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SOUTH NORWALK. CONN. SATURDAY, MARCH 27,1915
4—“
TWO CENTS
Fair tonight; warmer.
AOTOMOOTEIMS
TTTTEETRHEOMTT
Cars of Olivgr Jennings, of Fo'rfield,
and Charles Shudennteyer, of:
nation, Come Togcther ‘
Em Hill l
mm mm
THIS Willi
kson Trial, Board ”of Reief, As-
sessnent Books and Tax Collect-
Ior’s Office Prove Big Attractions
u—-—~o—-
OOMPAAISOR MADE
0f mullet TAXES
(either machine was injured.
Staudenmeler was at the wheel of
T his Ford coming out of the dritewav
Rate. III south Nomi“ lower “la“ cast of his cafe which is located in
Last Year, But Higher in Other, the center of the town. A truck was
. . Tstuntling ill front and Close to tile
Disincts .dt'ivetvay so as to partially obstruct
This view of traffic. Just as his car
The i'ity “a“ has been a bugy place; t'lillle out onto lllt‘ POST Road, lllt‘
the past few days. With the arson limousine of Jennings, driven by the
trial in progress, ill the Council room,‘ chauffeur, David (‘ook, came along
the BOAR} of Relief in session in the and the two cars came together.
mayor's office. the taxpayers‘ invasion The accident “'85 witnessed by 39“”
of the city clerk‘s office for the put-Ierlll people who claimed that Stand-
posc of looking over new and old its-T entncyer was 10 blame. holding that
.
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Nig
nings, wealthy and prominent resident T ~
of Pairiield. Conn, and New York:
city, collided with a Ford machine
owned by Charles Staudenmeyer, cafeT
proprietor of Burton. on the turnpike‘
in'front of the latter‘s place, yester-T Trial
day afternoon at about half past!
three. Tile left rear wheel of the‘
Staudenmeyer car was ripped off and:
smashed as a result. and the. steering'
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ti .tiot
in the effort to prove an alibi on the
None of the .ssen ers in’
on g {trial reopened, at 10 o'clock,
T Judge John Keogh.
Mueller in minute detail told every
move that he, Mrs. Moeller and Bar-
ney Wolk made on the evening of Sep-
tember 30th the night fire broke out
and destroyed Hyman Necdleman‘s
house. at the corner of Golden Hill
and Summit avenues.
—_.—__.
ler to prove false the damaging evi-
dence given Thursday afternoon. by
Arthur Morrison and Patrick Gaynor,
the two men who bid on the darkened
stairs and claim to have heard Moul-
ler make an alleged “confession."
sessutent books, and visits to the office Jonnings' chauffeur ltnd,the rigltt ofI .
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of the tax collector. either to pay tax way. A settlement. however, was 0n TT“ evening of September 30th.
bills or enter further objections to the reached “9W9?" the (“‘0' OWHBFS. the some night of the fire, said Mosl-
ler, “i got through work at 5 o‘clock.
i met my wife on the Washington
street bridge and we walked home to-
gether until we arrived at Hussnn'u
fruit store. in the Randall block. We
assvssmt‘nts, etc, the building
been kept pretty well filled.
it is expected that the last session
of the arson trial will be today or Mott-
day. The last public session of the
Jottings paying Statldenteyer $10 as
his share of the cost of a new wheel
rather than to get mixed up iii any
court proceedings.
The bent steering bar of the Flat
has
TMoeller Attempts To
Establish Alibi for
mm, ”mm, 0, 0”,... ,eanells in Detail his Actions on the Evening
of September I30ih, When the Hyman.
Needleman Building Was Destroyed
. .
night of the Needleman tire. Joseph l..f
Moeller, accused of arson in connec-I about 6:45 o'clock; but when we still)
: tion with Barney Wolk. was this morn-L
. lug put on the witness stand when the
before Main street.
An attempt was also made by Moel- T
had finished a plate of ice cream when;
OEEJT OETRATEOTITATT EXPECTED TO
OT MOOO ‘MATE TATE OEOISITEAOTION
AOAIN INA OEET TODAY IN WAR MATTER-
hibmkor. Wdl’ltlllg on Reddins Bulgaria Said to be More Favorable
I 3:: “'“T' m T°"TTT° 'T Toward the Allies, and the Gov- ‘
’ —--~ ernment Hopes to Act in Com
my m TATE 0m“ junction With Rumania-and Italy
---Claims Made That the Turkish
RUSEEEPTTBTTTTTWIT Forts on the Dardanelles Have
3...... on"... b, 0...... . Been Destroyed-Battleships of
tractor um Responsible for' the Allies Silence Batteries That
Fired on Mine Sweepers
hf of the Fire
for him and We (Told him we would.
tend to be ready for us.
