New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 16, 1928, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 10 USE DIVER TO -~ RECOVER BODIES DROWNED IN LAKE Have Not Yet Definitely Estab- lished Location of Boat Which Sank Monday ONE BODY PULLED T0 TEN FEET OF SURFACE Grappling Hooks Lose Object and Rough Water Prevents Further Attempts to Locate It—16 Men Out Today to Hunt for Brockton Citizens Trapped in “Mac.” Motorboat | Rockwood. Me., May 16 (UP) —The first body to be recovered in connection with the sinking of the motorboat “Mac” was taken from Mooschead Lake carly this afternoon. The body was identified as that of Dr. David Bridgwood, 33, one of the nine Brockton, Mass,, men who perished with their guide in the boat wreck Sunday night, No trace of the sunken lying in water, had belicved feet of motorboat. nearly 100 been found. Itockwood, Me., May 16 (UP) — A diver probably will be used to yecover the bodies of nine Brock- ton, Mass, men and their Maine suide, who were drowned lite Sun- day when the motogboat “Mac” soundered in Moosehead lake, Frank MacKenzie, proprietor of | the West Outlet Camps, said Lod.w[ that he expected 10 employ the services of @ diver as soan as the yosition of the sunken craft had been definitely established. ¥ail to Find Boat Once during yesterday's dragging | operations searchers believed the: Jad located the wrecked boat, but luter it appeared that the hooks had merely caught on some other sub- | merged object. | Again, during the search. an ob- | Ject believed to be a body, was | Jinuled to within 10 feet of the sur- tace about 200 yards off shore. Ma Kenzie expressed the bellef that this was the body of Dr. Arthur F. P’eterson, who sank o his death while trying to swim ashore with | Police Captain James E. Lays, the only survivor. The body, i that was what the object was, was lost from the srappling hooks as it neared the irface, and rough waters prevented W attempts to recover it. Diver Volunteers Walter McLaren, former diver apd member of the Brockton fire department, has volunteered to come {ers and dive for the hodies, but MacKenzie sald the diver would not be chosen until the boat had been located, Sixteen men In three 1d seven canoes went out on the iake this morning and resumed dragging. There was a stiff breeze wnd the water was rough, indicat- ing that' dragging operations might be confined to the larger lake hoats later in the day. Six men, under direction of Head | Game Warden George Stobie, came here trom Waterville today to join in the search. More volunteers were | vxpected before noon. Reports that a film of oil on the | lake was belleved to mark the spot | where the “Mac” went down were | discounted by MacKenzie. He stated | that such an ofl film was seen on the lake Monday, the day after the accident, but that it was thought 10 have come from a passing motor- boat. DEATH OF MRS. MARY RAND —_— Resident of Curtis Street and Widow | of Lieut. Rand Dies After Long ' navy | motorboats Tliness at General Hospital. Mrs. Mary Stanley Rand, 22 Curtis street, widow of the late Licut. Ray- mond Richard Rand, died this morning at the New Britain General hospital after a long illness. Mrs. Rand was 50 years old and was a native of this city. She is survived | 1y her mother, Mrs, Mary Stanley Prior, two daughters, Misses Kath- «erine Stanley Rand and Mary Eliza- beth Rand, and two brothers, Ed- ard H. Prior and Stanley M. Prior. Funeral services will be held at her Jiome 22 Curtis street, Friday after- 100n at 2 o'clock. Rev. Dr. George W. C. Hill will officiate, Burial will be In Fairview cemetery. Truck Breaks Boy’s Leg J On West Main Street Roland Cody, aged 6, of 425 West Main street, suffered a fracture of the right leg when he was run down by a Union Mfg. Co. ene-ton truck on Wgst Main strect last evening. He was taken to New Britain Gen- eral hospital. Sergeant M. J. Flynn learned that the truck, driven by Walter Howard Willoughby of 253 Market street, was geing cast on West Main street and siopped to allow a piece of fire npparatus to pass at Lincoln street. A trolley car was going west and | hud just started after having stop- | ped. The boy ran across behind the | trolley car and the truck driver did not have time to stop before run- ning him down. The boy's mother was nearby and according to Wll-i | loughby's