New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 13, 1929, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 NEW BRITAIN HERALD DOCTORS BALK AT GIVING EXAMINATION S GRATIS T0 CHILDREN OF SCHOOL AGE Medical Society Takes Stand Against Request of United Parents and Teachers’ Association for Health Tests This . Summer. Y. W. C. A. Suggestion of Fifty Cent Fee for Girls Criticized—K. of C. Ba- by Project Arouses Ad- verse Comment — Turn Down Advertising. Stirred frce professional services, the Britain Medical society has taken u firm stand against these practices end through its sccretary, Dr. Vin- cent Mendillo, has informed the United Parents and Teachers' Asso- ciation that its request for free ex- amination of children about to enter school has been rejected. This request, following closcly up- on cne from the Y.'W. C. A., for ex- £1nination of youwg womien at a fee which is but a small fraction of the regular cost and of one from the Knights_of Columbus for free serv- iee in connection with a recent baby show, resulted in Wumerous and em- phatic declarations of objection. May Establish Policy The meeting, presideq over by Dr. Vincent J. Smith, president of the agsociation, and formgr school physi- cian believed to Have established » lasting precedent to govern the so- ciety's action on future requests of this nature. Prior to the medical society mcet- ing, Dr. Smith had met with the parent-teacher group at the request of that organization, and listened to a plan outlined by which free ex- aminations might “he offéred ~to about 2,000 children of school age whose parents might wish to avail themselves of the offer. It was ex- plained that examinations during the summer months would make it possible for these children to enter #chool next fall with a clean bill of health and those who were found 10 have physical defects, would have an opportunity to remedy them be- fore the opening of the fall term. Physiclans Object Tmmediate protest followed Dr. | Smith's report to his society. The by frequent requests for New {dut “Miracle Man” Dead GEORGE ’l". MIRACLE MAN OF BASEBALL DIES George J. Stallings Mests Death On Georgia Farm {HAD BEEN IN POOR HEALTH Won His Title By Making RBoston Braves World Champions With Skillful Handling of Pitchers and Two Sets of Outficlders, Haddock, Ga., May 13 (#)—George T. Stallings, won fame in 1914 by capturing the world's haseball championship with the Toston Braves, died early today at his home near here, - Death came at § o'clock this morning, after an iliness of several months which had forced his re- tirement from the managership of the Montreal club of the Interna- tional league. He was 63 years old. Btallings was given the name of the *“Miracle Man" in the bascball world after his remarkable record in 1914 in leading the Boston Braves to the world championship. He was a native of Augusta, Ga., but had lived near here for 35 years except during the times when he was absent attending to his baseball A, A widow and three sons survive, argument was advanced that Dr. Ja cob Mellion and Dr. Harriet B Chalmers are enployed and paid as school physicians, and that Dr. George W. Dunn is on salary as; charity department doctor, and that examinations should be made hy them, the school doctors being as- | sisted by the welfare department physidian since many of the cases would be found in e charity de- partment files, Other physicizns objected to oe- Ing called upon to perform their regular services gralis although ex- pressing willingness in this instance, as in all others, to give their serv- (Continued on Page Nine) MRS. GEORGE £. BUNNY DIES IN LOS ANGELES Wife of Motion Picture Veteran to Be Buried Here. Anna (McCabe) Bunny, wife of George . Bunny, prominent mo- tion picture actor for many years, died at her home in Los Angeles. Cal., Saturday night. She was u native of New Britain and a resident here until nine years ago. . Bunny was born in the old M be homestead on l.ee strect which is still occupied by members of that family. Her parents were the late Thomas McCabe and Anpa (Fagan) McCabe. Mr. McCabe wag very active in the civic life of the city. Nine years ago she joined her hus- band as a permanent resident of California. George Bunny had pre- viously been a resident of this city and was the first exalted ruler of the New Dritain lodge, B. P. 0. E. Although he lives in California he retains life membership in the New Britain lodge. Mrs. Bunny was educated in 8t. Mary's parochial school and Mount 8t. Joseph's seminary in Hartford. Surviving her are her husband and & son, John Bunny of Los Angeles; & daugnter. Mrs. Frank J. McDen- oeugh. of 22 Lincoln street, this city; four sisters, Miss Rhoda McCabe, Mrs. M. W. Maloney