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New-York tribune., 1919-07-19
Police Trial Held
At Saloon Door to
Test the Evidence
Patrolman Shows He Hasn't
the Reach TO Get 2.75
Beer Bartender Is Alleged
to Have Handed to Him

Even if cop could reach up five
steps to accept glass of beer from an
obliging bartnder on his post would
ne take the trouble to do it in these
lean days of 2.75?
Deputy Police Commissioner Porter
is pondering the question. Yesterday
he promised Patrolman Patrick Leon
ard, OF the Oak Street station, and
Lieutenant Evans, of the 1st INSPECTION
Precinct, to find the answer soon.
This was after Messrs. Porter. Evans.
Leonard and the latter's counsel, Sam
uel Greenbaum, held q trial session in
the rain in front of the side entrance to
Charles Furthmann's saloon at the
southeast corner of Park Row and
North William Street. 1t was there, the
lieutenant charges, at ten minutes to
II on night not long ago. he saw
Leonard receive the glass of beer and
drain it. Evans said he watched the
proceedings from in front of 81 Park
Row, about 100 feet distant. He de-
clared Leonard, in passing, raped on
the door and on his return trip received
the drink.
1t was because of Leonard's assertion
that it would have been a physical i'm
possibility for him to reach up the five
steps from the sidewalk and knock on
the door that the Deputy Commissioner
decided to inspect the scene.
Leonard gave demonstration to
support his defence. He has reach
like that of Mr. Willard, but he couldn't
come within two feet of the door.
MAYBE he raped with his night
stick" suggested Evans
THAT wasn't your testimony before"
said Lawyer Greenbaum.
"And look, Commissioner" Leonard
went on, 81 couldn't take glass of beer
from the sidewalk from man standing
In the doorway"
II think maybe the bartender leaned
way out" Evans interjected
It's the first time you've said that"
remarked Greenbaum.
"Hm -m-m" said Deputy Commissioner
Porter, scratching his head.
why don't you order a beer, Com
missioner, and see if it can be done p"
some one asked Porter.
NO." he smiled. "No; they might
bring bring m me up on charges. And it isn't
ne took last survey of the steps.
"pll reserve decision" he announced
New-York tribune., 1919-07-19
''Other Man, Aided Her.
Wife Declares i'm Suit
Mrs. Charles Ell. Lehman Brings
Action for Separation and
Tells Story of Rivalry

Mrs. Stella Clifton Lehman, member
of family OF actresses, was for nine
teen years the happy wife of Charles
II. Lehman. One day last January she
received a telephone message at her
nome, 6O3 West 111th Street, from a
Stranger, who gave the name of Mr..
Klvers. The information he gave Mrs.
lehman began series of events that
ied to the Supreme Court, where Mrs.
Lehman yesterday filed suit for sepa-
ration. Mr.. Lehman is president of the
General Acoustics and Dictagraph Com
Pany and has an income of $4,000 q
year, according to his wife, who de-
demands $4,000 a year alimony.
Mrs. Lehman made an appointment
with Mr.. Rivers to obtain confirmation
OF his story. At this meeting Mr..
Rivers, it is alleged, told Mrs. Leh-
man to advise Mr.. Lehman to s"keep
away. from his girl. or he would shoot
hlm. Mrs. Lehman says she was dis
inclined to believe Mr.. Rivers. He
produced telegram, purporting to be
from Mr.. Lehman in Chicago, which
city 1t seems. he eventually reached.
to young woman, in which the sender
said he would return to New York the
next day. The telegram asked the girl
to be at the Grand Central Station.
mr.. Rivers said this young woman was
"his girl"
When Mr.. Lehman came home the
next night after 10 o'clock, with the
explanation that his train was late. his
wife told him what she thought was
the cause of his lateness, and showed
his the telegram Mr.. Rivers had given
her
New-York tribune., 1919-07-19
Saloon Men To Be Tried
On Dry Act Indictment

