New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 14, 1930, Page 18

“ Johnson was unmarried and ““Bruce and clo -, NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, APRIL 14, 1930. Baffle Mysteries Baffle mysteries give you ingen! Copyright 1930 Dally Mirror, Ine jous and dramatic crimes to solve —many of them founded on actual cases which have baffled detec- tives throughout the world in years pasf. ‘Each mystery gives you the fac the detectives had to go upon and no more. ‘What do you deduce from them? clues? answer the question asked of you ts established by the police—what Which are the telitale In short, how will you at the end of each baffle? “Wh) 1s guilty?” or “What was the motive?” ete. This is no contest, there are no prizes, it is simply presented for your entertainment, Murder Of Partner Solved In Odd Way After Much Inquiry Thursday's Caller When Aleck Johnson's Sam Mason, heard no word partner, from zJohnson for three davs and couldn raise him on the telcphone, he w 1o the Johnson k bachel to investigate. hall Unable to raise him electric buzzer, he got the superir tendent of the place to admit him with his master ke Johrson was dead in the living with th room. A brief examination shows1 that Johnson had been shot. Sine there was no weapon in sight was taken for granted that man had not shot himself. “Don't to a thing." superintendent warned, I for the authorities This was on a Monday noon. Detective Arnston came with the otficer and medical examiner. Joh son had been shot from behind Thera was no question but what it was murder. Not a thing in 1k rooms had been disturbed chair-backs and such things gone over for finger prin without results. Such few prints feund were those of the man, Mason could give no information that would help in solving the crime. Johnson had no cnemies, 50 far as he knew. They had becn in a warehouse business to; the wer were murdered ther, Masoa did not know whether he had any lady friends. Just a Glimpse cuckoo clock on the wall eleven. Mason wanted hurry away to a business appoin ment. Detective Arnston permitted him to go, but gave a signal to his assistant to have the man shad- owed. Inquiries in the big apariment building brought little information at first concerning Johnson. seemed to remember having him going in or out for some days Finally Hubert Lawton, who lived in the building with his wife, w questioned, along with other f “No, I haven't seen Johnson fo= some days,” Lawton told the dete: tives. “When did vou last see him “Thursday. I just got a glimps= of him as he was opening his door tc admit a friend of his.” “Do you know him?" “Why, yes. slightly. Played g with him and Johnson in i wood one Saturday. His name i Bruce." They questioned Tawion length but he could give no -ther information. He had been oming down the hall from th» elevator when he saw them =aid, but evidently neither had se) him, as Johnson had admitiel door hefore Jawton passed it on his way to his Tha struck at e _-own apartment. Mason, the bartner, knew Bruce, and so h2 vias found. He was an count- 2nt, hed known Johnson since bo. hood and seemed terribly shock:{ %o learn of the tragedy “I called on him last around six o'clock,” ted, when asked time he had seea This tallied ment. Bruce stated son went down f for dinner and it g'clock when €2 at his apartment Eruce, was on his own home in a ta “Where were yvou urday and vesterda ed. In Philadeiphia ——— Company hamed a widely murdered man' Thursday Bruce admit- about the last Johnson with L that around tea house as h way up to his Eriday Bruce wa Sa books." and h known commerciai --concern. Had No Girl Bruce aon’s lady “He had non at all intere Holden, squad af Friends ed ST, ahout Johr friends . avould ha he was from | or any other clue (o the murderer.” cen Johnson alive Detective Holden onsense,’ Arnston in secret, “We've | accounted Philly all day Sunday and Johnson was alive Sunday morning.”, Arnston told his superior officer why he knew Johnson was alive as late as Sunday morning. How did he know this? SOLUTION TO SATURDAY'S BAFFLE MYSTERY Public Maurder evidence is right. Circumstantial often wrong as While Mz Gordon, there that he didn't, despite the fact that three stage hands said they saw him in the zaudy blue robe ani the sunbonn peering throug