New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 28, 1925, Page 1

OKFORD QUITS RACE, ’-—-—fi.-'——-— News of the World By Associated Press W BRITAIN HERALD ESTABLISHED 1870 WOMAN'S DEATH 1§ ~ LAID TO FAINAN Shepherd Delense Seeks to Pic- BIRTH CONTROL ADVOCATE 't riishers Rout 9 Natives ture Accnsér as Unreliable OPERATION WAS ~ FATAL Body Was Disposed of in Giving it mew Fight For Release Under Bonds. By ‘The Assoclated Press. Chicago, March 28.—An afdavit charging that C, C. Faiman, whose | confession has been made the princi- pal evidence against Willlam D, Shepherd charged with murder once operated {llegally upon a woman in his sclence school and that the woman died, was taken into criminal court today by Shepherd's counsel, | The affidavit was eworn to by W. B. Stewart, attorney for Shepherd who is fighting to have the court reconsider its declsion denying Shep- herd freedom on bail. The aflidavit | further charged that the body was| @isposed of by turning it over to a| Wboratory. Tells of Alleged Death ‘The affidavit set forth that accord- ing to Earl Clark, former agent for Faiman's schoo!, the woman was taken to the school by a man and there an operation was performed by Falman and that the death fol- lowed. The name of the woman was not given, The affiant also stated that he had ‘information and believed that John Barbarg, assistant etate's at- torney, had promised immunity to TFaimsn, who was indicted with Shepherd, but who had been held in & hotel and has not yet been arrest- ed, and also had promised that the | Faiman school would not be inter- | fered with, It was further stated that the affiant belleved that when J. P. Marchand, former agent of Faiman's school had struck Faiman before the latter confessed, that it was'in reference to the alleged oper- ation; and that Marchand was threatening to divulge information of the operation unless Faiman would tell the state’s attorney about the alleged study of germs by Shep- terd. Blackmail Charged The affidavit charged that Fal- man's confession was obtained by a blackmall scheme. In connection with the encounter with Marchand and the alleged operation. Clark, the afdavit alleged, told the afiant that de had a talk with Marchand re- garding the letter of application Marchand and Faiman say was sent ¢o the school, and that as a result he sought advice from C. C. Bart- lett, an attorney, in the fear that gome blackmail charge might arise. Marchand has testified that he once remarked that that letter should be worth $50,000 or $100,000. Olson Hears of it Aftter Clark went to Bartlett, the Jatter as a lawyer went to Chief Jus- tice Harry Olson of the municipal court, instigator of the investigation, (Continued on Page 13.) BOAT WATERLOGGED Cambridge Is the Winner, Crossing Line in 21 Min- utes and 50 Seconds By The Assoclated Pres Putney, March 28. — The annual Oxford Cambridge boat race ended w0y ‘projrey “pdaqr Py § JnI1eIIN0)) WOMEN MUST PICK FATHERS OF THEIR CHILDREN, SAYS Those of Today Are Between Devil and Deep Blue Sea As They Are Economically Dependent On Some Husband to Whom They Did Not Propose, Prof. Whiting Asserts. ; New York, March 28.—"It may)thy enough to suport a husband of take a revolution te put in control (her own choosing, but if any selec- of human affairs those who are in-|tion of the fathers of the next gen- terested In salvaging humanlity from |eration is to be Uone it must by the the unbridied breeding morons,” [women.” Prof. P, W. Whiting of the Univer-| Professor Whiting conceded that it sity of Malne, told the sixth inter- national neo-malthusian and birth control conference today. “It may take another revolution to put woman in such a position [ceptual care, a little foresight on the economically that she is mistress of part of potential mothers so situated those functions which most right-|economically that they have power fully belong to her,” he said, over those functions most rightfully “In our present world the majority | thelrs, would give our genluses more of women must choose between the |genius, and would make our ordin- devil and the deep blue sea. Either jary people not quite so ordinary.” they must become economically more He asserted that neither postnatal or less dependent upon some hus- [nor prenatal care would be of the band to whom presumably they did |slightest use in improving truly ra- not propose, or they must resign |cial qualities so long as the principals themselves to spinsterhood. {and methods of birth control were “Rara indeéd is the woman weal- |neglected. Older Brother Murders Wife Of _ Younger As She Spmi_AEvmces NEW BRITAIN GIRLS AGCUSE YOUNG MAN. New Hartford Resident Said to Have Lured Them With Advertisements to “say. what women will do or will want to do.” But, as a biologlst and Airedale Dog Leads to Arrest of Slayer, Who Makes Confession—Two Men, in Same Military Company, Met Girl Dur- ing War, in Italy New Hartford, March 28.