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detective said. replied: sulted sspection proached. outrages. MAYOR ORDERS AN INQUIRY INTO) ARREST OF INNOCENT GIRLS KEPT 4 DAYS IN JAIL ection Hundreds Unjustly Prosecuted |") by Police, Says Assistant District Attorney. TELL STORY OF HORROR. Victims Heard Things They Had Never Known Existed While in Jail. Assistant District Attorney Samuel Markewich declared to-day that the police were guilty in hundreds of other cases of Injustice as flagrant As that in the arrest of Misses Lillian Kahn and Sally Cobin, who were ar- rested for alleged misconduct on the street, incarcerated four days, and exonerated yesterday by Judge Ro- saleky. Mayor Hylan was moved to ac- tion to-day by the story of the girls’ troubles. He wrote to Commissioner e inves- Enright to begin an immedi tigation, sayl “My Dear Commissioner: I wish you would make an immediate investigation in regard to the ar- rest of the two young women, Sallie Kobin and. Jillian Cohen, and report to me. Young women doing nd more than it is reported tyese two girle did should be warned and not arrested. The police officer can very well dis- tinguish the woman on the street who is 4 solicitor or street-walker from be unsophisticated young woman. GUNSON INSISTS HE WAS JUS- TIFIED IN ARRESTS. Detective Gunson, at the West 66th Street Station, to-day gofended his action in ithe case after first refasing he said, upe- riors had ordered him not to sdy any- Gunson in- sisted that the arrest should have been made as the girls had stopped four other men on Broadway before to discuss it, because, thing for the present. talking, to the two army officers, “I followed them for fifteen min- utes up and down Broadway, Manhattan to see the ‘mov was my duty to arrest them, and I} certainly see no cause for criticism.” Inspector Dominick Henry, under whom Gunson works, when asked what he thought of the man’s ability, “There is none better; Gun- son is a thoroughly reliable and effi- In the last month Gunson has made forty-two arrests, forty of which re- in convictions. He was ap- pointed to the detective force Nov. 1918, and assigned to the West 47th Street Station, On June 10, 197, he was transferred to th Fourth In- District and has been’ a plain’ clothes man in that district since. ‘Whn an POLICE ACCOST WOMEN AND £ THEN ACCUSE THEM, they were for four days. has seen and is secing many sim- {lar despicable cases of frame-ups and it is high time the uniformed force was called to account for the Tt is not surprising that women and girls who have suffered sunilar arrests keep quiet. naturally fear the notoriety, even as do, If a few policemen and detectives are pulled over the carpet it will have a salutary effect and should put a stop to a species of outrage that has few equals, ‘When told of Judge Rosalsky’s de- ing stenogr eM Big Snakes Can’t Scare This Fair Young Hunter; Nabbed Largest for Zoo | TWO TROOPSHIPS NEAR COLLISION OFF PORT IN Fig WILKINS MURDER. me in an of a, Could P: | cision and assertion that he should be uked, Magistrate Mancuso said: no statement to make in ‘Tho stearaship Duca d’Abruzzt, one ‘of four transports which brought 17,- 2 American soldiers to New York to-day from France, narrowly es- caped being run down in the fog 100 ‘miles off the American coast last , Bight by the troopsahip Mount Vernon, | outward bound for Brest. After their the 1,445 office ca’ d’Abruzzi slept in | their life jackets . ‘y+ was that the giris were behaving unbecomingly at the Hotel Astor and were address- ing mén on the street. @ report that the chastity of one of th ished. It is a good thing sometimes to check a girl’ career at its inception. I have no reason to disbelieve the testimony of I believe him to be @ truth- ful and efficient officer. He did know the girls and could have h: reason to testify falsely about t Chief City Magistrate William Me- lay declined to make a state- ment on the merits of the case itself, but issued a statement pointing out with what care Magistrates sitting in the Women’s Court are selected and Nog the wee, of General ufficient evidence. io greater - ralefortune could come to this city than a hasty conclusion Innocent, chaste and decent women were being convicted and sent to prigon through the machinations lice with the appro