The evening world. Newspaper, June 19, 1917, Page 2

t j ee a Rt nd RE oe shimano, a ee PN re Peo eae Di ee ie OLICEMEN SUBPOENAED IN THE Rt i's shop and are of the opinion | didn’t find the body and that it was It was ifnposstbte for one man| there in that cellar where others did femove and replace the hot air] Gnd it, What I propane to find out is Rh which led nto the hole through | whether my detectives who were on Which the girl's body was ‘lowered | that case made an honest effort. If1 {nto the cellar. The fact that the] fin@ that they @id make an honest girl’é grave wos stuffed with old | effort and that their failure was not "clothing in order to allow the repiace- @ue to carelessness or worse, why, ment of the concrete floor establishes by gum! I'll @tand by then and take ‘that the murderer removed the earth the blame om my own shoulders.” {ro mthe building before putting the | As Proof that he had taken partic- ody in the hole and discovered later | lar pains to get results in the Cru- that he had taken too much earth |€er Case, the Commissioner said he away. The earth must have been | had given three men the same mis- ‘ome kind, | Sa It was a secret mission, and carried off in & vehicle of some kin of the three it Guret Mr. Dooling was asked If a police | gwhistic was found in a pocket of *\o0 the nereas st wee to i piece of clothing which was stuffed | try i a i‘ Sie ar op Gee, into the hole in which Ruth Cruger’s | hope men Cagh Grant Dody was buried. He refused ©) wittame, tm pr henge the Berens: of. Answer the question directly but said | pissing Persons; Acting Capt. Dan! fome of the articles found in th®| Costigan, special investigator of the | pockets were “significant.” | Commissioner, and Detective Serg Five lockers in the basement of the | Brennan of the Headguarters staff. Cooehi cellar, apparently used %Y | WOODS TO AID MAB. HUMISTON young men who kept motorcycles in | - IN NEW WORK, the shop, were stripped of thelr con-| ie, srumiston held @ conference al f Laight pal woplagee eimai | with Commissioner Woods, at which buried, This the police announced after a careful examination of the garments and other material ex- Humed last Saturday. knows were victims of this traffic, The name of Victor Biady, carved | “{f I should mention thetr names, Sed a Lec fle cam e sdneiai ee said lost night, “I would sacrifice of one of ese lockers, accol | the lives them Detective Sergbant MoGee, An effort’ would be willed with ba ise ions via now being made to trace ownershi? | 44 was shown to poor Ruth Cruger.” ‘ot the recovered articles, The police | srg, Humiston also conferred with know who held keys to the Coch! members of the\ District Attorney's! lockers and are anxious to determine | sare, to whom she promised co-op- ‘Why none of the missing property W48 oration in the prosecution of Cocchi never reported. and his accomplices, if there are any.| ‘The recovered articles, bloodstained | Phe District Attorney will direct | and soiled, at the Fourth Branch De-| ¢yture work of his office on this case, | tectve Headquarters include such | according to yesterday's official an- equipment as motorcyclists and chauf-|nouncement. Assistant District At- ‘fours would use. Sergt. McGee, who) torney Owen Bohan wil) be in charge Dis in change of this phase of the “mur-! of the extradition proceeding, Mr. ‘der cellar” investigation, stated this| Dooling will continue to seek new evi- against White slaversa, But she did ‘grilling last night admitted ownership | sent the office at the inquest, which of some of the material. is to be conducted by Coroner Rior- body was found there were five old| If the fight for extradition should ‘chauffeur's uniforms, One of them /fail, Assistant District Attorney | fits Biady, who is a youth 6 feet 6! Black will conduct the trial of Cocchi! ‘"'ous> inches tall, but he claims he never {in Italy. | tout | Me | hard, saw it before, although he knew Coc-| Three young women who knew chi and loafed in Cocchi's shop and | Cocchi were summoned iast night to admits that he was there with two|the Fourth Branch Bureau and ques- other men on Feb. 1%, the day of Ruth |tioned by Mr. Dooling. One by one Cruger’s disappearnce from her home | they were escorted upstairs, For the at No. 180 Claremont Avenue. me being the authorities declared Following Cocchi's indictment for | they would keep from publication any | murder, the finding of a hole in