New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 10, 1926, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press lm?g ‘P‘“JN"H . "1ApY TN omg Yoty ESTABLISHED 1870 'BRITAIN HERALD Average Daily Circulation Fnr Week Ending 13,373 Sept.4th .... NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1926. THIRTY-TWO PAGES PRICE THREE CENTS T0 NOMINATE FENN | FOR GONGRESS AT CONVENTION HERE Republicans Will Hold District Gathering in This City on September A |COMPLY WITH REQUEST Rises Up at Discussion on Builld-| oF LATE GEO. W. KLETT iflg Inspecmr’s Sa]ary Delegates Will Meet at Elks' Hall at POINTED QUESTIONS ASKED| 10 O & X and adkovm o Salary Committee Votes to Recom- mend $3,500 for Rutherford But MERTON TESTIFIES MILLER GAVE HIM TWO CHECKS FOR ~ ABOUT 7 MILLION DOLLARS HENNESSY'S GHOST HAUNTS CITY HALL German Metal Mag- nate, at Daugherty Conspiracy Trial, Re- | lates Payment by For- mer Alien Property Custodian. Burritt Hotel For Banquet—Rep- Also Tells Court That It Was He Who Suggested Giving Late John T King | N . a1l 200 Raise Until Ni Y Bt 3 “Something” for His Aid| * et lato ) Chairman A. P. Leavitt of the| |bullding commission refused to say |whether Edward J. Hennessy was re- | |placed as building inspector by | Arthur N. Rutherford for political | reasons or because Rutherford's | capabilities are “far superior” to | |those of Hennessy, when Councilman Samuel Sablotsky questioned him at |the meeting of the salary committes | |of the council last night. Council- | |man Sablotsky said he wished to make it clear that he did not op- |pose a salary .ncrease for Ruther ;!onl‘ but he wanted information as to the reasons for the action of the building commissiun in failing to re- |tain Hennessy for $2,750 a year and recommending that the salary of [the same position be made $3,500. |He sald it cannot be that the build- |ing commission expects Rutherford | tolto do more work for $3,500 per year | the [than he does for $2,750, and as | deal. |matter of fact, he sald, he does not More Pay For Fast Work |believe one inspector can cover the Merton said that under the terms \clv_y as the taxpayers have a right to of an agreement he finally reached |expect it to be covered. with King, in July, 1921, he agreed Vote Raise to $3,500 | to pay the latter 5 per cent of the| The committee voted unanimous- | ki amount of assets recovered, provid- |ly to recommend to the common ed the transaction was completed |council that the salary of the build- hefore August 15, 1921. If the |ing inspector be increased from 5 transaction was not completed be- |$2,750 to $3,500 per year, but the [Mmecting of ‘:‘e °°":""‘f)° ':‘h:h“‘;‘*;: fore September 15, Merton said, he recommendation of the building |28¢ @ é‘“" St "{}“ Elm" B e was to pay King 2% per cent of the |commission that a $200 increase be (Judse George W. i [“wmd mmount recovered. In addition, he |voted for the clerk of the depart- |delesates convene “‘“ ACEEA testified, he agreed to pay King §50,- \ment was tabled until December, | the gathering _;:}_ac:. t was nm\wung; 000 in cash, and scon thereafter |when the annual tussle with salaries |¢d. B. W. Irving 1“h_“ RN 8 gave King a check for that amount (Is scheduled. Councilman Sablot- | th ‘ov'\mlltcle of wblch‘ g;om"o“; drawn on the Chase National bank. lowing' are also members: G sky led an unsuccessful fight for the S-onals sumna touinl: Jhea Lawyer |increase in salary of the clerk, say- | B. Beach, Hartford, chairman; Mrs. e e ! y Ellen L. Bockus, Manchester, Y. Me %id hip ho scrvices of [ing she s competent and deserving Mpriciompil Mpcan: o eanvice | Hayden Brockway, West Hartford. resentative at Washington to Be Named For Fourth Term — First Turns Down Department Clerk's| ©f Tts Kind Here. At what is believed to be the t congressional convention ever held in New Britain, E. Hart Fenn will be nominated for+ a fourth term here, September 21, Decision on the place of conven- tion was reached this week at a New York, Sept. 10 (M—Richard Merton, German metal magnate, testified today that it was he who suggested paying the late John T. King “something” for his aid in get- ing the return to allegedly German owners of $7,000,000 realized sale of