New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 2, 1929, Page 1

ESTABLISHED 1870 STEAMSHIPS GRASH IN HAZE OUTSIDE NEW YORK HARBOR Liner Bound lor Spain With 1,000 Passeagers Aboard, Sticks in Mud CAPTAIN OF FREIGHTER REPORTS WATER IN HOLD Hartford Woman on Cristobal Colon, Outward Bound, But Captain Re- ports No One Injured—Majority Hail From Havana and Vera Cruz, Stopping in Transit in New York City for Journey Abroad. New York, May 2 (M—The Span- ish liner Cristobal Colon and the freighter River Orontes collided off {he quarantine station at Rosebank, Staten Island, this afternoon. Heavy Haze Over Water Owing to the heavy haze hanging over the lower harbor, marine ob- servers on the shore could not im- mediately ascertain the extent of the damage. The Cristobal Colon was bound fos Corunna, Spain, while the freighter was arriving after a voy- ag» from Oran, Algeria. Freighter Taking Water Radio advices from the River Orontes said her No. 4 hold was full of water said that she was settling aft. Her captain was putting her into shallow water. 1,000 Passengers on Liner The Cristobal Colon is owned by the Spanish Royal Mail line, is of 10,833 tons displacement and car- ried 1,000 passengers, The River Orontes is owned by the American levant Line, Limited, of London and is under consignment to the Cunard Steamship Compand, Ltd., with cargo. She is a 4,350 ton ves- sel. The River Orontes reported & half hour after the clash that tie Cristoba) Colon still had her bow stuck fast into her side and asked tugs to come to their assistance. Hartford Woman On Board Among the passengers on the Cris: tobal Colon were Margaret Bliss ot Hartford, Conn., Mrs. Helen C. Yard- ley and Mrs. Kafe T. Ward, Tamph, ¥la,, Mrs. Wilson Piefds, Catitérine Plerce; H. David Evans, Alfred Far- well, all of Boston; the Rev. Francie 8. White, of Jilwaukee, The majority of the passengers were from Havana and Vera Crus and were only in New York In transit to Spanish ports. The Spanish Royal Mail line of- fices here said the captain of the Cristobal Colon had wirelessed them that no one had been hurt on his vessel. TACNA-ARICA SCRAP BELIEVED SETTLED Peru and Bolivia Agree on Problem 46 Years Old Lima, TPeru, May 2 (®—Settle- ment of the long pending Tacna- Arica dispute between Chile and Jeru was authoritatively stated ‘o- day to have been completed. It was expected that formal an- nouncement of the settlement would be made within the next two days from Washington. The Tacna-Arica dispute has been a source of constant friction since 1883 when Peru lost the provinces. The disagrecment over the territory went on with more or less intensity until 1 when the president of the Tnited States was asked to arbitrate the question. President Coolidge proposed hat a long-delayed plebiscite should be held and to that end appointed & jeneral John J. Pershing. May 15, 1926, was set as the date of the plebiscite, but dis- agrcements arose between Chile and Peru as to the qualifications of vot- ers and the plebiscite was never held. Since then efforts toward a settle- ment directly between the two gov- ernments have becn going on and last February it was learned that an agreement on the main points at is- sue had been reached. It was under- stood that by the terms of this agreement Tacna would go to Peru and Arica to. *ile with the estab- lishment of a small port for Peru. WATERBURY AIRDROME Waterbury, May 2 (P—A new @irdrome at Bethany Flying TField has been ordered by Harris Whitte- more. of Naugatuck, the owner. The structure will be 80 by 100 feet in size and contracts for it already have been awarded. What Well Dressed Burglar Will Wear Winsted, May 2 (M—Burglars #pecialiging in suits and clothes entered the clothing store of Colt and company some time last night by forcing a rear window and got away with over $3.000 worth of v\cnfing ma- terial. Shirts, suits, h.!p(‘oa(‘ and sweaters were among the ap- parel taken. A cashier's desk ia the place was uatouched. SENATOR WALTER E. EDGE SAY SENATOR EDGE WILL GO TO PARIS New Jersey Man Believed Hoover’s Choice as Her- rick’s Successor By JAMES L. WEST, (Associated Press Staft Writer.) Washington, May 2 (®—Diplomat- ic Washington seems to be convinced that Senator Walter E. Edge of New Jersey 1s the most likely choice for appointment as ° ambassador to France to succeed the late Myron T. Herrick. A similar opinion is en- tertained on Capitol Hill, particular- ly