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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1926
Page
2
Trial details in a high profile murder case reveal defense claims that fingerprint enlargements were distorted. Testimony from fingerprint experts, prosecutors, and character witnesses outlines disputes over thumb marks and print fidelity while jurors hear cross examinations and prior diary entries.
Six witnesses testified on Mrs. Jane Gibson's reputation for truth while others detailed diary pencil usage tied to the 1922 murders. Detective Riley traced a Lavallette to New Brunswick run in 1 hour 36 minutes, and Demarest recalled, with Di Martini and Burke corroborating elevator exchanges.
Stamford police arrested two New York youths identifying as Oscar Hurd and Harold Porter after tires valued at ten dollars were found in a passing car. The pair were arraigned in Bethel on burglary charges, with bond set at two dollars fifty cents each, and were sent to Superior Court. Local troopers questioned them in Ridgefield and Stamford as investigators traced the theft to Fleetwood's garage in Bethel. One suspect briefly escaped during a chase through backyards as officers pursued the vehicle driven by the trio.
The Rector's Aid Society of St Pauls Episcopal Church on Kossuth Street will meet this afternoon at 2 30 o clock at the Parsonage house. Members are requested to be punctual.
Somerville New Jersey November 30 jurors in the Hall Mills murder trial faced scrutiny over reported off stage chatter and dozing as State Senator Alexander Simpson pressed to counter defense testimony and possible mistrial. Witnesses including handwriting experts and doctors testified amid a tense court mood with photographers restricted and jurors watched for signs of influence.
Milford November 30 Special John Arborle of 80 Park Street New Haven is hospitalized after a rear end collision on the New Haven Turnpike. He drove into the rear of a parked truck on the roadside about a mile from Milford on the New Sa ven Atropike. Arborle suffered a broken nose painful cuts and pruses. Police are investigating.
Greenwich, Nov 6 A Prank Caroli twenty five of Port Chester was fatally injured when struck by a truck owned by the New York Massachusetts Motor Seiver company of Springfield and operated by Willam I Parker of West Springfield. Catala died in hospital soon after the accident.
In a coroner's inquest a former boyfriend gave a full statement about Miss Derry's death at St Vincent's hospital. Dr H R DeLuca testified the cause was blood poisoning after an operation at Yochelman's sanitarium. Witnesses include police and physicians as coroner keeps identities confidential.
A series of ambulance dispatch notes list calls at multiple streets for cerebral hemorrhage cardiac issues and other conditions. Patients aged 35 to 77 were taken to St. Vincent's, Bridgeport, or HiNaide home for observation or care, with incidents including exposure and alcohol use after dockside accidents.
In Somerville the Hall Mills trial paused as five men in a front row were briefly questioned as possible photographers. A court frisk found no cameras, and the men were released but then photographed by regular newspaper photographers. They were later made honorary members of the Photographers Union.
Train No 82 bound for Boston faces a near disaster when the Pullman iron step is forgotten. A station attache fires a stool onto the moving car, but the object is split by the wheels leaving a twisted piece of metal and prompting speculation on how Pullman passengers later alight at New Haven without the aid.
Arthur R. Gould of Preaque Iste won Maine's special election to fill the Fernald vacancy by a margin of 48,145 votes over Fulton J. Redman. Gould carried every county and city, unprecedented in the state, with Republicans gaining control of the Senate.
Washington reports tilt between Tilson and GOP leaders over Farm Relief and McNary-Haugen measures. Talks at White House with Coolidge and key Republicans signal early planning for appropriations, banking, radio, and farm policy, with $250 million proposed for a federal export support scheme.
The F. W. Grand, Five, Ten and Twenty-five Cent Stores, Inc. leases 50 feet of frontage on Main and Middle streets for 21 years, adjoining Steiger-Poole, with opening slated January 1927. The chain operates 56 stores in eastern and midwestern cities, and extensive alterations began last week.
A three foot sea gull attacked a sagging high tension wire along Sumner Creek in Middlesex county causing a shutdown of 18,000 volt service. The bird’s collision with another line halted electricity across the area and Russer Manufacturing Co mills paused for ten minutes.
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