New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 26, 1929, Page 17

\ NFW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1929. 17 | =1 | = ‘mmn found Pessal. He had been ‘o. Delaware lien property l MAN [}F MYSTERY || Records of Previous N[]TI]RIUUS ER“"K SeaE A e Blrth Record | esn oo - | Tormented Aged Mother n, sendin of T | 1gn3_¥:.leo.l,xrmy CO:‘&?S"S | Letters written by the *“Marquis" m. John L. of Kentucky on GAS rmy | showed the amazing audacity of th of violating the mnational ‘ of| 1894—Yate 12 L. L0 Army | man and the eruelty of his mind, 4| A daughter was born last hthl “ o e Manbers N YR‘UMM Soack I 1s o_;ui'. e P long letter to his 70-year-cld invalid | {0 Mr. and Mrs. Roland Holmes of y > high government o s (oot Bxchonges 1] 1896—Yale 16 .. Army 2 5 g < ater street 3 ita k 7 el p Stands in Rigid . T O e e T : mother recounted his predicament | ¢t HMCr Sfest a¢ Sow Britall [to go to prison while in office 31 WEST MAIN ST., NEW BRITAIN | ) : in the hands of the “Knights of | G¢0¢T8 = | recent years tands in Rigid Pose for Hours | sos—yere 1o 222 & o1 Fake Marquis Makes Bad Wl e e e e it e TEL. 2040 siyie | 524 .. Army i @ ole . | « || 1900—vale £ d I A h | that awaited him. He bragged about C I | MAR [3 Blinking Into Space || peoo—yar is 22 ey AL LT i e L ity ltems TEORD GEICS, ¢ CENTRAL ROW, _ ToL. 11148 1] 190 6 ... Army “I have never voluntarily done SmraTed i Passersby on the lower end of || 1903—Yale | coo Army By MINOTT SAUNDERS | wrong to the feeble and the poor William Schneider, 119 Cher Court strest during the past few|] 1904—iie 6 ... Army "NEA Service Writer | but only preyed on the rich and the | streot reported to the police last | days have noted “the man who || 1905—Yale 2 ve. Army Paris 0ot Tarthe sanuotional | strong who had the forcs end inte night that while his car was parked | L We offer: stands.” Some part ~of every day, || 1906 Yale 10 . Army 6 | departure from this life of Clement | B¢TCe to wrestle against me.” |at Corbin place someonc stole a | Y R e e S e 2l lately, he has stood motlonless in || 190 o6 Army Pessal, better known o the poiice by | “BG Sron€: most beloved moih. | banket from it (O ortian e e it e CONNECTICUT ELECTRIC SERVICE (0. ¢ 3 card | | 19 5 rmy N . | er, when you read this letter, anc Supernumerary Officer Anthony | ‘ : | s s e 5 i i ;”;"; ;\‘;’[ Eazipsaisediastiy '°”mi 1909—Yale 17 , 5 rmy :”;a:‘if[ 3?;“?‘” (\":"‘I:’Jr":';“l'r:";i’ T6reivaling [ForitHalteicy and sotraw Pechoubirerorbadis ar noatiitne i sy | CONNECTICUT POWER CO. | 2 1910—Yale 3 , Army B e Sy that T have involuntarily caused you, | rear of the White Oak Inn at the (!¢ mother an Shaticken % HARTFORD ELECTRIC LIGHT CO. Dite gd hostpearedinthe Bain N ate 0l 0 e glivelonlyitoo fhorenshly, iniordor tol o Rt g s o el il BT e 11 (16 e DNl e | N e on Sigel et e ; ing, another day he is there in the|| 1912 _vaje ¢ R create publicity for his “memoirs, ‘m pR s el B i A i an ed Dr. 0'Con- | SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND TELEPHONE CO. carly afternoon and again he de-| S Irance has not only lost one of her e orad| SR i 3 | nell try to restore i v | : AQ SOTRIC layed his vigil until toward dusk.| e most vivid swindlers, but a wrttnr“hi'l“‘ i s e e B “W‘h‘[“"";‘ vas called o | "and her cnila Treidiy STAMFORD GA K EL lj("IBY( CO. Always he is gazing intently across || e with a lurid imagination for situa- | i B¢ OBTER S BL HiCe Be EHon e | B buildings = Ihope was held at me for UNITED ILLUMINATING CO. i - S i o4 i 3 5 Rene: doctors belie ¢ Main street. 