New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 21, 1928, Page 1

News of the World , By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 LINDBERGH MAKES ROUND TRIP VER (LD WAL ROUTE With Five Other Pilots Fiying Colonel Responsible for Garry- ng 1,097 Pounds of Maii FLIES FROM CHICAGO T0 ST. LOUIS AND BACK Leaves Peoria, Ill, 25 Minutes Be- hind Schedule But by Driving Plane at Furious Pace, Over 100 Miles Per Hour, Arrives om Time. St. Louls, Feb, 21 (M—Flying a Douglas mail plane ahead of sched- ule, Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, land- ed at Lambert-8t. Louis field at ¢ a. m., today, completing a round trip over his old air mail route between 8t. Louls and Chicago in an effort to advertise the postal air service, Public Responds The response of the public to his appeal was far beyond the fondest dreams of air line operators. From St. Louis alone yesterday afternoon, Lindbergh and five other flyers car- ried 1,997 pounds and ten ounces of mail matter. Approximately half a ton additional was picked up at Springfield and Peoria. After a quiet night with his fel- low pilots in the apartment of a flyer at Chicago, Lindbergh was at the Chicago flying ficld shortly after 5 a. m. today. At 6:12, with the cock- pit of his plane filled to the top with mall, the Flying Colonel took the afr. He landed at Peorla at 7:25 8. M. I p yert T, Bushnell, but finally made | Within five minutes the Peoria sacks had been unloaded and he was on his way again. He landed at Spring- field, his second stop at 8:05, and | took off again within the five min- utes provided by the postal sched- ule. Soon in St. Louis Just 50 minutes later less than a hundred watchers at the flying field heard the drumming of his.motor to the north. The Douglas, driving through the smoke pall at more than 100 miles an hour, shot across the field a moment later. Climbing elightly, Lindbergh swung his ship off to the west and, settling easily, landed in front of the National Guard hangar. Lindbergh taxied his ship up to the waiting mail wagon and, leaving the plane in charge of mechanics, _quickly doffed .his fur lined fiying suit. stopped a few minutes to talk to newspapermen and prepared to leave the:fleld for the day. Thomas P, Nelson, Cleveland-New York air malil route flyer, and an old-time flying mate of Lindbergh, left Chicago at 6:25 a. m. with an- | other load of mail and arrived here at 7:20 a .m. Other pilots were held at Chicago awaiting mail from New York and the Pacific coast. Rides West With Dawn Chicxgo, Feb. 21 (A)—The Chicago 8t. Louis air mail started south at 6:04 a. m,, today with Col. Charles A. Lindbergh at the controls. The start, scheduled for 5:30 a. m., was delayed by fallure of the outgo- ing mail to reach the airport from the down town post office. Lindbergh's Douglas biplane rode west with the dawn, to awing south- ward a short distance out of Chicago. Fl}gnwin‘ it closely was another Douglas, with Thomas Nelson as pilot and Phil Love, who piloted on of the six planes from 8t. Louis yes- terday, as passenger. Twe other planes awaited the arri of the San Francisco and New York mail (Continued on Page 13) ARRANGE CONFERENCE FOR MINERS’ RELIEF Ways and Means for Ex- tending Help to Be Formed Here For the benefit of the 150,000 locked out in the Pennsylvania, Ohi [and Colorado regions, a conference of delegates from labor unions and traternal socicties has been called in [Dudjack’s hall, 16 Bexton street, on [Friday evening at 8 o'clock. Decl: Hon to organize a committee in this Ity was reached last Bunday at a public meeting. The temporary committee formed t the meeting imsued a call to all prganizationg in which they state hat the suffering of the striking niners is intense. Thousands of familics have been evicted from the ompany owned homes, and left jagged to frees= in hastily construct- d barracks, it s claimed. The calt the conference also charges the ine owners with mobilizing private rmies of coal and iron police who rrorize mining communities, Hun- reds of miners have been arrested, hile injunctions prohibit picketing Ind the distribution of relief, the pmmittee says. Disease and starva- lon are heavy among the miners' idren. Miners rclief committees have pen established throughout the puntry. These are affiliated with e