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

puom] NEW BRITAIN HERALD ESTABLISHED 1870 MURDER THEORY 15 ADVANGED IN.CASE OF MAN ON 1RACKS Medical Examiner Lyon Be- lieyes Foul Play Caused Death of Transient CHIEF HART DISAGREES WITH IDEA OF HOMICIDE Head of Police Department Says He Has No Conviction — Authorities TUnable to Get Fingerprints to Con- nect Victim with Murderer Want- od in Frankfort, N. Y.— Death Closes Lips of Hospital Patient. Medical Examiner Waterman Lyon stated today that it is his be- lief that an unidentified man who was found unconscious on the railroad tracks near Russell & Erwin's last Wednesday night and who died late | Jast night at New Britain General | was killed with a hammer hospital, or other blunt instrument. Lyon Discusses Murder Theory While the medical examiner would not say definitely that it could not have been anything else, | he said all indlcations seemed lo point to the fact that the man was | struck by an instrument such as a | hammer or a heavy bolt, rather n being struck by a train. I'he fact that the body showed no other injuries, beyond a slight abra- sion on the lower left side, that there were no bruises or lacerations on the face or elsewhere would indi- cate that the man’s death came from | other injury rather than by & ath was due to a compound de- essed fracture of the left I and occipital. In a frac- re such as one which might be caused by being struck by a train, | Tor. Lyons pointed out there would | be a number of slight cracks run- ning out from the main Injury like the lines of a spider web. In this case there were no such lines, the one blow having caused what might be described as a “‘hole in the head.” The inner shell of the skull was partly splintered and a trephining | operation was performed to remove (Continued on Pags 15) DRIVER ESCAPES A5 MACHINE OVERTURNS i, Milewski Uninjured in pite of Serious Mishap Today Driving southerly near the Fa on-New Britain town line about 730 this morning, Savery Milewski, aged 39, of 366 Farmington ave nue, lost control of his automobi ind it swerved from left to right, running along an embankment for ance of about 40 feet before turning over and Lencath it. shaking up and an injury his forchead. Serfeeant Rival received a tele- phone report of the accident and Officer H. C. Lyon arrested Milew- ski on thy without a license. sence of witnesses, the charge of reckless driving was not preferred, although the police say marks on the road and the damaged condi- tion of the car indicated that rec lessness caused the accident. Mil- cwski told Officer TLyon he wi at the rate of 20 miles an Nour. The officer put him to a test of his knowledge of specd hy driv- ing the police car at the rate of 19 miles an hour and asking him.| for his estimate of the speed. Mil- ewski replied that he thought the| car was then going at a speed of ahout eight miles an hour. Before Judge Hungerford, Milew- pleaded gnilty to the charge | 11 was fined $15 and costs. Tt d cloped that few months ago. He had an opera cense In New York but m. had one in Conneeticnt. Tyon testified that \mnmm him he had offen driven the r in this city but on the witness tamd Milewskl denied it. Judge rford warned him that he not drive without a license | and If he does and {s arrested, he | i he ed and cos aged 20, aded not guilty of speeding. nd, after Motoreyele Po- Alfred Tangnay had testi- k admitted he was in a to get back to his work in a ncal restaurant and was “stepping " in Stanley Quarter park Hungerférd fined him $10 cests, remarking that drivers d the speed limit on the itskirts when there is little dan r of collision can cxpect lenienc: Madrak was going entirely for safety Ofcer Tanguay testified that Madrak drove at the rate of 40 miles an hour on Carlton street and increased it to miles before he was overhan! Asked the condi- of tie trafiic at the time, the cor told Judge Hungerford school children nearby were being dis vere a of 119 to tlon (Cont.nued on Page 13.) pinning Milewski | He escaped with a se-| to | charge of operating | Because of ab- he bought the car a| but on the| too | CTARIIGHEN 1R70 %990 PIORIEH “4a( JADY. £ABIGF] RS IR0, Bridgeport Man Escapes Death By Leap Through Wall of Fire When Flames Cut Off His Exit | Blaze, Which Ravages Several Stores and Business Houses Does Damage of About $25,000 This Morn- ing—Other Fires in New Haven and Torrington. Bridgeport, Nov. 13 (P—Fire have been taken to the other cloth- early today gutted the tailoring and | ing establishments today to be com- dress manufacturing establishment | pleted. of J. Fishelberg, 1214 Main strect, | destroying cloaks, coats and dresses | stored there; spread to The Nook- | Palmer, M ery Tea Room at 1208 Main street |kicked the lighted lantern William and into the P & Q Clothing store | Smigle was carrying in his barn last| and the Traveler Shoe store which night, and the structyre was de-| occupy adjolning stores underncath | stroyed with a loss of $2,500. the Fishelberg establishment. One | fireman, Hoseman Schmidlin was | injured and damage estimated at $25,000 was done in the fire. | the tactory of the American Tube J. R. Resnick of New Haven Is | Bending company last night, of un- the owner of the building in Which | getermined origin, necessitated a | the fire occurred. Leroy Capers, a |sccond alarm before it was brought | tailor employed by Fishelbers, saved | under control. Damage was estimat- his life by jumping through a/eq at $2,000, chiefly to the building. wall of flame which cut him oft A obIuary hoaalbeliavedital when he ran to the rear of the | pave escaped serious injury. | place for a pail of water to throw ‘ on the blaze. Three dress manufacturing estab- lishments closed down today as & direct result of the fire—the N: | tional Manufacturing Co. garment works on Stratford avenue, operated by Charles Podell; and the shops at 175 Stratford avenue and 508 T.ogan street, operated by Jack Adelman. | In Fishelberg's establishment were about 500 dresses which had been partly finished and which were to FOUR DEATHS FROM NONE CRIMINALLY MOTOR ACCIDENTS ~ HELD FOR DEATHS | Two Killed When Gar Hits Pole Coroner's Finding in Waterbury in Torington ‘ Relrigeating Tragedies FATALITY 1N | HARTFORD IS MECHANICAL PROBLEN OfTicial Fire In New Haven. New Haven, Nov. 13 (#—Fire in Torrington Blaze. Torrington, Nov. 13 (P—TFire, which destroyed the building in! which the plating room of the Gra- ham Manufacturing company was located, was under control at mid-| night and had been prevented from ling into the surrounding frame ' The cause Wwas unknown. n company makes metal | | | | | prea buil proc | | i | | ‘ | | | | { | Truck Driver Runs Down Man-—In Predicts, However, That American Inventive Genfus Will | Bakerville Car Driven by Boy olj 16 Overturns and Kills Mother of | Ultimately Make Such Equipment Absolutely Safe. | Bridge ort, Nov. 13 (A — Confi- dence that “American geniue can and will master and eliminate the and wehied to ele Driver Instantly. Torrington, N 13. A Killiany and Arthur Scarzello, V. John | | | | both | of Torrington, were almost inst |1y Killed and five others in the car mm them were injured whon their | automobile crashed intoa tele phone e e | rond just before midnight last ni The injured include Michael Gaucia, the driver, Peter Obedinz Albert Liznon, Peter Pedesc Red” Gangi, all of this Gaucta lost control of the was trying to passanotheraut bile, rm trical Coroner dangers’ frigeration. is uxpressed by John J. Phelan who today issued his official finding after a pro- t into the deaths on | at Danbu of rank | orce, G0, and his 9-year-old | ndson. Warren Force Fromme. 2 coroner states in his nndlngi the impor. nt query arising in | case is “can the cold unit of the | be so constructed and the in it so controlled from harm- because of mechanical other defects, that users may 1 confidence b red no rmful results to bodily health from the use of that contriv- ce in their homes.” None Criminally At Fault No one is four d eriminally at fault 2 de f IForce and the boy n which the coroner pt to place a name | gas leaking from | rcted inque October 14 town. box nd | killed 1 driven by her 3 overtu | when her car, old son Joseph, w attempting to pass @ ning her underr caped with minor bruise The Scanlon car, utomobile driven by A. of this town, mistook slowing down to | o stopping, and | as Belden turn enter a drive held. ath in his report says in gas was shown up- | to be a compound > and ethyl chlor in volume and 6 per cent - cetive- a be in equ cent ide per Fatality In Hartford Hartford, : e ording t rator wa ent in D the Force 6:30 o'clock | 0’ October 14, the other and ask- of water. The | from a milk bottle | Mrs. dctected the odor | opened the window of (h?i to the room of | »and who, she assumed, also | ing the night some of the from the tle specified. : boy ‘nd Forcs were taken to » hospital by Dr. Selleck, wher ed in eonvulsions shortly after their admission, the d esulting, shown by Medical xaminar tton, from the inhalation of es- | are truck which about terday “rur.