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9 < AN KILLS WOMAN AND ENDS OWN LIFE WMrs. Mary E. Smith and Law- rence Bonausch Found Dead in Room. s rrel, Lawrence Bo- 37 vears old, of 1362 Harvard &treet lust night shot and k Mrs. Mary E. Smith, 28, of 509 H street, a divorcee whom he had been courting three vears, then turned the pistol on himself and sent a bullet through his Lrain, dying instantly The shooting took place at the home of Mrs. Smith, who was a rinter's assistant at the Bureau of ngraving and Printing. Coroner J. Ramsay itt, after viewing the two bodles, issued a cer- tificate’ of death by homictde in the Smith and death by sui- cide in the case of Bonaugch. OoWing a qu pausch, Roomer Calls Police. Roomers at the H street aldress unable today to tell pullo® just took place prior to the shroting. s Harriet Fridley, who has a room next to that of Mrs. Smith, and Rob- R. Ward, 731 Sixth street, wh tting Miss Fridl Bonausch entered th> house about 6:30 o'clock without ringing the door bLell and went direct to his sweet- Leart's room 1t was evident that Bonausch went > Mrs. Smith's room with the inten tion of “having it « he had locked the doo nd it was nece ary for Motor Cycle sliceman Claude O, Rupe of 1he sixth precinet to break 4t down after he had been summoned by Miss Fridley. When Rupe entered he said he found the body of Mr Smith 1ying by her bed and thag of Ponausch stretched out near the dbor. Had Observed Jealousy. : roomers at the that during * as It was reca ¥ street addre the period of Bonausch’s attentions to Mrs. Smith he had evidenced Intense Jenlousy, and about three weeks ago is alleged to have threatened her. Bonausch, police learn, was a pri- vate chauffeur, and had lived at the Harvard streel house for about two months. Prior to this he lived on Columbia r His parents, in ledo, Ohio, M has been divorced about nine years. The couple were pronounced dead by Dr. Paul Porten of Emergency, who declared both had died imme- ely. FIRST TAX PAYMENT DUE DURING MONTH Personal Bills Will Be Mailed, But Real Estate Bills Must Be Called For. The first installment of the real estite and personal property tax for the fiscal year 1926-1927 is due this month, it was_announced today by Tax Assessor Willlam P. Richards. The personal tax bills will be malled, but the real estate tax bills will hav to be procured at the office of Mr. Richards in the District Bullding. The real estate bills will be matled upon request, however, providing the tax- yaver writes Mr. Richards giving h sddress and the square and lot num- Ler of the property own Pr numbering approximatel. been completed and the distribution. These about 175, are based are re bills rep on the new tax rate of 100 of assessed valuation, » personal tax bills number about D ards has es tate taxes for the current vield $17,000,000 and the property taxes out $6,000,000. Reverue derived from the real estate tax lust year amounted to §$14,330,000 d n the personal property tax The new tax bil Ul attention: to & change in the taxpaying months 1rom November und May and March. As the law changing taxpaying months does not become tive until December, the first in the tuxes is due this Xt ¥ it will be in he second installment taxes will be due in the real es year will personal mated th NEW TRIAL IS GRANTED IN ELKINS ESTATE SUIT Court of Appeals Sets Aside Judg- ment Awarding Equitable In- vestment Co. $176,000 Claim. The District an opinion by today reversed District & new Elkins West Vv Appeals, in judgment Court_and Davis Davis of the e trial to and 1 i Eikins, 4 son of Stey « former United We. om sued on an | for t Co. of to hmond. he v 12,1 100, and was s sald to have York April 19, was said to have | by | the assignment « partnership us and ofl attucked the nd during nd at the certain 6 execu of the note ation of Rich asked was paid him the note to On objection of plain would not pe s, the appe tal err T} s, was prejudic! accordingly sets aside the udg' | Edwin L. Fuller, Shipping Board Holy N REVELLERS END IN COURT. | Halloween Swells List of Those Locked Up to 157. Revelry among Halloween brants added the usual gestion over the Wer total of those , howev short of records of other week ends, when there was 1o hollday. Collateral lists showed some names, with the majority resulting in forfeitures. Arrests for all offenses durtr hours ended at 8 o'clock t ing totaled 682 ts for tion totaling R sons were arrested fc sale, possession and transportation of intoxicants and 185 for alleged traffic violatio: cele- Police the 48 morn- Character is not ready made, but it e ration of the real estate bills | 76,000 have | 00 pleces of property and | to the higher tax rate Mr. Rich- | to Septem- | iief Justice Martin, | includ- | prop- | St Victim of Bullet J I WiLLIAM J. BARBEE, JR. YOUNG RULE IS HELD FOR GRAND JURY IN SLAYING OF BARBEE (Continued from First Page.) again standing, the witness continued, declared if any