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The New York herald., 1922-02-12

printed on the circular that had come from
Belgium year before. We called up the
Belgian consul, who was a man most inter.
ested in finger printing, and gave him the
impressions to compare Yes, that's our
man. the consul said, and the prisoner was
taken back to Belgium and sentenced
Another case man wanted for kill
ing a policeman in Boston escaped. There
was no trace of him. They had his finger
prints, however, and they sent them out in
a circular, which came to us.
For two years there was not clew to
his whereabouts; then we received some
finger prints from Australia concerning a
prisoner there who was being held on a
charge of robbing a safe and shooting a
policeman similar case to the Boston
one. The Australian authorities were look
ing up their prisoners record. 1t was the
same man who had escaped from the Bos-
ton officials. He is serving a term in an
Australian prison now and after that is
completed he is to come back to the United
States to answer charges on the previous
affair"
But the metropolitan navy! That must
be given due credit.
Manifold are the duties of policeman.
To go into a dark cellar after a burglar
to see that everybody gets out at a fire, to
tackle mob single handed IL necessary,
to keep the peace to be terror to law
breakers, to answer thousand foolish
questions every day, to be a good sailor
The marine division of the Police Depart
ment has fleet of eight vessels in commits
sion. They are the police boat John F.
Hylan and seven launches. The duty OF
the fleet is to patrol $40 miles of water
front, including eighteen small islands, and
its personnel consists of no more than
The New York herald., 1922-02-12
Traced by Her Ambition,
Alarm Sent by Wireless

While all this speculating was going on
the Bureau of Missing Persons was quietly
at work on the case. They learned first
that the girls great ambition was to be
movie actress. Then they found hint
of TRAIL which they followed by means
of the wireless and wire facilities for COM
munication. They traced her across the
continent and found a pause in the direct
trail at Nevada-California border town,
where her money had run out. There she
had worked as a waitress in railroad
restaurant to get enough money to go
ahead. After a week she moved on.
Working on the theory that Hollywood
and the movie Mecca was her goal the
Bureau of Missing Persons set their CO
operators in Los Angeles to work. There
Henrietta was found serving as a nurse
maid in Hollywood home-as near to the
shrine of her dreams as she could get and
hoping sincerely that some tremendous
stroke of fate would put her into the field
Of her ambition.
No army has ever had such a spy sys-
tenn as the police army has. In the par
lance of the quarry the police spies are
contemptuously spoken of as stool
pigeons" They are legion. Moreover.
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master division-everything an army
should have.
active standing army has instruments of
war in great numbers and with the new
est improvements. The Riot Regiment,
made up Of 500 veterans of battles in
France, consists of machine gun sections,
rife sections and bombing squads. The
machine guns are the newest, deadliest and
most rapid weapons of their type known;
the rifles are effective firearms of the
army type; the bombs are hand grenades
loaded with tear gas.
Numbers More Than 1900
And Has It's Reserves Too
New York's standing army numbers be-
tween 1000 and 10000 men and women
not counting the Reserves. The Reserves
are to it what reenforcements are to an
army and are frequently called in to re
lieve policemen who are needed in other
parts of the battle front.
Tales of the workings of the various
divisions of the Police Department may
be cited as examples of the effectiveness
of the great organization in which every
individual is in almost personal touch
with the executives. But first the various
units of the whole must be talked of.
Like the cavalry of the armies of the late
ua ho M OIY Y1f fa6 Of
partment have lost much of their old
prestige. Motor power has displaced the
horse. Once the mounted policemen were
rangers-romantic figures with adventur-
Gus prerogatives, ready to ride at a mad
pace to reach disturbance, there to ride
down the offenders if need be or to follow
fugitives to far distances. Once the
mounted soldiers of real armies were
scouts and aggressive warriors, but they
are gone with wars faded glory
Mounted policemen are not entirely gone
from New York, but their old functions
are gone-except in isolated stretches in
the outlying districts. They are seen oc-
casionally directing traffic from the saddles
of their horses at turbulent street cross
ings; they are seen riding aimlessly
through the parks of the city; they are
seen directing parade lines Out in the
sparsely populated suburban sections
which are few-some of the patrolmen who
have long beats are mounted, but their
adventures are probably less frequent than
the adventures of the walking patrolmen
on city beats.
They are great riders, these mounted po-
licemen. Some Of them would put to
shame the vaunted Western rangers in a
contest of sheer feats in the saddle On
police field days, when equitation stunts
were in order, mounted officers have shown
such surprising gymnastic ability that
there is wonderment that they have not
found their places in the sawdust ring.
The mounted police are as well drilled as
any troops.
The aviation section is part of the
Police Reserve. 1t Is detailed solely for
emergency work, and no case requiring
Its scouting facilities has come up as yet
It is conceivable that an airplane might
be useful in criminal hunting in the open
sections such as the New Jersey meadows
Or some of the Westchester country.
The Metropolitan Police District--the
battle front of the land forces--includes a
part of Connecticut, part of New Jersey
and that part of New York State surround.
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ing the metropolis. Arbitrarily, we might
say, the front includes all the country
within committing distance of the city. 1t
is divided into four zones the headquar-
ters of one being New York city; another,
Poughkeepsie; third New Haven, and
the last one, Newark.
The telephone is the principal means of
communication, of course, and the switch
board in the Police Headquarters of New
York is the largest in any police station
in the world. From it go direct wires
into the other three zones. And so, it may
be seen, the Chief of Police of New York
can, on a moments notice be in touch
with any station in the district. The net
work spreads similarly over the whole
United States. In addition to telephone
communication the department maintains
it's own telegraph and wireless systems.
One of the most interesting bureaus
connected with the Police Department Is
almost wholly dependent upon conmuni-
cation facilities. That is the Bureau of
Missing Persons. Last year more than
friends came into the offices of the bureau
from all parts Of the world and in most of
the cases the persons were found.
A part of its function was illustrated in
the Wall street bomb disaster, when it's op-
eratives identified every victim of that
outrage in spite of the fact that the force
of the explosion stripped some of the killed
of every card and clothing label. Among
the many interesting cases which were
solved by this section of the metropolitan
army last year was the case of the pretty
little Spanish girl of New York, Henrietta
Butte, who disappeared while on her way
to bank to deposit a few hundred dollars
for her father.
When it was reported that Henrietta
Butte, Is years old, had disappeared much
theorizing was done in newspapers and by
private detectives. One theory was-and
a most natural one-that Henrietta had
been abducted on her way to the bank and
the money taken from her Some had it
that she had been killed in some out of
the way place after being robbed, and some
even limited at elcpement
The New York herald., 1922-02-12

