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The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-05-07
MAGISTRATE FREES
DYING WAR VETERAN
Holds Court in Prison Ward
of Bellevue.

Magistrate Raphael Tobias went to
Bellevue Hospital last night and held a
special session Of his court in the prison
ward to try Willard Meyers of 200
Greenwich street. who served In the
American army overseas with a Penn
sylvvania infantry regiment, because
meyers is critically Ill with tuberculosis
and is expected to live only few days.
The former soldier was charged with
violating the Sullivan law. because a
detective found a revolver In his hand
bag when he was admitted recently to
the hospital. He knows that he Is not
going to live long and he told Red Cross
visitors that he was afraid he would
die with the charge hanging over him
The Magistrate was notified yesterday
afternoon, and at once arranged to hold
the court session. He discharged Meyers
and then the soldier was removed from
the prison ward and taken back to the
tuberculosis ward, where he will die
with his record clean.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-05-07
HYf.AN KEEPS CURRAN OUT
OF POLICE PARADE STAND
Borough President Says He VIII Sit Fire Hydrant
and Watch the Mayor Pass in His
High Hat.

and Cinderella and poor Ben Gum and
the toad and the Jeilyfish. We can do
that and talk of many things-of cab
bages and kings-as his Honor goes by.
II am sorry TO be the black sheep
ir the Board OF Estimate. for his Honor
has invited oil the members but me 10
join him on the 5000 grandstand. But
! have never missed police parade
and I shall not miss this one SO you
and I will try the hydrant."
More than six thousand policemen Will
participate In the parade and the chiefs
of 225 departments Of towns in the met
ropolitan district, who have been at
tending the National Police Conference
here since last Tuesday, will be in the
line of marchers.
The parade will leave the Battery al
II 80 o'clock. 1t will pass up Broadway
to Twelfth street, then west to Seventh
avenue, north in Seventh avenue TO For
t,eth street east to Fifth avenue and
south to Twenty-second street. where
the marchers will disband Mayor Hy-
Ian, the visiting police officials and
other State and city officials will re-
view the parade from stand opposite
the Worth monument at Fifth avenue
and Twenty-fourth street.
There will be two innovations In con-
nection with the parade. One will be
the decorating OF the widows and rela-
tives of men who died in the perform
ance of duty and the second will be the
Police Glee Club singing along the line
of march.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-05-07
$126,OOO STOLEN
BONDS SET AFlRE
Youth COnfesses Burning
DuVal & Co. Loot in Park,
Say Police.
FAILED TO SELL THEN
Suspect Asserts He Received
Valuables From Two That
Committed Theft.
FAILED TO SELL THEM
COPS CAN FIND NO TRACE
Poke Around in Van COrtlandt
Underbrush at Lads Direc-
ton, but See No Ashes.

Bonds and high class securities val
ued at more than s125,000--the loot OF
messengers theft on April 20 from
III. C. Du Val & Co., Stock Exchange
firm of "a Broadway-were burned In
Van Cortlandt Park woods because 1t
was found impossible to get rid Of
them, according to a confession alleged
to have been obtained last night by
Detectives Fleming and Kalbfieisch.
The confession was said to have
been made by Jack Silver q years old,
-,ho IVES arrested ct the Hudson Ter
minal Building when he arrived from
East Orange, N j.. where he had been
staying in boarding house. He gave
his address as AIT Pennsylvania ave-
nue., Brooklyn.
Silver broke down under the ques-
tioning of the detectives 1t was said,
and admitted that he received the bonds
a short time after the robbery. The
actual theft, he said. was the work Of
two other young men. according to the
terms Of a plot Matched two days be-
fore It's execution.
"They were fast workers" Silver was
said to have told the detectives.
The bonds were to have been delivered
to Kuhn, Loeb & Co., but never arrived
there The theft became known when
the Du Val company reported to the
Stock Exchange the numbers and de-
scriptions of the bonds and securities
missing.
Detectives who had Silver under sur
| vosy 1ar Sn,- f>,,v a,.a oatd hnx
found him In the company of young
woman of East Orange daily. The girl
works in West Forty-second street. and
Silver regularly met her and accom-
panied her home at the end of the day.
How far this young woman figures In
the possible motive underlying the theft
the detectives were not prepared to
state. They were reticent as to the
manner In which they came to connect
Silver with the robbery.
On his reported statement that he had
burned the bonds in Van Cortlandt Park
Silver was taken to the park yesterday
He conducted the detectives on a long
walk through the woods. and the de-
tectives poked around in the underbrush
but they said they could find no burned
bits OF paper, and no heap of ashes &c
Indicate that the bulky securities had
! been consumed.
! Earlier in the day the detectives had
! searched Silver's room in a boarding
house in William street. East Orange
\ but got no trace of the bonds. Silver
in the alleged confession. told the de
tectives that after he received the Sc
curiSies he made several attempts tr
get rid Of them, but discovered that the
task was altogether too hazardous. He
packed the whole lot In a bag and took
subway train to the park and burned
them. he said.
The detectives, after lodging Silver
at Police Headquarters, began search
last night for the two young men ac-
cused of the theft
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-05-07
T'W0ARE KILLED
! IN ELEVATOR FALL
Lift Falls Six Floors in Broad
way Store Under Weight
of Load.

