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I ft I 1 J' If,,-,'-- i 1 If.', ' V . r . V,; 10 THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, FEBRUARY ,27, 1922. : .' ' ' J. DROWNS HIS BABY HIRSHRELO BEGINS IN TUB 10 BRING WIFETOSENSES .'Wanted to Give Her Cross to Bear Through Life, Says Liddle. ETO (Continued From First Page.) William Liddle, tlio nlnctocn-ycnr-Dld husband and faMior who delib erately drowned Ills scvcn-month-old 4, ' GOa. William, in a uainiuu 111 1113 ' mother's homo at No. 607 East 179tli t Street, the Bronx, yesterday, said to-day when arraigned In West Farms Iollco Court that ho committed tho crimo to get oven with his eighteen, .vcnr-old wlfo, Margaret Corrlgan twiddle. "Our second wedding anniversary coming in a few days," ho said. "All during our marriage we, fought nnd scrapped nnd It was mostly her fault. Sho'll always remember tho -. - . 1. - .1 1 1 1 ... 1 1 V. I Davy unu jiuw iiu uiuu miu nnu 11 uu aorry to tho end of her life." Llddlo was held without Kill. His ensn will bo presented to tho Grand Jury to-morrow. 1 Tho young couple separated n month ago, tho wlfo taking tho baby to tho homo of her parents at No. 3T Willis Avenue, the IJronx. Liddlo lived at his mother's home. Yesterday ho telephoned and asked her to bring tho baby to his apartment "Oil. be 1 sport llko Washington. Tuku n chance," pleaded Commis sioner Hlrshfleld. "I'd llko to hour It." "I shall hand It to tho Commis sioner after tho hcarlnr;," sold Mr. Wakeman, smiling his refusal, nnd went on to say that tho story of tho "chorry trco ought to bo amended to show that Vhllo Washington's father forgave Ooorgo for chopping down tho trco ho licked him afterward for refusing to make tho tree Into kin dlings. "Besides. Washington could He," said Mr. Wakeman. . "Wc have his letter saying that when he was cam paigning in New Jersey the mosqui toes wore so vicious and so large they bit through his heavy riding boots." "Well, now," interrupted Mr. Hirsh field, "I have .been In Now Jersey nnd I know the mosquitoes over there nnd I am not sure Washington lied about them," Finally, tho children ought to know, said Mr. Wakeman, that the surgeons killed Washington by bleeding him excessively. "Coming from Wall Street." ob served tho Commissioner, "You ought to bo an authority on bleeding people. Mr. Wakeman, waving the lnslntl ation aside, wild that John Hancock was a smuggler in splto ot all de nials. Ills ship, tho Liberty, came to port with a cargo of fino wine. Tho Port' Officer went aboard and sampled this wlno with tho master and his friends. Ho told Hanccck tho wlno could not he landed because SOVIET TO CONCEDE ALL IF IT GETS LOAN Famine So Serious Lenine Regime Threatened Unless Huge Credit Is Granted. MOSCOW, Feb. 27 (Associated Press). The Soviet? delegation to Genoa will carry Instructions to grant all concessions demanded, provided a big reconstruction loan can be ob tained. If this loan cannot bo ar ranged, then, from tho Russian point of vlow, tho conference has only the moral value of recognition of the present Government. Tho basic reason for this attitudo Is the famine The farnlnp Is now slowly but surely encroaching on and encircling the Bovlot stronghold- Moscow and representatives from every part of nussla, sent to get food, report there is less and less to be had, that beginning with March the favored Red Army will begin to starve and that each succeeding month will be worse, until July, when harvests, more or less scant, may re lievo the situation. The Soviet Government's fears uro Indicate! In another direction. For the time its entire Oriental policy ha been thrown ovcrboarJ. The recent conference of Far Extern peoplu, called by tho Tlrird Internationale to stimulate Communism In Japan, China and elsewhere, was given but tho .scantiest attention In Moscow. Tho delegates were pcorly housed and turned over to Foreign Office clciki'. IRISH BILL INSISTS dN EARLY ELECTION Amendment in Parliament Due to British Disquietude Over Fac tional Differences. LONDON, Feb. 27. Tho IrlBh Fiec State BUI will bo amended so as to provide for elections In Ireland with in four months, Winston Churchill, Minister for tho Colonics, announced In the House of Commons this after noon. This change In tho original bill pro viding for tho Free State, which did not specify when the election should bo held, was made, it is understood, following conferences between