and Mrs. W. E. Shea, all of this city, and Mrs. John Me¢Cormack of Los Angeles; and a brother, John McCabe of this city. T_‘he remains will be brought east for burial in the family plot in 8t. Mary's cemetery. Arrangement Mrs. 9 which are incomplete, are in charg: ®f J. M. Curtin & Co., undertakers. {Augusta, and Fra His sons are White Btallings, of Chi- |cago; Vernon Stallings of New York and George Siallings, Jr., of Had- dock. Two brothers, T. H. Stallings of Stallings of Akron, Ohio, survive. Funeral services probably will be held at the home near here with in- terment at Macon, Ga. George T. Stallings, was called the “Miracle Man™ of baseball hecause of his leadership of one of the most remarkable championship clubs of major league history, the Boston Braves of 1914. The team was remarkahle because of Stallings and was made so by the unique system he employed in dirct- ing its playing during the last half of that season—a system that car- (Continued on Page Eight.) YEGGMEN STEAL $400 FROM CHURGH ST. SAFE Loot Strongbox in Roger’s Recreation Building and Escape Pdlice are hunting tdday for cracksmen who broke open the safe on the sccond floor of the Rogers itecreation bullding, 50 Church street and stole between $400 and $500. The burglary was discovered yes- terday and is thought to have taken place late Saturday night. The thicves knocked off the knob on the combination dial. They left a small smount of change and two envelopes in which was approximately $75 to be used in paying pinboys and other employes. Ofticer E. B. Kiely, who investigat- ed, found no implements on the premises, but it was apparent that a hammer and chigel had been used in much the same manner as in the gafe breaking jobs at the State Nor- mal school, ‘Aziz Grotto hall, Hard- ware City Lumber Co. offi and Rackliffe oil station on Franklin Square, several months ago. ‘Entrance was made to the build- ing through a window leading off a fire escape. The fastener was not in place and the police believe some- one who was in the building Satur- day night left the window open so that the burglary might be the more easily committed. Discovery of the entrance was made about 9 o'clock yesterday morning when an employe went into the building to clean it. It was the first burglary of the kind in this city n severzl months, ?IEW BRITAIN, CONNECTIF'™-MONDAY, MAY 13, 1929. -EIGHTEEN PAGES SHUT UNIVERSITY THEN OPEN IT ON INJUNCTION o) Paoy - e 9 Y 13 ©ILIN J‘!)Apa(..l Canadian Youths At Des loinesl | U, Threatenei-Campus Placed Under Guard TRUSTEES' PRESIDENT IS CHASED FROM CITY Is Exoncrated of Misconduct With Secretary But Flees to Toronto— Whole Faculty Dropped as Fun- damentalist - Modernist Fight Shakes Baptist College—Feeling Against Canadians Runs High. Des Moines, lowa, May 13 P— Des Moines university, ordered closed “until further orders” by the board of trustees following atudent riots Saturday night, was reopened today by issuance of an injunction re- straining invocation of the order of the board. Dr. T. T. Shields, 61 president of the board of trustees, left town under police protection following the outreak, being hustled aboard an eastbound train even students swarmed about the rail- road station seeking him. Only a few hours before, the board in charge of the Baptist institution's affairs had cnded a lengthy session during which they listened to anl found to be without foundation charges of alleged indiscretions on the part of Dr. Bhields and Miv! Edith Rebman, secretary of the jboard. With Dr. Shields back in_ his home town of Toronto, Ont., laie last night, another demonstration of student feeling occurred. Nearly 100 of them stormed the residence of the Rev. Carl Ganschow, a Luth- eran minister who had given shelter to three students of the university from Toronto. The students, Mor- ris and Frank Rose, brothe.s, anl John F. Dempster, were surprised in front of the Ganschow home. Police arrested two students hut released them after the Canadians had gefused to sign an information. Anti-Canadian Feeling This demonstration revealed an- other cause of student unrest which previously had been variously attri- buted to conflict between fundamen- talists and modernists, and to the rumors, found groundless by the board, concerning Dr. Bhields and Miss Rebman. The Sunday night attack was scen by Dean Arthur ¥. Bennett of the college of education as the aftermath of discord that followed a Washington's birthday celebration In 1928, At that time, Dean Bennett said, A gentleman from Lngland" was brought to the university to speak. T'aception was taken by the English- man. Dean Bennett said, to patri- otic songs sung at the dinner, the Englishinan regarding them as a re- fiection upon the