New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 8, 1929, Page 1

CHICAGD GANGLAND LOSES THREE MORE NEW BRITAIN HERALD NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, WEDNESDAY, INTRIPLE NURDER “Taken for Ride” to Hammond, fod., Where Riddled Bodies Are Found Today THO KNOWN AS MEN THRICE TRIED FOR NURDER Newspaper Men First to Identify Two Bodies from Photographs of Widely Known Chicago Criminals «Two Recognized as Dreaded Killers—Believe Killings in Re- venge for Valentine's Day Murders, Hammond; Ind., May 8 UM — A treble slaying today sundered the brief truce of Chicago's gangland. ‘Three men, identified by newspaper men as John Scalisi, Albert Anselmi and Joe Guinta, were found shot to Geath on the rural roadside early to- day and the forfeit of thei rlives was seen as retribution of their under- world foes for the massacre of George “Bugs” Moran's seven clans- men last 8t. Valentine's Day. Scalisi and Enselmi were reputed henchmen of Scarface Al Capone, notorious gang leader, now a resident of Miami, Fla. Scalisi had been frecd under $50,000 bond only a week ago, pending trial as one of the Moran gang executioners. Chicago police were attempting to verify and make official the identi- fications of nmewspapermen. Their progress was retarded because of the finding of the bodies across the state line in Indiana. Guinta, who was thought to be the third victim, was a west side tobac- co store owner and also had been questioned in connection with the Moran gang killings. In a pocket of the man's coat police found a card bearing the name of Joe Berardi, official of a cigar shop. The re- porters, however, believed this was not the dead man's name. All other (Continued on Page 16) ‘SINCLAIR TO TUNE _IN ON ARSE RACE Millionaire Prisoner to Fol- low Own Entries Through Radio v Washington, May 8 —Harry F. Finctair, registered pharmacist. set- tling rapidly into the jail life he will live until mid-summer, looked forward todey to the privilege of listening over the radlo Friday while one of his thoroughbred pets ca ries hia racing colors into an Ameri can turf classic. The multi-millionaire oil maxz, who Monday began serving a ninety- day sentence for contempt of the senatd, has seldom missed being n his box for the running of an im- portant race in which he had en- tries, and in the Preakness he has five colts nominated, with Mei Foo and Leucite expected to start. But he will see that race only throuxh the eyes of a radio announcer and then by permission of his jailer and " oecause of his good fortune to have studied pharmacy in his youth. Warden Peak explained that office workers in the jail often listen in on the radio to baseball games and other major sports events and said that no objection would be made if the oil man joined them Friday and again the Saturday when the Ken- tucky Derby will be run. Less Publicity Now ‘Today the celebrated prisoner was able to go about his duties with the newspaper spotlight turned not so directly upon him, as it has been recently. It was turned aside by order of George 8. Wilson, director of public welfare, who has barred all newspaper men from the jail temporarily because he said they were interfering with the routine of the institution. He refused to #siy how long this rule would be maintained but in the meantime Sinclair was able to go about his ac- tivities as pharmacist and assistant to the prison doctor without the eyes of the world following him. Yesterday he assisted in the dress- ing of a minor wound on a prisoncr . and found time between work and straightening up his private shelf te strike up an acquaintanceship with a race horse bookmaker. He will not be permitted to see callers exoept on Sundays, but his attor- neys may call at any time, and ‘Warden Peak said that his mail would not be examined. Duck and Brood Clog Manchester Traffic Manchester, May 8 (M—The story of the pig that went to market has nothing on the tale of a wild duck which early yes- terday held up traffic here to lead her brood of 10 ducklings across a road. Deputy Game ‘Warden Walter E. Luettgens was startled while driving along the highway shortly after 6 o'clock yesterday morning to see the mother duck walking slowly ahead of her flock onto the traffic artery. Other motor- ists drove up to within a few feet of the birds and waited pa- tiently