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iy ea wR ook, ies Wes Bald to-day that ho will soon be tn ‘custody, probably before night. Ac- Wording tu police statements, the man hud been driven from Taylor's home feveral times recently at the polut of & revolver. ‘The murder has developed into one of thé’ «reatest mysteries with which the police have had to deal, partly be- cause Taylor's death revealed him as manjof mystery, a man with many i especially among the women, and nointimates. Tho case strikingly porallels the unsolved murder of Joseph B. Elwell, the bridge whist authority, in New York City on June Persons with him a few hours be- fore hip death say he seemed crushed by a premonition of evil; that he re- marked he feit as if something dread- ful wag about to happen to him. One of the persons to whom he expressed this fear was Miss Mabel Normand, to whom, for six months, !t had been rumorgd he Was engaged, and who ‘was tlie last person known to have seen lilm ulive, except the assassin. ‘The rdmor of their engagement was), never confirmed, Marg Miles Minter, who, with her motheg was one of the first to reach the Taylor home after the body was discors yesterday, denied that Miss and und Taylor were en-| gaged., The grief of Miss Minter was shown by the tears she shed while viewing the scene where her friend had been, shot, apparently witheut warning,’ and without a chance for his }ife. She also at one time was reported engaged to him. The police have abundoned their} first theory that Edward Sands, a farmer employee of Taylor, who wassagoused of stealing from him while. Taylor was in Europe, | may ‘know the murderer. They | are certain robbery was not the} motive, because on the desk in full view of the assassin was a pocket- containing $78, in nearby! was jewelry valued at severa] thousand dollars, and the apartment js filled with furnishings valued) at many additional thou- sands, but nothing was disturbed. On a nearby tabouret were found | glasses and a decanter containing gin) and orange juice. The fact that more than one of the glasses contained a} bit of orange juice in the bottom showed that Taylor had not been drinking by himself. The police also made a second ex- amination of Mabel Normand in con- nection with the murder of Tayler. The detectives assigned to the case announce the facts developed thus far indicate: Mr. Taylor, just finishing bis din- ner, was visited by Ma®el Normand? ‘They discussed a scenario and several other matters relating to motion pic- tures. Henry Peavey, Negro house- man, employed by ‘Taylor, left the apartment for the night, while Miss Normand was still there, HOW SLAYER GOT CHANCE TO _ ENTER HOUSE, About 7.45 P. M. Miss Normand left, according to her statement. She ‘was accompanied to her automob! ft the curb by Mr. Taylor. Her Negro chauffeur was waiti.s for her and -d@rove her to her home, which the reached about 8 o'clock. It tg the lice theory that it was during this. absence from the house by Mr. Taylor | jight, | suppose, and he gave me one | ed, cultured gentleman, with a that his slayer entered the-apartment through the door that had been left open. When Mr. Taylor entered on his return he was immediately a’ tacked and shot in the back, probably | @s be closed the door, The bullet ranged downward through the heart. Tho assailant le/t immediately. A shot was beard abort 7.45 P. M., ac: cording to the account given by Mrs. Douglaa MacLean, wife of Douglas MacLean, motion picture actor, Her maid also heard the report. Mrs. MacLean went to the door of her Apartment and saw a man leaving the front door of Mr. Taylor's home. He closed the door and, looked around, then walked between the Taylor house and the one adjoining on the west, woing toward Maryland Street. This is considered strong proof the actual slayer was a man, In addition, just before 6 o'clock a man answering his description stopped at the Hartford service sta- tion, corner of Sixth and Alvarado Streets, und inquired where W. Db. ‘sayior resided. Floyd Hartley and L. A. Grant, tn charge of the station, were in the place at the time, ‘he description. of this man as given to the officers indicates he was #n American, medium height, heavily | ., It goes | * Dullt and wore a plaid cap. not fit the description of the missing former employee. Street car men say that a mun ex actly fitting the same description ro te on a car of their line and asked to be jet off at a point near the apurtment, So few persons allght there that they remembered the mat and the occasion. Mr, Waylor had stved at the Alva- rado Courts