tes in the Wo because nothing could be fu! re id. I did receive hours overdue, was feeling her way Because of “pockets” in the fog bank neither ship could hemr the fog calls of the other until suddenly t j sight 200 yards apart. Put over thir wheels and the ships {veered and ‘passed dangerously clowe to each other, To-day's arrivals included, the Duca d'Abrusal, America, Agamemnon and the Scran- ton, The South Bend, with 2,434 men, was expected to dock late in the day. in the America’s army, | Dersonnel were Brig. Gen. 1 |commanding the 14th Infantry Brie | gade, and Brig. Gens. Charles Keller, | ; Charles Treat and Oliver L | ing Jr. travelling as casual! French and thy Both skippers “That court has been in. existence now for nefrly nine years and as a result the streets of New York are freer from the moral ‘and physical the walking prostitute | than any other large city in the worid and vice has been largely driven from the tenement houses fn which reside | many | millions of our industrial popu- | irs. Ellen A. O'Grady, Fifth Dep- DierMARS Danish Army oM- Before Sunday about |rdiers will be landed here, and thou- nds of others at other ports. mong the troopships due to-mor- | row are the Imperatr with 7,000, Pring iss Gladys Ditmars, Bronx Curator’s Daughter.) rarer “wines with 3,622, the Landed Finest Specimen of Rattler on Expedition to Carolina. miliarize myseif wit My daughters spok: about it last night it’ t find that | conditions really are we described I | nd for the right in all” ‘It's all right to talk about esprit | de corps, but the fact that I am a| police official will not make any dif- It is well to remember, how- | ever, that during the war there were bad ‘conditions here Perhaps the detective in this case was overzealous, but we know that in the war many girls did need pro- In my experience as a ma tron and a probation officer and in welfare work, I never came across a case in which the arrest was not war. investigated many ases. In evory case it was shown to be a charity to bring the woman to the station.” At btr modest home in Henry Street Miss Cobin said to-da; thoroughly weary of the wl and only wished to forget it. She is tall, of good physique and bearing and, though she had just r | turned from hor work downtown, was not “made up.” Apparently she does not require such alds to bea “The army officers, Proached us in a yery gentlemanly ay, and, beyond asking us to drink, said nothing at which we could pos. sibly take offense. We spoke to them after they Wad ad- dressed us, as most any girl would n officer of the United in war time. DETAINED AFTER MAGISTRATE | HAD PHYSICAL REPORT. “At Jefferson Market Court we were |day. not allowed to gt Detective Gunson us arrested before and told wu need not deny we had been arre i Great Northern ,and battleship Ar- kansas and the Nieuw Amsterdam | The ships arriving to-day |@ring the following troops: America, Brest, 7/018, including 14th infantry Brigade Headquarters; 64th Provisional Evacuation | mfBulance Company; Tist E and els¢where. They were out of snakes in the| Zoo, and as July 1 | approaching they went down to South | Car'lina and dug up a whole lot who were dying of ennui in the dryest of | takes ail around the box so'that the is fast| Tiffany “beaut” couldn't escape. Mr. Ditmars laughed at the story the family had thought that found a bull gee 316th and 326th Supply Com- with a vary Ist Regiment Air Service, abeve went the box chanies, Headquarters 4th Battalion | os . sn made a wi spring of himself again. The ext premise dapert tt ae thie ime he poked his head out Snyder had @ noose ready to drop over It. — nyder grabbed him b; nd back of the head with one: base and around his big ugly body Ditmars held a bag “Doc” Raymond b, Ditmars, cura tor of the Zoo; Charles E, Snyder, head keeper; the curator’s wife, his two daughters and his father-in-law went down to the swamps and the sand hammocks of South Carolina to bring in the snakes which were not forthcoming for the reason that the former collectors had gone to the war to fight German Snakes, The party left in May and returned with thelr reptile booty last Friday. The %oo was shy on all kinds of , turtles, alligators and batra- foot of venom. 