The evening world. Newspaper, June 14, 1921, Page 3

OF KILL —a- France Stirred by Charges of Wholesale Murder Against Henri Landru. AN UNCANNY INF LUENCE.| = | Alleged Victims Entered House of Mystery Never to Reap- pear, It Is S (Special From a Staff Correspondent | of The Evening World.) PARIS, June 14.—Henri Landru, no- | torious “French Bluebeard,” into whose lonesome, walled-in villa at | Gambats, n ine women and r Paris, a boy entered and were never seen to | emerge, at Rouen has dismi is to come to trial. The court d the final one of his long list of legal objections and 1 probably in October he before a jury at Versailles. is eagerly looked to most interesting and fm the history of I dence, Landru is charged with killing not will appear | he trial of tho cases as one complex ench jurispru- | and the! them, in the! fess than nine of his wive fifteen-year-old son of one of and of burning their bodies villa stove. [ithe to the cl not imagine what wives. They had that was all he knew about them, un- | fortunately. Not infrequently he treated the whole affair as a joke and to his only answer has been that he could had become of left him s| simply has had little tin Who © » to think of Landru 1 practically all its at-| tention some time a This was in- ated last week when his turniture put up at Sheritf’s sale in the| Hotel Dronot ar lized only 1,614] francs, However, he will provide Parisians with sensation enough when his trial begins, for this bearded, bald, | Ankempt and inconspicuous looking Uittle man is as fascinating a subject for the criminologist as ever was re corded upon the blotter of a pref ture. POSSESSED UNACCOUNTABLE INFLUENCE OVER WOMEN. The extracrdinary attraction this outwardly unprepossessing, even re- pulsive, criminal, who has already served several prison sentences for larceny, possessed for women, is a mystery, yet he apparently had but to turn his attention to them and they fell into his power. Whether it was his cold, calculating will, hyp- Notice force, or one of those hidden attractions which baffie the scientist, this man, who, the police declare; in- variably bought one return and one single railroad ticket wheu he took his victims with him the lonely villa at Gambais, the return for him, the single for the woman whom, it Is charged, he never intended should re- | turn, this man who, it is alleged, even had several of his victims bring with | them to the villa the coal with which he purposed to destroy traces of their | murder, was a Don Juan of peculiar- | ly potent and relentless type, WHat- ever may be the result of his trial, his career will always be a study in the aberrations of the feminine heart. The villa into which the nine wum- en and the boy entered, not to reap- pear, is situated in a lonely spot at Gambais, on the ers of the For- est of Rambouillet, about thirty mile from Paris, It stanc @ garden, whose high wall masses of trees and bu the lower part of tie v to in the midst of and shut off | a from ub= servation, It is a spot which would] have appeared to Kdgar Allan Poe sombre and sinister in itself, but when coupled with the events imag- Buisson, bad been engaged to marry | Inquiries at Gambais showed that the owner of the tallied with the description given of bald and bearded engineer, though Landru was yound to be the name of the owner of the villa, Landru was traced to hie Paris flat, where he was living under the name of Guillet, When confronted with his photograph he broke down and confessed his iden- tit fie was searched and on him was @iscovered a note book having a list @Continued on Fourth Pagep villa ne o7 PARIS “BLUEBEARD | tween the jlongest hit ever {the displayed no mean wit in his verbal dilts with the examining magistrate. | Of late Paris has been so much engaged with other sensations that li) | when one ~ ACCUSED ING NINE WIVES AND BOY AND BURNING BODIES. LD TIMERS GIVE BABE THE RECORD FORGREATEST SLAM ‘His Homer | in the in the 8th Yesterday Travelled 436 Feet—30 Beyond Merkle’s. That Babe Ruth hth home run in the