The evening world. Newspaper, August 22, 1921, Page 3

DREDGES GRAPPLE TO-DAY TORAISE 40 AUTOS FROM RIVER) Murder and Hold-Up Cars Be- lieved to Be Among Those Located Off Hunts Point. POLICE BOAT GETS ONE, Owner Says It Was Stolen— Insurance Held as Motive for Sinking Some, After searching for mote autamo- Biles In the entrance to Long Isluid Gound off the foot of Tiffany Strect, the Bronx, the police to-day estimated that at least forty cars are submerged ‘m the lonely spot. The cars in low tide rest under thirty-five feet of water. The place is at Hunt's Point and near East 163d Street. ‘The location is ideal for the “bury- ing” of murder cars, hold-up cars or machines on which owners wish to wollect insurance. Many yaluable ciues in unravelling mysteries, the police be- jieve, will be obtained when they drag out the cars. In to-day’s fishing ex- pedition are the police boat John I. at First Avenue and 79th Street on the evening of July 22. He said it was worth $1,200 and the insurance was only #400. When it was pulled out it was found to be stripped of its tires and valuable accessories, The search followed discovery of a taxicab which had been run over- voard but had been caught in the woodwork of the pier and was only half submerged. Hylan, two dredges equipped with steam winches and a derrick. Capt Wines and Li yer have gathered a force of divers who are locating the submerged automobi One pulled out yesterday w: Oldsmobile bearing a 1921 lice property of William Steiger, No, First Avenue, who said it was stolen) Ten years ago Police Capt, Wines dug up $7,000 worth of jewels robbed the Toitelbaum jewelry’ stor dropped there ‘by burglars, who on Westchester Avenue near 149th Street. Advocates Law Holding the Pedestrian Equally Respon- sible With the Driver for Infractions of Traffic Rules —Urges Additional North and South Thoroughfares and One Way East and West Streets—Would Give Speed King the Law’s Limit. By Sophie Irene Loeb. Somebody bas wisely said: “If you want @ thing done, get a very busy person to do it. Yet it was with considerable hesitancy that I sought Dr. John A. Harr Trafic Commis- sioner, who seems to be the man of an|the hour with not a minute to spare, the! It is not so easy to interview him since he is of such modest mien, and refuses to take any credit to himself despite the fact that he has insti- | tuted more marked changes in the traffic of New York, with public ac- claim, than any of his predecessors. Not only this, but he has, as is well known, umhesitatingly gone down into his pocket and paid for the Fifth Avenue signal towers, police clubs and the like to carry out the much- needed reforms, and does not like you about it, nor does he even oe eee $30 COFFIN BOOSTED TO $600 AT RETAIL Manufacturers dertakers Share Enormous Profits—Many Face Prosecution. WASHINGTON, Aug, 22.—Coffin mak. era and undertakers in a score of citivs are facing prosecution to-day for the extortion of millions of dollars trom |v those bereaved by death, The Depart. | nt of Justice agents declare the coffin nikers have formed a trust and set prices so high that two funerals a to speak expect a dollar @ year for his ser- no hesitancy about the n the question excluded ame through liis three fifteen questions There wa response wi him, and he ¢ 5 answerin” month will keep an undertaker tn busi-| 4 second to sparc. ness, The enormous profit 1s divided ey between the manufacturer and under- “IRST MINUTE. taker. Coffins that cost $30 retail as | FIRST Easily Keeps to Schedule Untit He cps to Parry a Poser. high as $600, while $200 d $100 was | tne selling price for coffins costing $20} | ere they are: : sross profiteering,| G4 4—Will your Wifth Avenue sud which it is shot iluting traffic be manufacturers under the anti-trust law, | system for regulating Ae wid has been guthered and will b read throughout the city ofore Federal Grand Juries in New ted thoroughfares? York, Cleveland, Chicago, St. Louis and ether cities this fall. Salo BROKE SKULL IN FALL. | What is the biggest job of a Traffic C Dr. Harriss—To save li from injury. | fe and people Unidentified Man Plunges Prom) 10" 0's “pocs the trattic cop have | Car on Williamaburg Bridge. | oro trouble with men than with An unidentified man, about twenty-| women? The honors are about! eight years old, died last night in| Dr, Harriss— Gouyerncur Hospital from a fracture | even. ; of the skull received when he fell or] Q, No, 4—What is the most im- Jumped from a Manhattan bound Frank- “tant tra(fic step necessary to keep ar on the Williains- | Pom! ‘tion in the future? Brid ames Driscoll: o pace with cong! East 1th Street, Brooklyn, Dr. Harriss—Addit’onal north and or of the ear, told the police the 7 os on y streets StF Ot OP ie Gah wae tit eines ae [mouth Orteries and one way > time The man was fi height, weighed 13 es And brown for cast and west traffic. Q. No. 5~How docs New York stand as to traffic accidents as com- | e feet six inches in pounds, had blue r and was clean aven, He wore a black alpaca coat,| pared with London? Gray (rousera, @ White soft collar and” 5), Harries—Accidents are consid- : ial. aI oe y fewer In New York than in; ACCUSED OF BEATING BOY, |1ondon, and the percentages a# (o ee * Jaeaths are lower in New York thar, Autol«t Sald to Have Been Annoyed! in any other city in the world in When Child Play | Leo Konkel, a About Car, proportion te poptli Q, No. 6—-Will Jong skirts tend to traffic? SECOND MINUTE. '! nesitancy Over Delicate Question Puts Him Behind. Harriss h a‘littie chue 5 to vey Wading two youn courte Konkel was a Saturday night when Vine x around his automobile nen, told t 4 on play! fed, and) f amuse- You've got 1) the ment as ni me now.” I y attention to the r Pand tat injuring hisface “ffact that his minute was up and he = = eee =|wan losing seconds by thinking over i this important problem, — Quickly} GO-CARTS FOR HIRE Rate cecaie te TO TIRED MOTHERS Dr. He 1 refuse to answer be- cenuse it may ineriminate me, T THE BRONX ZOO J hih¢q ‘came down trom feminine “Drivers” C. : ae folly to a more masculine question, Drivers” Can Also Be Secured t—It you could make a law if Wanted—Wheel Chairs tor trafic, W for Adults. Dr, Hurriss—l would mak Clef Clerk H. R, Mitehell of perative that the eltizens of the oe de to co-operate with the Poe the New York Zoological Pay, ta | 22 mate to Seve Bronx Park, has come to the se lice Department in traffic regulation. cue of tired mothers who may As tl tatutes stand at present, there ig o responsibility with the pedes- want to gee the animals exhibited | 18 2O ree! the: . trian, If he impedes traffic there 18 Through lis efforts there has no law by which he can be appre- ended shed. A measure th dial bee eaveuceted a waters [pened Or pune measure that} by whieh the park will have baby will make him responsible for any in- carriages to rent, three hours for fraction of traflic rules, not unlike the driver of a machine, would reduce 25 cents, und supply “drivers” ane tranueriaa: congestion to a great extent, The park is also operating Q. No. $-Where Is the point of electrically driven motor chairs, |Steatest trafic in New York? i Dr. Harriss—Columbus Circle similar to those in use on the boardwalks at the seashore re- sorts, as well a8 wheel chairs, Q jmuch of a hindrance to traffic? are distributed throughout the city, . $-Are-absent-minded people 4, THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, AUGUST 22, 1921, Would Spend $1,000,000 to Save 10 Lives, _'PRISQNER IN TOMBS Declares Traffic Commissioner Harriss In 3-Minute Hot Weather Intervie SETS SELF ON FIRE Dr. Harriss—They are, Perhaps one? BRANDON MUST DIE; of the biggest elements. THIRD MINUTE. Regains Lost Ground and Finishes With Second to Spare. ‘The second minute was now up, told him, and he called “Ail right, go ahead.” He had answered all of the foregoing rapidly, which clearly showed he had pondered on the traific problem many a time. Q. No. 10—What does the traflic po- liceman complain of most? Here was a subject seemingly near to his heart because the Commissioner does love his traffic policemen, His answer came with enthusiasm. Dr. Harriss—He seldom complains of anything. He is perhaps the hanlest working man in the city. 1s out in all kinds of weather and has a very small salary and long hours. There is one thing New York should be proud of, and that is its traffic policemen. They are unequalled by any in the world. The common cry of the policemen, however, is against Jay walking. People often walk tyrough the streets as though they were in the middle of a ballroom. Q. No. 11—Do you advise people to move to the suburbs to stop more congestion? Dr, Harriss—That is one method of relieving the distribution of vehicular and pedestrian