New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 6, 1928, Page 10

“WRS, SVYDER SEES ‘IS HOPES FAUE o, Saith s He Wil . DmpbePa | | New. York, Jan. 6 UP—Remarks | by Governor Bmith at the clemency | iiearing for Mrs. Ruth Snyler and | "Henry Judd Gray today were Inter- | ‘preted by newspapers as indicating | he would not override the decision | fof the eourts that the two must diz | In the clectric chair next week. ¥ Meanwhile, a new move was un- | jlerway fn supreme court which of: fered possibilities that the execu- Mion of Mre. Snyder might be post- Soned Coboes Board Must Wait Untl! Edgar Hazziton, of her counsel, filed application for a jury trial of the suit brought by the Prudential | Insurance Company of America to ‘eancel fnsurance policies totallirg $97,000 on the :if= of her husband Altert Snyder, for whose death she and Gray were convicted | Should Justice Levy decide that | Mrs, Snyder is necessary uas a wit- ness, he may order her e ation postponed. The decision would have no effect on Gray. The governor's decision on the plea for @ 30-day stay of execution 2o permit examination of the tww by psychiatrists, 18 not expected until next week. The governar at the conclusion of {he hearing did not say whether or | not he would grant ciemency, but| during the argument he made sever- al dry remarks indicating he did not #hink very much of psychosis anfi” and “this twilight zone hu Counsel had made much 2 argument of the assertion *hat hoth prisoners were so emotionally diseased that they were not fully vesponsible for their acts. The governor was asked to grant the stay of execution so that prac: titioners of “the new psychiat might examine the prisoners and see if they were not inhabitants of a wental twilight zone in which they vould distinguish right from wrong Lut did not have the will power to keep from doing wrong. Giovegnor Smith halted this line of argument finally to instruct coun- ecl that he did not consider it per- itinent and to order them to “get on | fthe law and stay there.” | i Mrs. Suydew's chief counsel started %o quotc St. Paul concerning the let- ! ter and spirit ot the law but the | &overnor interposed with the opin- | ion that the state legislature was a more modern sourcea of law than! 8t. Paul. District Attorney Newcombe, who | prosecuted the case, attended the | hearing and asked that justice be| allowed to “run its course,” a course | that would lead to the Sing Sing | dcath chamber shortly after 11 o'clock nest Thursday night. H said that after the trial he had gone over the evidence with great care| to see if there were.apy extenuating circumstances which might justify | & recommendation of leniency but | ahat he found not a single one. { last night received the well | wishes of two doomed men who | The Reliable Store to make a qourum and only three ' case. NEW ERITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 1928. FLASHES OF LIFE: DEFENDS SMOKING, . IS BANNED BY MISSIONARY SOCIETY shook bands with him as they marched past his cell in the Sing 8ing prison death louse on 'their way to the electric chair. They were Charles J. Doran, 19, of Albany, and JURY IS PROBLEM S Louis Mason, 30, Negro, of Buffalo. lN l]'l ml BASE! Both were executed for murd.ra | committed during holdups. | Mrs. Snydar, who is in another mt'mdlmmbmj part of the death house, did not see the two men. She was sald by prison clllt in Jm T[‘hl : attendants, however, to have display- ed extreme nervousness when teld the governor had refused Doral | Los Angels, Jan. ¢ (UP)—The | task of selecting & jury to hear the | clemency. “Two more zoing and no hope ap- | case of ten Los Angeles business men | charged with the wrecking of a | parently,” she was quoted as saying. $100,000,000 oil company entered END 10 SESSION x. The jurors, however, will be sub- | | ject 1o questioning by the attorneys ! | for the defendants and few probably | will remain in the box. The trial is the first of the Julian Petroleum cascs to be tried here. 8. C. Lewis, former president of the oil company and Jacob Berman, |triend and adviser, who were said | |to have engineered the pool transac- Quorum Is