New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 19, 1926, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 FEWER FARMERS NO REASON TO WORRY OVER FOOD SUPPLY Tie-up of Agricnlture, nvention and Science Enables Greater Production IMPORTANT CONFERENCE FOR ALL NEW ENGLAND Dr. Lipman, Speaking At Hartford, Says One-Third of Population is Enabled to Produce All Required By Nation—Dr. Kline Says Chiet Cause of Failures is Not High ‘Wages. Hartford, Conn., Nov. 19 (P—Ef- ficient tie-up of agriculture with the discovered inventions and scientific progress of modern industry Wil enable one-third of the country's ‘population to produce practically all of the food fats and fibre materials required by the entire nation, §. J. P. Lipman, of New Brunswick, N. told members of the second New England conference here today at the morning session. Mr. Lipman who is director of the state agricultural experiment sta- tion at New Brunswick, has attained national prominence through his success in co-ordinating agriculture and industry in New Jersey. In discussing “Agricultural Trends and Policies in the Industrial East,” he sald that the steady and marked decrease in the relative number of people engaged in agriculture should not cause alarm. Today will sce the final session of the conference which was made a permanent organization last year at a meeting in Worcester, Mass. This year's conference opened yesterday with nearly eight hours of speeches on the hopes and faults of New England. Governors’ Dinner At a dinner last night glven by Governor Trumbull of this state in honor of the governors of the other New England states, Mr. Trumbull and Goyernor Brewster of Maine recommended progressive steps for the future. Owen D. Young of the General Electric ecompany who was to have mads tho principal speech was unable to attend because of ill- ness, but his prepared address was read. He urged the breaking down of the barriers which have retarded the further progress of the New Eng- land states. The state delegates to the conference elected the New FEngland counell for the coming year at meetings this morning. As a re-| sult of a recommendation of the last year's council, six of the 12 mem- bers from each state were reelected, The reelected members will serve for one year, while the other 36 will serve for two years. Prosperity of New England Agriculture, research and New England prosperity were the sub- Jects .of the discussions of the con- ference this morning. Dr. Lipman ‘was the principal speaker on the for- mer reports of research studies un- der the auspices of the New England (Continued on Page 15.) UNCLE SAM MAY MAKE WHISKEY FOR MEDIGINE Gen. Andrews to Ask Con- gress for Appro- priation Washington, D. C., Nov. 18.—The government will manufacture three million gallons of medicinal Whis- key a year in its own distillery, if congress passes a bill now being drafted by General Lincoln C. An- drews, assistant secretary of the treasury in charge of prohibition and customs. When General Andrews first pointed out the need for emergency legislation in this session of con- gress to provide for replenishing the supply of medicinal whiskey, it was | generally understood that he intend- ed to allow privately owned distil- leries to manufacture the liquor un- der government supervision, but it was authoritatively and exclusively learned by this correspondent today that Genarl Andrews will ask con- gress to authorize the establishment of a government distillery to manu- facture all whiskey to be used in the tuture for medicinal purposes. This bill will be introduced as goon as congress convenes and will be the only prohibition legislation asked by the administration at this congress sesslon. General Andrews will ask fts prompt passage as emergency legis- lation as the present stores of medi- cinal whiskey will be exhausted in five vears, and a five year ageing perlod is necessary to produce good whiskey. It is expected to be the sensation of the short session and will prob- ably arouse more heated discussion than any measure since the prohibi- tion amendment was adopted. Gen- eral Andrews has persisted in his advocacy of government manufac- ture of medicinal whiskey ever since he has been in charge of prohibi- tion enforcement, but until the last few weeks the plan has been oppos- (Continued on Page 10) NEW BRITAIN HERALD {reaqy'l Dinner to Governors Will