New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 28, 1930, Page 2

5 :ffand pleasant. OKLAHOMA POLICE | BELIEVE VICTINS FRIENDS INNOCENT (Continued From First Page) lice investigation were The Smith brothers, Wike arrived here at 4 o'clock Sat- urday afternoon in an in which they had driven from their Litchfield county homics At 6:30 they went to the officc of Virgil L. Coss, Muskogee loan dealer, who for sold farm mol s to th New Milford company and wh the company went bankrupt heen handling paper on commission for the Connecticut men, The pur- pose of the conference cuss the status of th Thre conference ended and the men returned to their ho David and George Smith went to their room on the eighth floor which adjoined that used by Seeley anl Wike. The door between un- locked. Seeley went room to shave. David sitting on the side of ing in a notchook Wike were also in t According to Wi well-dressed young brown suits and flou rs entered the room an vid Smith had asked them wanted, replied v God vou what we want Grappled With Men David Smith then grappled the man and his brothc self upon the gunman’s con aid he went to George § istance. The battle s been a short one. corge Smit was killed with a bullet through ths heart while his brother's life wais snuffed out by a bullet which en- tered the head under the chin and followed an upward course. The gunmen then sei bound and gaged him d took his wallet which contained $5. When Seeley returned to the room he noti er and In th ed Wike. Sceley a ne has was to dis- mort an hou was to t Smit men ishing T what the we'll show Wi the police were su meantime Seel Seeley said he or four shots. No other guest in the hotei could be found who heard ar or the sound of a struggle. Men swering Wike's description of assailants were not encount anyone in the hotel, it i levator operator was also unable ¢ furnish police with any information. Robbery Not Motive Robbery apparently was motive for the killing for although Wike said the two inen took % from him they made no real atten to search him. A gre money loose in his pocik taken and there had been no tempt to loot the baggage or pockets of the dead men. The to both rooms were missing. Investigators at first were opinion that the conferenc the four men held with Coss migh furnish some clues but Seeley later said the discussion was harmonious Wike had vianned to! return to Connecticut today with th bodies of the slain men but he detained by police. Although there have been two other assaults in Muskogee hotel re cently police say they find no reason for considering the Smith murders in this categol They believe that an- not th> of tne which was 7 the murders or the instigator of {h- " brother-in-law of th murders was someone who knew th twe Connecticut men. Believe Men Martyrs New Milford, April — B that George R. Smith, West \Olflr wall, and his brother, David Smith, Sharon, died as martyrs was expressed yesterday by numerou: Litchfield county residents who held there might be a connection between I the murder of the brothers and the fact that they werc in Muskogzee, Okla,, on a mission entailing the pos- sible salvage of half a million dol- lars invested by Litchfield county residents, through the bankrupt New Milford Security company, ern farm land mortgages. Residents in the Upper Housaton- ic valley were unwilling to believe reports that the Smiths had been slain by ordinary robbers Frank Wike, brother of John L. Wike, for man Sharon s lectman, styled the murders “an ob- vious plot.” Lawrence St Smiths, charg ed that land on which Litchfield people hold mortzages, sold in Ok homa for taxes, has vielded of passing from Connecticut con Relatives waited until a physician had been summoned before they broke tho mews of the murders to Mrs. David Smith Fear that the for P vears a tragedy G may New Milford S expressed by The younger against his f trip had to ma s plar we Climax of murder is ¢ other that has security comp Formerly one of th ot £p Misfortun pany western small iny Some years ago | was president company. Post the mortgag is said, but ra know he had paid high inte funds at hi people credit tary of the cor and since, with = this and beliey Emmons to ad In 1929, ~ missioner pro la which company 1 at a mectir crning bo 10ns mmons died s he medical death to hea On July lac in west-| aved in Suicide Try, Woman Becomes Bride elsea, Ma April 5 (UP) few hours aftc being res- d by Metropolitan police offi- from the surf at Revere ch, Miss Anna M. Davis, 28§ ame the bride of Walter Al- | | ger of this city at the Church