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hood of the home of bis aunt, Mrs. Silvia Weinman, whose husbund Is in the @ stock brokerage business, as irresponsible and over-talkative ative of a réspected and responsible was not family. His “confession” taken seriously by friends of the Weinmans who knew anything of him. From Bridgeport came the informa- tion that he had caused trouble for hie father, the late Samuel Harris, | @ubstantial clothing merchant in 1913, when he waa arrested for forgery and sentenced to a term in the George Junior Republic which was suspunded @uring his good behavior. District Attorney Moore of Eric County reported to Mr. Whitman late this afternoon that he was very much impressed with the apparent earnest- | ness with which Harris told his story apd could not help believing some of it was truc. The prisoner's wire, Mr. Moore said, asserted that her husband ‘was with her continuously at homs on the night and morning when Miwoll was murdered. FULL TEXT OF CONFESSION OF HARRIS. ‘The taxt of the confession of Roy Harris as to the Elwel murdor, made public by the Buffalo authorities, is as follows: I, Roy Harris, live in New York Cfty. On June Li, 120, I was at 70 Firat Street, New York City, in company with a fellow who goes by the namo of Bi Dunkin—can’t say that that is his real name. On June 9 wo were standing in front of the Mills Hote! at 36th Streot and Seventh Avenue when @ party I knew only as Jerry, a chauffeur, drove up in a limousine automobile with a woman inside. Jerry asked ws if we would take a ride with this woman. We got into the car and @rove through Central Park. We stopped near the reservoir, Tho woman in tho car's name is Mrs, Fairchild, who said: “Boys, I got some real money for you for to kill Josoph Ewell.” Gbe then eaid she would meet us at the subway station, 72d Street and Broadway. We met her the next night, as arranged, where we laid the plan for the murder. This was on the night of June 10. She gave Dunkin and myself #0 apiece after we had promised to meet her the following night We met her the (ollowing night, as arranged, which was June DL, 1920, this time in front af the Marie Antoinette Hotel. She told us that Elwelli would attend somo the- ‘atre that night, and that she had gome one trailing to seo if he went ‘anywhere alse after the theatre. We were to mect her again at the same place at 11.30 P. M. We met her as agreed. We then had a little lunch. She then took Dunkin and myself to Elwell’s home at about 12.45 A M., ‘June 12. Elwell did not show up until be- ween 2 and 3 o'clock in the morning. He went upstairs and later came down again drease) in bis pajamas and sat in an arweuair in the parlor yand started to read his mail, then went to sleep in the cbair, when ‘Dunkin pulled out a revolver from his pocket and fired one shot. I had a Colt’s .32 calibre revolver in my possession, but I did not do any shooting. ‘The shot fired by Dunkin killed Mr. Elwell. The mousine was waiting for us Yat 78th Street and Central Park West. ‘We went out the front door where the automobile was waiting for us. We Jrodo az far as the 110th Street sub- way station, where Mrs. Fairchild gave Dunkin and myself $450 apiece. She said that she would meet three nights later at the Van Cort- Jandt Street station at 11 P. M., but whe did not show up where she was to give us $5,000 apiece. I heard that ‘she met Dunkin and paid him the balance. I have not met elther Dunkin or Mrs, Fairchild since the night of the murder. I got a tip that she paid “him, I do not know where Mrs. Fairchild resides. I make this statement without any threats or promises, (Signed) ROY HARRIS, Mrs. Sylvia Wineman, the wife of ® broker and Harris's aunt, declined to say anything regarding her mephew at her home, No, 100 Central Park South, to-day. While ghe “confession” of Harris ‘gontalns some statements which are entirely out of line with facts estab- lished at the time of the murder, such as the difference between Har- ris's statement that the murder was committed a few minutes after El- well's arrival in the house at 