New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 31, 1925, Page 12

Raiiaaios Jo 2 “"‘m'*Wmm..»,«w*w ke 12 | A significant part of Shean's te I timony was to the effee | atored some goods at Shean's place t in Springfield. Acting Britain police told me we were going to bury ways. SHEAN POSES AS business | Policeman Skelly, cracking implements and some fhe had thrown this box into fur coats and traveling bags which | Denies He Was Willing Ad in (racking Safe stand, that he was not aware of the |character of the goods. [ | Coming down to the day betore | {the murder of Policeran Skelly, he sald Chapman invited him to go for | ‘onnecticut, He teen minutes, of the street and he left me, “We finally left to the Herald,) March 81.—Walter E \ of Springficld, Mass., caught | Martford ing all the while, NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD !.‘m.‘ opposite to ask them what was | te that Miller [the correct road to Waterbury, Mil- |looked out into the road and saw He was down the street He was goine about ten min- [said, ‘Come on, get In,' and we drove lo lon a tip the New | recelved soon after the shooting of futes, When he came back he had a [up the state road in the direction of the authorities | packuge We 1t had & wrapper on it, 1t | Hartford, | went to the place and found some |lcoked like a shoe hox to me. After |road leading to New Britain, I asked we went to Waterbury, We stopped |in the Back seat, wre supposed to have been stolen |there ten or fifteen minutes. |from a store in New York state.{he was going to see some Shean intimated, on the witness|there, We stopped there about fif- | 1 stood at the corner| Waterbury went back to Meriden, He was drlv- ‘We were going to TUESDAY, me where we were golng. a clgarette, The Water- a the sun coming up, It was getting light, In a few minutes Mr. Miller coming out of th turned off on the |gave me a gun. also gave me an the car [if I could use one of the rafncoats He said I could. He sald | I wore one of them, 1 don't know friends | which one, Chapman Gives Him a Gun “I wasn't armed at that time. 1 | didn't carry any pistol or revolver and | when 1 left Springfield, I didn't [have any burglars’ instrumenta or any nitroglycerin. 1 asked Mr, Mil- in there, He sald your belt tight, one day.’ main street to the New Britain office, Davidson & L Mr, Miller stopped the car to | across the street, stopped there and the milkman was Mr, Miller seached in the back and pulled a revolver out of the front of his trousers and said to put mine Then we drove down the drove to a place right In front of MARCH 31, 1925, him. 1 walted about Nal an hour Then Mr, Miller came back to the car and sald, ‘I want you to come with me.! 8o I walked down with him. We went down to Main street and down to Davidson & Leventhal's hour and then came back to the car in which I way sitting, I had no Nquid of any kind in my possession. I didp't know there was any in the ear, ~After. he had taken the brief case and bundle he went down the re was a milkman The wagon was e yard, After that EMAND /"l [ { H]LLIPS”MH‘K OF MAGNESIA Accept only ‘genuine “Phillips” 1t was loaded, He |street somewhere, towards the main |store, We went to the back of the extra clip. He|street. 1 dou't recall whether he |store. 1 had to go up three of four had anything besides the one pack- |small steps to a narrow loading age and the brief case when he loft |platform, Mr. Miller was ahead of me and opened a door and went in, Ho said to watch out for a plck ax that was on the floor, T walked around a counter. Mr, Miller was ahead of me. There was a brief cuse lying agalnst the bottom of the mezzanine office and he asked me to pick it up, I pleked up the brief case and walked upstairs. the car, I don't know what was in the package under his arm when he left the car. When he left the car he was dressed in a light gray fe- dora hat, medium color, mixed gray sult, low tan shoes with rubber goles the entire length, dark tle, He wore a small moustache, T had a brown sult on, a brown fedora hat, ‘Be sure to tighten as I dropped one New Britaln, We Herald newspaper eventhal Break s llunded after the cracking of a'a ride to ¢ did not | get dinner, He sald he was going to | ler If we were going to New Haven | Mr. Miller got out of the car, took ki idson & cventhals | then know that they were going 10 !stop at a little inn he had been at|on this road. He sald we were go-|a brief case and package and walked [a dark brown necktle, high tan| “I walked up to the mezzanine | the original Milk of Magnesia pre- ) 1924, pictu open a safe, clatmed. HiS | bofore, We drove to the Old Colony | ing to New Britain, He sald, ‘I am |down the street. 