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New Britain herald., 1926-07-29
I was sitting on the rear seat.
 Put Gun To Head.


 "One fellow put his gun to my chest and the other to my forehead and said. 'get the money" I said Sure, sure" I put up both my hands and backed into the baggage car. And they were taking care of this other fellow (Harry Babcocl1, passenger). I intended to jump off. I got to the rear door, opened fl. jumped quick and fell off. I went back to Salisbury and telephoncd the Salisbury, Amesbury and Newbury- port police. Further than that don't know.
 Has Seen Men Before.
 q have seen this fellow twice be- fore and I thought his morning he was a regular passenger. He Is Polish I should say, wore a pencil stripe suit and had a scar over his left eye. The other fellow was about IS or 20 had on khaki pants and a gray cap. There were just two Of us in the combination, Babcock and I. He's one of Steere's fellows, braking on the shifter."
 Babcock was on his way to Ames- bury with others of a shifting engine crew.
 Only four men, the baggageman, Babcock, a brakeman who was rid ing as passenger, and the two rob- bers, were in the combination smoker and baggage car when the robbery occurred. While Jordan was making out his report, one of the gunmen arose and the other. who was at the other end of the smoking compartment also got up. | One covered Jordan with a revolver 1 and the other covered Babcock. Hands Up" Ordered Jordan was ordered to hold up his hands and get the money. As he backed into the baggage compart- ment, he unlatched the side sliding door and with a quick motion open cd it and jumped backward. The train was going only 20 to 25 miles an hour and he escaped harm.
 Then the robbers picked out the money pouches and apparently watching for signal-four sticks with handkerchiefs waving from
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New Britain herald., 1926-07-29
Cardiac Disturbance Is Brought on by Attempt to Move Stubborn Lever on Machine. ,.

Charles KIeiner, acting compensa- ton commissioner, has ordered the sherman Sand and Gravel Co. to pay full compensation to Norman Middleton of 11S Black Rock ave- nue, who presented satisfactory evil dence of total incapacitation trace able to his employment by the Sher- man company.
 Middlcton's claim vas brought before the commissioner by Attor- ney Harry Ginsburg. pr. Edwin R. Curran, the Middleton family doc tor. and Drs. Emmett and Stol' Hartford heart specialists. testified as to the condition of the claimant, while other experts were introduced in an unsuccessful effort to rebut. Hearing of the case commenced July 1S and was completed July 27' By agreement of the parties there was admitted in evidence and read into the record a deposition of the claimant, who was not able to at tend the hearings. The deposition was taken at Middleton's home last week.
 Testimony adduced in court
New Britain herald., 1926-07-29
CHURCH AND SIMMONS
 SETTLE DIFFERENCES
St. Johns Trustees Will Not Oppose Gas
 Station
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Building Inspector F. J. Hennessy today notified A. J. Simmons, pro prietor of a gasoline filling station in the locality of St. Johns German Lutheran church that sets of plans
 must be filed at his office and a permit taken before operation of the station vii be permitted.
 Simmons has already installed his
 pumps. While the building inspector regards this a technical violation of the zoning law, he has investigated and finds the situation resulted from a misunderstanding in which other city agencies were concerned. and no action will be taken against Sim mons. The premises have already been inspected and Hennessy prom 1 ises Simmons a permit as soon as
 the maps are filed.
 Trustees of St. Johns church who yesterday were considering injunc- tion proceedings to restrain Simmons ! from conducting the station, met last night and entered into agreements
 with Simmons which were satisfac- i tory to both parties. As 8 result no objection to the station will be voiced at this time. It is agreed, however, ! that the station will not operate dur i ing the hours of church services and as soon as the church builds on the property adjoining that of the gaso- 1 line company the filling station will ! be removed.
 ] Simmons station is outside the 100 i feet restricted area from the church 1 proper, but not 100 feet from church property. The plot nearest the sta tion is not built upon and is now taxed, but the church owns the land and plans some day to build, hence
 the precautions at this time, the 1 trustees explain.
 | After 8 conference with Corpo-
 ration Counsel John H. Kirkham
 this afternoon Deputy Inspector A N. Rutherford issued a permit for
 the station.
 Mir. Simmons had earlier in the
 afternoon filed the maps and plans
 as suggested by Inspector Hennessy,
New Britain herald., 1926-07-29
CENTRAL FIRE HOUSE
 MAY BE MOVED NORTH
Shanahan and King Favor Old Burritt School
 Site