about two years, The scene left in the magnificently ap- pointed apartment occupied by bim showed little sign of a struggle. An overfirned chair was the only ‘ndl- cation of violence or of the haste of tho gssuilant to escape. The front door ,had locked with a spring .ock whem closed. A writing desk near the r, against the iront wall of the roouy held many papers, Indicating | his thcome tax return for this year that Mr. Taylor had been preparing and adjusting other business. MIS§ NORMAND TELLS OF HER| ' VISIT TO HOUSE, wae placa of honor on the top of the up- right} piano was another, were) conspicuously ‘displayed. Sogn after the visit of Miss Minter O'Connor, formerly an assistant director under Mr. Taylor and for many years a ciose irien@, visited the apartment. Charles yton, general manager of the Lasky udip, was present when the under- taken removed the valuables from the and ber mother, Frank oD person of Mr. Taylor. Detective geants Zeigler and Wallis, assigned to the case when the first report of the death was made to the police, in- ferviewed Miss Normand and obtained this statement: “| had my chauffeur drive out to Mr. Taylor's home in the evening as we had a number of business matters SUBJECT TQ COLDS? paishe an coo taking father d to discuss, I should judge that T arrived at the house a little befor 7 o'clock. It was while 1 was there that we again discussed the case a man who had been in Mr. Tuylor's employ and who stole from him. “I asked Mr, Taylor what he in- tended doing with the.man if he was captured and he sald that he would see that the man was prosecuted. We then discussed a certain scenario iat (hat a friend of mine had written, | “After we had discussed a few other trifling matters Mr. Taylor asked me if 1 would remain and have dinner with him. I excused myself and told him that I must hurry to my home. He then asked me if he (might visit me later that night and I told him I should be glad if te | would come over to my house, He | promised to call me on tho telephone | Some time about 9 o'clock. “Mr. Taylor then accompanied me from his house to my automobile. My |chauffeur, William Davis, was seated ‘in the machine and heard Mr. Taylor bade us goodnight, We talked for a talking when I saw Peavey leave the House. He spoke to all of us and |bid us goodnight. We talked for a few minutes longer and Mr. Taylor turned and walked toward his homo and my machine moved away.” | DENIES SHE AND TAYLOR WERE) ENGAGED. I had written and a scenario} KNOWN POINTS IN THE MURDER OF MOVIE DIRECTOR GONLS THIS YEAR MADE CERTAN BY HARDING ATION William Desmond Taylor had a personal which made him many fends among women movie player As a movie director he had it wer to deny or satisfy the ambitions of women players to be- come 4, He was believed to be engaged to one star of prominence. Somebody had been drinking with him at his home on the night of the shooting. | His home had been robbed and } in hiss | |House to Pass Measure Within Two Weeks and Senate in a Month. police are hunting for a former a i aT employce on @ warrant sworn out DIRECT TAX DROPPED. by Taylor. | The sume description fits, in thre ances, @& man whose actions near Taylor's home are enough to warrant his arrest, The man who went between the Taylor house and the next building around 7.45 Wednesday night, the person who asked to be told when the street car he was on neared the Taylor home, and the man who asked earlier in the evening at a service station two blocks Plan Now Is to Raise Money by Sale of Bonds or Treasury Certificates, By David Lawrence. (Special Correspondent of the Eve- ning World.) WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 (Copy- right, 1922).—There will be a soldier In a second statement late lJast | night Miss Normand stated there had! aw where Taylor lived. ——————~ | bonus this year, in London, burglars entered his Los’ 41) doubt on this subject was re- been no affair of the heart whatever; Angeles home and stole jewelry, between her and Taylor. ‘Clothing and $800 in cash. In Christ- “His friendship for me was that of mas week of last year, burglars again an older man for a girl who liked the stole jewelry, and clothing. At this outdoor sports he liked and who was time pawntickets were left by the eager to gleam a little enlightenment burglars representing the clothing from the vast storehouse of knowl-anq valuables the thieves had taken edge he possessed. {of their first visit, A note also was home Wednesday evening {t was in writer would return. response to a telephone call he had| jt js one theory that the thieves