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FOOD SPECULATION LURES GAMBLERS AND BOOSTS SUGAR Departinent of Justice Investi- gation Leads Into New and Unexpected Lines. Tales of People Who Are “P’ Sessed” Come With Alarm-| ing Frequency From All] Parts of the E rth These ind Men of Masterful Intelligence Heed to Them, BIG DROP IS PREDICTED. Enérmous Stocks Sent Sure to Break Market, Is Belief. Marguerite Mooers Marshall. | transoceanic ts, wireless telegraphy, super- / have deemed * blackest of black magic are we to give new of their pet s general boost fe to some perstitions and under- . revival of interest in witch and yoodovism? izes to lead to new lines of investig tion whieh - jMrs. May Jennings Bennett, who lays unies into the the Department of speculation In si is known by Justice that imrevenerate in- psychologist” who ‘dominated her mind’ ‘notized ‘her stock market has proved Her allegations re elr general nature x in foodstuffs, psychologist,” represent millions of bank money in- Department me, I was completely under his spell the unbalanced sugar market Before a serious, sophisticated New sophisticated Maeterlinck, gave apparently re: consideration waxen image osed to make of the Hen under her dis- son who had f melted over a stuck full of pins ‘or than prevailing sl tions for prese superstition p p painful and unplea Maeterlinck was quoted é phenomenon words themselves sound formula of Mer vestments in Cuban, South Ame and Java sugars with’ the expectation allowing the niting from the body ev and susceptible of being iteh who would departme! bars of wax in the make a figu it the one she would tortu with a wisp of hair from the victim} Of a persecution w nd then, when the witch stuck pins {| in the figure, the person whom it rer | resented would feel pain in the cor {sponding part of the overnment allowance but reports have ached here that as t ‘ ve been charged, refiners have received of refining in y of syrups which posed of at high m equanimity y own by its expounde handling of the raw public ix muicted so ‘uban sugar to-day ports at prices in 3 of the tropical variant of Me sent ome —homicic¢ brought from the jungle to this when he was in.my house he pi r day in the SON JOHNSON HERE TO-NIGHT. nk on Peace Treaty and | listened to Mme. Mesmin, believe murder of Cath- zn ‘smin, believed . Clark of No. |21st Street, Brooklyn. in the Philippine s, Kelly's lawyer said, he lived with the native women who W.| worshipped pagan gods and their superstitions, clared that he was powerless to resist mma Robinson, a colored | on a separate Kelly himself de- Herkimer Str Nostrand Avenue r Johnson wil indictment for the testified -on the n plans to he: witness sta I had to do what | would speak to me in a soft = eee MICHALOW FOUND GUILTY. (belonging to ent and I got it, The jury was clearly unsympathetic to the implied defense of unholy nutes to find | fluence criminal, but it is amazing that such should be put forward in and remanded for « jury brought beginning of 4 Mtéq|modern tale of even more melodra- |matic magic has just been cabled to tical France, ged to have instigated |US from se and murder of Mns. in her Yonkers home on | ¢ult by means of a § Virgin we ping real SUGAR 17), CENTS ' TO CONSUMER BY NEW PRICE FIXED Granulated Brand Drops, American Company Announcement Says, for “beating up’ ground that Wholesale Cost | t°* n 1920 or in the Middle) American Sug Lourdes which wept ss allowed to t wvelists would helped in gath jfor use in curing the sick, were four ition and proiity is, a broker; M. Candon, Inspector overhead expe her basic price statement sa of new crop raw su arriving, and we will grad- normal refining ance that it is the purpose of the ¢ Grand Vicar of Syria who was a conclerg received him in without charging for lodg- ling, made collections for him and de- der to {eed and clothe all this according to her own re- operations, on the nied herself in « to Its no 1 rma proposals and of High Rridge ‘Station took charge of ‘trying to make @ personal profit oud ihe yody. | THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1920. Salem Days Back Again? [AV|IPHT BANDITS Brine deabOKe ace Witchcraft and Voodooism HIN\PSTOREQN Figure in World’s News ~GROMDED STREET KATHARINE MILLER | | TO WED ACAPTAIN Masked Men Fire Three Shots OF SCOTS GUARDS at Delancey Street Merchant, ne | But are Driven Off. | | | | Another bold daylight holdup, the news of which was suppressed by the police, was disclosed to-day when Isracl Schnilowitz, a wholesale candy is dealer of } i ». 