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"INDICT ONLY 10 __ NSB DRY CASES ‘All “Hip Toters” Released as Well as Many Disciples of Home Brew, SORE NECK LOTION O. K. ‘Talesmen Say They Won't Convict Regardless of Evi- dence or Believe Cops. The June Grand Jury of Brooklyn sat all Friday in its first booze session, and to-day it was learned that out of ninety-elpht cases presented to them they dismissed eighty-eight. William O'Donnell ts the foreman, and the prosecuting officer is Assistant Die- ‘ict Attorney Snyder. Serious consideration, tt {s said, was given to every case and each was given sober discussion; but the case of Mary Christiansen got a unanimous laugh as it was thrown out with a bang. Mary was accosted by a cop coming out of a drug store with a four-ounce bottle of alcohol, and when he asked her what she was going to do with it she said “rub her neck.” He took her beck to the drug clerk, who told the ep that she got it to rub her back. The policeman pinched her and the bottle, No cases were presented in which ‘the cops made arrests after invading private homes; but in overy case where a man was arrested for having a flask on the hip for personal use the case was dismissed. And in nearly every case thrown out the jury was aimost unanimous Harvey Price and William Kelly were arrested, charged with being in- toxicated. A search at the station house revealed a flask on the hip of each and they were charged with violating the Mullan-Gage law. Their cases were likewise dismissed. Goetano di Francisci, No, 2328 West 11th Street, Coney Island, had seven bottles of wine hidden in an old stove and five more wrapped up in some soiled linen. The cops found the wine and dragged Gaetano off to the Bastile, Peter Todino, No. 158 Stage Street, bas such a big family he hadn't reom in the house for a barrel of home brew wine, so he made a wine cellar of his barbér shop. The cops found the barrel and pulled the bar- ver. Both of these cases also were thrown out by the Grand Jury. District Attorney Lewis, of Brook- lyn, is devoting a day each week to ooze eases and employs only one chemist, but he has cleaned up the works, 80 far as the Grand Jury is concerned, and says if he could get two or three extra Judges he could dispose of court trials in quick order, The task of getting twelve jurors yesterday én the Federal Court to try \brahum Liquorman and James BD reminger, proprietors of a cufe at >. 4312 Dhird Avenue, was aban- d after Assistant United States District Attorney Kopff heard the on the opinions of several of them Volstead Act. One of the twelve said he wouldn't gonvict anybody under the act, no ater how conclusive the evidence might be, and others nodded their beads approvingly. He denied that he was opposed to the Constitution, but said; “Most of us take a drink and are just as gully as the defendants.” Another declared he wouldn’s vote for @ conviction unless the arresting officers were made co-defendants. “I know something about these officers,” e said, “because I served on the April Grand Jury, before which a number of such cases were brought,” Still another said that he wouldn't believe a cop on oath, “not if his testimony were corrubora by the entire Pollce Department After the jury was excused and a new jury ordered drawn, the defen- dants pleaded guilty to having liquor in their possession, the original charge having inchided the sale of it, and were fined $100 each. JEALOUS GUARD IN JAIL FOR SHOOTING Matazesky Missed Zarazozuk Five Times Straight at Close Range in Latter’s Restaurant. Charged with carrying concealed weapons and with felonious assault for the alleged firing of five shots at Adolph Zarazozik in his restaurant, No. 447 West 13th Street, Adam Matazesky, twenty-two, a watchman of No. 646 East 12th Street, was ar- raigned to- in Jefferson Market Court by Policeman Kennedy of the Charles Street tion. Matazesky, who served in the A ag said to be groundless! F. y - s fancied his wife and fired nt last night ous over the restaurateu friendliness with of bolted mi burning up the pavement when Ken nedy, who thought a hold-up was in progress, appeared. The policeman fired four times in the air. When Matazesky came out of the restaurant and ted: “There he goes! There he But Kennedy “frisked” the man, found in his pocket a gun contain- ing five empty shells, and took him to the station, BR. T. Trains Halted by Phone Cables. Borvice on the Brighton Roach lne of the B. R. T. was suspended on the west bound tracks from 1.25 1.51 roan. to-day, ‘The