New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 4, 1929, Page 8

lmpt’ 3 " In Morrow “Blackmailing’ Attempt "Boston Police Question . ‘George Long, Former . Personal Valet to Yankee - Boston, June ¢ UP—The solution -.( the mystery of a long series ot‘ ‘threatening letters received by X reminent persons, culminating re- Z:peutly in a $50,000 demand on ‘Mpwight W. Morrow, ambassador to {Dfexico, under threat of violence to ‘%is youngest daughter. Constance. C‘sister-in-law of Col. Charles Lind- !bergh, uppeared nearer today .dhrough the introduction onto the | <acene of George E. Long, a custom | guard. + Long, 50 year old father of | \Jhree children, former personal {3alet to General Clarence R. Ed-| wrards. one time commander of the ‘mgth division, and for many years '3 decoder iIn the war department| .at Washington, was said to have ‘yold postal inspectors, “If I ever \Wrote them, I don’t know why.” Oficlals at Odds City police, however, who re-| ‘Jeased Long early today after ques- ltioning him for two hours at head- ‘quarters, said that it was “all a 'fistake” to take the man into cus-| ,lody. They declared he had con- svinced them he had no knowledge '8 the letters. ', On the other hand, postal inspec- Aors declared Long had admitted ‘having sent similar letters more ‘fhan seven years ago to a number | /of prominent persons in Washing- 4on. Inspectors who visited his ‘fome were said to have discovered 8 typewriter whose type fdces cor- weaponded to those employed on ;‘ht(erl to several of the persons Ahreatened. i¥ Series of Threats | * Letters like those received by | Aliss Morrow at the Milton academy | .where she is a student, have been ‘mailed in the past few years to #rederick H. Rawson, president of &he First National bank of Chicago; ¢he family of Frances 8t. John rlllh‘ Smith college student whose Hody was found recently in the @onnecticut river; Mrs. Larz An- reon, socially prominent. and ra, Curtis Guild, widow of the dormer governor. :? The Morrow letters and several the others were remarkable in t in each case the person upon | hom the demand was made was firdered to place a large sum near jone wall on a roadside border- \ag the estate in Westwood of Gen- | “ral Edwards. Tong was said to Aave been familiar with-the terrain {8 the vicinity of the Edl‘ll’dlz e ,3'80 perturbed was ~the Morrow 3 ily by the threat against the A3 yeur old girl that she was spirit- |-away to New Yerk city whence be was taken In Lindbergh's am- iibian plane to the Morrow sum- place at. Nerth Havey.: Me., ti-<veve ‘cloaely guarded ' for' a week. . % g¢emands on Rawson werey Wfety of his som, Kenneth, whe been a member of Commander - 14 MacMillan's most recent aretic exploration party. 3 Long Was Good Record 4long is a Bpanish war veteran with a good record. He was once Mationed in Washington as an or- n the department and aitached to the bureau of Insular| Afairs, of which General Edwards Was. chief before being assigned to command the first army corps at " i After 1912 Long came to Boston. | :eu appointed to the customs serv- | and detailed as a waterfront DRAMNATIC CLUR MEETS * ‘The reular monthly meeting of fhe Holy Cross Dramatic club was BERLIN NEWS (Continued from Page Seven) of the Hartford County Farm bu- reau will attend and give addresses on the work of the organization. John Hale and Miss Doris Segur, both field workers of the bureau, will be the speakers. The Wesleyans held a business meeting and social last evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Royal Morse. A very enjoyable time was had. Games were played after which refreshments were served. During the course of the evening Mr. and Mrs. Morse were presented with a beautiful fernery by the Wesleyans, the presentation being made by Walter H. Payne. Next Monday !evening the Wesleyans will hold a party at the Middietown house on the Plainville Camp ground. The older girls' group will meet this evening at the usual hour at Community hall. The Knights of Pythias will meet this evening at 8 o'clock in their rooms at Community hall. Victor Belden continues to im- prove and yesterday sat up for a half hour. He is receiving many lo- cal visitors. He will be pleased to see any of his friends wishing to call. The last session of school will be held Frigay, June 21, this finishing the school work for the semester. The mid-week meeting of the Mcthodist church will ‘be held on Thursday evening at 8 o'clock in the church parlors. Elmer Dyer was a New Britain visitor today. The gas bus service on the branch line has been temporarily discon- tinued, the bus to undergo an over- hauling. The steam train is making the scheduled trips, the train run- ning behind time this morning, about five minutes. The annual commencement exer- cises and illumination celebration at Wesleyan university will be held next week. There is always a large attendance from here. The illumin- ation will be held Saturday evening June 15, on the campu BRISTOL NEWS (Continued from Page Seven) Parent-Teacher Meeting The final meeting of the season of the John J. Jennings Parent-Teacher assoclation will be held at 8 o'clock tomorrow evening. Officers for the ensuing year will be elected and the annual reports will be submitted. Following the business session, there will be an entertainment program and refreshments will be served. Funcheon aud Bridge Party The regular bi-weekly luncheon | and bridge party will be held at the Chippanee country club tomorrow afternoon. The hostesses for the {occasion are Mra. Carleton Beckwith, Brown o last night in the church hall. ik Nadolny. president of the| elud.” presided. 1t was voted to hold | A plenic at the amusement park at | Farminton avenue. No definite date was decided upon. The Holy Cross Dramatic club is the second largest | chureh society in the Holy Cross| Parish. numbering approximately | 400 members. ‘ Arwarer Kent SCREEN-GRID Joyce and Mrs. Herbert C. Lager- | Nl blade. To Confer Degree The royal purple degree will b conferred on a class of candidates at a meeting of E. L. Dunbar en- campment to be held at § o'clock this evening in Stephen Terry hall. The first nomination of officers will also take place and refreshments will be served. Rad Men to Meet The weekly meeting of Compounce tribe, L. O. R. M., will be held at § o'clock this evening in the wigwam on Prospect street. “TED” WALLEN PROMOTED Former Herald Reporter Appointed Chiet of Washington Burcau of New York Herald-Tribunc, ! Theodore C. Wallen, a former ro-’ | porter on the New Britain Herald, | has been appointed chief of the Washington Bureau of the New York Herald-Tribune, succeeding Carter Field. Wallen went from this paper to the Hartford Courant, remaining with that publication from 1915 to 1927 as a political writer. Later he was made assistant managing editor of the Courant. After joining the Herald-Tribune he became a politi- cal writer for that paper and was legislative correspondent at Albany. He covered Governor Alfred E.| Smith's New England tour during the national campaign last year. Noble E. Pierce Speaker | At Lawyers’ Club Dinner Attorney Noble E. Pierce of Bris- . tol, one of the oldest members of the Hartford County Bar assocla- tion, will be the speaker of the eve- ning when the members of the New Britain Lawyers’ club have their annual meeting Wednesday evening at the Shuttle Meadow club. Attorney Pierce is well known to all New Britain lawyers, who state that his address will be stimulating i as well as instructive. 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