New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 22, 1926, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 Axaqry aeys Y. JURY IS SELECTED WHICH WILL PROBE FALL-DOHENY ALLEGED OIL LAND FRAUD Former Cabinet Officer and Millionaire Friend on Trial on Charge of Criminal Conspiracy. Echo of 1924 Scandal— egro Bricklaying Fore- man Is One of Those Selected, Then Excused. Washington, Nov. 22 (M—The many-fingered hand of the oll scan- dal of 1924 reached into the crim- inal eourts for the first time today when Albert B. Fall and Edward L. Doheny were called before the bar of justice here for trial on a charge of conspiracy. The former interlor and the millionaire oil magnate, personal friends since boyhood, were surrounded by a battalion of attorneys as they took their places in the courtroom and settled back secretary CITY HALL EXCITED BY SHAKE-UP TALK {Rumors of Swinging Axe in Public Works Dept. City Engineer Says Board Does Not Contemplate Removal of Seven | E | Foremen and Inspectors Although Meeting is Held Today. While foremen and inspectors of |the board of public works anxious- |1y awaited the verdict of a special | meeting called at noon today at which it was rumored a shakeup in the department was to take place, the commissioners gathered and transacted routine business, after which it was denfed that a “house- cleaning” is planned. Rumors which had spread through the department of public \WILLIAMS DENIES STORY in thelr chairs, to become the most | works and city hall forecast the re- interested spectators of the weeks moval of seven employes, including of prospective legal jousting. The | several foremen and some inspec- trial will go into all the circum-tors. Meetings of the board are stances of Doheny's $100,000 pay-!ordinarily held in the evening and ment to Fall while the latter Was | when a special session was called in the cabinet and of the part play- cd by Fall In the award of the Elk and a large array of others. Frank Long before the trial opened the small courtroom was crowded. Array of Lawyers Olen J. Roberts, and former Sen- ator Atlee Pomerene, special gov- crnment counsel, were assisted by District Attorney Peyton Gordon and a large array of others. Frnk 1. Hogan of Washington, chief coun- scl for the Los Angeles ofl man, while Wilton J. Lambert, Jr., of Wi all. By order of photographers were the courtroom but vantage points outside the building to snap the principal figures in the drama about to nunfold. Paul Allen, a restaurant owner, the first juror clled, was the first to qualify. Was Not Annoyed Aro you one of the jurors whose families have been annoyed?” re- ferring to a charge that families of prospective jurors had been called on the telephone and asked about their religlous: and fraternal ciations. “No, sir, I'm not,” Allen replied. plying to other questions Hogan, Allen said he had not read the recently published novel “Rev- elry,” which tells a story of high Hoehling, from Justice barred lite In offlcial circles in Washington, | nor had he heard reportg that pro- gressive jurors had been' sitting }ll" nights perusing the book. ection of the remainder of the ry then proceeded rapidly, but in h case counsel reserved the right to challenge before opening state- meats were begun. One of those then excused, was Thomas Carey, a negro bricklaying ing foreman. Others who qualified included Henry D. Byers, an press driver; George Cobb, a rail- road clerk, and Juilan C. Kues, a rotired street railway trainman, Alonzo Parker, a newspaper book dealer; Willlam J. Briggs, an architect; Byron E. 'Blodgett, 2 : Qlinton Carver, a 'machin- iam R. Clarkson, a railway : Winifield Martingale. a clerk; and Chester M. Parker, a salesman. That complcted the usual twelve, but as each side had the right to challenge ten, it became apparent that the task of finally determining the personnel of the panel might the most of the day. During the questioning, said he hee-d Senator Walsh, the oil committee prosecutor, make a radio talk about the case two years ago, but that it made no impres- sion upon him. accepted, and Carver asse- | by | R.