New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 27, 1926, Page 1

FINAL EDITION ESTABLISHED 1870 KING FERDINAND'S CONDITION SURELY CAUSE FOR WORRY Rumanian Foreign Office How- ever, Denies He Is Dying From Blood Disease PARIS REPORTS STATE THAT HE IS DOOMED MAN| Other Dispatches From Bucharost Say Queen Marie Has Lost Her Popularity At Home and Question of Successor to 'Throme Has Thrown Entire Country Into Poli- tical Chaos. Rumania, Bucharest, Nov. 27 (P— [The Rumanian foreign office today formally authorized the Assoclated Press to categorically deny *un- founded and fantastic rumors that King Ferdinand is dying of a blood disease, and that the king's mental | Supernumerary vigor is impaired.” The king is continuing to re- cetve and work with his ministers daily. Reliable and authoritative sources report the monarch's condition im- proved. The newspapers announce today that the physicians In attendance upon the king are ready to forego an operation i his health appears to be better, and there is general 2greement from every available source that it is improved. There has not been the slightest suggestion cither in the press or in official circles regarding Princess Helen, wife of former Crown Prince Carol of membership in a regency. Scems Doomed Man Paris, Nov. 27 () — That Fer- dinand, king of Rumania is a doom- ed man there seems no longer any doubt. But the latest reliable news received in Paris indicates that he is manfully fighting the inroads of the cancerous growths and is slight- ly better than he was several days ago. General P. Angelesco, chiet of the king’s military family, who is in Paris, asserts that the monarch is in no immediate danget of death. He says he has come to Paris not to hasten Queen Marie to Bucharest, but to reassure her with regard to her husband's condition. The queen and her children, Prince Nicolas and Princess lleana, are returning from their visit to the United States and Canada on board the steamer Beren- garia. Specialist On Way Protessor Lecene, a French can- cer specialist, left for Bucharest last night to attend Ferdinand. He was summoned to the Rumanian capital by the French radiologist Dr. Roggot who arrived there Thursday. Meanwhile the political parties in Rumania are showing feverish ac- tivity. Owing to the serfous condi- tion of King Ierdinand. Credible advices reccived here say the prin- cipal preoccupation of the partles at present is over ~ modification in the composition of the council of re- gents named to rule in the event of the death of the king until Prince Michael, son of the abdicated Crown Prince Carol, shall reach his major- ity. ifodification Sure Modification is regarded as cer- tain. At present the regency coun- cll is made up of Prince Nicholas the head of the Rumanian church and the president of the supreme court. The brothers Bratiano, for | years virtual rulers in Rumania, are striving hard to obtain the support of all pa ‘ies in view of the present emcrgency. They already have that of Pre- mier Averescu's peoples’ party. The Bratianos and Averescu are sald to fear the consequences of a return to Rumania of Prince Carol to take the throne, which he renounced last January. The national party, headed hyl Nicholas Jorga, and the peasant party, led by M. Lupus, which are merged with the Transylpanian na- tionalist group, unreservedly accept- ed the succession modification last January, by which Prince Michael was put in line for the throne. But they now appear to be trylng to make political capital out of the sit- uation by subordinating their ad- hesion to the Bratiano plan to the granting of concesslons by the Bratianos which would be likely !0‘ enhance the power and importance of their partics, Carol in Background For the moment the question of Carol’s return is in the background. ! Many persons are of the belief that he ultimately will return and that| his reinstatement is more than prob- | mble, but that he first will have to overcome, by force of persuasion, | the opposition of the all-powerful | Bratianos it is asserted Carol can | only count on the support of the army, and that his task of obtain- ing the throne, while not impossi- ble, would be extremely difficult. 