made. I bought peanuts and some | mado good thelr promise’té return, magazines and newspapers and ate/and after directing thelr victim to the peanuts on the way. When I) write a check for them became “When I went to Mr. Taylor's! yor, advising Mr. Taylor that the, moved when President Harding agreed to-day to mect the members of the Senate Finance Committee and the House Ways and Means Committee to determine the method of raising the money. After talking with the President, Chairman Fordney said the Soldier Bonus Bill would be passed by the House ta two weeks. Senators at the White House said the Senate would | THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1922. ’ id EXPANSION NEEDED ———— “NOW, HOOVER SAY Operating Cost Must Drop and |” Credit Be Restored, He Tells Commission, WILL COME THIS YEAR. Billion Spent on Roads Better Than Two Lent Abroad, He Declares, WASHINGTON, Jeb. 8.—Reduc- | tion of freight rates and resumption of railroad expansion are the two sources from which the country may, get its strongest impulse toward eco- nomic betterment, Secretary Hoover declared to-day, appearing as a wit- ness in the Interstate Commerce Com- mission investigation of transportation charges. The first, he sald, depends MISS_MARGARET REICK, {on a reduction of operating costs and Margaret Reick Will Then and ‘the second on restoration of railway, credit. There Become Mrs. Henry Transportation earnings, now | Stearns Jr. ilously close to bond interest, Mr. Hoover said, make it impossible for| Miss Margaret Reick, daughter of tho commission to give immediate W. C. Reick, President of the Jour- important rate relief, but he de- nal of Commerce, of No, 771 Madl- clared improving conditions would son Avenue, and Henry Stearns jr allow downward revisions during the gon of Dr, and Mrs, Henry Stearns of present year. Three in all, got out of my automobile I told my} chauffeur to clean the car. “Then I went up the steps. I heard Mr. Taylor talking to somebody over the "phone, underneath the stairs, and 1 hesitated about going in until he| had finished, Then I entered. He! had been talking to a woman who had charge of the income tax busi- nes# for many of the picture folk, in- cluding myself. “He came in and sald: ‘Gee, I am lad to eee you." - “It was about five minutes after seven when I arrived at his house. We talked about books. 1 am study- ing French, afd as he spoke French fluently he was of great assistance to me, “I looked around the drawing room and told him I thought he had changed his housefurnishings. He! said: ‘You haven't been here for so long you forget.’ I hadn't been to his house before for two months. He} said: ‘The phonograph is the only | thing new.’ “His servant, Henry, came in, and I said to Mr. Taylor, ‘Have you had | your dinner?’ He said, ‘Yes, have you had yours?’ I sald, ‘No, but I'm tired | and I'm going home now. I have a’ studio call for 7 o'clock to-morrow | morning.’ | “He went with me to my car. He) expressed surprise at some of the magazines in my car, and some were of Freud's books to read. “‘He said he would ‘phone me later In the evening but he did not. When | Edna Purviance told me he was d.ad I felt sure \t was all some horrible mistake, [ had known him for six or veven years. He was uniformly kind | to every one.” MARY MILES MINTER NEVER ENGAGED TO TAYLOR, ~ In an Interview to-day Mary Miles Minter said: “L was never engaged to Mr. T: lor, I regret to say. Stories that I visited him at his home on the after- noon of the day he was murdere are absurd. 1 was at my home read-| ing a book. I have seen very little of him since my return from Europe some months ago. He didn't have an enemy in the world. He was too! fine a man. Every one admired and respected him. “I doubt the rumor that he was mar- ried and has a daughter in the Bust. He would surely have told me so, if it were true. I could use every adjec- tive of praise in the English language and still I could not explain what a wonderful man he was.” Miss Minter strongly defended el Normand. “I love little Mabel Normand and 1 want the whole world to know it," Miss Minter eried im- petuously. SHOTS AT DIFFERENT TIMES A PUZZLING FEATURE, One puzzling teature of the murder is that persons report having heard shots at widely varying hours. The one heard by Mrs. MacLean about 7.45 is belleved to have been the one that ended Taylor's life. ‘The other shot was around 2 A. M. an¢ was believed at the time to have been the backfire of an automobile, Miss Edna Purviance, leading woman for Charlie Chaplin, who lives next door, suw the house illuminated