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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-04
Mrs. Newble's Bail
Fixed at $1,000 at
Hearing in Jail
Two Doctors Attend Terror
Stricken Woman Who Ac-
cused Her Husband of
Murder of C.. D. Kelley
Special Dispatch to The Tribune


HERKlMER, N. Y, April o.-At a
bedside hearing held late this afternoon
in the Herkimer County Jail Supreme
Court Justice Irving r. Devendorf fxod
bail at $1,000 for Mrs. Marie Neville, of
Utica, whose charge that her husband
murdered Clarence D. Kelley, travelling
salesman of Leroy, led to Newble's
arrest last night.
Mrs. Neville, who is held as q ma
terial witness, has been in = state of
nervous collapse ever since she made
her deposition before District Attorney
Ward of Herkimer County yesterday
afternoon.
Justice D%evendorf, with the District
Attorney, visited Mrs. Newble's bedside
this afternoon and held informal court.
She made few answer to the questions
Of the court, and only moaned a little
when the sum was fixed at $1,000.
Meanwhile, her husband, charged
with the Kelley burden, which had puz-
zled Hcrkimer County authorities for
the last five months, sat in 9 cell below,
apparently Indifferent to the gravity Of
his position. Later, in company with q
deputy, he posed for photographers in
the jail yard.
Louis M. Martin, chairman Of the As
sembly Judiciary Committee, who will
defend Neville, arrived at Herkimer
this afternoon, and after a conference
with his client announced that he ex
pected to be ready for the hearing on
Monday demanded by Neville when he
was arraigned at / o'clock this morn
ing. Martin gave out a statement, in
which he expressed belief that his
client is q victim Of circumstances.
Neville saw newspaper men in his
cell at tho Jail this afternoon, but ex-
cept saying he knew nothing about the
Kelley case refused to discuss his sit
uation.
If Neville is held as a result Of the
hearing Monday afternoon it is prob
able that District Attorney Ward will
ask for a special grand Jury to pass
on the case. Mr.. Ward said he had
not reached a decision on this point
and probably would not until after the
hearing.
Friends Of Neville say his wife's
charge is a result of jealousy. One of
the communications sent by her to
George Kelley, of Buffalo, brother of
the dead man, and which furnished the
rest, referred to another who
is q blonde" Mrs. Neville is a bru-
nette.
Sheriff William Cress, Of Herkime,
County, said tonight that Mrs. New
b!e's condition was serious. Ever snice
she charged her husband with the
murder Of Kelley she has been terror
stricken. Two doctors attended her
to-day.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-04
''Boris Codunoff" Given
A Splendid Performance

A large audience greeted the sea-
sons last performance of Boris
Godunof" last night at the Metropoli-
tan. This opera has become of the
very stuff Of the Metropolitan's
operate repertory. 1t is worth a
dozen Eugene Onegins. AS the Gear,
Adano Didur first disclosed to New
ork audiences his real stature, and his
characterization is to-day as mastery
as ever. Orville Harold has given
vitality to the False Dimitri, while
Mr.. Rothier, Nine. Delaunois, Mr..
Sesurola, Nine. Berat, Nine. Perinni
and Mr.. Qua are excellent coadjutors.
1t was good, too, to find Miss Sophie
Braslau At last undertaking a part
suited to her qualities. AS Marina she
sang with a tonal beauty which again
brought the wonder as to the reason
for her meagre appearances with the
company. Mr.. Papi conducted. In the
afternoon Enrico Caruso appeared as
Nemorino in "L'Elisir d'Amore." He
was assisted by Mr.. Scott as Sergeant
Belcore and by Mr.. Malatesta as DR..
Dulcamora. Mr.. Papi conducted this
opera as we'll.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-04

Surgeon General Hugh S. Cumming,
of the United States Public Health Serv-
ice, spoke right up from Washington
yesterday and told the women Of the
nation to stop smoking cigarettes. In
response, two Of New York's we'll known
physicians told the women to go ahead
and light another one.
In his indictment of cigarette smok-
ing by women. Surgeon General Cum
ming said it lowers the morale of the
nation, is one of the most evil infu-
ences in American life and spoils the
complexion.
DR.. Menas B. Gregory, head Of the
psychopathic ward at Bellevue, and DR..
A.. l.. Goldwater, a drug specialist, say
it doesn't do any such thing. Tea and
coffee drinking, they say, ARE quite as
bad as cigarette smoking.
Surgeon General Cummings ukase
was based on government reports that
show cigarette smoking in the United
States has increased Al per cent in the
last year.
"The cigarette habit INDUCED in by
nervousness and insomnia, running the
complexion. If American women gen.
orally contract the cigarette habit, as
reports now indicate they are doing,
the entire American nation will suffer.
The physical tone Of the whole people
will be lowered. This is one Of the
most evil influences in American lifo
to-day. The number Of American
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-04