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th Companies; | | DENTIF Headquarters 2d Battalion, 7th, 8th, | 20th, 16th, 19th Confpant ent Air Service Mechanics; 15th and open, and his assistant dropped the (iéth Evacuation Hospital. | diamond-back in at the psychological » and Ditmars wriggled pax to make the captive drop to the “When I arrested them they said they had come over from Brooklyn to hear an address by Preskient Wilson. rived in New York at 9 or 10 o'clock, | after the address was scheduled to begin, their story sounded queer to me, When they were arraigned their story was that they had come to ‘As they had ar- with the other. Agamemnon, Brest, sith Infantry Field and Staff Medical |to me by a reporter or a policeman tachments, Companies F to M (in- jugive): 606th Engineers, Headquar- Medical and Ordnance Detach- 5,768, including | That's the way they capture snakes. Ono day Ditmars and Snyder were driving over the marsh, and an alliga- ‘or crossed the trail and scared the} ment, Companies A, B, |pleasantly enou, horses half to death. Headquarters and Medical Companies A ngineers and Headquarte anies C and D; 332d halt to 4 Out fumped the | gineers men o} 200 and swung @ lasso4 jo over the head of the alligator iano placeepents, dragged him into the wagon, and they | had to, tle him to the bottom and tle his jaws #o that he couldn’t bite. way home lke Yesterday. an Hvening World | klaxon and tried his best to get part, reporter with an acute knowledge. of /of the Snyder leg. Is it any wonder that South: Caro. lina went dry? ‘WEALTHY BROKER IS SUEB FOR AFFECTION ALIENATION Questions Filed in Court Reveal’ Action of H. O, Gise Against Ernest H. Clarke, Filing In advance of questions to bes| York | ¢ asked Mrs. Myrtle M, Gise of Baltimore. disclosed to-day that a suit for aliena- tion of affection has been brought in the Supreme Court against Brnest H. Clarke, a wealthy broker, No, 35 Broa Street, and Baltimore, jmore harmful toads and salamanders, returned with samples of all of them and yesterday there was a spread in is real opening jand he sald®to me,’ 'Y tachment, Cc Bakery Company. A new use for aeroplanes was related | Robert hows, commanding | the 73d Aero Squadron, who arrived on the Duca d’Abruzzi. has accepted a contract with a Gar- full testimony. | re snakes in all their varieties went out | to give the newcomers from South | Even. after | Carolina the once over, “Doc.” Ditmars was he: shearing | Ramondama-rama, lof Peru, and Charley Snyder, often | ounaed with for thirty years head keeper in Central | introduce nad | reporter to the snakes. duction was deejdediy formal. “ was having his own time with the) wild and hirsuty Nama of far away Ramodama-rama stand for the trimming, although his Accumulation of wool made him 80 | hen he sat down he hated | to up fm the morning, evening, or ot took five men to hold him trimmed him with @ metal shears and another assistant skimmed what reconnaissance 'delds in Utab. work over the ming) got the report Albino tama! cal ion hy believe in us and" kept us on ke carried 1,53 offi "aboard her there were American’ Vic: cers and men, aiso Thomas B, Gale, Counsel at Naples, Ital, and her daughter, two children; Broweter, commander of the troops | on tho steamship: Capt, Charles L, | Hayward of Neat Bare Hoe Now | 8 Army, Chief of tye surgicul service William Strabi, No. 372 Bainbridge Street, workers from | learned more in those four days |, in jail, however, than I would have arned in a lifetime anywhere else. It was terrible, and my heart goes out to the other unfortunate girls there, some of whom seem just as innocent | as we knew we were. the man who arrested us ought to be At the jail he pushed into another room so hard that he hurt her side, No,’ she continued, in answer to ‘at the office they don’t know anything about all this. not tell them. It was too humili and now I am afraid I shall lose my job. And, remember, I am helping to support my mother here broth My father 1s Mrs. Jay White, Evening World reporter tried to reach Commissioner Enright to-day in the matter the Commis- sioner gent Lieut. Buckley out to say he bad “absolutely nothing to say, ‘These young women declared to-day they would take Judge Rosalsky's ad- vice and bring sult for damages aaignst Detective John J. Gunson, the plain clothes member of the Vice Squad, who arrested them, Testimony