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The New York herald., 1922-06-21
RAILWAY MEN CATCH
CONVICT NEAR JAIL
Escaped Murderer Had Hid for
36 Hours Within
Walls.

Charles Greer, convicted murderer,
who was missed from his cell at Sing
Sing Sunday evening. was captured yes
terday at Harmon. N. Y, three and a
half miles north of the prison He had
never actually left the prison grounds
until just before daybreak yesterday.
At dusk on Sunday, when the big
prison whistle was blown to tell people
for miles about that man had escaped,
and during the thirty-six hours in which
posses combed the surrounding country
the murderer lay hidden under a grand
stand of the baseball field inside the
enclosure.
Under cover Of darkness he scaled the
prison fence on the Hudson River water
front and walked the railroad tracks
until he was trapped by three railroad
men.
"The long bit got on my nerves." the
convict explained when returned to
prison. "and I was willing to take a
chance
Greer has eighteen years to serve to
complete his sentence for second degree
murder In Westchester county. Warden
Lewis z. Lawes said he would ask the
Grand Jury to indict the recaptured man
on charge of jail breaking. Convic-
ton of this would make him liable to
five additional years.
The mans capture so close to the
prison walls was a complete surprise
His story Of lying in hiding to await n
favorable opportunity to make a break
for freedom disproves wholly an ire
sponsible article yesterday in morning
newspaper that he had been seen In this
city within few hours after he was
first missed.
Harry Sharp. a station hand, saw
Greer huddled in the bushes a quarter
Of a mile above Harmon station anG
informed the station master William z.
Rogers. The latter, knowing that man
had broken from Jail, sent Peter Bran
nisan. baggageman, to hold Greer until
guards arrived.
The convict told Brannigan when he
accosted him that he was waiting along
Ahe tracks to "hop'' the first freight to
come along. The baggagemaster induced
him to go with him down TO the depot
upon promise that he would stop the
next train for him.
Greer told Warden T.. Lawes that he
had punctured the roof of stone cell
block and crawled out In the hope of
getting to the roof of the Warden's house
and escaping through II. The many
guards he saw frightened him. however.
He feft an extra suit of stripes" in tho
cell block attic to create the impression
that he had gotten into civilian clothes
and escaped.
He then laid under the grand stand
and waited until he thought the search
for him had ended.
The New York herald., 1922-06-21
LAYMEN'S COURT PLAN
GETS SCANT CRITICISM
Lawyers Suggest Improve
n1enfs on Arbitration.

Criticism of the tribunal OF justice
dissolved into commendation yesterday
at a meeting of the Arbitration Society
of America at the Lawyers Club. A
resolution proposed by City Court JUS
tlce Gustave Hartman indorsing the
movement from the viewpoint OF the
bench and the bar was adopted unani-
mously.
A letter In law publication recently
had attacked the tribunal as 'crude,"
as likely to unsettle legal procedure
and dangerous because of the finality
of its decisions. So the society invited
l,s00 representative lawyers to give their
views Only n small percentage OF
those invited attended due, it was said
by members of the society, to the fact
that the legal profession generally was
In favor OF the institution.
Most of the remarks were directed
towards suggesting improvements In
procedure. Moses II. Grossman. ex-
Judge and one Of the founders and
ce-presidents of the society. said:
THE time will come when lawyers
who get results through arbitration will
be sought by clients in preference to
those who insist upon expensive and
long drawn out litigation. The courts
will continue to function as In the past
and rule on Intricate matters of law.
but we have come to relieve them Of
the immense burden of litigation easily
settled by arbitration"
One lawyer suggested that the tri-
bunai be extended to settle criminal
cases. Another recommendation was
that all arbiters be properly compen-
sated. About 1900 arbiters are to be
listed soon.
A letter was read from Bolton Hall,
a lawyer of 20 Broadway. He said:
las at present administered the law
Is a game played by us lawyers. under
complicated rules. made by ourselves,
for our own benefit, at the expense
OF our clients. II we don't abolish the
abuses the public will gradually abol-
igh us"
The New York herald., 1922-06-21
MAN WHO STOLE POETRY
BELIEVED TO BE INSANE
Sent to Hospital - Woman
Book Thief Sentenced.