—Ernest | p v 2 J. Poley, arrested on complaints of | New Tork, .March 3 5 M young women who had gone to his | Amelia Cassenlia, whose mutilated house here in response to advertise- | body was found yesterday in her tiny ments for help, was given a hearing | gpartment f BBore Justice Mrederich Yowsll tor| o is e g sne Litle Gletto ot day and held in $2,000 bail for the D supérior court on tho specific charge | 2X° bY her husband's brother and of attempted assault. His father | Fival for her love, the police an- gave hall. nounced today after Eugene Cassen- This afternoon Poley was again lia, the woman's brother-in-law, had befdre the justice on © similar | CONfessed to the siaying. charge in two counts, the complain- Babe Beside Body ;ni:nebemxw""o Nt‘“; Fr‘m’"‘ YOUNE | fThe man was arrested in Yonkers m‘;rnl:’g ru‘: ““‘::””l“):au’:"g :'an::r? last night and made the confession, S e the police said, after a grilling lasting oSt iartiord, throughout the night. His arrest The arrest of Poley was made a | came several hours after the wom- | W t ta v eck ago by the state polico Who | ;. 50y was found in the smal had recelved complaints that when - girls or young women answered the | APartment, surrounded by artifictal | advertisement Iri person Poloy had | flowess, made by her, and with her | annoyed them and even attempted [ Paby In it's cradle nearby. She was T killed while her husband, Daniel, was at work. Romance of War Beside the crime I8 a story sel- dom found outside of fiction. The BEATEN BY BANDITS | | | | % x New Yorker Who Resists Holdup | Prothers scrved in the same com- | pany of American troops in the Men Has Fractured Skull s Re-| great war, Their company was 1 quartered in a little Jtallan village in the Po sector. There they met Ameclia, who live with her parents | in the village. | Both brothers became attached to the girl. After the war the young- er brother brought her to this coun- try and they were married. he young wife, skilled in the sult of Their Attack. Newark, N. J,, March 25.—James Hogan, manager of Gimbel brothers' distributing station in Newark s in | City hospital with a possible skull | fracture and serious head lacerations | as the result of being blackjacked | | Greenwich Village, was slain with an | GOLF GLUBS USED { Armed With Knives and Pistols 'RESCUED | | ler, . By The Amsoclated Press. | Bombay, March 28, — A graphic was not for him, “as a mere man,” |story was told in court today of a | desperate fight on Malabar Hill on !January 12, in which four British geneticist he sald, “a little precon- officers, armed only with golt clubs, kidnappers |routed nine alleged 'equipped with knives and pistols, |and rescued Mumtaz Begum, the |young Indian dancing girl, who since | has become famous as the former favorite of the powerful |of Indore, from which she is said to (have run away. Mumtaz was rescued from the |Indian merchant, with whom she was motoring, was killed. Lieuten- ant Batley, of the Gurkha Rifiles, testified that with three brother of- ficers he was motoring back to Bom- bay from his golf club when they met the armed party attempting to abduct Mumtaz from the motor car. The four British officers ran to the reccue and a fierce conflict followed in which the natives used their knives and revolvers while the offi- cers depended upon their physical strength and their dexterity in wielding their heavy-headed golf clubs. Battle Was Furious This strange battle raged about ithe terrified nautch girl. Lieuten- ant Batley tried to relate the story with modesty, but the facts spoke for themselves and were heard in tense silence by the crowded court. Heads were cracked as the weight- ed wooden clubs drove home against native skulls, hand to hand bouts were staged and by quickness and much luck the British officers es- caped death from their opponents’ knives and guns. Mumtaz herselt was the center of the melee, from which she finally escaped and took refuge in the offi- cers’ automobile, but not before her beautiful face was marred by a deep knife wound from which blood was streaming. : Assallants Flee | Lleutenant Colonel Vickery, one | of the