New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 5, 1926, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 'NEW BRITAIN HERALD NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1926.—THIRTY-SIX PAGES. MUSSOLINI'S NEW LAWS T0 BATTER DOWN OPPOSITION CARRY PRISON SENTENCES Plots Against Premier, Royalty, ‘Govt. and State Punishable By Death—5 to 30 Years For Other Offenses. Membership in Anti-Fas- cist Organization a Crime—Special Corps to Be Sole Judges — All Passports Annulled. ¥. H. CORBIN LEFT $304.922 ESTATE Son, Janitor in Albany, N. Y., Gets Income From $153,048 INVENTORY FILED TODAY Investments In Industrial Stocks and Railroads Form Bulk of In American Can Common, The estate of the late William HI RUTHLESS DRIVER ILLS, RUNS AWAY Woman Meets II‘ Near “Circle” orfTHHFle" TWO UNDER $15,000 BOND |New York Lawyer and Chauffeur Arrested in Meriden and Charged With Manslaughter and Evasion of Responsibility. Released under bonds of $15,000 |Isaiah Lecbove, a lawyer of 45 | West 57th street, New York City, {and Rufus Wood, his colored chauf- |feur of 321 D street, South West, | Washington, D. C., are awaiting {trial on November 11 before Jus- |tice €. S. Barrows of Newington, |charged with reckless driving, man- |slanghter and evading responsi- | bility, following a crash which re- Holdings—$183,960 His Interest sulted in the death of Mrs. Arthur |,rmjgtice was declared and the mob, |L. Young, 50 years old, of Exeter, IN. H. The aceident occurred last eve- -.uwnflfi' ier Damage Done By Students 216 ARINIAUBO Y Subway Train Stolen, Autos Are Held Up, Ball Room Wrecked and ‘JAPY | Boston is Scene of Sensational Collegiate Riot in Which M. L. T. Men Run Wild, Battle Police Reserves and | Throw Tear Bombs—Five Arrests Made—One Al- ready Jailed. Boston, Nov. § (P—Five students [but this move prove * costly—to the of the Massachusetts Institute of elevated company—for nearly every | i i |window in the structure above the | Technology will appear in court here | y10500 wag broken. The reserves today on charges of malicious des- [then drove the mob down Massa- {truction of property during one of [chusetts avenue to the bridge and [the most sensational collegiate riots [succeeded in moving the frantic col- ever waged in this city. legians back to their native shores— The riot. which finally assumed itno north bank of the Charles. |the proportions of .. serious batile| 1t wag reported that several | {with the police reserves, during|motorists whose cars were wrecked, which several thousands of dollars’ | ) take action to recover damages worth of property was destroyed, |and the fight in the gymnasium was {started when 400 freshmen attempt- iga4q to have resulted in $1,000 dam- led to break up the annual sopho-|age heing done to that bullding. imore banquet with tear gas bombs. One Is Jailed. | | After a few minutes of fighting an| A sentence of five days in the| house of correction was meted out | to the first to be arraigned of ‘he five students arrested. Sears L. Hallett of Brookline, a sophmore, 1600 strong, started up Massachusetts |avenue to Harvard Square. Auto- | mobiles were wrecked on the way (HARLOTTE UPSET BY TURN IN TRIAL Worried by Illness of “Pig Woman”, Important Witness SORRY FOR MISS RASTALL Realizes She Has Been “‘l'errlblyl Punished” by Public Knowledge of Her Clandestine Ride in Aulo; With Church Vestryman. | BY CHARLOTTE MILLS | (Copyright 1926, Famous Features | Syndicate, Inc.) Somerville, N. J., Nov. 5.—Poor Mrs. Gibson, I am all upset over her. It seems there is always some- | thing happening to me—something to make me miserable. I wanted Mra. Gibson to testify. I have al- | ways thought that she could help to | clear up the whole mystery. And | now she lies seriously ill. This | morning everybody is talking about | her, wondering whether she will be well enough to testify soon. There 1s more interest in her now than in USED AS ARGUMENT Average Daily Circulation ih' ot 13,882 Oct. 30th ..., PRICE THREE CENTS MILLS, HUSBAND OF SLAIN CHOIR SINGER, TESTIFIES; MRS. HALL IS NEAR TEARS ‘ AUTOS AND BUSSES | Witness Declares Rec- tor’s Wife Told Him She Was Sure Couple Eastern Roads Sey Competition' Were Dead, Else They Is Too Keen ‘ Would Return. Mrs. Gibson Still in Hospi- | tal — Ex-State Trooper | Expected to Tell of Be- ing Bribed to End His Investigation. OPPOSE WAGE INCREASES Freight Decreases Also Mentioned By B. and O. Spokesman \Vhoi Likewise Mentions Stockholders’ | Dividend Desires. New York, Nov.