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New-York tribune., 1922-11-04
Two Bandits h,,.led
AS They Flee Train
With Mail + Pouches
Veteran Missouri Rail Rob-
Der and Comrades Reach
for Gums When PosfoFice
Men Order Them to Halt

WITTENBERG, Mo-, Nov. 8 (By The
Associated Press).--Jack Kennedy,
veteran Missouri train robbcr, known
as the "QuaiI Hunter and Harvey
Logan, formerly q railroad employee,
were shot and killed early to-day by
postoffice inspectors, after they had
robbed mail car ON southbound
passenger train OF the St. Louis San
Francisco Railroad. The stolen mall,
about 100 registered letters, was re-
covered.
Six postorice inspectors. three rail-
road special agents and two deputy
sheriffs were waiting near the scene
OF the robbery, which had been antici-
pated through knowledge of Kennedy's
previous moyem ents.
Kennedy and Logan were making for
their automobile with the stolen mail
when the officers ordered them to halt.
Inspector Bob Ward, Of ST. Louis,
who was in charge of the officers, said
the bodies Of the two robbers were
found with revolvers clutched In their
hands. A coroner's held an inquest
before daylight and returned a verdict
Of juatifiable homicide.
Describing the robbery, inspectors
said that Kennedy and his companion
stopped tHe Train, NO. Sud, running
from st. Louis to Memphis at Seventy
six, station seven and one half miles
north Of here. Logan cut the mail and
express car from the rest Of the train.
The engineer and fireman were
ordered Off the locomotive, and Ken
nedy took the two ears down the track
several miles toward Wittenberg
Stopping the locomotive, the two ban
dts entered the mail car. The three
clerks were lined up against wall
Kennedy inspected the mail, taking
several pouches to the cab of the loco
motive. The locomotive then was de-
tached and Kennedy and Logan rode to
Wittenberg. About $50 yards from the
station the two jumped from the en-
gine and left 1t running wild. Nearby
was their automobile, and concealed in
the brush along the right of way were
the officers.
Inspector. Ward shouted the com
mand to halt. 1t was briught moon
light, and t. Offices could see the
robbers reach for their weapons. Sew
eral of the officers opened fire and the
bandits fell.
Kennedy had q record of seven train
robberies within three years-1s96 ia
1S99-and had served twelve wears in
the Missouri penitentiary for the lat
est of these robberies. He had been a,
liberty since 1912. His movements for
several weeks have been watched con-
stantly.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-04
CarssonDenied Immunity
I'm Day Liquor Inquiry
Club Member Refuses to Waive
Rights, go Clark Declines
to Hear Testimony

Murray Carson, member of the
Republican Club, who is said to have
lent $4,000 to Ralph A. Day while Mr.,
Day was prohibition director, responded
to Federal grand jury subpoena yes
terday, but declined to waive his right
to immunity as witness if he testified.
Under these conditions we cannot
hear your testimony" said John Hol-
ley Clark, Assistant United States At
torney, "for I cannot grant you i'm
munity."
Mr.. Carson, who was to have been
the principal witness Of the day in the
grand jury inquiry into alleged liquor
law irregularities, being conducted by
Mr. Clark, left the Federal building
and the inquiry proceeded without
him.
Frederick W. Henkel, a ,bookkeeper
for r. A. Day & Co, continued his
testimony, going over the books and
records Of Mr.. Days company, explain
ing entries and transactions and each
Cancelled check and note which was
produced. He is said to have gone
into the company's correspondence
with three banks also
Mr.. Clark had talks during the day
with several prohibition enforcement
agents and other government detec-
tives inquiring, it is said, concerning
the disappearance of liquor seized in
raid in the Bronx.
Mr.. Day said that the investigation
had interrupted his plan for Euro
pear trip, and until it was finished he
would apply himself to his cloak and
suit business at 1876 Madison Avenue.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-04
Says Friends Repaid
Hospitality by Robbery
jerseymarl at Continental Hotel
Alleges Pair Tried to Escape
With His VaIuahIes

