New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 7, 1925, Page 1

\ , ; News of the World By Associated Press NEW BRITAIN HERALD TR 12,881| April 4th ... ESTABLISHED 18"!0 BEDRIDDEN INVALID.... 2 RESCUED BY FIREMEN WHEN N HOTEL BURNS NEW LONDO Fourth and Fifth Floors of Old Crocker House Gutted — 200 Guests Safe But Many Lose All Their Valuables. Property Loss Put at $400,000 — Groton and Norwich Send Fire- Fighting Apparatus to Aid. New London, April 7.—~Fire which started in the fitth floor of the | Crocker House, a 75 year old struc- ture and one of the best known ln1 this part of New England early this morning swept through the two top storles of the structure and pene- trated to the third floor burning down, before it was checked by fire departments of New London, Groton and Norwich. The loss was estimat- | ed at §400,000. Thrilling Rescues There were 200 guests in the hotel shen the fire broke out and all reached the street safely, although many of them lost large sums of money, jewelry and eclothing. There were & number of spectacular res ‘cues by the pollce and firemen, sev- eral bedridden Invalids being car- ried down through the smoke-filled halls. Among the guests were a Co!um-\‘ bia burlesque organization known as as the Bathing Beauties, The build- | ing'was owned by the estate of for- mer Congressmdn Bryan F. Mahan of this city. Today the board of trustees of the estate held a meeting | and decided to rebuild immediately The fire started In the top floor of the building used as a storing place, it is believed from a short gircuit in the electric wiring. 1t was discovered Dy Sergeant R. W. Haward and Corporal G. R. Carroll, who occupled rooms on thé fourth floor. The flre spread through the fifth floor rapidly and burst through the roof, the flames mounting nearly & hundred feet in the air, | Firemen Handicapped | The flames then worked down to the fourth floor and swept through that part of the structure leaving | but the walls standing. The firemen | were hampered by the lack of aerlal towers and high ladders and were forced to fight the blaze from the roof of the post office, a two and a | half story stmicture across the| street, The firemen made better head- | way gfter the fourth floor had been wiped'out but the flames reached the third floor before they were held in eheck. Filve etores on the first floor of | the structure and the balance of the | hotel suffered heavy damage from | the tons of water poured into the| upper stories. | In Serious Condition " Mrs. Ellen Vongerichter, 77, af| 143rd street, New York city is in a | serlous condition at the Lawrepce Memorial Associated hospital here, suffering from near suffocation, hav- ing been overcome by smoke in the fire. The woman who occupled a sulte on the second floor in the | westerly wing of the hotel was car- ried from the building by firemen and police officers at the height of | the fire, | | Concers Damaged The business concerns damaged by the fire wer | Arthur T. Jones of the Fitch-Jones NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, TUESDAY, APRIL 7, 1925, —EIGHTEEN PAGES o)) ‘PO ‘qdlaqr IV IDING CHINES 10 NOT RING 0UT Reporter, Tnvited to Marriage, 1§ Only Person There PRINCIPALS ARE ABSENT tired himself in & Prince Albert coat Marry Dead Wife's Aunt But Relatives Say She Knew Nothing About Proposed Nuptials, ‘When Wallace Sanford of 151 Whiting street took out a marriage license this morning and made an- nouncement of his wedding plans, relatives sald his prospective bride, Mrs, Mary E. King, who was not consulted in the nuptials plan, would not consent to the marriage. 100 BUILDINGS DESTROYED TFiremen Work Desperately to = z tired himsclf in t Prince Albert coat Prevent Powder Magazine From |and other regalia and prepared for . the homecoming of the one he plan- Ontching Pire—Death Ldst Will |04 o mako his bride. At his sug- v i | gestion a Herald representative went ¥otiBe Bnown Unthl Late 8 Day. | {5 ths A M: B/ Zlon churdh at 3180 Hanover, Mass., April 7—One man | this afternoon to witness the cere- s known to be dead and several ‘mony, but Sanford, his prospective ' - Vati 1F1rc-ih"““ and the minister, who, San- other employes of the Natlonal | ford sald, was to perform the cere- works Company's plant here are be- | yony were absent: lleved to have lost their lives when| Sanford came to the town clerk’'s a serles of explosions follggved b: | office early this morning and