New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 17, 1926, Page 14

FAVOR NEW SCHOOL ON CLINTON STREET 12 Room Building to Honse 500 (Children Planned A recommendation providing for | the construction of & 12 room school building with accommodation for 500 pupils will be made to the school board at its meeting Friday. A re- cent survey of the fifth ward dis- trict shows the immediate need for added accommodations in that dis- trict, it is said, and the site is ex- pected to be on the school property on Clinton street between Jerome | and Fern streets. According to records of the an- O TP —— MUSIC GRITICS AGCLAIM “TURANDOT” GREAT WORK Marla Jeritza Takes Leading Role in Its Metropolitan Opera Debut. New York, Nov. 17 (P—Mu crities today acclalm the first per- formance here of Puccini’s posthu- mous opera, “Turandot,” with Maria Jeritza in role, as a brilliant per-| ic NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1926. TENANT ORDERED 10 VAGATE HOLSE Trinify Street Dispute Heard af Gity Court Session In a summary process actlon brought by John Peterson to re- forn Critics consider its production last night as one of the Metropolitan Opera company’s triumphs, but hold that the opera itself w not quite up | to Puccini's siandard. Marth A[t-l wood, Dorc M: girl, made debut as Lui, the| andot 's today again there mo- | cini” in the | now and ments of first rate |the premis quire Dr. George T. Crowley to quit es ot 59 Trinity street, Judge William C. Hungerford in city court today ordered Crowley to be |out of the house by December 1. Decision was entered in favor of |the plaintiff, represe ted by Judge William F. Ma san, and a stay of exeeution until the date mentioned was granted, Judge Hungetford ex- plaining that immediate quitting of | the premises would impose a hard- {PURSE FOR FATHER CLABBY T0 BE PRESENTED MONDAY Parishioners of St. Mary’s Church + To Contribute Toward Fund Next Sunday. Rev. Raymond J. Clabby of Wa- terbury, who was transferred last week from St. Mary's church to Waterbury, will be the guest of his former parishioners at a formal farewell social in the Y. M. T. A. & B. society hall Monday evening. Members of the clergy and of the parish will attend and Father Clabby will be presented with a purse as a gift from the people of St. Mary's. For this purpose, a col- |lection will be taken in the church |at all the masses next Sunday. Al DEFENSE PLANS T0 (Continued from Firat Page) consent of the widow, it will contended. protect her from the in person and by mall after crime. air,” unconnected with the homestead. late of the razor from the Beekman, prosecutor CALL HRS. HALL be Mrs. Hall will say that she hired DI Martini to stay at her home and numberless cranks and fanatics who pested her the The razor shown in court by Sena- tor Simpson is still left “up in the Hall Frank Aprio, the discharged Jer- sey City policeman who sald he got Azarlah Somerset county at the time of the murder, as of testimony already heard. The trial of Mrs. Frances Stevens Hall and her brothers, Willie and Henry Stevens, for the murder of Mrs. Mills will reach its twelfth day of actual hearing tomorrow. 2 Collapsed In Court. | Mrs. Gibson collapsed in the court room on the first day of the trial and was taken to the Somerset County hospital. After unsuccessful attempts to have her brought into court or to have the trial adjourned to her bedside, Mr. Simpson had Mrs. Gibson removed to the Jersey City hospital. Here she underwent a blood transfusion and began to improve. Since Mrs. Gibson is the state’s most important witness, the ordeal of cross-examination to which she will have to sumbit will be a severe one. Counsel for the defense asked that sworn medical testimony be offered on her condition, but the court, through Justice Charles W. Parker, said it was williig to take Mr. Simp- musical program will be arranged |y, weapon that slashed Mrs. Mills’ HOUSE OF DAVID KING ARRESTED (Continued From Page 1.) Beside him stood two men who claimed to be attendants to a “sick man.” In other rooms of the building | were found three other men, two girls and a woman, the king's con- stant attendant throughout his tempestuous career, Myrtle Tulk. The girls were garbed solely in woman was in deshabille. Asking but few questions the troopers gathered the flock togeth- er and rushed them directly to the Berrien county jail for questioning. Admits His Identity son's statement. TD,"‘ from his realm and faced by his accusers and newspaper men, their night garments while the Tulk | W’ (143 STATION ROW (0ING TO GOURTS West Main St. Residents