New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 2, 1927, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 GORPORATION REDUCTION ASKED AS BUSINESS AID Leaders Recommend Slash From 1312 to 10 Per Cent in Testimony Today DEMOCRATS GONTINUE ATTACK ON TREASURY Republicans Defend Mellon and His Officlals — Hold It Poor Judg- ment To Consider Non-Recurring Sources of Revenue in Revision of Permanent Rates—Pinkerton For Income Cut, Washington, Nov. 2 (—Reduc- tion of the corporations from 13 1-2 per cent to 10 per cent was advocated today by a number of representatives of business national organizations in testimony before the house and means committee which earlier in the week received administration | recommendations that the tion levy should be cut to only per cent. 2 Other witnesses, while gesting a specific cut in this levy, urged that the corporation rate be ed to the lowest possible level that the condition of the treasury would warrant, arguing that a slash | in this tax will be o material aid | 10 business. Attack On Treasury During cross-cxamination of prac- ! tically each witness, democrats on the committee endeavored to de- velop that fn recommending reduc tion In the corporation tax it was corpora- 12 not sug- believed that the treasury had un-| the prospective sur- | der-estimated plus Representative Garner of Texas ranking minority member de- clared at one time that the trez ury in ent mated by approximately $1,000,000,- 000 the actual surpluses, Republicans, on the other hand, defended the treasury forecast, resentative C'h tem, of Tllinois, holding that il be poor busi- ness judgmer’ sider non-re- curring sourc: revenue ig a re- vision of permanent tax rates. Favors Income Slash During testimony Ly P. W. erton, representing the Illinois Chamber of Commerce, Chairman Green Interrupted to say that in his opinion doing business in corporate form afforded a number of benefity not enjoyed by individuals and the Pink- witness replied he merely wished to | advise the committee the Chamber regarded the present 1-2 per cent rate as excessive. Pinkerton recommended elimina- tion of the incomes, he ministration. He urged that ag- iustments he made in rates appiic: ble n lower brackets of incom as to create about the same savings | for taxpayers without the necessity for additional complicated compu- | tation. Thron First Called Alfred B. Thron, first witness today mittee to devote tion to reduc tax as did C. Duncan, represent- ing the organization. Dun- can advocated reduction of the rate of 10 per cent, declaring the federal tax paid by class 1 railroads In 1926 amonnted to $109.817,404. Under gestioning Duncan urged the com paramount atten- me (Continued on Page 15 New Haven Officers ) Face Pohce Board | | New Haven (P—Polic men William 3, Shanlay and Thomas A. O'Donnell will face the board of pollce commissioners at its meeting tomorrow night on charges of con- duct unbecoming ‘police officer: The charge against Shanley grew cut of an altercation In which he engaged with a citizen while in uni- | form and that of an automobil, he was involved. curred on the s officers are said zether at least O'Donnell driving t‘h'\rgr in the cit DETECTIVE SPEAKS W. Sherman Burns Defends Opera- gainst O'Donnell out accident in which Both incidents oc- me day and the two to have been to- part of the time. court, tives Involved in Sinclair Jury | Tampering Charges. New York, Nov. 2 (P—W. Sher- man Burns, of the Burns' detective agency, whose operatives were men- tioned in affidavits centering zround arges of jury in th inclair trial in Washington, to- day issued this statement: “In reference to the present pub- licity as to the alleged activities of cmployes of this agency in Wash- ington, the cause of this matter be- ing at present before the grand Jjury, cy hesitate to make any statement for publication. We cannot, how- permit further misrepresenta- tion of the activities of our men to be published without chyllenging same. The reports of our men are the hands of the government. They know th activities and there is nothing that has been dorie by an employe of the Burns Agency in this matter at all improper and most certainly not » violation of the law.” tax on the incomes of | years has under-esti- | Rep- | vored rate on earned | use of the difficulty of | 50 | representing the | assoclation of railway executives, the | ion of the corporation | sald | was frecd of a reckless | the officials of the Burns agen- | full extent of their | W o \l\l") P-‘ 2‘\‘)1; BRITAIN HERALD 2 WJHJJ,\\H ) Frcov NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1927.