New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 4, 1926, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 JUDGE ENGLISH EW BRITAIN HERALD NOVEMBER 4, 1926.—TWENTY PAGES. QUITS JOB IN FACE OF IMPEACHMENT PROCEEDINGS AGAINST HIM Whether Senate Will Proceed With Action Against Illinois Jur- ist Not Definitely De- cided. Was Accused of Manipu- lation of Bankruptcy Funds and Usurpation of State Officials’ Au- thority. ‘Washington, Nov. ¢ (®—Federal Judge George W. English of east- ern Illinois resigned today in the face of impending impeachment proceedings. Announcement of the resignation, which was accepted, was made at the White House almost simultan- eously with a call by the house members appointed to prosecute him for a meeting to arrange plans for his trial before the senate on Nov. 10. . Impeachment of the jurist, who was appointed to office by President ‘Wilson, was voted on April 1, this year, the charge being that he was gullty of usurpation of power and other *high misdemeanors.” Indications that Judge English would not carry his case before the senate were given recently when William F. Zumbrunn, widely known as counsel for the Kul Klux Klan, resigned as chief counsel for him. At that time other members of the large legal array he had en- Msted in his defense, insisted that the jurist would fight the issue to the end. Principal Charges Principal charges against Judge English were wrongful manipulation of bankruptcy funds, usurpation of authority over Illinols state offi- cials, use of profane language from the bench and the threaten- ing of juries and counsel in court. Atpearing before the senate and through his counsel Judge English entered formal denlal in each_case. Whether the scnate will proceed with the ‘mpeachraent was sald not to be known at the White House although acceptance of the resignation was with the ap- proval of Representatives Mitchen- er, republican, Michigan, and Sum: mers, democrat, Texas, -managers for the house in the impeachment proceedings. In one or two cases it W with impeachment proceedings aft- er an officlal had resigned. The resignation was tendered for | Judge English by Edward C. Kra- mer, of East St. Louis, II., General Sargent and Répresenta- (Continued on Page 10) HENRY B. CROWELL, 84, SUCCUMBS TO ILLNESS, | Thousands of persons came to the | William H. Beckett and® Martin C. Coi.way Also Called Death which has taken so. many | of New Britain's oldest residents during the past week returned to clalm Henry B. Crowell, who, passed away this morning at home of his| daughter, Mrs, Iva M. 12 Cedar street after an iliness of a year. He was 84 years old and until 25 years ago he was a resident of Mid- dletown. He Is a member of one of the oldest families in that town, his mother and father having been natives of the place. Despite his advanced years, was unusually active and not unm a year ago did he become seriously 1. was assocfated with his son, Willlam H. Crowell, owner of Crowell's Drug | store, at West Main and Washington streets. Surviving him are his son daughter, a brother, Lucius, years old, and a sister, Harriet C. Lee, 80 years old, of Middletown; two grandchildren, Mrs. Elwood §. Johnson of Trumbull street and William H. Crowell, Jr., both of this city. Funeral services will be held Sat- urday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock ar the home on Cedar street. Burial will be in Middlefiecld cemetery, Middletown, at 3 o'cock. Willlam H. Beckett William H. Beckett, a veteran teamster in the employ of the Un- ion Laundry for about 22 years, a resident of this city for about 52 yeal d a man prominent in mili- | tary and fraternal circles in this | city, died last night at Brooklyn ! al hospital In New York after a | lingering illness. Although a native of Portland, the greater part of his life was pent in this city. He was born December 23 1867, the son of Mr. and Mrs. George H. and Hanna Hartnett | Beckett. When he was about six years old, the family moved to this| city where his father became a let- | ter o a position he held for many and (Continued on Page Three) proceedings | sald the senate had progeeded | . his chief | counscl, Present also were Attorney | Bancroft of | While a resident of this city he | 82 | | |Salonta, arrested I !latter |against Doris Mercer GEORGE W. ENGLISH BOTTON OF SWAMP FALLS INTO M 52 Men Believed Killed in Flood ing of Michigan Shaft 40 OF VICTIMS MARRIE Iron Mine Shafts Were Under Bed of Swamp Which Broke Through | Own Basin Rains, Followlng Heavy Ishpeming, Mich., grief-stricken crowd of women and children, most of them widows and orphans of the victims, kept vigil throughout the night