",t" '"J ' '..'it- THE EVENING WORLD, YfEDNIiSDAY, APRIL 26, 1928. MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF ELDERLY COUPLE Conan Doyle's "Ectoplasm " Caught by Camera; H GIRL MUSICIAN WOMAN, AGED 76; ENGAGED TO MARRY COLUMBIA MAN Light Thrown on Spirit Raps and Levitations I. R. T. EVIDENCE I L Fremont M. Jackson and Wife YLAN WITHHOLDS HAS$18,000YEARi AM T(1 RF INRANF 1 N BROOKLYN HOTE BANTON ASKED FOR Uf 111 1 V VL. II1UI II 1U Nephew Secures Order to Ei- :.iti ( Believed to Have Died From Poison. amine Mrs. Duncan, Once; t JM Well Known Musician. -. rosecutor Wanted Specific Instances Where Nuisances Occur in Subway. Although Mayor . Hylan was in DOUBT SUICIDE THEORY rnenas oay nicy weie nap j py and Were Considered Wealthy. ' Fremont Madison Jackson, a retired fcarpet merchant, seventy-four years eld, and Ms wife, Annie, elxty-nlne, trhora ho married about a year ago, trero found dead this morning In the Jbathroom of their threo-room sulto In the annex of the Hotel Margaret, at No. 114 Columbia Heights, Brooklyn, What caused their death, whethor It was by poison taken Intentionally or induced by chemical action of soma thing they had eaten, can only be do tormlncd by autopsy. Medical Kxam- iner Wucst sold that he would per form this lato this afternoon or this evening. From all accounts, there was no reason for the suicide of cither. They were ample of means and devoted to each other. Nowhere about tho rooms they occupied, was thero any thing to lndlcato that they content plated or desired death. On tho con trary, they had Bent out invitations for a card party this coming Satur day afternoon andMr. Jackson had an appointment with a dentist for Friday. Thr wns evidence In tho bath room, however, that one or both had been actively 'nauseated. Tho food - thus voided will bo subjected to anal ysls. It was the opinion of Dr. Wuest that Mrs. Jackson had been dead about twenty-four hours and her hus band about four or five. But Dr. Er nest C. Vaughn, representing District Attorney Huston, thought each had had been dead not less than ten hours. f Discovery of tho bodies was made at 8.30 o'clock this morning by Mary King, a chambermaid. Sho found Sirs. Jackson lying, fully dressed, upon tho floor of tho bathroom. She summoned tho manager, who found Mr. Juckson a body. Ho also was j fully dressed. Dr. Wuest said It seemed to him that both of tho victims had died of soma quick-acting poison. It wasjlearncd that Mr. Jackson was In the habit of cashing checks, nppa rently dividends, from ,tho New York Tclephono Company, tho Wool Kx change and various cotton brokers, Also ho cashed bond coupons from tlmo to time. A nephew of the dead man, Howard D. Bralnard of No. 16 Midland Ave nue. East Orange, N. J., was sum mooed and said Jilt uncle had been In tho carpet business in tne uowery, There he made a fortune and retired His stock and bond Investments, tho nephew said, wcro comparatively small, his main Interests being In real estate, Mrs., Jackson has a son, F. A Warren of No. 227 Bruco Avenue Lawrence. Mass. Tae couplo camo to tho Hotel Mar irart last May, soon after their mar msjtp. They always seemed to bo very nappy, Mr. Brnlnard paid, devoting their evenings to canls or the movies nnd being1 together practically all the ; time. Have for $75 In Mr. Jackson' pocket, nothing of great value was found In tho apartment. Thero were pass books of several banks showing doposlts as high as $8,000. I MAGISTRATE SENTENCES PEDDLER IN ITALIAN Ifo Interpreter In Conrt, So Vol well TaWea Case in Hand. Magistrate George II. Folwell to-day Jn tho Gateu Avenue Court, Brooklyn took charge of the case of Joseph Men dolla. No. 2SS Buahwlck Avenue, charged with peddling produce without a. license, when It was found there wa no Interpreter In court and Mendofll waff unable to speak English. Tho Mag, istrate read tho formnl complaint of tho patrolman who made the arrest translated it Into Italian, listened to Mendolla's explanation and then fined him $3. WIRELESS PHONES WILL BROADCAST SPIRIT MESSAGES