British. The dean (Continued on Page Four) PLAINYILLE PRISONER FLEES FROM COURTROOM Peter Lamont Drops From Second year old as Floor Window of Wash Room ~—Alarm Is Sent Out. (Special to the Herald) Plainville, May 13 — Taking ad- vantage of a slight delay in the ar- raignment of his case in the Plain- ville court this morning while wait- ing for & woman witness to appear, Peter Lamont, charged with con- tributing to the delinquency of a minor female, stepped into a wash- room and beat a hasty exit from the building by dropping to the ground from a second story window. A few minutes later, an official of the court stepped into the washroom to summon Lamont and found that the bird had flown. | An alarm was Immediately sent out to the police of neighboring cities and towns. The Plainville po- lice. are confident that Lamont in be back in custedy by tonight. Louis Neubauer, B;ker. In Bankruptcy Court (Bpecial to the Herald) New Haven, May 13—Louis Neu- bauer, a baker, of New Britain. to- day filed a petition in bankruptcy. His liabilities are $5,013.20. His as- sects total $45. Principal creditors Read & Tullock, $118.73 AL Spring & Sons, $167.59: Lucy Kel- lerdorfer, $392.62, and Carmine and Maria Vetrano, $3,25 are Miner, DEAN OF PIANO MAK DIES Brookline, Mass., May 13 ®— Willard A. Vose, 78, president of the Vose and 8Sons Piano Company, died at his home here today following an ilinee® of several weeks. He, had carried on the business founded by his father. who died in 1904, and was known as the “dean of piano makers” in .manufacturing circles. He was married and leaves a son, daughter, two grandchildren and two brothers. AUTO HITS TRI Henry R. Schwitzer of street was driving north on Arch street at 11:30 yesterday morning and as he made a right turn into Webster strect, a car was coming up the hill. causing Schwitzer to turn sharply and his car Struck a troe, Jight damage was done to the au-|cording to the omobile, The giant German air liner, Graf Zeppelin, ig being made ready for its second transatlantic flight to the United States, scheduled to start May 15. pilot Frank E. Nicholson, radio announcer; George M. Crouse, Syracusc, N. Y., and Baroness Lili Hatvany, who will be passengers. Below, left to right: Associated Press Photo Hugo Eckener GLENNA COLLETT WINS HER MATCH Scores Five and Three Victory Over Marjorie White OTHER ~ AMERICANS ~ WIN Perfect. Weather Conditions vailed In Co st to last Year— English _ Champion Wins Her Match, Andrews, Scotland. May 1 (8 Collett, Amecrican title- hegan her quest for the Rt —Glenna holder, British wome golf championship with a five and three victory over Marjoric White of Rochampton in a | first round match toda Most feared among the four ican entrants, Miss Collett played a sterling brand of golf to, down her first British opponent fashion. first hole and never relinquished it At the turn she was leading, two up Perfect weather conditions greet- ! an champlen today in | [take the big airship over Gibraltar, | ed the Amel strong contrast to conditions a year ago when cold and rainy weather partially accounted for her defeat in an early round hy Mabel Wragg. Miss Collett was first of the Amc: jcans to begin the hunt that thus far has eluded the hest efiorts of (ln' feminine stars the [N nm\nllul on Tage 15.) Pre- | in decisive | She fook the lead at the' for a title | GRAF ZEPPELIN T0 SAIL WEDNESDAY \Gorilla Booked As Passen-| ‘ ger Over Route { | | Decided May 13 (UP)—Barring changes, 19 passenger of 40 abohrd the Gre Berlin, minute and a crew f Zeppelin will enjoy the company of | a flapper gorilla during the trans- | atlantic flight of the Zeppelin, which storts on Wednesday. [ "he gorilla, Missy, is destined for |the Chicago Zoo and has been tenta- tively ‘booked. although her friend, who was to have sailed with Iher, has been turned down. The | veason for the diserimination | against the male gorilla was not dis- | closed. The tourse of the flight to the United States [been deciied. although it probably | will not fly the shortest route by way |of Ireland and Newfoundland be- 'cause of almost certain head winds and fogs on that course. | Authorities have been considering | {three different southern courses. One | would be by way of Borleaux, the Azores and Bermuda. Another would | Funchal (Madeira) und Bermud ill\il'd Jro! . the most souther {would "skirt the northern fringe of |the trade winds, where constant tail- | winds coull he expected. However, it was deemed unlikely that the lat- ter route would be chosen, since it '\! 