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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-03-29
BANK TO MOVE TO NEW HOME
 ABOUT JUNE 1
Skyscraper Will Be Ready For Occupancy on That
 Date, is Announcement.
FORTUNE IN GOLD IS
 SPREAD ON CEILING
Immense Burglar Proof Vault is Placed and In
 terior Work is Rushed.

The First Bridgeport National bank, the handsomest bank building in the city as well as the ta1lest struc- ture here will be ready for occupancy June 1, it was announced today. The interior work Nthe big building is rapidly being rushed toward the completed stage and mainly, the artistic work, remains to be done.
 The First Bridgeport Bank building is a unique one. It is eight stories high, but nevertheless towers over ev- cry other building in Bridgeport by about four stories because of it's con1 struction and the mezzanine floors. It contains one of the largest banking rooms in the United States. New Y ork is the only city that has larger.
 Artists have completed placing about $6,000 worth of gold leaf on the $f5.000 ceiling above the banking room. The ceiling contains coffers, the Farmer. that are more splendid. costly and numerous than any in the country.
 The immense main safety vault has been put into place. It is burglar proof
 To "crack' the vault of Bridgeport's s new bank according to H. F. Hickox, under whose direction the entire work is being done, aa burglar first must gain entrance to the bank-which by the way, has only one regular entrance and that on Main street. Then rein forced concrete of such apparent strength that it will be herculean job to destroy in days labor. must be broken through. That done, there remain two inches of hard and soft steel.
 The hard steel is so hard that it cannot be cut with any ordinary stee14 cutting tool. An oxy-acetylene. blow pipe, the tool of the scientific burglar, will avail nothing in burning through for the soft steel will baffle efforts in that direction by fusing into the im- pressions made in the hard steel
 That-done-and it's almost a super human job to do-there remains an unfaiIing betrayal for the intruder. Imbedded below the ste-el Is a perfect netting of six inch squares. surround ing the entire vault. top, bottom and sides. It is made of miles of lead wires and at any point one of these wires is touched, an alarm is sound: ed that cannot fail to warn the police.
 According to the estimates of Hogg.. son Brothers, who are building the bank building, metal in the entrance to the vault weighs 21 tons
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-03-29
DIVERS, DOWN 215 FEET,
 GET NO TRACE OF BOAT

Honolulu, March 29-Hope of raising the United States submarine F'-4, submerged outside the harbor since Thursday morning, still inspir- ed those engaged in the rescue work today The divers went to a depth of 215s feet but failed to find any trace Of F-4
 Wearted as they were by their long work without sleep, the wreckers re- doubled their efforts last night when another body believed to be the F-4 was located.
 Portions of the vessels upper struc- ture have been brought to the sur face by the grappling apparatus of the various boats, renewing the conf- dence of the rescuers that they are near the F-4s
 The dredge California; whose chains are thought to be securely fixed on the body of the submarine, will be moored in a position directly above it and tugboats will crtss-cross in all directions with their drag chains in anSeffort to wind them into a net around the hulk
 A big naval crane having a lifting capacity of 15O tons dead weight will then attempt a direct left on the submarine assisted by the dredge.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-03-29
MISTAKEN AS TO OSBORNE, TANzER GIRL CONFESSES Her Identification of Alleg- ed Wooer Was An Error,
 Counsel Says. GIRL SHOULDERS ALL BLAME FOR BANGLES Outcome of Governments s Case Against Her is Now
 Matter of Doubt.

