Evening Star Newspaper, August 2, 1926, Page 3

MANTELLS POLICE HE HAS KILLED 14 | ! Seattle Checking Up on “Con- | fession” of Murders and 100 Robberies. By the Associated Press. i SEATTLE, Wgsh., August 2.—~Seat- | tle police today are trving to deter-| mine whether Tom Smith, a ‘middle- aged man, also known, as Thomas Johnson and Kelly, is an_arch- criminal or merely a lunatic with a ¥ivid imagination. | In a_‘confession” mede Saturday night Smith “confessed” 14 murders and numerous other cril , including 100 robberies. A check on his story is | under way today. The murders, Smith said, were com- mitted in San Francisco; Hazelton British Columbia: Sioux City, Towa; Wichita, Kans.; Peoria, 1ll.; Mankato, Minn.; Minneapolis and Kansas City. Smith walked into the police sta- tion Saturday night, said that he was tired of a life of crime and that he wanted to tell his story. When police began to look upon his account as rather wild and questioned him re- | garding his sanity, he admitted he escaped from an insane asylum in Missouri, but as he continued the story authorities placed more eredence in it Will Test His Story. On the prisoner's claim that he killed Leongrd Erndahl in Minneapolis last December, police of that city tele- graphed last night that they were sending two detectives here in an | effort to identify the self-styled slayer. Adwces discrediting Smith’s claims already have been received from two points, Mankato and Hazelton. Man- kato telegraphed that a check of the records showed nothing to support | the prisoner’s assertion that he killed | “a policeman and his partner there.” Inspector Forbes Cruickshank of the British Columbia provincial police declared, ‘“There has not been a double murder unsolved in the province.” Smith said that he shot and Kkilled two men in Hazelton in 1914 when they resisted robbery. Smith stated in his ‘“‘confession” that he began his criminal career when 11 years old by robbing a small grocery store near Salmon Arm, Brit- ish Columbia. His first slaying, he said, was in ®an Francisco shortly before the earthquake of 1906. He said that in Minneapolis he be- ime known as the lone highwayman, holding up at least 50 persons in the Summit avenue district of that city. Last Winter, Smith declared, he ex- ecuted a series of robberies and street holdups in Minneapolis and builletins ‘broadcast by police of that city veri-| fied many of his stories of crimes there. He told again of shooting and kill- ing Leonard Erndahl, a Minneapolis railroad attorney, in December last year, and recounted the murder of a Minneapolis engineering student who | was reported killed in the Lake of the Isle district. Smith said he killed the student when the latter refused to give him money to pugchase food. In the Summer of 1925 he said he threw a man from a freight train during an_argument. An insurancé agent in Kansas City his next wvictim, -Smith declared. - "The same vear in Peoria, Ill, Smith claims to have murdered a policeman when cornered after a daylight hoidup. Used Various Names. He told police how he placed a pistol and empty “cartridges on the back porch-of the Peoria chief of police's home. Smiith sald he used the names of Kelly d Bell at various times, but never Johnson. A Thomas Kelly escaped from a State asylum at Ful- ton, Mo., about five years after being transferred from the Missouri State itentiary at Jefferson City, where t he was sentenced to 15 years for a { Kansas City robbery, asylum records #show. He warned jailors not to give him opportunity to commit suicide. ‘'m wrong ingide,” he explained, §“and can't help what I have done. §1 intended to go to Renton (a town i near Seattle) Saturday and hang my- igelf. 