The evening world. Newspaper, December 30, 1921, Page 3

“Motorists generally in New York City respect the rights of Se pedestrians.” JUDGES ASSURED OF DRASTIC LAWS TO CHECK CRIME Last Session to Be Adopted by New Legislature, Judges of the Court of General Ses- sions were assured to-day that the bills they sought to have passed by tho last Legislature providing more drastic punishment for crimes of vio- ience, will be passed at the noxt ses- ston. They provide, among o-her things, greatly Increased prison terms Burglary in the first degree will be rade punishable by life Imprisonment instead and third degree burglary will Increased to ten years. Robbery, for which the maximum now is twenty years, will be punish- able by one year to life. The maxi- mum for robbery in the second de- gree will be twenty years and for the third degree fifteen years. Assault in the first degree, for which the maximum is now ten years, will be punishable by as much as twenty years. Im addition persons arrested for possession of burglary tools will be lead of belng considered tnnocent until proved guilty. And defendants who are jointly In- dicted will no longer have the right to demand separate trials, ‘The bills were Introduced at the last session by Assemblyman Sol Ull- man, and passed the Assembly, but were tabled by a Senate committee. The Judges were assured to-day by the Chairman of the Senate Codes Committee that the Senate will pass the bills at the next session. have been chosen by their colleagucs to call on Gov. Miller and seek his support for the measures. “These changes,” said Mr. Uliman, “will bring abot a great reduction n crimes of violence. But even a> there will be need for more Judger. and it is possible that a bill will be introduced providing two more parts ot the Court of General Sessions. Interest in the report that the Legislature «will be asked io make room for two additional Judges in the Court of General Sessions was i nt ed to-da by a ment handed up by the retiring viar December Grand Jury, ein ng efforts to remedy evil of the bonding of professional eriminals, ¢ cludes: “One of the greatest causes of thi evil is the congested condition of the bail ealendér the Court of Ger reg- which, or of eral Sessions, which {s due to the f. that the machinery of the criminal courts cannot function with prompt- ness and expedition because of the insufficient number of Judges of the Cour f en al Sessions We the: heartily indorse proposed legislation to increase the number of aid Judges. FOUR HURT IN AUTO CRASH IN 5TH AVE. Cars Collide at 59th Street Corner and Occupants Ar: Hurled to Pavemer hour persons were hurt carly to-day an automodiie owned and drive by Andrew MoMillan of 4640 Dela- feld Avenue, Bronx, collided with a car owned and driven by Joseph Cortozza of No, 322 East 126th Street, at 59th Streot aud Fifth Avenue. The injured, all of Nu. 306 Bast who 0 and lacerations. ne pe Bills Failing of Passage at| of the present twenty-year maxiinum. The maximum for second be obliged to prove tleir hnocence, in- | Judge Nott and Judge Rosalsiv, present - | 7 “We get comparatively few cases of wantonly reckless driv- ing or speeding.” YOUTH ACQUITTED OF MURDER CALLED MORALLY BULTY Konner Had Hired Gunman But Later Withdrew From Robbery Plot. Benjamin Konner, twenty, of Cleve- land, who has been on trial for the mumer of Jacob Mazura, No. 230 “Much traffic law violation in this ¢ity is due to deficiency in our statutes.” Traffic Court Magistrate Praises N. Y. Auto Drivers Despite 3 Killings a Day Judge House Says Motorists Here as Rule Re- spect Rights of Pedestrians---Many Acci- dents Are Due to Inexperience and Ignor- ance of Our Rules by Drivers From Outside ---New Traffic Law and a Distinct Motor Department Needed. “We don’t want children driv- ing cars in New York City.” East‘Seventh Street, was freed torday by a directed verdict of acquittal, but before he left the court room he heard these words from Judge Crain: “You are morally guilty, and you have come closer than you probably realize to the eleotric chair. But you are not legally guilty and I am bound to discharge you. This ought to be a life tong lesson for you. Mazura was shot and killed be- cause he had displayed a roll of bills amounting to $2,400 in a saloon. ‘Those who saw the money were Kon- ner, Julius Rosenwasser and Abra- ham Kepaloff, the latter two living at No. 128 Stanton Street. They planned to rob Mazura and Konner was delegated to find a man to do the job, The first man he ap- proached refused. The second, known as Shorty, not yet arrested, under- took the robbery and killed Mazura. All this was