New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 7, 1927, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 NEW BRITAIN 'HERALD BYRD PLANS EXPLORATIONS FROM AIR THAT WILL TAKE FULLY 7 OR After South Polé Trip B YEARS' TINE RAILROADS NOW T0 NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, GHAMBERLIN WAL | SHOW FRENCH AIR MAN ALL DETAILS {Flies With Him fo London To- morrow in Demonstration THURSDAY, JULY 7, 1927. Freshet of Gold Pours Into Banks From Factory Hands’ Pay Envelopes Deposits Reach Unprecedented Total In Past Six| Months, Savings Institutions Report. Savings bank deposits have taken |already had great sums in thelr ac- ;an almost unprecedented increase in |counts, but mainly from small de- | the past six months, and while fig- | positors, presumably working men ures relative to activities in this|and bread winners laying aside funds branch of local banking houses are against future family needs. This not avalilable, it is believed that ‘condilion is reported generally ! —TWENTY- ect; % ’Or., fey uz LOCAL Pl]ll LEADS T0 GAPT URE OF ‘BOSTON BILLIE’ \Sleuths Hunting Notorious Rob- ber Given Information by New AGES S‘at, Week Ending July 2nd .... 14,194 PRICE THREE CENTS oy ON BILLIE" CAPTURED A1 SOUND VIEW AFTER HE IS WOUNDED BY DETECTIVE THOUSANDS SPLIT |Alleged Partaer of Ar Britain Detectives among New Britain bankers. He Wants to Fly Over Brazilian Forests and Arabian Desert and Around South Ameri- can Continent. Definitely Books Passage On Leviathan Next Tues- day — Attends Recep- tion Given by Fernand| Bouisson Today. WILBUR APPROVES OF POLAR FLIGHT is, July 7 (A—Commander Byrd expects to spend the next seven | or eight years in exploration from the air, he told the Associated Press today. After his South Pole flight, he would like to make an aerial voyage of exploration over the track-| less forests of Brazil; then perhaps a good will flight around America, to be followed by anothc expedition this time to Arabia. Hi: plans, the aviator explained, are of course subject to ratification by the American navy department, every- thing depending upon his being granted sufficiently, long absence from' the navy. “Will you try to fly over Mt. Ever- ?” he was asked. The North Pole hero grinned as he replied: “That's an interesting | flight, but it's not in my line.” The commander is much in earn- est about his exploration plans. He es pointed out that vast stretches of territory are still untouched, and said great scientific' results were to be obtained. by. carefully planned aerial journgys jntp the little known corners of the world. Plans for’ the Brazilian flight are as yet bit tentative, Commander Byrd himself does not know just how much fiying they will embrace or what preparation will have to be made. Sail Next Tuesday Passage for Commander Byrd and his trans-Atlantic flight companions had been tentatively booked on the steamer Leviathan, sailing from Cherbourg next Tuesday. Unless there are developments to (Continued on Page 18) MAIN STREET BLOCK SOLD TO 1. RACHLIN Business Preperty Price Reported at $150,000- $200,000 A real estate deal said to involve between $150,000 and $200,000 was consummated today when Attorney Irving Rachlin purchased from the New Britain Real Estate and Title Co., the property extending from 3§ to 50 Main street. It was originally known as the Hatch block. : This deal Involves the transfer of the four story brick building now occupied by F. W. Monier and Brother, by Occupin & Johnson, and T. W. Hinchliffe on the ground floor and by apartments on the up- per_floors. It runs from the corner of Glen and Main streets east to but not fincluding the Porter & Dyson property. Both Mr, Rachlin and the Hatch Real Estate Co., which handled the deal, declined to make any sale fig- .ures public. Mr. Rachlin gays he does not plan any change in policy or any altera- tions to the building. Blind Lover Seeks Right To Wed Girl of 16 Years Fall River, Ma: July 7 (P— Charles T. Silvia, 30-year-old blind lover of 16-year-old Anna F. Kel- man, today lost another battle in his efforts to marry her. Yesterday he was refused a license by City Clerk John Crowther and today sought