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Five Bandits
Take $15,750
From Pay Car
?V
Masked Men Hold Up Four
Barrett Company Guards
After Firing on Driver
?and Wrecking Automobile
Coupe Hurled Into Ditch
Employees of Jersey Plant
Were Armed, but Had
No Chance to Resist
HACKENSACK, N. J? Aug. G.? Five
bandits, each armed with two revolvers,
riding in an automobile, held* up and
robbed Leonard F. Pawson, paymaster,
;?nd three other employees of the Bar
rett Company, of Edgewater, at ClifT
side Park, yesterday and escaped with
$l?,T&0, tho weekly pay roll of the con?
cern.
The employee? of the company ac?
companying Paymaster Pawson were
Frank Enfield, superintendent, and
George K. Krane, a guard. They were
being driven in a coupe by Jobn A.
Johnson, another company employee.
All were armed and constituted a spe
cini force equipped to protect the pay
rol! against bandits, in view of recent
robberies. The atcack was so sudden
they had no opportunity to resist.
The bandits were all bronzed, heavy
men, according to Superintendent En
field, who emptied his pistol at the
robbers' car when it sped away, but
without effect. All wore masks and
two showed gold filled teeth when they
spoke.
Stopped to Fight
The pay roll car was proceeding
along Laird Avenue toward the Barrett
works when the rear window of the
coupe was shattered by a bullet, which
also perforated the hat of Johnson in
the driver's seat. Pawson ordered that
the car be slowed down, aa the pursuing
automobile was gaining. Johnson was
told to look nfter the pay roll bag and
the wheel, while the other three men
prepared to tight.
Before the coupe had been brought
to a stop two masked men emerged
from a clamp of bushes beside the road.
One hurled a rock through the wind?
shield, covering all inside with broken
glass. While they were trying to open
the door of the closed car the bandits'
touring car came up from behind, sjde
swiped the coupe and hurled it into
the ditch.
"Hands up, or you're dead men;" ov
dered one of the three masked robbers
in- the bandit car, as Paymaster Pawson
and his aids emerged from the wreck?
age. They were forced to the center
of the road, where two of the robbers
held them tinder their guns. A third
seized the pay roll bag and tossed it
into the touring car.
The four defenders were then or?
dered to turn their backs toward tho
bandits and stay that way until they
were round the turn. Five minutes
after firing the first shot the robbers
were out of sight.
Car Found Abandoned
Before leaving the robbers cut all
wire connections on the coupe. The
bandit car was found abandoned in
Sixteenth Street, West New York, two
hours later. Pawson and his com?
panions gave the police a detailed
description of *the men. A general
alarm was immediately sent out and
live police automobiles with heavily
armed posses took up the chase.
Tho leader of the bandits is said
to have a heavy scar extending from
his right eye to near the chin, All
were smooth shaven. The masks they
wore were black, apparently silk hand?
kerchiefs.
Fifteen Bergen County motorcycle
policemen joined the pursuit when the
Bergen authorities were notified by
telephone. County Detectives Taylor
and Siebel also took the field with
p?jlice dogs.
The Barrett'Company manufactures
Tarvia, a voad-finishing product. Of?
ficials of the company hold a meeting
;i week ago following the robbery of
the Fairview Bleachery Company by
bandits who seized the weekly pay
roll under circumstance* similar to
the robbery of yesterday, it was de?
rided to send an armed guard with
the pay roll car.
Late last night it was said that
trace of the bandits had been found
at Newark and that arrests were ex?
pected there.
Bedtime Stories
Peter Rabbit Consults Sammy Jay
By Thornton W. Burges?
When all is said and all is done
You'll find there's good in every]
one. ?Sammy Jay.
"I do believe Sammy Jay can help
if only he will," thought Peter Rab?
bit. "He'll come back here. He'll
follow Reddy until he sees that Reddy
is really going to his home in the
old Pasture, then he'll come back
here to try to lind out what Reddy
was doing here. 1 know him. They
can talk about my curiosity, but I
haven't a bit more than Sammy Jay.
All I need do is to be patient a while
longer and Sammy will show up as
sure as my tail is short."
