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Average Circulation For Week Ending Oct. 31,1925.... 37,069 I A. A. TM Fair, Warmer Today and Tomorrow.

(Weaihcr Report oa Pmfe 2, Part 1ft) Established 1764, VOL. UKf) LXXXVII1. HARTFORD, SUNuaiT MORNING, NOVEMBER 1, SO PAGES IN 8 PARTS Member of tha DDirC 1 PCMTO SKIDDING CAR GOES THROUGH BRIDGE LANDS ON WHEELS FORTY FEET BELOW YALE CRUSHES ARMY BY STRONG ATTACK IN FINAL El I A -A A A 1 $7,000,000 DEJ1L INITIATED BY Kl. INDICTMENT SAYS Mi I HOLY MR, TO BATTLE ITALIANS. FRENCH JUIID BRITISH TI UARTER 4 i.

CLASSIMGLE Stewart, Eluding Two Mid-dletown Tacklers, Makes 35-Yard Dash For Only Touchdown of Day. i itfd HARTFORD YOUTH HAS STELLAR PART IN YALE'S GREAT VICTORY AT BOWL Conn. Politician Met Former German Army Captain in New York and 'Talked Over Bargain. Proclamations Demanding Expulsion of Europeans From Islamic World Follow Syrian Revolt. BLUE AUCHE BURIES INVADERS 1 CORNELL STUDENTS CORRALLING CATS LEAGUE INTERVENES; FRANCE IS PLEASED Briand to Expound Situation to Mandates Boar Strife and Finance Harass Paris Government.

Jerusalem, Oct. 31. (Jewish Telegraphic Agency.) Tne recent events in Syria have found a wide echo in the Moslem world. according to reports received hera by leadeia of the Pan-Aiab movement. Jt was indicated that the Pan-Arabs are determined to use the events in Syria to compel France to give up the mandate over Syria by continuing their anti-French attack and arousing publ.c opinion.

The rebellion in Syria is spreading. Arab tribes in the neighborhood of Aleppo, Palmyra and Dtir-ez-Kar are preparing a general armed attack on French laiiway lines. Arab volunteers are reported to be Hocking to paimyra. Arab to War on Uuruprans. The Palestine Arab executive Is displaying feverish activity and is in communication with Egypt, Syria.

Trans-Jordania and India. Instructions are said to have been sent by special emissaries to every part of the Islamic woild. Proclamations issued by the executive call on the Arabs to "liberate Arabia from French, English and Italians." Say France Will Kvacuule. The news received here that General Sarril has been recalled from his post as high commissioner of Syria is encouraging the insm gents, who are spreading report that France Intends to evacuate Syiia and return the mandate to the of Nations. A Red Book devoted to the recent events in Syria will be published in English and Arabic by the Palestine Arab executive, it was declared here today.

Arab leaders intend to circulate the Red Book throughout the Moslem countries, Europe and America. I'uinlevr I ore Trouble. Paris, Oct. 31. (Associated Pre.) The Syrian uprising and the situation of the French treasury are two hurdles which the Painleve cabinet must negotiate when it makes its bow before Parliament next Tuesday.

The American debt settlement and the security pact of Locarno are temporarily relegated to second rank. The government must account for C.000 French dead, wounded or missing in Syria and explain why about ten billion francs of additional paper money must be printed. Ilecnll of Snrrnil to Help. The recall of General Sarrail high commissioner in Syria, probably pacify the interpellators on the Syrian question, but the premier will called upon to explain the threatened resignation of M. Robineau, president of the Bank of France, who is opposing the issue of more paper money.

Plenaed at League Intervention. The taking up of the Syrian settlement question by the League of Nations came as a relief to the French government. Many protests and pe- (Concluded on PnBe WATERBURY CAR HITS TREE; 1 DEAD, 1 DYING Great BarHngton, Oct. 31. (Associated 'Press.) George Valentine of Waterbury, was instantly killed and one of his two companions was probably fatally injured when an automobile driven by Valentine crashed into a tree tonight, a mile south of this village.

