The evening world. Newspaper, September 27, 1921, Page 12

12 . $V. BARUGHTELLS EQURT OF ATTEMPT TOBLACKMIAL HIM Guy P. Pflum Said to Have Confessed—He Is in Tombs on Personation Charge. Bailing W. Baruc! mard M. Baruch, of the brokerage firm of A. A. Housman & Co., No, 20 Broad Street, Centre Street Court to prosecute Guy P. Pflum, a salesman of No, 201 West With Street, Baruch ac- | uses of attempted blackmail, After| the hearing, Magistrate McGeehan | complimented Mr. Baruch | “It is not often,” he said, “that| wien of your caliber come into this} court; they seem to be afraid of the | brother of Rer- to-day appeared in whom Mr notoriety they might get. I hope others will follow your lead.” Acconling to Mr. Baruch, Pflum yesterday came to the brokerage | office on Broad Street, displayed a! badge purporting to be that of a De- | tective Sergeant and produced a let-) ter which bore the names of several) women. The name of Sailing W. Baruch was also on the list. ‘This is a list of persons of disrepu- table, conduct.” the salesman is al- leged to have sald, “which 1, as a Detective Sergeant, am investigating I can quash the entire case for a consideration.” The amount of the consideration was left for Mr. Baruch to suggest Without making an “offer,” he ex- cused himself for a moment and from another room ca‘led up Richard MoKenna, a private detective of No, 40 Exchange Place. The broker engaged the visitor in conversation until the detective ar- rived, and then, Mr. Baruch alleges, he confessed. * Magistrate McGeehan held Pflum fm $1,000 bail for trial in Special Sessions on the charge of imperson- ating an officer. In default of bail the prisoner was sent to the Tombs. ot bel eahae os YOUTH ACCUSED OF GETTING THREE NEW SUITS BY FRAUD. Charged With Using Stad © te Get Clothe: Charles f. McCann, a dressy youth who says he ts a civil engineer and a real estate operator with an office at $e Hote! St. Andrews and a home at No, 203 West 73d Street, was taken to the Wést Side Court to-day on a com- plaint of grand larceny. ‘It was charged that he ordered three @ults of clothes at Brokaw Brothers, ‘No. 1457 Broadway, using the name of ene Van Kirk, a Columbia University student who had an account there. The gults were delivered at the dovmitory where Van Kirk lives and it 18 alleged thet McCann got possession of them lice say McCann ‘Aas served a term at the Federal prison at Atlanta for swindling. a Ace |drawn from a Louisville, | Six Hundred Thousand Drinks of | Receiver Appointed for $544,000 ock Retired | Old Bonded | ation. From Ci | Strong men swore and all but shed | tears on Piers 34 and 28, North River, to-day when Prohibition Enforcement agents under Supervising Agent Chris | of | J. Fortman seized 1,250 cases fragrant old whiskey, bottled In bon, and carted it away to the ( warehouse at First Street and the | Bowery, where It will probably be forever expurgated from the rapidly expiring stock of potable liquor. The agents had been the strong water for several ‘days It arrived this morning in two freight cars, The Gardo Drug Company 164 Park Avenue, was consign 500 cases and the Golden Gate Fruit Company, No. 375 West was consignee of 250 cases seized on Pner 84, New York Central Terminal M. BE. Hunter & C y Street an old time whol would have received 500 cases but for the interference of the Prohibition 0, rnment waiting for Broadway, No, | daughter » of ale liquor house, | w people. The liquor was seized because the, permits under which it was with Ky., bonded warehouse under No further information was obtain- able. are One, thousand, two hundred and Nifty cases, 30,000 quarts, — 600,000 drinks! On a retail basis the seized liquor in worth $450,000, HINES CAN INSPECT PROTESTED BALLOTS Justice McAvoy Also Permits Miller to See Votes Cast in Hines’s District. Justice McAvoy in the Supreme Court signed an order to-day dl ing the Board of Elections to 1 James J. Hings, the contesting Dem- veraticd candidate for the nomination for the office of Borough President, to inspect the void and protested ballots cast in the primary election. Justice McAvoy also signed an order permitting Julius Miller, the success- ful organization candidate, to open the boxes and inspect the ballots cast in the Eleventh District, of which Hines is the Tammany leader. ect | @8#aulting one of his pupils, Salvatore Application for the order to inspect | 1) inietro of No. 312 East 108th Street, the Eleventh District ballots was|dluven years old made by George W. Olvany, counsel to Miller: Vincent Lippe, counsel to Hines, consented to the Issuance of the order, although, under the iaw, the application was outlawed because it had not been filed within ten days after the primary. Papers were filed in the matter of an application to Justice Wasser- vogel for an order directing that a new primary election be held to se- lect a nominee for Borough Presldunt