New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 2, 1926, Page 1

News of the World y Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 40 WLLION DOLLA STABILIING THE oo == CRUDE RUBBER AVAILABLE ® £Nh o wfiCbarlie Chaplin’s Romance Again NEW BRITAIN HERALD NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1926.—EIGHTEEN PAGES SIMPSON AND HIS METHODS LASHED FIERCELY BY DEFENSE COUNSEL IN EASTERN SECTION IN WINTER'S GRI Two Frozen to Death in Mid- West—Ships Frozen In Shattered when Wife Leaves Home but He Hopes for Reconciliation Mrs. Chaplin Takes Their Two Children and Goes to Wall Street Bankers Guarantee Enormous Credit For Automo- bile and Tire Manu- facturers. Plan, It Is Believed, Will Eliminate Violent Fluc- tuations in Commodity and Maintain Steady Rate. New York, Dec. 3 UP—A $40,000,- 000 credit guaranteed by a group of leading tire and automobile manu- facturers has been arranged through ‘Wall street bankers, for the purpose of stabilizing the price of crude rub- ber, it was learned today. ‘While full details of the credit have not been divulged, it Is under- stood that the manufacturers in- volved will pool their purchases of rubber through a central organiza- tion, probably the General Rubber company, an importing subsidiary ot the U. 8. Rubber Co. It is believed that the plan will eliminate the violent fluctuations in the commodity and maintain prices at such levels that an additional ten per cent restriction in production under the British Stevenson act, will not be necessary on February -. In order to prevent a further restriction in British controlled pro- duction, it is believed that the prico would have to be stabilized around 42 cents a pound, as against the current price of about 36 cents. It is estimated that the purchasing power of the pool will cover more than 50,000 ton: of crude rubber. Those Firms Mentioned The tire manufacturers mentioned | in connection with the pool are t¥o 8. Rubber Company, B. F. Good- rich, Goodyear, Firestone and Fisk. Motor car companies reported to be interested include Studebaker, Willys Overland, Dodge, Packard and a few others. GARD SHARPERS ARE ARRESTED ON TRAIN “Marked” Trio Fined but Jail Sen- tences Are Suspended Bridgeport, Dec. 2 (#—Three al- leged card sharps sought for several weeks by railroad police following complaints from passengers that they were victimized in card games on trains between New York and New Haven, were arraigned in city court today following their arrest on | a train pulling into the local railroad station last night. They were fined $50 and costs cach and wero each given suspended jail sentences of 30 days and probation for one year. Their victim, who admitted that he had been gambling on the train, was fined $20 and costs and given five days' susper.ced jail sentence. The alleged card sharps are: Gor- don Ettinger, 26 who said his home was in New York and that he is an electrician by trade; James Doty, 28, who said he was a chauffeur lving at 143 Bast 18th street, New York, and Otto C. Gibbs, 28, who gave his occupation as salesman and his ad- dress as 143 West 43rd street, New York. The victim in the game was Fred H. Schippert, an agent of 244 Amherst street, East | Orange, N. J., on his way from New Vork to Hartford. Stakes seized in the game amount- cd to $60. The cards, a “marked” deck, were also seized. Steamer Goes on Rocks, Distress Signals Heard . Pierre, Miquelon, Dec. 2 (#— vess signals from the T'otila which reported here strand- cd in the vicinity of Green Island | after striking rocks in a heavy fog were heard here today. A heavy | sca which is running endangered the | l.u', of the crew. Dutch steamer Sanselhem was said to he searching for t.ue wreck- +d steamer but had been unable to 1 te her because of the dense fog. A tugz and pilot were dispatched from here to render ald. The report said the Totila was a Norwegian craft but it was bellev- ed to be the German steamer of that name which was reported at Mon- | treal on Nov. 14, The maritime register shows no E mer named Sansethem but lists the Dutch steamer Sassenheim as | sailing for Antwerp on Nov. 11 for New York. NEWINGTON COURT HEARING In Newington town court last | General Motors, | Deck Found— | insurance | steamer | |est point this cason FEW REQUESTS FOR. SALARY INGREASES Police and Fire Depts. Have Taken No Action Yet COMMITTEE IS WAITING Members of Common Council Will Hold Series of Meetings To Con- sider Merits of Anticipated Pay Boost Fequests No action has yet been taken by the police and fire departments as! to whether increased wages will be sought this year, and heads of de- partments housed in city hall de-‘ clared today no petitions have been placed in