New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 6, 1926, Page 1

ESTABLISHED 1870 DARING MAIL BANDITS IN SENSATIONAL KIDNAPPING BUT LOOT TOTALS ONLY $5 Three Robbers at Hib- bing, Minn., Steal Pouch and Compel Clerk to Ride 200 Miles With Them. Holdup, Which Occurs in Broad Daylight in Busi- ness Center of Town, Seen by Scores Who Thought It a Movie Scene. Minneapolis, Minn,, Nov. 6 (P— Selecting a town where there were no marines or guard, three men yes- terday stole a registered mail pouch kidnapped a railway malil clerk, drove more than 200 miles—and netted $5, for thelr trouble. The robbery, staged at Hibbing, in northern Minnesota, was as bold a daylight holdup as ever was at- tempted in the state, and was suc- cessful in all respects, except for the profits. ° " Thought It a “Scene” It occurred on a principal street, just before noon, within sight of several workmen, who were not im- pressed because they thought it was a “scene being shot for the movies." Truman M. King, veteran postal messenger clerk of Duluth, was the victim who was glven the uncere- monious automobile ride to Minne- apolis. Part of King's duties include the carrying of registered mail from Tis train to the Hibbing post office, near the depot. Clerk Is Kidnapped When the train reached Hibbing, King proceeded as usual with the registered pouch. Two men sud- denly confronted him with revolv- ers and forced him into an auto- mobile where-a third man was at the wheel. floor of the car and a blanket put over him. Thure he remained until they reached hours later. At a street corner in Minneapolls King was put off and the rified pouch tossed after him. He ran to a drug store and telephoned to po- lice. No trace had been found of the bandits early today. Only $5 In Pouch Ten pleces of mall were in the pouch. All had been opened, but onl one contalned money, a $5 bill. It was first believed that the sack money for Hibbing banks, lly sent from the Duluth clear- house. King did not get a very good look at his captors. He was stift and sore from being kept so long in a ramped positien and had a black reye as a result of being hit by one of the robbers when he attempted to kick out a glass in the automobile door to escape. Threo stops were made en route to Minneapolls, once for gasoline and twice when the men tinkered with the motor of the car. was taken back over the route to- day by postal inspectors. The robbers got a two hours start on the authoritles. When King failed to arrive at the post office within a reasonable time a search was started. Several men working on the roof of a building near the depot, gave officlals their first def- {nite idea of what had happened. hai The workmen said they had not| they | reportsd the matter because thought the affair elther a joke or a “moving plcture scene”” They did not obtain the automobils license number, and no trace of the car or King was had until he telephoned police here. THREE AUTOS STOLEN Car Thieves Put in Busy Night in Same Section of City—One Ma- chine Later Found Abandoned. Three automobiles were stolen in this city last night, and one was re- covered, according to the police re- ports. Manager McAuliffe of the South- ern New England Telephone Co. local division reported his car taken from Court street at 7:40 o'clock. At 11 o'clock Walter Smedburg of Southington reported his car taken trom Grand street, but Officer Dombrowski found it later on Pros- pect street. John E. Nelson of 39 Rlack Rock avenue reported his car taken from Grand and Camp streets at 11:20 o'clock. Queen Will View Wild, Woolly West Thermopolis, Wyo., Nov. 6 (P — The shades of the old west will pass before Queen Marie of Rumania when her train rolls through the Wind River Canyon, the old haunt of frontier outlaws and bad men, on the morning of November 9. With rifles and six shooters a score or more sheriffs and cow punchers will guard the royal visitor in the canyon. Sheriff F. B. McFarlane, a Wyom- ing law officer of frontier experience, with his deputics, wearing chaps and broad brim sombreros will line the canron as the ro; train halts for a few nutes to give the queen a glimp. of Wyoming's mountain fastness. MASONIC TEMPLE AGAIN REJECTED Second Appeal to Board of Ad- justment Made Today OPPOSITION ~ CONTINUES Owners of Adjoining Properties Not Content With Amendment to Plan Which Provides Adherence to Ex- isting Set-Back. A second application for a permit to bulld a Masonic Temple on Rus- sell street was denled today by Build- | ing Inspector Arthur N. Rutherford, | and appeal was taken at once to the | board of adjustment. | The application set forth plans and | specifications identical with those | of the original request made last week and denfed by the building de- partment and board of adjustment! with the exception of a change in the | street set-back