The old Burritt school property at the corner Of Main and East Main streets is favored by at least two members of the fire commission as Q location for a new central fire sta ton and it is expected that the mat ter will be discussed at the next meeting of the commission in Aug ust.
 Chairman c. J. Dehm today said he has not given much thought 10 the proposition and could not offer an opinion until he has studied 1t, but Commissioners Timothy Shana- han and Michael F. King declared themselves as dissatisfied with the present quarters on Commercial street. Both referred to the old Burritt school property as ideal Commissioner John Mikalauskas has already declared himself as opposed to the present location and indicated that he will soon present proposi' tion to the board favoring a change
 Commissioner King said the wide corner at East Main street would he practicable because the apparatus could make a turn in any direction when it goes out on the street. It i' also within a few minutes of an! of the valuable main street realty and is nearer the thickly populated northern section of the city.
 This is the third structure pro posed for the corner which now houses part of the Elihu Burritt Ju' nior High school plant. At one time city ball was proposed and at an other a proposal for police sta ton was made. The property will bt available when the new addition tf the Nathan Hale school on Tremon' street is completed in November.
New Britain herald., 1926-07-29
Bimini Badly Wrecked

Miami. Fla. July 29 tP) - The havoc wrought by the tropical hur- ricane at Bimini was described in the Miami News in an interview on the arrival here of the storm battered yacht Zuleita II. Her commander. Captain G. F. Grey, and Captain R. NJ. Hutchins stated that practically all structures on the island were demolished.
 The Zulcita limped into port early today with 17 passengers on board. None of them was reported badly injured from being buffeted by the 100-mile an hour wind. Many were bruised by flying cocoa nuts which they said fell like rain from the trees into the small har- bor, tearing holes in the crafts su- perstructure.
New Britain herald., 1926-07-29
Eleanor Mulligan, 22, Attacked Beaten and Left Lying by Road side by Two Chance Acquaintances Sh e Met on Pier
One of Latter Killed, An- other Dying After Acci- dent as They Tried to Escape-Another Capi- tai City Girl Involved.

Atlantic City. N. J.. July 2s CP-- Attacked and beaten by two chance acquaintances Miss Eleanor MnIIie,n zZ' Of l74 Farm Town road, Hart lord, Conn, Is in a serious condition in City hospital, and one of two men identified as having been last seen with her last night Is dead. and the other is dying. .....
 Killed In Auto Crash
 The dead man is Thomas E. Me- Crory, 52 West 105th street New lork city. The dying man is Harold Light, 2o2 Elm street, Yonker.. N Y. They were brought in from an automobile crash on the White Horse pike at Cologne, about seven miles from where Miss Mulligan was lett this morning in a semf-con- sclous condition in a clump of bush es on Mill road, Absecon.
 Crawls To Nearby House
 Miss Mulligan crawled to a nearby house, to which the state police and pr, Lawrence A. Wilson, of Absecon were summoned. The girl was found 10 have been kicked in the head choSed, and otherwise beaten by her .assailants. The doctor had her re- moved to the Atlantic City hospital. Calls For Futile Girl Tn her deliriuu she called for Mise Margaret Futile, g. of Lenox street Hartford, who is employed in a beach front hotel Detectives brought the girl to Miss Muiligan's bedside and learned that the two girls had been out together on the million dollar pier where they met two men. Miss Futile left them at midnight, Miss Mulligan accepting the mems invitation to ride to her hotel in the mems automobile.
 While the questioning was going on, two men were brought in on .stretchers.
 Identifies Companions
 There's the fellow" cried Miss Futile as her gaze fell on one of them. The men were taken to a ward upstairs and Miss Futile posi- lively identified them as the men in whose company she had left Miss Mulligan. Police said the men were speeding toward New York when they crashed with truck driven by s. F. Patterson of this city
 One of the men, identified as Nc Crory, died a few minutes after Continued on Page Seventeen>
New Britain herald., 1926-07-29
HARTFORD YOUNG WOMAN ON ATLANTIC CITY VACATION
 FIGURES IN FATAL PARTY
English Channel Turns Back Swimmer Mile and Half Off English Coast

Boulogne. France, July %, Up The English Channel has de- feated Olaf Farstead, the Nor wegian swimmer. Farstead started at 10:43 o'clock yester- day morning at Cape Gris-Nez, to swim across to Dover, Eng, but was forced to give up the attempt at o'clock this morn ing.
 Farstead. who Is policeman, gave up a mile and a half from the English coast when rough water made continuance inn possible. His performance is considered one of the most re- markable in recent Channel history, for he entered the water without grease, goggles or the head cap usually deemed in dispensable in such efforts.
New Britain herald., 1926-07-29
|ARTFORD DIOCESE TO
 .AY SPECIAL PRAYERS
Eshop Milan Asks serv- ices for Mexico on
 Next Sunday

