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The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-09-19
RUDOLPH Knapp TO
MINERS UNION MEET
Especial TO The Argus.

Coal Valley, Ill, Sept. I9.-Ru-
dolph Knapp has been named deie-
gate from the Coal Valley Interna-
tional Miners union to the nation
d. meeting in Indianapolis. He left
Yesterday to attend the sessions Of
the group.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-09-19
SHOOT CIRCUS ROBBERS.

Vancouver, Wash, Sept. 10
Deputy sheriffs shot anu arrested
two men believed TO be robbers
who stole 100000 from a ticket
truck o. the Sells-Floto circus here
Friday.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-09-19

Sir. Richmond's death is a source
of sincere regret to this commu-
nifty. 1t marks the passing of an
New-York tribune., 1921-02-19
Ritz Diners Arrest Due
To Stolen Money Order
Charge Made Part of Missing
$4,000 Was Offered i'm
PAYMENT for Food

Frank Miller, who sa.d he was a
salesman living ut IL West Eighty
ninth Street, was placed under arrest
last night as he left the dining room
of the Ritz-Carlton Hctel, where he had
been entertaining friends. Still clad in
evening clothes he vas locked up at
Police Headquarters, charged with re.
ceiylng stolen goods.
lie is alleged to have offered in nav
ment Cor refreshments at the hotel an
American Express money order which
was one of $4,000 stolen from the Con
tinentai General Electric COMPANY
Office, at 120 Broadway, October TO-
1920. According to the police three
other money orders, the four aggregat.
ing $780, were found on him.
Miller asserted that he bought the
orders from the American Express
Company in Chicago February 4. The
police say that the orders began to show
up in the hands of hotel guests seve
raj weeks ago, two Of them having
been cashed at the Biltmore, and thai
hotels were warned to be on their
guard.
As soon rs Miller placed the money
order on the walters tray last night,
he was under suspicion and was de-
laysd until detectives arrived.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-19
Banton Denies Move to-
Curb Medical Examiner
Assistant District Attorney Saws
HE Is Responsible for Bills
ON ssViolent Deaths's

Joah II. Banton, Chief~Ass ssistant Dis.
trfct Attorney. admitted yesterday he
was responsible for the bills intro
duced in the Legislature which would
give DR.. Otto A. Schultze. medical as
sistant to the District Attorneys Office.
higher powers than DR.. Charles Norris
the Chief Medical Examiner of New
York City, in investigating violent and
suspicious deaths"
lie denied the bills were intended to
strip DR.. Norris Of his authority and
were introduced at the instance Il
Tammany Hall, pointn ng out with Dis
trict Attorney Swami that DR.. Norris
a Republican, and was appointed to his
oy r.'r District Attorney
Charles A. Perkins.
THE purpose of the bill giving To
the medical assistant of the District
Attorney jurisdiction in investieatino
violent and suspicious deaths suggest
ed itself to me-" said MIR. Banton, "be-
cause of conflicts that might arise be.
tween the Chief Medical Examiner and
the medical assistant to the District
Attorney.
"In such eases the preparation for
the prosecution of evidence on any
crime that may have been committed
should begin with the autopsy on the
body OF the person who has been killed
u is highly important that one skilled
in making that kind of investigation
should make the autopsy"
New-York tribune., 1921-02-19
Witness Says Hatfield
Admitted killing Three
Former Magistrate Asserts Mate
wan Police Chief Said Vic
Tins Were Detectives

WILLIAMSON, W. Va, Feb. 18.-Sid
Hatfield, Matewan Chief of Police, told
Harry Station. former justice Of the
peace, that he had killed three Of the
BaldwinFelts men in the battle in
Matewan last May, Station testified to-
day at the trial of nineteen men for
the killing of seven Baldwin-Telts de-
tectives in the fight.
Asked who the men were, Stanton said
Hatfield had told him they were Albert
Felts, Lee Felts and c. B. Cunningham.
Another witness, Miss Bessie Hamil-
ton, told the jury that after the fight
she saw three bodies in the street. Sid
Hatfield searched two Of the bodies, she
said, adding that later she saw him
kick the PROSTATE form of man.
A wicker chair with a bullet hole
through the back was exhibited. u.
W. Ferguson, one of the seven detec-
tives who were killed, rested in the
chair on the back porch of Mrs. Mary
Duty's home before he was killed, sew
eral witnesses testified.
John Akers told the jury that he as
sisted Ferguson to the Duty home after
the detective had been wounded. He
said that he ran from the porch when
several men armed with rifles came
through the house from the front He
said he had not gone far when he
heard shots. He turned and saw Fer
guson lying dead in the roadway with
several men near the body, the witness
said.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-19