of {] Our Lady of Grace in Lverett vesterd Nervousness attending wedding plans was believed police to have caused the you i o leap into the sea by automobile | t company as receiver s to the which he h ed turning over 1mons 1 paid in- | the mortgages w nd on 3 western mor nd the SUppOsc dly turned to their owners a ound co George S h. ding to reports, David mber himself | hezan Smith cir John amilies wi its real worth ced to pay him for hia work 1lso appears th. Mr. ,\u'nh: ad placed in his care commissions | small clders, for whom he eed to malke investigations as a atter of 0C I Tou p Planned \ for Y trip had nvestigation ome of which in Californi ted last Tuc reached their tigated for bee aedit covered property even murdered 11 start i lieved here after hat he thought 1 the end of his that an aufomobile a hold-up would prove had doubled the accident | on his automobile. e | orked out a plan whereby fhe 1en divided their money, took their checks and then ed check so that| nave only §25 on | time. | ould | his person at any onc Brings Bodies Home Washington, Conn.. April 25 (P— ey of this town. telepho to his cousin, S. Ford Seceley, last ht that he expected to leave for uesday night with the David S. Smith and his Loth of whom were slain in hotel room at Muskosger Okla.. Saturday night. Mr. Secley. in a brief conversation, added no facts to those already contained in news dispatches When Lidwin T dent of the New bodies of brother Ceor; Emmons Milford Securities company died last July, P. G. Seeley as made president and served un- til the Hartford-Connecticut Trust company was made receiver. {- 1t was understood from remarks made by Mr. - before Nis de- parture west with the Smith broth- and John T. Wike that he was making the trip to aid in checkin up western farm ort s with presi- acquiescenct Tha trip was many efforts to d of assets of th company David §. in Sha rded as one of ne the value defunct urities home tood friends to be the holder of a consid ble amount of farm mort " MOB SEVZES FLORIDA SUSPECT FROM AUTO d Trom First I Otis Keen. a strawberry reported to authorities that he heen taken from his home at Plant City yesterday by four men posing as off who demanded infory tion irding the whereabor Hoc Keen said he w bLeaten ith Authoritie ' room here s for $9.000 is was Ty (Continu ge) grower had rching Ho- ast night and finding ied by the gov 100 in bonds nment of Serbia d that under the 1 been ab Plant City bombing - LIQUOR PURCHASER CASES REACH COURT BELIEVE IT OR NOT ONE FOOT 1N MONDAY AND THE OTHER IN TUESDAY EXPLANATION OF SATURDAY'S CARTOON Pelorus Jack—Pelorus Jack was a big grampus fish, familiar to thousands of visitors to x years he met almost every ship as it left Pelorus Sound to enter New Zealand. For thirty-s ench Pass in Cook’s Strait, at the north end of the south island of New Zealand. would keep just ahead of the ship going through French Pass, and then turn around and wait for the next ship. This remarkable fish was regarded as a minor deity by the natives, and a friendly aid to shipping. (Od request, sent proof of anything depicter (R U. & Pst. Of) 51!.,-; er 3 Qquadru ]e bamevilu] a T"T“‘ board T his brofhers e heulders, L T 3 ever 23, On May 1906, the New Zeal cial order-in-council protecting him. The Sailor Who Never Saw the Sea—George W. L. Bangs, who is now 83 years of age, at Cairo, 1 composed of small craft, and these boats were frequently stationed on the navigable rivers. just two months before Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, and All of his four months of service were on the enlisted in the Union navy Mr. Bangs joined the nav) was discharged two months river and he has never yet seen Ohio. TOMORROW—Winning Bets On a Horse That Didn’t Run! after llinois when he was 14. that event. the sea. At present he lives at with stamped, dressed envelops, Mr. Kipley will fury! 5y him). clezelli, nev Richere Tnlmadgend,d it The fore he left on this errand, which remained undone. The families of the missing pair are distraught over their disappear- ance and arc making every cffort to locate them. Chester Bowley of 56 Winthrop strect was reported to the police to- day as missing since Saturday night. He has been operating an automobile laundry on Walnut street and his family knew of no reason for his absence. Bowley is married. Victor Agaski, 17, f 78 Grove street, has not been home since last Friday, according to a report to the police today. BOY BURGLAR FLITS AFTER BEING CAUGHT (Continued From First Page) -d- (RrinveLey THE MoST EXTRAORDINARY SOPRANO OF ALL