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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-03
Nurse Killed, Three
Others Injured in
Auto Crash i'm Fog
Girl Crushed to Death by
Touring Car and Man
Is Held in $4,000 Bail;
Cycle Fatal to Police Chief

Margaret Baldwin, twenty-thr years
old, q nurse in the Sea View Hospital,
Staten Island, was fatally injured yes
terday when an automobile in which
she was riding was struck in a heavy
fog at the junction of Amboy Road and
Richmond Avenue by car driven by
Henry Pfuhler, of 900 Manor Road,
West Brighton, She was removed to
Richmond Memorial Hospital, Staten
lslano, suffering from fractured skull
and died several hours later.
Katherine Burke, twenty-five years
old, also a nurse at the Sea View Hos
pital, who was riding with Miss Bald
win. and Helen Dean, who OWES the
car. suffered decorations of the face
eighth Street, New York City, who was
with Pfuhler, suffered decorations Of
the scalp and COMMISSIONS. The nurses
were on their way to the hospital from
Miss Deans home when the other auto
mobile turned into Amboy Road from
Richmond Avenue and crashed into
them. No arrests were made.
Ffees After killing Girl
Margaret Smith, sixteen years old, of
$50 East Seventy-frst Street, was run
down and killed shortly before noon
yesterday by small touring car at
Eightieth Street and First Avenue. The
driver of the car escaped.
Detectives of the East Eighty-frst
Street Station, who were assigned to
the case, later arrested Samuel Ruben
stein, of ID Moser Street, Brooklyn. He
was arraigned before Magi strate Man
cuso on q technical charge of homicide
in connection with the death of the
Smith girl. Rubenstein was released in
$4,000 BAIL supplied by a business
partner.
WHITE PLAINS, N. Y, Sept. q
William Zimmeet, Of 1853 West 122d
Street, New York City, was crushed to
death by q motor truck here last night.
1t is said that zimmeet was attempting
to board moving truck when he fell
and was crushed by the wheel. A
technical charge of homicide was pre-
ferred against Harold Brazier, of II
Riverview Place, Yonkers, the driver,
pending investigation
Police Chief Killed
WESTFIELD. N j.. Sept. Chief
of Police Florance O'Suli1van. of Scotch
Plains, was killed tonight in q motor
cycle accident He was found at Law
renee Avenue and Springfield Road in
an unconscious condition, his sidecar
motor overturned His death occurred
within a short time.
Chlef O'Sullivan was forty years old
and had been at the head of Scotch
Plains Police Department for ten wears.
He is survived by wife and two chill
drep
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-03
Girl Testifying for
Cunson Says He Is
Conspiracy Victim
New Witness Tells of Plot
Against Patrolman Who
Is Accused of Accepting
Money From Women

Patrolman John J. Gunson, accused
of Illegally protecting disorderly houses
and accepting money from women
while a detective in the 4th Inspection
District during 1917, was up for hear
ing again yesterday in his trial at Po-
lice Headquarters before Deputy Po-
lice Commissioners Leach, DAILY and
Simon.
Gunson denied charges that he was
in a house in West Ninety-seventh
Street in the early morning of Septem-
Der II, 1917, where, it is alleged, he
met Rebecca Melyado, also known as
Billy Howard, one of the women ac-
cusers. At that time Gunson is ac-
cused of having placed a revolver at
the head of man named Crowley and
threatened to shoot him.
. Gunson produced his memorandum
book in evidence as we'll as the blotter
OF the West F'orty-seventh Street sta
ton to show his movements on the
night in question. The records show he
was in Night Court until 1920 o. M.
Other evidence tends to show that he
arrested man in West 109th Street at
2.35 a. m.
A new witness appeared in the case
at yesterdays hearing, Julia Morris, of
2514 Mermaid Avenue, Coney Island.
Miss Morris swore the charges against
Gunson were due to conspiracy in
which Rebecca Melyado and other
women of the underworld were in
volved.
1t was said that Miss Morris ap-
peared as voluntary witness. She
telephoned Police Headquarters, it was
said, and announced her desire to tell
what she knew about the case. The
witness testified that she had been in
search of an apartment last January.
when she met Lena Kleinfelt, Rebecca
Melyado and several other women at
Twenty-second Street and Seventh Ave-
nue.. Miss Melyado, she said, told her
she intended to "get" Gunson by
charging that he had blackmailed her.
Attorney Grace Humiston, represent
ing Miss Melyado, asked for time to
investigate the witness She said the
young woman was unknown to her.
Commissioner Leach granted an ad-
Journment to September 81.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-03
Governor and Assembly
May Clash on Bonus
Speaker Machold Announces
He Is in Favor of Increased
Budget to Paw Soldiers
Special Ddspatch to The Tribun