og the Tammany ticket. Affidavits stated that fraud was so widespread in the/primary that it was nullifted insofar as the Bérough President's office ts concerned. The order is re- turnable before Justice McAvoy to- morrow morning. \ IT oe Investigation, | DF Caveland Belleves Year's Fig- _ THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1921. $450,000 WHISKEY _| MRS. BISHOP GETS SEIZED ON-PIERS| $10,000 A YEAR Trust Fund Left to Former | Husband by His Father. Justi Wasservogel to-day ap- pointed George Z Medalie receiver of the $544,000 trust fund left by Heber R. Bishop to his son, James Rishop, whose wif Abigail Han- cock Bishop, on Sept. 20 asked that 4 receiver be mppointed and that the issets and income from the fund be sequestrated. The rt directed the reeviver to pay to Mrs. Bishop $10,000 | 4 year, the sum allowed her following her divoree in 13. Justice Wasservogel in his opinion { Mr Rishop evaded service outside of the State, action toward h ul. fourteen years old, ing to Mrs, 5 alienated gifts, was a “wilful und contempt of the decrees rt.” is now living with her Torresdale, Pa, iccording ‘to the decision, to pay deductions of from 0 a week, made from April ining this Abi whose father a Bisho, idle eh) ne ANOTHER N. Y. RECORD FOR LOW DEATH RATE. ures Will nprecedented. je Announcement was made Inst week that New York City had had the lowest death rate in its history for the week ling Sept, 17, 1921, Health Commis- 1 Copeland said to-day that for the week of Sept. 24 the death rate was 8.70 per 1,000 of the population, as com- pared with the rate of 8.77 of the pre- vious week rate from Jan. in noting th: e . 1921, War but 11.40 1, 1921, to ver 1,000 of the population. He sald that in the September and w York City haa | ite t period, so that. the outlook entire year promises a death below ‘that of any preceding y 1866 when complete accu- tate statistics were Irat established, Dr, William H, Guilfoy, Registrar of Records of the Health Department, es: at for the year, assuming that prevail as in the year rate will be 11.0 per pulation. months of 120, 1.000 of th ACCUSE SCHOOLTEACHER OF HITTING BOY IN EYE. Instructor Zahn Says Blow Was Accidentally Given. Albert Zahn of No. 1624 Second Ave- nue, a teacher in Public Schoo! No. 83 in 110th between Second and Third Avenues, was arraigned before Magistrate Marsh to-day charged with Mrs mother, vatore: Angelo Di boy's told the Magistrate that Sal- right eye was seriously af- by a slap and that he might lose ysician sald. » blow had been ac- Pietro, the ital. he sald, and when turned about suddenly, bringing his eye into contact with the teacher's id. The cas permit court Divorce De to Mee. McGowan, Supreme Court Justice Young of White Plains to-day granted an inter- locutory decree of divorce to Mrs. Marie S. McGowan, wife of Henry D. jowan, a wealthy corset manufac- now, Manhattan. | Mr. and have a sun, ®| dog. a Gay World Alter All—in Spots Not a Highbrow Cat. Barnard College girls have changed the name of their new mascot, @ stray cat, from Ivanhoe to Mike. | Ancient History. Records, just unearthed, of the Bull Inn In England show that one night In 1813, In five hours, fifty- four British soldiers dran'r 126 bot- tles of port, 48 of sherry, 64 bowls of punch and 20 bowls of negus, be- sides ale and porter, which was free. Much Like a Senate Committee. Washington, D. C., has three unique highwaymen, They are all cripples, two walking on crutches and one hobbling on a cane, but they | get the money. | A Missing Detail. When a omunment to those who fell in the Battle of Lironcourt was unveiled It wasn't there and the au- thorities explained that the rail- road had misiaid it. Almost a $20,000 Hat. Jose Brooks of Jacksonville, Fia., threw away $20,000 with a dis- carded hat when he bought a derby 1. fn a McAlpin haberdashery. A clerk had just found the roll in a waste basket when in dashed the owner to claim It, cent. nized, 1920, Somebody polsoned his and he ~ wouldn't have taken Still in the 3 R Class. Cecilla Bronx of New York told the International Art Congress, in session tn Paris, that America \s too young to have its own school of art, Easier to Get In. H. M. Marx, scorekeeper of the ‘ ‘ean ening baseball team at Matteawan, haa just lost his fifteenth habeas corpus sult to get out of the Institution, Law Agi.inst Via After their baby .was born John and Anna Sandreck fought over nam- Ing {t, she wanting to call him Char- lie and he Viadisiaw, and a Chicago court ordered them to settle. call it Charlle, Somebody’ ‘Two more Parisians are to fight a dual to-day. Goes Back to Sing Sing for His Health. John Amishosky, thirty, of Brook- lyn, on parole, recommitted himself. to Sing Sing #0 he could be by his doctor, thi Such Is Fame. Chaplin has days in Berlin without being recog- Charlie Watch Us Grow. 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