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Evening star., 1932-02-26
BURGLAR ALARM.
POLICE CHARGE SLEEPY SQUIRREL
Damp and Cold Intruder Had Merely Retired for Nap
in Warmth of Furnace

Instead of getting himself arrested,
the intruder responsible for a burglar
alarm at 371s Military road this morn
ing got couple of pecans for breakfast
Moreover, he Wss allowed to have his
nap out in a comfortable hammock in
the basement, what with it being a bit
chilly out of doors.
Occupants of the residence of James
w. Jones, who had been reading in the
papers of recent housebreakings. were
alarmed when a woman of the house
hold, descending to the basement to
have look at the furnace saw some
thing moving under a hammock.
The woman telephoned police that q.
burglar was hiding in the basement
a::::d PITS. w. Peters and L. H. Gentry
Evening star., 1932-02-26
BUDAPEST GREETS D. C.
Mayor Congratulates Capital ol
Washington Bicentennial.

Proc,2iming the United States the
friend of liberty" the mayor of Buda-
pest today sent a congratulatory radio
gram to the Mayor of Washington"
conveying greetings on the occasion of
the George Washington Bicentennial
Celebration.
The message read: Budapest, the
Hungarian metropolis, in its councils
general assembly on February % re-
membered with piety the George WASH
ington Bicentenary. The Hungarian
nation sees in the United States the
friend of liberty, the country which re-
ceived Louis KoSSuth with enthusiasm
and comprehends also our present mis-
fortunes pointing to the peace treaties
as the source thereof. On the occa-
sion of the George Washington cele-
bration Budapest sends its cordial
greetings to the city of Washington.
(Signed) DR.. RIPKA KHIEF, Mayor" ="
Evening star., 1932-02-26
PASTOR TO LECTURE

DR.. Allen A Stockdale, pastor of the
First Congregational Church. will give
a lecture on The Source of Person.
ality and Religion" tonight at o'clock
in the personality development course
conducted weekly at the Central Y. M.
c. A.. 1876 G street
The lecture will be sponsored by the
Phalanx Fraternity with the co-opera-
ton of the Social and Religious Work
Department of the Y. M. C. A.
Evening star., 1932-02-26
DIPLOMAT TO BE FETED
Program Arranged for Minister
From the Netherlands.

j. H. Van Royen, Netherlands Minis
ter, and Mrs. Van Royen, will be the
Economics at diplomatic evening salon
20 De held in the ballroom Of the Shore
ham Hotel Sunday evening, February
%. Films depicting conditions In the
Netherlands will be shown, and B.
Klein Molekamp, commercial counselor
of the legation IS scheduled to speak.
A brief concert of Dutch music will be
given by z. Simonds, cellist.
Evening star., 1932-02-26
SMITH CLUB MEETS

The weekly meeting of the local Al
Smith for President Club was held last
night at the Arlington Hotel. Speakers
were Bert Wamsley, political writer;
H. B. Foulkroup, Daniel A. Costigan
and James Slattery. Officers will be
elected at the next meeting of the
organization.
Evening star., 1932-02-26
ALUMNI TO GATHER
Missouri U. Meeting Is Scheduled
Tonight.

The University of Missouri Alumni
Association will hold its midwinter
meeting at the University Club, Fit
teenth and I streets, tonight at 8;l5
o'clock.
Dubbed Night at Monte Carlo v
the meeting will consist of games and
dances. followed by a buffet supper.
Arrangements are in charge of F. F.
Hanley, F. F. Espenchied and Elton
Marshall
Evening star., 1932-02-26

the Zoo director said, all the Sugges-
tions which seem at all practicable al
ready have been tried.
On the whole, N'gi seemed little
better today. but his illness has been a
constant succession of temporary i'm
provements and relapses, while he has
continually lost flesh and grown weaker
until now his life seems to be a mat
ter of days unless the oxygen works.
Evening star., 1932-02-26

a W-piti stag, weighing 1000 pounds,
La >,can captured in Africa.
Evening star., 1932-12-11