~ HOMAS JONES and his wife were
murdered. Neighbors saw four
men leave the house, enter a taxi
cab and dash away. The New York police
found one had boarded liner; that an
other had stolen swift roadster and
started upstate; that the third was last
seen in the heavy woods in the north
Bronx; that the fourth had disappeared
completely. Of course this is hypotheti-
cal case but not so extraordinary when
one reads the news daily.
How were the murderers caught? What
did the police do? What is in the organ
ization of "The Finest" that landed three
of the murderous quartet in the Tombs
within forty-eight hours and the fourth
one eventually?
Wireless telegraph and telephone alarms
were broadcast the moment the facts
were known. The liners captain hove to
off Ambrose Lightship and a fast boat of
the New York City Police Department,
manned by able seamen in police uniform
and commanded by an inspector Of police
who has his masters papers for sail and
steam" took off one murderer.
The automobile squad, with it's corps of
feet motorcycle patrolmen, ran~down the
man in the roadster before he had crossed
the Mount Vernon line, for a police booth
on the old Post road had received the alarm
and descriptions.
An aviator flying high and dipping low
over wooded clumps saw a man hiding in
underbrush in the north Bronx in most
suspicious manner. A score of mounted
policemen surrounded the copse; men
rushed in motorcycle sidecars beat up
the bush, the aviator directing by wireless
phone from above, and the third man was
caught.
How about the man who disappeared
completely?
Two members of the Bureau of Criminal
Identification, poring over fingerprints Of
men and women arrested for petty crime.
came across a peculiar set that seemed
reminiscent 1t was days after the MUIR
der and he had sought safety by the old
ruse of being committed to prison for
minor offense. But he too was caught
and handed over to justice.
The New York herald., 1922-02-12
Vast Scope of Occupations
Makes Force Sef-Sustaininl