The good Samaritan idea doesn't 3D.
peal to Charles T. Anderson, Of Engle-
wood, N. j., after what happened yes
terday When he appeared in Jeffer-
son Market Court against Edward
Brady. no address, and William Moore
OF AZ Congress- Street, BROOKLYN
charged with grand larceny, he told
OF taking the two men in out of the
rain and thst they repaid his hospital
ity by attempting to steal $4S0 in
money and jewels.
Anderson, who says he is a valet for
samuel Prosser, president OF the Bank
ers trust Company, explained that he
accidentally met Moore, an old acquaint
ance, and. as it was raining, decided
to spend the night at the Hotel Con-
tinental, Forty-frst Street and Broad
way Moore and his companion came,
too. Early yesterday morning, Ander-
son said, ne awoke and saw the two
youths going through the window with
his money, gold belt. cuff links and
other jewelry. They tried 20 stop him
from reaching the telephone, but he
called for help ard both men were cap
tured by Detective Hyde and Patrol
man Garry, who held up the men from
the street as they appeared ON one Of
the hotel balconies.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-04
SlOO,OOO Blaze DESTROYS
Bronx Amusement Hall
Flames Discovered by Watch.
man Spread Widely Before
Firemen Arrive

q spectacular fire early yesterday
morning in Starlight Amusement Park.
l77th Street and East fremont Avenue.
the Bronx, destroyed the 100000
dance hall and roller skating rink.
The blaze was discovered by the
watchman, Charles Totorci, of 317 East
ll6th Street, who found flames issuing
from the coat room The telephone
connection had already been burned
away and he was forced to run block
and half to a frebox BY the time
the first apparatus arrived the struc-
ture was enyeloped in flames and
shower of sparks were falling on the
other buildings. Two more alarms
were sounded and for an hour and a
half the fremen had hard battle to
keep the flames from spreading.
huge section Of the roof, 150 feet in
length, fell in with crash. but no one
was injured.
After the fire had been virtually ex-
t'nguished gas meter fuse was burned
out, opening three-inch gas. main.
winch shot column of flame fifty feet
into the air. This caused another hours
work on the part of men from fbe
bronx Gas and Electric Company to
tear UP the street and shut off the
main. wy
The spectacle drew an inmensa
crowd, which necessitated the callinp
OF reserves from three police stations.
1t is believed the fire was caused Nv
an overheated coal stove.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-04
Oil-Soaised Ducks Are
Killed With a Club

CAPE MAY, N. j., Nov. 81
Fred Williams, grandson of Mayor
Melvin, knocked four ducks over
the head with stick this morn
ing, and reported that the sport
was almost too tame to be fun.
All four birds had been covered
with refuse oil dropped over by
tankers approaching the Della
ware Capes, and consequently
none of them had been able to
rise from the marsh when he ap-
preached.
The word that duck could be
had without effort was the first
good news that has come in about
the oil which covers the water
around here. Several hundred
thousand surf clans already have
been rendered uneatable by the
scum, and the softshell crabs
which usually are picked up next
month, are expected to be a total
loss. Protests have been made to
the Federal authorities.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-04
Held as Slave s Years,
White. Farmland Charges
Georgia Officers, in Murder Evil
dence Hunt, Find the Man
at Suspect's Home
From, C Special Correapondent


