New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 30, 1928, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press NEW BRITAIN HERALD ESTABLISHED 1870 IWEISS ADMITS POISONI Average Daily Circulation For Week Ending l 4’520 NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 1928 —TWENTY Parre Adit. Dej Cannocticnt State Eibrar; Hartford, Conn. GB Aug. 25th ... ‘ PRICE THREE CENTS EER pt., CAUSING DEATH OF THREE MEN ; NEW BRITAIN BUSINESS MAN [Wreck of Airplane, Believed to Be § HELD UNDER $2,000 BONDS FOR AUTOMOBILE FATALITY | Morris Soroker, Owner of Shoe Store, Kills| Thompsonville Water| Dept. Engineer. Leaves Scene of Accident and‘ Takes Taxi to Hartford,;: Police Claim. } Girl Cempanion (Spectal to the Herald) le, Aug 30 —Morris 1erchant having a place of business at Main street, New Britain, and residing at 2 Vine street, rty under a $2,000 bond on a charge of that city, is at | inal negli- cansed the death | Clarence Goodhue, gincer at the plant gence in having ly today of 85, chief e ter with an com- him auto- Soroker appeared in the town court this morning before Judge Guy S. Bushnell | Victim Dted Instantly According to a statement made by the police, t Springfield Mass, his automobile at 6:30 | o'clock this morning. At 6:55, as Goodhue was crossing the highway from his home to his work, Sorok- | ¢r's automobile struck him. The po- lice say that Goodhue was killed i stantly, his neck being broken, and thet his body was carried along 97 | £¢ t before it fell off the bumper on- to the road. Measurements made at | the scene showed that the automo- bile continued 255 feet from the spot vere Goodhue was struck. Soroker told the authorities that he did not | sce the man._ The body was viewed by Medical Examiner § Stmon- ton Goodhue had resided in this place | for 26 years. He had an extensive acquaintance and was highly esteem- =d. He was commander of the Spani rican war post and member of the I. O. O. F. survived by his wife Girl Comzanfon Vanishes Police said that Soroker told them he had been to Boston on a business trip and had been driving all night. | He said he was not aware he had struck Goodhue un formed by | a female companion. The girl, who, the police say, is Miss Dorcthy Carl- son and whose addrees was given as Main appear- ed imm y after the accident and took a taxi cab to Hartford, leaving the cab at Asylum and Main streets. An overnight bag was found in the automobile Samuel Menus of Grand street, New Britain, came to this place and furniched a real estate bond, effect- ing Soroker's release until next Tuescay morning hen he will be given a hearing in police court. Morris Soroker is proprietor of the Brockton Shoe store at 254 Main street. He "as been a resident of for many vears and has al- ways been identified with the retail He is married and LEAVES KEY IN DOOR, | WOMAN ROBBED OF $246 is | Mrs. Jobn Corg of 648 East Street Finds Heme Ransacked During Her Absence the door and forgetting ey out cost Mrs. Joseph Corg of 643 East street $246 this morn: she claimed as & ex- citedly told her story to members of | the police department. Mrs Corg | told the police that she had left her home this morning about 7 o'clock. | She went out the side door which faces on Florence street, locked it but neglected to take the key with her. She returned about 9 o'clock an found the front door, which is al- ways locked, open and also a closet door ajar. Inside the closet, buried in a basket of clothing, was her money when she left, but the roll was gone when she came home. She stated that she found some ad- vertising circulars from a local de- partment store in the house. WRIT OF ) DAMUS PBridgeport, Aug. 30 (P—A writ of mandamus compelling the build- ing commission to revoke a permit issued to the Post Publishing Com- pany before September 4, was sign- ed today in superior court by Judge John Richards Booth. | to the hospital | that she had asked Mr. Riordan to | MERRILL OFTEN FLEW WITH NEWS PICTURES | M. M. MERRILL Important news pictures printed 1 the Herald often were flown for NEA Service by “Merry” Merrill (above), New York aviator who with a companion, Edwin M. Ronne, fell to his death during a flight from Buftalo to New York. Merrill fre- aquently piloted planes, too, for NEA Herald photographers taking pic- tures from the air. (UARREL WITH MAN ENDS WITH 10DINE Bristol Woman, Alter Auto Ride, Tries to End Lie BLAMES HER ANGRY M0OD Mrs. Doris Hobson, 25, Has Spat With T. J. Riordan During Trip to This City, Takes Poison, But Will Recover Mrs. Doris Hobson, age 25 years, of 153 North street, Bristol, | |after a quarrel with a friend, T. J. Riordan of 164 Central street, For- | estville, while en route in an auto- mobile to this city last night, drank in the home of Mrs. Rivers of | Indications Are That