The evening world. Newspaper, June 18, 1920, Page 1

_ HOOVER COMES OUT IN SUPPORT Your Newsdealer TO-NIGHT'S WEATHER—Fair and cool. To. Be Sure of Getting The Evening World, Order in Advance from Che tio} Books une to Att hat VOL. LX. NO. 21,462—DAILY. Constant, 2880, by The Press ) Rebiiehiog (The New York World). OVERWORK CAUSES DEATH OF GEO. W. PERK Se RRA AAA AAR AAA ARRAY RADAR ARANDA DDD DDN OOD | ARANDA ADDL? ELWELL HOUSEKEEPER NAMES “PINK P een JUNE 18, 1920, satotia. TO.MORROW SESS ' PR UNS UN Aaa: EDITION | ea SUAS SESS AND SUNDAY—Fair and hr ot Entered ne Second-Ciass Matter Post Office, New York, ‘PRICE TWO CENTS IN GREATER NEW YORK Inflammation of Brain Due to Continuous Overwork Cause of His Death, TAKEN ILL IN EUROPE. Close Friend of Col. Roosevelt and War Worker Was Father of Profit Sharing. Theft Wa George W. Perkins, oné of the blest financiers in America and one of the foremost political factors out- side the office-seeking class, died at 2.15 this morning in the Stamford Hail Sanitarium, Stamford, Conn, A statement by Mr, Perkins's physicians, given’ out Mr. Perkins's office, gave the time of his death and stated that death resulted from an attack of “acute inflamma- tlon of the brain, the result of com- plete nervous exhaustion dué to in- tettbe and continuous overwork.” | “Mr. Perkins had been in iil health for a long time. Barly in May he left his home Glyndor in Riverdale, and went to a place near Ellenville in the lower Catskills, His condition failed to improve. There were rumors that he had been taken to Roosevelt Hos- | pital, but these were denied py his| yon, who said his father was taken| directly to Stamford from the Cats- kills, and he had been at Staruford for some time before the announcement of bis presence there was publicly made. It was on June 11 that the public first knew of his fatal illness when a nervous breakdown and hir removai to “the sanitarium were announced. M Perkins's gon said the object in re-} moving his father to the #&nitarium) was to give him “a complete r The illness which caused his death is believed to have been an aftermath of an attack of influenza and pneu- monia which he suffered in France when he was doing Y. M. C. A. work during the war. Arrangements for the at been entered corner. and Mr which 4 Jing a ¥ enteen disapea: and de made in the t Incl besides pearl ai and did eme mond ments. came with shocking suddenness. The funeral will take place Sunday afternoon, probably at 4 o'clock, at the Riverdale Presbyterian Church, The services will be private. Mr. Perkins was born in Chicago, en’s Preside: “arme: ca ° ’ » populuc Jan, 31, 1862. 5 father, whose feating Miss Bishop on Borden’s President Farmers teeniliasiss the A Puluce with Beer inicio #2.) Greneich Coun Have Advanced Cost to [SAYS HARDING HELD |“ "st party emblem.” . by sreenwic A . istribi “IT have gone into nis ques- sides S. : syria to The Hvnlng Worl DaMTibules STOCK IN BREWERY) gon said Mrs. Tani, “and 1 fina KOcbtinnes on Vougeesih Fees.) GRODNWICH, Conn, June 18—Mrs.| Patrick D, Fox, president of Borden's rarer | that the donkey was wished on — - | Quentin Pitner of the South Shore Club |Farm Products Company, announced to- Head of Dry Party Declares Sen-| the Democratic Party just after Classified Advertisers for the aixth time becamp Metrotopitan |day that, owing to the increase in tho ator Admitted This 2 1-2 | the Civit’War when the Demo- pag mapee ncaa at gyal olf champion when she defeated Misa {price which the distributers will have to Years Ago | crats stubbornly refused the to- CLOSING TIME ||(2c2-7 totes tras tomeiny tamer tr ith Sarin 205 | ay | Soe eee Georgianna Bishop of Brooklyn, « forme Rea ciay Sina oe aes dann regia. Na {the ceat of mltk to Consumers will bp ade | SCAG: June 28 nator Warren| opposite party. 