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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-04-18
Crime Wape Alibis of Hylan
And Enright Get Real Cheers
Mayor Assures Police Captains It's Just Newspape,
Talk, While Commissioner Explains in Brooklyn
That s'Battle Line Is Holding Against Big Odds

Mayor Hylan and Police Commits
sioner Enrght explained the crime
wave stories last night. The Police
Commissioners did so we'll in mis- ex-
planation given in speech before the
Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce. that
that organization gave him a rising
vote of thanks. The Mayor was APP
pauded when he had finished his ex-
planaton at the dinner of the Police
Captains Endowment Association at
tire Waldorf Astoria Hotel. The Com
missioner spoke also at the latter
dinner.
"ln this city said the Mayor, 1--WE
can tell in the spring that an cleo
ton is coming off in the fall by the
attacks on the police.
"The underworld, the gambling inter
ests and the newspapers have run the
Police Department in the past Con-
sequently, the Police Commissioner had
to move on If he didn't please some of
the newspapers. Since the day that
promoted lieutenant and put him in
charge of the department these papers
have been attacking the force
"There is one evening newspaper
that had man on it with much in
fiuence with the vice squad. On the
morning paper of the same name was
man connected with the gambling in
terests. These papers have been most
bitter in trying to drive out the Com
missioner because he mad the audacity
to make changes in the vice and gam
bling squads
an this administration there has
been one order-to keep law and order
and to act against big offenders as
well as little ones.
Bad Advertising. He Says
"When the papers are short Of news
| understand that the standing order
is Hound the police! and it is about
time the people Of the city knew of
these methods. During the last few
weeks nothing has been said of the
vicious crimes committed in other parts
of New York State and elsewhere. The
papers arc trying to create the impress
sion that New York is the only city
where there is crime.
"The papers advertise from time to
time to the world that the only thing
done in New York is crime. have
taken this up with the business men
several times and tried to get some
thing done about it in an attempt to
get the papers to change their policy,
so as not to drive people away from
New York.
Commissioner Enright told the
Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce that
he knew a crime wave when he saw
one, and that there was no such thing
TO be seen at the present time. There
was 10 per cent less crime during the
first four months Of 1922, he said, than
there was during the first four months
Of 1910.
The only reason that there is ali this
present uproar about crime wave is
because crime these days is more spec
tacular than it was years ago, and it
has seriously alarmed some of the peo-
pie. Ii it wasn't for the prestige of
the Police Department and the terror
it has put in the hearts Of crookdom,
he said that the police would not be
able 20 hold the battle lines as well as
they have in the last few years and as
they are doing now.
"And this battle line" he said con
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-04-18
Won't Release Jacks Liquor
Court Holds Owners Acquittal
Doesn't Free Seized Stock

Judge Mack, in Federal Court, yes
terday refused to entertain a petition
filed by attorneys for Jacks, Inc. a
theatrical district restaurant, for an
order restoring TO the restaurant com
pany liquors worth 100000 seized bv
prohibition agents on alleged evidence
furnished by Agents lizzie Einstein and
Moe Smith
John Dunstan, principal owner of
Jacks, was acquitted by a jury few
days ago on charges of illegally selling
from the store of liquor which was
later seized. His attorneys held that
the acquittal of Dunstan automatically
released the governments claim to the
seizure. The court held, however. that
Dunstan was on trial and not the seized
liquor, and that while the jury had
agreed that Dunstan did not sell from
the store, yet the government had pro-
duced evidence that whisky from the
store was sold, and on this showing
Judge Mack directed the United States
District Attorneys Office to at once
file libel against it.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-04-18
FeIIs Detective,
Leaps for Liberty
From Fast Train
Prisoner Being Brought 10
New York Is Picked Up,
Badly Injured, After OAR
ing Effort to Escape

CORNING, n. Y, April Jumping
in dash for liberty from an Erie train
moving sixty miles an hour near Irwin,
west of here to-day Selig Rothstein, of
New York, was probably fatally in
jured. He is in the Corning Hospital,
Rothstein wanted for robbery in
New York, was being taken there from
Akron, Ohio, by William G. Herbert
New York detective
Telling Herbert as they returned to
their Pullman from the diner, Roth
and threw himself from the last car
His skull was fractured and he re-
ceived other serious injuries
The robbery for which Rothstein is
wanted took place while Detective Her
bert was attached to the former Sheriff
Street police station abolished more
than a year ago by Police Commission
CT Enright. Rothstein was captured
and later disappeared while on bail.
When he was reass gned to the Clin-
ton Street station Detective Herbert
took the warrant for the arrest of
Rothstein with him Recently word
was received from Akron, Ohio, that a
man answering Rothstein's description
had been arrested there. He was held
for the New York police and Detective
Herbert was sent West TO get the
prisoner.
According to q report in the Clinton
Street station last night considerable
interest has been shown on the East
Side over the capture of Rothstein. A
young boy walked into the station
house yesterday morning, it was said,
and told the lieutenant on the desk
that "a man outside" told him to ask
when Detective Herbert was coming
back. Several patrolmen also are said
to have reported being asked bv
strangers if they knew when Herbert
was eXpectnd hack
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-04-18