Hartford, Conn, July 29 W. Ibop John J. Milan has issued a
 CT to the priests of the Catholic Ecese of Hartford directing that ir congregation, on next SunuaH' Invited to offer prayers for MeXl- The letter of the Bishop to ms Sgy is as follows;
 SIn accordance with the desire of
 supreme pontiff the clergy of the |ress of Hartford will invite the
 hful to off4r prayers for Mexico
 next Sunday, the Feast of St
 er-In- Chains. Till further notice Al Cratic Pro Papa will give place sA the Cratic s Pro Quacumque |Iulations which will remain the sl,io Imper;lta till further notice, El letter which Bishop Milan has EAiyed from Archbishop P. Fuma-
 -Riondi, apostolic delegate al Ahington. is accompanied by 2
 s of the letter from Cardinal
 parri, the papal secretary oi 8e at Rome which has been re-
 ed at Washington.
New Britain herald., 1926-07-29
THIRTEEN TO BE TRIED
Dozen Coast Guardsmen and One Non- Commissioned Officer Will Face Court Martial.

Washington, July 29 Pl-Court martial of twelve enlisted coast guardsmen and one non-commis- stoned officer on charges of miscon- duct was ordered today by Captain D. r. A. De Otte, acting command ant of the guard. The order was an outgrowth of an investigation of charges of rum running by guards men along the New Jersey coast.
 Officials insisted that reports from New Jersey that entire stations had voted to participate in rum running were exaggerated. It was emphasized that no officers were In. yolved in the investigation.
New Britain herald., 1926-07-29
Train Bandits, in Bold Robbery Near Salisbury Mass, Flee
 With Payroll of $S5, 900 Cash
Disguised As Passengers, Two Enter Baggage Car and Force Delivery of Money Sack Consigned By Bos- ton Reserve Bank to Amesbury, Hop Off and Es- cape Apparently in Waiting Auto.

Boston, July 2s tP-Two robbers riding on a Boston and Maine train as passengers held up a brakeman and the baggagemen today leaped from the moving train outside of Salisbury and escaped with mail pouches containing s65,ooo. Appar- ently working out a carefully pre- arranged plan, the men made a clean getaway A confederate was believed to have been waiting in a nearby lane with an automobile in which they fled.
 Loss May Be Greater. The money was a shipment of cur rency from the Federal Reserve bank of Boston 10 the Powow River National bank of Amesbury. It was feared that more money might have been included in the three pouches taken, bringing the loss to an even 1 higher figure.
 Jumps and Gives Alarm.
 Although ordered by one of the gunmen to hand over the mail pouches, William A. Jordan of Bev- erly the baggagemen, leaped from the train and ran back to the sta tion a quarter of a mile away and gave warning. Keeping Babcock covered, the robbers jumped with the bags, sent bullet whistling to- ward Babcock when he looked after them. Due to Jordan's warning state police patrolmen were on the scene r minutes after the robbery but in the meantime the robbers had disappeared.
 Both Men Foreigners. According to the trainmen's story the pair, who were evidently of for eign extraction, had been riding on the trip from Newburyport to Ames- bury for several days past. One was apparently 35 years old and the other IS. Both were roughly dressed
 Jordan's Story.
 Jordan told his story to the rail road and police officials as follows:
 Why. one of these fellows had ridden with me before. several times on this train. He looks like a work man. They came into the combine and sat down. One was sitting acros, the aisle from me, the other wa about three seats ahead on the op posite side. Just as We got abou to Rabbit Road they both came uI
New Britain herald., 1926-07-29
EIGHT KNOWN DEAD IN TERRIFIC GALE
 ON NASSAU ISLAND
Dispatches From Bimini Also Tell Of Destruction of PraC-
 tiCaIly All Structures
GEORGIA, CAROLINA, BOTH
 WARNED OF STORM TODAY