Gasoline Tank | mangled [ sylvania town of ) | fliers vesterday after the most {tense airplane search in the United States. |and Port Jervis, N. Y., where par- |led by Charles “Casey” Jones, vet- | not burned, he said [ Mr. Russ |to New i!hal the plane had caught fire after- Amundsen’s, Is Reported Found Off Coastline of BADLY MUTILATED Remains of Memill and Ronne Found in Wreckage IN PENNSYLVANIA FOREST May Have Exploded — Tragedy Oocurred Far Areas—Wreck Sighted From Alr. New York, Aug. 30 () — 'rm,: bodics of M. M. Merrill and Edwin M. Ronne, missing com- mercial fliers, were found 80 feet | from their wrecked plane at day- | i break today. according to word re- | ceived by F. H. Russell of the Cur- ng Service. plane—a Curtiss ned by Colonel Ch i bergh—crashed and exploded in t wilderness six miles from the Penn- From Inhabited Falcon Sighted by Fliers The wreck was sighted by fellow There was no place for a plane to make a landing near the spot, so the filers landed at Milford ties of searchers were organized Starting before daybreak, a party eran commercial pilot and associate of Merrill, reached the wreck at 6:30 &. m An airplane piloted by Raymond L. Kitchenman of the | Curtiss Flving Service guided them to the place. Bodies Not Burned Kitchenman in his report to Mr. | Russell said the bodies were found | 80 feet from the wreck. They were The plane was a total wreck and had evidently crashed into the trees at.a terrific speed-and was dashed to bits, The spot is inaccessible and the bodies will be packed out today, said. Ronne’s body will | be shipped to Buffalo, where he | was manager of the municipal air- port. Merrill's body will be brought rk by train Fire Followed Crash A Fatrchild pilot who flew over the scene reported the ground and trees for several feet around 'h(-j wreck had been burned, indicating crashineg. A Milford woman—-a Miss Kraft —gave them thelr first clue to the fliers’ fate, Mr. Russell said. After a radio appeal broadcast through WEAF, Miss Kraft telephoned the Curtiss executive that five persons in Milford and the vicinity had heard a crash followed by an ex- plosion shortly after an airplane had been sighted over the town. Mr. Russell notified ‘“Casey” Jones, his chief pilot, who with two planes started a search of the moun- tain wilds. They followed closely Miss Kraft's directions and found the plane. Although Jones flew within 30 t Main street this city. She was | taken to the New Britain General | hospital, where her condition was| found to be not serious. She was al- lowed to go home this about 10:30 o'clock Shortly atter m McCal morning | L Patrol. | was hailed by | where the search was first centered. | The Falcon plane was sighted there . on Main street. Martin hat Mrs. Hobson had drank the iodine and he wanted a doctor as she was very fll. Patrol- man McCue had the woman taken Then he took both men to the police station where | they were interviewed by Sergeant John Stadler, who allowed them to go. Interviewed at the hospital, Mrs Hobson stated that neither Riordan or Martin had anything to do with her taking the iodine. She stated drive her to New Britain and then | bring Mrs. Rivers back to Bristol to spend the night with her there. On the way over, she sald, the and Rior had a “little fight” which made her =0 angry that she wanted to kill herself When she went into M Rivers' house she seized the bottle of iodine and drank some of it. She immediately became il None of the party was held by the local police. 30 BELIEVED DROWNED Tokyo, Aug. 30 UP—Thirty persons are believed to have been drowned in the bursting of a reservoir at the Komoro electric power station in central Japan. The flood waters washed away nine houses. | sell said. feet of the wreck he failed to sight the bodies. He and his party re- turned to Milford and immediately started searching parties from town residents. All the New York district planes engaged in the search, and were ex- pected back today from Ithaca on its way from Buffalo to Curtiss field. he Curtiss Flying Service will be inoperative Friday out of re- spect to Merrill’'s memory, Mr. Rus- Found By Townspeople Bord Eddy, Pa., Aug 30 () — The bodies of the two aviators, fazel M. Merrill and Edwin Ronne. were found at dawn today in the (Continued on Page 16) Douglass Inn, Famous Maine Hotel, Destroyed | East Sebago, Maine, Aug. $0.