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HOW NEW JERSEY DENTIST, CRAZED BY DEBI, MURDERED HIS WIFE AND CHILDREN
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, TINY VICTIM OF CRAZED DENTIST
THREE-YEAR-OLD daughter of Dr. Arthur M. Wool
sey, Elizabeth, N. J., dentist, whom the father, crazed by
debt, he says, slew, together with her brother and her
mother.
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at sea, flying south of th# North
Atlantic steamer lane but across
the route of the steamships that
ply into porta in 3 the southern
United States.
The fliers left Le Bourget field,
Paris, at 11:49 p.m., Thursday. Wash
ington time. A French trawler
sighted their plane, the Marzalek Pil-
about 60 miles off the French
coast, three and a half hours after
the take-off. - - -
Winds, Rains and Fogs
Make Atlantic Coast
Unfavorable to Fliers
By International Newt Service
NEW YORK, Aug. 4.—Dense fogs
hung over the Atlantic Seaboard
today as the two Polish fliers,
from Halifax to Natucket, Light
Major Louis Idzikowskl and Major
Masimir Kubala, were believed to
be nearing American waters.
Complete reports of weather con
ditions had not been received at
noon, but -Dr. James H. Kimball, of
the United States Weather Bureau,
announced that flying conditions be
tween New York and Halifax were
decidedly unfavorable owing to
winds, rains, and the fog.
Meanwhile plans were being ac
tively arranged for the reception of
the fliers upon their arrival in New
York. Grover Whalen, chairman
of the mayor’s committee for/ recep
tion of distinguished guests, said
plans were not yet complete pend
ing definite word of the fliers.
Minister Waits
The Polish minister in Washing
ton, Jan Clechanowski, made a spe
cial trip here to be on hand wnen
the airmen arrive and consulted
with Polish Consul General Eu
gene Rogirodowski and Thadeus
Marynowskl, consul In New York.
Representative of many Polish or
ganizations conferred with these of
ficials and a spontaneous greeting
by thousands of Polish-Americans
Is certain, if the fliers arrive any-
FINDS NUDE GIRL
IN HIS ROOM
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“Stop,” Groves said he shouted,
and the nude figure fled from the
room. Groves in hot pursuit.
The fleeing girl entered a door
two doors from his own.
Groves notified the hotel man
agement. which in turn called po
lice.
Girl h Held
Detectives Culilname and O’Dea
went to the hotel and arrested Miss
Virginia Ross. 22. who was in the
room to which Groves pursued his
nocturnal caller, and had the door
slammed in his face.
A Mr. and Mrs. Jack Martin were
registered for the room, police say.
“Mr. Martin was out.” when the
room was called. Detective Culli
nane answered and informed the
caller that Mrs. Martin had left
word to meet her at a nearby tea
room.
Taken al Tea Room
At the tea room, near Thomas
Circle, the detectives, having pre
viously secured his description from
the hotel clerk, arrested g man
who gave his name as “Jack” Ben
jamin Elliott. 23, of Houston, Tex.
He was booked as “alias J. J.
Martin.”
way near the time expected—about
dusk. «
In addition thousands of cheering
New Yorker* will await the bird
men; at Mitchel Field, which is be
lieved to be their destination. A
largi force of Nassau county police
has been ordered to be ready to
handle the crowds upon the arrival
of the fliers.
If the fliers are delayed by ad
verse winds, fog beacons and flood
lights will be turned on at Mitchel
Field, and naval and military posts
al! along the Atlantic coastline
hav« been ordered to keep their
grounds illuminated tonight,
Kubala announced before taking
off that he expected to reach Naw
York in about 40 hours. This
would, bring the plane here between
4 and 5 o'clock this afternoon.
When Col. Charles A. Lindbergh
crossed the Atlantic to Paris via the
’tiorteat route, the “Great Circle.”
he covered about 3-600 miles. The
Polish fliers, having taken a more
southerly route, will probably have
to cover at least 4,000 miles on their
journey.
Will Fly to Meet Them
Once the flying majors were sight
ed off the coast, it was planned to
wnd a reception squadron 100 miles
out to sea to escort them landward.
Grover Whaleia. chairman of the
mayor’s committee for reception
distinguished guests, said the munic
ipal welcoming program was more or
less undrafted, pending definite word
of the fliers.
“But they’ll be accorded every
courtesy, be.certain of that,” Whalen
assured.
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WASHINGTON RESERVISTS END ANNUAL CRUISE
WITH THEIR SEABAGS slung over their shoulder, almost 100 Washington naval
reservists stepped over the gangplank of the U. S. S. Upshur to end their annual
cruise today. This picture shows the reservists coming ashore at the Washington
Navy Yard. Their cruise carried them as far north as Boston.
