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SUICIDE DECISION
IN PACKWOOD CASE
Jersey Prosecutor Sure Victim
Of Palisades Tragedy
Killed Herself.

The strange tragedy enacted on some
day IN December atop the Jersey Pal,-
sades, when chIoroform smothered life
from the body OF Azeele Packwood, still
is sealed IN mystery.
The autopsy report Of DR.. William o.
den. County Physician OF Bergen. was
submitted last night to Thomas ]. Hue
kins, County Prosecutor. and this posi-
lively declares the girl met death by her
own act Alone. she climbed to the
lonely ledge and with unusual care to
detail prepared her end.
With this point esta blished. the au-
thorities OF Bergen county and New York
city have no further concern In the case,
save the further confederation OF her
identity. Two more friends Identified
the body Yesterday. Mrs Bradford Els
worth, 344 West Elghty-seventh street,
who was major in the Woman's Motor
Corps OF the Red Cross, OF which Miss
Pa"kwood was a member, saw the coat
and trinkets and Immediately identified
them. When Miss Packwood left the
Red Cross in November upon news OF
her husbands death N France, she told
.
The Identification was supported by
Mrs. Hugh Cameron. wife OF the janitor
OF the apartment house at % East Forty
eighth street. where the Packwood girl
lived. In the face of this, DR.. A. +.
Hasking of Jersey City, County Physl-
clan for Hudson county. raised a aues-
ton yesterday as to the Identity OF the
bodv. which he said was that of a girl
not over 90 years old. Miss Packwooi
was 29.
George D. Packwood. Jr., brother of
Azeele. wired from St Louis Yesterday
that he IL on his way TO Englewood to
claim the body. No arrangements will
be made for the funeral until he comes
or further word is received from his
father. He requested the GreenIeaf
morgue IN Englewood 10 hold the body
until notified OF the proper disposition.
The message said that the Packwood
family hold burial lot in Trinity Gem
etery.
The effects OF The girl. containing such
papers as may possibly throw light upon
the identity of the army officer whom
She married. are In a safe deposit box
OF the Equitable Trust Company branch.
S55 Madison avenue.
Instead OF ''Fenton." the name MA
tor william J. Farnum" was given yes-
terday by Red Cross worker as that
Of Miss Packwood's husband. but the
nurse heard II in second hand fashion
and so there is little hope along this
clue.
Mrs. Jeanne CazeauN. PISS Broadway,
told yesterday about Miss Packwood's
supposed acquaintance with Major Clar-
ence Fahnestock OF the 30lst Infantry,
who died OF pneumonia October Q Mrs,
Cnzeaux said she was a close friend OF
Major FahnestoclS herself and was sur
prised one day when she found him call
Ing on the Packwood girl. who lived in
the apartment house.
The story is absurd" said Adrian
Larkin. counsel for the Fahnestocl- es-
tate. Major Fahnestock was not mar
ried." His brother. DR.. Ernest Fahne-
stock, AT Park avenue, also declared
the yarn was ridiculous.
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OIL OPERATOR SUES
COSTA RIGA LEADER
L. G. Valentine Says Ex-Presi-
dent Gonzalez Libelled
Him in Letter.

