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New-York tribune., 1921-01-01
State Alleges Eternal
Triangle in Mott Case
Wade Said to Have Discussed
Murder With Wife of Vic
tim Just Before Crime
Special Dispatch to The Tribute


BRIDGEPORT, Conn, Dec. 31.-The
jury in the George E. Mott murder case
was completed to-day. Galens Carter
Of Stamford. assistant states attorney.
outlined the case for the state this
afternoon.
According to the prosecutors address
to the jury the state will endeavor to
prove that Elwood B. Wade, a twenty
three year-old milk peddler, planned to
murder Mott. who had forbidden his
wife to see Wade. The state will try
to show that on the Friday night pre-
ceding the murder Wade and a friend.
John +. Johnston, twenty year-old milk
peddler. lay in wait for Mott. who did
not come home.
The two milkmen returned. it is
charged, on the following Sunday morn
ing, August 29. while Mott was asleep.
1t is charged that Wade talked for half
an hour in whispers with Mrs. Mott be-
fore he started for Motifs bedroom, fol-
owed BY Johnston. Wade being armed
with an iron pipe and revolver and
Johnston with a hatchet.
Mott. it is claimed, was struck on the
head with the pipe, and was shot as
he ran down the stairs, after which he
was stabbed nineteen times by Wade
with a carving knife secured from the
pantry.
Johnston. it is said. fed at the be-
ginning of the fight, but helped bury
Motifs body, which was put in a trunk
ana sunk IN quagmire. Mrs. Mott and
Johnston, who are accused as acces-
sores, VIII appear, it is said, as wit
nesses against Wade. They will be
tried later separately.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-01
2 More Schools
Put to Torch
By Arson Ring
New S5OO,OOO Building at
Pittsburgh Is Saved by
Watchmen; Structure at
Uniontown Is DESTROYED
Firebugs Flee in Auto
Organized Gang of Foreign
ers of Radical Type Are
Blamed for the Losses
secc.a1 Dispotch to Tn, v,tb,,n,

~i'HN'"r D'St'e4tS'- ~ 4Nt 1'1OuHC
PITTSBURGH, Dec. 31.-The arson
ring that has destroyed several million
dollars worth of property through in
cendiary fires in Fayette County and
vicinity in recent weeks, tonight made
an abOrtive attempt in WILLIAMSBURG. a
suburb of this city, to burn the new
half million dollar high school build
ing. Watchmen discovered the blaze,
which had been started with rubbish,
before it had made much Roadway.
The damage amounted to less than
$500: The frebugs last Sunday set fire
to the 5000, 900 Johnson school build
ing in Williamsburg.
Another fire was set to-day by the
arson ring in the mountains southeast
Of uniontown. The Spring Hill school
building near Smithfeld was destroyed
with loss estimated at $4,000.
The firebugs evidently rsed heavy
iron bar to force an entrance to the
building in Spring Hill. Torn school
books apparently were used to start
the blaze, as several book covers we're
found around the building When the
fire was discovered it had enveloped
the little structure and attempts to
save it were futile
Farmers for miles around saw the
glare in the sky and hastened to the
scene to join in the search for the in
cendiaries, who are believed to have
escaped in an automobile kept at some
point distant from the schoolhousc
No fires had been lighted in the school
house since it was closed last week for
:he. Christmas holidays, and Principal
Smith said the blaze could not possibly
have been started except by incen-
diaries
County and state officials working
together now are bending every effort
toward running down the firebugs, and
at the same time preventing further
losses
Through one of the many investiga
tors it was brought out to-day that
tangible evidence in the hands of the
authorities indicated that the wanton
destruction Of schools, churches,
mines, homes and factories entailing
rectly traceable to an organized gang
OF foreigners Of the radical type.
Every effort, however, to procure evi
dence against the suspected leaders of
the gang has been futile because the
law-abidlng foreigners fear the ven
geance Of the firebugs and because the
peoples coming from central and south
ern Europe, who occupy the arson
zone, are not in sympathy w tn Ameri
cans or American ways and will vouch-
safe no information that is not forced
from them.
The ability of the firebugs, who it is
believed have been near capture sew.
eral times, to escape the hundreds of
police, troopers and guards in the fire
zone is attributed to the immune Bile
havens they find among the foreign
born.
The motive o. the arson, ring, ac-
cording to County Commissioner Hihhs
New-York tribune., 1921-01-01
Fewer Lynchings in 1920,
Tuskogee Record Shows
Total Was Only Sixty-one, as
Compared With Eighty-three
in the Previous Year