Pennsylvapia, Ohlo miners' relief | imittee of Pittsburgh which is ising funds. opening kitchens and thousands of miners. coal miiners who ate on strike or | roviding food and clothing for tens | Stowaway Wears Palm Beach Suit; Gets Chilly Brooklyn, N. Y., Feb. 21 (UP) —In the belief that the vessel was bound for his sunny home- land, Feusse Leaure, French negro, stowed away on the Grace liner Santa Elisa at the Canal Zone, He was wearing a Palm Beach suit, a straw hat and a pair of shoes. But the S8anta Elisa climbed the coast of North America and encountered severe cold weather. Her hatches, guy ropes and decks became sheeted with {ce. Leaure gave up two days ago and when the ship docked here today he had surrendered him- self to the captain. He will be | | deportea. TRIESTORE-ENACT WURDER OF GIRL Weston Youth Cries oo Stand HMJt Do “n (AUTO SEAT BEFORE JURY Defense Rests Case Shortly After 13 o'Clock and Young Boy is Grilled By District Attorney Buckley on the Witness Stand. Cambridge, Mass., Feb. 21 (P— Joseph F. Buckley of Weston at- tempted in court today to re-enact |the scene of the shooting of his sweetheart, Grace Mills of Waltham, during an automobile ride early on the morning of November 16‘. last. Buckley, who is on trial for murder, constantly reiterated “I can't do it, I can't do it” when urged on by |the questions of District Attorney an effort to portray his story of the tragedy. & : Auto Seat Shown The seat of the automobile in which the girl died was placed be- fore the jury. |Jean of the prosccutor’s office, hold- 'ing a revolver, sat in the place that had been occupied by the victim. Buckley then was asked to illustrate his story that the girl first fired a shot into her own body in a suicide attempt and that the second shot was fired in some unknown manner when he took the revolver from her. | 8t. Jean assumed a slumped posi- tion such as described n Buckley’'s (testimony. Buckley was directed to take the revolver from B8t. Jean's right hand and open the lapels of the coat he sald he had previously wrapped around the girl when she complained of the cold. | “T can’t do it. T was excited and rervous then.” Buckley replied. “You showed us how you grabbed her yesterday. You knew then,” Bushnell insisted. Tries to Comply Buckley then attempted to com- ply. Questioned as to the manner of his re-enactment, Buckley again repeated: “I can't do it. I was nervous and excited!" | “Show the jury,” Bushnell said. Buckley seized the lapels of St. Jean's coat and took the revolver |from his hand, trying to show how he held the weapon. After the demonstration he was directed to re- sume the witness stand. The defense rested its case shortly after noon, after the cross-examina- tion of Buckley and a brief re-direct | examination by his counsel had been | concluded. | During the cross-examination Dis- trict Attorney Bushnell produced the |statement alleged to have been nade to police by Buckley while in the hospital. After he completed {his questioning Buckley's counsel had the automobile seat again brought into court and for the sec- lond time had the accused man give | his version of the shooting. GEORGE'S RADIO BAD |Even King of England Has His Troubles — Complains London |} Drowns Out Paris and Berlin. Tondon, Feb. 21 (M—King George |is having his worries over his radio | sct at Buckingham palace just as | other radio fans have their oc- casional troubles, He explained his listening in dif- ficulties in a conversation at the British Industries fair today while examining the wireless exhibits. “My wircless set won't get Paris {or Germany,” he sald. “If I tune in for Paris I get London and if 1 try to get Berlin I get London. The London station kills everything else. I want a set that will get foreign | stations when T want them.” |set with a guarantee that he could | get what he wanted on it, but the | fair js not a retail market and he ; didn't make a purchase. BRIEF COURT. Lake George, N. Y., Feb. 21 (UP) —Judge George 8. Raley opened the | winter term of Warren county court |today. The only business to come | before him was the case of Ruther- ford 8mith, who had been placea under bond two months ago to keep |the peace. Smith was dischargead. After 10 minutes court adjourned to convene three months hence. I MILLER “COMFORTABLE” Boston, Feb. 21 (UP)—Watson B. | Miller of Washington, national chairman of the American Legion rehabilitation committee, was re- ported “resting comfortably and in no danger” today. Miller collapsed from a severe heart attack while conferring with the New England rehabilitation committee of the le- ‘glon in a hotel here late yesterday. Chiet Clerk Leo St. | """" \“;M 4 P: S w\?