New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 6, 1929, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 EGAN LOSES FIGHT FOR POSTPONEMENT OF SWINDLE TRIAL Judge Wolle Accepts Lawyer's Plea of Not Guilty at Har- ford Hearing ACCUSED MAN DECIDES 10 BE TRIED BY JUDGE, Bonds of $15,000 Continued and Court Designates March 26 as Trial Date After Arguments— Egan's Lawyers Say They Defend Him as “Labor of Love’—Alcom Insists on Early Action. Hartford, March 6, (UP)—At- torney William E. Egan, accused of conspiracy to defraud in connection with the sensational stock swindles of his client, Roger W. Watkins, now in prison, lost his battle In superior court here today for post ponement of trial until June. Judge Isaac Wolfe accepted the lawyer's plea of not guilty and or- dered trial set for March 26, after hearing arguments by Attorney Ar- thur L. Shipman, for Egan, and State’s Attorney Hugh M. Alcorn. Egan elected trial by the court in- stead of by jury. Bonds of $15,000 were continued. Urging postponement to the June term of court, Shipman said that he and three other lawyers representing Egan had not been able to prepare a defense in the brief time afforded them. He said they were fighting Egan's case without retainer fee a a “labor of love” for a brother mem- ber of the bar. Besides Shipman, ‘Egan will be defended by Attorneys William Hyde, Manchester; Willlam . Malone, Bristol, and Henry Cal- mer, Hartford. Alcorn for Speedy Trial Alcorn urged a trial as soon as possible. “It has been known to everybody who can read that prosecution was inevitable and he (Egan) has had every opportunity to prepare his de- fense,” the state’s attorney declared. “It may be that your honor wishes to avoid this sort of case, but in all your judicial career T have not 'n you to avoid doing your Betting March 23 as the trial date, Judge Wolfe said: “The court has no desire to try this case. It is embarrassing to all concerned, but as the state's attor- ney has said, I am not in the habit of running away from my duty. “In view of the fact the accused is & member of the bar, a speedy trial should be held, in justice not only to the state, but to the lawyers of Connecticut.” 100 Witnesses Probable Alcorn sald he expected the trial to take,a week or more and that he would call “a hundred witnesses from al] parts of the United States. Egan was indicted by a grand jury which investigated the affairs of the National Associated Investors, a now defunct stock and bond firm which masked Watkins' illegal operations. ACORN CO. WITHDRAWS EXPANSION PETITION Bearing Factory Will Prob- ably Remove to An- other Town A petition of the Acorn Bearing Co. for permission to extend its manufacturing plant into the resi- dential district of Mill street, has been withdrawn, and officers of the corporation are now considering whether the business shall be con- ducted in another city or town. The petition of this company came before the board of adjustment sev- eral months ago. It was explained that the company’s product had found a ready market and that ex- tensions in the plant size are need- «d to keep pace with orders. Archi- tect Frederick C. Teich came before the board with Jacob Neubauer, president and treasurer of the com- pany, and Michael Neubauer, its vice president, and they presented sketches showing that not only would the new bulldings be of ar- tistic design, but that the old build- ings would also be treated so that the whole plant would present a more attractive appearance. Property owners in the locality engaged Attornsy Emil J. Danberg and Judge William F. Mangan to present their objection to encroach- (Continued on Page 18.) 20 Policemen Capture Mad Dog After Chase Lowell, Mass., March 6.—(P) —Six persons were bitten by & dog here today, The animal, be- lieved to be suffering from rabies, was captured after a pursuit by 20 policemen. All of those bitten were given treatment for wounds about the hands and arms at St. John's hospital. They were Alexander, Chissholm, John Lindsay, Mary McGovern, Marcella Barris, Hannah Whitehead and Marion Joncas, the latter most severe- ly injured. ‘The dog was turned over to the city animal Inspector for ob- servation. If found to be suffer- ing from rables it will be de- NEW BRITAIN HERALD NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 1929.