\ a lman cros believed Burke, ew by on the v:mmi\v % 1 h Haven” |fasiver atonm ‘ty five feet fri aceldent, accordi ‘1nr1 returned to look at h ‘\\Im as already dead. word to anyone, the driver ra [ to nis truck and drove off. 1do | cation of the victim was esiablic [ by the police and | rafiroad through a br | the laborer's payroll g to numt bof German Ambassador Gets | Fierce Newsnaner Attach PBerlin, Nov. 13 (P—A \(nc!( on Baron Ago Von | German amba ador to t \ States is printed today b Anzeiger, Die-Hardnationalist | because of his reported hoisting the German flag on | tien Day. “This actio “must bhe branded as t graceful act of deg | which a German diplomatic abroad can be found guilty he refr Was Ma > Leak Tight rerigerator as first installed apariment by the Home Heat- t ting Co.. of Bridge- . but was corrected and made tight by its John Culligan. a| hury, by the placing ‘ top on the cold unit of the erator on Octohe 8, 1926, n consequence of the wide pub- | interest created by the deaths, | rticularly by the numerous users refrigerators, 1t was advisable to have proper of the compound | ich deaths by State Chem- old T. TLeavenworth of | dridgeport. His testimony re- | supported by other competent emical authorities disclo in| ral, that the refrigerant used | the machine, consisting of methyl | bromide and ethyl chloride. in | |equal parts by volume or 65 per| |cent methyl bromide and 35 per cont ethyl chleride by weight, showed under special tests to indi- that each liquid was of a high of purity,’ and ‘no foreign or deleterious substan wera pres- “The in the rard entative, her of T f a nev Armis the paper I ; lie BIG OPIUM SEIZURE Detroit v. 13 (F—Opium and {heroin valued at approximately 210,000 w d by police in an | office building here yesterday. Wil {lam S. Morton. 38, and four others | were arrested in connection with the |s e made by es who hor- ed a hole In an offic safe.s Mortor |18 held on bail to he tioned late today. 1 made 1 atec 0,000 in RECOMMEND SETTLEMENT London, Nov. 13 (P—Delegates | representing the striking coal min ers, In conference here today to refor the government's strike | t'oment proposals to the v distriets with the recommendation | that they be accepted. voted fous (Continued on Second Page) NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, SATURDAY, | daring daylight holdup of a Broad- | [ the city's shopping district | was probably fatally wounded n a | | s | open; | journey. BANDIT FATALLY SHOT IN HOLD-UP New York Policeman and Citi-| 7¢n Also Wounded GUN PLAY ON BROADYWAY ‘Wounded Robber Was One of Three } Who Tried to Hold Up Jewelry | | Store at 39th Street and Broad- | way This Morning. ! New York, Nov. three robbers who attempted 13 UP—One of | the | | way jewelry store In the heart of | today, | gunfight with police. A pollccmun and a bystander were wounded. attempted by the jewelry | The robbery was ‘ three armed men at tore of Rob Silverfeld at J?Qh‘ street and Broadway. It was frus- trated by two policemen and when | | the robbers opened fire, the district, one of the buslest in the city was thrown into an uproar. When the smoke of battle cleared | a man believed to be Benjamin ! Grogan, one of the robber trio was found to have been shot through the stomach and his condition was criti- cal. Patrolman Thomas Lorrigan of | the traffic squad was wounded in the | left side and Rudolph Beck, a by- stander, was wounded in the knee cap Their condition was not serious Henry Hoffman, manager of the | jewelry store, and David Jacobi, a | | clerk, were dressing a show window, | | with the door of the store locked, when Grogan knocked. He was ad- mitted and the door locked again as lit was a custom to keep the door locked while the employes were dressing windows. Grogan asked to be shown a cigarette case and as Jacobi turned | to comply with his request, Gro drew a pistol and ordered both em- ployes to go into a rear room. They complied with his demands. Just then a man knocked on the | door of the store and Grogan order- led Jacobi to let him in. Jacobi ed the door and dashed into the street, calling for help. Grogan fired a shot through the glass door at | the clerk and ran after him. Two | other men, who police believe were acting as lookouts outside the tled when the shot was fired. 