The sun., 1917-08-13
HATRPTN KEY USED
ON CONEY LOCKERS
Police Stumble on Valuable
Secret in Arrest Of Woman
Accused as Thief.
ONE BATHER DROWNED
Modern Leander Who Rescues
Bro oklyn Girl Declines
to Give Name.

Hairpins have their uses That, at
least, Is what Mrs. Ethel dc Luca, 30
years old who with self and baby was
at Coney Island yesterday. seems to
have found out. For In the course Of
the afternoon when Mrs. Cascilia SheTer,
address unknown. discovered that her
pockctbook. containing all Of 1915, one
Of a poem by Henry Van Dyke, one
bread pudding recipe, one package OF
non-Teutonic urt-plaster, one latch key
and one pocket mirror. had been abb
Quoted from locker in a bathhouse at
CoX's, Detectives Callahan and Ryan OF
| Coneys alert vigilantes went out and
rounded up Mrs de Luca and baby. The
charge was petty larceny.
In going over the effects of Mrs. de
Luca the detectives found she had foul
other pocketbooks in her possession be-
sides the one which, from the Henry
1 Van Dyke poem, &C., was identified &c
readily as Mrs Sherer's. How she got
them puzzled the two until they chanceG
| upon In another pocket--yes, They're
wearing 'em this season--a twisted hair
pin. And thereby hangs the tale.
:
The twisted hairpin turned out to b,
! the latest and niftest thing in the lin,
/ of plain or fancy opener. The detec
| tives, seeing that It resembled in III
bent and gnarled shape the festive cork
screw, started to open things with it
! And one of the things they found /
opened with ease was locker in tina
| selfsame bath house at Cox's.
They tried the implement on othe
/ lockers. II worked They tried it oI
more lockers Still 1t worked. In short
it turned out to be a master key 4
every locker in the place.
Now II Mrs. de Luca, as alleged, hat
| been operating in a Georgia countr,
club where, because Of the bone drynes
Of the State. the members are force
TO keep refreshments in their lockers
the detectives could have understood tn
motive. But as the yoman's fondnes
for small cash. poems by Henry Va
Dyke. bread pudding recipes and sue
like was TO stalwart men not quite cleal
they were a bit nonplussed. Neverthe
less they seen their duty and they don
IL noble" Mrs de Luca now may be ad
dressed not at 1872 Richards stree
Brooklyn. but at the Coney Island pOllC
station.
Three hundred and fifty thousand pei
sons. the police estimated, visited II
right little, not so very tight little cunt
after midnigh) island on Sunday. The
u came early and they stayed late. The
were 80 anxious toBaste its joys of interi'
> and exterior cool that the guardians
the law were kept busy all day arres
ing folks who just would Jump out
: car windows when they began to sni
the popcorn instead of walking, not rul
ming or showing, to the nearest exit,
Bathers Come to Grief.
= Two bathers came to grief One, Al
thony Jerome Of 3l7 East l17th stree
: got beyond his depth off the foot
: West Thirty-third street and was ca
ried away by the strong undertow al
a drowned. His body was recovered
, | Philip w. Heckelman Of the Unit
'' states Volunteer Life Saving Corps.
Emil Baeling, a printer by trade, w
lives az So Henry street, Brooklyn.
paralyzrd from the waist down as
h result Of diving into too shallow wat
off the Municipal Baths pier at the 70
Of West Fifth street and iracturing
5 spine. He was attended by Dr Ostro'
% sky Of the Concy Island Hospital and
n at that institution,
Il Among the rescued # the day we
y the Misses Sophie : S,hleSiuger, 10, al
q Minnie Weinsteln, IS Of l5S Hopki
street Brooklyn, and 1880 Park pla,
p Brooklyn. respectively. They got b
.s yond their depth in the water and we
. caught i'm the undertow Miss Weinste
70 owes her preservation to the natator
prowess Of stephen Sent, 81 Cam
d street Manhattan. The latter day Lea
q der who rescued Miss SchlesinE
r. blushed right through his tan VIII