Obained 5 tions which caused the collapse of | Cohoes, N. Y., Jan. 5 (UP)—The | ; of Cohoes board of aldermen, slecping | W'e Oil company, were among those to be tried. At duri ¢ ! - | nd eating during temporary re-| it the | | Jullan stock was ruled cesses, remained in continuous ses- . Y et al onths ago be- Sion today, while ithoee” mising ralsi|maruct almost nine £ dermen, one of cause of the collapse of the pool them & woman, entures. | nceded to make a quorum, Werel 4 ronore of auditors who worked | sought 1'3'_00110‘- on the Julian oooks for almost : Mayor Cosgro, against whom the | £ "L, TR0 O 1 o the jury, missing aldermen have declared the "L o0 ol ol most eff Alipuster on record [ 0 VA0 (o have shown | by disappearing, said he would keep! 1., 4973 406 shares of spurious the board in session until they &re g o i were tssu2d, which was respon- | found. | sible for rix groups believing they | The board recessed at 10 o'clock |1 a1q control of the Julian corpora last night until 7 a. m. today 10| 4jon a¢ the same time. permit the three of the six alder-| wpo mon are charged with con men who remained faithful to the | gniricy to obtain money under false | mayor to snatch some sleep. pretenses by the sale of invalid | The trouble sturted when the gecyrities of the Julian Corporation | board went into session \\'evlneud-yim_J a violation of the state corpor- noon to ratify the reappoint-!gte securities act. ment of Charles J. Neeson, the| A jury probably will not be se mayor's choice for president of the jected until the middle of next week, board. Four members were needed |it was admitted by attorneys in the | { appeared. Mrs. Katherine Hogan,| Eleven men originally were named Edward Tisher and Willlam Trum- |in the indictments, but one, A. Swan- bly were the holdouts. son, who was secretary of the Julian When they failed to appear Wed- | Corporation's New York office, waa | nesday night, Cosgro issued an Or- | not present. | der for their arrest. Meanwhile, the | Swanson could not be extradited board recessed at intervals during | as a defendant *he district attorney’s the all-night vigil and at intervals | office sald, although it was believed all of yesterday. Michael T. 8mith, | he would come to Los Angcles as democratic leader and head of the|a witness. dissenting faction, promised to Sixty-five others have been indict- produce them “sometime during the!ed in connection with the gigartic day,” but failed to do so, | financial bubble. They will be If the three are found and brought | brought to trial when the present to the meeting, the appointmment will | cases are disposed of. They are be ratified by one vote — Mayor | charged with conspiracy to violate Cosgro's. |the state usury act by participating {in loan pools on which the corpora- Manslaughter Seen as tion was sald to have declared in- terest of more than 300 per cent New Dry Law Weapon Marinette, Wis, Jan. € (M-; a year, Among the charges that may be| TO MOVE DIVINITY SCHOOL brought against a seller of liquor }a| New Haven, Jan. 6 M—With ac- that of fourth degree manslaughter | Guisition of land and buildings to s Frank Gall of Beaver, Wis., has| commence the establishment here ound. | of Berkeley Divinity scbool, the Gall, ‘the charge against him re. L school will be moved here with next cites, sold liquor to Valentin Bll‘flll-‘ fall's term, !t was stated today. ek, who, under the influence of the Buildings acquired will be used tem- intoxicant, staggered into the path| porarily for study and dormitory of a train December 21 and was, purposes While the million dollar killed. Arraigned yesterday, Gall fund is being used 1o provide per- was released on $1,000 bond. | manent buildings, 0Ol Camden, N. P. — The vote for lip- sticks might bé construed as in the ratio of 3 to 2. Of 500 girls between the ages of 13 and 16 in the Hatch Junior High school, 195 have joined a non-lipstick club, and two mem. bers have been ousted for violating the rules. Atlantic City — With speclal ap- proval by the principal some 50 high school girls are wearing middy blouses and blue skirts in an effort to stop dress snobbery. Middy blouses were specified