among the close friends of the senator. Authentic infermation now is that President Hoover has no intention of making a selection for some months, or until after the extra ‘scesion of congress. This is regard- ed as lending further color tu the reports that the senior senator fromi New Jersey will go the Paris. Naturally Scnator Edge is main- taining silence and it is known that he already is laying his plans and strengthening his organization fo: the eenatorial primary contest next June, when the New Jersey republi- cans will nominate a candidate for his seat. Othyer Expected Othier gbusip in diplomatic and congressional circles is that Jacob Gould Schurman will remain at Berlin and that L. 8. S8wenson will be retained at his present post in Norway, where he has served aince 1921. Some of the other diplomatic representatives to Europe, including Hugh Gibson, ambassador to Bel- glum, also will be continued in their present places, although some trans- fers to Latin-America are anticipat- ed. There is of course, much conjec- ture as to the successor of the vet- eran Henry P. Fletcher, ambassador to Italy, who desires to return to (Continued on Page Three) Cramer Reaches Ciicuo Hours Behind Schedule Chicago, May 2 (P —S8everal hours overdue, Parker Cramer, aviator re- turning from an air trip to Alaska and the Bering Straits, landed at Municipal Airport today from lLa Crosse, Wis., where he had been forced to stop last night. Cramer left St. Paul at 6:30 last night and was expected to fly di- rectly to Chicago. Some anxiety was felt when he failed to make an appearance last night. He chore to land at La (‘rosse rather than hazard the night flight on into Chicago. NO ACTION ON MELLON Washington, May 2 —A pro- posal to call Secretary Mellon for questioning regarding his right to head the treasury department in view of an old statute forbidding the treasury secretary to engage in trade or commerce was discussed for two hours today by the senate Jjudiciary comauttce, but no action l\val taken. TATRONAGE GROUP STAYS ‘Washington, May (#)—Post- master General Brown informed i complaining committee of Georgix republicans and democrats today that the patronage committee he has set up in Georgia to replace that organized by Horace A. Mann would stand. Beverly, Mass., May 2 (®—The whole city was enjoying a quict laugh today over the jocular rivalry of Messrs, Archer and Patch. A month or so ago Mayor Roy K. Patch was astonished to find that although he prided himself on his knowledge of the municipal park- ing regulations his automobile h: been neatly tagged by “Officer Arch- er.” He hastencd to report to po- lice headquarters and was insisting that the law take fts course just as it would have with plain John Citi- zen when the chief glanced at the signature on the card and the story was out. Henry 8. Archer, presi- dent of the board of aldermen, promptly owned to the authorship of the tag and therc was a hearty ‘augh all around. And then two days ago just when SLAIN WIFE LOVED HUSBANDYS FRIEND College Stndent Tells of Mrs. Peacor’s Infatuation OPTEN BARED HER HEART Eugene Bussey Says Dorothy Oftea Threw Her Arms About Him and Kissed Him—Admits Great Moral Wrong in Flirtation, White Plains, May 2 (M —Jealousy was seen today as a possible motiv: for the act of Earl F, Peacox, who has confessed to strangling his 20- year-old wife Dorothy and setting fire to the body, The existence of a rival for hia wife's affections in the person of a former schoolmate of Peacox's was revealed when Eugene Bussey, stu- dent at Johns Hopkins university, told of a flirtation with Mrs, Pea- cox and of the husband’'s angry pro- test when he learned cf it. Admits Great Moral Wrong Bussey said he was coming from Baltimore to help Peacox in his de- tense, *I have done Earl Peacox a great moral wrong, but now I am going to help all I can,” he said in a statement published in the New York American today. He said that last summer while employed as radio operator on th: vacht of H. E. Manville, asbestos manufacturer, he visited at the Pea- cox home, “Dorothy seemed to take a great fancy to me,” the atatement went on, “and Earl didn't seem to mind. Threw Herself At Him “While it is pretty rotten to say it, she just literally flung herself at my head. I resisted her. “Dorothy was very careless, shc would throw her arms around my neck and kiss me even with Earl looking on, but she did it in a