The evening world. Newspaper, June 14, 1920, Page 1

TO.NIGHT'S WEATHER—Fa’ AMRIT REY SET Tee To Be Sure of Getting N Thé Evening World, Order in Advance from Your Newsdealer VOL. LX. NO. 21, 458DAILY. Copyright, Co. SWANN, DOOLNG SUED BY MEANS FOR $1,000,000 Charges Prosecutor sidpseies ied Assist- | ant Wtih Conspiracy in Murder Trial. IS ALLEGED: Asserts Northern Trust Mone) Was .Used to Corrupt Witnesses, ce Felder, for Gaston B, Means, filed suit in the BRIBERY Thomas B. as counsel | | Federal District Court to-day against District Attorney Edward Swann and Assistant District Attorney John T. Dooling for $1,090,000 damag ng that the defendants entered into a conspiracy with attorneys and of- ficers of the Northern Trust Company of Chicago to “bribe and corrupt wit- nesses" to testify falsely against the plaintiff in his trial for the murder of Mrs. Maud A. Robinson King, widow of James C. King of Chicago, and to defeat the probate of the alleged last will of King. ‘The complaint charges that "Swann ard Dooling devised a plan to bribe witnegess with money furnished by the Northern Trust Company, the object being to convict Means of murder, have him executed or incarcerated, or, | failing that, to bring about an atmos- | phere to totally discredit Means as a witness in the trial of the probate of the last King will in Chicago.” Swann and Dooling are with being confederates-of Alexander | F. Reichman, counsel for the North-|stead act, and he 1s very popular in ern Trust Company; William 8. Mil- ler, Solomon Smith and Bruce Smith, officers of the company, and C, B. Ambrose. The District Attorney and his assistant are accused of seizing Means's $25,000 bank account "think- ing to prevent his using the money to defend himself “Every charge in the complaint *% substantiated,” Mr, Felder, “by letters and documents, and we have a complete hisjory of every Instryc- tion given by the officers of the Northern Trust Company and their attorney to the defendants. “T listened to Mr. Means for months and months and came to the conclu- sion that he needed a guardian, But after going over his case and examin- ing the original letters which he in some manner obtained from the per- sonal files of the District Attorney's office, I was amazed and of course realized that he had a most. just cause and that the conspirators had gone to ths most unheard of lengths | to put him eyond being a witness in the probate of the last King will.” Maude A. Robinson King, widow of | mes C. King of Chicago, inherited $100,000 from his estate under the so- called first will, But she elected to (Continued on Sixteenth Page.) ~_ Lanove -effectively, | ten do not remember | the men who handled the man’ charged | « Che 1920, 1 (The New ress Pyblishing York World), NOMINATION OF HARDING MAKES OHIO BATTLE GROUND. Of PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN Gov. Cox on a Wet Plank Is a Demo- cratic Forecast—Old Guard Used Lowden as a Blind in Shrewd! Game For Naming of Ohio Man. By Martin Green. (Special Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) CHICAGO, June 14.—The last of the delegates has departed and | thers remain in Chicago only a few gentlemen who are busily engaged 18 jome in “SLAIN BY A FORMER SOLD JEALOUS OF WIFE, POLICE NO NEW YORK, MOND NEW CARUSO THEFT CAUSES REAL WOE; Wines Badly Dented, but There's Some Left. GO DIGGING FOR GEMS Detectives Still Hunting for Cache on Estate, but Dream Clue Fails. Although Enrico Caruso showed no great concern over the loss of a mere | $500,000 in jewels, it Is exepcted that on his return to the Caruso summer East Hamptort L, 1, his | paying bills incurred in the inflation of booms which blew up just as they @ttistic blood will bot! when he learns appeared to be about to float. What Harding hands was paid over money joyously, Harding campaign didn't cost as campaigns go in these Never has there been a carried on more spondents