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The New York herald., 1922-05-07
Y. M. C. A. GIRLS LEAD
IN THIEF PURSUIT
Figure in Capture Of Man
Found On Fifth Floor of
Building.

Alfred Torff. 81. of 2s East Seventy
police, as a week end" burglar. who
has carried out eight or more thefts In
he residential section in the Fffties, be-
tween Park and Madison avenues. en-
tered the Young Women's Christian AS
sociation building at Lexington avenue
and Fifty-second street late yesterday
afternoon. He went to the fifth floor. il
is alleged, where he searched one OF the
offices and found strong box con-
taining $33.
Holding the box under his arm. he
started for the stairs. when he was seen
by Miss Gertrude Voightland. clerk In
the physical education department. She
gave cry of fright. and the man
dashed down the stairs. Miss Voight-
land followed. and by the time Torff
reached the first floor twenty-five
young women had gathered and. under
the leadership of Miss Voightland. ran
out in the street in pursuit.
Torff turned into. Fifty-second street.
At Park avenue and Fifty-second street
Patrolman Reynolds was directing traffic.
He dashed after the man and drew his
revolver, ordering him TO halt, but Torff
kept on and in the congestion Of traffic
Reynolds was afraid to shoot. The
chase continued in Park avenue to
Ffty-third street. where Reynolds threw
himself on Torff. He did not have the
strong box, but his pursuers said they
saw him throw it away.
I'm the East Fifty-first street station
tt sair to have admitted series
of thefts He was said to have had
watch and chain stolen from Dr.
.I TcIntosh in the Babies Hospital,
avenue and Fifty-fifth street.
#u and ring also were found
b.. according to the police, Torff ad-
mItted stealing from the Rev. Wilson
Mcdonald of the Cathedral of st. John
the Divine
The New York herald., 1922-05-07
DETECTIVES RAID BARN;
SEIZE $50 GAMBLERS
Fines of S25 Each Paid by 1O8
in Passaic.

Thirty Passaic detectives. led by Capt
Benjamin F. Turner, dashed in automo-
biles to the grounds of Thomas Fox
hall, Sr.. in Brook avenue Passaic, yes
terday and, with drawn revolvers and
riot guns held ready, captured $50 men
charged with gambling in an old barn
So rapidly was the raid conducted that
a lookout did not have time to give the
alarm. The men were charged with
betting on horse races and playing
poker. The ground floor of the barn.
said the detectives had been converted
into lunch room, where only soft
drinks were served.
1t required two hours to transfer all
the prisoners TO Passaic Police Head
quarters. where they We're arraigned
before Judge Costello. who held in 81 900
bail each Samuel Klein of 566 South
Eleventh street Newark; Tony Cavic-
chia of 10i Jefferson street. Newark.
and Gustave Foehl of Mcbride avenue.
Paterson.
Judge Costello fined 10s Of the men
$25 each when they pleaded guilty to
gambling. Forty others who at first
pleaded not guilty changed their minds
and decided to plead guilty but said
they had no money. Judge Costello
fined them SIS each. Klein pulled out
a roll OF bills and paid their fines
The New York herald., 1922-05-07
ARRESTED AS DIRECTOR
OF YOUNG BOND THIEVES
Clerk, 1t Is Said, Sold Many
Stolen Securities.