Station to Be Established in Chicago, Convention Dele gates Are Told. PHILADELPHIA. April 26. From a radiophone station in Chicago spirit messages will be broadcast to spiritual ists throughout tho country, Mrs. M. E. Cadwallader of Chicago told delegates attend ing tho fifteenth annual meet ing of' the Pennsylvania Spir itualist Association, Mrs. Cadwallader, a Vice President of tho national Spirit ualists' organization, said she and John Slader, a Chicago medium, had mado plans to broadcast all messages received from spirits during tho con vention. Tho delegates adopted a res olution recommending legisla tion to recognize Spiritualism as a religion. The proposed bill would exempt mediums from prosecution under many, Etato lawi.. IIIHBsiaftiwHol SIOEVIEW OccOUOMNOr HBOIUM 6ITS. Dr. Crawford, Investigator of Psychic Phenomena, Wrote: By Marguerite CTOPLASM," Sir Arthur Conan Doylo told New York tho other day, "Is a thick, vapory, slightly luminous substanco Which exudes from some materializing mediums.. A medium capable of giving off this substance is placed In n darkenod cabinet and goes Into a trance. Immediately there conies from her body this vaporous substanco, which surrounds her like a fog. As the ectoplasm Increases It becomes more dense. It coalesces, becomes sticky. It can be felt. It can be photographed. "In some cases ectoplasm ex udes from a medium In a rod-like formation which drops to the floor, runs along for several feet and then mounts in a thin white column which, operated -on tho cantilever system, develops a po tency sufllclent to lift a tablo." To-day The Evening World prints photographs of ectoplasm In action. They are taken from a remarkable book Just published by E. P. Dutton & Co., through whoso courtesy the pictures with this article aro reproduced. The book Is called "Tho Psychic Structures at tho Gollgher Circle" and tho author Is the lato Dr. W. J. Crawford of Belfast, a trained Investigator of psychic phenom ena, to whose experiments and earlier books Sir Arthur Conan Doyle himself refers In his book on spiritualism, "The Vital Mes sage." The medium in Dr. Crawford's experiments, which extended over a long period of tlmo and were furnished with every safe guard against fraud, was Miss Kathleen Gollgher. The point he makes is that In all the typical seance phenomena table levltatlon, rapping and others contacts with matter In ths room aro modo by "psychic structures" or "plasma." These structures, ho declares, possess a variety of shapes and dimensions, and have various methods of action. Dr. Crawford's extraordinary pictures show that the plasma may exudo from tho medium's legs, feet, chest or other ports of the body. Sometimes It takes tho form of rods, sometimes of lumps, which may separate from the me dium altogether and He on the floor, sometimes of arms, so flex ible that they tie knots around tho tablo legs. "Onco tho plasma Is extruded from the body of tho medium," writes Dr. Crawford, "the oper ators can mould It Into the var ious shapes and forms required to produco the phenomena. I have nhowed that If a light table was to bo lavltatcd, the psychic struc ture employed was a cantilever firmly fixed to tho medium's body at one end und gripping tho un ci er.su rfaco or legs of the table with the free or working end. If, howovcr, tho lavltated body is a heavy one, the psychic structuro is no modified that the reaction. Instead of being thrown on the medium, Is upplled to tho floor of tho room. "The lnvarlablo rulo with re gard to these psychic structures In that they are as simplo as pos sible consistent with the carrying out of phenomena, "The head, or what corresponds to tho working or gripping end of the structure, Is denser or moro opaque than tho body?' Persons In the circle with tho medium frequently feel thesu psychic structures rapping them, but under the ordinary condi tions of the seance room they are quite Invisible to the naked eye, according to Dr. Crawford. Not, however, to the camera eye as . COLUMN ON TOP Of? A OKTHft 6A1ANCE wS&Hl AOOUT