who covered the cdi the nam tion of Harding. Few corrés} lents visited the Harding head ters save In a perfunctory way. Many Republican politicians b that the nomination of Senator Hard- ing will force the Democrats to nomi- Nate Gov. Cox of Ohio. Gov. Co: “wet” and could run on a pla’ advocating modification of the Ohio, and the will need Ohio. candidate who However, the pect of a fight between Senator Hard- | Ing and Goy, Cox does not worry the trained Ohio politictans, who their first lessons in writing poys by making cross unobtrusively Most of the corre- marks | Squares under pictures of eagles. A week ago the Harding boom ap- peared to be ready for the embalmer. A lot of sour money has changed hands “ary-time” cellar in Chicago since Saturday afternoon—money carrying the marks of dis- |b!sh-proof whiskeys, precious bran-| appointment and chagrin—Wood money and Lowden money and John- so. money. The mucet | times. | Ww campaign | ly or inven nes of ipula. pond iquar- elleve x isa | tform | Vol wins pros- a took | when in | Will Practice It for P to-day when local manufacturing cone has been placed for a bic Admiral Grayson, the Pre: physi CONVICTS ESCAPE ON WILD COAL CAR} | ballot, his last reserves, all the bosses the General to call out, on the sixth ChAlN ILSON TO TAKE UP BICYCLE RIDING; ORDERS MACHIN field Concern to Supply the Wheel. WESTFIELD, Mass., June 1M, RESIDENT WILSON is to take up bicycling as an ex- ercise. It became known 18 nnounced that an order cle by ident's jan. The let ordsr was accompanied by r stating that the bicycle was for the President's own use, | HER LOVE OF OPERA IS BLAMED BY WIFE Republicans Plan for Candidate to Receive Health—West- that a dent has-been made stock, in his including dies and rare wines, Mystery covers the disappearance, well, racing man and clubman, im | but It is understdod to have been in ternational authority on whist amt i recent weeks, ‘The dearth, while book: the great, is not sufficient to ruin Uo eecad dg ae, % i Caruso's future as an entertainer, | | game, imew him well and the deng it 1s “said, but it is regarded as like- ‘ ‘ly that he will have to impose cer- , Supply over what now seems a long period of aridity for Ar Mrs, Caruso this mo) jhome, for vel theft, ericans, ceived a message from Mr, Caruso jin Havana, The tenor told her not to worry about his bomb advanteure He said he was unhurt, saying sho thanked God “Rict" was sa: | Fjve “star” detectives started work this morning on the jewel theft. Equipped with picks and shovels they are digging about the large estate trying to’ locate the gems that some of them still believe are hidden there, One tip which furnished them som! hope came from a _ Philadelphia woman, She said she had dreamed just where the jewels were hidden. She sent a description of the cache as disclosed in the dream, A that earch was crashed on the stage. CELLARS ROBBED Private Stock of Whiskies and| ing left her & the first time since the ® She went to East Hamp- jton's telegraph office where she re- She replied her TO-MORROW: 's WEATHER—Fair. PSS ANPP END UA AIAG: EDITION LIS WIT. yf EE VENING WS ; | M URDER OF WHIST EXPERT RECONSTRUCTED AT HOME WOMAN'S APPA INELWELL HOUSE. 1920, “Circulation Books Open to All.” Katered ax Seeond- Post Office, PRICE ‘TWO ‘CENTS. iN OREATER NEW YORK a9 Matter New York, N. ¥. AY, JUNE 14, Countess and Sister at Elwell Home in Effort to Help Solve Murder DWOGODODDHDGHOODDDDY PULL DY HHDHOODOODODOGOHOODOOOOSOSGSON’ 8) VOOLODOOOSE COEDS nitialled Garments sarments DucoWsll While Police Work on Theory Ex-Soldier Ww as. Slayer, | i I ly | O2@ | | | ARMY Piste YL Witnesses Reassembled and In. vestigators Try to Straighten” Conflicting Stories, The slayer of Joseph Bowne Bl man knew his murderer, The mint’ derer was an ex-soldier and oh af very pretty wife. army automatic pistol and the oi tridge was manufactured for the Gov: ernment. £ The