tcontausd from pass sns>
agents of professional drug importers,
perhaps innocently involved. This
view was borne out by the women, who
said they had been asked to carry the
bottles by an American citizen on
board the ship. {.
Identify Man They Accuse
The man had been courteous to them
on the voyage, they said, and 80 they
had consented to assist him without
knowing the contents of the bottles.
The man accused by the women was
identified by them and will be arrested
to-day.
The steamship Susquehanna, which
docksd at Pier 81, Thirtyfourth Street
and the North River, yielded two al
legged drug smugglers. They are Louie
Bauman, thirty-two years old. of So
Clay Street, Chicago, and Joseph Felt
kin Avenue, Brooklyn, both stewards
of the ship. TIE men are held by the
police charged with smuggling $4,000
worth of heron and cocaine into the
country. The Susquehanna sailed from
Danzig, Germany, on February 10.
Byron X. Newton, Collector Of r. o
Port, and DR.. Simon are RESPONSIBLE
Tor the arrests.
The two men were seized at Fortieth
street and Seventh Avenue late Thurs.
day night by Detective Sergeant Joseph
Mooney and Customs Agents Lynch,
Balbow, Mckdams and Scully.
A tip TO look out for Bauman and
Feltman was received by Commissio oner
Simon several days before the Susque-
hanna locked Both are charged with
smuggling and are held for the gov
ernment.
Drugs Found in Trick Table
A close Investigation is being made
of the premises of Feltman, the Brook
lyn man who, the police say, con-
fessed and led them to his home,
Closely packed drugs were found CON
cea,ed under false top Of the dining
room table, it is alleged. Two rifles
and two boxes of cartridges also were
copfiscated.
Feltmans telescope table is declared
by the officers to have been ingeniously
adapted to The uses of the alleged
smuggler. After the top of the table
had been removed it still appeared
that the base was solid, but investiga-
ton revealed that the seemingly solid
wood had been followed out SO that n
good-slzed cavity existed in which the
drugs lay.
Evidence is being sought Of Felt.
mana connection with the bringing of
previous consignments of cocaine into
thls port, and his superior officers on
beard the ship will be questioned to-
day.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-19
ShoofsSGirl He Accused
Of Telephoning to Rival
Philadelphian Said TO Have Re-
sented Woman Leaving Him at
Elevator to Go to Her Room

James McMonagle, who gave his ad~
dress as 2432 South Woodstock Street,
Philadelphia, shot and seriously
wounded Dorothy Seltzer, twenty-five
years old, when she emerged from the
apartment in which she lives, at 602
West 137th Street. The young woman
had been accused by him of telephon-
ing to his rival.
Miss seltzer was shot in the stomach
and shoulder. She was removed to the
Knickerbocker Hospital.
The police version Of the affair is
that McMonagle and Miss Seltzer were
waiting for the elevator on the fourth
floor of the building, in company with
Louis Juhl, superintendent Of the
building.
Juhl told the officers that Miss Self
zer stepped back into the apartment
for a moment to "get something" and
when she returned McMonagle accused
her Of having called up another man
on the telephone. Despite her denials,
il is said he drew pistol and opened
fire.
McMonagle was locked up at the
West 125th Street station, charged
with felonious assault and violation of
the Sullivan law.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-19
Murder of Cibboney for
Cash He Carried Hinted
Letter From Mexico Tells of
Large Amount He Drew Be-
fore He Left CaDitaE
From The Trtbume's Washington Bureau


