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News of the World ” By Awsociated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 BABE IN THIS CITY PRIOR 10 SLAYING Rogers Lelt Child With Rela- tive on West Main Strest — . ADMITS ~ CAUSING DEATH Father Admits Ho Put Infant and Ohloroforni in Suitcase and Check- son of | about justice, ed'# at Now Haven Railroad| Governor Donahey, it Wwas an-| The girl was located at an east Sta nounced at the Governor's ofice to- | side address after a person, whose “I don't belleve it,” was the state- ment made last night by Mrs. Sigrid Nordgren of 431" West Main strect, when informed that her cousin, Thurlow H. Rogers had confessed to the murder of his infant child, whose body was found in a suitcase in the rallroad station at New Haven on Mhrch 24, It was to the Nordgren home that Rogers told the pollce of Schenectar . dy, N. Y., he had sent the baby, later confessing that he had killed it and checked the body at the railroad station in New Haven, The confession “of Rogers clears up & mystery upon which New Ha- ven police have been working for the past five weeks, following the finding on March 24 of the suitcase contalning the body of the infant, Rogers, who s a native of Water- bury, was in New Britain a short time ‘before the baby disappeared, taking the child from the Nordgren home where ft had been kept and saying he was going to leave it with' hils brother, Earl C. Rogers, in East Hartford. This is the last record of the baby having been seen alive, The following Sunday Rogers is al- leged to have been fn New Britain again and to have said he had placed the child in an institution. 1 “Sent Baby to Heaven."” 1 The attention of the authorities was turned towards Rogers when he was found unconsclous in a hotel in Schenectady last Saturday with a halter around his neck and attached to the bed post and a quantity of piils in his pocket, several of which o is alleged to have taken. A note nearby sald “I have sent m§.baby to Heaven." Ho remained in an unconscious ondition until yesterday when he re- - NEW BRITAIN HERALD § N6y ‘paojyaey gy APy Lamaqyy a)eeg jnaneouus) Governor of Ohio Admits Father. Columbus, 0, April 8. — Lilllan Vogel, 15 year old missing Zanes- yille girl, is In Columbus and she was brought here Sunday night by Hal' Donahey, 17 year old day. The glrl s in a Columbue rooming house, it was announced. It is pre- #umed that she will be taken back to Zanesville by her mother , who was en route to Columbus, ‘The governor was in a stern frame of mind today, ‘and dispatched Hal and James W. Huffman, his execu- tive secretary to Zanesville to inves- tigate statements made there placing his son in a compromising position, While only a brief announcement Wwas made at the goveror's office, it was indicated that the facts are not as represented to the' governor by young Donahey on Monflay night when it first 'was known that the girl was missing from her home. Hal admitted to his father that' he brought the girl to Columbus Sunday night, and immediately Gov- ernor Donahey communicated with EDITOR:IN CHIEF OF WESLEYAN MAGAZINE H. B. Bradbury Head of “Wasp,” Humorous Publication governor's office at to this time Hal stuck to his etory that in Zanesville before Columbus, The girl disappeared TO JAIL TILL —r Recorder Corrio when he was'in court with striking her and toxlcation, “Let him stay in Saturday morning and Middletown, Conn., April §.—At a meeting of the publications board of Wesleyan university held yesterday afternoon, H, B, Bradbury of New Britain, was elected editor in chief of the Wesleyan Wasp, the college humorous publication, for next year, Bradbury has been a member of the the recorder, be taken. rained consclousness and upon be- n& questioned by the police said he ! 1ad sent the baby to his cousin, ‘Irs. "Sigrid Nordgren of 431 West Main street, this eity. Last night up- on being questioned hy Chlef ot i‘blice Wiliam H. Funston he ad- ted having caused the death of e child. 4 He said the act was accomplished 'y placing & sponge saturated with hloroform in the suitcase with the 1d and checking it at the New aven station. 