until the mother guided all the brood safely across and disappeared within them in woods. MISS ELLA A. FALLON PURSE OF $1,000 FOR MISS FALLON Tegtimonial Preseated to Super- " yisor o! Teaching Stalls NEARS 20 YEARS SERYICE Beloved and Devoted Director of Elementary School Instructors Has Labored - Nearly Score of Years In This City. As a token of the love and esteem with which she is held by the teach- ers and others connected with the school system, Miss Ella A. Fallon, supervisor of elementary &chools, has been presented with §1,000. She iz jll and is on an indafinite leave of absence, but through movement started by the teache she received the testimonial as a ward for a cooperative and friendty spirit shown during nearly 20 years in the service of the New Britain system. Miss Fallon came to this city in 1909 and in June will have comi- pleted two decades in the service here. She had 13 elementary schools, more than 225 teachers, and almost 10,000 pupils under her supervision previous to her iliness. She.was recently awarded a salary and was kept in the service of the school department so that she will be ecligible for a pension if &he should wish to retire after her 20 years of scrvice have been com- pleted. Miss Fallon was born in Penn Yan, N. Y., and received her early education there. Later she was graduated from Geneseo State Nor- mal school and studied at the Uni- versity of Chicago and Teachers' college. She began her carcer as a teacher of elementary schools in Limestone, . after which she taught gram- ar schools in Cuba, N. Y., and high hool in Waterville, N. Y. After several years as a high school teach- er she acgepted a place in the New Paltz, . Normal school. Othe ps taken in her career were af nt principal of training departmefit and supervisor of pri- mary teaching and teacher of meth. ods of the New Paltz Normal school When she first came to New Brit- ain she was supervisor of kindergar- ten and primary grades. Her suc- cess in this position was rewarded by her appointment as supervisor of elementary schools in 1916, which position she held until her iliness.. COOLIDGE NOW DIRECTOR New York, May 8 (UP)—Former President Calvin Coolidgeswas elect- ed a director of the New York Life Insurance company today, met the officers and heads of departments of the company, addressed the board briefly, and prepared to return im- mediately to Northampton. President Darwin P. Kingsloy welcomed Mr. Coolidge to the board of directors, recalling that Decem- ber 12, 1928, Mr. Coolidge from Washington officially pressed a but- ton releasing an Ameri¢an flag be- fore guests celebrating the open- ing of the New York Life building and that prior to that he had in ed Mr. Coolidge “‘at some convenient time to become a director of this NEW BRITAIN BOV _[St. Joepk's Parochial Scadsi. WINS STATE PRIZE William Sokol of Senior High School One of Six ELIGIBLE FOR GRAND PRIZE Five Other Contestants In Allmlli Chemical Society's Essay Contest to Get $20 Gold Pleces as Awards. Middietown Has Winner, New Haven, May 8 UP—Prize win- ners in the American Cremical So- ciety essay contest for high and scc- ondary schools in Connecticut were announced today by Treat B. John- son, Sterling professoF of chemistry at Yale university. The awards of $20 gold pieces are made to six students in the state and are given in an open competitive contest for a national prize. The aix state winners are eligible for the na- tional prize of four year scholar- ships at any recognized university providing for tuition fees and $500 cash annuaily. Connecticut prize winners ar James F. Thornton, New Haven High school, New Haven. Simms Ethbler, New Haven High school, New Haven. William Sokol, Senior High schuol, New Britain. Josephine Schmaltz, Middletown High school, Middletown. Burton B. Stuart, New Haven High school. New Haven. Francis Fogarty, West Haven High school, West Haven. Those receiving honorable men- tion were Robert Lorenzi, New Haven High; John D. Hersey, War- ren Harding High school, Bridge- port; O, Edward Neidlinger, Madi- son High, West Brook; Mary A. Kir- wan, Mount 8t, Joseph's, Hartford; Bamuel Mermin,. New Haven Higi school; Douglas J. Gladwin, Weth- ersfield High, Wethersfield. The students entered in the con- test, the National chairman of which is President Hoover, wrote on