officers, managed to overcome {and capture one of the assailants, Shafi Ahmed, after a, bitter struggle. The rest of the attacking party then fled, firing as they ran, Lieutenant Batley subsequently went to Indore, where an indentifi- cation parade of prisoners he picked cut two of the defendants in the present trial as being among the nine natives who attempted to ab- duct Mumtaz. Unabated public interest was third session of the trial of the nine men accused of complicity in the ‘crime, 'FAMOUS RACE HORSES DESTROYED IN' FIRE Six Killed at Orlando :‘)“““' “"d”-':-“’“” Sty “"“; making of artificlal flowers which ireatened him = with =death and, ghe 39 Jearned tn her mative vil- | :";C““! By ‘l". it ‘,“f“ “‘:"‘;E‘T%‘-‘,_“\ lage, worked to help eupport the gate, irom whichithey LOOK $1(2 N |\ tamily: affer her baby! was!bhorn & cash today. The robbers escaped in | (o007 an automobile. : . | Hogan was left bound and lying Wanted Her to Elope The older brother often visited the scnsationally this afternoon when the Oxfordians, after rowing about | two miles in very rough water were | foreed to abandon the contest owing | to the wateriogged condition of thelr boat. Cambridge had led almost from | the start and at the time the Dark | Blues collapsed was leading by some | 120 yards. Cambridge, which started the| general favorite, was lucky in win- ning the toss which enabled the Light Blues to select the north side for their station, thereby gaing pro- tection from the strong north wind, which not only was bitingly cold but badly roughened the water of the river. | At the outaet Oxford jumped into | the lead but malntained it for only | about a quarter of a mile when the Cantabs, rowing easily swept ahead. From there on the Light Dlues drew rapidly away. Tt was apparent at the end of the second miles that the Oxford boat was in difficulties, and the Oxonians almost immediately thereafter were forced to quit, belng unable to pro- eeed further with thelr water-logged | ground on a platform on Bloomfleld eraft. | 1t was officialiy announced that Cambridge had won, the officlal | time being as 21 minutes 50 seconda. The Oxford boat was in a sinking eondition when the Dark Blues guit, They rowed to the Surrey shore where they were taken aboard a| motor launch. | | Only once before In the seventy- | young wife six previous races between the tWo0, gespondent universitios’ has anything like this happened. In 1912 the boats of both | crews sank and the race was rowed | over again. Dy The e | SUB NOT DAMAGED MUCH | Newport, R. 1, March 2 submarine 8-44 struck a roc at the end of Cononicut island, at the en- | which there were passengers, trance to Newport harbor during a fo gtoday, but was floated without assistance made her y into ‘the harbor, apparently ™ seriously damaged. | guns, tied his hands and the top of the tank, on tie floor of the office in the dis- tributing station. household, but after the birth of the | As the robbers left the office, they | baby there came a change. When | met John Dalton, a chauffeur, com- | he urged her to elope with him, she ing in. They covered him with their | refuscd and ordered him to leave the legs, and | house. He pleaded with her often, left him on the floor. The robbers | but she was firm in her refusal. then discovered Henry Summers, an- the prisoner said in other chauffeur, on a loading plat- ' his confession, he went to the tene- | form at the rear of the bullding. | ment with an axe hid in his cloth- | Summers was unaware that a hold- | ing. e sald he hoped to frighten up had taken place. They also her into eloping with him. There bound him. | was a struggle, and when it ended Hogan was the first to get free | theyoung wife had been Killed. He of his bonds and called the police, | fled to Yonkers. who sent him to the hospital in an | Dog leads to Arrest BIDUIRDES: | An airedale dog led to his ar-| T T AT | rest. The animal, owned by Pa- DROWNS IN RESERVOIR | rorinan rrank Horana, was ae- | companying the policeman on his | rounds. Last night they were pas: ing Paul's church in Yonk when the dog ran behind the church barking. Cassenlia ran from a hid- ing place in the rear of the church and the policeman stopped him. He | Mrs, | Was taken to a police station and | he New York police were notified New Jersey Woman Commits Suicide in Tank Used by Town as Reserve Water Supply. N. J, March Theodore teguveit, 2 today drowned herself in a 30-fopt water tank which, erected ten feet above Fords, PRISCO-PARIS VIA ATR Between Two Citles, Hill, is used as a reserve water sup- ply for this town. The body was found by the young woman's hus- band who traced her steps in the mud made by the morning’s rain up- til he found her hat on the ground at the foot of the ladder leading to Planc Flight Over North Pole, is Planned For | Next september. ‘ San Francisco, March 28.