TIME WAS A MAN boy dropped into the detective bu- young man was in a store on Main | street. ing along thc street and arrested him, According to ‘the police, Digutis | office for the purpose of robbing the |safe. He telephoned to the office twice after running away and after | being locked up he acted in a man- | ner which caused the police to sus- | pect that his mentality was not nor- mal. “Well, there's two | friends T've lost” he remarked, r | was wanted, and a short time later a | rcau and told Sergeant Ellinger the | The sergeant met him walk- | admitted that he had entercd the| o | for this reason wc ask your honora- (ASK COUNCIL TO BAN | good | Hoffman, Miller & Hanson Drug Co., | ferring to Mr. Squire and Mr. Skin- | | ner, both of whom have helped him | ward Feldman, e will be arraigned | Victory Lunch, Joseph Bianca, in many ways. in police court tomorrow. e LUNA CASTS SHADE e - | OVER FACE OF SN (Continued From First Page) | co across the Sierra mountains, to- tality will occur at approximately 11 a. m, (P. 8. T.). Tngenuity of scores of scientists | will be taxed by efforts | graph the shadow which will | at the-rate of 1,200 miles an hour. | The total cclipse will last but 1.3 scconds. Thousands of dollars have been spent in minute preparations by sci- entists who stood beside sky cameras, aviators prepared to soar aloft 15,000 feet to record the phenomenon. Atmospheric conditions were ex pected to be clear, but the experts J..and ok hed Laskmaton's < He ute or two between 11 a. m. noon, might nullify the preparations which required months to complete. | Large Group Waits The largest cxpedition of scientist | from Lick observatory of the Unive ity of California, and government passed a spe- At that time the navy was | Dr. J. H. Moore, astronome charge of a group persons. of nearly twenty the Soldier's Home in Dayton, tonville scientists by tracing moon's shadow . through a method suggested by Professor Joc ates in that congre the purcha: sender, INNS ON BERLIN ROAD FOUND DRY BY POLICE support of the argument| s did not intend to make | r equally guilty with the (Continued From First Page) Michael Smith Saturday night. state police were accompanied by Jeutenant Michael B. Carrell and Patrolman Thomas Tighe of the Mer- iden department. Both inns were found to he bone | when the raiders made their search. Warrants, however, drawn up | by Prosccutor Henr: I)r,\hur.\(.! charged the three men with having | sold alleged liquor to one William I. Lowe on April 24. Rumors spread about Meriden Sat- urday that the state police were go- | ing to raid the city again and as a| ult, “not in” signs were hung out many of the prominent thirst- nching palaces in the Silver City tip-off came from could rned by the police J tirely by sur- icipated liquor | | o were nn but | evidenee | His this The state nee and not sufficient ntino to hold called in court POLISH ORPHANAGE WILL BE ENLARGED | idle house those | out and keep quiet.” STERN MEASURES ' ~ADOPTED T0 HALT | CONVICT DEFIANCE (Continued From First Page) | into the cellar to prevent any under- sround escape. About 1,500 convicts were in the | idle house today. Prison officials | claimed a majority of these were not | involved in the passive resistance campaign. but leaders of the pris- | oners said most of the men were participating in the campaign. Two Men Removed | Charles (Chuck) Quinlan and Murray A. Wolfe, two convicts sery- ing long terms and ring leaders of | | the “passive resistance” committee | | were taken from white city this | morning. When the Deputy Warden J. C. ‘ Woodward called the men from the | remaining began | Quinlan and | to “cut it hooting and cat calling Wolfe admonished them Quin ing a term robbery for forzery. Quinlan and Wolfe were removed to a dungeon called “the hole.” there to be Lept in solitary confinement. | It was evident that Thomas intend- cd to weed out the 25 leaders of the revolt from the idle house and put| | them in the “hole.”” After the leaders | vere disposed of, it was felt that the | other men in the idle house would | submit to discipline without a fight. | The third leader of the rev l'i”"'i conviets to go into “the hole” was| Joo Muzeo, of Wauscon, Ohio, who | rving one to 15 venrs for roh- Guards took him from the idle for | hous i took land for | this upply 1 process months dedicated and church | other cted at STED 1OR SPUEDING Motoreycle ind Nichola Officer A Ha sam Motor- on t Broad &rect ly r David Doty it Stern Measures Promised Warden Thomas said the week of disorder in the prison was at an end | and