pro- fire destroyed a large part of the |cured a wedding certificate. He gaye plant this afternoon, The fire de- | his age at 45, his residence at 161 partments of seven towns were strug- | Whiting street, and said he was em- gling to save the magazines and sur- | ployed as a foreman in the Standard rounding houses. Style & Bearings Co. plant in Plain- Escape Through Windows. { ville. His bride, he said, was Mary Maynard Goodwln, whe was at| E, King, aged 55, and living at 121 work in the mixing room, one of | Whiting street, He paid the cus- scores of small shed buildings which | tomary fee of $1, folded up the made up the plant, was killed, Sev- | certificate and walked smilingly out eral other employes in the same |of Col, A. L. Thompson's office. building escaped by jumping through “Bride's” Sister Surprised. windows Into the Drinkwater river.| when a reported called at Mrs. It was in this room that the first|King's home her sister admitted explosion occurred, presumably from |njm and expressed surprise when in- a new machine which was being |formed as to his mission. 8he denied tried out there. |ner sister wasto wed, but Sanford At 2 o'clock it was estimated that |coming out of another room, made 100 of the 300 buildings had been |the first announcement to the fam- destroyed. The number of dead Will |{ly, After several minutes of debate not be determined until a checkup petween his prospective sister-in-law has been made of the workers, most [ang himself, Sanford went on to tell of whom are of PortugucSe and |of hig wedding plans. Fach an- Lithuanian origin. At that hour the |noucemet was grected with laughter. tiremen believed the powder maga- |ganford sald he was to marry at 2:30 zine was safe, but In the path of |o'ciock at the A. M. E. Zion church the flames was the large shipping and said Rev. Mr. Calnes was to building in which hundred of tons |perform the ceremony. The attend- ot finished products are stored. ants were to be Mr. and Mrs, Gllson Series of Explosions. of Hartford, and frlends from Hart- The explosion in the mixing shed |ford, New Haven and elsewhere was followed almost immediately by |would be present, he said. After the a long series of detonations as bulld- {ceremény, Sanford added, a two ing after building went up in frag- |weeks wedding trip to Washington, ments, Frantic girls at work in the |p, ¢, was in contemplation. sheds dived through doorways or P Chicago Bandits Hold Up EXPLOSION WREGHS FIREWORKS PLANT Several Reported Killed at Hanover, Mass., This Alternoon windows to seek safcty in the river. 8o severe was the-concussion that all | the windows were blown out in the [y s i factory of the Hanover Rubber Com- | UIION Members; Get $1,000 pany, 1000 feet away, and many| Chicago, April 7.—Nearly 200 workers were thrown to the floor. members of local 147 of the Tallors’ The high wind prevailing at the | union, meeting In their .hall were time drove the sparks far and wide | held up last night by five mon armed starting grass and brush fires over a | with shotguns and robbed of more large area. With a large part of the | than $1,000, plant already destréyed the firemen| The robbers operated simllarly to strove too save the company houses | those who obtalned $20,000 in money lotcupled by workers, many of which |and jewelry from 40 members of the | Showmen's lcague at a meeting Fri- (Continued on Page 15) day. 'SUNDAY SPORTS BILL GOES TO GOVERNOR FOR ACTION LEASE ON ROGERS' BLOCK Four Proposed Amend- WITH PURGHASE CONTRACT! ments Designed to Hold | Up Action Fail in State Senate Today — Signa- ture Seems Assured. Arthur T. Jones to Pay $175.000 For Property Fronting on Cen- tral Park State Capitol, Hartford, April 7. Efforts to have the Sunday sports | blll sent back to the house falled when the bill was brought up in the Dugald McMillan has leased to Co. the Rogers building which fis 10 EXHUME BODY Former Burcau of Standards Em- ploye at Washington May Not Have Died Natural Death. | now occupied by "the Woolworth |S¢nate today. Four amendments | were offered rapld fire succession | Five & Ten Cent Store o { Five & Ten Cent Store, offices and | ;150 "~ 1t was understood that an apartments, and a building in the rear, the lease containing a contract to purchase, and a bond for a deed extending to January 2, 1929, S0 bill could be sent back to the house where {of defeat, The bill now goes to the amendment of any kind was desired | t stood a chance | 24 1R, TRUCE OVER FRENCH FINANCES Forced Loan Measure Coming _Up oz Discussion Tomorrow BANK ISSUE INCREASED Proposal Would Permit National In- stitution To Raise Maximum Pa- per Circulation—Herriot and De Monzle To Explain, By The Associated Press, Paris, April 7.