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LORD BYNG TO RESUME
DUTIES AS POLICE CHIEF

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON. March 12--Lord Byng Of
ViTny, chief commissioner Of London's
police force, was said by the News
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STRICKEN JURORS DELAY
BOWLES Staying TRIAL

BY the Associated Press.
HILLSBORO. Greg. March 1.-THE
murder trial Of Nelson G. Bowles, "a,
Portland capitalist, and Miss Irma
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-05

uTHERE have been other carrier pigeon cases,
and the latest one to come to the atten-
ton Of the Police Department resulted from
the recent disappearance of a well known New
York business man. When this man disappeared
he had in his possession a considerable quantity
Of uncut diamonds gems amounting to more
than $4,000. For the first few days of his
disappearance publicity was given the
matter. Then it thought that publicity
might help in solving the mystery Of his dis
appearance, and the matter was given out.
"A day or two following this the missing
mans wife received a telephone CALL telling
her that her husband had been kidnapped and
was held in custody by the person telephoning.
He further told her that II she wanted to see
her husband alive she was to have $4,000
ready to turn over to the person speaking
through medium which he would later advise
her Of and he warned her under no circum-
stances to tell the police Of the conversation.
She was told that If she reported the matter her
husband would be killed.
zone can readily imagine the suspense of the
troubled wife and her nervous state brought on
by the mysterious vanishing Of her husband
and the strange telephone call. With strained
nerves she listened for the ring Of the telephone
or awaited a call from the postman. But for
several days following this telephone call no
further approach was made.
Two days later another telephone call was
IcCclfeu, asking Tie vile IL Ilh0 IcCClVcO u
registered letter. She had not, and her tele-
phone caller admitted that he had addressed
the letter incorrectly but would write her an
other. A day later she received it, and this
time was told that five pigeons had been left
at place of which she later would be advised
by phone. Her correspondent told her. that
upon receiving the address she was to get the
pigeons, take them to her home and attach q
$1,000 bill to the legs of each pigeon, releasing
them with their $4,000 burden. She was
further informed that upon the arrival Of the
pigeons at their home cote her husband was
to be released.
Shortly after this the wife, trailed by sew
eral Of our men, called for the pigeons. At the
store, just as she had been advised, there were
five homng pigeons in a carton. Later my men
questioned the proprietor Of the store, who gave
them a description Of the men, This tailed
with what the wife had already told me about
the sound of the mans voice over the phone.
"Our men took charge of the pigeons,
and we Immediately made elaborate prelara-
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B00tlegger Birds