Enage Comnsel to Fight A group of West Maln street prop- erty owners has retained Attorney Donald Gaffney to remonstrate against issuance of a building per- mit to the Standard Oil Co., for the sale of gasoline at the O'Connell property, and it this move is un- successful to carry the remonstrance into court. A permit has already been issued by the board of public works over the expressed opposition of owners of neighboring properties and the company holds a certificate from the commissioner of motor vehicles, nual census this district has a total | enumeration of 769 children be- [opera, and that Mme. tween four and 16 years of age. Of | Turnadot de a stunn and a program of speeches will be given, Father Traynor, pastor Court Grants Recess, | acquaintances of former years, “Everyone knows she has been a | Purnell broke under the quizzing of sick woman,” Justice Parker said, | police to admit his identity. throat, has not been called to the stand and may not be. The defense against the Jeritza |ship on Dr. Crowley who is planning g picture [to move into a new house which will [be completed within a few weeks, making the building permit the only remaining certificate recessary to 5 of St he 0 & Dnser commence business. this total, 136 are between four and ave our six years of age, only 20 of whom | are in publ ndergarte and 202 b age are of Deducting ween nior high school age. the kindergarten and | junior high school age pupils lhAre" are 459 children, according to the census, who re of elementary and semblani twood gure of v i | Today's hearing was a sequel to a dispute which occurred After two hea | write the He school age In the district. Of this number 340 are divided among the Washington, Lincoln and Bartlett schools as follows: Washington school, 1147; Linc ; Ba 466. The school department £ the withdrawal of these pupils will effect needed reductions in the school enrollment. According to the plan 161 pupils will be taken from Washington school's enroliment Jeaving 1013 pupils in that s In the Lincoln school, 132 DI will be transferred leaving the Li coln school’s enrollm 451 | Forty-seven pupils will trans- | ferred from Bartlett school to the new Clinton street school, a move which will leave enroll ment of that school at 419 The new school would open wit an enrollment of close to 400, of whom would be students tr ferred trom the other three schools | and the rest made up of children of kindergarten and first grade stu- dents who are n chool at present. LADY ASTOR IS TOLD T0 SHUT HER MOUTH the the 18- Also Adyised to Have Some Manners | During Interruptions | in House London, Nov. 17 (P—Piquancy been added to another session of the house of commons with Lady Astor, the American born member of par- liament, es its moving force, The noble lady interrupted borite speakers several times night during debate on relief the employed and was told to hold her tongue, requested to shut her mouth, and have some manners sense and accused by a fell an member of distorting the latter had made. | It was Miss Wilkinson, a laborite member, who acidly informed Lady Astor after she had challenged one | of her remarks of putting words in her mouth she had no intention of using. A car contractor, member for ths poplar district, retorted: | “The noble lady would be v | more respected If she would learn | to hold her tongue. Next Lady Astor challenged George Buchanan, the patternmaker member for Glasgow when he as- serted that people of this elty were starving because of inadequate re- | lief. Lady Astor said Mr. Buchanan | was not entitled to make such an assertion with proofs, The chair made an appeal for mora order in the house when vari- ous supporters of Lady Astor and of the laborites joined in the fray. In reply a protest was made by the laborites against Lady Astor con- stantly interrupting. “What 1 object to,” remarked Mr. Buchanan, the noble lady not being able to take her medicine. he should remember she is not dealing with her horses at New- market.” la- last for it JOKE ENDS IN KILLING Hushand’s Prank Caused Wife to Love Another — Feud Slaying Follows, New Yor tical ath Lave when played gree ma open to a sen of from 10 N th orig grim 17 A result nator A jok 1 of rin the n cou o guilty lay to to 20 of first hter, [ mpo: years' | When Gerald uffner were bot Washington Ruftner was to his wite with I later to home to at discove his roma friend’s wi end to yer b invit Ruffn first ughter district de the tion. LICENSES s police were return of the oy Richard Haslam street, Sebastiano Catal Sexton t or 11 Broad Russe! 