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DAILY Record 7l MONMOU UNTY5 SPAPER The Weather FINAL EDITION RAIN late tonight or Sunday, GREA' VOL. SPv-NUMBER 285. LONG BRANCH. NEW JERSEY, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1937-14 PAGES. PRICE 'i'HREE CENTS Hit-Run Victim Found Dead By Roadside Near Freehold Slot Machines In Series Of Confiscated County Raids Body Of Youth Discovered On Shore At Cliff wood As Search Ends Successfully FREEHOLD, 4.

State po-. lice and county authorities this morning were seeking the identity of a hit and run driver who struck and killed Carlo Bidinost 63, Jackson Mills laborer, whose body was found in a roadside ditch near here yesterday. The man had been dead some time. The cause of death was believed to have been a skull fracture. Chief of County Detective Charles Tate said the injury was evidently caused by being hit, with a car.

No other marks were found on the body, but the clothes were torn, as though a car had caught them and ripped them as the man was hurled into a ditch In front of McCormick's road stand on the Lakewood road, two miles south of here. Former Budget Director Maps Business Recovery Plan At Secret Session SifktMa Oxa Wm IMlirar Drive Continues Against Games Devices Which Pay-Off In Merchandise To Be Destroyed FREEHOLD, Dec. 4 A flying squad of deputy sheriffs, county detectives and state police swept through Monmouth County yesterday in a series of raids in which 14 slot machines which pay off In money and a large number of other gambling devices were confiscated. Sheriff George H. Roberts and Chief Investigator Charles Tate of the Prosecutor's office led the raiding squads.

Another series of raids will be conducted today, It Is expected, on gaming machines and devices which pay off in merchandise. Reports from the sheriff's office at Freehold this morning revealed that a stringent attempt la being made by the law. officials of the county to wipe the menace of slot machine gambling from all parts of the district Raids will be again conducted today according to a statement re-leased by the sheriff's office. The municipalities raided yesterday by the flying squads included Deal, Avon, Como, Highland, Atlantic Highlands. Keyport, As-bury Park, Long Branch and sdis.

tricts along Route 25, near Matawan. It was expected that several persons would be arraigned befora Justice of the Peace Fred Qulnn la Freehold sometime today as tha aftermath of the raids yesterday. Sheriff Roberta said this mora. Ing that he had not received tht full report on the raids owing to the fact that when the raiding paries left yesterday it was understood "that if everything went off successfully the reports will ba turned in at the completion of tha raids, If not my office was to ba notified." He further said, "that no wortT has been "received on the final report of the raids therefore It la believed that they will be confined successfully." The raids came after a group of MIddelsex county gambling Machine operators attempted to muscle In on the racket in tha northern 'section of the county. When Middlesex authorities drovt these operators out of that county, there was an influx Into Monmouth and it was feared that troubla might result as the local operators; were not inclined to give In without a struggle to the Invaders.

Middletown Township Democrats Hold Party EAST KEANSBURG, Dec. J. The annual election of offlcera of the Middletown Township Flra Department will be held Tuesday, Dec. 14, at the fire house here from 7 to 9 P. M.

Gene Reardon, of' East Keansburg, now first assistant chief, Is a candidate for chief. Joseph Wacker of Port Monmouth is the candidate for first assistant and Stanley Cook of Belford Independent Engine Company la in Una for second assistant David Simpson of Headdons Corner is running for third assistant and Donald Johnson of Naveslnk Is candidate for-fourth assistant. Union Beach Companies Extinguish Brush Fire UNION BEACH, Dec. 4. Local fire companies were called out early yesterday afternoon to extinguish a brush fire which, fanned by a stiff breeze, threatened the homes of Mr.

Earl Munday and Mrs. Mae Miller on Union Avenue. The blaze is believed to have started from a light ed cigarette dropped In the dry brush workers. All three companies resopnded and confined the fire to the field between the two homes. Bova's Bar, 563 Broadway Free tonight, Steak sandwich; also Italian sausage.

Music and dancing. (Adv) 285 Annual Meeting The annual meeting of the lot owners of Glen wood Cemetery, for the election of two trustees, will be held at Its office, 182 Broadway, Long Branch, N. on Tuesday, Dec. 14, 1937, at 2 P. M.