John Voege and Tony Cuomo, saloon
keepers, indicted for selling whisky in
dehance of the war prohibition act,
must stand trial, according to a de-
cislon yesterday by Federal Judge Will
lam R. Smith, who overruled the de-
murrer intcrposed by their counsel.
If necessary, the case will be carried
to the highest courts by the Retail
Liquor Dealers Association, which is
making test of it, it was announced.
The liquor interests contend that the
Donnellan and Robert Moore, ATTORNEYS
for the indicted men, based their argu-
ment yesterday on the theory that the
act Is an infringement, of the rights
OF citizens and that it is no longer
necessary.
"Thc defendants in this criminal
proceeding invoke their constitutional
rights IS citizens of the State of New
York to sell beverage which it is
lawful for them to sell under the laws
OF the State Of New York, and it is
the existence OF actual and not mere
dc jure war which is controlling that
as to the right of the Federal govern
ment to prohibit the sale Of the Nuuor
in question:" said Mr.. Donellan. "War
does not ipso facto destroy private
property and private rights; on the
contrary, property can be appropriated
or rights denied only if the emergency
or necessity actually exists.
"The question before the court j.
whether or not, by attempting to en-
force this statute after articles Of
peace have been formally signed and
the war necessity no longer exists, the
enforcement of the said statute does
Or does not violate the constitutional
right Of the defendants to sell the
liquor In question"
j. The answering arguments were made
by Federal District Attorney Csfey
and his assistant, John Fine.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-19
4 s; G
- - zlZ IS - y

A SIX word will, written by Alex
ander Water on a market report
blank few minutes before he died in
his Office at the American Fruit Ex-
change on July 8, was filed for probate
yesterday in the Kings County sur
rogate, Brooklyn. The will, witnessed
by business associates Of Mr.. Waters,
reads:
GAIL I have belongs to Zulma."
The beneficiary is Zulma A. Powell,
who for years had been Mr.. Waterss
housekeper. The estate is said to be
large. Mr.. Waters received 5000 1000
six years ago from his fathers estate
He had been in i'll health for several
years.
Mr.. Waters's mother, Mrs. Elena de
Angels Waters, of 2S5 Empire Boule-
ward, Brooklyn, is temporary admins
tratrix.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-19
Transports Due the Nest Ttro Days
To-day


Command
incud
companies
from St Nazae
of
II;
Corps
and asala
,achnent Companies r.
Compn ' N"'0 N'''i'"E'
Tomorrow
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to'y-two Inc rpiio
New-York tribune., 1919-07-19

TOHN A. SIDNEY, a manufacturer,
~ was one soldier drafted into the
United States army who regretted the
sudden signing Of the armistice.
Mr.. Sidney is being sued for sep
aration by Mrs. Alma Sidney, mani
curist at the Hotel Martinique. His
affidavit filed yesterday in the Supreme
Court, in opposition to his wife's mo-
tion for alimony, reads: 81 was
drafted into the national army in Au-
gust, 1918. and not only was l glad to
serve my country, but / was also very
glad that it gave me an opportunity to
forget my marital unhappiness. l then
hoped to be sent across very soon and
be killed or die in the servicc--and
thus effect the double purpose of Civ
ing my life for my country and avoid
ing all future unhappiness with my
wife. However, did not have the good
fortune, for shortly afterward the armi-
stice was declared"
New-York tribune., 1919-07-19
Six Men Are Killed
In Coal Mine Explosion
Gas Blast Traps Miners in West
Virginia Shaft Where Hun.
dreds Are at Work

-. KlMBALL, West Va, July 49,
Six men were killed in gas explosion
ut the mine Of the Tazcwell Creek
Coal Company here this noon. More
thah LOO men we're working in the
mine at the time. The cause of tho
explosion is unknown. No one was
injured.
The mine, which is one of the small
shaft mines in the Pocahonta. HoId
Is owned md operated by the Houston
Coilcries Company. It has an output
Of 500 tons n ttny.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-19
Wife of Stock Broker
Shoots and Kills Self
Places Pictures of Husband and
Daughter on Bed and Sends
Bullet Through Heart

