New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 29, 1926, Page 12

MRS. HALL ENDS ++ HERTESTIMONY (Continued from First Page) evidence, didn't you?" “Yes." “Did you tell Mr. Toolan, or any- | ©ne else, ‘They must have been kill- od'?” 0. Denics Murder Talk “You didn't say to Mr. Mills, they've been murdered or they'd come home'?" “Where did you telephone Mr. Hall's sister from?” “From a drug store.” Used Public Booth “A public telephone booth “Yes.” “What time?"” | “I think it must have been about te: o'clock.” This was Friday morning, after the murder Thursday night, when Mrs. Hall telephoned Mrs. Frances Voorhees, of Jersey City, sister of the minister. Upon learning of her | brother's disappearance, Mrs. Voor- | he - notified her sister In New York, | Mrs. Theodora Bonner, and together | they went to New Brunswick. “Did you meet your husband’s rs at the railroad station?” Y Never Notified Police “Although he was out all night, | and yqu thought something had hap- pened, to him, you never notified the | policey giving your name?” ! “How long after all these Inves- | tigations and talks did you no(l!y{ the police and give your name?” | Mrs. Hall explained that her at- | torney, former State Senator Flor- | ance, had notified the police Friday | afternoon. Earlier she had told of calling the police without giving her name. Simpson Presses Questions Time and again Simpson put the same questions: | “Why did you let all Friday, the day after your husband failed to come home, go by without having | done more to learn where he was?” and “Why, if you did not suspect they were together did you tell the Middlesex county authorities in 1922, | *They were absent, I feared some harm had come to them, I could think of nothing else’?"” “Let me ask you again,” Simpson sald, “can you tell why you put your husband and Mrs. Mills together early on the morning after he fail- ed to come home, and why you said to Middlesex authorities ‘They were absent, I feared some harm had come to them, I could think of nothing else’?"” Learned Mrs. Mills Was Gone Mrs. Hall smiled at the prosecutor | when he put the question again. “The last person I knew of his hav- ing seen was Mrs. Mills. He told me | he was going out to see her about her hospital bill. T went to the Mills | house to see if they knew where he ! ‘had gone and learned that Mr 1ls | elso was missing.” “Didn't you hear that tclephono; conversation between your husband | and Mrs. Mills?” Simpson continued. “I did not,” sald Mrs. Hall very positively. Then the other was | brought in again. f “Why did you sit in the house all | day Friday, doing nothing but tele- | phoning the police and not giving your right name and then calling your lawyer in the afternoon and | having him make inquiry?” Simpson | asked. | “That question is incorrect and does not include all the facts” Robert H. McCarter of defense coun- sel asserted in voicing his objection. The court agreed with him and the question was changed to state that Mrs. Hall had not given any name when she telephoned police and to include that she had sum- moned Mr. Hall's sisters. Called in Her Lawyer ™I telephoned the police in the morning,” said Mrs. Hall. “Then I summoned my sisters-in-law and after we had discussed what could be done, I called in Mr. Florance.” Florance testified last week that ‘while he did not regard himself as Mrs. Hall's attorney, he had settled two estate for members of her fami- 1y. Simpson read to Mrs. Hall a state- ment represented as having been | question | home,” Mrs. Hall repeated. | tive, | had and the late Az riah Beekman, | writing a letter to Mrs. | the disappearance lyn without an autopsy. Simpson asked. Wanted Body Home. “I asked to have the body brought home,” Mrs. Hall replied, “but Mr. Hubbard, the undertaker, said he thought it would be wiser not to.” “What was wiser?” Simpson ask- ed. “You stayed home all Saturday night while his remains lay in the morgue, all Sunday and Sunday night while your dearly beloved hus- band to whom you were devoted and whom you never suspected had met violent death at the hands of somenone you didn't know.” “I