sister- ly sort of way when he was there.” Bussey said he wrote letters to Mrs. Peacox and that her husband found one of them. “He called me up and was Very angry. He told me 1 was treating him terribly and he said if he was anywhere near me he would beat the life out of me.” Bussey said he never wrote to Mrs. Peacox after that although he had letters from her, in which he said she declared she was going to divorce Peacox and marry him. Wanted to Ind Correspondence A letter purporting to have been written by Bussey to Mrs. Peacox was published today in the Ameri- can which said in part: “Dorothy, pleafe do not expect to hear from me often. I do not think I should write much and also that you should destroy these letters. You said you were going to make the best of things between you two, and it would be horrible if T were to cause any more friction or trouble. “It is not wrong for me to atand off as it. were, and admire you and even love you—any more would be wrong and not fair to either of you at least if it were noticeable to E.” District Attorney Frank H. Coyne of Westchester county said he knew of ne such letter. The body of Mrs. Peacox was tak- en to Norwalk, Conn. today for burial in Riverside cemetery there. No services were conducted here. HEAYY SNOWSTORM STRIKES ST. LOUIS Traflic Demoralized By Unseason- able Blizzard—Thermometer Drops Below Frecazing Over Wide Area St. Louis, May 2 (P—A heavy| snow storm of near blizzard propor- tions struck St. Louis and portions of Missouri and Illinois today, de- moralizing traffic. disrupting tele- phone communications and sending the temperature tumbling below freezing. More than three fnches of snow had fallen here before 8 o'clock this | morning. The unseasonable storm struck | non-limitation of one of | “Pay as You Go” Policy Upheld When Senate Defeats Proposal For Capital Outlay Bond Issue Parsons and Christ Lead Bitter Assault Upon Financial Policy of Democratic Party — Bonds Called Tax on Future Generations—Vote Is19 State Capitol, Hartford, May 2 (P —The only definite program offered by the democrats in 1929 was voted down by the aenate today. With Benators Hackett of New Haven and Conroy of Hartford de- fending the former's proposal that bonds be issued for state capital outlay expenditures and the “pay as you go” policy abandoned, and 8en- ators Parsons of North Canaan, finance chairman, and Christ of New Britain, appropriations chair- man, opposing, the senate rejected the belatedly-offered petition of the democratic acnator. 8enator Parsons declared the pro- posal “unjustified, likely to increasc the taxation burden, and a plan conducive to extravagance and over expansion.” . The vote, taken by roll call on Senator Hackett's motion, was 19 to 11, only Senator Lillibridge of Nor- wich breaking with the minority. During . the arguments, Senator Peasley of Cheshire, the majority leader, declared that the question involved was not the soundness of the *pay as you go" plan or the bond issue system, but of policy, and added: AMERICA CONCEDES DISARMAMENT POINT Withdraws Objection to Non-Limitation of War Material eneva, May 2 (M—As an outcome of last weelk's withdrawal by the United States of objection to the trained reserves, Hugh 8. Gibson, American represen- tative at the preparatory disarma- ment conference, today announced withdrawal of the American reserva- tion concerning war material in stock. At the opening of discussion on war material, Mr. Gibson said the analogy between material in reserve 2nd trained reserves was so close that he nced only take a moment to explain the position. Throughout earlier debates, he said, the American delegation en- deavored to persuade the other del- egations that material in reserve should be limited on the ground (1) that it actually exists in time of peace, (2) that it conferred a decid- ed advantage on its possessor should war break out and (3) that it was important to make clear distinction between material in stock and in service, However, as in the case of trained rescrves, the American delegation was prepared to make a concession and to defer to the cpinion of the countries primarily concerned. Count Von:Bernstorff, German del- cgate, asked whether withdrawal of the American reservation referred to material in service, ‘whereupon Mr. Gibson explained he had with- drawn the reservation as regorded material in stock, but was sorry he was unable to give a precise answer