Mrs Charles A. Krickl, wife of a
stock broker, wrote a note to her hus-
band yesterday in their home at 140
West Seventy-ninth Street, placed his
and their eight-ycar-old daughters
photographs on pillow of the bed, Law
aown and shot herself through the
heart
A neighbor heard the shot Before
she could reach the room Mrs. Krickl
was dead. She still retained an auto
matte pistol in her hand. The note to
her husband was: "Boy dear, goodhv." )"
he is member of the firm of Blyth e.
Bonner, 43 Exchange Place, and was at
his Office when the tragedy took place.
Ihclr daughter was not at home. Mrs.
krlckl had been suffering from a ner-
vous disorder.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-19
Edward O'Brien Guarded
To Prevent Suicide
Officers Are Trying to Hurry
Extradition of Boys Indicted
for Hull Murder


Two guards have been placed outside
the cell Of Edward O'Brien in the Jail
at Freehold, N. j., to see that the boy
Gardiner c. Hull, does not again try
to commit suicide He attempted to
hang himself on Wednesday.
john F. Joyce, Assistant District At
torney. is attempting to hasten the
extradition to New York of O'Brien
and his chum, Edward Earle Paige
who is now in q Philadelphia Jail. The
extradition papers are in Albany, and
Governor Smith is expected to sign
and return them to-day They will
then be forwarded to the Governors of
New Jersey and Pennsylvania for
action.
Thee formalities will take about q
week, Mr.. Joyce said yesterday.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-19
Prince of Wales Coming
Via Air, Says Sweeney
Will Fly to New York From
Toronto, Hotel Man
Declares


Accordin to George w. Sweeney
vlce-president of the Commodore Hotel
who returned last night from Toronto,
where he has been arranging for the
Commodore international airplane race
between that city and New York, the
Prince of Wales is to start the race,
and will make the trip to New York on
his official visit to this country in an
airplane.
The Prince is expected in Toronto
August Is. There he is to open the
Canadian National Exposition. He will
also take to the air 71ith Colonel w. G,
Barker, of the Canadian Air Corps, and
encircle the city. The Prince, when
visiting the German lines last year,
went up with Colonel Barker, and has
been enthusiastic about airplanes ever
since.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-19
Murder Theory Is Shaken
Charles Cappola, Missing Since
Feb. l3, Reported Heard From

Charles Cappola, who mysteriously
disappeared from his home in South
Norwalk, Conn, on February 13 last
and was believed to have been mur-
dered, is said to be alive and to have
communicated with his father, accord
ing TO report which reached the Dis
trlct Attorneys Office yesterday.
Randolph A. Gerard, counsel for
Sappolas father. of 81 Chambers
Street, is said to have received this
information. Mr.. Gerard, who is i'll at
his home in Brooklyn. sent word. when
inquiry was made yesterday, that there
was no foundation for the report. Ge-
rard has been seeking Cappola ever
since he disappeared.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-19
Woman Accused of Smoking
While Baby Cried in Crib

Mrs. Mary Bernhardt, q widow who
conducts a boarding house for children
st 116 East 123d Street, was held In
$500 bail yesterday for trial in Special
Sessions on a charge Of endangering
the life of child.
:. Agents Of the Children's Society tcs-
tshcd that they found her lying In bed
nrnoking while fourteen month old
baby WAS crying in itg crib.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-19
SATURDAY, Nem 11ork Tribl1t1e JULY 10, 1919
Bomb, With Fuse Burned,
Is Found in Pittsburgh
Defect Prevented Discharge of
Powerful Explosive at Office
of Lumber Company
Special Correspondence

OPeo7* O077e5P0HHeHc6
PITTSBURGH, July 18.-A bomb, the
counterpart Of the internal machines
that were exploded in this district on
May Day, was found this morning
within few feet Of the Office of the
H. R. Walter Lumber Company, in
Manhattan Street. 1t was picked up by
two boys.
The fuse had been partly burned off,
some defect evidently preventing the
fire from burning through to the ex-
plosive, which was pronounced by the
city chemist this afternoon to be of a
powerful nature.
After finding the bomb the boys car
ried it to nearby run and soaked it
in water for several minutes. 1t was
then turned over to the police This is
the third bomb found in this city in
the last ten days.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-19
BARRIERS on Strike Demand
That Hair Cut Be so Cent

