New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 18, 1927, Page 30

\ERWIN WILL LEAD IN GOFF OV STAND IN DAUGHERTY GASE|__ "™ Takes Blame for American; b st Metals Case Seftlement | New York, Feb. 18 (P—Senator Guy D. Goff, of West Virginia, took the stand in the Daugherty-Miller trial today and assumed all re- bility for the allowance of claim for the $7,000,000 1 asscts of the American Metal company, In a vo that courtroom, nator “I'm tk in reply to the ou the man aims?"” Banquet and Business. this | | Postmaster H. E. Erwin of ; city has been selected as chairman of a discussion on air mail service at a meeting of postmasters to be held in Hartford Tuesd Connecticut postmasters, members of the Connecticut Association of Postmasters, will assemble for their annual meeting and dinner at the Bond hotel, the business session opening at 10 a. m. Officers will be ele iness se tee appoin Bailey to d clation, cons! N. Colgrove We n of of New Bri and Smitk o its report. Sul the forenoon session Delivery Service and its Problem to be led by Postmaster Kra Westport, and “Air Mail with Postmaster H. E. E Britatr has sec an Col ed at the bus- special commit- President H. laws for the asso- ng of Postmasters A. f Waterbury, A. E. orrington, H. E. Erwin n, Krause of Westport Willimantie, will make jects for disc include r down the Goft declared rang ma “Are who Smith ever speak to m?" he was asked No, his voc! us reply “Jess Smith never spoke to me. 1 venture to say that if he had 1 wounld have ordered him out of my offt “I want to take this occasion to tell the co this jury and the werld that neither Daugherty nor Miller nor Smith ever spoke to me of those claim it they, or anyone else, ha would ve jone them no good Trial 1 today Thomas Creighton o jenying that Harry M. as attorney general received telephone calls from the late Jol T. King, then national eommit an from Daugt and Thomas W. are charged with conspiracy to fraud the United States tion with the transfer of $7, mpounded assets of the American Metal company. The government eges they shared a $441,00 bribe paid King for his a assets transferred e Pour Valeurs De Mr. Erwin | cer on this lat- gelow of the ation com- sut and it A nial 2 par Mrs. d with the sta Daugherty daily t 1 o'clock will be seve Post O E these speakers to to.include Maurice editor of the Hartford Willis 1 of th mer rina irant, and nt secre r of Col Present officers of the association President, E. H. Bailey, Dan- ce-president, A. N. Colgrove, secretary-treasurer, A. Wellman, Torrington. The pro- by-laws call for an executive of one member from o sis Connecticut rty committee ciation. SUB-LERD WEATHER ENGULFS THE WEST t Page) rnment called witnesses who testi that telephone tween King and Daugherty frequent. Mr. Creighton, assistant secretary to Da said the former attorney never to her Kkno King, and King only callec erty several times while ty was in office. (Continued From F Dau tricate two Denver and Rio Grande Western passengers stalled in deep ifts on the Continental Divide be- tween Chama and Cumbres, Colo. | » death toll in the mountain re- glon was increased to four yester- day when John Stevens was crushed to death in a slide near Price, Utah. Stevens was with a crew of 40 men 1t to clear highways blocked by v slides which killed three men wo men working near | injured severely. 1 Below Zero. held the a mark s were res dule in west ciaod LOWLY OYSTER EASILY IS CHAMPION GUZZLIR S. Gost. Expert Reports That Average Bl-Valve “Drinks” 80 Quarts of Water a Day. Woodshole Masse., Feb. 18.—(UP) —America's coffee-guzzling cham- pion must now take a back-seat in favor of the lowly oyster as far as liquid capacity goes. Facts revealed by government ex- perts here indicate that the principal part of a stew would turn up its nose (if it had one) at the man who points with pride to his record of only a few score cups of cofce. The average oyster “drinks” 80 quarts of water a day, according to Dr. Paul Galtsoff of the United States bureau of fisheries, who has just concluded a series of experi- ments here. Linked to delicate automatic recording devices in spe anks, the oysters also have disclosed that they go on a hunger strike when ‘ the water becomes colder than 45 degrees. A complete report of his experi- ments will be presented by Dr. C ft at the meeting of the N: heries association in Boston to- morrow. S down the Gila river from South Church and Wapping Quintets | Arizona. | The Gila river rise will pour into | Play the Colorado river above Yuma, and added to the already swollen volume, | was expected to make a flow of 000 second feet, 3,000 feet over t |peak of the flood which broke | through the Imperial valley levees last June. Crops Will Benefit Farmers and citrus growers dict that benefit to crops b sodking rains will overshadow property in their Rail communication with few ex s, had been restored but high- continued in a snarl rews of workmen are sent out to repair roads, rebuild bridges and re- move 1slides. rains Again Running Trans-continental trains of the rn Paciflc were still being re- over the Santa Fe tracks. roads ating o 1l- week' of 24 red to 'n Mon- and five Los 4 ern ( elin ia today was from the ve-day storm abated, 1 property loss unofficially e ited at §2.500,000, but Imperial Valley points along the Colorado river were threatened with flood conditions and northern Cali- fornia coast cities awaited an ap- proaching storm center from the P cifie. Men and hors the fight against h Colorado river n : that district from a flood re cd coming down the st sult of the recent unprece . A discharge of 55,000 sec- of water was expected leaving were thrown Into Linperial roarir To For Unlimited Class Championship. The South Church has arranged a threc-game series with the fi m of the Wapping Community club for the county “Y" champion- ship in the unlimited class, the high- st of the three divisions into which the teams under the county “Y" have been separated. These two quintets re the only ones which turned in their names as en trants in the league for players of unlimited and it has been ced to settle the superiority in a s to be played tural ground at the Hartford Y. M. C. A. The first game will be played Mon- day night and the ond one the following Mond third game i3 needed, the be arranged later, enter the e elimin difficulty cause a disruption of the it 1s hoped th Mantelli and professional pre- ¥. the the we it a rou Oth he winner will ion ch has been isolat- remained cut wrisen S0 it can be smoot Boyle, members Eln pl f the team in ind £ the 1ve i Wappins but the Lstwis capacity cach county represented in the asso- | E on | lived there up to a year ago. KEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1927 Four Skulls Found in Murder Mystery THE TRUNK IN coy PHOTOS SHOW THE SKULLS, WHICH 2xclusive Dispatch, Copyright, 1927 him in the Detrolt, Mich., Feb. 18 (EFS)— cgcap “Get my trunk. They might find something else and if they do I'm through forever." This note from Jdmes H. Coyner, negro war veteran, serving a sen- tence at Michigan City, Ind., peni- tentiary, for grave robbing, has started Oakland county detectives a new trail in their efforts to solve the mystery of four skulls found in an abandoned trunk in a Royz1 Oak township home. Coyner Coyner is another “Bl today are asking these W was clotted bl hair found with the skulls? What disposition the torsos? If h yner Why with C get the skulls did he keep names of promf 4 Pittsburgh soci None of the women bands can throw any ion. It is held the grav led by some mad me lig up the skulls of in cometeries. An extraordinary pected when the The note was sent by Coyzer to his sister, Emma Robinson, in Chi- cago, it is alleged. Her delay in complying with the request caused the trunk to be found by 12-year-old Harry Holils, who was playing in the attic of his family's home. In his letter, Coyner al possible w his sister to smuggle a hacksaw to prison, that he might Police officlals are now convinced was isn't a murderer, where did or robber, may seene War Vet's House Start FIBRIDGE T. GERRY Investigation THEY WERE FOUND, D THE FORMER X HOME brought to Royal Oak for ques- tioning. Coyner had a craving to possess the skulls of white women, he ad- tted ‘when arrested in Gary, Ind., t October, according to .advices from that city. He looted a grave there and hid the body of a white woman in an abandoned house. On his arrest he freely confessed the me and the obsession that drove him to commit t. Coyner was convicted {n Lake nty, Indiana, and scntcnced to prison Nov. 29 last. He had dug up the skeleton of a woman burled in Hammond 10 years ago and con- cealed 1t in the basement of a va- cant house, where it was found. When the negro returned for the skeleton Oct. 3 he was arrested. At that time he told officers he only warted the skull of a woman and had sclected a body that had been long buried. uebeard” and questions: lood on the made of a nent ety notebook Detroit women? their hus- light on this that Coyner, have been utal quirk to bodies buried is ex- ar veteran is in the ton. Blizzards which h ed since Sunday, showed n king all wys with huge s s believed no tr: All of the 22 able to reach Silverton for at least 1 had ten days. There is only enough food from exposu d to last a week. Drifts in snow. some ¢ town were up to roner J. the eaves of houses. After fightipg the elements for 20 hours, two passenger trains struggled through immense drifts er- day, crecping behind rotary snow plows, and met in the pass near Dur- ango. The continued their hazardous journey today. The first two of five engines at- tached to the east bound train wer completely covered by a snow-slide yesterday, trainmen said. More than 0 fect of snow lies in the 7y ht Teet has been piled up during four days. | silverton, Telluride, Our: and several other mountain towns re- main isolated. Dozens of snow were reported running in the Tellu- ride district, many more were hang- ing dangerously. All Suffer Pneumos Fresno, Calif., Feb. | Plainville. little mountain hospit ,| At the meeting of physicians and nurses labored today directors which follo¥« to save the lives of 22 workmen bur- | ing officers were re-ele e ied over c prevail- snowslide signs of nd rail nia Ldison persons o when rikmen still snow are recovered. me of the hospital Wbly will die, the coro pneumonia, combined The annual meecting holders of the Union held yesterday s were re-clecied Corbin, Andrew J Porter, H. H. Whe eumann and John I p 72 of the South company, tients in