their hands for presenta- tion to the common council and the salary committee. Excepting in case of emergency, no request for salary increases will be considered by the city govern- ment unless application s made during the month of December. This policy is in harmony with charter provision. Adjustment of| salaries at the January meeting of | the common council makes it pos- sible to place the proper salary| items in the budget. An increase was granted last year in the wages of police and fire de- partment employes but no allow- ance for clothing was granted. It xa understood the latter request will| again be offered this year while sen- timent for another increase in wages| is not reported to be so great. Data has been gathered by the police officers relative to salaries| and clothing allowances in other cities, and this will be offered when | the policemen’s committee is given | | & hearing before the salary com-| mittee, povided it is decided to| agaln petition for higher wages and a clothing allowance. municipal salaries was made last| year after a serles of hearings be- | fore the committee in charge, and| they were approved by the com-| mon council, Municipal boards at their Decem-| ber meetings, many of which occur | next week, will recelve and act o, the applications of their employes for pay boosts. $200,000 FIRE LOSS {Three Bufldings of Appleton Plant at Franklin, Mass., Are Destroyed | | by Flames, Adjustment of a majority of the ! Los Angeles, Dec. 2.—(M— The second matrimonial ship = to be launched by Charles Chaplin is on the rocks, but the motion picture star is making efforts to salvage the wreck. This first became known yester- day when Mrs. Lita Grey Chaplin made known that she had taken her two children and left the actor's home. She declared she had no in- tention of returning. She said she and the children had gone to live with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Willlam E. Curry of Beverly Hills. Quarreled Monday Night The separation, she said, followed a disagreement with Chaplin dur- ing a party given in their Beverly Hills home last Monday night in honor of the Baron and Baroness Mille De Precourt, shipboard ac- quaintances whom she met on her return voyage from Honolulu. She left the forty-room Chaplin mansion the next day, taking her babies with her. Grandfather’s Home—Divorce Action is Rumored — Ill-treatment Alleged — Clara Bow’s Latest {AUTOISTS ARE TRAPPED Romance Likewise Comes to An End. ST Chaplin expressed surprise at his wife's action. He said he was mak- mutual friends and hoped his wife would come back. He declined to comment on the details of his mari- tal affairs. The first intimation of the cause for the separation came from Mrs. Chaplin’s grandfather. Claims 11l Trcatment “Mrs. Chaplin has left the home of Charlie and came to my home to stay. She brought her two young- them, too,” said Mr. Curry. Chaplin brought about the break. Mrs. Chaplin told me she could not added. The white haired grandfather also |announced that Mrs. Chaplin's legal affairs had been placed in the hands of George Beebe, his attorney. (Continued on Page Nine) Poor Lumberjack With One Blow of His Axe Uncovers Big Fortune Sofia, Bulgaria, Dec. One stroke of the axe brought undreamed of wealth to the poor lumberjack, Assen Tscho- lakoft. The lumberman had felled a tree in the vicinity of Tschepcha- pare and was setting about to cut up the roots when his axe struck a stone slab covered with Turkish inscriptions. With con- siderable difficulty he succeeded in turning over the heavy slab. Underneath it he found a treas- ure trove of thousands of old Turkish gold pleces. The value of the treasure Is cs- timated at about $450,000. The gold coins date back to the 13th or 14th century. MOTHER INQUIRES FOR FORMER LOCAL PRIEST Mrs. Kozorez in China, |; Asks Welfare Board to Aid Her 2 P— In Hankin, mother of Rev. a Russian China, the aged Viadimir Kozorez, | priest who formerly | is anxiously awaiting word from | Franklin, Mass., Dec. 2 P —| |Three bulldings of the F. H. Ap-| | pleton and Sonm, Inc., rubber re-| {claiming plant were destroyed in an early morning fire today with a {loss estimated at $200,000. Three other buildings were saved by the | firemen but the loss of the power plant and ofl house will mean the shutdown_of the entire plant for | some time. The fire was believed to have !started in the wash room in the | | | | main building, a three story brick structure. It spread to the electri- | cal tape factory and oil house. The loss was largely covered by insur- WINSTON T0 RESIGN Will Be Succceded By Ogden lll]lsv of New York As Under-Secretary of the Treasury. ‘Washington, Dec. 2 (P—Garrard B. Winston, under-secretary