| ex-| and | for this noon, some credence placed in the report. City Engineer Joseph D. Wi was | llams said he knew of no movement to | | curtail the staff of foremen and in- spectors. Completion of the more important jobs will cause the ser ices of about 30 laborers to be no |longer needed and these will be dropped from tho force when the work s finished, he sald. The en- ! gineer favors maintenance of the | present staff of executives since he belleves 1t is a better policy to main- ington, heads the lawyers foritain an organization familiar with | |the work than to form a new staff {each year. There is little difference in the matter of finance, | not certain of year-around work. | Those now employed can be utilized | |in various capacities during the win- | ter months, Willlams sald, and they | | will then be available to begin op- erations next spring. The board today refused to al- |low the new pavement on West | Main street to be torn up to permit the Ratner Construction Co. to make |a sewer connection at Vine and | was instructed to connect in |street. Changes in the sewerage !system planned for a new ment house at this point will be Ratner to make his connections be- fore ‘the pavement was laid and he | failed to do so, it was pointed out. | Berson Brothers were given a | permit to place three 20,000 gal- [lon fuel ofl tanks at street. ERWIN WANTS PALCE 10 GUARD 1. . WAL WVill Ask Board Throug] Chief to Afford Protection | | | | A request for the cooperation of the police department to the extent | of providing police protection for ll'mled States mail messengers on trips between the post office and the railroad station and vice versa, when valuable mail is being transported, | will be made to the board of police | commissioners, through Chief W. C. | Hart, according to announcement by | Postmaster Herbert E. Erwin to- | day. “I believe that In a city the size | of New Britain, this cooperation he ex- | they took up |Plained, since monetary inducement | |is necessary to draw men who are | West Main streets, and the company | apart- | 50 Harvard | Fall and Doheny intently watched | should be provided,” Postmaster Er- and listened while counsel question- | win said today following a confer- ed the prospective jurors. In all |ence with Chief Hart and Chairman fourtecn wero questioned before the | P. J. Pajewski of the police board. original twelve were qualified. One!“We have valuable mail coming in of those excused was an employe of | and going out quite frequently, and the Washington Times, excused be- | of course our messengers are armed cause Lambert 1s general counsel | for the newspapers and the other (Continued on Page 12) | ONE DAY CLOSI NG FOR $20,000 EXPLOSION Two DBlasts, Presumably from Oil Heater, Partly Wreck Building in More Than Thanksgiving, New Haven. Canvass Shows v Haven, Conn., Nov. 22.—(®— An explosion in the basement of the building occupled by the H. Gold- The greater number of New Brit- aln manufacturing plants will ob- | serve the Thanksgiving n by man and Sons automoblle agency | closing down for Thursday only, al- lust n ed an estimated dam- | though several will shut down e of $20,000. As a watchman at| Wednesday night for the remainder the building started to invesfigate, & | of the week and the officials of sev- sccond explosion shook the building: | eral have arrived at no decislon as Lut did little additional damage. yet. An oil burner was said to have been the cause of the explosions. | for Thursday only ave Russell Although a hundred feet of con- | Erwin Mfs., Co.; North & Judd Co.; floor were ripped up and|P. & F. Corbin Co.; Skinner Chuck n plate glass windows, each 15| Co.; Hart & Cooley Mfg. Co., and square, were broken, 20 new | Hart & Hutchinson Mfg. Co. At the automobiles in the showroom were | North & Judd plant the foundry will undamaged shut down Wednesday night for the Damage to windows in the build- | remainder of the week. which was remodeled for the| The Stanley Works and the Stan- ney less than a year ago, was|ley Rule & Level Co. will shut down cd at $16,000. Thursday, Friday and Saturday, as 1e explosion which was heard | wiil Fafnir Bearing Co. No decision n a radiusy of half a mile| has been reached by the Landers 1 meny persons to rush to the| Frary & Clark Co,, or at the Corbin streets to discover its origin. | Cabinet Lock Co. it ol MAJORITY OF PLANTS | | Few Factories Will Shut Down For | Those which will suspend business | b _win _win o4 “wwo) ‘pron “3daq { [ BRITAIN HERALD NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1926.