The evening world. Newspaper, November 29, 1920, Page 3

AND WIFE, 80, DE IN SUICIDE PACT John Guest Lost Fortune in Litigation—Supported for Years by Friend. PREPARATION FOR ACT. Couple Carefully Pack Belong- ings—He Had 127 Electrical Patents. When John Guest was sixty years old, more than two decades ago, he was accounted a rich man, ready to vetire on the proceeds of 127 electrical inventions. Early to-day he and his wife, elghty-two and eighty, dled in @ suicide pact in their furnished room at No; 183 St. Felix Street, Brooklyn. Their money was gore years Ago, and for a long time they had been supported by an old friend, James BE Bristol, owner of a chain of ret tnurants, who paid their room rent and supplied them with food. They had been his patroris when they had money and he made them comfort- le. For the last eighteen months Guest had been compelled by blindness and paralysis to remain in his room, In the morning his wife would go to the Bristol restaurant at No. 612 Pacific Street, have breakfast there and carry home enough food to supply herself and her husband until the following morning. She did that yes- terday, as usual. ‘They evidently spent the greater part of the day in preparing for their death. Their clothing and other be- Jongings—excepting what they wore— were packed away in trunks when their bodies were found, and it is supposed they had done the packing Mre. McGuire. She traced an odor of gas to their room at 2 o'clock this morning and called in Patrolman Edward Stanton of Bergen Street Station. The old couple were in bed,the man already dead, the woman dying. Dr. Brown of Brooklyn Hospital used a pulmotor in vain. Guest's Masonic apron was hanging near the bed and there was a note pinned to it asking that it be buried with him. There was also a sealed letter to Mrs. Fannie Wyatt of No. 227 Union Street, Brooklyn. Guest's last electrical invention was the use of copper wire instead of platinum in electric bulbs. There was long Htigation about the patents and {t 4s understood he lost his fortune in the controversy. His purpose, he said at the time, was to “make electric light as cheap as gas.” But it was gas that he and his wife used in their suicid LAPLAND ARRIVES; ROMANCES ABOARD College Student, a Soldier, Brings Back a Bride; Dancer Engaged First Day Out. The Steamship Lapland of the Red Star Line, fn to-day from Antwerp brought 1997 passengers and two nee Self, an Obertin College student, went to France in 1918 and joined the Czecho-Slovak army. He brought @ bride back with him, She was Miss Constance M. Bosak, of Prague, John ts going back to college, His bride also will enter school. Mile, Reine Dezille, a Paristan dancer, who comes to fill an engagement, met Claude Cartledge, a London cinema ac- tor, the first day out. The next diy their engagement was announced. They expect to be married this weel Brig. Gen, Arthur E. Noble of the \dical corps returned from the West | st of Africa, where he accompanied 4 Gorgas {rom this country to study v fe conditions. Gen, Gorge® th \'n London, Gen, Noble says tne yew w fever situation is not serious, but in the Belgian Congo the sleeping sickness is increas: Other passengers were Sir John Dins- dole, Lady Dimsdale and Thomas 1), Westcott, Sir John and Mr. Westcott here to study Ameridan bee condi tions. Ig AIANSLAUGHTER ( CHARGE NOW Death of Auto Victim Second Accuration, aug of Miller Street, ngton, N. J., was held without »day for the Grand Jury In yutherford on a shurge of mansiaush- tir, He previously had been senteneed o thirty. days in Jui for driving an uytomodile while, Intoxicuted ‘The manslaughter cliapco tor A. C, Hart foil last night of Posy Campe Union Street, Carls who was rid- ng with Gaug. according to the police, and was thrown out, his skull being fractured, Gaug's car collided with n motor truck driven by Louis Pomex- tanty, 466 Bushwick Avenue, Broeklyn. Leads to ‘Joseph Well by Proxe > Dien From Shot at Dance Hall, John Miles, 22, of No, 320 Bast 126th Street, died this morning in the City Hospital from a bullet wound in the abdomen received shortly after mid-| hight on Sunday morning, outside a IL at goth tand Lexing~ chon tail rd waa dispersing, Miles was shot. The pollce falied te the shooter and Milos dicd witbour eiding thei, BOY