Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, November 1, 1922, Page 1

- Norwick - VOL. LXIV—NO. 265 FOPULATION 29,685 - NORWICH, CONN., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1922 10 PAGES—80 COLUMNS RICE TWO CENTS CABLED PARAGRAPHS PROGRESS OF MURDER GASES | NOW OF GENERAL INTEREST Prosecutor Beekman Promises “There Will be an Indictment in the Hall-Mills Case Within the Next Three Days— Testimony Has Been Concluded in the Trial of Ms.| Mabel Champion, Charged With Killing Thomas A. O’Connell—In Trial of Miss Clara Phillips the Prosecu- tion Rested—Authorities About Poisoned Cake.’ Brunswick, N. J. Oet. 3L.—(BY the A. P.)—"There will be an indictment in e Halls-Mills, murder case within the mext three days” declared Proes- utor Beekman of Somerset county late He declined ‘to amplify his ent. B"eckm:ln positive statement came tie closs of a day of melodrama ch gave little indication that the denouement was approaching in.the in- \estigation of the double-slaying of the flev. ©dward Wheeler Hall and Mrs. Tleanor R. Mills, a member of his cholr, on Phillips farm, September 14. 3irs. Jane Gibson, ex-ctreus rider, pur- suer of corn thieves and self-styled eye- witness to the murders, who has been absorbing public interest in the drama the last few days, this morning became irritated at the repeated efforts of re- porters to interview her and shooed them oft her farm by the simple expedient of firing a charge of birdshot over their heads. Thereafter interviews were con- ducted By telephone, whenever Mrs. Gib- son could be induced to anwwer the bell. M Gibson later issued a formal statement in which she admitted that she is the wife of Willam Easton, = New Brunswick tool maker. ! they had separated eight years ago in Trenton, but that Easton later learnel that she had purchased a farm near New Brunswick and followed her here. M Gibson sdld in ner statement that she knew that there was at leas’ ne other person who could corroborate her account of ,hll she saw on the Phillips«tarm on¥the night of the two murderr. “| nave beem assured that Mr. Mott bas no corroboration of my etory, I know he s corroboration. 1 know that he has found at t on® gther person who was in De Russy's lane he night of the murders and that this person has told Mr. Mott, Mr. Totten and state troopers that a woman wear- ng a gray coat was on the farm on ihat ‘night. . “This person is reputable and has supplied sufficient evidence for one orf nore arrests. Thars I more u;‘n . T oduld w1 coml tive tl name ‘the pers = e co.’ngom- m‘e',"-stxm not wnt!l 1 am permitted to do ®0 Dy' the sathorities. 1t would be far better if the woman | nameéd would come forward and ad- mit*frankly that she was present when Mr. Hall and Mrs, Mills were killed and give whatever justification she u able to give of the charge that the mur der was premeditated, and not the re- sult of a sudden quarrel, a sudden de- sislon to use the gun and knife.” FESTIMONY CONCLUDED IN THE 0'CONNELL MURDER CASE Cleveland, Oct. 31—(By the A. P.)— Testimony was concluded and summing ip arguments by the state .opened late oflay in the first degree murder trial of Mre. Mabel Champion, 23, charged: with ‘he slaying of Thomas A. O'Connel, car- ajval promoter, of New Haven, Conn., in 4 restaurant here last July. In his opening statement to the jury Edward C. Stanton, county ‘prosecutor, asked that the jury ‘impose the death penalty on.Mrs, Champion, declaring she was_gullty of O'Connell's murder. “This girl (s from Texas and shoots trom the hip,” declared Prosecutor. stan- lon. This statement was objected to by defense counsel, saylng that there was o evidefice Supporting “the hip- shoot- ing” The court sustained the objection. The staté sprang a surprise in its re- buttal t iy oftering the plood spat- tered clofhing ot O'Connell as gvidence and through Oaptain Daniel . Stanton, fire armé -expert of the Cleveland police department, Prosecutor Stamton demon- sirated the death shots could. not have been fifed at closs range, as the defcnso contes The afficer’s Mstimony was in direct sontradietion of that of Mrs. Champlon offeréd earlier in the day—that the death shots wers adcidental while O’Connell was holding her arm. Durifig the introduction of the evdence Mrs, Champon showed her fifat emotion, during * the whole course of tha cass. She turned her face ag. the clothing wa$, presented and as the prosecutor re-epacted the “shooting she buried her face in her hands. Captain Staaton was not cross-exam- ized. 4 Attorneys for Mrs. Champlon when giv- *a an opportunity by the court to sum- won_rebuttul witnesses to his tbstimony fdclired they wers ‘willing to let tho cabs reet ¢ Attosneys for the state and de have elich been allotted two hours, for their summing. up arguments. Prosecutor Stanton apoke fpr halt an hour