one cared to step for- ward, he would beat him up. At this point, according to the witne bee, his hands on his hips cried, don't vou pick on some one vour own nd took one step forward. There was the flash of a gun, one shot and Barbee fell to the ground, the jury was told. After the shooting, it was recounted, Rule returned to_the clubhouse, and invited two of Barbee's friends to stay with him while the wounded youth was being taken to Walter Reed Hospital. Defense Attorney Welsh emphasized that Rule did not attempt to_escape. Wallace = rated in virtually Henry B. Dalby treet, who was bee at-the time o sald, in addition, that he, Barbee and Perkins, be le 5 for the Pi Phi dance had ted the home of a friend where they were given a small gla: of liquor, but he insisted that it was not sufficient to make any of the three intoxicated. Testifles for Defense. The first defense Donald George Dow, dolph street, Wi corrobo- detail by of 2138 California nding beside Bar- the shooting. He | | G oo 17, of 555 Ran- ington, a genior at Central Hligh School. He told the jury that he and Rule, Jesse L. Ward, | Lawrence Garber, and several other vouths last Spring rented the cottage {on Burnt Mills road as a sort of club. | At the time of the shooting Saturd i he said, these club members and s | eral other friends, including five girl land their chaperon, were holding a | Halloween party at the club. | Things were pretty duli, he said, {50 he and two others took weapons { which they had at the place and did some practice shooting on a nearby | {hill. They had just returned when | three cars bearing the Barbee party drew up. “There" fa tough a big gang coming up— crowd—looks lfke they're jdrunk,” Dow declared one of his party cried. The girls were taken inside the house and the boys pre- | pared to defend themselves, he de- |clared. While he was hunting i & club he heard some one shout ‘s { that swearing,” which was followed by a shot. Barbee Funeral Wednesday. Young Barbee was born in this cit; serving under Capt. of Kensington. was graduated from Devitt Prepara- { tory School last Spring, winning a scholarship for his athletic skill, and was captain of the Crescent foot ball team, It was his ambition to obtain an ap- pointment to West Point Milita Academy, and he v had sulted numerous influential friends with such a purpose in view. He is survived by his parents and two si and Helen Barbee. al services will he conducted at the home, 1522 Vernon street, Wed- nesday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Rev. . C. Reynolds, pastor of Wesley Methodist_Epischpal Church and chay lain of the 1st Infantry, Maryland National Guard, will officiate. Inter- ment will be in Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington. D. C. LODGES OBSERVE “MASONIC SUNDAY" Assembled Members of Fraternity Hear Sermon by Rev. Dr. John C. Palmer. i ! | | Washingtol observation of Ma- ! sonic Sunday was held last night at |the Washington Heights Presby * ! terfan Church, Towmbia and Kal a roads, of which Rev. Dr. John Palmer is pastor. aking as his text, “Set your heart land soul to seek the Lord,” Dr. | Palmer declared that God cannot be proven by the physical s The snostic who declared that he “had rehed the ends of the earth” with finding God took the wrong course, contended the speaker, who eclared that to find God. one must cultivate the spiritual vision. Mascnic Sunday s observed in | every city throughout the United States on the Inst Sunday in October, - being decided upon by the 2 | League of Masonic Clubs The Washington Masonic Club select | ed the Washington Heights Pr terian Church for vesterday's ob- | servance, the third annual such cele- { bration {n Washington. OLD CAPITAL RESIDENT DIES IN BRIEF ILLNESS | or: i i i Statistician, Will Be Buried Tomorrow From Late Home. Edwin L. Fuller, 73 years old, Shipping Board statistician, died Sat- at Homeopathic Hospital after ef illness. He was a native of Philadelphia_and had lived in Wash- ington for 25 years. Mr. Fuller is rvived by a daughter, Mrs. Marle tley of San Francisco, Calif. Funeral services will be conducted tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock at his late home, 3404 Seventeenth street, by Rev. Robert Johnston of St. John's Church. Interment will Ha phia. Three-Hour Quake Recorded. VICTORIA, British Columbia, No- vember 1 (#).