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The New York herald., 1921-07-09
STILLMAN LETTER
HELPS WIFE'S CASE
Love Missive, Sent Long After
Birth of Baby Guy, to Be
Used by Defence.
REFEREE RULING TO-DAY
Will Decide on Objection to
Questions as to Bankers Rea-
son for Divorce Suit.

James A. Stillman told his wife In a
letter to her on April 30 1919. the eigh-
teenth anniversary of their marriage
and long after the birth of Baby Guy.
that he never had seen any one that
could compare to her in any way, and
that he never had cared for any one so
much. 1t was asserted yesterday by per-
sons close to the defence. This letter.
with others described as letters of a
loving husband will be introduced by
the defence in rebuttal should Mr. still
man attempt to prove. as has been
limited recently, that he and Mrs. Anne
Urquhart Potter Stillman have not lived
together for nine years.
The letter Of April So 1919. reads In
part as follows: with all the mistakes
1 would not like to live them over
again. or, rather, I near would like
to have some OF our present knowledge
and be able to live them over. I have
never seen any one that could compare
to you in any way and could never
have cared for any one so much.
hope the next eighteen years are going
to be happier than the first; certainly
we won't make the same mistakes"
This was after the birth of Jay Leeds,
as we'll as that of Baby Guy. whose
Legitimacy Is attacked in the bankers
divorce case Mr. Stillman. the defence
will claim, went to see Mrs. Stillman
in March. 1918, when she was at the
Iroquois Hotel at Buffalo. 1t was on
this Buffalo trip that Mrs. Stillman had
the conversations with DR.. Hugh l.. Rus
sell. an osteopath, which are the sub
ject of a motion to strike them from
the record.
Mr.. Stillman went to Buffalo follow
ing the alleged "hysterical letter." ac-
cording to evidence the defence Is ex-
pected to produce. and told his wife.
''Mudski." 1t does not make any diff
ference" "Mudski' was one OF the bank
er's pet names for Mrs. Stillman. 1t is
alleged.
In addition to sums already mentioned
as having been spent by Mr.. Stillman on
Florence Leeds, Mrs. Stillman's lawyers
are prepared to prove, 1t is said that
he turned over to the former chorus
girl Proctor & Gamble and United States
Rubber Company bonds worth $150.000.
Referee Gleason Is expected to-day to
hand down decision on whether Mr..
Stillman will be allowed to answer three
questions put to him by his lawyers and
objected 70 by the defence. II he de-
cides they may be answered, Mr.. Still
man will take the witness stand again
when the hearing Is resumed at Pough-
keepsie next Wednesday.
The New York herald., 1921-07-09
MUCH MARRIED ACTOR
RELEASED FROM TOMBS
No Ground to Prosecute Nev-
ton in This State.

II. Ashton Newton. an actor, who has
been held in the Tombs since May on
the charge that he married three women
without having obtained a divorce from
any Of them, was discharged yesterday
by Judge Talley in General Sessions on
the recommendation of Assistant District
Attorney William r. Maloney.
AT the time Newton married his first
wife. Miss Florence Madeira. on August
/, 1911. at Monticello. ILL.,. she had an
other husband living. Newton married
Miss Glenn Argoe in the Municipal
Building here on September II, 1918. and
this was his only marriage In this State.
Mr.. Maloney told the court that New
ton married the third wife. Iva Edmon-
son. in Port Huron, Mich. September 2,
1919. If any crime had been committed.
the Assistant District Attorney said. II
had been committed In the State OF
Michigan In no event could the defen-
dant be held for trial in New York.
The New York herald., 1921-07-09
FRITZ LINDINGER, ONCE
TAVERN KEEPER, BURIED
Broad Street Boniface Long
I'LL After Dry Ban Came.