nning of yesterday's game be- Yanks and made in the history of baset I who has been inte ul for and by Al statistician, ‘The all was eed ‘pon by John er, former Secretary of the Giants, sted in big league more than thirty years, Munroe Elias, baseball distance from fiel Grounds is exactly 416 feet. home plate to centre fence at the Polo hit carried twenty feet over this mark, | makin total distance of 436 feet, a new world’s record, Several years azo Joe Jackson of the Chicago White § the right field fence between the first ind second flagpoles. This was con- idered the longest hit ever made at the Polo Grounds, According to Foster, if Jackson’s hit would have ravelled on a direct Jin the centre fielder, providing he had his back up inst the centrefleld fence, would! have caught Jucksén's hit with no | hitle effort Another long hit made on the his- toric field was made by Fred Merkle, the former Giant first baseman. Merkle hit the ball over the left fleld fence, the first man to perform thi feat. Merk hit travelled an ap- proximate distance of 400 feet. The next longest slam was delivered| by Davy Robertson, fielder of the Giants and now a mem- ber of the Chicago Cubs, first man to knock a ball right field bleachers of the pres- Polo Grounds, This hit, on ap- figures, fell at least ten the ent proximate feet short of the one made by Merkle. Before the new Polo Grounds were constructed the longest hit made up that time was one delivered by Jack Warner, catcher of the Giants, He hit a ball into the right fiela bleachers of the old Brush Stadium, and baseball writers at the time con- sidered it the longest hit ever made, To go back still further, whe the Gi played on Manhattan Field, Roger Connor and Mike Tierney, star: of the game in their time, each hit home run over the centre field fence, here is no way of telling how far the hits travelled in those days, but the old-timers look on one with scorn asks those far-away hits as far Habe made yesterday?" “Were as the one saat FIRST JURY VICTIM IS FINED $100 Ravenski, Saloon Man, Had Been Commended to Mercy of Court. Michael Ravenski, saloonkceper at Avenue A and 68th Street, the first man to be convicted by a jury in this city of violation of the State Prohibi- tion Act, was sentenced to pay a fine of $100 by Justice Borst in the Su- preme Court, Criminal Branch. The jury had recommended merc Detective Blaha of the Fourth In- spection District, charged Ravenski with having two bottles of whiskey behind the bar and another in his kitehen, and swore that he found two ined and hinted at which occurred | . containing liquor as proof within its walls from 1915 to 1919, a was being dispensed in the spot pregnant with terr Mile, Lacoste, a servant, wrote to on a the Procurator of the Republic on]TO PICK ARAB RULER Feb, 2, 1919 of the disappearance of ne erin 1917, This sister, a Mme. FOR MESOPOTAMIA MAY FIX MANDATES WITHOUT AMERICA United States Not Likely Represented in 1 ‘ations Council WASHINGTON, June 14.—The United States probably will not be represented at the coming meeting of the Council of the League of Nations which is to take up the question of mandates for former enemy countri to-doy-at the Siate > Zl, to rie ot Be Ruth's | ox hit a ball over | former centre) Davy was} into| THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, JUNE Fes ‘GARRISON ORDERS —-CUTIN WAGES OF B.R.T. WORKERS Reductions Planned for Aug. 6, and Officials Will Meet Employees’ Agents. |1WO INCREASES CITED. Total of $8,500,000 Said to Have Been Added to Payroll Since 1919. Steps toward reducing wages on the BR. taken to-day by General Manager William 8. Menden, who called for a conference with rep- resentatives T. were of the employees’ ors ganization following the receipt of a letter from Receiver Lindley M. Gar- rison calling for a revised wage scale, In the letter Mr. Garrison wrote: to entployees the rates of pay practical dated July 16, i in 1920, made most recent increase on @n annual basis, This became effective Aug. 5, 1920. That increase, added to