1 don't know what [shoes and white stockings. I kept|floor and In the right-hand corner scribed by physiclans for 60 years a1 R dupe of Ger- as taken down by a stenog- | Inn, a short distance above Merlden. | going to blow a safe in that depart- | was in the package he took out of |the raincoat on. T dldn't sce any |was a large black safe. I saw the |an antaeld laxative, corrective, pman the trial of the rapher, follows |T had never been there before, He|ment store—the last one 1 was in'|the car, 1 don't know whether it|key to his car, I saw him walk |window open the fire escape. There 26-cent bottles, also 50-cent bot- e S ering Told Him He Blew Safes said it was a nice little inn and they |We drove over to short distance |was a sledge or & bar or elther or|away towards Main street. I sat in tios, oontain’ girections—any drus 1 James Skelly in superior We went down to Hartford. On |served very good food. We got to|within the center of w Britain, |both. He left me for about half an|the car. He told me to wait for (Continued on Mage 13.) store, betore Judg well Jennings wity down Mr. Miller sald that |the inn shortly after 8 o'clock. When rday afternoon | the bootlegzing game had got to be |We Kot there the dinner hour had ( N wced his acquainta ery quiet and in between times he | passed. Mr. Miller asked a little girl | ) an from June, 2 A1 to do other things fo make |that came to attend us for dinner 1o date of the Skelly murder | money. He told n swung on a |and wanted to know if it was too | . at he did not assist in|petar gecassionally. 1 asked him to | la $he. sald no, she could take safe blowing expediti t the [oxplain that and he suld it meant |care of us. T is Miss Lillfan | lson & 1 al store other [y iowing u safe, I askea him if Dr. | Knell, who testificd here the other | by accompanying Chapman. | jennson did it and he said, ‘No, ‘= We had a chicken dinner, No- zed what was belug | it; if doesn’t takes very long. He |body else was in the dining room. | 600 * quit tha job@nd | ijn't make any proposition of the | We got through dinner about 9| tore only to fall | kind 1o me, Nelther did Dr. John- |0'clock. Mr. Miller sald he would | , New Britain |qon e wers soms distunce this |lKe to stay overnight. Mr. Miller in 3 | side of Hartford w ha told me he | Was gned a front room and I ards Swarm Around Chapman | (.oagionally swung on a peter, We |had a rear room at the corner of | court spectators were giVe & |iiikeq about n cottage he on | the house. I went to bed and went during Shean's recital when |, . Quinsigamond, Worcester, | 10 slee 1 had a room to myself | our s who are assigned 1o | (por, spent some of his sum-|2nd he had one. Mr. Miller paid | v )AL nd surround- | epe - \e talked about the world [the bill of $2.50 to the little girl. : s State's Attorney Hugh M jes. 1 recall arriving at Harttord, | “I got up about 5 o'clock in the | . s of nitro- |\vo stopped fo get gasoline oh a | Morning. Mr. Miller woke me by | arge boulevard in Hartford the |1apping at my do We left the other side of the bridge. Mr. Miller |inn without breakfast. He didn't | paid for the gasoline, | “We went through Hartford to | New Britain. We pulled up at a sort a gasoline station and parked the | car there f few minutes, It was somewhere near the center of New dritain, We were there about ten or fifteen minutes. We went down to Main street to where the Besse ® er said he ootlegging business and wanted to lispose of several hundred cases of ss t roadhouses in old. He said | n as Waldo W. shiskey, From then on they met| ¢ A& Spoel (» FIE AL it in ¥ quently either at the Hotel |5 0 ¢ es ¢ < H o e aueny ey e aro®lland in a few minutes came out. He 8 For Constlpatxon i A \‘"AH\"“I into an alleyway w Nature’s Remedy (AR Tab- Lavidson & Leven door nearest the | | store of Davidsor into th nature action. interfeiter and, like Chapman, a m the federal prison at |‘“° ! Day tor \ The subject of counter. |1 Was waiting for him outside. When g was discussed occasionally, | 1® CAMe © aid that everything was all fixed an sald. ets Package Chapman G t vthing to him. “1 did RSN RS TR car and got i 1 ‘- en we t to Meriden. He ‘640 WINKS” say anything about the Besse store p t vening. He did Sunday morn- [ing. 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