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WILMINGTON. DELAWARE. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1922
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THIRTY-FIFTH YEAR. NO. 149
ANDREW OF GREECE MA Y FACE FIRING SQUAD;
CITY MURDER VICTIM WAS ITALIAN COBBLER
OBEDIENCE TO
LAW IS URGED
BT COOLIDGE
Vice - President Addresses
Meeting of Educators
at Longwood
GREATER RESPECT FOR
AUTHORITY IS NEEDED
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DR. LIVINGSTON F ARRAN D,
President of Cornell University, who
was elected president of the Asso
ciation of Colleges and Preparatory
Schools,
• requisite of democracy was vigor
ously emphasized by Vice-President
Calvin Coolidge. of the United)
States, In an address yesterday *f-j
tornoon to tbe delegates attending!
the convention of the Association of
Coleges and Preparatory Schools of
and)
were guests of Mr. and Mrs. P. S.
•'uPont. at their country estate. Mr.
-olldg spoko from the platform In
tha main hall of the horticultural
ronaervntorles. More than 800 men)
and women were In the audience,
representing colleges and schools
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tha Middle Atlantic States
Maryland.
Tho Vice-President and educators
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MILES ESCAPES
PLOTTING CHARGE
Evidence of Having Carried
Dynamite for Bridge
Unsatisfactory
CONVICTED MAN
ONLY WITNESS
Luther Mills, alleged to have been
a participant In the railroad strike !
plot to dynamite the Fourteenth ,
street bridge of the
Railroad Company the latter part of
August, was dismissed by Judge
Hastings In Municipal Court this
^morning, on a charge ot conspiracy.
Pennsylvania
Robert G. Harman was attorney for
Mills.
.-Evidence given by two of the five
nfrn now serving time In the work
house for conspiracy in connection
with the dynamiting plot was holtf
by Judge Hastings as insufficient on
which to hold Mills for court. The
two sentenced conspirators who les
tided at tbe Mills hearing were
Lionel M. Phillips and Robert Pratt.
the hos
Continued on Page Five.
NOSE. THROAT CLINIC.
It was announced by officials of
the Homeopathic Hospital today.
that starting next week
pltal will conduct a nose and throat
clinic every Tuesday and Thursday
afternoon starting at 2.30 o'clock.
Dr. Fred VV. Smith of Philadelphia
will be in charge of the clinic. All
will be performed on
operations
Tuesday.
TODAY'S TEMPERATURE
At The Evening Journal Office.
12.01 P. M.. .48
1.00 P. M.. .4»
8.00 A. M.. .43
10.00 A. M.. .4«
SUN AND TIDE.
.7.04 A. M.
.4.35 P. M.
Head of Christiana.
High water. .11.15 A. M. 1141 P. M.
6.15 P. M.
Sun rises
Sun sots .. .
Low water ., 5.40 A. M.
LOST.
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LOST—Brown shuttle
Corner 23rd and Lamotte Sts.,
nesday, Nov. 29. Mrs Saxton. 802 Wash
ington 81. Phono 7293. dcc2-lt.
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Mohammedans. Ahd ul-Medjid. former heir apparent to the Turk throne.
With the abdication of his father, the «tiltan, Abd uI-MedJld succeeded to
the Caliphate but without the political power which had prevlous.y been
joined to this important religious office. Hero the new caliph is shown w.th
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LAUSANNE NEAR GREEK PRINCE ON
DEADLOCK STAGE; TRIAL FOR LIFE
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Questions of Straits. Fron- Andrew Accused of Dis
tier and Oil Far From obeying Order While Turk
Settled j Army Attacked
TURK POPULATIONS
fQ SHIFT GREEK
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i Press).—The Lausanne conference.
deadlocked on the questions of the
•straits, the Mosul oil conceselons and
European frontier, today considered
a six weeks recces beginning Decern
ber 15.
Th # adjournment would permit
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I sm «t Pasha, Turkish leader, to con
oflsuH with the Angora government onj
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LAUSANNE. Dec.
tho controversies and other disputed
points. The conference under the
plan would be resumed at the close
ot the Brussels meeting.
Tchtcherln. the Russian foreign
minister, arrived here late last night
accompanied by Delegate Medivlnt.
He outshone even Mussolini In the
elegance of his attire.