7.400 miles, or almost double the Ireland-Newfoundland rol A Eight Hour Day for Policemen Recommended in Hart’s Report Chief William C. Hart of the po- lice department, in his annual re- port to the board of police com sioners, recommends that in the le- tective department, the officer in charge be rated as captain or lieu- tenant and that all sergeants assign- ed to the detective department, be rated as detective sergeants with increase in pay. He recommen: permanent assignments to this d partment saying that if would i crease the efficiency of the serwice. The report is the seventh to bhe made by Chief Hart and the 57ih report of the department. He states that the personnel of the depa ment_consists of a chief, a captain, two lieutenants, two detective se s, six sergeants detailed to traf- street and detective duty, regular patrolmen and 45 supernu- merary officers. The report states that the three- platoon system has been inaugurat ed as the proper way to police the city but owing to the small number | of men on the force, it has been im- possible to extend the service to all parts of the city. The chief recom- mends that efforts be made to ha the city ordinance be changed mak- ing the working day for policemen. | t| eight hours instead of nine as present and that sufiicient men added so that all parts of the city might have police protection 24 hours each day. The reports state that the police school which was inaugurated last year, has worked out satisfactorily and the officers have improved thoir knowledge and methods of doing police work. The chief reports that the annual police field day held on August §, 1928, was,successful both socially and financially. A net profit of’ $3.934.06 was secured for the pen- sion fund. A total of 3.346 arrests made. ac report during the Arrests for violation of he past year. - | incorrigibilit the city ordinances leads the list with a total of 700. Viol - | motor vehicle lawa is second with a total of 560 while plain drunkenness |totaled a number of 501 offenders. Arrests for wssautt numbered | for burglary, 11; | peace, 113; for breach of the peace and assault. 141; for drunkenness and assault, 14; for drunkenness and breach of the peace, 128; for drunk- enness, breach of the peace and ault, 11; for drunke of the peace and res | dunger of falling into the habits of | vice, 12; for frequenting a house of |ill fame, 27; for frequenting a gam- . | bling hou . for gambling, 77; for 17: for+ Keening in ambling house, 11. | Arrests for keepcrs of houses of {11l fame numbered 16; for lascivious |carriage, 59; for mansiaughter, and for murder, 1; for non-support 59; for safekeeping 33; for sus- | picion, for trespass. 27: for truancy, for truancy and sleep- ing out. 14; for theft, 205; for theft of automobiles, 13; for vagrancy, 12 for violation of the liquor law, 122} for violation of probation, 40: for | violation of persona! tax. The list of 700 arrests for tion of city ordinances. includes the | following: Parking automobile in ra stricted district, 343: parking auto- mobile in street all night. 61: pa ing automobile more than 12 inches | | trom curb, 16; parking automobile | with left side to curh, 9; blocking | (Continued on Page Three) | —_— | * viola- THE WEATHER New Britain and vicinity: Falr and cooler with possibly | | Meht frost tonight; Tuesday | incressing cloudincss, I | ! | X boy | ppelin on s | has not | on of e | for breach 6§ the | ) FIVE EATHS N OHID BUS CRASH Four of 17 Tnjured Ar¢ in Criti- cal. Condition BUS SIDESWIPES TRUCK! Both Drivers Arvested—Blinding Lights Claimed Cause—Ohio Auto day Totalled 16 with 34 N o 12 ¢ Deaths & X Injured, rlousty. Cleveland, () —Sixteen a1 injure traffic a May 13, Killed and Ohio weelk end. persons were |12 seriously, in dents over the Five were dead and four of 17 injured were in critical conditions today as officials opencd an investigation into the col- lision of a Cleveland-Detroit hus and a truck near rly Sunday. K. D. Waring, md Godfried C. driver, spent last Monroe, Mich., while authorities there began their inquiry. Froyap said he had stopped to repair his | engine and that he was in the cab, tryiing to get the truck under way when the bus sideswiped it. Waring told officials he was blinded by the lights of another machine and did not see the truck in time to avoid | collision. Most of Toledo ¢ driver of the bus, the truck in jail at Froyap, night the passengers were | asleep. The dead were Frank Cin- |, derich, 21, of Trenton, Mich.; M., Westerman, of Chicago; Mrs. Em- ma Maurettus, 66, of Los Angeles; an unidentified girl about 17, be- lieved to be from Cleveland, and an unidentified man about 42, thought to be from Detroit. The four most seriously injured were in the Monroe | Hospital today. Louis Moses, 24, and their daughter, Mary, 5. were killed in a crossing accident near Canton. Two other young Mo- es children and Carl Townsend, 39, driver of the car, were not expected to live, ht others were killed in collisions and accidents caused by slippery streets. 