Cost Trumbull Something Over $6,000 STy Hartford, Nov. 19 (M»—Gover- nor Trumbull’'s check for the dinner for the 1,245 New Eng- land conference delegates who dined at the hotel Bond last night will be somewhere between $6,000 and $7,000, according to his brother, Henry Trumbull, chief of the committee on ar- rangements. The guests and dele- gates were Governor Trumbull's personal guests at the banquet. The diners had seafood cock- tail, hearts of celery, green olives, cream of chicken na- #onal, half baked lobster ran- dolph, pommes alluthette, roast darnier of filet of beef a la ar- manonville, biscuit souffle mar- tha, petit fours, demi tasse. The hotel's accommodations were taxed to the utmost— tables being laid in the main ballroom, in half a dozen other dining rooms on the mezzanine floor, and the mezzanine bal- cony with writing tables and lounges removed, was crowded with still more tables. At the conclusion ot the banquet the tables were removed and the improvised dining rooms became improvised bedrooms. MORE ARRESTS IN LOTTERY CLEANUP Joseph Bunyak of Bridgeport in Cnstody Today IS FOURTH ALREADY TAKEN; Others Expected to Be Arrested— | State Police Claim Sold Each Week in Fairfield County Alone. Bridgeport, Conn., Nov. 19 (A—Jo- | seph Bunyak, of 200 Ann streel, was arrested on a bench warrant this noon charged with keeping and selling lottery tickets. His is the fourth arrest in the campaign of State's Attorney Willlam H. Comley against the lotterles based on “treasury balance” figures. Bunyak gave a bond of $1,000 and his case will be called at the Decem- ber term of the superior court sit- ting here, 75,000 Sold Weckly 1t 18 claimed in police circles that 75,000 lottery tickets in various com- binations are being sold each week in Fairfleld county. It is alleged that Bunyak had tkree Ictteries, one called “rellable”, the second ‘“horseshoe” and the third “flint"”, Sergeant Frank Virelll of the state police made the arrest and took his man to the office of the clerk of the superior court. The amount of money garnered by the lottery promoters can be gauged, it is claimed by the fact that tickets sell for 50 cents to $1 each. Yesterday Clifford J. (Connie) Lewls and his brother-in-law, George (Dutch) Sherwood, were arrested and a fortnight ago John J. Welch | of New Britaln was arrested and brought here and held for trial on lottery ticket charges. It was predicted that other arrests would follow shortly. GIRL DRIVER BLAMELESS FOR DEATH OF ELANDER | No Charge Against Miss Johnson Who Is Prostrate With Grief And Shock. Investigation by the police having shown that Miss Edith Johnson of 417 Stanley street was in the exer- cise of reasonable care on the morn- | ing of November 10, when her car | struck Sven John Elander, aged 66, of 88 Camp street, Miss Johnson will not be prosecuted, it was announced today. In the majority of cases in which death results from injuries re- celved in automobile accidents, the | operator of the car causing the in- | juries is arrested on the technical | charge of manslaughter pending in- vestigation, but this procedure will not be followed. Miss Johnson suffered great mental anguish following the accident and has not recovered from the shock, it was learned today. According to the police, she was driving on Elm street near Chestnut street at a time when traffic was heavy and Mr. Elander stepped directly in the path of her | car. She did not have a chance to avoid striking him, the police say. CO-EDS MUSTN'T SMOKE Los Angeles, Nov. 19 (A—Con- demning the habit of among women as an indulgence car- ried on in a spirit of “naughtiness, and “bravado,” Dr. Kileinsmid, president of the Uni- Versity of Southern California, has forbidden cigarettes for co-eds of the iInstitution. COAL TERMS REJECTED London, Nov. 19 (P —Ofticial figures on the result of the coal miners’ district vote show that the government’s terms for settlement of the strike were rejected by a majority of 147,606. RED CROSS ROLL CALL FND The Red Cross annual roll call fund today is as follows: Quota $6,000. Yesterday's total . Recelved today .... .$1178.10 72.00 Total to date $1250.10 75,000 Tickets the smoking | .