at midnight. She went up to the front door and rang the bell but! there was no response. She went | home under the impression that Tay- lor had gone on an errand. Taylor had been married twice, having been divorced both times. He was pre-eminently a mun who kept the greater part of his life a mystery to those about him. Few men knew very much about his business inter sts, lich in a purely investinent | way and aside from his large earning, chief motion pieture director for the |Jurgest producing oncern in world, were very extensive, From #!! quarters of the motion pic- ture world, from many of the biggest producers and the profession, have | come testimonlale of Taylor's worth, Jewse L. Lasky, with whom Mr. ‘Tuylor was closely associated, suid: | “1 have lost 4 friend. A man whol Won that pluce, not only for his own| | personal quulities, but ulso for the jmanner in which he discharged his professional duties. Willlam ing Desmond Taylor information obtained at the amous Players-Lasky day had just tn. filming of his latest picture irving Betty Comp- son, called “The Green Temptation.” to ished the for Paramount TAYLOR A MAN | accord. | frightened, shot him and fled. _ Mr. Taylor was one of the most widely known and most popular photoplay men on the Coast, and was widely known among the executives in New York. He was President of the Los Angeles Motion Picture Di- rectors’ Association and came into follow suit in a fortnight. How will the money be raised? The probabilities are by a sale of Govern- ment bonds or Treasury certificates. Direct taxation has practically been bandoned, though Mr. Fordney was careful to point out that there were Public notice recently because of his ™ny Ways of raising money and that stand against the exorbitant spend- Congress had varying opinions. He ing of money by exhibitors for pro-| Would not favor a tax on gasoline. logues and incidental music in film|He showed plainly that he didn’ programmes, | think much of the suggestions made Early in his ventures in pictures,/bY Secretary Mellon that , money after having come to America fol. ™isht be raised by taxes on second lowing his graduation from Clifton (iss mail matter, tobacco and cigar- College in England, Mr. Taylor was ¢{¢s. Mr. Mellon had not made any an actor. He engaged in pioneer work) “recommendations,” but had listed for several film companies, including the ways by which money could be those of Thomas H. Ince, Vitagraph,| forced out of the people's pockets. Kay Bee and William Fox, and ap- Entirely apart trom the unfavor- peared in several photoplaya, includ-| ble economie effects which might ing “North of 53" and “A Tale of Two! tesult from more taxation, the poli- Cities." He was connected with the tics of the situation is against this American, Balboa-Pathe, Realart, Be-| ™cthod. The very listing of poss: Jasco Productions and Paramount, sources of revenue by Secretary Mel- His own name was used, as William low sent political shivers up and D. Taylor Productions, in making down the spine of Congress such films as “Huckleberry Finn,"| “The Furnace" and “The Soul of} The pendulum is swinging again Youth.” He also directed “Ann of toward raising the money out of the Green Gables,” “Wealth,” “Joanna proceeds of the Allied debt. Chair- Enlists” and “Jenny Be Good.” | man Fordney, who went to the Whit» He was described by a motion pic- House really to talk about the bill ture man who knew him intimately empowering a commission to nego- yesterday as “an exceptionally re-|tiate with foreign Governments con- cerning the payment of interest and principal on the war debt, made it things in general, and with a keen clear that the funding bill itself no eye for the beautiful and artistic in, longer contained any reference to the pictures rather than for the sensa-|soldier bonus and would not carry tional or salacious.” ‘any provision about it at all. He was born !n Ireland In 1877 and| The Bonus Bill will provide not oniy was a Captain in the British Army in five ways of Government aid to the the World Wur. He had been murried| war veterans, but will specify the und twice divorced, and was a member | exact means by which the funds will of the Los Angeles Athletic Club and, be raised. Although the Treasury {n- of several Los Angeles und New York sists that the country cannot stond remarkably wholesome outlook upon photoplay societies, He leaves # bond issue without embar- daughter, Ethel, eighteen, his only} the refunding operations relative, who {s suld to live in New) whereby money is being constantly York. borrowed from the American