AKOUKICK, , i-nrrv.it ovcrapouno PR8SOMA61.V PORTIOH OB COLOMN' R S5T1NI1 OH 8,LAMCB WClOHS AOOT M, ROVJJ-AO. "The plasma is part of the medium's body exteriorized in space." "At nearly all seances the noise accom panying the birth pangs of the plasma is distinctly audible." "With thin silk stockings the friction of plasma on the threads as it disengages itself is unmistakable." "There is strong evidence of decrease in volume of the fleshy parts of her (the medium's) body, especially from tho waist down, while the plasma is extruded." Mooers Marshall. tho accompanying flashlight pic tures show. Dr. Crawford gives the following account of how they were taken: "Only within tho last six months or so has It been found posslblo to photograph the stuff which Issues from the medium's body (I call it 'plasma for want of a better word), and from which tho psychic structures are built up that produce the phenomena of raps, levitations, touchlngs, Ac. For about a year I took a photograph each seance night. In tho hopo that success might ulti mately bo obtained. The opera tors Informed mo by raps that success would finally como if I would be persistent enough. "Tho chief difficulty seemed to bo In preventing Injury to the medium. The operators sold it was necessary gradually to work her up to withstand tho shock of tho flashlight upon tho plasma: nor Is this much to be wondered at when it is considered tho plasma Is part of her body ex teriorized In space. "After Innumerable attempts, however, very small patch.es of plasma wcro obtained In full view-, between the medium's ankles. As time went on these Increased In slzo and variety until great quan tities of this psychic stuff could bo exteriorized und photographed. "Then the operators began to manlpulato it in various ways, building it up into columns or forming Into slnglo or doublo arms, moulding It Into the differ ent Bhnpes with which I had been long familiar In a general way. "Tho medium and members of tho circle," concluded Dr. Craw ford, "aro open to any tests. I have gone to most elaborate pre cautions to make sure the results are genuine, and nmong others havo called to my alu men and women of medicine. In order to prevent subconscious action af fecting tho moulding of tho plasma, I withheld tho photo graphs from tho medium until tho present series was obtained." Tho plasma. Dr. Crawford found, hail weight one of tho pictures with this article shows it being weighed. Ho thinks that tho psychlo rods vary In diameter at their extre mities from about halt Inch to three or four inches. The free end of such rod seems to as sume different shapes and dif ferent degrees of hardness. Finally, ho has an Interesting description of tho physical phe nomena which occur in tho body of tho medium during the for mation of the plasma. "Tho muscles of tho medium's feet and ankles ure, during tho occurrence of phenomena. In a state of much stress; they seem to be squirming," he notes. "There Is no bodily movement of tho foot, but there Is a whirlpool of internal muscular movement round foot nnd anklo and lower part of the cult. Tho evolution of tho plasma must bo accom panied by much friction between stocking and leather of shoe or boot. At nearly all seances the I PAIR OF? Pl.A.'bMICARMi REACHING. PROM THE tvlEDlOrvt TO THE, UCLO Og -WE TABLE. DRIVES $8,000 CAR, BUYS WIFE SILKS; FOR RELIGION 25c Churchmen Told City Church's Collection Plates Yielded 1,700 Pennies One Sunday. ATLANTIC CITY, April 26. Rev. Dr. Luther E, Lovejoy of Chicago lr an address to-day before the conven tion of the Federation of Churches criticised wealthy church members who mako small contributions in the collection plates, but expressed the hope that theso conditions will soon be a thing of the past. "A man can still bo the respected member of a fashionable city church, ride in an $S,000 motor car, clothe hli wlfo and daughter in silks and furs Vnd pay 25 cents a Sunday for his re ligion," ho declared. "Tho treasurci of a metropolitan congregation re cently found 1,700 pennies In one