the|facts regarding their identity, floor of the shop at No, 642 West One| There is a growing belief that the ‘Hundred and Twenty-seventh Street | murder was not what the police term ‘through which Miss Cruger's body is}a one-man job. 1t was ostablished Vbelleved to have been lowered to the |that Cocchl was not over-strong. > cellar was the most intereatiqg of Jate}On Dec. 4 Iast, Cocchi applied » developments. @t the Italian Consulate, No. 395 “. While the investigation in the cellar| Broadway, in accordance with In-| ‘was proceeding Mr, Dooling noticed a| structions sent him from Bologna to Jong, thin pipe reaching from the| respond to a call to the colors. He etllar stove across the ceiling and| was informed by the modical ex-| Misappearing upward, Running his|aminer that he was not fitted for| fingers along the pipe he encountered | military service because of his physl- | & piece of broken asbestos art then! eal condition. observed that several strands of wire| Mra, Cocchi went to the Criminal supporting the pipe were new, The| Courts Building yesterday in custody next discovery was startling. It was! of Detective Sergt. McGee, who was that the entire metal ceiling of the| under orders to produce her before cellar had been recently repainted, the Grand Jury. It was decided, after a hole had been, cut around the! nowever, not to question her, aa such section admitting thé pipe, and the action might invalidate the Indict- wection replaced, The paint almost! ment found against her husband, concealed the joint in the metal. Investigation was quickly trans: SHMISS LA RUE'S” STORY ferred to the floor above. In the mid- dle of the floor was found an old- OF ATTACK IS TRUE , fashioned register, It was not fas-| tened tn place, but was easily lifted SAYS MRS, HUMISTON out, A light was brought and a D \ square hole r led, by 20 Inches, — | Mned with stained and discolored Woman Who Jumped From Win- pieces of tin. To prove that Miss, dow Had No Part in Cruger | Cruger’s murderer would have had no through thix aperture, Mr, Dooling. Mrs, Grace Hurmiston to-day told persuaded Edward Linde, who re ently purchased the shop from Mrs, reporters that if the true story of Cocchi, to be ict down. Mr. Linde ip, "ht Napnened to Consuelo Ly Rue a bis man, but was readily passed Who is tn Polyclinic Hospital ag a through the hole. result of leaping from a window in Blady was present during this ex- periment, He denied yehemently that he had ever seen the hole before, Further examination —_ revealed | published in the newspapers it might freshly painted spots on the walls of jead not only to the ber apartment at No, 218 East La Rue woman's INTO.POLICE METHODS MAY FOLLOW BUNGLE |fact that slaked Hmeywas used upon A of quick lime, which destroying infiu- |three other young women who were| patches of ordinary wrapping paper. Bcrapings from these walla and from) Victims of the same tragedy that be the tin lining of the aperture ‘have! fe)) Miss La Rue been sent to experts for analysis, WOODS WANTS TO KNOW IF “1 know the young woman's story fully, but TL will tell it to ne one,” said LICE MADE HONEST EFFORT, (try Humis 1 know that it The body of the dead gin) wi would mean murder, or perhaps the buried yesterday at Kensico Ceme-| suicide of two or three other young tery, Only the family andafew clone girls 1 belleve that what Miss La friends were pres A gruesome in-) Rue She was a client of cident was the news that while at the! mine and that is how I first learned Morgue the body had been despolled o¢ her case. 1 went to the hosp by souvenir hunters of several shell! this morning to talk to her but she hairpins and a small gold brooch, wan under the effect of ether. 1 sav Commissioner Woods, while an howev that sh bad marks on her nouncing that he would make M0 jnroat where she had apparently been statement of his discovertes unt! bis pranbed 1 told the District Attor investigation was complete, sald the ney's Office about this public could rest assured that he was) wpne La Rue case has no connec Going his best to get at the facts. tion with the Cruger case, My work “Right at the start,” said the Com- | 6, the Cruger case is finished and miasioner, “we must admit that we! ine pistrict-Attorney han taken = charge, 1 do not intend to interfer ———— in any way with his work, Dozens HEN you go on your vaca: of mothers and fathers and other tion this Summer have relatives of girls who are missing