husband out of his wealth." Mr.. Little
ton said.
~ have no interest in the suit
brought by the Croker children. I
don't care anything about the case.
The only thing is, / happen to know
this girl and | thought that those who
did know her should speak out for her.
The whole allegation against her is
an atrocious Misrepresentation and
wicked"
Mr.. Littlcton was asked how old he
had taken Mrs. Croker to be at the time
of her marriage to Richard Croker sr.
:" had lever thought much about
how old she might be-" he said, "but
He added that Miss Edmondson came
to the Littleton country homo fire.
quently as a guest; that she was tai
ented, refined and lovable, and that he
knew her uncle, Representative w. W.
Hastings, and also knew several per-
son who were on intimate terms with
the girls father.
Stage Career Story Denied
Miss Edmonson, he recalled, once
took part in q suffrage parade In this
city prior to her marriage to Richard
Croker, and II was probably from this
appearance OF the young woman in ma
tive 1nsian costume and on horseback
That supplied credence to the story Of
her reported career on the stage.
Further defense of the wife's char
acter was offered yesterday by Oscar
Saenger, in whose music studio at 8
East E~ighty-frst Street Miss Edmonson
studied, and by Miss l.. Lilly, secretary
to Mr.. Saenger. Mr.. Saenger said he
remembered the young woman as a
"studious, hard worker, a gentlewoman
in every respect" who had a "lovely
contralto voice which might have been
turned to concert USE"
"She was not of a frivolous nature
he said, land during the season of
1913-'14, in which l helped to cultivate
her voice, I found her a charming
young woman Of high character and
good breeding"
At the New York Hippodrome yes
terday girl members Of the chorus
said they remembered a Pearl BEN
ton," who was a member of the chorus
there shortly prior to the time Miss
Edmonson became the bride Of Mr..
Croker. They said the Pearl Benton
in question was an Indian girl and an
swered to the description Of Mrs. Gro
ker, and that she left the H~ippodrome
about the time Of Mr.. Croker's second
marriage. Mrs. Croker was Bula Ben
ton Edmonson before her marriage.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-04

| know Of no two persons who are more
in accord.
"In business matters Richard Croker
discusses everything with her with the
utmost freedom, but she always defers
to his judgment. His is the dominat-
ing, controlling mind. His mind is as
sound and active to-day as it was when
he was leader of Tammany Hall and
dominated New York politics."
Local interest in tho legal fight of
the Croker children against their
fathers wife grew yesterday with the
possibility Of the contest over the
Croker millions entering a political
phase. Old friends of the former
Tammany chief are said to have ex-
pressed the hope that private settle
ment Of the quarrel would prevent the
airing OF political secrets involving the
ex-ruler of Tammany and his onetime
political subordinates.
Political Secrets Involved
While William F. McCombs, of
McCombs e. Ryan, counsel for the
Croker sons, would not comment yes
terday upon this possible phase of the
case, it is considered certain that if the
litigation in the Florida courts de-
NciOPS ~ Will DIiHS up h searching eX-
animation into the mult;-millionaire's
sources of wealth.
During and after Richard Croker.
regime as the Democratic bossfhs was
asked repeatedly to say whence he &C
quired his millions. He VISA q member
of the real estate firm Of Peter F.
Meyer for many years and through
this connection was said to have prof
tied greatly. Through political friends
he, it is said. received tips that brought
handsome returns in the stock market.
More friends of Mrs. Croker came to
her defense here yesterday. Martin
W. Littleton, who knew Mrs. Croker be-
fore she was married to the ex-political
boss, characterized the statements re-
garding her character as IAN atrocious
misrepresentation" on the part of the
sons and daughter Of her husband. The
report that Mrs. ~Croker-thcn Miss Ed
m~onson-had appeared as a profess
sional chorus woman or actress at the
New York Hippodrome, Mr.. Littleton
said he thought vas a mistake; that
II she had eve taken part in the show
1t was because some her " people or
college friends were in It.
II feel that it Is unfair that this fine
young woman, who was always seri-
ous-minded, gentle and ambitious.
should be made to appear as a disrep-
utable woman intent on inveigling her
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-04
Stop Smoking; SaUe Faces,
Health Chief Tells Women
Feminine Cigarette Devotees Lowering Morale of
Nation and Compilations, Says Surgeon General
Cummings; Doctors Here Hold Fumes Beneficial

