New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 19, 1929, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press NEW BRITAIN HERALD Average Daily Circulation For Week Endmg 15 040 July 13th . ESTABLISHED 1970 NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, JULY 19, 1929, —THIRTY-TWO PAGES PRICE THREE CENTS wa0)) ‘paojiaeg 1 "JApY. 192i390un0)) FAMILY HELD NEW “HEX’ SLAYINU; ALL FEARED SPELL Kalamazoo Woman, 75, Believefli Rble to Cast Evil Influence Over Her Victims FATHER GONFESSES CRIME; \ MOTHER SAYS SHE DID IT = L i Eugene Burgess Admits He Hit Mrs. Etta Fairchilds With Lead Pipe When She Was Eating Dinner— “Witch” Wife Says Showed Her | | Long List of Victims—Son and Daughter Arrested. Kalamazoo, Mich.. llugene Burg son and daughter are July 19 (P his wife and their | in jail here to- ted what nces of Mrs. , occupant of a Associated Press Photo Capt. Ross G. Hoyt morning on his hop to Alaska, Whitehorse Yulkor t. Hoyt is map. The insert Hoyt Mitchel Fie arrived a took off following the rou He is blazing 1 to Alaska. Albert an Edmonton, Ain within this for this day while officers investig they said had all the L “hex” > vietim w Etta L. Fairchild home for the aged here, whose mutilated body was found in a cis- tern shortly before last midnight “Cast Spell” Burgess, offi said, confessed he had killed Mrs. Iairchilds with a | lead pipe and a hammer because she | “had cast an evil mental infl over his family and that s people through her menta appear slaying. shows Capt a new air HOYT LEAVES FOR WHITEHORSE FIELD Army Flier Hopes to Reach Nome by 11 o'Clock Tonight NOW AHEAD OF SCHEDULE Mitchel Field Alperta, Possesses Four Wives, Caught Courting Again N York, 14 (P— - ainter, who ad- th a y s placed line-up le y after on Family July an in the polic No. 4 1 G 1 marric Philadelphia have ‘been discovered He charged Mrs. Fairchilds® influ- ence haq brought about the death of his mother two years ago and that of her husband some 15 ye Burgess' wife also sought to take »nsibility for the 5. F had killed Mrs. H\H!l(k Like husband, she said the aged wom- ! d an evil mental influence or 1I' over the entire Burg and living here his fifth roma: and complained to the who learned that 1ad also m. d wome ington, Cleveland and geles. He since en they re 5 She she e owever, When This 1 Wash- An- Telegraphs s fami- gy Los Leaving Edmonton, he slaying occurred in t home where Mrs. Fai me to \visit yesterday Iear that the aged woman her “influence” upon i vear-old daughter Eugenia telegraph today that nbalanced both Bur; Hoyt, flying from M wife. . to Nome, had tak Wh Mrs. Fairchilds a monton, Alber said she would await the Yukon, one ho the girl who visitir there this mornin Bugenia retur about ,to reach White but was immediately sent to a neigh- afternoon. bor's home. The me: Killed Her at Table Hoyt to the Curti 2 throust According to Burge statement, (D€ army information bureau, timed Fairchilds was seated at the his arrival in Edmonton at 5:45 a. ble for dinner when he struck her, | M eastern standard time, 15 min- walked up behind her with a Utes ahead of his schedule pipe in one hand and a hamm el (G e Ll Sl Minn., last night A S within two minutes of h Sl From Edn > Wi i 1,100 miles and Captain Hoy . Fairchilds tible calls for her vic- D e Bur- hilds 2rnoon ght ex- their 17- Morning — Round Trip Hop to Sas held as & Tugitive from Philadelph — PRACTICAL JOKERS INJURE GUARDSMAN Private Wilcox Is Fourth Local Soldier Hurt at Camp trom o Alaska Aviator's Object. New York, July tiss Flying Se 19 (A—The C was advised Capt. R ert Whitehor land. expected mid- for wter he He urn of friend arse sent Captain ag by ss Servi the liv- his a (eastern laska, from banks, A miles di Nom hanks. 1o n eastorn | 8 n street, Ne tain, of names and children her inter eral names wer White women A Wilcox o was police, but RE of natural caus what army off SECOND ATTEMPTTO KIDNAP GHILD HEIR Darien Guard Shoots at Assailant After Mc- Carthy Boy 111 those name 5 imbulane Wilcox was and Me Private Lawrence and hetter »d to the our in it mo- first t who from Mitchel ind Capt. Hoyt 1 rday at light time Minneapolis Darien tempt frustrated when Harry employed to guard t of Dr. James S. formed police July 19 (@ ly Sparks, a A second at- Kidnaping this morning watchman year old Privat ientions in A hout was here nest e nt fueling poi Alta. 1,100 miles away inally, Captain Hoyt's sc McCarthy in- d for reaching Nom that he had been |a. Saturday, but he hoped pounced upon by an u wn better this by two hou sailant while sitting on the veranda.