New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 19, 1928, Page 9

HOPPE T0 RETURN TO VERMONT TODAY Rather Serve Time There Than Stand Trial Here Hartford, April 16 (UP)—Four states’ claims on Stephen Hoppe, termed the most versatile bandit in @ generation, were settled today. lloppe’s attorney, Cornelius A. Moylan, told the United Press that | Hoppe would have e ition and | teturn to Vermont to fight a churge | of juil breaking. ! Dug Way Out Virmont authorities charge Hoppe dug his way out of the state prison at Windsor in 1826 with a table fork ‘nd a piece of his cot. 1le had com- pleted less than a year of a 15-year | fentence imposed for attac Proctorsville, Vi., storekeeps « sledgehammer in an attempted | holdup. | The bandit will return to Vermont | at 11:05 today in the custody of | £herift Fairbanks and Prosccutor | Uwitchell of Vermont, { Before leaving Hoppe said, “I'm elad to leave this place. 1'd rather serve time in Vermont than remam Jor trial herc.” It was reported | 5 Hovpe was dis- liked among his fellow prisoners here | bocause of his “superiority comples Lawyer Goes Too Moylan d he would return with Hoppe to fight the churg Frank | Mickey, former clerk in the grocery | store where Hoppe masked as| “George I*. Bersig” by day while ply- ing a robbers’ trade by night, has declared he will go with Hoppe to Vermont to help as he may. The other associats ef Hoppo's | Jekvl-Hyde existence here last year -—Helen Mayberry, who lived as Grocer Bersig's wife—has left for Frovidence, R. T, after disclosing to police the full story of Hoppe' double life. Connecticut the prisoner because unimportance of the charges they | have placed against hin. Ilopp was arrested at Hartford on Febru and held on a charge of pos- scssion of burglars’ tools. The night Lefore he had robbed tie Palace theater at Norwich, police said. Shot In Lung Resisting arrest, Hoppo was shot through the right lung and for a time it was thought he would die. | 110 recovered to fuce court on March He bound over in $25,000 honds for the June term of superior conrt. While Hoppe was under guard at | a hospital here, Helen Mayberry told story—a story that rivals that of Chapman, famed ‘“super- who died ,on Connecticut authorities released of the relative ary 2 vas of banditrics that led through Massachusetts ended in Feb ruary 1925 in Mair Hoppe w sentenced to 14 vears in state pris- on for burglarics at Norridgewock &nd Anson. Three months later he escaped through a ventilator with the aid of a clothesline and assisted two prigon mates to flee with him. His features being then wells known to police, Hoppe went to New York whe a plastic surgeon re- modeled his nose, chin and ears. Vermont crime followed, and e pe. Interrupting a burglary at Qunivy, Mass., last October, Patrolman Al- fred N, Hollis was shot and Killed. b chusetts authorities have ht Hoppe as the slayer. | | | | | BIRGER HANGED IN PRESENCE OF 300 | (Continued From First Page) | thut Birger forgave all who had par- | ticipated in his prosecution. ! Throughout his last night, Birgor} refused to sleep but sat up talking with county officials, jailers and | | onnaise will ever “do.” I il | ed to mark the fulfillment of State's | while they | warfare { wifs | He said | Carl Shelton, having bet $500 that | this afternoon, shifting to westerly | gales early tonight and northwest on | awer nuy lette from the Mississippi to the Atlantic and from the border to the Mason-Dix- on line—eat Ivanhoe ev- ery day. Why? Because oncetasted, noother may- newspapermen. At 2:30 a. m., he called for a glass of lemonade. Pre- viously he had been shaved and given a haircut at his own request. He was supplied with a new fresh- Iy pressed blue serge suit for the | hanging. I ‘With his death less than an hour away, Birger sat in his cell, joking lightly with relatives and friends. | An undertaker's hearse with a morgue slab for Birger's body lying on the ground by its side, was park- ed outside the stockade. His nephew, Nathan Birger, said the body would be taken to St. Louis for burial. Birger was the last man to die in TNinois on the gallows. The state has passcd a law by which execy- tions will be performed in the elec- tric chair in the future. Gangs Broken Up. The hanging of Birger was cxpect- Attorncy Martin's statement toward the closc of his trial: “These convictions mican the re- turn of supremacy of the law in southern Illinois. The gangs have been broken up and many of their members arc dead or In prison, The Shelton gang, which vied with the Birgers in dominating the coal fleld by machine guns and bombs | carried on their cam- paign of bootlegging, robbery and extortion, hus also been dissipated. The Shelton brothers themselves, Cuarl, Earl and Bernie, after evading ntence of 25 years in prison for bank robbery by obtaining a reverse al of their conviction, are near t prison. They were convicted on an- other bank robbery charge and are out on heavy bail pending a new trial. Pie in Warfare, any of their henchmen a: s followers died d Bir- in the deadly between the two gangs. Some were killed when the Sheltons riddled “Shady Rest” with machine gun bullets and set jt afire. One by one, other members of both gangs were “taken for a ride” or shot dead n the street, Art Newman and Ray Hyland, Birger's right hand men, are serving life terms for the Adams murder, 8o is Harry Thomassin, one of the actual slayers His brother Elmo, another of the slay- Killod in the burning of | Rest,” | of the miost atrocious crimes | attributed (o the Birger gang was the murder of Lory Price, highway patrolman, and his w Newman, who confessed to witnessing the murders, named Birger as one of the slay Price’s hody was found buried under a pile of brush with machine gun bullets in it. His | '8 body was dumped in an aban- doned mine. 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