traffic. If these people who moye to the suburbs from the ~ | congested areas do not have to come back into these congested areas, but; such a move would relieve traffic | cnormously. | Q. N@ 12+-What is the most im- ‘portant thing to teach children re- garding traffic? Dr. Harriss—Insist that they take! no chances, and point out the dunger of injury from doing se. Impart to them the seriousness of playing in) the streets. | Q. No, 181i you had $1,000,000 to! spend to make New York better,| what would you do? | Dr. Harriss—I would use the money | tofeducute the public how to avoid accidents, and if I saved only ten! lives I would consider the money well spent. Q. No. 14—If you had a wish that) could be fulfilled immediately, what) would it be? 1 Dr. Harriss—f would wish for the fuil co-operation of every citizen in solving the traffic problems and such co-operation would act like magic. Everything of value could be done, since any bit that I might have con- tributed to the safety of traffic of New | York has been done only through the | ssistance of the public and officials inj rge, without which I could not}! have done ; Q. No, 15—What would you dg with! the speed king’ Dv. Harriss—-The limit of the law.} > 24 FIREMEN SUFFER AT $100,000 BLAZE i Nineieen Hurt When Shed Col-) lapses, Five Overcome by Smoke. Vuree firemen were injured baoly yesterday afternoon they had to be taken to a loapital, and twenty-one others were bruised or overcome by smoke at a fire in the iumber and coal yard of the Tisdale Lumber Company, occupying 2 square block bounded by Maure Ave- nue, Ridgewood Avenue, 90th Avenue and the Long Island Railroad cut, Richmond Hill. ‘The plant was al- most entirely destroyed, The loss is estinated at $100,000. Foreman Alfred Loworth and work- men in the yam turned forty-eight horses loose and then formed a bucket | brigade until the firemen arrived. While fighting the fire from the root of a two-story shea at the Maure Avenue side, ninetcen firemen were thrown to the ground when the shed collapsed. Three of them were taken | to the Mary Immaculate Hospital. ; The others suffered bruises and were | treated by physicians in the vicinity. Five firemen of Hook and Lad Company No. 148 were overcome They we ed their by p BOUR revived and Dpouts, Hel EDWARDS REJECTS it } he had With the first touch of the flame he The ee Slayer of Man and Girl to Go to Chair in Trenton To-Morrow. George H. Brandon, the New Yor! chauffeur and ex-convict, must di to-morrow in the Trenton, N. J. prison for the murder in Augus 1918, of Arthur lL. Kupfer and Miss Gov. Edwards of New at noon to-day, Edith Janney. Jersey announced through his secretary, Harry Fole: that he would not interfere with the execution of the law. Mrs. Jeanette Brandon, wife of th doomed murderer, had announces that she would see the Governor to- day in a final attempt to save her husband from the electric chair, bu the Chief Executive r her, saying that he ‘had already dis cussed the case with her und coul see no reason for his intervention. Secretary Foley said later that th Governor would not call a special session of the Board of Pardons to ST ROS ae vic 2 sn or to hear | Tent. Were gen in the vicinity o rye Au eee aera ee baat tne Tombs Prison and Criminal Courts hs 7 by ay when the sidewalk crowds carthed by Attorney Goldenhorn, | ing obterved the Stars and Arthur Kupfer and his fiancee, Upside ‘down, signalling Miss Junney, both of Perth Amboy, Tas were motoring near Rahway when prevailing Brandon and Perchand asked ‘Tomb at alt them for a lift, and in a secluded | tines, but there waa mnciy wondertn a ond ‘Ki i Mh, jus tel the season for the plea spot on the road killed them. both ne soaaon for. the, blew the motive being robbery. Both me were afterward sent to Auburn | this State for burglary, neither hav ing been connected with the erime b; the New Jersey poiic Brandon wrote from pris¢ that ihe would tell all about der if his freedom could bi reowamd. He cl ‘wed Pe the murder, nade ‘i nd wit tested. But at the investigution Per- ape After Waylaying Vic- ehand turned the tables on him, and | a Aparte got otf with four years in prison, | * while’ Brandon was convicted and sen-| Mrs. Mary O'Brytis, tenced to the cl and Miss Rose Bel: = were entering the ot Arrested tn Plast ing Robbery.| nent house at No, 146 South Josep Marino of No. 510 West iztth! 