which makes the building cenform with zoning re- quirements in that respect. The rear | yard is now smaller than appeared | | V- RITAIN HERALD NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER, 6, 1926. —EIGHTEEN PAGES Average Daily Circulation For oo 13,882 Oct. 30th . ... PRICE THREE CENTS PRINGETON TIGERS BATTLING HARVARD (Game at Cambridge Outstanding Gontest in East Today MANY WATCHING OLD YALE New Haven Varsity Eleven Tackles Organization of a Hart & Cooley Manufacturing Co. to carry on the manufacturing business of the Hart & Cooley Co., and sctting up of the Husky Outfit From Maryland Who [last named corporation as a “holding” company to carry stock investments in the new corporation and in others, will be discussed at a meeting of stockholders, Novem- | {Yambridge, Mass., Nov. 8 UP) — |ber 16, at 2 o'clock at the company Princeton and Harvard, intermittent | offices. | gridiron rivals since 1877 were fit for | 10 @ letter recelved by stock- lolders todey, the company explains thelr 20th encounter today and al- | that stock investments made over | though the Crimson defenders reign- | period of 16 years have now reached ed favorite there was a suspicion a total greater than tho capital that the Tiger from New Jersey had |Stock of the Hart & Cooley Co. and not revealed all his tricks in earlier Have Several Old Timers in Their Formidable Lineup. in the opinfon of the directors, it| seems wise to divorce those invest-| ments from the actual manufactur- ing business, Increase in Capital Stock At the stockholders meeting, will be proposed to increase present capital from $990.000 to $1,- 000,000 for the purpose of having an even figure, Because the amount of increase is so small, it is proposed to have the directors take the new block to use for whatever company purposes they deem advisable. It is proposed to transfer all the manufacturing assets of the present cempany to the new company anti expected to carry its powerful line |0 turn the new existing corporation into the struggle with a will to win | ill receive all stock of the Hart & that would be hard to deny. One of | Co0ley Manufacturing Co. with the the elements of doubt, however, was | °XCeption of one share each to be season games. Jack Slagle, outstanding back of the Princeton squad, remained an enigma until the last and his name was not included in the starting line- | up. Jack, a triple threat of the first order, has been out with injuries but it was an open secret that he would | be in the fight sometime during the | game. | it the Harvard Will Fight Harvard's growing confidence, re- doubled since last Saturday's victory | over the Dartmouth Indlans, was in the first plan and an exception is asked on that account. Informed that a new application had been made today, Judge William | C. Hungerford, who appeared before | the board of adjustment last week | the Crimson’s ability to cope with |Subscribed to by the directors of the | Princeton’s forward passing game |M¢W company. and this was looked for to prove the | Letter to Stockholders prusial test’ of the day, | The lctter mailed to stockholders he Bengals have clawed Har- |follows: | vard badly in the past two years and | _ T0 Stockholders of The Hart & | to present the remonstrance of nine | only once, in 1923, has a local team Cooley Co., Inc. King was thrown on the | Minneapolis, 6 1-2! property owners, today declazed that | the opposition will again voice a re-| | monstrance. Asked if the change | which brings about the proper street | set-back would be sufficient to bring| about a withdrawal of opposition, the | attorney declared with emphasis: | “Certainly not.” When the corporation appeared | {1ast week speclal exceptions were, !asked for both front and rear ofi- | sets. The change brought about in the revision of plans makes it nec- essary to ask only for a rear yard| exception, although the exception will be greater than that of last week. It is belleved arrangements can be made for a hearing on the new petition at a .meeting of the board next Wednesday, Chairman | Sherwood H. Raymond of the Ma- | sonic building committes has been informed. | Property owners in the neighbor- | hood of the proposed building not | only oppose the deviation from lines, | but also insist that a lodge room is| specifically restricted out of their zone and will carry on their fight on that ground if the exception is granted, they say. LOGAL CHURCH SEVERS DENOMINATIONAL TIES Swedish Bethany With-| draws From Congrega- | | sted victory since the days of the| “Your company during the past Interests in Other Concerns Now Greater Than Capital- 3 ization of Original Enterprise ‘ years has acquired stock in other manufacturing companles to such an extent that the value of same largely exceeds the amount fn- vested in its own manufacturing operations. Your