Evening Star Newspaper, August 13, 1927, Page 4

B et e T PRI S fi 4 - EX-BANK CASHIER HELDASEMBEZZLER Former Neighbor Identifies + Fugitive Reported to Have . Committed Suicide. By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, August 13.-—Destiny, guiding a Nebraska tourist to a Cleve- Jand filling station, has rolled away the three-year-old mystery of the where- abouts of Jack M. Patterso: § bank cashier and villlage treasursr of Union, Nebr. appeared under circum- ting suicide, and his wife in Union helieved him dead. Shortly afterward, however, embez. zlement charges were laid nst him, and it is to answer to these charges that Patterson today fs held for of- ficers from Lincoln, Nebr. Recognized by 0Old Neighbor. An “old Nebraska neighbor,” ing through from the West, recognized Patterson as he filled the tourist's gasoline tank at’ the filling ion where he had been working under the name of Frank Smith, Patterson de- nied the embezzlement char “I was going back after 1 d enough money to pay my de’ Pat- ited the . “but He said stances arrival of Nel the money came pretty slow he was “up to his neck” in about §10,- 000 of personal debts, but was not guilty of the alleged embezzlement. Patterson disappeared in Chicago, July 11, 1924, when he failed to return to the home of relatives, whom he was visiting, and was helieved drowned when his automobile was found on the beach, with his clothing, and » i check for a bathing suit inside. Insurance Payment Contest His wife attempted to collect §4 in lite insurance, but litigation is still pending in the courts, because of her inability to prove his death. When notificd last night in Plattsmouth, Nebr., that her husband lived, she said she was unable to place any faith in the truth of the claim.’ Patterson told police that he sc- tually planned suicide on the night of his disappearance, but was unable to get up enouugh nerve. He bought a suit in Chicago, went to Toledo and later came to Cleveland, wher2 he re- mained in exile as a_gasoline filliny station attendant, until discovered yes- terday. REQUISITION REFUSED FOR PRISONER HERE Chief Justice McCoy Declines to Honor New Jersey Papers for Von Falke. Chief Justice McCoy, acting as Gov- ernor of the District of Columbia, yes- terday declined to honor a requisition of Gov. A. Harry Moore of New Jer- sey for the return to that State of Dr. Philip von Falke, who is charged with false pretenses in connection with the obtaining of §16,000 from Rosa Muller May 31 last, reputedly to promote a *“death ray” machine. Attorney Frank E. Elder, represent- Ing the accused, notified the court that the District Commissioners had or- dered Von Falke held for examination Into his mental condition. Until that question is aisposed of, the court in- timated, he would not hear the appli- eation for the transfer of the prisoner to New Jersey. Amerigo Sacco ap- peared as the agent of the State to take the man back. Von Falke recently pinned a cruci- fix to his naked breast by means of & safety pin which pierced the skin. Attorney Elder told the court that two alienists have examined the man and three laymen make affidavit that he is insane. BRITISH MINING CONCERN GETS OPTION IN PANAMA Corporation Announces Acquisition of 100,000 Acres and More Than 71 Claims. By the Associated Press. PANAMA, August 13.—The Panama Corporation, Ltd., a British mining concern, announced today the acquisi- tion of an option on extensive mining nroperties, involving 40,000 hectares (about 100,000 acres) and more than 71 mining claims. These claims in- clude the old Spanish mine of Espiritu Santo, reputed to have been the pre- mier producer of Colonial days. All the claims were pwned by the Darien Gold Mining Co., which was forced to suspend operations in 1915 on account of the war. Engineers are already on the property, ready to begin operations on a large scdle as 800n as the negotiations are concluded. The Panama Corporation is the same concern whose acquisition of mining properties in Veraguas Prov- ince in 1926 provoked critieism from Senator Borah and others against the acquisition of properties by non-Amer- fcan concerns in proximity to the Canal Zone. WOMEN’S UNION OUTING. Bureau of Engraving and Printing Society Holds Picnic. Three thousand members and friends of the Women's Union of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing are holding their annual outing today at Chesapeake Beach. The arrangements committee is composed of Clara Downs, chalrman; Elizabeth Beidler, Minnle Beyer, Margaret Boose, Rose Brennan, Alice Bradley, May Bergevin, Carrie Coxen, rbara Craige, Anna Davis, Ruth Danser, 3 s, Katherine Foley, May Anna T Gussie Holman, Dorothy Kirby, Anna Lochte, G