New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 24, 1926, Page 12

FIREMEN T0 HOLD THEIR BALL TONIGHT Big Social Function to Be Staged at State Armory For the first time in its history, | emen’s Pension and Relief will hold a Thanksgiv- ing concert and ball tonight. The \ffair has been held annually for 1S years on New Year's eve, but a change was made this year because of the numerous events on the Ar's eve program. State Armory rettily the Association for the will start itinuing »n, and the concert promptly at § or one hour, w the grand march ill be form Mayor and Mrs. Gardner C. Weld will lead the pro- and dancing en- intil e hour, is that the attendance will and the firemen gua evening. Mayor Weld ommittee, which al W. J. Noble, 4 ‘elod o'e cossion, will be ved pected asant the reception inel drman heads les: Gt Com, King. hi Souney, Smith, Hot . Captain 1 ‘aptain Lieut. chanie an, ¢ Woods, ( . Connelly, Hinche Roz Cof Forsythe, Moore is chai mmittee, ass Maikowsk May, P. Nuss, gg, J. Verano. is floor director and Harry Parsons, John Campbell, ward Leonard Saund- Leo Forsyt is aids Riair, Michacl Carlson rs, Rlbe HAMLIN CGNDEMNS COMMON COUNGIL (Continued from First Page) nier. one councilman or alderman should refloct the sentiment of his distr but I fail to find clection, to determine anything the Judging by ny atte constitueney may desire, the scene enacted last week in the council chamber, I cannot quite eee just how a councilman might iiver @ messa from the voters, even it he had o It the people of & councilman’s district do not acquaint him with 1t may be because adership, rather than b k of in the esires, of n the ose petitions for t the Court of Honor and they, themselves, 1ls professing to act for the public good en 1 hear that it was common talk among the members of the city meeting board that that board would be abolished as soon as legislative action could be had and that t monument ion would he T ved; ar the story of one who at- council meeting about two years ago where, it was sald, there was g surance that the vote would most solidly against the monumen ed out other- wise, he clared, re shown how their nam 00k upon the monument, as sho upon models: when T hear ex-Mayor Paonessa, after a busin man had talked for about a half | hour, in favor of the monument jumped to his feet and said, ‘Al those in favor of the new monu- ment’; when T hear point a man arose and opposition )t to b ex-mayor's reply th know of tales many people, w preservation of were jgnored snobbed by offi aues when T tended a bhe 4 how, at this asked if the oppositio: how th conntry. anythi T to sa stories, faith in people, stimulated may not 1 American to six “Now. do vou 1 as T do, on il, ove volers a monumen izt you | | | nereby | Your statement, that you cannot pre- ever w NEW think that the word request would have been a fitter word for the time and place? If you do think so, I will agree for all the signers of the petitions, that we will consider the WITNESSES ATTACK the voters of New Britain be given | an early opportunity to decide the | monument question by ballot. If — those clected to office areour ser-| He was asked if he had not taken vantswe would like to know just |letters to Mrs. Mills and spent how and under what circumstances | hours there talking to her and her it will be proper to demand or re- | daughter, Charlotte. quest what we want, and under just His now familiar “positively not” what circumstances the servant is to | boomed out in reply. t on his own study and wisdom. | Ko said that he had never been In the light of events, I think 1y the Mills house but once; reach- ed the piazza when he went to see James Mills about some window | boxes for his sister, and later, on ex-service men, of what- |re-direct examination recalled that vour heart and your de- |he had once taken a Christmas votion c: you to greater present to Mrs. Mills from Mrs. lengths th mine carry me. My | Hall. heart goes out to them and T would | The glve my last dollar to help them but | heavy features of the defendant I cannot think they are the only | was extended into a near laugh ones to be considered in the matter | when he was asked it he had not in question once had a suit pressed as a part “T believe that vou would be the |of preparations to attend a fire- last man in New Britain to wish to | men's parade at Red Bank, N. ct the wrong t of memorial, | The “No, sir” in reply came with ind that is just why we are asking aimost a chuckle and there was a that fifteen or twenty men be not | distinct twinkle Dehind his thick permitted. to make a choice for a | cyeglasses. The defendant knows city of scventy or eighty thousands that his fondness for fire fighting of people more or less interested. T | has become widely known. am made forcibly