So Peter sat down near the old log
in which he had escaped from Reddy
Fox and waited. He didn't have to
wait long. 'As silently as he had en?
tered the swamp before Sammy Jay
returned. He saw Peter at once and
he guessed right away that it was
Peter that Reddy Fox nad been
waiting for.
"Hello, Peter!" said h*. "Where
wore you when I drove Reddy Fox
away?"
"In that old log," replied Peter,
pointing to it. "You did me a good
turn that time and I'm much obliged
to you. I wonder if you would like
to do some one else a gooo turn."
Sammy cocked his head to one side
and looked at Peter shrewdly. -?"That
depends on who it is," said he.
"It is some one in great trouble,"
replied Peter, "? know you dearly
love to make trouble for other peo?
ple, but I also know that you are not
so bad as some people like to say
jou arc"
"Thank you," replied Sammy Jay.
"I haven't forgotten how you
helped Mrs. Quack when she was in
trouble," continued Peter. "I know
of Mime one else who is in even worse
trouble, and it ia one of the feathered
folk, too."
"Who ?a it*?" (remanded Sammy,
looking very much interested,
"That's telling," retorted Peter. "I
won'1 tell until you promise me that
if you won't help you at least won't
tell anybody else about it."
"I'll 'promise that," replied Sammy
promptly. He was grow?ng more
?? curious,
-, will help if you can?"
th* ughi it over .or h few
minute . Ftinuly lie agreed thai I
would help if he could. Thou i etcr
told bira all about* the poor young ;
"Hello, Peterl" said he. "Where
were you when I drove Ready
Fox away?"
Heron caught by one foot in a cruel
steel trap. "I don't think he has much
chance," said he. "If Farmer Brown's
boy should find him it would be all
right. The thing is to get Farmer
Brown's boy to find him before Reddy
i Fox or Old Man Coyote finds him.
You are the only one I can think of
who can get Farmer Brown's boy over
there unless it is your cousin, Blacky
the Crow, and somehow I would
rather trust you."
"Thank you again," replied Sammy
Jay gravciy, though there was a
twinkle In his eyes. "You are getting
to be a flatterer. Now just how do
you think I can get Farmer Brown's
boy over there?"
"By keeping %vatch until you see
Farmer Brown's boy somewhere about
and then screaming with ail your
might. He'll be sure to come over to
see what you have found. You know
he always docs."
Sammy nodded. "But suppo.-*lvng,"
said he, "that Farmer Brown's "boy
doesn't come where he can hear nie?"
"Then there is nothing you can do.
Or any one else, for that matter," re?
plied Peter, looking very anxious.
"All right," replied Sammy. "I'm
ofT to see that young Heron and then
to watch for Farmer Brown's Boy."
And as silently as he had come
Sammy flew away,
(Cop r _ht t? si '??? T. w i: ?. :-.? >
The mast story: "Sammy Jay I?
True to His Word."
Janitor Goes to Jail Cheerfully
For Tossing Minnie Out Window
Assures Judge Cat Was Desperate Character and
Climbed Her Own Tail While Suspended From
tfifth Floor, Bit Him and Committed Suicide
Michael Zistoni was sentenced yes?
terday in Morrisania polico court to
servo two days in the workhouse for
throwing Minnie out of a fifth-story
window of 1212 Seneca Avenue, an
apartment house of which- he is super?
intendent. Minnie was a cat and the
episode closed her careor.
Zistoni went to prison cheerfully, al?
though he was of the opinion privately
that honors should have been conferred
upon him instead. In any event, he
was rid of Minnie, and he would have
gone to the workhouse with a light
heart at any time since her advent to
accomplish that result.
Nevertheless, ho told Magistrate
Marsh earnestly he had nott sought
Minnie's life. In his opinion Minnie
committed suicide. There was prac?
tically no other desperate deed pos?
sible to an unscrupulous cat that Min?
nie had left undone, he said, and Min?
nie was thorough; she would not have
it raid that what a cat could do she had
left undone.