company reported & tas due to pulling telephone wy the Montague Street tube be- phroukl ie De Kalb Avenue and Court Street na It's my on you, Comments by Famous Engineer on Life and His Work. { never dinner, TRENTON, June 11. ing TO GET HIS WORK DONE in bility, pain, loneliness, bereavement, the terrible depression of the man who has outlived his generation. That is the quietly dramatic eitua- tion behind the terse announcement that Col. Roebling, at four years past four-score, has been elected President of the John A. Roebling’s Sons Com- pany, cable and wire manufacturers, in this town, to succeed his nephew, Karl G Roebling, who died suddenly, in the prime of life, about ten days ago. Nephews often succeed their uncles; this is one of the few occasions when an uncle succeeds a nephew. And it isn't for lack of young blood. Col. Roedling’s nephew, F. W. Roebling; his grandson, Siegfried Roebling, are both active in the business. But it is to be headed by the Colonel, the old- est eon of his father, the great engi- neer, and for sixty years prominent in the affairs of the company, He was its President once before, until he resigned so that he could give more Personal attention to the building of Brooklyn Bridge; he was its First Vice President until the recent elec- tion. INFIRMITIES DO NOT DISMAY HIM. “How do you keep young and on the job at eighty-four?” I asked Col. Roebling, when I saw, in his office, this slight, wiry man, whose fron- gray hair is still plentiful, whose shoulders are only a trifle bent, whose blue eyes look keen, who appears not a day over seventy. But when he began to speak, I learned that the remarkable thing about Col. Roebling is not a spurious Juvenility; it is that he does his work despite all the infirmities and un- happiness of real old age. “I haven't kept young and fit,” he told me sadly. “I can't hear out of this ear"—touching the right one—'T can't see out of this eye"—laying a finger beside the left eye—‘my teeth aren't right, my chest hurts me when I talk) it takes me ten minutes to g0 up and downstairs. If I could only fee! well I could stand anything else, fut I don’t, even for a few minutes at a time.” “Yet you're on the job,” I persisted, “and you've just been elected to this most importart position, How do you do it?" “Because it's all in my head," he answered quickly, “Sixty years I've known it and it’s all there, It's my jab to carry the responsibility. And you can't desert your job; you can't slink out of life, or out of the work life lays on you, I haven't any new business plans, but I've lived through hard times before and I can do it again. “Anyway, folks think T do a lot more than I do," he added whimsi- cally, SOME ITEMS ON HIS DAILY PRO- GRAMME. Which sounds well, until you learn, as I did, from an intelligent and ad- miring feminine assistant that Col. Roebling often begins his business day at the factory on Canal Strect as carly as 815 in the morning! And there's one thing, sometimes another that seems to hurt me and that I give up for a while. Usually it's some- thing I part.cularly like! “Atter breakfast I begin my work Roebling’s me to buy this and subseribe to the the jolting up and down of automibile or carriage. Even talk ng for 12 long gives me-@ pain across my chest although my heart and sound as a bell, My | A little old soldier of eighty-four, Col. Washington A. Roebling, the man who built Brooklyn Bridge and the son of the man who planned it, is fighting to-day his last fight; is fight- spite of all his enemies—iliness, de- I have a lot of my own interests to which I must attend, outside the fac tory here. For instance, I have to tuke care of all my correspondence I don't have a secre y, but answer all my letters in longhand." (Col. writing is firm and clear as print; I saw a sample of jt). “Peo- ple write me such silly letters, asking the jolting up and down of automobile lungs are ge let me move around on @ level pretty well, other “THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, JUNE TY, Ty2T~ ~ BROOKLYN JURY ' \Keeping Young on the Job at 84 Years; job to carry the responsibility; you can’t slink out of the work life lays My day begins at 7.30 A. M. 1 have no secretary; 1 answer all my letters in long hand, - I have never ridden in an automobile. could see why a gentleman Shouldn’t have a glass of wine with his 1 don’t know why I’ve lived so long; I’VE @ BURIED EIGHTY DOCTORS. Anyhow, folks think I do a lot more than | do. Marguerite Mooers Marshall, >ut my chest hurts every time I try