The evening world. Newspaper, May 14, 1920, Page 3

RICKEY HARRISON, NOTED GANGSTER, * Protests He. ides Killed asi! 1 —Hopes is Will Be Last WR: Legal Execution. WILD FROM BOYHOOD. Eee Made Famous E: Tombs—Cantine of Pough- } keepsie Also Electrocuted, bat ever happened” to him, Richard Harrison, the gunman, whose sensa- eence and pl w his notorious career in the under- world, death was Chester D, Cantine of Pough- keepsic, who storekeeper while robbing him, ting Cantine to the chair Gantine asked Warden Lewis @ Lawes, and th visor was pre laughed and in a bigh pitched voice we going to play baseball? | “Goodby, boys," he sald and a} j second later the electe curréat was | turned a W minutes from the time {) Canting was pronounced dead by | physiciuus present, Harrison wan ted «lim the Rev. William E. Cashin, ee Catholic Ch in of the prison, wilk- ing beside him * -Cantine had shown his nervousness, despite his keyed up co! 4) by his quick gait, pallig face, and his re- | quest at. thet last moment that thé|% Rey. A. N. Peterson, Protestant Chap- Jain, should uot aéompany him. Harrison showed ng sign. -ile made is responses to F: r Cashin in a {; Jow pitched voice and took his seat in the chair, “This is the best thing 7 ever happened to me," he said. While the ps were being adjusted Father interrupting ocgasionally to the witnesses er. what lope they neve ‘bo: rs said Harri. » and to priest. When these were coinpleted the cur- nounced him dead, men were pa music and theatre whe eniertaining the visitors yf these we being set close at bh h His mother, of Poughkeepsie rewell yisit late nd. with Dr in the af n. 10 ocl the time set for the executions, Hat- rison's wife and tive-year-old daugh- ter, two uncles and tivo cousins, ap- eared at prison and begged Warden Ls Harrison for five minut fon was twenty was born in thi cla Ninth Ward, the real Village. His parer uncle gave him twelve syeurs old he bec. pigible. He fell in with youn thieves who were robbing let incor ‘aiters’ € Witten me ted § Gritiths, &n invalided Canadian sol dier, was killed. One of Harrison's companions was killed by the police: Harrison jumped from a window but sprained both ankles and was caug’ On Nov. 4, 1918, while being tak ecross the Bridge of Sighs into the woman he had been friendly with ai je led them to Newark, where [a yison was rearrested, ‘This young woman frst declared Harrison’ inno- ens ‘but at his trial testified against 1 im, MISS STAGG TO WED; JUNE FIRST BRIDE OF REMSEN, M’KIM| DES INTHE CHAR cape From) Decluring it was “the pest thing) tional escape from the Tombs gave his reputation, glamor among New| Yor) gangsters who knew him by the; nicknamé of “Ritkey,”. went to his! deat! It the electric chair at Sing Sing Prison shortly before midnight. Although he protested ‘his inno- ded against capital | Punishment, Harrison made good his | oust that the callous indifference he called his “iron nerve” would be \iny at the end as it was during Orme, Miss HELEN T STAGG. (Invitations for Wedding of Pop-| ular Young Couple Invitations have been issued for the wedding on the of Miss Helen fternoon of June 1| Stagg, niece and adopted daughter of Mrs. Arthur Be- to Remsen McKim. Harrison was one of two men executed at Sing Sing last night. The other, who preceded him in the ir by less than five mjnutes, : ugg lives with Mrs, Benjamin | jy" ¢y at No, 138 East 36th Street. Mr. McKim is a graduate of Colum- | De , Class of 1917, and is shot and killed an aged | oldest His | connected with some of the families in New York society. ' was Miss Remsen. Kim is a member and Shouts of encouragement from ether prisoners in the Death House, who called %G ckey,” “Keep ur nery key, could be amber when admit guards | | BROKER GUILTY:OF LARCENY. | Quirsfeld to be Sentence: far 86,400 Swi Gustaf Quirsteld, in L say a few words, Warden?” n, us the cap with its] ed over his face, he | to grand larceny in Judge Dr. No. 429 pleaded guilty nin O. Saphro, Wwindling him out of °$1.400 in PLANS BlG BRIDE “OVER NARROWS TO Jopn H. | 160 feet but for ney, about the gin’ Tunnels Also Suggested tO} neglect of duty. Estimate ‘Board to Link Richmond and Brooklyn. Plans for linking the Borough of into believing that the City Chamber- Richmond with the other boroughs of !ain's office had caught the Greater New York were presented to the Board of Estimate to-day by and his chief knew of the mistake three transit construc- | days before the warrant was mailed and tion, The cost of carrying the plans | into effect varies from $6,000,000 to nended check on ‘the Fimunee Depar $100,000,000, the latter figure repre-| | senting the outside cost of a bridge that pernritting the ant to KO across the Narrows from Bgooklyn to Staten Island, The Brooklyn terminal would be located near arth Avenue, Fort Hamilton Park- way and 86th Street, and the Rich- mond approach, where vehicular con- nection could be | South Side Boulevard and residential | jing on Sunday at 2.30 P. M., and | district in the interior of the island.