Two book thieves were convicted yes.
terday III Special Sessions.
Richard l.. Doyle of 312 West Fifty
first street, metal polisher who is con-
sdered eccentric on books" was sent
to Bellevue Hospital for observation.
Lola De Cartin of COL West 115th street
Spanish teacher was sent to the work
house for thirty days.
Through Doyle's peculiar method Of
cutting out the pages of poetry the pill
fering from the volumes was traced to
him. James Russell, probation officer,
found poems from eighteen different
books in his quarters.
The De Cartin woman had amassed
various volumes of text books, chiefly on
languages. health and old age. and sew
eral dictionaries. She obtained the
books, May Mangan, probation officer,
said, by using fictitious name.
The New York herald., 1922-06-21
BOY HOBO, UP IN COURT,
ELUDES WOMAN OFFICER
Refuses to Go to School and
Travels OUer Country.

Dominick Rossi, aged 16. who has
hoboed over most Of the East. was told
by Magistrate James J. Conway in the
Flushing Police Court yesterday that he
must go to school,
"All right. said the boy, I'D Just as
soon."
II will set this case down for June
90" said the Magistrate land on that
date you must come here. Now I'll turn
you over to the probation officer"
The probation officer is Miss Ruth
Manning. She told Dominick to sit
down, and he did. in the rear of the
court. But he didn't stay there long.
for when Miss Manning went to look for
him he had disappeared. He had not
been home late last night, and the au-
thorities can find no trace Of him.
The boy Is the son of Joseph Rossi
of 20 F'ifty-third street. Corona, Long
Island.
The New York herald., 1922-06-21
w. E. D. STOKES HEARD
IN $4,000, 900 OIL SUIT
Jury Excused From, Listening
to Technical Case.

w. z. d. Stokes was the first witness
for the plaintiff yesterday at the opening
of the case of Percy n. Lawrence of Rye
against the Sinclair OIL Refining Com
pany Of Chicago for s10,000,000 before
Justice Morschause~ at White Plains.
Because of the length of the case. which
will probably take ten days. and the ex-
treme technical questions involved, the
jury was excused.
Lawrence alleges that on August 10.
1915, he contracted with w. z. D. Stokes,
l.. o. Sherman, Z. T. Crawford and c.
Norris, introducing them to the Texas
Oil Company. which was to purchase
from Lawrence the Sherman process for
petroleum refining.
After many consultations, Said Law
renee. II was decided that the process
would be tested. A plant was erected in
East Chicago. but Lawrence said that
when he went there to make the tests
the Sinclair company had taken posses
sion. claiming the plant as their prop
erty. Therefore. alleges Lawrence, he
lost out on the contract for selling the
process
Mr.. Stokes described in detail the
Sherman process and told of Lawrence's
contract
The New York herald., 1922-06-21
BONUS FOR TUNNEL WORKERS.
Men May Insure Themselves
Compensation Laws Don't Apply.

workmcn employed in the construc-
ton of the vchicular tunnel under the
Hudson River Will not be entitled to
workmen's compensation II they are In
jured. according to a decision reached
yesterday by members Of the New York
and New Jersey Tunnel Commissions at
their weekly meeting held at the Hall
Of Records. Attorneys for the commits
sions reported that neither the work
mems compensation laws OF New Jersey
nor New York applied to the men work.
ing or the tunnel
Il was recommended by the insurance
committee that men working under air
pressure receive a bonus, out OF whict,
they may insure themselves IL they want
to. The commissions approved this
recommendation.
Clifford M. Holland. chief engineer.
reported that the actual work OF driving
the piles for the construction of the New
Jersey shafts was started on Thursday.
The New York herald., 1922-06-21
PRINCE OF WALES
REACHES HOME AGAIN