murterer may have secured @ — key to the house. ‘The murderer was evidently tamales jiar with Mr. Elwell's habits, ‘These are the theories upon which —~ the District Attorney and the poliéy are now working, after a three-daya’ investigation of one of the most mys. | terious murders they ever encoun- tered, It is argued that while any one might have an army pistol, 30,000 of | which are known to have been stolen omly an ex-service man would be Nikely te have Government amnvuni tion, The police discovered in the Elwell ome ernest DETECTIVE TRAINOR MRS. HARDY. COUNTESS SZANIAWASKA. CODHOTHO OS oalessOoe) THOMAS MARTIN. Hoe COOK U.S. PLAYERS WIN IN BRITISH TENN, Mrs. Elwell Plans Fight washroom and some of the scenery From Mr$, Schor. be necessary, provided for but my child must be Bilwell’s activities, he said he had known him more as “an enthusi- committed. The housekeeper who discovered Delegations, as Mrs. Hannah Schor of No. 620 Fifth} ‘My boy has not known his fath astic loser” than a big winner, the erime, the postman who delivered Send It Crashing Through Prison | Had. £0:60 WeA'to-8Uits Lamaen: deer McKinley Did. leona "he gos igtaaatte Nai bad | treet, was attacked at yme this} at all, one may say, because Mr, El “But can a man bean authority |e mall, and the milkman who wag oe ae! getee io Harting, G0i6 | Gelepates oe ; | ee scopy Lhe races. ox. {morning by two men who tried to tear a! well had not seen him for ten years,| and at the same time a loser?” he | At the door early in the morning, ta | a Gate—One Gets Away being equally strong for either. CHICAGO, June 14 | The po be bed ie ve nO X=! pair of diamond earrings, valued at| not since Richard was five years old! way asked, | Lewisohn party with which Elwell” 77) Two Recaptured. Mush es been written about this EPUBLICAN campaign man- | Planation, except that seats were! 3 990, trom her ears. She fought them| and even when he saw the boy last| “Oy iy,” . | was last seen, the chauffeur, Edward Two Recaptured. vention having been leaderle. ling at @ premium and the public é Certainly,” Mr. Whitehead re- PRY OREN HYine TERe Leeearleer aud MAUS Are, already plegning: | sehing 8 © prey Pare [oe and her screams Orought Oforwis|/ 4 aig not give him a single kind| pied: “that offen heppena. It Rhodes, and every one else who has y chr’ | 7 -_ ad little ortunity to see C: 11K . iw ane ue , | : e 0 * a JEFFORSON Clry, Mo., June 14.—} i ee to make the most-of “the | bad little opportunity t Caruso, | Kioze, a nelahbe iho gave chase. | Oo” mere a ana ces + come into the case are being @ One prisoner was at liberty to-day and | (Continued on Twelfth Page.) McKinley type” argument for | Who is a hero here, Anonymous let-| About a hdif blook away Patrolman ; : hi rathas | Just the same in other things—the | ¢ Fy Ban Be wen Rea’ ohana serving lite hentanosa were == Candidate Herding, lters received by the management] Alert Fried joined the chase Richard's feeling toward his father] beyt lawyers often make the worst [tioned in sequence, according to the 17m back within the Missour! State Prison Hae ay | protested against the prices, trom $35| ‘The two men soon after soized a man| now is, ax it always has been, an! witnesses when.on the stund them. {der in which they have been ated iy walls after a thrilling attempt to es- fs 4 tor Harding will follow the exam. |wp. It was a popular matinee, and|Who gave his name as Selig Rothstein, |1mpersonal one, He 1s sorry to #0! yelves." into the Invesugation, Pe cape in which the three eltmbed on alll Classified Advertisers ||| ‘or Harding will toll aren | Th WA 8 oy a hull case maker, of No, 22 Laidiow | hin father go out of the world as ho! "Sir Whitehead aald he “regretted |CHECKUP ON STORIES TOLD BY” Arashi t oneaina Aten, an ple of McKinley and cond the bomb was taken as @ demonstra |) oot He wee identified by Ofre. Gchor C } See ee ee otucn eis , “front