New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 12, 1929, Page 1

ESTABLISHED 1870 GEN. BOOTH MAY REFUSE T0 RETRE), "™ Salration Army Leader Might Take Matter to Court SEE PROPERTY DISPUTE King’s Counsellor Willlam A. Jowitt Retained by General and is to Address Members of Council— Lawsuit Seen in Offing. London, Jan. 13 UM—There was some indication today that General Bramwell Booth might refuse to re- tire as head of the SBalvation Army and take the matter to the courts. The high council of the Army re- quested to allow Willlam A. Jowitt, king’s counsellor, who has been re- tained to act for the general, to at- tend the council session and address the members. It was felt in some circles that the engagement of Mr. Jowitt might mean that the dispute was to end in a law suit over con- trol of the Army's property. Will Fight Dispatch to the Dally Herald from Southwold, where General Booth 18 ill, said it was understood there on good authority that he intended to fight to the last ditch against the high council's efforts to retire him. It was stated that if the councll de- cided to dismiss him he was prepar- ed to take the matter to the law courts, General Booth promised the sevan officlals who presented a resolution asking his retirement that he would answer their request on Monday. In (he meantime the deputation was to report to the high council meeting 1t Sunbury-on-Thames. Brigadier General 8mith, the gen- eral's nurse, sald his answer to the council probably would be conveyed either by Mrs. Booth or daughter, Catherine. 8he added that she was entirely convinced the gen- eral would have a complete recovery and would return to his work with new inspiration. The deputation was understood to have Insisted that the general must reply plainly “yes” or *“no.” Mem- hers of the deputation were known to be deeply impressed with,the emaclated appearance of the gen- eral. It was sald he looked very old, although he was well able to| converse with them. Each official was allowed to shake the hand of the general. Before the return of the deputa- tion Commander Evangeline Booth. stster of the gencral and leader of the reform rlement, drove to Bouth- wold from London and asked to see her brother. 8he had decided to sup- . port with her presence the Migh council’y deputation and to persuade her brother to retire. allowed to see the general, his nurse refusing permission with the ex- planation that the ordeal might prove too much for him at present. Her Statement Miss Booth said of the incident: “T did not press my request to see the general. T realized his strength must be overtaxed and I myself suggested that it might be better if T did not go up to him.” Miss Booth, however, did have a conversation of an hour and a half with the general's wife and his two daughters Catherine and Olive, It was believed in this conversation she impressed upon them the sincerity of her desire to spare hcr brother all possible distress while maintain- ing her bellef that’i. would be ad- vantagcous for all for her to have (Continued on Page 13) TWO DEAD, ONE HELD FOLLOWING ACCIDENT Car Careens Off Road Into Tree Near Hor- nell, N. Y. Horhell, N." Y., Jan. 12 (M—One man was killed instantly, another died today and a third was held in' Bath jall after a crash on the Hor- vell-Bath road last night when an automobile driven by the man un- der arrest left the road and careened into & tree. Another passenger was slightly injured. Clair Hoover, 18, of Ridgeway, Pa., & vaudeville performer, was killed. Watson L. Walden, 33, of E! mira, died in Bethesda hospital here today of a fractured skull. Robert G. Van Kuren of Hornell was arrest- ~d. Floyd Kimball, 50, of Rochester, N. Y., circus contortionist, received head lacerations. Walden and Van Kuren were re- turning from Bath to their home in KKanona, pulice said. They met Hoo- ver and Kimball on the road and offered them a lift. Mrs. Wood Is Held In Bonds of $50,000 Detroit, Mich., Jan. 12 UM—Ar- raigned today on a charge of as- sault with intent to kill her wealthy husband, Mrs. Grace M. Wood was held in $50,000 bail for examination Monday, January 21. Taylor Plerce and Willlam Thompson, who accused Mrs. Wood of employing them to kill the husband, Ralph A. Wood. also were held for examination with bond in Hke amount. “Big Jim” Morton Is Eligible for Parole Columbus, Ohio, Jan. 12 UP—"Big Jim™ Morton, Cleveland bank rob- ber, was made eligible for parole from the Ohio state penitentiary to- Jday when Governor Donahey com- mute? his 15 year sentence. by This| She was not | NEW BRITAIN HERALD NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 1929.