Tenants had complained a lot about
Minnie, whose owner, Mrs. Julia Bau
ernfriun, also lived in the house, Zis?
toni said, and he was forever chasinc
Minnie out of somebody's fr^urtmont^r
out of his own quarters.
The' day that Minnie met. her fate
Zistoni had chased her to tho roof, and
then Minnie had clambered down to the
fifth floor and into the apartment of a
tenant who did not like cats and dis?
liked Minnie above all other cats.
Zistoni followed. Minnie attacked
him, he said, exhibiting scratches on
his hands and face, and ho seized her
by the tail. He did not do this out of
cruelty, he said, nor with the purpose
of injuring Minnie. He merely thought
that it might calm her to be suspended
by the tail in such a manner that she
could do ?o harm, and when Minnie
had been sufficiently soothed Zistoni
intended to look up the propar munici?
pal authority and take Minnie to him.
Minnie, however, 'climbed Up her
own tail, Zistoni averred, jumped on
his back and thence to the window sill.
Fearing she contemplated self-destruc?
tion, said Zistoni, he tried to seize her
again for the purpose of calming her,
but Minnie jumped off into space.
Two witnesses who saw Minnie navi?
gating space testified that she did not
look like a cat that was going some?
where voluntarily, but like a cat that
had been sent.
No Home, Says Bride
Of M. Auerbacli in
Suit for Separation
Wife of Wealthy Dealer in
Artificial Flowers Says He
Refused to Buy Dishes
and Threatened Her Life
WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., Aug. 6.?Mrs.
Doria Auerbach, of Manhattan, young
bride of Maurice Auerbach, member
of the Ann of Katz & Auerbach, deal?
ers in artificial flowers and feathers at
627 Broadway, who says her husband's
income is $26,000 a year, filed suit for
separation yesterday before Supreme
Court Justice Arthur S. Tompkins in
the White Plains branch of the Su?
preme Court.
Mrs. Auerbach charges that her hus?
band had struck her on several oc?
casions since their marriage and
threatened her with death. Since her
marriage in New York, January 11,
1920, the petitioner says she has had
no home worthy the name*? He re?
fused to purchase dishes for their fiat,
she says, and adds that the apartment
was also barren of carpets.
Mrs. Auerbach charges that Auer?
bach bought her an automobile soon
after their marriage but rebelled at
the upkeep and put the car in storage.
saying that it would cost too much tc
maintain. One day, returning from i
walk, she threw her coat on the bed
whereupon Auerbach, she declares
oflled her vile names and demanded t*
know why she hadn't hung the garment
or. a hanger.
When she returned convalesccn
i from an illness in a New York .hopi
tal, the wife avers, Auerbach hande*
her a large roll of bills, telling her t*
purchase a new outfit of clothing. Sh<
thanked him for the money and whei
he had left the house counted it. Th
roll was made up of $1 bills. Ther
were sixty in all.
As a result of her husband's ill
treatment, Mrs. Auerbach says, she wa
compelled to return to her parents. Th
affidavits of the wife and of her fathei
| Abraham Schreiber, were submitted b
; Humphrey J. Lynch, attorney for Mrt
Auerbach. They cite that Auerbac
has caused to be transferred hi
equities in a Manhattan apartmen
house and other buildings assessed a
$780,000.
The affidavit quotes Auerbach as ha\
ing said to his wife:
"You haven't a thing on me. I hav
transferred everything I own to corp<
rations and you can't use me as
meal ticket any longer. I am sick c
you and everything connected wit
you. Back to Ma."
Jersey Priest Sues
Four for Slander
And Asks $105,000
Churchman Treasurer of
Irish Fund Says He Was
Called 'Liar,' 'Loafer,'and
Asked to Give Up $5,000
TRENTON, N, J., Aug. 6.?The Rev.
Father Sexton, a Roman Catholic
priest, ?iving at 164 West Ninety
eighth Street, former pastor of St.
Lucy's Church, Jersey City, filed Buit
for $105,000 yesterday, alleging defa?
mation of character against Hugh Mon?
tague, president of the New Jersey
State Branch of the American Associa?
tion for the Recognition of the Irish
Republic, and three other members of
the association.
