New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 13, 1926, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 Connecticut State LibfRry: Advt. Depts Hartford, Conn. DEATH AND DAMAGE CONES WITH STORN New York, New Jersey and RITAINHERALD Average Daily Circulation for s 12,919 . CONNECTICUT, FRIDAY, AUGUST 13, 1926.—TWENTY-FOUR PAGES Secret Formula Keeps Cider as It is When Police Make Capture County Detective Hickey Using This, Thereby Thwart- ing Pleas of Raided Farmers That Beverage Fer- Gonn. Swept by Heavy Showers TRAFFIC IS PARALYZED Streets Hub Deep With Water— Farmington, Conn,, Aug. 13 (P— A secret solution, provided by the state chemist, is being used by County Detective Edward J. Hickey and his associates in their raids on cider producers, to keep the bever- age from fermenting beyond the stage in which it is found. This is to offset the claim of pro- | ducers that cider, at the time of | analysis, has an alcoholic content in excess of what it was at the time of seizure, The nature of the solution would not be disclosed today at the office of the county detective, but it was admitted it had been used in a raid in Farmington last week and again last night when a second raid on cider mills was made in a continu- ation of the drive launched against Windsor Man Killed—Fruit and Vegetables Throughout State Suf- fer From Wind and Water. Aug. 13 (P—Terrific thunderstorms. in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut have left death, injury, fire and flood in their New York, wake. The storms broke over the east vesterday when a wave of heat and humidity was at is height. A light- ing bolt killed 15 year old Stanley Carpenter of Hightstown, N. J. mented After Confiscation. the sources of supply for retailers who have been convicted in the county, The place raided last night was thai of John Cope in Farmington, who has a cider mill on the swamp road, about one mile from the cen- ter. The raiding officers were Con- stable Fuller of this town, County Detective Hickey, his assistant, Ger- ald Risley, and Federal Agent John J. Kelleher. They descended on the Cope farm about 10:30 p. m. and seized 125 barrels of cider, taken from the mill, the cellar of the house, and from under the barn. Cope was arrested on a charge of | violating the liquor law and will be | given a hearing in the Farmington court this evening before Barney. Judge | Charles Powlauskas, 52, of Wind- sor, Conn., was killed in his home when he attempted to turn on an electric light after a transformer on the circuit had been short-circuited. Patrick Reilly, a New York sub- way motorman, was injured, prob- ably fatally when his train was struck by lightning at an elevated station. Street Traffic Paralyzed Street traffic here was paralyzed when the heavy rains, causing the sewers to overflow, transformed the streets into rivers. Motor vehicles, hub-deep in water were left on the reets. Thousands of homegoing office workers scurried to doorways for shelter. bway traffic was tied up. A washout on the Long Island railroad disorganized traffic on the system. Two of the east river tun- nels were flooded and the signal service in a third was disarranged, ausing a complete cessation of traf- fic out of the Manhattan section over the entire line. Radio is Crippled Lightning bolts hits church steeples and building cornices. Sta- tion WJZ signed off in the middle of a broadcasting program because leavy lightning was playlng over the aerial wires at Bound Brook, N J. Two .radia aerials were struck by lightning at New Rochelle, N. Y Five men were struck by lightning, | receiving severe shocks at Travers Island. DELUGE SWELLS STREETS OF CITY 'Much Disruption of Service Due fo Storm LIGHTNING HITS CORBIN'S | Little Damage Done to Screw Cor- | poration Plant—Several Washouts Reported — Broad Street a River —Bad to the Westward, A heavy deluge which amounted almost to a small cloudburst sud- denly swoped down on this city, al- most without warning yesterday ternoon about 3:30 o'clock. Ac- companied by high winds the rain {came down for a half hour or | more in a veritable torrent. Swirl- {ing waters could not be taken by the Bewers rapidly enough and as a result catch basins filled up and ran over. Lightning struck a corner of the Corbin Screw flant at the corner of Gold and Myrtle streets yesterday afternoon during the course of the storm. No particular damage was !done and according to officials of the factory there is nothing to be re- paired. A small board was knocked |off the building. The incident did ot interfere with the operation of the plant. Many minor washouts were re- ported. A large section