1PecN~ bt6pGLch 10 The ITthunS
SYRACUSE. N. Y, Sept. 2.-C!ashes
IN the next Legislature between groups
headed by Speaker E. H. MachoId and
Governor Miller over the soldier bonus
were made virtually certain TO-DAY bv
MIR. Machold's declaration that he
you'd try to force immediate action in
favor OF paying service men.
This is in contradiction to the plan
announced by Governor Miller. who
favors constitutional amendment to
make possible the issuance of bonds
tor the payment OF the bonus.
The Speaker is opposed to this pro-
ceedure and urges immediate taxation
to meet the emergency created by the
ruling of the Court of Appeals. H
takes the position that the people who
voted for the project by majority of
more than 100000 may be expected
to forgive and support a state govern
ment that would increase the state
budget for this reason.
Governor Miller has had in view
budget reductions of 1921 as a plat
form for the Republicans in 1922
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-03
Auto Fugitives Outstrip
Police Pursuit in Taxis
Abandon Machine Supposedly
Stolen. but Get Away as
Bullets FIv Over Heads

Two patrolmen in taxicabs running
fifty miles an hour, firing revolvers as
they chased a big touring car in which
six men were crouched, lodging bull
let's, attracted big crowd to the
vicinity of Seventh Avenue and 125th
Street shortly after midnight this
morning.
Some one shouted to Patrolman
Walter c. Brown, of Traffic c, who was
on 4aty at 125th Street, that the big
car which flashed past him at high.
speed had been stolen Brown com
Wandered a passing taxi and gave
chase. When the touring car passed
Patrolnlan George Fillhart at Seventh
Avenue and 123rd Street he ordered IT
to halt, but the command was ignored
He too seized a cab and joined the
chase. Both patrolmen urged their
chauffeurs to greater speed as the
larger car was slowly drawing ahead.
The three machines careened through
Seventh Avenue into 123d Street. the
fugitive machine then turning into
Morningside Avenue, where it sudden
ly stopped The five men in it scram-
bled to the pavement and scattered.
Five shots were fired by Brown and
Fillhart in the course of the pursuit
The car was abandoned at 121sf
Street and Morningside Avenue. It wax
taken to the 125th Street police station
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-03
'Hurrah for Liberty!' Cry
Of Man in Death Leap
Suicide Suspended for Moment
in Air as Coat Catches on
Greensboro Bridge

man crying "Hurrah for liberty!"
jumped from the Greensboro Bridge
yesterday at point more than 1875
feet above the river, and was drowned.
He clambered through the steel work
of the bridge from the promenade to
the railing near the Queens tower,
swung his arms, yelled his slogan and
leaped. His coat saught on a projec-
ton of the structure, and for mo-
ment he was suspended by the gar
ment. Then it ripped in half and he
plunged, whirling, to the water.
Boys who were swimming near the
spot said that he never came up.
Papers found in pocket of the sew
cred coat indicated that the man might
have been q steamship steward. His
straw hat which was picked up in the
river, had the initial "U" stamped
in it
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-03
Unemployment Facts
ShotUn BY The Tribune

New York's unemployment
problem, as disclosed by an inves-
tigation conducted by The Trib-
une, is due largely to the presence
of idle transients.
Forty per cent of the city's
army Of unemployed, or 100000
out Of 100000, are men whose
homes are elsewhere.
Only a small proportion of the
$4,000 unemployed x-service men
are residents.
A total of $4,000 seamer are
among the visiting unemployed.
Of these, at least $4,000 are
aliens who prefer to be idle in
New York rather than in their
home ports.
Some of the idle sojourning
here admit they are waiting for
cooler. weather before they take
jobs open for them at home.
Officials engaged in relief work
assert that the situation would be
only slightly above the normal of
pre-war times if the out-of-town
idle could be eliminated.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-03
Constable Shot to Death
In Battle i'm Darkness
State Trooper and Fugitive Are
Wounded in Raid on AL
legged Chicken Thieves

