The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-01-27
GARI. AND HAD EVENT Ul PAST
 AS INvENT OR
Former Executor of Cross Will Well Known in New
 Haven.
EBENEZER BEECHER SPENT
 THOUSANDS BACKING HIM
Had Alleged Cancer Cure and Flashed Thousand Dol
 lar Bills.

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 Developments of at least an inter ling character are expected in the Hannah H. Gross will contest at any time. It became known today that Prosec uting Attorney Alexander De- L.a.ney was waited upon yesterday with information concerning the case. AL though it WAS irltirnated that it was of not sufficient strength to, warrant official action, word has been received. from New York city to the effect that. under Attorney James Brady. William T. and Ferdinand Cross are making the strongest efforts to secure from Frank M. Garland some explanation Of what became of large amounts of Jewelry and other trust securities
 $ Mrs. May Thompson Luquer. after
 barring reporters from her home at Park and Map4ewood: avenue, and re- fusing to divuTge any information
 which might tend to clear up the my stery surrounding the case, left the
 city, according to those Wi6hin the hnusehold today. Her attorney, Judge
 Frank l.. Wilder, in explanation of her attitude said that heshad ordered her, to maintain silence, and that he would
 be co1npelled to Q kewfse as it snnflrht be necessary for him to appear as a. witness in the event of the pro- posed contests. He expressed surprise chat she had left the city and said that it was probably for q brief visit.
 Yesterday it was learned from a
 prom inent West End druggist that
 Garland had often displayed large amounts Of money in his presence and had been interested in a pateTt cancer cure called .sGsytone.H So often were
 bills of $1, 900 denorainat5ons dashed for change in the little store that the proprdetor was afraid of them and = AI--
 with cara. Though this man refused to inlIjAdt for public print anything tlaat he knew concerning the affair he intimsked thai if asked by a urozecut- ing attorney he would dIvulge mlaiy, startling faots-
 sIsikeWise a pro1ninent lawyer of this city, with the understanding that his
 name would for personal reasons be
 kept confidential, told of his many talks with Mrs. Cross andr Mrs Ell- quer, in which the latter had told Of being short changed through the wrapping of $500 in bills in pack age which was not to be opened until told. In g. moment of inq51dsiti iyeness it had been opened before the appoint- ed time and found to be short $1, 500. Ihrough the same source it was learned that Frank M Garland was
 none other than the faunolis inventor Of the Wdnchester Arms company whose research into high explosives cost the late Ebenezer Beecher. of New Haven, many hundreds of thou sands Of dollars and also other prOnni- nent men like R. H Brown. amounts ranging between s3,o0O and $5,0O0.
 That Garland while here was in constant comnunfcatIon and secured an audience with the Grand Duke of Russia. recently in f1is country, also became known today s A special ldespasteh from the New
 Haven correspondent of The Farmer states that Frank M. Garland first oanne into the li1nelight aagout fifteen years in that city as an inventor. He
 secured patents on high pressure ex- pIosiye guns. He interested Ebenezer Beec11er one Of the inventors of the original Diamond Match machinery
 which later became the basic ground
 Of the great match trust. Beecher IS now dead Beecher is said to have
 invested between S150,000l and $35o,009 in experiments on the gun caTraeq on
 in fnhe McI4agon Foundry at New Iia- ven, which had been placed at the
 disposal of Garland through the ln-
 terest shown in the invention by Esa-
 Mayor Fred F,arnswoerth. The gun is said never to have been successful and
 although tested by the United Stafes
 government was not adopted. During this period of time Garland lived very
 high, being extremely fond of the ols- play of diamonds.
 He became infatuated with Lottie Stewart, the daughter of policeman, afae late Joseph Stewart, whom he
 married about ten years ago:
 At the residence of the Stewart family 28 Jefferson street, today 1t was said that the whereabouts Of Gar land was not known, although neigh bors felt sure that they had seen him
 there within the past few days.
 1 Although the gun was not success. full and Garland went to New ork city for several years where he was the companion of princes and poten-. tates of various countries. Garland was divorced from his first wife and later lived in. Philadelphia where he
 lived for a time at the Continental Hotel.
 Last spring he came back to New Haven for a short while but soon
 moved his furniture to Bridgeport Tn New Haven Garland has been looked upon as a. promoter of ven- lures with little merit.
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