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fleeing Thieves j
Ufes Policeman,!
gut Shoot "PaPJ
fyfrolmatt Conies as Upper
Broad* a > Robbers Are Ks
capinc With ?Loot; Two
(?appear in an Auto
Display Recovered Goods?
Kings ami Queens Residents
Claim Yrticles Stolen
from Their Residences
Xwimr-**. who robked a frown shop at
?j] dresses yestcrday
V third, who was
served as look-out,
If o\ the police and
rht ios: by one of his
'???m the fleeing
PttrolB of the La
on, saw the two men
building with their
goods. A third man
As the two jumpei!
^ y^ waiting auto ?.he look-out
?: fl ?.ma seized
: rod several
men in the vehicle.
i bullet enter
ght leg.
in said he was Leonte
c years, old. a
t U3d Street,
ton Height i ' ^\:r'.. Magi
Marsh held him with
? ,"; o:; a c a ge of burgi-ury. He
y)', be esa.-? ? ; Monday.
' Th.rrv !I'r ?'- l* women went to the
tftBtic A ???" police station, Brook
M yesterday and identified stolen
?OJg valued at more than $4,000. Two
yules were used to display articles de
?gre? to have been recovered as the
-jjjj (-?; | .-, iession by Amon Cham
bflin. who said, according to police
nrtrts, that he an? four other young
rcn '*,,.?? tal- n part in twenty-one
. ?ries.
.; tesday afternoon Chamberlin, it
*ss expia::'. " eel .ves *o
?vers! pawnshops pointing out articles
be had He will go with de?
tectives - ; was announced,
more stolen ar
who identified their
aiepeitycame from Ncwtown.Elmhurst,
Glendaie. F al I the Park Slope
strict.
John Little, alias John Burke, was
Mag ? Douras in West Side
- yesterday to answer a charge of
robbery and assault. Burke was ar
rebte-? in conection with the hold-up
?itan apartment house office on West
?third Street on Wednesday. At
tae time of the hold-up a companion of
ljurk'., identified as James
f Breen. Street. Buffalo,
?m shot ? I by a ne^ro watch -
nan in ?i partment. Little
was ?hot thrt .-. i *!*f' cheek by a police?
man. Foui implicated in the
hold-un escai
; to the police, has a
Jong record. ; without bail
ft? ? ? . . on on Tuesday.
-?
Youth. Convicted, to Die
For Slaying Salesmen
dhicaso Jury Find? Harvey
Church Guilty of Killins:
lo Get Auto
rrr The Tribune
CHICAGO, Dec. 23. -Harvey W
Cfcrrch, twenty-one yearn old. con?
fessed Bernard J. Daugh^rty
f.nd Ca ' mobile salesmen,
*?as foi - the murder
of Daugh . Death on the galiows
- punishment. The jury
?.oik -
Chu--". ? " ed to establish insanity as
kia ?defense. Me turned pa!? when he
hearc .*. the sullen in
ffiferei : displayed through the
trial v. a had to be helped
Ghurc ed that hi :
lured to the basement of his
home under pretense of buying a car
Daugh, ? first to enter the
basemenj and Church crushed h's skull
-vith an axe. B? dragged the body into
a coal bin ai : thi n summoned Ausmus.
who was wa ting in the car outside. As
Ansmus came down the stairs he was
overpowered and slam. Church buried
| his body une..::- the cinders in his ga?
rage, but he took Daugherty's body
handcuffed it and threw it into the
De?p!ain"s River. After completing the
night's work he took the new car and
gave his mother and a girl friend a
?oy ride.
Sent? ?* passed January 12.
Dry .Aid Charges Slander
By Anti-Saloon Leaguer
Maryland Director Sue? State
Superintendent for $25,000
Became of Speeeli
BALTIMORE, Dec. 23. Chargini
'^at he en slandered in an aci
0?8i * W. ('?-abb? at a con?
f?rence ? the Vnti-Saloon League su?
perintendents held in Washington, Ed?
mund Bndnitz, prohibition director foi
Maryland und the Distrtctaof Lolumbn
to-day tit against Mr. C'rabbe
?or ?25,i!0? damages.
The case was docketed in the It?"u
penov Couri Baltimore city.
