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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1925
Page
7
May 15. The Board of Estimate approved 820,000 for vaccine and supplies to prevent spread of smallpox in the city. Health Commissioner Monaghan testified that cases are near and more virulent this year, urging vaccination. Mayor Hylan was vaccinated yesterday at his request.
May 15. Salvatore La Martina of Waterbury, described as an insane alien, had an deportation order signed by Federal Judge Thomas under immigration law. He came to the United States in 1969 and returned to Italy in 1915 to fight in the war, serving four years, with the Italian government paying his return. His habeas corpus writ was denied. His wife and child will be sent back to Italy along with him.
Harrisburg May today Governor Pin echot signed a bill giving juries the option of life imprisonment or death in three murder verdicts. Previously the penalty was death. The law raises questions about conditionality and amendments to a prior act criticized by some authorities.
A noted criminologist who defended Leopold and Loeb has been retained to defend William Shepherd and his wife in connection with the murder of McClintock.
New Orleans May 15 Professor G. W. Peckham a faculty member at Newromb College shot and killed his wife and two children before turning the pistol on himself. The tragedy occurred at the professor's home on the street from the college.
In Schoharie Minnesota on May 5 Smith Spaulding, 75, died by suicide at his home, shooting himself with a rifle. Ten years earlier his sister killed herself in the same house by the same method.
The Interstate Commerce Commission fixed a final valuation of 31,030,000 for Bangor and Aroostook Railroad property as of June 30, 1916, despite protests, plus an added 8,850,484 for leased but not owned property. The company had claimed 25,350,000, arguing for goodwill and going concern value, but the ICC rejected goodwill as a measurable property value.
Representatives of the Volunteer Fire company appeared before the Warden and Board of Burgesses at the Greenwich town hall to urge a new fire house. Lieutenants Hubbard and Hutchinson, along with others, cited an undersized Arch Street site and inadequate bays for heavy apparatus. Options include sites on Greenwich Avenue and Mason Street rear of the Masonic Temple, with a plan for an Arctic company house across from the current truck house. No action until 1927 when the Economy store lease ends.
The Rev. William Wilkinson, dubbed the Bishop of Street, defended John Kehoe in court after police charged Kehoe with stealing an automobile from a clergyman who had loaned it to him. Wilkinson, subpoenaed by police, said he testified to avoid sending Kehoe to jail for taking a car on a joy ride, which ended in a hydrant crash. Kehoe was held on $1,000 bond for the grand jury.
In Havana on May 16, Jose Fr. Cane the former representative who shot his rival Martinez Alonzo years earlier and hid under an amnesty law was shot dead after attending a Jal-Alat game. A policeman with him was wounded as four or five men in a car opened fire. The assailants fled. motive not yet found.
In New London, workers at Groton Municipal Water and Tight Nant walk out over alleged lack of cooperation by Superintendent William BR Jacobus regarding foreman Jona Crawford. Two female employees return to duties. two men and a young man remain off work, expected back soon.
New Haven on May 1. Dr Lillian Wood, a local physician, told police she was struck on the thigh by a .22 caliber bullet while sitting in a park on Wednesday. The injury was only a bruise, and Dr Wood said she heard no report of a weapon.
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