New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 3, 1929, Page 32

OF FLAGELLANT COLT “Queen Isis” Flees Raiders—Members of Group Angeles POLICE SEEK LEADER 1 | | Found Torturing Themselves Los Angeles, May 3 (UP)—Queen | Isis, asserted woman cult leader, | was hunted by police today after | they had raided a luxuriously fur- | nished apartment in the Wilshire | : district and surprised eight alleged | of the Azlz Grotto, which Will |gagellants as they were inflicting | ake "‘;‘; ""’d“l"' 1[’ &t "'t“’ Grotto |5 riple ritual punishments upon | on West Main street, it was an-{)opgelves. | Ssunped today by Harry Hatsing, | ppoee arrested were men, but po- SMatrman of the arrangements cOm- |jico gaid they had information that a woman known as Queen lsis was | head of the cult. | Raiding officers said they found the occupants lashing themselves 4 with hand fashioned whips to the Rl prior to March 16, 1920 when ', .ompaniment of moans. They said | he officers and several members Of |\, yan was torturing himself by T¥e Hejas Grotto of New Haven in- | jjoying water to drop from a sus- J pended canteen and strike him monotonously until he became fren- | zied. “T believe some of those arrested | come from good familics.” Captain | | E. Steckel said. “We found e dence of self hypnotism and it was plain that several members were well versed in the ‘dark arts’. “A'mn‘emenu have been com- Mted for the celebration of the th anniversary of the organiza- & e Jocal organization was found- “in February, 1920, when 15 phets met in the Masonic hall. Several preliminary meetings were Hospital X-Ray Experts | Present at Conference Walter Murascheff, technician in |the laboratory and X-ray depart- |ments at the New Britain General | |hospital, and Mrs. Anna Marsh, | technician in the X-ray department have returned after attending a | four-day X-ray conference in New | York. | | Mrs. Marsh, who was technician | under Dr. Arthur §. Grant, roent- | zenologist, who recently left the | hospital to open his own X-ray hos- | pital, has returned to the hospital | under Dr. Norman W. Loud, suc- | = ceeding Miss Edith Gordon. | . MONARCH M. W. HORWITZ Malled the officers of the local or- Enization, under dispensate. At #t time 294 candidates were en- _Mlled and since then the Grotto has teld 93 meetings. SThe charter was granted at the 1 convention held in Kansas on June 7, 1920. In July, 1920 s Grotto attended the state field in New Haven where it was iwarded first prize for attendance tnd having the largest number ap- pearing in the parade. The same fear it took part in a Hallowe'en Rrade in Springfield and took first . Its civic activities have been 2nd it has made several dona- {0 the Children's home, where {meng other things, it installed a lo_for the children. The organ- ., Wmtion also installed two pool tables the. Masonie home and has made ral donations towards it. L The celebration on May 17 will in the evening with a banqyet, ich. will be followed by the regu- meeting. After the regular bus- 18 has been dispensed with, enter- ent will follow. *“The present officers of the Grotto &e: Monarch, Martin H. Horwitz; lef Justice, Roy D. Bottomley; r of Ceremonies, kred O. ry, Charles A. Neale; G. C. Winger; Marshal, A, Helander; Orator, H. C. Sarnes: Captain of the Guard, H. v Geodwin and Sentinel, F. C. gckwell, +The past monarchs are: Adna F. John W. Abell, William T. I, Ralph R. Merigold, Sceward . ‘Strople, Bherwood H. Raymond, foih Lucas, August L. Kicin and . ¥illam A. Leupold. . Volley Ball Added B 5 - To President’s Play ZWaahingon, May 3 (UP)—Volley has -been added to the list of nt Hoover's outdoor sports. ‘met has heen stretched in the spa- | s south grounds of the White not far from the spot now #ed for the daily sessions of the Wadicine ball cabinet. +Medicine ball s not to be aban- entirely, but the early morn- : exercises will be varied to main- 4lm the interest of the players. : President Hoover has reduced | Beut 10 pounds by his vigorous | $ily play. In the future the pro- | aam will not be less strenuous. The Joover volley ball is an adaptation | I the regular game, being plaved | th & light medicine ball rather the usual light inflated minia- wre basketball. | §HEN IN HARTFORD. * -DINE WITH US. Don’t forget to take home | tome Maryland oysters and | esh crackers. { | HONISS'S. ;.;l - 8, Hartford, Conn. - (Cnder Grant's Store) Me Repairs s line of stove repai b parts carried in stock. ;': NEW HRITAIN STOVE *. 