New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 6, 1927, Page 10

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, MAY &, 1827 e occurred elsewhere, possibly in| Bridgeport, or a town near there and | e EAN H'IER MISSINGI that the case will pass out of their| ACCUSED IN DEATH fdlefield and dragged into the field. T | As it was likely that at ao time th . . 'h:l]ly ::; in 'n:lsl l?v,-"ml".mlfuguf:Sl. LOIHS Hfln IIlSlSB HG (Continued from First Page) vis and he came over to~my house. He and I and my wife and boy went to Mrs. Hicks' home. We stayed there until 3 a. m., then we went home and Davis and I sat up all night. I was too worried about Clift to sleep.” Detectives estimated Hicks would gain perhaps $200,000 by the death of his brother, through life insur- Brazillan coast, at one o'clock this morning. Rio Janeiro, Brazil, May 6 (®—| As the hours wore on, anxiety in- | creased here today over the safety | of Captain Saint Roman, French | aviator who has not d | from since 1 o'clock this morni when he reported his position rddio as 120 miles off the Brazil coast on his attempted trans-atlantic | liop from the African mainland. The possibility was advanced, however, of a forced landing at some | irolated spot on the coast. In such a case the wireless apparatus on the | plane might be put out of commis- sion, accounting for the inability of radio men herc to communicate with the aviator BODY IS DENTIIED | Man Whose Remains Were Found in Middlefield was Salvatore Gaetano of Bridgeport. Middletown, Conn., Mav 6 The body of Salvatore Gaetano of Bridgeport, who was slain early in 1he waelc and his body placed in a feld in Middlefield, where it was tound Tuesday, was claimed by his wife last night. The coroner, L. A. Smith, ordered lelivery and the undertakers sent the body to Bridgeport. Coroner Smith has had no word ‘rom Superintendent of State Po- lice Robert Hurley in ths case and | has yet to fix a time for the inquest. state's Attorney Ernest Tnglish has not been offictally notified of the homicide and cannot take steps un- | the sound, burglars hammered open |I borrowed an ice cream the slaying | a safe at the Mystic theater here |from a neighbor at 8:30 | during the night and escaped with | Mrs. Clifford Hicks called me at 9 | ruined and the $300 in cash, according to a report | o'clock and told me Clifford was | tablishment badly damaged. 1l it {s determined 1t was in Middlesex county. The police hold the beilef that the struggle in which Gaetano was slain BIRNBAUM tion rests with the state police. | . . | Chamberlin and Aide | All Ready for Flight! Curtiss Field, L. I, May 6 (UP)— | The anca monoplane “Colum- bia,” in which Lloyd W. Bertaud and Clarence D. Chamberlin York to Par will prob: 1 ready for flights again by tonight, according to an ouncement made by G. M. Rellanca, designer of tha plane, to- The radio set has been reduced 8o that it now contains only the recelv- ing apparatus, Bellanca said, adding that with favorable weather the t mey be at- Herkimer, N. Y., M enginemen were painfully hurt, eight | express and six freight cars were de- | railed and all four tracks of the main line of the New York Central railroad were torn up for several | in consequence of near the North Illon | PUrn his papers if anything hap- | owned pened to him. How did I know he | | was dead? I dldn’t know it. I just! unknown origin STONES ORDERED | belleved he was. He told me that| this morning about 4 o'clock, caus- station early toc MANY GRAV y 6 (UP)—Con- arble headstones ries in France were tra »y local quarries. The | killed? I didn’t tell Miss Sinnwell!in an apartment over the store was stones will be placed | that T knew he was dead. I said, | awakened by the cry of an infant ajority of tt | above the graves of American sol- diers and will be dedicated by Gen- eral Pershing in Scptember. BURGLARS ROB SAFE | Malden,: Mass, May 6 (UP)— | Using a policeman’s coat to muffle | to police today. “EVERLASTING Has an Alibi St. Louls, May 6 (—Held ‘“sus- pected of the murder” of his brother, Clifford M. Hicks, 28 year old law partner of former Gov- iott W. Major, . today declared he could an alibi. The arrest of Hicks, together with Willlam Davis, 29, and Harry Bostelman, 29, ex-convicts, came with dramatic suddenness late yes- terday after five days' Investigation into the slaying of the attorney and former minister, who was shot to death on a lonely St. Louis country | road last Saturday night. Explaining a telephone call at 7 a. m. Sunday, two hours before the body was found, in which Miss Ida H. Sinnwell, the attorney's stenog- rapher, quoted him as saying, “Clift is dead,” and explaining why he visited his brother’s office at 8 a. m., Hicks said: “Clifford made me promise to he expected to be killed. He said that if he didn't come home it would be because he had been ‘I think Clift is dead.” The attorney is supposed to have been slain about 9:30 p. m. when shots were reported to have been heard. “Saturday night,” Hicks said, “I was at home entertaining friends. freezer o'clock. I telephoned Willlam Da- ” FURNITURE Glenn T.| ance policles which were assigned to him recently and through receiving the bulk of the estate in a will writ- ten by the attorney about ten hours before he was killed. Davis was involved in the inves- tigation not only because he was with Glenn Hicks Saturday night and Sunday morning, but because ed $15,000 in the St. corporation, operated | he had invet Louls Financ by Ciffford. Detectives also asserted he was involved in & bond deal with the at- torney in November, 1925, when five raliroad bonds stolen in a safe rob- bery at Dayton, Ohio, were sold through a St. Louls Brokerage com- pany by one “W. B. Harris,” whom Hicks introduced. Davis denied he | was “Harris,”” although the address | given by *“Harris” at that time is | the home of Davis’ father. | Ansonia Store and Meat | Market Gutted by Fire | Ansonia, May ¢ P—The combin- ' ed grocery store and meat market by Angelo Vicarl of 552 was gutted by fire of ‘which broke out Main street | ing damage estimated at approxi- | mately $3,000, | The Vicarl family which resides | and found the apartment filled with | dense smoke. They fled from the burning | building in their night attire, spend- | ing the night with friends, al- though the flames di4 not reach their apartment. The fire was confined to the store where the entire stock was interior of the es- The | damage is covered by insurance. 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