aware of the great Stevens found a chance today to dissatisfaction of the men of another yse the pencil which he has had war with the selection of a monu- |in his hand during most of the ment t did not meet their ap- time he has sat in the courtroom. proval and which they have never Ife has toyed with it for days but liked. That choice, I am informed, /it was in his pocket when he was determined by some one, or a 'asked if shells shown him by Simp- fow, who thought they knew better son were similar to those he last than the people what was wanted. ‘hought for his revolver. He took “I believe with all my heart and |the pencil from his pocket to point all my soul and all my body too, that | out to the lawyer the differences, your description of the proposed explainin t his were of a dif- monument is eloquent, and I am as ferent manufacture. firmly convinced of its rare beauty, | The prosecution asked Stevens and T still belicve that to erect a | todas concluding cross-examina- war memorial, glorious in itself, does 'tion if he slipped his revolver into not glorify peace, but war. his pocket when he left the house “that morning."” Witness Recalled After the witness left the stand, there was a discussion of counsel to a possible confusion of time that morning.” ‘Il fix it,” said Simpson. “Mr. Stevens, will you come back just a moment?” “Why, certainly, sir” beame the defendant, who walked briskly back to the witness stand. It developed that Stevens was in doubt as to the time the state’s representative meant, but the doubt was cleared up when he declared (Continued from First Page) dict what the council will do is just what anyone would have to say. “To th broad smile lightening the in “I must quote your words: ‘xxxa place where the familics of these heroes may go and place their of- fering of flowers, and where they may feel that their loved one has an individual place in the hearts of the community. A place where they may go free from the turmoil of business and whirling automobiles and prying eyes to mourn in peace,’ and your last sentence, ‘Better far that we should crect a monument over the graves of each of our | heroes in the cemeteries in which they lie, than to crect on a public highway the individual shafts where no mortal may pay tribute in silence and quiet.’ in the revolver into his pocket. “Thenk Youn." Says Willie The witness also drew a compli- ut from the prosecutor, who d showed good judgment in an announced position. Stevens modestly smiled a “thank you “You have said that you are not a sufferer from epilepsy?” asked | Simpson. “I am not, sir.” “Will you be willing to have a physician talk to you of epllepsy?” ‘I shonld prefer to consult lawyer, «ir," Stevens repiied, ing. “If that is permissible.” artainl said Simpson. shows very good judgment.” Thank you,” said the defendant with a broad smile. Once before in today's cross-examination Simpson pologized for referring to the de- | fendant's account of his move- ments as a “story.” Simpson Apologizes t is quite true that some auto- mobiles pass through the Court of Honor; that seats have been placed in such a way as to invite occasion- al hoodlums are now in evidence; that a walk from the top of the hill leads the pedestrians directly into the middle of the south side of the court, and that is near to a highway, All this T gran®, “Before we proceed to place where mortals may pay trib- : in silence and quict, 1 beg you to stroll me to the summit of W any cvening in sum- m you will, early in the | morn I am assuming that you do not visit that place very much. ou will point out to me a place | nywhere in Walnut Hill Park that is or could be more quist and s to would-be worshippers who wish to offer prayers for their dead, than the present Court of Honor, 1 will devote a whole day with you in fts arch. The top of the hill is so iet, and so free of old papers and that it is impossible paper up there, to paying any kind of trib- we wish fo avoid prying | can best do at most the cemetery like entrance, in spite of the highway that runs through it. I think you will admit | t the few objections here found 11 be eliminated. t even guess what t be inclined to ierits of the two me- testion, but T feel certain - from what T 2d of him, that he woulq | timony in the Hall-Mills murder say, ‘Why, that is ¢ Find out | trial on the opening of court this just what the people ! ' morning. . it to them’ Alexander Simpson, special prose- cutor, resuming his cross-examin tion of the witness, with: unde m he select a add- h Hin it “Tt red your recital. and it ix not a reflec- tion,” explained the lawyer. The defendant used gesture to brush aside the inference that he would be offended by the term, In the closing questioning by ths state, Simpson attempted to bring out if the witness knew Mrs. Elea- nor R. Mills, whose murder is (charged to the three Elihuy | more intimately than the “ver of | very siightly” he spoke of yester- day. Resumes Cross-Examination. 