statement to the mergeant, she saild the driver did all in his power to avold the accident. ‘Ll 'May | State | were nominated. ‘than |and the Mellon statement, Eight Year Old Boy Locked in Box Car Chicago, May 16 (P—Eight year old John Pyrek wus lieved riding in a locked box car somewhere on the North- eastern Railroad Company lines today. Hundreds of railroad employes under orders from the company offices here were check- ing cars throughout the system in an effort to find him Two boys with whom was playing in a_ lumber Monday night said a man dre as an engineer or fireman pushed the boy into a hox car, closed the door and then jumped to the cab of an engine which pull the string of empties from yard. The emptics later were dispatched to several destina- tions, making tracing difficult, l Made Queen of May ] ———————— be- John (u\hlm K NEW BRITAIN STUDENT NORMAL SCHOOL QUEEN Exercises State Institution This Afternoon Miss Elizabeth danghter o Mr, Comstock of Maple Hill, has heen selected as the queen of May by her fellow school mates and she will assume that honor at the fos- tlvities of the day which are to tuke place this afternoon at 4 o'clocl Miss Comstock is fall, with hair and blue ¢ She wi uated from New Britain High school i K and is to be one of this year's gradvating class at Normal school. Several weeks ago the students at the school voted and fhres gir On a s Miss Comstock received the two other gir whom was from Meriden other from Martford. RORABACK STILL I Morley and Mrs. George more one of and the votes IN FAVOR OF COOLIDGE | ees No Reason to Change | Belief He Will Be Nominated Hartford, May 16 (# Roraback, chairman of th can state central committee tional commitieeman from Connec- ticut, sees no reason for changing his opinion that Calvin Coolidge will be tue choice of the republican conven tion at Kansas City next month for c;\udld:\(e for the presidency. The only thing likely to change 1h~> attitude of the Connecticut dele- gation to the national convention with reference to the nomination ot | President Coolidge would be a | definite statement from the president that he would not accept the nom- ination, even if tendered by the con- vention. This is apparent by the statement of Mr. Rorabac today that nothing has happened to cause him to change his mind relative to his expressed opinion that Coolidge would be the nominee. Mr. Roraback could not see that he recent utterances of Secretary Mellon would in any way change the ituation, at least so far as his own opinion {8 concerned that Coolidge would be named at the convention, repubii- and n thing, would confirm his judegment in that respect. Host in Parked Auto Shoots Off Annoyers Horan Hadigan, also known as “Johnny Horn,” fired a shot from a revolver in the air to frighten a group of young men in Willow Brook park about 9:30 o'clock last night, according to a report by Supernumerary Officer Cyrus Schoonmaker, park policeman. The officer heard the shot and on investigating found that Hadi- gan and a young woman were in an automobile and the former said the young men had come near the car and he did not want them about. Recently, he said he was driving through the park when two young men stood in his path and raised their hands as though to stop him, but he continued on and they jumped out of the way. Held at Comatock, | the ! nd ballot | Henry ! if any- | "V BRITAIN HERALD NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 1928.—EIGH' GLENNA COLLETT |Bristol Has Nine Smallpox Cases; FLIMINATEDFROM | Man Is Removed From Factory; THE BRITISH OPEN Two Patients at General Hospital Hands Numb With Gold Ameri-; ~can Girl Losts in Driving Rain Storm Employe of New Departure Mfg. Co. Found at Bench Afflicted With Disease — Plainville Woman and Bristol Girl, Recently Operated On, Diagnosed —Cost to the City Thus Far $3,178. (Spectal to th Sroet Bristol, May 16—The of smallpox was discove ed in this city today by Dr. B. B. Robbins, €ity |the 1iart SUCH A ROTTEN GAME” | iricirwia™she Shors Bitisy e bench at the New Departure Mfe. Co. this morning when Dr. English | visited the plant. to the that major eperation is being she underwent a s ago. She nurse from ion hospital, was also discov- ol hospital, the 14- r of Poter Burns of showing marked evi She was also n for appendi- citi < to the fsolation ar