—The government's new financial bill, embodying the provisions for the proposed capita) {levy, or forced loan, was introduced in the chamber of deputies this af- |ternoon by Finance Minister De Monzle. The measure was agreed to by the cabinet this morning. He asked its immediate reference to the finance committee and a report on it before the end of the day. To Raise Bank Issue The government's financial plan also includes regularizing the cur- rency situation by raising the limit of the bank bill issue by the bank of France from 41,000,000,000 to a to- tal of 45,000,000,000 francs and in- creasing the limit of advances by the bank to the state hy 4,000,000,000 francs. M. D. Monzie asked the chamber |lo set aside tomorrow afternoon's sitting for examination and discus- slon of the finance bill, and the chamber agreed to this. Discussion Tomorrow “Owing to the extremely import- ant nature of this bill and the public anxiety which must and will be re- assured,” said the finance minister, “the government will be at the chamber’s disposition tomorrow."” It was announced that both Pre- mier Herriot and Finance Minister De Monzie would appear at once before the finance commission. Then, in an atmosphere still heav- ily charged with suppressed excite- ment, the chamber turned to the dis- cussion of woman suffrage. 24 Hour Truce Is Assured By this afternoon’s action what was virfually a twenty-four hour truce was arranged between the gov- ernment and the opposition, leav- ing the real battle on the govern- ment's bill for the “adaption of the monetary circulation” to be staged tomorrow afternoon. There is a probability that the part of the bill asking authority for the issue of four billlon francs in {aqditlonal paper circulation will be Iseparated from the *voluntary fore- }ed loans or capital levy” pari of the | measure. Text of Measure The text of the government's fl- | nanclal bill introduced in the cham- ber of deputies this afternoon reads: Section 1, i Adaptation of the monetars elr. culation to the needs of commerce and the treasury: Article 1:—The maximum of pa- per circulation by the bank of | France and its branches, which w fixed at forty-one billion francs in 1920, i8 raised temporarily to forty- five billion francs. It may be dim- |inished by decree. Article 11.-—~The convention made April 7, 1925, between the mini; of finance and the governor of bank of I'rance is sanctioned. er B (Continued on Page 14) RADIO INVENTOR S415 FANSMAY LSO WATCH |Predicts “The Prismatic | Ring” Will Visualize | Far Off Events Baltimore, April 7. |2 device known as | ring" will enable radio fans to sce | the next Olympic games as well as | hear the cheering, it is predicted in a report to the Amerivan Chemical soclety, by the inventor; C. Francis | Jenkins of WasRington, D, C, | He also promised that the stay-at- | homes may sce the praidential in- augural’ ceremonies from their own | & 3 fireside; see stant football, polo The salo price i to be $175.000, | governor. S el (e, ool { it s reported. Loule S. Jones, real- Senator Tone, democrat, stood out MEODALL & a SLDARL Y ' x - peiyad a regatta, mardi gras, flower festival tor, handled the transaction which for the two bills limiting the work-| on haby parade, while these things hes been under negotlation for sev- ' ing week for women and children, | DREYEPS ool hese thing Washington, April 7.—Police to- day ordered exhumed here the body | of Samuel P, C. Thurman, a bureau of standards employe who died nearly a year ago, and at the same time began an investigation of an attempt to ransack the home of his daughter, Mrs. Fleta Motherwell. Thurman's widow, now is the wite of John Bell, a member of the Marine band. She declared today | that Mrs. Mothdrwell and police had been accusing her of making cer- tain statements about Thurman's| death, Detectives working on the robbery of the Motherwell home are trying to run down reports that the | but was defeated, and the bills killed in the senate. In the house there was a long debate over rejection of a bill reducing the interest limit on small loans. Mrs, Merritt's Amendment. Senator Mrs. Merritt of Hartford ed an amendment to the