The body of Fritz Lindinger was
buried yesterday In Evergreen Gene
terry. but the memory of him dwelt in
the brick canyons of downtown New
York. In the days when there were
only seventeen amendments. the Old
Dutch Tavern--Lindinger' tavern-at
105 Broad street would have been
crowded with bulls and bears and lambs.
clerks and lawyers, sea shippers and
captains of industry. all combating the
heat with seidels of beer that only Fritz
knew how to cool to the proper tempera-
tiire
Fritz Lindinger died last Tuesday at
his home. 223 East Eighth street. Brook
lyn. after having been III since October
with complication Of organic disorders.
He was president of the New York State
Liquor Dealers Association for two
terms and was mentioned several times
for political office by friends In Tam
many Hall. but he had no such ambi-
tion. His wife, Marie l.. Lindinger, sur
wives him.
The New York herald., 1921-07-09
ABANDONED IN MARSH,
GIRL ACCUSES MAN
Posses Night in SWdnp After
Repuising Youth.

Anna Lester, IT years old. of 476 Ave-
nue A, Bayonne, got back to that city
yesterday after spending a night ON the
Eliza beth marshes Of Newark Bay. and
caused the arrest on an assault charge
of Lester Lahey. 81 years old, OF 100
West Fourteenth street. who. she de-
clared, had left her In that unpleasant
place when she repulsed him. Lahey.
who was arrested on suspicion. after tho
disappearance of Miss Lester had been
reported by Mrs. Mary Cohen. her sis
ter, was held in $4,000 bail for examina-
tion to-day by Recorder Cain when the
girl twice picked him from a lineup az
her assailant. Mrs. Josephine Ilahey.
ten prisoners wife. was arrested as an
accessory after the fact.
The girl told Chief of Police Cady Of
Bayonne that she was bathing In New
ark Bay when Lahey. whom she knew
as Lester. had persuaded her to 60 for
boat ride. In the middle of the bay.
she said. he attacked her. but she beat
him of. He then rowed her to the Eliz-
abcth side and told her she could spend
the night there according to her story.
The New York herald., 1921-07-09
SLAIN PAIR IDENTIFIED
AS STORE HOLDUPS
Restaurant Man Who SA1e
Them Is Ren1onded.

Victor Fernandez. lunchroom propri-
etor who shot and killed two men In his
lunchroom at 7s5 Columbus avenue.
Thursday nglht. when they attempted to
break up tho place. was remanded to the
West Side prison yesterday by Magis-
trate Edgar rockingham without bail
for examination Monday.
The men killed were Aloysius Buck
ley, 22, OF 344 Manhattan avenue, and
Thomas Duncan. 23, Of s43 Amsterdam
avenue. The police said the men de-
manded something to eat and cursed
the proprietor. his employee. a Japanese.
and his customers Fernandez said he
was afraid the men intended to loot his
cash register.
Alexander Meyer. clerk in the United
Cigar store at Broadway and 103d street.
went TO the Morgue yesterday and iden-
titled the dead men as the two who had
held him up shortly before midnight.
July 4, and robbed him of $1,000.
The New York herald., 1921-07-09
HOWAT SENTENCED
TO 6 MONTHS IN JAIL
August Dorchy, Also of Kan
sas Miners Union, Gets Sim
liar Sentence.

COLUMBUS, Kan, July S.-Alexander
Howat and August Dorchy, president
and vice-president OF the Kansas Miners
Union. were sentenced by Judge Frank
w. Boss in the Cherokee County District
Court here to-day to serve six months in
jail and to pay a fine Of $500. Howat
and Dorchy wore convicted last week OF
violation of the Kansas industrial law
by calling a strike.
Judge Boss also ordered that Howat
and Dorchy give bond of $4,000 each
not to violate again the industrial court
law As notice of appeal was given the
court ordered that Howat and Dorchy
retain their liberty on their present ap-
pearance bonds of 50 900 each.
The certainty. not the severity. OF the
penalty, Judge Boss declared, was the
most important element In passing SEN
tence. He could have sentenced Howat
and Dorchy to a year in Jail and fine
Of 81 900 each.
Howat made a speech to the court be-
fore sentence was passed, denouncing
his trial and alleging that he was not
given fair treatment there. He did not
know. he told Judge Boss, that he was
violating the law when he called the
strike.
Howat asserted that the court treated
bers of the miners union to sit on the
jury.
Judge Boss in passing sentence re-
piled 1t would have been "a travesty to
have allowed union miners to sit on
the jury"
One of the features OF the case was an
affidavit signed by all but one Of the
jury which found Howat and Dorchy
guilty declaring that the jurors did not
believe the miners officers were guilty
Of "any wrong" 1t originally was filed
by counsel for the miners officials as
"A part of n motion for a new trial. and
also was filed in court this morning.
but Judge Boss paid no attention TO II
as having any legal bearing on the case.
The Jurors. in the affidavit. asserted
they did not believe In the industrial
court law and that they returned a ver-
dict of guilty only because they had
taken an oath that they would be gov
erned by the law as set forth in the
judges instructions and the evidence,
and that had II not been for said law
given them by the court In said instruc-
tions not one Of the said jurors would
have made a finding that the defendants
rad done wrong"
The New York herald., 1921-07-09
DEATH RATE SMALLEST IN
ST. PAUL; N. Y. is SEVENTH
D. c., Leads With Worst Typhoid Record
Newark Takes Prize in Number of Births, With
Boston Next, and This City Trailing Along.