wise to divorce the above invest- ments in stocks from the manu- facturing business of the company. The approved plan for accomplish- ing this includes a new company organized to carry on the manu- facturing business, all of the capi- tal stock in this new company being held by the present corporation which becomes a “holding” com- pany not engaged directly in manu- facturing operations. “For several years the eapital stock of this company has been £090,000.00. To make it even figures ($1,000,000) is desirable and the amount of increase ($10,000) being too small to divide among the stockholders, it |s recommended by your board of directors that rights to this Increase be waived by stock- holders and that the shares be ac- quired by the company and held by the directors for any purpose they may deem best. “N. P. Cooley, President.” The call for the meeting follows: “A meeting of the stockholders of the Hart & Cooley Co.. Inc., will be held at the office of the company at 2 p. m. on Tuesday, November 16th, 1926, to take action on the following proposals recommended by the board of directors: To authorize the organiz on of a corporation to be known the Hart & Cooley Manufacturing or such similar name as may determined upon. Co. be (Continued on Page 13) war. o WAGE BLODDY FGHT | ") ON EAST WA ST, |Bottles and Knife Used% as Weapons During | Melee | Darby Kilgour .. Left Guard Gamache .. Simonds French Meadows .. -+.. Moeser | gis head bandaged and the tip Caulkhutol the first finger of his right hand | off, Adoiph Gulda, aged 23, of 139 Washinglon Putnam Quarterback Guarnaccia Bridges street, was in police court this morning on charges of breach of the peace and assault with Stanley Kley, aged 30, of 55 Last Main street, a Kley, aged | 50, of 55 Kast Main street, and | | Michael Romanowicz, aged 46, of 55 New Haven, Conn., Nov, § (f— |1ast Main strect, who were similarly Maryland was to be Yale's opponent | charged. Stanley Kley also wore a today in the Eli's last game before | bandage about his head, while Mrs. they tackle Princeton and Harvard | Kley and Romanowicz showed no for the “Big Three” title. | marks of the brawl in which the While Maryland has not been con- | quartet is alleged to have been in- idered a dangerous opponent, the | volved about midnight last night at | ratic performance of the Blue |the Kley home. Th wses were | team in previous games this season | continued until Monday morning, to s made EIi supporters cautious | allow Kley to engage counscl. All about predicting a Bulldog cleanup | pleaded not guilty. as occurred last year when the| Guida is said to have gone to the maller college was swamped, 43 to | Kley home on a real estate matter 14. | last night and a bloody fight ensued. In an | ive stitches were necessary to close | Left Halfback Miller ... . Sayles Miles Fullback Yale Maryland. effort to find a winning | feet ana | i room of his establishment. King | tional Association Ecnmhlnnlion after last Saturday's dis | PR T The Swedish Bethany church has Central Asso- ciation of Congregational it was learned today, and has ceased | its affiliation with that tion. While the vote to withdraw was taken by the church as long ago as March, 1923, ‘it was not until last month that notice of the decision was given to the association. This delay was due to the resignation of the secretary and a consequent lapse in the clerical work of the church. No reason for the withdrawal has been given. | The Bethany church has not been actually affiliating with the Congre- | gational denomination for several | |vears, according to Rev. Raymond |N. Gilman, registiar of the associa- |tion, its connection being more or |less nominal. No representative from | |the church has attended the asso- | clation meetings for at least four! vears, and the notice of withdrawal |is tn the nature of a recognition of |an existing state of aftalrs. { The future course of the Pethany church is not known. Tt may con-| {tinue as a nondenominational or-| | ganization or may ally itself with ! other Swedlsh-speaking chu il ‘Sinro the resignation of Rev. Gus tave E. Pihl as pastor the church has been unable to take any action |along this line. A definte plan 1s |expected to be formulated ws soon | |as a new pastor is obtained. | [Murder Tndictments Are Saucht in Tomhs Plattine | New York, Nov. 6 (A —Tndictments | charging first degree murder will be | |sought against employes in Tombs | |prison found te he implicated in the | |fatal escape attempt, Commis- sioner of Corrections Frederick A. Wallis sald today. Testifyinz in the inquiry heing conducted hy Comr sioner of Accounts Joseph A. War- ren, Wallis sald revolvers by which |the three conviets murcered a war- |den and a keeper and killed them- |selves must have been furnished “elther by a prison employe or a ishyster lawyer.” | Acting