to force him to issue a li- cense by appealing to Judge Edward T, Hanify of the district court. Judge Honify declared the’case out of his jurisdiction because the girl is un- der age, adding consent of parents of the girl would be needed before he would act. Lizut. C_hampion Breaks Seaplane Altitude Mark Washington, July 7 (UP)—Lieut. C. ¢, Champion, U. 8. N,, broke his own world's scaplane altitude yecord July 4, when he climbed 87,995 fect, Porter Adams. president of the Na- tional Acropautic Association an- nounced today. Champion’s previous record, made May B, was 4,450 feet less, and the previous record, made by Lieul. Demouget .~ Satrouville, France, March 28, was 7.516 feet loss. South | leave of | ADD AIR SERVICES Several Trunk Lines Making Extensive Plans GOVERNMENT WILL ASSIST Air-and-Rail Plan Would Includc Sale of Air Tickets at Railroad Offices With Partial Refund for Bad Weather. ‘Washington, eral ning joint service to provide the ultimate in speed and comfort to their clients. The proposals have been taken up with William P. MacCracken, air-and-rail passenger air, the United Press was informed today. He has approved the plan and romised government assistance in working out the details. Air Travel by Day “I think the railroads believe they can render public service by Iproviding connections to allow rail travel by night and air travel by Press. He was en Chicago and Detroit, observe the close of the Ford re- iabjlity airplane tour next week. and while in the west may confer with railroad officials on the pro- posed new departure. The | clude sale of air tickets at the rail- |road ticket offices, probably with |an option of all-rail partial refund ing weather. Much Time Saved MacCracken pointed out that most of a business day could be saved, for instance, from Detroit to Washington.- route today to in casc of bad fly- -The by the best trains. A passenger could leave Detroit around. mid- night, after a theater, and arrive in Pittsburgh shortly after' daten: Then he would go to McKeesport, enter a plane about 7 a. m., reach- ing Washington by 11. If he made the entire trip by train he would reach Washington at 7 p. m. The trip would be more comfort- able under air-rail conditions, with the night trip over smooth country by, rail, and the day trip by en- |closed “limousine” plane over moun- |tains which slow down trains. Feasible Opportunity The most feasible opportunity to put the plan into effect if agree- ments can be reached between |roads and air companies, is in con- |nection with the Chicago to San Francisco airmail-and-passengar service, now operated by the Boeing company of Seattle, and the similar New York to Chicago airmail serv- ice, which is to be taken over from the government by the National Alr Transport, Inc., on August 1. MacCracken s withholding names of lines temporarily. JOHN DRE IS PLAYING { HIS FINAL HEROIC ROLE With Death But Few Hours Away He Remains Consclous and Cheerful, San Francisco, July 7 (A—John Drew, veteran actor who is near death atter au illness that has kept him in a local hospital since May 31, was very low today, but hospital authoritics reported that his condi- tion was no worse than last night, when his physician, Dr. Lawrence Hoftman, gave him but 48 hours to live. Development of the septic poisons which have ben forming in his sys- tem since he first became ill with arthritis, fn Portland, Ore, has gradually sapped his strength. Des- pite his cheerful battle to win back health, his illness has been a sue- cession of relapses, each leaving him a little weake “This is but another act, and I am playing my part,” he has re- marked occasionally during the ill- ness.” He has maintained conscious nes even when the disease was at its worst, and has retained his keen interest in the affairs of the Mr. and Mrs. Jack I)C\v:r(‘.xu\. son-in-law and daughter, have been constantly at his bedside. Drew's nephew several visits here during his uncle’s illness, and was expected to return from his Hollywood home today. Virginian Executed for Murder of Two Children Richmond, Va., July 7 (A—Louls F. Boersig, convicted of beating to death two small children at Alexan- dria last