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gree cm two persons might be able to ald ma- terially in the solution of the cise. SEARCH FOR FORMER BUTLER KEPT UP. The developments, however, mot lead the detectives away ‘rom dbeir determination to locate Edward | F. Sands, said also to be Kdward Fite Strathmore, Taylor's butler, He loomed up as & more Important figure to-day after a well authentt- cated story was told of his having made threats to kill Taylor, one death threat having been sent within tho week. While the police have been un fable to find tim since Taylor time ago charged him with forgery and theft, reliable information is that he was in Low Angeles on Wednos @ay. Neva Gerber, film actress, said to- Gay that Taylor, .o whom she once was betrothed, had received letters before the war from bis mother, in London, and that she understood both nie mother and his daughter had been killed in a German air raid in London Her marriage to Taylor, she said, was abandoned because they “both be- Heved it unsuitable. That Taylor may have had a secret enemy is indicated by a story told by Theodore Kosloff, dancer, He said former sume will | with opium and morphine, where the drugs are wheeled in on tea carts. “It is not odd," they say. “He ¥as looking for color.” He was al- ays seeking the bizarre, the unbe- Nevable, the unusual All phases of life interested him, All types of }men and wom He but en fascimated him. did not indulge in dope himwelf, wanted to see what sort of jand women did indulge, and he want- Jeu to see how it acted, and how they | rea ted to it,” | The committee of investigation or- ganized by the directing heads of the combined motion picture corporations ald the police In running down the murderer is headed by Major Maurice ‘amphell. a personal friend of the siain man and husband of Henrtetta Most of the members of | s committee are former army off- | sand personal friencs of Taylor. made one non the held some Crossman. eturesque It will be next week, after his daughter, aylor, has been jocated » Club, composed of vet f the British armies, will tuke | tan Paylor was in the Canadian semy afd was a Captain when he re. tired, All the motion picture stars in| ihe West will attend. i} Meantime the entire motion pteture | | profession is arranging a funeral that! will be long membered, The Over- seas Clr compc of veterans of |the British armies, will take part. |Taylor was in the Canadian army ind was a Captain when he retired. | At the motion picture stars in the SCENE HSSTING PAULA z ‘the about two weeks ago he was “on lo- | West will attend cation” with Taylor in the country. In the procession will be an eacort They were walking together when |of Canadian officers, a firing squad of © men, and a Scot- y the funeral dirge on ‘aylor is to have a British y burial, according to present suddenly from behind a clump of | Canadian ex-s bushes a man sprang toward Taylor, | {ish band to pl They faced each other for a moment 1 and then the stranger walked away. Taylor offered no explanation of the strange occurrence. inilit plans. The value of ‘Taylor's estate is not The belief that Taylor's daughter | estimated, but It 1s known to exceed is living in Mamaroneck 1s based on| $50,000, according to the Public Ad- ® letter found in his safe deposit box | ministrator from her, postmarked Mamaroneck.| That Sands was not the real name The Public Administrator said he|of Taylor's former butler ts believed had telegraphed her, and received a|/by A. A. Tomiinson, an accountant, reply, asking him not to disclose her| who said he recognized Sands from a exact whereabouts, picture as a man named Strathmore. Unless some sudden development| “He was assigned to Columbus, 0. clears up the ‘nystery, the investiga-| during the war, id Tomlinson, “I tion will go deeply ‘nto the life of | was head of the finance department, the moving picture colonies, A new|and as Strathmore had been a chief feature 1s a mystic love cult, Into the | petty officer in the navy I asked that sirange life of the leaders of which|he be transferred to my department. Taylor may have dipped in his search| This was done, He is wanted for for “local color.” The weird love said |desertion. 