of Broad street was reported as having been e washed out last night. Unusually Dark Branches blowing from trees in- New Haven, Conn., Aug. 13 (A— |terfered with electric service on the was killed, many tele- | outskirts and telephone, light and e put out of commission | trolley service suffered. A large damasge was done | tree blew down on the Plainville | roughout | road, cutting off electric light serv- | this state as the result of a severe |iCe and tying up the trolley line, elecirical storm which swept over |Trolleys did not move to Plainville Connecticut late yesterday. for more than an hour. Light was | " Charles = Powlauskas, 2, of|transmitted through a roundabout Windsor, was killed at his home | circuit. when he attempted to turn on an| The equipment of the New Brit- electric light after the storm had |ain district of the Connecticut Lighl‘ short-circuited a transformer on 3}(‘04. proved to be equal to the emer- | pole in front of his house. gency and suffered no major trouble | A stock barn owned by William |because of the storm. Ten or 12 Sullivan at Suffield was burned |times the breakers blew out be- to the ground after having been |cause of trouble somewhere on the struck by lightning. Eighty tons of | Waterbury or Hartford lines, and a | % destroyed and a horse | falling tree cut out the 13,200 high a nber of chickens were | voltage line to Plainville. Only for The\ loss was estimated at|a brief period at a time however, $10,000 | was the city as a whole without Crops and orchards around Mid- filetown, N. Y. were considerably Jamaged by rain, hail and wind. lightning set fire to the Simpson M. E. church in Jersey City, causing eral thousand dollars damage. A proposed flight to Philadelphia from Lakehurst, N. J., of the navy's lirigible Los Angeles and the first of the motors on the giant air- which Captain Rene French ace, hopes to span ntic in a non-stop flight f New York to Paris, had to be postponed until today. More Showers Forecast More thunderstorms and 90 de gree temperatures were forecast for today and Saturday. Yesterday's high temnerature mark was 88 and | the humidity percentage rose to 94. One man phones we nd econsiderable to frult and vegetables th J. Money Has Become Moving Power | In American Politics, Says Borah The storm, which swept over the |light. (The blowing out of two state from west to east, was ac-|transformers and blowing down of companied by darkness which |limbs of trees played havoc with made lights necessary on |rol|:<yithn street lights. cars and automobiles and in offices| The telephone company experi- | and homes. From all appearances, enced somewhat the same trouble, | nightfall fell about four hours too | Storm warnings had given all the, public utilities' crews advance| warning, but late last night more than 450 telephones were out of commission. Most of these were on the outskirts and not until late this afternoon was it expected to have all in working condition. Little damage is reported by the Connecticut Co. A slight washout on North street and Hartford avenue threw a Francis street car off the tracks, but the crew managed to get the car back without assistance and with little delay. The principal trouble was on the Plainville line, where there was no power from 3:40 until 5:30 p. m. Continued on Page Five) SHOOTING AFFRAY AT NEW HAVEN STATION Man Runs, Cop Fires and Riot Squad Is Hustled to Scene—None Injured | for a statement, Praises Reed, Democrat,| for Exposure of Cam- paign Scandals — De- clares Republican Or-' ganization in South_lsf Held Together by Cor-! ruptian. i Fairfield, Idaho, Aug. 13 (P—Sen- | ator William E. Borah, in an nd-| dress prepared for delivery at the| annual Pioneer Day celebration at | Camas Prairie here today, declared that “startling revelations as to the expenditures of money in elections” | reveals “money has come to be the moving power in American politi He expressed the wish that the| exposure of “money in politics” wiil “succeed in arousing the people to| the real problem bsfore us” in| praising the work of Senator James A. Reed, democrat, Missouri, and his special investigation committee. The senator decried “political pa- tronage” and avowed that “the re- publican organization of the south is held together and sustained by the worst kind of corruption.” R. G GOULD LEAVING | COMMERGE GHAMBER Secretary of New Britain | Organization Has Res- | ignation Accepted “ Announcement was made today | that Ralph L. Gould, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, has re- signed his position with that or- ganization and that the resignation | has been accepted. i Miss Gladys