March, was electrocuted at the Virginia state penitentiary to- day. Testimeny at the trial in April was to the effcet that Boersig went to the home of a Mrs. Ridge- way and asked for a drink of water. As Mrs. Ridgeway turned to get the water he knocked her down, club- bed to death her two little girls, 1.97e%ts <nd Catherine, and took $85 | from a barcad drawer and escaped. p July 7 (UP)—Sev- | trunk-line railroads are plan- | |assistant secretary of commerce for | ' MacCracken told the United | where he will ' air-and-rail plan would in- | Nungesser-Colt | working on plans for one of his own. travel and a | !on rumors on a passage | rail journey takes about 20 hours | John Barrymore, has made ; [ Inc., Trip in Columbia AVIATOR APPARENTLY BREAKS WITH LEVINE Chamberlin Declines to Comment But His Friends Insist that Levine Has Been too Arrogant and Un- reasonable in His Demands and Former is not Satisfied With Con- dition of Plane. Paris, July Chamberlin will 7.—P—Clarence fly the Bellanca morrow with the as yet unnamed French pilot who will attempt a re- {turn flight across the Atlantic with | Charles Levine, Chamberlin told the Associated Press today. Will Show Controls Chamberlin will show needs to know about the peculiari- ties of the plane as well as give him |the full benefit of the experience { gained on the transatlantic flight. Chamberlin will leave the plane in | London, to be returned to France by the French pilot, and will sail from Southampton on the Leviathan next identity of Pilot It is believed the pilot who will take the Columbia back to America will be either Captain Georges Pelleteir Doisy of Paris-to-Tokyo - fame, or Lieutenant Paul Tarascon, who originally ~ planned the trip i across with the ill-fated Captain Coli and who, since the failure of the flight, has been Chamberlin declined to comment current in Paris that there had been a break with Levine. “I should be perfectly willing to take the plane id, “but I long ago made engage- ments that make it impossible.” that arrangements concluded some time ago precluded his remaining in Europe any longer. Hint at Friction . They did hint, however, that all as not too men and intimated that Chamberlin felt that Levine, without sufficient sperience in aviation, had under- taken too much in the direction of the flight, especially in their round | of visits to European cities. This was particularly noticeable at Vienna, ‘Austria, and: Marienbad, Czechoslovakia, when Levine, friends of Chamberlin say, insisted orable weather conditions that | Chamberlin thought it almost suicid- al to fly. Chamberlin considered himself a soldier under orders of his chief, and took off- after remonstrating with Levine, Chamberlin’s friends say. This difference of opinjon about flying has not affected the personal relationship of the men, which con- tinues friendly, friends of both said today. Indeed, it is- understood, Chamberlin is still under contract to Levine and may him in the United States after his return. Chamberlin’s friends however, +that if there are' such flights, Chamberlin will insist that i they be entirely under his direction. | Dissatisfied with Plane ‘While Chamberlin has declined to comment, it is understood that he is dissatisfied with the condition of ! the Bellanca plane, advising Levine that it would be a matter of weeks | tion for the return flight.and that |any attempt at hurry might end | | fatally. Therefore, he remonstrated strongly when Levine sent a message to Commander Byrd in the United States in the name of both himself pany the America on a reurn flight. This difference was patched up, but Chamberlin pointed out to Levine trip because of engagements which he already had in the United States. e Another Version. Paris, July 7 (UP)—Clarence D. Chamberlin and Charles A. Levin who risked their lives together when they flew from New York to Ger- many, have quietly but surely brok- e€n off their relations, it became known today. The reason dates back to a tcle- gram sent to Commander Richard (Continued on Page 12) Eddie Stinson Plans to Try Around World Flight Louisville, Ky., July 7 (UP)— Eddie Stinson, pioneer air pilot and leading contender