admitted. Rosenwas ser is In the death house at Bing Sing and Kepaloff is serving a term of twenty years to Ife. But Konner, in spite of the fact that he engaged the \actual slayer, had a valid defense. He showed the* after he had en- | gaged Shorty he changed his mind about the whole adventure, advised his friends to give up the idea and advised Shorty not to act. He hiin-! self refused io have anything more to do with the case, This, Jud: Crain said, amounted legally to a complete withdrawal ‘ by Konner, Counsel for the be rain from the crim. defense moved that instructed to acquit and said he was bound to! i WOMAN DIES IN COLD | | RECORD FOR WINTER | Mercury Drops to Seven Above, | but Is Due to Rise Quickly, Bringing Snow. Winter equalled its low record to te to-day, when the temperature a T o'clock touched 7 above. This wa a drop of 38 degrees from the max mum of 40 yesteniay afternoon, Th asters, who guessed ¢ | weather yesterday, declared 10 o'clock that to-day would continue lcold, with rising temperatures setting | in toward night. -morrow, the fa. \weather will give way to cloudine-. and as the thermometer continues oa i its way upward, snow may fall The coldest place in New Yori: Canton, in the northern tier, where was 14 below. At Albany it is 2 be flow. An unui paradox consiste lof a 45 degree drop in ty fou jhours in the northern section of this Stat while along the western end of the Great Lakes the temperatu the same time, rose 45 deg’ exceedingly low temperatures th |the Dakotas and east given way to more balmy weather, which |should reach the Atiantic Coast with- n thirty-six to forty-eight hours. The body of an ur believed to have d s found at 3 A. 3 i lliceman Murphy of the Alexander | Avenue Station in front of No. 311} \Bast 134th Street. She was about thirty-five years old, five feet seven inches in hetght, had dark bair and! \blue eyes, and was poorly dressed. ineteen, ‘They were 3 feet 7 inches. ty Flower Hospital tn MoMillan’s eyes and hair and wore » gray Dr. Alice gray trousers, black cap. red er and biwe shirt. | highway.” | think they have the right to go ahcad |tary of State bas done as w Automobile drivers are becoming /when all this work was done by five more considerate of pedestrians! men, with only one inspector to give In New York too! road tests to 150 persons a day. It is .) Pi impossible for one man or even two or Its difficult of belief but Magis-|three to examine so many drivers in a trate Frederick B. House of the day and determine their fitness to op ttiatiis Cour lared to-day that|erate a machine. Connecticut an lisieds ian Seclaren woncey Delaware, with not half as many cars Magistrate House has presided in| as New ‘York, bave each thirty-six men for this work. If we had a se the Traffic Court since it was es- tablished six years ago. rate Motor Vehicle Department, witl an appropriation adequate for the work, we could have more effisient in- spection and have less bad driving. “I am convinced,” he said, “th motorists generally in New York City respect the rights of pedestrians. We “We are killing here in New York City an average of three persons a day get comparatively few cases of whut|through bad driving. Between 25,000 seem to be wantonly reckless driving berate a are injured oot ee a é nme | MI in the State every year by motor or speeding, and many of the case) ehicles. The trouble lies principally we do get are those of persons who in bad driving, and with inspection are more guilty of inability to handle}which could d.termine, as it does in a car properly under all circumstances copa sada athsy lage and Hares " ;|Yania, for instance, the mental qua than of deliberate speeding at places Imcations of the driver, we would have where such driving would endanger Jess accidents.” lives. | Going back to the operation of “We have, of course, some people tas the paresis Judge House a | pointed out that no vehicles have the who feel that they are lords of the! yight to speed in the streets except Judge House's tace be-! those of the municipality, hospitals, came grim as he said that. “They | State militia and public service com- panies in response to urgent calls of fire, accident, _m- uations chine cinelcy gunk win | penalg dotel™® disaster or am. disregard altogether the rights of sie.” he repiied, smiling, “malt pedestrians, of other vehickes and’ wagons are not Among Mioee antes even the safety of those riding with | We get the drivers of them here once them; and we have been trying to/in a while and invariably they are make them understand, so far as this! fined or sent to jail. Incidentally, court is concerned, what those