—EIGHTEEN PAGES TAX | Brother Presents Five Reasons |JUNK YARD NOISES MAN ARRESTED AS Why $650,000 Will of Eccentric Coffin Maker Should Be Broken Relative Attempts to Change Testament Founding School for Manual Arts In Hartford—Eleven Jurors Chosen In Record Time. was filled, ordered to for exam al of thes men were challs of them, Ralph Middletown, Nov. 3 (UP)—Five reasons why the $§50,000 will of {the late Frederick L. Ray, eccentric | manufaceurer of coffins, should be broken, were presented in court here today by his brother, Bertrand A. Ray, Gloucester, Mass., customs in-'dletown, proved spector, | jury was complated. The reasons were that: | Other members or the 1. The will was not the last will |Joscph Annino, Middleto and testament of Ray. | Cornwall, Leopold Dottu, by 2. The will was not executed Case and Frederick Er all of | with the proper legal formalities. |Portland; Charles I Loveland, Dur- 3. Ray was not competent tolham; Sydney Halberg, East Hamp- make the will. ton; Melvin Barney, Haddam; 4. There was undue influence in | ward Cook, ( AT the drawing of the will. East Haddam; John C. 6. There was undue influence in | mond, Saybrool |the signing of the will. | The five claims advanes Under the will, Bertrand Ray re- sl for Bertrand I ceives only the income from a $50,- | ing of the 000 trust fund, the remainder of the [ally denied estate having been turned over to| Jud the Unlted States Sccurity Trust|Haddar company of Hartford to be used in|was the founding a school for manual arts. jappellce. Eleven jurors were chosen in rec- which ord time shortly after the case was prol called by Judge Allyn L. Brown in me | Middlesex county superior court to- day. The small panel {exhausted, however, s were' into the and court attache 1ssersby wtion. - impromptu tales- | nally one | Mid- and the! jury are i Eben Myron N kson, and d by coun- Yion > town of the witness called q ad will Frederick Ray Attorney Middlesex county | (Continued a doc admitted and tests te t of T acting Ernest who, of talesmen was before the box on Pa ATHLETIC NOT T0 HAVE COBB AGAIN Unable to Pay High Salary Star Should Get PLAYER'S PLANS SECRET Philadelphia Club Blames l Succeeds Johnson ] Inability To Have Sunday Baseball Game For Lack of Proper Revenue— May Go to Giants, Philadelphia, Nov. 2 (#—Ty Cobb Il not be with the Philadelphia Athletics next This was an- 'nounced today after an hour' ference between Cobb and Mack. Mack announced that the i management could not sce |clear to re-engage Cobh | year. | “We like Cobb, we like BARNARD ing, and we should like to hz = | next year,” said Mack. “We regret that this is not a Sun- ! day baseball town, which would givi: s v tors Tk U BARNARI] f5 ELECTED | Cobb's reported salary with | | Athieties Jast year was $60,000. 1 Cobh Also Sorvy | am also sorry that ‘n. with the A's next | Cobb. vear. con- Connic Athlet B, R I for next S, | Becomes \e\\ President of American League at Today’s Meeting g I will not €aid | enjoved my stay in Philadel- phia and my relations with the club were very pleasant.” i Cobb would not mored offer from a national Leagv club, but intimated, as he did in | Detroit this week, that he might| dent quit the game. | today It was believed that Cobi 1 postpone any announcement of h iplans for next year until he hea what other clubs might have to of- | fer him. “It would be a great loss to base- {ball if Ty should quit the game, said Mack. “I hope he stays in the |game, even if he not with the al bout a ru-| Noy of i 2 (P Cleve unanimously presi e land sen hall e V | pr | league, Americy succeeding Ban Johnson, term His salary of office Is for r con i nson was not ported that his $40,000 a ived by vealed, Tt w tract