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\ *s« of Shooting Demands TUCCI GIRL SOBS AT SUMMING UP ~ INMURDER TRIAL Counsel for Defense Assails Testimony of Daughter of Slain Woman, WITNESS IS EXCITED. Man Named as Indirect Cause 4 “Vindication.” . Phe taking of testimony in the case @f Maria Tuocl, charged with the murder of her sister, Angelina Conti, im thelr home, No. 99 West Houston Street last March, ended this rhorning and shortly after 11 o’clook Judge D’ Alota, of counsel for the accused git, began summing up for the de- fense. ‘The last witness was Michael Mon- sievi, who ts alleged to have been the indirect cause of Angelina’ death. The defense claims Maria's Tefusal to accept the attentions of Mongiovi led to the quarrel tn which the sister was shot. ‘ After finishing his testimony under @fess-examination, in which he again denied wrongdoing with Angelina, Mongiovi declared his honor had been assailed, and he derranded “vindica- tion.” He was in such a stat of ex: eitement that it was with difficulty he ae led from the witness stand. MARIA SOBS AS HER CASE SUMMED UP. ‘When Judge D’Aloia began his “@emming up, Maria rested her el- bows on the table before her and @upped her face in her hands. Throughout his addreas to the jury Maria continued to sob, her face hid- Gen. ‘The chief point in the early part of MMs summing up. was In calling the attention of the jury to the unlikell- hood of Maria having told the Mas- eat boys, Santo and Luigi, that she bad shot her sister, judging by their subsequent actions. Judge D'Alvia also laid stress upon ‘the testimonf of Concettina Conti. He faid all the evidence pointed to the fact that she was asleep when the ehots which killed her another werd fred. ; “Bhe has testified that she heard the @econd shot, and said to. Maria ‘You ‘are killing my mamma’ Is it likely that this child would have remained ten minutes in that bed beside her dead mother? She would not have re- mained ten seconds, though she has stated that she remained there while Maria was upstairs. “Concettina did not see the killing ef her mother, because on the way to the train that morning she said to Maria ‘Where is my mother?’ Mr. D’Aloia pleaded with the jury for the acquittal of his client. He displayed tho blood stained pillow Is -wetase, bearing powder marks, to bear } out bis claim that the shooting oc- seurred during a struggle. He de- olared the fact that the revolver shots were not heard by any o¢cu- } pants of the crowded tenement house, ry the story of his client. “The revolver was fired during a between the two women, and the State has adduced no testimony to disprove there was such a struggle,” Mr. D'Aloia said. “This powd marked pillow case gives its mute e ence in corroboration of the testi- “mony of the defendant. The prosecu- tion has failed to show any reason of cupidity or jealousy, any reason at ali, for this shooting. Maria Tucci's con- @uct for several, weeks prior to the shooting and the ‘No’ to her sister's suggestions have absolved her in the eye of a divine law superior to the law of thie court.” WANTED—GOLIATH TO FILL OUT COP’S TARDY UNIFORM Failing That, Freeport May Use It as Tents to Solve Housing Problem. FREEPORT, L. I, May 2 HE serious question before j T° the Village Board of Trus- tees at their meeting this lernoon is what to do with Po- lice Sergt. Frank Grossman's new uniform. Frank turned in his resignation this morning and after three years of police work is going back to carpentering. “The way of it 1s," he says, “1 get $30 a week on the police, while carpenters half a8 good are drawing down their $8 and $10 a day, or $250 a month. I just woke up to It. Village President Edwards, Police Captain Hart- mann and everybody have been as nice as ple, but I can’t afford to stay.” Fourteen new police uniforms, said to be the handsomest on Long Island, are coming to-mor- row from one of Manhattan's ewellest tailors. Nobody in these pasts can wear Frank Grogs- ‘3 duds, for the carpenter-cop, irty years old, is 6 feet 4 inches tall, weights 312 pounds und has a chest measurement of 52 inches, Pio Police Band Concert To-Morrow. ‘The Police Band will give a concert 1 Sohurz Park, Hast 86th Street aes, River; to-morrow evening bg 4 WHOLE “BLOCIC. OF FOUND: duc ihe AT ONCE BY STEAM SHOVE! Sightly “Garden Houses” Are Erected, Congestion of Crowded Sections Is Re- lieved and Reconstruction of Old Tenement Districts Is Made Possible. New System Includes Safe- guarding of Both the Wage Earning House Owner and the Capitalist Who Puts Up the Money. . (Special to The Prening World ) CHICAGO, May 26.