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Crowds Watch
police Subdue
Safe Crackers
5ee Pair at Work Through
Broadway Window and
Block Traffic as Reserves
Arrive and Open Fire
Two Trailed Over Roofs
Detectives Kick In Windows
and Seize Men Drilling
Open Door of Strongbox
Broadway crowds homeward bound
at 2 o'clock yesterday morning were
thrilled by a spectacular attempt at
burglary and the capture of two men
????ring masks who had been trailed
by policemen over the roof3 of adjoin?
ing bejildings and caught in the rear
of the store of Truly Warner, 1SS3
Broadway, after they had lowered
?hetBielves through a skylight by
??ans of a rope tied to a chimney.
Just ?? the men, visible to a crowd
?gathered in front of the store, were
ie*n to be pulling a safe containing
$8,000 Into a position where they could
blew it open. Acting Lieutenant Sam?
uel Dribben and members of the safe
and loft squad kicked through the
plat* glass window and with drawn
retolvere* commanded the burglars to
narrender. The answer was a volley
of shots from the men, who darted
into a dark corner of the store, but in
the excitement failed to turn off their
flashlights.
Shot* fired by the police, the break
Jag of glass and the shrill whistles lor ?
aid brought such a crowd to the scene
that traffic was temporarily suspended.
Hundreds of sightseers returning from
Chinatown visits tumbled off rubber?
neck ?eragons to witness a real gunman
battle on Broadway. Finally a patrol
wagon loaded with police reserves ar?
rived, the ertore was jammed with po?
licemen and the burglars, each carry?
ing a kit of safe-blowing tools, were
dragged forward and roughly thrown
to the sidewalk.
Men Trailed for Honra
The men at Police Headquarters
give their names as Patrick Hanon, of
240 East 124th Street, and Harry
Brown, of 240 East 132d Street. Both
men, according to the police, have
criminal records, Hanon having served
in Elmira and Brown having been ar
rcsted as a pickpocket.
Lieutenant Dribben and a score of
detectives spent several hours on the
trail of the men before the capture was
effected. The men had been followed
to the block in which the Warner store
is situated. There they were seen
erawling over the roofs, while detec
ttm crawled after them or observed
them from windows higher up.
Reaching a skylight over the store
the burglari broke the glass, and after
tying a Jtout rope around a nearby
chimney Jenrered their tool kits. Then
each climbed down sailor fashion.
From the skylight and from the store
window on Broadway the burglars
amid be seen working with the aid of
?aihlights. Once or twice, suspecting
they were being watched, one of the
men displayed a revolver.
Meantime the detectives, anticipating
nsiitence, sent in a call for reserves.
By this time spectators on the side?
walk, peering through the window, saw
the burglars draw the safe into a con?
venient place for operation, watched
them calmly take off an outer door and
by the aid of flashlights drill holes pre?
paratory to blowing it open. It was
then the police smashed their way in.
Pistol ?Battle Waged
Two or three detectives went through
the window. Shots were fired by both
burglars and detectives, but finally the
former were overpowered and hand?
cuffed.
Guests at nearby hotels, aroused by
the shooting, hurried to the street to see
tiia epectacle. The arrival of the patrol
wagon brought the show to an end.
The burglar kits carried by the pris
?aers were of the latest type. One of
the jimmies, weighing twenty-five
pounds, was collapsible, having three
sections.
Brown gave his occupation as elec?
trician. Hanon said he was a salesman.
Oil Promoter Arrested
0n$10,500Fraud Charge
Thoma?** O. Nelson Accused of
Pocketing Cash From Stock
Sold in Ko?sciuszko Co.
Thomas 0. Nelson, of 1004 Bloomfield
8treet, Hoboken, N. J., was locked up
in the Tombs yesterday charged with
grand larceny, following his arrest late
Saturday at the offices of the Kosciusko
Oil anef Gas Company, 15 Park Row.
Nelson is charged with misappropriating
110,500 as treasurer of the company.
Benjamin W. Bates was complainant.
After a hearing before Magistrate
Edgar V. Frothingham, in the Tombs
Court, Nelson was held in $10,000 bail
?r examination Tuesday morning.
