New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 25, 1930, Page 20

Baffle Mysteries Copyright 1930 Datly Mirror, Ine. Baffle mysteries give you ingenious and dramatic crimes to solve —many of them founded on actual cases which have baffled detec- tives throughout the world in years past. Each mystery gives you the facts established by the police—what the detectives had to go upon and no me¢ Which are the telltale clues? What do you deduce from them? In short, how will you answer the question asked of you at the end of cach baffle? “Wl» is guilty?” or “What was the motive T'his is no contest, there are no prizes, it is simply presented for your entertainment. Worker's Hammer Clue In Accountant’'s Murder The Lost Hammer ‘When Joe Baxter didn't up at the accounting department of the | big Homberg Department stores for | nearly a week his friends were de- | cidedly unhappy. Baxter had scores of friends de spite the fact that he had for years been the instalment collector the big store. The store managze- 9 ment found that a polite collector | # o call brought better results than waiting for the instalments to be mailed. Baxter collected many things— from little radios to grand pianos. from a small rug to furnishings fo- a whole cottage. Many days he would turn in several thousand dol- lars. His friends hated to believe tha Joe had collected fcr two or three days and then ran away with the money, but it looked like that Joe Baxter had done nothi the sort, however. Some boys fish- ing oft the coal docks hooked up a heavy object, wrapped in burlap. The police took charge. Joe Baxter had been murdercd! His head had been crushed from the rear. Strangely cnough th deadly implement was in the wrap- pings with the body. It was a rath- | er heavy mechanic’s hammer. And cut into the side of this ham- | mer were the initials: ¥. J. Baxter's watch, diamond ring lodge pins and papers were sti intact but not one penny of money was to be found. Some one who knew Baxter and knew that at the end of most days he had a lot of cash with him, had undoubtedly come up behind him and smashel him with the hammer. “The dope is this” Detective Flannery said, “the party killed him didn't intend to more ' than stun him. When he saw he'd croaked him he got scared and put «the hammer in with the body, ani them cobble stones to down. He wanted to hide the evi- dence, the sap, and this is ju _What is going to land him,” he lift- | ed the mechanic’s hammer with the initials F. J. Naturally the first step was to zet a list of all the known machin- ists. The man with the initials F. J. would doubtless be the man. | There was a wide field fo cover, | as this happened in a big manufa turlmg city. The hammer might have been used in any of the forty or fifty branches of the mechanic's trade, from all-around machinist to garage helper or plumber's helper. Finally the name of “Frank | Johnson” was located. He owned @ sort of plumbing business which | was in a shed adjoining his cott in the outskirts of the city. Lvi-| 5nally painted dently he was not very prosptr»; The lower left hand pane of gl ete, show for of can prove I lost that because 1 advertised for it,” said Johnson gon Diner, on “Near “You ten “Look t to b wpped | dered man? John stared | ment the . ch it river.” how with a wa know where blocks from the here, Johnson W up is, at him in | “Look some profanity, that hamme | for it Johnson the Reco was last here he said can prove I because 1 advertis i had advert | two d | on alive. The read LOST wiio[ 180 Mechanic’s hammer, and a half pounds, taped handle, initials on side I J. M b by mi: s Diner on Wi~ Please return 1o Johnson, 31 Parker St. you out, Johnson,’ said, by en taken weight it I “That Detective ay, how that worth “Oh, Flannery much is dolla 1 > 1 was used to it. under a guess 10N The “Impossible Hess had been killed by who did not enter his room! trained eyes noted the h of the skylight. Three s of glass were held a window of the p hammer, | | | Water | probably come | mur- amaze- adding lost : 4 | additional sed for it, in before Baxter advertise- the a hammer like T Hked est,” man in by theoriginal putty, painted brown along with the sash when it was or- NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, MARCH 25, 1930 EDEL AGAIN FAGES DEATH SENTENCE Man Who Four Times Has Heard | Vendiot Still Hopes w York, March 25.—(UP)—In the death house at Sing Sing prison is a man who on four occasions has heard, as though it were irrevocable, that he was to die in the clectric chair. But each time his span of life has been extended. This week the case of Fred W. | del comes again before Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt, who must decide whether Edel, ¢rook and | . is also a murderer. | Known Facts of Crime | re are the known facts of the | for which Ldel was sentenced | dic | On December 29, 1927, the hody | of Mre. Emmeline Harrington, said to have been an actress, was found in her upper Manhattan apartment. The body was found in the bath- room by another temant. Two de- tectives first on the scene said they aw nothing suspicious, but later the ! medical verdict was that she had been beaten to death. In Ma 1928, Edel, known in the underworld Mousey,” was H | erime to a New Planet Strengthens Latest Creation Theory apprehended in