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The New York herald., 1921-01-14
BURGLAR IN TRAP
FIGHTS WITH GIRL
Also Gives Battle in Dark
With Young Man Who
Comes to Her Aid.

A man Who said he was Charles
Leonard, 81 years old, an electrician, -liv-
ing at 2S West Sixty-first street, was
captured last night after battle in the
apartment of Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Ward
on the third floor of the building at 15o
West 111th street, and locked up in the
West 123d street police station on a
charge of burglary.
Soon after . o'clock Leonard. the
police allege, jinlmied his way into the
eight room apartment which is occupied
by the Wards and by several other per-
sons. Mr.. and Mrs. Ward were out, and
their daughter, Edith, had gone to the
movies with a Mr.. Norman. a guest IN
their home. David Casem, q newspaper
man. who served overseas as first lieu
tenant with the Signal Corps, was asleep
In o. room at the end of the hallway.
Norman and Miss Ward decided that
they did not like the movies and re-
turned early AS she walked down the
hall Miss Ward saw man standing in
her room. She cried out, demanding to
know what he was doing there, and i'm
metllately he stepped back, pushed a
button and threw the whole place into
darkness.
Miss Ward caught him as he tried to
pass her in the hall and reach the front
door. She grappled with him for mo-
ment, but he broke away. Norman had
come In then, however, and caught him.
They were fighting furiously and Miss
Ward was screaming when door
opened, the lights flashed on and Casem
appeared with a As callbre revolver in
his hand.
you've got me all right" the man
said, as his hands went UP.
They telephoned tho police and held
the burglar until Detectives Thomas
Lynch and Joseph Hoffman arrived to
take him away. Norman held him Sc
curely by one hand. while Casem eom-
manded the whole situation with his re-
volver and advised the burglar TO be
patient
Just before the detectives arrived Miss
Ward smelled burning celluloid and ran
back TO her room, where she found that
a cigarette left there by the intruder
had ignited q brush and that fire had
spread tc the linen covering. She
grabbed off the cover and took 1t TO
the bath tub.
A jimmy was found on Leonard. the
detectives said. They also found pair
of cuff buttons belonging to Miss Ward
and gold badge which belonged to Miss
Helen Hall. nurse. who has room
at the apartment.
The police said that Leonard was
convicted twelve years ago of burglary
in Pennsylvania, and that he also
served q prison term In this State Tor
burglary.
The New York herald., 1921-01-14

arouse ardor in the purchaser was TINS I:
''In accordance with conditions on this
contract. the name and address of every
purchaser of a bust will be inscribed
on parchment which is to be contained
In a metallic case inside the base of a
monument to be erected in the city of
Cork, Ireland. Be sure and write your
name and address plainly" Doubt
less. as Mr.. Brosnan's legal representa-
tives explained yesterday, so that whose
runs may read.
"a million busts in a million homes,
runs the Irish Art Associations sales
literature, and then continues as to
who gets the money: "A percentage of
profits accruing from the sale of these
busts is set aside for the MacSwiney
Monument Commission. This commits
sion has charge of the modelling and
designing of a life size bronze statue
of the late Lord Mayor to be erected
in the city of Cork. Surplus profits
TO be devoted to useful propaganda to
counteract influences insidiously de-
vised by the enemies of Ireland. We
are desirous of obtaining the coopera-
ton of every friend of Ireland in this
work.
In any event, the busts, as exposed
for sale i'll this city were not snapped
up by the connoisseurs at a rate TO
encourage Mr.. Brosnan in continuing
an arrangement he had made with the
Irish Art Association, and he Is now
suing for damages and an accounting.
AT the offices of his attorneys. Bennett,
Werner, Troutfeldt e. Grenthal, it was
said yesterday that the suit will be
pressed to an early verdict.
The New York herald., 1921-01-14
COPS SECOND SHOT
STOPS FLEEING MAN
BrOoklynite Charged With
Theft Puts Up Fight. Though
Twice Wounded.

