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New-York tribune., 1918-03-09

IN a Brownsville sweatshop to cut down
Moslems in the Holy Land.
About 81 worth, figure" said Sam.
ut got so every time l ate a pretzel it
splashed and like to choke me, but yes
terday l weighed 1O6 pounds and got
turned down, and to-day l held the
blame thing down for 1O9 and they took
me-"
81 always been temperance, said
Aaron lugubriously, "but | guess I'll
have to give that beer whirl Two
dollars amt so much, and don't stand
show this way"
on absorbing more beer than ever be-
tore pcrmeated an abstemious Browns
VILE clothing cutter.
Sam Has Record as Fighter
1t was not the beer alone or the olive
oil. however, that got Sam past the
keen-eyed, bullet-scarred non-coms who
war broke out Sam put in two months
chasing black Askaris, officered by Ger
mans, through West Africa, and then
helped General Botha subdue the in
surrectionists in Orange Free State
In this service he got three wounds
two fancy and one reg lar" as Sam
puts it-and was honorablv discharged
ne tried IN vain to reenlist in England
last summer, and came to the United
States to work in a munitions plant
The work affected his health so that
when he read of the opportunity to
fight in Palestine his weight barred
him. Then he turned to beer and olive
oil. He is. twenty-four years old, and
lives at all West Twenty-third Street
Another who enlisted yesterday was
Gershon Agronsky, managing editor OF
"Das Yiddische Folk" The case of |
Ben Zewi a native of and an exile
from Turkish Palestine and an author
Of books on the Holy Land has beer
taken under advisement. His vision is
| ness is far above it,
New-York tribune., 1918-03-09
Doctor Lost Her Gems
Gambling, Says Woman
Diamond May" Enters Another
Charge Against Partridge
Club Games

What would have otherwise been a
quiet day in the John Doe inquiry into
gambling was cnlivened yesterday by
the appearance in the Office of Assist
ant District Attorney James E. Smith
of a woman known to the police as
Diamond May" blond and stout and
bristling with rage because a certain
physician had lost 1885 worth of her
jewelry by feeding it to a hungry kitty
in a chemin- defer game at the Par
fridge Club.
Mr.. Smith said he knew a great deal
about the physician and was Investigate
ing him to discover what his methods
of wheedling money and jewelry out of
women acquaintances and patients
We're
Judge Mott, of General Sessions, is
scheduled to sit to-day in the place OF
Judge Wadhams as committing magis-
trate in the case against Leon Sobel
charged with Knowingly renting his
apartments for immoral purposes.
Five men taken in raid of the Owl
Typo Club, 1877 William Street, last
Monday night, waived examination yes
terday before Magistrate Sims in the
Tombs Court They were each held
in $1,000 bail for the grand jury
charged with running gambling
house. The defendants were William
J. Cowley, 1877 William Street, tho
steward; David Liljenstrole, 1902 Fifth
Avenue, Brooklyn; Felix Hall. 555 Pa
cifc Street, Brooklyn; John Cowley
241 Grove Street, Brooklyn, and Davic
McCausan, 27 Amsterdam Avenue, Man
haitian
New-York tribune., 1918-03-09

