The Bangor Daily News from Bangor, Maine • 2

FOR NEWS WANT ADS DIAL THE BANGOR DAILY NEWS SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 9 1933 Upper left picture shows busy corner where Herbert Ellis was slain by Adrian Jones Belfast maniac yesterday afternoon James Bu gin l- NEWS staff photographer arrived on the scene shortly after the shooting The center picture shows the doorway of the Blazo shop where killed The killer stood 50 feet from the door and fired several shots The blacksmith shop on the right is where Jones barricaded himse crouched behind the forge on the pile of coal in the comer The lower picture on the right shows the home of Adrian Jones and above it are shown Sheriff and County Attorney Taylor questioning Charles I Smith' (left with the cap) who was fired at by the maniac on anj £)r Stanhope wer 1ucjjc wa Littlefield Chief PendUtm Littleheld Chief Pendletos TONIGHT At th Opera House Son? (X Songs with Marlene Dietnch At the New Bijou On the 5 acts of vaudeville on Screen Blind Adventure mu Robert Armstrong Helen Maet At the Park International House with Field1! and Stuart Erwin At the Olympia The Whirlwind with Tim McCoy DANCING At the New Chateau At Society Ballroom At Lucerne Log Lodge At Midway Pavilion At Dreamwood Bar Harbor At Old Grist Mill (Lagrange) At Beach Grove (East Conntht At Twilght Pavilion (Hermoa Pond) At Dahlberg Hail THINKS MAINE WILL VOTE FOR REPEAL MONDAY Raymond Blazo was the only child of the surviving Mrs Blazo Dr Reginald Stanhope was bom in Lubec but has been a rrsident of Belfast for many years He is survived by a sister Mrs Charles Randall of Cherryfleld-WORKED IN INSANE HOSPITALS Jones had worked in at least two insane hospitals outside the state according to persons who talked with him about his previous experiences He worked on farms around Belfast many 'years ago and returned after periods spent in the hospital employ to live at the resl- i dence of Mrs Lucy Payson The aged ladyi told officers she had been at times and often expressed an opinion that Jones was mentally deranged He i showed an inclination to want to get people for old grudges it wss pointed out and had appeared very irritable recently BELFAST SEETHING WITH EXCITEMENT Belfast was seething with excite-! ment yesterday As soon as the people who were about the streets heard of the shooting every person who! possessed a rifle started for the blacksmith shop The Hull hardware store nearby furnished several volunteers with firearms and everybody was prepared to smoke out the killer Telegraph and telephone wires Peripheral Vision Held Important to Drivers CHICAGO (AP) Mr Motorist your peripheral vision? Tests for this faculty which ljjeans wide-angle vision will become a major factor'in the grant-kak of automobile and airplane driving licenses within a few years says A Farenteau expert refraction-ist OUR 20 YEARS EXPERIENCE IS FRUIT SELECTION ASSURES YOU THE BEST BANGOR FRUIT CO Jaa Economy Prop 20 Central SL store on Main street heard the shot fired that killed Mr Ellis and walked out of the store to see what had happened Meeting Jones coming down the street she asked him if there were some shooting going on and he replied: and an old grudge of 20 Mrs Footer knew Jones who had often visited the store and purchased many magazines on firearms She knew he was a character about the town and realize at the time that she was talking to -a He kept on going down the street and within a few minutes had added three more lives to his list of slayings TWO KILLED INSTANTLY TWO DIED LATER Two of victims were killed instantly Mr Ellis received eight shots through the back two of which came out through the chest and )i( died in a pool of blood as he fell out face downward into the street at the corner of High and Main streets The senior Mr Blazo fell back Into his shop with wounds in the arm chest and abdomen and from the beginning it was known that there was no chance for hU life He died about 5 o'clock at the hospital and Dc Stanhope who also had been taken to the hospital died at 6:25 Dr Stanhope was shot in the lung neck and kidney and lived only a few hours Raymond Blazo was shot twice in the chest and died almost instantly INVESTIGATIONS COMPLETED Investigations of the shootings were completed by Sheriff Little-field Chief Pendleton