—With 176 model homes for workingmen and thelr families nearing completion Chicago, it is believed, has found the solution of the housing problem / That solution consists in a gigantic housing association, directed and fin- anced by men of national reputation, encouraging small wage earners to acquire and own their hames, and providing a carefully worked out plan for enabling tham to do so Forty acres of land have been do- voted to the erection of specially de~ signed houses by the Chicago Hous- ing Association, as “Garden Homes.” A great mauy of the houses now nearing completion have already been distributed among the applicants who appear daily at the association's headquarters. There are many other homeseekers who have arranged to purchase houses on lots as yét untouched by building op- erations An effective plan of mode! housing has been adopted. A new principie for such enterprises has bedn adopted —that devoting the profits from the sale of business frontage to heip- ing buyers of inside frontage pay for their property. Purchase of property Homes” is restricted to small wage earners with families and unfit hous- ing conditions. The cost of each house, On its 16244x30 foot lot, is from $4,000 to $4,500. The housing plan calle for a 10 per cent. payment down, the balance payable in 180 monthly in- stailments lasting through a period of fifteen: years. As a@ part of the consideration for the property buyers agree not to re- sell without the consent of the hous- ing association, which has first option on the property, being *privileged to return the money paid and resell to another party, preventing speculation in the realty contained within the boundaries of the new sub-division. LIFE INSURANCE FOR HOME BUYERS A PART OF THE PLAN. To make sure that each family shall have a home in event of death of the bread-winner, a low-cost de- creasing premium life ffisurance pol- icy is to be taken out for each buyer. Part of each monthly payment made on the home will be diverted by the association to apply on the insurance premium, and, in event of death, a deed will be given immediately to the heirs of the home buyer The face value of the policy, covering the amount due on the new home, is to be assigned to the association. When it was decided to develop the forty acres, the plan of the entire property was placed in the hands of Charles 8. Frost, an architect, who produced the several designs of Homes adopted by the association. There are seven different architec- tural designs, all, however, ‘based upon the same floom plans, but so ar. ranged as to exteriSrs, interiors and decorative effects as to preclude any liability of sameness in appearance. The houses contain five rooms, mostly detached, covering 22x27 feet of ground. . Mr, Frost also completed in cun- junction with a number of landscape experts a working plan for landse\pe improvement designed to make the property as a whole, and each ‘n- dividual home as attractive in exter- ior as possible. There are to be two road ways of 100-foot width, Every avenue is to be planted with decora- tive shrubs and trees. “Our experience so far," said es Basiger, .general manager of the association, “seems to have proved that in large scale work such as o! it is better to trust operating det..ils to established and skilled men, ratner than to Attempt building up an or- ganization to do the work,” All the work of developing “Garden Homes” is done by day labor di- of in forsee. by the peeoinies canes tors in charge, except the plumbing, erage. electrical _wlasing s ERECTING FORMS FORTHE CONRETE THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, MAY 26,1920 How Chicago Is Solving Housing Problem; LEVIP. MORTON $4,500 Homes, 15 Years to Pay for Ther | lEFT $10,000,000; NONE 10 PUBLIC BASEMENTS AND FOUNDATIONS ow. |GETS 5 TO 10 YEARS FOR BOND ROBBERY PLETION