New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 16, 1926, Page 1

News of the World By ‘Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 ONE MAN TROLLEY RUNNING WILD OVERTURNS, NARROWLY MISSING APPROACHING TRAIN Telephone Pole Smash- ed in East Milton, Mass., Accident and in Falling Crashes Cab of Locomotive. Then Is Dragged on, Wrecking Gatetender’s Shanty—Dozen Persons on Car But None Is Seriously Injured. | Milton, Mass, Nov. 16 (P — Tragedy was narrowly averted today | when a trolley car ran wild down a | grade in East Milton, knocked down a telephone pole and plunged al- | most into the path of a passenger | train. The car smashed through the railroad reservation fence and rolled over on its side a foot and a half from the nearest track. The falling pole splintered the locomotive cab. At least two persons were hurt. | 300 Standing Near i Three hundred high school students were awaiting transport: tion to school at the foot of the in- | cline when the car got beyond con- | trol and the front trucks jumped the | rails. All escaped as the car careen- ed down the grade. Twelye pas- | sengers were In the car and one of them, a woman, was later placed un- der a physician's care, The fireman of the locomotive was knocked to the floor and injured as the pole crashed down on the top of the en- gine cab. The pole rode along on the top of | the locomotive at right angles to the | tiick for some distance and partly | wrecked a crossing tender's shanty. The car, a one-man trolley in charge of Motorman James Nyland, was one of several run by the a.s'.- ern Massachusetts raflway to Fast Milton Square to pick up school children. As the car started down | the incline the speed increased and | the front trucks swung off the rails. | Pole Snapped Off The telephone pole was snapped oft at its base, then the rear truck of the car left the tracks, and it | shot through the wooden railroad fence. Apparently the only factor that prevented disaster was the stub- born clinging of the rear trucks to | the rails. This partly halted the car | in Its dash onto the New York, New | Haven & Hartford railroad tracks. | When the car rolled over, the train, Boston bound from Braintree, was | only fifty feet distance. The engineer was on the farther, | #id> of the cab and saw nothing of | the accident. The fireman saw 'hl\ pole sway and slowly start to fall. | He shouted a warning to the en- | gineer as it splintered the cab and | knocked him down. The engineer applied the brakes. Shanty is Crushed The crossing man, Alfred F. Girard, was forced to seek safety as | he saw the oncoming englne carr ing the big telephone pole cross- | ¢. The pole Taked his shanty and | sashed all the windows before it . fell from the engine. | Traffic Policeman Joseph Duggan £aw what appeared to be approach- | ing disaster and tried to warn the | engineer before the accident but his | signals apparently were not seen. He later helped remove passengers from the strect car. The woman injured was a Mrs. Turbush of East Milton. She col- | lapsed when she reached her home | and the extent of her injuries was not known. Greenwich Woman, 73, Is Fatally Burned in Yard Greenwlch, Conn, Nov. 16 (PA— Mrs. Catherine Donovan, widow of | William Donovan and mother of Miss Mary C. Donovan, director of music in the Greenwich public schools, died in the Greenwich hos- pital last night as the result of seri- ous burns received yesterday after- noon. Mrs. Donovan who was 73| years of age, started a bonfire of leaves in the yard of her home and the flames, fanned by a wind, spread to her garments, She & survived by six daughters and two sons. Butler Wil Remain as G. 0. P. National Leader | Washington, Nov. 16 (A—William | M. Butler has no intention of retir- ng from the chairmanship of the republican national committee, Here as a White House gues, declared today that his defeat by David 1. Walsh, democrat, in the | Massachusetts senatorlal contest, would not affect his connections with the national party organiza- | tion. President Coolidge has stated that saw no reason for the retirement | ‘Butler. | he he of Mr., Fourteen Are Rescued When Tug Is Capsized Atlantic City, J., Nov. 16 (A— Fourteen members of the crew of the tug Thomas Tracey, towing a| bharge of fuel oil from New York to Fhiladelphia were rescued in a thrilling manner by boats from coast guard base