tains 1900 miles of streets which must
be patrolled at all hours of the day
and night. For this we have available
from ! 900 to 1000 men
He then went on to tell of the drair
made on the 500 patrolmcn, saying
how many had to be detailed to pa.
rades, strikes and meetings; how
many were on sick report until he hac
reduced the force to the 500 which
as he says, holds the battle front.
Lot Is Hard. He Feels
He told how hard it was for the
police to catch criminals when every
agency seemed to be working in THEN
favor In this vein he spoke of the
parole board, the factions working for
prison reform, the bail bond system
the suspended sentence, the indie
terminate sentence and the lack Of CO.
operation on the parts Of police de-
partments in various states.
'Everything,' said the Commission
er, seemed to be directed rather tc
aid the criminal than to help society
The prison reformers have gone toe
far. A criminal doesn't care if he
goes to Jail. It's rest cure. That's
what it is. There are no punitive
measures as in the old days They
grand opera, drama. They are better
housed, better fed and better treated
than rs per cent of the people living
in the city"
Pans Press For Police Holiday
After the Brooklyn meeting. Com
missioner Enright went to the Waldorf
and addressed the Captains Endowment
Association Banquet, speaking for about
an hour and covering much of the
ground he had gone over earlier in
the evening, launching. in addition
sarcastic attack against the press
"The trouble with all our government
is that the men in Office are not picked
from that honorable and upright pro
fession that knows how to do every
thlng-the newspapermen," declared
the Commissioners "The Mayor of this
city should have been selected from
among their number; the Police Com
missioner should have been the editor
of The World and he should have been
required to select the editor of The
Tribune as his First Deputy Commits
sioner."
Mr. Enright then nominated for the
other Deputy Commiss ioncrships, as he
has done several times before, the
editors of the other papers, ending up
OS naming lne eQlIorS OF - ne Evening
POST and of chat splendid old mani
cure, The Brooklyn Eagle" for the
fourth and fifth deputies. This refer
ence to the papers was greeted by dra-
matte and approving Kisses from his
audience.
Other speakers were Bishop Thomas
F. Gailor, president Of the Bishops
Council of the Protestant Episcopal
Church, and Supreme Court Justice
rthur S, Tompkins, both of whom
praised the police, and District At
torney Joab H. Banton who charac-
terzed Mayor Hylan as an "honest-to-
God Mayor and man. pledged the sup
port of his office to the department
and asserted that when the present
criminal docket was cleared he intend
ed to bring to trial all crimes of VIC
lence within forty-eight hours of the
perpetrators arrest, thus obviating re
lease on bail.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-04-18
Kin Of War Prisoners
On Way to Washin gton

ST. LOUIS, April 17.-The "Chil-
dren's Crusade for Amnesty" departed
to-day for Terre Haute, Ind, the first
lap of its journey to Washington,
where President Harding will be petit
toned to release 113 imprisoned men
convicted of violating wartime acts.
Five wives and sixteen children of
some Of the imprisoned men and Mrs.
Kate Richards O'Hare, who organized
the crusade" composed the party, and
sixteen others will be picked up on the
way to the capital giving the petition,
when presented to the President Nav l.,
thirty EIGHT names.
The youngest of the children was
three years old and the oldest eighteen.
Some Of the boys wore overalls.
On arrival in Terre Haute the party
will visit Eugene V. Debs, and then
will proceed through Indiana and Ohio
to Erie, Rochester, Buffalo, Schenec-
tady, New York Philadelphia and Bal
timore in the order named.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-04-18
BantOn Opens Var on
Crime in EIGHT Courts

