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Small's Demand For Change of Venue Granted Illinois Governor Will Not Face Sangamoii Jury in Embezzlement Trial; '?? To Resume Tour To-day Assails Sullivan Faction Says Proceedings Must Re? veal Truth; Writ o? Habeas Corpus Debated Special Dispatch to Tho Tribune . SPRINGl-y.-XD, 11!.. Aug. 10.?State'? ?Attorney C. Fred Mortimer to-day of- \ fered to agree to the desire of Gov- j arnor Small and his advisers for a : .f.i:ange of venue from Sangamon Co tin for tho trial of the Governor on ?charges of embezzlement. The accession of the State's Attor? ney came after the submission to ar? rest of the Governor last night and acceptance of $00,000 tionds to insure his appearance in court. The Governor .?-id not indicate whether he would ac pept Mortimer's suggestion. Governor Small went to his office at r,-e Capitol this morning, where legal hdvisers and political allies awaited }":m for a conference. Shortly after his arrival he announced that he would ?Jrosumc hig road inspection trip to? ri or row rind that he would participate ,%n the opening of the Illinois section cf the Dixie Highway on Friday. ;;; Governor Small issued a formal statement in which he assailed thi ; Sullivan faction of his party and c r tain Chicago newspapers as responsible .,for the present action against him. After reiterating his reasons for hold? ing himself not subject to arrest, the ?Governor mentions "next proceedings." "Proceedings thus far have been "founded on untruth. The next pro? ceedings must reveal tho truth," the "Governor says in his statement. Reports were persistent that the Governor's legal advisers were debat? ing the possibility of obtaining a writ of habeas corpus from a judge known to be favorable to the Governor's Con? vention that he is immune from arrest because of his executive position. Charges False Indictment The Governor's statement in part "follows: "To the corrupt ring dominating San ?prtrnon County, justice is political black? mail. '..? "The Governor of Illinois has been j!falsely indicted and falsely arrested .?through the machinations of a gang ?holding' in utter disregard the consti? tution and laws of this state. ??? "Our Federal Constitution guaranties ? to every state in the Union a republi? can form of government. A republi? can form of government provides for ; the inviolable separation of the legis? lative, executive and judicial branches. ... "Represent;ng as I do the supreme executive authority of this great com ..monwealth vested in me by the Consti? tution through the people, I have ot no ' ..time inruded upon the functions of ? other branches of the government clothed in like manner with authority. '. "I have through lawful procedure protected the executive power accord ; ing to my oath of office and with due respect to the courts, and have availed '?"myself of competent legal advice in so doing. "Contrary to the accepted principles "of our government and at the behest of corrupt conspirators, the authority "of the people has been prostituted to ...the purposes of a lawless ring. Never Evaded Arrest "In condemnation of the falsehoods printed against me, I desire to say I ? navo never evaded arrest upon the frame-up charges in my indictment in '. the many counties of this state which I have since visited. I have gone about this state freely in performance of my duties subject to apprehension by any sheriff or other officer in any one of such counties. "In the interest of the public wel? fare, upon advice of my counsel, I have preserved th?i rights of the execu? tive branch under unlawful arrest and I have given bend under protest. "In view of the great issue of public policy involved in this discreditable and unprecedented proceeding the facts ? in the controversy must be brou?ht to ;, light without delay. My innocence is known to me. I assert it with all the ? positiveness of an unblemised record and a clear and honest consci?'nce. The people all over this state must know it "Daylight must be admitted to the ?corrupt channels through which this conspiracy has flown. All the ramifi? cations of protected vice and crime supplementary to my prosecution must be exhibited to the public view." Gunson on Trial Before Leach, Daly and Simon Police Deputies Hear Charges That Disorderly Houses Paid Him for Protection Aequitted in General Sessions last ? week John T. Gunson, formerly a plain *Jothes officer on Inspector Dominick . .?enry'* vt-rp squad, was placed on trial yesterday before .lohn A. Leach, First ;:JDeputy Police Commissioner; John Daly, Second Deputy Commissioner, and Carleton Simon, head of the nar : cotic squad, in the trial room at Po? lice Headquarters. Not in a long time ..have three deputy commissioners sat at the trial of a suspended officer. . Gunson is charged with having ac? cepted money for protecting disorder? ly houses in June, 117, while on duty in Inspector Henry's district. Last Thursday, in instructing the jury in -General Sessions to acquit Gunson of ' charges brought ?gamut him by Re b'-cca. Melyado, known also as Billie Howard, Judge Rosalsky said that ' there was enough fire and smoke in the case for the Police Commissioner to take action. Rebecca Melyado again appeared on 'the stand yesterday against Gunson. 'She was the first witness and Eugene. F. McGee, or?f49 Broadway, repre? sented the defendant. Rose Gonzoles, ?or "Spani ;. Rose," also was present. ' Miss Melyado repeated the same story that she told in the previous trial, al? leging that she gave Gunson $50 with which to buy a suit of clothes and that she often had given him money to pay for their meals In Broadway r<*stau Vants. After ?he had testified that Cursor, had ?advised 'rwr to forfeit $500 .';. fixed when she was arre-ted in .-March. 1019, Commissioner Leach de* ciared the hearing adjourned until 3 //clock next Wednesday afternoon. Woman Severely Hurt When Trapped by Subway Door Mrs. Theresa Pik'<\ thirty-two years e\?, of 233 Ka?t 127th Street, K<-frer*-d internal h j -r?en when she was caught ),y a subway door while boarding a Lexington Avenue southbound train at 125th Street yesterday afternoon and v/a? removed to Bellevua Hospital. Mr?. Pike told the police ihat she ? ??was not able to fr?-e herself from b* ??.veen the door ''nd the aid?, of the <:.r anl .' the trian reached Kighty sixth Street. Then, che said she w;?s to badly hurt that che could not leave t'fus train. Shi fainted In the Grand Central subway stauen. 'UeuteHamon'in Hospital Again; Puzzle Tliis Time a Brklg* The young man who pained notoriety and sympathy at the North Hudson Hospital, In Weehawken, recently as Lieutenant George Hamon, a relative of the Oklahoma politician Jake Hamon, has turned up at a hospital in Bridgeport, Conn., according to infor? mation received yesterday hy the Wee? hawken police. They have asked the Bridgeport au? thorities for further details, warning them that the young man who received such solicitous care at the hospital was identified hy the New York police as George Weiss, who was doing time in prison ?bout the time that "Lieu? tenant George Hamon" was being shell shocked in ?'rance. Shell shock was supposed to have been the cause of the young man's trouble when he was found wandering in the Weehawken ferry house July It? clad in an army lieutenant's uniform and tagged with the Identification marks of a military hospital in France. it was thought that the thunder crashes during a sharp shower that had visited Weehawken the preceding day had caused a recurrence of his af? fliction. He was unable at first, ap? parently to tell who he was or why >e was in Weehawken. His case, .was diagnosed as hysterical amnesia and the most careful attention was lavished upon him. Under the ministrations of the phy? sicians and nurses at the North Hud? son Hospital, he recovered sufficiently to 'remember that he was George Hamon and give the impression that he was of the Oklahoma Hamon fam? ily. He. remembered also fighting in France and taking part in an offensive September 25, 1 fJ1S. That, he said, was the last he could remember, and if he didn't manage to recall the rest pretty soon he was going ?back to France to see if the environ? ment would not help him. He gave the hospital authorities to understand that he had notified his father, "a wealthy oil man in Oklahoma," of his plight and that his father was on the way to Weehawken. On the day that the oil man was to arrive the tragic young figure of Lieu? tenant George Hamon faded out of the picture. He was not to be found any? where about the hospital, where he had the freedom of the grounds. The wealthy oil man from Oklahoma never showed up. The Bertillon measure? ments of Georgo Weiss did, though, and doctors and