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New-York tribune., 1922-04-15
Four Gang Suspects Held
In Shooting of Carrier
Dragnet Gets Youths Sought
After Insults 10 Women i'm
West Side Streets

-Four youths were arrested last nigh.
in connection with the shooting Tues
day of James Horace, 225 West Fiftieth
Street, mail carrier of Station G, West
Fltty-hrSt Street, near Broadway. Hor-
ace is in Bellevue Hospital with bullet
wounds IN his abdomen and left arm.
horace was watching children at play
III the street from a window of his
apartment when John Brennan, of 555
East Fiftieth Street, passed in company
with a young woman. Members of
gang, lettering on the corner. made in
suiting remarks directed at the girl and
brennan shouted that he'd be back TO
settle with them. When Brennan reap
peared, more than dozen shots were
fired, the police say Brennan was not
hit but wild bullets hit Horace. Since
then detectives have been seeking the
gangsters.
Those arrested are Andrew Morris.
nineteen years old, of $40 West
Fortieth Street; Robert Mulladv.
eighteen, 53S West Fiftieth Street; st
John Hoban, eighteen, 533 West Fifty-
first Street. and Merrill Trabold. eieh-
teen, 527 West Fjfty-tirst Street. The
men were apprehended by Detectives
McAuliffe and Cooney, of West Forty-
seventh Street station.
According to the police the prisoners
are members of the gang that has
annoyed women Of the neighborhood
for many months. Morris and Muilady
were under questioning with regard to
the wounding of Horace until late last
night.
New-York tribune., 1922-04-15

VINLAND, Kan, April IA victory
for long skirts was scored here yester-
day, when voters reelected Perry Ste
vens to the rural high school board,
giving him 118 votes to 20 for Seth
Fenton, short-skirt candidate.
Stevens and the school board, OF
which he was head decreed that the
skirts of girl pupils must extend three
inches below their knees. They ex-
pelled Maude Buchanan and Alice Han
sen for violation of that order, but the
District Court ordered the girls read
mitted without skirt revision.
Vinland made skirts a campaign
issue. friends Of Stevens averring that
he was doing the right thing for the
homes and youth of the community
while Fenton's hackers said they, felt
the skirt order to be blow at national
liberty.
old and both are farmers daughters
Court action was brought by j. f. Han,
sen. father of Alice. when the school
board decided that their skirts did not
meet specifications and expelled them
until such time as their skirts should
be lowered.
On application of Mr. Hansen, Judge
New-York tribune., 1922-04-15
opiritualism and Love Lead
W'fe to Poison Baby and Self
i'o'es to Husband Say She Will Guide Him
from Other World; Killed Infant and
iried Suicide to Tighten His Burdens

mrs. Maud NJ. Fancher was sustained
os intense love of her husband and a
1aith in spiritism, it was revealed YES.
'eIoaE' as she sat in her home in New
arh feeding her two-year-old son Cecil
poison with teaspoon. Exalted bv
'he love-inspired sacrifice she was
making. she cuddled Cecil WARMLY j.,
ner arms until his body grew cold.
she laid her dead baby in his crib.
repeated the Lords Prayer in calm
eohndence that q higher iutelligence
comprehended her motives, though the
world might misunderstood. and then
set about her final duty. She had used
only four teaspoonsfuIs from the bottle
for Cecil. She was sure plenty was
'clt Tor her purpose. She swallowed it.
a neighbor discovered her. however.
before the poison completed its work
and the young mother lies between life
and death in City Hospital. Newark,
weakly indignant at the sardonic twist
latc mas given the project she under
took SO heroically and firmly deter
mined TO carry out her purpose if she
RECEIVERS.
Feared Others Wouldn't Understand
She was frank with detectives who
talked 70 her yesterday and astonisbet Il
that they piled her at all with cues
tions. She had tried to make evcry-
thing plain. she said in the notes she
had written to her husband. Harmon
Thursday. She had urged him in each
note to be sure to make its contents
pubic. She was so afraid that she
would be misunderstood.
!t had been her one desire always 10
aid her husband. and always some ma
lgnant imp Of destiny had so arranged
events that in life she had been merely
an encumbrance to him. In death. she
thought, she might succeed That was
why she wrote the notes. She feared
even her husband might misunderstand
otherwise. She wanted him to know that
she took her life that her spirit Nigh t
always be at his side to guide him.
Il Will guide YOU from this day on,
she wrote in her first note penned be-
lore shn took Cecil in her arms for
the last time. land my love always
will be right with you. Don't let your
self get nervous; just wait and see if
don't guide you right. You will be
better of. dear; my health is no good
ing our bodies home, as YOU know the
body. after breath is gone, doesn't
amount 20 anything.
Extoils Husbands Patience
II have tried to endure my troubles,
but ii is too much. | hate so to de-
stroy babys life, but you know then
he will live and have no troubles or
suffering. as we have. You have been
SO patient through it all.
Now. remember that baby and ! are
going to guide YOU and also talk to
you. Baby can't talk much, but he
Knows crything, so | believe he will
tnlk from over there to YOU. ] want
you to start in again, just as though
You had never been married.
Forget Your troubles. | want a
chance to talk to you, SO don't think
you are left alone. ] have marked
New-York tribune., 1922-04-15
2 Detectives Accused of
Beating Negro at Station
Ordered Into Court After AL
legged Victim Tells of Attack
and Is DISCHARGED