Humphrey J. Lynch, an attorney, of 120
Broadway, also appeared against Nel
?en, saying he represented stockhold?
ers of the compsjiy. Lynch said Nelson
?ad interested a large number of
??althy New York Poles in oil develop?
ment plans. He had left the local af?
faira of the company in the hands of
office employees while he traveled about
th? country as a field man promoting
?tack sales. It is alleged by the com?
plainants that Nelson sold large blocks
?f stock and converted the proceeds to
?is own use.
Gompers Opens Drive Here
fcrges Cigarmakers to Build Up
Their Union
Samuel Gompers began his recruit
lag campaign for the American Fed?
eration of Labor in this city yesterday
?Jth an address before representatives
w cigarmakers' locals at Bohemian Na
?onal Hall, in East Seventy-third
?"?et. George W. Perkins, president
?* the International Cigarmakers'
Union, also spoke.
Both speakers urged their hearers to
??? every endeavor to build up the
?'garmakers' union, the membership of
*o|eh has fallen off considerably, due,
g >a said, to the formation of the In?
dependent Amalgamated Tobacco Work?
er? Union. They said that all petty
jnarrels must be forgotten and the
?oors opened to dissenting factions.
i if' .^omP?rs spoke also before the
i<??t board of the Cloak, Skirt and
i?* ? Malter*' Union, asking its sup
J*t ?a the cigarmakers' membership
??mpaign. *
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to ?yfB are '"oHed yon are privileged
?. ot? ?l your party's primary to
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I
Film Star and Girl He
Is Accused of Killing',
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Roscoe (Fatty) Arburkle
Wife to Plead for McNally
Condemned Slayer Coaches Her
for Visit to Governor To-day
Edward J. McNally, who was saved
from the electric chair at Sing
Sing ten days ago by a reprieve, two
hours before the time set for his
death, was yesterday visited by hia
wife. Together they went over the
argument that she will present to the
Governor to-day in an effort to have
his sentence of death commuted to life
imprisonment.
He told her what points to emphasize
in his part in the robbery at Mariner's
Harbor, Staten Island, during which
Walter Jaskowski, a restaurant mana?
ger, was killed. Two other men impli?
cated in the murder have been electro?
cuted.
?
Man Shot in Quarrel in Street ;
Assailant Caught After Chase
Ernest Griffin, a negro, forty years
old, of 2163 Fifth Avenue, was locked
up in the East 126th Street police sta?
tion yesterday, charged with felonious
assault. He is said by the police to
have shot Petrus Johnson, thirty-four,
of 146 West 146th Street, during an
altercation. Johnson is in Harlem Hos?
pital with a bullet wound in his
abdomen.
The shooting took place at 123d
Street and Park Avenue. After Griffin
had fired one shot he fled, pursued by
a crowd. Patrolman William Gould, of
the 177th Street station, arrested him
after firing two shots. Detective Hugh
Cassidy took the prisoner to Harlem
Hospital, where he was identified by
Johnson.
Robbed of $26 by Auto Bandits
William M. Jones, a printer, of 674
Academy Street, was helef up and robbed
of $26 early yesterday by three men
who drove up in an automobile and
accosted him at Sherman Avenue and
Broadway. Jones was able to give a
good description of the bandits, and the
police have sent out a general alarm
for them.
Arbuckle in
Jail Accused
Of Murder
(C?i.t1nu?el from pup? on?v
salesman for a New York gown manu?
facturer.
Mrs. Jamison said: "Miss Rappe
said she took three drinks and did not j
remember anything after that. She
snid Arbuckle was rou?**h with her. and
at other times she would say that she
did not know what happened".
"While at the sanatorium she was
calling to me to ask if we had Rot Ar?
buckle, and I told her "yes" to please
her. She said she blamed him for her ?
injuries and wanted him punished for
it. This was just before she died,
which was about 1:30 p. m. Septem?
ber 9.
"I noticed bruises on her body, her l
left thigh and right arm. I think, and '
she said they were made by Arbuckle." |
Impressed by Her Beauty
Fortlouis said he saw Miss Rnppe in i
the lobby of the Palace Hotel Monday ?
and commented on her beauty. He was '
told her name. Later in the day while
visiting Arbuckle at the St. Francis
Fortlouis mentioned that he had been
struck by the beauty of Virginia \
Rappe. Someone suggested thnt Ar
buckle knew her and that she be called :
up and invited to come over to a party. \
This was done, Fortlouis said, and Miss
Rappe appeared at the room in the St. ?