26. his wife, Ruth, LAST MINUTE PLEA IN KNOWLTON'S BEHALF [New Counsel Retained for Framing- | ham Man Sentenced to Die for | Murd of School Tea Toston. May 13 (P—Mrs. Fred- erick H. Knowlton, Jr., accompanied {by new counsel and a group of six |others, called at the governor's of- {fice today to make a new plea for the life of her husband. scheduled to die in the electric chair this week ‘for the murder of Margaret 1. Stew- art. Knowlton was removd to the death house state prison last week. Attorney Thomas ¥. Cassidy of Adams, who said he was retained by Knowlton's family yesterday, re- fused to divulze the nature of his |plea for a respite for Knowlton un- til after it had been laid before Governor Allen, Among those accompanying Mrs. Knowlton was the Rev. H. Lawrence Rlackburn of the Federated church of Ashland. T, at i JUDG 'CHS FINED $1.000 Boston. May 13 (™—Emil Fuchs. on behalf of the Boston National 8,000 0DD FELLOWS Av lly llth 15,302 PRICE THREE CENTS EXPERTS STILL DISAGREE* OVER HUNTINGTON DEATH; MYSTERY BECOMES DEEPER Ah, Ha, Quoth Sleuth As He Sniffed Around Windsor, May 13 #® — A 20 year old Springfield boy, who, in reply o questions, said he was Sherlock Holmes and a graduate of a redited” correspondence school in criminology, appeared on the scene here today and be- gan his own investigation into the shooting of Walter cadway Huntington. He had the usual paraphernalia for a detective, in- cluding the Sherlock Holmes cap. magnifying glass, foot print and fingerprint powders, a studious air and uncommunicative dignity. He said he might be Watson, but Constable Maurice Kennedy said: *Go home to your mama.” The boy took the next back to Springficld, train DUE IN THIS CITY Stale Convention \'hll Open With Gmt Street Parade GREEN NEW STATE HEAD | | Torrington Man Will Succeed Aaron | Carlson of This City—Show, er, Tour of City and | | Dance, DI Rusiness Meetings Planned. ! Already aasured that more than | 5,000 members will be in line in the parade which will formally open the state convention of the International | Order of 0Odd Fellows in this city | | tomorrow night, and faced with the | | necessity of providing for their en- | tertainment after the seating pacity of the Palace theater been exhausted, the convention com- today announced that an | overflow entertainment and dance will be held at Odd Fellows' Kall on Arch street. 90 Lodges to Send Delegates More than 99 lodges will be rep- resented in the line of march. The delegates will arrive between the | hours of 4 and 6 o'clock tomorrow | afternoon. Their credentials coming in advance will be examined by a committee headed by William J. | Ziegler, with J. A. Peterson and Ed- ward Beach, all of this city, as his aides. At 6:30 o'clock. form on Franklin square and its tributari Positions in line have already been assigned more than 30 divikions. Music will be furnished by 15 bands and drum corps and two kiltie bands. In the New Britain delegation will be the American, Philharmonic and American Legion bands, the Y. M. T. A. & B. society and the Boys' club drum corps. Many to Appear in Uniform More than 300 cantons, a higher degree in the ritual of the Odd Fel- lows fraternal order. will be in fine in full uniform, and the degrec teams of a number of lodges will be present in full regalia. All others will dress in dark trousers. whits | shirts and dark caps, and will carry | canes. | Near the Strand theater on Main | street, the marchers will pass in re- view before state, district and na- tional officers. The parade will | break ranks at the Palace theater. | After that playhouse has been filled | to capacity, a show, “Fifty Years| From Now.” will be presented, mem- bers of the fraternity taking the roles in the play. Those who can- not gain admittance to the theater will be received at 1. 0. O. F. hall on Arch street, where a varied program of entertainment will pre- cede a dance, | At 9 o'clock Wednesday morning, delegates will assemble in front ot the Elihu Burritt hotel to be taken for a tour of New Britain, in the course of which the principal fac- tories. public schools, churches and the World War memorial will be pointed out to them. Carlson to Call Meeting Grand Master Aaron Carlson this city, who was elevated to the highest position in Connecticut Odd Fellows circles at last year's con- vention, will call the business ses- sion to order at 10 a. m. Wednes- day. Mayor Paonessa will then he admitted to extend the city's hand of welcome to the visitors, At the conclusion of the business session, the delegates will adjoura to the new Masonic temple at West Main and Russell