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The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-11-20
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-11-20

efi murders of John Pollisen.
There were SO many motives
that Dan Halliday was suddenly
possessed of an uneasy bunch that
it was going to be difficult, il not
impossible to solve this murder. 1t
looked too easy, and his experience
of many years had proved to him
that these easy-looking ones were
always the hardest in the end.
He sat down at his desk in po-
lice headquarters with the foot
print cast, the letters and the au-
tographed photographs and re-
viewed the case.
Robbery, he reflected, wasn't the
motive for the murder. Nearly a.
hundred dollars in bills, had been
found in the dead mans pockets.
And nobody had entered his apart
ment or disturbed anything in it.
He had no sinister acquaintance
or connections. All his monetary
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-11-20

actly forty blanks. Every woman
questioned had either u completely
bullct-proof alibi or could show
lack of motive that made suspect
ing any of them cut of the ques-
ton.
John Pollisen's murder died
slowly out of the public mind. 1t
became n routine case. And it
early began to show all the car
marks OF one of those unsolved
crimes which dot the police records
of all our cities. Tho department
itself lost all but perfunctory in
terest in it. John Bailey, captain
of detectives, after several months,
showed himself willing to let it go
that way. He lifted Dan Halliday
and McCabe off the case and put
them on succession of murders
that were solved with little Or no
difficulty.
If 1t weren't. for Dan Halliday,
himself, the case would have bur-
rowed among the other dead cases
on the blotter there to remain I'M
solved. But Dan wouldn't have it
so. For some reason or other ii
challenged him. He came to be-
lieve that If he couldn't unravcE
this mystery, then his days as Il
detective were over and he would
be fit only for the retired list. So
he returned to it invariably after
every case, much to Pat McCabc's
disgust.
Musctte may have. had some
thing to do with this. For the first
time in her life, She evinced tic
mendous interest in her fathers
work. 1t seemed that she had
known John Pollisen and had liked
him in spite of his reputation as
q woman hater, She believed that
a good detective like her father
should be able to find the woman
who murdered him. She was sure
1t was a woman, some woman he
had wronged.
Dan agreed with her. On the
face of it, John Pollisen's murder
was a simple one. A woman, as
Musette said, had killed him. And
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-11-20


The quickened heart beat which
greeted this information went back
almost at once to normal as he
realized that there were nearly
twenty thousand policemen of all
grades on active service in the city.
Through these, anywhere from
sixty to hundred thousand wo-'
men would have access to service
revolvers. His own daughter.
Musette, for instance. She could
take at almost any time any one
of the three revolvers he kept in
the house.
Dan Halliday grinned at the
thought of the mouselike, 19-year-
old Musette having the hardihood
to shoot off revolver, let alone
kill anything. He paused to con-
slider the vagrant thought that
Musette was like neither himself
nor Claudette, her fiery French
mother, dead these four years now.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-11-20

New Haven, Conn, Nov 20.-The
creation at Yale university of a
new bureau for the study and
analysis of highway traffic and
transportation with Professor Rob-
bins B. Stoeckel, former Commits
sioner of Motor Vehicles for Con-
necticut, as director, was an
nounced to-day by President James
Rowland Angel. 1t will be oper-
ated as a unit under the Committee
on Transportation, offering service.
to industry, private organizations.
and the public.
Mr. Stocked, who comes to the
committee as a research associate
of the graduate school of the uni
versity, will have the advice and
aid of the other members of the
committee for the new work. They
are Winthrop M. Daniels, Thomas
Dewitt Cuyler, professor of trans
pbrtation, chairman; Charles j..
ridden, Strathcona professor of en-
cheering mechanics, and Samuel
w. Dudley, Strathcona professor OF
mechanical engineering. Kent L.
Healy, assistant professor OF trans
portation, is secretary OF the COM
mittee.
A research bureau has already
been established where information
on subjects connected with motor
vehicle management and use Is be-
| ing collected. This information Is
being classified to form the back
ground for analytical studies
thought necessary by the commit
tee or requested by business, gov
eminent or industry in the solution
of immediate or long term prob
lens.
The committee on transportation,
through the new unit. is already
cooperating with the United States
Bureau of Public Roads and the
Connecticut Highway Department
in a survey which will determine,
among other things. traffic density
in Connecticut, the amount of use
of the states highways by foreign
vehicles, and the average rates OF
speed usual on Connecticut high
ways. This survey, begun several
weeks ago, will continue through
the winter months and should pro-
vide valuable information on many
subjects of which there Is now no
accurate knowledge or only incom-
plete data.
| A letter mas DeeH sent ny the
committee to leaders OF highway
transportation and safety. work in
viting them to cooperate in the
new activity. The notice says that
sit Is hoped that by correspon-
dence and interview, this activity
will develop into a center from
which Yale university may contrib
ute to the solution of current prob
lens in highway transportation.
Correspondence with Professor
Stocked on any subject to highway
transportation is invited.
Conformation is Immediately
available on problems relating to
laws, state procedure safety reg
uIations and motor participation in
traffic, such as would ordinarily
come within the rulings and expe.
rience of a state administrator
Professor Stocked is also ready
through research connections to
undertake selected investigations
and the advice of his bureau Is
available"
Discussing the need for such a
center Professor Stocked said to-
day that "in bringing the subject OF
street and highway transportation
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-11-20
ACTIVITIES AT
BLACK ROCK PARK
Morale Raised By OppOr=
tunity to Engage in
Snowfall Battles