+ | husband of the victim, appeared and | Rufus B. Von | f proj18H u\lo":)val’“ APV 7e) -\;ma\mo_) "N THEATER SHF Bristol Playhonse Robbed After Last Night's Performance HAMMER OPENS STRONG BOX Crooks Belicved to Have Remained In Building After Show—Noise of Traffic And Trains Decadened the \IN, Noise of Blows. (Special to the Herald.) Bristol, Nov. 19 — After having suspended their activities in the city for the past several weeks, burglars became active again last night by breaking open the safe in the office of the Bristol theater and getting away with about 31,500 in cash, the receipts of the afternoon and the two evening performances. Police do not believe the break to be the work of professional yege- men, due to the fact that the safe was not blown. It is belleved that a heavy hammer was the only in- strument used, the burglars breaking oft the combination and pounding the rod, which runs from the dial |to the tnnér mechanism, untl ft {dropped off inside. No tools were left by the burglars, who must have been obliged to work for a consid- erable period before the safe was opened in response to their efforts. The break was discovered at about 8 o'clock this morning when Peter Perfetto, the janitor, entered the building. Detective Sergeant Daniel McGilli- ouddy, who was detailed to the case by Chiet Ernest Belden, found that the only door which had been forced was the onc leading from the lobby to the office. The doors leading from the lobby to the street were secured and a further investigation | of other exits showed that they were also locked. For this reason it is believed that the burglars secreted themselves in some part of the building after the close of the eve- ning performance at 10:15 and re- mained hidden until the employes had lett. The Bristol theater is located al- most directly across the strect from the Perl Hotel and a short distance | away on the same side of the street is a 'restaurant. Apparently the patrans of these establishments | heard no suspicious. notses and it is probable that the burglars did thelr hammering when the sound would be drowned by the noise of passing traffic both on the street and on the railroad tracks in the rear. It is understood that the loss to the management of the theater is| partially covered by theft insurance. ! ‘TWO HELD IN $15,000 . FOR DEATH OF WOMAN | Lawyer and Chauffeur Must Face Superior Court Next Month | Isalah H. Lecbove, a lawyer, of 45 | West 57th street, New York city, and Rufus Wood, colored, of 109 | West 129th street, were bound over to the December session of superior | |court. under bonds amounting to [$15,000 last evening in the Newing- | ton town court, Justice Barrow pre- | |stdine. The action followed the arrest of ‘chbow and Wood as owner and | driver of the car which struck and |Killed Mrs. Arthur L. Young of| | Exeter, H., on November 4 on| |the Newington turnpike near the| |Circle. Leebove is charged with | |evading responsibility and Wood with reckless driving, evading re- |sponsibility and manslaughter. | Wood's bond was fixed at $10,000 |and Teebove at $5,000. Both men | | pleaded not guilty. " State Policeman J. L. Parrott| |gave testimony with measurements {signifying that Mrs. Young's body was thrown 57 feet from her hus- | band's car which she was about to {enter. He denied having seen any | car stop to ald the deceased woman. |John Quinn of 166 Bond street, | Hartford, and Charles Robertson, |colored, of 36 Sanford street, Hart- ford, both employes of the road- |house near the scene of the acel- | dent, denied that any car stopped latter the accident. Tt was Lee- bove's initfal claim that he had stopped to render aid but had driven on when he heard threats of lynch- | {ing directed at his chauffeur. | Attorney Thomas J. Spellacy’ of | Hartford represented the New York |attorney and his chauffeur. He |ratsed the question as to how Lce- | bove was charged with operating the | car when the man had never pos- sessed a license. Arthur L. Young, | mave testimony regarding. the acel- seeming on the verge of col- | long testimony “Rsi Marie Off for New York; King’s Condition Serious Cincinnati, Yov. 19 (A—The spe- clal train of Queen Marie of Ru- | mania left Storr's station, 15 miles from Cincinnati, for New York at 10:35 a. m. today. Vienna, Nov. 19 (A—The condi- tion of King Ferdinand of Rumania is considered in banking circles here | which are in close touch with Bu- | charest to be so serfous as to justify the anxiety of Queen Marle, who has cancelled her tour in the United States and will sail for home next week. All official sources, however, are silent or evasive, |ing Captain Nils Danielsen, jFoar of thelexplosion. t.rose from the interior of the blaz- | Former Secretary of Agriculture In- | | m; |among Iowa democrats,” CONNECTICUT, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1926.