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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-13

thought othc, wise, for he was always
ready to gulp down another. Ten fish
day it took to keep him satisfied. so
that Farmer Browns Boy had to go
fishing every evening after work Eut
he didn't mind. He and the young
Heron were becoming friends. The
big bird would allow him to handle
him rs he pleased. He never offered
to strike with that great bill of his.
He would even take the hand of
Farmer Browns Boy in that great
bill and gently shake it. There was
nc longer fear or wildness in his eyes
when Farmer Browns Boy entered,
but instead strange look Of pleasure.
Day by day the poor hurt foot
healed and at last it was we'll. The
oandages were removed for good and
the young Heron walked as well as
ever. Once more Farmer Browns Bow
gathered him up in his arms, but this
time no coat was wrapped about him.
!hcy were friends and the big bird
dldnt IN the least mind being carried
Down across the Green Meadow
trampcd Farmer Browns Bow to the
swamp on the edge Of the Big River
AT the place where he had found tho
young Heron fast in the dreadful tran
nc put him down. Then he fed him
three fish and turned back. The YOUNG
Heron watched him 90. Lonesomcness
swept over him. He cronkcd harshlv
as IT to call Farmer Browns Row
back. But almost at once it was
answered by a glad cry, glad dcspite
its harshncss, and great bird
dropped down beside him. 1t was his
mother, Mrs. Longlegs. So for a time
Farmer Browns Boy was forgotten.
Copyright. 1921. by r. w. Burgess)
The next atory: "Old Mr.. Toad
HcAra Bad Nnwsn
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-13
Gas ank Bursts:
Hurts /; Imperils
Hospital Inmates
Dwellers Near Avenue C.
and 18th Street in Dan.
ger as 100000 Feet of
Vapor Causes Explosion

Three million feet of gas, confined
in Consolidated Gas Company tank
on Avenue c, between Fifteenth and
Sixteenth streets, blew a plate out of
the top of the tank last night. One
person, Mrs. Mary Coyle, fifty years
old, of 257 Avenue C, was slightly in
jured when bolt. hurled skyward,
struck her on the head on it's way back
to earth.
The tank is only about block from
the Willard Parker Hospital, and some
anxiety was felt Immediately after the
explosion about the patients. Dr. John
Wilson treasured inquirers, saying no
one had been harmed within the hospi-
tai. The neighborhood for blocks
around was filled with gas and DIR. Will
son ordered all the hospital windows to
be opened, so that the draught might
prevent the forming of gas pockets
that might take fire in any of the
wards.
The tank is 200 feet high and 1870
feet in diameter. The pressure of the
100000 cubic feet of gas that filled
the tank blew out a steel plate three
quarters of an inch thick, two feet
wide and four feet long.
The noise of the explosion brought
people running from blocks around.
In few minutes the police reserves
had 10000 people to handle, despite
the constant danger of the escaping
gas catching fire.
While acting chief Joseph B. Martin
and force of tiremen stood ready to
go into action should a blaze occur,
gas company employees started the
pumps going to save what gas they
could. In about twenty minutes they
had emptied the vapor in the damaged
tank into another.
The firemen went through the crowd
forbiddng anyone to smoke, and the
police warned all tenants on Avenue c
between Fourteenth ard Eighteenth
streets to leave their homes until the
gas had dissipated.
statement issued by the company
said that the accident was unusual, but
that there would be no diminuton in
the SUNNY of GAS
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-13