2 or 3 o'clock in the morning and the known fact that when killed he had in his hand a letter which was not deliv ered at the house until 7.30 in the morning—Inspector Coughlin of the Detective Bureau said that if any one statement is true the scrutiny of th. confession would be thorough to the last degree. He pointed out that Harris—a con- fessed bootiexger and forger, accord- .ing to the Buffalo pollce—may have ‘heard something of the Elwell mur- der in the underworld, which ftur- Mished him with the inspiration in telling Lie story, though he himself may not have had the share in it he describes, Numerous motives why a man in the situation of Harris might confess to a murder of which he was inno- cent were suggested at Police Head- quarters, Buffaio bas had many @erious crimes lately attributed to bootleggera. A bootlegger who felt ‘suspicion coming his wa; on thelr account might well seck free trans. portation to New Yovk froin that city and the diversion from suspicion in ee et ee reared WHIST EXPERT | “MRS. FAIRCHILD” WHOSE MURDER | AS DESCRIBED BY MAN CONFESSES; HARRIS TO POLICE Blonde With Blue Eyes, Between 40 and 35 Years OW, He Says. BUFFALO, April 7 Y MATUUS, who confessed to the police thut he aod # pal were paid to kill Josmpte Elwell by a "Mex Faleenild,” cribed her to the police to-day ue follows: Between thirty and thirty- five years old. Not large and not excep: tionally small, A blonde, with blue eyes. Wore a light weight, fawn colored coat, black and red turban and many jewel Her diamond rings and di regard for expenses impressed him that she was wealthy. Usually rode in a limousine. HARRIS CONFESSED FLWELL KILLING 0 AS T0 GET EVEN (Contnued From First Page.) DOSePA IS. ELWELS focal crimes which would pe caused by the overshadowing interest In the ®lweli murder. Revenge or black- mail against the actual perpetrators of the crime might be involved. The first of a score of detectiven sent out by Inspector Coughlin to get ali the information about Harris available from the reports of the Bur- falo police as to his own statements regarding his life here returned to Headquarters at 10 o'clock to-day, He verified the story that a man of tho exact deseription of Harris, though using another name, was em ployed as an elevator man at No. 366 was accompanied by his wife. He had left the hotel several minutes be- fore the clerk told the policed, One of the bellboy told of a bright green hat worn by the woman with bim, and it was through this that the po- Fifth Avenue from April 22, 1920, to|licemen were able to get the couple In Miun Street a few moments later. At the Niagara Street station the detectives say that Harris seemed to be ill at ease, and Flynn finally asked him to “come clean.” Harris te al- York City when public interest in the |Ieged to have at first denied there murder was “at jts height.” The case | was anything else to tell, but Flynn, had receded to the back pages of the | taking a step in the dark, asked him newspapers and Assistant District | “How about New York?” July 17. The superintendent of the bu Iding said there could be no doubt of him identity This mado one more discrepancy in Harris's story, ag be said he left New Attorneys were giving out inter-| The start it gave the prisoner views only twice a week by July 17.| showed the sleuths that they were on Acoording to the confession a chaut- | the track of something else. A fow feur named “Jerry,” known to Harris in hia familiarity with the night life of the Tenderloin, happened upon Harris and a friend named William Dunkin in Seventh Avenv- and took thom toa Mra Fairchild, with whom they made a bargain to murder El- well, whch they carried out, Harris said he got only a small share of the promised blood money, though he believer Dunkin was paid in full. BECAME A BOOTLEGGER NEAR THE BORDER. Harris said ho came from No. 1666 Park Avenue, Bridgeport, to New York and lived in 127th Street, near Bighth Avenue, with a brother-in law named Weiner, at No. 127 Weat 67tb | jamas. Ried | Pa was bese er} eerie mail, but being so sleepy that he ploye oan w Clerk, at