BARRIERS who went on strike in bar
Der shops north of 135th Street yester-
day demand that the tariff for hair
cuts be raised to SO cents. with an
increase also for shaves. shampoos and
other service. 1t is proposed to ex-
tend the strike throughout Manhattan.
The increase is demanded by the
lourneymen so that their wages may
be further increased
In Bayonne, N. J.. prices nave been
advanced to tho new scale Of so cents
for haircut.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-19
4H Rhode Island Trolley
Lines Tied Up BY Strike
Special CorreSpO,1Icucc

JPtCWt COTTeSp0Ndencc
PROVIDENCE, R. L., July 19.-Com.
plete tie-up of the trolley service of
the whole state resulted at midnight
last night, when the 3,40O employees of
the Rhode Island Company went on
strike because Of wage difficulties.
The receivers Of the road announce
that no attempt will be made to run
the cars except where mail contracts
have been made with the government
Except for the local line at Newport
not single passenger or freight car
IN the state was running this morning
New-York tribune., 1919-07-19
Seek to Find W ay to
Bring Thaw to N. Y.
Officials Confer i'm Philadelphia
ON Means to Bring About
His ExtraditiOn
Special Correspondence

PHILADELPHIA, July 1s.-Repre-
sentatives of the New York District
attorneys office held a two-hour con-
sultation in this city to-day with As
sistant District Attorney Joseph H.
Toulane in an endeavor to devise a
means by which Harry K. Thaw may
be extradited to New York.
AS to the exact outcome of the con-
ference however, the New York visit
ors, Edwin P. Kilro and Robert John
stone, were -committal.
While no name was given, the init
nation was that they would visit the
offices of James Gay Gordon, counsel
for Thaw.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-19
German Stock i'm Pabst
Brewery To Be Sold
Securities Valued at $3.50, 900
10 Be Auctioned July 20
by Government
Special Correspondenc,

MILWAUKEE, July 1s.-Securities
totalling $2,Ss9,9o in the Pabst Brew
ing Company, owned by alien enemies.
VIII be sold at auction by the Alien
Property Custodian on July 20, the
money to be turned over to the gov
ernment to pay claims of American
cc!tizcns against Germany for repara-
ton.
The property is owned by Henry
pest. son of Philip Best. founder Of
the Pabst Brewery, and Mrs. Clara S.
Schulbeck, daughter of Emf! .chendcin.
Both are said to have been residing in
Germany for long time
New-York tribune., 1919-07-19
Not Firms Head

George Rae Callendcr. who on
Thursday adopted three ycarold i.
Leroy Scofield, has called attention to
an error in The Tribune story of yes
terday. The Tribune stated that Mr..
Calender was president Of the Wheat
Export Company, Inc. Mr.. Calender
is one of several vice-presidents OF
tho corporation. Tho president IS
Gerald F. Earle.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-19
MRS. ELIZABETH o'RoURKE, o

M no. ELlAAbE4d " ROURkE, OF
A'~ 1913 Eighth Street, Long Island
City, and Mrs. Susan Nolan, of 1873
Jackson Avenue, appeared yesterday
before Magistrate Harry Miller. Mrs.
O'Rourke declared that she heard Mrs.
Nolan denouncing the Emerald Isle,
and said she would not tolerate it.
Mrs. Nolan insisted that Mrs.
O'Rourke's story was not true. Mr..
Nolan was q member of Clan ma Gael
and Of the Ancient Order of Hiberni-
ans, she said.
eve were only fooling, and Mrs.
O'Rourke misunderstood" she added.
"The Irish question is nothing to
ler in suspending sentence.
0N HEARING report that it was
~ planned to discharge them and
put widows of patrolmen in their
places. the four mattresses Of the res
taurant established three months ago
by Commissioner Enright at Police
Headquarters walked out Tuesday.
Patrons patiently accepted the SER
vices of police rockies, but when one
or two of these amateur walters upset
soup in. the laps of police clerks the
manager was induced to go out in
search of other young women to take
the places of those who had quit.
He found three Wednesday and an
other yesterday, and a situation which
threatened the existence of the res
taurant was saved.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-19
New Pleads Not Guilt