People Living Along Shore and on
 Islands Scurry to Interior for
 Safety as Tropical Blow Advances
 News Messageslrom santo Do-
 mingo Tells of 5i Bodies Being
 Washed Ashore.
 Miami, Fla, July 29 UP - Eight persons are known to have been killed by the tropical hurricane that struck Nassau Monday, accord ing to the first direct report on storm fatalities received by the Miami Daily News today from Cap tain McDonald of the steamship Munamar. The message was re- ceived by the Tropical Radio Tele- graph company from the Muna- mar, lying at anchor off Nassau. Property damage in Nassau alone will reach s4,o00,000 or S5,O00,0O0, Captain Mcdonald estimated. No reports have been received from the outlying islands, his message adds.
 Captain McDonald's radio mes sage was sent to the Miami Daily News today from his ship noT ly- ing in Nassau harbor and expected 10 reach Miami Friday.
 A seaplane chartered by the As sociated Press and the Miami Daily News reached Nassau at dusk yes terday after having been marooned for hours on an uninhabited part of Andrews island. A forced landing was made when. after a long flight against hazardous air conditions, the ship gasoline supply was ez- hausted. The party were rescued by passing seaplane out of Key West.
 Radio stations at Miami and Key West still were making unsuccessful efforts to establish direct commGAi- cation with Nassau when orders from the navy department a' Washington sent the auxiliary fuel ship Bay Spring, commanded by Captain Thomas James. from the Key West base to the Bahaman capital this morning.
New Britain herald., 1926-07-29
Borrowed Auto Left
 To Rust at Roadside

A car belonging to Joseph CaiaEza of 2S3 Oak street and Michael Val entine of I.asalle street was found on the New London turnpike in the town of Salem, the state police de- partment notified the New Britain department this afternoon. The former told the police that he let John Martin of Arch street borrow it and the latter had not returned with 1t.
 When Martin was questioned this afternoon he admitted he took the car and when he got to Salem he had engine trouble so he abandoned 1t and picked up rides home. He said the car was there about week and a half Captain George Kelley in structed Martin to notify the owners where the car might be found.
New Britain herald., 1926-07-29
Estate of S1O,0S9 Filed
 In Probate Court Today

The estate of Christine Sandquist, filed this afternoon in probate court shows real estate holdings and cash in the amount of S10,0S9.75.
 HAS FREAK PART
 London, July 20 P)-Margaret Zimmerman. the Canadian actress, is to present a new play of M. AL fred Savoir, the French dramatist, in London next autumn. She will have the role of woman 300 years old, a woman who has never grown old because she has no heart.
New Britain herald., 1926-07-29
Mount Vesuvius Again
 Belching Forth Smoke

Naples, Italy, July 2s. R -- Vesuvius has renewed its activity. but expert volcanologists say ther Is no danger of disastrous eruption. The activity within the cone was be
 coming more intense today and there were constant deep rumblinss.
New Britain herald., 1926-07-29
WIFE 0F CLERGYMAN SLAIN IN 1922 IS UNDER ARREST
 CHARGED WITH THE MURDER
Mrs. Edward Wheeler Hall, Held Without Bail For Killing of Husband and Mrs Mills, Brands
 Action as Ridiculous" Details of New
 Evidence Undisclosed After Conference

somerville, N. J., July 29 P|- Mrs. Edward Wheeler Hall, widow of the slain rector of St. Johns Episcopal church in New Brunswick was in the county jail today, held without bail, accused of the murder four years ago of her husband and Mrs. Eleanor Mills, wife of the church sexton and singer in the choir.
 Arrested Last Night.
 Mrs. Hall was arrested late last night at her home. She spent most of the night in a reception room on
New Britain herald., 1926-07-29
TESTIMONY OF MAIDS
 IS HIGHLY IMPORTANT
Will Have Bearing in Hall Mills Case-PrOsecutor
 Will. Go the Limit

New York, July 29 P}-The testi- mony of two women who were maids in the home of the Rev. Edward Wheeler Hall at the time he and Mrs. Eleanor R. Mills were killed may intensity interest in the trial of Mrs. Hall, arrested four years after the staying.
 One of the women Is Louise Gcist Riehl, whose marital affairs caused reopening of the case when her hus- band attached to an application for marriage annuIment an unsworn statement that she had been paid $500 to withhold facts about the killing. She is said to have been admired by Dr. Hall.
 The other is Barbara Tough, up stairs maid in the house where the other was downstairs girl, and con- panion to Mrs. Hall. She gave no testimony of any value at the origin Ial investigation and ass soon as she was no longer wanted By the prose- cutor's office returned to her birth place In Scotland. The reopening of Ithe case revealed that she had re- gently come back to this country and is living in New Brunswick. N. U.
 The gist of a statement made at the prosecutors office by Mrs. Riehl lin connection with her husbands charges was told by the Evening World today,
 She was quoted as saying that Mrs. Hall knew her husband was go- ing to meet Mrs. Mills on the night of the killing, having listened in on lconversation between them on a telephone extension, but she did not know where they were to meet. Mrs. Riehl is said to have told the prosecutor that Miss Tough had a might off that night and had gone to the house of friend near the Phil Ilips farm. where the tragedy oc- cured. The upstairs maid was said to have telephone Mrs. Hall in the evening with the information that she had seen Dr. Hall and the choiI singer at their trysting place. Mrs Hall, Mrs. Richl is then quoted as saying. theraupon called her brother Willie Stevens and Peter Tumulty Ithe chauffeur, and went out,
 "T do not know how long they were out" the Evening World says she told the prosecutor. but it wal Iquite a while"
 At the investigation into th' double staying no evidence was ad'
 duced from Barbars Tough that sh' was away from the rectory the nigh
 of the killing and nothing Was sal'
 about any telephone call from her t'
 Mrs. Hall.
New Britain herald., 1926-07-29
5.i Bodies Found