““" HARTFORD BANKER Released for New DIES IN BATHROOM OF ASPHYXHTION Heary M. Sperry, Yice-President 4l-the First National Bank, Loses Life in Accident (HAD BEEN ILL SINCE WITH BREAKDOWN Edward Littlefield, 27, of 15 Chad- | wick avenue, Hartford, and James |De Seri, 27, of 267 Capen street, | Hartford, released from the Hart- ford jail after serving three months for theft from a New Britain store, were given 30 days each in the New | Haven Jail by Judge Abner P. Hayes in the city court this morning. The | hats in Waterbury that they were wearing when picked up by New Britain police three months ago. Both of the men had long recoras, |two pleaded gullty to stealing two | Britain Theft, Find 30 More Days Awaiting Them Hartford Men Stayed in Jail Three Months and Now | Penalized for Stegling Hats in Waterbury. ‘Waterbury, Conn., Feb. 21 (®— | De Scri, known under several aliases, having heen arrested 14 times since 1919 for breaking and entering, {larceny, thefts, and vagrancy in | Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut. In 11 of the 14 cases he received jail sentences. Littlefield has a record of seven since 1920 in Connecticut, | Albany, N. Y., and Cleveland, Ohio. He has served two jail terms. He was married four months ago, just | before the Waterbury and New Brit- ain thefts for which he has received | jail terms. Went to Bathroom to Mix Medicine | s oo vt ENGEISHIAN [10SES port, sentora, veb. 21 wrsenry .| SWINdled by Conlidence Men in Sperry, vice-president and director | HOIIOllllll Hlllii ] of the First National bank, was 'HEADS found dead of asphyxiation in the bathroom of his home at 238 Whit- ney street, when relatives went to DRUG STORES {that room on arising this morning. | | | | Dr. Henry N. Costello, medical ex- | | aminer, reported the death as due to | accidental asphyxiation. Mr. 8perry, who was 52 years ol - suffercd & nervous breakdown in June and had been un_ble ‘o attend | to his work at the bank since that | time. Some time during last night |M. Thomas Necdham, wealthy own- Mr., Sperry, feeling ill, went to the er of a string of drug stores through- | bathroom to heat medicine in water, | |inquiry by the medical examiuer {showed. He turned on a gas burner | and then suddenly fainted. $140,000 February 16, by three men Pulled Out Tube |belteved to be members of an inter- While falling, it is believed he ' jational confidence ring. pulled out the tube and the escap- | 4 ing gas caused his asphyxiation be- | Needham arrived here January 18 fore he could recover from his spell. Iabourd the liner Malolo, the police He was unmarried and lived with jannounctment said. A man using his sister, Mrs. Helen 8. Scranton. Mr. Sperry had been in the bank- ', oo ing busincss 36 years. He has been > PIOERECH a bank vice-president for 12 years. | ¢ g 4 Canadian. He has served as sccretary and| o gequaintance ripened and the treasurer of the Hartford Clearing |qo spent much time together. One House assoclation and auditor of the | 1oy when thelr automobile broke Dime Savings bank. At the time of | jown ana they were waiting for it jhis death he was director of the {5 pe repaired, Plerce found a purse Hartford Courant, the Billings and |containing $300. | Spencer company, the Edward Balf | ghortly a man, who later gave his Huge Sum in Hotel by a Clever Flim-Flam Horse Racing Scheme of Three Men, ed police he was swindled out of He made Needham's introduced him- company, the Jewell Belting com-lciaimed the purse: offering Plerce a pany, the Hartford Chamber of rewgrd of $100. Plerce refused the Commerce and a trustee of the Me- |reward, according to the policesory. chanics Bavings bank, | The stranger, who said he had Rorn in Hartford dismissed as steward of the “Turf’ Mr. Sperry was also active in poll- |club, claimed he had access to bet- tics for a fime as representative of |ting commissions, and would wager the ninth ward in the common coun- the money on a horse race in Pierce's cil from 1906 to 1910 and in the name, board of aldermen from 1910 to| . Horse Won 1912 | The horse won; so did all the He had also been a director of the |other horses on which Grainvil sub- | Connecticut Humane Society. |scquently placed bets of from $200 | Mr. 8perry was born in Hartford, to $1,000 for both FRerce and Nced- !the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. 