New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 24, 1926, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 ) “Wuoy PN-10 PLANE NO. 2 FORGES™ =<2 STARTS OFF BY LACK OF FUEL TO LAND; IS SAFE ON ISLE OF PINES Commander Bartlett, in Charge of Flight, Re- quests That Ship With Fuel Be Sent to Assist- ance. Blood Transfusions Fail to Save Life So Far as Naval Men Know PN-10 No. 1 Still| Is on Way to Panama| and Somewhere Over Caribbean Sea. SEARCH STARTED BY U. S. CRUISER Washington, Nov. 24—(P—An exhausted ol supply forced the navy scaplane PN-10 No. 2 to descend today at Neuva Gerona, Isle of Plnes, spoiling her chances to make | i e S [EONID HRASSIN DIES AT PIST IN LONDON but so far as naval officials knew, the PN-10. No. 1, her companion craft, still was in Was Soviet Envoy to Eng- land and an Accom- plished Diplomat \ N1 KRASSL the air over the Caribbean sea. Licutenant Commander H. T.| Bartlett, in command of the PN-10 No. 2 and also in command of the | flight notified the navy department of his misfortune and requested that a supply of oil be made available for him at Siguana Bay, Isle of Pines, to { which point he expects to proceed | during the afternoon. | ofl Heating Up | London, Nov. 24 (—Leonid Kras- Reports from the PN-10 No. 1 re- sin, Russian Coviet charge d'affaires celved earlier in the day said she |in London, dicd at 4 o'clock this was 250 nautical miles south of the jmorning of pernicious anaemia. TRACING $100.00 VEN BY DOBENY \Man From Whom Fall Pur-| chased Ranch Tells of Money | in “Small Hand Bag” 'FIRST PAYMENT OF $10,000 | ONLY YAS MADE IN CASH| !Dcfmm Brings Out That When Texas Deal Was Consummated Former Secretary Made No Effort to Keep it Secret—Senator Len- root is Called to Testify. Washington, Nov. 24 (P—Almost | {iGe eV utat ot s mrossetion of Albert B. Fall and Edward L. Do- heny of an oil conspiracy charge, the government today struck into the question of the ultimate disposition of the $100,000 advanced the former cabinet member by Doheny before the latter's company was awarded the Elk Hills oil lease. Fall Paid $10,000 Cash. Will Ed Harris, one of the owners of the ranch adjoining Fall's at Three Rivers, New Mexico, was put on the witness stand and testified that the Harris ranch was bought by Fall early in December, 1921, Fall paying $10,000 in cash to bind | the bargain. | “In what denominations were the | bills?" asked former Scnator Pomer- | | cne, for the government. | “I think they all were $100 bills, | in two packages of $5,000 each. | Harrls said Fall had the money in “a small hand bag” That was the only cash that passed in the trans- action, the other payments, totalling $81,500 being by check. Check For $16,000. Pomercne produced a check for $16,000, dated December 21, 1921, and payable to Harrls. The witness | said it was given him by Fall in pay- | | ment for the cattle on the ranch. EX-TRINITY GRID STAR I ARRESTED FOR THEFT Hobart N. Cook Accused of Taking $67,000 From Munson Steamship Line. New York, Nov. 24 (® — Hobart N. Cook, Noroton Manor, Conn., shipping clerk, was indicted for first degree grand larceny today for the alleged theft of $67,000 from the Munson steamship line. He will be formally arraigned on Friday. Noroton, Nov. 24 (P—Hobart N. Cook, who was indicted in New York city today for alleged theft of $67.- 000 from the Munson steamship line, had been Nving here with his wife and three children and commuting to his place o° employment. He was active In social circles but lived quietly in an apartment in the Nor- oton Manor section. Other than he was employed in a clerical capacity in New York, little was known of his affairs. It was understood there that Cook |had not been home for several days {which led to inquiry as to his where- abouts and today word came of his arrest. Cook was a Trinity college graduate of the class of 1911 and while there he had been active in sports and had played and coached football. Hartford, Nov. 24 (A—Hobart N, Cook, s a quarter-breed Sioux In {dian, and a graduate of Trinity col lege in 1914, where he is recognized 1as one of the outstanding athletes in the history of the college. DANBURY WITHOUT ANY CAR SERVICE Trolley and Bus Operators Walk Oat on Strike WANT J0BS GUARANTEED Fear that New Company Will Dis- pense With Thefr Services—Have Long Been Faithful Employes, FRAUD ALLEGED N | SUIT FOR $50,000 M. GOHN DEFENDANT Joseph and Rose Reader Glaim‘ They Have Lost Property at | North and Willow Streets |SHARP DEALING CLAIMED AGAINST LOCAL CITIZEN Meriden Couple Describe Maze of‘ Financial Dealings in Which ch“ Would Watch Out For Their In- terests, Claiming that fraudulent measures {were adopted in a real estate trans- | action, action for $50,000 damages | has been instituted against Morris | |Cohn of this city by Joscph and Rose Reader of Meriden, through | Attorney Lewis J. Somers of that city. The writ is returnable in the superlor court, New Haven, the first EW BRITAIN HERALD NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1926.