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The New York herald., 1921-01-27
SEEKS STOLEN GRAPES,
I FINDS THEY ARE WINE
New Prohibition Problem Is
Put Up to Judge.

Abraham zeering, fruit dealer at
1877 IIavemeyer street. Brooklyn, who
had thirty crates of grapes stolen from
him a few days ago. can blame the Vol
stead act for his inability 10 recover
bis stolen property. The boys who stole
the grapes confessed, and the grapes
were traced TO Jerry Ficgello. propiie-
tor Of candy storc at 452 Metropoli-
tan avenue, who bought them from the
boya. Fiegello likes y little wine on tic
table. and he used the grapes for that
purpose.
Tho matter was argued in the Chill
dron's Court yesterday. where Fegello
said he was perfectly willing to return
property which belonged TO somebody
else, but that in this case. not being a
druggist or wholesale liquor dealer,
he didn't see Just how he could do It.
And 30 Zeering can't have his grapes
back. and Fiegello can't keep his wine
because he has no right to the stolen
property. When the Judge solves tho
new problem n decision will be handed
down
The New York herald., 1921-01-27
r. X. STATION THEFTS
VALUED AT MILLIONS
Two Sentenced After Story of
Organized Robbery.

Roger =. Wood. formerly Assistant
United States Attorney. appeared yes
terday before Judge Otto A. Rosalsky
In General Sessions, urging heavy SEN
tences for two men guilty OF stealing
baggage from the Pennsylvania station
and woman under investigation after
pleading guilty to criminally receiving
such stolen goods. He said the thefts of
baggage from five city terminals IN the
last year amounted TO between $3.000,000
and S5,000.00 and have led 10 the five
railroads forming an association pro-
tective bureau, of which he is head.
From the Pennsylvania Station alone,
ha said. $4,000 worth Of baggage was
stolen from August 20 to the end of the
year, and organized gangs operate at all
the terminals. The scheme mainly used,
he outlined. was to have an outside
man" check small parcel for some
nearby point like Jamaica. The inside
man" would transfer the check of the
small parcel 10 some big box or trunk
apparently filled with merchandise. and
third man would obtain tho box or
trunk at Jamaica.
Judge Eosalsky sentenced the two men
to from three and q half TO eight years
IN prison. One Of them. Joseph Mad
henry, was formerly a porter IN tho
Pennsylvania station. John J. Wesley
OF 31o East Fifty-fourth street was the
other man sentenced. His sister Lucy IL
under investigation.
The New York herald., 1921-01-27
TWO OF FOUR WIVES
BROKERS' ACCUSERS
G.. r. Salisbury Blames Hootch
and the White Way for
His Downfall.
SAYS HE SPENT s5OO,OOo
Prisoner Will Be Taken to
Philadelphia for Trial on
Bigamy Charge.

Two Of the four wives who, it is said,
were acquired within the last year by
G. Roy Salisbury. broker and business
promoter Of 476 Clinton avenue, Brook
lyn, were in Jefferson Market Court
yesterday when Salisbury was arraigned
on charge OF being a fugitive from
justice. In addition to his matrimonial
adventures. the police charge that he
has passed worthless checks at Fort
Worth, Tex; Philadelphia and other
cities
Daniel Direnzo, Assistant District At
torney. asked for dismissal OF q check
passing charge, and requested the de-
fendant be held for the Philadelphia
authorities, who, he said. would press
charges of bigamy. Magistrate Nolan
committed Salisbury to jefferson Market
Lrlson.
Salisbury's tastes were varied. accord
ing to statements TO Mr.. Direnzo by two
women at the end or the court hearing.
The women were Rita Z:mnerrnann. 10.
former manicurist at the Hotel McAlpin,
and Helen Hoffman. 8 East 107th street.
a model. Miss Zimmerman said Sails
bury's latest wife is country girl"
whom he met at Hazlcton, Pa, In De-
cember last. Miss Zimmerman said she
was swept off her feet by Salisbury's ar
dent courtship In June. 1920, and mar
ried him In Philadelphia. She discovered
that In February he had married Miss
Hoffman and left him. and after that
said she refused to be surprised by news
OF Sallsbury's ventures.
From behind the bars in Jefferson
Market Jail. the broker. who Is of big
build, fully 6 feet tall, and well grooned,
told sad tale to reporters.
IT'S all due to the kind of 'hootch'
they sell" he said. II came here little
over year ago with approximately
$500 900, which : had made through
speculation in oil in the West.
Like many others. | started TO see
New York and to see 1t right. but. be-
lieve me- you can only see about three
blocks Of the Gay White Way on half
q million dollars had my little films,
and now I'm broke. My advice TO
strange young men in this city is to
look out for gold diggers."
Salisbury said he loved Catherine Cot
ter, 21, the girl he married at Hazleton.
Pa. and with whom he has been living
at the Clinton avenue address in Brook
lyn. Salisbury added that he supposed
the Hoffman and Zimmerman girls
had obtained annulments, and that he
had agreed to pay the Zimmerman girl
$50 week when they parted.
At the Clinton avenue house last night
it was said that Mrs. Salisbury was not
there.
The New York herald., 1921-01-27
FINAL PLEAS TO SAVE
MEXICANS FROM CHAIR
Attorneys for Embassy May
Turn to Supreme Court.