Weir, who has been with the chamber since her gradua- tion from high school, will be in temporary charge until the selection of a new secretary, according to in- | formation mads public today. ' That this may not be definite was intimated this afternoon by William B. Christ, assistant secretary, who will leavetomorrow on two weeks' vacation before entering the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania. No reasons for the resignation have ben made public. Mr. Gould could not be reached this afternoon but information received from Mr. Christ is to the effect that a special meeting of the board of directors will be held Mon- day for the purpose of considering | the situation further. i Neither Judge W. C. Hungerford, | president of the chamber nor George H. Dyson, first vice-president could be reached this afternoon. | Mr. Gould came to this city a vear ago last April. He came here | from the Chamber of Commerce at Norfolk, Va. He succeeded the late Mary E. Curtin as local secretary. | Radio and Religion Cause of Complaints' Some years back, not so long ago, | postponed | where their either, liquor and temper were lhe’ main causes of complaints to the At Hartford avenue and ~Stanles |POlice at night, while children and street near Vibberts' fleld, the water [(helr pranks often kept whole extended from one sidewalk to the |"¢/8hborhoods in an uproar by day- | other more than a foot deep. A |light. Of course, thesc three causes | |dozen autos were stalled here and 's“‘)’::fl"c‘gn:’;mfi‘;‘:;dfligi‘n’: :’!;’Q‘I‘:m of | L, & v way rvices of trucks were required to|so™7 SOTIPIMAG fnding their way tow the cars out. s ight, : Garages were swamped with calls o & 72410 and rellgion chalked up for towing cars, where starters : | ! el At 10:55 o'clock, the police heard | i falled foact after, cars had ‘been |igs o' radlo; with anlextra -loud bodeds speaker in a house at Maple and Newberg started after the | z"] el places cellars were |gouth Main streets was keeping the | | flodded and many car owners were neighborhood awake, and at mid- | man, who ran. Massamino would | r not stop and *he offficer took a shot [unable to start their cars this|nignt, Officer Daniel Cosgrove was 2f him and this attracted a number {Morning. notified that someone was moaning of others, who gave chase. _On Park street near the American |ag if 1n great sain, in a -house on Taxi cab drivers and others joined [ fosiery Co, and in front of the martford a 'nue. in and word went to police head- | Ruckliffe store the water was up to| gensing a mystery, the officer quarters of trouble. A riot squad [the hub caps on passing autos and |made haste to investigate, and it was sent to the station, but other of- [ busses were stalled there for quite |took him only a few minutes to ficers had chased the man some dis- |2 While. learn what was going on. In the and had found him on a third | According to the board of public [home of Charles Passinisi a num- floor of a house. The machine, | works practically all of Broad her of people were crawling about which hare a Massachusetts regis street was flooded, although the |on the floor. ~mitting peculiar moan damage to city property wWas less|ing sounds The ofticer was told they try tag. with the three men in it disunnoared, Massamino was held were at worship and he immediately withdrew, for inquiry. l Many street were flooded and N Haven, Aug. 18 (P—With |motorists had all sorts of trouble. the railroad station well filled with | persons walting for their train de- parture a thrill was given them to- day when Officer William Newberg fired a shot at Michael Massamino, 30, of West Haven, who was trying to get away from pursuers. This man had been seen to have a gun in his hand while on the side- outside the station. He had in a machine with three tance l (Continued on Page 21) ‘Pl WOMAN'S' TALE CAUSE OF ARRESTS Willie Stevens and Henry Car- pender Accused of Murder WITNESSES KRE READY State Prepared to Present Its Case Today But Postponement Until Certain, Wills Calls Dempsey Liar, Wants to Fight Him at 42nd Street and Doesn’t Want Pay for it Either k, Aug. 13 (A—Harry|me the New York n today | year vy to fight Jack Demp- just for the around f he won't 1 ts me in the ring ssing 1s vainly sou psey for nearly joined his manager, Paddy g the champion a | assertions that h. wding in the papers says he tried to get| la | six years, time he y and ant r he i a penny to knoc Somerville, N. J, Aug. 13 (P All principal state wi s in the Hall-Mills death investigation have been summoned by Special Prose- cutor Simpson, for today's hearing of the evidence on which Willie