New-York tribune., 1920-11-17
criminal responsibility to any one has
been discovered.

criminal responsibility to any one has
been discovered.
Assistant District Attorney Tallcy
uaid that evidence now indicated that
the door leading from the gallery was
rot locked.
Colonel Ernest K Coulter. general
manager Of the Society for the preven-
tion of Cruelty to Children. said last
night that he had photograph showing
lock on the gallery door. The picture
also shows a splintered condition of
the woodwork, according to Colonel
Coulter, indicating that the staple had
been forcibly torn out This photo
graph Coulter said he intended to pre-
sent to the grand jury as evidence.
Conference Called Friday
"This picture also shows that the
trap door in the sidewalk in front of
the gallery exit interfered with the
opening of the door," said Colonel
Coulter. 1.-TWO policemen are shown
standing on the iron trap door, yet ap
parently it is warped sufficiently to
prevent the opening of the gallery
door,"
A general conference of all the heads
of the municipal departments con-
cerned in the investigation of the
tragedy will be held Friday, Assistant
District Attorney Talley anndunced last
night. The conference will be held at
Mr.. Talley's office 1t is expected that
the first thing done will be to check
up all reports on the panic made to the
various municipal departments. Also,
it is announced, more rigid enforcement
of the laws barring children from mo-
ton picture theaters. unless accom-
panied by parents or guardians, will
be taken up.
Evidence of the present working of
the law regulating the admittance Of
children to motion picture theaters was
from the Court of Special Sessions be-
fore Justice Clarence Edwards, Daniel
F. Murphy and Frederic Kernochan.
Adelaide Kaufman, of 269 West Twen-
ty-second Street, cashier, and Mabel
Wilkerson, III West 141st Street,
ticket taker of theater at 1905 Am
sterdam Avenue, were convicted Of sell
ing a ticket and admitting Harold
Smith, thirteen years old, who was not
in charge Of parent or guardian.
Miss Kaufman was fined $25 and
Miss Wilkerson received a suspended
sentence. The case was prosecuted by
Joseph F. Kenihan, an agent for the
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Children.
Fines of from $25 to. $500 are as
sessed in cases Of this nature, it is
said, an average of two to three cases
being tried each week.
Boy Victim Is Buried
Funeral services were held yester-
day afternoon for Almiro SALVATORE
Alpino, one of the six victims of the
panic last Sunday afternoon in an
East Side motion picture house.
Through dismal rain six playmates
carried on their shoulders the body of
Almiro.. The Italian quarter when the
procession started from the child's
home in Catharine Street, temporarily
suspended business.
Many joined the funeral cortege,
which, led by an Italian band, wended
it's way slowly across the Bowery into
Mott Street, thence to the Church of
the TRANSPORTATION, in the heart of
Chinatown.
While Investigations are being held
and matters of reform are taken up
growing out of their sacrifice, the re-
naming five victims of the Catharne
Street theater panic will be buried
Thursday. There will:be one service for
all of them at st. Joachim's Church,
Roosevelt Street, and several Italian
marching societies. with bands, will ac-
company the bodies to Calvary Gene
terry.
Further details Of the general viola
ton of the law regarding the admit
tance of children without guardians
were given yesterday from the records
of the Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Children.
In one of The Smaller theaters, ac-
cording to the records, no less than
three children have been attacked bv
employees. Similar complaints have
been made against other theaters of
tt e cheaper class. according to the So
ciety's records. There seems to have
been no complaint against the better
class Of houses.