for the Ford re- liability trophy, will attempt a flight around the world shortly after con- clusion of the Iord tour. Plans for the flight nounced today by E. president of the Wayco Air Service, Detroit, sponsor of the globe circling attempt. Stinson's part in the Ford relfabil- were an- ", Schlee, 1 ity tour was decided as a test flight for the monoplane in which he and William Mara, tour companion, hope to fly around the world. The Stinson monoplane was lead- ing the race for the Ford trophy by about 900 points when it took off for Memphis shortly after 10 a. m: |every bank will report a sizeable in- | crease over the preceding six months | Factory employes are said to have monoplane Columbia to London to- : the new ! ! pilot the controls and everything he . perlod. | deposited their savings in anticipa- The increase has come not by way tion of a possible industrial decline of large deposits from persons who | during the summer. i DR. DROPPERS, NOTED iW[lfl[l DISAGREES WITH DIPLOMAT, DIES TODAY| COOLIDGE ON ISLANDS | Was Friend of Late Presi-}Govemor General Wants \TWO-GUN MAN REPORTED IN THIS CITY YESTERDAY His Car Almost Runs Down Boy and Later Smashes Into Signe at Filling Station on West Hartford Road—Ellinger, Avay Get Credit for Good Work Flynn and Mc- dent Wilson and Promi- nent Educator ‘ | War Dept. to Continue in Control Williamstown, Mass, July (®—| Washington, July 7 Dr. Garrett Droppers, 67, Protessor | General Wood of Emeritus of political economy at after conference ‘ Williams College, and former United | States minister ~plenipotentiary to | the islands would remain under the Greece and a former president of |jurisdiction of the war department. | the University of South Dakota, died | His view was in direct conflict |esr|y this morning at his home here. | Death was due to a nervous break- | dent Coolidge for the transfer of the down and paralytic shock with |insular government to the depart- whieh he was stricken in 1920 while ment of the interior. !serving as envoy extracrdinary to The objection to the transfer (®)—Governor the Philippines, with Secretary | Davis today, declared that he hoped | | with the recent suggestion of Presi- | ! Greece, and from which he has since | suffered. Dr. Droppers was, born in Milwau- | | kee, Wis., April 12, 1860. He was graduated from Harvard i strength to back it up." raised by General Wood was that the | | Philippine government needs a de- | partment with the necessary | “It will be some time,” he said, | on Case. Information leading to the arrest Jof “Boston Billie” Monahan, gun man, arrested today at Sound | View for his alleged connection with robberies in the homes | wealthy New Yorkers, was given to | Charles Sheraton of the Burns De- tective Agency and G. E. Hurley, county detective of Nassau count: Mincola, L. I, on Tuesday of th '\\u\k by Detective Sergeant George Ellinger, Sergeants Michael J. two ?rl_ 1 and Patrick A, McAvay. When the visiting ofticers reached this city they had no idea of Monahan's whereabouts but believed it possible that he might have come here on of j home myself.” he | . Friends of the aviator also stated ! smooth between the | upon taking off under such unfav- wake flights for | say, | before it could be placed in condi- | and Chamberlin, offering to accom- | that he would be unable to make the | {Off Education Board, E. Byrd virtually challenging him to | “before the Filipinos are ready for independence. We have put our shoulder to the wheel and must see | them through.” HAWAUIAN VOLCANOIN BRILLIANT ERUPTION | Four Jets of Fire Covering Crater Floor of Kilaiea University,in 1887 and later took special studies in economics and finance at the University of Berlin. | He was professor of political econ- omy and finance at Tokyo University | in Japan from 1889 to 1898. In 1898 | he became president of the Uni- | versity of South Dakota where he re- | mained until 1908 when he became i professor ‘of political - economy at‘ Williams College. He retained (hat‘ position until ‘1923 when he retired with the rank of Professor Emeritus. | He was a close personal friend of | the late President ‘Wilson and in August, 1914, was appointed