about the great gaping mud-pit which marked the grave of the 52 miners entrap- ped in the Barnes Hecker iron mine near here yesterday when the bot- jtom of a swamp over the shaft gave way, flooding the workings. Forty of the men unaccounted for and believed drowned or suffocated were married and all except a few | leave children. . Pathetic Little Groups Huddled ‘about bonfires and 1in company shacks gn the mine sur- face the little groups presented a pathetic picture. Hollow-eved wil 1‘1 | despair, they clutched at the scs ant | hope that in some miraculous man ner their loved ones may have been spared. They refused to lcave the soene for any rest and spent the | night alternately prayir ; ering about the workmen draining the shaft. Solicitous mine officials | and employes served coffee and food | Ito the groups. and administered to their comfort as best the facilities the terrible blow ness of these simple mining folk. Bar Xdly Curious Curlosity scekers were barred from the company property shortly after the cave-in and only officials and relatives of the entrapped men were permitted on the grounds. mine In automobiles from all over the iron range district following first reports of the accldent and a lar staft of state police was kept b | clearing the roads of traffic jam |- Officials revealed that the cave-in (Continued on Pago 13) EARN §2.08 PER HOUR Brakemen on Some New York Cen- tral Line Trains Also Get as High | As $1.29' an Hour, Figures Show. | | | New York, Nov. 4—(—O0n crack New York Central passenger trains ‘b('t“een New York and Buffalo, | conductors car as high as $2.03 an | hour and brakemen $1.29 an hour, | according to figures made public to- | day. | evidence at the hearing of an arbitration board which is consider. {ing the request of conductors and brakemen of eastern railroads for a | 20 per cent wage increase. It was shown that the average monthly pay for the conductors mentioned is $302.30 brakemen $212. On the Central lines between | Chicago it was shown, the average | carnings for passenger train con ductors is $1.72 an hour or $202 month and for brakemen $1.21 hour or $152 a month. New York an ‘ e |Rum Runner Also Faces Attempted Bribe Charge | Middletown, Nov. 4 (£ —Sebastine st night for porting liguor was also charged court today with attempt to bribe the officers who arrested him. The claimed the Salonia offered th(‘m $20 and then $50 it they would l(' him go. Decision was reserved | until tomorrow. Salonia had a gallon and a half of iskey in a hand bag and another gallon was in his car. KRESGI' DROPS T Detroit, Nov. 4 (#) Sebastian Kresge, chain store aperator, today withdrew his divorce action filed sev- leral months ag- in cireu’t conrt here Kresge, second wife. Nov. 4 (P—A and hov- ; afforded, but it was little solace for | dealt the )mppi-‘; ge | The pay figures were entered as| and for the | Toledo and | ns- | in | NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, THURSDAY, LONE LAW BLOCKS MASONIC TEMPLE Board of Adjustment Denies Petition for Special Exception :NEIGHBORS REHONSTRATE Lawyers Lead sy, bou. “fitchell and Hungerford 205, Station in ». In the course of a m» 90,, the board of adjustment lasu . % | q Projt‘co—ml- J;.,k,l Wolfe Says It Is “Incon- | ceivable” That People Would Have Returned | Marsden to Office Had | They “Known How He Violated the Confidence Placed in Him”. on a request of the Masonic Temple | corporation for a special exception on lot lines on its Russell street property, it developed that, even though the request was granted, the proposed temple might have been | ruled out on other grounds. The proposition came before th(‘r‘ board in the form of an application that the corporation be allowed to proceed to bulld with a rear yard |22 feet short of the zone require- |ments and that the strect set-back [line, 15 feet less than established by |law, be permitted. | votes of the board of adjustment are required to grant such an exception. After a hearing a vote showed three voting In favor, two against, and Commissioners George R. Dobson and S. M. Davidson not voting. Letters from H. T. Sloper and H. |'S. Humphrey, owners of the proper- | !ties at either side of the Masonic plot, were read, showing no opposi- tion on their part. | Sherwood H. Raymond called at- | tention to the fact that Russell street lis a wide highway and that the side yards are greater than required. \0 public dances will be held and | the building will be for Masonic uses only, he said. | J. B. Allee spoke | granting an exception. Mitchell Leads Objectors Attorney Charles H. Mitchell, representing Mrs. C. E. Mitchell ob- jected. Residents of a restricted street