District Attorney TFerdin- and Pecora, conducting an Investiz: ton of his ov.. sald that he wi convinced “there was conniv: Iwith some persons i the prison.” | withdrawn from the | churches, | | denomina- | wylte ... astrous meeting with Army, Yale Continu coaches this week have made fre- | : Sjon Rere 1) HARTFORD CHINAMAN SAYS HE WAS HELD UP| Tells Police of Attempted | Robbery on Windsor Avenue Hartford, Conn., Nov. 6 (A—Ye Kee, Chinese laundryman of thls city was felled with a black jack, bound and gaeged and robbed of 50 in his shop on Windsor avenue shortly after 6:30 o'clock this morn- ing by two Negroes, he told the po- lice. The assailants drew the Chinese into conversation, rapped him on the head and were about to grab the money when the shop owner recov- ered from the blow, struggled to his attempted to beat them off, according to his story. He was unable to attract assist- e with his yells and, when bound nd gagged, was thrown into a hack- The Ne- groes escaped, and Kee had to roll through the back room to the street door in the front office where he could kick the windo - and draw attention. Two passersby heard him and released him. quent changes in the line-up. Noble and Scoft are both missing from the Llue eleven in the tentative line-up | announced last night. The old liners have a number of veteran players, including Linkous, 185-pound halfback, who scored his {eam'’s two touchdovns against Yale last year, and will muster full strength against the Elis. The visitors spent the week in working up a brilliant forward passing at- | tack which they expect to hurl against the Blue. The old liners arrived here early this morning. Maryland has won three of six | games played this year. Yale has won three of five. Probable line-up: YALE | Rome, this morning to find Benito Musso- | 1ini holding seven of the | thirteen portfolios and in exclusive MARYLAND | personal control of a new formida- ------- Adams | p)c mechanism for the protection of nd | the regime against all attacks, con- Zulick | griracies and insuits. S Having added the ministry of the Wondrack | jntorior to his responsibilities the | premier called his cohorts to sup- Bafford | port him fn carrying into effect two ; | of his favorite maxims—two eyes for Crothers | ;¢ eye and for one tooth an entire | set of tecth,” and “the best way to | defend is to attack.” Wheat and Chaft The wheat among the cohorts is to be separated from the chaff. The grand council of the IFascist party decided this morning to authorize Sccretary General Turati out a systematic purging of ranks of all members not giving ab- solute proof of thelr faithfulness to “the original Fascist spirit.” " orcover, the Fascist ranks will not be permitted to take matters in- to their own hands. The council has ordered and immediate cessation of the movement started at Padua and Parma to institute special secret political police and compile lists of enemles of the regime for special surveillance by local blackshirts. His Various Jobs In addition to being commander- | in-chief of the militia, Mussolini now holds the portfolios of premier, for- elgn minister, minister of interior, minister of war, minister of marine, Richards Sturhahn ‘Webster . Denton cous e Right Tackle | PFishwick Leatherman Bunnell ... Kessler ‘ Holabird Linkous | Toote Stevens Kline ..... Thomas Ttullback Officials: Referee, ley, Bowdoin; umpire, C. O. Scott, Springticld; field judge, A. W Palmer, Colby; head linesman, W W. Eider, Williams. Claim Fog Horn Cuts Down Milk Supplv | St. Catherin»'s Point, Tsle of Wight, Nov. 6 (A—The farmers are finding that the new fog horn erect- ed here is interfering with the milk supply of the island. Whenever the horn sends forth its loud blasts, the cows scamper across the fields, frightened at the noise, and at milk- ing time are not s¢ prolific as when v have browsed all day without ted. horn has a range four | times the length of this thirteen mile long island. W. R. Crow- labor. | The national council approved last might all the drasti | the cabinet, sittin dency of M H These will now go to the chamber of deputies, specially convoked by the cabinet's | to carry | the | minister of aviation and minister of | | Mussolini Completely Controls | Practically Everything in Italy ‘ | Dictator Holds Seven Important Portfolios and Also: is Exclusively in Command of New Protective Measures—Martial Law Virtually Exists. Nov. 6 UP—Ttaly awoke |premicr next Tuesday for final ap- |SPeaker proval. Death P They include th for attempts to injure or molest by word or deed the premier or members of the royal family or for conspiracy against the regime; heavy pe for direct or indirect oppo: the creation of political police to watch the activi- | ties of ists at home or ‘fllvroad and anti-Fascist | naltics all | peiiodica { stablishment of