| jg gn the night of Memorial Day at the | Carnegie Hail. On Sunday, co-operating bridge Could be utilized not only for| with the Elta Bixby Tent No. 18, the rapid transit and vehicular traffic,|Post will meet at the plier at 129th ‘and. Street, North River, and hold Daughter freight railroad service, if any of the| of Veterans service @s a tribute to the Commissioner trynk lines would agree to participate | » cost, uch a bridge,” “would be one of the great- | est in the world. | would be said Commissioner pe is grave in Woodiawn Cemetery The other plans provide for! tun-|the exercises at. the monun nels. One of the routes suggested js! §, P. M. the exercises will conclude in!" two-tube tunnel under the bay from 67th Tompkinsville, direct connection with | Avenue subway at 67th Street. proker who] The estimated Street, | Street - Tompkinsvine |. N. | $25,000,000, Another tunnel upper to Island, with the Fourth the 67th is project would ex- tend from @ point under 9th Street, Brooklyn, to Rosebank, Staten Island, ‘The length of this tube directly under the Narrows would be about 6,200 fect NING WORLD. ry |SIX FACE CHARGES |WOMEN BOYCOTT ;WOUNDS ON: ‘BODY Ce ae ee AY, wir 14, 1926. ; IN CITY ( CHECK CASE, CANDY, ICE CREAM, FOUND IN EAST RIVER | atteged Mutilation: of Pay War-| rant Up Before Comptroller Craig. : “| six employees of the Comptroller's office before Comptroller Craig at 11 o'clock to-morrow to face charges of| ‘There wes a mistake of $20,000 in the warrant in favor of the Crimmins Con- tracting Company, ‘The Comptroller charges it was mutilated with acids and an effort made to deceive the public) rror be- fore the finat signatures were affixed. Deputy Chamberlain Sweeney said he | | had let it pase “to trap the Comptrolier’’ | jand prove that the Chamberlain was | M™istriet Attorney Swapn said, to-day nil was “childishly poor business’ andj timated that nothing would be dow wbout it. | sailor dead. At? P. M. on Sunday, May 23 will be held at Admiral and that night at 7. Tis wt Grace Oh 104#th Street, near Columbus Avenue Its main span| At $45 o'clock on Monday morning, approximately same as that of the noted] to the Soldiers and Sailors’ Monun Quebec bridge. May 31, the post will meet at Street and Riverside Drive and parad Sun street. Hila Bixby. Tent No. 1s will parade with the post and sing at Housewives’ League” Seeks to Create Surplus for Canning — | HE rhembers of tho House- «d out ofthe door. « priced isang had dented knowledge of the {SO#t Of Pe charged against him. He was was | duction in aera charged with breaking show windo-y oe ft the cl#ar store of Samuel Rappaport, boxes of cigars. Delta Sigma Theta Di lyn College of Plarmacy will be given this evening at the Marlborough Hot ent. At fall, RroadWay und 26th Street, Manhatts budding pharmacists will wear | erali from the kitchen range TO SAVE SUGAR) Bank Books itt Pocket Made Out to ae Cornelius English of Pittsburgh —Had $25.45 Casa. =. 1, i" The body of a man about forty-five, Fruits and Vegetables. /botieved to be that of Cornelius Kne- N NAPOLIS, } M“ ‘ish of No. $45 Bedford Avenue, Pitts- Pee tins burah, was found floating in the Kant . | River off 55th Street Inst night by Wives’ Leagué of Marion | sorgt, MeCurthy and Patrolman Bero County (Indianapolis) have of the Marine Divistou, on duty in Po- adapted this resolations |Nee Launch No. 8. ‘The man's forehead “Whereas, The scaroity of sugar’ | showed @ cut and his nove was broken. has become so acute as to menace | Thére was a wound on the hand, and the canning of fruits and’ vege. {the sock and shoo were missing from tables during the coming season, therefore be it 5 “Resolved, That. beginning with | eash, The bark books were isued to May 13 the members of the House- | Cornelius English by the Diamond Na- wives’ League of Marion County |tional Bank, the People's Saving and abstain from buying candy; soft | Trust drinks, ice eream afd such other, | Trust Company luxuries that require sugar in their |Postt Savings Bank, all of Pittsburgh. Preparation until there ts’a surplus