New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 24, 1927, Page 10

RUDNER CONVICTED [ MELLETT DEATH Now Faces Lile Imprisonment for Death of Publisher Canton, Ohlo, Feb. 24.—(P— Ben Rudner, Massilon hardware mer- chant, has been found guilty of sec- ond degree murder in the assassina- tion of Don R. Mellett, Canton pub- lisher, which is punishable by life imprisonment in the state peniten- tlary. The verdict was returned last night by a jury of seven women and ftve men, after a deliberation of seven hours. Mrs. Maggie Snyder, foreman reported the finding. Rudner will follow Patrick Me- Dermott, his alleged hireling in the | slaylng who is serving life sentence on a conviction of first degree mur- der. Louis Mazer, third defendant in the state'’s prosecution of alleged conspirators against Mellett, will be brought to trial March 16. Rudner took the verdict calmly. “They have convicted an fnnocent | man,” was only comment. Defense counsel said a motion for a new trial will be filed. Trial Judge Abram | W. Agler set next Monday as the date for a hearing on the motion. All Canton gathered about the | court house waiting for the verdict. | Ihrongs filled halls and corridors | ind overflowed into the lawn and hops across the street, awaiting word from the jury room. The trial of “Big Ben,” as the master con- spirator against Mellett, called Can- | ‘on’s “Crusading Editor,” was of | special significance to the towns- | nen, who had read Mellett's accusa- | ions against “The Jungle,” Canton's | inderworld, and then reports of the rch for his slayers conducted by county and state officials after | editor was shot down at his| zarage door on the night of July 16. Rudner's conviction takes officials past the half way work in their at- tempts to finish the work begun by Mellett they said. Ora Slater, Cincin- nati detective, Prosecutor Henry W. Harter, and former county and state | investigators in assembling evidence | against the three men, and ter, | \t the announcement of the verdict | declared that the verdict “was grati- fying, after considering the deplor- ble condition here last summer be- | fore Mellett was murdered.” | Possibility of further indictiments | in the case was indicated by Harter, | who said the grand jury will be call- .d Monday. He declined to reveal however, whether new evidence had | been found. Victim’s Brother Pleads To Prevent Lynching Springfield, Ma., Feb. 24 (A—Th: brother of his victim and a circuit judge last night pleaded with a| mob at the Douglas county jail to allow the law to take its course when A. J. Clark, slayer of Wllliam‘ Irhy, was taken there under heavy | zuard. Clark, reputed bad man of | Oklahoma, was arrested after a two- da Circuit Judge Fred Stewart pl'om!sedi an early trial. | A heavy guard was thrown around | the jafl for the night. | upon learning about this | estate | supreme court is likel By the Assoclated P Belleair, Fla. — young male duffers who 100 should throw away Lots of husky can't breaks their clubs Mrs. Caleb F. Fox of Philadelphia, 65, won the qualifying medal in a geolf tourna- ment with an 81. The fair Bernice Wall, young enough to be Mrs. Fox's granddaughter, was second with 87. New York—Mrs. Flora Whitney Tower, daughte of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney and divorced from Roderick Tower last seems to have lost her heart cruising on the Nile. Word comes that sh is being married in Cairo to G. Mac- Colloch Miller of New York. Los Angeles—The former Estelle Bradley, who once was Miss Atlanta at the Atlantic City beau pageant, is sceking a divorce from Charle Lamont, her director in the mov whom Cruelty, coldness are charged. and indifference Rome—Views of Henry J. Allen in co-education on the high seas may | be summarized as “never again.” A member of the faculty of the floating university Ryndam, the former gov- ernor of Kansas says that the pres- ence of girls aboard produces many courtships which distract from studies and gives the trip the ap- | pearance of a sight seeing joy ride Fredericton, N. cost some 30 wealthy Amer considerably more than usual to fish for salmon in a million dollar pool on the Restigouche river. The pool got its name because it has provided what the members said is a million dollars worth of sport. Tive year flshing rights will be sold at auction in April for more than $51,250, the upset price. The right in 1922 brought $16,815. Wealthy Canadians are expected to bid against the Americans this year. Jersey City—Married in a lon's cage, Ernest P. Gervais, chauffeur, and his bride are on their honey moon with a substantial gift of cash and furniture. The Lions club ar- anged matters in order to help a children’s home. A trainer kept sharp watch on three lionesses, but they sat perfectly still gazing at the bride and didn’t even try to kiss her. Philadelphia—Chief Justice Taft and the widows of Grover Cleveland and Theodore Roosevelt are amon several celebritles who face the pros pect of paying federal income taxes on annuities they receive from the of Andrew Carnegie. federal court of appeals, overruling { the district court, hold the annuities An appeal to the Mr. Taft receive $10,000 a year, Mrs. Preston and Mrs. Roosevelt $5,000, are not exempt. Poughkeepsie, tem is all off at Vassar college, so ar as a campus student candy shop is concerned. Customer were bound | on honor to deposit the prices of weets in a box. The manage says day. New York—Having leased his fifth |avenue home for an apartment house | year, | married a year or so ago. | B.—It is golng to The | N. Y.