District Attorney Banton, with CON
troll of the trial calendars in his own
hands, started yesterday to expedite
the disposal OF cases involving crimes
OF violence. Of 800 cases on the trial
calendars in the eight criminal courts
IN operation, at least one-third were
those Of men accused of homicide, rob
berry, burglary and similar ofrenses
Such cases probably will fill the entire
calendar to-day.
Not since William Travers Jerome
was District Attorney has prosecutor
IN this county had complete control of
the trial calendars, and District At
torEey Banton accepted the RESPONSE
p'ilty with determlnation to speed up
trials and sentences at rate to strike
terror into the hearts of thugs.
Justice Devendorf, who has been pre-
SIDING at criminal trials in Part Il of
the Supreme Court, is ILL., His place
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-04-18

was taken yesterday by Justice Brown
and Mr. Banton has asked that an.
other Supreme Court Justice be as
signed to Justice Browns part, where
criminal cases were heard also. After
n conference between judges of Cen
eral Sessions and justices of Special
Sessions 1t was announced that Judge
Rober TT s. tombstone and Judge Morris
kocnig. recently appointed to the Cen
eral Sessions bench, would begin hold
ing court this morning
Judge Koenig will hold court in the
library a the Criminal Courts Build
ing
Morris A. Sheehy, Clement Williams.
Galati, each Of whom was indicted on
charge of murder in the first degree,
pleaded guilty to charges Of man
slaughter in the first degree. Sheehy.
a sergeant in the National Guard, shot
Walter Vance, regimental sergeant
major, in quarrel at a dance at the
l04th Field Artillery Armorv in
February. Williams, who killed Robert
Penn, Of 161 West 133d Street, was
sentenced to serve not less than nine
and not more than twenty years. The
other three will be sentenced Thurs
day.
Peter A. Tarrant, a customs guard,
wh) was convicted of manslaughter in
the first degree last week, was SEN
fenced to not less than ten nor more
-han twenty wears. He killed Thomas
Kenney in the latters saloon on
% .Da1J Z.
Indictments charging Peter La
Guarda and Frank Penchot with
murder in the first degree for killing
Herman Pollock in a candy store hold
up, were returned in the Criminal
Branch of the Supreme Court. They
pleaded not guilty and were warned
their cases would be called for trial
Monday
violence were alleged had been dis
posed of by noon and five of those con-
victod were sentenced.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-04-18
LARS Says
Enrigght of
Citizens Union

by this gang. they rehash numerous
false, libelous statements and innuen-
does concerning the Police Commits
sioner and the Police Department, all
of which were exploited by the maIo-
dorous Meyer investigation committee,
and the whole program of that COM
mittee and the Citizens Union was
submitted to the people of this city
at the last general election and re-
jected by an overwhelmln majority of
nearly half a million votes"
The Citizens Unions statement Of
yesterday declares that n study Of the
statistics in the annual reports Of the
Police Commissioner himself for the
the reason why this city has become
safe place of operation for cut
threats, bandits and burglars.'
"lt is simply that the Enright theory
of efficiency the statement adds, is
to pile record of indiscriminate ar
rests, while the guilty culprits remain
at large The statement points out
that so far as concerns convictions for
crimes of violence the detective divi-
sion under the Enright regime obtained
smaller percentage both Of convic-
tions to arrests and of convictions to
cases reported than in 1917. The state
ment declares that the figures show
that the arrests made were obviously
only for showing and that they only
achieved 20 bogus efficiency"
The only way for the police to rid
the city of crooks is to go out and grab
them off the Streets asserted
Magistrate Mcclellan, in the Esesx
Market court, yesterday. 1t was in
connection with the arraignment of
five men who had been picked up
earlier in the day in roundup Of
suspected persons by detectives They
were charged with being implicated in
a robbery OF the clothing establish
ment Of Morris Levitan, 722 Broadway,
on March IS, when material valued at
$4,000 was stolen, The men were held
in $4,000 bail each for examination
next Thursday. They were William
and Dominck Adrian, brothers, IL
Bedford Street; James Morifi, 217 Sui
Ivan Street; Frank De Giori, 1912
Fifty Street, Brooklyn, and
Charles Mcclure, 500 West Fifty-third
Street.
While Detectives John Cordes, James
Sheehan and Joseph Cooney were pa
trolling Eighth Avenue about a. M
they saw group Of four men carrying
bundle from a clothing store at 885
Eighth Avenue. They we're making
the cub When 10 hnndio m "",' Inado ai
into The car tho do+oc+;uos cios Iu3'' ~
The driver nut on sneed IN an oFor+ ' a.
escape, the autom obile passing so close
to an ~" pillar that Detective Cordos
was brushed off the running board. A
the chauffeur's arm brinoinr the car
to a halt
The bundle was found 10 contain 15o
suits Of cloth;nq valued A. * ooo Tho
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-04-18
Fire Causes $4,000 900
Loss in Maryland Town