Magistrate rockingham, sitting in
West Side Court, yesterday ordered the
appearance before him to-day of De-
tectives Westley Redding, a nego at
tached to the West 135th Street police
station, and Amiel Winterholter, of
the special service squad, to answer a
charge of assault made by Stephen
Keith, a negro owner of fish market
and president of the Cremo Social Club
at 206 West Sixtieth Street.
Keith appeared in court yesterday
with his head bandaged. Attorney
Alexander Karlin of ITO West Fortieth
Street, appeared as Keith's counsel.
Keith testified that the two detectives
searched his shop and the premises Of
the club in the rear after telephoning
him last Wednesday that they were 'go-
ing to be over" Although nothing con-
traband was found on the premises,
Keithsaid, he was taken to the West
135th street station under arrest and
while in the squad room beaten with
blackjacks. Keith was attended by DR.
Frost. of Roosevelt Hospital, and com
PEELED to remain in the hospital until
arraigned in court. He was charged
by the detectives with disorderly con
duct. Magistrate rockingham dis
charged him.
New-York tribune., 1922-04-15

every page of .hese letters, so goodbv
forever mere | will talk to you at any
time. "S
Il lcve you, sweetheart.
,,., MAUD"
Wher Cecils body was lying in the
CRIB Mrs, Fancher wrote again to her
husband "''
Darling, beloved husband" she said.
am writing you line OF this suicide
ana know what every one will say
oh, she has lost hey mindi but |
nave not by a long ways. know just
what | am doing and | know it Is a
great sin, but | have had enough hard
luck and see more coming with nv
baoy, AS he has had a hard time ali
his life, and God knows and YOU know
what we have both suffered when he
was born.
"You know about spiritualism. !
want Eou to go where you can talk with
me and am also gcing to say that
you arc good. dear, sweet husband
ana Just as good as gold"
Suggests Cheap Funeral
In this note Mrs. Fancher wen, into
details in her suggestions as to Tho
funeral One cheap coffin and a cham
lot IN i cemetery would suffice. she said
as Shc wished to be buried with he,,
child in her arms.
niS white suit that | have been
making she continued, 'is not done
bat \; is al cut out, so have it finished
ny Mrs. Owens or some one and give
tnem the pattern and directions to 90
by, and then bury the darling babv
IN ms httle white suit lying at nv
siae and bury nc in my brown dress.
Save this note, and let everybody at
nome read 1T. and DC sure it is pub
ilshed In all the papers.
"What | would like YOU to do is to
get married again and have another
nice baby, so that YOU will not miss
Ceci! and me-
ohe repeated her promise to be al
ways at his side with coupsel born of
the wider knowledge she was sure she
would gain after the step She was
about to take. The third note. written
after she had taken poison herself.
ends IN scrawlcd and unfinished word.
Poison Ends Third Note
May God bless you and make you
happy" it runs. "and will guide vou
aud help you to success. You ale going,
TO nave great success from this dav
on, You go ahead as if nothing had
happened.
Dear Harmon. have done an awful
thing, but | cannot endure my poo
health any longer. Please do fortiye
me and everybody de-
Her strength failed, and the note
ends there
Harmon Fancher married her three
years ago. They had lived in Newark
more than two years. At first they had
a rooming house, in which most of Mrs
Fancher's money was invested. That
venture failed, largely because of her
i'll health. Her husband was without
work for some time, and debts piled up.
Now he is bookkcepcr for the Guar
antec Egg Company, of Newark, and is
beginning to make headway against his
debts. Soon after they were married,
he said, they attended d scance at the
home of friends in Detroit, but he had
not realized the impression it had
made upon his wife.
Damn spritualism." he said,
New-York tribune., 1922-04-15
Wilkinson Seizes
2 Detectives. Hauls
Them Before Jud ge
Private Operatives Repri-
manded When Complain
ant Charges Schlemmer
Put Them OH His Trail