OF 10 ADMITS #80 as to save trouble for the landlady, | Velvet, Feathers and Fancy Ornaments Among the Features Se FOR i BREN HEAD 4 RESS— VELVET Bene eSRRsHes: Se wa LARGE VELVET FLOWER CacGHT UP BY & GARLAND OF GoD BALLS. hm Aas Rie ane meren DOZEN BURGLARIES WITHIN 2 WEEKS omeenie—k, Caught With Pal Two Years Older as Result of Quar- rel Over “Loot” Two alleged boy burglags, one ten, the other twelve, are locked up in the Bergen Street Police Station, Brooklyn, as a result of a ‘quarrel over a divisjon of their loot. The younger, according to the police, has confessed to a dozen robberies with- in two weeks. ‘The older one had a revolver and two boxes of cartridges when caught, The boys were “movie mad." Policeman Willlam McCarren saw them dividing money under the are light at Fourth Avenue and Dean Street at 2 A, M. to-day, One ac- cused the other of “holding out,” and the policeman started to question them. He felt of the larger’s pocket and got the revolyer and ammunition. The ten-year-old sald he was] George Smith of TA Fifth Ave- nue, and the other gave his name as Harry Prendergast, No. 627 De Kalb| Avenue, Theyshad about $7 in change between them, They were taken before Lieut Ed. Shelby, at the Bergen Street Sta-| tion, who later said they the! “worst hard boiled eggs" he had seen. They told conflicting stories of whero they had been until Smith was told his pal had “squealed.” Smith, according to the then said they had “cracked” age battery place at No, 76 Fourth Avenue and got about $8 He said they went through a hallway, climbed a fence, struck matches while they took the hinges off,a,screen and then opened the window. ‘The place is brilliantly lighted witha display of Christmas tree lights, but they went to the desk, snapped off the lght over it and got the money. They found the door open and explored the safe, but found notaing. Just before that, the boy satd, he had rébbed a place at No. 76 Fifth Avenue, but got only twenty cents. It was then, he said, he met Prefder- were police, @ stor- gast. It was his “first trick” with Prendergast, he said, but the police say he admitted these burglaries within the last two weeks: Grocery at Fourth Avenue and Ber- gen Street; fruit store, No, 67 Fitth Avenue; butcher shop at Fourth Ave- nue and Bergen Street; grocery store at Bergen Street and Flatbush Ave- nuc; two butcher shops near Pifth Avenue and Bergen; a paint story at Bergen and Flatbush Avenue, and a fruit store at Sixth Avenue and St Mark's Place. All of these are not-tar from the police station, several of thearwithin a stone's thro ‘Phe police say Smith | unaway from home and has been In Chil- dren's Court before, The two prisou- ers will be arraigned in the Brooklyn Children's Court to-day. aa JOHN D. AT CHURCH. Walks Up Fifth Avenue in Driasle ‘Without Un John D. Rockefeller his Pomuntico Hills es appeared | nue Baptist comed warn relln. ame to town from te yest his pew at the “hureh, and Ais he seem Fan, Me agh the driaaing "oarsied no umbrella, DIOGENES JR. FINDS $31,000 IN LIBERTY BONDS Charles Gregory Picks Them Out of a Wall Street Gutter. HE spirit of the ancient, Diogenes, who went about the streets with a lantern seeking an honest man, gave three hearty cheers on reaching the office of W. E. Hutton & Co, brokers at No, 60 Broadway, and caused the firm to make public the following proclamation: ~ “In these days of high finance * and crip shooters, rent profiteers and gentlemen burglars, prohibi- tion and tango lizards, missing boys and Liberty bonds, it is truly gratifying to point to any instance of old-fashioned hon- esty.. ‘The firm of W. E. Hutton and Company feel justly ‘proud, hav- ing in its employ Charles Greg- ory, eighteen years old, who picked up a package in the gutter at Wall and William Streets Sat- urday containing $81,000 worth of negotiable Liberty bonds, Ho immediately turned the package over to Mr, Willlam D, Hutton, a member of this trm, who go: in touch with The Bank of New York, which had purchased the bonds from Sparks & Company of Philadelphia, for the account ot Hoge, Underhill & Company.” ‘SIGNBOARD FIRED A SECOND TIME, n Shack Where Detec- Blaze Starts | law firm of Kaufmann, Lindheim and | tives Are on Guard in the | | Hays. ‘ 5 The lawyer said that on Sept. 14, Bronx. 