before swurt adjourned Tate today. Tomorrow ing attorneys for Mrs, Champlon Il make their argument for two howss sfter which the state will close the csae with An hour and a half argument, A, brief chargé to thé jury by Judge Bernon Wil follow and the case ey to be In tlis hands of the IURY'S VERDIOT THAT MRS, m‘ SHOT CHRISTLER Harre, MbnS, Oct. 3i—The oures of tho bullet which o Am had returned a ver- Mt expressing the opinion _that Mrs. z‘h:n-‘fi‘gr Christler anf then com- Mes. Carletod's fufiera) service whs to e this aft and the body was 1 _be gent fo for burlal, ity Joseph Byle, mother of Ars. passed the day with her hus- She sald | da; Are Questioning Mrs. Sterrett a theory that Tobbery of diamond rings from Mrs, Carleton may have been the motive for the shooting. MRS. CARLETON CONFESSED LOVE FOR EEV. CHRISTLEE Los Angeles, Oct. 31.—)Mrs. Margaret Carleton, who with Rev. Leonard J. Christler was found shot to death in the Christlef home at Havre, Mont., last Friday, had confessed her love for the Rev. Mr. Christler to her ~husband, Frank E. Carleton, former judge of the district court at Havre, Mr. Carleton de- clared tonight In u signed statement to The Associated Press. “I can no longer remain silent in the face of the startling statement of Bishop Faber given to The Assocated Press that ‘I belleve as a result of the investigation I have made of. the tragedy which occurred” i the-Christ- ler home early Friday morning and af- ter questioning those who knew abou: it, that' if, thls woman® had .been able to work her will on, Mr. Christler he would be alive today, unfaithful to his wife, but stfll living'”, “the = statement s attempt to make it appear to the world that Margaret threw herdelf upon this man and that he tried to remonstrate’ with her and lead her into a spiritual path has goaded me into ex- pression. “I wonder did his- reverence know | when he made the statement, above re- forred to, that this pastor, who, L ‘s now claimed, maintained on¥ a friend Iy and ministerial interegt in the Carle- ton family had written letters to Mary Davenport;~ my wife's maiden and sent them care general de- “Let it be well understood that in not the slightest pefléction or conflemn- ation upon my wife, for no one knows as well as I do the influence which this man held over her and which could reasonably be termed _hypnotic. i1 have known of Masgaret’s loye for this or. §CVer: . and it i o R ] ‘fessed it to me. I will not further: vio- late her ‘confidence, but I do ‘want/ state unqualifiedly’ and unréservedly that it is.a fact that this preacher had led her to believe that hy returned that love.” QUESTION MRS. §TEERETT ABOUT POISONED CAKF Philagelphia,’ Oct. 31.—Mrs. W. W. i'Sterrett will be questioned further by authorities regarding her movements twenty-four hours before the poisonel cake. which caused .the, death of héc husband, an expert aceountant, of De- von, and her own serious illness, was received, it was announced ' tonight. ‘Corone#~ William Neville, ~of - Mont- Somery county said today: “I feel certain that Information which would solve the case is being withheld.| ‘There are many poifits about it that do not. jibe” -4 Investigators pointed out that the box contalning the Doisoned pastry was malied within a stone’s throw of Mr. Sterrett's office, Mrs. Sterreft explained the difference in’ effect of thé poison upon her hus- band and hersel by the fact that her husBand suffered from indigestion. “1 lcut the cake in half and ate as much as he did,” ghe said.: “I can only befieve that becatse of his. indigestion the cake had more effect on him.” DEVELOPMENTS IN THE ROSIER MUEDEE TERIAL L p— Philadelphia, : Oct.’ 31.—Developments today In the trial,of Mrs, Catherine Ro- sler, acoused of tiie slaying of her hus- band, Oscar Roster, an advertising ‘man, @nd at present being tried for shooting nfs stenographcr, Miss Mildred. Geraldine Reckitt, todoath, at: the samg time, in- cluded the following: Tte defonse closed its case aftef sub- mitting medical testimony 4n support of its “theory of “emotional “insamity” for Mes. Rosler, © ;.0 Rebuttal testimony’was begun for the commonwealtli with “ths intentlon qf showing' that the defendant was sane and normal in the hours fust after the doble- slaying on.Jan. 21, 1922, ‘Women spectators hissed @ prison guard wiho testified. that Mrs.’ Rosler had shown no eigns of insanity and omsev- eral otber occasions the unruly disposi- tion ‘of the Epectators brought warnings ‘trom Judge Dagratt. Dr. Margaret Nelson, a prison physi- clan, testified that ‘in Her opinton Mrs. Hosler was san, but admitted under cross ¢zamination that she had made an officlal report that Mrs Rosler was sub- normal and mentally deficient. Attorneys are ®xpected to be ready to start final arguments tomorrow and the case may go. to the jury befgre night. Counsel for the defendant, stated that it had tweive Witnesses to call In sur- rebuttal and at the close of court eo Jth had nearly finished wi 1ts rebuttal witnesses. . Dr. Charles, K. Mills and“Dr. George Wilgon. allenisis, hoth testified that Mrs. Tosier was unable to distinguish between right and wrong &t the time of the shoot- ing and for gome time thereafter, Cross- examination failed to their opigions. NS 3N EVIDENCE OF . g 3 MURDER OF MRS. BURNS Clevelane, Oct. $1—Following the find: | 0,00 xud ‘more than -one hundred blood«| stains?on the car of Henry.J. . Burns ‘whose wife's muf .body was ifound byrfed in & shalloWigrave néar Faines- ville last Wednes Sheeiff Spiak _of | Lake county' am ed: tonight he had dissovered andther important lipk of evi- dence which he declared may prove “very tinportant” to suthorities wérking on the, case.: | nnon, of ne %o the sherift atly - torn’ stained” with" wéll ts and’ behring: Painosville, ‘3 shect of @ “time making this statement I‘intend to cast|veteran balloonist, to Italian ‘Steamer is Sinking Lands End, Eng, Oct. 31.—By T.)—The Itailar steamship _Tet, from Huelva, Spain, for Norfo Baltimore, is sinking at a point, east of the Asores, says a wirelr sagefro. m the" vessel received b this afternoon. -The message?:,® position as Iatitude 37.30 nf tude, 23.33, west. - the' e L ds Te: ongi e FINAL APPOINTMENTS Té._ THE NEW BRITISH MINISTRY London, Oct. 31.—(By - the A. P.)— The final appointments to the new min- istry formed by Premier Bonar Law, a nounced today, include’ ministers of la bor and_ pensions, although Mr. Bonar Law had previously intimated that the pensions portfolio would be abolished and was understood to be also contem- plating abolition of the ministry of- la- or. Sir Montague Barlow, who was parlia- mentary secretary to the labor ministry In the Lloyd George cabinet, becomes minister of labor, and the ‘pensions port- folio is taken by Major George Clément Tryon, who was also a parliamentary seoretary under the Lloyd George regi- me belng connected with the ministry Which He %5 now to-head. Sir Samuel Hoare -is appointed air minister, and Colonel Neville Chamber postmaster. general. Other. appointments have nounced as follows: Commissioner - of works, Baird. Solicitor general, skip, Civil lord of the admiralty, the Mar- quis of Linlithgow. Financial secretary to the admiralty, Commander Bolton Meredith Eyres Monsell. Secretary for overseas trade, Sir Wil- liam Joynson-Hieks. Secretary to the board of trade, Vis- count Wolmer. Secretary to the ministry of transport, Lieutenant Colonel Wilfred Ashley. Secretary to the ministry of = health, the Earl of Onslow. Secretary to the board of agriculture; the Earl of Ancaster. Secretary to the treasury, Lieut. Col. Leslic Orme Wilson. The following under secretaries have been appointed: Home office, Lieutenant Colonel Geo. F. Stanley, Foreign offiss, Ronald: McNeil. Colonial office, Willlam G. A. Ormsby- Gore. , War oftics, Walter E. Guinness. Air minister, the Duke of Sutherland. Indla office, Barl Winterton. Financial secrotary to the war oftice, S. Jackeon. Dbeen an- Sir¢ John Thomas W. H. In- VETERAN BALLONIST CHARGED WITH ARSON St. Louis, Oct. 31—Jobn Berry, 75, was arrested this afternoon following a fire in ‘a building where he' conducts an automobile re- pair shop and an aviation school, Police and firemen easily extinguished the “blaze: " The ‘police sald ‘fhey’ receiv: information fromtDon Scar 3 mashaniy by "%% plannéd burn down the structure and obtain $2,000 insurance. Berry steadfastly .denled any \knowl: edge of the fire. Tiis 2 Berry is a well known balloonist ih this ‘countty and Europe. He was a pi- lot in the: international race from Stutt- gart, Germany, in 1912, —_— . which he said he found near the scene’of the murder Sunday. 3 Sherift Spink declared he was investi- gating jt from three angles—in the hope of identifying the fingerprints; identify ing the handwriting, and locating the persons whose names are on the paper for their possible assistance in shedding light on the {dentity of the murderer and the motive now held in the Lake county jall, charged with the urst degree murder of his wife, He steadfastly maintains his innocence. DEFENSE OF MES. PHILLIPS TO BE MENTAL DEFICIENCY Los Angeles, Calif, Oct. 3L—Mrs, Clara Phillips is a “moron” “subject ty epileptic conyulsions” and . has, “the mentality of' a child,” her attorney, Bertram Herrington, declared today ir opening the defense in her trial for the murder of Mrs. Alberta -Meadows. The attorney asserted he would prove that the ‘deféndant did not yleld the hammer with which the state contends Mrs, Meadows was beaten to death ‘on Monteclto drive on July 12, last. He declared it would be shown -that Mrs. Phillips’ every actlon that day was “guided ' by Peggle Caffes,” prosecution witness who testified she saw Mrs. Phii- lips striking ‘Mrs. Meadows - with the hammer. The state rested after exam- ining Lester Atkins, who “corroborated Mrs. Caffee’s statement that he and a man ‘named E. Gentry met Mrs, Caffee and Mrs. Phillips at. Lonig Beach a few hours before the slaying. He said_ihe women -came- to his apartment and Gontry and Mrs. Phillips went out and Teturned with a pint Bottle of whiskey. of which all four partook.