Neither members of the press nor
the public were allowed to approach
the two Russians who were Im
mediately rushed to the Hotel Savoy
to Join Rakowskl and Vorowskl.
The age-old Gordian knot of the
Oreco-Turklsh confl'cta in Asia
Minor was out when the conference
lAMF^k R MANN
■irUmiAJ 11. ITl/Vlill
decided upon a scheme of whole
sale exchange of the civil popula
tions of the two countries. If nec
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NATION HONORS
WASHINGTON, Dec.
Press)—Highest honors of the gov
2. (United
ernment and of Congress were paid
the memory ot the late Representa
tive James R. Mann of Chicago in
funeral services at 2 o'clock this
afternoon In the House ot Repre
sentatives.
The service was (he first of the
kind at the capitol since the death
former Speaker Champ Clark of
Missouri, two years gao.
The body ot the veteran Illinois
legislator was placed on a satafalque
i n front of the rpeaker's rest room.
The ceremony was brief. The
House chaplln. the Rev. James S.
Montgomery delivered an invoca
tion and a short funeral sermon
was given by the Rev. Dr. Freeman,
pastor of the church which Mann
attended.
tonight.
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The body will be taken to Chicago
MISTREATING WIFE
In Municipal Court this morning.
John Mack, Negro, was fined $25
and costs on ft charge of assault and
battery on his wife. His wife said
that ho "slung her across the street"
and then knocked her down.
"He has never treated me as a
wife since we were married," tho
Negress said.
LEAGUE WOMEN SEE PLAY'
Members of tho Co-Opemtlve
League were guests at the matinee
of "Within The Law" at tho Gar
rick Theatre, on Wednesday, the
guests of Manager Webber. Mrs.
J. M. Collins accompanied tbe parly.
SIT IN JUDGMENT
to the glory of the Hellenes, went
brother faced
a eourt martial composed of revo
lutlonarlee who sentenced
cabinet member# and the Gree* war
leaders who were executed,
He is cbar( - e d with disobeying or
ders i^ued by Gen. Pa pay ou las for
2 (United Press 1*
ATHENS. Dec.
—Prince Andrew, a leader In the
Constantine effort to restore Greece
tbe six
an attack at Polatli. where he com
manded an army division during the
disastrous defeat of the Greek
armies by the Turks In the recent
war.
wan crowded with
The room
revolutionaries and sympathizers of
former King Constantine as the trial
began. Great crowds, excited by the
trials and executions, milled out
Princess Alice, wife of Andrew, sat
side.
by the side of the prisoner.
The Prince will be allowed only
live witnesses to refute the -accusa
tions, It was announced.
ATHENS. Dec. 2 (United Press),
—Ten Greek steamers have been
«ent from Piraeus to Samsoun for
refugees, under orders to be on
guard against the seizure of the
ships by the Turks.
At Constantinople an officer of the
Near East relief will take over each
American destroyers will assist a
the embarkation at Sameoun.
R. T. COCHRAN DEAD;
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MOTHER NOT
Robert T. Cochran died yester
attack of acute Indl
day from an
gestion at his home In East Orange,
He was formerly ot Mlddle
where his mother lives.
N. J.
Mr.
town,
Cochran was about 50 years of age
He was the son of the late Thomas
Cochran and a grandson ot the late
R. Thomas Cochran.
He left Middletown 30 years age
and subsequently became engaged
in a large wholesale produce busl
ln New Y'ork, which business he
time ot his
ness
conducted until the
death.
Mr. Cochran is survived by his
widow, several children, his mother
Mrs.
Mrs.
and Mrs. G. Burton Pearson of New
ark, His mother is living with Mrs.
Warren and has been seriously 111
about two months. Because of that
fact she has not been Informed of
the death ot her son.
Maggie Cochran, two sisters
Oka Warren of Middletown
SHUT POLICEMEN.
Patrolman Roy Palmer, who has
been doing traffic duty at Sixth and
Market streets, has been transferred
the police garage, taking the
pince of Chauffeur Littleton
Bishop, who was ordered to street
duty by the Department of Public
Safety.
Bishop has been assigned to traffic
duty at Sixth and Market streets.
to
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Pencl's.
Pens. Eng. Free. Brofsky'e, 825 Mkt.
—Adv.