Carrier pigeons are now being used to
defeat the national prohibition laws of
the United States, according to the United
States Coast Guard.
An exhausted bird recently collapsed on
the deck of the patrol boat Travis of
New York Harbor. Marks on the metal
registry disc led officers to believe the
pigeon was a messenger for rum-runners.
The pigeon picked up at sea was IS
miles ofshore and apparently mistook
the Coast Guard patrol for the rum
carrier, which was its home cote.
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lions to follow them upon their release II was
arranged that the pigeons were to be released
early the following morning in oder to avoid
the chance of them getting mixed up with other
pigeons which might be in the air. We adopted
the plan of releasing the birds at time,
SO that if anything went wrong with one mes
senger we could always have the others to
pursue.
Then in order to identify them we fastened
a long streamer of orange ribbon to the leg Of
each bird. After that police plane started on
in pursuit, following the release of the first
bird The pursuit plane was four-seater, and
it carried a pilot an assistant pilot, an OBJ
server and homing pigeon expert or fancier,
a man familiar with the habits of pigeons in
flight
"of few the first bird, dangling the orange
ribbon in the sky, and then began the first Diff
Guilty, for pursuing pigeons by plane is net 50
simple matter as it may appear. All the ad-
vantages are with the birds First of ALL it was
soon found that the plane was not sufficiently
mobile to permit the observers to keep the
pigeon in sight. The bird, light and free in the
air, would whirl and swoop and speed onward
whirling, turning, swooping, wavering this way
and that.
"/1sBn1TY is very important factor in
the pursuit Of pigeons, but in this respect,
at least, luck was with us on the recent pigeon
chase. It was a clear and ideal day. Prior to
this last attempt had checked up with the
Weather Bureau the night before our flight,
getting a report on weather conditions for the
following morning
But even this one stroke Of good luck could
not Offset the other diScouraging factors. Car
rier pigeons are extremely difficult to follow,
and their habits differ from those of the racing
pigeon. He may alight en- route. One Of the
pigeons we were attempting to follow found
on a roof three hours after he had been
released
Regardless Of our efforts to track down this
blackmailer, the body Of the missing business
man was found few days ago in Long Island
Sound, floating near the breakwater at q consd-
cradle distance from the city. 1t was riddled
with bullets, had loops of wire knotted about
water so long that it would have been I'M
recognizable had it not been for identification
made through dental work.
This case proved also that the blackmailer
had not known Of the whereabouts of the man
he claimed to have in his custody, for evidence
proved that he had written his first letter after
the man was already dead and that he persisted
m his blackman long after the man was dead.
uDERHAPS the first blackmailer to get the
idea Of employing pigeons as means Of
extorting money was q man of criminal bent
who owned homing pigeons. He perhaps sud-
denly became imbued with the bunch that he
might use his birds to bring home the bacon
believing that it would be slick racket since
ne one could trace them.
I'm all cases Of blackmail people should pay
ne attention whatever to the demands Of the
blackmailers, regardless Of how terrible then
threats may prove to be. and no matter how
often they are warned not to notify the police,
they should do so Immediately"
Copyright, 1Oso)
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LACKMAu, by carrier pigeon Is the
newest and most ingenious racket Of
the criminal who seeks to extort money
from the credulous.
Pursuit of the birds by airplane is
- the New York Police Departments
equally inventive method of foiling the black
mailer and setting at naught his ultra modern
"shakedown" scheme.
Most of the prospective victims of the carrier
pigeon blackmail have been relatives Of missing
men and women, whose disappearance has
brought distract wives, husbands and parents
to the state of mind where they would do
almost anything to have their loved ones re-
stored to them. For this reason their black
mail by the criminal out for big sums of easy
money has been particularly cruel and vicious,
and with all the potentialities for huge success
If the slick idea had not been crimped at its
inception.
The New York Police Department has
handled a number of these attempted backmail-
by-carrier- pigeon cases. This spectacular form
of sky blackmail is relatively new and unusual
in American police annals.
A STORY as exciting any spun out in
n detective or mystery thriller and doubly
interesting because it is truth and not fiction,
is told by Capt John H. Ayers, head of the
Missing Persons Bureau of the New York
Police Department, regarding the homing-
pigeon blackmail. 1t is replete with absorbing
details about swooping police planes starting
out at dawn after pigeons to whose legs were
fastened orange streamers instead of thousand
dollar bills which the would-be extortioners
demanded. And marine glasses weather re-
ports detectives tricky habits of carrier pigeons,
dark-complexioned blackmailers, feathers Dip
ped in blood-all figure in the enthralling mar
rative
This is new racket and We must nip it in
the bud before it is full-blown," was the
dictum of Capt. Ayers, who promptly set about
studying the habits Of homing pigeons when
the first blackmail attempt involving pigeons
came to his attention He called in homing-
pigeon experts and conferred with them, the
Weather Bureau and police aviators to the
possibility Of successfully following the pigeons
by plane. And he put into effect the airplane
pursuit on several occasions. using different
methods each time in his experiments.
While Capt. Ayers activities in this direction
already have saved tens of thousands Of dollars
to the proposed victims of the latest blackmail
stunt, he has passed the experimental stage in
his pursuit methods and is now working out a
plan whereby the homing- pigeon blackmailer
will be nabbed as soon as his birds futter to
their cotes. This involves the use Of mobile
planes resembling those employed in sky
writing and other measures now being perfected
at conferences with carrier-pigeon experts,
aviators and detectives.
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Capt. John H. Ayers, head of the Miss
ing Persons Bureau of the NetO York
Police Department, is deroting much
time to investigation Of carrier-pigeon
blacknaiL cases.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-05
BY CAROL BIRD.