Samuel Napier. aged S5. of 1854 Fortieth
street, Brooklyn, was chased yesterday
through the crowds on Delaney street
by Detective Rosenberg Of the Clinton
street police station, from whom he had
broken away, and although Rosenberg
had already shot Napier in the forearm
as he ran he put UP fight when over
taken and gave up only when Rosen-
berg put second bullet through his
wrist. Napier is now a prisoner in
Bellevue Hospital.
Napier and James Oliver. aged 81, OF
400 Pearl street, were arrested on the
charge of having stolen 125 cases Of
chocolate from the Nemours Trading
Corporations warehouse at II Flint
street, Brooklyn. They were attempt
ing to deliver il to Israel SchmulowitZ
of the Northwestern Candy Company,
- Delaney street. when Detectives
Rosenberg and Mindheim arrested them.
Charged with having shot and killed
Walter Jackowslj on October IL after
having held him up in his restaurant a,
Mariners Harbor, S. l.. Frank Escobacci
and Anthony Paolucc were taken yes
terday from The Bronx Jail, where they
were waiting trial on the charge of hav-
ing stolen an automobile, and locked up
at Stapleton. s. /. Escobacci. who is 81
years Olu, liNeu dt oUl EdSl lawn street.,
Manhattan. and Paolucci, also q, lived
at e92 Glen avenue. New Brighton, S. l..
Edward Connors, aged "a. Of 455 West
Thirty-sixth street and Thomas Hen
erickson, aged 81, of 439 West Twenty
fifth street were arrested on charge
of the larceny of truckload OF mer-
chand.se on January 4 from the White
Express Company of 291s Remicl,
street. Taken TO the West Twentieth
street police station by Detectives Me-
Namara and Devine. they Were identiflod d
by Ira j. Ettinger. n customs inspector.
as men who. by presenting bogus orders.
obtained recently four bales and eight
cases of merchandise valued at $4,000
from the Anchor Storage Warehouse, 231
East Forty-seventh street.
Joseph L. Kelly. In charge of the army
warehouse ON Governors Island: Isidor
Brter, irving Lewis and Edward eleven,
checkers employed on the military reser-
yation. who were arrested Wednesday on
the charge of having stolen 10000 pairs
OF army gloves valued at $40. .o00 were
arraigned yesterday before United States
Commissioner Hitchcock. Kelly and
Lewis were each held in $4,000 bail.
Brier In $4,000 and eleven in $1,000.
The New York herald., 1921-01-14
CIGARETTES ANTIDOTE
FOR WOOD ALCOHOL
Smokers Not So Liable to
Poison, Says Physician.

Special Despatch TO TIE NEW York HERALD
CHICAGO, Jan. 13.-Cigarettes have
been slandered. Instead of being death
pills or shroud pins they are insurance
against post-prohlbition. Testifying to-
day in Judge Brothers's court in the suit
OF n. Greenberg against the saloon firm
OF Cohen & Arken. Dr. Frederick c.
Hanmore quoted authorities as saying
that cigarette smokers seem immune
from the more violent effects Of wood
alcohol drinking.
Cigar smokers. he said, become des-
perately Ill if they drink denatured al
cohol, and too copious draughts will
ruin their eyes. Smokers of cigarettes,
however. are not so liable. Indeed. the
doctor testified, there is on record no
case wherein a pill smoker was poisoned
by wood alcohol
Greenberg is suing the saloon owners
for $4,000 damages. He alleges that
they sold him wood alcohol in the guise
OF whiskey and so poisoned him that he
becaIne blind.
The New York herald., 1921-01-14
LAWYERS CHARGED
WITH BOND DEALS
BY JOSEPH TOPPER
Professional Bailer OF Crim-
inals Says Attorneys Act
as IndemnitOrs.
HEAVY FEES ENACTED
As Much as 25 Per Cent,
Paid When Amount of
Bail Is Small.