TUsKEGEE, Ala. Dec. 31.--I.ynch-
ings we're less numerous in 1920 than
in 1919, according to records compiled
at Tuskcgec Institute and made pub
lie to-day. sizty-one persons, includ
ing eight white men, were lynched this
year, as compared with eighty-three
last year and sixty-four in 1918, the
statement said.
In ffty-six instances In 1920 Of
fccrs Of the law prevented lynchin9s,
the reports showed. Ten of these in
stances were in Northern and forty
six in Southern states. Armed force
was used to repel wouldbe lynchcrs in
fourteen casen. and in four Of these
Ynobs we're rred upon, seven OF the
attackers having been killed and n
number wounded.
BY states lynchings occurred az fol-
lows: Texan. 10; Georgia, 8; Missis-
sippi, Alabama and Florida. each;
Minnesota, North Carolina, Oklahoma
and California, 8 each; Arkansas, Kan
sss, Illinois. Kentucky, Missouri, OHIO.
South Carolins. Virginia and West vir-
ginia, one each. r
New-York tribune., 1921-01-01
Two Are Slain by
Thugs i'm Cleveland
Pay Roll Hold-Up
Foundry President and SUI
perintendent Killed When
Auto Robbers Open Fire
and Flee With $4,000

CLEVELAND, Dec. 31.-Wilfred c.
Sly, president, and George K Tanner,
superintendent, of the W W. Sly Foun-
dry Company, were murdered this
morning by five pay roll bandits, who
escaped with $4,000 in cash after hold
ing up the two men at the company's
plant. Sly and Tanner died instant y
Fhe two company officials were re-
turning from bank in an autom obile
with the weekly pay roll. While cross
ing a bridge at the plant two auto
mobiles crowded the mach ne driven
by Sly, forcing him to crash into the
bridge railing to avoid a collision. The
bandits jumped out of their machines
and demanded the pay roll. Wien Sly
attempted to draw a revolver the
band is shot and killed him and Fan
ner and then escaped in one of their
cars. Police say both cars used by the
bandits were stolen.
The double murder marks the climax
Of series Of pay roll rObberies mere
that have continued from early sum-
mer.
Tanner was the son of George j.
Fanner, ice-president Of the company,
who was first reported to have been
killed. Both Sly and Tanner were
prominent among manufacturers.
Police believe the crowding of Sly's
machine was preim nary to the rob-
berry, h band is abandoning the car
used ! ne collision and escaping in
their second car
Sly's car was descending steep in
cline on the bridge when the bandit
car smashed nto it. S.y and Tanner
both though. the collision was acci-
dental, the result of careless drv ng
Both men crawled out Of the wreckagc
and approached the banoit car to get
its number. When the bandits demanded
the pay 70 |.
Sly then attempted to draw a re-
volver and was shot by one of the rob-
bers. The killing was deliberate. After
Sly fell the bandit fired two more but
lets into his body.
When Tanner started to run with
the satchel containing the money the
robbers opened fire on him and he fell
dead. The bandits then seized the
satchel.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-01
Fcotpads Don Horn-Rim
Specs and Windsor Ties
Greenwich Village Lovelocks
Complete Makeup of Pair
Who POunce ON Citizen

PatrOlman Jacob A. Licker, Of the
Fifth Street station, despite his name,
is n staid and decorous guardian of the
law, but he thought he was seeing
League early yesterday, when, in re-
ing from the direction of Second Ave
nue. and Fifth Street, he beheld two
young men with horn~rimmed spec
taclcs, flowing bow ties and haircuts a
la Greenwich Village, each showing a
gun into the ribs of third young
man, who was doing the hollcring
"Must be couple of them cuhist
poets" said Patrclman Licker to him
self, but just then the victim let out a
particularly blood -curdling yell and
dashed up the street. The patrolman
of the esthctic- looking bandits down
with blow from his club, pinioned the
other to a wall, blew his whistle and
held his captives until assistance ar
rived
At the police station the prisoners
said they were Frederick Sachsse and
Ernest Bauman, each twenty-five years
old, and both of 81 West Thirty sixth
Street. The police believe the address
is fictitious. They were booked for
violation Of the Sullivan law, the in
tended victim OF the alleged holdup
having disappeared.
According to the police, Sachsse and
Rauman confessed to having held up a
delicatcssen store keeper at 160th
Street and Melrosc Avenue for 500. the
manager Of cigar store on Third Ave-
nue., near Thirty second Street, for ST.,
and to having robbed hardware store
in Union Hill. n. j., the night Of De-
cember 13, when they obtained their
revolvers. Bauman also is alleged to
have admitted that he is the bandit
who walked into delicatesscn store in
1921 Street, near Third Avenue, not
long ago, displayed a gun and forced
the proprietor to hand over the con-
tents OF his till. walking out and cscap-
ing in the presence OF two customers.
Neither prisoner offered any explana-
ton Of the Washington Square make
New-York tribune., 1921-01-01
Clerk Is Shot
During Quarrel
Over Whisky
Saloon Mans Son, Think
ing Father Was Being
Held Up, Fires Four Bull
let's Into Victims Body
Had Demanded Liquor
Serving of Soft Drink Ssid
to Have Caused Threats
Against the Bartender