'He also admitted the 1lling to his brother, Walter E. gers of Troy, N. Y., sald to be & salesman for the New Departure Co. In Daze Since Wife's Death, Rogers says he has been in a daz cver since the death of his wite on March 1. The baby was born in the St. Mary's hospital at Waterbury on the evening of February 28, and at §:30 o'clock the next morning the mother passed away. For 12 days the father left the child in the care of the hospltal authorities, then he took it to his wife's folks, who re. sided in Waterbury, Here family difficulties are sald to have arisen’ over & difference in religion and of his mother, Mrs, Nellie E, Rogers, prominent student in the various ac- | Rogers moved the child to the home | tivities on the campus, meeting the remainder of the Wasp | Wasp staff for three years, and is a Populdrity | border citics, serted today, It is understood one | the Canadian side of | figure, | H. B. BRADBURY troit and Windsor, At the same Is to buy me a new hat for Eas- ter,” was Mrs, Brooks' verdict. The judgment was approved by Brooks said no appeal would ‘BEER WILL COST DIME, BUT THIRSTY DON'T CARE Windsor Brewers Announcement Has No Effect On Ontario’s 2ls0 of Waterbury, and later to the Nordgren home in New Britain, About three weeks ago he took the child trom the Nordgren home may- ing he was going to leave it with his brother Earl C. Rogers of East Hart- ford. He stated at the same time that he was going to look for work in Hartford. He is said to be a drug- gist and had an application filed to become a registered pharmacist hut board were elected for next year as | follows: Art editor, H. L. Rich of | Néwtow, Mass., humor editor, E. Lyford of Bridgeport, Conn.; feature | editor, H. J. Littlefield of Lyun, | Mass.; associate editors, R. J, Lea of Sandusky, O.; H. G, Coit of Fast Orange, N. 1, H. A. C. King of West | Chazy, N, Y. The members of the | . . business board who were chosen this | Ellingsen Girl Goes year are R. 8. Dunham. of New York | L] who becomes intoxicated * | sternly dealt with, prove the government grave breach of propriety. To attempt was Son Went Away With Girl Elder Donahey in Stern Frame of Mind As He De- clares Hal Brought 15 Year Old Zanesville Miss to Columbus — Youth Misrepresented Facts to His Chlef of Police French of Columbus and with Prosecutor Crossland, of Muskingum county, advising them ‘that he.would cooperate identity was not revealed, called the noon and an- nounced that she was in this city, When faced with this fact, Yotung Donahey broke down and admitted to his father that he had brought the girl with him Sunday. he returning to | Police at the trial so that the board can take action in the matter. from the Bringing the subject before the Columbus rooming house some time between 9 a. m. and noon today. Shortly after 9 a. m., the rooming house keeper told newspaper men that the girl had received a tele- phone call and that she came down- stalrs and talked. At noon when the landlady went to call her for news- paper men, she was not in her room, WIFE SENTENCES HUSBAND SATURDAY, AND HE MUST BUY HER HAT Atlantie City, N, J., April 8,.— today gave Mrs. Clarence Brooks the priv- flege of sentencing her husband «io - | FEET PINIONED, HINER st wot ORDERS FRIEND 10 G0 Detroft, ‘April 8.—Announcement |cue, but Kean told him his efforts [0t Windsor brewers that when On- tario’s 4.4 spirit proof beer goes on |sale it will cost at least ten cents, has not slackened the demand houses and business property in the real estate dealers as- hotel on river jchanged hands last week at a high Country clubs also report an | unusual increase fn the number of | applications for membership. Yet another report connected with the anticipated coming of 4.4 beer, I | that efforts will be made to obtain {all night ferry service between De- the To those who expect the coming |of the more potent beverage will mean an era of unrestricted came a warning from May | Mitchell of Windsor that any tourist be | to wrong in holding that 4.4 beer is not