No. 1, here today, when the tug stra' ded on a sand bar and was capsized by the huge waves, kicked up by the southeast gale. | Mihtel larmy troops with | ana Montauk Point, | years old. | members of the South Congregation- | 'ECLECTIGS CARRYING ON LEGAL STRUGGLE Now Question Rights of | Hundreds of Other Doctors to Practice Bridgeport, Conn., Nov. 16 (A—A mandamus actlon affecting the Ii- censes of 1,400 to 1,500 Connecticut physicians, including all doctors of the allopathic, homeopathic and eclectic schools licensed to practice in this state between January 1, 1918 and February 1, 1923, is being pre- pared by Attorney W. D. patrick, counsel for a group of eclectic physicians whose right to practice in this state was challenged in the sweeping eclectic of two years ago. According to Attorney Kilpatrick the mandamus action will ask phy- icians who reccived their state li- | censes between the dates specified to | show cause why their licenses should not be recalled. Attorney Kilpatrick contends that Attorney Gene: rank E. Healy has ruled that doc tors who have not gradnated from schools included in the list of ap- proved schools filed with th department of health, are not logal- ly entitled to practice in the state, Kilpatrick elaims that not only lectic society but the Homeops |and Allopathic societies failed to file | with the state department of he: ith the required lists of approved s and colleges during the period speci {fled and therefore there is a cloud on | | the licenses of all doctors admitted to practice from January 1, 1518 to | February 1, 1023, PLANS FOR WORLD'S BIGGEST AIR CIRCUS Army-Navy Maneuvers in| ew England in Spring Being Arranged Boston, Nov. 16 (#—The great congregation of aircraft ever assem- bled in the United States, ably the greatest in the history the world, was among plans for the army-navy maneuvers in South New England next spring, annour | ed by Major General Preston Brown, | commanding the first |Nearly three hundred planes dirigibles are expected to tici- pate. War department records in- dicated that the largest previous concentration of planes was at St. in the World War, sed at one time. ve 125 airships. corps area. and where 125 planes were The army will some coming from Texas and some of which will be dirigibles, Major General Brown sald. The navy plans to have 150 naval planes. Night flving will be done to a limited extent. Present army plans now the participation of 4500 co call for regular artillery units of the national guard while other national guard troops will probably be used theoretically. New England governors have been asked to cooperate, the sphere of action lies between Cape Cod Long Island. 'HRS. JANE DYSON FORD DIES AT THE AGE OF 82 | Resident of Erwin Home For Aged Passes Away After Living Here For 79 Years Mrs. Jane Dyson Ford, years old and for 79 vears a resident of this city died early this morning at the Erwin Home, after an illness of several months' duration. The funer- al will be held Thursday afternoon at 3 o'clock from B. C. Porter & Sons. Interment will take place a Falrview cemetery. She leaves | several cousins. Mrs. Ford was born in E and came to this city when She is one of the and ol¢ a Ichurch. Rev. George W. C. Hill will officlate at the funeral. | Extradition Papcri—-for Clarke Sent to Albany | New Haven, Conn., Nov. 16 (P— Extradition papers for the return of Richard H. C. Clarke, preside: of Clarke and Co., investment brol- ers whose losses are said to be be about $200,000 were taken to Albany today for the signature of Governor Alfred E. Smith, Clarke's hoaring in New York yesterday on a worthless check charge was con- tinued untfl Thursday to give this state time to errange for his re- turn to Connecticut. The assistant city attorney has obtained the agreement of the New York author- ities to release Clarke on the worth less check charge so that he may be compelled to face the more ser ous charges here. Tt was said here today that Clarke probably would be brought back Thursda; nd will be given a hearing in city court | ¥riday morning. Kil- | vestigation | l | and prob- | of | ern | way as BRITAIN HERALD .AIN, CONNECTICUT, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1926.