Alfredo Gonzalez, ex-Pres,dent of
Costa Rica, was named as defendant in
suit filed yesterday IN the Supreme
Court in which Lincoln G. Valentine.
an oil operator. alleges his business
reputation was injured to the extent
OF s25o.ooo by reason OF a letter written
by Gonzalez to United States Senator
Gilbert NJ. Hitchcock. chairman OF the
Committee on Foreign Relations.
Gonzalez Is spending the winter In
this city and the summons and COM
plant In the suit were served on him
at % Morningside avenue. He has re-
fused TO discuss tho case.
Valentine has extensive railway and
development interests throughout South
and Central America. The letter Con-
zalez is alleged to have sent to Senator
Hitchcock has affected tho reputation
he bears for reliability in the little
republics. Valentine asserts. as II places
upon him the onus OF foment!ng revo-
buttons and accuses him OF bribery.
The letter was written September 81,
1918. at a time when President Con-
zalez understood the United States Gov
eminent contemplated an investigation
Of the de facto Government of Costa
Rica. Parts OF the letter follow:
II wish TO submit to the committee
private correspondence Of the American
citizens, Lincoln G. and Washington s.
Valentine and others for the purpose
of the following:
That the conflict between a group
OF American citizens and the Executive
Of Costa Rica over the granting OF all
concessions covered by private American
interests and opposed by the President
of Costa Rica was the chief cause OF the
coup d'etat OF January %. 1917, which
overthrow the constitutional Government
OF that country.
"That the same American interests
bribed the then Minister of War. Fred
erlco Tinoco. with whom they conspired
and planned to overthrow the consti-
tutional Government in the event that
I, as President Of the republic. should
oppose the oil concessions sought by the
Valentine group. in which Minister Of
War Tinoco had. by secret agree
ment. been given an interest Of / per
cent. in the oil productions, and finally
"'That FREDERICK Tinoco raised arms
and overthrow the legal Government in
rurtherance OF his bribery agreement
with Valentine. In the coup detat IT.
roco was only the tool OF American capt.
taiists which accounts for the decided
assistance he has been given by power
iui American interests in his endeavur
To obtain for his Government recognition
or the United States"
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"MISER'S SECRET" ON
DESK OF SLAIN MAN
Odd Discovery in Office OF
Smith w. Conkiin.

Police and townsfoik OF Pstcaos l"
who hurried into the office OF Smith v
Conklin. reputed millionaire. wre0 80
was shot TO death there "Wednesday pa
ternoon, saw quickly that Their We
neighbor had been reading. On the a"s-
WAS book open. and laid face trWr
ward. On the book rested a Ns!r
heavy reading glasses which edFa'-'n
age made it necessary 70. him % YEA
over the weaker glasses that s'A COZ ere
his eyes when he was shot,
Not until after William W. Wright ~
the Wright detective AEenC. a. 49,
Nassau street. Manhattan. and lylrS q.
&c Stuyvesant avenue, BrooN'y0 ha f.
been held for the action OF the = a-0
Jury by Coroner Moore, al Patches
yesterday, accused Of the shooting,
any one take the trouble 20 look f. to
book. Then some Of the victims ~e.gN
bors glanced At the cover. "Miser Foad
ley's Secret was the title. Wig
admission that he did the shooting va
accompanied by statenen; about qua
rels over money inattere with the ma
he killed.
The Grand Jury coGVeHe> ~ RIye-hes
Monday and WriGhts case rrohah'v W
be acted upon Tuesday, The BUR
Wright fired at himself Inflicted on" H
slight wound and after the inquest y
was sent TO the Suffolk county laH
Riverhead. No arrangements have be
made for Conklin's funeral
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Troopships Due To-day
HENRY r. MALLORY from

