New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 28, 1928, Page 16

i e e A AT RN ey S MR TV, IR WIDOW'S ABSENCE BAFRLES POLICE Uil Woman Louvs s, Drops From Sight Loulsville, Ky., Dec. 28 (#—Listed ofticlally among the *‘missing” in po- | lice records and her estate of ap- proximately $25,000 in the hands of a curator, Mrs. Ella Rogers, 29, pretty Louisville widow, has pro- | vided a riddle which more than two months of intensive investigation has failed to solve. Mrs. Rogers as | | | | Ella McDowell | marricd Hamilton Rogers, an ad- | vertising man In March, 1927, Rozers was killed in an automobile | iecident, leaving his widow a com- fortable income. Mrs. Rogers dropped from sight October 7, 1928, nineteen months later. There is no verified record that she was seen after the evening | of that day. Relatives found in her apartment, suitcases used on trip to Chicago, still unpacked. Re- | mains of a dinner which she ha shared with a friend were on the table. None of her clothing w missing, intimate friends and rela- | tives reported. Only her purse and the k=y to her apartment could not | be found. Her father-in-law, Tra W. Rogers, | knowing she was accustomed to| travel a great deal, kept her ab- | sence quiet even after detectives were called to investigate her ah- sence, On Novemher 30, however, it was publicly announced that foul play was suspected wide search was begun. The last known person to have seen Mrs. Rogers was Hal Harned, Dawson Springs. Ky.. banker. an old acquaintance, who dined with her 7. As he was leaving her home shortly after 8 o'clock, the lights in the apartment went out. Almost at the same moment his taxicab arrived and Mrs. Rogers re. fused his offer of aid. insisting that | she could care for the matter her- self. The time of Mr. Harned's de- parture was verified by driver. Detectives later learned that the | and a naflon.ri:ht. his taxi |7 Ready to Sail O’er Ocean of Blue * |are equipped with Leonard Lefleur's model of a full-rigged ship of 1870 design has attracted considerable favorable comment about the city. The miniature is correct in every detail of sailing ship construction, nautical experts gay, and is a remarkable example of hand carving. It took Mr. Lefleur about five weeks to build the model, a picture of which is shown above. stains, Bits of bone and a peculiar white ash taken from the furnace ' | provided “no evidence of value } Other theories proved worthless. | Mrs, Logers is the second member | of her family to disappear and strangely enough, her case resulted | in the location of a brother, Roscoe | simowih miine rom cinent Garmichael Again Offers Use of Private Track now, he heard of the case and | Fla, Dee. 28 wrote to police officials offering to | assist them. This was the first word (A—Hoofs of harn d thorough breds are pounding again on the other members of his family had | from him since he dropped from Two other brothers, Wallace Me- |track at Belvedere park with the | Powell a mortician, and J. B. Mc- |bpcning of the sccond annual rac- {Dowell and a sister, Mrs. Cora |ing season here. Keifer, came from their homes in| M. D. Carmichael, wealthy cor- Cincinnati to aid in the inquiry. A |poration lawyer and owner of the fourth brother, H. B. McDowell, | plant, has announced that plans are lives in Los Angeles. |under way for staging a harness | mect on a considerably larger scale [ than the initial one last year, when . |purses agsregating several thousand lavies doniars were offered. Unlike other race Florida, Belvedere park is comm hobby by Carmichael. It offers owners of harness racers an ideal West Palm Beach, |Lowell Police Clear Mysterv of Br Lowell, Mass., Dec. 28 (P—Tn the | late last night of Thaddeus ik, 17, local police declare they have cleared up the mystery of a dozen burglaries in the husincss dis- lights in the Rogers apartment had | trict n the past three weeke. Zureik gone out, not because of a blown was taken at gun point as he en- fuse but because someone in the |tered an abandoned tencment whera training ground for their thorongh- breds before the northern scason Carmichael’s only sporting activity this season. He is sponsoring or- ganization of the South Florida Har- | ness association to include West Palm Reach, Oriando, Ocala, De- land and possibly Tampa, It is pro- | posed to offer six weeks of harness races in these centers during the winter In addition, Carmichael is plan- ! ning a fashionable horse show here jearly in February. He also is pre- | paring 60 acres of pasturage and bridle paths and a fine stable of | saddle horses, as well as contemplat- | ing organization of a polo club to play on two projected fields adjacent | to the racing plant. | Belvedere park now consists of one | of the best half-mile marl tracks in the south, has three model barns, & | small club house, a blacksmith shop and rocked roads winding through acres of pasture land. The barns | running water, electric lights and the stalls are copper-screened against fiies and in- seets. | WINS FIRST PRIZE ! Boston, Dec. 28 MM—A portrait of Mrs. Danlel Merriam of Ray State | road, painted by Miss Cecilia Beaux of New York city was awarded the Alvan T Fuller prize for the work submitted by a woman artist at the Boston Art club invita- tion exhihition. The award was an- riounced last night. Mrs, Fuller s the wife of the governor of Massa- | chusetts. READ HERALD CLARSIFTED ADS ([ FROM KABUL SOON Full