PLYMOUTH, Eng. June 20 ASSOCIATED
Press) The British battle cruiser Re-
nown. bringing the Prince of wales
home from his world tour, entered Ply
mouth Sound this afternoon. Fifty
thousand persons assembled on Plymouth
Hoe. the rocky ridge overlooking the har-
Dor. to witness the arrival. and the, town
was lavishly decorated In honor OF the
Prince.
The Prince has completed a. 10000
mile tour. -
The New York herald., 1922-06-21
BUTLER BOOTLEGCED
WITH MASTERS LIQUOR
Admits He Had the Best Peo-
pIe' as Customers.

Edward Titus. 20, negro butler en-
tloyed in the home of w. X. Van
Olinda In Riverside. Conn. said yes
terday when arrested and brought into
court at Greenwich that he built up an
exclusive bootlegging business in the
last few weeks by stealing Mr.. Van
Olinda's pre-war liquors.
Some Of the best people In River
side, he said. have been among my
customers"
Titus was fined 5000. which just about
DESTROYED his profits. Mr.. Van Olinda,
member of the brokerage firm OF Tate
d Hays of this city. is now trying to
recover some of the liquor.
The New York herald., 1922-06-21
MYSTERIOUS DISEASE
PUZZLES QUEENSLAND
Affects Brain; Mortality Is
Great; American Aid Sought.

SYDNEY, N. S. W.. June 20 (Associated
Press).-A mysterious disease in the
southeastern districts of Queensland Is
puzzling the medical authorities and has
forced them to seek aid from the United
States in determining it's cause and, II
possible. a cure.
The malady Is described as being SINH
lar to meningitis with the difference
that the brain alone and not the spinal
cord is affected. In one town twelve out
OF fifteen persons afflicted died.
The New York herald., 1922-06-21
FOUND ANyTVING9

FOUND ANYTHING?
II 20. see II II is advertised In the Lost aud
Found columns OF to-day's New York Herald.
ADV.
The New York herald., 1922-06-21
Asked About Prisoners. /,

~when / sat on the bench here I al
ways asked the District Attorney at the
end Of my term II there were any prls :
oners in jail awaiting trial"
Before his retirement on January l.,
1921. under the age limitation, Judge
Mills was presiding Justice of the APP
pelate Division of the Supreme Court.
Questioned further. Judge Mills doubted
whether the Grand Jury had obtained
any information that might be valuable
70 the prosecution at Wards trial. With
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-03-17
Butler Baseball Men
Swing in Action With
Ten-Inning Scrub Game

Two Butler baseball teams, the vet
Grams Of last year, and the new candl-
dates, lined up for he first scrub game
OF the season Thursday afternoon and
the two mines played for ten innings
with the veterans coming through on TOP
after a hard scrap, to .. station, Griggs.
Slaughter and GlascOck looked strong In
the box, while Uungate, Scho0mcyer
Leslie and Milburn showed form as
catchers. The game was featured 10y the
heavy hitting of several Of the new men,
Screes, eX-Tech High school star; Reach,
from Seymour, and Fields, from Char
lottesville. rapping them out In mid
season form. The turnout for baseball
is be grea test In the history Of Butler
College. and although the material Is
only mediocre Coach Page is predicting
q winning team.
With the try-outs just a week of, the
trackmen are limberins UP in the gym
and on the cinder track ar irwin held
For the next week the following letter
men on the squad viii have charge I;
Captain Mercer, pole vaultersi Woods,
high jumpers; ex Captain DOolittle, dis
lance men; Sparks, sprinters, and Leslie.
weight men. The fifteen men showing up
but in the try outs will be given fun
equipment. and Will constitute the
nucleus Of the team.
Nine basket players were awarded the
varsity "B' and seven the secondary re-
ward of he royal blue jersey for work
on the basket bail team for 192l-22. Those
TO receive the highest honor are Captain
Hooker, ex-Captain r II. Jones, Aliddles-
worth, Leslie, Black. Brown, Colway,
Graham and Paul Jones. The seven TO
receive the jersey are: Diederich, Griggs,
Harmeson, Hall, KOn0ld, McNorton and
ROsenthihl The election OF varsity cap
tain for the 1923 basket season has been
postponed. with MiddleswOrth and leslie
having received the same number Of
votes in a recent ballot.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-03-17
SWIMMING
SCHOBER WORKS
FOR KTLONTS GO

