New Britain herald., 1925-04-24
LANE ABOUT FACES ON BURGLARY CHARGE Now Repudiates State ments He Made to
 Herald.

Characterizing published stories of burglaries at his home as being ri- diculous and preposterous, Edward r. Lane in an interview with the representative of a morning paper last evening completely about faced and ridiculed the stories he has told previously to the Herald.
 MT. Lane is pathologist at the New Britain general hospital and resides at 65 Winthrop street i'll house owned by P. J. Curtin. In response to queries by Herald reporter We'd nesday morning he told the story as published in the Herald that night that burglars had broken into his home early Sunday morning, ran sacked his desk, papers and ac- counts, inspected the copy of the re- port on the Skelly autopsy and left without taking anything but an ap- parently valueless candy box.
 He stated that the intruders had worn gloves so as to leave no finger prints and that the Skelly report was handled very carefully so as not to smudge the carbon.
 Mir. Lane Sunday afternoon tele- phoned Detective Sergeant William P. McCue, requesting that official to keep it off the police blotter so the newspapers would not get 1t.
 Thursday morning, following pub lication of the story, Mr. Lane was interviewed in his office at the New Britain general hospital, where he admitted that a previous entrance had been made at the time he and Mrs. Lane were patients in the New Britain general hospital. At that time the intruders were heard, he said, by the tenant who lives on the third floor, who reported the situa- tion to Mr. Curtin. The latter found several windows open and evidence of someone having entered the house. There was no indicatioA of burglary, according to Mir. Lane, ex- cept that he found the contents of his desk had been molested. when he returned from the hospital.
 While Mr. Lane did not state in so many words that the suggestion that the intruders were pals of Gerald Chapman, now under sentence of death for the shooting of Patrolman Skelly, had come from Detective Sergeant McCue, his interviewer left with that impression.
 Following his refutation in morning paper, Mir. Lane was called today on the telephone by the Her aid representative to whom he had told the two stories and asked what he meant by the other story. He de- nied questioning anyones veracity but said he had not read the other story. When an offer was made to read it to him, he said he was too busy to listen. When called upon at his office at 10 o'clock Mir. Lane took his hat and coat and left the hos pital, failing 10 make any statement. A phone call at his home at noon elicited the information that Mr. Lane had gone to Hartford.
 When visited in his office, Dr. T. Eben Reeks, superintendent of the hospital, said he was interested in the case only insofar as it involved the hospital records, copies Of which were among the papers disturbed in Mir. Lanes office.
 pr. Reeks intimated that 1t was not good policy for a person 10 tell story to one paper and then turn around and deny it in another. He said it was entirely incredible 10 be- liave that a reporter would know about the blue and yellow lights, the new window screens. the filing of copies of the autopsy in the Lane home, etc, unless so informed. He said it was very unlikely that re- porter's mind could conjure up a story of that type and that the story must have heon told by Mir, Lane or somebody in his house.