—EIGHTEEN PAGES R T TN e e TN Average Daily Circulation For Week Ending Nov. 20th ... 14,077 PRICE THREE CENTS WITNESSES FOR DEFENSE DECLARE THEY HEARD MRS. GIBSON SAY SHE COULD NOT IDENTIFY DEFENDANTS HAMLIN CONDEMNS COMMON COUNCIL Finds Irony in Claim of Repre- sentation, He Writes Spokesmen For Those Who Favor Proves Brilliant Witness on Stand Britain Man Assured Them ucREPLlES T0 MAYOR WELD Perpetuation of Court of Honor | Caustic in His Attack on Mecthods of Governmental Body. Selzing upon the remarks made in Mayor Weld's letter of criticism di- | rected against persons circulating a | Reliability of State’s | Star Witness Attacked Today—Two Preach- ers at Funeral Also Say They Saw No Scar on Mrs. Hall’s Face. Willie Stevens Emerges Victor in Battle of Wits With Simpson—Proves Cultured, Courteous and Educated Man. Tuesday of December. Constable Detition to have the selected war |Fred Winkle served the papers in|memorial sidetracked in !the action. | perpetuating the temporary court of The complaint, one of the longest honor, George V. Hamlin, spokesman | ever recorded in local civil actions, for those who seek the change, to- favor of | | | sots forth that the plaintiffs owned day wrote the mayor a caustic ar-| Meriden, raignment of the present councll, in which were valued at $78,000. The which he remarks: “I wish I might defendant owned four parcels in'convince myself that the council, New Britain, this property being lo- | elected by the people, for the people, | cated on North street, near Willow !was for the people all the time.” i1t is claimed that Cohn and his| The mayor had expressed in writ- agent approached the plaintiffs ad- | ing his dislike for the movement on ivising them that they should pur- . the ground that it is tardy, not hav- chase the New DBritain property, but ing been undertaken until after final {the latter at that time stated that |they were unfamiliar with New rmon council. This is not the case, Britain property, that they had no Mr. Hamlin replics, and he reminds money and that practically all of the that numerous letters and petitions | stores and tenements located in the preceded the council's action. | New Britain buildings were vacant. | Hamlin's letter follows: |” Whercupon the defendant is al- | “Hon. Gardner C. Weld, Mayor, |leged to have said that in the event “New Britain, Conn. of a sale hie would take care of the ' ‘“Dear Mr. Weld:—Before attempt- plaintiffs in the purchase and would ing to reply to the various proposi- six parcels of land in WILLIE STEVENS SEES WILLIE STEVENS A5 PATHETIC FIGURE action had been taken by the com- | Charlotte Sorry for Man | Charged With Killing ’ Her Mother BY CHARLOT MILLS. finance and assist them in purchas- tions contained in your letter of even Isle of Pines. The oil in one of her | Blood transfusions, made over a engines was increasing in tempera- [Period of several months, failed to ture, it was said, but otherwise fly- 'Save him, but of late he had appear- ing conditions are good. led in good spirits, and Officers of the bureau of aero-|¢ame as a shock to his friend nautics expressed some concern at | The death of M. Krassin will not the heating of the oil, declaring ltgln_{errupt any important negotiations might indicats that the motor was |With Great Britain. Only last week 1ot receiving sufficient pressure, |the charge visited the forcign office. This, they sald, might Interrupt tho |COBtINUINE 1’3 effort® to solve Sbniatay o {problem of Bolshevik propaganda rch Started which Foreign fecretary Chamber- Cincinnati reported | tment that it lost th the two planes 45. The Cincinnatl, one of the guard ships stationed be- tween the Isle of Pines and Old Providence island, sald that failing to sight the craft, she was starting a rch to the north at 11 a. m. The cruiser to the navy dep: communleation this morning at keeping Great Britain and Soviet od that he had