that henceforth stern measures | would be taken. With prison guards. policemen and national guardsmen ready to force the unruly men to obey orders, the warden said the situation in the pris on was fully covered by the expres sions of three presidents of the Unit- ed Stat Coolidge—We do Wilson—The watchful waiting pol- icy is at an end. Roosevelt—Speak kind words and a big stick Movement of the policemen into the prison climaxed a night of tur- moil during which thousands of con- victs tore down cell doors and did | damage Machine guns were trained on the penitentiary from National Guard Headquarters across the street and 1l prison exits were closely guarded Ly soldier: not choosc to carry castern Haubrich, in comnr itional ‘guard troops, informed | Coopcr that prison officials. the nd the National Guard were d of the situation March in for Breakfact At that hour. prisoners confined in mitorics were lined up in the yard Col Gov. police in con | victs leave the cell blocks for thr.: | mess halls | to augment the regular force jomcd | in which 320 prisoners died. | the unruly prisoners would not hc] | through { Saturd | his clothes. | haired. | |er coat | than his bicycle, |of identification by which the youth | | five years, | might | upon Ueta of Kyoto University, Japan to march to the mess halls for break- ast. i Armed guards were sent into the | prison basement to prevent any ab‘\ | lcmp\«:d underground escape. prisoners were creating no | d|slurbanw at the time the police- | men were dispatched to the scene. | After entering the prison yard, the officers formed in a semi-circle, ap- | parently waiting to watch the con- Forty new prison guards \'mvlc\sd the policemen. | Indications were that no trouble | was expected unlegs the convicts re- | fuse to go to work and end their | | passive resistance against Warden | Thom whose removal they have | demanded since last Monday's firc | | ‘Warden Thomas announced th;lt‘ any breakfast “until we are mopping up with them.” | CGuards were sent into the white cm idle house to inform the prisoners| of this and to tell them “be good or be sorry. THOBOYS MISSING, BELIEVED TOGETHER (Continued From First Page) given not attend classes there on Satur- day. 1t is said that young Adams was | | out of school throughout last week | but that his record at the school up to that time had been perfeet. His disapperrance also was reported to M5 rotee. | We have establ Family Going to California | The Sacketts had been preparing v to remove from this city to Califor- | B nia, and Mr. Sackett, Frederick and | a sister, Louise, were to leave next Frederick had Pen as- | packing last turday left without changing He was wearing a groy flannel shirt, gray black knickers, hiking boots and a sheepskin coat. He is of medium height and ddl‘]\- sisting in morning and Burton Adams is stockier and has | light hair. He was wearing a leath- | Neither boy had much | money, young Sacket's funds being believed to be less than 50 cents and | his companion’s less than $1. Other | Sackett took mnoth- ing with him when he left home. This cycle, recently painted a vivid red, Is considered as the best means can be traced. Adams's parents did | not know that he possessed a bieycle | but the Sacketts stated that he had come to their house on one ceveral times nad that they thought he had | one which he kept in this city. Sackett has been a member of Boy cout Troop 4 in this city for ncarly The errand which he had | intended to do Saturday was to obs | tain a transfer blank so that he| join a troop in California | arriving there. Tt is thought Adams came to his house be that to photo- | speed | | New zaro and the Spring & Buckley Llc | tric Co. BROADWAY ACGIDENT | at their various camps, were fearful | that fog or clouds lasting only a min- | and | Cooney ordered | since starting the 1930 census in the | - : ter candidate to the Young Otto for | warrants for a was located at|that cit Camptonville, in northern California. | interfering with the . was in | cnumers Boy Scouts were to aid the Camp- | brought to a hearing in Seymour. It the | novel | | | scientists from Mt. Wilson observa- | hina |Cooney Orders Arrests | that the enumerator has been mak- | Thirty boys were to be stationed |ing false cntries on his records. 