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WYEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1927. rm NEGROES KILL MAN AND ASSAULT WIFE Retired Physician Yictim o Bold Robbers Hammonton. N. J., Sept. 16 (P—A retired physician was shot to death nd his wi‘e beaten yesterday by two Negroes who jumped on the running board of their automobile and at- tacked them on Middle Road near here. Dr. William Lilliendahl, 60, who lives on 4 small fruit farm near Vineland, was killed in an attempt to rout the highwaymen and his wife was struck several times on the head when she came to his aid. Her condition was reported as serious Before the Negroes fled into th woods bordering the road they strip- ped rings from the fingers of Mrs. Lilliendahl, who is 45, and took a stick pin, rings and money from the body of her hushand. The murder and robbery aroused i1l South Jersey and tolling fire bells summoned farmers and resi- dents of nearby communities to the ! scone of the attack, wh they were organized into posses by etute police. Three suspects were arrested scveral hours after the attack. The first intimation the physician and his wife had of the attack was when the two men leaped on the running board of their car. Both the | Negrocs held pistels and commanded was at Mre, Lillien who whael in the the car was hidden from the road. the Negroes turned on Dr. Lillien- “They didn’t give him a chance to tight for his life,” Mrs, Lilliendahl told the workmen who picked her up. “They shot hiwm down before he could lift hand to defend himself,” Mre. Lilliendahl said she had fought her assailants until she faint- od. When she recovered her g ments were torn and the Negro had fled. BRILLIANT METEOR ONE OF BIG SWARM Astronomer's Checkup Reveals 40 Fell on August 10 Cambridge, Mass.. Sopt. 16.—(P)— Forty different fireballs wer in the area between Nova Sco seen Maryland and Long Island and Ot- tawa on the night of August 10, it was disclosed last night Dr. Wil- lard 1. Fisher, of the Harvard ob- servatory, whe compiled data on the meteors from 249 reports sent to the ohservatory Dr. Fisher's investigation grew out of u report port that residents of Bridge- Conn., had seen a meteor on t 10 that gave off a biuish He made a for ob- request servaitions by eye-witnesses with the ulting flood thes of reports report Dr. Fisher ed that there had not meteor hut a swarm of Dright lights, mostly over New Eng Jand, all so striking as to impress the observers deeply. Of the 40 meicors of firehalls, twenty-six foll within a I'rom suid, it o few minutes of 8 o'clock, eastern standard time. In six instanees, the ending points were well fixed. These wen ‘Thompsonvil stock, I, 1; North Lyme, Conn. Conc formation w 1o plot the Howeye 26 of th Hatficld, Mas . Conn.; South Wood North Scituate, R, 1 Conn., and Seymour, ming the others, the fn- not complete enough courses, Dr. Fisher said. it was determined that reteors moved cast or southeast; vight moved nearly south Thosc which moved nearly south were quite likely evening represen- tatives of the Prerseid swarm, which appears annually with its maximum about August 10 or 11, Dr. Fisher obeorved. Dr. Fisher's veport continued “The bright meteor which many the | and | | people-in Bridgeport saw passing |it cannot be traced backward with |absolute certainty; but it was prob- |ably seen first by members of a motoreycle picnic passing castward, somewhat to north of La Fayette, N. J. It then passed the Hudson and Y | Mercury Soars, Meanwhile, in % It was also the 15 on record in mhest o e ot Crissinger Quits Post Assigned July and board. the ‘lrlc! in its grip, yesterday sent ther- | 1923 by President Harding, will be- lohservcd as to go into the list, and | the highest p(;in: T mlr i%lnnmw r. mittee of the 1. H. Smit T At 5 p. m. the official thermometer ‘ f registered 95 deg s, one de ' n the previous hottest day | i of the year, hottest Septembe a Washington sively by ho Coolidg; Crissinger v investment 1 in t ng [ tion was seen south from Cornwall, N. cretofore having been 90 in 1 Otil, where he f A Last it was admired in southwest gt | H. l) P 1 d. SRR ) Contircticut as it passed to-iis. end. Eastern States pattimare, s 16—omve| UL DY President Harding | * e cricans s T firchalls were beautiful ob- were overcome by heat yes. | S f; l’; e Ih; : it |iects, remarkable for the Drilliant o Lt i idge. Secretary | | s the temperature mounted 9 suce n |biue ana green colorations and for| Chicas pt. ces at 4 o'clock, the 1 e e e |their large tails and generally hori- | like shower latc ¢ recorded here for th e s S T oo s ( zontal courses. There is no evidence | rout of September's mid of September. il reserve board, has resigned, ef-| dicted that his n: : "that any of them were able to with- | heat wave in which Middle West mil- | stand the fiery test of ~a rush |lions have sweltered for four days. U!rnugh the atmosphe perhaps Darkening clouds intervened 15 miles a second. Had any of them | earlier in behalf of a parc coun- | penctrated to the ground they would | try, driving the mercury slowly | have been heard with noises like |downward here from its high point jthunder-claps and small-arm volleys. | of 93 degrees, reached shortly after | | The observers who thought they had |noon. Hourly readings had equaled | MAITOw escapes were really quite out | those of the day before, and the | of range.” temperature threatened to exceed | The time element was lacking in | the 83-degree record gfthe two pre- | most of the reports received at the vious until clouds appeared. | er remarked. Like 1eadings were reported | most important single fact|throughout the central states, the a meteor, for the man who | highest being 100 degrees in Peru, | about has to handle fhe reports,” he con- |11l | tinued, “is accurate time. We appeal A shower of short duration fn | (o everybody who sees a meteor to enjoy the fleeting show full, and then look at his watch.” shining 30 blocks away, | the West, however, and forecasters vpredicted further rain tonight with | o | LompETAtures around 80 luumrmn" {and in the normal 70's by Saturday. | K in the heat wave found | | | | | great { Chicago cansed postponement of the | 1 | National [ ague-Brooklyn-Chicago all game, while the sun Appointed to Operate Business Rogers-Brown Iron Co, Which more than a score of attributed to the {dented rise in temperature, due, it was said, to a lack of contact | tween the high pressure area in the South and a low area in the north. Liled Petition Yesterday. unprece- Buffalo, N. Y.. Sept. 16 (P)—Tem- porary receivers have heen appoint- od to operate the business of the Rogers-Brown Iron company, which | {filed a voluntary petition in bunk- ruptey yesterday, until a trustee is | New York Records Broken elected by creditors. The receivers| New York, Sept. 16.—(@-—All lo- are Edward J. Barcalo und John p,' 31 heat records for Septemler 15 Abbott. were broken yesterday when mereury officially soared to 90 de The petition followad the action of the holders of the general and re- | Stees at 3 o'clock funding seven per cent bonds on | 100N. The previous high tr which issues the company had de-|1°cord for the day was faulted in interest payments, Ac-[in 1913, when SS degr |cording to William 8. Rogers, presi- | ficially registercd dent, the amount of the general and| Only one prostration was reported. | {refunding issue was nearly $4,000,- This was due, according to weather | 000, and the amount of a debenture burean offictals. to the fact tha > was $2,000,000 { humidity remained remarkably | The heat wave, coming on the lust ! official day of the hat 16 (P —A headless | son, found most Manhattanites in papers i the | felt headgear, long since donned be- | t of J. 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