—EIGHTEEN PAGES FOUR MORE WITNESSES SAY THEY SAW STEVENS ON BEACH NIGHT OF KILLING OF HALL AND MRS. MILLS Department of Commerce Maintenance Expenses Were $2,026,960 or $29.63 for Every Person. (Bpeclal to the Herald.) Washington, D. C., Nov. 22.—The | department of commerce today an- | nounced a summary of the financial |or | receipts from a city department or | City Outlay For Year Ending Mar. 31 Was $3,681,839, Washington Reports Britain for 1926, were $2,937,980, $42.95 per capita. This was $475,442 more than the total pay- ments of the year, exclusive of the payments for permanent improve- ments, but $743,859 less than the total payments including those for permanent imggovements. Thess | payments in excess of revenue re- ceipts were met from the proceeds of debt obligations. Of the total revenue receipts $1,520 represents enterprise on account of services. | statistics of the city corporation of | New Britain’ Conn., for the fiscal | | year ending March 31, 1926. | | The payments for maintenance | | and operation of the general depart- | | ments of New Britain, Conn., for the | fiscal year ending March 31, 1926, amounted to $2,026,959, or $29.63 per capita. In 1925 the comparative per capita for maintenance and | operation of general departments was $20.15, and for 1918, $15.72. Payments for the operation of pub- | lic service enterprises, (waterworks, cemeteries, subways and slaughter house) amounted to $192,309; inter- est on debt, $243,260; and outlays for permanent improvements, in- cluding those for public service en- terprises, $1,219,301. The total pay- ments, therefore, for expenses of general departments and public serv- ice enterprises, interest, and outlays, were $3,681,839, Of that amount $1,520 represents payments by a city department or enterprise to another on account of services. The totals Include all payments for the year, whether made from current revenues or from the pro- ceeds of bond issues. & The total revenue receipts of New Property taxes represented 77.5/ GOURT OF HONOR REQUEST SIGNED | Petition to Mayor and Common Gomneil Is Circulated HAMLIN IS PRIME MOVER | Champion of Movement Says Many Names Have Been Secured in Ef- fort to Block Construction of | per cent of the total revenue for | 1926, 76.4 per cent ‘or 1925, and 66.0 per cent for 1918, The Increase in the amount of property taxes collected was 134.3 per cent from 1918 to 1925, and 11.9 per cent from 1925 to 1926. The per capita proper- ty taxes were $33.31 In 1926, $30.45 in 1925 and $15.58 in 1918. The net indebtcdness (funded or fixed debt less sinking fund assets) of New Britain on March 31, 1926, was $5,872,695, or $55.86 per capita. In 1925 the per capita debt was $71.85, and in 1918, $56.86. The in- crease in net debt noted for 1926 was due, principally, to bond issues, for schools, sewers, and subways. For 1926 the assessed valuation of property in New Britain subject to ad valorem taxes for city corpora- tion was $105,646,026. The levy for all purposes for 1926 was $3,509,093, of which $2,399,930, or $5.6 per cent, | was levied for the city corporation; | or 2.9 per cent, for the , or 1.4 per cent, $73,286, Shaft on Walnut Hill. Quite a few New Britain people are signing a petition to have the plans for a soldiers' monument on top of Walnut Hill park cancelied and the Court of Honor made per- manent, according to George V.! Hamlin of 45 Camp street, who, as president of the Men's club of the Stanley Memorlal church, is lead- ing the movement started Friday night to block the memorial as planned. As ald, vas stated in Saturday’s Her- Mr. Hamlin says that he has been approached by hundreds of people who are anxious that the memorial pillars be preserved. Pe- titlons to the mayor, the Common Council and members of the com- | mittee are in circulation. The petition asks that no further expenditure on this plan be made until it Is put up to a vote of the Manchester Man Killed in / Week-End Auto Crashes In Conn. | Kill Five; Eight Badly Injured Accident in New Yowk State —Three Meet Death This Morning At Hamilton, Mass.