Evacuation o Be Made, Indian Advices Say in London London, Dec. 38 UM—The Dally Mail today printed dispatches from Lahore, India, eaying that full evacuation of Kabul, Afghanistan would be made as soon as pomsible. {In the meantime, advices reaching Moscow teld of further victery of | government troops in their drive against the rebels. The Lahore dispatches aaid stores in Kabul were fast becoming de- pleted. Many persons still were awaiting rescue and no airplanes were able to leave because it was snowing. A German woman was killed when she got in the way of & troop carrying plane which landed from Bagdad and was struck by the propeller. The propeller was broken and the plane laid up making a sec- ond one damaged and unfit for use at the British legation. The dispatches said that the building (presumably the legation building) had been subjected to heavy fire and its rooms were bar- ricaded. Tack of heavy casualties 1 was attflbuted mainly to the failure Advices reaching Mesecow stated of pebels shell: to explode. that loyal Afg..an troops had eccu. pided Jagman, having drivea the rebels 18 miles trom the capital to- ward the Cbarikar road. The mill- tary Rospital on Biripala Heights and a number of villages around Kabul were destroyed by the insur. genta. A dispatch from Peshawar, India, to the Daily Express today sald the evacuation of Kabul was preving a greater task than had been expect- ed at first. There .till were more than 100 persouns to leave. Describing the experiences of Brite ish refugees, the correspondent said all houses in the legation compound were exacuated when {* was found they were In the sone of fire between the rebels and the Afghan army. ‘Women and ch'ldren were placed in one reom behind the strongest wall, and all openings were barricaded. Here they crouched for hours as shells hit the building. One shell crashed through the wall and land. ed in a fireplace but fortunately did not explode. Bullets whistled through the legation and one shat- tered & mirror before which a man was shaving. Police to Continue Hunt for Missing Man Providencey R. I, Dec. 38 UP—Po- | lice of West Warwick and Coventry, aided by several troops of Boy Scouts, early today will continue thelr search of nearby woods for Harry Green, 55, of Centreville, HI-TEST TYDOL RACKLIFFE OIL CO. tracks of not a al plant, but was built as a basement unscrewed a fuse. Philip Haynes, negro janitor, ar- rested in the case, was dismissed at a police court hearing. One by one many clues proved false. Supposed blood spots on a hammer in the basement proved to be ordinary opens. The owner has made it plain | earlier in the day detectives had un- that the racing events at the park covered a large amount of clothing, |candy and cizars. Zurajk confessed | most of the breaks, polies said e was held in default of 85,100 Lail bookmakers, pari-mutuel and jockeys will be lacking, al- though purses will be offcred for the | various events, 1“"'\“ AFRALD CLASSIFIED A"si Training, however, will not be HARTFORD Now Sage-Allen’s After-Christmas Sage-Allen & Co NEW BRITAIN PHONE 3005 In progress- Clearance Sale The fameus annual event in which every department shares with extra values—and this year they are greater than ever! Shop Early are purely sporting affairs and that machines SOLD LOCALLY BY from his home since early ‘Wednesday morning. Mr. Groen, who recently has suf- fered attacks of acute indigestion, started on & hunting trip from which xpected to return before night- fall and was last seen entering a thicket near Noose Neck Hill road. SEEK GURGENHEIM ENPLOYE IN DEATH Murdered Watchman by Putting Poison in Goflee New York, Dec. 28 UP—A former employe of the Guggenheim Broth- ers’ Rescarch Laboratory was being sought by the police today as the i robber who killed Henry 8. Gaw, 29, the laboratory wotchman, by putting polson in his coffee. Gaw was the | victim of & powerful polson used in metallurgical processes in the lab- oratory * Detectives assigned to what they said was one of the strangest rob. bery-killings in New York police _records concentrated their efforts on a search for James Baker, who had formerly worked about the labora- tory as laborer. Two Baltimore truckmen, who were bound and gagged when they surprised the robber at work, told polios the man whe heid them up resembled picture of Baker, The robbery and killing, police said, were cemmitted by 8 person who knew where to find the peison and who also knew where the amall amount of money on the premises was kept. This money, $20, with §24 taken from Elmer Mayhew, eme of the truckmen, was the only loot of the robber. Platinum teels and in- struments valoed at more than $1.- 000 were unmolested ia & small safe. When Mayhew and Chester Mc- Cauley drove to the laboratory with a load of chemicals they were cone fronted by a man armed with a pis- tol who bound and gagged them after taking Mayhew's money. Gaws body was found after the truckmen had loosened their bonds and called polics. On a nearby desk was found & beaker partly filled with coffes, which & chemiat said gave off the characteristic odor of & power ful polson. : 37 INSURG) DIE Mexico ' City, Pec. 28 UP—Dis- patches from Guadalajara today { said that military authorities there had received advices that 27 insur- gents had been killed in four en- gagements with federal forces at various points in the state of Jalis- co. 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