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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-16
ACTOR JUMPS FROM
SEVENTEENTH FLOOR
Charles II. Weston a Suicide
From Aeolian Building.

Stenographers employed In an office on
the top floor of the four story building
in % West Forty-second street, yester-
day afternoon heard something fall onto
the roof with a tremendous thump. They
thought II was a rock from blasting
which has been going .on in Forty-third
street, and notified Joseph Davey. an
agent for the Salmon Real Estate COM
pany, which handles the property. Davey
found on the roof the body OF a man
whom the police believe to have been
Charles H. Weston. an actor, OF 352
South Eleventh street, Newark.
Weston had Jumped from the seven
teenth floor OF the Aeollan Building at
81 West Forty-second street. and his
body plunged downward with such force
that when 1t hit the building next door
It broke a heavy beam and made a per-
feet outline of the human body, almost
foot deep. In the roof. His hat was
found on a window sill on the seven
teenth floor of the Aeolian Building
The police found two letters in Wes-
toms pocket, one Of them from George
NJ Cohan, and the other addressed to
Anyone Interested" This letter said:
81 would like the New York Telegraph
TO print this. also the Journal: How
One Feels Just Before Death. by Jump
ing from the eighteenth story OF build
Ing; written by Charles H. Weston Just
before Jumping. II any newspaper uses
this short story please send my wife,
Mrs. c. II. Weston, 862 South Eleventh
street. Newark, check for $25." The
letter also said that he was taking this
big advantage because to die was a big
adventure" and that 1t was better for
him to die now than to go to an insane
asylum.
81 know I'm crazy" the letter said
! cannot sleep because dream hideous
dreams. and l am always talking to my.
self and doing unearthly things.
/ can see people passing along theistree,
beneath me. / don't want to fall or
any Of them. I am crying like a baby
and my head and heart ache
have no fear OF hell. because cannot
suffer any more In hell than I have
suffered on earth. am about
TO jump"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-16
COPS TESTIMONY REJECTED.
Alleged speeder Is Let on I'm
Case That Sets Precedent.

In freeing John Olsen, Is. a Bronx
chauffeur. from a charge OF speeding
preferred by a patrolman. Magistrate
w. Bruce Cobb established q precedent
IN traffio court yesterday. II was said
% be the first case discharged on the
evidence OF q patrolman since the court
was established three years ago
Tho officer. Vincent J. McCauley, said
that he timed Olson for one block in
Seventh avenue. II developed that the
patrolman had his motorcycle stationary
at the curb when Olsen passed and that
he had TO start the engine before giving
chase. Magistrate Cobb called In other
motorcycle patrolmen for expert testi-
pony. They said that Patrolman Nc
cauley's machine was OF the one speed
type. and he would have required a full
city block. or 200 feet. to reach a speed
OF thirty miles an hour. Machines of
the three speed type can attain that
speed IN seventy-five feet
The Magistrate then decided that Nc
Ceuiey had been unable to ascertain the
Facts accurately and dismissed the
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-16
Runs Down Boyj surrenders.

Unable to withstand the pangs OF his
conscience, he said, Martin Swanlck OF
81 Sixth street. Brooklyn. a chauffeur,
walked into the West Forty
street station last night after having
run down fifteen-year-old lad, Thomas
Ryan of 514 West Forty-fourth street,
in front Of 453 West Forty-third street
Thursday night. Swanick told the lieu
tenant on desk duty that he kept on
after the accident because he feared
rough usage at the hands Of the crowd.
The boy was taken to- the Roosevelt
Hospital. where he died yesterday as a
result of his injuries. Swanlck was
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-16
GET HIS TROUSERS,
MISS GIRLS BODY
Graphing Hooks in Cayuga
Lake Shed Light on Hazel
Crance's Drowning.
Special Despatch to The Sly.