your favorite paper mailed to have tried to eniist my ald and in you every day. sofar as lam able | will help them “Hundreds of public spirl persons Evening World, 12¢ per week Daily World, 126 por week have offered me financial assistance The we nen's OrRANiaations have come be forward offeriug me funds and valun. Sunday World, 6¢ per Sunday teer workers, If some one, say the pe poste iP ap Peep New York newspapers, would club aa “ot you" vial, oe i together and raise $15,000, 1 could = wage a campaign that would rid the Tel lar newsdenler where you elity of the pi iis, and make 8 Wl our mules newadeaie \ \ nd make almost wn Weta fo mall it te -“ impossible @ repetiuon of the Cruger ; Seilalng Wi Se || trascay ‘Of course, I do not know of any LATEST TYPES OF FRENCH AND AMERICAN BATTLE “TANKS” AUSTRIANS PUI An American tank in action during the ‘sham battle of the High School cadets on the Speedway, Chicago, action on the Somme. and was effective trenches in a flerce attack MUST BLOCK FOOD ROBBERS TO KEEP GERMAN HOST OUT * (Continued from First Page.) The battle wad to represent The tank mueh resembles the Engl deciding the battle, The schoolboys won a mile ft he promised to ald in her campaign , not give the Commissioner the names | of the twenty-two girls who she | | manist Deputy Heine shouted: “They! CLOSING QUOTATIONS. The jatest*French tank on the battlefields is the St. Chamond. With et otengre from yrevions is armed with long range guns, which can be seen im the photo. & very heavy machine, and moves on the caterpillar chain drive, which has made the tanks famous in warfare for their great power. GUARD SURGEON ARRESTED FOR THE MURDER OF PPR (Continued trom First Page.) | Polish, members rushed upon Heine} Fed me other Cruger cases. | pend the sittimg in the midst of a trv- | ing numerous disappearances, conjecture as 1 am investigat whether her 4 o’gle Police Commissioner Woods had any- thing to do with her white slave cam- k conference with | 19. stopped by. setting up volunteer co- operation in the various liaks from producer to consumer. “We have rank speculation by peo- ple not actually engaged in distrifu- s|the Vienna correspondent of the “L want to say now,” she said | Vossische afternoon that Blady in his six-hour | gence, and Mr. FitaPatrick will repre-| | AV never criticised the pollee to embroll ©: and myself in a quarrel In the hole in which Ruth Cruger’s | dan, | Was started by a remark I made while A Ruth Cruger's body was being dug ub. | Coope SAYS FLOUR SHOULD NOT BE) MORE THAN $9 A BARREL. “With righteous manufacturers’ and distributors” Hoover declared, $9 a barrel, yet it averages $14. “We need regulation of wh vators in order te facilitate the ‘move- 17 grain crop. carry 100 per cent. of The speaker advocated a to regulate ex- \ister, is threatened. ry when, six weeks ago, a negro man of all work, Allison A, Welliagton, went to the Condon home to do some odd When he reached according to his story, he fo corner the body of man. He re- ported the find to a lawyer, who in turn communicated with Prosecutor A police officer was sent to the Condon home to inyestigate, but he reported that if there had ever been a body in the cellar it was not Deh de Hudson one of his men, had worked and { made #0 bold as to say * certainly worked as no other policeman on the case had, Per Cooper did not like that.” Miss La Rue, of whom Mra. Humis is | granting a few ministerial posts to Trepiration Copier ment of the elevator show! ‘2 | The Vossische Zeitung eorrespondent ‘“lturn t , | ment, ‘* | already is in opposition. The Poles ty | indicated the seriousness of their in- 4} | tentions by a decision to vote against "\the budget, being the first Parlla- wheat commission ports and imperts and also regulate “We muat maintain high priced wheat to encourage production,” he added, “but the price must not be hag gg td gin St: fa’ Bet r. Hoover ead prices in Bel- It was then decided to await the} gium were 40 per cent. less than in New York City, while those in Eng- land and France were 30 to 40 per lower, with producers realizing the same prices. . Regulation of the transportation of An exploration | wheat was also taken up. forced to jump from the window of her flat by two men who tried to kill becaune | #he Humiston the spot where Ruth Cru- xer's body was buried, woliyhed she knew nothing about the Cruger c# ‘ ning World learns that Miss ier Petrolonm National