New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 1, 1929, Page 18

ANDDOGTOR LOVER ARE HANGEL (Continued from First Page) the oells of each. Cirous is Bigger Thrill Townspeople went about their business appurently as usual and & circus on the outskirts of the vil- lage caused more comment on the streets than the impending execu- tions. Mrs. Leboeuf was given holy com- munion early today by Father J. J. Rosseau, pastor of the Church of the Assumption of Franklin. She then drank & cup of coffee and was reported calmer and more ' colleeted than at any time since her and Henry Judd Grey at Sing Sing, | sentence. She was sald to be ready icv-yu-. the family burlal grousd. | During the morning Mrs. LeBoeuf ‘offered a prayer for the forgiveneas ot Governor Long for his refusal to spare her life. i Decher Blames Beadle Dr. Dreher clings to his story of innocence, declaring that James 'lmdle, the trapper serving life in the state penitentiary for his part in ‘!I\e crime, did the actual killing and the slashing of Leboeuf's body. Snyder Case Recalled | Frankiin, La., Feb. 1 (UP)—For the second time within 13 meonths, capital punishment today reached out to claim the lives of an Ameri- !can married woman and her illicit lover—a double forfeit to the state for the murder of the woman's hus- band. One year and 19 days after the electrocution of Ruth Brown 8nyder Ada Bonner Leboeuf and Dr. Thom- NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1929, Arrangements for carrying out that penalty were completed today long before the first rays of dawn had thrown a shadow of the hang- man's noose against the wall. Re- porters and relatives were excluded from the jail last night at 7 o'clock. ! Two of Mrs. Leboeuf's sons, Jo- seph, 21, and Ernest, 19, saw thelr mother for the last time yesterday evening as she lay on her cell cot. | prostrated by fear and self pity. Her 20 year old daughter, Liberty, |saw the condemned woman a few "hours before her last hope for a stay of execution had vanished. Liberty skipped down:the jail steps smiling and laughing in a burst of forced courage. Son Does Not See Her Mrs. Leboeuf's youngest son, Her- man, 14, was not permitted to see 'her. He is an impressionable boy| and physicians feared the experience might impair his health. Dr. Dreher saw his wife and two for the end and is held up by her [ o= T kened at dawn daughters, Polly, 20, and Dorothy, religious faith. Doctor Also Cllm Dr. Dreher recelved Rev. J. A. McCormack, pastor of the Franklin Methodist church. He was also quiet and calm and prepared for the in- evitable. He returned a book to a friend with & notation on the fiyleaf saying he would “walt for him in Heaven." The book was entitled “To Dle With Jesus."” “I enjoyed every word of the book,” the notation sald. “I will wait in Heaven for you. I will be with Jesus.” At 9 oclock Eugene Dreher, nephew of Dr. Dreher, visited the jail and received instructions for closing his uncle's business affairs. Ted Dreher, son of Dr. Dreher, is in West Texas and will not see his father again, although his father called for him several times today. Calls for Aged Mother 2Mrs. Leboeuf also called again and again for her 72-year-old mother, but she sent word she would not come, and Sherift Pecot announced that no members of the family would be admitted today. Efforts to get Gov. Huey P. Long to stay the hanging were abandoned last night when the governor told Mrs. Dreher over the telephone that he would not interfere. | Mrs. Leboeuf requested that her body be buried in the Morgan coun- ty cemetery beside that of the hus- band for whose murder she was sen- tenced to the scaffold. Dr. Dreher wil be buried in North Loulsiana at |and prepared to be “hanged by their | necks until dead” for killing James Leboeuf. After 20 years of married life with the manager of the Morgan City electric light plant, during which she bore three sons and one daughter. Mrs. Leboeuf became enamored of the family doctor. | Nine Fziihless Years | Then for nine years, boeuf home at Morgan City and at various fishing camps on the shores of nearby lakes, she and Dr. Dreher, |10 years her senior, carried on their illicit courtship. The affair was a sort of lark at first. Both lovers found a youthful gest in evading the notice of Mrs. Leboeuf's husband. | There came a time, however, when the thrill of secrecy had played itself out. Mrs. Leboeut and Dr. Dreher decided that the former's husband was standing in the way of their happiness. On the night of July 1, 1927 they invited the unsuspecting husband to accompany them on a picnic, lured him into a rowboat on a fishing lake, and shot him from another boat. James Beadle, an old trapper of the lake country, helped them slit Le- boeut's abdomen, fill it full weights, and sink it to the bottom of the lake. Beadle was convicted of thurder in the first