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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1925
Page
3
Horace A Stanard president of the Norfolk Savings Bank died after a short illness at Litchfield County Hospital. He was born in Norfolk in 1847 and is survived by his wife. The death occurred in Winsted on July 14.
Bridgeport's Locomobile plant reports a rising output with 18 cars daily and 300 workers, aiming to boost to 40 Dr daily for straight eight Locomobiles. Most cars go to dealers for speed, while foreign demand grows. manager Gavlord Hovtves confirms continued production of the original luxury Locomobile amid expansion.
President Coolidge expressed satisfaction that the United States receives accurate information on League of Nations work. He said the American public can rely on press dispatches and reports from the American legation at Berne for developments, and he favors the current system without assigning a specific representative in Europe.
Detective James Kane, brother of murdered Maren Kane, arrested Ralph Dixon, a Brooklyn man, after neighbors identified a man seen near the scene the night of the attack. Dixon, who allegedly fled toward Boston, denied involvement and was held on a 2500 bail for vagrancy.
Henry Yo Haven of Wiechester was arraigned in Suffolk Superior Court on a secret indictment charging him with manslaughter in the Pr kwi h lah building collapse during a dance. He pleaded not guilty and was held on 2600 dollar bail. eleventh defendant arraigned in the disaster that claimed 44 lives. Adjoining lot plans and sub contractor matters cited. In Alaska a mountaineering party led by Captain AH McCarthy reached Mount Logan after conquering the previously unclimbed peak.
Springfield July 14 Friday the 17th of July may bring a grim fate for Russell Scott whose eight year old son Robert Scott is to receive two birthday gifts from an orphanage in Rochester and V. One will be handkerchiefs with embroidered pictures, the other may be the hangman’s noose if the Justic e machinery fails to alter the court’s murder verdict. The family pleads mercy as a State Board of Pardons convenes to consider mercy and potential commutation to imprisonment.
George S Hawley successor to W T Hincks heads the Fairfield County jury commission as it selects jury service names for the year. Cities and towns provide numbered allocations for Bethel Bridgeport Brookfield Danbury Dairen Fairfield Greenwich Monroe New Canaan New Fairfield Newtown Norwalk Ridgefield Shelton Sherman Stamford Stratford Trumbull Weston Westport Wilton. commission to reduce the list to fit capacity.
Ruben Harris of New York is held for trial on a fatal collision near Darien that killed Arthur Gorham Pennell of Westport. The coroner found Pennell driving about 20 mph before a collision with Harris’s vehicle. Witnesses included three women and two other men. Harris posted 2500 bond in Norwalk.
A local cleric known as the New Eye of Molochure and a Ku Klux Klan figure faced arrest in Geein county on a charge of receiving stolen funds. The case, presented by Reader George Rowley, involved alleged accomplices and questioned timing and motives amid a tense political backdrop.
21 year old Craig Tiddie of Philadelphia faces charges of drunken driving and operating without a license. He appears in First District Court, Newport, with Providence involvement noted, scheduled for Friday.
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