—A pronounced earth- quake, lasting more than three hour: was recorded here last night at Gon zales Heights _observatory. The temblor, which began at 541 p.m., ‘zabably off the Oregon coaste for | top | He | con- | take place Wednesday at Philadel- was estimated to be 400 miles distant, | THE EVENING TRAFFCACGIENTS * CAUSE DEATAOF 2 3N£rs. Lucy P. Morrison and | Mrs. Cornelia Major, Hurt Recently Expire Today. Deaths this morning of two persons injured in traffic accidents last month make a total of 11 trattic deaths last month and 69 during the current year. Mrs. Lucy P. Morrison, 63 years of age, 4726 Fifth street, one of the per- sons who died this morning, was in- jured about 8 o’clack the night of Oc- tober 9, when an automobile in which she was a passenger was in collision with another machine, and was forced against the base of a lamppost at Il- linols avenue and Decatur street. Mrs. Cornella Major, colored, 55 vears of age, 806 Twenty-fourth | street, also died this morning. She knocked down by a street car near Washington Circle shortly before 7 o'clock the morning of October 27 and her skull fractured, and she was not identifled until two days after the accident. She dled at Emergency Hos- pital. Mrs. Morrison was riding in_an automobile driven by Stanley D. Pur- celi, residing in Mrs. Morrison’s home, when the car of Edward S. Rainey, 422 Twelfth street southeast, is re- ported to have collided with it and forced it against the lamp post. Her nose w: broken and her face and body injured. She died at Garfield Hospital. Coroner Nevitt will conduct in- quests at the morgue tomorrow to have a jury determine the question of respousibility for the deaths. Persons injured in traffic accidents over the week end were: Charles Vermillion, Fourteenth and Emerson strects; Charles Wengerd, 1319 Park road; Louts Sulllvan, 1207 Thirty-third street; Barry Jarhoe, 413 Second street; irginia. C. Weiler, 17 years old, 3956 sdwin Winslow, 22 Thirteenth street; 22 vears old; Mrs. Rose Mensh, 87 years old, 1837 First street; Thomas Isbell, colored, 65 years old, 1808 New Jers venue, and Albert Bell, colored, 35 ars old, 1543 Ninth street. COVELL EXAMINES TELEPHONE AFFAIRS | Studies American Company’s Holdings in Local Firm With William McK. Clayton. ! A study of the American Telephone and Telegraph Co.’s holding in the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co. was started today by Maj. W. E. R. Covell, senior Assistant Engineer sioner, and Willlam McK. ton, newly-appointed temporary 1 adviser to the Public Utilities Commission. The investigation will be made in | connection with the probe of the North American Co.s in- terest in the Washington Rapid Transit Co. and other utility co rations in the District. Maj. d he does not believe the La Fol- lette anti-merer law, under which the legality of the status of the bus | company was questioned, is applica- | ble in the case of the American Tele- phone ana Telegraph C i he believes, passed a special act ap- proving the acquisition of the C. & P. Telephone Co. stock by the A. T. & | T. Co. FEAST 0 { F CHRIST CELEBRATED HERE Very Rev. Ignatius Smith in- terprets Humanitarian Work as Proof of Progress. | Progress in art, science, philosophy jand theology, and the institution of | | hospitals, asvlums and churches, all | glorified by blood and martyrdom, are |stations in the march toward _the | Kingdom of Christ, declared Very | Rev. Ignatius Smith, prior of the Do- | minican House of Studies, Brookland, lat the joint Holy Name service in the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception the Catholic University last night, |in observance of the feast of Christ {the King. | ouhis ‘march is continued in our {own country here,” Father Smith de- clared to the 3.000 persons who at- tended the service, and added: “It | brings happiness to all peoples of all races and of all times. The Kingdom | of Christ is not of the world, as He | Hims . but this kingdom is of Heaven, and the world must conform | itself to His divine command in order | to reach that heavenly kingdom." First Observance Here. The service at which Father Smith spoke was the first observance here of the feast of Christ the King, which was added to the ecclesiastical cal- endar last year by Pope Pius XI, and it was under the auspices of the| ‘Washington section of the Archdiocese | Holy Name Societies, representing 40 parishes. In conclusion, Father Smith de.| clared that the 2,000,000 members Of‘ the Holy Name Society were pledged to profess constantly thelr belief in the divinity of Christ. Mgr. P. C. Gavan, spiritual director of the society, was celebrant of the vesper service and of the benediction of the blessed crament which fol- lowed. Service With Candles. After the benediction each of the ame members held a lighted candle while, as a body, they recited the Holy Name pledge in’ the darkened crypt Right Rev. Thomas tor of Catholic Universit lover the devotions. Music was fur- hed by a choir of 100 men, stu- dents and priests of the Dominican House of Studies. Officers of the Holy Name Societies, Washington sectlon, who arranged the ,service last night, were Cornelius Ford, president; Harry O'Neill, vice president; Matthew Noome. secretary; John Curtin, treasurer, and Capt. Harry Walsh. ahan, rec- presided | Jamaica May Ban Panamans. | KINGSTON, Jamaica, November 1 | P).