Charles Fox. aged 81. clerk. Of l65
East 121st street. was arrested yester-
cay on a charge of disposing of securi-
ties stolen from firms in the financial
district. The larceny of ten 81, 900 Vic
tory bonds from Mcdonald {: Co.. brok-
ers. of 121 Broadway, on November 2s
last. is laid to him. Information said
to have been given to the police by
Harry Schlmisel. former bank mes
senger. now in prison, indicates that
Fox handled securities stolen from other
concerns. Fox denies the charge and de-
ciares he does not know Schimisel
Schimisel. alias Bergman" aged %
cf 239 Kingsbridge road, The Bronx
formerly was a messenger in the finan-
cial district, but in March. 1919. was
arrested for the theft of $4,000 worth
of Liberty bonds from Maybon & Co.,
brokers, of As Wall street. He pleaded
guilty when arraigned, but was released
on probatiors by Judge Rosalsky. On
March 25 last he was arrested again
charged with the theft of securities
from a messenger of Prince & Co,
brokers. oe 20 Broad street. and pleaded
guilty
Judge Rosalsky imposed a sentence OF
from two tc four years in Sing Sing
fer the frs. offense and remanded the
young man to the Tombs until last Fri
day for sentence on his second offense.
Sentence was deferred indefinitely when
Detectives Mayer and Brown went tc
Judge Rosalsky Friday and advised him
that Schiniisel had told them that he
had been influenced by Fox in the
FRINGE robbery. declaring that he was
rot the real culprit. He said Fox had
disposed OF $4,000 worth of securities.
Schimisel told the detectives that Fox
gave him only a small portion or the
yield Of the securities. usually about
500 on a transaction.
The New York herald., 1922-05-07
RUSTON SAYS PUBLICITY
SPOILS JACKSON INQUIRY
AssaiIs Medical Examiner for
Giving Out Statement.

No progress apparently was made
yesterday i'm the investigation under
taken by county and city authorities TO
clear up the mystery surrounding tie
death of Mr.. and Mrs. Fremont jack
son, an aged couple. found dead on
April % in their apartment in the Hotel
Margaret Annex, in Brooklyn. District
Attorney Ruston of Kings county ir a
statement rebuked DR.. Charles Norris
Medical Examiner. for disclosing infor-
nation concerning the exhumation of
the body of Mr.. Jackson and the break
down of an investigation that DIR. Nor
ris had planned to conduct In his offices
in Manhattan I'm the hope that more
light might be thrown on the, death
mystery. f. ID. Dupuy. manager of the
Hotel Margaret: Mary King. chamber
maid. and man who had fumigat ad
the basement of the hotel annex about
the time of the death of the Jacksons
had been subpo9naed to testify before
the Medical Examiner. but they failed
to appear. Two detectives were exam
ined. after which the hearing was adj
journed.
The New York herald., 1922-05-07
SIX SHOPLIFTERS GET
JAIL TERMS OR FINES
One Excuse Was No Money to
Buy Easter Dress.

Four men and two women shoplifters
arrested by detectives of the Stores Mu-
tual Protective Association pleaded
guilty in Special Sessions yesterday. The
men received prison sentences, one
woman was sent to the penitentiary and
the other was fined $50
Emil Tobolka, SO, and his wife, Jennie
30, 1919 First avenue, admitted stealing
2 child's dress valued at SIS on April
! from a Broadway department store
Their excuse was that they had no
money to buy an Easter dress for their
nine-year-old daughter. The man got
twenty days in the workhouse his wifa
was fined $50.
Adelaide Fitzpatrick. %, 514 West
Twenty-ninth street, admitted stealing
a pair of bloomers valued at $3.50 from
the same store and was sent to the peni-
tentiary for not less than six months or
more than three years. She was a sec.
ond offender.
The New York herald., 1922-05-07
INTRUDER IN CRESCENT
CLUB HELD AS BURGLAR
Man With Robbers Tools
Says He Became Lost.

Edward ]. Bedell. aged 27. who was
arrested Friday night in washroom
of the Crescent Athletic Club. Pierre
pont and Clinton streets, Brooklyn, was
arraigned yesterday before Magistrate
Geismar in Adams Street Court charged
with carrying burglars tools and sent
to Jail in default of $500 bail for hear
ing Friday.
When arrested Bedell gave his ad-
dress as the Army and Navy Club, 112
Central Park South. At the club it
was said an Edward Bedell belonged
to the club. but did not live there. AL
though Bedell says he served as an
aviator in the war, the police contend
he has admitted several previous ar
rests for abandonment, petty larceny
and carrying burglars tools. He ex-
planned his presence in the Crescent
Club by saying that he was on his way
to a dinner and got lost.
The New York herald., 1922-05-07
FOX HILLS HOSPITAL
TO Be SOLD MAY 27
Enough Lumber to Build
1000 Homes Will Be
Disposed OF.