cf an examining woman physician of the Board of Health established the chastity of the girls beyond question. Miss Cobin lives at No, Street and Miss Kahn at No, South Second Street, Brooklyn. Mr. Markewich, who conducted the case befere Judge Rosalsky, said to- day: “These girls have been well known to me since they were mere chil- dren, The arrest and the decision of Magistrate Mancuso were outrageous miscarriages of justice. girls I told’ Magistrate Mancuso the charge should not have been held against the girls, but it was then too lat made to suffer, He mid she died of cerebral hem-/ organizations H . | ture of the skull. by Howard 0. . Gise Is the former wife of the plaintiff. Gise seeks permission to ask his (ormer wife questions about her meetings with she received from him, an auto with Clarke and a v! a Brooklyn couple tion Hospitel Hospital No, drawbridge from Long Beach to the Aero Squadron, and 10th Photograph Company. ‘The Agamemnon reached Pler Hobéken, shortly before noow with 5 768 officers and men in command of | ol. Samuel P. Harren, of Northport, | . Col, Harren is regimental com- wmander of the 34th Infantry of the Seventh Division (itegular), of which at there were on the transport | and 1,563 men. all ny men cre Westerners, Aboard the Agamemnon were ‘wife and two children of Brig, Gen, Frank Parker, who is in the Army of ero Squadron r. ‘And in the mean time the reporter and Charley Snyder were busy with their snake charming. Charley opened the door of a diamond back cage and tickfed one of the “beaut: swamps of South Car'lina, Tho dia- mon@ back paged the rest of the visi- tors with his ractlers were reared and six ey those of the reporter with the glitter of a Dubonnet cocktail, buzzed like the nightstick sending out the warning of fa free for all in the old ddys of Mul- ad. Equally attractive and quite as im- ve in her manner and appea: once as Miss Cobin is Miss Kahn. At her home to-day she talked freely of her experience. “Why, we could not realize we were arrested that night,” she said. “I thought it was a joke, who arrested us was not in uniform, when he displayed bi I did not believe bim, because I could not understand what we had been guilty of doing. “The soldiers were gentlemanly in every way and we had already refused to take a drink wit! 4 waiting to catch a when It is alleged the infant son of the Gises accompanied 214 Henry 1599 In item te ie’ panklan’ ha’ tae ‘au County told of visiting the Wil- Gise’s testimony before a missioner in Baltimore, attorneys for | Clarke submitted cross questions for the to alleged efforts nd three heads es glared into The rattlers & blood soaked handbag beside it, clatter of a wife relating Baltimore man to, get Mrs. marry her husband and seek her co- operation in th@alienation suit. the cross questions submitted for Mrs, Brown, who was chief of staff of the | ‘They were a 2d | Division and evolved the Ge snakes when Snyder shut the box, and kept rattling as if they had Jost dearest friend. porter was introduced to some more of the Ditmars pets late of south Some dears, givia, some Knowing the ever scold you?" |lov@or affection for him?” To an Evening World reporter Clarl admitted he was alienation suit, had been settled. U. S. DELEGATE RESIGNS, ‘Then the re- one. We were'shown no consideration at all, and even w they found out we were @ us altogether, Neale eet Ee" watkad the floor all might when I failed to When the probi told her about us she faint for two weeks afterwi sot want my peopl any one to know I had been a on such a dreadful charge, “L hope we have not suffered in heart ha» gone out Pious ship delighted the ¢ Me amemnon carried. mascots of vari e defendant in but declared rates In tho | > Ret loose whout | But it was no wonder that the big- amond back rvttiesnakes rs and Snyder went down to the swamp to hunt for tho alligators the copperhead and cotton mouth and other poisonou: non-poisonous. reptiles they left the family at home where they would be quite safe from the marauders of the but managed ‘ne America Among the units was the 64h In-| ‘fantry (complete with 73 2,806 men),*the Ist “Phe police, | am sorry to say, do not stick to the truth when they’ get many of these cases. Ofttimes they themselves accost the girls in the) street and then swear they were ap- Nothing excuses an of- Beer from committing perjury and framing, even if he is certain the girl has been previously convicted. I saw these two girls in je where e talk | thay hoard was so vile that the giris| {cer veut were in tears all day long, much furnished r ption hall as un- disturbed by the struggle between Dr, | Wukins and the burglars, Me-| JUDGE ASKS QUESTIONS ABOUT | 2 men), and a ee of imnaiter course, I did and moccasins, Recognition PARIS, June (United Preas).