in- | toxicating, he Intimated, would be a | will on to bring Previous had steadfastly knew nothing of the girl's whereahouts and that he had left her at her home ! for Jjoy F. J. " BOARD WILL PROBE at Chapman Trial D. & L. Store Burglary, Patrolman John Licbler, was scored by Commissioner Thomas F. Jackson at the meeting of the board of police commissioners last night. On mo- tlon of Commissioner Jackson it was of the evidence given by the local bdard, Commissioner Jackson said that he felt that officlal notice should be taken by the board of testimony given by several of the policemen if newspaper reports were correct. When the matter was mentloned, Commissioner Edwin A, Parker ex- pressed himsélf as heartily in accord with the feelings of Commissioner Jackson and he seconded the motion for an investigation, Much of the dissatisfaction with the verdict of the jury that has be- come manifest among the public was attributed by Commissioner Jackson to the poor impression made on the witness stand by the local police. “Court and police officials expressed (Continued from Page Twelve) Moving Mass of Coal Slowly Snuffs Out His, Mahoney City, Pa.,, April 8.—His feet pinioned by a fall of rock, which held him helpless while a slowly moving mass of coal and dirt gradually engulfed him, . Thomas Kean, a miner, calmly ordered his | helper to safety and met death un- flinchingly in a coal mine here. Kean sought to release a mass of coal and rock that T'ad Jodged in a {chute far underground. Before he could spring to safety a slide nln-‘ ioned his feet. Lawrence Coulson, heedless of danger, went to the res- | would be needless sacrifice of an- other life. “My time is up!” erled “Get out, you fan't save me!" Coulson crawled to safcty and watched the earth pile up until it covered his friend. MUSSOLINI INTERVENES Italian Premier Thus Settles Kean, | the Stock Exchange Situation Which | s Has Threatened Business, By The Associated Press. Rome, April 8.—By porsonal in- tervention, Premier Mussolini has | settled the stock exchange situation which appeared to threaten Indefi- rite stagnation of activities on the | bourse, After suspension of exchange ac- tivities for several days as a protest | against the government's new dras-{ tie training regulations, the premier | last night summoned to his resi- | dence representatives of brokers, leaking banks, exchange traders and the ministry of finance, | A t POLICEMAN'S ROLE Liebler Will Explain Testimony JACKSON EXPLODES BOMB Patrolman, Cross-Examined, Denled Knowing of Shean Being Identi- fled or Johnson's Connectlon With Testimony glven at the trial of Gerald Chapman, cgnvicted murder- er of Patrolman James Skelly, by voted by the board to secure a copy | Insists He $ave His Own Life, While | |mit the | band. 5 none anywhere els said that during the Chapman’s trial he received a letter of it the letter was destroy preparation of Chapman's appeal to verdict given in the auperior court. The appeal will clerk of the court before next Prefers Being Old Girl's Darling to Young Girl's Slave it Chicago, April 8.-—Mrs, Ida Sundine Campbell, widow, 60, and James Weaver, 21 year old clevator operator, plan to be married Saturday in the muniel- pal conservatery in Garfleld Park, providing permission is granted, Mrs. Campbell has announced. Mrs, Carpbell, who styles her- selt a “Dishwasher and Poetess,"” wrote a poem about the conserv- atory last year, 8o after she and Weaver, who came to her board- ing house last November, décided to marry, they plcked the con- servatory for the nuptial scene, The boarding house is called “Cupld's Inn." Weaver would “rather be an old girl's darling than a young zirl’s slave,” Mrs. Campbell said. e S— DENY CHAPMAN CASE HURT BAGLIN'S STATUS Lawyer and Superintend- ent of Economy Co. Make Statements (%peclal to the Herald.) Bristol, April 8.—Arthur W. Bag- lin was not discharged from the management of an Economy Grocery store in New Britaln for any con- nection with the Chapman case, ac- | cording to James Burch, district su- i perintendent, who makes his head- | |quarters here. Mr. Burch would not explain today why Baglin had sev- ered his connection with the com- pany. | Waterbury, April 8.