New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 15, 1928, Page 14

the windows or deors, the better to reach in and release the bolts, pre- valls in 1928 as it did in 1900, and NEW OPPORTINITY | "IN CRINE FIELDS “Dry Law” and Automobile Open Gate to Law Breakers o 434 mmpets. Although there are more boys and | jyree and some hardly er thar young men in New Britain with a |quartets, and in hundreds of cas:s weakness for crime than there were [known to the police the identic a decade ago, the methods employ- methods used to bring about a o8, especially by those inclined to- at that time have been cons wards burglary and petty thievery employsd down through the yes age so similar to those of the \The policemen then frequen gene by that the authorities whose necded to catch only one ho: Dbusiness it is to combat the unlawtil ' the rounding up of his operations, frequently comment up-|was easy, 1 by on the utter lack of advancems car along this line. “ape o su Numerous reasons have been sug- (as numerous gested for the increase in the pop- have since become, ulation of the state institutions in| As might be exp this vicinity as clsewhere, not the ing and entering i least common one being the n al cated business 1 increase in the population of every |bhefore F city and town and the attendant |clothes man in addition of numerous canses of |New Britain crime. Twenty ye ago, the au- | sternation in thorities point out, the automobile the same inc hief was practically unknown, and {modern natural the numerous avenues of crime leading out from the gasolin oo z Te vehicles had not heen opened, Like- s in a single night wi flse, th was no such crime as working themselves in to an hootleg; r were many of the tr: cgree of excitement or other present day opportuities for y. but some time ago, one o misdemeanor known to the growing 'two within a short time of | lad of 15 or 16 years of age. other would have been considered| How to break imto stores, how-'almost in the c with cr, seems to have always been the “crime wa of the known and regarded as a popular period. pastime, and year in and year out ew Britain a crowds of boys found their way in- boys who were to the toils of the law on this ac-lice as ringleaders, count, as a per of the public having acutally records will readily show. The sams |criminals beforo they had practice of putting one or two of [their majority, while ther 2,crowd on watch in vantage points.|others who, although having while crs smashed the glass in records, corrccted the ities say, the preblem of detectior |I- no more difficult than it It)\en. 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A student's versity of Notre Dame football ‘~am | flying certificate dated last July was in 1910, 1911, 1912 and 1913. He |found among her effects. | was captain of the team in 1913. Miss Kerr had not been seen about {LAST OF FAMM_ e diosel 0o I Moy SUICIDE; DESPONDENT ed her suite with a pass key last Miss Leila Kerr Takes Life in New York — Broods Over Deaths, clad in an afternoon frock. Near her was a silver-handled pistol and a box of cartridges. There was a bul- let wound in the right side of her head. ROBRED OF $50 Methuen, Mass., Dec. 15 (®—A masked man last night held up and robbed William Lund, 30. manager of a chain grocery store of $50 while the latter was on his way toward his home in an outlying section. The robber escaped in a machine. Lund told police that the highwayman was satisfied with the $50 and did not search him although he had addi- tional funds on his person, Others’ New York, Dec. 15 (P—Loncliness and fear of illness were believed by police today to have caused Miss !Leila Kerr, 35-year-old student fiyer, !to shoot herself to death in her suite | in the Hotel Ambassador. A note, found in the pocket of a coat, read: “I have suffercd a stroke. There is no one left since the family is gone and my brother died. He died in the war—I occupy a two-room suite on the 1Sth floor of a large | hotel.” Her brother, Walter, was killed in the World war and her father, nother and a sister died several years ago. She the sole survivor of the family. Her father, Walter Kerr, was president of the New York Life and Trust company. The body was identified by her unele, John B. 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