1] 14 : R e tions of blood-curdling Torror who | o fEE BT Y MeREE HheR B e | e Watkins of el |Renev. doctor i R e el e 2 eseenee ATy T e an amatears " FO®lIt Wil So. farewell, by beloved [street is aitending the Yale-Army |I'vea of the e e T R the r(n(;n\t(n‘z] and stood on Walnut : S oo Army g3 10‘3]‘_:‘(“k“ffi:‘o;:"i‘:rz‘;m et | mother. 1 die fike a man » . o Enniehicin oy SonE i street but ir e afternoon he was ¢ 3 ceee.. Army & 3 The police were notified today of | 178 g | | back at his original stand. Clad in a | - ; Army 18 || be published because apparently t)w‘ EalciNoraroell {the suspension of the operator's 1i- | Medical ! leather jacket, he earnestly gurveyed || Won by Yale, 17; Tied 6; Won | | false Marquis never got any further| This cheat, crook and gambler | conse of Paoh Clomei or s High |16y the block across n thor h- || by Army, 3 with them than a draft outline of | who at 38 could write such a let-| street. | wom was k across the main thorougt % r DDY RO o fare | chapter heads, but his fanciful ge- | ter to the mother who had grieved | . 1‘ At first he attracted no auomian.; nius was at s best when his last|over his waywardness since he w i \ Members Hartford Stock Exchange Phonic bushen bystum fiety no-| 7 yy |2dventure turned out rather morc | 15. then completed his burial ar-| | HARTFORD tleing him, But after two or three HE SHOOTS HIS WAY OUT dramatic than even he had planned | rcngements. He wrote friends, fer- i - | New BRITAIN MERIDEN days he caused comment. They be- it. His literary documents were|vently and eloquently, bidding fond | il examiner and Of- 33 Lewis St gan to watch him and try to guess found buried near where he was| farewells and telling them what a | O'Day, who esti 65 W.Main St. : Colo n Yy to g ! padl i X Colony his purpose. Boy Armed With Air Rifle, Corner- | Ptacefully laid to rest as a hoax. | fine and brave fellow he was. ‘:0 ed for the _police _dspartment To them he was unusual. He was 2 5 The frightful news of Pessal's un-| One long letter, purporting to be { found L“ ,:, i il = “”’j j not a common loiterer, using the| ©d by Gang, FEscapes In True|(imely end shocked all Fiance. His| written by the ohief of the Knights o y Y T : : : E e z_hm\fmn. Such & Person | g west Fashion, bedy had been found underground in | of Themis, described in detail how PRURREdRIo AT TRllst (o Close Stove Tat | 2] : move about a little. He likely a makeshift coffin from which 4 |they had given the Marquis de| ) o : | Mario Reney ol one i I(‘ould pass the time of day with a| “Cornered” by a crowd of boys at | leaden plpe reached above the sur-| Champaubert a list of tests design. "””] 3ig hamRor \onn “‘;‘] . . S e We offer and recommend: i oeiod soul. | But this man of | ynom he had been shooting with | face. He had been left to lingering | ed to give him agonizing death ani | C'2II¥ was not suspected. ~The in- | : mystery spoke 10 no one, apparent- | .. % B, 8 & o o . cident was soon more or less for-| w s . « APPATENt- [0 air rifle in a dumping ground | 250NV, lasting until death. asking him to select which hey oiien ‘0nd the positive dentity of |6 6 6 N G {on Pleasant sircct yesterday after- Letters Bared “Horrors” | would endeavor to meet first. In the | "0 FHC (B8 BOVLEE SCERUY O e tert th to INCORPORATED INVESTORS He was drawn to the attention of | "O0% & 15-¥ear-old boy who Ies| petters feceived by friends and o | MO8t vivid and biood-chilling detail | ¢y Tatarved 18Enot Enowh to|owi Mome Wi 1 the policeman on the beat. The of. |ON Fairview street shot one of them | |ccal newspaper, signed by the chia | it Tecounts how the “Marquis” sue- | (f0#0% | When he left hi : : ficer could make nothing of (h(’"""zt: |in tho hand to save himself from a!or o mysterious band of “Knights of | CCSSfully leaped six meters (19% | " prjor’ 1o (hat