quarams | Hospl effected during the | ud two chil- i a few ired by a | | Robbins | 3 He was removed |, {to the isolation hospital immediately |and his home placed u ltine. He has a wife | dren, A second c o [¢d today by Tournament ‘ Y Inability to Cope With s Weather at Her Defeat by Spring its Worst | Mabel at the showed th ity up to the pr maintanance of the city | to- —Dorothy Hurd is Only @ was also investigat- the health officer and | a1 cost ta t a result a young hoy was exclud- Fie e from school as a suspect. He |igolation hospital and the ity elinic| will be keot under observation, it $3,178.88. Of this amount $1 Two Cases At Hospital s paid to Dr. Robbins for vacel- | Two cases were definitely di An ¢ int will be =4 as smallpox Tuesday by Dr, carrled on the books and th ) Drs. Millard Knowlton and covered later f the state hoard of By 4 hatla] e Alat i DR L ha Mristol hodpltal, a b | eniE aRuropHiation Sy Griswold of Plainville, Plainville vas mentioned as suspicions (Speci s Herald, has been isolat- that institution, two room aving been placed under rigid arantine because of the in: 10 move the patient at this time 5. Woman in Hunstanton, Eng., May 16.— Miss Dorothy Campbell Philadelphia, won her y xth round of the tish Women's Golf champion- p by defeating Mies Doris imbe former British 6 up and 5 to pl anton, Lng., May 15 to cope with English ather at its worst and the ss of Mabei Wragg, little Yorkshire woman, today re- moved Glenna Collett from t Lritish golf championship in the fourth round. The America girl's ambition to take the trophy to the | United States for the first time was | shattered when she lost 3 up ana 2! to play in a match in which shel never was on her game. Great Upset l Miss Collett’s defeat, one of the ' srcatest upsets of British golf, was | due in part to the weather condi- o i luied i iy and | ain Foreign Visitor Crash, Mrs. Kanopka Sues say that the English girl adjusted | ot e yrotne condi- [DENTITY NOT YET KNOWN THREE $10,000 SUITS FILED tions better than the American play- | But Youngster From Denmark Will e | | | | city ense will b health Home Quarantined May 16 — Although | is no smallpox within the lim- Plainville, Mrs. Ernest R. G ity | —_— due (Continued on Pag: ampion, Plainville, ther ability pring 5ot steadi- determined | 15) DANISH YOUTH T0 WIFE VS, HUSBAND BE VISITOR HERE IN§10 000 ACTION . | e eican ene e might | Weathiered the storm and won | had been able to sink some| e One of Group Visiting U. K., Against New Britain 1 —Man [of her puits early in the match, But | i | [ her hands were numb with cold, the| While American Boys are Spend- | Who Fell Tnto Elevator Well Sucs or grip wet und slippery and her on ihe outward holes con- o Tier later defeat. i torm also swept Miss Eliz- | s, Clinton, Towa, and . Stewart Hanley, Detroit, ot of | the championship, leaving Miss Dor: sthy Camphell Hurd, of Philadelphia [but horn in Britain, as the lone I American challenger, | Loses On 16th Green | Miss Collett’s defeat came on the Gth green whe knocked out Mrs, Bristol Nurse Plaintiff in Action | v ing Summer Over There, Building Owners, New Britain will be host to Danish youth this sumancr whi cight of her own sons are Visiting | jysband, { Scandinavia as a part of the Pro- [ipough Attorney Cornelius J. Don- gram of Sven V. Kundsen, noted ox- | her, o Moriden, The complaint plorer and internationalist, for the that on May 15, 1927 at ahout promotion of world peace by the |y.'sz iy tha evoning the plaintiff was interchange of picked boys from the | \' locconeir and guest of the de. various nations. The young Dane |y s car and when thew will be the guest of Eagle Scout )1 fhet eouth DF Tin. 1o so decisively | Goodwin Loomis, who last year was AT s L mple Dobell | ona of the voyagers on Dr. K Chahiss Giem i ehit vesterday, After being three down {sen's first good will pilgrim: Kaxgo h Al dariBRaly. and ¢ the 11th the American had stead- | ponmark, and bis parents, Mr. and | s * " Elent i i e | fcd to win the 12th and halve three | Mrs. George L. Loomis of 77 Grove | ety SR ende Jioles running. Hope ran high | Hil, A = e et e ,and went onto the tracks of vet pull herself together and climb Connecticut Company, where it {out of the hole she had dug for her- St eaniet ol fvio. sclf. Then to their dismay she stood | inark, where they were