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D) < 1927. NEW BRITAIN ‘DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, JUNE ' MURDER CASEDIES ... .. ——. .. : Deah Caims Hiss ishetd A, ookl Borden of Fall River Machine Possibly Late This Afternoon. Port Washington, N. Y. June 2 (UP)—Preparations for a test flight | for the Fokker monoplane Jeanne | D'Are today led to reports Fail River, Mass., June 2 (P xpedition in search of Lisbeth A, Borden, who aiiitted of the murder of her f Nungesser and Francois | end mother in 1863 after one of the 1d leave late today or to- nmost ¢ ated trials in New Ikng- morrow for Newfoundland land at her home here last T Jeanne D'Are which night with pon will fly Miss Bord b undland and Nova i \ces of the h the French from died o1 ud iy her N tion ot e to fiy it on t ssociate! 1 me- apany Cotton. The by D escue of ery of their eral Hos nov s ed the nings of ¥ g2l for the Others the trial B Emma, exception of [ ant in the Border v ziven him a was a leading w - | country ed to her home ; - Offer of Speci;l ’El.'a‘in Je ibergh will go west on in after his reception in 1 the advice arrives in also have v the is | Normal School Girls' Disport at Aflu_al May Day Exercises e Middletown Student, Class | Crowned Queen of May l; I Beauty, Crowned Queen‘ | While Her Subjects Pay | Tribute. ! blond curls, nle was aughter of k Fall, young May is equivalent to her cha as « ing Miss G ition -y street yeste d miss zbout whose wind blew flowing crowned queen of nnual May Day ex- ate Nornal school day afternoon. Miss H Geffken, Mrs, Bertha Geffken of Middletown. Sclection of woman as Queen of the acteri- and in pick- ss beaut ken, showed an almost unanimous agree- rhe crowning of Miss Geffken took n of members group body an 1 After sung to. the body and t this | was presen | costumes. ssociation of Rail-|a supper was served to the students pres Is Not Yet Accepted ot 6 June 2 (A—Whether coronation. of a large attendants, guests, and of the school's student ulty on the south cam- school. Miss Betty Fitz- dent of athletic as- under w \uspices the ¢d at the the presence the crowning a song queen by the student stival of Proserpina A by groups in colorful Following the recessional tives, meeting in Atlantic |and their guests. the aviator special train ties comparable to those Queen Marie and other dis- lished foreign visitors. If ac- quent trips to other citics, m cepted, the offer would permit Lin Washington. bergh to travel westward on a spe- Andrew J. Borden was a wealthy cial train by paying the nominal retired business man and ow fare of $1 much valuable real estate in this| Today the Association received the city. It was in the middl lowing reply from the fiyer: “Sin- forenoon of August 4, 18 thanks your congratulations. his daughter Lizzie rushed into th N referring offer to the home of a woman neighbor and | American committee."” told her that she had found her father dead in the living room The neighbor returned with her and saw the body, then went up- stairs and found body {Borden in a bedroom. The showed that-both had been home in Fall your FORD DENIE Detroit, h> had offer- gh $10,- 000,000 as a con; on should with either an axe,or a cleaver. |the flier take over active manage- Yor séyeral days the case bafflel ment of Ford's aviation projec the authorities. Finally, building up | Ford told the United Prass: “The a case of circumstantial evidence Port that we have made an offer to about Lizzie Borden, they arrested Captain Lindbergh is entirely with- her and brought her to trial in|out foundation in fact. We have New Bedford. As a motive the | never considersd doing anything of state sought to show that in view the The report that Mr. Lie- of the fact that Mrs. Borden was | Dbold, my secrefary, cabled Captain her stepmother she feared that she Lindbergh has would not get a liberal share of |Of truth in i her father's estate upon his death | and decided to do away with both father and stepmother in order| ¢ that she and her sister Emmu Cig might get the estate at once. age at 12 Dover road to Ern In her own defense Miss Borden Baldwin. Mr. Bennett has insisted that she was not in the @ l12-room one-family house house at the time of the murders. Park Place to William H. Allen. She said that Mr. and Mrs. Borden Both sales were made through the Ware alive when she went out to Louie S. Jones real estate agency, the barn in the rear of the house - e to look for some fishing tackle and . when she returned she found them | Marital Decalogue‘ dead. Her sister, it was definitely established, -was away from the | house at the time on an errand. During the trial Emma Borden | stood by her sister staunchly and irisisted that she could have had| o, possible motive for the crime. | . After Lizzie Borden's acquittal the fase lapsed into an unsolved mys- tery. There was some testimony at the trial about a man, possibly a peddler; who had been seen in the s7cinity of the house on the day of the murders, but his identity was| never established and no further arrests were made. | The sister Emma is still living but for many years she had not made her home with Lisbeth. So far as known she is the only near relative. Lizzie Borden was 68 years old. During the later years of her life] in' Fall River she had lived virtual- 1y atone and had few if any close friends. So far as known she never | discussed with anyone the murder | of her parents nearly 35 years ago| #n4 her lawyers sald today that| they knew of no will or statement which” she might have