The past week with its varied
weather and abrupt turn towards
winter conditions caused a great
many of the necessar' precautions
to be hurried to their completion.
Water pipes had to be safeguarded
roads that were slippery in spots
had to be sanded, new approach
to camp was necessary as the
brook forded previously on enter
ing camp became a hazard, more
wood was brought in as a reserve
supply, etc.
The snow which hindered the
functioning of camp activities to a
certain extent, nevertheless had Its
bright side. 1t had tendency to
raise the morale which was evident
in SNOWFALL battles engaged in by
the men. 1t also added to the seem
ic beauty of the camp, the Black
Rock State Park and the forests,
So although the winter weather has
been a bit premature this year this
camp had been withstanding 1t and
liking it.
On November II, 1888, Armistice
Day, the two Army trucks partlci-
pated in the Thomaston parade.
The trucks were especially polished
up for the occasion and occupied
hy CCC men in their best uniforms.
They were a credit to the organiza-
ton as we'll as an asset to the par
AIDE and all that it represents.
The minstrel group has been
working hard to make their pro-
duction a success. Mr. Passmore of
the forestry department has been
spending a great deal of his spare
time on the enterprise and is de-
termined that~it will go over in
big way. 1t has been definitely de-
cided that the show will be put be-
fore the public on December IL.
The classes in penmanship,
grammar, geography. his DRY.
arithmetic and forestry are well
under way. Each class is attended
by an average of twenty men. The
group attending trade school at
Torrington, Conn, started Novem-
Der ID, 1888 and will attend each
Monday and Tuesday evening
weekly. 1t is hoped that the en-
thusiasm which started them will
carry them through the entire
course and that the advantages and
opportunities offered them will not
be in vain.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-11-20
Why Not Let
The Hat Decide