C. M. Throckmorton, Sec. (Adv) 285 291to292 Etks Memorial Service Sunday evening, December 5, at 8:15 P. M.

Elks Home, Garfield Ave, Long Branch Lodge No. 742, B. P. O. E.

Public cordially Invited. (Adv) 285 John W. Flock, Funeral Director. Tel. 202.

Home of Funerala (Adv) 282 tt Order four Chrlatmaa Cards At The Daily Record Office. 1: Broadway. A wide selection of attractive carda at prices to suit aac individual J433 Planning Group Leader Charges City Dilatory Tim Advises Community Council Commissioners Have SJi own No Co-operation Nastasio Speaks Mayor Makes Excuses For Dilly-Dallying Sewer Project Louis 6. Tim, chairman of the City Planning Commission, charged the Board of Commissioners had been dilatory in their action on the three-point program of public improvements as submitted to the city fathers by the organization which Is engaged in planning municipal Improvements when he addressed the Community Council at the Garfield-Grant Hotel yesterday afternoon. Mr.

Tim pointed out to the Mayor that the Board of Commissioners has shown a marked disinterest in efforts of the planning commission and that commissioners themselves had not even extended the planning group the courtesy of attending meetings called jointly by the Planning Commission and the City Board. Mr. -i tW elkvH "the commission was slightly con-ftd tie structure oi a planning board. "It Is, said the chairman, the function of any city planning board to recommend certain necessary Improvements for a He further stated that the board had not any tunas net aside for the carrying out of the "projects that belonged to the city." Speaking briefly on the recent visit of Russell Van Nest Black, nationally known planning engineer and consultant to the New Jersey State Planning Board, Tim. fell that the "commissioners had rudely ignored a man who came only to offer constructive and consider-(Contlnued on Third Page) TODAY'S DIVERSIONS Paramount: "The Perfect Specimen." Strand: "West of Shanghai" and "Roll Along Cowboy." Red Bank Carlton: "The Perfect Specimen" Strand: "West of Shanghai" and "Roll Along Cowboy." Atbury Park Paramount: "The Life of Bmile Zola." Mayfalr: "A Damsel in Distress." St James: "Live, Love and Learn." V.

S. Weather Bureau Telephone Long Branch 199 Local Weather Data Temperature Highest yesterday, 40 degrees. Lowest last night, 29 degrees. Wind Velocity at 8 A. 12 miles northeast Barometer at 8 A.

30.18. Humidity at 8 A. 48 per cent. HIGH TIDE A.M. P.M Dec.

4 8:13 8:33 Dec 5 8:49 9:10 Dec. 6 9:24 9:50 Willis A WooHey, Funeral Director. Tel. 122. (Adv) 282tf Plymouth 1936 $485 4-Door De Luxe Tour.

Sedan. Must be seen to appreciate. Many other bargains. Wm. J.

Levine, 375 Broadway. (Adv) 285 Order Xmaa Cards Now Avoid Disappointment At The Dally Record Office you will find (Christmas Cards of every description. (Ad vi 248f SUPERSTITIONS' Old Wives' tales in Scotland spread the superstition that babies born on Christmas Day had the power not only to see spirits, but to command them also. Shopping Vatfi Till Ghlhtmd 17 M'Grady Pleads For Unity For Industry, Labor Former Assistant Labor Secretary Gtes Need For Understanding Between Factions Discussion Held Conference On Social Work Panel Answers Questions ASBURY PARK, Dec. 4 Deploring the fact that the C.

I. O. had broken away from the A. F. of L.

without using enough forethought, Edward F. McGrady, director of labor relations in the Radio Corporation of America, and former assistant secretary of the United States Department of Labor, pleaded for a better understanding between industry and labor, before the New Jersey Conference of Social Work of about (Continued on Third Page) Local Man Sent To Institution John Green, 44, Changes Plea To Not Guilty; Ordered To Trenton FREEHOLD, Dec. 4. John Green, 44, of 284 West End Avenue, Long Branch, who on Nov, 11 pleaded non-vult to a charge of criminally assaulting a 14-year-old girl at Long Branch last July, was permitted, on motion of his counsel, Julius Golden, to withdraw the plea and enter a plea of not guilty when arraigned for sentence before Judge J. Edward Knight in Quarter Sessions Court yesterday afternoon.