the previous increase, amounted to 35 per cent. above the rate in effect Aug. 1, | | 1919, | “Owing to conditions which need it is obvious that continue at not be recited here, | cannot the present seale. I have abstained, the circumstances, reductions until from the time ase, ‘he year will be 21. | The time has now come for this mat- ter to be taken up and I wish that you would in due course confer with the various representatives of bodies, in order that a proper basis may be | arranged for a wage scale after Aug. in view of any year from making the lapse of a of th in last lore up Aug. 6, 19 Copies of the letter were sent by Manager Menden to heads of the or- ganizations of employees, with a re- quest for conferences, which it is expected will cover several weeks. The 1919 increase, following the trike, Was 25 per cent. on the ex- isting wage scale to cperating and mechanical forces, The 1920 in- jcrease was 10 per cent. on the old scale to mechanical and operating forces, and 10 per cent. to office Jand clerical forces. ‘The first in- crease added $6,000,000 a year to the company's payroll; the second added 2,500,000. a KNOCKED OFF AUTO, COP FIRES AT TRIO Hoffman, Badly Hurt, Sends Two Shots at Thieves—Three Arrested. Blackjacked while trying to make an arrest from the running board of Jan automobile and knocked to the |street, Acting Detective Sergeant Hoffman of the West 123d Street Sta- | tion, fired three shots after the fleeing lear which later resulted in thé ar- | restof three prisoners With Acting Detective Sergeant | Lynch, Hoffman went to lvist Street and Fort Washington Avenue during the night in response to tire thieves were at work there, As the two policemen approached, three men dashed from a hallway into a touring car at the curb. As they started off Hoffman leaped to the running board, a8 did Lieut. Floyd Horton who lost iis life when one of the occupants used a revolver instead of a blackjack. While on the a tip auto ground Hoffman took | the license number of the car and fired the three shots, Later three | men in an automobile with a bullet hole through the back, were arrested at 160th Street and Third Avenue. the Bronx. Hoffman is recovering in Columbus Hospital, while the pris- oners were held in $10,000 bail each, They are Thomas Walsh, No. 411 Fast 147th Str Charles Harman, No. 875 Brook Avenue, and Pasquale Brisotti, No, $11 Kast 156th Street. ‘The police say Brisotti and Walsh were out on bail on a charge of rob- bery in the Bronx, GOVERNOR SAVES | ap engineer named Georges Fremyet, | y to Have Also an Arabian} | who tnd likewise disappeared. Mlle: |" a Serntiy During the | NEGRESS'S LIFE Lacoste had discovered, in trying to etane | et some trace of her sister, that! voming Summer. | a : Ser Soram trace. at) Ber 8 : St ee B | ‘Telephone Used to Send Word of the so-called Fremyet had been liv- | yoxDoN, June 14 (Associated Press) ; i ing at < villa at Gambais in 1916 with rhe Brit Government intends to! His Action to Warden's a Mme. Collomb who w replace the British Administration in| Secretary. ing, The police became inter Mesopotamia with an Arab Assembly | discoybred number of other girls and an Arab ruler during the coming| ‘the death seolenee of ass my ¥ : vas to have b a: wot cho had gone away with |summer, Winston Churchill, Seeretary| the nextess who wus Keni ae Derrdea spear ine for the Colonies, announced in the | electrocuted at Ging Sing on Thursday © Ded BHO Penrice Snglanehy See House of Commons this afternoon for instigating the murder of Margare himself by turns Natler, Cruchet, | "phe culer will be elected by the people, | Morton for a small life insurance poticy, Fremyet, Dupont and Guillet, eet was tosday commuted by Clov. Miller to life imprisonment Word was telephoned trom Albany at noon by Charles I. Ratigan, Superia | tendent of Prisons, to Nicholas Schatvel, | Warden Lawes's secretary. ‘The Dixon woman will not be notified inti) the papera arrive form the Capitol, A) arrangements had been made for | the execution of the woman, Warden