William Holmes of Waterbury, employed as foreman by the American Tin Company, suffered a fracture of the skull and the right side of his face was crushed. Physi- ciams at the hospital here said he would die. Willam Guernsey of Waterbury, the third man in the car, had his right leg broken. There had been a minor automobile accident on the scene of the wreck shortly before Valentine drove up from the south, and automobiles were parked on either side of the roadway Valentine's car sldeswiped one of the parked cars and then left the road, coll'dlng with large maple tree. UIER28-7 SCORE Eli Line Shows Tremendous Power in Tearing Through Soldier Defense in Brilliant Game.

THRONG OF 80,000 SEES SPECTACLE Two Hartford Boys, Stur-hahn For Yale and Daly For Cadets, Have Large Part in Contest. mt" tff Special to The C-urant.) New Haven. Oct. 31. A magnificent Vain line tore t'iie Army forward wall to pieces in thi Bowl this afternoon and a superb -let of pigskin earners completed the Blue aval.imhe that buried the Army in crushing, overwhelming defeat, to 7.

That final score left Cadet supporters dazzled and left even ardent Valo backerj in a frenzy of hilarious amazement. A throng of Sf.000 people crowded the armphitheater for tiie spectacle which was preceded by the colorful cadet drill. Made the Hrrnk. A powerful Army eleven could not match the greatest break-making eleven that Tad Jones has gridironed since his return to New Haven ti become head eoieh. Yale made her own breaks and then took advantage of every me of them, sweeping tne soldiers off their feet with fou' every one of which wss converted into seven points by Dan Allen.

Yale's last three scores came the fourth period when Fnerj was stilt time the Army to win, had the Army the team to win with. Ten in of Destiny. But there was no beating Tale In thla game. The Cadets never lost tneir fight, tut Yale was a team of destiny 'or the afternoon. Fat smiled on a team that had the power, the alertness and the Intelligence to gracefully soeept every favor that the Lady of Good Fortune offered.

V.xrn Flmt iinrpr. For fifteen minute it looked if two evenly matched elevens would still be fighting without a score when the sun haS cast Its twilight shadows rpon tin field. Two opposing sets of backs hammered away at two sturdy lines of beef, brawn and speed and the lines won. It was one punt following another, with neither team showing anything that resembled a sustained marh toward the goal line. The second quarter was not very-old before the Yale attack began to make itself felt.

Allen's long punt to Harding and Hei hie Sturh-ihn's div-insr tackle of th" Army field general had given the Cadets possession of the ball on their own twenty-eight yard strip. The Army backs twice hurtled into the Ysie forward line and found it unyielding Tiny Hewitt, who had entered the game a few minutes before, lifted a long pr.nt that had more distance than the Kli receivers figured on. Mnkr Great Catch. Allen, running with his back to the ball, caught it as an outfielder catches a bid for a home run into the stand. It took him a split second to turn his stride completely around and toward the Army goal line.

Ho swung sharply to the right after making this brilliant catch and sprinted five yards before lie was pulled down. It was the first show of the Yale versatility that was to sweep the cadets off their feet. Here was Yale's ehnnce tc show Its fireworks, rnd frail little Thil Bunnell let loose. His choice was a forward pass and Noble and Kline e-eruted one that was precision itself. Before Kline was dragged to earth after the catch he was on Army's thirty-three yard line.

Foote went In for Kline Immediately after the latter had rontributett his end of the most startling gesture of the game up to that po'nt. Noble, Foote. and Allen went inte the Army line In turn and sent ii staggering backward, slowly but with a suretiess that left the VtJi Point rooters sorely distressed. Duly Stops, lair. Back to th Army seven vard the soldier team was forced bef-u Moe Daly stopped Nobio in hi tracks.

On a double Al again went Into the center of tin Army line and again the play -n checked without as much as a yar gained. A stnasOi at tackle netted th. Blue nothing. It was fourth down and NnM trie to skirt the Soldier left end. Hair.

