Evening Star Newspaper, February 6, 1926, Page 3

ARREST REVEALS - PLOTTOESCAPE Letter on Youth in Custody Gave Details of Plan of Two to Break Away. What was believed to be a plot of two prisoners at the Di day when three youths were arrested by police of the sixth precinet in ¢ nection with in zation of a sus- peeted theft of automobile tires. A letter found on one of the youths, Wwho gave the name of John Coughlin, 5 Third . offered a bribe and directed that be 'stationed one block from the jail with 1notor running in readiness to pick up to © their guards, flee from the ape in the waiting ma- vouths were relea ion proved the against them to chine. when' nv theft charges groundless. The letter, which rev cned with the name of William hman and Stanley T. Samp- two men held on housebreaking s, know how vou are going tuke this, but you w T am in|, ® Lud fix with 35 churges on me: with | post office char in Virginia + bank charge in Hughesville, it T have to stand tei; The tire be ed the plot teenth th i car uwon't go | d B streets of some kind one block from the jail and car facing toward Bight veet at 0 minutes to 9 and me and Sampson and keep Juoter suning and T will you v slock Friday night. And t there at the time the the jail we won't be there. sike come over and we and you will get the will here money alrvight “If you don't 1 wait for want to come over call up over here d tell whoev answers the phone » tell Willian W. Bowman you 1d not do anything for him on an these charges and I will under stand vou. And if you can get over L&l right, call up and say you got those cha ixed up all right. If they ask you who is speaking, say Roberts. From vour old_friend W, police found this note, the jail authorities, and aj. Peak, in charge of the jail, took immediate steps to frustrate the plan. Oue of the men was in the van yesterday morning. A car v ait- Jing Nineteenth and B street ast, as the van pulled aw from the jail. But this was Maj. Peak’s personal car. and if the van had been broken open the escaping prisoner would have found himself hopping from the frying pan into the fire. 2t MR Lights for Bunker Hill. A flood light system for the illumi- nation of historic Bunker Hill Monu. | ment will he led if a bill now be- fore the Massachusctts Legislature is enacted into law. _— SPECTAL NOTICES. AND PAPERHANGING. S n.w. Potomac 4?4" TAND T pertly done’ Fengvated: MME' VIEOUD, 1 North' L3 RETT o LTS “TRa WILL NOT BE R P q H HE | between the name and one, will pa. all_debte and liabilities. and re iicss payable to the lite ABRATAN FONOROFF. b we hx;n out must ze of zood reputation. ROGFING 9 Jrd St S.W. COMPANY _Phone Your 1926 Printing N'eeds Will_mest vour every requirement uted by this establishment GRADE, BUT XOT HIGI PRIC DAY SAVE THE PRICE It OF A NEW ROOF e put v h a condition that it will years| Expert Cail e up. " 21 OF YOl n a good while and needs renovating Ycu Arg Also Main Bedell qu- Co. e 610 E St NW. Profitable Printing Results 'l‘t‘l:m"‘ 6—consult this million dollar The National Capital Press 2101912 D ST, N.W WI'NDOW SHADES 1 This Week Du Pont Touline Wa mounted - on H. " measured, made asd hune, $1 THE SHADE FACTORY 1109 1ith St. N.W Main_ 10428 The Board of Accountancy For the District of Columbia will hold an examination for those wishing to obtain certifi- cates to practice in the District of Columbiz, Certified Publui:: Accountants on_the three (3) days be zn.mmz un m- about hursday, May éth, s axt time and place to be more pect- punced late: must be made on forms pro by the board and on or before March 3 Dot residing in“the sefore April 6. 1926, by te WM. CLABAUGH, Secretary 1319 F St., N. W, Washington, D. C. met again. trict jail to | our quotes and had four children, 2 standing pa a photosrayh of M. an affid These we [ Whether iSTILLMANS START MARRIAGE ANEW; SAIL ON HONEYMOON ued from First Tage.) Mrs. Stillman, the story mes A., if you will go abroad me and meet Dr. Bayne 1 him to puil vou put 1 with give md Awmerican ‘meet in Montreal near home at Grand Anse time Mr. Stillman told his wife that he would go al 1 will 20 nuw.l and put myself in th> kands of Dr. es,” the American Guote: B ng. “If he can reconstruct my outlook, do for me what he did for vou, I shall bless you both all my life. sy They ugreed t lman's Will Stay With Daughter. Meanwhile Mr. and Mis. Stillman \\!u-n- the; . Davison. Nman, ‘*heir ge on_Octe nged meet Mr. The latter m.hm at whose ms ther Alld T their divorce fight. Last night, as they sat at dinner b fore they ing the brilliant chief on her head that she has taken a fancy to Hricd. her life in the Cana- dian w oods “Wa are domeg this because Alex and his brothers Guy und Bud and bis sis- ter Anne are such fine scouts. We cive children so muc mmv and 7. formed ind our nd to rehabili € in the world of fing srowing.” the American saying recently te is no longer James A. friend. *“He Stillman, the great banker, the zceat institution. He has become human. 1 like him as I kg years. I've an idea he really wants to en't liked him for rebuild his life; perhaps I ought to put on the harness again and travel double!" Pair Married in 1901. Anne Urquhart Potter, brilliant soclety girl, and James A. Stillman, young banker, were married in 1901 when in 1921 their romance crumbled in vorce court. Mr. Stillman, then president of the National City Bank and a power in the financial world, charged his wife with infidelity and denied the pater- nity of her youngest child, Guy, then an infant. Fred Beauvais. a Cana- d Indian guide, who had taught wooderaft to the older Stiliman chil- dren, was named co-respondent. M Stillman in turn charged her husband with improper relations with Flerence Leeds, a chorus girl. and asserted that he was the father of a son born to the latter. The hearings opened in April, Five wonths later a referes found that Guy was the legitimate son of the banker and that no allegations of