of the [treasury, will resign soon and will ibe succeeded by Representative Og- {den Mills of New York. Announcement of the change Was made today by Secretary Mellon, who said it would take place as soon |as Mr. Mills felt her could leave his |seat in congress. Mills was defeated in November as !the republican candidate for gover- nor of New York and he would |automatically retire from the house | on March 4. It is expected he will |remain a member until the alien property bill, onc of the first ques- | tions to be considered at the ap-| | proaching session, is disposed of. | Mr. Winston, who took office | three years ago, has expressed the | | desire to resume the practice of law in Chicago. GOLD SNAP ARRIVES | Thermometer Registers 20 m‘(‘s | | Above Zero Early This Morning But Mercury Riscs to 33. The mercury dropped to its low- | when ther- | mometers on’ the outskirts of the |city hovered near 20 degrees above | zero ecarly this morning. Along night, the case of Haghert Hanson of 450 Main strect, this city, was ' continued until December 15, He is charged with evading responsibility after running down Michael McGin- n %5 Smalley street, this city, in ington last Saturday night. In W. F. Mangan represents 1lanson, | Main street the weather was slight- ly more comfortable with a 22 de- grees rcading at 7:30 o'clock, and 33 degrees above zero at 1 o'clock thls afternoon. Radiator freezing was reported in few instances, the cold snap of last week having forti- fled om owners with anti- freczing solutions. | some him, according to a letter recelved today by Chlef W. C. Hart of the police department from DPresident Circle Livshitz of the Far Eastern ! Jewish Central Information Bureau for emigrants, sufferers of war, pogroms and other calamities, Inquiry by the police at the West street address elicited the informa- tion that the priest was trangferred time ago to Ramey, Pa, where he is now stationed. 'EX-OFFICIALS WITNESSES IN ANDREWS' HOUSE CASE. BODY OF MISSING Woman Buued Under Leaves ed Girl. Prairie Du Chien, Wis., Dec. —The body of Clara Olson, mi {since September 9, Wis,, by aearchmg party. Buried in a clump of leaves fou mflcs from Mount Sterling, the g'ri's searchers | to| body was recovered by who had set out at daybreak nomb Crawford county with only, he premonition of a bereaved fath- | |er as assurance that she was dead. Thc body was found shortly before o'clock. Near Olson’s Home. ‘The body of the girl was found a quarter mile west of the farm of Al- | | bert Olson, whose son, Erdman, was sweetheart of the girl, sought on a murder warrant. farm of Olson, wealthy { planter, who has stoutly maintained his 18-year-old son is innocent of | The lived at 162 West street, this city, |Sime, lies botween Rising Sun and | und even burning trunks and other ount Sterling. Finding of the body was the out- | come of a search started by Chris Olson, father of the girl, who swore | out the murder warrant for lrdman Olson on November 26, and engage detectives to seek his daughter. Be- fore leaving home the girl had dis- i closed, according to her father, that shewas about to become a mother. The father visited Erdman Olson at Gale college, Galesville, and urged him to marry his daughter, promis- | ing him a home on his farm. | The 18 year old boy, according to ‘Olson, desired to defer the marriage |and on September 27 disappeared from school. Members of the American Legion {in Crawford county, { scarching parties, found the grave | ing reconcillation overtures through | sters with her and we intend to keep ! “Ill treatment on the part of Mr. | stand his treatment any longer,” he | GIRL FOUND TODAY {Remaing of Wisconsin Yomng. NEAR SWEETHEARTS HOME| Young Suspect, Arrested at Dwight, 1L, os Not Youth Who is Want- For the Murder of Young 2@ ns | was found today - ,noar Mount Sterling, a and now is! tobacco | organized into | Caravan of Two Score or More C:d. RED CROSS CAMPAIGN ENDS SUCCESSFULLY Total Received $6,341 With More Contributions Expected fornia Bound Motorists Caught in Raging Blizzard Saved By Two | Old Time Mushers. Chicago, Dec. 3 (A—Winter laid siege to the ecastern half of the country today, after a sudden sor- tie out of the northwest that gave December a shivering debut in the lains states. preading over the Alleghenies and southward to send the mercury | seurrying in the upper edges of the| tates, the cold wave held from the eastern border of the c slope to the Atlantic sea- board Another Drop Predicted Temperatures rose slightly near-zero levels in the central west| today, but the weather bureau|Sprague today is as warned of another disturbance mov-| tional Biscuit Co., & Landers, {ing inland from the northwest, and