New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 2, 1929, Page 19

p— SLAYER PROTESTS INNOCENCE IN CASE Beitzel Craves Soliude as Exe- cution Hour Nears San Quentin State Prison, Calif., | ell St. Claire | Philadelphia hid his emo- | for the slaying of his | for the slaying of his| . Barbara Mauger, Hrew | execution execution Prisoners who had been sent out to work for a couple of hours were ordered back to their cells so all would be quiet around the prison when the man who ended a clandes- tine romance with a bullet walked up 13 steps to the gallows. Beitzel protested his innocense in an even voice when Warden James B. Holo went to his cell in the death hous. He contipued to refuse to see visitors. The condemned man again blamed his plight on “framed evidence” told the warden. in the confidential tone he has used for several weeks, that “Miss Mauger is still alive.”” The girl's body was found in the ravine of a Los Angeles park and THeitzel was convicted after short de- liberation by the jury. He had concentrated his mind on | the study of Spanish while here, all | the time expecting a reprieve from | the governor. But the state executive sent word to him through Warden Holohan that such action could not |and ceremor Firemen Rout Rats Without “Pied Piper” Westboro, Mass., Aug. 2 (U'P) —Outnumbered 15 to 1 and boasting not a single “Pied Pipur" 200 fire fighters waged fierce war- fare on an attacking rodent ar 300 strong, on an ash-strewn battlefield here today. A brilliant victory was recorde for the fireruen when the rats re treated to a nearby swamp. The rat attack came while the firemen were fightirg a dump fire. CROWN NEW ABOONA IN AFRICAN LAND Head of Christian Church in Ethiopia Takes (ffice Washington, D. C., Aug opia has a new Aboona He was installed in Addis Ababa capital of Ethiopia (Abyssinia) a few weeks ago with as great pomp y as that which has ac- companied the crowning of many emperors. A bulletin from the Wash- ington, D. C.. headquarters of the National Geographic society tells something of this unique official “Ethiopia is a barbaric country— in some respects almost savage, ay the bulletin, “yet it is one of the oldest of the Christian nations, and it takes its Christianity, in form at 2—Ethi- | NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 1920. 19 Christianity of the outside world, the |shrewd Ethiopians have confined the Aboona’s power entirely to the spir- itual fleld. The second powerful {church official, the Etchequie, who has charge of all church property and church finances is an Ethiopian. as is the third important church of- ficial, the High Priest. The Etchequie has manifold r: sponsibilities, for between a quarter and a third of the land is the jerty of the church prop- -Much of it is leased out, and its revenues must e collected and managed. The typical Abyssian church building., a round stone or mud structure with conical thatched roof, is to be found on ev- ery hand. Probably tens of thou- sands of them exist in the countr There are also numerous monasteries and fewer convents. The monks and nuns are celibates; but the priests may marry once, and are, in fact lcader and a liason officer with the d to marry. Old Customs Afkect Christianity “To the layman Abyssinian Chr tians seem to have much in com- mon with Roman Catholics and with Greek Catholics; n less with Protestants. They are particulariy punctilious in regard to feast days and periodes. Lent is observed rigor- ously, and on the final two days no food whatever is eaten. The. chief erence has to do with a rather truse matter of theology \\hn-hi hardly be comprehended by the | average semi-barbaric Ethiopian— whether Christ had two natures, the divine and the human; or only one, | the divine. The nians and th Copts uphold the latter thesis which was denounced L church council in 451. “More interestir from the West are the infiuences on Abyssian Christianity of the bar- surroundings and customs of Abyssir heres: to the observer Open Evenings In order to dispose of this stock in as short a in the Holies of « or repres Covenant in ric “The system of Egypt result of th aries, t} pric fluence in the 50 ince i were ment of hoops. only i work of Eth to t give tr ch ed installation appoint oceurred in Ancier in the the the 16 n king Pop: all p h at this abandon- itional priests, in the ch church of the Jesuit m y that they rebe king, and lled sunection exy hurch was and remai it Judaism and Holy of s J Tabot bLa d c of the pray- Ethiopian summer Cranda A. McCarthy and children, Janice nd the at Clinton e this city. of Hamil- | New remainder Beach. n of 1 vill sail tomorrow for sion- Margaret McCot nut stree Mount V relatives offered his and Jesuit ions of n- e people | rnon, N Betty and Lin street spent ti Misses form of [of Mill t will spend next rt of Mrs. Clara Main stre Y., visiting T ea Johnson | Mrs. ast two [ mond re visiting relatives in Mrs. Britain girl spend the ménth of August at Prowi- and Newport . v Coroner L. Michelson for the John A. Carl-, and his on the . was struéi ted by Michelson. He to Middiesex hos- on was uninjured. death on | n of Cror “ariesn Lo son 1 that there are 44.