The Rev. Father Sexton is described
as treasurer of the New Jersey associa?
tion. According to a copy of the com?
plaint filed by his attorney, George L.
Record, of Jersey City, the priest
charges that he has been accused by
the defendants of mishandling funds
of the organization and asked to re?
store $5,000 to its treasury.
The. other defendants named with
Montague are Eugene F. Kinkead,
former Sheriff of Hudson County, now
of South Orange; Thomas J. Maloney
and Thomas J. Stanton, of Jersey City.
The complaint says that the Rev.
Father Sexton has been made the vic?
tim of a conspiracy by the defendants
to damage his reputation as a priest.
The first passage of hostilities be?
tween the priest and the defendants,
the former aays, took place in the of?
fice of Harry Boland, secretary to
Eamon de Valera, at 411 Fifth Avenue.
During this conference in Boland'a
office Dr. Sexton says one of the de?
fendants said to him, according to. the
complaint:
"You are a liar and a loafer and not
fit to be trusted with money as treas?
urer of this association?you are not
fit to wear the Roman collar."
This conversation, Father Sexton de?
clares, was on March 21,1921. Later th<a
priest charges, the defendants had
j printed and caused to be circulated a
letter traducing him.
Pastor Asks Governor
To Stop Fight Pictures
Canon Chase Assails Censors
for Permitting Dempsey-Car?
pentier Film To Be Shown
The Rev. Canon William Sheafe
Chase, rector of Christ Episcopal
j Church, Brooklyn, yesterday appealed
to Governor Miller to revoke the per
< mit granted by the recently appointed
1 Motion Picture Commission for exhibi
l tion of the Dempsey-Carpentier fight
: pictures.
Canon Chase was one of the prime
! movers for the appointment of the com
; mission. In discussing his appeal for
revocation of the permit, Dr. Chase
| said he considered the commission was
? plainly evading the duty confronting it
when it granted a license for exhibition
I of the fight pictures, which he declared
j to be exactly the sort of pictures that
j ought not to be permitted.
Canon Chase asserted that the com
i mission's plaint of lack of jurisdiction
in cases of pictures which had been ex
| hibited prior to August 1, when the
? commission became operative, displayed
| an unwillingness to assume responsi
! bility for stopping an exhibition which
! was plainly immoral and brutalizing.
GirPs Joy Ride
Ends in Death
On Third Rail
One of Three Young Women
From Brooklyn, Fleeing
Chauffeur Demanding
Fare, Stumbles in Subway
Friend Sustains Burns
Party Visited Broadway Cab?
arets and Obtained Some
Drinks, Survivors State
Running along the subway tracks in
an effort to escape a taxi driver clam?
oring for his fare, Katherine Hogan,
twenty-four years old, living at 157
Pacific Street, Brooklyn, was electro?
cuted early yesterday morning on the
third rail of the Pacific Street station
of the Fourth Avenue subway. She was
one. of a party of three girls who had
been at cabarets on Broadway and were
on their way home when the accident
happened.
Maude Stevenson, twenty-two years
old, living at 681 Classen Avenue, was
burned in an effort to save her com?
panion. John Murray, a trackman, who
pursued the fleeing girls, also was
burned. Crowds of early morning work?
ers, standing on the subway platform,
witnessed the accident.
Michael Freeman, the taxi chauf?
feur, gave his address as 10 West
Sixty-fourth Street, Manhattan, was
arrested on a charge of homicidp and
was released nfter telling his story to
District Attorney Harry E. Lewis. Con?
tradictory stories were told to the
police by Freeman and May Kenny, of
25 Rush Street, the third young woman
in the party.
Miss Kenny told the District Attor?
ney that they had had something to
drink in Manhattan. They were hailed
in tljo vicinity of Columbus Circle by
the taxi driver, whom the dead girl
said she knew, Miss Kenny asserted.
The girls told him they lived in Brook?
lyn and he offered to take them horn*?
free of charge, she said. Miss Steven?
son said that Freeman did not set his
taxi clock. The machine was driven
to Pacific Street, near the Fourth
Avenue subway station. When the
young women sought to leave the cab
he demanded $2.70 in fare.