Frary & Clark, 3303 New Britain | another drop for thermometers. | Machine Co., $9 P. & I. Corbin, The premature advance of winter $784.95; (,omon ‘Brothers. $6; Hoff- ¢ ¢ two lives in the midwest, im-|man bakery, $10; Citizens' Coal Co., periled many others and worked $6; Salvation Army, $3; mail Ravoo in Great Lake shipping. With| The following statement was ls- Minnesota blanketed with snow and sued this afternoon by Rev. Theo- chilled by gusty winds, Clyde Gask- dore Atnsworth Greene, chairman ot found frozen to death the drive: in, while at Chicago the| “Although the membership en- Andres Korjack was found rollment campaign of the New Brit- huddled along the Illinols Central ain chapter of the American Red raflroad tracks, Rescue of 31 automobiles maroon-/one week overdue on the time sct ed for two days by snowdrifts In for closing the campaign, the offi- the 1s served to incrcase ap- | clals of the drive, Curtis L. Sheldon, | prehension for hunting parties in|president of the chapter; Leon | the upper ends of Minncsota and|Sprague, treasurer, and Rev. Theo- | Michizan. Transportation was cut dore A. Greene, chairman, of the | off by snow, and telephone and drlve are happy to be able to re- | telegraph communication was de-|port final and complete success. The moralized. quota of $6,000, accepted for the Stcamers Frozen In coming year Is now in hand. Re- Sub-zero weather not only froze ceipts today amount to $6,341.43. lin a flect of seven laden steamers| “The drive started with a dinner near Sault Ste. Marie, Mich, but| for publicity | forced abandonment of the steel| day evening, | treighter Cottonwood, aground on | the north shore of Lake Superior. i | With a margin of more than | $300 and funds still coming in the annual Red Croes drive, almost a hopeless fajlure a week ago, has been successful and the drive closed | today with a total on hand of $6,- | trom | 341.43. The report by Treasurer Leon A. | foliows: Na- | ncar Au body of Sier November 27th, pos: not chapter, of volunteer workers in the churches the stores, the factorles, the banks, | | and the faithful response of prev | ous members to the mail appeal. “The offlcials of the drive wish to | expre: e clatio zard at Montgomery Pass, in thel [, "ooncration of all those factory Zn 8 & o high Sierras near here, are alive to- |, ooy ives, business men and wom- | day only because of the herolc ef- forts of two old-time mushers, who effected their rescue when death secmed imminent because of cold and starvation. The motor caravan, on its way «o balmy southern California to spen the winter far away from snow and | cold, was caught in the Pass in one of the worst storms in years. There were 31 automobiles in the group. For two days the hapless motor- | ists remained snowbound in the Pass, without food, blue with cold, | | The steamer Maythan went fast| alone of the directors of the aground, not far distant, in a driv- ing snow storm, the crew escaping. Autolsts Are Rescued Tonopah, Nev., Dec. 2 (P—Two score or more of California-bound | (Continued on Page 15) MANY WITNESSES ARE HEARD IN POOL PROBE Albany Baseball Lottery Called Largest in United States | personal eftects in a futile effort to| | cscape the freezing temperature. Veterans To Rescue Mecanwhile, Dan Haskin and carrington, veteran figures of shing through with the motor stage to Bishop, Ne unaware of the belcaguered tourists ahead. Even though the snow was ten feet deep in places, getting the stage through was a part of the day's work with them, and they , were accomplishing the job when | | they came upon 22 of the stranded! car: Nine other machines almost covered with snow were encounter- ed a short distance farther on. ‘Well Treated “What did we do with them?” | Ha repeated when sought for an Bl | h Boston, Dec. 2 V'l’b-\VltnM!es ln- the : cluding police office Y., Springfield and West Springfield, Mass., testified before the federal grand jury that began investigation today of the so-called Albany base- ball pool. The pool, officials said, was the largest of its kind in the United States. New York state politicians and many persons, chicfly in western Massachusetts were said to be impli- cated in its far-flung operations. Indictments may be returned by the jury before the end of this week, for new grand jury term begins next ‘Tuesday. The proceedings are Cross has gone slowly, and is today | purposes on Wednes- | last. | The final results have heen made | ble by the splendid cooperation | but also of a large group ;| interview. “Well, first we broke | trail for them on to Benton, where rren Da who runs a resort there, filled 'em up With Will Be Summoned to Court if |on a farm 614 miles north of here, As