called 5 treasurer formerly is £ the held by 2 (P—The that Ty Cobb would be lin the uniform of the New York | {tCi |Giants next season appeared today | [ERN, CRAl | with the announcement of Cobb that | bl | definite retirement from the national | V"W York (# pastime would await further offers. ‘]’“i‘”- ! | Although John McGraw, manager | * 010N of the Giants, and other officials of **1 I [th> club were out of the city, the {1 announcement that Cobb's contract | AR D with Philadelphia would not be re- | ) HTOH newed for 1928 created considerable | o L0 | interest in the club offices. Ihe has spent | Baseball men said that McG S o undoubtedly was “intereste: S | Cobb, who played in 130 games 1ast | o ey busin |season and belted around .350 de- aoeid in (e ¢ spite a slowing up of the legs that| yy, |have carried him through 23 big |, |league campaigns. The Giant pilot, realizing the gate attraction of m,w | former Detroit manager In the come S rall e snol misht e be i willine to | League. offer Cobb an attractive salary for at! R |least one year. I boile | The Yankees probably will make anc {no effort to sign Cobb, Secretary Ed | Barrow indicated. Barrow pointed |out that the Yankees were already well fortified in the outfield. | | Bascball men suggested there | | might be openings for Cobb's serv- [ices in Cleveland, in the American | | league, or Boston and Brooklyn fn Ithe National. Nine names already | have becn enlisted as possible pilots | with the Cleveland el for Cleveland in 1928 and the Geor- ' five years the great gian may be made the h-n!l\. Emil | the Indians, Bar Fuchs, president of the aves, still [ ing with the club 1s casting about for a manager {or‘ together, next scason. “Lar, A st nard's i REV. TOOLAN DIES talk about the great players of the Bridgeport, No (A Word was |#ame. Next to Lajoic, Cobb w received here today of the death in jthe player for whom he cntertain Albany of Rev. Francls J. Toolan, |the greatest admiration 66, native of this city. Rev. Toolan Only the fact that Barnard saw | was pastor of Sacred Heart churchCobb first and was prejudiced in his| in Albany. |favor kept him from hracketing | The bishop of Albany will offi- | Tris Speaker with him as the at- | clate at the funeral mass and bur- = ial will be in this city. pos ; s Ll clected stbility on creat i Surgent nan Ban as precider ng an than any s heen ¢ 1 club for time et 1 years in raw Gl in preside of vears of dealing of time rtai He himeclt, with ball velz hard leon cor During the managed 1l travel- hey roomed | make none 1 for a passed on ente fecling | toward him closc Lajo ed ap playe " has always heen Bar- ideal when poonle vt to| (Continued on Page 15) ! from 1to {ing. | without a 1ir CALLED NUISANCE| FAKE BILL PASSER Willow Street Residents Oppose Jom Kopel of Lawlor Steeet| Metal Cutting Shears | Identilied by Grocer | 'BABIES UNABLE 10 SLEEP GIVES POLICE NEW CLUE FALL CALLS JUDGE Property Owners Say They Have Prisoner Held on Suspielon Tells Been Torced to Slash Rentals Authoritles How He Came To | Order to Obtain Tenants—Others Have Money—Denies Intentional | Complain of Hiness, Fraud. (Spectal to the Merald) ford, Nov. 2—The hearing of iments in the suits of prop- and tenants to prevent Kotkin from operating a pair of metal cutting s on his Willow strect p in New Brit- ich have been converted into vd, was continued r court be Judge first seen rch for The have clue the obtain, in police Hart their ar to e of bills was given them this noon when ‘willlam I&u~ len, proprictor of a grocery store 90 Spring strect, recognized Yolm Kopel of 25 Lawlor street as the in customer who gave him a bill in Newell ‘payment for provisions Saturday night, October 22, Buden having tearned r in the night that the ill was worth five dollars and had been raised to $20. Kopel was on Main street when the grocer saw | him and called Officer Denis Nealon, | who placed him under agrest on the charge of suspicion. Admits Passing Bill tioned by Detective Sergeant Sllinger, Buden’s store the it In question and had purchased | | provisions worth five dollars, recefy- $15 change. He denied, however, that he had knowledge of the