as to the American position on ma- terial in service. Its position on that point would be largely, though not entirely, be determined by provisions which commended themselves to the commission in dealing with that subject. Japan Changes Face M. Saito of Japan also announced a change in the attitude of his coun- try on this question. Hitherto Japan had been of the opinion that reduc- tion in land armaments should be carried out solely by means of re- duction of effectives, but the Japan- ese dclegate said she had now de- cided to consent to limitation of ma- teria with sudden fury in the wake of a series of terrific wind, rain and hail storms yesterday and last night and | brought mid-winter weather to a| wide area, the bounds of which hal| not been determined by the govern- ment weather bureau this morningz. Reports reached 8t. Louis that there had been a destructive tor- nado in southeast Missouri, but the storm had so paralyzed telephon= service, it was impossible to estah- lish communications with that re- gion, Mayor and Alderman Play Pranks Upon Each Other as City Laughs, Archer was beginning to think he had gotten away with it, there came a pcunding of aldermanic door at an uncomfortably ea hour and a policeman who appear- ed very much in earnest announc- ed that “Officer Archer” was want- ed at the town lockup for imper- sonation of an officer. It was only when Archer had fully dressed that his captor decided he needn’t “come along” after all. Yesterday the mayor wanted o £0 to Lynn in a hurry but the may- oral car seemed to have disappeared and it was not until Patch had im- pressed a friend’s services for the round trip that Archer telephoned to suggest the missing vehicle might !the |have the advance of publici I rect limitation of war matcrial raised As to methods, M. Saito considered best was indirect budgetary limitation Di the question of potential war and also the very delicate problem of control. He concluded by remarking that his statement referred to material of land armaments only and not to material of naval or air armaments. Italy and Czecho-Slovakia also supported the idea of budgetary limitation, but Sweden argued for a system of direct limitation. Count Von Bernstorff, having made a plea for direct disarmament which he said was ‘“not unrealizable be- cause it had been recalized in Ger- meny,” concluded by observing pes- simistically that he saw the majority of the commission was preparing for limitation by budgetary method. Gibson Asks Full Publicity Mr. Gibson then rose to make clear the American position. Re- calling the American attitude at the arms traffic conference in favor of the fullest publicity, he said this at- titude extended to the creation and maintenance of armaments. He was prepared to agree to the broadest and most comprehensive measures for publicity. “After exhaustive and sometimes exhausing debates on the subject of budgetary disarmament. my govern- ment still adheres to the opinion . that it does not present a true pic- ture.” Mr. Gibson added that the budget- ary method was not a logical one be found in the police garage. Today the men have shaken hands| and temporarily, at least, the score .unu Archer one up on Patch, for disarmament. owing to varia- tions in cost price. labor exchange (Continued on Page 16) X through | which would | to 11, | It is the policy of the republican party to pay as it goes, and it is the policy of the democratic party "to incur bonded indebtedness. It is purely a political issue and the peo- ple of Connecticut apparently have approved the republicans' plan. We have no fears that in succeeding years we may be repudiated at the polls.” Senator Parsons described the minority proposal as being the re- sult of “lack of understanding” of financing and cited as the only rea- sons justifying state bond issues as situations wherein the necessity “to raise money by taxation is so large as- to make taxation a burden that is excessive and unbearable” and wherein projects being financed re- sult in over-expansion not needed for several years. “Bond issues," he declared, “in- stead of producing an income, add a burdeh of 10 per cent on the finances of the state for every dol- lar borrowed and expended.” He recalled that at the end of the last democratic administration, in 1915, the bonded indebtedness, was (Continued on Page 16) P, 0. ANNEX SITE WILL COST $45000 Hands of U, 5. Attorney DEED YET T0 