HARRISBURG, Pa, Sept. "A pis-
toll battle in the darkness in a small
room at Liverpool, twenty miles north
of here, early to-day resulted in the
killing of Thomas. Ulsh, a constable,
and the wounding of E. C.. Wilson, a
member of the state police, and Row
Jones, an alleged member of a gang
OF chicken thieves. Wilson was Shot
twice IN the chest, and physicians say
his chances for recovery are slight.
The fight occurred at the home of
Daniel Benner when the officers at
tempted to arrest Benner and his son
Charles. AS they entered the house
one of the occupants knocked over the
light and began to shoot Wilson fell
at the first volley. The police returned
the fire, and q moment later Ulsh was
killed.
Jones and the Benners then fed to
the mountains, followed by posse of
state police and farmers. Daniel
Benner and Jones were captured after
a fight, in which Jones was shot in
the neck. Search still is being made
for the other fugitive
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-03
Capt. vogelsang Compliments
Naval Reseryists on Drill

Six hundred naval reservists on
board Eagle boats and subchasers re-
turned from a two weeks cruise on
the Maine coast yesterday and were
inspected by Captain c. 7. Vogelsang,
of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, command
ant of the I'd Naval District. The in
spection took place off the West Ninety
sixth Street naval landing. Owing to a
thick fog, it was impossible to hold a
review, and the inspection was con-
fined to general quarters and gun drill.
CO Mnandant vogelsang said the ex-
hibition given by the men would have
been creditable to regular naval
crew. The reservists are from New
York, Vermont and Connecticut. The
feet comprises eight Eagle boats and
four subchasers.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-03
Girl Swimmer Completes First
2O.Mile Ian of Hudson Trip

ALBANY, Sept. miss Mile Gade,
the Danish woman swimmer, who left
here early to-day with the announced
intention of swimming down the Hudson
River to New York, WAS rcport~< to
have reached New Baltimore, approx
matefy twenty miles from here, at late
hour tonight. 1t was said she intended
to resume her long distance swim early
tomorrow.
Miss Gade is accompanied by a pilot
in launch. Before taking to the water
ma launch. Before taking tn the water
here, she said that she would not go
ashore during her journey, hut would
rest aboard the launch.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-03
Kraus Will Held
Forgery; Gave
Woman Million


had consulted Mr.. Thomas in $ legal
matter and met Mr. Kraus. She tes-
tilted that he referred to mis- wife and
daughte- Upon rsoss-exarination she
was asked whether Mr.. Kraus had not
said, my daughter and her mother
Mrs Shonts was not positive, but she
believed Mr. Kraus referred to his
"wife."
Miss Brummell, the mother Of Nrs.
Thomas. the referee said, was a fore
woman in the factories of the Eagle
Pencil Company in yonkers and in
New York. City.
Provision for Mrs. Thomas
Mr.. Kraus provided for Mrs. Thomas,
whose parentage he did not deny, until
the time OF her marriage. In a letter
written to friend in 1909 he said II
personally have no reason to be
ashamed Of anything | have done in
this matter. simply stood BIZ end
watched the fate Of this child and.
after she WAS married, l felt n lieved
of all further responsibility"
On one occasion Mary G .Kraus. 81 Miss
Brumuell was known. is alleged to have
stated to one Franklyn Quinby that
she and Mr.. Kraus were never married
She is further alleged TO have said her
friendship with him dated from
banquet that the Eagle Pencil Conn
pany gave at the ST. Denis Hotel, and
at the time that she had drunk too
much wine.
Referee SAKE said that the testimony
given by Mr. and Mrs Thomas r1ro-,
the hearings before him. was .-un-
worthy Of belief" Mr. SAKE referred
to the testimony Of Mrs Thomas that
Mr.. Kraus spent practically all his
time when in the city at the home OF
herself and mother during the wears
from 1898 to 1905.
Then she vas confronted with her
letters to one Cassius Quinby,' said the
referee, land the truth came out; ans
we find that during the very period
from 1900 to 1905 the residence was
the home OF lonely woman and her
young daughter. The life led by these
individuals annihilades any conceivable
presumption that there was any matri-
monial relation between Samuel Kraus
and Mary G. Kraus during that PERIOD
Oscar B. Thomas, charged by the
referee with the forgery OF the Kraus
will. is native of London. Ohio He
formerly practiced law in that state.
in 1895. Mr.. and Mrs Thomas were
married in 1903 in Newark and have
three children. They live at $50 West
Eighty-eighth Street and have sum
mer home in Greenwich, Conn Mr.
Thomas was said to be in Greenwich
yesterday when a reporter called at
his Office
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-03
50-Million Merger Made
By Picture Distributors
Chicago Deal Will Put Several
Leading Screen Notables
Under One Banner
Special Dispatch to The Tribune