WASHINGTON, Feb. 18,--The pos
Philadelphia attorney, involved in the
Grover G. BergdolI case, might have
been murdered by Mexican bandits,
instead of having been drowned in
Campeche Bsy, Mexico, was raised to-
day by the receipt here of a letter
from the Tropical Products Company
that the attorney carried a large sum
Of gold when he left Mexico City on
his way to the company's property st
Champeton, Mexico. The funds car
ried by Gibboney were said to have
been for the payment of the Mexican
employees of the company.
information furnished the State
Department early in December was
were drowned in Campeche Bay, when
their sailing vessel encountered
storm, When the bodies were re-
covered no funds were found on Glib
honey. The State Departments infor-
nation also said that four Mexcans
lest their lives at the same time. No
evidence has been received, however,
that the bodies Of the Mexicans had
been recovered, and Gibboney's as
sociates in the Tropical Products Com
pany believe that he may have met
with foul play.
The State Department recently asked
the American Consul at Progreso,
Mexico, 70 furnish all details possible
on Gibboney's death. At the same time
Representative Kalen said in the House
he had received a letter saying Glib
honey had not been drowned and in
timating the latter had merely "dis-
appeared" because of his alleged con-
nection with Bergdoll's escape.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-19
Untermyer Settles Claim
Landscape Artist Gets $4,000
Balance for Work ON Estate

Samuel Untermyer, attorney for the
Lockwood investigating committee,
yesterday settled for $4,000 the suit
brought by Frederick w. smythe, q
landscape artist and florist of Man
haitian and New Rochelle, for balance
of $500 said to have been due for
laying out the Untermyer gardens at
Yonkers. Mr.. Smythe's total commits
sion, it was brought out in the hear
ings, which have been gazing on at
White Plains for several weeks, was
$138,oo0. Mr.. Smythe testified that he
laid out Grecian gardens, love tenn
pies and great floral displays. and
bought $4,000 worth of rhod dodendrons
in England. MIR. LntermyerE pu' m a
counter claim of $4,000, contending
that Mr.. Smythe received a commits
sion from English florists.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-19

Horan was shot frst. Then | was hit
in the foot with slug from the riot
gun. Bridget rushed at Davis tn
grapple with him, and Davis grabbed
the revolver from his desk and sent q
bullet into Br dgett's heart"
Detective McGlone was armed when
he entered Davis's office. Mr.. Caldwell
said he was curious to nnow why he
did not draw his gun and defend Brid-
gett when he beheld Davis struggling
with him.
THAT is one of the questions want
to put to McGlone and Koran as soon
as they are in condition to talk" he
added.
Davis Silent on Tragedy
In court Davis talked with repc rters
about himself, but. baked at shedding
any light on the tragedy in his office.
policeman" he was asked.
"Yes, do" he answered.
"Why did you kill him?"
He said his counsel had advised him
not to discuss that.
He explained the presence of the
riot gun and number of revolvers in
his plant by saying he had needed the
warning of Mayor Hylan to business
men during the crime wave last De-
cembcr to arm themselves.
when | push button on my desk"
he went on, "a siren sounds, and my
employees rush in with whatever
weapons they can lay hands on"
The smoothness with which this sys-
tenn Of Office defense worked was exem-
pliied TIL 4rsday afternoon when Davis
sounded the siren after he had killed
Bridgetts, and the room instantly
filled with men and women, armed with
everything from paper knives to ink
wells, who held McGlone and Horan
prisoner until policemen reached the
scene.
Neither Mrs. Henrietta Davis, wife
of the slayer, nor their two children
visited him at the Raymond Street
Jail yesterday. At their home, "a
Crooke Avenue, Brooklyn, it was stated
Mrs. Davis was prostrated and could
see nobody.
The funeral of Detective Sergeant
Bridgetts will take place at 10 o'clock
Monday morning at st. Anastasius's
Roman Catholic Church, Sixty-second
Street and Twenty-second Avenue,
Brooklyn, where solemn high re-
cuiem mass will be celebrated.
Mrs. Bridgetts, her eight months-old
baby, youngest of her four fatherless
children, in her arms, was seen at her
home, 1017 Dahill Road, Brooklyn.
"Joe didn't deserve that" she
sobbed. "He was shot down like a
dog"
New-York tribune., 1921-02-19
Judge McGannon Acquitted
Cleveland Jurist Freed in Sec.
ond Trial for Murder

CLEVELAND, Feb. 18.-Willjsm p
McGannon, chief justice of the Munie.
ipal Court, on trial for the SECOND
time, was acquitted of the charge Of
staying Harold c. Kagy last Nav by =
jury of three women and nine men IN
Common Pleas Court to-day, after Dr.
liberating twenty-one hours end tax.
ing eight ballots.
The three women en- the jury re-.
fused TO comment on the case. The
jury in the first trial failed TO agree
on a verdict after forty-eight hours
deliberation.
Judge McGannon did not sit on The
bench after he was indicted, pendjnp
the outcome OF the trial.
~ expect to resume my position on
the municipal bench after a brief
rest" he announced after hearing the
verdict.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-19