peope guaneSe | to pay the Victory bonds which short- ly come due, the legislators on Capitol Hill insist the capacity of Americ, OF MANY AFFAIRS; |» absorb new securities has been greatly underestimated and that bonds given by the Government di- rectly to the soldiers as a bonus should be sold by them or the Goy- ernment could itself sell the aw bonds and give cash to the veterans than ten years. It was a movie by| without disturbing fiscal operations McCardell that gave to Taylor his first | already in process for the borrowing opportunity as a director, who was|of sums to meet interest and prin- then an assistant with Ince. | cipal of existing bond issues. *‘He boarded in a bungalow at Santa Barbara with Mrs. Gerber, the daugh- | ter of Neva Gerber in the movies, and | there was talk of an engagement at! is that Great Britain is ready to pay one time between Miss Gerber and | interest on the war debt and that Taylor, I don't think his rel name | some time this autumn the first pay- was Taylor, but Desmond. He was ments ean be confidently expected very proud of being a Desmond," said Those who feel that British money Mr. McCardell. | will be forthcoming ingist the Amer- “Ordinarily he was temperate, but| ican Government can begin paying I recall one occasion when he became! the soldiers out of Treasury receipts morose and drank heavily for a spell,|and can apply the funds received Some said it was because an actress| from England toward the new in, accompanied by her mother had fol- | debtedness. lowed him out of New York. I don't] The Treasury Department takes recall the name and don't know the| vigorous exception to this view, Sec- circumstances, He was not what you| retary Mellon has emphatically op~ would call a man’s man in the sense| posed this scheme and said any pay- that he would be a good companion| ments received from the Allied war with a good set of fellows. He was| debt should go toward paying off ex- too 1 | isting s Liberty and Victory bon MARRIED TWICE Roy McCardell, the author, was very well acquainted with William D. | Taylor, having known him for more Another idea which seems firmly implanted in the Congressional miad +» SLOD “I gathered in our talks that he} The question will, therefoi had been given money by his father| arise as to whether the Secretary of in Ireland to come to America be-| the Treasury will be upheld or over. cause of a love affair in which the| ridden bythe President, Once betora, when the Revenue Bill was first draf- had been married twice, | ed, Mr. Mellon pointed out that a deft- his wives had died or there/cit. would occur unless ua certala Hie| Scheme of taxation was followed, but party was married. Whether had been divorces I do not know has a daughter about cightcen now,| Congress went ahead and wrote its I believe she ix being educated in|own bill with the consequent efect France. Her name is Ethel or Edith, | that the predicted deficit is material- In talking of her he said proud o| izing rapidly. | was a Desmond and that she would Mr. Harding mu decide whether the stage nor be polluted; the Judgment of the Treasury Depart paint | ment is right or wrong. Members of Congress declare the difference of He had a good many affairs and said they were the result of his ef-| fort to keep from being morbid, He! was temperamental to a high degree T remember once he ran away feeling 4 breakdown coming and went to 4 health resort in California. He its opinion is entirely a matter of con. jecture us to what the American peo- ple will absorb in the way of securk ties, and they claim that the Treas- ury Department is too conservative in estimates and that unquestionably new bond issue could be floated fused to answer telep! telegraph‘ or letters, He just chucked it and, Without serious embarrassment. They went. point to the floating of new bond “When the war came on he went, sues by private concerns and the rapid Inerease in investments through cut the United States, One Senator ‘id that fully $7,000,000,000 in pri- vate credits had n advanced since the armistice by the American people bond issues saying he had who had been not remain whe a couple of killed and he could he was and be a | ker, After he eame back he went | into the work again, He was shot and rode weil,” relatives Md Phe bonus is com IE take ebar w Wolitical in ng. Con, will | Hight mouths agu, while be was rence of t Hens thi umn. Avesident Usiding bows to the inevie ‘ i. W. Grove, (Le Wei Advbe est BUN.) When such revisions were made, he suid, the commission should apply them first to the primary basic com- | modities—agricultural products, coal, | metals and timbers—even if passen- ger rates, class rates and less-than- | carload shipments had to be charged more to protect railroad revenues. | This course should he adopted, he argued, because the series of hori- | zontal percentage increases by which | the rates were advanced had distorted the existing fabric of commerce in the United States, and “was moving industry as a whole toward its sources | of raw materials.’ | Incidentally, rail wages should not be expected to go back to pre-war levels, he said, but should ‘follow downward step by step the cost of living,"’ and the rate decreases should be so applied as to maintain railroad | of investors in ultimate railroad earn- | ing power. | “We talk glibly of giving billions | of credits to foreign countries to in- crease our farm exports,” Mr, Hoover said. ‘‘I wish to say with ali responsibility for the statement that a billion dollars, spent upon American railways, will give more employment to our people, more advance to our industry, more assistance to our farmers, than twice that sum ex- pended outside the frontiers of the United States—and there will its] greater security for investors,” ! There is danger in the present pe- riod of low earnings and little traffics that needs of the railroads in new construction, equipment, betterments and maintenance will be neglected, Mr. Hoover added, with resulting breakdown of transportation when a full load 1s put upon them by indus- trial resumption. ‘This should be averted, even Hy the extension of Government indorsement on railroad securities, whose sale would give revenues and restore the confidence | No. 82 East 64th Street, wll be mar- ried next Monday ‘afternoon at 4 o'clock in St, James's Church, 71st Street and Madison Avenue, by the Rev, Dr, Frank W. Crowder. The bride will be given in marriage ,by her father, Following the ceremony @ reception will be held at the home of the bride. ——o——. STEPHENS HEIRESS AND FIANCE SIGN MARRIAGE PAPERS (Continued From First Page.) Vonsiatsky, only to learn that he had given them the slip last night and hurried to New York unattended. : The Y. M. C. A. clerk said Mr. V-V had received an important telegram last night and that his secret depart- ure for New York quickly followed. There was no intimation as to the sender of the message or its purport. Since the romance of the young lo- comotive works employee and the {Ream heiress hecame known, report- ers had been Very attentive to him. They vied with one another tn their efforts to entertain him. They dined him and went about with him wher- ever he would go, and he seemed the personification of good nature and | guilelessness. One reporter had a room next to that of the prospective bridegroom to make sure that the “bunch” would get everything that took place in con- nection with the wedding. bonds for expenditure on equipment.| shortly afttr 9 o'clock last night The commission's efforts should be|Mr, V.-V, bade the crowd good- devoted, he said, to a policy of ‘‘main-| night and went to his room in the taining public control of monopoly, | y, M. C. A. ostensibly to retire. The and at the same time maintaining pri- boys were all to meet him bright and vate initlative.”’ early to-day as usual. The Philadel- i Ai oaOINIE phia man who had engaged a room CITY VOTES FUNDS next to that of Mr. V.-V. turned in early so he would feel like getting on TO TRANSIT BOARD | the job the frst thing this morning, Mr. V.-V. having told them he in- tended to take the 11 o'clock train The Board of Estimate to-day ap-|this morning for New York to join pripriated funds demanded by the’ his flancee and make final plans for Transit Commission to carry out its to-morrow's wedding. work. One appropriation was for| But a short time after Mr. V.-V. $100,000 to meet the cost of the work! had gone to his room last night he of lengthening the B. R. T. Station slipped out with his baggage and at Canal Street. Another was for) caught the 10 o'clock train for New $180,000 to meet the city’s share of York. He had decided he could make the expense in connection with the the final arrangements for his mar- Eastern Parkway line, and $475,000 riage without their help—or . knowl- was appropriated for new elevators at edye. the subway station at Broadway and —_———_— ES $12,389,410 ASKED TO RUN CONGRESS Requisitions referred back to the Transit Commission included those for) $10,238,500 “to meet additional re- quirements under ,contract No. 3,’ $13,631,000 for the same purpose under contract No. 4 and smalier sums included In other contracts. One of the Board of Estimate members said the requisitions were returned without action because the contracts they represented had “grown stale,"’ | Printing Office, Library and Botanic Garden Expenses Included in Fund. WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.