A final attempt by lawyers for the
condemned Mexicans, Augustln Sanchez
and Henrique Garcia. to save them from
the electric chair. in which they are
condemned to die tonight, will be made
to-day in the Federal courts. If the
United States District Court in Albany
decides against them. attorneys for the
Mexican Embassy in Washington, II was
said last night, Will ask the United
States Supreme Court to stay the ex-
cution.
i Word reached the prisoners last night
that Mrs. Grace Humiston, attorney for
Sanchez, planned to move in the State
courts for delay on the ground of newly
discovered evidence. The attorneys for
Sanchez were granted an order by JUS
tice Pierce in Buffalo requiring District
Attorney Laidlaw of Cattaraugus coun-
ty to turn over certain articles to be
used in the fight for new trial. These
articles are said to include letters which
are thought to have a bearing on the
question OF the prisoners premeditation
of the murder. Gov Miller has stated
that he viii not grant reprievcs to the
condemned men.
The New York herald., 1921-01-27
EQUITABLE CLUB RID
OF POLICE ESPIONAGE
Inspector BoIon Says Cops
HoUe Been Withdrawn.

The troubles Of tho Equitable Club
East Twelfth street with the police
men outside their doors have disap-
pcarcd Il developed yesterday In JEFF
fcrson Market Court. along with the
policemen. The club has been ralded
several times but none OF the members
or officers ever was convicted. Tho po-
lice generally confined themselves to
lodging charges OF disorderly conduct
against the members, but occasionally
limited that cards were being played.
The last visit OF the officers was just
before New years and "A New Years
eve party was forbidden. two cops wav-
ing away the guests.
Protests were made regularly In court
and filed with the Police Commissioner
but yesterday when Inspector Jonn
Bolan Of tho Second district. who was
summoned last week TO explain why a
ratrolman was kept on duty on the club
premises. was called In Jefferson Market
Court. Magistrate rockingham dis
missed the complaint The Inspector
said the policeman had been withdrawn.
The New York herald., 1921-01-27
WOMAN ARRESTED
IN WHISKEY PLOT
Former Clerk in State Prohi-
bitiOn Office Found in
Los Angeles.

Hugh McQuillan, chief Of the special
intelligence unit OF the Internal Rev
enue Bureau. received word yesterday
OF the arrest in Los Angeles OF Mrs.
Nolberg Castillo. the former clerk in
tho office of Charles r. O'Connor, State
prohibition director, who was wanted by
the Government agents in connection
with the alleged activities of the whis-
key ring which Is believed to have OPP
Grated through the directors office.
This is the last arrest in connection
with that particular group which the
Federal officials expect to make.
Mrs. Castillo was frequently present
at the tea parties in the Hotel Nc
Alpln attended by William f. Mccoy
Katharyn Foody, Regina Sassone and
Mrs. Mary f. Parkins. all formerly EN-
ployed In Director O'Connor's office and
all Of whom were arrested by Chief
McQullan's men. She Is wanted on a
charge of conspiracy to defraud the
United States by obtaining liquor per-
nits through fraud and bribery.
Mrs. Castillo was arrested on Wash
ngton warrant by agents under Chief
Trey OF the Internal Revenue Bureaus s
Intelligence force. but proceedings prob
ably will be brought against her here.
Scores OF saloonkeepers, bartenders
and walters accused of violating the
Volstead act appeared before Judge
Learned Hand in the United States Dis
trict Court yesterday. The bulk OF the
defendants pleaded not guilty. In hf-
teen cases pleas of guilty were entered.
and of these twelve men were sentenced
to serve fourteen days In jail, two to
serve a day each, and one to pay fine
OF SIS.
In Brooklyn, eleven men. four of thern
from Boston. who were convicted before
Judge Chatfield on a charge of transports
ing liquor, wore fined from $25 to $500.
Theirs was the case in which most OF
the liquor disappeared after its seizure
United States Attorney Ross said yes
terday he would write to Police Com
missioner Enright asking him to inves-
tigate the evaporation. The LIQUOR was
taken to a police station after Its seizure.
A six months sentence was given
Joseph Fenimore. proprietor of saloon
at Bergen street aid Classon avenue
Brooklyn. by Judge Chatfield. He also
was fined $50. The complainants against
him we're two women. Mrs. Eleanor
Herman of 1906 Lincoln place and Mrs.
Mary Conovan, who testified TO having
bought liquor In Fenimores saloon.
The New York herald., 1921-01-27
MRS. SAGE'S PUBLIC
GIFTS S4S,O93,9S7
Accounting of Estate Shows
Many Institutions Get
$828,710 Each.

