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New-York tribune., 1921-03-20
lreadway Found Guilty
Of Numbering Peirce

PHILADELPHIA, March 19.--Peter
Y. lreadway, was found guilty Of mur-
aer IN the second degree by iurv
to-day in connection with the robbin,
and killing of Henry T. Pierce. =
November. ' last
Counsel for Treadway said he would
not ask for, new trial. The ,..ayi-
mum penalty for second degree m,lr-
der IN Pennsylvania is twenty vears
Ireadway was placed on trial /. laet
uesday charged with first degree mur-
DER and took the stand in his own de-
fense, during which he testified +ho+
Marion A. Elliott, who has not nat
neen arrested, was solely Responsible
1or the killing of Pierce.
flerce was killed in his Office IN =
Saturday night in November last u;a
BODY was found on tie iollow;ne NJ,
Gay morning. The principal c7eus -
tne slayers was his red automoh;la
wnlcn was missing, but later iocatad
IN garage in Wheeling, w. Va. fsu-
Jays after the body was found 4hon+
tne same time Treadway and Snssn
Marie Rogers were arrested in ~ roorn
ing house in Wheeling. They imnl;-
Gated Joseph A. Moss, who was subse-
Elliott. . - ~ aalo
The trials of Moss and the Rogers
glri have been set for April /. It was
saia they. may not be tried because of
sneir assistance to the prosecution.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-20
.Enright Abolishes
Police Station and
Shifts 4 Captains
Union Market Precinct Men
Divided Between Clinton
and Fifth Streets; Demp.
sey Is Sent to BROOKLYN

In the official orders of the Police
Department Of yesterday Police Com
missioner Enright discontinued the old
Union Market station, now known as
the Sheriff Street station, at Houston
and Sheriff streets, and transferred
tour police captains. The task of
covering the abolished precinct will be
divided between the Clinton Street and
Fifth Street stations. Thirty-two of
the patrolmen Of the Union Market sta
tion were transferred to the Clinton
Street station and eighteen to the Fift..
Street station. Nine others were sent
to other precincts.
Captain Edward j. Dempsey, who was
in command Of the Union Market sta
ton, was transferred to the Sixth Ave
nue. station, in Brooklyn. Captain
Thomas Myers, who was in command
OF the Sixth Avenue station. goes to
Far Rockaw.y, and Captain Joseph Nc
Mahon. OF the Far Rockaway station,
goes to the Atlantic Avenue station. in
brooklyn. Captain Percy NJ. Du Bois.
VINO IS IN command of the Atlantic Ave
nue. station, and who is now under in
dictment, charged with accepting an
unlawful fee, goes to the Office Of chief
inspector. Du Bois is now under sus-
pension.
The Union Market station is the
third to be abolished on order of Com
missioner Enright. The building was
erected in 1845. 1t was rebuilt to serve
as station house in 1864. For some
time the eastern end of the station
house has been used as a market.
Captain Du Bois, the day before his
Indictment was handed down, made an
pllcation for retirement. Commits
sioner Enright acted favorably on the
application, but recanted at the request
of Ex-Governor Whitman. Du Bois
contends that the approval of his re-
tirement application automatically re-
moved him from the department and
that the Commissioner had no right to
suspend him.
Captain Myers was an inspector in
charge of the Traffic Squad until April
~ Of last year, when he was reduced to
his present rank on order OF Commits
sioner Enright. Two months ago he
was transferred from the Far Rocka-
way station to the Sixth Avenue sta
ton. in Brooklyn. There was no e,c.i-
clal announcement Of the reason for
his transfer back to Far Rockaway, but
it is understood that merchants of Far
Rockaway requested Commissioner En-
right to send Captain Myers back there
because of his record for efficiency.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-20
Sing Sing Bulletin,
Famous Prison
Paper, Suspends
Exhaustion Of Funds Stops
Pioneer Journal Of Kind,
Published by Convict Edi-
tor and Widely Quoted

Major Lewis e. Lawes, warden Of
Sing Sing, announced yesterday that
the prison newspaper. the Sing Sing
Bulltin, which has been widely read
since Charles e. Chaplin, q former
editor, now in prison, took charge Of
it, has suspended publication.
The prison journal has been hit by
economic conditions. Warden Lawes
explained that the funds from which
the cost of publication of the news
paper was paid are exhausted. The
only nope Of saving it lies in the pos.
sibility of some wealthy friends of
prison reform donating the material to
print the paper for the rest of the
fiscal year, which expires July /. The
prison officials pointed out that it
would be useless to raise funds out
side for getting out the Sing Sing
journal because the state could not ac-
cept money. 1t probably could, how
ever, accept the paper, ink and other
Warden Lawes said there would be
funds in the new budget for 1921 -22,
from which the expense Of printing the
paper could be paid, but he was doubt
full if the Bulletin would ever again
New-York tribune., 1921-03-20
Receiverships Put Kink
In Car Law, Says Volk
Brooklyn Congressman Hints
Transit Act Is Cloak to Cover
Other Rate Questions