had asked for it to be brought ‘Why?" “This man was your life partner,” Simpson continued, ‘“you say you were devoted to him, and 1 believe you. You thought he was a spot- less Christian gentleman and yet you never went near to where he was, although his murderer had wiped the best out of your life. You never looked at his face.” Object to Question. “You were more concerned in looking at the man who was taking your picture here Saturday than you in looking at your husband’s : Simpson questloned, explain- ing that there might be objection to his question. “That same question has been asked four times,” McCarter object- ed, but the court permitted it to be put. What did you do to ald the in- vestigators?” “I went to the prosecutor.” “You had a watchman and you also hired a detective?” “You hired him to unvefl murder?"” “Yes.” “Why didn't you give his reports to the prosecutor?” “Mr. Pfeiffer was in charge.” Trip to the Church. Simpson then asked Mrs, Hall about the tirst time she told of her trip to the church to look for her husband early Friday morning. Aft- er he had falled to return home. George D. Totten, Middlesex detec- testifying for the state, had sald Mrs, Hall told him of the trip near the close of a conversation he this the prosecutor of Middlesex county had with her the Sunday morning after the bodies had been found | | Saturday that her husband had been | son. murdered, did she tell Miss Agnes| “No.” Saturday. Totten said Mrs. Hall told him of her trip to the church after he had told her he had infor- | mation that a woman was seen to enter the Hall home about 2 o'clock Friday morning. Asked why she hadn't told the detective of the trip to the church before this, Mrs. Hall replied that she had not been She described the interview as mor of a conversation than an inquiry. When Simpson tried to press her foi a reason for failing to tell about| the incident, until near the close of the interview, McCarter objected | that the intervnew was not conduct- ed in a chronological order. “Were you in Maine in 1922 your husband?" “Yes.” Never Read Letter “Did you ever look over his shoulder when he was half through lills 2" “No “Was Mrs. Mills ever at a sum- mer camp with your husband?” “Yes." “Did you have a quarrel with Mr. |4 which the letters were marked for Hall about this camp?" The witness was then asked about an interview in 1922 and said there were twenty or more reporters pres- ent at the interview which lasted one hour. “Did you communicate with your brother, Henry Stevens, Friday after of your hus- band?” “No."” Not Yet Convinced As the cross examination now she was not sure there had been anything serious in her husband's relations with Mrs. Mills. “After hearing all this evidence,” Mrs. Hall sald, “I admit there was some slight attachment, but I am not convinced it was anything seri- ous.” ‘When the questioning turned to Mrs. Mills' stay in the hospital, Simpson asked the witness it she asked about it. | With g her to conclude he would not be | | pro- | | gressed Mrs. Hall asserted that even | i | Storer, organist of the Rev. Mr.| “You didn't start out to De Rus- | Hall's church, that he would not be ' sey’s Lane because of your finding | present for choir practice I'riday these letters from Mrs. Mills to your evening. [ husband, or that were brought to | Mrs. Hall replied that since her |you by Mrs. (Minna) Clark?” husband had been away since the N evening before she concluded he | | would be away while the choir prac- | | tice was being held. “You said positively he will not be t choir practice?” “Perhaps.” Simpson Gets Angry “Why can't you answer, ves or | n0?" asked Simpson, clearly anger- ed | Mrs. Hall again explained that her husband’s absence for an entire day o You were never informed of thelr contents?" “No.” “You had heard in no conversa- tion that they were to meet?” Denics Being in Lane “No."” “You didn’t go there (De Russey's Lane) with Henry Stevens and dur- ing a quarrel between Henry Stevens and Mr. Hall, saw your husband shot down?” | “I did not.” i “You didn't see Mrs. Mills shot | three times and her throat cut, and | | | | | present for choir practice. 