'ham, a Henry T. 8perry. His father was fll The trio then decided to place a o SR e i(lon banker and procured $140,000 in UPHOLDS CATHOLICISM ;i be placed. | The trio met In ’Pierce's hotel flN GIT'Z[NSH“I Ams [room. When the whole amount — ‘161!0,000 in cash—had been placed former owner of the Hartford Post. hig bet. Needham cabled his Lon- (vil explained the actual cash had to on & table, the telephone rang and Sk o [it was a summons for Necedham to |Bishop McAuliffe Says come o the lowy. He left the 1 . 9 ” £ e e » Church Te.ches Re_ He never saw the money again and the only time he saw Plerce when the hotel. | There is ng “Turf” club in Haw | There is no horse racing in Hawaii. Attended by approximately 150 i ire are no betting commissioners | persons, including the local Catholic |; "o “HE | clergy, the seventh annual banquet | N CHl " (o0 Liditing the island | and reception under auspices Of iy pig wife and his daughter, Miss | Bishop Tierney Assembly, Fourth (ive 'Necdham, | Degree, Knights of Columbus at the | Burritt hotel last night was one of [ the most successful and enjoyable | events ever staged by the organiza- |tion. For the past seven years, Bishop Tierney Assembly has .ob- . leaving the | | latter was i spect for Law Hcads Drug Chain Tondon, Feb. 21 (UP)—Chamber of Commerce officials said today they believed the Thomas Needham who lost -$140,000 to confidence men at {served the anniversary of the birth gonolulu was head of the Thomas |of George Washington, the affair Needham chain of drug stores. | this year having been moved ahead | The London branch of Needham's |two days because the exact date of |saiq that Needham had been tour- |the anniversary is Ash Wednesday. ing abroad for a year, and was a | the beginning of Lent. |frequent visitor at Monte Carlo. He Speakers of prominence in the re- 5 a member of the Pharmaceutical ligious and political life of the state |society. have addressed the gatherings, and | Honoluly, T. H, Feb. 21 (UP)—‘ out England and Ireland, had advis- ! the name of Bamuel Pierce, also was | company, the Fowler and Hunting | name as Grainvil, appeared and | 3 Plerce put up $60,000. Grain- | s |been appointed PUBLIC WORKS QUIZ COMMITTEE CHOSEN ; Councilman Warner Named ‘;Ghairman of Department Inquiry @wm) MAKES SELECTIONS | Whether City Funds Have Been Wasted and Material Diverted to Use of Private Citizens, Mayor Weld today appointed a {committee headed by Councilman Willlam §. Warner to conduct an |inquiry into the activities of public works department in response to a resolution passed by the com- !mon council on recommendation of | Councilman Samuel Sablotsky. The sponsor of the resolution was | named as a member of the investi- gating group as were also Alderman | David L. Nair, Councilman John A. |Larson and Alderman J. F. Maerz. Bascd on Kearney's Statements | The probe is predicated on alle- gations against Chairman R. E. | Towers and others made by Thomas F. Kearney after he had been drop- ’p(’d from the post of street superin- | tendent. He charged that men and | trucks had been kept on the pay- {roll wastefully and that materials | owned by the city had been diverted to private uses against the city's in- | terests. Under the Sablotsky resolution, the committee is given access to all !bookx and records of the public works departments and it was also | wish of the council that officials and | empioyes who are invited to attend ithe hearings and testify, do so. Free For All Discussion | Several members of the council| {who were not named to the com- ! mittee have signified their intention of attending the meetings and exer- cising the privilege of asking ques tions and otherwise taking part in the investigation. Members of the | committee only, may vote on what recommendations will be made to the council. Councilman W. G. Gibney, A. J. | Olson and L. S8amorajczyk compose |a committee to conduct a