Stevens and Henry Carpender, of New Brunswic were arrested last night and charged with the mur- der four years ago of the R Edward Wheeler Hall and M Eleanor Mills. Stevens is a brother and Car- pender a cousin of the widow who was arrested two weeks ago and released in $15,000 bail on similar charges. First predictions were that this afternoon would see the hearing until next week. The action of Simpson was taken, how- ever, as an indication that it would get under way without de- lay and that he imtended to make all his evidence public. Judge Cleary today said that he had offered the hearing as a means for putting the witnesses on oath and thereby preventing ady po: ble chance of testimony and also to demonst whether the state had a ca He said that it would likely be postponed from two o'clock this afternoon until Monday and that it might continue for several days “Crazy” Willie Stevens, the brother, and Henry Carpender, wealthy cousin of the wealthy widow, were arrested last night, two weeks after the arrest of Mrs. Hall, now at liberty in $15,000 bail. e Plead Not Guilty All three have pleaded guilty. State Senator Sim prosecutor, howeve 3 have established a case con destroy.” A chemical died soil, lished the Mrs. Mills we crabapple tree on a deserted farm bodies were found. It had been suggested that they were killed elsewhere, the bodics moved and the clothes carefully straight- ened out. Simpson Orders Arrests Last night’s arrests were ordered by Mr. Simpson after 57 deposi- tions of witnesses had been taken in a reopened Investigation which resulted from the filing of an an annulment suit by Arthur S. Richl who alleged that his wife, a for mer maid in the Hall home, 1 made dam New when Mrs, her arrest night's tions that blood- at of has nalysis ared, at Dr. Ha n und he dec fact the a was withheld Hall obtained bail after s ago, but last aroused expecta- it would revealed in a hearing today before Judge Frank L. Cleary. Pig Woman's Testimony It was known that the arrests were based largely on amination of Mrs. Jane known as the “pig woman eve witness story of the be whose slaying was discredited in the previous in- | gation. “The state's chlef witness never scientifically examined until went after her.” said Mr. “Mrs. Jane Gibson, the told me a straightfor- nd T am conv what she was my men Simpson. pig raiser, ward - story that scribing. Never Changed Her Story Mrs, Gibson herself, an uncouth, vigorous figure, has lived aloof from her fellows except for a brief period when she figured in a sideshow at a circus. This was sub- sequent to fame that and Jenny, her mule, acquired from figuring in the Hall-Mills case. Her story has never changed. 11 T know is what I saw,’ told investigators. “My eyes good. So is my memory. I ready at any time to tell story.” Mrs. Gibson fixed the time of the murder as sho after 9 o'clock. Her calculdtions were made on the passing of the Millville bus. went out in the moonlight riding the mule and wearing a pair of moccasins. She was looking for thieves who had been stealing from her farm She saw three figures crabapple tree, she thought nothing of when she returned to find one of the moccasins she had dropped. she declares, she saw the figures in action and heard voices. Mrs. Gibson has named the woman she says she saw. But the men she never seemed to be sure of. When she appeared before the grand jury four years ago she stumped past Mrs. Hall. The two women exchanged antagonistic glances, Now, as then, they are the focal figures in the case. Stevens was arrested at his sister's home. Carpender surrendered to state police tront of their headquarters. two were questioned by investiga- tors, their finger prints taken, and then they were removed to Judge Cleary's office in a severe storm that was just beginning. Loud ex- plosions of photographic flash- lights greeted their arrival there. aw she she are am my under says. She it then. But the yesterday (Continued on Page 21) ng confessions to him. | in | The | WHITTEMORE PAYS (1Fviter and Tivteen ) | All Right But Black || Youthinl Bandit-Slayer ~ Un- moved as He Faces Gallows 'WAS DEAD IN 14 MINUTES| Wife Corporal Geor who intends tc chute I.a make om plane and Father Bade Him Fare- | rstitions Time Before—Execu- nsented well Short to make t carrying the | Whee | leap if l’ of 1,313 ted Near Spot Where He Mur- ca intends to ssible, from make dered Prison Guard. a hej ! timore, Aug. 13 (P—Richard leader of a bandit gang t billion f a goal of | S SEPTIC THROAT FATAL T0 MAN N HARTEORD penitentiary d in escaping a year |\1>n;l~l;| His Fatal Tlness Believed | Traced to Meal at Guilford Hotel