by Mr! Wilson to the position of minister plenipotentiary to Greece, and Mon- tenegro,-a post which he held until July 15, 1920. , The breakdown and shock he suffered in Greece were at- tributed to his labors as minister | during the strenuous years of the World War. Dr. Droppers was prominent in| | democratic politics and was a con | tributor on economic and political | topics to numerous journals. He Hilo, (U !ing 300 feet through rolling clouds of dense steam and sulphurous | |fumes while subterrancan explo- slons-and hissing winds aroused the |island, today ushered in the long was former secretary of the Aslatic'|2Waited eruption of Kilauea (Lake Soclety of Japan. He léft last Sep- [0f Fire), the world's most spec- tember, on invitation of his former |tacular volcano. | pupils at Tokyo University, for a | Beginningat 1 a. m. with aslight ‘Hs!t to Japan and returned from carthquake and appearance of a that country to his home in Wil- |fiery fountain in the bottom of the |llamstown three weeks ago. He is|great pit, a mile across survived by his widow, who was thousand feet deep, the eruption Cora Augusta Rand' of Cambridge, |increased until at dawn four jets of Mass., a son, Seton, and three |fire were covering the crater floor daughters, Cora, Elizabeth and | with lava. Geraldine, all of Williamstown and | From now on, continuing possi- by three brothers and three sisters. |bly for days or even months, these _—_— streams of lava will continue their Island of Hawaii, July 7 forming in the lava pots and a IS SU]GIDE WITH GAS‘mm fountain is forming, according | to observers. ' Meanwhile back in the jungles on | Mauna Loa, old natives are gather- | ing in huts, reviving ancient rites and wondering whether Madame Pele, ‘goddcss of fire, will demand a hu- { man sacrifice or permit Kilauea to Hartford, Conn., July. 7 ® — !erupt spectacularly but safely. |Henry R. Goldberg, 24, son of Mr.| Kilauea, the crater in eruption and Mrs. Michael C. Goldberg, of today, 125 North Quaker Lane, West | of Mauna Loa, which is more than Hml[ord committed suicide at hls 13,000 feet high. home this morning. SRR e At 101 Years of Age Mr. Goldberg, who suffered from | Wants to Fly in Plane |sleeping sickness four years ago, never fully recovered. He was found | Oklahoma City, Okla., July 7 (UP) —Still a true trail blazer at 101, L. 7 o'clock this C. Black, veteran pioneer of Fair- {in his room about 7 imorning in an unconscious condi- view, Okla.; who freighted supplies over the old Chisholm trail from itlon with an illuminating gas jet |wide open. The young man was |rushed to St. Francis hospital but |died a few minutes after being re- | Wichita to Fort Sill, wants to ride ceived. in an airplane. Mr. Goldberg was graduated from | Visiting relatives here, Black ex- the Hartford Public High school in | pressed his desire to take an air 1919 as the valedictorian of his | cruise and handed out the following lclass. In 1923 Mr. Goldberg was | rules for long life: graduated from Yale university| “Be Irish, best race on earth. with a B. A. degree with honors in| “Work outdoors. |several courses. He was a member| ‘“All right to drink but not to ex- of Phi Beta Kappa and also was | Cess. {the author of several books, the “Chew tobacco; years old.” Black is a West Virginian, born in 1826, Henry Goldberg, 24, Honor Student at High School and Phi Beta Kappa at Yale. Iprincipal work being a critical study of Thomas Hardy. Mr. Goldberg was a frequent contributor to the Portico column of the Times, and also wrote in- |terestingly in other fields. Twenty Persons Hurt as Detroit Bus Overturns Ypsilanti, Mich.,, July 7 (UP)— Twenty persons were injured today when a Sun Line bus out of Chirago for Detroit, ccllided with an auto- Becomes School Janitor (Special to the llerald) Plainville, July 7 — Vacating his position on the school com- mittee in order to accept a posi- tion as janitor of the Plainville High school, Martin I, Casey of 24 North Washington street ten- dered hls resignation as a mem- ber of the committee at the mecting of that body held last evening. The resignation was accepted. Mr. Casey was elected to the committce in 1924 and his