—EIGHTEEN PAGES R. L PHYSICIAN ' [Manand Girl Arrested at Gun Point EIGHTH VICTIM OF MAJOR COOLIDGE WILL ATTEND MILITARY BALL n-Law of Goversor Trumball Will Bo At Bridge- port Festival Bridgeport,. Jan. 13 UP—Majoir John Coolidge, newly appolnted ma- jor of the governor's staff, has ac. cepted an invitation to attend a mili- tary ball at the Stratfield hotel, this city, Friday, February 23, in com- pany with Governor John H. Trum- bull and staff. Governor Trumbull's acceptance has also been received by Col. John. B. Bchoeffel, head of the ball com- mittee. The affalr is being given by officers of the 243 C. A. C. and re- serve officers of Bridgeport and vi- cinity. Officers from throughout the atate are expected. HESS ON TRIAL N WITGHGRAFT DEATH Third Defendant Faces Murder Charge in Penn- sylvania Courtroom Court Room, York, Pa., Jan. 12 (UP)—Harvey Gross, attorney de- fending Wilbert Hess in the York witcheraft murder trial outlined in his opening statement to the jury itoday & defense based entirely upon the belief of the defendant and his family in witcheraft. “Trouble came to the family of Miiton J. Hess,” he said. “A young man named John Blymyer told Mil- ton Heas that it was a witch's spell and he could raise it with a lock of Nelson Rehmeyer's hair.” He spoke briefly of the actual murder of Rehmeyer, farmer-re- cluse, by Blymyer, John Curry and young Hess. He brought out that despite his bellef in witchcraft Hess' father is employed in the Kkitchen of ithe Y. M. C. A. in York, He said he would show that Wil- bert's mother sent Wilbert out on the errand which ended in murder. thinking that no murder would be done but that the spell upon her and her family could be raised. . Gross called Blymyer the “master mind leading these sheep to the slaughter.” f Blymyer, he said, led the actuai attack upon Rehmeye | Milton Hess, the boy's father, who was i1l yesterday, was in court with hin son today as was Mrs, Hens, | “I wilt show Blymyer handed to !Hesn a stick and Blymyer told him to hit Rehmeyer and he did hit him,"” {sald Gross. “But Blymye? feeling that Hess: was not ' hitting hard enough, took the stick and wielded it himselt.” ‘Mrs. Hess wept softly as the at- torney spoke. Wilbert pulled out a big white handkerchief and biew his nose lustily, Then he sat gazing at the floor. o Gross promised to show that Hess “begged Blymyer to get the lock of hair” for which they came, after Kehmeyer was overpowered but that Blymyer went upstairs to scarch the house. Wilbert Hess, tall, neatly dressed was the first witness. Hec sat straight in his chair, his hands folded in his lap and looking squarely at his at- torney. He pointed out his mother, who weeping and his father. He | said he had two younger brothers, but he did not know their ages. He| is by occupation a laborer and has been since he left school at the age of 15. He is now 18. He told of getting acquainted with | John Curry and John Blymyer, al- | ready under life sentence for the| murder, for the first time the Sunday before the murder although he had scen Blymyer with his father a week before. “Blymyer was out to see my father about the right of way,” he said. “He had a book and was reading. Q. What was he doing? A. He was powwowing. We had trouble over using the road and he sald we were bewitched and he would | fix it Hess spoke clearly and earnestly. | His only gesture was a shake of the head for emphasis now and then. HOOVER TO DEDICATE TUNNEL IN CASCADES Nation Will Listen to President-Elect On * Radio Tonight Seattle, Jan. 12 UM—The nation will listen over the radio to the dedicatory program tonight when the first scheduled train pulls through the longest railway tunnel in America—the Great Northera railway's eight-mile bore through the Cascades in western Washing- ton. Speaking from Washington, Pres- ident-Elect Herbert Hoover wiil head the list of notable speakers who will go on the air over the na- tion-wide hookup. General W. W. ! Atterbury, president of the Penn- sylvania rallroad, speaks from Phil- adelphia, orchestral numbers will be broadcast from New York, and Mme. Ernestine Schumann-Heink will sing from S8an Francisco. At the bore itself, Ralph Budd, president of the Great Northern, will deliver a radio address from Berne, a tiny hamlet at the eastern portal of the $14.000,000 project. A brief program at Berne will preceds the passing of the first official train through the tunnel. SIX PEASANTS KILLED Warsaw, Poland, Jan. 12 (®—S8ix peasants were killed and smeveral iothers seriously wounded today in |an affray belween a peasant group apd a police detachment at Bacla- tycse near Lwow. i SHOT T0 DEATH Mental Disoases Hospital Heed Slain by Insane Man POSSES SCOUR STATE Dr. Ransom