“We left our him‘c on Winfield street,
pad for Wollt. we were told he was lnT
the Beth lsrael Synagogue. on SouthT
We continued on our‘
:way to Music Hall, arriving there atT
7:30 o‘clock. A little later Wolk camel
in. We tried to dttract his attentiouT
to an empty seat near us, but he tuiledI
to see us.
“We left the theatre about 9:45T
o'clock, and met Barney outside. We
T went down South Main street, up Mon-j
roe and then to the Germania Hotel. :
We left the Germanla at 10: "0 o c'lock
and dropped into Curl Schnub's place.
on Railroad avenue. diere we had a
. another of uranium cheese sandwich-5
Return of Fugitive
....... l
There is joy in the office at tho
county jail this afternoon, for Mich-T
Iacl Deck. the youthful offender uudtr
sentence for statutory buglary. who
helped himself, by means of a crow~T
llccisit c action by ltaly is rcg‘artlctl in Rontc as TllF
.\ bricf dispatch from that 'city stairs that the
Ttalian governtttcnt has taken cvcry posslblc nlcasttrc pt‘c—
llllllt‘lil.
Tes. We left Carl's “ tbout twentyf bar. a block and tackle and the attic: pal‘attory to bcgiltnlng war Oil tltc sitlc of the Allics.
. mmulefi to eleven 0%ch. We walked skylight, lo a spell oi’Iunrestricted‘ it is also said in Rotttc that tltcrc is obscrvablc a toll—
across the bridge together. Barney, my: freedom, last Monday, ’5 again “T
tlcncy on tltc phrt of Bulgaria to adopt a policy favorable
wife and myself. charge of Sheriff Vollmer.
Board of Relief is this afternoon front
2 to ti o'clock. The offices of the city:
clerk and tax collector will continue to
remain open as usual A good many
peoplu do NOT appear to understand}
was straightened out afterward, and
the car proceeded on its way to the
residence of its owner in P‘uirfleld.
Barney Wolk came in. We got talk-
ing about different things. and finally
T told Barney we. my wife and self. in.
tended to go to tho moving pictures‘
that nl‘hto
TITTTE ITOT’E
Bunny asked its to atop
about the various taxing districts, or"
though they were provided for in the T
new charter. and are the some as apsl
pearod on the tax bills of one yéar ago. .I
The bills are higher, however andthisI
in due mainly to two reasons. When
the assessors made up the list on Affairs 0f Grand ROMS 00W!
. which the new tax is being collected,‘ N be ”SW88“ Before new
they inaugurated a new system——-'
charging so much a front foot for Banks
every piece of property. This, in most ----—-
Instances, caused a raise over the for-T More than 8.000 creditors of lheT.
nter fixed valuation. A year ago there; bankrupt estate of the Grand Rapids:
was a balance of $170,000 fromtne pre~T Furniture & Supply Company will be ‘
vious town tax. and this was used to represented today and Monday at:
defrny the expenses of the Fifth tax- the first meeting of creditors held inf
ing district so that property owners the Superior Court before John W. .
TBanks referee in -.bankruptcy
. (Continued on Tenth Page.) , The meeting will be held in theT
Efforts Being Made Today to Flat
iii CREW m
SOBMARTNE
the Vessel, lion Two Days llnderT
TRIOAT AFTERNOON OTOO T
MAS MOSTOAT PROGRAM
Mrs. Morton R MacCausehtnd en-
tertained the Friday Afternoon Club,
at her home. 35 Bayview avenue, yes- .
terday afternoon.
A niost delightful musical program
was rendered, which was as follows:
Aria on G string—The old style.
Music ......... Johann Sebastian Bach
Violin——‘\Iiss Ethel Becker.
Short Paragraphs. . . . . :.. .........
Handel. Tadyn and Mozart
Mrs. Huntington.
Composers of 19th and 20th century.T
A Paper. ......... . .......... Liszt
Miss Carrie Simms.
Slumber Song ............... Siiubert
(Arranged for violin for Dislea El-
. mann.)
Miss Ethel Becker.
Solvieg Lied ...... . ........... Greig
Miss Ctirolyn .VlacChusland.