He would resurrect that hat, or,
IL he couldn't do that, he'd find one
just like it. He would bore hole
that looked like the bullet-hole in
the juncture Of its crown and brim.
And he would find some substance
that would produce a stain like. a.
bloodstain and he would smear 1t
over the front surface just as 1T
appeared on John Pollisen's hat.
Then he would carry 1t covered, to
every one of those forty women.
He would question each one of
them all over again and at the
psychological moment he would
draw the hat out of its conceal
ment and expose 1t suddenly to
each woman's eyes. The reaction
would be immediate and uncontrol-
able The murderess would un-
cover herself.
The idea lifted him out of a de-
preston that had ridden him for
weeks. He went around looking
like a cat which has swallowed a
fat canary.
Dan unearthed the hit itsolf and
he and the disguised McCabe be-
gan again the rounds of the forty
women. questioning them again
the psychological moment
Nobody, however, reacted to it.
BY the time they mad reached and
questioned the thirtieth woman
suspect, Dan was beginning to get
discouraged again. He left her
apartment on Eighticth street and
returned home. carrying the hat,
wrapped up in Il tightly rolled
paper. 1t was after midnight. He
let himself in and went into the
dining room. And he unwrapped
the hat and put it on the table be-
fore him and sat there staring at
it
He had ten more women to see.
land the nurderess had to be
among them. But then he was
forced to admit that she might be
among the thirty he had already
interviewed. If she was, he was
licked. And, even if she was
among the ten be had yet to 900
and she didn't react, he was still
licked. He guessed he was slip
ping. A wave OF black discourage
ment swept him over and he laid
his head down upon his crossed
arms on the table.
HIS head came suddenly up at
the sound of thin, wailing
scream. He whirled and sew
Musettc in her nightgown. s.inkii',
to the floor in a dead faint. He
ran and picked her up and placed
her on couch and got some water
and bathed her temples. And,
finally. she opened her eyes.
"That hat" she whispered.
TITS Johns hat. He was wearing
1t the night IL didn't mean 10,
daddy. He promised to marry
me--and then couldn't. I wanted
to scare him
'Be still" he Numbered. Get
up and go to bed. And forget
it! You're having a nightmare.
Go on now!" And as. she shrunk
fearfully and obediently away
from him and started to go, he
added. ri forgot to tell you, Mus
cite. TIM off the John Pollison
murder case. Tn going in and tell
Capt Bailey that it, has mo
licked. He was telling me only
the other day to forget it. To-
morrow morning. they'll write OPP
posite it%one little word, I'm
solved And whoever killed him,
won't have to worry any more
about it. If I did know who did
it. I'd like to tell him-or her
that it was a good job"
THE END. ~
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-11-20
The Black Hat

There was no FIRE In Musette. Nor
aggressiveness neither. She was, he
admitted ruefully, one of those
terrible meek" mentioned In the
Bible.
He shrugged Musette out of his
mind and returned to the consider
alton of the problem. The identity
of the bullet would prove OF little
help in discovering John Pollisen's
killer. All 1t might do would be to
fasten the crime upon the muir
derer or murderess after, he or
she had been unmasked.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-11-20
DAMP REsIsTs ALL STORMS

Leipzig. Germany, CUBAN in
genious lamp has been devised, in
tended to be placed upon graves.
which will remain| alight through
out the most violent rain or wind
storms. 1t concists< of a series of
glass chimneys so arranged that
even the feeble flame Of a candle
may be kept burning for hong Pc
RODS. In many countries 1t is GUS
tomary to leave a light burning on
the graves following the funeral.
The new device was exhibited at
the Leipzig fair, and demonstrated
by surrounding the light with
powerful electric fans.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-11-20

tered all over his apartment, Let
tiers and photographs, most of
the letters indiscreet, most of the
photographs autographed to him
by their infatuated senders with
messages of endearment and pas
sion. The women were of all ages,
from trusting seventeen to disil-
lusioned forty; of all conditions,
poor and rich, married and single.
There were among these letters
and photographs motive for a doz-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-11-20
GoBBLER RAISED FAMILY

Enumclaw, Wash, (UP)-Duke,
giant turkey gobbler, qualities AS
a first class mother. When his
mate ided after laying 81 eggs.
Duke took over the assignment OF
Matching them. Since then he has
tended them carefully and now has
II half-grow nsons and 10 daugh-
tiers. .<-.-e-s
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-11-20
Mostly about Brass Cityites

Mostly about Brass Cityites Detective Leary
was detected in the act of boarding train back to the
good old Brass City recently by other than that
demon office boy and budding coumnst Joe Famiglietti
aside to joe More attention to the paste pots and
Byrnes assistant corporation counsel in New York. was
recent visitors his home here Winnie Synot and Joe
Kiley are still kidding Charlie Luddy about their trip
to the Great White Way Step up and tell all the folks
about it, Charlie . Joe and Tom Edmonds of 10
third street are getting the tnfo medals tonight Nice
donations boys. We thank you Tom Fleming is
taxing plenty of bows for the fine work his department
did on the Cooke street paving job George May
nard is coasng around the state these days in snappy
now Plymouth Job Second aside of this item
This one to Mark Chapman Where those names you
promised me last week. What man! What man 2
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-11-20
Radio rambles.