Sunday | when it came up in the She would change the eral weeks. MeMillan holds the building under a lease and will raceive deeds trans- ferring its ownership to him January 1, 1926. The lease to Mr. Jones i effective May 1. HOLD ALLEGED KIDNAPPER | are actually happening More essentialiy applied, Jenkins says that the extension work of the | great universities can be more vivid- |ly and more retentively brought to | the distant farm boy and g ny other mann her can illustrate his a truction to the student in the inaccessible place. | most | 1 | Tnvention of |ment officers who had not ck “the prismatic |their original pleas of not ¥ |own confederates in upper that the question of | N military work the s of| rs. Mary Jones, Accused to Having baseball and football be put | ATmY and navy, it s decla may A X 3 : ndum at town meetings| 8¢ at headquarters all that ‘ Stolen New York Child, Held Un- elections in cities and towns|!00ks upon as it is carried aloft i whenever petitioned for by 20 or(® scouting airplane der $100,000 Bonds. eiectors. The %ote would le.| Jenkins explained that stili more y decide the question for that New York, April 7. — Mrs. Mary | tures are now excellen obbers sou etter bearing on | 0 »v radio and by wire, s _Mra. Bell attempted suicide last la charge of kidnapping & year old | o Beppitilhi ,‘.,?’,,'1‘,";:‘:‘ ner| onty difference betw November and it was while In the | gaimonde Von Maluski, Jr., will be mathod of logalizing Sunday sports| movies, the public may y hospital . delirlous she said it had |tried in special sessions April 22 on was more of a local option bill than | expect radio moves soon. Tt is now been charged she wrote a lefter |, petyy Jarceny made by the missing | the one passed by the hous a_dally laboratory demonstrat about her husband's death. | boy's father. Date for the theft trial | Senator Shaw opposed the amend- | “The prismatic ring is a new It I wrote any such letter,” she | g fred today. , ment saying that Mrs. Merritt's sub- | bution to optical science,” he said, “it was while I was in such | yon Maluski charges the woman | stitute bill did not give a satistac- | said, adding an upset state llu:l 1 didn't know |yoyy, stealing a stick pin and a small | tory machine to legalize Bur “By means of this prism a tiny -h‘a‘l!l “‘\s? {’;"“Fl SRR {amount of cash from his apartment. | sports for cities and towns, point of light is made to trav Mr‘lr«im;“”‘::flmrf" AYchr'l :}:’:a't“:; ‘\|r§, Jones was arrested after the A favorable report was made by | across a photographic plate in a suc St s e e e gt Lo i dfsappearance on suspicion | the committee on corporations on a | cession of paraliel a s, the :rd. gy ¢ A Ry hat she kidnapped him as revenge | bill authorizing the Central Connec- | strength of the antly e Ty b S AN hane 1::::'-::'{..““:~ u:;v. r for causing her | teut Power and Light Co.to pur- | changing by re varying declaring she was blindfélded and | Scores of police hing o A g i e e e | et Y n policen scarching Co. The merged companics are au- | pals. confined in the cellar while the the boy since March 29, have fatled | house was boing ransasked. to find &Py trace of him (Continued em PBecond Page) | The American Chemica in convention here, ) | “Reprisals Will Begin, I Guess,” |DISTRIBUTION OF REWARDS Declares Alcorn When Told Of Suspicious Steubenville, 0., Fire| OF SKELLY STILL IN THE AIR Lawyer Freedman, Chapman’s Counsel, Sees No Reason to Connect Client’s Pal Which Some Think Was Started As Revenge Against State’s Witnesses, | Golf Editor of Boston Hartford, April 7.—'"The reprisals will begin, I guess,” sald State's At- {torney Hugh M. Alcorn who prose- | *® cuted Chapman when told here to- day of the Steubenville fire, Nathan C. Freedman, junior coun- sel for Chapman ,sald he could not see what alm Chapman's pals could have In starting the blaze. He sald it would be just as reasonablo to suspect “some of Chapman's many sympathizers,” Loss Is $200,000. Steubenville, Ohio, April 7.—That the Stanton Motor Company garage fire here this morning which re- sulted in the complete destruction of the bullding and thirty automo- biles with an estimated loss of $200 000 was started by former associates ' Manager Of Finance Co. Office Reported Missing With $8,000 KILLS HUSBAND OF WOMAN HE LOVED Rochester Man Admits to Police He Shot Man as He Lay Aslecp in Bed Rochester, N. Y., April 7.