1t is generally reported that all| Rumania is looking for an early modification of the constitution with respect to the regency, and that ft! was this situation, rather than the king's health, that prompted Queen | Marie to cut short her visit to the | United States and return home. Goces to Mcet Queen It is asserted that although Gen- eral Angelesco will go to Cherbourg to meet the queen on the arrival of the stecamship Berengaria and possibly request her to hurry on to Bucharest, Marie will remain in WALKER IMPROVES BUT W‘m fresar oy ;ata) Hand-Shaking Has Made Her Wrist Strong, Says Princess, Wxth a Smile s 8. Beungarla. Nov. 27 @ —Princess Ileana derived at least one benefit from her tour of the United Statc: She is strong of arm. The princess had a long fencing bout in the ship's gymnasium with the instructor. Finally she was warned by him that she had better stop as she might injure her wrist. “I could fence for gonths after all the hand-shaking I did in America,” replied Ileana naively, WIFE'S MARTYR ROLE EXPLODED IN GOURT Said She Was Driving Car But Husband Is Jailed When the case of Steve Sarosky, aged. 23, of 152 Wilcox street came up for disposition in police court this morning, Prosecuting Attorney Woods sprang a surprise by putting Ofticer Michael Brophy and Norman Danberg on the witness stand and they testified that on the night of an accident which resulted in his arrest, Mrs. Sarosky in their presence, demanded to know of her husband whether or not he had been driving the car. He re- plied “shut up,” according to the surprise witnesses. When the case was heard Wed-| nesday, Mrs. Sarosky swore she was driving the car when it struck Wil-| liam Sadd’s car on Wilcox street, and | she produced witnesses who verified Ther statement. Because of the doubt | of Sarosky's guilt thus created, | Judge Alling reserved decision until | today. Attorney M. D. Saxe, defense coun- sel, called Judge Alling’s attention to the fact that Sergeant Ellinger's tes- | timony did not contain any reference | to the remark Officer Brophy quot- ed Mrs. Sarosky as having made. The attorney sald he did not believe she made the remark. “She ought to be brought in for | perjury,” Prosecuting Attorney Woods replied. “Anyone who would g0 on the witness stand and delib- erately lie the way she did. That's what I think of this case.” Judge Alling asked Attorney Saxe | 1f he wished another continuance in order to refute the new testimony. | The attorney conferred with Sarosky after which he Informed Judge | Alling that the only thing to be| galned by a continuance would be | the testimony of Mrs. Sarosky, which | has already been heard. There {8 no ground for the charge of evading responsibility, the attor- ney said, to which Judge Alling re- plied that he was not concerned with that feature of the case. “If this man was driving the car, and I am firmly convinced now that he was, and he comes in and says he was not, and others come in here and swear he was not, conditions are becoming pretty bad,” the judge said. “I don’t believe a man in his condition should be charged with evading responsibility. I find him gullty on the charge of driving un- der the influence. Thirty days in Jail.” Sorosky took an appeal in $500 bonds. Charles Demskl, aged 44, of 51 Clinton street, was fined $100 and costs and sentenced to jail for five days on the charge of operating an automobile while under the influence of liquor. He was represented by Judge W. F. Mangan, who said there wa: no possibility of refuting the testimony of Officers Strolls and | Stadler and Lieutenant Bamforth, who swore Jemski was under the influence of liquor at the time of his arrest following an accident on Broad street about 5:30 last eve- ning, but he called the attention of Judge Alling to the fact that Demski was honest with the police and the court in admitting he had two drinks of wine. He was not on a joy ride and he did not drive recklessly. His wife was with him when their car struck a machine driven by Walter Stokarski of 124 Booth street. Dem- ski is a'steady factory hand and the reason he was not at work yesterday was that the factory was not in op- eration. Judge Mangan said Demskl did not realize the strength of the wine he drank, apparently in observance of the holiday season. The police testified that he became more intoxi- cated as time went on, and this prov- (Continued on Page 16) [§ STILL UNCONSCIOUS Physicians Hope for Re- covery of Former H. S. Athlete Relatives of Carleton Walker, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Walker of 57| Harrison street, were advised today | that he is still unconscious, although some slight improvement is shown in his condition and there are hopes for his recovery. Walker is a third class man in the Virginia Military institute and was Injured in a foot- ball gamo Thanksgiving Day. He is in the Jefferson hospital at Roan- oke, Va., and his parents are with him. He was captain of New Brit- ain High school football team in (Continued on Page 12) 1924, | suspected of having | burglary in Waltham is also thought the | =W BRITAIN HERALD NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1926.