—THIRTY-SIX PAGES. TANKER EXPLODES WHILE N DRYDOCK Loss of Lile Is Reported in Baltimore Ship Disaster FLAMING OIL IS SPRAYED Blast Occurs on Norwegian Ship | Mantilla — First Reports State | that 17 Were Known Dead and 75 | Others Injured. Baltimore, Nov. 19 (P)—An explo- sion with reported loss of lite occur- red today on the Norweglan oil tank- er Mantilla in drydock at Sparrows Point. Seventeen were known dead | and 75 reported Injured. Flaming Oil Spreads Flaming oll was sprayed over the dock. Officials belleved one side of | the ship had been blown out. In the | confusion that followed as the burn- | ing ofl spread about the dock it was | impossible to decide just what had occurred or how many men were | aboard the ship. Mayland General hospital was making hasty prepara- | tions to care for six injured pulled | trom the hulk soon after the explo- | sion. Other hospitals were standing ready. Records at the drydock indicated | that the Manilla’s crew of 385, includ- were aboard with approximately 50 dry dock workers when one of the ves- sel's tanks blew up from an un- known cause. The spray of blazing oil thrown by the blast fired ship from stem to stern. Buildings Damaged i Mrs. Jane Gibson, the spectacular * | she appeared as a witness. the | The heax | Stevens. | prosecution in the Hall-Mills case, here is shown I | at the edge of the picture are the defen Mrs. Gibson Testifying From Cot In Court upon whose testimony ng on a cot in the cov pears near the face lett, ‘Plg Woman" d of her nurse a ants, right to Henry Stevens, depended the main hops of the urtroom at Somerville, N, where of Mrs. Gibson. Teyond the cot | Mrs. Frances Hall and Willie | | tlee take its course. Nearby buildings were damaged. Dockhands rallied to the ald of fire- men in attempting to hold the fire in check, while volunteers entered the hulk to bring out the dead and injured. Workers were endangered by the ship's other tanks, which, it was feared, might explode at any time. All efforts were being made to bring the injured out of the danger zone and while the fire was at Its height no attempt had been made to check the identities of those dead, injured or missing. Captain’ Escapes Alter Gonviction i e e vae reorted {ARRIED 1IN MEANTIME were included among the dead or in- | Ohtidren— MUST SERVE TERM jured could not be determined. Startled workmen in other parts of the shipyard dropped their tools and silence came for a moment after the | Then screams r Also Is Father of Two Fran! D, Storcy Was of Ultimate Acquittal That ing Mantilla and dockhands plunged | Married. through the flame and smoke to giva | aid. One side of the vessel was 19 (P—Six years bl(;;\'n i {after he was convicted of receiving urried calls sent fire equipment | erty—duri v ang aricd calls sent fire cquipment | stolen property—during which time more, and ambulances, doctors and | nurses were hurried from Baltimore hospitals. The Mantilla Is 407 feet long. with | a 52 foat beam, and has a gross ton- | | o nfluential men, nage of 5, 6 todaw that he must scrve HEREDITH SPIKES ARY |° 5% vroy s PRESIDENTIAL RUMORS /-5 | | | New York, Nov. he married and became the father of two children—Frank D. Storey, scion of a New was t not less years Well Educated educated at Harvard and {schools in Italy and Switzerland, was convicted in 1920 for possess- (ing 100 shares of Northern Pacific stock stolen from the office of John | Gans, Jr., steamship broker. He al- |leged that he had received the curities from a client. Following his conviction he was New York, Nov. 19 (P—Edwin T. | released on bail, and his certainty | Meredith of Iowa, secretary of agri- |of ultimate acquittal led him to| culture under Woodrow Wilson, has |marry. The trial brought forward announced that he is not a candi-|many influential men, who testifled date for' the presidency of the 1928 | that Story was of good repute and | democratic ticket. honest. His name has frequently been mentioned as a possible entrant in the presidential race but when ask- ed about the matter he sald: “What is the use of talking abont | that? I am not a candidate. All| vy tricnds know that.” Mr. Meredith sald that