New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 23, 1927, Page 16

16 e ,— e ———— ————— === 'ESCAPE COMPARTMENTS SUGGESTED DOUBTED INFANT WILL GET NAME'-- Smith fo Have Baby Ghr?slened on Christmas Cleveland, 0. Dec ‘Baby” €mith, who age had to 1 t fall after xup of identification tags ceive & name as her first ~santa Claus. On Christ aken to churel wid Mrs. Sam Smith, for ¢ and Mrs. Smith have 1 upon the name, t to he inc v 1d-fashloned as mo! was theirs the baby was b : court’s decision ti oir own child. B n erased from t ice haby,” Today Mrs. Smith sat quic ing lace on a long dre white linen—"Baby’s" whila “Baby peevish with a newly cut tocth firs Priends with gifts for mas. 1ave showered the “Baby's” first C1 30,000 CUBIC FEET OF GAS - T0 GOOK TURKEY DISNERS - Amount Wouki Be Equal to 10 Story | Bullding On Lot 50x100 Feet, Officials Say. folk will probably New Britain use 630,000, cubic feet of gas to cook “fixings.” this | Christmas, the experierce of previ- teaches, g Lo their turkeys and ous years statistics compiled by t ain Gas Light Co. More a milllon cubic feet of the produc han hai will be fed through the stoves to cheer that produce the Christmas comes of a well fed feciing. Yisualizing the cubic feet a8 cubes of some solld material, foot on each side, they would, side by side, high, a foot wide and 119 miles | or ahout as far Boston. Plied up on an ordinary city lot, 50x100 feet, they of a 10 story building. This of gas contains hes 546,500,000, Shuttle Meadow reservoir water. Rut no matter how much figurl is done, how much the publie may Le interested In statistics on con sumption of Eas everybody really thinks of most s roast | the jmicy, brown, crackling turkey that the gas ean, and prob- tables ohiy will, produce for the Sunday. " FACTORY SCHEDULES Some Factorles to Close for Week- End Only—Others Shut Down in Part Tntil After January 1. Beginning this evenin ofm factorles will observe hedules from now until New Year's. The Stanley Works off] closes this evening until Tuesday morning, while parts of the factory will remaln idle all next week The Stanley Rule and l.evel plant jhe P. & F. Corbin factory. Cablnet Lock, Fafnir Dearing Co. Hart & Hutchinson, Hart & Cooley and the New Britain ach o, plants will resume work on Tuesday. Others will operate In part next week and will be closed in some de- partments for the next 10 days SHARES IN $200,000 ESTATE Cora Mitchell Bailey Toherits £2 Prom Aunt Who Dicd in Tondon, Mitchell, recefves approxi the estate of Ler Walter Mai Is President 4 ahn Lodge upervisor Resigns I’o. \um d( Hmpll.ll Irs. T or at hospital, who 18 ool of P ing the hol Vrackvill I leston. wha o Tang main elusk make a patch a foot s from this city to would e aae, reach a height about equal to that wount | units nymbering or enough to bring to the holling point 310,000 gallons of {the thert Stanley Rule EFFORTS T0 RAISE SUB CONTINUE for heat, what (Continued work of eted befor down under 11 New Brit- varions Corbin rinting Co tt street during the as gained way of T offi thre e Clhir Al ous TLovell or Xmias, 5 pound hox (Both stores) rtus of and Took, N 1dy Y risti Lovell (Roth stores) ry Ringrose of 133 Reaver her hon + s the Chacolates for Xmas. T ave A City Items a penet <k in the on North En ris n istmas ro 1 Bt < horn and MrsJ; ton strect t wh as and Covel kard Drug advt . of pneu- 24 Silver reat Simulski t left this afternoon ere they holldays, mother of At a mrass fire Brook park at 12:13 | Complaint was 1 his morning that “hristmas t Main stroet, {tion that the proce s turned over | Partyk of complained to the through stare ahou fired to the th ade Loys, aths in the on the irtment at Willow is afternoon to we Is wer Salv 1 polic A.picce of & almost to a point and tapered was knocked out by the Alfred Tienstrom reported Tt e ar to 1l of his hieye g under would save i aken, shoi conditions work. age ope bow o to p cabl & tunnel utually, oft a Lattleship cable tunt rough Little Hope %o on w 20 Divers from the hlowin noon Wl attache and Level time ation oy pol fac: Iirst the polles ere selling | icinity of presenta e to he on Army ad st