New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 2, 1929, Page 3

GRL. SCOUTS WILL " FEED %50 GUESTS Organization's Biggest Buoquet in History Tomorrow The reservations for the Girl Scout mother and daughter banquet, at 30 o'clock tomorrow evening in the dining hall of the Firat Congrega- tional church number 260. Seventy- ‘two of these are mothers and 20 are ‘eouncil members and merit badge examinera Mrs. Clifford D. Perkins of Marttord will award the merit and speak about her trip m‘ to the international Girl Scbut camp last summer. iss Helen Perkins, secretary of Connecticut Girl Scouts, also of Hgrtford will be another guest at the banquet. girl's orchestra will furnish the music. _While the scouts are being seated the orchestra will play the “Con- necticut March.”” The scouts will sing between the courses of the ban- quet. Immediately following the or- chestra will play a seléction. This will be followed by the court of awards. There will be another selec- tion by the orchestra. A motion pic- tubs will follow Mrs, Perkina' talk, The orchestra will close the program. e acouts who are working on rockfinder merit badge will report in the Girl Scout office Thursday, Mgy 9th, after achool to receive help in their work from Mrs. Leon A. Sprague. Mra. Sprague has been in eharge of this group in its wark all year and will - guide the girls in studying the specimens of the com- mén rocks. All notebooks wiil be collected within a week of this date, - DIXON GIVEN RATING Néw Britain Man Ranked as Junior Air Pilot in Orders From Adju- Sant General's Oftice. New Haven, May 2 #—Rating of Jullor air pilots has been given to First Lieut. Ennis B. Mallette, dat- ing from March 22, and to Second Lieut. Carl A. Dixon, dating from January 9, in orders from the ad- Jutant general's office. They are at: taghed to the 118th observation squadron. Resignation of Second Liput. Bylvester B. Bubier, Company » 189th infantry, has been accepted. lli:luunce Man Arrested . For Fraud Conspiracy Hartford, May 2 (®—Joseph J. George, 50, an agent for the New York ‘Life Insurance company, sur- vegdered himself to the Hartford pofice today and will be arraigned .in police court on Friday to answer & charge of conspiracy to defraud. George's home is in Worcester, Mass. Two others are under arrest here in connection with the case. They ar¢ 2ra. John Namnoun, 31 of New Bi oharged with forgery, and Nawnoyn, 37 s Brother-in-law ©of "S§1 ‘Linnioore ‘street, this city, chgrged with conspiracy to defraud thé Mbw York Insurance company. READ HERALD -CLASSIFIED ADS Want to Sleep Don't blame your dopey drowsy feelin, all on the change from winter to spring. ng a lition of your blood, nd impure and discharging poisons all through your system, making you dopey, Ppebless and weal ‘That blood of yours must be made pure again. McCoy's Tablets are just the thing for a job like that. They certainly get you back on your feet in jig time. 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A male roomer told the police he was awakened by someone in his room but he was unable to say who it was. Bowler was brought to this city from Boston, Mass, a few months ago and arraigned in superior court for burglary at 61 Main street, the rooming house at that time having been under different management than at present. He was in jail for several weeks awaiting trial and this fact was take1 into consideration in superior court and he was not pun- ished, but the understanding was that he would return to Boston and live, with his family. According to the police, Bowler has been about New Britain and only a few days ago he was ques- tioned by Sergeant Stadler relative to a theft, but was not held. Sir Geoffrey Butler o Dies; Widow American London, May 2 (M—Sir Geoffrey Butler, mémber of the house of commens and parliamentary private secretary to Sir Samuel Hoare, secre- tary for aviatisn, died in a London nursing home today. He was 42 years old. Sir Geoffrey Butler w widely known in educational circles in Great Britain and was a student of international law and politics, writ- ing many articies on these questions. He lectured at the University of Pennsylvania in 1913-14-16 and at Drexel Institute in 1918. He was assigned to the foreign office in 1915 and was a member of the Balfour mission to the United States two years later. He was director of the British bureau of information in the United States from 1917 until 1919, In 1916 Sir Geoffrey married Elizabeth Levering, eldest daughter of J. Levering Jones of Philadelphia. HCOW TO HANDLE WOMEN Cleveland, Ohio, May 1 (M— Cleveland is to have college-bred policemen. The broad A will be common after the flatties finish the courses worked out by professors at Clevéland college, along lines of training at Scotland Yard and the New York police academy. 