New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 18, 1930, Page 17

—_ NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, MARCH 18, 1930. Aged Indian Woman’s Story Will Be Strongest Testimony Against Murder Defendant In Buffalo! State Alleges Young Red- skin Friend of Famous Artist Was Brains of Plot to Dispose of His Wife. Buffalo, N. Y., March 18 (A—TLila Jimerson, 35-year-old Indian wom- | an, will go on trial for murder to- morrow without having been aBle to enlist the aid of the United States government in her defense. Influ- ential tribesmen of the Cattaraugus reservation appealed to Washington to lend legal support on the ground that the Indians are wards of the government, but word received from the white man’s capital is to the ef- fect that the Senccas on the Cattar- augus reservation originally signed their treaties with the state of New York, and, unlike Indians in other states of the union, really are not wards of Uncle Sam. However, the atate already has assigned the res- | ervation attorney to act with two other attorneys appointed by the court and assures that the rights of the dark Tespected and protected. Brains Behind Plot Miss Jimerson is supposed to have been the brains behind the hammer crime—a tragedy in which Mrs. Henri Marchand of Buffalo, wife of a renowned artist. was beaten to death by the utensil purchased in & store mear der was committed. Nancy Bowen, an elderly woman, who employed witcheraft with little success, is ac cused of the actual slaying. Nancy's case will remain dormant. However, until after disposition is that of Lila, whose love for Mar- thand is said to have been back of the influence which the young wom- an wielded on the beshawled and wrinkled Nancy. Nancy Bowen, according to Dis- trict Attorney Guy B. Moore, will be the state’s star witness in the prose- cution of Lila. ing to the prosecution, moved around the pla Ouija board and how I that the spirit of Nancy's dead hus- band, Chief Sassafras Charlie, de crecd that Mrs. Marchand was a witch and that she should be killed. Then the elderly Indian woman will tell, if the prosecutor’s plans do not go awry. how, after being in- spired Dby Lila for nearly three months to do away with the “white witeh woman,” she home of Mrs. Marchand, struc.. the artist’s wife on the hea. with a hammer, and, after she had fallen unconscious, stuffed a wad of paper saturated with chloroform, down the vietim's throat. To Tell of Weird Rites Not the most uninteresting part of old Nancy's recital will scription of the weird rites at the zraves of dead Indian warriors on the reservation, when dolls repre- renting the form of Mrs. Marchand were buried and the spirits were called upon to terminate the earthl career of “the white witch ¥ says she was of the belicf that Mrs. Marchand was hexing her and that it she was not put out of the way at once. the old Indian woman would lose her own life. This belief, she contends, was substan- tiated by messages which came over the Ouija board. She could not read and she took Tila's word. she for the trans- lations of Ouija’s messages from the #pirit of Sassafras Charlie There is possibility that an insan- ity plea will be offered for Lila, if the defense alienist, who is examin- ing her at the present time. files o report indicating she is mentally un- balanced. Tn that event the defense how Lila hette of the alienist will be placed on the stand. | The defense attorneys are awaiting the alienist’s formal report. raid today preliminary tests tend to show that Lila is sanc. Marchand Changes Attitude In the meantime, Henri Marchand, re- | husband of the siain ‘woman, mains in jail, held as a witness said today he would make no effort 1o raise the 325,000 bail required for his release. Marchand was in a bet- ter frame of mind than at any pre- vious time since his incarceration and although he relations with Lila. denied he knew anything of the well-conceived plan to kill his wife. He also said he had abandoned his plan to commit sui- cide at the first opportunity. The deer bot-fl n miles an hour—almost the speed of a rifle bullet, He Special Notice The old St. Patri s dance which ev. William A. Harty branch, A. O. has been giving for ye will be held tonight