Joseph Topper professional pan
bond writer. went on the witness stand
yesterday in the inquiry into the bail
bond situation in New York which the
District Attorney is conducting before
Magistrate Simpson. and testified that
many lawyers in reputed good stand
ing make practice of acting as ilI-
furnished by their clients. He declared
that this procedure. which is viola
ton of the rules of legal practice. is
q matter of everyday occurrence in
bail bond circles.
Topper. whose name has been fire.
quently introduced during the inquiry,
also testified concerning the basis on
which he fixed the charge for supplying
bond In reply to a question by AS
sistant District Attorney Pecora he
said:
II charge on the basis of all can get.
If have to get up at o'clock in the
morning to get a bond for somebody
I'm going to see that I get well paid for
1t. 1t takes just as much trouble and
time to get small bond as it does
big one. and L charge accordingly
Concerning Topper's testimony that
reputable lawyers act as indemntors. i.
was pointed out by the Assistant District
Attorney that although the procedure
cannot be said to constitute the furnish
ing of bail directly. it amounts in ef-
feet to- that. IT also developed during
T..
charge eXacted for supplying bonds to
defendants is in some cases as high as
20 per cent Such a charge. according
to the witness. Is made only on bonds
for small amounts, running from 800 to
500
The witness estimated that during the
last year and q half of his business at
116 Centre street thirty or forty of the
defendants for whom he furnished bail
jumped their bonds. He said that ~
per cent OF these had been apprehended
to date. IN one case, he told the court,
1t cost him $4,000 to bring his man
back. 81 trace 'em to Canada or TO
Mexico. If it's necessary" he said.
Topper said the collateral most fire.
quently offered is in the form of bank
books. cash. jewelry or Liberty bonds.
He referred to the $4,000 worth OF
bonds in the Abe Lewis case. which he
returned to the District Attorneys Of
fee because he learned that they had
been stolen. and Assistant District At
torney McQuaid. who is conducting the
inquiry. questioned him concerning the
circumstances under which Topper
learned that the bonds offered as coll
lateral were stolen. But ToppcS would
tell nothing.
"If 1 was to throw any light on that
subject" he declared, "Id lose a thou
sand of my people. I'm not going to
squeal''
The New York herald., 1921-01-14

by non-union men, although he knew
that the contractor could not have II
handled any other way. Before the
contractor could continue, he said, he
would have TO pay Brindells price fol
so doing. 1--WE will prove that strike
insurance was offered to certain indi'
viduals" he said. I'VE Will also SHOW
that one particular individual paid a
large sum for strike insurance"
He charged that Richard Pike, bust
ness agent, or walking delegate" OF
the hoisting engineers local. who has
disappeared and for whose apprehen'
sion general alarm was sent out more
than a month ago, acted as Brindelis
agent in these transactions.
Several times Mr.. Littleton asked rho
Court to declare mistrial because OF
Mr.. Untermyer's statements, which he
characterized as prejudicial TO his
client, but each time Justice McAvoy
overruled him.
Aronson Tells About strike.
Mr.. Aronson was the first witness
and he told the same story which ht
had related before the Lockwood COM
mlttee. This was of his experiences
with Brindell in erecting a twelve story
building at 229 and 231 West Thirty
trouble arose last April because Brin-
delis wreckers were "bums and wild
mem whom you couldn't talk to-
Then he repeated the story of thc
strike OF September q. and of his visit
to Brindell's office in st. Marks place
where he first offered $1,000 to the
labor czar.
To this he said Brinden replied
Come on. my boy. we don't talk piker
sums here. What l am going to tel
you will stagger YOU"
At the time. Aronson said. Brindel
knew that he was in bad fix. for he
had admitted to him that he had twelve
tenants ready TO move into the build
ing upon completion, and that he also
wanted to occupy part of it himself
They bargained together. he said. and
Brindel asked $4,000, but finally agreed
to compromise for 5000
"Brindell said, III give you two hours
to bring me the cash. f" Aronson testi-
fled
He said that he went to the Lincoln
Trust Company, discussed the matte.
there with an official and with his
architect. whom he had telephoned to
meet him. and that he then drew the
money in 500 bills and went back tc
Brindelrs office. where he found the
labor czar waiting in the corridor fol
him.
After it had been paid oyer in Brin-
del's inner office, he said, the labor
chief picked up a telephone and ordered
the strike called off.
Mr.. Littleton's cross examination ol
Mr.. Aronson was marked with mucf
argument. The lawyer tried to limit
the witness to direct answers and tho
witness would not be limited.
Brindell made copious notes of tn,
testimony and held whispered conversa'
tions with John j. O'Connor, Tammany
Assemblyman of Charles +. Murphy
district, who is his personal counsel
Samuel A. Berger and Stanley Richter
special Deputy Attorneys General. anc
Albert Blogg Unger and Robert )
Johnstone Assistant District Attorneys
sat at the prosecutors table as associ-
ate counsel to Mr.. Untermyer-
The New York herald., 1921-01-14
SEES NO REASON FOR 1T
Declares Court Decision Up
holds Right of Eating
Places to Remain Open.
EDICT CALLED ILLEGAL
Zieofeld Midnight Frolic Re-
lies on It's Theatrical Lii
cense as Defence.

