The evening world. Newspaper, March 5, 1920, Page 3

~ NEW BOND THEFTS BELOW DEAD LINE SHOW ISI INSIDE HAND Accurate Tips "Tips Enable Fake Messengers to Get Rich = Securities. -TOTAL NOW $12,000,000. ' Six Hundred Banks Victimized in Year and Nation-Wide Round-Up Planned. The discovery of two new bond thefte below the dead line, netting police and District Attorney's office as evidence of “boring from within"— that somebody on the inside of Stock Exchange houses is tippy off or- ganized thieves outside. * Assistant District Attorney Dooling said he had recently received names and figures showing that 600 banks And brokerage houses in the United States have been victimizedb y thieves tn the past year to the extent of $12,000,000. A chain of “fences” ex- tends all over the country, and be said he had information that a clear- ing house had been established here by the crooks to arrange for dispos- ing of stolen securities, The New York authorities have be- gun systematic work with Federal officails and the police of other cities to exchange lists of stolen securities and thus break up the “fences.” As &-pafeguard against theft it is un- @erstood a speciai committee of the k Exchange and the pulice 's at work on a plan to employ retired policemen and firemen as messengers for banks and brokerage houses. @he new thefts were through fake messengers, One representing him- self from Gude, Winmill & Co. No. 20 Broad Street, called at noon at a wel known brokerage house. He asked for fifteen shares of Crucible Steel, ten shares of American Woolen and five shares of Wabash which were awaiting delivery to the firm he claimed to represent. The value of the securities is $4,000, and soon after he had signed for them and left the réal messenger called and the trick was exposed. Balomon Bros. & Hutzler of No. @_ Pine Strect yesterday sent a enger out with $6,000 of bonds addressed to Barr & Muir. For some umkvow. reason the bonds were left at the cffice of John Muir & Co., at No, 61 Broadway. An hour later a messenger pur- porting to come from Salomon Bros. & Hutzler appeared at the cashier's cage of John Muir & Co. and asked for a check for the$securities. In- stead the cashier handed over th: bonds und said an error had been made. Later the bona fide messen- ger came. Bernard J. McGinn, manager of the claim department of the Ameri- ean Surety Company, to which the thefts were reported, said: “The fact that fake messengers possess the information that they do indicates that leaks are taking place within Stock Exchange houses. To my mina there can be no doubt that there must be an organized intelli- gence service in operation.” _ 4 SUSPECTS HELD IN THEFT OF BONDS Employees of Buildings Where Rob- beries Were Committed Asked to Identify Men. ubwoman gnd ings in wh! * Broadw: Every superintender elevator man in the Deering & Deering of BG rt the Piteburgh “te rn ultural Cor nm, No und all the clerks of tn yaked to call ut Police H way to have a look at John Corcoran waiter, No, 200 Park P’ sis brother ‘Thomas Con 237 Lexi dan, Haussias, The fo implicated in the rob uf the three tirm thne method, opet q or exploaiy cis, $91,000. > pn avenue, on ave y Valen- without dril thout leaving Ron. Union Oifelal (lela on Larceny harke. lected a 45 W by Magistrate Willi exam nation Monday f grant | Hug ternational A. tion “Hold Presidont of Mareh Ohio, Wagn all the fire community removed tvur tae A eh ie vulns early to-day, , $19,000, was accepted to-day by the) |HARRIET M’COOK HRSHFELD SAYS DEMANDS $100,000 "a"eecr2 WOGE OFFERED FORINWURY TO GIRL) APOLOGY TO MYLAN REFORE HER BATH Jurist Tiernan of Sia: of Nidiced|C his Deforinties of Child | Comes Back With Denial— -| Were Caused When Mother | Car Muddle the Cause. | Was Bitten by Horse. On receiving a subpoena to appear be-| The most interesting medico-| on | fore the Richmond County Grand Jury | case that the courts of New York| to testify regarding the traction tangle! " , in Staten