Evening Star Newspaper, February 29, 1928, Page 24

.S THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. €. WEDNESDAY, TEBRUARY 29, 192 - O'CONNOR ARRIVES FORRESTINU 3. Veteran Member of Parlia- ment Refuses to Talk Poli- tics. Lecture or Write Book. Br e Associated Press NEW YORK, February 20-—T. P. ©O'Connor is in the United States “not at a propagandist but as an invalid.” When the veteran member of Parlia- ment arrived in New York on his first visit in 11 years he told reporters he would neither talk politics, lecture nor gather material for a book. He hoped. he said. to find the ocean voyage bene- ficial to the rheumatism which has bothered him for the past year. only concession to politics came rhen he was asked to what he at- tributed his ability to maintain con- s membership in the House of ms for 43 vears, throughout so many changes of political alignment. Wins By Voters’ “Good Sense.” h the loyalty of the Irish of Great Br " he replied. taking A pinch of Then added. with a twirkle in his ey | their good sense.” | he last two elections he | and was able to Xpense accounts. jevidence, but the Federal men said that t his h(\mr“ s. | evidence police x word m Sees Change in Reporters. “To tell you the truth, I've lost in-| . nother pinch | s most of the | money for writing them.” He found amusement in the changed | appearance of the ship news reporters since his first visit to the United States. “When I first came here in 1881 the men who met the ships-were not the prosperous and contented lot that vou seel he said. “They were a sad lot, most of them working as free lances and they had starved looks. There was & note of poverty about them.” i INA_COOLBRITH DIES. Poet Laureate of California, Was Last of Early School. BERKELEY. February 29 (%) —Miss Ina Coolbrith, 85, poet laureate of California. died here this morning. | Miss Coolbrith_was_the last of the ooterie of early San Franciseo writers ! which included Mark Twain, Bret Harte, Charles Warren Stoddard and Joaquin Miller. Miss_Coolbrith was born near Springfield, Iil. | [ |to . | 85, Designed for use at sea or by invalids, & new magnetic chessboard can be held | upside down without the pieces moving. This xclusive, New ‘Washington StoreisDedicated | F.N. Davis, a postal inspector, and Policewoman Mollie Reddy were present || {when Mrs. Cleaver made her statement | By the Associated Pross. CHICAGO. February 29.—A police officer last night offered to take care of Mrs. Katherine Cleaver's canaries and her dog while she is detained in the Evergreen Park mail train robbery investigation. Seventeen minutes later she had given him details on which a | Federal grand jury indicted her hus- |band, Charles (Limpy) Cleaver, William |Donovan and Frank (Bozo) Meccia. “I was kind to her. That's how I |mot Katherine Cleaver's confession,” ;sxid Lieut. Michael Naughton. { *She reminded me, as I sat there, of |my own mother. I wouldn't want to | know she was Iying. I told Mrs. Cleaver |s0. Then she began to cry. “‘You are very kind,’ she said. Then she told her story.” Postal Men Failed. | ace, post was called upon office inspectors, who are in charge of the case, reported themselves ||| ! unable to make headway in thelr ques- | tioning of suspects the original arrests insisted they had {obtained three confessions, backed by | there were many missing links in the had turned over to { them. ncome. | <aid work on his 240.000- s was completed Tecently KINDNESS FOR WOMAN'S PETS BRINGS MAIL TRAIN CONFESSION Chicago Officer Promises to Keep Canaries. Mrs. Katherine Cleaver Tells of Husband and Comrades Planning Hold-Up. i Lieut. Naughton. a police department |!| for aid after || Police who made || been withheld, plotting on the night of February 20. The night before the robbery another conference was held at the Cleaver home, she said, at which details were completed. Meccla, she said, brought along the two sticks of dynamite used in blowing the safe of the Grand Trunk mail car. Cleaver furnished disguises—hunting suits and masks, she said. Woman Gave Clue. At 2 o'clock on the morning of the robbery—February 25—Mrs. Cleaver said she got breakfast for the men. Her statement related that she made pan- cakes and in the preparing them scraped the bottom of her flour bin. It was in this bin 20 hours later that po- Hce found $17,125 in cash and a $600 bond, presumably loot from the mail robbery. Mrs. Cleaver told the officers that | Donovan's wife “gave the gang away" by calling the Cleaver home a ‘ew hours after the hold-up and expressing de- light over the big “haul” that had been made. The Cleaver telephone wires had been tapped by police. “Charley (Cleaver) went wild when T told him she had called,” Mrs. Cleaver said. “He telephoned Donovan, and I guess the police heard that, too, for they began pouring into the housc a little later.” Last night's indictments forestalled efforts to free Cleaver, Donovan and Meccia on habeas corpus action. The indictments charge robbery of the United States mails. No further announcement has been made since Monday of how much money has been recovered. The $17,125 found at the Cleaver home is the only sum definitely anrounced, although Deputy Police Commissioner O'Connor said the full amount recovered is con- siderably greater than that. 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