Miss Rae Tanzer, who filed a $50,- 900 damage suit against James W. Osborne, former assistant district at- torney of New York, went with new counsel today to the office of United States District Attorney Marshall and took back everything she said recently identifying MT. Osborne as the man who courted her under the name of Oliver Osborne.
 Before MT. Marshall would take her statement he prepared a waiver of immunity for her to sign. She af- fixed her name and her signature was witnessed by her new counsel, Harold A. Speilberg. Then she sat down and began to tell her story. It was said she would be at it all afternoon.
 In announ cing Miss Tanzer's state ment. that she was mistaken in her Identification, District Attorney Mar shall read the following waiver which she had signed:
 s'rhe interview which I am 9bout today and any further interviews may have with the United States dis trict attorney are at my request and not at the request of the United States District Attorney. intend to make a fu11,s free and unreserved statement Of facts and consent that anything I may say may be used in any way by the United States attorneys in which it may become proper and desirable to use the same.''
 The mistake, MT. speiIberg said, was wholly due to Miss Tanzer and Slade 6. Slade, her former lawyers, were in no way connected with the erroneous identification further than conducting her case.
 Assistant District Attorney Wood corroborated MT Speilberg- MT. Wood admitted that the woman witness up on whom the government relied to shatter Miss Tanzer's charges was none other than Miss Tanzer herself. It was understood that Miss TanzeT was prepared to tell the district at torney that she alone was responsible for Identifying James w. Osborne as Oliver Osborne, author of the three letters which she alleged she received
 Whether the go3ernInentss investf- ga.tion of the charges against Miss Tanzer would stop there was un- .known. Miss Tanzer is at liberty un- der $5.00O bond on a charge of using the mails to defraud. This is an out growth of her suit against James w. Osborne for $5O,0OO damages. s Mr. SpeiIberg first became connect ed with the case when he represented the surety company which furnished Miss Tanzer's bond For whom the surety company. acted in giving the ibond has not been disclosed. i Mr. SpeiIberg re-appeared with Miss Tanzer at the district attorney s office shortly before noon Before going with his client into MT. Mar shall's office, MT. Speilberg said that ssit was not a question of a confes- sion and that, Miss Tanzer would merely make a statement
 f When Miss Tanzer appeared with her lawyer in the federal building she appeared to be nervous and not a little frightened
 seWe. have no confession to make',, to tell the district attorney will not injure the firm of sIade & slade. in any way
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-03-29
MAY INVOKE MANN VVHITE SHAVE LAW AS RESULT OF DISCLOSURES
 MADE BY SPRINGFIELD GIRL HERE.

Possibility that the Mann White slave law will be invoked by the prosecuting authorities of this city against prominent Springfield, Mass, resident follows disclosures made by members of the Bridgeport Protective Association to the police of this city today.
 Following wayward .Stendencies of Miss Edna Pierce, about 21 years of age and for three months a resident at the home of the Protective Asso- citation, Myrtle avenue, the girl was brought to police headquarters on Saturday last where an attempt was made to ascertain the name of a man believed to have brought her to this city from Springfield. Mass. nearly a year and a half ago.
 Though tearful1y undergoing ex- animation at the hands of police au- thorities on Saturday, she persistentIy refused to divuIge the name of the man believed to be implicated. Fol-
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-03-29

lowing information and belief that she was about to escape the city last night. the girl was brought by pro- bation officer Mrs. Isaac Burgess to police headquarters where she was detained during the night by Mrs. Jack. the police matron.
 Today she was again the subject of examination by Mrs. Burgess, Pros ecutor Alexander Delaney and Miss Margaret Boylan, interested in the Protective Association.
 Prosecuting Attorney Delaney lat CT told reporters that he had been unable to obtain any information up- on which to base warrants for arrest as the girl had consistently refused to divulge any information which would enable the authorities to, in- yoke the Mann law.
 Strict silence upon the part of the Protective Association officers was maintained in relation to the case aI- though it is intimated that the girl will be placed in a good home
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-03-29
BIG SHIFT AMONG
 POLICE POSITION ED;
 PRESSURE IS. USED
Complaint Made This Year By Friends of Men Who
 Would Be Transferred.

The semi-annuaI transfer of police men and officers of the Bridgeport po- lice force, which it was recently rn- mored would be the most drastic change in many years. has been post poned. Superintendent Eugene Birmingham when asked this morn ing if the change would go into ef- feet as usual April 1, said that the matter was put off.
 In police circles it was further related that. although work had De- gun upon the roster, looking forward to the changes which. would take men from their home districts in the East Side and send them to patrol duty in the North, south and West Ends. and vice versa, much political press ure had been brought to bear upon the commissioners and the matter was now under advisement.
 During the winter months police men and officers have heretofore been kept as near home as possible that they might be relieved of long walks in the bitter cold weather following their nights duty.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-03-29
ALL HOPE LOST OF SAVING ANY
 OF F-4'S CREW Navy Department Gives Or der to Determine Possibil-
 ity of Salvage. NO TRACES FOUND
 OF UNDERsEA BOAT Divers Work at Depth of 215 Feet, While Dredges Wait
 To Start Hoists.