2 of It we eyes fimes, want and give “Finally, this matter has for a long time and since the peti- are in cireulatios b it it will be better to try vexatious question » are going to gather for just a few days hich will present conside of the government “You have written n exponent of your n and trust ne on tions only slightly?® “That's righ ness, sn't it a fact that for a lonp you took letters to her home spent hours there talking to Is and her daughter, Char- ieving t answered the wit- time, we and iy great length side of the . ¢ y Denles Delive ou never took letters to some { this point. Ty tri V. MASTER BARBERS ELECT President You home up were Mil mur- | in of ne to the er time the der?” cept one time.” Carpender In Court. Henry Carpender, New York | Uroker, a cousin of the defendants, who also is eharged with the mur- ers, was brought into court from il when Willie's eross-examin- ation got under w, Willie and Senator Simpson prose- near exchanging confi- t one stage of t question- Nat Sandals Chosen At Anaual Ve of New Britain Branch me son had asked if Willie would state physician to talk with ihout the possibility of his h lepsy is based upon the the Dicksons, surpr nesses for the state after i Willie as r home at had e son's ilepsy. question, to consult my * said Simpson k with: * BOY % Is wermissible 7' Why, kood RUNS INTO AUTO yos Lk showed dgnrent,” replie Sim m Is & As was the case you mpson. nave., terday, Simp- Place suave and deferen- New- | tial In cross-examination, d| He showed shells whicl of | supp to he those of bullets f M Mille, Wil mined them closely, said oy not from his revolver, and | then got out one of his lead pencils | this af! driv Herze son Imost wre READ HESALD CLASGUPIED ADS 1) 1O YOUR WANT vers o 1 that he had not at any time slipped | my | brief | had ! “When I say story, T only mean | a sweeping | defendants, | Willie Stevens continued his tes- | stand you said you knew Mrs. Mills | | be in approximatcly the same phase | a certain ¢ | a few hours before the murders. | the trial. BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, | to point out the difference between | that it was a package would ald the the shells handed him and those | defendants by tending to prove that | fired by him in his revolver, Mrs. Mills fook the letters to the | Simpson asked him if he had not | trysting place, and that Mrs. Hall gone to the Mills home several times | did not take them there from the to take notes, and remained there | Hall home. The letters found at the on one occasion for at least two | scene of the slaying were those writ- hours, | ten by Mrs. Mills to the Rev. Mr. No, sir,” replied Willlie. “I was| Hall, on the plazza once when I took a | note to Mr. Mills from my sister | about some window boxes which she | | wanted made.” | | “Did you see Mrs. Mills at that time?” “No, sir.” “Is it true tk { murder you had prepared to go to a firemen's parade at Red Bank?” “No.”" “Didnt you have your sult preased | Ty, the witness sald she “"-(-‘\-]m-‘v' {ods | still thought it was a package. f Wearing Derby. | Denics Mother's Story | Again Simpson questioned the Mabel Plickiner, the | witness as to whether he ever wore contradicted the testimony l'a derby hat. given for the state by her own moth- 1 ¥ UNo sir.” was his answer as it was er, Mrs. Mary Demarest, who said terday. that she once saw the Rev, Mr. Hall You were in North Plainfield the | and Mrs. Mills sitting on a bench in night of the murder?” Buccleugh park, and that Mrs. M. No, sir,” Clark and Ralph V. M. Gorsline, | “You never inquired of Mr. and | members of the clergyman’s church, Mra, Dickson, the way to the Park- | were “spying” on them. The state has er home?" contended that Mrs. Clark carried to “No."” Mrs. Hall stories of her husband’s | The Dicksons, as state witnesses, affair with the other woman, and testified that they saw Willie in | that knowledge of this affair by Mrs. North Plainfield a few hours before | Hall prompted the murder. ™ | the murder and that he asked his| Case asked Mrs, Plickiner: “Were { wey to the Parker home, which is | you, in May or June, 1922, in an au- near the murder scene tomobile, in which your mother also The Dicksons described the Man | was a passenger, and in the vicinity they saw as wearing a derby hat. of B, AlsaaiN - eEall “You never recited to DI Martini and Siting b1 n onon) what you told us yesterday regarding and Mrs. Clark and Mr. Gorsline | your movements the night of the standing by the roadside?" murder?” asked Simpson, referring | to Felix Di Martini, a private detec- tive employed by Hrs. Hall soon after