—-TWENTY PAGES Stewart, With His Back to Wall, Awaits Attack by Rockefeller “Qil,” Greasy and Odorous, 1 ’i Fights for His Job l Forms Basis of lndlm‘ Standard Company War | Now Near Climax BY ALLEN DALRYMPLE (Associated Press Staff Writer) Whiting, Ind., March 6, UP—Oil in squatty tanks belly deep in bare earth; oil, forever settling in greasy film, §ts penetrating smell ever pres- ent; oll,—formed the background {today for a picture unique in indus trial history. It was the end of a nation-wide scramble for stockholders’ votes to control a billion dollar corporation | The Standard Oil Company of Indi ana—the culmination of John D Rockefeller, Jr.'s fight to force Col. Robert W. Stewart from the chair- manship of the board of directors. Ofl, piped hundreds of miles from western fields, is the life blood of | this city of 20,000 inhabitants at | COL. ROBERT W. STEWART. (TS NET DEBT ANDINCOME JUNP Former Increases $328,%07 in Past Year, Analysis Shows LATTER IS UP $290,360 Cost of Government Now 500 Per Cent Higher Than 1910— School Department Requires 86 Per Cent of Total Appropriations. (Continued on Page 3.) ENFORCEMENT ACT | REPEALER IS LOST Birth Control Measure Also Tarned Down in State Senate | CIVIL RIGHTS BILL KILLED| Senator Conroy Concedes “No Other | Course Can Be Taken,” As Mm‘cl to Take State’s Liquor Law From Books Fails, State Capltol, Hartford, March 6 | A compilation of tax statistics (M—The senate toduy'rejecled the |made public today by Collector DU Tepsaling e mas 8y ":‘;’l':m““r:: { Bernadotte Loomis shows the city's it rejected the measure repulinx‘r“”‘ debt to have increased from $6,- section 3, which provides for arrest |624,644.75 to $6,947,552 during the and conviction on “reputation” of | year, this being a difference of $322,- selling liquor. 1907.25, which fa reflected in the Repeal of the penalty provisions fy of the Connecticut birth control act |statement of school and sewer bonds was also voted down by the senate. | issued during the year. The Clv!lh Rights bill, pumn:i An increase In appropriations and “teeth” in the act prohibiting dis- |y, ;1. 19 also shown, the increased ::e’::::.“::d’"'lmh“‘:'f"-wfi"c““;l‘l"; | income from all sources being $290. 1560.88 over .ast year's figure to ":‘&';;’l‘:-o‘;’ “"i‘;’ color, '::”:‘"“w"' |cover appropriations totaling $3.- i n of previous servitude, Was| 44 52549, Interesting in this con- Ikewise killed in the senate, nection is the fact that the costs of . s Afl:m is T government, as shown in the Loomis i T R e T R |since 1910, a period just short of a Conroy of Hartford, acting minority | gcore of years. The tax collections leader, and chlef proponent of re-|in fiye ycar periods and the amount peal, that tl{:are Was no other course |t he taken in for next fiscal year, to be taken, His motion that ju-|are: 1910, $532,060.25; 1915 diclary committee’s unfavorable re-(gog go; 1920, $1,440,062.4 port be accepted, and the repeal bill [ g2 344 715, 1929, § rejected, came as a surprise, for he The fire department ¥ had been a vigorous enemy of en-|year, took a larger percentage of the forcement in the state of the na- | jty's tax funds, next year will take tional prohibition act. less. Senator Conroy did attack the| A summary of committee’s unfavorable report on | ypon which taxation is based, section 3, saying it violated the Bill of Rights by placing an offender in “double jeopardy” and that it nulli- appropriations has (Continued on Pzge HUGGERS REPULSED 2 ) (Continued on Page 18.) DIES WHILE AT WORK INL.F. & . FACTORY John Olson, 70, Fatally Stricken With Heart Disease One Hit on Head With Umbrella Beats Hasty Retreat Two reports of attempted hugging of young girls were made to the i : de b Stricken ill while at work as aV3';:;2:,'?,f'&f';‘k}cyotf’h::s‘a'fif,lthflf clevator operator at Landers, Frary | ot about 7:30 in the evening a girl & Clark's factory at 4:15 o'clock | roported to him that while she was yesterday afternoon, John Olson, 70 ‘walking along North street, a young years old, of 561 Stanley street, died | man approached her from the rear, a few seconds Mater. Dr. John Pur- | hygged her and then attempted to ney, deputy medical examiner, Pro- |yiss her. She screamed and the a nounced death due to heart dis- coster ran away towards Main stree - |she said. The young Romeo was Mr. Olson, a native of Sweden, |ahout 20 years old, about 5 feet 7 had lived in Pennsylvania for 30 |inches in height and of slender built. years. He owned a small farm in| The other attempted hugging took that state upon which he worked |place on Park