The evening world. Newspaper, April 8, 1921, Page 1

KING CALLS ARMY AND NAVY RESERVES AS STRIKE OF 3,000,000 MEN IS ORDERED | To-Night's Weathor—-PROBABLE SHOWERS. WORLD WALL STREET 2 EDITION VOL. LXI. Bahdl a1, 709—DAILY. — Copyright, 1 Che |“ Circulation Books Open to All.” | by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York World). WALL STREETER » | ‘EDITION a = —— = Port Office New Yorks Mt, 2s PRICE THREE CENTS = ~ = = ——— POLICE TRAIL WOMAN IN EL WELL CONFESSION WOMAN NAMED BY HARRIS IN HIS ELWELL CONFESSION CLOSELY WATCHED BY POLICE ————- Mr. Whitman Inclined to Be- lief Story Is a Ruse to Divert Pursuit. HARRIS FAINTS IN CELL. Alienists Examine Him and He Is Again Questiened by Y. Detectives. Detective Sergeant Henry Oswald, sent to Buffalo to investigate the statements of Leroy Harris regarding the murder of Joseph B. Elwell tn his’ West 70th Street home last June, re- ported by long-distance telephone to Police Headquarters to-day that he had talked for some time to-day with Harrié this morning. Oswald furnished with additional suggestions for questioning Ha thought he could reach a definite con- was and said he clusion before night as to whether Harris “knew something" or was merely an artistic liar. | District Attorney Moore of Erle County, acting for Former Governor Whitman, Attorney's interests in the Elwell case | here, reported at the same time to Mr Whitman that he was more and more though in charge the District Harris | of his convinced that might be untruthful even in some atatements he had either been con- werned in the murder or had been in the confider:e of persons who had) ® share In It, Mr. Whitman said he had the great- est confidence in the good judgment of Mr, Moore having known him for years since, as Governor, he appo!ntea Mr, Moore to fill a vacancy in the| District Attorney's office at Buffalo. | Mr, Whitman said ne had not acted on the suggestion of Mr. Moore that | the authorities here take Into custody & woman identified by Harris from a ohotograph as the person who insti- gated the crime as he describes it. Mr. Whitman explained that the per: ons mentioned bY Mr. Moore, Includ- ing this woman, were easily watched | and reached, and could not disappear | without detection. He refused to s y | woman | whether these persons—the and her close friends—were under sur- | veillance. | Mr. Whitman intimated it was not| beyond the possibilities that H.rris had been prompted to make a “con- by @ person who was gui! tession" ty} (Cotinued on Twenty-fourth Fuge.) oe “Exceptional Results THE WORLD'S | Real Estate Ads SELL 28 HOUSES WILLIAMSON @ KAEPPEL, REAL EstaTy 4317 161 Avenue, Liovkiyn, ‘Apel New York World: Geatlemen—Wo gation of the have received ew York W bs attic ouit Realty fh James Donsider the best fer our Fou are hereby elven peri tale beter 18 any | Unive | Roderick ©. $20,000,000 WILL BEQUESTS OF ENO UPHELD BY COURT Appellate Division Reverses Jury’s Verdict Finding Tes- tator Incompetent. Appellate Court to-day Division of the Su- decided that the the Surrogate's Court to the effeet that the lute Amos Eno, who died worth preme verdict of a jury in leaving an estate than $20,000,000, competent when he made his will, more was in- was contrary to th weight of evidence and onde! a new t ‘The will was contested by many of the heirs and supported by Columbia y. which appealed from the verdict and from the Surrogate’s or- der denying a motion to t Lucius H. Beers and Willfam Mitchell, proponents of the will, were x ith Columbia University on the ap- peal. Among the William P. Eno, Gifford Pinchot, Antoinette no, respondents Antoinette £ Amos R. E. Johnstone, we. Wood, Pinchot, Henry Lane! Mary P. Eno and Florence C. ves, a Pe it Dies in J om Yokohama to-day Dispatches ani ed the death there last Friday of Roderic C, Penfeld, former New York magazine owner and playwright. The White Hen, Princess Piccola and| other pinys were his work, For two years he had been publishing an Inter- trade magazine, "The World in Yokohama national! Salesman STILLMAN CHECK FOR $62,500 1S RECEIVED TO-DAY At the Same Time Notice of Ap- peal Is Filed by Banker's Counsel. HE firm of Cadwallader, T Wickersham & Taft, coun- sel for Mrs, James A. Stil a, announced to-day that