rights|any citizen who ‘sees one uf them are. using excessive speed or driving a . j recklessly should get the machine’ Most of the to us! number, assure mself about the are for minor offenses, involving us tion due to cai identity of the driver, call a po man as a witness and come here for {inattention or, sometimes, indiffer-|a John Doe summons, If the drvier ence. Drivers talking with passengers | {5 guilty of the charge against him neglect sometimes to observe the! he most certainly will get what he eight-foot space requirement in pass-| deserves. Reckless driving in the ing street cars. Some fail to stop as a car discharges passengers. They pass a cross street after a policeman has directed traffic to halt. They fa to light their tail lamps or to leave a front and rear lamp burning when streets of New York is dangerous and it will be stopped if the Traffic Court can stop it, ome people have said thet I'm barsh in my Judgments of Traffic Law they park their machines at ‘ | violations, but I have no prejudice It's due largely to their th uinst automobile driving. I have about something else when in lice against tt persons who own, operate or ride in avtomobiles It's a privilege which they have been granted by the State, but all persons ould realize they have no inherent ligation: they she much Traffic Law t'on In the city is due to a defic ght to operate on the highways of in our preser tutes whic the State of New York. It is a mits persons living outside ense or privilege which the 8 York to operate a machine jxives them and which it can repe ty without a permit. The Jaw, as {or prohibit. Persons who have this ty now stands, permits persons hvirg | Privilege should respect the obliga- elsewhere to di r tions it entails on them. They shou! wefare thes requ not for a moment relax in thei a city permit. These people « nee to guard against endange here largely ignorant te wer. | ing the eafety of other persons and I Pure Jj vehicles. The whole intention 0 yeu Shean ‘a carjTraMc Law regulations is towar RS ART eepevat, 8 Tl thig end. If autsmobile drivers wil : F r that in mind they ‘ove they've driven here more th prove: they've: drives: hare more. ty and,” he added with a zi hey will never bave oveasion to think we in the Traffic Court are Leg Ui barah, not even if they're mail truck changed last ivers anged la ——_—_ and have brovgh it @ past , @n act that would have applied te the whole State, hut we did not want h agree to lower the ag erators from eighteen to sixteen. don't want children driving cars in New York Cit BREAK FUR SHOP WINDOW Irom Weights Wrapped kereh! Uned—C Three en armed with fron wel; As he spoke of anging existing | wrapped tn handkerchiefs waited in traffic lawa, Judge House declare’ | (ront of Jacob Ster fur also that New ¥ should have a! +: 9185 Third Avenue last State Motor Vehicle Departme! lun elevated train rum’ past All the work of registering rm place, then threw their weights through chines and opera and examinme he t las th " te the latter.” he said, “is done by the |‘he plate glass, the noise being drowned by that of the train. Each of them seized a fur coat, and they all went away in separate direc: State Tax Department. The Secre 1 as he could with the foree and the appre MRS. STI aero. IN CANADA FOR SUIT AS “L” TRAIN RUMBLES) _ “If we had a separate Motor Vehicle Department we would have less bad driving.” JOHNSON I AGA, TS AS7 500 JB HE GETS TAS TE He’s Appointed Commissioner of Public Works for Borough of Manhattan. Joseph Johnson was to-day ap- pointed of Public Works by Borough President-clect Julius Miller, The job pays $7,500 a year, swings a lot of patronage and is one of the most important in the Ad- ministration outside of elective povi- tions, ranking in pay with the Com- missionerships, which form the bulk of the Mayor's high class patronage. Commissioner The Commissioner of Public Works is scant clothing and these were tem- the Borough President's substitute in porarily sheltered In taxicabs in the the Board of Estimate. Mr. Johnson is a lifelong Democrat THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30 , 1921, Magistrate House Says New York Automobile Drivers Are Becoming More Considerate of Pedestrian Corry “We are killing In New York “No, sir, Mall wagons are not City three persons a day through bad driving.” among the exempt.” RAYMONO ST. JL KEEPER I INDICTED FOR ANG ESCAPE O'Connor Is Charged With Failing to Lock Cells— Five Prisoners’ Fled. SCURRY HALF-CLAD FROM FIRE TO SEEK SHELTER IN TAX Policeman Discovers Blaze in Own Home and Awakens Other Occupants. In such clothing as they were able snatch up, driven from