and a hal 14 Minutes T end & ckly ful eriminal who I lowers to robbery of 000 of the sulous to ¥y goodbye, .3 wi anybody.” At 12:08 time his body| llows trap on ary. he q for the his fol- d arly sum they | said: “T | best I he SR could | Hartford, Wililam Chur T, his home, Charter Oak place, minutes had elapsed septic poisoning, onto the scaffold | when his body, wheeled of It was claimed 2 at | ss V. this morning of | sore throat, which it is to th e thought can | be traced mic | | Mr. Pease was in Guilford on Sun-| day, 1st 1, and ate two meals in | a hotel there. He- did not use milk in his t coffes and his sister does not recall that he used milK| on any of his food at elther meal| |at the hotel. i | Tt is thought that it Mr. Pease| Aid not use any milk that he nght throat from some infected Two days later, Mr. Pease’s| hecame sore but he con-| |tinned at his office until last Sat-| The youthful gangster, after shak. | Urday When he grew much worse and had to remain at home. hands with prison officials in the | th cell corridor, dropped his last | garette from his lips and walked teath chamber. sore throat epl- latives for fune of his father, Rav Whittemore Ts Unmoved The elder Whittemore and Margaret Whittemore, the wife, bade him farewell hours before the execution, ated from him by a heavy meshed screen which encased the death cell. Mrs. Whittemore was weeping hysterically as she left the prison for the last fime, but Whitte- more appeared unshaken and re- mained so to the end. by 1 services Mrs. aye several separ- fine- his sore | persons throat in, Hartford, missioner M. (P —State com- mest and r George E. Corwin, relation of dairy hedrs to the sore throat epidemic in Guil- {ford, said this morning that if the | epidemic was caused by cows, it was probably a mamitis infection in the | ;CO'\'S udders. This mn mals, (Continued on Second Page) James sey deputy QURSTIONING GIRL IN PARK CITY FIRE CASE Child of 12 May Throw Some Tight ion dis- | fection, they said, w ey ¢ 1 s not t by which the in- | 1smitted th was ex condition Corwin ividy throat On Epidemic—Seven In Three | Weeks In Same Room. o o When that however, Dr, infection of in most always was in the stoner Whittles ponited r, infection might come from the cows, but been transmitted by someone handling the milk. In any the human str the SAre idgeport, Aug. 13 (P—Tire ap- | touna us was called to the home of otson P: Hubbard, butcher of 147 |the cmbroke street this mor g to ex- the seventh fir mysteri- ous origin to occur in house within three weks, Four of the fires have been in the same place—a mattress in an upper bedroom which is not used by the he said, it would be severs family. It was this mattress . ¥ efore the results of a test of o again found to be on fire \1,|<‘ cows would be known IN ABSENGE OF PERMIT a window in the upper part of t the al- Comm out howey not might o the have have case, st house. Hubbard’s daughter, 12, was in the house at the time the fire broke out, Detective Sergeant Thomas Ma- |loney was on his way to the ho |at the time, having made a d vis't there for the past week course of his investigatior series of fires. He took the girl in to custody as soon as he arrived | there and brought her to police | neadquarters for questioning. General Business Good, | Hoover Tells Coolidge Paul Smith's, N. Y., Aug. 13 () —The general business condition of the country is even stronger than it has been past, retary Hoover of the department of commerce informed President Coolidge today. | ™he only places where there have been lags, the secretarv said, are in agriculture, the tertile indvstry tc some extent, bituminous Taken Preliminary Steps But Papers Were Tacking—Warrant Not Served | Bu | Rutherford lding Ir ector and Police fitt stopped the thur N. Officer construe- at 68 |Cabot street this morning because of |George N {tion of a two family house |the failurs of 11 ceive a permit ¢ ion of view of the fact application [not prosecuted that future contractor to re- before of d made he was was warned tempt would re- e for t ermit, it in the c- | co came to the build- |ing department’s office and askes {for a permit to construct a two fam- ily dwelling. He was to return and |complete negotiations for his permit I |before he began work but instead | W STCadbnnecs [he immediately started the job. Nine | . 