—EIGHTEEN PAGES MRS. HALL OFFERED T0 WAIVE AL IMMUNITY AND TELL HER STORY TO FIRST GRAND JURY, WITNESS SAYS GUNS BARK AFTER FLEEING CAR IN MIDNIGHT CHASE Police Recover Stolen Auto After Long Pursuit Ino Berlin But Driver Disappears BULLETS AND NIGHTSTICK FAIL T0 HALT DAREDEVIL Operator, Suspected of Stealing Ma- chine In Waltham, Mass., Steps | On Gas When Patrolman At Main And East Main Streets Begins to Shoot—Posse Sticks Close to Heels of Fugitive. Speeding through Main Franklin Squa South Main street, to Kensington and Berlin at a 60 mile an hour rote, . stolen automo- bile driven by a man who tsc;\ped in the darkness after abandaning the car, was chased by several po- licemen, Police Commissioner M. W. Bannan and private citizens in auto- mobiles shortly after midnight, while bullets from police automatic pistols street, whizzed harmlessly through the air, | { all missing thelr target. ing the police established that the car, which is at the municipal gar- age, was stolen in Waltham, M: about 5:30 o'clock yesterday after- noon and Victor Riscato, aged 16, Is stolen it. A to have been young man. At 11:5 uel Bamforth was notified by the Hartford police that an automoblile had driven past a traffic signal and the driver was suspected of being a bootlegger. Within a few seconds after the report was received. Lieu- tenant Bamforth had the red light signals flashing In all parts of the committed by city, and a f.v minutes later several | policemen had answered and were | on the lookout for.the car, the re- gistration number having been caught by the Hartford police. Bullets Tznored About 12:15 o'clock Officer Thomas Blanchettc saw the car turning into Main street from Rast Main and stepping into the street he blew his whistle and shouted to the driver to stop. TInstead, the car took on additional speed and the chase was on. Officer Blanchette fired three times at the tires of the speeding car, honing to puncture them, but the hullets failed to find | their mark. He commandeered an automobile and gave chase. Meanwhile, Officer Tirnost Bloom- quest, on duty farther south on Main street, was attracted by the shots and he ran into and tried to stop the car. driver pald no attention to the command, apparently reallzing that he would have no chance of escap- ing arrest if caught, after the incl- dents In Hartford and again at| Main and Fast Maln streets. Off cer Bloomquist hurled his night stick at the windshield but it bounced back without doing any appreciable damage. Officer Thomas Lee also tried to stop the machine and Supernumerary Officer Carroll was attracted by the commotion and joined in the chase. Officer Willlam J. McCarthy, cov- ering his beat on Commercial street, stepped into the police sta- tion and reported that the car had been seen speeding through Main street. He and Supernumerary Of- ficer James M. McCue in the lat- ter's car started after it, and Po- lice Commissioner Bannan, driving his own: car, took ex-Councilman Tawrence M. Stanley and some po- licemen and gave chase. Mean- while, Officers’ Bloomquist and Lee commandeered Harry Shanahian's (Continued on Page Fifteen) YOUNG EDISON VERY ILL Son of Famous Inventor Il With Peritonitis in Delaware Hos- pital at Wilmington Wilmington, Del, Nov. 27 (A — Willlam L. A. Edison, was reported in a seri- | ous condition at Delaware hospital | here this morning. Peritonitls de- veloped after an operation for ap- pendicltis performed early yesterday morning. Young Edison, who is a resident of Centreville, Del., Philadelphia Thursday. Yale to Honor Head Of Penn R. R. System New Haven, Nov. 27 UP) — The Montelair cup, awarded annually to a distinguished Yale alumni this vear will go to General Willlam Wallace Atterbury, '86, president of the Pennsylvank raflroad. The award will be made at the annual smoker and football rally of the Yale club of Montclair and vicinity