'BURGESS IN COURT O EMBEZZLEMENT COUNT | Judge Olders Bond et at $3,000 on Return From Florida store, After an unsuccessul fight a extradition, Zimball Burge 3, who is charged with ment of §1,018.18 while ma the local office of the Roofing Co., at § Myrtle returned to this cf 3 o'clock t'°s morning In custody Detective Sergeant William I Me Cue. Burgess was arrested in Miami, FI about tw. \' eks ago, 1low - ing receipt by the local police of information fro, the Providence, I. I.. police that tiey had traced him to that city Prosecuting Attorney J. G. Woods recommended In police court this aganst stry | morning that a plea of not guilty entered and the case be continued until Monday morning, as Sergeant McCuo was resting ater his long The prosecuting recommend: 1 2 bond of no $2,000, but Judge Hungerford o ,ed it set at $3.000, WILL OF ABRAHAM ZEVIN ! Each of Two Daughters to Receive $5,000 When They 21— Become + Residue of Estate Left to Wife. The will of the lato Abraham | evin of this city was filed in pro- e court today. It directs that debts and funeral exper | paid and the sum of $10,-| 000 is bequeathed to his wife, Celia Zevin, to be held in trust for his daughters, Rose and A until they reach fhe age of 21 years. At that time each one will receive the | sum of $5,000, together with inte est. The remainder of the estate | is left to his wife, who is appointed executrix without honds. The will was drawn June 1 Five Holdupq in Phlla., | Biggest Nets $35,000; delphia, Nov. 13 (P—FPolice > searching for a band of highwaymen, implicated in a series of holdups vesterday, the largest of which netted the robbers $35,000 in cash and securities | Five separate holdups were re ported. The climax coming with the robbery of two messengers of the | Belmont Trust company they | were about to enter the bank with | all be of Phils satchels containing | would not take to the air. {indictments chargin | mail robb i3 ly | made affairs, but only one of |ceiving a | mi |back here for a souvenir.” Birger dec |ing out a new alr mail route NOVEMBER 13, 1926.—EIGHTEEN PAGES A Week Endmg Nov. 6th verage Daily Circulation For 14,127 PRICE THREE CENTS Leading Republicans Still Wary of President’s Tax Refund Plans Some Prefer Using $250,- 000,000 Treasury Sur- $120 MORE CONTRIBUTED TO RED CROSS ROLL CALL The sum of $120 was added to the Red Cross roll call fund to- quota for New Britain is Debt—Strong Objecting Recelved yesterday i to Remission on Any Recelved today .. R 2 1 Total to date ...... $353 BIRGER GANG PLANS ALS0 TO USE PLANES | Excise Levies. 13 (P—Leading houseways and which must ini-{ tiate any tax legislation, eved today the administration suggestion for a rebate to be paid |next year on individual and corpor- ation income earned in 1 | | Washington, Nov. republicans of th |means committ kance | Wi l]iamsom, I, County Strife Expected to Con- tinue Among the Clouds V2 lous Opinions Formal statements from Chalr- man Green, Iowa and Representa- ive Bacharach, republican, New Jer- sey, gave only qualified approval and indlcated thelr porsonal preference for using the $250,000,000 treasury ;surplus to reduce the public debt and thus indirectly decrease the tax burden to' L Chalrman Green also the committee would give its attention first to legislation regard- ing the return of allen propert adding that this probably would con- sume the time until congress cen- venes next month. Much Conflict Likely “The plan ot making a reduction in the tax payments of next year, either on the personal income tax or Marion, 1ll., Nov, developments 13 PH—A review of vesterday left Williamson county wondering today it the Birger-Shelton gang warfare The thought was prompted by an airplane bombing raid Friday on “‘Shady Rest,” Charles Birger's road- house, 10 miles west of here. After an unsuccessful patrolling of the roads last night, and with the memory of the raid still fresh in his |mind, Birger today was in decidedly bad spirits against the rival faction. Carl and Bernie Shelton, leaders of the latter gang, however had been removed from the zone of op- erations. They were in jail at Dan- vilie, Ill, where they were ken late last night after their arrest on complicity in a at Collinsville, 111, in ry, 1925. he airplane rald fo'lowed an ear- morning: bombardment of two houses in West City, 20 miles north f here, by men alieged to be mem- pers of the Birger gang. The men poured a number of rounds from machine guns and rifles into homes in West City occupied by persons to be sympathizers of the heltons. ooping down over the plane with an unidentified pilot, dropped three bombs, crude, hand- the without it adopted there will be much con- fiet as to how such a reduction is to be applied,” he said. “I have al- ways considered that the time to pay off the public debts was when we were prosperous, and that some op- | portunity should be given for the | reduction of taxes when business