1917, Rumely told the firm that the ‘A large sign erected by the 0. X Gude | Mill in the preceding two months had Company at Moshoin Parkway and|!ost $80,000 and that half a million Broadway, Bronx, waa act afire for tne |@llars were coming due, which he had second time in a mystertougs: manne: (2% means of paying. Subsequently, today, despite the fact that two de-| Herman Siclcken, known, as an Amer-|| tectives had been stationed there to} 1", Se ae w Bae Fraaiy | f advance 975,000 on guard it. Rumely's np 8. y his note The sign caused much criticism |for $100,000 and his debt” was wiped among residents o fthe gection because | off, now a soldier in the U. |] of its stze and locat{on on park property, Fe dia’ yagi ale he ear f ond Supreme Court Justice M ell | ried note from Dr. fF man signed an order for its immediate re- | propagandist, to Dr Alls ert and Georgy \ moval late on Saturday. ‘The order had to sand’ thems sometimes r not b afternoon, Fire side the sign and the flames were munteated to the sign before fi extinguished the blaze. WANT BARRACKS REMOVED. a y Daniels. sery Brooklyn Chambe Writen Secret The to-day sent a letter to Josephus Dan lels, Seoretary of thy y, Urging th department to remove e the 4 for war-time seryice dat Fort Hamilton, a Leach to Act Soon on Mayo Hospital Drive Halted. ‘Acting Police Commissioner ald to-day that the suggestion of 3 or Hylan that the Deputy Comm address civic organtzations on conditions in New York would pe upone soon, He added ehat last few months several Di Commissioners had 1 hief Inspector 1 on inapection murs of police stations and had bee studying conditions in the oroughs, for the the propo: x Commissioner rn of po! ight, who | to be gone until Dec. for It would proceed. ed at an early hour thie started to-day In a shack he- Commerce Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce puty Vor somipanied several said FAMOUS X-RAY DOCTOR, OPERATED ON 25 TIMES, DIES Infroit, Who Removed Bullet From Soldier’s Heart, Vic- tim of Own Science. PARIS, Nov, 29. R. CHARLES INFROIT, fa- D mous X-ray speciulidt, is dead, according to an an- nouncement to-day, One of Dr. Infrolt's hands became infected in 1898 as @ result of his constant, use of the X-ray, and an opera- tion was performed. Since that time he has under- gone twenty-four operations, twenty-two of which were per- formed in the last ten years. ‘The last was on Aug. 1, when his right arm and left wrist were amputated. Dr. Infroit was a great surgeon, and his announcement in 1915 in the Academy of Medicine in Paris that he had extracted a shrapnel bullet from the heart of a soldier withont injury:to the surrounding organs, was read with interest throughout the world. In this remarkable operation Dr. Infroit usod a radiograr compass of his own in which enabled him to foreign bodies in the tigsues with absolute precision and extract them. RUMELY’S NOTES Witness Latér Says He Wiped Ou $1,375,000 Indet One In the trial before Judge W. in the United States I d—A. Rumely, 8. » and his law partne: Lindhelm. German ow btedness with Note for $100,000, J. Grub jet Court of Walte: vin R. the ieeused of co ship of the Mall during the war, the p ness to-day was Arthur G. ined $10 and other times r FOR MAIL DEFICIT apt usages Jobs Hays of the in New York It’s the most enjoyable dance- music New York ever heard, this unusual music of the new Pennsylvania Dance Orches- tra. The orchestra is made up of stars and favorites from all over the country. You can enjoy their music at tea or supper in the Grill Room. Hotel Pennsylvania TEA DANCES — SUPPER DANCRS ished soon Wadsworth, who changes In Fede bring relief to th store the ¢ basis, the nate be the chief con Administration; profits tix will divappointinent producer; that t | No Bilis connection urday, When the cal haps, by a ship d f] Special cours + {day a4 a substitu nd talephi Wires to Ixland hye United States Sei ntry with’ Manhattan stnee a OF FORE - CRIBB aie ee) es 7S INCOME TAX CUT SOON, PREDICTED BY WADSWORTH Exemption Limits to Be Raised} and Heavy Surtax Reduced, He Believes, ‘ - HAT the Federal tax on small incomes will be atfol- is the bellef of nator James W was in the city on his way to Washington to- day. He predicted that single men would be exempt up to