200 feet apart across the predeter-| mined - path of the eclipse and through smoked glasses trace on pa- per six inches in diameter the rim of the moon as seen against the sun. Professor Ueta’s theory was that the tracing may enable authorities to de- termine the moon's movements, which are erratic because of the pull of other planets. Near Comptonville was another party of experts from the University of Nevada; onc from Johns Hopkins of Baltimore and a third from Po- mona College at Clearmont, Calif. Stationed near Honey Lake werc tory, while nearby was the Alleghany expedition from Pittsburgh, Pa. CURB SHINE PARLORS (Continued From First Page) “No doubt some of these boys need a small amount of money to help their families, but the large ma- jority is anxious to make money to satisfy the craving for gambling. “The conduct of the boys inter- feres scriously with our business. ble body to pass an ordinance pro- hibiting the ambulant business men- tioned to carry on Church street, from Main street to Elm street. The signers include Albert 8. Miller James Basse, S. Sho- New Britain Fish Market, Ed-| Sunshine Cleancrs, | A. . J. Wesker, Joseph L. D. ho, { Blancati, Yee Chang, Britain Sign C CLAIMS ONE VICTIM (Continued From First Page) avenue station, charged with homi- cide, felonious assault, and operat- | ing without a license. ITe told police he was driving be- another machine and crashed into the stanchion when the first car made a turn. He did not sec the traffic signal, he said, until it was too latc to avoid an accident. In Census Enumeration Waterbu April 28 (®—United ftates Census Supervisor Andrew J. his first arrests fifth congressional district when hc“ | authorized the prosccutor in § mour this morning to swear out| number of men in he says, have been work of an who, or. Mr. Cooney will appear as a wit- ness against the men when. they are is ciaimed that the men have been | obstructing the work among the | foreign born by spreading reports | facture, ! the aleohol which EFFECTIVE MAY 1ST Stove and Nut o R Buckwheat . . . . Less 50c Per Ton for Cash MAN IS ARRESTED INLIQUOR DEATH vContinued From First Page) did not think that the liquor was poisoned. Police Fear Poisoning Police authorities were of the opinion that the woman's death was caused by alcoholic poisoning and started an investigation Saturday aided by County Detective Edward Hickey of Hartford and two repre- sentatives from the state’s attorney’s office. John Falls, husband of the dead woman, also drank a quantity of the same liquor but is rapidly recov- ering. According to the story told to ihe police by Mr. Falls, he purchased the {liquor from a Mountain View man Thursday evening, being of the opinion that it was alcohol mixed | with sugar and water. Both he and his wife drank portions of the liquor. The next morning Mrs. Falls became very ill. and Dr. George I. Cook was called. Upon examining the woman, the doctor ordered her removed im- mediately to the New Britain Gener- al hospital, but she failed to recover and died shortly after 2 o'clock. Jakubiak An Old Offender Jakubiak who has a police court record in New Britain including con. victions for violating the liquor law, surrendered this afternoon to the Plainville authorities and was re- leased in’ bonds of $1.500. He is charged under the statute which, as amended, is as follow: ivery per- son who shall transpor manu- possess, sell, keep for sala exchange, or distill for beverzge any denatured alcohol or other spirituous and intoxicating li- cuors or any liquors made and com- pounded in imitation thereof, which are adulterated with any deleterious or poisonous substance, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or im- prisoned rot more than two years."” Jakubiak, who was sought by the ew Britain and Plainville police and officers from the state’s attor- ney's office Saturday and Sunday, called on Judge W. F. Mangan of New Britain this afternoon and the latter accompanicd him to Plain- ville. He will be arraigned in Plain- ville court Saturday morning. According to the authoritics, Jakubiak sold denatured alcohol in Plainville and it is believed that he indireetly supplied in that manner Mrs. Falls drank. or purpo: Archduke Reported to Marry Divorcee Soon Vienna, April 28 (A—The Vienna Stunde today reported from Buda- pest that Archduke Albrecht, coun- the Hungarian throne, is about to ma the wife of a high Hungarian official who is believed to have pe- | titioned for a divorce. The paper said that Archduke Al- | breeht's intentions caused great agi- tation in his family as his step would make him no longer eligible for the Hungarian throne. The father of the woman was de- scribed as a former department pres- ident. Albrecht's father is the former Austrian Archduke IFriedrich. He is 33 ycars old. 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