Warren Morning Mirror (Newspaper) - September 5, 1927, Warren, Pennsylvania f ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES WANT ADS PAY NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSOCIATION REFLECTING THE BEST IN WARREN FORTY-THIRD YEAR MONDAY SEPTEMBER 1927 PRICE THREE CENTS WANT ADS PAY COUNTY EXPO OPENS TODAY CRAZED FATHER KILLS SEVEN OF HIS RELATIVES SIX FLIGHTS ARE NOW IN WAY 0 COMPLETION Three Daughters and Three Granddaughters Meet Death Two Neighbors and Policeman In Attempt to Kill Self With Gun Sept persons were killed and five others wounded here because one a laborer was out of employment Two of the ed are reported near death Late last Tony DeCapua worried because he had no shot down and killed his three daughters and three grand children while in a ed mood He said he intended to end his own life He is alive because his gun it came time to turn it on himself Bodies of the seven persons were found in different rooms of the De- Capua home where the crazed man had chased them and shot them Three infants were killed in their beds De shot down by police who called by a neighbor the shots were fired said at a hospital he had quarreled with his wife over financial matters and because of unemployment decided to get rid of them all His voice choked with De Capua then described how he killed each one The dead were Mrs Mary De his three daughters Elizabeth Annie Gladys 4 months three grandchildren Mary Junior 14 months and two months After the shooting within the house De Capua went out side He was standing on the curbing of the street when police arrived and im- mediately opened fire on the Patrolman Leo fell shot through the thigh In the fight between De Capua and the officers which followed De Capua was wounded and captured by Gladis De his daughter-in-law and Ferdinand and J B daa neighbors were wounded At the hospital today physicians said the daughter in law and neigh bor were in a very serious tion Three children of the two ies escaped death's gunfire They were found standing beside the other bodies In the house FOURTEEN MEN TO CONTEST CHAMPIONSHIP Sept Fourteen drivers will start in the 200 mile championship race at the Altoona speedway tomorrow A field of 20 pilots have passed the test for the 50 mile semi- professional most of them from the Pittsburgh district The line up for the main event includes Cliff Frank Pete De Leon Harry Tony Dave Russell Bob Earl Al Dr Babe and Fred Speed Ivan Eddie Martin Mike Ernest Henry Louis Joe Louis Karl Fred Tony C Gordy Condon Bernard Frank W T and Frank Hollman will compete in the 50 mile event carrying with it a purse of Norma of 1926 will present the trophy cup to the winner of the ship classic CHICAGO MOVIE STRIKE SETTLED Sept the movie lockout and strike led by the ticket ders at Chicago's 350 movie res closed since last Monday be- cause of the clicked ly again today for thousands of patrons Virtually every theatre in the city was filled to capacity Under erms of the agreement reached at he office of Mayor William H the stage lands will receive an increase in of between 7 and 8 percent representing three fourths of what hey demanded Weather Indications i Fair moderate temperature Tuesday increasing ness and slightly warmer One of Detroit i Round the Only MANY MEET DEATH rue without Mishap IN AUTO CRASHES OVER WEEK END Two Dead at Six Killed In Pittsburgh Dis- and Four Meet Death At 0 VETERAN OF CIVIL WAR IS KILLED WHILE HUNTING SON ARRESTED FOR THE MURDER OF HIS AGED MOTHER Sept Mrs Grover this and her 2 year-old son Richard are dead and her and year old daughter are in the Easton hospital as the result of an on the ington highway N last night The Tillman family had been out for a ride in a motorcycle and side car and were on their way home Tillman was about to pass an auto- mobile going in the same direction when he noticed a car bearing down upon him from the opposite tion He believes that his cycle was struck by a of the car he was trying to ing the lighter vehicle and spilling the four occupants to the roadway directly in the path of the car com- ing the other way Mrs Tillman was instantly killed and the baby died today Siv Dead at Pittsburgh Sept Automobile mishaps took a toll of 6 lives in the Pittsburgh district over the week end Michael two of his and Walter all of were killed when their automobile was struck by a passenger train near Meadowlands A third child of the Kolander family was seriously in- jured C Foster met death when his automobile col- head on with a machine en by Oscar ong tlie near Portersville his wife and two other occupants of car were taken to the Newcastle hospital with cuts and bruises Cune was driving alone Mrs A F daughter of a Pittsburgh policeman was fatally injured when the driven by her Sergeant Joseph Pearson went over an embankment near Vt Pearson and three other members of the family ed injury Six persons were injured in three other motor accidents Two of the drivers were arrested Four Killed at Sept Four persons were killed and an- other seriously injured when their automobile was struck by the crack All American flyer of the Pennsylvania railroad at a near here today The dead