streets, where a dinner will be served. The dinner will be prepared by Unity and Stella Rebekah chapters. Panoramic pic- tures of the delegates will be taken ca- | has | mittee the parade will (Continued on Page 14) TEN SMALLPOX CASES Hartford, May 13 (—The num- ber of smallpox cases discovered in Connecticut since the beginning of the year was increased to 39 today when 10 new patients were reported to the state department of health. lLeague Baseball Co. today pleaded rolo contendere to a charge of ex- pending money to influence the vote on a question of Sunday baschall submitted to the people and was fined §1,000 in municipal court. Of the 10, six are in Groton, three in Norwich and one in Bridgeport. Dr. Stanley H. Osborn. state health com- missioner, does not consider the ten new cases an indication of a serious | Louis P. {ed bloody matter on it, of | Analysis of Handker- chief Found in Dead Student’s Pocket Re- veals Only Blood— Hickey Says Suicide Theory Stronger. |Dr. Costello Claims Youth Could Not Have Wiped Face After Putting Bul- let Through Head and Stands Firm On Homi- cide Report. Windsor, May 13 (M—8tains on the woman’s handkerchief found in the hip pocket of Walter Treadway Huntington, Harvard student, found dead in a field here Wednesday morning were entirely of blood, Dr. Hastings of St. Francis’ hospital reported to Medical Exam- iner Costello this noon. The test of |the stains had been made to deter- mine if matter on the handkerchief | was both blood and brain tissue and | Dr. Hastings said that it was ai hlood. Report Pleases Hickey Detective Edward J. Hickey who |alone seemed to have stood out that young Huntington committed suicide was pleased us the result of the test as he eaid it conformed his theovy that Huntington used the handker- chief himself to wipe away a smear of blood on his face and that it was not used by any woman, Hickey has maintained that the handkerchief was not linked up with the presence of any woman with | Huntington after the wound was in- flicted. Hickey also said this noon that he was convinced that the two automo- {bile operator's licetwes in Hunting- ton's ‘clothing were placed there by the student himself to afford means of fdentificatiop.. . The Inveetigution " fute Huwtiag- ton's death marked time todsy &% Doctor Costello sought to _lfi opinion on the stains on the wom- an's handkerchief and the coagulut- his first im- pression having been that the latter was brain tissue. The medical examiner had ssid and reiterated that if the matter on the tiny handkerchief proved to be brain tissue it would for him “ab- | solutely clinch the murder theory.” Find Does Not Affect Calhoun Coronel J. Gilbert Calhoun, when told of the analysis en the woman's handkerchief, said he had expected it would “turn out the way it did.” | but did not believe it would influence his own decision. He also said that Hickey has not told him he believes in a suicide theory. but the detective did not comment to him, either. on Dr. Costello’'s homicide view. The (Continued on Page Nine) POLICE SEEN NEGRO FOR BERLIN KILLING |Jack Perry Shot By Sam Thomas in Fracas Over Crap Game Accused of shooting and killing Jack Perry of Kensington in an ar- gument during a crap game at the Thomas home on Christian Lane last night, Sam Thomas, also of Ken- sington, was today the object of a state-wide search conducted by the state police. Thomas fled from his home after the affair and has net been seen since. Both principals in the affair are Negroes. 1t is claimd by witnesses that | Thomas shot Perry after the latter had drawn a gun on him, demand- |ing fifty cents so he could get into the game. When he was refused, it is claimed that Perry fired two shots narrowly missing Mrs. Thomas and her baby which she had in her arms. Thomas then went into the pantry and procured his own gun. with which he fired one shot. strik- ing Perry in the abdomen and kill- ing him instantly. Thomas ran from the house and was not seen by any one in his dash after he ‘had left the house. He took his own gun and Perry's with him. Constable Orville Ventres, whe was on duty at the Styles and Reyn- olds brick yard a short distance away was notified. as was Constable Frank Brown of Kensington. After ihvestigation failed to locate the al- leged slayer, the state police were notified this morning. They were at the scene of the murder toddy and are attempting to recomstruct it. This is a difficult problem, as the friends of the murdered man are sincere in their story that the l-l carried by him was nét fired 'and they place the blame* on Themas claiming that he fired the enly “ in the affray. Netl-Defense Theory Police are inclined to helieve that epidemic, (Continued oa Page 38) |