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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1954
Page
2
The defendant seeks to defeat new indictment claims arguing they challenge only the fact of indictment. The judge will decide whether to throw out the charges, affecting trial timing on perjury allegations and potential government appeal. A tested outcome could push trial toward January 10 as scheduled or alter start date.
Youth abandons robbery at front door during incident described by Sgt Budmick. Boy detained at Juvenile Detention Home on Guibert Street pending further questioning.
Police continued the search for two armed bandits who robbed Alexander Rich at his home on 1140 Kossuth Street Saturday night. Rich, 44, reported $4,200 in cash and jewelry taken as the rogues fled the scene.
Police at headquarters say after viewing pictures they could not identify the suspects. The bandits rang the bell at Mr Rich’s home, forced him to open a safe containing 1800 dollars cash and 2400 dollars in jewelry. One thief emptied the safe while the other pulled a lamp cord from a plug, tied his legs, then ordered him to lie face down on a sofa with a pillow over his head before fleeing.
In Brinkley Arkansas on December 13 AP reports police cleared the auto agency owner of any link to the fatal kindling stick attack that killed Mrs Milton Fuller 25 a mother of two. The husband awake in the living room found his wife dying in the bedroom and said a prowler struck her skull with a four foot long stick of kindling as bloodhounds searched for a tall man in one shoe seen fleeing the scene.
Air line Queen Elizabeth sails from Southampton with transatlantic passenger movements planned. Andrea Doria Genoa Geno RMW Blatchford Bremerhaven One, Helenki Tahar Dakar also noted among upcoming departures and arrivals in New York.
Adelman son of William W Adelman and Zimmer son of Samuel Zimmer were named leaders of the 15 Leave City group. Adelman is a Central High School and NYU journalism graduate. Zimmer is an accountant, Bas sic high school and University of Bridgeport BS in accounting. Uncertainty over who will remain with the group left gifts from the Bnai Brith, Catholic War Veterans, and the Goden Bible Society undelivered.
Mrs Gustave R Bratz, 38, of Richmondville Avenue Westport, was shaken up when a car driven by her husband was rear ended while at a traffic light on the Post Road at Woodrow Avenue. Mrs Dorothy Hardesty, 73, of Woodhill Row Westport, operator of the other car, told patrolman Stephen Zidosi that her car halted. she removed her foot to talk to her son. She was summoned to court Dec 27. About 2300 buildings were destroyed in a Baltimore fire on Feb 7, 1904.
Danbury detectives with seven Treasury agents arrested three River Street restaurant operators at 6 am on charges of selling liquor retail without a government permit. Suspects Louis Owen, Elva Thomas, and Louis Sockas were to be taken to Bridgeport for hearings before U S Commissioner Earl W Smith. Seized items included whiskey and distilled liquor.
The UN Assembly backed the US claim that jailed Americans and other UN personnel are prisoners of war under the Korean armistice. Peiping gave no reply to Hammarskjold's cable, with a UN spokesman noting days may pass before a response. Lines to Peiping remained open via Sweden and India. Presbyterianism became England's state religion in 1646.
Coroner William F Jones Jr. schedules an inquest into the slaying of Mrs. Margaret Ford George of Waterbury. Stanley Zdenmick, former husband, returned from El Paso after arrest, admits shooting her as they sat in a parked car near the Naugatuck Beacon Falls line. Mrs. George’s body was found last November in a shallow grave off Route 23 in New Canaan after she left home to date Zdenmick. County Detective Thomas Laden brought Zdenmick back to Waterbury.
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