at Judd's hall Main strect. Skip Simpson, radio prompter, will be in charge of the neveral old hioned dances on the program. His orchestra will fur- nish the rausic. Out Go All Rheumatic Poisons Ru-Ma Acts ;kidneys_ Liver and Blood the Very First Day Get « bottle of Ru-Ma today and wear ! smile on your face tomorrow rewedy that astouishing the untry, and it's just as good for tea, lumbago and muscular aches and p: as for rheumatism, 1t drives the poisotious waste from Joints and muscles—that's the secret of Jiu-Ma's success: But we don't ask to the Iair e ist and get a bottle, and if it as promised got yvour Lo there waiting o our word Store or any vou t do we It will kinned maid will be fully | the Marchand residence | only a few minutes before the mur- | made of he will tell, accord- | a told her | went to the ! be her de- | 1t was | admitted intimate | travel 815 | GAPONE MISSING: ENROUTE HOME| | It Ruse Enables Gangster fo Make s "o cmmoon | Hewes of remedies for ¢ | } Cover Unobserved \ Chicago, March 18 (LS Al Capone today was “lost” in th fog of mystery that shrouds gan: | land’s activities, ic | le posed a | Queen of Hearts | HEWES HAS PLAN ¢ T0 ASSIST PARTY Farmington Man Suggests Demo- ‘ cratic Organization Change fl 18 (A —)ore women wor Waterbury, March han 200 active he democratit Hotel Ilton here to hear Thomas Farmington prescribe his the ills of the demo cratic state organization. He pro- reversal in the party ma- chine procedure, so that the ‘“gen- sral” should choose his own ates and officers” a policy which, he said, would strengthen the p: | everywhere, as opposed to the pres- The Chicago gang leader, released | ¢ | vesterday from the Eastern peniten- | tiary at Philadelphia, was variously | reported as heading homeward in a | | train, an airplane and an automobile. | ¢ | On one point all the rumors we | agreed—that was that Capone was | | coming back to Chicago where | achieved wealth and notoriety as th | nation’s biggest gangster. | Date of Return Uncertain i How or when he would return was | | merely a matter of so much con-| | jecture, Capone’s Chicago associates | | followed the usual gang custom of | | admitting nothing and denying| nothing. ’ | It seemed obvious, | he would not make a public display ot his return. 1In the there are enemy gangster | anxious for the chance to avenge the | | deaths in their ranks attributed to |t | Capone’s henchmen. -In the second |! | viace the police have indicated they | | will “treat Capone like any other hoodlum” and picghim up on sight. The most genedly accepted | port was that Capone, was on the Bro way limited of the Pennsyl- ania system, accompanicd Frank | [ Cline, the bodyguard who served ten | months with his chiet on charges of | carrying guns, and others of his fol- | low The train's schedule calls for arrival in Chicago at 10 a. m. |, But it was considered unlikel at Capone would stay aboard that lons, it He was on the train at all. Planed Rumors Scouted The chances that Capo; return by airplane were slini. | municipal airport saig weather con- ditions made flying almost imposs ble last night and this morning. Although city police posted squads near the Capone home and at other points where they thought the gan, ster might appear, federal authori- ties announced they would not ¢ molest him at present ' Capone is under $5,000 bond on a | ¢ federal contempt of court citatic v hich charges him with giving false affidavit. This action resulted from his affidavit last year that he was too | ill at his Miami estate to return to | Chicago and appear before a grand jury. | District Attorney George E. Q. Johnson said this ¢ will be g brought to trial before April 15 and that in the meantime Capone’s bond adequate and thé government will ot trouble him. Frec After 10 Months Philadelphia, Mareh 18 Scarface Al” Capone, racketeer, is 4 today fter spending ten months in the Eastern State penitentiary. But his where- | abouts was a mystery With his bodyguard : the gang chieftain releascd vesterday from the unwatched gate | of the new penitentiary at ford, 30 miles from Philadelphia, | c while hundreds of curios newspaper men and motion pic photographers stood about the | stone enclosure of the n pen- itentiary herc