—Joseph Fray, thirty-one years old, of Pitts- ton, Pa., confessed early this morn- ing, police sald, to the murder last Saturday night of James Lemardy as he was asleep in bed. Fray was held on a charge of murder, first degree, The wife of the murdered . man and Joseph W. Provenzano, an al- leged lover, were held as material ! witnesscs, the latter strongly sus- pected of ‘the deed. The poilee said they finally learned of Fray as a sec- one lover, who, for three years, had persistently sought the attentions of Mrs. Lemardy. The woman, it {e sald, broke down and confessed that Fray Saturday afternoon had made a last plea for her to elope with him. His plea failing, he broke Into the house near midnight, fired four shots into the husband’'s body and threatened Mrs. Lemardy, she is alleged to have told the police. 31 CINCINNATI COPS ENTER GUILTY PLEAS Charged With Liquor Graft Con- spiracy—Two Others Admit Guilt Later In Day Cincinnatl, April 7.—Thirty-one at last | With $200,000 Garage Blaze |of Gerald Chapman, bandit, is the | bellef of city authorities who are in- stigating. | Owned By Witnesses, | The garage 1s owned by Willlam Snyder and Miss Katherine Bourne, who were state witnesses against | Chapman at his recent trial in Hart- | ford, Conn, They testified that the | |automobile which figured in the |robbery, the motning that Patrol- {man James Skelly was slain, was | stolen from the Stanton garage here |some months previous and both tdentified Chapman as the man who had made inquirles about the price of the car a few hours before it was | stolen from the show window, It Is believed that assoclates of Chapman fired the garage as an act of revenge for the testimony of Sny- der and Miss Bournegat the trial. | Bristol Police Have War- i rant for Albert C. Kel- | sey, Who Disappeared \ Ten Days Ago. (Special to the Herald.) d Bristol, April 7.—Police authori- ties admitted today that a warrant has been issued for the arrest of Albert C. Kelsey, for the past two years manager of the local branch of the Personal Finance Co. who is | sald to be $8,000 short in his ac- counts, Kelscy's real name is sald i to be Kukaitis. Kelsey 18 sald to have. left the city ebout 10 days ago. He has not been seen since. A Dbarrier against information has been erected at the office of the company and reporters are refused details concerning the | alleged embezzlement. On complaint of officlals of the PRICE THREE CENTS FOR CAPTURE OF MURDERER LARRY PATON, FAMOUS Muncie Policemen Giv- | distance of his hits. | body. | the Salem News before joining the | staft of the Boston Herald. PLAYER, WRITER, DEAD Herald Killed in Four Story Fall Boston, April 7.~Leon B. (Larry) Paton, golf editor of the Boston Herald and well known amateur golfer, died this morning at 8t. Elizabeth’s hospital, as the result of a fall three hours earller from the window of his apartment in Brighton district. Leon B. Paton was a player-writ- er who wrote for ‘a living and played because he loved the game of golf. For something like ten years he had taken part in every national amateur tournament, while covering it as a writer. The press of his newspaper duties kept him from advancing far in match play, but he had experlenced the joy of qualifying, and in addition had the newspaper man's delight of being on the spot when something good breaks. For Instange, at the national amateur tournament at Merion last year he was the part- ner of D. Clarke Corkran when the latter did the first 18 holes of the qualifying round in a record-break- ing 57, Paton was one of the first golfers in his home town of Danvers, Mass. “When he was a pupil at the Danvers high school he used to practice aft- ernoons with a mashie on a tennis court. Though slight in his youth he was an excellent baseball player amazing other school boys with the ~The same skill at long driving without great | strength followed him into golf. For a time Paton was assoclated with his father in the publication of newspapers in Danvers and Pea- Later he was connected with Paton, who recently returned from Florl{da where he spent the winter, was fitting up a new apart- ment, his friends said. When he returned home early today from his work at the newspaper office he undertook to hang some window shades, and in some unexplained manner lost his footing and fell from a fourth floor window to the street below. His spine was frac- tured. He had been golf editor of Prosecuting At~ Mather issued a s arrest and | finance company, torney