No. 08 | dozed off before he had finished. Peortr en atrent, He admitted gine |)" srarris came to Lockport about & hootlexging on the Canadian border, the uifalo police say, under the |month ago, and the police say he has names of Leonard and Carl n. been engaged iw bvotlegging since. It was this reason, Harris appears to be Jewish. He is wife, that caused him to use the five feet seven inches in height.) weighs 140 pounds and is stockily name of Carlin when registering at the Genesee, He was afraid that built. Ho has a gold sooth in front, some one would know the name of Ho said at first he had no relatives but later said a brother-in-law named Leonard, Mrs, Leonard, as the woman with him calls herself, has been em- Wymer was a stock broker In New York. Tho Buffato police said Harris ployed on Niagara Street and room- ing ut No. 360 Niagara Street, was unuxnally well dressed, that he shown no signs of being “queer.” and was not a drug adict. Harrig said when he was at No. 120 ; West 57th Street he was living with| Saturday she was laid off, she says, nd has been looking for employment since. Tuesday afternoon, while walk- ing along Main Street, near Genesee Street, she met her husband, It was his brother-in-law, ‘This In the St Hubert apartment house. No man eight months since she had seen bim and she was very much surprised to named Wymer ever lived there as far meet him in Buffalo, as thoy recalled, employees said to- ‘The police decided to hold Mrs. Leon- day Assistant District Attorney Jim ard until her husband was either taken back to New York or relcased, The Smith said early to-day that Harris's fact that she corroborates the state- description, even to a scar on the left aide of the face, tallies with the de- scription of a man they have beon looking for for some time in conn tion with Elwell's murder. It was not known to the public such a man ment that Harris was in New York at the Ume Elwell was killed justifies holding her, they say. Harris, at the time he was in New York, says he was omployed ind broker's office as a clerk. The police was being sought. Harris's wife Was with him in Buf- have communicated the addresses he gave to the police In New York and falo and in being detained there as a witness. She is twenty and they were married in Canada in 1916. He was said to be going under the name asked them to look up his record the “We believ! ed in some of Leonard at the time. He is sald to have used the name of @ Carlin. Dunkin, His Chum, Also Convicted | us to the men who killed Elwell," said eae Police Chief James W. Higsins, of Crime in Bridgeport, minutes later Harris ts alleged to have broken down and told them that he would “squeal” on his partner in the Elwell murder because the part- ner had “crossed” him and had cheated him out of the majority of his share of the $6,000 which they were to receive for the crime. ‘Throughout last evening the police questioned Harris from every angle. He was asked innumerable questions rolative to small details, but in each case was able to wnswer them. He told of how Elwell came into the house dressed in evening clothes and went upstairs and changed to pa- GUILTY OF FORGERY WHEN BOY OF 15 that Harris is tmplic. ethene ei ROY HARRIS WAS Dr, James W. Putnam, a specialist Sonr in criminal psychology, at the request Conn, Jof the police, made a study of Harris BRIDGEPORT, Conn. April 7.—Roy | while he was under questioning and Harris is the name of a twenty-three-|declared he seemed to be mentally old son of the late Samuc! Harris, who | normal. in dead and had a large clothing bust —— * has a sister and an uncle, is a lawyer in New York, Another unt live at 1758 js showed that Harris of forgery was a wal OAY MLD. GAVE 33 other occupants of the house, He told of him reading some | Harris told his | On| ay or at least may lead | CHICAGO BANDITS, POLICE SAY, STOLE ~ $500,000 IN MALL aia aah Postal Clerk Held Up at Pistol | Point at Polk Street Station. |TAKEN BY FIVE MEN. | sineltiacmed | Money Wrappers Found in | Empty Pouch May Make It $750,000, | | CHICAGO, April T—An abunduned {mail