Washington. March 29-rhe last remote hope that any of the subma- rine F-4's crew might be alive has been abandoned by the navy depart ment
 Acting Secretary Blue today order ed Rear Admiral Moore, commanding the Honolulu naval station, to report the exact location of the sunken boat and the depth at which she lies, that the department may estimate the probability of sa1vaging the hull and recovering the bodies of her com mander and crew.
 No advices on the disaster have come to the department since Friday night, when Admiral Moore reported that the boat was in 50 fathoms of water.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-03-29
.ElTEL FRIEDRICH SAILS SOON; U. s.
 WARSHIPS NEARBY
Batt1eship Alabama Ordered to Hampton Roads To En-
 force Neutrality Laws.

Newport News, Va, March 29@The German auxiliary cruiser Prinz EiteI Friedrich still lies at her dock today. Activities all around her, however, convince local officials that some definite step soon would be taken either to interne the raider or send her out.
 The elusive report current in army and navy circles that Captain The richsen was ready to go but awaited assurances that the United States would protect him within the three mile limit from hostile cruisers which have, been blocking every lane out past the Virginia Capes. would not down The only American war ships visible hereabouts this morn ing were two torpedo boats and one submarine.
 The time limit of the EitePs stay was not known but there was 9, re- port that it, expires within the next 4S hours. The report that the EiteI will be lowed to New York within the three mile limit is not taken seriously by officials, who believe her draft, even though no light, would not per init her to navigate so close to the shores.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-03-29
FINEST BABY' IN CITY DEAD AT
 THREE MONTHS
Tot Given Prize at Recent Contest Succunbs At
 Boston Ave. Home

Gladys Viola Smith, aged three months, the girl who won the prize at the Lyric theatre baby show several weeks ago, for t'the tiniest baby died yesterday afternoon.
 2 Gladys is the daughter of MT. and Mrs. Frederick Smith of 1884 Boston avenue. She weighed only three and a half pounds when she entered against many contestants a few weeks ago in the baby show and she easily took the prize. She was awarded a silver set, consisting of knives, forks and spoons.
 The funeral will be held Tuesday afternoon, and the child will be- bur jed in Lakev1ew cemetery.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-03-29
SENDS HIS SON
 BROTHER; SHOOTS BULLET INTO BRAIN
Milford Resident Leaves Not Asking Forgiveness, As
 He Suicides.
Especial to The Farmer. )

Milford, March 2S.-Leaving a note: Forget and forgive Walter Fucker, aged 51, a resident of this town and New Haven, committed suicide at 8 o'clock this morning when he sent a bullet from a. revolver through his temple.
 A few minutes before the shooting, Fucker awakened his son, Walter, Jr,, and sent him to the home of Max Fucker, a brother of Walter, sr, ask ing him to tell his brother than he wanted him on urgent business. When the boy was half way out of the house he heard a shot and returned to. find his father dead.
 Fucker has beenA i'll for several days. His wife has been a chronic invalid for years. Temporary insanity caused by these troubles is believed to have caused his act.
 Fucker was about. the house last night attending to the chores he usual ly. does and he was apparently in a cheerful frame of mind, although he was ill After his family Of a wife and three grown children were alseep last night, he arose at midnight, did sew eral small jobs about the house and then wrote the note to his wife.
 He awakened his son, Walter, and told him to go to the home of Max Plusker. Then he shot himself
 Medical Examiner W. J. H. Fischer was called and he expressed the opin- ion that temporary insanity caused Fucker. to commit suicide.
 Fucker was employed for 20 years hardware manufacturers. of New Ha- ven. He has lived Cherry street, this town, and in New Haven for many years.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-03-29
Eight Dreadnaughts
 Ready For Russians