nurse3 agreed that their patient must have been Weiss. There is an unpaid bill of $75 at the North Hudson Hospital for services rendered to "Lieutenant George Ha? ni on." Gibson's Dog Raille for Soldiers Is Investigated ?Broadwayite Explains He Raised Cash for Delivery to Woman and He is Sent to Find Her District Attorney Swann interro? gated William H. Gibson yesterday concerning affairs of the National League for Disabled and Crippled ?Sol? diers. The examination of Gibson, who is said to be known as Billy Gibson at public dancing places along Broadway, was made at the request of Mrs. Wen? dell Phillips. She was at Smallwood Lodsre, the home of Joseph Smallwood, at Glen Head, L. I., Saturday night, and said she heard him asking for money for the soldiers at Fox Hills Hospital and raffling off a dog for their benefit, obtaining more than 100. She learned, she said, that Mr. Smallwood had been told that the Na? tional League for Disabled and Crip? pled Soldiers was raising money to make good a deficit of 1.800 carried by the hospital. Gibson denied malting statements attributed to him, saying he did not know just what way the league con t-ihuted to the welfare of disabled soldiers, that he merely raised money and turned it over to Mrs. O. H. P. Hoyt, chairman and treasurer. He thought Mrs. Hoyt was at the Wal? dorf-Astoria, but was unr.ble to find her there. At the request of the Dis? trict Attorney he went to look for , her. -?-_?. Two West Point Classes Plan To Hike 200 Miles in 10 Days WEST POINT, N. Y., Aug. 10.? j Cadets of the first and third classes of the United States Military Academy will start next Wednesday on a ten- i day hike of two hundred miles. The two classes, numbering four hundred cadets, will leave Camp Dix, at Wrightstown, N. J., in charge of Colonel Danforth, cadet commandant, and start back for West Point. They expect to cover twenty-five miles a day, v/ith full marching equipment. Traffic Law Arrest No. 9 Jails Broker for 15 Days Prison Seems Only Le?=son, Says Magistrate to Culprit Who Threatened Policeman Daniel Lieberman, a wool broker, twenty-four years old, 104!) Grand Concourse, the Bronx, was sentenced to fifteen days in jail yesterday as an old offender for exceeding the traffic speed limit on Fifth Avenue. The sen? tence was imposed by Magistrate Fred? erick B. House in Traffic Court. Probation Officer William J. Moel roy reported to the magistrate that Lieberman had been arrested at least nine times for speeding and other vio? lations of the highway laws. Lieberman was arrested en July 7 at 4:30 o'clock in the morning. Ho was arraigned before Magistrate House charged with running his car at thirty four miles an hour between 100th and 103d streets. The magistrate paroled him under suspended sentence and or? dered that his record be investigated. When taken into custody Lieberman threatened to have the traffic police? man "broke," it was testified yester? day, lie denied he was speeding, de? claring that he had had his speedom? eter tested the previous day. "You are a persistent violator of the laws," Magistrate House said, "and it appears that the only way you can be made to understand them is to be sent to prison." Ten Injured as Trolley Cars Collide in Bronx Ten persons were injured in a trolley smash-up in the Bronx yesterday morning, two seriously enough to go to the. hospital. The accident happened when a pay-as-you-enter car struck an open car on Westchester Avenue, near Evergreen Avenue. All of the injured were on the open car. The two who required the atten? tion of an ambulance were Joseph Mot?la, of 180 Lincoln Avenue, and Herman Dietricksen, of 1303 Leland Avenue. Metola had several cuts about the head. Dietricksen had his legs injured. ' aummmmmmummnmmm?mmt?miEmmmM*Mam*ammim Used and Rebuilt Automobiles for sale by new car dealers will be found in To-morrow's New York "Tribune. These special announcements appear every Monday?Wednesday?Friday 1.?"