The evening world. Newspaper, November 23, 1918, Page 9

lie Me a en ete eee / , SATURDAY _NOVEMBER 23, 1918 A merica’s Partin Victory, «Besides Battle Triumphs, — NI \"*\\ \ TGS ty) = u \: \ ~~ Was Bucking Up Morale | = Of Allies’ Tired Fighters”) “Lieut. Coningsby Dawson, Soldier-Novelist Assigned | by British Foreign Office to Study America’s Part in War, Describes Effect Produced on the Fighting Lines in France When Our Soldiers 4 Swept Into the Trenches and “‘ Over the Top.” By Marguerite Mooers Marshall ' P Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Oo, (The New York Brening World.) ‘cc A MBPRICA’S supreme part in the winning of the world war was that of bucking up the morale of the whole Allied world! When you came in with us we were tired men. Afterward we knew there was not a chance for Germany, and we could fling | away our lives with gadness, as any man dies gladly | when he knows death brings victory closer.” Lieut. Coningsby Dawson, novelist, fighting man and notable contributor to the literature of the war, thus epitomized America’s part in the great events him yesterday what he thought we had done in win-| ning since the days, less than a year ago, he wrote we| were “Out to Win.” In this book of his, published in the early summer, he told of Americans at war with the perspective of one born an English. | man, enlisted with a crack Canadian regiment of artillery, and ten years a | resident of New York. The British Foreign Office had given him for sev- eral months a special detai! in France—a study of America’s part in the war, “America fs in the war,” he announced enthustastically, “to her’ last dollar, her last man, and for just as long as Germany remains unrepentant. Her etrength is unexpended, her spirit is un-war-weary. Her resources are continental rather than national; it is as though a new and undivided Europe had sprung to arms in moral horror against Germany.” And in the light of events, how ~ ire . | eplendidly Americans have proved I didn't say anything for a mo-| Licut. Dawson a true prophet! “What| ment, for I was thinking of thoss 1 saw in France,” he wrote last| thousands dead and maimed in aj March, “has filled me with unbounded | day, and of what Philip Gibbs has optimism, I feel the elated certainty, | sald, truly and, splendidly, of such! 4s never before, that the Roche's fate | officers as Lieut. Dalton—"the boys | ly fs sealed because he cannot with-/ and their elder brothers who wont, over the top at dawn and led thete| men gallantly, who in dirty ditches | siand the avalanche of men from| America, Already he hears them, as! 1 have seen them, training in their} and dugouts, in mud and swamps, in| camps from the Pacific to the Atlan-| ficlds under fire, in ruins that were | tic, racing across the ocean in their/death traps, in all the filth and gray transports, marching along the| misery of this war, held fast to the dusty roads of two continents, 4! pride of manhood, and in the worst procession locust-like in multitude, | hours did not weaken, and for their} stretching half about the world,! country's sake and the game they jmarching and singing indomitably.| play offered up their life and all that rom behind the Rhine he has caught | jife means to youth as a free, cheap| their singing; it grows ever nearer,| gift.” gtubnger. It will take time for that) “How did our men feol toward the ‘valanche to pyramid on the western | Germans?" I asked finally. front; but when it has piled up it} “The Americans hated them worse will rush forward, fall on him and (han we did,” declared Lieut. Daw- intel son. “You see, you were biileted in “aM the Americans I saw in| the region near where some of the|| A CHILD'S ToyYLANTE: { France,” Lieut. Dawson told me, worst atrocities had been committed.|| DROPPRD BY THE } were quite mad to fight In the or where there were refugees whol] myppereRic {training camps on this side many of had been ahominadly treated. Over|| MILL SOM HAD A them were sorry they hadn't put on here you had read of frigattuiness|] (ogame MADE. khaki before. When they got on the and shrugged your shoulders, por-|| Wwretee ty ether side they were still sorricr.