—Records Sh 78 Large Cities New Haven, Nov (A—TUnus- ually heav omobile traffic on Connecticut highways as a result of the big game here toll in dead and injured in accide Two men were killed in Thompson- ville and one in Greenwich and a woman was killed in North Haven. One woman was fatally injured in Norwalk. Eight persons were seri- ously injured in the crashes which | resulted in death to four. There were a number crashes. The of minor 4 in the Thompsonville ac- cident are the driver, B. H. Thom- son of armington, member of turday took its | state; and $35,8 for the county. levy for the city was $36.68. In 19 people. Although he says he is not at| liberty to divulge names at this tim Mr. Hamlin says he has the The per capita tax state and county the per capita | |1evy was $34.91, and fn 1918, $17.50. (B0 T UG (0 one. active 1S | councilman, a former mayor, sev- | | Webster, Yale Lineman, Is Elected as Captain New Haven, Conn., Nov. —Willlam A. Webster, of Shel- ton, Conn., was elected captain of the Yale football team for 1927 at a meeting of the varsity eleven today. Webster has just closed his second scason as a Yale football regular and has been one of the mainstays of the team, alternating at tackle and guard. Webster was injurcd last sea- son and again this year and was unable to play regularly. This fall Webster has taken part in four games. He played against Princeton but limped badly. With a strapped knee he struggled through both halyes of the game and was not taken out until three minutes before the final. whistle. He was In bétter shape when he played with his teammates against Har- vard Saturday. e el o ) JUDGE WALSH PASSES AWAY UNEXPECTEDLY Dies at 1:30 o’Clock This Afternoon — Recently Injured in Fall Vine | necessitated, but the board notified | | 1 | South Norwalk, Conn., Nov. 22 (P —Judge John J. Walsh, of the Fair- | field county court of common pleas died at his home here at 1:30 this afternoon. About a fortnight ago Judge Walsh fell while coming out | of the Stratfield hotel at Bridgeport | on his way to return to court, and : | shortly after it was found he had | broken two ribs and had other in- | ternal hurts. | 22 (P— orwalk Bridgeport, Conn., Nov. Judge John J. Walsh of diec suddenly at 1:30 p. at his home in Norwalk. Judge Walsh, who presided over the court of common pleas, was in- jured In a fall from the steps of a hotel here two weeks ago. His in- Juries were not believed serious at first, but he had a sudden turn for | the worse yesterday. | The exact cause of death was not m. announced but it is thought to have | been due to complications which had set in after he was brought home ! suffering from his injurics. There | had been a differ: in the reports as to his condition from time to time and this was attributed to the baf- fling nature of the illness. This noon a physician was called | because of a noticeable change in | the patient's condition and he found Judge Walsh in an extremely critical state. Death came shortly after, .proba- bly due to failure of heart action. Judge Walsh was one of the nota- | ble democrats of the southwestern | part of Connecticut. For a long period he was actlve in the party's campaigns and had served as chair- | man of the democratic state cen- tral committee. Judge Walsh was confirmed by the general assembly as judge of the Falrfield county court of common pleas on the criminal side and his term would have expired on July 1, 1929, Former Kaiser Painfully | Il But in No Danger Doorn, Holland, Nov. 22 (#) Former Emperor William of Ger- | many is confined to his bed by a severe cold which has settled through his body so that he can- | not move. It was stated that his| condition is painful but that he is in | no immediate danger. | After a slight indispositien, the ex-Kaiser on Friday was allowed to i | go out doors, ‘aturday he caught the cold which resulted in his pres- Princess Ifermine, his wite, is a frequent visitor to the sick room. ' Willlam s 67. 