to have held the gun as far away Is It must
have been held. and to have sent . bullet on
the course that that one followed.
After six weeks the police believed. On their
records the Elwen case is stiu marked "un-
solved" But Norris job Is finished.
Few people remember the death Of Mrs. Lean
Friendlich except her husband, who k in
prison, and the Chief, who solved it. Neighbors
broke into q dfngy little apartment one morn
ing and found Mrs. Friendlich dead and gas
kissing from . broken chandelier.
The gas fixture was rusty and had been IN
need of repair. One Of the children IN the house
apparently had pulled it from its moorings, or
it had come loose from vibration OF the street
traffic.
Accidental DEATH" said the police. "Mur-
der" said the medical examiner.
But there was no sign Of a struggle. There
was no motive; the family had always seemed
happy. All right said DR.. Norris. But there
was a 14-month-old baby in that apartment,
and the baby was still alive
There should be an autopsy There was.
and examination showed Mrs. Friendlich had
been strangied. There wasn't a trace Of gas
in her lungs. Somebody had pulled down the
chandelier just before the body was found.
When detectives met the husband as he
returned from work that night he begged to be
allowed to go up and Jump off the roof
Simple cases, and obscure but typical Of the
medical examiners job in the worlds most
violent city. without such vigilance scores OF
murders doubtless would go undetected each
year. Even some like the Starr Faithful case,
most sensational of New Yorkis unsolved mys-
teries of recent years.
The body Of the beautiful girl was cast up
by the sea at Long Beach on a June morning
in 1881. Every clue ended in blind alley;
the girl was believed a suicide.
DUT on the shelf in the mortuary laboratory
- is flask containing the criminal essence
of the Starr Faithful case. A label says:
Death due to drowning. The body contained
Evening star., 1932-12-11

prefers to check the circumstances OF many
cases instead Of trusting to the cursory verdict
Of q patrolman or ambulance surgeon.
Thus 1t is he who serves as q sort Of one
man ooroner,s jury. And his keen perception
Of suspicious circumstances often has served to
set the police on the trail Of q criminal For
all that. the Chief insists he is not detective.
See him in his apartment surrounded by his
books In French, German and English, and
you'd call him an esthete. The slim, sensitive
hands which o half hour before may have
examined D corpse, are likely to be caressing
volume Of verse, or turning the pages Of book
Of plays.
His tests of the behavior Of different kinds
Of firearms, for instance. led to the verdict of
murder in the Eiwel case.
Remember 1.-THE sensational death In 1920
of Joseph Elwell, bridge expert, sportsman
society gambler and amorist? He was found
sitting at a card table In his home with a
bullet hole straight through the middle of his
forehead. The gun, a As caliber revolver, was
not to be found.
"Of course q missing gun doesn't prove any
thing" said DR. Norris. They're often snatched
from the hands of suicides to make deaths look
like murders, thus removing certain social
stigma from the family and, incidentally OPEN
ing the way for double indemnify on insurance
policies.
But there were other things I noticed at
Elwells house. The telephone had been broken,
for one thing. Also Elwen had left his false
teeth and toupee upstairs. And I was sure
that no man so vain as he would choose
to die without those accessories"
THE police wanted to call it suicide. There
! was pressure from some prominent people,
mostly women who dreaded an investigation
that would air Elwell's private life and letters.
But the Chief called it murder. From his own
data on firearms and ballistics he staged a
demonstration which showed that it would
have been physically impossible for the victim
Evening star., 1932-12-11