Wilson stopped him on the five van line. a few fret short of a rst dow It was Army's ball The Army punted and for rtrf five minutes there was s-n e-x banc' of punts. th only a few minute! of the first ha'f rcniaiui'is. NohW caught If'wltt punt and wasrowne almost evxactlv In nvd-fietd Open I'o. nt this point Yr'' the 3 who ive ncctisej ti.

'I BRIDGEPORT MAN U. S. STAR WITNESS Ex-Alien Property Custodian Miller and He Met While Working to Make Gen. Wood President. (Special to The Couranl.) New York, Oct.

31. Present plans o' Special Assistant Attorney General Hiiam C. Todd contemplate using John T. King -t Bridgeport, formerly republican national committeeman ot that state, as thj star witness for the prosecution ii. the case against former Alien Property Custodian Thomas W.

Miller and others indicted with fcim on charges of conspiring to defraud the government of $7,000,000. In commerting on the fact that King was not named in the indictment retur.ied yesterday. 'Mr. Tod explained that the Bridgeport politician was such an Important and necessary witness" for the government that, although he was charged In the indictment with having been a conspirator. I ho grand jury decided he should not be indicted.

Grand Jury proceedings are secret, but it was in-t'maved by Mr. Tod1 that King's evidence was a vital factor in bringing about the 'ndictment. Kinir Initiated ItiirKdin. It was Kins who initiated the deal by which, according to the Indictment, the defendants, with King: and Jesse TV. Smith and others, conspired to defraud the United States by "wrongfully and illegally procuring: the payment by Thomas W.

Miller as alien-property custodian to the Soeiete Suisse poor Valeurs de ileteaux of rash and Llhfrtv bonds a irgregating more then $7,000,000. the proceeds of the sale ot a lar.ee number of shares of the American Metal Company, which were seized by A. Palmer, ss alien property custodian, shortly after the United States entered the World War, because it was owned by the Metallgesellschaft and the Metallbank, German corporations." The operations of the conspirators were begun and carried out in Germany. Switzerland and the United States, it Is alleged. Plans for the conspiracy were laid in Germany shortly after the war by P.ichard Mer-ton.

president of Metsllgesellsohaft, and his associates in the German metal trade, who stand indicted here. Klnir Met Merton. Kin? met Merton, who was a captain in the German army during tht war. in New York city May 1, 1921. according to the indictment.

King 1 introduced Merton to the late Jesse W. Smith, friend and confidant of former Attorney General Harry Daugherty, and the indictment charges the trio bargained for the return of the property Merton's company lost in the seizure by Palmer. July 20, the indictment continues Merton went to Washington and took up with George Ii Williams, an as sistant to the alien property custo dian, and with Adna R. Johnson, a special assistant to the attorney general, the matter of recovering the Swiss property. tin utio.oon cith On July 27, a week later, Merton met King in this city again, the eharge sits forih.

and paid over to him a rush' retainer of The contingent fee, Mr. Todd alleged, was to be approximately per cent. Three days later, still in this city, the indictment goes on. King met' Jesse Smith and turned over to him $25. 000.

Merton then renewed his activities and Miller, on Sept. wrote two letters to the attorney general transmitting the claims pre-aented by Merton and recommending their allowance. A week, later, Oct. 1, 1921, Merton met Miller, King and Smith at the (Concluded on ToKe 2.) AIR SMOKE SCREEN TO BE LAID TODAY If weather allows, the ac-heduled laying of the air smoke-screen, postponed because of-the rain during the flyinc meet a week ago, will be shown this afternoon at 2 o'clock at Bralnnrd Field. An especially equipped D-H plane arrived at the field yesterday from Aberdeen, for the exhibition.

Officials of tho meet made every attempt to have a Martin bomber and other planes from I.arifflev Field and Alitchel Field ror the postponed showing but at the former place the annual marhine cun events are taking place and llltchel Field the planes are tied up by government inspection Promptly at 2 o'clock the smokescreen event will be started. The plane will take off at this time and will lay the screen from a height of 1,000 feet. Tlia- smoke, by the new-process of the tcl.tnlum tetiaclii'it ide substance us-cd. descend in a hure curtain to the ground. Impcm trahlo to the eye, this vaporous protection is capable of concealing movements of an armv or of battleship fleet.