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Davis is returning to Costa Rica as minister, but his friends are hopeful that he will be promoted to a more important post in recognition of what they re- gard as his splendid service at San Jose, There are suggestions that he may succeed Alexander P. Moore as ambassador to Peru, Besides those at Paris and Rome, a number of new appointments to the corps are to be made. The ad- ministration soon will be called upon to send a minister to the union of South Africa, one of the British Dominions, as the way now is being paved for direct diplomatic relations such as exist between the United States and Canada. o an Economist Friends of 8enator Edge who are urging him for the Paris ambassa- dorship hold that he would fit well into the picture. Most of the ques- tions between this country and France are economic, such as the tariff and war debts, to which he has given astudy as a member of the senate finance committee, He was in business in Paris for fifteen years before his election to the senate, spending several months of each year thete. He spaks the language fluently and since severing his connections with his old firm, he often has revisited the French capital. STRATFORD WOMAN FREED OF CHARGE (Continued from First Page)* will be no charge against you in Stratford town court, Here are the keys to your home.” He informed her that following & conference between Prosecutor Ray- mond Baldwin of Stratford and As- sistant State’s Attorney Lorin Willis it had been decided not to arraign her on any charge in connection with the case. M Beardslee expects her sisters and mother here from Hartford to- day. 8he does not plan to return im- mediately to her home in Stratford 1o live. “I think I'll here at Hillside for a few days,” she said. “They have treated me fine here, and I think Il keep my room until I've recovered somewbhat from the shock of this whole experience.” Coroner Exonerates Her Mrs. Gladys Maud Foster Beard. slee, Btamford, is exonerated of crim- irality in the death of her husband, Oliver Beardslee, in a finding by Coroner John J. Phelan today. One week ago today, Beardslee died at the Bridgeport hospital of a bullet wound in the temple, received during a quarrel at his home early in the day. The coroner finds that the bullet wound was inflicted by Beardslee as the result of his own intended or ac- cidental acts. The finding leaves to conjecture ‘Virgivia Lee Hosiery’ in the new Bervice Chiffon. 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Setting this lack of testimony forth as one of his reasons for finding as he did, the coroner points “to ‘the improbability of securing a criminal conviction of Mrs. Beardsiee be- cause of the lack of testimony.” Testimony, in which the ancient revolver from which the bullet was fired was classed as a dangerous weapon very sensitive to trigger preshure, was also one of the bases for the coroner's finding. He points to the testimony offered at his inquest by James E. Burns, ballistic engineer of this city, who discounted the necessity of the prev- alence of powder burns about the wound to prove a theory of suicide. The powder used in the bullet which tore through Beardslee's brain was of the smokeless type, not generally known to leave a powder burn, Burns declared. ‘The shooting and death of Beard- slee is,classed as a regretable affair by the coroner and, in reference to the story told by the woman at his hearing on Tuesday, he has this to say: “Mra. Beardslee on the witness stand told a full story of the do- mestic life of the couple and the re- grettable happening with apparent frankness and sincerity.” Phelan's Finding The coroner’s finding ‘in full is as follows: ' “The undersigned coroner, having notice of the death of Oliver Beard- slee, & white male 51 years old, late o_! town of Stratford, resident at 180 King street, who on the 25th day of April, died a sudden, violent, ' un- timely death at the Bridgeport hos. pital, in the town of -Bridgeport, having made immediate inquiry con- cerning his death, does hereby cer- tify that said Oliver Beardslee died in Bridgeport on the 25th day of April from a bullet wound of the skull and brain. “Investigation showed that the de- ceased, after a quarrel with his wife, Gladys, in the early morning of the above date, in the living room of their home, concerning the paucity of their domestic income, his former extravagances, and after cuffing his wife, the