porch" campaign, |tlon, not against Caruso. and the| Street e.wes idintined by Schr} would be sorry to see any one else 80. his inability to throw any light on _ CHAUFFEUR. ; incline through the pr Di aMmpalgn, 4 s bs ppl ase e Carele M3 “y s les to take care of Rich- 4 ot le Pt swe > inn roach he rar ee aul LPOBPOWECTLE L | ere ete sin [Snore "perormers, Sat tenant the) ate Soesagnat Comean caae| "MY runes to take care 9f TSh-| the ame" ae had not ren Ewe! | Mr, Joven le ations toon ? nd John Snead, sentenced to fe im- | country, he Will stay at home and | management. Ment house for several days, Roin. | oro Dave been very hard. only re-) for some time. straight of the chauffeur’s story and ele Sie Classified advertising copy for ae pase ac et the theatre 1 in was held dn. $1,300 ball for Ae [ceived $200 a month from Mr, Elwell , prisonment for murder, Was captured The Sunday World sould be in ive delegations from all paris | The explosion s ratre in a A tory a8 & charge of aftemo ' ediately, Ora Lewis, sentenced to The World office of the country, |tumult. Scores were trampled in, the | Gin". ary & are oP and as I have to pay $108 a month for 8 . uiiner pie ment for murder rob- , ae | panic, the gallery audier lunged ~- this apartment you will see how much | Ricrered us ser on woes hE OM Gt Prafore Friday B| om mm "daa: te, mer, Basis MeOA| oxen Epson tine Ppasintions|inet Lares metehns oo ES | 4 hit the gate and. was returned to his Preceding Publication et SO Beto Anee hot water, Sure ser | any emerged with bloody faces and| WASHINGTON, June 14 Genel siticy che ieaeauae (liver aan Vann i} ell, William Stender, serving ten |} pasty capy receives the preference || | — clothes torn to shrede. mua Bureau loeiey, aan tomed to town and country houses, to NEDGAR. RICE) BURROUGHS 4 Pasa fy RVUETT BOF DRY rT] wae ender advertising basic! It] sam wonep ean it Hol N. Jy as 68,166, @}ijmousines and ull the servants I need ‘The men had made keys for their cel! Omitted. Late advertising is now [| E DT | ‘Aeeauis ORL AE spor? 4 per cent ed for my bodily comtorts, ‘The only STARTS IN. EVENING WORLD TUESDAY. “JUNE 15" a doors and escaped from the inner con- omitted for lack of time to set it NE eee date, | Mgesiel for. today fA THE WORLD, fines yesterday after choking the cell «vard into unconsciousness vols ouelt day and | of lamb, Jardiniere, ‘soe: for | conaiee table d'howe divagr, BU, ' Weria by (6) Bell-Ans, hot water, Sure re- Six Le, For indigestion. Dow's demmam—day i. Chae be en cen oleae (Continued on Second Page.) ; t és = made of a spot which corresponded C f S if Wi ill house this’ afternoon several pieces { PS S $ Da y, Ci C \-' , : Romo paid any attention to ex Says Husbund Attempted Hok-Uptade of % sot which cormonded) | =) Aloe Care of Son if Will \seictt see conte capt the few who knew the truth— to Gratify Her Expensive found rhieg' 4 ee eaid, and bearing the mark of Bosmaas j that if, im the course of events, It waste — Match in Tourney for London acks Such Provision Teller & Co, ‘They are trying to dive | i would be deemgd inadvisable to nom- astes. ioe | / wes bain >, cover the woman who owns inate Lowden, who is the type of can-| When 4 Sabroe, thrity-three, of CARUSO UNINJURED Cramp loOsI cae Pa lngerte. mit x i didate the reactionary Republican|No, 71 Jefferson Aver Brookiyn,| AS BOMB EXPLODES |, 08DoN, sune 14.—The American But, from the fac ‘ leaders want—Harding would be sent |, Players, K. Norris Willams 24, -p 1). > ty) EXP WHITEHEAD mite seers fact that the Cm | over the top to lead the campaten tor |oesie! Sullty to-day before, County! AT HAVANA OPERA |or Boston, and ¢. 