second in- vestigation into the department of | public works, their objective being to list streets in need of repair and | make an inventory of equipment | with which the department can do | its work, | A committee to draft resolutions on the death of George W. Traut has with Councilman | Donald L. Bartlett, Alderman Wil- liam H. Judd and Councilman Harry | T. Wilson as its members. Battey Up For Appointment. Appointment of Ralph Battey as | superintendent of strects will be con. | sidered by the board of public works at a meeting tonight, Battey having icomph‘(vd a trial period of two | weeks with reported satisfaction. Commissioner Thomas W. Crowe, who was opposed to elevating Bat- tey from a foremanship two weeks ago and who suggested the trial they! | specified in the motion that it is the | FATHER SAYS GIRL . WILL CONTINUE IN . NURSEMAID ROLE Bisabeth Terey of Midleown | | to Hold Position in Home of % Wealthy New Yorker LEPT TARRYTOWN SCHOOL " FOR A DESIRED “CHANGE” 1 ¢ | Girl is Overwrought According to Parvent’s Siatement But Desj | This He Says She is “of Age” and | Can Do What She Wants, | New York, Feb, 21 (P—Catherine | Elizabeth Tierney will continue to ! work as a nursemaid in the home of | Harry A. Lobsenz, dye i who engaged her soon after siic dis- |appeared from Marymount college at | Tarrytown, February 3, her father sald today. | Caliea from bis noms at Maate- |town, Conn., the girl's father, George Thomas Necdham, Millionaire, Lost ' Investigators Will Attempt to Learn A. Tierney, an insurance man, con- | |ferred with Lobsenz and talked over the telephone with his daughter at the Lobsenz home in Kew Gardens |L. I, before he announced she would |remain to care for two Lobsenz | children, . . Police Scarch The whereabouts of the girl, for whom police had been asked to scarch, was a mystery until last \aight when Lobsenz saw the girl's | picture in newspapers and read ac- icounts of her disappearance. He |communicated with relatives of the girl here and then telephoned to the girl's father. |~ Catherine left school because of a |“desire for a change,” Tierney de- clared. She is physically well, he 1said, but is® “naturally somewhat overwrought. | “She fa to stay on her present job {as long as she wishes,” Tierney said. “Then she can follow her own de- ires. She is of age.” | She had been missing since Feh- ruary 3, when she left the Mary- | mount college at Tarrytown, N. Y., | ostensibly to come to New York to | visit her grandmother, Mrs. Martin Rogers. A quiet search had been |carried on since then hy the girl's relatives, but the ald of Police was |cnlisted yesterday. Word of her | whereabouts came in a few hours, | Willlam Rogers, the girl's uncle, {who lives in this cily, received the {report from Mr. Lovsenz and called the girl's father at his office in Mer- iden, Conn. The father said he would come to New Yorw today to talk things over with his daughter and asked that word of her discovery be kept from her until his arrival. Her relatives in this city said they belicved sensitiveness over her age and size, she was described as 22 |years old and as five fect eight |inches tall, caused her toleave the school. She was in the freshman class there. | Loveenz sald the girl had been working in his home for three wecks. The position she held in his home was really that of a governess for his two children, he explained. Miss Tierney, after leaving the Ischool, informed officials there on the telephone from New York that _she was not returning, saying she |had the consent of her parents. She |had also called home and inquired | concerning her first term grades and |had been informed she had |in everything except chemistr; She {gave her parents no intimation at !the time that she did not intend to return to her studies, they said. !When she left the school she took lonly a few clothes and $100, some {of which she had borrowed from !fellow students. This has been re- paid by the father, | period has indicated he will not offer | T objection it Battey's name i m"TW“ BISHflPS AT BIER | posed for a permanent appointment. | | It Battey is promoted an increase fn { salary will probably be voted him. | During the period |acting supcrintendent, an increase from $36 to $60 a week was held in abeyance, last night the address was by Rt. | | Rev. Maurice