William J. Wilkinson, of 19 West
Fifty-hfth Street, appeared in Night
Court last night before Magistrate Sill
herman as complainant against Henry
McGrath and Michael Wertius, private
detectives, whom he charged with har-
assng him. Wilkinson told the magis-
trate the defendants had shadowed him
early and late for more tnan month.
The detectives were apprehended By
Wilkinson himself outside his home,
after Patrolman O'Keefe, of Traffic
b, had lefused to make the arrest be-
cause he had witnessed no infraction
of law. O'Keefe escorted wilkinson
and his prisoners to the courtroom.
No Law Broken. Says Attorney
McGrath and Wertus were defended
by Frank Aranow, an attorney, of 27
Cedar Street. Assistant District At
torney Magee, arguing for Wilkinson,
said a complaint ought to be lodged
against the men. Aranow insisted that
no law had been violated and that the
private detectives were we'll within
their rights in following Wilkinson.
at is no offense to follow any one
in the street." Aranow said. "On the
principle that a cat may look at king,
or follow one, am at liberty to follow
anybody ] may choose-the Assistant
for that matter, President Harding
"I'll say here and now that neither
of these fellows would follow me very
far" interposed Assistant District At
torney Magee.
"And that goes for me, too,' re-
marked Magistrate Silberman,
Tells of Schlemmer Suit
"Your honor" said Wilkinson, "there
is more in this than appears on the sur
face. | have suit pending for $780,
900 damages against William F. Schlem-
mer, hardware millionaire, for robbing
me of my wife. Last October / caught
him in taxicab and gave him what
was coming to him. Now he has these
so-called detectives trailing me night
and day, trying to get something on
me- I've had enough of this. l want
these men prevented from following
me-
In dismissing the charge Magistrate
Slberman told the detectives to keep
away from Wilkinson. He Informed
the latter that if he was annoyed in
future he might prefer new charge.
The magistrate said if McGrath and
Wertius were brought before him
again ne Would entertain charge
against them.
Following a physical encounter be-
tween Wilkinson and Schlemmer when
the former found his wife with the lat
ter in a cab at Seventysecond Street
and Broadway on October 8, 1921, Mrs
Schlemmer sued her husband for sepa-
rate maintenance. A few days latel
Wilkinson filed suit for $500,00(
against Schlemmer, alleging aliena
tion of his wife's affections.
New-York tribune., 1922-04-15
Short Skirts Lose Battle With
Ankle Lengths in Kansas Town

Means issued temporary order di-
recting the school board to permit the
girls to return to their studies. They
did so, without reservations or amend
ments as to skirt length. Then the
school board filed demurrer to Judge
Means's jurisdiction, which the judge
upheld, and Hansen's attorney an
nounced an appeal to the Supreme
Court.
The action of the school board
stirred up hornets nest in the usually
placid community of Vinland.
Judge Means was made the recipient
of much unasked advice and commenda-
ton from hundreds of persons in all
parts of the United States.
Serious minded women wrote to hin,
gravelv pointing out the merits of
short skirts from sanitary stand
point.
Others feared the decadence of ma
tional morals, and still others were con-
cerned over the peril to national liber-
ties if school boards were to be permit
ted to determine styles.
The most voluble adherents of short
skirts among Judge Means's CORE
spondents were women.
New-York tribune., 1922-04-15
Texan Dies for Murder
Confessed by Another
States Witness Had Declared
Testimony False and Exon
Grated Doomed Man

BELTON, Texas, April 14.-George
F. Hornsby, twenty eight, died on the
scaffold here today for the murder of
J. N. weatherby, lumber dealer, at
Brownwood last year. Hornsby, in a
speech on the scaffold, reiterated his
innocence.
Petitions bearing more than 1000
names asking the Governor to COM
mute the sentence to life Imprisonment
were presented, but the executive re-
fused TO intervene.
While these were under considera-
ton Will Carter, sixteen years old,
who turned states evidence against
Hornsby, made sworn statement that
his testimony was false and exonerated
Hornsby, duplicating himself and an
other man in the Staying.
Mrs. Bennett Smith, of Temple, who
had taken leading part in efforts to
have Hornsby's sentence commuted, re.
Gently told Hornsby she would stand
on the scaffold with him. if he desired
He simply replied THANK you Mrs
Smith was not on the scaffold.
New-York tribune., 1922-04-15
Elfin Pictures
OF Real Fairies
Shown by Doyle