soon as identification had been | made, a courler was sent to Mount | Sterfng to notify the authorities Building Board Decldes to Prosecute. turkey | brought under the law as it applies | to interstate traffic in lottery tickets. Among those who testifled before | | building inspector, | commission under which he served | Edward J. Hennessy, former and several ex-members of the com- mon council will be summoned to police court as witnesses in prosecu- tion of zoning law charges against | Belvidere, | Charles 8. Andrews of provided the commission approves of this action at its meeting next | Monday night. Hennessy, as inspector, issued a permit to Andrews for a two-family | house on Lake Boulevard, and his commission after investigation re- ported such a type of structure had been built. council include this statement by the | commission. Investigation by Inspectors A. N. Rutherford, C. J. Curtin and P. J. Tormay has convinced the three of- ficials that the building has been transformed into one of three hous- ing units and is change in the mode of occupancy of | a building so as to bring it beyond | the privileges of the zone in which | it is located is regarded a \mlnlion of the zone law. Mrs. Mabel Manton Gets Decree Against Husband New York, Dec. 2 (A — An in- telocutory decree of divorce in fa- vor of Mrs. Mabel Manton against her husband, William Kevitt Man- ton, actor and stage director, was signed in supreme ,court today. Marjorie lambeau, actress, was mentioned by Mrs. Manton as the “other woman. Mrs. Manton, of the ‘two awarded $30 a week ilimony. The decrce becomes final 90 days, The sult was notde- who has custody children. was also | fended, members of the | Records of the common | 80 tenanted. A | permanent |* and Coroner Frank Hawley of | Prairie De Chien was at the scene carly this afternoon. Cause of the girl" been determined, dirt hag not been completely moved when the courier | party. When the young woman, who was 22, dlsappe'l,rcxl from her home the night of Sept. 9, leaving a note say- | ing she would he back in a few day: “with a surprise” her father surm ed she had gone away to marry young Olson, who was 18 years old. The familles are not related. Suspect Is Wrong Man. Prairie Du Chien, Wis,, Dec. 2 () —Sheriff Harry Sherwood of Great | County today sent word to Dwight 11, that a suspect held there on uspicion that he was Irdmag, Olson wanted for the murder of Clara Olson, whose body was found tod i was the wrong man. Sherwood clared that the description wir from Dwight did not fit that of or- son in e<sr-n(1nl details. SUED FOR DIVORCE Bridgeport, Dec. 2 (M—Dr. David | Spence of New Canaan, former vice- president of the Norwalk Tire and | Rubber company, and now of New | York, was today named defendant in | a divorce action filed by Dorls Louise | Spence, also of New Canaan. At- tachments of $60,000 were placed on Dr. Spence's property. Intolerable |cruelty is charged and the plaintift seeks alimony and the custody of | two minor children. death had not the covering of Te- New Britain and vicinity: Fair and continued cold to- night. Friday ifcreasing cloudiness with rising tem- perature. | * left the | and trimmings “And then we led 'em to the Hot Springs there, and helped ‘em to get into the natural Turkish bath tive Sergeants Mahoney and Dolan of the Troy, N. Y., police; ‘ Thomas A. Benton of the Boston and to thaw out—and that was all there Albany railroad police; John Jordan | was to it.” | of the Boston and Albany police; Tragedy of Olden Days | Willlam and Daniel Jordan, and The incident recalls the story of Howard McMasters, all of Spring- he Donner party, whose fate was field; John W. Condon and Joseph one of the outstanding tragedles of Wood of West Springficld and Mrs, the 0id west. This party was trap-| Bdna M. Perry of Springfield ped at the casiern base of be heard tomorrow. >ass, 200 miles north of Mon More witn Pass. They were snowhound: pittsfield, Mass. for six months, during which time hoard tomorrow. Lxpected to testi- | 42 of the band of §§ perished. fy are Chiet of Police Joseph DeMe e of West Springfleld and Lieutenant Cold In Ansonia Bicknell of the Springfield police. A Ansonfa, Dec. 2 (P—The city and | total of 25 or 30 witnesses will be ot the “I"rm""l, the coldest day summoned, it was said at the dis- of the season tuday when the ti | trict attorney's ofic MERIDEN ED]TOR DIES morning h)\v s to fifteen ahove zero. ¥ ¢ possibly from and Albany, will be The sudden drop in temperature, coming so soon after unseasonably mild weat'er, was keenly felt, more especially hecause it was accom- panied by a high wind. Boston anl New York Boston, Dee. 3 (A — Mereury in v England’s thermometers slid