Conflicting Versions in 9-Year-Old Farrell Death
Lawrence Farrell Jr. died of a heart gunshot at St. Vincent's after an old service revolver was found in the Farrell home. His mother disputes competing accounts while Dr. Peter Deluca notes autopsy findings suggest the wound was not self-inflicted as police and investigators pursue the coroner's hearing to resolve the case.
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Lawrence Farrell, Jr
Orchard Street
St. Vincent's Hospital
Joseph
Lawrence
Hinkel
Farrell
Peter R. Deluca
St. Vincent'a Hospital
DeLuca
Bridgeport
Lawrence Arrell
Challenger Agke
Cornell
Connecticut
R. G. DeForest
Boston
Mie
E. Schultz
Gles
Presbyterian Bible School
First Presbyterian Church
Henry Sprague
Sprague Meter Company
London
Fairfield County
Bethel
GOP Chairmen Explain Changes in Committee
Seven changes in the Republican Town committee filled vacancies or reassignments as district leaders retired or moved. Alfred W. Burdick and Bridget A. Lester said a meeting will set a campaign plan for the primary. New appointees include Havens in the eleventh, McCathron in the seventh, McGovern replacing Kilpatrick, and others in the women’s panel.
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Republican Town Committee
Alfred W. Burdick
Bridget A. Lester
Elmer H. Havens
John F. Maroney
Henry N. McCathron Arell
Richard Sheridan
Maroney
Sheridan
Burdick
Ruth Kilpatrick
Nellie McGovern
Miss Lester
Katherine M‘risley
Rose A. McCarthy
Tustey
Sadie BR. Loewich
Fannie I. Crosby
Crosby
Levi Moore
Arthur IF. Connor
Catherine Matson
Eva M. Nichols
Gypsy Band Queen Entertains Then Fled From Bridgeport
Report tells of Queen Josephertus, fifth wife of the Eling, who leads a travelling gypsy tribe with six limousines and four trucks. The law officer at Fairfield avenue and Middle street was stunned as the king, Josephartus of Russia and father of twenty, was ordered to leave town. The tribe planned to head to Washington then on to Japan.
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Josephertus
Bridgeport
Fairfield Avenue
Middle Street
Josephartus
Russia
Washington
Japan
Submarine Plant Resumes Work After Government Pay Row
New London Ship and Engine Co resumes 400 workers after six weeks layoff as government agrees to pay for work done on submarines 41 to 47 under contract with Electric Boat. President Spear blasts government bookkeeping and cites division of authority between the Comptroller General and executive departments.
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New London
New London Ship and Engine Company
United States
Lawrence Y. Spear
Spear
Washington
Congress
Root
General Accounting Office
Comptroller- General
Electric Boat Company
Navy Department
French propose Ruhr evacuation in final offer
London July 30 French compromise for breaking the deadlock at the inter Allied conference provides for evacuation of Hagen in the Ruhr by French and Belgian troops after the Dawes plan loan of 200 million dollars. It calls for later withdrawal from Dortmund Bochum and Essen, contingent on German fulfillment of Dawes obligations.
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Inter
Hagen
Ruhr
Havas
Dortmund
Bochum
Hssen
Herriot
Macdonald
Kellogg
Houses of Commons
Germany
Paris
Roof Collapse Injures Dozen at Wool Combing Plant
In Woonsocket a $1,000,000 Branch River Wool Combing plant under construction collapsed its saw tooth roof. Ten workers were injured with one near death as fifty men worked nearby and a tower lookout raised the alarm. The firm is a subsidiary of Prouvost and Lefebre of Roubaix.
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Woonsocket
R. L
Branch River Wool
Branch River Wool Combing Company
Prouvost and Lefebre
Roubaix
France
Senator Lodge Passes Comfortable Day Despite Heat
Cambridge mass July 30 Senator Henry Cabot Lodge enjoyed a comfortable day after an operation for a bladder ailment He rested well and at 6 pm Dr John M Cunningham reported continued satisfactory condition No date set for a second operation Messages of sympathy arrived from Theodore Roosevelt and Albert H Washburn A Roosevelt club luncheon adopted a resolution expressing sympathy and hope for a rapid recovery
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Mass
Henry Cabot Juadge
John M. Cunningham
Theodore Roosevelt
Navy
Albert H. Washburn
Falmouth
United States
Austria
Roosevelt Club
Senator Lodge
Aged Man Killed by Auto in Front of Home
New Haven reports 78 year old Pasquale Gagila of 360 Goff Street killed by a automobile driven by Murdock S Dingwall of 306 Goff Street in front of his home early this morning. The driver says the man stepped from the curb directly into the path of the vehicle.
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New Haven
Icebergs Threaten U S Airmen Near Greenland Coast
U S Army aviators led by Lieutenant Lowell H Smith press toward the homeward leg of a world flight as authentic Danish reports describe severe ice floes and giant icebergs off Greenland. A Danish steamer will serve as base amid drifting ice as the crew faces dangerous conditions and remains undaunted.