BE SIGNED First Step Taken Toward Consum- mation of Plans to Erect Bullding In Expansion Program Involving $230,000 Appropriation. A decisive step towards the start of New Britain's new quarter mil- lion dollar post office was made to- day whes'ft was learied that a cheei for $45,000 to pay for proveriy on South High street, which will be razec to make rocm for the growing mail service here, i3 in the hands of the United States attorney in Hart- ford and everything is in realin>as for the signing of he Cadwell property on | strect. The Cadwell property represents a frontage of 54 feet ¢n Routh High street and a depth of 126 feet, run- ning eastward. Another check is expected within & short time for the Davis property which represents a plot 66 feet square, adjoining. A few details in connection with the right of way for a driveway 1613 feet wide, south of the Cadwell pro- perty are still to be adjusted before the deed for the Davis property is signed. This driveway will enter on South High street and will be a con- tinuation of the driveway entering the same territory from Court street, giving an entrance and exit for maii trucks on two streets. The Court street driveway right of way it is be- lieved, has been obtained. Although plans for the start of the work are still unknown, it is ex- pected that the work of razing the ‘adwell house will begin in the very near future, An appropriation for $250,000 for the purchase of ground and additions to be built to the local post office, which will more than double i‘s present capacity, was passed by congress some lime ago. i ARRESTS IN APRIL 78 for Violation of City Ordinances deed for the South Iligh and 37 for Breaking Motor Ve- hicle Laws. During the month of April. the po- lice made 312 arrests, according 1o Chief Hart's report. There were 78 arrests for violations of city ordi- nances; 37 for motor vehicle viola- tion; 70 for drunkenness; 18 for theft: 19 for breach of the peace and drunkenness; 23 for breach of the peace and assault; 13 for breach of the peace; four for liquor law violations; 23 for violations of the lottery law. During the month of April, 1928, the police made 257 arrests, or 55 less than the corresponding month this year. PDORCHESTER MAN HELD Tred Ellis, 30, of 365 Quincy street, Dorchester, Mass.. was ar- rested this noon by Officer George Moffitt on the charge of violating the city ordinances. He was dis- tributing paper certificates at the Lincoln school on Steele street, the certificates having a cash value at a local store on a pen and pencil deal. Ellis was released on a cash bond for his appearance in poli court tomorrow, - THE WEATHER New Rritain and vicinity: Rain tonight and Friday moraing. Colder. } | | | ! | . Check for Cadwell Property in! 1 | since INEW HAVEN SHOOTING | PAINTERS DEWAND | & ‘frrmm BUT NOT PAY FOR - Counter Proposal Sont By New| Britain Empioyers Cutline Plan Which May Open Union Officials Silent, Discussion— Union painters, paper har.gers, and decorators may have the Saturday holiday they demand but they will not be paid for the four hours thev do not work on Saturday morning, according to a counter proposition sent the Painters, Decorators and Paper hangers union by New Britain Master Painters. Formal demand was made of the master painters that the union work- ers be allowed a five-day week or 40 hours without reducing the salary of $44 for 44 hours work. To ac- complish this the four hours of work Saturday morning would be elimin- ated. When the master painters re- fused the proposition a strike was called and more than 50 men re- sponded yesterday morning. Although some of the smaller shops have given in and are now em- ploying the men on the five-day-a- week basis the four largest shops employing union men are firm in their refusal and are ready to fight to the end the demand which they term unreasonable. These shops are Occupin & Johnson Co. on Arch street, John Boyle Co., on Franklin Square, Crowley Brothers of Chap- man street and Johnson Brothers on Main street. Occupin & Johnson employ 11, John Boyle Co. employ 20, Johnson Brothers employ §, and Crowley Brothers employ 20. Union leaders maintained a silence which had marked their activities the strike was called. Al- though no official announcement was made it was indicated at union hall where the painters congregated this morning that the offer of the master painters for & holiday Saturday without pay