19 Letters Shown Mrs. Hall was then asked to identify a package of letters. Their nature was not revealed, but the fact ‘ that some of them had been written | | on mourning stationery indicated that they were in letters written after the Rev. Mr. Hall's death. | Then came a wait of ten minutes . her tongue and larynx torn out?" “No* Shows No Emotion Mrs. Hall did not show any trace of emotion as the prosecutor de- scribed how Mrs. Mills’ throat had been cut. Throughout the trial the state has contended that the choir singer's tongue and larynd had been torn out and Simpson frequently had drawn attention to the fact that these were the “singing orga You never saw these letters until T showed them to you now?” “I did not." | identification. There were nineteen of them and the delay seemed one | of the most difficult periods of Mrs. Hall's time on the stand. Once or | twice she appeared ill at ease, | watching the clock, then turning to the jury and swaying forward| Mrs. Hall next was shown the love slightly. |letters written by her husband to When the letters were all marked, | Mrs. Mills. She looked at these let- | Simpson continued: “Now, Mrs. Hall, | ters also without seeming to be af- you have said that this calamity was | fected by them. Asked by the prose- the most terrible thing in your life, | cutor if she had ever before scen the “When was your attention first di- rected to these letters which were found at the body and in the Mills { home?"” “I think the first I ever heard of them was in fhe office of the New Brunswick prosecutor, some time after the crime.” “Did you see the originals?” *No, I was handed a copy of one of the letters?” “Did you read it?" “No." Didn’t Read Papers “DId you read the papers immedi- ately after the crime?” “No.” “At whose advice?” “The Rev. Mr. Conover advised me not to.” | “When did you first read the let- | ters which have been introduced at this trlal as passing between your | | husband and yourself?” | wo weeks before the trial.” “Was that the first time you had | {read them?” | “Tell us whether your view of your | husband suffered any change.” Mrs. Hall hesitated. “Do you mean | concerning his regard for me, or—," | sain she faltered, and then went on | “or concerning anything that had | gone on in his life?” Simpson objected with a slight | reference to the jury: “What this |Jury is interested in, or ought to he | !interested in,” he said, “is not what | | Mrs. Hall now thinks of her hus- band, but what she thought of him | | | | ticn asked: ‘to express her sympathy | witness this afternoon, | Photos, rushed by airplane and fast train, show Mrs. Hall on s tand in murder courtroom in Somerville, N. J., and as she ap- peared arriving at the courthouse to make her dramatic appear ance as a defense witness. to glve any alarm before she was convinced that he would not return. Denies Charlotte’s Story Simpson, taking the witness brief- ly for re-cross examination, again brought out that shc¢ had declined to see Charlotte Mills soon after the murders, when the girl called at the Hall home. Mrs. Hall denfed that the girl had been prevented from entering the house. McCarter, on re-direct examina- ‘You told Mr. Pfeiffer to see her? “Yes.” Mrs. Hall sald she asked Pfeiffer for the girl. Pfeiffer, on the witness stand, had said he advised Mrs. Hall not to see Miss Mills, because he knew Charlotte was employed by a news- paper. Mrs. Fannie H. Voorhees, of Jer- sey Cily, a sister of Mr. Hall, was a She corro- borated the story told by Mrs. Hall | with regard to some of the defend- ants movements on the day after Mr. Hall failed to come home. “Mrs. Hall was very, very unhap- py,” she said in describing the cvents of September 15, 1922. The defense was overruled in at- tempting to get into the record that Mrs. Hall sent for a lawyer after conferring with two of Mr. Hall's sisters. An attempt to show that both Mr. Hall's sisters and his mother, until the time of her death, had continued |warm friends of Mrs. Hall also was | unsuccesstul, | . “Did Mrs. Hall, on Friday or on | Monday at the funeral, or any other four years ago."” The