| paps, and said, ‘F Dicaie o, - And while they were being trained! army does the same thing, and any CONVICTED HiMm- and seasoned they had @ grit their] way the stories must be exaggerated. What the THE WRONG STAMP ON ALETTER POSTED By Gizzo LED TO HIS CONVICTION AS A MURDERER, CHAIN OF EVIDENCE BY OVERSIGHT BarRayer Aan BicKkeL veRiBo Sc = == = Lrwani— +e Ue ToscruB u FATAL om Slayer ‘‘Overlooked’’ LITTLE CLUES THAT BROUGHT FOUR CARELESS CRIMINALS TO BOOK—LINKS LEFT IN THE Conviction in TELL-TALE BLOOD STAINS FRom THE FLOOR, BUT FORGOT A WAISTCOAT MADE. PRom @ VICTIR HE PAILED TO DESTROY, DRESS DREW RUBBED NDER THE BED .A SSION - ll teeth and watch Allied troops quar-| When you heard the a ftom the f tered beside them go up to the front] victims themselves and saw those =<\\_yhile the Americans remained n Dil-| victims, when you found out from . let, They were almost overtrained, | our officers with whom you trained put under too severe tension, be fore] what ¢ point of view is and how they went int- the trenche decent men conduct war, you be- “Zo the one foult anybody had to| came relentle: fina with them was that they were} “I was much interested in the t. Do you too eager, too crazy to fi American soldier's way of taking the By Hazel V. Carter ments have been Miss Malvina Hoffman, Director of | PECIAL arrang Red Cross News of the Week Red Cross Opens Christmas Gift Shop in New York, Proceeds to Go for Relief and Recon- struction Work—New Term of the School of Information Now Opened—News From Overseas The ambulances began arriving at | | i | SATURDAY, E NOVEMBER 23, idence of Tooth Marks In Baksa Trial Recalls Historic ‘‘Link’’ Cases 1918" Many Criminal Cases Has Hinged Upon One Point of Evidence, Usually Something the Accused “Overlooked’’—Four Here Recalled Were a Postage Stamp, a Piece of Cloth, a Lan- tern Wick and a Crack in the Floor. N EWS-READING New York to-day is following with Ifterest the case of a nineteen-year-old girl, charged with murdering her landlady. and whose conviction or acquittal hangs upon an tmpression of ber teeth made in wax, the result of a subterfuge to get that very bit of evidence. If the teeth marks in that bit of wax ate pro’ been made by the same teeth that, in the death strug pression in the arm of Mrs. Helen Hame ed conclusively to have left their im- at No, 607 West 23d Street, New York City, Elizabeth Baksa, now being tried before a jury in General Sessions, will probably be convicted. If, however, it ts conclusively proved that the teeth of Elizabeth Baksa, identified by the wax mould, did not make those incriminating marks, there is, at the present time, no direct evidence disclosed to conclusively prove her guilt. New York awaits the answer, Detective ingenuity long has been put to the test of finding just such missing links {n the chains of criminal evidence. Where is the tell-tale record of “mis- forget or neglect to “cover up?” What did the accused calculation?” Here are some famous cases where (his elusive evidence was found: Some years ago an Itallan by the| name of Torslelll was found mur-|elue were some footprints in the in Van Cortlandt Pa The as the we de’ oped, pointed to another Itallan, Gizzo, of Lambertville, N. J. The police came to the point where they needed the hinge. Gizzo had made his slip, and it was uncovered by the Postmistress of Lambertville. At that time there was no local de- livery, but arrangements had been made whereby letters were handled at the office when they bore a one- cent stamp. This system was in general use among the Italians, and op the day the crime was c umitted Gizzo had mailed a Ie‘ter to Torstettt which he had written himself, but which was supposed by Torslelll to come from a fictitious brother, Vito, whom Gizzo had created for his own ends, ‘The postenistress identified the vue instead of the usual n one-cent stamp, Gizzo, In a mo- ment of forgetfulness, had used a red ‘two-cent stamp, The slip was fatal and he was brought to justice, From Bavaria comes another record lof neglect, and in a case where the ‘murderer might have plied his grue- some trade for years if he had been thoughtful enough to burn the clothes of his victims instead of saving them jn a bureau drawer. A girl gy. the name. of Catherine Seidel disappeared from her home, No clue to her whereabouts came to light, though it was learned that she had gone to the house of a fortune teller by the name of Andrew Rickel However, there was nothing to connect him with her disappearance and he