is | depressed. Doubts Feasibility “I do not believe that a red of personal income taxes by a uni- form can be made satisfactori v. While {t al proposal was my own. the circum- stances now are very different, hoth as fo the small taxpayer and those ving the larg-st incomes.” ny legislation at this time, Rep- hady Rest,” | resentative bacharach said, should he deveted to the relief of individ- {ual tax payers within the $25,000.000 surplus brackets, and corporations. missiles expr daage. Rirger d, and that |cent in the present revenue law.” not at the roadhouse | He ch.racterized as ‘“ridlculous.” at the time, but a number of his however, any remission of excise tax gunmen ran out and opened fire with s that have heen collected on to- rifles and machine guns. Their fire theater admissions, and sim- |apparently was ineffective, for the llar items. These. he said, have been plane Headed north and disappeared. |Paid already and ny remission Soon afterward Birger reported re- | WOUld not benefit the consumer. U SPENDS W‘ 000 IN 2 YEARS; NOW BRUKE hacco, men des down"" as Arms and R ©1 members of the e call informed him, that his place had been bombed, and that there was a “message” for | m in one of the missil “xhibiting more s marked gainst the Sheltons, Rirger explod- ed, “if we can find the plane that dropped the bombs, we Will bring it s9 re clarations Man Loyal Even When He'’s Arrested Cvidently realizing that his s armored truck had been antedated, 1 that he. too, would get a plane and “would use it.” This statement preceded one that the enemy plane might not have fared well if his men h thought it a governm Springfield, Mass., Nov. 13 (®— Broke, after spending an inheritance of $3 ‘Ware, Fla., is charged 4, formerly of and late of Tampa, arrest here today, ith passing worthless checks. He s apprenended e was being ven a demonstration of high priced \otor car. Mailloux mpted to so 13 (R a few odd tucked away for Christmas preser A check of Chic banks dis- closed that more than 600000 Christmas savings club members he s year, hing . police His 16 year ter of Deput old bride, the daugh- Sheriff C. E. Munroe St. Louls, Mo., refused to admit her hushand was not what he claim- cd to be—a high official of a fleld automobile company and she would sper . her own savings to defend 131, The wife and her father, ! who came to Springfield to live with is “wealthy” v, were | rested with Mailloux but later re |leased. The latter intends to get a 1job hers » ear their fare home but Mrs. Mailloux insists she will re- main loyal to her husband. Inheriting a $30.000 estate in 1924 {when his mother died, Mailloux went to Florida where he married. He came to fleld several months Arthur J. RADIO GABLE GUT IN FIRST VMEDI\.LISM CASE WRNY T Foothall Teaches Men How to Take Licking, Western Speaker Says i . 13 (M—The boys absorbing interests were James and dime novels, now have sons who adore “Red” Grange and read page, John L. Gritith, comn sioner of nce, told a the Western b to- isa “has 1 it is country, that come to be a a good people are BTOW big some people have becoms ned at the hold football has on the na- tion. But it bre sportsman- ship. Tt teache arter of a million young every week how to take a licking.” i ———————————— religion, In afraid thing. is Wires Snipped, Apparently By Somcone Peeved at Sta- ds aq X tion's Tnterference, \er oW York, Nov (®) — The cable from a broadcasting station to a radio station which radio fans have complained bl rer stations sending on t wave lengths has been cut in what police ve to be the first case of van- t a radio station, ion WRNY, operated by ) Roosevelt, went “dead” | denly while broadcasting religious services. Investigation revealed that the cable to its sending station | 1 | | THE WEATHER New Britiin and Cloudy and slightly tonight an Sunday; showers Sunday. vicinity: warmer probably the | | ! | | | sud- Man T Slipping while pushing a 10 o'clock this forenoon near Oak and Putnam streets, Joh and broke his back. e is in Britain General hospital, Flanagan. 