American Metals stock during the war. King “Pulled the Strings” Merton is the government's star witness in the trlal of Harry M. Daugherty, former attornel general, and Thomas W. Miller, former alien property custodian, for conspiracy to defraud the United States in the transfer of the $7,000,000. John T. King who died soon after the first indictment In the case returned, is declared by the government have “pulled the strings,” in from company CONG. E. HART FENN, ¢ | King because he thought it would [of the increase, espect be less expensive than hiring a lawyer. King was once republican national committeeman from Con- necticut and one of the most influ- ential practical politicians in the re- publican party at the time of these vities. Got $7.000,060 In Checks Telling of the actual transfer of | the $7,000,000, Merton testified that | at a champagne dinner in-a private room at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in this city, Miller handed him two checks totalling about $7,000,000. He could not fix the date of the din- ner. The government alleged it took place on September 30, 1921. King, the late Jesse W. Smith and Miller attended the champagne din- ner, Merton testified. He gave each of his three guests a gold clgarette case as souvenirs. Two bottles of champagne were consumed. Merton said Miller had come from Washington to deliver the checks B bocause Merton had made it clear | acti (Continued on Page 25) BUNGALOW DWELLERS ally in v . | "he convention will be held in the Elks' hall at 10 a. m., and will be | followed by a banquet in the Bur- CITY SEIZES HOUSE LTS |7 T0 COLLECT BACK TAXES CONVICT FIGHTS FOR s o e (NTROL OF DAUGHTER McQuarrie, in Wether field Objects to Pro- posed Guardians (Continued on Page 12) Be Disposed of At Public Auction Three building lots on Overlook avenue, on which Andrew P. Syrack has failed to pay taxes for elght| years, were seized by the city of New Britain through foreclosure ac- tion In city court yesterday, and will be offered for public sale. From his cell in state’s prison at Tax Collector Bernadotte Loomis| Wethe: 1d, where he is serving a Will recelve bids at his office up to ten years' sentence for criminal a Septembar 20, at 5 o'clock, he an-| sault on his 10-year-old daughter, nounced today. No bid under $150| Evangeline, and her older sister, will be considered. The lots, which| Roderick McQuarrie of this city is are located 100 feet southeast of| directing a fight against his removal Birch street, are known as lots 491, | from the guardianship of Evange- 492 and 493 Overlook tract. | line, which started in the probate The amount of tax due on the court yesterday but was halted when property is $44.18. |Judge B.'F. Gaffney declared the petition improperly drgwn in that y i Vi | the board of public charities is re- Two Americans Wounded | quired to make the petition rather By Chinese Rifle Fire than the prospective guardians, Mr. MAY ASK LAW CHANGE| M Retain Counsel to Fight| Erection of Three- | Family House | Attorney Donald Gaffney has been | retained by Stanley street property | owners to lead their fight against+ construction of a three-tenement | house in a district where there are now none but one-family dwellings. | Although the course to be pursued has not yet been determined, it is probable, Lawyer Gaffney sald to- day, that a petition will be present- ed to the board of adjustment ask- ing that the zone be changed from one of multiple tenement houses to one of single or two-family dwell- ings. Another course would be to appeal from the decislon of the building inspector, should he decide to issue a permit, and in this way bring the conditions before the board of adjustment for review. Pasquale Bombaci 1s the applicant for a permit. His plans provide for 2 three-family house which, it is admitted, does not violate the build- jng laws, and the district in which he plans to place it is one in which at type of building is not barred Ly the zoning law. Building Inspect- or A. N. Rutherford has not issued | Shanghal, Sept. 10 () — A tele- jand Mrs. Charles H. Plumb of 168 gram received here from Hankow |Steele strect. says the American torpedo boat! Evangeline has been living with