Evening Star Newspaper, May 15, 1933, Page 5

SUMCE | S MURDER CLLE Police Seek More Ridley Cash in Virginia, Secretary’s Former Home. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, May 15.—A cache of | $1,000,000 in cash popped into the Ed-t ward Ridley murder enigma today as 50 \ detectives sought to learn who slew the | rich eccentric and his secretary in thelr‘ dim sanctum 40 feet below the East. Side's pavements. The cash—hitherto unreckoned in computing the mortgage king's wealth— was discovered yesterday in vaults and accounts et a Broadway bank. Code entries in three diaries—wherein Ridley and his secretary. Lee Wein- stein, recorded a long list of secret debtors—were conned by police. Documents Carted Away. ‘They sought to learn if it was one of the debtors who stole down to the sub- cellar office, shot Weinstein and bat- tered Ridley to death with an antique stool amid his bales of musty records, mortgages and securities. They clung to the belief that tho same killer may have been guilty of the murder months ago of Herman Moench, Weinstein's predecessor as secretary. He also was slain in the office. A ton and a half of documents were carted from the office for study. Po- lice said they would seek for more Ridley wealth in many banks. They asked police at Norfolk and Richmond. Va. to search there to determine if Ridley had deposited money in those cities through Weinstein, his secretary. Weinstein formerly lived in Virginia. Think Weinstein Died First. Police announced a theory that Wein- stein died before Ridley. This question has an important bearing on the dis- position of Ridley's fortune, for the bewhiskered, 88-year-old millionaire left a will bequeathing $200,000 to Wein- stein, provided he outlived Ridley. Welnstein's newly discovered wife about whose existence his relatives were ignorant, is expected to decide soon whether she will start a legal fight to_claim the money. Police expressed the opinion that a liquor-cutting plant found underground near the Ridley office played no part in the mystery. They said they be- lieved Ridley was ignorant of its ex- istence. Ridley, a scion of a pioneer New York department stere owner, lived like & comparatively r man despite his millions. Every day he commuted from his New Jersey lodging place to_the bank office where his business affairs centered. CONFESSES SLAYING OREGON CONSTABLE Banks Tells Jury He Fired Shot Through Door Only to Scare Officers. By the Associated Press. EUGENE, Oreg., May 15.—Declaring “T shot through the door to scare them.” Llewelyn A. Banks, 62, admitted from the witness stand in his murder trial that he fired the bullet which Kkilled Constable George Prescott at Medford last March 16. Banks, former newspaper publisher and orchardist at Medford, and his wife, Edith Robertina Banks, are on trial for first-degree murder. Prescott was shot to death while trying to serve a warrant for Banks’ arrest. “I saw_him (Prescott) at the door after he knocked,” Banks said, “and I asked Mrs. Banks to hand the letters to him.” The State had previously mentioned leiters reputedly written by Banks saying he would never submit to arrest on the charge implicating him in & ballot theft. “I went and got my rifle. When I returned Mrs. Banks was pushing ageinst the door, but it was gradually being forced in. I could see it bulge. I thought I could see the point of a pistol through the door. I felt that in an in- stant there would be a tragedy. I thought a shot might frighten them away.” GIVES VOCAL RECITAL Howard U. Singer Illustrates Talk on Creole Music. A vocal recital illustrating the theme of her talk, “The Music of the Creoles of Louisiana,” was presented by Camil- lie Lucille Nickerson of the Howard University Conservatory of Music at a| meeting of the Mu-So-Lit Club, at its headquarters, 1327 R street, yesterday. Louis Vaughn Jones, violinist of the conservatory, accompanied the singer.! A. Langston Taylor served as master of ceremonies. | — Virginian Injured by Auto. Stewart Clark, 46, of Charlottesville, Va. was struck by an automobile last night at Four-and-a-half street and Maryland avenue southwest and seri- ously injured. He was taken to Provi-| dence Hospital for first aid and later transferred to Gallinger Hospital. He! 