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“ Circulation Books Open to All,’ | Circulation Books Open to All i. En Orne 3 th nae Cor, Ae Wd NEW YORK, MONDAY, JUNE 18, 1917. 14 PAGES” ‘PRICE! ae | CRUGER CASE BUNGLE BY POLICE | BEING INVESTIGATED BY SWANN AGED NILLIONARE SUITOR i POLICE TARE TWO BANDS SER GN ‘NRL UNBUREDIN SHOP “IN BREACH OF PROMISE SUT =» INGHASE ON BUSY STREET. == = WAS BERIN BY DETECTS Commandeers Supplies — _| Great Fighting at Monchy, Goethals Row Up to Wilson. REG Scene of Many Battles. , Petal ee SA £25,000 Is 5 oie for the _—__—— Bank Collector Held Up and) | RATT 24 ‘ : * “Smart” to Miss O'Brien’s PRESIDENT READY By Samuel M. Williams. Robbed of Wallet Con- STEAMSHIP SINKS LONDOX, June 18.-A tremendous] COCChi Indicted for Murder of High Feelings. (Special Staff Correspondent of The rman attack on newly won British gs. ue means World.) taining $15,000, owitions east of Monchy le Preux School Student, and Return by TASHINGTON, Juno 18.—Warfare ——— |forced the British to fall back from MR. MANNING SHOCKED. FOR DRAFT if NEW |on high prices was inaugurated to-| After a chase lusting several blocks SUBMARINE AFTER certain aaasscd Sask Field Marshal Italy Is Expected by the State 1h day in the capital with mixed fight-]in which five shots were fired, police- Haig reported to-day. Miss O’Brien Tells Evening ing along many lines. ‘The extortions| men of the Clymer Street, Williams- F hetee sevens fighting.” Gen. Haig Department at Washington. | World Trial Was Best for i ot food pirates, coal robbers and| burg, police station, this afternoon reported, “we were compelled to fall | bas Steel barons suddenly came to a|captured two highwaymen who had pack from certain advanced poste in sie ave cromt of our main new position, We] 22 OTHER MISSING GIRLS still hold Infantry Hill." ‘ oG Proclamation Completed and Government as the principal protest-| ftty-five years old, a collector fo * ian’s Crew T F Re. Monchy 1¢\Preux, five miles south- aly. PP % pwo nanarea and twenty-five thou-}' OOS SUS” Cc in plet cd pr pele igsiace ‘agi peceay et lead ath oe tind wae ec Hilonian rew Tell of Re-) |i pri anf andy TO BE SOUGHT AT ONCE ‘sand dollars was the heart batm Selections Will Begin First | ( | Both Parties. —_—.— climax with the powerful Federal | held up and robbed Bernard T. common pe bag containing $10,000 in cash and Markable Two Days’ Duel points in the general Hindenburg ai) alt ‘ono "Br Jeek ji A baste pric: 56.20 a 5, cheo! ‘ ithe cmkacn |front, being on the so-called D, ‘ 7 2 ; 7 awarded to Miss Honora May nel Week in July. prasbypataricsings be dled: cubed [Lake Hay a a aan in Mediterranean, couft-Queant “switch line” tt hea| Alfredo Cogchi, the matémgycle repair ‘man and friend of bicycle r y, in her suit for breach fixed for steel plates in c ets fo © money was all recovered an : ’ eric i i naire John ow INGTON, J 18.—Presi- | 'D steel ships, signed to-day by|the thieves were arrested after the been the scene of tremendous fighting | policemen, was indicted to-day by the Grand Jury for murder in the ea feeinet then cain ite DBR) 4 hal halman Denman of the Shipping|entire nelghborhood in the vicinity In a battle betwe 1 ever since the British struck out “ B, Manning, in the Supreme Court at dent Wilson's proclamation of regula-| Ronrd, Futt from the Vimy ridge and drove| first degree as a result of the finding last Saturday afternoon by Mrs. ontracts will be let|of He Street and Hedford Avenue stranded British at mehip al, iD Long Island City to-day. The jury tions, which will start the machine] at that pr Instead of $95 paid for|had buen thrown into a panic bY the German submarine off the Italian! ie ea ‘ ospaggii k Grace Humiston, a woman lawyer, and a private detective in her employ, retired at 1.15 o'clock Saturday ter- y ing into operation the actua steel in some earl contracts, Twen- | excitement attending the efforts of the ° ritish Fleld Marshal's report . , os : ‘ r onrania ohare He ‘ pre ty-four Jen hulls were also con-| police to capture the bandits coast in May both craft were de-/also mentic considerable mutual|Of the body of Ruth Cruger in the cellar of Cocchi’s shop at No. 542. \ ee ee yaaean tra teiaee Ws salina ateatinl r |" Tellinger lives: in Hewes Street, troyed, according to members of the|4rtillerying north of the Scarpe and| Supreme Court Justice Cropsey ? completed and r o be issued West One Hundred and Twenty-seventh Street. le against extortionate|gust before hin junch hour he crew of the American steamship Hil- | heavy hosttle bombardment of British jury handed in a sealed verdk The manifesto te tail how the gan simultaneously at three|was told to take the bag of cur- Man, who arrived here to-day, The| Positions near Ypr The indictment of Cocchi, who is under arrest in Italy, is but an eae taggers sa Sn eee Pals thle rasan Bec anaieccilt which he had Hilontan was sunk off the Itallan| oe Ap ‘i ‘ e : 2c ' to instructions, was to be read iM seryice will be decided, . It directly 1 In Congress, where the Food 1 for the bank, to a | hh rents On ee LE) she: Srey Be Hsp e See ee ea eee cee r f : : ¢ Control Bill came before vince of the concern. He # z landed at Albenga court at 10 o'clock this m tn every American on the rants PARIS, 18, — “intermittent | Of the police investigation of the disappearance of Ruth Cruger, a achaill both Houses and started what On the Jay an unidentified to take his midday me » Natibe Gropaéy, in nile « if $018 tention tate promises to be a long legislative | hy i nisay ine ve the Hritiah nter carrying coal alo |CAPnonading occurred at various | girl, trom her home at No. 180 Claremont Avenue on the thirteenth of N d been injured in reputa: | | house he was attacked by two men | to-day's offictal sta “Our re- | ast February. : plaintiff had n inj Secret r n going over | 2 In the navy, where Secretary | One plac kjJacked him while the other wn his ship into shallow | connoitri r ; i if tion, fe sad PE on Maeiatiedanti gt AY EIT uft of the regulations, pre Daniels told steel, coal and |i iii iin ne the theo,’ weizod Water before she partly sank, Two| gnemy lines ines! ion netraihd the An inquiry into the police conduct of the case has been inaugurated | Geshe Getendant in his charges: #7 pared by a special advise board, oil men that their prices were ex- pagent : sey ie bre lays later, the Americans asserted, | oes PaTAOE UPASENY: OG GOURD + | ic: o “hel h hy ft iat antitied tol punitive ema Beh ee nee | TariED Ate arid weuld Ret ba Baler. | {Ue Pee ine carried ow nite Di beabderr sic ttpald I ta the ntunck |Meat of Senones, bringing back pris by District Attorney Swann, Mayor Mitchel said to-day that the failure | damager ty awarded to Miss sobably be promilgated and tho| Masertinn. %0 arbitrary military | 2° sidewalk: vnoonseloua trom io and launched @ torpedo, which hit the| the pop | of the police to discover the body of Ruth Cruger in the cellar of Cocchi’s j O'Brien $200,000 and the $25,000 more en oy ees eietting |’ authority, he proceeded to com- | uries. ‘The screams of women w..o 4nd launched a | ate aS opt Wl he Portuguese forces on the weat ; 2 4 for the “smart.” eerie aa i | mandeer materials and told pro. | ad seen t attack attracted th at sea taeda st bl ra front, having been initiated into | Shop was inexcusable, é e Skibercen beau as not in i beg! e la-| i tention of Patrolman F ° , ubmarine came to} the art of modern warfare by pro ; } The wkibercen uty wae not aeitlonin create two clasnes of exemption| ‘users thet prices would be ad- edeert ‘ ' reitation ana the aurtace to observe the effects of leressive stares, hove nee ae Now that the mystery has been solved it is apparent that a simpler { court when the verd en ie ger thelr duties ana] dusted later on the basis of actual 4 mi at eo Btesion shat two dack. wuna on the stern |'th » bP ae FE raat foe ; } nounced. But her t then ia) al gnunolat fal