T**c o which Mr. Budnit;
teKe? exception was made by Mr
Crabbe December 1 and was reporte?:
?newspapers. Crabbe, superintended
?J* the Maryland branch of the Anti
Saloon League, afterward wrote Bud
?Q a letter in v;hich he qualified hi:
???eged statements by saying they wen
Jot aimed specifically at the incum
? ?ent of the office.
The declaration of the plaintif
?arges that the defendant did "falsely
?alicioualy and with design" impute t?
Wteplaintiff "unfitness to discharge th?
?uties of prohibition director," as wel
?8 war:-. 0f dignity on his part in th
Olgchargfc of said duties" in that th.
?e-endant spoke of outside influence
? "coercing the plaintiff."
Juror Held After Rum Raie
?2,000 in Wines Reporte?
Seized in His Restaurant
James De Jianne. a member of th
fcssex County grand jury, which a fe*>
?ays aK0 indicted Green Miller, actin;
'PrornbitioH enforcement agent, was ar
??'gned in Newark vesterday on
?arge of violating the Volstead ad
*- 's alleged that a raid on a restau
Lv 'uat l0H Broad Street. Newark, o
wairh he is proprietor, resulted in th
seizure of $2,000 worth of wines.
'?? enforcement agents who con
';;"?'<-d the raid said that they believe
^aat the safe in the restaurant con
jwaed a ?tore of liquor, but counac
wy De Jianne was successful in ob
?aininK a court order restraining thcr
*rorn opening the safe. De Jianne wa
d in $1.000 bail.
1/ famous Restaurant
'??*?? 14tbit.uearTourtb.flue
a?-?-,1
Yule Spirit Puts $5 in
Foiled Bandit*s Hand
FREEPORT, III., Dec. 2?'5.?A
repentant robber, who returned
to apologize after being put to
(light with a revolver, to-day has
$5 to spend for Christmas.
Krank Harris, a tailor and old
time- baseball player, -was in his
shop when ihr follow attacked
him. Harris got his revolver and
chased the fondit away. Half an
hour later the man reappeared,
begged forgiveness and said he
- planned the hold-up because he
was without funds. Harris gave
him a $5 bill.
"It's Christmas time, you know,
and I simply could not have him
arrested," Harris explained to?
day.
i-v?i-,_!
Plot to Liberate
Prisoners in Bronx
County Jail Foiled
Head Keeper at Night Sus
pended After Discovery oi
Saw in Cell; Detective?
Are Placed, on Guard Dtih
District Attorney Edward ff. Glennoi
of Bronx County announced last nigh
as the result of information reachinj
him from an unnamed source a plot fo
the escape of the majority of the 20*
prisoners in the Bronx County jail ha?
; been frustrated. Following: receipt o
the information the District Attorne;
made an investigation which resulte
in the suspension of Michael Mc
: ?amara, head keeper at night in th
I jail.
It is alleged by Glennon that th
proposed jail delivery was planned b
William Lindsley, who was indicad o
I December 8 by the Bronx Grand Jud
1 on three counts.
Lindsley received a visit from h
wife last night. This is contrary t
-ales of the jail. She was que:
tioned by the District Attorney late
and is said to have told him that i
she worked during the day, it was in
' possible for her to visit lier husbar
at the regular visiting hours. SI
? sa:d that she had obtained pemiissic
; to make the visit from McNamar
While Mrs. Lindsley was being que
tioned detectives went to ner husband
cell where, it is said, they found a sa
Airs. Lindsl?^ denied having carried
into the prison.
Captain Harry Hi?es, of the Bro
detectives, was notified and went, to t
prison with a squad of detectives. Sot
I of his men were stationed outside, t
?ail and on the fire escapes, wh
others were placed in cells with prise
ers. The proposed attempt to bre
jail, according to the information i
ceived at the District Attorney's offi
had been scheduled to take place
midnight, but no information on t
subject was forthcoming after ti
_
Three Held in $100,00*1
Plot to Bribe Dry Agen
Attempt to Flood Chicago Wi
Liquor During Holidays Re>
ported Frustrated
CHICAGO, Dec. 23.?Exposure of <
most thoroughly organized liqi
ring* eve** operated in Chicago was
: complished '?.ere to-aay, according
Federal prohibition agents, as the
of the arrest of three men t
confiscation of twenty-one ban*
of whisky.
The liquor ring was exposed, acco
tig to Federal agents, after attem
had been made to bribe prohibit
? . with a view to flooding Chic
with whisky during the holidays.