?.TTinwrmirimr^?.?mm??M*mmmm?BE3 8 Days Ashore And ?o Grog,He ; Swigs Perfume; Survivor of Many Voyages Finds Violet Extract So Soothing He Walks From Store Carrying 2 Bottles1 Girl Causes His Arrest Col. D. L. Porter, 20 Years in Federal Service, Quits as Internal Revenue Aid Sam Stanton, seventy-eight years old and for sixty years a sailor, was Kit yesterday by prohibition harder than a sixty-mile gale ever affected him. D?; toctive Henry Fishborn, of the Mercer Street police station, towed Stanton into the jail house on a charge of stealing two largo bottles of violet perfume from the John Wannmaker store. The old sailor had a flagon of perfume under each arm and some, of it under his belt, and was singing: "For 'twas forty-seven bells by the Waterbury watch." It was a stirring ditty and one sparkling with the swish and swash j of the foaming sea, but the detective | ha?l a duty to perform and did it. No i resistance was offered by Sam when he ?was steered into the police slip and | made fast. It is true of most sea yarns that a beautiful woman figures somewhere in ?the story. The heroine in this case is 1 Miss Lena Fortnay, a special detective for the Wanamaker company. She says she saw Sam enter the store and cruise ? about a bit. Then the big bottles of perfume caught his eye. He stood by : for a few minutes, and then tacked up ?to the counter and stowed a bottle un I der each arm, she charges. He then j started out with all sails set. Miss , Fortnay followed him. His Cargo Easy to Trace ? Detective Fishborn had been sum ? moned and took up the chase. On a signal from Miss Fortnay ho put Stan i ton under arrest. Stanton had sam ; pled the perfume and was aromatically : happy. He gave forth a stimulating fragrance as well as a lively burst of j song. Stanton was arraigned before Magis j trate Edgar V. Frothingham. The tar, ! who stands six feet, live inches, and is i the picture of health, admitted taking ; the, bottles from the store. He said he, ! wanted a drink, and the perfume ! tempted him. "I am used to my grog," he told the court, ''and at my age 1 feel the need of a little stimulant. I have been ashore eight days and during that time I have tried many saloons, but none would sell me anything. Then when I was a-seein' the sights and the per? fumery stood there staring me in the face, I thought it would be a good sub? stitute for liquor." The court heid Sam in $300 bail for Special Sessions. Colonel Porter Quits as Agent Colonel Daniel L. Porter, supervising internal revenue agent for the New York division, who has been twenty years in government service, announced his resignation yesterday, to take ef? fect August 31. His resignation has been accepted by D. H. Blair, Commis? sioner of Internal Revenue. No suc? cessor has been named. Colonel Porter will enter business. Colonel Porter ha3 served the gov? ernment, in various capacities. He was assigned to the position he hoid? in March, If 10, following his discharge from the army. While supervising agent he organ? ised a non-resident alien delinquent tax department, which is credited with having stopped a leakage of tax and recovering $25,000,000. Through the department aliens have been required to obtain sailing permits before leav? ing this country, and through investi? gations made when the permits were sought persons who had no income tax receipt were apprehended and made to disgorge. The plan was adopted at all ports. NEW HAVEN, Conn., Aug. 10.?The trial of sixteen! men arrested at Light? house Point on July 23 in connection with the landing of 3130 cases of whisky irom the fishing sloop Jennie T. was continued until Wednesday by Judge Booth in City Court to-day. It had been expected that the cases would be concluded to-day. Benjamin Slade, counsel for the defense, objected to the admission of ownership records of automobiles alleged to have been loaded with liquor on the ground that the police warrant made no mention of automobiles in the case. o Two More Arrests Made In Mail Swindle Case Frederick R. A. Stiefel, manager of the Constitution Bureau, of the New York Credit Association, yesterday af? ternoon announced two more arrests in connection with the nation-wide mail fraud swindling case. Five prisoners were taken on Tueday. The men arrested yesterday are Will? iam J. Zuckerman, of Arvene, L. I., and Jacob Levinstein, of 1341 Fifth Avenue, Manhattan. They were taken into cus? tody, by Postofficc Inspector Nathan Noile and Agent Walter Schenk, of the Credit Men's Association. According to Mr. Stiefel, Zuckerman, in connection with the mail fraud, op? erated the Fitwell Garment Company, at St. Louis, and the National Jobbing House, in Chicago. Arraigned before United States Commissioner Samuel M. Hitchcock, Zuckerman was held in $2.5,000 bail for a hearing