newspapers _{could smell no gas. he told policr at the present market (6. But hotwas as Interented as any |/C2NE, Officer Daniel J. Contove rhemis"—tho goddess of justice— | f¢et) across a deep pit. lined on | i 50 (L BN L[ is thought, however, that in pre of the other spectators and, one | [CPOTted: The rifle was conficated | (51q of his punishment by torture n | (N €dges with smooth ccment and | Gnaty o fnvestigate the e paring vom night followed the 1 T5ith {by the officer and found to have|. | ing grave. The cruel knights | CONtAININE quicklime six feet deep. | oo |ohivists in o fail ¥ | of Titn patrol iithbut nonetratiis e | Sveral ahota lett i IEAThe boYWHO||ere' swomn | to fittingly punish | He had three chances to make |among the correspondents assign Mari o s = mystery. S Rereae | was shot was not seriously injured. | yyinglers ‘who escaped with light |2 Clean jump. The first tme hel o forret out facts to be in this [Blept closc kitchen door, | | " e : s short but just managed to hold 2 i . |though in © room, Ofticer " The man d e scntences from the courts. Th 2 paign was John A. Kem ady i i o isturbed no one. Ho was | H 1d fies C O O e s | On With one hand and pull hmselt | Kennedy recoived el learned Mrs a peaceable. 1t was s problem | Harper Identifies Car studied brutality of the crime was B! A wnedy ot A A ned. | just how the police should deal with & stunning. up. bruised. The second he again |source of which he has never di- door optne i him. TFinally the officer dw‘rmlm‘d] Workmg on Slim Clue N i T almost failed. but the third time he | yvulged, that wysterious” person and ' 1o question him if he appeareq| Notificd on the teletype about I‘(‘,"," -‘" "’”“b :"”-‘ I“ i “u | made it. A slip and he would have | was attending scrot meetin she was Y again. Hoe might have to ‘;m‘)" h'vm 4:15 o'clock yesterday afternoon :‘,“m“' ,u‘l"l 12 O‘\’\ \?l""‘“"‘r :"“f{r'l‘l:: > | fallen to a horrible burning. agoniz- | with Senator S S aona ed, doctors e 7 i ‘ 5 a 4 < 5 BDoLCE Solu 2 B = i de: ol o a edn r the P ffie. V 3 2 4 i to the station house. The decision | ';“'l‘l‘d ;’I" automobile had struok ter foverish mvestigation Tho late | N8 death. Before tarting he asked nobody arou he senate office | Members of New York and Hartford Stock Exchanges w Britain avenue, Hart- s believed to be on the was made Thursda Yesterday the man’s appearance called forth ac- farquis” was the one and on 55 West Main Street New Britain Phone 2580 Horrl, and w *|for a running suit and practiced | building knew. The senator ex- I {Jumps and sprints, convincing his|plainéd to Kennedy, that the man { executioners that he was a great ath- | was a fariff expert who was assist- | kJ1 L ilon | way to this city, Lieutenant Mat- | Knight Of’ ”‘-‘(“‘“] ]”“ l"'"'*"“ ] } Stuart G. Scgar, Manager oy ’ { thias Rival detailed Officer Louis E. | Written the fiendish lcite had | 140 ossessed the most supreme [ing him, but his name or identity . e ';“” this 8pot2" suggested | 1. nor 1o locate the car it possible, | Dullt the coffin, had had himseit | coo 200 P o seg ,‘j-“‘l“ aramuggs Jleatl ] penatrolmean, E buried and had intended to stay un-| o i 5 2 Rty Senneey e e i “‘\“\vi“mmo registration number was given, | buried ud i ec stay un His Thrilling “Memofrs e dlatee e of tha | but the make of the car was re- | derground, with martyr-like pa-| d the help of the com- | We offer: about the streets. 