created anc i the left foot. | On the body were found bank books | showing deposite of $288, and $25.45 In Company, the Dollar Sevings and nd the Farmers’ De- The man wore a dark brown suit, | black and white shirt and white under- weur. The collar and tle were missin He had dark hair and eyes, was clean dluction in price.” |PRISONER JUST WALKS OUT, |snaved and port” vata aia isl Atlewed Simply a “DEAD SAILORS’ MEMORIAL. | ‘ine ween teavinn Cour oom: POTATO AGREAGE LESS. |. While Patrolman games Refily was ' Farragut, Xaval Post wih Motd jconversing today with Assistant Dis- | WHE Feito Five Per Cémt, Fed Series of Rxerctsen. | Attorney Driwcoll regarding — the eval. inauiry Reveal: Varregut Naval Post, No. 616 wil! case of Bugene Lonsang, fifty years off,| WASHINGTON, May M+--Farmers the _ series of memorial exercises, begin-|a putcher, of No. 87 Maat 108th Strent, |COMteMplate planting five per cent. less artested on a chargé, of burglary, the acreage in potatoes this year than last, rowe from his seat at the front|*cording to annotincement of the Dc fell in line with men whe |Pattment of Agriculture to-day t off with light fines ana] Potatoes now are one of the highest modities on the market. ‘The and short ot as reasons Wr farm labor are an Saves Family From Gas, and Mrs, James Scuta and their ec nalilia Sle | three young children are véelleved to | have been saved from asphyxiation by gas at an early houk to-day through the | vigilance of Patronman Joseph Sehilts of Brooklyn, Broadway, and grabbing two To-night fifth annual dinner of the Delta Theta Fraternity of the Brook- Arntulanee — Surgeon npolnt Hospital, Gas was escaping | caxh and $5,000 in securities. | ‘he broker will be sentenced on Mon- é to ten| each this point of the Narrows, it Quirsfeld is said] Would be necessary to extend the to. haves been connected <with=-several| Fourth Avenue subway from its offices in Wall) present terminus near séth Strect, i twenty years, well known brokerage et within tite 1g is fifty-two years soi “20TH CENTURY WIFFE” SUES saya Shs Told Slim He| tween 98th Street and Rosebank Was 200 Years Behind Times, husband, p of the Street, He me off from s¢ my having friends ex- complained of| (WO years it will be possible to ex- even the] tend the Fourth Avenue subway to tried to prevent Tustice $150 weekly pending hrust into his hands a cru- grasped between his on continued his re- ocent of this crime, gen- y century woman, CUTS SELF WITH MIRROR. Killed 4 man,” he said an are doing to} Alleged Shop! » this to any- id no further word except his responses ren vas, switched on, and a few minuies later the physicians pro-| 1 saleswoman | {| Who just hours of the condemned e sed within hearing of ayety in an improvised e convicts were giving a was preferred by $46.21 | between plerhead lines, or 3400 foot | less than the other route. In order to Brooklyn, to a point near 95th Street ‘The estimated cost of the Fourt Avenue subway extension is $3,000,000 nd of the tunnel construction je- $17,000,000. It would take about five years to construct this line and che 67th Street line would be about five years, The Commissioner says that within 96th Street on the from that point bay front, and at 95th et and Clifton, Staten Island, This would cost about about a mile long and would admit about the same time by the Municipal Ferry from st jeld In| George to the Battery. The advan- | tage of the new scheme would be arge of | More frequent ferry service for pass- mirror in eet jail and| Zit connection to the Fourth Ave- Ke matron noticed nue Subwa oj AUTOIST HELD F ) FOR THREAT. enger and vehicular traffic, with di- dine of | of the B, R. | Policoman Saye 0 He Would “Bfeak” Him, ' elothi Avenu « manufacturer of No. 5403 15th Brooklyn, was arraigned in HAT candy went w th the rest of the food family was nothing strange. Rather it was strange it didn’t go higher. speculators controlled candy’s main in- gredient—sugar—control it still, in a measure, though the ,government is loosening their hold. What more natural than that the “sugar shortage” skyrocketing dency away back last winter, when in a statement in the New York Times (Nov. 27, 1919), he said: “candy that formerly sold at 80 cents and $1 a pound is now bringing $1.50 and $2.” We pledged ourselves in our opening announcement last Saturday to take the “Hight Cost of Living” out of candy, to lead the procession “‘Back to Fair Prices” for Candy of Quaiity. The fine public response ‘The Larg- est Candy Store in the World”’ met with seems to indicate