Francis. They had several drinks, '
Fortlouis said, but he saw nothing un- i
usual and heard no disturbance. He
departed when some one in the party
! said the "newspaper men were coming
to interview Arbuckle," and he and
some of the others went away.
Other important developments
brought about by the police to-day in
.building up the case against Arbuckle
were the recovery of nearly all of the
torn clothing that had been worn by
' the Rappe girl, and the taking of sworn
statements from Al Semnacher, known
, as the girl's manager; Miss Vera Cum?
berland, a nurse who attended the case,
relieving Miss Jean Jamison, Miss
Martha Hamilton of the Wakefield san
' atorium, and Mrs. Maud Delmont a
friend of Miss Rappe.
While for two days detectives had
been searching for the garments, which
had disappeared, the outer garments
had been in the possession of Mrs. Del?
mont at the St. Francis. Mrs. Delmont
disclosed the whereabouts of these
g-nrments in a closet of the room to the
police yesterday afternoon when she
began her statement.
The other garments and some arti?
cles of jewelry were found by the po?
lice on information furnished by Sem?
nacher in his statement. Semnacher
?aid he had taken these things to Los
Angeles on his return there the day
following the fata! party and had
turned them over to Miss Rappe's aunt.
One garment which Semnacher believes
was Miss Rappe's waist, he told the po?
lice, he used to wipe off his automobile,
because it was torn beyond repair.
According to Mrs. Delmont, Arbuckle,
when routed from his room in which
I she says he had locked himself with
1 Miss Rappe, emerge>d with Miss Rappe's
panama hat set on his head.
Mrs. Delmont who say? she had in?
sisted upon Arbuckle unlocking the
door, then entered the room and found
the girl unconsious.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 11 (By The
Associated Press).?The complaint
against Arbuckle was made after an
examination by Dr. M. E. Rumwell,
Miss Zey Reiss and Al Seminacher,
motion picture manager for Miss
Rappe and others.
Captain of Detectives Duncan
Matheson said the evidence showed
that an attack haa fceen made on the
girl.
Tnquest Set for Thursday
"On Monday a formal complaint will
be filed against Arbuckle," Matheson
said. "An inquest will be held Thurs?
day."
He added that Arbuckle refused to
make a statement.
Miss Rappe, who died Friday, was
removed from Arbuckle's rooms in a
hotel last Monday in a critical con?
dition after the party at which five
men and four women were present.
Autopsy surgeons said death was due
to peritonitis, superinduced by an in?
ternal injury.
Miss Rappe was twenty-fivp years old
and was born in Chicago. She attract?
ed attention in that city in 1913, it is
said, by advice to young women to cre?
ate original methods of making a liv?
ing. She was then making $4,000 a year
| as a traveling art model, she said. Miss
I Rappe came to San Francisco in 1915
! and for a time designed gowns and
wore them as a model. She began act?
ing in motion pictures at Los Angeles
in 1917 and took leading parts in sev?
eral.
Arbuckle was born in Kansas thirty
four years ago. When eight years olel
he appeared as a pickaninny in a stock
company at Santa Ana, Cal. Ten years
later he sang popular songs in a San
Jose, Calif., vaudeville house. After?
ward he sang in a Portland, Ore., bur?
lesque theater, and later was a dancer
in Oakland, Calif.
Arbuckle's first motion picture work
was as extra man for companies pro?
ducing slap-stick comedies. Since then
he has produced many film plays as
head of his own company.
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Pirate Lafitte's Gold Is Found
On Late Joe Jefferson's Estate
NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 11.?Part of
the supposed buried treasure of Jenn
Lafitte, the pirate, has bren found in
tho vicinity of Jefferson Island, the
homo of the lute Joseph .Tefl'erson, and
excitement in that neighborhood is at
fever pitch, according to reports from
the south Louisiana coast.