oday that a window aclock | porfantly Iage) veseel at this and effort are a 1 weathe the and Ruspension z a tunnel un- 4 was com- two dive a four Inch ma- hull ors of Later throngh A to the sub- o malvage will be ol g operations at either v more sluctantiy s when he ymari s ntil ne Jeft at W 1 ospring NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 'HICKMANS OVERCOME | BY EXPERT FOR SUBMARINE CRAFT ’ BY BOY'S CONFESSION (Continued from First Page) were aseigned to his home, which is near the Hickman apartment. | While Dr. Mantz gave a fairly ac- urate description of the bandit who | [took his motor car last fall, he w {unable to identify the robber { Hickman, | The coast wide = spurred on- i 1 1 by widespread ndignation and ers of rewards totalli Amos our of exactly seven days from the time the suave young man appeared at Marian's school in Los Angeles and tricked h achers into letti her go away with him on the pre tense that her father had been in- | jure Rushed into Pendleton. Hickman was taken to a o« where, in the | presence of Parker Rranin, cor | pondent of the Asso 1 P'ress, 7 ildon gathe around the building. | Not a sign of violence appcared. The |officers heard Hickman's story without interruption. Wanted to Go to College, Hickman declared he had been nursing a desire to attend college in Kansas City, his former home, while of the lif= of a handit in lLos eles. Me had determined to get ) legally or otherwise to hegin | his nigher edu 1is employ- {ment at Park ger up until six month | nim within sight of gr | money. His first offense was forgery which resulted in his dismissal from the bank. The institution refused 1o re-eraploy him but he was paroled Then his career as a holdup man be- Fan. Hickman then related that he had picked up the acquaintance of “An {drew Cramer” and a woman com- as L messe rought stacks of Compartments like that pictured above. if bullt into undersea craft, | zame and th might aid in the res through which rescuce ships could pump food and air. he says. When | get would leave by tr York, Dee. 23 (- Three d . sugg onte e than piec apparatus for use on underica | st 1 . through which the crew, donning diving helmet Main ice today from the tory va inventor also i each could attach tubes to the plics would conduet pure air to the n When he has other Lake's third deviee is a sys- close anto < infroduc permitting 1 o he Tept escape comparti d by Mr. Lake thiry years ago, | Mr. Lake used the deviee | panion who anie he thought was “June Dunning.”” Cramer, he said, beecame his partner in the holdup raided s drug <unken <hip, Simon Lake. stores in Los Angeles. in some of Vahes ontside would provide openings | these forays Cramer ordered him to Finally ~ of men tranped in ne o inventor, suzgests anuesthetics, he said cuggestea kidnapin a of making money and Hickman declared he agreed sure inside was strong cnongh o keep out the water, the men | Toors, in diving swits, 1 Cram two s yoms into which com- and safety of . ay be foreed until the disabled sulb- | i cqual to that of the neh as the S-4 rer, hen Parker's favorite daughter and declared also had in mind the daughter of “Mr. Haves” the ehicf teller of the bank 1 thought either A Parker, either one, Ve SONS enough to consider $1.500 an casy fsettlement 2 J {awn daughter,”” said the confession D nalisidoni dendne| I meant no harm to either one, but SHlRIECA s ) His rise through the I thought it would v casicr 1o oremal er ds ehecked by a speefal buoy s nqie tha older girl (Marian) than sserts that 1wo prevents rapid decrease 2 iittle child.” S b e |7 Watehed Ter Coming Home. Hickman told how he had wateh- ed Marian com.ng from school and playing near the Parker home, He did not kmow that she had a twin sister, Marjori>. last Thursday mo g he decided to strike. dtsiilia I did not plan out o result aliead of that until | her that morning and that afternoon—you hava read in the papers how it all reach Ly pened,” he said s story of surr lering Marian was the same that told by flhem after Marian disappeared. The abduetor relats how little Marian got inio his withon question and how he drove wway. » We got