ATLANTA, Ga, Nov. a.--The first
charge by a white man that he had
been held in peonage by another white
man in the history of the South came
80 light to-day as result of investi-
cation of the mysterious murder of
James Langsdon, a mail carrier, whose
death was caused by the blows of an
ak.
Five men are under arrest in the
murder case, including John Waller,
Fayette County farmer. When officers
searched his place for evidence they
found Pony Thompson, hfry-nine years
old, dressed in ragged clothing, who
told them that he had been kept In
servitude for eight years.
Turned over to the Department Of
Justice, he said he had gone on the
Waller farm to. work on fifty-fifty
basis, but Waller had seized the entire
crop. The next year he worked there
again on a salary basis. Once he ran
away, but was returned on a warrant
charging violation of labor contract.
Once. more he tried, but failed. Since
thHt tine he had been kept on the farm
through fear of arrest if he left, He
says that in the eight years he got only
$50. 80 J
officers believe Langsdon was mur-
dered by moonshiners, who believed he
had caused revenue raid.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-04
Mrs. Phillips Again
Ch harges Witness
Beat Rival to Deatl,
Woman Accused of Hammer
Staying Repeats Story
That Mrs. Meadows Had
Admitted Love for Mate

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 8.-Mrs. Clara
Phillips retold here to-day her story
Of the Staying OF Mrs. Alberta Mead
ows, for which she is on trial for mur-
der, under cross-exanination by Dep
uty District Attorney Charles w
Fricke. She adhered to her assertion
that Mrs. Peggy Chaffee assailed Mrs
Meadows with hammer. She also in
sisted that Mrs. Meadows had admitted
an intimacy with her husband, Armour
Phillips.
Defense Attorney Bertram Herring
ton announced he would not call Phil
lirs as witness. and that he expected
to be able to rest his case Monday.
Fricke asked Mrs. Phillips who gave
her the information on which she based
the charge she said she made to Mrs
Meadows that Phillips had bought the
latter wrist watch and set of auto
mobile tires.
Must answer that7" Mrs. Phillips
asked her attorney.
yes" replied Harrington.
Mrs. Phillips said it was Mrs. Julian
McElroy, a witness in the case.
"Why did you hesitate in answer
ing2" Fricke asked
"Well, Mrs. McElroy had the nam IF
being a gossip in the neighborhood and
consider her good friend Of NINE"
Reverting to the time Of the Staying,
July 12 last, Mrs. Phillips said she and
Mrs. Meadows struck and kicked and
wrestled with each other and she was
struck so many times she could not
remember the number. She said she
was sure Mrs. Caffee struck Mrs.
Meadows more than once on the head
with the hammer and that the blows
were hard ones.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-04
Co..rtW e,1aldTr Poison
Run, Sellers for Murder
spsciot Dtspatoa 10 Tho ry,sun,


ST. PAUL, Nov. 3.---That
charges of murder, not bootleg
ging, should Da laid against sell
lers Of poisoned liquor was the
declaration Of Federal Judge Page
Morris, the terror of Minnesota
moonshiners, in Federal District
Court, at Minneapolis to-day.
Attorneys for A. Wreitz and
William Gorcyca, proprietors Of
roadhouse near Minneapolis,
had made a motion for dismissal
Of the charge Of bootlegging
against them, on the ground that
the liquor seized by the officers
making the arrest contained
poison.
In denying the motion, Judge
Morris laid down the dictum "if
these men have been selling liquor
that contained fcrrnaidehyde, car
bolic acid or other poisons, they
should be tried for murder, not
for bootlegging."
New-York tribune., 1922-11-04
Malone Gets 3
To Years for
Buffalo Graft
Ex-City Commissioner Sem
.lfenced to Auburn Prison:
Other Officials and Busi-
mess Mem Get Short Terms
VIII Ask for New Trial
Sl5O,OOO Involved i'm Frauds
Through False Vouchers;
Inquiry May Show More