fact that the bill he tendered the grocer was not genuine. He would not have attempted to pass it had he known it had been altered in said, During the interview linger learned Kopel had a rather definite idea as to how happened to have come nto p rty owners | Morris mise v su- fore New including member city's ocial family, residents neighborhood and others in- in the matte n S e e ts in the neighborhood | the incessant noise had caused them while owners of that the nui- em to reduce low figure h\ p tenements occupied. William M. Greenstein g the plaintiffs in the ion while Nair & Nair and Hugh Alcorn appear the defense. uilding Tnspector Arthur N. Ruth- erford d at the hearing yes torday the from th be plainly h in near- ts and of | than § 50¢ ain sized del n of Britain peoy of the of comp that Que Georg shears il complained 1 forced houses its to a very Attorney is reprosenti M for tenem ¢ more for a distance 1 Cannot. Put Children to Sleep {at poli N : [would et , while, Kopel is detained but Ibeantonel oliE t 5 rge of suspicion had not pea mind throngh anged at press fime today. reated by the machinery, For the veral w nan of 17 Willow stre federal authorities, the ban that he had |the police its on accc 'a campaign to protect the public \rhonic iagainst the swindle perpetrated by blatto counterfeiters who have changed $5 bills to those of $20 denomination. According to experts, the counter- feiting is crude but a number of the inued on Page followed closely. Mean- the n damage operty and th noise 1. Hone retired, de- a number the o considerab] b . the ot s and lost t of complained lull hes chil clared t she en to nis Nero, 5 ement hous who owns two {hre s on Putnam street, 15) | 00ST OF HIGH SPEED $15,000 FIRE DAMAGE (Contin (Con 15) GOES UP IN EUURT HITS MOORLAND FARM Penalty of Q]() to Be In- Danv Bulldmg Destroyed | creased, Judge Roche | in Spectacular Night Announces { Blaze 7 at speeding than 310 nd . Roche announce 1 police (it ey A crimson glow which ton last evening and . from all parts of this city was spectacular evidence of the reeness of the fire about 10 o'clock con- ! fined Judge 1 from the He did penalty, a pub- future the ten dol- moto will of e over Kens discernible ot R probable which nted to issue in “heavier th out destroyed the building with a lo $15,000. The fire start- | near a heating plant in the rear | the shortly harles W. estimated Dickinson, aged guilty of and fined $10 *d by Mo- um on last testi- make a of the ot nilding and was discovered | 10 o'clock by alarm was &ent to th fire department and 2 responded. It was to save the dairy build- ing but the firemen worked val- fantly and succecded in saving wo other buildings from catching > buildings housed catrle. emen arrived shortly after ‘clock and remained 3 acene until 11:55. The flam. Iway rapidly and ate their w rough the building. W fitemen arrived the dairy building was 4 mass of flames and the sparks threatencd to ignite buildin both eides of the burning &t \ttention was centered on the remaining buildings. ‘] farm Moore of Sunn » board of Works. of the before em- | ploy An ain ned to 2 impossible driving in second Brook park into 1, opposite Towers' when he heard the auke here ha in before he road with the ¢ ption | the officer ed to Dicl his mo Bro traftic t rey to car m I'rom k d and mil of int hour Ellls 35 ire. saving and Lis street the an Allen o Stan- loud in his by the i He was work done has announced £ contributing to th sion fund Man Who Tried to Lhd Life (-non Fine who a . 3 in- to ing istration ed until to- chanc: e a ation certi New A, Conn,, ouis . Harp- a car night ot on 40 2 John 6s, SR : empted to take Francis lic at 11:45 Alien clocks wn August ond lotte fined followi to and st ey stroct At at an hou n month when arraigned McKee entered to the charges and giv six sentenc hie ol Pavelic fate of r s0 and on ingu the state commis vehicles the the car was reg nam gistr a plea of guilty wgainst him. Following his ich occurred w erty under bond: moved to the o 1otor d that Pavelic Turnis Brown, 166 West 129th strect, Now York fined $10 and costs for operat- i 1 antomobile without a license. He said he thought the Connecticut law permitted the operation of an automobile by an unlicensed driver provided the latter was accom-|hospital. He d that a panied by a licensed operator. He sentence would probably result seri- had the )i~ nse of Carl Tanner of |ously for his p: 60 Churci whose car he was | = driving wth street near Hart- ford avent. 