the murders “I helieve 1 did" witness. Said He Misunderstood 1 Ask why he didn’t tell this yester- Willie said he misunderstood what he was being questioned about when he said that he had told no one of his movements on the night | of the murders. | Then the cross-examination end- ed, after Willle had been on the stand this morning only seven min- utes. Ha had spent fifty-five min- utes under cross examination yester- day afternoon. | Clarence E. Case, defense counsel, on re-direct examination, asked the witness. | Present From Mrs. Hall | “Did you ever take a Christmas ! present to the Mills home?” | 7“1 dia,” answered Willie. | “Who was it for?” | “Mrs. Mills.” | “From whom?" | “Mrs. Hall” Simpson then took the witness briefly for re-cross examination. “You didn't take the revolver, loaded with ball cartridges, with you from home?" “No sir.” Case Suspended Pleading “surprise’ at the testi- mony of the witness under cross- xamination, that she wasn't certain | it was a package she saw under Mrs. | | | issi Mrs. Blust's testi- : ¢ of {he | Mission to read IR o Wiedarabing mony at the preliminary hearing, at | tain it was “a small parcel.” After Mrs. witnes | T did not,” answered the witnes; George Hubner, a New Brunswick policeman who patrolled Buccleugh park at the time of the slaying, was called as a witness also to assail the story of Mrs. Demarest. He said he 1 never seen the Rev. Mr. Hall and Mrs. Mills sitting on a bench in the park No Spots on Coat Two persons who saw the coat which Mrs. Hall had dyed, testified there were no spots on it before it went to the cleaners. Two ministers swore they spoke to Mrs. Hall, one on the Sunday after the Killings, and the other on day of the funeral, and both were positive there was no scratch on her face. They were supported by a neighbor who went to condole with Mrs. Hall shortly after the bodies were found. Mrs. Anna K. Bearman, a relative, testified that she could not have helped remove papers from the Hall home on the day after the bodies were found, since she did not leave Scituate, M her summer home, until 9 a. m. of that day and did not arrive in New Brunswick until the next d: There was liitle cross tion of th Wwitnesse Denies Sceing Mrs. Gibson Then came Mrs. Jennie Waller, a The Rev. J. Morvin Pettit, rector shy, bashful little person, whose | of the church of St. John the name Robert Erling, a sta Ivangelist, of which the Rev. Mr. bad attempted to keep out of the Hall was rector at the time of his case, when he testificd to having | death, was called to testity concern- Mrs. Jane Gibson in De Rus- ing the baptism of Willie Stevens, lane on the night of the kill- to offset an intimation made earlicr he was married in 102 by the state that he was a full- id that w & she left hlooded brother of the other two de- about 30 p. m., drove fendants. through the lane without stopping, Willie's Parentage v no woman on a mule, went to The Parish records of the chureh | Bound Bre k for a soda and refurn- showed that William Carpender ©4 to her home, passing through the Stevens was baptized June 16, 1872, and that he was born in March of the same year, in Aiken, 8. C. Professor Raymond Smith Dugan, of the department of astronomy. Princeton university, testified that on the night of the murde the moon rose over De Rus: 3 castern standard time. The moon had entered quarter that morning at & said, and in the ening slightly crescent shape. The facts given b Dugan were directed against the tes timony of Mrs. Jane Gibson, state's “eye-witn of the murders | who was brought here from a Jer- | Willard Stovt, testified that | sey City hospital last Thu to| August Brling said to. him: testifly from a cot that she saw the [if you will say that you we defendants at the scene of the crime. | Russey's lan bt of Septen- Testimony on Moonlight ber 14, 1922, dan Got goms Mrs. Gibson on cross money. had said that it was On cross-examination Stout sald daylight time when she her | he was in De Ru, ¥'s lane the night heuse forty-one minute on of September 13, but denicd ever her second trip to the lane and that telling police he was the on the it was bright moonlight night of September 14, Dugan said that the moon would Fred David, now head of the de- tective burcau of the Middlesex county prosccutor's office and one of the ch tigators of the crime was answered the examina- about 11:30 p. Prosccutor Bergen cross cxamination. His questioning was directed to the point that it should not have taken the girl and her companion two hour. for the short ride. Bergen asked the witness 1€ any from the defense had talked to and she replied. Mr. Watson, of the defense counsel. . She de- ried that Watson suggested to her that she was married now and it would look bad for her to say that stopped with Erling in De