—The legislative council of | Jamaica purposes to retaliate against Panama on the question of emigra- tion. A bill to provide that no Panaman having less than $500 shall be permitted entry into Jamaica will | be introduced. | " Recently the Panaman government passed a bill prohibiting the landing in the republic of Jamaican emigraats, ¢ jare restricted STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, NOVEMBER 1, HOUDINI'S SECRETS OF ESCAPE TWO LEADS THAT FAILED IN SCRIVENER CASE The revolver that ended the life of detective, found shot to death under | 0" A« mysterious circumstances, and torn tie that was grip] in his hand when the body was discovered, have thus far added only to the perplexity of police, who at first looked upon them as valuable clues. MORE STOPSIND.C. FOR STATE BUSSES Utilities Commission Hears Interfederation Plea for Better Facilities. Expressing its hearty accord in the general plan for log! development of adequate transportation lines into nearby Maryland and Virginia, to be embraced in the general Greater Washington development plans of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission, members of the District Utilities Commission today promised a liberal attitude in the granting of downtown stopping privileges to es- tablished bus lines and favorable con- sideration to any proposals that in- sure development of trunk transporta- tion lines from outlying sections along loglcal lines. The executive committee of the In- terfederation Conference, consisting of President R. E. Plymale of the Ar- lington Coun! Civic Federation; Jesse C. Suter, president of the Feder- atlon of Citizéns’ Associations of the District of Columbia, and Oliver Owen Kuhn, president of the Montgomery County Civic Federation, appeared be- fore the commisslon, asking that greater liberality be shown by the Dis trict commission in granting down- town stopping privileges, in order that present inadequate transportation conditions be rectified, and that some encouragement be given to companies desiring to operate in the suburban areas loglcally to be included in Greater Washington plans. Suburban Growth Restricted. Mr. Kuhn, speaking on behalf of the Interfederation Conference and the Montgomery Federation, declared that the present policy of limiting the loading and unloading privileges of already established bus lines and the knowledge that rights would be re- stricted to new ones, had tended to re- strict the logical growth of Washing- ton's suburbs and was antagonistic to the accepted theory of the Greater Washington plan that adequate through lines be established from the suburbs to downtown Washington. At present, he said, Maryland sections in thelr growth and people generally inconvenienced by in- adequate transportation facilities. Should there be granted a large num- ber of stops in downtown sections of the city and interstate busses be per- mitted to take on and let off passen- gers at a larger number of fixed points en route these lines naturally could be expected to not only live, but render desired service. Mr. Kuhn declared that the present move was not in the interest of one or many carrlers, and that if present existing and operating companies would extend their facilities to care for the thickly populated areas outside the District, this would be satisfac- tory, but that if the established com- panies refused to grant such service, then the District Utilities Commission should entertain proposals from new companies who would insure needed service. These interstate companies, he sald, should be permitted greater degree of latitude in the taking on and letting off of passengers within the District. Sees Curb on City Plans. The chief trouble today, he declared, was that the number of points within the District where bus lines could take on and let off passengers was so restricted as to place throttling curbs upon the development of out- Iving areas in accord with the greater Washington plans. This system, he sald, worked to the disinterest of Washington merchants, to the disin- terest of thousands of people residing in outlying sections but working in Washington, and was a great draw- back to any company proposing to remedy the situation. Commissioner Bell declared there was no reason why the District Utili- ties Commission should not extend the number of stops for bus lines within the District, and in this view he was supported by Commissioners Rudolph and Dougherty. The commission suggested that the interfederation committee approach the traction companies to see if these could not be persuaded to extend their activities so as to embrace bus line systems within the thickly popu- Jated area of Montgomery County. In case existing operating companies re- fuse to give the granted relief and establish routes in conformance to de- sired ends, then the District Commis- sioners would consider new proposals from other concerns desiring to tap the territories affected. Commission Sympathetic. The District commission declared that it might be expected at all times that its policies in regard to the tablishment of adequate transporta- tion