destroyers Stewart and Pope, which | Mr. and M Plumb since her arrived at Hankow last Friday, en- | father was sentenced and they are countered rifie and machine gun |desirous of becoming her legal fire fifty miles down the Yangtse|guardians. Attorney Joseph G. river. The dispatch added that two Woods represents them and a num- soldiers on the American boat were ' ber of witnesses were on hand in wounded. {city court yesterday when the Another report received from ' hearing was scheduled. Attorney S. Hankow says every foreign steam- | Gerard Casale, representing Me- er entering or leaving port ismade | Quarrie, had but one witness to the target for the bullets of the oppose granting the petition. A Cantonese soldiers. Several Jap-|new action will be commenced by anese and British ships are de- | ciared to have been badly rlddlcd.J (Continued on Page 29) America Has 11,000 Millionaires, One Billionaire, Govt. Agent Says Treasury Actuary Also Reports That There Are 74 Citizens Who Have An Income of Million Dollars a| Year—One in Every 10,450 People Fabulously Wealthy. New York, Sept. 10 (A—There are | 1920 depression, but today one out 11,000 millionaires and probably one [of every 10,450 Americans is a mil- billionaire in the United States, in lonaire. the opinion of Joseph S. McCoy, New York, with 2,800 millionaires, permit although the application Jas been on file several days and j 1is qnly explanation is that time is yequired to look into the case. Bom- Woaci, on one of his frequent visits to the Inspector's office today, was told he will not receive a permit until next week at least. . Owners of neighboring properties treasury actuary. The blilionaire probably Mves in New York, Mr. McCoy guesses in the current American Bankers' Associa- tion journal. *Nine years ago, when war profits held sway, there were 11,800 mil- lionaires, but 2,800 of these toppled leads the list. Pennsylvania is next with 1,052, then Iilinois follows with 800, Massachusetts with 610; Califor- Inia, 470, and New Jersey 390. North | Dakota is the only state without a |millionaire, and Idaho, Nevada, South Dakota and New Mexico have |one each. . 7 they are at a loss to know what & in 1920, and 2,000 of them have been prompted the zoning of their district |replaced, studies of income tax re- for multiple tenement houses since |turns reveal. Some of the war mil- ji is exclusively a district for bun- |lionaires were even wiped off the Next to the billionaire are three |men worth $1,000,000,000 between them, and in 1924 there were 74 Americans with incomes of $1,000,- Channel Record Again Shattered; Frenchman'’s Time 11 Hours, 5 Min. | Georges Michel Who Succeeded Today After Several Years of Effort is Giant in Physique—Started Hour Before Low. Tide, Thus Gaining Time According to His Plans. e in the water of sugar and c. Deal, England, Sept. 10 (A—The |to take an | English channel swimming record t g fell today for. the third time this son season. | His Georges Michel, 36-year-old Parls|friends who accompanied his aboard baker, making his tenth attempt, the Boulogne fishing boat Maurice landed at Bt. Margaret's bay at 7:31 |had an anxious quarter of an hour |o'clock this morning from Cape Gris [when they lost sight of him in mid- Nez, France, where he entered the channel during the hours of dark- |water at 8:26 o'¢lock last night. |ness. Record Lowered. | His record of 11 hours, 5 M. Guilot, and Finally Located. ped that Michel had sud- d to take oft the t which he wore when he elf more cons After much s g party finally lo- | 5 minutes |ts one hour, 38 minutes better than {that established on Aug. 30 by Ern- cst Vierkoetter, of Germany, who singularly is also a baker. Gertrude 3derle, American star and the first | woman to swim the channel, was the season’s first record-breaker, h | {14 hours, 31 minutes. plucky Seasick During Swim. {when he I Michel this afternoon felt none the |swam out some distance and accom- |worse for his exertions, except for panied him ashor a remaining touch of cramp. Dur-| Michel i3 t! |ing much of the swim he suffered | from seasickness, and he was unable | 1t dev {denly dec helm |ed to make him |o in the water, ling, the conve cated him, About 150 E; ish