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.r.^miiS'rTmXUrstx ? t&SBBt at
2nth Street and Lexington Avenue, all
??pem* on the Lexington Avenue
de wwe packed with women and chit
Those on the third floor wew
n greatest danger because smoke ?wept
from a?! third floor windows, ?causing
.hos*- endeavoring to escape to become
> onfu*<_?J. Women ?creamed to those in
the street that their children h__d been
?..*?_ in ha? S way** and pleaded for help.
At that time the fir? had made such
progre*_s* that third-floor tenants wen
cut off from escape by stairways and
**.evon?C among the score or more chil?
dren crowded en fire escape platforms
?ad bfxsome unconscious from inhaling
??moke..';Thosr living on the"top-floor
were tmable to reach the roof of any
adjoin;??, apartment building, which
????'as ..(-?..rated from the one on fire by
an a Her-twenty feet wi.i?**.
Fire jHarsha. Brophy said last night
that w?f?lo he regarded the fire as prob?
ably incendiary-, basing his judgment
on physic ni evidence, nothing had de?
veloped; during the day whiph would
just if y-making an arrest.
'?Wc_t.ro convinced the fire originat?
ed in Iraby carriages stored alongside
the stairway," the fire marshal de?
clared.*;'''! am unable to say whether
:. pyromaniac set fire to these inflam
Htable vehicles or whether some carc
??? cigarette smoker tossed a ?tub into
.-.e of them. The result in either case
*?*ght Save been tho eamc.**
SDnllarity in Fires Marked
MorsJnl Brophy said a marked slmi
lurity existed b?_'tween ?Sunday's fire
and the 109th Street tenement blaze
of threj* weeks ago, in which seven lives
were lo***., but ndd'-d that in tho 109th
-'?t.-cet 'fire baby carriages had been
atorfd beneath the stairway, whereas
?r. the last one they were parked along?
side thie main staircase.
Much- loss of life would baVa been
averted if the first alarm had been
turned "in sooner, the marshal added,
??rfCtiBg attention to the fact that
flames almost reached the roof of tho
?uihiing ?.?-fore the first piece of Appa?
ratus arrived.
.I.ihn,;R. Hennis, in charge of the
hom;ci<M bureau of the District Attor?
ney's office, al.o expressed belief in
?le intx-ndiary origin of the fire. He
said :
"There is a marked similarity be
nraem the two tenement fires occurring
in this, vicinity within a few weeks,
a?ended by loss pf life. While
liare i?.no definite evidence at present,
I hope -to have, data to-day which will
permit-tin to work ?ffectively. The Dis?
trict Attorney's office will, make every
"(Tort to fix responsibility for this
Ainnntmi "
Some cf the injured taken t? Beth
David Hospital were transferred late
yeaterd&y to Mount Sinai end Harlem
hospitajs. According to the hospital
record* one of those injured ia Sebas?
tian AfRoroso, eleven years old, whose
name had been given the polite as Se?
bastian' Amorso. It was believed he
?night be the brother of the dead An?
tonio Amoro_o.
{"allant Rescuer Injured
Among the rescuer?, many of whom
suffer?? injuries, William Connors,
rwenty-'two years old, of l? East 110th
Street, directly opposite the burned
? tructur.'.is most seriously hurt. Con?
nors vfna In bed when he heard the
?hout:; for ; id. When he reached the
street more than eev?nty-flve women
. ; -I children were crowded on fire es
t?ap? Undings of the necond and third
?loor. .
it was Connors who rescued Mrs.
Vathaa Silver, sole survivor of her
.amily. lie carried her down a fire
escape on his back. The woman was
conveyed in a semi-conscious state to
th?; home of relatives nearby, Re?
covering, she ran ecreamlng back to
the burning structure, fought her way
through the lire linea and had almost
succeeded in entering a doorway when
overpowered. Mrs. .Silver believed her
h?i,.baud and children had bi.cn rescued
when she permitted herself to be taken
away. That all are dead will ho rc
? .-'< d to her to-day.
Conatos also raved five children from
? ertaia death. Th?*y were huddled en
third floor escape landing when ho
reached them. Ail were in a state of
partial' asphyxiation. Bumf* suffered
oj the rescuer will confine him to his
hotne for some time.