a check for 2,500 in payment of two months’ alimony and counsel of $47,500, allowed by Justice Morschauser, had been received by them. In a letter accompanying the check, attorneys for Mr. still- man gald they would not appeal the award if assured of an early trial A clerk from the office of DeLancey Nicoll, counsel for Jumes A, Stillman, gay Ww notice at Lins this afternoon of the Jay at Carmel, N. Y,, and k of the Appellate ond Department, of ny to witt Division, § a motion to appeal the judgment of Justice Morschauser giving Mrs tillman $7,500 a month alimony and $47,500 for legal expenses. for Mrs they would Counsel serted Justice Stillman as- at once go be- Morachauser to ask t $2,500 additional counsel for the purpose of fighting the appeal before the Appellate Divi- sion fore r al REEDOM OF GITY = ELWELL MYSTERY ~FOREINSTEINAS BROUGHT INTO TRIAL < BIG CROWD CHEERS OF STOKES'S CASE Board of Adee Confer the | Witness wide if He Tried to | Bocutiene Leaving Bulk of Estate | Honor on Scientist and Head of Zionists. |FALCONER IS SCORED.) NO, Fif Keys Into Door of Slain Man’s Home. iS HIS ANSWER. \Collins in Bitter Attack De-|Mr. Littleton Explains Why He | rides Claim of Distinguished Ancestry. By a vote of 56 to 1 the Board of Aldermen extended the freedom of the \the Zionist movement, ciate, Prof. Albert Binatem. man Falconer was the only voting against the resolution. Loud cheers grected the announce- |ment of the vote. When the meeting was called jorder the ge of the Aldermanic Chaniber were jammed with Jewish citizens w came to protest against Alderman Falconer's action at: last Tuesday's meeting. Alder- man to Democratic Floor eader Wiliam T. Collins led in the attack on Faleoner after the olution ex ng tho freedom of the city to Chaim Wera- man, head of the Zionist movement, and Albert Einstein, ntist, who is another member of th Zionist jdelegation to this country, read By general ag phrase “and their asso bee nstricken from the upon its reintroduction. Collins re- | ferred to @ speech given to the news- |papers by Falconer to-day’s meeting in which Falconer referred to | his Aincrican ancestry dating back to 1702. His first ancestor, a Frenchman the s¢ the had eement, ate: before -|by birth and an Englishman by nat- uralization, came to this country as secretary to Lord Edward Viscount Cornbury, | “There were no typewrite jdays that tihs Pierre Fale s in the ner |to this country,” lins, “and a secretary at that time was a menial who held a coat or blackened His Grace's boots, Men | of that class fled to Canada when the |taces, 1s nothing more than the des- cendant of a Falconer, a secretary, coat holder or a man who blacked the boots of a British Lord, This is the man who never heard of Hinstein or Werzmann! I claim that any Alder- man who objects to granting the free- dom of the city to such distinguished men as these is a bigot, a disgra this Board and the a ref yn upon the tolerance in this Falconer, with bitterness of his ancestry was against the Mannix and the De Valera He ought to give up America and go back to England. He tionist In this Board. demned by all fair minded irrespective of race d, though a Democrat, I can stute authority that the Republicans through with him ~— BOWIE RESULTS. RACE olds: four tiletth), $2 Aim 112 Bay son), $4.20, third. y, Mabel A rek, The Iso ran. ‘ON e to and irit of This man y at large whole sj country, all the resolutions, is the one He obstruc- ts cone peor or cre and, ni- with are < FIRS tworye [312 ‘ttle lat aiming; furlongs. $10.90, $5. (Pareington Vainp, Tine :49 *uetile Cigarette, RACE—Maiden, upward; six furl johnson), § 101 (Penman), reador, 106 Tim 1d 1-5. Rastward, Divine nd r. Slevenson, *Little Ne Po nist, Navajoe, Lusmore also ran. year Gen. $i $3.30 (Enaor) Odd came | sald Alderman Col-| colonists were at war with Great Britain. | “Truly, then, this Bruce M. Fal-; coner, who flaunts his ancestry in our | | | after Asked Questions of the Plaintiff's Cashier. W. Littleton, attorney tor! D. Stokes, defendant in the| Martin Mrs. W. B. agents of Stokes had tried to fit keys, | alleged to have been taken from Mrs. | Stokes's writing desk, to tho door of! Joseph B. Elwell’s house in 70tl. Street where he was murdered. ‘The matter of