chem- ical subjects in refation of chemistry to health and disease, to enrichment of life, to agriculture and forestry, to national defense, to the home and | to the development of an industry as a resource of the United States. FIRE BOARD CANGELS BERLIN CONTRACT| New Terms Must Be Made for Service After June 8 Recommendations of the fire board's special committee that the board send a letter to the town of Berlin advising the authorities of that place that fire protection would be turnished the town only under a new agreement was voted at the May meeting of the board last night. Commissioners Harry Beckwith and James Passerinl were named as the special committee at the last meeting and had been carrying on negotiations with Berlin since that time. At the meeting last night they expressed the opinion that there seemed 40 be friction between the special committee of the town and the board of selectmen. This fact was impressed upon them when they met with the Berlin officials recent- ly. 1Instead of meeting the town's special committee they met the! members of the board of selectmen and a committee of other prominent residents. The board voted to send the fol- lowing letter to the Berlin authori- ties: “Board of Selectmen, “Town of Berlin, “Conn. “Sirs: *“Please be advised that in accord- ance with our rights under an agrec- ment dated June 6, 1918, we hereby notify you that the above mentioned contract is to be cancelled and of no effect after June 8, 1929. “We take this step under the pro- vision in the agreement which al- lows the board of firc commissioncrs of the city of New Britain the right to cancel the contract upon written company.” (Continued on Page 16) Defendant Takes Stand Today In Guilfoyle Disbarment Proceedings ‘Waterbury, Conn., May 8 (#—The disbarment trial of Attorney Joseph C. Guilfolle, brother of Mayor Fran- cis P, Guilfoile ended this afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. Briefs are to be filed in the case in one week with reply briefs due the week after. Attorney Guilfolle was on the witness stand this morning and was subjected to a gruelling cross ex- amination by State’s Attorney Sam- uel E. Hoyt of New Haven. The counts being stressed this morning were the manner in which Attorney Guilfoile handled the mort- gage of Nicholas Pilla and his cer-. tification of Manucl Ames to the bar committee. Medical testimony was offered this | noon by the defense that Attorney | Guilfoile is subject to nervous trou- ble and that the time of the meet- ing of the committee on moral fit- ness he was not in condition to testify. The testimony given today in court varied greatly, with different witnesses contradicting each other. One of the defense witnesses said he pushed the William Daniell url out of the Moriarty garage and across the street while another de- fense witness declared that the car was driven across the street. De- fense witnesses today declared that Constable William Walsh was the one to take the car out of the garage and that he had a flat tire across the street and. left the car there, after which it was stripped, Attorney Hoyt quesitoned Attor- ney Guilfoile in detail about his re- lationship with Attorney Thomas F. McGrath. In the course of his testimony Attorney Guilfoile in ref- erence to Attorney McGrath declar- ed that some one higher up would take care of him later. Attorney Guilfoile also declared that he was being persecuted by Attorney Mc- Grath and that 95 per cent of the lawyers of the city had the sam: feeling. Attorney Hoyt asked Attorney Guilfolle ,if he was friendly toward Attorney McGrath and Attorney Guilfoile replied that he couldn't be after Attorney McGrath had “tricd (Continued on Page 17.) dr m\( tiey Wins Clty Spelling Champions| And Herald Trlp to Washmgton Teresa Clnan'vnlotu. A[ed 15, of 17 Webster Hill, Cap- tures Title by Eliminating 26 Other Boys and Girls at Contest in Central School Hall—Morec Outspelling 26 other school cham- pions before an audience of more than 1,000 persons, Teresa Chiara- | valloti of 17 Webster Hill became the 1929 city spelling champion last evening in what undoubtedly was the most remarkable educational demonstration ever held in the city. The occasion was the Herald's fourth annual spelling contest. It was the first public spelling bee, the tbhree preceding contests having