| From Sparks told authorities that h easily shook off attacker fired a shot t hin wnd to Nor in the darkness. A similar attack| After a was committed March 20 last, when in a gun battle Sparks drove off two alleged gunmen that ntly had planned to kidna McCarthy, who of $2,000,000. part Anv e montor Ori son ule ca one m to as- his s he esca hour New six stop at York t same his wpable Memor son of fund ivate Dawley istant to the supply se lieved to b 61 hours rom Mitch « 1141 er tubing near the ! lot cal e d ral newspapers wer Police iny ting Tl I ranch He i un averag s camp yesterday morning i a piece of rut anda so found now th ifore is ¢ New ital Britain Privat rom mac e from a hoa en his leg yesterdayv ond Cook L ng comfortably Ques ion ¥ enlem ney appe Inight Tuesd The will of the late Mrs. James hy was the subject of a legai le last winter when the dat the woman, Peggy Cowan of laris, by a previous marriage warded $ 00,000 by the prot e | motive court, after having been cut off by | Hoyt had the will with a small sum t Dr. McCarthy, t) husband, allowed $6,000,000 and a trust established for the infant 100 Boys in Refuge Escape Serious Fire New York, July 19 (P—Four hundred boys imprisoned in the City House of Refuge on Randall’'s Is- land in the East river, marched out of the building in perfect order to- as flames swept through the structure, The blaze started In a er from an unknown caus The islind fire department f the fla but fearing it hattan apparatus erosse t ISt the ferry from Last e ork telepathist and a fire hoat fought the blaze mnninger conte from the waterfront periment has established ]re With the arrival of Ap- further telep: In the paratus the fire was soon controlled rays of radio.” Dunninger said may 1 A squad of marine police maln- | b a clue to the understand tained order among the ing of telepathy | | <ht of a woi suit tant point planes ¢ casir fire and morni horsepowe v Crosty i s res following > army plane s op set a world's fucling gzt I m ition was fund last two men record are members of n ‘Thought Transmission By Radio Successtul In Recent Experiment York July 19 jon of thought by radio has (UP)—"Trans. more than 1y mi heen replies to t wecomplished with satisfactory N ght sults, according to the es, ompany in ar wults obtained from nounc sent moex Dunninger Kk by Nt neoln as ‘an Americ nsiderably less saw this ex- p ¥ ‘number of { nds that additional o1 hy tests intended 11 house windov with four with crude ol i s and lce onne one door chimney and a v simple triangular roof.” AS GENERAL SECY, OFLOCAL Y. W.C. A Will Assume Similar Position in Cleveland, Ohio, It Is Believed REPORTS OF FRICTION | DENIED BY DIRECTORS Resignation Follows Miss Rogers as President—Ruth Seymour of Lima, Ohio, to Succeed Miss Hayes on September {—Lat- ter Has Been Here Years, 1t Ar today that the Helen B. Hayes, neral the New Britain LW fered and accepi- ed r ing of the dire:- was I¢ nation of secr has heen nation nderstood that e only after a tween the se on ion of Miss Rogers as president Mrs. George W. anything to do could not b ction of May had she had lert Mrs s we 1 employe ated that livulge any Tra re in t at the y mation s Hayes, 1t is npderstood. hecome ral sec 3 gene of the tion doc ember 1 ago following the r She came here ider du She will rope he e mour, who has f at Lima, O. e was any fr Mrs, John C e board of on was Loomi irectors. SWINDLING RING IS PROBED BY POLICE Albany Man Lost on Trick Horse Race Piot 1al SW tract former onse < Boot Mel const nan brou nmat told on ye ha ldrich, 1 the tal was wat of the gang trooper 1 two and escaped in men wil vport this Danbury Stabber Is To Have Examination bury, July 19 ny 18, who confessed » his t last Day Gillotti, ni wcked women in few months, flicting a stab wound in t was gned before Judge A. Hallock in the city court ar Charles today was cor i til Wednesday and bail fixed at Gillotti confi in who has the Ma fecbl inded ovder to deter previously heen vial condition, THE WEATHER | New Rritain Fair tonight cooler tonight, and vicinity: Saturday. Retirement of | For Three $40,000 XOUTE T0 ALASKA IN PLANE | HELEN HAYES 0UT {( Resigns Position_| MISS HELEN HAYES AGREE ON $24,000 BLACK ROCK SPAN Mayor and Railroad Officials De- cide Upon New Bridge QUESTION OF PROCEDURE Corporation Counsel to he Consulted —Council Meeting May for to be Unsafe. Action—Present Bridge ridg rtainty e between