Sun day's offering." "The Christian people of'Amorlca," he added, "are waking up to the fact that they treat their Creator with lesi consideration than they treat theli waiter at the restaurant, or tho Pull man porter who shines their shoes, and they aro eager to make amends for past neglect." SEMENOEF REFUSES TO ANSWER QUESTIONS I.nrm Mlmsrlf Liable tn Commitment for Contempt. Gen. Grcgorle Scmenoff, Ataman of the Cossacks, laid himself liable to con tempt of court to-day when he refused to answer questions put to him before Iteferee Peter D. Olney by David W. Kahn, trustee of the Louroveta Co., for whose failure the. General Is alleged to bo responsible through the seizure by hl3 soldiers of $476,000 worth of that company's! goods In Siberia. Gen. Semenoft brought the hearing to an abrupt close after Ezra P. Pren tice, on of his attorneys, had been over ruled by Mr. Olney on a long argument that the hearing ought to be discon tinued on the ground that United States Courts must take Judicial notice of tho status of foreign governments and can not compel an ofllcer of another country to answer for acts performed under the authority of another government. On agreement between counsel the motions for vacation of the order of ex amination and for contempt will be pre sented next Monday Jn the United States District Court. Meanwhile Scmenoff will continue at Liberty on the $25,000 ball. HOBOKEN FIRE CAUSES DAMAGE OF $125,000 Wardioniei of U. S. Willow Fnnil- liirr Co. Destroyed. Fire of unknown origin to-day de stroyed a sorlcs of one-story frutnc buildings In Jefferson Street between Tenth nnd Eleventh Streets .Hoboken, occupied b ytho U, S, Willow Furniture Company as storage warehoused nnd shipping rooms. The lo.s will Include about 11,00,000 In finished products of the company, $10,000 worth of lumbor belonging to the Farr estate, owners of tho property, and $10,000, tho value of the buildings. noise accompanying ttu birth pangs of the plasma 1 distinctly nudlble. With thin silk stockings, tho friction of plasma on tho threads as It 'disengages Itself Is unmistakable. "I asked tho operators to take psychic matter from tho medium In tho ordinary way. I put my hand on tho lower part of hor back. The rise and fall of her flesh was very apparent, as psychic matter was supposml to bo taken from her nnd put back. I put my hand on hor haunches Junt above tho seat of her chair. The flesh seemed to become soft and cavo In. Tho medium did not seem to move bodily, but her flesh scorned to fall in. It could bo distinctly felt filling out as the psychic stuff apparently returned to her. "Generally speaking," the In vestigator Sums up, "It can bo said that tho evolution of plasma from tho body of tho medium is accompanied by strong muscular movements all over tho body, and that there Is strong evidence of decrease In volume of tho fleshy parts of her body, especially from tho waist downwards, while the the plasma U extruded." HeVVY LUMP OF PMW1A ON TH E. PJ.OO R. HARRY S.SANDERSON THEATRE MAN, DIES Veteran Was Manager of Tony Pastor's Theatre for 30 Years. Harry Schley Sanderson, for thirty years manager of Tony Pastor's old Fourteenth Street Theatre, and after ward associated with the F. F. Proctor theatrical enterprises, died this morn ing at his home at No. 405 Springfield Avenue, Cranford. N. J. He was eighty years old and Incidentally the oldest Past Exalted Ituler of the New Tork Elks. He was also a Mason, a member of tho Mecca Temple and tho Shrlno in New Tork. He was a cousin of Francis Scott Key, who wrote "The Star-Spangled Uanner," and nephew of Margaret Pot IgUL, who made the flag that Inspired ICey to write the song. Mr. Sanderson had been In ill health for two years, He leaves a wlfo and thrco married laughters. Harry Sndcrson was known to more old tlmo variety actors perhaps than any man In the United States or Eng land. He became business manager for Tony Pastor just fifty years ago this month. SHOTS HALT FLIGHT OF PEPPER THROWER .Sidney Ilroivn, Wanted In Xew York, Cnaulit In