been informed by the charge that the Soviet government would welcome better relations with Great Britain and that he had re- |communist propaganda against the |British Empire. After New Record. |street today tribute was paid to M. Washington, Nov. 24 (R—Speed- Krassin as a sensible and responsible ing south at about S5 miles an hour, |giplomat, who, if he had not passed the navy's two PN-10 planes en away, undoubtedly would brought about improved relal |between Russia and Great Britain. {It was said that Krassin's greatest Ivalue to Moscow was that he com- |manded the respect and confidence |of the British financial world. | Krassin's exact status in England | (Continued on Page Twelve) was never clearly defined. Moscow icalled him an ambassador and he |occupied the old czarist embassy ‘\\'ith a large staff and entertained on a scale comparable with the other |diplomats, but great Britain never Lieut. Com. Bartlett of Old recognized his full ambassadorial Lyme in Charge of [5o5 S = | However, the usual governmental Non-Stop Flight {courtesics observed upon the death |of an ambassador will be accorded him, Ol Lyme, Conn., Nov. 24 (P — 5 Licut. Commander H. T. Bartlett, (Continiatton Pag %, N., who is in command of the PN 2 IN COMMAND OF UNIT Ten) his death | the | {lain told the house of commons was | Russia apart. Mr. Chamberlain add- | |plied that Moscow first must cease | At the foreign office in Downing On cross-examination, Frank J. Hogan, Doheny's attorney, brought | They Argue. | out that the cash payment was made | | Danbury, Conn., Nov. 24 (B — Street raflway service In this city is at a complete standstill today as the result of a strike of employes of the Danbury Power and Transpor- tating Co. Carrying out thefr determination | announced in a statement issued to the public yesterday afternoon, the uDid Secretary Fall ask you to | thirty conductors, motormen and keep quiet about the sale or the way | other employes belonging to the he was paying you?” {local union of the Amalgamated “No.” | Street and Electric Railway /D o asls I loyes ran their trolley cars and of the papers “No ! motor buses into the company's Brownfield, whose home Is at El| barns on South street at the end of Paso, festificd that he and Harris their runs last night and did not re- port for work this morning. met Fall at El Paso on December 5, 11921, and received the $10,000 pay- The men, the majority of whom have been with the road for in the office of Fall's son-in-law, C. | | C. Chase, then collector of customs | Paso, Texas. { “There were several people ! there?” Hogan asked. | “A clerk was in the office,” Har- ris replied. “Mr. Brownfield, your brother-in- and your sister were there?” “Yes Fall Asked No Secrecy. | at ou to delay the filing (Continued on Page typo planes which hopped off from | Norfolk, Va., yesterday on a non | stop flight of approximately 2,200 | miles to Colon, Panama, is a native | of this town. He entered the Naval | Academy at Annapolis from the | third Connecticut district and was | graduated in 1911, | His flying record dates back to 2 . 1914 and while he has been fiying 21- | Police Board Names Com- most continually since then this is | his first attempt at . long non stop | mittee to See Judge Alling About Charging flight with a possible record in sight. | During the war, Lieutenant Com- | for Service of Patrol. mander Bartlett was in command of | 4 naval aviation station in France. | He was at the war college In New- | port last year. Lieutcnant Commander Bartlett's | war record is a brilliant one, He| The board of police commission- went to France In August 1917 and ers, at a special meeting last night ained his war training in the Brit- |voted to have a committes consist- h and French aerial gunnery and ing of Chairman Pajewski and Com- bombing schools. From January to missioner Bannan confer with Judge Augnst 1918, he was in command of {B. W. Alling of the city and police the naval aviation advanced training |courts relative to making a charge school at Moutchic, France and then for conveying arrcsted persons to was sent to the northern battle |Police headquarters in the police pa- fronts where he joined a bombing | trol group of British Royal Alr Force | Wagon” formerly cost §1 but a late day and night bombing squad. This |judge of th court ruled against it tool: him over the front and his and for several y work in bombing raids won for him |Peen made. The chief said he favors e