ITHACA. Aug. 15.-Men who have been
dragging the bottom of Cayuaa Lake
for the body of Miss Hazel crance'
an 1S-year- Ithaca girl, brought up
on graphing hooks last night thi trou-
sers that Donald w. Fether is alleged TO
have been wearing on the night Of July
10. when the girl was last seen. Fether
who is a Cornell University student, In
the county jail here charged with muir
der in connection with the girls disap-
pearance, declares that Miss GRANGE was
drowned in the lake after canoe in
which they were riding was upset about
500 feet from shore.
Fether's trousers were turned inside
out when the graphing irons brought
them to the surface and the legs were
knotted into a loop, with a knot tied
just a few inches below the knees At
the time the trousers were hooked the
men handling the irons felt certain that
they also had caught the girls body. as
there was a perceptible strain, which
lightened before the hook could be
brought to the surface.
On the night the girl disappeared
young Fether said. and repeated the
statement at a subsequent inquiry. that
although he was not able TO remove his
shoes after the canoe upset. he did sue
coed in kicking of his trousers. lie sun
maintains that the girl was drowned as
the result of an accident. and says they
were sitting in the canoe, with their
arms about each other. when the canoe
upset. lie swan about for twenty min
utes trying to find her, he says, but
rever saw her again.
Fether was arraigned late this after
noon before Justice of the Peace Will
Jams at Jacksonville, and through his
attorney, A. w. Feinberg, pleaded not
guilty. The hearing was adjourned IN
til tomorrow. Meanwhile Fether is be-
ing held without ball. and is allowed to
see no one save his attorney. 1t was re-
ported tonight that his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. F. A. Fether of Los Angeles,
are on their way to Ithaca.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-16
Jewish Legionaires DemobiIised.

Jewish legionaires who served with
The British In the Holy Land campaign
have been demobllized and are now re-
storing the farms In the Valley of Jez-
reel. Palestine, according to a cable re-
port received by the Zionist organisa-
ton. They were all enlisted from Amer
lea and have announced their intention
of remaining In Palestine TO prepare for
the settlement OF the national home. The
land which they are improving is owned
by the Zionist Commonwealth. COM
pany affiliated with the Zionist organi-
zation.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-16
EXAMINER ACCUSES CRAIG.
Injunction Violated, Civil Service
omciaI Charges.

Elmer G. story Of Queens. an exam
iner In the Civil Service Commission. be-
gan an action in the Supreme Court
against Charles L. Craig. Comptroller;
Morris Cukor, president Of the Municipal
Civil Service Commissioner. William
Brennan and Thomas r. Killilea. Com
missiouers, and May B. Upshaw and
Thomas F. Murray. examiners for the
commission. He charged them with vlo-
latlon OF an injunction issued last spring
by Justice Faber.
Story contends that Miss Upshaw and
Murray were illegally promoted, and
brought an action last spring TO restrain
them from taking their new positions
His contention now is that both have
been given the salaries Of the Jobs
In violation of the Injunction. Justice
Cropsey reserved decision.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-16
EX-SOLDIER ENDS
LIFE BY HANGING
Descendant of Early Settlers
a Suicide in Brooklyn.

Gladys stillwen. 10, went into the
barn OF Samuel Lott in Avenue E aud
Canarsie lane. Brooklyn, yesterday
afternoon and found the body of Lott
hanging from a rafter. She called her
father, Frank Stillweil, who cut down
the body, but Lott was dead before a
physician could be called.
. Lott was % years old and the son OF
Schenck Lott OF Flatbush. He was a
descendant of one OF the early settlers
of the Canarsie district. the first Lott
having come there from Holland about
1920. The family IL well known I'M ca
narsie and owns considerable gropert'
In the neisAborhood, Lott recently vas
discharged from the army, in which ne
had served In the United States and
France since the fall of 1917. Members
OF the family said they knew OF no rta'
son why he should have committed sui
eide.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-16
United. states to Enter 80 Planes.

The Government is to enter thirty
airplanes in the flight from New York to
Toronto, which will start from Mitchell
Field. Long Island, August %, according
TO word received hers yesterday from
Washington by officials OF the American
Flying Club. The machines will be of
American French, British and German
make This is the first time that a Ger
man made airplane has been entered In
g. contest here. The German planes will
be a Fokker three PfalE, two Albat-
rosses, q L. V. w. and a Hanoverian
Scout. There will be a French Spad
and Breguet Tho British machines
win be the SEES, SEES A, an Avro and a
Bristol tighter.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-16
DR.. sILAS P. BEEBE DIVORCED.
He Names Corona Physician as CO.
respondent.