BUFFALO, Nov. 3.-The last chapter
in riot Of graft by city officials was
written in County Court to-day when
John F. Malone, former City Commits
sioner and once q member Of the state
Legislature; three members Of his staff
in the Department of Parks and four
business men were sentenced to county
and state prisons and fined
Malone's sentence OF three and a
half to seven years in Auburn Prison
was the heaviest imposed. He was I'm
mediately taken to jsil, whore he will
remain until November 8, when Su-
preme Court judge will hear argu-
ments for and against rctrial.
The others sentenced were Frank G.
Winston, Malone's private secretary,
two to five years in Auburn: Frederick
p. Kulls auditor Park Department, two
TO five years in Auburn; Albert C.
Febrey, Fairgrounds director and Ma
to five yeats in Auburn; Edward J.
Suor, former president Eastern Oil
Company. one to three years In, Au-
burn; Frank Roskitalski. coal dealer,
one year in county penitentiary; John
w. Herlan, grocer, fined $500, prison
sentence suspended pending restitution
of stolen funds, and Elmer Schastzer,
clerk, sentence suspended.
All except Commissioner Malone
pleaded guilty. Malone's trial lasted
week and the jury returned verdict
of guilty, being out less than an hour
The total peculations disclosed by
expert accountants was about $4,000
but it is believed further examinations
of the Park Department books would
bring the total up to s26o,o00
During Malone's trial 1t was brought
out by system Of false vouchers
prepared by Auditor Kuli large
amounts of money were taken from
the city treasury and divided among
members of the ring. 1t was also
shown that groceries, clothing and coal
were delivered to the commissioner
and members of his staff and paid for
by fradulently drawn vouchers on the
city. Other methods of misappropriat-
ing city funds were by carrying dunn
mics on pay rolls and exacting money
from contractors doing city work.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-04
Boboon Seizes Babylon Estate
Ard Fights Off All Invaders
Police Helpless to Aid Woman Who Inherited
Property as Stray Mascot From Bootleg Craft
Whips Dogs and Plays Hide and Seek With Posses

BABYLON, l.. T., Nov. 3.-Mrs. Will
liam E. Hawkins, who recently inher-
tied the Cornelius Bergen estate, two
miles west of here, has complained to
the police about baboon that has
taken. possession of her property,
which has been moccupied for years
She didn't count on inheriting a
baboon, she said, and has no use for
one.
The police are interested but help
less. They arc certain, from descrip-
tions of the animal, that it is not a
Babylonian baboon and consequently
that it is not within their jurisdiction
A native baboon, with whose habits
they were acquainted, they might
tackle. even if it was domiciled out
side of the town limits, but an alien
bfahoon, they regard sas problem for
Federal authorities
Yesterday Willie Erlinger, thirteen
year-old son Of Charles Erlinger, care
taker Of the Bergen estate, was set
New-York tribune., 1922-11-04
Liquor Prices Fall
As Ships Get Busy
Past -l2-Mile Mark
Smugglers Can't BE Seized
There, So Activities I'm.
crease; Dry Agents MAKE
$25, 900 Raid i'm Bronx

Investigation Of the bootleg curb
market on Fortieth Street, near Times
Square, prior to $4,000 liquor raid
on six-story warehouse in the Bronx
Yesterday, developed the fact that
liquor in Wholesale lots has slumped
So 30 SEE. case as result Of the
State Departments recent thrse-mile
limit ruling anent rum running craft.
The reason FOR the slump is said to
be an increase In liquor smuggling,
easier now because OF removal of the
possibility of seizure twelve miles
from shore.
John d. Appleby, zone chief for New
York and New Jersey, who has been
directing the prohibition navy, admit
ted his encouragement yesterday as
to checking smuggling from the water
side. He said he would notify sheriffs
and others all along the coast to con-
centrate efforts on the land side to
prevent the landing Of rum running
shore.
Mr.. Appleby said no had been notified
| that six ships bearing rum cargoes
| had left Nassau, the Bahamas, in one
week, bound North. This Is record,
| he said,
| Prohibition Agents Peter Rcager
| Charles Guttman and Harry Dreischer
reported that they elbowed and hob
nobbed generally with prospective pur-
chasers on the bootleg curb and finally
announced that they were In the mar
ket for considerable stock. One
broker offered to do business with
them. They charge he took them to
the warehouse Of Santini Bros, ut
AL East 149th Street, the Bronx, where
they were shown largo stock Of
liquors.
The agents promised to return and
were given samples OF the whisky
| They got a search warrant and raided
| the warehouse late yesterday, seizing
ninety-six cases OF Scotch whisky OF
| popular brands and forty-nine barrels
of wine. The agents served sum-
mons on Ray Santini, said to be man
| ager of the warehouse.
Harry e. Butler. twentythree years
old, clerk in a delicatessen store at
2775 Eighth Avenue, was sentenced to
thirty days In the Workhouse by JUS
tices in Special Sessions Court on q
charge Of selling liquor to q minor.
The purchaser was Christine Berger,
thirteen years old, Of 307 West 147th
Street. The girls father testified that
she had bought the liqour foi her
mother. He did not want his wife to
have liquor and questioned the child,
after which he caused Buffers arrest.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-04
Man lin Hall
Church Called
An Eyewitness
tcsntinusd from page ono,