With the exception OF Reisenweber's
in Columbus Circle. all of New York's
eating places having dancing or music
or cabaret performances closed this
morning at l o'clock in compliance
with the orders sent out Wednesday
night by Chief Inspector William j..
Lahey of the Police Department. Pat
Kyne, manager of Reisenweber's, said
at midnight that he would keep open
and that he had told the police he
would not close until the department
also closed other all night restaurants
where no liquor is sold.
"This is a bona fide restaurant" said
Mr.. Kyne. I'VE are not selling liquor,
and we have as much right to keep
open as any other restaurant"
Thomas Healy, who kept his res
taurant at Columbus avenue and Sixty
sixth street open Wednesday night,
closed this morning. He said that the
order made little difference to him, as
most of his patrons had left always BY
80 or o'clock. Much the same thing
was said by the nanagerN of Murrays.
Other managers declared that they
would close. but that they did not think
the police had any right to issue the
order and expressed the belief that 1t
was not legal.
Victor Kirai Of the staff of the Zieg-
field Midnight Frolic asserted that Flo
Ziegfeld can see no reason why the
police should object to the continuance
of that performance to its usual closing
hour, which is close to 2 o'clock in the
morning.
"rhe Zegfeld Midnight Frolic is
theatrical performance, not a cabaret"
said he, "and il is operated under a
theatrical license issued for that purpose
by the City Of New York itself. No
liquor is served. and there can be no
reason for the application OF this order
to us. The performance which is being
given lasts until about half-past I
O'Clock in the morning and ] do not ex-
pect that there will be any need to
shorten it,"
An even stronger opposition to the
mysterious regulation-mysteriou be-
cause the police have assigned no reason
for its application to places where liquor
is not served--was voiced by Mr.. Kyne.
81 know very we'll that there's nc
ordinance in New York city that can
Justify the police in closing up legiti-
mate all night eating place.
"Of course, If they had wanted TO
issue such an order In the old days.
when liquor was being served in restau-
rants. they would have been entitled to,
but it's different now. We don't serve
liquor, and we have a right TO serve
food all night if we wish. ! got n
decision IN the Healy case. even before
prohibition came in. when Justices Ker-
nochan, Hermann and Zella unanimously
held that any restaurant then conducting
a bar had a perfect right to serve food
and soft drinks after ! o'clock in the
morning. as long Us its bar was closed
I'll stand on that decision in this present
situation. Anyway, our cabaret closes
before o'clock oven now"
The New York herald., 1921-01-14
WANTS TO BE WOMAN DEPUTY
Miss Ida Osborne would Succeed
Mrs. O'Grady.