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NEW RULING CURBS ALCOHOL PERMITS Snup'eoted Violators May Now Lose Selling Right at Once Pending Review. More stringent control of drug stores and other permittees with- drawing alcohol under Gevernment restrictions will be put Into effect under instructions sent out by the Treasury to all prohibition admin- istrators of the, country. Basing their authority on an im- portant decision in the Federal Court for the Sputhern New York district, prohibition administrators will be expected entirely to reverse their practice as regards permittees who are suspected of violating the law. In the past it has been the custom, aceording to Treasury officials, for drug stores and others who have been cited for violation of their per- mit to continue withdrawing alcohol for their business until such time as the permit is finally expired, can- celled or revoked. .Under the New York decision a per- mittee ‘may be denied any further al- cohol by the administrator from the minute he is cited for violation. Treasury officials say that when put into practice thronghout the country this will result in bearing down with more severity upon sus- pected violators than ever before, “The prohibition administrator,” ac- cording to the court decision sent by the Treasury to all these officials; “has the discretionary right to deny a per- mittee’s application for withdrawal or purchase of alcohol regardless of the fact that-the basic permit has not ex- pired or has not been cancelled and the court is without power tempo- rarlly to enjoin the exercise of the power and duties of the prohibition administrator.” The hearing for revocation of the permit is held in the: office of the pro- hibition administrator, who has the power to deny the permit. The final decision of ‘the administrator, how- ever, is reviewable by a court. PLANE KILLS 5 IN CROWD. Spectators Hit While Making Landing in Germany . BERLIN, Germany, August 2 (#).— Five persons were killed and several injured yesterday when an airplane while making a landing suddenly crashed into the speetators at an air meet at Heldenheim, near Stuttgart, Wuerttemberg. The pilot was only slightly injured. SRR e PLANE CRASH KILLS 3. PARMA, Italy, August 2 (P).— Three persons were killed and three others injured when a_passenger air- plane bound from _Monfalcone to Spezia crashed at Borgotaro, near here, today while making a forced landing. - SHIPPING NEWS Arrivals at and_Sailings From New York, Daylight Saving Time. ARRIVED YESTERDAY. Jarmanta—Havre . 926, in- | Sie DUE TODAY. Fort St. George—Bermuda Martha Washington—Trie Stavaneertio; elo .. American Bhipper—London Baraceoa—Puerto Colomb) Pat jarmo . B olombi ‘oamo—San_Juan . San Juan—San Juan. DUE TOMORROW, Orizabi—Havana . Metapan—Puerto Ancon—Crigtobal . Majestio—Southami Pan-American—Buenos Aires. Sevdlitz—Bremen Samaria—Liverpool " . DUE WEDNESDAY. United: Sfates—Copenhagen EXPECTED ARRIVALS AT NEW YORK. Aconeague—Valparaiso .. Aug. 18 A meriean Banker—London . trd Berengaria—Southampton Berlin—Bremen SiiTornta " (Mediic Ci roia Tlmu ia—G ;l‘m!lll Zedrie—Liverpoo] “olumbus—Bremen onte nos . Deutschland—Hamburg Fort_ Victoria—Bermuda e eholm e Gothertiry fomeric—Southampton Manchuria—San | Winn's'u“mdgnl i Pennland—Antwerp 4 Monroe (wd, Iy EF P et ity S ) [BooHS! BARONESS' SUIGIDE INMIAW 15 PROBED Baron Says He Was Unable to Hang Himself Because He Couldn’t Climb Tree. By the Associated 3 MIAMI, Fla., August 2.—A coro- ner's jury today inquired into the chain of events which culminated Fri- day night with the death of the Bar- oness Royce-Garrett and the arrest of jher husband, Baron Michael Royce- Ciarrett, formerly of the Russian no- bility, Saturday. The baroness leaped to her death from the 1Sth floor of the fashionable Everglades Hotel. The baron, clasp- ing a piece of heavy twine, was found by police in a dense thicket north of Miami, where, he said, he was about to hang himself. A suicide pact of seven years’ stand- ing entered into between the two aft- er the baroness, a noted singer, had lost a $5000,000 heritage in the up- heaval following the war and trouble ‘with "bolshevik in Russia, caused the couple to plan death. ‘Wanted to Die Together. ‘The baron today expressed disap- pointment that his youthful wife had not died with him, as she had promised. The couple met in a Russian mili- tary hospital where the baron was re- cuperating from the amputation of a leg, lost in the war. They fell in love, fled to America, and for several years the baroness appeared in musical en- tertainments in the East. “Friday morning my wife told me the time had come to die,” the baron told police, “that she could not work or fight any longer, and that we must die together as we have lived together. I told her to wait nutil morning and we could go out to Cocoanut Grove, get in a. boat together, tie a rope around our necks and die. When this. was dectded, we were both joyful. Could Not Climb Tree. “My wife told me she would not be cross with me if T went out and stayed late. She said: ‘This is the last day on earth for you to smoke and play billlards and have a good time, so you g0 out. You catch'the last car home, but be sure and buy & news. paper before you come. We will spend our last night together and. pre- pare to die in the morning.’ " The baron played billiard from short- Iy after noon until late at night. He learned of hjs wife’s death when he bhought & newspaper. He purchased a plece of twine and walked on his crutches to the nearest tree, but he could not climb. ,Board- ing a bus, he rode to a. tangled thioket a few miles north of Miami, ‘where he remained throughout Saturday. Here he was found by police when his ef- forts to climb trees to hang himself attracted attention of residents. Sri Sl 2 LEGION IN WIDE MOVE TO INCREASE VOTING 11,000 Non-partisan Meetings Are Called for Sept. 21, in Citi zenship Campaign. | By the Associated Prexs. INDIANAPOLIS, August 2—Rally- ing to’'a recent warning by John Hays Hammond of the National Civic Federation that the vote of the private cltizen alone can save the United States from becoming a corrupt democracy, 11,000 non-partisan meet- ings in as many towns and cities of the nation have been called for September 21 by American Legion post commanders. This was made known vesterday by Frank C. Cross, chairman of the Americanism division of the Legion, which is working with the clvic federation to urge citizens who' ne- glected to vote in the last two na- tional elections.to do their duty -No- vember 4. r o % - Among national organizations that have requested their local units to assist the 11,000 Legion posts, Mr. Cross named the Daughters of the American Revolution, General Federa- tion of Women’s Clubs, National League of Women Voters, the Cham- ber of Commerce of the United States and the junior Chamber of Commerce of the United States. SUICIDE USES DYNAMITE. West Virginia Miner Ignites Fuse of Explosive in Mouth. MORGANTOWN, W. Va., August 2 (#).—A miner ended his life near here Saturday night by placing a stick of dynamite in his mouth and lighting the fuse. ¢ The man, Frank Sabiray, 33, leaves a wife and three children at Mason- town, Pa. STILLWELL HOME ROBBED Burglars Chat With Victims While Taking $5,000 in Jewelry. YONKERS, N. Y., August 1 (#).— Two burglars entered the home of Col. John Stillwell, in a fashionable part of this city, early yesterday and escaped with jewels valued at $5,000. The robbers entered a second story window from a ladder, cut the tele- phone and electric light wires, cov- ered Col. and Mrs. Stillwell with a gun and carried on a chatty conver- sation during the search. RUUD Water Heater SALE $5 Today and a year to pay. Nointerest or carrying charges. Liberal allowance for your old automatic or tank ‘Shades aod Screens. Phone Lin. 878 CTURING ! e s i, o o i b BUEERCATT e |t Mother of 16 Gets . French Decoration . Of Legion of Honor By the Assoctated Press. - ‘PARIS, August 2.—The coveted decoration, the Legion of Honor, Which represents so much to the French. people, has been awarded to two peagant women, farmers, in continuance of a tradition estab- lished a few years ago, to encour- ° age large families and fidelity to the land by means of France's highest- honor. The citations {n the Journal Of- cial accompanying these two nom- inations as Knights of the Legion of Honor, read: “Madame Pleron, farmer at Vieu D'Izenave (Ain De 'ment), 45 years practice of culture, mother of 16 children, two sonn in the war. Has 11 children still living, all working on the land. Born in a family of farm workers, has labored on.the land from her earliest years. By her incessant toll and spirit of initiative has suc- ceeded in making her farm a model for the district. “Madame Peres, widow, farmer et Kervir-En-Scaer '(Finistre De- partment), 44 years pracfical work on the land. Mother of 13 children, had six sons mobilized, three of whom were killed in action. With the help of her seven