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Granddaughter of Famous Lex­ A L L i x i U P R E P R IE V E fA- Sm iAINRIDI TO BE FREED .^ ^ e Professor, Till They ington Leader II! and Alone Change Life. in Boston Lodging. FOR RE ARREST Orono, Jfe., April 1— ^How‘re F L A N S WAVER E M W S T A T E Boston, April 1.— ^Today the yon Sonna?keep 'em down on statue of the Minute Man stood the farm when the girls won’t on the green at Lexington gaz­ marry 'em^ ing with fixed eyes toward ffitd, CaH«4 M u lt Ob- Gets Its Nose tHrt of A e Up from / Consecticiit Agri- C. 0. P. LaMkrs WV Aid Beacon Hill, where a little old cnltural College,' nnheralded Chaimaii Lawyers Dacer- woman, the last of his line lay and t^ n n g , came Prof. L. G. on a rumpled cot in a tiny jectioB to B ilteore Snow Just m Tone to Heir DaVie. He mounted the plat-. Mtrtidw - Pd bf west end bedroom, penniless form where ordinary farm tan of Tim of flea for and close to death. Tranifer, SelTod by About New Bfizzari on problems'.were' under discus­ NcwtptpMTs Srngs Big Mrs. George W.. Rowe, sion at the jETnlyersity of Maine, New Trial— (W y Two granddaughter of the famed and from thto point of vantage Captain John Parker, leader ‘Treii«” efButtCbMf. the Way. ' hurldd a hand grenade among d m ^ it Scdnort. of the Lexington Minute Men, the cabbages and potatoes and Coart Days L eft herself once wealthy and so­ corn‘husks of the Pine Tree cially prominent in Haverhill, state. New. York, April 1.— Judge M(W- Chicago, April 1. — Mid-west Albany, N. Y.. April 1—The but deserted now and In pov­ , “ Girls, don’t marry farm­ Hartford, April 1.— Rebuffed at erty, had taken to bookselling. ris Koenig, sitting in general ses­ America pushed a frosted nose from “ wets” today were in complete con­ ers; boycott ’em !” advised the every turn, attorneys for*' Gerald During the last blizzard she sions today, declined to turn Rich­ under a blanket of snow this morn­ man from Connecticut. trol of the 1926 legislature. collapsed on the steps of the Chapman, the notorious bandit,'to^ ard Reese Wliittemore, ringleader ing half believing the weather had “ The day will come,” said After having been once defeated State House. Since then she Prof. Davis, “ when women day planned to make at least ona of the “ Night Club” bandit gang, played a premature April Fool’s in committee, the Karle proposal has been confined to her home. will refuse to marry farmers more desperate effort to save him She has no visitors except an over to the Buffalo authorities, .In joke. Clear skies and brisk tem­ for r state-wide referendum for a peratures made the unprecedented until they are assured that liv­ from the gallows, following the re­ agent of the community health spite of Gov. Smith’s request that ing conditions on the farm will modifioaiicn of the Volslerd law, freak blizzard of the past three fusal of Governor Trumbull, late association. this procedure be followed. Whitte- be every bit as good as in the todav was penuiu;,' before ’"he up­ days seem impossible. city. Then the farmers will yesterday to grant a fourth re­ per hout'i of the legislature, fav­ more is charged with murder by But a hasty review of figures and orably reported by tbe ‘.-'’ ate ju­ the Buffalo police. He is also want­ have no alternative but to prieve. X conditions showed at least a dozen buckle down and find a way diciary committee by a vote of ten ed for murder in Baltimore. dead, more than a million dollars’ They advised Chapman, who sits MISS SMITH NAMED Te<imically Released. ' to bring this condition to moodily in his cell at Wethersfield to eight. damage done, traffic so disorgan­ pass.” The referendum proposal will be Afterward District Attorney. Ban- ized that it will be days before it Is prison, that they would apply to passed in the Senate early next ton decided to release Whittemore straightened out'and the forebod­ State Superior Court Judge L.. P. week and sent to the Assembly ’26 VALEDiaORlAN on his own recognizance in order ing statement o f. the weather bu­ Waldo Marvin for a new trial. where the “ wets” have rounded up to