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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1927
Page
4
Police seek a suspected con man nicknamed T F Smith after a Merchant Max Block reported a meat chopper scam at his Fairfield avenue store. The man allegedly took 1750 by check for a worn part he never received and the company confirmed the fraud.
The U S navy dirigible Los Angeles completed its first extended flight in weeks departing Lakehurst New Jersey and roaming near New York City all day. Rear Admiral W A Moffat ferried as passenger and rain greeted the return as the ship settled safely in the hangar.
Roscoe W. Thatcher has arrived as the new president of Massachusetts Agricultural College and assumed duties. The college opens September 14 with Thatcher addressing students at the opening assembly. Faculty vacancies remain and trustees will meet near opening to act on his recommended appointments.
A Young Men's Republican association meeting was held last night at the office of temporary chairman W. F. D. Kilpatrick. Attorney William E. Burton said progress is satisfactory with work in all districts and women beginning to organize. Another meeting is planned for next Friday.
Hartford dispatch reports a Colonial Transport mail plane bound from Boston to Hartford and New York went missing after leaving Boston Friday night. The craft was last heard from Brainard Field at 9 20 pm claiming a weather forced landing at Webster Massachusetts but was to resume flight within 15 minutes.
Walter R. Kirk, millionaire soap manufacturer, was guarded at his Lake Forest home after a death threat demanding 30,000 in small denomination notes or the writer would kill him. The blackmail note, mailed in Lake Forest, was received Wednesday and signed sympathizer of Sacco and Vanzetti, asking for 10,000 in small bills hidden along the Waukegan road near Lake Bluff.
Ottawa dispatch reports the 8S. & Boothic patrol ship, returning from the Arctic, approaching the coast to aid the search for the missing British plane. Officers wired to keep a sharp watch during the voyage to Sydney, Nova Scotia.
Mrs Henry Young, 63, of 199 Fairfield Avenue, was treated by Emergency hospital staff for a deep cut to her left hand. A carving knife slipped while she worked, severely gashing between the thumb and index finger.
Captain Frederick A. Giles British aviator awaiting repairs on the Hess Blue Bird wired Mrs Leéslig Hamilton of Ottawa offering ten thousand in aid for the search of the missing Fokker St Raphael. He would fly to St Johns N F and extend 1100 miles over the Atlantic if accepted. Giles flew with Hamilton in and after World War I.
The body recovered from Gravesend Bay was identified by Dr. Leo Davidson as Benny Goldstein, linked to a $70,000 life insurance plot. The DA halted funeral arrangements pending identity confirmation, then released the body to Goldstein's family for burial.
C. L. Wilson an embezzler sought by Washington DC and alias Cargill was arrested in Portland Oregon after being roused by detectives. He pulled a pistol from a bag and shot himself, dying at age thirty five.
Rev Dr S H Hall Young, eighty, Seattle author and missionary, died after being struck by a southbound interurban car near Zies ing between Fairmont and Clarksburg. The incident occurred at 5 pm in a local hospital later reported by the Associated Press.
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