Arthur Griffiths and Churchill yesterday, at which tho British disquietude over the three months' adjournment of the Ard Fhcia was emphasized. The Brit ish Government is anxious to sco tho Irish started on their new Free St.ito as soon as possible. SON AIDS MOTHER IN GETTING DIVORCE Testifies He Accompanied Detectives (0 Apartment Where They Found His Father, Bank Auditor. Supreme Couit Justlco Piatt In Special Term at White f'l-uns tu-day granted on Interlocutory decrco of divorce to Mrs. Ethel G. Knscll of Mount Vernon, against Edwin Hay ward Ensell, on auditor in tho Chase National Bank of Manhattan, princi pally upon tho tcsUmony of their son, Kdwin Schuyler Knsell, nineteen yoats old. CharleH W. Walter, No. 2S3 Broad way, Manhattan, who appeared for MrH. Enscll, produced an agreement whereby Mr. Ensoll agreed to give his wlfo $5,000 In securities In lieu ol alimony. They wero married In Brooklyn on Oct. 18, 1901. William Vonfrlckon, an Investigator, testified that on several occasions he had trailed Ensell from an apartment in Brooklyn with a young woman. Ho said she went to a beauty parlor at Woodcllfte. N. J., each morning. The son testified that he accompanied three detectives to tha Brooklyn apart ment on Jan. 21 last, and there they found his father with tho co-respondent. Lawyer Walter said she was 'a manicurist at Woodcllffe. Justice Piatt annulled the marriage FLAPPER BETTER THAN REFORMER, SAYS EDUCATOR "Worse Things Than Dance, Rolled Hose and Short Skirts," Declares Prof. F. M. Hunter. CHICAGO. Feb. 27. Tho reformer, not tho flapper, Is tho peril of public schools, according- to Prof. Frank M. Hunter, attending tho meeting of tho Supciintcndciico Department ot tho National Education Asso ciation here. "There aw wo0 things than tho modern dance, rolled hose, short dresses nnd goloshes. "I would rather see tho girl to day garbed in flapper styles than in accordanco with prudish Ideas of radical reformers. "Cigarette smoking should bo discouraged, but many, girls can go right Into their mother's boudoir and find several cigar ette stubs." of Mrs Amelia La Diana to Antonla 1 La Diana because at the time of their marriage In Yonkers on June 16, 1910, she was only seventeen years old. LIFE WRECKED BY WAR GAS, HE TRIES SUICIDE Palmotor nerlm "Dlaated nnd Heartbroken Veteran. Joseph C. Moll, twenty-three, No. 436 East 138th Strcot, cx-servico man, who was wounded flvo times and gassed severely, his wlfo says, was found un conscious this morning In tho bathroom ot his home. Tho gas was turned on and his wife found a note to her saying he.wis "disgusted and heartbroken" bo cause of what a physician had told him recently about tho after effects of tho gassing In France. A pulmotor, revived him, however, and ho Is recovering at tho Lincoln Hospital. Moll was a member of Company D, 303th Sanitary Train. He was married a year ago. While omployod In tho bottling department of tho Borden Milk Company last month ono of tho fingers of his left hand was crushed by a machine. raw lytoxicattox itEooru). Thirty men arrested along tho Brooklyn waterfront Saturday evening wero fined $2 and 13 each by Ma1. trato' Reynolds yesterday for Intoxlcavjl tlon. So muny at ono tlmo establlsheirj a new court record. 20 IMPERILLED WHEN COURT ELEVATOR DROPS Operator .Prevents InJurlfH y A lilyliiK ISnirrucncy ltrnkc. Not In tho Ifiast flustered by the screams of the women and tho evi dent excitement among tho men, twenty passengers In all, In his clf v.itor In tho Bronx County Coutt House, ChnrleH Hborhnrd, who was in charge of tho tar saved tho entire party this noon by quick application of the safety grappling device. Ho started tho car down from tho fourth floor nnd at tho third discov ered thnt the mechanism normally used to stop tho cage failed to work-j Tho elevator started downward wlt increasing momentum, i-JDcrnara ap plied the emergency lover and brought the car to n. stop a little below th level of the ground floor n for dinner. Rhn refused but ntrreed to let him tako tho baby for n time, I " was not on tho manifest at least ana met him and nanucu it over, Ho said later tho Idea of drowning tho baby had coma to htm as ho was rid ing down to meet his wife. Alono In tho apartment, ho put u pillow In tho tlb, weighted it down with flatirons, turned on tho water, sat tho baby on tho pillow and left him to drown. Ho returned to his wlfo's homo and told her ho hud . drowned tho