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THE SUN 'AND NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, TOLY 22, 1920,
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mm ASKS SMITH
t TO SAVE HIS BUSES
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3?onts Legislature Called to
Back Him Up In City
Operation Plan.
jrERCKAXTS IX PROTEST
life Insurance Companies
Likewise Object to Attack
on Their Investment?.
f Having failed w far In all other re
courses U establish a macWpil bus sys
tn to comjt wltii th city's traction
line. Mayor Hylan appealed to Gov.
fimlth yesterday to conve to hU rnu
fcy callUe a special session of the I.ls
Utur for li purj?se of autbcrrUlcg tn
cttr definitely l so into the bus busi
ness. Tie Mayor- Macedonian cry came In
th form of a resolution at Uw Board of
Estimates special bearins upon tb bus
cruesuon. The resolution ww come up
for vole in Use next sston of tne board.
Th appeal is based upon a letter
written by the Mayor to the Governor
June i:. following the Coort of Appeals
decision putting municipal bos lines In
Brooklyn out of builnwi. It call upon
ti Governor to convoke the Ltstslatnre
e.t the earliest tiro possible. Tfc Mayor,
however, did not make that letter public
until yesterday at toe Board of Estimate
heart. ir
Smith I'roinlsrs Attention.
' It a fairly safe asssmption that
the board will adopt th Mayor's resolu
tion, especially since th resolution ap
pears for th moment to bridge the gap
between the Mayor and the Comptroller,
th Comptroller bavin? declared last
Tuesday asalnit the Mayors previous
private corporation plan and in favor
of comoltms the legislature before un
dertaking to ttl the traction question.
The Mayor" letter of June II to the
Govtrnor was received by the Chief Kx
tcutlve while he was In conference with
Charles F. Murphy and Tom Tassart
upon ways and means of controlling tct
Democratic convention at San Francisco.
The Governor assured the Mayor he
nrould take th matter up as soon a he
t;ot back to his Albany offlce.
Yesterdays public hearing brought
out several protests against the Mayor's
wt-ralylr. linn rilan. rsedallr from the
Merchants Association and from four
large Insurance companies which have
$J7.000G'J9 of their polity nowers
money tied up to rapid transit bonds.
Tfcera were also a number of politicians
end other Individuals to tell bow the
people In Greenpoint and elsewhere are
crying for buses.
tVhr Merchant Protest.
The Merchants' Association based Its
opposition to the Mayor's bus plan on
th following grounds:
Serious impairment of the existing
transit system without certainty that
th substitute proposed would b
efficient.
The- great congestion of vehicular
traffic that would result from sucn a
system.
The lack of an emergency to warrant
destructive competition between busts
and surface trolley lines.
Lack of proper authority under the
Public Service Commission law.
The hearing was adjourned until next
Wednesday rrremlng. '
HUGHES'S NAME USED
AS BAD CHECK BAIT
Bostonian Held on Restau
rateur's $250 Complaint.
Accused of grand larceny, which. It Is
alleged, be committed by passing out
.worthless checks to any one who was
willing to listen to his stories and cash
them, Harry B- Stedman, 30 years old,
vrbo said be was th son of a prominent
banker of Boston, was arraigned yester
day In Adams street court, Brooklyn,
and held for the Grand Jury. A tele
phone call which Stedman had declared
at the time was made to the home of
former Justice Charles E Hughes, was
mentioned In court by Harry Fink, pro
prietor of the Rltz restaurant, Brooklyn,
who appeared as a complainant against
fitedman.
Fink declared he cached a check for
$2S0 for Stedman. and later experienced
the sensation of being told ft was worth
less. According to the detectives who
investigated Ktedman's movements here,
he gave a check for 1250.000 to the
brokerage firm of Prendergast & Co., at
20 .Broad street, last December, and one
for 110,000 to an automobile company.
Both checks were returned marked "no
good," It Is alleged.
Inquiries in Boston brought the In
formation last night that the only banker
named Stedman In that city Is Henry B.
Stedman, Sr., whose son, Henry, Jr., has
figured prominently In the news since
192. In that year he became known to
reporters because he "lived like a king"
at 11 Boston hotel and moved away sud
denly, leaving a bill for 1313. Ills arrest
followed.
In May, 1315, young Stedman married
Miss Blanche Dorothy Cromwell, a nurse
who had attended him In the Charles B.
