The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-07-14

burghe The solicitude of his wife
 for the bill pending before the legis-
 lature, which exempts the officials of racing associations from criminal lia- plllty for bookmaking on the tracks
 under their supervision, Mrs. Wilson
 says is prompted solely by her inter est Tn the racing sport and her con- vlctlon that the present law making officials responsible. for violation of
 the law committed by others isT in- equitable and unfair. If they dared brave the censure of their constitu- ents, many of the legislators admit tedly would like to oblige her by vot-
 ing for the measure she advocates.
 The opponents of the bill have not
 spared the fair lobbyist in their pro-
 poganda against it, claiming that the
 gambling element in the state is using
 her to win sympathy for the cause of
 bookmaking.s
 With the worldwide spread of crimes of cunning and craft K M. Turner, an inventor of this city, who has been
 close student of Lombroso for many years, declares that society must pro-
 tect itself in the future by enlisting
 the aid of science in their detection
 The strong popular sentiment against
 the continued employment of s'the third degree and other harsh means of extorting confessions of guilt from suspects has of late disarmed the au-
 thor1tles of most American cities of -one of their most formidable weapons in fixing responsibility for crimes and unearthing criminals. The conviction last week of Rodney J. Diegle, serge ant-at-arnls of the Ohio State Senate on charge of acting as a go between for Venal legislators willing to sell their votes for a money consideration, Mr. Turner believes foreshadows a complete change in police methods both here abroad Dpicrlo c convicted on evidence obtains by means of dictograph, high sensi- tized telephone, concealed beneath a lounge in hotel bed room in which the barter in votes took place. A court stenographer, stationed in an adjoining room with a receiver of the instrument to his ear, transcribed the conversation between the sergeant-at- arms, legislators and detectives and supplied the corroboration necessary to convict.
 Tn instrument is now installed in Police Headquarters in this city and some interesting developments are looked for there as result of it's fu- ture use. By equipping cells with it, l Turner says it will be possible to have a. correct record kept. of the conf dences of prisoners, that will be of immense advantage. to the police in working up their cases. Two persons suspected of complicity in the same crime, when placed in. single cell l will be sure to discuss their case and | frame up their defence there in the | firm belief that what they say is not | overheard. This and other scientific | devices for getting first hand infor- | nation from criminals Turner is cer- tain would make it almost impossible | for a criminal to baffle the authori- | ties and escape punishment for his | misdeeds With the development of | 1oJ1 fr1oa l wood, metal and glass, which has of1 late attained to the proportions of science, as shown in a number of re- | cent criminal cases here, higher or der of detective efficiency will be achieved and a smaller percentage of | undetected crimes made possible pre- 1 diets the inventor.
 Now that public attention is being focused on the marital troubles of | his sister, Ethel Barrymore, the ac- tress and Russell Griswold Colt, her husband, Jack Barrymore is feeling much relieved these days. For sev- eral weeks he has been the subject of much unpleasant notoriety as a result of the quarrel between Mr. and Mrs. Sydney Harris the divorced parents of his young wife, who married him against her wishes of her father. Har- ris attributes most of the differences with his wife to her fOndneSS for act ors as a class and her apparent deter mination that their daughter, sent by the father to a Paris convent to be cured of her fancy for Barrymore, should marry him.
 The objection of the elder Harris for Barrymore was in large measure due to the association of his name several years ago with that of Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, wife of the slayer of Stanford White and sister-in-law of the former Lady Yarmouth (Alice Thaw) The rift in the matrimonial lute of the Colts has been predicted practically ever since their marriage two years ago. Colt is son Of the head of the Rubber Trust and has been burning up money for several years When, shortly after the birth of their baby, Mrs. Colt returned to the stage, the suspicion that the for mer star had not found marriage as congenial as she had hoped became settle conclusion among her friends, who realized that the day was not far away when she would apply for a dissolution of the ties that bound her to the young multi-millionaire, whose society had become impossible to her.