are Mrs Margaret ler Frank J and his sisters Mrs Anna Newton and Miss Margaret Snyder Adolph husband of Mrs Margaret was seriously in- jured The party was returning from church when struck by the train SEARCHING FOR ST RAPHAEL CONTINUES ST N Sept as well as governmental agencies in New Foundland joined today in a search of the bleak coast for the missing English plane St Raphael which took off from England last morning in an attempted flight to Ont Several business firms here with branches in Labrador notified their agents to make inquiries along the coast as to whether a plane was sighted or heard in the region Be- cause of the imperfect tions it was not expected that re- plies would be received here be- fore tomorrow or Tuesday In the meantime the government through its coastal and its Princess Captain Leslie and Lieutenant Colonel F F navigator The more northerly of the less stations where the population is very scattered and isolated and superintendent Collins of the wireless service said day that a week might elapse be- fore any news was heard of the fliers if they were forced down on that part of the coast COMMITTED Sept Colonel les commanding the fourth regiment of United States Marines now on duty committed cide this morning Poor health believed to have benn the motive On Way to Europe and Three Are Bound For United All Have Many Difficulties Adverse weather continued to hold fliers engaged in tic hops on the ground yesterday The new York to Rome plane was detained at Old Orchard Maine by failure of its gasoline to arrive in time and the refusal of the flight William Randolph Hearst to tion the take off until he had surance of government val of the plane and equipment At Washburn fog along their projected course to Harbor held the London to London Sir John Carling in the field where it was forced down Thursday night The Royal Windsor bound from to Windsor was stuck in the mud at the airport and ed favorable weather Its pilots an- they would try to wriggle out of the mud today and fly to Old where conditions were considered more favorable for a take off Captain barred by ad- verse winds from continuing to the was at Spain Latest advices from Le where the French air adventurers wait were that there would be no flying from that airport until day Unfavorable weather held les A at England where he said that his flight to America would be undertaken as soon as adverse winds showed im- provement Continuing its globe circling flight the Pride of Detroit arrived at British from Bun der Abbas Again Take to Air British Sept S Brock and Edward F Schlee in the monoplane of left for 923 miles from Karachi at 6 o'clock this morning in tion of their round the world flight Details of of At o'clock this morning The Pride of Detroit made a fect landing on the airdrome of the Royal air force After circling the airdrome once the plane gradually descended a smoke which been placed on the air drome as a guide for the aviators Brock and Schlee were greeted by the American consul and several Americans who reside at Karachi They were surrounded ely by several hundred persons in- men of the royal air force and civilians all eager to get a close-up view of the round the world fliers and their machine Brock and Schlee emerged from their plane looking Quite fresh though dusty and unshaven They were taken by automobile to the officers mess a few minutes after their arrival Their they will re- main overnight They expect to hop off at dawn tomorrow for habad Speaking of their experience on this last stage of their Brock and Schlee said that during their flight over the Persian gulf the weather on the whole was ely good When they got over land they found the heat near the ground terrific They encountered only one slight dust storm and that caused them no inconvenience Leaving Bunder this morning they faced strong head winds for a short time the weather as perfect until they were approaching Karachi when they ran into heavy low-lying clouds and rain Today's flight was uneventful un- til shortly before landing at Kara- when one of the gasoline tanks began to leak The repairs to this will be completed they ex- and Schlee expressed intention of pressing forward as quickly as possible as they are er to make up the day and a half they lost at Constantinople waiting for the official Turkish government permission for them to continue their flight OLD Sept 4 Fokker Monoplane which arrived here last night from New York failed to hop off today on its attempted flight to Rome because of the late arrival of the truck bringing its gasoline supply from Roosevelt field Another element in the de- lay was the refusal of William Randolph the who is sponsoring the to sanction a take off until he had surance of government proval of the plane and on page Lemuel F Wolf of Found Dead With Bullet Wound Through Body County Officials Believe He Was Killed by Careless Hunter Who Ran i Authorities of Forest county are endeavoring to locate the party who fired the shot which Lemuel F Wolf of who was found dead Saturday afternoon with a bullet wound through his evidently from a high powered rifle Mr Wolf in company with his nephew Joseph Wolf