- He sald he and Gentry drove the womeh ‘to Loz Angeles, Mrs. Phillips tarrying wita her the bottle and what remainedsof.’ts contents, Herrington . declared he would. show that Mrs, Meadows was slain-after-an altercation and fight botween her and Mrs. Phillips-in which the latter’s little finger was practically ~broken :and’ she appealed to Mg, Caffve for aid. 't was Mrs. Caffee, ‘- asserted, who . bought the hammer, ®ot Mrs! Phillips. After ‘the slaying, the atforney went on, Mrs. Phillips went to a_ hotel and was there told by her husband that om¢ awful” ‘had hagpened and she must go to Texas at ofice. PRIl lips, he said, got her some money and she started east, PADRICK CASE TO BE GIVEN TO JURY TODAY - & Statesboro, Ga. Oct. 31.—The case ‘of Eilliott Padrick, young Methodist minis- ter on trial in superior: court here -for the..mutder of his mother-in-la: Mamie Lou Dixon, last June was ed to be givep the jury. before court ad- make thom alter 3"“!,“"‘ b AR o o | 70 STATE FRISON FOR timony. this morning the 5 who L S i made, “each atter- s of addresses ches i ister o A ‘2pD Detore Jury: this mornink, when he lenv::d“:ym-r and preached & ser- ‘mon Thou shalt n adultery,” -fi lapped hw‘J m‘& seml- iness which ‘has characteriz- ed ‘his attitude throughout the trial - Padsick ' is- - with kil | Destroyed By Fire +| swiftly with one ‘accomplishment " after o .+ Oyster Steamer Partial Embargo On New Haven Road Caused by Accumulation of Shipments Due to Embar- _goes on Connecting Lines. New Haven, Oct. 31.—The New York, C. Rowe, an oyster nigher, w. New Haven & Hartford railroad tonight ed by fire in Peconft bay toda ounced a partial embargo on freight. Adams, of North Edgecom, Me., tie en-|giving as its reason the accumulation’ ui gineer, was severely burned before the . e yee i leontieet: crew was rescued by the steamer Pe. - The road announced that conic, neans of this action, to reg- The Rowe had twelve oyster arcdgers|ulate traffic and in insure compliance at work when thb fire broke out. The|With the service orders of the interstate hoisting apparatus was destroyed and |Commerce commission. the weight of the dredges. acting as| [Lhe announcement, in part, read: anchors, held the steamer in a fixed po-| “The necessary regulation of traffic by sition. ~The whistle also was broken, | this partial embargo will operate grad- and the crew were making’ frantic of-Ually towaid a reduction of cars ea forts to summon ald when sighted by |TOUte. safcguarding . against congestion the Peconic. and reducing delay to cquipment w will ncrease the avallability of cars all general us The Now Haw1 road aiso announced construction ¢® additional facilitles t Cedar HI 4 clsewhera to increase its freight carrying capacity and re- G its shop forces were substantlally Crew of the H. C. Rowe of New Haven Was Rescued by the Steamer Peconic. | New York, Oct.,31 The. burned -vessel was in charge of Captain Benjamin Leek, of New Ha- ven, and owned by the Rowe Oysior company, of that city. The boat, f merly the City of Bridgeport, was at one time-a Dassenger carrier between Bridgeport and New York, HUGHES ASKS VOTERS TO UPHOLD PRESIDENT HARDING DELIVERED TO THE ALLVES _ Jersey City, Oct. 31.—Declaring that in the present campaign the democratic leaders are waging “a futile controver- 8y with no promise of. ievement, Secretary of State Hughes asked the voters of the country in an address; here tonight to uphold the hands of, President Harding by returning to offica those who have helpe dto write the ad- ministration’s record of accomplish- ments. In every field, foreign and domestic, | Mr. Hughes sald, the administration of- ficlals had correctly interpreted and carried Into effect the desires of the American people, “When this administration came into power,” said' Mr. Hughes, ‘“everyone was talking of the difficulty, if not the' e el (e e o] | rying instructions regarding the Ameel- think of what we could not do. But we{CN Yiew had been despatched to the have gome forward so successtully and AMCFican representatives in the three Iforeign capitals. The formal replies, jthe formal ' invitatlons. were directly worded and explained that the United States would send only observers to the Lausanne meeting, and added that that !conference was primari a peace con- ference to end a war in which the United States was not a belligerent. In the ide memoire” upon which the formal replies were based “éertain sub- jects of particular Amercan concern” at the confegence are enumerated as fol- lows ‘The maintenance of capitulations which may be essential to the appro- priate safeguarding of non-Moslem jnter- ests. ‘Washington. Oct. 31 (By the A. T.).