to go upstairs, HE EATS PIE BUT NO RAW APPLES. “I like to lunch at the office; we have a special kitchen andgdining room for our office force of o¥er 130, and we give them better meals than they can get outside, The chicken to- day was delicious. My appetite is pretty good; I still eat plently of pie. But I haven't eaten a raw apple in thirty-five years. “I’m no Prohibitionist,” added Col, Roebling, with candor. “I never could see why a gentleman shouldn't @ glass of wine with his dinner. “Do the doctors let you smoke?” I asked. “T never asked them,” he answered, @ little defiantly. “I used to smoke when I was in the army; then I got tired and quit for about forty years, But I would smoke now any time I felt like it, and I always smoke a cigarette on Christmas Day.” “I average to keep busy the regular business day,‘from 9 to 5. When I'm not working, I have my home, my wife, my dog. He's an Airdale, and his mame is Billy Sunday. Then, read a good deal, especially novels. They're a mild form of mental in- toxication, but they rest me and help me to forget—all this.” He glanced rather wearily around the big, comfortably furnished office. *COL.WASHINGTON A. ROEBLING GIRL IN OVERALLS, TAKEN WITH “COKE” EVADES PURSUIT “But why don't you give it up, and enjoy yourself with your friends?” I queried. “How can you give up what's a part of you?" he asked, slowly. “In Germany, men retire at fifty; you never see that in America. I guess it's a good thing; as long as you keep on with your work you have an object in life. HE HAS BURIED EIGHTY DOC- TORS IN HIS TIME, “As for my friends"—the thin old voice hesitated, then went on—"my friends are all dead. My nephew died, and he shouldn't have gone. don’t know why I've lived so long. I've buried eighty doctors. There were ten years from the time I was forty till T was about fifty, that I never stirred out of one room. There Was a time when I thought I'd be blind.” “But how did you overcofne all these troubles, and how would you advise others to live as long?” I asked, “I wouldn't advise them to do it!” stubbornly insisted Col. Roebling. ‘T ‘now that I'd be glad to go any time. ut you've got to take the days that are sent you. “There's just one rule for keeping well as long as you do livo, and that’s common sense, There's a monitor here’—he tapped his wrinkled fore- head—"that tells you how to use it. But people don't obey. [ didn’t; lack of common sense is responsible for everything that ever ailed me. We should have common sense in eating, drinking, working, playing, choosing a wife. A good Wife is a great help in living many years." “And I wish you many more of them," I told Col. Roebling, as I rose to go, for I knew he was too tired to talk any longer. “I'm not worrying about that,” he answered, simply. “I never borrow trouble to-day about what may hap- pen to-morrow.” And I think T know of one old sol- dier who, without ever surrendering, will be glad when the Great Com- mander musters him out. >» - AMERICANIZATION PLAN IS REJECTED Court Refuses to Add to Scope of Girls’ Vacation Body of Miss Morgan. Supreme Court Justice Whitaker refused to permit the Vacation As- sociation, Inc, of which Miss Ger- trude Robinson Smith is the Pres- ident and Miss Anne Morgan one of the incorporators, to amend its ar- ticles of incorporation so as to in- crease the scope of its activities. The amendments sought would have here are some items of his daily pro- gramme, ag I extracted them from| pledged the association “to uphold hin American standards of living, Ameri “I get up when everybody does—at|can ideals and the fundamental prin. about 7.30," he answered ‘my ques-| ciples of the American democracy and tion, “and I have breakfast usually|to oppose any movement tending to about 8 I don't eat everything I}jower such standards and ideals or want, by any means; sometiines|intending to pervert or overthrow such principles, Justice Whitaker denied the pet!