London, Mar. 29-Reuter's cores pondent at Petrograd telegraphs that the Russian fleet in the Baltic has been reinforced by the addition or modern fighting units.
 This addition to the fleet is be- lieved in London to consist of four dreadnoughts laid down in Russian yards in 1909, which were nearing completion at the beginning of the war. It. may also include another di- vision of the four capital ships laid down in 1912. The British naval ex- perts said they would not be surprised to learn that with the assistance of the allies in materials and men Russia. had been able to complete the eight dreadnaughts.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-03-29
MAYOR SUNDERL AND, DEMOCRAT, PICKED AS THE WINNER OF THREE
 GORNERED DANBURY ELECTION

party has complete ticket in the field.
 The campaign has been a very brisk one, all parties concentrating their forces in a spectacular wind up Saturday night.
 Political wiseacres pick Mayor Sunderland to be returned to office by g. handsome majority. They point to the fact that his administration has been an able one. and believe he will draw heavily from other parties in addition to receiving the united Dem ocratie support.
 The polls close at 4 o'clock.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-03-29
Russians Join In
 Attack on Turkey

London, March 29-Russia is again today knocking at the back door Of Constantinople by bornibarding Turk ish forts on the Bosphorus. but with what success is not yet definitely known AS to the front door of the TurkisS capital, the Dardanelles, the only word is the reiteration of the report that the snninesweepers of the allies are continuing their work and that weather conditions still prevent a resumption of the bambardment by the fleet.
 ConstantinopIe. however, claims that since March 1 8 weather condi- tions have been so good that Turkish aeropIanes have been flying over the warships of the allies in and about the Dardanelles. Unofficial reports from neutral points in the vicinity of the scene of operations indicate am early resumption of activity; they set of the inner defenses has been begun by the ba.ttleships
 Reviewing Russian naval activity. in the Baltic, Petrograd claims that damage has been Inflicted on several German units and that the Germans have been compelled materially to re- strict their movements.
 German submarines have been ac- tive off the English and Irish coasts and the liner Fa1ba. reported in dis tress in Bristol Channel, may be one of the victims of their raids.
 From diplomatic Standpoint o15- servers in London are speculating hopefully on the reorganization of the Balkan league. Nevertheless it is felt that the visit to Bulgaria. of Field Marshal Won Der Goltz, until recently at ConstantinopIe. may effect the re- cancellation of this state with her neighbors.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-03-29
General Won Kluclz, German Commander, R eporte d Wounded By shrapnel
 Russia Gets Eight New Battleships For Baltic Fleet Turkish Forts on Bosporus Are Shelled.

London, March The Bri-. tish steamer Aguila was sunk. this morning by a German sub marine off Bishop Rock. Her crew of B men was saved.
 Positive confirmation canie today of the report that the British steamer FaIaba had been sent to the bottom yester- day by a submarine off Mill ford Haven, on the coast of South Wales. The loss of life is reported to be heavy.
 Hit By Torpedo.
 The Falaba left Liverpool on Saturday for the west coast of Africa with 14O passengers and a crew of d20 men.
 Her officers state that when the German submarine appear4 ed it wllistled thrice as a sig nal for the steamer to prepare
 ter lifeboats but that before this could be done a torpedo struck the ship near the en- zine room.
 Another Ship Lost
 It is believed that the steam CT Dunedin has also been sunk by an undersea boat A des- patch to London reported that a submarine neswas in pursuit of the Dunedin last night and she is believed to have been lost.
 The Aguila, sunk today, was of 1904 tons and 275 feet long. She was owned in Liverpool Bishop Rock, where she went down. is on the Scilly Isles, at the entrance to the British Channel.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-03-29
HAVE YOU ALTTTLE
 OKAPI IN YOUR HOME?