—EIGHTEEN PAGES MRS. MILLS TOLD HER HUSBAND SHE :', NE. ‘o HIZLIS INJURED N THREE STORY FALL Police Satisfied Man Found in Hallway Was Not Beaten ASLEEP, ROLLS 0UT WINDOW | Detectives Learn that Man Now at Hospital Was Principal in Drink- | Ing Bout Before ¥rom Grove St. Home. | Joseph Kizlis of 40 Grove street, | who was found seriously injured in a hallway of the house next to his own carly yesterday morning, and {about whom mystery scemed | a liable to develop because of the in- | ability of the police to learn any- thing of the circumstances sur- rounding the case, fell third story of his home and struck on the roof of a “nplu story build- | ing, from which ¥e rolled to the ground, in the opinion of Detective | Sergeant W. P. McCue and Sergeant P. J. O'Mara, who made an investi- | gation yesterday and today. | William Kulak of 44 Grove street | found Kizlis in the hallway and had | the report sent to the police. He was intervicwed and satisfied the police that he knew nothing of the case beyond the finding of the injured n who was moaning and semi- conscious. Kulak arises early be- cause of his work in a local foundry and when he passed through the rd from his home, which is in the going to a store to make a pur- he heard no unusual noises, but as he was waiting for the store to open he was attracted to the hallway by the moans. Kizlis at Drinking Party Michael Poppey, who lives in the rear of 485 Main street, told the | police he was at Kizlis's home Sun- day evening and took part in a drinking party. Kizlis left twice and returned with bottles of liquor. yman Rudy, who boards with Kizlis, was drinking with them, he told the police, and went to the | vara with Poppey to insure the lat- Iter a safe start on his homeward | walk. When he returned, Kizlis took | ck |a pillow and went into the front room to sleep. This was about 1 | o'clock Monday morning. When Sergeants McCue | O"Mara and Court Interpreter John | Partyka went to the | they found the front room bolted on the inside. Sergeant O'Mara went | out on the roof and entered through |a window, atter which he unfasten- ed the bolts and admitted his com- | panion: an open window, and the slippes which Rudy said Kizlis was wearing when he entered the room, th Kizlis fell out of the window. Fall Broken Near Ground | Marks were found in the soft | carth below the window, indicating | that Kizlis's fall was broken when he struck the roof of the single story building. His momentum probably caused him to roll from the latter roof and when he struck he was so dazed he did his sense of direction, and red through the yard, finally stumbling into the hallway of the house nest door, where he was | found a few hours later. Interviewed at the hospital by t < Imitted that he was ated Sunday night and could not recall happ=ned to him. He did not believe he had been as- | saulted, and Poppey and Kulak agreed that there was no roughness in the party all evening. Asked if he thought it ble for him to have tumbled ugh window, Kizlis said it probable. Because tlon at the day | assault had | | | | was very of the lack outset, the of Informa police yester- bech committed | Kizlis left injured in the hallway, but they also believed he had been | drinking either in his own home or | elsewhere and had fallen down be- ! fore reaching the stairs, This morn- ing Officer Michael Mechan brought |a man to the police station on suspicion but at the hospital Kizlis | absolved him of having had any connection with the occurrence. | At New Britain General ;‘mlm' it was said Kizlis may re- | cover, although he js still dangerous condition. He lacerations about the head and in- ternal injuries, in addition to in- juries about the chest. He is 67 vears of age. 'HOODED MAN ARRESTED ON COMPLAINT OF GIRLS Wiiliam M. Maxwell of 69 Arch Street Said to Be Mysterious Annoyer of Women Accused by two voung | whose names are withheld, | M. Maxwell, aged 31, treet, arrested about 11 o'clock women William t night by Policeman Otis Hop- | kins on the technical charge of | breach of the peach. He is said to | be the man who, for the past sev- | eral nights has been annoying wom- | en on Grand, Arch and West Main | streets late at night. He is sald to |have worn a white handkerchief | over his head, hoop shape In police court this morning, Max- | well pleaded not guilty and his case | was continued until next Tuesday morning in bonds of $500. He was relcased after court, the bond being | furnished. He will be represented by Judge W. F. Mangan, who was unable to be in court this morning because of business in another city. Prosccuting Attorney Woods in- formed Judge Hungerford that there is more to the case than appears on the surface. Long Tumble | from the | and | Kizlis home, | They found the pillow near | were | The police deduced that | the open | entertained the theory that an | and | hospital | n 21000, was given to the Pennsylvania of 69 Arch | | PREFERS RED FLANNELS T0 COTTON UNDERWEAR| | This Ts One Southern Girl's Mpomc To Plea For Aiding the Cotton Growers. Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 16 (P—W. ! men's rights have apparently assum |ed some of the old significance of state’s right in the southland. The suggestion that women wear cotton clothing to alleviate distress of the farmers and create a demand for Dixie's chief agricultural product. | has created a heated controversy as to what sacrifices loyalty demands. | Varying . opinfons are expressed. Friends and families are divided. Agitation has been created to have the debuntante clubs and the junior | league pass resolutions on the ques |tlon. Miss Tdolene Lewman, member of | JEROME ST, LINE FACES BANKRUPTCY ,Owuer and Accountant Explain Situation to P. U, C. WAY CHARGE 7 CENT FARE| Loss Over Route in Past 10 Months | Reported to Be $1,951—Weld | Warns Against Creating Situation | | Which Would Offset Service. | The need for more revenue the Jerom on street bus line was ad- | mitted this morning by Chairman | iAflzmm's social set, is quoted as be- | Richard T. Higgins of the public | ing “tickled to death” with the 1dea | utilitios commission after an ac- | of cotton stockings. “I think they'd [ countant had presented a financial | make a v onderful hit with the bo statement to support his claim that | she said. “The;'d know you weren't {yno ine fs “on the verge of bank- | |extravagant and that as a wife you'd {1y oo cost less. And, really the undvr;" Wiolam 5 | things would be awfully warm and | peid Romani, opecator ¢ ine, | protecting in cold weather.” | ;;fi:,n]‘,j:!'“ o p‘.fl:’l;m"r e r“‘“ Miss Yolande Gwin takes an ob-|p, a0t coming to the hearing with- posing view. “Why, I'd rather Wear | ot an gitorney. The statement red flannels,” she e.d, “And stock- | &' 0 FLUUC L et oper- |ings? T'1 much rather go bare-|,ing 566 on the bus route of $1,- 951.87 in the last 10 months. He legged. I'm afraid all I can con- | declared the bankruptey court is the | the commission to remove from the Romani's line. Aid in Securing Tinwyer | hearing her to condemn nor to | tribute to the farmers will be a | only ternative if Romani 1s not | were present and both spoke briefly, | Y[]UNG fiIRL SLAYER | northwestern section of the city the Weld Has Open Mind lrr\NMnl the proposed increase from for Mrs. Denino Day, accountant for little cotton handkerchief.” | granted an increase. | each urging that nothing be done by service that s now given by Gives Check for $100 to| ayor Weld said he came to the Isix to eight cents in fare. He 1 pointed to {he fact that Day's report | | showed the line is not malking | {money. The mayor sdmitted the | w York, Nov. 16 () — Mrs. | likelihood that if Romani is forced Catherine Denino, 16 year old wife | out of business some one else will | who has admitted shooting to death ; operate a bus line over the same Luigi Fino, a former suitor of more 'route, but he also warned against than twice her age, who she said, paving the way for intermittent | | attempted to blackmail her on the | service by subsequent failures to | basis of a betrayal prior to her mar- | make ends meet in the business. | riage. was held today for hearing The mayor told the commissioners | | November 24. ves people now belng served | During the arraignment the pris- the line are willing to pay an | oner's counsel displayed a check for sed farc, provided it is not ex- | $100 bearing the signature of Harry | e, rather than lose the bus ‘ | K. Thaw. Counsel announced yes- |accommodation. | terday a telcphone call from the| At the conclusion of his remarks Pittsburgh heir to the Thaw millions | Chiairman Higgins complimented the | offering “‘any amount” to defray de- mayor and the city on the fairness fense of the girl wife. | of the stand’taken. In her confession to police Mr: Accountant Day prefaced his ar-| Denino told how, as a result of |gument before the commission, blackmall