Two men were killed and one injured
whicfn..hey were unloading at No. 64s
Broad way broke under the weight of
the load and fell six stories 10 the
bottom of It's shaft.
The building where the accident oc-
Cured IS occupied by wholesale dry
goods firms and one of them, Wilson &
Heffler, on the sixth floor. received
yesterday two heavy bales of buckram,
the bales being brought up on the ele-
vator by Arthur Smith. a driver en-
ployed. by the, United States Trucking
Corpora ton. When the elevator car
was brought to halt at the sixth
floor, Reuben Morse and Meyer Getzel
employees OF Wilson s. Heffler. started
TO assist Smith Iii the work of moving
the bales out OF the car.
The three men put their strength 70
one of the bales with the notion of
getting il out On the floor by turning 1t
over and over ard as they let 1t drop
on its side the impact Of it ripped the
floor boaT1s cut OF the car. Then the
whole car. ouclled IN and with the three
men and tho bales fast in IL shot to
the foot Of the elevator shaft
Smith was killed instantly and Morse
received injuries that caused his death
n few hours later in Bellevue Hospital
Getzel suffered fracture of the skull
and internal injuries. Physicians at
Bellevue said he might die. Harold
jackson, operator Of the lift. was ar
rested
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-05-07

That Mayor Hylan In issuing invita-
lions to this years police parade has
snubbed Henry II. Curran, President
Of The Borough OF Mammal 1an and par
ticuiar butt OF many OF the Mayors
shafts OF wiz In Board OF Estimate
meetings. was revealed yesterday by
letter made public by Mr.. Curran.
The letter was in reply 70 request
from William n. Tomlinson OF 3S Eighth
avenue, friend of the borough presi-
Gent. for a ticket to the grandstand.
Mr.. Cniran replied that something has
happened" and he had been ignored
in the. distribution OF tickets to the
BranoSrand. His letter continues:
is it because l once said that he
mayer Hylan) made me think Of a
GargUyle? Or. what Is It? How Bit
terly regret those words, for now I
am in outer darkness, along with you
and all the rest.
IF you viii meet me in Fourteenth
street. however, there is large hydrant
there ion which we can both sit and
wasch his Honor march by with the
special. deputies and the real police
men. If we applaud am sure he will
take off his high hat and bow TO us
unless he sees who we are!
after all. with a little training and
philosophy. a high pressure hydrant
VIII. do as well as a 5000 grandstand,
and if Pollyanna were there she would
tell us TO think of Robinson Crusoe
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-05-07
EXPLOSION AND FIRE
CAUSE LOSS OF $4,000
Three Overcome at Blaze at
So West 18th Street.

Two explosions at 80 West Fifteenth
street, opposite st. Francis Xavier
Grammar School, were followed last
night by heavy smoke clouds coming
from the second story OF the loft build
ing, which Is occupied by dressmaking
concerns. Il was believed the explosions
came from bursting heating equipment.
IN fighting the fire. three members or
Engine 72-Rudolph Havilna. Paul
Bible and LLOYD Kane--were overcome
and wore taken 70 New York Hospital
ut West Sixteenth street. Arthur
Geary OF Truck is suffered from the
effects OF smoke. hut returned TO duty
Tho damage. estimated at $4,000, was
principally 70 stocks in tho second floor
loft occupied by Livingston & Spiegel
md third floor loft of the Ruth Manu-
featuring Company. both dress concerns.
Windows OF New York Hospital. a block
away in west SIXTEENTH street were
closed to keep out the smoke.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-05-07
SMASHES CHANDELIER
AND BLEEDS TO DEATH
Electrical Engineer Found
Dead After Outbmsf.

