NIT PRESS BUN AVERAGE DAILY CIRCULATIOISI QF THE BVBNINa HERALD for the month of October, 1926. 4,898 PRICP THREE CENTS VOL. XLV., NO. 51. OleMlIled Adrertlatiig on n ^ e 6 MANCHESTER, CONN., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1926.. (TWELVE PAGES) ,.v ■ r - s ELEVATOR MAN Brilliant Concert Soloist SEEK STUDENT • r>j5 CROOKS, CLUB 49 DAY CROESUS ALREADY Then He Is Arrested for a T H R lL L S ilN $156,000 Forgery; Says He FORMURDEROF Was a Tool. BMNCERT New York, Nov. 30.— Seven MISSING GIRL IS SET TO ACQUIT weeks of luxury as a “ million­ aire” enjoyed by William Rod- del, 43, former elevator oper­ ator in the Capitol theatre No Proof of Death But Wis­ Brilliant Tenor Displays Mar­ building, came to an end today in his sumptuously-furnished FALL TRIED TO Hotel Landlord Charges velous Strength and Tone apartment when police arrest­ consin College Boy Has ed him in connection with a $156,000 forgery on the Equit­ TRANSFER LOAN Its Members Are Biased --Chorus at Its Best in able Trust company. Fled and Warns He Won’t With Roddel when he was ""Fine Program. taken into custody was Nancy Be Taken Alive. Kirby, an extremely pretty girl RELAim SAYS of 19, who was held as a ma­ BANK'TELLER iOedares He Can Name terial witness. DIESLIKEHOBO Richard Crooks, eminent Ameri­ Roddel told police that his Prairie Du.Chien, Wis., Nov. 30 can tenor, as guest soloist of last part in the crime was the ob­ — Erdman Olson, 18-year-old Gale Sought Aid of Ohio Man 1 Rides Freight After Booze night’s concert of the Men’s Choral taining of special checks used college student and son of a weal­ by the Capitol, with copies of Party, Falls Off and Is club of M,anchester, proved to be thy tobacco planter, was being When Prohe Began, Son- Made Up Without Hearing signatures. He was the dupe of sought today in connection with the Killed— Comrade Held the most brilliant as well as most a man who did the actual forg­ notable artist audiences here have ing Roddel stated, according mysterious disappearance of his 22- in-Law Testifies in Pou^hkeepsfe, N. Y., Nov. 30. Testimony— Simpson to yet heard. His delightful, soulful to the police, and received only year-old sweetheart. Miss Clara Ol­ — Thomas Moran, 22, a teller $1,500. son. of the East River National singing was but one of the many Fraud Trial. Bank of New York, was found Ask For Mistrial of Hall- thrills music lovers enjoyed in last The case Is one of the strangest •% in the history of Wisconsin. Al­ dead today at Camelot, near night’s first songfest of the season. here, on the right-of-way of though the body of Miss Olson has Washington, Nov. 30— Beginning' Mills Case— Expert, De­ The club, too, was brilliant. Its H O S P iT A L G ^ not been found, authorities are so the New York Central rail­ today, the government’s criminal road. work has seldom, if ever, been sur­ sure the young woman has been slain that a warrant charging drama" featuring former Secretary Raymond Kaht, 21, an em­ fense Lawyer Squabble passed. young Olson with her murder has of Interior Albert B. Fall and E. L. ploye of the same hank, was So much can be said of the mar­ BEQUEST FROM arrested, charged with car been issued Doheny. oil magnate, on trial for velous ability of Richard Crooks riding and intoxication. It Over Fingerprints. Sweethearts for Years conspiracy, will play both night that the fine, faithful work of the Miss Olson, daughter of a farm­ was learned that the youths ' club is liable to be slighted. Crooks B O Y im N W IIi er, disappeared three months ago. and day sessions. By order of the attended a party in New York sang two groups an aria and two She and young Olson had been court testimony will be taken night­ last night at which there was Somerville, N. J., Nov. 30.— Sen­ considerable drinking, police incidenta^i solos. Described often­ sweethearts nearly two years. Al­ ly from eight to. ten in addition to sational charges that the Hall-Mills times by critics as a lyric tenor the stated, and later jumped an though having the same ~ name, the day hearings. murder trial jury already has made audience naturally looked forward I^hey were not related. Albany bound freight. to hearing some of the artist’s light­ Residue of Estate Goes to In A possee of nearly 1,000 arous­ ■ With the trial thus speeded up They fell asleep during the up its mind, that it stands nine for —Photo by Elite out of consideration for the locked- ed citizens is dragging the Kicka- ride, and Moran rolled off