Francis McAuliffe, | {D. D. Titular Bishop of Delco, | | auxiltary to the bishop of Hartford, | [and president of St. Thomas' sem- | inary, Hartford. Bishop McAuliffe, | in a well modulated tone, with "wi | gestures, and without appeal to the His Majesty was shown a five-tube | | passions of the gathering, gave a | scholarly discourse on the works, ; alms and achievements of the Cath- { olic church, lauding the Knights of Columbus for the ideals the organi- zation promulgates and practices, and asserting thaf the observance of | the requirements of the church and | obedience to her teachings must { make for good cltizenship, because | the church has ever been the bul- (Continued on Page 4) | SLIPS, BREAKS GLASS IN DOOR | " Tripping over the rubber mat in- | side the doorway of the Burritt hote! today, Carl Johnson of the City Na- {tional bank, plunged through a plate |glass door. smashing the glass and receiving a deep gash in his right hand. Mr. Johnson had just left a meet- ing of the Liens' club. He was en his way out through the main en- itrance. Instead of going through the revolving door he turned to the other doorway at the right, and trip- ped over the mat. He fell violent- Iy aeainat the plate glass door smashing the glass. falling through the door and knocking out all the |mass. Dr. David P. Waskowits |treated his injuries at the hetel. kS Around Its Neck to Keep Lariat Tosser From West to Rope Wildcat as Pal for Caged ‘Tabby’ /Bristol Hunters Arrange to Capture Mate With Loop Snarling Feline Company —Scorn Use of Guns and Substitute Lasso in (Special to the Herald) ol, I'eb. 21—The wildcat cap- tured about two weeks ago in a box {trap on the Quinion farm in the :"Hopphr" district by George H. | Quinton, Harlan B. Norton and Jo- seph Dunbar and turned over to Pierce & Norton, proprietors of Lake Compounce amusement resort, will not be lonesome in its new quarters, according to a statement made to- day by Mr. Quinion. A mate to the captured feline is to be procurcd |and this time a more unusual meth- lod than the. box arrangement is to be used. To get to the point without | lassoed. This decision was reached follow- ing the arrival in this city from a !large ranch near Dixon, N. D.. of Otis Quinion, twin brother to George | Quinion, who is returning here after 20 years absence. For the greater part of that period Mr. Quinion has worked on a ranch and has become preamble, the wild “tabby” is to be | | Expedition Into the “Ledges.” tproficient with the intricate handling of a lariat. It is on his skill that the hunting party, which will include beside the two Quinions, Joseph Dunbar. and Carl Mason, rely chiefly on placing the rope necktie on the | ‘lusive cat. Other members of the party will be properly armed to shoot the animal if it becomes too wild and obstreperous. | Numerous bobcats have been seen, particularly in the vicinity of the “Ledges” in the northwestern part of the city, where the hunters hope ,to effect the capture, e THE WEATHER New Britain and vicinity: Fair and continued cold to- night; Wednesday increasing cloudincss with rising tem- perature, | % * of his trial as - OFREY. 1L BODLEY | Heads of Episcopal Church in State Coming to Funeral Rt. Rev. C. B. Browstcr, bishop of the Episco diocese of Connceticut | and Rt. Rev Act n. bishop coadjutor of Connectic | Rev. Samuel Sutclift | Mark's Episcopal hurch, the | funeral services of Rev. I | Bodley, rector emeritus of St. | church, who died y 'ing at his home, street. Services will | tomorrow afternoon. Rev. Mr. Bodley, was Mark's church from 1845 until Feb- tuary, 1921, when he retired and be- came rector emeritus, Warders and vestrymen will act as . will assist rector of St. honorary bearers at the funeral. There will be no active bearers. Dur- {ing the services the church choir will ging “I heard the voice of say, ‘Come unto n and rest.”” It will also sing “T1 ife is o'er, the battle done, the victory of life is won Previous to the funcral services the body will lie in state at the | church from 12 o'clock noon until {2:30 o'clock. After the services the !remains will be taken to the funeral home of B. C. Porter Sons. They will be sent to Stamford Thursday morning for burial in Woodland |cemetery. Rev. Mr. Sutcliffe will |accompany the boay to Stamford and will conduct the committal serv- ices at the cemetery. 