HENRY r. MALLORY from
Bordeaux, January 20, with
1,755 officers and men, including
the seth Field Artillery, one
casual company of Texans and
one Of Ohioans, and 100 i'll and
wounded, among whom are
twenty with mental disorders.
Hampden from Bordeaux, jan
uary z, with twenty-one officers
and men, bound for Camp Mer-
rift.
Adriatic from Brest, January
90, with 1850 officers and men,
chiefly of 329th Infantry, and
322d and 334th Machine Gun
Battalions, complete, 102 sick
and wounded requiring special
attention; five officers and $50
enlisted men needing no special
attention.
Siboney from Bordeaux, jan
uary 20, with 1896 army Of
ficers and men and four naval Of
ficers. Chief units Forty-fifth
Regiment, Coast Artillery, 309th
Ammunition Train and Batteries
c and D, 339th Field Artillery.
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be barred from Newark dance halls and
cabarets forthwith, under pain of loss
OF license. Perhaps the precise details
OF the voting. In which the ayes" had
It, never will be known, because the In
slant the order was issued yesterday a
new rumpus got under way that for a
time threatened to befog the whole moral
issue.
One faction said the city fathers
unanimously had voted AYE" because
they disliked the shimmy, whereas an
equally vehement group of Newarkites,
all Of whom favor the retention of the
shlmrny, had a wholly different explana-
ton OF the affirmative vote.
Cyryps Explanation.
. What really happened was this"
heatedly said young Cyryl Hyacinthe.
who won the diamond wristwatch at the
All Newark Shimmy Tilt during the New
Years Eve Shiver held recently under
the auspices OF the sprightly young New
ark mems organization known as the
Broad Street Lilies. "All these mean
old city uthor!ties--mercy. when I
think of them ! could positively push
their heads together absolutely violently I
saw us boys dancing the shimmy at
the Police Department ball and one or
Gracious me. I know not why And
then. Mr.. Newspaper Man. as heaven
is my Judge. do you know what one of
the horrid officials did? He grew posi-
lively violent in denouncing US at the
meeting, the hateful old thing, and finally
he put a motion to the effect that the
beautiful dance should be prohibited In
Newark
"'You gentlemen saw this dance az
the policemen's ball last night he cried.
have this, my dear, on the word of one
OF the ribbon salesmen at Bambergers.
I move. the hateful thing continued,
that the dance be forbidden. All In
favor Of the motion say aye And all
the city authorities, thinking that the
word motion referred to the shimmy
when the mean old thing said, All in
favor Of the notion naturally answered
In the Affirmative. And so the silly old
trump had his motion passed. when the
majority of the officials present thought
they were voting to continue the mo-
ton OF the shimmy SILVER"
And Mr.. Hyacinthe added that when
he had heard the facts OF the meeting.
which In his eyes had made Newark
positively frumpish, he almost died OF
modification. He would have told more
only for the fact that a rude policeman
cried roughly just then. Yer blockin'
traffic, kid beat Il or I'll hit yuh VIZ
a creampuff. :" And everybody had TO
dispense.
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IL TROOPSHIPS SAIL
WITH 1850 YANKS
Seven of Them VIII Dock at
NeU York.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 30.-peparture
from France OF twelve transports. carry e.
Ing more than $50 officers and II 600
men. including four Coast Artillery
regiments complete, was announced to-
DAY by the War department. Seven
of the ships are scheduled to dock at
New York. three at Newport News and
one at Baltimore
The returning Coast Artillery res!-
nents are the Fourth, Forty fourth.
Fifty-Arst and SNr.eth. Announcement
that the regiments were returning com
plete' was said at tho War Department
not To mean that each regiment was
coming back at full war strength, but
that every man at present on active
duty with the unit was returning with IT,.
Tho transports now on the way in
clude some OF the largest in the service
Among them are the Agamemnon. Cedric.
Rijndam and Espagne.
The puca Abruzzi is due at New
York February S. with the Fourth Coast
Artillery complete, detachment of
fifty-five Ohio men from the l64th Field
Artillery ard l23 casual officers.
Tho Metapan Is scheduled To arrive
At New York February IL, with a de-
tachment OF Base Hospital No. ., COM
posed OF three officers and Ill nurses.
The Espagne, which is to arrive at
New York February s, has one casual
company each from Pennsylvania, New
York and Illinois.
The transport Agamemnon, due at
Newport News February 4. has the
Fifty-frst Regiment OF Coast Artillery
complete. The Torty-fourth and SIN
tieth regiments are on the Cedric.
scheduled to arrive at New York tho
same day. There are $50 officers and
5000 men on the two shipS The AGA
memnon is bringing also Base Hospital
No. .. en- route to Camp Meade, two
casual companies OF New York troops.
nincty-two casual officers, $50 sick and
wounded and forty-three naval officers.
The Cedric has casual company O.!
Illinois men, 1873 casual officers and a
few civilians.
The transport Peerless will arrive at
Newport News February 4, with a casual
company OF Cslttornians r small medical
detachment and seven casual officers.
Other vessels announced to-day as due
TO arrive with small detachments are
the Western Ocean. at Baltimore, Feb
ruary 3. and the West Haven. at New
port News, February l.
The transport RiJndam is due az New
port News February !, with the fos
lowing casual companies: Michigan, 2 I:
New York, 2; Virginia. 3: Ohio. Penn
syivania, Massachusetts Illinois and
Texas, l each. On board also are fifty
five casual officers, about 500 sick and
wounded and eight officers and zoo men
OF the navy
The steamship Woonsocket, due at
New York, February 10; the Hickman.
due there February -, and tho Santa
Barbara, due February o, are bringing
only a few casuas
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SKINNY .S7IVERS IS EXILED
AFTER NEWARK COPS BALL
City Authorities Rule You Gotta Dance With Your
Feet Hereafter in That Town-Spinal Wrggles
Shock Official Spectators

