New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 26, 1927, Page 13

¢ COUNTER CLAIY [ Former Champion Makes Sens- l¢ DEMPSEY FILES tional Charges Against Kearns A Philadelphla, July 26.—(P— Charges of forgery and of a moral offense for which he is alleged to have served a jail sentence are made by Jack Dempsey, former heavy- weight champion, against his erst- while manager, Jack Kearns, in one of their many court battles. The sensational charges are con- tained in an answer filed by Demp- sey in the federal district court here to the suit brought by Kearns to re- | cover $519,999.99 which he claims | the fighter owes him. At the same time the former champion and con- queror of Jack Sharkey entered a counter claim against Kearns for $279,926. In his affidavit Dempsey asserts that he was compelled to drop Kearns to save his reputation as a boxer because his former manager under the name of McKernan had plead guilty to,a criminal charge in the state of Washington, June 7, 1904, and was confined to the state | penitentiary for the part of one | Year, Kearns has sued Dempsey in this | city, New Jersey and New York on | 2n alleged contract dated August 3, 1923, under which Kearns claims he was to receive 33 1-3 per cent of Dempsey's earnings while the con- tract was in force. The former champion’s affidavit | asserts that his name was forged by | Kearns to this contract. Later, Dempsey says, his former manager “begged” him to sign the paper “in order to save him from possible | prosecution for forgery” and that he did so with the understanding that the contract was not enforceable. | Dempsey's affidavit stated that | there was an oral understanding be- tween him and Kearns that the lat- ter was to continue as his manager and recsive 50 per cent of the hox- er's earnings, but that the agreement could be terminated whenever | Dempsey so desired. This, he said, had been done,on July 28, 1025, And he added that he had turned over 1o Kearns his one-half interest in a | Los Angeles apartment house worth | $350,000 which Kearns had accepted as “full settlement for all claims” he may have had against the former champion. More than a dozen ftems are in- cluded in Dempsey’s counter claim, the largest of which is $144,750 for his fight with Tommy Gibbons on Drastic reductions on almost our entire summer stocks to effect immediate disposal. SALE STARTS TOMORROW AT 9:00 SHARP — July 4, 1923. Kearns, the affidavit states, received $289,500 from the promoters and “kept it all.” Other items include receipts from exhibi- tions, moving picture rights and theatrical contracts, all of which | were to have been shared equally, but from which Dempsey alleges he received nothing. AUTOIST BLAMED FOR THREE DEATHY E. J. Finnegan Held for Milford Tragedy New Haven, Conn., July 26 (P— igene J. Finnigan of 127 Anderson avenue, s held criminally respon- sible for the Milford turnpike crash of July 16 which resultcd in the cremation of a woman and the death of two men, in a finding handed down by Coroner Eli Mix. He will be arraigned in the Orange town county this week. The three victims of the crash were Thomas A. King and his wife, Louise M. King, of Dorchester, Mass. and Frederick A. Ward of Water- town, Mass. Eve-witnesses testified at the coroner’s hearing that Finni- gan started across the pike as if to thrn into a branch road on the left and then swung back, crashing into the machine in which the victims. . Engstrom ., were riding. Their ac- counts coincided with that of Eng- strom. The coroner in summing up his finding says: T find as Finnigan | was proceeding easterly and near | NEW BRITAIN DAILY ‘HERALD, TUESDAY, JULY TWO WOMEN, THREE MEN HELD IN FLOGGING OF ALABAMA WIFE | Limbs of trees and an automobile fan belt were said by Mrs. Bertha A. Slay (left) to have been used by two women and three men in flogging her. or the sort used by her attackers. Mrs. Slay’s husband and sister, She is shown holding sticks pictured at right, were said interscction he was in a place | tied to their beds by the floggers while they whipped Mrs. Slay. of safety both to himsclf and to | those in the Engstrom vehicle and | but for the turning of the Finnigan | vehicle to the left and to the center | of the highway, this unfortunate oc- ! currence which occasioned the death of three persons would not | have occurred. I therefore find | Finnigan criminally responsible for the deathz of the deceased.” 150 Reported Dead as | Chinese Junk Sinks | London, July 26 (A—The over turning of a large Chinese passen- ger junk during a typhoon, with the loss, it is feared, is reported from Hongkong to the FEvening News. Two launches tow- | ing the junk were sunk. The junk was bound from Canton for Hong- kong. | READ HERALD CLASSIFIED ADS; Bertha Al most three men bed, Florence, Ala., Slay, tangled chain of flogging cases, will appear in criminal court here Aug- ust 1 to testify that two women and dragged her bound her to a whipped her with limbs of trces and | an automobile fan belt, The m.mpmg followed Mrs, Slay's | told officers, to some neighborhood five masked and roked per: cd their of 150 lives, | home near here, tied | husband and her sister, to their beds and dragged | | her out of doors, where the flogging | took vlace. way into Dodson, She several days, sensational ot the d nothing of the affair for | then told county offi- Later she changed her story, she hal recognized two women in small feet,” of the secret organization. Arrests foliowed. Walter K. Me- chisf of the state law en- sment department, conducted an investigation and swore out war- | rants for Mr. and Mrs. Allen Butler, I aratnic iinest i inasayiiand | Charles Lindsay, all of Florence, | charging them with complicity in the flogging. | All tive are held in the Lauder- 's | dale county jail pending hearing of the charges August 1. The Slay flogging is one of five similar affairs brought to the atten- | tion of Alabama authorities within two weeks, and which have caused Governor Bibb Graves to order spe- cials that members of a hooded or- | clal state investigators to co-operate Our Policy is to Carry Nothing Over into the Fall Season Remarkable Values! Flannel Suits $5.00 and §5.98 Values — NOW — $3.98 $5.00 Flannel Jackets NOW $3.59 Oil Skin SLICKERS Values $2.98 Great Savings! 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Officials of Jefferson county, Ala., bama, were looking into the whip- ping of Arthur Hitt, Negro land owner, who was flogged when he refused to sell a tract of valuable | land for a nominal sum. Three days after the whipping he trans- fered his land for a price sald to have been one-sixth of its value. Other tlogging cases under gcru- tiny are those of Esthon Murchison of Bessemer, Ala, Wwho was taken | from an automobile and whipped | because he was riding with “two | strange girls,” and Hugh McSwee- | Iney and Pearl Boges, who were lashed on a road near Birmingham | DRESSES everal weeks ego. 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July 30% Higher Bigger and | uproar from the liberals he charged | 1 King Ferdinand, made his political | reconcikiation all the more c¢mpha- | | tic by staging it in the presence of Maniu's purt nowever, con- trol only ahout votes In the pres- | ent parliament, recersily elected, and ’hf‘ full senate The 300 members, | it is not likely thai with Averescu's knowing full well the differences | peoples party allieé “witk: the Bra- | that existed between the two state: tiano liberals they can cause the | men, were amazed when they saw | government any serious trouble. thn embrace and heard General Averescu proclaim his and his party's allegiance to king and Pre- mier Dratiano, and their support of | thi ey, |Sir Esme Howard, British ambas- Bratiano, who has been .-(rongly'&'dor to the United States, last night opposed to the return to Rumania [4°clined to comment on London re- of former Crvown Princ arol, su ports that he had been instructed to ceeded Averescu as premier in June, | Protest the American press’ hand- Another sensation of last night's | /i€ of official British statements in senate session was the demand of | COnnEction With the Geneva paval Juliu Maniu, leader of the national | COnference. peasants party, for the immediate | Efforts of reporters to see him at dissolution of parliament. 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