LACKMAIL by carrier pigeon is the
newest and most ingenious racket Of
the criminal who seeks to extort money
4 from the credulous.
Pursuit of the birds by airplane Is
- the New York Police DEPARTMENTS
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EDWARD 5. BRAsHEARs. ATTORNEY.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE Dis
trict of Columbia, holding Probate Court
In re estate of Sarah = Moore. deceased.,1,
STANDARDIZATION having been made here
In for probate OF the last wiz and tesla
mentary on said estate by Frederick w.
Moore, it is ordered this 18th day Of Febru-
airy, AID. 1881. that Deborah wilkes JOY.
cerned, appear in said court on Monday,
the 30th day of March, AID. 1881, at 10
plication should not he .granted; Let notice
hereof be published In the WASHINGTON Law
Of three successive weeks before the return
day herein mentioned, the first publication
return day. WENDELL P. STAFFORD. Jus
tice. (Seal.) Attest: THEODORE COGS=
Columbia. Clerk of the Probate Court.
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LEGAL NOTICES.
MINOR. galley DRuRY, Attorneys.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE DIS
trict Of Columbia, holding an Equity Court.
-Woolsey Aspinwail, Plaintiff, VS., john
Ssaiss No ali Or Psbsaton
The purpose of this suit is to substitute q
deceased. in the place and stead 81 Frederic
dePeyster Foster, deceased trustee, and TO
On motion, OF the plaintiff, il is this 18th
day of February, AID 1881, ordered. that
infant, Lynnhsven. n. p. D., va; Middleton
Fuller Aspinyell. infant. Lynnhayen, r. F.
"a Va Gfth vs NgPna1ly AspinTSl IN
Aspinwall. 6745 Thomas boulevard. Pitts
Puritan drive An port oReater woSes Julia
yireinia Aspinwall. e745 Thomas boulevard,
Thomas boulevard PittsbnrF Asp Ps. Henry Sir
Titus Aspinwall, 20 Central avenue. Murray
H FlTshing; L9nE n Island 30 Peter
nue.. Murray Hill Flushing, Long Island.
II Re, Reed MecelaRd infant % Pprttan
IN ni? stsne1 saTgsr W s5Ts P2
Lloyd Aspinwaii. $50 south Sierra Bonita
avenue. Pasadena. Calf; Susan .Tuckermsn.,
Parf avenue, New, YORK; n. ". John ".
N. Y; Diana Draper. infant, ise East 64th
infant ss East Saith street new New YORK n VI
Penelope M. Draper, infant, ass East Gath
man. infant. 5s5 Park avenue New York,
N. Y; Nancy. Tuckermsn. tnfsnt 535 Park
ir. 1921 Park avenue. New York, N. Y;
John N. Leroy, p East Goth street. New
York. N. T.; Joan M Leroy, infant. p East
Leroy. infant, 81 East Goth street, New York,
". Y: Central Hanover Bank and Trust
Company. executor under the last viii and
testament of Frederic 6ePeyster Foster, de-
ceased, 10 Broadway, New York. N. Y. cause
their appearance to be entered herein on or
before the fortieth day. exclusive of SUNDAYS
and legal holidays. occurring after the day
of the first publication of this order; other
wise the cause will be proceeded with as in
case of default: Provided. however copy
of this order be published once week for
three successive weeks In the Washington Law
Reporter and The WASHINGTON Evening Star
before said day. BY the court. JESSE c.
ADKINS. Justice. A true copy. tSsal)
Test: FRANK z. CUNNINGHAM Clerk
BY. JOHN II. SULLIVAN, Asst Clerk.
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MALCOLM HUFTY. Attorney.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE
District of Columbia .--Rigel O. Belt,
Union Trust Building, Plaintiff, vs.. The In
known Heirs, Ahenees and Deyisees OF
James .Fenross ct al. Deteadants.- In
Equity No. 52283.-Order of Publication
The object of this suit is to obtain decree
establishing of record by adverse possession
plaintiffs title in fee simple to original lot
4 in square Gil in the District Of Columbia.
Upon motion Of the plaintiff, it is By the
court this 25th day Of February. 1881,
ordered that the defendants the unknown
heirs, alenees and deyisees Of James PEN
rose. Ezra Sampson, John H. Kirkwood and
Albert W. kirkwood cause their appearance
to be entered herein on or before the frst
rule day occurring one month alter the day
of the first publication hereof, otherwise
this cause will be proceeded wit has in case
OF default; provided a copy hereof be pub
lished once a week for three successive
weeks IN the Washington Law Reporter and
in The Evening Star, longer or other publ
cations being dispensed with for satisfactory
cause shown. JESSE G.. ADKINS, Justice.
lSeal) A true copy. Test: FRANK =.
CUNNINGHAM Clerk. BY HARRY NJ.
HULL, Asst. Clerk 1e28,mhT,14
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AUCTION SALES.
EWfrWFDE NAVE