Towns Hospital In Central Park West
While In the hospital Stedman enter
tained the other patients with stories
of the "good times" he had had with
his "dear friends Vincent Aator, Her
mann Oelrichs and other wealthy fel
lows." AQUITANIA COMING FAST.
With Oil Fuel Comes Within Half
Knot of Record.
Capt Sir James T. W. Charles of the
Cu Harder Aqultanla, which is making
her first trip to this port as an oil
burner, reported yesterday by wireless
that the nautical day's run ending at
noon was within half a knot of her
record and that she probably would
make the fastest crossing In tho post
vrar period.
It Is probable she will arrive here to
morrow Afternoon. Among her passen
gers are Walter Hagen, golfer ; Prof. W.
II. Bolton, Maxwell 11. Iaxwell. direc
tor of tfce Cunard line; the Rev. Dr. J
A Hutton. Hon. J. W. Pike. Major P.
r-. Thomas, Harold S. Vanderbllt and
C. F. De Ganahl.
BLAYEE, 18, TO DIE Iff WEEK,
"Mother Trying Hard to Save
Hyatt From Electric Chair.
Elmer Hyatt aged IS, has Just a week
tnore to live unless Gov, Smith inter
venes with the execution at Sing Sing
ordered by tho court If tho sentence
Is carried out Hyatt who killed Patrol
man O'Brien In Rochester, will be the
youngest slayer ever to die In the chair
At 81ng Sing. Hyatt's mother has ob
tained the signatures of the Jurors to a
petition for clemency.
James Byrd, aged 23, who killed
Patrolman Lawrence at Kingston,
TJliter county. Is to die to-day. Friends
pre making final efforts to obtain a
3 SENT TO JAIL IN
MAXIM'S WET RAID
Fine of $lflOO Also Imposed
m United States Loan.
After a two boar trial and
deliberation by th jury a
miltr was reutrned yesterday in th
United States District Court against
Maxim's restaurant. 101 West Thirty-1
tlz' :trt. ciarsrl rlth vicUtlnr tit;
Volstead act. Judge Wllium u. aaep -
pard Imposed a fine of 11.040.
Maxim's was raided January IS by
tmtiflilllnn sr.nll nl Julltll Keller.
president and treasurer; Morris Roth
Ray, bartender, were arrested. Keller'
Hlrsca and Kay-were seniencea 07
Juige Sheppard to thirty days In Essex
county Jail, while Roth was siren two
months in the tamo institution. They
were paroled In custody of counsel for a
week to consider an appeal-
SUMMON ARMOUR IN
HIGH PRICE PROBE
Federal Grand Jary Inquiry
i to Look Into Lamb Sales.
The Federal Grand Jury took cogni
sance yesterday of the current market
prices of meats and the accompanying
Inferences of profiteering by Usutng to
Department of Justice agents subpoenas
.which were served upon the ten main
j branches and offices of Armour tt Co.
in this city.
, This step was explained as preliminary
to a thorough official inquiry Into the
'piesent high pricts and for the purpoit
of expoting'the profiteers, If such there
are. The action was instituted first
against the packing concern, and wii!
reach as well to other packers, without
any presumption that the profiteering is
In that quarter but as the first move in
a process i elimination.
Department 0 Justice- authorities, who
acted upon Instructions of Attorney
General Palmer, remarked that It
seemed more probable that If rJolatlom
of the Lever act exist they have ty-en
committed rather by the retailers than
by the packing houses. Special atten
tion, however, is to be given to the re
cent stories that Immense quantities of
lamb actually obtained from New Zea
land had been marketed here by the
packers as American lamb and sold at
exorbitant prices.
The legal papers served yesterday re
quire Armour k Co. to present to the
Grand Jury all their books and papers
that will shed light on the quantities of
goods bandied by them and th prices
pall and charged. Likewise they are
rejulred to surrender their records from
May 1 to July 30 of this year In refer
ence to lamb.
Indictments will be asked for by the
j Government If profiteering under the
I Lever act is revealed. It was said, but
1 at present th proceedings are only In
the nature of an official inquiry to get
at the facts.
R. G. QUENNELLHELD
ON BIGAMY CHARGE
Action Is Result of Recent
Annulment Suit.
Robert G. Quennell. son of the late
Rev. Robert George Quennell. who was
a rector of the Church of the Ascension.