5 Brooklyn, 6 to-day when Street, known to the seized b; men and struck “Johnny Buck," was arr Detective Cordes and t Island Court to confr Brighton SHE SAYS IT’S EASY TO GET DRINK NOW Ellen Lowery, Many Ti Prison, Finds City Wette Under Prohibition. “Of con ivs not the old stuff, put it's e: to get a drink now than bi Prohibi- tion days.” This was “post-conviction” remark of Elien Lowery, consid- ered the chainpion long-distan time server for intoxication in the city, She was arrested to- day for the (hirty-sixth time since 1913,and has been sent to add six months more to her 1,802 days previously spent in the Work- house and the six months to a year in the House of the Good pepherd, The prisoner, who said she was forty years old and lived at No. 859 Must 41st Street, was found by a policemun at 42nd Street and Third Avenue after midnight, She admitted the charge of ine toxication before Maguitrate Simpson in Yorkville Court. In addition to her imprison- ments, she has pald $29 in fines. She Fa ‘ ferent names, but has heen in identified by her finger prints, eon d to see saying that le had pro- 2s in SOAKS BODY IN OL, samandigilincas Frenzied Inmates of Locked Room Beat Door and Scream for Aid. Sylvester Crockett, a negro, under sentence to Sing Sing, attempted suicide about noon to-day by setting fire to his clothing after he had poured kerosene over himself in a reception room of the Tombs. He was so badly burned that it is be- Heved he will die, The carelessness of two deputy sheriffs is said to be responsible for giving to him the op- portunity to attempt to end his life. Crockett with two other prisoners was taken from the Tombs this morn- ing on his way to Sing Sing, At Police Headquarters, where he had been taken by Deputies Petrich and Spellman, he was fingerprinted. Then word was received to bring him back to the Tombs, as there was another prisoner to be taken to Sing Sing. When they reached the Tombs the deputies held the other two prisoners outside «and the negro was locked alone in a room used for the recep- tion of prisonera who are to be finge: printed. Five minutes later the other two prisoners were put in with him, just In time to see him light a mateh and apply it to his clothing, He had taken a can of kerosene used to wash ink from glass In the room and poured it over his clothing. He had washed his face and hair in and poured it on a handkerchiet knotted about his throat. was on fire from head to foot. two men in the room with screamed as the negro fell to floor and shrieked in his torture, The men locked in the room with him were unable to aid. and could only beat upon the locked door and cry for help, It was several minutes {before the door could be unlocked, With blankets the fire was extin- him the ie guished and the knotted ‘handker- "| chief, almost @urned thr ch, was ts} ent from the negro's neck, His clothing had been burned from his body and it is said his sight had been destroyed, He was rushed to Belle- »| vue after receiving first aid from Dr, Lichtenstein, the Tombs physi- cian. Crockett was thirty-four years old bi lived at No, 431 st 138th ve He was convicted of having Patrolman Metz with a club ee |THE FLAG WAS RIGH ;| ABOUT TOMBS INMATES. But All Wondered at Distress Sig- rom Criminal Courts Bailding. nt n n y . and then had ever Des eae ii] TW@ WOMEN ARE BEATEN. tw clenched fists. sixty-one, of No. \atz Cs . Newark, died in the City lerday after being struck by un automobile driven | hy Prederick Luserrara ot No. 47% Bruce Street, | ATLANTIC CITY HOTFL RESTORES | PRE-WAR RATES | Movement Started by The Break- | ers May Have Effect Through- out Country. ATLAN1 CITY, Aug. The Brea Hotel unnounced kers to-day that it will return to pre- war prices Sept, 19. } $6 a day will be $2.50. Other rates will be similarly reduced, is action, taken independent- ly after other hotels had refused to join a downward movement, is expected to start a rate war from Rooms now which the travelling pu will Hotel men here say the ons probably will be re- throughout the United ald to the only city in which hotels have not maintained war price Two dollars and f will he the minimum rate at ‘The lreak rs y rat the Amer | ican plan will be compared with t eoont $86 up, € © B. Cottman, the man- PHYSICALLY PERFECT MARVEL HAS SIX FINGERS ON EACH HAND. AND SIX TOES ON EACH FOOT John Cope, City