The men under arrest are Dr. I.
Freedman, Samuel D. Freedman,
brother, and David Blum.ield, all
Chicago. According to Edwin L. Wc
Assistant District Attorney, warra
are being prepared for the arrest
several other persons, including a n*
ber of prominent politicians.
The liquor ring was brought, to li;
according to Federal authorities, w
an attempt was made to bribe Col<
A. C. Earnshaw, chief of the int?
gence unit of the Revenue Departm
: A fund of ?100,000 had been raised
bribery purposes and S"00.00() for
purchase of the entire product of tl
distilleries in Kentucky, Colonel Ei
shaw said he was told. He said he
'. offered $65,000 to allow the plan
proceed.
ii- ?
Ban Put on Police Gonce
Orders Issued to Remove Piai
From Stations
Orders have been issued to abc
police station concerts. Pianos
stalled in numerous stations are t?
removed.
Where the order originated is
known to the rank and lile, but it's
manifestation appeared yesterday v
Captain Thomas ".figs'' Donohue, 1
rol nemesis, ordered the squadi
piano at the. West Forty-seventh S'
station locked in a cell. It. was
nounced that the. nightly sing s
which have been held by reserve pa
: men and detectives will no longe
' permitted.
It was said last night that the <
I abolishing concerts woufd be sti
enforced, though some stations po
sing instruments presented by f
er Deputy Commissioner hrodman '
i amaker have not yet heard of the*
i date. There ?>** said to be general
1 satisfaction at the new rule, whi
regarded as arbitrary.
. rjj 10C0?Tea Strainer, Dutch Silt?
it Design. S5.00
B TSN'T it logical to as
M X sume that the shop
jd which makes an all-the
N year-round specialty oJ
n always having good gifts
W is the shop which can
M most simply and eco*
W nomically, serve you a1
a Christmas?
i OVINGTON'S
| " The Gift Shop of 5ih Ave.
| Fifth Avenue at 39th St
Two Killings
In City-Wide
?*
Bandit Raids
(Contlnund (rum PM? ?no)
the barrel of the revolver which roe
staut .ly prodded hi- rib*. merely
grunted. The euntomor. who was used
to a much moro lively come-back, eyed
him *> moment and then asked for ?
card of matches. He said no more,
but lighted a cigarette and went out.
il?* went straight to a telephone
booth. There was something wrong
with Michaels, he know, and he didn't
like the looks of the man who stood
beside him. As soon as he reached
the telephone booth, he called Police
?Headquarters and told his experience !
! and his suspicious.
Police Open Battle
Hold-ups in United ("ipar stores
i have been so frequent that anything I
out, of the way in connection with one
of them receives grave und prompt
consideration by the police. The Tre- ,
mont police station was notified im
mediately and McCarthy and Connell
dispatched to the -/ore.
Michaels and his guard were still
behind the counter when the detectives
got there, invisible in the rear room
wore Fryfield and his jailer.
The detectives entered the si ore with
their revolvers drawn and the com?
mand. '"Hands up!" Michaels obeyed
the order at once. It was a relief to
him to see a revolver in the hands of
some one beside the man at his side.
The bandit, however, instead of obey?
ing, tired from the hip across the coun?
ter, point blank at the detectives. His
first bu'let hit Connell in the jaw, and
he dropped unconscious.
Before McCarthy could repiy, the
door of the rear room swung open and
the man who had been standing guard
I over Fryfield steadied his envolver
against the jamb rind tired. The bul
i let. went through McCarthy's left cheek.
McCarthy fired at the same moment,
his bullet splintering the door jamb
and whistling past the head of the help?
less and invisible Fryfield. Each re?
port reverberated like a bomb in the
constricted space. Beneath the uproar
sounded the crack and tinkle of riven
wood and shattered frlass. Smoke filled
rhe store and drifted out through the
; door, held ajar by Connell's body.
Intruders Make Escape
McCarthy caught. a momentary
glimpse of the robber in the store as
he leaped the counter and made for the
rear room and took a snap shot at him.
He thought the man staggered as he
reached the door and vanished, hut his
wound was weakening him and he was
not sure that he saw right.