in fear there would be blouses of chiffon or other elaborate creations. Philadelphia — Having noted that Maude Royden has defended her use of cigarettes, the Woman's Home Missionary soclety has felt impelled to cancel her lecture, New York — The new president of the Women's National Republican club is Miss Maude Wetmore, whose father was twice governor of Rhode Island and United States senator for three terms. Aberdeen, Scotland — A Scotch woman made a journey ‘costing 30 shillings in order to collect a gov- ernment pension of 10 shillings. With a satisfied air she explained: 1 just wanted to make sure the | money the government promised was nat 4 myth" New York — Charles M. Schwab learned from Andrew Cargegle to approach life in a happy frame of ind and to seek the friendship of is fellow men. Receiving the com- mercial peace medal from the Ar- bitration Society of America, Mr. Schwab explained that Carnegie got ‘1 letter from‘one of the directors Exquisite quality without a fancy price {Tammany, is pretty busy there days of his ‘steel’ company ' complaining that board mieetings were not serious enough. In reply Carnegie sent from abroad a picture of a laughing monk to be hung in the board room with the admonition to the directors to look at it when they felt serious, Detroit — Cupld is taking a hand in the automotive industry. Miss Elizabeth Briggs, whose father's company makes automobile bodies, is engaged to her childhood neigh- bor, Charles T. Fisher, Jr., whose father founded the Fisher Body cor- poration. New York — Uncle Sam has frowned on an ambition of Miss Myrtle Brown, sister-in-law of Giu- seppe Bellanca, airplane designer. She wishes to fly under Brooklyn bridge, but the department of com- merce objects, Chicago — A $12,000 pearl neck- lace lost by Mrs. Willlam H. Hub- bard, Jr. while shopping, has been found in a waste paper basket in a millinery store. New York — Mr. Olvany, head of with getting back a $70,000 profit made by a buoker on a resale of Tammany hall, and various other things. As yet he has not read Gov. Smith's 35,000 word message except for the headlines and sub-heads. Glen Head, N. Y. — Another Taft is on the bench, Walbridge 8. Taft, nephew of the chiet justice is a Jus. tice of the peace for this exclusive Long Island community. ! New York — Hirclings of the | Roman empire are to be blamed for the crucifixion and Jews are to be 2% — CHURCH STREET — 2 Tourane lal ~(offee :))ouu might as well have the best exonerated. “The King of Kings,” & motion- picture, is to be revised be- cause of protests. ' New. York — A $2,000,000 yacht being bullt for Vincent Astor at Kiel will be equipped to launch airplanes from two decks. It will have a cruising radius of 19,000 miles with- out refuelling. New Haven—Police here bring New York detectives to investigate man whose name they withhold, sad to be closely connected with murder of Mrs; Guy Harrington, New York :clr:l murdered Dec. 22 in New Fork. Norwalk—Rectory of 8t. Paul's Episcopal church reports chalice and other valuables stolen by burg- lars Wednesday night. Ansonia — “Phantom stabber” thought to have been at work again last night when Mrs. J. Poplowskl reported to police that she had been stabbed in breast. Stab slight and not nmoticed until later, after man bad brushed against her. Last ac- tivities of stabber at Hartford where two women were stabbed., Hartford—Man who died in Os- sining, N. Y., hote] fire identified as Albert J. McKenna of this city by his father-in-law, Frank 8. Jones. McKenna's wife did not accompany her husband on his trip and was be- lieved to be in New Haven with her mother, Norwich—Ninety gallons of alco- hol and a quantity of gin and whis- key and 50 gallon still with mash seized here. Largest liquor haul this city since advent of prohibition. Boris Avdevich, Russian national, arrested on charge of violating llquor laws, Hartford—Eleven persons killed in state during last week of 1927. Accidents totalled 519, state motor vehicle department statements show. " The D. Miller Co. ‘Our Annual JANUARY SALE tarts Tomorrow Saturday DOORS OPEN AT 9 A. 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