LOS ANGELES, July 1s.-FIarry S.
New, charged by grand jury Indictment
with the murder of his sweetheart.
Frcda Lesser, on the night of July 4.
pleaded not guilty to-day in the Supe-
rlor Court here. The trial was set for
October 81.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-19
Three Escape From Auburn

AUBURN, n. Y, July 1s. Three CON
vets, RUSSELL Dow and Fred Gruber.
g bunaio, and William Lewis, a negro
lfem Opondaga County, cscaped from
the Homer road camp OF Auburn nris.
On to-day, making = total of eight who
have escaped from there since June s.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-19
Briefs

The 7,500-ton steamship Rockaway Park
will be launched this afternoon at the Shoot
crs Island yards of the Standard Shpbuild-
ing Corporation. The Sponsor will be Mrs.
Ethel Duncan, wife of w. H. Duncan, chair
man of the Rockaway Liberty Loan Com
mittee
New-York tribune., 1919-07-19

Leaving the track at corner curve a
Brooklyn crosstown ran onto the side
walk at Columbia and Sackett streets and
struck James Russo and John Limo. Nei-
ther was seriously injured.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-19

Timothy Keegan. twenty-three. formerly
navy yard messenger. pleaded guilty before
a United States commission to d charge of
having stolen Liberty bonds valued at So ,050
belonging to other navy yard employees.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-19

Arraigned in Morrisania court, charged
with having picked Jacob Silvermans
pockets July 5 on a Westchester Avenue
car. Louis Baranofsky and Julius Frank
proved they were in the Tombs that day
New-York tribune., 1919-07-19

In the Adams Street police court in Brook
lyn to-day four young women are expected to
the shimmy on a street corner ear early ~ in the
morning. They were arrested at 80 a. m.
at Fulton Street and Hudson Avenue. where
the policeman said they had an appreciative
audience of taxi drivers and belated pedes-
trians.
w. j. Heavey a retired farmer from Sus-
quehanna, Penn, fatally injured by
brella he carried prevented him from seeing
the approaching car.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-19

bullet fired by one of the combatants in
a duel at Hicks and Congress streets, Brook
the leg When the boy fell the duellists ran.
One arrest has been made.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-05-22
MISS HAGGhRD :
IN Y. v. c. A. WORK

Miss Clara Haggard, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. w. S. Haggard of Mex
leo, instructor i'll Latin at Hardin Col
lege. has accepted a splendid position
with the Y. w. c. A. in recreation
work.
She will leave Mexico the first of
July for New York where she will take
a course in the New Y. W. C. A. school
to prepare herself for this work. TIE
school will last from July 5 to August
II and she will then be sent to some
city, possibly i'll Oklahoma or Texas
where she will have charge of a girls
club. Her work will be to supervise
several o and provide entertain
mcnt for the younger working girls
and their friends.
The work is the same as that carried
on by Miss Ruth Rule who taught in
Hardin last year. She is now located
at Dallas, Texas. Miss Haggard has
had several offers from the Y. w. c.
A, regarding this work but only re-
Gently decided to accept. 1t offers a big
icld, especially since the work has
been made permanent. The need of
such work was emphasized during the
late war.
Miss Hagard has taught at Hardin
College for the last four years ard
while her many friends will be sorry
to hear Of her leaving, they rejoice
with her in her new work.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-05-22
REV. J. A. MUMPOWER
FORMER MEXICO PASTOR
DIES AT PALMYRA, MO.