- tion of the incorporators, presented adwalader, Wickersham & Taft, ground “that the proposed amendment to the tificate of in- corporation does not come within the terms or intention of the statute.” ——— ——- KILLS SELF WITH RAZOR. Yale Glub Clerk Had Saffered Sev~ eral Breakdowns, other. And I get such @ lot of use-| Harold Griffiths, fifty-six, No. 2465 less circulars! ony Broadway, died in the Knickerbocker "I go down to the office when I get] sfospital to-day from self-inflicted razor ready, taking { soley, (0 ont %f! wounds on the throat. His landindy, have never ridden in an automobile bcd A dapat & pres Bae ee Pan Gan BO BAST ay you've sec n the bathroom at midnight, foun PA ey oa eee ye eae |the door locked and called Patrolman aman who never put hi . inside | Tiebler of the West 100th Street Sta- a motor car! My hea! h won't per-| tion rifiths was in the tub, bleeding mit it, Years age 1 strv ned the mus. lto death, a razor lying It rb recently suf- ental breakdowns Mrs. Gerard sald hi a| fered physical and »jand had heen under treatment for a few weeks at Bloomingdale. He was ‘| discharged 48 apparently cured, Re- Darts Into Waiting Taxi at Busy Pier and ‘Is Whirled Away. Etward Mellon, watchmar at the International Mercantile Marine piers at West 20th Street, and a Uni- ted States Custom’s guard, ploughed through the crowd tn Eleventh Ave- nuo just before the sailing of the Cedric of the White Star Line and the Lapland of the Boston line to- day, chasing @ red headed girl dressed in biwe overalls. The girl darted between autos and trucks, knocked men and women aside ang at the foot of Ziet Street gained a taxicab which was waiting with engine running. The taxicab was out of sight long before Mellon and the guard were olear of the crow, As she ran she had pulled from the pockets of her jumper a number of packages which she threw to the pavement. These were gathered up and found to contain fifty vials of | cocaine. | ‘When Melton first saw the girl he} thought she was a man. She had her cap pulled low over her face and the collar of her jumper pulled up over her chin, She was wriggling along the pier behind packing cases He called to her to stop and she darted through the door, slipping through the arms of the customs guard. Her cap fell off as she dived into the crowd and her heavy shock of red cults fell about her shoulders. Mellon fired a shot in the air dur- ing the chase, It only made the girl run faster and increased the confu- sion in front of the piers. ‘There was no indication as to whether the girl came from the ships | about to sail or from the Mongolia, which is at the same piers. (sR ~ TOOK 9-FOOT SHARK AFTER HOUR BATTLE Cape May Cottager Then Went Back to Fishing and Got a Big Mess. (Srecial to The Prening World.) CAPE MAY, N. J., June 11.—H. E. Derbyshire, a prominent Philadelphia | member of the Manufacturers’ Club | and one of the Cape May summer cot- | tagers, had a thrilling experience with sharks in the Delaware Hay, off Cape fishing for channel bass, After hooking five large baas and| ing them up of cruiser, Cycle, a large shark bit them | off the line. Seeing that the shark| was getting the benefit of the day's | catch, Derbyshire fixed a large hook with bait that he knew the shark would take and soon had it fast to the | line. After an hour's battle the shark | was landed, He measured nine feet and weighed over four hundred pounds. Derbyshire then proceeded to fish for channel bass and caught four large ones, the combined weight of which tipped the scales at one hun- dred and 6ixty pounds. au ble 37 Deaths #rom Babonte in Tampico in May. HAVANA, June LL. Thirty-seven deaths from bubor plague occurred in Tampico during May, according to the alongside his Plagee | of the polic | of clot! | caine, May Point, yesterday afternoon while STATE MAKES PROFIT ON SOLDIER INSANE Paid $2 a Day for Their Care and Actual Cost Is Only Half of That. Charges ‘by the American Legion that the State is making a priflt of $200 a day on the care of insane war veterans on Ward's Island, are ad- mitted by Dr. M. B, Hayman, Super- intendent of the State Hospital. There are 200 soldier patients. The cost of maintenance is about $1 a day each and the Government allows $2. Dr. Heyman agrees with the Legion that the Government should put these patients where they can have special care instead of having them herded with 6,500 others at the Manhattan Hospital He said: “They are very troublesome pa- tients and need extra attendants and special diets and care. They cannot receive the attention here they would in hospitals maintained jally for them. “We are doing our best and I be- Neve we are succeeding as well as any other hospital in the country, but I think it would be the best thing for the Government to care for them per- sonally, Instead of having the State do it. I personally advocate such a step.” a ee COOL COLLECTOR OF CLOTHES IN ‘COOLER’ Youth Kept Out Heat by Wearing Several Suits and Shirts— Not His, Say Cops. ‘Thomas Mulhearn, elghtcen, of No. 2392 Second Avenue, when arraigned in the Harlem Court to-day on a charge of burglary, was afforded an