§ (®—Increase | |ning at about 7:15 o'clock on the ang trolley cars were stopped, their appealed from the sentence of Judge automobile busses Rome, Nov. 8 (A — Sweeping measures to protect the fascist regime from the activities of its en- emies were approved today by the kabinet, sitting under the presidence of Premier Mussolini. The ministers adopted a provision Corbin 1s valued at $384,922.79, ac- | turnpike opposite the Circle Danc- | cording to the inventory filed today |ing pavilion, Newington. Mrs. | in_ probate court by Stanley Eady|Youns was \n\hlkllng across the road | 1 itowards her husband's car parke and Herbert H. Wheeler, appraisers (/0075 80 TOR TGRSO Eohehe of the estate. The inventory is one py a specding car, suffering instan- lof the longest ever reccived in the tancous death due to a broken | local court and is composed of many | nck. Both of legs were also broken | Stdck HolAloRE. by the impact. Mr. and Mrs. Young |to Boston free of charge. vindows broken and wires cut. The University thcater in the square was stormed as well as the police sta- tion. Stone administered for disturbing the peace and bail was set at $300. Hallett was arrested while the | students were milling around Har- vard Square. Four others arrested in Boston received little sympathy from Superintendent of Police Crow- ley who said they would have to face several charges and that he “Crashed” the Gate The students then ‘crashed the gate” of the subway and took pos- session of a two car train, riding in- One wo- | anything else. Last night I went over to the hospital to see if T could visit Mrs. Gibson for a few minutes. I have| always liked her and I thought I| would like to see her. But I was re- fused permission. She was guarded | by a state trooper. Then I inquired about her condition and they told | ‘in the use of and private automobiles instead’ of railroad trains was put forward to- day as one reason why the eastern |, railroads should not be required to | ° OMe to court today but the Hall- accede to a request of their conduc- | Mills case went ahead without her, tors and trainmen for a 20 per cent [Mrs. Gibson, expected to testify as an wage increase. |eve-witness of the slaying of the John J. Ekin, comptroller of the |Mminister and hoir sirger four years railroad told |2&0. Was reported somewhat improve Courthouse, Somerville, N, J., Nov, 5 P—Mrs. Jane Gibson was too sick |were on their way to St. Peters (man passenger fainted during the | coi % oo Gire contonces, me she was no better. | Baltimore and Ohlo making plots against the life, lib- erty and integrity of the premier and members of the royal family, and plots agalnst the government ¢ nd the state, punishable by death. They also approved penalizing by Imprisonment, varying from five to more than thirty years, any effort by an Italian or foreigner to injure Italy in fact or by propaganda. Mcmbership An Offense Membership in any against fascism also will be punish- able by heavy imprisonment. Nearly a dozen specific acts relating to direct or indirect activities against the regime will render the offenders liable to jail terms and perpetual interdiction from the public office. All passports allowing Itallans to leave the country are annulled, with heavy penalties for attempted evasion. Other provisions are: Strict Ban On Antis Revocation for an {ndeterminate period of the licenses of all newspa- pers antagonistic to the regime. Dissolution of all clubs and associ- ations suspected of being anti-fas- lcist. Institution of police deadlines for persons suspected of anti-fas- ‘cism. Inauguration of a service of Bpecial political investigation at the headquarters of every legion of the fascist militia. Judgment of the aforementiones erimes s entrusted to special corps and the fascist militia. The num-| ber of the courts and the control of them will be in the hands of the minister of war. The law goes into effect immediately, and lasts for five vears. The cabinet also approved exten- sion of the law on bureaucracy for another four years, thus keeping of- ficlaldom absolutely free of anti- fascist elements. The law will also be amended toward this end. New Crimes and Penalties Among the new crimes and pen- alties are.the following: Conspirators against fascism, five to fiftecn years; instigators of plots, fiftcen to thirty years; Instigation or support -of -anti-fascist activities through the press, five to fifteen years; formation of illegal societies, three to ten years, and membership in them, two to five years, with perpetual Interdiction from public oftice. Any sort of anti-fascist pro- paganda will be considered equiva- Ient to such membership. JUHPS T0 HIS DEATH Allingtown Man, 34 Years Old Leaps From Eighth Story in Suicide Hop Today. New Haven, Nov. 5.