been held under the auspices of civic club luncheons. Demands made the preceding year that the spelling bee be held in a public auditorium were seen to be justified carly in the eve- ing when crowds gathered at the ntral Junior High school long be- fore the doors were opened. In order that parents and teachers of the spellers might be assured o° seats the Herald had printed and distributed®500 reserved seat tickets. There was practically no cessation in the demand for tickets. As late as 6:30 o'clock last evening people were still trying to get them, despite the fact that it was known there were hundreds of seats in the balcony. For a half hour after the program (Continued on Page Four) Than 1,000 Present, | City Champion. BUYS BLACK KITTENS WITH $89.93 IN CASH {Roper Gets Farmington Road House With $3,210 Encumberance {Special to the Herald) Farmington, May 8.—With a cash {investment of $89.93, Stephen Rop-| ler, a former New Britain constable, |today became the owner, subject to approval of the bankruptey court, of the Black Kittens Inn on the Plainville-Farmington highway. After Attorney Irving I. Rachlin had explained that a first mortgage of $1,387.55, Rossberg of New Britain, a second Gross of Hartford, and $61.2¢ in taxés due the town, made up |total of $3,210.17 In encumbrances called for bids. Roper offered $: 300, $99.83 in excess of the encum- brances. After some delay, during which the auctioneer first sought to raise the bid to $3.400, and then asked $3,350. Mr. Rachlin explained that | the bids being asked included the assumption of the mortgages which, he expressed a feeling of certainty, would be alloWed to stand against overdue payments. This did not en- courage bidding among the 30 or more men and women who came out to attend the sale, and the auc- tioneer pronounced the sale consum- mated, subject to court approval, for the one bid received. Although the terms of the sale called for a cash payment of but one-quarter of the cash considera- tion, Mr. Roper proffered a check for the full amount, $89.93, which Attorney Rachlin accepted. The inn stands on a plot of ground fronting 100 feet on the College ihighway. and running 250 feet in depth. The building contains, be- sides a main floor, a roof garden large enough to seat about 50 per- dations for about twice as many patrons. Kitchen equipment, a re- frigerator, dishes and silverware (Continued on Page Eight.) GUEST HURT IN CRASH WINS AWARD OF $1,500 Henry Walther, Injured in Meriden Collision, Gets First Jury Ver- dict Under New Law Henry Walther of Greenwood street, has been awarded a judgm: of $1,500 in his action against Da- vid Johnson, in whose automobile ‘Walther was seriously injured, Oc- tober 21, 1928, on North ' Colony street, Meriden. The two principals in the suit, machine, were taken from the wrecked remains of the car after a head-on collision with a trolley car. Walther suffered injury to his skull and an eye, and was on the critical list at the Meriden hospital for sev- eral days. Bandquist’s eyesight saved with difficulty, and Johnson also was injured. Walther's suit was brought by At- torney Harry Ginsburg in superior court yesterday, before Judge Avery and a jury. It was the first jury award under the new automobile suest la Fight Ends When Dog - Goes Through Window K. Blogoslowski of 20 Orange street, reported to Officer Charles Weare last night that two dogs were fighting about 2 o'clock in the afternoon and one of them went through a large window in his store. The dog bled comsiderably from cuts, leaving a red trail as far as Broad street. The matter ‘was referred to the dog warden. held by William B.| mortgage of $1,761.28, held by L.| on the property, Auctioneer Wakelec | the property although in default for | sons. The main floor has accommo- and David Sandquist, driver of the | AMERICAN GOLFERS MAKE G0OD START Diegel and Baroes Only Two Strokes Behind Leader UNKNOWN PRO TOPS FIELD Perey Alliss of Britain Turns in As British Open Championship Gets Under Way—13 Invaders Break Course Par. Gullane, Scotland, May § (I — | American golfers were off to & good start today in tha British open cham- Although none of the visi- | pionship. the | tors could lead the field, that honor | going Yo Percy Alliss, British pro, Leo Diegel and Jim Barnes were lonly two strokes behind and 13 of nm 17 playing from the United | States cqualled or bettered the ap- ! proximate par of the course, which lis 76. Alliss slipped into the title quest jat 162, and although a member of | the British Ryder Cup team did not play against the Americans so his appeal to the golf enthusiasts was not cnough to draw them to his | banner when he started this morn- {ing. | His score of 69 broke the Muirficld course record which was smashed by (Continued on Page 17.) 