1 met him in Los Angeles fo be sponsored by the devotees may |J 4. 1920, and notified the polic have inspired some fanatic to kill| but he escaped. Strathmore gave mea Taylor, some of the detectives beileve, | number of books, In one | made out Taylor, as a “man of mystery,’ was|the name ‘Sands, although an effort fond of searching into unfrequented| had been made to erase it. In his places and among unusual people for| handwriting js the entry: 'C. O. Perry materia! that would aid him In his| i. Le Berthor », 982 f2d Street, professional work, This newly dis-| Brooklyn, N. ¥ covered fact has made it more diffi. | —- cult for the police to solve the mul-| Mrs, C. P. Le Berthon, No. 982 der. 52d Street, Brooklyn, told an Evening All Hollywood is Seing raked; all! World reporter this morhing that her the queer meeting places of the movie! son, Philip Perry Le ‘Rerthon, nine- actors and actresses, directors and|teen years old, had dé In the navy assistant directors, camera men and) nearly four years atd will soon be | extras—restaurants, beauty parlors.|qdjschareed.: He left Seton: Hal! Coi- studios, dens where opiur: and mari-|joge suddenly, she said, and enlisted huana and Sher strange drugs are|in (he navy, His letters two ye common, des where men and women | qe, indicated that he had visited dress in silk kimonos and sit tn otf-| Angeles at that time, but not sin cles and drink odd drinks—are betng | 4, far as his mother knows. She said visited. neither she nor her husband, a lamp REVELATIONS manufacturer, had heard of Tomlin- MAY SHOCK WORLD OF MOVIE FANS. son, Sands or Strathmore. | Every one who has come into con-| “Dapper Dan" Collins, alleged mas- | tact with the slain director, no matter | ter blackmailer, is ‘wanted for ques- | how remotely, is being questioned Things that may shock the world of moving picture fans are destined to come out of the mystery, it is said tioning’ in connection with the mur der of Taylor, according to private nivestigutors of the murder. ‘Dap- per Dan" is now at large, Detectives Popular stars, male and female, may | said, with a price of $5,000 on his be scorched and smirched before the| head following the Reid shooting in investigation is over, and all the sins|the Bronx. ‘He fled to Denver, from| of the cinema colony will be made} Denver to known. alt Li “Dope" fiends will figure in| to Los Angeles. H tale before it is all told, and}; trap set for him here when a mo sirange effeminate men and peculiarly | tion picture actress, whom it was masculine women. | alleged he attempting to use as a For the inquest to-day subpoenaes| tool in another blackmail project, in- have been served on more than halt|formed on him. Detectives are at- @ score of film stars and men promj-| tempting to establish whether or not nent in the motion picture industry. | this blackmail scheme involved Tay- Among those who will testify will| jor shrouded past be Mary Miles Minter, Douglas Mac- Acquaintances of ‘Dapper Dan" Lean, Mabel Normand, Edna Pur-|told investigators, according to the viance, Charles Eyton, Mrs. Douglas|jatter, that Collins had boasted his MacLean, Mrs. Julia Crawford Ive8|intention of ‘finishing this deal sin- and Miss Claire Windsor, gle-handed since his come-on girl had The Inquest will be conducted by| crossed him up.” Coroner Nance. > SLAIN DIRECTOR id from there recently escaped One important fact was brought out LIVED HERE; WED Taylor had in his possession in gold and currency $2,000. He had intended ‘Wednesday and deposited the money.| motion picture director who was slain It 1s believed that tf robbery wasli, tos Anweles Wednesday night, opening up theortes of possible rob- bery a8 a motive, It was known to several friends tbat on Wednesday A FLORODORA GIRL putting thin money in the bank the} 5 i following day, but for some unknown| CHICAGO, Feb.” 4.—Chapters in reason he visited the bank late|the life of William Desmond Taylor, 4 Pipers ah Pies Md were descrihed here to-day by friends noise might have aroused some per-|Wwho said they knew him well sons in the neighborhood and fled] Prior to 1908, as William Deane- without attempting to stea! anything.