—(P—Leaping from the top of the company build- ing eight storics above the ground, Louls Holzer,.34, of Allingtown, met instant death today when his body struck a window ledge on the third floor. No motive has been discovered. His wife caid that Holzer, a waiter in a local restaurant, had gone to pay a bill. Mr. and Mrs. Holzer moved here some years ago from Scar- borough, N. Y. They had two chil- dren. Bolt of_Lightning Sets Fire to Falmouth Barn Falmouth, Mass, Nov. 5.—~P— Two women recelved minor injuries, a barn was set on fire and three houses were damaged by one bolt of lightning at Falmouth this morn- ing. The bolt hit a barn in the rear of Falmouth Junior high school and sh.t along wires connected with radios into three houses which stand in a row, Mrs. A. H. Peterson was | bruised when thrown to Mrs. Stephen Robbins suffered from shock. Plaster was ripped from walls, water pipes broken, shingles torn from roofs and eleétrical fixtures damaged. The horn was filled with baled hay and was partment. OLD BALL PLAYER DIES Griswold, Conn., Nov. 5.—{@— The income from 40 per cent of |the estate goes to William Waldo | Corbin, employed in the humble ;capaclty of a janitor in Albany, N. v | goes to a daughter, Mrs, Grace L. The income from 60 per cent | burg, |son. The body was carried more |than 100 feet by the car. te police, called to the scene, were given a description of the car, which had shattered a headlight in Florida, for the winter sea- ! organization | the crash. They notified authorities in towns south of the scene of the | disaster and asked for the deten- tion of any cars answering the de- | A scription. | 3,360 shares, American Can Co., | Policemen Francis Higgins and | Thomas Tighe of Meriden soon | |afterward stopped the Leebove car {as it was entering the outskirts of | | Meriden. Besides Leebove and his |chauffeur were Mrs. Leebove and | Hyman Wolfe of New York city. | Lecbove stated that he was on his 20 shares, Bristol Brass company, |way home after a business call on | par $25, at 5—$100. | Thomas J. Spellacy of Hartford and | 10 shares Colt's Patent Firearms he and Wood were taken to Hart- | company, par $25, at 27—$270. ford for questioning by state au-| 10 shares Erie Railroad, common, | thorities. | lat 36%—33°1.25. The body of Mrs. Young was| 2 shares, First National Bank of |taken to a Hartford undertaking | |Hartgord, at 230—§460. lestablishment while her husband, | 10 shares, Inspiration Consolidat-|near collapse, spent the night at | ed Copper, par $20, at 243%—3247.50. i the home of Mrs. Jeanctte Whitney, | 4 sharcs, D. C. Judd company, par | 203 Fairfield avenue, Hartford. Be- $25, at 26—$104. |sldes her. hushand, Mrs. Young! 100 shares, Natfonal Lead Co. leaves an adopted daughter, Mrs. | common, at 156—$15,600. | Helen Stoddard of Exeter. | | 92 shares, New Britain Machine | Medical Examiner J. P. Purney, | |Co., common par $25, at 1534 —$1.- when called to the scene, stated | |that Mrs. Young died instantly and | | - _New Britain Trust Co. |authorized the removal of the| |at 225—86,750. body. State police are investigating | | 20 shares, New York, New Haven |ipo accident, Officers Bushy, Kelly, |and Hartford R. R., at —s910. and Bukérs 'being assizned |and E 5 = Grant [ ate i Norfolk and Western |40 (ho jon. 1 com 1on, at 1703 —3$35.- | pochove is reported as saying that he was on his way to report the ac- cident to Meriden authorities when | he was stopped. After the accident, | | Techove said that he heard occu- Let's lynch As Leebove lived in the south and was accustomed to mob actions. | Spiers of Woodhaven, Long Island. The janitor will receive the inter- est on $153,968.80. The inventory is itemized as fol- lows: | common, par $25, at 54% —$183,960. 24 shares, Baltimore & Ohio R. R., preferred, at 73-—§1,752. 