well and clos Simon Lake, who o ac ] 0w that a man second roomn, diving helmet and then ! ompartments can 1 sor in the hull. The vater ftin the vessels, M N . K by ihe air pressure anc wonll S0 that | An air hose on the helmot oxygen from the submarine ng the maw's drift surfaceward. | reached the top he would permit the eg can drop his helmet back into the Food could be ren ea and the wan in the com- parin hauling it in. repe hoat. Une of these fube doors. openir bhoth way would f not nll. members wrisoned crew could so00n as q into other sumbarine Wwater-ig Momitic subini.rine, vears of the ever 0 in his early experiments with nd T been nsod submarines, 1t las been applied to vom submarines, to overy of cubles and to other damaged divisions of th ction zovernments in old type mine sweeping vesscls, It consists of | the rec aint - t endangering Bodies 1o Remain Together ut the cmpt will be mads Salvaring 1 ed and I really kind of liked her, cd - Admiral o continued. ) saying. he ther | couldn’t look her in the fice el Tlenior short while yon [ told her she naped ) To i ! B as though nothing Tad happened. jpoxitEaton U e ST L e Bl el e en o 1 nER oS iy L ey the Bottow until nest year, for officers enoat o the navy fyanpened to her father, she didn't now to re- " 0 the shops TW¥e \orpy or seream or anything. o e m‘.v ? “‘.‘,..v. e N int .w m’:.“ .;‘1.\"11‘.wy(\‘cft ook it calm as could be, and diversin the vy Gl s fhominy L s o Gt Rl i L nass of torn ViligaE It whim! thoyiiag ECalent BTG L woull IS LD suftes widships compa i 1 “IH\HH»»\V \‘ 3 ang Koy AR {eRloV GO TR | & Rk A A EA M e mndol Sod stls shecRaptnE sojshe coxlin { lie Wood End J 60, SRR e pr. A SRk B TR LR L last Sit- 1 3 ‘Please don't do it SR g le cancelled them and 500 ke any noiss.” so 1 didn't jost steadily on duty at Gl N0 e S0 tie her, and we drove around all that afternoon and went fo a show that night—the Rialto theater in Allam- bra—and she didn’t do anything or ything mueh, and I really ntend 1o do her a harm, and here is where the other man's part of it played in. “He was 1o have the hiding plac of the girl and to keep her quict and |1 was supposed to get the money “He only wanted two or three f P . . ()l [l‘ hul gh l)()Ct()l hundred dollars out of the fifteen burgh, Dec. 23 (UR)=—=Mlie of=} pynarad, He gald he didnt war nd reception room of Dr, D, M. ch money anyway. He gecmed to like the a of kidnaping the zirl and holding ner rather than g ting the money. Thur night after the show. T met this man and he took her in charge. The next At 1 saw her—that was Friday eve- the soft ning.” April. Iie also Here Hickman told how he hail aritten the ransoni letters whic threatened death to the little girl inless the reward were paid and the police kept ont of the case. “Well”” he continned, T " ept CONTINUED writing aul these letters and had Borek oman lier to write a letter to he fathe John omun for divore: making seem Like she was treated of intolerable cruelty bad. She didn't seem fo like this I the first Mon- man and didn’t want to go with hi T I Jennings and wanted to Stay with e instead <iperior conrt today. Neman but 1 couldn’t do a thing like that fered to pay the defendant We had to go through with the Jars a week alimony until the @ plans a Wanted to Go Home, “ANyW she wanted to go Lou: 'Y TOR CHILDREN. as soon as possible, and 1 thought £ ran s besif the father was willing to hand ritain Tu- over the money, and he had it, 3t culosis Relicr society and the 1= wag perfectly all vight, and as soon of the health as I got it over with, the beter §t ontertained at their | would be for me way. So 1 in G. A. T 'called up her father and he said tree Was | e had the, money and we planned distributed it complished | miral - Andrews quoted lives of Hugiies as was ki remain is offics Lient vhose hom who is now R v yard, planning on his first s hon will be aboard a inectown ision pree et Bomb Wrecks Office Curey, near bere, was a bomb early today. A Inside the re ion tory irame houss siek non-union Pitisburgh Corpor for d by (he rvice he Tias been paid DIVORCE CASE ontinng Doc, 25 (P Sa tain street.” Hickman then related