Jacob Horodner. twenty four years.
a clerk, o. 1S6 Rivington Street, was
shot four times last night during 3
quarrel in the saloon of Charles WAL
ZACH, at 127 Sussex Street. Louis Wal
!ach. twenty-one years old, a son Of
the proprietor, and who admits firing
the shots, according to the police, is
under arrest, awaiting the outcome OF
Horcdners injuries. Gouveneur Hos
pital attendants say Horodner cannot
live.
Young wallach. according to the po-
lice. says he came downstairs a Ter
with bottle appraised as If abou.
strike his father. The sen, so the ~
lice say. thought hold-up was bel. g
perpetrated. and reaching behind th%
oar, gripped a 3S-caliber revolver, for
which he has a permit. and fired four
shots at Horodner, two taking effect
in the back and two in the .romach.
Young Walach claims that two men
who were with Horodner ran out of
the place. and that he shot at them
and believes he hit one
Patrolman Louis Gies. of the Fifth
Street station. arrested Louis Wal
assault. There were twenty men or
more in the saloon, and accounts given
by eye witnesses differed materially
David Rosenthal, Of 4l6 East Thir-
tscrth Street, says Horodner entered
the saloon with only one companion,
and .ha. they asked for a drink Th-
cider Wallach, Rosenthal says. replied
that he cid not serve whisky, but gave
them soft drink. whercupon Horodner
seized a seltzer bottle and raised it as
If about to strike
The elder Wsllach likewise claims
that the men asked for a drink. and
when he refused to give them whisky
threatened him with rcvolvers and with
bottle.
Horodner, the police say, is out on
SIC. 600 bail as a material witness in
the shooting of Joseph Cohen, IA Coney
Island furrier, in August, 1919. Charles
Wallach, it is said, is out on $4,000
bail as material witness in the same
CISe
New-York tribune., 1921-01-01
kobber Slain in Bank
After Stealing $4,000
Shoots Policeman, Then Thief
Barricades Himself i'm Store.
room. Where He Il Killed

NASHVILLE. Tenn, Dec. 31.-Hobart
austin, dcpositor Of the Peop!e's
BANK at Springfield, Tenn, was shot
snd killed this morning by policemen
nter he had walked into the banks
sault and helped himself to $4,000 in
:, ihe man had asked teller for
ensnge for $40 note, and when that
shcial started for the vault TO get some
money, Austin followed him. He held
he teller up with a revolver. took the
.onds and then backed his way out of
'Hs rear door, pursued by bank officials.
n policeman who undertook to arrest
nus'in was shot in the leg. Austin
made his way under Are 70 a storeroom
asaroy and barricaded himself He
.as kiiied there. The bonds we're re-
New-York tribune., 1921-01-01

any reasonable suggestion in the way
of aiding the police to suppress crime
and prompt y had the netting installed,
across the doorway as we'll as over
the windows.
Then during Christmas week the
shopkeeper read in the newspaners
Commlssioner Enright's explanation
that all this crime wave thing was the
result OF bandits wanting to pet nice
presents for their girls. He didn't sup
pose the girls were given to smoking
possibility, he thought, some bandit
might want to make a gift to his uncle
or grandfather, and he removed the
pest OF his wares to an interior show
case for the holiday season.
The patrolman on the post says that
at $40 o'clock yesterday morning, the
last time he passed the shop, every
thing was all right.
Showcase Cleaned Out
When a clerk arrived at 9 a. m. he
round the showcase entirely cleaned
out. Twenty-Five dollars in the cash
register had not been touched The
thieves had apparently worked les-
urely in the brilliantly illuminated d
store
A jagged hole in the window on the
Church Street side of the store. barely
large enough for slimly built man
or youth to Chamber through, revealed
the means of entrance The hole was
above the ton Of the iron netting, which
extends more than seven feet from tn
sidewalk. Nearly 100 pipes were stolen,
and $4,000 was conservative estimate
of their value, Mr.. Pesetzkv said
Thousands Of persons, bound to and
fr' M .ubes and ferries, pass Barclay
and Church Streets between 6:2O and
8 a. m. The Sixth Avenue al" runs
on Church Street.
Detectives who yesterday inspected
the scene Of the four robberies were
mitch mystifed SO was Pesetzky.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-01
-Four Visits to Store in -Four
Months Net Thieues 81. 700
bright Lights Iron MEETINGS, Crowds and Police
Adv.ce tail to Keep Meerschaum Pipes Intact
Durlng Shopping Tours of Persistent Bandits