Island, Commissioner of Ac-|5&V¢ Confronted in a long time counts David Hirschfield to-day said] Just been filed in the Supreme Court County Judge Tiernan of Richmond had! by William B. Hogan, No. 225 East | Pec tly uttered threats in his prese: ere wc* | 105th Street, as guardian“or his four- Sto impeach Mayor Hylan and to in- dict him if service of the Midland/ year-old daughter, Jeannette, against street car lines was suspended. the Borden Condensed Milk Com- | These threats were made at the din-| pany. ner. of, the State Har .Asseciation] it is based om the charge that the Jan. 17, he said, and he had reported) chia was injured before her. birth them in a letter to Mayor Hylan, adding| wien a be ol Bp this Satell the opinion that Judge Tiernan seemed Se ee ee ee to show “undue interest” in the difficul-}“"t Company bit her mother. The ties of the Midland. According to amount asked in damages is $100,000. Hirschfield, the letter to the Mayor was}| The complaint alleged that the prepared for publication, but was sup-| horse walked over a sidewalk at pressed because Judge Tiernan called at| Lexington Avenue afid 109th Street Engagement Announced of the City Hall and apologized to the/and bit the mother. That was in Daughter of a Prominent Mayor the same day. November, 1915. A few months later New York Family At the traction inquiry yesterday] the child was born = Ad Hirschfield remarked that the Richmond She has never learned to walk, it Mrs. John J. McCook announces the Light & Power Company “seemed to engagement of her daughter, Miss Har- have things its own way on Gtaten|') CCG Gnd Gite most of the time! iit seccosk, te Jackson 4. Mayd of Inland.” He eaid he regarded the sub-| i™ one leg crossed over the other. | Harrisburg, Pa. Miss McCook is the She does not speak, but utters sounds | youngest daughter of Mrs. McCook and said to resemble the neighing of a/the late Col. John J. McCook, and is horse. She is totally blind and al-/a sister of Mrs. Peter Augustus en the poena as immediately due to that re- mark. ‘ Hirshfeld, in his letter to Mayor Hy- lan, said he knew the Mayor was not| Most completely deaf. In spite of her; Mrs. John Junius Morgan and subject to impeachment, but that a| defects, however, she is described as | Martha McCook. She is a niece of County Judge could have anybody in-|f attractive appearance. Charles B. Alexander. Eleted, though tie aid wee thik, The: Lawyers are keenly interested in| Mr. Boyd is a son of Mrs. Boyd and ud 7 a the case, whith they say is unique in| the late John Y. Boyd of Harrisburg. sufficiently “brazen” to indict the Ma-| sey, ' several aspects. The greatest diffi-/| He was graduated from Princeton in = He os to Judge a past! culy for the complainant, they agree, | 1914 legal services to the traction company, | will be to prove that the child woul = ond suggeited a law forbidding County | not have been born just as defective beepaaty Field Service in France in Judges in Richmond to practice ir pri-|:f the horse had not bitten the mother See Siler et eoeeee etbiee on. vate cases. Another question is whethep a cause |tered the war, as Captain of field ar- iE don't fener of action exists in the injury of an|tillery. He was aide-de-camp to Major Mayor to Hirehfield.” said Jud,e |Waborn person. i Gen. C. A. F. Flagler and resigned from Tiernan. “But I meant the Mayor| It is expected that each side the regular army on his return from and I stand by Hirshfield’s report of | Produce a great array medic: the army of occupation in April, 1919. the conversation, I met the Mayor a | Pert Witnesses, for there are marked |No date has been set for the wedding. week later in the City Hall, He ig- | differences of opinion in the metiical —=— nored my offer of my hand. He | Profession as to the facts of prenatal WOMAN CONVICTED AFTER 100 ARRESTS naming the Deering and Wie Company. t s d body was vegrees and remain there for a week oF asked me to his office and denounced | influence. me for working