'WRECKS AUTO AGAINST CONCRETE SIGNAL BASE Driver, Said to Have Been Drink- ing, Hits Central Park “Light House.” Walter Hutengs, alias Hutchins, 24, of 74 Church street, sustained in- | juries about the left arm and left | knee, cuts above the right ear and temple, and abrasioiis and bruises about the body and legs, when his automobile atruck the concrete base of the traffic signal light at the south end of Central Park on the east side of Main street about 11:45 last night, | Officers William Grabeck and David Doty found Hutengs pinned | between the steering wheel and the | seat, the front of the car being stove |in by the impact, the glass being |smashed and the steering wheel broken off. With some difficulty the | officers took him out of the car and ! brought him to New Britain General | hospital, where he was under treat- | ment today. That Hutengs had beep drinking earlier in the evening he admitted. according to the police report, and he was charged with driving while under the influence of liquor. Offi- cers Grabeck and Doty smelled li- quor when they took him out of the car, and again at the hospital. In police court today a continu- ance until tomorrow in $300 bonds was ordered.by Judge Stanley J. Traceskl on recommendation of Prosecuting Attorney J. G. Woods. In the event that he is not able to leave the hospital, a further continu- ance will be ordered. Hutengs was discharged New Britain General hospital afternoon and the police took him into custody. He was held in de- fault of $300 bonds for arraign- {ment in police court tomorrow on |the charge of driving while under the influence of liquor. from THE WEATHER » | | | 'y ¥t Stat =~ 1 .RYARD STUDENT SLAIN IN WINDSOR; l 'SCHOOL ADDITION from qualifying round with the ties: X .‘1 1929.—~TWENTY PAGES A eyt May 4th ... Circulation For 15,444 PRICE THREE CENTS BODY FOUND IN FIELD NEAR HIGHWAY WITH BULLET HOLE IN BACK OF HEAD HALTED BY STRIKE Plumbers and Heaters Abandon Work, Demanding Pay Raise {WANT JOURNEYMAN HELPER $70,000 Contract Tied Up by City's | Second Strike Within - Week— Walkout Attributed by Employers to “Sympathy” With Plumbers, Work on a $7 contract for plumbing. heating and ventilating at the Senior High school addition at the Senior High school is at a stand- still today due to a strike which in- volves the plumbers and heaters of Hartford where the two contractors have their headquarters. The heating and ventilating con- tract is being held by Frederick Raff Co., of Hartford. This amounts to approximately $50,000 The heaters | demand that the hourly rate of wages be raised from $1.25 an hour to $1.37% an hour and that the helper who is paid 75c an hour be eliminated and replaced by a jour- neyman who will receive a salary of §1.37%. According to figures re- ceived from the master heaters the employes want $22 a day instead of £16. This arrangement would give the former helpers $11 a day instead of $6 a day. Trederick Raff Co. was awarded | the plumbing. heating and ventilat- ing contract for $70,000 but it sub- let the plumbing contract to J. L. and M. A. Fierberg of Hartford. In a telephone conversation with the last named master employers, they claimed their men hold no grievance against their employers but they are out in sympathy with the Hartford rlumbers who have been on strike since May 1. The New Britain | plumbers were ordered to quit Sat- urday noon. $200,000 Operations Tied Up Raff Co. has approximately $200,- €30 work of work tied up on ac- count of the 40 striking employes. There are approximately 132 striking | t heaters in the Hartford union, it was suid today. With the ecoming of the warm weather, an extensive program for | |the heaters was arranged. A main pipe which extended by the boiler |room through the place where the | construction is taking place would be removed and the heating systeu | would be installed during the