New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 26, 1930, Page 5

’ - sides (AR ONGE WRECKED S SHASHED AGAIN Rung Against Pole and Is Target in Second Accident Skidding on the trplley tracks in front of 64 Farmington avenue about 11:50 o'clock last night, a coupe driven by Frank W. Rund of 81 Dover Roard, West Hartford, crashed against a telephone pole and was badly damaged. A few minutes later a car driven by Ernest Judson of 47 Grand street skidded in the same place and crashed against the wrecked coupe, which was awaiting the arrival of a tow car. Ofticer Clarence Kumm was near- by when the first crash occurred and he reported that there were deep ruts glong the tracks, which, added to the slippery condition of the rails on account of the rain, made it impossible for Rund to con- trol his car. The damage included the smashing of the right front wheel, bending of the axle, smash- ing of the right front fender, be- the breaking of the crank case, bending of the fly wheel, front bumper and right headlight. The glass in the right door was smashed to bits and the right side of hood was bent. Rund was driving in a southerly direction and Judson was driving in the same direction. When his sedan struck the coupe it added a dent to one end of the rear bumper of his car. Rund told Officer Kumm he would not look to Judsen to pay for the denting of the fender, in view of the great damage resuit- ing' from the crash against the pole. Neither driver was injured. Carl Anderson of £ First street and John Pielvaszewski of 41 Allen street were driving north en Inin street about 11:30 o‘clock «fi night, the latter in a truck, and s Anderson started to turn iato hurch street/the bumper on his ar caught the reflector on the truck, causing slight damage. Of- ficer Maurice Flynn reported no cause for police action. Shortly after 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon, John M. Fay of 153 Zion street, Hartford, was wating for the traffic light to change at Hartford avenue and North street and Al- bert Jiontonio, 6, of 364 Elm street, ran from the curb and bumped against the right front fender of his car and was knocked down. His father came along a little later and on Fay's advice took the boy to & physician. Officer James K. Kelly reported no cause for police action. Shortly after 11 o'clock last night James R. Brewer of 11 Benham street, Forestville, was driving nortn on Smalley street and stopped to let a car owned by S. Helen Phillips of Maple street, Kensington, pass. Richard P.~Moffat of Kensington was driving Miss Phillips car and when he applied the brakes it skid- ded on the wet roadway and struck Brewer’s car. Officer James Sullivan reported that both cars were dam- aged. A roadster was struck and dam- aged about the left front fender and hub cap by a car going north on Hartford avenue, near Winter street, shortly after 11 o'clock last night. Officer Daniel J. Cosgrove witnessed the crash but could pot catch the registration of the offend- ing car, which did not stop. After his automobile had struck Frank St. Mary, 5 of 60 Cherry street, near his home, Domenic An- deri of 64 Cherry street, picked him up and drove him to the office Dr. Vincent F. injuries attended. the boy's mother had become hy: terical, not knowing where he had gone. Detective Sergeant P. J. O'Mara, Apvestigating the accident, learned <hat the boy had run into the road- way and Anderi had no chance to avoid running into him. The boy sus- tained a fracture of the wrist and other injuries. HANSAS PRISONER SEEKING FREEDOM Convinced After 36 Years That Crime Doesn't Pay Kansas City, Sept. 26 — William LaTrasse, known to an earlier gen- | eration as one of the most daring and dangerous train robbers and outlaws of the west, and known to this one simply as a convict in the Kansas state prison, wants his free- dom again—convinced after 36 years of experience that crime doesn’t pay. LaTrasse is now close to 50 years old. Since he was 14 he has been fighting the law—and, usually, los- ing. Now, declaring that he is through with trying to beat the law and insisting that his one ambition Is to take up the trade of repairing shoes, which he learned in prison, he has asked for a parole. The state parole board will hear his plea Oc- tober 11. Most of the officials who worked | to catch and imprison LaTrasse in the old days have by now either died or retired from ‘office. Public senti- ment is not as strong against him now as it used to be. Officials of Kansas