An accounting of tho estate OF Mrs.
in the Surrogate's office by her executors.
Joseph J. Slocun and Robert w. De
Forest, shows that each of the insttu-
tions among which she divided the bulk
of her property will receive sS2S,710.
The total value of the estate at Mrs.
Sage's death in 1918 was s5s.629,213.
OF this amount s43,093,937 will have
been given to religion. charity and edu-
cation by the time the estate Is fully
divided.
With the filing of the accounting Sur
| rogate Cohalan issued a citation requir-
ing all legatees whose gifts under the
will have not been paid In full to show
cause why the accounts of the executors
should not be judicially settled. In
legacies paid since Mrs. Sage's death and
in advances made during her lifetime,
the residuary legatees have already re-
ceiyed SIS, ,260. Under the terms of
the will, S17,10s.677 still awaits distribu-
ton among them.
Mrs. Sage's will was filed in Novem-
Der. 1918, ard consisted of an original
testament with two codicils. Under the
various terms her brother. Joseph Jer-
main Slocum. received SS,000,000, and
her two nephews and one niece, Herbert
Jermain Slocum, Stephen L'Hommedieu
Slocur, and Margaret Olivia Flint, got
500. 900 apiece, Mrs. Flint's share to be
held in trust. Next vas a provision
naming thirteen friends and employees
and a series Of bequests of from $4,000
to $50, 900 to each of them, then thirty
one specific bequests to institutions of
amounts ranging from $4,000 to $780,
900, and finally the clause arranging for
the distribution of the residue and re-
mainder.
This arranged that the residuary
estate be divided into ffty-two portions
Of which the Sage Foundation, founded
by the testatrix in memory of her hus-
band. was TO receive seven. five other
charities two each and thirty-five in
stitutions of various kinds a share
apiece.
The executors set forth the total
value of the estate as s5S.659.2 .213, item
lied as follows: Real and personal
property $4S,9Se.045, increase in value
from sales and otherwise. S5,092. .494;
advances to residuary legatees during
decedent's lifetime. s4.627.672. Among
the principal assets were real property.
s2,5S4,249; bonds and mortgages. $10.-
S065,535: stocks and bonds, sS,752, 191;
railroad and corporation stocks. $l6.-
46O,3S3: Government State and mu-
nicipal bonds, S9.672.49e. The oxecu-
tors credit themselves with S2.516,2s3,
representing decrease in value OF va
rious assets
The expenses OF Mrs. Sage's funeral
are given as $4,000. which included S306
for flowers and the bills of undertakers
in this city and in Syracuse. wherc Mrs.
Sage was buried. The accounting was
filed by De Forest Bros. as attorneys
for the executors.
The New York herald., 1921-01-27
MULE FINDS QUIET PEACE
IN SLUMBER ON CAR TRACK
Dynamite" Sleeps Softly as Bells Clang, Awaking
Only to Bite Policemans Pants OF Engage in
Other Quaint Franks of Childhood.

