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TraU of Checks,
All Forged, Laid to
**Marie the Vamp
Woman Held Here Accused
by Philadelphia Police of
Raising Money Under
Alias 4Mr*. J, J. Widener'
* Special Dispatch to The Tribune
PHILADELPHIA, March 20. ?The
spectacular career of Marie de Saldi,
aliaa "Mra. J. J. Widener, of Philadel?
phia," known to the police of a dozen
cities aa "Marie the Vamp," ia ended.
The New York police, acting for the
Philadelphia Diatrict Attorney's office,
arrested her in New York to-day on a
warrant charging that she passed a bad
check.
The methods employed by Marie de
Saldi were peculiar and they were al?
most always successful, as many per?
sons in this city, Baltimore, Washing?
ton and New York will testify. A
limousine, with a negro chauffeur
figured in her escapades and backed up
with checks printed for Philadelphia
business men Marie proved irresistible.
The police here first heard of "Marie
the Vamp" in July, when she drove to a
fashionahle Chestnut Street store with
a hired rimousine and a hired negro
chauffeur. She purchased $35 worth
of apparel and gave as payment a check
that had been printed for a prominent
Philadelphia business man, who is in
the real estate and mortgage business,
Several hours later the woman ap?
peared at the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel,
arranged for a dinner party for twenty
persons and tendered a check for $200.
She received $60 change from the check,
which is said to have been a forgery.
On the same afternoon she went to the
Adelphi and arranged for another ban
quet, giving a check for $226, but when
she asked the management for the
change they told her to come back the
next day. This check was also a forg?
ery, it is declared.
The next heard of Marie, according
to the police, was in Baltimore on July
8, where, posing as Mrs. .oJseph E.
Widener, of Philadelphia, she engaged
a suite of rooms in the Southern Hotel.
Here for a week she spent money lav
ishly. She presented a check for $1,000
for the $400 bill. Again a Philadelphian
whose name the authorities will not
reveal came to the rescue. He swore
he knew the woman aa Mrs. Widener,
of Philadelphia, and he endorsed the
check. The woman received $600
change, it is said, and disappeared. The
check was a forgery, according to the
District Attorney, and the man who
endorsed it had to make good.
December 3 was the last appearance
of "Marie the Vamp" in this city, ac?
cording to the police. On that day, in
her limousine and with her negro
chauffeur, she drove to the Chinese
section and went to the store of Fook
Kce, 1008 Race Street. Fook Kee han?
dles lichee nuts, carved jade and agate
jewelry, so when the beautiful woman
in furs swept into his establishment
with her negro chauffeur he was all
smiles and proceeded to show his
wares.
After selecting about $500 worth of
valuables, including a great carved jade
electrooiler, Marie turned to the negro
and suggested that he select several
presents at her expense. The negro
did, and the total bill amounted to
about $600. Marie explained that she
didn't have enough money with her,
but that if Fook Kee's clerk would jump
into her limousine she would drive
home with her purchase and get the
money. This was agreeable to the
Chinese, and the clerk, seizing the big
lamp, follewed Marie to he automo?
bile. -
The chauffeur was instructed to drive
to a big apartment house at Fifteenth ?
and Pine streets and as the car stopped
Marie told the Chinese to step out of j
the machine, take the bundle into the :
apartment house and her chauffeur
would follow with the rest of the pur?
chases. When the Chinese had hopped
out of the automobile Marie gave the !
word to the chauffeur and he drove '
away. The Chinese was left standing \
with the big lamp in his hand and yell-<
ing for the police.
A woman who said she was Marie de !
Salvo is a prisoner in the West 135th '
Street station. She is charged with !
grand larceny for the alleged theft of ;
$160 worth of clothing from a house in '??
the neighborhood. On the police blot- '
ter she is listed as a negro. She gave
her birthplace as Spain, and detectives
who arrested her said she has appear
ance of a dark-skinned white woman.
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Uninstructed Delegates
Will Go From Minnesota
ST. PAUL, Minn., March 20.?Minne?
sota will send four uainstructed dele-;
gates-at-large to the National Repub-'
lican Convention in Chicago next June.
The delegates were selected at the
state Republican Convention here to?
day.
