New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 20, 1928, Page 5

HLLS 2 KEEPERS; TAKES OWN LIFE Prisoner Faced Lile Sentence Under Baumes Law New York, July 20 UP—Faced with life imprisonment as a fourth oftender under the Baumes laws, a prisoner in the Bronx couaty jail killed two keepers in a desperate of- fort to escape last night and then hot, and killed himself. Armed with two revolvers he had pbtained in an unexplained way he hot bis way through two tiers‘of ells and when two shots fired into e lock of & steel door leading to a « escape failed to open a way to ~m he placed his gun against # and blew out his brains. ‘4 Year Record “onvict was John F, Mc- old. His police rec- <k fourteen years. The .8 he killed were Norris and Daniel Horgan, neith- hom was armed. on had. just unlocked the n the fourth tier of the jail, the convicta a ening exer- cise period owing to the heat before locking them in for the night. When ke unlocked McCabe's cell he prisoner started to complain that he was not feeling well. As the uard turned to unlock the next cell door McCabe pressed a revolver ‘gainst Broderson’s abdomen and fired twi Mortally wounded the Leeper McCabe around the legs and was dragged to the stair. Iway leading to the lower floor. Here h:is grip was broken. Unlocking the door to the fourth tier McCabe ran ownstairs. Horgan, keeper of the ird tier, kad heard the shots and for the stairs. Halfway up ke the escaping prisoner wko fired at close range, killing him al- 3nost instantly. Shoots Himselt Stepping over the prostrate body 0f the keeper McCabe ran down the cell tier to a door which opens lon a fire escape. Other priseners raid he twice threw himsel? against door. Falling to budge it he snd fired two shots into the lock. Again he futilely #hook the dcor and, apparently hearing the pound of feet up the wtairs, he twned hiy gun against himselt and fell dead. At the frst sound of shots the '%eeper on tre second tier had called down to tle office for someone to Ybring the uns. 8ince January the Xeepers had not been allowed to pa- trol the rmed. However, none of the prsoners loose on the fourth tier attenpted to escape and none sought ® ald McCab.. Call Resetves Polic: reserves were rushed to the n ene. The block in which the jail ocsed was surrounded and po- lu-o 1ves established to keep back the reldly growing crowd attracted by th shrieking siren on tep of the 3 T» prisoncrs in the three lower tier were pounding on the bars of 1he cells aad yelling and for some tin 81l was confusion. Finally the forth tier prisoners were herded hek Into their places and the other pisoners quieted down. For hours after the shooting 4ousands of the residents of the cnsely populated residence district hronged nearby streets. For hours fter the attempted jall break & uard was kept from' nearby houne: —aot slx months. We do this to insure the mellowing pro- cess that contributes so much to the smoothness of Dis- mmond Ginger Ales. tops and alleyways. Machine guns were set up, but there was no fur. ther trouble. McCabe's police record dates back to 1914 when at the age of 11 he was sent to a protectory. He was last arrested June 19 of this year for participating in a $1,700 payroll robbery. Was Loking His Mind He was listed only as a second of- fender but a few days ago it was proven he had been convicted un- der other aliases and he was to have been reindic’ »d as a fourth of- fender, which autematically would have led to a life sentence it he had been found gullty of the payroll holdup. He was belleved to have been a drug addict, and according to his attorney was lasing his mind. The attorpey recently apolied for a men- tal examination for his client. District Attorney John E. Me- Geehan, took charge of the investi. gation In an attempt to learn where McCabe secured his pistols. LEFKOWITZ DIES IN CHAIR ‘Was Instigator of Drowning Youth In Order To Obtain $50,000 In 14fe Insurence. Ossining, N. Y., July 20 (P—Jo- seph Lefkowits, accused as the in- stigator of the drowning of a boy whose life he had insured for $80,. 000 died in the fl-eme chair at Sing Sing prison last night. Lefkowits protested his innocence to the last. “I didn't know there was going to be anybody killed,” he sald just before he was led to the death chair, “all T knew was that there was to be a fake drowning and that nobody was t. get hurt even.” The youth was Benjamin Gold- stein, 32 years old. It was charged he was pushed from a rowbost in Gravesend Bay by Irving Rubinzahl, at the instance of Lefkowitz. Rubin- 2akhl is serving a sentence of from 20 years to life in Sing Sing. Harry Greenburg, who also was in the boat, was acquitted. The plan of the men, it was brought out at the trial, was to have Goldstein jump overboard, swim to land and then remain hidden while the other men gpllected the $80,000 insurance. Instead, it was charged, Goldstein was -throqwn overboard when far from land and the others then rowed away, leaving him to drown. Letkowitz recently twice refused to testify in a suit brought by Gold- stein’s parents to collcct the in- surance. N. Y. DPOCTOR HURT Amherst, Maass., July 20 (#—Dr. Kaster Peters of New York was painfully injured here when his automobile was wrecked in a collision with a car driven by Richard Hunt of Greenfield. Dr. Peters has been doing experimental work at the M. A. C. experiment station farm in Pleasant street. " THREE MILLION IS NEEDED BY G. 0.P. Treasurer Does Not Believe This Figare Excessive Washinator, July 20 UP—J. R. Nutt, tressurer of the republican national committee, i3 making plana for raising at least $3,000,000 to meet the cost of the Hoover preai- dential campaign, This figure, he believes, cannot be considered excessive. In estimating the amount to be spent, he referred |to the fact that thé Coolidge cam- paign of four years age, entailed disbursements of that amount, and remarked: “We have & harder fight on our hands this time.” Arriving in the city yesterday, Nutt conferred with Chairman Work of the nationa! committee on the .|fnanefal aspects and organization of the campaign. Later, the ap- pointment of Jeremiah Milbank, of |{New York, as eastern treasurer was | yesterday | a rnnounced. Two Classes The solicitation of funds, Nutt said, is to be divided into classes for small and large, contributions. A headquarters is to be established in Chicago for supervising the solicita. |Woman Killed and Three |state highway near here yestesday. that this will be handled in ation with the drive for large con. tributions but was of the opinton that it required special directjon. No limit is to be placed on, the | size of gifts to the campaign chest. All contriButions will bu on publie record and each subscriber will be given a recelpt for his contribution. Mrs. Hert Arrives Mrs. Alvin T. Hert of Kentueky, 2 vice chairman of the nutloml committee, also arrived in the cap- ital yesterday to take charge of or- #anizing the activities of the, wom- en cempaign workers, a post ‘which | she filled in 1924. A meeting of east- ern national committeewomen is planned for next Tuesday. Mrs. Hert is to have the assistance of Mrs. Ellis A. Yost, national com- mitteewoman from West Virginla, and of Mrs. Mabel Walker Wille- | brandt, assistant attorney general. 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