women who are becoming cigarette
smokers is amazing.
"The habit harms a woman more than
a man. The woman's v system
is more highly organized than . mans
The reaction On q woman is therefore
more intense"
DR.. Gregory said that Surgeon Cen
eral Cummings opinion was "truc, but
exaggerated" Any drug, he said, was
harmful if taken in excess. Nicotine,
he added, is undoubtedly powerful, but
the drugs contained IN tea and coffee,
he said, are quite as dangerous.
"Smoking," he remarked, us no more
harmful for women than 1t is for men,"
DR.. Goldwater said that many people
were smoking these days because they
could not drink and had to find stimu.
lation somehow. 1.-THE pressure Of
p%resent-day civilization" he pointed
out, was such that men and women
required some sort of outlet.
"Tobacco smoking" said DR.. Gold
water, "is not an unmitigated evil In
any sense. In.many cases a few whiffs
afford a very great relief and may be
the means Of avoiding much greater
harm in the form Of v break
downs. Although I do not smoke my
self, I occasionally suggest it to somo
of my more nervous and high-strung
women patients.
my personal opinion is that there is
more harm in what is called moderate
coffee drinking than in excessive smok-
ing of the cigarette"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-04
Father Denies He
Tortured Daughter;
Will Fight Charge
Calender Says Wife
Complained Young Wom-
an Drank Whisky; Regrets
She Was Not Educated

John Calender, who wa held for
examination Friday IL Brooklyn on a
charge Of %felonious assault made by
his daughter, Minnie. who declared she
had been tortured with hot irons and
otherwise, retained an attorney yester-
day and gave out q statement in his
own defense.
If the young woman had been ILL
treated in his home he was not the
n who had done it, he said, nor had
she ever complained to him. He said
when Minnie ran away from home in
1918 he had told his wife (now dead)
to report her disappearance to the
police. He was told that had been
done, he said, and when he discovered
months later 1t had not he called his
wife to account.
She told him, he said, Minnie had
married an Italian. His wife often
had complained to him, he said, that
Minnie drank whisky. His only regret
in the matter Of the rearing Of Minnie
wa sthat she was not educated, Mr..
Gnllinger said.
"This whole matter has come upon
me like a bolt Of lightning from a clear
sky" he said. "The fact that my daugh-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-04
De Horrock Gives Recital
Wins Applause in Aeolian Hall
Concert

Charles de Horrock, a pianist who
has appeared here before, gave a recital
yesterday afternoon at Aeolian Hall.
Mr.. de Horrock is an artist who is dis
tinctly musical and whose technical
equipment is excellent. His playing of
the Rubinstein G minor B~arcarolle and
the Scriabine Nocturne for left hand
only was. admirable in it's clarity, In
clsiveness Of touch and command of
tone color. Another number was his
own Prelude in B fav minor, which. If
not notably original, was melodious
and we'll worked out. Other things on
his program were the Sonata An
passionate of Beethoven, the C sharp
minor Valse of Chopin, an O~rientale of
Amani and a Hungarian paraphrase of
Alfred Greenfield.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-04
Mary's Trip Abroad Halted
Fairbanks's Injury Causes Post.
ponement of HONEYMOON
Special Dispatch to The Tribune

Special Dispatch to The Tribune
UOS ANGELES, April 3.-Doue)a,
Fairbanks's broken hand, received wh,ls
tossing a lariat upon a broncho in
Arizona, has caused a postponement Of
his plans for honeymooning in Euron.
with Mary Pickford, his bride of a
week. The revised schedule calls for
the couple sailing from New York May
% upon the aKiserin Auguste Victoria.
Mrs. Fairbanks says DR.. Maurice Kahn
has warned her husband his hand will
be permanently injured unless he dis
continues activities on a play now en-
gaging his attention.
In the meantime Mrs. Fairbanks is
speeding the production of a film in
which she appears, and such spare time
as she has is spent mostly in planning
q wardrobe which she will take to Eu-
rope. The newylweds are in continued
receipt Of kilograms on their marriage,
while their honeymoon thus far is be-
ing taken partly in work at their re-
spective studios.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-04