Lawes having sent out invitations to aix men and six women to attend the ceremony. This was the first time wo- Tigers was the} “You will recall thot in my notief | erty Poles in this city and formal p men have been invited to attend an execution ip Sing Sing. The Dixon woman will be taken ta, Prison without delay, CITY OBSERVES FLAG DAY WITH MANY SERVICES: BANKERS CONFER | Sixty-Five Atten Mothers Bronx Awarded American- ization Certificates. LIBERTY POL Parade and Exercises at City Hall to Precede Unfurling of Flag. The 144th anniversary of Mag Day was celebrated in Greater New York by patriotic exercises in all the public schools, by the Boy Scouts in an out- ing to Bear Mountain, the dedication of Schifr the Elks in Brooklyn, the conferring of Amert- canization certificates in Park, Colonial vonial Parkway by Crotona by public dances and songs Dames, assisted by school children, in front of the Van Cortlandt Mansion; entertainment of wounded veterans of the wat by the Elks of Manhattan, and by the dedi- jon of a Liberty Pole in City Hall Park and Flag Day exercises in front of the City Hail One of the most pressive of all the ceremonies was the conferring of certificates of Americanization on 66 of the Americanization Class for Mothers of Public School No, 4, 173d Street and ‘Third Avenue, the Bronx. This class has been in existenc two years and is composed of mothers of the pupils of the school. The exercises took place in Park, just behind the school ing and in the midst the 3,000 pupils the school, children hered about big eir- and after reciting the oath of allegiance the flag, they particl puted in drills, folk dances, and instrumental music. The mother graduates were group’ under a cluster of big shade tree and as each received her certificate she made a response, Not one ot tne class could speak glish guage a year ago, all the re- unique and im- members Crotona bu of he in five of were Ff to sing but sponses were in English and from the heart. Mrs. H, Shritzer, a gray haired woman past fifty, thanked her teacher and “all others connected With the great educational system of the country,” Mrs, Hlizabeth Woodward, State J Superintendent of the Home and Finds Handbag Cut Just After Neighborhood Classes in Immigration tune Is Told, and Has Sus- Education, made an address, ag did oh Art Max Gross and Mrs, Georgette Pulus, ’ . the latter being one of the pringipal supporters of the class and a promi- BEAB a : nent member o. the Mothers’ Clit. : ey Thanss were given Principal H : dansky of the school for his assist WA la RR EI RGROW D VAT CHINGICOMET Na) ance, and the mother pupils of the ‘ wee graduating class presented a diamond | = Hae Hepes ving to thelr teacher, Miss Sophie|of the extent of these losses Is ture) WON A HEIFER Hue Ta aoa Rosensweig. ishe a transaction whic a = etre) a The entertainment of the woundea | saree, 7 © wenanetion whieh B88) AT CHURCH FAIR; — ‘niin, fur downtown, wandered veterans from Fox Hills Hospital w soe ealalilds kage $ fi ‘ seeps vetor the auspices Of the Albena | of the raw product. PRIZE IS IN TOWN | siroet. ri in automatic fortune Heights Patriotic League and the| When the speculation in raw \ AU Uy Date Flora Mc Unit of the Women of | sugar was at its height, and prices, Winner Not a ne When ty : : AeA the Service Flag, Brooklyn, and was|as jt subsequently developed, had Calls at Custom ‘ : A hen har aie going on all day tong. bout reached their peak, i R Maik , Meee om Oreboed’a Flag Day was celebrated by the| Sherburne Company, a Boston tirm | FOuse fut ' ‘ mi dropped: Biks of Brooklyn with a parade and| who, it is understood, had built up| An ¢ r ' 1 : 1 ok out the fore appropriate excreises in Fort Greene| profits of approximately $,000,000) lively fh Kihnad: WE: HAY ong are of a dark Purk, to be followed to-night by a| during th ur boom chased] tom Ve ‘ nee A “ banquet in the clubhouse of B. P.