8 importer, | | d BRITAIN HERALD NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1928 —EIGHTEEN PAGES A MULE CARRIES Week Feb. 18th ... Daily Circulation Por 15,025 PRICE THREE CENTS THREE MEN 10 SAFETY AS GAS FUMES " G0 THROUGH COAL MINE e WOMAN FOUND ON ROAD BURNED ALIVE Discovered in Blazing Clothes by i Passing Moforist SUCCUNBED IN HOSPITAL| State Police Believe She Was Taken | (o Spot in Car, Saturated With | Gas and Clothes Ignited—No Clue | to Identity of Woman. | . 1., Feb. 21 UP—A large sedan automobile seen parked beside a roadside refreshment stand |was the only lead police held today | in their efforts to identify the woman found burning to death, her cloth- ing soaked with gasoline, late last night, near the Morristown Ber- nardsville highway. Joseph Murdock, the driver of the car in which Enow Campbell, a wealthy citizen of Bernardsville, was | riding when he discovered the body | hehind the road stand, told police | that at ten o'clock he had seen & Morristown, large, durk colored sedan car parked near the point where the body was found. Murdock was driving | towards Morristown at the time to| meet Mr. Campbell. | He said he saw no one in the |sedan and paid little attention to it. Two hours later, when the drove |with Mr. Campbell back along the same road to Bernardsville he passed |the same car a mile or more outside | |of Morristown. The sedan was pro- | cceding towards that place. | It was only a few minutes later that, attracted by the flames, Mur- dock brought the car to a stop and investigated the flames which re- vealed the blazing body of. the un-| dentified woman. The statement of | | Murdock strengthened the theory of the county prosecutor that the wom- an had been rendered unconscious before her clothing was soaked with | gasoline and set afire, After beating out the flames, he drove to Morristown. The woman did not recover con- | sciousness before she died at three | o'clock this morning. There were no identifying marks aside from trades man's label “Bedell of Paris” lin her hat and an other, “Louis of | Buffalo” on her dress. | Description of Victim ! She was Jescribed as being about 5 years old and of medium buila. Her hair was beginning to gray and !she wore tortoise shell rimmed eye- | Blgsses | t was impossible for the police ‘(o decide whether she set fire to (her own clothing. About 100 feet from the spot where Campbell found | her was a gasoline filling station. Two road houses, the Traveller's | Rest, and the Veterans' Inn, are | nearhy, but both are closed for the | winter. State Trooper Leon advanced the {theory that the woman had been brought to the ap®t in an automobile | her clothes saturated and met on fire. Gaeoline was then poured | about her feet to ad@ fuel to the | | flames. Campbell was accompanied by his | wife and a neighbor, James Mur- | dock. When they first saw the | flames they believed that one of the | roadside stands which dot the road | in the vicinity was on fire, | inguished Flames Whon they discoverd the woman, | they carried snow and extinguished | the flames. They placed her in the | rear seat of the car and started driving to Norristown at a high rate of speed over the slippery roads. 1n a few moments the woman's cloth- | ing again burst into flames and they | were forced to stop, lift her from the car and extinguish the fire with snow. Her legs and right side were badly burned, and her right hand and arm | | charred, xamination of bits of clothing | (Continued on Page Fifteen) NEARING AUSTRALIA | Bert Hinkler, English Aviator, is Liable to Win Bet From Lloyds On 19-Day Flight. Bima, Sumbawa, Feb. 21 (#»—DBert Hinkler, British flyer, arrived here at 3:25 p. m. today from Bandong, tJava, | .