'was said to be suffering from fractures | of the right leg, the right arm and of a rib. His hip also was injured. | Police reported the car which struck | Clark was driven by Ernest Patrick, colored, 21, of the 200 block of Tenth t southeast. Feel Tired, Lack Energy? You need a good tonic to stimulate your ap- petite and increase your vitality. For more than a quarter of a century Nutraven has helped thousands of rundown people to regain a strong, healthy body. A tonic of recognized value in | building up the system. Pleasant to take. 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DENVER, Colo.,, May 15 (/).—Robert P. Lamont, jr., of Larkspur, Colo., son of the Secretary of Commerce in the Hoover cabinef, was charged with speeding by Denver police after his car collided with another at a street in- tersection Saturday night. Irene Macqai, 23, a passenger in the other machine, suffered a broken col- la: bon Lamont was not luxur; Milk CONSIDER the convenience BISHOP WILL SPEAK AT ORATORY FINALS Will Deliver Introductory Ad- dress at National Contest Saturday. Right Rev. James E. Freeman, Bishop of Washington, will deliver the intro- ‘ductory address at the United States finals of the Tenth National Oratorical ‘C;)r;lttese in Constitution Hall Saturday night. Bishop Freeman's participation in the | finals was announced today by Ran- | dolph Leigh, director general of the | contest. In his introductory, Bishop Freeman | will present the only formal speech ‘of the evening besides the orations of the six contestants themselves. The prelate will be presented to the audience by Mr. Leigh at the opening of the mecting, | and it will be he who actually sends the finalists, each the champlon of his sec- tion of the country, into forensic battle, Bishop Freeman is one of the out- standing speakers in the Episcopal clergy, and in inviting him to open the oratorical contest finals, the officials of | the movement felt the high caliber of his own specch would establish a fitting plane for the entire contest. embraces experiences that fit him for & speaking program that involves dis- cussions of government and its related topics of economics. Himself a public school product, Bishop Freeman first entered business, and for 15 years he was associated with the Long Island and New York Central and Hudson River Railway in the legal and accounting de- partments. He entered the church through the interest of Bishop Henry C. Potter, who ordained him in 1895. Recent honors which were conferred upon him included his appointment as Lyman Beecher lecturer at Yale Uni- versity in 1928. Predecessors of Bishop Freeman as iIntroductory speaker at national finals of the oratorical contest included Pres- idents Harding, Coolidge and Hoover. - 150 SMALL CRAFT BURN IN HUDSON RIVER FIRE Flames Sweep Through Boat House, Leaving $250,000 Property in Ashes. By the Assoclated Press. MEDICINAL LIQUOR RULING IN' EFFECT| 2wt Bk quest Beginning Today Doctors May Prescribe Unlimited Amount to Patients. By the Associated Press. ‘The pint-a-week limit on medicinal liquor is off. Beginning today, physicians may pre- scribe as much as they think their pa- tients need and they don't have to tell the Government what the ailments are that require a whisky treatment. As a result Federal officials look for a sharp rise in medicinal liquor con- sumption, There is plenty on hand. Industrial Alcohol Bureau figures show 5,000,000 gallons of pre-prohibition whisky in bonded warehouses and about 6,000,000 gallons of green stock aging in distilleries. Consumption last year | was about 1,000,000 gallons. " The American Medical Association advocated lifting the regulations on liquor prescriptions. Congress complied NEW YORK, May 15.—Flames which | this Spring, this being the second of defied the combined efforts of fire fight- 'the prohibition laws since March 4. ers on land and on water to halt their | Legalization of 3.2 beer and wine was spread swept_through a boat house on the Hudson River yesterday, destroyed 150 small craft and left property valued at $250,000 in ashes. Richard Cox, owner of the three-story- and-a-half frame buildings and many of the motor boats, rowboats and canoes they housed, was aroused from sleep by the crackling of timbers just in time to escape with his life. 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