daughters kept her farm in good state of cul- ulwlll;lon during the war. May bhe cited as an example of courage and of dignified life.” e ACCIDENTS DETER - FIREMEN AT BLAZE Two Hurt as Engine Goes Under Tree, Apparatus Breaks Down While Pumping. Troubles aplenty beset the Wash- ington Fire ent when it re- sponded to an alarm from the old Kirkside Golf Club, in Chevy Chase, last night. First it suffered injury to two of its men, Including Capt. Oscar Lea- man of No. 14 Engine Company, and then the only two pleces of apparatus sent to the fire became disabled in rapid succession as they hooked up to start pumping. Daunted not by the serles of mis- haps, however, the firemen hooked their hose right on to the hydrant and finally got some water to play- ing on the blaze, which consumed two frame stables iu the rear of the clubhouse. Capt. Leaman and Pvl. R. C. O'Connor were hurt when low-hang- ing branches of a tree almost swept them from the speeding apparatus. ‘The captain’s mouth was cut and O’Connor's eye was bruised. Their injuries are not serious. No. 28 engine broke down at the fire, due to a defective valve, and when No. 14 truck took its place a radlator sprung a leak and caused its retirement also. Fire Chief Wat- son said today that nelther plece of :r;p:;fl(u;.wn;l badly damsged and voul n commission shortly. -5 e The fire illuminated the sky with a red glare that attracted persons miles away from the scene. A traf- fic crush developed on many streets leaging to the club grounds from Connecticut and Wisconsin avenues. Duggan Renews Flight. | RIO DE JANEIRO, August 2 (#).— | Bernardo Duggan, Argentine aviator, | who s on a flight. from -New York- to Buenos Alres, resumed his trip to- | day, hopping off from Ararangua, Brazl. In the direction of Rio Grande o Sul. i profit when you have us make your WINDOW SHADES to measure. Every shade is made here on the premises, and every shade bears our guarantee for quality an l830 13th St. N.W.l :{:H-H—H-l-l— Home That Will Charm You —In one of the best locations in the 16th St. . section—priced below $15,000—if bought at once—and special It is a Home of unusual design, beauti- fully finished ; 2 baths W. STOKES SAMMONS, Proprietor. WOMAN AND 2 MEN { TAKEN IN SLAYING Donaldson’s Killing - Linked With Grocer’s ‘Death in " Atlanta. By the Associated Press, ATLANTA, August 2.—Efforts to link the murder of Bert Denaldson, special investigator for the solicitor general's office, here Thursday night with the slaying of a local grocer last Christmas eve, together with the identification of one of two brothers arrested yesterday as “W: B. Sands of Macon, Ga.,” were outstanding de: velopments in the Donadson case to- day. H. L. Hughes and C. K. Hughes were held when employes of the fash- jonable hotel where Donaldson was slain identified one of the brothers as the man who had registered as Sands in the room where Donaldson later was ambushed. The investigator was killed when he entered the room by a man hidden in a clothes closet. Two charges from a shotguun entered his head and| back. Police also have taken into custody Mrs. Jack Wilson, wife of the man who police seek as the slayer of W. H. Cheek in a grocery hold-up last December. Donaldson was engaged in a search for Wilson at the time of his death. 'The woman was arrested in a Columbus, Ga., hotel. Hundreds braved a drenching rain- storm yesterday to attend Donaldson’s funeral, which was one of the largest ever held in Atlanta. —_ GOVERNORS GOING HOME. Tour of State Executives in Wyo- ming Is Practically Ended. OLD FAITHFUL INN, Yellowstone Park, Wyoming, August 2 (P).—With the departure of five governors for thelr homes yesterday the tour of the State executives who have visit Wyoming and the Yellowstone Park affer their conference in Cheyenne was practically at an end. Nfe gov- ernors and their families will remain another day to visit the Teton Moun- tain _range and fts famous Estate Office State age and experience Address Box 177-K Star Office el el A “Shade’ Better You save the wmiddleman’s S O B A S AL d workmanship. Let » . el terms. ING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. O. MONDAY. AUGUST 2, 19%. 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