nine grains Of luminol . indicating she
reached the water in an unconscious condi-
ton"
When Dot King. Broadway butterfly Of .
decade ago. was murdered police were not nota-
fed until six hours after the body was dis
covered. Rigor mortis had set in when DR..
Norris arrived. But from the tortuous way in
which the body had been twisted he was able
to declare that large, powerful man had done
the killing.
ward the slayer of Emmaline Harrington five
years ago. An ambulance surgeon had reported
the actress death due to a nasal hemorrhage.
and so the verdict might have remained had not
the medical examiner noticed that a ring had
been taken from one Of her fingers. Then
it was discovered that she had died from 10
hammer blows high on her right temple, under
her hair.
al OOK for a man who is undersized and
weak" DR.. Norris advised the policemen.
"The killer was not even able to fracture the
woman's skull"
were found in Miss Harrington's apartment,
police concentrated on Frederick W. Edel, who
was feet, S inches tall and weighed 12o
pounds. The missing ring was found in his
baggage, and he is serving a sentence of life
imprisonment.
A boxer was arrested for manslaughter in
connection with the death of an opponent, DR..
Norris found that death had been caused by a
cerebral hemorrhage due to exercise and excite
ment-and not from blow
A japanese was arrested for the murder Of
a woman. There were bruises ON his body and
blood on his clothing. He claimed the bruises
were from falling down stairs and that the
stains were chicken blood. Police snorted in
derision. But DIR. Norris found that it really
was chicken blood. The japanese went free
and the real criminal later was captured
Evening star., 1932-12-11

the eyes that have looked
25, 900 times at death were twinkling.
IT am not detective! I am the chief med
ical examiner of New York. I am a man who
finds out what made dead people die. I am
an old fool who has spent IA years poking
around in cadavers. am physician. bac-
teriologist, toxicologist But by the great
jumping Jehosaphat, I am not criminologist!
People seem to think I go around like
combination DR.. Watson and Sherlock Holmes.
solving mysteries. Do I care who murdered
that foater they brought into the morgue to-
Gay? I do not.
IAN care about is the fact that it was not
q suicide but q homicide: that death was
caused by strangulation before the body was
thrown in the river; and that the body was IN
the water five days. Now the mystery belongs
to the police; my job is ended"
But yours is mighty important Job. Doc"
"Humph- and -high-diddle! OF course it's i'm
portantl Do you think I'd work hike this night
and day-and I'm 65-n I didn't feel pretty
sure it was important?
do you know how many cases of death by
violence we had in the city of New York last
year? Six thousand i've hundred! And in
every one of those cases We had to decide
whether death was by accident, suicide or
murder.
IN AEDIcAL science can do lot for Grim
M inology. People say we perform too
many autopsies say we don't perform nearly
enough. Time and again post-mortem exami-
nation reveals q clever murder disguised as an
accident or q suicide, or shows . suicide dis
guised as . murder in order to swindle an IN
surance company.
~Yes, SIR, science has certainly turned one of
our old sayings inside out-for In these days
dead men do tell tales"
THAT sounds like detective work. Doc"
'weu maybe it is.' And Americas fore
most medico- -criminologst grinned behind his
gray goatee.
DR. Charles Norris. whom they call the
Chief" Is a giant Of o man. And big, too in
the stature of his accomplishments.
He studied at Yale and Columbia Universities
and in Berlin and Vienna. He taught at Cor
nell, and for 13 years directed the medical
laboratories at Bellevue, New York's vast city
hospital He became chief medical examiner
in 1918 when an inefficient coroner system
was discarded because of carelessness and cor
ruption.
Largely at his own expense the chief has
equipped laboratory at the city mortuary with
all the cunning devices known to medical
sleuthing. There are retorts and crucibes mi
croscopes and centrifugal separators. stills and
vessels containing human organs, all in grisly
and bewildering array.
There is even a weighing device sensitive to
one ten-thousandth of a grain-capable OF
weighing hngerprint, of measuring the poi
son In a single drop of fluid from a human
brain.
The house of death is what the busy Norris
calls his country club"
NFTEN he dashes out to the scene of
~ crime to observe exterior details which
may point to the crux of a scientific mystery.
Since it always Is up to DR.. Norris to decide
whether an autopsy should be performed he
Evening star., 1932-12-11
Some Of the Amazing Crime Solutions of
New York's Chief Medical Examiner,
Who Insists He's Just Doctor and
Won't Be Called a Crimnologist.
BY PAUL HARRISON.