There was no hesitation on his part,
: however. His man had vanished into
a darkened room which he knew held
I one desperate gunman, but McCarthy
j was through the door after him before
i he could slam it shut. He was in time
: to see both robbers dart out of a rear
' door into the street. He staggered
| after them.
Bullets splintered the door behind
1 him as he reeled into the street, but
steadying his right arm with his left
: hand McCarthy threw down on the man
running east on Tremont Avenue. The
'? other robber had jumped into a taxicab
and was driving away. His companion
at McCarthy's shot, and the next
: moment the latter fell, too.
A motorist picked up both the
wounded detectives and took them to
Fordham Hospital. The dead bandit
lay in the street until an ambulance
was dispatched from the hospital after
he arrival of the detectives. By that
time thousands of persons wi re seeking
a glimpse of the battlefield and the
* Berves had to be called out to enable
Captain Wines of the Bronx detective
bureau and his men to start their in
??.<. stigations.
In spite, of the speed with which the
taxicab had started, several persons
had ea-ight a glimpse of one or more
of the figures on its license plate, and
from their reports the police hope to
trace the vehicle. It. is thought that
the fugitive in it may have been
; wounded.
McCarthy is thirty-seven years old
- d lives at 413 East 154th Street. He
i'pcame a policeman October IT. 1907.
Connell is thirty-six years old and
lives at 76 Clinton Place, the Bronx.
!!? was appointed to the force Febru?
ary '28, 1907. Both men have received
? ??iicia! commendation for police work
Levy, the robber who was killed, was
known also as Charles Williams, Harry
Roth, Harold Rieb and Frank Leary.
His record at Police Headquarters
-hows he was convicted of burglary
May 29, L913; sentence was suspended.
The following August he was convicted
! something which the police records
describe as "suspicion'' and sent to
Eimira Reformatory.
?July "'6, 1915, according to the police
records, he was convicted of burglary
: lid a sentence, of five years imposed
by .?udge Rosalsky, who released him,
however, on parole. March' 10, 1916,
the police records show, he was con
? icted again of burglary i? Judge
Rosalsky's court and sentence was sus?
pended again.
Long Criminal Record
In June of that year he was con?
victed of burglary and sent to Sing
Sing for four years and six months.
August 15, 1919, a charge of grand
larceny was made against him, which
' is still pending, so far as the police
records show. September 16, 1919, he
was convicted of disorderly conduct
and sent to the workhouse for twenty
days. December _L\ 1919, a charge of
1 robbery was made against him. which
seems to be pending still. April 15,
1920, charges of grand larceny and
' burglary were made against him and
is said to have jumped his bail in
, both cases.
Two young men entered Sottile's
DRINK
MILK
for
Your Health's
Sake
Dairymen s League
Co-operative Association, Ixa
UTICA, N. Y.
Taylor, Ready for Snow Storm?,
Clears Streets With 7,285 Men
Fall of Two ami Two-tenths Inches Gets Scant Half
Hour Start on Commissioner, but He Soon
Sweeps It Away; Flevated Lines Use "Feeler'"
I he snow which fell early yester?
day morning, to the official extent of
two and two-tenths inches, had a start
of <*xactly half an hour on Alfred A.
Taylor, Street Cleaning Commissioner.
It was the first snow storm of any
importance, since Mr. Taylor took office
and he was looking forward to it with
?something akin to exaltation. He was
up at ?1 o'clock, and by- 6 o'clock 7,286
men were at work clearing the streets
in Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx.
Mr. Taylor said yesterday that it was
the purpose of his department to have
the snow off every street in the city
to-duy unless another snow ?storm in?
terfered in the meantime. He said
that 3,000 emergency men and 1,400
regulars would work all night to clear
the streets.
All the appliances for the quick re?
moval of snow were put to use before
the snow ceased to fall at 8:15 o'clock
yesterday urorning' giving way to fif?
teen minutes of a precipitation, which
was classed as rain. Th-c-re were 151
tractors, 215 trucks, with scrapers, anc
more than 1,000 ash trucks removing
snow.
The traction companies got out theii
snow cleaning cars and kept then
tracks clear. The elevated lines in
troduced a novelty known as a "feeler.1
This is a device attached to the "brush
of the cars. On meeting any obstacle.
?m the tracks the "feeler" immediately
recognizes it. as such and releases a
scraper in front of the brush, thereby
removing the obstacle.