left. Five Days Notice Needed On Marriage Licenses Bffactive July 1, persons planning to marry must give five days'| notice at the office of City Clerk Al- fred L. Thompsun. Heretofore such notice was required only when both parties, were mnon-residents The change was brought about through an amendment passed at the last ®ession of the general assembly. LUMBER> New Britain Lumber Co. of Course! Lumber, Mason Materials, Wall Board, Asphalt Shingles, Interior Trim, Stair Work REAL ESTATE SALES an 8. Bennett has sold an -room house with two-car gar. so sold | | | The Rev. L. Morgan Chambers, of Wichita, Kan., who has put to- gether two sets of Ten Command. ments for the guidance of mare ried couples, as well as a third decalogue for preachers, by way of good measure, L_argest Yard in the City 301 Park Street Telephone 52 not the slightest grain | at 34/ | | The suce ac- (almost entirely to the efforts of Miss Kathe s of the affair was due e E. Colton and Miss Berna- dine Walker, faculty supervisors. CROSS-CONTINENT FOOT RACE SURE +C. . Pyle Announces Plans for Next Year New York, June 2 (UP)—Thus far unsuccessful in his quest for the sig- ature of Charles A. Lindbergh to a contrac! Grange, C. C. Pyle, auditor for Red | Suzanne Lenglen, Vincent Richards and other luminaries, today turned his attention to that trans- continental foot race which he swears he will start in Los Angeles on or about March 1, next year. “I' had a talk with Lindbergh's backers in St. Louis last week," the blonde told the United Press correspondent, | Mrs. Frank and enterprising promoter oy will see formed the nucleus of & vast organization. A judge must be selected for each contestaat, doctors, nurses and trainers must be pro- vided, ways of communication pro- vided. “It will bu one of the greatest sporting events ever handled,” Pyle reiterated. And then, his thoughts turning back to Lindbergh, Pylz confided that he had made the aviator an offer through his lawyer, Col. Bill Heyward, who was in Paris at the time. “l suggested that Lindbergh ap- pear here in the Yankee Stadium with his plane at three or four dol- lars a head,” he revealed. “The gate would have been upwards of $300,- 000, with the infield and outfield filled with seats, “And then,” went on the philan- ! ihropist, “I thought it wculd be a was | MISS HELENE GEFEPKEN, he wants he “It scems to me that to do something for | ought to make as much mon: possibly can in the next year or two and salt it away. Thers would be millions for him if hs were handled right—millions Now about this foot race from |Los Angeles to New York,” he said. | “I wouldn't be surprised if interest In the winner of that exceceded even the public attitude toward Lind- bergh IFor one thing it will last more than two months over 3,100 miles, gaining momentum as it procecds.” Pyle is offering 10 prizes ranging form $2 00 to $1,000 to the first 10 runners to finish. He said that preliminary conferences with civie organizations along the probable route had indicated other prizes would be posted by individual cities for the first racer to reach each poin Sixty-five entries been received and Pyle s pected the list to in to more than 1,000 when the ra tnal ts under way. Thus far appl tions have been received from New Zealand, Italy, Canada, the United | | States and Mexico. A team of Tara- | humara Indians las decided to enter. A request for information con- | corning the event was received from | Cooley, of Springfield, | already have id he ex- ‘“and offered my services. But they | Mo. told me he was going to commercial ize his feat in only a small “Tell her no women will be per-| | mitted to run,” Pyle directed his sec- i Maybe three or four hundred thou- |1etary ' sand dollars and let it go at that.”” “They talked of putting him in again from Los Angeles on August one picture,” Pyle went on. *I told |1, coming by bus The promoter plans to start east along whatever them the best they could get was ! route for the race shall be selected. $50,000 profits. and a percentage of, the Several road assoclations already | have written him, he said. The jour- fine thing if we turned over the pro- ceeds, or a part of them, to the fam ilies of Nungesser and Coli. asn’t panned out—yet" Govern;-r Ffiifel' Thanked For Acknowledging Note | Boston, June 2 (A—The painstak- | ing manner in which every one of the thousands of communications bearing on the Sacco-Vanzetti case has heen acknowledged by the staff of Governor Alvan T. Fuller, today brought a note of appreciation with the usual flood of demands, requests and advices. “The most unusual courtesy which prompted the acknowledgment of my recent communication in re Sac- co and Vanzetti,” wrote James Gar- nett from Philadelphia, “demands the evidence of my appreciation, wrote upon impulse, not citizen of Massachusetts, though my | forebears were, and the governor’s oftice, be-devilled beyond endurance, stops to tell me that my note was received Miss Kirschnit Selected For Teacher’s Position Miss Rose Kirschnit, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Kirschnit of Lin- | wood street and a member of this vear's New Britain State Normal school graduation class, has been added to the list of Normal school girls who will teach classes in the | | | elementary school of this city next | 15 ap- This makes a total of received year. graduates who have pointment; SOC] TES REMEMBERED Springfield, M Seven missionary societies receive a total of $13,000 by the will of Ma- rion E. 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