waiting to get a > of ther 7 oners had been spirited | ¢ to Gratersford carly in the day while officials awaited the arrival from Harrisburg of the necessary | papers signed by Governor| ‘apone and his pal hac been sentenced to one year cach for | carrying deadly weapons, but two| months was cut off on account of good behavior. They were entitled | to their freedom at midnight Sun- | day, but it was delayed by the ab sence of Governor er in t e West Indies. | Decline to Reveal Place | Caponc and Cline slipped een cxcept by prison officials. hese ofiicials declined reveal their destination, if they knew it. Neither would they state whether the two men had been met outsid the prison gate by friends. t In announcing their release four 1 hours after they had been set fre | Herbert Smith, warden of the peni- tentiary, said they had been taken away in a “brown automobile,” und |d | told newspaper men to “try to find |i out” whege they had gone. They | Qid try. Bnt their efforts met with | no success, and no trace of Capone | and Cline had been found early to- | Local police expressed the be- that they headed for either or Miami, a. Capone has an estate in Miami and his wife | and son were reported (v have| spent the winter there. Plane Seen at I To add to the myste tri-motored airplane, persons, landed at'the port in Camden, N. J. across the Delawar river om Philadelphia, | shortly bef 6 o'clock last night. | 1t was reported that the machine, | which came from Valley Stream, | L. 1, had been chartered to take | Capone back to Chlcago. The pilot Gilbert Wallace, said he did no. | inow what the next leg of his flight | would be and that he had instruc- | tions to await telegraphic orde trom New York. He was still awaiting these orde |carly today. This led to the belief that the chartering of the plane | might have been a ruse designed to confuse possible cnemies of Capone. | In explaining why the prisoners | had been transferred to Gratersford, Dr. Herbert M. Goddard, a member | of the board of trustees of the East- ern penitentiary, said the action was taken “because of newspaper | stories of enemies of Capone, seek ing him at the time of his release.” “The officials of - the ir 17 Dr. Goddard declared they would mot have properly formed their dutics should have released him from the Phila- | | delphia institution and subjected | | him to possible harm, bodily or kc\ln‘l\\ls‘: ? ] . ¢ « v It however, th Te- would p— | ! Chicago ik ( aters- eckers, v t ¥ a ¥ © away to t itral air- re titution | fe and officers Suffrage,” ¢ ored the mov many Mr. McNeil is a candidate f cratic Alfred of st place, | president, Mrs reported | Of Columbia, drew leads McCoy, of N bury available sired carned and are sclfish and determined efforts in our |to both Mrs. privates diffidence old | ¢ pla sition that each with songressional n senatorial cach of :nt system whereby the *priv the general Senator Former State Archiball McNeil of Bridgeport spoke o opic Part I Took erting that he had nent at a tim en politics occopscd it v demo- committeeman from His outstanding com- the post is Phillips of Stamf Mrs. Welch Presides H Hayden, president he Waterbury Women's ratic club, opened tl urned the chair over “The in Wor 4ssociated Press Ploto men in £ c : “Queen Ilorida State Women. national onnecticut. petitor for for to a stat ntion in tu commit conve L one conven- ould eman M ¥ ational meeting and rman. to the state Fannie Dixon Welch & this plan mit Pirs 1ix-Mayor Francis P his ¢ man John t. Louis, ank Haye. .| organiz " | coupled 3 only sound principl lare desired is ment and in pa ret throug tion Answer: tuilfoile o wn Chair- and Joseph T. to Mavor I. of th Democratic H. Cr sec W sues democrat speakers’ table were Kirby, president of the | Women's club; Mrs. An- | Fairficld county ha Moore, New ader; Mrs. David treasurer of Nora H: of retary of the feder- I'red McCarthy of An- " vonding secretary; Mrs, | ¥ Curry, Hartford county lcad- John Pettibone, president |ate Milford Women's demo- Robert Thomas, | will leader, and Miss | fidence clerk of Water- | Bumber the and if women John Bridgepor MeQ be ied that too much Dl power is or two up a person not s of on will buitd seny Ma faven county Ne on v Haven, he