trude M ally, Mignon Miller, May Morgan, M Maude Miller, Jeannette Oake Per- rell, Lula Quade, Marfe Smith, Min- nie Stevens, y, Daisy Stauffer, Katherine er, Belle A. Trouland, Mary Willard and Williams. Leo | | | N i //4, n=- 1 T et : THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, THE THRILL THAT COMES ONCE IN A LIFETIME. THE MILLIONAIRE CHILo MOVIE STAR O™ His DAY OFF FINOS AN EMPTY BOTTLE THAT WILL BRING FIVE CENTS AT ANY Jumik DEALER'S — Copright Press Publishing Co. (New York World) 1927, —By WEBSTER. a4 | Lot/ Abijah Perkins' Ambrel. NCLE HOSY HEWITT, hump: ed, dripping, on the seat of the old ‘“democrat” wagon, drove moderately into the wagon house. With delibera- tion he descended, unharnessed old Charley, wiped down his shiny ro- tundity with cotton waste, patted, blanketed, fed and repatted him, and then proceeded placidly along the un- even plank floor of the “walk” into the kitchen, Aunt Hitty Hewitt, bustling about among her shining pots and pans, suspended operations, plump hands upraised. “For the land sake, Hosea Hewitt! You look as though you'd be'n ducked in the Penneeseetvassee! You don't mean to tell me you didn't take an ambrel! An’ threaten’ as it was when you set out this mornin’! u_did Hosy, you did! I recall puttin’ it in the wagon myself!"” Even as she chided, in tones that removed all sting from her words, Aunt Hitty was hovering about the de- linquent, removing his limp old soft telt, and hanging it on the corner of the clotheshorse behind the stove; tai- ing his soggy overcoat from his leisure- Iy moving hands, and disposing of it beside the hat; bringing dry footwear, and ever and anon bestowing sundry little pats and smoothings suggestive of a solicituous tabby whose irrespon- sible offspring had contrived somehow to get itself mussed or messed up. Uncle Hosy waited, with a twinkle at the back of his gray eyes, until there was a clearly defined pause. Un- cle Hosy required time and a margin for everything he did, even to making a remark. The psychological moment for speaking did not make itself ap- parent until he had scated himseif before the glowing stove, settled com- fortably into the chintz-covered rock- er, and stretched chilly, ool- ckinged feet upon the hot stov shelf, already provided by Aunt Hitty with a shingle of safety-first thichness and width. Then with a prefatory twinkle: “Yes, Mehetabl right. 1 lent it to sce, he—" Aunt Mehetabel had lost the time required for one grsp. “Lent it to 'Biji Perkins? Of all things! Where was 'Biji's own a brel? That's what I‘di ukeflu: klnu ! I never saw him startin’ off to town without it—never! He had it in this morning when he passed, I'm positive! I o'n shut my eyes an’ see that knuc- Kly old bone handle stickin’ out from under the cushion at the back of the seat. Why that ambrel l; part of Perkins! How on earth—-" B“"‘Jusl you wait, Hitty, till I tell ve Then you'll know all about it. This stove-shelf is pesky hot!” Uncle Hosy holsted protesting heels, Aunt Hitty provided a supplementary shingle and the story began. “Well, I was settin’ in Bangs’ stor long about 1 o'clock or So, waitin’ hopin’ the rain'd ease up a mite. Old Charley was over across in the Free Baptist horse sheds, all dry'n com- fortable, an’ I'd be'n putting around pretty hard, with all the arrants I had of my own, an yourn, an’ then them neighbors donated as I druv vou put it in all Jah Perkins. You 's you, Hosea Hewitt—takin’ rrul‘xls for g ille! U Hosy lifted unreluctant heels, unt Hitty tucked third shingle in nd the stoi proceeded. THE EVENING STORY “Well, now, I'd particklerly noticed that 'Bijah did not hev ‘is ambrel with 'im when he come in before. An’ I'd wondered at it considerable. Told "Blje so, but it didn’t do any good. Said he remembered distinctly of set- tn’ it down to dreen. Said it must be round there sommers. Peeked back o’ the door, an’ the cracker barrel, an’ the boxes of herrin’ an’ raisins, that was stacked up there. Then he hems n' haws, an’' asks who's be'in the store since he was there. Bangs don't tell 'im. Fact is there hadn’t nobody be'in in. “Sure you ain’t left it nowhere? says Bangs, reel mild. “Bijah fairly snorted. ‘Course I'm sure” sezze. You know 'Bijah never makes mistakes, an’ never forgits.” “I know—poor Sary!” murmured Aunt Hitt; peering benevolently though judiciously into the oven. Uncle Hosy sniffed anticipatively and went_on. “Well, 'Bije he puffed round quite a_spell longer, bewallin’ the fact that Hewittsville was goin’ to the dogs, an’ you couldn’t set down anythin’ a min- ute without havin' it snapped. By that time it begun to raln again, hard. "Bijah he's a heap of chores to do, ye know, Hitty, an’ reely needed to be puttin’ along towards