on December 11 at Montclair. Gen- eral Atterbury is the first railroad executlve to receive the prize. He has been in the services of the Pennsylvania raflroad since gradu- ating forty years ago. Devastating Fire Razes Many Places in Anatolia Constantinople, Nov. 27 (®—TFire today devastated the business quar- ter of Brusa, Anatolia. Two hun- dred shops were destroyed and sev- eral persons injured. The loss is estimated at $1,260,000. This morn- | o'clock Tjeutenant Sam- | the street | The | Edison, son of Thomas | was taken ill in | PRISONERS FLEE JAIL IN PITTSFIELD BREAK| Seven Makee¢Escape and Berk\hln. County Is Being Combed by Scarching Officers. Pittsficld, Mass, Nov. 27 (A —| Seven prisoners escaped from the Berkshire county Jjall here last night. They fled through a window in the guard room aftor sawingout ‘a bar of the iron grill. A general | lalarm was sent to police of sur- rounding towns but no trace of the men had been found after a search | of several hours. Five of the seven were serving | Imms ranging from 60 days to two| land one-half years. They were! jalone In the guardroom at the {time of the break waiting to be |placed in their cells for the night. | Their names given out by the au- thoritles were: Frank Paresi of Pittsfield, two and one-half | for breaking and entering freight j cars; Bernard Benedict, Great Bar- | rington, awaiting a hearing before |the grand jury on a charge of lar- |ceny; John Garris, Adams, await- ing a hearing on forgery charges; Frank G. Rennon, North Adams serving 60 days for drunkenne: Eugene Waldron, Williamstown, {serving six months; James Jackson | Pittsfield, scrving one year; Ray- | mond Hoag, Pittsfield, 'serving 11 | months. ‘GLIMBING DEATH TOLL - NOW HAS REACHED 84 Tornado’s Blasts in South- | ern Districts Cause Loss | of Over Million | Memphis, Tenn,, Nov. 27 (A— | Southern communities which felt the dcadly breath of whirling tornadocs | Thursday and Friday were clearing away debris and tending their wounded today as the total of those { killed by the wind's fury reached $4. The fnjured from Texas to Vir ginia were more than 300 and prop- | erty damage was expected to aggre- gate above a million dollars. Forces of the Red Cross were in action today in Arkansas where 47 died from the storm's violence. In Morehouse and Clairborne parishes of Louisiana, relief workers from Shreveport and Monroe were toiling to reestablish order where 16 had perished and much distress pre- ailed. Rehabilitation went forwa | in other statés where tho fittul tom- | pest had wrought destruction in swirling through Arkansas Thursd | night, striking in Tiouisiana, Mi {issippi, Alabama and Tennessee, then finishing its fatal course day at Portsmouth, Va. | Reports from the marked states today gave these esti- mates of known dead, in addition to |a number Arkans Louisiana, 16; Mississippl, 1 i ; Alabama, 3; Southern Missouri, 4 nd Virginia, 3. | Heber Springs, Ark., where the | storm's toll was heaviest with 21 | tead recorded, by gallant effort had | treated her nearly three score | wounded and cleared her streets of | debris. MRS, NELSON WILL BE 05 YEARS OLD MONDAY | Performs Household Tasks and Attends Church Regularly I various storm It Mrs. Inga Nelson of 55 Pearl street will have a birt! : Monday and if she does: invite anyone except those who were born as early or earlier in the history of | the world than she . she will | have to go a great deal farther than | New Britain to find many guests. Mrs. Nelson will be years old Monday, and there probably are not | more tham two or three others in | the clty who come within a year or | two of the same age. Many changes have taken place in | the history of the world since Mrs. Nelson was born in Sweden, Novem- ber 29, 1831, | At the time of her birth, Andrew Jackson was president of the United | States, having succeeded John | Quincy Adams. Veterans of the Rev- olutionary war were alive and ma I were still working on their farms. Queen Victoria was 12 years ol | Abraham Lincoln was 22 vears old | |and Robert E. Lee, later fo become one of the greatest American gen- erals, was 24 years old. Six years after Mrs. Nelson was | born, Grover Cleveland was born. Sixteen years later the United States | troops marched victorious into Mexi- | co City and the Mexican war was | ended. Thirty-two s before her | birth the country's f president, | | George Washington, passed away. | The