New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 14, 1928, Page 11

LOSES NERVE IN_ “HS SUICIDE PACT M Adnits Killing Woman But Didn't Take Own Lile Phlladeiphia, Feb, 14 P—A grue- some tale unfolded in Cecil Clyde Campbeil's alleged confession of how Do had crushed with a hammer the head of a woman he sald was his Wite elght days ago in & New York Rotel after they had entered into a sulcide pact was under investigation by police today. After killing the woman, police sald Campbell told them he had lost his nerve and decided to postpone taking his own life until after he had paid off debts owed his friends, Financial reverses and inability to obtain employment he gave as the reasons for his act, according to the police. Campbell was arrested here yester- day at a lodging house conducted by the Volunteers of America, He sald he was 43 ycars old and that he was a major in the United States army, detailed to duty in Washing- ton, during the worid war. Also, he said, ho Qad been in the real estate business in New York and had en- gaged in mining in Mexico. Campbell told the authorities, afler being taken to city hall, that he killed his wife. “It was a suicide pact,” he said. “We prayed for for- #iveness first." He said that he and his wife went te the Grand hotel in New York February 1 and registered under the name of Mr. and Mrs. T. James, Troy, N. Y. The woman's body, clad in pajamas, was found in her room by a mald February 6. Camp- bell had disappeared. “We remained at the hotel several days,” the alleged confession stated, “and discussed my financial difficul- ties, We agreed to end our lives. ‘With her consent and while she was fully awake and looking at me, I struck her over the head with a hammer. I had bought it for ten cents. I stayed in the room until I was sure she was dead.” “] tully intended to kill myself and walked to the window to jump out, but lost my nerve.” New York police have identified Campbell as the former head of the South Windham, Maine, reformatory, and prior to that of the New Jersey Bchool for Boys at Jamesbyrg, N. J. He was employed at the la Insti- tution in 1922, winning a promotion from cottage father to the rank of parole supervisor.-He resigned to go to Maine. - Police at first sald that Campbell and the woman he is alleged to have killed were not married and that her name was Mary Lysle. Camp- bell insisted that he was divorced from hie first wife and that he had married Miss Lysle. This was eon- firmed by reports from Portland, Me,, which said his first wife was granted a divorce there May 18, 1926, on a charge of desertion. In 1918 while Campbell was & major in the air service at Wash- ington, his former wife said he had plenty of money and once called upon to testify before the senate in connection with an investigation of the disappearance of $6,000,000 in ‘bonds. She said that he went to thelr suite at the Hotel Willard at one time and placed a package in her arms purported to be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. Divorced in 1938 Portland, Me., Feb. 14 UP—Mrs. Cecil C. Campbell was granted a di- vorce hers on May 18, 1926, trom her husband, now held in Philadel- phia as the slayer of & woman in New York city. Desertion was charged and the wife was awarded custody of a daughter now nine years old. The couple was married You can have .bettcr flavor in everything you bake! verybody has tasted baked foods that were Eg{nmwlmflumddhppolm» ing in flavor. Frequently this is caused by flourmndefimd\emmmflm To get that delicious, flavor that marks your truly biscuits, or pastry, use uumaefnhéommfimy.dmd.m vored t: O el s Saeie s e ol your baking. Accept no other flour! for better flavor, use this one fine flour for all your baking Pi%!sburys st Flour for bread, biscuits and pastry on September 4, 1916, while' Camp- bell was a sergeant at Fort Williams in South Portland. Campbell often threatened to shoot her during their year and a half of married life in this city and Washington which end- ed two weeks after the birth of their daughter, Cornella, October 30, 1918, in Washington, Mrs. Campbell, who | lives in South Portland sald last| night. Campbell was superintendent of the Maine state reformatory at| South Windham, 12 miles from here when divorce papers were served. He abandoned his position and two weeks after his disappearance he mailed his resignation to the re-| formatory trustees. Repulsed by Husband Mrs. Campbell declared she made several visits to South Windham, | was repulsed by her husband, and found that a woman was with him at the institution, known as his sister. 8he said that he had a sister who died & year before he came to the reformatory. Police Lieut. Henry T. Fortune of Portland and Detective James A. Pyke of! New York investigated heré today the possibility that Mrs. McClelland, Campbell's alleged victim, and the woman who was at the reformatory were the same. A South Windham resident declared the woman with | Campbell there was known as Mary Lysle, McLain or McClejland. Campbell told her he got a divorce in Mexico, five years before, Mrs. Campbell asserted. “Since he left, in | 1925, I have not heard from him,” she said. In 1918, while Campbell was a major of the air service stationed in ‘Washington, his former wife said he had plenty of money and was called upon to testify before the senate in connection with a probe into dis. appearance of six million dollars in bonds. She said he came into their suite at the Hotel Willard at one time, depositing a bundle in her arms which he said was worth hun- dreds of thousands. He little of his past, exccpt that he was born in Canada. 