Washington. d. c., has the unenviable
distinction of the highest death rate
from typhoid fever. Cincinnati wins the
grim prize for measles. and Rochester
and Boston are tied for the top mortality
rate in scarlet fever. Whooping cough
is especially fatal in Boston and diph-
iberia and Group thrive relatively well
in Buffalo and St Louis Pittsburgh
reveals the high death rate for influenza
and for easily understood reasons Denver
heads the list for tuberculosis. San
Francisco shows the worst rate for
cancer.
Children are born more frequently in
Newark. per 1000 OF population than in
any other city. with New York not so
far behind. but trailing after Boston.
Pittsburgh. Cleveland. Philadelphia and
Chicago
In New York city last year 73.249 per-
sons disappeared from life. but 132,S5b
came into It.
The weekly bulletin of the Department
of Health having noted these larger
lethal facts. gives out that the city en-
joyed a remarkably low death rate last
week, in spite of the heat and humidity.
the rate being 9.72.
The New York herald., 1921-07-09

Figures show that st. Paul. Mimi. is
a little further from the grave than any
ether big city in the United States. It's
death rate is the smallest in the statis-
tics of the mortality of the twenty prin-
cipal cities for 1920. Portland. Ore.
runs st. Paul respectable second. the
figures for the two being respectively
10.1S and 11.20 per 1000 of population.
The New York city rate is 1898.
which compares handsomely with the
showing made by other cities. New York
standing seventh Statistically Denver.
with its high altitude and its presumably
health giving atmosphere. has the high
est death rate of all. 17.47 The cities
possessing ideal climatic conditions show
higher death rate as a rule than cities
less fortunately situated because they
attract the Ill and the desperately sick.
1t Is also observable that sex plays an
important part in determining the crude
death rate. The death rate among fe-
males is considerably below that of
males. Wherever women are in the ma
jority the death rate is relatively low.
Other factors are infancy and old age.
A community with few children and few
old persons can show low death rate.
The New York herald., 1921-07-09
WOMAN COP REBUKED
FOR ARRESTING 4 GIRLS
No Crime to Talk to Sailors,
Ex-Gangster's Wife Is Told.

Four girls. from 1s to 10 years old.
arresteds a ncernber of the Women's
Police Reserve for talking to sailors
in Riverside Drive. were discharged by
MAGISTRATE John +. Mcclellan In
women's Court yesterday. with repri-
mand for the arresting officer. Bella
Schwartz Jackson, wife of "Humpty"
Jackson. former gang leader. The
said:
These girls should never have been
arrested. 1t is no crime to talk to a
sailor. II conversing In the park at
s 80 In the evening is crime. at their
age l would have been In court every
day. The good work done by the regu-
lar women members of the police force
should not be besmirched by arrests OF
this kind. Reserve police women should
know better than TO make arrests of
this nature.
..These girls. in being brought into
this court and in spending the night
at the Florence Crittendon Home. were
forced to associate with people whom
they should never meet. l hope this
will be the last time that innocent girls
will be brought before me-"
The New York herald., 1921-07-09
Stolen Automobiles.

