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r a til i W til LRiuyuu M LAI 0 i Bui odlgepo vein ll l nil i -2 .D Farmer rt VOL. 53 NO. 282 Jo fcSo ISobbed bv Brid Autpist Alexander Allen Tells ctf , -Robbery and Assault by Two Men; Claims Motorists Who Took Him to Hospital Stole His Coat daring .hold-ups over brought to the attention of the local po lice were reported to Captain Edward Cronan at detective headquarters, this morning, by the victim, Alexander Allen, of Sport Hill following his dis charge from SCTinoent's hos pital,, where he had lain for three days -in an unconscious condition as a result of his ex- N BlMdlnc train seven deep gashes In his hdd, and In an utterly senseless state. Allen was brought Into the hospital by aa unknown motorist, about - o'clock; Saturday evening, and tt was not until yesterday after noon Chat he was able to tell of hav lnjr ' been waylaid , by two highway men In the vfcsiaity of Bethany chapel. Main street, about 8: to o'clock Satur day evening, viciously assaulted, and rooneo. ' yUlen stated that the thieves re lieved him of a gold watch and chain .and 10 In cash. They left him lying In a partially conscious condition. where be had fallen, and made their escape. Shortly : afterward an auto KnobOlBt discovered the victim on the 'sidewalk, and took Mm in his car to the hospital. ... "The further claim that the motor ist who came to his aid also . robbed him. taking: a valuable black sheep- tikin coat and glring him in return a poor substitute, is made by Allen to day, . He says that the motorist claimed the sheep-skin coat - as hia own. ;The name of the. owner o driver of the car was not obtained at the hospital. WANTS $10,000 DAMAGES FROM CONN, COMPANY Damages of $10,000 are claimed in a suit filed against the Connecticut. Co. Jn the superior court today by Anna Hose Feil.of New York, administratrix ' of the estate of Steve Lebedewich, Who was killed in an accident Septem ber SO last. Negligence upon the part of Connecticut Co. employes in the running of a trolley car is alleged. Lebedewieh was a passenger in a Jitney automobile on' the evening in Question, and the automobile, coming west in Stratford avenue, was struck by trolley car near Bunnell street. Lebedewlch was thrown from the au tomobile and Injured so that he died m. couple of hours later at the Bridge port hospital. In the complaint he is described as betas; 24 years old, a machinist, and earning $10 a week at his trade. PROBABLE CAUSE IN THOMAS CASE ' Probable cause was found by Judge F. A. Bartlett In the police court, to day. In. the case against Joseph J. Thomas, charged with theft, and the man was bound "over to the December term of the Superior Court Court in 1500 , bail. Thomas, It is alleged, was employed by the Blue Ribbon florae- & Carriage Co., of Fairfield avenue, and stole an automobile clock and other articles to the value of &1--ost $6i. THE WEATHER, Snow tonight, warmer on the maia land; 'Thursday cloudy; moderate fcttthnresc and west winds. oofoads 63 LOST IN THREE MISSING BOATS OF TORPEDOED VESSEL Washington, Nov. 28 Sixty three men are missing in the three unaccounted - for boats of the American steamer Actaeon, re ported yesterday torpedoed by a German submarine. The . navy's official report says one boat with 20 survivors landed at Cape Fin isterre yesterday and adds noth ing more to published accounts of" I the .sinking. CROSBY WANTS DIVORCE FROM WIFE IN MASS, Frederick Newton Crosby of Bridge port has filed a . cross divorce suit against Hilma Augusta Anderson Cros by of Everett, Mass., also alleging de sertion in answer to the complaint filed about two weeks ago in the 'Superior court by Mrs. Crosby. They were mar ried November 4, 1911, and in both suits desertion since April 5. 