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New-York tribune., 1921-03-25
Bandits Hold Up Five;
Take $4,000 and Auto
Gust Girl Stenographer and
Others From Machine, Drive
OFF With Pay Roll Funds

HACKENSACK, N. j., March 3D.
Armed bandits robbed Bellman Brooks
Bleachery Company messengers of
$4,000 yesterday as the money was
being taken from Englewood to Fair
view. The robbers held up Ave persons
two officials of the company, two
guards and young woman stenog-
rapher-compelled them to leave the
motor car in which they were riding
and drove off with the money.
The money stolen was the payroll
cash of the company, which had just
been taken from the Palisades Bank, in
Englewood, by Walter C. Brooks, treas
urer of the concern, and G.. r. Graham
superintendent. Frederick Hawkins and
Harry La Fettera were the guards, and
Miss May Cooper the stenographer.
The car Was held up three miles east
of Hackensack, Just as it was about to
enter garage. The robbers jumped in
front of the machine, waved revolvers
and ordered all hands up. They got the
money and escaped.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-25
Woman Employee
Accused of $4,000
Theft From Firm
Garage Manager Says Young
Prisoner Pilfered Funds
for 2 Years by Alterations
in Bank Deposit Slips

Miss Catherine Brown. a young wom
an employed by Max Rothman, of 1s
East 108th Street, manager Of the Ara
mel Garage, was arraigned yesterday
tefore Judge Joseph Schwab in Harlem
Court, charged with having stolen $1s,-
600 of the firms money during q period
of two years by alteration of bank de-
posit slips. She was held in $1,000 bail
fer examination Monday.
Detectives William Pranthner and
Henry etiquette, of the East f2Sth
Brown at her home, 436 Central Avenue,
Brooklyn. They say that she confessed
the thefts.
Harold Fleischer, Of 1852 Madison
Avenue, attorney for Rothman, told the
court that Miss Brown had taken abous
$4,000 of the firms money altogethez
in 1920-'21, but that the specific char
against her WAS the misrepresentation
of $40 on January IL last. On tha1
date, according to the complainant, she
WAS sent to the Bank of the United
States, at 116th Street and Madison Ave-
nue., to deposit cash and checks aggre
eating $72. Rothman charges that on
reaching the bank she destroyed the
deposit slip, which had been made out
in his presence, and wrote a new ono
for S62, appropriating the balance OF
the money to her own use.
Mr.. Fleischer said that Miss Brown
had in similar manner within two
years appropriated sums ranging from
$40 to $40. The loss was not discoy-
Of the books in order to prepare an in
como fay statement
New-York tribune., 1921-03-25
Four Accused of
$4,000 Silk Theft
1ellHold-Up Tale
Youths Declare They We're
Bound and Robbed of the
Goods While Delivering
Them for Their Firm