The Governments hospital at Fox
Hills. staten Island. which was vacated
recently by soldier patients being
treated by the Public Health Service,
will be sold at public auction on Friday
and Saturday May &c and e. in accord
ahce with arrangements made yester-
day by the Treasury Department
through the United States Veterans
Bureau. The group. which consists of
eighty-four buildings will be put under
the hammer by Charles s. Gerth, auc-
tioneer of Gerth IS Realty Experts. and
the conditions or the sale will provide
for the removal of all buildings by
July 30.
The hospitals patients. many of them
tubercular, have been transferred to
hospitals in and around New York and
TO Public Health Service institutions in
other parts of the country. Pending he
sale DR.. III. A. Axiline will be I'm charge
of the property for the Government. The
Fire Department. which has-twenty-five
members. and the guard of twelve men
Will be maintained to protect the prop
erty until 1t is sold
Fox Hills Hospital was completed in
the spring of 1918 at cost of about
$2.500.000 and from that time until early
this year, when it was ordered closed ii
had been source of constant annoy
ance to the Government because of pro-
tests against the environment and the
service that was being accorded to the
disabled veterans. After two years Of
protest by patients. army officers MEM
bers of the American Legion and various
civic organizations. Col. Charles r.
Forbes. director of the United States
Veterans Bureau. declaring that condi-
tions at Fox Hills were deplora Bile, Pc
titioned the Government to abandon the
institution.
He represented that there vas no way
to make the place safe or congenial for
the patients and expressed the opinion
that if a fire should break out 500 he'd
ridden patients probably would perish
This was followed by other protests and
Investigations. the complaints including
charge that only one nurse had been
provided for every 300 patients and that
drugged milk was being served to the
wounded soldiers.
Early this year delegation of
wounded soldiers called upon President
Harding in person and presented a pet,-
ton signed by 300 Fox Hills patients
urging that the hospital be abandoned
and a short time after that the Prasi-
ueht LOOK steps TO have 4 closed. The
transfer orders called for the vacatiny
of the hospital by March 81. but it was
a week or so later before all the pa
tients had been removed
At the time the order was issued $50
patients were in the hospital Most of
the tuberculosis patients were trans
ferred to the city's Sea View Hospital.
near New Dorp, Staten Island. where
they are being cared for on contract.
The lumber in the buildings at Fox
Hills is sufficient to provide homes for
almost 1000 families. it was said. The
hospital has three miles of corridors and
wards sufficient to care for more than
5000 patients.
The New York herald., 1922-05-07
PERSISTENT INTRUDER
TAKEN AT FRICK HOME
Man Had Tried for Year to
Gain Entrance.

A man who said he was Selman Smith,
81. no occupation, Of Middebourne. w
Va. was taken to Bellevue Hospital late
yesterday for observation after he had
tried to enter the home of Mrs. Henry
G. FriclS at | East Seventieth street At
the F'rick home IL was said he had been
trying to gain access to the house for
more than a year.
When he presented himself at tho
front door yesterday he told the butler
he wanted TO see either Mrs. Frick or
her daughter. Miss Helen F'ricl. because
his future lay in that house"
Another servant called the East Sixty
seventh street station. Detectives Sui
livan and Napolitano took the man to
the station. DIR. Jedlicka4 Of Flower
Hospital advised that he be sent to
Bellevue
The New York herald., 1922-05-07
Chase over Housetops.

