The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-01

Huntington, l.. l., Oct 1-(UP) An incomprehensible puzzling series of incidents linked with the Ceilings "pirate murder grew to- day as the physician who per formed the Ceilings autopsy was committed to sanitarium and in- vestigators let it be known they didn't want" two men held in Florida for questioning.
 The two men were Dr Louis D. Ritchie, 51, and his son, William, 23, both of South Norwalk, Conn. They were detained by Daytona Beach, Fla. police after news of the;r friendship with William smith, believed to have been a second victim of the "pirates" who boarded the Ceilings cruiser. killed Benjamin P. Ceilings, at tackled Mrs Ceilings. and set their daughter adrift in the cruiser.
 smith had been a lodger in the Rit chic home, and friends had re- ported he feared for his life. He vanished about the time of the "pirate murder on Long Island Sound. And a body believed to be
  Ceilings body was found.
 Dr Otto H. Schultze, who bur lesoued the coroner's inquest into the Ceilings death last week. was committed to a sanitarium last night after allegedly becoming vio- lent at home.
 The doctor had performed thou sands of autopsies, and was adviser ,a hf,tn na and inc Hall-Mills mystery. By some he has been considered the original Craig Kennedy, the scientific de- tective created by Arthur b. Reeves.
 \ Last Friday he gave first public evidence of the mental strain un- der which he was laboring, during the Ceilings inquest.
 - Asked about bruises on Ceilings body. he replied:
 '- "All those little bruises! Please don't bother me when I'm tired And when Coroner William Gib- .son complained he had to use lead ing questions to, get his testimony -Schultze amused the court at- -tendants with:
 1T won't be led by anyone. I'm lied only by the light of truth. .lI4ead kindly light"
 ~ The replies were typical of his Testimony, interpreted at that time as being his way of poking fun at c small town coroner's proceed lure.
 .- Assistant District Attorney Fred II. Munder of Suffolk county said nothing about the detention of the Ritchies in Florida.
 ; .The men are not wanted and no general alarm has been sent out for them," he said.
 Chief of Police Charles J. Luke of Daytona Beach apprehended ..the men after seeing their names ~mentioned in newspaper accounts vof the Ceilings mystery. Authorities here prepared to ex- hume the body washed up Tuesday near Northport on an estate Leased for the summer by Eugene < O'Neill and tentatively identified as that of William Smith, the clam digger partner of the Ritchies. A death certificate has been issued ' in that name.
 -r Also, Oscar Hubner, 55. was held in Westchester county. The charge was non-support of his wife and three children. Munder, how ever, was interested enough to go to White Plains late yesterday to squestion him. But he did not an- nounce any plans to have Mrs Lil- Han Ceilings, attractive widow of the murdered man, to look at him.
 The connection of the Ritchies, Hubner, and the body of Smith" with the Ceilings case is circum- sfantial, and authorities are not yet certain there is any definite connection.
 According to the information now available, however, officials said any one of the four could have been at or near the scene of sthe murder September 10. E Y Ritchie, who claims the title edoctor" as a veterinarian, has been convicted in Connecticut of practicing without license. With his son William he has been part uer of Smith in digging clans and selling them to tourists near Nor walk. Smith had resided with the Rttchies.
 Smith used to eat at lunch wagon operated by Legrand and Richard Raymond of Norwalk. It was Richard Raymond who tenta-