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DENTIST’S HOME AT ELIZABETH
DESIRING TO SPARE his family the “disgrace” of his I
financial difficulties, the doctor said he arose early yes
terday, first shot his wife (1), then his son, in an adjoin- '
PATIENT KILLS
SELF AFTER
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crash which sent Bismah to the hos
pital.
This ppte read:
“I have been wronged in a Wash
ington hospital. I hope you and
Jimmy will please arrange with
those concerned to get in the apart
ment and get whatever you want,
fwniture, etc. I have been doped
by a hospital in Waahlngton ao you
know I won't live long. Best love
to all. I am • yours—Frotcie
Freddie.” -
The third note was addressed to
the Y. M. C. A.-
"My name,” it raad, “is Frederic
Bisman. not Frank Foote as I had
registered. Please advertise by
articles on front pages of Wash
ingtoir and Philadelphia news
papers.”
Discovered By Clerk
Bisman's leap to death was dis
covered by Raymond H. Stoll, day
clerk of the ’”Y.” Hearing a heavy
thud on the glass dome over the
basement swimming pool, Stoll ran
to a window and saw Bisman s
crumpled body. Aided by’ John
Lang, a workman, of the 3000 block
of East Baltimore St., Stoll sum
moned police and an ambulance and
attempted o aid Bisman.
Cards in the dead man’s pockets
Indicated he had been employed bv
the Skinner-HHI Company, of New
York.
No baggage was found In his
room, although articles of wearing
apparel were left there. An open
bottle of a lotion for the alleviation
of poison ivy was found' also, but
police had not determined whether
he drank any of it. Biflman leaped
from a window down the hall from
hie room.
Police Sergeant John R. Rollman.
Central police district, had the bodv
removed to the morgue, pending an
inqdest by Coroner William C.
Riley.
The airplane in which Bisman was
injured was the Sea Gull, piloted by
Thomas Durfee, of the Potomac
Flying Service. Endeavoring to land
on the river, Durfree was flying low
over the Highway Bridge and
swerved to avoid collision with the
tugboat Minerva.
The plane turned over, pinning its
occupants in the cabin, Durfree
fought frea and dragged his pas.
sengers out of the cabin to the fuse
lage. Capt. Frederick Kintz, of the
tug, rescued and landed them near
Arlington Memorial Bridge where
they received treatment by the res
cue squad and were taken to the
hospital. Bisman suffered concus
sion of the brain. A blood clot formed
on hi« brain and. delayed his recov
ery, it was said at the hospital.
U. S. Runners Win In 400-Meter
Relay In Inpressive Style
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racing and dropped out of the
steeplechase one lap from home. He
was running last at the time.
Incidentally, Willi# also lost his
Olympic record for the event, Lou
kola being timed in 9:214-5, which
was many seconds better than the
record. The race was finished in a
torrential. downpour, at that. Im
mediately, three Finnish flags were
run up on their halyards,. celebrat
ing the triple victory.
Mel Dalton, Seton Hall, stayed
with -the leaders over the early
going, but found the pace too hot
for him on the closing laps and
fell back into the ruck to finish
nowhere. In fact, no one was »W<*
to stick with Loukola’s pace
through the last lap, Nurmi himself
being beaten off by 70 meters.
Frenchman Fifth
Eklof, Sweden, wae fourth and
the Frenchmen, Dartlgues and Du
quesne, were fifth and sixth re
spectively.
The result of the race ’eft the
four Finns —Nurmi, Ritola, Larva
and Ldukota/ —with a victory in
each of four running events and
interesting angle of the performance
was that each helped the other in
gaining his victory. ~
In with rain pelting them in
the face, the American relay' run
ners romped to an easy victory
over Canada in the first heat of
the 1,600-meter relay in 3.212-5.
Baird, running first for America,
came home with a yard to spare
over his Canadian rival. Spencer
increased the lead to 10 yards on
the second leg and Aiderman made
It 14 yards on the third, leaving/
Barbuti nothing to do but breeze
to the tape. The Canadians* hold
on second place also went unchal
lenged and they did not extend
themselves. Poland, Belgium and
Hungary were eliminated in this
heat. ■ •
At thia juncture, the runways
were a series of miniature lakes,
giving the decathlon performers a
very precarious footing for the
pole vault.
Germahy won the second heat,
with Sweden second. In 3:20 4-5,
beating the Americans’ time. Hol
land, Italy. Greece, and Czecho
slovakia were eliminated in this
heat. Then the British beat the
French and Mexicans In the third
heat, also bettering the Americans'
time. The British were clocked in
3:20 3-5.
Swede Wins Pentathlon •
The modern pentathlon title went
to the Swede. Ihofelt, with none of
the Americans prominent at any
time. Another Swede, Llndman,
was second: Kahl. Germany, was
third; Berg. Sweden, was fourth;
Hax. Germany, fifth, and Torquand-
Young. England, sixth. Lieut. Aud
rey S. Newmann gave the best per
formance of the Americans, placing
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DIAGRAM OF THE .TRAGEDY .