sack found by the pollew early to-day, evidently the registered pouch stolun by bandits from a mail t-uck late yesterday, contained wrappers for money, which the pollco «aid ‘Hows that from $600,000 to $750,000 was obtained by the robbers. It was reported last night by postal wuthorities that the loss would not exceed $50,000, Tho abandoned poach contained Wrappers indicating a shipment of one package of $40,000 in $1 billt, a pack- age holding $60,000 in currency, an- other containing 100 $1,000 bills and five large sacks consigned to branches | of the Federal Reserve Bunk, each | containing five smaller baye which in turn hold currency of large de- nomination, The smaller sacks were ail in one large mali pouch whieh was stolen from a truck at the loading platform: of the Polk Street Station. Four men who had pursued a mal} truck near the station drew re- volvers and ordered the clerks to hand over the bag. It was bulky and toy big a load for the ordinary man. A robber, de- scribed as a giant weighing more than 200 pounds, grabbed the sack with one hand and carried it to tie ear ucross the street The five then leaped into their cw and sped away. | ‘The robbery took place in about a| iminute and a half, witnesses said, | As the car was rounding the corner at Polk Street « policeman, Wdward Ptacok, ordered the me to atop. They crouched jn the car. The policeman fired two shots into the car. It is not known whether be hit any of the ineu. | ‘Phe automobile used by the rubbers was found abandoned wbout two mi.es from the place where the ritie? pouches were discovered ‘fwo bullet holes were in the tonneau of the |machine, | It ts believed the currency stolen |was consigned to banks in Indlun- [apolis, The C! cugo Federal Reyerve Bank and the Indianapolis banks ure the currency distributing points for the Middle West. Postal Inspector A. 15, Germer, acting head of the bureau here, re- fused to give an estima’: «the loss, a recent ruling from bidding this. = en 2 “asuington for- Dougias, No which said: have been approached by Dr McCaskey of No. 24 West 59th Strect and requegted to sign an affidavit that he signed liquor prescriptions tor me, but | have never at any time re- ‘ceived o West 68th Stet, | prescription from Dr. Me- Caskey calling for liquor." ‘The stubs in Dr, McCaskey's prescription book, it was asserted, show thre |Hquor prescriptions were issued in | Mrs. Douglas's name. | _A_prescription for a putient Dr. \MeCaskey said was a Washington business woman, gave her address as | No. 130 Park Avenue. The inspectors could not find such an address. Dr, eCaskey admitted it was fictitious, |'Two prescriptions were made out for A. B, Brown, at No, 17 Central Park West, who was not known at that | addrass, Throughout a long list of 200 liquor Rrescriptions which the doc fssued he never questioned « appeared on the stubs. Some p scriptions he admitted he sent out by mail, Others were issued when it man’ would come to him and tell hin a member of his family was sick SAYS HE GOT NO FEES FOR PRESCRIPTIONS. The doctor said he received nu feex for Uquor prescriptions; that he did ‘not make ealls on patients, He said jhe was “paid by the year by busi jneas men to keep them from getung Jsick, just as lawyers get retainers.” ‘This, he said, formed the nucleus of his bus ness. AU the end of the hearing, by Judge Holmes: Q. Haven't you v&lated the pro- vision of the Volstead law which lin its the issuance of liquor preserip- tions to one pint for any patient hv ten days? A. Yes. nn, but was placed on a year's pr You ‘have violated ‘the jaw by ss i! " issuing as many as four liquor. pr care a nee alam Donkin a scriptions to one patient in a single |here Dec! 29, 1919, on a charge of theft dav? A. Yes, but I told them about Jand was sentenced to Cheshire Reform: | tho ten-day lhmit and I don't know Glory when they got the proseriptions filled. | Doubt t Harris was ana . | Is it true that you told the pro- [jn the Biwell murder was. ¢ | =< hibition inspectors “To hell with. the iia dl i ‘ ia (Continued From First Page.) prohibition law A. No, no, no. Q. Did