1t 2 o'clock this morn- police tered attempt at suicide > he was at lib- McKee was re- State hospital for the insane at Middletown where he v placed under observation until Sep- tember 30. His physician testified in court today that he was a very sick man and had he his home since his release colored, aged of 18 THE WEATHER Se nt Pe car was stalles Brown relative learned from been driving y testified that the nd he inquired of | to the license. He | Brown that he has rs several years Tanner was not New Britain and vicinity: | Unsettled, probably local | showers tonight; Thursday | fair, cooler. | = with Brown 1 Former Secretary Disappointed the distri- | | Kopel admitted | Sergeant | |sion of the bill and it was indicated | » headquarters that the lead | have been cooperating in | hovered | broke | In a dairy| building on the Moorland farm and | n confined to ! from the | jail | Average Daily Circulation For Week Ending l 4, 407 Oct. 29th ... PRICE THREE CENTS FALL-SINCLAIR TRIAL COLLAPSES; 11 TEAPOT JURORS T0 BE GRILLED; WHOLE CASE WILL BE HEARD AGAIN ‘Tampering Charges Disbands Jury and Sends Edward J. Kidwell, Post Haste, to Grand Tribunal. 70-Year-Old Twins At Mother’s Bedside As She Dies at 102 (P—Seventy- vin sons of Mrs. Emma long known as “Mother of ereet,” were at her bed- when she died at the age of Death came at her apart- ment over the printing establish- ent her sons maintain at Ne reet-Hill, just off Fleet street, in the news- FAIR-MINDED MAN By Mistrial Order WANTS TO DEFEND SELF heart of London's district, Oliver's memory of Fleet ran back to the time that sheds stood on the sites now occupied by London newspaper offices and stage coaches clatter- d through the street, making stops at the old Cheshire Cheese Inn, |Government and Defense Counsel to Discuss Plans for Second Hearing Within a Few Weeks— More Veniremen to Be Summoned. ‘SLIGHTED’ FALL JUROR e ‘ | Washington, Nov. 2 P—The long, | “The fair and impartial trial guar- y PREIS e cie) 90 s eanchDime ‘am'wl W e |investigation took another awkward R S |turn today when the attempt to e R {convict former Secretary Albert B. e e “ ondering Just |Fall and Harry F. Sinclair of erimi- T e ey |nal conspiracy ended for the time . '“!'' " What Mistake They |Ecing in & mistrial of Mr. 4 | Charges of jury tampering, in- fair trial | Could Have Made ‘cludmg allegations that detectives employed by Sinclair, had sought to ;make improper contacts with jury- hington, Nov. 2 () — Robert men, led the court, the prosecution the only member of the |And the defense to agree that it {was useless to proceed further with ‘the original jury in the box. not| Counsel will confer soon on ar- detectives, said today rangements for another trial, with understand why he |the government favoring a date in | January. | Mcantime, a grand jury Is fnquir- ling into the government's charges {that the jury was improperly {shadowed by private detectives and that one of the jurymen, Edward Kidwell, a 31 year old leather work- er, had talked indiscretely of the Says He Saw In This Case An Op- portunity to Free Himself of the Charges Which Discredited Him in the Eyes of His Countrymen, Washington, ing re :ml ¢ Nov. over the Albert B ustice Siddons 2P mistrial Fall sa Express- ret of the se, d today at took ob- t course.” been made pub- pect- | Others ive of an: said. he determination Justice Sic hi dons to accord 3 8 been manifest in this ca Disappointed By Result | sonally 1 greatly regret and eply disappointed by what has ust occurred, In ill he h I came here for this ftrial It offered m the first opportunity to present {o |court and jury my to charg ©s whi have foot- ball of politic: t of the muckraker for three | s, Inly the evidene m ¢ C. Flora, IFall-Sinclair | Jury who, according to the government reports, was hadowed by he could