New York's Police Department! Does
the average citizen have even an inkling
of what it means in versatility, in organ
ization, in education, in equipment? Do
even the best informed of New York's cit
izens know that 1t is a completely formed
army, an efficient navy that every craft
and trade almost is part OF the great
system? How many residents know that
the Police Department members include
printers, chemists dietitians, divers, law
yers, flying men (and women), wireless
telegraph and telephone operators, clergy
men,, surgeons, editors engineers, scien-
lists, clerks, grocers, athletes, financiers?
In word that every vocation that goes
to make a self-sustaining city is embodied
in "The Force?
An army forever at warl That is the
army of the New York Police Depart
ment. It has its infantry and it's cavalry,
its signal and aviation corps, its quarter.
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away Point early in the morning of
Saturday February 6, 1920. Thirty-two
passengers were aboard her, and they
stayed for more than a day without
light or heat while surf boats and
larger vessels tried through the buffet.
ing storm to reach her and effect a
rescue. The danger of the rescuers was
great and their efforts were futile though
gallant Then the metropolitan navy took
a hand, and to the hardy mariners of the
Police Department went the credit for
rescuing the passengers and crew of the
stranded Princess Anne
That not life was lost in the hazardous
operations attending the rescue was due
to the cool efficiency and daring of the men
who manned little launch, police launch
No 6, with Police Lieutenant Dobert in
command and Patrolman William Mahew
at the pilots wheel; Patrolman Dimes, the
engineer. and the rest of the crew.
zone interesting feature of the Police De-
partment is its tendency to support itself
1t might boast, as Ohioans do of their
State that it could be walled up and still
live perfectly happily to itself.
The wants and needs of the private
policeman are taken care of by the Home
Service Division which operates a store
In which food and clothing may be pur-
chased at very reasonable prices. Then the
physical welfare of policemen and their
people are ministered to by physicians
and surgeons who are members of the de
partment. II a policeman is indisposed he
reports himself sick and is visited and at.
tended by a doctor in his own home If he
gets in trouble in the department then
court is there to try him for his misde-
meanor. IL he needs spiritual guidance
the police chaplains are at his service.
Downstairs in Police Headquarters an
elaborate printing establishment Is main
tained which strikes off the circulars and
special and general orders which are dis
Lributed among the stations.
The health squad, the boiler squad the
specialists, the camera men and
those who run the several sick and benefit
funds all are trained for their particular
ines and in efficiency compare favorably
md often exceed men in similar walks of
civil life.
The Washington herald., 1922-01-22
Marriage Licenses

Unless otherwise specified, all the follow
Ing applicants are from this city;
Brigham s. Lee, 81, and Katherine
Holmes, 10. The Rev. L. NJ Stevenson,
Robin Tinsley, 81, OF Grove City, Iowa
and jamie b. Baldwin. 4I, of wythcyille,
va. The Rev. r. L. Browning.
Howard Fry, 20, and Alice BealI. IS. both
OF Poolesville, Md. The Rev c. X, Ray.
Bradner ID. Wheeler, "a, of Western
Springs, H.. and Mary I. Trisg, "a The
Rev. r. z. Browning.
Russell Il. Ginzanner a. and Dennje
Pitcher, 81. The Rev. J. e. Briggs.
Sol Huryitz. 81, and Elizabeth Hoffman.
Y. The Rev. N. A. Horwitz.
Chauncey ID. Glascock. "a and Annie L.
Davis, 10. The Rev. ]. f. Briggs
Philip Bodankin, IS. and Lillian Holtz-
man. 10. The Rev. NJ A. Horwitz
Sol silverman, 81. and Mary Miller, 81.
The Rev. G. Silverstone
William II. Pattison, rs and Tbelna Z.
Towles, -. The Rev. W, W, sbe,rer
Felix A. Hampill. 20. Of Syracuse, y. T.,
and Vivian P. Riybuck. 20 The Rev. ]. II.
Jefries.
Roland Perry, %. and Fannie Il. Jones.
2s. both of Richmond. Va. The Rev. T. Il.
Davis.
George strother. 81. and Dorothy dorsey.
10. The Rev. J. T. Haney.
Percy b. Walton. "a. and Edna y. Col
burn, .. The Rev. &. T. Nicholas.
John A. Campbell. %, and Violet e. Hol-
land. both of suitland. Md. The Rev. H.
r. Downs.
Charles vsmbskis. Is, of Atlantic City.
n. J.. and Frances Tapping. Il. The Rev,
!. b. Je6ries.
The Washington herald., 1922-01-22
Court Evidence
A "Pipe Dream"
Drug Case Nolled, Following
Conviction on Story of
Alleged Addict.