Radio rambles The entire cast of the Show
boat program is appearing at Radio City Music Hall
this week. . Will Osborne, who is slated to play at
the Legion charity dance here December has made
successful comeback before the mike and ranks
with the top flight more Glenn Gray's Casa
Iona band has of the greatest personal foowings
in New York. Ernie Hoist is such big hit in
Pttsburg that KDKA is programming him 20 times
week, eclipsing Wayne Kings Chicago mark
New England radio chain is being formed, with WMCA
of New York as the key. Fred Warnings Saturday
night sustaining program is registering with dance
sic fans. Eddie Duchin is back in New York, play
ing in his customary Saturday evening spot WABC
). The Elder Michaux revival meeting program,
heard weekly CBS has become of the airs most
popular features. Henry Kings WIZ programs
regularly feature fox tro waltz and tango version of
the tune Joe Green is making recordings
with his orchestra Don Bestor still refuses to
use the word "azz" easter Parade" and 1T Was
being at least bit different. The first is from GAS
Thousands Cheer and the second from the Cotton
Club Revue"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-11-20
The Cast of Characters in
s'The Black Hat"

JOHN POLLISEN., a philanderel
who is found murdered.
DAN HALLIDAY, detective as.
signed to the case.
PAT McCABE, Dams partner.
MUSETTE, Dams daughter.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-11-20
A Daily Story
Real Life

he. Dan Halliday had undoubtedly
questioned that woman. She was
one of the forty he and Pat had
interviewed. OF course, she had
lied to him, lied SO convfncingly
that he had gone away baffled and
defeated. The thing to do was to
shock her out of her lie and into
telling the truth. He thought of a
thousand ways and means by
which to do that. But none Of
them was practical. And then he
remembered the black hat that had
been cooked on John Pollisen'B
head the night he was found muir
dorad
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-11-20

Abraham Lincoln delivered
his GETTYSBURG ADDRESS.
Nov 10, 1868. The longest
unfortifed international boun-
Diary In the world Is the 5000.
mile U, S.-CANADA border line.
The predominant colors OF the
Portuguese flag are RED and
GREEN.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-11-20
Dan Halliday
Gets a Hunch

His bunch proved good one, He
and McCabe interviewed every
woman who was, in any way, con-
nected, with the case. There were
forty Of them and they yielded ex-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-11-20
ON THE SCREEN-LITTLE WOMEN
Good Evening.

ON THE SCREEN-LITTLE WOMEN
Between the dark and the daylight
When the afternoon light was receding,
Do you recall in your girlhood
How glued you were to your reading?
At twelve years wasn't it Alice?
And Little Women" think at sixteen;
Meg, Amy, Beth, Joe and the rest
You know the ones that mean.
Deep in the recess of the old window seat
Like 10 in the book you had dreams,
The youngsters playing outside in the snow
And Mother was sewing up seams.
It's different now in these days full of hustle
And hustle and dates, isn't it so?
You don't need book to-day for Little Women,
For the movies have copied dear old Jo
EN-. En-.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-11-20
Bv CHARLES McGURK

John Poisen lay his back in clearing in the woods.
His widebrimmed hat, the black hat which, with his
verse and his romantic reputation charmer of women
had distinguished him than decade pulled
rakshlv over one of his staring sightless eyes.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-11-20

Movie sideights -. w. S. Van Dyke, who directed
Eskimo" and "Prizefighter and the Lady" is in
Arizona looking for sites for Oliver LaFarges Pulitzer
prize novel, Laughing Boy" Ramon Novarro and
Lupe Veez are in the troupe for this picture E..
Everett Harre's novel, Heavenly Sister" has been
bought by the Metro Goldwyn-Mayer Zoe Atkins,
well known novelist is signed up to do scenario work. so
it is reported Peter Freuchen, author of the novel;
Eskimo from which the picture of the same name was
TAKEN addressed the Explorers Club recently in New
York . Jackie Cooper has just built an airplane
model ten feet long, but like the who built the boat
in his cellar he can't get out of the house for trial
flight account of its size Maureen O'Sullivan
may be invited to take trip around the world in John
Farrows cruiser with which he intends to ex
plore all far corners of the globe Fashion Notes
Mary Carlisle, among the most ardent of football
fans in the movie colony, wears swanky leopard
coat. It's lined with beige kasha dotted in bright
green Her coat has scarf of the dotted kasha
worn Ascot fashion, high about the throat Huge
clips of prystal and brians being worn by Alice
Brady at the throat of dramatic white organdie and
black taffeta frock in 'The Vinegar Tree" Mari
on Davies has introduced the "sombrero felt 1t is
beige felt with wider -than-usual brm. dashng
black band encirces half the and then rises in
deep slant the to end in cluster of curled
feather tips. . Tortose-shel in deep brown tones
makes effective buckles brown wool frock OF Madge
Evans The separate cape jacket is held at necklne
and belt by two large buckles of tortoise she'll
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-11-20