— Douglass Inn, one of the oldest and best known summer hotels in south- ern Maine, was destroyed by fire last night with a loss estimated at $60,- 000. The fire, starting in the wood- shed from an undetermined cause, swept through the three and half story building so rapidly that em- ployes and guests had but little time to escape. Mrs. Edward 8. Douglase, wife of the owner, was overcome by smoke and was carried to safety by her husband. An annex and other Northern Norway AVIATORS' BODIES [sessase mecesea By American, Former Back- er of Explorer, Indicates Aircraft and Its Seven Occupants Fell Into tion Under Way. New York, Aug 30 (P)—The find- wrecked Latham ariplane in North Nor- way. was reported today in a cable- e from Oslo to Bernon S. Pren- ice, who was American h n of two of Roald Amund- sen’s exp. litions, said he believed the plane was the French craft in h Amundsen and six others The cablegram was sent by Froeis Froeisland, head of the Oslo news- papers relief expedition for Amund- sen. He said the report came from Harstad and that he was investigat- | ing ‘The message indicates that the plane fell in the open eea,” said Prentice. He was chairman of the | American advisory committee of the | ccessful Amundsen-Ellsworth polar dirigible. Text of Message message t6 Mr. Prentice read: ust returned Oslo. Rumors this mom from Harstad wreck Lath- am plane found outside Vesterraal- en, north Norway. Am ing.” The Latham seaplane in which Amundsen a: Captain Rene Guil- baud, French naval aviator, left Tromsoe, Norway, on June 18, had been intended for a transatlantic ight between Irance and Buenos ires. It was powered with lwo‘\ Farman motors of 550 horsepower | each and had a flying radius of ap- proximately 2,800 miles. Her wing spread was 85 feet and her speed 100 miles an hour. Amundsen and Guilbaud had planned to use Advent Bay as the base of their rescue operations, but their plane disappeared after leaving Tromsoe, Unconfirmed reports said that radio signals had been heard from her not long after the takeoff. The report from Harstad said that the wreckage was supposed to have been found in the Ve ter off Lofoten which is the name of a group of islands slightly south of Tromsoe. Place Not Definite Telephonic inquirfes from Oslo qualified first reports that the wreekage of the plane actually had been found The chief of the Norwegian charting department states that the gulf stream flows in an opposite di- rection from that in which the wreckage would normally have been carried to reach the spot indicated. He added, however, that extraor- dinary conditions have prevailed this year. M. Hoel, Norwegian expert on arctic water conditions who accom- panied the Russian icebreaker (Continued on Page 186) KILLED ON WEDDING DAY Ambherst, Mass, Man Struck By Auto Few Hours After He Had Married—Bride Also Infjured Rutland, Vt, Aug. 30 (P—Herbert Reed, 60, of Amherst, Mass., was struck and killed by an automobile last night while walking on a road between Pawlet and Granville, N. Y., with his bride, whom he had married yesterday afternoon. The bride, who was Hattie H. Strong, also of Amheret and about the same age as Reed, also was struck by the car and knocked unconscious but her condition is not regarded as serious. Allie Hart of Pawlet, driver of the car which struck the couple, «fd | toward ‘Granville to find a physictan but, in his excitement, wrecked his car in a ditch. He was arrested and taken here. The couple were married at Gran- ville yesterday afternoon and came to Pawlet to visit Milo Leach, a friend. HIGH TIDE — AUG. 31 . London 10:22 a.m.,10:38 p.m. Haven 12:18 a.m,,11:59 p.m, R THE WEATHER New Eritain and vicinity: ) Open Water—lnvestiga-' Confesses to Poisoning Beer This is 2 picture of S8amuel Weiss, who, the police say has confe: to placing cyancide crystals in home brew and causing the death of brother, John and two other men and little boy, who are in Czechoslovakia ed s Included 1n the group are his twife The allezed fratricide will be presented in police court tomorrow on a charge of murder. DYING MAN ASSERTS FAITH IN DEMOCRATS Daniel J. Crowley, 84, Was Arden Admirer of Bryan Daniel J. Crowley, lopg time resi- dent of this city, died this morning at the home of his son, Thomas Crowley, of 109 Greenwood strcet He was §4 years old having cel brated his last birthday on August 22. His son, who is a sanitary in- spector in the health department, is the only survivor. Mr. Crowley was born in 1844 in Kenturk, County Clare, Ireland, and came to this country when a boy, making his home in this city. He was one of the oldest and most re- spected citizens of the north end and until a few years ago resided | on North street. He was a literary man and a lifelong admirer of the late William Jennings Bryan, to whose “Commoner” he subscribed from the time the publication first made its appearance. Before dying, | he left among his effects a state- ment in which he stated that he wanted to be known as one of the staunchest supporters of the demo- cratic party. Up to his retirement a few years ago he was employed as a polisher | by the Russell & Erwin company. The funeral will be held Saturday | morning at 9 o'clock from the fu- neral parlors of M. J. Kenney