to $2,000 aid married men up to $4,000, instead of $1,000 and $2,000, respectively, as now. “There must be immediatg prul tax laws to e people and re= to a peace time or declared. He said taxation and finance would cern of the new that the excess prove a grave as a revenue he luxury tax is neither wise nor consistent, and that there is a general feeling among Republican legislators that people of small incomes yuld be retleved of incomé tak, also declared that the heavy surtaxes now imposed should be greatly reduced to re se money for industry, It was certain, he sai that a budget bill will bi at the coming session and would eliminate thousands Ellin Istand, been without wis broken, sare ru for the INVENTOR OF 82. Latest in Coiffures and Head Dress for Luncheon and Evening;' | “— The two found under the BIG CUTIN bed were -went to the teolation COAL AUTO TRUCK KILLS hospital ~ ‘ ps votrowsk! was senten to six LAID TO STRIKES GIRL IN BROQKLYN months in the penitentiary ty Judes - O'Driscoll for cruelty to childgen, His. at wite received a similar senténce ®ut eae Ton Reduction Charged | Fifteen-Year-Old Daughter of As-|it was susp nded. Petrowshl Wee 3 ¥ badly lacerated by hfs wife's attacks ~~ y Oparatorsato Rail and semblyman Lentol Struck with the inirror.” The axe. thal Resiiiaa Mine Troubles, Way to School nusyeoe used had no apparent effect re The normal distribution of anthra-| — 49, ‘ + : : hra tha Lentol, fifteen, daughter of aie Me | clte was reduced by more than 4,000,000] agrn : ‘ioe ED tof, mecording 0 the Anturactte Bas peninely map Ses Deo eas FIND STOLEN CARS WRECKED — reau of Information, due to the il ~ SESE GaaT Pye rn é x epee} inane uated; anActhe § vent nya n {AN Auto truck while she was on her] Mreoklyh Thieves Abandon ‘Tw so ies fo school to-day at Roobling and| Autos Taken From Same Garage, Shipments of anthracite for the first] SOU Fourth Streets mint fel) August Schmidt, of No. 2114 News under rear « s! Hi bie seven months (April tto Get. a1) of] UNer & rear w he Mied “before | Kirk Avenue, Brooklyn, real estate PuAt lk repaeag (he Mout bf ne eats Hasplital, partner of iifency A Bayer, ty es Ae - i Fev The driver, William Hoffaran, forty-| Dock Commiaatoner, reporte amvouiited to. 29,220,064 groan tons asl , TH® tikes, William Moftaan, torty-| Dave Gomminioner, eebalied to day ie 18 for the ' hh alo ‘ Blade: omoniie and “1 by#Patrolman Atkins of ‘Traf- - Women’s Winter Wraps FIGHTING PARENTS W hen Found by Police After | Subduing Man with Axe. ——__———_— t Joseph. Petrowski, armed with al” laxe but practically defenselere | against his whor assailed him — wife, ~ = i with a mirray, Was resoued by the pow” lice to-day when they broke Inte hia home at No. 323 Henderson Stréeh, dersey City The first veport the police received: was that the Petrowskis, under the — influence of lquor, had been since Saturday night. | Patrolman’ Howe opened the door | He was met by Petrowski, nude save) |for the axe. Howe sent for sevem Amore policemen, When they got | j there the door was barricaded, but they smoshed it. Petrowski and bis wife joined forces against the police, who used their clubs in self defense and finally got the man and womag! — tied with aaa Then they searchege the flit A six-months-old baby was tonal in the ice box, coughin, year-old was in @ closet, also cough= ~ _ jing. A girl of five and one of tye — were under the bed. And twelvee i year-old Lottle was running about® Byes wees the place. Two of the children, were PEARLS, JET PENQanTs, taken to the Jersey City sHospital, COVERING "Te EARS. it was said that they had whooping cough and were in a critical condition, In Bridge Plaga od Mr. any wreck! the miners quit anthracite statis- | Killa Mil Lymber Company, Java and \ Provost stre Fi oy 6} MADISON AVENUE = FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK Thirty-fifth Street For to-morrow (Tuesday) A Speciat Purchase of every garment new, made of fine-quality material ‘and silkelined throughout (one model fur-collared), will be placed on sale at the exceptionally low price of ' $74.00. Large Reductions in Prices have been made (and will gO site ‘eifect te-mor row) {in a number of the higher-cost Wraps and Coats Including imported modeis_—- (Women’s Outergarments Department, Third Fleer)