The shimny shall be abared-barred
we mean barred beginning at midnish,
Tomorrow excitedly cried Newark yes
terday afternoon.
And thereupon was begun, the pure OF
Newark predicted last night, a reform
movement against the latest dance which,
~ the agitation increases. will wriEsle in
nervous waves Of reform from the
oieasinous but shimmerins shores of
Newark Bay westward until the thirty
sixth State has ratified a constitutional
amendment combining dancing to the
feet
within a very short time" began A.
J. Coxzolino, License Commissioner Of
Newark. yesterday afternoon when tell
ing of the Newark municipal order is
sued forbiddtng the shirnmy in the Jersey
metropolis on and after February /,
this great movement will
What do you mean. movement,
C'mish?" interrupted some one who
wanted to get the facts clear. Reform
movement or shimmy dance movement %
This great movement" (the C'mish still
speaking and ignoring the low Interrupt
tion), rs bound to spread among munic-
ipaities THROUGHOUT the land until this
Objectionable dance is forbidden every
where"
Even Crept In at Cope Ball.
IT seems that when the cops OF New
ark gave their annual bail in KreuSer's
Auditorium about a month ago among
those present was w. J. Brennan, d.
rector OF Public Safety, together with
many other officiai city parents.
1t was a warm night. Nevertheless
as the night progressed and the hail grew
warmer the shimmy experts Of Newark
began to flock upon the floor, and para
doxically. as the auditorium grew posi-
lively hot the shimmy folks began to
SILVER and SILVER and SILVER.
The nrst thing tho Director OF Public
Safety. the License Commissioner and
the rest OF the city sires remembered
as they began to como up for air the
day after the ball was tho shimmy, a
dance which evidently was spreading
throughout fair Newark and threatening
to drag the metropolis OF New Jersey
to the moral depths of Hoboken or even
Jersey City. Wherefore the city fathers
met Immediately. each Official asking
bashfully and with bushes blooming
about his averted eyes whether or not
the other city fathers had seen what the
questioner had seen.
A vote was then taken as TO whether
or not the shimmy should or should not
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NORTHERN PACIFIC
CAPTAIN ON TRIAL
Case Hinges on Whether He
Was Called in Time.

