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Town Mourns Bowers' Death THE WBATHEK V e rM M t »> W. ». WmmthmM S a n a a . NET PRESS RUX Sait Havaa AVBRAGfe! DAILY CIRCULATION OF THE EVENING HERALD Fair tonight and Friday; colder for the month of November, 1027 tonight. U 5,057 \ State m (TW E L V E PAGES) PRICE THREE CENTS MANCHESTER, CONN., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1927. CUuBUed AdvMtialng on IS. VOL. X U I., NO. 52. HERE’S A REAL NEW CONGRESS REMUS INSANE WEDDING GIFT TOWN MOURNS SAYS^THAT BEACH TO FORGET OLD! AT'OMESSAYS Boss Gives Couple His Entire ADMITTED MURDER Business, One of the Best in City. PARH CONTROL! BOWERS’ DEATH NEWSP^ERMAN< I - I Y THROW RED PEPPER Evanston, 111., Dec. 1. Mr. ! WOMEN ARE ADVISED and Mrs. Lawrence S. Hell- IState Plays Its Ace In LiUien-11 strom believe they are the Blocs to Hold Balance of j St. Louis Reporter Describes most favored newlyweds in the “Across the Bar” I Chicago, Dec. 1.— Lesson world today. Thanks to a wed- LEADING ATTORNEY dahl Case When It Pro- ! Number Two on “ How to Foil ding present from “ the boss.’ Power In Major Matters | Bandits,’’ was given the women Bootleg King as a Mad- The boss was J. W. Work, of Chicago today by Chief of who during the past 35 years duces a Witness From Bal- Detectives William E. O’Con- has built-up one of the most In Both the Senate and, TAKEN BY BRAIN ILLNESS nor. man— ^Was With Him For It advised women to carry a profitable real estate concerns timore. package of red pepper to be in Evajiston. House. hurled iito the faces of morons j Weeks. Here was Work’s gift to the and would-be holdup men. ' newlyweds: Dominant Figure in Municipal and Educational His entire business, Includ- Court House, Mays Landing, vN. | "Throw the pepper and then Washington, Dec. 1.— The incom- scream as loud as you can,” said , Court House, Cincinnati, Ohio. ing office, fixtures, good will Development of Manchester— j „ Dec. 1.— Willis Beach, 50-year-: ing Seventieth Congress today ap- the chief. Dec. 1.— John T. Rogers, St. Louis and every asset that comprises old alleged illicit lover of Mrs. Mar- 1 “ The J. W. Work Agency.’’— peared doomed to a rule of blocs Sports Enthusiast. Lesson No. 1 told residents to newspaperman, ’as recalled to the garet Lilliendahl, and jointly accus- leave a light burning when they with no strings attached. and alliances Instead of the usual witness stand today and graphical- ed with her of murdering her hus- go out for an evening, thus mak- In addition, he gave his two party control. Judge Herbert 0. Bowers, who has been ill since the second ing it appear to would-be house- ly described an occasion in In- faithful employes his preten- band. confessed to Samuel Bark, in The Western Insurgents will hold breakers that someone is at | dianapolis when George Remus, tious home on Orrington week in January of this year with a complication of troubles Baltimore, shortly after the slaying a balance of power in the Senate home. ’ slayer of his wife, Imogene, be- avenue with most of its fur- developing from a brain inflammation, died last evening at 8 :30 that he had fired the fatal shot. ____ ___________—--------------------- -<8 nishings. and also In the House, if the admin- Bark testified today. haved like a madman when he was Then, with a final benedic- istration fails at any time to hold at his home at 5 North Elm street. For 30 years Judge Bow- Im Bark's testimony, at the open- told that his wife was enjoying a tion and wishes for success all Republicans in line. On many ers had been a leading attorney here. He was the first judge ing of the fourth day's session this highball party with Franklin L. and happiness, “ Ma and Pa” legislative matters, the Insurgents ENGLAND LAUGHS Dodge in a room at the Claypool are preparing to revive their old of Manchester’s police court assuming the bench'in 1895. morning, the state had played its Work hopped into their auto- hotel. mobile and hit the trail for the alliance with the Democrats against Judge Bowers caught cold shortly before Christmas last ace. the administration ranks. Rogers is the Pulitzer prize win- open spaces. year. It developed into an influenza in January and early in For three day.s dozens of witness- AT SOVIET PLAN ner of 1926 for meritorious Mrs. Hellstrom who was All Indications point to bloc es have marched off and on Uie journalism. He had spent “ weeks Miss Florence Quirk, had been rule on the three outstanding legis- the second week of that month he was confined to his bed. A stand amidst a maze of questioning lative