The police last night reported the following
automobiles as having been stolen In this
city within the preceding twenty-four hours
Ford 1921 Brown and White taxicab: license
O5fOT2 ~ y: motor 46sTsp0.
Ford 1921 taxicab license o52o39 y. y;
motor 4lnpiGg.
Ford 1920 sedan: license i34i27 n. Y; motor
4IoO0t3.
Hudson 1919 touring. sport model; blue. red
gear; license 22272i ". ". motor T8oS2
Lexington 1921 sedan license 1918 y. y;
motor i30sSS
Ford 1921 touring license Dealer 1929 ". j.;
motor unknown. -
Ford 1921 touring; license 273o5o n. Y;
motor 5043e52.
Famous one ton open truck: license s6so55
~. Y; motor 1880.
Ford 1920 coupe; license 10155o ~ y. motor
44O4sp6.
Overland 1914 touring; license 2333s45 N. Y;
motor 1851.
Hudson 1921 four PASSENGER touring; license
2545O0 n. Y; motor f04diT.
Chandler 1920 touring: license i900i3 n. Y;
motor oOJJ5.
Ford ia2i sedan license 1912 N. "; potor
4S62sfn
Ford 1918 runabout; license 1145o4 y. y;
studebaker 1921 touring; license 272ai5 n.
y: motor GsSti.
REQ 1919 touring license 1928 y. y;
motor Aff7so.
Ford touring; license 1907 N. y; motor
3l52i3i.
Riker five ton truck white; license si2eso
~ v: motor cp40.
Ford 1927 sedan; license DISCS ". y; motor
unknown.
The New York herald., 1921-07-09
WILSON FOUNDATION
PLANS ARE COMPLETED
Campaign for Fund Will Be
Conducted in Fall.

Organization plans for the Woodrow
Wilson Foundation, for which a fund
will be raised In the fall to endow an
annual award for distinguished public
service, in commemoration of the ex-
Presidents high Ideals. were completed
yesterday. according 10 Franklin ID.
Roosevelt, national chairman. The drive
for funds will be carried to every city
in the United States. Mr.. Roosevelt said.
The organization machinery set up by
Mr.. Roosevelt and Hamilton Holt. exec
rtIve director. includes a national COM
mittee of $50 members. an executive
committee. consisting of one representa-
tive from every State, and a campaign
committee In each State. National head
quarters have been established at $50
Nassau street
The New York herald., 1921-07-09
MAN KILLED BY TRUCK;
ONE IS SEVERELY HURT
Death Is Reported in Brook
lyn Motor Accidents.

One man was killed and one severely
hurt by automobiles In Brooklyn yester-
day.
Edward J. McGrath, 81. of 273 EN-
pire Boulevard, Brooklyn. attempted to
cross at Livingston street and Flatbush
avenue and stepped in the path of a
truck driven by Edward Gassman of
1e1 Stockton street. Brooklyn. The
truck crushed both his legs He died
following an operation at Cumberland
Street Hospital.
A man, as yet unidentified, alighted
from southbound F'latbush avenue car
at Sterling place before the car stopped
and was struck by an automobile driven
by John Herman of 127 Lexington ave-
nue., Manhattan. He was taken to the
Methodist Hospital with a fractured
skull.
The New York herald., 1921-07-09
ENDEAYOR HOSTS TO
MARCH UP AVENUE.
10000 This Afternoon Will
Hold Meeting on Central
Park Meadows.
THEN A TRIP TO CONEY
Pilgrims Progress Floats and
ROdeheaver Trombone Pa
rade Features.