— President Wilson's action in assenting | to conditional Kolchak's Russian Government has re- sulted in making! final the resignation lecturer in history at “T feel that Russia never can be re- ‘ored and reconstructed cratic basis by dictator in Siber: vain, however. My those poor girls some of them I know, as a woman, Among the casual omeers wers Brigadier Generals, ‘commanding the 14th Infantry Brig- ade; Gen, Charles Keller, Gen, | proud could be, for they capture biggest of all their rattlesnakes. they returned fadys, the fifteen year old daughter of the curator, shouted to ber father: “Oh, [av not think it was fastened, said the witness, “It was just resting f the police w: nt to do there.” some real good in they arrest the f “There is no doubt that this city | powdered women on Broadway and in the bright light districts who bear the stamp of what they are on their Treat was tn command lof the American forc The World, 5 grandpa and I ct kins for The ‘orld, was called. terrible big snak ‘And the curator smiled jn his supe- rior wisdom as his daughter showed him a box, under which she said was the biggest rattler he ever saw Negre Bey Sentenced to Death, Thomas Dixon, of a military aid Morrison in an rs differed from that gi ald Morrison tn an lary story given by f cS case: From Miss Kahn's mother it was most of the other witnesses in one her daughter nearly all her evenings at hot Mrs. Kahn was deeply pt by her daughter’ | rest and convictio, in her child threughout the orde: sentenced to-day by | Justice Mitchell in the Bronx County | Hupreme Court t chair during the was convicted la “that as he and his wife approached their home the dogs did not bark their welcome as usual. The doctor said he regarded this as strange, but They alled her grandtath eadon tolerate ee called her &! er's attentior : gy Bed ie ita Neen ide une juan | Whe lived with hia wife and hildren but sali her faith A seventeen-vear- with bis mother at No. Street. was this morning ° Park Lake opposite 77th Street coiled ike. a watch § CHIEF OF POLIGE ‘REPEATS STORY OF Duca , d’Abruzzi brazil’ With Home-' Counsel for Both Both Sides it bound Troops and Mt. Vernon Narrowly Miss Crash. pressed With Testimony Re- garding Victim’s Hat. MINEOLA, L. .1, June 18,—Dr. yard of their cottage at Long Beach, told Chief of Police Patrick Tracy) 1, of the Long Beach police that she wore her hat that windy night tied down to her head by a vell. This! | testimony was brought to-day from the Chief of Police, a State's wit- noas, by @ chance question of At- torney Wysong in cross-examination at the doctor's trial on the charge of wife-murder. The District Attorney in his open- ing address promised to prove to the jury that Mrs, Wilkins wore her bat home, removed it and her hairpins inside the cottage, and was then beaten to death tnside and outside of | the cottage, presumably by her hus- band, ‘The defense has opened the way to proof that on reaching the Long Is- land railroad station, at Long Beach, Mrs, Wilkins went into the waiting room, removed her hat and tied the veil over her hair; thus she would have been areheaded when she |walted outside the house while her husband went in to look for burglars. Capt. Patrick Tracy, Chief of Police of Long Beach, formerly of the New York City police, resumed the wit- ness stand eatiler in the da: It was téstified yesterday that all of the clothing taken from Mrs, Wil- | king at the hospital was sent to the| Long Beach village offices and Charles Farrington, man of all work about the place, burned them, Chief Tracy said he knew nothing of their destruction, Police Justice Cassius Coleman said he knew nothing about it. Chief Tracy looked at a torn bit of veil shown him by Mr. Wysong. “Ho | said he had never geen it before, He swore it was not the vell which had been picked