b e a charge, and the commissioners ‘rom Octobor 1918 to 1920, he a8reed that it s a matter which served in the oftice of operations at |S10uld be taken up with the judge. the navy department n Washington | Commlssioner Chamborlain men. and then became officer oned e condition arising ou In charge |} "o of time by supernumerary of the aval | B i hesEunnery Bchool al tha naval officers from their employment, due air station at Pensacola, Fla., from | i 8 30 to July 1925, Lientenant |10, attendance in police court. These Aottt et asits . :come |officers, doing duty on the street or i |els vhere, ai manding officer of torpedo and |CSevhere planes, bombing Squadron No. 1| and later was on duty in the plans division of the Bureau of Aeronau- |yitness foe of 60 conts. Frequently tics until detached to take a course |thay are in court two, three or four at the nmavy college in Newport. |nours and as the majority of them From Newport he went to Pensacola |ara not on salary in thelr regular for a special course completing his |places of employment, they lose work there last September. et pay. Licutenant Commander Bartlett Is | Commissioner Chamberlain the son of the late Charles G. Bart- |the thought occurred to him lett, head master of Black school at Lyme. and when they malie an arrest t are required to attend court said that (Continued on Page Ten.) High éost i Being A;rested May Go Up $1 for ‘Wagon’ Fee ’ hief Hart said a ride in the | sars no charge has | paid a nightly wage for | | which they are paid the customary | | ment on the Harris ranch. 1 “Did Fall have other friends there vears, feared the loss of their posi- iat that time?" Pomerene asked. | tions with the general substitution “I did not see any.” | of motor buses for trolley cars, on | Other Payments. | the company’s lines, which is ex- | The next payment, the witness pected to take place in a short | said, .was made December 28, at time. The present ownership and | Fall's home at Three Rivers and management of the road succeeded | consisted of a check for $29,000 and | the Danbury and Bethel Strect Rail- | another for $16,000 .The third pay-| way company a shqrt time ago and | ment was in January, $15,000 or the working agreement of the em- 1 $20,000. | ployes with the company expired at | *"“Has the purchase price been pald ‘ that time. |1n fun?” Want An Agrcement Tt has | The men say they have been un- Under cross-examination, Brown- | able to secure a renewal of these | field also said there was no request ' agreements and have been refused | for secrecy. When Fall began the | recognition of their union, but re- | negotiations in October, continued | cently they were instructed to make | the witness, he said he would have individual applications for employ- | ment. They pointed out in their Twelve) | statement that before the reorgani- ———— | zation of the company, while the |road was in financial difficultics, | they not only did not press a r quest for increased wages, but ac- | cepted a reduction to aid the com- pany. Public Inconvenicnced The greatest inconvenience caused this: morning by the suspension of | street car service was In connection | with traftic between this city and | Bethel, a distance of three miles. The 645 FUMES FATAL | majority of travelers between these | {Two Men Killed, Third Made Very | points were able to find room in the cars of friendly automobilists. Many others traveled on the trains of the New Haven rallroad. 11 By Gasses At Plant of Beacon il Comps y. | tlon early this afternoon. Patrick J. | O'Brien of Springfield, Mass., vice- | president of the Amalgamated Street |and Electric Rallway employes, who |15 here to assist the local men, shid | that none of the employes reported Boston, and John Hughes of Ever-|for work this morning. The next {ett. They were overcome while move, he said, must come from the |measuring the contents of a large officials of the company. The union tank used in making ethvl gasoline. | stands ready to arbitrate the dif- | Merrill Haskell, who went to their | ferences, he declared. ssistance, also was overcome and | A, William Sperry of New Haven, | Everett, Mass, Nov. 24 (P—Two |young men wero killed and a third |made dangerously ill, apparently by gas poisoning, early today at the |plant of the Beacon Oil company. The dead are Dennis Donovan of {was taken to a hospita. in a seri- | yice-president of the Danbury power | |ous condition. and transportation company, said According to the police Who Inves- | that the strike had taken the com- tigated, Donovin went to the top or | pany by surprise. It Is expected that {the big tank first where he was over- | 5 formal statement will be issued by come. Hughes went to his assist- | the officials of the company settin, ance. When Haskell, another gaug- e € torth its side of the case. er, roticed that they did not come e down he went. to the top of the tank and before he was rendered uncon- | scious by the fumes, gave an alarm. RED CROSS ROLL CALL FUND The Red Cross annual roll call fund to date is as follows: Quota $6,000.00 Received yesterday . 