Evening Star Newspaper, June 19, 1924, Page 13

ASSERTS MEANS TOOK $5,000 IN RUM GASE Witness ‘Against Former U. . Agent Testifies Whisky Never i ‘Was Delivered. TELLS OF DISTILLER DEAL Declares Defendant Demanded $200 a Barrel for Aid. ° By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 19.—Jacob Stein, former Brooklyn lawyer, testified to- day at the trial of-Gaston B. Means, former Department of Justice agent, on a charge of violating the prohibi- tion law, that $5,000 which had been Paid on account in a whisky deal in %1922 had been kept by Means, but that no whisky had been delivered. Stein said he »k Harry Steinfeld house. Steinfeld pald Means 35,000 on account, Stein sdid, but the , Whisky was never moved and Stein- feld did not get his money, back. Counsel for Means objected to this testimony and moved for a mistrial on the ground that the evidence was illegal, but Judge Walverton denied the motion. 5t Says Scale §200 a Barrel. The witness suid_Means insiructed him to bring te Means' hoter only Ppersons wHo had ‘‘the cash, $300 barrel.” D Stein admilted under cross-exami- nation that :he had se » day jail senfence in 1% assault, for: which he rd from practieing law, and that he had been indictgd in Brooklyn in & llguor case which had never bLean tried. Last June, he said, he appointed a ‘Department vas debar st g sa reported to Lucian Wheeler of the I Justice. 2 Was Given Jdmmunity. Before joining the government service, Steinr said, he assistant Attorney General Crim in Washington. He testified he was ap- pointed a Department of Justice agent a month later, and was given immunity when he appeared before the grand * Means. Stei bootlegger in The witness also told of a M s in which 1 protection fc hat he neede al Department of | talked with | from the New York police. | n said Mcans told him sattempted to obtain police pr through Deputy Eolice Comn Leach, but that he apparen been unsuccessful. Complaint to Andrew W. Mellon, by John in an effort to & bond, led to. the Pi ton B. Means‘and-h Jarnec r alleged conspiracy violate the liquor law, it was serted in testimol at the comtinuance of tria the two men. Sayx Means Got $15,000. * _ Hubbard testified that Frank D. Saupp, an automobi er, he had been v+ whisk dedl- P, d-paid §1 5 as negotiating Joh the forenoon 3 | the story of the alleged plan to with- draw the whisky and how it had failed. Hubbard., who asserted he knew | well Arthur Sixsmith, Mr. Mellon's mecretary, and was acquainted with Mr. Mellon, testified he wanted the Mquor for_drinking purposes. After the plan had failed and no sigm of the return of his monev appeared, he said he had luncheon with Sic- i who urged him to lay his com- T Derore Mr. Mellon. He called and after he had including the role | rough sioner fof the had | his siste, ITALIAN AIR CHIEF HALTS . WIFE BOUND FOR AMERICA Flies to Port to Stop Sailing, Add- ing Another Chapter to Sensa- tional Marriage to Chicago Girl. By the Associated Press. ROME, June 19.—General Pier Rug- gero Piocio, one of ‘the aces of the war and' now commander of Italian aeronauties, -succeeded, after a -hur- rled trip to Naples, in stopping his wife, who was Miss Loranda Bachelder of Chicago, and their child from sail- ing for the United States aboard the steamer Martha Washington. The couple were married several yedars ago, and almost immediately iAgTeements arose. There was a lively scene at Paris, where Laurens Morgan Hamilton, grandson of the tate J. Jierpont Morgan, gave a dinper in their honor. Gen. Picclo, it is fe- lated. knocked his wife down in (he presence of the host and guests. ALr. Hamilton put Piccio out of the house, and the next day Piccio challenged him to a duel. Rut Hamilton, in ac- cordance with laws and customs of his country, declined the issue. In- he informed the Italian am- or of the whole affair Yiccio and his wife then sep- . and the latter began proceed- ings for a divorce. One day during her absence from her Paris apart- ment Gen. Piccio had the furniture and valuables removed, and also the child, and came to Italy. The Rome court granted a separa- tion, awarding the child to the mother, who a few days ago de- cided to return to America definitely with the child. She went to Naples for this purpose, but Gen. Picclo, learning of her intent, hastened to the port, reaching there in time to prevent her departure. He main- tains that a child should live within the father's reach. BOY’S DEATH MYSTERY. Colorado Authorities Probe Shoot- ing, With Rifle as Clue. CENTRAL CITY, Colo., June 19.