5.30 P. M. SHARP | title holder. in the finals to-day over tie |the coat of mille te consimers wilt be aa |G. Harding, formerly owned stock inj “The Democrats are not iy ‘ 5 by Greenwich courne gy 2 up and 1 to Ko. | oo ious grades would be an-|* brewery, according to a statement tae | ‘mulish; only ‘fi.m.' The rooster SATURDAY FOR Both were even at the turn, Miss Bish- sued by Virgil G. Hinshaw at Prohibi- | | Bo! |nounced in a few days, but wolld be ’ | 1s a proud bird and has some- \op, having the advantage on the greens ' Seni tion National Headquarters here to-day,| pean one j which t the dairymen $908 6 100 pounds, an énv |mommeen Ss # = ae by Thor Yacht 1 Ps Classified the fourt of 40 cents over t An 2 |B, Fedde at the New Willard Hotei in| pw poi dane are \ 1 9 ce for | ° | driving proved the deciding {actor he gaid, “and shall have to ask | VS ravage ise ~~ VF po xenre age. jhle successive day weather condi- PO we aa | a-ak at a aa bg ry Og ogra tod OME a ea ce renter ar s }and also the sixteenth where Mies Bis-iness without loss.” + Oblo.” The dinner, Mr. Hinshaw said, ee pinth race. between the Resolute BRANCH OFFICES CLOSE hop lost contro’ club sess | was xiven in honor of Nat Harris, the |4ng 'y for the right to defend BEFORE 5 O'CLOCK Mra, Geltner Hyde, starved w 8 HUITR, BIRCIAL 917.05, | 4°¥ Governor of Georgia the America’s Cup against the Shum. oaltively no Classified Advertise. ||.) met in 1910 and her victor Corner, Broadway. comer | ‘The statement adds that the Senator late 1V. wext month, te will received for The (Oop. Woalwotte Building), 1) | later voted for the Federal Prohibition | 4 30 »P. | totay makes the third: tine: /siie jay and Saturday 2.007 men's and youn, dment and voted for the Volstune | ae, ore = pe % t ! Hage ‘ «| Aut over the President's. vet 6) Bel water, Sure ree dateated Mise, Bahan ree idee Het, For indigestion, Deut forgeu—Adve. aing copy for The Sunday Miss Marioy Hoi! ne 1010 cham ~~ wens should be tn The World office |! pion, was absent in Wnglend ond let | THE meaty TRAY BUREAD, i RANT. ae tee Ove msc! | amade “Vaiitnet (World) Mulldiig, B8- ae 20. 0. MU it ior ean x We, aus Word 2 AVA, Bin Nefeek® bp a iy mee ote end Urerelion’ ahaa har fp Wer ie . Baal adn. | a e é 1 hs GEO. W. PERKINS, FINANCIER AND POLITICAL LEADER, DIES $100,000 JEWELRY ROBBERY IN HOME OF LAWYER HARE A $100,000 jewel home, of Mr. and Mrs, Montgomery Hare, No. 100 East 64th Street, on the morning of June 2, news of which has suppressed ‘by more than two weeks, has been I vealed by a warning sent to all pawn-| | brokers to watch for the stolen gems.| The burglars are believed to have finished building on the Park Avenue the brownstone house occupied by Mr. | Immediately jthat Mrs. Har robbery ‘put apparently no headway has been toward led in the list of stolen jewels pearl bracelet valued at $15,000, ald pendant, Mr. Hare is a member of the law “MET” FOR 6TH TIME Regains Golf Championship by De- HOOVER 1 ve HARDING TICKET; URGES UNITY, Contos (MRS, CARUSO SURE SHE PUT JEWELS IN STEEL CASE a Formal Statement After Breakfasting With the Republican Nominee. Doe Inquiry Into $400,000 Gem Robbery. BUTLER LOCKED HOUSE pare Sie Declares Fitzgerald, Chauffeur, Had No Occasion .to At- tend to Jewel Box. STA S FOR PLATFORM. | Nothing in It to Prevent Giving} It a Forward Looking Interpretation. , WASHINGTON, June 18.