same year she was born Jo- | seph Smith professed to have re- ceived his revelations and four years later Brigham Young was appointed an apostle of the Morman church, When Mrs. Nelson was 16 years lola the battle of Waterloo was | fought and the reign of Napolean was ended. Forty-cight years before she was | (Continued on Page 15.) THE WEATHER New Britain and vicinity: Fair, with cc | wave tonight; Sunday fair. *| | the | far west to ma | Lloyd 8 | and Nelson, CROWD OF 110,000 WILL WATCH GAME As Time Draws Near, Ny, Rules Slight Favorite 'WEATHER GLEAR AND GOLD of Hartford One 0( At Station WTIC Chain to Broadcast Contest Alr Chicago and Goes On At 5 o'Clock. [ 27 (M—Rich as is| vy foothall fray in color b it reached the climax| acle today with the grea | i g0, Nov. the and traditi Army- as a spec est crowd o 100,000, in gridiron history, clo marshalied from all parts | of the country to fill the expanse of ldiers Field. usands came from far and to sce and be a part of the . if decidedly chilly setting: | 1s came not alone for elements of the idwestern battleground ' a battle between two of the most formidable elevens in ' the cy, neither viewpoint, providing | as well protected against the| blasts from Lake Michigan, °ly to be disappointed. Come By Thousands | Few sporting events have attract- | as notable a throng as this and only one, the Dempsey-Tunney fight | of last September in Philadelphia, | has been the magnet for a greater cutpouring of fans from all walks of life. They came by thousands from re the 28 previous serv- ice tilts have heen fought, and in large numbers from the south and e the occasion as | nationally representative as it is na- | tionally interesting. Dyed-in-the-wool football fans who haven't missed a football classic mingled with such conspicu- nages as Vice-President | cretaries Davis and Wil- cr Longworth, Governor | Ritchie of Maryland, Mayor Walker | of New York and high officers both branches of the service, Good Game Likely The game itself gave every promise of supplying the thrills cagerly sought for by this great out- pouring of spectators. Seldom have the rival academies sent such well- | drilled and well-matched elevens | into battle and never before has any | more significonce been attached to the outcome. Expert opinion, which largely had favored the chances of the Army, | howed an over-night drift in senti- | ment 1 prospects of a for the first time since It didn't require much of & to figure the outcome as a tees-up for ering on the game no time put the odds on the lets at more than 7 to Navy Has Much At Stake The fact that the Navy had more t stake than the Army reacted in avor of the Midshipmen, it was not | that the Cadets had any less inven- tive to win but that the Midshipmen| with a clean slate of eight major victories, sought a victery that| would clinch mythical eastern title | laurels and put the sailors on a par with Alabama, Stanford, Notre | Dame or any other claiment for na- tional championship honors. Army's veteran eleven has b ated as considerably more powerful | than the team that trampled the Middies at the Polo Grounds, 10 to 3, last year but the Navy’s improve-, ment has been more specta Where the Cadets trounced beat Syracuse and lost only b touchdown to the undefeated Dame outfit, the Midshipmen swept | aside such powerful opposition Princcton, the champion of the “Big Three”; Colgate, which tied Brown's| “iron men”; Georgetown, the con- queror of Syracuse, and Michigan, co-champlon of the western confer- cnce, s newly dedicated i e the Navy Tine Heavier The Navy's line held a decided | weight advantage over its rlval for- ward bulwark; pounds to 182 for the r cts. Both were well-protected on the flanks with Charley Born and| rbold on the Army outposts and aring the Navy wings with Hardwick. The tackles presented and array of All-American timber with Sprague and Saunders of the Army opposite Captain Wichkhorst | (Continued on Page Seven) ALLAMERICA TEAMS . MAKING APPEARANCE \e“ spaper Cuhcc Get To-f gether for Annual } Selections | | | New York, Nov. 27 (P) — All- | American teams made their appear- | ance here today, with newspaper critics in agreement on a se of a majority of the outs linemen. Friedman of Michigan quarter and Joesting of Minnesota at fullback were unanimous choices, but there was a wide difference of | opinion on halfbacks. | Following fs a concensus of news- paper