Jerey. HAMMONTON, N. J April 26, Sidney Brown, for whom tho New Tork police have been searching since April was captured to-day on the Pine Itoad after four officers fired soveral shots to stop his flight. Drown was arrested in Now York April 3 charged with being Implicated In automobile thefts, and escaped by throwing pepper Into the ryes of the policeman who had him In charge. When Detectives Fields nnd Murphy of New York, Stato Trooper Frank Ju Uano and Patrolman Patrlrlty of Ham- monton went to tho house where Ilrown had been boarding. Brown started to run away. Jullano fired. Hrown con tlnued to run and then all four fired Brown fell and when the officers came up he surrendered. He will be taken back to New York. OFFICIALS SEEK HOME FOR VAGRANT'S DOG Oirnr.r, Forced to Leave Canine Prefers Celr to Almxhouae. The Poundmaster of Jersey City will try to-day to coax William Standmtl- kr's mongrel dog Into a good home, which he believes the animal will find when Its story becomes known. Standmlller, with no homo or friends took up his abode last winter In an abandoned barn. Ills dog was his only companion, and they seemed happy, at though food was scarce for both. Poor master Murray thought the old man needed attention and arraigned him In the Jersey City Police Court. Stand miller was told the ulmshouse was the best place for him. Can I take my dog?" ho asked. Told that this was impossible, he asked to be treateJ as a vagrant, and was sen tenccd for sixty days to the pcnltcn tlary. The dog Is still In tho deserted barn waiting for his master to return. WIFE SAYS HE CLAIMED $3 A WEEK EXTRAVAGANT Had Her Arrrftteri When Mie OI Jected, She CharireN. When Mrs. Itosn A. Glory, No. 59 Sheridan Avenue, Brooklyn, objected to her husband's allowance of $3 week for the table and her own expenses he had her arraigned before a Police Mag, Istrate on a charge of extravagance, she told Vlco Chnnccllor FoBier nt Newark to-day. The Vlco Chancellor allowed her $7 a week as alimony pending trial. airs. Olory said tho Pollen Mnglstrat before whom she was arralKned ordered her husband to glvu her an allowance or $6. SEN. WALKER DENIES MOVIE APPOINTMENT Slrone Faction Amonir Exhibitor Work for Ilia Caiiillilnr)', However. Senator James J. Walker denied at the Hotel Alitor to-day that he Is u candl date for the presidency of the Motion Picture Theatro Owners Association of America. It Is still understood, how ever, that he nrohalilv will be a candl dnto when tb convention meets In Washington In Mai. There Is a strong faction that want to put Walker In and oust Sidney Cohen now the President. Some theatro owners believe the fiKht will cause division of the organizatlou. formed by District Attorney Hanton on April 4 that the best way to pro ceed against the Intcrborough for creating n publto nulnanco in subway operation was by laying tho cvldenco lofore a City Magistrato, Mr. Dan- ton admitted 'to-day that up to tho present time tho evidenoa ho asked for has not been delivered by the Mayor. Tho records of tho correspondence between tho Mayor's ofTlco and that of tho District Attorney show that tho Mayor's ofllce did not reply di rectly to Mr. Banton'B communica tion, but waited until April 19. Then, Instead of accepting the District At torney's advlco and offering to sup ply tho evidence, with which Mr. Canton would have been ready and willing to proceed, the Mayor's office merely acknowledged receipt of tho District Attorney's opinion. Twenty-two days havo passed and not a particle of evldenco against the Intcrborough had reached Mr. Damon up to this morning, Mr. Danton ad mltted. "Has the Mayor sent you any evl denco "on which you might proceed against the Intcrborough?" Mr. Ban- ton was asked to-day. "No; not yet," he replied. Asked how ho would proceed, Mr, Danton said tho Mayor would have to glvo him some specific Instance of whore the Intcrborough broko rules of he Transit Commission and thereby created a public nuisance In his chargo of criminal negligence against the Interborough, which Is contained in a letter