The curtain of will be laid the edge of the field for a distance of a milp. Major Talbot O. Freeman, with Meut. Louis N. KUer and other aviators of the USth Obsetvation Squadron, will be In tho air PHrt of the time and will nlso have their plants syady for inspection bv the public.

WILD SCENES AS RUNNER SCORES First Clash of Ancient Rivals Since 1920 Produces All Old-Time Gridiron Fire and Fight. (Sp al to The Coiuaut.) Middletown. Oct. 31. Trinity 6, Wesleyan 0.

Meeting on the gridiron for the first time since 1320 when the Blue and Gold of Trinity dipped under a "0 0 defeat, the eleven this afternoon won fron its ancient unemv by one touchdown. The resumption oi relations brought to Miodletown of alumni of colleges, wiiiile the week-end here wiWi its fraternity house parties added a plentiful variety of the model football girl to the home team peering section. Vt eslcynn'n Only Threat. The game was spectacular and hard and cleanly fought Tiom the opening kickolf and tVe.leynn'a threat of a touendown until the whistle, when the Tr'nity pushed t'iO bail out of his wav In order to have room for a ludicrous attempt to stand on his het.1. Then the alumni who Siad bpen daring hardened arteries to burst and the freshmen who had had something to cheer about for the first titno In their experience as Trinity men swarmed out of the east stands and paraded to the gymnasium, bearing on their shoulders "Chuck" Stewart, who scored the touchdown and Captain "Hick" Noble.

Not (irrat Football. From the teehn cal point of view, the football was not -all that might be desired, for missed tackles, fumbles and blocked kicks were plentiful, but the playing was clean and except for a few Trinity ulumn! who demanded at least 3 00 points, the game could not have been Improve! upon from Trinity point of view. Wesleyan has won but one game thin season and hacj h'gh hopes of adding Trinity, its inferior on the basis of comparative scores, to its list of victims. lint tic for ltlooil. Whatever the game lacked In thf finer points of football, it mine up to those connected with the rival Institutions by the mere resumption of relations, while the neutral onlookers watched tweAty-two young athletes who made up in earnestness what they lacked in skill and two cheering sections such as can be seen only at football grimes between long-established rivals.

Between the halves the followers of the teams paid their respects-'to eacii other in songs of the dire things which had (Concluded on Pnge 2.) PERSIA ENDS DYNASTY IN POWER 146 YEARS Teheran. Persia, Oct. 31. (Associated Press.) The Mcjliss or national assembly today adopted a resolution deposing tiie Kajar dynasty, which has ruled the country since 1779. The vote was SO out of Si in favor of deposition.

The resolution says that the ruling dynasty is deposed for tho sake of the national welfare, and that a temporary government, in accordance with the constitution and the national laws, has been entrusted to the premier, Ttesa Khan. The resolution says it is left to the national assembly to decide on a per-mament form of government. The present shah of Persia, Ahmad Kajar. is the seventh of the Kajar line, and succeeded to tho throne In 1909, when he was 11 years old. He repl.iced his father, Muhammad All.

who abdicated. Until 1006 tiie shah of Persia wa one of the few remaining absolute rulers in the world, but in that yeai. following popular demands for rep resentative Institutions. Mcjli-s instituted and a constitution approved Marly this year the young shah's protracted absence from Persia evoked popular demands for his I'-turn from Kurone. whern ho was making a pleasure trip, and gave rise to reports of a movement to dethrone him.

'-T'anl ctrn.il.- 'vlr innali. ot F'nMH4n wil his front The man went down, while the horse continued to paw wildly at bid prostrate form. When Policeman Hatloran arrived the man was dead. His r-kull was fractured, his body severely mauled and his clothes were almost torn off. Formnn came lo this city from New York ahiut fmir year aco.