Golden then presented to the court certificates from two physicians certifying that Green is mentally unbalanced and Judge Knight ordered him committed to the state hospital at Trenton. Aaron B. Donahay, Wanamassa, formerly of Smlthburg, was given a suspended sentence of one to three years in state prison on his plea of non-vult to a charge of atrocious assault and battery upon Miss Dorothy Burlew of West Main Street, Freehold, on Nov. 6, 1935. Donahay, following his hitting the girl, was convicted of drunken driving.

He has a wife and six children and is cut of work. Mrs. Mary Richardson, colored, Haley Street, Freehold, who was to have appeared in court for sen tence on her plea of guilty of Illegal possession of liquor had a doctor certificate presented in court to the effect that she was ill and sentence was deferred until Dec. 17. Mrs.

Clara Mazrymas, Millstone Township, Freehold, R. D. 3, was fined $100 and costs and placed on probation for one year on her plea of guilty of possession of illegal intoxicants on Sept. 5, 1935. ram Murphy, 30, of Prospect Avenue, Atlantic Highlands, and Willam A.

Steinle, 49, of Forest Avenue, Leonardo, arrested Thurs day, waived indictment and pleaded guilty of two breaking and entering and larceny charges and were remanded to Jail to await sentence Dec. 17. They admitted (Continued on Third Page) Shore Boys Draw Terms On Thefts, Assault Charges TOMS RIVER, Dec. 4 (TP) Francis Smith, 21, former Lakewood high school football star, was under sentence today to an indeterminate term in Annandale Reformatory on charges of assault and grand larceny. A companion, Christian W.

Cot-trell, 23, also of Lakewood, was given a three-month jail term by Common Pleas Judge Percy Camp on larceny charges yesterday. The defendants were cornered In an alley several months ago by police, who charged them with thefts from automobiles. Smith shot his way out, but surrendered later. Indoor Polo Tomorrow Season's first game at Red, Bank Armory, Chestnut Street. N.

Y. 4.. C. vs. Evergreen Farms in feature match.

Ponolo P. C. vs. Red Bank Polo Club. First game 4 P.

M. Good Seats 40c and 25c. (Adv) 285 Tonight Spaghetti a la.marinara. Fresh ham sandwich. Ernest Tomalnl Tap room, 261 Morris Ave.

(Adv) 285 Tel. 2-800 Town Taxi 20c Fare, 24 Hour Service. (Adv) 285tf (Sat) Free Tonight Ravioli with Italian Sausage. Norwood Cafe, 16 Norwood Ave. and Pizza every night (Adv) 285 Rytei Xmaa Cards 60 for $1.00 and 25 for $1.00.

printed with name The Daily Record Office, 192 Broadway, Long Branch. (Adv) 234U Boy Disappeared While On Duck Hunting Trek Father Kept Hope CLIFFWOOD, Dec. 4. The body of Robert Miller, 19, of Plain Street, Newark, was found this morning at 8:45 A. M.

on the shore below Cliffwood Drive, Cliff- wood, 200 feet from where he drowned four weeks ago today. Ernest Hubbard, 14, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Hubbard of Cliff-wood Drive, was the first to discover the corpse that had washed ashore and he immediately informed the police. Officer Adolf Menzel of the Cliffwood police force immediately hastened to the scene and secured the corpse to the shore pending the arrival of the coroner.

Miller had been duck-hunting four weeks ago on Nov. 13 with three of his friends, Joseph Rud man, 19, of Beaker Street, New ark; Owen Regan, 20, of 32 New ton Street. Newark, and Robert Burns, 18 of Union Beach. The. boys had been hunting off East Point Union Beach, when It was discovered that a string of decova had broken loose.

Miller and Rudman set out in a boat owned bv Burton Brandigan of Union Beach to retrieve the de coys when a northeaster came up. Rudman seeing that the boat was drifting out into the bay, jumped out Miller jumped too late and was unable to reach the snore. When Rudman finally got to land he notified the police of the disappearance of his friend and the Keyport officers manned a motor-boat in search of the drowning man. Edward Hubbard also set out in his own boat and claims he saw Miller but was unable to reach him On the body found this morning was a belt of shotgun shells. An Insignia on the pocket of the overalls read "The Newark Milk Company." Local Elks Clul) To HoldMemoruil Services Sunday The annual memorial services, during which the members of the Elks Lodge No.

