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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-04
Recognition

TT Is "the witching hour" a crescent
moon
Slips down the darkling sky-way of
the west,
With one lone star upon secret
quest,
And shakes the silver from her shining
shoon.
What ghost hand starts from some for
gotten noon
To pluck forbidden harp. strings long
at rest?
What frights the halcyon brooding in
my breast.
o Witching Hour that flies too soon
too soon?
In some primeval twilight of the race
When half in ecstasy and half in min
The primal ichor of our mother 500
Sang in the veins Of humanhood to ho
FIRST saw l. sitting in this country
Those lovers eyes in you. familiar face
-Cyprian Starr.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-04
What Do You KnotU?
QUIZ

1. Which is the highest mountain in
the world?
.. What soldier did President Roose-
velt advance over the heads Of
senior army officers?
3. How far will the sound of artillery
carry?
4. What are igneous rocks?
5. What are the proportions of oxygen
and nitrogen in the air at the
earth's surface?
6. What is "horse power" as applied to
mechanics?
I. What American statesman was
known as THE Plumed Knight"
and how did be get his title?
8. What was the ancient name of
Switzerland?
Q. Wher was oil first struck in this
country. and where?
10. When and where was the centennial
anniversary of transatlantic steam
navigation celebrated?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-04

.Jewelry worth $50,
with Lemon for 600, stolen from the
Somebody on the h ONE Of Hamilton
Scales Of Justice Fish, has been re
covered. and Joseph
Fried, q former employe, has been ar
rested on n charge of grand larceny. II
will probably go on the record as the
EriCd Fish CASC.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-04
NOW nNEC TT Robert Minor Is One in
Which the Press Erered Itself
y fIh II W and Got Results
Bu KELLAMY

The commanding general is dunn
founded.
Who is this Robert Minor that the
President and Colonel House are so in
tcrested in him?
The commanding general sends for the
record.
There is only the testimony of one
poor intelligence officer that Minor was
busy in Germany melting the Reds to
be redder.
The President and Colonel House are
interested in this Robert Minor.
1t is embarrassing to have Presidents
and personal representatives of Presi-
dents and ambassadors ringing your
telephone bell every minute II you are
only commanding general.
1t is wise to make no mistakes
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-04
If a spectator were
What Dey Is

If spectator were
What Dey Is" asked to describe
he run in" be e
tween Mr.. Palmer and Mr.. Bonniwell
in Washington he would doubtless tes-
tify after the manner of Mandy Thomas,
witness in an assault case. Both oh
desc here gents said Mandy, was
standin at tho corner conversin' with
each other pretty hot and pointed like. "
Repeat the conversation. said the
lawyer. "Ah don't remember it, sab,
'cept dat dcy was calm each other
what dey j..
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-04
A FouR-YEAR PROGRAM FOR
PHILADELPHIA

Things on which, the people expect
the new administration to eonoen-
trste It's attention:
The Delapare rtver bridge.
A drydock big enough to dccon'n'o-
date the largest ships,
Development Of the rdpid transit sps-
tenn.
A convention hail.
a bulIdtn1 for the Free Library.
An Art Museum.
Homes to accommodate the populd'
ton.
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An Ancient
Trouble

an address here yesterday. are con-
vinced that all American young men
are either cowboys or social vampires.
This news suggests great difficulty
that lies in the way of peaceful rela-
tionships between the United States and
the Old World. When foreigners want
to know anything about us they read
the movies. When we wish to know
anything about foreigners We do not
read at all.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-04

Governor Cox favors back to e
the farm movement. So does every .
body-except the young men expected
to make the movement
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-04

The golf instructor of the Merton
Cricket Club has been asked by Lady
Astor by cable to coach her for the
parliamentary golf tournament at Sand
wirh. 1t seems rather a pleasing bite.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-04

The people need not do what their
representatives have already done, says
the Supreme Court. No need TO take
two bites at cocktail cherry.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-04

As the convention draws nigh, the
character OF the warfare changes and
the men in the trenches are indulging in
one charge after another.
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PALMER, BoNNlWELL AND
MExlCANlZED DEMOCRACY
How Senate Committee Revealed
Continuing Political Serfdom
in Pennsylvanja