45 shares Baltimore & Ohlo R. R., | common at 105% —$4,753.13. | 40 shares Billings and Spencer, |common, par $25, at 4—$160. n 1306.25. | 50 shares. Philadelphia & Reading | Coal and Iron Corp., certificate of in- | terest, no par, at 4 162.5 | 100 shares, Reading company, 1850, at 915 —$9,162.50. | 650 shares, Sinclair Consolidated { Oil Corp., common, no par, at 19 3Y—: pants of other cars s this damned n until recently ride, car windows were pulled out, electric lights broken and fire ex- tinguishers emptied. In Boston the rloters blocked |traffic at Tremont and Boylston [streets by stopping automobiles, :f;‘";\‘:gog":r’):,(;:n:::hi:hglflgsff;m of Milwaukee, Wis., Sydney C. Hard- that section by police reserves they | Wick, Jr. of Hingham, Charles E. went to a public ballroom farther |L.yons of Somerville, Arnold A. up Boyston street and wrecked its | Smith, a freshman living in the Tech furnishings to the extent of $2,000 dormitories. Smith so far has been according to the management. | unable to obtain bail. Was Costly Move | Judge Stone in sentencing Hallett Fror1 here police reserves headed | said, “the days have gone by when the students into a subway station. | you can do such things.” The cases of the other four were continued for two weeks after they had pleaded not guilty to maliclous | destruction of property of the Tent | Ballroom and inciting a riot. The four were Prescott D. Crout DEATH ENDS CAREER IN FOOTBALL SPYING AT PLAINVILLE'S SERVICE| NIAGARA UNIVERSITY William J. Johnson, Select- man for Years, Dies Today }College Protests Action | Under Canisius’ Alleged Espionage System Niagara Falls, N. Y., Nov. 5 (P— | Frank Weitzman, secretary of the student council at Niagara Univer- |sity, today fssued a statement In w [tives of the football team of Cani sius College. Buffalo, have been spy- ing on the Niagara university elev- en during the latter's secret prac- | (Special to the Herald) | Plainville, Nov. 5.— William J. Johnson, aged 66, for 16 years a member of the board of selectmen and first selectman from 1913 to 1926, died at his home on Unionville avenue at 4:30 o'clock this morning. He had been in ill health for two months, being stricken on September 10 shortly after deciding that his|tlce, in an effort to learn Niagara's| poor condition would not allow him | Signals before the game scheduled | P run for office another year. For |between the two schools on Satur- several weeks he lay at the point of ‘dfl!'; death, but two weeks ago he rallied | _1"ormal protest of the alleged spy- sufficiently fo be out for short pe- | IS has been made to the Very Rev. riods. A few days ago he suffered a | Peter T Cusick, 8. J., president of | died suddenly today. {he had been treasurer of the Total 1$12,675. |~ 200 shares, Southern Pacific com- |pany, common, at 108—3821,600, | 2 shares, Sovercigns Trading Co. Iin dissolution—$20. | 15-20,000 shares Stanley Securitics | Co.—$175.22. % 310 shares, Union Pacific common, at 1673%—§51,856.25. | 200 shares, Union Manufacturing |Co., par $25, at 27—$5,400 | 9 shares, United States | preterred, at 125—3$1.1 1‘ 100 shares, United Corp., common, at | 43 shares, H. R. Walker Co |$25. at 30—$1,290. |" 10 shares. Wilson & Co.. Tn | per cent cum. preferred. at 63—36 | (Certificate of deposit—American Exchange National hank) Deposits: | Commercial Trust company—$ 502.14, | .New Britain Trust | $802.05. | Savings Bank of Jew $19.87. Household and personal | 8100, One dlamond ring—$1,200. Packard sedan—$S00. | Ten tons of coal—$30. | Uncollected checks—$2.060.13 | Bona, Nevada Consolidated Copper | Co.. 15 years, 5 per cent, due July ! i company— Britain— effocts— | 1941—$510. { |Boston and Worcester Car Strike Deferred | Framingham, Mass. Nov. § (P— | Operatives of the Boston and Wor | cester street railway, who were scheduled to go out on strike today. | voted to defer the strike at an ea morning meeting here. | The men were told that Justier | Bdward P. Plerce of the supreme | court had consented to interview th | receiver of the company. who pre- | viously had told them that their de- | mands for union recognition and in ‘(‘rna.fl‘d wages would not be met The company had announced plans b the floor. | ¢or continuation of service by motor buses. Patrick Darcey, Prominent Winsted, Conn. Nov. 8§ (P — saved only | Patrick J. Darcey, 62, warden of this through hard work of the fire de- | borough from 1910 to 1914 and at one tima first selectman of the town For 30 years Abstinence society. He was a char- John Farrel, 55, died today in Back- |ter member of Winchester council, us hospltal. Thirty years he was one of the most popular pitchers in Con- |retary of the necticut baschall, For years he was a | gtrect commi=tloner of Jewett City He was n momher of several Roman Catholic societies. Knights of Columbus, and was so fraternal Order agles. [Ior some time he con- ucted a blacksmith shop here. He is survived by a widow, three sons and two daughters, of | Entiela, Me., Nov. | came known today. |he thought it safer to report the accident from the next town than {to stay and crowd, he gave as an excuse for not | remaining at the scene. TRAVELERS’ MAN DIES /J. D. Whitncy Was Publicity Man- ager For Hartford Insurance Com- pany—Noted Newspaperman, r| | Hartford, Nov. 5.