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Aliance
Washington Star
Fred BR. Neeldy
Ington Star
North American News- Alliance
U. S
Richmond
Kirkwall
Orkney Islands
Greenland
Lowell Smith
Angmaghalik
Scotland
Associated Press
Lowell H. Smith
United States Army
Brough
England
Jiouton Bay
Express Train Derails at Woodside injuring 98
An Long Island Rail Road express train from Pennsylvania Terminal to Port Washington derailed at Woodside yards when a hand switch was prematurely thrown. Twenty eight people were hurt seriously. 13 with critical injuries were moved to Bellevue Hospital via special ambulance train. The incident involved nine passenger coaches and disrupted service near New York at 6:33 p.m. J B Moore, a helper on the freight engine, turned the switch.
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New York
Long Island
Woodside
Pennsylvania Station
Bellevue Hospital
Pennsylvania Terminal
Port Washington
Pennsylvania
J. B. Moore
Mental Disease Debate in Franks Case Prompts Legal Puzzle
Chicago July 30. Judge John R Caverly weighs whether mental disease equals insanity or a mitigate factor in Nath Leopold Jr and Richard Loeb’s kidnapping case over Robert Franks. The defense resists insanity as a defense while the state pushes to admit mental condition evidence. arguments to continue into tomorrow.
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Chicago
Associated Press
John R. Caverly
Nath Leopold, Jr
Richard “Loeb
Robert Franks
Caverly
Robert H. Crowe
Supreme Court
Waverly
Flo
Crowe
Benjamin Bachrach
Raids Net 56 Arrests Across 48 New Haven Saloons
In a police operation pending tonight 48 saloons were raided resulting in 56 arrests including six women. Warrants linked to June 16 liquor sale evidence led to charges such as file and exchange and obstructing enforcement. All released on bond. one man found dead five years ago and another jailed for liquor law violation. Willan Ballakt of 687 Broad Street held on $600 bond.
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New Haven
Willan Ballakt
Royalty at Paris Olympic opening tableau
The red haired president of France sat in the official box with the Prince of Walks and his brother Henry on either side as flags passed by. Royalty rose, hats in hand, and a tableau formed before the crowd. Miss Curtiss of Bridgeport will report the scene later.
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Prince of
Henry
Curtiss Bridgeport
Paris
City Swelters as Mercury Reaches Record High
Heat baked the region with temperatures near 96 degrees as a 64th day without rain stretched drought across farms in New Haven and statewide. A brief shower delivered little relief while New York posted 91 degrees at 8 p.m., marking a hot July with several prostrations reported.
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Mercury
United States Weather Bureau
New Haven
United States
Leonard Tarr
Newaven
New York
State Offers to Drop Indictment in Franks Murder Trial
Chicago July 30 States Attorney Crowe offered to drop the kidnapping indictment by nolle prosequi if the defense withdrew its guilty plea. The defense refused. Authorities believed the offer aimed to provide grounds for re indictment if the murder penalty failed.
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Chicago
Crowe
Franks
Hasias
Bridgeport Death Details Varied in Doctor’s Son Case
Parents and police dispute exact circumstances of the death of Lawrence Arrell, son of a doctor and officer, with a medical examiner’s ruling noted. Weather brief and local items follow, including regional notes on schools and public notices.
Plane Dropped Chemicals in Rockville Forest Fire
Rockville reports one of the largest fires in town history with flames spreading across timber land near Aborn farm White Lot southeast of Sandy Beach road. An air drop attempt had limited effect while recruits gathered from nearby towns to fight the blaze. state and local wardens aided in containment efforts as flames renewed after brief quiet.
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Aborn
White Lot
Sandy Beach Road
Boy Fatally Struck by Auto in Near Collision
July 30 news reports Paul Turdin, age 7, fatally struck by an automobile driven by F. A. Hazel, chauffeur for EB. C. Miller of Philadelphia. Hazel arrested and held on $500 bond for coroner’s hearing after drivers claim the child ran into the road.
Auto turns over in Lynn. Dexter woman killed
Miss Edwin Clifford Call of Dexter Maine was killed when the car she rode in overturned in Lynn Massachusetts late this afternoon. The crash pinned her and two male occupants beneath the vehicle while the other two passengers escaped with minor injuries.
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Lynn
Mass
Edwin Clifford Call
Dexter
Maine
Britain objects to navy plans in Washington talks
London disclosed today that Britain formally protested to the United States and Japan, arguing that raising gun elevations on battleships would breach the Washington naval treaty. U S officials would not comment, noting the issue requires careful study after the European return of Secretary Hughes.
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Associated Press
London
United States
Japan
State Department
Europe
Hughes
Walington
Congress
Harding
Denby
Navy Department
Navy
Boy Bandit Robs Store Till of $20
A youth robbed a cash register of twenty dollars and some checks at a store on an undisclosed date. W. W. Austin of Austin Becker and Connor reported the incident to the Detective Bureau after the boy slipped away while he attended to a customer outside.
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Detective Bureau
Woman Found Near Death Suspect Foul Play Reported
In Capitol Hill Denver a young former wife of Kansas City banker Joseph H. Cooper is found unconscious in a gas-filled kitchenette. Mrs Gertrude Louise Romney Cooper, identified by her mother, is in hospital with police deeming the case a probable murder attempt. her son Paul Ramsey, 12, was with relatives during the incident.
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Cole
Capitol Hill
Joseph
H. Cooper
Kansas City
Gertrude Louise Romney
Cooper
Wichita
Kansas
Mra Cooner
Gertrude O'Reilly
Keytesville
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