to Air. uanton, written March 23, Mayor Hylan said in effect that the overcrowding In the subways had reached tho point of In decency and that tho health of the community was menaced because of Inadequacy of tho service. Aftor receiving the report of Assis tant District Attorney Myers of the Appeals Bureau Mr. Danton wrote to tho Mayor on April 4, submitting tho report and adding: As tho offense charged Is a mlsde mcanor, may I ask that you supply such Information as tho memorandum requires In order to submit tho case to an appropriate Magistrate's Court upon an application for a warrant or warrants against the offender or offendnrs?" The report of tho Appeals BureAu said tho matter was not ono for the Grand Jury, as the Mayor had sug gested In his letter to Mr. Danton, but for tho pollco court. This report also says: If tho Transit Commission has Issued an order prescribing tho ser vice to be rendered by the Inter borough Rapid Transit Company, that company Is under tho legal' duty of ooeylng such order. If the order Is not obeyed the corporation Is liable to money penalties (one year Im prisonment, $600 fine, or both), and overy ofllcer and ogent of tho corpora tion who shall fall to obey, obscrvo and comply wltli any order of the commission or any provision of an order of tho commission, or who pro- cures, aids or abets any such common carrier in Its failure to obey, observe and comply with such order or pro vision Is guilty of a mlsedemanor.' Tho Board of Estimate will take action In a special session thin after noon on a resolution by Mayor Hylan dissolving the partnership bctwoen tho city and the Intcrborough and tho seizure of the subways operated by the latter unless all terms of the dual subway contracts are lived up to. Tho first step In tho city's proposed ouBter action was taken at a meeting of tho Kstlmato Board March 31. This followed tho Transit Commls slon's drivo against tho Intcrborough because of Inadequate service. Under the law tho city is required to give thirty days' notlco to the Transit Commission of Its Intention to proceed against tho Intcrborough, It Is understood this notlco has been given. Inspectors in tho employ of tho city have since carefully watched schedules of tho Interborough for the purposo of determining whether the service has improved slnco tho May or's resolution. Although no ofllclal figures are obtainable. It Is said there Is no appreciable Improvement. It Is understood that thero will be a report submlttod at this afternoon's meeting further Indicting the Inter borough nnd bolstering up tho cltyi claim for dissolution. SOME ESTIMATES OF INTERBOROUGH CALLED A "JOKE" Transit Counsel Says Public Wil Get a Shock If It Takes Valuation Seriously. Characterizing as a "Joko" somo of tho claims mado by tho Interliorough Rapid Transit Company In Its own es tlmates of tho value of thu traction property on a cost to reproduce baslB, Judge Clarenco J. Shenrn, special counsel to tho Commission, told tho Commissioners at tho hearing into In tcrborough valuations to-day that tho people of this city are allowed to tako these valuations uf 1100,000,000 seriously they will bo shocked." Judge fthearn was reviewing the testimony. Ho charged that an over valuation of $6,000,000 wuh claimed by the Interlormigh an part of the cost account of the Brooklyn extension of tho original subway. Home of lhee claims wuie $14,000 for the nouvenl IkioKh distributed on tho opening da of tho Brooklyn route, Others were rll S5k DAAM1AD Piir CORVAO. RVBNBR.. Miss Dagmar dc Carval Rybner Soon to Become Mrs. J. Whitla Stinson. Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Rybner, of I No. 316 West 94th Street, announced I to-day the engagement of thclrl daughter. Miss Dugmar do Corvall Rybner, to J. Whitla Stinson, an at - orney of this city. No date has yet I been set for tho wedding. I Miss Rybner Is a skilled musician, I i planlste and comnoser. Her father! tvas for many years at tho head of I the Department of Music at Colum-1 bla University. Mr. Stinson Is a I gradaate of Columbia, class of 1906. 