question was permitted. “Tell us whether your view of that it wiped out all that made life | worth living. Isn't it a fact that in all these nineteen letters there is not one phrase of sorrow, not one recol- lection for the husband for whom you have testified you were so de- voted 2" McCarter was overruled in an ob- jection to the effect that the letters would speak for themselves. “I have no recollection,” Mrs. Hall Sees Husband’s Iove Letters Mrs. Mills' love letters to sald the had ever scen the prayer which her | Rev. Mr. Hall were shown to Mrs. | husband wrote for the choir sing- er. er which the state has introduced in evidence, and she said she had never | seen it. made by her to Toolan, in which she “You never saw your husband was quoted as saying, after her hus- | band’s disappearance: alive after he left home on the eve- “Something must have happened | ning of September 14, 1922, saying to him. The only thing that would | he was going to the Mills home?” keep him (Mr. Hall) away Is that Simpson questioned. some harm has befallen him.” In| “I didn't say he said he was going this same statement Mrs. Hall was | to the Mills home,” replied Mrs. auoted also as saying that it her Hall. “I said he .aid he was going husband was with Mrs. Mills “It was | out to see about Mrs. Mills' bill.” for some good reason. Produces Letters Saw Mills Again | The prosecutor produced a large *Did you see Mills more than once | envelope filled with letters which that day?” asked Simpson, referring | Mrs. Hall had written her brother | During and de- Henry Stevens from Italy. the investigation Simpson tectl raided Henry Stevens' home and apparently these letters | were confiscated at that time. “You went to Italy in February the Simpson asked. " replied Mrs. Hall. ou have said that you were brokenhearted and this tragedy wiped out every You corresponded Henry, while you w Did you ever mention a s 1 of regret, sorrow of loneline McCarter objected on t ound it the question would require th to the Friday after the couple's dis- “Yes." “What time?” “About one o'clocl “What did you say to him?” “I asked if he had heard anything. He said ‘no’." Mrs. Hall, in reply another stion, if she hadn't concluded her husband and Mrs. Mills were to- gether, said that she rather con- cluded that, as her h he was going to th to in le P: son asked “Barbara home. to ¥ri Mrs. Hall Tougk ness to read all the lott court ruled that the be answered and did not recall letters. . Hall h uestion t won't come home tonight'?" “I don’t remember that T did.” M “Didn’t you say that he would not | Europ: g0 with Mrs. Mills AUS out of your class’ made two tr husban Alleged Remark “As you were near cither of these trips, o was Simpeon reverted to the question of whether she had notified t hospitals when her husbhand disap- peared, and Judg the prosecutor t had repea 1y been over that ground The repetition of questions veered to why Mrs, Hall had not had her husband's body brought home. o deeply attached nding ou say t while about thre York?" nswered Mrs. Hall. an" referred to by Mrs. Jane Gibson, 's star witness, who said she Mrs. Hall and her brothers at 1S d'? Did of your trip out from N oy e days You were to | Simpson your husband, you had no suspiclons | sta of him and yet you let his remains | s lie in an undertaker's morgue until | the scene of the crime, it was brought to the church with- | he prosccutor then asked Mrs. out palibearers and burled in Prook- | Hall why, if she didn't know until was He handed her a copy of the pray- | ith your | Hall | nts | the coat to | at on either | Hall. She looked at them without showing any sign of emotion. “You'd never seen these letters tters, Mrs. Hall said she had seen them only after the death of her husband. you went down town and drew a ten {dollar check?" { Mrs. Hall answered that she was | not sure about cashing any ten dol- |lar check Saturday morning. | “Are you able to say that those nineteen letters are all you your brother Henry from abroad?" | McCarter asked on re-direct ex- amination. “I am not,” Mre, Hall replled. “Was you husband well known in |bcth New