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New Britain herald., 1924-11-03
THE "GENTLER SEX"
''"icnd Wife Docs Things to Sterncr Half and He Tells His Story to the Police.

Charles Stcssell of 1E Hartford alcnue walked into police l1eadquar- t@rs yesterday afternoon and pre- 5 nied the appearance of man who lad been run over by q railroad tain or had become inv oiyed in an automobile accident. He was badly ent about the head the blood stream :ue through his hair and over his nee. His clothing was a brilliant pcd.
 Captain George !. Kelly asked the tau what had happened 10 him. and .s n, sell said that he wanted 10 make complaint against his wife as sho ,,ad assaulted him. Policeman Thom- sa I. Fecncy WIS sent 10 the mans 'ouse to investigate the affair, but ilnd that the affair hab been about
 I0-50 proposition and neither one ! the happily barricd couple want ,# to prosecute the other.
New Britain herald., 1924-11-03
School Board May Act
 On Site in East End

The school board was scheduled 10 meet at 4.&o o'clock this afternoon to award the contracts for building the Smalley school addition and 10 endeavor to finally settle the matter of the East street sitr. The school accQmmoiations committee met at o'clock
New Britain herald., 1924-11-03

Rmdgeport. Nov. 3.-Thcmas Kerr, of IF Cottage street, who will be 99 years old November II win 20 to the polls tomorrow. llr. Kerr has voted for republican presidential Candi- dates in every election since Ahra- ham Lincoln.
New Britain herald., 1924-11-03
PEKING GENERAL
 FLEES COUNTRY
Fens Is Left in Control.,Tr
 Still Fighting
By The Associated Press.

Picking, Nov. 5,--General wu Pei- Flu, former commander-in-ch of the Picking military forces has fled to Tangku, on the Gulf of Chihn. about thirty miles from Tientsin. 1t was reported today at the head quarters here of Feng Eu-Hsiang. "The Christian general" now in con- trol here.
 His is regarded here as practically ending the present conflict between Wu Pei-Fu and Feng Yu-Hsla2g. The only remaining menace 10 Picking Is large bodies of troops which arc left without proper con- trol
New Britain herald., 1924-11-03
RlCHARDS CASEY WIN
m AstncIalrl I,rrss-

TIN TnN Ast0EIaftI TTFCss,
 Mexico City, Nov. S.-Nincent Richards of New York and Ray Casey Californian singles champion, today won the finals Tn the mems doubles Of the international tennis tournament here by defeating Rob crt and Howard kinsey. 6-S, S-6, 6-S, S-i.
New Britain herald., 1924-11-03
Anthony DrOgus.

Funeral services for Anthony nrogus were held at 7;5O o'clock this morning at Laraia &, Sagarino's funeral parlors on Spring street and at s o'clock at St Andrews church. Intcrmcnt was in St. Mary's cemetery.
New Britain herald., 1924-11-03
TpIryU>LooT FUR STORE

New Haven. Nov. 3. No trar" of thieves who took s6.ooo worth of furs from the store of David kal"fz- ky. furrier. in Congress a'"nur last night, had b"rn found hy 'h' po''ce today. The furrior offers N,o0o re- ward for arrest of the thieves.
New Britain herald., 1924-11-03
Alexander Nu>kiS

The funeral Of Alexander NuSkis vas held from his late home, @91 East street, at 7:&o o'clock this morning and at 8 o'clock from St. Andrews church. Burial vas in st. Mary's cemetery.
New Britain herald., 1924-11-03
TunpralH
August J. HiIlstrand,

Tho funeral of August J. Hill- strand of 455 Stanley street was held this afternoon from his home at , o'clock, Rev. Dr. Abel \. Ahl- quist conducted the services. Burial was in Faryiew cemetery.
New Britain herald., 1924-11-03
CLEaRINGs AND BALANCES.

New York-7EXchanges. 752.000,- 900; balances. 11e,000, coo Ros- ton-Exchanges, IS.0o0,000; bal ances, 24.0OO.O0O,
New Britain herald., 1924-11-03
Adam ZIsk.