threats, she waited for s members that Roma Fino outside a barber shop and now has the approved avditing sy when he appeared shot him down tem demanded by the state and his | and then turned the pistol on her- statements of carnings and expendi- | self. The weapon misfired in the |tures are arrived at in accordance | suicide attempt, she said. | with public utilities commission pro- The check signed by Thaw was |cedure, dated yesterday and drawn on the Wife On Salary List, But Shenandoah Valley National bank of | Romani's ings last year were Winchester, Va. | indicated at $19,033.54 for regular Mrs. Denino told police in explain- 'Lus service and $435.38 for private ing her act that she had been be- | parties, a total of $19,468.02, Th trayed by Fino when she was 12 owner draws a s of $45 a week vears old and that after her mar- {ag superintendent and spare driver, riage he demanded money of her|and has fixed $10 a week as office showing her a letter written but not expenses, this amount being for his sent to her husband In Evanston, |wife's services in keeping books, BiN | counting change and making up | e e RS bank deposits. The accountant said i 9 | Romani's financial condition had \ made it possible for him to pay her ‘Doprnrm(on at the rate of 33 1-3 ¥ | per cent was set up. Romani now Got No Donations, He Re- | ports, and Made No | salaries, $90; gasoline and oil. $3 283.79; repairs, $1,686; tires, $ (Continued on Page 16) | man | fore | elopement is s by | la Average Daily Circulation For Week Ending Nov. 13th .... 13,943 PRICE THREE CENTS WAS SOME DAY GOING TO RUN AWAY WITH CLERGYMAN, HER SISTER SAYS ‘TRY T0 PERSUADE DAD ll]VE LETTERS BRING | T0 FORGIVE ELI]I’ERS GRIEF TO CHARLOTTE terious Visit to Home‘Unable to Remain of Man Whose Child | Court While They | Ran Away { Are Read i M; in That Mildred Martino, 15 year old | BY CHARLOTTE MILLS. Cleveland street girl who is thought p (Copyright, 1 Fea Syndi; tures to have eloped Saturday with Angelo | Martino, 21 year old neighbor, is out | ¢ of Connecticut with the young man, | Somerville, is the information obtained by the lett police late last night when Police- | reading those letters into which my William Grabeck and John | mother and Dr. Hall poured their| Liebler were notified by the girl's | hearts? Don't they know enough al- brother of a visit to his home by |ready about their affair, without | Joseph Dollorso of 180 Cleveland | probing deeper and decper into their street and Charles Capolo of Lawlor | véry souls? reet. | Everybody sits in hortly with ears strained, eager to catch ing to the cvery word. I know they do, al- which the two men were riding. |though I went out of the room yes- stopped in front of the Martino | terday when they started to read | home. Tiptoeing into the yard, they | those letters from Dr. Hall to' my | aroused the girl's father by knocking | mother that were found scattered on |at a window, and called to him a | their bodies. I have never seen those request for his consent to the mar- | liitle messages that linked their| rlage of the reported clopers. Be- hearts. I don't want to know what the girl's father had time to |i$ in them. If I heard them read I reach the yard, the men left | would feel like I was defiling some | The policemen went to Dollorso's | sacred thing. home and found him in bed. Arous- | I suppose it is hard for some peo- | ing him, they questioned him rela- | ple to understand how I can defend tive to the incident and learned that | my mother. Many people look upon | Capolo had lived at the Martino | their love as a sordid affair. But I| home until Saturday, when the knew her and understood her. 1| id to have occurred. | knew Dr. Hall and understood him, | e believe that Capolo and and I can understand why they loved Nov. 16—More Will they never be finished | the courtroom before midnight, accord- boy, an automobile in The pol Mysterious Gunman Fires Through Window of House 3t Scotland, N. D. Seotland, N. D., Nov. 16 (®—Two persons were shot to death and threc others were wounded at the John Grosz farm near here last night by | mysterious person who fired | through a window with a shotgun. The dead are Robert Zwiefel, 18, and Mrs. John Grosz, 50, wife of the | owner of the farm. Dollo e trying to act as go-be- each other at all costs. They tweens and the voung couple are | couldn’t help loving each other. Both the land in the hope that the girl's and they could find solace only in father may become reconciled and cach other. Mrs. Hall was cold; Dr. | TR | My father was without ambition or TWO KILLED 3WOUNDED romance. Mother was starved for | had lived in drabn . She anted to live a little,” as she told me. | |takes in their marriages. They tried | to salvage thelr lives by loving each | Those were the thoughts running |through my mind while I was in the thoughts will be with me today, and | always. T have hit upon a good | from those parts of the testimony | which arouse bitter memories. 