baby, but sho thought It i was a ruso to get her to return to his apartment, and wouldn't believe him. " Ho met a policeman and told him, " and tho Incredulous policeman ad vised him to "tell them at tho Tro tnont Station" about it. Ho next met his wife's brothers, Edward and The odore Corrlgan, and they did not be- Ilcvo him, but agreed to return homo j with him. They found tho body in I tho bathtub. I Doctors and police agreed it Is a ' atraago case. Liddlo Is a nlco look J lng, well reared youth, a good nolgh- borhood boy who had never been in 1 real trouble. Ho Is 6 fcot 1 inch tall, and was a railroad messenger when I ho married. Ho never scorned to cot - a man's job, was sick from influenza ; a great deal, and idleness led to dis- agreements with his girl wife and her ! family. t After Liddlo hod been booked on a ' charge ot homicide he talked freely. At times tears carao from his eyes. There aro no outward signs of In sanity. When a detective asked him why ho didn't commit sulcldo he i replied: "I thought a'd. Icavo that for tho electric chair. I fully expect to bo electrocuted. I want to bo." "Aro you sonry you did it?" f "No. I'd do it again if Bill was allvo how. I loved him better than any ' ono in tho world and I wanted him all lor myself. I've "been thinking for a I month It would be a good thing to ' get rid ot myself. I wanted to bo " euro ho went, too." o : FREED OF ALL BLAME ! IN BOMB EXPLOSION not with his consent. So thoy locked him In a stateroom and took It I ashore anyway. "Nowadays," said Mr. Hlrshfleld, "ono who brings ashore a single easel feels that ho has deserved tho honor of tho community." ' Thomas Iayno outlived his wis dom, said Mr. Wakeman, and added, "It is a wlso man who knows when to die." "It Is a wiser man," said Mr. Hlrshfleld cheerily, "who knows when ho Is dead. Thero's a lot of them around who are dead and don't know It.' In a discussion of tho Boston Tea Party, Mr. Hlrshfleld said ho under stood the raiders of tho tea ships were rebelling ngalnst tho Fort Au thority for levying a tax without con cent of tho citizens, ' just as Outer bridge and Al Smith and Lewis II. Pounds are imposing a tax on the peo- plo of Now York without their consent." Mr. Wakeman said that tho story ot Paul Revere hod been tremendous ly exaggerated and that tho Revolu tion began In Now York with a bat tle three months before tho battlo of Golden Hill in Massachusetts. At tho close of the hearing, which was adjourned subject to the call of Mr. Hlrshfleld, there was a mlxup In the hall fcetween Thomas P. Tulte, a Civil War veteran and President of tho Star-Spanglcd Banner Associa tion, and Francis Harrison Kcnntcut, an attorney residing at tho university Club, which resulted In blows and in tcrforenco by spectators and police. Mr. ICcnnlcutt had said tho Revo lutionary War was a civil war be tween Englishmen. Ho had been do clured a nro-Brltlsh propagandist bv Tulte. In tllo hall Tulto says Kcnnl cutt called him a liar. The next thing any one know ho had landed on tho attorney and tho attorney had come buck with a wallop. Before they could -mix It up any jjioro tho Interference came and they left tho building. WoolnoaEli Exonerated of Ola . Ilcloua Mischief and Arson Charsea ' NEW BRUNSWICK. N. J., Feb. 27. Ralph Woolonugh. charged with having 1 set a bomb which damaged tho houso . In which he lived at Woodbrldge Avo . ' nue. Highland Park, last week, was . freed ot charges ot malicious mischief t , and arson to-day and exonerated from all blame. Balvatora Van Chere. owner of the house until he sold It six weoks ago to . Joseph Llcausl, was arrested on a charco of malicious mischief and held by Recorder Churlcs W. Larason of Hichland Park In J5.000 tor the Middle sex County Grand Jury. It Is alleged i that Van Chere admitted he bought a AUTO HITS "L" PILLAR, THROWING POLICEMAN Ills Shoulder Dislocated In Trj-I Ins to Stop Errotla Driver. When Policeman Christian F. Street. tWcnty-seven, saw ar. automobile zig zagging through Atlantic Avenue be tween Schnectady and Troy Avenue Brooklyn, early to-day, he jumpod on 1 tno running ooara 10 stop the driver. At Troy Avenue the car hit an ele- I rated pillar and Btreck was thrown oft and hU left shoulder dislocated. The driver, who was arrested, said he was John J. Webb of No. 435 63d Street. Brooklyn. After being attended by an I ambulance surgeon. 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