—Attorney John H. Cassldy of this city, general counsel for the Economy Grocery Co., In a statement isseud today de- nied emphatically that Arthur W. Baglin, a clerk in an Economy Gro- cery store in New Britain was dis- charged because he testified in be- half of Gerald Chapman at the Chapman murder trial last we Baglin has so charged, it is alleged by the compan.. He testified that Patrolman Atwater, who identified Chapman had told him he could not recognize the man who did the shooting. Attorney Cassidy stated Baglin was discharged for’ another cause and challenged Baglin to yes- company to tell tie real | reason for his discharge. Tancaster, Pa, April Mrs, (U0 : 2 Dodge agrecd | TNt and the Bavarian people's Counsel for young Dodge agrecd | RN b Annle Trier today sald that the|y,'aiumite:i'of the notlon afier it had | PRFtY: There ter Von Hindenburg fancy of Chatics Thomaa Chapman, |y oo ow timt the contsmplated | 122ucd an official endorsement of the 11-year-old son of Mrs. Trier, that | ' o mutomobile plant to Dil- | 0:10Wing parties : - sale of the automobile pla The Gern national people’ ierald Chapman might be his father Reid a0 Conpans. ot ¥ ntew e G ational people’s because of the similarity of names, | 'of R : an | PATty, the German people’s party, S @MES | York was a sale #f assets rather than is sald to have started the report that the criminal was her first hus- 1 Mrs. ‘Trier, formerly Miss Annfe| - he estate of his half sis- : Carr, married Thomas A,,n,lrong|:§; sl ‘A\;”;‘m‘! Dodge, who died | O7CAst several hours before he ac- Chapman in Philadelphia in 1908 | °% 478 BATEE ago of four years, | (UAllY acccpted, as it was known and divorced him five years later, 1 Hartford, April $.—State's Attor- ney Hugh M. Alcorn today expressed | an opinion that Mrs, Charles Trier, | of Lancaster, Pa., {s not a former wife of Gerald Chapman, | t t Nothing has come to my atten- tlon that would lead me to believe | it is 80, said Mr. Alcorn. “I do not | think there is anything to it.” | stands as_officially announced | Suit For Injunction Réstraining Sale of capital stock. $12 is proceedings to ¥ BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 1925, —EIGHTEEN PAGES HERRIGT BARELY WINS CONFIDENCE Yote Acoonded French Goven-| ent by Majority of Two FINANCES UP ON FRIDAY| NEARLY TWO IDENTIFIED French Premier Late This Afternoon Unexpectedly Issues Urgent Sum- Candidate of” National- Conservative Bourgeois mons For His Ministers to Attend Meeting—Crisis Near, v By The Amsoclated Piess. Paris; April 8—The Herriot go ernment, ralsing the question of con- fidence on a minor detail of the ed- ucation budget in the chamber of deputies this evening obtained a ma- Jority of only two, the vote being 142 to 140, The chamber of deputies this aft- ernoon fixed Friday evening for dis- cussion of the government's bill for relief «of the fiscal difficulties of France, The finance committee promised to have its report on the measure ready at that time, Premier Herriot has unexpectedly issued an urfgent summons for his ministers to attend a cabinet meet- ing, By The Assoclated Press. Berlin, April day as he C conservative bourgeois bloc, It was announced that the field a office, The nomination of Von Hinden- burg and his acceptance were for- mally announced at'2 p. m. at the Cabinet May Resign The government's majority of two, recorded in a vote of confidenee in the senate today, later, disappeared when two senators declared their votes wrongly entered in the records. The vote of confidence 142 to 140 but Premler Herriot having heard of the hanges summoned a cabinet meet- ing for 9:30.p. m. to consider the ministry situation and whether res- ignation should be offered. In the lobbles of the chamber of deputies the meeting of the: cabinet was widely interpreted as meaning that the ministry would resign to- night. DODGE LOSES ACTION Field Marshal Von Hindenburg. = -_— of Capital Stock of Auto Concern 5 concluslon of a four-hour session of Dismissed. 