mext | few months. The plumbing wori | ,000 this | started a month ago and there is a i program of six months ahead, Mr. Fierberg said today. | This is the second strike felt in (Cunlinucd on Pagc 17.) WOMAN ALLEGES FRAUD ; - INSTORE STOCK SALE Mrs. Nellie H. Kecling Sues Monroc | Stores and W. A. Nash Co,, Boston Brokers, Suit for $2,000 was brought today by Mrs. Nellie H. Keeling of Plain- inst the Monroc Stores, Inc., A. Nash Co., brokers, of 'ch- ton, through Rttorney Donald (a.n‘f— ney. The write is returnable in com- | mon pleas court on the first Tues- | day in June. According to the com- plaint, the plaintiff alleges fraudu- | lent sale of 200 shares of the cor- | poration’s stock. The writ was se cd on the manager of the local store | by Constable Fred Winkle. Mr. V Waldenberg, manager of the loca branch has been at his new post | rince Monday and when approached | by reporters, stated that he had no\ further knowledge of the matter ex- | Palmicri was placed in the store this | morning as keeper, pending filing of | a suitable bond. ’ | Need | il Board Says He’s 0. K. ! CHIEF WILLIAM C. HART HOPES HART CASE WILL END GOSSIP Police Board Trusts Decision Will Silence Idle Tongues REPEATS FAITH IN CHIEF of Lalarged Headquarters Stressed in Report of Commission Trafiic Sitnation and Improve- ments Dealt With Exhaustively. An echo of the Hart-Gardiner- Pajewski libel and slander affair, which attracted widespread atten- | tion several months ago, is heard in the annual report of the board of police commissioners, which includes the following paragraph: “On one occasion during the year the board of police commissioners publicly ex- pressed their confidence in the in- tegrity and honesty of Chief William {C. Hart and we are pleased to state that a perusal of the judgments re- cently rendered by the courts of our state against certain persons, who through malace or personal gratification sought to vilify and be- smirch the good name and character of a public official and his entire family. not only convince us that our confidence was not misplaced. but we feel contident, judging from the hundreds of congratulations re- ceived by Chief Hart, that he also had the confidence of the citizens of our city. “At this time we wish to publicly congratulate Chief Hart and sin- cerely hope that the action of our | courts will act as deterrent to those who are prone to make false state- ments and otherwise slander public officials.” When the report came before the board at the monthly meeting last night. Chief Hart scanned it, and | thanked the commissioners for the confidence expressed in him. “That’s a very nice paragraph.” he said. “I thank you men for your con- | fidenee.” “That's all right Chief”. Com- missioner Leon Tomikowski replied. “Our only regret is that our com-| mand of the English language does not permit the use of even stronger terms.” Believe Protection Tmproved The report. addressed to council, is as follows: “We respectfully submit there- { with our annual report covering th. cept that a writ was issued. Gennaro | fiscal year 1928-1929, together with | departmental reports for the same | (Continued on Page 18.) State Capitol. Hartford. May § (P — Governor Trumbull stood in the | halls of the state capitol today, in im cmbodied the people of tha! state of Connecticut, and listened, | rather than watched, the 1929 gen- | eral assembly begin its process of | receding into the past. | Beside him stood Mrs. Trumhull‘ and their daughter Florence. The house, by way of celebrating the final adjournment. was in the throes of an hilarious abandonment of re- straint and dignity. Crepe paper balls were being thrown with dex- terity and alighting on heads, ears and eyes in abrupt fashion, bells | jingled, an orchestra tried to send | strains of music above the clamor. and voices were g with cach other to reduce the body to bedlam. In the senate, therc was more re- straint. but some of the crepe paper balls had found their way from the house, and these flew back and forth while the senators sat and stood, talking calmly. Two pieces of legislation, the re- maining fragments of the sessions work, were treated carclessly in lhe‘ Legislature Hilarious as End Of Session Today Approaches house. Concurrence on a New Lon- don bill was won only after Speaker Eddy had ruled that the