55 Delancey Street, ex- hibited two bullet holes through the right leg of his trousers and told how ‘he narrowly escaped being killed and |robbed of more than $1,000. ; Schnilowitz has his place of bust- ness in the basement of the building and lives upstairs. Sunday night, af- ter closing his store, he went up- stairs and counted his money prapar- | atory to the Monday trip to the bank. | He put $470 in one candy box and $604 in another. While counting the money Schnilowitz noticed some one pecring through the window from| across the court. | Yesterday morning, when Schnilo-| witz opened the store, he put the | money on his desk. As he tossed the | paper boxes on the desk the lids flew | a | off both. At this time Schnilowitz | . wd | noticed three masked men coming} ‘ | down the stairs, Two ed | i matic revolvers and the third picked | MISS up a heavy knife on the counter, | . KATHERINE SATHERE, | schnitowitz, being unfamiliar with An international wedding of note is presaged in the announcement of Dr. George Norton Miller and Mrs. Miller of No. 811 Madison Avenue, | Protest as , of the engagement of their | @ Joke. E. , Miss Katharine C. Miller,| Schnilowitz then made a grab for the Hon. Andrew Nicholas | one of the rob! ened fire, y Lord Hunt ngfield of Hev- stelih desis ahs eningham Hall, Oxford, Suffolk, Eng- | chant’ land, the latter of whom, in 1912,| Sc ried Miss Margaret were toy guns “beca barrels on the side, use they had no and started to! .) who the bullet passing by the nor Cros- | off the counter, hoping to attrac the only ughter the late Ernest Crosby of New York, and suc- | jceeded his uncle, Sir Joshua, as the | frightened the rob! | Firth Baron, | two more shots the | Miss Miller spent a year abroad yengaged in Red Cross war work, No d attention of the central operator. This and af ran olt of the ofc ‘of the mir order w | to Nantes. According to the four defendants— ‘who admit that they fell upon the Abbe and administered a severe b ing—Mme. Mesmin, from the di arrived at Nantes, became the victim received calling the priest. workers, Six husky chauffeurs were respon-| ing sible yesterday for W. Minturn, Chairman of the Women's National Republi maine the victim trom the loss of a $300 laprobe and | tine will recall the stories of Salem witch- Curtain material valued at $100. ( craft which they read, and over which Mrs. Minturn was attending a meet- | He they shuddered in their childhood. Hivisible teeth bit the Frenchwoman * and tooth prints were left on her face, Steet. Her car waited outside in| rp ntly was received by the hundreds She was tortured by the most acute Charge of Paul Gorbech, the chauf- | elling Ruins. in her own words: “From feur, A man grabbed the auto ma-| paim Nantes Sapounghi pursued me con-) torial ec a dozen cha = stantly, He tried to delve ma oron, | terial and fled. Halt a dozen chaut-| the axed him and when the ved all were trying 41 thoughts fours 4 inst every one, He bad a mag- lice a power over me. L know that eticed the blood of | on of No. 6 si ne th Street aes k magic. ‘Ile put ds other foul b ists in a chal- breasts of a wax doll rep- [PERE Ud wort ar, ino) WALUED AT $2,731,600, |*t3 . the orchestra leader and the bank hier her, resolved to free her from unholy ; American Who Lived Forty Years | persecution, broke into the priest's room at Nantes, atts dog w a grooved wooden paddle Among Many Legatees. | nda rubber band loaded with leaden ‘pellets, and forced him to give up the key to his trunk appral ate of William They found there-|Henry Herriman, ninety-one yearg old.| Among the in, according to their story of justifi- who died in Rome, Italy, July 26, 1918 | y, cation, a wax figure which bore all was filed the Surrog: office the ks of being the satanic in- p ., * | Sat satanic in- Brooklyn day, Herriman's American |strument by means of which Mme. se eaee Bet estate is valued t $2,500,000 an 600, Altho r forty years in Rome r vever Known to have engaged in any |Mesmin had been tortured. And to crown the wonder of the tale, it is Mme, Mesmin's solemn asseveration. | that at the precise moment whensthe Abbe was found, beaten and bleeding usiness and always cl pion the floor of his room, she—hun- 4 nae |dreds of kilometres away in Bordeau vas relieved of her strange suffer- | estate trooklyn | His n $100,000 an Home | ings. ‘ENT reports from Cuba teil of a revival among both the white nd colored population not America contal and fr m of itm balism. yoodoo worship, but of some ustly features of canni- the first time in. the the island a mob bent on 1g stormed the jail where tho reerers” W melee seve Whit we ly and Ameri history of lyn [Youth Given Pive Days in Clty Workhouse Viilip Metdieiin, Honey Peanut Bars Good old Jing bis blind mother and his seven |teen-year-old sister, Lena, was sent They'll ju THREE LIQUOR BILLS | IN ALBANY SENATE | T QUIET WEDDING - First Hope of “Wets” Is in Measure Fixing Intoxicants at 12 Per Cent. Alcohol. different liquor bills, bill introduced by Senator ‘ before it thre Act, minus an enf nator Walker introduced a meaqsure tifleation of the amendment to the vot carries out the recom’ ar ing Pastor,” ALDERMAN ASKS Ses Sutherland's those containing 12 per