—Indors- | ing the main action of the Republican National Convention at Chicago, Hev- bert Hoover, in a, letter to friends, made public to-day after he had con- ill at East Hampton, L, 1, District] ferred with Senator Harding, called Attorney Young conducted the in-| upon all elements of the party to sup- quiry for the State and former As-| port the Nafional Republican tick sistant District Attorney Conway of| at the polls, Brooklyn represented the Caruso| “Tt breakfasted with Senator Hard- family, Prederiok J. and Henry Gold- seeriae. es, tho Benator'a tn The John Doe inquiry into the theft of $400,000 worth of jowels be- longing to Mrs. Enrico Caruso on the night of June 8, was begun this morn! ing before Justice of the Peace Sher- 2 on June 2 Revealed in ming to Pawnbrokers —Police Silent. robbery at the the police for! the residence through an un- said Mr, Hoover's state- smith represented George Fitzgerald, | ment. “I presented the views which the Caruso chauffeur, I believed were held by a considerable & The hall was crowded when the|group of independ nt and progressive @ hearing started at 11 o'clock. Mrs. | Republicans on various questions. The § Caruso was accompanied by her|Senatur stated “iat it was his most brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and|wincere derire to be the instrumental- | Mry. Park Benjamin jr. Fitagerald’s|ity for bringing the divergent cle- 4 wife sat In a front seat. Mrs. Caruso] monts of the party tog ther; that the ® was the first witness called, views of both the conservative and © Between this building and! Mrs. Caruso was dressed ina blue| progressive wings of the party would tailor-made sult, black pumps, ght} be fully presented in the adminis- blue crepe de whine shirtwaist, biack| tration; that ho represented no par- 8 beaded net hat and wore a fur. She! ticular grov., but that he considered @ rs. Hare, there ar» two houses are closed for the summer. Save a list of all the employees in the| it was his first duty as leader of the after’ tho discovery | household. party to consolidate all elements inte 's jewel case, contain-| “I went to New York on business} united front. He will, of course, on Friday, June 4,” sald Mrs, Carueo, “J was accompanied by my sister-in- law, Mrs. Benjamin, and a personal maid. We were driven to the railroad station here by my chanffeur and took a train for the city. My chauf- feur met me in New York at noon a. Saturday, the following day, and | brought me back, Coming down I a| had a guest, Mrs. James Willlams| prevents the compromise planks on Atlanta, Ga. with me. My twolLapor, the League, &c., from being 4 two | of nd diamond bracelets, a pearl| brothers, Paul and Romayne, were] given q forward-looking interpreta~ e arrived In East} tion. Some things, Including a reor. 50,000 pearl necklace and sev- other jewelry had red the police were notified | tectives were agsigned, The was kept quiet by the police, issue no statement until after the Democratic Convention, and theh af- ter consultation with all sides, Mr. Hoover quotes the following from a letter which he has sent to friends all over the country: “The Chicago platform !s not radi The greater part of it is structive and progressive. Nothing pieces of recovering the jewels ime that has elapsed. cal, con- the string of pt are amond brooch, a fifteen-carat | leo with us, eee a three-carat dia- Hampton at 7 o'clock Saturday even- ganization of our election expendi- | alier nd diamond orna- lave ruso steel jewel case her’ jewels, then described the in which she kept equately dealth with “Nothing could be more disastrous the late John selves in the current of Congressional! | moment submit the administrative | side of the Government to the domi- natfon of any group or coter HIGHER FOR JULY funeral have not been announced, | firm of Rush and Hare, No. 22 Will- than the development of several It was learned that Mr. Perkins|tam Street. He is a member of th» een ee rare cave freee party organizations representing th recently' rallied nicely from a serious| Union, Knickerbocker, Racquet and}, 1 dlantt sy + complexion of every Kroup in the] o , ' Midday ana| “If i didn't have the keys 19 my| country Say Donkey Was heart attack, and the fact that he had} ‘Tennis, Tuxedo, City, Midday uss AEP id ack Cae at y. ) , the strength to do so was considered | Colony Clubs. He formerly wax As-| (C8 OM Stl lini. Caries | webtd “fam convinced that unity of ac-| Organiz