243.00 Total on hand to date $1,649.65 52 YEARS A TEACHER Pawtucket, R. I, Nov. 24 (P— | Miss Mahala Fretch, for more than half a century a teacher in the Paw- tucket public schools, will begin her 53rd year as a teacher next month. THE WEATHER MARCUS LOWE ILL Los Angeles, Nov. 24 (A—Marcus Lowe, theatrical magnate and film produccr, today was confined to his {bed in @ hot~1 here after a recent at- tack of pneumonia. He is said to have had a relapse last Friday. New Britain and vicinity: Mostly cloudy and colder to- night; Thursday, fair and colder. . em- | There was no change in the situa- | ling the same. The defendant set date, I gratefully acknowledge and |the sale price at $165,000 and stated return the compliment therein found. | that he would take second and third I believe that our mayor is also ac- mortgages for the difference be- |tuated by the highest ideals, but it tween the values of the parcels of o happens that our ideals seem to land involved, it is set forth in the lead in different directions. It is complaint, and it is further alleged possible that when we understand | jeach other we may find a common | gronnd upon which we may stand “In reply to your first proposition, T believe that the people already know, quite to thelr chagrin, that the common council should reflect the sentiment of the voters. Tt is here we find the frony of the sitna- tion. I wish T might convince my- I'self, that the council, elected by the people, for the people, was for the reople. all the time. You are quite right in saying that the vote of any | (Continued on Page Fifteen) SLADE DISAPPROVES * OF INTERCITY GAME (Continued on Page 12) re, testified is brother's car hecause his own enough to carry v. The infant's | S.-Meriden Grid Battle defeated New Britain High school | 5. siod Take Wheel, She and the he would net favor any post | probably not do so unless it was | cvading responsibility after su‘xl:\n;g to consult him on matters such as|the car at the time of the collision. would therefore not be in a position | their home and her husband drank He sald after every season out- trol of the wheel and the car struck Supt. Holmes said he received his' geant Ellinger and Licutenant Bam- make a decision. | explain, she said. alumni team are planning to play to- | insisted on going out of the I day afternoon. Sorosky, aged 23 | Mr. Mulligan’s plan to give Frank Rodfather drove the car to the {game and the two teams $500 each anything,” he said. Does Not Favor N.B. H. | in Hartford e | WOMAN TAKES BLAME | | Disapproval of the proposed championship game between the un- | F[]R STR“(INE QUT[] and the undefeated Meriden High| school football teams at the Velo- | drome in Hartferd Saturday was expressed by Principal Louis p. Hushand Too Drunk to Mr. Slade declared that the schedule of the New Britain High school football team as approved by | Tells Judge the school board is officlally ended | i% scason games. According to Mr.| Mrs. Steve Sorosky, of 152 Wil- Slade this game could not be played [ COX sireef, wh husband was unless the school board gives its| charged with driving an automobile sanction and the board would | While under influence of liguor and recommended by Supt. H. Holmes of | & car owned by William Sadd of 10 the school department. mour street on Nov. 18, took the 1t has been the practice in the Wilness stand in police court this past, Mr. Slade sald, for Mr. Holmes | morning and said she was driving this and if he were spoken to about | Her husband was so intoxicated it ho would not favor it. He gaid |he did not know what he was tell- New Britain High school is not|ing the police when arrested, she claiming the state championship and | sald. There was a christening at to defend the honor. According to |too much wine. He wanted to drive Mr. Slade the only claim the school | down