term would have expired this October. In his new ca- pacity he \v.'i ¢ one of two jan- itors tending the recently built high school. side in a ditch. Fred Field, of Pittsburgh, a pas- senger on the bus, was so severely injured he was not expected to re- cover. Seven Wyandotte youths, en route from their homes fo the citizens military training camp at Battle Creek were occupants of the tour- ing car. Witnesses said the bus crashed in- to the smaller car when it tried to pass a large truck. Couple Thought Lost Are Safe at Crawford Notch Crawford Notch, —Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Hussey of New Rochelle, N. Y., whos: prolonged ab- |sence from the camp ground where | they left their autoniobile, had caus- ed fear for their s fety, returned safely to the camp today. Although | caught in a wild cold storm on thc | mountainside they were none the worse for their trip. THE WEATHER New Brhain- and vicinity: Thundcr sl.owers this after- noon or tonight, Friday gen- erally fe'r; cooler. #. and a | W. HARTPORD YOUNG MAN 1fimev, s fe toiispime” o is one of the safety valves| * | body mobile near here and turned on its | N. H, July 7 ® | account of the fact that his brother, dward Monahan, lives at 643 West | Main street. | It happened that several days ago. |Sergeant I |session of valuable information from source that was considered reliable. ln the absence of Detective Sergeant cCue, the other sergeants talked \\nh the visiting officers and gave Hwn\ the clue which led to Sound View. The local police today de- lclined to divuly: the source of the |information. The visiting officers | were overjoyed at being put on the trail, for they had been unable to obtain a definite lead for some time. In Now Britain Yesterday That “Boston Billie” was in New Britain yesterday became known this morning when Sergcant McCue | |received a complaint from W. B. | Moulton of 1383 New Britain avenue, | West Hari”..d, that an automobile {had : .ost 11 down his son terday afternoon. Asked about the registration n bers, \Ir Moulton | said they were “I which, ac- |cording to the state motor vehicle |department records, were issued to | | James Francis Thayer of Sound View.. The car was purchased in | New London by Monahan, according to the police, and James IFrancis Thayer is a wealthy resident of Nas- sau, L. I, whose home Monahan re- cently robbed of about $40,000. (Continued on Page 15) HIT AND RUN VIGTIM WAS NEW BRITAIN MAN {Found Lifeless at Side of Road in Windsor Locks Ignacy Bula, aged 35 years, whose body was found by the roadside in | Windsor Locks yesterday morning, {apparently the victim of a hit and irun automobile driver, was a resi- | dent of this city engaged in work on a tobacco farm for the American Sumatra Tobacco Co. Marks in the shoulder ofthe road showed that his had been dragged for more [than 40 fect. He had lived in this city for 23 years and formerly was employed by Landers, Frary & Clark Co. He | was a veteran of the World War, having served in the Polish army. His war service health so much that he was forced to resign his position in the factory ' {and he left two months ago to work jon a farm. His body was taken to | Windsor Locks where it was ex- amined by Dr. Kinsella of Hartford. It was then turned over to Stanley | Borawski, an undertaker, of this | city for preparation for burial. ! He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Francisca Bula, a four year old child and two brothers, Stanislaus and Jo- | seph. The funeral will be held from Stanislaus’ home at 104 Gold street tomorrow morning at § o'clock and at 8:30 o'clock at the Sacred Heart {church. Burial will be in Sacred Heart cemetery, Hartford, July 7 (A—County De- tective Edward J. Hickey is con- vinced after some painstaking in- vestigation that.a Dodge car killed | Charles Duler on the Poquonock {road hetween Windsor Locks —and iffield Tuesday night. Garages, ice stations are being watohed care. | fully for the Dodge car that can be lconnected with the death of Duler. The man was walking toward his home with a bottle of milk when he was struck by the automobile {fender and his neck broken. The | 1 have since six