When burglars broke into the Bar
clay Pipe Shop, Al Barclay Street, YES
'ercay and stole meerschaums value j
at $4,000 they brought their score to
Tour robberies in four months, netting
S4,7OO loot, at this single estab
lishment
The police score is: arrests. none :;
stolen property recovered, none.
About four months ago Herman G.
Pesetzky, proprietor of the shop, had
display of valuable pipes in the win
dow, the center piece Of which was a
large, carved meerschaum worth $3.50
"A clerk, opening the place in the morn
ing, found the plate glass had been
broken and the window stripped. The
value OF the pipes taken on that OF
casion was $1,000.
Detectives came, SAYS Pesetzky
looked around and admonished hin,
not to leave such valuable merchan-
disc where it would excite the cupidity
OF thieves. He heard nothing more
from them until the next robbery.
Repeat Their Visits
About three weeks later the window
vas again broken and $1,000 worth of
wares stolen. The sleuths paid an
other visit to the shop, made list of
the loot, and advised Pesetzky to keep
bright light burning inside the store
so that the premises would be illumi-
mated all night. He did that.
Two months ago the window wee
ing away with $500 worth of pipes.
The detectives shook their heads sagely
this time. The thing to do was to
put iron netting over the windows
Pesetzky was willing to comply with
New-York tribune., 1921-01-01
KeSOived-that ON
and after January
First

~ New Years resolutions were
q easily kept as perishabie
1oods. 1t would only be a ques-
uon OF a regular supply of
Anickerbocker Ice. Years ago.
nnen all New York kept Open
mouse. Knickerbocker clinked
~ punch bowl and glass as last
ing friendships were plcdgcc
ana resolutions made.
~ BEAUTIFUL did eu,ton of OPEN Hou,.
~ ta.sd: bm frendshits made B,
AAsi<ksvbseker Sevv,te haze la,fsd
sM fh<n 10 Knnkerboekeys Nsxo Yea,
sssp'afson tn ke<p oid f,isnd, and I.
waSs n<s~ sn<s by gsoing the besf se,v-
- hsad. hrAyf ana hand can devi,.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-01
$4,000 Paintings Stolen
Thieves Break Into Studio of
William Dodre

Paintings valued at $4,000 W ~
stolen some time Thursday night or
early Friday morning from the stud: .,
Of William De L. Dodge, the mural ar
tist. at 81 West Tenth Street.
Mr.. Dodre, who had passed the nigh :.
on Long Island, notified the police ~
the theft after his arrival at ms .tud.,
y morning.
The robbers forced rear windo.r
and ripped from the frames all of Il
neSe.
destined for the lobby Of New Ycv.c
hotel, had been completed only a few
da.;s The police refused to say al
thllg about the crime yesterday.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-01
% Policemen Transferred
From Office Work to Beatt

Twenty-Five policemen who had been
assigned to Police Headquarters as
clerica men or messengers were trans
ferred last night to various police sta
ons to do patrol duty. The transfers
have not appeared on any general or
der, and were said to have been made
by telephone.
Chief Inspector Lahey remained in
his office until 8 o'clock, and it was
after his departure that the transfers
became known.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-01

is beyond comprehension. He said To-
day: I'VE have nothing to 60 By.
Why the drebuss are destroying prop
erty. We don't know. That 10 the gospel
truth"
New-York tribune., 1921-01-01

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The Washington herald., 1921-10-09

This Boshevsm be the realization of the age
long dream Of true liberty Of action Indivdualism
to be the watchword Of the power" that overthrew
Kerensky. But here's army Of citizens impressed
service and performing all the military evoutions
strictly correct form crack regiment Of the hated
capitalistc nations Dictator Trotsky receiving the
salutes I,,.n..u..
The Washington herald., 1921-10-09
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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-01-16
Ey yiILDRED NORRIS.
InternssinHhi Jews Service.