downward today as frigid blasts {blew in from the northwest, whir ing with it a fine sifting snpw. | Northwestern Vermont bore the | brunt of the cold wave and tem- | peratures there ranged from 4 to | 8 degrees above zero this morning. In the district about St. Albans, | three inches of snow fell and the \rhnrmnmeww registered 4 above at a. m. In southern Quecbec the sm“ml was heavior. | Mrs. Whitney was born 52 years In Boston the temperature fell 25 ago in Northampton, Mass., and was | degrees overnight to register 23 employed as reporter and editor in | degrees above this morning. Snow, Hartford, New Britain and Water- {borne on a howling brecze, whiten- | bury before becoming associated |ed the countryside in eastern with the Journal. | Massachusetts. i | Edward B. Whitney of Journal Also at One Time Worked as Reporter | in this City—End Unexpected. N Meriden, Conn., Dec. 2 (UP) — Ed- ward B. Whitney, managing editor of the Mcriden Journal and connect- ed with that paper for the past 25 vears, dicd unexpectedly at the Meri- den hospital this noon. He was taken suddenly 1ll two weeks ago of a stomach trouble and was removed to the hospital last Monday for X-ray examination. He was to re- turn to his home this afternoon. club. He is survived by his wife, a sister and two brothers. (Contluued on Page Eight) Sergeant | will | He was a member of the Home | CHARLOTTE RESENTS HINTS BY MCARTER “An.ered by Insinuations Cast Against Her Father BY CHARLOTTE MILLS | (Copyright, 1926, Famous Features Syndicate, Inc.) Sommerville, N. J., Dec. 2 —How can the defense be so unfair, so | |eruel in presenting its case to the | jury? Mr. McCarter today pointed | |the finger of suspicion at my father. | |He said it was peculiar that Dad didn’t call up the hospital and the police when mother was missing. That might make an impression on | |the jurors because they don't know | my Dad and understand him as I !do. When mother failed to come | home he was simply bewildered. He | didn’t know what to do and there | was evidently some thought in his | |mind that she and Dr. Hall might have gone away together but its hard to know what to do in eir- cumstances like that, and father is such a simple soul. T know I wasn't greatly worried about mother. I Jjust tooks it for granted that she was all right wherever she was, Then it was taking an unfair ad- vantage for Mr. McCarter to say that dad sold mother's love letters {for $500. I have explained that be- fore, how a woman posing as a lawyer, tricked me out of the let- ters and sold them to a newspaper. She offered me money after they had been published but I would not take it. But poor dad was so over- by debt after mother's funeral that he took the check. It was too late to do anything then, {the letters were alrcady in the aper and $500 means a lot to & poor man with such heavy expenses but T resent the statement that my {mother's dear letters were sold. My heart beats frantically as 1 think that in a few hours now the jury will file through the little courtroom door to give its verdict. What will it be? T wonder. Taking into account all the Mhmg‘ 1 have heard in the last few 2 | burdened jdays I am sure that Mrs. Hall and | jher two brothers will not be found guilty of killing my mother. On the |other hand, T am not sure that they Iwill be acquitted either. Surely all 'of those 12 men can't be absolute- ly convinced that the defendants had nothing to do with my mother's death. Surely two or three of them | [must realize the importance of Sen- ator Simpson's rebuttal testimony lin which the defense case was | greatly damaged. T would not be at |all surprised to sce a disagreement. |1t seems to me the jury would be ‘ffi ced to disagree in order to stave {oft reports of prejudice in favor of the defense. If most of them feel doubtful I can easily sce how they might like to turn in a verdlet of disagrecement and shift the re- sponsibility of a real decision to another jury. My mind is torn with a thousand fears and doubts. T really don't| know whether I would prefer a disagreement or acquittal. It seems that T just could not go through with another trial. T don’t want to !injure my health permanently, and no one can ever know the terrible straln T have been under since this thing started, and before that for | four long years. {sey Average Daily Circulation For Week Ending ov. 27th ... 