Mayor Dylan, accompanied by Mr.
and Mr?. John T. Sinnott, his son-in
MW and daughter, .visited the scene
< steraay forenoon. The Mayor ex?
presses sympathy for those made
homeless, and announced that he would
order ?a thorough investigation of the
?.i.gin. of the fire. During the visit
Mayor Dylan was besought by scores
?if men and women to aid those made
?ic, tit.litc.
According to the police, A. Adler, of
1270 Broadway, owned the building in
which -the lire occurred.
Cold Firehouses Await
Men Back From Blaze
(.hilled and Exhausted Crews
I Ponied Heat by Ban Believed
Hue to Shortage of Coal
''old flrrhousc?. awaited the firemen
who returned yesterday morning, ex?
hausted and soaking wet, after n four
hftvy battU* with tno fire at 1771-177.1
L iTigton Avenue, which cost fourteen
lives and injured scores.
For'more than a month, since com
nii.ndant.i of engine houses received
strict wrders under no conditions to
-tart 4 i.ro in the engine house fur?
naces.'the liftmen have been exposed
to .scknrs... While no official esplana
* ion accompanied the summary order
?o keep the furnace, cold it is believed
to be part of the city's dc.dre to con
sartrfl coal because of th? coal shortage.
The order resulted Friday in an argu
neu. between the lieutenant in Engine
Mouse T.i, at Lafayette and White
Um and a city magistrate. Tho
tmttae is occupied partly by the engine
house Bpd partly by the Tombs police
court. The latter is heated by ?.team
from thf ..rehouse boilers. On Friday
'he niHgi.trate complained of the chill
and asked for heat. The lieutenant in
? barge said it vas impossible. He cx
(i ho could not even if he dared,
I (her?, wan; no coal in the house. He
><!ded tbat the general order prohibit
ng fir?? said that any fireman found
'iisobeylrig would be brought up on
i h arge* The court went without, heat.
Kngi?? house 17 suffered severely
last nigjit. A cellar fire in a six-story
tenement at 285 Grand Street gave
iituch trouble and at one time Commis
sioner JJenry Helm ordered the men !
out of ?le waist-deep water because of
""ear of- being overcome by earbon
monoxidc. Tho residents of the house,
?oaring;anolhcr death trap such as the
<>ne ??Lexington Avenue, screamci
wildly, .threatened to jump and causeo
panic. Reserves had t? be rushed
'rom the Clinton ?"treet station. .
Whert;the company got the fire out at
the end of a forty-five-minutc battle'
they returned, chilled through and '
drenched to the skin, to a stone fire
house colder inside than out.
Phone Girls9 Promptness ?
Boon to Fire Sufferers
J*olict*and Other Officials Laud j
Ifisg Dillon and Aids for j
Their Efforts in Emergency I
JelepSone operators of the Harlem
??.?-chang?? were praised yesterday by
Es -of the police end r'.rc depart?
ments for intelligent and projnpt serv
?( ia connection with the fire at 110th
???fc and Lexington Avenue.
Viitt ?information of the fire wad
obtained by Miss Margaret Dillon, a
Harlem entdss?reger-npcr&var, ?t 1 a. m.
?h? received a fiash over a private wire
and heard a woman scream in excited
tones, "Fire! fire! fire!" Without lo?
cating the fire, tho person calling dis?
connected.
Miss Dillon traced the call to Harlem
0198 and rang that number several
times without a reply. She then no?
tified Fire and Police Headquarters of
| the message and continued trying to
i raise the Harlem number. Fifteen
' minutes elapsed before a woman's voice
I answered. This time the location of
! the blazo was obtained and Miss
! Dillon promptly notified fire head
j headquarters. Sho then set every
j operator in the exchange calling
j hospitals and police stations. Owing
? to Miss Dillon's efforts five hospital
i ambulances were at the scene of tho
! fire as soon as the. firo apparatus.