the keys caine up ery and main floor floor| quring the cross-examination of Lesile S. Petrie, cashier for Mr. Stokes, who, keeping them in his safe, went in June, 1920, with a private detective named Jentzer, employed by Stokes, to the former home of ve T. Wal- lace, one of the co-respondents, at No. 13 85th Street, and saw them tried in the door of the apartment. “Did you ever try the keys in the| door of Elwell's home?" Mr. Littleton | ast | asked Petrie, had been! resolurion | | | The witness, knitting his brows at the unexpectedness of this, caid he} had not done so. | “Did you know that those keys. aid fit the door of Elwell's home?” was| asked. “No, I didn't know that,” Mr. Petrie replied. Mr. Petrie testified that he saw] Jentzer put the key In the lock of Wallace's door und a moment later turn it and open the door. Q. The dooF might have been un- locked, might It not, and not have | been opened by this key? A, All | can say ts that I saw the key put in and turned and the door opened. ‘The witness stated that he had the keys In the safe in Stokes's office from November to December, 1919, until June 21, 1920, when he gave them| back to Jentzer and they went to-| gether to the fitting experiment in East 35th Street, Q. (By Mr. Wise, counsel to Wal- lace). Were those keys marked any way by you? A. No. Q. Can you swear these are the} in} (Continued on Rourt enth Page,) GETS $38, 000 FOR BREACH OF PROMISE) Miss Lynch Awarded $13,000 More Than She Won on First Trial of Suit. A breach of promise verdict of $38,000 was to-day awarded by 1 Jury in Juatice|¢ Squire's part of the Brooklyn Supreme| Court to Misa Winfred V No. 96 Sterling Place, that borough, who twice sued Alexa. r H. Figge of No, i} $ West 95th Street, Manhattan, Miss | Lynch was given a $25,000 verdict lust year, but it aside on appeal. ‘To-day's verdict resulted from the re-| trial of the case. Miss Lynch t Lynch of| wan set Ufled she became ne ged to Figg of Mage Bros. 1 May, she was king ns t She was inuuced to Tense under & nature , Figge married another wom Tho verdict was suid to Ye One of th largest ever given in Brooklyn in’ breach of promise uctlom | #30 Men's Sults & Top Conte, Thy “HUB Cloviing ¢ Bar #14,05, roadway, coruer ‘Haid gal prise Sarin (Raging Entries on , } . | police to-day | proprietor of EXTRA MRS. SHONTS DROPS CONTEST OF WILL RETRACTS CHARGES to Mrs. Thomas Probated— Terms of Settlement a Secret. The will of the late Theodore Shonts, President of the Interbor- ough, was admitted to probate this afternoon by Surrogate F the widow, Mrs, Milla D. signed an affidavit withdrawing her y after d@bjections and specifically retracting “all the charges that I have at any time made derogatory to the charac- jter, repute and conduct of Mra, Amanda ©. Thomas, Mrs, Thomas is the woman to Jelty to, Dr. Chaim Welzmann, head of | divorce suit, stated at recess this atter-| whom Mr. Shonts willed a great part and his asso- | noon that he thtended to prove that! ur his estate. ‘The widow's reasons for withdrawing her contest were not made known. TWO WOMEN LIVE IN LOCKED HOTEL ROOM FOR 3 YEARS, ee Had Means, bit Ate Only Canned Goods and Never Opened Door—One Dying. Hoboken health authorities and the began investigation of two women, both apparently well- educated and having moderate means, who since January, 1918, have locked | themselves in a suite of three rooms at Meyers Hotel, Third and Hudson Street, Hoboken, and never at any time until to-day stepped outside their retreat. On complaint of Henry the Hotel, Dr. F. X. Stack, Hoboken Health Commissioner, gained admittance on a threat to break down the door. He found the elderly woman, whose name was given as Miss Carrie Sun- derland, in bed, and on the bed a dog. Dr, Stack said Miss Sunderland, who Is sixty years old, had tuberculous and | could not live more than three weeke. | He ordered her removal to St. Mary's ‘Hospital, ‘The younger woman said she was Mrs, Fannie Miller, She appeared to be about forty-five. She objected to having Mise Sunderland, her aunt, taken to St. Mary's Hospital, saying she would make arrangements for her to be taken to a private hospital, for which she was able to pay Mrs, Miller said she realleed that her aunt was very {ll and that their