'HING BENJAMIN SAYS ACCUSERS ARE FRAUD Trying to Loot House " of David Treasury, He Charges in Interview 22— Benton Harbor, Mich., Nov. (P—King Benjamin Purnell's girl | accusers are “trying to loot the | House of David treasury,” the 65 | year old cult leader has charged in | the first interview granted by him since his arrest last week on charges |list of names, according to reports. | ton- | itions | towese, was killed by an automobile} stated |in North Haven Saturday night and | of eriminal assault. eral ministers and the presiding officers of a number of patriotic organizations. “I wish you had done this two | months ago,” Mr. Humlin stated he |was told by a member of the com- | |mon council. “This is perfectly all |right. It falls directly into the Itrend of public sentiment and if you succeed in this matter it will |be the biggest thing done in New Britain for many years,” the coun- | cilman 1s alleged to have stated. | A woman, a war mother, asked |the privilege of circulating a peti- | |tion, while a past commander of| |a patriotic organization, said he would be willing to lend any influ- ence he could to the movement to| erect a court of honor in place of | [the memorfal shaft, Mr. Hamlin] ! sald. | | " One petition already has a long| | | i | What will be done if the pet are ignored has not been Propped tn his sick-bed with & |gie & white night cap crowning his lung‘ sllvered hair, the ‘seventh mes- r angel” and “Brother of the Petition to Mayor and Council The petition reads as follow: “To his honor, Gardner C. Weld, Thomson, Fenn and company, brok- ers of this city, and president of Terry Steam Turbine company and Edward W. Cummins, an industrial- t of Winnettka, IIl Their car plunged through a fence down an embankment and cr: into a pile of railroad tics in a fleld 25 feet from the ki George S. Troxell of Bridgeport, president ¢ the Handy Coal Co., a third party n the car, was sent to a hospital. In Norwalk, Mrs, 28, was fatally injured and others were Injured when their turned over several times on post road while bound for York. ‘While crossing the post road In Greenwich Saturday nisht, dam Debenski of East Port Che was struck by an automobile operated by Lester Young of the same town. He died yesterday from a fractured skull. George Jarvis, 21, of Manchester, was killed in a crash in Rensse- laer, N. Y., just over the state line. Two others in the ne automobile were serfously injured. Mrs. Leah Rasdorfer, 45, of Mon- hed five car the New Samuel Hyman, | ow 676 Fatalities in in Four Weeks. search was made yesterday and to- day for the operator of the car. Three Dead, One Dying Hamilton, Mass, Nov. 22 (P — Three men met death in an automo tole accident on the here this morning and a fourth was |believed dying in the Cable Memor- |ial hospital at Ipswich. The inclosed car in which they |were riding was demolished when it left the road and struck a tree. The dead were Lewis W. Tarr, 30, and Eugene Guild, 30, both of m, who met instant death, erett Stanley, 45 of Wen- ham, who died in the Beverley hos- | pital. | John Dodge of Beverley, believed to have becn the driver of the ma- | chine, which was registered in his | wife's name, was not expected to re- | cover. He had a fractured skull and ribs and internal injuries. The accldent occurred on a clear and straight stretch of roadway and th were no witnesses. re Hurt In Crash Roanoke, Va. Nov. 22 (P—Carter Jr. son of Senator Glass of Helen Thomas, were injured, the latter seriou: in an automoblile ac- cident here last night and are now | in a local hospital. The young wo- man is believed to have suffered a | fractured skull, while Mr. Glass’ in- juries are said not to be serlous. One Month's Toll | Washington, Nov. 22 (A—Deaths due to a tile operations in the s of the United States our weeks' period ené ber € were 676, a total (Continued on Page 16) during t ing Novem! ‘PEACHES' IS AWARDED today | | Savior” yesterday assailed Mrs. Bes- |mayor of New Britain; to the com- | sie Woodworth, former colony mem- | mon council of New Britain, or to | ber whose tip to officers led to the | any official of - | king's arrest, and the Bamford sis- | Britain, Conn., having anythirg to | ters who swore to the warrants on |40 With a new monument or with | which Purnell was sought for four |the plans or contract for the said new monument to be | yéar | proposed n | " “People Wil do anything for|erected in the city of New Britain, | money. sald Purnell. “All my lie 1|meaning