0'Brien, as he wishes to be- known
is being held by Mr.. Whitman or by me
for the purpose of forcing from him
certain information. The fact of the
matter is that this defendant has VOL
urtarily given US an affidavit involving
members of the Police Department au-
tomobile squad whose names had not
been mentioned in the scandal.
"There are several reasons why this
defendants bail should he continued at
$40 600, and ] would request that the
original arrangement, of permitting
the District Attorneys Office to approve
De continued"
Magistrate Mancuso sustained Judge
Groehl and sent O'Brien back to the
Harlem Jail in lieu of bail.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-19

men who complain against these two
girl pickets?"
Kohler said that when he told DR..
Magnes not to Interfere with him, he
replied: 81 am citizen and as citi-
zen desire to know why you arrest
these women"
DR.. Magnes, who was defended by
Harry Neuberger, former Deputy Po-
lice Commissioner, admitted question
ing the officers right to make the ar
rest, but insisted he did not think he
was committing a breach of the peace
by asking why the arrest was made.
After the sentence had been passed
Neuberger announced that he would
appeal the decision.
"Please tell me, Judge" Rabbi
Magnes asked before leaving, "as
citizen haven't the right to ask po-
lice officer whether he is justified in
making an arrest?"
you have a right to make the re-
quest" the magistrate replied, "but
not when trouble is prevalent. You
should have waited in exercising your
right. When the officer asked you to
move you refused"
New-York tribune., 1921-02-19
Pittsburgh Women Buy Guns
Suburban Residents Form Pistol
Club 10 Combat Bandits

PITTSBURGH, Feb. 18.-The women
Of four Pittsburgh suburbs have or
ganized pistol club" to protect
themselves and their homes against
robbers. For several months robbers
have been active in Ardmore, Bryn
Mawr, Edgewood Acres and Rockwood
and several women have been attacked.
To cope with the situation more than
a score of women residents of the sub
urbs purchased revolvers, met yester-
day and organized the club Thomas
Wiechart, former major of the United
States Army, attended the session and
gave the women their first lesson in
the use of firearms.
Outdoor target practice will be in
stituted soon, Mr.. Wiechart said.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-19
DR.. Magnes Convicted
Of DisorderIy Conduct
Former Jewish Welfare Head
Told He Had No Right to In
terfere With Policeman

A charge of disorderly conduct
of the Jewish Educational Welfare Bu-
reau, was upheld yesterday by Magis-
trate Tobias, in Yorkville court, and
the prisoner was given a suspended
sentence.
DIR. Magnes was charged by Patrol
man Kohler, of the East Twenty-sec-
ond Street police station, with having
interefered in the arrest of two girl
garment workers picketing in front of
18 East Sixteenth Street. According to
the testimony, DR.. Magnes said to the
policeman:
"Oficer, why don't you arrest the two
New-York tribune., 1921-02-19
Sought to DroiUra Baby
Which Kept Him A,cake

MONTREAL, Feb. 1s.--"The
child kept me awake at nights, so
! was taking it to the canal to
drown it," was the explanation
given to the police to-day by the
young man who was found yes
terday walking along ST. James
Street with his landlady's six
months -old infant in his suit
case. He was sent to an asylum.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-19
O'Brien Names More
Police in 4ut0 Thefts
A6idoUit Is Said to Esnplicase
Members OF tie Department
Not Vet Under Ettdicsr,aent

Thomas O'Brien. the alleged automo
bile thief, who was arrested at 1880
o'clock last Sunday morning, has made
an affidavit duplicating members Of
the Police Department automobile
squad, who are not under Indictment,
according 60 the announcement made
Yesterday in the Washington Heights
Court by former Magistrate Freder,cS
J. Groehl assistant to Charles s Whit
man, directing the grand jury investi-
l&tiou into the Hylan administration
Judge Groehl made the statement
during the hearing Of O'Brien before
Magistrate Mancnso and after Alex
ander Karlia, 0'Brien's lawyer, had
asked for reduction Of bail Magis-
trate Mancuso had put the case over
until Monday, when Nj. Kar,in, in ap-
ealing for q reduction in bail, said:
"This man is being held in pro
hibitive bail because former Governor
Whitman and Judge Gyoehl, who is
here to-day, believe that by keeping
him In prison they can make him tell
things which ne knows nothing about
My client has no information on the
subjects which are engaging the atten-
tlon of the Whitman investigation.
Bail of $4,000 is beyond hi reach f"
Mr.. Groehl jumped to his feet and, |
MIR. Karlin, said:
There is no basis in fact for Mr., |
Kariin's charge that his client
>
New-York tribune., 1921-02-19
Death Threat for NIexicans