would not be accepted. Negotiations are being carried on throughout the day with the union representatives as the aggressor. James W. Manning. business agent and leader of the labor movement, would make no statement other than that he recelved a communication from the master painters. ‘When Walter P. Occupin, secre- atry of the employers' association was questioned today he said many had told him the stand of the master painters was the correct one'in the of unrcasonable demands of the union men. He said his stand was| the same as that taken by other em- ployers who met with him yesterday afternoon. RESULT OF JEALOUSY Fruit Merchant Wounds Woman, Blows Own | Brains Out | New Haven, May 2 ('}—.lea)nusy! is believed to have been the motive in the attempted killing of Mra. I vira Ferrara, 32, at her home §29 Howard avenue ecarly this morning | and the suicide of Francesco Gentil- eaco, 69 year old fruit merchant. The woman was taken to the New Haven hospital where she is suffer- ing from a slight scalp wound. | Gentilesco died immediately after | firing a shot into his brain, Police were lled to the Ferrara apartment at §:15 this morning after Mrs. Abraham Epstein, living in an apartment below. heard three shots and the heavy thud of what she be- lieved was a body. On the arrival of police authori- tiea Mrs. Ferrara was walking around the kitzhen of her home, |return was ecagerly April 27& o 15.571 PRICE THREE CENTS MRS. BEARDSLEE IS FREED WHEN CORONER EXONERATES HER OF SHOOTING HUSBAND MRS. GLADYS BEARDSLEE. PARIS FEARS WORST AS SCHACHT RETURNS German Reparations Ex- pert Will Confer With Young May 2 (® -— Dr. Hjalmar head of the German dele- Paris, Schacht, gation to the reparations confer- ence, arrived in Paris this afternoon from Berlin he attended a mecting of the direciorate of the Reichsbank. The German representative, where , whose awaited in rep- arations circles, was smiling ani non-committal. His secretary said that it had not been decided wheth- er he would confer with Owen D. Young, chairman of the conference, |today or tomorrow. If Dr. Schacht maintains the same in transigeant attitude which made failure of the conference imminent almost two wecks ago the experts will have only qui v to finish their final report and go home. 1f. on the other hand, Schacht's stay in Berlin has put him in a po- sition to make new suggestions meriting serious consideration by the representatives of the creditor na- tions negotiations probably will be resumed. This latter alternative was re- garded today, however, as extremely doubtful. Information from Berlin was that Dr. Schacht would make a new proposal but there was little indication it would be anything like satisfactory to the allied nations. M Raise Ofier This proposal. it was understood, with blood streaming from a scalp wound and Gentilesco lying ugainst the kitchen stove, dead with a bullet in the temple. A third buliet had been fired ovi- | dently zt Mrs. Verrara and had drifl- ed a hole in a window. Fired Three shots | Ferrara told police at the that Gentilesco had rung (Continue on Page 16) Mrs. hoepital would be ‘an offer to raise the Ger- {man annuitics from 1,650,000,000 marks (about $356.000.000), as put forward 1wo weeks ago, to 2,000,- 000,000 mar provisionall or 15 years, Inasmuch, however, as the Ger- mans were said to be strongly op- that is to say, for 10 |posed to relinquishing the transfer (Continued on Page 16) New York. May 2 (®—Miss Anne Morrow, betrother to Colonel | Charles A. Lindbergh, came back to | New York today with her sister and | mother, but the Lone Eagle was not among those to greet her on her ar- rival. Miss Morrow, wih her sister, Eli abeth, and Mrs. Dwight W. Morrow, left the train which had brought them from Clevelr ad, where they had stopped on their way from Mex ico City, at the 125th street station in Harlem. instead of the Grand Central station. | There were no interviews. Miss Morrow. like the fiying colonel, is| averse fo newspaper publicity on their romance. The women immedi- ately were hurried by automobile to the 125th street ferry on the Hudson river where the party could obtain ‘ransportation to the Marrow home 't Englewood, N. J. 3. J. Morrow, brother of m am- |no police escort. |cordial greeting to Elizabeth. Lindy Fails to Greet Fiancee Upon Her Arrival in New York bassador to Mexico. and his wife met the women and rode with them away from the station. There was