Fifth avenue and Tenth street, was
lodged In the Tombs yesterday await
ing extradition to Essex county, New
Jersey, where he Is wanted on the
charge of bigamy. He was arrested
Tuesday by Detective Kalbflelsch of the
New York Central Office at the request
of Essex county authorities, who were
assigned to clear up the case after
Quennell's marital difficulties had been
aired in the Supreme Court here.
The charge of bigamy Is the direct oat
come of an annulment suit successfully
brought before Justice Greenbaum In
May, 1J13, by L. J. Ginsberg of 122
Broadway, counsel for Miss Madeline
Plercy, whom Quennell had married two
months previously. When Presented as
"his wife" to his mother three days
after the wedding It became known
with some embarrassment that another
Mrs. Quennell and child were living In
Philadelphia. Miss Plercy then brought
suit for the annulment of her marriage.
Testimony In the proceedings showed
that the first Mrs. Quennell' was living
apart from her husband, although their
marriage was still In force. She refuscl
to participate In divorce proceedings be
cause of religious views.
j i-oi. Lianes 11. iuscom 01 41 far
trow, Quennell's attorney In civil pro-
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bcnuiniis, miu tun Client wuutu be re
leased on ball to-day. The amount was
fixed by Magistrate Simpson yesterday
at 12.JW. Quennell Is 47 years old. He
has been living with bis mother and
sisters at 133 West Eleversji street. An
other sister Is the wife of Albert R.
Gallatin, banker, of 1U Broadway.
$80,000 TO GUARD
AGAINST EPIDEMICS
Estimate Board Heeds Dr.
Copeland's Warnings.
An appropriation of 180,000 to pre
pare against possible epidemics of
smallpox, cholera, plague and typhus
such as are raging In parts of Europe
was obtained yesterday from the Board
of Estimate by Health Commissioner
Copeland.
"An emergency exists," Dr. Copeland
said, when asked If the appropriation
might be deferred a week. I don t
want to alarm tho board, but neither do
I desire to give the Impression that
conditions are not eerious enougb to
warrant action now."
Dr. Copeland said that In the last
week five cases of smallpox had devel
oped The average la twenty cases o.
year. One victim was a passenger on
the steamship Olympic.
FREED OF SING SING,
2 HELD AS SLAYERS
Smith Commutes Sentence So
Men Can Be Tried.
Gov, Smith commuted yesterday to
the time actually served the nine year
sentences of Harold V. Lamble, at Au
burn Prison, and Charles Pcrshand, at
Sing Sing. The men were arrested upon
their discharge by officials of Union
county, N. J. They will be taken to
Ellxabeth N. J.. to be tried for the mur
ders of Miss Edith L. Janny and Arthur
B. Kupfer near Rahway In 1918.
Gov. Smith said he granted commu
tations upon representations that a trial
In New Jersey probably would result
In convictions. Walter L. HetflelO,
Prosecutor of Union county, who went
to Albany to obtain the commutations,
directed Detective John T. Walsh, of
Elizabeth, to take Lamble from Au
burn. The prosecutor and John A. Gal
atlan. Chief of Detectives of Union
County, will conduct Pershand from
Sing Sing. The trials will be held early
in September.
Prison for FIften Cbanffenrs. 1
Fifteen chauffeurs, who said they
couldn't raise money enough to pay
their fines, were sentenced yesterday
In Traffic Court to prison term of five
to fifteen days. During the day Magls
trato McGeehan disposed of 315 cases
and collected nearly 14,000 In fines. An
extra squad of motorcycle patrolmen
iGUuput ca duty, to-dayj it vra Iwned.;
ONE BERGDOLL GIVES
UP TO HELP MOTHER
IMrTfjEnTin, Fugitive Two Years,
'Surrenders Here, Silent
on Wanderings.
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COURT - 3IABTIAL OPEN'S
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XcW Version Of GrOTCr'S Es-
cape Told as Col. Hunt
Faces Judges.
Erwia R. BergdolJ. Philadelphia draft
dodger, chose a drama Uo moment yes-
! terday to surrender to the army authori
ties at Governors Island. Llet!t.-CoL
John E. Hunt. U. S. A., retired, had
just heard read to him the charges in
a court-martial convened to try him for
alleged neglect of duty In connection
with the sensational escape of Graver
Cleveland BergdoIL 'brother of Erwln,
from non-commissioned officers who had
taken him to Philadelphia from the
Governors Island disciplinary barrack,
of which Lleut-CoL Hunt was comman
dant The surrender of Erwln was said to
be a move to help his mother, who is
under indictment In Philadelphia on a
charge of aiding her sons to evade mili
tary service. At her home In Philadel
phia Mrs. Bergdoll said yesterday she
was gfad to hear Erwln had given him-
selp up. and expressed a hope that
Grover would do the same. Federal
officials in Philadelphia said they had
been expecting Erwlns surrender for
several months. Erwln arrived ai
Governor's Island accompanied by an
other brother and Judge Romlg of Phila
delphia.