opinion on all-American line- men: Broda, Brown and Hanson, Syracuse, ends; Wickhorst, Navy Towa, tackles; Schmidt, Army, and Hess, Ohio State, guards; Boeringer, Notre Dame, center. | Baker, Northwestern; Rogers, Pennsylvania; O'Boyle, Notre Dame; | Kaer, Southern California and Wil- | son, Lafayette, were mentioned chiefly for the haltback positions. | was accidental, {not been called as a | son, Long Awaited Defense Witniess { | S e Average Daily Circulation For Week Ending 14,077 20th . PRICE THREE CENTS | Waited in Someml]e All Day at 1922 In- vestigation But Was Not Called Upon, Ac- cording to Pfeiffer. Widow to Be Called Today —Defense Offers to Show Letters to Prove She Tried to Get Case Reopened and Solved. HINTS CLUE TO REAL MURBERERS Court House, Somerville, N. I, Nov. 27 (P—John , of the New Jersey attorne I's office, was called as the first witness for the defense on resumption of the Hall- | Mills trial this morning. | Cran, had Solon produced two letters which been written by Timothy N. Pfeiffer, to Attorney General M concerning the investigation | of the murders of lhy Rev. canor R. Mills ances Stev- brothers, Henry W. Hall and M four years ago. ens Hall and her and Willie Stevens, are being tried | for the murder of Mrs. Mills. | attorney. | letters suggestions for the investigation but these be found. Pfeiffer is attorney for Mrs. Hall. Colon said he had searched the -general's offices for other written to McCran offering additional letters could not Examining Diary Alexander Simpson, special prose- cutor, announced in court this morning that handwriting experts | were examining the diary of Henry | Stevens which was presented when | { MRS. FRANCES STEVENS HALL | | ices after the murders also would SHITH NOT GULTY OF CHARLOTTE ON ALERT MURDER, JURY DECIDES ~ FOR NEW SENSATION Verdict Given Despite Judge’s Hints That Eng- lishman Was Guilty Maidstone, Eng., Nov. 27 (A—Al- phonse F. A. Smith today was found not guilty of murder or ma ter in connection with the shooting of his friend, He was sentenced to 12 months at hard labor for carrying firecarms with intent to end i 2 Addressing the jury the socially prominent swear that the shooting of laugh- John Thomas Derham. which heard defendant, friend | his summation: ‘There is no motive more likely to cause man or woman to desire to do |injury than jealousy The prosecution sed its case on the theory that Smith shot Der- ham in a fit of jealous rage over the latter's attentions to Mrs. Smith. Pointing out that Mrs. Smith had witness, the judge sald: “Is it conceivable it she could support or corrabors the story which Smith has told you, she would have been called as a wit- ness for the defense?” Referring to the “unwritten lav the judge said that this was a name for no law at verting us to e state of barbar- ism."” (The prosecutor at the open- ing of the tria' declarcd there was no “unwritten law’ Zngland.) Dealing with Smith’s plea t1 had intended to con that Derham was ace during the strguule, the a law reading: “If & man pulls the t rof a revolver with intent to kill himsel X x x and accident Kkills_some | one else, he is guilty of murder.’ MOURN BROWNING'S DEATH Belglan Labo: tory Fecls v shot judge cited Loss of American Inventor—Was Stricken With Heart Attack. Brussels, Belgium, Nov. 27 (P— John M. Browning, the noted Ame: can firearms inventor who died y terday at Herstals, near Liege, ap- parently collapsed from a heart at- tack as he entered his apartment after sever hours' work at the Herstal laboratory, with which he had been connected since 1897. He was found dead by his valet. The body will be taken to his home in Ogden, Utah. Mr. Browning, who was 72 years old, was accompanied on his last visit to Belgium by his wife, their Val Browning and grand- daughter. They will sail on the Ma- jestic next Wednesday. The officials of the Herstal labor atory today issued a statement re- gretting the passing of their “most preclous collaborator and friend.” Judge Avery said in | all X X X Ye-| | Swears She Saw Defense Counsel Chief Talk | to Juror | dictment as he was called to the witness stand last week. A bill for $5,000 pre- sented by Felix Di Martini, private detective, to Mrs. Hall tor his serv- be studied by the handwriting ex- pert, the prosecutor said. Mus. Carpender Called Mrs. Henry Carpender whose hus- band is now in jail on a similar in- the three defendants was the next witness. A