CHICAGO, Sept. "A $4,000 900
moving picture combine was completed
to-day when the Associated Producers
and the First National Association
voted to unite. The deal involves
Constance Talmadge. Norma Talmadge,
Mack Sennett, Thomas Ince, Charlie
Chaplin, Buster" Keaton and Charles
Ray.
The First National controls $500
theaters in the United States. The
agreement is for three years.
"This amalgamat jon will assure ex-
hibitors and theater owners a depend
able source of supply from leading
producers" said AL Lichtman, general
manager of the Associated Producers.
"It will enable theater owners to give
shows proportionate to pocketbooks."
Oscar Price, president of the Asso-
ciated Producers R(bert Lieber, presi-
dent of the First National; Nathan
Gordon, treasurer of the First Ma
tional; Harry Schwable, Sam Katz and
E. M. Ascher were present hen the
deal was closed.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-03
Shot, Crawls 4 Miles.
Waits 2 Days for Doctor
Harvard Teacher Then Carried
Twelve Miles on Stretcher
to Railroad

PORTLAND, Me-, Sept Iceland C.
Wyman. teaching fellow at Harvard
University, who was shot in the right
leg by the accidental discharge of his
revolver while near Saddleback Noun
tain Tuesday, was brought to local
hospital to-day. He fell from a cliff,
causing the discharge of the weapon,
which was strapped to his side. He
crawled four miles toward his camp,
and his wife carried him the last 200
yards.
1t was two days before physician
could be obtained. Then the wounded
man was taken twelve miles on a
stretcher to Oquossoc and placed on
train.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-03
Woman Drives OF Bandit
After l5-Minute Battle
Cries Attract Battalion of Neigh
bors in Grand Street, bu.
Fake Gas Insrecfor Esc.raS

Mrs. Rachael Solomon, fifty years
old. of 440 Grand Street, was attacked
in her room late yesterday and beaten
with blackjack by a fake gas inspec-
tor. Mrs. Solomon fought the intruder
fifteen minutes. He struck her re-
peatedly and tried to tear from her
ears diamond earrings valued az $1,000
Finding Mrs. SoloniaT. a match for
nam i,m IN strength, the raAAer ran cut Of
the apartment, which is on tie ffth
floor, and fought his way through a
crowd of neighbors attracted by the
woman's cries. By the time he yeacAed
the main floor nearly & hundred women
had congregated in front CT the hoage.
Several tried to hold the man, wAo sue
ceeded IN escaping. A policeman could
not be found for half hour.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-03
Widow Gets $4,000 in Suit
Against Husbands SLAYER

Surrogate Wingate yesterday al
lowed Mrs. Nettie Bridgetts, of. 1917
Dahill Road, Brooklyn, to settle for
$4,000 her action for 100000 against
Charles T. Davis for the killing of her
husband, Detective Sergeant Joseph
Bridgetts, Davis shot Bridgetts while
he was in the formers surgical in
strument store, at 221 Dufield Street,
Brooklyn, February /.
The money was paid yesterday to
Philip A. Brennan, counsel for Mrs.
Fridgetts, by Burroughs, Brown &
Kerfoot, attorneys for Davis. who IS
now in Matteawan Hospital for Crimi-
nal Insane,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-03
Fights Three Policemen
For Ride i'm ssBathtub"
Bibulous Admirer of PATROL
mans Sidecar Wins Point
and Suspended Sentence

