New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 12, 1928, Page 2

FIND PRISONER MAY BE NURDERER Identified by Son of Dead Woman in Buffalo k Buffalo, N. Y., Dec. 12 (® — A short term prisoner at the Erie county penitentiary, sentenced un- der the name of John Kelly, has been identified as Arthur Leonard. 22 year old suspect sought for the murder of Mrs. Juanita Jones, wealthy widow, in Herrickville, Pa., near Towanda. a week ago. Leonard, 3 ) day term on a plea of to the illegal possession of a revolver, was picked out of a line- | up of 10 prisoners by Burton Jones u son, and by Walter Stethers, a farm employe of the slain woman. Sought for Murder | Leonard had been sought since ! last Wednesday morning, when the body of Mrs. Jones, 63 years old, was found in her home. She hé\\l been shot through the arm and | head by a single shot, and then heaten to death with a bed slat Her skull had been fractured, her | nose broken and her teeth knocked out by the murdsrer's blows. The 22 year old prisoner was ar- rested here by Lehigh Valley rail- road detectives. He was in the com- pany of a negro, John Clayton, paroled prisoncr from a California | prison, with whom he had beaten ' his way from Sayre, Pa. Find Gun aliber automatic pistol, to- a as having been taken ome of Mrs. Jones, was Leonard’s possession to custody, several | pencils, chewing packs of different s also were found on him. was wearing a brand new sheepskin jacket. The finding of the gum, pencils and cigarettes led to Leonard's tion. Atter he had been sentenced to the county workhouse Captain R. O. Whitton, Lieut. J. I MeDade and Detective F. J. Gavner of the railroad police, who arrested him on a train riding charge, com- municated with railroad police dnd4 requested that investigation be| mnade of any small store burglaries yre, Pa., railroad district me from Alhis Hollaw, near Towanda, that a store therc had been burglarized and articles found on Leonard listed as stolen. The information also came that the burglar also was suspected of the murder of Mrs. Jones. Dirccts Search C. J. Rudloff, county detective of Bradford county, Pa., who has been directly the search for the slayer. came to Buffalo last night with! Burton Jones and Stethe They brought with them an ot de- scription of Leonard, together with ' description of injury marks on his ' body. The Bertillon records at the county penitentiary, produced by | Superintendent John E. L. Gaesser, | showed ‘that Leonard carried these | marks. After identification by Jone and Stethers, Leonard then admit- ted his right name and further ad- | mitted he was in Towanda on the night of the murder. He was not questioned regarding the actual killing. District Attorney Rosen- fleld of Towanda will come to Buf- | falo today to question the prisoner. He will bring with him finger prints taken of Leonard when the latter served a term in the Pennsylvania Reform school for the chickens. a | in When taken packages of new gum and 17 brands of ciga theft of | Your VACATION begins at the fiangway -k | of M. {.\ uir of this city | where the supply bill carrying next MRS. HALLAM DIES AT 76 Cherry Street Woman Had Made Her Home In This City For Two Score Years. Mrs. Elizabeth Hallam of 64 Cherry street died last night at the Starr sanitarium, 39 Howard street. She was 76 years old and had been a resident of this city for the past 40 years. She is survived by her busband, Robert Hallam, three ‘aaughters, Mrs. Porter Blinn of Tol- land, Mrs. Grace McDonough and Mrs. Edward Lindberg and one son, I"red Bacen, all of this city, a sister, Mrs, William Brown and a brother, Harry Torr, both of Providence, I, aiso 14 grandchildren and two great-grandehildren, The funeial will be held Friday afternoon 30 o'clock from Erwin memorial chapel. Alderson will officiate and burial will be in Fairview cenrtery. COUSINS 70 MEET APART 20 YEARS Saw Each Other Last When in, (dessa, Russia Two first cousins who saw each other for the last time in Odessa, | Russia, more than 30 years ago, have located each other in this country through a conversation last summer started between acquaintances who met at Coney Island, N. Y. Lowis Nair of South Main street, ' this city and Mrs. M. Goodman of 30 Riverside Drive, New York city, are the two involved. Last summer, New Britain friends Nair happened to be at the popular New York summer play- ground when they were introduced | to a number of other people among whom were Dr. and Mrs. Goodman. | During the conversation that en- sued, the name of Nair was mention- 1. Immediately Mrs. Goodman re- | marked