the iron gates leading to his house had
been broken and there was a van at
the door. There was also a touring car
there. Mr.. Spear tried to prevent sew
eral men who were there from emptying
his residence. He was set upon and
thrown into tho automobile, he charges,
and while a mar stood guard over him,
revolver in hand, the house was
emptied of its effects.
Mr.. Spear adds that when he de-
manded of his wife. some time after
this incident, that she return the effects
taken from Wallingford she said she
did not claim them under the bill Of
sale, that they were In New York and
she would return them. This promise,
so the husband says, has not been full
filled.
Carstairs & Co. contend that Mrs.
Spear knew when she obtained posses
sion of the property that the judg-
ment was to be filed against her hus-
band She says she did not know her
husband had debts. She also suggests
that the execution. issued to Sheriff
Knott on the Judgment, be fled in
Philadelphia, where MIR. Spear has suf-
fcient property to satisfy it.
Clerk Tells Of Income
Guy A. Armstrong, a clerk Of the FL
deity Trust Company, made q deposit
tion regarding the income received by
Mr.. Spear from the personal estate Of
his father, valued at 1898 200. The son
has a half interest in the income from
the trust property. This half amounted
to S91 1876 in 1919.
Mr.. Spear said he had an additional
Company and that his liabilities
amounted to $56 $500. He placed a valu-
alton Of $50. 900 on his Wallingford
property. The record Of the case shows
that since the household furnishings
came into the possession of Mrs. Spear
they were attached by Sheriff u ott.
In fact, this happened three days Tor
the alleged forcible removal from Wal
lingford.
Mrs. Spear at once fled a claim to it
and q sherif's jury decided that the
property should be retained by the
former chorus girl. The value fixed on
$4,000. Besides, Mrs. Spear put in a
claim of $4,000 damages she said she
might suffer if the property was not
returned. To hold the effects, whose
seizure had been at the request of the
plaintiff firm, it became necessary for
Carstairs & Co. to file with Sheriff
Knott a bond for $3.50. This was re-
garded as prohibitive by Carstairs &
Co, and the bond was not furnished,
w%hereupon Mrs. Spear was restored to
her control of the goods.
Carstairs & Co. allege in their petit
ton for an injunction, which has been
granted by Justice Newburger, that
Mrs. Spear has threatened to sell the
articles in dispute. They are restrain
ing her from taking such a step, ask
for q receiver for it, ask that the bill
Of sale be set aside and that the furni-
ture and other things be submitted to
execution by the Sheriff, that it may
be sold and the proceeds used to sat
isfy the judgment against Mr.. Spear.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-04

ter had ever been cruelty treated wa.
first told mo when I had been placed
under arrest. My profession is that Of
actor, and it may be that during nv
absences the children were abused.
II have always done my best to act
the part of q proper father toward
them. If blame rests on any one il ia
surely not me, but I am unwilling to
place the blame upon any one who
cannot answer. 1t seems impossible for
her to have lived had she suffered A.
she il said to have DOM"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-04
DIR. W. S. Jones Exonerated

TRENTON, N. j., April 3.-Comm:s-
sioner Burdette G.. Lewis, Of the Ce-
partment Of Institutions and Agencies,
filed a report here to-day e%xcserating
DR.. W. S. Jones, superintendent Of the
Soldiers Home, at VincAnd, against
whom charges of mismunagement had
been made by members Of the G. A. r.
Minor admirisrrativs changes were
recommended in the report. but the in
stitution vas declared to be we'll man
aged an1 its wards properly cared for.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1920-03-17
"snnoked lrishman.'

+
"Shure, there's no man livin' as can
mock me, good County Clare brogue
without feelin' tn weight o me
hands,"
Sergeant James Xavier McGillin.
United States marine corps. told this
to the wide world as he stepped ashore
at Charleston, S. G.. recently from the
transport which had carried him back
from two years In the West Indies. He
had a tale to tell, and this is how he
told it:
ION the way up" he continued
8(brogue deleted for the benefit OF the
linotypers). I'VE stopped of at Nassau,
in the Bahamas. ! was walking along
the street when up to me steps one Of
them natives with face as black as
me old mothers stove. 5z5 5s3 ;g
.Shure nm tits foine day fer tn
Oirish,' says he to me. makes to
slough him, when another marine grabs
me by the arm. He'd been there before,
this other marine. and he explains 1t
all.
ut seems that a hundred years ago
,,--Or maybe 1t was thousand-the
British sends one Of their English regi-
ments of Irishmen to the Bahamas, and
the natives learned English from them.
Ever since they've talked with .
brOgue"
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1920-03-17
~ ~ ~ + i. st +
! K.E ~, " ITEMS