Funeral services for Adam Fisk were held at 7;i5 o'clock this morn ! ing at the Sacred Heart rhlIrch. In 1 terment was in Sacred Heart ccmc- i tery.
New Britain herald., 1924-11-03
City Advertisement
LAYING CAST IRON WAITER
 MAINS

Sralci proposals will be received b, 'he Board of Water CommisSiOn- r-s at their of'ire Room 9oi, City UdU. NsN Britain. Conn. until 7:%n n. III. Standard Time. Tuesday, No'. II. 1924, for )ayinG of Cast Iron Water Mains in inc City oF New Britain. as follows: Contract T.. last St; Iandcrs Ave;
 Mansfield Ave.
 1Sil lincal feet Of in. Class "B'' Main.
 The Roarl will furnish all Cast Iron Pipe, Specials and Valves re- Quirrd.
 Proposals and Specifications may he secured at the above office after Nov. II, 1924
 The City or Roard reserves the right to reject any or all bids or tc accept any bid whether the lowest or not should tho Board deem il tc be for thc best interest Of the City of New Britain, BOARD OT WAITER COMMISSION
 EES.
 Frank j. UBricr. Clerk,
 Joseph D. Williams. City Engineer
New Britain herald., 1924-11-03

Tho police have been notiTcd hH tho commissioner Of motor vehicles of the r"turn Of operators licenses to Pau Milrr of l First street and Valentine Lomanski of 1jl Park View s-N.nuo,
New Britain herald., 1924-11-03
Mrs. Catherine Taylor

Mrs. Catherine Taylor, ST, widow ot William C. Taylor, died this morning at the home of her daugh- ter, Mrs. II. C. Barlow of 1447 stan ley street. She was horn in Lowell, Mass. and is survived by daugh. ter, besides Mrs. Barlow, Mrs. Frank Relcher, of Suffiold, and q son, George D. Taylor of SUuth Gov entry.
 The funeral will he Wednesday afternoon with services in the South Coventry Congregational church at 9 o'clock. Rev. Charles Johnson will in Nathan Hale cemetery, South Coventry.
New Britain herald., 1924-11-03
WILL, VOTE, AT 70

Pull top lever and vote for Hiram Bingham for Govcrnor.-a advt.
New Britain herald., 1924-11-03

Pull top lever and vote for Edward r. Hall for senstor.-sdvt.
New Britain herald., 1924-11-03

Pull ton lever and vote for Coolidge and Dawes-adNt,
New Britain herald., 1924-11-03

Pull the second lever and send ]. Vance, local man 10 congress- adyt,
New Britain herald., 1924-11-03
Special Notice

Members of the Loyal Order of Moose will receive fuu election ro- turns in thoir club rooms, Tuesday evening. adv.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-10-27
MRS. SHANK
GIVEN IS
MONTHS
Eleven Men Also Given Jail
Terms for Attack on
Dorothy Grandon

FREDERICK, Nd, Oct. g..
Jail sentences were given in the
circuit court here today to one
woman and eleven men for tar
ring and feathering twenty-year-
Old Dorothy Grandon, Of Martins
burg, w. va.o> on the might Of
July "a last, IN public road
near Myersville, Md.
Before e packed courtroom,
Judge Hammond Urner, sitting
with Associate Judge Robert B,
Peters, imposed sentences on the
followings
Mrs. Mary Shark, the woman
who actually taITed and feathered
Miss GrandOn-nine months In
the Frederick county Jail for tar.
ring and feathering and nine
months for riOting, sentences to
run cOncurrentIy.
Harry Leatherman, holder of
gold medals for Sunday school at.
tendance and ringIeader Of tarring
mob-twO years i'm the Maryland
House OF Correction for aiding
and abetting in the tarring and
featheFing and two years for riot
ing, sentences to run concur
rentIy.
Arthur Rice, Sunday school
leader and another mob leader
two years for aiding and abetting
In taIring and feathering and two
years for riOting, sentences to
run cOncurrently.
Others Given One Year.
The following were given one
year in the House Of Correction for
fioting'
Alvin Rice, Calvin Shank, John
LangdOn, Roma Shank, Grayson
DOub, Vernon Summers, William
HOupt, Irving Rice, ind Walter
The court found five others-John
Shepley. Paul Grossniclxie, Chester
Summers, Claude Toms, and Howard
Toms-not guilty of iosing. SEN
fences in the cases of Harold Gross
niclle and Fred Shepley were sus.
pended. Charges of aiding and
abetting against seven others will
not be pressed, it was sail.
Long before the court met at 10
o'clock, the court room was packed.
Those present were largely residents
Of Myersville, Nd, practically every
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SPUR NED
BABY IS
SLAIN
Mother Clicked It Because It
''Hiad No Chance" She
Tells Court
d. InternationaI News servlee.