degree for his part in the crime, mainly the loan of his hunting knife, and was sent to prison for life. | Mrs. Leboeuf and the doctor, because of their malicious intent, were sen- tenced to death. \ ) A\ W\ &\\ \ 17, at 5 o'clock last night. He was in tears during the entire interview and begged his family to forgive him and pray for his soul. The doctor's last words were _ood counsel for his 19 year old son, Teddy, whom Mrs. | Dreher had left at home. 8heriff Charles Pecot immediately began making final plans for the | double execution after the federal in the Le-'court and the circuit rourt of ap- | peals had denfed motions for a stay. He announced he would put Mrs. Leboeuf to death first. ‘The physician asked for ¢ last talk with his erstwhile lover and Sheriff Pecot said he was dis; sed to grant the request, although in the ahsence of reporters inside the jail it could not be learned whether the doctor would go through with the ordeal. | A last meal of toast, sausage and coffee was served to the condemned couple in thelr cells this morning. Dr. Preher appeared to have been refreshed by a night's sleep and ate heartlly. Mrs, Lebocuf merely stared at her plate and sipped cof- fee. On the strects the population gathered in small groups and dis: cussed in low voices the awful penal the jail yard. Mrs. Leboeuf was the first white woman ever to be put to death for murder in Louisiana. A century ago & mulatto woman was hanged in New Orleans, and the event was made the occasion of a public dem- onstration. Today only seven official wit- nesses, including two physicians, and |several reporters, were admitted to 'the twelve-by-fifteen-foot wooden | enclosure surrounding the gallows in the jail yard. On this same scaffold four men had been hanged before, all of them negroes. Sheriff Pecot's father {sprung the trap.in one of the exe. |cutions. Today an-anonymous hang- man was imported from New Or- leans. 1t was his second trip here ! for this purpose. Two weeks ago he was summoned but learned at th: last minute that Mrs. Leboeut and ! Dr. Dreher had been granted a stay iof execution by the state supreme | court and Gc . Huey P. Long, pend- ing a review of the lower court pro- ceedings by which . ~ eouple were declared to be sane. WORK ON HOUSE STOPPED | Bullding Department Claims Changes Have Beem Made in Plans for Structure, Work on a building at Shuttle Meadow avenue and Vance street has been ordered stopped for alleg- |ed violation of the bullding ordi- | nances by changing a plan without |approval of the building depart- ment. Joseph Perotta is the contrac- tor handling the job. Work had pro- gressed to the point of foundation | completion when the department of building inspection made the discov- ! ery which prompted its action. {Mayer Says Hoover Offers Turkish Post Hollywood, Cal., Feb. 1 —Con- firming reports from New York, Louis B. Mayer, vice president of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Film corpora- tion, said today that he had been “‘offered” the post of ambassador to Turkey by President-Elect Hoover. |He denled that he had resigned from the film company, however, and eaild he had not reached a de- cision as to accepting the presiden of ty that was about to be exacted in tia! appointment, Rumors have been rife in film cir 'cles for meveral months that Mayer ,was to withdraw from the movies, ieffective March 1. Mayer took an |active part in the presidential cam- i paign. He was a delegate to the re- | publican national convention and made several speeches supporting Mr. Hoover's candidacy. . 5. ANNEX PLANS NOT SATISFACTORY (Continued from First Page) clianges were accepted. “The original plan has now been discarded and a new layout for steel !construction has been delivered at my - office. Preliminary checking | makes it quite apparent tlat we will Inot be able to sanction proceeding . under this plan as it now stands, but that this scheme, 100, must be al- tered and strengthened. “It is the intention of the build ing department to cooperate in the fullest measure with the architect and the school committee, but we are charged witly the obligation of re- quiring safe constrretion. Certain features of the original plan would not have sustained the load imposed upon them, and our departinent, naturally, could not countenance such a condition. The new plan will be thoroughly checked to avold a similar condition. # “It we had been furnished with ithe plans before contracts were 'awarded we would have been in a | position to avoid whatever difficul- ties might arise by reason of changes which must now be made after the |award. This procedure is not're- | quired, but is common practice, “Much as we regret 't, it now ap- pears that we can give the architect |til after next week, when we hav~ in our hands the new plan incor- porating the latest changes.” COLD WAVE