Congressman Lester d. VoIk, OF
Brooklyn, issued statement yesterday
In connection with the transit situation
which brings out Z phase he says has
not yet been publicly discussed. In il
ne points out that all the local trac-
tion companies, with the exception of
the lnterborough Rapid Transit Com
pany, are in the hands of Federal re-
acelver, and then says:
mo state law now in effect or to be
passed can confer any authority on any
commission which wssuld be enforceable
without the consent of the Federal
courts. The Governor is too good a
constitutional lawyer and the attorneys
for those interested are too keen to
have overlooked this very important
point. Either there exists an under
standing or the transit feature Of the
bill is cloak to cover the more i'm
portant objects sought to be accom-
pl1shed. We must not overlook the fact
that the commission will have the
power to Increase gas, electric and tele-
phone rates. The gas, electric and
telephone companies do not enjoy the
benefits and protection Of Federal re-
ceiverships. They will be amenable to
this law.
1.-THE Knight-Adler law will furnish
short cut and at once grant to the
companies what they have been striv-
ing for many years to accomplish
through the state courts"
New-York tribune., 1921-03-20
Snails His Proof
Heredity Governs
Law of Evolution
Curator at History Museum
Home After 9 Months i'm
Polynesia Tracing Family
Trees of Invertebrates

Bringing with him many thousands
of specimens Of snails, which he COL
lected in the Polynesian area, in proof
of the theory that evolution is the re-
suit Of heredity and not of environ
ment, Professor Henry E. Champion,
curator of the department of inverte-
brate zoology at the American Museum
Of Natural History, has returned to
New York after nine months scien-
tific expedition Of most unusual sort
DR.. Champion has written three VOL
umes on the evolution Of snails, in
which form Of life he finds evolution
ary changes most remarkably pro-
nounced.
Changes Astonish Hrs
ing in the Polynesian area" said DR..
Champion yesterday. "In the Society
group new forms are establishing
themselves with remarkable rapidity.
found almost unbelievable changes
taking place. Applied to the human
race, such changes could not be more
astonishing if blonds appeared
among tne Itallan people or 1t lap
lander strain appeared in New York.
These evolutionary changes are taking
place within small areas. l found pro-
nounced changes in fields that I had
gone over few years ago. Also, in
going from one island to another, or
even from one valley to another. |
found truly remarkable differences.
On one side would be found snails with
spirals twisting one way. and on an
adjoining slope the spirals would twist
in the opposite direction. The colors
Of the snnils on one slope might be.
red and yellow and on the other brown
with stripes. Yet all these snails
which show such remarkable changes
are under the same climatic and soil
influence, thus affording strong proof
that evolution Is q question Of hered-
it,, not environment"
Old Temples Restored
In addition to his studies in zoology.
DR.. Champion carried on chronological
Investigations, particularly with ref
erence to the great Polynesian migra-
tion. He was in Guam and the neigh
boring island of Saipan two months.
He visited China, Siam, Java and Aus
tralia.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-20
Haunt of Eastman Held Up
Gunman Hunting Monks Enc
nv Gets $1,000 From Six Men

The Court Cafe, at briggs Avenue
and Broadway, Brooklyn. the favorite
resort of the gangster Monk Eastman,
who was shot and killed few months
ago. was held up early yesterday morn
ing by gunman whose victims2 recog-
nized him, they said, as crony Of
Eastman's.
Sweeping revolver around the cir
Gle of half dozen men. tho hold-up
man announced that he was looking
for one of Monks enemies. Failing
to discover the man ne sought, he re-
marked that now he was there he'd
just take up collection. He got about
$4,000 from Frederick Gurmanhause.
the proprietor Of the place, and the
five others.
1t was from this saloon that East
man and his companions set out on the
automobile ride which was the gang
leaders last.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-20
For Natural Monopolies
Governor Says u. S
Needs Them to Hold Trade