ROOSTER, Ohio, Oct. 2T.-A
picture Of stole calm, Mrs.
Blanche Tobias, twenty -one, aps
peared before Mayor M. r. Limb
today for arraignment on the
charge of numbering her baby
son, Homer Lloyd, aged two
weeks.
"How dc you plead, guilty
Or
eyes, I'm guilty" she replied
before the mayor could complete
the formal question. These were
the only words she spoke at the
hearing. She was remanded to
Jail to await grand jury action.
Husband Denied Paternity.
Her husband, notified yesterday Of
the child's death, went to the county
infirmary last night for the body.
He took 1t to Smithville, near here,
where it was inferred today. An
older child. Elsie, aged two years
and six months was placed in the
children's home here,
Returning from her arraignment
to Jail, Mrs. Tobias calmly repeated
her admissions that she had killed
her baby boy because it wouldn't
have a fair chance"
my husband wouldn't believe the
child was his" she said, her calm
never breaking for a moment. 81
thought 1t was better dead. Yes, /
killed 1t, and I'm not sorry.
Unafraid OF Law,
"The law can do what il win. the
baby's safe from hard life, where
people would sneer at him because
my husband said he. wasn't his ia
ther." -
Prosecutor c. o. Fritz planned to
as.S an early indictment of Mrs.
Tobias, who has been left alone in
her trouble. Neither her husband
nor other relatives have yet visited
her since her incarceration.
The woman, alone in the county
jail, talks only when spoken to, and
then answers questions with the
tewest possible words. Attorneys
have not vet been employed to de.
fend her-the woman who killed her
baby because 1t couldn't have q
fair Glance"
Held Its Nose.
II held its nose with two fingers
and with my other hand / choked
it," the mother calmly confessed. &C.
cording to police. 1T died In about
two minutes"
A charge Of first degree murder
has been placed against her.
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S16,O00,O00 is
NEW 'SLUSH'
FIGURE
Untermyer and Walsh Return
Here to Present New Evil
dence to PFobers
By H. Il REYNOLDS.
International News Service.

With only three or four days re.
naming before the Senate investi-
cation of campaign expenditures
is adjourned until after the election,
counsel for Senator Robert M. La
Toilette today redoubled their eff
forts to show Senator William e,
Borah and his colleagues that at
least $16,000,000 is being used to
finance the Republican Presidential
campaign.
Returning from New York, where
they spent the week end in making
personal inquiries in connection
with the investigation here, Samuel
Untermyer and Frank p. Walsh,
the La Toilette attorneys, revealed
that their first effort upon the re-
sumption of the 'slush fund" probe
will be to show that $2,000,000 has
been contributed to the Republican
fund by office-holders under the
Harding Coolidge Administration.
Already In the committees record
is a charge, made by the head of
the "lily-black" Republican organ.
ization in Virginia, that the law
has been violated in that State by
the solicitation Of campaign con-
tributions from postal employees.
The Federal law in this matter
provides that pUstmasters or other
Federal officials may not be so.
licited for funds on Government
property, but an attempt will be
made to show that ways have been
found to "get around" the law even
II actual technical violations have
not taken place. In this part OF
their attack upon Republican
methods the La Toilette attorneys
are expected to be assisted in con.
siderable measure by the Democrats
Senator Borah has been prevailed
upon by Untermyer and Walsh to
continue the investigation after the
election, their position being that
the final reports on Republican col.
lections may reveal leads which are
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ELECTORAL
[)EA|)L0C
SEEN As
likely
Congress Probably VIII Pick
President, Declares Expert
Political Observer
By JONATHAN WICKwIRE.
1924 BY the washington
Times company)