home. So nat- rally T offered 'im my ambrel. He closed with the offer prompt.” “Of all the—" . “Wait, Hitty—there's a_snapper to this story. Course I was reck’nin’ on its holdin’ up soon, so's I could git home all right without it—an’ in plenty o time, not havin' so fur to 20, an’ not havin' be'n pestered ez much ez 'Bijah, an’ so not havin’ so many chores to do. “Well, it didn't 'pear to hold up much, an’ I was still settin’, when the door flies open ag'in, an’ in pops little Sammy Perkins, 'Bifah’s son Cy’s boy. He hed two ambrels—on't he'd be'n holdin’ over 'is head, an’ one buttoned up. “‘Ain’t Gramp here? he pipes, all out o' breath, an’ eettin’ down_ the buttoned-up ambrel careful. Then Bangs an’ me saw ‘twas 'Bijah’s! “Seems 'Bije’d hed dinner at Cy's, an’ ‘twas rainin’ when he come but vhen he went it'd let up; an’ with so @he Focuiny Htar Rivcn orfll Duncan’s Pharmacy—1st & K Sts. N\W. Is a Star Branch Office Supplying a want quickly is only a matter of inserting a properly worded Ad Clas: ADVERTISENENTS Rfl:zlytn HERE many. arrants on 'is mind, he'd left | ’is ambrel behind. “Seem's Sammy'd be'n chasin’ over the village fo ’is gran’pa—bla smith shop, mill, post office, Boobes meat market, Tubb's harness shop— fact all the places where 'is gran'pa’d said he was goin’. All out o' breath Sammy was. “Wanted to leave the ambrel there, Sammy did. First off Bangs wouldn't listen to it. Sald he couldn't afford | to take chances carin' for vallooble | property. Then all of a sudden that | look of his come into his eyes. ‘All]| right, Sammy—leave it" seeze, real | cordial. | “After Sammy went out, Bangs explained how'd he remembered Bije'd said he was goin’ to bring Sary in to do some shoppin’ in a day or so. They alus come there to Bangs’, course, and Bangs thought he'd appreciate to see Bije's face when the ambrel was produced, an’ explained, right front o' Sary. Profe did, to believe ‘twas a leadin’ o' Providence for him to give Sary the chance for once, to| know that folks knew t i kins could make a mis it'll make Bije a mite easier to live| with,' se: An’ I'm hopin’ it wilL” | Aunt Hitty patted the bald spot, ringed with zled curls. Then she turned to picking up the haked Dotatoes “Mebbe,” she sighed as she bal- anced the last on the fragrant pile— “mebbe | The End. (Copyright. 1927.) $25,000 Damages Claimed. | David Milloff, 7 years old, by his father, Israel Milloff, yesterday filed suit in the District Supreme Court to recover $25,000 damages from Morris Segal and Israel Segal, trading as M. Segal & Son, for alleged per- sonal injuries. The boy was struck | on Rhode Island avenue, between Ninth and Tenth streets, July 22 last, it is alleged, by an automobile of the deferdants and suffered permanent injury. He {is represented by At- torneys Newmyer & King, e ‘The red-shouldered hawk is an ef- fective snake eate FIRST MORTGAGE MONEY Interest t 6% L. W. GROOMES, 1416 F St. in the ed Section of The Star. D. C, SATURDAY, RUM SHIP SUSPECT TELLS OF BATILE Man Held for Smuggling Charges Companion Planned Slaughter. By the Associated Press. JACKSONVILLE, Fla., August 13.— Horace Alderman and Robert E. Weech, alleged rum-runners captured in a sea fight with Coast Guardsmen off Fort Lauderdale Sunday, today were held incommunicado the county jail here. The two prisoners arrived in chains t night from Fort Lauderdale hoard a Coast Guard patrol boat, con- voyed by another vessel to prevent any possible liberation by friends of the pair, who were reported to have planned ‘a break for them from the troward County Jjail before their transfer. Weech sensatio) in on his arrival nai ed a al tale of the battle near the Bahamas, which cost the lives of two | t Guardsmen and a Government ret service operative, wbo, wuards- men charge, were slain by Alderman, after the alleged rum-running craft he operating had been overtaken Ly 9. Weech related a story reminiscent of freebooters and pirates on the high seas in telling of the affair. “While we were in the cabin of our boat, Alderman told me if he got a hance he was going to capture the patrol boat, send them all (the guards- men) to h—— and then burn his own hoat to destroy any evidence,” Weech declared. “I asked him what he was going to do with the men after he bad taken the boat and he said, ‘Make them walk the plank.' I don't know where Alderman got the two guns. The first thing I knew he began shooting and after several men had dropped he ordered me to cut the g¥& line on our hoat and set it afire.” Preliminary hearings for both will he given at an early date, 1t was ¢n- nounced. FIRE DESTROYS TRUCKS. Three Autos Burn in $5,000 Ta- koma Park Blaze. Three motor trucks were destroyed and two others damaged