there was | comparatively little sentiment for Governor Smith of New York as a prospective presidential nominee in Towa. “There is some sists Flo Is Not To Be Can- = didate in 1928 Prominent Friends Testimony was adduced to show {Storey was the friend of Supreme | Court Justice Scabury and James W. Gerard, former ambassalor Yo Germany, and was appointed a ant curator of the Japanese depart- ment of Boston Museum by Pr dent Coolidge, at that time gover- nor of Massachusetts. Justice Ralasky, in informing Storey that the court of appeals had affirmed the sentence pronounced six years ago, granted him a stz of execution until December 7 to adjust his affairs and make an ap- peal for revocation of sentence. sentiment he said, “but not enaugh to provoke enthu- siasm among his followers and ad- mirers. [owa is dry.” Wild, Naughty Women, Who Pursue Yale Students, and Bootleggers Are Causing Officials Trouble| Ringleaders Among Undergraduates Who Stage Nights | such { of Revelry With Questionable Girls Face Expulsion | —Booze Agent, Exposed By Mother of One Pur-|{ chaser, Says He Sells to Half of Student Body. 19 (A— | complained to the police that boot- leggers were selling liquor to her son, and on the campus yesterday and fol- lowed to his home. where the wet goods were found. He was released on a $500 cash bond. Erickson might not have attract- ed attention but that about a year |ag. he was connccted by the police ary Circle,” gy §0- New Haven, Conn., Nov. Yale students now have some chap- to help temptations erones in brass buttons guard them from the of the bootlegger and the wiles of the flapper. Police have scized one alleged bootlegger with his stock of liquors and a close watch is kept on down- town student apartments where wild | with the “Trumbull Lite parties are said to have been staged. [ which maintained Sold To Half of Yale ciety Frnest Erickson boasts that he | district. “was selling liquor to half the Yale| ' student body,” and expected the ad- vertisement from his arrest to bring him the patronage of the other| half, as he told a reporter. Today he is minus his liberty and about $15,000 worth of whiskey, gin, cog- nac, martini, benedictine and simi- lar thirst-allayers, besides a label- ling, stamping and “cutting” plant. Mother Made Complaint The mother of & Yale student (Continued on Page 12) * THE WEATHER New Britain and vicinity: Mostly cloudy tonight and Saturday; colder tonight. * FOR LD OFFENSE {Prominent Man Loses Six Years | | So Certain gland family and | on was apprehended | later | in the heart of the business, Awarded 20 Cents for Death of Wife and Son Los Angeles, price of a can of salmon is the limit of compensation which can be obtained by M. Putnam, a dentist, for the death of his wife and 15 year old son from | food poisoning, the superior court || has ruled. | Ascribing their || rect to the canned salmon, Put- nam asked damages of $50,000 { for the death of each. The Cali- fornia law provides that the measure of damages resulting from spoiled food is thé amount paid for the fpod, in this case 20 cents. poisoning di- He | ORYLAW HELPRUL 1 VERDIGT OF CHIEF HART Drunkenness, Police | i | E Head Declares \ | Prohibition has cut down the| | number of arrests for drunkenness iln New Britain, according to Chief | of Pol WVilliam C. Hart, who spoke | ‘Vorlc\) to the Rotary club of the New | Britain General hospital. Chiet Hart | called attention to the fact that in 11910 before prohibition there were 370 arrests for drunkenness, in 1916 | he said there were 566 arrests for| this offense. In 1919 after prohibi- tion went into effect, he said, the| number of arrests for drunkenness | off to 160. Later the bootleggers cot in some of their work, and in| 1925, although the city has in-| creased greatly in population, the: still were only 375 arrests for this offense, he said. | The first complaint of the new po- 1 al system has been received, ing to the chilef, one man having notifled the department '?