have a right to have the law adhered to, he argued, and he point- od out that moving the Masonic building forward automatically ad- vanced the building line for the en- tire street. Mr. Mitchell found no extraordinary reason why the ex- ception should be granted because the organization should have given study to the land and its uses before buying, he said | Mr. Mitchell brought up the ques- tion of whether or not the proposed building is 2 non-conforming use. | He read the ordinance and stressed | the wording of a clause setting forth what may be placed in a Residence B. district, such as Russell street rooms, it was seen, are ruled out. Ju/lz«, W. C. Hungerford, repre- senting nine property owners, ob- | jected to granting the exception. Mr. Raymond insisted the building {is no different than a club house and, in fact, Is so classified in the catalogue of American Institutions. in favor of | To rebut this claim, Mr. Mitchell | | said the main use of the building is a lodge room, structed about and to serve the pur- poses of a lodge room, and is called. A list of the objectors was taken, as follows: Mrs. C. E. Mitchell, | Charlotte Hungerford estate, H. M. Bates, M. C. LeWitt, Ilorence Camp, E. B. Stone and W. L. Hatch. R William H. Alderson, who occupie: Trinity Mcthodist parsonage, filed a personal objection. Commissioner George T. Kimball i moved that the exception be granted (Continued on Page 10) ANNIE OAKLEY, NOTED RIFLE SHOT, IS DEAD Had Been Paralyzed Since 1901— Was Once With Buffalo Bill's Troupe. Greenville, Ohio, Nov. 4 UP—Mrs.. l et hier cainen 48 AvniiOaT ley, champion markswoman | showwoman died at the ‘| relative here last night. had been in il some time. She was 66. ince 1901 when she was injured in health for a tr the famous Buffalo Bill troupe, she had been leading a retired life. nna Oakley, when in her prime as a markswoman, visited, together with her husband, many European countries and r ved royal awards and honors from many crowned heads. The present King George of England, after watching her in an exhibition, remarked: ‘“You are the best rifle shot in the world.” While traveling abroad, she matched her skill with many of the best shots of Burope, including members of royval families in coun- tries she visited, besting them all. She was received and treated as a distinguished visitor by many of the rulers, When but a girl, she to handle a rifle with il :m her teens, she married Butler, regarded also as an expert rifleman. ‘When | "I-rnugh here he saw an exhibition | which she was giving and engaged | ier to travel with his show. | January 17, 1902, in a trap shoot meet at Nutley, N. J., she figured in a 25 bird event, breaking the 25 straight. Five aftirmative | and it is to be con- | and | home of a | Practically paralyzed | n accident while a member of | learned | Frank | ‘When “Buffalo Bill" Cody passed | Nov. 4 (P— | New Haven, Conn, | of Arthur W. Marsden. Madison, | judge of probate there and tactional | political leader among the republi- | cans, was deposed as trustee of the ! | Augustine M. Dowd trust fund of the town, by Judge Isaac Wolfe of su- perior court today. A judgment of $1,607.61 was also ordered for the plaintiff in recent action of the | other trustees, Burton A. Hull and | Georgie L. Scranton, through |torney General Frank E. Healy for an accounting. | The order was At- contained in a four-page opinion handed down by | Judge Wolfe. The charge against | | Marsden had been that he converted | both the principal and interest ,the fupd to his own use | The evidence was sgiven before Judge John K. Beach as referce who found that of a state | Marsden | had never kept an accounting of the | | fund, that there were no moneys on deposit in various banks as claimed by the defendant, and that Mars- den’s refusal to answer certain ques- tions made him in contempt. Judge Beach recommended removal Marsden as trustee. In his defense Marsden claimed that the powers of the court were limited to the perfod of his term which he was serving when the ac- tlon was commenced and prior term of service. Judge’s Rebuke Judge Wolfe however found that srecedents cited by Marsden were in cases of public offlcers elecwd for a definite term of years., fie said in his finding that Judge Marsden served as a trustee while also serv- ing as judge of probate. ‘“The proven facts show that for a num- |ber of years he has betrayed the trust imposed in him by his fellow townsmen,” the court said, ed: held by the defendant’ his conduct appears to me to be more flagrant —the more inexcusable. x x x x It is inconveivable to me people of Madison would have and add- re- of that it could not pass