street. The report during the summer months. In the | was made to Officer Edward Car- winter he worked in the coal mines. | roll, who was detailed by Lieuten- About 12 years ago upon the in-|ant Samuel Bamforth to investigats vitation of his sons who are all g complaint made by the girl. Ac prominently engaged In business in | cording to her story, she was walk- this city he came here to make his | ing on Park street and as she ap- home. Although he could have re- |proached the intersection of Orcharl tired he insisted upon working and | street, a man apprehended her and ! at Landers, where he was employed | asked her if he could accompany during his residence here, he was| her, but she refused, whereupon the well liked because of his friendly | man caught her by the leg. To pro- | and cooperative attitude toward his|tect herself from any violence, the fellow employes. girl struck him with an umbrella He had a great love for religion over the head and he left abruptly. and spent much of his time reading | According to the girls description the Bible. He was a member of the | the man appeared to be about 35 8wedish Bethany church. years of age, about 5 feet 5 inches Surviving him are his wife, Mrs. | in height, and wore a grey coat. Mathilda Olson; four sons, Alexan-|grey trousers and a cap to match der J. Olson, a former member of | He was of dark complexion and had the firm of Miller & Olson and a |a black moustache. former member of the common |Lodge Says He Gets council; Ernest F. Olson, proprietor Word From Dead Wife of the Lincoln market; Hilmer Ol- son and Walter Olson, who is pro- London, March 6 (®—Sir Oliver prietor of Walter's Cash Market on HIGGINS FAILS T0 APPEAR FOR TRIAL; 000 FORFEITED Real Estate Dealer Mysterionsly | Absent From Superior Court AS THEY GRAB GIRLS, When Case Is Called CHARGE OF EXTORTION BROUGHT BY AYON MAN Former Member of City Plan Com- mission Aleged to Have Obtained $700 from Owner of Avom Cider Mill By Posing as Federal Officer —Bond Was Posted By Willlam d. Long. | | Mysterious absent from superior court at Hartford, where he was to | ihave been put to plea on the charge | of extortion, John J. Higgins, 65, of , 32 Cedar street, could not be located | |today by his counsel, Attorney Al- ‘berl A. Greenberg, and up to this |afternoon nothing could be learned as to his whereabouts, Higgins is one of the most widely known residents of New Britain, | having made his home here prac- | tically his entire life, his connectior. with the real estate business and his activities as an auctioneer having |added to his wide field of acquaint anceships. In 1916 he was ap- | pointed to the city planning com | mission by George A. Quigley, wha was then mayor, and in 1924 he was reappointed by Mayor A. M. Paones 82, serving until 1926. Was Ready to “Take It” | Attorney Greenberg saw Higgins | yesterday and made an appointment | ;(or 7:45 this morning. “I'll be | there and take it,” Higgins told his | attorney, referring to a state's prison term which it was certain he would be sentenced to, either today or to- worrow. The attorney telcphoned to Higging’ home about 7:20 this| morning and was told by Mrs. Hig- | ging that her husband had left! about 7:15, He had not eat breakfast, nor had he bidden her| good-bye, she said. Waiting as long as he possibly could, Attorney Greenterg finally drove to Hartford without Higgins and for some time sought him about | the corridors of the county bullding. | As the hands of the clock moved opening of court, Attorney Green- (Continued on Page 11) ANNAE. CADWELL'S ESTATE 1S $69,394 ewton W. Baldwin Left $8,305 and John W. Kienell $2,064 Cadwell left an 94.94 according today in pro- Britain Na- of the will The late Anna estate values at § to an inventory fil bate court by the New tional bank, executor The bulk of the estate consists of stocks and bonds, the largest item | being that of 50 shares of Rossia | Insurance Co. of America, valued at $12,300. Other stock holdings include: 30 shares American Hardware Corp., {$2,190; 8 shares American Goods Co., $800; 25 shares A clated Telephone Utilities, § 140 shares Credit Alliance Corp.. $°740; 75 shares Crown Cork & Seal, $ 20 shares Greenwich Water & Gas Co.. $1,960; 25 shares | International Paper & Power Co., | $2,278.23; 26 shares Lincoln Fire In- | surance Co. of New York, $2.63 {100 shares Rhode Island Public | Service Co., 32 35 shares Un- derwriters Finance Co., $3,500; 50 shares United States Shares Corp., land Bank Stock Trust shares, $1.