for the traction trust Counsel for the company declined Kittie Dowdell, Who Eluded Police 25 Years, Sentenced for and permitting the Court House to be | t@ Comment on the case beyond say- used for meetings on increased fares, |ing that their answer was a general I explained it was a public building. | 4eDial and that a good defense is We shook hands. I did not apologize | Prepared. Shoplisting. ttle Dowdell, whom the police of New York and Ch have been try- ing for more than a qi ter of a century ee LIQUOR NOW HIDDEN WORSE THAN BEAST, | IN SALOON SAFES CHILD BEATER TOLD ~ to convict of crimes wing from petit ay larceny to blackmail, “was today con- victed for the first time and sentenced to the penitentiary for from four months to three years. In 1895 Kittie was arrester on a lar- ceny charge. She beat the case. Since then she has been arrested more than 100 times. Lately she has been conducting a rooming house at No. 349 West 34th —street. She was arrested for shoplift- ing. ‘The most famous case against her was in 1910, when, it was changed, in {ront of the Waldorf-Astoria, she threw Contraband Being Served in Soup Plates and Sugar Bowk, S Revenue Agents. The offic ted States Commis- sioner Hitchcock, bh Manhattan, and McGoldrick in Brooklyn, were swamped who would not abuse its }igday with tau Revenue i, and if you had your]agents reported they were encounter- ‘ou would be in the peni- Jing new ruses on the part of dealers said Justice Ryan in the In ‘ourt in Brooklyn to-day that father of foumeen-year-old natatied big >auline Sorger, and kept the On Feb. 20, el cious looking man| Justice Takes Girl From Father Who Policeman Says Whipped Her After Work. “You are a brute below the level of the beast, own offsp two women took the irl to William Van ne, Principal biers would be turned {REF @tms about Warner Van Norden, a a4 cco h ls a Ithy chubman, pretending that she Public Schoo "01 would bland! t| ¥ na »f Public School } 6, at Fourth Fed Pet pin A tl was saving herself from falling. He Avenue and 4lst Street, Brooklyn. as asserted, had {missed a purse containing 000, She rf atthRr ahs ma the f 4 as arrested, but the case did not come Dusy amie tise Shs Hee OMe to) hen as Van Norden went to Europe ind told them that her father had —— yeaten her. woman, whose Police Sergeant Lackey investi- |} were ned.in| FIRST AID MAN ROBBED. gated, and said e found that the Fink, | a - He Accuses Was Helping and Two Other George Deebach, No. 417 State Brooklyn, had a nose bleed to- ner apartment. Christopher Mc- No. 243 Cooper Street, was holding her head. of Woman He ather had put the gin to work after 1 ma ery a8 a waitreas, and wouki beat h for using the light at night to do her home work. Justice Ryan gave her into the custody of an aunt, Mrs. Van [Th conspiracy said, would Cepicka of No. & bogus m Wyok Avenue, Jamaica, The father ————— While he was thus giving first aid, he wa lowed to go with a warning. ALBANY BILL FIGHT |***: Doebach entered with two other men, and the trio proceeded not only to LOST BY CURRAN eat him up but also to take $130 from him, Deebach and the two others, —— — jen rie Shoeneman of } 43 Cooper Street and William Harrington of No, s Comptrol- | 608 Avenue W, were held in the Adams “Hylan Street Court in $500 bail each on charges SUBWAY CAR ‘ORDER DELAY IS SOUGHT Borough President S: Hedley Asks Postponement to| ler Is Trying to Form * of assault and robbery. y ; ; : oe March 17 Before Installing Addi- Grant H. Brown Sent to Prison. tional Service to Relieve Jams. Declaring that Comptroller Craig] DETROIT, March 5.—Grant Hugh establish a Browne, wealthy New York sportsman, in New 8nd Lester Waterbury, convicted last ght of conspiracy to defraud the Gov- ent, were sentenced in Federal to-day to serve respectively two and eighteen months in Leaven. worth Prison. Browne, Waterbury and Nicholson gether with three others who we: were charged with conspiring ‘aud the Government in the pur- of army salvagi a Men Free was attempting to “Hylan-Craig government York City.”