manner of life had been extraordinary She sald came from New York to the hotel and cut themselves off from the rest the world because they “had to." Dr, Stack said he found sho was slightly infected with tuberculosis, She said they lived entire on canned goods witich they ordered by | mail, and miik delivered at the dour They paid $30 a week for the auite, by cheeks which they left In envelopes | at the door, They received aul, wad conducted all other cominunication with the outside world through the ck at the bottom of the door, whica was kept locked at all times during the t years and three months, Braun, the hetel manager, said hoe went to the health authorities when, | after repeated not s th nen failed Lo remo’ p empty cans they had piled on the five escape. Mrs. Miller, according to Dr k, talked rationaly, and apy understand the condition and ber aunt fully, It was said n rosecution on grounds of alleged violation of the health ws will by made, ae THE WO Av HRB AP . Puliteer (World) ly Pak city teieoh 4000, room for bagame and vatel open day end loney orders aid Unvellors’ checks “for Shonta, had | Braun, | she and Miss Sunderland) of} PLOT 10 POISON KING CALLS ARMY RESERVES OHA REPORTED AND VOLUNTEERS AS GREAT visto UNIONS DECIDE 10 STRIKE POLICE GUARDING HIM. Regular Army Also to Be Recruited of Union Pacific! @t Once—Walk Out of 3,000,000 Had Just Completed Men Begins Tuesday and It Is | __ Inspection: of System. Feared I+ Will, If Successful, Paralyze tne Entire Industrial Life of the Nation. LONDON, April 8 (United Press).—King George to-day called the irmy reserves and volunteers to active service in the threatened indug+ trial revoluth His message was read in the House of Cammons by Premler Lloyd George. -WDGE LIVE Hotel M id Said St Said She Was Of- fered $500 to Put Drug in Chairman OMAHA, April &—A plot to poison Judge Robert 3. Lovett, of New York, | |chairman of the board of directors of | [the Union Pacific system, was re- | vealed here to-day when a maid em- ployed at the Fontenelle Hotel told Captain of Detectives Van Deusen |that she had been offered $500 by @ |man to slip poison into a glass of | water and serve it to Lovett. From) The King’s proclamation included the army, navy and the air force the description given by the mald po- | e lies Kelleve the manta afirgaee fC It also provided for increasing the strength of the regular army Police refused to give the name of! by recruiting, |the man or to discuss the case tur- | eneral strike of > T innibanitouate: ee ence iiteuntal| A ee ti of the Triple Alliance throughout Great Britain, Mr. Lovett closely during the re-| '27Wing the country Into (ndustrial chaos, will start at midnight Tuesday nder of his stay here. Two de-| UNless negotiations for settlement of the coal strike are reopened, It was tives stood guard in hs room inst) announced by union leaders shortly after 7 P.M. when the executives of night, | T eee Lopate campleredsan’ (hupes- the Triple Alliance had been In session three hours, tion of the Unfon Pacific syscen| The Peemier stated that enrollment of voiunteers will begin to-mor- Tuesday and has been here since, Uelrow, The territorial forces (militia) will not be included in the reserves, expects to le for New York sight. (ObIGE SHeslhl Agere Gals anal? said, but members and ex-service men were urged to enlist. peven) Unido) Pacific. Seteotiven’ will | “For the first time in the history of the Nation,” Lloyd George de- accompany his train when it leaves! clared, “it is confronted by an attempt to coerce it into capitulation by jthe destruction of its resources." br urged that volunteers offer their for the Bast At the offices of the Union Pacific, services to supplant railway |No, 120 Broadway, no message con- | strikers in essentia. services. He also asked that they sup’ i corning Judge Lovett had been re- io ces in the: work 'y support the police cetved this afternoon, It was sald} oF ‘ there that he was on an inspection | LONDON, April 8 (Associated Press).