by this, to serve notice upon | | have had to fight against attempts the city of New Britaln, that— | to blackmall me, made by those| e the undersigned, residents | whom I have sheltered. and voters in New Britain hereby “I am innocent of the charges Protest against the proposed monu against me. T hope for an early trial |Tent on top of the hill in Walnut| that I may prove it. They (hls ac- (Hill park, and we protest against cusers) all lie, they have tasted the | the completion of the contract for ! fleshpots of Eeypt. They will do | the said monument. We demand, anything for gold. |instead, that the present memorial Purnell attacked the character of ROW known as the Court of Honor, | be perpetuated in granite or other | suitable stone; and that no further | expenditure of public funds be made |in relation to any monument, until colony. He repeated the assertion of |the people of New Britain have had his followers that he is being perse- |an opportunity to declde the ques- cuted. He declared he is the brother | tion.” of Christ, that he is fmmortal and | | that in a short time there will be | the city of New the young women who charged the king had taken advantage of them under the cloak of “blood purifylng rites" while they were girls in the | | | Letter to Clergymen | The letter which has been sent to | witnessed the consternation of his all the churches of the city by Mr. enemies, Hamlin asking that the pastors take The head of the House of David ‘ steps ‘to ascertain the sentiment of would not comment on his where- | their parishes is as follows | abouts during the years that state | “Dear Sir: and county officers were seeking “You are probably fully Informed him. | of the steps that have been taken. BOTH UNCLE AND AUNT | be necessary to tell you that about $3,500 has been paid to an architect. Also Probably Fa‘ally Wounds Sister | | | (Continued on Page Twelve) —Is Believed to be Demented. . Nov. 22.—(® his Bridgetown, N. After shooting to death and aunt, andperhaps fatally wounding his sister, Linwood Ware, 22 mented, fled from his home at 59 Cedar street, directly into the arms of a policeman today. In a cell at city Jjail later, the youth appeared dazed and under questioning by the police began to ory for his mother. All the police could get from him was that he had ccollection of having “shot somebody The dead are: Willlam Gandy, 51 a retired realty broker, and Mrs. Gandy, 48. The boy's sister, Mrs. Madellne Maxwell, 29, is fn Bridge- ton hospl the right hip. She has an chance for recovery. According to the boy's mother, he had been nervous and irritable re- even cently. She told Prosccutor Thomas | G. Tusso, she wi cerned about hi The boy v to neighbors was very much con- actions lately. idle, and according regarded as ab- THE WEATHER New Britain and vicinity: Mostly cloudy tonight and Tucsday; slightly warmer to- * | | f I | night. i | | | * uncle | believed by the police to be de- | with a bullet wound in | WIDOW GETS HER MONEY AFTER 9 YEARS SEARCH Her New Haven Coroner Sends Share of Award For Husband's Death to Russta | New Haven, | nine years of sea | of Daniel Atlasjuk | by a railroad train in statfon in 1917, the | children of the man | located in Stanislaw, | Coroner EIf Mix, adr | tho estate, and the widow has been | sent her portion of the $5,000 re- celved from the rallroad by the| | coroner. Today the coroner receiv- |ed a recelpt from Russla for the| | amount sent. | | Atlasjuk was killed as he stepped | |from a train from New York into |the path of another train coming | trom the opposite direction. Then started the dlfficult task of locating the man’s family in Ru | Several claims to the estate | made but the coroner held onto t | money and finally located Mrs. | Atlasjuk. Russlan authorities were notified to appoint a guardian over the two children before their share of the money is forwarded. Nov. (Pr—After h for the family who was killed the Seymour wife and t — || RED CROSS ROLL CALL FUND | The Red Cross annual roll call || tund tq date is as follows: ’ Quota . $6.000.00 Recelved over week-end $156.00 Total on hand to date..$1.406.65 $300 A WEEK ALIMONY And Counsel Fees of $8,509 —Charges Too Sensa- tional to Publish e _‘z:.t.!