Waterman
Eversharp
LOCAL COAL
MEN CONFIRM
PRICE RAISE
Says Increase Is Based on
Increasing Cost of Fuel
at Mines
NEW FIGHT BEFORE
TAX COLLECTED
Confirming statements In these
column« yesterday, the
Coal Commission today announced
retail prices of anthracite coal, ef-1
feetlve December 1, until further
notice as follows:
Egg .$14. Î5 per 2.000 lbs.
Stove . 14.25 per 2.000 Ibe.
Chestnut
Pea. 11.65 per 2,000 lbs.
nM * " JT pHce^'for
There are net cash prices for
^oo " nd. wMI b^rhsrred wh^
'S*, d st«temen7the
( 'oal 1» carried. In a stetement the
icommiision fays:
-These pncee are based on the In
rrea*ln* rout of coal to the dealer*.
Delaware
. 14 26 per 2.000 lbs.
due to the f. o. b. mine prices of the
Independent operators, as awarded
by the Fair Practices Committee* of
the Pennsylvania Fuel Commission.
ton in excess of the original m*3tl
mum price set by the Pennsylvania
Ku . P ipof the present coa,
e. XJFull
apparent that, although there
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ESCAPING GAS
RIELS WOMAN
Miss Harriett M. Allen
Found Dead in Her
Room
macc ATTACHED
llv/JL nt mvsiiLLi
TO STOVE BROKEN
Miss Harriett M. Allen, aged 58 1
years, who lived with her brother i
George E. Allen, at
street, was found dead In bed this
morning shortly after
having been asphyxiated during the
night by illuminating gas from »
broken hose attached to a cook stove
in the room.
o clock.
2120 Market
Prior to retiring last night. Miss
Allen put a piece of meat in the pot
on the stove and lighted the gas
turning it down to allow the meat
to simmer during the night, to bt
used for soup today.
The flames may have caused the
pot to boll over, putting the fire
ou| _ „„ th( , waa extinguished
. hjj) morning
There was a broken place in thslfour
hose, also, that apparently had been ,
eu t at some time, and the gas is j
said to have also leaked from it. |
Deputy *
and
Bullock
Coroner Nichols made an investi
gation this morning.
Coroner
MR. WANAMAKER
RESTS EASY TODAY
PHILADELPHIA Pa.. Dec. 2 —
(United Press.)—"There was no per
ceptible change In tho condition of
John Wanatnaker during the night"
his physicians announced early to
day In a bulletin from the aged mer-,
chant's bedside,
waa taken ill about two months ago
While staying at his summer estate^
near Jenklntown and was brought to
his home here to bo nearer medical
altttentlon.
Though his malady Is diagnosed
as a cold, hia advanced age and its
long duration make his Illness seri
ous.
Mr. Wanatnaker
Mr. Wanamaker continued to lose
his illness.
His three
vitality yesterday and
took on a grave aspect,
physicians were by his side through
Late last nigh!; a
Issued stating. "Mr.
out the day.
bulletin wa«
YVanamaker's condition shows Im
provement In every way."
He passed a comfortable night and
was resting easy today.
SBUO FOR SCHOOL LIBRARY'.
The pupils of No 24
contributed about J600 to the fund
for the school library,
have been holding bake sales, >and
selling candy aVd pencils to belli
the fund.
•hool have
The students
For Clover Dairy Safe Milk phone
1640-1541.—Adv.
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HIS PLEA TO
MAKE PUBLIC
SCHOOLS BEST
Should Be No Room for
Private Institutions, Says
Dr. J. H. Odell
SPROUL R APS OREGON
PRIVATE SCHOOLS BAN
,
Dr. Jossph H. Odell, prealdem of
) the Delaware School Auxiliary, stir
red the Aseocfatlon of Colleges
and Preipsrafory School* of the
Middle States and Marland to
ita very core last night by a ringing
declaration that the public school
system of the United State* should
be made so good there would be no
need for private ecbool*.
H,e declaration, flung directly into
the midst of three hundred men and
women most of whom are head* of
or faculty members of private edu
cational Institutions, was met for the
moment with intense alienee. Then
came a burst of sonorous applause,
the heartiest of any all the evening
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C.overnor William C. Sproul. of!