1 workmen were or 1 off the job “ by the building inspector and the | | ctor HIGH TIDE Aug. 14 (Standard Time) New Haven 1.51 a.m.2.22 pm. New London 12.40 am. 1.10 p.m. officer, The ant which was request- ed yesterday was withdrawn, Mr. | Rutherford announced this morning, |but the third varrant will probably |be served this afternoon. The orig- % |inal warrant is being held up pend- |ing the return to this city of the contractor. He has been guilty of three violation: of the building or- dinances during the past year. That (re campaign against build- ing law violators will be continued until the contractors become edu- cated to the rules of the department was made known by Mr. Rutherford today. W | | % * | THE WEATHER Hartford, Aug. 13.—Fovecast for New Britain and vicini || Provably showers tonight and Saturday; rot much change in temperature | on the ¢ | 1921, | ported | stunned the city and caused a sen-| | sation throughout the state. | His iliness began with an infected |, | Street’s response | eral | directors of | both | tional advances in the last few week: Aug. Tth.... PRICE THREE CENTS FATHER OF NINE MURDERS WIFE AND HOLDS 100 MEN AT BAY ON FARM IN OHIO XPECT GREENBERG 10 BE REINSTATED Believe That Local Man Will Again Become Lawyer Soon Holding Two Babies in His Arms, he Stalks in Front of Windows and Dares Posse to Fire on Him Admits Killing Woman and Says He'll Kill Babies Too, if Police Interfere Probably Crazed by Drink. Albert A. Greenberg of this ity who was disbarred from the tice of law in January, 1522 ing his conviction in superior court rge of blackmail, will pe superior court for rein- and rding to re- able report, favorable action is an- cipated when the court goes into sslon in September, Judge Isaac Wolfe, d the case follow ing Greenberg's arrest October 19 prac- | follow- tition t statement, acc FINALLY CAPTURED WITHOUT VIOLENCE of six signed by every law- has been pre- | e court that there is no opposition to Greenberg's reinstatement, on the part of the gal fraternity here, and it is re- that te's Attorney Hugh M. Alcorn, who brought about the rrest and conducted the prosecu-| tion, will not oppose the petition, Mr. Alcorn is on his vacation and will not return until the early part of September, it was said at his office in the county building today, Wwhen an effort was made to verify | the report concerning his position in the matter. ose conversant with the situation said today that| assurance of Mr. Alcorn's stand was | obtained before the petition was prepared. Green tion wa pose s Cincinnatl, Aug. 13 (P)—With the body of his wife at his feet, Scott Workman, 40, a farmer, paced back and forth before the windows of his little farm house near New Rich- mond, Ohio, today, defying Sherift Fred Crosswell of Clement county and a posse of 100 men, surrounding the house, to fire at him and two babies, youngest of nine children, { which he held in his arms. It was at first reported that Workman had killed the two chil- dren in addition to his wife. Holds Babies in Arms Holding up his children, one in each arm, a girl of three years and a boy of seven months, the farmer, believed to be crazed with drunk, taunted the members of the posse, posed behind trees and other vant- age points about the house, to shoot at him. “Go ahead, shoot 'em. Shoot ‘em!™ he cried as he tossed the crying children up and down in his arms in full view of the dis- tracted possemen, “Sure, I killed my wife. T'Il Kill these here, too, if you | shoot. rg’s arrest and prosecu- one of the features of the in this city in the fall of He was prosecuting attorney was charged with accepting a bribe to influence the discharge of | the duties of his office. The arrest | 19 Ready to Shoot One marksman who had scaled the Workman house lay on the eaves of the roof, with his revolver ready to shoot down the madman if he apeared without ‘the threshold. Others were ready with rifles and pistols to pur a volley into the farmer’s body if he once let out his jarms the babes which formed his shield in his home. This situation confronted officers and their posss at noon after two hours of effort to capture the crazed principal in the tragedy. Workman had fired several shots from his automatice pistol at mem- bers of the posse but the sight of | the terror stricken infants, clinging |on the father who at any moment | might crash out their lives silenced any return of the fire. Workman after holding the posse at bay finally was captured when Sheriff Cross ignored the man's threats, entered the house and iplaced the slayer under arrest. No violence accompanied the arrest and the man was taken to Batavia, Ohio, Jail, Water Famine Is Feared In Washington Heat Wave Washington, Aug. 13 (P—A parched and sweltering capital, the second hottest city in the United States yesterday, appealed in vain to- day to the weather man for relief. Warning that a water famine threatened was issued by the