It is not. recorded that any great
hardship was worked upon the vehicu?
lar traffic. There was no congestion,
and the difficulties experienced by
motor car drivers were no greater than
th?ise encountered on rainy days.
Pedestrians were more put about than
iiiy one els?:, because the pavement
tin y walked upon was sloppy.
The only worth-while delays to traf?
fic were reported from Brooklyn. The
third rail of the K. R. T. line was af
fected by snow, and one train on the
Brighton line was stalled from 15:05 to
!>:'J0 o'clock yesterday morning near
th. Hheepshead Bay station.
Traffic both ways between Kings
Highway and Brighton Bench was
stopped from 7:45 to 8:40 o'clock, and
en the Culver Line, between Kings
Iliirhway and Coney Island, the course
ol travel was delayed from 8:30 to 9:15
| oVock.
Ihe locks on the Long Island Rail?
road East of East N'ew York froze
i shertly before 0 o'clock yesterday
! morning. Trains using that route were
! fr >m thirty to forty minutes late.
Then last night it rained. But the
'.nir. was entirely uncalled for, because
by that time Commissioner Taylor's
night workers had been flushing the
streets lor more than an hour.
cafe, at 288 East I52d Street, and de-I
manded money. Although both of them j
l-.ad revolvers, Sott.ile turned and ran |
for a doorway leading into a hall. One
of the hold-up men fired just as he '
reached the door and the cafe pro- ?
prietor dropped across the threshold ;
dead.
The two ran from the place and ':
jumped into an automobile in which
they had come. The driver was ready
for a quick start and they were out of
sight before the neighborhood realized
what had happened.
Sottile was alone in the cafe with
his bartender, Genaro De Bastini.
when the two hold-up men entered.
Both of the intruders drew revolvers
and one of them ordered Sottile to
"hand over the money" as though cer?
tain that Sottile had a large sum.
It was found, when his pockets were
searched, that the cafe proprietor had
$642, and it is thought by the police
that the robbers had definite knowl?
edge that he had it.
Four men who held up Joseph Green
stein's delicatessen store and lunch?
room at 133 Hester Street about 1:30
p. m. yesterday snapped a padlock on
the door when they departed, locking
the. proprietor, his wife, Lillian, and
three customers inside. It was several
minutes before Greenstein attracted
attention to their plight by rapping on
the window.
Matty Weincr, messenger for I. Luko
witz, manufacturing jeweler at Sixth
Avenue and Seventeenth Street, was
one of the victims, and the robbers got
about SI.000 worth of diamonds from
him. Greenstein remembered that the
hold-up men made straight for the mes?
senger as soon as they entered the
piare.
The robbers took $52 from the till
and one of them examined with some
in ;erest a ring worn by one of the cus?
tomers, deciding finally not to take it.
Mrs. Greenstein, who was in the
kitchen behind the store, dropped three
diamond rings into the soup as soon
as she heard the command "Put 'em
up!'' and then moved the soup kettle to
the hottest part of the stove. It took
her the rest of the afternoon to find the
rings.
'?Toss up your mitts!" ordered one
of two hold-up men about 6 p. m. yes?
terday in Abraham Edson'a jewelrj
store at 135 Bowery, and the proprie
tor's son Harry, who was waiting or
them, obeyed promptly.
His left hand was gripping a*- auto
matic pistol when it rose fron: behini
the counter, however, and he begai
shooting as soon as the muzzle ha<
cleared this obstruction. Two bullet
went through a partition in the rear o
the store and two through a showcase
By that time the hold-up men wer
over the horizon, and young Edso:
stopped shooting. He was unable t
account for his inaccuracy, as he shoot
robbers and does everything else bes
with his left hand.
Two policemen in pursuit of fou
armed men who held up and robbe
several customers in the-fruit store o
Gustave Mercurius at 338 Flatbush A*
enue, Brooklyn, yesterday fired severa
shots. The four men entered the stor
and lined the patrons against the wal
1 he worn -n pleaded for their Christma
f;;nds but without effect. The men the
rifled the cash drawer. Patrolmen Mc
C? rren and Wislon of the Bergen Strec
Station saw the four men leave th
store and suspecting trouble gav
chase. The men escaped in an auti
The names of the customers who wer
robbed are withheld by the police.