H. Sartwell Sitting at Desk Is Riddled With Buckshot— Wife and Young Deughter Near Oollapee After Tragedy. Providence, R. I, Jan. 12 W—Dr. Ransom H. 8artwell, superintendent of the state hospital for mental dis- eases at Howard, near this city, was shot to death late last night by man who discharged two loads of buckshot through a window near which Sartwell was sitting in s home. State troopers and police of the cities of Cranston and Providence to- day were seeking a former inmate of the hospital who recently was heard to threaten “to get” Dr. Bartwell or his assistant, Dr. George B. Coon. Tall Man Two burlap bags, crudely sewed together, found against a tree 14 feet from the window through which the shots were fired, were believed by police to have been used by the as- sallant as a cover for his weapon. Authorities are working on the theory that the killer was a tall man and a crack shot, as the window through which Dr. Sartwell was mur- dered was five feet above the ground and the buckshot struck him in the left temple which had been turned toward the window. The superinten- dent was sitting in a chair 15 feet within the room. Some of the shot traveled on another 15 feet, spray- ing the opposite wall and window. Hears Shots Mrs. Bartwell heaid the two shots fired. 8he rushed into the room to find her husband slumped forward, dead. The two Bartwell children, Morgan, 15, and Frances, 12, were upstairs. The boy, who had been ill, was on a sleeping couch, and slept through the shooting and the sub-! sequent confusion. The girl and her mother were near collapse. Mrs. Sartwell immediately ”"'\ fled Dircctor Louis H. Putnam of the state {nstitutions. and he sound ed a general alarm that brought police frém here and Cranston and state police barracks. The siren atop the nearby state prison was started and shrieked out & warning that aroused the coun- tryside. A gang of 50 institution em- ployes in groups of two and three, surrounding . were searching the flelds and woodlands within half an hour, When Dr. Bartwell was found his right hand clutched a pencil with which he had been writing a tele- gram to a Morris, N. J, address. The superintendent had earlier in the evening gained permission of Mr. Putnam to go to New Jersey |to advise a friend whose wife was suffering & mental affliction. He planned to make the trip Monday. Straight Line An autopsy today revealed . that the shot had entered the head and passed through, traveling almost on a level line. Other shot was shat- tered against the skull. An employe of the institution re- turning at the time of the murder told police that he saw a machine circling about the driveway near tha Sartwell home. Another employe heard the two shots fired and saw & man run from the doctor's house. The employe pursued but lost sight of the man. Born in Worcester Born in Worcester, Mass, in 1886, Dr. Sartwell was educated in (Continued on Page 18) THIS WEEKS AFFAIRS LEE 2YSKA ANDGL cE “r" AWD As Police Invade Beaver St.Room; Investigate ‘‘White Slave’”’ Charges Waitress In Restaurant on Ter ° Claims to Have Come Here T'... Men — Loaded Automatic Fu . ~et, Hartford, g, e " Y, Under Pillow—Man Reported “v Forced to acompany two men ‘where she was to entertain men and divide her earnings on 50-50 basls, according to her statement to the lo- | cal police, Miss Rose Pichetti, aged 20, of 886 Park street, Hartford, was held today in default of $300 bonds on the charge of improper conduct, and an investigation into her story s being made by the authorities of this city and Hartford. Guiseppe Penniclo, 39, of 40 Pleasant street, 25 INDICTMENTS BY MISSOURI JURY : Liquor Situation in Kansas City Sweepingly Investi- gated by Authorities Kansas City, Jan. 12 UP—A so- called sweeping grand jury investi- gation of liquor condition: here, pre- , cipitated about four weeks ago by i the hatcheting of & saloon, has re- ‘sulted in 25 indictments, which name five men, and a lively verbal exchange between the judge who ordered the investigation, the coun- 'ty prosecutor and the chief of po- lice. At the conclusion of the investi- gation yesterday Judge Brown Har- ris, addressing the jury, openly criti- cized Chiet of Police Lincoln R. Toyne who earller in the day had sent a letter to the judge asking that he be allowed to appear before {the jury, “I think you know why he did not come over, and why he didn't ask to be given the opportunity un- til too late, to tell you about the operations of his raiding squads, about their financlal conditions, as well as why no stills, or at least practically none have been uncov- ered here on raids we have been reading about,” Judge Harrls sald, after praising the jurors for