that we are suc- stablish a ferry | service between the Brookiyn shore The profiteers and | $3,000,000 for subway extension and | $8,000,000 for ferry boats and ferry terminals, The ferry line would be of transportation from all parte of} (ter in Jat! Seratehes| Richmond to lower Manhattan in 48 is now taken | should boost It was an ideal situation for those who chose to profiteer. Mr. Arthur Williams, Federal Food Administrator, pointed out this ten- candy prices. bt aeky Declared ) | Tract Oshinsky, forty, a wealthy BIG CLASS OF “CASEYS.” Third Degree to be € Candidates in Astoria Sunday, gressman vaudeville show for the entertainment of 800 guests from New York, While John Hu the el ian, Je his final tests of the wiring and ap- Paul Chapman, the youthful uth sentence was} commuted to life ‘imprisonment, was | ¢ » Deputy of the famous he | aking the | Gshinsky. for aware of the| Brooklyn degree t Mount Carmel Ly Charles | x nad paid | I, just an hour before to pe them a last visit. They admitted and saw According to police records, Harri- rs old. He | was 4 child and an| When about | gang of men held up ‘the Knick- | H 1 up the wall and Harrison had 00 in cash and $2,000 in when one of the victims put | ehty Shooting started. George jumbo rousted to a crisp tur and then from the daintiest mor- | seld Of suiredded cocoa- Bitter Sweet After-Dinner Tombs, Harrison broke away, dashed atrough Judge Wadham's court and escaped: ‘The police trailed a young 1 is Pound Box |5th Avenue Court, [a charge Motors “Better Chocolates aka’ Lower Price” CANDIES Toasted Marsh mal- Peanut Brittle— m bedded \in a setting Jerson? 29 clous gold- brown Pom Box Net Broudwnr tM Specified Net Weight Does Not Include Container. Brooklyn, to-day on by le Patrolman Claude I stopped this man's car last night at the corner of {4th Street and ‘ourth “and | summons for I dia 50} | Milk Chocolate As sorted Fruits — y, » J Deanuts| heart of fresh fruit that Wolght | ket Dutch Style Bitter Syreet Vanilla Creams - ! Vanilla favors the soft cream center, while bitter and Pound Box t, N Cocoanut Kiss: Th spend 0,000 to break you, you} Our Candy Kitchen Spec bis loafer dune | candy man Will be making. these you've ot a uniform on you delicious sweets of whipped cre up people 1 and selected freshly alredded co you are brok 1 Come in and try Oshinsky was paroled for a hearing | lon May” 19 | ee ar Paar ib. variety of flavors, Our regular price ce is 5c. For Friday and Saturday only tb. Calico Mixed ial from our Hard Candy Just plain, wholesome made of pure sugar in @ An Extra Saturday Special By Special Request _ ,,,, i aperuth ¢ 4 sweet are roasted to the right ris and then each one is covered by hand with the yeat milk chocolate. This ts the usual $1.25 almond, Our ib. Milk Chocolate Roasted Almonds _Chovolate Factory's Special al was so popular that w ected A candy service aiming | to be the most pleasing ( in the world. FULL WEIGHT—16 ounces of CANDY in every pound box UNITED RETAIL CANDY STORES 42nd—Also 43rd—hbet. 5th and 6th Ave. A candy service aiming to be the most pleasing in the world, Largest @d Floor Shop + ied (Between Fifth Avenue Worle and Broadway) Opposite Waldorf Hotel “SENIOR” | ” “JUNIOR” Until Further Notice! In Accordance With Our Recent Announcement in Helping to Break Down the Barrier of High Prices, We Shall Continue to Place at the Disposal of the Public Our Entire Stock of SUITS and TOP COATS, Without Reserve, At a Straight Discount of 20% “us And in Addition to This Noteworthy Saving, We Announce, Beginning To-Day, a Special Purchase & Sale 1520 Suits & Topcoats FOR MEN AND YOUNG MEN At These 2 Amazingly Low Prices For Suits For Suits and i Topeoats : Made to Retail at $45 to 55 The demand for lower prices has finally begun to make itself felt through the greatly curtailed buying on the part of the public, with the result that huge. accumulations of goods of all kinds, held for higher prices, are being forced on the market by their makers, The movement, slow at first to get under way, i ia assuming nation wide proportions, n addition to a voluntary reduction of 20% on every+ gar ment in our own big stock, we have just secured a lot of 1520 Suits and Topcoats at prices enabling us to Offer them to our customers at a saving of $9.00 to $23.50 from what they were originally made to sell at. They are the product nuy tailored ofa famous maker, up to the minute in style, el id in a full range of sizes ENTIRE SECOND FLOOR vance lneteny Opp. Waldorf Hotel pen Daily Til 6 P.M.—Saturday Til 9:P, Mmmm