6 RETURNED of Young of All kinds of 1 from drinking 1 are made In the Thottord, s to [ glish o town | whole | sible for the memor: | shorn of his old power of dramaric licization, his old power of st cinct and expenditious utt old ability (at its to carry forward in a vivid, orchestral com ANOTHER ARREST IN CLARKE CASE Former Employe Is Captured in| Oklahioma n, Conn., Nov warrant | 17 P— issued on Attorney acy to in Guymon, Oklahoma information given out by case, police custody four men whom they declare to have been respon- loss of thousands of dollars of the company's clients’ money. The others are R. H. C. Clarke, president of the firm who held in New York under 00 and Carl Clarke, kson H. Kearns, s being bonds of $2 his brother, and J: both members of the firm. They re held in the New Haven county in default of $7500 bonds. terse ed i when Dr. Crowley called the build- ing and fire departments to complain |that Peterson had rendered the front |exit inaccessible. Deputy Chief E. J. Barnes and Inspector A. N. Ruth- erford found the front lock contain- |ed no spring and Dr. Crowley said he had been informed by neighbors that Peterson removed the spring. Orders were issued that the front exit be made accessible. The sum- y process actlon followed. wley appeared in court today thont an attorney. He named Mrs. George Talbot, Miss Agnes Talbot and Miss Bernice . ollman as wit- nesses who told him, he testified, they saw Peterson removing the lock. As a result, Crowley testified, ‘“‘we were trapped In the bduilding like rats.” Crowley effected an exit by placing a wedge in the electric door switch. The Petersons deny the lock was tampered with. Judge Mangan an- nounced after the hearing t Crowley's claims will be investigated by interviewing those named as wit- nesses and i they are not founded « |en fact, further civil action will be pursued. LODGE 29 YEARS OLD Court Becthoven, F. of A., Presents Service Pins to Quarter Century Members and Honors Secretary. Beethoven, No. 190, For- America, held their 29th anniversary meeting last evening at 0d4d Fellows' hall. Members who have been with the organization for years were given pins to cnify their seniority. Those re- ceiving pins were Fred Eppler, August Huber, Otto Leupold, Max Graesser, Richard Uhlig, George Doerr and Rudolph Zimmerman. Louis Linn, who has been the etary for the 2 Court csters of Mr. Pouzzner declares, 1s who sold t Guilford | $4,060 in securities which | He will be brought in o lue. been set in motion to bring Clarke | back to stand trial. ARMY GENERALTS HIGHLY INDIGNANT Resents Schiool Teacher’s Deii-j' nition of Socialism Nov. 17 (A — ism which won a in a contest conducted by | m Magazine has projected gton high school teacher | into the midst of a battle of words | in which Major General Amos A. ries, chief of the chemi A of the 7 the k W, P of Ariz among fender | Henry I vet- nsylvania tructor | described Wa nition of soc gton, de $50 prizc the For a Wash service eran, graduate wrote the socialism ion, It ig question mark" still on is | as ' and el and d wh indus- have crea hase ation we tein that ander of the 1 e Am s demanded can Legion, Flury's re y. He to th y school f trenuously WOMAN OUT OF s released pen- | of the oman on READ HERALD CLASSIFIED ADS | committee and the | the facts to the prohibition authori- | ars, was given a framed di- for his office as t chief Forester ring. Fred Jost, of A card party and smoker the business meeting. Grangers Claim American |Second Annual New England Con-|pe pointed out that Dickman's tes- Have Open Saloons 1, Maine, N 17 P~ s th American steamships d bar and sold liquor after passing the 12 mile limit were con- tained in a resolution introduced at the 60th annual meeting of the N tional Grange today. The measure, which was offered to the committee on resolutions, pro. vided for a thorough investigatios by the National Grange executive presentation o ties if substantiated. Kiwanians Enjoy Music By Girls’ Ukulele Club With a 92 per cent attendance, the largest the Kiwanis club has had or a long time, members of that club today enjoyed a feast of music | and entertainment furnished by the members of the Stanley Rule and Level Uku he girls included “P who entertained with C! oft shoe dancing; Eva Gianotta and Mary Murkart, in Ity num b Dashner, Mildred West- bh” Schultz and Irene . Chorus numbers of popu- both vocal and instrumen- duet and solo music was ** Rurke, on and man, I lar tal, urn ki airs, xt week the Kiwanls club will meet at the trade school. Thanksgi n{]hnners Will Cost 173 Million No (P—America linn will cost about it