the street has made 4s for the triangular [allow him to do so and she took the championship. wheel. She excited and lost con- siders have made efforts to bring Mr. Sadd's car which was parked in |about a game with the high school front of 34 Wilcox street. : team, especially if it is a winning She did not evade responsibility B | and the reason she did not tell Ser- | first notice of the game from a news | forth she had driven the car at the Istory he read in the Herald last time her husband was arrested was | evening and until he receives official | that the police told her to “shut up.” notice from the board he would not They did not give her a chance to The only hope of the game now ! Joseph Risko of 32 Putnam strect lies in the possibillty of the teams testified that Sorosky was “stiff playing independently as the New drunk” and Mrs. Sorosky insisted on | Britain high school players and the | driving the car when her husband i house. | morrow morning at Willow Brook| He was positive Sorosky was not park. If the game is played it will at the wheel when the car left the be a preliminary to the Mulligan | house. Mrs. Sorosky's sister gave | Blues-Duiuth Eskimos game Satur- | similar testimony. | Negotiations for the game were (hat he ariving being carried on by Edward Curley, | about 5:30 p. m. promoter of George Mulligan's foot- CaT Was not room {bail and boxing exhibitions, Tt was the christening pa McCarthy, high school football play- church and return. ler confined to his home with When Joe Risko came up to the | paralysis for the past two years, a|house to talk about the paint and certified check for $1,500 before the When T get drunk I am apt to do |for cxpenses. They would play for| IIe did not remember being ar- a silver loving cup which would be rested or having any conversation awarded to the winner of the an-| With the police. He was positive he {anal honor, | did not drive the car after he be- {came intoxicated. When Sergeant | Ellinger came into the house he was | In bed with his clothes on. His face | was cut by glass. He remembered | that the sergeant aroused him and | after that his mind was a blank until | 4 a. m. the next day. (Continued on Page 12) * NO HERALD TOMORROW The Herald will not be published tomorrow, Thanks- giving Day. | i | | | | | | *. * but she would not | was all drunk | | (Copyright, 1926, Famous Features { Syndicate, Inc.) | | Somerville, N. J., Nov. 24—What a terrible ordeal it must have been for Willie Stevens to face all those curious stares. It is bad enough for an ordinary person to be on the wit- ness stand in the spotlight of those hundreds of drilling eyes, but for Willie it must have been a thousand times wor: ybody looking at him like he was some freak at circus. I think most people were surprised reared so calm and intel- e somehow the idea ad gotten around at Willie was an idiot of sume sort. But he made a very good impression on the| stand. I am glad that Senator Simp- | son was $0 easy with him, even| though the little prosecutor made it clear that he thought Willie had cen well coached in his alibi story. | Willie reviewed the night of the | murder: how Mrs. Hall aroused him and they went together to the church to look for Dr. Hall and then to our house “because someone in |the Mills family might be sick.” It seems strange to me that Mrs, Hall | thought of one of us being sick| r than some other parishioner. There must have been some connec- |tion in her mind between her hus- band and my mother. | | ‘I (Continued on Page Ten) PRIVATE TAXT STANDS . ON STREETS ILLEGAL }Charter Revision' Commit- | tee Declares They Can’t a| Courthouse, Sorerville, N. J, |Nov. 24 (P — Defense in the Halle Mills trial today struck again at |the story of Mrs. Jane Gibson, | Whose testimony for the state, |placed all three of the defendants |at the scene of the killing. | Ferd David, Middlesex ecounty, detective, said that Mrs. Gibson had | sald at the office of the Middlesex | prosecutor in New Brunswick In |1922 that she could not tdentify, |Mrs. Hall and Willie and Henry, |Stevens as the persons she had |seen there. The testimony was admitted aft- er a legal argument, the state obe jecting on the ground that the state's witness was not asked as to what she had said at the prosecu- |tor's office. Reference to the rec- |ord revealed that on cross-examina- tion the woman-farmer had denied saying that she could not make the |identification of the three