lines from suburben Washington, which in effect must become part and | parcel of the District of Columbia, would be sympathetic. Members of the Interfederation Con- | ference executive committee will ar- range conference with the traction companies most.interested in the mat- ter of extension of service and deter-] mine~their attitude toward augment- ing prevailing facilities. It is expect- ed, however, that if encouragement it not received, immediately new com- panies will file petitions for charter with the service commission of Mary- land and in turn file them with the District commlssion and ask certain rights for loading and unloading pas- sengers within the District of Co- lumbia. e BAND CONCERTS. Tomorrow. By the United States Soldiers’ Home Band Orchestra, at Stanley Hall, 545 o'clock, Jehn 8. M. Zim- mermann, leader; 1 A. Fenstad. second leader, SIX BABIES BURNED FATALLY IN CRASH Mother Also Dies, as 2 Trucks Catch Fire After One Hits Trolley. By the Associated Press. DAYTON, Ohfo, November 1.—A mother and six babies are dead of burns suffered in the wreckage of a truck when an automobile collided with an interurban car and another truck early tod: Six persons were injured, three possibly fatally. The dead: Mrs. Rose Mary Capozzi, 37, and her four children, Willlam Ca pozzi, &; Tony Capozzi, 4; Georgia Ca- pozzi, 3, and Joseph Capozzi, jr., 1. Grace Allo, 8 Bernard Allo, infant. Critleally injured are: Mrs. Frances Allo, Joseph Capozzi, 39, husband of the dead woman and driver of one of the trucks. g The accident happened when Jo- seph Capozzi, bis_entire family and Mrs. Frances Allo and her thres children were returning home. Ca- pozzi was driving a truck, and ahead was Sam Tripoli, taking his mother- in-law, Mrs. Rosa Vitrano, home in another truck. Witnesses said that as the two trucks crossed a bridge, Capozzi attempted ‘to pass Tripoll and drove his machine head-on into an interurban car. Almost_immediately, witnesses de- clared, the truck driven by Capozzi burst into flames, and the one occu- pied only by Tripoli and Mrs. Vi- trano, caught fire. Three of, the dead were riding in the closed cab of the Capozzi truck. Tony and Joseph, jr., were dead when they arrived at_the hospital, and Mrs. Capozzi, Willlam and Georgla Capozzi and Bernard and Grace Allo died later. . STABS KILL YOUTH AFTER HIS BULLET GRAZES MUSSOLINI (Continued from First Page.) not explode until it had fallen to the ground. Mussolini escaped unharmed. His assailant at that time was seized by a threatening crowd, but was pro- tected from mob vengeance by the police. Four passersby were wounded by the bomb. On April 7 previously, just before Mussolini's departure for Tripoli, Miss Violet Gibson, an Englishwoman, fired a shot which caused a slight injury to the tip of his nose. The attack was made when the premier was leaving a session of the Congress of Surgeons in Rome. Miss Gibson has since been declared insane by medical experts testifying at her trial. ‘An attempt in November, 1925, was frustrated when the police discovered a plot to assassinate him by the for- mer Soctalist deputy, Zaniboni. On Italy’s Armistice day, as the premier was on his way to make a speech from his residence, Zaniboni was found concealed in a_nearby hctel with a high-powered rifle fitted with telescoplc sights and set up in direct line with the balcony where Mussolini was to stand. life of Mussolini, no details were made public. One of these attacks was sald to have been carried out, but without effect, by a royal guard at Chigi Palace in 1923, and the other in 1924, when he was reported to have been shot at while traveling by motor car from an outlying city to Rome. Deemed Divinely Guarded. The Italian people have come to look upon Mussolini_as specially pro- tected by Divine Providence. He, himself announced as the slogan of his life, “Live in danger,” and has repeatedly declared that he would carry out all his plans for the better- ment of his country no matter what happened, or what dangers con- fronted him. Recently a law was passed in Italy making it a capital crime to at- tack the premier, to be punished by the extreme penalty. At the celebration of the fourth an- niversary of the Fascist march on Rome last Thursday, Mussolini re- viewed the progress made under Fascism. He prefaced his speech with the words: “It is idiotic to de- cry the regime of Fascism as having | produced an oligarchy with a cruel and mysterious tyrant at its head. It is equally absurd to accuse Fascism | of being an unpopular regime and an jenemy of the working classes.” Mussolini went to Reggie Saturday ! to open the Po Railroad and, as he put it, “to start the fifth year of | Fascism in inaugurating a new work, which does honor to the nation.” He left for Bologna, where he was received with a shower of flowers. NEW SOCIALIST PAPER. French Deputy Will Edit Party Daily in Paris. | PARIS, November 1. (#)—A Social- | ist daily newspaper with a capital of | 2,000,000 francs will be published at the beginning of 1927. The national council of the Socialist party has | reached this decision and designated { Leon Blum, leader of the party in the Chamber of Deputies, as editor-in- | chief. In proposing the project at a meet- ing of the national council yesterday, | Deputy Bracke said the Soclalists could finance the paper by depriving themselves of only 10 ‘“appetizers” during the forthcoming year. The ‘Aproposal was then voted unanimously. Of the other two attempts on the | 1926. LOCKED IN MYSTERY OF DEATH| Magician Dies With Feats Unexplained Even to Own Managers. Son of Rabbi Won Fame by Offer to Duplicate Me- diums’ Works. By the Associated Press. DETROIT, Mich., November 1.