when fire broke out in the garage of the Co- Jumbia Brick and Coal C 337 Cedar street, Takoma Park, d., shortly ifter last midnight. The fire had gained onsiderable headway before disco ored and firemen found it necessary to batter down the door to gain ac- ce: to the burning building. Origin_of the fire was not deter- mined. Damage to the building and contents was estimated at AUGUST 13, 1927, Police Spoil Golf Game by Arresting Boy Player as Robbery Accomplice Harold Reed's golf game was coming along fine until headquarte detec- tives Interrupted it this morning with an annoying suggestion that Harold accompany them to the station house Harold, who i v ored, together with his full set of golf sticks, is held for investigation in connection with a safe robl P grocery store Twelfth northeas nd the the $17 from the ¢ K cut avenue about the same time The safe was carried to Ma W. Va., where it was I .. en open and emptied. Lewis Water. 2nd Fredervick cet | of Russell, colored youths, were arrested and are alleged to have confessed both robberies and a few others besides, naming Harold as an accomplice. For several mornings Detectives Sweeney, Waldron and Darnall have been conducting fruitless searches for Reed, looking for him everywhere but on the golf links. Finally learning of his golf proclivities, the officers wan- dered to the links this morning and found Harold performing in splendid shape. The prisoner is mitted riding in but denfed he w: ’ two distressing affairs mentioned by the police. id to have ad- automobiles, NURSE KILLED SELF, | CORONER DECIDES Verdict of Suicide in Case of Miss| Van Dessel, Who Was | Found Dead. Coroner J. Ramsay Nevitt today is sued a certificate of sulcide death of Miss Elsa Van Dessel, 2 old giaduate nurse, whose body was found in the nurses’ lumbip_Hospital vesterday Dr. Nevitt said he was s woman took her own life but to determine the e death he had an autop: noon d the fte in the| guarters at Co- | Asks $20,000 for Injuries. Damages of $20,000 are asked in a suit filed by John W. Brown, a laborer, against Richard W. Bowling and _Bruce Clark, trading as Bowling & Clark, builders, at 1510 Nineteenth street, for alleged per- sonal injuries. While emploved by the defendants October 21 last on a_ job at 2515 Thirtieth street, the plantiff says he fell through a sub- flooring and was injured. He Is represented by Attorneys Hawken & Havell. : last night. Contents of the stomach were being analyzed today in the Dis- trict health laboratovies. Dessel left a note addressed to John E. Clarke, a Department of Jus- tice employe, in which ed for giveness and stated she » The body was found after Clarke had made repeated telephone calls to her room without getting an answer. The body was removed to Hysong's undertaking establishment. ' OUTING FOR EMPLOYES. Tea Company Benefit Association she Announces Program. at Atlantic & Pac r families are to attend an outing under the au spices of the Atlantic & Pacific agers' Benefit Association Point, Md., tomorrow. letic events and swimming uled. The trip is to be made in mobiles and busses, leaving the Peace Monument in the morning o'clock. E of the Benefit As an of the committee in charge of arrangements. Other members of the committee a; B. H. Greenstreet, F. D. Hospital, M. McNulty, R. B. Turner and R. V 1 Mo For Madame and Mademoiselle auto- | at 930 | | | | oing to | FIRE CHIEFS TO MEET IN PHILADELPHIA NEXT Convention in Oregon Urges Pro- tection for Mount Ver- non Estate. By the Associated Pross. PORTLAND, Oreg., August 13 Philadelphia was chosén yesterday for 8 convention of the Interna tion of Fire Chiefs, and avis, fire chief of that city, cted president. John M Evans, New chief, was chosen James J. Mulcahy of was re-ele recording etary and Peter B. Carter of Collingwoor N. 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Holloway. iner was married The decree fixes her ali- mony at §75 a month. She is repre- sented by Attorneys Eashy-Smith, Pine & Hill. Sister Seeks Probate of Will. Personal property valued at $36,000 was left by Horace M. Abbot, who died at Hampton, Va. July 22, ac- cording to the petition of his stiter, Mary C. Martin, for the probate of his will. She is the only heir, - | ideas he's gettin'—reel amusin home a pound. It lower side pocket over Aunt_Hitty dove for the parcel, moved the damp wrappings, placed the contents in a covered dish and Uncle Hosy resumed £z 1 was sayin’, I didn't mind « to do anythi hout the farm. Well finally it did ease up but somehow I kep’' settin’. Bangs was tellin’ about his boy at college an’ the new-fangled All of a-sudden the door flies open, an’ in busts 'Bijah Perkins. 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