— The American government, in notes ilivered today toethe British, French and jItalian embassies here, formaliy declined to participate in the Near ast peace conference. scheduled to be held in Lau< nre, Switzerland, next month. Late ithe siatc department made public this t s cutlined i the “aide memoire which was transmitted vesterday to, the three governments concerned _through { American embassies at London, Paris jand Rome. . Reference to the “aide memolre” was made in the formal reply to the allied notes inviting parficipation but which were not received by the state depart- ment until“after the “aide memoire car- another that our opponents pelled to resort to 1uise cannot serve them. “You wanted the revival of busincss You have Instead of operating at less than per cent of capacity, in- dustry is now operating at about nis ty. per cent of capacity, which mean the top level of useful work, an enor- mous _gain. “You wanted employment. A year and a half ago we had about five mil- lions ‘unemployef. Now we have no problem of unemployment. The serious question confronting business, industry and agriculture is how to get the mnec- est - meef peeds. '@'flw'%rg«:fi 17 ‘tases; don- | gress has reduced taxes over eight] hundred _ million dollars, reductions 'whiéh “Have benefited " everyone. ou wanted a reduction in the enormous debt which had -been accumu- lated during and-after the war. The debt has been reduced by over a billion dollars. “You wanted economy ment. For the year ending June 30, 1920, our public expenditures ag: gated $6,403.343,000; a year later $3 115,920,000 for the fiscal year 192 $3,373,607,000, “You wanted protection for American industry. You have it. This country has . never been willing to abandon the protective policy.” are fssues com- which sntoes, cii:hummpu-. educational and religlo tutions, “3—Appropriate undertakings in re. gard to the fegedom of opportunity, with. out discrimination or special privilegé, for commercial enterprise. “4—Indemnity for losses suffered by trary ang fllegal acts, 5—Suitable provisions for the protec- tion of minorities. “§—Assurances touching the freedom of the straits. 7—Reasonable opportunity for arch- ] research and study.” ide memoire” continues: “This brief summary, while mot ex- haustive. maysserve to indicate the gen- eral nature of American intecests. To safeguard such interests and to facilitate the exchange of views, the government of the United States is prepared to send observers to the proposed conference, it this action is agreeable to the powers concerned.” “As the object in view in submitting this suggestion is the elimination of any possible -cause of misunderstanding. it is considered appropriate to. call attention to the attitude of the United States in Tespect to meeret treatles and agreements. It is mot felt that arrangements previ- ously made with respect to Turkish ter- ritory, which provide for the establish- ment of zones of special commercial and ‘economic Influence, such, for examole, as the teipartite agreement of 1920, are con- sonant with the principle of the equality of economic opportunity. It is assumed that the allied powers will not now de- sire_ and do not now intend, to carry into effect previous-arrangements of this na- ture. i “The United States has no desire to take any action which might embarrass the allfed powers in the proper effort to secure peace. It desires nothing which ‘need conffict With the interests. of other countries, if the principle of commercial opportunity for all nations is reeognized at the outset. ‘THe United States has no intention of secking for itself or'its m tionals a- position’ of special privileges, but it desires to protect its rights and to assure.the open door. Finally, It wishes to afford protection to its citizens who wish to continue the humanitarian work which has been ‘carried on for genera- tions in the Near East and is rendered more ‘essential’ than cver by the ‘presemt conditions.” in _govern- WEEKS DEFENDS FOREIGN POLICY OF ADMINISTEATION Danbury, Conn,, Oct. 31.