They refused to pay and made a
dash for the subway. Miss Hogan and
Miss Stevenson jumped to the tracks
and ran blindly for a block and a
half. The platform superintendent and
trackman, armed with lanterns, fol?
lowed the girls down the west bound
tracks and reached them just as the
the train came in sight. Together they
slipped between two pillars and es?
caped injury, although the train, in its
swift passage, swept off Miss Steven?
son's hat. Miss Hogan then broke
from her rescuers and rushed up the
track toward the station platform. In
turning to climb to safety, she tripped
on a cross-tie and fell. Her face struck
the third rail. She died instantly. The
Stevenson girl tried to raise her friend
and was shocked by the current.
Freeman told the District Attorney
that there was no question of a free
ride at any time. He never saw the
girls until they hailed him for a fare
in Columbus Circle, he said. He imme?
diately set his clock, which was found
registering $2.70 at the station.
Misses Stevenson and Kenny were
held as material witnesses. In the dead
girl's handbag was found $16.
Landlord Says Barbey
Tenant Threatened Him
Trembled While Being Shaved
After Warning He Might
Be Put to Sleep
John Capabianco, a barber, of New
York Avenue, Jamaica, was arrested
yesterday on complaint of John J.
Bliss, property owner, who told Mag?
istrate Doyle, in the Jamaica police
court, that Capabianco threatened to
"put him to sleep" if he did not dec?
orate the apartment occupied by him
in a building owned by Bliss.
The landlord said he patronized his
own tenants when possible, and, fol?
lowing this rule, had been getting
shaved by Capabianco for some months.
Yesterday he entered the barber shop
for his daily shave and Capabianco
lathered him, he said, before broaching
the subject of having h?3 fiat redeco?
rated.
Bliss said Capabianco began his de?
mand in an emphatic manner, mean?
while stropping the razor. The barber
emphasized each demand by slapping
the razor on the strop. Bliss told the
magistrate a bold policy seemed to him
best, so he told Capabianco he intended
to raise his rent. At that moment, he
says, the barber "nicked his thumb?
nail" with the razor edge and re?
marked that he would put Blis3 to
sleep. The landlord said he submitted
to the shave in fear and trembling.
Capabianco denied all the allega?
tions. He was found guilty and re?
leased under a suspended sentence.
?
Allege Mother Tried to Starve
Child to Get $50 Insurance
Special Dispatch to The Tribune
ELMHURST, 111., Aug. 5.?When
States Attorney C. W. Reed went to
the farm operated by Mrs. Ann St?ap
Making Golf Clubs
Safe for Democracy
As the interest in golf spreads there is an increased
necessity for courses for men and women who can't
afford membership in the expensive country clubs.
Recognizing this condition Torrey Ford has written
a story, illustrated by Ellison Hoover, on making
golf clubs safe for democracy. His story is written
in a humorous vein that will interest both golfers
and would-be golfer?. Ford's story will be found in
the?
Magazine Section of
To-morrow 9s-Sunday
?+ - -** * ~ ?
noves to investigate alleged cruelty to
her daughter, three years old, he
found tho child Imprisoned In a crock
ory crate in tho front yard, with rain
pouring and no protection whatever
for the child.
Tho child i3 shriveled and emaci?
ated, he says, and shows signs of much
abuse. It weighs only nine pounds,
although three years of age. Tho
mother was arraigned to-day. Juvenile
Court authorities charge she hoped to
collect $50 insurance she holds on the
baby's lifo. It is charged that sho
gave Helen, tho baby, nothing but one
crust of bread each flay, and it was
literally starving to death.
Weather Report
Flgtirea Indicated are standard time.
Svn risos... 4:66 a.m.?Sun sets... 7:07p.m.
Maon rlecs. 8:21 a.m.lMoon sots. 8:44 p.m.
Locnl Forecast.?Increasing; cloudiness,
followed by showers thla afternoon or to?
night; to-morrow nhowers; fresh south to
southwest winde. _.
focal Official Record.?The following of?
ficial record ahnwa temperatures during
the last twenty-four hours, In comparison
with the corresponding dato of last year:
3921. 190e.] 1921. 1920.