district commissioners with a plea that eiti= zens be sparing in their use. An official temperature of 99 in the infrequent shade, aggravated by a clammy humidity and exceeded only by that of Phoenix Ariz, yes- terday sent nine persons to hospitals, and many other prostration victims were treated by physicians, drug clerks and pedestrians. Lone Gunman Who Held Up Train Was Police Chief North Brookfield, Mass., Aug. 1§ (A—A lone individual, pistol in hand, standing on the track at East Brookfield crossing held up the Boston and Albany branch train to- day, and threw a scare into the passengers when he boarded the train, and passed through each car scanning every occupant. The frightened passengers were relieved when the man departed without demanding them to stick up their hands and keep them up. It was only Chief of Police Stephen Quill who was in search of Harry Maron of New York, wanted on a neglect to support charge, Following his release on a bond, Greenb reta d Attorney Joseph of Hartford to represent | expressed a preference | trial by judge, and was found | guilty. Since then he has contin-| ucd to live in New Britain and has been in the real estate bushness. WALL STREET CRACKS AS DISCOUNT GOES UP, Sharp Rediction in Stock Prices He for Follows Federal Reserve Rate Marking Up. ew York Aug. 13 (P—A sharp reaction in stock prices was Wall | to the unexpect- ed increase in the New York Fed- Reserve bank rediscount rate. Initial losses in most of the active issues ranged from 1 to 5 points but Dbefore the end of the first hour about a score of stocks were selling 3 to 10 points below yes- terday’s final quotation. The reac- tion embraced practically the en- tire list including General Motors, which declared a 50 per cent stock dividend after the close of the market yesterday, that stock opening 1 1-2 points lower at 202, slipping to 201, ral- lying to 203 and then collapsing | below 197. Despite the fact that bankers re- arded the higher re-discount rate merely a reflection of the expanding commercial demand for funds, the fact that the raising of the rate has been used in the past as a method of applying the brakes to wild stock speculation led to heavy selling for account. The drastic break in prices which followed the previous raising of the rate early this year was still too fresh in Wall street memory to be disregarded. Pro- fessional traders also felt that the dvance of more than 100 points in eral Motors from the low level the year had discontinued at | least temporarily, the bullish effect mellon cutting. Loose Wiles Biscuit common and | second preferred, Ca Threshing | Machine, Dupont and U. 8. Cast Iron Pipe, all of which recorded sen: G were the hardest hit, breaking 7 to 10 points as traders and investors scrambled to convert paper profits into cash. Such popular issues as Baldwin, Consolidated Gas and Rem- | ington Typewriter were hammered down at least 3 points®before they met sufficient buying support to temporarily stem the tide of selling. TAFT REPOR Quebee, Que., Aug |llam H. Taft, chiet | United States, who has been ill at | hls summer home at Murray bay | Que,, was reported today as con- | tinuing to improve. Mr. Taft caught |a very severe cold and for a time | triends were afraid pneumonta | might develop, it was said. Alarm- ing reports of his condition are officlally discredited, D BETTER 13 (P—Wil- justice of the SUIT FOR $7,500 Suit for $7,500 against Joseph and Caesar Mieczkowski has been filed by Attorney Warren Maxell, repre- senting Mrs. Clara Dickenson, who alleges tBat an automobile driven by Caesar and owned by Joseph, his father, struck her on West Main ' street, near New Britain National | bank, last April, and injured her. | Attorney M. A. Sexton has been re- tained by the defendants, The case isreturnable in superlor court the first Tuesday in September, Inventories of the estates James E. O'Brien, Mrs. Nora 0" Brien Moore, and Mrs. Mary O'Brien were filed in probate court this afternoon. In the inventory of James B. O'Brien he had an undivided inter~ est in property in Berlin worth $2500. Nora O'Brien Moore has in- terest in property in Berlin worth $556.55, and Mary O'Brien has & one-third interest in the property of her husband, James E. O'Brien, who died in 1912, She also has $100.93 in deposits in the Berlin Savings Bank. of JUDGE PERRY ILL Fairfield, Conn., Aug. 13 (M — Judge John H. Perry, former judge of the common pleas court and former speaker in the state house of representatives, is see riously i1l at his home in Southe port. He is suffering from an ins ternal disorder, Judge Perry was taken ill Wednesday on his ¥ e S