saw for it's removal, Forsbrey waited
only until resounding snores betrayed
the laxity of his special guard and then
dropped into an areaway, surmounted
the high wall of the Tombs and
dropped into Centre Street and free
dom.
Pleads Guilty to Murder
That was on September 9, 1912.
Three weeks later detectives found
him in fiat in The Bronx. where he
had sought refuge with Margaret Ryan,
relying upon an alias, the liberal use
Of hair dye and the hugeness of the
city for security. He made no resist
ance, and on November 19 of that year
he pleaded guilty to murder in the
second degree, declaring he was wild
with coke" when he killed the jew
eller's clerk in Delaney Street.
lie was sent to serve life sentence
IN Clinton Prison, at Dannemora, an
institution that then had the reputa-
tion of being competent to "break" the
hardest criminal. In that most severe
OF penal institutions Forsbrey's fame
and d daring attempt at escape won
HIM the compliment of solitary con-
tinement. He had been there barely
six months when keepers discovered
that In ode moments in the workshop
Forsbrey had made two scaling lad
ders and had almost completed gaso-
lene bomb which would furnish di-
version permitting him to use the lad
ders. 1t was said that Margaret Ryan
was in the vicinity.
Forsbrey was promptly placed into
another isolation cell and strictly
guarded. Despite frequent inspections
of his cell, it was found when he had
been its tenant for six months that he
hor ioI
high window with a leg from his ce-
ment cot.
IN the meantime Margaret Ryan,
doubted by the life prisoner for whose
release she was waiting, had swallowed
blchloride of mercury tablets. She was
found unconscious beside a note, in
which she had written, "The wages of
sin is DEATH" She was resuscitated,
cured and put on probation. Forsbrey,
In the milder atmosphere of Auburn,
declared that he was now free from his
homlcldel mania and ready to lead a
normal prison existence
Known as Man Who Kills
On April 16 of that year. however.
he beat keeper into unconsciousness
donned his uniform, picked up his
keys and revolver and walked out of
prison. That night farmer near Au-
burn noticed his pigeons wheeling and
| Hutterlng about their accustomed en-
trance to the barn as if reluctant to
enter. Forsbrey, still in the uniform
/ of prison keeper, was found bur
rowec deep in the hay Although he
! had loaded revolver. he again suo-
mltted to recapture without resistance.
He is thirtytwo or thirty-three
years old now and at the time of his
arrest here, in 1912. was feet IA
Inches tall and weighed 131 pounds.
He was slender ana, in the language
OF the police circular of September 4,
1872, has the appearance of dry
goods clerk" His distinguishing feat
ure is a large scar under the point of
the chin,
New-York tribune., 1918-03-09
Shoes and Ships
And Sealing Wax
The Bolsheviki may or may not have
recaptured hamburg, but they still hold
Jim hamburg in force.

The Bolsheviki may or may not have
recaptured hamburg, but they still hoid
imJamburg in force.
If Eugene L. Blanchard, of Bethel,
N. Y, could only have stayed awake
for few minutes longer, he would not
now be in the lookup at the beginning
of q ten-day term.
Blanchard's wife hailed him before
Justice of the Peace Spangler, charg-
ing him with being too lazy to support
her. The justice discussed the pros
and cons of the case, while the prisoner
nodded
"T'm going to let you off, Blanchard .
his honor said finally, "if you WILL
promise to support your wife here
after"
No promise was forthcoming-o
snore.
"Wakc up, you loafer!" shouted the
justice, "and go to the lookup for ten
days!'
No one can accuse the Postoffice De-
partment Of not being jealous of its
efficiency The postmaster of Highland
4
from Postmaster General Burleson, to
speed up the delivery of special deliv-
cry letters, especially one sent by Mrs
George Cook to a New York City ad-
dress five years ago.
Anna Bathcitche and Ella Danske
have Strengthened out their troubles
with the Canadian immigration laws
and are now employed in candy store
at Halifax. Persons who watch then
at their bloodless trade would not real
izc that few months ago Anna was {
private and Ella stretcher- il
the Russian women's Battalion Of
Death"
Many people in the United State:
who once had faith in Russia bough
literally of her securities, including
ruble bonds. A ruble is normally wort!
81 cents. 1t is now worth 10 cents. The
folks who bought their securities pait
around 80 cents to the ruble. A popu
lar Wall Street refrain at the momer
is, "Who put the rubes in rubles?"
New-York tribune., 1918-03-09
News in Brief