| Manhattan Borough President Cur y tried to get In reply to the order of Public Ser- vice Commissioner Nixon to the Inter- borough to operate ten-car trains ai all times, putting 600 additional cars in service, President Frank Hedley of the Interborough to-day wrote the Commiesion asking five days’ delay ing whether the Interbor- comply with the order. He | ter Board of Estimate, ¢ even though it has a majority, un- that majority are the t three Cou: Albany whier di with votes in the board and which is sponsored by Comptroller Craig. ure provides that no mat- before sa pugh wil also asked that the date on which the order becomes effective be postponed until Mareh 17. he m an pass the im Weed Alcohol Sal two of the pa Death. | Mr. Nixon said the letter was under Magistrate Koenig, in the Easex Mar- consideration. He remarked that a ket Court, to-day discharged Oscar Hamberger, proprietor of a saloo No. 86 Avenue C, cion of hom death of Aaron. he onder was $1,000 a day to comply wi hadble iby a ro f that trio the balance of power in the board VEHICULAR TUNNEL PLAN. [rie cx | feated pun’ _— E de- | Helle woor resolution was ete Would by $10,000,000, He served in the American Am-j THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, “MAROH 5, 1920. HIGH TIDE AND GAL! CAUSE BIG DAMAGE ON STATEN ISLAND oe Hundreds of Bungalows Flood- ed—Storm Heading for City. The combination of high tide and northeasterly wind to-day damaged bungalow and other property on the South Shore of Staten Island to an extent estimated at many thousands of dollars. Several hundred unoc- cupied bungalows between South and Midland Beaches were flooded. When the wind veered toward the east at 11 o’clock apprehension w: expressed that the high tide due be- tween 3 and 4 o'clock this afternoon might carry the bungatows out to sea. At Midland Beach part of the boardwalk was carried away and the 1,400-foot pier badly damaged. Bunga- lows at Woodland Beach, Cedar Grove and New Dorp Beach were flooded and badly damaged. Ice caused the collapse of the roof of the scenic railway in the Midland Beach structure known as the Old Mill with a loss estimated at $5,000. tops of piers between Rosebank and Sk George and fears were expressed that a highe: tide this afternoon, with an east wind, might damage well- filled warehouses, Smaller picrs on the North Shore were awash this morning and munici- pal ferryboats from Manhattan to St. | George experienced considerable dif- | Seulty in making their landings. The Weather Bureau to-day issued }@ storm warning for the entire At- lantic Coast from Jacksonville, Fia., to Portland, Me. The storm, it was | stated, is sweeping northward, Late to-day it is expected to reach as far as Eastport, Strong north- west winds were predicted for to- night and to-morrow. In this vicinity, according to the Weather Bureau, rain will turn to snow this afternoon with a shift to northwest winds and cooler weather. Clearing and much colder weather will follow to-night. Saturday will be fair and cold and the cold weather will continue over the week-end, TRAINS BLOCKED ON STATEN ISLAND Trolley Service Also Impaired, and Commuters Have to Walk to Ferry House. Passengers on Staten Island Rapid Transit trains were delayed for halt an hour this morning east of the tunnel between Tompkinsville and St. George, The trolley service for a time was also tied up and hundreds of people walked to the St. George ferryhouse. The cause of the delay was not announced, Many of the patrons of the 8, I. R. T, fear a serious accident just east of the Tompkinaville Station. For two weeks or more they have noticed a broken frog or switch, which causes the cars to sink down as they pass over it. They have daily called this to the attention of the employees of the company, but no ac- tion has been talcen. ‘As the track runs along a stone em- bankment an express train leaving the rails here would be thrown Into the bay. SAO WOULD DIVORCE ACTRESS. Wealthy Physician of Greemwich Charges She Deserted Him. (Special to The Evening World.) BRIDGEPORT, Conn. March 5.