Mayor esentat stion remai to be d: problem was re Counsel John H found of ermined red to orporation ves of be Called Found afford a Paor t pality road is sufficic tiol the called in sanction the the state serned e forwarded to ommission. ommon works. way decided to employ v the railroad in 1 highwa 1d increa esent Brid and stone nearly 50 dan |uestion of rmined by th mission, whi Mayor at th no difficulty in funds. Pao: belief th (Cor e matter t to authori and this nd the rail > opera- council wi cial session next week to If it par| is found that tis con- a petition will Names Groups on Dumps, Autos, the publi Dogs, and Swimming Pool es of »f impounding vork for chan e dog hird to rchasing ho now nd receive nd the f Scheuy, Ge ) an David | Holmber tave Johnso Wh tomobiles will ther th Willia S Warner, Wa Sablotsky and Iderman Donal, On the atthe h Mlynar Pajewski, Jo Nair, and Don swimm ollow ind Alde Maerz, Mayor commiitees Pao- partme D fir Molander ar Nair W Samuel Jo- ymen Peter David Bartlett, (_teie s JNEW YORK REDS JEER CHINESE CONSUL; HOOVER WARNS CHINA AND RUSSIANS; SOVIET HEAD SAYS WAR NOT PLANNED MI“TIAMEN H[]N[]R Crowd Gathers Before RETIRING GENERAL Consulate —Police Make Arrests - Presi- Whole Brigade Passes in Review | dert Calls Both Coun- Before Adjutant General Cole tries’ Attention to Kel- FRST COURT MARTIAL logg Peace Pact. Acting Head of Gov- | ernment, Jan Rudzu- . tak, Insists Nation | Will Adhere to Kel- logg Peace Pact Des- pite Heavy Loss. eports Meanwhile Give Secures Demonstration at Noon tion but Has to Battle with Draws Crowd—Officers Charge Mob, Many of Which Carried Placards, With Nightsticks — No (asualties Reported. Unconfirmed News of (lashes at 3 ¥ “Ghosts karth Frontier— H Leads Hurt—Co. in Contest. Martial Law: Proclaimed in Manchuria and Busi- ness at Standstill. crowd many Moscow ad of the July stration 1n consulate in which police res *quired to rse. made, is r of arrests were hour peri rowd 1 Threats threats at in front of uses the Chinese no effort to en- crowd with i several of to commandecred taxi 0ok them to a police sta- till Gray thers were ne Menace Police said Weir oY secretary ommunist party for mayor of New Bosils s one of nine men ars Harhir taken all members of ists league, ac- o police, also were held. Une Policeman Beaten estimated the crowd at When the demonstrations gathered in frout of the build- handling traffie mpted to disperse badly eaten before he pe the mand turn in a call ch brought reserves - street station. girls, 18- offensive and over on either end of ‘le railwa border tov Chint from Captai itant for Col ccuracy of towns re- ation doubt as to the as one of t repor eman, capty in goviet terri- conce reserves rrived, the being among the few ground. ied bore cuch Down With China," international “De- “Down with Blagove phl tory urg ort the soviet Chinese Sure of Peace A high C official at hai was quoted as stating protost part g0 on h War e rs in ostracisin a," 2 Company i the Fath »mm lestroyed by the Mentions Treaty (P—Secre. Hoover hut not hopeless nan consular and g ove fact s in the the Kellog connection with war between the itories of audel called yesterday a4 in diplomatic cire 1son com- Two Cities “Captu transmission Two) NEW YORK FIRM BUYS CITIZENS' COAL CO. Maurice Johnson to Re- main in Charge for New Owners Fish Day Today Coal company, after ¥ since 1920, sold day to the corporation of New es retail coal achusetts € purchasing 4150 operates yards in this Hartford and The deed was tovn clerk's oday the Citizens' Coal comrany was )20 by the New Britain Kidnaping Attempt Revenge For e e Boy’s Testimony In Court Case :: " rests to Former Mayor Gard- ner . Weld and Maurice H. John- son. who continued business until bought out yes- York concern C3 former part .rdner C. Weld, will emain v firm as local d \MH undertake his new The new ont nane ame pol- terday dew Maur phnson, 1 was awake | v at the ell family rowlers had been seen in th door anager Juties in th hot ret orhood led police authoritizs vigilanc aid A policeman who n from a near minutes r that extrs ssell home, by box only a police all earlier reported told ele hich HIGH TIDE—JULY en ri between the two houses. d out and front porch of He said he fired their |several times at close range but the | venge. aged tussell boy's testimony ¢ eld for the g police theor be =zeeking e took a three men to be and it is the friends may New London 8:53 a, New Haven 10:40a.n and that re found man on Russell home ury