4 Bridgeport Mason and | Business Man Dies | Bridgeport, May 3 (#—Jacob Hu- ber, 73, founder of the Huber Ice | Cream company, prominent clubman | and for 58 -years resident here, died last night from apoplexy. Mr. Huber gave up active man- agement of the Huber Ice (‘rmnn} company four years ago, due to ill | health. { He was a 324 degree mason, member of the Chamber of Com- merce and of the Mill Hill Golf club. | He is survived by his widow and | two daughters, Mrs. H. A Ho\\:u'd“ and Mrs. A. J. Beettcls of this eity. | city wate: EVERY TRA W ment can at LO 1147 your U x DENTIST s, Dr. Henry R. Lasch ;- COMMERCIAL TRUST BLDG. l' ray—Pyorrhca Treatments sl MAIN STR Real Estate I CALL 140 i appoint- convenicnen, PEACDX DESCRIBES (REMATING TESTS (Continued from First Page) to it five days later. Going over the route Peacox sald he had taken with the body, detec- tives looked in vain for Mrs. Pea- cox's hat which the prisoner said he threw out of the car. A stenographer and police photog- rapher accompanied the party to whom Peacox gave directions for data to be used by the prosccutor. | District Attorney Frank H. Coyne said he had found reports that a woman accompanied Peacox when he purchased the kerosene and was with him in a traffic court a few hours after the slaying of his wife, were false. Coyne also said that Eugene Bus- sey, the Johns Hopkins engineering student, who has been quoted as saving he had a love affair with Mrs. Peacox and that her husband was jealous of him, has not come to the official notice of the authori- ties. The district nttorney said he | would read the letters which were exchanged between Bussey and Mrs. Peacox to determine whether Bus- sey would be summoned for quvst tioning. ‘ $25,000 Distilling Haul Made by Fitphburg Police Fitchburg, S May 3 (UP)— Contraband nd redistilling equip- nt valued at $25,000 were seized y today when federal officers ided a farmhouse in Ashburnham and arrested five men, The defendants, raigned before the United States comm ner at Worcester next uesday, gave their names as Frank ] Medford street, Medford; Carlo Spano, Fisher Doulevard, West Lynn; Albert Bastrache, Ashburn- m; Dominick Marcello, I.eomin- and Angelo Femino, Fitchburg. All were charged with conspiracy to violate the prohibition laws. Two large stills, 11,000 gallons of mash 400 gallons of alcohol and 100 g lons of molasses and sugar were seized. | S AWAY HITS AUTO, DRI Lafayette Jack Salonia of street reported to the p last night that his car was parked in front of his tailoring shop and | an automobile struck it, damaging | the fender while backing around. The driver did not stop, according to Mary Lantiere of 578 West Main | street and Mary Garesio of 17 Holmes avenue. The remaining two-thirds can be paid ov had put a wrong what Captain Carey had said and that Carey had merely been caution- ing him to Johnson did not think so and said he knew well what Carey meant, for the board of said: “I knew there was to be trouble about the draught from the begin- ning. that she had sailed below her mark I knew trouble.” who will be ar-|loyal to his compan: plied: “Well, I can't Sergeant P. A, McAvay learned, that the offending car was register- ed in the name of Paul Dowal of 74 South Elm street, Bristol, and word was sent to the Bell Town po- lice to have Dowal call on Sergeant McAvay tonight relative to the af- fair, VESTRIS L0G FALSE, CHIEF OFFIGER SAYS (Continued. from First Page) construction on be generally careful. Replying to questions by counsel trade, Johnson The fact that she was lost and would create a lot of Johnson admitted that he and Third Ofticer Welland were talking continually aboard the ship which rescued them about the draught of the Vestris. Kept Overloading Quiet “We didn’t want the American peo- ple to get hold of this overloading | business and we were trying to con- ceal it, the beginning. home and didn’t want to be in those courts all the (Ime in America,” he explained. That was our intention from We wanted to gel “Well, we tried to be loyal to our company, that was all.” To the president's question as to whether he was still anxious to be Johnson re- Johnson said he thought overload- ing was one of the causes of the dis- aster. definite occasion on which a Lam- port & Holt ship had left below her marks. no pumping of water from the Ves- He could recall no other He testified there had been FOR tris as the ship proceeded out of the harbor, FORMER GOVERNOR 1S LAID T0 REST State CGapifol Closad Funeral of Heary Roberts Hartford, May 8 P—The funeral of Henry Roberts, governor of Con- necticut from 1905 to 1907, held this afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at his late home, 1110 Prospect avenue, was at- tended by many of the present and former_state officers, and by many. personal friends and business asso- ciates. The state capitol, including all state offices, closed at 2 o'clock for the rest of the day. The capitol flag was at half mast. The services were conducted by the Rev. Dr. RockweN Harmon Pot- ter, dean of the Hartford Theological seminary, and former pastor of the Center church, of which Gov. Rob- erts was a member, assisted by the Rev. Dr. Charles 8. Mills, acting pastor of the church. The service consisted of prayers by Dr. Potter and the reading of selections from the scriptures by Dr, Mills, Both clergymen officiated at the committal services at Cedar Hill cemetery. The casket was borne by porters. There were many floral tributes. The honorary bearers were €am- uel G. Dunham, Edward M. Day, T. Belknap Beach, Charles A. Goodwin, George G. Williams, George H. Stoughton, Horace B. Clark, S8amuel Ferguson, Col. Louis A. Cheney, Dr. Orin R. Watter, and the fol'owing classmates from the class of 1877, Yale University: Arthur R. Kimball, James P. Andrews, Charles P. Dick- inson, Charles Sumner Miller, and former Justice John K. 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