—Declaring {that the United States would have be- { come embrolled in the war between Tur- ‘key and Greece If it had been 2 mem- |ber.of the league of nations, Secretary of ‘War Weeks tonight defended the for- eign policy- of the Harding adminigtra- tion at & republican rally here. - Sectetary Weoeks declared that while the United Statesh ad-barely escaped the necessity of becoming involved in the Turkish situation, - it~ would: certanly Thave had to take 2 hand in it a8 ‘a mém- ber of the league. = . In discussing : the tariff, Secrefary ‘Weeks said that while the ‘present tarift was not:perfect, he considered it the best ever enacted. ,He also declared that a protective tarff was necessary for Connecticut industries. Waile on the toplc of forelgn relations, Secretary Weeks sald-"that a ‘“certain nation” had_ made application to_the United States last week for the purchase of 600,000 rifles and millions of rounds of ammunition. ~He declared that this application.had been. refused anda dded that he would rather see them unitions tossed into the sea than sold for the.pur- poseot war. 3 BODY OF KANGAROO FOUND ¥ - IN WOODS NEAR DANBURY Danbury, Oct, 31——A kangaroo in the «Connecticut. hills wag a problem puz zling amateur natiralists here today. The Langaroo was found, last night near i Botst6Fd bya section gang returning from o work. Its body was still warm and the | THRER PERSONS KILLED 1N blood from a bullet wound was fresh. The - animal > was almost ‘five ‘ feet tall and weighed about 200 pounds. There 1s 2 possibllity that It escaped from 2 circus which passed through this section last week, New Orléans, Oct. jured today when Southern Pacific pas- senger train No., 109 crashed into the rear of a special ‘train carrying the C. $1,100 IN LIQUOE F! 8 - Ty A. Wortham shows, at Adeline, La., about IN CITY COURT, BEISTOL |nine miles west of Franklin, Bristol, Oct. 31.—Doflars rolled info| All of the-killed and injured we: tho city treasury foday by the way. of |members of ‘the. Wortham shows. the city eourt. four lquor viola- e tion. cases nettod finesof $1100. William | the rear of the show train as a caboose J. Brown was fined $400 and costs and |and four othersas sléeping .quarters were given 90 days in jail, thls latter feature|reduced to kindling - wood. ~The ] being -bBcause this was his fourth of-| motive of the passenger train buried fense. Harry: Peters was fined - $200{in the ‘coach causing the four and costs, Mary ‘Runzilla $200 ~and!in front of it to telescope. costs, and ominick Sinisgalli, $300 and to testimony at a coroner costs each with'a 30 deys' suspended | inquest the show train ‘was Jail gentence, &, siding at Adeline’ wi S - THEFT OF AUTOMOBILES |XEW * New Haven, Oct. 31.—Joseph J. Steen- hoff, one of three men arrested.on sus- Ruth Schermerhorn, Moines, 23 years old widow, offered to sell herself- to. an: sum of $5,000 that she to.. obtain - skilled an eftort to reeovy | gvernments position on the conferenos! the ! ] The protection, under nraper gUar-|on the ‘| the department of justice- after. . fw SOUTHERN PACIFI¢ WRECK | hibition officlals making the. 81.—Three persons|sel had been in ‘were killed and five others seriously in-|with the shore. ‘One of the passenger coaches used on| BRIEF TELEGRAMS Colonel William Boyce Thompson ef New York was reelected president of assoclation. 1 , the Conmmecticut public utilities commission has received 1,225 applications for certificates to op- te jitneys. Mrs. Diana Morgan-Hill, widow of H- Morgan Hill, of Washington, D. C., was married to Sir George Rhode in Lon- don at St. Mary's Cethalic church. Selwyn C. Edgar, years old cap- italist who was found shot to death in me in Si. Louls Saturday, commit- The presest is the latest open season known on the Yukon river. The river has nome but slush lce in it, and the tributaries are practically free of lce. The French government is inclined to regard France's war debt to the United States as lying In abeyance pending some definite development in the reparations problem. Medical certificates would be required from all twmembers of the Episcopal church. who marry in Chicago under tke terms of a resolution adopted at a zaect: ing of the rectors of the dlocese Tie Rev. Ellott Parrick. youthful Methodis: rolnister of Statestors, Ga. went on trial charged with first #reree murdes in connection with the killing of his wife and 1oother-in-law last June 13 St. Paul's Episcopul parish, Nerwalk, the first established i: America, at a special parish meeting, reafirmed .a vote passed in April, 1917.: to' replace the present church, buildixg with a stons stracture. . Al A crnments Invited by the United States to corfer In Washington on Dccember 4+ on raeasures for closer friendship and | coope that ion have indicated ¥ will accept. Lord Hardinge has resigmed his pest as British ambassador to Paris. Ac- cordnig to the morning newspapers his successor is likely to be Sir George Grahame, now the British ambassador to Brussels. Becretary Demby and Budget Director Lord reached an._agreement on contro- verted phases of the navy's budget' and it is now In the hands of Presidet | Harding for approval, it' was announced at tire navy departmen Ten million tons of “ore, tonnage shipped through Superior, Wis,, since the period of depression following |their domestic actions, the war, has been sent down the lakes |hostility to the extreme socialists from the three cre docks there this 52a- | communists. t trying to take away sny- i T want to -give-th freedom to control the drink trac speaks Lady Astor in an election address issued in Plymouth in which she denfes|most helpless in Italy by the onslaught esires - to impose “prohibition | ot faselsm. 