that she had cousins by that name in Odessa, Russia. Hearing this, the New Dritain people stated that there was a family by that fame in New Britain. Mrs. Good- man obtained the address of Louis She then communicated with the |local man to ascertain if he was her ! cousin and upon receipt of his an- swer, she discovered that he was. Attorney David L. Nair on a visit to New York during the past few Gays, took occasion to telephone Mrs. Goodman for his father. He brought home her greetings to Mr. Nair and /the long scparated relatives are pl’mnu\g to meet again in the near future. Mrs. Goodman is also a cousin. to Frank Nair of Mason Drive, this city. Want to Enforce Laws Concerning Narcotics Washington, Dec. 12 UP—A move was initiated at the capital yester- day to strengthen methods of en- orcing the anti-narcotic laws as a result of recent disclosures of whole- | sale trafficking In drugs in New Y®rk and other eastern states. A group of representatives head- ed by Representative Fish, republi- | can, New York, urged an increase in funds for the narcotic umit from $1.411,260 to $1,611.260. 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Telephone 1950 R.| ‘Womack on September 6th, ' Message Relayed Many NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1928, LYLE WOMACK IS GRANTED DECREE Gets Interlocutory Divorce Fiom Ruth Flder in Panama thm men have been i{bond sct at $5,000 for Levine and 3500 each for the others. he men were charged with have lng purchased large quantities of liqguor from one Hector Gomez Palmes in Paris and had it shipped to New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore on the steamers Vincent and Sarcoxie in casks supposedly filled with steel tubing. The anthorities are said to have seized $30.000 worth of contraband Iliauors, and Assistant United States Panama, Dee. 12 (P—An inter X(A‘u(ory decree of divorce has be —run!(‘d Lyle Womack trom Ruth Elder, who was rescucd by a tanker when she attempted to fly across the Atlantic. The divorce action was instituted in the Canal Zone district court by | Dbefore be sailed from the Antartic with th=2 Byrd expedition. In a deposition father said that unhappiness caused by Miss Eider was the main cause | of his son's joining the south pnlarl expedition. | A deposition filed by Womack said that during the lastel4 months of the couple's marrled, life his wifa| had been very cruel to him and paid little attention to him, seeming to be more interested in flying across the ! Atlantic than in retaining his lov | He added that the Atlantic flight had placed him under a lerrlble mental strain. ‘ Reforring to his greeting upon Ruth’s return to the United Sm!»‘n after her rescue, Womack said * embraced and attempted to kiss her, | whereupon she replied ‘Don’t be a damned fool.” He also said that since her flight Ruth had treated him with scorn and indifference, as. | suming a superior attitude and show- ing neither love nor affection. He | stated that as a consequence of this treatment he had lost 12 pounds in weight. Thousands of Miles' New York, Dec. 12 (A—A message from the New York Times to an employee in Bellaire, borough of Queens, New York city, was trans- mitted today by way of the Byrd expedition—now some 10,000 miles away in the Antarctic. F. E. Meinholtz. manager of the ' New York Times radio station, was | sitting in his home in Queens lis- tening to a dispatch being broadeast from Commander Byrd's ship the City of New York when the broad- caster broke his story to say: “Meinholtz, the Times wants you to hang up your telephone receiver, 50 it can call you on the phone.” When the radio operators in the Times office who was sending mes- sages to one of Commander Ryrd's ships, found he could not get Mein- holtz on the telephone, he made the | request to Meinholtz in his message for the Antarctic. The message was inserted in the press dispatch from the City of New York. {Lucien Klot~ Resimns From French Senate Paris, Dec. 12 (®—Lucien Klotz, former minister of finance .in the Clemenceau war-time cabinet, re- signed his membership in the French senate today. M. Klotz was the subject of charges filed by the public prosecu- tor of ¥rance twe days ago to the effect that he had issued bauk checks without sufficient funds ‘n the institutions on which they were drawn. 