and the two all residents of started out early in the the older man to hunt woodchucks while the others were to pick blackberries They went to Bucks two miles above on the Tionesta where they separated After picking berries for some about o'clock the boys started back and called for their uncle who was to meet them at a stated spot Not finding him there they went home He had not re- turned to his home and a further search was Richard aged 9 finding the body in a clump of bushes with his own a 30 Savage underneath him The little boy thinking the old man was called to him but getting no response ran for the others When the body was turned the jagged wound was dis- the bullet having entered the right shoulder in front and passed coming out near the middle of the back The which Mr Wolf had had not been ing to Joseph a loaded shell being in the which proved that he had not met his death by accident but that he had been the victim of a bullet fired by another It is thought that he might have been mistaken for a woodchuck and that the seeing what he had ran Late reports from Forest county Unit Sheriff Mong and Game Warden H F Wilson are ing n thorough it beina said that a party who was in the A will be questioned dav In the death of Lemuel F one of the oldest residents of Forest County was claimed He Avas born in Armstrong March 1840 and served as a member of Co C 169 Pennsylvania Volunteers with honor His wife ary 1926 Surviving are a Mrs Harry Lawton of Pa and a Tremer Wolf of Pa The funeral will be held at the Town Line Tuesday afternoon at o'clock Rev Fred Collins of Mayburg to of- Veteran Dies In the death of Walter R Smail of Saturday afternoon at p m the last member of the Eli Berlin Post G A R was called to the Great Mr Small and Lemuel who was killed a short time previous to Mr Smail's death being all who were left of the once flourishing post Walter R Small was born at Nov 1892 He served in the Civil War as a ber of Pennsylvania Volunteers taking active part in many battles From the time of the death of his 1907 he alone at until this when after being robbed a con- sum by burglars who en- tered his he moved to East and made his home with Mr and Mrs S S Barnett Funeral services will be held Tuesday afternoon from the nett home with interment in the East Hickory cemetery C D ONE 2 CONVICTS MAKE OF WARREN'S BEST SUCCESSFUL ESCAPE KNOWN MEN DEAD FROM STATE PRISON End Came Saturday After- noon After a Long Illness be Greatly Missed by All Citizens Mr Charles D for years a resident of passed away at his home on East street late Saturday after a protracted illness He was born at I N Dec 1855 He I was educated in Canada and afier years with the Standard Oil Com- took up his residence in this city He served two terms as Register and Recorded of Warren after which he became interested iu diversified industries in this the last few years of his life i being devoted to a general ance business He was one of the best known and most popular zens of the county and many com- munity and fraternal organizations will miss him greatly He is survived by his Martha two George M of Pittsburg and Mrs Charles M of one of a brother Harry F of two Craig and Charles Gadsby and one grand- Shirley Crandall He was a member of the First Presbyterian church of Warren Mr Crandall was a life member of the B P O an honorary member of Troop 8 of the Boy Scouts of America and for the past 32 years an adopted member of the Seneca Nation of Indians He was a charter member of the Fishing Warren Shakespeare Club and the Warren Outing Club His friends were unnumbered ana ranged from the highest to the lowest The funeral services will be hold from the late Tuesday after- noon at TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS Francis H Cogswell Paul Brubaker Stanley Korb Jean Sleeman Theodore Anderson TOMORROW'S BIRTHDAYS Mrs John Cameron Robert Eleanor Flohr Lila M Teresa Fagley Were Trusties and Hit Guard Over Head With Crushing His Head One Was Serving Life tence For Murder and Other Ten to Twenty Years For Robbery Sept convicts knocked a guard off the wall at the eastern state prison here shortly before midnight after beating him over the head with a piece of lead slid down an improvised rope and escaped The Floyd suffered a fractured skull and a broken leg in the 30 foot fall from the wall His condition was reported as critical After gaining their the prisoners William and William P attempted to steal an automobile but were fright ened by pedestrians and escaped on foot The men were trusties and had gone to the wall to repair a break in an electric the guard turned back for an instant they struck him down with their pushed him ovf-r the side of the wall and slid down a rope they had mado from tird together with tape obtained from the carpet making shop in the on Reynolds exploded when it hit the giving to the report that he had been shot The shot raised the alarm and guards from alV of the peni hurried to Police summoned and bandit automobiles were- pent of the fleeing convicts was serving a life for and had served two years of a ten to ty year term WILL RENEW HIS FLIGHT TO TODAY F T Courtney British aviator who