- (Continued on Page 4) i closer to 10 o'clock, the time for the | “INS AND OUTS” OF PRESIDENCY ‘Cahln Coolidge, retiring president, and Herbert Hoovel are shown above on steps of White House on Inauguration Day. | 1 1 Veteran Democratic Leade his successor. HOLDING TWO FOR_ MRS, POLENE DIES NEWINGTON DEATH New Britain Men Are Under Arrest in Haxtiord HIT AND RUN CHARGED ihony Roulard and Andrew Ros- tacki of This City Suspected of Running Down and Killing John , 26, With Auto. Anthony Roulard, of 39 Curtin street, Andrew Rostacki, 22 of Newington, are being Hartford polic tion on cal charge of breach of ing an investigation dent in Newington I John U. Skomars, Church street, on, was killed instantly by a hit-and-run driver. Mau and Sister Hit Mr. or Ellen Skomars, were walk New Britain road in Elm Hill o'clock last evening when ar came up behind them force of the impact drove 20 feet and threw the girl ditch on the side of the road. When she recovered, the au- tomobile had continued on its and her brother was several feet up the road. She went to the home of D. Hancock, who lives nearby. onstable Raymeond Halloran and Constable Floyd Rice were called Later Dr. John Purne: depnty medical 2 was summoned. While members of the were ahout the scene of the accident and while the medical ex: er and undertaker were being awaited, automobile was seen coming in opposite diraction from that h the fatal automobile It bor: one headlight 32 years old this city, and years of age, held in Miss on hout 6:30 n automot and the the 1 into the 1y to nad 1 (Continued on Page 17) Yale Loses Aviation Instructor Whose LessonsflCame in Bottles New Haven, March 6.—(UP)— Yale students who have been getting their “flight instruction™ in bottles, will be warned and “ " Ar- mand Williams, 31, D. C., who claimed to have been an officer in the Ttalian royal flying corps, will be set free with the ad- monition never sgain to enter this state, police indicated today after in- vestigation of what promised to be a “liquor scandal” at the university, Willlams, a hard-faced, swarthy man who dressed in Fifth avenue clothes and drove a sleck, custom- | built roadster that was the envy of | Yale students, is under $500 bonds | awaliting arraignment Saturday for [nll(»gwd idleness, He was arrested last night by campus police as he left a dormitory. | Williams protested he was organ- | or not the stude Williams w liquor on th they had no evidence stand up in court The university will be satisfied if Williams leaves the state, said Dean Clarence W. Mendel. “I don't care where he bootlegs so long as he doesn’t do it here The self-styled aviator was report- ed to have had in his possession scv- popular purveyor of campus, but admitted hat would | eral checks and a list of names in- cluding those of several well-known students, The list has disappeared since the arrest, however, and police disclaim knowledge of it. Dean Mendel said no drastic ac tion against any s ent 1 with Williams would be t it could not be establis! was a | plicat 4 whethe 10r ¢ ective flying stu " INHER 1ST YEAR Aged German Resident Helped' . Found §t. Matthew's Church LIVES HERE POR 46 YEARS C SICR FO | “He Never Deserted Any Friend In EXICAN FEDE MARCH FROM Average Daily Circulation For Week Ending March 2nd .. 15,495 PRICE THREE CENT8 RAL FORGES FIVE POINTS UPON REBELS AT MONTEREY “War Horse” Dead THOMAS D. TAGGART. TOM TAGGART DIES AT INDIANA HOME I Loses Game Fight for Lie R MANY MONTH Nced,” Is Record Left By Politi- cal Leader, Dead At Age of 72— Memory Was Remarkable. Indianapolis, March 6 (A—Thomas Taggart, veteran Indiana democratic ieader, died at his home here this morning following an illness of sev- months. lle was 72 years old. r. Taggart died at 10:30 o'clock. condition 1 M He had been in eritical since late yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. Taggart returned Widow of August Polenz l’.“e”{mm their summer home at Hyan- Away After Brief Ilness, Leaving 11 Descendants—Funcral Services 2 Stomach aliment. to Be Held Tomorrow. Mrs. Amelia Polenz, 90 years old, cne of the 20 German residents who | last i She vas the widow of August Polenz. s. Polenz was a native of Ger- been living in Britain for the past 46 years. ing her are her daughter, Mrs. Adolph, 10 al s will be held Fri- v afternoon at 2 o'clock at the 30 o'clock at St. Mat- s Gern Lutheran church . A. C. Theodore Steege, pastor. will offici Burial will be in Fair- view HECSENETOG 10 JURY TOMORROW Defense Calls No Witness- es and Accused Does Not Take Stand h 6.