thelr hard work and attention to duty. In answering Judge Brown Harris, the chiet of police also attacked James R. Page, prosecutor, who he 'sald had made the chief and the police department bear the brunt of attacks because of political reasons and to advance his own {nterests politically. Although it was openly asserted by law enforcement officers here a month ago, when Mrs. Maud Wilson went on a rampage and smashed up a saloon, that there were 1,000 places selling liquor here, apparent investigation of only two saloons was revealed in the indictments. One of these was the saloon Mrs Wilson demolished and the other a dive where an alleged election eve drinking orgy was sald to have culminated in four deaths last No- vember. Jiggs Shindel and Harold Norris, alleged keeper and bartender in the wrecked saloon, and Oscar Rowe and Jess Blanchard, proprietor and bar- tender of the ‘other place named. Three liquor charges were made against S8hindel and Norris, while 21 indictments, ranging from liquor violation to assault with in- (Continued on Page 13) RYCE L L 3 ‘A’ ‘UA“ Q“‘;}A’V. LECEG e M v T OCONNELL PLANVILLE S M THmOSEH THE (C8 were | Hartford, who was arrested her in a bedroom at 15 Beaver atreet shortly after 2 o'clock this morn- ing, 1s also held in default of $300 bonds on the charge of improper conduct, but there is a probability that a more serious charge may be preferred if the young woman's al- legations are found to be true. Sergeant J. C. Stadler and Of- (Continued on Page 1¢) COUNGIL TO ARGUE ON SALARY RAISES City Employes, Overlooked by Committee. to Be Considered While no effort 1s expected to be made to reverse decisions of the sal- ary committee in granting increases in pay to city employes, aupplemen. tary resolutions are being prepared to be submitted to the common councll next Wednesday night to in- clude others in the group for whom iucreased compensation is intended. It is expected that an effort will be made to increase the salary of Electrical Inspector Cyril J. Curtin. Action on a recommended increase of $300 in his pay brought the last meeting of the committee to a close amid scenes bordering on violence when Councilman S8amuel Sablotsky publicly charged Councilman W. Spaulding Warner with allowing a “personal grudge” to influence his action on the Curtin matter, Counclimen' interested in bringing about increased pay for firemen havd made a partial poll of the council and report the sentiment to be unfavorable. As a result, it is not expected that the firemen’s case wiil be brought to the council floor this year, SCALDING CAUSES DEATH OF FOUR YEAR OLD BOY C(hild Who Fell Into Pan of Hot Water Succumbs to Injuries Today. Anthony, four year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Majocha of Erwin place, died this morning at 2:30 o'clock at the New Hritain General hospital as the result of scalds re- ceived a week ago when he fell into a pan of hot water at his home. The funeral will be held Monday ‘morning at 8 o'clock from the Holy Cross church and burial will be in Bacred Heart cemetery. * * THE WEATHER New Britain and vicinity: Mostly cloudy tonight and Sunday, probably light local snows; colder tomight. I} Gortemeo St PLANE CRASH DIES Last Hope of Learning Gause of Accident Fades STARTING INVESTIGATION Ship Reported to Bo In Perfect Condition When She Left Pean- sylvania Field On Flight That Ended in Disaster. Middletown, Pa., Jan. 12 (M—The toll of the army airplane crash at Royalton, near here, yesterday was raised .to eight early today when Bergeant Patrick Conroy, of New York City, died in the Polyclinic hospital at Harrisburg. Conroy had been the sole sur- wvivor of the crash in which one of- ficer and six enlisted men were killed. Ho was taken to the hospi- tal with a fractured skull and did not regain consclousness. His death removed the last hope of the war department to find out the cause of the tregedy. Tree Evidence A broken and shattered tres on the edge of a vacant lot in Royal- ton, stood today as mute evidence of the fatal crash. Captain F. F. Christine, acting commandant of the alrport, an- nounced that the Fokker plane, a sister ship of the famous Question Mark and of tha machine in which Commander Richard E. Byrd made his flight over the north pole, was in perfect condition when it left the field hers on its fatal flight. His announcement, he sald, was based on reports of mechanics who had examined the ship after it ar- rived yesterday morning from ‘Washington. The tattered and torn fuselage and the tangled mass of the tri- motored craft gave little hope of offering any clue to the cause of the crash. A part of the wreckage was hacked to bits to permit