'The- miiltant that she people, byssome act-er bill. - _Five state witnesses - in the John K: of the Centrai American gov-| the largest|had no domestic otérs |etrained every effort to kesp Thus | going. EXPANSION THE POLICY OF THE NEW ITALIAN PREMIER Mussolini Regards the Mediterranean as an Italian Lake and = Advocates Complete Control of That Waterway by Italy —Has Always Bitterly Contested the Claims of Greece | for the Dodecanese Islands—New Ministry is Hmtfle‘d‘. Extreme Socialists and Communists—Fascisti Troops ' Have Triumphantly Entered Rome. Rome, Oct. 31 (By the A. P.)—What- ever the outcome may be when the new Mussolini cabinet goes before the cham- ber of deputies, there is general agree-|geons, one mar ment that the new premier has gath-|a baseball bat cred about him a cabint exceptionally | Briskly they swung strong from the nationalist standpoint, |tunes of innumerabie comprising a body of men who were|contingest leading leaders of Italy in the great war and | Pinclan Hill ro the outstanding protagonists for Italy's|polo. throug! territorial clams in the peace. The army of pe Mussolin] brings with his ministry a capital through t well-defined forelgn policy, the corner |into the people’s stone of which 1§ expansion. The fas-|down the Corso 3 cisti party, ever since its inception a|Street. lined with flags. Every window s year ago, has always preached the ex-|Was filled with Romans cheering, some tension of Italy’s territorial claims. |Showering flowers upon the passing bisch When former Premler Glolitto ordered |shirts, while the he streds salote the evacuation.of Albania by Italian |ed straight-armed from the shoulder aith troops, the fascisti sent up a cry of hand extended towa: the west. by protest against the veteran statesman,| Straight through the heart of the city burning him in efigy and hurling sting-|the Procession conunued, the youths - ing epithets against him in hostile |Pever looking to the right or left, and e tra e acknowledging the acclamations and thé Mussolini himself bas declared tha: |cheers only by singing Fascisti marching the Mediterranean is an Italian _lake ) %0085 Thus they reached the monument and he advocates complete controi of ¢ Victor Emmanuel and the tomb of that gaterway by Italy. The claims of | "4 URKRoWn Soidier. { Greece for the Dodecanese isiands was| ATer ¢ M“m':‘lnh“'ofl“'flf;:;‘i;:": slways bitterly contesied In 14| Lol proceeded to the Via o 2 | Rome's natlopal highwa: Total repudiation of all soviets hasinope Bayoral been a constant cry among Vi rhecs When the Russian commercial Rt s e Tase arrived in Rome in 1921 their By T thes were broken into and their . Fansacked by fascieti who contended for | UCSE PRTL 18, (0 Procession, was, vart i no negotiations in any form with the " soviets, and, late arrivals at the gates of Roms ) In their domestic poliey the aims of hastening to fall In behind the unita | & chich had formed in Borghese Purk ehe fascisti have not been 80 clearly de- | s e Bors mald fined. Indeed, it has been constantiy Homage having been paid to their king, the celebration was now over. The Fascis: maintained by their opponents that they policy. One thing, ti reformed and marching directly to the ! station where fifty has stood pre-eminent in ali nam: thele transporting from 500 to 1,000 and socks, and shoes boots to danc armed only with ed_from topr mps. They weet & crops and Blude Anacona swinging line to: the the Romaa § along the % ¥ = were formed 18 however, each had been held in readiness since’ morning In accordance with the demoti- lization order that “svery soldier must be on his way home before nightfall™ At the tomb of the Unknown Soldier each contingent, with banners fiying, halted befofe the imposing monument; then two men from each contingent, one bDearing a huge paim. the other a bous quet of flowers, ascended the steps Jead- ing to the tomb and deposited them upom R untll it was lost to sight beneath the mass of bloom. The first wreath placed They have deflantly fought the strike in any form. Wherever and whenever strikes have been declared they have industry Commyniam has been rendered ak natiogalisie have carried their battle into- the abor temples and meeting places of their an- of | taginists. They have seized the records ‘churged with' murder inand rosters and urned them, and o connection with the armed march of |many occasions even set fire to thy miners 6n the Cliftonville mine last July, | buildings. - The fascist however, havy at Wellsburg, W. Va., testified to events |manifested strong {riendship for the la- before and during the pitched battle in Americans in Turkey as a Tesulf of arbi-®which seven persons lost their lives. New York firms doing busimess with Mexico and the various departments of | the the Mexican government were unable ta|of General Disz and Admiral Thaon Di | determine how far President- Obregon's| Revel to cabinet positions, there is an rela- | accompanying assurance firms | with the other appointments. order to suspend ail commerciai tions with ‘New York businéss would affect their Mexican business. After investigating the fiading of three bodies In a rougi box in the attic of a down-town block In-Rochester, N. Y., the police learned that laboratory there. Benite Mussolinl has sent s message|able weight to the new cabinet is Dep- to the British prime minister, Mr. Bo-|uty Gluriati. nar Law, and the French the premiershi neto.” Lack of proper ce-operation - by the | . While the cabinet is in itself com- t of agriculture |posed of strong personalities, inere ¥ national legisla- | aliways th tion is charged in a report just made|chamber. It remains for public' by the leglslative commities Of|to’ anmounce their program when the the principal grain exchanges of the |chamber opems next week. If they are United States department in the consideration of country. : Antonle Raiane, » barber knews st the Savin Rock section Waterbury, a frequenter that shore resort, on July 13, was sen- | the ‘bodies |held cabinet positions previously. He ere specimens shipped to a commercial | was one of the chief advisers anatomist who a few years ago had a|Itallan government in the Genoa com- premier, M.|nungio’s chlet of cabinet Poincare, announcing his accession ‘1o | poet's ‘occupation of Fiume, and, pgsvi the representative|ously distinguished himself during the of ‘Itallan ideals born at Vittoria Ve-| World w;r“‘I “Tony the|the varjous other constitutional parties Barber” who killed Fraik Cozzo, of:ito render the ministry stabie and likel; of " hotels ia|to'be durable. - less ‘than his own. On-departing from the tomb the Pas- clati proceeded at double-quick up the steep Cesare Battisti hill to the a1, where the king appeared an the cony at two thirty. He stood at As each’ contingent arriyed the dipped, as before the tomb of ¢ known Soldier. Tne king was accorded & great ovation by the assembled multh tude. borers provided the latter became na- tionalists” and embraced the fascist! principles, Besides the strength which comes to government * with -the appointment stability Prof. EBi- naudi, the minister of the treasury, i¥ distinguished for being one of the fore- most Italian economists. i Signor Rossi, the minister of Indus- try, is himself a manufacturer and had of SENDS MESSAGE TO SECRETABY HUGKES Rome, Oct. 31.—(By the A. P.)—Premi. fer Mussolin has sent the following sage to Secretary of State Hughes ‘Washington : “In sssuming the task of go &t the request of his majesty, the king.® 1 am addressing to your exoellency ¥ most- cordial good wishes, and I vesiture to express my confidence in the fi economic and spiritual collsboration our - two countries. Such colt will be rendered all the more, ag byt he fact that the Italiag people to the noble American nation with confidence that it will undesstand estimate the yalue of the efforts lished by the Italian nation for the alization of a common victory. ) MUSSOLINI to the ference. Another member who gives consider- He was Gabriele D'An- during the 7. He has been ‘& supporter -of Mussolini since the inaugs uration of the fascistic party. - e’ question of support in the the Catholics pleased with the selections and will give their support, it would seem that suffi- clent strength could be counted on from JUDGE BRANDED LIQUOE AS “VARNISH New Haven, Oct. 31.—Whes In taking the portfolios of. foreign af- tenced to state prison for five to eight|fairs and interfor In addition to. the pre- years by Judge Marvin in the superlor court. R vancement of colored people of New sent, a telegram to Governor Henry J. Allen, . of Kansas, upon 'his assertion Saturday that directed - the attorney - general. the- state Kian, SEEE action to expel from clals of the Ku Klux Reloase of the British and Edna at New York was ordered a he to all ks view.of ‘the nderstood -to ‘have | i unabdle:to.show conclusively that the. Hiegal ’ DISAPPEARANCE OF ROSALINE miership, Mussolini occupies the posis which mean most for the fascisti sphers |saloon or his wife engaged In ligyor again Be would have 'piz FASCISTI 1 TROOTS HAVE ENTERED BOME IN TRIUMPH . Rome, Oct.' 21—(By The A. P.)—The in the former having been an N a vessel and [n the latter