the back-drop, and standing whe he or anyone could have casily shat Gordon as he rat in the front seat 1t was possible that someone sneaked Masters’ robe and sunbon net purposely for a disguise. is it ers might have shot was Because on the floor down the dressing room alley might mean i this was the casc that Ma left them there sonally to I up his story semebodvy ad sneaked then from his dress oom. they were Ic The sunbonnet a gainst Masters® temples, The black-face ‘malket came off on the bonnet. If som - one wore that bonnet the might a black stain®at: their temples Some heart avs forehcad a be man whose wife or sweet- had made love to by the gay Gordon might have don: it, om~ girl. 1t was more tha likely that a gzirl would .do it under those circumstances All the girls were Detcctive Ame stains on the blonde Nestor, a chorus girl. "he girl confessed. \Gordon betrayed her kid sister, hal longhed her, Flora, when sh went to him about it and this was the only Flora could think of get square. She had sncaked nd bonnet t her off. Advertising been lined up. found black hair of T'lora ha:l way ta Masters' rol A sympath Herald ( makes frier lepartmenta, fied daily for the other he dropped Johnson | NEW BRITAIN PEOPLE | have been trading with us for years and vears and we sure do appreciate |1t. When in Hartford dine with us {and be sure to bring home some oysters and crackers for the other members of the family. " 'HONISS’S OYSTER HOUS 22 State Hartford, Coun. 2 CO. Street Y-iy “This young docto know a lot 0" new th I don't want no 1art- Aleck shuttin’ me off when I'm describin’ symptoms.’ Copyright, 1830, e blishers Syn POOR PA CALLAN ob because it was ruinin’ hi calth to work until 10 o'clock at night, so he's doin nothin’ now p until abou || charges, {| river, His wife told of the dramatic | “They couldn't find a finger print | * Bruce's time in | so the chance | rubbed Assassin’s Bullet Ends Career Of Wisconsin District Attorney; l@r Sheriff Held as Suspect birthday celebrated at Mgnticello. Avon Park, Fla.—Atlantic Coast Line Railroad property released from Recently On sheriff's attachment for taxes. ; d 3 Ypsilanti, Mich. — Three Charge, Shot Down in|when planc is entangled with airport o high tension wires. Kitchen Last ght — Pes Early Today in Hospital. Ac- Liquor Politician, quitted a New York—Dudley Davis, Jr., Harvard student, jumps to death from sixth floor Park avenue apart- ment. . —County District If-styled enemy of and Killed from Mauston, Wis Attorney Price lLootleggers, shot | Mauston. Wis., April 14 (UP) ambush. | Assassins’ bullets brought Weath fo- day to Clinton G. Price, district at- torney of Juneau county ' and widely-known Wisconsin state poli- tic after an attack from Ihn‘ | aark he chatted in_the Kitchen | | of his home with his wife. Fareign Tondon mson in radio talk o agreements on fleets of Japan, | Great Britain and United States will stop dangers of competition in arm- aments. savs Port-au-Prince—President Borno of Haiti adjourns council of state, causing postponement of election of tenfporary president, scheduled for toda Enemie tions in an chagrined at convic- Icohol ring prosecution |in which the district attorney faced but was ‘acquitted, we blamed for the gHooting Bombay—Gandhi urges women to 't shops selling liquor and for- r cloths. 1 »presenting salt tax is “drowned” at sea Price died ecarly today in a hoy pital where he had been removed He ! at from his home on_the Lemon Weir Bucharest—Princess Helen, moth- er of King Michael, ill with grip Khartum, Sudan—Prince of Wales | arrives after 400-mile flight Berlin—Fascists smear “death 1o young” in red paint on three portals { of Reichstag building. come New England ang| Boston—Regustrar of motor ve- | hicles reports 13 persons Killed in sutomobile accidents in state | suddenness of the tragedy. Shot Trom Doorway > were standing in the Kkitch ' she said. outer was closed a flash that to right outside the door fell groaning.” Iive shotgun slugs had Nim in the back, surgeons | hospital discovered Lyall . Wright, former sheriff of Junean county and a principal wit- | Sages of congr: th gainst Price in the liquor con- | Weddin: L. v trial, was held for question-| Arnold, grandson of late governor, |ing in connection with the murder. {and wife. He was arrested by Sheriff Llm Cambridge, Mass.