The Third Avenue Il" was tied I'D from
:o3 to as O'Clock yesterday morning hy a
snort circuit caused by the grounding of p
Ieed wire to the third rail near the lSOth
Street station. Passengers of several trains
walked the narrow footpath of the structure
to the li9th Street station to ge ransfers tn
the subway. w
While adjusting a scaffold near the roof
OF OF the seven-story building at 225 West
twenty-seven years old. of ISL East Forty
eighth Street lost his balance and plunged to
the street He was dead when an ambulance
surgeon arrived
Mrs. Catherine Fogarty forty-Gve years
old. the wife of Lieutenant Harry Fogarty.
OF the l02d Engineers at Spartanburg was
run down and killed by d Fifth Avenue bus
at broadway and Sixty-third Street The
police. satisfied that the chauffeur was blame
less, did not make arrest
The body of a man found Thursday in the
central Park reservoir. was identified as
that OF Edward A. Penrosc. printer, of
- ~ West looth Street. William j. Pcnrose,
his father. who made the Identification. was
unable to ascribc any reason for his sons
act. ~
sUFFERN. N. Y.-The wreckinr of IN
Erie freight train near Tuxedo tied The
main line up for ten hours and ruined sew
cral thousand eggs. A broken wheel caused
the four last cars Of the train to leave the
rails and turn over after humping along the
ties for 200 feet
MONTCLAIR, n. DR. William S. Dodd
who was head of the American Christian
College in konia Asiatic Turkey for thrt,
years. will shortly leave his home here fol
Palestine to engage in cconstruction work
as a member of the American Red Cross
New-York tribune., 1918-03-09
II Hurt, One Fatally,
In Fire in I tenement
Child Dies of Burns; Fire Chief
Mclaughlin Falls Two
Floors

Silvia Weiser, seven years old, liv-
ing with her parents in a tenement at
65 East Fourth Street which caught
fire yesterday from an overturned oil
stove, died later in Bellevue Hospital
from burns. Ten others were injured,
and the building was damaged to the
extent of $4,000 before the flames were
controlled.
In the building when the fire start
ed were about seventy-ive persons,
more than half of them children. The
overturned oil stove was in the apart
ment of Max Rosenberg. and when he
and his wife fed with their three child
rem they left the door oEen and the
draft spread the flames rapidly.
Chief John Mclaughlin, in charge
of the 9Th Battalion, was removed to
Bellevue Hospital after he fell two
floors, receiving decorations of the
scalp and possible internal injuries.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-09
Forsbrey Regarded
As Worst Criminal
OF This Generation

Reynolds Forsbrey, man killer, dope
fiend and prison breaker, is regarded
by the police as the most desperate
criminal New York has produced in
generation. Even before the beginning
of his present long term of imprison-
ment, which has lasted. off and on,
for nearly six years, Forsbrey was
pale, slight and insignificant in ap-
pearance to the casual glance. But his
lips met in an obstinate line and there
was an impudent tilt to the angle Of
his jaw and an insolent droop to his
eyelids that belied his shambling car
riage and demeanor.
With Margaret Ryan, the girl who
has more than once risked her liber
to aid in Forsbrey's jail-breaking
plans and who swallowed poison two
years ago in vain endeavor to end
the term of waiting that had become
intolerable. Forsbrey is an example of
the type of criminal who is the enemy
OF all mankind, save one, and all the
world to that one.
When Forsbrey launched into the
feverish climax of his criminal career
with the murder of jewelry shop
clerk in Delaney Street in July, 1912,
ne was already an expert in jails. hav-
ing served time in two rcformatores,
penitcntiary and state prison in
~" w aHu county JAN IN Ala-
bama. He knew that whatever bargain
he might succeed in driving with the
District Attorney, he was doomed, at
best, to life imprisonment, either for
the murder itself or aa an habitual
criminal.
AS matter of fact not only the
nNrder Of the jewelry shop clerk, but
tnat OF habcrdasher's clerk and an
assault and robbery committed in a
cigar store were laid at his door by
the grand jury. The prospect showed
not glimrncr Of hope. 1t aroused the
desperation latent in the killers weak
features
With the assistance of Margaret
Ryan delicate saws of the finest steel
and vial OF acid were smugglcd ia
rorsbrey in the Tombs He had worked
az plumber and was handy with tools
He removed the grating covering g
yentiIator in his cell and was ready &c
escape at the first opportunity. His
preparations and tools we're discovered
however, and he was confined in ar
isoiatcd cell.
Then for the first time prison Of
ficials learned that locking Reynolds
Forsbrcy in an isolation cell was much
like sealing up mouse in a cheese
II merely whctted hig appetite for lib
crty. Finding that the ventiIator in
his new quarters did not even need a
New-York tribune., 1918-03-09
Discovery of lngeniou,
Trunk, Containing Sal.
varsan, Causes Arrest
Said to oHaveC Confessed
False Sides Contained 2onn
Phials, Worth SIS
Each