fed Mrs. Ha M the field county ligan, town and secretary Wa Women's Democratic club. “It seems to me just ommon hat i nough hould but W er- Jury ter of sense,” H a in choose the means to end, which is vi “In some &tates whe tively or ion may “onnecticut party of 1 or party 1 W licves nds most ttain the de- in Cor ory. in Ha 1al in ¢ this is com- Wil type of table, B > the od reat, only organization have no criticism of our past leaders. They have entitled to the deey party for their un- easy, whe are he orm sho eser itude of the ed Mr. Spell Harris hia tation to speak sehalf. tly hinery But I think they handicapped by available to the to rely upon in the selec have had no choice Would Reverse Methods “I propose for your ideration, have the t n o es spo of to but that in the tead of private ng the oose 1 you with fally a political L party sent parti we rev party ssentially durc o S. and offic the general . Concretely my the sound propo- onsibility for s a man, that man right to sclect his Principles “National tion,” he flict party, the general, own m d on it r ess is placed o hould have the bordinates. said we know it in ol whose sup dom of tI L afd whosc ant bas wi theé original principles of oic re il citi- import - as it il ap- cdom to quest should 1 plication of the the concrete day, logi fr I which an is as follows. hat the ent mittee t the han s stat persons should e other. Th the ommittee point one 1 suggest state central com- national chairman sati commit- These arose cial privile of out advie an of hould as the the national then head of ap- n ric other two, committee with th executive of the organi ssional district nt a man to be orial district a appoint the latter own official en, he be full Each would woul in ation. prohibition. PROVIDENCE MAN DILs Ma., M head respons W v chairman. | I’ e, 1 town then committes % should appoint only this organization is lead nent has d in the past. Yet district is the division of the n which the contest on national is- is largely fought out “Every two years or f he towns would eclect delegate district heir "he entilat new in b the stat —— = Modern & Old Fashion Dance AND CARD PARTY Auspices W. L. Morgan lLodge No. Knights of Pythias Tuesday Evening, Marchi 18, Jr. 0. U. A, M. Hall— I Orchestra - “Registered” 1930 s, Street 1o and would Tmpe s conventions 530 these conventions PALACE [ Small HOUSE OF TS Western Lleetric fosi e s g BRSNS NOW PLAYING—TWO ALL-TALKING PEATURLS Big Shows Prices efore Trespass Private Sec GLORIA SWANSON in o CHARLES ‘Buddy’ ROGERS HALF WAY TO HEAVEN" with JEAN ARTHUR perty. (Her first all-talking picturs) “THE TRESPASSLR” ma of love conflict An electrifying dr: and sacrifice and th of wome B An all-talking comedy dr: SOUND NE ALKING COMEDY—NOVELTIE na S—ALL- THURSDAY — FRIDAY Zicgteld's All-Talking, All-Singing Super S “RIO RITA” with JOHN BOLES — BEBE RANIEL cen Spectacle. = | 1 this column are theatrieal notices mnd re ou for the respective wmi V1 1 NT AT CAPITOL t, one of LYN BI favorite into GRAND THEATER, HARTFORD rta to AT THE EMBASSY ICE CREAM 49c Per Quart SPECIAL EVERY WEDNESDAY at the NFECTIONERY Theater the Kid.” PALACE € Aeat to b Speially Crown Ice Cr=am Co. WILI Made Lov¢ high fi blend of hilarit i William H of his most ambitious Girl Said No." May M STRAND HAINES 1 and In the New Two Flavor Package) | Jdwyr STR. Wonder Today and Wed. Continuous rr For a Great Laugh See and Hear WILLIAM HAINES ‘The Girl Sai- No” with MARIE DR R, LEILA HYAMS POLLY MORAN Pictures of Y. M. C. A, Activities! THURS,, FRI, SAT. Another First National Vitaphene Hit! 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It'sa thrill - mystery - romance you won't soon forget See and hear. | EVELYN BRENT » Darkened @Rooms THURS TALKING FEATURES e e I A | Nancy Carroll | in Dangerous Paradise’ with NEIL HAMILTON All Talking! ature — Morton Downey *in “Lucky in Love” FINAL “This SHOWIN , TODAY DOUBLE FEATUR Blazing Romance, Shot With Tropic Fire! In Love as in Battle “THE DELIGHTFUL ROGUE” ® with Rod LaRocque Rita La Roy MATINEE 12 C ALL SEATS 25 SHOPPERS’ DAILY :30 to 2 P. M. ) an [} Thing Called Love” with Constance Bennett, Edmund Lowe Coming — TOMORROW E SCREENING ROBERT ARMSTRONG d JAMES GLEASON Pathe @ Picture '