FOLLOWS CHICAGO SNOWSTORK: (Continued from First Page) icebound in Lake Michigan near Grand Haven, were freed by the jce breaker Comrade Stark after sev- jabandoned when It was found the vessel was resting on solid fce. | Despite the blizzard, state high- way crews succeeded in cutting a path to the village of Colesburg. Ia.. which had been isolated by snow Accredited— as leaders amon, uality ew Britain. You in the field of will find leaders urniture low priced and high priced furniture here, each of the very best quality in its res| tive firice groups. Each piece as our unrestricted guar- antee. N\ §\ Y SO announcing these February reductions we place before you the opportun- ity to benefit by genuine reductions. The savings are very unusual and will continue throughout February, yet we urge early shopping for choice bar- gains, Lieszynski &Sons NewBritain’s Finest Furniture Establishment 515 Main Street no assurance of & permit at least un- | and foe for 'nearly two wecks. Fuel and provisions were being carried into the village today. The heavy snow hampered the search through several southwestern Indiana mining communities for 10 year old Edith May Dierdorf, Terre Haute, Ind., newsgirl, believed t?’ have been kidnaped and murder- ed. Government reports showed the past month was the coldest January since 1918 in Chicago. The total temperature deficiency was 189 de- grees. Named Administratrix . Of Hushand’s Estate Mrs. Harriet V. Williams, widow of Hubert Willk *s who was killed in an automobile accident January 14th was named administratrix of the cstate of her husband, according to documents filed today in probate court. Williams was a passenger in an automobile driven by Gebrge P. Rapp of Middletown, which left the road in East Berlin and crashed into a tree. He died shortly after being brought to the New Britain General hospital. Rapp was arrested and then released under $1,000 bonds. The case was scheduled for January 22, but was postponed pending fur- ther investigation by the coroner. Death Race by Air Won by Few Hours Buffalo, N. Y., Feb, 1 (UP) — | Ralph W. Pierce, 45, treasurer of |the World's Dispensary Medical as- | sociation, died here last night from ' | pneumonta, four hours after his son, | | E. Vaughn Picrce, arrived from Mi- ami, Fla., by airplane in a race with death, Plerce greeted his son and then lapsed into a coma from which he did mot regain consciousness, | !eral days' imprisonment. Attempts ! !to free the ferry Milwaukee were | SA Remedies Regular lm':l or 35c Epsom Salt (b, tin) 19¢ 20c Sodium Bicarbonate W c (pound tin) . 79 79¢ Mineral Oil, Russian 49¢ 69c Aspirin Tablets (100s) 9% 50c Gran, Eff. 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Finds Lost Father Dead in Chu&_noom Chicago, Ill, Feb. 1 Frank Gormley, a Boston, Mass., salesman. yesterday identified the body of a man who died in a cheap rooming house here on January 236 as his 70-year old father, Johm Gormely, who disappeared from his Massa- chusetts home 15 years ago. The public administrator found vault keys revealing $7.000 on de- posit in banks, and letters indicat- ing that Gormely was once prosper- ous here but lost money in a bank failure 10 years ago, Beside the son a widow, Minnie Gormely, was known to survive. TARKINGTON Baltimore, Feb. Tarkington, novelist, RECOVERS 1 (P—Booth left Johns Hopkins hospital today for his home | in Indianapolis. 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JOHN GILESRT This Story of a WILD DESIRE— BURNING LIPS— and RACING HEARTS Brings to the Screen the Return of John gxilbert Greta Garbo As Lovers! As Liana Merrick, Mi; passes through the m:‘:u?:'b: tragic, passionate anq mlsum’ier- stood character, to g fate self- chosen, that it well may be left to those who see the picture( and that will be everyone who goes to motion pictures) to decide for themselves whether 4t was su. preme self-sacrifice, or whe(be; it was the distraught act of a tempestuous goul, Which may have ended a 1 to solve . U OPIeM. but failed Gilbert, ag Ne and Miss Garbo portunitics for :a:lm;l nru they did in their other Ictures, “Fle, Devil” and “Loye.” kL anaitie ville Holderness, have as many op- emotional love The high starda by the stacs s ably st "6t an unusually strong cast, which includes Hobart Bosworth, as th stern father who stands betweon his son Neville and Diana; Lewts Stone, as Dr. Hugh Trevclyan, & close friend of the Merrick and Holderness familics; John Mack Brown, as David Furness, stroke of the Oxford crew, and friond of Diana’s brother Geoftrey, playe ed by Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.; and Constance, played by I)orolh;' Se. bastian, who is the sweet and un. fortunate victim of the passionate [r)o‘,xlar:::nshm between Neville and “A Woman of Aftairs” s 2 pie. ture o one can afford to miss. See It At The STRAND Beginning SUNDAY