Rus- m. took up the the a. m. . was Professor | Assailing Mrs, Gibson's Story last tout, you ion 12:20 on Sunday morning nest at eastern standard time. On cross-examination the witness 9000 after it was committed. sai! that the light coming from the ¢Alled by the defense to make fur- moon on that night would depend to (N7 on the story told by :nt on cloudiness in the Ms: Gib nd also to help the sky, and that information could he O¢fense its attempt to discredit the calling card introduced by the gotten from the weather bureau on i J 5 B state as having been found at the ne of the crime and as bearing he fingerprint of Willie Stevens, David said the exhibits in the case had heen turned over fo him in the Middlesex county prosceutor office, after they had been found the scene of the crime. “Among them was there ard of the Rev, Mr asked Case. “There were the witness, “When you, did vou exa gerprints 2" “T A Wit Saw Mrs. Mills Mrsa. Agnes Blu the ness, told of having seen Mr on Easton avenue, near the next wit- Mills just She had a brown package under her arm which the defense contend contained the letters which we found near the hodies. Simpson on cross-examination questioned whether the brown pa age was not a searf which was found on Mrs. Mills' body. “Wag it a brown scarf in the of Mrs. Mills?” asked the pro tor. “1 don't think it Mrs. Blust. Later “might have been, not observed it closely. “Was she all alone son a visit- Hall?" several,” answered nine them for fin- rm a secu- magnifying glass?" answered Ald that it t she had was, she Simpson wa nd that gerprint 1 1 the prosecutor's court allowed stand: “Did yon of fingerprints ca I did not witness. Mhen € Mrs. Gibson. Do you remember, investi in 1 objected that the not a fingerprint expert he would not know a fin- “fell over one.” Over objectic the the to find evidenee on of the wit- 1p- alon question ak to you?" No, she just smiled.” Mrs. Blust was one of the persons 1o see Mrs, Mills alive. Also Met Mr. Hall The witness said that as she walk- ed along Faston avenue after meet- ng Mrs. Mills, she met the Rev. Mr. Hall, who was walking fast and | looked at his watch and at the elock | ponference v Mra. on a school buildin he passed. | company with Mr. Totten (Midd obody was following him?” [sox county detective) and having sked Simpson. Mrs. Gibson go over at night Vot that T & route she said she went over the witness. Mr. Blus night of the murder?” tective and one of the la o A ardhe e the defense had talked to her before | {he witness “Regarding tell you that dong 1) heard shots i iy "D any any last find any,” answered sed to the story of during your of having Gibson, u ion in the answered ni; did she riding her mul saw a flash and th while lane Mr. ions On re-direet examination Case met with repeated obj from Simpson when he sought to ¢ tain an answer from the to whether she wasn't 3 package she saw under Mrs. Mifls' | istablishment by the defense I she wit 1 she say that after hearing the shot she proceeded home with- | out getting off her mule?" * | Mills' arm, Mr. Case obtained per- | | wheh she had testified she was cer- | | hearing the excerpts from her previ- | next | the | e witness, | lane again and arriving at her home ! e in De | they were turned over to | il the | WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1926. 'She did Mrs. Gibson testified for the state that she heard the shots after she had dismounted and tied her mule. Then at the end of one of the hardest fought legal battles of the day, David testified that Mrs. Gibson in 1922 and said at the Middlesex prosecutor’s office in New Brunswick that she could not identify Mrs. Hall and Willle and Henry Stevens as the | persons she had seen at the crab- apple tree. “On or about October 17, 1922, did Mrs. Gibson tell you at the | brosecutor’s office in New Brunswick that she could not identify any of the three defendants here before you?” Case asked. “She did,” replied David very positively. | “Was Mrs. Hall | time 2" | “She was. She was in one room and Henry and Willie Stevens were in another.” Willie Was Aslcep, He Says Willie Stevens, 18 positive that he was asleep in his room when the choir singer was slain with the Rev. Mr. Erward Wheeler Hall. Other members of the Hall house- hold objected to the odor of his HIT WITH LAUNDRY, SUES FOR $25.000 Highland Strest Woman Says She Was Seriously Injured to borrow the money from friends in| Mrs, Helen Meehan of Highland the east. | street, aged 20, through her hus- “Dld he say he might get it from 'pang,” Mortimer Meehan, today | Baward B. McLean?" asked Wilton|hrought suit for $25,000 against the J. Lambert, counsel for Fall. Natlonal Laundry and Dry Clean- “Yes, 1 remember he mentioned yng Co. of 969 Stanley street, as a Mr. McLeans' name.” | result of