A resolution instructing them to voU
for Major General Leonard Wood for
President was voted down by the con?
vention, 595 to 498, after a hard fight.
Cardinal O'Connell to See PopeJ
BOSTON, March 20. - CardinaTl
O Conncll will make an official visjt to j
the aVtican shortly after Easter, it
was announced here to-day. Arrange
menta for the trip are incomplete, but '<
he probably will sail from New York
April 10.
Spanking Is Reward of 11
YearOldHero; PalDrowns
Frank Sagona Sobs Himself to Sleep Because His
Gallant Effort Failed to Save Playmate After
Rotted Ice Had Given Way on McDougalFs Pond
McDougall's Pond, on which children
of Brooklyn have skated and slid all
winter, lay deserted last night. Near
the center of the dark stretch of ice at
Ninth Avenue and Forty-seventh Street
was a darker, jagged hole, and in his
home, at 931 Third Avenue, Frank
Sagona, eleven years old and a herd,
buried his face in his pillow and sobbed
himself to sleep.
The pond drew its usual quota of
youngsters with sled and skates yester?
day afternoon. Frank and^his chum,
Danny Derosa, likewise eleven, of 341
Thrty-sxth Street, went there together.
The warmth and ran of the last few
days and turned the ice "limber" and
the children at their play clung close
to the shore line.
All except Danny. He strapped on
his skates and glided out toward the
center of the pond, laughing as the ice
creaked and gave beneath him.
"Aw, come on, you 'fraid cats!" he
shouted over his shoulder. "It's
smoother out here. It's swell!"
Suddenly Danny wasn't there?only
a hole with 'black water lapping its
edges. Then his head reappeared and
he clung to the treacherous rim of the
hole, but the ice gave way and down
he went again.
The children were screaming, panic
stricken. John Derosa, Danny's brother,
waa running toward the nearest tele?
phone, but Frank Sayona was moving in
the other direction. With a piece of
tape in his hand, he was creeping out
over the ice toward the hole where his
pal was drowning.
He tossed one end of the tape to the
struggling boy, who clutched at it and
caught it. Then Frank pulled, but thc
ice beneatah his own feet jrave way
with him and plunged him in beside
his friend. Neither of the lads could
swim, but Frank slipped an arm over
the ice ledge and fastened his other
hand in Danny's collar. Once more
the ice broke and he went down. When
he came to the surface and clutched
the ice again Danny had disappeared.
Hylan Examination
In $100,000 Libel
Suit a Wordy Fight
Witness and Lawyers Clasli
at Preliminary Hearing;
Mayor Admits Writing
Criticism of Drug Firm
Mayor Hylan appeared in Special
Term, Part II, of the Supreme Court
in Brooklyn, yesterday, for examina?
tion before trial of the libel suit for
$100,000 brought against him by Will?
iam Jay Schieffelin, chairman of the
Citizens Union. The examination of the
Mayor was held without the presence
of a justice and it soon developed into
a wordy battle between the witness,
counsel for Mr. Schieffelin and Edmund
I. Mooney, cousel for the Mayor.
The suit is based upon a letter writ?
ten by the Mayor to Royal S. Copeland,
Health Commissioner, on April 15, 1919,
in which the Mayor criticized the busi?
ness methods of the drug firm of
Schieffelin & Co., of which the plain?
tiff is the head, and attacked the
Citizens Union. The object of the ex?
amination yesterday was to obtain
from the Mayor, if possible, some evi?
dence to sustain the complaint in thc
libel action. Apparently C. M. Lewis,
counsel for Mr. Schieffelin, made little
headway with the Mayor in that re
spect.
The Mayor admitted he wrote the
letter in question and signed it. He
was asked what he meant when he
wrote that the Citizens Union had no
voting strength.
"I meant just what I stated," replied
the Mayor, "that they did not have any
political strength."
"What did you mean by your state?
ment in the letter calling the Citizens
Union a 'bunk and paper' organiza
he was asked1. *
An objection by Mr. Mooney was sus
tained by Justice Callaghan, who came
into the room to settle three objections
to questions.
Mayor Hylan said he could not even
remember ever having met Mr. Schief?
felin. Asked if he knew anything about
the conditions of the Schieffelin firm,
he replied:
"I know that they pleaded guilty
three times in court and were fined $20
in each case." ?