I Lou Bahnsens was a business caller
in. Sioux City Tuesday. Il lfs5 F
Henry Yogt and Charley Bunk were
west bound passengers one day during
the week to buy a carload Of; hay. x .$
VIM. Vogt was In .Denison Monday
attending bankers meeting. A
Bliss HOLSTER went to- Charter Oak
one day during the week to have den
tai work done. fg55
We learn that Hnlda Vogt is very
Ill with the mumps at this writing.
Miss Gertrude Blackman is very sick
with the mumps She was not able
to teach Friday and perhaps will not
be able to teach Monday.
VIM Vogt was o Charter Oak bust
ness caller Friday. Il
Mr.. and Mrs. s. Mahnke and child
were visitors in Denison Wednesday
Mr.. Mahnke went to see the doctor
about his ear. which he has had trouble
with for the past two weeks. It !s
recovering rapidly now. . !.
Barney and Mike ;Mahoney. Lar1ch
johnson and Thomas Michaslson were
among the business callers in sDenison
Miss Inez Kilion,,.' OF H Charter oak,
spent a few days. during the week
with her sister, Mrs. Ed. Christi Hansen
Mr. and Mrs. Spray, Malone and fam
ily' accompanied BY F,reda MALONE And
Chase Johnson went to Sioux City Sun
day to spend the day; with Martha
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1920-03-17
II. mon !! so Z. !. 4. ~ NOTES .
'(By, zinkel !.

Miss Wright visited in Des Moines
last week end s4,ft. 5a So
Miss selby spent Saturday and Sun
day In AInes. 5st tx. ,E
County Supt. F.! N. Olry visited the
senior. high school Hast Friday II
Ruby Faul was out OF school last
week on account Of sickness,
Miss Paul was one of the judges al
the subdistrict declamatory contest at
Missouri Valley last Friday. Ii 4 si
Miss Holmes spent last week end vis
itings friends in Scranton
Those who have been selected to ka
speeches for the Iowa
patriotic league are:. Seniors, Hans
AebiScher, Charles Meyers and Carroll
Weberg; juniors. Floyd Buckley, Mar.
garet Kinney, Frances Wulf and Vim.
Biilikley; spphomores,s Bernice Stevens,
,Orris Suffer and Leslie Rollins. IT'D
Miss Chambers visited in Grand June
ton last week: v; A A
The results of the weekly typewriting
speed tests are: Ladona Kropf 66 words
per minute; Lillian Finnern 54.8, Nellie
Bolton SAT, Andrew Lorenzen 51.5, Hat.
tie Witt 49.4, Madge Hultsch AZ.
Mr.. Lass Of the Lass studio. has al.
most completed taking the pictures for
the annual. Don't miss this. the great;
est annual ever put out by the D. H. 8.
There will sbe fourteen to fifteen group
pictures besides separate picture of all
seniors and Juniors and many others.
Don't miss 1t.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1920-03-17
Few Town criers Left.

There are hardly any town criers
left in England now. At Wycombe, this
post, which has been held by members
Of one family for, 50 years, lapses with
the resignation Of the present holder.
"Oyez! oyer! oyez!" and the ringing
Of the bell will cease to be heard An
the little old town. as 1t has ceased to
he heard In many towns within the last
ten years. In rural districts Of France,
by the way, public proclamations are
made by the '.garde champetre," q kind
Of keeper. or village policeman, whose
office embraces various functions. Evil
IDENTIFY In Shalsespeare's day common
'criers hadono great reputation for elo-
cutionary skill, for Hamlet admonishes
his players :: Speak the speech !. :.
'trippingly on the tongue; but II you
mouth it I had as lief the town,
crier spoke my lines. Il.
Il b. y Is . .k .IH
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1920-03-17
Geo. .EGAN
/ ]. IS Ar SlED
Former Logan Citizen Once Candidate
for Governor sOf South Dak0tA, Is I
Arrested for Fraud an z, .Isas
TWICE DISCARDED LAWPRACTICE
Insurance Companies Charge Him With
Having Secured Policies TOtaAng
u $28, 500 eUn Building Worth 81 900

George w. Egan, formerly a. practic,
ing attorney at 4 .ogan, but tnowio Sioux
Falls, s. d., once a candidate for gov
ernor of South Dakota, and twice dis
barred from practicing law In South
Dakota. was arrested Tuesday I at Sioux
companies, which charge him with hay-
ing secured policies t0taling. 5$28 $50 on
a building which Is alleged to have not
been worth more than $4,000. The
structure was destroyed by, fire and
the action against Egan is based 81, on. ia a
sworn claim which he made for the in:
surance, in, which he alleged that the
burned structure was worth $50 ,OOe.
plant in action as false and fraudu-
lent Egan is, accused Of committing
the crime of presenting false claims
and proofs Of loss upon g contract OF
insurance. s.. e u, NJ