[5,500 tons of Czecho-Slovakian sae i by es O. B. Lodge dD No. 144 South|at 23% cents a pound. ‘This mu 4 ‘ oe : on Oxford Street, Gov, Edwards of] pany, like so many large retiners| Ut nispector Ns Saal UI BR New Jersey was the principal speaker] and Cuban and Porto ican growers oy hin uid thesdanemunt 10 b at the park. ‘The parade formed with| was firm in the belief that the price) the owner. but Lynch was out of Le i Made, wit 2,500 in the white and purple colors] of raw sugar would go ay high as 4) town and nobody would undertake ee hud severed th of the order, headed by Esquire John} cents or more a pound, But instead of| |. yy, i. Rae A aes H. Smith. In the pirade were the|rising to around 40 cents a pound,) \ociununae ! nlon her Police Band and the band of sugar prices precipitately declined to| “ny ee - ud M4 mnun and Brooklyn Bikes, the latter numbe tems thincd canta, ena-the d ‘She APOE Ww RIES babes CR an ! of the . In addition to Gov, Ed- ‘ i recent ended: a M in on the ddress, there was an in-|burne ¢ any led a petition in} at pratteni vocation by Dr.’ Samuel R, Lindsey,| bankruptcy, Liabilities were under-| Cont ratile vel ne Be CR TARE, cua ted a tribute to the flag by Dr. Simon | gtood to be around $14,000,000 4 ie SOR OOR AERA. R, Coben, M a: prayer by Ovil” miesank-which bed uavancedtoonel’ eee ee Tee patho! | tye old, a Spaniard, unable to William D. and the history heifer. of the flag Past Exalted Ruler|to the Sherburne Company became ae UMA tain oan de BAY OO ar a John J. De owners of the Czecho-Slovakian sugar) joie. p Delueealn iabelide pl Pleat gata ulsemca OY A parade siarted at 3 jock | which was the collateral s P ie h [Stare Gy PL Ss Ue Rel AEC up Broadway to City Hall Park,| Sugar for several month finally | —-—— 2 | THEY WON’T WANT where the principal ceremontes of the| disposed of it to the Wederal Sugar | Ce de ion var of ene|etinins Company” at. 419 cents, a|1,000 LOVE LETTERS ADNEMORE Oe bes Sons of the Revolution in the State}Pound. ‘The loss on this one com-/ IN ALIENATION SUIT) \elcomed Arrest as Release From of New York, was mmster of ce paratively smal) transaction appr xi-| coccinea ces | a “ci monies at the dedication of the Li mat $2,000,000, including carrying Cur Load of Cu: erty Pole, in City Hall Park, Patriotic | oi 4rcos Ray Ginsburg Asks $25,000 From suinber songs sung by 500 children from Pub- R . vile wae a . | SHNES lic Schools 1, 23, 114 sou 1% onde ha Je mnOe AROSE DAR Ee aia Parents of William Kleiner \Who handle n thy Ponnayivania| p dil ion of ose P. onnol ve anc arg ML AMAL t ‘ty heard a tap- ie Sree eee ot Mune of the leugax an SOUALERAI on ndeavoring tu Qbjected to Wedding. igi sl iss Renee Public Schools; speechmaking and in- vocations formed the feattures. ‘The opening prayer was by the Very Rev. Howard Chandler Robbins, D.D., Dean of the Cathedral of St ohn the Divine and Chaplain of the ons of the F ution. Mr, Olyphant gave a historical account of Lib tution of the new flag staff was made to Purk Comminsioner Gallu tin by John A, Weekes, Presi at of the New York Historical Society, In turn the Park Commissioner pre sented the pole to Mayor Hylan as the city’s representative. Miss Kathryn Rayard Montgomery unfurled the Stars and Stripes from the new Lit rty Pole to the accompaniment of “The Star Spangied Banner” by thi band and a chorus of those present An addross by ‘Senator Willis of Ohio, and benediction by Dean Rob- bins concluded the ceremonies gchah e Arrested for Wearing U. 8. Frandalentiy. Freeland of No 118 Fourth Street, Newark, a peddler of pie ture postcards at Coney Island, was sent to the United States District Court in Brooklyn to-day to answer to a charge Gt SAU Nisa eroarEnE ream emeR ofa soldier, Uniform Le fo North in TO CITY] SUGAR PROFITEER LOSE MILLIONS: Will Decide ToDay Whethe! to Unload the Stocks | Now on Hand. Since the | collapse more than sugar market began to a year ago, spec- ulators who were largely responsible |26 cents a to take pound, have been An forced huge losses indication for the rise in sugar prices to around | 1921, ‘Broad and Wall St. Crowd Gazing Up Into Skies for Glimpse of Comet fold tio Beware ‘Of a’ Dark Man,’ rye