—An air- ane flight from Parls to San Fran- sco. crossing the Arctic near the North Pole, is being planned as a cature of the dlamond jubilee of the state next September. The plan pro- | vides for the inauguration of a reg- | ular route, and the arrival of the March | pathfinding airplane in San Fran- cisco during the week of the cele- told the police his had been brooding and over the continued 1ll- ness of their elght months' old child. | Steguveit Associated Prass tern Siberia, number of persons “Irkutsk, March 28.—A The | are belleved to have been killed and | bration, many injured when the train on| H. H. Hammer, associate of Cap- | bound ' taln Roald Amundsen in Arctic ex- for this city, was overwhelmed to- | plorations, is the originator of the day by a huge avalanche. Rescue | plan. Hammer is planning a flight London to Tokio | and is parties were at work extricating the | this summer from victims, many of whom were buried | by way of the North Pole, in the snaw. now in San Francisco. Track—Were Valued at About $100,000 Orlando, Fla, March famous horses in winter train! the Orlando track were burned to death today when one of the ten- stall frame buildings of the White known origin. Three of the nine horses kept in the buflding were saved. ' The loss of the six horses is estimated at ap- proximately $100,000, F. L. Parrin of Cincinnati lost his five year old colt Aetna, and a two year old colt, Somebody, each valued at approximaely $7,000. A two year {old filly known as Calumet and own- | W {ed by the Calumet Farms of Lexing- {ton also was lost. A low estimate value of $2§,000 was suggested. The other horses lost wére Friend- | of Columbia supreme court today on | ship, two year old filly, owned by | Richard Baird of Ontarlo, valued at $20,000; Sentinel, owned by George Tippling of Cleveland, a pony |ing two checks from the owned by Gibson White, son of Ben |bureau with the White, Orlando trainer.” Charlie Drain, sleeping in the building was kicked by a horse while doing rescue work, | Wom: | but returned to the burning stable | twica before falling unconscious. A search was being made for fdur h broke loose during the Hamde; APolice Mal\c Raid, Capture Still New Haven, March 28.—Police of Hamden in a morning barn raid got | a 100 gallon still which was still | warm from the fire which had been | under it and got 60 gallons of die- | tillate which looked like alcohol. | Lulgi Rubano, ' a carpenter, who| lived close by and owned the barn | was sought by the officers. | | THE WEATHER —— For New Britain and vicini- ty: Unsettled and colder to- night; Sunday fair, | * DANCING ~ GIRL | Sensational Testimony Is Introduced Today In Bombay Trial of Kid- nappers—Story of Fight Is a Thil- Maharaja kidnappers but not before a wealthy shown today at the opening of the | one of the men|payment of WILLIMANTIC MILL INBLOODY FIGHT) CANNDT RAISE PAY Company Reported About to Give Out This Statement With Mediation Committee, Willimantie, March clvic committee on mediation named by Mayor Hickey last night to see it It could bring the American Thread Co, and its striking em- leng conference with the strikers last night, today called upon Don H, Curtis, agent of the plafit. After- wards Mr, Curtls sald he would is- sue a statement later in the day. It is understood that Mr. Curtis will say that the American Thread can- not under existing conditions in the textile trade, business conditions in general and in face of souther mill cempetition, restore the ten per cent wage cut against which the em- ployes have struck, It sf understood that the media- sible for it to see the directors of the thread company and Mr. Cur- tis was unable to say whether the directors would consent a confer- ence, It was further understood that the attitude of the company is to let the mills remain as they are now in view of its position that the wage cut cannot be restored. ANGIENT SACRED ISLE [5 FOUND IN MEXICO Explorers Also Discover Ruins of Former Maya Indian Civilization New, Orleans, March 28.