THOMAS J. OWEN & SON, AUCTIONERRS,
1881 Eye Street NV.
TRUSTEES SALE OF -FOUR THREE-STORY
BRICK DWELLINGS,. SITUATE NOS. 1915,
1917. 1919 AND 1921 FOUR-AND-ON
HALF STREET SOUTHWEST. ALSO ONE
STORY BRICK WAREHOUSE, SITUATE
IN REAR 1879 FOUR-AND-OHE-HALF
STREET SOUTHWEST.
By virtue Of a deed of trust recorded IN
records of the District of Columbia, We shall
sell in front of the premises on TUESDAY,
THE TENTH DAY OF MARCH, AID. 1881. AT
TWO-THIRTY O'CLOCK PM. original lots
numbered forty-three (43), forty four LAD
and forty-five ts5) in square numbered fve
hundred and three (5o3l. Also lot numbered
one hundred and twelve t1l2) in Emma
square numbered FIVE hundred and three
the surveyor for the District Of Columbia in
Liber 81, at folio 30. Also lot Numbered
eighty-six 1867 and the north IL 90 feet
front by the full depth thereof, of lot num-
bered eighty-ffve 1850 in Catherine N:
Thompson and others subdivision of part of
original lots ~, a. and d in said square
numbered five hundred and three (503l, as
Liher 8, at folio az.
Terms of sale: One-fourth cash; balance
in one, two and three years, with interest
at six per cent per annurl, payable semi
annually. Deposit of 5000 co on each parcel
If SOLD separately or $1,000 on the entirety
required st time of sale, and the purchaser
allowed fifteen days from date OF sale to
complete t'I the purchase Further particulars
EDWARD c. BALTz.
VERNON G. OWEN,
fe26 d&dbs,exSu Trustees
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rs. SETTLE. Attornsr.

SUPREME COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF
Columbia, holding Probate Court.-No.
that the subscriber, Of the District. Of co.
lumbia, has obtained from the Probate Court
mentary on the estate Of Doula r.. Keyset
late of the District Of Columbia, DECEASED
All persons having claims against the de-
ceased are hereby warned 10 exhibit the
same. with the vouchers thereof. legally au-
thenticated, to the subscriber on or before
the eth day of February. AID. 1892, other
wise they may by law be excluded from 2
benefit OF said estate. Given under my ham
this 9th day Of February. 1881. FRANKII
r, REYsER 2o0l Porter 81. NV tSeal.
Attest: THEODORE COGSWEIL. Register O.
Wills for the District Of Columbia, Clerk
OF the Probate Court. fe2i,2amh7
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CLIFFORD W. RAW. Attorney.