upon his acts in a “because of the position thus that the | American |appointed tha defendant to this posi- | tion of truet if they had known how he violated the trust and the confidence they had so often placed in him.” ARCH ST, CHOSEN AS SITE OF NEW LAUNDRY 50 | Bought by Local Combine The Raphae property on Arch street, south of the South Congre- gational church, is expected to change hands shortly and be the site of a new, modern laundry, to be controlled by a group of local businessmen. The amount volved in the transacticn, exclusiv and ap- ing, construction of adaitions, { equipment, is expected to be proximately $50,000. The property was the original site of the Union Laundry Co., now | doing business on the same street, |and some of the buildings used by | |that concern still stand. A part of | the building is used as an automo- | bile salesroom. Extensions, said to Ibe in contemplation, would result in a laundry of greater proportions | than any now in business here, real- tors Interested in the projected dcal have been informed. negotlating for the site and new [Eisntes s being withheld, it is | announced that the combine is com- | posed entirely of local men with lo- | cal financial backing. Seattle s Reception to Seattle, Wash., Nov. 4.—(P—Offi- | clal reception of Queen Marie of Rumania and a tour of Seattlg were cancelled today by Mayor Bertha K. Landes, when advices were received that her majesty would arrive at 1:15 this afternoon, six hours later than scheduled. The committee which was to re- | ceive Queen Marle, composed of | thirty Washington and British Co- lumbia mayors, Governor Hartley and newspaper publishers, was to have met her at the station MRS, ROSS il)\"TS DEFEAT Cheyenne, Wyo., Nov. 4 (A—The election of Frank C. Emerson, re- publican, was conceded today by | Wyoming’s woman governor. | Taylor Ross, democrat, ed her opponent her congratulations for a successful administration. | of alterations to the present build- | While the names of the parties | Queen Cancelled Today | Nellje | who extend- | Raphael Property May Be in- | [ pin) | ters [1aw, | things that his | The next dey she hit ten live birds and followed that up with 25 ht hits on the range. It was at Pinchurst, 7 April of 1922 she broke 100 cla | gots straight, shooting from . 16 vards. Tt is believed that this feat Las never been duplicated by a woman, i | THE WEATHER New DBritain and vicinity: Fair tonight; Friday un- settled; somcwhat warmer. || ! Madison Probate Judge Deposed As Trustee by Superior Court; Is Scatlungly Flayed by Judge ,, Message in Bottle Floated for 39 Years o Halifax, N. S, Nov. 4 (P— A farewell message from John Lee, master mariner, to his || widowed mother, believed to || have floated around the world in a bottle for nearly forty years, has been received here. The bottle was picked up in the Baltic Sea at the Island of Borkum by a young German cable engineer and forwarded to the premier of Nova Scotia. It reads: To whom it may con- cern: Tell mother I died fight- ing. John Lee, master mariner, Halifax.” It was dated “May 17, :372 ‘he writing was very legible. Mrs. Lee died 35 years ago. The fate of her son's ship, which sailed from this port, was never known. faint but § | RTFORD LIBRARIAN | FOR 31 YEARPASES Pneumonia Fatal to Miss Hewins, Who Also Was Writer of Note Hartford, Conn., Nov. 4 (A —| ‘aroline Marie Hecwins, for 51 years| librarian of the Hartford Public li-| brary, former vice president of the Library assocation and | former president of the Connecticut Library association, died at 6 o'clock this morning at her home here. She had been ill since Sunday, with neumontia. Miss Hewins celcbrated her $0th | birthday on October 10. During thci lonz years of her service she had won for herself a unique promi-| nence both in her community and in her profession. In addition to discharging her ex- cutive duties she found time to write several books for boys and grls, and was widely known as a collecctor of rare books, chiefly| books for children. Miss Hewins spent the summer abroad. and, returning here in the | tall, resumed her active life. Less than a month ago, she made a vi to New York. A few wee o sha | fered an attack of bronchitis but had recovered sufficiently to resume her work at the library. On Sunday | pneumonia developed. Miss Hewins was born in Rox- bury, Mass, on October 10, 1:45 the daughter of Charles |Hewins and Caroline Louise (Chd—( Hewins. Before coming to Hartford in 1875 Miss Hewins had taught at a private school in Bos- | ton and served as an assistant at the Boston Atheneum. s | | DRINKS IGDINE WHEN | HE GANNOT GET WORK shot | Scolla. of Newton Kensington