The fascination which a patrolma n $
sidecar held for Patrick Kelly, sixty
years old. OF T2f Madison Street.
Brooklyn, later charged with intoxica-
ton, gained him ride To the Bedford
Avenue Station yesterday but he had
to fight three policemen before he at
tanned his goal.
Kelly declared his desire to ride an
that bathtub" to Patrelman Albert
Bruder, Of the Bedford Avenue Sta
ton, and insisted TO the point where
Brnder called the patrol wagon.
The bathtub or nothing" Kelly
cried, and fought so furiousiy with the
three policeman that he gained his
point. Once in the 'sbathtub," how
ever, Kelly was overcome with his vic
tory, and fell fast asleep.
He received suspended sentence
yesterday from Magistrate Short in
the Bridge Plaza Police Court.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-03
Indict Richard for Taking
Fight Films to Chicago
Jurors Give Dempsey-Carpen-
tier Inpresario Chance TO
Test Once-in-,Ieopardv Plea
Dispatch to The Tribans

Sr@cEu Dsspdfch TO ne 4 'oaHs
CHICAGO. Sept. 2.-The Federal
grand Jury tonight returned an indict-
ment against Tex Richard, fight pro-
moter, charging a violation of the
Federal law prohibiting interstate ship
ment of films depicting prizefights.
1t is charged Richard brought the
E I'm Of the Dempsey Carpenter contest
from New Jersey to Chicago. Bonds
were fixed at $4,000.
Richard brought the films to Chicago
to test the law. In similar instance
in New York he was arrested. indicted
and after pleading guilty was fined
$1,000. Rickard then commended that
he could not be arrested and fined
again for the same offense.
District Attorney Charles r. Ciyne
declared to-day that if Richard at
tempts to show the films in Chicago
he will be locked up at once. and I'll
have him rearresred every time he
tries it, declared Clyne.
1t is said here that Richards profits
from the showing Of the pictures in
New York amounted to more 1han
81 600 ,O00
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-03
Miss Agnew, Carelessly Shot
Bv Hunter. is Recovering

Miss Alice Agnew, daughter of Cor
nelius R. Agnew, president of the
County Trust Company of White
Plains, who was shot in the neck with
spent bullet Thursday while she was
riding horseback near her fathers es-
tate at Armonk. was reported last night
by Presbyterian Hospital surgeons to
be recovering. The parents of the
young woman have remained with her
constantly since the shooting.
An investigation by state troopers
leads to the belief that the bullet
which struck Miss Agnew was fired
from high-powered sporting rife of
small caliber by boys who were hunt
ing on the 70o-acre tract included in
the Agnew PROPERTY.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-03
Newark Negroes Warned Not
To Oppose Ku-klux Khan

A letter signed "Ku-Klux Khan
warning negroes of Newark against OPP
posing that society, was received yes
terday at the headquarters of the Ma
tional Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People, 27s Bank
Street, Newark.
The writer said he was not mem
Der of the Ku-Klux Khan, but Of a
somewhat similar organization. He ad-
dressed his letter to the National Col
ored Peoples Association" 1t was
turned over to Federal authorities in
Newark.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-03

Michael Yacorino. who shot himself
at his home, 140 Third Street. Long
Island City, Thursday night, was said
yesterday by members Of his family
co have tried to end his life in fear that
his landlord intended to Institute dis
possess proceedings. He il at ST.
Johns Hospital in = serious condition.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-03

An aerial bomb, unloaded, but con-
tanning percussion cap, was found in
Mclaughlin Park, Jay Street, Brook
lyn, yesterday by five-year-old Charles
Zucchi, of SO Lawrence Street, while
at play. The child carried the bomb
to his father, who turned it in at the
Adams Street police station.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-03
Me;ehen for Women Senators

LONDON, Ont, Sept. 2.-EHofts 70
have the British North America act
amended so that women can serve IN
the Senate of Canada were pledged to-
dav bv Premier Meighen in case his
Unionist government is returned to
power at the coming general election.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-03
Employment Gains Seen
In Chicago and Boston
FiUe Men for Every Ts1o Jobs
in Illinois District; Building
Trades Improving in E0sk

Special Dispatch to The Tribune
CHICAGO, Sept. 2.--Director Boyd,
OF the State Employment Department,
said to-day that jobs were becoming
more plentiful in the Chicago district,
He had observed slight increase in
August, although there are still five
men for every two jobs. A short time,
ago the ratio was eleven men for every
four jobs.
BOSTON, Sept. "A decided i'm
provement in business for August as
compared with July, but falling off
from the condition of August, 1920, is
shown by the records of the state free
employment office here, Superintendent
G. Harry Dunderdale said tonight.
The number OF orders from employers