was mated Miss Marle K Health bu | the ieago, s sgiving by Jo jett here, some it did A Witk principal dish threaten at six or pound than a bill for potato for t1 sl 1 and el the trim Iy in ples, turkey aver t of h will CURRENT Irs. C. F. Thomas | A ai eck on hol irls and who may COLOI the NEW 1 purple W it is na COTTON EMBARGO Or Nov. 17 (4 es sald today ton had been ot in New Orleans, by overcrowded New Orlea leans, The s sta embar on o pu ton warehouses, ed occa last week | Mary’s church, announced that Rev. Thomas F. today Lawlor, re- |a parish_in Devon, would succeed Father Clabby as principal of St Mary's parochial school. Father Clabby had performed the duties of |that oftice during his stay as a | member of the clergy at St. Mary's and his successor will enter upon his new duties immediately. CRITICIZES KIRKHAM ONDONNELLY CO. SUIT (Continued from First Page) | to engage assistant counsel, but | declares the charter also specifical- | 1y provides that all bills over $300 be submitted to the common council by the comptroller, with approval of the mayor, when a cash discount is to be allowed. That such a ae- count was to be allowed by the Hartford attorneys is extremely un- cently transferred to this city from | Hall found near the body in | about the country so much unofficial sponsorship that it unreliable. The state claims the fingerprint that of Willle Stevens. doubts it. distance from the body, dropped, they will allege, person who robbed Rev. hody either during or murder. | after Will Support Alibi | | | four |his home at Navallette county at the time of the sla Mrs. Mary Demarest’s that she faw Stevens vin; | in joinder that Mrs. Demarest |have seen Stevens’ double. | The defense will call to point on the calling card of Rev. Mr. De Russey’s lane will be that the card was handled so much and traveled | under was The defense Tt also will assert that the card was not propped up at the foot of Rev. Mr. Hall, but was found some probably by the Mr. Hall's the Henry Stevens will have at least Witnesses called to back up sel, with the consent of the Mayor. |pis aubi that he was fishing or in' in_ Ocean testimony Ne at | for approval before being pald. The | g ygwick the morning of Septem- exception to this rule is a payment |y "5 " the day after the murder, when Stevens says he was still in | Lavallette will be met with the re- may the “and if the adjournment is asked for by the state until Thursday morning, the court is inclined to think that it will be fair to allow it.” The adjournment of one day also enabled the battery of defense at- torneys to lay still better, thelr plans for attacking Mrs. Gibson's story. They have announced that they will assault the credibility of the state's star witness by calling her aged mother Mrs. Salome Ceren- ner, to discredit the veracity of her own daughter. Evidence All Circumstantial. Several witnesses have given testl- mony which is expected to have a bearing on the story to be told on the witness stand by Mrs. Gibson, and it is by the wuse of her testi- mony as a capsheaf that the prose- cution hopes to fashion into a com- pleted pattern, its version of what happened under a crabapple tree on the deserted farm, where the Rev. Mr. Hall and Mrs. Mills were slain on the night of September 14, 1922, So far that state has built its case entirely on circumstancial evidence. Imost half of the seventy-five witnesses already called by the state have been questioned minutely by the prosecutor along lines to elicit t would buttress is . W on of | likely, the sisth ward representative | i’ B, John T Anderson, con- S he councilman loans to the view |1eCted With the laboratory of N that Judge Kirkham could have | §°TS ";“’:;5"'[}1:{"‘]’)e':‘?::“}“_‘f;‘s513;; und attorneys in New Britain cap- | 1%, to 2y tha ; aol o of defending the city without |3t Albany and Georgo strocts, Wew ing to Hartford for assistance. He | Brunswick, ot BB Wey €0 CC7ers clted as further argument the faot |3 the Mmo Mrs: PemELes: ays8in mentioned s the place where Mrs. Demarest says she saw Stevens in | nis auto. i | Henry Stevens will also say that| stence of i | | that the city several years ago em- ! ployed one of the Jeading members | of the bar whose offices were 1in Hartford, to defend in the injunction | brought by the taxpayers assocla- | S 7 | tion, and the case was finally won |he never knew of the ex by the city on a demurrer sub-|Mrs. Mills before he read of the| mittgd, not by the Hartford attorney, | murder and that he was unaware | |but by a New Britain lawyer prac- | that his brother-in-law was mixed | |ticing here. Kirkham's action, |UP in a love relationship with the | Sablotsky interprets as a reflection | choir singer. on the capabilities of New Britain's | Will Deny Bribe Story bar members. Henry L. Dickman’s testimony | Day, Berry & Reynolds have al-|that he was given a $2,500 bribe | ready been paid the $750 fee, the |by Prosecutor Azarfah Beekman to | books of Comptroller H. L. Curtis |gct out of the state at the time; show. he was the “lone hand” Hall-Mills i t t d bt | ¢ T t t i t ) i able. | The defense will point out the| | fact that he went on a 41 day spree after he quit the state. It will also | imony is unsupported. Miss Jennie Lenfort and Mrs. | I pomottonw Wahler, who was with Robert Ehr- | | ling on the auto road September | Hartford, Conn., Nov. 17 (®—The |14, 1922, when he says he saw incoming stream of visitors from all | Mrs. Jane Gibson on her mule in sections of New IEngland started |De Russey's lane, will testify, it | coming into Hartford today, and it|js expected, that Ehrling was seeing | was expected that hy evening over |things. 300 of the more than 1,000 men| Ehrling said he heard no shots/ |and women expected here for the|or screams such as wers testified | {sessions of the second annual New 1o by other witnesses but that he | ingland conference tomorrow and | saw Mrs. Gibson on her mule. t iday will have arrived and reg-| Mrs, Wahler is expected to Eay| er | that she was with Ehrling all the Today's arrivals included most of | {ime and that she saw nothing ot y-two members of the|ine kind, | ¢ England council, the exccutive | Tra Nixon's story that Elijah | body of the conference, as well 1\51‘;01)”. Hol0nlin! Tois voavs agol it many delegates from cities in Mass- | yo 100 seon Mrs. Hall and her isetts and the New England | protpers, Willie and Henry, in the farther north. The council-| pyyrger Jane on the night of the arriving early to take care oyime wijl he pointed to as unsup- lof certain details of the conference| 1o 4eq una strangely shlelded for to act as an finformal recepton| o vonrg committee and to attend a couneil | “Oyr FERTE Ly aed to meeting at 11 o'clock 'nmm'rn\v‘”‘“ stand to say that in all the four | morning preceding the formal open- | N Fr HuabEnd nevenTalAthesVor ing of the conference a luncheon Soper's revélation. to be given the delegates by the| "y g galome Cerener, mother of Hartford Chamber of Commerce. Mrs. Giibson, il be Held dn veadls Il indications point to a big day | - ST e on power, | eSS to attack her daughter's credi- | vility. | ference Scheduled To Open There ¥ | F t the seven t state lors are t ye tomorrow, with report Eticultire i and cational - T | " The nature of her testimony will i s ‘f”f’ g By oy ]| bo guided by the story told by Mre. | hull of Connecticut, Governor Brew- | Gibson. Mrs, Cerenner is now living Maine and Owen D. Young | With another daughter in Hoboken, 1 of the hoard of the nd has already publicly condemn- lectric company in the ed Mrs, Gibson. ’ The story about Willle sending clothes to be cleaned the day the bodies were found will be met with | his statement, that he, as often hap- | ’ pened, had spilled food on them, |° and that he wanted to get them cleancd up for the funeral which was set for two days after the clothes cleaning incident, ster of chairm eral ning. p Yassar College Girls | Letting Their Hair Grow | Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Nov. i | —Vassar college girls are abandon- ing bobbed hair in all its ms and | returning to long tre as fast as nature permits. The ch n hair| The defense will question the amounts almost to a| State witness, Dr. Otto Schultze’s beauty | statement that the tongue of Mr: Mills was ripped out along with the larynx and the top of the windpipe. They will call doctors who are ex-| | pected to testify that the | found missing from the body four year late autopsy might | decayed and deteriorated. They will | point to the t that their absence was not noficed by the several doe- | tors and others who saw the body n 19 dressing style stampede, accor to the shops cater! o the Hair dressers attril | shift to the impres | girls that the hob is too as the girls express it. ion amon, the 1 the | CENTRAL JR. 1. S NOTES The audi e ntral Junior 1 of the k yrium ram « gt 0ol this we by two the Li is taken care Booklovers club ang ub. The program falog and t 1o solo is 1 ooklovers the rature a| A Jersey O Nov. The conditlon of Mrs, Jane Gibson, whom the Hall-Mills trial in ierville has been adjourned until | morrow, “remains good,” it was | ed officlally at Jersey City vital