a re- | troactive death penalty for those re- sponsible for previous attempts against the life of Mussolini failed of enactment by the grand council. ¥ Martial Law Begining this morning, Ttally virtually is under martial law with Mussolini possessing the powers of 2 commander-in-chief of the army in time of war. The new created courts for trial of crimes against the re- gime and the special political police force intended to secretly watch for plots here and abroad are both con- trolled by the Fascist militia. Thus Mussolini is doubly in command, as minister of the interior and com- mander of the mili The former sociulist deputy, Zan- aboni, General Capello, and Gino Lucelli are to be tried for attempts to assassinate Mussolini by the new d on Page 15) newspapers and (Contim THE WEATHER New Britain and vicinity: fair tonight and Sunday; warmer tonight. ) | i { | directors think it | uspension of licenses of | Hart & Cooley Co. Will Become 1PRUHIB|T|[]N PUTS Holding Company and Take Over | PEP IN REPORTERS Big Mass of Stock Investments y, . Denying or Affirm- ing Startling Stories %ANDREWS MAKES REPORT To Rum Runners—Washington Chief and Three Agents Fired ¥rom Service. Washington, Nov. 6 (A—Prohibi- tion popped into the limelight again today in the nation’s capital. While Assistant Secretary coln C. Andrews, in charge of forcement, was denying that coast guard had “sold out” to bootleggers and was making known his determination to seek legislation Lin- en- the the |next month giving the government | greater control over medicinal li- | auor, it was revealed that the chief |of the prohibition machinery in and around the District of Colum- bia and three of his agents had been |dismissed for conduct “distinctly |unbecoming to federal officers” | when they held np with drawn re- | volvers an automobile containing an unidentified but reportedly promi- nent government official. | Only “Advertising” | Reports that the coast guard | |forees had decamped to the liquor | |law violators were laid by General | Andrews to “bootleggers who need advertising for their home-made | forcign liquor.” | | While not referring specifically to | the latest instance, that in Boston | where four coast guardsmen are| held for aiding occupants of rum | | row. General Andrews conceded that | | there had been some defections, but | that the organization under Admiral E. C. Billard, praise for its activ Wants Law Changed General Andrews eaid that he would again urge congress at the next session to pass the prohibition enforcement reorganization measure and the bill to strengthen the Vol- stead act but that the only mnew | measure he will propose would give | the government greater control over the rapidly vanishing supply of | medicinal liquor. The dismissed agents hers were Robert L. Livingston, deputy prohi- bition administrator for the district, and agents J. Carter, James Cook and John Fitzpatrick. Agents Get Warning “Agents may not rush about city Istrcets aud country roads holding iup automobiles without the slightest |cause, using drawn revolvers and |talking abusively to occupants of the |automobiles they stop,” sald General !Andrews in connection with the dis- |missals. “Such conduct is not be- |coming to a federal officer and must |be stopped.” | While none of thc three agents |ever will be re-appointed to the fed- leral service under any circumstances |he said, Livingston may be given an- lother chance anc transferred to |some other enforcement field. The name of the occupant of the seized machine was not revealed, but officials said that they desired to lay all possible emphasis upon the dis- |missal of the agents, and not on the | prominence of the automobile’s occu- | pants. | “The same thing would have been done,” they commented, “no matter whose car had been stopped in such ‘J manner."” JUDGE POLLARD SPEAKER AT MASONIG EXERCISES merited nia Jurist to Deliver Oration on 75th Anniversary of Gid- | dings Chapter Dec. 9 | Judge John Garland Pollard, for- | mer attorney general of the state of | Virginia and governor of the Trowel |and Triangle club in France during |the World war will be the principal at the 75th anniversary | meeting of Giddings chapter, R. A. {M. on December . | Word was received today by the committee in charge of the program that Judge Pollard would be able to speak in this city on that date. Ten Years in Prison Is Sentence Given Marine San Diego, Cal. Nov. 6 (F—Ten years' confinemct in the naval pris- on at Portsmouth, N. H., and then |dismissal from the service, was the |sentence imposed on Captain Ben ljamin Cripps of the fourth marine il(-}:lmr\nh it was reported here today. Cripps was tried by general court rtfal on the churge of conduct |tending to destruction of good morals |and of conduct prejudicial to good order and discipline. | Sergeant Joseph