Paul, Minn, where he had fled from postal au- thorities who sought him on charges of foiying money orders. A bag he had left in the Taft hotel New Mav- en, Conn., which he had left with- out paying his bill, was found {o contain some of Mrs. Harrington's personal belongings. Likewise in the | NEW PLANET % BllLION MILES S FlrEPTUNE- ,bag was a hammer-like instrument | with which the murder might have been committed. Edel was indicted and placed on trial. The state dated the crime as of December 1927, and a jury decided that the evidence substan- tiated the charge of murder in the first degree. No defense had been offered because Edel’s attorneys had | | thought the state's case too flimsy. | | del then found himself convicted and sentenced to die during the | week of December 12, 1929. | But on December 13 Governor Roosevelt granted the first reprieve | on the ground of newly discovered evidence. Soon after the case was | taken up by the New York Telegram, which assigned reporters to investi- gate the defense plea of innocence. As the newspaper and Alexander I. Rorke, counsel for Edel, contin- ued to dig up new facts, there came { reprieves. The defense, contention was that Mrs. Harring- ton could not have been killed on the date originally set by the state. James Neilson, son of Mrs. Chif- ford Sleeth, swears his mother in- formed police she saw Mrs. Harring- ton alive 10 hours after the time'{neory, would be much of murder as shown by the state.|(ne estimates from FI (Edel has an alibi for himself after | cate that it is so. Bea he checked out of a hotel on De- | opthesis, named the cember 23, 1 until long after the | by, Harlow Shapely. crime was discovered.) s vara Obaeivatory s ,| William G. Hoffman received a| «rhe discovery exten leiter from Mrs. Harrington Dost- | etary system bayond marked at 1:30 a. m. on December | o¢ the nebular hypothe: 26, three days after the supposed | wastronomers have d time of the slaying. hypothesis, It was Judge Charles C. Nott, Jr.. how- | tine by the planetesm ever, ruled the new evidence in-| ((hat the planets we; competent and denied & motion for |{ne atraction of a mew trial. The sentence of execu- | particles), That gave tion thus will stand unless Governor | {iga) evolution theory.” | Roosevelt orders to the contrary. The governor, who this week Will | pa¢ receive Rorke in private hearing | nous fiery has given no indication of his be- | cquator. | liefs in ¥del's guilt or innocence. | yiripped | Roosevelt did declare, however, that | jne"filament. the case was “a glaring example of | possible proot how a man may suffer from lack of | nowertul telescopes funds” through inability to condutt | \ane” nebulac shaped his own 1nvestigations in defense. |yone yeith streamers 23, ural History, explains staff observatory (left) New York, March new planet created. This belief is that i of gas from the sun's This_ filament stret the shape of a thickest in its miles long, one the other pointed ing and now receding The midd center. Jupiter and the middle positions thetical cigar, are fa of the planets, Jupiter The new planet, the passing star This tide is tached in shape of Discovery of new planet strengthens theory of ear in Hunting Dog (upper right). seems to fit scientific idea of how the world was | '0ld-Time Suffragettes Rummaging Trunks for Symbols of Past Days past a passing sun tore a filament cigar, or torpedo, | end mear the sun, toward the pass- | great celestial condensed, into a ~ row of planels | the bulkiest ones forming from of this hypo- in diameter and Saturn the possibility replaced for a solid or liquid | The rame tidal hypothesis mean tides ahout into a lengthening, tr: that reveal di theory. Scale shows relative distances of planets, P — The h's creation from a flaming streamer such as spirak Dr. Clyde A. Fisher (top), curator of astronomy, American Museum of Nat- New planet was first scen at Flag- the latest n the remoic | equator, ched out mn| le, billions of | To Qb_sErve De star. Carrie s Mus. Chapman Catt, Worker, to Speak Tomorrow as & cigar Pioneer Saturn, near | r the largest 86,000 miles ,000. under smalle agstar? ring out this | tidal theor: director of | aid: 1ds the plan- Begins. March throughout Washington, (P—011 country trunks t d for “Votes e were being rummag for Women” buttons and banners today as members of the National League of Women Voters prepared for tomorrow’s countrywide cele- bration of ten years of suffrage. From 42 states have come tele- grams describing candle lighting | ceremonies, suffrage fashion parades the |And old photo and souvenirs shows [to brighten the nineteenth amend- I ment's tenth birthday party. Out Comethe Symbols The yellow umbrellas of St. Louis, the yellow straw hats of Chicago, | flaunted at conventlons long past, were reported out from a decade of storage, ready to gleam again with the blue and yellow badges worn by women campaigners emblems of consecration to the And banners long-furled sis. iscarded that al hypothes: re made hy way to is raised eno, the sun's sradually seen througi like spinning | of fire a | cause. long curving | Celebration of Victory| once | ous, although it was found that he | “kept fairly busy. | Detective Flannery hammer to him. “Did you ever see this before he demanded, sharply. took the| was held in by wgpainted