Throughout tho night Miss Dillon
and her fcrce handled er.-ergency calls
with promptness and accuracy. The
young women who, with Miss Dillon,
saw the switchboard are Miss Laur?
etta Daly, 540 Pocontia Street, North
Tarrytown; Mies Mary Rooney, 12442
Morris Avenue, tho Bronx; Misa Mar?
garet Ohrenberg, 2240 Ryder Avenue,
the Bionx; Miss Irene Donohue, 166
East-'<102d Street; Miss Margaret.
Staderman, 247 Eaat 124th Street, and
Mias Frances Nugent, C48 Jackson
Avenue, the Bronx.
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State Delays
Jury Quiz in
Hall Murder
(Continual from pis? ont)
from the purchase price a 5 per cent
commissione as agent.
Gorsline Asked About Singer
Ralph V. M. Gorsline, one of tho
vestrymen of St. John's Church, is still
a person who interests the investiga?
tors. Ho was questioned again yester?
day by a state trooper. Mr. Gorsline's
situation is like tiiat of many other
members of the vestry, the choir and
the congregation. The authorities take
the attitude that they could tell mero
about the affair between Mrs. Mills and
the Rector if they wan ter? to, and eo
they continued to question them from
time to time. Most of these interroga?
tions arc made by state troopers.
When Mr. Gorsline was questioned j
yesterday h? was asked about the de
j truetion of his automobile three weeks j
figo to-night, and on the day following;
his a-ipearnnce at the Court Houbo. He ]
was also asked, it is understood, to give '
a few more details about the advances
he has said Mrs. Mills made to him be?
fore, as he expressed it, "she set her
cap for Dr. Hail."
County Detective George Totten, of
the staff of Prosecutor Beekman, sai?
nt Somerville to-night that he had
questioned three women witnesses to?
day.
"One of these was never examined
before," explained Totteh, porten?
tously. "Of the others I will say noth?
ing. They were not questioned in
Somerville. I questioned them in a
secret place I have for that purpos.
?and stenographers -were presont.
Not an Eyewitness
"The new witness is not an eyewit?
ness. She took me to the Phillips
Farm this afternoon, where we went
oer the ground. She called my atten?
tion to several things. Bevond that I
will say nothing."
And he did not. But among the
'ft ?.ac*- Glos? Vase
i.schcs high?17._.
IT WOULD BE entirely
wrong to say that your
hostess expects a week?
end remembrance. And
so when you send her a
gift from Ovington's, you
wiii surprise and delight
her beyond words ?
OVINGTON'S
" The Oi? St-.op of Fifth AratUsa "
FTPTH AVENUE AT 39TH St.
j things that the mysterious woman wit
I ncss might have shcf/n Detective Tot
ten at the farm during the course of
the day were some five thousand auto?
mobiles and at least ten thousand visi?
tors who tore almost the last twig
from tho unfortunate crab-apple tr<*>
beneath which the assassins laid out
I tho bodies of Dr. Hall ar.d Mrs. Mill.'.
| The mvstcrious woman might have
| shown -dr. Tottcn boys selling ballooiiR
j and peanuts and other things usually
i associated with the atmosphere of tho
circus, but unless Mr. Tot. en is a
I psycho-detective there is hardly a
j chance that his trip to the farm dis
j closed any new evidence.
Members of tho Hall family since
the Sunday before the murdev have
been conspicuously absent from the
services of the fashionable St. John's
Church. But at to-night's services
Harry B. Carpcndar. cousin of Mrs.
Hall, was seen among tho seventy
church members present.
According to the Rev. Mr. J. M.
Lopez, who has conducted services
since the lulling of Dr. Hall, the peo?
ple who now attend the services are the
regular members of the church, and
not curiosity-hungry outsiders. A few
weeks ago these went there in large
numbers, filling the pews.
A successor to Dr. Hall has not been
chosen, said the Rev. Mr. Lopez, whe
? will preach his last sermon next Sun*
'< day, after which some other temporary
(rector will assume charge of the church
work.
Six-Year-Old Fills Pulpit
Lad Conducts Service? in Bal?
timore Churcli
BALTIMORc, Oct. 22.?Newton E
Hastings, Salisbury, Md., is only si>
years old. He has ju?. entered th<
public schools of his home town anc
has had no conscious preparation 01
coaching for ecclesiastical results, bu
to-day he conducted services in St
Paul's Methodist Church in the manne:
of an experienced minister.