William Decker. en- electrical enginee,
Of ESQ West Eighty-second street, came
home yesterday afternoon and, accord.
ing to his former wife. Mrs Katherine
Miller. in whose apartment he has beer
living, he began TO quarrel with her
She told the police. however that she
paid no attention to him. and finally
he went to his own room.
He passed through the hallway. Mrs.
Miller said, and as he walked by tho
chandelier there no reached M and strucl
II with his fist. smashing the glass. Hc
then went into his own room, and lay
down on the bed. When he had not m.
peared at 1880 o'clock last night Mrs
Miller looked into his room.
Mrs. Miller told the police that she
saw that the floor and the bed wcf,
covered with blood. SO she summonot
Or. Jesse Herman Of 81 West End ave.
nue. The physician said that Decke,
was dead. and that he had blcd to death
from cut on his right hand. presum.
ably received when he struck the chan
deller and which had severad an al
terry.
Mrs Miller told the police that sht
and Decker had been divorced abog,
year ago. but that he rented a rooa
from her,
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-05-07
JURYMAN DISPLAYS
REVOLVER AT TRIAL
Tells Court That He Took
Weapon Out for Purpose Of
Blowing Dust Off of It.

The jury which had been hearing the
trial of Carman Plant, former county
detective Of Nassau county, charged
with criminally receiving a stolen auto
mobile. reported to Justice James c.
Cropsey in the Supreme Court at Nine
ola yesterday afternoon ut 4:20 o'clock
that 1t was unable to agree. and was dis
charged. Justice Cropsey, declaring that
there has been a gross miscarriage OF
justice" granted the motion Of District
16 as the date for the next trial Of
Plant.
According to the authorities the jury
had stood eleven to one against Plant
night. with William ]. Driscoll juror
No. 5. holding out for acquittal A SEN
sation developed yesterday morning.
after the jury had returned for further
instruction. when Justice Cropsey dis
covered that Driscoll had been carrying
and exhibiting a revolver In the jury
room. The Court compelled Driscoll TO
surrender the weapon, although the Juror
declared that he was a member OF the
Long island Railroad police and had q
permit and badge issued to him by the
State Constabulary.
1t also developed during the day that
Driscoll had been discharged from the
New York Police Department for mis-
conduct on June 3, 1891. and that three
years later he was indicted for grand
larceny in the second degree. This case
was dropped because of failure to prose
cute.
Mr. Weeks told Justice Cropsey that
he had started an Investigation into
Driscoll's career and manner of getting
on the jury. and that he would report
on Monday morning, when Justice Crop
sey has ordered the man to bring his
revolver permit TO court In addressing
the jury after the disagreement had been
reported Justice Cropsey said:
Il don't suppose that any OF you ex-
cept one knows that one of the jurymen
has been under criminal charges hereto
fore. That may or may not have some
thing to do with this result. I am sorry
that this has happened If knew what
I know now ~ jury would have been
differently constituted"
Driscoll admitted to the court that he
Ind displayed the revolver in the jury
room. but said that he did so only to
blow the dust off II. Justice Cropscy
said that II he had the power to do so
he would see to It that his permit was
revoked
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-05-07
BANTON TO PRESS
LIQUORLAW CASES
Acting District Attorney
Will Ask for Extra. Judges
for Summer Session.
ASSIGNS TWO DEPUTIES
Injunction Proceedings. and
Lien Actions Will Be Killed
Next Week.
1900 SUITS ARE PENDING
Three More Arrests Follow
Brooklyn Raid on Con-
spiracy Charge.
ASSIGNS TWO DEPUTIES
1900 SUITS ARE PENDING