— Papers were filed to-day in a divorce suit by Dr. F Clair Hitchcock of Greenwich against his wife, Gladys R. Hitchcock, known on the stage as Dora Prodeau, on the ground of de- sertion. The defendant was at the height of her fame on Broadway in 1909 | when she met Dr. Hitchcock and be- came lis wife after a short eng ment. After their marriage Dr Hitchcock brought his bride to Green- wich, where he had purchased the mansion of Wiliam J. Smith, A few years ago Mrs. Hitehcock a sensation in Greenwich «1 amateur , she danced a la Sa , at a Ic > fs Try to Bock Move. < TON, W. Va., Mar att adjourn the Legislat loch, of W of the An the spectal ses before Senator ling. can reach here from consideration Ratification will likely be The fire on of Jesse roes to ethals, who compl spoke in defense of | |MRS. SPEYER'S WILL FILED. Mrs. concrete for the pro-| who died he Hud | day the ty Hall. Jeach to the I the Hotel Savoy. | 1 her will, fled to Surrogate left $106 brew Te al School for gar tunnel under aring at Newark ¢ | He sald concrete would be $10,000,000 and the Ladi liary of the than the cast iron sygsem ad- | eflore Home and I To Mrs. ited by Chief Engineer C. M. Hol-] Bertha Haupt of No. East 84th| nd ¢ New York and New Jersey | Street i and $500 i Tunnel Commission; he asserted ¢ No. 15! the river bed would give per rtection t any effect ¢ the concrete of acids in the river water sewage | due to orgs Ruby Sarah gets the third port Shuman. both, Sold through Copeland, Commiss Ned tire attention . ieatanecds WIL Sell Food at Cont Ma h A pl purchase by Elec Commissioner accumula the of home the lagning of money in emergencies wjthout interest, was an- 80, imounced by the company to-day, 1 » danger of an epidemic un- temperature should reach fitt Crescent Talking Mac A name with a reputation behind it is good but not so good guarantee with a reputable name be- Ned it. The CRESCENT Phonograph as a written authorized dealers only, ine Co., Inc., New York This morning’s tide was up to the! theatrical | POSES AS DRUNKARD SEIZE-SMUGGLED HASHISH. Wy canto ects rer TO GET WINE THIEF wwe semvers o which arrived from Pirseus, the Athens, Greece, on nerday. eake a foot tons, etm inches Detective, with Aid Aid “el tnebriated Man, Arrests Youth Accused of Stealing Liquor. end an inch and @ half thick. ‘When Detective Sergeant James Finn ‘was notified that Charles Leopold, a merchant of No, 543 Tenth Avenue, had reported the theft of twenty small casks and 100 gallons of wine, valued at $258, he was struck by the fact that there ap- peared to be a large number of intox!- cated persons in the vicinity of that! address, | Finn feigned intoxication gnd wen! looking for more. An inebriated per: eon, he aid, directed® him to Frank ‘Waltemberg, nineteen years old, also liv- ing at No. 543 Tenth Avenue, who, ac- cording to the detective, was retailing the wine at $10 @ gallon, Waltenberg s was held in $5,000 by Magistrate Simp- ra Sale UR soties son bee been repriced for quick clear- ance before removal to larger store on corner 28th Street and Broadway. Many new country, were elsed | son. | ; Aeged “I do not-understand the valuation tn models, suitable for bs lated this. appraisal,” remarked Magistrate alll remarkable values. \Simpson, “I would think that, judging by present standards, that etuff would Hundreds of be worth about a million and @ half,” malice POLICE RAISE AUTO BURIED IN CREEK OVERCOATS & SUITS at Approximate Cost Woman's Handbag and Chauffeur’s eran Sai $94:3 Glove Found in Seat—Not Yet | $37.50 to $42.50 $ 15 ; Known if Any One Was Killed. —_ | sa analienn apie in: Rabe hae: | eee ee ree 29 ‘off ‘the Harlem River at the foot ot $45.00 to $50.00 $3 55 lice (hic! afrncee 1450" VaeetiOeai sy porta Overcoat ee taxicat stolen Monday morning from to $65.00 ¢ Ft Charles