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Newspaper
Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1911
Page
6
Practical nostrums fill this page from cleaning to cooking and furnishings. Advice covers freeing fire grates with shells and oysters, preserving knives, brightening tarnished silver, preventing stains on glass, keeping olives fresh, and mending cracked porcelain by milk bonding.
Boston interns closing arguments in the Sederquist Barry & Company trial describe the defendants as crooks after last year’s $700,000 assets-free collapse. Assistant District Attorney Weber delivers final remarks to the jury as deliberations near.
Sheriff Vollmer toured the North Avenue jail to find 300 prisoners hungry and the pantry bare. Prisons lacked power as the engineer’s term expired, with moving vans leaving as officials departed. Deputy Scofield finally secured food, ending the silent crisis amid staffing questions and possible deputy appointments.
Morris Coyne a 23 year old who is serving four months in jail after a chase and arrest by Motorcycle Policeman Dailey on charges of insulting East Bridgeport women. A neighbor writes that Coyne resembles but is not the man who targeted women, urging authorities to reopen the case and noting Coyne is the sole support of his aged mother.
The Chilean government awarded a contract for two submarines to the Electric Boat Company of Quincy Massachusetts. The boats will cost half a million dollars each, be built in Seattle, and sent to Chile under their own power.
New York June 2 George Towel 30 a wealthy man with a large Vermont estate near Lindenburg surrendered after noon upon learning an indictment for abandoning his wife son and daughter. He pleaded not guilty and was released on 1000 dollar bail.
In Winsted on June 2 Mrs Torrington Phelps was struck by lightning while walking in stocking feet. The bolt tore off the sole of one stocking and she was recovering from the shock the following day.
Monterey reports twenty people died in three days of riot and guerrilla fighting in Guadalajara after a peace declaration. Mobs tried to drive the Federal Rurales from the city as rival forces clashed during the unrest.
London reports Admiral Sir Percy Scott obtained a divorce today and custody of his children. He named Dr Phillip Greene as co respondent after saying he found his wife and Greene together in a Paris hotel.
New Haven report details four heavy wreckers from the New Haven system working through the night to rerail a beef train that derailed between Derby and Orange. The first wrecker failed to stay on track while a Harlem river wrecker, a local crew, and a Waterbury crew joined to lift the rails and restore service.
Minneapolis report states J. D. Bren, cashier of the University of Minnesota, was held up by three men on the campus at 10 30 today and robbed of a satchel containing 13 000. Two men restrained Bren while a third took the satchel and the trio fled. The empty satchel was later found on railroad tracks near the university.
The class of 1912 held its Junior Day in the crowded assembly hall decorated in gold and white. A lengthy program featured songs recitations and musical numbers culminating in a flag presentation from the Senior Class Color Guard and a large audience singing the Star Spangled Banner. News note: at Hartford a woman in a large Merry Widow hat became stuck in a doorway at Union Station. porters freed her.
Medical Examiner Donaldson issues certificate stating death by the man's own action. An unknown 35 year old colored man, likely a vagrant, was struck by the Bay State Express known as the Steel Flyer near Fairfield depot while walking in the opposite direction. He tore papers from his pocket before leaping, hindering identification. Remains collected and sent to Rourke and Rourke morgue as detectives search for clues.
Julia Menier a dressmaker of 276 Fairfield avenue testified that Zephyr Menier left home and never returned after promising to be away for an hour. Judge Curtis granted a desertion divorce, noting the marriage began November 26, 1892, and that Menier failed to support his wife who supported herself by dressmaking. Other witnesses said the couple had not resided together since December 1906.
Rose Bezold aged 14 who vanished from her North Coventry home last Sunday was found working in a Willimantic mill. She told officials she wanted to see a big city and was returned to her parents after the discovery.
Walter Janakowski of 58 Oak Street was fined five dollars plus costs in city court for breaking quarantine and exposing hundreds to scarlet fever on June 2 in New Haven.
Margaret Ingersoll aged 16, heiress to half a million dollars, was located in a Marietta, Georgia restaurant after a two year search ordered by Joseph H. Choate of New York. Her father abandoned the family, later died, and Choate acted as guardian. Agents traced the girl to her employment and brought her to New York.
The tax collectors office reports over 1.355 million handled by two collectors and one clerk. About half came in Wednesday and Thursday this week with 284 000 on Wednesday and yesterday and 225 234.85 on the last day. Funds are on the banks books and posted. this year’s collection leads past years despite some nonpayment by First district landowners.
Patrick Winn, victim of a painful accident at Bridgeport Forge Company, was reported at St. Vincent's hospital doing very well. Doctors believe his life may be saved though full recovery is unlikely. Winn was injured at a drop press when a hot iron rod pierced his body.
The body of Herbert Rulbertson, a wealthy leatherman from the Midwest, was found in his Sherman Hotel room this afternoon with a bullet wound to the head. A note found nearby read Insane Cremate Mother God forgive.
Pittsburg June 2 Striking shopmen of the Pennsylvania Railroad await the outcome of a conference with trainmen who are considering joining a general strike on the Pennsylvania lines. The trainmen are meeting today to decide.
Harry Munsey aged 14 of 74 California street rode a bicycle yesterday afternoon and collided with another cyclist at Broad and Houston streets. He suffered a concussion and was taken to St Vincent's hospital where he was reported improving this afternoon though under observation.
Mrs Caroline Garvan of Norwalk, widow when she married Hugh Gervan on September 17, 1904, claims he drew 1600 from her bank and left her penniless in Buffalo. She says he vanished after a Rochester job promise, taking her money and a $10 gold piece. The Superior court case records her return to Norwalk.
Dennis Demarra, 198, a Bridgeport painter, fell 30 feet from a three story scaffold on Connecticut Ave and Logan St after rope slipped. He landed on his back, was stunned, but recovered quickly and was taken to Bridgeport Hospital for observation of possible internal injuries. He works for Tony Farte.
Philadelphia reports three police officers and two Republican leaders sentenced to one year in county prison for conspiracy unlawful arrest and intimidation of voters and workers in the 1910 election. The five men named are John Lynch John Swesney Charles D Shobert Thomas J Duffy Richard J Bussy.
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