the removal of the body of Lient. Hen- ry R. Angell, of Birmingham, Ala. Lientenant Angell was the only officer to lose his life in the fall, which came after the airplane had gone a mile from the airport here on a return flight to Bolling Field, ‘Washington. ¥ The other officers who had come here in the plane avoided the treg- edy when they decided to return to ‘Washington in another plane, which left here an hour before the in- fated Fokker took off. Captain H. A, Dinger, who piloted the ship here, and Sergeant Charles Mayland, a passenger. The bodies of the victims were to be sent to Washington today ana from there they are to be sent to their respective homes for burial. Those Killed ‘Those killed in the crash in ad- dition to Tdeut. Angell were: Staff Bergeant Henry Cronan, ‘Washington, D. C. 8taff Sergeant Rudolph J. Lehut. ta, Washington, D. C. Sergeant Patrick Conroy, York. Master Bergeant Joseph D. Me- Carthy, Washington, D. C. Private 8amuel P. Jones, Bel- buckle, Tenn., Bolling Field me- chanic. Private Mike D. Kelly, New Jer- sey, formerly of Minersville, Pa. Private Clarence E. Birch, Chi- cago. New MAN SUCCUMBS Springfield, Mass.,, Jan. 12 (P— Nickfor Zuck, 36, of this city, who suffered a fractured ckull Tuesday when struck by a wagon shaft after an automobile in which he was a passenger, hit a milk wagon, died last night in Mercy hospital. The shaft pierced his skull. / -~ 'y They are 0 DISHONEST BUILDERS CAN MULGT PUBLIC Need of Additional Inspec- tor Impressed on Coun- cil Committee After listening to the arguments advanced by contractors, commis- sioners and others, the common council's special committee which was named to study the need for an additional inspector in the building department, last night voted to rec- ommiend that the addition to the staff be made. The building committes submitted & report pointing out the increase in business since the present force was created, and called attention to the greater restrictions imposed by zon- ing and the new code, which requires more thorough study of plans &nd more exacting inspection, L Wexler, former inspector and a contractor, insisted that the buy- ing public is not being properly pro- tected under the present scheme of inapection, since it permits unacru- pulous builders to mulct the public by reason of the fact that defective work can be covered in before the inspectors get around for periodic examinations of the premises. He declared it to be a physical impos- sibllity to properly cover the city with two inspectora, Commissioner Eugene J. Dyson contrasted the system in vogue in the public works, health and bulld- ing department. He stressed the fact that a $100 sidewalk construc- tion job is given full time Inspec- tion while a house costing seversl thousands of dollars is visited once or twice during the process of con- struction. The health department, he reminded is equipped with three inspectors. Mention of the fact that there are as many inspectors now ss during the boom period of several years ago, brought the reply that no one would seriously claim that there was a building inspection ‘n that period. Bernard S8teln, Master Bullders' association, Chair- commission, Chief Inspector Arthur N. Rutherford, and Public Works Commissioner Harry J. Battiston!, a bullding contractor, added to the weight of evidence in favor of an inspector, Members of the special committee afterwards declared there is need for two additional inspectors, but fearing that the council would not agree, they voted in favor of but one at this time. The proposal that builders be censed was discussed informally, and while members of ‘the committse professed to find considerable merit in the suggestion, they were without authority to make a recommenda- tion. JURY MEMBERS WHO BUY LIQUOR OUSTED Judge Says They Are Not Fit to Render Verdict Marysville, Cal, Jan. 12 (®—Ev- ery member of a jury panel who |admitted purchase of a bottle of liquor, was disqualified by Superior Judge E. P. McDaniel yesterday when attorneys were selecting a jury to try Albert Rodoni, hotel man charged with illegal posses- sion of liquor. “If you buy a bottle of liquor, you possess it, and trying a defend- ant charged with possession before a jury whose members violate tha same law, would be like getting a jury of burglars to try a man charg- ed with burglary,” said the court “Prospective jurors who admit- ted purchase of illegal drinks were accepted, on the theory that the possession law in that case was not violated.” Under the judge's questions, a panel of 34 veniremen was exhaust- ed, and a second of 16 was called to fill out the jury box. Eight men and four women comprised the jury