Strauss Family-The Waltz King.
Miss Simms.
(trot-tings to Spring.
Arrangement of the “Blue Danube"
waltzos for women's voices.
iregory, Mrs, Huntington. Mrs.
St. John. Mrs. Northbound.
MN
Horn-use ......... Sir Arthur Sullivan
Qunnctte.
Art: from Opera “Tom‘s"... . . .l’umini
Miss Northbound.
‘ Vor‘them Molody.“ from mt: fut
Violas: . . . . .llnnry "It”!!! "TIM
”inn list-It".
mimic . “court-rt!
Voice slums and pinto.
\tmt Hun‘auoiond and Hi» MN.
2 in... . hm» of tin mum a ml
1. wit! that d‘l'ajt‘t’wl,
Tflces.
00m in Referee Bunks' private of-I
The case is the largest, as re-
gurds the number of creditors, that
has ever come before the referee
A trustee will be appointed and the
affairs of the bankrupt companyw
Tbe examined. A composition offer of:
T 25 per cent. to all unsecured creditorqI
Thus been offered. It is thought that
this offer will be accepted,
May Obtain Credit.
. All creditors who have paid money
on contracts for the purchase of fur-
mture may at any time after the com-
position offer has been confirms-M
surrender the notes and receive credit
for~the full amount paid by them
in order to save expense for the 8-
TOT 0 creditors an effort is being made
to lme A. L. DeLaney continued to
-act as receiver. and not have a trus-
tee appointed. if this practice is fol-
‘lowed it will be necessary to bold but
to . hearings.
3 i‘ite liabilities of the bankrupt con-
Water' tn Honolulu llatbor
méwu BE lloucll
TO SORTAOE SOON
TArmy Dena’tmmt Hospital in near.
. less for Victims
i
HONOLULU, March 27. ——The lost
Tsubmarine F-,4 which has been local: i;
ed outside the harbor entrance, should:
be raised late this afternoon, it 411‘
goes well according to a statement
Tmade by Captain of the Yard Duffy,
.last night. Captain Duffy says he
Ebelieves there is a possibility of sav-
ing the lives of the men imprisoned
in the submarine.
The dredger California, despatehed
and stopped in to tho \Tlirs~ «.utl lll'll thc vovcrmncnt ho ms to ~ ‘
. . . t . 3 . an in
Charlie Hanson‘s fruit store. in the A T“ hours before he w“ TBTT‘Tnl . . . - .- . \ t - ~T -
Randall block I looked at Charlie‘s ed to ”m jail to work 0," a sentence tonttntttton \‘.llll Italy and l\illl‘.alll21. Iltc attitude of _
clock 0"”. the soda fountain and it which will ltln well into June, lleekI lltllgzll'ln bits bccu in tlottbl on account of llcr hostility ‘
was just five minutes of eleven. Iwas pursuing the plucrd life of a: itlwlii'tl tbc otltcr l‘mlkztn nations. with tho cxccptioll of
"Ed Morrison and some other for “mu mf’“ 0" a Tum" 3‘ “9'de ’T‘ttrkcy. \\’l!lt‘ll §:l't‘\\' out of tho sccond Tlalkan \var. "
lov» was in the store. They jolted Ridge. Naturally he was sullen 01"
with Barney. and tinnlly Barney blew
the bunch to ice creom We stood
in the fruit store until about 11: 2b,
(Continued on fifth page!
filllllOtlllllli s
BliEXPENSE
calamitotts Catastrophe Faces the
Oyster dimers of the StatoT
lion, They Assert
SITOOTO‘ MOT BEAR
TNOREASEO TAT
Franldin liontan SaysThis is llotan
oyster Growing State
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Having heard those who favored
an additional tax upon the oyster-
:men of the. state the finance commit-
tee yesterdav heard those who were
opposed to it and. strangely enough,
lthose opposed chanced to be the oys-
tertnen themselves Their vieWs were
Texpressed at length by ex-Senator
Franklin L. Human of New Haven,
Ireiterated by several other speakers
Hand finally, very late in the after-1
noon summed up for all they werci
mm are $93» “31.32 and the assets are front the Pearl Harbor naval station worth by States Attorney A A Al-
33.39.84.
TNEW llllllsml
um i tutu
in response to a radiogram. reached'
T
the scene at midnight, but did not 'ie ”it“ they “'9"? “Whig ll calamitousg
gin work immediately. The dredger,
{will work with the Alert. mother ship
0: the submarine flotilla.