City, Kan., where his most daring exploits were perpetrated, have not decided whether to oppose his application for freedom. Carcer Began at 14 LaTrasse grew up back of the yards in Kansas City, Kan,, a young rowdy whose only playground was the street. At 14 he got into his first serious trouble, slugging a man in a strect brawl and injuring him so badly that he later died. The boy fled to Texas Then, before the year was out, La- Trasse was arrested while trying to stage a highway robbery in St. Jo- seph, Mo. St. Joseph authorities sent him back here, and he was sen- tenced to the penitentiary for 10 years, After he had served seven years of his term, LaTrasse was released. He came back to Kansas City and the | the rear fender and damaged | of | Mendillo to have his | In the meantime, | indulged in a series of holdups and | store robberies. Efforts to catch | him were futile, however. Turns Train Robber Then, on Christmas eve in 1910, LaTrasse tied a black handkerchief over his face, took a revolver in his hand and climbed on the rear platform of a Missouri Pacific pas- senger train that was just entering the outlying yards in Kansas City en route for Omaha. He methodically went through the cars, barking “Hands up, every- body!” and collecting the money and valuables of the passengers. A train- man tried to interfere and got a bullet in the shoulder. LaTrasse then opened a vestibule door and jumped off when the train slowed down at a crossing. Despite his mask, however, had been recoghized, and a days later he was arrested at his home. He insisted on his innocence and none of the loot was ever re- covered, but he was convicted after a dozen people had identified him, and was sentenced to a term of 10 to 21 years in prison. A week later, while he was being |held in the Kansas City jail await- |ing transfer to the penitentiary, a prisoner in his cell feigned illness and asked a jailer to come in and attend to him. When the jailer en- tered he was slugged and LaTrasse and several others escaped. Months later LaTrasse bobbed up in Illinois, where he was arrested for highway robbery. Illinois au- thorities sent him back to Kansas, and he was lodged in the state prison. This time his imprisonment proved a little more effective. Kansas man- aged to keep him locked up until 1915, when he dnd four other con- victs escaped from prison by hiding under coal cars that were being | taken from the yard. For a year LaTrasse enjoyed his freedom. Then he took part in a holdup in Chicago. was caught and | was sent back to Kansas. This time Kansas authorities seemed to have got the nack of keeping him behind | the bars a little better; then man- | aged to hold on to him until 1924. | In that year his mother became seriously ill, and some kind-hearted | official gave LaTrasse permission to 0 to her home for a short visit. La- Trasse forgot to come back. Girl Leads to Capture 1 Police might not have caught him | had he not broken' his own long- | standing rule—"Never tangle with a | woman and you'll beat the law.” He had met, while a fugitive, a Kansas,| City girl. Falling in love with her, | he joined her, her brother, the brother's wife and two other com- | panions on a trip to the new oil | felds near Eldorado. Kan. | There the police discovered the | group, hiding in a shack. A gun bat- tle developed when the officers sur- rounded the place, and one of his companions was shot dead. Then La- | Trasse stepped to the door of the | shack, his hands high above his | head and shouted: “Don’t shoot! There are women | in here. Come and get me.” Since then LaTrasse has stayed in prison. Now he insists that he would give up crime if he could get his free- dom T'd like to go out and work at my trade-of shoe repairing,” he ex- plains. “That would pay better than crime.” i he few AUTO VICTIM SUCCUMBS Thompsonville, Sept. 26 (A—De- los Fowler, 27, of Detroit, Mich., | | died in a Springfield, Mass., hospi- | tal from injuries suffered last night | in an automobile accident here. of Detroit. was ongaged in the banking and brokerage business in Detroit. | tomobile driven by Myron T. Bur- gess, Thcaipsonville attorney, which crashed into a stalled truck last night. Burgess today was reported to be still in a critical condition. Six years ago Fowler and Bur- gess were injured in an automobile accident in Detroit while Burgess was vigiting Fowler there. The Fow- | ler family previously had lived in Thompsonville. MRS. GREEN DIES | Hartford, Sept (B — Mrs, Mary