—An ap- propriation of $12,389,410.95 to meet expenses during the coming fiscal year Congress, the Government Frinting Office, Congressional Library tuble and stands ready to approve a bill which provides the money, The White House is changing front. of 2 ni-land Bota Gardens, is’ recom- Whether this Is because the Chief Ex- [iran ie ai tacorted tenday hy ecutive thinks the economic condition | (he ty ee ee eee tions Come of America has been vastly improved | initio, “rie measure carries, $785,204 since he opposed the bonus last sum- |iess. than the amount appropriated for mer or because he is beginning to be- thaicuirenticnar Neve the country will lend its money | Or tne tclet | is for the again ¥6r a patriotic purpose, it 18 00] Sonate, of which $720,000 would be for carly to tell, ‘The fact is, all hope of | {Nils of which $720.00) ae tane seeing & Presidential veto 18 van |e ee oe een nea. ishing. recommended for the House $3,804,500 and $175,000 for mileage. ‘The bal- ance would go for cler khire, station- ery and other miscellaneous expenses, The Government Printing Office is apportioned $2,524,000, while the Li- brary of Congress would receive $952,- 000 und the Botanic Gardens $90,316, {The architect of the Capitol would be {Cupitol, Senate and House office | buildings and grounds. Two Complete cere LOSE APPEA /O MURDERERS L ILLUSRRATED | Sing Sing officials were notified y | Sections terday that the Court of Appeals has | Just affirmed the death sentences of | | len Kubal and James Kelley and \@ WITH TO-MORROW’S re n to die in March. J) Keon was convicted of staying wealthy ESCAPE OF BOODY IAL SMITHANDCITY ‘ 8 FRUSTRATED BY TRSTY IN TOMBS (Continued From First Page.) clothing, and the bundle was sent to Boday's cell. A few moments later Warden Han- ley was summoned to the cell tler on which Boddy was confined by # re- layed message which had been whis- Peredi to @ corridor guard by the man locked in Boddy's cell. The Warden went up and had the sender of the message brought out. “Look at these shoes Boddy just fave me,” the prisoner sald to the Warden. “They don't look right to me." The soles of both shoes had been pried apart at the toes. Ripping off the outer sole of one shoe, the Warden saw on the inside of the outer and inner sole the imprint of the saw blades which had been taken out. “Boddy was at once removed from his cell and searched. No saws were found on his pergon, He grinned nervously during the search. In the cell it was found that the spoon of his mess kit had been bent and scratched. It was apparently the tool with which he had pried open the soles. A minute search of the cell dis- closed two sawblades, tied together with a bit of string, slipped behind the pipe leading to the water tap. When Boddy was returned to the cell the guards were locked in wit> him and the guard in the corridor was doubled. He refused to say any- thing about the saws, except to growl his hatred for the prisoner who had betrayed his plot. When Boddy got hp this morning he was stripped in the presence of Warden Hanley and clothing other than that he had discarded was ou’, on him. Warden Hanley remained with the guard until Sheriff Nagle arrived to take charge of the pris- oner, Then the Warden went to Justice Wasservogel in the Criminul Branch of the Supreme Court and reported the discovery of the saws. Boddy was marched into the court room fifteen minutes later with a for- midable guard, Sheriff Nagle walked ahead, Deputy Sheriffs Burke and Levy were on either side of the murderer. Under Sheriff John J. Coggey and Deputy Sheriff Speil- man were at his heels. At the rail before the bench, Boddy found Frank Aranow of his counsel, to whom he handed a gold watch and chain, as‘- ing Mr. Aranow to see that it reachs1 Boddy's wife. Morris Koenig and Herman Hoft- man, assigned as trial attorneys for Boddy, made the usual motions which were denied. Assistant District At- torney George Brothers moved for sentence. “Have you anything to say why sentence should not be passed upon you?" asked Clerk William Penny, It Was the seventy-seventh time he‘had osked the question of a convicted murderer. Boddy looked at him with an indifferent grin, but made no reply. Justice Wasservogel, who has not before pronounced the death sentence, then read the execution order. He was