Hulse tom Geen cost plus a reasonable, not ex- | he gave chase to the two men, rap Beek mua) Oni tie aus nes és baptiam of fire, The says | piece of detective work than the discovery of the murder and murderer yw who has been fa ther and’ enunciare 4 te AOE ReOEaP: orbitant, profit. ping for assistance as he rar nN exploaive hit the [i] that to-day they are p tly organ 5 t 2 ‘oa a ee oegedB The. ve sl of local exemption 3 In the White House, where Tellinger’s assailants fled into Rut- | b« she was seen to turn over | ed and have proved their worth tn of Ruth Cruger could not have been presented to a police department. ' was there. Mr. O'Lr te lidn’t BO iy Peedi a i i pees eat | © Gen, Goethals and Chairman | ledge Street and dashed up the steps and, wpllt squarely in tw 0 be exemplary fashion, | Here are facts which the District Attorney is looking into: ; side the rail, but s up near pourds in tw States was decide Daneman atthe @iicping hiv let-Na Lane, tures’ aoloaren: opened ing down,” During the | ay “8 | , ‘ } } anbe, ready ne nearest to-day : They m be UR CUN Se ee eee meme lil aca'an chem atlers ne ined si m than a mile nnen ah Heverse| First—Ruth Cruger took a pair of skates to Cocchi’s 4 . within forty-elght hours. 7 i : . ie fBleptone h Se ae ey DT eaiasan yeroue wooden marenant ships 4 men flung the money ba tie § b SOFIA (via . June 4 shop to be sharpened in the morning of Feb. 13. 4 good fortune as 4 ; ‘ i eo President as ref- |i on the steps of the house an |weneral retirement of British forces = 7 nounced. efore the ve does not an mac day ‘ or fe eree, they went to the mat for a kicking in the door fled to the back FIFTH AVENUE CROWD along the Stru front ts separa | rene ne uatt: her home, about two: blocks froi he said to newspaper me = at lotte ch will result in the) finish fight, which means that one | yard. Here a high fence prevented in an offtetal statement issued by th Cocchi’s place, in the early afternoon to get the skates. “Phere is nothing for ay. My n for America's first armie ab ME} or both must ao, The new ques- [their escape. Both were found hidins JOINS IN MAN CHAS War Office to-day statement There was no mystery about her movements in this respect. ( sister will not be here moned from thousands of homes.) tion at issue is the price which | behind a woodshed. Ono gave hi follows Third—Cocchi closed his shop at 2 o'clock in th: fied to let our case rest with the pubs Provost Marshal Gen. Crow-| Gen, Goethals proposed to pay for |name as Frank Romano, twenty ‘Along the Struma, in the sector sik spas Ps in the afters lic, as well as with a Jury.’ ae der a8 ne are ‘based upon sondiiats steel plates, $95 per ton. Chair- | years old, living at No. 183 Rutledge Gustav Groffen, cused of $2, 2,500 | thet Lakes Kutkovo and Tabinos noon. hitae ( Was announced being this momentous lottery during) man Denman declares thie an (trect; the other maid he was Angelo ren ARCUSED the British abandoned the advanced | Fourth—When Ruth Cruger had not returned to her was not t ound, He had hurried! the first week of Suly absurd figure and he will not ap- | Movelio, aged twenty, of No. 862 Am Jewelry Theft, Run Do position they had hitherto occupied 6 ; ; . to his sister with the new — | prove the contracts, Ms alo, Aa twenty Ft ar. ; Jand returned to the bridgehead pos! home at 7 o'clock in the evening her sister, after telegraphing The aged ndant arrived at U BOAT REPORTED SUNK Hoth men appealed to the Prosi-|ney were locked up in the ¢ : j : F Our mane eee tag Bie to her parents, who were in Boston, went to the West One court house in # taxi fifteen minute dent Jay for audiences in which| street station pending the ten f iy w Fifth Ave ma Kumli, Keupri, Prosenik, Beg Hundred and Twenty-fifth Street Police Station and reported before court of 1, Wit m was BY JAPANESE WARSHIPS |: ) state their conflicting sides of the! vont doa diversion t Ukmah, Salmah and Kakarasha, On the case. his daug