1 |room. Yesterday, for instance, when Undertaker Sutphen was called, T being kept in touch with the lay of Were unhappy in their own homes, welcome them back. |Hall was warm and wholchearted. the finer things of life. Always she | BY UNKNOWN ASSAILANT | Dr. Hall and mother made mis- other, and they lost their iives. | ourt room yesterday, and ‘hnse“ scheme for distracting my attention arry a magazine into the court| knew that he would testify about my | | insistence | of the next The wounded are Clarence Zwie- Grosz, 25, and Mrs. Solomon Grosz ‘ 30. Several other occupants of the room escaped the blast of shot that the party prepared to sit down to a SURPRISED AT STORY The slayer fired four or five charg- ing himself. Robert Zwiefel died at | S [ the first shot, and Mrs. Grosz was : killed when she appeared at the door Mrs. Nixon Not Told b e "was known for the at- | Husband—May Call Mrs. tack. | fel, 15, brother of Robert; Emmanuel (Continued on Page Five) | swept through the window just as | cs from his shetgun without reveal- | | to investigate. Gibson Tomorrow | only one week in the past 10 months. | Campaign Pledges {Other expenses listed are: Drivers | New York, Nov. lam 8. Vare, of | whose right to a questioned because of heavy ex- penditures in his primary cam- palgn, spent $8,668.28 in his general | clection contest, he declared in his | sworn statement filed today with | the secretary of the senate. | The senator-elect, a republican, | who defeated William B. Wilson, | former democratic secretary of labor, reported that he had receiv-| ‘s*(l no contributions either directly or indirectly and had made no | pledges in the campaign. On the | | total amount dispersed he said $5,- 16.—(P— Wil- Pennsylvania, senate seat is| Charles F. Lewis demns Cowardly Con- Wit- | nesses Who Don’t Want to Get Mixed Up in Ac: cident Cas Hit and run drivers are not pop- ular in Berlin. N are drunken | drivers. If P Charles F. | | Lewis had his w mer would An investigation of the balloting and vote counting in the senatorial | 1218 and the ot RO ¢ : | the full extent of ¢ Mr. Lewis election in Philadelphia now is un- | spoks to the Lions club the Bur- der way and there have been sug- | ‘BFn 0 Sodad. }gmllong that the senate committee | Shtarting to ineldents headed by Senator Reed, democrat, | o1 GN0E i Missouri, would be asked to inquire | oo ‘or o state policen into the general election campaign. | 0 ahie 4 trolled the Berlin turnpike Senator Oddle, republican, who [ o0 FEE BOLH | | was reelected from Nevada over | o0 AR | Governor Raymond T. Baker, demo- | He one time found seven crat, reported expenditures of $4, : i near him. | barrels under a load of cabbage He sald he had financed the ‘e R O e o | said to be on the . O RO |- Motor vehicle law violations form ssary) % | the greater portion of the work of reported he had not ex-|4he Berlin coy of the | temptation to speeders through the town, "I see no objection to a n golng right along, if he | straight stretch of road fic to be crowded off the road, | when traffic is he | cutting in and out that is | e commented. . “Manufacturers should make cars today 3 | > which cannot go faster than a tain speed in the opinion of some people. Well I have never scen a car that could go faster than 20 or 25 miles an hour, according to tes- timony in court. Neither do drunken drivers ever take a drink, if they can be believed when they testify, We | bring in a man who is drunk and he | says he docsn't drink. Then he ad- | mits he might have had a spoonful. Later he acknowledges he had a lit- tle but not a glasstul. He says there wasdrinks where he was but he | republican state committee, and! $2,500 to the Philadelphia republi- can campaign committee. law in the life M Lewis man who pa- This po- or smell anywhere { prose got | right hims Senator Loulsana, | pended a cent in his successful cam- paign for reelection. se as a 1 no traf- but RED CROSS ROLL CALL I'UND The Red Cross annual roll call fund today is as follows: Quota $6,000. Yesterday's total Recelved Total to date { | #* | THE W New Britain and vicinit Rain and much colder to- night; Wodnesday — mostly cloudy and colder. !