Tho pontoon ship probably will be
used to raise the N The chains will»l W91“? ”3"" “‘0' "‘9"? “e”
or,» passed under the bow and Item of
T Itbe submerged submarine. the dredgcr
ling. In general the 0y stermen agreed
catastrophe.
Before ex-Scnutnr Hontnn came
into action the most important fea-
Tture of the hearing occurred. Sen,
otor lead of Greenwich said tlilttst
0
men in his section engaged In the
oyster business vht-re now there urn
only about fifteen and they are all
PHILAlll-‘LPHIA. Mach 2?. -—TheT unit into the water and the chains «mall dealers. He said that the pol-
now
which called from here yesterday for
Hampton Rmds. mllidod tut night
with a hot-go on Namath, hot. thirty.
miles dou- otlu [historic Rivur from
this city. Tho Mm Iron not and the
Moreno sent ”hm. when! she no
mutual fut until 7:30 o. It. today.
when one looted 1'80 Mon-o pm
M dons nah-on- my. opp-Mt
ly opinion-d. and lo unwed to ”M
out In yin-r dorm IV by.
Argentine bottle-hip Moreno.T
tightened. The water than will be
pumped out of the dredgor. causing
her to rise higher In the water. thus
pmtldilfi lifting mum to rots-2 the
submarine.
The army dmnmt Mini iii In
rum to motto the turn of the
F4 when the am ll raised "to
scram mm» Minus wort. «l
the relic! on" did" the light.
“W on M Ml
Iutlon of the rotors had worked?
anoint-t theta and. as conditions- are
now. he was opposed to any oddl-
tlonul Iu upon ”to industry. Senator
Mood has.» vntc.
Thou unto Mr. Hanan. who liken
TAX WITTOEA
mien when he was dragged away from
the cows and the chickens, and his?
A wonted smile had not returned during
all the ride down from the Ridge.
A Not so much because Wallace 1’.
: animer, son of the sheriff. Juliet-
o'Neltloua Keener Sundays had hint .
«in handout“ rm Dee‘ grbuclty, but
because he ’bouldn't get Q chanc‘u to
T welt a wallop into the hobo who sat
beside him. attached to I chitin oon
Tnocling his wrists with the "braco
E lets" worn by Dcek.
Was in Contractor’s Care.
'fthc Tunkish. foi'ls at l)artlanus and Kim Rain on
l‘rittcc (icoro‘c of t lrcccc is lcavltlg ltaly for .\tltcns. it)
support tbc policy of his brother. King Constantino for
tbc continucd ncutraltty of his nation, in opposition to the
plan which favors lutcrvctttion on tltc Sltlt‘ of thc Allies.
Dispatches rcztcitint: Paris, from Athcns, state that
Dartlztiicllost have bccn tlcstroy cd and that batteries which
attackctl ntinc stvccpcts ltatc bccn silenced by two bat—
tleships of .thc,‘ Allics. llritislt and lTT‘t‘llCh warships arc
saitl to have takcn transports to‘tltc Gulf of Smyrna, on
the coast of Asia Minor.
Notwithstanding- the re) pried succcsscs of the British
the .
V,
For peek.“ capture and restoration in repelling the Turkish invaders of Egypt, thc Turks . T
lie the lift) of a servant or the “u“tyl hat c not been expelled front the country. An official
was due 10 the treachery of the hobo,§
;rather than to any oifort made byT
T Sheriff Vollmer and his assistants.
T When Deck slipped from the line
tIof Jail inmates on its way to the
'noondny meal at the jail last Monday
the technically was in the keeping of
Frank E. Clark, labor contractor at
the jail, under Whose assistants
he had been employed in the pressed
leather shop in the jail building. Cus-
Ttom has decreed that a prisoner so
escaping shall be caught at the ex-
pense of the contractor, and. although
he ,ls_a peace officer. Sheriff Vollmer
left the task of retaking‘ Deek' to
'Mr. Clark.
Mr. Clark. directly he learned of
pcek's getaway. sent out a description
of him, with notice of a reward for
information leading to his recapture.
The notice got to the eye of the hobo
who gave Deck Away, and who was
working alongside him on the Reddlng
Ridge farm.
Money had been scarce with the
ltobo. and in the reward offer he saw u
chance to relieve the stringency. Yes-
terday at daynlght, he set out afoot
l
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I (Continued on Twelfth Page)
KNIGHTS 0F COLUMBUS. 0F NOR
WALK. COMBINE FOR A
RECEPTION.