Ponnsyhanla. scored as "tyranny of
the organised minority of Oregon
in voting at the recent election for a
proposed law to abolish prlvar.e and
parochial schools. His ^declaration,
too. elicited applause.
For two hours the delegates to the
association s convention heard a
series of addresses which seldom ha*
been equalled In Wilmington. The
addresses, or rather toasts, served as
an eloquent desert-:o the banquet of
the organitatlon. heb; in the main)
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NEW SCHOOLS
ARE GREAT NEED
Governor Denney Makes
Another Appeal for
Modern Buildings
ASKS CO-OPERATION
IN EDUCATION WEEK
Special to The Evening Journal,
statement
relativ» to Educational
relativ» to Education..
Week, to stimulate, If possible .»
greater Interest- In Education
throughout Delaware.
words represent the govern
mental problems of paramount In
tere.Ht to the people of Delaware for
th» past four years, name y. road
and achools. We have now about i
365 miles of modern hard surface
We have on the other hand. \
few examples of modern ;
DOVER. Dec. 2—Governor Denney
has Issued the following additional ;
"Tw
only a
school buildings for white children. I
Our need for an almost entire re
newat of our «-bool building,
.throughout the State within the next
or live years, is insistent. It 1« I
fortunate, therefore, at this time that
through the co-operation of the
American Legion, th? Federal Bu
reau of Education and the Nationa. !
Educational Association, the week
extend ng from December 3 to
road.
9. next, is set apart for the special
consideration of the educational
needs of the Nation, because ot the
opportunity it affords us of taking
• SKE TICK MOVIES MONDAY*.
Invitations to the Movies are ex
tended to six persons today through
our Classified Advert'slug Depart
Look through the classified
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advs. and If your name Is there come
to the Journal office and receive free
tickets for two (war tax paid) to,
the special production. "The
at the Queen and
the Arcadia,
See page 17 today.
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Rocco pettruzelli is
SLAIN MAN; HA CKED, LEFT
IN MARSH, THEN BURNED
KILLED MAN
SHE LOVED;
Oliva Stone, Acquitted,
Fights Attempt to Balk
Suicide
SAYS LIFE HOLDS
NOTHING E0R HER
Dee. 2.—(United
P. Stone killed
A Jury found
NEW TORK,
Press».—Olivia M
thy man she loved
justification for her act and held that
she should again take her place In
, or „ tv . But within eight months af
(er h ; r 1|beratlon Mi „ stonf , |« n ow
dgman(Jtnc that ghe b , permitted to
d)p
eb ,. gpurng
«he fought, ah# ha* found worse Khan
j eatb
-Everythin« that was dear to me
haj ; from m Ilfe - , g lhg dying
of |he nurae ag ghe rH e™ to
Guv Klnkald former corpora
; tlon ot Cincinnati, with
nhe Uved „ CO mmon law wife
The life spard her by the Jury
The freedom for which
and then shot to death when he left
her
Miss Stone wsa cheered by a great
crowd In a Brooklyn court when her
acquittal was announced,
women stopped her on the street
congratulate her. Then the drams
ended.
worl#whose laws she had defied be
She became a wallreaa In
For months the strug
Men and
The tragedy of living In
gan.
reataurant.
gle went on Olivia Stone was swal
lowed up In the vastness of New
Miaa Stone had
York.
Late Friday ehe appeared again
She took a room at a Broadway
Hotel,
heard.
the bed In pain.
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Soon afterward groans wer«
She was found writhing or
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jq K ILLED IN
SYMRNA RIOTING
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PARI8, D * c * ' wm*,V m
nfty p ,, rgona have been killed In
noting In Smyrna, following expul
«Ion of Greeks, L'Intransigeant de
dared lo<lay_
Previous dispatches from A
declared that the Turksi and Or
alike were staging violent demon
■•ration* In favor of return of th
Greek exiles. _ ,
CIvlKan« clashed with Kama _
troop* resulting In 300 casualties, the
Athens dispatches said.
Turks and Greeks protesting ex
pulsion of the latter claim that the
policy 1. wiping out the social and
economic life of the city and terrl
tory
IN HOSPITAL AFTER
THREAT TO POISON
family spat, last night, threatened
j to poison himself,
j Returning to the room shortly
1 afterward Mrs. Vajal found her bus
band evidently very sick and sum
[ molted the police ambulance, which
j look him to the Homeopathic Hos
pltal.