Recently tic was struck by a trolley car when driving his wagon on Windsor avenue. A suit against the Connecticut Company pending, lie leaves his wife. Sadie Forman, and his son, 1 1 111 a 11. The funeral will be hold today at the Chnisid Chele-dips at No. 1SI Woostcr f-trcct at 2 p.

m. P.urinl will be in f.ion Hill Cemetery. 1 1 i '1 v-v is a C. STCKHAliX, Guard. FALSE ALARMS KEEP Halloween Celebrators Give Firemen and Policemen a Busy Evening.

WITCHES RAMPANT IN QUEER OUTFITS Children's Bonfires Cause Undue Activity in Certain Sections. Hallowei-n celebrators were responsible for firtecn out of seventeen ularms to which the fire department responded last night. The blazes vi ere bonfires, burning s'heds and a burning wagon. A veritable avalanche of falsi a flooded the fire department during the early evening when the colebiutors wcra rampant. Most of them came from the western Park street sectijii, and caused the police to come to the rescue of the fire fighters in an effort to round up the practical jokers, who kept the on the Jump for several hours.

Wagon (iocs I In Smoke. Company 11 was called to extinguish a fire caused when boys set fir to a wagon in the rear of No. HiL'l Park, street The wagon was first filled with grass and leaves and then ignited. was destroyed. A tool stud belonging to Dean, contractors, next to a building under construction on Curtis street, was burned by boys.

Company No. 10 ext'nguished a bonfire of leuves In the rear of the Alfred U. Ourr school on avenue. Another shed on Linn-rnooro street was set on fire. An alarm from Box 459 brought aeveral fire companies to the scene.

Company No, 10 was sent to put out a bonfire opposite No. 47 Eiliott street. It was made by boys. Another bonfire on Summit street opposite Trinity College was extin-suis'iied by Company No. 15.

Two fires, not canned by boys, resumed in a box alarm and a still alarm, the former bring for a fire in the aity dump on Wellington street: tiie latter when a passerby thought the new Travelers Ins. Co. building on Prospect street was on fire. Tiie "f're" proved to have been one leit by workmen to dry out the new floors. When jesterday joined the discard with some 300 other days of 1025 last 1 Concluded on Page 2.) CONDEMNS FIRE APPARATUS SPEEDER Tloston.

Oct. 31. Associated Press "PriverH of fire apparatus have no 111 no right to drive at an unreasonable rate of speed, especially at the inter lows of streets, than drivers of other vehicles," Frank A. Geod-vviu, state registrar of motor vehicles, ruled today in suspending the license of Fred Menard. Menard Is a driver at the Uevere Central fire station.

Mr. Goodwin said-that his action taken as a result of a collision O-tober in which Edward Fa Ik received injuries which caused the loss of ono leg. The registrar described Menard's driv ing ss unnecessary ret Mess." I DEPT. 01 JUMP AUTO DROPS 40 FEET Six Northampton People Hurt in East Hartford Boulevard Accident. SKIDS THROUGH RAIL LANDS UPRIGHT Party on Way to Bristol Funeral Injuries Not Serious.

Sis Northampton people on the way to a funeral in Bristol were Injured I yesterday when the automobile in i shich they were riding skidded through the railing of the "dry oriiige" on thn Connecticut boulevard in East Hartford, and feir to the ground forty feet below. The car was wrecked. The injured were Vito Cicoria, drlv-e of the machine, Tony Paraflto, 35 years old; Isabella DeCarlo, A 2 years old Rose Vinci. 45 years old; Tony 62 years old. and Rocco Ditiindi, 43 years old, all of Northampton, Mass.

All were taken in a passing automobile to the Hartford Hospital, where it was said last nijnt that Mrs. Dj Carlo end Dibrindi had been discharged. Tile others, who were up, were suffering from the effects of shock, it was said. The accident attracted a large crowd of motorists and pedestrians became so dense that the police had considerable difficulty in keeping open the boulevard to traf fic. The automobile landed right side The right front wheel was torn oa by the bridge railing and the right rear wheel was also wrecked.