SUPREME COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF
Columbia, holding Probate Court. = No.
1922, Administration. This is TO give notice
lumbia, has obtained from the Probate Court
OF the District of Columbia letters tesla
mentary on the estate of Johanna Dee, late
OF the District of Columbia, deceased AL
persons having claims asainst the deceased
the vouchers thereof. legally authenticated,
to the subscriber on or before the 18th day
by law he excluded from all beneht OF said
estate Given under my hand this 10Th day
OF February, 1881 MARY r. BREEN, 80
X ST. NV tSeal) Attest: MELVIN J.
MARQUES, Deputy REGISTER Of Wills fol-. the
District Of Columbia, Clerk OF the Probate
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THOMAS B. HUYCK. Attorney.
1917 II st. NV.

SUPREME COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF
Columbia, holding Probate Court Estate
OF Frances Z. Hicks, Deeeased.-No. 41412
Administration Docket 90.-Application hay-
ing been made herein for letters of ad-
HICKS, husband Of decedent. It IS ordered
this 18th day Of February, AID. 1881, that
one Annie Lynch and all others concerned
appear in said court on Monday. the Goth
day of March. A d. 1881, at 10 O'Clock a m /,
to show cause why such application should
not be granted. Let notice hereof be pub
lished in the Washington Law Reporter
and The Evening Star, once in each OF
three successive weeks before the return
day herein mentioned, the first publication
to be not less than thirty days before said
return day. WENDELL P. STAFFORD,
Justice. Attest: Seal THEODORE COCiS-
WELL. Register of Wills for the District OF
Columbia, Clerk of the Probate Court.
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ADAM A. wEscHLER & SON, Auetioneers
TRUSTEES SALE or VALUABLE REAL
ESTATE. THREE STORY BRICK BUILD
ING TWO LARGE APAR1Al Es ~. s, ~, NO


TRUSTEES SALE OF VALUABLE REAL
ESTATE. THREE STORY BRICK BUILD
ING two LARGE APARIAiEkJSl. NO
30te FIFTEENTH STREET NORTHWEST.
15sr N1 s fses SIS p Ct T sea of
land records OF the District OF Columbia,
and a. the REQUEST CT party secured thereoy.
the UNDERSIGNED trustees viii offer Tor SAFE
gS 4pSA9 a44f aE s1E X fF'f pA9 81 sTsas c
1881. At .FIVE O'CLOCK r; NJ. the follow;
srg-eeSeribsd property in the DistriSt OF
Columbia, % UT: Lot i93 I'm LeglS q BIeuSs
Leighton, tTustees', subdivision Of parts Of
''Adount Pheasant" and Pleasant Plains"
rs per plat Of said 1rst-named subdivision
recorded IN I,iber County 20. folio 81. Of the
records Of The once OF the surveyor OF the
District Of Columbia. Subject to perpetual
right Of say end covenants Of record
books o.. the assessor Of the District o Co
lumhta otor taxation purposes as lot 1875 ~
Terms OF sale; one-fourth Of the purchase
instaliments. represented By pTomissory notes
Of purchaser payable in one, two and THREE
yeaTs Win interest at per cent per HnnMm
from gay q sale. payable semt-annuslly.
sold, OF. al cash, a. onion OF purchaser
a deposit Of $500 required Of purchaser ct sale.
examination OF title, conYeysncin2, record
Ing ana notsfial fees 81 cost Of purchaser
days from day Of sale, otherwise trustees
reserve the r,gnt 70 resell property, al risk
and cost Of defaulting purchaser. after i've
rewspsper published in Washinston. d 1'i e..
or deposit may be forfeited. or without for
feitine Saposlt trustees may avail them
seiyes qI any legal or equitable rights against
cEoRdE NJ. EMMERIcH,
" sase-d&dssxs1 trustees.
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RAYMOND NEUpECKER, Attorney.