~ Ea detectivei"
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tho aueS that have looked
La gaceta., 1932-04-23

Sc present6 aver borracho en-
la Corte de 10 Criminal, A. O.
La gaceta., 1932-04-23

de toias las orpani2aclOneS civil,
cas- Y Elumbres senSatos de Tam
p&. PropuSo Mr.. Watkins que sc
concediera a los clubs civicos Y
"a otras colectividades. Il dere-
cho de preparar listas de las cua
les seleccionar q los hombreS
para tener primarias absolute
mente honradas e i~mparcialeS.
Notaron Ell contra de Ia mo-
ci0n, los comisionados Sres,
Gum y Lester, de los districts
de Ybor y West Tampa. y ell
plesidente Williams.
Mas tarde en- representation
te 10 candidates. habl6 ell abo-
gado Sam Feinberg, pidiendo
cue los miembroS de los colegioS
le~ctorales Sc escogieran de
, ma liSta conteliendo los nom
bres de 200 prominentes ciuda-
danos de esta comunidad. Esta
proposition tambi6n fu6 recha-
zada.
La gaceta., 1932-04-23

bajo la presidencia del juez
Cohen. Han sido invitados para
lue aSistdn a esa reunion los
rumiSionados del condado.
La gaceta., 1932-04-23
LIGA NACIONAL

Bill Terry pogo aver otrc
"jonron", el sexto en- cuatro
desafios conservatives. y los Gil
gantes ve~ncieron al club de FL
ladelfia. anotando Is carreras.
Critz, la 2b. de los neoyorquinos,
pegC 3 hits en- 6 veces al bate.
G.. Davis, ell CT. de los vencidos.
peg6 4 hits Y dieron 3 hits ca
da uno sus companeros Bress-
Ter, If. Y Mallon, 2b.
Los Rojos de -iuevo fueron
derrotados aver por los Cubs.
que utilizaron a dos de sus me
iores pitchers. Buch Y Root.
Los Braves de Boston triun,
faron sobre los Dodgers de
Brooklyn, pero tuvieron la des-
gracia de que dos veces Sc lesio-
nara durante ell juego Arthur
Shires, su Id. Shires recibi6 un
pelotazo en- la nariz, en- ell pri-
mer inning, y en- ell noveno, por
haber tropezado con Strip, per
do ell conocimiento, teniendo
que ser sacado del terreno. Cree
Sc que sufri6 la fracture de la
pierna izquierda. Lopez cometi6
un error y no logr6 "conectar"
La gaceta., 1932-04-23
de hit, en- 3 wees al bate.

de hit, en- 3 wees al bate.
Los Cardenales rompieron su
cadena de derrotas venciendo a
los Piratas, en- un desafiO que
euro 10 entradas. l.. Waner de-
j6 caer IN ely" en- ell momento
oportuno y los Cardenales ano-
taron 2 carreras, Paul Waner,
SUI hermano, descarg6 un "jon-
rom con un corredor en- las ba-
SEES, en- la tercera entrada.
New York 13c, 12h, 2e; Fila
DELTA &c, 16h, Be.
Cincinnati &c, Oh, 2e; Chicago
sc, Oh, Be.
Brooklyn 1c, 5h, lie; Boston
4c, Oh, lie.
St. Louis SC Oh. De: Pitts
burgh &c, Oh. 4e.
La gaceta., 1932-04-23

Sc califica. an aver, abonan
do los derechos correspondent
ties. los candidates a fiscal del
condado, Sres. Morris M. Gil
vens. William c. Pierce Y w. }
Skinner. Tambien Sc calificar0n
ell ST.. Oscar Ayala, para conf
SiOnado por el distrito Mum. 2;
Paul Fusillo, para representan-
tie por el grupo ndmero 3; J. S.
Robinson, para la junta escolar,
distrito mum. 2, y Ben Yeargin,
para juez de paz por ell distrito
mum. 4.
La gaceta., 1932-04-23

Por tener una liceneia falsi-
ficada Ell su canton, 81 iuez Pet
teway impusO aver multa de
$25 a un bodeguero dc la Octa-
va avenida. La licencia era dc
1880 V SO la habia falsificadc
cambiandoIe el 0 por IN 2.
Declare el bodeguero al iue1
que un hombre Sc la habia ven.
dido por 5000
La gaceta., 1932-04-23