I ing room (2), then returned and killed his 3-year-old
daughter (3), finally dragging his wife’fc body into the
j bathroom, where he the blood (4).
fifteenth Lieut. Richard W. Mayo
was nineteenth, and Lieut. Peter C.
Hains, twentieth.
The pentathlon today featured a
5,000-meter cross-country race on
horseback. Hains getting: seventh
place. Newmann finishing thirty
first. and Mayo thirty-seyenth ahd
last. Berg, Hweden, wdn the event,
with Hax, Germany, second, and
Simonetti, Italy, third.
Miss Norelius Breaks
World Record in Winning
400-Meter Heat for U. S.
AMSTERDAM, Aug. 4.-—M is s
Martha Norelius, Women's Swim
ming Association, New York, broke
the listed world’s and Olympic rec
ords today in winning her heat in
the 40<hmeter swim, free style, at
the Olympic games today . She was
timed in 5:45 2-5, bettering the
world's record, 5:58 1-5, made by
Miss Gertrude Ederle eight years
ago. The former Olympic record,
6:02 1-5, was 4>eld hy Miss Norelius
herself.
Hungary defeated Argentina by
14 to 0 in the water polo event
earning the right to meet the
United States in the second rpund.
The United States team drew a bye
in the first round.
Austin Clapp, of Hollywood, Calif.,
won the first elimination heat in the
1,500-meter swim in 21 minutes and
31 seconds.
Takebayashi. a Japanese, took sec
ond place in this heat.
Ray Ruddy, of New York, fin
ished second to Takaishi, of Japan,
in the next heat of the same event.
The Japanese's time was 21 minutes
20 4-5 seconds. Ruddy was a full
length of the pool, 50 meters, be
hind the Winner.
OLYMPIC STADIUM, AMSTER
DAM. Aug. 4.—Paavo Yrjola. of
Finland, today won the decathlon.
Jarvinen, of Finland, was second
and James Stewart, of the lam
Angeles A. C., was third.
Yrjola, Finland, won the discus
throw in the decathlon with a toss
of 138 feet 1 VlO inches, with Jim
Stewart, Los Angeles, second, at
134 feet 2 1-4 Inches. Cejzlk, Poland,
was third with 128 feet, 4 9-50
inches, and Ken Doherty, Detroit,
fourth, with 127 feet 7 2-5 inches.
Tom Churchill. Oklahoma, was well
up with the leaders in this event,
doing 125 feet 3 2-5 inches, but
IJarney Berlinger, Pennsylvania,
could do ■do better than 106 feet
7 9-10 inches.
The standing of the competitors
after the conclusion of the pole
vault, the eighth event on the list,
showed Yrjola, the Finn, still in
front with 6,482.24 points and Stew
art. right on his heels with 6.460.91.
Another Finn, Jarvinen, with 6,414.15
and a Swede. Jansson, with 6,357.41,
were third and fourth respectively.
AMSTERDAM, Aug, 4. —Fred-
erick W. Rubien, secretary of the
American Olympic Committee, did
not serve today as a field judge
as the result of his dispute with
Murray Hulbert, president of the
American Amateur Athletic Union.
Rubien charged that Hulbert did
not look after the interests of the
American track and field contest
ants. Hulbert retorted that he was
in the position of a man on a
jury and had to stay aloof to
avoid charges of impartiality. He
accused Rubien of not following his
instructions in. certain committee
meetings of the International Ama
teur Athletic Federation where
Rubien represented the A. A. U.
Hulbert admitted that he had
Rubien removed as a. field judge
but such action had been antici
ated, owing to the friction that
had been evidenced for some weeks.
The quarrel betweei the two men
is expected to be aired in the
open convention of the A. A. U. —■
California Oarsmen
Win Heat in Race With
Danes; 4-Oar Crew Out
SLOTON, Holland, Aug. 4.
American oarsmen enjoyed varied
success in the Olympic races here
today, the California eight easily
defeating Denmark in its heat of,
the eight-oared race, and Kenneth
Myers, Philadelphia, capturing his
heat of the single sculls from Collet,
Great Britain. In 7:46 4-5. The Yan
kee four-oared crew without cox
swain was eliminated from the
games when it lost to Switzerland
by two lengths.
The Golden Rears drew the inferior
station for the start, but jumped into
the lead and never were headed. They
led hy a half length at 500 meters.
Increased their advantage to a
length at 750 meters and were two
lenghta In front at 1.000 meters.
Here, they lowered their stroke to
lass than 34 to the minute giving
Denmark a chance to hang on. But
250 meters from home they again
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lifted the beat to 37 and picked up
another length without extending
themselves.