was eliminated as a possible factor, Months went by, the caso was |" ed among the unsolved and prac- tically forgotten, when one day Cath- erine’s sister was passing Bickel’ [shop and saw him making a waist coat from @ piece of material similar to the petticoat Catherine had worn dered evidence, “ garden and @ cbild’s toy lantern that he had dropped. Lt was enough, for, though the lantern was e y detail with thousands of others of its kind, the wick, instead of being a regular wick manufactured for the purpose, had been made from a piece of plaid cloth, The iting trail Ted through the evidence of some textile experts, but it finally convicted Mil som of the murder, The old books are too full of such cases to cite them all, but a cleve Piece of detection was used to brin the Frenchman, Veribo, to a reckon. ing for having murdered his friend, Desire Bodasse. It was done fo money, and after the crime Veribo dismembered the body in his bed room, which had a@ tiled floor, He scrulybed this floor himself, but tn the interval the blood of his victim had flowed to the lowest spot and collected under the bed, Everything was clean and ship-shape when the detectives entered, but they traced these spots by pouring water on the floor and waiting to see where it came to rest. The tiles were re- moved and traces of dried blood were fond in the cracks, Veribo confessed and later committed a@ui- cide in his cell, No, the New York killer has little chance of escaping, because if bi case slips successfully by one depart ment it still has to pass muster under the sharp eyes of a secon! institution which hag been orets ized with the specific purp~® of landing Mr, Criminal tn jail, The police may look disinteramedly at 1 body found floating ‘m the North River, but unmeg the puinstak- « examinati. of Dr, Charles Norris, Om@f Medical Examine for the sity, it is proved that the vis.im was not drowned but bad Seen choked to death before he know that one of your qanimenis, hs |war, We British go over the tcp made by Mrs. A. Stuart Walker) the Bureau of Information of the!dusk and the injured tenderly un- An investigation followed, dogs traced | wo» thrown into the river. At. the tually rushed through and pavend | ‘}with a grin and a muse hall song on UY your Christmas gifts at the to have French, the decorator, | Chapter, will speak on “The New Map loaded and carried into well-prepared the bodies of the man’s victims to 4/44 opsy it might be found that the ‘own barrage, so that the barre our lips. The French climb Calvary 4 Cross BhOD. | display valuable antiques in a de-|of Europe,” and Mra, Alice McKay| wards, where the doctors and nurses shed, and when he was accused of cated. : aeuatery et I iD | Red Crons i | | lungs floated, whereas they would didn’t assist it a » 8 ® an ust feel the nails pierce the nything that you! part in charge of Mrs. Walker| Kelly will discuss “Future Foreign | began their work. hat hospital was the crime, and others of lke nature, ” a i A ‘Almont any : sink if the dead man had breathed Yealanders had to rush in bid help| hands, To the Americans I met tne 1a want to buy will be found at} and Mrs, George Blumenthal. Miss! Civilian Relief.” Put up in two weeks. The dr and he broke down, confessed and W45) water as he sank. A clot of blood yo it out of a hole! There is just one) war seemud like wn immense, dirty | °°" Red Cross Shop recently opened | Loulse Murray has volunteered to} od the wounded had been expected, It gnally beheaded. on the brain shows a mark of a blow Jittle line—the line of good judgment} job which they had to fnish and tin. | HO Ree ee ong the pre uke charge of the dopartmonts of| HE Bronx Chapter of the Ameri-|was University of Virginia men,| ‘The case of Horace Smith in Ené- | yy Dama ean ginaeal s ‘ EU Yiebetween courage and folly. But no]! with the utmost possible cil. bor ET EE ee ecltat ae aa can Red Cross through its sec-/working with the University Red! jand in 1896 is even more illustrative atraneul ue ine Goat oe nel repo your nen id sche, HERE “Lhe Americans came to Franc Berg Aer relief and reconstruction; Mans for the establishment of the retary, Mrs, W. H, Arndt, yes-|Cros# unit, and the 100 Southera, ing shows the minute quality of de tinge he haw been poisoned. wie 7. things of which you all know at Bel-| riled with the spirit of