you take out any liquor pre- © boy must be oe | } is one of the ‘soft scriptions for yourself. A. I explained wused Us 4 University Avenue This the doctor |that in my letter to Director O'Con- : wot in with allied then and deseribed it as BOF bad compan; here, but 1] & WARNS | Dr. MeCaskey, who was formerly Jean never polleve that ho helped mur-|"a disease which causes the nervous an officer in the Medical Corps, U nis MOAT _ ayatem to need support.” S. A., seeks more liquor prescription " . One Riverside Drive patient, blanks. So far he has had two bool Soyn Hurrin Spoke of “Men, Fulrentid’ E de Drive patient, who ori900 each. In forcing himself. to in Canada, ot four pint preseriptions in on® trial he alms to test the constitution- ST. CATHERIN Ont, April bunch, thought they were dated on ality of Prohibition enforcement United Press).—Roy Harris, alleg consecutive days, was deseribed as along purely medt lines, to have confessed complicity in the| sumerine from colic. On the day the ——- Wiwell murder in New York, waa aub-| tibae S EAaA we * ta, Bandite Get % Re dect to epileptic fits, his’ landlady | ony were Issued the doctor “i mpRRe HAUTE, Ind, April - Here Id day: ved at her house | @it he ate lunch with hiv patient at mnwe bandits entered the Chicago and for wome tine under the name ot; # downtown restaurant. Asked what fastern Hlinols Depot at Sullivan, south Benny Le ners n Was a|they ate, on the theory it might have of here, this morning and took three man of good habits she suid and ex F Si aiaapeatena tt . uohes of registered mail and eacaped pt for hin ailment appeared to he | Something to do with the colic, the POMS Tobie. Mation Agent Ue c et | 7 as |Moctor declined to answer. Hicks arrived at the office as the mon Tis apoke of having mot a "Mrs. schodiay ve! Ghar wore at through a window. It Wairehiia’ in New York, according to] Attiched to the Inspectors’ charges Poy" atid the loss would umount to weve |was ap aM@davit trom Mrs. Dorothy ‘yal thousand dousre. aS aed THE EVENING WORLD, THUK&SDAY, APRIL 7, 7, 1941. \ ‘ibe CHELSEA HONORS WITH FINE STATUE {TS BOYS WHO FELL Unveiled at 9th Avenue and 28th Street in Park While Taps Are Sounded. A life-size bronze figure of a doug’ boy on uw granite pedestal was unveiled WILLIAMS ON STAND DENIES HE KNEW OF NEGROKLLNGS.STUATIN AT ONCE “Before God | Am Innocent,” Attorney General Daugherty Declares Georgia Planter Closing His Testimony. COVINGTON, Ga, Apri 7. —sonn 8. Willlaine, charged with the mur- der of Lindsay Petersoe, Willie Pres- ton and Harry Price, negroes on his plantation, took the witness atund in his trial to-day. The negroes were bound with chains and thrown into the river, It was testified yesterday by Clyde Manning, a negro under tn- dictmont for murder. “Beforg God, | am innocent ot their death!” said the planter, closing his testimony ‘As for the other eight men killed i Jasper County £ will explain that satisfactorily at the proper time,” Said Williams, referring to the fact ‘hat all told eleven negroes employed by him had been alain, after an in- vestigation into peonage conditions bad been begun by the Federal Gov- ernment. | Williams came into court this morn. ing wearing a sprig of dogwoud blus- |soms in the lapel of bis coat. Hu was |tecompained by his wife and Deputy Sheriffs | “Like most farmers,” he sald, “L have bonded out negroes and worked yesterday in Chelae “ark, Ninth Ave. ther, adding that “most Georgia nue und 28th 1. Jude Alfred J. farmers” wore technically guilty of Talley and Purk Commissioner Gallatin peonage under definitions of that baer ’ ‘ term given him hy le ey je statue wus erected by the citizens Manning te 7 Boring of the boys uf old Choiaea village who bigest AaB aM lcdaitA MoM At served In the war nolhborheod were sixty gaye their lv Thomas J. Ryan ‘the ci & that draped the the that the men children san, and wd nite arms whi WAL ; OFFERED TO MARRY MRS. WE. STOKES swerng the question, ask her. Q. Did you her mother, Mrs. Stok A No, T be r did, Q. Have you read the testimony of | get where the: “| return. er ask