finally selected. Generals Executed While Playing Mah-Jong Tokyo, Jan. 12 M—A telegram from Mukden, Manchuria, today stated that Yang Yu-Ying former chief of staff, and Chang Yin-Hual, |former minister of communications, |were executed while playing Mah- Jong. It was reported that Governor Chang Hsueh-Liang invited them to play Mah-Jong at his house. On |their arrival he retired on the pre- text of receiving medical treatment. Later a score of armed soldiers en- tered and fired on the two men. Yang Yu-Ting received ten shots in the head and one in the foot. Chang Yin-Hual, who attempted to use his revolver, was hit by a dozen bullets. POLICE NAB STILL Braintree, Mass., Jan. 12 UM—Po- lice yesterday seized a still valued at $30.000 and 1,600 gallons of alcohol in the Pen's Hill section of East Braintree. The only person found on the premises, John Vaber, 36, Toulouse street, New Oricans, la., was taken into custody. ‘ commissioner, and for many years president of the man Thomas Heslin of the building PRICE THREE CENTS HOOVER EXPECTED TO CALL SESSION OF CONGRESS FOR TARIFF REVISION IN SPRING Loadirs Engrovs Basies to Get the Industrial and Agricultural Schedules Out of the Way As Soon As Possible. { As Situation Now Stande Revision Will Be Taken Up With Farm Relief Concurrently and Auxili« ary to It. 1 1 ‘Washington, Jan. 12 (M—Preste dent-elect Hoover, as a result of hig conferences with republican econe gressional leaders, is expected to caly an extra session of the 71st congresg in the early spring. Is Inevitable Buch a session is considered to b inevitable irrespective of whetheg farm relief legislation is enacted bee fore March 4, because & revision of & number of tariff schedules, induse trial as well as agricultural, are t@ be made. It is the desire of those who wilf be leaders in the next administrae tion to get this out of the way ag speedily as possible so that there will be the least disturbance in the industrial and agricultural world, As the situation is now outlined, tariff revision would be taken up concurrently with farm legislation and would be auxiliary to it, since 1§ is the purpose to afford a measure of protection to agriculture compare able with that given other induse tries under existing or revised law. It is explained that no. general tarift legislation is contemplated, but merely a revision of a number of existing schedules in the form of an amendment to the Fordney. McCumber act. Changed conditions since 1928 when the present law was spread (Continued on Page 15) CIVIL WAR VETERANS DIE AT FAST RATE Pension Roll Decreasing 1,000 Men a Month Statistics Show. Washington, Jan. 12 UP—Indicate ing a death toll of about 1,000 & month, the Civii War veterans pene sion roll stood at 68,788 at the end of 1928, more than 6,000 less than the middle of last year. The present Civil War pension roll is in contrast, the interior departe ment said in announcing these figures, with that of 30 years ag® when it reached its high tide of 745,000, The number of widows of Civil War veterans also has decreasedy 191,000 of them being on the pensiom list at the end of the year, but thi@ was 5,000 Jess than six months agog The Spanish-American War vete erans are increasing on the rolly with 173.000, an increase of 10,000 i six months and 27,000 widows. Of the other wars only 13 widows | of soldiers of the war of 1812 ree | main as receiving pensions, while there are 802 widows of the Mexican war soldiers. There are 5,000 vete erans of the Indian wars and 3,008 widows of these veterans. ‘The government finds that soldierg out number widows as a whole in pension payments. It was paying on December 31, 1928, pensions to 261,e 660 soldiers and 218,767 widows. The pensions do not include the benefitd pald by the veterans’ bureau of World War veterans or their dee pendents. FINDS “STOLEN’ $160 ' IN OVERCOAT POCKET {Owner Alarmed When Money Is Not Under Pillow For a short time this forenoon the police thought they had a mystery case on their hands, but the come plainant recovered the “loot” and the investigation was dropped. Joseph Pearl of 20 Lincoln streety proprietor of a fish market on Come mercial street, called at headquare ters and told of having a bag cone taining $160 in bills stolen from bee neath his pillow while he siept last night. Another bag containing change was not taken, he said, but a Spanish shawl was missing frem his piano. Officer E. B. Kiely was detailed to the case and was gathering the facta when Pearl called at the dee tective bureau and explained that he had put the bag of money in his overcoat pocket, forgetting abeut i until he awoke this morning and was alarmed when he eould net find it | > &