1 used to do that | With this diabolical conceit, the | fter found e mystery in Hartfo =5 ported and Officer Harper stopped | tience a | “Marquis” tried to shock the world [ man was on the payroll of the sen- i M see there. .mnu'::\"y(::;‘:m‘: :»‘:rlet ntl(: L O CRuUIBEL GGG AT (I ‘V"‘;”M“;':,”"’: e ”; ”,‘“ “”“‘I" 4t fand he had other projected thriliers {ate, but the disbursing office fold (Continued From Kirst I BANKERS TRUST from one place,” answered the man, | 10n€d Charles Crocker of Hartford, | Until he was rescuec ten he -G on the market. When his private |him that personnel the payrod | g i | who was driving. tended to get on with his memoirs | 5y p0rs” wore dug up, th cluded | was made public only in the annual | tance ords oyal pair Then you are not working?" | e ke o o Tor S | papers were dug up, they included | nade 1 e pursucd the officer. | ocker said he had parked hisf ™D pubishers clamored for the|ihe graft outline of his memoirs |repor the secretary of the ] « ) 2 . 8 ‘o." tho man réplied, “1 am oyt |CAr Near the Hudson ~Plumbing | manuscript {hich he intended fo write. Some |ate, and that would not be lo | ¢ h Price on Application. of a job." Supply Co. store on New Britain| But Pessal, for all his skill in|of the most interesting chapters |for time nd her family, “Where do you live?" avenue and children were y)lu_\m;:iw'(m;t easy money from those who | were headed as followe, the (H.'nr»x! Eyanson’s Identity Learned ; the cre 1 “Up there,” and the man indicat. 4DOUt it when he came out. He was, had much, was not much of a scien-| referring to the amounts the exploits | Developmen <low Lut a bit | th nd ed the apartmonts ovér the Roston |NOt aware that he had struck any- | tist. What had happened was that | brought himy for Kennedy fo|¢ver Stor fone, however. He agreed to go to| the carbonic acid gas residve from “Lover of a countess af the age | 1 the chase, and he contin- | Guards Along Railroad “You have a room in this block 2" Hartford and see Captain Williams| the breathed air had no means of ! of 13." ioconda, 1811, 350,000 { ued. His efforts at this point be- | 1 com 1 his genius of spring- | franc heft in the Bluc - “Yes, a small room and you do Matter. | ing surprises on a%gullible public, he | 1911, 1,775,000 francs.”” “Duel wit not liko to stay all day In one room," | must have ot the surprise of his American police, 1918, “The M questioned the patrolman. of the detective bureau about the | exit. With “Investments That Grow” . . e B R I PG S e .2 |l Fuller, Richter, Aldrich & Co. tinued the representative of the law. | countably to nim, to suffocate. He | franc: achine guns for China, L tai e y “No, T am alone,” Form Club at Y. W. C. A} 4ja not ninow that o second pino ! 1924, 19,999,999 francee “Knocking COMMERCIAL TRUST BUILDING NEW BRITAIN b U “1f you had a wife and family, Senfor high school girls ory LU nized | \would have heen necessary to evac- down the Eiffel Tower.” vou would have to have more @ Girl Reserve club at th 1 rooms.” stated the officer. Thursday evening. MEMUBERS HARTFOUD STOCK EXCHANGE Joseph M. Halloran, Manager. Tel. 1283 ¥y Plot any others relative a4 company deals which would have kept the Marquis virile pen busy for a long time. On adventure which the police remem- bDer well he attempted in 1924 when he took a chateau near Dinard and, Y. W. C.| vate the foul air. In Jewel Robhe “No. only more beds. O The followlng ofticers Lect Siopcd s Naoaral i 0. only re beds. ne room "he followlng officers were elect- | o o e would have to do. I am a poor man ed: President, Florence Markham; | 50 well )h"". henaonuisrlans ! and out of a fob. Work is scarce, | first vice president, Alice Ralph; !4 his publicity stunt, that he con- { T cannot marry. T can only watch second vice president, Mary Maut- | ‘Ucted @ rehearsal before he allow- ] those who arc married and work. ner; secretary, Doris Kieffer; treas- (0 himeelf to be burled in the S0 I stand here until T got too6 