tracks so the cars could pass, which they
did with much furious changing OF bells.
At 4:20 o'clock the mule had been
dragged six feet from his original posi-
ton, and Walsh decided to take him to
the police station. But Dynamite be-
came suddenly wide awake. When
Walsh turned TO order the crowd away
Dynamite reached forth with glistening
teeth and caught the seat OF the police
mans trousers. Then, encouraged by
the cheers of the populace. he began
pushing Walsh ahead of him as II he
were ejecting the policeman from dance
hall. He desisted only when q small
boy pulled his tail and another tried to
ride him. He kicked the tail puller,
threw the rider over his shoulder, then
happed his ears and went back to sleep.
Dynamite slept this time for thirty
minutes. Nothing could move him. He
woke up every time someone jumped on
his back. long enough to eject the In
truder, or to kick anyone that got with
in two feet OF him, but he didn't move
one inch. At last Patrolrnan Walsh,
tired and dirty from wrestling with the
mule, sent for rope, and the crowd
dragged Dynamite by main strength to
the police station in East Eighty-eighth
street. where Lieut.. Berries had the
problem of dlsposing of him. He was
finally sent TO Artman's stable at Ave-
nue. A and Ninety-first street and hoisted
into box stall, where he was left to
repent his sins. He promptly went to
sleep.
This was at 8 o'clock. An hour later
u man who said he was Mexican Pete
of III East Seventy-seventh street. en-
tered the station and said he understood
the police had his horse.
MY horse is q mule" said Mexican
Pete. Il have a circus where I-giye $50
TO anybody who will ride my horse"
Mexican Pete said that Dynamite had
escaped from his stable some time dur
ing the morning and that hc had been
searching for the animal all over Jersey
and Long Island City. He finally went
to Artmans to get Dynamite. but before
he went he bought a dozen jelly dough-
nuts. He walked into the mules stall,
where stableman had been trying for
a half hour to push Dynamite off a pile
of hay, and held out a doughnut The
mule Immediately followed him out Of
the barn and UP the street. and the
police scratched him off the blotter.
The New York herald., 1921-01-27
TWO FREIGHTERS SEND
CALLS FOR ASSISTANCE
One Is Cannonier and Other
Is Polar Bear.

The freighter Cannonier OF tho Lloyd
Royal Beige Line, which sailed from
Bordeaux for this port on November %
and was forced by heavy weather to
put into the AzoreE, whence she sailed
early In January, encountering moro bad
weather and going into Bermuda tor
coal. reported yesterday that she needed
assistance. Sho gave her position as
about 10 miles southeast OF Ambrose
Channel iightslip. IL was inferred from
her message that she was disabled and
that she wanted help TO reach this port.
The Cannonler sailed from Bermuda
recently. The wireless did not say what
had happened TO her. but Il Is believed
that she has been disabled In heavy
seas. Two OF the Furness- Bermuda Line
ships, the Fort Hamilton, which sailed
hence for Bermuda yesterday morning,
and the Fort Victoria, due here from
Bermuda this morning. we're near the
freighter's position yesterday. afternoon
to lend aid.
Tho freIghter Polar Bear, from Con-
stantinoplc and Gibraltar for New York.
also reported that she needed assist
ance. She gave her position as about
500 miles southeast Of sandy Hook
The New York herald., 1921-01-27
WORTH 100000, HIS
HOME AN OLD BARN
Queens Man, Held for Prop
erty Law Violation, Spurns
Bail: Jail Is Cheaper.

John Sangster. warrant officer. Of
Jamaica. went to Ozone Park, Queens,
yesterday to arrest William Mohrmann.
81 years old for failure to appear in
court after being summoned for alleged
violation OF q fire ordinance at his ga
rage in Ozone Park. Sangster knew that
Mohrmann. besides owning a garage,
owned three apartment houses in Queens
and was worth at least 100000. He
expected to find Mohrmann living in a
fine house with many servants.
For that reason II was some time be-
fore he could locate his man. Finally
re was directed to an old. dilapidated
tarn on the outskirts of the town, where
he was told Mohrmann could be found.
Sangster found the barn locked. but N
the boards of one side he found hc!e
which had been stuffed with burlap
He pulled this out, and hand came
through the crack from the inside and
grabbed the burlap. Sangster seized the
hand and pulled. He pulled out part
of the side of the barn and with the
boards came Mohrmann.
Mohrmann was taken to Jamaica be-
fore Magistrate Conway. There he ad-
mitted his wealth. but he said he had
been living in the old barn 70 defeat the
high cost of living. He paid s6 four
years ago for the suit OF clothing he
wore. and said rather proudly that he
had worn the same collar for six years.
His statement was not doubted by any
one In court.
He went out of the barn only on Sat
urdays to collect his rents and purchase
enough food for the next week. And
to get the food he walked six miles to
a grocery that sold bread for a cent a
loaf less than the ones In Ozone Park.
II am living according to my own
way" Mohrmann told the court, land
I do not care how much people laugn.
have no family to support. and
would rather live In n barn honestly
than In a palace and be in debt. en-
JOY II. and that Is more than most men
are doing nowadays. They are trying
TO do too much and live beyond tneir
means. am going to live long and
within my means and in contentment."
Magistrate Conway held Mohrmaun
for further examination tomorrow. and
the man was asked IL he would not send
for some one to ball him out.
Certainly not" he replied. ut Is 80
comfortable here in the jail and, be-
sides, the meals arc free
Perhaps you will spend some of your
money to buy necessary comforts?' a
policeman suggested.
''I could not do It," said Mohrmann.
'It hurts me much less to be uncom-
Portable than to spend money"
The New York herald., 1921-01-27
LOOK OUT FOR SNOW,
FORECASTER WARNS
1t May Be HeaDy Fall After
Southern Whirl.