one of the most interesting cases
have ever studied"
Sir Arthur paced up and down the
room as he talked, throwing open VIM
dows and taking deep breaths. Any
one more wholesome or matte r of-fact
1T would be hard to imagine. He talks
OF spirits with convincing earnestncss
and a simplicity that are arresting He
does not want to have his theories
laughed at, He tells you so with cam
dor, deploring the ridicuc that is fre'
quently directed at spiritualism. He
does not ask you to believe. He be-
lieves intensely himself-b believes like
a crusader who must pass along his
message. Yet there is no fire behind
his utterances. He is the logical, clear
headed Scotchman advancing his the
ories in level tones for what they are
worth.
He believes that in spiritualism lies
the remedy for crime
IF we were all spiritualists delib-
crate crime would not be possible" ne
SAID. passionate crime, of course. is
less subject to control. But could you
imagine the lowest of criminals delib-
erately scheming to kill some one if
he saw his mothers form lowering
around him ?"
"On the other hand" it was suggest
ed, IF there is to be no retribution for
criminals in the next world, might
there not be more crime ?"
Doubts Fear Checks Crime
81 don't believe it," he said. People
once believed that if man was not
hung for stealing sheep the crime
would increase. This was not what
happened when the punishment was
mitigated That was the old rule OF
fear. | doubt if fear ever does have
much effect.
Fear and love do not go together
With every one able to sec and COM
muncate with the cloud of spirit wit
nesses which surround us all the time,
there would be no crime in the world
We would have too much regard for
our loved ones, who are everlastingly
conscious of our thoughts and ac-
tionS"
Sir Arthur said that every time we
cast loving thought in the direction
OF some one who mas passed to the
next world a perfect system of wire
J less telepathy is set up. The spirits,
| who are lowering around US all the
time. know what we are doing and
! thinking, he said
/ HIS interest in spiritualism, although
now the major thing in his life. has by
no means dlmlnlShed Sir Arthur's love
for the crook story or his creative abil-
lty in this direction. Within the last
six months he has written several
| Sherlock Holmes stories, he said. which
ne hopes are up to his old standard
| Whenever an idea for a new story
| comes to him he Immediately proceeds
! to put it into novel form. His capacitv
| for work increases with his growing
interest in spiritual things. At present
he is collecting his findings on the lit
tie people of fairyland.
New-York tribune., 1922-04-15
Early Relief, SAYS Untermyer

NCIVIs pays OhtC NY NA
In connection with the signing by
the Governor of the housing bills,
Samuel Untermyer, volunteer counsel
night:
with the approval by the Governor
OF all the housing bills that were
passed by the Legislature and, first
and foremost, of the bill that permits
US to go promptly forward with our
great constructive program for the
building of cheap, modern, sanitary
tcnements, the crisis in housing will
soon have passed it's worst stage, al
Construction work by the Metropolitan
Life will begin within ten days.
at is hoped that the people will re
member that they owe their relief
from the present intolerable. condi-
tions, which will be sure and swift,
largely to the fine spirit of public serv-
ice that has throughout animated the
officers Of the Metropolitan Life and
to the rare vision of Governor Miller,
whose interest, sympathy and under
standing have never for moment
an open mind on every proposal put
before him. however novel and start
ling it appeared at the beginning.
When his judgment has been convinced,
no matter how radically our plans have
conficted with his first Impressions,
he has been big and brave enough to
revise and reverse those Impressions,
which is the supreme test Of blgness.
Work Still To Be Done
"There is still much important work
before the committee and the Legis-
lature in which the continued interest
and support of the public are needed:
The trade commission bill that passed
the Senate but failed to reach a vote
in the Assembly for reasons that are
now familiar and about which the Gov
ernor was at first in doubt but rs to
the wisdom of which he was also
finally convinced, must be passed be-
fore we can hope to control and sup
press the illegal combinations that are
mainly responsible for the mainten-
ance of the high cost of living.
"The Lockwood committee will have
to delve further into the labor stu
alton to recommend wise and moder-
ate legislation for the regulation of
labor unions if, as now appears likely,
the reforms necessary to the protec-
tion of the public cannot be voluntarily
secured. l feel that with the relief of
the housing shortage that is now in
sight the public has every reason for
congratulation at the progress that has
heen uoaden
New-York tribune., 1922-04-15
Bill Signed to Remove
Cussie's Baby From Jail
New Measure Provides That
Children Born in Prison
viii BE Taken AWAY