6, Garland, of Pitts-| Tells of Struggle to Exist on ERT WH was committed with an army k ie Rieke the campaign fF | Judge Dike in Brooklyn, to attmptd subi *" |burgh, won their tatohes in the open-| Her Allowance of $200 a| SAYS ELWELL LOST | msttc pistol, the investigutors do ; x ~ Sante {Stand larceny, his wife told the judge le Son Sars ing round of ‘the London champlonship eS Lg believe that a woman murdered. Ble © Obio is the motiier of Presidents |thar she was to blame. She said ane| Blast Causes Panic in Which|tourament nere to-day. Williams as-| Month—Says She Wrote OFTEN AT BRIDGE | weu, An empty automatic weight 39 } and ‘the mother of noiseless polit!-|naq expensive tastes, including one for Scores in Audience Are feoted Ie K. Gardner 6—1, 6—0, while | yn 3 , ts akc ounces, the barrel part ts elghit uaa H cians. ‘The Obio candidate came 1M | opera, and that he husband, who was K : Garland eliminated A, W. MfacPherson ist Books for Her Hus-| secicoria ameter nt lobe, and the’: éfodie ania on rubber heelg and rubber’ soles.|only a clerk, had borrowed heavily, Trampled On. by scores of I—9 and 8—1 Wade 8. ELWELL did not x tive. i} band . “ a inches, It would be a cluméy weapon Not until Friday afternoon did ob- {although not telling ner that ne bor-| ieayaNA, June 1.—Keveral Williams enticely cattelaseed bis: Brit and. make the “killings at cards servers begin to see that, after all,|rowed. Driven desperate by the ddbte,| HAVANA, Ju —Beveral mem-1 41, opponent but MacHherson forced BAe. | -said to run as high as $30,- | for a woman to carry and a diftionlt | | Harding was but another Lowden—a | she sald, he at length tried to steal. bers of the chorus and a number Of! oariand into a long deuce set in tho “If the will of my husband does | 000 a night—credited to him in | one for a woman to handie in the elf ” figure representing everything Low-| Sabroe, attempted to hold up Samuel | pereons in the audience were injured, | one ning encounter, The Yale University! nos ovide for Richard Published accounts, according to | cumstances of the murder, den stood for—and that the Lowden |J: Rose, dealer in Liberty Bonds and|one of them seriously, when a bomb|star, hawever, ran through the second mee SEY” BOR: eer Wilbur ©, Whitehead of No. 146 Under the guidance of Assistant 7 strength, which .was sufficient to| Coupons, at No. 395, Fulton 8 was exploded during a peyformance|anu deciding set in wapid-fiee fashion] and his education | will fight it Went 76th Street, who spent an | District Attorney Joyce, in charge of — nominate at any time had the bosses | 2FoKlyn, on th afternoon of May 22.}at the National Theatre here. The]once he was thoroughly warmed up. to the limit of my possibilities.” hour to-day in conference with |the Homicide Bureau of the District of the convention chosen te utilize Be yee remanded for sentence on | explosion ocourred in the early part ‘i Mrs. Josoph B. Elwell, wife of the! Assistant District Attorney Joyce |Attorney’s office, who did not enter it, was Harding's strength too, The ¥ Ro of the second as of es opera “Alda,” | ETGHTS TWO TRYING | murderea whist expert, so declared] at the Blwell residence. the case until Saturday afternoon, a+ story of the convention can be told . shortly before Bnrico Caruso was due to an Evening World reporter to-day! Mr. Whitehead, who is of the |though the murder occurred between in two lines: HARDING TO MAKE to appear for his last performance! TO GET HER JEWELS), “io, nome No. 1187 Lexington), firm of K, N. Breitung & Co, iv |%30 and 8.80 o'clock Friday mo} The bosses had two candidates, CAMPAIGN FRON here. ee Avenue also an authority on auction bridge, |! the entire case is being revi Lowden and Harding. OWN D The bomb was placed in the wash~| Man Caught After Chase Held For| “I do not intend to make any fight] He has played in practically every |to-day in the house, No, 244 Went, When Lowden had accomplished OORSTEP room of the gallery and it wrecked A demhtine tai tean Bedi for myself. I can go to work if that! country of the world. Desoribing |70th Street, where the crime was his job of killing off Wood by forcing the acoustic box, three walls of the Attempting to Te g3