Co., | and at 9:15 at St. Mary's church. | Interment will be in 8§t Mary's cem- etery. Attempt Believed Made to Bomb Theater in Chicago | Ching Aug. 30 (A—Twelve sticks o1 dynamite were found last | night in the Parthenon theater of suburban Berwyn. A large audience was in the theater when the dis- covery was made. Earlier today a blacl powder | bomb blasted a hole in the wall of | the theater. Several months ago bomb was exploded in the building. The dynamite, found by police | last night, as they investigated the carlier bombing of the day, was sufficient, they sald, to have wreck- ed the entire Berwyn business dis- trict. More Deputy Sheriffs Will Be Needed in Conn. | Hartford, Aug. 30 (#—The open- ing of the new county court house| with its five court rooms in session | simultaneously will necessitate an increase In the number of deputy sheriffs in this county, Sheriff George H. Dewey said this morning. Sher-| i#t Dewey pointed ott that the num- ber of deputy sheriffs in Hartford county is limited by law to twenty- four, and that under the present or- ganization of the county courts the time of all twenty-four is taken up, 20 that it would be necessary for him to seek the authority from the 1929 legislature to appoint at least Showers tonight; Friday fair and cooler. buildings near the hotel were saved. l . six more deputies. The sheriff of ! and BOAT TURNS TURTLE, THREE AR DROWNED Twenty Others Rescfied in Ohio River Tragedy Early Today Aliquippa, Pa,, Aug. 30 P—Threo persons are missing and are believ- | ed drowned nembers of the crew of the towboat Aliquippa of the Jones and Laugh- lin Steel Corporation, are thought to have been rescued when the tow boat turned over in the Ohio river teday. The accident opposite the Aliquippa plant of the Steel Corporation as the towboat was maneuveriag to pick up a tow 0. ten barges on which was 6,000 tons of steel to be transported to Memph Tenn., today. A double crew was on the tow- boat when without warning she turned keel upward. Quick work on the part of a ferry boat crew, | nearby the scene of the accident, prevented a large loss of life, Jones Laughlin officials said. The ferry crew tossed life preservers to those struggling in the water and all but three are thoughi to have reached. shore The missing are: Christina Den- a chamber id; Willilam At- . a deckhand and an unidenti- fied deckhand Company officials were at a loss to account for the turtling of the boat. The Aliquippa was commis- sioned t ears ago and was 164 fcet in length with a beam of 32 feet. It was known as the fa towboat on the river and holds the record for the Memphis trip, having made the run in 7 days in 1919 The Aliquippa was in charge of Captain Norman “Buck" Jones | on reaching ehore, told officials hc believed a pipe had b in the towboat and forward had allowed | water to enter causing the boat to | list and then upset NEAR FATALITY TODAY ON MILFORD TURNPIKE New York Man Hit by Passing Autoist—Had Stopped Bestde Lunch Stand. New Haven, Aug. 30 (M—Joseph Gewitz, 34, of 2734 Claslin avenue, New York city, was taken to Mil- ford hospital shortly before noon to- day suffering from injuries he re- cerved when struck by a truck as he alighted from his car which he had prarked opposite a lunch stand on the Milford turrpike in Orange. The driver, Louis Maltagliati, of North Haven, in attempting to avoid striking Gewitz, swerved to the right, his heavy truck crushing Ge- witz's car. Gewitz’ wife and two children received minor hurts. Orange police held Maltagliati on New Haven county !s now permit- | ted to appoint thirty-six deputies, he #* said. reckless driving charges. Gewitz’ condition was said not to be serious. while twenty others, | occurred directly | (Enamoured of Sister-in-Law and Resentful of | Brother’s Interference in Love Affair, He Doctored Home Brew With Cyanide, He Confesses After Long Hours of Grilling— Angered Because Woman Rejected Him— Expected to See Brother Die in Torture. Angered heyond the degree of frenzy because of the success of his brother’s determined insistence on a cessation of the illicit love affair between him and his brother’s wife, Samuel Weiss, aged 32, of 273 Myrtle street, deliherately planned and carried out the murder |of his brother, John Weiss, aged 38, of 215 Curtis street, |he confessed at police headquarters this morning, the [police say. It was he who put eyanide, a deadly poison, in sev- leral bottles of home brew in the cellar of his brother’s hore, causing the death of John Weiss and John Stehr |Sunday morning and of John Stein of 325 Broad street |vesterday, and as he answered questions hurled at him |by detectives, he wept, not, however, in sorrow for th 1deaths he had caused, in the opinion of the police, bu [rather at the realization of the serious situation