|-pannor, an art connoisseur, Taylor Taylor was a man who never would é was manager for a prominent New have obeyed an order to “Put up your hands,” his friends say Mr. Taylor and a prominent mov- ing picture star called at the home of Miss Claire Windsor's mother, Mrs G. EB. Cronk, a week ago Wednesday York firm of art and antique furnt- ture dealers, and had a wide circle of friends, it was said. In 1901, he sécretly married Miss night and asked to take Claire to a| Bthel May Harrison, a member of the party at the Ambassador Hotel. | original Morodora Company, and they Claire went, had a child, Ethet, now fourtean years It is declared that Taylor some few] old, according to Chicago friends, In @ays later took Miss Windsor to an-|1908 he suddonly disappeared in other party, and that nothing was|mystorious fashion and his wife was heard of her again until yesterday | unable to give any clue to his where- Morning, some hours after Taylor was] abouts or to assign any reason for found dead in his apartment Several years later she An investigation was iso put un- ivore and since has der way to determine whether or nc nent New York mers the mysterious telephone calls fre- 4 source quently received by Taylor might lea to the identity of the murderer. ‘The | wnner sur teqmaintances: by director, his friends say, a told of in Lox Angee the calls in the night, When he ao have said he hud swered there was no answer, it is night in lower sald ork, and talven Taylor liked to talk about books and bound round plays, und other people, about psy he reached « chology, and motives and the human northwest coast plement. about Freud and Nietzsche, went to work for and the future of the photoplay wotal Tailroad and His #partinent was luxuriously fur- ht employment in a nished, und the pictures of beautiful] mine after which he went to Los An- women were everywhere. It \/as re-| re Tanner, however, is said to erked, however, that Miss Nor-| have shown a reluctance in discuss- mand’s picture hung above his desk Of the jewelry, perhaps the chain Siamond ring, valued at $2,600, is tne] return to hi best known to his friends. There was| He never berhaps $20,000 worth of jewels in the| Los Angel apartment when Taylor was killed In 1910 he left Tos Angeles His iriends describe him as witty, | was assumed he was going te the girls say he loved to tease them. | ( mid work Recently, say his friends, he had/ He lad not D successful in tt heen visiting the queer places in Los} former city, | urned to Los An ne portion id not of his adventures n why he failed to family and friends, was Known us Tanner in and it Numbia tore rail British geles to New York, shows the room jam D, Taylor was shot to death night. This photograph, sent by telegraph from Los An- ‘The director was seated at the writing desk at the window in the chair shown at the side. Police theory is 1 in which Whll- on Wednesday her car. The position with a motion picture concern at Long Beach To friends he explained that he had played in theatrical stock companies during his absence from Los Angeles and this stage experience, they be lieve, was the foundation of his suc | cess in the motion pieture field For a year or more he was con- nected with the Balboa Film Com pany In Long Beach and advanced to @ directorship in important companies | in Hollywood. His life since then, | with his advancement to the forefront | as a director, is a matter of screen| history. Strathmore Deserted Army COLUMBUS, 0., sob, 4.—Fdward | F. Strathmore deserted from the United States Army here in July 1919, according to records at Colum- bus barracks, Stratmore was a clerk in the Paymaster’s ~epartment. and disappeared, according to army of- ficers, following an attempt to cash| an alleged forged check for $450. Re- quest for finger print records of Strathmore was received here to-day from Arnold A. Toralinson of Los Angeles, former Lieutenant and Pay- master under whom Strathmore served at Columbus barracks. The record, however, had been forwarded to the War Department at Washing- ton SOVIETS TO ABOLISH SECRET SERVICE The Cheka, a Wholesale Execu- tioner During the “Red Ter nm 1919. | ror,” to Be Ended. MOSCOW, Feb, 4.