up on the Wilkina place the day after the tragedy, VEIL AS ONE WORN 'Y VICTIM. The District Attorney showed the witness another vell, not torn, but knotted at one corner. “That js the veil that was handed the morning of Feb, 36" “You are sure of that?’ demanded insisted whe chief, “because I showed it to Dr. Wilkins es, that is her veil; she had it tied over her hat fast | } night on account of the win At the words “over her hat" ali the counsel in the case started pereeptt- | Wilkins wore her hat from the rail- road station to her home js vital to the case. The prosecutor contéfds | that ahe wore’ her hat from the sta- tion to the cottage, entered her home, removed her hat and hair pins and was beaten to death In and out of the house by her husband. Dr. James J. Moorhead, formerly Lieutenant Colonel, Medical Corps, U. in the Long Bea Army Hospital, told of operating on Mrs, Wilkins, morhage following a depressed frac- Solomon Pearsall, tender of the // mainiand on the njgut of tae mur- | der, said he saw everybody crossing the ‘bridge that night and that no three men, wearing caps, two short and one tall passed over the bridge up to 6 o'clock the next morning. No | boat passed under the Dridge in that time, either, he said, Sheriff Phineas H, Beaman of Na |kins cottage the day after the mur- der, He saw the purple hat of Mrs. Wilkins lying in the vestibule, with Q. How many burglars did Dr, Wilkins suy were in the house? A, Three, Two were short and one . Did he say which one was alled "Dick’ and went out to quiet | Mrs, Wilkins, A. Yes, be said that was the tull Other witnesses have related that Ikins told them he did not sce at all, but in a daze merely ed that a third person left the | Sheriff Seaman also described the EASEL IN VESTIBULE. ‘Was there @ picture on the easel ™| a Justice Manning intervening, | ‘Wan it fastened on the easel?” Joseph Van Raalte, a reporter who tigated the murder of Mrs, Wil- His account of Dr. Wilkins’ bu told me,” he said, fury inthe cose of the mother of Thomas disagreed las PY e will be tried agali TEL pon w Lillan’s desire to ae being a sales- he had been study- grandpa let a amall packing box drop over him. Then Gladys jumped on luring her lelsure.| top of the box and grandpa drove ‘ported the case as suicide. pekeshee is at No. 269 West ccording to the witness, that the robber who jz out to quiet Mr, and + "Phis ie a musey Job, RO ON calle Great Love of ih rencg TOS TREE MLE Policernen Hurt Hurt and A Pursuers Engaged to © Horse at Coney, Policemen John MeN Robert Murphy of the Bath Police Station are stiff and day after their experience afternoon in one of the most and sensational runaways occurred at Coney Island. Lapidus, forty. yin ee Pet Dish. Hie fondness for Hungarian goulash is hingely responsible for the fact that | Peter J. Janscer, $2, a bartender, is | in jail to-day on a charge of bigamy. (Goedel from 4, Gt Cengrendent of The Janacer, who is #ix feet tall and good- ‘ovenine \ woking, married Nasta Radaure on | May 21, 1910, and went to live at No. Walter K. Wilkins on the day after! 325 mast Bixth Street. Hl ewas at- his wife was beaten to death in the tracted to her by her ability to pre- pare the toothsome national dish of the Magyars. A daughter, Marie, now Was born to them. Four years ago Janscer bade his wife good-bye, ostensibly ‘to return|No. 80 Georgia Avenue was to Austria to fight. Later Mrs. Jans- ‘oor heard he had died a hero, but; Street. The honk of an eute { still ater word came to her, #he said, caused the horse to bolt, ttiat her husband was seen In Bronx | Michael off his seat. The horse Park, this city, with a beautiful young | into ith Avenue and at 64 woman of whom he seemed more than struck John Delucio, No, 1965 634 Street, who was marriage | bicycle, which was wrecked, Bicycle Policemen the next corner, saw the - coming and set his bike in and grabbed @ strap about the mals neck, Fs bridle being his horse and wagon along. Investigation records led Mrs, Janecer and De- tective James Smith, of the East Sith Street station, to No. 857 Forest Avenue, the Bronx, last night where they found Janacer and the young woman. The police say the man married the second woman, formerly Margaret Desso, May 31 of this year and was attracted to her because of her delectable goulash, Before