Evidence of the treasure is furnished
by several gold coins of ancient date
which recently have found their way
into circulation on the island, two of
them bearing: 'he date 1754, According
to the reports, two pots of buried gold
were found, but such a furore was
caused when the gold appeared that the
treasure finders have been silent on
the discovery.
According to legends, large suma
were buried in the neighborhood by La
I fitte, who preyed upon Gulf and river
shipping in the eighteenth century.
Jean Lafette and his brother, Pierre,
! conelucted a veritable reign of terror
in the Gulf of Mexico late in the eigh?
teenth and early in the nineteenth cen?
turies. Gathering a band of ruffians
about them the brothers preyed on
? ehipping and added to their profits
from this by smuggling and slave trade.
The headquarters of the band were
in Baratar?a Bay, in Louisiana. So
j great did their depredations become that
[ en American expedition was sent out to
I destroy th"m at th?* time of the out?
break of the war of 1812. They fled, but
j their career took a peculiar turn short
; ly after, for they offered their services
! to the Governor of Louisiana and Gen
I eral Jackson when the British were
! threatening to attack New Orleans, and
' their offer was accepted.
So brave was their conduct in this
I battle that they were pardoned.
60 Dead, 250 \
Are Missing in
Texas Flood
?Continued from D?|? ene)
being washed away. Loss also was I
caused by a scum of fuel oil, released i
at one of the city pumping stations and
at various manufacturing plants As j
the waters receded the oil was l?-ft on '
, the buildings and their contents.
At the San Antonio Express Building, j
? the current at the crest of the flood j
! was estimated a' twelve miles an t
! hour. It was so strong that heavy
floating timbers caused much damage
' to buildings.
A number of old landmarks on side
I streets in the business section disap
! peared as completely as though they
i had melted away. Some of these
? structures were more than 100 year3
i old. All were small and were occupied
I by miscellaneous business enterprises.
200 Dwellings Washed Away
It was impossible to obtain accurate
j estimates of the number of dwellings
! washed away, but, according to one
1 police report, the figure was placed at
' 200. Of the twenty-seven bridges that
: crossed the San Antonio River in its
! fourteen-mile winding course through
? the city, only one actually was washed
: away, but all except four were dam
] aged, several almost beyond repair.
A trip to Berg's Mill showed that a
i report that the entire settlement had
' been washed away was untrue, only a
1 portion of a bridge to the mill having
? been destroyed.
One or two entire families are known
[ to be drowned or missing.
Resc-ie workers reported late to-day
, that they expected to find more than
! 100 additional bodies before the search
of the debris was complete. It was
. fer.red that the bodies have been
washed away by the current and may
i be found miles down stream.
Boy Holds Child Safe Five Hours
Perhaps the outstanding heroism of
the flood wan that of a twelve-year-old
Mexican boy, who clung to a tree on
South Flores Street for five hours,
holding on his shoulders above the
? water a child five years old. The boy
: rescuer was battered black and blue by
floating wreckage and was taken to a
i hospital unconscious. The child was
unharmed.
On Fourth Street a man barely es
j caped from an apartment house before
? part of it was swept into the river. In
? the water, which flooded the apart
? ment, he was unable to find his wife
i and child. Nearly an hour later, at the
new Ramona Street bridge, he saw a
! house lodge against the railings and
' heard crie3 within. Breaking through
the roof, he pulled out his wife and
? child, safe on a floating mattress, which
, was within one foot of the ceiling.
On Jones Avenue a man, after a des
| perate effort, managed to help his sister
? and her child to the roof of a house,
' where they clung two ?nours before be
i ing rescued.
In a back yard on King William
: Street a negro woman sat on the roof
of an outbuilding three hours calling
for help, while water twelve feet deep
, raced through the yard.
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Vast Area Aff?cted
HOUSTON, Tex., Sept. 11.?Reports
of loss of life and property damage,
other than at San Antonio, as a result
of Friday night's deluge mounted
! steadily to-day with restoration of
communication into the central Texas
? flood district. To-night it has been
established that an area extending
1 north as far as Georgetown, south to
below San Antonio, west to San Marcos
and east to C'alvert and Bryan, or ap?
proximately JO,000 square miles, felt
the effect of flood waters.
It is believed that the loss to grow?
ing crops may run into millions of
thousands of dollars more.
