Evening Star Newspaper, April 9, 1925, Page 15

CHAPMAN'S PAST |5 BARED BY PROBE Former Gangster With 18- Year Criminal Record. Right Name Is Chartres past. The stick-up man _extraordi- nary, who is waiting in a Connecticut jail to be hanged June 25 and who' persistently refused to make known his identity, has b clared by Connecticut authorities to he George Chartres, a son of Irish parents who came to this country many years ago, and a brother of a former New York City :-mmnvc Whd | cons -ducational P! hapman, was | a victed man )mu-‘n put them on the | s trail. On April 13, 1907, when he was| convicted of grand larceny in New | Yo gave his right name. | d then to serve 10! s paroled June | has the distinction of being the first .| woman to be named to the adminis- . top floor.” s said, is an aunt. | no longer re- sides at this s Reared by Aunt. died when he was very unt brought him up. | s brother and sis- given a grammar education. He but scorned a e ieorg school and high was fond of ri classroom work in a workhou He was then 2 Released from prison, he returned to his aunt’s home here. Soon he was rearrested, charged with violation of parole. While awaiting his return to the State prison at Elmira he was 1dentified b: ectives at the ) s " of the “Park ave- e detectives charged years in Sing Sing. Disowned by Relatives. It was then. according to the story, that his relatives disowned him When he walked out of Sing Sing in | 1912, dressed in prison-made clothes, a year he had hflrn sent back to Sing s Since then “Chapman’s” career From this point on, | however, he refused tc give his cor- reot name or say anything about his family. “It is a good faredly,” he told examiners after the famd8s 32,400,000 nail robbery here severad years ago, “and that's enough for YU to know. e frl'el\ admitted that the name Moreover, his Telatives refuse to con- cede his very existence. The brother, who is married and has three chil= dren, and who is a regular church- goer, was interviewed last night by reporters, who did not make public his name. “That man is dead,” he said, slowly. “I tell yo ave no brother. He is dead. I want to live my own life,” NOTED SINGER DIES. Mrs. Abbie Carrington Lewys Fa- mous as Soprano. SAN FRANCISCO, April $.—Mrs Abble Carrington Lewys, 69 years old, who at one time was considered one of America’s leading coloratura so- pranos, dled here last night. * Mrs. Lewys made her debut in Ttaly, and was well known in England, *ranoce, Italy, Mexico and the United tates, OPPORTUNITY Are You Satisfied With the Amount of Yo wl’a;:,nmh' te or teleplione: HEVRY S, BAKER, Axsistant Manager JOHNSON R. MORGAN AND W. W. WINSBRO, Agency Inatructors 423 Soutbern Building, 15th & H Streets N.W. Main 762-763 then thickly over- coated with Milk Chocolate! g o 0h Henry' \Los Angeles Soon ! um-. lOealnr THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, EX-OFFICIAL LOSES PLEA.|{JUDGES LISTED TO SPEAK TO POLICE ASSOCIATION Late Appointees to Bench to Be DAILY FUND DRIVE LUNCHEONS PLANNED Hampton - kaegee— Campaign ‘Workers Will Discuss Work at Cosmos Club. Former Vice Consul Fails in Effort to Obtain $836,051. The District Court of Appeals, in a decision by Chief Justin Martin, upheld the action of the District Su- preme Court In refusing a requsst of Hugo Thorscn, former United States vice consul at Vienna, Austria, to re- quire the alien property custodian to re- turn to him $336.96 for _property Seized under the trading-with-the-enemy, act and claimed by Thorsch. The appellate court was not satisfled with the explanation of Thorsch as to the purchase of stock In a German owned corporation In March, 1917. The custodian claimed Thorsch knew the United States was about to enter the war at the time of the purchase, Assigned to Office Duty. Col. Irving J. Carr, Signal Corps, has been relleved from duty with the War Departmént general staff and assigned to duty In the office of the chief signal officer. Ready for 2 More Long Air Journeys Repairs Nearly Made. Flights to Bermuda and Porto Rico Planned. | Luncheons will be held each day throughout the remalnder of the week at the Cosmos Club by volun- teer workers who are sollciting con- tributions to the Hampton-Tuskegee endowment fund. The campalgn to raise the $100,000 for Washington in conjunction v\\lh the mational movement to secure an endowment fund of $5,000000 for the Hampton and Tuskegee —institutes was begun here yesterday Plans for the campaign will be mapped out each day on the basis of reports of gifts made to the fund, ac- cording to Frederic A. 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Plans for the second annual memo- rial services of the Policemen's Asso- ciation have baen completed for the D. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 1925. night of Bunday, May 24, at the Cen- tral High School auditorfum. Rev. Dr. James 1. Freeman, Bishop of Washington, will be one of the speak- Those in_charge of arrange- ments include George B. Wheelock, chairman; H. L. Lineberg, George M. Guests of Peace Guardians ;‘r‘,‘.}: [P TRHBCTR I SERTER, L at Tonight's Meeting. ————bt e ! New Farm Bureau Officers. Special Dispatch to The Star. HYATTSVILLE, Md., April 9.—Fol- lowing are officers of the Prince Georges County Farm Bureau elected for 1925: Clarence M. Roberts, Land- over, b Hill, vice president; Clinton, secretary. directors consists of these officers and personally the new Police e H. Macdonald and SHOT DOWN IN STREET Prisoner Empties Gun at Officers By the Associated Press, GATE CITY, Va.,, April 9.—Carl Os- borne, 30, was shot to death on Main street hers by Sheriff C. C. 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