Assemblyman MeCue, 1 to-day called up for evolution prev duced and design r retary of State of the Unit resolution of for submission question to the electorate would later mo' rules In order to have a vote on the proposal WIFE AWARDED $50 A WEEK ALIMONY PA suspension | The res was, introduced by | William Tammany floor NEES ig forth the Go : ern Ws as expressed in his mess | tive mate week | forwarded to the pr tlon from Gi: Kineto Company | automatic pistols, tho: a ese Captain and Mrs. ELORIDGE automatic pistols, thought that thes (op arg tess PHOTOS by INTERNATIONAL ainst what he thought was| Wealthy Society Woman Met Capt. M. Roberts When He Was Invalided Home. ’ Jall of No, 620 Park hip. Avenue nilowitz knocked the telephone] Roberts, an American ace, the| with the British Royal Flying Corps r firing] Patr Beully in the Bureau yesterday afternoon, store, after having had the money] ‘The romance has been set for the wed- | #!most in thelr grasp when Capt ding. Capt. Vanneck is now here, | The robbery occurred about - 8.30] baldly ; : ck, at a time when Delancey| a social funct ulous weeping Virgin, An Street was crowded with early} Capt n two years invalided home war, enlist~ He brought aving Mrs. John | down several German planes, won the with palm leaf and | was wounded four! Americans jo go into th Croix an Club, | three tall and stalwart. | ing of the club at No. 54 West 40th | pride was dressed | couple left for] Women furnishi moon there they ning freedom Kendall, asked time on the fugitive. The} Mrs prisoner said he was James Hamp- | from mony, erty valued at of $100,000, tee, and he placed” this chalice bec HERRIMAN ESTATE Ke $4,000,000 and an an- marrying again, | daughter of Idaho. Ked him with | i Rome Divided Property | UNCLE SAM LOSES GUEST. | Had , Years at Cont rday, ited States on Tallis | med to be an | Washington Miu he might Many "em — SFrom Maine 4 held, and in the ensu. Hy ' Pea ihe to California are Pp ing psychi ind spiritual phenomena, and making of the ouija board a parlor plaything, tet tarive days: dy not las test hott on | XE3@t er Chocolates ata Lower Price” minds weak, irresponsible and ever ready to be ove sia wht i BEAT HIS BLIND MOTHE?. 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Mary Forsik, fifty-six years old, of No. 4 Marion Avenue, died sud denly on the subway platform Fordham Road and Jerome Avenu A this afternoon, he* police of the OUR 8) ENTH STORE NOW OPEN. 120 NASSAU 8T., candy for every Occasion - Extra Special ree of fru Extra Special for To-day and To-morrow Milk Chocolate Pineapple—c nutritious and healthy MILLER’S 1608 Broadway At 49th READY TO SERVE OUR DOWNTOWN CUSTOMERS, BETWEEN BEEKMAN AND ANN STREET, Specified Weight Does Not Include Container, Matt Orders Promptly Filled. 71 wait sud. mieee ‘SPORTING PASTOR’ Capt, Baynes asserted that bis wife's arid for $500 a month Wax excenatve, NOT CALLED HERE Supreme Court Justice Greenbaum eens $50 a week would do, Former Rector of Brooklyn Chureh he married her, the captain : said, Mrs, Baynes was “a singing and Smiles When Shown An- 1 in the public muste halls | nouncement. uncing of Argentin: He added th: e . The aatat Of a teeth and janttar| The Rev. Walter A. Bentley, who re» of a church at St. Johns, Ei and|tiened Dec, 31 as rector of me Chat er dabhee Tivol te te :“"") Protestant Eplacopal Church of the Ase Min Hayties “Nal. whe. ‘needed’ the |cenion In Brooklyn, smiled tocday when to meet socal @MUgations both| mown a cabled news despatch | from a dea |London stating that. the Rev, lverard : ‘ Digby, known in England as the “Sport- waa likely to be his suc- ™ It was explainel by the Rev, Me, VOTE ON DRY LAW, Pentiey that a fow weeks ago a friend *\had suggested to him that Mr, Digby - would be a good man for the place, “Why, sure,” assented Mr. Bentley, cas- | Resolution, Backs Smith's Appeab|uaity.” Whereupon his friend wrote Mr, | Digb, to Legislature to’ Rescind “Phat i# all there ia to substantiate te n the report,’ said Mr, Bentley. “I doubt Ratification, if there are six persons in the congre- gation who ever heard of the Rev, Me, Digby.” Gov, Smith's appeal to the Legisia- | ture to reseind its ratification of the | ai 18th Amen t will be seconded py a solution introduced at to-day's| B1Uh the Genuine Roguefort meeting of the board is adopte \avore solution It really takes a con- noisseur to fully appre- ciate the deliciously fas- cinating flavor, theting- ly taste, of this unusual delicacy. + Made by SHARPLESS, PHILADELPHIA ays K Hoard of Alder. | men of the w York heart oneur in th pith that a asafe| iven in the State Keneral election in |. be it further re- a copy of this resolution be iding officers of snate and of the Assembly of this and #8 f New York at the thn State ‘The resolution was referred to coms mittee, Store is closed at 5 P. 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