1914. is alleged. Crosby claims a divorce on the ground his wife deserted him. Leon H. Richmond . of Bridgeport asks mT divorce' from Anna , Montayne Richmond of Bangor, Penh., alleging desertion since September 1, 1911. They were married in Bridgeport.. July 6, 1911. - f . Adelaide A. Burgess of Stratford, is seeking a divorce from Robert L. Bur gess,' formerly of Stratford, but now of Brie, Penn., alleging desertion since March 28, 1914. Mrs. Burgess also desire to resume her maiden name ol ChavelL They were married Decern ber , 1912. , TWO ATTEMPT TO ' SWINDLE GERMAN New York, Nov. 28 Two men were arrested here today charged with im personating department of justice agents and with attempting to swin dle an enemy alien under threats of interment.. The prisoners gave, their names as John Lloyd, actor, and Ed ward W. Harrigan, clerk. , The arrests were made in theNHo telNavarre after a guest had noti fied the police that one of three men in the dining room resembled a per son who had swindled him in Buffalo last February. When the three were questioned by the police one of them, Ernest Karl, a German, gave the of ficers information on. which the two others were held. Karl said that he had supposed Lloyd and Harrigan were agents of the department of justice. He said that representing themselves as such they had detained, him at the'hQtel last night on the pretense that lie had violated federal alien enemy reg ulations and was liable to intern ment. SPECIAL PERSHING WIRE TO ENGLAND London. Nov. . 28 A special ' tele graph wire connecting Gen. Persh ing's headquarters in France with the American military headquarters in London was Installed today. The flrst message Bent by Gen. Pershing to Walter Hines Page, the American ambassador here, said: "Greetings and best wishes from the American army headquarters in this, the flrst message over the mili tary line to London." SCHULTZ ORDERED INTERNED FOR WAR Because of his pro-Oerman senti ments uttered at various times re cently, Emil Schultz, an employe of the Max Ams Co., has been ordered, interned for the period of the war. Despite a warning' that his pro-Oer-man utterances would get hinr into trouble, Schultz persisted in his con duct, and was yesterday placed under arest at the factory (by Charles H. Lane, special agent of the Depart ment of Justice, fichults Is an enemy alien, born in Germany in 1891, and has been in Bridgeport since 1915, but has taken no steps to become a citi zen. Threats against persons reputed to have furnished informatidn against him are said to have been the imme diate, cause of his arrest. The arrest was very quietly made and but few in the shops were aware of it. NO FARMER TOMORROW. In acordanoe with its custom The ' Farmer will not be Issued Thanksgiving. IS CONFUSED BY. Mineola, L. I., Nov. 28 What is expected to be a lentjthy battle between medical experts over Mrs. Bianca De Saulles claim tnat her physical, condition produced a lapse of accoun tability when she shot her divorced husband was begun in the young woman's trial on . a charge of murder in the supreme court here today. Dr. J. Sherman Wight, Mrs. De Saulles physician since the tragedy, testified that the patient's condition following the shooting indicated that she was suffering from an enfeebled functioning of the thyroid gland secretion of this gland. This brings about an inactivity of the vital processes, Dr. Wight testi fied. ' . - Mrs. De Saulles; attorneys claim that the condition outlined by the physician produces a brain and nerve center affection . which eventually ends in "a hopeless mental infirmity." This disease, the. defendant'? lawyer terms ' hypotherosls. This name, however, was not used by Dr. Wight. , Alienists, X-ray specialists and Other eminent members of the : medical profession, who will testify concern ing the defense's claim - that Mrs. Bianca de . Saulles - was - suffering . a lapse of responsibility on the night of . August S last-: when her former husband, John L. De ' Saulles, Was shot to death in his borne noar West bury, L. I., will be asked a hypothet ical question of 20,000 words . in length. The defense continued pre senting its case today and it was ex pected that the first of the expert witnesses would be heard before the close of the day. Much of the expert testimony will concern the thyroid condition styled "hypothyreosis" by Mrs. De Saulles1 attorneys from which they claim, the defendant was suffering at the time of the shooting1. This disease is claimed to have superinduced the irrational snell during which Mrs. De Saulles says she fired . the re volver shots. . When the expert witnesses sum moned to strengthen the defense havt testified, other, professional men are to be called by District Attorney Charles R, Weeks to attack the as CRONAN SAYS HE BELIEVES DANIELLO IS PERSON WHO MURDERED GOZZI IN WOODS When Ralph Daniello, aged 31, now under arrest in New York city, dis closes to the metropolitan police the names of all of the . victims of the 23 murders in which