encouraging. It was while his} gistant Corporation Counsel. , latte ciaabe ee baer pus afacalae tion amc the liberal thinkers of the | friends felt thus hopeful that the end] Mrs, Hare was Miss Constance), . party, especlully 1€ they exert them- of little silver | taken to the National Convention + | at, san F neisco in Wished ion That Has Some- thing to: Crow About. roosters will tures and the primaries, are not ad |\WOMEN DEMOCRATS |'CHOOSE ROOSTER AS) 'REAL PARTY EMBLEM on arkones danghearaol ded ; 2 CHICAGO, June 18 The body of Mr. Perkins was taken] 5. ‘parson, organizer of the American| “When did you las. observe the} iertions, will insure the country | RS. FREDERICK “TAHL, to his country home at Riverdale this 7m against legislative reaction | Chairman of the Finance Sugar Refining Company a P: afternoon, Mrs. Perkins and her son | 5U® AGaahsined cre Rapend Fase) It the Republican Party is not to! Committee of the Llinots were with Mr. Perkins when the end be irrevocably splis I cannot conceive | Democratic Women's Committee, came MRS. FEITNER WINS {MILK PRICE. TO BE that Senat#® Harding will for one! announced to-day that thousands be an effort: to | omy | City Chamberiain Phillp’ Borolzheime Jin the 8 Court torday began suit |to foreclose a mortgage held by the clty mm the home of State Senator James J, Walker, Tammany leader, at No. 6 St \663 |thira in the order of growth. in Los Angeles was 80.3 Murder Victim’s Housekeeper Undergoing Examin tion To- -Day DETROIT IS FOURTH CITY OF U. S. IN SIZE |Population In¢reases 527,973 or 113.4 Per Cent—C leveland Up to 796,836. WASHINGTON, June with a nu growth lary only to New York's during the years country, ranking Boston, displacing St. land Pittsburgh, all of which we: than the Michigan city Detroit's 18. than Chicago's and second Louls and out- Cleveland, Baltimor increase of 527,978, or 113.4 per cent, Clevelan@l with a population of 796, 1 pe in 1910. This pla creas a: r cent, population then was 560, Cleveland ‘The in per cent SUIT OVER WALKER HOME. Hewins Action Mortgage on Senator’ Place © property was own! Patrick Roon, © relative of the Walkers. On May 6, 1902, Roon gave a mortgage for $3,500 to the Tithe Insuragee Ce pany which waa to expire in May, 190 The tage was assigned by the Title Insurance Company te the city, and was never paid. The papers sion of the properay, yitxinally Detroit, perical Increase and rate of last ten i» now fourth largest city of the larger ten years ago. 1920 population, announced Census Buerau, ls 993,139, with MRS. LARSEN TELLS SWANN ‘OF ELWELL’S WOMAN GUEST \Names “Miss Wilson” as Visitor — Who Owned Pink Pajamas, in - Long Grilling by Prosecutor and | Newspaper Men—Slayer Followed — Woman to House, Theory Now., | Mrs. Marie Larsen, housekeeper murdered a week ago to-day in his underwent a grilling examination th Attorney Swann, in the presence of most dramatic since the discovery jexpert and racing man, ‘but she hesitated when Mr, tx Sah 3 and finally’ said No" THREE KEYS MADE FOR ELWELL DOOR Locksmith Reveals Same Key)" Would Not Open Outside and Inside Fastenings. | | | | ton of the lock on a door In the Bi- home In last February was | Samue} Rudomin, a locksmith 184 West End Ave nue, and he only changed lock, He differs with Edward Rhodes, the Elwell has de- ’ The man who changed the combina- well and bellhanger at No. the one chauffeur, who ‘lclared that there were only two keys to the door, Rudomin says that he made three keys to the outer, or storm door aad that the man he understands Rhodes got the third key. “I remember the job very well,” said the locksmith, “because It was the first real job I got in the neigh- borhood after I moved here, A chauf- feur came to the shop and told me to go and look at the lock of the house at No. 244 West 70th Street. I put my scrowdriver in the lock and opened the door, Then I told him