Santo Domingo, Dominican Re public. July 29 tP - Many pas sengers were lost when the schoon- CTS Franscimy, Peaceful and Ma coris. bound for the Windward is lands, were sunk off saona island fin a storm. Iifty-four bodies have been washed ashore at Saona.
New Britain herald., 1926-07-29
SUSPECTS UNDER ARREST
Three Greeks Held At Youngstown As Involved in Staying Of Canton Publisher.

Youngstown, Ohio. July 29 PS- Three men, Greeks, are under arrest here, Chief of Police Kedgwin Powell said today, in connection with the murder of Don R. Mellett, Canton publisher. He said they are held only on suspicion for Canton authorities.
 A woman. the wife of one of the men, was also held.
New Britain herald., 1926-07-29

Trenton. N. J., July 29 T- Reached by telephone today at the little white house." Sea Girt' ms summer home. Governor Moore de- Iclared his intention of going through
 "to a finish" with the prosecution of Mrs. Florence Stevens Hall "ho was arrested last night and is now in cell at the somerviile Jall' charged with the murder of her husband, tho Rev, pr. FdWard Wheeler Hall and Mrs. Eleanor Mills, choir singer in his church.
New Britain herald., 1926-07-29
POLICE TO REMAIN

Warren, Ohio, July 29 P-Judge c. NJ. Wilkins today granted tenn. porary injunction restraining cit! council from abolishing its police force.
New Britain herald., 1926-07-29

Charleston, s. C., July 29 LP, -
 This region was "battered down" today in preparation for the fag end
 of the west Indian hurricane, which (Contimled on Page 16)
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1926-12-11
THE AMERICAN ISSUE

vening of the new Congress in which. he
contends, the wet bloc will have > ma
terially increased membership as : result
of the November elections.
"Once the bill is introduced" he as
serted, cit will be pressed by every par
famentary means until brought to the
floor of the House, where record vote
may be obtained"
AT Its last meeting before the summer
recess, he said the full committee in
structed the subcommittee, which Is head
ed by Representative Dyer of Missouri, to
draft a measure embodying the following
recommendations:
THAT the Federal act to enforce the
Eighteenth Amendment is hereby modi-
fed SO that the same shall not prohibit the
manufacture, sales, transportation, fmpor-
tation or expectation of beverages which
are not In fact Intoxicating as determined
in accordance with the laws of the re-
spective states"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1926-12-11
HILL is BUSY AGAIN
VIII Introduce Wet Measure In Early
Days of Congressional Session;
His Swan Song

Early after the opening of the present
session of Congress, John Phillip Hill, of
Maryland. chairman of the unofficial COM
mittee on modification of the Volstead act,
plans to begin marshaling his forces for
new offensive against the dry law.
Upon his return to the Capital, he an
nounced that subcommittee of the nm
official group had been at work during the
summer recess drafting bill which, when
introduced, Is expected to carry the in
dorsement of every wet member In Con-
gress.
Hill said the first thing for the commit
tee to determine would be whether to In
troduce the proposed bill at the approach
Ing session or hold 1t over until the con-
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1926-12-11
FEWER NARCOTICS USED

There is a marked shrinlage in the use
Of narcotic drugs in the manufacture OF
patent medicines, according to the federal
Commerce Department. The value OF
patent and proprietary medicines contain
ing opium or cocaine or derivatives man
ufactured and sold in the United States
dropped from $862, 403 in 1923, to $27S.-
ZOE in 1925. This reduction was accom-
piished simultaneously with an increase
ln the total output of such medical COM
sounds. In 1928 their value vas placed
ct $126,S43.O0o, while in 1925 it was $132s-
10000