Catholic ‘Unlon Cbuncil, No. 46, and
T South Norwalk Council. No.‘ 53. K. or;
C... have united for the purpose of bold-
ing a big reception lit the Assembly
THail, Norwnik, on Monday evening.
April 30“]. I
i The Knights have scored big suc-I
com: with their previous donces and,
every effort will be made to eclipssT
those of the but. A Joint committee.
of fourteen hove the affair in choral
» and they have organized with William
V. Word as chairman; Albert Roam!
mutiny. and William llownrderl
committal
”THU" _\
statcntcnt from Cairo says that a skirmish occurred on
Tuesday with small losses on both sidcs.
Reports continue to come in of. important Russian
successes in tltc Carpathians. Swiss newspapers publish
dispatches to tile effect that the Russians have tlcfcatcd
thc Austrians in several engagements along the front
front llukotvina to Western (Talicia.
ROME. March 26, 10:55 p. 111., via l’arls. March 27.
52lo a. in. v—Evcry measure possible has bccn taken by the
Italian govcrnntcut preparatory to the beginning of 1105-
tiliti cs by Italy on tltc sulc of the .\l.lics
PART.
, March 27. 4:25 a. m.——It ttow has been cs— .
tablishcd that the forts at Darrlauus havc been destroyed.
and those at Kaliti llaltr seriously damaged by the opera:“
tions of thc allictl flcct ill the Dardaucllcs, says 3 Ha—
vas dispatch front \tltens dated Friday.
Sailing ships engaged in mine sweeping wcrc fircdd
upon by Turkish field artillery posted at Frcnkcul. but
tltc battleships arc said to hate bccn silcncctl by the fire
front two battlcsltips
According to a dispatch front Mvtllcnc, tltrcc ll ritislt
and two Frcnclt warships ltatc anchored in the
Smyrna with transports.
. ,
9T. jtlllNS. X. F.. March 27.——Althouglt bringing fish
to thvfountllalttl '\\'Olll(l sccnt llkc carrying coals to
Ncwcasilc, War is a prospect that it will bc attctnptctl on
a consitlcrablc scalc this year. The proposition ‘ comes
from chlantl.
crn T'Luropc arcT'closcd to the fishermen of that island. and
tltct arc forced to scck a now outlct. Sincc the fishing
operations off thc \cwfoundlantl coast will bc largely cur-
tallctl this scoson as a rcsult of the largo utltubcrof \'cw-
foundlantlcrs who have joincd thc llritislt arm) and
tltc lcclztntlcrs think thcy will bt- ablc to dispose
of a large part of their product hcrc As it is proposed
to purchase ltcrc fmulstuti's :tntl othcr. goods for return
car-gigs In lccl land thc itlta ts lokctl upon with favor in
this lulu“).
w...“—
hull of}
llccausc of the war, the markets, of, N0rtlt-_
~
. .
“l "l" in?» 5;“ "‘;“T”"‘hl" ‘ 1““ ""5 AWW“ W Th" t tili‘x'lVT. ’\ in Hart .llzvrcl: :7. 4:; :t. lll.~ . lii‘putchcs t
m, first i I m: llll t P ow nr- . . - . “ ' ‘ ‘ ' ' , ‘ -. . .
men had lat-Ton fort-mi to town:- in» "" John F' Mrflflwn‘ “in” "Lam” l’i.‘t't‘i\*‘il bv .‘r‘ttsn lu~tx~tiztlt"‘~ x"=“!‘i““ '~’ (‘Tllli-l‘i“"" '3": ’
for the ”minimum and [Mn for
that" “you. "ll." sold Ir. Harm.
“'0 strip the t-tilc- of how cyst"
Wills-I. we do it Mow cm were
(Wu-WM
last. I). W. llorford. H. J. Riordan. “'le
hum If. Tomanny. it. P. Tommy. mt
“rd 1. Duly t‘. A. Mrs-urn. M. l»..l‘
to". Edward J. Hun Mid lluuni
tt'omphli. Jr.
btl‘MIR'h Til Ill ".’“’T v T "‘3‘ 'm
”V t- strugglc in l‘joit and Lup—
ltfotJtuui-«i tr Third M) ’
Mm... ..t on; «43‘? T" m:
rtss in tin- t'.tt‘t.tt'.in;t:«
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