The youthful preacher is a son o
Paul Hastings of Salisbury, for tlv
last six months he has been speakini
! before congregations in Salisbury an<
i nearby towns. To-day'wi services v.*cr
the first the child has conducted i
! Baltimore.
?Volunteer Rescuers Risk Lives
?
in Saving Scores From Flames
j Youth Who Succored 18 L?es in Hospital Severely
Burned; Steeplejack Scales Blazing Walls, Frees
Fire Escapea and Guides 30 Safely to Ground
___________________________________________________________________H_1 ___________
Police reserves from three stations
i swarmed into Lexington Avenue and
J 110th Street in an attempt to disperse
| ...cited men and women packed closely
i in both street.*., as civilian rescuers,
; their heads swathed in wet bandages,
traversed lower stories of the tene
! ment early yesterday seeking to rescue
j thoic whose cries could be heard pro
j cecding from smoke-filled halls. Five
! men who engaged in this work, firemen
! declare, should be given medals for
! heroism.
John O'Donnell, seventeen years old,
[who lives at 1485 Park Avenue, sat in
! a restaurant in 107th Street when he
heHTd cries of fire. Ho ra,i to Lcxin
ton Avenue and found the tenement
houss blazing on two of its floors, with
smoke issuing from third story win?
dow?. A woman was hanging by her
hands from a second story escape land?
ing. Two others struggled to prevent
her falling to the _trcet.
Unable to enter the doorway because
of smoke pouring from it, O'Donnell
climbed the coping above it, passed
hand over hand on fire-escape stays
and reached a window in which were
three young children. O'Donnell threw
one leg ovor the window ?ill, anchored
himself and shouted to Patrolman
Tiernan, who received the children as
O'Donnell handed them down. The ex
sailor then ran up fire ladders to the
roof, smashing windows and urging
frantic inmates to take refuge on es?
cape landings. The police give O'Don?
nell credit for saving six lives.
Risks Life to Save Eighteen
Another rescuer whose bravery at?
tracted attention is Frederick Stro?
kacch, twenty-one years old, of 127
East Ninety-third Street. Strokacch is
in Beth-David Hospital, Bcverely
burned. He was unconscious when
taken there. On his identification card
is n notation written by Patrolman
Cash, of the East 104th Street police
station, which reads. "This man saved
eighteen lives."
According to the police, Strokacch,
soaking his coat at a hydrant, plunged
into the blazing structure, penetrated
the first and second floors and emerged
five times carrying women and chil?
dren, before he succumbed. In addi
I t?on to those he actually carried out,
Strokacch in credited with having
I guided many to safety, forcing them
I to traverse smoke-filled passages by
i persuasion or threats.
Michael Nolan, who described him
! ?elf as a steeplejack, climbed a seem
j ingly sheer wall at the north end of
j tho block. Hi reached Gecond floor
i fire escape platforms and released
| drop ladders. Women and children
! crowded on narrow platforms and
made their way to safety. Nolan
j rescued thirty or more persons in this
I way.
Julius Gollord, of 163 East 110th
I Street, was asleep in his home when
??houts of fire roused him. He ran in
! pnjamas to tho doomed building,
swarmed up a ladder Nolan had
dropped and reached the fourth floor
just In time to save a womnn who
had been driven by intense heat to
hang by her hands from a window
casing. She was screaming when
Gollord reached her. He carried this
woman and four others down tho
escape.
William Connors, an expressman of
155 East 110th Street, saw a woman
about to jump from a fourth story
window.
"If you jump you'll bo killed," he
yelled through cupped hands. "Hold on
and I'll save you."
Connors fought his way through bias?
ing halls and carried the woman and
lier two children to safety. As he was
leaving a woman in tho Btreet called
frantically the* her three children were
in an apartment on the second floor.
Connors started back but was prevented
by a patrolman from re-entering the
building Later Connors complained at
the East 104th Street station that ho had
been prevented from saving life by the
policeman's interference.