obviously shaken, Sheriff Nagel snapped two pairs of handcuffs over the Negro's wrists und the procession formed and marched out again. Boddy'’s step was more jaunty than that of any of them. He was taken to the prisoner's room on the mezzanine floor, where his aged mother was waiting for him. She hung on hi shoulders for a moment sobbing. ‘Don't take on,"’ was all he said to her. When the sheriff's guard started with him across the width of the building for the Bridge of Sighs, the old woman followed a few steps be- hind calling between sobs, “Pray, Luther, pray! For my sake and yours Luther, pray to the Lord all the time If he heard her he made no sign. There were seven prisoners besides Boddy bound from the Tombs to Sing Sing on the same train. They were Placed together in the middie of the smoking car and a platoon of guards sat among them and in front and be- hind them. Two of the convicts were men who had served in the 72d Ar- tillery Brigade with Sheriff Nagle in France. Both spoke to him. One of them said to the Sheriff: “Can't you start another Major, and take us with you?’ “It may start before you think,” said the big Sheriff, with a meaning eye on Boddy. The former soldier laughed, nodding hopefully. CSBINING, N. Y., Feb, 3,—Luther Boddy, under death sentence for the killing of two New York policemen, reached Sing Sing from New York to-day with seven other prisoners and four deputy sheriffs. Boddy was se- curely handcuffed to one of the Deputy Sheriffs and was closely guarded by another. . Boddy was quiet and contained as he had his “pedigree taken in the prison office. “When do I eat?’ was the only evidence of interest he gave to the war, Sing Sing death house, twenty-three being in the newer section of the house. ——— One time no card player says, “I pass,” is when Ancre Cheese is on the table. It's always ace-high and makes everything in the pot still better. New, Coated, Sanitary Wrapper i dat Jamestown, N.Y. of killing his wile, t Hempstead, Ly I y Was cons \ \ Made by SHARPLESS, Phila. v0 performance. He was taken to the baths and later outfitted and taken to his cell in the old death house where two other prisoners un death sentence are lodged. Boddy makes the twenty-sixth man in the |* BOTHDRAWEIREOF STATENILANDERS Scored by ‘Speakers Who \ Want Tunnel Built From Island to Brooklyn, + Slowness on the part of city gn- gineers may result in the continued isolation of Staten Island, Borough President Cahill of Richmond said to- day when tho Board of Estimate topk up the Port Authority bi-State plan to improve New York Harbor. ‘The Brooklyn-Staten Island tunnel could have been started by this time ahd would notghave interfored with the other project, he said, and added: “If the Port Authority bill goes through both houses of the Legisla ture, we Staten Islanders will never get our tunnel. From the way things look, the Port Authority bill is a sure thing. If necessary, we should in- crease the engineers’ staff the Staten Island tunnel project People of that borough havo suffered long enough from isolation.”’ Frank Joyce, an cxaminer in the Department of Plant and Structures and President of whatjis known as on the Death Avenue Assotiation for a number of yoprs, caused a stir at the meeting by an attack on former Gov. Smith. “The of * sald Joyce, ‘are not the sort to be stam- peded in favor of the Port Authority plan on the strength of the inflated popularity of the former Governor, I urge the building of the Staten Island tunnel now. If yon don’t build it now the Port Authority will count Rich- mond out of its ple Joyce was later censured by his su- periors for his remarks Inasmuch as the Board of Esti- mate's committee on port development people this eity, already reported, there was a ition to file it. President Cahill fought against this plan and won. He wanted the report mer laid over’ for a month in order to have it on the calendar again wh returns from Palm Beach fight for the Staten Island-Lrooklyn and tunnel can be renewed. ee ees HELD UP FOR HIS $2,745 ON VISIT TO FIANCEE nman Robbed mton Yards, Paterson, N. Ju Tri of Savings in Bing! (Spectal to The Prening World.) BINGHAMTON, N-®. Feb. 3.—Grover Doyle, twenty-seveh, of No, 682 East 25th Street, paterson, was robbed of $2,745 in the railroad yards in this city last night. Doyle is an Erie train- man and after finishing his run from Paterson started to visit his finance, duled for the withdraw his savings from a Paterson bank. He found himself ly beside the railroad tracks, his money and watoh gone. 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