Brunswick hospitals?” “Yes.” n Saturday you were upset by | | your husband's disappearance, yet | wrote | until after the crime?” asked Simp- DOLSIT T CHT OIS GON Wil ~— = your husband suffered any change,” McCarter repeated. He was standing in addressing his questions to the witness. Opinion of His Affection “It did not change in regard to | nis affection for me,” sald Mrs. Hall. | “Did it change with regard to his | }rcla(mns to Mrs. Mills?” | It did.” “Was it your belief on Friday | night after your husband had dis- appeared, that he would have com- municated with you if alive?” | “It was” | McCarter then drew from the wit- {ness that she hesitated td make pub- lic her husband's disappearance or | * UGTEN ime, have any scratch on her face?” asked MecCarter. “None whatever,” answered Mrs. Voorheees. State witnesses had tes- tified they saw a scratch on Mrs. Hall's cheek. Mrs. Theodora Bonner, sister of the Rev. Mr. Hall, was the next witness, having also been a witness of the state, “At the time of the tragedy, was Mrs. Hall's hair white?” asked Mc- Carter. “No, it was grey,” answered Mrs. Bonner. When Mrs. Hall removed her hat for the only time in the courtroom, when she was to be iden- tified by Mrs. Gibson, her hair was rovealed as between grey and white. another Goat-Getters TO WS, PATSY, HERES COMETING: You QHOULD KNOW AGOUT- -— ~ YOURE IY T MICSY OF THE MOST HRLLNG PURT OF Youl? GIORY, ' SOME: HEMPER OF T FAMILY ©EARS A LONGWINDED ATICLE- AEOUT WAL GTATIGYICS™ OR MMIYS® N MEANG 'BR OME GICH F @ WCY Id Mra. Bonner sald Mrs, Hall was ‘“very much upset,” when the two sisters arrived at the Hall home in response to a telephone call from Mrs. Hall Saw No Scratches, Mrs. Bonner sald she saw no scratches on Mrs, Hall's face. On re-direct examination McCar- ter asked Mrs. Bonner, if Mrs. Hall had said at any time that she hoped Mrs. Jane Gibson was dead, and that the only mistake she made was in sending her coat to Philadeluhia to be dyed instead of burning it. “She certainly did not,” replied Mrs. Bonner. Trial Ends Wednesday The trial will end Wednesday, just one month after it began, defense and prosecution attorneys believe, Clarence E. Case is expected to sum up for the defense, taking per- haps half a day for it, while Spe- clal Prosecutor Alexander Simpson, representing the state, will take about two hours. He will dwell on the circumstantial evidence he has presented against the defendants. Before court opened today 157 witnesses had been called to the stand, 87 by the state and 70 by the defense. The state has 12 wit- nesses for rebuttal. With her direct testimony almost completed, Mrs. Hall today faced the major part of her cross examination as a conclusjon to the defense's case with the exception of two or three minor witnesses. Henry and Willle Stevens, broth- ers of Mrs, Hall, who are on trial with her on charges of murdering Mrs. Eleanor R. Mills, testified ear- lier as did Mrs. Mills, that they had nothing to do with the crime. Special ~ Prosecutor Alexander Simpson began his cross examination of Mrs. Hall Saturday iu a far more vigorous manner than he employed in questioning her brothers, but she could not be shaken from the story which she told under direct exam- ination. This was that she knew nothing of the murder, nor of the love affair of her husband, the Rev. Edward W. Hall, and Mrs. Mills until the couple had been found slain on a deserted farm outside New Brunswick four years ago. Defense plans to call Mrs. Salome Cerenner, aged mother of Mrs. Jane Gibson, to attack the credibility of her daughter’s testimony, have been abandoned, Robert H. Neilson of de- fense counsel says. Mrs. Gibson, who testifiled for the state from a sick bed that she had seen the de- fendants at the scene of the mur- der, collapsed three weeks ago when she saw her mother in the court room and was informed that Mrs. Cerenner had been called as a char- acter witness. Waterbury 0Oil Station Manager Is Held Up ‘Waterbury, Conn., Nov, 29.