—The Extraor dinary Commission for Combating! Counter-Revolution—the “Tehe-Ka,” or Cheka—will be abolished shortly The Cheka functioned as the So-| viet Secret Service. It was organ-| ized shortly after the seizure of th Government by the 1917, and aroused world-wide atten tion by its wholesale executio ing the “Red Terror." For some time Lenin has declared the Cheka has outlived its useful- ness. The Cheka’s aceording to news despatches, has been bloody, It is held responsible for the death of Geand Duke Nicholas and numerous others of the old aristoer pig Rabie Lalas ARRESTED TRYING TO CASH MONEY ORDER Rolsheviki in| history, Post Office Loot, U. Ss. Inapectors Allege. Frank Gray, who sald he lived in the Statler Hotel, Buffalo, to-day before Federal Commissloner Hitchcock charged with stolen money orders, Gray, who hus erved five years In the Atlanta tentlary for blowing office safe, Policeman Dw celal district squad Manager F nk = =W Couch & Fitzgerald, No, 177 Br became suspiclous when a $71 4 $18 trunk an Dwyer arrose ook ts tors ratd they we a safe robbery ta a Part of was arraigned possessing Pent- st was arr nd of wlway mone order was te nt for a police In whose have been found Post office ins part of the loot c Detroit post office ee | CHICAGO GRAND JURY ASKS Fon | L WINES AND BEER LAWS, CHICAGO, F permitting (he manufacture and lnws and tig sale of beer snioons, was 6 ary Cook Co final re Justice ma 4 ors declared the rv prompted hy the tare crimes which were ex and other illicit wh ~ HANGS HIMst Walter J. Ryan Street, Manhatta Raymond Street found dead tn ht after & o'rlock tht He was hansing | without | Hi by the Janu | mendation was | Humber Of maj» sed by i a IWCREE, | No. 143 West 142d] a prisoner in the] Brooklyn, was shortly | ttached ree. HH ‘ hou Angeles, where guest? are sermed' geles aboud 1913 and soon obtained « d } woquilled o \ cide recently, jinto ARMS CINFERENCE CONCLUDES ACTUAL WORK ON TREATS (Continued From First Page.) | ment by Japan to hand back Shan- tung to China—a conclusion of a sub- ject that almost wrecked the Peace Conference of Versailles. Formal announcement of a declara tion of Japan's famous Twenty-one Demands on China and formal an- nouncement of Japan's abandonment of the much-attacked ‘Group Five."* A provision to the Nayal Limitation ‘Treaty that none of the powers pledged may sell any of their war- ships between now and the time they are scrapped. A resolution to improve the protec- tion of the Chinese Eastern Railway. While to-day's work virtually com- pleted the work of the Conference, it will formally be closed Monday with an address by President Harding. All delegates are making arrangements to urn to their homes immediately afterward, iene JAPAN EXCLUDED IN “PROTECTION” CLAUSE OF TREATY Four Power Pacific Agreement Amc ided to Leave Out Homeland. IINGTON, Feb. 4.—The sup- plemental Four-Power Pacific Treaty to exclude the homeland of Japaa fiom the protective features of the criginal pact, provides: “The term ‘insular possessions and insular dominions’ used in the afore- sald treatys hall, in its application to Japan, include only Karafuto (or tne southern portion of the Island cf Sakhalin,) Formosa, and the Pes- cadores and the islands under the mandate of Japan. emer PRINCIPAL POINTS IN CHINESE GENERAL AND TARIFF PACTS Equal Opportunity for All Is Pro- vided in Agreements Just Approved. WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.—The chief points of the Chinese General Treaty approved by, the Arms Conference to- day are: ‘The powers agree to respect the sovereignty, independence and terri- torial and administrative integrity of China; to give China a free opportu- nity to develop and maintain a stable Government and to use their influence for effectually establishing and maine taining the principle of equal oppor- tunity for commerce and industry throughout China, ‘The Powers agree also not to enter any treaty, agreement, arrange- ment or understanding with any power or powers which would infringe or impair the principles first stated. The powers agree to respect the neutrality of Chinese territory in any war pot engaged in by China. China agrees that on her railways he will not exercise or permit unfair discrimination of any kind. The powers assume @ corresponding obit- sation on railways over which they have any control WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 (Associated Press).