their home early to-day ‘The Kings County Grand Jury in to thirty families were! its ¢4 report for Tecembor to-day returned an Indictment charging John when fire started in the cellar of the | O'Connor, a keeper in the Raymond Street Jail, with assisting in the e- cape of five prisoners from that insti- tution on Oct. 31, O'Connor was ar- rested at his home, No, 404 Fourth Avenue, arraigned in the County Court and held for trial he offense charged against O'Con- nor is a felony. On Oct. 31 he was in charge of a tier on which were confined, in separate cells, Albert Dates and William Murray, Federal prisoners, who were to have been four-story brick dwelling at No, 997 Sixth Avenue. rapidly to No. 999 and the tenants of The flames spread these two buildings as well as those of No, 995, 1001, 1003 and 1005 fled to the street. Many of them were in vicinity. The fire was discovered by Patrol- except when, in the late ‘90s, not tong! man Farrell, of the Fifth Strect ata- t#kem the next day to Oxford, N. C., after his arrival in New York from tion, who lives on the third floor of Georgia, his birthplace, he organized the Order of Acorns to put Tammany | the house and blew his police whistle Hall out of business and constituted| trom a window for assistance, himself the Great Oak thereof. sequently Mr. various ments. He was Fire Commissioner in the Gaynor Administration. In 1913 he was an aspirant to the Postmastershp of New York, but President Wilson refused to appoint him, presumably because be was considered to be the Personal candidate of Charles}. Murphy and Mr. Murphy was nov persona grata with the Wilson Ad- ministration, As Chief of the Transit Bureau of the Public Service Commission, Mr. Johnson was an energetic and useful oflicer. When Tammany came into power in 1917, he was appointed Deputy Comptroller. He resigned this post when the United States entered the war, to become Director of Puls- Heity for the Red Cross, with head quarters in Washington. When the Walker Boxing Bil was passed, Gov Smith man of the Boxing Commission. From Sub- Johnson sponsored independent political moye- this post he resigned soon after Gov. | Miller took office and he been out of a political job, Recently Mr, Johnson brought against the Encyclopedia Britannica to enforce the fulfilment of a contract which he was to have recely amount of stock in that poration in return for services LLMAN NOW has since 1 large Passes Through Montreal on Way to Backwoods to Line Up Witnesses MONTREAL, Dec, 30.—-Mrs, Ann Stillman, defendant in the divorce suit brought by James A. Spillmen, passed through Montreal this morn- ng on her way to Grand Anse, wh 3 located the lodge in banker charges Mrs. St VWred Beauvais, Indian guide under compromising circum stances, Mrs. Stillman is in Canadn to line up her witnesses for hearings to open here Jn. 1L This morning Eugene Godan. which th Iman seen priations he had, but, as it is, all|tions. But Patroiman John J. Wallace! iawyer appointed to take the test and there's 'n lot of it, is of Street Station caug G fe ena ae peptides ony of the Grand Anse witness - Shei lia tare & 2 ; pattie, : ecetved his commission and ters between 650,000 and “eo @’ Gutler street, Newark, and nald be Two prominent Montreal lawy every year and grants licenses to per- “found the coat. He was taken to Pave been retained by the opposing haps 400,000 operators. I kmow of times Harlem Court for ar sides, = die appointed Mr. Johnson Chair- | ames to Nos. 997 and 999. |remained on duty, to be placed on trial for stealing $34,000 from the Post Office there, and He roused all the families in William Maloney, a holdup man, For several days William Schnetder A and George Taylor, convalescent drug ‘0. 9! chauffeur turned in an alarm. of the roof of the prison. While thus After getting the people in his engaged they sawed a hole in the house to the roof and thence to No. roof, It Is charged that O'Connor, by 999, he awakened all the dwellers his failure to lock the cells of Dates, there and saw that they got out Eh yeleieceertl peeice safety. under the roof from which they A second alarm, which brought |climbed through tho hole, in company Chief Kenlon, was rung and the fire-|with Schneider and Taylor. The five men had a hard fight to confine tha|escaped into Fort Greene Park and none has been recaptured. The Grand Jury also returned a presentment carrying recommenda. tions for improvements in Raymond Street Jail. The institution, accord- ing to the Grand Jury, should be Jequipped with a lever device by which fall is may be locked and unlocked at the same time. A fire-proot roof is also recommended, as is the em- ployment of three additional keepers and two additional matrons. Warden Harry Honeck is commended for his management of the jail. % SS St LEVIATHAN REPAIR BIDS OPENED TO-DAY When they were extinguished, neighbors took in the familles whose homes had been destroyed and made them com- fortable for the rest of the night Fireman Conley of Engine No. who went into the cellar of No, 997 to shut off the gas, was overcome bY smoke and was dragged out by Lient. Murphy of his company, who had gone with*him, Conley, who suffered also a bad laceration of t The fire was estimated at $20,000 —_——.