R. Hearst, Nov 14 West (th) Suits and Overconts 44=— A woman's handbag and a chavffeur’s |klove were found on the seat. The right hand door was swinging open, the glass jon the left was broken, and the “vacant” sign was up. The police said the car must have been going at high speed when it went into the water. Whether the occupants escaped has not been determined but the river Is be- ing dragged this afternoon, —_— TUBE AGREEMENT VIOLATED, CHARGE Company Bound Not to Raise | Fares, According to Jersey City Officials, Steps to prevent the propdbed eight- cent fare in the Hudson Tubes will be taken as @ result of a conference of Jersey City officials this morning. It was disclosed that the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad has an agreement with the city binding {t to the old fares. Assistant Corporation Counsel Egan will go to Washington Monday to! seck enforcement of the agreement. “The company seems to have no re- gard for laws,” said Mayor Hague. “We are going to force it to observe agree- ments. It hasn't a leg to stand on." The proposed increase is suheduled to ‘go into effect March 8. ( ach to | AGED WOMAN, ILL, { RESCUED AT FIRE | ( ' ' No Charge for Allerations 1163-1365 Broadway Near 27th Street THE SHOOKIDS PETS Notice the beaming faces on our SHOOKIDS while listening to the “Polly” and the Cat discussing how comfortable and how pleasant the children are since wearing Shookids, the finest Shoes for Children. Police and Firemen Carry Half- Suffocated Victim Over Roof, to Safety. | Half suffocated by smoke from a fire on the second floor of a tenement at No, 659 First Avenue, Mrs, Elizabeth Donnelly, seventy years old, who was i in bed on the top floor was rescued last night by Fireman James Dunn of Children’s Tan or Black Calf Shookids Sizes6 to 8.. Black, 4.65 Tan, 5.95 Engine Company No. 21 and Patrolmen Sizes 84 to U1... Black, 5.95 Tan, 6.95 Cal and Reilly of th East 35th Peay station, They one ied her to Girls Tan or Black Calf Shookids the foot and then to the tenement ad- Sizes 11% to 2.. Black, 6.75 Tan, 7.85 fpising( ' She wee taken to. mederue Sizes 214 t07.. Black, 8.95 Tan, 9.75 The firé was in the apartment of James Mule, who with hla family was Absent at the time, ‘The fire did but little damage but filled the tenement with smoke and attracted a crowd of several hundred people. PROSECUTE JERSEY BOARD. “Neglect of Doty” ‘chanes Against State's Public Utility Comminwto Charges of ‘misconduct in office and neglect of duty” against the Public Util- ity Board of New Jersey will be pre- sented by State Attorneys Van Winkle and Record in Jersey City Tuesday Mr. Van Winkle would not disclose their nature, It is rumored they have to do with the recent fare increases and zoning system granted the Public Se Corporation's electric lines, ne board was prosecuted on one e of this matter by ex-Gov. Ruii- nd let off with a reprimand, Boys’ Shookids, 4.50 to 7.00 Positicely the Lowest Priced Children’s Shoes ve’ SHOO KI DS'’ CAMMEYER Slamped on a Shoe Means Standard of Merit 34" St. New York, i a KELLNER BROS. Fuenty-nine years selling Good Furniture Meuitieeas Corner [5th Street and 6th Avenue |Tax Return Day Cae ‘Near at Hand The time limit for filing tax ' returns without penalty, Federal and Stat xpires March fifteenth. is | We have a supply of forms for free distribution. Our Tax Department will cheer-| fully furnish information regard- ing all classes of taxes. Hepplewhite Bedroom Suite in American Walnut 4 pieces (Bow-fcot Bed) PRICE comparison affords conclusive test that Kellner furniture is marked consistently low. The uninterrupted satis- faction to an ever increasing patronage offers indisputable evidence of quality and service. . fou are cordially invited to inspect “The Twenty- five Rooms,” our permanent exhibit of inter- esting i for home arrangement. $365 cv ‘UST DEPARTMENT THE AMERICAN EXCHANGE NATIONAL BANK Established 1838 M128 Broadway New York City sources more than 175,000,000