MOULD you know, and wildly per
w ceivc. the havoc that continued OPP
preston, tyranny, betrayal aud a die
tatorship Of ignorant selfshness can
make in the mind of nation or a
community of men?
Are you curious TO know what is
actually the matter with Mexico?
Then take day off to read between
the lines in the shameless conflict of
defamation that took place in a Senate
committee room between 4. Mitchell
Palmer. attorney general of the United
States. and Judge Eugene G. Bonni-
WELL of the Municipal Court in Phila-
dclphia. These two men were fairly
representative Of the sort of leadership
that has virtually eliminated n minority
party in Pennsylvania. Without at all
intending to do so, they projected the
Democracy of Pennsylvania suddenly
into the white. hard light of a Senate
| inquiry and permitted the country to
soc what they and men like them have
| done to it. They led forth a grisly
and mumbling wrath of party that
had all the appearances of horrid life
in dungeons deep.
The Democratic organization in this
state, despite tho sincerity and honor
Of innumerable Democrats. is Mexican
ized 1t could not well have provided
anything better than an exhibition which
led even some hard shelled senator's to
sigh woefully and edge out of the com
mittee room. 1t is n party that has
been traded and sold, betrayed and bar
tered, in one election after another.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-04

Scranton, its mayor declares. il
going to dry up. 1t will be some time
however, before the same will be true of
Chicago.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-04

Now if Bergdoll could be subpoenacd
and made to testify before the congres
sional committee it might simplify mat
ters a good deal.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-04

Wall street experts will be inter
cstcd in the latest news from Wash .
ington: The White House sheep have
been sheared.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-04

We venture the opini, n Nat Mr..
Palmer has too much sugar and too
much hooch in his stirrup cup to en- =
able him to ride to victory.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-04

Merely to help the campaign poets
along, we suggest first line for a con :
vention song Shoestring Iii hates an
Oxford tie.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-04

Married life is an art, says Mary
Pickford. Yeh 1t takes years and
years of it to bring it down to n
science.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-04

Lowden is still Of the opinion that
man ought to be allowed to spend his
money his own way.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-04

Even local prohibitionists will
ldmit that Philadelphia pert ought TO
nave trifie more kick.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-04

willy -nilly. Governor Spro'' is
going to be 'favorite son.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-04

when, because of
STRENGTHENING railroad congestion
the Spiral sufficient number
of mills and factories
have closed down, there may be men
enough available to run the farms.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-04
TTERE is the Minor case, partly fac
l. L partly inference.

IJERE is the Minor case, partly fact,
IL partly inference.
Minor is an artist.
To get fresh reactions toward life he
rejects all conventional views. ..
This makes him n radical.
Minor thinks it's a social conscience
that makes him radical, an anarchist
perhaps: he is little hard to define.
But it is not.
1t is an artistic conscience.
He went to Germany to see the Ger
man revolution, entering by the way
of Russia. where he had seen the Rus
sian revolution and found it tame,
conventional affair.
While in Germany he hobnObbed with
the Reds, the Liebknrcht Reds, egging
them on probably, so that he should not
be cheated in Germany AS he was in
Russia.
An American army intelligence man,
spying in Germany. found him trying
to make life as interesting there as it
ought to be.
The German revolution turning out
to be dull stuff too. Minor went to Paris
to see how peace was being made.
If the proletariat were disappointing
he could at least enjoy his scorn of the
bourgeoisie.
They never fail your radical.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-04

4 Utica IN. " clothing firm
has been fined 500 900 for protitcering.
Can a fine of that size be lcgitimately
put down as Overhead" in figuring on
future profits?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-04

If Wood is defeated there are those
among his friends who viii put Il DIVA
to a case Of solid ivory.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-04
MINOR is not shot at sunrise, there
AVx nv missipg IN aypariopnn

MINOR is not shot at sunrise there
A'A by missing an experience.
Military authorities are just as stupid
and disappointing as revolutionists.
Minor is released. without cXplana-
tion or apologies. just turned loose.
Bored, chagrined, disappointed
cheated as badly by the bourgeoisie as by
the proletariat, he makes his way back
to Paris and to America, to be in
veStigated by the Senate.
He cant tell the Senate how he got
in Jail or how he got out.
He doesn't know.
He never saw the white face Of
Steffens streaking it out of the Crillon.
He never saw the American press
getting it's revenge through him for the
open covenants that were not openly
arrived at
He never knew he was an incident in
the great fight for the freedom Of the
press.
He never knew how the correspond
ents, bored with watching the making
of peace, tired of Maxim's and the
Dufayel. found two days pleasure in
badgering Colonel House because a man
who once drew pictures for the papers
had been secretly and surrcptitiously
clapped into Jail, and in frightening Lin
coin Steffens out Of several days pleas
ure in resolutions.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-04
THE STEALING OF BABES
Some Notable Cases Of kidnap.
ping That Have Aroused
the Nation
THE mystery surrounding what an. |