\a( the signal interferes with his ra What can be done about it the 'Pfl lice department head did not state. ay | ‘o(! her hat so Mrs. Gi An amusing little scene was en- | acted for the benefit of Chict Hart | when during the early part of the | meeting an interne disguised as an |organ grinder with his monkey, strolled into the meeting, insisting | that he had heard the | came in to help sing. Miss Mary Par- | son, a nurse, dressed in a police uni- form and carrying a stuffed club came in and escorted him out. Miss | Parsons then returned and ed James S. Nor resident training school, with a park tearing off the stub and to Chlef Hart. Dr. Reeks with false | beard and wig, acting dge, was told by the chief that Mr. North was arrested on charge of driving a car | ald not move and | with parking in the nurses’ dining room. He pleaded guilt was | ordered to cat “no more fish cakes” | for a year. | Chief Hart gave a bri the histor: from the was chief seven men under to the | present time when lepartment consists of a chief, a captain, a lieu- tenant, 62 patrolmen, 42 super- numeraries, |and five other sergeants. | In Chief Spaulding's time the chief was paid $1,000 a year. Now he gets {$3.300. Then the patrolman got $2.40 | | a day. Now he gets $6 a day, which, the chief pointed out, is about the same as a nurse gets. On this basis he said, he did not see any reason ¥ why a nurse should want to rush lh"n matrimony There now are 24 lights in the | police red light signal system and |it is expected to have from 48 to iw within a short time, he added. nding it with parts which £ resume of partment (Continued on Page 30.) | Dr. Hall. music and | : | occu MRS, GIBSON GETS GIFT OF FLOWERS Gharlotte Mllls Expresses Ad- | miration for Her Heroing ‘PRAISES “STAR WITNESS” | \Dnug‘h((‘r of Murdered Woman Says | | She has No Hatred for Mrs. Hall and Relatives But Wants to See Justice Done. BY CHARLOTTE MILLS (Copyright 1926, Famous Featurcs Syndicate, Inc.) N. J., Now. Today I am sending little note to Mrs. Somerville, Gibson. I want to show my appreciation for g |Prohibition Keeping DoWn ner neroiem. o war hero ever aia | @ braver thing than she did yester- | | day when she defied death for the truth, I shall never dramatic scene as taken from the cour forget that last she was being room after she | has finished her testimony. The jury had already gone out and the room was buzzing with excitement. Sud- denly Mrs. Gibson raised herself W v and shook her finger at Mrs Hall and her two brothers and sald with all the force she could com- mand; “I told the truth, so help me God, and you know that knowing that any minute she may go out to meet her God. Could anyone say those words after speak- ing a lie? Today the defense has its chance. The prosecution’s case is complete. The fevered hand of Mrs. Gibson crept out from the shadow of death and pointed out those three people accused of killing my mother and She so positive in her identification, and nothing the de- fense lawyers did could shake her from her story Mrs. Hall sat stolid. of stone. Once she s |smile when she was a Like a block iled a cold d to take son could see Iher well. But otherwise she gave no sign of emotion. Sometimes I [coula” seream, | Why doesn't she do |show she is human? | Mrs. Hall's Friends In Court She had friends in court yester- day. They looked like soclety peo- ple and high church people. ~Some of them were g in the row re- served for witnesses. something to ving every day. ordered those who didn't have sub- poenas to be put out. Soon sub- poenas were forthcoming for people. Maybe the actually were witnesses, but I have an idea that those subpoenas were merely tickets to the “show” handed out to friends | of the defense. Anyway it didn't| court ‘for m I had to find a seat as best I could. I am only the | daughter of the poor Mills family. T cried when Mrs. Gibson was tell- ing her story. I realized then for the first time what she was doing, | risking her life for truth and justice. | | She was so pitiful, lying there with "\ doctor and nurse at her side, watching her every breath. I sup- | pose, too, it made me cry because it reminded me in a way of my moth- two dotective “rr"“m"(‘r that time she was so sick after | the operation. She was near death. Dr. Hall sat at her bedside pleading: | “Eleanor, you |me.” And ‘she know that Dr. from death. While Mus. Gibson was testifying, her old mother sat glowering. did get well. T just Hall's love saved her eyes. 1 mother can feel that way a daughter. T don't know what haven't been attending i | towards who trial people the (Continued on Page 34) Week Fndmg Nov. 13th . | to die 19— | flowers and a | just | it.” She said | just looking at her. | Two were in | the seats my aunt and I have been | Then the judge ‘ these | must get well — for | seemed to me there was hate in her | cannot understand how a | Circulation For 13,943 verage Daily PRICE THREE CENTS STATE COMPLETES CASE IN HALL-MILLS TRIAL; MRS. GIBSON MAINTAINS SHE TOLD WHOLE TRUTH Star Witness, From Sick Bed, Says She Now Is “Ready to Die With a Good, Clear Conscience.” iJudge Refuses to Exclude Evidence Against * Willie, Despite Protests of Defense. Fingerprint Jersey City, N. J., Nov. Mrs. Jane Gibson today statement from her sick City hospital asserting that. at tempts been made to seal with money her eye witness testi- mony of the Hall-Mills murders and that, she had told the truth {n open court, she was “ready with a good, 19— issued a bed in have clear con- sclence. Mrs, Gibson's statement, issued at her request today says: “I have told the truth. Let jus- 1 told it four years ago but people did not and | would not listen. It seems everyone connected with the case was looking | for money. “They tried to bribe me and when that failed they threatencd me and tried to poison my stock and burn my home. “They foreclosed the mortgage on | my property after that affair of the | grand jury in 1923 and I was com- pelled to sell my 41 acres to them \w meet the debt on the other 20, sold for less than what I paid for | them. A few days after I sold it, the man to whom I sold it was offer- | ed twice what he paid. | “When I went to get a mortgage T was told by New Brunswick ped- |ple who are connected wWith, the {Halls that the property had no \\alue | “They have continually hounded {me but, thank God, there are some’ | honest people in the world. The |Hall money could not reach Sena- tor Simpson or the Jersey City po- |lice officers, and at last T have been able to tell the truth. I have'tol the truth and I am ready to die with a good clear conscience.” | State Concludes Case Courthouse, Somerville, N. I, Nov. 19 () — The state rested its case against Mrs. Frances Stevens | Hall arag her brothers, Henry and Willle Stevens, this afternoon after 13 days of testimony. ‘Wants Prints Excluded The defense at once made a mo- tion that testimony as to finger- prints in connection with a calling card of the Rev. E. W. Hall, found near his body, which the state has contended bears the print of the |left index finger of Willle Stevens, be stricken from the record. The jury was taken from the room while former Attorney Gen- eral Robert H. McCarter argued the motion. Bullets Exhibited Before closing his case, Alexan. |der Simpson, special prosecutor, offered in evidence three bullets and | three shells. The state contends that | the bullets were taken from the | body of Mrs. Eleanor R. Mills, with whose death the defendants are charged. The shells were found | near the bodies of Mrs. Mills and | the rector. ‘ Motion is Denied | Justice Parker denied the motion of defense counsel to strike out all | of the testimony offéred by the | state in connection with the calling | card alleged to have been found \nmr the rector's body. Robert H. McCarter, chief of de- | fense counsel had argued that the | state had not accounted for the | indentity and integrity of the card | during all of the four years since | the Killings. { A razor, mentioned several times | during the trial, will not go before the jury. Just before closing the state's case, the speclal prosecutor announced that he would not offer |1t | Frank Caprio, a private detective, had testified that the late Azariah ‘R"vkmnn, prosecutor of Somerset county at the time of the murders | gave him the razor and added that |he saw an automatic pistol, ap- | parently of German make, on Beek- | man’s desk, near the razor. Docsn't Insist on Ra “I won't offer this Simpson. “I am not s | the truth of this witness's testi- mony.” | The defense had vigorously at- | tacked the character of the witnes and forced an admission from \ Caprio that once he had been a con- | viet. Eighty-four witnesses had testifled when the speclal prosecutor said: | “That's our case, your honor. Senator Clarence E. Case, of Somerville, began the opening state- ment of the defense at 2:14 after Justice Parker had denied a second |and third motion by the defense. These related to testimony that members of the Carpender family had been seen carrying papers from the Hall home and to talks which the sisters of Mrs. Mills had with the singer with reference to her love for Mr. Hall. * zor | (Continued on Page 16) V2 Bl