Twenty thousand men and women will
march up Fifth avenue this afternoon
singing Onward, Christian Soldiers"
after which they will hold meeting in
Central Park and disband for sight
seeing trips and dip in the surf at
Coney Island. The participants will be
$4,000 delegates to the Christian En-
deavor convention. which is holding
meetings daily In the Seventy first Regi-
n,ent Armory, and 1000 friends and
members of other organizations.
According to Capt. William r. 'Fearn,
grand marshal. New York city needs this
big demonstration from Christian work
ers Just now to show there are numbers
of persons ready to show by personal
action their abiding faith in their pledge
to the church. While the parade is not
a direct answer to the wet" demonstra-
ton last week. its marchers stand firm
for the upholding and enforcement of
the prohibition amendment.
The seven bands in the parade have
volunteered their services. The Seventy
first Regiment band will lead Off. start
ing at Twenty-third street. at IL o'clock.
sharp and the various divisions will fall
in from the east and west and proceed
north on Fifth avenue to the Plaza.
where they will break and go to the
sh .ep meadow for outdoor speaking.
The spectacular feature of the parade
will be floats depicting the story of
Bunyans Pilgrims Progress" Eighty
two characters are to be represented.
Homer Rodeheaver, of Billy Sunday
camp meeting fame. and Percy Foster
will have charge of the music. Rode
HEAVIER will appear In his Palm Beach
suit carrying a trombone and will lead
In the hymn singing as the column
marches along.
Some of the delegates will wear
brilliantly colored costumes. Only one
flag Is to be carried and that is the
Stars and Stripes. The Canadian delega-
ton, which put in a plea for the ap-
pearance of their national flag in the
parade. has bowed to the word of Capt
Fearn and will present their special
float without their own colors.
The various State delegations will
have places in line in the order of their
winning the national banners for the
largest attendance quota at the conven-
tion. Colorado will be first and New
York. the hostess State, will be last.
There will be groups of women singers.
girls In fancy costume and at the head
Of the long column will walk Frederick
A. Wallis, Commissioner of Immigration.
and the officers Of the Christian En-
deavor Society
William Jennings Bryan, who Is to
address the evening meeting in the ar
mory. will speak at the sheep meadow.
The Christian Endeavor alumni held
a banquet last night in the Majestic Ho-
tel. Fifteen hundred attended.
The New York herald., 1921-07-09
U. S. JURY WANTS ITS PAY.
Foreman Complains and Is Told to
Write to Washington.

Louis ID. Greenman. who served as
foreman Of the June Federal Grand Jury.
complained Yesterday to William Hay
ward. Unitel States Attorney. that the
members pf the jury had not been paid
for their services. 1t was learned that
the requisition for s1,700, forwarded 20
Washington by Thomas y. Mccarthy.
United States Marshal, had not been
honored.
Mr.. Gresnman was advised to write
to Attorney-tieneral Daugherty concern
ing the matter He promised 10 do so.
The Jurors. because of eighteen days OF
service. are entitled 10 S54 each.
The New York herald., 1921-07-09
CALLED DRAFT DODGER,
DROWNED 4 YEARS AGO
Another Brooklyn Stacker IN
Hospital Three Years.

In tho list OF draft dodgers released
to-day for publication by the Govern
ment appear the names of two Brook
lyn men, one who was drowned and an
other who has been suffering from n
mental illness.
Edward Thomas Hamilton Of 52G
Sixth avenue. Brooklyn. is the man who
was drowned His family no longer
lives at the listed address, but neigh
bors said last night he was drowned
four years ago in Sheepshead Bay.
James Pyne. who formerly lived at
317 Sixteenth street, has been in Kings
County Hospital for the last three years.
The New York herald., 1921-07-09
THREE CLEARED AS SLACKERS.
Names Published of Men who Saw
Service.

Gen. Robert l.. Bullard. commanding
the Department of the East, has pub
lished the names of three men against
whom the War Department has set aside
charges of desertion. They are Carolin
Norbert, posted as Stacker py Local
Board No. 159. New York city. now
known to nave seen active service as a
First Lieutenant: John Macbeth, posted
by Local Board No. 2. Camden. ". j..
who also saw service. and James T.
Dwyer. Local Board No. Ss. New York.
who served in the army as James r.
O'Dwyer.
The New York herald., 1921-07-09
JOY RIDE ENDS WHEN
HE BUMPS TWO COPS

William Corso, 81. OF 276 Mott street.
had n run of bad luck yesterday. accord
ing to the police He took an automo-
bile from in front OF Traffic Court In
the morning for a little JOY ride" 1t is
alleged. and had gone only few min
utes before he smased into a car car
rying Detectives Higgins and Moog Of
the Narcotic Squad They say he
bumped them at Prince and Mott streets
and did not stop to see what had hap
pened Corso was captured by the de-
tectives near Bleecker and Lafayette
streets.
Magistrate Bruce w. Cobb in Essex
Market Court held Corso in $4,000 ball
on n charge of grand larceny for further
arraignment Monday.
The New York herald., 1921-07-09
HELD ON LARCENY CHARGE.