opportun- to expound his theory ‘respecting the relativity of heat and cold and that by wearing sufficient clothing on a hot day one can remain cool by excluding the heat. While others were suffering from the humidity last evening Mulhearn was seen by Detective Cotter, of the Bast 104th Street Station, walking ou Third Avenue at 96th Stréet, looking as cool ‘as a cucumber on ice. ' Muthearn looked as plump as a ‘Thanksgiving turkey and Cotter invited him to the station house where, at the farther invitation e, he shed three entire suits hes, six silk shirts and sundry other articles. A bundle he carried contained four more suits and « dozen j silk shirts. ‘Trade-marks on the garments led to their identification by Joseph Pollack, 1376 First Avenue, as part of $19,000 worth pf goods stolen from his furnishing goods store Wednesday. Pol- lack also said he recalled Mulhearn as 4 customer who evinced much interest geography of his store while buy- silk shirt. in th ing @ oS a BOY, 15, HELD IN DRUG RAfD. with Agents in 1 Fights U, 8. Kast Side Poo! Charged with peddling heroin and co- Moe Grossman, twenty-two, and Krakower, looks it, but cents of the Narcotic Squad enteen, were hi Commissioner aslon, the ns of Berjamin fifteen and who says he ts is sald by be ited States 183 Rivington Street and black 1 an eye of one of the agents. He as accompanied by & young girl, ac cording to the a , wie helped him fight, She was not arrested. Grossman lives’ at No, 973 Simpson. Street, the Krronx, and Krakower at No, MEYER WILL APPEAL. Head of Investigating € to Contest Leach Deciato) npyler M. Meyer, 10 Wilet Chair man of the Meyer Legislative Investi- Senator gating Committee, announced to-day that former Senator Elon R. Brown, chief counsel of the committee, will immediately ask Gov. Miller to convene 4 special session of the Appellate Di vision for the purpose of acting on the decision of Supreme Court Justice Whitcker, who ruled yesterday that a gislative sub committee o e can Stmony in. ite Investigation of the us Whitak: in the case of I York "« decision was given ty Police Commis- y of Ne bill of health issued by the Cuban Con turning to New York, he got a job as a clerk in the Yale Club, but suffered an- own, gul at Tampico to the American tanker Ibert H. Watts, which arrived here » sioner John A. Leach, who refused, on ROCHAMBEAU HERE Col. Roebling, Factory Head, Tells How MiHWONDERTALES OF IE STRENNSEA Bergs of Gigantic Size and Wide Variety of Shapes Encountered on Trij EN ip. ‘The French liner Rochambeaw ar- rived from Havre to-day. Ite 144 saloon passengers were enthusiastic In thelr description of the most won- derful sight they ever saw as they passed through an ice field which forced the ship to keep miles off her route to this port, Until they reached here the passengers did not under- stand why the ship had been bom- barded by wireless messages for a couple of days asking if they were safe, They learned at the pler that this was due to a report that the Rochambeau was in trouble with tremendous ice floes tn the North Atlantic. Capt, Aubert declared the field the most extensive he had ever seen and the individual bergs and growlers the largest. One was a couple of miles in circumference. “The bergs were of every concelv~ able shape,” said Capt. Aubert, de scribing the fields which stretched for miles. “One big berg, I think about the biggest, appeared like a great bull with a head and horns that projected. Another put me in mind of a great round Dutch cheese, out of which a slice had been cut. Another was low and long, like the hull of a ship, with one ragged, ice coated mast standing. Passengers said that by closing the eyes and then suddenly squinting at the field one could imagine he saw almost anything the mind could conjure. To the fact that the Rochambeau was the ship that relayed the S OS of the Seapool and later performed a like service for the Charlot, Capt. Aubert attributed the report that his ship was in danger. i. ALL MARRIAGE RECORDS BROKEN Three Hundred (Licenses Issued and 400 Couples Are Turned Away. ‘This was a record day in the mar- riage license office in the Municipal Building. Twenty clerks, many of them drafted from other work in the City Clerk's office, were busy issuing Heenses. At 12 o'clock, the usual Saturday closing hour, more than 200 Hoenses had been issued, and nearly 100 couples still remained to be served, besides at least 100 who came too late to be admitted. About 200 li- censes are regarded as the ordinary Umit ioe a full day from 9 A. M. to ap. ‘The Marriage Chapel was jammed. Deputy *City Clerk Dalton estimated he would perform more than seventy marriages during the day. —————_— GOVERNOR PLEASED WITH STATE HOMES Atfer Inspecting ‘Western Institu- tions Says They are Doing Good Work. ALBANY, June 11.