—Three M. T Hempelman as the result of a story | Crews leave for Annapolis {o open 1two boys had told and which proved | €astern _collegiate rowing season |the only clue authorities deemed |2Zainst Navy and Columbia on Sat- worth followinz. | urdax | The. hoys, who had on the| Waltham s | river bank opposite the Price home |19 32, former captain of Tuft when the shooting occurred. fold o] 100tball team, arrested on armed |y A sing A stranger get into a lwonx;"."m‘:fl,;:.\: M |@nd start across the river about| . 'y, ahoe talk with son at Santi- hh'{]) an dour hefore they heard the |, 25 "Ghilo, over 6,000 miles away. by Appears With. Baniago telephone and new South American % . communications system. The boat, bearing bloodstains.| ™ Roston—Airplanc flight of a new |was later found _adrift by deputy|.srabelia” to ates and 67 cities heriffs. Chester Beckman, the own- | yearing tercentenary and American was located, but he said the lock | pegion convention greetings sponsor- ad been broken and the boat stolen | o4 by Boston Herald. early in the evening. Former Sheriff p".mp,,p‘,,_ Mass. — Mrs. John | Wright then was arrested when he fNewton reccives word of bequest of appeared in the downtown district|$30.000 from estate of Texas man with a bandaged hand. whom she fed and clothed as a Attention of® the whole state was|Foadside wayfarer 16 years ago. drawn to Price's trial, which ended | ¥tna, N. H.—Al Marsters, Dart- Wwith his acquittal at Madison on|mouth football star, and fellow stu- March 16. The trial climaxed a|dents, turn firemen and help fight | three-year fight with the liquor in- | blaze which destroyed store. | ter, which had begun with Connecticut raid disclosing a 1,500 gallon still| Torrington — P. S. Morrissey at Kilbourn. Information furnished | Bridgeport, elected president of Con- by Price led to the raid and as a |necticut Fifers & Drummers’ Ass result Wright was removed as sher- | ation 5 |iff. Wright later was convicted of | Windsor—John S. Burke. | conspiracy to violate the prohibition | Hartford, killed and two othe {law and named Price as an accom- | When automebile strikes pole plice. New Haven—John G. Miller, | newly appointed advertising manager | of the Southern New England Telo- | phone company, fatally stricken in | railroad station Bridgepori—Lvidence that hun- | dreds have been swindled uncovered | in raid on Bank Shares & Listed Sc curitics Corporation; Leo N, | witeh, manager, arrested | Brooklyn, N. Y New Haven Hawkes, 72, retired surzeon fatally tricken while ching Yale-Dart- mouth basehall game. Watertown — John confessed bank robber. £25,000 bail for trial in court Bridgeport 42, hangs room. | door d Clinton struck at thel parachutes bearing gifts and mes- T M 3 X O Henn fa mnar’ R —Mr, and Mrs. Wal- a Overnight News | By the Asspciaged Dress. Domestic Washington—Department of jus- | tice issues statement defending Pa ker's decision injunction procecdin against mine workers Nogales, Ariz—Dispatches from Mazatlan, Mexico, say soldiers slew cight bandits, among them kidnapers of Bristow. Los Angeles—Daughter born Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Hoover, Jr. New York—Preston Sturges, play- | wright, and Eleanor I. Hutton, so- | ciety girl, elope. Pittsburgh, Pa.—W. L. Mellon an- i nounces support of Brown for gov- t and Grundy nator. ternor | Charlottesyille, Jefferson's in ‘\ Smeden, 22 | held in Litchficld to — Alphonse Griconis, with necktie in bed- Kentucky's corn crop was worth than its tobacco in 1 37 1ore s valued at 263,556,000 Killed | last | rlestown. R. T.—Airplanes drop | Kaplo- | Dr. William Whitney | crectéd with the money will be a new law building and a new foot- ball stadium. CUSTOMS AGENTS HUNGH GORRECT Gaptures Rum Boat on Radio Music Suggestion New York, April 14 (B—When Deputy Surveyor John H. McGil!, head of the customs enforcement bureau hears “Three O'clock in the Morning” three times by three radio orchestras, he regards it as a hint to do something about 3 a. m. As a result of his playing the hunch, seven members of a speed boat crew were under arreét today and liquor valued at $200,000- was in possession of the customs patrol. After listening to the third play- ing of the waltz number named for the wee sma’ hours, McGill began to