—(P— Two armed men keld up Edward O. Loughlin of 187 Wolcott street, street, Waterbury, and took $80.90 in cash from him last night. He is manager of an oil station here and was going home soon after closing time, 11 o'clock, with the after- noon’s and evening's receipts of the station when the robbery occurred. Two men dressed as the same ones who held up Loughlin were seen in | Stratford earlier in the evening, and | later in Bridgeport. They are wanted | 1n both cities for robberles: The pair were dressed, from all descriptions | {1n old army overcoats, and tattered | caps. Situation In China Is Reported As Serious London, Nov. 29.—{F—Serlous | developments of the situation in i China have occurred at Hankow, | where grave anti-foreign agitation is | in progress, Forelgn Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain today told the House of Commons. Peking, Nov. 29.—(P—The civil | government of Peking, stripped of its power over the republic because | of the factional stress among its provinces, has resigned in what is sald to be an effort to force the northern militarists to assume responsibility for the administration. Reports Highwayman, Is Held For Evasion After reporting to Sergeant Rival early Sunday morning that he had been held up in West Hartford, near the New Britain line,. Herbert Han- son of 450 Main street was arrested for evading responsibility and was turned over to the state police. His case will be heard in West Hartford town court. The police recelved word from New Britain General hospital au- thorities during the investigation of Hanson's report, that Michael Mc- Ginnis of 95 Smalley street had been brought in for treatment for a fracture of the letf ankle, Suspect- ing that Hanson knew something of the accident which caused the in- Jury, the police held him for the state police. MODERN WOODMAN In response to a complaint to Captaln Kelly shortly after 1 o'clock this afternoon that a man was destroying trees at 153 Sexton street, Officer Michael Meehan brought in Jerry Lynch, No. 1, and charged him with drunkenness. Ac- cording to witnesses, Lynch was pulling branches off trees and said he had orders to trim them. SKIDS ON TROLLEY TRACKS Herbert Young of 28 Garden street, an employe of the W. H. Hall Construction Co. notified Cap- tain Kelly at 2:20 this afternoon that as he was drlving west on West Main street near the Lyceum theater, the wheels of his car caught in the trolley tracks and as the car skidded, it struck an auto- mobile owned by Ernest N. Hum- phrey of 171 Lincoln street, dam- aging the left fender and throw- ing the front wheels out of align- ment. MOTHER AND BOY HIT Mrs. Irene Papeski of 18 Kelsey street and her six-year-old son were struck by an automobile driven by Luger Bedard of 11 Oak street near the corner of Maple and Park streets late Baturday night. They were not injured, Mr. Bedarad reported, Mr. Bedard sald he was backing sway from the curb because of a parked car in front of him and he could not avoid striking the woman and child. READ HERALD CLASSIFIED ADS | FOR YOUR WANTS City Items Members of Alexandra Lodge, No. 24, A. L O. D, Daughters of St. George, will be entertained at the home of Mra. Ernest Whatnalliof of 11 Kelsey street, Tuesday afternoon. The regular meeting will be held in Vega hall Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock. A marriage license was issued to- day to Fred Alton Dehm of 4§ Griswold street and Miss Rose Ger- trude Sadd of 100 Seymour street. Mr. Edward Gromko, son of Mr. and Mra. Frank Gromko of 52 Booth street has resumed his studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute aft- er spending the holidays in this city. Stella Rebekah Lodge will enter~ tain at cards Friday afternoon De- cember 30 and will hold a regular meeting in the evening. The sewing circle will meet Tuesday afternoon. Joseph Loughery, who is employ- ed in Astoria, L. I, spent the week- end at his home in this city. The regular meeting of Lovisy Moore Tent, No. 12, Daughters of Union Veterans, will be held Thura- day evening at 7:30 o'clock at Odd Fellows’ hall. The annual election of officers will take place. E. W. Christ will be the speaker at the Lions ctub meeting tumorrow. A son was born at New Hritain General hospital today to