ALBANY. April Ii. Gussie Humann's
baby will be taken from her at Auburn
Prison and sent to relatives soon after
IS born Governor Miller to-day
sgned the Fearon bill which amends
me prison law SO as to require that
children born TO inmates of penal in
Ntutions snall be taken from the Gus
Iooy Of their mothers and sent either
20 20 relatives or TO the county superin-
'endent Of the poor.
&. Just before Gussie Human was SEN
leneed to d long term in Auburn for
gerlury at the recent murder trial of
Soseph Libasci, her sweetheart. she ad
miued to Justice Lewis that Libasci
Nas the father Of her unborn child.
New-York tribune., 1922-04-15

to put into New York Harbor to re-
plenish his stores
Lunehrooms, grocery stores, a cob
bler's shop and other alleged SPEAK
easies" were raided in New Rochelle
yesterday by Prohibition Agents Rea-
ger and Kerrigan. In many instances
the agents had to fight their way in
and out. Eight arrests were made.
Fourteen gallons Of whisky and one Of.
gin were among the seizures. Two bar
rels of wine and other goods were de-
stroyed.
Bought Spiked" Coffee
The first place visited was coffee
and lunch wagon, where the agents say
they succeeded i'll getting their coffee
"spiked" with whisky. Michael Glea-
son, the proprietor. was arrested.
In the grocery store Of Oristc De
ramo the agents say they bought loaf
of bread, a can Of sardines and two
drinks of whisky. In the saloon of
Adam Doering the agents bought
drinks, they charge. as they did in the
cobber shop of Pat Morano, where
they drank wine while the cobbler cob
bled Peter Rcager's shoes When the
shoes were mended and the wine drunk
Morano was told he was under arrest.
Ht tOpDitI jumper llon Hi5 NbHii
and, shouting in Italian. ran back
through his shop and living rooms be
yond, throwing wine bottles at the
heads Of the agents who pursued him.
Only the poor aim Of the cobhler kept
the agents intact. When overpowered
the cobbler was welding d stiletto, it
is charged,
Putting the coobler away in the coop
under the courthouse, the agents re
paired to the delicatcssen store Of Alex
Saccone and bought two ham sand
wiches. They said it was dry eating,
and Saccone, it is charged, gave them
some whisky at so cents a drink. He
was arrested
Hotel Guests Fight Agents
In the hotel OF Steven Bauer the
agents were served with food and
strong drink. they charge, and then
Bauer was told he was under arrest.
He called upon all his boarders to help
him resist the agents. IT was early
and the guests were in bed, but they
arose and gave battle. Water pitchers
and other missiles were thrown. Peter
Reager, who dislikes tho role OF artful
dodger OF assorted crockcry. declared
he would shoot the next man who threw
anything. the agents ordered the
guests back to bed and arrested Bauer.
The fruit store of Amilo Leo yielded
two drinks and one prisoner. Leo him
self. whereupon the agents went to the
place Of Nine Alice Alsey, known to her
friends as the Belle of River Street.
The Bellies place is second hand
clothing store. Reagcr offered to buy a
SIG suit of second hand clothes. The
Belle. report has it, agreed to sell two
drinks to the newcomers and to 1hrow
two drinks in with the suit of clothes
The agents bought the drinks, hung the
clothes back on the rack and placed
the Belle under arrest
New-York tribune., 1922-04-15
Rum Schooner
Will, $4,000
Cargo Seized
Marine Police Board British
Ship in Bay; Captain
and Mate Held i'm Bail:
Vessel Is Under Seal
Raids in New Rochelle
Dozen Alleged Speak Easies'
Visited by Dry Agents;
Hotel Guests Put Up Fight

The two-masted British gas auxiliary
schooner W. Talbot Dodge, with a
cargo OF 403 bottles of Scotch whisky
and 25 barrels of rye, valued at $4,000.
is held under government seizure at
the foot of East Twenty fourth Street
The ship was boarded by marine police
in the bay few minutes before mid
night Thursday. In the seizure the
marine police were assisted by the
customs guards, who were expecting
watch in the harbor.
Captain Herman Hadey and First
Mate Matthew Matheson Of the schoon-
er were arrested on charges of violat-
ing the customs laws and the Volstcad
act They were arraigncd before United
States Commissioner Hitchcock and
held in default of $4,000 bail each.
The schooner was placed under seal
and the seized liquor was moved in
trucks last night to government ware
house.
Taken by Police
The Dodge was sighted in the Mar
rows by the police launch manned by
"A squad under Sergeant Neil Gibbons
The police hailed the schooner and
immediately boarded her. Captain Had
ley produced his papers, which showed
the schooner to be bound from Nassau,
Bahama Islands, to st. Pierre, Canada
The liquor was declared on the ships
manifest. The papers failed to show
who the owners of the cargo were.
Captain Hadley said his schooner
originally was Of American registry,
but had been transferred to a British
subject named Alan Kelly. He said he
ran short of provisions and was forced