The Mayor was asked if he took any
steps to ascertain whether the company
was selling narcotics to addicts before
he wrote the letter. He said he relied i
on the report of the Commissioner of !
Accounts, and that he had discussed the
drug evil at various times with the
Heaith and Police commissioners. He
said he had asked for all the informa?
tion on the^ subject he could get.
When an*adjournment was sought by
counsel for Mr. Schieffelin Mr. Money
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With hells and sirens going, an am
oulance, a police wagon nnd Hook and
Ladder Company 8 were racing for
the. pond. Frank heard them coming
and with his numbed legs reached as
far as he dared down into the hole
111 the hope of clutching Danny's body.
He was still trying fecbly to find
him when the firemen threw an ex?
tension ladder across the ice and
hauled him from the hole. Then with
grappling hooks they searched for the
body while Frank stood shivering and
white on the bank and refused to leave.
Hope Quickens, Then Falls
At last, haif an hour after Ahe lad
had disappeared, they brought his
body to the surface. Dr. Scderlin, of
Kings County Hospital, immediately
went to work with a pulmotor, while
Frank, teeth chatte.ring, wal.ched.
There did not seem tohe the faintest
sign of life, but the doctor persisted.
Finally the eyelids twitched and Dan?
ny's heart fiickered.
"He's coming around," said Dr. Scder?
lin, and carried tho lad *to the nmbu
lance where he continued his work all
tho way to tha hospital. As the am
bulance roarcd up to the institution
Danny died.
Meanwhile Frank had run home,
where he was greetcd with a spanklng
and hustled into bed; the first punish?
ment for getting wet, the second be?
cause bedclothes were the only other
garments available. All he vouchsafed
to his family was that he had fallen
into the pond. He endured his spank
ing without a whimper.
Later reporters visited his home and
after telling their story were ushered j
by proud parents into the room where
their son lay.
"He'.s dead?" Frank repeated. "Aw.
honest, I tried awful hard."
He turned his face toward the wall
and his shoulders quivered. The re?
porters tiptoed from the room. A hero,
they thought, should be permitted to
shed his tears in solitude.
objected, declaring tho Mayor had set
aside the day for the examination and ]
wanted to finish it. Counsel for the i
plaintiff replied the case had been post
poned once to allow the Mayor to go j
to Palm Beach.
"I would not have gone to Palm
Beahc," said the Mayor, "if it had not
been for the illness of my wife."
The examination was completed, and
the Mayor was instructed to be in court
on Wednesday morning to sign a tran
script of the testimony.
?
Teachers Agree to Back
Lockwood Salary Bill
For the first time, it is said, the
teachers of greater New York have. al?
most unanimously agreed on a single
legislative measure which would in?
crease their salaries. The fact that 99
per cent of them, according to a state?
ment issued yesterday by the publicity
committee of sixty-four teachers' or?
ganizations, have indorsed the Lock
wood-Donohue bill providing increases
of 40, 30 and 20 per cent for varying
grades of elementary and high school
teaching, shows the real need for sub?
stantial raises.
The organizations jointly have taken
a poll which reveals that out of 11,031
teachers indicating their preference of
measures now before the state Legis?
lature 10,908 indorse the Lockwood
Donohoe bill.
In Brooklyn and Queens, out of 5,810
teachers, 5,741 were for this bill; in
The Bronx and Richmond, 692 out of
695, and in Manhattan, 4,475 out of
4,526.
It was announced yesterday by D. F.
Stevcnson, principal of Public School
10, the Bronx, that the teachers there
have formed an association for the
purpose of working for the percentage
increase in pay.
Dr. J. P. Haney, director of art in
the high schools of the city for the last
twelve years, said yesterday that the
pay of his position had not been in?
creased since he began his incumbency,
except for the $200 additional allowed
under the Lockwood. bill enacted last
year. His salary is $4,000.
"We can place all of our graduates
as rapidly as they are turned out," he
said. "Many of our graduates are now
making salaries up to $5,000 a year.
Few of them are more than twenty-five
years of age. A salary of $5,000 a year
is twice as much as the teacher with
fifteen years' experience makes in New
York City."