Emergency arrangements to deal
with the clogged condition of the New
York county courts arising from police
enforcement of the State liquor law
were announced yesterday BY Joab Il.
Banton, Acting District Attorney, to
be made in addition to the converting
of an extraordinary term of the SUI
preme Court favored by Gov. MillerI
Mr.. Banton said that two extra Judges
will be invited to sit through the sum
mer in General Sessions If the presid-
Ing Justice of the Appellate Division
is agreeable to that arrangement.
Two more Deputy Assistant District
Attorneys, Mr.. Banton announced, Will
be assigned to assist Albert 3. Unger,
Assistant District Attorney, in the
preparation OF liquor cases. Next week
the District Attorneys office will take
ceedings and lien actions in some Of
the liquor cases in which the police
have obtained sufficient evidence to
enable that part OF the law to be
brought into play.
Mr.. Banton said he was confident that
IL the Governor approves the formal re-
quest the District Attorneys Office has
been asked to make for an extraordinary
term OF the Supreme Court, it will be
possible. with the aid of these other
arrangements, to straighten out the stu
/.on in the courts SO that the calendars
will be nut back on something like
normal basis.
There are still more than 1900 liquor
cases awaiting the attention of the Dis
trict Attorneys Office, which has pre-
sented $50 to the Grand Jury.
Three more arrests were made yes
terday by Hugh McQuillan's men in
connection with the Brooklyn raid in
which the revenue agents seized $4,000
worth of whisleey in the cellar OF a
house at Seventh avenue and Eighty
second street, and reported the Offering
Of a $4,000 bride Ito forget about It"
by Charles Berlin, an attorney at "a
Court street.
Thursday Berlin was held in $4,000
bail by United States Commissioners
Rasquin. Yesterday the agents arrested
Edward Donegan. g contractor, who was
at liberty on s25, 1000 bail. charged with
being the ringleader in the theft Of
records from the office OF Prohibition
Director O'Connor. Donegan owns the
house in which the whiskey was cached
The agents also arrested Alexander
Simchow OF os3 Hopkinson avenue and
Samuel Tushbaum OF 1905 Eastern Park
way, proprietors Of the Estes Laboratory
at los Albany avenue, where the liquor
was supposedly to be taken after 1t was
purchased from the Essential Chemical
Company by n permit which the agents
ailege wss obtained from the Prohibition
Directors Offices by the defendants
Donegan was charged With conspiracy
and bribery. The agents assert that
Berlin acted as his attorney. The other
two men are charged with conspiracy
10 violate the Volstcad act All were
held IN $500 bail by Commissioner
Rasquin for examination May II. They
pleaded not guilty.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-05-07
TRIAL NEAR nv LETTER
SUIT rs YEARS OLD
Order Separates Issues in
Hoadiey Actions.

Actions BY Joseph II. and Alfred II.
1oadiey 70 recover approximately
10000 from. Joseph Letter. Chicago
flnancler arid one-time world figure In
the wheat market. which have been
pending In the courts Tor more than
eighteen years. came up again yestcr-
dny. when supreme Court Justice Nc
Avoy granted Mr.. Letter orders sepa-
rating the various points NJ issue In the
actions. One OF the issues may come 70
trial next month. and to that and all
others Mr.. Letter Is making the general
defence that they now are outlawed.
The actions are based on the Hoad-
levs' association with Mr.. Letter IN a
famous pool OF international Power
Company and American Locomotive
Company stock In 1902 Joseph Hoadley
demands Judgment for 10000 on a note
dated October 3. 1902 and Sol,12s on n
statement or account rendered the same
day. Alfred HoadIey asks for a iudg-
ment on a pron1issory note for N6,023.4,
which m ,tured Aprii 2, 1893.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-05-07
COLUMBIA TO SPEND
S7,27I,.30 NEXT YEAR
Budget Shows Increase of
SI6l $40 Ouer Present Year.

A budget Of s7,271, $3.50 has been
adopted by the trustees OF Columbia
University for the year beginnin. July
/. 1921, It was announced yesterday.
This Is an increase over the present
fiscal year OF slei,519 One Of the mem
bers Of the board computed that the sum
Is larger than tho annual budget appro-
pristions of half the States OF the
Union.
Educational administration and In
etruction receive a173 1889 under tho
new budget: care Of buildings and
grounds. Sj9eioS the library. sis7 43iS 81;
the business administration OF the uni
versity corporation, sl2l 99l CO. and ether
Items are SIZES 9s2 for interest on corr
porate debt: annuitles, sll.50O; taxes and
other charges. &l23 30 The amount or
Iropr.ated for Teachers College was
1854. zoe. Barnard COLLEGE $500 1884. and
the College Of Pharmacy. SSl1N.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-05-07
DETECTIVES ARE FREED
IN ANARCHIST CASE
Lawyer Says They Attacked
Him After Trial Was Over.