—J. D. Whitney, Aibany corrcspondent of the New York Evening Post during the Sulzer ! governorship and impeachment and special carrcspondent on the private [train of Woodrow Wilson during the |1912 camps N. Y., of arteriosclerosis this morn- ing. for the Post, attracted the attention of Joseph Pulitzer and instructions that the author be secured for the York World were fssued. years with that paper he went into advertising and 10 years ago hecame publicity managzer of the Trevelers Tnsurance Company. Hart- rd. He was 48 years old and a graduate from Yalo at the age of 20. Childven Watch Mother th As She Diss in Flames | Philadelphia, Nov. 5 (P—Five children who glecfully helped their mother rake together fallen leaves in their yard at Penfield near here, nd watched as she set them on *, today mourned her loss. A few minutes after Mrs. Kath- lcen Molone, sculptress, wife of Louis G. Milione, had set a match to the pile a gust of wind burning leaves in her direction, a flash In her clothing was in flames. o died five hours later. BY FRIEND —(P—Walter & a shot fired by a companion at hunting near Nycatous Lake, it be- The two men who started a deer and separated to drive it. Curtis, who was 35, leaves a wife and child. TRAIN KILLS THR St. Albans, Vt., Nov. HORSES (A—The argue with the angry; died at White Plains, | An unusual article which he wrote | After | blew | urtis was almost instantly killed by | Z| “Yi!‘s{erl Clt‘ze“. Pa?v‘ie«"} moving clump of hushes while deer | selectmen will be | relapse, but his death this morning | Canisius. in a letter forwarded last came suddenly and painlessly. His |Mi8ht. Niagara is serlously consid- | fliness was due to age and overwork. | STIN8 the advisability of calling off 1t |Saturdays game. ‘ | Smoland province, Sweden, on April | ID his statement Mr. Wentzman §, 1860. He came to the United | S35 D | [ States in 1881 and had resided In |, C-’f?“"'“_”& known last year | Plainville since shortly afterward. |{'® et knew our plays and | He married Miss Julia A. Cowles of | 58118 be 2 the Eame, ey gat | Austinburg, O., on March 27, 1§90, |L'¢m In no honest w A Canisius In Sweden Mr. Johnson had worked | R boasted of their spying to a | Niagara ma gt - | for a railroad and become an expert | .\/48ar2 man on the night follow |ing the ga v ; |in highways and transportation, but | € the game while tha two were | | |in a Buffalo hotel. Niagara expect- | | here he took up farming on the old | o4 4no same sneaking tmethoasierix| ~Ezlokiolgfofl“\'lf‘s rfhc& lected second |Ye2T: In fact, Urban (Canistus | n’l he t“h“ _"_CC Pl‘ % \~‘ | coach) is reported to have promised | selectman and three years later be-|, g5y gt each Niagara practice this | came first selectman. His experience | o010 in road building stood him in £00d |~ uGiards were detalled by Niagara stead and saved the town consider- | giygent council to protect the priv- | able expense through his advice and |30y ot Ningaras grid. The guards| supervision. He was cautious nndi“.cm stationed on the roof of St cconomical in spending the money | yincents hall with fleld glasses and of the town and Kept well Within the |oxamined every car that parked annual budget. | ; With those who made complaints | to him and with the townspeople in general he was always courteous and sought to meet their needs as best he could. His death will be mourned by all who came in contact with him and knew his integrity, his patience, and his unfailing good humor. Mr. Johnson was a charter mem- ber of Plainville Grange, organized | Mr. Johnson was born in Balsha near the campus. | “Two men parked their car In | Sugar street near Niagara university | |2t 4:15 oclock Thursday afternoon. | | The men left the car and one walk- | od along a railroad track toward | the campus, climbed a fence into| the orchard just south of the fleld, |and, crouching low, crept from tree [to tree toward the grid where the | Purple were in secrot practice. His in 1887, and was always greatly in- | compaion followed him at some terested in its work. He was also a | gistance, member of Frederick lodge, A. F.| | | “When the Niagara men on the & M. and of the Congregational | ooe eave the church. . A | Nijagara men orchard. | He is survived by his wife: ¥w0 |mme spies fled, one to the car and | daughters, Mrs. Percy A. Cowles of [tho other to the farm behind the | Farmington and Miss Mattie C.