James T. warrant for Kel turned it over to the police. Kelsey is about 30 years old and | is unusually large, being well over | six feet in helght. He has been in | the employ of the company for sev- {eral years and was assistant man- |ager of company offices in Water- bury and other cities before coming to Bristol. SENT TO PRISON | John F. McMaster, 63 Year Old New | York Broker, Sentenced Y¥or | Bucketing Customers’ Orders, | former Cincinnati policemen and | [ rural dry agents entercd pleas of New York, Aprd F ~Mast | guilty to federal grand jury liquor |63 years, who w 1 of the brok- indlctment graft charges today. Six |¢rage firm of R. H. McMasters & of the men indicted had pleaded | CO» Which failed for $1,250,000 in Fuilty Saturday, 1873, today was sentenced to serve | District Attorney H. E. Mau an- ROt more than one year in the peni- nounced that two more former vil- lage dry agents had entered gullty pleas after the 31 appeared before Federal Judge Hickenloope Trials of the 65 former e nged guilty, were to begin today, but Judge Hick enlooper announced a number ¢ defendants desired to enter guflty 'ting gustomers’ or- | of Peter Van Der Poes, a Hoboken, N. J., Roy H MceM step-son of th principal witness trial. The el victed last wee I baker. ranted McMaster asonabl Federal authorities had been icate of r doubt ared to open their case on | continued his ball at $10,000 pend- | charges of connection with a graft ing appeal | ring to which protection money was Roy MeMasters, who is t paid by bootleg liguor and parcotic | dictment on the same interests. not be tried the Sentence was deferred an e de- fendants ‘were n they might be used by the government in prosccufing the cases of the remain- ing officers. Judge Hickenlooper an- nounced that attorneys for the 32 remaining defendans hal asked fur- wted ther continuance, which he & until Monda Robber’s Aim Bad, He Shoots His Own Pal ¥ w York, Aprll K Mmessenger w m after he had robbed of a checks, a robber wr tan today. The w s has heen disposc ca Mickey Walker and Johnny { Dundee Both Reinstated hampio, hurriedly carried to the har T g R stated upon his g y hox walting automobile and ¥ escape WOMAN FOR CONGRESS 60 dne i Mol 1 October 24, 1 Far RGN 5 Lowell, Mass., April 7.—Mrs. Editl 3 e il Nourse Rogers. widew of ¢ s L y man John Jacob Rogers, announced S today that she would become a ¢ ST te for election as representative dida th achus: of the district to sed her 1 WEATHER o Hartford, April T—Forecast for New Britain and vicinity: Fair tonight and Wednesday; slightly warmer tonight. THE S — Centerville April 7 The p commission b “onnecticut Co. on of its str @ s towy H L co o8 s ordered an | of with its the Boston Herald for many years and recently bhecame editor of a new golf magazine for New Eng- land. He was 42 vears old. STRIKE IS ENDED Work On New York's Twenty-two Million Doliar Building Jobs Will Now Be Resumed. New York, April 7.—An agree- ment was reached today by the In- ternational Unfons of Bricklayers and Plasterers, under which striking members of the Plasterers’ union were ordered to return to work on | the $22,000,000 construction work of |tip on Dr. the Thompson-Starrett company New York, Philadelphia and Chi- cago, This will end & four weeks' strile against that company result- ing from jurisdictional differences between the nnions. It was understood that would be issued today for the ing bricklayers to return to in orders strik- work ! also. The truce agreement was | reached at a conference this morn- Edw of the asterers’ union telegraphed instructions for {ts members to re- turn to work, Willlam J., Bowen, president of the Brickiayers’ union, ad previousiy said he would order nbers of his unlon to return to PARDONED MAN DIES Joe Mitchell of Waterbury Served Long Term For Murder—Prison Work Undermined Him, He Said. Mitche r the a to h was caused s y times. been the result of hard labor Hope Valley, R. L, Has Po_st Office Robbery April 7.