DR.. Silss p. Beebe, All Park avenue,
well known as a specialist and author OF
standard medical works. won yesterday
an absolute divorce from Mrs. Mary +.
Beebe, granted by Chancellor Walker in
the Court of Chancery at Newark.
DR.. and Mrs. Beebe agreed to separate
about three years ago and he gave her
an allowance and the use of their home
at IL Elm place, Flushing. A year later
she began a suit for divorce in the SUI
preme Court OF Queens county. 1t was
later discontinued, after her motion for
alimony and counsel fees had been de-
ried. Mrs. Beebe left Flushing a year
ago and went TO Ann Arbor. Mich, to
live with relatives.
Dr. Joseph Peyser OF Corona, L. l..
was named as correspondent in Beebes
action
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-16
TWO CHILD SLAYERS
FREED BY COURT
Mother of Child Killed Asks
Lad Be Discharged.

Two boys, one Z and the other 10, were
brought to the bar OF the Chlldren's
Court in Brooklyn yesterday. The first
was charged with the death of an eight
year-old playmate, whose life was taken
in a game OF cowboy and Indian" The
other had to answer for killing his
mother when playing with a loaded re-
volver. Justice Charles ]. Dodd. dis
playing almost as much emotion as the
youthful prisoners, dismissed them from
custody.
Irving Dezendorf. 176 Marion street,
the younger of the boys, was the first
arraigned. Playing with Joseph Murphy
Of III Marion street last Thursday he
loosed a shaft made of an old umbrella
rib at the make believe cowboy. The
steel entered Joseph's brain through one
eye. He died on Monday. AS the chubby
faced youngster was led forward by De-
tective Peter Thornton. woman clad
In black left her seat and made her way
to the rail. She was the mother OF the
slain child. She said:
Judge, l wish you would let this boy
go free. l wish to make no complaint
against him. / have four children and
realize that II might have been my own
child's fate to be In the position that this
child is now. ] bear nothing but sor-
row for his predicament."
Mrs. Murphy, you have taken gen
erous and, think. a proper view of this
matter. Your little boy is better off
than Irving here, because when he grows
old enough to realize-' the voice OF
the Justice broke.
MAY he never realize" answered the
bereaved mother.
A few minutes after the disposition of
this case Salvatore Butte, the thirteen
year-old lad, was called before the JUS
tice. He lives at IS Union street He
shook with sobs as the court asked him
II he had killed his mother.
ct pointed the revolver and pulled
the trigger, Judge, but II was just in
play. thought the gun was empty"
The lad cried bitterly as the scene in his
home June 80 was recalled to his mind
81 pity you." said the court. "You
may 20 home"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-16
VALERA IN NEW ROCHELLE.
Resting for SIX Weeks in Home Of
James X. Mcclure.

Eamonn de Valera, President of the
Irish Republic" arrived in New Rochelle
yesterday and is at the home OF James X.
MCGUIRE, ex-Mayor OF Syracuse and for
mer chairman OF the Democratic State
Committee. The whole house has been
placed at his disposal and he will spend
six weeks there.
Mr.. de Valera said that what he de-
sired most is rest and quiet" so that
he can do important work in the prep
aration Of the plans for the Notation OF
the bond issue in this country for the
Irish Republic"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-16
JUSTICES Ill; TENANTS GAIN.
Lack OF Court Sessions Gives $50
Respite.

The absence of a Justice in the Eenm
District Court 10 try dispossess cases
filed by landlords has given the Jenan"
a welcome respite. There has rot nee.
a session OF the court for ten days, owins
to the illness of Justice solomon Oppen,
heimer and the failure OF the presIoen'
OF the Board of Municipal Court justices
to I'LL the vacancy.
Before Justice oppenheimer was taken
TO Bellevue Hospital he tool; evidence "
fifty cases, but had given decisions u
none OF them. Since his illness loo a.,
dItional proceedings have been filed WIN
the clerk of the court
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-16
LEVINE NAMED MAGISTRATE.
HyIan Appoints Tammany Man to
Succeed william Blau,

Max S. Levine, Tammany leader of
the Eighth Assembly District and for
merry chairman Of the Law Committee
OF the Board of Aldermen, was appointed
City Magistrate for full term OF ten
years yesterday by Mayor Hylan. The
salary Is $1,000 a year.
Levine succeeds Magistrate William
Blau. whose term has expired and who
Court in the Second district by both the
Republican and Democratic organiza-
lions.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-16
ManiIa-shanshai Cable Broken.