POCOMOKE CITY, Md, April IL
With ten acres in the heart of this
city burned over causing an estimated
property damage of more than $4,000
600. Governor Ritchie tonight ordered
a company Of the LIST Regiment, Mary
land National Guard, at Salisbury, to
proceed here at once to protect prop
erty which escaped the flames.
Tonight the town is in darkness.
Wires are down. The business section
is in ruins. Both banks have been
destroyed and fifty homes fell prey to
the flames. Communication with the
outside world has been esta blshed by
tapping wires on the outsk rt5.
Realizing that after nghtfan there
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-04-18
New Revolution
I'm Russia Plan
OF Senenoff
(centInued from page ons)

trans Siberian railroad, where the
American troops were on guard; that
Semenof troops fred on American
soldiers and that Semenoff troops had
attempted TO seize from American
troops $4,000 rifles sent to Kochak
The bureau ordered that when General
Semenof arrived he be questioned care
fully.
Commissioner General Husband then
told of Semenof's arrival at Vancouver
March ID and of his admission after
an inquiry for transit passage" He
promised to leave the country in two
weeks.
Canadian Testimony Counted
The Commissioner General tried to
have the question of admitting Sem
enof brought to Washington for de-
cision, but did not succeed. as under
the immigration laws the authority of
special boards of inquiry at the immi-
grafton stations is almost conclusive
It was brought out that a special board
of inquiry was convened at Seattle and
that the only testimony taken was that
OF Major J. w. Warden, of the British
military commission in Siberia. and
Major General R. C. Leckie, both
Canadians, in addition to the testimony
of Semenof and his wife.
Warden and Leckie both upheld
Semenoff Warden testified that Sem
enotf could not control all his troops
and could not be held responsible for
all the crimes in his domain. Warden
incidentally said all the Allies in ST.
IBERIA hated the laps worse than
poison" General Leckie blamed SEN
enoff's subordinates for crimes in
Semenoffs territory
In the hparjOC hefore Tho eDoc;ol
board at Seattle General Semenoff told
his story, and among other things in
sisted he had been legally divorced
Frnrrn hir fret
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-04-18
NOlstead Seeks Reelection

ST PAUL, April ia. J. Volstead.
author of the prohibition legislation,
to-day filed as candidate for reelection
to Congress from the eth District. Mr.
Nolstead was indorsed by the RepubI
can District Convention.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-04-18

would You'd. be no means to illumin.4.
street streets I, IN. Mayor Gull telepaon1aadd' The
ernor Richie for troops ''"so Gov.
me IRE started in st.h,.
spread to adjoining buildings ssnd
Parker Hotel was one Of the sss. The
ings destroyed. INST build
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-04-18

ONcE month, more frequently, we issue n,b;c.o,
called batens Wedge. Each issue is devoted 70 sinole
editorial on some phase of business If you are business
executive and would like receive copies, write us
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-02-03
Friday, February 8, 1922.

was added as an amendment from the
finance committee, the only important
change made in the bill by the senate
was the elimination of provision which
would have given the commission au-
thority to settle and refund any claims
which the United States hereafter
might have had against ANY foreign
government"
Efforts to add a soldiers bonus
provision to the measure. to limit
the authority of the commission in de-
ferring interest payments and to, re-
quire congressional approval of the
bond conversion agreements, failed.
The senate did adopt, however, an
amendment by Senator Walsh, Demo-
crat, Massachusetts,, requiring the
commission after the conclusion of
each refunding negotiation to report
the results to the senate Senator
Walsh explained that the object was
to give 'pitiless publicity" to the
work Of the commission.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-02-03
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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-02-03

ism in Russia excepting as insanity
follows privation. Personally I found
only the one case while 1 was there
Mrs. Harrison, who began her adj
verturous career as music and dra-
matte critic on a Baltimore newspaper
is a slender, delicate appearing wo-
man, altogether unlike one who might
be expected to manage illegal entry
into q war torn country and afterward
say that her captors did quite right
in putting her in Jail as she was doing
what she had no right to do
Xxx, Soviet Not So Bad.
Russia, as she sees il, is not in such
a bad way after all, nor is the Soviet
government the dragon it some time
has. been pictured. She told me of
several measures acc omplished by this
government which in time may be
achieved in our own proud land. One
is complete equality politically of wo-
mon with men. She continued:
II believe the Soviet government is
merely a phase of education through
which the country is passing and
which will soon be over. It's heads
have worked out, in their sincere way,
some good with much harm.
Women have equal weight in gov
ernment with men. But so far. they
have preferred to devote their efforts
to education and welfare work so nee
essary there now, which they can do
better than men.
Another characteristic Of the So
Wet government is a tendency almost
to idolize children. They are looked
upon as the future of the country. And
while there is no bit of compulsion
about state rearing Of children, the
homes established for them offer so
much in the way of comfort that par
ents cannot give, that every institu-
ton has a long waiting list. Educa-
ton is reduced to an art and is car
ried on in many cases by teachers who
trained children of the nobility before
the war;" 80