Cercek, mnoted |marine football star, who was tried |by general court martial on charges ‘n{ bootlegging and slugging the |sentry who was guarding him after |his arrest. was sentenced to seven years' confinement at Portsmouth. President Coolidge has approved both sentenc | Enterteining Is Big Denics Coast Guard Has Deserted | SIMPSON GIVES UP HOPE OF OBTAINING TESTIMONY FROM HIS STATE’S WITNESS GHARLOTTE PALES | \Mrs. Gibson Apparent- ly Will Be Il For | FA[;INEMRU []AY‘ Weeks — Prosecutor “May Be Handest of Wogle Trains Guns Today cn | Tral” She Writes | Mrs. Hall’s Home Life. FEELS SORRY FOR FATHER;MiIIs Denies Jealous Quar- | — rel With Wife—Defense "chllz('s What Pitiful Picture He . . ¥ | Made In Courtroom As He Mcckl)'E Secks to Link Slain Wo- man’s Husband With Killings, | Told Story of His Life Smashed By Tragedy. | BY CHARLOTTE MILLS | (Copyright 1926, Famous Features Syndicate, Inc.) | Somerville, N. J, Nov. 6 (P—With Somerville, N. J., Nov. § (P—I sit |his star witness, Mrs. Jane Gibson, |today in the courtroom in the sha- |probably unable to testify for weeks |dow of heart-breaking misery. Today may be the hardest day of | whole trial for me. Any moment Inow the clothes my poor mother | and Dr. Hall wore the night of the |murder may be shown to the jury Alexander Simpson, special prosecus |tor in the Hall-Mills trial today, trained his legal guns directly om the home life of Mrs. Frances Stev- | They were brought into the court- room yesterday in a big box, but| |ens Hall, who is on trial with her bothers, Henry and Willie Stevens. |—and my tragedy Rear | they were not presented. 1 wish | Gibson In Hospital they had been, because if they had | bson is at the Somerset I would now breathe easier, I |County hospital with an acute affec« know the horror which will strike tion of the kidneys. After consule into my heart when I see those grim |tation with a New York city- speciale reminders of my mother's tragedy |ist the hospital physicians declared 1 know the cruel | the patient was seriously ill and, al« memories they will arouse—the day |though in no immediate danger, the bodies were found—the funeral |may not be sufficiently recovered te —and all those nightmarish days lappear in court for weeks. that followed. | Mr. Simpson failed on Thursday All day yesterday T waited for that [in an effort to have the jury taken moment which I knew would grip [to the woman's bedside to hear her {my heart with grief. T could pay |testimony. The prosecution’s case |little attention to the courtroom |hinges largely on the testimony of drama—and drama it was. There |Mrs. Gibson, who claims to have |was my story and suspense. The |scen the defendants at the scene of lactors played their parts according |the crime on the night of the mur- to their own id as of their roles. The | ders, |defense attorneys were pompous, | dignified and slow. Senator Simpson |was quick and biting. It was inter- |esting, but always my mind came back to that big box. Today it is the same—that big box. Those |things they wore that night four |years ago when they: went out to |meet each.other and never came {back alive. Haunted By Father's Testimony Today, too, I am haunted still by |some of my father's testimony late |yesterday. He told on the stand Ihow he had rec.ived money for let- ters which Dr. Hall had written to |my mother. But that wasn't his |tault. A woman tricked me out of |those letters. She told me she was |a lawyer and wanted to protect me. |She took the letters and had them | published. Later she came back |sheepishly with some of the money | |she had gotten. Poor father was so lin debt because of my mother's |heavy funeral expenses. The dam- |age was already done. My mother's |romance had already been bared to |the world. Nothing could remedy that, so father took the money. Father wasn't exactly nervous on the stand, but he seemed confused a little. That is easy to understand. | |1t is hard to be on the stand with all those eyes staring at you. Courtroom a Whispering Gallery When my father took the stand the little Somerville courtroom |fairly buzzed with the whispered May Accuse Mills Defense attorneys have drawn from James Mills, the slain choir {singer’s husband. testimony that he |was a shoemalker before he was sex- ton of Dr. Hall's church, and that he owned a sharp shocmalker's knife at the time of the murder. Mr. |Simpson saw in this an attempt to connect Mills with the slashed throat of his wife. Mills denied any recollection of a quarrel with his wife because of {jealousy and denfed that he had [found a bundle of his wife's love notes before the murder. He said |that on the day after the murder |and before the discovery of the bod- |fes, he said to Mrs. Hall, “Do vou | think they cloped?” and she answer- ed, “God knows; T think they are dead.” He said he did not make any