he yesterday con fessed having taken more or less ac tive part, he will in all probability name John Gozzi, of this city, accord ing to a belief entertained by Detec tive Captain Edward Cronan.. Gozzi " was murdered here last spring, his body being found in a stretch of woods near Exeter street on the morning of May 6, 1917, with six dagger wounds in the throat. Rigid investigation failed to reveal any mo tive for the crime ,and the murderei was never even found trace of. Daniello's arrest in New York, yes terday, although not unexpected, pro. duced a sensation In police circles, and efforts to connect him with un solved crime mysteries were made in large cities everywhere within a ra 75 DESERTERS ARE CAPTURED A total of 75 deserters from the new national army cantonment at Camp Devens, Ayer, Mass., have 'been cap tured slnoe that camp was established Two more were apprehended yester day, one of them a Bridgeport man, one of the quota of the Second diviV sion, who was arrested in Providence, R. I., and art other being arrested in New Haven. The majority of the men have been given another opportunity to make themselves good soldiers, the leniency depending upon circumstances sur rounding their cases. BRIDGEPORT, CONN., WEDNESDAY, ffiLES IMP :cun w from an inadequacy of the sertions made in behalf of Mrs. De Saulles. . The hypothetical question prepared by Henry A. Uterhart, of counsel for the defense must be read to each of these, witnesses. It will begin some thing after this fashion: : "Suppose a child was born In Chile in" the year 189-'' "- "; Continuing, It will relate many cir cumstances and occurrences touching on the hypothetical "child's" life which might have a bearing on - its mental condition in later years. Uter hart says the question will conclude In approximately these words: "Now, Doctor . supposing- these premises were true, that theiie facts applied to some specific person, what would be your opinion as to whether that person would be subject to lapses of responsibility." Another phase of the testimony to be presented through these expels will concern a fracture of the skull that Mrs. DeSaulles is alleged to hsrve suffered some years ago and that is said to have left a particle of bone pressing on the brain. This, it is con tended, served to aggravate the de fendant's mental condition at the time of the tragedy. In connection with this alleged skull fracture Attorney Uterhart has said that X-ray photographs will be intro duced in evidenee. The taking of testimony in the trial is not expected to be completed before some time next Week. ' To hasten the submission of the case to the jury Jus- (Continued on Page 2.) dius of 150 miles about New York. Many circumstances gave rise to the theory held here that Gozzi was one of the victims of Daniello's mur derous band, chief among which is the fact that the slain man was known to have been a frequenter of just such resorts as harbored the self confessed murderer and his ilk. He is said to have been in close touch with affairs and conditions in the underworld, and the belief is that he may by his activities in some direc tion have incurred the displeasure of either Daniello personally, or one of the men for whom he operated. It is also thought that the man Jos eph Buonomo, who was hanged at Wethersfield prison, a few years ago, for the murder of Jennie Cavalierl, of Chicago, was a member of the Daniel lo gang. Daniello admits having kill ed six men himself, and been concern ed in the murder of at least seven teen others. EMBARGO LIKELY ON N. H. FREIGHT An embargo, affecting Bridgeport, may be levied by officials of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Rail road on freight either consigned for delivery or transferred at Hartford for otrffer points, according to a state ment from the office of J. O. Halliday, Hartford superintendent of transpor tation. The embargo enforced at 12 o'clock last night applies to "lees than car load freight originating.' at stations on the system." NOV. 28, 1917 ocialists Great Demonstration Sunday Declares Im possibility of Bringing About Peace by Force of Arms Favor Gen eral Strike. Amsterdam, Nov. 28 A great socialist demonstration in Budapest on Sunday in fa vor of -an armistice and peace is' reported by the Vossische Zeitung of Berlin. Declarations were made that democracy must-employ all means to end the war and that it