putly. That caught his eye. A close examination showed putty was only a few days old not thoroughly hardened Someone who knew this and out the sky- D j Start therough bowel Iefly ‘when you feel dizzy, headachy. tails. . The tidal theory explains, math- ¥matically at least, a chaos whici condensed intd not only the planets, but into the comets, meteors and cven into clouds of dust and gas of | . . cennial of Triumph [tucky, May 1; and ratification cele- | bration August 18 Mrs. Catt to Speak By Radio Mrs. Catt, who actively campaign- ed for suffrage for 40 vears, will speak by radio tomerrow on “The Hopes of the IFounders.” On the |same program, Miss Belle Sherwin, for six years president of the |league, will discuss “Discoveries in |Ten Years of Suffrage.” Two congresswomen, Mrs. Mary Norton of New Jerscy, and Mrs, Plorence P. Kahn of California, will attend the celebration of the Dis- ltrict of Columbia's “Voteless | League.” Photo of Marathon Parado An old photo of General Rosalis |Jones' suffrage parade from New | York to Washington in 1913, when [the women leaders walked every step of the way, will be displayed at the capital city celebration to many women' campaigners who, liv- ing in unenfranchised Washington, have never been able to cast the allots for which they campaigned. al Jones still resides in Wash- |ington. but now she is Mrs. Clar- ence C. Dill, wife of the United | States senator from Washington. | A call has gone out from League |of Women Voters headquarters here for a general mobilization of all suffrage souvenirs. | More than 275,665,000" bronze | will be waved as Mr rie Chap- | one-cent pieces were minted during |man Catt, one of the carly woman | he fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, | suffrage leaders, discusses her hop in the United States. and ideals. No special suffr attaches to March significance 1t merely | Flashes of Life l By the Assoclated Press. London—A gray-haired gentleman attracts attention occasionally by afternoon visits to the pond in Ken- sington Gardens where his sailing of model yachts shows the experience -|of an expert. He is Charles Francis Adams, secretary of the navy of the U. 8. A, and yachtsman by avoca- tion, Hickory, N. C.—Al Jones is unper- turbed so long as he collects $20. A friend of his said that the Chicago police force had been disbanded. Al was so sure that such was not the case that he made a wager. He wired tives, wrote in reply that most crimes in Chicago in the last three months had been committed by persons from southern states. New York—The history of demon rum is available for both dry and bibulous bibliophiles. The New York Academy of Medecine has an exhibit of 150 books covering five centuries and written in various languages telling of the benefits and the hor- rors of tippling. Luxor, Egypt—The king and queen of the Belgians fear not King Tut. They visited the famous tomb in the Valley of the Kings in disregard of superstitions about curses. New , York—Furnishings of the apartment of Marion Talley. erst- while opera star, now a Kansas farmer, are to be auctioned. Among them is an autographed baby grand piano. Willicoochee, Ga.—By ukase of the city council of Willacoochee (popula- tion 1211) it is unlawful for any male person to carry or go driving with any woman or girl between mid- night and daylight unless good and sufficient ,reason can be given the city marshal. Freeport, Y. — Miss _Elinor Smith is the highest flier of her scx. Official calculations are that she soared 27,418 fect recently, exceeding the record of 23,996 made by the late Marvel Crosson. New York—In hig 83rd year Mah- lon B. Smith continues to be an ac- tive bank teller, as he has been for 63 years without missing a day. London—Either the roast beef of old England and trimmings do not agree with American delegates to the naval parley, or they have been eat- ing too fast. Their chief ailment is indigestion. New York—Having finally used a marriage license obtained ten years ago, John C. McDonald, 50, and the former Alice M. T. Lewis, 60, both of Archville, N. Y., are on a honey- moon. They were married at City Hall. Southern Pines, N. C.—Thousands of husky male duffers will be jeal- ous. In a driving contest, Maureen Orcutt walloped a golt ball a total of 769 yards in three swings, an average of more than 256. Cardinal Issues Praise Of Fascist Organization Milan, Italy, March 25 (®) — An unusual compliment was paid to fascism by Cardinal Schuster, arch- bishop of Milan, in a letter to the local federal secretary of the party on the occasion of Sunday's anni- versary of the March on Rome. “Catholic Ttaly and the supreme pontiff from the first hour,” said the letter, “have blessed fascism and | conceived great hopes for these | voung forces which profess the ! faith and religion of their fathers. “May God confirm and make valid His holy designs so that fas- cism may be for the Ttaly of the lateran pacts the symbol of happy token of spiritual reawakening.” The cardinal added thaf this was the feast day of St. Bemedict Norca-from whom Il Duce had de- |rived his baptismal name, and “thus may St. Benedict protect him in his saving mission.” WOULD FASCISTIZE SCHOOLS Rome, March 25 (P—The fascist grand council will reconvene today Chicago. 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