thelr country. |e ing trom the shops will] Red Cross a riod several! tePday announced Its gratefulness to} girls who got it ready tail » murderer must cover if he 1 It is all very simple and matter of . lean Wood and Chateau Thierry and|man who opened business on an up- | work. Ps many tt ‘“ » she | weeks ago, but no definite date could | t€ Bronx police for the generous re-| Sixty thousand dollars turned over! ig pe successful in the business of fact, but if the criminal escapes the ) in tho very diMfcult fighting of the! fined Dox yA ane ee Pee dap Ghetehe t for the: fornia oper the| SPonse in the recent campaign for/bY the B, P.O. K, by the efforts of! iin, The murderer, Millsom, | oMeal of standing before a Jury it i 4 ‘ pefore he s\ inks | will want to buy for Christma set for the formal opening to the ‘ " ‘ Hing. e derer, 2 pgp ty thy * a - ‘From the first,” Lieut. Dawson ig-|\ou said to yourselves, but we'll show | s a democratic shop and | headquarte 4 stated that there will be no further sinia man, had got the unit un- ead in his home, for the only |never by any great forethos ‘ P le, “the Ca them!’ And if theeres. Y | Gross Shop is a @ P 1 rs was found, As soon as Smith dea y s aught on _ gear ae an Hey % “ape on for ten yearn, 700 ve are wide open to every one| che dwelling at No, 587 Fifth Avenue| 2¢¢4 for preserving pits, nuts and|@¢r way. One thousand beds and sup-! ining he had given the police as a !hig part or clever thinking, q dians paid the Americans the high- en years, YOUr'es ‘ i 7 a ‘9 plies lost on the ‘ SS , nelp the Red Cross and | wag offe © the officers of the shop | S28: ‘The Government has on hand way across hud! —— ; ‘ext compliment in thelr power by « I by irenarne ae fm ‘s Ba ili Yl , otith ek how @ sufficient quantity to meet its|#Wed thing» up, but the hospital was ‘ “ing, ‘You are just like us—you'll] tioned simply, “the Germ: ns could not |‘ Rane A salar atlas * needs fc . jg | OMtablshed, equipped and manned in itiake our kind of fighters!’ After the} ave triumphed until thoy tid killed) Peautiful thing ‘ emodelling and cleaning necessary | Deeds for the balance of the year—if} 119 OW egan y age reer Americans got it. I’never heard any|‘"@ last Englishman. but we all The shop is operated without over-} .o make it ready before Christ any will ever be required again. The first relay of wou ‘ : ; gh ery: X aglish h, Italians—were tired| head ex and will be managed by | jnopping was fully under way a ania y of the nded VIOLET KEMBLE COOPER, FS: one call their combatant units any-| men w came. We looked atl, committee composed of wide With Mrs. Fairchild on the F 7 OME, Nov. — (by cable).—Tne| *Bich rolled up numbered some 200, ; amber of the i 3 thing except ‘the finest figh men.’| you Mghtened up, saylr Sart Nall rie’ women who W Anant : sealhes IR Zollowing decorations have been| “M4 the boys were down and out as AM by heritage & ty ar if Ne. ‘ Really from the point of view of} > can fight better, ie spate ee Nera ‘ He y n following: | conferred on American Rea| tne shells and gus and the rest theatrical profession, T am 4 i “ih when they did—you wore just be-} two million have learned that Frenc 1 1 ted her plyets Any Miss Ouida Grant vernment: Commendator of ¢ ‘Sl there were thirty-nine Virginia doc. |family of England, Mra, Sarah Sid- ? t reh= | and a w ; Governm« ‘ommendatore of Crown], 2 wore The Kem- 3 ginning to taste your glory in Sep-] men, who do not look particularly no-| executive committee under Mrs, Tap- | ary, and Mrs, Hamaay Moguct,| o¢ jraly, Lieut. Col. Robert Perk ora und 200 corps men .o receive | 4284 being my Kreat nunt, Tho Kem J tember, ble, ‘who certainly do not come from] i iaivenitd and an ady rel rer fed Cale Be erking} thom, =A thousand —well-repairea , ble family blood is also In my veins, Fa : noble homes, may perform deeds of | Pe? Fé : : § Tho Advisory ¢ in adai-| 224 Lieut. Col. Grayson M, P. Mur-| yanks can now testify that the Rea |#% you see, I was born to the stage. » “But T can you one t ‘ t ‘ tw ' Alex: | , th lon i . ; y that the Red 1© utmost nobility; you have learned t al . phy, both of New York City; UmMecale| cy y Sir Henry Irving's ( Lieut, Dawson added, and now t to appreciate in: © dlatrust Wake lander in the herd nto Mr ‘ airman, |e eet ee ste’ arene care ‘08% poople did their work well. My