The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-05-08

"Call the police" she quoted him as saying.
 She helped him to lie down and telephoned police at 10:36 ?. m. Allyn was dead when they arrived. He had four bullets in his chest and @ minor head injury which police could not explain. An au- topsy was to be performed by pr. Alan R. Moritz, Harvard Medical school legalpathologist.
 Wife Heard Him
 Mrs. Allyn said she heard the professor 70 to the front door about i0:3O D. m, though she did not hear the door bell ring. She said she heard no auto arriving or de- parting.
 Medical Examiner Edward F. Smith said powder marks on LynnS shirt showed he had been shot at close range. The weapon was be- lleved to be an automatic pistol.
 The case in some aspects paral- leled the unsolved murder of pr. Elliott Speer, headmaster of Mt. Herman School for Boys at North field, Septmeber i4, 1884.
 Moriarty called in State Detective Lieut.. Richard Cotter and dozen state troopers from nearby barracks. Local police were summoned and when the search party was organ. ized @ call went out for special police.
 It was understood that the search would center near the house and in woodlands a quarter mile away.
 Professor Allyn's home was on Western avenue in an exclusive residential section of the city.
 Morlarty said early today that probably two or three bullets en. tered the body"
 Shells Are Found
 Shells were found distributed in various points of the living room and front hail." ne said. "Appar- ently an automatic was used. There were bloodstains leading from the room to the dining room and to the kitchen. He had moved around some after the shots"
 An autopsy was ordered.
 First facts announced showed great similarity to the Speer mur- der. Dr. Speer was reading In his living room on the boys school campus when someone rapped at . window. As he went to investigate, o charge of buckshot struck pr. Speer in the chest and right arm. He staggered back into the room and collapsed. His wife ran in and found him dead. That crime still is a mystery.
 Resigned Years Ago
 Professor Allyn resigned 25 years ago as head of the chemistry de- partment of Westfield State Teach- CTS college and founded the Vest field Testing and Research Labora- tory were food is sent for testing from many sections of the nation. At one time he conducted a food column for the new defunct Me- Clure's magazine.
 His fame brought to Westfleld the title of Pure Food City" He first became nationally known in 1904, the year he joined the college faculty, during an epidemic fl sore mouths among Westheld children. He traced the affliction to lollypops which contained traces of arsenic, ether, sulfurous acid and coal tar tyeS.
 During the World War he was approached by Q Russian govern- ment mission seeking to perfect Q concentrated ration for soldiers. He frequently was consulted during prohibition years for analysis of conhscated liquors.
 His campaign for pure food and drug laws was credited with being responsible for many of the nations laws in this respect. He was said to have made much of the casts population food conscious"
 Professor Allyn experimented with vitamins long before they were wide. ly known and advocated balanced diets when such theories were re. gard as visionary.