in |which he found himself as the vesult of his act, Will Be Presented On Murder Charge Detective Se!'gean{t William P. McCue, who is in charge of the case, said today that Weiss will be pre- sented in pohce court tomorrow on the charge of mur- der. He is under police guard in his cell, being held |without bonds. He will be bound over to su- (perier court on a probable cause finding and in all | probability disposition of the case will be made at the | September term, ! Grilled by Five Sergeants | Throughout vesterday afterneon 1‘t"d last night, Wet; ‘was interrogat. i€d by Detective Sergeants McCue, |and Ellinger and Eergeants Feeaey, | 0'Mara and Stadler, who also qués “'vmwd Mrs. Weiss, widow of one of Samuel's victims That she gave . the detectives valuable information | ‘ ™ § | which was used fh their sesston with 3 ] | her paramour was admitted by | Sergeant McCue as he' prepared te |resume his examination of her te- | day. He indicated that she would | be held as an accessory before the | fact, in the event that a more seri- ‘ous charge is found unjustified. Cracks Under Questioning For a long time, Weiss withstood the detectives’ examination. He had | apparently prepared himselt for his | experience, for he stoutly denied his | Jgum. but finally as the night wore |on he began to weaken until he blurted out his readiness to make a clean breast of it. As a result, gey- eral typewritten questions and an- 1 swers were in the hands of the po. | | lice this morning, signed by Weiss |and witnessed by the detectives, aft- | er warning had been given him that under the law he was not obliged to | say anvthing, and whatever he said | would be used against him in court. PODR START IN MATCH JOHN STEIN. Third Victim of Poisoned Reer. ination for several hours, and in the cvening Sergeant Stadler took a |hand. About 10 o'clock Sergeant Ellinger, who had gone home, was recalled to the police station and went at the task again. At 4:15 this morning the detectives had com- | ! d their task as far as Weiss was | concerned, and he went back to his | cell, leaving behind one of the most | amazing stories in local police an. | nals. Stole Love of or's Chicago Golf Club., Chicago, Ang ‘ Coming to New E:K'.':.','m',r';m,. 30 (A—United State: rted poorly | adelphia, Pa.. about six years ago, Weiss, who has a wife and eight | year old son in Czecho-Slovakia, boarded at the home of his brother, t turn in the 36 | Who had married about 12 years | earlier. Tt was rot long before Mrs. Weiss and Samuel experienced the development of a mutual attraction, which led to the formation of the eternal triangle, the existence of Dr | Which the husband was quick to | win and 19 sen Several times in the succeed- | e¥ pi nd reached the quarter | IN& years the household was in tur- | post two up. {moil as the angry husband berated | Bobby Jones and Chick Evans at | the faithless wife and his preying the same point were two down to |Prother, but conditions became ajor C. O, Heziet and W. L. Hope, | WOTS€ as the illicit affair went on, to cing 3% strokes for the guarter | the scandal of the neighborhood and e 1 i |at the price of the husband's con- x ret and Jimmic John. | teNtment and peace of mind. the skids to be i down at | Ordered From Home last the husband, thoroughly but then took three | ht to be square only sionized but determined not to Three of Four Pairs of | Golfers Are Down At First Turn irst clash wif for the Walker cup, | four pairs of Amer ng down at the f Great Britain three George m and Sweetser, ! though they lost the | par. soon outstripped :ox‘ onents, T. Jess al- first hole to a th British | to | | ston the f st nd Eustace F. Storey. | Watts Gunn and Roland Macken- | his brother out of his zie lost 4 holes in a row at the start | commanded | to John Beck and A. R. MacCallum |wife again. To the latter, he de- |and 1t was not until the seventh [clared his readiness to take every | hole that they won a single victory. |means at his command to compel * { The cards her to cease her part in the affatr, Par, out but the ardor of the affection that | Von Eim and Sweetser | had sprung up between Samuel and Out 543 345—38 | Mrs. Weiss swept aside the hus- | Perkins and Twedell |band’s remonstrance and about | out 355—41 | Easter time this year, John Weiss | Jones and E |returned from work one day to find Out i 444—39 [that his wife had gone, taking $500. Hezlet and Hope Going to Boston, Mass., she was Out . 543 joined in a few days by Samuel, Ouimet and Johnston | who had advance information as te out ... 564 355—43 |her destination, and they were eon- Torrance and Storey |stantly in each other's company fer t . 543 454—41 |two or three weeks, it is sald. He Gunn and Mackenzie then went to North. 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