Conduit Nat Bnam & 4. Ce appearance of the ,body somewhere, as that this would happen the prose- cutor felt certain, walting Was rewarded with the find- ing of Piper's body. _|of Dr, Condon’s cellar now revealed | favored ascertaining @ Dag of lime which, upon examina- tion, Mr. Stricker stated to-day, was. su | {dentical with that found dn the body. | tually the same lines as the wheat Furthermore, he stated to-day that he had obtained some clothing of Dr. Condon's which bore lime stains and that the seat of the physician's motor {car also was thus stained, taken from the Doctor's garage on Saturday, is now in the possession of the Coroner, NO MOTIVE FOR THE KILLING HAS YET BEEN FOUND. ‘The prosecutor stated to-day that so far he has been unable to assign a motive for the killing. of the habits of Dr. Condon indicate furnished with couches that if he had anything to do with it] ifted up a board the shooting might have been acci- He was in the habit of carry- ing a revolver, owing to the necesatty of being abroad at all hours of the His friends say that he had a of showing the demonstrating how quickly he eould his pocket. e prided himself |treme Socialists, in refusing to’ vote On Saturday the | Martinic on | should imme |1s described as due to the initiative of %| Count Czernin, who is unable to Hoover | Vir: he ec she ts married the amounts name and that and has a boy in a boarding school Humiston last Thurs- | day and satd she had important in- | meeded at seaboard. Hoover also adyocated forming a to act along vi called up Mra shaituck-Arizona, He sald he would need | senor $150,000,000 as a ‘working capital for | 5! his food administration, | 1 “Thia may be enough money ‘art on and |t may prove too small | Hoover stated. Women will have direct charge of of the work of food It ts the plan to énlist commission. Humiston sent one of her in- eatigators to see Miss La Rue at her, Miss La Rue told the In- vestigator that she came from Aus- tralla a few months ago ship met an elderly woman who in- vited her to stop at a promin | continues *|eently have been indic nm amount,” ninety per cent e@onservation. jhave evoked ma every American be asked to | sign pledges to save food. demonstrate democracy can vise and save Itself In the emerg- eney of war,” Hoover concluded. FARMERS MIGHT DETERMINE THEIR OWN PRODUCTION. Senator Gore asked an who posed as a count was drugged and Investigation | He Is 5is¢ World Man Enrotted tn} it} CHICAGO WHEAT AND CORN) armer the | right to judge the amount of crops | | World editorial departmént to-day re- in the floor and showed her the body Government | minimum price might not get th ‘Phat ia what will happen to yo you say anything,” > eae i Case, However. Jolared the man said to her difficulty in lowering her body i ever Olan esa tena eneres Miss La Rue de- al result for) | upon. she and fought her w Bhe had no idea of the Last Saturday the discovery weapon and mit imports.” sald possibly » farmers th own production “We don’t propose to go to the ex tent of fixing consumers’ r TTON EXCHANGE right lo! NEW YORK CO’ jthe total s rolled in th of Also he is said to ha ‘Ruth Cruger Miss La Rue was taken | pon nis markmanship, One “joke” in which he used to indulge himself, it was sald, was suddenly to thrust the revolver against the be with whom he happened to be talking, |laughing at the other's start of fright Piper was shot in the left from above and while he . tions,” Mr. | gut of Cocehi's shop. never been there before. restaurants, amount of b and the like. ead portions to England did a thing tn trying to fix minimum pric # failure wherey: “Under the bill you can say to Sen- ator Reed, for instance, that he shall on certain | Senator Kenyon. don't think we have any y of some one Rightieth Street early to-day, was) Coceht ' was tnterested in her story of white ITEMS FOR INVESTORS. International clared a Red’ Cross dividend of 1% 25 cents a share. Steel Company. ferred stock to apply wd dividends, pay- | when it was found, no bullet holes in either. suthorities ar Hoover replied emphatically ‘ ve ti right to suggest the) against the 4° acc use of a soup bone a day an@ see if|able July 81 to stock of July 16 any agreement dividend on pi Board Considers Sugge Allen Based on Ruth overwhelming , whereas the made at the outnet of the n¢ leaders on both sides announc to hold spec esentative Doolittle of odors of decom 1%% on the pi am | minimum. Kansas sald i typically a war measure. we sition to this of the Institute for Public whieh ts sugsrest erning its provi Telogvaph & Telephone ymplaints of citizens. body was discovered close to employed 1 scraping the surface of the macadam. to stock of record June | American conse OTTAWA RESULTS. failure of the Central OMe earthed much of the evidence himself, gave it as his opinion that the man| met death about the time he vanished, ar-olds: claiming straight $6.70 Towoland, 00 (W JAMAICA WINNERS. host helpful study of the methods employ selling; with $300 ad formed the autopsy. 