THE WEATHER AVERAGE DAILY dROULATIOM Fereceet of 0. S. Weetht H ariford lo r the Mcmtb o f O ctober, 19SS Felr aa4 eoMer taught; iTTfWiiiig doadtaeae with 5,335 temperatnre followed b j laiB ■i—wtiiw of ttio AuAb aaow Toesdey of Clx«iiletl<»a. PRICE THREE CENTS MANCHESTER, CONN., MONDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1933. (FOURTEEN PAGES) VOL. Lffl., NO. 49. (Cauetfled AdvertUtny oa Page 13.) EARLE WYNEKOOP Men Lynched and Kidnap Victim MOB OF 6,000 LYNCHES INDICTMENT URGED TWO HART KH)NAPERS Chicago Officials Believe Son NINE MEET DEATH; X y Break Way Into County Ja] Had Advance Knowledge FIVE BY AUTOS Deputy Sheriff Tells Despite Barrage of Tear of His Mother’s Deed; She >4^ Details of Lynching Gas Bombs and Hang Kid­ Tells Abont hsorance. Week-End Toll of V iolet t V * napers in Park N earby- San Jose, Calif., Nov. 27.—(AP)<»neck and dragged him head first Deaths in Stale— Young down the steps. Caiicafo, Nov. 27.— (A P)—^Inves­ —Here is the story of Deputy Sher­ Then they went up on the third Lynching FoDows Fmfing tigators of the eerie death of Mrs. Student Killed. iff John Moore on the lynching of Hoor and found Thurmond hanging Rheta W-mekocp pressed their in­ John M. Holmes and ’Thomas H. by his hands to the iron grating of of Hart’ s Body San quiry for a complete solution of the " > / Thurmond, confessed kidnap-killers a high window inside the lavatory, where he thought they wouldn’t see baffling mystery today bent on an of Brooke Hart: (By Associated Press) him. early indictment of both Dr. Alice “The inside of the coimty jail was Francisco Bay. Wynekoop and her son, Earle. A gay high school party ended in Were Terrified fogged with tear gas when the mob “He didn’t try to deny his identity Assistant State’s Attorney Chariee death for Frank Hopkins, 15 years rushed In behind the battering ram. S. Dougherty said he would go be­ James Holmes Thomas Thurmond Brooke Hart but he canriA out sniveling and his old, a Danbury high school student, “I was standing on the stairs, in­ face wsts very w hite. I have never San Jose, Cal.. Nov. 27.— (AP)— fore the Grand Jury tomorrow or side the steel mesh door, with Thomas H. 'Thurmond and John M. Wednesday to ask the Indictment of SIS nine violent deaths—five of them seen human beings look so terrified Deputy Sheriffs EJarle Hamilton and as Holmes and ’Thurmond. Holmes, wHifessed kidnap-slayers of the mother and her son—Dr. Wyne­ caused by automobQes—^were report­ Howard Buffington. We had only a koop on a charge that she fired the “Thurmond kept repeating TDon’t Brooke Hart, were lynched here ed last week-end in Connecticut. KRESESENTENCED few gas bombs left and we knew string me up. F or (Cod’ s sstke don’ t pistol bullet the state contends killed last night by a mob of 100 men ^ 10 Hopkins, with three other school JOHNSON FILES PROTEST they had us. string me up.’ And they hit him as Rheta, and Earle on the allegation smashed their way into the county i he had advance knowledge of the boys and girls, wsis returning from *TTie mob brushed past us to they did Holmes and dragged him Holmes’ cell on the second floor, and jail after a two hour battle to seize doctor’s alleged purpo^ a inn to which they had gone for TO SING SING TERM down the steps with a rope Euntmd This course of action was an­ supper after a high school dance AGAINST FORD CO. BID four njen stood me against a waU, bis neck. the pair. nounced after the police said that when their car plungred from the searched me and took my kejrs. They “They took both men across the A whooping, cheering crowd esti­ the alibi Earle sought to destroy “to Newtown-Bridgeport road at a went in for Holmes, who was hiding street, threw the rope ends over tree mated at 6,000 persons looked on. save my mother from the electric curve In Botsford and struck a New York Lawyer Gets 11-2 in the lavatory of his cell. limbs and jerked them rouglily off ’Thurmemd, first to confess was chair”, had been reestablished. fence. “He came out crying ‘Tm not their feet to die. unccaisclous when dragfged to Confession Untroe The Hopkins boy died in the Dan­ NRA Head Said Figures THOUSANDS BACK Holmes, Fm not Holmes" but one of “There were women and children St. James park, 100 yards from the The alibi—that Earle was enroute bury hospital from a fractured skull. to 2 1-2 Years for Misap­ the lynchers rushed up and grabbed in the crowd and they saw that jail, partly stripped and banged to a to the southwest by automobile with Miss Msiry Brennan, 15, also was Quoted Were Below List h(m by the neck and told him to whole iFiing In the Park. Some of tree. Stanley Young at the time Rheta seriously injured, but was reported ON JOBS IN STATE shut