latter being then intoxicat- ed, and both indulging in unpleasant language towards each other and causing disorder and injury to the room and its furnishings, left such room in apparent anger and went Lo his bedroom across the hallway. “Upon his so leaving, Gladys sat in the disordered room for a period of probably 15 to 20 minutes, hoping for the return of the deceased and for a reconciliation with him, as was usual in former controversies. Upon his failure to so return, however Gladys crossed the hallway intv her husband’s bedroom and found him lying on his bed, when she address- ed some presumably taunting re- mark to him in consequence of the quarrel, whereupon, as shown by her testimony, he partially raised himselt in the ved, a .22 calibre re- volver in his hand, leisurely raised it in her presence, and shot himself in the left side of the head. “It further showed that she hur- riedly, through the assistance of a Btratford policeman, procured the attendance of a physiciarf, who after examination of the deceased in the bathroom of the residence, caused him to be sent to the hospital about 4 a. m., where he died about 1 p. m. the same day. Dying Words Conflicting It appeared by the evidence of Offer 8 Tubes Thursday ard Friday Here it is! Special Price ‘110 Complete Less l'ubes Dynamic Speaker Brilliant Tone Powerful Reception Selective—Sensitive Sergeant Flanagan, of the Stratford police department, that the deceas- ed, while in the emergency room of the hospital, mumblingly disclaimed ownership of the revolver used by hi hat he mumblingly said in re- sponse to a question of the aergeant that he did not shoot himself, but that his wife, Gladys, shot him. “It appeared, however, that an orderly of the hospital, there prea- ent at the time, understood the mumblings of the deceased to mean, in answer to the inquiries of Flana- gan, as to whether he shot himself, that he did shoot himself; and to the further question, as to whether kis wife shot him, answered also i the affirmative. “There being no evidence given, however, showing that the deceased, in his then state of prostration in the emergency room of the hospital, believed he was about to die, or was so informed by anyone when he made the mumbling answers testi- tied, such statements were of no evidential value as charging Mrs. Beardslee with possible criminality. Beardslee Left-Handed “It was shown by competent ex- pert testimony that the deceased, being a left-handed man, could in- flict the fatal wound himself, as shown by his wife, and further that the size and character of the gun and missile, when shot from a point six or more inches from the head, left no burn or powder stain on the flesh of the victim as shown in this c he expert testimony also showed that the gun itself was 8o sensitive to trigger pressure as to lend belief that | it may have been accidentally dis- charged by the deceased as he raised himself in bed, gun in hand, for the purpose of frightening his wife, as he is alleged to have done at ® prior time. “Mrs. Beardslece on the w 373 Main Street stand told a full story of the domes- tic life of the couple and the re. grettable happening with apparent frankness and sincerity. “In view of the forcgoing and the improbability of securing a criminal conviction of Mrs, Beardslec for ihe death because of the lack of testi- mony, she heing the only witness to the fatality, and the apparent truth of her testimony and her emphatic denial of any accusation whatever- tending to incriminate her, I find the deceased came to his death at the time, place, and from the cause shown as the intended or accidental result of his own ac MRS. WELCH SUES Meriden Man Defendant Brought By New Britain Woman After Auto Accideat. Mrs. Mary Welch of Cabot street this city, has brought suit for $15,.- 000 against 'S8amuel Schway of 59 Columbus avenae, Meriden, alleging that he was careless, reckless and negligent in his manner of driving an automobile in a westerly direction on West Main street on September 22, 1928, with the result that the plaintift was struck and knocked down, sustaining a fracture of the left femur bone extending into the left knee joint causing ankylosis and also suffering torn ligaments in the same knee. Mrs. Welch was crossing West Main street at the junction of Main street from the south to the north side and the traffic light was amber for pedestrians to cross, according to the allegation. The finjuries causcd a permanent disability and will pre- vent the plaintiff from following her in Salt employment as a domestis, ohe. leges. z Judge William F. 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