NEARING CO! plastering. Labor is represented upon the Board of Directora of the asso- ciation by Simon O'Donnell, President of the Building Trades Council here. Among the interesting methods em- ployed was that of excavating for basements with a steam shovel, ‘The shovel excavated an entire block of basements at an operation, digging foundations were poured in prepared forms, which are used over and over as the building 1s advanced, It is cheaper and faster to dig the trenches thus, and later fill in between the houses by steam shovel, than to exta- vate manually or with teams, ECONOMY IN TIME MEANS SAV- ING IN MONEY, Great economies ‘and means of speed were womked out in the system of building employed. As fast as the steam shovel dug and levelled the trenches for basements, and dug the taplines for water and gewer, the concrete crews followed in with their The tract .{s kuown | basement forms. Cement mixers were put in operation at the cross street junctions. From these a steady stream of barrowmen took concrete to the basement forms. As fast as the foundations hardened, the brick and tile layers succeeded the foundation men. And as these artisans finished their work the carpenters came on to joist and roof the structures, in turn making room for the various crafts- men to finish and decorate the houses. Thus a force of trom 360 to 400 men hes been steadily employed, During the good building weather now prevailing much faster progress is being made on the Garden Homes development than at any time since ground was broken last November. The first of the houses to be com- pleted will be ready in a few weeks, and will be allotted at once to the ap- plicants. Agplications have been ap- proved for all houses now near com- pletion, and before the project is completed it is-expected there will be a long waiting list. The housing as- sociation aims, eventually: it 1 said, to construct between 8,000 and 10,000 houses, providing model modern housing for workers’ families in vari- ous localities. Officers of the Chicago Housing Association are: President H. H. Hettler; Vice-President, William Grace; Treasurer, M. E. Greene- baum; Secretary, A. Volney; Genera) Counsel, Isaac 8, Rothchild. J. Ogden Armour and Thomas E. Wilson, the big packers, are directors, Harry A. Wheeler, vice-president of the Union Trust Company and former President of the Chamber of Commerse of the United States and of the Chicago Association of Commerce, and Harry H. Merrick, President of the Great Lakes Trust ,Company represent the banking interests on the directorate. A social service committee, which acts only as advisory in choosing among applicants for homes, is headed by Harriet B. Vittum and includes E. 0. Bradshaw, Miss 8. P. Brecken- ridge, Miss My Low, Miss Mary Me- Dowell, Graham Taylor and Charles W. Wrigley, “Chicago's experience proved that housing evils has amply an be cor- rected in only one way,” said Mr, Basiger, “and that is by providing modern housing on new areas, The economic difficulties of remaking old and crowded areas are insurmounta- ble.” CAN Candies and_a_host_of other good Milk Chocolate Plan- a huge trench in which the concrete |* MILLER “Better Chocolates aka Lower Price” Extra Special tor to-day and 10-morrow Madison Square Mixture — Miller pleases every 29 candy taste. And here's a special for those who Cc seek a variety of sweetmeats. There are Gum Drops, Fig Jellies, Marshmallows, Fruit Squares, Crystal Hard tations —And you'll think =We'll say they are—ox Ff! you are down in the land sorted! Not a flavor that | of plantations as goon as At Phy ripens in the spring has you tastg the pure gold- Blnecker § eens ommitted. They're en molasses just teom- | 74% Browliney Jatt imprisoned in the fond. 9} ing Adi ae and the 1440 Brondway [ant creas that forms the §/ rich, crea At det Bt enters and th Milk " Chocolate 9c 1608 Brondwar Peon ls “Stinur'a 49c j that completes pound aden. famous* Aili i] this dainty, Rey We Bete ein "Chocolate, oe Welk Specified Net Weight Does Not Include Container, IDENTIFIED BY TWO IN MURDER MYSTERY Mrs. Hogdson Says Del Franco Was in Auto in Which Fitzpatrick Slayers Fled. Mrs. J. H. #fogdson of No. 48 West 55th Street to-day picked Francis Del