Billy Schober, the Indianapolis middle
weight wrestler, is running from three to
five miles each. day o get IN condition
for his match with John Kilcnis Of New
York, Greek middleweight greppler. The
men will wrestle in the main go Of the
wrestling carnival at Tomlinson Hall Iext
Wednesday night which is being held fer
the benefit of the National Disabled Sol
diers' Relief station.
1t Is really a double header wrestling
show for Jack Fisher, Decatur (lu)
lightweight, will meet Soldier Mack OF
Louisville, welterweight of Kentucky. The
rules approved by the New York bOxin z
and wrestling commission will be used,
and the men will wrestle ten minute
rounds. However, in both matches the
contestants will wrestle catch as catch
can style, best o'falls in three to count.
KlOnis is scheduled to wrestle at BOs-
ton, Mass, March II, and that night he
plete his training in this city. Under the
well as a referee, and these judges will
be kept busy should the Kilonis Schober
match prove as close as is generally ex-
pected. Kilonis has a clever way OF
escaping from a hold or grip of an Op-
ponent. He calls 1t his hip and shoulder
bounce" and wrestlers who have seen the
Greek work declare that it is a clever
trick
Fisher, who meets Soldier Mack few
weeks ago defeated Billy Trout at Ko-
komo, winning the first fan In twenty
four minutes and the second fall in four
and one half minutes Fisher and Mack
have both issued challenges to Jack Rey-
HOldS
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-03-17
BROWNS LOOM STRONG IFBAD
LUCK STAYS AWAY FROM CLUB;
HAVE GREAT HITTING STRENGTH

Ellerbe at third and Hank SEVERED. first
string catcher.
Defensively the club is by no means
weak merely under suspicion. McManus
| IS not as smooth as con mans tongue
ut second base. but he was coming on
well at the finish of the 1921 campaign.
He probably Will get by nicely enough,
hanked by Z pair such as Sisler and Ger
Der. Furthermore the outfield is strong
! in all departments and SEVERED and Josh
| Billings are frst-class catchers, to say
nothing of Pat Collins.
Pitching, however, must be reckoned as
defensive unit and here the paen Of
JOY seems to break on a sour note. Urban
/ Shocker, a great right handler, is the only
consistent pitcher in the outfit. Dixie
Davis is one Of the question marks Of
the club.
So is Van Glider. another right handler
who has been promising much for some
time without actually meeting the Obli-
gatOin in full. Bill Bayne is a fair left
handler who probably viii never be much
better.
A left-handed possibility is Pruit. who
comes up from Tulsa, Okla, with a pedl,
gree as long as the arm of circumstance
Itself. Culp, with the club last year
! Wright from Louisville, and Meinie from
. Beaumont, Texas. round out the string
Just that which brings us to Dave Dan
forth. the gentleman whose transfer from
Columbus commanded the sum of eight
ball players. Da1OrIh has been in and
! out OF jor league baseball since 1911
when he hrSt came up to the Athletics.
be was with the White SOX pennant win
ming machine Of 1917 and 1913, con
tracted the shine ball habit from Eddie
Cicotte during the latter campaign and
was allowed to 90 his way when all
/ freak deliveries came under the dis
pleasure.
Only one infielder stands out among the
recruits and he has them all stopped. The
sid in question is Gene Robertson. who
hit some $50 in the Western League last
year ana has the added advantage OF hav-
ing bees brought up by the club since
perry iufieicers. hits from the LEFT side
Of The plate. throws well from any pO-
sitiOn and altogether COMFORTS himself
In the most approved manner.
One OF the extra outfielders is Chick
Shorten. purchase d from Detroit The
other IL two are carried, will be burst
a left hand hitter from Beaumont.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-03-17
Lee Puts DGuLtOY1
to Sleep in Third
Round of Fort Tilt
BarnhGrt and Kelly in DrdIC-
Duffy Gets Decision
OUer Bush.
By HFZE CLARK.