inquiries elsewhere about his wife's absence from home. Twenty Witnesses Called Twenty witnesses called in rapid succession have established the pre- liminary groundwork of the case for the state. Among the witnesses on today's list were two women who worked as maids in the Hall home four years ago when the Rev. Ed- ward W. Hall, pastor in one of New Brunswick's leading churches, was (Continued on Page 13) |comments of newspapermen and | LAWYER'S QUESTIONS |spectators. Poor father! He's such | a quiet, unassuming chap — not at | | alithat type that should provoke any | |excitement. But he was the husband of the woman who was murdered and therefore anything he has to| ay or anything he does is of great ! interest. At least so it scems. | It you only knew father as T {know him and as the town of New Brunswick knows him, you will |readily understand why. No one ever took much stock in efforts to discredit his alibl. He can account | BY JAMES MILLS for every minute from the time my | (Copyright, 1926, Famous Features mother left the house the night of | Syndicate, Inc.) September 14, 1922, to the time Somerville, N. J, Nov. 6—I when he was first told of the dis-|Wasn't nervous at all on the stand |covery of the bodies. | vesterday as I thought I would be. | I suppose father does cut a piti- | Of course, I got confused a lot over fnl figure in this case. Somehow, [Wie Way Mr. McCarter kept piling there is a tug at the heart strings [Guestions at me, asking them over to see a middle-aged man, meek |2nd over again. T didn't know what |in manner, mild of tone, involved {n |1¢ Was driving at half the time and (e N It the pub. |Mavbe that's why I answered like llic fecls that way, how much more [T 412 {terrible is the pain that T must en-| = % dure when I see him on the stand [SVerS as th telling the story of his life with my |17 out of the court room. | mother. over and over again. It does | COUldN’t think when I was on the seem a5 if they sould spare him |Stand I was so ccnfused and so I that. but then. . justice has never|had to say “I don’t recall” most of beet, noted for e tumamness . T¢| W e\ Euesd N Mabartdsliven {must be harsh, T suppose. T haven't |mad over that but I wasn't lying. I heen spared and it is too much to [just couldn't remember. [expect | that my father will be|. What I wanted to tell him when e [ne asked me why T was so excited Father and T have mever hit along |2bOUt my daughter Charlotte being [well together, but I do admire him [0Ut £0 lal~ one night and not when [for one thing. He has borne up un- |MY Wife was missing was that [der this awtal thing bravely anmq |Charlotte was a young girl—sixteen |nas made no effort to gain sympa- |Y¢Ar8 old—and mnaturally, T was thy for himself. Where other men |WOrried. I was worrled over Eleas R e e nor. too, when she was missing but 804 |1} hew she often wen 1 | gone to pieces entirely, father has|! KD A0\ OF SO ot cral days at a time to her siste fused to by der the w or [petused to bow under the welght of | patorson and so I didn’t think [ T A G calling up and finding out. 1 know how terribly cut up he was | APOUt those letters from S it about it at. first—and T on't think| S = Al EELERESECE S | |about. T never saw them until they jany other woman will ever 0ccuUDy |round the bodies and Detective Tot- CONFUSING TO MILLS Not Nervous, But Couldn’t Remember Details, He Says T could have given the an- they come to me now that T just | Task in Syrian City |the place in his heart that my; Beirut, Syria, Nov. § (P — En. mother did. He loved her, but he| rtaining is one of the most fmpor- | 4idn't know how to show it—and | | of French High Com-|that was the beginning of the| ssioner In Syria. Nowhere doos|tragedy. His tastes were so differ- | |ice-cold Champagne flow as freely|ent from mother's—and in way he |or are diners in evening clothes or [ Was so intolerant of her tastes, that | i-]m‘n!lvflr\ dresses and bare shoulders|a rift in their married life was in- sparkling with gems more the rule. | evitable. However, it never came to M. Henri de Jouvenel, the former|an open rupture and my father High Commi three times a|claims that not until after my | week never 1 than thirty | mother's death did he learn that she | guests at his table on any given cve- [no longer loved him—that Dr. Hall ning, during the eight months of his ' stay. | X (Continued on Page 15) anything to be afraid of. ten showed them to me at the un- dertakers. They were spotted with what looked like blood and T would not touch them. T just looked at the handwriting and recognized right away ‘t was my wife's writ- ing. Things Ilike that T wanted to tell but when they asked me, T just couldn’t think of them. I didn't re- member. 1 was too confused. It looked like they were trying to make it look like T dld the crime but I'm not afraid. T haven’t got