'ving to Push Automobile Falls and Breaks Back; Condition Reported Critical under above Fort Lee, N. J. on the Hud- son river, had been cut. ing p! |cently and the wire not yet placed 1 conduit. The break was re- paired and the program continued | There was no clue as to who cut |the wire, but Charles D director of the n automobile shortly before his home at the corner of n Balas, aged 22 years, fell a serious condition at New care of Dr. William F. |y someone the station. with & grudge against plus to Reduce Public| reiterated | that of corporations, is workable, but | tion | percentage for all tax payers | has been done before, and the origin- | whose tax was increased by one per | lfi Year Old Bride of Mass. | 0 in record time, Paul Rene | ash fake checks totalling $10,000 | said | ar- | The send- | 2t had been opened very re- | Isaacson, | station WRNY, | thought 1t possible that it was done | VISITING CARD CHARLOTTE FEARS Worried Because He Has Been Galled as Witness ifiorts of Defense Counsel | | | | { Amuse Miss Mills and She Is Forced To Smile—Expresses Admiration for Undertaker Hubbard. BY CHARLOTTE MILLS (Copyright. 1926, Famous Features yndicate, Inc.) Somerville, N. J., Nov. | worried, \ 13— am , terribly worried, about my little brother, Danny. He 0rde"9d to in court, testify. It makes my heart think of it. him out of this dreadful mess. wanted his young thoughts to be as far away from it as possible, has been be | tell? pened. He can forget so easily, if they will only let him. Why must he begin now to suffer the things I | have suffered? Can't they spare | Danny all that? Yesterday 1 was glad the | mony was so interesting could forget for a rible thing that is Danny. testi- that I} while this ter- happening to had to smile | T actually | several the It was amusing to hMr his answers turn Mr. McCar- s questions into smashing boom- erangs. Mr. Payne was thoroughly at ease ane answered in a pleasing, lifting volce. To him the whole story of his connection with the case was {80 plain and simple that once he actually yawned from boredom. But leven so his snajoy replies | erac and sparkling around Mr, McCarter's poor head like works, until he seemed all dled. Senator Stmpson said Mr. McCar- ter, by some of his questions, was trying to drag a red herring across | the trafl. Mr. McCarter even asked | Mr. Payne about his salary and nlhflr things that have no bearing on the case, as I see it, and Judge Parker very fairly ruled that out. For me the whole case always | comes back to one point—my moth- r and the man she loved were bru- tally killed. What has Payne's salary got to do with that? With that is no evidence to show who did or didn't kill my mother. But Mr. Payne did collect other very | vital evidence, and he certainly has my sincere thanks for that. Of course, the re-opening of the case ha also re-opened many wounds in my heart, but ] would on stand. befud- a few wee bittered about the way the first ks than to be always em- in- | | be always haun of my mother 1 was surprised 1 by the mystery death. yesterday about the last telephone conversa- tion between my mother and Dr. Hall. Senator Simpson was surprised, too, but he had her original testi- mony and T am sure he will make everything come out all right. They showed my mother's dr again esterd a one she wore when she was killed. T hung my head. Dut in a moment it was over. Undertaker Hubbard was also on the stand Mother h she died sh by John Hubbard to be a good fellow at a funeral,” she used to say. “Death is a sacred thing to him and he treats it with proper reveren o had her wish. I went down to see him on Sunday morning, day after the bodics were found, and he helped me pick out a coffin which he thought mother would have liked I think if it hadn't calling Health Ofticer Cronk ‘o look at my mother's body. migt never have known about her throat heing cut and her hody bruised. Cronk was a friend of fathe he told him what he had discovere on exami —t said that when to be buried 4 alwa wanted we Several days later, the bodies were | an autopsy performed. | exhumed and There was quite a lot of talk then over the fact that Dr. Long, the medical examiner, had permitted the bodies to he removed and buried without the usual permits and without ordering an autopsy first. Mother's funeral was held from Mr. Hubbard's place—we felt that | it was much better so, our home being so poorly a thing | The could afford, but T didn’t think any- thing was too good for my mother —particularly in this case, which would be the last chance we would have to do anything for her. Know- ing how much she liked good things and how few she had had when she was alive, T just felt that this w. the least we could do for her—see | that she wus burled in the right | style. T've never regretted it FOR HER BROTHER WANTED HIS MIND FREE! ready to| ache to | T had hoped to keep | 1 Poor little Danny, what can he| He was only 12 when it hap- | times while Mr. Payne was | kept | fire- | Mr. | rather have those wounds now for | vestigation was slurred over, and to | ! when | Loulse Gelst changed her testimony | “He doesn’t try | he | been for him | equipped for such | | coffin T plcked was an ex- pensive one—probably more than we | EVIDENCE N HALL-MILLS HEARING IS AGAIN BASIS OF ARGUMENT | Defense Seeks to Show " ThatMuch Handling of Bit of Pasteboard Destroys Its Con- demnation of Willie Stevens |Reporter for Daily Mirror Again Being Cross Ex« amined as to His Part in Urging Prosecution. Court Houss ov. Somerville, N. T, 13 (A—The small visiting card which the state has made one of ths cornerstones of its case in the Halle Mills murder trial was made the target of defense fire again this | morning immediatey after the triak was resumed. | Tt is on this tiny word that the {[nobncu fon is largely depending to prove its contention tha. Willis Stevens, one of the three defend |ants, was at the s-.ne of the slay< Edward W. Hall, New Brunswick church pastor, and | Mrs. Eleanor R. Mill’, choir singer |in his church, on a dark night at a | deserted farm outside. New Brunse | wick more than four years ago. Herbert Mayer, reporter for the | New York Daily Mirror resumed |the witness stand for cross-examin= | ation as to the movements of tha card after having been taken from this state by one of the police in= vestigators. Two fingerprint ex< perts, who were present during the photographing in the newspaper of- fice, previously have testified that the card, found at the scene of ths crime, bore the imprint of Willis | Stevens' left index finger. | Mayer testificd that he made two | visits to Middletown, N. Y., where the visiting card was examined Ly | Joseph A. Faurot, former finger- print expert of the New York polics department. | Yesterday he had | the first trip in Jul corrected it to August ing he had difficulties in rer ! ing dates. He said that on the s ond visit he spent two days in Middletown while Fargot and | Frederick Drewen, fingerprint ex- {pert of the Jersey City, N. J., po- [lice department, examined ths | card. Drewen earller had taken the visiting card from New Jersey to the newspaper office, where it was kept for a time. The defense contends that what- | ever evidence the card may bear |in the form of a fingerprint, it has been made unreliable by the ex< | tensive handling of the card during the four years since it was found. For the first time since the trial began there were empty seats in the courtroom today. More than one-third of the seats in both the courtroom and galleries were va- | cant. Heretofore people have besieged |the doors in their attempt to gain | entrance. |ing of the Rev. faid he ma Diary Is Shown A diary of Mr. Hall's which the prosecutor asserted ‘‘Cetailed the great affection” of the minister for {his choir singer was admitted as evidence, over the objection of the defense. Robert McCarter, chiet of defensa counsel, argued that the diary was {irrelevant since it was found in tha Mills home several weeks after the killings, and had not been written by any of the defendants. The diary is a common note-book, |from which the pages of writing appeared had been torn. The court |ruled that the condition of the book wot fmm terial, since the dates on the loose pages were consecutiva, The first date was July 31, and the last August 12, Prosecutor Simpson in offering the diary announced that he would also ask for the admission of several let- {ters alleged to have been written by Mr. Hall to Mrs, Mills. Both letters and diary were published in a news- paper four years ago and James Mills, husband of the slain choir nger, has testified that he was paid $500 for them At first mention of the letters, Charlotte Mills, who |weok had identified the handwriting {as that of Mr. Hall's left the room, When the diary was offered, Jus- tice Parker suggested that defense lawyers might want to see it. started the stenographer's de ce only | to be restrained by McCarter. They 1\\0(‘-‘ no to touch the | notebook until the court had made i | plain that defense examination of the book before a ruling on its be- | ing admitted, would not require ace ceptance of the matter as evidence. Tater when the diary had been ac« | cepted and admitted, Timothy N, . who four years ago repre- Mrs. Hall .and who is a mem- he defense in this trial, got Simpson’s permission to examine it. Announcement was made that the tuneral of Ulysses Tillman, a broth- er of Juror Edward Tillman, would be held at Raritan tomorrow after- | noon. His death occurred yesterday and the juror will be permitted to attend in custody of a constable. Somerville, N. J, Nov. 13 (A — Two sharply contrasting plctures and last ATy (Continued on Page 18)