New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 10, 1928, Page 11

POLICENAN SHOOTS TOSCARE FUGIVE Suspicions Coaracter Yanishes Into Darkness at 1:30 2. m. At 1:30 o'clock this morning, Of- ficer Thomas Blanchettc saw a man drop a bicycle and run through a vard at the corner of Stanley and Pleasant strects. Giving chase, the ofMcer commanded the man to stop | and when he did not obey, the of-| ficer fired a shot in the air. Still the | man continued to run and the ofli- cer could not overtake him. Accom- panied by Sergeant Feeney, Officer Blanchette searched the vyards in the neighborhood but could not find any trace of the tellow. He appear- | ed to be about 5 feet, 11 inches in | height, and was wearing a gray coat | and e soft hat. | Officer Edward Carroll was stand- ing in front of the nurses’ home on Hawkins street at 2:15 o'clock this morning when a man walking west on Hart street started towards him and made a move as if to draw & pistol from his pocket. The officer ordered him to halt but the man wheeled about and made a dash into a yard at 63 Hart street. Hav- ing considerable start he eluded the officer and a scarch of the yards in and about Hart street by Sergeant Yeeney, Officers Carroll and Doty was fruitless. The man was bare headed and appeared to be about 5 feet, 9 inches in height, with Lushy hair, and was wearing & brown shirt and khaki trousers, At 11 o'clock, Officer Willlam J. McCarthy was on East Main street and saw Angelo Paladino of 105 awlor street peering around the corner at Wilson strect. The officer met him a mongnt or two later and asked him why he waa in the nelghborhood. Paladino first said he lived on Elm street but then save his correct address and said he was taking a walk. On Wilson street, two other yoing men were apparently waiting for Paladino, | and after they had walked through | several streets, the officer, accom- panied by Paladino, met them com. ing from Newington avenue, on Tiast strect. The officer searched them but found no reason to arrest | them. They said they were Frank Buchlere of 96 Winter street and | Albert Bankie of 126 Oak strect and had been walking about with Paladino. | VALUABLE PAPERS AID T0 FORGERS Enable Them fo Better lmitatei Hundwriting s | New York, May 10 UP—The busi- ness man may find his desk a con- venlent place to keep check books, bank books, bank statements and cancelled voucheys, but these who know say the convenience is appre- clated equally by the modern pro- fessional forger. The forger may appreciate the cenvenience even more than the business man, for it provides an opportunity to obtain the neceesi- tles for forgery. Ferdinand 8. Glllesple, aasistant auperintendent of claims for the United States Fidelity and Guar- anty company, Wwho spends much of his time investigating ‘“mysteri- ous” forgery cases in the financial | district, tells The Associated Preas that the “mystery’ would cease to | maystify if business men only would keep cance'led vouchers, bank books and statements and check hooks in the safe instead of in desk drawers. “If they’'d do that” Glllespie ex- plained, “The professional forgers wouldn’t find it so easy to operate. 1 know of cases where one member of o band of forgers entered an of- fice, ostensibly on business. An- other of the gang called on the tel- eaphone or used some oOther means te draw the buainess man away from his desk. While he was out of the office the caller took what he came for—a cancelled check, & | bank statement or maybe only a letter, anything having en it the business man's signature. A few days later the businesa man was | infermed by his bank that his ac- count had been overdrawn—and there's another ‘mystery.’” Organized banda arve said to erh- ploy this method with considerable anccess, obtaining thousands of dollars and leaving a city before bank records can indicate a dis- erepancy. ! Equally efficient was the method employed by anether gang which some time ago got Jjobs for its members with the staff of an effice building near Wall street. They ebtained from virtually every effice complete sets of checka bank statements, rignatures and other needed material and information. Piece by piece they placed the leot in envelopes addressed to their headquarters and mailed them through the bullding's letter chute. No suspiejons were aroused “vhen cashiers of banks were requested in notes on the letter-heads of rep- utable firms and ostensibly signed by prominent business men to ‘“ce tify checks presented by bearer,” |, nor were clerks of suburban banks auspicious when accounts were opened by strangera depositing cer- tified checks. Everything was done in such a normal, business-like way that the gang cleaned up thousands of dollars and was safely out of the city before the occupants of the’ varfous offices hegan to find out they had a common bond of sympa- thy—mutual financial losses run- ning into thousands of dollars, Clergyman Not Satisfied With Bridegrooms’ Ways London, England, May 10 UP— Tie vicar of 8t. Phillip's church is not altogether satisfied with the de- portment and responses of bride- grooms in his Battersea district. ' Tn his magarine he gives the fol. | lowing tips to prospective bride- 'POLICE BAFFLED | cause Kephart's groom: “Don’t rush at the blushing bride when she joins you at the chancel steps and shake hands with her. One bridegroom did this at a recent wed- ding and exclaimed '‘Ow are yer, mate.’ “When the priest tells you to say atter him ‘God's Holy Ordinance,’ den't say ‘God's Holy dience.’ Some of the audiences we have seen at recent weddings here could never by any stretch of imaginatior be|cense plate, called holy. Kephart 18 widely known for his “It is always best to refrain from | sclentific work. Last year he and R. drinking anything stronger than tea | L. Piemeisel, physiologist, of the before the ceremony. The smell of | agriculture department, went on an alcoho! 18 rather objectionable and | cxploration trip for the government especially in church. ‘| to Mount Kenya, British East Africa, “When the clergyman asks you to whgre they eombed the only snow- say ‘troth,’ please don't say ‘trough.' covered spot on the equator for The former means faith, fidelity, | plants adaptable for forage purposes truth; the latter anything hollowed | in the United States. and open longitudinally on the up- | HANDLING OF NEWS o T gk SEVERELY SRED {Publisher Himsell Critic Search for Youth Who Is Alleged | Modern Methods " Respomsible | TE— : fiol[umbu. S'(o.. May 10 (A—Three ndictments of American Washington, May 10 UP—Wash- | _sensational treatment 'fi‘r"“é‘,'.'.’""é ington and Maryland police ‘were |news, unwholesome scandal and the cooperating in a widespread search |unlimited handling of pending crim- today for a youth believed to have |inal cames—appear to Stuart H. Pe heen reaponsible for an attack last|ry, publisher of the Adrian, Mich., night on Leonard W. Kephart, de- |Telegram, as having the most justi- partment of agriculture acientist, and | fication among all the criticisms of an attempt to abduct E. Percival Wilson, bank official, |tor of the Associated Press, was here Kephart, left unconscious and |today for a journalism week address stripped of most of his clothing |at the University of Missouri. after the attack, turned up later for | In an analysis of criticisms the treatment in Soldiers’ Home hospital | Michigan publisher spoke of “the angd this morning was taken to his | degrading moral effect caused by home in nearby Takona Park, Md. |printing unwholesome details of Wilson frustrated his captor's ef. | crime, divorces, scandals and sex forts, whatever they may have been, | stories, the crime-producing effect of by attacking him and gajning pos. | sensational publicity in criminal session of his pistol after the man |casts and the direct interferen had driven him a mile away from | with the administration of justice the rear of his home in nearby Chevy |through unbridled treatment Chase, Md. ilson is seeretary of crime stories.” These things, he said, the National Savings and Trust com. | “Are matters which so strongly in- pal of this eity. vite positive regulation as to ch: Police Delieve the same man was | 1°nge our most thoughtful consider- responsible for both the attack and |ation.” tne strange holdup of Wilson be- | Disapproving a general censorship, automobile was Mr. Perry said the possibility used to spirit the bank official away, curbing by law “the excess of yel- Thought Killed {low jornalism” should not he re Tt was first thought that Kep- hart, an agrenomiat in clover in- 10 be opposed. vestigations, possibly had been killed, | Newspapers, he as a second pisiol, with one car- | Welcome and cooperate in tridge explodcd, was found in the | ¢ffort to abolish trial by newspaper, antomobile used by Wilson's abduc- | ® Feform that is feasible and indis- tor after the bank official seized an- | Putably for the public benefit.” other from the man, | R R Kephart was on his way to the de- | Moses Taylor Now Is _partment of agriculture to do some | work on a scientific paper last night. He told police that while driving through Roldicrs’ Home grounds he was stopped by a man who ap- peared to be aick. Asking him what he wanted, the man pulled some- thing from his pocket and stryck | Kephart over the head, rendering bim unconacious. Regaining consclousness, the | " Sclentist found his trousers and shees gone and a severe cut on his head, His automobile also had been taken. He managed to walk to the Soldiers’ | Home hespital nearby and had his | wound dressed, and then returned | home. All this infermation came to the police atter Wilson had reported his experience to. them. The banker said he was about te leave his gar- age about 10:30 o'clock last night ' when & man, about 25 years old, pressed a piastol in his ribs and er- dered him to get in his car. | They drove about Connecticut avenue Chase lake, during which, Wilson ties, screamed for help, attacked the man and wrenched the pistol and a holster away from him. The man ran down the road and jumped on the running board of an automobile traveling toward Washington, Wil- son later met two Montgomery | county, Maryland, ofticers, told them his story and gave them the pistol he had seized. The ownership of the car was traced to Kephart through the N- i Cherbough, France, May 10 (P { After summoning a physician causing international complications, s bound for New was not known here. {way and Publie Utility corporations vas ill aboard moned & Dr. Hearn by wireless from Tondon. Dr. Hearn arrived | boarded the yacht. {orities tmmediately threatened | arrest him for landing on French They the cause he had no passport. also scnt officials to confiscate plane, but it had flown back ! England before they arrived. & mile down | “yn the meantime, Dr. Py {and his patient started for home sald, he’ was forced to kneel doWn | .poard the Olymple. Later the Yo- In the ecar. 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