Franco of No, 256 West 39th Street out of fourteen men at Yorkville Court and sald he was one of the men who was in the automobile in which the munderers of Detective Sergeant Fitzpatrick ¢s- caped last Thursday night after shoot- ing him in front of the home of Dr McCall Anderson, at No. 60 West 55th Street. Mrs. Hogdson was at the door of her own home when Fitzpatrick caught the men stealing Dr. Anderson's dutomobile and herded them to the sidewalk. She w the shooting. James Harhbrose, an elevator operator of an apartment at No. 15 West 55th Street, had previously identified Del Franco as a man who was on the running board of the stolen auto- mobile when it passed te apartment house, | Others arraigned for inspection wer? Louls Galgano, arrested in Little Italy | near where the abandoned automobile | was found, and Dennis Reynolds and Isador Hellman Hellman has been pointed out by H. Poe of No. 48 West | 55th Street as “having the appearance from behind” of one of the murder band. Both he and Reynolds admit hav- ing served prison sentences, but deny having a wounded man in thelr com- pany recently, Galgano was discharged. a KASTEL THREATENS Declares He Lost $30,000 Deal Be- cause Name Was Brought Into Arnstein Affair. Philip Kastel, mentioned {nthe “Nicky” Arnstein stories, declared to- day that he will sue persons who brought» his name into the bond plot case. He said he lost out on a deal promising $30,000 profit because he was described as a “missing witness.” Three weeks ago Kastel denicd knowledge of any stolen securities. but admitted knowing Arnstein and promised to return at any time to give further testimony if it were wantdél, Yesterday it became known that Joseph Minowsky had been indicted in connection with the theft of $74,000 worth of bonds from Halle & Steiglitz, No. 30 Broad Street, on information obtained from Edward N.* Callaghan, under indictment, who has confessed handling some of the bonds. Kastei, who had returned, was lined up with ten men and Callaghan was called to see if he could identify him as the man who handed him the bonds, He could not. Kastel_ will appear before United States Commissioner Gilchrist to-day ‘to testify in the Arnstein proceedings. DIES Fer Pouna ot Weight Assorted Milk Chocolate SUIT IN BOND CASE) Plumber's H. elper Judge Who Says Thefts Must Be Stopped. “The wholesale bond robvertes in this ity are getting to be a satire on jus- said Judge Mulqueen in General Seasions to-day, in response to Attorney Bernard Sandler's appeal for clemency Michael Rost, a plumber's . helper, | tice,"* for of No, 229 Bast 103d Street, who wa. convicted of receiving stolen securities. “It {s tlme the authorities woke up and | the Judges should impose the maximum te every person with such robberies, this case is from five to ten years tn sentence on The sentence Sing Sing prison.” Rost took five shares of Crucible Steel, flve of Wabash Railroad and ten of American Woolen to Irving Fordon of No. 63 West 125th Street, to sell for . Mr. Fordon discovered that the securities had been stolen two days before from De Coppet & Doremus, Wall Street brokers, and informed the im on March 5. police. Chicken D: el vr Weld. Sentenced by connected —— Bulk of Estate Mes to Daugh- ters and Small Annuities to Relatives. WASHINGTON, May 26.—An os- tate estimated at $10,000,000 is dis- posed of in the will of Levi P. Mor- ton, former Vice President of the United States, which was filed in the Federal District Court here to-day for probate, The document was ex- ecuted-June 29, 1910, and was modi- fled by codicils of Maroh 30, A911; June 4, 1911, and June 44, 1911. Mr. Morton died recently at ‘his home near Poughkeepsie at the age of ninety-six years, Charles H. Allen of Lowell, Mass.; Morton Minot of Rockport, N. Y., and Bronson Winthrop of New York City with the American Sgburity and MISS THOMPSON TO BE BRIDE OF ADOLPHE WENZEL are named as Fan aff they, ‘Trust Company of this au trustees of the estate Mrs. Martha Morton” Hartpence of Philadelphia, a sisger of the testator, is\given a life annuity of $2,000 and be paid to Mr. Morton’ cash bequests to other servants. Mr, Morton's personal effects and furni- ture are to be distributed among his children. and