reccived into | 1°M1¥ With an elcetrie car coming on the 16th tee, high on a ridge f the homes of the people, and this | TOM the opposite dircction |z the sea from which the harsh | coar 400 hoys from the United States | It is ’“f”‘f‘r ‘!A‘“;“_" _“M} the NI—‘ Iwind swept, took a mm.x club for|iill spend two months in Scandi- | 1Slon was caused by careless and | the shot fo reen yards | navia. It was the wish of the par- [wedless driving, in that the defend- away, and half smothered her ball. | unts of the boys who made the trip 1t dit not have the eur under con- I\h\s Wragg seized the unexpected | jast year that they might entertain 70l did not make proper use of the opportunity. She laid a perfect shot |4 group of Danish lads in return, Drakes, was traveling at an excessive six yards to the left of the pin. After |yt Dr. Knudsen had to overcome 'te of speed, and failed to keep a that only a golfing miracle could | “fearful ohstacles” to accomplish P'roper lookout for approaching ma- save Glenna and she was not per-|thjs, Danish parents, with their old Chines or trolleys, | forming miracles today. She sent a!iworld minds, were rcluctant to allow A8 a result of the ! mashie niblick to the green and Put-| their sons to come to this country, PLUDLL received severs muscle in- ted past the hole. Miss Wragg laid | ynq 1 only with great persuas- Jurics of the neck. torn ligaments| her approuch putt dead and Glenna | gy that the explorer was able to of the left shoulder, bruises, wounds jran across the green with both | ugom them to such an idea. Final- 2nd contusions about the whole | hand outstretched in congratula { tion, t was brought today anopkia against Pauline ¥ her Joneslaw Kanopka, | ski ment Abroad Last Year s Last summer 101 American bo including Scout Loomis, visited Den- accident, the (Continued on Page Three) H (Continued on Page 15) he American seemed to welcome relief from the agony of pla ing under such conditions. The little gallery ‘which had strugeled through the storm with the players American People Do Not Pay i e s il Attention to National Duties, could be played in such weather and ! never before had attempted it, s for Tennessee Democrat Declaresl the Enelish girl %ho had beaten the Sl e Rep. Hull Says Republican Administration Marks “E treme Political and Moral Dehasement and a Hopeless Decline of Official Standards”— | to greet her as she stepped off the #reen. Miss Curtis and the other Americans actually wept over the defeat of their star. Glenna's eyes dimmed too, but with dissatisfaction t her unsuccessful attempts to con- trol the ball rather than at losing | er chance championship. . 3 e ‘”“U--;:u:::?“‘( ul("‘ H Washington, May 16 (® — D weigh campaign promises in the | : : o ] he res cpubli- When told that she had put up a!cussing the political issues of 192§ |j‘|‘.:ta~:‘|"l Hl.‘m-mvc’ir(rilc o'r’_llrl:‘eflr !]" :”n]»} b ‘m'“x(hln most I in @ radio address, Representat past, and contended that the demo- | conditions, she replied ordell Hull, who is Tennes ASk, and contendes ; | “Like fun, T did. 1 never played | COTf i Ll Cei|crats are without an issue that s golf in my lif didate for the demociatic presi-| ;19" have o convincing appeal to sishoder gusdmy e dential nomination, declared tk the public. | “the end of eight years of republi- g BTG can leadership and rulc finds the e o e g iy American people less attent 1o thus: governmental duties and tasks than | “wpye g,c010nt forces of corruption at any time in the nation’s history.’ and governmental favoritism tender “Extreme political and moral de-' yupgeraty such acute individual fs- basement and a -hopeless decline of | 00 4y aqdition as the following: official standards are the distin- | corruption in politics ana in gov- guishing characteristics of the re- ; > " | ernment, justice to agriculture, the publican _administrations 8N | ynepocked growth of paternalism | Hull said, adding that the 3 1 and burcaucracy, the loss of all republican’ party leaders “divert at-| (igion and high ideals, the lack of tentfon from their i | basic pglicies, suppression of crime, record by shouting such a modernized tariff and trade policy, Coolidge economy, debt reductons. ! jnjefinite residential tenure, the protection to American labor, and | coliapee of forcign policy. restora. prosperity . ltion of rule