New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 24, 1926, Page 3

4 KEEPS LIGHT BURNING, DIRECTING SHIPS AT SEA l Bl'ifi‘h Lighfllouse KC'p‘ ;tuk Not until five o'clock Tuesday er's Daughter Does afternoon did the seas abate suffi- clently to enable the parents to re. | (turn. They reached the lighthouse in a motor boat This was so badly NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD WZDXN Eacnse | i portion of the defense way \Mud on Cowan's tesumony that || he and Miss Burton had been | drinking before the shooting oc- | curred, but in his chargs to the jury, the court aeserted that velun- tary drunkenness was no excuse {for a crime, Cowan explained th {letter to Mr. Lowls as a joke tn | Father's Work for Three | vufteted by the waves that the crew *hich Miss Burton herselt partiel- Nights During His En- forced Absence. London, March 24 (¥-~The Mght 1h Salnt Heleu's lighthouws, near Comoridge on the of Wight, was ltapt Aashing for three aights by the tourteen year old daughter of the xhthouse ceeper, Langtan The girl ~As maroonsd there 8aturday ufter- 1o0n without food. exoept one loaf 0! oread and s samall plece of take, lut aevertheleas ehe carrfed out her sther's duties valiantiy |.angtan and his wite on Baturday T 4 ashore 1o & rough sea to fetch d oll to the lighthouse, says ' ally Mall When they were the sea rose in fury and not- | nyg ardl attempts made )ife boat and motorboat the father and mother were unable to 14'urn 0 the beacol Aside from anxiety for his daugh- ter, left alone in the lighthouse, with ncarcely eny food Langtan worried 22 to whether shs would realiss the veceasity to light the lamp, which is did not venture to return to the | mainlana. | As the flash worked regularly while Mr. and Mrs. Langtan were ashore it was evident that the girl 'kept awake at night and wound | every four hours the clockwork ap- | paratus which turns the light. COWAN 1S GUILTY: DEATHIS PENALTY New York Hotel Clerk Kiled Girl Last December New York, March 24 (A—Harry W. Cowan, middle-aged hotel ! elerk and absconder, blind from a selt infiicted bullet wound, today faces death in the electric chalr for the murder of Edith Burton last December. He was found gullty of first de- der by a Kings county une of the moet tmportant along the iy st Grea: was rellef when vinctuaily the i, ealind and re- fashing throughout the for f gale raged all day Sunday, vein attempt lght shon 1 As time passsd 106 . the parenta despened; they ple- rcd the girl as hungry, and per- s trlghtened and going without bo sentenced i the only penalty der provided by ' | pated, to ask if a reccommendation of mercy would be legal, They were told ft would carry no legal weight i a verdict of #rst degres murder | were returned, but that (¢ it were (made, the court might then make 4 plea to the governor for elem j#ney. 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