infidelity had been proved Mrs. Stillman. Mr. Stillman, referee found, had been guilt his wife charged. Stillman lost appeal. A “confession letter’” Stillman's evidence. Early this Winter it developed that Mr. Stillman had started a divorce suit. figured Mr. Stillman \Hx(ed the passport bu- t Monday and had hi sport amended to include Before the | rt could be amended. it was learned, Stillman and om her were necessary uppli as Jearned that his wife properly the following day secretary. »s of the British consul showed that durir * N0 prsSports carrving of either of the Stillmans hith or Henrietta Fuller n vised. A vise is official for . although a sport may be land on Eng- him to dei o Mr. nn(l Mrs. ahoard. Attention Builders Building Lots Northwest Community and Semi- Detached Houses Attractive Arrangements Can Be Made for Financing J. Dallas Grady Exclusive Agent 904 14th St. N.W. Main 6181 First Mortgage Bondl ur e for Booklst NP1 The EH. Smlth Co. ARGONNE 16th & Columbia Road Several very apartments ranging in wize from two rooms, reception hall, kitchen, bath and bal- cony, to five rooms, kitchen, reception hall and bath. Service unexcelled and prices reasonable. THE ARGONNE 16th & Columbia Road attract .aners of ather make trade quichly for 1 Studebaker iner Durability Finish JURY TO GET WAN will | the di-| Stillman’s | i = 829 17th St. N.W. 2 "ECONOMY CASEBY TUESDAY Prosecution Offers Rebut- tal of Testimony. all evidence in the 1 % Sun Wan, charged with fir degree murder of Ben Sen W member of the Chinese Educational Mission, here, January 1919, was mpleted yesterday evening, and both sides confidently believed the case would be given to the jury not later than Tues The defer |after court re 1y e vested immediately mvened for the after- nd the prosecution fol with rebuttal witnesses to refute the testimony of A. L. Creeey and T. d testified for the defense vmond W. Pullman, late uperintendent of police, did not own or know how to oper e an automo- bile in January, 1919. Detective Ed ward J. Kelly for the prosecution te tified he had been driven Maj. Pullman in the latter's machine in 1917 An automobile driver's permit granted to the major in 191 introduced by the pros Detective Kelly als Van, the defendant’s brother, n route to Washin; that he had never E and wanted the ive to point out ths Capitol to When Van testified he had never be > sald he told the ause the police had “accuse me of the murde WOMAN “LIGHTS” TOWN. Graduates as Electrical Engineer Then Launches Power Company. LONDON, February 6 (®).—Mar- garet Partridge did not sit down and complain about unemployment when she got her degree of bachelor of sci ence in electrical engineering at Bed- ford College. She made no application to g0 on the dole, but went to Bamp ton and persuaded more than 50 per cent of the residents that the village needed electric light and power, Then she formed a co-operative com sold the shares to prospective bought machinery and erected the plant. Her woman apprentice. who is directing the actual operation of the plant, is also an electrical en gineering student from the same school Evidence Virtually Complete. NINE TAKEN IN RAIDS. Railrond Detectives Aid Dry Agents at Hagerstown, Md. Special Dispatch to The Star. HAGERSTOWN, Md., February 6.— Despite warning by Representative d N ’/ihlm n ",l:l! raillway detec- Might aro s zents in a serfes of ruids here in s were made. *he operations were directed against clubs and cafes, the Conococheaque Club being on the list. No liquor was found at the latter club, however. GIRL’S ABDUCTOR HELD FOR GRAND JURY ACTION “Mad About Her Beauty,” Myron Failing Explains in Answer to Kidnaping Charge. By the Assoclated Press, g —Myron James Phelan, of Ver- s held for the grand jury yes. arge of abducting 17- eve Case, with whom occupying a lonely N.J. He was comuitted to jail until the grand jury considers the case February 15. 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And This Beautiful Fourteenth Street Terrace Homes \ feature that is exclusively a Shannon & Luchs ITome Refinement T'his comfortably arranged room, with its five large windows and ample it is ostensibly when to hook-up the electric sewing ma ill. the daybed in here is the most convenient place to wait on them. for it is just four steps from the kitchen—and what an ideal retreat for mother and dad when the young lady entertains. We invite vour inspectior Homes every day between 9 AM. Iake any 14th St. 1 come out to Ingraham St. - to Colorado Ave. and then up to 1334 INGRAHAM [SHANNON: & LUCH point out, have more than quintupled since the war, and it now takes very careful planning to mnke ger budget b the university will result in driving sons and daugh ters of poor families from the class | rooms and will reduce to penury th students of middle-class purents. PARIS STUDENTS PROTEST HIGH COST OF LEARNING Living Expenses Are Much More, They Say, and Ask Decrease in University Fees. Six Hosplul Sites Offered. Special Dispatch to The Star. LURAY, Va., February 6.—Six dif- ferent sites have been offered fer a location for the Beahm Memorial i pital in Luray. An original sum of $10,000 was bequeathed for the build- Ling of hospital a few years a ol ate Jumes A. Beahm, farmer. | proposed sites are considered ugh the committee is waiting By the Associated Press. PARIS, Februs ~The Wigh cost of learning, In Increased tuition, lab. oratory, library and other fees at the University of Paris and its allied schools, has stirred one of the stu-. dents’ unions to vigorous protest. That association has passed a resolu tion declaring it will “bring energetic stion” to bear to have the increases canceled. Living costs in Paris 6 the students S pRIRIDRR] NEW APARTMENT BUILDING 23 Apartments Rented 10 Apartments Vacant One square from Capitol and Library, Senate and House Office Buildings 211 Delaware Avenue S.W. 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