Miss Ida Osborne of 1912 avenue VI.
Brooklyn. filed application yesterday
with Mayor Hylan for appointment as
Fifth Deputy Police Commissioner. to
succeed Mrs. Ellen A. O'Grady, who ro-
Gently resigned because. she said she
could not endure the treatment she re-
ceived from Richard Il. Enright, the
Police Commissioner.
Miss Osborne Is secretary of the New
York city department OF the United
states Volunteer Life Saving Corps and
member Of tho Flatbush Democratic
Club. She is said to have tho support
Of number OF womons political organ
zations
The New York herald., 1921-01-14
FIRES AT SON. KILLS
WIFE, POLICE ASSERT
Bronx Man Held After Shoot
ing in Money Row.

Mrs. Sarah Grover, tJ. OF 3155 Villa
avenue. The Bronx. died yesterday in
Fordham Hospital from bullet wound
inflicted. the police say. earlier in the
day by her husband. who was locked up
on charge OF homicide. Policeman
Lemming of the Bronx Park station said
Grover and his son-in-law. Paul Creole,
got into an argument over money mat
ters. Grover. he alleged. drew a pistol
and pulled the trigger just as Mrs.
Grover threw herself between the two
men.
istrate Mancuso in West Farms Court
for examination January IS. The de-
PENDANT said ne carried the revolver be-
cause he carried large sums of money.
Creole was held In $4,000 bail on tech
meal charge of disorderly conduct as n
witness
The New York herald., 1921-01-14
GIRL rs ALLOWED $4,000
FOR FOOT LOST IN LIFT
Father Awarded 81 200 for
Loss of Her Services.

Miss Dorothy Brenner. a stenographer,
90 years old. won a record verdict yes
terday In the Supreme Court for the
loss of her left foot y jury before
Justice Ticrney gave lcr verdict for
$4,000. Her father scnjamin Bren-
ner. OF s West 1t9th street. with whom
she lives. received a verdict Of Sl,200
for loss Of her services
Miss Breuner was passenger in an
elevator that fell ten stories down q
shaft in tho premises az 215 Fourth ave-
nue. where she was employed. The de-
frdant was the Aguilar Realty Corpora
ton. owner Of the building.
The New York herald., 1921-01-14
STORK IS SWIFTER THAN
THIS FAMILY FLIVVER
OUertakes Mrs. Goldman in
Court Yard of Hospital.

Old Doc Storl notified Mrs. Rosie
Goldman of 1856 Franklin street, Hemp
stead L. L.. yesterday that he would be
around in q short while with an heir
Mrs. Goldman at once embarked in the
family flivver. which has hauled the
Goldman family around for several
years. and started for st. Marks Hos
pital, in Manhattan.
Her condition became so serious, how
ever. that soon after she had left her
house she ordered her chauffeur to drive
to st. Mary's Hospital. The baby. how
ever was born in the automobile in the
court yard of the hospital.
The doctors said that the baby was
normal, healthy youngster, and, hav-
ing been born in fiivver. ought to be
a rafting good child.
The New York herald., 1921-01-14
TELLING STAYS
AT WAR TIME PRICES
This One Asks $50, Dozen
Eggs, Pound of Butter.

AIgs. Juan pulla. 50 years old. Of le0
Elizabeth street. who described herself
as Peruvian gypsy" was fined $40
yesterday by Magistrate Sweetser in
Jefferson Market Court OH a charge of
fortune telling.
Mrs. Pulla was arrested by Rae
Nicoletu and May Cooney, women de-
tcctives. Miss Nicoletti paid TO Mrs.
Pulla a fee OF 81. she said. and was told
TO bring $50. a dozen eggs, a pound Of
butter and an empty bottle If she
wished to avoid being in very hard
luck"
You're the one that's in ha-d luck"
said tho detective. flashing her badge.
Mrs. pulla I'm court insisted that she
was not fortune teller but phrcnolo-
eist.
II read tho bumps" she said
We're goins 10 bump yoa ior si0."
said tho Judge.
The New York herald., 1921-01-14
'IZTKI, THE BOLSHEVIKI,
ASKS FOR THE BOOTSkI
His Request-Oh, 1t Went to
Washington.