Mail Steamship Company, financially
or otherwise.
when the Mail Company became in
volved in difficulties with the Shipping
Board Messrs. Chace and Smith were
asked if they would be willing to
acquire stock of the United States
Mail. They declined. Their advice
was later sought as to a way out of
the difficulties that beset the company
After consideration they recon-
mended that new board of directors
be selected and that the active manage
ment of the company be placed in new
hands, followed by an attempt to adjust
in a friendly way the differences with
the Shipping Board.
This suggestion was approved by all
parties and upon the further sugges-
ton Of Messrs Chace and Smith a
new board, composed Of the officials
of a we'll known shipping concern, was
elected by the original board of the
Mail Company. There was no change
in the stock ownership Of the Mail
Company. The alleged escrow agree
ment is a pure myth.
THE action taken by the new board
looking to the return Of the ships to
the Shipping Board has been thor
oughly explained. The resolution of
the directors taking such action was
communicated to the Shipping Board,
resolution of the board was then re-
TERED TO the stockholders of the United
States Mail Company, which failed to
ratify the action CT their board of di-
rectors. The new directors then re-
elected the old directors and resigned.
Explanation of Investments
10
nor Mr.. Smith ever invested a dollar
IN the United States Mail Company.
nor ever considered such an invest
ment- Their sole connection with the
case was to advise the company in a
friendly way as to the best means of
escape from an unfortunate dilemma"
The statement adds that there never
was any assurance the United States
Shipping Board would suspend litiga-
ton.
Mr.. Bullitt, in commenting on the
statements of Delaney Nicoll jr. with
regard to his agreement with Messrs
Chace and Smith, said there was abso-
IuJely no truth n it. He added:
II made no agreement with Mr.
Chace or Mr.. Smith with regard to
putting any money into the company
20 rcorganlze it, or to purchase the
ships on operate them, or any other
solr of agreement. l was never pres
ent when any stock was deposited in
escrow, and do not believe there was
any such deposit of stock. | did not
conduct any negotiations with the
United States Mail Steamship Com
pany except substantially to repeat in
whiting on August II what l had said
to Delancey Nicoll ST. in person on
August 4.
Il do not know and have never seen
Judge Mayer or any officer or director
Of tAat company. have seen the So
called new directors but have never
had negotiations with them. | never
made an agreement that the govern
ment would cease litigation Neither
Mr.. Smith nor Mr.. Chace- promised
financial support 10 the Mail company
The statement is manufactured out Of
whole CLOTH
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$4,000 Check
Forsseriies Trap
3; One aiints
Copied Signatures Put on
Bogus Drafts Which
We're Cashed by Small
Purchases, Say Police
Two Brothers Arrested
Several Well Known Banks
Reported as Victimized
III Wholesale Fraud Plot

1hree young men. who are alleged to
have passed $4,000 worth of forged
checks on banks and commercial con-
Germs, were arrested yesterday and
taken to Police Headquarters, where,
detectives said, they signed full con-
LESSONS. One of the three collapsed
after confessing and required medical
attention.
The prisoners are Samuel Mehl.
twenty-three years old, a salesman, liv-
ing at "a First Avenue; William V.
April, also a salesman, of 1925 Grand
Concourse, the Bronx, and Harvey H.
April, his brother, a printer, the man
for whom the ambulance was called.
twenty -four years old, of 114S Long
fellow Avenue, the Bronx. Mehl. the
police say, is also known as Peter
Rogers.
Blank Checks Traced
The arrests were made by Detectives
Browne, Newman and Meehan, assisted
by men of the Burns agency, at 81
FIRST Street, where the blank checks
alleged to have been used in the for
geries are supposed to have been
printed.
According to the police, the three
used for their models checks sent in
by clients of the printing office. From
these, 1t is said, they copied signatures
to be used in their forgeres. They
then had the forged checks certified,
made small purchases with them. de-
cectives say, and received the major
portion of the amount called for in
cash as change. In some instances it.
Is alleged, they asked storekeepers to
make out check for them to mail
out of town, giving cash in return,
and then copying the names
The police say that they have traced
twenty-seven of these checks, running
from $500 to 81 900.
Ihe men went yesterday to the
Jewelry shop of William Barthman &
Co., ia Broadway, and after selecting
some diamonds offered check on the
Commercial Exchange Bank for S643
Their arrest followed.
First Hint of Irregularity
The first information about the op-
erations of the three was given to the
police, it was said, by the Fifth Ave-
nue. Bank, when the teller became sus-
plsclous of the signature on a check
presented by one of them. believed to
have been Mehl, and who told the teller
that he had received the check from
the April brothers.
The list of banks on which the three
men are believed to have passed forged
checks includes the Irving National
in the Woolworth Building; the Amer
lean Trust Company, 1875 Broadway;
Merchants Bank, Brooklyn; Common
wealth Bank, Bowery and Bond streets;
Chatam and Phenix branch bank, Third
Avenue and Fifty-seventh Street;
Greenwich Bank and the Fulton Street
branch Of the Corn Exchange Bank
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-13
Court Holds Policeman
For Felonious Assault
Clubbing Charged by Brooklyn
Fruit Dealer; Cases Against
Tighc Continued