is impossi ble to bring peace by force of arms. These statements led to a demonstration against the war and in favor of a general strike. " ' : . . . ' .. A resolution was adopted opposing i the aims of the Pan-Germans and the i annexation of Poland and Livonia by Germany. The meeting voted Infa vor of holding an international labor conference in Stockholm. ' , An official ' statement received here from Berlin denies a rumor, attributed to London, that Gen. Von Ludendorff,' fKrst quartermaster general of the German army, had gone to the Rus sian front with a numerous staff.' . It says that Gen. Von Ludendorff is at the' western front. A London dispatch on Nov.' 2v sayd that according to advices from Am sterdam Gen. Von Ludendorff had started for the eastern front in con nection with the Russian offer of a truce. . - - -itANS DEFENSE TO SHOW WIDOW KILLED HERSELF Concord, N. 'C, Nov. 28. One line of the defense of Gaston B. Means, on trial here for the murder of . Mrs. Maude A. King, was Indicated today in the cross examination of the state's Witness, M. F. Richie. . 1 The questions asked by the Means attorneys indicated that they expected to show that the wealthy widow whose sensational death aroused three states was killed by the accidental discharge or a pistol dropped on the grovfnd. ,. Richie, a hardware man, followed Dr. P. R. McFadden, a local physician, and James Simpson, an undertaker's assistant, on the. stand. The physi cian and Simpson testified that they saw no powder stains near the wound on the back of Mrs. King's head, though both admitted on cross exam ination that blood around the wound might have prevented their noting powder stains. Richie told of having so'd a email automatic pistol and a rifle several days before the tragedy to Gaston B. Means, Mrs. King's business agent, who is charged with killing her near here last August. The state has brought experts here in an effort to prove that tho woman could not have accidentally shot her self. On cross-examination Richie said that "if dropped hard enough' an automatic pistol of the pattern that killed iMrs. King might have been discharged. Richie added, how ever, that he had "never heard o such a thing happening." FIRST SNOW STORM Boston, Nov. 28. The first general snow storm of the winter extended to all parts of New England today. Re ports received by the local weather bureau Indicated that the fall had reached a depth of six Inches in many places 'before 10 a. m. "There will be a real white Thanks giving throughout New England," the bureau announced, "but the weather will be less severe than yesterday." - or Peace BOLSHEVIKI COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF Oil HUN GROUNDS, NEGOTIATING WITH GERMAN MILITARY U. S.j ALARM ED,. WILL ACT WITH THE ENTENTE ALLIES TO KEEP DOWN AUTHORITY OF HOSTILE GROUP. . - . ' - Petrograd, Tuesday, Nov. 27, 10:30 p. m. It is announced officially at the Smolny institute, the head quarters of the Bolsheviki, that representatives of Ensign Krylenko, the Bolsheviki commander in chief, have crossed to the German side and entered negotia tions with the German military authorities. The Germans have set Dec. 2 for a conference for negotiations of an armistice. Washington, Nov. 28 The American government and the Entente allies as well will determine whether the bolsheviki are actually to be classed as enemies and active allies of Germany as soon as official advices can be gathered on the conferences between bolsheviki-leaders and German pfficers. . . Yesterday's news dispatches, saying I adjacent neutral countries to await German staff officers actually were in ! developments, or whether it would Petrograd actively engaged as advis ers to Lenine, followed by today's hews cables that . bolsheviki leaders had crossed into the German lines for conferences with the German military authorities, were not wholly Unex pected to officials here, but they shat tered the faint hope that the , bolshe viki might in the end, after all, help carry on the war against' Prussian militarism. . The developments more than con firmed the contention of . ; those who have held from the first that the bol sheviki were fostered by German propaganda seeking to break ' Russia from her allies. ' One of the first acts of the Allied governments, when they learn offi cially that the bolsheviki are actively working with the Germans, undoubt edly will be to withdraw their em bassies from Petrograid. This, of course, will include American Ambas sador .v .Francis. . Whether : the diplo matic corps would go to one of the GREAT UNITS OF HUNS TO FORCE ITALIAN LINES Rome,; Nov. 28 "On the Asiage plateau, in the Primo Iano basin, at the north of Col della Berretta, and on the mid dle Piave," says today's' Italian official statement, "our bat teries in co-operation . with bombardment flights have car ried out concertations of fire on enemy troops massed and in movement." ,.