1 Ho Is a member of tho Metropolitan I Club. I ' i i i i tt i ti nnn AAA fn .itliMiinilnir IvinH tuNMPN I and amortizing the bonds, $25,000 for directors' fees for ten yearn, $76,000 I tut PUIUIIVH ft. V 1 uISIsJ IS.SI'J swa tension of the subway. Testimony given by Edward P. J. I Caynor, auditor for tho Intcrborough I Company, showed that tho Brooklyn I extension of tho subway cost $14,-1 962,267. Of this nmount tho city, paid $3,920,000 and tho Intcrborough tn k nnn invlnir n lnlnnm nf I. ... . .... i W.ioz.uuo, payaoio cunor uy um in- tcrborough or by the City of New York to tho contractor, tho Rapid Transit Construction Company. Judge Shearn then brought out that the Rapid Transit Construction Company had sublet tho work and the sub-contractor failed to complete, the Job, due to delays In plans, changes In specifications and other inclden tals all mitigating against original cs tlmntes of cost The Interborough's subsidiary, the Rapid Transit Con struction Company, looked to its par cnt corporation for rclnibursemcnt of the losses sustained by the sub-con tractor as guaranteed In the con tract subletting the work. Tho Interborough presented tho claim of tho Rapid Transit Construe tlon Company to tho city where It Is peacefully resting In tho Comptroller's otllce. The construction company Is owned by tho I. It T. through stock ownership. Mr. Oaynor denied flatly to Assist- ant Corporation Counsel De Ford that tho Interborough In agreeing to build tho Brooklyn extension for $3,000,000 Knowingly assumed a loss In order to keep the B. R. T. out of Manhattan. Ho denied that his company believed the reasonable cost of constructing , y, , ... . , , , . . ic..n,.m vOU!u ue oe- tweon $10,000,000 and $14,000,000. Wasn t it a dollbemtp loss to avoid competition?" Mr. Oaynor wns asked. "No, It was a dcllbcruto Investment," ho answered. Mr nnvnni. i.i h fcctlng the Brooklyn extension was not on nn original cost basis, but rather on a basin of cost to reprodure, Commissioner Hnrkness Raid: "The Commission will later want some proof on tho accounting propriety of keep ing these money costs In your capital account during n fifty-year Issue." C. Edwards, counsel for the In- tcrborough, said he hoped tho Com mission did not expect the Intcrbor ough to give the suhways away to tho City of New York, "You don't own them," interjected Mr. Do Ford, tho Intcrborough has no property to sell tho city It has certain contract rights Involving tho uso of the property an equitable In- torcst to bo conserved, title to which has passed to tho city." Tho Transit Commission let ten small contracts to-day for sundry! work on various stations of different lines. Tho total contract amount to $31,000. Home of the work includes employees In honor of the one hun statlon finish, doors, rails, gates, &c. I dredlh anniversary of the birth of den. AMATEURS JAM AIR, SPOILING RADIO TEST OAKLAND, Cal., April 26. Inter ference of amateur stations prevented clear receipt of n transcontinental radio telephone message from the Westing- house station at Newark, N. J., to the Hock Ridge station here yesterday afternoon. Portions of It were clearly audlblo across the receiving room, how ever. Plana for another test. In which Pa cific Coast notables will 'send speeches to Newark, wero mnuti at once. ACTOR IIRI.H 0?( CH.Wir.13 I1V1 AcrritKss. J. B. Carson, forty-four, a vaudeville nctor of No. 507 West 40th Street, was held In $2,000 ball to-day for the Grand Jury by Magistrate Irvine, tn the West I Side Court, on a charge of grand lar- I ci'ny. Miss Grace Drcnon, nineteen, a I vaudeville actress, charged him with I stealing a diamond ring valued at $300 I from her. The alleged mental IncompcntaBcy, I of Mrs. Gertrude I, Duncan, a former well known musician, who Is now I seventy-six years old and lives at Ho. 209 East Sldnoy Avenue, Mount Ver non, will bo tested by a Sheriff's Jury; on an order to examine signed to-day, at White Plains by JusUco Mors- I chauser. Tho order appoints Jeremiah ID. Toomcn of Mount