The Manila-Shanghai cable Is broken.
direct communication with China is in
terrupted and the urgent service is sus-
pended. the Commercial Cable Company
announced yesterday
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-08-07
STARS INCLINE
DON'T COMPEL
FRIDAY, AUGUST 8. 1919.

Copyright, 1919, by the Mcclure News
paper Syndicate.)
This Is read by astrologers as a rarely
lucky day, for Jupiter and Uranus dom
mate In q strongly benefic aspect.
1t Is q rule under which to make suc-
cess In buying and selling. Manufactur-
ing and commercial interests are well
directed. wa
While Jupiter promises much to those
who trade, Uranus Is In a place sup
posed to insure clear vision and wise
initiative.
There Is an extraordinarily good sign
for lawyers and all who take a judictl
view Of world problems.
The stars promise much to manu-
facturers, and there appears to be a
likelihood that the Pacific coast will
add many new industries.
Inventions have the best possible
government Of the stars, Airships and
aerial navigation, about which a~strolo-
gers have predicted much that has
come true. win great practical
uses within the year. the seers declare,
One OF the adaptations will affect the
Rocky mountain regions most for
tunately.
Uranus Is in a place read as denot-
ing the death of a great scientist.
A crisis In the house Of commons Is
forecast for this month and dissatis-
faction with the British ministry Is in
dicated,
Fires may be numerous next month.
Warning Of many incendiary losses Is
given.
Forecasts up to the end of the year
seem to show trouble in postal affairs,
This is not confined to the United
States, but will affect Great Britain
also.
A violent hurricane in the Pacific is
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-08-07
Twice Tales
I. 1909.
Ton Years AGO Today In Memphis.

News was flashed that the Central
Textile company had procured a charter
at Augusta, Me. and that by the first
OF the coming year d million dollar cot
ton mill would be In operation in Mem
phis.
Showers stopped the weekly matinee
races after three events had been fin
lshed. The winners were Tom Bea,
driven by Webster; Boneta, with Da-
want UP, and Beaudoc, with William
Kelly driving, The best mile OF the day
was turned In by Beaudoc. in 1921.
Frank M. Bradshaw, wanted in Mem
phis on charges OF embezzlement, lar
ceny and fraudulent breach OF trust
was arrested In New York. The pris
oner, posing as a mining promoter was
alleged to have swindled Gen. D II
Carnes, Walter w, Talbert and I. c,
Looney out of $4,000.
The members Of the Shelby county
bar heartily Endorsed the administrator
of Louis 7, Thompson as clerk OF thu
circuit court of Shelby county.
In a game of baseball played at Rec
Elm park for the benefit OF the play
ground movement, the Lawyers VOL
| from the Doctors by a score Of 8 to |
Nate SRwrie and NJ, L. Harwood, fol
the barristers and DR.. j. A. Vaughan
and Or, Dobbins, for the medlcos, were
the batterymen.
Capt, George T, O'Haver went Il
mississippi to spend several days Wis,
ting his family,
1t was announced that DIR. Lueius p
Brown, state pure food Inspector, wa
to ~inaugurate q vigorous crusad,
against the filth and unsanitary condi
lions OF Memphis restaurants. He ant
hts assistants had Just finished a threl
days quiet inspection OF conditions Il
local eating houses.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-08-07
The Public Be SerUed
SIMPLY STATISTICS.

