The evening world. Newspaper, April 19, 1921, Page 9

” DAUGHERTY HALTS CRONKHITE CASE | FOR AN INQURY Senator Calder Scores Those © Who Accuse Rosenbluth—“I Know He Is Innocent.” | Former Capt. Robert Rosenbluth expects to be in Washington to-day to hasten an investigation of his} charge that his arrest in connection with the death of Majof Alexander) Cronkhite was due to a @ffort of agents of the Bureau of In- Vestigation of the Department of Jus- tice to “make good” on their jobs, Despatches from Wa Pounce that Attorney G: “d tha erty has or in abeyance until he y & ft | Major Cronkhite occurred, ‘said he | Eta Reds QSENBLO IE Would have Prosecuting OF ARMY aperate | an held 0 over all drop al CAPTAIN ACCUSED DENIES GUILT MURDER Will One rectly THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, APRIL 19, 1921, incurred by the Corporation Counsel] printion, a new retirement BIN for| Mrs. Irma Horton, widow of former officers and employees of the city, a|lolice Lieut, Floyd Horto pension bill for widows and | bill authorizing the Board orphans of members of the poll a bill increasing the pension of ' land. PUBLIC HEARING ON 36 CITY BILLS CALLED BY HYLAN Cost City Millions if Ap- proved, and Make “Trouble” for Mayor Anyhow. hundred and fourteen bills di- affecting New York City and destined, if approved by the Mayor, to cost the olty many millions in money, and whether approved or not to cause Mr. Hylan no end of trouble,! the bill which would take from. the were passed at the session of the Leg- Comptroller power of auditing claims islature just ended. Mayor Hylan yesterday announcea xe would hold public hearings on thir- ty-six of them to-morrow. The most important of them are those increas- ing salaries of policemen and firemen, from the chiefs down. If the Mayor approves this measure he will add several million dollars to the budget; disapproval, which is expected, will cost him 100,000 votes, according to Republican estimates. Twenty-four of the bilis in the hands of the Mayor provide for reinstate- ment or pensioning of former police- men. One provides for reinstate- ment of a school teacher, while one on which he will hold a hearing to- morrow, gives authority to reinstate ard G. Sexton, former plumbing inspector, Another bill on which there will be a hearing to-morrow is that requiring the city to pay to Mrs. Mary Malone, widow of Judge Malone of General Sessions, the balance of the salary, which, had he lived, he would have received in 1920. Comptroller Craig severely criticised West 42nd St. in the employment of real ostate and other experts and pia with the city’s legal r In a letter to the May veto, Mr, Craig wrote that t of audit was taken from department heads in 1878 and placed In the hands of the Comptroller to end the looting of the city by the Tweed ring Mr. Craig said he understood th Corporation Counsel was res rs Lie for the bill and that it method the Tweed crowd used It was pointed out that an effect of the bill might be to prevent the public from ever knowing how much the city Is paying Hiram Johnson for his services as a “traction expert.” Other bills on which hearings will be held to-morrow are: One fixing a pattern and p for water meters, providing for aX tain, permitting water assessments to charitable institutions and ex. empting from real estate taxation of Stern Brothers (Between Fifth and Sixth Avenues) tion obtained by Dr. Knight Dunlap f Jobns Hopkins University from © men who were held last week tn ashington by agents of the De- rtment of Justice, This “truth machine’ was devel- oped in the laboratories of various experimental psychologists and has been used extensively in testa at sald the Senator. Johns denied that he had | Pable « Statements made Sunday by Rosen-| bluth and his attorney that the Bu- feau of Investigation is trying to gel the case off his hands before the bu-| § feau itself comes under ‘the inves- gation threatened by Attorney Gen- ‘ral Daugherty. “They picked up a red hot poker, Abd they, don't know how to let go Kins University, It 1s ca- asuring almost infinites!- nator Cal at the Noteworthy Feature Price of A SPECIALLY Prepared Sale Wednesday: Women’s Wraps and Coats Seven of this season’s handsomest new models to select from : ‘ Nkened the case to that of Dreyfus ert Na france. Al nocent, he replied d if he thought Rosenbluth in- ap innocent igmorance of the law and his r i to counsel Rosenbluth confession was on the fact that he has never been able to get a copy of the complaint or of the warrant which was issued in| Tacoma. A telegram was received by Capt.| roll call, 62 to 3, Senator La Follette . being joined by two Democrats, Sen- A. at Pensacola, ot the company and saw the shooting, from the Department of Justice had e him, even t tached to the stuff of M: Ans] prpsnvcnis Ns - Gronkhite, father of the dead man,| U%h-Cwnmins RON rey ner eae has written to Rosenbluth asking if) Which It declared, was largely the work there was\any ws help, He said th had been under ( believe that the ir Ber Sergt. Poth Eee than has yet been auby found. He said that even with Poth- les confession there would have to(tWo men supposed to be connected be corroboration, and there is none| With the Cronkhite case may figure wo, far n it. Dr. Dunlap js understood to tosendluth is demanding that he be| naye used a" achine” in his brought face to face with his accuser, |"4V® used a “truth machine” In Senator Calder corroborated the ch lcal experiments upon the \ } ts ps rt in interpretin the subject from the machine . 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