Governor James Hartness of Ver-
mont said last night at the dinner Of
the Vermont Society at the Hotel
Pennsylvania, at which he was one Of
the guests, that monopolies that were
of natural growth should be encour-
aged or other nations would get ahead
of the United States commercially.
"Our scheme of handling the So
called trusts is all wrong" he said.
eve are not yet on the right track, by
any means. The answer is not to
NEEDLE with the men who are doing
the. work. In order to protect our
wealth, our homes and our organiza-
tions of men and capital we must get
new viewpoint of these working
forces. We soon must realize that
monopolies are essential-that is.
those that have natural growth. If
we don't have monopolies other coun-
tries will.v
Other guests were Colonel Ira L..
Reeves, John W. Thomas, Professor
Frederick Tupper, of the University of
Vermont; Tran r. Steele, julius "A.
Wilcox, the Rev. Glenn w. White and
Helen Underwood Hoyt. Arthur Z.
James presided. About twohundred
were at the dinner.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-20
Body Plalnges
Into Midst Of
heater, Crowd
Screaming Man Hurls Self
From Fourth Floor of the
Hotel Normandie, Crash
ing Through Glass Awning
Dead as He Hits Walk
Passersby Are Cut and Roll
Into Gutter, Women Faint
and Reserves Are Called

A panic among matinee-goers was
I narrowly averted yesterday afternoon
when man whom the police have iden-
tilted as Ralph W. Smith, forty years
old, of Lynn, Mass, leaped from his
room on the fourth floor of the Nor
mandie Hotel, Broadway and Thirty
eighth Street, and was killed instantly.
The body crashed head first through
the glass canopy over the entrance sof
the hotel under which number Of per-
sons was passing at the time.
Thousands of persons and traffic
which crowded the corner were thrown
Into confusion. Those who were under
the canopy stumbled, fought and
vushed for the street. A number of
Them were cut by flying glass. Some
OF the women were tumbled into the
gutter. A crowd gathered about the
hotel entrance, traffic became jammed,
and number of women tainted, be-
tore reserves from the West Thirtieth
Srreet police station arrived.
Suicide, Say Police
The case has been reported as one
OF suicide by the police. A note was
found in the mans pocket, directing
that his money be sent to an unidenti-
ned nd woman designated simply as "Sue.''
The note read:
Sue: There is $4a in this pocket
book. It is for YOU A bank book
on the Boston Five Cent Savings Bank
credited Ralph w. Smith" with $3.50.
and S33 in currency was found in the
mans clothes.
The man registered at the Normandie
hotel on Friday night under the name
eI James Edwards, of Camden, N. j.
Alter oelng assigned to room 4O3, he
vas not seen again until he made his
appearance on the sill of his window
shortly after 1 o'clock yesterday after
noon.
At this time Patroln1an Kellerman. of
the West Thirtieth Street police sta
tlon, was directing traffic on the on
posite side of Broadway. He looked
up and saw man yelling from a win
dow 90 on the fourth floor of the hotel.
Inc man was partially undressed and
Nas waving his hands hystericafly. The
large crowd of matinee-goer and
shoppers stopped to watch the man
but before his intention could be nm
aerstood, he jumped.
o" AiiIcO instantly
kellerman ran to the hotel side of
me street, but hardly gained the side
svaik when the body of Smith, plunging
downward, striking the stone balconies
Sen the third and second floors as it
s4eii, crashed upon the glass marquise
canopy over the hotel doorway The
nan was killed instantly.
While the reserves fought with the
crowds the body was removed to the
West Thirtieth Street station.
In the mans pockets were found two
separate addresses. Despite the fact
that he had registered under the name
~ James Edwards, an identification
card said that he was Ralph w. Smith.
sol iSs oxford Street, Lynn, Mass. A
ssIa rs was also found bearing this name
With an address in "Maplewood. Mass"
there is no such town in, the State Of
massachusetts -
New-York tribune., 1921-03-20

