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|| AT SDE OF rt .—_——_ i, ce ES REEES — Nx Ente Baretto, who was shot and killed wy ™', \® i ra { WHO SHOT VICTIM Facts ‘About Killing of Dom- Unie Baretto at Corona Heights |... Apparently Hidden. “GIRL COMPANION FREED She is‘ Loretta Busch, Candy Store Cashier, Who Doesn’t Know the Shooter. | ‘The mystery of the murder of Dom- fast night while walking with Loretta Pretty young girl, in Hillside near Tholer avenue, Corona Queens Borough, will never Be solved if no more police effort is made in the case than has been ex- pended thus far. Tho girl was dis- charged from custody in Flushing Pb- Mee Court to-day, insisting that ehe oes not know who killed Baretto. Five young Itallan-Americans pave murdored within two years In the Co: ns Heights section of Queens, Not One of these murders has brought about Qn Hrrost, Tt is thy opinion of Ans: SF EDisteict-Attorney Dreyfus that Lor- Rusch, and probably the entire nbersiiip of the White Oak Athletic lb of Corona Heights know who Killed Baretto. ‘The White Oak Ath- letfo Club, of whiph Baretto was a member, ts a social organization of the young sons of Itallan parents of the district, KNOWN BY SIGHT To THOU. | SANDS OF PERSONS, | Loretta Busch is one of the three @aughters of Joseph Busch, a con-| tractor of 12, Fairview avenue, Corona Heights, She was up, lo yester- day cashier in Loft's candy store in Park Row, and ty known by sight at Jeast to the tens of thousands of pa-} trons of that busy establishment. Young Baretto was well known to the Busch family. He had paid attention (0 all three of the girls, but of late had confined himself mostly to the com- pany of Loretta. Mrs. Busch/did not object to his attentions, as he had @ 00d reputation and worked steadily. Loretta Busch went out at 9 o'clock fast night to buy a shirtwaist. She met Baretto on the street and they went for @ walk. Shortly aftor 10 o'clock as they Were standing in front of a> vacant House in Tholer avenue, Baretto was hot three times and instantly killed. Loretta Busch ran two blocks Yo the White Oak Athletic Club, where she told of the tragedy. Half a dozen young men ran back with her to Tholer avenue. They found Baretto dead on the sidewalk. SLAPPED BARETTO JUST FORE THE SHOOTING. When questioned by the police, Lor- etta Busch sald the s were fired Dy a man who stood across the street and probably 100 feet away. The man had on | trousers, but she could Rive no further deseription. The girl said that because of a remark Baretto had made to her a few minutes before was shot che had slapped his face, Yur she was sure the slapping was not seen by any other person, Apparently no police investigation was male. any rate, there was no police faformaiion at hand bearing on the t y when the girl, who had been held as a matertal witness, was ar- raigned in court. Her mother, who has Deen with her all morning, implored her te tell the truth, but she insisted that sly had told all she knew. Asststant District-Attorney Dreyfus informed Maxistrate Miller there was nothing A@ainst the girl upon which she could 1d any longer. The Magistrate @dcordingly discharged her, saying she I) placed herself in an unfortunate Pasition, M t Dreyfus says, that Loretta Busch's story does not colnelde with Ow known facts. The shots that killed jretto-three in number—all entered Dis right vide, They could not have Struck lum so had they veen fred from the position stated by the girl, SLAYER WAS CLOSE WHEN HE ‘ FIRED SHOTS. It Ja the opinion of Mr. Dreyfus that tiw murderer stood close to Baretto when the shots were fired. The girt insists that she heard but one shot, She wage ehe and Baretto ran a short dis- tance after the shot was fired and that whe did not know he hed been struck 1 he fell. ©The Busch girl was questioned by Mr, @raytus about one Annie Goldstein of Gorone Heights, her former chum, It appears that both girls were frequentera of Mariendale Park, a dancing resort in ‘Maspeth, where Baretto was known as “the champion turkey trotter.” Miss Busch denied she had stolen the affec tions of Baretto from Miss Recently the Goldstein girl (>) Astein, mother mails of tein—Please keep your daughter ,Annie from Marlondale Park or something might happen to her. “Did you write that letter?” asked Mr, Dreyfus. “Y did not," replied the Busch girl. “I know nothing about It. There is no enmity between Annie Goldstein and an aianinenae Woman Cat When Car Hi Mrs, 8. W, Blacitr of No, 17 East Hixty-soventh street was badly about the face by broken glass to-day | when a coupe in which she wag riding was struck by a northbound Madison avenue car at East Sixt street. James Smith of Ni Sixty-sixth street, driver of was thrown from hia seat, badly injured, The carriage Cz Dainty Tunic of Large-Figured Material and Enormou; Tam o’ Shanter, "She Wants to Be Be a Human Being, Run Away to Sea, Go to See a Prize Fight, Frequent Smoking Rooms, Be a Cowboy, a Soldier, Know Men as They Are. 80° SHE CAN a Man BY NIXOLA GREELEY-SMITH. NIxOrA, ” for