The crest of the exceptionally high
pressure, as Chief Forecaster Scarr re-
marked. passed away from these frigid
boroughs yesterday. the temperature
rising to twenty-eight degrees, almost
70 the thawlng point. IA the afternoon.
after having dropped TO only ten de-
grees in tho early morning Also the
wind. no longer gale-suggestive, shifted
from northwest to north. achieving
maximum Of only twenty y-elght miles.
The low pressure that was expected
TO bring snow hereabout yesterday
morning was forced to the south. to-
ward the Gulf OF Mexico by the very
vigorous high pressure overspreading al:
the upper half of the continent, and Is
expected TO whirl UP the coast to-day
Mr.. Scarr felt fairly confident that the
low, otherwise known as a southern
born cyclone. would not be driven into
the Gulf BY the crisp and potent high,
but would take the normal course up
the coast.
The New York herald., 1921-01-27
DEPEW OPTIMISTIC
AT PILGRIMS FEAST
Sees No Danger Of Another
War Nor Need Of a Great
Navy.
BRITONS AT CELEBRATION
Sir Algernon Firth and Sir
Ernest Raeburn Both Strike
Friendly Notes.

Chauncey NJ. Depew, whose humor
never has deserted him In his ss year
pilgrimage. presided yesterday at the
annual luncheon OF the Pilgrims OF
America in the Bankers Club. Mr.. De-
pew appeared to be in the best Of health
and spirits. He decried the alarmists
who are talking of hard times and the
the plan to build the largest navy IN
the world for homo defence.
"Our now bellicose Secretary Of the
Navy" Senator Depew said. "can re-
tire without apprehension. No foreign
battleship will lombard Charlotte, N. c.
Twenty million people have starved
to death in Europe" he continued. "and
20,000,000 more are starving to-day
And yet they would have US spend mil
lions to create the biggest army and
navy In the world. Alarmists say there
is danger. They can only mean Japan,
and there is no danger from Japan.
There is none from England or France
or Germany. or from all Of them to-
gether.
From the time OF Christ to the
French Revolution is one era: from the
French Revolution to the last war is an
other. and from the armistice to to-day
is still another. The inspiration Of this
hour Is the peace Of the world, and the
leaders must be the English speaking
peoples.
Let's forget George III. ever lived
and remember that in England there is
a liberal Government responsible to tbs
people. The genius for reconstruction
belongs to the Anglo-Saxon race, and this
genius must be used"
Mr.. Depew snilingly referred to his
eighty odd years" II have always had
a fondness for antiques" he said.
Sir Algernon Firth, former president
of the Associated Chambers Of Commerce
of Great Britain, said he hoped to sec
the relations between England anI
America not friendly but "brothcrly."
The hope OF all Europe rests with Amer
lea and Great Britain. he said.
Europe is shaken by jealousies." con-
tinued Sir Algernon, land all we can do.
all France and Belgium and Italy can
do, will not suffice unless we have the
United States with us. / do not moan
your money. am talking about brains"
Sir Algernon suggested. to promote
Anglo-American friendship. that scholar
ships In American colleges be provided
for English boys. similar to the Rhodes
scholarships at Oxford and Cambridge
for Americans
Sir Ernest Raeturn, K b. E., repre-
scnting British shipping interests. said
the newspapers here that convey the I'm
preston British shipping is hostile arc
wrong. AS ship owner himself, he
said. he would much rather have Amcrl-
can competition than German.
Tho following directors of the Pill
grinns were elected for a three years'
term: Albert Z. Gallatin, John w.
Griggs, John G. Milburn, II. Fairfield
Osborn. Eugenius II. Outerbridge,
Charles H. Sheriff. and r. A. C. Smith.
About 220 members attended the
luncheon.