Four youths are being detained by
the police on charges Of grand larceny
in connection with the disappearance
of $4,000 worth of silk belonging to
the Silk Finishing Company of
America, with mills at 33 to 80 Beth
une Street An alleged robbery in
which the four who are now detained
claim to have been held up at the
point of revolvers, bound and bundled
into an automobile truck and hauled
several miles. is\ being Investigated by
the police.
First intimation Of the robbery came
yesterday afternoon when Thomas
Lehay, nineteen years old, of 646 Hud-
son Street, chauffeur. for the Silk
Flnlshlng Company, appeared at the
Ihirtyfirst Street police station with
three helpers. He told the police that
he and the three helpers had started
out to deliver a double load of silk
shortly after lunch. He said that when
about one block from the Silk Finish
ing Company plant in Bethune Street
a well dressed stranger stepped from
the curb and shouted to him to stop
the truck.
He told the police that he did so
,A oo'U cildt tHe stranger QreW re-
volver and pointed it at his head and
commanded him to crawl back into the
truck, which was inclosed. AS the first
man climbed upon the truck Lehay
said another stepped from doorway
with a revolver and also climbed on
the truck. He said that he and the
three assistants, after crawling into
the rear of the truck. were bound hand
and foot with rope, which the second
man took from beneath his coat. He
said that the truck was then started
and run approximately twenty minutes
before being halted. Then, he related,
the silk was unloaded and the robbers
again started the truck, finally halting
it.
Within short while one of the pris-
oners, he claimed, released his own
hands and then released the other
three. Upon leaving the truck, he said,
they found themselves at Thirty eighth
Street and Third Avenue, and went at
once to the Thirty-fifth Street police
station to report the robbery. In max
ing his report he said that blankets
and overcoats had been thrown over
all four as they lay in the truck
Besides Lehay, the youths gave their
names as George Long, sixteen years
old, 1853 West Street; Charles Namo,
seventeen years old, 66 Jane Street,
and Michael Walsh, % Bethune Street.
Lehay, it was said last night, has been
connected with the Silk Finishing Com
pany for about a year, and the others
were recently employed.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-25
American Bride of
Japanese Ends Her
Life After Quarrel
Husband Finds Body Seated
Facing Door as He Re-
turns to Room; Places
Sons Picture i'm Her Hand

Kiyoshi HOsokawa went up the stairs
OF his home at lot West 109th Street
two steps at time last night, as was
his eager, Japanese custom in returning
to the fair-haired, divine Elsie, an
American girl, who had given up her
job at restaurant to marry him last
January, to his eternal amazement.
No misgivings troubled Kiyoshi
Hosokawa. 1t was true Elsie had been
pcuting at mis- frequent absences in the
evening and when the moment was
propitious he would confess to her his
other passion-for the gaming table.
telephoned to her at noon, according to
his custom, she had said she was angry
and was "going to do something" But
golden-haired divinity was incom-
prehensible and Kiyoshi Hosokawa did
not worry about what he could not
understand. The marvel was that he
could understand so much.
Elsie sat facing him as he opened
the door. Her blue eyes were staring
straight at him and in the spell of
their magic Kjyoshi Hosokawa was
oblivious to rank and significant odor
which also enveloped him. He saw
only the silent figure in the chair and
that it was clad in the regal kimono of
cream-colored silk for which he had
sent to Japan.
1t was not until he touched her that
he knew. Even then it was something
which he could not understand all at
once. A neighbor, tracing the odor of
gas, found them seated side by side,
the young Japanese bridegroom whis-
pering into the ear which had heard
his last message hours before.
When an ambulance surgeon con-
vinced Kiyoshi Hosokawa that Elsie
was dead, he placed in her hand the
photograph of child about a year. old.
1t was her child by former marriage,
he said, and perhaps was with relatives
in San Francisco. His courtship had
lasted only two days and he knew little
Of his brides past. The present had
been enough for him.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-25
Stokes Denies He
Gave Wife Jewels
Stolen ON Sleeper
Counsel for Porter Accused
of Theft Announces He
Will Question Credibility
of Complainant at Trial

Judge Alfred ]. Talley, in the Court
of General Sessions yesterday, set April
as the date for trial of Henry Will
liams, negro Pullman porter, of 1862
Pine Street, Buffalo, who is under in
dictment charged with the theft in No
vember, 1917. lof jewels valued at
$4,000 from Mrs. w. E. D. Stokes.
Williams was tried two years ago, but
the jury disagreed. Bernard j. Sand
ler, counsel for Williams, told the court
yesterday that the case had been OH the
calendar thirty one times since the dis
agreement.
In the indictment Williams is
charged with stealing the Jewels from
stateroom occupied by Mrs. Stokes
onN-e, train between Buffalo and New
York. At that time Mrs. Stokes was
travelling with her mother and children
from Denver.
Mr. Sander told the court that coun-
sci for the complainant had asked him
to refrain from asking Mrs. Stokes GER
tain questions. He told the court that
he had refused to make the stipulation
because he had received information to
be used to attack the credibility of the
complainant should she take the stand
The court at this point asked Mr..
Sander if he were discussing the mat
ter of charges against the woman
Counsel replied in the affirmative.
II am trying to ascertain what q
woman's social position has to do with
her credibility," said Judge Talley.
"Mr. w. f. D.sStokes," said Mr.. Sand
ler, "has furnished information con-
corning the ownership of the jewels.
He is prepared to testify that they were
not gifts from him."
II will not permit the Stokes divorce
issue to be tried out here" said Judge
Talley. ~ will not dismiss the indict-
ment pending the outcome of the d-
vorce action. but l will urge the Dis
trict Attorney to try the case as soon
as the divorce action has been settled.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-25