Harris Nathan. 2s years old. of IL
West 1l1th street. was arrested last
night at Fortieth street and Sixth ave-
nue. by Detective Thomas Marion and
locked up In the West Thirtieth street
station charged with grand Larceny
Private detectives have been trailing
Nathan for some time on complaints re-
ceived from banks and hotels. tho police
said
1t Is alleged that last January Nathan
gave department store a check for
1878 on the First National Bank of
Williamson, w. Va, and that the check
was returned as worthless Hotels
which have made complaints against the
prisoner are the Astor. Majestic and
Breslin.
The New York herald., 1921-07-09
ADLER PLEADS GUILTY.

BENJAMIN Adler. IS. of ZIG West Fifty
sixth street, pleaded guilty to grand
larceny yesterday before County Judge
Humphrey in Long Island City. He
was indicted with Meyer Goldberg. who
was sentenced last week TO fifteen years
imprisonment for burglary at the home
OF Mrs. Elsie Hobbs In Flushing. Adler
was remanded for sentence.
The New York herald., 1921-07-09
FIFTH AVE. PARADE WILL
BOOST BOY SCOUT WEEK

A parade. to advertise Boy Scout
Week, which will be held all next weel,
at Luna Park, will take place at 9
o'clock this morning In Fifth avenue.
Only Boy Scouts from Brooklyn will
participate. 1t was announced that
thirty scout divisions. numbering about
1000 boys. will participate in the march.
which will, start at Fifty-ninth street
and go south to the Washington Arch.
The New York herald., 1921-07-09
Fire Record.

PM
3.l0-33 Carmine st. Mrs. Farando
Unknown
4:oo-so5 West sist ST.; Alice Roller
Unknown
engine OF New York Central Y.
$3.50 East 10th ST.. Joseph Neer
e:o5-73 Allen st. schailer G. CO. .Trifiing
G3O-i4s Baxter st. automobile OF
Louis Schaa effcr. r.......... Unknown
6;3o-245 East i2Ith St. Joseph Negro
Unknown
I 7:oo-2ii-2i3 Park Row. unknown Unknown
7:30-oi Goerck street, Morris Bcrko-
7:45-14e Canal street. Morgan a
s;1o-747 Southern boulevard. The
Bronx, Harry Byrne. -. Unknown
8 :3o-2s3T Third avenue. Joseph
s:s5-i7S7 First avenue. Mrs. Roson-
8 :s5-3O5 West 18th street. Abra-
ham Silverman ............. Unknown
s:45-i03 Avenue II. Beerie Uby. Trifling
s:3S-4o7 Sixth avenue, unknown. Unknown
s:45-2T East Third street. Tiilic
Rudes ...........,.... ...... Unknown
s:45-i40 Monroe street, Sadie stabel.
Unknown
o:oo-7o East ii2th street. Harry
o :25-3s52 Broadway. unknown. Unknown
II :3o-ls2 West iisth street. Harry
Silverstone ................. Unknown
II ;bc-72 West iosth street. sai'vetts
y Co....s............... Trffling
ii 55--71 Lewis street unknown. - Trifiins
The New York herald., 1921-07-09
LIBRARY SITE AUTHORIZED.

The Board of Estimate authorized
yesterday the acquisition of a site for
public library at Irving avenue and
Woodbine street. Brooklyn.
The New York herald., 1921-07-09
Stinnes's Industries Put
At 5000, 900, 900 Marks

RERLIN, July S.-The indus
trial and commercial enter
prises controlled by Hugo Stin-
mes, the German capitalist, or in
which he is interested, represent
total capital of 8,O00,000,0 900
marks, according to an investi-
cation made by the Meta! Work
ers Gazette.
The total of Germany's pro-
posed taxation for the coming
year, as contained in Chancellor
Wirth's budget presented to the
Reichstag, which is to include
reparations payments to the
Allies, is $4,000, 100000 marks,
just ten times the capitalization
of the SHINES industries.