Para la tarde de hoy esta !
nalado 81 entierro de la Sra
Juana S. Guerra. vecina gus
era de la 20 avenida 1910. Per-
tenecia la Sra. Guerra a una
prominente familia de esta loca-
La sobreviven sus hijos,
ell DR.. Julio j. Guerra; Jose C..
Guerra, almacenista de where's;
Laurcano y Pedro, tambien de-
dicadoS al concrete. FL cadaVer
recibira sepuItura en- ell cemen-
terio Myrtle Hill.
La gaceta., 1932-04-23

Los comisionados del condado
rechazarOn aver una moci0n del
cCmisionado Watkins, de Plant
City, que contaba con ell apoyo
La gaceta., 1932-04-23

La Liga de Ciudadanos que
demandan la pureza electoral,
Sc reunira el pr6ximo martes,
a las 8 en- ell hotel Hillsborough,
La gaceta., 1932-04-23
OTIuAS DE
INTrRES IWAI.

A los pobres de Tampa Sc re-
partira harina en- la tarde dc
hoy, en- ell almacen situado en-
la esqulna de las GALES Ashley y
Madison. La harina Sc entrega~
ra unicamente a las personals
recomendadas pOr cinco de las
agencias de carload de Tampa
entire elias la Cruz Roja. Tn
cargamento de 10000 libras He
go aver, enviado desde los moli-
nos de Columbus, Georgia.
Del total donado por ell gobier
no federal, a Tampa Sc lie remi-
tiran, en- I'm periodic de 80 dias,
24l,92l libras. Preside Ell c0mit6
a cargo de la distribution, el Sr.
Ed. J. Keefe. Para continuar el
reparto, ell almacen Sc reabrira
de nueyo ell lunes, entire las 9 y
las II de la manana y la l y las
A de la tarde.
La gaceta., 1932-04-23

Esperase que mas de 5000
personals concurran hoy al mitin
politico de Alderman Ford, que
presidira Ell Sr. George II. Will
der.
Alderman Ford esta en- uno
d. los extremes del condado, a
% millas dc Tampa.
La gaceta., 1932-04-23
SENIOR SUSCRlPTOR

lie rogamos no pague a ninguno de los
%Oartidores de este peri0dico 81 no lie entire
ga un recibo.
Haganos este favor y al mismo tempo
evitese molestias.
81 tiene alguna dificultad con su repair
tidor, 0 no lie llevan su ~reri6dico a tempo,
dedique dos minutok a llamarnos por los te-
lefonos Y-3792g 91953 y lie atenderemos
sin p6rdida de Rmpo.
Lea La Ga@asta y recomifndele a sus a
migos que la lean.
La gaceta., 1932-04-23

Ell juez Petteway, de Ia Cor
tie de 10 Criminal, aplaz6 hasta
una fecha que mas tarde Sc
sehalara, la vista de la causa
contra Sam Plescia, individuo a
quien Sc acusa de complicidad
con Henry Menendez y Dutch"
Gonzalez, hombre de malos an
tecedentes que perecieran hace
pOcas semanas bajo los disparos
del sheriff Joughin y del jefe de
policia. Para alcanzar la suspen.
sion de la vista, ell fiscal mani.
fest6 que el sheriff, principal
testigo en- la causa, estaba en-
fermO
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-06
BHYVIEW

Patrick Donnelly of Fuller street is spending a week at the beach.
 MT and Mrs Joseph Fitzgerald and family of Crown street have returned home after spending a month on Orchard street.
 Miss Margaret Flanagan is the guest of her sister Mrs John Gal win of Warren street. John O'Connor of East Main street is the guest of Francis Car roll of Westland avenue.
 Miss Ruth Carlson of West Grove street is spending two weeks on Milesfield avenue. MT and Mrs Charles Matthews and three children have returned
 home after spending two months on Orchard street. Miss Daisy Lord and her niece, Miss Mary Malone are spending the week at her cottage on Orchard | street. MT and Mrs Cronin of Adams | street are spending several days at | the Marshall cottage on Prichard | lane.
 Mrs John Holloran of Halimton | avene is spending three weeks at | the beach.
 Miss Eleanor Rochon of North
 Main street spent the week end here.
 Miss Mollie Cullen of Plaza ave- nue is spending the week as the guest of Mrs sherwell on Orchard avenue.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-06