New York, March 20-James F. Chapin, 8 member of an expe- dition sent into Belgian Congo in 1909 by the American Museum of Natural History, arrived here to- day on the steamship New York. MT. Chapin brought back with him the first consignment from 10000 specimens that the commission has collected. He has several specimens of the Okapi. an animal said to be cross between a zebra and an antelope, the first of the species to reach the United States.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-03-29
SALESMAN FINDS.
 S1,OOO WALLET; REV ARD OF S2OO

Thomas shanley, residing at 4s West avenue, a salesman for the Cud- ahy Packing company, today report ed to Supt. Eugene Birmingham that he had found the pocketbook con taining about $1,ooo. left Saturday, in a telephone booth at the railroad station.
 shanley will receive s20o offered as a, reward by the owner who is said to be Flames Porter of New York;
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-03-29
Obtained Citizenship
 Papers by Fraud
 Government Charges

Hartford, March 29.=An action has been brought in the United the government of naturalization pa pers granted to Felix A. Magnolia, of this city in July, 1914, on the ground that they were secured by fraud. Magnolia served four years in prison up to May IT, 1912, and it is asserted by U. s. District Attorney Scott that nothing was said about this at the time Magnolia was given his papers.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-03-29
(special to the Farmer. )

Danbury, March 2s-Indications at noon today were, that 9 record vote would be boiled in the biennial city election here today. The three cor nered fight. for control of city offices, together with fair weather, brought out the voters in large numbers and there was a, big registration before noon.
 Mayor Anthony W Sunderland, Democrat, who is a candidate to sue ceed himself, has as his opponents, Aldermen J. G. Irving. Republican. and George W. Scott, Socialist. Each
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-03-29
WEATHER FORECAST

Fair and colder tonight; Tuesday fair. Moderate west to northwest winds.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-03-29
Sentence Is Suspended.

Because there was question wheth- CT Frank Allen, aged s2, living at A Highland avenue, had 'tdredged" a bushel of coal from beneath the docks of the .McGee coal yards, or1had stolen it from barge, 8 ten day sentence was today suspended by Judge Wilder in the city court.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-03-29
BOMB THROWERS DENIED
 SEPARATE TRIALS

New York, March 2s. Frank Aberno and Carmine Carbone went on trial in the supreme court here to- day on the charge of making a bomb and placing it in St. Patrick's Cethe- dral on the morning of March 2, when worshippers were at their devotions in the edihce. An effort to postpone the case was unsuccessful. A motion to have. the defendants tried sepa- rately was likewise denied.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-03-29
BottIes1aip on Roads

Philadelphia, March 29-The bat tleship Alabama, which was given hurry orders Saturday night to sail to Hampton Roads to enforce American neutrality, left the Philadelphia navy yard at a m. today. The battle ship is we'll stocked with provisions and has aboard a large supply of an- ammunition and coal.
 The AlabaIna, was reserve when a small crew. s
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-03-29

Ignatz Kacmiak, g Walters court, aged 34 was fined $S in the city court for the theft of timber from the Bridgeport Boiler works.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-03-29
SUBMARINE SINKS THREE STEAMERS:
 MANY LIVES LOST

German Raiders Continue Activities in British Wa ters and Toll of Merchant men Grows More Than 40 Passengers Thought To Be Lost Aboard the Falaba.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-06-05

pressed it, lured Red into saloon.
The foamy beer, finding its way into
the somewhat cramped recesses of
the ex-convict, stimulated his mag
nation.
Find your wife," exclaimed Ike in
astonished contempt. why, don't
you know it's game with them folks,
Red?"
whats a gamer" demanded Red,
ferociously.
''Why, playing with us and writing
reports about us for their clubs. You
and mes just cases to her. She'll
never find your wife. It's part of the
game, them promises. Rich as mis-
er, that old woman is, and as for jew
els-say! You been to her house?"
"Once-when first come out" an.
swered Red miserably.
There's half a million dollars in
diamonds waiting there for any one
what wanted EN-" said Ike impress
sively. And Herewith he made a
proposition which fell upon Reds
ears as sweetly as mama upon the
parched tongues OF the desert wan
derers.
Red went home and thought, and
all his anger and resentment paved
the way for his acceptance. That rich
old woman with the Fifth avenue
house and the diamond necklace,
while he, Red, worked for So a week!
And Lizzie, whom she was to discover
for him as soon as he had made a
man of himself! He would show her
what sort of man he was!
He talked the situation over with
Ike During the course of his single
visit to the house Red had, with a
true craftsman's eye, summed up the |
architectural features. To ascend to |
the second story by means of the or
namental column would not be diff |
cult. He could enter one of the win
dows. Ike knew the upper f1oor-he |