Magistl ate Rosenblatt In Tofnbs court
yesterday discharged Detective Sergeant
James j. Gegan, brad Of the police
bomb squad, and Detectives Cornelius
Browne and Jerome Murphy, who wera
summoned to answer charges preferred
by Osmond X. Fraenkel. an attorney,
who declared he had been attacked by
the detectives In the course OF the re .
arrest Of three alleged radicals who had
been freed of tho charge Of criminal
anarchy Thursday. The policemen and
synpathizers of the defendants clashed
in the hallway Of the court room, and
Frnrnkel said he had been struck by
one OF the detectives
Detective Gegan testified yesterday
that the three men-Israel Amter.
Abram Jal<ira and Edward Lindgrsn. !
had been rearrcsted on felony charges.
They were indicted by the Grand Jury
for criminal anarchy shortly after their.
release In Tombs court.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-05-07
THREE PLEAD GUILTY
TO ROBBING MAILS
Admit They Had Part II,
Shooting Baggage Master.

Three Of the seven men arrested on
the charge Of robbing tho malls and
Matthew Lyons, baggage mas
ter or the West Eighth street station
Of the Central Railroad OF New Jersey
At BQyonnc p week ago. were arraigned
before Fed ,ral Judge Bodlne al Newark
yesterday and pleaded guilty. The 9TH
ers pleaded not guilty and were held In
boil for trial
The robbery occurred in front OF the
Post Office opposite the railway station
and four sacks Of mail were stolen.
Thomas Silva and John Bradley OF
Rayonne and George r. Plunkett OF Jer-
sey City pleaded guilty. Nicholas Leip
Of Jersey City. Andrew Shields Of Ho-
hcken and James w. Kelly and James
.. Hickey or Bayonne entered not guilty
pleas.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-05-07
YOUTH PLEADS GUILTY
TO ATTACK ON TEACHER
Tobie Raised RoD at Dance
in Manual High School.

Frank Toble. ~, formerly captain Of
tho football team OF Manual Training
High School, Brooklyn. pleaded guilty
10 assault In the third degree before
County Judge Haskell yesterday. lie
struck Louis s. O'Dell, vice-prlncipal OF
Manual Training. Mt a dance 10 the
school on the night Of March IL. lie IL
new student al the Marauar,it School.
Manhattan. and viii be sentenced at the
end OF the school year.
Tho dance was limited 20 pupils OF
Manual Training and was held In the
girls gymnasium. Toble. no longer a
student there. attended the dance When
requested to leave he struck the vice
principal In the face. Mr. ODell fell
his head striking the concrete floor.
He was laid up for more than week.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-05-07
TWO LAWYERS REPRIMANDED

Jay A. Gilman and lsidor Enseimn
lawyers. were "censured and rep
manded for their contumacious con
duet" In a memorandum handed dow
yesterday by the Appellate Divislol
The court held that motion papers the
submitted In O business action weie
impairment and disrespectful to II
court" and ordered them stricken frci
the courts records.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-05-07
FAVOR JUDGE MAYER
FOR APPEALS COURT
New Yorkers Want Hin,
When Judge Ward Refires.

Extraordinary efforts are being made
by leading members OF the New York
bar and the Republican organization Of
this state 70 insure the appointment or
Judge Julius NJ Mayer 70 the United
States Second District Court of Appeals
In place OF Judge Henry Galbraith
Ward, who is about to retire. The dis
trist comprises the States OF Connecticut.
Vermont and New York The court, in
addition to Judge Ward, Republican, OF
New York, consists OF Judges Charles
NJ. Hough, Republican. OF New York /.
Martin T. Manton, Democrat. OF Long
Island and Henry Wade Rogers, Dem
ocrat, or Connecticut.
Certain Influences have created IN
Washington strong feeling In favor or
the appointment OF John Redmond Of
Vermont. former counsel OF the Central
Vermont Railroad. New Workers.. how
ever. are putting up the strongest kind
of an argument in favor of Judge
Mayor who has sat on the District
Court bench here for nine years.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-05-07
PATERNo ALIMoNY REDUCED.
Accused Husband shows He Gave
wife Apartment House.

The Appellate Division reduced yes
terday from $50 month to 500 a month
the allrony to be paid by Francis s.
Palermo. building contractor. pending
the outcome Of a separation action
started BY Mrs. Helen Fay Patcrne. his
second wife The allowance for coun-
sci fees also was reduced from S7O to
1900
MIR. Palermo sought the reduction on
the Fr6urd that he has presented to his
wife the five story apartment house al
bis West 18th street. whore she occu-
pics two apartments rent rrce and has
an income Of 500 a month from renting
the other parts Of tho building