\'ov. 22 (P— (Peaches) $300 a White Plains, N. Mrs. Frances He Browning was awarded week alimony and counsel feel of $8,500 pending settlement suit for separation from her hus- band Edward W. Browning, wealthy by Justice Mor- n real estate man, achauser today. Neither Browning nor his seven- teen-year-old wife was in court. Justice Morschauser, In awarding e alimony and counsel fees, said s counsel fee is to be paid with- in 10 days after the order is served. I have sealed the papers herein, but access may be had to them by counsel for either party at th y the It counsel for either pa open the folder containing papers, when finished with they must return them to the folder and seal same before putting them ack in the files."” The affidavits filed by M ing, according to court attaches, are so sensational that they cannot be published, A move to have the trial of the suits of Mrs. Browning and her husband for separations—both hav ing filed similar suits—rer oved from Poughkeepsie to Westchester county was under way today, it wa said. If successful, this move would cause the trial to be held in White Plains. The date had pre- viously been advanced n Decem- ber 4 to some time in January court. them SELLER ARRESTED TODAY Seventh Man Taken Into Custody in Fairfield County Cleanup @ in State's At- torney William Comley's drive nst lottery ticket sellers in this city was made today when State Police Sergeant Frank Verelli ar- rested Frank Mancuso of this city He was taken to the county jall in default of $5,000 bonds. Mancuso is the proprietor of a confectionery tore and according to Virelli was |engaged In selling a type of ticket Bridgeport, Conn., Nov. The seventh arrest H. | which it was stated has a fair num- | ber of buyers here. Bonds were furnished late night to the extent of $5,000 Dominick Splnelll of Stratford arrested Saturday night | Virelll. Shortly after Spinelli |arrested, James Kane was arre and released under bonds of last for who by was ted ,000. Brown- | Mrs. Gibson Has Had Relapse; Condition Not Very Favorable Jersey Ci V. Mrs. Jane lapse. Her conditlon was reported “anything but favorable” in Jersey City hospital today, al- though specialists attending her had issued thelr official 5 Nov., 22 (A — ibson has had a re- | [ | not bulletip for the Mrs. Gibson testified three hours on a bed in the Hall-Mills court room in Somerville Thurs- day and it was believed the strain 8 exacting its conse- quences, of her | ‘BIG DRAMATIC MOMENT EXCITES MILLS GIRL Charlotte on Edge Mrs. Hall's Hour Strikes BY CHARLOTTE MILLS (Copyright, 1926, Famous Features Syndicate, Inc.) Nov. 22.—One ic moments of ar at hand. Before the s over 1 expect to see Mrs. Hall witness stand. If not today, believe she will go on to- Anyway 1 am keenly alive as times | without further permission from the Somervil of the the tria m da then 1 how I feel toward rsonally, she has been reat factor in my life for many years, and she connect- ed with my unhappine whether she anything to do with the death of my mother or not. mind rambles wildly and whys and where- of my mother's love and and 1 wonder how things ave turned out if Mrs. Hall been a diff kind of woman. » had been a warm- 1 woman, and Dr. Hall v loved her. Then perhaps d not have turned to my mother's friendship for consolation in his unhappi and that friend- ship would not have ripened into love. B in that case, what about other? She would have gone on living her drab gray life, eating out her heart for sympathy and under- anding and the better things of e. Oh, sometimes I get all mixed up in trying to figure it out. Life is so strange, There is so much suffer- ing in the world. Why, oh, why must it be that way? If Mrs. Hall had been & different kind of a woman Dr. Hall could have gone to her and asked for his froedom, and she would have given it. T can’t understand how any wom- an could want a man who doesn't really love her. And surely she must (Coatinued on page 11) great had h Sometimes my fores Average Daily Circulation For Week Ending Nov. 20th ... 