the acquittal and three for conviction er songs and ballads. Crooks fa­ RICHARD CROOKS up jury, the government will dis­ car to bis death. Kaht was vored with "Absent,” and “ Colleen stitution — Reinembers poo river and searching the purple pose of the financial end of the and that it has talked freely of its hills of the Klckapoo valley for the said by the authorities to be Aroon” as encores. His first num­ This photograph was especially posed by Mr. Crooks at Watkins case and begin the work o f trying too Intoxicated for arraign­ prejudice against the state’s case, ber “ O Kom in Traum” was of the body of the girl. Other posses, ment or questioning. today caused a furore in Somerville Friends of Mother— Val­ headed by Deputy sheriffs, are Brothers yesterday afternoon. Mr. Crooks also autographed some "Vic­ to convince the court that the ballad type and Immediately won $100,000,000 naval oil leases ac­ and reports were circulated that searching the woods for young Ol­ tor Records of his own songs while at the local store. his audience. corded Doheny were tainted with Prosecutor Alexander Simpson The Program. ( son. fraud. plans to demand a mistrial- ued About $20,000. The girl was last seen Sept. .9 The club’s program as a whole Fall, endeavored unsucces$futly Gilbert Van Doren, 78, owner of when She left home after confess­ the Colonial hotel, where the jury was lighter than th.ose which have ing to her father indiscretions of to discharge his $100,000 obliga­ MANY AMERICANS KLAN IS BEATEN tion to Doheny before the transac­ iMARIE DELAYED IN is quartered, and the third largest been presented in the five previous The will of the late Frederick her love. concerts. But, the American Ace, a tion became known to the Senate taxpayer in Somerset county, to­ Hosmer‘Boynton has just been ad­ Flees Again new composition by Stevenson, and After two weeks absence Young Investigating committee, it was tes- day admitted it was he who wrote the last number, gave the men mitted to probate. A hearing on the Olson returned to his studies at IN CHINA IN FEAR IN MAINE’ S m i Ified today by Fall’s son-in-law, C. LANDING IN FRANCE a letter containing these charges to ample opportunity to show their estate wa.T held in the office of Gale College. When the girl did not C. Chase. Ccunty Judge Frank L. Cleary, sit­ Tried to Shift Loan ting in the case with Justice dramatic ability. “ Shadow March” Judge of Probate William S. Hyde return home, her father became repeated from a previous program Chase, the first witness called to­ Charles W. Parker. Saturday. The Hartford-Connectl- worried and went to see young Ol­ displayed wonderfully well Direc­ son. He pleaded with the youth to Appeal For Protection as Gould Wins Senate Election day testified that in-November of Rough Seas Force Tender Won’t Back Down tor Archibald Sessions’ control of cut Trust Company was named by bring his daughter back. Next day 1923 Fall endeavored to obtain a “ I’m sorry i;m dragged into the chorus. The entire song is sung Mr. Boynton as executor. Olson disappeared. loan of $100,000 from Price Mc­ this,” he said today, “ but now that Kinney of Cleveland, but without very softly— in almost a hush— and The estate is composed entirely The youth wrote a note to his Anti-Foreign Strike, Long By 50,000 Over New Back— S b e ls Urged to I’m in it. I’m not going to back requires hours of painstaking prac­ brother, Orvid, asking him to “ live success. down. I thought I could give the of real estate and personal proper­ Fall’s effort to exchange Mc!^n- tice on the part of not only the ty. Mr. Boynton owned two tene­ down the shame I Tiave left,” and information to Judge Cleary with­ chorus as a whole but the Individ­ warning that he would “ never be Threatened, Comes. York Lawyer Redman. ney for Doheny as his creditor cainq Hnrry to Bncharest. out my name getting in the rews- ment houses on Main street and at a time when the Senate commit­ ual members. another house on Woodland street. captured alive.’l papers. tee on pubflic lands was conducting “ I’ve been staying here . at the Unusually fine chorus work was The property is in the tax list for displayed by the men In “ I Wish, to Auigusta, Me., NoVi 80."-80.— Maine a vigoro^fa ^Q'^^Btigatlon into’ his Cherbourg.^ Kov. 30.— Queen hotel all along and could see and Mout $19,000. However it is un­ London, Nov. 30— The foreign private affairs, particularly with, Tune My Quivering Ly^e,” “ The derstood that.there i .