Capt. Louis ]. Connely. commander OF
the transport Northern Pacific when she
piled upon a sandbar of Fire Island
early on New Years morning. faced a
eourt-martial yesterday In the navy
headquarters at the Hoboken Port of
Embarkation. The trial Is being con-
Quoted behind closed doors and none OF
the testimony will be permitted TO be-
come known until tho result Is an
nounced.
Two other officers Of the Northern
Pacific also are to be tried in connection
with the grounding OF their ship. One
is the navigating officer. Names OF
neither OF these officers have been an
nounced. 1t is known. however. that
Capt. Connely retired about 10 O'Clock
New Years eve. several hours before
the Northern Pacific, with her cargo of
more than 1000 wounded and conva-
descent soldiers and sailors, drove into
the Fire Island sands. II is understood
that the testimony will centre in his case
chiefly upon the question OF whether he
was summoned from his quarters in time
to avert the grounding.
Capt. Conneiy had been In tho navy
for thirty years and rose to his present
rank from SEAMAN. He wears proudly
four gold service stars, unusual in the
navy service. He has navigated ships
in all parts OF the world, but the North
ern Pacific is the only one OF his that
ever went ashore.
Interest in the trial centres about fog
conditions at the time and just before
the Northern Pacific struck. II was
understood TO have been clear when
Capt. Conneiy retGed and that he left
orders to summon him II fog appeared.
Men aboard the Northern Pacific said
Fire Island light was visible on tho
transports port side, perhaps four miles
away, when her hull grated on the bar.
Immediately afterward heavy fog
came up. so that when daylight came
the stranded ship was invisible to those
ashore II may be several weeks before
the court-martial findings are made
known.
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POISONED BY SAMPLE CAKES.
rs EImhurst Families Probably
Victims OF Maniac.

twenty-five families in Elmhurst, L. T.,
Rave been slightly poisoned by eating
sample cakes sent them through the mail.
According to the investigation conducted
by District Attorney O'Leary none of
tho cases was fatal, but physicians
found several children were victims OF
arsenic poisoning.
A maniac. crazed by the war, Is be-
lioved by officials to be the sender OF
these packages. The cakes and crackers
were attractively wrapped In Christmas
paper. Meanwhile a warning has been
given people OF the Elmhurst section to
bring these samples to the District At
torney's Office Immediately upon their
receipt
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ZEEBRUGGE RELIC FOR CITY,
Piece of Mole bought for $4,000
by Eight New Workers,

One OF the most highly priced relics
OF the raid on Zeebrugge--a heavy piece
OF the mole that was blown through the
sides OF the Vindictive--is to be pre-
scented to New York city and will be
given a permanent place OF honor at
the Metropolitan Museum.
The Jagged bit OF rock was purchased
ut auction for $4,000 by eight New
Workers. last week. and will be pre-
scented to Mayor Hylan, representing the
city. at to-night's lecture by Capt. AL
fred f. r. Carpenter. " c.. in the Cen
tury Theatre. Those who made the gift
possible are: Mrs. John Jay Chapman.
Mrs. Richard Aldrich Mrs. Z. p. Hark-
ness, Mrs. Harold Brown. ]. Pryce
Goodwin, Frank s. Washburn. Steven
son Scott and Daniel schnakSnberg.
Capt. Carpenter win repeat his lecture
in Carnegie Hall February Z
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took toll Of the attackers before they re-
treated to their own lines, the German:
not pursuing.
Corporal Herbert Scheyer, 25s Albany
avenue. Brooklyn. OF the 10th Infantry
told how his regiment took the village Of
Sergy on the Ourcq River.
Lieut.. T. W. Timpson. address the
Hotel McAlpin. Of Company I, Twenty
third Infantry, was gassed and wounded
by shell splinters at scissors. He was
seventeen months at the front. Lieut.
C. T.. Berlin. ia East Sixteenth street
Of Company D, 129th Infantry, said his
regiment had some hard knocks AT
Verdun and the Vosges. On one ccca'
sion, he said, only three men OF a full
company of ESQ came out of a drive
urwounded.
Private David Fisbin, SIS Marcy ave
nue., Brooklyn. was wounded severely
in the Argonne on October when
lighting with the Eighth Machine Gun
Battalion. and lay on tho ground four
hours before no was picked up. Pri-
Yates Stennerman and w. J. Robert
son. formerly New York policemen, also
came back by the Mongolia
The cruiser Frederick, from Brest. with
1,547 troops. including the sSOth Infan-
try. which did not fight as a unit. but
which sent 1900 men to replace other
warriors killed or disabled on several
fronts. locked in the morning. and all
hands were able to depart for Camps
Merritt and Mills.
Lieut.. S. D. Folsom, Muscatine. Ia. of
the Forty first Field Hospital, said COM
plimentary things of the New York
troops. He said the drafted men OF the
Seventy seventh Division had not re-
ceivad proper credit for their efficiency
nd har Ill
valor." the Lieutenant said, may never
be fully known. For instance. they took
Grande Pre-. although understand the
French troops had been credited with
the exploit. know that the New York
ers had taken the town and we're there
when the French arrived"
Capt Nathaniel NJ. Ierner. Detroit, OF
the $66th Squadron. said that they had
erected at Romarantin the biggest avia-
ton factory In France and that from
1000 to 10000 men had been busy there
until the armistice came.
Rick nba cker on the Adriatic.
The three troopships that arrived yes
terday early enough to dock had un-
usually plea SAINT passages and were a 81.
ahead o. tho army schedule. The big
Atlantic Transport Line steamship Mime
kahda, not expected until this morning,
anchored in the bay last night and will
land her 200 troops this morning
Among them are the 329th Infantry and
many casuals OF the air service.
Aboard the White Star liner Adriatic,
which Is expected to arrive OFF the Hsok
this evening, but may not dock until to-
morrow, are Cant. Eddie Rlckenbacke
American air ace and automobile racer,
and Major James A. Meissner. tho Flat
bush ace with eight Boche planes 20 his
credit One delegation Of neighbors will
meet him down the bay and another at
the pier.
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wife of Radio Electrician,