Titsworth Green, widow of the late David I. Green, former super- intendent of the Charity Organiza- tion society in this city and from | 1918 until his death in 1925 profes- sor of economics at Kenyon college, Gambier, O., died today at the Hartford hospital. She was daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Shepperd Worth of Edgerton, and later of Dunellen, N. J. She is survived by three Chandler T. Green of this David S. Green of Sao Paulo, lzil, and Alfred M. Green of Post-Standard, Syracuse, N. Y., and by a daughter, Mrs. Robert Sher- man - of Columbus, O. The funeral | will be Sunday afternoon at'the late home in West Hartford Abel | ‘Wis., sons, | More than 600,000 Chinese mi- | grated to Manchuria temporarily last' year to work during the har- vest. ! | cester Fowler, a son of George B. Fowler [ Fowler was a passenger in an au- | i the | NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1930. When Germany, Went to Polls NEA Berlin Bureau Tumultuous scenes marked the recent elections in Germany. Right extremists showed unexpected strength, gaining 95 seats in the Reichstag, and the picture at the top shows victorious Fascist leaders, Adolph Hitler (1) and Dr. Goebbels (2,) salut- ing their supporters at a giant mass meeting where results of the elections were made public. Hindenburg is shown leaving a Ber] his ballot. Below, President Paul Von in voting booth after casting of the election. MORE MONEY FOR RACE Boston, Sept. 26 (UP)—Th sachusetts tercentenary ward financing the boat and the | nas given an additional The boats will mile course rac Thomas Lipton comm! international fishermen's races between the Glou- Gertrude L. Thebaud Canadian craft Bluenos $5,000 over a 30- oft Gloucester October 11 and 13 for a cup given by Sir | |tercentenary body will be divided among crews of the contests, MATTHEWS LEAVE RANGOON Rangoon, Burma. Sept. 26 (P— Capt. F. R. 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ZARD AGHA HURT IN AUTD ACCIDENT Aged Turk in Critical Condition | in New York Hotel | New York, Sept. 26 (B — Zaro | | Agha, Turk, who claims to be 156 years old, was in a critical condition | in his hotel today as the result of | |injuries suffered when he was hit| |by an automobile on Broadway. | Agha, his great-great-grandson, | |Ahmet Mussa, and his manager, | Assim Ridvan, were standing on a |traffic island at Broadway and 61st |street last night waiting to cross to their hotel opposite. A large car swung concrete platform with its running | board over the walk. The running board hit the aged Turk's legs and | |knocked him down. As he fell his| |Read struck the edge of the running | |board. Although a postman and a |policeman yelled to the chaufferu | |that he had hit a man, the car did | [not stop. | Agha was taken into the hotel. | Doctors found he was suffering from | |internal injuries and possible frac- | |tures of the skull and legs | He came to this country last July | and has submitted to examination by scientists interested in longevity. He claims to have had 11 wives and to have fought in numerous |wars, including a campaign against | Napoleon. Police located the automobile | which witnesses said hit Agha hy" around the | Riots were staged in the German capital on the day g - NEW FALL COLORS | The club has been assured It 1s | tracing the license number. owned by John Morrison and was driven by his chauffeur, Robert | Robinson. The chauffeur said he | drove by the cormer where .\ghui was hit and remembered seeing him | but denied that his car struck the aged man. He was not held. Child Seriously Hurt | After Causing Accident Waterbury, Sept. 26 (UP)—Two vear-old Germaine Ashe was in a critical condition at St. Mary's hos- pital today from injuries received when she caused her mother, Mrs. Minnie Ashe, 49, of 32 Bedford street, Hartford, to lose control of | the automobile she was driving. | The accident occurred on the | Meriden road near here yesterday. | The youngster, who had been sitting | beside her mother, suddenly clutch- ed her parent's arm in an effort to rise to her feet. Caught unawares by the strength of the baby's grasp, Mrs. Ashe losi her grip on the steering wheel. The machine left the highway and was wrecked against a telegraph pole. Germaine was thrown against the dashboard and knocked unconscious. Mrs. Ashe escaped with slight hurts. “Y” PLANS MARATHON New London, Sept. 26 (#) — The | Y's men’s club of the Y. M. C. 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