Henry hammers, an official of n.
Dutch government, was arrested yes.
terday on charge of smuggling. fol,
lowing the seizure of trunk contain.
ing 100000 worth of salvarsan. which
he is said to have brought in on the
Dutch liner Nieuw Amsterdam.
The trunk with its valuable conten,,
was found by members of the custom, !,
searching squad in the office of Dr.
Frank Erdwurn, who is ieutenans
commander of the United States Naval,
Reserve, at 12s East Thirty-four,h
Street.
Tried to Sell Drug
According to statement issued at
the Custom House, the disclosure Of
the alleged smuggling was made when
DR.. Erdwurn, who had made an at.
tempt to sell the drug here without
success, arranged to charter vessel
to take it to the Argentine.
hammers arrived here as first class
passenger on the Nieuw Amsterdam
/ February 7. On suspicion that the
vessel contained German spies and
poison germs, passengers, baggage and
! cargo were examined thoroughly in a
three days search by the Naval Intel.
ligence agents, cooperating with other
secret service organizations of the por.,
In spite of this thorough investiga.
ton, hammers, customs officials said
yesterday, was able to bring off his
| trunk without arousing suspicion. It
smuggling devices found, with false
sides. in which fitted slides with holes
bored in them large enough to hold
| the Walls of drug, which were one
fourth of an inch in diameter.
There were 1000 tubes, worth SIS
tube, in the trunk. DR.. Erdwurn. &C
cording to the officials. received al
offer of $12 apiece for the lot, thel
decided to ship the consignment {,
/ South America as better field. HI
! communicated with a client in tn,
shipping business, when the customs
officials stepped in.
Held for Grand Jury
To Deputy Collector Lamb, who mad
Lammer's arrest, the Dutch offica
stated he had purchased the drug i.
Holland for $1,000, and intended tas
ing it to Australia, where it was badl!
needed for the returned British troops
He said he proposed selling it to TIL
Red Cross at cost.
hammers is said to have admitte.
his part in the alleged smuggling. H,
was brought to the Federal Building
examined by Assistant United State
Attorney Burdeau and held in S2,50
for the grand jury by United State
Commissioner Hitchcock
New-York tribune., 1918-03-09
Dry Leader Beaten;
10 Others Garry Arms
East Orange Prohibition Fight
Leads to Assaults and
Threats

EAST ORANGE, N. j., March s.
Gun "toting," assaults, trade boycotts,
threats of bodily injury and heated ar
guments that frequently result in
blows have resulted from the bitter
fight being waged here by the "wet'
and "dry" forces over the proposal to
have local prohibition referendum at
the May election.
Following an attack on Frederick |.
Cox, silk dealer, who was waylald
and beaten unconscious after speaking
at the Excise Board in favor Of the
referendum, sixteen prominent mem
bers of the No-License League haze
obtained permits to carry revo!vers.
Yesterday John A. Winters, ny
chant. was visited by two saloonkee y
crs. After closing their accounts, they
notified Mr.. Winters they would boy
colt him until he ceased his prohibition
activities.
Federal authorities were called INTO
the fight after John w. Noble. an anti.
saloon worker, found Threatening
note at his home
New-York tribune., 1918-03-09
81 Worth of Beer and Olive Oil
Add 3 Pounds to Recruit
Samuel Eiasov East African Veteran Finds Way to oir
Jewish Battalion Despite His Weight-Pacihst
Also Decides to Fight