Mr. and Mrs, Joseph Brown of Kensirgton, A son was born to Mr. snd Mrs. Henning Sundmark of 468 Stanley street at New Britain General hospl- tal today. A daughter was born at New Brit- aln General hospital toduy to Mr. and Mrs, Willlam Allan of 1 Spruce street, Plainville, A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Everett of 195 Maple street at New Britain General hos- pital today. A daughter has been born at New Britain General hospital to Mr. and Mrs, Leo Squillaclote of 53 Cottage Place. Mrs. John Cullen of 380 FEast Main street reported to the police today that a boy's white sweater had been stolen off a line in the rear of her house. Paul Burak of 148 Miller street reported that six windows in a va- cant house on Cabot street were broken by boys. A turkey supper social will be held tonight by the Mattabessett Tr;?le. L O. R. M. in their rooms. —adv. Miss Sears and Miss Ryan Make New Hiking Record Boston, Nov. 29 (A — Miss Eleonora Sears, socicty woman ath- lete completed her hike from Prov- idence to her home today here in nine hours and 63 minutes actual walking time, breaking her record of last year by 43 minutes. Miss Elizabeth Ryan, nationally known tennis star, was Miss Sears’ companion on the hike and finished abreast of her at 10:50 o’clock. Miss Sears declared: “I'm feeling fine as she ascended the steps of her home after the 44 mile grind. Earller she had declined to say whether any money had been wagered on the outcome and had sald that she was not racing Miss Ryan but simply trying to better the time she made last December. MUST SERVE SENTENCE Washington, Nov. 29 (P—George Welnstein, convicted of conspiracy to violate the prohibition law at Chelsea, Mass., and sentenced to the Worcester house of correction for 18 months today was refused by the supreme court rehearing in his pe- tition for a review. Girl Wanderers Found On Springfield Street 'Two Southington girls, aged 10 and 11 years, whose names are said to be Clark and Skelly, were picked up in Springfleld, Mass., thig morning, according to word recelved by Cap- tain Kelly from the Traveelrs’ Aid Society in Springfield. They gave thelr names as Veryl and Wanda Bowen and said they lived with a family named Stuart on West Main street, this city. They were going to Fox Cross, Dover, Me., they said. Investigation by Officer Fred Wag- ner revealed that there are no Stuarts on West Main street. Later Miss Cora M. Beale, secretary of the Welfare Assoclation, notified Captain Kelly that she had learned the cor- rect names of the children. They left their homes in Southington last night, Miss Beale reported. They will be returned in custody. g Held Up And Robbed Of $20 On Lonely Road Adolph Larson of 35 Corbin Plate notifled the police last even!ng ihat he had been held up by two men, carrying revolvers, on Hunter road about 4 o'clock in the afternoon, and relleved of $20. He said that drove off in automobilss, —_— RED CROSS REPORT Recelpts over the week-end in the annual Red Cross drive were $785.50, largely from various manufacturing Plants. The total amount recelved thus far is $3,314.37, the quota b $6,000, s Will of Mrs. Ford Is Filed In Probate Court The will of Mrs, Jane Dyson Ford was filed today in probate court. It provides for the payment of all just debts and funeral expenses and for the placing of the date of her death on the r onument at the family lot in Fairview Cemetery. The sum of $150 is left to the cemetery commit- tee for the care of the family lot forever. All the rest and residue of her estate is bequeathcl to Mrs, Edith Dyson Horsfall, wife of Wil- llam H. Horsfall of this city, and to Mrs. Mary Dyson Vatrous, wite of Harold K. Watrous, also of this city. Mrs, Horsfall is appointed ex- ecutrix without bonds. The will was drawn January 22, 1920, DIES AT AGE OF 105 Windsor Locks, Conn., Nov. 29 (A —Mrs. Anne Garrity, 105 years old, always referred to by old timers here a8 the oldest person in Connectlcut, is dead of old age. Mrs. Garrity never had to wear glasses to read or sew and did most of her house- work. She had lived in the home where she died for more than 75 Foars a1l e