Sheriff Called On
To Seize Effects
Of "Tick-Tack-Toe"
Actor-Manager Sues Pro?
ducing Company, but
"Amicable Agreement" Is
Said to Have Been Made
Wlien tho grand ensemble sang their
last note of "Tick-Tack-Too" at the
Princess Theatre last night it marked
the end of a month's run of the "musi?
cal outburst," as the piece was de
scribed in the progam, and instanter
deputies of Sheriff Knott levied an at- ]
tachment on the costumes and scenery. i
ln justice to Herman Timberg, who
wrote the lyrics, the lines, the music j
and who appeared in the leading male i
role, it should bc said that the appear- j
ancc of the Sheriff was not due to a lack
of business or funds. "Tick-Tack-Toe" j
just reached the end of its engagement. j
Besides, differences have arisen be-1
twen Herman Timberg and the Herman i
Timberg Producing Company. Inci
dentally, a Supreme Court action i
brought by Mr. Timberg revealed the ]
fact that "angels" of the company who
gave financial support were August i
Herrmnnn, president of tho Cincinnati
baseball club, and Sol Gilsey, a wealthy !
Cincinnati jeweler. ? j
Mr. Timberg is suing for $10,518. In :
bringing his action for $10,518, he men
tions that part of the claim is based on
services he rendered at $300 a week
and commissions to the producing
company before "Tick-Tack-Toe" was
produced, and for which work several
weeks* salary is due.
Ho says hc was engaged as oper?
ating and general manager, to devote
all hisi time, skill, energy and efforts
to "write, produce and arrange stage
effects for plays ,sketches, monolagues
and music for vaudeville, musical#com
edies and similar attractions."
. After the alleged violation of his
contract_ for this work, Mr. Timberg
says the producing company engaged
him to play the leading part in his
own play at $500 a week. He claims
$3,150 under this contract. Not only
that, but actor-playwright-manager
soeks $2,56S, which represents money
he says he advanced out of his pocket
for that company.
According to Mir. Timberg, a large
theatrical producing firm is trying to
add his play to their string. He says
that Ilerrman^and Gilsey favor this
plan, but he is opposed to any such ar
rangement. "Tick-Tack-Toe"was booked
to open in Brooklyn the week of
March 29.
Jack Lichter, the company manager,
declared last night that evervthing had :
been "amicably settled" and that the
production would go on the road to
morrow. Asked where the show was
to next appear, the manager said ho
could not tell without consulting his
ltinenrary which, he regretted, he did
not have about him.
Others connected with the produc?
tion said that after the Sheriffs men
levied their writ, all members of the
cast, with the possiWe exception of
Timberg, had been paid. Lawyers for
both sides, it was said, were trying to
adjust the controversy and would suc
ceed, it was elieved, before to-morrow ?
William Klein represents the Timberg
Producing Company, and J. Larkin the
creditors.
Ford in Receptivc Moorl
If the people elect Henry Ford as
President he won't exile himself or
anything like that to get out of the
job, according to a letter which Vin
cent J. Farley, of Lonor Island Citv
received yesterday from Mr. Ford's sec?
retary. The letter was in rosponse
to one. which Mr. Farley had written
Mr. Ford suggesting he accept the
JJemocratic nomination for President
The reply said:
"I atsure you of Mr. Ford's appre
ciation of the statements in vour let?
ter. Mr. Ford, of course, is not a poli- ,
tician, and consequently could not be '?
induced to seek any kind of office what
ever. Of course, if Mr. Ford's serv-'
ice to the people has been such as
to merit higher eonsideration, there is
nothing on earth to prevent them f-om
asserting their wishes, if they so de?
sire, but I am sure that Mr. Ford
would not take the initiative in this
direction. In other words, if the peo?
ple desire him to be our next Presi?
dent it is a matter left entirely within
the jurisdiction of the people, and
something over which he has no con?
trol."
Albany's Population 113,344
WASHINGTON, March 20,?Popula?
tion statistics for 1020 announced to
night by the Census Bureau included:
Albany, 113,344, an increase of 13,001,
ov 13.1 per cent. Watervliet, N Y
16,073, increase of P0<), or 0.0 per cent
Rensselaer, N. Y., 10,823, increase of
112, or 1.0 per cent.
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