take care of the old ones first and if we have any money left we will extend the work as neces- demands. 5 Svery city that and makes good on it, is doing this work in this way (Continued on Page 15) ‘ * i‘ | THE WEATHER e For New Britain and vicini- | ty: Generally fair tonight; || Friday unsettled, probably || showers; warmer tomight; | colder Friday —— [ R Wabash Railroad \\ ill S0 day authorized a resumption of .fl;* idend payments on the road's pre: I ferred a shares at the annual rate of erly disbursement of No dividends had been pa issue since April 30 timated, at between $300,000 | ed relatives, the portion granted to $1,000,000 In & rald today on & WAre-| caen 1 to revert back to the estat house in South street. The Police| rrho rest of her estate, Mrs. Mil- think this is loot from nUMEroOUS|jer gyrected, should be divided into robberies. ¢ wo equal parts, one part to in wo men, who described t Rt B st hat & RGE Teudl e s as watchmen, were held LU pepogit Co., for the life use of her questioning. The police sald they ex-|ggror Mrs. Carrie Stedman, and pected to make more than half & u¢ nch geath to the children and _| grandchildren of 10us Of) Mary A. Thayer, Were| jiving. The second part is placed in tr for the sister, Mrs. flary A. Thayer c:”rd and the place surrounded. | for her Jife use S Most of the goods are bellaved 10 cpiaren at her d have been taken from the Lehlgh| ™y, an append Valley plers, {ler placed the | trust dozen arrests during the day. A patrolman became suspici w 10 ‘are the actions of drive flr‘klng trucks to early today. Polide were e warchouse reserves ath, codicl Mrs. $10,000 in ord-Cc sum with the Hart to provide 1 for lite fpr Ida M. Sproul Again Pay Dividends [panion tngher home, in rec 2 of her serfices. New York, March 26.—Directors|* \or gy C gy, o of the Wabash Railway company to- | A" 0 (0 U O e 'bond. Norwalk Man Sphts 5 a share. Wife’'s Head With Axe on this| Norwalk, March 26.—Crazed wit} when aqrink, Steve Majoros of 90 Boult lstribution of $1 a share was made. |gtreet, struck his wife over t} with an exe in the darkened ¢ 5, through declaration of a quart- | of their home today as she was |bending over a cabbage barrel, g FONDNESS FOR GOATS |ting ready to prepa CAUSE FOR DIVORCE? Mrs. Marjoros is in a serious con- —o0— |dition, the blow landing on t t Spokane, Wash., March {side of her 2 lar Fondness for goats led C. C.||wound and cutting ¢ b Higgins of Spokane to milk ene | |left ear. at the breakfast table directly fter her husband Into his cup of coffee, Eugenia ||ran to the home c wher V. Higgins testifled in the trial ||Dn Robert M. W wis and of her divorce in superior court 1 her. here. Mrs. Higgins aiso testified || ros was found in bed at } that band insisted upon ‘1‘ ome by the p and i of their two goats ||under arrest on the ¢ t e cage was con- | (tempting mu Th tinued | not the axe wit 1 MRS, MILLEXS WiLL JUDGE JURYMEN PREPARE 10° STAY AT TRIAL Arrive Bag and Baggage at Sitting in Judgment On (.era]d (‘hapman e Chapman Leavmg the Courthouse 'F°“flh Gerald Chapman, the big business man of crookdom, hand- {cuffed to a sturdy deputy sheriff, being taken back to his cell. NEWELL JENNINGS, Chapman's Trial Judge County Court Building Panel of Pros- pectlve Jurors Ex- hausted In Vain Effort To Get 12th Man. {Third Panel Gives Out During Morning Session | and Candidates From < Hartford Are Called. SCOURING STREETS FOR NEW TALESMEN (Special to The Herald) Hartford, March 26.—When | Sheriff Edward Dewey of Hart- | ford county rapped with the | gavel for the reopening of su- perior court at 2 o’clock this afternoon, the selection of the 12th man to serve on the Jur) which will hear the evidence in the case of Gerald Chapman, charged with the murder of | Policeman James Skelly in | New Britain, was the prmcxpal | business. ; An unlooked for delay oc- i curred this morning when the Isecond panel of prospective | jurors was exhausted. It had | been expected that the 12th | man would be chosen from re- | maining veniremen but this | hope dimmed with the passing around of the hands of the |clock as man after man was ‘excused by Judge Newell Jen- ‘mngs or stepped down aftes ‘bemg challenged by State’s At [torney Hugh M. Alcorn" or Frederick J. Groehl, chief of the defense counsel. Ready To Take Men On Street At 11:30 o'clock, Judge Jennings clared & recess. The last avail- able man in the panel had passed out on his way back home or to business, as the case might have been, and the sheriff was directed to #et 20 Hartford men and have them present when the hearing was re- sumed at 2 o'clock this afternoon. I'rom these 20, it was hoped to complete the jury. Judge Jennings remarked that if no success met the efforts of the court officials, it would be necessary to go out on the streets and bring in anyone they could find. At 3 o'clock this afternoon the was exhausted. Deputy sher- are now scouring the streets of llartimd for new talesmen. If the jury is not secured from these, court will probably adjourn until tomor- row. Including the first regular panel of 150 veniremen, 270 talesmen had been called to supply twelve judges of the spectacular Chapman's guilt or innocence. From this number. but 11 men were selected. The | third special panel summoned today | brought the total number of venire | men to 290. Preparing Basis For Appeal | The first positive information con- | cerning the possibility of an appeal — |was given to the Herald this after. | noon by Attorney Murphy of counse! {for the defense. Mr. Murphy said that people are overlooking the many exceptions being made by the defense lawyers. ‘“We are not mak- ing those exceptions for the fun of it,” he declared. “They will be used as a basis for an appeal to the su- preme court of errors in case the verdict unfavorable to our client” Exceptions hs ) to the denial of the petition for a change of venue, to the request that the original panel be changed to includs residents of larg: munities an: to rulings of t} e on the ques tioning of pr ive jurors \lmm Calls In Atwater ve been tak spec A t cour op! ritain witnesse: were se places when County ward J. Hickey summoned Atwater of N e of State's A down in Davidson & Lev ave made en that he the only person to see the face of the ed Ske had New York Tong Warriors uzn Pea(‘c Treaty Today 26 A treaty ¢ today the Onr ng tongs, offic re which has cause] imerous. CHiiti' S during s of T 1ts of the conntrs ew months.