—The intention of the Brit- trip in the West. JULIE OPP DIES jish Gcvernment to issue an appeal for volunteers for the transport and other essential services, in view of the prospective triple alliance strike, was annetnced in the House of Commons late to-day by Lloyd George, | IN HOSPITAL HERE | Prime Minister. A royal proclamation would call up the army and | AFTER OPERATION jnavy reserves, he sai The Government also intends to enroll special constables and form Well Known Actress of -Shakespe-|a special emergency force for a period of ninety days to protect the police | rean Roles Was Wife of in the execution of their duty, the Prime Minister added. William Faversham After recounting the day's events, @—————____________. a |from which he drew the conclumon Mrs. William Faversham, whol that the mnlera’ federation ts de-| cided to strike in support of Briteh while she was on the stage Wa) terminod to allow the mines to go to| Mera, who have been out since early known a Jule Opp, died here to-| doptruction in the bellef that by auch | ‘"/* Week. (Membership of the three day at the Post Graduate Hospital! action jt will be able to intimidate| Set labor bodies, the “Triple Allie following an operation the nation into surrender, Mr, Lloya|*8®" 18 placed at 3,000,000.) Mr. Faversham at present 1s play- orge declared it was the duty of| Hepes that the miners and the own- Ing in Columbus, O, in “The Prince] ing government, as the trustees of | © f coal pits might meet with Gov~ and the Pauper,” In which he ap-|the nation, to prevent this catas-|¢*PMent officials to discuss means of peared here earlier In the season.| trope, He then announced the meas-| the ike were apparently He wus notified this afternoon of|ures to be taken and read the King's | Dlisted shortly ‘before noon, when {8 her death. emorg proclamation. Was announced the miners had re- Miss Opp underwe:.: an “extensive| J. Austen Chambcflain, the Govern- ,8¢d to meet thetr employers, abdominal operation” a week ago|ment Leader in the House, moved Bike riginal invitation from the Wednesday, it was sald at the hos-|that the King's message be taken| Prime Minister for a meeting between |pital She was in a weakened condi-| under consideration Monday, Amid|'"€ miners and owners, to be held at tion, it was 4, when she went] cries of “to-morow” the motion was|[°M% Was contained in identical let- lshere for tho operation, following her 1 to and the House adjourned, |'er8 to the Mining Association and return from abroad. at Britain to-day appeared to be | M Miners’ Federation, | Julie Opp was the daughter of|fuce to face with an industrial crisis] | #°) body was Invited to meet “to | younny Opp, who had a urant]| of {mprecedented proportions, ‘The deal in the first instance with the Jand salon at No, 311 Broadway thirt-| National Union of Ratlwaymen ana] 4! clon of Pumping aad the presers | gave his daughter the est education ng > Se t me Taste ts shoul am 4 : Sina sposed of before any other question he knew how, While understudying js be Me ston tn London in 88 ene| JEALOUSY BREAKS __|!s entered ws ula 2 R n thelr reply to this invitacion te 4 an opportun nich led to her Rs 1 ss j ven UP WOMEN POLICE) ine acon conterence the miners sald pecoming & ‘l 7 ; y were ready to meet the owners — | Co-operation Imposs So Kala-lind the Government “as soon aa we | owned i Coney Inland Creek, mazoo, Mich., Ch hear from you that the conference Rdward Moore who lived to be he! will be entirely free rm Moore, at No. 2708 Weat Sixth Street KALAMAZOO, Mich, April &—Femt Y BPN TU BATY CORRIDORS SS 50: ina Coney 1 waa drowned to-day in| nine jealousics have disrupted thi to be or not to be discusse Coney Creek at the foot of | Women's Suuad of the Kalamazoo Po- ‘o this Mr. Lioyd George replied ahell When he fell! nto the Department, Chief Taffe declared to-/ “We have never suggested tha: ang ety playme rau screaming | duy ti announcing iad requested the | limitations should be imposed upom to homes, Frank Melaughiin, | femguauan of two policewomen. | tthe discussions, but as regards the who lives next to Mra, Moore, and) oper wrote City Mann Harry’ Pr der in which the matters be dig. Policeman George Maloney got the man. The women are suposed to w us st jeniid’s body and Tr, Weinstock of \uavilien, irivapeciive uf personalities, | | iat pulmotor for half an hour before ry Haart ge 1 pronouncing him dead, [{uggasble Pisinissal was the oaly so- ]""wwWhile the mings are hourly being ; t a ee age i | i