New Britain herald., 1924-06-02

| Tho above news came as great shock to tho entire city today MT. Newhall WIS a member Of one of the South's most ancient and distin- 1 guished families; and although the last part of his life has been over- taken with tragedy. his friends re- member him for the good friend, | chivalrous gentleman, and social fa- vorite that he was throughout the years of his young manhood.
 Peter Newhall was born in this city 36 years ago, the son of Colonel Newhall of Gettysburg Fame. He was married two years ago to Miss Dorothy Stanhope Of Savannah. The affair that led to his downfall occurred fin motor-boat party on the Savannah river a year ago last summer. According to testimony
 brought out at the inquiry Peter had sought a bitter quarrel with Mir. Ivan
 Ishman, n violinist of international
 fame who was spending the season at Aiken, South Carolina. When the men were at the verge of blows, Paul l Sarichef, 1shmin's secretary. inter- fered in lshmin's behalf. and turning on him in a fury, Newhall was heard to threaten 10 throw him out of the boat into the river.
 lshmin himself was the sole ob- ! server Of the tragic outcome of the quarrel, and torn between grief at the death of his secretary and loyalty to liis friend Newhall, 1t was with the greatest difficulty that his testimony was drawn from him at the inauiry, Later this same night Ishmin was aroused by angry voices and he left his stateroom to find his secretary, Paul Sarichef, and Newhall struggling on tho deck; and before he could in- terfere. Newhall had hurled the un- fortunate Russian into the water. lshinin immediately dived to rescue him, but he saw the man go down for the third time before he could reach his side. Almost crazed with grief, 1shmin spent most Of the night in the river trying to rescue his friends body. but though once hr saw it drifting, lfe lost it in the dark ness and it was never recovered.
 Not even the officers of the law, though making every effort to sppre- Eend Newha1l. believed that it was a wllful, premeditated murder. New hall was deeply under the influence of liquor at the time, and 1t is believed that he committed the crime in A burst of drunken rage. According 10 Mrs. Newhall's testimony NowhaIl had wakened from a drunken stupor the nrNf n1nrnfner ever of either threatening Sarichef on the dock or Of throwing him over board. He fled to Western Alaska far out on the Peninsula toward Sj- beria-and the above tolegraphic dis patch completes the tragic story.
 She read the piece through. then washed her tcar-rcddencd eyes and waited for the sound of Ivan's long. low roadster on the drive. She re- solved at once to keep a brave front in his presence, mostly because of great good-sportsmanship that Peter had found and loved in her long ago. and partly, perhaps, for purely femi- nine reasons that were-by a long stretch of the magination-almost disloyalty to Peters memory. She secretly wondered if this were not, after all. an indication that what he had begged for sas his at Iast-her heart.
 Had her love gone out to him in these past. bleak, miserable months Of mourning? He fascihated her, this master violinist from the East. And there was no barrier between them now. The divorce Ivan had urged upon her woul6not noE be necessary; the news from far Alaska had made her free.
 In a moment Ivan himself was standing by her side. his countenance ciouded in sympathy for her. She vas ever amazed at this man. He T-as tall and looked slender. but she knew the iron in those long, easily flowing muscles. There was a dark mess. a foreign look in his handsome face that fascinated her even as it estranged her. something oriental and mysterious that she could not ex- actly trace or analyze.
 He had come out of Russia al the beginning of the revolution. and was hailed at once as a new master of the violin. T;efore that time he was , Bidcis known in the tbeaier Of Pet