They will not row tomorrow, but
will spend their time resting for the
finals.
The automobile carrying officials
and timers, broke down during the
Californis*Denmark race and did not
reach the finish line until the race
was well over. ’ No official tfne was
available, therefore. The Bears were
docked in 6:30, unofficially, aided by
the Wind.
Baltimorean to Propose
Chair Instead of Rope
BALTIMORE, M<k, Aug. 4.—An
effort will be made to abolish hang
ing in favor of electrocution in
Maryland at the nekt session of the
legislature.
State Senator John I* Myers of
Baltimore, announced ■ today hi
would propose the measure.
The spectacle here yesterday,
when Charles P. Carey and Benja
min F. Spragins were hanged, was
described as “horrible” by witnesses
and spectators, many of whom fled
the scene of execution when the
prisoners groans and heavy breath
ing gave evidence of painful death.
SPAIMUN DECIDED
MADRID, auk. A—lt- 1« not ret
decided whether Spain will* sign the
American treaty outlawing war,
said an official communique today.
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PROUD OF HER BLOSSOMS
MISS MARJORIE HANSEN, of 120 Carroll Ave.
Takoma Park, is shown here with her basket of blossoms
that brought her a first prize, etas J 5, at the annual
Takoma Park gladiola show.
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ANOTHER VICTIM AND THE SLAYER
7 AFTER COMMITTING the murders Dr. Woohey cooked
his breakfast, bought cigars, and then finally notified the
police. He is to be examined by alienists as to his sanity.
Traffic Cop Disappears,
Leaving Trail of Debts
PHILADELPHIA, Aug; 4. Be
lieved to have been hard pressed
by his debts, for four years, Wil
liam Gwin, traffic officer at Glouc
ester City, has not reported for duty
for several days and his fellow
officers declare he has left for
parts unknown. , At his home It
was learned that, he had taken his
clothes and departed in his automo
bile, purchased a few weeks ago,
and made no provision for the sup
port of his wife , and two children.
The police say Gwin has left ob
ligations amounting to more than
SI,OOO, which his friends will be
obliged to pay because they are al
leged- to have Indorsed his notes
in banks.
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dangerous, physicians*! the hospi
tal said. • I
Breaks From «u*rfc
According to hospital officials,'
Evans was being walked from the
surgical building in the grounds to
an automobile which he was to
be taken to Howard Hall, home of
the criminally insane, when he sud
denly broke loose from his bonds
and ran for a patch of woods. A J
He evidently had secured a knife
or some other sharp instrument and , J
succeeded in cutting the leather. .
Police were immediately notified g
and >. general lookout for the man J
was Issued. jB
Evans was committed to St. Elis- ■
abeth’s following his shooting spree I
last January. At that time he was ■
captured by Traffic Policeman Roy 1
Bridges at the corner of Eleventh 1
and E Streets Northwest, after |
Evans had fired hts revolver withLi |
a fqot of the officer’s face. The J
gun jammed and Bridges soon ever
powered Evans.
Evans’ home is in Phoenix, Aril.
While the escaped lunatic roamed *9
the city today, Washington police 1
were prepared to capture him by |
methods developed during the World
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DIES IT HOME I
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Church of the Transfiguration will 1
officiate.
Frank A. Sebring, clerk of the ■
court made the announcement of ■
Judge Macdonald’s death at the 1
opening of court this mornjng. ■
Sebring moved the court adjourn 1
in memory of Judge Macdonald, j
and also that during the general
term appropriate resolutions be in- 9
scribed.
Judge R. E. Mattingly, presiding, ■
declared from the bench:
“It is with the profoundest Tegret ■
and. sorrow that the court learns of ?
the untimely death of our beloved I
friend and associate. Judge Mac
donald. He was a gentleman in
every sense of the word, a splendid 1
judge and, in truth, a friend of I
mankind. X ' |
“It is difficult to realize that ‘the 1
gentle, kindly voice -will be heard ho’ I
more in our council. He has passed a 1
to that bourne toward which we all * 1
are rapidly traveling.
"At a later date, in general term, •ti
appropriate action will be taken
and when court adjourns It will be |
out of respect for his memory. Let ’
it be inscribed on the minutes of j
the court.” - 1
Judge MacDonald, was formerly
a telegrapher, and spent most of
- career before taking up the .
law. in Albany, N. T.. where he .
flashed news of the New York
Capital to the great dallies of the
country. He always was kindly a , 1
disposed to newspaper men.
He was best known in Washing- j
ton as the father of the Night O
Traffic Uourt. He was the first J
judge to sit in that court.
BANDIT GETS $1,790
ST. IAJUIS, Aug. 4.—A lone ban- 0
did'today held up Albert Rich, 23, |
payroll messenger for an automo
bile concern here, and escaped wHk
♦1,790 in cash.