owned by T. B. Moineua, Of Holyoke,
Mass was recovered by Fitzpatrick
after it had been stolen, and that he
accepted from u. NJ: shedden, an auto.
mobile Insurance. adjuster, of 140 Mas.
sau Street, this city, $50 as a reward
The second Indictment alleges that
Fitzpatrick accepted $t00 from j
Chester Sheath. an insurance adjuster
of so Maiden Lane, for the return OF
an automobile stolen from Morris Ros.
enbaum, said to be an artist. The car
is said to have been taken after it was
left at the corner Of Forty-fifth Street
and Broadway and to have been re.
covered by Fitzpatrick in Brooklyn.
Former Governor Whitman and his
assistants, who presented the evidence
before the extraordinary grand jury
yesterday said afterward that both re-
wards were paid to Fitzpatrick by
check and that neither had been re.
ported to the Police Commissioner az
required by the city charter.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-25

stood to be persons, resident Of Can
ada, where Mrs. Stillman lived for
months on Mr.. Stillman's hunting es-
tate and adjacent country, where, it is
said, she rented or purchased a farm
and where she built a large house.
Some of these witnesses are Indians of
the Iroquoise Nation.
1t is known that Mrs. Stillman's at
torneys were exceedingly rushed for
time in which to prepare the afidavits
that accompanied the amended answer
It was intimated BY enc authority that
Mrs. Stillman had hoped for an ulti-
mate reconciliation or private settle
ment of the marital differences when
she took passage for Europe, and held
this belief up to the moment she was
handed the. summons in divorce.
In open court attorneys for both
sides have asserted that they would
fight the case through the courts to a
definite conclusion, which gives rise to
the believe that the case will be rushed
to trial on its merits as soon as Justice
Morschauser has passed on the matter
Of alimony.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-25
Mrs. Acosta to Get Divorce
Transcontinental Aviator's Let.
fers To Girl in Evidence

Justice Faber indicated his intention
yesterday to grant the divorce which
Mrs. Bertram B. Acosta, wife OF the
first aviator to cross the continent in
an all-metal airplane. sought in the
Supreme Court in Mineola, L. ]. He
said, however, that he would not sigr
the decree until Acosta had had an
opportunity to examine documentary
evidence in the case.
Mrs. Acosta submitted letters said tc
have passed between her husband and
Ilah Dodge, of Sacramento, Calf, who
is sixteen years old and was named as
correspondent Mrs. Acosta's counsel
said the girl in California recently had
become mother.
Mrs. Acosta is the daughter OF
Charles w. Brumley. general land
agent for the Florida East Coast Rail-
road. She was married to the aviator
June 8, 1917. They have three children.
At present she is playing the part Of
the Vamp in "The Bull's-Eye.S
New-York tribune., 1921-03-25
Mrs, Stillman in Smiling Mood
For Camera; Silent on Divorce
Friendly and Approachable on All Topics Save Her
Marital Drama, She Voices Pride in Her
Youngsters: ssReal Boys
Their mother looked up toward them
and laughed.