It was made clear at the trial of
Lleut-CoL Hunt by Lleut-CoL Charles
Cresson. Judge Advocate, who Is
prosecuting the case, and by the testi
mony of Sergeant John O'Hare, who
was one of the guards who took Grover
Cleveland Bergdoll to Philadelphia, that
no suspicion exists which would Impli
cate CoL Hunt In the slacker's escape.
The charge of neglect of duty is under
the J5th article of war, In that he dla
not take proper precautions when Berg
doll left the barracks to go to Philadel-
pnta.
lUcape Story Changed.
Sergo-ant O'Hare's testimony gave a
new setting to th story of Bergdolfs
escape, differing considerably from the
one told previously by D. C. Glbboney.
one or liergooirs attorneys. It also
revealed that Glbboney was to assume
the management of the expedition for
which the slacker was released, but that
after he met Bergdoll and his guard
when they arrived he was not seen again
by them or heard from until after the
escape.
Sergeant O'Hare said that when he
started withBergdoII he had no idea
they were going to stop In Philadelphia.
He thought they were going straight to
Marland after the money Bergdoll was
supposed to have there. In answer to
questions, he said 'Tes, I think Major
Hint said something about starting back
to New York if anything suspicious oc
curred." Felt Little Uneasy.
O'Hare admitted he felt "a Ilttis' tineas)-
when thirty hours had elapsed
and Glbboney had neither put in an
appearance nor phoned aa "Mr. X."
which he had promised to do.
Th Kfinrp nK l,.flmnn. .
Flight on what the party did In Phila
delphia. After dinner at Bergdoll's
house, where they went at Glbboney
suggestion, they took an automobile
ride part of the afternoon, played pool
the rest and went to the theatde in the
evening. The next morning a bottle of
gin was produced. O'Hare said he didn't
drink any and that he cautioned his
companion, Sergt York, after he had
taken a couple of drinks, to "lay off that
stuff."
Major-Gen. P. C. Harris, Adjutant
General of the army, w&a a witness in
the morning. He testified that he gave
permission for the Bergdoll expedition
upon a request from Simon T. Ansel!, a
former Colonel In the "army, and erne of
Bergdoll's counsel, who satisfied blm
tliat every thing about the expedition was
a-H right
C. F. MURPHY ASKS
FOR JURY MINUTES
Tammany Leader Seeks De
tails of Indictments.
Supreme Court Justice Lydon reserved
decision yesterday upon the application
of Charles F. Murphy, Tammany leader,
and others for permission to inspect the
minutes of the Grand Jury which found
Indictments against them. The other
defendants include Arthur J. Baldwin,
Murphy's personal attorney; Assistant
District Attorney James E. Smith, John
A. McCarthy, Emest B. Walden, vice-
president of tho Corn Products Refining
Company, and the Corn Products Refln
lng Company."
The Indictments charge a conspiracy in
violation of Section I5S of the Penal
Law and, In brief, allege that the de
fendants tried by unlawful Influence to
get money from Louis N. Hartog, manU'
facturer of a glucose product Inclden
tally It Is clarged that the carrying out
of the conspiracy would have defrauded
the United States Government of excess
profit taxes. Hartog has a civil action
pending against Murphy for 110,000,000
damages and the Tammany chief is
suing Hartog to recover money which he
Invested In the glucose business.
William M. K. Olcott and Martin Con-
boy appeared In behalf of the defend
ants. William Rand, Special Assistant
Attorney General, opposed the motion for
Inspection of the minutes. Justice Lydon
gave the attorneys until next Tuesday
to file triors.
Itolse Costa Erie 910,000,000.
The Railroad Labor Board wage de
cision will cost the Erie Railroad
11,250.000 additional a month, or about
JIG. 000,000 a year, according to a
statement made yesterday by Robert
S. Parsons, general manager of the road.
He said this was an unofficial estimate
and might be wide of the mark.
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