! Stillman said. "Hc will not discuss hi
affairs. As to the facts in this present
situation, I have not talked with m,
brother for long time and the ac
counts in the paper are all the infor
nation that have, and know nothing
about that"
Another testimonial to Mr.. Still.
terday from attendants In the Avignor
n,artments, at 270 Park Avenue, where
for several months Mr.. Stillman hat
been living alone. except for valet
and one or two other employees.
The duormen said chat Mr.. Stillman
had never spoken to them. At his
coming they silently opened the outer
doors, and quite as silently he strobe
in without even nod and let himself
be lifted irf the, elevator to his own
apartment
Other tenants told similar stories.
A son of Louis G. Kaufman, president
Of the Chatham and Phenix National
Bank, said Mr.. Stillman's home life
was as much mystery within the
apartment house as outside of 1t. He
did not even know that Mr.. Stillman's
children were not at home. Others
living at 270 Park Avenue are A. C..
Bedford, chairman Of the board Of the
Standard Oil Company, depositor in
the National City Bank, and Frank
Hines, president of the First National
Bank.
1t was said that few nights ago,
been made public, Mr.. Stiltman went
riding with William G. Rockefeller.
Mrs. Rockefeller is Mr.. Stillman's Sis
ter.
Following the statement of near
relative, as printed in The Tribune
yesterday, Mrs. James Lawlor, Of 1853
Amsterdam Avenue, yesterday ac-
knowledged that Florence Helen Law
lor, mentioned in the Stillman divorce
proceedings as "Mrs. Leeds" was real
ly her daughter.
Yesterday, when asked about Flor
ence H. Leeds, and informed that
the facts were quite established any
how, Mrs. Lawlor said it was true that
she was her mother, and before closing
the door added:
alone"
Her Photograph Removed
Until the name of Mrs. Florence Fl.
Leeds was mentioned in the Stillman
case photograph Of the pretty chorus
girl and her infant son was displayed
prominently at the street entrance to
the SCuU1O Oh MIS-. 'EHH!d 'AAl1IOL ~ cNV
Fifth Avenue. 1t was removed soon
after the former Flo Lawlor became
prominent figure in the divorce action.
Mrs. Hilton, who takes photographs
only of children or Of children with
adults, admitted that Mrs. Leeds came
to the studio with her son, but would
tell nothing about the arrangements
which we're made for the sitting nor
who paid the bill for the pictures. Mrs.
Hilton was extremely reticent. She
would not say when the pictures were
taken or whether any one accompanied
Mrs. Leeds to the studio. Requests to
see the pictures were unavailing, Mrs.
Hilton explaining that she made it a
practice in her business to guard her
customers pictures carefully and to
show them or to release them only with
express permission to do SO.
''If you can get permission from
Mrs. Leeds I shall let you see the pie
tures," she said. "I'll let you have one
if you can get her permission"
"Will you give up one of the photo
graphs if permission is obtained from
Mr.. Stillman 2" she was asked.
You'll never get permission from
Mr.. Stillman,' she said emphatically.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-20
Cleveland Woman SLAYER Freed

Cleveland Woman Slayer Freed
CLEVELAND, March 19-Mrs. Maude
Miller was acquitted of first degree
murder charge by jury in Judge
Pearson's court this morning. The
sealed verdict Of the one woman and
eleven men was returned late last
night. Mrs. Miller was charged with
the fatal shooting of her husband,
Peter J. Miller, January 20. She de.
clared she mistook him for burglar
when he broke open the door of their
home.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-20

be rssurrected il abolished for foa.
Chaplin, who IL serving Z IF. -
tences therefore must quit the c.,,;an ,i,sn-
ne has worked At for forfv asns ,,sas
Warden Lawes has assigned him sesls' !.
clerical job. 4~ % :
Sing Sings newspaper. the -.
prison publication in the world p,oneef
curio Of American journal.sm sse
started twenty-two years ago. Ws,ssss
Onar y. sage planned the first uur,hx4
and Warden Addison johnson -. zr.ssi q
out. kos It
Ever since then Sing Sing has ,r,,.,
out It's paper, edited by prisoners 4Ia y
was nrst known as The Star of Hoa.
ana was literary in style. Franz
xuigiey' celebrated bond forger va
one o. its early editors. Afterv.@sa @
when Thomas Mott Osborne was a ws
and called il The Hulfst;n paper,
Warden Meyer merged the tv,, na,.s aa.si
ana called the consolidated one fvIs 81
otar-buiietIn." Warden Lawes ovs, ,hs
year ago changed the name to The 8.
tical man, in full charge. plsc-
"Pru vas gwen considerable l..
way. he filled the paper with hrsss- ss.
news items, snappy editorials ss3
wltslcisms. Learned prisoners eoa au
tr1onted special articles, as did s.s.. tsa.
ofncials and influential friends Of nr;sa: ssass
progress. prison
One OF the articles that created .
sensation was that of Charles h.
wilson, arch-bigamist who descr;hssaa tsa
IN detail the accomplishments or sh"s.
comlngs OF his eight wives as h. .Avs sss :.
them. Since Chaplin took over sdm shs
prison newspaper it was quoted v;dsls s
IN America and in Europe and was Z
great demand both in and out Of = tha =
prison. The inmates, who read .sai .ss
number thoroughly, will greatly miss s;s :
New-York tribune., 1921-03-20
$l4, 600 Check Refused,
Asks Loan Of Is Gents
Would.Bc Purchaser Of New
Automobile Arrested, Man Of
Same Name q Fugitive