chase over roofs and housetops on
West Forty-first street yesterday morn
ing at 10 o'clock ended In the capture of
two bandits by four detectives of the
Twenty-third precinct, Immediately n
front Of 4oS West Forty-second street.
The trouble began at o'clock, when
John Poulos. who conducts a restau-
rant at S57 West Forty-first street. was
awakened in his home, 81 West Forty
first street, by the crash of broken
glass. Upon investigation Poulos saw
that the front door had been battered.
but had not yielded to the intruders
who were seen disappearing down the
street
Just before 10 o'clock Fouios. with
$1,000 cash in his pockets, that he had
collected as rental, was confronted ir
the restaurant by two bandits. who told
him ito stick 'en up" His wife. Lena.
interefered and one bandit drew a razor
and slashed her on the right arm. Mean
while Daniel Call, an employee who
had entered the fracas. was confronted
by the bandit. whose name it was
learned later was Sommerville.
Sommerville, seizng a large carving
knife. cried out: I'm going to cut your
head off" whereupon Call fattened SOM
merville with a chair. In spite of the
blow the bandit arose and hit Call with
Dottle or ketchup, opening a deep cash
over his right eye. The proprietor man
aged to dodge his assailants and rushed
othe street where he blew his police
whistle
Detectives Porter, Mcnamara. Foley
and Anderson. responding. chased the
bandits through a building in West
Forty-first street up to the roof and
over the housetops. finally capturing two
men in West Forty-second street
They were Identified by Poulos and
his wife and were locked up on charges
Of felonious assault and robbery. They
gave their names as Nicholas Santo
aged 25. OF 511 West Forty-third street
and Thomas Sommerville, 2i OF 4OS
West Forty-second.
Lena Pouloss wound necessitated
nine stitches. Call was also treated for
laceratons OF the eye.
Thieves succeeded in entering the
store of II. j. Liebowitz. women's
dresses "a West Twenty-sixth street.
and, breaking the windows on the twelfth
floor made Off with sixty-seven dresses
early Friday.
Apparently the robbers were fright
ened by an electric alarm because other
garments were piled ready to be carried
Off. Entrance was gained by the fire
escape
James Wren aged %. VIII, gave his
address as 554 West Thirty-fifth street.
was arrested later charged with being
implicated In the attempted ho'dup.
The New York herald., 1922-05-07
MOTOR AND PET MONKEY
GO AS SHE PLAYS GOLF
Theft of Animal Is Fell More
by Mrs. Engstrom.

Mrs. Angelo Engstrom. 1873 West Sew
enty fifth street. reported TO the Kings
bridge police station yesterday that her
pet monkey and her automobile had
been stolen while she was playing golf
in Van Cortlandt Park. She left the
car. q coupe. on Broadway with the
monkey inside for about fifteen min
utes. she said
Mrs. Engstrom said she did not mind
losing the automobile so much as the
net She bought II i'm Honolulu and has
become much attached to t. The mon
keyf Is eight months old. It's name Is
skipper u IS y favorlte with the chit
d"eu about b home.
The New York herald., 1922-05-07
LADY ASTOR ATTENDS
PICNIC IN VIRGINIA
Rests at Lynchburg, Scene of
Her Girlhood Days.

Special Dispatch TO THE NEW York HERALD
LyNcHBuRG, Va, May 6.-Rest and
informality await Lord and Lady Astor
In the hill city of the Old Dominion,
where Lady Astor spent many of her
girlhood days.
Lord and Lady Astor. accompanied by
Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson, arrived here
this evening by automobile from Eveng-
ton. where they spent the day at a picnic
with Thomas Langhorne, uncle of Lady
Astor and Mrs. Gibson.
Lady Astor and her husband are the
guests here of her aunt. Mrs. John H..
home of Judge and Mrs. Frank r. Chris
tian.
The New York herald., 1922-05-07
LINKS BODY FOUND "
WITH THROAT SLASHEE
Accountant Believed to HaJe
Committed Suicide.

The body of Frederick r.. Link bF
Hollis j. j.. an accountant. missing for
three days. was found yesterday in
Hollis wood His throat and wrists were
cut, and Howard w. Neail. assistant
medical examiner, said the man had ap-
parently killed himself with a razor
The body rested on slope, and t,s
razor, which was not found, is believed
to have been washed down by the rain
Mr.. Link. who had nervous breakdown
last fall and was for several months, ~
Brooklyn State Hospital. returned TO nj
home April 26 The body was found n,
John Budick of III Schenectady avenlfs
brooklyn Mr. Link leaves wife AMI
daughter.
The New York herald., 1922-05-07
FALLING RAIL KILLS MAN
UNDER BROOKLYNBRIDGE
B. r. T. Train Probably Rip
ped off Current Carrier.