Il pears to be another case of kid
mapping in the case Of little Blakely
Coughlin. of Norristown. reyiyes popu
lar interest in what Judge Gregory. Of
Albany, some years ago declared to be
the most ncfarious, most ticndish, most
diabolical crime in the calendar"
Kidnapping is done in ninety nine
cases out of every hundred for one Of
two motives, a money ransom or revenge
and generally the former is the reason,
Nearly all kidnapping cases have one
or more unique features. That Of the
little son of Cudahy, the millionaire
packer, probably had more than any of
the others.
As events proved, the little boy was
kidnapped by Pat Grove, who left notes
on the Cudahy lawn, explaining Just
how the S25. 200 ransom which he de-
manded should be sent to him. The
father followed instructions to the let
ter, made no complaint to the police
and in tho morning the kidnappers had
the money and the child was returned
safely to his home.
But the unique features Of this case
did not end here. Pat Grove made what
is technically described as "clean get
away" with the ransom and went to
South America. Later he returned vol
UNFAIRLY. stood trial in Omaha and was
acquitted.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-04

THE Senate or one of its committees
L is investigating the release of Robert
Minor
1t probably wants to prove that
President Wilson or Colonel House in :
terestcd himself in behalf Of a Red.
Having proved that Wilson or House
aided Red, the case against the Demo-
cratic party will be established.
The Senate is a highly useful body
rapidly rising in the general esteem to
the high place set for it by the fathers
of the constitution.
Investigating is one of the steps
upward.
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So II Is.

Gas OF The sort the
So Is! L. G. |. wishes to
sell to Philadelphia
is much like the campaign oratory of
the moment. 1t gives more heat than
liRht
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-04

1t is a bung starter that Bonni
we'll is using on Palmer.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-04

Sir Thomas Upton has probably
realized by this time that big change
has taken place in the world. The
Forthcoming yacht race is not the big
news item today that it was years ago.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-04

eOhesr upl CherrIes n. 80
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IF THE Senate or its committee will
L investigate hard enough it will find
the facts substantially as given above.
1t wasn't the interference of Presi e
dent Wilson or of Colonel House that
got Minor his freedom.
1t was the American press getting
upon it's ear between drinks at Paris
That got him free.
If the open covenants had been openly
arrived at the American press wouldn I
have given fifty centime damn what
became of Robert Minor. But it had to
show it's might some way.
And it did so in his case
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-04

WATCHING the SHOW at IarlS he
w suddenly disappeared.
The rumor spread that he had been
arrested by the French and languished
in no one knew what vile dungeon.
The press, represented ut Paris, re-
sented the idea that one of its members
could be secretly seized and imprisoned
by the French.
If Minor. why not any of them?
The press made fine row.
1t went TO Colonel House. formid-
able. full Of just wrath.
Colonel House promises to investi-
gate.
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june appears to be reaching Out
&c. Jul.- record.
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THE most mysterious and the most
L tragic of all American kidnapping
cases was that of Charley Ross. which
began in Germantown. Where the chap
ter closed no man knows to this day.
The child was taken by two strangers
who offered him a carriage ride on the
morning of July /. 1874. Charley Ross
never returned from that ride. His
father. Christian X. Ross, spent a
fortune in vain search for his son
and never gave UP hope until he died,
broken and pcnnilcss, in 1897.
The kdnappcrs were both killed while
attempting to burglarlze house in
New York city. in December of the
same year The dcathbed confession Of
the one who was not slain outright was
believed and the dead men were identi
fed by Walter. the brother Of Charley
Ross, who got into the carriage and was
taken short distance and then for some
reason set down in Kensington.
The kidnapper who was not instantly
killed in the burglary professed to know
nothing Of the whereabouts Of the child
and the case is still one Of the unsolved
mysteries.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-04

Europeans. said DR..
Maurice Fra n C j 5
Egan, former min
ister to Denmark. in
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DRoBNbl'l the laiG'S' sum ''el paw
L for the restoration of kidnapped
child was that Of Tony Mannino. OF
Brooklyn. for whose safe return S5O.OoO
was demanded. This was Black Hand
case. the Italian criminals being quick
to see the possibilities of kidnapping
The parents refused to appeal to the
police and would never tell whether or
not the money was paid. but at all
events tho little boy was returned safely
TO his parents.
The note which accompanied the de-
mand for the ransom was one Of the
unique specimens Of the "'lterature'
of kidnapping. I'VE are not criminals. -
il ran. 1--WE are nice gentlemen like
you. Only we have not made money
like we expected, so we take this way
Of getting money to get back to bcauti-
full Italy
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-04

