New-York tribune., 1922-09-14
Monl<eyW rellcll
Lands S1llllg.,gler
suspect at Bar
ve,,,ts II at Wife After 3
I Months Quarrel and She
Hales Hin, TO Court as
the Dry Fleet Siea1iis Up
Called Whisky Admiral
suruside Said to Have Made
! Million With Yacht and
suent III All ON Broadway

younr Mrs. Bobbie Burnside cannot
5 ...na Ii 10 have her husband threaten
s.. ,v;th monkey wrench. He shot
sse .be little finger of her right hand
.s~ea years ago and almost made her
.-vrv and she decided then that she
ssuld have to draw the line somewhere.
She decided the time had come Sum
a., r;oht. she said, when, as she drove
- 10 the garage in her own car, her
husband jumped on the running board
furnishing monkey wrench and said
Ia intended to use it on her if she
didn't let him take the car.
when her husband, Ellis r. Burn
side. was arraigned yesterday in West
side police court charged with the
theft OF bis wife's car, Mrs. Burnside
exclaimed all this, exhibited the stump
Of the little finger of her right hand
and declared that although her hus-
hand had large income he spent it
on other women and she had to pawn
her jewelry when she needed money.
She was sure, she said, that he wanted
her automobile Sunday night to take a
womsn riding.
Dry Fleet Cruises Up
That was why she went to the po-
lice, she said, and had her husband
arrested when he finally returned. She
didn't know what she was letting Ellis
in for when she called the police,
though; If she had, she might even
have overlooked the monkey wrench.
She and her husband both found out
ii the police court when George Baron
snd Edward Norwood, agents of the
treasury Department, stepped up and
informed Magistrate rockingham they
lad been hunting Ellis for months at
sea and ashore. Coast Guard cutters
ssd submarine chasers of the prohibit
ion navy had come within an ace of
cvefhauling him several times, they
sid, but each time Ellis's yacht had
shown them it's heels.
They suspected him of being the
sl,fd high admiral of fleet of whisky
yunning craft plying between this coun-
sry and the Bahamas, they said, but
hid never been able to meet him eye
b eye until they found that he had
been arrested on his wife's complaint.
they asserted that he had made at
ksst 81 100000 in the contraband traf-
L. and added that their observations
ID them to believe he had spent it
ii, most of it on Broadway.
Business Spicy, Anyhow
At this, Mrs. Burnside barely sup
pressed shrek and showed symptoms
Of being about to faint. She retained
consciousness, however, and in re-
sponse to questions put by the
Treasury agents, she said she had made
several trips to the Bahamas with her
husband. They were just vacation
trips, she said. She and her husband
we're natives of the Bahamas, she said,
and it was natural they should go there
q their vactions. She said she be-
Ssved her husband to be in the spice
asness.
mery Weller, Assistant District At
Arey, added his mite to the diff
tatles resulting from the f1ourishing
l the monkey wrench by saying that
gurnside had forfeited bail on charge
ssde against him in the Traffic Court
y y ild advising that bail in this case be
I made high. He was held, accordingly,
/ p $4,000 bail on his wife's charge, the
ssaeral detectives saying they would
make no formal charges against him
aatil they had seen what the outcome
q the present case might be.
ars. Burnside is twenty-four years
ald and pretty. She said she was living
|sn l26 West Seyenty-third Street. She
and her husband came here from Mas
tal about three months ago, she said,
i sad had been quarreling most Of the
time since.