—Gov. Miller ex- pressed great satisfaction with the impressions of his trip inspecting State institutions the past week. “They are ajl doing a splendid work,” he said, “and I was also very glad to ascertain that the provision which the Legislature has made for the institutions for the coming yoar ts more than liberal. Everything |s being done for the Inmates’ comfort and happiness that such institutions can give.” ‘The Governor visited most of the in- stitutions in the westerm part of the State. Sg MISTRIAL BY LOOSE TALK. WPromecutor Injecte: Religious in Summing Up. A statement by Assistant District Attorney Voss, summing up in the trial of James O'Donnell, accuse: roll hold-up, before Justice MuacCrate in the Supreme Court, Brooklyn, to-day. ense had attempted to in- Samuel Wachsinan, dry goods concern in the Bush Terminal, and Louls Blitzer, a clerk. They sw: that O'Donnell was one of two men who bound and gagged them and escaped 500. with $5 OSWEGO SCHOOL ORDERS GIRLS TO LENGTHEN SKIRTS ALBANY, June 11.-/The length of a shoolgiri’s skirts {9a question that may soon be put up to the State Educational Department for decision. An appeal to the depart- ment hag been threatened because Dr, James G. Riggs of the Oswego Normal Scltool faculty sent home one of the young women pupils because her skirts were too short. Four others were told they would have to lengthen their skirts be- fore the next day. Although the faculty has ordered that skirts must be lengthened, no the advice of Corporation Counsel O'Brien, to submit to a private inquiry by one member of the committee, one haa yet fixed the limit above which skirts crust mot ge, MISS SCHAEFER TO BE BRIDE OF PAUL PRYIBIL MISS KDMEH K, SCHAEFER, Wedding Will Take Place in St. Bartholomew’s Church on June 21, Miss Kdmee Hloise Schaefer, daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph Jay Schaefer of Beach Lawn, Larchmont, will be married June 21 at St Bar- tholomew’s Church to Paul Pryibil, son of Mr. and Mrs. Alert Pryibil of No, 14 West 83d Street. Mr, Pryibil is a graduate of Yale, Class of 119. He served in the Naval Air Service Wuring the war. —_——>—— Lamb Tackles Lion’s Role, but Hip Betrays Him Fails to Right Upset Semaphore, and Police Get Him on Hooch Charge. Policeman Kalber of the East 35th Street Station saw a man bending over a capsized semaphore signal at 40th Street and Park Avenue at 3 A. M. to-day. Neatby stood two friends watching him try to lift the semaphore, which weighs several bundred pounds, Kalber tapped the tip pocket of the would-be Sandow and drew forth a stiver flask not entirely empty. On the strength of ft and the overturned police signal be arrested the man, who described himself as George Smith, thirty-two, a scenario writer and globe trotter living at the Lambs Club. After Smith had been locked up in the East 67th Stret Station, five or six men, who said they were Lambs, came to get him out, When tok it would take $1,000 cash, they decided it couldn't be done at that hour. When Smith went back to his cell he said: “So this Is New York! Well, now TM have @ chance to march side by side with my old pal, Wally Mc- Cutcheon, in the hooch parade.” “BOLSTER ROLL” YIELDS A FUGITIVE Elmira Alumnus Too Long and Police Drag Him from Under Bed by Feet. yhat’s that under the bed?" asked ctive Hughes of the Kast Gist Street Station, searchiog @ flat, No. 885 Second Avenue, to-day for Thomas A. Kennedy. ‘That? Oh, that! Oh, yes, that's a bolster roll,” answered a man who said he was a brother of the man want- ed. “You know you put the extra pil- lows and blankets in it.” Hughes and Patrolman Pellew with him just then caught sight of the soles of a pair of feet and reaching under the bed pulled out the roll to the mid- dle of the floor. Kennedy rdiled out. “You'd have got away with that if u had been a cou! of inches short- was the comment of Hughes who sted Kennedy on suspicion of Kk one of two men who assaulted a jlor in an. attempted holdup on May 27 at No. 20 Bast 46th Street. en- nedy, an Elmira alumnus, is out on parole, He will be arraigned in York- ville Gourt and the tailor will get a Chance to seo if he is the man wanted ——>—_ WINS ON WRONG BOLT. Company's Caused jon and Broken Arm, Because the wrong size bolt was