Blacksmith, | Also Has Daughter With | 14 Toes and 14 Fingers. | One of the finest specimens of | Physical manhood ever passed upon by the Municipal Civil Service Com- mission doctors is John M. Cope, who has six perfect fingers on each hind and six perfect toes on each foot. One may fail to pass a physical test be- cause of unfitness or deformity due to a missing finger or toe, But the doctors would like to have an army of six-fingered and six-toed men like Cope. He passed a test in the Civi) Ser- vice “gym" which would have made him eligible for the position of p- liceman or fireman, but he became a blacksmith instead. He is considered one of the best of his craft on the city payroll, When Cope shakes hands with you in earnest you huve the sensation of having been caught in a baby stone crusher. Born in Englund and uaturalized here, Cope served in the World War as a Corporal and came home with a splendit record. To use the words of Patrick Ryan, fingerprint expert attached to the Municipal Civil Ser- vice Commission,, Cope had more trigger-pulling fingers than ahy man in the service, “There is no particular reason why @ man or woman shouldn't have six said one « | JOHN WwW COPE n to have ver strike +» Brooklyn, has has seven fingers on ¢ fingers and six toes," the | Copes realthy, ivil service f the ing and normal, BATHER DROWNED, FIANCEE IS SAVED SLAIN IN FIELD BY HIS COMPANION Unidentified Man Shot Clifton, N. J.—As: Friend Escape. An unidentified man was murdered to-day in Clifton, iN. J, in a bold} manner, When many were going to | Dead sin and at\Cokl Water Led to Cramps and Long Beach Current Carried One of Party to Death, George Horn jr, twenty-four old, living at No. 5012 ‘Third Aveny Brooklyn, is dead, and «a young work, three men, apparently work,|Wwoman, Miss Josephine Straus, liv- men, were walking near Nash's Pond. jing in the Bronx and said to be his There is a short cut through a field | near Lexington and Parker Avenues, The th walked through the field and when a few hundred feet from | Lexington Avenue one of them turned on the man in the middle and fired a shot. The two men then ran for the eats as the wounded man fell dead, ‘The bullet pierced his heart. The only witness to the shooting was Samuc! Pelluco, ten years old, who was enting (breakfast at hie home in Hamilton Avenue and look- fiancee, is too seriously ill from sub- mersion to be informed of tis death, as the result of a swimm yoat Long Beach yert y att nes Miss Straus was dr: 1 from the water unconscious, Horn disappeared. before aid could reach him, and his ‘body was not washed up until some hours later, The couple were in a party of ten from Brooklyn and New York who were bathing on the beach south of the boardwalk and near the Lido Golf ing out of the window. Club, Both Miss Straus and Horn The slain man was fairly well |were in shallow water when their dressed. Te was vetween thirty-five | companions first noticed that they and forty years old and appurently | were in distress, Hifforts to reach was an Italian, ‘There was nothing |Miss Straus were barely successful, while Horn is believed to have been arried out beyond his deplh while on the clothes by whioh he could be identified and none of those who saw | Court | Commissioner FLOT TO GOUGE SSO WEEKLY FORLIFE FROMRICHMAN = Mrs. Mary Gallender, Whose Husband Is in Prison, and a Law Clerk Are Arrested. Lyle of 123 36th Brooklyn, formerly a lew rk, who has a wife and two eht- dren, with whom he has not lived for a year, and Mrs, May Gallender, were irrested to-day by Detectives Corell ind Barth charged with extortjon ‘The detectives said they were caught in the act of recelving $50, the secénd Castain No. treet, instalment of a weekly life tritéte demanded from a wealthy New Yorker whose name is withiiéid pending Grand Jury action, Mrs, Gallender became acquainted with tain when her husband a vaudeville clay modeller, was .ep t before Justice Cropsey cruelty to his seventeen-year-@id daughter in April, 1920. After Gat- was sent to the penitentiagy Justice Haskell, Castain and Mrs. nd went to ane a ; No. 225. Bleuroy Street, ing house they Lived them of etealli a » fur coat. They aband ail when called for trial amd returned to this city. Acoordi detectives, many complaints “ef blackmail have been made them in this and other cities. 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