The planks of the railing were carried aow.i by the car. The limousine lanoed 'between two small trees, iich bro.se the force of tho fall. Wrecking operations had to he stop-pt'i until ru tf the trees between the car was jammed had been cm down. The automobile was owned by the Taxi Company of Northampton, Maps Tiie passengers were at first bel'ived to be a 'bridal party but this information was later corrected by one of the injured, who said they were on the way to a funeral. Mary Squayzer of South Glastonbury was struck by an automobile last niitht while crossing the Hartford bridge to view an accident which had occurred there.

She was taken to the Hartford Hospital where it was said last night that she was resting comfortably. CASH REGISTER AGENTS FACE FEDERAL CHARGE Dayton. Oct. 31. (Associated Press.) Ninety salesmen and district reP' esentatives of the National Cash Register Dayton, will be cited before the United Statewde-partment of commerce for- alleged violat'on of a decree issued by the department in 1916 regarding selling methods of the company, according to word here TODAY'S "COURANT." Today's "Courant" consists of SO pages in 8 parts as follows: Pnr 112 Pngei.

General, state and city news. I'nrt 12 rages. Financial Classified Real Estate Pnrt HI to Para. Kditorial State and general news. Part IV 16 Pnges.

Sports. Automobiles. Pari l'nri. Theaters. Purl 112 Pngra.

Radio. Part 1 118 PB. Artsravure. Pnrl VIII Piiim. Colored Comics.

FROM OR 0 i I G. ri 1 5 h. iaLuii HERBERT Left FOOTBALL SCORES Vale 28. Army 7. Trinity tl.

Wesleyan 0. I linois Perm. 2. r.otre Dame IX. Ga.

o. Parvard 12, Win. Us. Mary 7. Princeton 19, Swarthmore T.

Coun. Aggies 10. -Manhattan 0. Syracuse 7, Ptnn. State 0.

Dartmouth 14, Brown 0. Cornel; 17. Columbia 11. Amherst 27, Mass Aggies 0. Williams (i.

Inion (i. SELLS HARTFORD LIFE BUILDIi Heimovitch Transfers Central Property to Eno For Over $400,000. Tiie furmer home of the Hartford IJfe Insurance Company, which was absorbed by tiie Missouri Life Insurance Company, at Asylum and Ann streets, has been sold by Heimovitch ot 36 Vine street to Frank ot No. 185 Kidgeficld street, formerly of the Paper Con pally. The purchase price was said to be between JlOO.notl and The transfer involves two buildings, the Hartford Life building, fronting on Asylum street, and a two-story liri'ek bnihliir-r fronting on Ann street, and adjo ning" the former milding to the north.

The old Hartford Life stnictu is nix stories liiah, of granite, limestone, and pressed brick, find was built by the Hartford Life Insurance Company in TS07. The property was bought by William Heituovitch in the latter pnrt of 1019. He has made cxtens ve- improvements on the property. Mr Kno. the new owner, said last eht he had no immediate plans beyond making some minor Improvements, that be would in nil probability make extensive improvements net year, including a new building on tb" Ann street sites.

Mr. Rim said he had seen architectural plans wh'ch had been drawn for Mr. Il.iniovit.'h culling- for nn S-stntv structure, but. added that he wns un' decided whether to adopt theni for his own use The Asvmn street builii'nir housed until a fi-w years 'he cnmertl-eut Manufaet'irers' Association and 'lie Hartford iliamhor of Commerce Its principal star has bee nectipled for mnnv years hy the Ncvton-T'oh-ertson Oro-erv Company. The poyn' Typewriter occuple- most of the spare thu two-story Ann wt reet build The rion icnrrieri net hv the 1.

Faulkner Cnnpanv es-eurv with 'he rp-nperr ion I.dwsrd Yew field. BULGARS REOCCUPY ALL THEIR POSITIONS Pari. Oct. 31 (Associated press.) The llulgnr cominun.ty in Paris this evening received with milked sutisfne'tion the news that M. Hi ia nil had been handed u.

dispatch from Pit rich in which the military attaches assured tiie French foreign minister that all tho Luli'-ir posts taken by the ilneUs have been if-occupied by the Liiigai ians. The dispatch sdded that 011 ct prevailed on both sides of the recently agitated frontier. Prominent PliftVhm Hie. Moines, ninj Press.) i'r. It.