Mrs, Miller, | river did it for a purposi wbout wanting to marry| “If I had done this crime, gentlemen, Twenty thusand) Which the men were taken to a bridge in and helped put them over th Williams testified that the list he gaw of the three negroes wus when rail they came to him tho night before they disappeared and said they | wanted to visit their homes but would Hoe give them $5 each, and Iso gave Charlie Chisholm ploye five another , and Manning 40 cents negroes going off to- the each, gether. “Phat was the last 1 ever those boys, said, ceferring | Peterson, Price and Preston Williams sald he asked Mannina next diay what had become of we | trio and was told that “they went off last night” Williams told of nearing liter that | the negroes’ bodies had heen found suw of he to 1 never did | and of his later arrest. | "Whoever put the bedies in the he sald. LL ow uid have had plenty of Une to could not put their Mrs, Stokes in Denver that you had | bands pn me.” usked lo marry her and hud gone so far 8 to speak to her mother about | accused,” and added Willams asserted he was “falsely “What they 1? A. No, I did nut read such testi-| did to him (Manning) to make him mony. Q, If 1 tell you that euch eatinony | was given, will you say it is untrue? A. Yes, It Q. Wh in New York? A. In 1907 or 1908, the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel living there then and so was Mrs. St I saw her around town Q. Did you speak with her’? A. Yes, in the corridor the hotel. Q. Did you ever take her out here in New York? A. No, I never did, Wallace said that when he met Mrs. Stokes (who was not Mrs. that ume) in San Fran Humboldt Gates, now dead, at or co he and used to ko out with Mrs. Stokes and her sis- | ter. Tl the parks. Q. Did you think it improper to go out with her alone? A. Yes, be she was a youns girl We alway: her sister with us. Q. Why didn't you take her out when you Saw her here in New York? A. I didn’t want to be bothered Q. Do you mean that you were different to her? A Th: 1 mean, Q. Did you Never. Q, Didn't she give you a picture of herself? A. Yes; I destroyed it in 1909. 1 had stopped speaking to her, bad ever “rush” her? A Mext Mrs. Stokes | 1 was! eufe of the} Stokes at! wUse | ‘s just what | @ What do you mean by that? A. 1 mean I didn't want to be bothered, Q. A gentleman must have some reason for cutting a lady. your reason? A. J didn't want bothered, Mrs, Stokes, who had taken at the counsel table, to be 1 Seal facing Wallac What was leaned carelessly on her elbow on the ba of an adjoining ehair and re arded the witr with a face which expressed no injury whatever at Wal lace’s Inck of interest in he Wallace testified that he sho Mrs, Stokes (then Miss Elwood) ring in 1907, 1908 or 1909, he wasn’ sure which year, It was understood betwoen them tha she was to give it back when asked for it She wore it three o1 four months Q. Was it with that ring that you plighted your trovh? and lent it to her. t he | © me I don't know.” did not know what he was gong tosiy till we heard him on the stand,” he said. acous The defense rested without calling any other witness Williams's state t unsworn, on |the stand was under Georgia laws. | This prevents counsel from question | ing him. It also will give the defense coun- the last argument to the jury. Ar- | guments were started at once, The State rested “is morning after the testimony of Sheriff Johnson, who told of finding eight bodies bur- jed in Jasper County, and of the re- covery of three from the Yellow and South Rivers. The Sheriff | ning, wife of Clyde Manning. there had ever been “a lovers’ quar- rel” with Mrs, Stokes over either the ring, which she returned to him, or the destroyed photograph, Q. Well, now, tell us the reason for cutting Mrs, Stokes, A. 1 stopped speaking to her because that's my, vay of getting rid of anything like that. If I didn't want to have any- thing more to do with girls [ stopped speaking to them Wallace denied that he had lved at the Waldorf in 1913, but Mr. Smyth produced the of a judgment for $1,869 for food, cigars, money vanced, &c., supplied between March 11 and Nov. 7, 1918. “That was on account of a friend whom I introduced there and who ran up a big bill,” Wallace explained. record her hat, displaying her rich auburn pre- | y went to the beaches and| ceded upon the stand by Rena Man-| BUILDING MATERIAL | Says Conditions in Some | Localities Are Deplorable. WASHINGTON, April 7.