14,077 PRICE THREE CENTS | Another Testifies to Preparing His Supper Says He Was . Home All of Following | Day as Well. | and {Defense Presents Excel- lent Alibi for Accused and State Fails to Cast Much Discredit on Those Who Testify. | | Courthouse, Somerville, N. J., Nov, 22 (M—A six pound “blue,” caught by Arthur Applegate of Lavallette on the night of September 14, 1322, cona tinued to win fame as the Mall-Mills trial proceeded today. This big blue- fish, “blue” for short to the Laval- lette fishermen. looms large in the alibt offered by Henry Stevens Hall and brother, Willle Stevens, h the murder of Mrs. Mills. Stevens’ Own Story. Henry Stevens testified in his own defense that he welghed a six | pounder caught by Arthur Applegate |on the night the choir singer was | slain, with the Rev. Edward W. Hall, brother-in-law of Stevens. Nelgha | bors from Lavallete came again toe |day to testify that Stevens was on |the beach the night of September 14, 192, ur witnesses today placed {him there at 10 o'clock or after the | killing is alleged to have taken place at about 10:20 o'clock, 50 miles from the New Jersey coast town. Backed by Mrs. Applegate. Mrs. Mazle Applegate, wife of Are thur Applegate, testified that she |saw the defendant on the beach out 10 o'clock or a little later.” She was a flery witness and replied | with flashing eyes to questions on cross-examination by Special Prose- cutor Alexander Simpson. Asked about statements her husband had made to Jersey City police officers she made a counter charge against the police, declaring “they took him off his work and sald they would tell | his boss, but they didn't do it.” Mr. | Applegate, who showed the way to hooking “blues” on the night of | September 14, is a carpenter. Mrs, | Applegate said she saw the bluefish weighed. Also Applegate’s Story Applegate . supported his wife's | testimony when he followed her to {the stand after leaving Stevens at | the beach in front of his house, they | reached home at 10:35. He also gave some additional de- tails of the catching of the big fele {low before the weighing ceremony | took place. Stevens, it developed, | 8ave him a new hook when he had |not been able to catch the crafty, | bluefish with his original equipment. Applegate was subjected to a rigid cross-examination by Simpson, as he | Sought to break his testimony, re- ferring to previous statements made made by the witness. Couldn’t Remember | Applegate could not remember making some of the statements ate tributed to him. He said on one ex- | amination by police he was called a | “llar.” Another witness who saw Stevens on the beach as late as 9:55 o'clock was Howard Price, a paint dealer of West Philadelphia, | who lives a part of his time at Laa | vallette. Asked by Simpson if he |had ever been convicted of any | crime the witness, rather indignant- ly replied that he had never even been arrested. Other Alibi Witnesses Mrs, Anna Evanson, a placid vedish woman, with a decided touch of Scandinavian in her accent, told of preparing luncheon and sup- per for Henry Stevens on the day and evening of September 14, 1922, and of his presence in his home and vicinity all of the following day and a portion of Saturday. Mrs. Evan- son, who said she had not been “very well” had some difficulty in unders tanding the questions fired at her n rapid sequence by the prosecutor, but she denied that she had been in | hiding from police at any time since the investigation started. Reporters |came to sce her soon after tha | Killing and again this year. she said, | She was unable to identify a news- paper production handed her by | Simpson, with a question as te whether the man shown there was one of the reporters who visited her, | Room outside the railing of the inner sanctum of the courtroom, this med to be a newspaper cut of Felix Di Martini, a private detective, once in the employ of Mrs. Hall. Mrs. Sarah Wilson, a neighbor in 11922, testified that Stevens came to her home about 10:30 o'clock on the | night of September 14 Will Call “Willie.” The defense announced again tos | day that Willie Stevens would be called to the stand “at the proper time.” Henry Stevens, the first of the de~ fendants to testify, was on the stand | the greater par of Saturday. | Robert H. Neilsen, of defense | counsel, made the announcement | just before the opening of the fif- | teenth day of the trial. Says Henry Was Home. Mrs. Anna Evanson, cook for the (Continued on Page 13) Sw