by the people, the bold The Tennessec —representative.dyptompt 1o conduct popular govern- born of Oshkosh, Wis. who will go into the Houston €on- | yone'on the single doctrine of sor- ! Bingham and Osborn had the for-| vention with the solid support of '4iy materialism, and general ad. | {tune or misfortune whichever the [his own state's delegation, sharcd | iicon o et case may be, to be sclected as the fa/ program broadcast Jast night I “best looking” and “most original” | through a chain of stations unde | members respectively, of the senior | the sponsorship of th: 8 | THE W ss of Yaie university in the an- |league of Women Voter nual class poll recently and since | Representative Wood of that time have been deluged with |chairman of the republican |letters, gressional campaign committee. Most of Bingham's correspond- [ Upholding the republican side of | |ents ask for his photograph whilc |the argument, Wood predicted vic- | |those who write Osborn, for the|tory for his party at the polls next | | most part, send “flat” jokes, November. He urged voters to % * . PRICE OF POPULARITY looked at it dif- the situation up “Handsomest” and “Most Are Badly Bored By Yate's Original” Notes From the Fair Sex. New Haven, May 16 (P—What happens when a man is voted the handsomest or the most original of his class in college? “He gets let- {ters and more letters from girls in {small colleges asking for his pho- | |tograph _and autograph,” chorus |Charles T. Bingham, son of Scnator | Hiram Bingham and Robert C. Os- THER Indiana, con- | New Britain and vicinit Increasing cloudiness to- nigl Thursday unsettled, probably showers: not much change in temperature, Eagle Scout Loomis Will Enter- Injured in Cheshire Trolley |’ | had been made and the then northeast of I'ranz Jo | All aboard were |sington g | eritical Presidential Candidate of Home State. i TEEN PAGES NOBILE CRUISING OVER ARCTIC I ATTY. ALFRED Average Daily Circulation For Week Ending May 12th * 14,850 PRICE THREE CENTS LeWITT DIES Dead Lawyer l Last Reported Over Franz Josel Islands HOPES T0 LAND PARTY ‘0 TAKE OBSERVATIONS Ship Sails Through Fog and Wing With Her Crew in Constant Touch With Base by Veneza lag Dropped Over Tip liz Bay in Memory of Ques Who Dicd There in 1909, Bay P stoad today | dirigit lonely ma polar e man. Ttali wireless messiges to hier the Citta Di Miluno, at K telling of obsery ble ral Umberto ssage early this gions ATTORNEY ALFRED LEWITT ons made b G %l[] 000 SPENT IN had to fly alia had experienced an a half fog and height of 130 meters wind S e SOUTH FOR HOOVER et o o o * Rush Holland Testifies Before! Senate Committee of Francho Querieni, follow meters in 1 speed was who the Cegni polar expedition of 190 ,‘ nd perished ther | At 8 a. m. two-thirds of the flight | hip was | s se well The dirigible was then proce ing to the east coast of Lenin Lanid where an ice anchor will be dropped ind ‘€e men put shore on this little known lund The Italia is expected to to Kings Bay before Friday. third trip will probably be FPormer Assistant Attorney General return | Her 1o the Campaign of Hoover, | so-called Crocker Land northeast of | Greenlar | Peary 1, the land’ which/| <hington, May 16 (®-~The sen- and other explorers had ex uign funds committee was sume SRl tnee told today by Rush Holland, a for- Assi Attorney General that © had received about $10,000 to be S[;mml wul SUSPEN" {used in work for Herbert Hoover in the south, and that he had turned f over the greater part of that amount IN TEA[’HE" S MEM“RY to southern political workers or to organizations friendly | meree seeretory. | Included in the expenditures were P )\ 2 .. 10 to Perry Howard, Negro na- ('fl(“.'de M. Hincheliffe ional committeeman for \m'f.m,.,,. Dies at Home in | This City | Davis, another S | mittecman, Oliver D, {4l committeeman for Alabama, got the memory of 33000, The Protective ‘Tariff Hincheliffe, K of Ilorida received $2,500 ! ummar school teacher, Glenn B. Skipper, vice chair- | who died last nig nd ht at Home 0% Tiian. ab the Eitsid an of the a State Central her parents, Mr. and Mrs, William | s Elvas gt S. Hinchlife H | committes of 46 Camp street, the | school will mor nd teachers t f | Questioned for An Hour Friday ing Holland was questioned for an teraly hour about activities on behalf of services fn a h |1foover by the