In the third round Of a scheduled ten
round bout last night, Bobby Lee of In
dianapolis put the sleep punch on Billy
DaultOn Of KOkOmo, at the FIT. Ben
to make the required weight of 144
pounds at 3 p. N. yesterday, being hall
pound overweight and 1t cost him a go
forfeit.
DaUltOn, who weighed 14115 pounds, gaze
Lee d great battle for two rounds and
then Lee opened up. Taking two stitf
blows TO the face Lee bored in with a
bard left to the stomach and Daulf ;Sn
doubled up as Lee swung right to the
jaw. DaultOn went to the canvas for the
count of ten. Lee proved he had his
same knockout punch that has won him
so many battles.
The semi wind-up between Jack Barn
hart Of Terre Haute and Spike Kelly OF
st. Louis. was q real eight-round battle
and the decision was a draw. Barnhart
substituted for Freddie BOOrde, who le
Ill Kelly had the reach, but Barnhart
waded In and showed wonderful ability
at in-fighting that won him a draw.
Sailor Duffy won decision over Roy
Bush in six rounds of fast fighting. Bush
put up a plIcky fight. and although
knocked down repeatedly by Duffy, he
always came up fighting His ability
to take punishment and his plucky battle
won him the cheers of the crowd.
A four round bout IN which the boxers
did no guarding. but plenty of hitting
was fought between Pat Wirth of Ft.
Harrison and Joe Ernman of Morris
town. Ernman won the decision. Both
are newcomers in the nit game. but both
showed willingness to fight that won
them the cheers of the boxing fans. Ern-
man is 2 rangy boy with lots of reach
and a kick in either glove. Properly
trained in the art OF boxing, he will be
a real scrapper some day.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-03-17
HEZE
CLARK
TALK is BUNK
At Least That Is What Most
Critics Think of Circus
Stunt.
By HENRY FARRELL.

NEW YORK, March 17.-Wise heads
vary in whether a seeking fist or a
pythonic arm offer the best method of
delivering a X. 0.
1t would be interesting to let Jack
Dempsey and Stranger Lewis do an
illustrated debate on the subject, but
there is little chance of it.
Mr.. Dempsey would want too much to
prove the statement he made some time
ago more or less to the effect that all
Wrestlers were walking examples Of some,
tulng loose in the head. Mr.. Lewis also
would want something to prove his
counter argument that if boxers had
to work like wreStlerS there wouldn't be
any boxers.
New York might furnish the necessary
purse because any town that falls for
two six day bicycle races a year and
eats up the trick matches of the wres-
tiers trust Will fail for anything.
The New York commission has to be
figured, however Since the athletic
sOlOns Of the State have gone out Of
their way to drive wrestling out Of the
State by sanctioning the rolling and fly
ing falls, it is almost a cinch they would
not allow q pure commercial proposition
ike Lewis in q match with Dempsey.
Lewis makes the challenge, posts the
forfeits and offers a side bet-after
Dempsey has made all his plans to go to
Europe on April II. Kearns, talking for
Dempsey, says, of course, that he ac-
cepts the challenge. What else acould
be saw
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-03-17
Schedule at Coliseum