742 B. P. O. E. wilt pay tribute to deceased members, will be held tomorrow evening, at P.

M. William M. Fraser, Special Deputy, Grand Exalted Ruler, of Blue Island, 111. Lodge No. 1331, will be the principal speaker.

Special musical arrangements have been completed to round out the service, and all Elks are requested and the public Invited to attend this service at the Elks Home In Garfield Avenue. NEW YORK, Dec. iUPh-Prices slipped a shade either way In today's early stock market. At a slow opening gains were registered for Standard Oil of N. Douglas Aircraft, National Distillers, Chrysler, Consolidated Edison and Anaconda.

Lower were U. S. Steel, Bethle hem, N. Y. Central, Texas Geenra, Motors Mont.

Among other factors considered by holders of steel shares was the action of the Carnegie-Illinois principal subsidiary of U. S. Steel, In reaffirming current tin plate prices to the end of the third quarter next year. I Early Wall Street County Physician Harvey Hartman was notified and today is expected to perform an autopsy. The body was discovered by a passing motorist who notified W.

S. McCormlck, proprietor of the roads tand. McCormlck notified state and county police. The body was removed to the Freeman morgue here. Bidinost was Identified by an application for citizenship papers found in his pocket.

Identification was confirmed by Frank Federlci, local hotelkeeper, who said the man had been In Freehold Monday seeking further papers with which to bring his wife and two children from Italy. He had been working at Jacksons' Mills and prior to that in Hightstown. His papers gave his address as 52 Grand Avenue, Matawan. 10 Senators Attend Meet As Capital Speculates On Outcome; Eight Democrats There WASHHINGTON, Dec. 4 (JPlA.

secret gathering of 10 Senators at which Lewis Douglas, former budget director, outlined a business recovery program atirrd speculation in the capital today. Douglas, now an officer In the American Cyanimid Company, left his Federal post in 1934 because he disagreed with Roosevelt spend' ing policies. Since then he has been an out spoken critic of the administration, and last year supported Alf M. Landon for President on the ground that the New Deal could "result only in the impoverishment of the nsnnie people. The Senators present at yester day's meeting eight Democrats and two Republicans frequently have opposed administration meas ures.

None of them would discuss the conference in detail, but some In dicated Douglas had proposed early tax revision, budget balancing and foreign trade expansion as among tne essentials lor restoring confidence to Industry, The group met at the invitation of Senator Byrd (D-Va). Others present were Senators Glass (D-Va), King (Utah), George (D-Ga), (Continued on Third Page) FindWihgert Death Accident County Probe Discounts Ex-Police Officer Suicide Theory The final reports filed by County Physician Harvey Hartman of Key-port and the prosecutor's office at Freehold revealed this morning that the death of Benjamin D. Wlngert, 37-year-old former local police officer, was accidental. Wlngert, who had been a member of the local police force for 11 years, was found dead from the effects of illuminating gas in the bedroom of hia father's home, 32 Jackson "Street, at 9:30 o'clock Wednesday night. At first believed to have been suicide, a careful investigation by Chief County Detective Charles Tate of the prosecutor's office and County Physcian Hartman reveal ed that death was accidental.

Henry Wlngert, father of the former police officer, on returning home from West New York where he had been attending a funeral, discovered the odor of escaping gas and found It coming from his son's bedroom. Breaking in the door, he found that gas was flow ing from a let on the walL Later he told the investigating officers that the Jet had leaked and he believed that his son on retiring had failed to notice the unus ually heavy flow of the illuminat ing gas. ITHncrton Junction, to the Monmouth County Historical Association here. Previously this summer two ancient coins were found deep in mud surrounding the spring, which is along the Jamesburg branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad and on the battlefield. One proved to be a French centime, of the first Republic, probably about 1795 and the other is still unidentified.

Research led to discovery of the present spring after It was proved that the well, hitherto venerated as Molly Pitcher's, proved spurious, having been dug 50 years after the battle. The old well is 1,000 feet north of the newly discovered spring. Overseer Warns Relief Workers Red Bank Director Says Able Bodied Men Are Expected To Work RED BANK, Dec. 4 Men able to work will be expected to make use of the opportunity in order to receive relief assistance, it was indicated yesterday when Richard Fshr, 38, of 68 Mechanic Street, head of a family, was sentenced to 60 days In the workhouse on charges of failing to provide for his family. Fisher was arrested upon charges preferred by Robert A.