Patrolman Edward Lang, TWENTY
two years old, attached to the Fifth
Avenue precinct, was held in $500 bail
by Magistrate Walsh in the Fifth Ave
nue. Court, Brooklyn, yesterday morn
ing on a charge of felonious assault
George Hartman, fruit dealer who
preferred the charge, was paroled by
Magistrate Walsh for examination on a
counter charge of felonious assault.
According to Lang, he came upon
Hartman and several others lounging
at Eighteenth Street and Prospect
Park West on July &c, while patrollng
his beat He ordered the group to
move on and was threatened by Hart
man, he said. A crowd gathered, in
Guiding eight men who rushed from a
nearby poolroom with cues in their
hands. Lang said he was crowded to
the curb and forced to use his club
striking Hartman once on the back.
Hartman claims he was struck on the
ear with the polceman's club, and that
he has been under the care of physi-
clans since.
Two cases of simple assault against
Detective Charles +. Tighe, formerly
OF Chief Inspector Lahey's staff, were
continued until September 12 yester-
day by Justices Moss, Freschi and Nc
lnerney in Special Sessions. Tighes
bail of 81 500, given at the time he
was arraigned before Magistrate Simp-
son, was also continued.
Samuel Furstenberg, counsel for the
accused police officer, asked that the
cases be continued because of other
cases pending against Tighe before the
grand jury and in the Court of Spe-
cial Sessions in which felonies are
charged. He asked that his client be
permitted to defend himself on these
charges before answering the INSIDE
meanoI charges
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-13
Man Who Dodged
Police Is Arrested
On Murder Charge
Roomer Who Fears Sight of
Uniform Trapped Near
the Spot on Which Ed
ward Schmidt Was Slain

Gerardo Caponigri, who took a room
at AZ West Sixty-eighth Street three
weeks ago and since then has avoided
policemen SO sedulously as to arouse
the suspicious of his fellow dodgers,
was arrested early yesterday morning
as the murderer of Edward Schmidt.
who was shot in the back Novembe:
n, 1919, within a few doors of the
house where Caponigri now lives.
Inc arrest was due to the receipt of
an anonymous letter at the West Sixty
eighth Street police station which de-
scrlbed Caponigri and told of his war;
ness Of the police. 1t was said that
whenever a patrolman came into view
Caponigri lodged into a doorway or
behind stoop if he was in the street
or behind the curtain ii he was at his
window.
Detectives Maloney and Cronin spent
Thursday night in front of AZ West
Sixty eighth Street 1t was long after
midnight when their vigil was re-
warded by glimpse Of g slight figure
stealing up the steps Of the house.
Inc detectives sprang from their hid
ing place and arrested Caponisri.
According to the detectives, Caponigri
is short and dark and of an Italian
~oo' ~ SOuuoeidICc, as was the man
who shot Schmidt the night of Novem-
Der Fl, 1919, as he stood IN front of his
home, IA West Sixty eighth Street.
Schmidt was killed, the detectives said
by bullet of $50 calibre, discharged
from pistol of Spanish make.
.32-calibre pistol Of Spanish make
is said to have been found in a bureau
drawer in the room occupied by Ca
ponigri. He denied ownership of it
and repeatedly denied any knowledge
OF Schmidt's murder during lengthy
examination by the police and rep
resentatives Of the District Attorney.
: He refused to tell what he did for a
living. how he happened to select the
West Sixtyeighth Street house as a
place to live or, in fact, anything what
ever about himself. A charge of homi-
eide was entered against him at the
West Sixty eighth Street police station.
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greatest there is in America to-day
said Mr. Edison drinking whisky is
rotten habit, just as much so as
taking cocaine or opium. Everybody
ought to help against the sale of
whisky, and even drunkards, if they
could reason correctly, should be in
favor of the law"
With regard to legislation designed
to restore normal business conditions
Mr.. Edison said he did not believe the
Fordney tariff bill was likely to achieve
such result.
But I've plenty of business trou-
bles of my own to attend to-" added
the inventor. 81 don't want to be set
up as a prophet in the business world.
There are men more competent than
am to discuss these Subjects
Referring to the possibility of a set
Element Of the Irish situation, Mr.
Edison said the trouble with the Irish
was that they wanted to accomplish
too much in one gesture.
They ought to start in with sepa-
rate governments for the North and
South and get together through nego-
tiation by degrees" said he. "How-
ever, l am confident they are sensible
enough to work out their own problem
and settle the troubles that have so
long beset them in satisfactory way.
The North and South will get together
in the end"
Mr.. Edison was given a testimonial
by his associates, and following the
presentation a luncheon was served at
the Essex Country Club.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-13
''Framed,' % She
Says, Divorce
Asks $250,00O
Mrs. Beauley Charges Con-
spiracy by Val O'Farrell,
His Employees and Her
Husband to Get Evidence
Did Own Detective Work
Case Reopened Three Years
After Decree as Result
of Woman's Persistency