Georgetown, in Williamson County,
reports two persons dead and three
missing, with property damage of ap?
proximately half a million dollar*.
Sixteen inches of rain in twenty-four
hours sent all streams out of bounds
and cattle and cotton in the lowlands
are a total losn.
Other Sections Menaced
In addition to the thousands of
square miles of central Texas already
hit, more southern sections are now
menaced by the onrushing waters.
The San Marcos River is on a ram?
page, much baled cotton has been
washed away and ungathcred crops are
almost complete losses, reports indi?
cate.
The Little River and Big and Little
Brazos also are running full. Caivert
and Bryan report five dead from these
streams and property and crops dam?
aged about $1,000,000.
At Bastror, in Brazos County, the
Colorado River went over its banks
Saturday night and did great crop dam?
age.
At Hearne the Brazos and Little
rivers to-night were falling, but great
damage is left in the flood's wake. Six
negroes are known to be dead.
An area four miles wide, from Tem?
ple to Hearne, was under water at an
average depth of fifteen feet, reports
state.
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Storm ?Searing Yucatan
After Sweeping Caribbean
WASHINGTON, Sept. 11.?The trop?
ical storm which last week swept Trini?
dad and other Caribbean islands with
great damage to property, was reported
to-day in advices to the Weather Bu?
reau to be south and southeast of Ja?
maica.
The storm continued to move slowly
north end northwestward, which woulc
bring it to the coast in the vicinity oi
Yucatan.
Ship Caught in Hurricane;
Violent Storms in Pacific
WASHINGTON, Sept. 11.?Storms oi
unusual violence are being met bj
Pacific steamers, according to reports
to the Weather Bureau. The steamshit
West Faralon, San Francisco to Liver
pool, a radio message said, "experi
enced a terrific hurricane Saturday
afternoon, approximately sixty-five
miles south-southwest of Mona Island.'
The master of the Faralon "stopp?e
the engines and allowed the ship te
drift in a lake of oil." She escapee
without damage except to the deel
works.
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Milk for Rochester Pupils
Half Pint Daily to All Undei
Normal Weight and Height
ROCHESTER, ?ept. 11. ? Beginninj
this fall a half a pint of milk will b
served to all pupils in the Rocheste
public schools whose weight and heigh
? are below recognized standards for thei
I age, according to an announcemen
made to-day by Herbert S. Weet, Cit
i Superintendent of Schools.
The milk will be sold to the pupil
at cost in most cases, but where it i
found that the pupil cannot afford t
pay it will be supplied out of a fun
appropriated by the community.
VOTE IN THE PRIMARY
If you are enrolled you are privilege?
! to vote at your party's primary to
? morrow, September IS.
I POLLS OPEN FROM 3 to 9 P. M.
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The Crops
The crop prospects according to report are not
entirely favorable, and today this means much more
for the entire world than it did a decade ago.
The farmer will not receive so much for his crop
this year as he has heretofore, but do you know any
other producer who will be better off in this respect?
The steel manufacturer will receive less for his out?
put; the woolen and the leather manufacturers are
in the same case ; even the cost of a shine has begun
to come down.
The farmer must take his loss with his honest
neighbors in different lines of business. He must not
believe that the price of his wares can remain up,
while that of his neighbors goes down. It will be
impossible for him to sell and buy at his own price.
This is not to withhold sympathy from the
farmer, nor from the steel manufacturer, nor from
the bootblack, where such sympathy should be forth?
coming, but it is merely to look the facts in the face.
It is true that the farmer sold a good piece of land a
few years back, and, moving on, bought other land.
He got a good price for what he sold, but he forgot
that he was paying a corresponding price for what he
bought. He often bought better land and sometimes
more land, with the result that he was compelled to
go into debt.
It is desirable that the farmer be assisted, so far
as is consistently possible with sound government
finance; as his is the basic industry there might even
be extended to him a little leniency inconsistent with
strict consistency. The farmer must, however, be
business-like and conform to business order.