candlesticks presented to Mr Morton by resolution, of the Senate on the expiration of Kis torm of Vice | President, and to his “eldest grand- son” is left the testimonial set of si)- ver presented by .the banking) insti- tutions of New York in 1869. ‘The remaining estate is bequeathed to the trustees, one share to be held trust for each of the surviving daughters, Mrs, William C. Bustis, Mfrs. Helen Morton and Miss Mary Morton, and one share to be distrib- uted among children of Mrs, Winthrop Rutherford, a deceased daughter, GET SUGAR AT 20 CENTS. ranty Trast and Equitable § to Employees at Wholesale Armin W. Riley, Chief of the U Flying Squadron, to-day continued his in Louls Kleine, No. 627 Essex Street, {conferences with the sugar brokerage Brooklyn, Seer Chauffeur: with suspicion Schroeder, fon, said an accounts showe and that Kle! explain it. by G 167, was held in §: wex Market Court to-day charged Harry bus ary of Chicke: and Helpers’ 00 bail of grand larceny wd delegate of examination of Kl da shortage of $2. ne had not been abl The books were examined, orge W. Briggs, a pub- | —to their 3,3 lots: n Driv~ Union, and distributing representatives in an effort to check the rising price of sugar. ; The Lusk Committee resumes the sugar | inquiry this afternoon. Meanwhile the price is varying around twenty-five cents a pound at retail. The Guaranty Trust Company and the | Equitable Bullding announce that they }are buying sugar in quantity and sell- «x it wholesale—twenty cents a pound employees in ten-pound in OS ee a {© Ss Mise ZiLLAN T THOMPSON Tho engagement of 4: Thompson, daughter of Mr. » Gedrge Thompson, of No. $1,200 annually is to be paid to Mrs. |-‘Townsen: Caroline Lay, a sister-in-law of Mr.Jand Mrs. Morton, <A life annuity of €720 is to] 162 Hast Gist Street, to Adolphe Wen- ‘8 butler and] sel of the Harvai PROM MLUSTRATED PRESS ASEH) will act! Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Thompson Will Wed Harvard Man, Miss is announced. Miss Thompson {s an active member of the younger set and has Morton Corcoran Eustis, a grand-|part in many of the entertainments son, is given the silver writing set/given for charity during the winter. Mr. Wenzel is a graduate of Har- vard University, as Lieutenant with the United | States forces on the Mexican border, Minnesota, serve class of 1917, Zineah Club and a mem- ber of a promipent Boston family, taken last SUSPECTED HOTEL Club Guests See Man Bring Apparel From Woodstock and Pack It on Fire Escape. Detective Manning of the West 47th Headquarters to-day James Harrison hotel thief. It was explained that members of the Lambs Club telephoned to the station last night thag they had been | Watching @ burglar bringing wearing | apparel and other lot from a room in the Hotel Woodstock on West 434 Street to the fire escape, where he was packing it in Jolsurely fashion ta a sult case, Hafrigon was coming down the fire lescape when Manning arrived. He told Manning he was a guest of the hotel and was leaving by the fire eseape because he lacked means to pay his bill and leave in an o:derly manner by the front entrance, The sult o was marked “KE. J. At the hotel desk Manning that E. J. W. Baldwin of w. learned | Car Company of Buffalo, had a mom jon the fifth floor. A visit to the room showed it had been thoroughly robbed. The missing articles were found in t suitcase, . slip dael, Wants $250,000 to Seek New Motor WASHINGTON, May ups apbro- le the De- priation of $250,000 to partment of Agriculture to conduct ex: periments looking toward discovery ef @ new automobile engine fuel ts vided in a bill introduced in th to-day by Representative He op €[qilored Woman A. Shop of Jailor-mades WILL CLOSE OUT Regardless of Cost 15 Tailored Suits at 25. 41 Tailored Suits at 55.0 oy Topcoats at 51 Topcoats at finest procurable. e e No Exchanges or Credits 39,00 55,00 C/Y consistently carrying out our policy to eliminat- the extreme or the unworthy in style, fabric or tailoring —assurance is given that the tailormades in this sale are the 622 Fifth Avenue at50th, Street emmouth F course it can be had. Mouquin’s Vermouth is strictly within the law and as truly delightful as ever. 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