| RBandong, Java, Feb. 21 (®—RBert | Hinkler, British fiyer, en route to Australia, left here today for Bima, Sunbawa, some 8§50 miles away. If the weather is favorable he will at- {tempt to fly the 1,000 miles from | Bima to Port Darwin, Australla, to- morrow thus completing his flight trom Croydon, England in 15 days. London, Feb. 21 UP—If Bert | Hinkler, who expects to reach Aus- | tralia tomorrow completing his flight !from England in 15 days, arrives | there within 18 days he gets 1.024 pounds ($5.120) from Lloyds. For | that &um he insured himself to ac- | complish the flight under 19 days at |a premium of 150 pounds ($760). Cairo, Egypt, Feb. 21 M—Charles | Bleck, Portuguese aviator flying to !India from Lisbon, hopped off this morning from Bagdad, Irsk. * Heroic Efforts of Ani- mal Unguided by Hu- man Hands Brings Mine Car to Fresh Air; Collapses and Dies. Six Miners Known to Be Dead and Seven Are Trapped When Ex- plosion Occurs in Kin- lock Company’s Plant. Pittsburgh, Feb. 21 (#—The known death toll, as a consequence of a double accident in the Kinlock mine of the Valley Camp Coal come pany, today mounted to six, with seven other miners unaccounted for. Four of the bodies were found in the main workings, where a disas- trous explosion occurred last night. Two others were located in an iso- | lated section of the mine where five miners, uninformed of the blast, went to work this morning and were overcome by gas. Three of the fi made unconscious, were brought te the surface by a mine mule which pulled out the car on which the vie- tims were lying. The “brick yard” mine of the Kinlock workings had a crew of only five men. These five, not having, learned of the explosion went im this morning. G. N. Beck and Louis Venzel were inside about a mile and & half when overcome by gas. Tom Justham, €3, a miner of 4¢ years experience, accompanied Bert Black and John Beck en route te work. Justham sald they had pro- @ecded about a mile when he felt faint and knew something was wrong. He was driving the mule hauling the mine car. As he turned to leave ,he noticed that Black and Beck had collapsed from the gas, He loaded them on the car and started out. At a curve the car tipped and dumped the three m Rights Cse . Justham righted the- ‘car and placed the two victims back uson it. He collapsed as he crawled in and the mule, without a driver, started for the surface. The anie mal was barely able to reach fresh alr and as the mine car with the three unconscious men came out.of the mine mouth the mule dropped. A rescue crew was summoned to search for Beck and Venzel and the three were rdshed to a hospil The air in the main workings continued foul and the rescuers worked in masks. Crews, from the United States bureau of mines sta- tion here, from adjoining mines and from the Valley camp workings near Morgantown, W. Va., were pressing forward in an effort to lo- cate the eight men. They discove ered two bodics but made no effort to bring them out, pushing into the depths in the hope that they could rescue some of the others alive, Bodies Mutilated This was reported by J. 8. Brysom, (Continued on Page Fifteen) MAN EXONERATED OF DEATH ON SHIPBOARD New London Coroner Says New York Woman Died of Pneumonia New London, Feb. 21 (#—An au- topsy performed this afterncon upon the body of Rose Woods, 31, of New York which was found late yes- terday in a bunk aboard the barge Blue Smoke of the James McWil- liam line of New York at anchor im the harbor, established lobar pneu- monia as the cause of death. The autopsy was performed by Medical Examiner Dr. Charles Kaufman, who, upon its completion, notified !the police that he was no longer in- terested in the detention. of Capt. ! Charles Betz, master of the barge, | who was arrested followirg the find- ing of the body. Betz was locked up overnight in default of bords of $1,000 and was held under a techni- ical charge of being a material wit- ness in a coroner's case. The local police refused to dis- charge the man after recciving the | opinion of the medical examiner, |but held him to permit Prosecuting | Attorney Daniel M. Cronin to in- | vestigate the facts of the case in an | effort to determine if the man could be prosccuted for neglect in fail- ing to obtain medical treatment for |the woman. Betz admitted that the woman had been i1l since last Tues- |day and unconscious from Sundav until yesterday afternoon when she died but he was unabie to give any reason for his failure to obtain treatment for her. The barge put into this port Friday to escape heayy weather outside. Dr. Kaufman staf- ed this afternoon that the autopsy almo revealed that the woman was addicted to the usc of morphine. Betz said that he met the woma® In & New Haven restaurant last De- cember and that she had been with him on the barge ever mince. W@ sald that he was not married to hee. . -