The Jewish Battalion, which is be-
ing recruited here for service N Pales-
tine by the British and Canadian Re-
cruiting Mission at 22O West Fort~-
second Street, is getting men from
organizations as widely separated as
the Karroo Mounted Rifles of East
and West Africa and pacifst society
of Philadelphia. By dint of diet of
beer and olive OIL Samuel Eliasov,
late of the Karroo Mounted Rifles, got
past the scales yesterday, while that
test had no terrors for Nathan Horo-
WITT, who resigned as vice president
of a pacihst organization of Philadel-
phia to fight for Zion with the British.
In all, $50 youths of the Jewish
faith have enlisted here and probably
will start for Canada on March 21.
They are of all types, but none of
them has the fighting record of Sam
uel Elasov, though they all share his
enthusiasm for the service. When the
sergeant droned zone hundred an nine
pun" yesterday as Samuel stepped on
the scales there was a ripple of in
terest that extended clear out to the
corridor
Beer Brings Necessary Weight
"Howja do it, Sam" inquired cad
averous youth as the dmnutive but
successful candidate strobe forth. pride
fully conscious of the green enlistment
card in the pocket of his we'll tailored
coat.
"Becr did it," said Sam succinctly;
"beer and olive oil, that is," he added
as an afterthought.
"How much beer, Sam? ?" demanded
Aaron We'll, lanky individual earnest
New-York tribune., 1918-03-09
Methodists Enter
Prohibition Fight

ATLANTIC CITY, March s.-A
church political machine, with minis
ters for its leaders, will enter the fight
for the national prohibition amend
ment in this state, by authorization
Of the New Jersey Methodist Episcopal
Conference, in session here Lay dele
gates, also in session, indorsed the
action.
Governor Walter e. Edge of New
Jersey, principal speaker at the even
ing session, denounced premature
reace talk and urged that churches
drop. their denominations, as political
parties have dropped their lines, and
become organizations to win the war.
Several members of the Legislature ad-
dressed the lay meeting.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-09
Hcksville Sports Assessed $420
To Buy Corn for Fighting Cocks
Counsel for Alleged Promoters Intimate Millionaire or
Two Escaped the Constable When Main at the
Bayvle Casino Was Raided on Sunday

"did unlawfully set on foot. promote,
aid and engage in furtherance of fight
between cocks" demanded a jury trial.
Inns was put over until March 81.
"Everything will come out then"
Duval promised. 81 think it will be
shown that there were plenty of others
present at the main besides the men ar
rested. The names Of two millionaires
chief of police and big politician
have been mentioned to me already. If
1t can be proved they we're there Wen
want to know how it happened thew
were allowed to get away. Just watch!'
The lawyer went so far as to hint in
court that "a millionaire" thus far has
eludcd the law.
Ignorance of the law may be no ex.
cuse, ne SAID, but | want to remind
the court that these men here as dc.
PENDANTS have frequently seen tbe;,
employers engaging in cockfghtine as
gentleman's sport. There was ono
millionaire present Sunday. at least"
"Show Me-" Says Freel
To which Superintendent Frecl. who
appeared as special prosecutor, re.
sponded:
We'll, show me the millonaire!"
There was some little controversy
concerning the date set for the trial oi
the three alleged promoters, Beniamir
Virgins. +. Dudgcon, jr., and Johr
Leiper Leiper used to be whip 70,
the Meadow Brook Hunt. Freel wantec
quick action, contending that the S. p
G. A. is burdened with responsibility
and expense so long as it retains Gus.
tody Of the thirty-odd fighting cock.
that constitute the evidence in the case
Justice Stelnert agreed with the de-
ience that the appetites of the bird.
make much of a dent in $420 worth Of
cracked corn
New-York tribune., 1918-03-09
What Is Going On To-day