and County Attorney Charles Taylor and the medical examiners were Dr Vickery and Dr Franz Leyonborg of Belfast Attorney General Clyde Chapman who was in Augusta arrived home late in the afternoon after having assigned Frank Cooper to represent his office in the investigations WELL KNOWN CITIZENS All the victims were well known residents of Belfast and in every home on every corner and wherever two or more people congregated last night the only topic of conversation First Victim HERBERT ELLIS Prominent Belfast business man slain on street corner by maniac was the terrible affair that had be-fallen the city Herbert Ellis was born in East Belfast son of Mr and Mrs Wood Ellis He Is survived by his wife formerly Florence Turner and a brother Fred Ellis formerly Chief of Police here He taught school for many years and was at one time superintendent In Chelmsford Mass Later he entered the real estate business and then came back to Belfast where he has been for many years one of the city's most highly respected citizens He has been in the insurance business and is a former president of the Rotary Club and high in Masonic circles here William Blazo is survived by his wife formerly Nellie McKeen of Belfast and a son Harry Blazo of Porter a son by former marriage I PORTLAND AP Former Representative Donald Partridge NoVway today forecast cuM BELFAST MANIAC COMMITS SUICIDE (Continued from First Page) KILLER TAKEN FROM BLACKSMITH SHOP Police under Chief of Police Francis Pendleton and officers and volunteers working under the direction of Sheriff Roscoe Littlefield surrounded the blacksmith shop and prepared to smoke out the killer State police were sent to the scene of the shooting from Bangor and preparations were made to have a supply of tear gas bombs sent over from the state police headquarters in Augusta Percy Boardman one of the men surrounding the building fired once into the shop as he thought the man walked by a window A few minutes later Jerry Blair unarmed went In through a window in the rear of the shop and signalled to the officers that Jones was dead The kiUer was dragged out from -in the rear of a forge in the shop and died within a few minutes on the ground outside the building He had shot himself through the temple with one of the revolvers ne carried A WALKING ARSENAL Jones wore an overcoat but as he had done this all summer no unusual attention was drawn towards him on this account In each pocket of the coat he carried a revolver Over his shoulder he carried the shotgun and in a case he had a rifle The rifle was a Winchester -38 and the revolvers were automatics After killing Ellis with a charge from the shotgun' he walked down the street to the Blazo place Here before completing the terrible slaughter he took the rifle from its case loaded It but fired the shotgun The case for the rifle was later found near the scene The killer has always had guns according to Belfast people and was a regular purchaser of books on iire-arms The aged landlady where he lived thought nothing of his leaving the house armed and it is reported that he hardly ever fent out at night without first arming himself with one of the many weapons in his possession The amunition found on him would have filled a good size basket BOTTLE OF POISON ON HIM Search of the clothing worn by Jones resulted in the finding of a bottle of liquid believed to be poison (Chief Pendleton stated that during were buzzing with activity well into the night -as the outside world was informed of the horrible details of the ghastly slaughter that had tak en place in the business heart of this Waldo County city THE WEATHER ALMANAC (Stand rtf Time) Sept Sun fine II 8un a S3 lepfjj 12 51 Da' tfrereae 2 41 Huh water 3 It a 2 25 10 12 un Da a length 134s Day' tferreare 4f High water 2 50 a 3 13 Sept WEATHER Pep) Par Ther I i 30 I Ml 1 30 1 TO 0 30 SHOWERS WASHINGTON (AP) Forecirt for Maine: Mostly cloud probably showers and thunder storms Saturday and Sunday not much change In temperature BOSTON AND VICINITY Mostly' cloudy probably with local showers and thunder storms Saturday Sunday somewhat warmer Saturday gentle to moderate aouth and southwest winds XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXSXXXXXXXXV X6XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Charles Gillis Repeal Candidate