— Harry Houdini’s mysterious feats of escape, which thrilled spectators throughout the world in his life, to- day were locked in the mystery of | death. | The magician, hailed by his fellow | workers as the greatest of them all, | died here last night, taking with him the secrets of how he escaped from manacles, chains, coffins, strait- jackets and other contrivances, per- formances which no other man ever had duplicated under his challenge. Although Houdini wrote copiov . the fruit of his quarter a century experfence as a conjurer, his managers announced that his own methods never were revealed. “His stunts were his own and not adapted from sombthing some one else had done,” said B. M. L. Ernest, vice president of the Society of Ameri- can Magicians, in explanation of his unrevealed mysteries. Great Skill in Escapes. Although Houdini performed the usual run of magical tricks and gained considerable notice for his untiring attacks on spirit mediums, the public probably was most attracted to his adeptness in releasing himself from almost any kind of confinement that could be devised. In one of his favorite tricks he per- mitted himself to be bound hand and foot in a box wrapped with ropes and chains and placed under water. He escaped from thousands of strait- jackets, picked innumerable locks and freed himself while hanging from a derrick in manacles and strait- Jacket. Probably one of his most spectacular ats, also one of his latest, was when he was confined in a coffin under water for 90 minutes. This performance re- sulted from his long-standing chal- lenge that he could duplicate or ex- pose any seemingly magic trick. Ray- men Bey, an Egyptian man of magic, had been creating discussion by re- maining in a sealed coffin under water for 19 minutes and he accepted Hou- dinl’s defy to duplicate the trick. Explained by Short Breaths. “‘Short breaths and conservation of oxygen did it,” was Houdini's expla- nation after he had bested the Egyp- tlan at his own game by remaining under water more than four times as long. Although Houdini's appearance be- fore the public began at the age of 8 as a trapeze performer with a circus troupe, he first turned his attention to the business of opening locks with- out keys when he was apprenticed to a locksmith in Appleton, Wis., his birthplace, after his mother objected to a continuation of his circus career. The trick of opening handcuffs was discovered when a handcuffed prison- er was brought into Appleton by a sheriff who had lost his keys. Hour dini said the trick was known only to him, his wife and the prisoner. Challenge to Mediums. One of the magiclan's standing offers, which he never had to pay, was $10,000 to any medium who could produce phenomena which he could {not reproduce solely by his strength |and mental agility. Holding that the | works of mediums, hypnotists and | mesmerists were spurious, he waged a continuous war on what he termed their frauds, both through stage | presentations and through books, in- |eluding “A Magiclan Among the Spirits,” and one intended to expose the medium who won the Sclentific American award. Houdini was born in Appleton April 6, 1874, the son of Rabbi Mayer Sam- uel Weiss, later adopting the name by which he was known on the stage. He was taken suddenly ill during a performance here and was operated on for appendicitis last Monday, peritonitis resulting. His widow sur- vives. The body will be taken to New York in the bronze casket he carried everywhere. Died Mentioning Ingersoll. Friends of the magician said today that Houdinl died with Robert Inger- | soll's name on his lips. Houdini had been a close personal friend of Inger- soll and possessed the largest collec- tion of Ingersoll letters in the world. | Houdini, however, was not an agno: tic, according to H. Elliot Stuckel, hi personal manager. A statement issued by the family blamed Houdini's fatal illness on a blow struck by a McGill University Houdini Lea.ves Cast And Library 1 By Consolidated Press. W YORK, November 1.