people gave the 1an a warm welcome th person, and (Continued on Page Five) MAIL BANDITS ROB GLORIOUS WELCOME TRAIN AND ESCAPE GLVEN MRS, CORSON Lot Estimated at Hall Million | New York Greets First Mother! fo Swim Channel |SEES HER CHILDREN AGAIN Taken Near Chicago I/ NOT ONE SHOT IS FIRED Three Were on Train and Held Up | Delighted With Financial Opportuni- Clerks While Fourth Was Wait. ties—Has Nothing But Words of ing n a Cheap Auto in Oity | Praise For Gertrude Ederle— Suburb. Knows Nothing of Challenge. Chicago, Sept. 10 CP)—Mail loof estimated at about $50,000 was | seized aboard eastbound Grand Trunk train No. 10 today by three |of a band of four robbers who es- | caped at the southwestern suburb of Evergreen Park without firing a | shot. New York, Sept. 10 (P—A mother of two little children, unknown to |the world at large a few weeks ago, returned to the city of her adoption today and received a conqueror’s relcome from New York's miillion She was Mrs. Clemington Corson, born in Denmark as Mille Gade, who will go down in history as the first mother to swim the treacherous wa- ters of the English channel. Auto Was Waiting 1 An automobile was in wait the ma robbers who had fl Ifor the yolice had even notification of the robbery. | Consignments of currency from | the Federal Reserve bank of Chica- g0 and the Union Trust Co., also a Chicago bank, comprised the loot, the exact amount of which Grant Miller, post office inspector in charge | here, said had not yet been learn- | ed. Two of the robbers entered a mail car and held up the celrks, taking lone pouch of mail ‘containing the registered shipments which were consigned to Harvey, 1llinois, a su- burb, The robbers had boarded the train in the city. After the robbery they dropped oft at Evergreen Park, a suburb on West Ninety-fifth street |chiefly known for its cemetertes, | Used Cheap Auto An automoblle of an i make little used by robbers w: |and is Delieved to have been used | for the escape. | “Only one pouch was taken, Tn- |spector Miller sald, indicating that [ the robbers had information that the currency was on board and were famillar with the mall system. SLAIN BY NEGROES Youth Killed While itself to greet rst woman to showed its im- itself hoarse 10arse a fortni, Trudy Ederle, the swim the channel, y by roaring partial again to Bands b screeched , harbor craft whistles ear-splitting welcome, delegations of admirers marched, “blizzard” of ticker tape and con- fetti dropped on her from the ! scrapers in the canyons of lower Broadway' and thousands banked along the sidewalks applauded voci- terously. At city hall, Mayor ¥ er gave her a scroll commemorating her feat. Sees Her Children. Mrs. Corson's children, Marjorle, two years old, and Clemington Jr., four, arrived at the Battery in an omobile accompanied by Suj intendent Walsh of the naval militia stationed at 96th street and the North river, Mrs. Corson formerly naval reserves. Two brothers of Mrs. Corson with their wives, and a brother-in-law |also were walting at tha pier. Th were to have made the trip down the bay on the Macom but missed | connections. They were Mr. and Mr Carl J. Gade, Mr. and Mrs. Norman Gade and John A. Corson, all of | Bridgeport, Conn. | | A score of Danish organizations | tack by Two Ruilians. ad large delegations walting. | Chester, Pa., Sept. 10 (A — Bud Mounted police and eighty patrolmen | Hardin, 19 years old, of Chester, <°P* lmg:.;o‘g:c:nlfgf-d;r'\r :;2:]:"";&‘::;:;:"3“t:’ i | When informed that the metropo- girl companlons at Upland, Pa., |lS Was preparing a great welcome for her, Mrs, Corson appeared sur- last night. : ; prised. She cried when tcld that her A a egroe: GLEpeb g i Handluithe nPer ot |y oo small chl)Aras 1ad basn brovght gged vo girls from the it 3;:05:0\“1!:6 LHOSE[E up from Virginia to meet her at the a - battery. Willam Hamllton, 16 years old, PO e e ’ ik 3 graphed she en- Sl Gh I i tered the salon of the city tug Ma- automobile with Hardin, was ; ¢hased away by the negroes before |COM 8nd reporters besieged her with o questions, She frankly admitted the shooting occurred, and notifled 2 . that she made the second attempt the police. sl Hardin was shot down at the to0 SWim the