father was Sir nry | was no smile on his haggard y ishmen, who me ning in wor,| phe paar the following mem gy wether precise s : —— leading man for years; He also held Bieta han ‘bean wounded iv , {even death, with a grin; you have], Robert Bac Mrs, Cornelius Blisa| DY7n* Gnemer A ibys abhi 66 HP great Red Cross army of | a It osition with Mrs, Langtr e ve Me grew ns of unselfis’ — r ©, ’ventice, el) e 3, ere ue y wotie a 1 irage, 0} 5 ins and 8 2} or, called into be ust neveriat fir ough a int September, and gassed as well—“if| dis nulder | to | Every buted i Ce Mra. J. Henry Ham-! yor City, and Major Carl Taylor; | be demobilized i Ag COUN, Hever |at Aret Fount Tw vedere, we had not known you Americans | should C (to the general 1 1 M H. Harriman Mik| cavers’ at Crowe of ligis, tach | wer, Anllae Chatmnad tic oon ee aici Lari were back of us we never should have _ —_ —— | Adrian Isclin, Mra, Herbert Jonnaton,| go}, Ernest. P. peracid Rilitoar Suesspsigy mae. of Ex «reat Halian art opoloni, but I ot ew Col. Ernest P. Bicknell, formerly of| utive Committee of the American Red! goon felt the call of the stage and | dared to waste men’s lives as we did {rs, Henry Fairchild Osborn, Mrs.| w. , Will : K i & » 2 Washington, D. C,, William Herefoid,| Cross, in an address delivered ‘Thura-| turned my plans in that direction, J in the Foch counter-olfensive which William J, Schieffelin, Mrs, William| jutius Roth, Edward EF. Hunt, ak of|¢ay, Nov. 21, before the Red Cross tly interested in paint: | began in August and ended with th D. Sloane, Mrs..W 1 Straight. ‘ aie s t : Fore} ag alll Breahy oR ns Remy pa en re ON RUeY BD. Aeon ee | aig New York City and Edward O, Bart-]mass meeting at the Academy of|ing and do @ little of it myself now ening: Ls i ! Jett and Capt. Charh A. Williams, Music. 1 then, ment was one of those which Foch YRMIBR aludente of the Schoo! of sane TEE ae Tage ey pele and ther ; | used in his hammer-head, shooting iF WiMruAlon oto Nie ra He & dsworth ad-| phe first real part T had was the : ‘ ; ‘ NE HUNDRED girls from the lingenue role with Fannie Ward in us about as shock troops from on County Chapter of the Am ho hav | section of the line to another. ‘Tne 5 Ral Gi "4 Ne Southern States, Red Cross who have Worked heart and) The Hishop's Carriage,” at the Aid- t < ican Red Cross atter le opening auntie nila, asp IF in the Red Cr ever since the! “ as aolnw tot Mer igh the GArmeae wiih a jen tastd teen fe tee PED De graduate nurses, have earned : ince the! wych Theatre, London, Prior to (hat n Of) the thanks of some 1,000 Yanks at a| War began are thinking and wonder. | ed several roled of a more surprise attack, push on until they the school in the ballroom of the Hole | t t 1 bad played had brought up their resery the ©l- | bose hospital on the outskirts of Paris, s to the future of this great/or Jess inconsequential nature. After brought uP and HL \7 t 4 d, but the tale ancOUs Bp t rt with Mis Ward, I came to leaving othe? troops to the ° Va Jenni Chairman of the| should be told. he Red hould sto yobs Vieiniaaaacehariowsnaa'l should be told, M - OUI America and played anothe enue | Ree eae ete tie A atakilpo Bin fat so i ad taken part Mg on pats vial a i role in Hartley Manners’ “Tho In- |in this country and and start another r f \ By Lieut. Edward Streeter iy ; MhinantGe Gh y Hyp Bet 4 which will] Am a for r | discretion of Truth. When “Pe Since then I have appeared wich ‘ ‘ doubUess join in history with Lexing- ith ano My Heart was produced at the Cort | George Arliss and John Drew. On one day | knew A oy - rh ; I ~ 1 ae tles, on ano day A ; William wavinia Day, |ton and ord, and were streaming! :eturn except the satisfaction of hay- |phoatre with Laurette ‘Taylor as tho |Row appearing inthe Shubert pre could afford that only b “|! ON THIS PAGE, BEGINNING ' a Mrs, Henry back tn eamions and ambulances t0 ihe American Red Crons in every city, safe I was given the part of rethet | st Pope to do Moat ar cabal i Tappen Faire hospital, and the Red Cross officers tow 1 let that the p nd L remained with Miss Taylor al by 4 eS Pe " aa eae na am © people hav aylor ing th America, ay | am very fomab milfons were backing us, lay afiernoon session and the nurses were ready, expressed (hemselves,” through her * engagements both ' of this country, ¥ ; ” i a a an sll oy