— Gilpin County authorities today were investigating the death of William Christianson, seventeen-year-old school boy of Buffalo, N. Y., body was found in a field ‘several sibility of suicide and believes that the boy. who was working .alone in the field, is the ctim of mistaken \dentity by an_ as: in. Letters were found in the boy's pocket ready for mwiling to relatives in Buffalo. The bey arrived here with a companion nawmed Van Etten, but a few days ago. Polar Flyer in Accident. italy, June 19.—Lieut. Loca- e italian_member of the Pph tne. who was flying with him, was injural. g LARGE ESTATE LEFT.” Accounting ' of Whalter * Pfoperty Filed Showing ‘Value $1,218,754. NEW YORK, June 19.—An aocount- ing of the estate of Herman N, Wal- ter was filed in surrogate's court yes- terday by the executors, Clarence R. Walter of Menlo Park, Calif. The value of the estats i placed at $1,218,754. The accounting shows that legacies of 350,000 each were paid to Edgar Walter of . Henry. Walter of this city and Rose W. Meertif_of San Francisco; $60,000 to Suisheimer of San A ) ., an $40,000 each to Jack I. Walter of San Francisco and Edwin J. Walter of this city. The ific_Hebrew Orphan Asyium of San Francisco, Calif., . was given $10,000, and $5,000 went to Mount Sinai Hospital here.. - After minor gifts to numerous other relatives, the remainder of the es- tate, valued at $374,000, goes to a nephew, Clarence R. Walter of Menlo Park, Calif. Walter, although a resi- dent of this city, died in San Francis- co in September, 1916. —e SCHOOL TEACHER, HEIR T0 $525,000, QUITS WORK Bequests Unexpected — Largest From Old Sweetheart of Mother in Germany. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, Jufie 19.—Miss Eliza- beth Wurthman, who-.within the last two years has received unexpected bequests of $525,000, resigned yester- day_as a teacher in a of West New York, N. J. She in- formed the princ that she will make a_trip to Europe and indulge antilever 0€ it CANTILEVER SHOE SHOP 1319 F Street N.W. (Second Floor Over Young Men's Shop) Isaac N.§had Walter of San Francisco, Calif., and | W public_school | Hi . She I in other expenditures which her mww ) Jarm's salary had not made Two _years ago she inherited $25,000 from an uncle. ‘Then, last No- vember, Louis T. Lehmeyer,.ninety- four years old, died.in a city hospl- tal., where he was considered as a penniless patient. It was revealed, however, that he was worth half a million dollars, and that because been & ' sweetheart of Miss 's grandmother -in Ger- many be had willed his fortune to the school teacher. DEFENDS BLUEJACKETS. Vice Admiral Denies They Aided in Attack on I. W. W. Reports of participation by blue- Jackets in anti-1. W. W. demonstra- | h: tions in California were either much exaggerated or without any basis in fact, Vice Admiral Wiley, command- ing the battleship divisions of the Pacific fleet, notified the Navy De- partment yesterday. Thers was some evidence, the message said, that civillans enga, in the rioting had worn Navy uniforms, but added that the conduct of Navy personnel had been exemplary in every respect. Admiral Wiley also denied there had Dbeen any attempt on the part of the 1 W. W. sympathizers or any one else to bomb the morgue wi dead from the battleship Mi. had been placed. MEET AT LENIN’S TOMB. Delegates to-Communist Interna- tionale Also View Body. By the Associated Press. MOSCOW, June 19.—Moscow Wit- nessed a remarkable scene last night when 500 delegates to the Congress of the Third Internationale assembled at the wooded mausoleum of Lenin and held an officlal session in the presence of a crowd of 15,000 persons, which fllled every corner of Red Square. From the top of the tomb, President Kalinin extolled Lenin and reviewed his life's activities. The delegates to the communist gathering afterward descended into the tomb and viewed the body of the dead leader, which 2s been re-embalmed and reinterred in a red coffin with a heavy glass cover. Meanwhilc, the great gather- ing outside sang revolutionary songs. Mme. Adrienne Bolland, the avia- trix, recently looped the loop in the air '212 times, establishing a& new record_for women. STUDEBAKER Just Drive It; That'’s All Demonstration At Madame Eugenie & Co. 1307 G N.W. Miss Wagner of the Madame X Company will be here to demonstrate to you this wonderful new scientific girdle which reduces your waist and hips, almost®instantly makes you look thin while getting thin. The moment you put it on the bulky fat on waist and hips seems to vanish, the waist- line lengthens, your figure is erect and graceful for the girdle is strong enough to really hold you in. It actually tikes off the fat—gently but surely. HATS UL R T 1309 G ST..NW. 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