! Their mother looked up toward then
and laughed.
Proud of Her "Real Boys''
"Dlidn't you think they photographed
well!', she asked. "My children were
brought up to be natural. have
always taught them not to think they
are sacred simply because they have st
many dollars. There is nothing stiff
about them. They are real BOYS, THAI
Is what want them to be-"
Guy. of the pink cheeks, smiled dowr
lovingly on his mother. She said hs
tells visitors at Laurel-in-the- Pines
that his cheeks are pink "'cos he eat.
an apple every night,
81 like to get out and walk every
day and love the rain," confessed
Mrs. Stillman as she walked briskl,
across the damp lawn. "But Pm not a
| all good subject for the camera
However, now that you have me-, dt
anything you like with ME. Peopl,
who think a lot about themselve.
really make better pictures, I think
because they are always posing. ISM
it better for me to do what come,
naturally to me? How about standin,
against this tree? I never saw a ire,
that could stop me yet"
/ on she chatted in gay, half-defian
vein. until shadow suddenly cloudet
her face. 1t was momentary lower
ing Of her mask of Indifference
"Well, you know. all this is no laugh
ing matter" she said, with a nervous
trenior in her voice. "It is not joke
And | do not want to be made to lool
foolish"
Her face cleared. She was her viva
cious self again, 1.-the and slender ant
full of vitality, her head proudly poiset
as ii in scorn Of calumny and scandal
buoyancy took the place of depression
Obeys "Look Pleasant, Please
II really feel as if my feet were moi
my own,' she jested as she moved oblig.
lngly around or sat on a bench OF
stood against pine tree. "And as fo1
my hands-why, in these chamoi.
gloves they look like puppies feet. Mus
| manufacture smile? Isn't is much
better when it comes naturally?"
Remember this!" she said as she
shook hands all around. and ended the
interview: II am q woman Of my wore
and am an American in every sense.
past her barrier of detectives, rounded
the hotel in which she has literally
been recluse for weeks and vanished
in the direction of the lake, stridine
along with the free grace of a wood.
man, her head high in the air, her arms
swinging rhythmically. Mrs. Stillman
was as unabashed and dramatic in hel
exit as in her entry. Whatever she
Lis thinking, feeling, suffering, is excel
lently concealed under veneer of in
difference. Those who are closest to
her say she never breaks down or even
shows bitterness. If the woods around
Laurelin-thePine see something CT
her sorrow, certainly her emotion is
we'll concealed from the eyes of the
curious,
New-York tribune., 1921-03-25
Battles Testimony
Benefits Kilroe in
Conspiracy Trial
Prosecutor Told Him Settle
ment of Civil Case Would
Not Affect Criminal One,
Says Bourasse's Attorney

George Gordon Battle, who was at.
torney for Napoleon A. Bourasse, q
stock broker charged with bigamy, was
a witness yesterday for the defense
at the trial Of Edwin P. Kilroe. As
sistant District Attorney, and Louis E
Swarts, q lawyer, who were indicted
together on charge Of conspiracy.
The prosecution, which rested its
case yesterday, had made a point OF
the fact that the criminal charge
against Bourasse was dismissed by
Magistrate Mancuso with the consent
of Mr.. Kilroe after Bourasse had paid
out $4,000, Of which sum Mrs. Helen
Montrose st. Marie Bourasse, motion
picture actress and one Of his wives
received $4,000, Mr.. Swarts, her attor-
ney, $1,000, and Edward H. Berger, an
other Of her counsel, $4,000.
Mr.. Battles testimony gave this
transaction another appearance, and
one which favored Mr.. Kilroe. He
testified that he talked with the AS
sistant District Attorney about the
civil suit for $4,000 which Mrs. Bou-
rasse had brought against her husband
He asked Mr.. Kilroe whether the set
tlement Of that action would interfere
with the criminal proceedings pending
or whether the Assistant District At
torney would object. Mr.. Kilroe replied
Mr.. Battle said, that there would be no
objection to a settlement of the civil
action, but that it would have no effec,
on the criminal case.
The defense contends there could be
no prosecution of Bourasse on the
bigamy charge because his first wife
who lived in Canada, could not be
brought here in an effortito prove the
broker had wife when he married
Miss St. Marie.
Upon completion Of the case of the
prosecution counsel for the defendants
moved to dismiss the indictment or
the ground that no conspiracy or crime
had been proved. Justice Weeks de.
MED the motion, saying there was suffi.
clent evidence to warrant his sending
the case to the, jury. During argument
on the motion the jury was not in the
room.
The trial will be continued Monday
New-York tribune., 1921-03-25
liO0 More Indictments
Make Police Total 21