Firemen Walter Hewitt and William
Mooney, of Truck 48, saved Mrs. Mary
Kenny from a precarious perch in a
fourth floor window. The men were on
a thirty-five-foot ladder which reached
just, beyond the third floor. Moos.ey
clambered on projections of the build?
ing to where the woman sat, swung her
to Hewitt who staggered with th? im?
pact, but wrapped his legs round tho
ladder and slid to earth with his
wurden.
Klaiismcii Bury
Girl Declared
Shot by Police
500 Without Masks March
to Cemetery at St- Joseph,
Mo., Through Streets
Deserted hy Patrolmen
12,000 at Mass Meeting
Accidental Killing Climax
of Months of Gun Rule;
Chief and 3 Are Ousted
ST. JOSEPH, Mo., Oct. 22.?With
members of tho Ku-Klux Klan in
charge of the funeral service, Nellie
Hale, fourteen years old, who was
killed Friday night by n shot suppos?
edly fired by police, was buried to-day.
A crowd estimated at 5,000 waited in ?
the cemetery for the cortege, in which
marched COO members of the Klan, |
robed and with their hoods raised.
No uniformed police were to bo seen.
Klansmcn handled traffic in the streets.
Two klansmcn and six girl friends of
the victim were pall-bearers. At tho
grave hundreds of k?ancmen stood at
attention.
Police Board Assailed
The funeral was the only develop?
ment to-day in the police situation, I
which reached n. climax last night,
when 12,000 attended a mass meeting
of the Ku-Klux Klan and demanded the
retirement of tho police board, charg?
ing that tho Police Department had
failed to take proper precautions for
the preservation of life.
Nellio Hale was tho second person i
accidentally killed hero since summer
while police were attempting to mako
arrest*.. She was riding with two
brothers when elain. According to the
brothers, a police car raced down the
road pursuing another car, tho officers
firing. Their sister leaned out of the
car and was struck by a bullet. The j
three patrolmen who, with Clay S. Mac
Donald, chief of police, have been dis
charged, say the girl was killed by a
shot from the fleeing car.
Man Killed Beside Wife
Several months ago Dr. W. W. Wei
tenbergcr was killed while walking in
the street with his W_.V Police were
! firing in an attempt to arrest Charles
i Daynes, who had tried to kill his wife.
Haynes also w?". killed.
Previously .T?hn House, a patrolman,
was killed during a raid. Police Board
investigation revealed that he probably
had been killed accidentally by his po?
liceman companions.
On September 21 Patrolman John
Well? is said to have shot CarlShirn
pfeffer, a wouth lie had arrested in con?
nection with a dance hall fight. Shim
pfeffer was shot in ono log and bled to
death. A coroner's jury held that the
shooting was unjustified and that
Shimpfeffer hnd died because the police
failed to obtain medical attention
promptly. A charge of manslaughter
was placed against Wells, and he now
is on bond awating trial. He is still a
member of the Police Department.
At the inquest Wells testified that
orders had been issued by his com
I mending officers to "shoot first and .ink
questions a?t?rward."
Invade Paterson Church
PATERSON, X. J., Oct. 22.?Worship?
pers in the First Baptist Church hero
were startled to-night, durinr; the ser?
mon of the Rev. Frank MacDonald,
pastor of the church, by the appear?
ance of seven masked men, draped in
white robes, one of whom boro an
American flag on a standard and an?
other u Ku KluX emblem.
The flag-bearer., stationed themselves
at the back of the church, while the live
other Klansmeu proceeded down the
center aisle?. Ono of them advanced to
tho altar of the church, where he knelt,
apparently in prayer. He rose and
handed a letter to Mr. MacDonald. On
the envelope was a written request that
the letter be read to the congregation.
Mr. MacDonald read the letcr. It con?
tained a platform of the Ku-Klux Klan,
specifying as its object pure woman?
hood, tho advancement of patriotism,
the furtherance of charities and co?
operation with the church.
At the conclusion of the reading the
sev-i^ Klansmen filed out of the church.
"dr. MacDonald, before continuing his
sermon, commented on the visit. He
said he favored the sentiments ex?
pressed in the letter and had no objec?
tion to the appearance of the Klans?
men.