no was “slighte We tried nse de the iclig than been m 1 the more to figure it out.” he said, “and 1 have decided that br cither they had not gotten down to tion has been prese Not one my name on the list, or I drove my lword had been said in connection |car too fast for them to keep track with my defense when this case end- | of me,” jed: The time for my counsel to out- | When the trial was halted so dra- |Vine the defense had not arrived. matically yesterday morning, the|case and of “a car as long as a Wants to Refute Charg, speetators and counsel were not the | block,”” which he hoped soon to { expected {hat iIn the ony persons who sensed that the |possess. Justice Siddons, in closit week our opportunity would come. Il yompers of the jury might be in- |the trial, notjfled Kidwell in open was prepared completely to refute| ooy in the case. When the jury|court of the allegations involving [the charges against me and T enter- | (0 "5 11 (R0 P ELE SRS BTG ok St Yook no. ather . acton no doubt whatever but that | -0 2 0 o R U e cainet Him 105 fhe UnEbelor verdict of acquittal would he render- f ot vd becatse I am confident that my,|JUror asked himself the questio Kidwell Served }irst |defense would convince every fair- “Could anything I mu.ht have let | Kidwell was .trhe |‘|r.:t of the minded man of my integrity and slip be the cause of this?" rors to be served with a grand | complete rectitude of my every ac Norman J. Glascock sald he re-|jury summons. After he had pro- | &lon finfeonnectionwith ithereapot |Vievied hia everyiaction since beingy| Cecdsdtor ashibple dzomihe oplivt- | Dome lease. shown in while awaiting the court house, two deputy marshals ap- “During the more than three years | t0 reconvene, He said that he and [proached him and served the sub- | which have passed since the naval Other members of the jury resented poena. He accompanied them bac | 0il reserve leases became the sub- | decply the things said to have been [t0 Burkinshaw's office, where he |ject of political investigation there 'done by Kidwell, {awaited the young assistant district have been two civil cases and one . Others confirmed that the feeling |attorney, who then was closeted criminal case tried. I was not aiagainst Kidwell among the jurors|With the grand jury. party to either of the civil cases. 1 1 grown hourly since the first| Roberts later assured a group of could not be made a party or even 2 of a possible mistrial, | Jurors that they should not con- ibe represented by counsel in either Kidwell was not taken into conspl- | Sider the situation a reflection on jof them. T was not called to testi- tation when the other jurors de- |their integrity. fy in either. cided to empower one of their num-| Soon after court adjourned, Sin- Was Not Calle ber to express the jury's regret to | C1aif fought his way through the “The government s prosccution counsel. crowds that overran the courtroom as a witness to the civil t The two women on the jury were |And Went to a rear entrance of the so-called Teapot Dome ially bitter against Kidwell, | building, standing for a time on a enne. I went to Chey TE o card game indulged | Small portico, talking with some ¢ but the govern in by members of the Fall-Sinclair | friends. Fall remained in the court me to the witnes: conspiracy trial jury, as Kidwell fs|T°0m for & quarter of an hour, | “At no time sin alivged to have sald, some members | STCCting friends who crowded e H:H“!‘ x: s WA :l;(z‘\:n;lflhi;n. (_:1‘011 left for his hotel eI CIYen ey Gluscock said he had never seen Sy spontgto ”""l‘ e 1y of the members of the jury en- Rfuck Bepoat Tolel I lxm\u‘ Lo H0 0 B G e im0 n\u:nal SO mal; the 5 il mermbers withiwliom he talkadihad | EOYSENIentMuSt DEceen 7 allioyen | promptly acquitted, Sl e e again before a new jury, every scrap every fact relating ’.