me twenty-hrst indictment to be
;svseo IN former Governor Whitman's
s%ssssugation of the Police Department
S;S. Sss returned yesterday by the extraor-
Saasly III grand jury when it delivered to
Ss;S,1se Thomas C. T. Grain two true
sais : 10 sgainst John Fitzpatrick, formerly
ssssective sergeant in command of the
mrssomobile m.sa squad of the Police Depart
~ Sus and recently reduced to the rank
T. lsr e.trosman and transferred to = Har-
s,,.s I01n indictments charged Fitzpatrick
t;.s d..a having accepted unlawful gratui-
biles. ~ sa'" VI sso'en au'oino-
q, saiIIzpatrick surrendered himself last
3. M ~ ~ the Criminal Courts Building
"a Ape.ectives Thomas, Reith and Russo
~ ~ was subsequently admitted to
S|ss SzsM bail on both counts.
~ nfst indictment returned against
aer head Of the automobile squad
on 1gay q 1917 = Buick car
New-York tribune., 1921-03-25
Lies Down to Die Beside
Wife He Slew, and Sleeps
East Side Man Stabs Himself AZ
ter Fatal Quarrel, but Awakcs
to Face Crime Charge

Andrew zakar, a painter, Of $50
East Eighteenth Street. stabbed his
wife to death in their fiat Wednesday
night and then, after cutting his own
throat, lay down beside the woman's
body to die. Instead, he fell asleep and
did not awake until yesterday morning,
according to statement he made to
the police at the East Eightieth Street
station.
Zakar approached Patrolman Curry
at East Eighty-hfth Street and Third
Avenue yesterday soon after noon and
explained what had happened. Later,
at the police station, he said he had
accused his wife of having been mar
ried in Hungary before he met her and
of having concealed the fact. In the
quarrel that ensued he stabbed her
and then choked her with a pillow
until she died.
after I cut my own throat I thought
was going to die," said zakar, $50
lay down on the bed beside my wife,
Instead Of dying 1 went to sleep and
when l awoke had not the courage to
end it, so told the policeman"
New-York tribune., 1921-03-25
From a staD corre.po pordsna

~
LAKEWOOD, N. j.. March 24--rn
face of the charges publicly leveled
at her in Supreme Court at White
Plains yesterday, Mrs. Anne Uruuhart
Stillman, wife of the president Of the
National City Bank, appeared before
reporters and photographers at Laurel.
in-thc-Pines this afternoon with the
same nonchalant attitude that she has
worn since the divorce suit against
her opened. For more than week
word was sent daily from her suite
that an interview might be expected
but, following q conference with her
lawyers. she has decided to remain
silent on the subject of the divorce
action brought by her husband, and
her counter charges.
She repudiates a message published
in morning paper yesterday purport.
ing to have come from her. Her
formal statement to reporters relative
to the marital tangle in which she is
involved is:
"Thank< you for your courtesy, o1
which I am duly appreciative. MY af-
fairs are entirely Ill the hands of my
lawyers"
Cordial on Other Topics
While her lips are firmly sealed in
this respect, she is otherwise frank
and friendly. She cut a jaunty figure
as she came out on the tennis court
to-day to speak to reporters whom she
has been holding off from day to day
pending the hearing at White Plains.
She wore a dashing Stuart tartan
skirt, short and pleated, pewter gray
coat with enveloping sash and henna
duvetyn tam. a. handsome moonstone
ring took the place of her wedding cir.
clet on the third finger of her left hand
and she wore string of large pearls
1t was difficult to believe that so youth
full figure could be the mother of q
grown-up son and daughter, in addition
to nine-year-old boy, and also Baby
Guy, whose legitimacy is assailed. She
confessed to fatigue to-day, but none
of it was apparent in the clear sparkle
of her brown eyes or the healthy glow
of her skin.
Two detectives stood guard in the
tennis court to see that no moving pic
ture operators bothered Mrs. Stillman
one mas repeatedly expressed her aver
sion to having screen' pictures taken
either Of herself or the children. Ex-
tending her hand in firm, boyish fash
ion to the assembled reporters she took
in her surroundings in rapid survey
the rain drizzling on the lawn, the
curious glances from the hotel windows
facing on the tennis courts and Alec
and Guy in their nursery window look
ing down on her and waving encour-
through the mill with cameras and
knew how it was done.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-25
Three Accuse Alleged Fagin