—(P—Both orning in the trial Zdel for the murder - Harrington, actress, itier Alexander P. Rorke, counsel told Judge . Jr., in general ses- sions court that no witnesses would be called in Edel's behalf. Rorke also said Edel would not take the stand in his own defense. Rorke and James E. McDonald. issistant district attorney, who is (Continued on Page 18) GINSBURG WILL DIRECT LEGION'S LEGISLATION Appointed to Observe Course of Bills in Assembly Affecting World Warriors. The ills b American Legion's inte sre the general assembly lled by Attorney Harry G urg, former commander of Glover post, who was designated to- by e Commander Paige iton as legislative representative. Several important bills from an @ ha ex-serviceman’s standpoint are socn Whiting street; a daughter, Mrs. Ernest W. Nelson of West Hartford & sister in 8weden and a grand- daughter, Lois Olson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Olson. Prayers will be offered at the home Friday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock and the funeral services will be conducted at the edish Beth- any church at 3 o'clock. Rev. Charles J. Fredeen, pastor, will con- duct both services. Burial will be in Fairview cemetery. Lodge, celebrated scientist and | izing a flying school and offered spiritnalist philosopher, says in an | credentials purporting to show he In Memoriam” tribute to his wife, | Was a veteran war pilot and at one |who dled February 20, that he has|time had held an endurance record already received messages from her. | in Italy. He had no plane. In the course of this tribute.| Exmination of the roadster, police Oliver states: “She met and wna‘ compartment under the floor boards. welcomed by her beloved son and | large enough to accommodate a daughter. and was allowed to send | sizeable consignment of bottled us a characteristic and evidential | goods. message before being taken by them | University authorities said they to rest and recuperation.” had ‘“good reason te believe” that | | Williams gave his addres Nineteenth street, W * THE WEATHER which was wrilten for friends, 8ir| said, revealed a cleverly constructed | | New Dritain vicinity: Fair tonight: Thursday in- | creasing cloudiness followed by rain; warmer Thursday. | *. * t0 be heard. The committee on edu- cation has before it a measure look- ing to the proper education of war orphans; the finance committee will consider a bill to exempt legion pro- perties from t; whether revenue producing or not; the military affairs committee has a legal problem bear- ing on guardianship of war orphans. and the apropriations committee will take up the matter of rewarding | been former soldiers and sailors with ‘mednh | weaker. | risport, Muss., last fall and in Oc- tober he under Since then h had gradually become Yesterday he took a turn for the worse. Misses First Convention His illness had prevented him from attending the democratic na- tional convention last year, the first he had missed for years. A boom Taggart had s tion of Evans banker, for the presidency, sent Woollen to the convention with the support of the Indiana delegation. Taggart's influence in national condition democratic politics was last felt in| the long drawn out New York con- | vention of 1924, when he personally directed a move to nominate the late United States Senator Samuel Rals- tom of Indiana for the presidency. The convention was said to have been on the verge of turning to Ralston as a way out of the Smith- MeAdoo deadlock, when Ralston withdrew from the race because of {il health. Ralston died a short time later. Taggart was confined to the hos- (Continied on Page 4) BEACH SLAYER DIES IN GHAIR FOR CRIME Taylor, Dancing Barber, Goes to Death Without Assistance Boston, March € (P—George E. H. Taylor, 47 year old itinerant bar- ber, street dancer, coal miner and former convict, was executed early | today at Charlestown state prison for the murder in June 1627, of Stella Pomikala, 21 year old Law- rence girl. Taylor, known as the “Dancing Barber,” went to the electric chair unassisted but with none of the lighthearted demcanor that had marked him during the long fight de by his attorneys to overturn the verdict of an Essex county superior court jury. Early last night he had been bap- tized by Rev. William B. Whitney, Protestant