—The honol'l NEW BRIT'™N FLASHES OF LIFE: GIRLS ON STUDENT | SHIP ARE FOUND TO BE DISTRACTING| . .. | Elbert H. Gary has bought himself another private house on the same street. Willard D. Straight, built after his wedding to Dorothy Payne Whitney The site alone is valued at half a million. Major Straight's widow. now Mrs. Leonard K. Elmhirst, re- fused higher offers from interests which desired to build another apartment house, Moscow — Colonel Peter explorer, is back from Tibet with a story of training a hideous ape of | extraordinary intelligence so well that be became a member of the ex- | pedition. Simians outnumber man |in the country. The explorer found | a sacred island the sole inhabitants | of which were three Buddhist monks | with large hairy bodies and enor- | mous shagzy heads. Then ran in ter- | ror when Russians approached. London—Queen Mary has a col- |lection of photographs of the Aus- | tralian tour of the duke and duchess | of York which already fills several The duchess sends to the queen pictures she takes herself and the collection is augmented from other sources. Vancouver, B. C.—Liquor is be- ing shipped to Papeete, in the South for storage, because the charges tisfactory than in Vancouver. London—Scotland Yard is trying |to solve the mystery of the disap- | pearan at $100,000. It was sent by jewelers | to the home of J. Bruce Ismay, ship- | ping magnate and Titanic survivor. l'rhe package was left unopened sev- eral hours, and then the pearls were | missing. Stamford—George Pratt Ingersoll ! minister to Siam under President 1t is that of the late Major | Kozloft, | a less and the regulations more | » of a pearl necklace valued | NEWINGTON NEWS Welles held a mock | various “committees | t the meeting of | | the Woman's club of le Hill yes- | ay afternoon af the home of | Mrs. M. Nordstrom ‘on Robbins av- ue. Members of the club took the | parts of senate chairman, clerk, etc. { Miss Welle :nted bills and these | hearing before of the legislature’ the senate. The bills were those con- | cerning women in industry and child | |1abor. Miss Constance Leigh, super- |intendent of the Newington Home {for Crippled Children, spoke in fa- | srning the home. swell, Mrs. L. L. Harding and Mrs. Richard Hulburt, Jr., have been appointed Dby the | president as a committee to answer a questionnaire sent out by the na- tional president, Mrs. Sherman, in regard 1o the accomplishments of | | vor of a bill con M [, H. C M. Smith of New n outlined the duties of lhc} Visiting Nurse Association and spoke of the possibility of extending | its services to include Maple Hill and | Elm Hill. The matter will be given to a committee made up of members of the association for its approval or | disapproval. The service will prob- ably be extended to these two sec- | tions for a few months in order to ascertain how it would work out. Miss Dorrice Higgins of Bangor, | who has been a house guest | Nordstrom, was present at | the meeting. Miss Higgins' engage- I ment to Albert E. cently announced. M Anton Van Veen of Hartford rendered several vocal solos. Ernest mmer Mrs. Peter was | last evening at| taken seriously Albe n Wilson and prominent in state af- | falrs dies r two months’ illness. Packerville—Mrs. Mary H. Gam- | ble, 77 dies at home on tract of land !received by her maternal ances- | tors from Indians in 17th century and | | owned by them continuously since, Waterbury—Alienation of affec- | tions suit for $25,000 filed in superior | court agalnst ex-Mayor John Schu- acher of Ansonia by James Cos- tello, former Waterbury policeman. | | ! | Haven road hampered for three hours by derailment of two brick- |laden freight cars at Berlin-New 3ritain junction, Norwalk—Fire in day nursery re- sults in $1,000 damage mostly from ! water. Only matron in building at time. Milford—Snowball volley stirs Pa- | trolman O'Hara to pursuit of marks- | men and one preparatory echool stu- | dent is caught. | Recent research at Johns Hopkins man hunt in the Ozark Hills.|(ho svstem has cost the shop §§ a | University revealed that the small- | est proportion of heavy drinkers was |among the Jews, less jcent. avonic people third. Meriden — Train traffic on New than 9 per | Ttalians ranked next and the | Another shipment of Rollers’ and Hartz rive S Brass and Roller for 2t Cages and standards hought separate. We give advice and doctor birds FREE. Handsome Collie $§ o $ Puppies . .. monkeys, etc. Dan E. 294 MAIN STREET DATLY HERAID, T went through the usual form as in | | commonwealth | college Nordstrom was re- | S | dition of a new unit of buildings to | | the enthusiastic supporters of T sa kR A R | | CANARIES can We talke orders for any dog or bird, Orders taken for Baby Chicks. Bird Display HURSDAY, her home on Church street and was removed to the home of her son, Jo- seph Fletcher, in Plainville. Mrs. Edith Hancock of the Center |, has been appointed a member of the occupation therapy committee of the state federation of woman's clubs. She will represent the Woman's club ¢ Maple Hill on that committec. board of relief met last night, 18 reductions in assessments $26,000, and additions of reductions were prin- to the decline in land | totalling $1,500 cipally due values. Catholic Women’s College In New England Likely Chicopee, Mass.,, Feb. 24 (P—Ar- rangements by which the Academy of Our Lady of Elms, in Chicopee, become @ full fledged Women's college, the first Catholic women's college in New England, through af- filiation with Holy Cross college in Worcester, are expected to be com- pleted soom, according to an an- nouncement made here. Affiliation | with an accredited college in the | is one of the chief requisites for obtaining from the leg- lature a charter for such, an in- stitution of higher lcarning, it was explained. 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