—__ 16? TENANTS FLEE of hand, Lowest ef Eight Offers Is tor ETS OG, « FIRE OVER ROOFS ” Bids for the reconditioning of the . ‘i Leviath ed to-d ne |With Policeman's Aid They Reach] Meeinen wore, “pt Ohiet or Can Adjoining Building and Are Carried Down, More than one struction for the International Merean- tile Marine Company, No. 11 Broadway, for the former ¢ irman pretakers rma hundred men, wou vd. Eimer and children were driven to the row: r 1 by a $5,000 cellar fire in the five-story mii tclothes at 3. A. M in thelr nig to Out of ten yardd reques ; building at No. 18) Hester Strect.| bids, all but two responded. 1 Scores of tenants in nearby houses | {f/,yMt made py were driven to the street on p of The lark $10, Peter hia G Sree; 7h trom the Standard Shipbuilding the coldest nighte of the winter SR LLG lil a Wok Policeman Jammer A Dooling a her to e recond th 8 Stotien diacoverca | {ining be 25, provid zabeth Str Staten discovered | he contr was let before 13. he fire and ran through the hous cee NO BAIL FOR PRISONERS HAVING JAIL RECORDS “Only Do Same Thing Over if r Court Expla! arousing the sixteen gamilie ! the Ume he had gone up three Migits the flames had cut off escape below the second floor, and he led every- body to the roof. The roof at No. 187, next door, six feet below the roof of the burning Magistrate Sweetser announced to- Juuilding, and ihe men and chil-|day in Harlem Court that he would dren bad to be banded duwn by the | refuse to fix bail for defendants pre | policeman to men volunteers, 1 viously convicted of crime; and’ held all then went down the fire exeape on No, 187 to tho first floor, where fire- men carried them down ladders, without bail, Michael Grosso, No. 218 Hast 10th Street, arrested to-day for jostling passengers leaving or boarding cross-town cars at 116th Street and Lexington Avenue, ‘The police say Bor tevenson, f Grosso was sent to the reformatory in doklyn, to-day te a b - : 915 for grand larceny and that he bin Me on f Ny cies uf late,"w 0 1 men?’ the Magistrate asked. The position vacuted « They furnish it and then go out and do the same thing over again,” addicts, had been painting the inside | the | at viet “Reckless driving will bes eee stopped if the Traffic Court cam" stop it.” ” pre a “x 40 YEARS FOR ROBBER ** > WHO CHOKED VICTING..., = Reward to the Police, 2 ey x te If Frank Scott, twenty-three apq @ half years old, Ives untt he ts age and Is a well behaved member BO! » Sing Sing Welfare League, hemayius come back to New York and see!) the city has gr ete tte Tosainky “sentenced Scott ig ears to-day, Robpery in ; . brought ten yeurs—for tien obtained. $1.15. after chakelpag Slimane tailor, of No. 151 Wweaeus eat Stre Bat robbery in they eed degree, second ot nae, he got tpiri a abtalned $70 Profi 2 enra—for this job Robert McPherson, No. 49 East Mitigei ic Heavy Sentence a® how Judge forty first di Street, after dragging « hallway and choking him We: years, by good behaviour, ~ ured to twenty-three years six mon! and twenty days, ban Tho court sald the police did in. getting Scott and he srosoced” tee help them by giving long sentendém Sigur him and ot convicted of highway¥tas robbery. is =e oa sad SHIPLEY QUITS $4,500 JOB y Ro: PUBLIC WORKS, . August Shipley has. resigned, $4,500 position as Deputy Commiss! of Public Works tn Queens, it wa: nouficed to-day. | Mr. Shipley said asked hi ough President Connolly br to reconsider and a final answer woul, be returned soon. He said his privarel® business in Jamaica was 1 CLerkangs. c through his attention to city. BDO) * shots, . Motice to Advertisers. Display advertising tr7e copy ead plese eluher be week day World ing World Mf receives after $F. M preceding publication rac be inserted | space erm aod in onder of receipt World Of ‘Copy conatoing engravings Gade > Tos Word mun be received by 1 Display advertiung wpe onpy. for the mest Sections of Sunday World an feorived by 1 F. M. Thursday. preaeding Goa velease must \ey Tes wong | eis wot bres |ereriag con wi cation offien by