A farewell dinner was rendered Miss Jean Mulhall of Park Ter race by Mrs James Tyrrell of Ashley street. Miss Mulhall left yesterday to enter St Francis hos pital tarining school for nurses. The guest of honor was presented with a purse of gold. Those at- tending were: MT and Mrs James Tyrrell, MT and Mrs Frank De- laney, MT and Mrs r. J. Mulhall, MT and Mrs Charles Corcoran, MT and Mrs Lendore Parent, MT and Mrs George Morgan, Mir and Mrs John Mackeenan, MT and Mrs William Rabbott, MT and Mrs Thomas Delaney, MT and Mrs Frank Sullivan, MT and Mrs Joseph Delany, James Mulhall, Mollie Cavanaugh, Joseph Mulhall, Rose Morgan, Michael Chidell, Peggy Morgan, Ernest Benevento, Maur- cen Tyrell, Frederic Barker, Betty Larkin, Daniel Bartholomew. Jo- seph Dubiel, Ruth Sutton, Edward Bowling, Jean Mulhall, Terry Null hall, Mary Millerick, James Walsh Julia Mulhall, Catherine Travis, Eleanor Delaney. Helen Delaney. Mrs E. Delaney, Mrs William Coyle Eunice Coyle. Mrs James Cannon, Mrs Porter, Mrs P. Donahue, Emily Mulhall, Marie Mulhall, Bertha Mulhall, Mrs M. Kilbride, Mae Phelan, Ann Phelan, Mrs E. Tyr rell, Mrs Jones and Mrs Seymour. St Margarets church was the scene of very pretty wedding yes- terday morning at 9:15 o'clock when Miss Agnes Regina Corrigan. daughter of MT and Mrs Matthew Corrigan of Grove street became the bride of Walter John Mayo, son of MT and Mrs John Mayo of Griggs street. Rev Gerald Corri- gan of Bristol. cousin of the bride. oficiated at the ceremony and also celebra ted the nuptial mass which followed. The bride had as her maid of honor and only attendant, her sister. Miss Genevieve Corrigan and Louis Mayo, brother of the bridegroom, was the best man. An abundance of palms, ferns and cut | flowers decorated the interior of | the church and special program | of music was rendered.
 The bride was becomingly attired in a gown of shell pink angel skin crepe and wore a turban of match | ing material trimmed with trans- | parent velvet. Her bouquet con- sisted.. of pink tea roses and lilies | of the valley. The maid of honor wore a frock of blue angel skin crepe and corresponding turban | and carried an arm bouquet of yell low tea roses.
 | Following the ceremony recep- | tion for the immediate families was held at Lift the Latch Inn. Out of town guests attended from Bristol. Springfield, Bridgeport, Hartford and New Haven. The couple left on an unannounced wedding trip, the bride wearing a brown ensem- ble with accessories to correspond.
 Upon their return they will reside l in Ridgefeld, Conn.
 Announcement is, made of the
 birth of daughter, Susan, to Dr
 and Mrs Harry F. Warner of Rock
 ford, Illinois on Wednesday. August
 24th at Rockford. Mrs Warner is
 the former Miss Evelyn Skelly of
 this city. former dietitian at the Visiting Nurses association.
 Mrs Samuel Horst of German i town, Ja., is visiting her aunt, Mrs
 Ernest Horn of Edgehill avenue.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-06
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 Declarer now could see onA three tricks, SO he decided to pei init West to cash his good spadd and see what would happen. I'll nine of spades was led and Eaa now showed his heart strengt discarding the eight of heartI West won the trick with the jaca
 West has two good spade tricll the five and the deuce. and know that 1t would be difficult convince any of my readers th;l they should not cash those tv| tricks-or even one of them.. West tries to cash his two spadel East is going to be squeezed, whil if West leads a diamond or a heaf| East is bound to win three trick I hope that my readers ha'I laid the cards out for this har| so that they can fully apprecia what a difficult problem 1t is fl West not to cash his two god spades. He should lead a diamon which would give his partner tvZ diamond tricks and heart tricI enough to defeat the contract. Copyright, 1892, NEA ServiceI Inc.)