was forced by winds to turn from his Plymouth to Azores course Saturday and land off the coast neat this to renew his flight early weather he will hop to the and after a slop take off for New on the way to Now York Harry Twenty-Two Year-Old Youth Taken Into Custody at Seattle Apprehended When He Sold Auto With Which He Made Escape From Home City of 111 Sept 4 for Harry 22 year-old youth who is held here on a charge of murdering his aged mother ed tonight that they would await word from Hill's lawyer in Streator before deciding whether to resist extradition The attorneys previously had said they would fight attempts to return the suspected matricide to Illinois it was understood ex- pressed a willingness to waive ex- tradition Maintains Innocence Sept 4 maintaining his cence Harry Illinois youth arrested here last night and held on a charge of murdering his aged announced late today that he will resist extradition Eight hours continuous grilling failed to shake the fugitive's tions that he is guiltless in the death of his 69 year old Mrs Eliza whose body was found buried in the basement of her Streator home Attorneys for the suspected declared they would employ every legal means against expected attempts to return him to Illinois for trial The sale of an automobile in which Hill drove from Streator to Seattle led to his arrest The which bore a Minnesota license was sold here Friday to a garage firm When the sale was reported to the detectives recognized the engine number as that of a ine in which Hill was reported to have left Streator In Hill's room the detectives found automobile license plates bearing Illinois Number Hill was apprehended when he about midnight last night and told he was wanted for der Seeming the man readily admitted that he was being but denied that he murdered his mother The suspect said hf was in Streator after his mother's body was found August but he de- clared he left the town when he read in the newspapers that a cor- jury had recommended he be arrested on charges of murder look bad for I he calmly told his I am innocent of this Hill related that he was ed as a traveling salesman and that it was his custom to spend his week ends at his mother's home in Streator The last time he saw his who was the divorced wife of Dr H C Hill wealthy was August the said On that day he left her home in Streator for Chicago Returning to Streator on August the date fixed by police as the approximate time of the murder Hill did not find his mother at home he said The youth denied the assertion of police that on August he told Mrs Hill's banker and that mother had just stepped Hill asserted he told them that she had gone to Chicago He said he pre- she had gone there Hill admitted he forged his mother's name to checks The detectives called Hill's tion to a statement of Peter gardner at his mother's that the youth the to tamp down some fresh dirt in the basement of the house August 15 had left a note asking me to have thf basement the suspect replied isn't true that I asked Bush to tamp down any dirt I went down in the cellar with him and lie The again went to Streator on the week end beginning August 20 and left August 22 for he that at the home of a William The afternoon he read in the newspapers of the discovery of his mother's body Hill then drove back to he intending to see his his fiance Mips Alice Sawyer and a lawyer In Streator he read a paper account of the jury and left town without ing any of the three persons He drove to the Pacific coast Hill said his mother had objected to his engagement to marry Miss Sawyer There was some conten- between his mother's will and his engagement to Miss but he declined to reveal its nature you sorry your mother Is the suspect was asked I am sorry hf replied FAIR PROMISES BE GREATEST IN HISTORY OF TOWN PRES OF A F OF L CONGRATULATES MEMBERS OF ORDER Urges That In Coming cal Campaigns they Vote For Favorable Candidates Unprecedented Rush For Concessions Commenced Many Ready Large American Legion ing Hall Is Mecca For Midway Largest Ever Placed Here Says There Has Been ing Change in Attitude of Employers and Financial Institutions WASHINGTON Sept In a labor day message to American workmen President Green of the American Federation of Labor day congratulated them on of the last and urg ed that in coming political their votes be cast for who favor the labor pause statements were coming from Matthew Woll vice president of the organization and Frank secretary Woll warned against revolutionary es and violent demonstrations and asked that American Labor study national forms of government with their division and delegation of power in order that its vote may be wisely cast Morrison led for and tion as the only effective by which labor may achieve its ends Viewing the labor movement as increasing in ship and in strength of President Green urged continuation of the campaign of the organization He deplored certain decisions of the courts in labor cases during the past year mentioning in particular the Supreme Courts disposal of the stone cutters and decisions against the milkmen of Boston and the car men in Indianapolis Mr Green said he observed a chance