various persons Miss Hiny s Off yamed, Davls, he said, had to pay ! age and a ° Of this city. She| {raveling expenses for men working ! had been il than two week le commerce secretary. frath coming last night at The former assistant attorney o'clock after i woral preceded on the stand a for several " | sroup of witnesses summoned to She received her carly £chooling| (ictify as to the expenditures in be- Josepl's parochial school, be- | yajpor Governor Smith, of New g eraduated with honors. Her high | vy Rahiobl 30 was A Bepebiblon ORI ey 4 sifinean aaidl dis dwna mmar school su nd she left and had “stopped” fn Ar- institution on graduation day| Louistana and Florida but | R Konars e S oy paeaa through the other | Normal school here she wak)named: J ot oLl her m:‘f"“ s to the kel o _“Have you handled ahy money?” ot t MAS RO Chinfrmun! Stolwes wskad etz o1 ’l”“‘h’\”l'u” he A A | Tl have Holland repifed, T e luded the| . 1rom whom did you receive f17 reh and the Senfor clubs. an| “Ultimately from Mr. Huston.” o s St Josephs| e referred to Claudius H. Hu:- e ombte b n a mem. | ton. former assistant secretary ber of the Immaculate Conception | oy =g m“’ Guild. She was mber of | 8 the New Brit: vachers ! | 5 z00d to him his expenses and money Miss Hincheliffe took up 1 ro (Continued on Page Three) sssion as a teacher follow ARREST “GANG DRIVERS” graduation fro State \rv“\l .1 { Three Tocal Truck Operators Held $2.000 was given to Ben W. As a tribute to Miss Gertrude M. close was 19 ye less t St. s worker nd she high schoo! comr S school, in 1 when she was en- *d by the school committee of | the Town of Derlin as third instructor in the Kensington wmar school. Her illness was the i Srick o et nd pupils This Count in This Section, the Kensington school. @ "1 wa May 16 (P—Three hours before her ‘d»a wh ch I Kew men driving five-ton strangs V(‘(.v\‘.\r‘l;lvn"“ came arrested by Constable anniversary of ?_ e ! Harty in Watertown this huge bouguet \‘h‘ ot g “,' < on a charge of obstructing celved at the Hinchls i " lrafiic or “gang driving,” the first child in the school hay on this count to be made in violet while on the way s section of the state to the stricken te men are: Joseph Seledyn, 49 n of their hope 1T Y- Lincoln street; Carl Chrria, 338 Elm Today the news of herf .. . 1 \nculu Cavicche, 1010 fell o pall on the student | ywogt Majn str vody and the t¢ staff, making ', ro gllegad to have been driving their 1t necessary to suspend much of the | irnoks tiwo and sometimes thres routine of the dayv's teaching. breast through Watertown Center, Miss Mary Griswold, saperintend ne the highway and refusing ent of Berlin achools was one of the |14 a10 other motorists 0 pa first to call at -he Hinchliffe home ok a o condolenc She v . et T "+|L G. Russell Nominated For Church Delegate has made arrangemonts to have a photograph of the young teacher | placed in each class room as an in- | igartford, May 16 (B — The con. spiration to t and students voption of the Episcopal diocese of alike, she informed the stricken | Connecticut opened its second day parents. - Today the flag over the ession this morning with an elec- Kensington school flies at half- [tion, by ballot, of delegates to the mast out of respect to Miss Hineh- goneral convention. The nominees cliffe. were: J. H. Kelso Davis, Charles A. Surviving besides her parents. Goodwin and H. W. Reynolds of William & and Gertrude Heslin | Hartford: Isaac G. Russell of New Hincheliffe, is one sister, Miss Helen | Britain: Judge A. L. Hall of West Hincheliffe of this city. |Haven:; Robert W. Huntington of Funeral services will be held at 9 | West Hartford and Clayton P. o'clock Friday morning at &t. Jo- {Chamberlin of Windsor. seph’s church, and burial will be in| Bishop Coadjutor E. Acheson St. Mary's cemetery. presided at th emorning session. In Waterbury—First Arrest Under sonrce erbury, Britain trucks Theodor | morni ked on to class to cher as an for her 1 death blocki wehers QUESTIONED ~ FOR HOUR' Tells Inquiring Body of Money | Expended in Southern States for | to the com- | Who is working here for Hoover. In | Negro national com- | Street, nation- | . New Britain, They | ’Headed for Lenin Land, Explorer! flN I-UNEI-Y ROAD IN BER”N Body of Lawyer, Miss- ing Since Yecterday, Found Slumped in His Automobile. Letter Addressed to Wife Found