ditch, and a hunt for the driver of the car has been in progress. Evi |dences at the scene of the accident led to measurements being taken which convinced the officers that the car which hit Duler was a Dodge sedan and a garage man who saw such a car in that vicinity Tuesday night describes the driver as a young man in a dark suit of clothes. nn had come into pos- | AT 50-50 RATING Dr. Kdcox Tells of $40,000 to $30,000 Dividend With Briggs SOLD ECLECTIC DIPLOMAS Also Was Paid By Cash and Check For Procuring Students For Medi- cal Schools That Have Since Been Protested. New Haven, July 7 (A—At least forty to fifty thousand dollars was divided *on a fifty-fifty basis” be- tween Dean Waldo Briggs of the St. Louis college of Physicians and Sur- geons and Dr. Robert Adcox as a result of the activities of the latter in procuring students for the insti- tutions, Dr. Adcox testified today in superior court in the hearing of the appeals of seven eclectic doc- | licenses medicine in Connecticut. share usually paid in cash, Dr. Adcox said, but he identified as among his pay- ! ments to the dean a number of | checks ranging from less than ten dollars to abcut $500 each, and identified the signature of Briggs on the back as endorser. The witness i failed to remember one check for $1,050 payable to bearer, but identi- fied the signature on the face as his own. Sold Diplomas, Too. Besides his duties in securing stu- to practice Briggs' | dents and procuring for them, with- cut examination, entrance creden- itials from country superintendents of education in Missouri, Illinois land Indiana, and from state exam- undermined his |§ filling stations and serv- | body was found the next day in the | iner William P. Sachs of Missouri, ) Dr. Adcox mentioned today the out- | Iright sale of diplomas of the St. | Louis college and the Paciftc Medi- cal college of Los Angeles. He told | of sclling also credits from a Dr. Kinney. who “claimed to have two | colleges in Baltimore,” | of which the witness did not remem ber. He said he sold several diplo- | mas of each institution, and “more | of the credits’ "of the Baltimore col- | leges. ‘Word From Conn. It was after Dr. Briggs “had word from Connecticut he would have to establish a chair of eclectic materia medica” at the St. Louis college if its graduates were to be allowed to take the Connecticut board exam- inations that Dr. Briggs called me in to his office and said: “We're going to establish a chair of eclectic medicine, and I'm going to put Dr. Waterhouse in it.” The name of this Dr. Waterhouse, Dr. Frederick C. Waite testified yes- terday, did not appear in catalogues of the school as a member of its faculty and professor of materia medica until after the time of his death. Dr. Adcox told of introducing Harry T. Brundidge, to a Dr. Boyd in the latter’s Kansas City office. From Dr. Boyd, Brundidge testified in the previous hearing, he purchas- ‘ed a diploma and a doctor’s degree. The $15 statutory fee for taking the Connecticut eclectic examina- tions Dr. Adcox testified he paid on two occasions to Dr. Date R. Alex- ander, head of the Kansas City col- lege of Medicine and Surgery, rather (Continued on Page 3) GRINE AND VIOLATIONS Superior Court Records in Bridge- port Show Gain in Both Ficlds of Wrongdoing. 1 | Briggeport, Conn., July 7 (B — Increases in the number of cases involving statuatory charges and an increased number of liquor law violators mark the yearly report of the criminal superior court for the year 1926-1927. For the court year | ending July 1, 1927, there were 265 cases disposed of. Of the total number of offenders to face court, 186 pleaded guilty while six forfeited bonds to the amount of $9,500. There were 49 |absolute molles while bench war- rants were issued in 52 cases. Twelve of the convictions in the {court were appealed to the supreme court of errors and nine were sus- tained in favor of the state, the re- maining three pleas to be decided. Two of these pleas are in behalf of Dr. Issidore Yochelman and Dr. M. Carl Beck, both of this city, who faced the court upon identical charges. Both were sentenced in the case of Tony Padula of Nor- upon a charge. of second