0AWIII AADAA
We always devOur all the statistics we can find. They are Eon-
derful: Listen.
the top of the capitol building at washington. they would break. us
1t would take four men some time to lick all the postage stamps
made in Washington in one year, but we don't know just how long.
year could be recorded on a photograph, nobody would listen to them.
A mule can climb to the top of Mount Popocatepetl in five days. He
If all the doughnuts made by the salvation Army could be linked
together in one chain, they would reach from Paris to Somewhere in
France. eH ~
UNDESIRABLE CITIZENS.
g. And don't you yearn s+- -epsr
To smash Jack Daw,
Who always VOWS ~a.44 sEa4 IS tWE
That he has saw +9 GS ~ h
And oft you've wished
To see impounded~ satf ar
NJ Jim jerks, who wept @
When friends were 'drownded" &;
1t drives me madder -
Than ever Jazz did H.
To hear Bill Brown .a&
Murder has dds n
NO, BUT IF WE Do! ~, ge
Dear Roy-Haye you eve run up against the paragon Of humor,
the domestcated animal who always refers to the song, 4 Hear You
Calling Me-" a the undertaken. favoTite?.L T. H. ]
Anent the changing of the name OF Rye, N. Y, somebody says:
Why not call it Wry' n ~" Well why not?
JAzzING OMAR. .
Oh. nah honey, can't you see
.E. That you ought to be with me, 41.lM ag.S. $500.
Readin' syncopated verses meath the bought thH 4sgst
Rustic out q loaf Of bread, %4n@" rg
An some wine that's good an red,
An we'll have a little cabaret, for thou
Can sing coon songs, more or less,
Till the bowling wilderness
Is a red-hot. ragtime Paradise enowl
It's an A. %
It's a Paradise,
It's a bunny huggn', turkey trottin,, :
Eatin, Juggin, far from rotten && 8s I" 4@@&
Paradise enow!
Twocent stamps r back again. But why jubIate about that when
they make it all the easier for the folks who send out dunning letters?
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-08-07
Ozma of OF to the Rescue

Nanda brought Dorothy bread and
water for her supper, and she slept
upon a hard stone couch with a single
pillow and b silken ~eoverlet'
In the morning she leaned out OF
the window of her prison in the tower
to see II there was any way to escape.
The room was not so very high up, !
when compared with our modern build
ings. but II was far enough above the
trees and farm houses to give her a
good view of the surrounding country
TO the east she saw the forest, with
the sands beyond It and the ocean be-
yond that, There was even q dark
speck upon the shore that she thought
might be the chicken-coop In which she
had arrived at this singular country.
Then she cooked to the north, and
saw q deep but narrow valley lying be-
tween two rocky mountains, and a third
| mountain hat shut Off the valley at
the further end.
Westward the fertile Land Of Ev sud
denly ended a little way from the pal.
ace, and the girl could see miles and
miles Of sandy desert that stretched
further than her eyes could reach. u
was this desert. she thought, with much
interest, that alone separated her from
the wonderful Land OF OF, and she
remembered s~orrowfully that she had
been told no one had ever been able
to cross this dangerous waste but her
self. @nce a cyclone had carried her
across II, and a magical pair OF silver
shoes had carried her back again. But
now she had neither a cyclone o sill
yer shoes to assist her, and her condi-
ton was sad indeed. For she had be-
come the prisoner or q disagreeable
princess who insisted that she must
exchange her head for another one that
sha wna not used TO. and which might
not III her at all.
Really, there seemed no hope of help
for her from her old friends In the
Land OF Or. Thoughtfully she gaEed
from her narrow window, ON an the
desert not IA living thing was stirring
Walt though. Something surely wa
stirring on the desert-something hel
eyes had not observed at first. Nov
II seemed like a cloud, now II seemed
like a spot Of silver; now It seemed Il
be q mass OF rainbow coiors that movei
swiftly toward her,
What could Il be. she wondered,
Then, gradually, but In a brief spac'
OF time nevertheless, the vision drew
= near enough to Dorothy to make GU
what II was.
itself upon the desert. while .advancinI
across the carpet was a wonderful pro
cession that made the girl open he
eyes in amusement as she gased.
First cene a magnificent gotuc
-. chariot, drawn by a great Lion an
{ an immense Tiger, who stood shoulde
I to shoulder and trottcd along as grace
fully as a well-matched team OF thor
oughbred horses, And standing up
right within the chariot was q beau
tifil girl clothed In flowing robes I
q silver gause and wearing a jeweled dia
= dem upon her dainty head, She hel
in one hand the satin ribbons tbs
guided her astonishing. team, and
the other an ivory wand that separate