M f his uniels declined to | raring, ape est at Forty-fitth $ fT Guatay| the reat of the front thers was weak | ae. : : : +45 eons. He sat at the lawyer's d getha caind at mix p jourd row, but | pure hin wa who gained Poa erirint Geo mn | Fifth—The lieutenant on duty, following a police cus- $ beside former City Mag rate tish Admiralty Announces an told of his own 1 with produ | butane Rea ‘ ¢ dw 1 siete ‘ | tom, made a memorandum of the case to wait twenty-four % Wiley, associated w N a Engagement in the Mediter- ae ii) ake e sald, had de a ania’ thamn tha oikin te " J : ie F ‘ 'Y> | ttattans Htrennt heir Posttions| hours for investigation. tleton in the case, Stephen \ nga Min th nande eat ‘ i ; $ Policeman Quig on the Cnrao. : ‘ ' was present t ranean Sea |steel pl for wars eee ad on ment 1 ne y, of TraMfc C, on duty a ROME, June 18.—Northeast of Ja Sixth—In consequence the police search of Ruth Cruger O'Brien. ‘ ,.. promptly re seit ¢ t miano, Italian t 4 to-day straight was not begun until the next day, whereas a visit to Cocchi’ LON DON, June 18. A fr n ate . | yy a visi o Cocchis Br, Manning looked worried, ores) oT sued ical pl Rep aah veer STEEL TRUST FINALLY -COMES, AIR RAID REPRISALS bhon had f p-|ened out thelr Ii rs i by various! ghop that night would undoubtedly have revealed the crime, before the ver was a un ae : merino i 1 c H et a Bixth | fever c el » . . a" He sat in his cha idling avy | Ad says that a Teuton su Finally President Farrell of the ‘ ' Todd, shipping clerk | C°™™ She_om ent declared, for the murdered was burying the body while the Police stick wit LE Parreeerrunnod REY RP CRETE the Med ited’ ; barpere ion DISCUSSED IN COMMONS ° ak ee “ly, §, AVIATOR BATTLES | Department loafed. epee 1 yeaa nprehend | Tanea Phe st rent follo eeta yal tah ata dinmnt 4 miaeaee . 1 —— robk Pir gy ide Seventh—When Cocchi was questioned by detectives he ere - 7 X 4 eee Pepa , \ w unsuccessful race for watery. WITH Two GERMAN PLANES admitted that Ruth Cruger, or a girl answering her descrip- clerk to the f f Ju Cropsey. | # pound, equiva Dam v e Ten | t lien tion, had been in his shop between 1 and 2 o'clock in the He s hole with ttn he dea as sor packages | Archibald Johnson of Pitt burgh afternoon of the day before. He said she took her skates ' for him at th 1 M 1 ald Se ary | 1 : ARAN py fe Sergeant f away and the last he saw of her she was walking toward Wiley to the ¢ 1 Danie 1 nd is so great] seri ; ‘ " t Fight Manhattan Street. pan enooeaive, tak pro y SISAL RNY vs thi ‘ iA Ne val ae Oe eh sa Eighth—Cocchi’s statement—backed, it is believed, by damages are ex v 1 Jud V s " r r ho G me 1 ; aorak 4 f the police friendship—was accepted and only a perfunctory Cropsey, smilingly and |") Bria a cee Any man who would get rich out ua \ } ee Nei r k ‘ ven is) search of his place was made. 3 » smile dis: ed as anced!“ ‘ of the government in war ti i 4 M pa f Americans : : j Ha stalls 1 ane He ‘a Prov wrshal Genera i a) PT a Oe NES ie War eit efused give Ninth—From police sources came a story that Ruth’ not think t ‘ uh 1 k sae t Cruger had been seen in the company of a man passing from - Mr, Wile k hey Brooklyn St ' Page) lainas en we Amerienns in Crew Saved from 4 " * a taxicab to a subway station in Harlem. es ‘ play ne : , . ne oe a enn ere ne oe I 8 ir | Narwenion Ship : 1 Tenth—After Cocchi disappeared no thorough search > mick Axed 0, ' oa a Nort) 4 ‘ , i an : : of his place was made by the police. The sleuth theory was — for arguing t : hem eke a nee acked a Gers jp) was soon that the girl had gone away with Cocchi, meccouriroom. waa packed and i . > gta tw ne Eleventh—The concealment of the body was clumay, { foontinuea on Bighth Page.) (For Racing Results See Page 2.) ets fur mis, Teigivue Uyvanes $W0—adr ance to Justify such enterprises. ut wheat from Mahia penhagen ‘able to return t 'Frened lin ad) was evidenced by the fact that when skilled inves- ‘at A i ' a Bre caer nee cle a?