7Bhis is 4 criminal offense in France and the prosecutor asked the senate to lift parliamentary immun. ity from M. Klotz. The former min- ister has been a patient in a sant. tarium and his friends have stated | that’ his collapse was due to lo m on the New Yok stock exchan He was generally considered wealthy | as he was the bwner of a large per- fume establishment. Levine’s Father Ts Under Indictment| ew York, Dee. 12 (A -Icaac Levine, father of Charlcs A. Tevine, transatlantic air passcnecr, and two of his associates in the Columbia Steel and Tube Corporation were in- dicted yesterday on a charge of con- | spiracy to import louor illegally dis guised as steel tubing. The indictments, returned De- cember 3, against Levine, the Colum- hia corporation’s president, T anis C. Rardy. its treasurer and Nicholas Relss, its secretary, were kept sceret and became known yestcrday. The | | i i | “A NIGHT oUT” Iy $20.000,000, Attorney Kerwin said his investiza- tion might involve more persons and ) a greater quantity of liquor, when completed. Goodyear Tire to Build in Alabama Gadsden, Ala., Dec. 12 (A—Cliffton Slusser, vice president of the Goodycar Tire and Rubber company of Akron, Ohio, yesterday announced Rev. William A. placed before the court \\onugki‘llml Gadsden had been selected as | the site for the company's southern | plant. The plant is to be constructed in four units, the first to be completed by midsummer at a cost variously stimated at from $7,500,000 to $10,- 000,000, Cost of completion of the plant was estimated at approximate- The plant will be one of the largest in the south. V. P. L. Forced to Close Due to “Flu” Blacksburg, Va., Dec. 12 (®—Ap- | proximately 250 students of Virginia Polytechnic Institute were yesterday granted leave to return to their homes until January 2, due to | prevalence of influenza. Two hundred and thirty cases of the discase have been rcported at the institution. Ninety patients at present are confined to their beds. BERSON WILL BE HOST G-orge Berson who as recently re-elected president of the Congre- | gation Sons of Tsrael, will be host | tonight*to the retiring afd incoming officers of the synagogue at a ban- quct to be served at his home on Arch street. PEASE APPOINTS | LEGON OF OFFICERS Rev, Theodore §. Dunn to Be Chaplain of Post Commander Maurice Pease of Ed- dy Glover post, American Legion, (has announced the list of his ap- | pointive ofticers and chairmen of {standing committees, Rev. Theodore S. Dunn, assistant pastor of the Sou'“ Congregational church, has been named chaplain of the post to succeed Rev. Willliam H. Alderson who has held that of- fice for several years. The other officers appointed are as follows: Historian, Fred W. Hoff- man; post surgeon, Dr. John Pur- : legal officer, Stanley J. Trace- ski; service officer, George Molal der; editor-in-chief, Harry C. Jack- son and publicity officer, Nathan C. Avery. | The committees and thelr chair- men are as follows: Post at{endancc (and membership, Emil Schaal; post | chair- ' | activities, David R. Ogren; I man of 1.000 club, Orrin G. Curtis; }cha\rmm house committee, Leroy C. Ensminger; chairman of finance committee, Edward E. Ogren; chair- man of boys' work, Joseph M. Jack- son; chairman of Junior Achiev ment, William W. T. 8quire; chair- man of Americanism, Harry Wes: sels; chairman boys' camp, Roger ! W, Whitman: chairman Boy Scouts, William H. Turner; chairman graves registration, Fred Tyler and post advisory committee, all past com- !'manders. SENIOR H. 8, NOTES The assemblies for tomorrow and Friday morning at the 8enior high school have been ‘cancelied by Prin. | cipal 8lade because of the inspection of graph cards which is being con- lducted this week {n the home rooms. For sore throat, there’s a swift and sure way to soothe away the inflammation,. Every singer knows the secret! Dissolve Bayer Aspirin tablets in pure water, Nothing in the whole realm of and gargle. medicine is more helpful in cases of sore throat. And you probably know how Aspirin dispels a headache; H breaks up coldsp relieves rheu- matic pain, neuralgia, neuritis, lumbago! Just make certain to get genuine Bayer Aspirin ; it has Bayer on the box, and on each tablet. 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Greece has had ne senate since 1863, A proposal to : ssign 3 eeats to the clergy was withdrawn, lems of western Thrace and the Jews of Salonica will form separate constituencies. SCHOOL CLOSED Atlanta, Ga.. Tlsc. 13 (P—Bchool children of Fulton county will be dismissed today untll Dec. 31, by or- der of thy county hoard of educa tion which acted today upon advice from the county board of health that it had found that the serious- FEEEEEEEEEE EEE | | :ga::jn = The Mos- | ness of influensa, diphtheria an scariet fever made the uspension necessary. 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