murder. there were but 14. There were 50 cases of statutory ceding. Other cases which marked increase were those cha ing manslaughter, nine with one in 1925-26. tors against the revocation of their | was | the names ! OF DRY LAW INGREASING to state’s prison. The third appeal is walk, who is serving a life sentence degree During the court year 36 prohibition law offenders faced the court, while in the year preceding charges in the court as against 33 In the year pre- showed a offenders facing the court this year compared thur Barry in $100,- 000 Robbery at Home of Jesse Livermore Shot While Trying to Escape. :Arrest Believed to Clear 1 Up Mystery in Connec- tion With Gentlemen Bandits Who Have Been Preying on Wealthy OTHER MAN HELD BY POLICE CONFESSES New London, Conn., July 7 (P— Boston Billie, alias James Warrant, {James Ward, W. Clark and Earl Williams, wanted by the New York police for first degree burglary, rob- bery and other crimes, and alleged "partner of Arthur Barry in the rob- | bery of the Long Island residence of | Jesse Livermoore wak shot in the "(’b by Detective Gordon E. Hurley | of New York and captured at Sound \iew near here shortly before noon today. Traced by Hurley and Burns de- tectives to Sound View last night, he was shot in attempting to escape from a house which the officers had surrounded. Shot in the Leg Williams was shot in the leg by i Detective Gordon E. Hurley of the Nassau county police as he attempt- ed to escape from a house in Hart- jford avenue, Sound View, 12 miles lfrom this city. Dropped by & bul- | let, Boston Billie was captured by Detective Hurley and Detective Charles H. Sharaton of the Burns Detective Agency, who had trailed the fugitive through four states ever .since early in June when Arthur Barry, debonair confessed robber of the Livermore residence and a score of other places implicated him as his | partner i. most of them. Barry was | sentenced recently for his participa- | tion in the crimes to 25 years in | state’s prison. Waives Extradition Boston Billie was rushed to the Lawrence and Memorial associated hospital where Dr. George P. Chen- ey, attending surgeon, dressed the |bullet wound in his left les. The bullet had entered just below the knee and came out just above the ankle. He was later taken to the local police station and lodged in & (Continued on Page 12) LIGHTNING BOLTS D0 CONSIDERABLE DAMAGE Rhode Island Capitol Hit— Cows Killed and Barns Are Burned Providence, R. July 7 (#—One man was slightly injured and a number of employes were badly frightened when_the dome of the state apitol here was hit by light- ning during a severe electrical storm shortly after seven o'clock this (morning. The bolt struck a lantern | which was hanging on a statue on |the top of tl.e building, entered and put the electric lighting system out of commission. An engineer who was repai‘ing a radiator received |minor burns on his arms. L, Winchendon, Mass., July 7 (P — {The farm buildings of Thomas Mc- Carthy were destroyed today by a |fire originating ‘in the milk steriliz- |ing shed from some undetermined | cause, entailing $22,000 damage. Two | horses were burned but a herd of 50 cows was saved. Clinton, Mass,, July 7 (A —Light- Ining struck the f ctory chimney of |the Robiaux mills during an electric storm here today, knocking the top from the stack and doing $3,000 |damage. The crash caused by the bolt and the falling of the chimney together with the setting fire to the biz transformer caised a panic among the 100 employes, who fled |the building. No one was hurt. Lock Haven, Pa., July 7 (®—Five of the ‘x cows owned by Charles Burrell of Salona, near here, were killed today when a tree under which they were standing during a thunder storm, was struck by light- ning. The sixth cow, a short dis- tance away, was not injured. Pawtucket, R. L, July 7 (UP)— As Clare, the four-year-old daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. John H. Me- Manus, was sleeping in her crib on the third floor, pieces of wood from a tree struck by lightning came crashing through a windog and fell over her crib. Despite the shower of wood and glass over her crib the baby wll unharmed.