the hos- onia, ile imprisoned in H. Kennedy, 'w hours.in Fresno, rei reek today to conduc bodies of they sustained in the snowslide, has ade their condition critical. Union Mfg. Co. Re-Elects Directors and Officers fternoon, as fol Sloper, | this city and Frank 1. which swept rn Caii- killing 13 dent, Albert F. Corbin; H. H. Wheeler and sc Neumann. treasurer, tary, C. S. MISS PODLASEK SHOWERED The girl employes of the Commer- “fal Trust Co. tendered a shower on Miss Sophie Podlasek last night at the Business and Professional Wom- en's club on High str She wa presented with a silver coffee set. Miss Podlasck will become the bride of Stanley Blogoslowski on February 22 at Sacred Heart church. Dr. V. Chadziewicz will' be best man and Miss Mary Lis will be the brides maid. After the wedding ceremony the bridal couple will leave on an ex- tensive trip. contracted after a 1ed to Big “a week of cight of buried in the tu t inmates prob- ner said. The with injurics NOTICE By order of Probate Court I will sell at auction, estate of Justus Hornkohl, at 211 Bassett Street, S of the stoc Mfg. Co. w Directors Albert | Irank eler, Carl 8. B. Minor of Wheeler of | hold furniture for five rooms. the board of FRED WINKLE, d, the follow- d: Pres to the|trustee of tl aturday | afternoon at 3 o'clock, house- |ago. They had two sons, U. " DIES, AGEE 90 YRS, (Continued from First Page.) | Much of his long life, however, | was devoted to public service. Be- | sides becoming widely known as |lawyer, banker and yachtsman, he |served on many important commis- | |sions in the statesof New York and | worked_energetically to improve the | | condition of the children of New | York city. | I Born in New York | Mr. Gerry, born in New York city | on Christmas day, 1837, was a grand- | |son of Elbridge Gerry of Massa- chusctts, who was a signer of the Declaration ot Independence, and | the fifth vice-president, of the United | States. He was graduated from Co- jlumbia University In 1857 and was | admitted to the New York bar in | | 1560, | | He held his first public position in | 1867 when he was a member of the | |New York constitutional convention. { He served as chairman of the New | York commission on capital punish- ment which in 1886 substituted the | electric chalr for hanging as the | penalty for murderers in that state. In 1889, he was chairman of the | executive committee for the celebra- | |tion of the centennial of the in- | auguration ‘of George Washington land in 1892 he was chairman of the New York city commission on in sanity. | Ardent Yachtsman Ever since 1856 he had been | krown to his friends as Commodore Gerry. He had been interested in | vachting for some time and in that year he was elected commodore of [the New York Yacht club, a posi- tion which he held for deven years. i His flagship, the steam yacht Elec- | tra, became familiar _ to residents of | the leading ports of this country and Europe. The commodore was fond of en- tertaining, and on each annual cruise | of the club the Electra had its full quota of guests. His affection for | this yacht was such that when his advancing years led him to the re- gretful decision to quit the sea for his recreation he would not sell the Electra nor permit her to used by anyone else. He ordered the yacht dismantled. Children’s Work Early in life Mr. Gerry became in- | terested in the welfare of the chil- dren in New York. He worked, wrote and gave in their behalf and from 1876 to 1901 he was vice- president of the New Y for the prevention of cruel dren. This interest also was extended to dumb animals and for many years he served as vice-president of the American society for the preven- tion of cruelty, to animals. Another of his humanitarian activities was his service as a governor of the New | York hospital from 1878 to 1012 | In addition to his extensive law ! practice he had numer banking affiliations. He had served as a di- rector of the Fifth Avenue Trust Company of New York, the Newport Trust Company of Sapan and the Industrial Company of Providenc Had Notable Library He accumulated a notable library containing 30,000 volume: In the later years of his life he made his home in Newport. His residence, Seaverge, was one of the older of the summer homes in this city. He was a member of the Reading | Room of Newport, the Hope club of Providence, the Somerset club of Boston, the Metropolitan and | Knickerbocker clubs of New York, the'Fort Orange club of Albany and | the Metropolitan club of Washing- 'lon. ust law to 1913 he was a trustee of the General Theologi Seminary and from 1895 to 1902 a American Museum of tural History. | He was married in 1867 to Louisa | | M. Livingston, who died some y | Sena- tor Peter Goelet Gerry Rhode | | Island, and Robert Livingston Gerry nd two daughter, Miss Anzclic rry and Mrs. Fr xham From 1877 Constable | wes Drury. THE HERALD “WANT ADS” Alphabetically Arranged For Quick and Ready Reference. LINE RATES FOR CONSECUTIVE INSERTIONS Charge Prepald 10 -09 p 18 .21 .28 .35 day days ... days days days .1 tine ‘1 line -1 line ‘1 line +.1 line days ....1 line 36 days ....1 line $1.50 $1.50 Yearly Order Rates Upon Application. Count 6 words to a line. 14 lines to an inch. Minimum Space, 3 lines. 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