ONE MEAL wHEAI1.Ess. = ",
Free admission 10 the American Museum IN
ural History. Metropolitan Museum OF AT. ~ ,sr
York Geological Park. Van CoTlandi ran am II n
scum. American Museum OF safety anu -
Aquarium. .r
Last day Of Auto Show. e3d Regiment Ai'N'''
Brooklyn.
POLISH % cH11DREN:s Id TAG !, DAY I.,,,.o,. soas
of the United States. Waldorf Asto'a -
Convention Of the Truck Owners Conference h'''
Addresses by w Bourkc Cochran. James +, F., hS s
auspices of the Central Federated un,on 1'nss
Thomas J. Mooney Union sauare 2 H.. n, AZ
Meeting of the womens Press tlab Wild0''' .
York. Waldorf Astoria p. IN ,.,,r,ur
Lecture by Harold a. Caparn On Gst'iet, s's'A ~ IA
and Architecture" Metropolitan Museum " :
Dlmer Of tho Prudential Insurance c0mp'~
ilo.el McAlpin. $50 p. m. =, NJ
Social evening OF the Vacation Asso> 'a''o" NJ NJ
York. rs West Thirty ninth Street. y pm III Re-
Entertainment and supper OF the ,Ny ha'
por'ess Assosso9 Hotel As'9r , ';,dup m Of y
Of anniversary q Russian revolution; Id hli;, Il,
Point Palace. Southern Boulevard anu
Street The Bronx. SIS y. m o,,o
Theatrical and dance Of the Daughters o. "'''
New York. Hotel Majestic. $50 p m II VI
Rcv.ow by Governor Charles $. Whitman " g.
eth lnsantry. New York Guarl. armo.s' a.
lumbus Avenue and Sx,y-second s'Fee''
y. ~
PUBLIC LECTURES OF THE BOARD OF s'' s''s
CATION, S:l, p. NJ
MANHATTAN
! ''rhcr Country and It's Resources. hy wv W.
/ II, Shepherd. Ph. D.. American Musea~ -
Natural History. Seventy seventh S'fees
Central Park West -. 1
Way Down South In Dixie" by DR.. Ihom'I. n \
Potterton, Cooper Institute Eighth SUc"
Fourth Avenue a
Current Events" by Nelson L. Mead. rh. u S
West l%ath Street a.,
Henry "" by Henry j. Hadneld. Ycuhe =
tArlsuAn Association. West l25th k1vs q
New-York tribune., 1918-03-09
Governor Has Busy Day
Will Review 18th Regiment at
Armory To-night

Commencing with half hours visit
to the dentist, Governor Whitman
spent busy day in New York yester-
day, receiving Representatives of vari-
Gus organizations interested in war
work, and attending dinners.
Accompanied by Mrs. Whitman
the Governor arrived early yesterday
morning from Albany.
He will review the new 18th Regiment
tonight at the army, Sixty-second
Street and Columbus Avenue. The
brotherhood Of Interborough Rapid
Transit Employees will give a fully
equipped ambulance to the Governor
who will donate it to the commander
of Camp Upton.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-09
Motor Truck Conservation
Discussed at Conference

Conservation in the use of motor
trucks is the keynote of the two-day
conference OF truck owners which he.
gan at the Hotel Astor Yesterday morn.
ing
Roy D. Chaplin, president of the
Hudson Motor Car Company and chair.
man of the highways transport com
mittce Of the Council of National De
fence, speaking on --latest Develop.
ments in National Motor Transport
suggested that routing systems be de-
voloped by truck owners so that there
would be no empty return haul. To
days session, beginning at 10 o'clock
is open to the public
New-York tribune., 1918-03-09
Few Business Failures
Reported for Last Year

Comparatively few failures or fraud
ulent bankruptcies of interest to the
Merchants Protective Association have
occurred within the last year, accord
ing to the annual report of that body
issued to-day Members were interest
ed in ninety-eight failures, to the ex.
tent of $156,556.80, compared with 1873
failures in 1916, which totalled S2O3 200
Warming is issued, however. that tn,
scarcity of failures is not likely to con.
tinue. Henry P. McKenney, president
of the association, reports that the
membership has increased this year.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-09
Intern Teuton Admirals Son

KANSAS CITY, Marcn S.-Erwh
Erich Schneider, who the authorizes
say claims to be the son of German
admiral and the possessor OF an iroa
Cross, to-day was ordered internea;;
Schneider said the cross was awarded
him for research work in South Amer,
lea. The authorities declared the!
found documents rejecting upon AN
erica in Schneider's possession.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-09

ing in the Mayors parlor. City Hall,
here, many years, was declared by art
experts to-day to be the original pict-
ure painted in 1867 by Nicholas Mig
nard. court artist of Louis XIV.