Man Attempts Suicide on Newing- ton Road Discouraged at his inability to ob- tain_employment, according to his tatement to Officer A. L. Atwater, Nello Panolli, aged 30, of the Kilby House, Kensington, attempted sui- cide by drinking lodine in Newing- ton ncar the Richardson farm this forenoon. He was found on the roadside by Joseph Skelsky and George Mac- lachlan, local insurance agents, and | brought to New Britain General | hospital, where it was said he will recover. His mouth and throat were | painfully burned by the iodine bu no serious results are anticipated. Captain Kelly at police headquar- | was notified shortly after 10 o'clock and he detailed Officer At- water to investigate. The officer orted that Panolii said he want- ed to die because he was discourag ed. He is marriux WAGNER 10 START WORK AGAINST DRY LAW SO0N, Senator-Elect From New York Promises to Swing Into Action Right Away New York, Nov. ‘Wagner, democra rator-elect intends to begin working for modi- | fication of the Volstead law as soon as he gets to Washington. | “I regard my election and the re- | sult of the prohibition referendum | as a mandate to me to t at once tc get modification of the Volstes he said. “That is one of the I promised during my campaign, and I intend to keep my promis At the same time, T am | not so foolish as to believe that 1 can go down to Washington with my amendment under my arm, imcvnd» ing to insist that congress accept it | “I am in favor of CONRress pass Ing legislation which shall give the states what is their right, the power | the define the alcoholic contents of liquors, within the provisions of the i constitutional amendment, modifica- | tion of the Volstead law, of course, | must be a matter of fnmpromls(‘,‘ |and a man in my position must go to Washington with an open mind | if he Is to accomplish anything” | { (Copyright || calmer, oh so much calmer today as J to begin. Yesterd: | fully hard b | Test and now | tightening about one of the defend- | | ness stand to do w '!s it any wonder | me confuscd | w | home trom work about 7 o'clock and | ! aia | rested Scolla on a ct | thieves who had been stealing | has been set. {Roughneck { lent waters off CHARLOTTE'S TEARS CAUSED NO SHAME| ills Girl Describes Emotions| While on Witnes Witness Stand IMPRESSED AL JAMES MILLS RESENTS BEING CALLED ‘DRAB’ Hushand of Slain Woman Says He Tasted Sweets of Romance Feels Cold Stares of Defendants as | | She Goes to Testify But is \0[; Daunted—Likes Prosecutor's Di- | rect Manncr of Attack. BY CHARLOTTE MILLS | 1926, Famous Features Syndicate, Inc.) | Somerville, N. J., Nov. 4—I feel | | BY JAM New Brunswick, N. J., think the bitterest few ve had since the death of my wife four years ago, came yesterday in the Somerville courtroom when Senator Simpson, in his outline to the jury painted me a drab, ordin- ary, colorless man without any ro- nce. He tried to show that it s hard for a woman | wife's tastes to tind any happiness with a man like me MILLS Nov. the second day of the trial is about I couldn’t con- trol my feclings although I tried aw- t T had my one hope is that a good night's the trial will be over soon. How my heart was torn with con-‘ flicting emotlons yesterday. How can 1 ever describe the things that went | on within me, within my mind and |son and I think he's handling this | case the way it should have been day passed before me. T saw the be- | handled four years ago but just the ginning of the trial of three people | same it hurt me when he said that accused of the murder of my own | hecause people will get the impres- mother. {ston that my wife never loved me, I saw the clutches of the law |even when she first married me. That's not so. 1 know I'm not within my heart as the events of the nt on the wit- at 1 could to| clear up the mystery Not Ashamed of Tears | T cried on t! and T am | not ashamed that I did. As T was testitying the whole tragedy came| It was hard for me to sit there in back to me more than ever—my|I'm what I am and my poor wife mother dead and the man she loved, | Was what she was. I loved her when dead. And now all this fuss and | I married her and I never lost that why? Because two people, one of | them my own mother, loved each other. They loved dearly, but it was the kind of love the world doesn't| understand | All that lovely romance was ants and 1 myself w such in my heart, but I tried my best to make her happy and I think she was until she got interested in Dr. Hall and began carrying on with him. death and even now I have nothing | but the Kkindest regards for her memory. It was har for me to sit there in the courtroom and listen to them o o | discussing the murder all over again :’,{.