cold |urer, TEunice Ricker. Committees | Zround in the thick wood of Verne- were 1 nson was in the sus plof Humbert's life might have short time later fin- ished his work with Senator Bing-| Jham and returned to Hartfor: the muking. v A 1 i, 8 : Aestistparle B | Kennedy followed him thero and| Investigation of Thursday's at- [ ) = and hungry. Then T go to bed.” | to carry on the club were appoint- | Uil 30 miles nort with his wife as housekecper and an ! ALt to bineshiats i i A Ph C ( o ed by the president as follows: Pro- | 12d himaelf nailed in his coftin At | o tivo younger woman posing as | CHlod to see s annarent. ) a4 De ¢s have [ merican enix Lorp. of course, know the Fifty miles of wire are used in ' gram, Grace MacArthur, Beatrico | '0me and remained there quite com- lyanson did ot | P'rince continu iterviewed all motion his bride, he invited several Paris | T ¢ pose of Kennedy' cture and the burglar alarm systern of a store Odenwalt, Myrtle Ivenson; member- | ortably for nine hours, hut the box 1rpos of Kennedy's 5 jewelers to visit him with selections Listed on the New York curb, this Insurance Holding com- L s R i N he falked with him |Sound movie operators who wit- ] in London. ship, Alice Ralph, Alice Soderling, | Was not strongly made and the foul | /% 0 50 G o oh Bl | visit : e ot it L o : X : Ruth Connor: service, Marie Bro. Air then could cacapo throuzh °f £0%U piari rinks and neckinc e ol i which timo | nessed '”“’;“\ potowith the hove B pany s now selling around $60—off only 10 points from e —— - coe; | cracks, s 19 he discussed the ¢ affair, even | they can proy Tl ecord 2 = By, Mary Mautner, Stella Roscoe; S e aas feaint A i i S e ) e J MASQUERADE DANGD | Constitution. Doris Klefter, Hel An accomplice, Henrl Moulogne, | hirilday precents i(\’;‘:h.,“',.lh,”:":\T,‘I*”"“‘"»’ Kennedy he iy lioftd anando Dirosg (Rihe s assasain its highest price of the year. This is an investment of sta- Odd Fellows' Hall Qkiba, Doris Barber; pin. Grac has confessed the whole plot ani P 4 ) * preparing for the use Bingham | breaking from the crowd and fir cver, became suspicious and inform- [ quring the debates on the various | his pistol cd police. In searching the chateau | connecticul schedules in the s they found a room like a TURDAY, OCTOBI 8 until 12 | visiting, Mary . The next regular meeting of the burving the “Marqui 26, 1929 Skelly, Anne Casale, Virginia Post; : i5 ngw awaliting trial on a charge of ' lark, Vilma Molline. | homicide by imprudence. After he left the bility, yielding o a large vault | 440 I and running from it & small PIDe | Kennedy inquired if he knew Jos VI : Latest Circular On Request leading to a container ¢f a large|oph R. “Ross” Grundy, the lob PRIZES GIVEN "m , on November 7. | tended to start the search, and re- quantity of chloroform cutside. | was presumed. though it could not |intormation that “Joc' be proven, that the Marquis intend- | him by phone from W | ed to chloroform the jewelcrs' repre- | ghort time sentatives by injecting the chloro- et L iia form into the room. He was sen- Blantts toniinn tenced to five years in prison and | ight. Grundy is pr released less than three months | Pennsylvania Manufa turned some hours later with some king, and ‘ nson volun | coftee for his fricnd. There was no | | i (F WORLD WAR A before the reporter ar answer from the lower end of the pipe. He became alarmed, and with another accomplice, Pierre Durof, | hastily despatched letters to friends and the mother of the “Marqui signed like the others, but glving i the location of the burial. The police | before his death. ciation and one of the lead | Washington lobbyists There was another trip to ¥ ford, and the