on August 22. Levinstein was released on his own recognizance, with the understanding that he would be present on the day of the hearing. Several other arrests are expected soon. The Associated Dress Industries of America announced yesterday that Zuckerman was not a member of that organization, but they had been trying for two months to locate him. 3 Policemen Die ! In Fight to Save $8,500 Pay Roll Memphis Bandits Driven Off by Bullets; Officer Taken for Robber Killed as Car Speeds After Fugitives Posses Search 6 Counties 5 Wounded in Firing of Vol? leys Following Attempt to Get Ford Plant Cash MEMPHIS, Tenn., Aug. 10.?Police and Sheriff's deputies of half a dozen Mississippi, Arkansas and Tennessee counties were searching to-night for members of a band whose unsuccessful attempt to-day to rob an employee of the Ford Motor Company of pay rool funds amounting to $8,500 resulted in the death of three policemen and the wounding of five other men. The hold-up took place at the en? trance to the assembling plant of the company, in a busy industrial section, soon before noon. Those killed were Vincent Lucarini, a police lieutenant; Howard L. Gamble, an employee of the Ford company, deputized as a special officer, and Polk A. Carraway, a patrol? man. Carraway and Gamble, who were guarding Edward McHenry, the clerk in charge of the money, while return? ing in an automobile from a bank, were I shot to death when four masked men, armed with pistols and shotguns, drove alongside and demanded the cash. Mc? Henry stumbled as he jumped from the car and escaped a volley of shots while Gamble and Carraway were I struck by bullets and fatally wounded Regaining his feet, McHenry darted into an entrance of the plant and I reached the company's offices ?r j safety, with the money intact. W. E. Harris, onther policeman, was | wounded, but not seriously. As Mc ! Henry passed into the company's planl ! the robbers jumped into their auto | mobile and escaped. Lieutenant Lucarini was fatal!; ? wounded when a posse at Colliervilla ? a suburb, fired on a police car, mis taking it for the automobile in whicr | the bandits were reported en route t< '? that town. Both the bandits' car am: the police automobile were of the sam? make, and, according to members o the posse, the latter failed to obey : command to stop. Joseph Robilio, Edward L. Heckinge and C. L. Bonds, the latter a policeman who were riding in the police car, als I were wounded. Heckinger'3 head wa injured by a bullet. He was reporte? to be in a critical condition. Robili< received a charge from a shotgun it his shoulders and forearm, as well a a scalp wound. ?? ' " ROLLS-ROYCE The Three-Year Guarantee of the Rolls-Royce not only pro? tects the owner, but suggests \ to every one the ruggedness of the Car that makes such a liberal Guarantee possible. 3L ? ~J 785 Fifth Avenue, New York ^nrks, Springfield- Mai?. 'Ritt-Otr?ton, Atlantic City Police Charged With Violating Court Order Charges that policemen had defied a j temporary injunction granted by Jus? tice Martin, of the Supreme Court, re? straining the police department from keeping a policeman on the premises of Louis Federici, a restaurant ownerf of 2160 Fifth Avenue, and had searched his place without a warrant and ar? rested him, were made yesterday by Leu:s A. Cuvillier, an attorney, in a let? ter to Mayor Hylan. "I respectfully desire to call your attention to the high-handed methods of the police department in defying not only the law, but in absolutely ignor? ing tho opinion of the corporation counsel as to search and seizure of persons and places for violation of the Mullan-Gage Law, without warrant from a court of competent jurisdic? tion," the letter read in part: "The Police Department, in their Russianized methods, adopted by Com? missioner Enright in the enforcement of this law, have gone so far as to defy the mandates of the Supreme Court of tiie State of New York. I call your at? tention to the eontemptious and inso? lent conduct of Marvin P. Murphy, of the Fifth Inspection District, in ar? resting one Louis Federici, on the 8th instant. . . . "Commissioner Enright, in his high? handed methods of conducting the Pclice Department for the benefit of his favorites in the department, has absolutely demoralized it, and he is not tit to be Police Commissioner. 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