today. Mrs, Gibson, who Is to be the s last and most important wit- will be able to leave in an am- ance early tomorrow, it was rted in contradiction to rumors | " | that she could not be removed from | | her private room, where specialists iven t a play f od | club ends t gram wi g a charac 08- | h book is by a puy Az S800 ON NOTI 5 58 SUT Court was adjourned on the assurance of special Prosecu tor Simpson that Mrs. Gibson would | be able to appear tomorrow, Most Important Witness, Tt is thought the testimony of Mrs, Gibson, the only alleged eye-witne of the slaying of the Rev. Dr, Ed ward W. Hall and Mrs. Eleanor R. Mills, that the prosecution hopes to lay a solid foundation for the mass over today 1 proper s on and garnis Con, com in the of De ny court 1t | cember, first Monday Mrs. ney’s in cr witnesses, have just as carefully laid | ous practice; their groundwork against the day when the star witness for the state would take the witness stand. that it about forty witnesses. The present | plan is to call all three defendants | peatedly | detectives after the jd Mil Telix DI Martini, a private detective | to be greater than the state; that employed by Mrs. Hall, had asked | members have been deluded in con- enough mon gage, and a 1 her he knew she had a mortgage of | permitted under the guise a diary, which he kept was r expenditure, 1: Main_ street, 20 | sc ed ters of Union Veterans, will hold its 7:30 o'clock. orders taken for Christmas. tend the Yale-Harvard game at New Haven Saturday. | Da organs | ¢, Leading Star lode | instituted | e | Sheriff Martin | tertainment estimony such as ibson’s story as she has told | The defense attor- | t previously -examining these same | 40 Defense Witnesses. With the state on the eve of rest- | ng its case, the defense announcea | probably would call only | o the witness stand. The prosecution, which has re- | advanced the contention | Hall, in employing private | double slaying | did s0 not to solve the crime, but to | protect herself from becoming sus- | ccted of the crime, yesterday re- | called to the stand Mrs. Mary De- hat Mr nony, adding a new angle to the | rial. Previously Mrs. Demarest had | estified that she saw Henry Stevens n New Brunswick the morning after | he slaying, and told of having seen | her cousin, Mrs. Minna Clark, “spy- ng” on the Rev. Mr. Hall and Mrs. | Yesterday she testified that | her how she would like to “have | v to clear off the mort- tle more,” after telling 500 on her home. New chapters in the love affair | between the Rev. Mr. Hall and Mrs. | king had never left but Mills were added yesterday, wh n she entered a hospital for an opera~ | jnformation had been forwarded on nai yer which he wrote for her when | , and | ad to | he jury. The couple's love letters | had been admitted previously. | fon, was admitted in evide 6ity Items Representative I'. 0. Rackliffe has filed a statement of his campaign | wing a $25 donation | g n town committee. | i o the republic Co. No. 6 of the fire department led to the home of E. J. 6 South Main street at 9: ast night but found no fire. A leak an oil burner caused a scare. urprise party was tendered Rochelle of 263 | st evening by about | lends. Supper was m of money present- | | 2 Rochell 0. 12, Daugh- 1 i 20 of her f ved and a to Mrs. Lovisy Moore tent, evening | at ved annual inspection Thursda n Odd Fellows' hall beginning Supper will be s X at 6:30 o'clock. Annual Sale o Also Phone | 27 ney Work. 5W. Mrs. John S. son Drive.—advt. Miss Lena Kranowltz of the hoard f assessors al staff, will at- Dixon, © Th weekly meeting of Catholic ca will be held | evening at § o'clock at Judd | hall. The members will meet for | bowling at 6:45 o'clock at Rogers | Recreational bullding. | There will be a meeting of the| No. 23, 0. 8. of | B. tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock at | Jr. 0. U. A. M. hall on Glen | . A full attendance i8 desired ns for the lodge's Christmas activities will be discussed. A social | will follow the business session. Action for $140 damages has been against L, Kaufman of this city by Wilson & Co., Inc., of Chicago for goods sold and deliver- The suit was brought through Attorney Angela M. Lacava, Deputy H. Morwitz served regular Court Columba, ighters of Amel the the paper: Mason, that he another stopped hotel not a proprietor, said | dia know Webb and government agent who his machine were federal ts, and that he shot in self defer A meeting of the of the Monroe school will be held | in the Kkindergarten room Friday evening. There will be speakers, en- and refreshments, ather and