5 the national bourgeols bloc in the cal | COUTSE of which the terms laid down e ; J # 5P| discussed. mother, Matilda Ra Dodge, from faeehy . 1o s > opposition of Foreign Minis- sclling the capital stock of Dodge | *4® OP) i 5 Brothers, Inc, left by her husband, :r > ;,f.‘f:,‘f,“:‘:xhi’?:;?,mpsfl:{;: ng‘:".hl;’“:‘0;":‘;\“"‘”“[:[;“;‘:“"’\“" DY.CIr | 6r tactors, comprising . thé unttel o ke day. the Bavarian people’s party, the Pa~ was | VArian peasants’ league and the eco- | nomic league. Von Hindenburg's nomination was John Duval Dodge's petition sased on his claim to a one-fifth in- this morning that he had agreed to run against former Chancellor Wil- helm Marx in the elections of April 26 if assured of the united support of all the parties comprising the na- IoMEROUEE NAS star e pLobaleICOUTt | IoHal! FilTReole bleo b Deey 1TaY tha s L hls clalm 10 | gpnosition. of Forelgn. Minister et DOdge. | Stresemann it was stated beforehand | that the German peoples’ party would not oppose the fleld marshal if he was nominated. an estate valued at about | 00,000, Mrs, Mathilda R. Dodge administratrix of the estate. In connection with the present ac- | eaving he estate of Anna Mar McKENZIE CHILD, KIDNAPPED BY ITS MOTHER VON HINDENBURG WILL RUNFOR PRESIDENCY | |Former German War Lord 8.-Fleld Marshal Von Hindenburg was nominated to- “rman republic by the national- marshal had agreed to stand for the Averags wily Circulation For Week Ending 12,881 April 4th ,,, PRICE THREE CENTS YEARS AGO, IS Little Girl, Known As Mildred Grofe, Being Reared By Couple In Englewood, N. J. — Supposed Orphan Baby. ndidate for president of Today’s Discovery Brings to Close Sensational Mystery in Which Police of 9,000 Cities Aided. New York, April 8.—Prosecutor Hart of Bergen county, N. J., in- forméd New York police head- quarters today from Hackensack that Mr. and Mrs. Peter McKenzie had positively identified a child known as Mildred Grofe, found in Englewood, N. J., as their daugh- ter, Lillian, who avas kidnapped here in August 1923, o The identification by the miesing child’s parents ends one of the most baffling mysteries in the history of the police department and marks the close of a search in which police of more than 9,000 citles in the United States and Canada were asked to aid. Identification Complete The child identified by Mr, and Mrs. McKenzie as their own had been living in Englewood as Mildred Grofe, daughter of Mr. and Mrs, ¥. V. Grofe, Prosecutor Hart told Cap- tain Ayers, head of the miasi per- sons' bureau of the No= “ork po- lige department, that * ntifica- tlon by the McKenzie: iisfac- tory to the Bergen c¢ cfiicials. Mannerisms of the chil ..id facial characteristics, Captain Ayers said Mr. Hart told him, indicated beyond any doubt that the child is the miss- ing Lillian McKenzie. Given by “Dr. Green” Captain Ayers said the Bergén county prosecutor also informed him that Mrs. Grofe had said the girl was not her own but that it was given to her by a “Dr. Green.” This *“Dr. Green,” Captain Ayes sald was quot- ed by Prosecutor Hart as saying that he had obtained the girl, when a young baby, from an unmarried mother, named Sullivan. Mr. Hart informed him, Ayers said, that this reputed mother of, the child could not be located. ‘Was Three Months Old Lilllan McKenzie was kidnapped from her perambulator in front of an 18th street store in Manhattan when she was three months old. Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts and the Salva- tion Army joined in the country- wide search for her, The search was turned toward the child known as Mildred Grofe when Dr. Bernard Gottlieb, of Manhattan, revealed to detectives a few days ago that he had attended a sickly, ill- 2 Attorney Nathan O. Freedman of | Chapman has no wife living in L. caster, and so far as he knows, ,(IS‘ Mr. Freedman | progress of from Mre. Trier, but thoug Mr. ¥reedman today iz he supreme court of errors from the be filed with 3 N compromise agreement was | let 1t lapss mccdrding to relattves. | city, B, H. Bijou of Brookiyn, N, Y. | o Stand This Afte‘ MOON | ;cheg, and the premier gave his gt | ha This may account for his apparent | A. B, Horlacher of Hazelton, Penna, | S2" Irancisco, April 8.