TODAY.
Q =. M.-FrankUn (27l VS.. Evansville
Central 40.
10 4. M-Bedford (4O) vs.. Atwood u6).
II q. M-CutIer (22) VS.. Yincennes sd.
r. M.-BloOmtn gton VS.. Manual
p. M-Garfield (Terro Haute) vs..
whiting.
r. M-F1shers vs.. Goshen.
z. M-RushVille VS.. Marion.
1880 P<M.-Frankfort vs.. Anderson.
$50 p. M.-Eranklin vs.. Bedford.
SATURDAY.
L. M-VincenBes vs.. winner Bloom
iugt on-ManuaI game.
10 a. NV n ner Garfield whiting
game vs.. winner Fishers-(TOshen game.
IL 4. NV nner Rushville-M Marion
game vs.. winner Frankfort-AndersoD
game.
SEMT-FINALS.
p. Sl.-Vinner Fridays $3.50 p. m.
game vs.. winner Saturdays a. m game.
3 z. M.-Winner 10 n. m. game vs.. win
ne- IL a. game.
FINALS.
Z. M.-Wiuaer 9 p. m game VS.. win
ner 3 p m. game.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-03-17

There were plenty Of empty seats IN
the Coliseum at o'clock. but as the
morning wore on a steady stream Of
humanity flowed In until all but the
seats at he very ends OF the big show
place were filled. An impelliug desire Of
curiosity to see Vinceuues in action at
II o'clock may have been the cause for
the huge increase in attendance.
Bedford players came out with stone
City written on their sweat shirts and
then they proceeded TO sink baskets Ike
stones In a stone quarry. In addition
to an uncanny ability to hit the bas-
ket the Bedford outfit also had plenty
Of team work. The regulars were not
compelled TO 20 the whole route and his
will further aid them Ia the important
struggle with Franklin tonight.
It certainly looked like St. Patrick's
Day when Vlncennes came on the door.
The "Alices" were dolled up IN a hue Of
green as brilliant as their season 5 rec
ord.
Cutler was she best natured team ever
TO show IN a State tournament DoWuey.
Cutters back guard, was as cheerful
as he was good at guarding.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-03-17
BOWLING
fSHILLALAR DAY
AT A. b. G. MEET

TOLEDO, March Il. NAPLES
sticks" wood" timber" and other
terms used to vary wood pins as re-
CARDS the bowling game, are taboo today,
Tor this is the dag of ST. Patrick ana
the laddie budks working out in the
American Bowling Congress tournament
here viii be moving down the "shilla-
labs" 1t is Pittsburgh fight, seventeen
teams from the smoky City being slated
TO roll In addition, there are tives from
Unioutown and Beaver. Pa; Brantford
and London. Ont. Chicago and Omaha.
kOOrs, %, OF Dayton, Ohio, bowling
on the last squad Of hve-men teams
last night went into first place with a
score Of 1916, displaeing the MineTalites
O.. Chicago, who have held the lead with
3.9e nearly q week.
o.. "a and 1929
FIhe second highest score OF the thirty
two teams last night was 2,S26, rolled by
Claman Dairy Lunch OF indianapolis.
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-03-17
Culver Lad Will Defend
Plunge Record in East

CULVER, Ind. March 17.-Edwin
Morine. the 17-year-old Culver Military
Academy cadet. who holds the 1921 inter
scholastic record for the indoor time
plunge viii defend that record this sat
urday at Princeton University, where the
1922 fnterschOlastlr individual cham
piOnSh.ps viii be decided
InterschOlastic distance plunge records
were broken by N0rine Feb. . in the
Culver pool when lie made seventy-nine
feet On the same day he retained his
championship in the Indiana A. a. T.
Last year the cadet was picked as a
member Of the au-American inter
scholastic swimming team by Frank
Sullivan. MOrine has been engaging in
aquatic competitions since his early
school days. At Il he held the Central
States interschOlastic time plunge rec
ord A year Later he was the champion
Of the Michigan A. A U. He now holds
three plunge records in the Indiana
A A 1.-TWO indoor and one outdoor
and is the Kentucky outdoor champion.
The youths great bulk Of 24S pounds is
a distinct advantage to him in the water
and has helped him achieve fame as an
amateur swimmer
Moriue graduates from Culver in June
and expects to enter one Of the Eastern
universities. His home is In Detroit.