—The post at Hope offi L Valley, R. I, about ) miles from here, was broken 1 some time last night The safe vlown to pleces and consider- able money and stamps in it taken Postmaster Frank Crandall coverel the bur when he opened he | take was W of Entrance was he glass in the ard J. McGivern, president | rt trouble, which he claims to | en Major Share of Credit For Arrest of Gerald Chapman In That City. Baglin, Volunteer Witness for Defense, No Longer Manager of Store on Stanley Street. Nelther Chiet W. C. Hart or De- tective Sergeant W. P. McCue have decided whether they will make ap- plication for the rewards offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the murderer of | Policeman James Skelly in this eity on October 12, 1924. There was & price of $3,500, $3,000 of which was offered by the state and $500 by the New Britain Herald, on the head of the patrolman's assassin, who, a jury decided last Saturday, was Gerald Chapman, in addition to $500 which the federal authorities had offered for the arrest of Chapman as an escaped conviet. These two officlals did without question furnish information which | was of assistance in bringing about {the capture of the famous bandit. ‘Whether they will share in the re- wards will likely depend on the attitude of the court which will un- doubtedly be called upon to decide how it will be ‘distributed. There is also a possibility that County Detective Hickey will be counted in with those who get the money. The New Britain officials are in- clined to give the major part of the credit to the Muncie policemen, who actually placed Chapman under ar- rest and they feel that the latter are entitled to a large part if not |all of the reward. . ! The belated story of how Chap- man's capture was effected came to light today through the discussion of rewards. When Detective Sergeant William P. McCue of this city no- ticed an express tag on which was written the address of Dr. Harry Spickerman of Munecle, Indiana pasted on the bottom of a bag s posed to have been owned by Chop- | man, the information was reluypd to the Munefe police. Before | Chapman’s argest, Ben Hance of, | Wheaton, Ind., who was a witnos | tor the state in the Chapman tr | was arrested at Muncie for a law I violation. When he was taken to ! police headquarters he mnoticed a | picture of Chapman on the wall, % “I know that fellow,” he said. *'He has boarded at my house.” “If you see him again let know,” Captain Puckett of 1)Iunclo police replied. i “Tom Miller” In Town A few days before Chapman was | caught, Hance's son came into the house and remarked: “I saw Tom on the street today.” Chapman was known to Hance as “Tom Miller.” Hance communicated with the Mun- ‘cle authorities and on the informa- {tion he gave them, coupled with the Spickerman’s address |from New Britain, Captain Puckett |detalled Detective Collins to watch |the Spickerman place. Taking up | is look-out in a hotel opposite the | Spickerman address, Collins was re- ‘wnrdcd by seeing Chapman come jout. About this time Collins was | joined by Captain Puckett. The lat- |ter, with other detectives, boarded |an automobile and trailed Chapman while Collins followed on foot. {Chapman's arrest quickly followed 1t {s probabe that, as the result of |all round cooperation, the New Brit- |ain police department, the Munecle {police and Hance will share in the |reward. It is not likely that the |court will determine to whom the |reward is to go until all appeals in |the Chapman case have been taken and disposed of. The $500 offered |by the federal government for the |capture of Chapman w be |tributed by the depart |tice, - us the Baglin Leaves Grocery Store | Arthur W. Baglin of 386 Stanley |street, a volunteer witness in behalf {of the defense in the Chapman trial, has severed his connection with the Economy Grocery Co., it was learned | toe 1t is being rumored that his testimony was responsible for this |action. Mr. Baglin, when questioned sald he was “taking a | fon” and would deny any re- that he had been discharged Inquiry at the store at the cor st y and Pleasant ch Mr. Baglin was formerly ma ded to prove tl it was learned that he not in and would not he Tty thought that this action was take through the Rristol district offic n not through the main office at Watc bury. Mr. Baglin offered himself witness in behalf of Chapman on t ground that Officer Alfr E. Atw er, who identified the bandit murderer of Officer James N |had told him he could not ide the gunman. He voluntarily wro to Chapman’s counsel and was later jcalled to the stand to contradict At | water, whose testimony was therehy discounted by the jury. | Chapman in Prison Garb, | Chapman, dressed in the re tion prison garb, for which he for. sook his neatly tallored elothing fo lowing his conviction Saturday fo the: murder of Patrolm Jame | Skelly on October 12, 1924, fs 1 streets there ] (Continued on Page 15)