[, has 00, o0 Ll I of the evidence on which it seeks & ; 3 3 Kidwell was just talking, T tions aitacked was Sl e el 150 | t0 convict Fall and Sinclair of hav- and truthfully e B surprlee | {8 pied i {he leasing of Hiie jury. I of ne that It was Kidwell who | qoq500 ~ Dome 0l reserve to Sin- “If it 5 said that T Insolved in the charges &%} o040 while Fall was Secretary of the i e 1 notibals 1 few words the first day of | ri t o -defendant, the trial he has been extremely re- |~ L UGl o 4 in great detail ! and seldom talked to any of | .t jown after court was dismissed, my testimo ild r members of the jury. He | o of the jurors, Charles J. Her- i think, the most reserved | o0 tongered to Owen J. Roberts of nsel in ch "; jury, and the re- government counsel the regret of 1l saw T of ad but few words (ho other elght men and two wo- ith h\ml'mn-u\g the two weeks of ' men on the jury that things had trial, | turned out as t did. Herzog al- }UDGME- T FOR $31.303 e IN BUILD[NG DISPUTE| roached by anyone, but Roberts Amount Due Hayes Construction Co, | of the secu- wit oned me ial of the ool to testi- did not rent call stand the in court made on tment. have 1 to re- in that criminal trial and in that to the tra ful 1aid before 11 y 5 did personally Was it n remembered Mr., Doheny, and that, cen but a tion of his, conduct of th t mere repeti Never Inges tha the courtroom testifie ihe ¢ was, I of the member ed of th 1o ne us on. viewed Jury jury in th 1l t e 1o sy “I never women on this jury this trial began name of any fore that nan the first two never had garding umily or busin tion of any juror. ter the Jew no mors rom their d court rovm tly d fh kind wi | Neither dirs one on 1 nder sury in the trial to w last fall, 1 reli which the fense would other thing “I am read for re-trial immedia I am sorry the government fir impossible. I partieularly gret the delay because of the |of my health. I fear my inabil contend with the rigors of W, ton climate during a trial in t ter. When this case is finally |and all sides have an oppo |be heard, my defense will old him that as a matter of fact {he had been shadowed day and | nigh The government 1 a plugged nickel on t: | these,” sald Roberts i Jurors Scorn Kidwell The jury members to appear tomorrow hefore the 1 jury. The summons did not Rebert €. TFlora, the one juryn 10 was not under surveillance, the ent reports showed. Floya today th other juror Kidwell into consnl powering Herzog to grets to Roberts, be not consider that h them Kidwell was grand jury at Kinshaw. “You understand that perfect immunity from answering iy and all questions before the nd jury,” Burkinshaw told Kid- . “It you do answer, you do £o voluntarily.” Kidwell made no walked straight ahead down the corridor towards the grand jury o room, with his head up. As he ap- building, The court also allowed in- | proached the swinging doors of the terest chary from December 9, ' jury room, he quickened his pace, 1925, the date on which the erec- |as though anxlous to have it over tion of the building was completed. | With 1t iry be- | 1 s not spent ctics such s From Louis R. Raphael Determined By Court | gra omit G said did not 1tion when e give their re ause they did was one of Newell Jennings in superior wve judgment for the iwction Co. to recover rom R. Raphael, phacl building at 99 Th t was the balance The er 1 deteets and o Louis diry t th take st mir contract. cou sued for $40,- | was tried recently, L Gaffuey of this city. , appearing for | m of Spellacy, | g sented the Haves compan betore m. by the Rur- taken 1:14 a. and you have ly that re state v 1o s allowed all extras construction com- 1 1d that defects in the| stor, which thg defendant claimed | justitied deductions, were not no- able to the average tor to the | reply but tried ity to be com- RATED Bridgeport, Nov. 2 (P)—In a find- | ; > | ing returned to by Coroner John | INSURANCE MEN MEET Kidwell was in the grand fury . Phelan, Samuel Knapp of this city | Bridgeport, Conn., Nov. 2 (B —-|room for an hour and six minutes. la absolved of criminal responsibility | With more than 100 delegates from When he emerged he sald he had for the death on October 9§ of Isi- all parts of the state in attendance, | “told the truth” to the grand jur- bell McDonald, 9. The giri was the annual convention of the Con-|crs, and would return for further struck by an automobile operated by necticut Assoclation of Insurance Knapp. | Agents opencd here today. Kidwell Denics Charges (Continued on ‘Page 18)