channel, always with her wheel of his machine when he re- fused to leave the girls at the com- mand of the negroes. When police arrived the negroes had disappear- ed in their own automobile. The girls, in a hysterical condi- | tion, were taken to their homes, where they are under physicians' | care, | Only a vague description of the | negroes has been obtained by po- | lice, who were told by Hamilton | that both were masked. All roads in the surrounding country were ng. watched. Chester, Pa., Defending Two Girls From At- (Continued on Page 25) {Arranging to Publish It English Director Jesse D. Sallee of the senior high school is successful in collecting 500 advance subscriptions and in receiving the services of a mem- ber of the faculty the senior high school will have the first school newspaper in its histors, it was learned this morning. Mr. Sallee declared that it has been his ambition to organize a paper since he took over the English department, but unsur- mountable difficulties have al- ways stood in his path. The paper would have to depend en- tirely on its circulation to put it across, since the school authori- ties will not allow any advertis- ing matter to appear in it. The paper would consist of articles dealing personally with the members of the faculty and student body and would have an account of all athletic contests. When matters are at a point where he will succeed, Mr. Sal- lee expacts to call on news- papernmren from outside to aid |in beil | * | HIGH TIDES Sept. 11 (Standard Time) New Haven: 12:47 a. m.—1:06 p. m. New London# 11:45 a. m. THE WEATHER New Britain and vicinity— Fair tonight and Saturday; cooler tonight. income tax lists by the end of the|[000 a year, in coachingsthe student report- ers. One English girl | FRANCE, GERMANY GIVE PLEDGE OF -~ PERPETUAL PEACE ;Briand and Stresemann, at | League Assembly, Solemnly Bgree Never to War Again TUMULTUOUS. OUTBURSTS OF ENTRUSIASH YOICED Three Characteristics | of Historic Day Are Stresemann's Picture of Germany’s Ideals, Briand's Pro- clamation of the Ind of Wars and General Applause of Assem- | Py Which Greets Manifestations. G Switz was receiv league of nations | scenes of European reco | which in their of | have been unexampled armistice. Germany Foreig Briand, rmany 10 (A ito the amid ciliation enthusiasm since the tou | and Fra Minis! committed themselves perpetual peace, and solemnly gaged the honor of their henceforth never to draw the word but to se tes by ar- n and en- ations Three characteristi dramatically on this I The 11 ture of gripped present only by Germany lofty ideals, | rnational coop- { eration based on a high i and moral plane. said, had entered Into the very conscience of the German people. | Briand's Oration | The sccond feature was the re- markable oration of M. BDriand, | (W aration that Germany F have had enough ast and need no tion of heroism, amation that the had now been si- tumultuous ap- ilectual This spirit, he = glory in further and whose proj roar of guns lenced, evoked plause. | Cheers for Frenchman | The third outstanding incident was the scene of almost delirious | jubilation out th au- | ditorfum, when Sir George Fo; of Canada arose, as M. Briand was resuming his h, and, wavin high the Union Jack, called for three cheers for France's eminent u e vast CHURCH VESTRYMAN BREAKS DOWN AND ADMITS HE AND GIRL HEARD FATAL SHOTS Ralph Gorsline and | Miss Katherine Ras- } tall Change Their Tes- | timony in Hall-Mills i | Case After 214 Hours " of Grilling. |Tell of Hearing Pistol Re- | ports and Screams, Part- Iy Substantiating Mur- der Story of Mrs. Jane Gibson. RALPH V. GORS! Somerville, N. J., Sept. 10 (P— Ralph V. Gorsline and Miss Kath- crine Rastall, both of New Bruns- | wick, have admitted that they were within 300 yards of the spot at Said to Be About to Start Legisla- tive Driye For Repeal of This Law. v made pr tion laws, whic the next legislature, entlon went on record vor of the Ohlo plan attacked at when the conv: | as being in e insur A. l:. []l: L P[ANNINfi]w)uch the Rev. Edward Wheeler : | Hall and Mrs. Eleanor Mills were BFFENSE []F LAW; Detectives who grilled Gorsline y {for 213 hours and Miss Rastal for nearly as long today, announced " i they " had confessed hearing shots, e t | i} fpect Compensation Statute _ Gossline was a vestryman in Hall’s [church and Miss Rastall was a | choir singer. They were sweethearts Through their confessions the CONVENTION IS ADJOURNED state is expectea to get tmportant | corroboration of the testimony of | Mrs. Jane Gibson, woman pig raiser, |the murder. Three Different Stories. Gorsline and Miss Rastall have |told three different storles, detec- Connecticut Federation of Labor to- | further in an effort to reconcile their ; cparations for the de- ‘\'ary:ng accounts of what occurred | on e ni fonsa ot the morkmens sompensa | 0% (e nIERE of the murder, and to of their activitles will stand up, Gorsline and Miss Rastall at first stuck to their story of four years ago, that he had accompanied Miss | picture show. | Admits Hearing Shots, | From Miss Rastall was drawn the |admission that they had been at the killed. : | voices and a woman's screams, wm _Be‘ A[t_acked | when the killings occurred. Larger Compensation Companies Are as to what she saw on the night of Danbury, Conn., Sept. 10 P—The | tives said, and are to be questioned {make sure that their latest account are expected to be Rastall to her home after a motion | entrance of DeRussey's lane which o'cloc X successtul state conven- bor that has been held in s, it was agreed by all of the m was a swimming instructor for lhc‘ Newspaper at N. B. H. S. | leader. Instantly, every man and woman hall stood and joined in th ar of applause which lasted several minutes and which seemed a spontaneous expression of joy that the two chief protagonists i the great war had sworn forth to abandon the use of arm and seek solution of all their di ful atmosphere of nations. 1 will move mountains,” M. | Briand aflirmed during his address, Both he and Dr. Stresemann ad- mitted that many problems still aited solution, but voiced the conviction that, by the exercise of good will and by realizing that the world has had enough of war, solu- 'are expected to attempt the repeal tions could always be found. |or modification of the laws in order Stresemann Speech |that compensation may not be paid Foreign Minister Stresemann of on occupational diseases. Germany in his adc s before the| State Plan Advocated. {league of nations assembly today de-| To defend the compensation acts, clared it was an event of historical Ildgar Wallade of Washington, D. C., |Importance that his country and legislative representative of th those that allied against her in the American Federation of Labor, told World war should be brought to- gether within the league for perm nent pacific cooperation, This in- dicated, he believed, that the leagt | was destined to give a new direc- tion to the political developments of { mankind, One great material need was the g | | (Continued on Page 30) ‘ 7 “It was the great- est convention ever held in the stat President Patrick F. O'Meara New Haven, declared. Increase Is Favored. The convention also went on rec- ord as being in favor of the increase of the percentage of compensation or injuries from fifty to sixty-six ind two-thirds per cent. tion was proposed by Frank Everard of Hartford. The state Insurance motion was made by Ira M. Orn- burn of New Haven, who also spoke on the Trade Unions Insurance Com- pany. A lengthy discussion of the com- fon revealed at the larger insurance companies of (Continued on Page 29) SPAIN REPORTED TODAY AS QUITTING THE LEAGUE Sept. 10 (A—A Havas A from Geneva says has officially announced her withdrawal from the league of nations. “If I Hang a Lot More Are Going‘ To Be in Trouble,” Barberi Says in Threat to Expose Bootleg Ring Slayer, Police Say, Promises to “Open Up” and Make Startling Disclosures About Former Pals | pain Hartford, Sept. 10 (B — Barberi, Front street bootl. er, who is held in Corona, cording to Detective S Nicholas Galliéhio and John | the murder of Carmelo 1 has expressed himself ¢ open up” and make closures of his others in this city and elsewhere, | when he is returned to Hartford. | This was learned at the police sta- J(Inn today, where the detectives in- | vestigating the case quote rberi | as saying, “If I hang, a lot more are | going to be in