Kennedy, borough overseer of the poor, and brought before Recorder John V. Crowell In police court. According to Kennedy the complaint was made following Fisher's action in quitting a job that had paid $12 per week in private employment. Accordng to Mr. Kennedy, the records reveal that Fisher and his family have been on relief prao-tically all of the time since they came to the borough five years ago.

Fisher has a wife and four children, the children ranging from 10 years of age. The term In the workhouse will not prevent the family from jecelv-lng assistance, the poor overseer explained. The family, Kennedy explained after going to the record of the past five years, originally on coming to the borough had been non-residents. The head of the family had ben born in Newark, but had left the state, and returned to New Jersey after several years absence. The came to Red Bank five years ago, and according to Mr.

Kennedy had become a relief case for the ERA, and had later been turned over to the municipality, whej (Continued on Third Page) Street Paving Fight Looming Park Avenue Residents At Oakhurst Object To Program OAKHURST, Dec. 4. Objections on the part of residents living in Park Avenue, Oakhurst, against hard resurfacing of the street were read last night at the meeting of the Ocean Township Committee. Letters of objects were sent by Thomas Milton and Sidney Erlan-ger, and T. K.

Frelinghuysen. Mr. Erlanger stressed the fact In his letter that Park Avenue Is nowt one of the few beautiful streets In the county which has not been made a thoroughfare, and is still road." Also any hard resurfacing would increase the automobile traffic, making it undesirable for his family. Horseback riding is one of the most attractive sports in which the families of Mr. Erlanger and Mr.

Frelinghuysen participate. If the street had a hard surface, it would be undesirable for horseback riding. The committee took no action on the request of Mr. Erlanger last night, waiting until complaints could be given more consideration. The application of Marjorle Sanders for a plenary retail consumption license, and the building of a tavern, to be known as "Big Apple" Tavern, was granted by the committee.

Miss Sanders plans to build the tavern on the corner of Talmadge Avenue and State Highway No. 35. A bill for $22.50 was ordered paid to Mrs. Lillian Aclerno. This bill was presented to the committee nt the last meeting for the Killing or nine rauu.w dogs.

The rabbits, which weighed killing of nine rabbits by stray 12 pounds eacn, were to ne soia to C. O. Jonnson or tsoraeniown, to be used for experimental pur poses of disease. Others bills were ordered paid by the committee. Free Tonight Fresh Roast Pork Dinner.

Apple sauce, candled sweet potatoes, cold cuts, clam broth. Washington's Orchestra. El- lenson's Cafe Oyster Bar, Broadway and Second L. B. (Adv) 285 Elks Memorial Service Sunday evening, December 5, at 8:15 P.

M. Elks Home, Garfield Long Branch Lodge No. 742, B. P. O.

E. Public cordially Invited. (Adv) 285 Free Tonight at Rublno's Grill Roast Beef sandwiches, at 80 South Broadway. (Adv) 285" Bytes Stationery 11.00 Variety of styles and colon Printed with name and address. Solo The Dally Record Offices.

191 Broadway. Long Branch and 7 Monmouth St, Red Bank (Adv) 193U' Japs Apologize To U.S. Officials Demand O.K. To Move Jough International Settlement yj the Associated Press) iese army officers today to the United States marine command at Shanghai for Japanese troops' intrusion Friday on the American defense sector. But at almost the same time the Japanese army lodged a demand with the International Settlement nnlifiA fnr frpA hflriri tn mnvs nese forces through the settlement The Japanese called on the settle1 ment police to prevent repetition of Friday's bombing of the Japanese "Victory March." It was during confusion that followed this Incident, in which a bomb or band grenade was exploded, that the Japanese encroached upon American-defended streets.

Three Japanese staff offlcerfftal led on Brigadier General John C. Beaumont, United States Marine Commander, and explained the com mander of the intruding detachment was new to Shanghai and unfamiliar with defense boundaries. Another international Incident was averted when French author ities permitted Japanese to move supplies through the French con cession. Japanese advices from the battle- front said the invaders were defi nitely threatening Nanking, China's evacuated capital, and Chlnkiane, Yangtze River City about 40 miles east of Nanking. Earlier the Japa nese reported capture of Tanyahg, on the Grand Canal about 20 miles south of Chinkiang The British steamer Siushan was reported the object of an attack from an undetermined source while enroute to Japanese-occupied Tsungming Island, near Shanghai.