Son” day will be ob- served at the Burritt hotel by the Rotary club tomorrow, Mothers' elub What will be done with the pris- oners has not been decided. Facing Purnell are a series of charges, seri- ous both to him and the colony. Lansing were abandoned. Statutory charges sworn to by yRuth B. Reed and Gladys B. Rubel, face him as well as several civil sults, one of which secks dissolution of the colony. Ready to appear against him is an array of witnesses brought together in previous investigations and grand jury proceedings which so far have resulted in but little but expensive litigation fought by the cult. Rewards Total $4,000 Rewards for the capture of the | erstwhile king have been posted | totalling_approximately ~$4,000, a | portion of which was presented by a Detroit newspaper. Repeated at- tempts to disclose alleged immorali- | ty existing in the colony has resulted in the starting of law sults that are still hanging in the legal limbo. Three years ago a grand jury in- | vestigation conducted by Judge Har- | | rv J. Dingeman of Detroit into the | affairs of the cult brought forward | Mrs. Woodworth as a complainant. | At that time she told of her forced marriage at the king's command and related that young girls were brought to perform strange “religi- at the bidding of thelr leader. It was she who vouchsafed the in- | formation that the king still main- | tained his residence among his peo- ple and still powers there. “Shiloh,” where Purnell had lived before his cape,” was abandoned, but it was not until today that the outside world realized the real purpose of the administration building close by. Shielded by shrubbery and trees this building defled inspection of in- quisitive eyes. Among the features of govern- ment to which the state objects has been that of requiring the deeding of all properties to the order “es- marest and drew from her tostl- | those who adopt the faith. Official Complaints In previous actions brought against the colony by the state, it has been charged that they have fraudulently secured control of prop- erty valued “in excess of $50,001 that the colony has in effect set up | its own government which it holds veying property to Purnell by “fan- tastic promises of immortality;” and that immoral acts were induced and ot re- ligious discipline. Insistent rumors that the fugitive hidden resulted in a fruitless raid three years ago. It was charged that to the House of David followers and that the king was spirited away from harm. ed here throughout all the in- igation Purnell nodded affirma- Two Civil Suits Detroit, Nov. 1 wo civil suits filed by sisters, each of whom asks 100 damages, have becn on file cuit court here nearly four against Benjamin Purnell, 1e House of David colony Benton Harbor. In January, 1923, Mrs. R. B. Reed, 20 years old and her sister, Mrs. Glady Bam- ford Rubel, 22, filed separate suits against Purnell, charging acts ot im- morality, assault and battery and en- forced marriage while they were compulsory inmates at Shiloh, the cult headquarters. TThe girls' suits were only two of a series started against King Ben and the House o David colony, sued through federal court for $§6,000 which he alleged hie had invested in the colony. Revelations made in the Hansel trial brought the state of Michigan into the affair, resulting in the hold- ing of a one-man grand jury inves tigation in 1¢ When the grand started the Bamford to hiding. Nelson, their attorne fused to reveal their whereabouts and was sentenced to 30 days in jail for contempt. The girls later testi- fled. More recently Mrs, ford, mother of tho sist reconciled to their view With Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Wright of Benton Harbor, colony members, she filed suit in federal court at Grand Rapids asking dissolution of the cult and $35,000 damages for loss of property. The suit is pe One rule of at Benton Harbor is that the members upon joining, deed over to the colony all their po: ion: Their labor as members of th organization also goes to the House of David and to- ward its upkeep. rears ing" ot jury Inquiry nt in- Eliza Bam- ers, became THROUGH, NOT OV 10} Captain Kelly was notified shortl: after noon today that a junk dealer was seen going over a fence at the Stanley Works. Investigation show: ed that the man was John Stovol of 107 Franklin avenue, and he did not go over the fence, the fence being broken. There was no cause for police action. ree Michlgan automobile com- par ks contributed $4000 each to es- tablish a library on transportation at the University of Michigan, First plans to rush him