chaplain and a few minutes before midnight he was given communion. He de- clined, however, to accept the sug- | on of the chaplain that he leave | fina! statement on the crime for hich he was to d The killing for which Taylor was loomed occurred on Salisbury Beach « summer resort Tayl tained a job in a barber shop a day before the girl was f to death after an attempted assault and he disapprared the next day. Sold Victim's Watch Through a pair of sun glasses which were discovered near the body | and his sale of the girl's watch to a man who had given him a lift be- tween two New Hampshire town he was tracked to Hyde Park, Vt. where he was arrested. At his trial Taylor alleged he had arinking heavily chiefly of (Continued on Page 18) ent an operation for | ted for the nomina- | Foollen, Tndianapolis | at the prison | had ob- | d strangled | 'Military Action on | Large Scale Marks Progress of Revolu- tion-Government and Insurgent Troops to Clash Soon. Regulars Are Temporarily Content to Bottle Up Vera Cruz—One-Sixth of Mexican Army Reported to Have Deserted to Op- position Side. | | Washington, March 6 (P American Consul Myers at Viora Cruz reported to | the state department today that { the third battalion of the revo- | lutionary garrison at Vera Cruz | had mutinied at dawn today and | was occupying half of the city. | By the Assoctated Press. Military action on an |scale marked the progress of the | Mexican revolution today. Both the |government and rebels beginning troop movements in the north and south with heavy fighting in pros- | pect. | Disturbed by the capture of Mon- |terey, important strategic rallway | center, federal forces were marching |from flve directions on the capita! of Nuevo Leon to drive out General Escobar, powerful rebel leader in control there, For the moment the government |eppeared to be concentrating on | Monterey, being content merely to | bottle up the city of Vera Cruz which | has been cut off from the rest or |the country. | In the north the rebels appeared |to have scored signal sucoemscs, but | battle lines were being drawn at two | points almost within gun range of |the American border. | The rebels were reported to be extended | en route to Juares, across the border |from El Paso, while loyal federals were marching on Nogales, Sonora, now in rebel hands. i Rebels Make Gaine Reports of fighting favorable to the rebels at Mazatlan, Sinaloa,. Torreon, Coahuila and Cananane¢a have been received, while the rebels |also claimed Chihuahua City. Of the 60,000 men in the Mexican army it was estimated at Mexico | City that 10,000 have gone over to the rebels while 50,000 have remain- ed loyal to the government, General Borquez, revolutionary |commander of Northern Sonora, | (Continued on Page WAR CLOUDS AGAIN | GATHERING IN CHINA {Kai-Shek Masses Force of | 150,000 Men to Meet Kwangsi Troops | | | | | Shanghal, China, March 6 (P— Chinese officialdom here considers |that a tense situation has arisem be- tween the nationalist government and the so-called Kwangsi clique of military leaders and that the shadow ot war again hangs over the coun. try with both sides rapidly mobiliz- | ing. President Chiang Kal-shek s | massing 150,000 men in the province ot Kiangsi presumably to meet a threatened advance of Kwangsi troops from Hankow. The Kwangs strength is estimated at 100,000, Ranking troops, including the famous Cantonese communist fron- | sides, 6,000 strong, are now being |transferred to Kiangsi from Shan- {tung where the revolt of troops un- | der Chang Tsung-Chang apparently |is at a standstill. Steamers Commandeered Meanwhile, the Shanghai-Kanking railway has suspended traffic tem- porarily because of troop move- (Continued on Page 4) Boy Finds Pistol And Kills Sister Camden, N. J.,, March 6.—(® —Victim of & hold-up prank vl d by her little brother, six- vear old Betty Diehl died at & hospital early today. Her brother, John, 8, who shot her with his father’s revolver yester- day afternoon, was held at the liouse of detention, While the parents were absent John took the weapon, which he thought was empty, and pointed it at his sister, saying: “Hande up, I'm a robber.” He pressed the trigger and a bullet entered Betty's abdomen. A neighbor, hearing the shot notified police. To them Jobn said, “I put Betty in the bathtub and washed the blood away. Then a man came and took me away,” an operation and blood transfusion failed to save the little girl's life.