Carmine Vajal. 33 years. 214 East
Second street. In the course of a
taken poison, but the hospital tu
thorities decided to take no chances
; and applied the stomach pump.
At the hospital this morning If
j was said that although Vajal's con
( dltlon is not serious he will be de
tained awhile for observation.
Vajal Insisted that he had not
THREATENED TO SHOOT
HER, WIFE CHARGES
Charged by hns wife with breach !
of the peace. Wllmer Hartenstein j
was held under a $300 pence bond by!
I Judge Hasting In Municipal Court '
! this morning Mrs. Hartenstein said 1
that her husband has threatened to
shoot her. turn the gas on «>»<1 j
cause her asphyxiation, and stab her
with a knife. Hartenstein denied the
• charges and explained that cart
I ridges that his wife had spoken of
i nro held by him as momentos of
the late war .
D. O. K. K. DANCE
Tonight, 9 to 12. Pythian Castle
Prizes. THE KIMMET ORCHESTRA
I —Adv.
Brother of Slain Man Identifies Body. Left
Washington Lately to Become Partner With
Garo Sebastino In Shoe making Shop at 2921
Market Street. Had Not Been Seen Since
Saturday Night When He Went to Theatre.
Was Worried Over Money Affairs.
POUCE QUESTION PARTNER;
SUSPECT BLACK HAND OF CRIME
Sn|M'rlntciulcni of P«»llnr lilnrk and <'t|)Uln of DotfotlrPa Robert »Î.
Boiwon early thk» «ffrrnoon annoiiTieed tlutt they were that tl»«'
man found hacked io death with a lu» tel mi and iiUnWlw ninttlatod tki the
mar*l»c* nrnr the plant of the Delaware Knirineerlnir (V>mpanjr on Thurs
day Knott Pefni*elll, a *hor»n«ker of 2924 Market street, thla dtf.
Identin« at Ion wh* nim|r at tike viiorgue by Trank Pdnudll. of TVaali
tnirton. I). (' . a brother of tlie oobbler, who inmr here tlda inomlnir after
reading of tho find in*: of the body of a man w«irln* Hothe« marked with
the name of a AVaahInffton rJothlnirdealer. the Young Men * ( lothIn« Store.
Pet
Oaio Sebastino. partner of
ruezelli at the Market street address,
admitted under examination At the
detective headquarters that he wai*
w:ih Petruzelll last .Saturday night.
attending
a
after
He said that
theatre he had walked up Market
street to Seventh street, and h» then
left Ilocco.
Shortly before 2 o'clock Sab
astlno was taken to the morgue by
Detectives Mahoney and Vlrden to
altow him to view the body ot his
late partner.
According to brothers of the deiyl
man they think tha murder was the
outcome of a "Black Hand" feud
as Rocco appeared to be worried
when he was in Washington.
Prlor to the arrival 6f the brother
Detectivea
of Petruzelll. however,
Mahoney and Vlrden who were as
signed to the case la« Thursday,
had raached the conclusion that the
been
a
slain man. whose body had
partly consumed by
This suspicion
flame*. was
was
Petruzelll.
strengthened yeaterday when the de
tectives showed the remnant* of the
clothing worn by the man found
murdered, to hie associates and they
said they reaembled those worn by
Petruzelll. Petruzelll. according to
residents In the vlrlnlty ot th* Mar
j (et Rrwt shoe shop, has been miss
ing since last Saturday night. At
that time he was seen leaving the
shop with Garro Sebastino. a
! partner in the shoo repairing busl
ness at thst place, to go to a thaa
tre.
tlfylng of the dead man was fur-,
nished In the mark* of tho Wash
cIothlns dealer on the coat
^* rn , he murder victim and the
• of , he r io aner in this city.
tho Eagle Dye Works, at Sixth ave
l nu( . and Duncan atraet. Th? dyers
Bald th ^ y had clMn ed the clothes
f a c , faner an Ita i|an. living
Weat Twenty-ninth street, near Mar
ket street. The cleaner, however, ac
cording to the police, kept no record
Qf he clean , d . but by show
. (hp clotbM to residents In that
thp detectives learned that
Petruzelll. a shoemaker at the Mar-j
ket street address, wore a suit that
resembled these clothes. I
The Investigation then revealed
that this man wa. missing and had
been for nearly a week. The part
ner Sebafitlno wa* questioned but he
could threw but little light on th
whereabout» of his partner.