MRS Harriet W. Beauley, who re-
Gently succeeded in having the Supreme
court reopen the divorce case brought
against her by William Jean Beauiey.
an artist, on the ground of fraud, filed
"a $250,000 damage suit yeste rday
against her husband and Valerian j.
Vai) O'Farrell, head of a private de-
tectlve agency, and eight others, charg-
ing that they entered into a con-
splracy to manufacture evidence on
which Mr.. Beauley might sue for d.
vorce
The other defendants, one or more
OF them said to have been employed
by O'Farrell, are Charles P. Cooney,
Nathan Solomon, Harry B. Beck, Louis
Selles, Thomas Maxwell, Samuel Ma
loney and two who are sued under the
names OF John Doe and Richard Roe.
Sought Evidence Three Years
Mrs. Beauley conducts the Harriet
bteauley School of Expressive Arts in
Arrochar, Staten Island. For three
years following the granting Of a de-
cree OF divorce against her. Mrs Beau
ley sought for proof that the case was
frame up" She directed her search
particularly to learning the identity
OF the two men who appeared in the
proceedings that led to the suit as
Colonel Morton and Colonel Madison.
She says she learned that the two
colonies were Maloney and Maxwell,
private detectives
The story of Mrs. Beauley is that on
May q, 1918, Maloney, accompanied by
MaXwc!l-introducing themselves as
Colonel Morton and Colonel Madison
came to board at her home, Barrett
Manor, at Arrochar Three days later,
IT is charged, Maxwell induced Mrs.
Beauley to go with him to the Hotel
Manhattan, where he was to introduce
her to friends who would lend her
money to meet mortgage on her
home. While at the hotel, says the
plaintiff, Maxwell enticed her into
private room. Then, it is asserted
Beauley, Selles and three others of the
defendants were notified and, according
to a prearranged plan, discovered Mrs
Beauley and Maxwell in the room.
which incident formed the basis of the
divorce action.
Correspondent Not Identified
A man unknown to Beauley was
named as espondent. At the hear
ing before the referee, Mrs. Beaulev
charges her husband, SelIes, Cooney.
Beck and Solomon falsely swore that
they dld not know the correspondent,
peck and Cooney also swearing that
Maxwell was not the man.
IN proceeding against OFarrell be-
Tore the state Comptroller it is al
leged, the detective agency head testi-
fed that ne knew nothing about the
Hotel Manhattan incident.
Mrs. Beauley says that by reason CT
the conspiracy against her, she suf-
Tered great pccuniary loss, and also
great humiliation and damage to her
reputation by having the divorce de-
cree granted against her.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-13
Undertaken Is
Indicted for
Soldier Burial
Meyer Probe and Legion
Inquiry Result in Action
Against W. A. Skahill on
Charge of False Claim
10 Be Arraigned To-day
Accused of Failure to Use
Alright Coffin and to
Provide Separate Grave

AS a result Of testimony taken be-
fore the Meyer investigating commit
tee and an investigation made by Of
ficials of the American Legion Will
liam A. .Skahill, an undertaken. at 1858
West Fiftieth Street has been indicted
by the Federal grand jury on the
charge of having presented a false
claim to the government in connection
with the burial of Arthur Cliff, an ex-
service man, who was found drowned
at Staten Island last April.
Skahill, since November, 1920, under
an agreement with the United States
Public Health authorities, has buried
tetween seventyfve and one hun
according to Assistant United States
District Attorney Maxwell S. Mattuck,
will be arraigned to-day Tor pleading
before Judge William B. Sheppard in
the Federal District Court. The pun-
ishment, in case Of conviction on the
false claim charge, is a fine of not
more than $4,000 or five years i'm
prisonment, or both.
The charge on which the indictment
against Skahill is predcated is failure
to furnish a Theoretically sealed box
outside the coffin containing Cliffs
body Prosecutor Mattuck says the
government also will prove that the
undertaken violated the agreement by
failing to bury the soldiers body in q
separate grave in St. Michael's Gene
terry, Astoria, L. I.
In the Cliff case, Mr. Mattuck says,
Skahill collected 500 for the funeral,
while his bills for most of the other
burials amounted to 1872 for each in
terment. In all eases, Mr.. Mattuck
said, the undertaken agreed to furnish
separate graves, but instead of doing
so he sometimes buried two, and in
some instances three, ex-service men
in a single grave.
Prosecutor Mattuck explained that
the discovery Of the violation of the
agreement by Skahill was made by
Miss Minnie O'Byrne, a nurse at the
Sea View Hospital at New Dorp, S. I.
Cliff had been one of her patients
After the funeral Miss O'Byrne visited
the Astoria cemetery to see that the
grave was properly cared for. She was
about to erect headstone. when in
formed by the cemetery authorities
that it was not a separate grave and
that two other soldiers had been
buried there
An investigation followed, and when
the grave was reopened and examined
i; was ascertained, it is said that
although charged for no Theoretically
sealed box had been furnished or used
in the interment by Undertaken Skahill
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-13
Father, on $40-a- Week Wage,
Asks Court Aid for Rich Son
Thomas J. Mclaughlin Would Quit Furnished Room
and Give Boy, Heir to Large Estate, Training and
Education He Is Used To, With SO, 900 Income