bifureation in the larger meaning of the word which permits men to keep thelr souls and minds as well as their bodies untrammelled, that I resolved to seek her out and ask her just why she Wanted to be a man and just what ad- masculinity would confer upon other women in spite of them- selves, ‘The novelists have accustomed us to the touching picture of the “unwilling wife," the sociologists and reformers have thundered against the “unwilling mother” till we take her as much for Sranted as the morning paper, but here is at last something new—the unwilling woman, You know Mrs. Gillmore, perhaps, but I'm sure it’ the author of the “Phoebe and Ernest’ stories, charming {dyls of the suburb that graze the sur- face of life and those who dwell upon it and do not prepare one for the brilliant and sincere philosophy of the “Confes- sions of an Allen.” Raving read “The Double stand- Moore without Moore's small-boy Coarseness and to regret that any one #0 with the courage of her femininity should yearn for doublet and hose, or perhaps = ought to say trousers and socks. “Firet,” Mrs. Gilmore told me, “e woman should be # human being, then she should be a citizen, To-day the average woman is neither, She is & & mother or sister—not a human I believe that women should be but incidentally to their lives, as men are husbands and fathe: and brothers, Sex should be an incl. dent of life—not a life, not a livelihood, SHE TELLS WHY SHE YEARNS TO BE A MAN. have yearned to be a man because 1 don’t in the morals, ts , ot the | vaudeville and to me nothing could be I have always been in revolt against | S48 18 THE MOST GENTLE AND z|iaruana “I have never met ao man who at any time wanted | ;, to be a woman, I have met very few women who have | ab: mi not at some time or other wanted to be men.” This frank declaration of sex-iiscontent occurs in “The Confessions of an Alien,” a remarkable series of articles which Mrs. Inez Haynes Gillmore begins this week in Harper's Bazar. Reading it, I could not help wondering if the ma- jority of women are indeed oppressed by a secret regret that they were born ¢o pannier gowns and Easter hats ‘rathern than to turned up trousers and derbies. And Mrs. Gilmore’ SMITH “The Double Standard,” seemed ag convincing a brief first article, which she calls situation, but the double standard of adventure—of experience of life itself, “Mo boy ever wanted to run away to sea more than Zz wanted to, oF to be @ cowboy, or to enlist in the army and see battles and adventure and sudden death. Why, < want to go to m prise fight and 1 can't because I'm » woman. ‘I mention a prize fight as the ex- treme limit of my desire for mascu- linity, I want to see a prize fight be- cause I want to write @ story I have in mind about a prime fight. And I can't ask any man to take me to seo one with any hope that he will not consider me utterly lost to the finer feelings of femininity, SHE THINKS XING 18 ALTO- GETHER BEAUTIFUL, “I have seen boxing exhibitions in more beautiful or graceful than the contest of these trained, highly skilled animals—like two ivory raplers flashing and striking against each other, But, of course, the exhibitions I have seen have been arranged. “But how can I write the story I have in mind about @ prise fight unless I see the real thing? ie unfeminine, they “There are just two professions to-day where the double standard of experi. ence does not apply to men and women where the women are not limited by their sex—the profession of acting and your own, If there is ever to be a feminine Balzac she will be developed in the newspaper profession where women come in contact with life as it ts lived, not as it Js written in books, FEMININE OF WOMEN. Perhaps you are not prepared to be- Ueve that Mra, Gilmore, whe wishes < with Mra. Mills, on Vi nue, where ehe ago, when she WATE WAY LURES SISTER ON THER -FRST SCH OF Pretty Yonkers Girls Fascinat- By Eleanor Schorer way NY, DS “Sd ij rid told their story. iy E i | . ed by Glitter Awake to | sata, ane and her fret | Delusio visit to belles he ni lived : | 5 Yonkers all their ay went to | mars matties, dined, then walked aloni y Broad . : Viola Campa, nineteen years old, and me ha Bee her sister; Mary, fifteen, pretty, blue- To l eyed, brown-halred girls, were neid to- day by Judge Bei in Yonkers for fur- ther inquiry. ‘They wore arrested on complaint of their father, Lowle Campa, who charged them with waywardnes: When arraigned yeaterday Mary plead- ed guilty and was remanded until to- day. Judge Beale decided that ho had no jurisdiction over the elder girl, but vefore she left court the father had a warrant issued charging her with va- had been arrested Oct. 4 to the House of the Holy Family, She was released on her prom. {se to reform, ‘Three weeks ago the girls ran away HF } ment, Mary found The gitis pleaded with the Judge to te allowed to go home, but were held while Capt. Lent made inquiries into details of their escapade. The Tulic Rufi With Hat to Correspond. The New Straw Handba; ' A