bombastic volume of “ayes™ and ‘“noes” which equalled each other in intensity were meant to be “ayes” and a vote to insist on the rejection of the credit union bill. passed by the sen- ate, was ruled upon in the same way. Resolutions thanking the speaker, with Leader Johnson of Manchester presenting to him, on behalf of the 260 representatives a walking stick and a gold chain, other final reso- lutions, were regarded hilariously. Previous to their passage, the wom- «n of the house put on a trial of a young man, who.was none other than Mrs. Emory of Stamford. fer “murdering” Miss Cheney of Man- chester. The young man was found guilty and w3 the “judge,” Miss Davids of Green- wich, when Miss Cheney, swathed in bandages and walking on crutches, came in and saved “young man” from prison, “I'm not dead yet.” (Continued oa Page 15.) the | mayor and members of the common | s being sentenced by two the crying It appeared she W. T. Huntington, Col- lege Junior, Mysteri- ously Murdered- Crime May Have Taken Place Else- where, Body Being Placed Where Found. Lounty Detective Hickey and Constable Kennedy Disagree in Theories— Robbery Not Motive, Diamond Ring and Con- tents of Pocket Not Hav- ing Been Disturbed. (Special to the Herald) Windsor, May 8 — A note found in a lot across from the field in which the body of Wal- ter T. Huntington, Harvard stu- dent, was discovered today, is being held by County Detective Hickey. It was torn in half and addressed to “Billy.” Hickey believes it may have some con- nection with the crime. He call- @l the homicide a *“plain case of murder.” Windsor, May 8 (P—Wall Treadway Huntington, a junior = Harvard University whose home wa here, was found dead in a field ir the outskirts of Windsor this morn ing and a bullet wound in his heac indicated the cause of death. County Detective Edward J. Hick- ey, who took charge of the inquiry, said later that there was every evi- dence of foul play, but differing from an opinion given by Constable Maurice Kennedy who was esriier on the scene, he held that Husting- ton was not dead when piaced on the ground Lut that he died $here, Mr. Hickey based his conclusion on traces of the contents of the man's stomach on the ground which would not have been expelled had Hunt- ington been dead when the body was placed in the position in which it | was found. Mr. Hickey said thut careful ex- amination of the ground failed to yield a weapon or any clew as to the person who shot Huntington. Son of Lawyer Huntington was the son of Mrs. Mary Clark Huntington and the late Lawyer Henry A. Huntington. Hands Folded Across Abdomen The body was found lying 15 fee! (Continued on Page 16) EAST BERLIN YOUTH KILLED IN HARTFORD {Leans From Window of Bus and Head Strikes Pole | William Bittner, 14, of East Ber- lin, was almost instantly Killed |about 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon {when he leaned from a bus in Hart- {ford and struck his head against an electric light pole at the intersec- ition of Sisson and Capitol avenues. |He was rushed to St. Francis hos- pital by a passing officer and died a few minutes after his arrival there, A group of pupils from the Ken- sington Junior High and the Hub- bard schools were on a trip through { Hartford as the host of R. O. Clarke of East Berlin. They had been to the points of interest in the city and | were returning home in high spirits. | There were two buses chartered for the occasion from the New Britain Transportation company. The buses had come to a stand- still when the Bittner boy leaned from the window to call to someone in the other bus that was drawn up behind the one he was in. As a traffic light changed, the bus start- jed and the boy's head struck the pole, nearly pulling him from the car. The bus stopped almost instant- ly and the happy group of children was stricken into silence at emce. Miss Mabelle Barnes and Miss Edns Saunders, teachers in charge of the boys, rushed to the back of the ps and supervised the lad’s removal to the hospital. (Continued on Page Eight) Northampton, (UP)—Daylight saving time is atill confusing, even to a former president of the United States. Calvin Coolidge arrived at the railroad station here shortly be- 2 p. m. yesterday to take & train to New York. When some- - hody explained that the trate @i not leave until 3 p. m., he re-