think “shop.”” He remembered that the speed boat “Junior Anna- polis,” which is an excursion boat by day. had put out Saturday night and had not returned. At three, minutes after midnight | United States, and were followed by |pe called his subordinates and or- | |a prayer at the grave by Bishop |dered a patrol boat to Rockaway Denny, of the Methodist | point with instructions to lie thers iscopal church. South, Protestant|yntil 3 a. m. They arrived at 2:30 cpresentative and brief remarks by | ang stood by in the fog. |Rabbic Tdyapd I EECallsch) Seio At 3 a. m. the sputter of a motor- mond, representing the Jews and|poat exhaust was heard and a few | Rev. John 1. Kelleher, Richmond, | minutes later, the “Junior Anna-| |speaking for the Roman Catholics. |polis” was hard aground and a prize | [, A wreath sent by Presidedt Hoo-fo¢ the patrol boat. |ver was placed on the monument| The capture revealed the “Junior | while flowers were dropped from an | Annpapolis” as a sort of nautical Dr. airplane circling over head. | Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. In the day- Senator F characterized the {{ime it was rented out to New Jer- statute for religious free- 5oy church organizations for Boy dom as “the greatest yearning of [Scout excursions. | |the enfranchised human mind that | | we have in history at this time. And Senator Dill said if a new declaration were to be written un- |der the inspiration of Jefferson's | principles, “that new declaration should be a clarion call to a revolu- JEFFERSON LAUDED BY TWO SENATORS {Dr. Alderman to Speak on Re- ligious Freedom Tonight Charlottesville, Va., April 14 (#— the statesman, | Thomas Jefferson, will be eulogized tonight by Dr. | Edwin Anderson Alderman, presi- dent of the University of Virginia, in a radio address over a nation- wide hookup, concluding the three- K(‘lfl_\ observance of the 187th anni- versary of Jefferson's birth. Yesterday Jeffefson, the crusader | for religious freedom. was honored | by representatives of three religious | sects and prominent members of |two major political parties, . while urday students at the University |of Virginia paid tribute to Jefferson |the educator at their founders' day exercises. Two Senators Speak On the portico of Monticello yes- | terday Sénator Clarence C. Dill, | democrat, Washington, and Senator Simeon D). Iess, republican, Ohio, | eulogized Jefferson's work for~ the| | right of religious worship in the | Virginia | Former Eleanor, Lewis To Wed William Fish (Special to the Herald) New York, April 14—Mrs. Elea- | | nor Lewis Hildebrandt, formerly of Tallahassee, Fla., April 14 () — Settlement of a dispute with the Atlantic - Coast ‘Line railroad in which Highlands county authorities seized a passenger train and other property to collect 1929 taxes, was the object of a conference of rail- road, state and county officials here today. The county’s claim is ap- proximately $40,000. Train No. 192 of the Coast Line was released temporarily from at- tachment proceedings at Avon Train, Seized In Tax Dispute, Given Back to Road Pending Conference Park, Fla., yesterday in.time to make its scheduled run northward after J. M. Lee, Highlands county attorney, had talked with railroad officials. The train was seized Sat- urday at Sebring., Fla.,, where ‘the mail contract was terminated. ~No passengers were aboard. Lee said, “Our reason for taking such’ drastic action was the refusal of company officials to discuss tax payment following reports that the company had decided mnot to pay fany taxes in Ilorida thjs year." Ceorge Hild: ndt of New Britain. Since the divorce which took place in 1928, Mrs. Hildebrandt has been living in New York city with her ycung daughter, Joan. Mr. Fish is a graduate of Prince- ton and is a coiton broker. No datc has been set for the wedding. TAKEN TO WASHINGTON New London, April 14—George E. Reynolds, who used several alias: vas taken to Washington yesterday where he is wanted for grand lar- ceny. The man was arrested heve after his car, driven by Mrs. H. K. Craig, crashed into the front door of the Strand theater at Mysti Reynolds is said to be wanted Colorado and California and police believe he may be an escaped con- vict from the Colorado state peni- tentiary. 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