IN THE SUPREME COURT. OF THE DIS
Plaintiff, VS.. Frank c. Mootsey Defendant,
and Lena Mathews Correspondent
52l56, Equity Docket No. ll0-The object Of
this suit is to obtain deere OF absolute
divorce for the plaintiff from the defendant
or the ground OF adultery committed by the
defendant with the correspondent, Lena
Mathews. and for other relief. On motion
of the plaintiff, IL is this 10th day of Febru-
sry AID 1891 ordered that the defendant,
Frank C. Mootsey. and the correspondent.
Lena Mathews, cause their appearance to be
exclusive OF Sundays and legal holidays, oc-
curing after the day of the first puolica-
ton Of this order; otherwise the cause will
be proceeded with as in case OF default:
Provided, a copy of this order be published
once q week for three successive weeks IN
the Washington Law Reporter and The
Washington Star before said day BY the
court, JESSE &. ADKINS, Justice, tSealO
True copy, Test. FRANK E. CUNNINGHAM,
Clerk. BY HARRY M. HULL, Asst Clerk.
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R, PRESTON sHEALEY. Attorney.

SUPREME COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF
Columbis holding Probate Court.No
4t46l. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS is to give no.
tice that the subscriber. of the District of
Columbia. has obtained from the Probate
Court of the District of Columbia letters fes-
tamentary on the estate of Annie Murphy,
late Of the District OF Columbia. deceased
All persons having claims against the de-
ceased are hereby warned to exhibit the
same. with the vouchers thereof, legally Ru-
thenticated, TO the subscriber on or before
the gath day of February, AID 1892; other
wise they may be law be excluded from all
benefit of said estate. Given under my hand
this 4th day of March. 1881. MARY j. GAIL
LEHER, 1911 Neal St. ne. tSealD Attest:
THEODORE COGSWELL, Register of Wills
for the District of Columbia. Clerk of the
Probate Court mh7.l4.2l
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FRANK J. HOGAN, Attorney.

SUPREME COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF
Columbia, holding Probate Court. - No.
40762, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS is to give notice
that the subscriber, Of the District OF Co
Iumbia, has obtained from the Probate Court
OF the District OF Columbia letters tesla
late OF the District OF Columbia, deceased.
All persons having claims against the de-
ceased are hereby warned to exhibit the
same, with the vouchers thereof, legally
authenticated. TO the subscriber on or be
fore the Bird day Of February, AID. 1882:
otherwise they may by law be excluded from
all benefit of said estate. Given under my
hand this 3rd day Of February. 1881. THE
TON, D. G. BY SIDNEY r. TALIAFERRO,
Vice President and Trust Of1cer, fSeal.
Wills for the District of Columbia, CLERK of
the Probate Court, fe21,28,mfl7
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JOSEPH d. KELLY, Attorney.
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE DIS
tricL Of Cnlun1hIiA -Maurice z. Keane

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE DIS
tricL OF Columbuis.-Maurice F. Keane,
plaintiff, VS.. Alice NJ. Keane and David
Thacher, alias Davis Lealson Thacher, de-
PENDANTS - Equity Doc. 520S9. - The object
of this suit is an absolute DIVORCE, On
OF February. 1881. ordered that the de-
fendant. David Thatcher, alias Davis Lealson
ThacheT, cause his appearance to be entered
herein on or before the fortteth day, exclu-
sive of Sundays and legal holidays, occurring
after the day of the first publication of this
order; otherwise the cause win be proceeded
with as in case of default, Provided, a copy
of this order be published once q week for
three successive weeks in the Washington
Law Reporter and The Star before said day.
JESSE c. ADKINS. Justice. true copy.
Clerk. BY HARRY M. HULL, Asst. Clerk.