‘j,‘\'q:” ::‘ Blocil pen )‘“:.t;’]espe:mny when Officer Garrigan e her's pleture which | 14" 06 “finding the two bodies in Toq Prosonted to me o the stand-|De Russey's Lane, with Fleanor's ha I cried to| oo IV think that their mortal heac ended. How can T get interested in | love was|p; pal, I'm glad the icked the jury the detalls of the trial when those | 4 et memorics are always hefore me. quickly without a lot of fuss because \I want the trial to go on and be The defense counsel tried to get | gyer with, I think Senator Simpson about the time I was | ig going to try to hurry it along but by Elis Parker. a de-| (e way the defenss lawyers acted Burlington county. Mr. | today, it seemed like they ‘wanted to drag it eut. This case has been dragged out long enough as it is and SHOGTS INNOGENT MAN about it—not have people Scolla Arrested After Put- cominc to me and asking me this 'Il\d that and who do T think did it ting Two Bullets Into Voisard .and so on. Being at this trial is a questioned tective of (Continued on Page Five) big sacrifice {o me in time and money because I'm paying a man to | do my janitor work at school, but I | if only they'll do | | don’t mind that something. I haven't any hard feellng against \,\lrs. Hall or Willie or Henry Ste- | vens, but if the jury decides they're guilty I don’t think they ought to be let off unpunished. On the other ‘]nm! if they find those 1h|e:3 h'dmo' P! ¢ y don’t want the state to drop Flainville, Nov. 4 (p—Herman | font, L I8 BER (0 am Voisard, aged 18, of Park street, was jous to have it over with, T don’t twice in the by Frank | think there should be any stop until avenue last eve- | they go right to the \N;ltlom f}nd find e ang i atient at the New | Out Who did that awful crime. A G »;.nax.l Poltpna, | . Wosn D o neme. 8 {‘(‘!“‘.‘: o is employed as a clerk in the | Drunswick Ilast night, 1 couldn | help thinking all the time 1 was lconomy store, was on his Way|,.iue the supper for Danny and me, how (Special to the Ierald.) leg cut acress Scolla's property for a short distance to save time. As hel $ o8008 M ST 0 to and sing- did so Scolla, who is thousht toy. 5 jittle song. But that can never have been hiding nearby. fired two |18 S LT8R Lok 4o know it by both bullets entering the calt | % M0 E S00 S 08 0 Yo it | Leaves Bulk of His Estate Daughter and Son. Waterbury, Conn., he will of Charles F. Chapin, edi- tor of the American for 49 years, was filed for probate today. The instrument was executed April 10, 1926, and makes among others, the following bequests: To Mary J. cott, for many years his house- cper, $1,000. To Edith daughter-in-law, To the First church, $1,000 as an fund. To his granddaughters, Harr Chapin and Katherine Ru h to bo held in trust by pany until Y Four years have passed but I miss The wounded youth was able to| ;o O a" o Chilaren miss her. The walk to the office of Dr. George F.| 1o ® o™ i ne fuss Cook, where he received first aid. | goccit help much that way. | He was then mu‘n to the hospital | Ly Constables E. W. Furrey and An- | y drew Togan, 1r. an ey was| CHAPINS WILL FILED ken and disclosed both bullets in | the leg; one had penetrated to the | bone, but it not believed that Former Waterbury American Editor the bone had been shattered. Voi- sard's condition is not considered to serious, and if conditions are favor- able the bullets will be removed to- | morrow. | Constables Furrey and Hogan ar- ge of assault with a dangerous weapon. He told them that he had been troubled by cab- bages from his garden, and last night he was evidently laying in wait for them to return. Voisard happened to pass and recelved the treatment meant for the thieves. It is belicved that Scol his vietim no pre- ning to leave his prop- d away impulsively at Chapin, his regational LEHAREGH Scolla $1,000, which were ing the night. He wa ing a hearing, no was held under bonds of furni dur- s released pend- date for which One half of the residuary estate lis bequeathed outrig ator's Carl M. other half is to be he the Colonial benefit of the testator's daughter, Barbara Chapin Russell, the inter- est to be paid to her annually. Mr. heirlooms and other articles are to i be divided between the two children according to directions left for the | executors. Ll Chapin. e Hijackers 1in trust by Holding Bathtub Party New York, Nov. 4 (I—A cham- pagne bathtub party held on a rum runner after its smugglc: crew had been captured by hijackers and while fleeing from the bombard- ment of a coast guard cutter, was aled today in the opening of in dictments for violation of the prohi- | bit'on law and attempted piracy | When the rum runner, The