trouble.” Sunday, wililng “to artling dis- connection with Shortly the local police received word from the Hart- ford sleuths that they had not ac- complished anything of moment as a result of their visit here. They Ruffo of 56 Beaver tford last evening and stood they questioned him nce of Carmelo Bon- latter being held for : betting Barberl to es- Lieut. Frank Santora, head of the | Ruffo is not under arrest, but | Hartford detective burcau, said this | Will prok 7 in the murder morning that Barberi would proba- | trial, as he was at his home Sunday cape. This mo- | borders the Phillips farm where the | murders took place. Faced with this | fact Gorsline admitted, according to | detectives, that they heard the shots and screams. After the questioning had contin- ued for long hours, police say, the | story was again changed by the ad- mission that they had been within | 800 yards of the spot at which the murderers were at work. Gorsline, police said, places the voices he heard ahead of the car in which he and Miss Rastall were | seated, while the girl says they came from the rear. Detectives predicted that further | questioning would bring to light | more: vital details of the slaying. | Describes What He Heard In the first statement admitting |that he had been near the crime, | Gorsline told of hearing four shots | and then a scream which turned into |a wall, then to a moan and a gasp and died out altogether. It seemed |to come from the Phillips farm, he stated. In this statement, which was made |on Wednesday night, Gorsline said |that as he was coming outof the New Brunswick Y. M. C. A. at about |11 p. m. he met Miss Rastall com- ing out of the State theater. He told her to jump in his car and he would take her home. They drove around town to De Russey's lane, where Gorsline sald, he backed his car to turn around and drive to | Miss Rastall's home. A small car came out of the lane as he was backing. Shots Are Heard It was then that they heard the | shots, one report, a pause, then two shots and finally a fourth. The | Woman's scream came to his ears after the first shot. Miss Rastall and he discussed |what they had heard on the follow- |ing Sunday after the bodies had been |found, he protested and agreed to |say nothing. | In the second statement, made |during last night, Gorsline s re- {ported to have replied when ques- tioned as to Mrs. Gibson's story: Agrees With Witness “Yes, I know her statements re- |garding the mumbling voices, the |shots fired, the screams and the | moaning. “They coincide with what I heard |on the night of Sept. 14 | His Stand Story In his second statement Gorsline sald he and Miss Rastall reached |the lane about 10:15 p. m., proceeded through it to a second lane which |turns off to the left and runs to the Phillips farm house, within a |few feet of where the bodies were found beneath a crabapple tree. He parked his car and probably put out the lights, he said. He final- bly be returned to Hartford Tues- when Barberi, Bongiovanni and a |ly admitted that in addition, to shots third man left Brooklyn. | Detective McCue said this morning he believes the “mystery truck” is owned by a local party and he is confident that it can be discovered. Whether or not day. in the truck for Admitting® that he knows the identity of the owner of the truck in which he was transported to Brooklyn, N. Y. last Sunday eve- ning after having murdered Carmelo of land screams he heard men’s volces mumbling, but said he could not re- jcall having heard a woman's volce |which Mrs. Gibson in her statement referred to as uttering a reproach to someone by the name of Henry. Heard Woman's Moan Tiralongo Torrington in Hart- ford, but refusing to give the police this information, Gezare Barberi of Hartford will not fight extradition | proceedings and will probably be re- turned from Corona, L. I, next Mon- the truck ever made the return trip | They were parked, perhaps in ten. from Brooklyn after delivering the [minutes, when they heard the first murderer {s not known, Sergeant {shot, and it was after hearing all McCue sald, but he has reason to be- |the shots, he said, that they heard leve it was returned. The identity of the driver has not been disclosed.,