—Discov- ery of a sacred Island containing ruins in the anclent Maya Indian civilization in Lake Catemaco, in the Mexican state of Vera Cruz, ploring expedition of ment of middle American research of Tulane university. A brief report from the Tulane university's two explorers, Dr. Frans [ stitution, and Dr. Oliver La Farge, made public today, also told of other discoveries of importance to arch- | acologists. It sald that the two, while in the Mexican etate of Vera Cruz, had been the first archaeolo- | gists to cross the Tuxtla mountains and had visited the Popoluca In- dians, a tribe which still uses bows and arrows. In addition to the sacred island the explorers also found ruins and | tmportant stone siabs of Piedra .abrada. They climbed Mount San Martin and found a large stone idol on the rim of an extinct crater. | Two other expeditions have been organized by Tulane's recently en- dowed department of middle Ameri- | can research. Dr. Willlam Gates, | S. Haskell and A. C. Hartenbower | sailed today for Vera Cruz en route | to join Alan W. Payne, another as- | sociate in the department’s work | Haskell and Hartenbower will make | a two-year agronomic plant survey in Tabasco, and Dr. Gates and Payne will start tropical plant re- | search work in Honduras. Stabies nore was rasea ny tire o wn. | FORMER SECRETARY OF | CONGRESSMAN SENTENCED Mrs, Buchanan, Employed Once By | Congressman Kendall, Must Serve Three Years March 28.—Mrs. former secre- ington, | Margaret Buchanan, [tary to Representative Kendall of | Pennsylvania, was sentenced to | three years imprisonment in District s son. She declared she merel but the justice declared the repay-| ment of the money had been forced. Mrs. Buchanan was acquitted in' rebruary of a charge of forgery in| connection with a check for $5,000 sent to Representative Kendall by, Mayor Smart of Unlontown Pa. in| payment of war material sold in lall's district. | MEDIATORS WORKING HARD|—— American Thread Company Agent Unable to State Whether Directors of Firm Are Willing to Oonfer 28, — The | 7] R | P | ployes togutnen, and whish aa s| WHo' Saw Slayer of | tlon committee asked if it were pos+#fLeventhal store was being waged. | iency from the mails while in transit has been made by the archaeological ex- the depart-|fication. ! Blom, formerly of the Carnegie in-| | head of the department, and Earl| \ Raids by police yesterday resu IEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, SATURDAY MARCH 28, 1925, —SIXTEEN PAGES. CHAPMAN CALLS WITNESS IN MURDER TRIAL S et IRSTS LIELY BIG MAIL ROBBERY :5120,000 in Currency Stolen | While in Transit Through Buffalo [ kelly Before Crime. Gerald Chapman, fighting for his | life before Judge Jennings and a | jury tn superior court, will have as | one of his witnesses the man who | was scheduled to play the role ot| Buffalo, March 28.—Post office in- “star witness” for the state when the | spctors sald today that arrests are search for the escaped convict and | cxpected, possibly within a few alleged murderer of Patrolman | hours, In connection Wwith a theft of James Skelly in the Davidson & | a pouch containing $120,000 in cur- Attorney Harold Evans, one of the | through Buffalo, associate counsel for Chapman, was The theft in New Britain this morning with & | Feb, 27, The. . 2T, y had attempted t subpoena for Edward L. Johnson, |keep both the theft and fesumng hostler at Doyle's livery stable, to |investigation secret, postal authori- thay sald took place appear as witness for the “gentleman | ties said, pending the expected ar- yegg.” & % & s {rests. They affirmed reports of the On several occasions yesterday | theft, however after they had heen afternoow during the cross examina- i obtained bl tion of Lillian Knell and Lous 1<u.!nfi‘QJ;‘§,,e§f““ pUblabes Lrim o) pek of the Old Colony Inn on the| n i | 4 °{ The missing pouch contained 12,- | ferlden turnpike, Judge Frederick |40 bilis of $10 denomination, and J. Groehl, chief defense counsel % | was one of three consigned to the made references to George Stuyves- federal reserve bank gog Detroit “\“e'w ‘;}Le)ri“:‘l“ “':: 'Z_"“. ‘“;)"'s""_f 121 rom Washington. It was first miss- e y November 15 of | oq from the mall consignment of ast year and was {dentified by John- which a part had been transferred son as the man who accompanied | Walter E. Shean down the aileyway | “"iz‘;”;;fi,“‘p;’,‘;‘j o iERsie s near the department store on the | oo ! morning of the grurder of Patrolman | Srial numbers of the stolen bills | | | are known the authorities said and s ‘ 1 of them were reported to Johnson' i | several o her ve! 3 s \dentiflcation of Btuy- |, 0™y oon presented at Buftalo vesant at the time of the man's cap- ture in New York was positive, the hostler picking him out of a line of several prisoners, $1,185,000 IN BONDS. banks within th past few days. | | | | | | | | | when he was held there as a suspect, | and in spite of the insistence of the police that he was not the murderer of Sklly, Johnson stuck to bis identi- to New York to identify Stuyvesant | Stuyvesant was heid at that time | SCh00l Board and P“hlici' for about 10 days before being re- | Works Board to Ex- |leased after other witnesses who are |alleged to have seen the derer | 1 \f | [ ERRCE plain Needs | failed to identify pictures of the | |suepect as the murderer. 