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SAFS lEf ?SIT VAULT! ?PS* FBOM I JL M. T? Mm***
2 Hurt, 18 Rail
Engines Lost in
$350,000 Fire
Jersey City Firemen Injured
as Chimney Collapses
When Flames Destroy
Roundhouse of the Erie
Entire Yard Threatened
Police Reserves Called to
Control Thousands Gath?
ered at Scene of Blaze
Two firemen were Injured and eigh?
teen passenger engines were destroyed
in a fire that started yesterday after
j noon in an electric generator at one
end of the roundhouse in the Erie Rail?
road yards on Pavonia Avenue, Jersey
City. The damage is estimated at
$,350,000.
For a time it looked as if the entire
yard would be consumed by flames. The
? water supply was poor, owing to a re?
cent break in the water main.
Thousands of persons gathered to
watch the fire and hampered the work
of the firemen. All the police reserves
?n Jersey City were rushed to the
I scene to control the crowd3. Firemen
j off duty were called upon to help fight
the flames, for, owing to the two
, platoon system, the force on duty was
insufficient.
? The fire spread quickly through the
structure because of oil and grease
upon the floors and walls. Fifteen men
i were at work in the shed. They man
j aged to get out two of the engines.
By that time the building was filled
! with smoke.
Three alarms were sent in. and when
the firemen arrived they devoted their
; efforts to keeping the flamea from
j spreading to the freight house and milk
| platforms nearby. These caught fire
, several times.
The two firemen were injured when
i a chimney collapsed. They were
j struck by the falling bricks. They are
| William Fitzgerald, of Engine Com
. pan y 6, and James Degnon of Truck 2.
i They were taken to St. Francis Hos?
pital.
Officials of the railroad said that the
? fire would in no way interfere with the
service. Engines from other terminals
will be used for traffic from the Jer?
sey City terminal.
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Turns Party Into Riot
With Knife and Hammer
Woman Accused of Strenuous
Efforts in Objecting to Fes?
tivity in Neighbor's Home
Mrs. Mary McCue, describing hergelf
as a housewife and forty-five years old,
of 119 Christopher Street, was ar
j ralgned in the Jefferson Market Court
yesterday, charged with beating a
neighbor and turning a party into a
riot.
According to the story told the court
by Detective John Shevlin, of the
Charles Street police station, Bernard
Stenken was giving a party in his apart?
ment on Saturday night, when Mrs. Mc?
Cue took objection to the music, danc?
ing and other festivities going on in the
Stenken apartment and gave vent to her
feelings by going to her neighbor's
apartment and telling Stenken of her
objections.
When Stenken resented the intrusion
and certain remarks alleged to have
been made by Mrs. McCue, the detective
told the court, the defendant stabbed
Stenken in the right hand with a knife.
Detective Shevlin said that when Sten?
ken grappled with the woman she laid
him flat with a blow on the head with
a hammer which suddenly and mysteri?
ously came into play.
The police were summoned and were
forced to break the glass in the door to
the McCue apartment before the woman
was arrested. Stenken was taken to St.
Vincent's Hospital and was unable to
appear in court yesterday. Mrs. McCue
was held in $1,500 bail for examination
to-morrow.
Shepard Warning Altered
His Name Replaces Wife's on
"No Trespass" Signs
"No trespass" signs recently put up
on the estate of Mrs. Helen Gould
Shepard near Tarrytown bear the sig?
nature of her husband, F. J. Shepard,
as owner.
The warnings which they replaced
were signed by Mrs. Shepard as own?
er. Neither of them was at home yes?
terday when the change in signatures
aroused the curiosity of their neigh?
bors, and nobody in Tarrytown could
find out the significance of the new sig?
nature.
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Family Declares
Frothingham Shot
Self by Accident
i Father Regrets Mystery Was
i Made of Affair; Believes
I Broker's Wife Has Been
at Hospital; Patient Easy
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Theodore Frothingham, of Boston,
?father of Thomas H. Frothingham, a
member of the brokerage firm of Pot-*
ter & Co., who was found suffering from
, a bullet wound on Thursday last in the
? home of his brother-in-law, Alfred 0.
j Hoyt, at 2 East Seventy-fifth Street,
i said yesterday afternoon that his son
! was resting comfortably. There is no
! present danger of complications.
I With Mr. Frothingnam at the Hotel
; Commodore was another son, Theodore
' Frothingham jr., who had come on
i from Boston when notified that his
?brother Thomas was wounded.