injuries she sustained on Through George B. Florey, vice-|Qctober 3, between ~7:30 and 8 president of the State National bank | g'clock, p. m., when she was struck at El Paso, Texas, the government py a bag of laundry, weighing be- showed that on Dec. 7, 1921, Chase, ' tween 50 and 60 pounds, thrown Fall's son-in-law, deposited $13,500 | from the upper story of a house on to his own account and that on DeC. | the north side of Court street, by | 28, 1921, Fall and Chase opened @ |an employe of the defendant, to | joint account with a total deposit of | another employe on the sidewalk. | $36,200, including a transfer of the| Mrs Mechan sets forth that she $13,500 previously deposited DY guffered injurles to her spine, head Chase. and right ankle and developed Daniels On Stand. | neurasthenia as a result of the se- pipe, Willie testified in taking the| In the midst of the presentation|vers shock to her nervous system, stand in his own defense, and he|op documentary evidence, JOSQPh"S‘nnd she further alleges that her only went to hs room and closed the | Danjels was called to the stand but|injuries will render her a cripple door after the evening meal, but!gecupied it but a minute. for life besides causing her great locked it because the catch was in-| The former naval secretary sald he|annoyance and heavy expense for secure, | was in the Wilson cabinet from|medical and hospital attention. She He declared that he went to bed March 4, 1913, to March 4, 1921. |was walking on the sidewalk with between 8$:30 and 9:30 p. m,, and| <Were any leases to drill oil On her husband when she was in- slept until his sister, who is on trial | naval reserve No. 1 (Elk Hills) is- | jured. with him and his brother Henry, gued during that time?” asked §ov- |~ Attorney Joseph G. Woods served awoke him at about 2:30 to hunt for jernment counsel. | the writ, which is returnable in su- Mr. Hall. The state charges Mr.\ «None.” | perior court the first Tuesday n Hall and Mrs. Mills were slain at| “\Were there any applications for December. The attachment is for ie said that at the ! the pproximately 10:20 p. m. on a de- ' jease: | $30,000. ried farm two miles from the Hall| “yes,” | . PN-10 PLANEND. | » sald| o slaying he owned a $2-calibre Owen J. Roberts, government coun- pistol, but that he had not fired it in | gel. f F“R[;E[] T[] lANfl more than twenty years. This pistol| *“We have nothing to ask,” replied home, “But none was granted?” “No was taken from the Hall home after | J. Hogan, Doherty’s chief counsel. the crime, but was not introduced | Lenroot Called. You may | as evidence by the state, Tt was with Irving L. Lenroot of Wisconsin, | a 32-calibre pistol that Mrs. Mills who was one of the republican| GOVT. STARTS OFF TRACING $100,000 GIVEN BY DOHENY (Continusd from First Page) present at that Had Old Pistol v time of | cross-examine, | (Continued from Tirst Page) 0 case | was shot three times in the head | members of the senate oil committee, route from Hampton Roads to the and with which the Tev. M. Hall was called to the witness stand to-|Panama Canal early today have was shot once in the top of the|day. passed beyond the tip of Florida, head. Mrs. Mills' throat also was| He was the first of the senate wit- | well on their way toward a new nons cut. | nesses in the inquiry to be placed | Btop record for this tvpe of craft. Denies Tdentification under oath. Much of the evidence| The old record, 1841 miles, was der cre xamination, 'Willie "to be used in the trial was un- established in a PN-9 plane by the said that Mrs. Jane Gibson, state’s|earthed by the committee of which [late Commander John Rogers on star witne had never identifled | Mr. Lenroot was a member. his nearly fatal Hawaifan flight in him in the Middlesex county prose- {1925, The distance from Hampton cutor's office soon after the crime, | Rtoads to Colon, the PN-10s objec- ! as one of the men she had observed quAN TAKES BLAME ;tl\](-‘, is 2060 m;‘lu, : ; at the scene of the slaying. A de-| | Frequent radio messages from the tective, who testified for the de-| planes to the navy vessels guarding fonse, also had said before Willie FUR STRIK'NH AUT[] thefr route and to the communicas took the witness stand, that Mrs. tion station here, kept the navy de- Gibson had id that Henry and | partment advised of the progress of Willie Stevens were not the men she | & Ithe flight, which had as its chict i (Continued from First Page) purpose the proving of the practica- Cross - examination of Willie| SeEy bility of long distance scouting by Stevens was still under way when| Sorgeant Ellinger testified that|the “cyes of the nayy.” court. adjourned for the day. The Mrs. Sorosky asked what the charge | Start Late In Afternoon. | witn defendant was under direct nst her husband was, and when| The