|
A tiny hole at the juncture of its
brim and crown was the center OF
a dark, red stain. The hole was a
bullet hole. The stain was John
Pollisen's likelihood. John Polliscn
was dead, shot through the head
| by, as the coroner unoriginally put
it, "a person or persons unknown"
Detective Sergeant Dan Halli-
day, stupid looking middle-aged
mar with faded blue eyes, a thin
mouth, square Jaw and plenty of
gray in his hair, stood looking
down at the body, taking in all the
details with his eyes and register
ing them in his mind.
Later, he would remember them
one by one and analyZe them and,
maybe. work from one of them to
resolve the coroner's person or
persons unknown" into some def
mite John Doe" or Jane Roe"
who would be charged with John
Pollisen's murder with very fair
chance of being convicted. That
was Dan Halliday's job, being a
member of the homicide squad,
and he was very good at it indeed.
So he looked down at the dead
John Pollisen. He noted the thick
lips parted in that eternal, Sardonic
smile as if at the credulity of all
the women who had believed in
him to their own hurts. He glanc-
cd at the rest of the handsome fea-
lures that had been responsible to
great extent for that credulity.
He stared at the hole in the we'll
shaped head, marking the entrance
of the lethal bullet which had stop
ped the brain from planning any
more mischief. And, finally, he
gazed long at the black hat pulled
down over the eyes, which would
never more look with interest on
beautiful woman nor on any other
earthly thing.
In type, the hat was as old as
modern headgear, as new as to-
morrow's style. The brim, in de-
fiance of today's narrow and
turned-up fringe, was wide and
flat. The crown was high but
fiattened down into an alpine"
crease which ran its length.
A Woman
In The Case VI
Dan Halliday bent over it and
noted the exact location of the bull
let-hole. He Strengthened up and
motioned to the stretcher bearers
to take the body away. Then he
and Pat McCabe, his partner, went
carefully over the murder scene
with the aid of a powerful arc
light and their own flashes. Their |
intensive search of the ground re-
vealed a spent cartridge, sup
posedly elected from the murder
er's gun, and the imprint of a wo-
mans high-heeled shoe. They |
measured it and found it to be |
sixteen feet, three inches from |
where the body was found. McCabe |
took a cast of the footprint and
they went away from there. 1t |
looked like an easy case to solve. |
John Pollisen, very probably, had
been shot to death by vengeful
woman.
Investigation of his affairs as |
revealed by his correspondence not |
only strengthened this probability |
but made it seem almost mira
Gle that he had not been killed by
some woman or a male relative,
friend or sweetheart years before.
Letters from women were scat
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-11-20

E All have their own IDEAS for and against concerning
the NRA Most people willing to adapt themselves to
the new order of things One of the most encouraging
headlines in many was one In todays news
papers which states that Grover Whan of New York asks
abolition of the TIPPING SYSTEM And wouldn't such
change be welcome No one minds reasonable legitimate
graities when the service warrants that monetary
milton of same but wholesale tipping for this that and the
other thing and nothing which has become rampant has
become gouging and discouraging custom Mr. Whalen
suggests the abolition of in restaurants and other
places and solution to this problem in eating places the
adding on the check of per cent This custom al
ready used in some restaurants and would be welcomed
it generally adopted not only by walters but by those
who are served
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-11-20

Editor, Tall Tower Topics Letting you know that I'm
at the Wadorf-Astoria STILL Will be the air Saturday
nights from WIZ during the Rhinegold beer program 1t
goes $780, Hope you catch Regards to the boys
Tony Sacco . . And the to you Tony. Hope you
continue to gain in popularity that you're in the Big
City opportunity lies in wait for those who knock the
right number of times.-The Ed)