—Harry Houdini dealt little with such stuff as premonitions, but his death Sunday in Detroit found him not unprepared for an untimely end. The famous magician, when the | writer interviewed him in his New York home less than three months ago, had just completed two metal casts of his hands, life-size repro- ductions mounted in a glass case, and exhibiting every line and curve of those marvelous fingers which mock- ed at the strength of steel. Likewise, the handcuff king had had made a marble bust of himself which he said would be the only stone or marker placed over his grave. The metal hands were willed by Houdini to the National Museum at PROTEST CANTON ORDER. American consular officers in Can- ton have lodged a protest with the Cantonese government, asserting that it has violated treaty rights by com- pelling all ships enterimg the port of Canton to submit to an examination | by offiefals of the newly created Chi- nese Inspection Bureau, which acts independently of the regular Chinese customs administration. This is the second protest to be filed with the Cantonese government in the past few weeks. The first was made at the time the Cantonese authorities levied surtaxes on foreign shippers. which the State Department holds also to violate existing treaty rights. | ————————— BERLIN LABOR CHIEF DIES. BERLIN, November 1 (#).—Robert Dissmann, 38, Social-Democratic mem- ber of the Reichstag, died aboard the steamship Columbus from heart dis- ease while returning from a trip to Mexico, where he went to study trade unifon conditions. J | He was president of the German| Metal Workers’ Union, reputed to be the largest individual trade union ia the world. His trip to Mexico wis under the auspices of the Interra- tional Metal Workers' Union. are 6o E.] ] i | | { 1 HARRY HOUDINL student at Montreal, October 22. The statement said some students had; zathered in Houdini’s dressing room | following a performance and one of | them struck the magician in the stom- ach as a test of strength. Houdini winced and experienced increasing pains which culminated in his collapse a week ago. | Some Notable Escapes. Some notable escapes by Houdini were: Broke out of the Siberian prison van in Moscow, Russia, in May, 1903. Leaped, heavily handcuffed, from the Belle Isle bridge into the Detroit River, December 2, 1906, and released himself under the i waters. Leaped into an Francisco Bay, August 26, 1907, handcuffed with hands behind his back, with more than 75 pounds of bail and chain locked to his body. Freed himself from shackles espe- cially constructed by workers at the Krupp factories In Essen. Germany in 1901. FALTAL BLOW IS DENIED. Montreal Friends Say Houdini Was 1 on Arrival. MONTREAL, November 1 (#).— Harry Houdini did not die of an injury received on October 2 E sick when he came here that he wa under care of a trained nurse, two men connected with his Montreal ap- pearance asserted today. The maglician’s family in Detroit ed the opinion that the fatal was due to a blow dealt by a ill University student in testing the magician's strength. Abbi Wright, manager of the local theater where Houdini recently ap- peared, sald Houdini was ill when he came to Montreal and forced himself, with great difficulty, to go through with his performance. Dr. Willlam D. Tait, professor of psychology at the McGill University, where Houdinl delivered a lecture be- fore the McGill Union, said there was no_encounter between the magician and the student, as reported from Detroit. DOYLE LAUDS HOUDINL. s British Author Calls Spiritualism Only Issue Between Them. LONDON, November 1 ().—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, noted author and spiritualist, today paid tribute to the late Harry Houdini as “the world's master trickster.” “His death is a great shock and a deep mystery to me,” he said. “He was a teetotaler, did not smoke, and was one of the cleanest living men I have ever known. I greatly ad- mired him, and cannot understand how the end came for one so youth- ful. “We were great friends. e told me much in_confidence, but never secrets regarding his tricks. How he did them, I do not know. We agreed upon everything except spirit- ualism.” THURS' 'ON PAYS TRIBUTE. Houdini Classed With Barnum as Showman by Magician. SYRACUSE, N. Y., November 1 (4). —Howard Thurston, magician and for many years, friend of Harry Houdini, in a statement declared that Houdini as a showman was in a class with Barnum; in force of character he re- sembled Roosevelt. “He would have been on outstand- ing figure as a polticlan,” Thurston said. “Life was a serious proposition with Houdini—an indefatiguable work- er, insatiable ambition, an aggressive enemy and a loyal friend. His love for his mother was his deepest emotion.” s of His Hands to National Museum 1 Washington, along with most of his remarkable library, chiefly devoted to works on the theater, to magic and the black arts. He was the lead- ing authority on magic literature and had the largest magic library in the | world, according to B. M. L. Ernst, vice president of the Soclety of Amer- ican Magicians. The collection has been valued at $500,000, and was insured for $350,- 000. " It filled most of the three floors of Houdini's modest brownstone house in upper Manhattan. Houdini, incidentally, ‘was probably just as proud of hi jackets and the wi He exhibited proud presented to him by a New York newspaper, engraved with his name as editor of the paper’s Sunday s tion on the arts of magic. COBB IS GRANDFATHER. Daughter Born to Mrs. Frank M. Chapman, Jr., in Italy. FLORENCE, Italy, November (P).