Elma, | was finally overhanled in the turu- Hatteras the double crew of rum runners and hi- DISHOP GUEST IN CONN. Middletown, Nev 4 (A—Rt. Rev. !John Graham Murray, presiding bishop of the eneral Protestant 41 minutes I | with my | I certainly admire Senator Simp- | the lively kind with romance and | love for her until the day of her ng in the left arm of poor | nice it would be to have | Eleanor in the kitchen fussing over | and noise | Trust Company for the | Chapin's library and certain | | Jackers were said to have been found clustered about a tub full of cham- pagne in which a grizzled hijacker impersonating a bathtub girl was seated and from which the men were drinking out of tin dippers. No resistance was made to capture it was said, alcohol having made the fugitives indifferent to seizure, Episcopal diocese whose home is in Baltimore, will be a guest of the Connecticut Church club here to- nigh* and w'*h coadjutor Bishop E Campion Acheson, will speak. Other (gues‘s will be the students at Ber |keley Divinity school. The church club has a membership of layme and clergy from all parts of the |state. Average Daily Circulation For Week Ending Oct. 30th .... 13,882 PRICE THREE CENTS GORSLINE DENIES SEEING THREE DEFENDANTS NIGHT OF HALL-MILLS SLAYINGS | State’s Star Witness However, Tells of Hearing Shots and Groans-Refutes Al- leged Admissions to Detectives. | Vestryman’s Girl Friend in -Lane Tells Similar Story — Sleuth’s Testimony Damages Case Against “Willie”. Courthouse, Nov. Somerville, N. J, 4 () — A categorical denial that he saw any of the three de« fendants in De Russey’s lane the night the Rev. Edward Wheeler | Hall and Mrs. Eleanor Mills were murdered was made in the Hall- | Mills murder trial today by Ralph | V. M. Gorsline, vestryman in Dr, Hall's church. Tells His Story Gorsline, sald by the prosecution to be one of its chief witnesses, told in a low but calm voice how he |had gone into the lane in an aue |tomobile with Miss Catherine Ras- tall, also of New Brunswick, about ten o'clock on the murder night. As soon as they got into the lane, | Gorsline said, he turned out the lights of his automobile. A few minutes later he heard four shots and then moans from a woman. Saw No One, He Says “Well, what did you do?" Special | Prosecutor Simpson asked. “We stayed there for about five {minutes longer,” Gorsline said. “Did you see anyone?” “No.” “Saw no shadows?” “No.” “What did you hear first?” “One shot, then screams, three shots and then this woman's moans.” “Did you know Mrs. Mills?" P¥es."” "Didn’t you see her?” o “Dr. "Hall 2 “No. | Denies Press Account | “Why don't you cut your throat like you did in the grand jury room?” This, Senator Simpson explained, referred to a gesture Gorsline was reported to have made in the prese ence of one of the grand jurors. “Do you deny that you told a |reporter on Thursday last that you had seen shadows?" “I do.” “You never saw Mrs. Mills throat cut? “Ni “Do you deny that you said you saw Henry Stevens in the lane that night when this shooting and {throat-cutting was going on?” S do® Didn’t Make Confession “Did you, on October first, 1922, go to a Willlam J. Burns detective ageney in New York and there tell William Garvin, a detective there, that your conscicnce was bothering you because you had not told what you saw in the lane that night?’* “No.t* Senator Simpson held in his hand |several typewritten sheets of paper, {to which he referred. “Did you tell Garvin you saw Henry Stevens standing there with |a revolver and that Stevens sald to you, ‘hello, Ralph, what are you doing here? — get the Hell out of here?’ P | *“And did you tell him that you got frightened and ran out of the lane as fast as you could?” 0." Dented Tt Four Years For four years Gorsline = (Continued on Page 17) CONDEMNS BUILDINGS ON HARTFORD AVENUE |Structures Found Conforming With Safety Laws denied ell, | Not Two Hartford avenue buildings were condemned today in a new arive instituted by the building department without the services of its consulting engineers. In spite of Inspector A. N. Ruthe erford’s refusal to divulge informa- tion concerning the progress of a campaign to check up on buildings under suspicion, information con- cerning today’s action became publia | when owners of the properties took steps to have extensive repairs, which they said were ordered by the building department, carried out Use of their buildings, they admite ted, was prohibited pending carrye ing out of the building operationsy The work will entail a $3,000 ex= enditure, Five buildings are now under the 1ilding department's ban. Thelr cation will be made public at the aext bullding commission meeting.