|gactory. The N stk RS | Johnson of Plainville, his seeretary | rounded the farm and held the spy | while he was in office; two grand- | prisoner there until dark. daughters in Farmington; three{ “The automobile bore license | brothers, John Johnson of Larned. | plates 4 71, The dviver was:racs] | Kans,, August Johnson of Port Tort | ognized by several Niagara men as Townsend, Wash,, and Solomon |5 Canisius student, a substitute Hne- | Johnson of New Britain; two sisters, | man on their varsity football squad. | Mrs. Carl J. Carison of Plainville and [ The car sped along .Sugar street Mrs. Louis Flodquist of New Haven; |several times as the spy looked for | and several nephews and nieces. | his companion who was held pris- | The flag in front of the town hall |oner on the farm. | and that in Monument square were at | “The angry Niagara students| half mast today because his | finally ordered the driver to stop but | death. A meeting of the hoard of |he ignored their siznal. The Nia- | held tonight to gara men then hurled stones and | | take action on his passing. | pleces of concrete at the car.| | Tuneral services will be held at|smashing all the windows and dent- | ! his late residence on Unionville ave- |ing the body badly. The driver step- | | nue at 2:30 o'clock Sunday after- [ped on the gas and the car disap- noon. Interment will be made in |peared. The Buffalo chief of po- | West cemetery. lice reports that license m»rnfli | was issued to Luke Urban. No re-| port of the stoning of the car was | crowd of | Washington, fast Montreal —express, ploughed through a group of five horses and killed three of them at Brosseau, Que., last night it was re- vealed when the train pulled into the tion here, The express was an | hour Iate. * | THE W {made to police in Lewiston or Nia- | gara Falls. | “The Niagara university student| council last night formally protested the smaliness and dishonesty of | | THER | New Britain and vicinity: Fair tonight and Saturday; somewhat cglder tonight. {Continued on Page 34) Late yesterday while she was suf- | fering in the hospital there was a | legal wrangle about whether theyi should take her testimony there. | But the court decided to wait to see if she got better. Senator Simpson wanted to have her testimony taken now because he was afraid she might die before she | could tell her story of what she saw | and heard that night my poor mother and Dr. Hall were so brutal- ly murdered. But the defense ob- jected, In spite of their talk that Mrs. Gibson's mother would shatter the farm woman's testimony. Gibson wants to tell her story. 1 know she wants to see justice done. “Fine and Sincere Woman" I have talked with her several | times, and she has always impressed me as a very fine and sincere wom- an in spite of the fact she is only a farm woman. I do hope she gets well. I am really worried about her. Senator Simpson said he didn’t want to see ‘the hands of death aid a mis- carriage of justice’ And I agree with him. Fate has interfered so much in my life already, it would be a terri- | ble blow to me if it stepped in again | pjcpatt of New Haven common plcs.si | {and left this mystery of my mother’s | ourt today. death to haunt me That would be too much. Senator Simpson also said that if the defense counsel didn't stop wor- always. ich he charged that representa- | rying him so much with their objec- | tions he would ask that someone else be assigned to the case in his place. 1 hope nothing like that happens be- cause he certainly has conducted the case well, and it has moved very quickly with that first negligent in- vestigation. I am beginning to have faith again in Jersey justice. And theway Senator Simpson snaps at the Hall attorneys is very amusing. I can really laugh sometimes at his sallies. 1 would be frantic with | misery if it weren't for him. | Ralph Gorslin was very nervous | on the stand. He swore he didn't | see anyone that night he heard the | shots which killed my mother near | De Russey's lane. Catherine Ras- | tall, who was with him that night, | also testified. Sorry For Miss Rastall I feel so sorry for her. It was just torture for her to be on the stand, admitting before so many people | who knew her that she had been out in De Russey's lane that night in a parked auto with Ralph Gorsline, a married man. That stigma will last | perhaps, no matter how it is ex- | plained. | Her story was substantially the | same as the vestryman has told. You | could see