Thomas J. Mclaughlin receives $40
week as an employee of the F. H.
Bennett Biscuit Company, but his son,
David Mclaughlin, student at
De la Sale Institute, is to have an
annual income of $4,000 if the report
Of Referee Joseph McCloskey, filed in
the Surrogates' Court yesterday, is
confirmed.
The income for the boy will come
from the estate of his maternal grand
father, David Nugent, a building con-
tractor, under whose will David in
herlted an apartment house in Central
Park West the value of which is S225,-
900 and which brings a rental of $27675
q year. David Mclaughlin also receives
the estate of his mother.
MS. Mclaughlin, who was estranged
from her husband, died on April 5
last at her residence at So West Sew
enty-second Street. While she was
living in luxury her husband was liv-
ing in a furnished room, for which he
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paid $50 month, paying $50 q month
for his board The son lived with his
mother and shared with her the life
of comfort and luxury. Mr.. McLaugh-
lin now is the guardian of his son, but
with his S40-a-week income is unable
to give his boy the training, education
and social environment which he says
his boy is used to and ought to have.
Therefore the father made application
to the Surrogates Court for the $4,000
from the boys estate, that father and
son might move into more desirable
quarters and that Mr.. Mclaughlin
might have sufficient funds to meet
the requirements of his son.
Some Of these items are tuition at
e DE la Sale Institute, $500; vacation,
money, $500; David's share of rent,
$500. housekeeper, 5000; books and
magazines, $3.50; clothes, 5000, and
music lessons, $780,
Referee McCloskey reported that
these requirements are not out Of
keeping with the boys former mode Of
living.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-13
Police Censurcd for Arrest Of
Greenwich VILLAGE Samaritan,

In acqutting DR.. Fred Van Vliet. of
IS West Twelfth Street, a jury in Judge
kosalsky's part of General Sessions
yesterday criticized methods .uscd in
getting what was presented AS evidence
Dr. van Nllct, sometimes called the
rathcr OF greenwich Vlllage,' was &c
ton.
James D. Murray, counsel for DR. Van
Vlict, said that his client had been
pr"cticlng in Greenwich VILLAGE fer
twenty-slx years and had cnrcd for
all sufferers whether they we're able
to pay or not.
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General Weather Conditions
WASHiNGToN. Aug. l2-Pressur. was
relatively lo~ to-day over the Canadian
maritime provinces. the plains states tn.
plateau and south Rocky Mountain re-
gions. and n high generally olx.
where. Showers have occurred within Tho
last twenty ~fo4r hours In the middle A.
Ianttc and north Atlantic states tho lo,ver
lake region. Tho Ohio Valley. Trnn.ssoc
Arkapeas and at scattered pointa In The
south Atlantic ind east CUR s'atss Okla
mona. kanhas. The DshotaS and th- Rocky
Mountain region.
Temperature changes wers nuxht. a. a
rule
Generally fair weather viii prevail in
the staies east OF tnr Mississippi River
Saturday. except that showers are probable
~ upper Michigan and scattered thunder
showers in The ~asr cDlf and south A.
Isntic states The weather VIII become
and local thunder Ehnnsrx ARE probable In
the iaks region. Tho Ohio Valley Tonnes
ees. the east Gulf states and Florida. sghIfe
generally fair weather WI continue Fun
dsf In the Atlantic states north Of Geor-
gis. Temperature changes VIA not DO
important.
District Foreeasts.~--E Eastern SER YORK.
Yair saturday; sunday generally FAR in
south and probably showers in north por.
tton; nor much change IN temperature
Eastern Fsnn1yi~anfn. New teraey and
a~@fe--Fair saturday ana sunday
Btiie change in Temperature
Eoufhesn @ew EaRisnd FAIR Saturday
ana b9ndar. Cooler on ~ast Nsssachuscsta
eoast BAfuf1Sy.
Western PennsylVsna an1 Western S~w
York~FAir saturday, sunday partIy
eioudy. Drobs biy Iocai thunder ehowere.
not much change in tenpsrature.