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Reds Overcome
Last Opposition
To Sr. vief s Rule
Vladivostok, Final Outpost
of White Guards, Vacat
| ed by Them, and City
Awaits Its New Chiefs
Valiant Fight Till End
General Diederichs Didn't
Receive Aid He Asked to
Stem Enemy's Advance
VLADIVOSTOK, Oct. 22 (By The
Associated Press).-.The curtain has
been rung down on the last scene of the
Russian revolution. Those who de?
fended this last outpost of opposition
to the Soviets are departing. A few
hundred persons have been killed, ?nd
the people are sitting back wAitiuiT _or
their new rulers, the Soviet leaden,
of tho Far Eastern republic, or Chita
government, as it is called, to arrive.
The White Guards of tho Vladi?
vostok government fought desperately
from October 8, the day they came in
contact with tho Soviet forces at
Spassk, until nearly two weeks later,
when the Reds utterly defeated them
and forced them to cross tho Man
churian frontier.
The men who bore the brunt of the
fighting were soldiers who had re?
treated from tho Volga River to this
last stronghold of tho White Guards.
Vladivostok sent General Diederichs
only 17(. men in reply to his call for
reinforcements, which led tho dictator
to declare:
"Where are the sacrifices which were
to be inadc for brethren who for two
?ears have borne the cross which was
aid on Ru?sia for the sins of all?"
TOKIO, Oct. 22 (By Tho Associated
Press).?The danger to residents of
Vladivostok after tho approaching
eva?,?uation of tho Japanese forces takes
place arise? from tho presence around
tho city of bandits who am ready to
plunder Vladivostok in the interim be?
tween the departure of the Japanese
and the occupation by the Red army of
the Chita government, according to
persons who arrived to-day from
Vladivostok.
Crowd Departing Steamers
The danger is believed so great that
all steamers lcavng Vladivostok aro
crowded. Vessels leaving for Japan
are so crowded with Japanese that tew
other foreigners can obtain passage.
Russian steamers are taking a few
Russians, chiefly officers and their
families to China. Others who feared ?
to remain in Vladivostok are trying |
to escape by any means possible
toward Corea and Manchuria. ?
.
1 MOSCOW, Oct. 22 (By The As30
! ciated Press).?The American cruiser
I Sacramento ha_ arrived at Vladivo. tok.
| The vessel was sent there at the re
| quest of the American Consul. It is
i reported that disorders have been in
progress in various parta of tho city,
I for which tho t?ovieta blamo the
I Japanese.
| General Uborevitch, of the Pfcv
?Eastern lepublic's revolutionary an y,
I has begun negotiations with Lie
?Japanese commander and the Vladi?
vostok consular representatives for
the surrender of Vladivostok, accord
! ing to advices received by the Soviet
j government from Chita.
The dispatches say the American
! consul handed General Uborevitch u
? note requesting him to guarantee the
; personal safety of American citizens.
! Similar requests were mude on be
t ralf of tho British and Japanese con
! sulate.., and the safety of foreigner*.
and property was assured by General
Uborevitch on condition that the Red
?army bo allowed to enter Vladivostok
\ immediately.
Additional advices to the govern?
ment say the Red army encountered
Japanese detachment:? at Okeariskaia
which were covering the city. Repre?
sentatives of the Japaneso command
reached Okeanskaia Friday and warned
the Far Eastern troops to retreat four
miles to the north of Okeanskaia.
Tho dispatches assert that disorders
broiic out in various parts of Vladi?
vostok in connection with the Japanese
retreat, and that the American Con?
sulate sent word later to General
Uborevitch that the Americans were
impatiently awaiting tho Fur Eastern
troops to restore order.
A government announcement say
great danger at the hands of the re?
maining White Guard bands threatens
Communists, workmen and Far East?
ern sympathizer, who are in prison.?
The government declares respons-.bi
bility for any excesses will rest en?
tirely upon the Japanese command
which is retarding the entry inte
Vladivostok of Russian Red troops.