Magistrate Groehl in York- ville Court this morting Janscer held in default of bail which was’ fixed at $2,500 om the request of Assistant District Attorney Direnzo. LAY HEALER HIGKSON WINDS: UP WORK HERE: ] Believes Episcopal Church Here! Formally Will Take Up Heal- ing by Prayer. James Moore Hi lay churchman, who has been praying ick and mentally distressed every day at Trinity Chapel in West ai Street, ie winding up his tabors in| New Lork preparatory to departing for Philadetpbia next Saturda; his public meeting last Friday and ts now attending only to appointment cases and bedridden persons who ask him to come to their homes. A farewell service was held chapel yesterday afternoon. The edi- fice was crowded with persons who have been treated by Mr. Many testified that they had been aided, physically, mentally or spiritu- . Dr, Wiliam T, Manning of Trin- ity Church and Dr. Slatterly of Grace Church spoke briefly on Mr. Hickson's work. Mr, Hickson said today that, as @ result of his visit, of pra would ahy ow Fore. vo by Pine Episcopal Church YOUNG GERMAN TEACHER ENDS LIFE BY HANGING of Columbia, bly. The question as to whether Mrs. | pointed Aspirant for Chance to went on ‘and’ on, At 62d Policeman Murphy, Pubite School Ni > for the runaway wn. At 60th street Mra, M. Mrs. G. T. Wright, both 63d street, were eel! across the avenue, on to the runaway warping and the women ‘made. ti sidewalk in safety and hyst wagon wheels just wagons, bicycles, Joined tn the inaway Lvs struck @ feet as Murphy and bi and landed on the ru at Ditmas avenue they ati afier @ run of three _— Pleste Het Gaitiy be Bre cretary of the hay pe Pabiveni before ried ry cept a ‘tatee ret: te bag ‘#8 income tax. hot guilty and the the cane was bs e ‘Fedveed fr for wi "aibions ane Usiele “Tut, good sir! If you can’t find a cigarette that suits your lordly taste, it’s be- cause you know not where — to seek. ‘The rarest pelea brand you ever smoked is waitiog for yon ot Uinta “if you'll just ‘mention — Alston Richling, teacher of German, lumbia University o pointed aspirant for a chingp to fight in the great war, killed himself this morning at his home, No. 388 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn, id that the final cause of his suicide was a threat that bis rent was increased from $60 to $85 a month, but this Was denied by the agent and ts Delleved to have been one of sev- iMusions, some of them weirdly MMowical, which made Richit porate. He cut his wriats, but this form of death apparently was too slow to satlaty He put a cord about his neck and | tried to hang himself from @ chandelier, jbut the fixture was pulled out of the | ceiling by his weight. thus released, that finally ended his life. Richiing lived with his parents, who His mother said her son bad formerly eatned a living by teaching German, but had been obliged to give that up when the United States entered the war, and had not found steady work ee. It was the gas, [yrun TWENTY FOR 176 ——| lik fedss Attorney Wysong asked if Mr. Van Raalte had examined the hat which Wilkins said he was wearing He showed the We better go out,” and th jeft. DAY = RENTS NW Electric VACUUM CLEA 131_West 42d St. when struck down, witness the battered hat which has been put into evidence as an exhibit. “That doesn't look like the hat,” “The hat I saw suid the reporter, was not cracked. It looked as though it had been stepped on.” “Are you here ti an expert in sm counsel for the defense, out among the Once more Justice Ma ning rose and threatened to cle ing to quality as ed hats?” asked stopped treating the trial as a mat- ter for amusement. witness was Dashiell, a Tribune reporter who in- similar to Mr, Van Raalte's. Mrs. Mary J, Ducompt, a friend of Mrs. Wilkins for thirty-one years, called as the first witness after the repeated the familiar Wilkins about his three burgiai TTT ca. narrative of Dr, encounter with the She went to Leng Beach the morning 28, in response to a telegram from Dr, Wilkins. She said she saw ikine's hat in the entran Charles Becker, an electrician and a neighbor of Dr, Wilkins, told of ie hintst’s hammer taken from the tool box of Dr. Wilkins’s automobile in 1916 to make re) the machine. was similar to that found behind the ‘Wilkins, but had a much He waid the ‘tn came | body of Mrs. shorter