Thomas Valiando, aged 40. of 563
Forty-fifth street. Brooklyn. was cross
ing High street under the Brooklyn
Bridge last night when a steel section Of
the b. r. T. third rail five feet long
weighing fifty pounds, fell from the ele-
waited structure thirty-five feet above
and struck him on the head. An ambu-
lance surgeon said he was killed in
stantly.
The Il. K. L. management thought the
rail. nose piece" or section where the
shoe" picks up the rail after crossing
a switch had been ripped Off by pass
ing train.
The New York herald., 1922-05-07

COLUMBIA CANOEfSTS
NEAR DEATH IN RIVER
SaUed by Naval Militia Men
OFF 9th Street.

Two Columbia University students.
who gave the names OF Jack Noshner
and James Van Ripper, had narrow
escapes from drowning when their
canoe capsized off Tooth street The
pair clung to the end of the canoe and
were carried with the tide down to
Ninety-seventh street, where Bern
Smith y. NJ, first class and George
D1nnelly, q. M. first class. OH the
II. S. S. Illinois First Battalion N9vai
Militia, rushed to the dock and threw
lines out TO the pair.
They were dragged ashore and dried
out on the Illinois.
The New York herald., 1922-05-07
MENAcING FIRE IN QUEENS.

Fire in the cooperage OF the a. c.
Horn Company, Vernon avenue and Boz
dine street. Long Island City, threatened
conflagratiou yesterday because 1t
was IN the heart Of the paint and var-
rlsh center. Fire companies from Lon,
Island City Astoria and Greenpoint
helped to fight the blaze and kept il
confined TO tho Horn plant. with loss
OF about $4,000.
The New York herald., 1922-05-07
BLAZE IN sT. NICHOLAS cLun.

fire, originating from defective
flue, started on the ground floor OF the
ST. Nicholas Club at West Forty
fourth street. near Fifth avenue yes
terday afternoon. and more than hum
dred persons ran to the street There
they remained and watched the firemen
Until the blaze was under control
COAL.
The New York herald., 1922-05-07
ROBBED TO A HYMN TUNE.

OMAHA. May G.--Two masked ban
dts who told their victims the1 were
once in q church choir sang Tie hymn
which includes the words. I've VIII come
rejoicing, bringing IN the shea fes." as
thcv held up and robbed several acrsons,
including women. in drur store here
Thcy obtained 5000
The New York herald., 1922-05-07
Banton Cuts 612 Cases
from Criminal Docket

~ ISTRICT ATTORNEY BAN
TON announced yesterday
that his calendar had been
cut from PASS cases pending when
he took office on January l to 2, ,103
at the present. a reduction of 1856.
One year ago. under District Attor-
ney Swami, there were 2.406 cases
pending.
Last week 179 cases, mostly
crimes of violence, were disposed
of. Since April II, the beginning of
the drive against crime the total
is 612 cases.
The New York herald., 1922-05-07
$4,000, 900 Available
for Soldier Hospitals

w TASHINGTON May e.
wv Through passage by the
Senate Congressional action
was completed to-day on the bill
making immediately available s12.-
100000 for construction of hospitals
for former service men as part Of
a program calling eventually for
the expenditure of S17,000,00
The New York herald., 1922-05-07
Another Cellar Burglary.