-Investt- sation of illegul practices in the build im: material trades te to be under- taken at once in all parts of the coun- try where necessary, Attorney General Dawrcherty announced to-day. Reports from some sections of the country are that the building material situution is “intolerable,” Mr Daugh- erty said, and the Department of Jus tlee desires to contribute in any way it ean to Improving it. “The country,” Mr. Daugherty said, “should take notice of a new day and y Way,” and that those who had unity of Nlegal pract should “close their eyes. lis state- added, was a but warning’ to for jwhom it wax and could be |Mexarded as an opportunity for any ) of those who should mend thelr ways | to do so not ment, h lamphatic modest those intended The Attorney General raid the De- partment of Ju did not intend to harass business in any way, but that it did intend to enforce the law. He | Pointed out that while the profiteer- ing sections of the Gever Act had heen declared unconatitutio: the Ht Still could proreed under rinan Anti-Trust law. Dau tus discussing spe- ly the situation in the building materials industry, which he declared reports to the department showed to be “intolerable.” The Attorney that it was the suting terial trades wherever un inquiry was General purposi announced of investi- warranted, Indictments alr y have been returned in New York and Chi- cago, he said, and complaints have come from Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Cleveland and other cities, He suid conferences already had veen held with District Attorney Clyne of Chi- cuso, aod Unt ames A. Fowler Knoxville, ‘Tenn. had been ty take chanre of the proceedings In New York a NECOTATIONS TO END BATH CAL STRKE BROKEN OFF TO-DAY (Coutinued from Firs me) pleaded Mr. Lioyd George bring the owners and the miners face to face without conditions on either side, ‘This evoked cheers from the Labor member: ‘The question whether the pump men. d resume work and the matter of a) Wage system and a national should pe discussed ta the con- ference, Mr. Clyne contended be made condition for the conference amuel Miuney. aber member to and not § TOINVESTIGATE onditions in the building ma- | a aud a mumber of the Miners’ Exeow live Body, declared the tiners were | willing the vwners without vndilions on vither aide, with a view to arriving at a frlondly settlement. Reports from many mining cvaures |to-day said the strikers were adopting more aggressive attitude to make volunteers cease the work of keeping the collieries free trom water, in no- nerous instances force was used. Ac Borrowstounnoss, Scotland, miners to- day threw bombs at @ pitheed tn order to intimidate volunteer workery m the mine. No material damage was done. LONDON, April 7 (United Press).— Promier Iloyd George to-day m ht conference with the miners tot then. |they were threatening the fe uf the country “There'll be nothing more left ere than there Ls in Russia if you destroy industry. Where will the mtners go if Britain becomes only a home for jcultivators of the soil?” he asked, “Back to the land,” retorted a mi ing delegate, “LUs not flooding of the minwe tan you ithe doing," the Promier declared. “It's flooding the nation’s Industries. This is an industrial country. if # coases to be industrial {t's destroyed. There will be no home for miners or anybody else, ¢ ienglhind then will pecome what tt was hundreds of years before her t- dustries were developed.” Taking up the miners’ demand that the Government pool all profits ana establish a national wage board, Mr, Lloyd George declared: “I think the decision of the Mtwere’ Federation is one of the gravest mtn- takes ever made in the history of the nation. The challenge put forward by the miners is much graver and deeper than