that Miss Rastall was | anxious to have the ordeal over with | as soon as possible. i Mother always thought Katherine | { Rastall a nice sort of girl. She aidn't have much contact with her except that both sang in St. John's choir, but on the several occasions that her name was mentioned, 1 know mother always expressed nice opin- ions of her. Her story in itsclf is important only because it confirms the state- | ments of Ralph Gorsline regarding | the number of shots heard, the| screams, the time of the murders | and the place I do feel sorry for her, for if it| hadn't been for the reopening of this case, she never would have been mixed up in the affair. You could see today by her whole attitude that she had been terribly punished. Minister Il At se For a moment yesterday, 1 was back in St. John's church in New Brunswick listening to Dr. Hall de- liver one of his warm, kindly ser- mons. For a moment only—and in mind only. Just a flash—and the | plcture faded out. After all, T was | not in church but in the court room | here and the pulpit was really the| witness stand and intsead of poor | Dr. Hall, it was his successor the| Rev. J. M. Pettit who was speaking. | The minister was ill at ease, it| sccmed to me. There was not that | alr of confidence and geniality | about him that used to mark the personality of Dr. Hall. But of| course, Mr. Pettit was on a witness | stand, testifying a murder trial. In| the pulpit in his own church, among | his people, he's probably quite dif- ferent. Mrs. Anna Hoag followed Mr. Pettit on the stand and after she| had told her story o hearing shots | on the night of the murder, Ralph Gorsline was called. The mere men- (Continued on Page 34) Mrs. | the board of arbitration considering |4 Over her condition of last night, the wage question that besides the |PUt there was no intimation from decline in railroad passenger traf- (the Somerville hospital when she fic due to busses and automobiles, | Wil be able to testify, if at all. Mrs, constant decrease in the average Gibson has been unofficially desig- rate per ton mile for freight, in- [Rated as the state's star witness. creased taxc. and the necessity of maintaining reasonable dividends to | James Mills, husband of the slain | stockholders must be taken into ac- | VOman. Mrs. Eleanor R. Mills, testi- count in considering the justice of |fied just before the luncheon recess, increased wages. He was calm and told his story with- out excess display of his feeling. In 'NEW HAVEN LAWYERS ARE |svown b e oo et otion EACH GIVEN FINE OF $100 ent slight penetration of Mrs. Hall's | | McCoy and Sperandeo, Who Figured MiNs Takes Stand {composure. As the church sexton told of the | Visits of Mrs. Holl to his house, with the news that her husband had not |returned, to learn that his wife had |also failed to come home, the rec- tor's widow secemed on the verge of tears, She at once recovered her self-possessfon. New Haven, Nov. 5 P—Display of | Mills remained on the stand only temper on their part and the throw- |a short time, direct examination ‘h‘g of an ink well during the a}llone being completed. He quoted wrangle brought fines of $100 each |(1¢ deferdant, Mrs. Hall, as saying |in reply to a question as to the | upon David J. McCoy, attorney, and possibility that her husband his wife | Louis Sperandeo, assistant prosecut- _{fl!op:;d :u -n;lng, “No. T know they 5 4 jare dead or they'd have come home.” fing dltorsiey, tromh Judse WANSRM s lair S el nsinoers The trial moved slowly and with- out incident except indirectly from the witness stand. The belligerent |special prosecutor, Alexander Simp- {son, and the suave defense counsel, Clarence F. Case, exchanged thrusts at intervals in connsction with ques- tions on direct and cross-examina- tion. Counsel seemed to find it hard to phrase their questions so that they would meet the full approval of the in Fight in Court, Guilty of Contempt | The incident which disturbed the | serenity of the court room occurred | several days ago and was the out- burst of personal feeling during re- cess in the trial of a civi) suit 1n which the attorneys were on oppos- ing sides. Sperandeo nuried the ink well which brought ink blotches to marble wainscotting, court records and the uniform of a deputy sheriff | onnosition. who separated the men. | Once or twice Mr. Simpson seemed | Both attorneys tendered apologles 'slightly irritated and spoke with |to the court. Judge Pickett said he some abruptness to his witnesses. | preferred mot to review the “re- This caused Mr. Case to suggest the grettable incident.” He remarked possibility that the prosecutor had that “if there is one place where the |Suffered a “bad night.” “Not at all.