Telegram Advises THE NEWS has received a telegram from Calais correcting a list of wet and dry candidates published for the Information of voters for election have listed Charles Oil-Its Washington County Candidate Constitutional as a Dry whereas he has pledged to vote for says the telegram Mr Gillis was listed In the Dry column and should have been In the column market Wet The fire department had a call at 11:05 a on Friday for a chimney fire at 20 Kenduskeag avenue and at 12:28 for a smudge at the shelter house on the Bangor-Brewer bridge where someone had thrown a lighted cigarette to start a little blaze Ford at KILLS FOUR AND WHEN CORNERED the time the building was surrounded by the officers Jones was seen walking over to a water spigot and filling a glass with water It is the theory of the chief that the killer first intended to take the poison but later chose his favorite weapon with which to end his life FANCIED GRUDGES AGAINST MANY According to the officers and persons who knew Jones he continually talked of grudges he had against certain people in the community His fancied grudge against Ellis is supposed to have gone back many years to a time when they lived near each other and his taking of a shot at Chiles Smith who works for the Blazo Company indicated that he intended to extinguish this whole organization PROMINENT MEN WERE THE Investigations made following the shooting disclosed that among the prominent men Jones had signalled out for extinction were Attorney General Clyde Chapman Sheriff Littlefield Frank Cooper former sheriff and Buzzell former state senator and well known attorney Jones has continually talked of getting these men some day and it was the consensus of opinion in Belfast yesterday that ail were mighty lucky not to have shown up about the time that the mad man was on the streets Mr Buzzell recalled yesterday in talking with the officials seeing Jones walk back and forth many times by a stall In which he was looking over his horse at the Blue-hill Pair WOMAN TALKS WITH KILLER Mrs Foster proprietor of a 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Just a Few vote for repeal of the 18cli amendment in next Mondavs election adding belef that regardless of the merits of federal prohibition would be most unfortunate for national prohibition to be savtd by to or three Partridge said that although he did not vote for the Blaine resolution to resubmit the 18th amendment he now' considered the action of Congress was ise in viey of the results since the voting started The former second disiuct congressman said he believed his own county would be strongly for repeal with Rumford voting wet -overwhelmingly While professing not to be as familiar wth conditions elsewhere in the state Partridge said he believed the same conditions prevailed every where I I do not find anv qpinmrr to the anywhere 1 have been" he said BROILED LIVE LOBSTER Freneh Fried Potatoes Drawn Butter 90' Our Chef Special Today ROAST VIRGINIA HAM (Fried Pineapple Brown Sane Potatoes Vegetables Soup Dessert Beechnut Coffee Tea Milk or Beer on Draught 50c Ye BRASS RAIL 202 Exchange St Bangor Free Parking Provided st 9 Crosby Garage Cor Freneb and York Sts h0Wfri to' North Da- th sl Lawrence iiry tonPnipTur r'n Notice to 63x99 XLCR sheets a cotton of quality special 89cg 81x99 Goodnap sheets at a very special price of 99c? 4 81x99 Stalwart sheets that cannot be replaced at 79cS 79ci 81x99 Premier sheets at the same old low price jgc 42x36 Pillow cases made the right way of cloth jc Lockwood unbleached cotton famous for quality Panama bleached 36-inch cotton while it lasts jqc Berkley No 60 a fine aoft finished cotton a yard ge Hope 36-inch bleached cotton and very special at Cloh of Gold in 36-inch width full bleached 19c Turkish bath towels 19x38 with colored border J5C Another lot of grey double cotton blankets pair £gc 72x99 White cotton blankets priced at each blanket $100 66x80 Double cotton blankets in handsome plaids $125 8249 Part wool blankets not less than 5 wool $1982 $349 Part wool blankets very specially priced $250 5 83J8 white part wool blankets colored borders $289 8595 85 pyre wool reversible blankets each $4 9Sr I i XXXXXXXXVXXVXXNVVN XXXXXXXXS) XXXXXXNXXXXXXXXXXXVT Laundry Customers! 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