1t was ! |brought out at the time of Stuy-| | |vesant’s capture that he was a<'~‘ R R LR MPPV'OX“‘ {quainted with Shean, it being shown | imately $1,185,000 will be sought by | | the school department and depart- {that Shean had been indicted in- | p connection with a bank robbery at | Ment of public works at a hearing | | Wyomissing, Pa., for which the sus- | before the board of finance and tax- "~ | ation which has been called for| |pect served time n prison. Monday night by Chairman Edward | Hall. | The stable man was the one who The school department program | includes the completion of the East {met the murderer and Shean in the | | end school at a cost of $260,000, the | roe distric | Shuttle Meado avenue and Vance | Britain, |man Skelly. school at the corner of |necessarily Average Daily Cireulation Week Ending 12’041 March 21st , PRICE THREE CENT: INTEREST IN CHAPMAN TRIAL TURNS T0 NEW BRITAIN POLICE TESTIMONY: CRUCIAL PERIOD BEGINS ON MONDAY JOHNSON AS | Defense Expected 7. Center Attack on Tes- timony of Patrolmen Who Were With Skelly Witnesses Identify Bandit as Shean’s Companion at Meriden Inn Night Be- fore Murder. Trailing Gerald Chapman from : remote farm in Wheaton, Ind., by : series of identifications that finally placed him in the Old Colony Inn o1 the Meriden turnpike a few hour: before the New Britain murder State's Attorney Hugh M. Alcorn was ready at the close of the fourtl day of the trial yesterday afternoon to proceed with the testimony of the New Britain police and witnesses They will establish the allegatior that the cool, alert prisoner is the man who, on the morning of Octo ber 12, 1924, murdered Patrolman James Skelly at the Davidson & Lev- enthal department store, Undismayed by the ever tightening web of evidence that is slowly clos- ing on the defendant, Judge Fred erick J. Groeh! continued his merci- less cross examinations in which he is vigorously attacking the method employed In having Chapman iden- tified by witnesses. The main ob- jects of his attention during the aft- ernoon session yesterday were Lilllan Knell, the waitress at the Meriden Inn, and Louis Kupek, the proprie- tor, who identifled the prisoner a: the man who was with Shean on the night preceding the murder, That Chapman has a sense of hu mor was demonstrated by the amusement he enjoyed on preceiving the embarrassment he caused Mrs Martha Wilgus of Atlantic City. H. greeted her with a broad smile an: a nod as he stood up to have hr identify him as the man she kne\ in Springfleld as ““Waldo W. Miller. and who accompanied her to e home after she, Chapman and She: had heen to the Red Tea Room i Agawam on a little party the Frida night preceding the murder in Nev The woman blushed as sh identified the prisoner as the mar she had danced with that night Chapman resumed his seat and nudged his senior counsel to look a! the witness and see her embarras: ment. New Britain Police To Testify As the fourth day of the trial w drawing to a close, the evidence the case was swiftly reaching the point where the New Britaln police would be called to testify and tel the story of the murder of Patrol When adjournmen was taken, State's Attorney Alcorr announced to the court that he wa: now ready to introduce their testi- mony. Judge Jennings said that as tion proposed to erect the new Mon- |the examination of the police would consume considerabl: street and the L ool at the| been acquired. Chairman P. F. King of the scho |Leventhal store on the morning of 1100k Itke a dumping ground for pa. | tFict at a cost of $325,000 and the to look about the alley and Johnson | | |Ing out he heard a noise in the de- {him if he had any men working at |the murder, and to whom the mur- | other rubbish.” After | cOnStruction of & building for the |walked into the office of the stable, | \partment store and shortly after- |the store. When Davidson replied board will meet the finance commit- | the