“Hit and Run Driver Should Hang”’, Berlin Prosecutor Says to Lions | man living and |is a menace on the highway. Irate of speed land did not want to tell for f |tell the truth when |Anybody who will hit and run ought ! Newark, N. J., Nov. 16 (®—Mrs. | Ira B. Nixon, wifo of yesterday's| |surprise witness for the state in the | |Hall-Mills case, today said she knew | nothing of the testimony which her |husband ga: e until she read it in the | |newspapers last night. | Nixon testified that Elisha K. So- | wasn“t drinking. We have a doctor iper, of Highland Park, told him four examine and he says the doctor [years ago that on the night of Sep- doesn’t know his business. |tember 1%, 1923 while driving an | “I don’t know of anything worse ‘nutomohiln near De Russey's lane he on the highway than a drunken |had seen Mrs. Frances Stevens Hall driver. Every drunken driver ought [and her two brothers, Henry and to be given the limit. There is no Willie Stevens in a parked car. The driving a car who |Rev. Hall and Mrs. Eleanor Mills| know the law affecting |were slain near the lane that night. | drivers. The drunken driver | Soper yesterday denied on the | 1 would |stand that he was able to identify | rather see a man go through Berlin [the people Le saw and Nixon's testi- 100 miles an hour than to sce a|mony followed his denfal. drunken driver. | Mrs. Nixon said that if her hus-| “Then we have another type, the 'band had known this for four years hit and run driver, a coward of the no other member of the family had | lowest type. If you ever get into an |been aware of it. Nixon is head of | accident stand up and face the the Nixon Oil company, with offices music. Be a man. lin New York. “In that incident in Newington re- cently that car came by at a ferrific | and killed a woman, Going through Meri- den it went 30 fect past a traffic po- liceman who held up his hand against it and stopped only when a motorcycle policeman gave ¢ e, “Anoth. * person saw the accident ar of | being mixed up in the case and be- ing forced to testify iii court. It's our duty to help make the highways safe for safe and sane drivers. “If it is your wife or child who doesn't drunken Jersey iCty, N. J., Nov. 16 (A—A probable clash between legal and | hospital officlals over Mre. Jane Gib- son, key witness in the Hall-Mills murder trial, was in prospect today because of special Prosecutor Alex- ander Simpson's determination to have her testify tomorrow. Mrs. Gibson collapsed in court nearly two weeks ago from an ail- ment now diagnosed a nephrolithia- sis, or kidney stones, and her con- |dition has shown apparent improve- ment since a blood transfusion Fri- gets killed, vou'll want action right |day, but doctors at the Jersey City away. Be a man, go into court and |hospital fear the improvement is on- you know some- |ly apparent and decided to hold a Get that stinker—that |consuitation today to determine lifed whelp of a hit jdefinitely whether she could testify. off the highway.| Mr. Simpson has built his case against Mrs. Frances Stevens Hall and her two brothers, Henry and ki | Willie Stevens, now on trial at Som- and didn’t want to tell, will testify |erville for the slaying of Mr. Edward |in court all right. And I'm not so | Wheeler Hall and Mrs. Eleanor sure but what he or she will be pun- Mills on the testimony he expects ished, |trom Mrs. Gibson, the only person “We hear a lot these days about l\l)m\n to claim to have seen the personal liberty. That's an old story. |double murder. |They first begin to put a crimp on‘ our personal liberty in the Garden of Eden. There are none of us free |from laws—Ilaws are being passed | all the time and affect son\nmw's‘ and sped on thing to tell. miserable, low 1 run driver to be hanged. o ty who saw the accide: WANT SEPARATE TRIALS Washington, Nov. 16 (»—Con- sideration of the Sinclair and Doheny civil oil suits separately, and not as one proceeding, was requested of the suprema court today by the