.1 ?, m... 6?) 64 3 p. m... 76 ^ 78
6 a. m... 65 64 6 p. m... 74 77
il a. m. . . 71 7ll 9 p. m. ..69 71
12 noon... 77 7S;il p. m... 67 67
Highest, 79 degrees, at 3-2.-30 p. m. I low?
est. 06, at 6:30 a. m.; average, 72: average
earad dato last year, 71 ; average same
date for thirty-three years, 74 degrees.
Humidity
8 a. m... . 6 1'I p. m.... 44(S p. m. . .. 42
Barometer Readings
8 a. m.. 30.26|1 p. m.. .'I0.26|8 p. m.. 30.22
General Weather Conditions
WASHINGTON, Aug. 5.?Tho Western
disturbance will move eastward, attended
by unsettled, showery weather over most
sections east of the Mississippi River, Sat?
urday and Sunday. However, generally
fuir weather is. prohabl? in Now England
Saturday and In the upper lako region
Sunday. There will bo little change in
temperature Saturday, except that oool^r
weathor will overspread the upper I alee
region, *prhllo the weather will become
coolr Sunday throughout tho lake region,
the Ohio and middle Mississippi valleys and
the Interior of the north Atlantic, slates.
Pressure continued high over the middle
Atlantic and northern Atlantic states to?
day, while it fell considerably from the
St, Lawrence Valley and tho lake region
southwestward to tho Rio Grande. There
wire two centers of minimum pressure at
night, one immediately north of Lake Su?
perior and the other over northwest Mis?
souri. Pressura was high and rising over
the north Rocky Mountain region, and It
continued high along the north Pacific
coast. Local thunder showers have oc?
curred within the last twenty-four hours
In the east Gulf and south Atlantic states,
Tennessee, east Arkansas, portions of the
upper lake region and the Dakotas. In
other regions generally fair weather has
prevailed.
Temperatures continued slightly below
normal in the Atlantic states, while higher
temperatures prevailed In the middle Mis?
sissippi and lower Missouri valleys and the
south plains states. and considerably :
cooler weather overspread tho Dakotas. |
the north Rocky Mountain region and th?
west Canadian provinces.
District Forecasts.?Eastern New York?
Increasing cloudiness Saturday, followed
by showers Saturday afternoon or night;
Sunday showers, cooler in interior.
Eastern Pennsylvania?Unsettled Satur?
day, probably showers; Sunday showers,
cooler in west and north portions.
New Jersey and Delaware?Unsettled
Saturday, probably showers; Sunday show?
ers, not much change in temperature.
Southern New England?Partly cloudy
Saturday, probably showers by Saturday
night; Sunday showers, not much change
in temperature. \
Four Children
Killed, 7 Hurt,
In Bronx Fire
Blaze, Believed to Have Been
of Incendiary Origin,
Drives 50 Families From
Tenement to the Street
Firemen Rescue Score
Tenants Cut Off From the
Stairway by Flames Are
Carried Down Ladders
Four children wero killed and seven
persons injured, one of them so se?
riously that he may die, early yester
. day morning in a fire, believed to have
been of incendiary origin, which swept
through a five-story tenement house
at 109 St. Ann's" Avenue, the Bronx.
The roofs of the two tenements ad?
joining the burning building caught
lire and more than fifty families were
driven to the street.. Firemen carried
a score of persons down ladders.
The dead, children of Julio Corsine,
who lived on the top floor of 109, are:
Victoria Corsine, 14 years old.
Edna Corsine, 10 years old.
Harry Corsine, 8 years old.
William Corsine, 5 yea?s old.
Tho injured, who received serious
burns about the body, are:
Andrew Taylor, 43 years old.
Catherine Taylor, 38 years old, wife
of Andrew.
Warren Taylor, Iff years old.
Charles Taylor, 15 years old.
Andrew Taylor jr., 13 years old.
Herbert Taylor, 4 years old.
Rose Fitzpatrick, 15 years old.