- storms ocecurring darly Open Evenings In order to dispose of this stock in as short a time as possible this store will remain open every evening till nine. be expected without new evidence, time as possible this and that was lacking. store will remain open every evening till nine. least, very seriously. The Ethiopia byssians) became Christians in the fourth century and have City Items Mary Fanion has bronght suit through Nair & Nair against A. Petrauskas for $200 for rent writ was served by Constable Fr Winkle and is refurnable in the city court the third Monday in August Anthony Montanile, through & Nair, has brought suit for on a note. The papers were served by Constable Fred Winkle and the writ is returnable in the city court the third Monday in August The meeting of the board of ustment. schedaled for August 7 Leen postponed until September 4. according to anr.ouncement made to- day by Clerk Thomas Linder. Rev. Walter J. Lyddy of St. Mar irch will return to this city on August 10 after spending a three weeks' vacation Rev. John J. Keane of St. Joseph's church will leave Sunday for a two weeks' vacation in Canada. ad- Woman Jumps dfl ; Government Steamer N London, Aug. (P)—Mrs. ; Rose Sinnott, about 0, wife of | Sinnott, civilian plumber at Fort H. G. Wright, Fisher's fis- land, committed suicide late ster- day by drowning after leaping into the waters of Long Island sound from the government steamer Na- thaniel Green, on which she was traveling to Fort Wright after visit- ing her husband in a local hospital. Her body was recovered. Mr. Sinnott has been ill for eral months and it is believed that v over his illness, well as her condition, and the bur- s that have piled up since he was stricken, caused his wife to hecome mentally unbalanced and led Ler to take her own life, Thomas J sev- wor own physi den of del STORES BOUGHT | Aug. 2 (P—According ment made toda ridgeport, to an announce : Peter Levitt, chain store owner of | Boston will over the owner- | ship of four dry goods places on | August 15. The new stores include Steiger-Poole company of Bric port, Curran Dry Goods company of | Waterbury, Poole Dry Goods com- | pany of Springfield, and the Steige.- | Chick company of Port Chester, N. | The reported purchase price was | $900,000. ‘ take AN EXPENSIVE London, Aug. 2 highest ever, DUCK | Probably the | paid for a duck | specimen of pric that paid the Tabrador Almost for duck classification famous great here recently this duck are said to he alive add the price paid for this one was in excess of $5,000, Tt originally inhabited the 1 as rare as the ank Only on display 45 specimens of north coast The National Fducation associa- tion, the largest teachers' organiza- | tion in the world, was organized in | the United States in 1857 | | Coptic pointed by the head of that branch | Patriarch of | on to their often defending it with the Their church thus lacks onl bundred years of being as old Christianity itself. From Judaism to Christianity “The Aboona is the Abyssinian chu and his office, with all its restrictions and power, dates from tk ity came to Ethiopia ;. One legend relates that | who converted the king ked on the Ethiopia then version has it nd people, was shiy Red Sea coast which possessed. Another that this studious youth prisoner when the merchant ship on which he was veling Ethiopian soil in search of water. At rate he, settled in the country nd became interested in introducing imentins found Ethiopians practicing Jewish rites; for there is much Jewish blood among this peo- ple, contributed hy immigrants who came south from Palestine and crossed the Red Sea. The undoubted evidences of Jewish influences n FEthiopia today, even in their Chris- tian churches, lends color to the claim of the kings of the country that they are descended from King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, the latter a ruler of Ethiopia. “Frumentius made a journey to vpt, had himself con- and was ap- the Coptic secrated as a priest pointed a bishop of Christian fz see. He returned to hi: and devoted his lif adopted land to converting its people fo this eastern branch of | B the Christian church. Aboona is an Alien “Thus Frumentius became the first of a long line of Abyssinian Aboonas which has been broken only once in Always the Aboona is and a member of the Always he is ap- 16 centurie: an Iigyptian church of Christianity, the Alexandria, and is sent to Fthiopia to be leader of the Christians of that country for life. He is supopsed never to leave the country after his lappointment but in recent years this rule was relaxed to permit the late Aboona to obtain medical treatment n Egypt “The Ahoona is in effect legate, with the Patriarch of Alex- andria standing in place of the Ro- man Pontiff, and the Alexandrian Synod in the place of the College of Cardinals. Through this contact the Abyssinian churgh has been through the centuries in accord. in all essentials, with Coptic Christi- anity in spite of the rather low cul- tural level of the mass of Ethiopians “The Aboona is the spiritual lead er of the Ithiopians. Under him are i1l bishops and pri Lim they receive their ordination. He crowns kings and emperors and of- ficiates at all great public religious ceremonies. 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