how he Jiad discovered that the police were on inst Thomas Aparo, for the trail and failed to keep the first < heen settled and with- appointment with Parker, how ) fron iperior court. The then had written again to I'arke < brought as a result of a making dire threats because the an Detwee 2 and an | officers had been allowed fo tuke a Johile on Broad strect. May 17. [ hand and how he resolved to get ont Attorney Gerard Casale | of his predieament as quickly as he d the plaintiff, conld. That night, he sald. he had enr BEAD HERALD CLASSIFIED ADS rendered the little girl again (8 the TOR BEST RESULTS !Andrew Cramor of the confession IS WITHDRAWN Angelo Lepido, S2000 SUIT R4 will ¢ The action of | $100,000 came 10 an end within an | > officers, told his story. Al i'en- | He remembered that Marian had | Haves or ! in consideration of their weeting. We were to meet at a cer- | 23, 1927. “uh the understanding that she would be returned to him the next {day and then deliversd to her father. turday the mysterions Cramer me to Hickman's apartment lug- | 5ing a suite the confession con- | tinued. vealed the dissceted body of the llittle*girl, upon seeing which Ilick- In as “sure surprised.” ‘the police are alrcady suspicious of this place’, and he said she was crying and he tried to stop ler, or something like that, and he igured that the safest way would he to go ahead and fix it that way, and for me to keep the suitcase in car and £o to this place (the cone of the final rendezvous with rker) and if the ne hefore I could get rid of it, they might look at the snit e and never stop to open it, and 1 thought that | might be all right. ! The abductor here explained that since he already had written Parker that if he given the money be- fore 'k that night, Marian svonld ot alive, and that hour when into the snitcase and saw determined sinee it he peers the mutilated body, he | to muke best of it. “And if this fellow had not killed her, it would have right as we had planned, because 1 1 sure she didn’t want to dir. > only of emotion’ that Hickman showd v hen he spoke Tavian being killed, Ac- confession, the girl ime” with him | thrilled at the @ and ey prospect of returning home and school with an esciting tale of hav- ing been i ped “When &h was with me she said: police stopped | come out all | NATHAN E. YOUNG FORFEITS LICENSE Cramer opened it and re- | \Derby Man Called Improper ‘ Person to Drive Auto | Hartford. Dec. 23 (P Satistied | that Nathan Young of Derby is an improper person to hold a mo- | tor vehicle ope license, Motor Vehicle Commissioner Robbins It Stoeckel has signed an order com- manding You to relingu |department his ficense The case has comment. Young w: payment of ce Derby town court after raigned on a charge y notor vehicle while under fluence of intoxieating liquor. commissioner in view of 11 | suspended hs license and gressman P.oT Sullivan ‘or Yo cecured an restraining the commissioner putting the order into eifect, and & | well, made various contentions about the constitutionality of the law in gthe commissioncr such d [ tionavy powers. A hearing was held in New H Monday. December 12 At that time Attorney O'Sill contended that he had not h ficiant time to produce witn {testimony wasg granted a week in which cortilic caused widesprea Lix-Con counsel unetion 1 Kuf- s and to do T wonde at the school kids will | say when T get back to school? They will want to know what 1 did and erything.” And Tam terribly sorry | she was killed myself, because T sure liked h fere Hickman wept. 1 With Surprise. Asked what he did when Cramer e the suitcase and displayed the mutilated form of the little girl, the captive said I et out a vell of surprise and | he did a thing a shock to anted to know wi like that. Tt was «uite me. e was not supposed to bring her o the apartment.” of meeting Parker and | the child in exel for the sheaf of bills was {the same as that of the Los Angeles ! poli when the crime Hickman His story Telive the torso of Jeclared he did not have the dis sred parts of the Lody which w fonnd scattered through a p in another section of the city e lieved Framer had dropped