British authorities have been at tempting to rescue nine French Canadian nuns marooned on the island about three months. At Geneva the League of Nations received a Chines 3 protest against Italy's formal recognition of Man- choukuo, the protectorate Japanese established in Manchuria. At Warsaw French Foreien Min ister Yvon Delbos began the first of a series of conferences with France's eastern allies. Later he will go to Czechoslovakia, Rumania and Yugoslavia. In the Spanish civil war insurgent war planes renewed attacks on the central front of the government forces.

On the Aragon front the government retaliated by a mass air attack on Almudevar. Police Feature Pistol Practice At Meeting KEYPORT, Dec. 4. Pistol practice to increase the efficiency of the Ljocal department and guests was rbhe feature event of the Reserve at a recent meeting held in the range which Is in the basement of the Borough Hall, Front Street Tells Of Threat FRANK DORRANCE Minneapolis milkman, testl-( fled at an inquest into the slaying of Patrick Corcoran, union head, that Corcoran told him how "Bugs" Moran of Chicago threatened to "bump off" Corcoran unless the latter quit organizing milk and Ice cream drivers. Long Slaying Charge Dropped IndictmentStandingSince 1929 Quashed On State's Motion FREEHOLD, Dec, 4.

Francis "Lefty" Long, 38, an alleged accomplice in the payroll murder of George Danlclson in Bradley Beach on Aug. 3, 1929, was freed of the charge yesterday afternoon when Judge J. Edward Knight granted a motion of Assistant Prosecutor Charles Frankel and quashed the indictment charging him with murder. Long, however, is being held for the Philadelphia authorities, where he is wanted on an old charge robbery. Philadelphia police are expected to take Long to that city today.

Assistant Prosecutor Frankel's motion was preceded by a plea for action by William J. O'Hagan, defense counsel assigned by the court, who said that Long was in custody here at the time Robert Tully of Audubon was tried and convicted of the murder and sentenced to life imprisonment but instead of placing Long on trial the authorities of that day released him to Essex County, where he was sentenced to eight years on a robbery charge. Assistant Prosecutor Frankel explained that witnesses could not now be procuredTHb make out a prima facia case against Long. Tully, he said, Is confined in the criminal insane ward at state prison. Frank O'Brien, known as the "Jersey Kid," who was said to have fired the shots that killed Danielaon, wau electrocuted for another murder In Newark, and James Sargert, alias Arthur Paige, escaped Capture here but is now serving a 25-year term at Alca-traz for a $57,000 mail car robbery In California.

Other witnesses who could have given some bearing on the case have either died or cannot be located, Frankel Bald, i State Bar Association General Council Meets TRENTON, Dec. 4. The president of the New Jersey State Bar Association announced a meeting of the general council of the association to be held today at the Stacey-Trent Hotel in Trenton. est Rarltan Township home, It Is possible that the grand jury will delay handing up Its presentment! until after the olidays, In whlcl case the vouth charged with killing his father will have to spend Christmas at the Welfare soma, Further Evidence Verifying Molly Well Is Found Robert Miller May Celebrate 16th Birthday At Briar Hill By DOROTHY DOR AN whether young MUler shall stand FREEHOLD, Dec. 4 Robert Mill trial on a charge of killing his father, will pend his 16th blrthV er, or shall be returned to his mother day on Dec.

11 at the Chlldrensl and brother, who are distraught Shelter at Briar Hill unlesi results) with anguish and lonely as the boy of the Grand Jury's investigation Is confined at Briar HIT to aw-it of his father's death Is made puW disposition of the Incident that He befor" that date. brought dark tragedy Into the mod- FREEHOLD, Dec. 4. (further evidence of the antiquity of the spring now believed to have been used by Molly Pitcher during the Battle of Monmouth, has been uncovered. The new evidence is an ancient, hand-wrought axle and the remnants of an old hogshead.

The axle, which measures some four feet long, has a lynch pin hole at the end, and this bespeaks its age. It Is believed that it mleht be Dart of flTun car- riagftjised Molly "gained undying fame by carrying water to thirsting artillerymen and then manning a gun when her husband fell mortally wounded. The fate of Robert, who shot his father when he abused his mother, is stl'l shrouded in secrecy, despite the unconfirmed rumor that no bill had beer found by the Inquisitorial body. The grand Jury, will determine The axle has been donated by the.

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