get into taxi in which were two
women.
Mrs. Gibson Not at Home
At o'clock tonight state trooper
who answered the telephone at Mrs.
Gibson's home said she was not there
and he did not know where she was. In
this connection Prosecutor Mott has
not been in New Brunswick for week,
and it is believed that he has estab-
lIshed secret headquarters elsewhere.
He has not talked personally with any
of the witnesses or other figures in the
case except Mrs. Gibson. in view of
the many strange statements she has
made and the additions to her original
story, it is difficult to picture Mr.. Mott
building case around her story until
he has had from her an explanation Of
the statements. They would make a
large target for q counsel for the de-
fense. tNt
AS for Charlotte Mills, the prose-
cutor and other investigators are con-
vinced, 1t is understood, that she is
withholding vital information. She has
said that man other than DR.. Hall,
and not her father, had been interested
III uST nOtRSE., HTeSSeQ Tor MS name.
she said he was dead 1t is known
that this high school girl was in her
mothers confidence to an unusual ex-
tent, so much so that the mother SEEM
lngly hesitated to rebuke the girl when
rebukes were deserved. Now it is be-
lleved Mr.. Mott has determined to de-
mand that Charlotte tell him the name
of her mothers other lover or accent
the consequences.
Father Is Helplesg
In Charlotte's case the consequences
probably would be her appearance be-
! fore County Judge Peter Daily on a
charge of incorrigibility. James Mills.
her father, has said that he is power
less to control his daughter, and since
her mother's death she has been absent
from her high school classes more than
the law allows in the case of girl
her age.
In recent weeks Charlotte has hardly
eaten meal in her home. Each night
she is to be seen dining in one of
New Brunswick's restaurants or hotels.
and since the sale of her mothers let
ters she has blossomed forth in new
finery that is anything but a mourn
ing costume. James Mills was asked
tonight as he stacked kindling In the
basement Of St. Johns Church. what
be thought of the assertions of officials
that they were ready to make arrests;
Huh" he sneered they been a
say1n' that every day for the last six
weeks. What are thew waitin' for2n
New-York tribune., 1922-11-04
Dry Ships Losing Peru
Trade Says u. S. Official
Attache Asserts Pas
sengers Change Vessels at Pam
anna, DESPITE Five-Day Wait

WASHINGTON, Nov. s. Attorney
General Daugherty's ban against liquor
on American ships has hit the passen-
ger traffic to Peru In American bot
toms, the Commerce Department was
advised to-day by Commercial Attache
Dunn at Lima.
"Due to recent regulations regard
ing the sale. ef. liquor on vessels," he
reported, passenger business on these
ships has been seriously affected"
Mr.. Dunn's report was regarded by
department officials as indicating q
preference on the part of passengers
travelling between the United States
and Peru to trans-ship at Panama, de-
order to travel aboard wet ship,
Heretofore, officials declared, 70 per
cent of the direct ira fic between I
United States and Peru has been in
American ships.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-04
Police May Search Autos
Without Writ. Cours RuIes