Vernon com missioner to examine. Mrs. Duncan, whose husband di4 twenty-one years ago, has three trusts, aggregating $300,000, held by; tho Brooklyn Trust Company, from which the annual Income is about I $18,000, hut It is alleged she Is ex tremely parsimonious in matters of I dress and food. It Is said she takes her meals in "owl" wagons. The action to have her examined Is brought by her nephew, George Allen mgrnham, of Rutherford. N. J.. cashier of tho American Express .Co., Kf r affairs and that she falls to rccog- nlze relatives. He also asserts that undue Intlucnco Is being exercised over her by one W. F. Turner whose address Is given as No. 610 West 116th fcitreet, Manhattan. An affidavit qf Caroline B. Wilson of Mount Vernon states that Mrs. Duncan has many eccentricities among them talking aloud in churches and expectorating In pews. Milton W. Hall nf Mount Vernon. a Vlco President of the Mount Vernon Trust Company says in an affidavit that, Mrs. Duncan Is being dominated "by this man Turner.' ,,i The nephew alleges that Turner has obtained over $30,000 from the estate ny biock scnemea. MRS. CARUSO SAILS, nPNVlNr nrTDATUAT'. n un tno frencn liner Paris, sailing for Flymouth and Havre to-day, were Mrs. Enrico Caruso, her daughter, Gloria, and Mrs. Charles Hopper, a friend and I companion. The tenor's widow will I spend six months In her villa at Flor.- I ence ana in August win go to Venice to I settle her husband's estate. Rhi denleA ... ,,., ,hnk VW- I. -nraired to Commander Arthu? Wr- I tnfT. I "How could anybody be cruet enough I to circulate such a report!" sho asked. 'Iloth mv husband and I knew Com mander Wagstaff, but I have not seen him In four years." Mrs. Marie D. Uustanoby, widow of the restaurateur. Louis, goes to Con stantinople to settlo an estate of $1,000, 000 left to her and her brother by their I mother, Callppl Dadldovltch. Aim iiurKDiwciio who uiiumcr pas senger who will spend six months on the Continent. SUES AUGUST BELMONT .. FOR $100,000 DAMAGES ChaafTear Alleges Injuries When Bsiemcni Elevator Fell. August Belmont, es owner of the I Park now Building, was the defendant In Supreme Court in a. suit for $100,000 damages, brought by Louis Ooughlln, 'a. aeur. Z w hSu? tojurrt ol inv.mb(r l. 11121. while loadlnir rtu- Icose on a sidewalk elevator In front of I the building. It is alleged ttiat an I elevator chain broke, preelp titlng Coughlln and the glucose threo atorlts DCJOW Bruu"u- i iraciurcs oi win ioh. ljj uicn ru m .nH .ttW -nd other iniuri,,.. ,Ho .hu , " ,'vlnlf ual treatment. rnnirhiln lives at No. S25 Hudjon I Avenue. Brooklyn, nnd was te oi I support of a younger brotner and sister I nt Uie tlmo of tho accident. Ho 'da I twftntv-seven years old and was on the I "bu "at f:)r wx'"t"""t " GAVE BABY NICKEL AND IS ARRESTED A boy about two years old was stand ing at Essex and Rlvlngton Streets last ,,lKht a"d Jt",?h IucclR ? Molt ritreet, wno nu wnw uiiio urutu ers and sisters In Italy, gave the young ster a nickel. He was arrested on s. charge of "Impairing tho morals ot re. minor." . Muccla had (o spend the night in J&1L but he was discharged this morning by I Magistrate Frothlngham In the Esse Market Court. "It's outrageous to lock up a man for an aci or wnaness, sum the Magistrate. t I ... v rm- nW. I . ",,. , .... , ' tt .ITZLSTS VZZLZ 'ZZZ . i.i.m n dtv Grant. Alderman Samuel It. Morris. 17th district, introduced the resolution. JOHN KENLON'S SO CHIP OF OLD BLOCK, PUTS OUT BLAZE Hardly had Fire Chief Johsf Kenlon sailed for Europe yeater,' day than his son, John Kenlon Jr.. distinguished himself by putting out a Are on tho roof of tho marquee tn front of Shanley'a res taurant In West 4$d Street, while a crowd of 200 applauded. Young Kenlon was driving hte, automobile south on Broadway, when ho noticed rubbish on the marquee on flro. Stopping, hbf rushed to tho side of another cor,- unstrapped a Are extinguisher and,: dashed Into the restaurant; i Jumped from a second-floor win dow and attacked the flames. 1dL a. Icy pnLtutM lh flia FM out. t'i A 'i i I r