that it needed @ new combination, which he told me to put In. I asked him if he wanted the Inside door changed at the same time, and he said no “He sald that there were too many keys out then and told me to make two keys only for the new combina- tion lock. «I took the lock to my ahop and when I was returning with it I met another man who told me to leave the keys under the mat, which I did. A few days later the chauf- feur came to the shop and got a third key to the outside lock.” The second man mentioned answers the description of Barnes, the valet and secretary of Elwell, who has said there were only two keys to the door ‘This is the first time the knowledge has been made public of two keys be- ing necessary to Secure an entrance wo the house, Assistant knew about by District Attorney the third key, be sald of the {nside door,” he been changed before the repairs to the lock of the outer door. It bad been changed to a Corbin jock, but we have not yet found the do not show | locksmith who made the change and } how Senator Walker came into posses- do not know how many keys were | told me once that Mr. made for it.” vited by the prosecution to ask the witness any questions they deemed )| pertinent. The scene in the District Attorney’s private office was one i the Mrs. Larsen answered most questions promptly, - “———% Assistant Disteigt Attorney Joyes ye ~ TWOLOEKS USED Joyce | for Joseph Bowne Elwell, who was home at No. 224 West 70th Street, is afternoon at the hands of District a score of newspaper men who were of the crumpled body of the whist a aswed her if she-had baening 2 ‘ {had said earlier in t'> day that he | belleved the woman and the chauffeur had not tr’) all they knew, but tha, housekeeper withstood the questioning: Jof the District Attorney and the. newspaper men for &n hour, Shé told the name of the owner of the pink pajamas (instead «f a kimono), silt slippers and boudolr cap. She said that the young womap’ Jname, as known to her, was Mine Wiison and that it was to save ber, ation that she hid ‘the things |) i Hatter "lwell hed been removéd to 7) | Bellevue. Mr, Swann told the réporte = ors that he had established the idefi- ~~ tity of the pink pajama girl and that * it was Miss Wilson, i LAST SAW ELWELL ALIVE THURSDAY MORNING. “When did you last see Mr. Elwell) |betore you discovered him uncon= [scious in the chair in bis drawing te lroom?” asked Mr, Swann. | “He left the house en Thureday _ morning at 11.30 after telling me to | pat away the clothes he wore at the)” wedding the day before, «1 left am} hour later.” Ca “Did you ever see Mr. von Schlegel |” at the house? ¥ “Never.” Mrs, Larsen described the position of the body of her employer in the; chair as she had found it, and said the « cartridge shell was lying on the floor’ to the right of the chair and near the)” radiator. “Did you think that Mr. Elwell had +) killed himself or had been, killed?” 77 “I believed he had been killed.” “why ‘ “Because there was no gun and he had no reason for taking bis own life. He was not depressed, but always seamed in the best of spirits.” “Who was it got you your position in the house?" “Mr, Barnes.” “Did you ever discuss the death of your employer with Barnes?" Tt was then that the housekeeper | hesitated and the muscles of her face twitched. She seemed to nod her head | tn the affirmative, but her lips formed the syllabic answer: “No.” EXPLAINS HOW BARNES GAVE- 4 HER JOB. + “Let me explain about Mr. Barnes,” she said, “ble gave me the position through a mutual friend who worked! in the same club with him," “Who held the position before your’ — “Annie King. | “Did you ever hear of a colored gtrt in the house named Catherine Jones,” “Never,” ‘How many keys were there to the front door?" “Three, as far as I know.” “Did Mr. Pendleton havp a key.” “Not that I knew of. Mr. Bhwell, Oe a a ne a A ce le hagte e nr “ ee ae