"A charge that he had been sending
hcxs to various Brooklyn department
stores to steal was made yesterday
against Elias Haick, proprietor of a
candy shop at 230 Atlantic Avenue,
when he was arraigned in the Adams
Street court.
FoY of the seven boys who are al
legged to have been stealing for Haick
have been arrested. They are Thomas
Scanlon, eleven years old, 100 Boerum
Place; James Allen, ten, Of 233 Pacific
Street; Columbus Carolla, nine, of 224
Pacific Street, and John Ferazzo,
twelve, of SO Dean Street. Three of
them were in court yesterday to tes-
tify. They said Haick sent them to
the stores and bought any loot they
brought back.
The acused man was held in $1,000
bail on charge of criminally receiy-
ing stolen goods.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-25
Freed Suspects Rearrested
3 Alleged Pennsylvania Bank
Robbers Get Habeas Corpus Writ

After being discharged by Magis-
trate Levine in the Tombs court Stew
art S. Wallace, Charles Stark and
Harry Bernstein were rearrested yes
terday on extraditon warrants issued
by the Governor of Pennsylvania, where
the three men are wanted in connec-
ton with daylight hold-up of the
Peoples Trust Company, of Wyomis-
sing, Pa, in which $185,000 in securities
We're stolen.
After the three men were taken back
to the Tombs the law firm of Fallon &
McGee obtained writ of habeas corpus
in the Supreme Court in an effort to
have them released from custody. Jus
tice Blur set down the hearing for
April 5 and remanded Wallace, Stark
and Bernstein to the .Tombs.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-25
Supplies Offered to Keep
Sing Sing Bulletin Going

OSSINING, March 24.--Warden Lewis
E. Lawes, of Sing Sing Prison has Just
received four offers to provide psner
and material for the printing Of the
Sing Sing Bulletin, which suspended
publication because of insufficient
funds. These offers came from B. Or
den Chisholm, Frank knight, John
Schoenfield and the Prison Association
of New York.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-25

COLUMBUS, Ohio, March 24.-Mayor
Thomas to-day ordered his safety di-
rector to issue orders to police to pro-
hibit the sale on the streets of both The
Dearborn Independent and Philadel-
phia publication known as Facts, prin-
cipal newspapers pro and con in the
anti-Semitic discussion.
Rabbi Joseph s. Kornfeld and other
Jewish leaders asked that sale of both
papers be prohibited. Sale of the paper
Facts on downtown streets last Sunday
night created disturbance that threat
ened to become riotous uLtil the news
boys were recalled.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-25
Creat.Crandfather of 50 Dies

GALENA, III, March 24.-Henry
FLEECE. ninety-nine years old, died at his
home near here to-day. He had resided
there seventy-nine years. He never had
been ill day in his life. and never had
doctor bill. His good health slogan
was "early to bed and early to rise" He
is survived by twenty-five grandchildren
and fifty-two great-grandchildren