—Dorothy | porsonal assurance to all® bourse | ¢ase in obtaining - chloroform and| =i | Ellingson, 17-year-old slayer of her | (raders {hat they would he permit- HAS GLOSE CALL strychnine, q | mother, took the witnesa stand in|teq 1o continue Weir activities de. o Tnsti | Buperlor court today at her trial for | yrits the previous announcement by | . Reported onia tn mseiemion. | PECULIAR WAGER sanity, Judgo Louderback satisfled | yp ' L1 PIeYBUS announcoment by | 5 vl The Sunday after he took the child | the minitser of finar ha ¢ /Man Battles Current 40 Minutes, — | himself that the defendant und | away from New Britain, Rogers was at the Nordgren home New Jersey Taxi Man Bets Business and upon {ne allowed her to be sworn. | being questioned sald he had placed ‘ed| The court then in.ormed the girl | the child in an institution. Later he | ABaINSt Restaurant He Can Wed R R e forced ‘lm sald “I'm going where the child 18" [ 1 3g Fours. answer any question which might At that time she said he seemed | incriminate her. Assistant District very much worrled and appeared to| Metuchen, N, J. | April 8.—A taxi- cab business was wagered against a restaurant business here today as the stakes in a bet that the owner could | get married within 36 hours al-| though he has no prospective bride | nor woman friend. The wager was made & signed agrcement before | Attorn | interrogate the witness. be in need of money. She heard nothing more from him until yes- terday when she informed Detective Sergeant George Ellinger of the New Britaln police department that she had received a telegram from Schen- octady telling her that Rogers was county attorney clear vi dead. She did not showsthe ser-| Alfred D. Hyde, a notary public, | 1 geant the message. This telegram | The wager resulted from patrick | Hearst and Schenck Plan lated proved . to be incorrect when Kreps, « owner of the taxi business, word was received from Chief Funs- ton’ that Rogers had ‘confessed to slaying his child. . According to the police of New Haven the suitcase containing the baby was checked there on March 24 by a woman, Mrs. Nordgren said last night there was some gossip of Rogers having an affair with an- other woman but she knew nothing definite and had mot heard any names. She sald Rogers was a wild sort of a fellow-and one time be- being joked about his single state hy William A. Eichbaum, restaurant owner, when Kreps went there for breakfast today. Arkansas Town to Be Run Entirely by \\'omen! Fayetteville, Ark., . April s, Despite last minute efforts by back sliders among mere men, women wiil run'the eity government of Winslow, Los Angeles, {day He: Schenck. |have formed a partnership says that Willlam Announcement was made - Hearst tlons, the paper say in as many cities, a small resort town in the Boston | New York, Chicago and Los An. fore his marriage had threatened to | Mountains, during the ensuing year. 'geles. have boen selected and the | shoot up his family. She sald he | Every office, from mayor to treasur. fourth will be the natural supple- was of a nervous, erratic type. Rogers-1s belng held under police supervision in:the Schenectady hos- pital whers He is sald to be in & serious conditlon, er, will be filled by women as a re- sult of the election held yesterday. | blanket the United States weekly newspaper, the first woman |tainment. Construction mayor in Arkansas, will have the Started as soon as first all woman city council in the |¢duipment can be obtained state to work with. Mix to Start Investigation. ‘Waterbury, April 8.—Coroner Eli Mix of New Haven arrived in Water- bury at noon today to condmet his G. O. P, CARRIES OHIO N Detroit, April 8.