government's oil council. personal liberty. As long as laws are (Continued on Page 15.) ‘Also Tells of Coming - Upon Choir Singer Sitting on Pastor’s Knee and Seeing Them Kissing Each Other. |Dead Woman Had De- scribed Hall as Her “Idea of a Man”—Min- na Clark, Alleged Spy, Absent From Court. Courthouse, Somerville, N. 10 (A—That she Eleanor R. Mills, kissed by the Rev. Edward W. Hall, In 1418, but was assured by Mrs. Mills that relations between them “quite proper” was the testimony of Mrs. Marie M Lee, of Paterson, N. I, in the Hali- Mills {rial here today. Mrs. Mills' that there was “nothing wrong” was repeated in 1921, Mrs, Lee said, but added that in April ear, her sister told her, ence of James Mills, her t she was going away Mr. Hall. Saw Two Kissing The Kissing incident was described by Mrs. Tee as taking place while she was making her home with her sister in New Brunswick. Entering the house auietly she saw Mr. Hall kiss Mrs. Mills as she sat on his knee, Mrs. Lee said. Mrs. T.ee also declared that James Mills was assured by his wife that she would not do anything to disgrace his name, but that when she was ready to go away with the minister she would tell him. Mills Sits and Smiles Jim Mills sat forward in his chair during the early part of his sister- in-law's testimony and smiled as she said that her sister in telling her of her affection for the minister, sald Hall was her “intellectual equal.” The witness was questioned as to a possible inference that Mills was not the intellectnal equal of his wife. but she said this feature was not brought out. Her sister, said the witness, described Hall as her “idea of a man.” Mrs. Tee said that several yvears hefore the murder of Mrs. Mills and the rector, she saw Hall place his hand over that of her sister, as Mrs. Mills was operating a motion ple- ture machine at a “social gathering” | at the New Brunswick church with which both were connected. Defendants Are Brighter Mrs. Frances Stevens Hall and her brothers, Henry and Willle Stevens, today seemed in better spirits than usnal. Willle Stevens, always in good humor, seemed in even finer fettle than usual. Onece he laughed so hard at a remark of J., Now. w her sister, Mrs. were with |someone that he leaned nearly to | the floor. When eourt opened Prosecutor ;*lmr\mn suggested that pictures of the scene of the killing be displayed in court from a projecting machine. The defense objected for the moment, on the ground that ‘‘we don't think a court Is the place for motion pletures There was no decision at the time as to whether there will be pictures, motion or stationary, in the | courtroom, decislon being deferred {until the machine can demonstrate its possibilities. Guild Members Quizzed. Opening of today's session of the Hall-Mills murder trial was delayed to permit Alexander Simpson, spe- cial prosccutor, to question out of court members of St. Mary's Guild of New Brunswick to learn what they might know of the affalr be- tween the Rev. Edward W. Hall. and Mrs. Eleanor Mills, Women of the minister's New | Brunswick church, constituted the membership of the guild. During the period of delay, Mrs. Hall and her brothers chatted with thelr attorneys and several relatives who have daily sat near them in court. Mrs. Hall seemed more cheer- ful and talkative than on the pre- vious ten days of the trial. Williie Stevens displayed a new hair cut. The delay caused suspense among | the spectators who filled the court- room, and who did not know the reason for the delay Expert Interviewed. Joseph A. Faurot, former deputy police commissioner of New York, who identified fingerprints on a calling card as those of Willie Stevens, also was interviewed by the prosecutor during the delay. This gave rise to a rumor that Faurot had discovered fingerprints on the blade of a razor which Simpson in- troduced last week during the ques- tioning of medical experts as to the gash in Mrs. Mills' neck. Mrs. Henry Stevens chatted with her husband after she had conferred with Russell E. Watson, of counsel for the defense. She seldom con- tributes anything to the courtroom whisperings of the defendants, but today carrfed on an extended talk with her husband, who waved now . and then to acquaintances in the room. Immediately upon court's conven- ing, Simpson asked permission to use a projecting machine to show (Continued on page 14).