Arizona republican., 1922-02-21
CIOse-Ups of
Real Life in
America

Oklahoma Gun Battle
Science For Veraoity
Fort Apache To Close
Legal Booze Blinds 5
Record Bootleg Haul
NEW YORK. Feb. 20-A robber
causally walked up to motor truck
used by the Greenwich bank today
took $4,000 in gold and currency
away from a negro messenger, walked
around the corner of Seventh avenue
and Twentieth street and drove away
in an automobile with two compan-
ions. They were still at large to-
night.
Sitting beside the messenger
William A. Russell, when he handed
the bag of money to the bandit upon
being told TO give me that bag and
give it me quick was a driver and
behind him, in the back of the truck
sat Clarence Brown. another negro
messenger Brown was guarding
$4,000 in silver which was untouched
by the robber. None of these three
was armed
The messengers had collected the
money from two downtown branch
banks. to take it to headquarters of
the bank. Russell. the police said,
after questioning the three. told the
driver to draw UP 10 the curb near
Twentieth street so that he could buy
a cigar. 1t was just after he re-
turned with the cigar that the robber
appeared. Russell gave him the money
when he demanded it.
1t was said at police headquarters
that Russell had been employed by
the Greenwich bank for Is years and
received a salary OF SIC a week.
A woman who witnessed the holdup
said she thought she was watching
the filming of a movie, and only when
she looked in vain for a camera did
that thought come that this was the
real thing.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20-Hundreds
of aliens are being illegally boot
legged into the United States, Sec
retary Davis declared today on leav-
ing the White House after a confer
ence with the president. The secre-
tary. who declined to state what the
subject OF his conference with the
president was, declared that the en-
actment Of law requiring all aliens
to register was the only solution of
the situation.
Bootleggers, the secretary said,
were finding it more profitable TO
bring in immigrants who are banned
by law than to handle liquor. Such
illegal entries he added were being
made from the Bahamas and Cuba
into Florida. across the Mexican bor-
der and from Canada.
There are from 5000 to 25,000 I'M /
desirable aliens in the country who
should be deported, the secretary |
continued, because of penitentiary
sentences. diseases they have con-
tracted or because they have entered
the country illegally. He estimated
also that there were 10000 Chinemen
in the United states illegally.
ARDMoRE. Okla, Feb. eo-Rumors
and conflicting stories whirled back
and forth in this town tonight con-
cerning a shooting affray in the court
house today that lacked only a few
dead bodies to make it a pistol fight
worthy of the old frontier days.
-Four men were injured. They are
former deputy sheriff Bud Ballew,
who was wounded in the right thigh
and hip; former Deputy Sheriff "Bill'
Whitson, wounded twice in the ad-
domen and once in the left arm;
Deputy Sheriff L. j. Cowles, shot IN
the left leg and foot. and former jail
er bud" Bird shot through the left
hand. All were able to leave the
hospital tonight. The cause of the
shooting is unknown.
Excitement over the shooting in the
building resulted in abrupt ending OF
today's procedure in the trial of Dick
IL f~E s@c. rnF AysfiI
against whom the state has filed
custer proceedings, for alleged viola
ton of prohibitory laws.
DALLAS. Texas, Feb. 20-Ed Smith. |
negro charged with murder who last
week, while under the influence of
scopalamin, administered by phys
icians in a scientific experiment, re-
iterated time and again his inno- |
cence, was released from the county |
Jail today a free man.
Smith had been in fail for six
months, when he heard that phys
icians were experimenting on jail
inmates, he begged that the drug be
administered him. Under its in
fluence he declared he did not know
the negro he was charged with killing
and that he was in Oklahoma at the
time Today in court he faced two
Of his accusers unflinchingly. The
two refused to take the drug sug
gested as a means of ascertaining II
they were telling the truth.
SACRAMENTO, Calf. Feb. 90
Robert sherman of Knights Landing
died at the county hospital today,
five mtn are in the institution with
out their sight and several other men