ARDMORE, OKLA, Jan. 16.-Poets
and lawyers wGJ talk OF "womans
inhumanity to woman" will fnd no
champion in Clara Smith Hamon, who
faces trial on a charge of murder.
The leading figure in the famous
drama which ended in the death OF
Jake Hamon, oil millionaire and po-
litical power, and the lodging OF a
murder charge against the woman
who loved him. refused today to COM
ment on a statement ascribed TO At
torney General Freezing that 1T
would not do" to appoint his woman
assistant special prosecutor in her
case, intImating women are too ruth
less in their attitude toward other
women, but said with tears in her
eyes:
WOMEN GOOD TO HER.
The women have been mighty good
to me. I have received hundreds or
letters from all over the country from
women Offering their sympathy and
aid. II has not been true in my case,
and I want to thank the women with
all my heart
A man writing from Washington,
ID. c.. has offered to "pay the penalty"
for the accused woman IL she In con-
yicted.
~ suffer from the wanderlWst." he
wrote, "nnd life means nothing to
me-"
There is speculation here today on
whether the Hamon interests Will
play an unexpected part in the case OF
the accused woman. The conference
held in Oklahoma City by Frank
Ketch, administrator of Jake Hamon's
estate, and Erect Dunlap, a friend OF
the late oil king, with Attorney Gen
eral freezing, which was followed by
the attfney generals announcement
that he would take charge of the case
under instruction from the governor,
has led to two conclusions here.
One is that the Hamon widow and
the Hamon interests are preparing to
participate actively in the trial of the
accused woman and will wage bitter
fght on her. The other is that those
representing the interests OF the
dead oil king have reason to be as
anxious to free the girl as the lstter's
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-01-16
LANNON'S TRIAL
IS FIXED FOR MARCH

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla, Jan. 10
The trial Of Clara Smith Hamon for
the alleged murder OF Jake l.. Hamon.
Oklahoma oil king and politician. will
be held some time in March, accord
ing to a statement issued here by Dis
trict Judge Thomas W. Champion.
The Judge declared the trial would
be conducted in the Ardmore court
house and no special provision would
be made for newspaper men or spec
tators.
Judge Champion conferred with
Attorney General s. T. Freezing yes-
terday. They discussed the appoint
ment of q special prosecutor to rep
resent Carter county at the trial.
Neither would state their decision.
The jurist took occasion to denV
that public sentiment fayors Clara
Smith Hamon."
THE overwhelming sentiment fav-
oring Clara, which you have heard so
much about, Is all bosh," he said.
There will be no trouble picking an
unprejudiced jury"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-01-16
IMAM O'WAR"
DIES IN ACTION
Famous District Fire Depart
ment Horse Killed Respond
ing to Alarm.
TRUCK COLLIDES WITH CAR
Sergt. R. J. Holmes Injured in
CraSh-Oriver A. A. King
Has Narrow Escape.
TRUCK COLlIDES WITH CAF

Crepe drapes the doors of No. 4
engine house, -Four and Half
street and Virginia avenue south
while responding to an alarm of fire.
horse in the District" pet of the
entire department, and the only
horse ever elected to membership in
the American Red Cross, is dead.
He died "in action" He was killed
by a street car, early this morning,
while respondin to an alarm of fire.
In the same smash-up, Sergt. r. j.
Holmes, in charge of the hose truck
Man O. War was helping to pull,
was hurled to the street, with a
broken leg, badly cut head and pos
sible internal injuries.
CREW HURLED TO sTREET.
The truck had both poles broken
and was otherwise damaged, and
several members of the crew were
hurled to the street.
But the other two horses, wise
with the knowledge that all fire
horses seem to possess, stood stock
still following the crash.
By so doing, they probably saved
q human life, for Driver A. A. King
had been hurled from his seat to the
street, Into the narrow space be-
tween the two animals. The latter
had Just been rough shod. and had
they become excited. King undoubt-
cdly would sh<ye been trampled to
death. AsIit was, he escaped with
q few bruises.
The fire which called out the
truck was in a frame shack at Third
and G streets southwest, extin-
guished before any firemen arrived.
According to the men Of No. 4. the
whole building wasn't worth one of
Man o. Wars shoes"
And those grim fire fighters. dar-
ing personal death without a
thought, cried, unasbamed. when
Man o. War died. To them he was
more than a horse. He was a pet
u friend-a pal.
GAVE AGONIZING SCREAM.
His death, too. was almost like
that of human. Struck squarely
in the side by a street car as the
truck turned to pass under the
viaduct at Four -anda Half street
and Virginia avenue. the big sortel
staggered in vain effort to keep
his feet. and finally fell. Mortally
stricken, there still persisted in his
animal brain the thought of duty.
and painfully he tried to regain his
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