even I realized.” The Premicr asked the detegatcs tor comments, but they refused to discums their demands. “We have nothing further « say* to meet of the dele; jon, At the opening of the ousrerence Mr. Smith charged the Government bad “knowingly tricked” the miners into agreeing to end the strike last jail “The Government is backing | the colliery owners,” he declared. He blamed the Government for “failing 10 recognize the natvonal tm | portance of the mines and permitting [matters to slide after miners and owners reported they could not agree.” “The only truce,” Mr. Smith de~ | clared emphatically, “is in a resump- tion of the old wage scale. QUEENSTOWN, Ireland, Aprti %~ | Naval units here and at other home |ports have been instructed, as a re |sult of the strike of British miners, tw hold themselves in readiness for ‘emergency service. Shore leave has been curtailed, even officers being \required to return to thelr ships by 8.30 o'clock in the evening. Naval of- ficlals view the situation as being filled with the gravest possibilities. ‘The question of shifting large num- bera of the Crown forces in Ireland lto Mngland, if disorders ensue, has | been fully considered, it is understood, Jand it such steps should be taken, it is said, the forces transferred will bly include many auxiliaries re- das especially qualified by their work In Ireland to deal with elements gecking to stir up trouble, Military authorities are reluctant to decrease |the forees in Treland ——_____— | Pwo eld for Homictin, Joseph ris, twenty-seven, tong |shoreman, of No. 351 West 16th Street, and his brother-in-law, James King. a cooper, of No, 69 Cherry Street, were held without bail to-day by Magistrate Silberman in Jefferson Market Court for tion Saturday on a hom! In fon with the death of Sumucl Kessler, twenty eight The men were agcested Sunday was on the wire PTT ty | | Bread—And a Woman’s Way The telephone rang in Mr. Jack's office. Mrs. Jack “Hello, dear,” she said, “I don’t just feel like atick- ing home this afternoon and I'm coming in to the you at the five-fifteen, and we'll “But, dear,” replied Mr. Jack, in » worried tone, kitchen. for the kiddies, fiernoon play?” No! no, old dear,” ahe aftet their bard answered, “we'll buy a inal of WARD'S BREAD and mm the way home. And the very tew minutes. The kiddies ske sa they won't care much what as made our housewives trustful of ul that he helps them out of the He sald he had never satisted the Supement: | matinee [ll meet Martha Wallace, a colored maid coene Heme emettiags! servant employed by W: ace from 1913 10 1917, who i me een “won't that make dinner a little lat te REE ee aa ee eee who'll be ravenous sth Street, was called to the n¢ : had ant usly testified te 4 Mrs. Jack just laughed he had previously testifies \ ug gold hairpins wed strands of qu ‘ el buy | | ourn hair in the bedroom of Wallace. | some WARD'S CAI: Mrs, Stokes was called from her! rest I can fix up in chair to stand at the counsel table | like that bread and « directly in front of the witness | else they have. Q. Have you ever seen this tndy Ex; «rience before? A. WARD and t (Mrs, Stokes was asked to take off and thealef Remember that every loaf of WARD’S BREAD This was a question which eventu-|"4 oF. so ever seen this lady ally embroiled all the attorneys for! i, \rr. Wallace's apartinent? A, No. both sides in a wrangle, Wallace never. sald at first that he didn't know wh Q. Have you eve Pn on photo. Mr. Smyth meant, so asked him to Kraph of Mrs a2) Stes Wal Tahal if apartment? A, No. ‘spell it out.” Mr, Littleton objected. “tyne Witness flatly contradicted the Mr. Smyth objected to his objection, testimony sven by Mrs, Matty an and Mr, Wise objected’ to everything and her husband and Mra, de Ai cise, Finally Wallace understood and QUInOR, 20 tO Ea ta eet ae stated that he had done no such thing them or of leaving the key of Wa Creer PIT ig Wan. Daten: « - th ihe ring Apartment with Mrs, de an ‘The witness denied emphatically thai quinos. ’ ii Noes a na nhs ta made to make you want to eat another declared Herbert Smith. spokeaman *