re ment regurd- come to common agr ty Ginsburg to-day appeared 1 the ing what disposition to make of these Fustice Davis and usury ine i = louns. A conterence of bankers will ABS GS et be held in this city to-day for the} E ‘i ' ninons and purpose discuss e matter, ang He, Fannie, w a ! i whether the burden of carrying these William. § produced t k 4 1 then loans will be lightened by placing the tigtr ping a 7 ‘ mit sugar securing them on the market,| MOU tie et neut and date} cami t Woy at or whether it w decided to con. | Of the marry eitora-w i recat Fi i tinue to carry the sugur until e}ten her a ve ead market for that commodity w been us pa >A into a healthier position 1, ik, a urs before n Hy al ompanies| ceremony wa Ave taken p Even if you don’t get a nibble reduced the price of the refined| A. D. f ) “ en your fishing trip, you've product to € cents a poind, the lowest|torney for Miss Gin u had a whale of a time if you price since the beginning of the war,| Jury Uh et plenty of bites of Ancre . — | 192 © working in } lqiaton Official Acesced of 94,070 ka, Thi EAE Gee i Cheese. iis new, sanitary Theft. |but the young man's furnily objeoux coated wrapper keeps it fresh Michao! Green, ‘Treasurer of the Inter-|on the ground that her station | | itera Groen, esmura af te ower: Jon he grou that “1 ANCRE 2,000 bail in the Adama Street urt “| Srooxlyn, 1-day on n charge of misnpe | Mi#® Ginsburg lives with her mother With the Gersine Roguefart [Tarts propriating $4,970 of the union's money, | 2! No Madison, Avenve, whi Gry) was arrested last night at his| Mr. and Mrs. Kleiner lives at No. (el EESE ks No. 106 North Oxford Street,' 1226 Madison Avenue, Kleiner ts a Made bySharplers, Phila, vn, butober paar > Grabs Him “TKNOWT'M RIGHT AND LL WIN,” SAYS “It Is a Rough Voyage, but There Is a Safe Port at the End.” POUGHKEDPSIE, June 14.—"I know T am right in thie macter—it I did not believe so 1 would be in a» sanitarium or in gome place with plants growing over me,” declared Mrs. Anne Urquhart Stillman tn her first extensive statement since James A. Stillman sued her for divorce. | Mrs. Stillman Is here ready for th: | resumption of hearings before Re? | eree Gleason to-morrow. She is guest of the family of John EB. Mack. guardian at law of her youngest son. Guy, and says ehe will attend all the future hearings. Expressing confidence in her ult! vindication of the charge | against her, she told of the thousand. | of letters she had cécetved from ol! over the country, Canada and over. | seas, offering sympathy, conf:dence | and support. am perfectly happy, quite confi- | dent and full of hope," she said. “How do you look forward w tie | future?” she was asked. Mr. Mack interposed that Mrs. Still- man should not discuss the d.vocce case, but she answered: | look forward to the future with great deal of interest, bope and pleasure.” “How do you regard the ocming rings? “Oh, you mean the coming P-ugh- keeps © incident.” che replied. “Tuat vill be like a rough ocean voyage. It nothing at all, It will all pas: away, and { will arrive in port safely. jf d didn’t think | was righ: L vould {not be Cighting this case the way | You can see that I'm perfectiy ppy and quite confident and fu)! hope.” it was decided at @ conference if | Mrs. Stillman’s counsel yesterday that her answer will be amended by edding two women, making ihr . with Mrs. Florence Leeds, The new ones will be “Clara” and “Helen ‘ It was stated to-day that when t: identity of “Helen,” the coresponden last named by Mrs, Stillman, be came known, it would create a sensu- tion in New York society. It is hinted that “Hel is really another woman, and that the name was camouflaged for reasons best | known to the defense. She ta allcge 1 to have been @ guest on the Stillman | yacht last November. It is sald that “Holen’s” appear- | ance on board the Modesty on th: occasion alluded to caused @ comm. - tion on board. | mate University, but will wa! Che @ ‘« ‘ belt ad | the Damagels Done! 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