planes took oft at Hampton !examination only 25 minutes. he told her, she upbraided her hus- | Roads at 4:18 and 426 p. m. yester- Willie was the second of the three band and swore at the police, crying | day With a brilliant array of navy defendants to declare his innocence lout that they had raided her homesn“!ahon talent comprising their on the witness stand. Henry when her baby was sick and now |crews of four men each. tevens testified Saturday that he they are making more trouble and| A veteran navy flier and winner of was at his home in Lavallette, New she supposed they n_'nll be arov{nd‘lhe navy cross d\frln&‘ the World Jersy, 50 miles away at the time after her when she is dying. She | war for heroic service for piloting a of the double murder. Thirteen could have told the police she was|bomber on the Belglan front, Lieut, witness pported his story. driving at that time or later when | Commander Harold T. Bartlett, of Fingerprint Experts she accompanied her husband to me‘o_m Lyme, Conn., comm{:nrls the Before Willie Stevens took the pu]r‘;‘\t :lt\;g:ntxh:‘;;rlp;zdgidsz:gc o | ;l‘ll;:;:b:!r;‘d Ilf;zutbi):vr:;\ l.t’;pu;‘rlllnov;l‘l z: witness stand in his own 1\:3\1,1@ i L e e {Hres [ngerpHinL sypsis fF 0D ({‘wnrnm her not to swear and curse | expedition, is in charge of the other fense had tesiified that a finge N imy |and 1f she could not use decent lan- | plane. [ by which the state hoped (olefl I i ot talkat il Ty o with the crime, was not his B~ | " p oooonting Attorney Woods sald| Other officers of the flight fnclude Unrint ot allléOnejot breae astonse SRR U (e Rel D e s [ B s ottie e Sl witnesses said he was of the opInloN {cag "griving the car at the time of | Breadstown, L, navigator of {he that the fingerprint represented DY [y o colligion, His wife was scouring | jil_fated Sikorsky-plane in which tho the prosecution as that of Willie |y poignhorhood for him and when | prench ace, Captain Fonck, planned Stevens, and which the state oW ishe found him he was in the arms |to fiy to France; Lieut. Clarence 1L tends was on a calling card found | oe tne Jaw. [t e L near the bodies of the slain COUle, | gtiorney M. D. Saxe, Tepresenting | wno has made precions Aights to the had been “superimposcd” —on the igorosky, sald he is unwilling to be- | yagt Titlcs ian® Paname, and Tiett: card after fingerprints that were ot~ jieye that the witnesses are lying. iHcrberL st ey iginally on it had been developed and It s only natural that Mrs. Sorosky 410 N6 g plane when it crossed the photographed. A county detective ishould have driven the car because | yyj vic tor the first time By ais in who was an original investigator of | her hushand was so intoxicated he g o the crime, testified that he fnitialed | was unable to control his faculties. | “gquiyoc paion Pope, an enlistod with ink the calling card found at |Sorosky had just fallen asteep when | oo 500 Sy P L PG T T EC the feet of the Rev. Mr. Hall. There |he was arrested. Being tired and | 020 S BFRE TS @ Al & MEPs has been no testimony in the trlal intoxicatel, he vas in poor condition | J6700 (1€ (ST BT 00 ! showing that the card introduced by to jmake a coherent statement when i Chiasice 7 Ditters New rone | wit e state 3 v itials aroused, yet his statement is the e P v s L the state bore any such initials. L 3 A | chinist’s mate, complete the flight Mrs., Gibson, who has a complica- |only bit of evidence against him. o7 faeancyls stified | Certainly he has not been praven | Personnel. jtion of Kidney disegses and testified | Cortainly he | ioibesn proyen S e from a bed sel up in the court room, |EUilty beyond a reasonable doubt.|. g, . iang started with 1500 gal- is in a eritical condition at the Jer- the ..;’a‘r?\.fim s loiie 7 easrite. eotimatid e 1o St Hoaplial 2 e iy slclana R ISR s KIS R e | sufticient for 2154 nautical miles, there say. They predict that she UL, S3HUICLY WOTA TS, s2 | In nautical miles, the flight meas- will reach a crisis in her illness by | Henry TeMay, aged of 162 i bl North street, pleaded not guilty to | ures 1882. g tomomro gl the charge of reckless driving and | The PN-10 type machines are bi- Her ailment has becn diagnosed o, %o)eanted by Attorney David | plane tractor boat seaplancs with as pyelitis and nephrolithias v\;-mr‘h e e e 5000 homenower mastons E eucey physicians say 1s marked by fnter-|q. "ipa¢ ne was on Grove street | In wing span they are 73 feet, mittent gaing and relapses. SOMe- 4000 7,45 last night when he heard | length 49 feet and height 16 1-2 times into uncensciousness. They o cruen’and on arriving at the cor- | feet. They were equipped with ra- give her only a short time to lve ;.0 ¢ Jigh and Lafayette streets, | dlo sets having a daylight range ot and say she will probably never|png round two caws, | from 250 to 