26 INILL TAKRATE RESISTS ATTACKS Budget Will Be Formally Recom- mended to Common Council Estimates of city expenses approv- ed by the board of finance and taxa- tion withatood the attack of com- mon council members at their in- formal meeting last night and al- though there was a persistent Ce- mand that the mill rate be cut, the finance board was not shown whrein the report might be altered. As a result, the 26! mill budget will be recommended for adoption ALY, at tomorrow night's regular session and {t is expected that approval will be voted. Alderman J. Gustav Johnson led opposition to the one mill increase, questioning scores of items. Alder- man Frank Zapatka centered his in- quiry on the board of public works and the school department, express- ing a tirm conviction that both are ! unnecessarily high. unmistakable rfect cake, 's Best Flour. can depend on it for NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1928. —~ U. S. ONCE HELD MILLION INDIANS, SAY ETHNOLOGISTS TRACING DECLINE Washington, Feb. 14 UP — The white man's diseases, his unfamiliar forms of dissipation ‘and his fire- |arms were the principal causes of the decline of the Indian race on the American continent north of Mexico. This is the burden of the first comprehensive scientific study of the aboriginal population of America, undertaken about a quarter century |ago by the late James Mooney for the bureau of American ethnology and just published by the Smith- sonian institute, as compiled from his manuscripts, notes and tables by James R. Swanson of the bureau. From an estimated population of 1,153,000 before the white man came, Mr. Mooney's tables disclose, the aborigines had dwindled by 1907 to ahout 406,000. Many tribes had passed out of existence, others had dropped off to a handful of survivors and still others had been absorbed by more powerful tribes and con- federations. Relatively few showed a numerical Increase, and in almost every instance that was attributed to the intermixture of white or ne- gro blood and the absorbtion of smaller or inadequately armed neighbors. Slave raids, intertribal wars, hope- less resistance against the newscom- ers, confinement in missions and No Lid on School Board, During discussion of the school department estimates, Counciman John Holmberg asked: *What is i there to prevent the school commit- tee from exceeding this budget?” “Actualy nothing. The state or- ders the board to educate the chil- dren of the city and if they need go ahead and spend,” Senator Hall answered. “But the board can't hold us lia- ble for anything it spenda to educare children who are more than 16 years of age,” interjected Alderman John- son. Alderman Zapatka favered reduc- ing the item of textboks and requir- | ing the board to stop frequent changing of books. Replacement of books is necessary and the item al- lowed is for that purpose, it was ex- plained. “Do you think it is time well spent when we discuss school ex- penses?* asked Councilman Wil- llam D. Boyle who has severely criticized the board in the past. Lights at Corbin Place. When the cost of street lighting was found to be greater than last | year, Alderman Johnson asked the ! reason. Chairman Hall explained lights were ordered installed during the year, making the increase neces- “I think it's on account of those big lights that have been placed on Corbin place—there isn't a brighter Broadway in the country,” Council- reservations, starvation and other developmenta incidental to the white man's progress added to the ravages of his vices and disedses, of which ismallpox was the most destructive, in the process of bringing down the red man, Mr. Mooney found. Dis- cussing the fate of the numerous tribes in the gulf states region, he told how, in the period between 1690 and 1730, which enbraced a great amallpox epidemic, ‘“slave raids organized by the English of Carolina were very destructive of Indian life, the Chickasaw and Creeks, armed with guns furnished for the purpose, being the principal agents in the destruction.” |of decrease to include widely prev- alent infanticide among the Missioh Indians from 1769 to 183¢ and “wholesale massacres, clearances and robberies of_food stores by American miners and settlers from 1849 to the close of the Modoc war in 1873, together with the general demoralization comsequent upon as- soclation of the two races.” b Within 20 years after the Rus- islans settled in Alaska, the Aleuts had been reduced at least one-hal he estimated, and the number con. |tinued to decline until the Russian government Interfered for their pro- tection shortly before 1800. | man Samuel Sablotaky interposed. to allowing $50,000 for repair of | atone traveled ways, Chairman Hall | declared the amount to be far be- { low what it should be consedring the | | | number of complaints being receiv- | ed. | “I belleve there is leakage In every told her |more than we give them, they can | department of the city government | to the extent that unnecessary pus || | chases are alwaya being made. We | | find it frequently in the finanee | | committee, Alderman Johnson as- || | merted. | “Its the business of the commo council to close up those leaks, Chairman Hall reminded. The moeting adjourned without |/ taking definite action, but members || of the council indicated an effort to |! reduce the rate will be attempted. For Those Who Prefer to Charge, We Will Be Pleased to Open an Account. WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY We Will Give 259% OFF on New Spring Hats These are all new Hats and will be sold for two days at 1-4 off, of what they are marked, to better ac- quaint the women with our large variety of hats. Hats marked $5.00 will be sold for $3.75 Hats marked $5.95 will be sold for $4.46 Hats marked $10.95 will be sold for $8.21 You Deduct 1-4 of What the Hat is Marked. 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