—The overwhelm- | Kiln PELLED FROM EXCH York, April | | er who has been a member of investigation In the death of the in-| Ing election of all republican candi- the New York stook exchange since fant son af Thurlow Rogers of this|dates for minor state offices in the | May 20, 1910, was expelled -today clty, who admitted Yo the Schenec-| biennial election of yesterday was!' after a hearing on charges of vio- tady, N. Y. police that he ehloro-| shown last night In the tabulated | lating sections of. the constitution returns. Les than 300,000 persone |relating to misstatements before (Continued in Page 13) voted. committee. ' | stood the nature of an oath before v Harmon Skillin began to He asked | | her categorical questions—where the 1 was, the names. of her where they were seated. She gave her responses in a low but | answering tersely. motion picture executive, a nationwide radio-casting program. Four powerful radlo-casting sta- will be erected Three of these, ment enabling, the four stations to Mrs, Maud Duncan, publisher of a|daily program of news and enter- will location 8.—Gilbert Big Radio Broadcasting | April §.—The | Angeles Examiner in an article to- Randolph publisher, and Joseph M. to start by Mr. with a be and ANGE w. | Los | | number of traders would be restrict- |+® The premier also promised new dcerees would be published and bourse traders would be permitted | to put up state honds to the extent | of 45 ing licenses. While permitting all | x to continue their operation ussolini made it clear that h proved Secretary of Finance ani’s Intentions to restrict the num ber. The premier explained, how- | w ever, he had no desire that present : fa | traders should bear the entire bur- | w den of the reduction, but no ones would be licensed as tra retired, t re th ary new Mrs. Frank Oldershaw | Of West Hartford, Dead | Im i Mrs. Frank Oldershaw of 90 Whit- | s ing Lane, West Hartford, died at the Hartford hospital at 1:15 o'clock day. She had been {1l only a short time and after being taken to the |w hospital, was unable to rally, She was the wife of Frank Oldershayw who was formerly city engineer in New Britain. She moved from this nc en | honey, driver of the automobile nephew, | of whiskey, and was immediately city to her present home seven years| KNOWN Hartford Man, Dies heid under 200 bonds for d a neice, | arrested W ago. H@rttord, April 8.—Charles I.|charged with operating while under PRoiy 115 s hote fof Nichoias, Pailadino, Besides her husband, she leaves | Dillon, member of ths dem the influ f liquor. real estate and | 12 Home street, from whom the two sistsers, Mrs. J. M. Martin of | state central committee sin — c ties. in trust, for the | gallor has said he bought liquor New Haven and Mrs. A. F. McLean | representing the secénd district and | WIFE AND SELF w § upon the | was then raided by local police and of Branford. The funeral arrange- | for many years a par ader {n April § h ' d Schurr, Otto Miller is | coast guard petty officers, and the ments have not yet been completed, | Hartford, died “early this morning. seaman, 151 ive third interest in | proprietor arrested as he was al- but burial will probably be in New | He was 71 s old. Mr. Dillon had Mary b gs and §0 acres of land | leged to have attempted to destroy Britain, been in the undertaking business for | home 1 shortly after m Arkansas, and Mrs. Glaughry s | his liquor supply., In police court —_— vears and in 1922 was elected 1t shot himsel a one-third #* | | j o | 1y: Fair tonight and Thurs- H death he was president of the! day, cooler tonight; brisk Hartford board of fire commission- | | morthwest winds, ers and he was just completin s | { | ninth year as a member of that L — # | poara, ——— cent to obtain thelr trad- | rapry W vie || of funeral directors. He has also —o0— headed the state and county. under- For New Britain and vicini- || takers ation. At the time of| m |th Under Niagara Falls, Niagara Falls, alte, an ara state reserv n ice floe pocket he American fails tol swly escaped being e cataract. Waite, a steeple j as scaling the gorge bank near th lls knocking off loose r descending a rope N f of ident of the national association Chapman defense counsel, declared |Three Canadians Held fn Connection | ARREST SUSPECTS nourished baby girl at the home of entering the gruelling race on count of his