J As the investigation proceeded,
The first clue that led to the iden-1
however the detectives secured a
pair of tan shoes from the shop tha:
were owned by the missing man as
well as a » raw hat. The shoes
CHICAGO JUDGE ORDERS
TIERNAN COMMITTED TO
PSYCHOPA THIC HOSPITAL
CHICAGO. Dec. 2 (United Press).]
—Professor John P. Tiernan. prln
cipal In' the notorious South Bend
paternity caae, was ordered to the
psychopathic hospital today by
Judge Frank H. Righelmer.
Tiernan fought to prove that his
'wife's chi d was the son of Harry
Poulin, ot South Bend. Later he be
came Involved In other matrimonial
troubles,
The warrant for Tleman's arrest
was gigned by Mrs. Francl« Pulaski.
gigter „f Mrs Tiernan.
_. „p.-eral months ago ac
Pou ' lln of beIng the fafhir of
11 ' * , howe ver,
the change after a
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»ensatio »a
Later Tiernan marri ei .
Blanche Brimmer pretty Iowa
widow, after being divorced one day
The marriage wa» immediately de
clare,1 lljcg.i hv the court and Tier-j
returned to hla first wife
A reconciliation was effected and
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were the same size as those found
on th«* dead man and the hat band
hore the name of the Washington.
T). C., Nothing dealer, whoae name
appeared 'on the coat of the man
found murdered,
Frank and Michael Petruzelll.
brother» of the missing man liv
ing in Washington, who had await
ed the arrival of a letter from their
brother here, on reading of the ftnd
ing of the body and the clothes bear
Ing the name of the Washington
dealer, last night called Superin
tendent of Police Black by tele
phone. In the meantime, however
the authorities having reached the
conclusion that the dead man was
Petruzelll. had wired the brothers
to come her# and they arrived this
morning.
Accompanied by til* detective*
the brothers went to the morgue and
viewed the remain». According to tho
police, they Identified th# body os
that of their brother and identified
the clothes he wore.
With thl« information the detec
tives hurried to police headquarters
and It was then announced that the
Identity of tha dead man had been
established.
The authorities also announced
that an arrest was expected within W
few hours and later Sebastino. the
partner of Petruzelll was taken to
police headquarters to be queationed.
owing to his Inability to speak Eng
j tgh boW ever, is was decided to **
cure an Interpreter.
The police are Inclined to think
the murdered man was killed In a
house on the west side of th* city
and hla body wfcw cqrted to tho
marshes and there eet afire.
This belief Is held because of th#
fact that the hatchet wa# the only
weapon found near the body, where
as a voat lying a
ln;away. and which was not the same
size a* one worn by the dead man.
had been slashed as If with a sharp
knlf». . «Hfl
r "
tho man was murdered he waa en
gaged in a fight and that th* vest
was worn by another man who may
have been cut by the olein man.
The police believe that Petruzalll
wa* lured to a house following a
theatre performance last Saturday
night and attacked and that aftar he
had been felled with a stllleto n&
wa* carried in an automobile or
other vehicle to the marsh and there
mutilated with a hatchet, hla mur
short dl«once
The police are eure that before
derer or murderers planning to ob
literate all facial resemblance by
hacking away at the man s face with
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the former Notre Dame professor
declared that he would be a father
{0 thp ch ,| d wbog ^ parentage was
questioned.
Mrs. Pulaski took charge of the
Tleman house during the time when
Tiernan was reported to have eloped
w | tb Mrs. Brimmer and refused to
Jet e i tb er of the Tlornans *alk with
newspaper
men.
On Thanksgiving T»ay
told the Unhed Press over the tele
phone that he was very much In
love with Mrs, Brimmer,
Tiernan recently declared that he
had signed a contract with a New
York concern to make a ectnra
tour. He said he waa to be b Hod as
"Ib-of essor Tiernan on Emotion.
Mrg Brimmer was today reported
to be on her way to Chicago to fight
™ "freedom."
fo ■ unable to
", .
locate Tiernan up to 11 a. nv R
port, were that he had left the altg
during tbe n.ghC
Tiernan