measures confronting the at a time” with Rei|^us for a period employed by Work for sixteen brain illness developed and on February 4 Mr. Bowers was taken designed to pin the murder on Mrs. of almost two years befo.’e Remus years; her husband had been new Congress. These are the tax Lilliendahl and Beach by a net of ishot his wife. Rogers had been as- with the firm nine years. bill, a farm relief measure and i Y — P h o t o b y E l i t e to the Manchester Memorial hospital. On February 9 Judge I (vircumstantial evidence, but not un- All But One Paper Derides signed to get the story oi Remus’ The retiring. “ boss” and his flood control legislation. ! Judge Herbert O, Bowers : til Bark's appearance on the stand The Tax BUI | Bowers lapsed into a coma that lasted seven weeks. intricate bootleg operations. wife will spend the winter at --------------------- —----------------------------^ ' On March 30 Mr. Bowers re- 'today did the state definitely link Upon being recalled this morn- On the tax bill, the Insurgents | Russia’s Scheme to Dis- Charleston, S. C., and will side with Secretary of the Treasury ained consciousness long enougii Beach with the killing. ing, he was asked by Defense At- Bark plunged immediately into then begin an automobile tour Mellon against the Democrats in his to recognize members of bis family. torney Charles H. Elston if he had of the country that will end In For several weeks the patient was the high spots of his testimolij. overlooked any instance that had demand for a limited reduction of ;.(\fter stating that his home is in arm Whole World, California. $225,000,000. On the other hand, Was College Graduate conscious at IntervAls. He gained i'cxas hut that he wms temporarily led him to believe the defendant, they disagreed with Mellon and side some strength and on July 3 he ,was Insane. The witness replied stopping in Baltimore, Bark declar-^ London. Dec. 1.— The Russian with the Democrats on how this re- was removed to hiS home. There ed that Beach had come to him and affirmatively and was told to re- duction should he applied to exist- But Never a Freshman Mr. Bowers reeeived some of his proposal at Geneva calling for com- late that occasion. closest friends and. at time.s reco.g- admitted that he had shot the doc- ing taxes. \ tor and needed money to get “ out plete disarmament by all nations Tells His Storj' NEW BANK RULING On farm relief, the far west, mid- nized them, and carried on vor.v of the jam.” was greeted by almost unanimous “ It was in Indianapolis during dle west and southwest have lined Judge Herbert O. Bowers gradu-laminations for the sophomore brief conversations with them. Last class and began actual study in the Questions and .Answer.s amused derision in today’s English the Jack Daniels liquor conspiracy up generally against the east, New ated from Hartford Public High week Mrj Bowers suffered a return The questions by Assistant Prose- trial,” said Rogers. “ Remus was a England and southern seaboard. At School and from Yale College and Hartford-school as a sophomore. of the brain illness and, his vitality, ' out nr Hinkle, and Bark’s answers press. ) government witness In that case ANNOUNCED TODAY any rate, party lines will be dropped Law School but was niever a fresh- When, he graduated from high so long faithful, broke and death follow; The Manchester Guardian was and was quartered at the Claypool entirely in the farm relief battle man in either high school or col- school he pass'ed the examinations was expected at any moment yes- Q. How long have you known almost alone in defending the sin- hotel. George Connors (Remus’ and the administration Itself may lege. How Mr. Bowers attained for entrance to Yale. Here terday. Bca’ch ? cerity of the Russian plan. The business partner) and I were with carry the final "balance of pow- such a »nique record makes an in- again lack of finances prevented Tlie Funeral Mr. Bowers from continuing but , A. A year., Guardian pointed out that the fact him. One night John S. Berger of State Savings Banks Have No er.” teresting story. The funeral service will he held Q. Did you see Beach m a Balti- Los Angeles, a promoter of exposi- Flood Control When Bert Bowers graduated he accepted,a position as a schoo.l that Russia may wish to prove the at 2:30 Saturday afternoon at the more park in September? (The mur- tions, came Into the room in which On flood control, the lines will from the grammar school here he teachev in'Bast Hartford and at the Second Congregational church.
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