Mr. Frothingham said that he regret?
ted there appeared to have been a
mystery made of the shooting, which
rie said was accidental and which was
fortunately not likely to have a fatal
I result. He said that the bullet en
| tered above the left breast, passed
I through the upper corner of the lung,
struck a rib, and passed out, leaving
a clean cut.
Mr. Frothingham added he knew
of no reason why instructions should
i have bee.n left at the Presbyterian
j Hospital that the location and char?
acter of the wound should not be dis
| cussed. He said he did not know the
I whereabouts of his son's wife at the
; moment, although he believed she had
been at the hospital.
Theodore Frothingham jr., who was
?just returning to Boston, added that
1 the only difficulty with the wound was
! the presence of air in the lung where
| the bullet had passed through.
Mr. Hoyt, the brother-in-law in whose
| home the accident occurred, said that
i Frothingham had been alone about ten
i minutes before the accident. He had
?been awaiting others of a party who
; were to go to Frothingham's home at
?Far Hills, N. Y., and had been admit?
ted to the house by the assistant
| housekeeper.
The revolver was of 32-caliber, which
;Frothington picked up in his brother
j in-law's bedroom and which he was ex
I amining when it was discharged. No
j cause existed for an attempted sui
i cide. it waa declared by both Mr.
?Frothingham and Mr. Hoyt.
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Fingerprint Links '
Sing Sing Prisoner
With Jersey Murder
Man Who Identified Brandon,
as Slayer Believe? He Has
Found Bandit Who Shot
Woman Two Years Ago
Edward Sehwar'.z, head of the police
bureau of identification in Newark, re?
ported yesterday to Michael Dunn,
Prosecutor of Passaic County, that he
believed he had discovered in Sing Sing
prison the murderer of Mrs. Lulu Gold?
stein, who wass shot by a hold-up man
in her husband's dry goods store, 243
Main Street, Passaic, N. J., Christmas
Eve, 1919.
Ever since that date Schwartz has
been examining the finger prints sent
him by dozens of police departments
and prison wardens, looking for the
print of a ritrht forefinger identical to
that which he found on the butt of the
pistol with which Mrs. Goldstein was
shot. Recently he received from Sing
Sing a print which he believes to be
the duplicate of that on the pistol butt.
It is the print of Lawrence Kin
naugh's right forefinger. Kinnaugh.
who is known also as Wee Wah, was
convicted in Brooklyn a year ago with
two other men of a hold-up similar to
that in the Goldstein store in Passaic,
except that no one was shot. He is
serving a sentence of from ten to
twenty years.
Two of the men said to hare bean
concerned in the Passaic hold-np have
been arrested. One of them, Joseph
McQuade, is serving a life sentence.
The other, "Kootie" Whalen, is await?
ing trial. The finger prints of neither
of them corresponded to that on the
pistol butt. McQuade, even after his
conviction, refused to tell who his ac?
complices were.
At the time of his arrest he was
wearing an overcoat which one of the
three robbers had selected from Gold?
stein's stock and apparently was about
to pay for when one of his companions
drew a revolver and rifled the cash reg?
ister. Mrs. Goldstein screamed at
sight of the revolver and the gunman
fired. She was shot dead, and the
three robbers made their scape with
about $2,000.
Schwartz is the man who identified
George Brandon, by his finger prints
on the door of an automobile, as the
j murderer of Edith Janny and Arthur L.
? Kupfer near Rahway. Brandon was a
? prisoner at Auburn when his identity
I was discovered. His accomplice in the
; murder testified against him, and he
; was convicted and put to death last
! month.
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Bouck White, Minister Who
Was Tarred. Sells His Home
MARLBOROUGH, N. Y., Sept. 11.?
! The Rev. Bouck White, whose alleged
j cruelty to his young, pretty, French
I bride, moved the residents to throw
! vegetables at him and latter to tar
i and feather him, has sold his moan
j tain lodge here. It was learned to-day
; that Miss Jane Kurgan, a New York
?school teacher, had bought it.
Mr. White left Marlborough recently.
? His wife, having been granted an an?
nulment of their marriage, had also
I departed. It is believed that Mr. White
has gone to Vermont.
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