A man who gave his name as Edward
Hopkinson Smith and his address as the
Hotel Biltmore stroilcd into che show
rooms Of hte Biddle Motor Sales Cor
poration, ct 200 Central Park South,
yesterday afternoon. He had come
in to purchase car, ne said
After several minutes inspection he
indicated one glossy vehicle which
struck his fancy and offered a $4,000
check In payment therefor, Leo R.
Best. the president. was sorry, but he
couldn't take the check. Smith. some
what nettled, muttered something about
knowing Governor Miller and Police
Commissioner Enright, and walked out.
Smith returned q short. time later
and told the president that instead of
wanting to buy that $4,000 car, he'd
like to borrow 25 cents to pay his taxi
fare to the Biltmore. Five patrolmen
and sergeant from the West Forty
seventh Street station arrested him.
Edward Hopkinson Smith, it is said. re-
Gently escaped from an institution in
Essex County, N. ]. He is not regis
tered at the Biltmore.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-20
Yale Mans Lamp Sheds
New Light Under the Sea
Specsdl Dispatch to The Tribune

PHILADELPHIA. March 19.-Enor-
NOUS possibilities for work in the
depths Of the sea are held out by : new
lamp now on exhibition at n marin. .
SHOW here. Experts say the invent;nn
opens a new field of deep sea work in
many ways. The lamp, which is the
invention Of q student at the Sheffaeid
sc,enslnc e,e School, Yale University, en-
abies divers to make repairs on vessels
disabled at sea that are nov ;mre.
sible, except by recourse to drvdocI- ocs
ing. e0'A-
The lamp Is also expected to be 80
invaluable assistance during war tim ~ :
Tor enabling divers to clear the sea a
dangerous mines The United States.
ordered supply Of the lamps. ~
The lamp is also expected to be ~
value in deep sea fishing and in sponge
fishing.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-20
Middies' Dress Jacket Back
Garment Discarded During War
To Be Resumed
Special Dispatch to The qribnna

ANNAPOLIS. Md, March 1s.-The
nlidshlpmen's dress jacket. the natty
far as the small Of the back of the
wearer and which is adorned in front
With three parallel rows of brass hut
tons, will again be worn by the stu
dents OF the Naval Academy, beginning
With the opening Of the Academy year
On October /.
During the war the jacket was cast
aside with everything else which was
merely matter of adornment and had
mo pTactlcal valne, 1T an order Of See
NV sS e III e ssse hsaxy Deilby received -
New-York tribune., 1921-03-20

husband, who named Ferd Beauvais CO.
respondent and attacked the legitimacy
of the baby, Guy Stillman.
- raw,
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-06-07
TO-DAY TALK
Matthew inns
THE REIGN OF IDEAS
BY George Matthew Ac

lifelong idols has been Wendell Phillips
o
IN O make
believed should
ne
fought
The question Of future
said. legislation
before ended"
beginning
under the skin of
i-deas!
Ideas make democracy possible
thoedbu will inevitably
And if this world be made good place which
The things that the alarmed usually those
which
ideas
The pulse of the world is felt in ideas.
a teller"
if he did
Shoot away" replied
Edward Woodbury. learn how often
insignificant!
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-06-07
Ripping Rhymes
HELPFUL EXERCISE.
BY WALT MASON


I used to sit in pomp and state and
took no exercise, and l achieved such
grieVous weight I panied the doctors
eyes. Twas very little grub l ate,
my appetite unsound; but every bite
increased my weight three quarters
of a pound. And then / heard the doc
tor say, You surely lard the earth;
you'll have to walk twelve miles
day, and thus cut down your girth."
So l put on my nine-league boots, and
walked till | was lame, although
never cared three boots for walking
as a game. But one must heed what
ever rules the doctors may invent
whatever sort of 'pathic schools those
docs may represent. And so | walked
along the shore about a hundred miles,
and then | walked a hundred more, in
all the ragtime styles. The first re-
suit of all this toll was appetite re-
newed; the women had to fry and
boil large quantities of food. My ap-
petite was strange and weird. it clam
ored still for more; the loaves and
fishes disappeared, and all the larders
store. My weight increased by leaps
and bounds. by bounds and leaps it
grew. and where | used to gain two
pounds, | now gained twenty-five. The
fat man fails in all he does, in all the
schemes he tries, and alecks always
round him buzz, and talk of exercise,
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-06-07
Two Minutes Of Optimism
WHEN THE ELEMENTAL CALLS
BY HERMAN J. STITCH

The know
N he of the
pricky weather period the cen
mature
onyo ad to AXE the and
Scratch
more Ia apt o a
for GU
days looking into the
works and usually
e our
farm fol seaa
takes us back to the
i is what few a
for his OUTLOOK and
himsef heahe and
Of depths
is a
ouror dinary of
endure
Here's wishing you the bestva everh