defend- ants. Heard Shots, Rode Away David testified also that Gibson told him that when heard the shots near De¢ Russey's lane she rode home without dis- mounting from her mule. Her te timony in the trial was that heard the shots after she had tied |the animal. James Mason, another detective, |who testified yesterday, was the {first witness used to attack Mrs, Gibson's story. He said that Mrs. |Gibson had said that she could not |identify either of the Stevens Mrs. she | brothers. A Brilliant Witness Willle Stevens, whose peculiart- {ties of appearance conccal a ready tongue and keen, calculating mind, finished his examination as a wit- {ness in the Hall-Mills case, today as he began—brilliantly. He was on the stand only seven minutes Ibut almost every minute gave him points in a battle of wits with the special prosecutor, Alexander Simp- Has cBen Misrepresented The defendant has been mis-rep- resented by his neighbors, who have suggested that he was out of step with the fast moving times and knew little, if anything, about sub- |jects outside of the firehouses. As a former volunteer fireman he has been pictured with a fireman's com- plex and it was freely suggested before he took the stand that he would tell the court and jury about the excellence of the New Bruns- wick fire department. Appears to Advantage On the contrary, he took his place as a witness as well poised as any to testify thus far in the case and the length and breadth of his vocabulary was {impressive |throughout his testimony. He drew Have Space o stand that taxi com- te enterprises, the charter revision committee ruled last night that they are not en- titled to grants in the public high W and a vote was registered against the principle of taxi statlons. | It had been proposed to so amend the charter that the common council would be empowered to lay out s and charge a rental, but this proposal had no champion when it came before the charter revisers, the contrary vote being unanimou: The committee also decided zainst creating a traffic commission which would assume powers of the ordinance committee and try out parking ordinances which, it was planned, might be turned down by the common council on vote. A vote wa ken against the licensing of builders and against re~ quiring them to furnish a bond to the city to inde; ¢ persons against damages resulting from defective | workmanship. A movement to eliminate the sprinkling tax was downed, Attorney P. F. McDonough agreed with Judge Alling that the growth of the city warrants appointment |tw judges on an equal basis. | is now but one judge, who has the | services of a deputy at his call. No |action was taken. | Proposed abatement of personal property taxes unpald after five years was objected to and was | turned back. ‘ Provision for appointment of sub- stitute members of the board of ad- Taking th panies are pr | justment to act in the disqualifica- | ticn of a member, was approved. A | system of regularly appointed al- ] (Continued on Page 10) delicate shades of meaning by drawing on his well-stored fund of words, and his recital of the events of September 14, 1922, and succeed- ing days insofar as they concerned him was little changed in courte- ous but searching cross-examina« tion. Accounts for His Movements His account of his movements placed him asleep at the Hail home, when the state says the murders took place, his only expe- dition out of the house during the night being to accompany his sis- ter to the church to search for the sent rector. Bland and smiling, he finally left the witness box in a flurry of po- lite accommodation to the wishes of the speclal prosecutor, His Courtesy Contagious Mr. Simpson’s policy in cr amination of most of the det witnesses, and some testifying the state, has apparently been “treat 'em rough,” but Willic ens' courtesy was contagious and it was something of a test to see whether the lawyer or witness could excel in politeness as the examination proceeded. for to Stev- (Continued on Page 12) Mrs. Gibson Still Is In Critical Condition Jersey City, N. J, Nov. 24 (P— “Mrs. Jane Gibson is very sick; hee condition is about the same as yes- terday.” This was the official bul« letin issued by specialists after ex- amining Mrs. Gibson today. Mrs. Gibson gave what was con- sidered the most important testls mony for the state in the Hall-Milla murder case. She has publicly re« signed herself to death, in a states ment to the press. 7! of | There | | | | | |