at His Side Ex- presses Regret He Has Been “Poor Provider. ttorney Alfred LeWitt, % Mason Drive, one and favorably T members of in this city, aged 29, of the most known of the he legal fra- committed sui de by shooting himself in the right cmple while sitting in the rear seat )1 his automobile a coach, on West lane Road, Kensington, yesterday. s body being found this for-noon He had driven from the town elerk’s office, Newington, where he had checked a real estate title and mail cd it to the Berlin Savings bank, ap- parently having planned to shoot himself on arrival at a suitable spoi !The reason for his act may never he publicly known, Prosecuting Attorney Charles F. Lewis of Berlin fused to disclose the contents of a {letter found beside the body. Writ ten in longhand, the letter was ad- |dressed to Mrs. Sophie Meshken L | Witt, wife of Attorney LeWitt and | will not be given to anyone but Mrs | Lewitt, Mr. Lewis sai , Body Seen by Boys Attorney LeWitt fired the bullet into his brain between 11 a. m. and |2 p. m., it is believed. At 10:45, he was seen driving towards Kensing- ton on Beach Bwamp Road, by | Treasurer Henry Deming of the Berlin Savings bank., who, accom- panied by Frank Holmes, was driv- {ing in the opposite direction, ac- | cording to information given to the local police today by Attorney Al- bert A. Greenberg, law partner of Attorney LeWitt, and Samuel Mesh- | ken, brother-in-law of the latter. At i2 o'clock, Michael Sulman and [John Hackett, Kensington youths, were walking through West Lane Road, which is about two miles {from the center of Kensington in { the direction of Meriden and South- ington, and their attention was at- tracted to the slumped form in the car. They did not see a revolver, and belleving a motorist was in- { toxicated or asleep, they did not in- vestigate. After walking a short | distance from the car, they dis- cussed a return to make a closer nspection, but on second thought { they decided that it would be better {fo 80 along, as they feared they ! might be suspected of picking the man's pockets should anyone hap- {ven along while they were about | the car. Revolver Clutched in Hand Last evening, the voung men told Elmer Bengston of Alling street, | Kensington, about the ear and the islumped form, and this morning Bengston told August Albert of For |est Road, which is a few hundred | feet away from the place the car |was found. Albert looked into the |car and saw a revolver, clutched fn {the right hand, and the wound {above the right cye. It was appar- |ent that Attorney LeWitt had seated | himselt in the rear seat and after {firing the shot, he slumped over to | the left, 80 that his head rested on | his Toose leat note book. His hat was ixrumph-d beneath his left shoulder, | indicating that it had been on his | head when he pulled the trigger. { Dr. R. M. Griswold, medical ex- aminer and Dr. Matthew H. Gris- | wold, Constable Brown and Mr. Lewis were summoned- They said cre was no question that the ! | wound was self-inflicted. Dr. Gris- | wold expressed the opinion that the jact was committed early yesterday (Continued on Page 15) |MRS. C. J. PETERSON DIES NEARING 75TH BIRTHDAY Invalid Passes Away After Two and One-Half Years' Iliness at Stanley St. Home, Mrs. Clara Christina Poterson of 550 Stanley street, wire of Charles J. Peterson, died last night follow- ing an illness extending over a period of more than two and one half years. Had Mrs. Peterson lived until May 27 she would have been years of age.+ The funeral will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 |o'clock from the home and at 3 o'clock from the First Lutheran church. Rev. Dr. Abel Ahiquist will officiate and interment will be in Fairview cemetery. Mrs. Petcrson was born in 1853 in Risingesocken Ostergotiand, Sweden, and came to New Britain in 1888. Mr. and Mrs. Peterson observed their fiftieth wedding anniversary quietly last December. Besides her husband. Mrs. Peter- son is survived by threc sons and one daughter, dnother daughter Mrs. Edward Erickson, having died recently. Those surviving = are Charles M. Peterson of this city, George E. Peterson of Mount Ver- non, N. Y., Louis H. Peterson of Bridgeport and Mrs. Flovd A. Bow- en of Minneapolis. Mrs. Peterson was a meniber of the Ladies’ Ald society of the First Lutheran church. e s e A S AT PRIV