All of the injured were taken to Lin?
coln Hospital. Herbert Taylor is in, a
serious condition. Physicians said that
he had inhaled flame.
Started on Second Floor.
The fire started on the second floor
in the public hallway. Flames shot up
the stairwell and broke through the
roof when William O'Neill, of 301 East
125th Street, a taxlcab driver, saw the
glare a little after 3 a. m. and turned
in a fire alarm.
When Hook and Ladder Company
17, the first to arrive, reached the house,
the windows overlooking the street
were thronged with panic-stricken
tenants. Most of them were occupants
of front apartments who either could
not find their way through the smoke
to the fire escape balconies in the rear
of the house, or were cut off from them
by the flames.
The firemen ran up their sixty-five
foot extension ladder and began pluck?
ing the people from their perches and
passing them down to the street. Fire- j
raen Hutb and Laughran occupied the
post at the top of the ladder, Huth s |
right hand was cut by falling glass, but
he remained at his post.
The firemen of Hook and Ladder
Company 19 soon had another extension
ladder at work, and in response to a
second alarm Hook and Ladder Com?
pany 29 Joined its forces to those of
the others. Not until the last per?
son had been rescued did the firemen
realise to the full the peril they had
confronted.
Live Cable Near Ladder
Automatical!* they had avoided con?
tact with a heavy cable which was
stretched at about the height of their
ladders. When they descended, ex?
hausted, employees of the Edison com?
pany told them that they had been
perched within arm's length of the
high tension wire, which carries 2,000
volts. Danger from the current ex?
isted only during the first few minutes
of the fire, as the electricity was
switched to another wire at the earliest
possible moment.
Damage caused by the fire is esti?
mated at $10,000. Mrs. Corsine, four
of whoBe children were killed, is be?
side herself with grief. She is be?
ing cared for by neighbors.
William Quigley, Acting District At- 1
torney of Bronx County, and Fire |
Marshal Thomas P. Brophy are con- j
ducting investigations to discover the
origin of the fire. Both suspect that I
some one set the house afire.
Vice Charges Are Denied !
By Army Hospital Head i
Superintendent at Johnson City, j
Tenn., Defends Patients; Ad- \
mits Some Bootlegging
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn., Aug. 5.?j
The majority of patients at the gov- j
ernment sanatorium here where for- j
mer service men are being treated are
"well-behaved, orderly, satisfied and
cooperating excellently in the enforce?
ment of discipline," Dr. Walter C.
Klotz, the superintendent, said in a
statement to-day. "They are not
vicious or immoral," he added.
The statement was issued ae a re?
sult of chargea made before a Senate
investigating committee at Washing?
ton yesterday by Director Forbes, of
the Bureau of War Risk Insurance, and
M. P. Melnerney, an agent for the ?
board, who made a secret investiga?
tion of conditions. The two charged
that the patients were living under
astounding conditions of corruption
and immorality, with discipline lack- ?
ing.
"There are only a few drug addicts
in the sanatorium and these are j
properly disposed of when discovered," j
the statement said. "Only recently i
baggage and effects of all members j
were searched throughout the sanator- ?
ium and only a very few weapons were
found and promptly confiscated. There I
has been some bootlegging, which is |
not unusual at any sanatorium where I
there are 1,000 men." I
Decision Reserved
lu Recommendation
For Thorne Divorce
Sailor ?s Referred to a?
"Precious Ray of Sun.
shine" in Letter From
Wife; Religion Qted
Justice Buit reserved decision jres.
terday on the application of coon*!
for Joel Wolf Thorn?, clubrnan at?i
heir to several million dollars fro?,
the estate of his father, Samuel Thorne
for the confirmation by the court ?jftht
report of David R. Daly, referee. Th?
report recommended that Mr. Thorn?;
be granted a decree of divorce again?
Mrs. Mary Casey Thome, Barnard
graduate, formerly known as the "Belle
of Third Avenue."
Former Justice John G. Dyer, coan.
acl for Mrs. Thorne, opposed the at
ceptance of the findings of the ref?
eree and the confirmation of big re?
port, and said that they were founded
on untruo testimony. He said that the
relations of Mrs. Thorne and Raymond
B. Wilson, formerly a sailor in the
United States Navy, named as core?
spondent, had been misunderstood.