Footpads Shoot
Victim, biit He
Saves $7,600
Hotel Man Answers Thugs'
Command With Bullet;
Bandits Escape After
Wounding Him; May Die
Fifteen Shots Exchanged
Carried Day's Receipts and
Valuables in His Pocket;
All Coney Island Housed
Threo footpads lay in wait for Peter
Cachapes before dawn yestcrdsy morn?
ing in the darkened lower hall of his
apartment house, 1C0? Surf Avenue,
Coney Island, and oncof them ?hot him
in the chest during a pistol battle that
followed his refusal to put up his
hands. The bullet ?mashed his sternum
and two ribs and penetrated a lung.
Cachapes is near death m Coney Island
Ilo.pital. The bandits escaped.
Cachape3 Is a Greek, fifty-six years
old, the proprietor of the Mardi Gras
Hotel and motion picture theater next
to tho West End Terminal, at Stillwell
and Surf avenues, about three blocks
from his home. He turned the placo
over to the night watchman at 2:30
o'clock yesetrday morning after count?
ing tho day's receipts and started for :
his home.
As was usually tho case, he had
money and valuables about him, which
made him rich pre*/ for robbers. U?**
wore a three-carat diamond ring vul*">&d
at ?3,000, a stickpin valued at $1,000,
and had in his pockets $3,100 in Lib?
erty bonds and $500 in currency.
Notices Lights Are Out
On approaching his apartment house,
a rambling, three-story structuro built
of wood, Cachapes noticed that tho
light in the first floor hall had been
extinguished. The hall is an unusually
lon&* one and Cachapes had to grope
his way for about fVty feet before
reaching the stairs.
He had started up the stairs and
was four or five steps above tho floor
when three vague shapes sidled from
beneath tho stairs and the command
came sharply:
"Put 'em up!"
Cachapes drew an automatic pistol
and fired at tho nearest of the three
men. The instantaneous flash and re-1
port that came in reply showed that
the robber had his weapon in hand
when ho ordered Cachapes to put up'
his hands.
His two companions also began firing
and Cachapes kept his finger on the j
trigger of his automatic until he was !
hit and tumbled down the stairs. A I
dozen or fifteen shots were flred and
walls, celling and floor wore scarred
and splintered by bullets.
Grope Way Toward Hallway
The entire house was aroused. Light?.
flashed up in al! the apartments and
tenants began feeling their way toward
tho dark hallway. Patrolman Byrnes
and Roach?, of tho Coney Island police
station, heard the shots and came on
tho run.
By tho time the first occupants of
the house to arrive had descended to
the main hall, the patrolmen had found
the switch and turned on the lights,
revealing Cachapes sprawling at the
foot of the stairs, aImo?.t unconscious,
but groping for the pistol which had
slipped from bis fingers when be fell.
IIo ?aid that his ????ailants had fled
by the rear door. The police found
two boards torn from n high fence
which Separates the apartment house
yard from an automobile parking space
on Mermaid Avenue, and cam? to the
conclusion that the robbers had
crawled through the fence and got away
in an automobile tney had parked be?
hind it.
Tho police obtained a description of
one of the men from Cachapes.
Berwin Pickets tu Continue
20,000 Miners Ready Tc Be Ar
rested, Says Spokesman
Despite tho interruption of picketing
i In front of the E. J. Bcrwlnd home at 2
East Sixty-fourth Street by the police
Saturday, the striking: coal miners will
resume operations there this morning
and if arrested will be replaced by an?
other detachment. The two men who
were on duty Saturday, Joseph Kopchek
and Michael Fazeks, will return. Their
spokesman, George Wagner, said last
night: "If they aro arrested we have
20,000 more men back in Pennsylvania,
so we can keep right on picketing.''
There was no attempt at patroling
either tho Berwind residence or
office of the ???-'-* ?*?? - - **r
the Berwir-d-White Coa? ft**
pany r.t 11 Broadway yesterday Afe
the six picket- rested ?t h??^ ?' ftf
in tho fiot.1 CoatKntoI,h;S5J?ri
to a renewal of operation- to-d.f 7
meeting of tho strikers was held in __T
afternoon at the Civic Club L Vh*
Twelfth Street, when Powers H__?2
and T. D. Stiles, organizers,3 ?
tho men. Another meeting willh? k_t__
to-night at 8 o'clock at the Engi-W?'
Society Auditorium, 23 We? Thi-?
ninth Street.
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