The vivid imagination of an al
legged drug addict, whose memory
was working on the "skip-stop'
plan on December 5 last. when his
testimony caused the conviction of
Raymond Hitte. of Congress
Heights, on a charge of peddIing a
drug. resulted yesterday in the COM
plete reversal of affairs when As
sistant District Attorney Presmont
role pressed the case against Hitte
and released him.
The indictment against Hitte al
Ieged that on the dates of March
25 and 26 last, he sold several
decks" of cocaine on Ninth street
northwest. The grand jury believed
the testimony of the supposed ad-
dict. whom II appears was used as
decoy, and so did the Jury in
Criminal Court, and a verdict of
guilty was returned.
Astounded at the strange tale told
by the witness. Attorney Ribert I.
Miller and Assistant District Attor-
ney Presmont compared notes
shortly after Miller had demanded
a new trial, and discovered numer-
Gus discrepancies in the testimony.
Not satisfied with having been
granted a new trial, Miller sought
to show the futility of again pIac-
ing Hitte on trial, and the govern
ment agreed to nolle PROSE- the
case.
The Washington herald., 1922-01-22
PLANS TOPRESENT
0PERASAMSON And
DELILAH ON FEB. "a
Edouard Albion Will Give
Matinee in Wash
ington.

The Washington Opera Company.
Edouard Albion, general director
has been able to arrange a mat
1nee performance of Samson and
Delilah at the National Theater
Friday, February "a.
The company Is playing at the
Lyric in Baltimore on Monday. Feb
ruary 20. and this matinee will be
the only opportunity Washington will
have to see this great production.
NO pains. no expense have been
spared to bring 1t up to the highest
standard.
The cast is headed by EIeanors
de Cisneros. who Is one of the most
famous Delilahs the operatic world
knows. She was coached in the role
by Saint-Saens himself and on his
invitation appeared in the opera in
Paris
The role of Samson will be suns
oy Nicola Zerola of the Metropolitan
opera Mr.. Zerola has won interna-
tional fame for his great dramatic
tenor voice. which New York critics
acclaim is the most phenomenal
since Tomaguo.
The High Priest will be sung by
Hollis Edison Davenney. who has had
two marvellously successful appear
ancss with the Washington Opera
Company in the roles OF Tonic in
Pasliacci and Mephisto in Faust.
Charles Trowbridge Tittmann
who is Washington's most famous
bass baritone. will sing the dual
eoles of "Abimelech" and The Old
Hebrew"
Mr.. Tittmann's work in Aida
at the last performance of the
Washington Opera Company will
be recalled by all patrons of tho
opera His Bach festival and mu'
sic festival appearances have bull
for him a national reputation.
The other roles will be sung BY
Albert Shefferman, baritone; Her.
bert Aldrich, tenor, and Walter
Matson, bass.
Tschermkoff Heads Ballet.
Paul Tscherinkoff. the younl
Russian dancer, who was for q
time Pavlowa's dancing partner
will arrive in Washington within
the next few days to take charg,
Of the ballet. He will also do thu
work of premier danseur in thu
performance.
Special scenery is being prepared
by France with advisory sugges
tions from Robert Edmond Jones
Arnold Volpe will conduct. and th'
staging will be in the hands o.
Enrico Clay Dillon. yho produce:
such beautiful effects in the Aida
performance.
The Washington herald., 1922-01-22
STUDENT ACTORS
AID FAIRGROUNDS
High School Pupils Produce
"As Strong as the Hills"
At Central.

Performing for the benefit of the
public school Fairgrounds. a group
Of igh-school players yester-
day produced AS Strong as the
Hills" at the Central High School
auditorium. Tha aplay is taken from
the book by NDalee Lake, a stu
dent at Western High School.
The proceeds will be turned over
to the Mid-City Citizens Associa-
tion. which will use ii to equip
school Fairgrounds. Another per-
formance will be given January "a.
The entire cost of yesterdays per-
formance was contributed by a citi-
zen who refused to disclose his
name.
Mrs. Marie Moore Forrest directed
the cast. which included Anna Her
ford. Stewart Daniels, jr.. Alfred Nc
Garroghy. George Ansdale, Samuel
II. White, Gladys Wilbur and the
Wilbur dancing girls. In all sew
cnty-five students were cast
Mrs. Forrest also is directing the
Howard University Players in the
same production. and the next per-
formance is scheduled for January
e6th.
The Washington herald., 1922-01-22
WORLD RELIGIOUS
CONGRESS IN MAY

A national congress OF all religious
denominations to discuss how the
American churches can further the
cause OF international cooperation
will be held in Cleveland. May 16,
II. and is. under the auspices Of
the World Alliance for International
Friendship Through the Churches.
Announcement from the headquarters
of the alliance. 20 Fifth avenue, New
York, says that the program will
be divided into sections dealing with
various types OF cooperation in the
life Of America and the rest Of the
world. under the following heads: Re-
lief. Labor. Agriculture. Economies,
Education. Religion, Politics.
Reports will be received from
councils OF the World Alliance in
twenty-five nations and II is expected
that churches in at least fifteen for
eisn countries will send personal rep
resentativea.
The Washington herald., 1922-01-22
MEXICAN BILL AIMS
AT LIQUOR SOURCES