matter of iror pproached Bi to we- Lyman Street Man Dies at Noro- ton Soldiers' Home We offer and recommend: in the world Ly- & American Founders (Old) ‘ : l I i‘ “ ‘ Henry Scurtt and Tiis Orchestra | juh will be held Thursday, 7:30 p. | wood to mail some more letters in- am with the in nation I had. telling Bingha e Zoing to publish itsthe fol . . R I'ur a explanation Bin, im's e He spent 1 f time in the % i United Founders ! planation is well known—Eyanson | S e e " British Type Investors | was loaned him to help in the mat- | Prous ter of coaching Bingham on tarifis | 1on showe ago, Mr. Reut suff his Lyman strect Connecticut would get tar- | & SCm-inva i U. S. Electric Power Corp. desired, and that I was “on leave of absence from He hovered between time, then hi A Checking Account At This Bank—Provides Safety of funds. n his co son A The following morning, Septem ber 25, newspapers carrled an ex Iclusive story to effect that | condition declin | Bingham had placed an employe LG the Connecticut Manufacturers’ INEu SR < S0 BT tamtnyg) Eis]ee Electric Corp. sociation on the payroll of the gov- ince for almost two years. Pirst News Sept. s lost Convenience in paying. 4 | With the Future— Sacred Heari eon ained it was not unethica This same Kennedy, although I years old, is the reporter who ox- | RECOVEL From Drinking e e g Cckailof B Ram | BONNER, BROOKS & CO. bank. \ ey Ere moctings o Ahe senste comm: o BunEhn Jonhie s s B At the market . tee on finance. land Kopczyk ..‘ | Helps your Cl'edlt. Bingham \”..: ;-Imwkn{\!‘f‘r:. Z:‘v\,‘\‘:”-m \‘m\- xu.\_ i ) ) | 5 n i Meet it with an interest bearing | Hsnlfres s i on e |1 min raljssepagslILLS bR oD New York City Bank Stocks m | te) | R d f Ht t. | the committee convencd and Bi ! ‘1! a 4 . | rd ot all transactions. e o connencd ond Blige nonfe and ateqi30 el Bought, Sold and Quoted W account in this mutpal savings £LU [[bam, the et witness asmittoq Mo rreart cnurch. Burtal > in oug d Quote irles R. Forbes to prison. After Gen. Trank T. Ilines suc- Sieded Torba Kennedy married |8 | New York ; Hartford Chicago g Why Not Bring Your Banking Here? ‘“umfl:(ufrl:l‘;'xu:ln:n‘vl:\‘;.“m of tnaaght a1 arcn atr expected (o | New Haven Meriden Bridgeport et p " I New Britain General hospital short- e ; . | u»-mnx‘:;e )wyx‘n(j:‘“m:;m hand in the |1V. Assistant Prosecuting Attorney NEW BRITAIN | imprisonment of Thomas W. Miller, |W. M. Greenstein ent ed a nolle | |in police court today t charg 55 West Main St. Phone 56 of drunkenness in Laflant’s " ——— eman in fihe suRecine e uns | derwent as a result of his exper Ironing and Washing ExX- || ico was sufficient punishment (% 7 Sy / e Thor || Tanants ome 15 in Waterbury | Salesgirl and Teller ai_ whose hand lay hibit on the famous Thor || taflants e ! Found Shot in Cobalt 38 ¢ olver. was uncoll Porcelain Washer tonight at Saesieer . slation’ THurAgay : our t nd expected AP —With |10 ¢ dt, Ont., Oct e A e AR , A bottle of bay ru @ { | *olic he no evidel Member Federal Reserve System I‘{ ome Progress show. Don't SN et t wo 4‘nl~l\v~ gtta ol w\ i I o “\on;h‘::_:f " Rl 2 (OO AREROLCE SRt 1. \vere found critically wounded short- | pax say whether it was a case J . . n drt it. |1y hefore midnight behind @ pile of of murder and attempted suicide or @ N Bl’lt n Tr t Co HOUSEHOLD ELECTRIC || | e e e, | tics along o mailroad track suleide pact. The two were said to m ew al us ° TORE 1, 5 H”_\'”h ]:x-h"'w e ntor "“;} The woman, Miss Viola Sopha, 25 | have been close friends | ; e Cotnthy e as oK bl ost e e ,n,\:;\k'n?\siamu IREASURY BALANCE M | i Tel. 6279 496 Main St. o; :,'l‘c”,“:"” fata Qikesiock enl li‘u.» Ralph Walker, teller &t ”,pl Treasury Balance, $225,569,986 b)