™ law should be respected, it is the rejoined Mr. Simpson. “it was very court room.” |plensant, except I missed your so- The incident was closed with ap- |*iotv” plication of the maximum penalty. The defendants entered the court- |eran court crier, John Bunn, called |those who had business with the Coupled With Friday the Combina- court to “draw near.” All were well poised as usual. Accused Are Dignified | Mrs. Frances Stevens Hall and tion Proves Too Much for Dan- ;hrr hrother, Henry Stevens, were al- {most stern in their dignity. Willie |Stevens, the other brother, with a |fireman’s complex, was affable. He {shook hands with members of the |defense counsel and several friends [hefore taking his seat and later rose to greet others with clasps of the hand. Mrs. Hall and Henry Stevens did no handshaking. Dickman to Be Called | Although Mrs. Gibson is not |avallable at the moment, Alexander Simpson, special prosecutor has an- other witness, on whose testimony in its fright as he reached it from |he relies, in waiting. Henry T. the top of a ladder. Johnson slipped | Dickman, former New Jersey state and fell fifteen feet to the grnund.fno“cvmnn. reached Somerville in He fractured his pelvis and at the | the custody of federal officers. He Danbury hospital is under observa- |appealed on the case, via a military tion for possible internal fnjuries. DPrison on the Pacific coast and after e isi50; vears olT: a long absence from New Jersey af- fairs. Dickman was serving a sen- Dean of Masons Is 76, il(‘nce in the west after conviction S lon a charge of desertion from the Passes Milestone Today William W. Pease, New Britain's larmy when he was returned east to “dean of Mason: today is observing testify as a state witness In the Hall-Mills case. Dickman disap- the 76th anniversary of his birth. Mr. Pease, a member of Centennial peared in 1923, without going through the formality of collecting lodge, and an active participant fn |hiS Wages and represcntative of the its activities, rarely misses a meeting. | State expect him to testify that he He has held many high offices in the | Was bribed tp discontinue his in- various Masonic organizations. He | Vestigation of the crime and leave has been a Mason for 47 years and | the neighborhood. has taken every degree except the | The early testimony 33rd. |almost routine. ~A. 8. Vanderveer e e TR took the jury to the scene of the - . T |erime with a series of photographs. Weld, in Doughboy Fl_en‘:h |the prosentation of thess exhiblte Surprises His Audience | requiring one hour. This testimony Mayer Weld displayed his ver- | developed that the “crabappie tree, satility last 1 'ght when he arose | under which the crime was com- at a gathering of members of §t. | mitted has disappeared as has a Jean de Baptiste society and | “cedar tree” to identify certain addressed the meeting in the | physical characteristics of the Phil- French la- -uage. The mayor |lips farm, which has been much prefaced his remarks with an photographed, as shown by today's explanation that his is the |25 photographs. “doughboy French,” but when | Dickman to Testify. he concluded hi: speech the ap- | Henry L. Dickman, former mem- plause accorded him indicated | ber of the state police, who alleged that hi. message had been thor- he was bribed to quit his investiga- oughly understood. Mayor Weld, |tion of the killing, four years ago, of who went to France as a “buck the Rev. Edward Wheeler Hall and private,” in common with other |Mrs. Eleanor Mills, was brought te American doughboys, found a |Somerville to testify for the state. working knowledge of the native Dickman was continued on the tongue essential and he acquir- |case when the activities of, other in= ed his know! '3 of French by |vestigators had stopped. In the necessity. Last night's meet- |spring of 1923 he disappeared, leave ing was held at Norden Bunga- |ing two months’ pay behind him. low to commemorate the or- ganization's 25th anniversary. bury Man. Danbury, Conn., Nov. 5.—(#— Oscar Johnson, head of the farm at the Curtis school for boys in Brookfield center, cannot be con- vinced that Friday and a black cat | are not unlucky. Called thi§ morn- ing to rescue from its perch in a tree a black cat whose cries were disturbing a woman 1{ll in a neigh- boring house, Johnson was bitten by the animal, which turned upon him today was (Continued on Page 33)