14,027 PRICE THREE CENTS ARGUING HALL-MILLS CASE MERITS \Case Declares Politi- cians Are Behind Prosecution Ex- presses Opinion That Schneider, Who Found Bodies, is Re- sponsible For Calling Card. McCarter, in His Plea, As« serts Mills Himself Had More Opportunity and More of a Motive fon Murder Than Defend« ants. |JURY LIKELY TO RETIRE TOMORROW] Courthouse, Somerville, N.J., Deay 2 (A—Summing up for the defensq in the Hall-Mills case will be cons cluded this afternoon with indicas tions that the argument for the istate will not be made until tomore low. If this program fis followed, the judge's charge will be delivered to the jury after the luncheon reccss tomorrow. It secms certain that the case would be given to the jury early tos morrow afternoon, exactly one month after it opened. Clarence E. Case followed Robert H. McCarter in summing up for the |defense. The only Somerville ate [torney in the case started his ad- dress at 11 o'clock after the former attorney general had completed his largument, begun yesterday, in 50 minutes. Criticizes Prosecution Mr. Case opened his speech by criticizing the methods of the prose- cution, terming them “nasty, une fair and vindictive.” This was the note on which Mr, McCarter closed his summing upy saying “If the level of the New Jers bar has sunk to that, them thank God, I am old.” The veteran Newark attorney had just referred to what he termed an cffort by Alexander Simpeon, special prosecutor, to cast slurs upon the parentage of Willle Stevens, one of |the defendants. “It his statement had been made |south of the Mason and Dixon line, | he would have keen knocked down,’ ke said. Comments On Mills In closing his summing up, Mc< Carter sald James Mills, husband of | Mrs. Eleanor R. Mills, who was slain | with the Rev. Edward W. Hall, was in a better position to know of the love affair between the minister and cholr singer, than was Mrs. Hall. He also said that while Mrs. Half has been attacked by the state for. what was characterized as inade< quate spreading of an alarm for hee husband on ths day after he dise LEAVES SCREW CORP. AFTER LONG SERVI[IE John Malone Decides to Rest at End of 35 Years the grand Jjury today were Detec- | | John lost Malone of 214 Main street W ferm of ycars as an employe of the Corbin Screw corporation is reater than the age of the Ameri- fcan Hardware corporation and whose lovalty to his concern has won him the admiration of his em- ployers, has retired after $5 years |service with the company. Since Mr. Malone entered the em- ploy of the concern in July, 1891, | when the plant was then part of the Russell & Erwin organization, he has proven himself a capable work- man. Mr. Malone said the factory has almost tripled in size since he jolned its staff of employc Tn 1891 none of the buildings which now stand on the ecastern side of High street were built. There were a few on the western side, but not nearly as many as that which takes up an entire block at the present time. SNEAK THIEF GETS $1 A sneak thief who entered home of Mrs street Mond. only $1, Mrs. police today. A key was used to open the door and an was used to force the lock trunk from which the money was taken. Harry Bamforth’s store at 179 Park strect was entered last | night, but nothing was taken, Mr. | Bamforth reported today. the Soroska of 98 Dwight afternoon, realized on a Soroska notifed the | instrument | appeared, Mills, whose wife was lalso missing, did absolutely nothing aboul it. Case after bitterly arraigning thé state for its methods, described as “hmhm below the belt,” launched nto a discussion of the calling cardy \\hu‘h the state contends Bears the !print of Willie Stevens’ finger. The Calling Card The defense attorney offered a suge estion as to how the calling card found its way near the body of the slain minister, “I believe Raymond Schneider rifled that body,” he said, “and the cards fell from the pocketbook of Mr. Hall and remained where they fell.” “I don’t know, because Schneider, who discovered the bodies, has not been brought here to testify, and we could not ask him, but that is my | belief. “The state may say,” he continued, “that we could have called Schnel- der. That is a likely propostion— |just as it was a likely proposition when the state said we could have called James Mills to prove by him that he committed the murders.” The state launched another vige orous but unsuccessful drive on photographers today. Justice Charles W. Parker, presiding saw a photo- grapher perched near a window of the court room and sent the court crier and the jall warden, to seize the culprit, but the latter escaped. Lashes Prosccution Robert H. McCarter resuming his summing up before the jury this morning lashed the prosecution for bringing Mrs. Jane Gibson, state’s star witness, into the courtroom on a' stretcher and naving her testify from a sickbed. | Explaining that Clarence E. Case, | another defense attorney, would deal 'in detall with Mrs. Gibson's story, McCarter, after referring repeatedly (Continued on Page 14) - &