used nu the steering gear of @ motor truck owned by the Nash Motors Company, causing the truck to swerve suddenly Motor and collide with another vehicle oper- ated by Lawrence J. Regucet, a jury be- fore Justice MoCook to-day awarded Kegueot a ve sustained by him, of $15,000 for injuries Regucel was pinioned between his truck and an electric Light pole and his arm was broken. ‘The attorneys contended the dott used in the steering gear was ono that wus intended for a touring car, thus causing the operator of the truck to tose contro! of his machine. Senet UNAFRAID OF CHAIR. John McCormick Says Electreca- tlom Hae Ne Terror Him, "I can wat to the electric chair as well as anybody else; this thing doesn’t feaze me,” is the way John MeCormick, twenty-one, of No, 338 Hast 96th Street, recelved his conviction of first degree murder, He will be wentenved lo dis Monday. He killed Edward Shannon at Third Avenue and 117th Street March 29 by shooting him four times over « $6 bet on @ baseball game, io} BOY KILLED, THREE. HURT EXPLOSION DUE 10 GEARETTE Camp Blown to Bits When Ash Is Dropped Into Can of Stolen Powder, TWO VICTIMS DYING. Youngsters Thrown Roof by Blast on Staten Island, John Nargina, eleven, one of four boys who were blown up at 1.90 o'clock last night when fifty pounds of gunpowder exploded tn their camp off Harbor Road, Mariners’ Harbor, 8. L, died to-day at St. Vincent's Hospital. The other boys are Albert Scrogsi, seventeen, of No. 19 Union Avenue; Arthur Pagano, fourteen, of No. 230 Arlington Avenue, and Donald © Catterel, sixteen, of No. 2,996 Rishe mond Terrace, all of Mariners’ Har bor. Nargina lived at No. 24 Bust Avenue. Catterell, who is in Staten Island Hospital, New Brighton, is said to have the only chance for recovery. The others are in St. Vincent's, The police say that the boys were emoking cigarettes and heard some one ap- pronching on the road, when they, threw their cigarettes on the floor. One of the lighted butts went into one of the 25-pound cans of powder, and the next moment the boys were blown through the roof and the camp was in flames. ‘Their camp consisted in the main of the canvas top and framework of an old delivery wagon. Police and @ dozen or more citizens found the wrecked camp a few minutes after the explosion. The boys were on the ground, screaming in pain. Their clothes had been torn from their bodies and they were blackened from head to foot. There was a large hole in tho ground where the powder cans had. been. The old wagon top bad been blown to bits. Because of their terror and their injuries the boys were un- able to give a coherent account of the explosion. ‘The powder was stoten from the . freight yards of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company at Arlington, pina isn eeea Ua INVESTIGATE GUN PLAY AT SHIP PIER U. S. Narcotic Chief Seeks Reason Tor Agent's Actions at I, G. Nutt, Director of the Field Gervice of the Narcotie Division of the Customs Department of we ‘Treasury, began an investigation tn the Custom House to-day of the charge that Agent W. B. McCarter drew « pistol on the Cunard Line pier jast night, threatened to shoot Alex- ander McKeon, Deputy Surveyor of the Port, and created a panic among the 1,266 cabin passengers who had just disembarked from the Aquitania and were waiting to have their bay- gage examined. McCarter was not present, Neither was his friend Wetherford Allen of Nashville, Tenn. an Aquitania pas- senger whose binoculars caused all the trouble when McCarter tried to use his official position to get them past the Customs without the pay- ment of duty. Efforts to reach Mc- Carter and Allen had fatled up to noon. Ernest Langley, Probfpttton Super- visor, to whose department the Nar- cotic Gquad is attached Frank Fitz- patrick, head of the New York umt of the equad, and Ratph Oyler, chief field agent, were in attendance, Fits- patridk and Oyler said McCarter, who is a Southerner, worked with them all ‘yesterday afternoon and made two arrests on the east side. He was in his usual calm state of mind when he left them, they said, to go to the pier to meet the Aqui- tania and his friend Allen. Bad Rol Mock Party for Legton Post, A big show is to be staged to-night by the Elmer EB. Bennett post of the American Legion on the Cleveland Street front be Ridgewood Ave to ral old on and Fort Hamilton and: ie music, and there wifl be « yaudeville programme and dancing W vacation this Summer have your favorite paper mailed to you every day. 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