up. Another fellow cracked the children wwe babies In their Holmes, a powerful man, fought died on an operating table in the Improving. The driver, Arthur Del- plying Bank Fnnds. him in the jaw. mothers’ arms. for his life in vain. Twice he basement surgery of his mother. Dr. monte, 16, suffered less serious in­ Price and Against RetaD Knocked Unoonscloos *T heard a number of women wrenched hia hands free and lifted Alice Wynekoop—^was found to be juries, but was a patient at the “Holmes went down and when he laugh, even after it was all over, the noose from his head, but the got cO his feet another man hit him, and say it bad been a good thing. sound, the pplice said, establishing hospital. New York, Nov. 27.—(AP)—Isi- third time it was put there to stay that “a confession” EJeuie made and Code. Cities and Towns Take Men and another, until he lay sprawled “That mob seemed to be insane. and, still kicking, he was jranked A backing automobile brought dor J. Kresel, attorney who was later retracted, was untrue. at their feet, imconscious. ’The tear gas never fazed them. into the air. death to Frank Berardi, 65, of Hart­ They came through it with eyes “I wanted to save my mother ford, as he was nm down on Hudson convicted ten days ago on a charge “They pulled him to his feet and Bodies Cat Down Off Charity Lists as Pro< stood him against the wall, still un- streaming and smarting but deter­ from the electric chair,” Elarle was street, near his home, and was kill­ Washington, Nov. 27.— (AP)— A of abetting in the misapplication of In the glare of torches and flash­ ccmsclous, while others kept hitting mined to get those men and lynch quoted as having said. ed instantly. ’The driver, EJdmond protest against the award to a local funds of an affiliate of the defunct lights the bodies dangled for half an The alibi angle was but one of jects Are Laid Ont. him in the face with their fists, them—and that was all that mob hour or so—a macabre picture for Maskaitls of Terryville, who was Ford Motor (Company agency of a Bank of United States, was sen­ ’They finally put a rope around his cared about.” • several developments in the most held, said he was backing toward a tenced to to 2% 3rears in Sing tbe thousands who had assembled government contract for Ford sensational death mystery CSiicago parking space. Sing prison today. swiftly after the news of the lynch­ has had since the “thrill murder” Hit and Bon Driver trucks is being filed with the De­ Justice (Ceorge H. ’Taylor, Jr., of ing movement had spread through (By Associated Press) the city. 'Then the lifeless forma of Bobby Franke by Richard Loeb Michael Hugliano, 55, of Bridge­ partment of Agriculture by Hugh the Supreme (Court, pronoimced sen­ and Nathan Leopold, university stu­ (Connecticut talked about turke3rs were cut down and there was no port, was killed as the light delivery S. Johnson, the NRA administrator. tence. dents now serving life in the State Johnson contended the dealer, the and pies for ’Thsmksgiving Day with further attempt to interfere with truck in which he was riding, was Defense Attorney Theodore FEDERAL RESERVE HEAD officers. Prison at Joliet, struck and overturned at North Northwest Motor Ck)mpany of Beth- new hope and courage today as the Klendl immediately moved to set Blank Cartridges esda, Md., had quoted a figure below 'Thurmemd’s body had been su b t­ Another development was an an­ Main street, Bridgeport, by a hit- ranks of persons employed under aside the verdict, claiming It 'was ly burned by flames from blazing and-nm' driver. A Bridgeport man the list price and therefore was in contrary to the evidence and the nouncement by Dougherty that violation of the NRA retail code for the Federal Civil Works program ON TO ROOSEVELT newspapers help up by the mob as was arrested later In connection law. He also asked for an arrest of Yisrr torches during the banging. Earle had shown him several blank were swelled by new hundreds. with the acddoxt. automoUle dealers. judgm ent. cartridges for the pistol with which Meanwhile the Northwest Motor 'The lynching, occurring cmly- a Patrick J. Dwyer, 70 of New Ha­ The (Civil W orks Adm inistration Motions Dmiied few hdmirafter the tom body o< RheU or her body was shot, which Company ladlcated it would subm it WArtfnpij 4,T11 ven, died in a hospital from injuries young Hart, son of a w ^thy San explained, Dougherty said, one of a bid to file War Departm^t to nd in reply tixthe latter one, said G oY em of t o | the most puzzling angles of the case received when he was struck by a persons In the state received a total and in reply Eugene Black ROCKEFELLER TRIP Jose merchant had been taken from car as be crossed State street.