—The birth of a davghter to Mr. and Mrs. Frank M. Chapnan, jr., at their home here w nounced to- day. Mr. Chapman is a son of Dr. Frank M. Chapman, distinguished New York naturalist, while Mrs. Chajpe man is the only child of Ir € Cobb, American humorist, been In Ttaly several weeks the event. Mr. Chapman came here in_pursu- ance of his musical studies. Mr. and Mrs. Cobb are leaving for America on the Conte Biancamano. NEW MAIL PLANES FLY. Machines Leave Milwaukee for Northwest Route Duty. MILWAUKEE, November 1 (#).— Soaring into the sky, three cabin vlanes of the Northwest Airways Co. destined for immediate service on the Chicago, Milwaukee and Twin Cities mail route, today took off for Minne- apolls and St. Paul. Aboard the planes were officials of the company, which plans to carry passengers as well as mail on the Northwest route. The planes arrived here Sunday from Detroit. wrist watch who has awaiting | self l. FOUR ARE KILLED INGUNMEN'S FEUD I'al Slays Notorious “Killer’” as Police Engage in Detroit Battle. By the Assoctated Press DETROIT, Mich., Novemi The criminal career of James Cunniffe, sought in connection wi a half dozen major crimes, including murder and rhail robbery, came to an end here yesterday in w turfous pistol battle which cost the lives of three other persons amd resulted 1t the wounding of two more The “killer” and an dentifie woman companion were shot to d by a pal, o man known here liam Olsen, who in turn wa by a poi but had shot to de ounded a b liceman was man Ephraim in the exchang had been Burns, a_resident Kilter’ rnest Jones, K of shots after wounded. of au fas | apartment house where the shoot urred, was struck by @ str Thousands on Floor. The officers had answered a cail to the apartment house to investi gate a report of shooting there. When the wounded Rancour finally gained entrance he found the bullet-riddied hodies of Cunniffe and the womar twho d been slain b their Approximat $10,000 was Kcattered about and police ex pressed the beiief the thres ha quarreled over a division of the money, belfeved to have been loc obtained in robberies Cunniffe, Olsen and the womar came here shortly after a_serles of crimes in New Jersey and New York in which Cunniffe was accused of par participating. Cunniffe was accused of being one of two men who shot and killed Frank E. Kearney and his son Ro! ert near Hadley Field, on the outskirts of New Brunswick, N. J October 4. The pair were slain whe: the elder Kearney refused to transportation to the gunmen, wh s later learned. were planning hold-up a shipment of mail also wanted for the murder of Ernes: Whitman, @ bond salesman, in a bank holdup at Bellemore, Long Is land, N. April 4, 192 Another ng with which Cun niffe was accused of complicity was that of John Enz, a mail truck driver and the robbery of more than $150, 000 in Elizabeth, N. J., on October 14. It was after this robbery Postmaster General Harry . ordered out the Marines to guard t mails. Escaped From Elizabeth. ducted companton. in currency the apartment An elaborate search wa for Cunniffe and his companions and it was thought for a time they had been bottled up in the district about Elizabeth. They made thelr escape. however. Cunniffe, Olsen and the woman arrived here three days after the izabeth robbery and rented tha apartment where the shooting oc curred. A short time later a serles of dar ing bank robberies were staged in Detroit. One bank was held up twica in two weeks. Officials said Conniffe and_Olsen answered the description of the men who participated in these robberies. Police tods wera attempting to identify Olsen, who is believed to have been a member of the notorfous “Bum” Rodgers gang with which Cunniffe was assoctated. GASOLINE BURNS MAN. Becomes Ignited When Being Used to Clean Beds. George Edwards, 45 years old, 415 G street, was burned about the face and arms today when a can of gaso- line became nited while he was using the fluld to clean the beds in his_home. Edwards was alone at the time of the accldent. He was taken to Casualty Hospital in the sixth pre cinet patrol, but his injuries were satd not to be serious. The fire was ex tinguished by the No. 3 and No. 6 engine companies before it had done much damage. REEVES’ TERM UPHELD. Ralph D. Reeves, former president of the Reeves G Co., must serve a term of two years and six months in the penitentiary, according to an opinion of the District Court of Appeals_rendered today by Chief Justice Martin. 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