. $150 in Loot Overlooked
Two men, each with a drawn revo
per', entered Joseph Pollak's delicate:
sen store, at 60 St. Nicholas Avenu
last night. One stood guard at the doc
.*.nd tiie other approached the proprii
tor and ordered him to put up h
hands.
Instead of complying, Pollak sprar
at the gunman. The latter tried
fond him off. saying that he did n
want to hurt an old man, but Poll;
flung himself upon him, and aft
I struggling for several minutes the ro
bei* brought his revolver butt down on
his victim's head. Then he took $40
from Pollak's pocket, and he and his
companion ran out.
Pollak triumphantly told the ambu?
lance surgeon who patched up the
wound in his scalp that he had kept
the robbers so busy tfiey had over?
looked $150 which he had in another
pocket.
Major .Brands Story He
Killed Soldiers False
Battalion Commander, Cited
for Heroism in Aetion, Offers
to Aid Senate Inquiry
From. The Tribune'^ Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, Dec. 23. ?Emphatic
denial of the charge made in testimony
before the Senate committee investigat?
ing Senator Watson's allegations of
brutalities by American army officers
is contained ir> a letter received to?
day by the War Department from Lieu?
tenant Colonel H. L. Opie, of Staunton,
Va., who as a major commanded the
third battalion of the 116th Infantry
during the war.
Private Henry L. Scott testified that
"Major Opie shot down a sergoant and
a private during the Argonne fighting."
Colonel Opie's letter, which declared
this is "emphatically untrue," is as
follows:
"The Associated Press has just in?
formed me a Private Henry L. Scott,
of Ohio, testified to-day before the
Watson committee that he saw Major
Opie, of the third battalion, 116th In?
fantry, shoot a sergeant and a private
or orderly, during th?* Meuse-Argonne
fighting. This is emphatically untrue
I was in command of this unit during
most of its war service in France and
not only wer..- there no men summarily
shot or executed but there ?s nol a
single man of the regiment, unac?
counted for, ' am informed. My most
prized possession is the good will ol
the officers and men with whom 1
fought, many of whom are again witl
me in the service. If I can be of any
use in refuting these and other idle
charges I am at your command."
Major Opie was wounded and awarde?
the Distinguished Service Cross by th?
government and the Croix de Guerrt
with two palms and the Legion o:
Honor (Chevalier) by France for gal
lantry in action.
Burns, on Christmas
Visit Here, Marking
Time in Bomb Case
.
Aequainlance Says Linden
feld Was Campaigning
for Socialist Aldermanic
Candidate Day of Blast
William J. Burn:-, chief of the Bureau
. f Investigation of the Department of
Justice, carne up last night from Wash?
ington to apend Christmas with his
family at Scarborough-on -Hudson.
'I here wasn't, a thing he could add, he
declared, to what has already been said,
I ro anrl con, regarding the arrest and
reported confession of Wolfe Lind?n
feld in connection with the Wall Street
bomb plot.
"Lindenfeld's statement has not yet
bi ?'il straightened out," he said. "When
il is, perhaps Attorney-General Daught?
erly will make a statement on the
? case."
Another acquaintance of the prevari?
cating bomb suspect took a kick at his
various and conflicting stories yester
i nay. Instead of being in a suburb of
New York, as he declared in Warsaw., it
: is said he spent most of the day work
. :r.g in the interests of Louis Waldman,
ar the time Socialist candidate for re?
election to the Board of Aldermen.
Alderman William Beckerman, who
: 1 new Lindenfeld as Linde, says the al?
leged terrorist was as surprised as any
; body when news of the disaster became
, known.
The night before the explosion, Beck
1 (-?man says. Linde passed at the Broad?
way Central Hotel. The register there,
| inspected yesterday, shows an entry,
?"W. Linde."
"On the day of the explosion, which
' I remember well because it was the day
j of the special election." Alderman
; Beckerman continued, "it was neces
! sary for me to go in a hurry to Public
! School No. 19, in Fourteenth Street,
near First Avenue, where there was
t said to be some trouble about votes.
"Linde jumped in the car with me,
j without invitation, and insisted on ac
| companying me. I remember having
some argument with him. He used the
; words: 'Don't be a fool, Beckerman,'
I and I said to him: 'Don't be a pest! If
j you make any trouble up here I'll kick
; you out.' This was in the afternoon,
! about 4 o'clock, I should say.