Mrs, Paul David Clough is the wife
of radio electrician of the hattleshin
Florida, now. at the New York NAVY
Yard. He met her at the pier. They
met in London and were married there
on August IL. He will take her, 10 his
home In Kansas City after he quits the
service.
Mrs. Maurise Voght is the wife OF n
private In the Fifth Aero Squadron who
lives in sec East l64th street. They
met In London and were married in SEN
TENDER. The other brides were all hapnv.
although most OF their husbands were
not on hand 10 meet them because OF
being In hospital or on duty. They were
permitted to land in charge OF DIR,
Dorothy Smyley OF the Red Cross Motor
Corps, Only civilian passengers. other
than the brides, were permitted 10 land
last night.
The troopship Mongolia. from St M
zaire, locked after sunset in Hoboken.
and all but A few OF her 4.4e9 officers
and men were held aboard for the night
Many officers and men OF casual com
panies wore decorations for gallantry
and all these had stories TO tell hut
not all were willing TO do SO. Lieut.
William Penn Lewis of Baltimore OF the
10th Infantry wore Distinguished
Service Cross and will be recommended
for the Congressional Medal, II was said
by fellow officers aboard.
Lieut. J. G. Hall OF Washington, d. G
with Crotx de Guerre with palms
while attached TO a French bombing
squad OF aviators knocked three Rocnc
planes out of the sky. He was out on
one occasion with n squad of six planes
when eighteen German planes attacked.
The A'nc:. ans To-; To- machines, but
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Harvard Surgical Uni. hack.

PORTLAND. Me, Jan. sO-The Har-
ward surgical unit was brought home
to-day by the white Star steamship
Magenta from Liverpool II was well
coined by a committee representing
Mayor Andrew ]. Peters of Boston. The
unit went on by rail 10 Boston. Nineteen
Canadian nurses, who had been on duty
with. the unit, left the ship at Halifax.
Several officers OF the Y. NJ. c. A also
returned
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Greeks and italians Go Home,

The italian liner Giuseppe Verdi,
scheduled to sail tomorrow for Naples
and Genoa, will take away several thou
sand Italians and Greeks who have de-
clared in their application for passports
that they wish to return to their native
lands to assist In the support OF relatives
whose family heads were killed in the
War. A large number OF the Greoke said
they were going q join the Greek army.
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NEWPORT NEWS. Va. Jan. s0.-The
Martha Washington, which locked here
last night, carried $500 officers and
men, including several units Of the ssOth
Infantry. Lieut.-Col, Richard DERBY,
son-in-law of Col. Theodore Roosevelt.
who has been serving In a medical unlt
in Franco was one of the passengers.