but a detail of po- licemen kept a lane cltar at the sta- tion through which the party could move. Apparently everyone in the crowd was on the lookout for Colonel Lind- bergh, and when an unidentified man was singled out as the flier, the throng surged about him until they ad been satisfied he was not the colonel. At the station, however. was an- other young man who extended a His name could not be obtained. Both girls held on leashes two |sray terriers. Anne wore & rose beige tweed suit, dark blue felt hat that turned oft the face. and a pointed fox ncarf. Her sister wore a small black hicorn hat and a gray suit.. Mrs. Morrow wore dark blue tnvellq clothes (about $480,000,000). | l’lnelu Says Woman's Story Appears Frank and Truthful - Inpos- sible to Secure Convic- tion, as There Were no Other Witnesses. Beardslee, Being * Left- Handed, Could Have In- flicted Wound Himself But May Have Been Trying to Frighten Wife When Gun Went Off. Bridgeport, Many 2 UP—Freed of all charges against her, Mrs. Gladys | Foster Beardslee, widow of Oliver ardslec, exonerated by Corener Jehn J. Phelan of having had any- ng to do with her husband's Ccath, left Hillside home, place of Ler detention, today. Chief Willilam Nichols of the Stratford police, who was personailly rcsponsible for her safe keeplng pending the coroner's report, went ito the home and told Mrs. Beardsles that all charges against her had been dropped. Mrs. Beardslee was made happy by the words of the chief, coming they did a short time after she (been told that Coroner Phelan had |exonerated her of all blame for her husband’s death, Mrs., Beardslee sald that for the moment her future plans were un-. certain, She said yesterday that probably she would resume’life in the old home of the Beardaltes in Stratford. “An Act of God” Aftorney W. F. D. Kilpatrick, on of Mrs. Beardslee's lawyers, gave her the good news at Hillside Nome this morning. She smiled at hear- ing that she had been exonerated. and said: “I expected it. I knew when Coroner Phelan heard. ‘my story he would believe me, and he did believe me. It the simple fruth, 1 didn't kill my Husband. Probably the whole thing wes act of God and for flloan. i Police Chlef Willlam B. Nickolw was an early visitor at Hillside. Mrs. Beardslee had already heard the. news of her cxoneration. “You' ee, Mrs. Beardelee,” Chief Nichols informed her. *You can go now when and where you please. There (Continued on Page Three) SCOUT'S GOOD TURN CAUSES HIS DEATH Bristol Boy Cuts Foot Recovering Money From Pond Bristol, May 2 — The desire to perform “at least one good turn a day”, the aim of every loyal Boy- Scout, proved fatal to 12 year old" Clifford Schwalm, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Schwaim of 14 Peurl street, Terryville, who died at 17 o'clock last night at the Bristol hos- pital from septic poisoning. Several days ago Clifford visited a pond in Terryville where he found 1wo other smaller boys visibly agitat- ed because of the fact that they had dropped their money into the water. Fearing to venture in, they related their troubles to the older boy, who, without hesitating, stripped off his. shoes and stockings and waded in. Upon returning to the bank after re- covering the money, he found that he had cut his foot on either a can or a piece of wire. He was given medical attention upon his return home but septic poisoning developed rapidly and on April 29 he was re- moved to Bristol hospital. The poi- son continued to spread rapidly and he gradually sank into a state of coma from which he never regained consciousness. Cliffords’ schoolmates and chums, upon hearing of his death this morning, were grief stricken. The funeral will be held at the home of the parents Saturday after- noon. Interment will be in Terryville cemetery. Thinks Self Fiction Character, Ends Life Chicago, May 2 (UP)—A fan- tastic tragedy against a back- ground of undergraduate col- lege life was revealed today with the discovery of the bedy of Vernon T. Peters, bond sales- man, who, it was believ n mitted suicide because ‘e thought himself the prototype of “Drunken Peters,” & charac- ter in the novel “Beyond the Jordan” written by a clln—- at Harvard. Peters’ body wai by John T. Gilbert, who told police t man had been living apart frem his wife and had been drinking heavily. On a table before which Peters’ lifeless form was found, stood. several ‘whisky bottles and " from the movel, 4