The third burglary, across the street
from the hanging of Glorioso, was COM
mitted in the cellar of the Atlas Book
Store. Inc, 25 Madison street, and the ad-
joining store to the jewelry shop of
Demethenes Santos, who was shot and
killed by holdup men on February 23
An early pedestrian in Madison street
noticed a rope lying on the sidewalk
and reached into the coal chute leading
to the basement under the Atlas book
store. F'lickers of light came from the
hole and soon two men ran from an
alley near by and escaped. Investigation
showed that the thieves had cut through
one flooring of the double layer between
the basement and the store above. They
had also taken about $40 in cash from a
drawer in the basement. The cellar is
used as a storehouse for ripening ba-
nanas.
Soon afterward Patrolman Edward
Finn of the Oak street station, trying
doors along his beat, saw the light
in the Greek-American News Company
store and raped or the door AS he
did so a man escaped through the rear
window, the inch thick iron bars Of
which had been severad by file. Rush
ing to James street. Patrolman Finn
caught Muglia. who was running from
the place. He had several dollars in
cash.
The New York herald., 1922-05-07
BANDITS STRING UP
MAN AFTER HOLDUP
Banana Dealer. Bound, Res
cued by Customer Ias
Face Gets Blue.
ONE SUSPECT IS TAKEN
Three Stores Are Robbed
Near Former Gov. Smiths
Home.
WOMAN GUARDS $1,000
Attempted Holdup. Fight,
Chase on Rooftops End in
, Captures in 42d st.

Two men entered the cellar store Of
Angelo Glorioso, aged Al, banana
dealer at 80 Madison street, early yes
terday and after robbing him of slT3
at the point of a pistol bound and
gagged him and hung him with rope
to one of his banana hooks in the
wall They escaped after forcing into
a rear room a customer who had en-
tered the cellar to buy bananas. The
robbers warned the customer not to
make any noise Glorioso was cut
down by the customer. The banana
dealer had been hanging several min
utes and his throat was badly swollen
and his face was beginning to turn
blue.
This was one of three robheries that
took place within a few hours and
two blocks, and near the home of for
mer Gov. Smith, 25 Oliver street, and
the one time stamping ground of such
old time Tammany politicians as Tom
Foley.
The second robbery occurred in the
store of the Greelk-American News Com
pany. 4S Madison street, the building
owned by Michael Rofano, former Dep
uty Commissioner of Street Cleaning,
and which at one time housed the old
Tammany club of followers of Thomas
]. Foley and later Rof-ano's insurgent
Home Rule Democratic Club The po-
lice later arrested Patrick Muglia. aged
21, of 124 Madison street. was was held
by Magistrate Max Levine in $4,000 bail
for a later hearing
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1922-02-25
New Addition al Pureair.

The trl-county sanatarium com
mittee held a meeti' at Ashland
last Friday and opened bids on
the building of an addition to Pure
air sanatarium at Bayfield,, main
tanned by Bayfield,, Ashland and
Iron counties.
The general contract on the
alternate bid was awarded the
Hutter Construction company of
Fond du Lac at S34,4f2. The
heating contract went to Upthe-
grove and McGinn for 81 o69 and
the same firm secured the plumb
ing contract for s., 222.
The addition will be about the
size Of the present building two
stories high, and viii provide n
additional rooms for patients.
The building of an addition to
. Pureair sanatarium has been made
/ necessary because Of the crowded
condition Of the present building
and the need Of more room TO ac.
/ comodate the many who should be
/ receiving treatment at the institu-
ton.
Daniel Reid Vic J Simon and
ID J. Defer are the Iron county
/ members of the sauatarium com
uittee.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1922-02-25
No Second Term for Sheriffs This Year.

Wisconsin sheriffs cannot run
for re election at the November
general election, all pending con
stitutional amendments allowing
the practice to the contrary not
withstanding
This was the reply of Attorney
General VIM. J. Morgan in an
opinion given the district attorney
of Waushara county.
The constitutional amendment
passed by the 1921 legislature, is
placed before the people for approx
al or disapproval on the official
ballot in November, and provides
for the repeal of that section of
the state constitution which says
that 'sheriffs will not be eligible
to run legally for re election until
two years after their term expires. +"
But the sherlffs cannot legally be
candidates until after the election,
Morgan pointed out. So Wiscou.
son sheriffs will not this fall run
70: re election.