comply with the governor s reau that a second storm is hasten­ GIRL’S FATHE TO They planned to submit four af- 85 votes in its favor, nine more wishes. Whittemore will be taken ing from the Rocky mountains and fida-rits to the court, and, if the^ than necessary to pass it. in charge by three Buffalo detec­ is due here tomorrow. judge deemed necessary, to offer Fly to Courts tives as soon as the district attor­ More Snow. the .four affidavits in prison for ex­ -- Advocates of prohibition, real­ D a u f^ r of R ^ r t J. Snith ney's action is read into the Reports from Kansas City said it CHECK BROWNING amination. It is on the evidence of izing they will not be able to pre­ ords. was again snowing heavily there. these witnesses that Chapman’s vent passage of the referendum in Gets Honor at High School Banton’s promised action came Although Wyoming was greeted lawyers alleged the bandit should the '.egislature. now are preparing during a conference this, morning, Finders’ keepers— if they can get it! Today being April 1, this iittio with a blizzard this morning, the be given another trial. to go into the courts in an effort following Judge Koenig’s decision scene is being enacted on many a street corner in many a city through­ weather bureau at Denver said It hteods to Inyesb'gate ^Xm- Small Chance to prevent the proposal from being * — Two Others Naaied. that Whittemore was the prize of was a.Iccal disturbance. Minneso­ Chapman is to hang next Monday the local court, unless releS^sed by out the land submitted to the voters. ta, however,- which escaped yester­ night, shortly after midnight, .and ' Under the Karle measure, the the district attorney or through a day’s snows, was having snow and deroVa Man” Before Per- the present outlook is that there is referendum will take place on Supreme Court writ. The necessary little likelihood of official or judi­ Miss Marjorie Smith, daughter papers, making Whittemore a mur­ colder weather this morning. June eigh’ h. Temperatures dropped generally cial intervention. The sponsors for the -propos.il of Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Smith of der defendant in addition to the mittmg Marriage. GOOD FRIDAY HEE T A N K E BEATS BIG during the night and at 6 o’clock The once widely-heralded "super- say the question of constitutionali- Elwood street, will be the valedic­ grand larceny charges facing mm bandit” realizes that he is nearing |ty has been checked up carefully torian of the class of 1926 at the here, would be drawn up m a few this morning it was 23 above zaro in Chicago, compared with 32 New York, April 1— ^William the end o f his life. As the clock by some of the foremost lawyers graduating exercises at the South lioiirs, Banton said. TO BE OBSERVED ticks off the minutes to the hour of )of the part/, in eluding Flihu Police were not prepared to say LIN E TO RESCUE above at the same timo yesterday. Heenan, automobile sales agent of Manchester High school in June. March went out cloaked in a his doom, he grimly paces his cell'; .Root, and that there is not the yet how important were arrests re­ ; Hempstead, N. Y., today declared or sits in silence and has -very littla! slightest chance of success for any This announcement, which gives ported in Cleveland, where the whirl of snow at midnight, taking that his daughter, Frances, not yet with it three new sectional records to say to anyone, save his lawyers. dry efforts to forestall the expres­ Mies Smith the highest scholar­ Whittemore band made its heaa- Scores of newspaper men are ar­ since the weather bureau has been sixteen, is definitely betrothed to sion of the will of the people. ship honor at the local school, was quarters at times. ^ „ IhiicfaeBter M is and Stores riving for the hanging. Officials af made at assembly this afternoon SUrvan Saves Laleham’s established. They were; Edward W, Browning, “ Cinderella Politically the agreement to ac­ Two “ fences” indicted by the man.” the jail and at the state’s attorney's cept the resolution has all sorts of by Principal Clarence P.
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