at once to | exercised sovereign | by | remained | Asked this morning it he had re- | Hartford, | Gasoline was sold for several years on the site, which is at 391 West Main street. Last year, Charles P. McCarthy, who held the license, moved his business two doors to the east, and the Standard Oil Go. sought a permit from the state commissioner of motor vehi« cles for the place he had vacated. This license was issued, but the board of public works refused its sanction after several hearings. Last week the board reversed its stand and gave its consent. Property owners clalms a gaso« line station is not needed and that 1t will increase traffic hazard at this point. If necessary, they will seek an injunction to restrain the Stand< ard Oil Co. from doing business, they threaten. Alleged Assailant of Girl Pleads Not Guilty White Plains, N. Y., Nov. 17 (P— | Richard E. Thorne pleaded not guile ty today to two indictments charge ing him with assaulting Violet An< derson, New York actress, on & {lonely road near Harrison, N. Y., no |the night of July 3. After belng taken to the county jail for finger printing Thorne was {released in continuance of $2,500 bail. No date was set for trial. Thorne and Philip Elliott were indicted on complaint of Miss An- | derson that after an automobile ride which followed a roadhouse party the men dragged her into the woods tore off her clothes, beat her and as« saulted her. | They wero traced to Canada | where they were held in jail fos several weeks and finally released when attempts to obtaln their ex- | tradition falled. Thorne returned | an1 gave himself up and Elliott dis« |appeared, authorities belleved, to Europe. ' FILES BURGESS DEMURRER Attorney Thomas F. McDonougly Cites Three Points of Law Document Presented to Court. Attorney Thomas F. McDonough, counsel for Kimball Burgess, charg« ed with embezzlement of $1018.18 of the funds of the Elaborated Roofing Co., has filed a demurrer to ths complaint, as follows: “The accused | hereby demurs to the information | filed by the state in the above en< | titled matter and assigus the follow« ing reasons therefor: 1. It is insuffi | cient at law, and does not charga ths accused with any offense under the laws of the state of Connecticut; | 2. It does not contain a statement of the essential ingredients of any crime with the particularity and certainty required by law; 3. If such | information as is set forth consti« tutes a crime, the said information does not charge the accused with | the commission of such crime with the particularity and certainty re< quired by law.” Philharmonic Band at | High School Grid Game For the sixteenth consccutive | vear the Philharmonic band will | play at the annual classic between | New Britain and Hartford high | schools in Hartford Saturday. The | band played for the first time in & | game at Hartford in 1910, | _The academic building of ths { Senlor high school rocked with ]‘vh-crs and songs this morning when | the first rehearsal was held by the | upper classes under the direction of | Head Cheerleader Harry Vetranog | with his assistants, Mucke and Carle | son. Tomorrow morning the lower | class will hold a checring practice {and on ¥riday the two senior and | tw~ junior classes will hold another session. 'New Britain will have & cheering squad of 150 at the game | Saturday. A special section has | been set aside for the New Britain | students. TEAM HITS AUTOMOBILE A slight accldent occurred at 10°08 o'clock this morning at the corner of | High and Broad streets, when a | team owned by the Bond Bakery | and driven by Edward Goldsmith of [116 Farmington avenue, collided with an automobile driven by An- [thony Jagodzmski of 33 Doris | street. Traffic Sergeant J. J. King {rcported that the automobile was | Boing east on Broad street and the | team golng north on High street. Al | truck parked on Broad street, near | the corner, obstructed the view of | the motorist. He brought his car taf |a stop and the team also stopped, | but the horse started again, causing one of the wheels to strike the radi- ator and a headlight on the automo= bile, damaging them. “HIT AND RUN” DRIVER Tony Apruzzese of 10 Maple strect, Plainville, notified the police this forenoon that an automobile struck him as he was crossing Church street at Main strect about |10 o'clock last night, and the driver did not stop. The police found that | the registration number given was not correct. A rallway tunnel will be bullt soon to connect the main island of Japan with the southern isiand, |Kyushut, tnvolving an underses |length of more than two miles,