mittee on |alleyway adjolning the Davidson & |derer said *“We want you to keep this | PUrchase of a site and erection of & | alleyway picked up and- don't let it | Puilding for the Monroe school dis- {pers and ; peaking to Johnson, the men started | 140coln school district at a cost of | | $325,000. The department of educa-| lonly to notice a few minutes later that the men had disappeared. Go- | ward telephoned to Samuel M. Dav- {idson, one.of the owners, and asked ed in the negative, Johnson told bim that tws men had appeared in the the tee of board and school accom com- tions | lalleyway and were in the store fternoon for a di | Davidson immediately notified the | gures. It 1s probable that | police, | of the department will be {” In the meantime, Johnson had | €Xplained to the board of finance and |walked up the alleyway to Main by ex-Mayor Joseph M.| rman of the commit- nmodations D. |street and was standing there when i.-h".rn came out with a brief case in his hand and started towards Church treet, As the automobile with Pa- | {trolman Skelly and his companions drew up in front of the store, John- |son was standing near the doorway {and he pointed out Shean, who was just turning into Church street, and told them that he was one of the [men. | He stayed near the door and was there a few minutes later when the murderer emerged, gun in hand, ordered him to $150,000 will r sewer extens 1 for subway able that E: ADAM OSTROWSKI DIES conviction of forge [Srdered im0 Sutand {bask; itiea of Shean that will further e B armanen. sito was_fined MOURCNg "A man Tas becn KT HOME ON CARLTON ST, o dssereait him na s witncss 200. She was convicted of endors- % 0 T IS UERE | Fight Centers on Atwater veterans | The purpose ot calling Johnsc ————— | i : fit testify for the defense is 3 ! a high pitch name of Martha | el O O ack on the {dentin. | Promincnt Polish Business Man Was & MMOndhy's sexsion v her Wartield, & negress, which were in [™} . 1 the fdent o 4o, [cation of Chapman as the murderer, Owmer of Large Provision compensation and 10 . . ¥ e of | the|it being understood that J JUANCe C A M OMRES t ™% Groehl will argue that the s Company. much of a case against Stuyve s it has against Chapm den salo and stores the liquor laws or be ¢l ultimatum issued today King in his drive to dry ust obs: ed, was t} fayor aleo He is Magd: p the city Mrs. men, owners of saloons and small BANK REPORTS | witnesses yesterday afternoon, ssion | the murder of Patrolman murder. man will be unable to pris time, he would start in on that tes timony the first thing Monday, With the exception of the testi given by the New Britair all testimony has been admitted by Judge Jennings on the condition that the state's attorney establish a direct connection between it and Sk This Alcorn has promised to and it is understood that he is depending upon the testimony of Walter E. Shean, Chapman's alleged partner, when he takes the stand Judge Groehl is anticipating this by asking questions of the witness~: on cross examinations that strong! hints at Shean being more deeply volved with Chapman than he ha: ed in his confessions to t} ties. These questions are : of the campaign of the defens: announce it on wi S fy on financlal acti s ing to conserve the e il i nw e 1own to he . b jeen in her em- 2 woman, who had been with Shean and both have ploy | |identified as the murderer of ra Mrs. Buchanan not 1 appeal |1dentified F = to the court of appeals and was re- AT en A | manded to jail to await the disposi- | W 3 vance reports on P tion of the appeal. {Camden Mayor Starts Out ot have been contra Attorney for the prisoner called | 2oy ~ : < , had be aying that the polic T the attention - of the court to the \02,("“ Cleam\:p (, af{‘”“?’f’“ yimber of years.| positively identify l s tact that restitution had been made | Camden, N, J, March 28.—Cam he met in the Davidson & T al ner. If the policeman identi Chay 1 son a lau, man as the murderer, Judge Groe: stores, being arrested c! 1 with |, has promised that a witness fror violating the liquor law New Britain, the of a lett to him, will be subpoenaed to te of a reported conversation with At P SICKNE A New York, Marc! | weter. The receipt of the letie ladelphia, March 28.—In aditlon et by i B weekly report of the mumber rust com 1d Thu the senior a¢ jeaths in Philadelphia, issued ! B R R e . day by the statist This is an increas he name of the writer, saying tha! four wer sieeping| or 43 410,500 over last w e sickness, | & deficit of $21,819,470 w: (Continued on Page 12)