K. the 'er, prom- inent. physiei.vt of Hrookl'ne, died suddenly here today. X. r.p Oct.

31. (Associated Pro's.) presidents of the East Hills residential sectio are complaining bitterly that young, men. apparently Cornel-University students, are stealing pet cats and using 'them for fraternity initiation purposes. Inquiry at the medical and veterinary colleges revealed that no cats are being purchased IEGL TO LEAVE PRISON j. Alexander Zepko's Parole Revoked Because of His Attitude.

Granted a paiole from the state priton after serving three yeara of a maximum sentence of ten years, Alexander Zepko of Fairfield, who escaped from the Fairfield county jail in Bridgeport in 1522. 'failed to avail himself ot his opportunity for freedom, and his parole has been revoked by the prison directors acting as the state board of parole. Why the mar evidently preferred prison life to the liberty ho had applied for, haa not been detei mined. He has been relieved of a "good conduct job" at the institution and put to work in the prison factory. Sudden Change Iuveatigalrd.

The peculiar altitude of Zepko, which amounted to a declination ot nis freedom only a few weeks iiis application to be paroied had been acted upon, caused the prison authorities to investigate, carefully, it could not be found that be was involved in any conspiracy, but under the circumstances, Warden H. K. W. Scott recommended the revocation of parole. Zepko wls arrested in 1922 as the leader of a ring of automobile thieves in Fairfield and was sent to ja.l, only to escape, 'n company with Eugene Lcdoux.

The latter was caught in Cleveland and Zepko was recaptured some time iater it Montreal, after having twice returned to F'alrfielj the meantime and stolen automobiles. He was sentenced to the state prison for three to ten years, by the superior court. At prison. Zepko has been an exemp.ary prisoner, in reward for which he was given a job in connection with the prison store, which required him to carry supplies to different parts of the institution. Didn't Seek Job.

One of the requirements for a parole tj that the applicant be assured of emkloyment upon his leaving cVi prison. T'ne prison authorities offered to find a job for Zepko, but he said his relatives were arranging to get him work in a certain Bridgeport factory and he preferred to wait in tho prison until the arrangements were completed Weeks pnssed and Ztpko evidently did nothing about it. continuing at the prison as if nothing had happened. The.) the prison officials investigated and satisfied themselves 1 1 the employer named hy Zepko had not been approached 'n his behalf, end the matter was laid before the parole hoard at Its last meeting, and Zepko is confronted with the necessity of continuing to serve time on his term. WOUND INFLICTED BY BANDIT FATAL New York.

Oct. 31. (Associated Carl Clayton, night watchman on the I.onsr Island estate of P. Pcnnoyer, son-in-law of J. P.

Mot-can, died at the Glen Cove Community Hospital today from a gunshot wound Infjicted during a struggle with a negro hold-tip mnn last night. P.efore ho died Clayton said be met a negro on Duck Pond road and the man whipped out a revolver, ordering him to put up his- hands. He st'ugsled with his assailant and wi't shot in the abdomen. The watchman tried to follow the nearo, who fled after the shooting, "ot was so weakened by loss of blood that he collapsed. PEDDLER TRAMPLED TO DEATH UNDER HOOFS OF OWN HORSE 1.0UI3 formati, bs years old, a peddler, of No.

53 Woostcr street, was trampled to death by his horse late yesterday when the animal sud-' deuly became infuriated while being fed in a barn at the tear of No. 81 Woostcr street. Forman's 3-yrars-old son Hyinari. who uccotripanied his father to the barn, escaped a similar fate by running. Tho police were notified and Policeman Hdward Hal-loian, entering the stall of the maddened animal, managed to make secure his halter after which he led the horse out of the barn.

Witnesses that Forman went Into the stall to feed the horse. Without warning the animal reared up, tore hfs halter free from a lops.

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