0y JONA IAN w 4NA " AAsA1s
Copyright, 1924 BY The waahington
Times company.)
Partisan political statisticians
have modified but slightly the fig
ures in their claims for party
victory November 4, as reported
by this writer III The Washington
Times Of August 80.
Coolidge calculators have re-
duced by three, from PSI to 2TS,
their claims Of Electoral College
certainties. But with this, they
assert they see evidences Of q
quiet ground-swell in certain dis
puted territories which may carry
their candidate into office with
excess of 300 votes.
Davis devotees, without too
much emphasis on certainties,
stick pretty close to their original
figure of 289 as the Democrats
reasonable possibility.
La Toilette supporters, abandon
ing all detail lately, are talking Of
a landslide which shall sweep their
candidate into office.
Partisan Estimates.
But all these claims, although
made by political experts. are based
on partisan estimates. Ground swell,
static, landslide. all are possible, of /
course; the extremely. elusive and
disturbing static most probable, with
the Presidential campaign but eight
days to run, and the vast majority
Of the voters already tentatively de. !.
cided on the man for WHOM, they
shall vote. c~
However, figures Of the past three
elections show that there are great
numbers Of voters~'b but lightly held
in leash either by party chains or
candidatorial yathpings, so shere still
is time for landslide to start. But
who would start 1t and where 1t
would go are open questions,
Analytical View.
Leaving, then, such an unde.
terminable factor out OF considera-
ton, what does an analytical view
OF the situation disclose Of the prob
abilities, to he made certain Or over
thrown by the count of the ballots
one week from tomorrow night?
Few reasonable certainties, indeed:
First, that there will be tre-
Tnend0us popular vote, approximate
ing $4,000, 900, possibly more.
Second, that the probability Of any
candidate getting a majority Of the
popular vote Is very slight. This
is not particularly important. Wilson
in 1919, Cleveland In 1892, and Har.
Tison in 1888, were elected by popular
minOritieS, and the nation stu sur.
wives. But
The probability Of any candidate
obtaining a majority In the Electoral
College, except In the event Of the
naturalization Of party envislOned
grOund-swell or landslide, also APP
pears slight.
Coolidge, Davis, La Toilette, so
they are headed for the goal, with
the flag about to drop before any
shall reach the finish line. Well.
even this has happened before; so,
to the figures:
Explanation Of Table.
In an accompanying table the
electoral votes are credited by
States to Coolidge, Davis and La
Toilette In accordance with this
writer's analysis and Judgment as
to greatest probabilities. with Ger.
tain of the figures are letters, r
for Republican, ID for Democrat,
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victim is to shoot himself in the
head, or heart.
Major RAYMOND z. Scott, who acts
as medical officer at Walter Reed,
took pains to tell the jury the
futility Of the suicide theory. Major
Scott said that 1t @as utterly i'm
possible for Shores to have shot
himself with he right hand, and
that It would have been next to Inn
possible with his left hand.
Thelopinion was expressed at the
inquest that Shores probably was
killed with a bullet from an un.
known gun and that the missing
cartridge from his own gun was
probably fired In self.defense.
Questioned About Friends.
Coroner hewitt particularly pressed
the young privates who testified as
OF whether Shores had any FRIENDS
among the nurses, or among the
girls in the neighborhood. They
said as far as they knew he did not.
"Jim" Springman, headquarters
detective, in his testimony said
there was no evidence OF a strug-
gle. 1t was said by others at Wal
ter Reed, however, that there was
such evidence.
Leo A. Rover, assistant. District
attorney, represented the Govern
ment and cross-examined the wit.
nesses at the inquest. Mr.. Rover
said that from the testimony given
1t appeared to him q case Of muir.
der
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-10-27
U. s. LEGATION IN PEKING
TO HAVE STRONGER GUARD

PEKING. Oct. 27.-Despite the
fact that absolutely no disorder has
followed the military occupation Of
Picking, the American legation
guard is to be strengthened.
An international train left Tien
Tsin this morning for Peking
bringing reinforcements for the
United States legation guard.
General Feng Yuah Slang is
being praised for maintaining per-
feet order His soldiers are known
as the best disciplined in China.
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Held Its Nose.
PLANK HURLED BY SAW
CAUSES WORKERS DEATH

BALTIMORE, Oct. 27.--Struck
beneath the heart by a piece Of
two-inch planking hurled against
him by a whirling circular saw in
the carpenter shop Of the Balti.
more Copper Smelling and Refining
Company, Canton, Joseph Studin.
ski, thirty-seven, 9O7 South Potomac
street, suffered. injuries which re-
suited in his death at Mercy
Hospital.
Studinsli went into the shop to
saw a piece of planking. The wood
damned on the steel disk, It is
SAID. and flew back against him:
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SLAIN, SAYS
C()RONER'S
JURY
Sentry Met Death at Hands
of Unknown Party, Is
Verdict