"When we got to the school [ re
; member the chairman of the Election
Board saying in a laughing way: 'What
; have you fellows been trying to do?
j blow up Wall Street?' We asked him
' what he meant and he told us of the
; explosion, which had occurred at noon,
; That was the first any one of us?in
i eluding Linde?had heard of it, and 1
am sure Linde looked and acted just
as surprised as any one" else."
?
Reserve Policeman Held
As Swindler of Woman
; Aged Mother of Boy Who Was
Arrested Declares She Paid
S 50 to Sergeant
Joseph Edelheit, of 848 East 163d
Street, a sergeant in the police re?
serves, was arrested at 1528 Second
; Avenue last night by a patrolman o?
the East Eighty-eighth Street station
j on the complaint of Mrs. Kate Schweit,
seventy years old, of 220 East Seventy
eighth Street, who charges the prisonei
with obtaining money under false pre
; tenses.
.Mrs. Schweit told T ieutenant Cramer
the E *t Eighty-eighth Street sta
?on, that two weeks ago Edelheit ap
| peared at her apartment ?tressed in his
I police uniform and said that he had a
I message from her son, Max, who was
; then being held in a Brooklyn jail in
j connection with the lo?s of an auto
; mobile.
She said that Edelheit promised tc
have her son released if she would pay
him $50. Mrs. Schweit said that she
pawned a ring and a watch and gav?
? the money to Edelheit. She said that
neither she nor her sor had seen hiir
from that time until she got word that
he was at the Second Avanue, address
last night.
NEW YORK THF. PARIS SHOP OF AMERICA PARIS
After January 1 st
Fifth Avenue at 56th and 57th Streets"
" Last-Minute " Suggestions
in Holiday Gifts
at Removal Sale Prices
Hand Bags and Vanities at $10 to $45
Formerly $25 to $150?Ideal for Christmas Gifts?of velvet,
faille, moire, brocades and imported leathers, with mountings of gold,
sterling 3ilver. enamel, hand carved Galaleath and ivory?smartly
fitted and richly lined.
Wool Sweaters at $5?$7.50?$10
Formerly to $20?Slip-on effects and Coat styles of Jersey and
Shetland wool?plain and novelty weaves.
Costume Blouses at $22.50
Formerly to $60?Dark and light shades of chiffon, crepe,
Georgette and ?atin?pleated, tucked and embroidered effects, many
with trimmings of lace.
0
-?Holiday Furs
"The Gift Luxurious"
at final removal prices
Natural Raccoon Coats. .....
Civet Cat Coats... .
American Broadtail Coats....
( Beaver-trimmed)
Hudson Seal Wrap.
Taupe Caracul Wrap.
Choice Ermine Wrap.
at $295
at $295
at $385
at $495
at $725
at $985
Shoplifters Offer i Jir?simas
Need*-* of Relative? as Excuse
Twenty shoplifters who were ar
rniirne?} yesterday in Spe?-ial Session?
pleaded guilty and said that they nnl*#,
Stole Christmas presenta to give to
relative?.
Most of the men received peni?
tentiary sentences. Severa! of the
women and some of the men were
released on probation. Mrs. Madeleine
Moore, who said that she had intended
to join her husband Christmas, at his
father's farm, was sent to the Flor?
ence Crittenden Homo to await sen?
tence Dec ?tuber 30.
Soviet Envoy Seeks Return
Of Eastern Railroad to China
PEKING, Tier. 2*2. Alexander Paikes,
Russian Soviet plenipotentiary now in
Peking, announced to-day that the
major object of his negotiations here
?vus the restitution of the Chinese
Eastern Railway to China.
He said Soviet Russia wished no
financial consideration for the return
; of the road, but merely wished assur?
ance that it should not be transferred
! to any other country.
Kentueky Guardsmen Sent
For Duty in Newport Strike
PRANKFORT. Ky.. Dec. _:'. ? 1-<-.-.r
companies of Kentucky National
Guardsmen, totaling D?0 men and I
mry officer*?, were ordered to
Newport, Ky., to-night by Governo
Morrow. They were sepr a-- a result
; of his orders growing out of a ?tt
! at the Newport Roiline Mills and with
; out s request from local peace officr
They are due to arrive in Newr
about 7:30 a. m. to-morrow.
Three other companies have been or
I dered held in readiness to proceed to
-'??, scene if needed,
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u ik
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