--' Washington, Nov. 28.--Great activ ity arnoiw the - Austro-German divi sions all along the Italian front, and reported in official dispatches . from Rome received here today, are de clared to forecast a still greater offen sive in the northern sector, with elab orate preparations for a mighty effort to break through. ." j The dispatch says: "The enemy is making large scale preparations for a still greater offen- '. sive in the northern region. Tester jday in the vicinity of Malga Slappel j large enemy units with machine guns attempted an encircling moveme but were counter attacked by a bat Italion of Alpini and forced to retire, I leaving in our hands complete - sec I tions of machine guns, which , were lmmadlatelv turned on the fleeing en emy. Big guns are roaring all along the front. Indicating the Imminent re newal of a general offensive on tho part of the Austro-Germans in a mightier effort to break through our lines. " "The Osservatore jStomario, the or gan of the vatlcanfcfiatly denies the bavin directed ' or prepared a jnew peace appeal." ' Italian Headquarters In Northern Italy, Tuesday, Nor, 27 A visit made today to the fighting ground at Monte Tomba. Monte Monf enera and other mountains in the fighting son in the (Continued on Page J.) PRICT3 TWO CENTS move to some other part of Russia, where a new government considered representatives of the Russian na tion, rather than of - an anarchical faction, might !be set up, has not yet ' been determined. This will be decid ed by the developments In Russia. Ambassador Francis has , a v large measure of discretion to act :- with others of the diplomatic corps in Pet rograJd and much of his course will have ' to be determined without fre quent consultation with Washinafton. . Today the state department had no new 'advices whatever .but was ex pecting some on' which judgments might be formed as to the course the government will pursue.- Meanwhile the United States is receiving the benefit of what-information . the En tente allies are gathering in Russia and the course of aftin when finally, selected will undoubtedly beln con cert and the result of a general agree ment. , (Continued on Page 2.) ; BRITISH ADVANCE JN THE FACE OF FIERCE GUN FIRE London, Nov. 28 "The Ger man artillfirv was active last night in the region of Bourlon wood," says today's official commuAication. "No further infantry fighting has j- taken place. . ' ' ; "On the northern front, east and northeast of Ypres, hostile artillery activity continues." British Headquarters in France, : Tuesday, Nov. 27 (By the Associat- Sghting has been raging in andahout ; ; Fontaine Notre Dame since dawn to 1 day, when the British again attacked N I the strongly ; held village. ' ; ' . . Shortly after 9 o'clock it appeared that the assaulting-infantry had storm ed its way through the village in the face of tremendous machine gun fire " both from the houses of the hamlet and from LaFolie wood, to the south east. Five hundred German prisoners were taken in the early hours of the fighting. Late this afternoon the Germans hurried up twe new divisions - and threw them in for a counter attack along the Fontaine-Bourlon '- wood line. The fighting which followed in Fontaine was even more bitter, it -possible than that which occurred in the first rush through the ruined hamlet. At latest reports superior numbers of enemy infantry had push ed the British back through the vil lage again to the western and north western outskirts, but the battle still continued with unabated fury. ".'' In the meantime the British.' line running around' Bourlon wood to ths northwest was sustaining a heavy as sault. The enemy seemed determin ed to regain this important , position If It vtere humanly possible.-' The whole front from Fontaine to Bour lon village was the scene of fierce fighting, : which at many places was (Continued on Pae