in the tude of as well as of financial and commercial toward recognition of Labor's con- that high wages make for prosperity and he be heard demands that the wages of all workers shall be reduced Only those who fail to comprehend the true basis of our nation's prosperity can favor or urge such a proposal It is the duty of the organized ers of America to oppose with most any attempt to impose a general reduction in wages MONTGOMERY CO JAIL DELIVERY Sept 4 Thompson who was serving a 4 year term for a bery at Pittstown escaped from the Montgomery County jail today and j eluded his pursuers by ordering a taxicab to take him to adelphia Two other who to accompany him were captured on the roor or the prison These James Walsn and John both of Philadelphia were awaiting trial for breaking and of the three men had been opened from the outside i and a knotted ropn ladder had been placed from roof to a balcony j below It was down this that Thompson made his way to the street A moment later he was speeding toward Philadelphia in a taxicab In that rity he at the Philadelphia station of the railroad paid the j driver SS fare and a dollar tip and disappeared Warren County's thirteenth an- Fair opens this morning with every prospect pointing to the est attendance in the history of cal fairs Secretary E M busy in his temporary office at the fair grounds said he had never seen such an inrush of concessions All day Saturday and much of day President R N Jones was hard at work helping the concessionaires to locate and stake out their the certain pieces ana parcels of ground alloted to each for the purposes of exhibiting their or at the Great Warren County Fair The clerks in the secretary's of- fice worked overtime entering long list of live farm manufactured popcorn and pink the ten thousand and one articles that go to the making of a big County Fair As early as Saturday afternoon the fair grounds looked as If the fair were already in progress with dozens of tents already the booths decorated and displaying their exhibits Chicken Dinner Charley was already on the Job and the festive hot dogs were sending forth their aroma from more than one stand All day and well into the evening ths concessionaires kept on most of them rolling in In large covered trucks or vans A casual visitor peeping in at the gate might well have supposed the fair was ready in progress supposed to be the day of the fair grounds was a im e of all day Cattle ex- hibits were arriving all huge bulls rearing their heads from slatted dairy cattle of various sheep and pigs the truck load The large can Legion Tent above bed and swayed the captive balloon served a special Sunday dinner to a throng of hungry tomers The members of the girls no less than thirty-five in number in are taking their meas at the Legion Tent and are going to prove a great drawing as everyone oves a particularly if she is a pretty girl The when it gets Into full swing this afternoon will tainly be the largest so far at a Warren County Fair and there will be enough variety in the ments to please everybody from grandfather down to the baby The Boy Scout booth is certainly one of the prettiest at the decked out in green pine boughs It will be a good place to get information at the you want to know where to find anything ask a Boy he can tell you Warren merchants and business firms have done selves proud in the elaborate tin s of their exhibits Notable among these is the big exhibit Of the Penn Public Service ion which is a remarkable tion of the many uses of electrical power The Frigidaire exhibit is an elaborate and interesting one There are many other fine displays Taking it all around it's certainly a great show The fair has had much wider newspaper publicity this year than on page large DEFENDS RIGHT OF UNION TO CONTEST Who Is Can You Name Warren Man Described on page Pa right of the United Mine to foal operators to place the mines in the district on a union defended in an by Thomas G ertson of the sylvania Federation of Labor from the pulpit of the street i Methodist Episcopal church The address was the first of a series of Sunday sermons by laymen Methodist Episcopal church stands squarely for the right of workers to bargain and that is what the United Mine Workers of America stands said Robertson the coal oper ators are doing their utmost to de- stroy the The Rev Clyde L pastor of the er read a paragraph from church laws to confirm tne labor leaders declaration of the Methodist church's attitude on the labor tion Picture a man of many including good business management although not Warren is known by more people than any other resident of the borough The gentleman referred to was born where four per cent is now permitted and together with his good fortune in has been ted his and maybe a little better of misfortune The to bed does not fuse with his business and he can be seen at his work nearly any time after noon His business is to make people forget the ber side of life and in the many years he has been in Warren he has sure succeeded He is a sometimes flashy a lover aud artist of music and a general all round good low Saturday's hero was High Sheriff George Urosch