Private Russell Shores, the
twenty-two-year-old sentry who
was found dead ina secluded spot
-. back of the nurses quarters at
Walte Reed Hospital under nlys-
FERROUS conditions last Tuesday
night, was murdered.
This conclusion was reached by
~ coroner's jury after a very few
moments elaboration at the
morgue this afternoon.
Decision Of Jury.
In concluding that the sentry
was murdered the jury found that
Shores came to his death from a
gunshot wound said gunshot
wound was inflicted by parN or
parties unknown to the jury"
All of those who testified before
the coroner's jury eliminated. the
theory OF suicide and inasmuch as
there was not particle Of evidence
that Shores had shot himself acct
dentally, they all appeared con-
WINGED that he was murdered.
IT was brought out at the in.
quest today that Shores was prob
ably murdered some distance from,
the spot where he was found and
later taken to the rear of the scales
house, near the path Of his post.
Soldier Testifies.
This was injected into the evil
dence before the jury when Private
Isaac Engle, a friend Of Shores,
testified that when he searched for
him at S:15 o'clock that he passed
the spot where the body was later
found and the body was not there
at that time.
The verdict of the jury was re-
ceived with approval by both Engle
and Stanely Kadish, who found the
body of Shores. They have main
tanned from the start that Shores
was murdered.
Major C. M. Watson, executive
officer, scoffed at a reporter for
The Washington Times when the
facts in the murder theory were
him and said that it was
a clear case of suicide.
1t was learned today that the
south end fence Of the Walter Reed
which is only about ten
yards from the spot where the
sentry's body was found, is hang
out for bootleggers.
Those who knew Shores best and
who are conversant with all of the
circumstances Of the murder, say
they believe 1t was either a case
of Shores stumbling into a pet
ting party or that he became In
volved with some bootIeggers.
Shores, II was testified at the
coroner's inquest, was known as a
folly, good fellow" He never
drank, smoked or had any other
bad habits.
Drugged, One Believes.
The possibility that Shores was
drugged Nand later shot was also
put forward today by a friend OF
Shores.
Coroner j. Ramsay hewitt, after
the verdict of the coroner's jury
had been obtained, confidei that he
he had believed it was murder
fro mthe start.
Deputy Coroner Herbert e. Mar
tyn testified that in his opinion 1t
was not suicide. He said that In
suicide the first inclination OF the
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WILL
CONTEST IS
LIKELY
Suicide Verdict Expected in
Mysterious Deaths on
Coast
By international News Service.

SAN MATEO, Calf, Oct. 27.-
As preparations were completed
today for an inquest to be held
tonight into the death Of Frank
Ross Chambers, jr.. SON Of a
wealthy New York clothing manu-
facturer who shot himself to
death two weeks after his daugh-
ter, Marilouise, seventeen, had
committed suicide, indications
were that will contest would fol-
low the verdict Of suicide expected
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Z ARE MISSING
!. INSTOCKYARD
COLLAPSE
Three Floors of Six-Story
Armour Company Build
ing Go Down

CHICAGO, Oct. 27.-Two men are
missing, believed to be dead, as a
result of the collapse today Of three
floors Of a six.story building which
plant at the stock yards here.
The collapse, which occurred just
as thousands Of stock yard work
ers were reporting for duty, was at
first reported as a fire and then
as an explosion.
The missing men are believed to
be buried under tons Of debris
machinery, fresh sausage and ma
Sonry.
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Note-The letters for Republican, for Democrat and
for Progressive opposition column indicate that the
fight particular delegation il close and may be deter
mined finally of of the parties designated
Should predicted ground swes andsdes materaze the
result in of each candidate might be-
With Republican Coolidge $685. Davis. 1876; La
Toilette, 70.
Toilette, 76
With Progressive sweep-La Toilette, $685. Davis, 1872;
Coolidge, &c.
N BIN Southern indicated in the table,
may depend largely increased vote to stave
off opposition raids Since there ample Democratic
they Democratic leadership is not blind
these States would for Davis and listed
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-10-27
ROME IS SWEPT BY
TROPICAL transform

ROME, Oct. 27-City authorities
were working today to restore city
activities after the tropical rain.
storm which swept Rome early
Saturday.
Property damage was high but
no lives were lost
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Showers tonight and probably tomorrow:
not much change in temperature; gentle to
moderate shifting winds.