5 established the doubt that the body was taken to the than Friday night, for on Friday the | ( fact beyond COND RACE. about (Wo niles 112 (McAtee) Offices who road and would hav The evidence bears on the corpae. | 1.52 was referred held all along. murder was commit from the pl per was living with bis small children, eking out ing his post-graduate course by temd- ing the furnaces of wealthy neighbors, lican U Anarchists Setre Repah- This is that the jJetter should be favorabl an investigating comm be appointed, tooma and printing offices of the Repul- Herrmann and Thureday Nighter also ewspaper Russkia Vola, 30,000 POLES 1 DEATH BY HANG! esac Cabinet Reported to Have Re- signed, Following Charges Made in Reichsrath. ZURICH, via Parts, June 19.—The | Polish Deputy Daaazinski declared in the Vienna Relchsrath that more than 90,000 Poles have been hanged by | order of the German authorities, ac- cording to the Vienna Arbetter 7 tung which prints special degails of | @ sittings of the Reicherath on the Mth and 16th, | Deputy Striverny also described the abominable treatment accorded politl- | cal suspects, whereupon the Pan-Ger- | haven't used the repe enough; all S| them ought to have been hanged. At these words all of the Slav and| and the President was obliged to sus- mendous upro BASEL, Switzerland, June 19 (via ris). A Vienna despatch says that | the Austrian Cabinet has resigned. COPENHAGEN (via London), June ‘The revolt of the Poles in the Austrian Parliament is described by eitung as having produced a crisis in which the position not only of Premier Clam-Martinic, but also Count Czernin, the Foreign Min- A majority of the German papers treat the news of the situation with the greatest reserve and the Govern- ment organs in Vienna hold out hopes } hat the crisis may be overcome ®y Polish and ‘other Parliamentarians. | says the defection is sufficient to » scales against the Govern- nce the rest of the Slav bloc mentary group in any belligerent country, aside from a handful of ex- war credit, The insiste co of Premier Clam- jaturday that the Poles jately show their colors arry on the foreign policy of the ernment while uncertainty re- garding the attitude of Parliament The Polish aspirations, which re- ted, alm at pendent kingdom erman basis and od displeasure in Germany, even the Cologne Gazette rebuking the Poles sharp! nea | SALUTE CAPT. DENNISON! | practically an ind openly on an anti Army or Navy. | Lindsay Denison of The Evening TEL ceived notification from the War Depart ment of his commission as captain in the — Quartermast Department, United States Army Reserve. Mr, Denison was a student at Platts burg last summer and since that time has” bee in drilling the Home Guard of u Coupty Capt. 0 N's appointment makes | of World mien now en- military and naval forces fifty-one men. TREASON CHARGE IN HOUSE. Encounter Averted as Rep tive Ma In Ace WASHINGTON, June 19.—Represen- tative Mason of Illinois was to-day a cused in the House of making a trea sor speech on the draft law by Representative Hastings of Oklahom who withdrew the assertion shortly af- terward following a heated verbat The controversy wasp Muson's announcement that fer dment to the consert law biting the sending h National Guard abroad. pe at the Mason advanced upon Hastings, ing that be Was as good an Amer! as anybody in the House, | | Offering for Tuesday, June 19th ECTIAL ASSORTED CHOCOLATES —A Je. niving bower, proving most conchisly Iwaye travel together. in. thi Varlety ‘and ult uround exeelicnce for which the than doahte eer nriee, Specia: for To-Morrow, Wednesday, June 20th. DATE CREAM KISSES— wlected Fine tn 64 BARCLAY STREET Closes 6.80 0 .m.:8at.10 om 9 CORTLANDT STREET Cigses Tl p.m, Dally PARK ROW & NASSAU ST. Closes 12 p.m. Daily 400 BROOME STREET. 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