400 miles over water. leave the liospital. | Smake: Signals One was driven by LeMay and the other by Arthur Swanson of 59| Barnett street, LeMay told the offi- cer he sounded the horn on his car nd was driving at the approximate rate of 20 miles an hour. Swanson, Lowevcr, said LeMay was driving 35 miles an hour, according to the offi- cer. Swanson claimed he was driv- ing about 8 or ) miles an hour. He sounded the horn and brought his ar almost to .. complete stop be- As the two planes whirred overs head, five navy ships and a coast | guard cutter were stationed at in- | tervals below, as watchdogs of the fight. Heavy smoke signals from the anchored vessels served to | guide the aviators during the day, while at night thelr searchlights played a ateady beam for five min- | utes every quarter of an hour. The vessels were the destroyer Overton, use he realized the corner is dan- ’ mine sweeper Sandpiper, the cut- Kerol | ter Saule, the light cruisers Raleigh :May was driving east on Taf-|4ng Cinefnnati, and the mine sweep- tte street and Swanson was driv- | op Swan. ing north on High street. Joseph | Pierson o. 58 Barnett street, who with Swanson, testified that Le- | o, May was driving at the rate of ap- (jnq proximately 35 miles an hour. | earryi Swanson’s car had conme almost to a stop and had just bout started ain when the collision occurred, Supernumerary Officer Cornelius BURGESS DEMURER HEARING Judge B. W. Alling will hear the arguments on the demurrer to the complaint in the case of Kimball | in police court Friday d this morning. | case was been con- tinued several times, is charged with embezzlement of $1,018.18 while manager of the local branch of the Jlaborated Roofing company and is represented by Aftorney Thomas F | McDonough. I In police court this morning, Prosecuting Attorney J. G. Woods | read a slight amendment to the nt, which does not affect the and Attorney McDonough demurrer concerns the com- plaint as amended. In the event that the demurrer is not sustalned, a date for the trial will be fixed Fri- day Pilot Ship Trails Messages received by the departs it from the planes ecarly today ed that the No. 2 machine, \g the flight commander was tralling the other by ahout 25 | miles. No. 1 passed Alligator reef, | the southernmost tip of Florlda, at < 3:2) a. m. and No. 2 touched the foosh teatlficd Hofine Ndamage 0| gyme inciny' a6} minutey\aters At B oy testifiod that he was drly. | (hat time, they hade travelled 787 i fV- | hautical miles” without mishap. ing not .ister than 15 or 20 miles | "autical an hour. [ = e i .| TRAVFIC A BANQUET. A'I\I;‘)’:‘v:‘(;r«llll:j:;\i ,'\“0":’ b ",M'“ The third annual banquet of tfie et of avtelion. Swanson had |y 15 ysoctation of the New Brit- the rizht of way. LeMay was driv- Naw, ain Chamber of Commerce will be ing recklossly, he sald. Attorney | ! 3 : h | held on Wednesday evening, Decem- Dunn contende? that the collision | n ; I'ber 8, at the Burritt hotel. Tt will was purely an accident. Tt has none | " : ; [be preceded by a reception at 6:30 of the element af reckless driving, | U Preceded by & recehton 58 FCD Judge Alling discharged LedMay | ©/¢lock. the banque ' 1 S0 lat 7 o'clock. There will be wnd remarked that he helioved Ewanson had the rvight of | dresses by prominent speakers. one of| The committee in charge of The case impressed him a ¢ | possible violation of {he rules of the | Faugements consists of R. W. Poteet, | 3. 1. Atwater, Usher, F. S. |rond, but not reckless driving. | Rmnsdell, A, J. Caouette, Leon ! FALL, 20 KIT | Cowles, J. E. Leitch, P. 1. Gaffney. HOU FALL, 20 KILLED Nice, France, Nov. 24 (A —Twen! President W, L. Bell and Secretary H | persons were killed today in the | R. town of Roquebilliere, in the depart- ment of Alpes Maritimes, when more | Joseph Zalesky went to work on than a score of louses collapsed. [a farm near Nanc; nce at the their foundations having been un-(age of nine and hasy worked it 91 dermined by a torrent from the Ves- | vears continuously. Ho is still able uble river. to do a full day's work. a ON POLIC Tsrael ver of 146 West street complained to the police that milk is heing stolen after he delivers it to a house at 66 Winter strect Carl Dombrosky of 54 Overlook avenue complained that boys have stolen and burned lumber from a house he is building. Charles Smith of 682 West Main street reported last night the theft of his automobile in front of his h r, Officers Licbler and Me( nd it in front of 268 Jerome b FIRE OX PERSHING AVE. Damage estimated at several hun- dre . dollars w done by fire in a | house at 124 Pershing avenue, own- od by Banzo Conacol, last evening. A defective smoke pipe caused the blaze, which ate it through the partitions to tha roof. Co. No. 4 of ‘(hr- fire department was called at | 6:30 o'clock. f «