them as he drove along in an antomobil The vouth's story of his fight to the polic striking in its revelation of hrazenness. The morn- ing after the hody was delivered to Parke apariment whore ing on finding a clue in tl torso! ITickman was stay- pings around ur of them entered Dis room and question- ed him About 0 nday morning apartment nd when they came partment it was interest- way T wis singing and play- phonagraph. The detectives 1 looked o iny suspicion of me at n n 1 went out in the hall | talked Lo seven or eight of the | detectives in Los Angeles.y Importation of Steel Washingtor Dee, 2 (P--Secre- tary Mellon ruled toda portations of steel products from Germany were not in violation of | e an iping provisions of the tariff zet 2 niestic stecl producers, American steel complained that the Gery facturers were selling st country at s lower than asked in Gernny in Tumping provisions. Wi the scerctary held that + importations did not run to the iaw, he added that “entire sitnation would continue to be carefuly watehed by the trea- ury department so that shonld change. the necessary steps might be taken prevent Americaa industry from be- ing subjected to unfaic competition, within the meaning of the anti- cetion of the emergency conditions dumping tariff act Kidwell Shows Resentment In Answering Questions Washington, Dec. 23 (P feen resentment SEOT I . Kldwell was d under harp elimina 1 today in the Teapot Dome jury mpering procecdings in which he has accu: Assistant District At- torney Janies J. O'Leary of foreing Nim 1o sign affidavits which were un- It O ry examined Kidwell, who was a juror in th ali-Sinclalr trial, and the witness glared at the prose- Citor az question after auestion was shot at him he hiad talked to his father about his P > affidavit after Justice Std- dons had warned him he must not to any person regarding any- ing conneeted with the case. x 0'C lock Boi’der Closing Is Requested Washington, Dec, 23.—(P—A pe- reconstructed the policemen swarmed into the | wrap- | detectives came up | 1 looked over the | arching it,” | searched | ound and did | From Germany Approved | present fm- | ha:d been claimed by do- violation of the | at once to | Display- | toward h\s‘ Kidwell conceded that | Jof evidence, n behalf of his client. Jie ! is. but failed to produce any kind ccording partment to the de- MRS. ELLEN COFFEY DIES AT WEST STREET HOME Widow of stephen and Lived Here Greater Part of Lifc NS (Coftey) 1= old, of dent of N ind one of th ary's paris it her home Koper, Roper Was 82 i West strect, a resi Britain since childhood oldest members of St lust ight f ng an illness of the widow o i came o ents and sident of city, sh months surviving Thom: B 1: Stephen Itoper, an derta wd forner co Hugh itoper, an employe of the of Treland, this the is un- and Un- rwood Computing Co. of Hartford, daughter, Mrs, s city Anna Hayes of The funeral v lield tomor- row morning at 8:3u o'clock at the hom= on West street and at 8 o'clock at St Mary's churel. Burial will be in StMary's cemets ‘ and A wis o A Merry Chris ous New Year 259 Main St. ‘l NSURANCE A Merry Christmas A Prosperous New Year I surance will assure your family of | KenmehRitle MORTGAGES life in- and a I'rosper- o from now. New Britain, Ct. | Your Last 0220200200000 00 0% 0 00399520080¢C-9¢ i { { | f | 1 | TR LX) K c0® 2 fition of residents of Imperial and | San Diege counties in California re- | questing a six o'clock night closing time along the California-Mexlcan border was presented Representative Swing, of California, to Assistant Secretary the treasury, in charge tion enforcement. Residents of the two counties, Mr. Swing said, had complained that the existence of vice resorts at Mexicall |and Algodones across the Mexican border, were a bad influence on their communities. The six o'clock closing time had been tried at Tia Juana and proved suceessful, Swing as- {serted. of prohibi- | NO MORE AIR MAIL | Concord, N. H., Dee o Alr Im ail gerviee to Vermont, inaugurat- today by | lowman of | Better Kind ed after the November flood, will be | discontinued tomorrow. 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