very attractive and inexpensive gown can be made by using the latest novelty Dresden figured material to make a chic little tunic, to be ‘worn with a plain skirt of con'rasting mmterial. ‘Ine effect ts very rich (and striking for street or afternoon wear. | Rufte once more in vogue, but this time in company with a daintily ar- {ranged hat % match. Now I do hope that the girlies will take more kindly to jthem than usual because there is nothing which gives the facu such a soft, becoming frame as the dainty frills of tulle, especially with the hat to help, | And perhaps a pretty corsage bouquet like the one in the picture—they are going | to be the rage. But the very queerest of this season's creations ts the straw handbag. It |is very surprising to see how really graceful and flexible they are, No ather bag could possibly be prettier with a midsummer gown than the one made | of straw. ELEANOR SCHORER, SPRANG TO DEATH THROUGH WINDOW DESPITE HUSBAND Mrs. Retschlager, Ill for Some Time, Instantly Killed by Six Story Fall. his two assistants, the Republican checker, the Democratic checker, the policeman, and I fell into conversation, T was the only person among the who had a figment of a sense of grammar. But what a talk that was: One of them had survived a yellow fever epl- demic in New Orleans, A second had veen in San Francisco at the time cf| Before her husband, who was etand- the earthquake. A third had served in] !"® beside her, could raise @ hand to the Philippine: ring the Spgnish y.r-,| Prevent her, Mrs, Lisgie Retechlager wonderful of articu- that she had run away to sea and who {s yearning to see some yet un- discovered “white hope send Jack Johnson to the ropes, is the most gentle and fominine of women. But she is a rounded, charming matron in the thir- tles, with softly parted brown hair, with a volce that is ever gentle and low—not an excellent thing at prize fights, “Life has been sifted, strained, twisted, warped, compressed, prettified, decorated, falsified, and expurgated for women, for you and for me. This keeps me a humble listener to men’s conver- sation,” declares Mra. Gillmore. “Considered from one poin' view, the dullest man who ever lived is more interesting than the most brilliant woman, What he knows he knows. What she knows ahe guesses. “All women are Helen Kellers—modi- fled. I have never adjusted myself to this injustice. I eavesdrop shamelessly ublic gonveyances tothe man-talk It ts matter for genuine hearthyeak with me that I cannot fre quent the smoking-rooms of trains and that It ta steamers. clate. SHE ENJOYS A TALK WITH MEN |to be @ man If only WHO HAD ADVENTURES. i an “Aa resedlaasy: experience ame) woman becausd he might hasard booth “lection Day. Of course T amg |neart 18 that case on an average ma | Do you want to be a man=—if you suffragist. In the middie of the after- aren't one? 1 don't. Why, I wouldn't noon business slackene; for an hour give one of the flowers nobody came in t» vote, The warden,! hat for the privilege Deere In Brooklyn at 990 Fulton Street They all had the throw herself out of a window of her, lateness of their sex and cli That| home on the stxth floor of No, 646 stands out as a red-letter expertence | Wendover avenue, the Bronx, about 3.20 | of my life, When I left the booth late | o'clock this morning, that afternoon the policeman said: || She fell to the sidewalk and was tn- ‘Lady, we've enjoyed having you here | #tantly . to-day—you've had fine infloaence on| | Mrs Retachlager had been Il! for eome these, men. They talk pretty rough| me. This morning her husband awoke } Pray: and found her walking about the apart- when they're alone.’ That remark did|‘ient, talking and acting strangely, not flatter - ¢, I have been guiltless all! Ho hastened to her #de and tried to | my life of the desire to exert a ‘refin-! soothe her and get her back to bed from ing’ influence on men, All I want 1s| the window ghe had opened. She thrust to know them as they are." him aside and with It seemed to me as I listened to Mrs. Gillmare that she forgot one thing, which 's this: Nearly all of us know some man th ming an Fi Helen Henzel of Cleveland ts a suf- | fragette, but she was willing to marry | Samuel Lovik, and together they went | to Judge Penty to have the ceremony | performed | “Nix,” she said, when It came time to | allp the ring on her finger, and ordered | the justice to put It on Sam's finger in: stead, ‘so they'll all know he's mar- ried."" ‘The Justice finally succeeded in getting the ring on, and If tt ever comes off it_will have to be filed off. on my Easter | . , ‘There’sa way totell the genuine “Kayser” glove— look in the hem for the name “Kayser.” It is there for your protection, f “Kayser” Gloves ‘ Cost No More than the “ordinary kind,” and are worth double in quality, fit and value, and every pair contains A Guarantee that Guarantees | a-“new pair free” if the “tips” wear ff out before the gloves, j Consumer Rogers Thompson Givernaud Co. 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