MEXICO CITY. Jan. 81. - There
has just been sent to congress a
bill intended to ultimately do away
with the business of liquor selling
and drinking throughout Mexico
This bill is more extensive than il
was supposed it would be from
previous reports Of II. since IL
provides for the cessation of the
cultivation of all plants now beinG
raised with the express purpose OF
making from them alcoholic
liquors.
1t also provides for the prohibi-
tion of the use of other plants now
not used for this purpose as substi-
tutes for the extraction of alcohol
in however small quantities. 1.-THE
object OF the bill is to rapidly kill
the sources of supply for alcoholic
liquors.
(Copyrixht 1927
The Washington herald., 1922-01-22
What's Going
On Today

homecoming day at st. Agnes Church.
oefinninE with special services at IL
Musical. local division Of the Universal
Negro Improvement Association, Pythian
building. Twelfth and streets north
west. 3 p. m.
Georsetown Union,, Georgetown Uni
address by Charles Edward Russell,
Psdraic n. Pearse Council, A, A, r.. l..
Gonzaea Hall, 9 p. m.
Flying Squadron meeting, Vermont
Avenue Christian Church, s D. m.
Concert BY local branch Of the Fsdera-
tion OF Ukrainian Jews, Odd Fellows
Hall, p. m.
Sunday afternoon tea, League of Amer
ican Pen Women, 1922 H street north
west, p. m.
Mass meeting under the suspice, Of
Hebrew Home for the Aged, Sixth Street
synagogue. Sixth and streets north
west, 2:s0 D. m.
Recital by Horace Alvin Lake, wash
ington Arts Club, 2oi7 street north.
west. $40 .. m.
The Washington herald., 1922-01-22
Mrs. MOLaUi to Go
On Trial Tomorrow

Mrs. Lydia Kanode Molayi indict-
ed on charge OF second degree MUIR
der in connection with the shooting
and killing of her husband. Abdu
Hooserin Molavi. at their rooms. 1914
Rhode Island avenue northwest, or
April IL last. will be placed on trial
tomorrow morning before Justice
Walter ]. Mccoy in Criminal Court
No. |.
The case was postponed once be-
cause OF the illness of a government
witness. Assistant District Attorney
b. Emerson. jr., will prosecute Mrs
Molavi.
The Washington herald., 1922-01-22

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The Washington herald., 1922-01-22
Germany Evade. Obligation,

The essential point is the clear
proof OF the extent to which. and of
the manner in which, important
elements in Germany are consist
emily and obstinately trying TO
avoid the fulhllment of their obIi-
cations under the treaty of Ver-
sailles. The exposure of the Erz-
berger murderers have proves
again. IL such proof were required.
that many officers of the old army
are banded together In associat tions
The Washington herald., 1922-01-22
Horse Racing Tax-Exempt.

MEXICO CITY, Jan. 81. - Presi- =
dent obregon has exempted horse
racing from all taxes. The City OF
Mexico claims the right to tax rae
ing. and the mayor says he is hav-
Ing the city's attorney prepare its
case to present to the President.
The Washington herald., 1922-01-22
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molly NAME TO PARADE.
City and state VIII be We'll Represent.
- In Washington Dcmonstrn ton.

Several hundred members OF the
uolv Name Society from the several
Catholic churches OF this city arc go
ina 60 Washington. II. g.. October s
10 participate I'm the parade 20 he held
There by representatives NJ thie or
SANITATION from ev~ry state in tn,
Union In celebration OF the golden
Jubilee OF the founding OF the ecciety
This d. Issou WA reached laet night
81 . meeting OF the representatives OF
the local so-,sctiss IN Cathedral Hall.
John r. Aeaiey. q 1prrsb~r OF the
Cathedral Holy Name Society. presid-
81 and introduced Patrick J. HaltiRan,
~ Wash inEtcn. the representative Of
the District Holy Name, who outlined
pi&ne for the celebration. lie eaid they
hope TO make Il the largest demons,ra-
ton by the Catholic laymcn ever held
a. THE country. He ursed a large turn
out from this city and state.
Mcmtrrw 81 tho local societies viii
meet juno 81 in Cathedral Hall 70
formulate definite plans for the trir
30 Washington.