Mr. Dyer mentioned the deep relij
lous sentiment of Mrs. Thorne u?i
Wilson, saying that on the very night
of their alleged misconduct they he?!
attended church services together.
Frederick L. C. Keating, counsel for
Mr. Thorne, produced letters from tiV
corespondent to Mrs. Thome in whic'i
the writer used many terms of endear?
ment. These letters Mr. Keat*mg uii,
proved it was not alone religioua senti?
ment that was responsible for the
friendship of the couple.
Mr. Keating referred to other letter?
from Mrs. Thorne to Wilson, in whies
she addressed him as "My hubby" and
"Precious Ray of Sunshine."
In one letter written by the aatler
while he was at sea, he said: "Juatto
have my arms around your body anng
gled up close to me. I can just at?
your brown eyes looking into mine."
"There isn't doubt as to the devo
tional sentiment of those letters," said
Mr. Keating, "but certainly, it seema to
rae, there is considerable doubt about
the religious part of that devotion."
Mr. Dyer said: "It is all detective
testimony, paid testimony, bought tes?
timony, if I know bought testimony.
There is not a jury in the land that
would have found my client guilty ?if
indiscretion on the testimony of such
witnesses. It is unfortunate that ay
client mistakenly consented to have
this case tried before a referee."
Mrs. Thorne and Wilson were in court
during the argument.
resident Harding
Takes The Helm
"No more pitiable spectacle of complete legislative subserviency, of legislative truckling,
of legislative crawling upon the belly at the feet of a master and licking the boots of authority"
has ever been seen by Senator Reed, of Missouri, so he says, than is presented by the Republican
Senate majority. However much the people may approve President Harding's decision to as?
sum? more and more of active leadership, the Democrats in Congress, reports one of the news?
paper correspondents, have made up their mind that he is not to be allowed to "get away with it,"
at least until they have shown up Republican inconsistency. Both Senators and Congressmen
have denounced recent attempts at what they call "personal rule."
President Harding's career as leader of his party really began with his address to the
Senate which prevented the passage of the bonus bill, notes the Boston Transcript (Rep.). In
thus assuming active direction of the most important business before Congress, we read in the
Brooklyn Eagle (Dem.), "He was but following Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson,
who long ago discovered that the conception of the Presidency until recently held by Mr.
Harding tends toward the paralysis of governmental business." When Mr. Harding took
the place of Mr. Wilson on March 4th, writes the Washington correspondent of the Seattle
Times (Ind.), "there were people who believed he was a political jellyfish." But, we read, "he
has astonished the skeptics and delighted his friends by his boldness and initiative?first, in
what he has done to insure a world conference on disarmament, and, secondly, in single
handedly tackling the bonus hornets' nest." "Let him take the helm!" cries the Boston
Herald, one of the many Republican papers delighted to see the President taking the lead in
the work of legislation.
The leading article in THE LITERARY DIGEST this week, August 6th, describes
with a world of detail the President's "action in assuming the leadership of his party, present?
ing as it does, public opinion from all sectipns of the country as represented by editorials in
leading newspapers.
Other news-features in this number of THE DIGEST of interest and importance are:
Railroad Aid Without New Taxes
New Hope lor the Disabled Veteran
Lasker as a Lid-Lifter
An Anglo-Yanko-Japanese Triangle
Coming: The "Trollibus"
Detection of False Handwriting
George Washington in England
Millions Starving in Lenine's
Paradise of Atheism
More Nurses vs. Better Nursing
Best of the Current Poetry
The Insurance Companies Present Their Side
Illinois'? Indicted Governor
The New Menace to Sea Power
France and England Fighting Into Harmony
Austria's Republic "Carries On"
Golf By Machinery
Hindu Ancestry of Uncle Remus
A German Slam at Our Literature
The Necessity of Pistol-Toting
Smujts, The "New Man" Out of Africa
Topics of the Day
Numerous Illustrations Including Humorous Cartoons
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