BOSTON. Jan. 13.-Iztki Chat. who
says he is pursuing personally con-
Quoted tour of the world in search of
three meals a day and an Embossed job,
dashed into this city to-day and de-
manded instant deportation to Russia.
his native country.
He offered to submit 10 arrest TO
speed his departure. He was emphatic
in his belief that square deal and meal
awaited him under Bolshevik rule.
At the Office of the United States Mar
shall he volunteered the information that
he had figured in trouble with radicals
in Seattle some months ago. He said
he was a member of the l. w. w. and
had served a Jail term in Oklahoma.
He was told his request would be for
warded to Washington.
The New York herald., 1921-01-14
ACTORS SEEK REAL WORK
VIII Even He walters TO Escape
Move on OF the Cops.

SO bad is tho employment situation
among actors. particularly those engaged
fol- companies that broke UP on the
road. that many Of them are now seeking
real work. The manager Of "a restaurant
near the Eltingo Theatre on West Forty
second street said yesterday he is now
getting applications for jobs from as
many as two dozen actors day., many
of whom are willing to act as bus boys.
The majority of them. he said. we're
presentable young men, often with coll
lege education. but he said they offered
to wait on table. wash dishes or do any
thing that would insure them something
TO cat and place where the cops
wouldn't be moving them on.
The New York herald., 1921-01-14
STORK GIVES THIS
DOCTOR BUSY DAY
Calls at FiUe Homes in One
Neighborhood Street.

SPENCER. Mass, Jan. 13.-Five births
within a day or two in five homes, all
within a few doors of one another on
Church street. were recorded by one
physician to-day.
''The storlx led me a merry chase
said he. "a girl on one side of the
street followed boy on the other side.
then girl was born in a house in the
same yard and a boy came in the next
house. I was pretty weary by that
time, but the storl< kept up his neigh
borly visitations and left behind him
another baby girl across the street
Fortunately live on Church street my
self"
The physician added that il was not
yet certain the stork had left town.
The New York herald., 1921-01-14
FLUFFY rs HONORED
FOR SAVING 80 LIVES

Heading OF dry statistical reports at
the fifty-fifth annual meeting Of the
American Society for the Prevention Of
Cruelty TO Animals was interrupted yes
terday 20 permit presentation of hand
some collar to Fluffy. collie whose
bark aroused occupants Of New York
apartment house during fire this
winter.
A silver plate on the collar presented
by the society, bore this inscription:
ITO Fluffy. whose devotion and
watchfuiness saved the lives Of thirty
two persons from death by fire Novom-
her Z. 1920"
The New York herald., 1921-01-14
GOODS MAY SHIMMY
TO REASONABLE EXTENT
Ban Modified by Dean of
Northwestern University.

CHICAGO, Jan. 13.--The ban against
ultra modern dances has been raised at
Northwestern University. Roy G. Flick
niger. dean OF the faculty, announced to-
day. He said even the shimmy will be
allowed 10 "a reasonable extent at
the annual sophomore party next Thurs
day.
Dean E-lickinger said nc was moved
TO this decision when he found that
edicts against the latest dance steps had
driven ,thc men and women students
from university dances 10 public affairs
I'm hotels. He said the university author
ities wished TO get the student jewellers
back on the campus
The New York herald., 1921-01-14
CORNELL HAS WRESTLER
WITH ARTIFICIAL LEG
His Skill Enables Him to Get
on Varsity Team.

ITHACA. Jan. IA wrestler with an
artificial leg was revealed to-day in the
appointment of a. w. Snedeker as
member OF the Cornell University wres-
tlinE team.
SnedelSer senior. whose home is on
staten Island. suffered the amputation
OF his right leg below the knee In his
boyhood. Despite this physical handi-
cap he has developed into slSilful
wrestler In the 145 pound class.
Universities scheduled TO meet Cornell
on the mat this season have been noti-
fled OF sncdeker's appointment as a
member OF the team.