FORT WORTH, Tex, Feb. 49,
Notices, threatening death to all Mex
leans in west Texas oil fields, were
posted last night at Eastland, accord
ing to word received here. The police
at Eastland announced that protection
would be afforded Mexicans.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-19
Germans To Be Banished
For Tunnel Blow-Up Plot
Another War Prisoner Taken
Into Custody After Serving
Term at E,eayeuworiE

LEAVENWORTH, Kan, Feb. 1s.-A.
Kaltschmidt, sentenced to serve four
years in the Federal prison here in
connection with German plot to blow
up the tunnel connecting Detroit with
Canada during the World War, was ar
rested at the prison gate to-day upon
his release and will be held for depor-
tation.
Carl Schmidt and Fritz Nef, con-
victed with Kaltschmidt for particpa-
tion in the conspiracy, were released
some time ago and also are being held
for deportation.
DETROIT, Feb. 1S.--Albert c. Kalt-
schmidt was arrested in Marine City,
Mich, April 6, 1917. He was convicted
on three conspiracy counts, alleging
attempts to blow up the Windsor
armory, the Detroit Windsor tunnel
and the plant of the Peabody Overall
Company, Ltd, of Walkerville, Ont
Beside being sentenced to four years
at Leavenworth he was fined $4,000
New-York tribune., 1921-02-19

Private taYysiiies having a spare room
10 rent will fnd The Tribune's Furnishes
Rooms 70 lst column au AID to renting H.
Phone Heeknaa soea.--Advt.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-19
DogFiigghtsDr'pngg
Raiders After
$4,000 Cache

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The Jewish monitor. (Fort Worth-Dallas, Tex.) 191?-1921, 1921-04-22
THE JEwIsH MONITOR

soon after his graduation from .
southern technical institution, be-
cause Of his scholarship, was called to
a Pennsylvania city by one Of the
leading steel concerns Of the world to
a responsible position.
In college he had no opportunity to
come in contact with any rabbis Of
his faith. He was reared in small
country town. When he went to the
city he attended the temple, and like
practically all others, received a cold
shoulder. He was invited to attend a
Christian church by friends whom he
met in his new home. He attended
He had not gone to the Christian
church more than twice before he was
made to feel at home and introduced
to some Of the young women, leading
young women Of the city, result, mar
ried out Of the faith to the chagrin Of
his strictly Jewish mother and father.
However, the young man did not for
forsake the faith.
The Reformed Jewish Rabbis and
the members Of his congregation must
begin revival Of the old Jewish Gus
tom to give the visitor a welcome and
follow out the old junction Of taking
the stranger within the gate into the
home and congregation, II they ex-
pect to see the faith thrive.
Very often kind word is
what is sought. The fact that the
Stranger is in the temple is some proof
that he seeks spiritual fellowship,
and often kind word Of welcome is
valued more than il he were heaped
with honors. Reformed Jews, many
Of them have left the faith, except
for lip service. Let there be revival
Of welcoming the stranger within the
gate on Friday night, and make him
feel at home.
The Jewish monitor. (Fort Worth-Dallas, Tex.) 191?-1921, 1921-04-22
HUNGARIAN SCHOOLS USED FOR
PRISONS.

Budapest: Jewish News Service).
AT a session Of the Assembly, lib
eral Hungarian deputy changed the
government that owing to the large
increase Of persons in Hungary charg-
ed with crime, II has become neces-
sary to convert many public schools
into prisons, depriving its pupils Of
their daily instruction.
The Jewish monitor. (Fort Worth-Dallas, Tex.) 191?-1921, 1921-04-22
SAID A CUPFUL.

Said a bald-headed man TO q waitress
bold:
"See here, young woman, my cocoas
coldp
She scornfully answered, 81 can't help
that;
"If the blamed things chilly, put on
your hail"
New York Central Magazine
Fat Man-"Do you serve Holsters
heref"
WATERSHEDS, I'll wait on you in
n minute" Tennessee Mugwump.