trim figure in gray, she testified that she took her husband to the 7.55 train to New York on Saturday 16, and met him at 1:20. places Carpender in New York at the time the state alleges he took papers from the Hall home. Mrs. Carpender said she and her | husband spent the next day at the | shore and that her husband did not BY CHARLOTTE MILLS. i Copyright 1926, Famous Features | S te Inc. | Somerville . Nov. 27—Some- thing unu; ving today in this white-hot cauldron of the Hall- | Mills murder trial. It seems that | ator Simpson, the firey prosecu- tdr, is about to throw more fuel on the flames, I can't figure out all the whys and wherefores, but I was called over to state trooper's head- quarters to make an affidavit that w Mr. McCarter, one of the de- to one of the ago before court opene d. I made a complaint at nu»‘ , but nothing was done about it. e into something | ct the trial. I| m waiting patiently to sce what it | 1l about. In the meanwhile, | Hall is due to take the stand. | “woman with the iron mask.” under the | Simpson", S} woman _of | . her riches will vita The Will hamm that ering of ) cold She is tighting for her | She will have many n before she can con- that she had absolute- Iy no connection with the death of my mother and her own husband. She must tell why her lawyers hired | Detective DiMartini, although she | professed no great interest in the | solution of the murder mystery. To me, Di Martini, who was on the stand yesterday, was not a very convincing witness. He followed the usnal procedure of the defense wit- denying everything., Ac- cording to him all his activities were ed by the highest motives. | en he finished testifying I sup- | e the defense expected to see a | halo over his head. He admitted that he shadowed my father after the murders and worked on the theory that he com- mitted the crime. I am surprised he \cct me, but he admitted that I\P didn't. That was great de- tective work on his part. He denied that he had ever seen Mrs. Demar- est, who swore that he tried to bribe her. I don't think a woman like Mrs. Demarest would imagine a thin; like that. Di Martini admitted working 121 days on turned over no evidence to the state. Surely the great detective must have | collected some data during that | time, and it he and his employers were so interested in solving the mystery why didn’t he at least make the gesture of trying to help the state. Dut at that time the state was no more interested than he v as in getting at the truth. things to ext vinee the j nesses by that n[tnr! the case he | (Continued on Page 12) !go to the Hall home on that day. “No uestion announced Simp- son when the witness was turned over to him. Pfeiffer was next called. Martini Recalled Simpson announced that he want- od to question Felix di Martini fur- ther and the detective was recalled. “Did you ever see this letter of George Sipel?” Simpson asked, read- ing that “our county doctor has a story afloat of having seen Henry Stevens in New Brunswick on the night of the killing: “Was that shown to you?” Simp- son asked. “Let me see the letter,” Martini. “Yes,” said di Martini. You had already seen Sipel?” “I saw Sipel after the second let- ter,” said di Martini. “Did you ask Sipel for an ex- planation?” asked Simpson. “I only saw him with reference to compensation,” said di Martini. “Did you ask for the name of the saild di “Why not if you were actually try- ing to solve?” “When he asked to be compen- | sated I thought it better for Pfeif- fer to go.” “Did you ever pay or offer Sipel any compensation?” asked Case. No,” replied Di Martini. “And of course you wouldn't bribe witnesses?” sald Simpson. Sipel was then recalled by Simp- son. Rusecll E. Watson of defense an- nounced he had told Sipel he might (Continued on Page 14) |TEA ROOM ILLEGAL, IS BUILDING DEPT. RULING Protest of Nelghboring Property Owner Near Stanley Quarter Park Ts Upheld. Notice will be sent out today from the building department to Mrs. Frank L. Traut, that her tea room opposite Stanley Quarter park is lo- | cated in a residential district and is therefore {llegal. The building department is acting on a complaint of P. W. Smith, own- er of a residence in course of con- struction on the lot north of the tea room site. A petition to the board of adjust- ment for a special exception to zoning which would permit carrying on this business is expected to fol- low today's action.