If Minor. why NOT any OF them!
The press made fine row.
1t went TO Colonel House. formid-
able. full of just wrath.
Colonel House promises to inyeSti-
gate.
TIME press felt well pleased with itself.
i 1t had started some one on the trail
of the French.
But it hadn't made the most of the
Minor incident.
Mysteriously haunting the resorts OF
the press, disappearing, now into Bol
shevist Russia, now among tho French
Socialists reappoaring to whisper with
Minor was Lincoln Stoffens.
The press told Mr.. Stetfcns that an
other American writer Of radical af
| fliations was being sought for the same
offcnse as Minor.
it had this ION authority"
Steffens went white, all except his
whiskers.
! House. but probably also to President
Wilson, for Mr.. Stcffcns had access di
rectly or indirectly TO the President.
q q q
COLONEL HOUSE investigated and
~ reported.
Mr.. Mno" had not been arrested by
the French. but 'by the American mill
tary authorities.
The press didn't care one cocktail al
Maxim's for Mr.. Minor.
But il was on ,ts dignity.
1t was mad about those omen cove
nants not openly arrived at.
II was mad about the censorship.
why had Minor been arrested by the
American military authorities and
rushed away from Paris TO the occupied
regions of Germany?
Colonel House promised to investi
gate.
q q q
! 60 MUCH Is fact.
OThe rest is inference. Minor is in q
military prison in Germany unde,
American guard,
The telephone bell rings.
Mr.. Gordon Auchincloss, for Colone
House. wants to talk to the commandin,
general.
Colonel House wants to know why tn,
American military authorities have ar
rested Robert Minor.
The telephone bell rings again.
Ambassador Wallace, for the Presi
dent, wants 10 know why the American
military authorities ha,t arrested Rcb
= ert Minor.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-04

CONSIDERING their opportunities
~ for participation in this most de-
tpstable Of crimes. surprisingly few nurse
girls have been involved. One OF the most
famous cases. however, was known as
the nurse girl case. This occurred
in New York when Bella Anderson. a
nurse maid, took little Marion Clarke,
eighteen months old. for a trip through
the park and did not return. Instead,
a bloOdcurding note demanding money
was left on the baby's pillow. The
parents notified the police, who. few
days later. recovered the child and ar
rested the nurse and two others, a man
and his wife, who proved to be the prin-
cipals in the case. the nurse being only
an accomplice. The man got fourteen
years, his wife twelve and the nurse
four.
The Willie Whitla case. of Sharon, in
March. 1909. was one where the kid
nappcrs got the money, S1O,O the
child was restored unhurt and then the
offenders, n man and woman, talked
about it and were arrested. After get
ting the ransom the kidnappers put the
child on n street car with the name OF
the hotel where his parents awaited
him written on a piece of paper which
they gave him. The man in the case
received a life sentence and died In the
Western Penitentiary last year. The
woman, Helen Boyle, was released
shortly before his death.
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An EVEN earlier case of kidnapping
n which had an equally black end. oc =
CURED ten years before the Charley Ross
case. and, like it. the sympathy Of the
nation was stirred. This was the case
of Mary Gaffncy. four years old, who
was kidnanncd on tho streets of New
York city in 1864. Her father was a
Union soldic" and the little girl was
the great comfort of her mother. She
disappeared one day and was never
heard of again. Her father was killed
in battle and left Sl0.0 900 to the child,
which is still being held in trust for her.
in the absence of proof Of death.
One Of the most remarkable cases
was that &C posic Adams. of Chicago,
who was kidnapped by gipsies when
she was five years OF age. Her parents
Immediately turned all their possessions
into cash and started to find their
daughter. A search of years, which led
them to Hungary and Egypt. left them
ppnnilpss and almost hopeless. when
they suddenly found the child in the
gipsy camp of Chief John Adams in
Massachusetts Broken IN purse and
in snirit. the parents accented the offer
of the gipsy. who had taken the little
girl wears before to join the band. and
The family was reunited under the tents
Of the nOmads.
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LNROM the foregoing il might seem
i that many kidnapping attempts are
successfully carried out. and the ran
som demanded is paid and the crimi-
mails go scot free. either with or with
out their loot. Such is not the expert
encc of most kidrappPrs. BY far the
majority Of them land behind prison
bars and the sentences imposed are such
as to make even the most hardened
criminal think twice before attempting
this most dangerous Of crimes.
Little John Conway. Of Albany, was
kidnapped in 1897 and ransom of
$4,000 demanded from his father. who
was a train dispatcher. Instead of try
ing to raise the money. the father raised
posse and went to place in the
woods where he thought the men were
in hiding with the child His sur
mise was right aud revolver battle
ensued. after which little John was re-
covered unhurt and three of the kid
nappers were arrested Each got fifteen
years in the pentcntiary.
Another case Of record justice oc-
CURED in our own city in 1905, when
Freddy Muth. son Of p Philadelphia
| icwelcr. was stolen by John j. Kean.
Five days after the kidnapping, Kean
and the boy. who was eight years old,
were found in an untenanted house in
West philadelphia. The man was placed
! on trial about ~ o'clock a day or so
after. and at 80 of the same day
began a sentence Of twenty years in the
/ DPnitPntiary.