LANSING, Mich, Nov. 3.-The right
of police officers to search automobile
for. evidence Of liquor law violations
without the formality Of search war
rant was upheld by the Michigan Su-
preme Court in an opinion to-day.
Three of the seven members of the
court. however, filed lengthy dissent
ing opinion, holding that the ruling
was "un-American, arbitrary and des-
potlc" and rendered all persons Sub
ject to uncomfortable espionage and
visitation" 1t would reduce the "Bili
Of Rights. to a scrap of paper" the
dissenting opinion held.
The majority opinion ruled that both
Federal and state constitutions guard
against. unreasonable Search" and
added that an autom obile in a public
place constitutes a different class of
property than dwelling. 1t described
New-York tribune., 1922-11-04
Girls to Demand Clean
Health Bill Of Fia,,ces
Special Dispatch to Tho tribune

CHICAGO, Nov. 3.-Superin-
tendent Mortenson Of the Chicago
public schools, backed by various
medical bodies, judges and social
workers, has inaugurated a move
ment whereby every high school
girl reaching the point Of gradu-
alton will be urged to take a
pledge to demand from the man
she contemplates marrying GER
tificate of clean health.
Approximately 4,50o girls are
graduated from the Chicago
schools every year, and physi-
clans and others argue that if
these prospective brides demand
health certificates before marry-
ing they will have taken a tre-
mendous stride toward wipinp
out insanity, blindness, miserable
homes and other tragedies trace
able to the transmission of social
diseases.
The new ruling in the high
school calls for additional in
struction in epgenics by the deans
during the last year in school.
H.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-04
Coroner Finds Boy a Suicide
Overstudy Thought to Have
Temporarily Deraneed Youth

Coroner Edward F. Fitzgerald. of
Westchester County, decided yesterday
that flfteen-year-old Cedric Van Allen.
of New Rochelle, who was found dead
from bullet wound, in garage,
Thursday, committed suicide and 90
indorsed the death certificate.
The boys parents believed that he
must have shot himself accidentaliy
Coroner Fitzgerald said that the fart
that he had climbed q ladder to ehs
loft over the garage and hidden hinl-
self behind q pile of furniture and
boxes led him to believe death was
intentional. It is thought that over.
study may have deranged him temper.
arily.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-04
Mitchell Asks Divorce,
Decree Granted Wife
Assistant Chief of Army Air
Service Had Alleged Cruel
Treatment

MILWAUKEE, Nov. 8. - Brigadier
General William E. Mitchell, assistant
chief Of the United States Army Air
Service and chief of the American fly
ing forces in the A. e. F., who re-
Gently established the official worlds
record in aeronautcs for speed, was
divorced in the Milwaukee Circuit Court
September 27 by Mrs. Carolina Mitchell,
it was revealed to-day.
General Mitchell is son of the late
United States Senator John L. Mitchell,
OF Wisconsin.
General Mitchell charged his wife
With cruel treatment (which began
about ten years ago, and with each
succeeding year has become more vio-
lent, exasperating and harmful" his
complaint read.
September 27, denied his allegations
and fled a counter-claim with charge
of desertion. In an answer, General
Mitchell admitted he had left Mrs.
Mitchell, the separation dating from
June Ia, 1921. The decree was awarde ed
TO Mrs. Mitchell by Judge E. T. Fair
child.
The custody of the three children was
awarded to the mother and General
Mitchell agreed to pay $3.50 a month
each for the support of Elizabeth, six
teen years old, and Harriet, twelve
years old, and 500 month for John,
two and half, until each reaches the
age Of twenty-one.
NO alimony was awarded, Mrs.
Mitchell having separate estate,
either in possession or expectancy, Of
the value of about $3.50, 900.
The divorce judgment provides that
none of the children shall be taken
up in an airrlane by General Mitch ell
without the consent Of the mother. The
father has the right to visit the chill
dren at reasonable times, and may have
them with him for period no longer
than three months.