age were met by sup- Von Hindenburg's protests against | ac- Mrs, Grofe on August 27, 1923, nine cays after the McKenzie baby was kidnapped. | in ander Buchanan, Canadian war vet- | cited, er ® Finally Escaping Being Drawn | o, der | k, | Staten Island With Waverly Gas Mask Murder | POrters who adduced to the aged | war hero the examples of men on Last Week, |the verge of eighty who had made | nis office, its face veiled. He said good as smen. They painted | her angweis to his questions wene Dedham, Mass, April 8—Three |out that Bismarck when he was Te- | evasive and aroused his suspicions. all Canadians, were arcested |(ireq was considerably older thas | o1 Holdtiie investizators hat’ Ve Milton today for questioning in|the field marshal. The cases 9L/ aould ofter evidence thar.tie ohila onnection with the death of Alex-|Clemenceau and Balfour wero also T pa e ran whose body was found in an| ndoned ceilar hole in Waver Saturday. A gas mask ere were plenty of objectlons to | ly [the field marshal’s nomination voic- of aled in the nationalistio ranks, how- | e e ey o marous members of the old | 'I\f Gottlieb s.xl"lvlljr\[whr‘n ho had ad been attached to the head and resime litcrally “standing aghasy | attended the baby at Mra. Grofe's urated with chloroform. at the Honithatithetone e | cRlliReehlionas suftoringssosser S ealas el > of the glorious past” | OUSIY from malnutrition he had to The. thr e : d into the quagmire of |take cxtreme measures to save her ,“' J[»‘r»f.r'hrr’:) 2l v party politi Mrs. Grofe explained that the .?ll m:\-&.‘lp;v‘rhm‘m] s s been a soldier all his life | baby's condition was due to the fact Soaleiniea) (ohintgs fiot e 10lly typifies the rigid mon- | that she and her hu i had been y and taker il which has gone,” ob- ! on a trip to England, leaving the ine officers from the town of Bel L well known former naval | fant in the care of a woman who ""‘, who had en ¥ any attempt t make P knew little about the care of little Buchanan myster he post of president of | children. n them this afternoon. ; 1 republic—a new world | . THREE IN HOSPITAL t frivolity s volitical in- ! S Men Injured When | Auto Crashes Into Tree on New WILL OF . W, SCHURR " Haven Turnpike, Konig | 1 : Estate Divided Among Relatives in the ground had to jump a short dis- 3 2 y New London, April § edro nce. " He miscalculated, slipped and ! Milford, April 8. — Threa yo This City, Hoboken, N. J.. and | Caiimiim, Filipino. mess & 1en were taken to the Milford 0. 1 into the water. ol e e ane g the coast guard base here, is in the Waite was held in the pocket fr "‘(“j-‘;yt;‘x"“‘\”k“ A nean Seranysby derme oliTestament:iincae by bt o I facing ore than 40 minutes, but succesded | 42y on the New Hae npike . AR i i Bt ng I th A e e e AN [ st | Cant b et G et har et BT of Charles M irt martial tria ng in com enery below the falls saw him and | n;“nmi !«v ashed into a itk 2 x tifled reservation officfals. j pole, breaking the pole e 2 ey was thrown to Waite and the car. The Injuries susf _ Coast guard officers sent Tl L 20t serlous consisting of cuts | Caltmiim with marked buy a8 given medick] attention and tak. |brilfsss. Dantel ] yuor from a man in thi from e niech MEhn ey Ahe i suspected of having | - SR B |of Staten ved Iy bought The sai | 4 . . {the shospital, el M . Charles J. Dillon, Well prop- sehold furni- rs, died today est Pierce. said, Mr: was t or returned to the has and given a suspended 30 day i nal holdings are | jall sentepce. He pafd tives. SR Pierce dire OIVIL, WAR GENERAL DIES to Merwin ¢ Milwaukee, April S.-—Brigadier I and to Lilian |General Arthur R. Curtis, $2 years A. Bagshaw A d ter-in-law, and |old, one of the few surviving gene tford fire department |t er of the cstate to a{erals of the Civil War, died at the ! National Soldiers' hom A few night's later, Dr. Gottlieb Grofe brought the child te the McKen . At the ime he treated the baby, the Grofes Audubon avenue, New York, later moved to Englewood, Yilipino Mess Attendant At New London Faces Charge of Being As- sociated With Rum Dealer, rt morning he was fined $200 and hei