The Rev. John A. Mumpower, 70
| six wears a resident of Mexico, two
| wears pastor of the Methodist church
and four years Presiding Elder of this
| district, died at the home of his daugh-
ter Mrs. John Sosey i'll Palmyra, Mo,
Wednesday, May IA. The news OF his
death was received here by Mrs. W.
H. Wallace in a letter written to her
Thursday from Mrs. Sosey.
The funeral services will be held ut
Palmyra at $3.50 o'clock Friday alter
noon and burial will be in the Greer
wood Cemetery at that place.
Deceased was a minister in the Mis-
souri, Conference of the NJ. f. Church
South for more than so years. He had
filled many of the important charges
in the State and had served many
times as presiding elder.
Reverend Mumpower was born
Jan. 8, 1912 near C~hillicothe. He re-
sided in Mexico twenty-seven years
ago moving from here to Palmyra.
Mrs. Mumpower preceded him %
the grave May y, 1914. He is sur
vived by an only daughter, Mrs.
Sosey.
Rev. Mumpower was a lovaole
character, a true Christian and his
going has not only left a vacancy in
his church and among his church peo-
pie but with all who knew him.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-05-22

lettering the local service and work
ing out the future transmission pos
sibilities.
1t has resulted from this connection
that Mr.. Corl has purchased one-third
interest in the Mexico Power Com
pany, the remaining two thirds being
retained by Messrs. S. NJ. and E. R.
Locke, and he will shortly become
with his family a resident of Mexico
and devote his entire time to the OPP
Grafton of the plant, in connection
with Messrs. Locke.
Mr.. Corl was graduated in the En-
ginccring Department of the Missouri
University in 1908, being a native
Misisourian; for two years he worked
for the H. L. Doherty Company of
New York, and was with the Arnold
Company of Chicago four years. The
last five years he has been vice pres
ident and in charge of operations of
The Southern Illinois Light and Power
Company. This company owns and
operates sixty five cities and towns in
Illinois, among which are Collinsville,
Mount Vernon, Du Quoin, Hillsboro,
Litchfield, Chester and others; all be-
ing served with electricity, and many
of them with gas, heat ice, railway
and water utilities. At the time Mr..
Corl went with this company, it had
only eight or ten towns, but enlarged
to its present size; the plans of oper-
alton has been to connect the various
centers with transmission lines.
From one center, thirty-two towns
are served with a combined popula-
ton of fifty or sixty thousand.
The Southern Illinois Light and
Power Company has recently sold its
properties to a large holding company
of Chicago, and just as soon as the
transfer is made Mr.. Corl will make
his home in Mexico.
1t will be the policy of the Power
Company to enlarge its local plant
with the view of meeting the present
imperative needs and comprehending
as far as possible the future demands
of Mexico and the surrounding coun-
try. The office in Mexico will be
equipped with a complete stock of
fixtures, merchandise and instruments
to test and regulate all branches and
departments of the business. In each
of the towns that may possibly be ser
we'd, sub-offices will be established to
serve the local centers.
A New Bushes Department is being
established and special effort will be
made to develop this feature in all of
the connecting towns, and will be I'M
der the direct management of Mr.. c.
c. Ogle, who has been with the COM
pany for the past year.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1919-05-22
FUNERAL OF GEORGE
T. HALL HELD IN MEXICO
THURSDAY AFTERNOON

The funeral services of George T.
Hall who died at his home in St. Louis
Monday night of heart disease was
held at the NJ. S. Bush Undertaking
p~arlors at 2 o'clock Thursday after
noon. DR.. A. A. Wallace, pastor of
the Mexico Presbyterian church had
charge of the services. Burial was in
the Elmwood Cemetery.
The deceased is survived by a wife
and four children; two SON Buddy"
Hall of Audrain County and Asa Hall
of Peoria, Ill; two daughters, Mrs.
Myrtle Wagner and Mrs. Ruth Mos
ley.
The deceased was in the poultry
business in Mexico for about 80 years
and went from here to Eolia, Mo-,
where he conducted the same business
pr a number of years when he W.
'orced to give it up on account of Ill
Tess. He then moved to st. LOU
where he was residing at the time I
IS death.