—Here follows @ summary of the new treaty respecting the Chin- tariff announced to-day at the Arms Conference: Article I. provides for a Revis- on Commission to meet at Shanghat immediately and to revise the Chin- |ese import tariff on @ basis of 6 per cent, effective. Article II. provides for a “special conference” of the signatory powers to meet In China within three months to revise existing treaties to permit nposition of @ surtax. hy Article III, the spectal ce also would slitton of the in’ tax Wonder Article IV, another revision confer- take steps toward international Chinese that the assassin was hidden behind the piano, where he could not be seen by Taylor on the latter's return from escorting Miss Normand to of import duties is authorized as soon as the first revision fs completed, and periodical revisions would take place every four years. Article V. pledges the powers to “effective equality of treatment and opportunity” in all that pertains te the Chinese tariffs. Under Article VI. the ‘principle of uniformftty’’ on land and maritime frontiers is agreed to. Article VII. fixes two and one-half uer cent. ad valorem as the charge for ‘‘transit passes."’ —p_—— WOULD DROP 1,000 U. S. ARMY OFFICERS Gen, Pershing Has Bill Introduced in Congress to Authorize Cuts. WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.—A reduc- tion of officers in the American Army to 12,234 is proposed in a bill intro- duced by Senator Wadsworth of New York. The measure was pre- pured by Gen. Pershing, Chief of Stat The National Defense Act provides fo: 17,000 officers, but this number never has been appointed. The reduc- tion Is intended to cover a period of two years, and the immediate elim. inations are not expected to number more than 1,000, A “plucking board’ consisting of five general officers would weed out the inefficient officers under the terms of the bill, This means such an ex- hibition of logrolling and exertion of influence as has not been seen in re- cent years. ———— . STRIKE IN GERMANY EXTENDS ITS SCOPE Postal and Telegraph Men and Municipal Workers Expected to Quit To-Day. BERLIN, Feb. 4 (Associated Press). —An extension of the railway strike to take in the men employed in the repair shops now brings the number of strikers to approximately 60,000 In Berlin and 200,000 throughout the country. Mediation by the Genera) Manufacturers Union is contem- plated. The union ts holding confer- ences with prominent industrial mag- nates and with Chancellor Wirth, but the result of these discussions has not been made known. ‘There ts considerable unrest among the Berlin postal and telegraph work- ers and it is considered a strike is not impossible. Berlin's gas, electric and water sup- ply would be imperilied by a strike of munictpal workers, and tramway ser- vice would be crippled. a _—_—_—_—S— DUKE OF LEINSTER DIES; PREMIER IRISH PEER 1887 and Is Succeeded by Lora Edward Fitsgerald. EDINBURGH, Feb. 4.—Announce- ment was made to-day of the death of the Duke of Leinster (Maurice Fitzgerald), sixth of his line, and premier peer of Ireland, He was born in 1887 and succeeded to the title in 1893. The Duke was unmarried and the heir is his brother, Lord Edward Fitzgerald, The elder brother of tu Duke, Lord Desmond Fitzgerald, a major in the Irish Guards, was killed in action during the war, Bern eee ‘TRIPS THREE WAYS TO DIE—BUT HE'S ALIVE, Frank Barrel, No. 7 Debevoise Place, Brooklyn, @ Negro, cut his wrist with a rasor this morning, shot himself in the head with @ .22-calbbre revolver, then lay on the floor and turned on the gas. Neighbors smelled the gas nd Barro! was taken to the Curmber- land Street Hospital, where he is re- covering. ee DEAD-MAY HAVE BEEN DUE TO WOOD ALCOHOL, Ambulance Surgeon Feegan of Flower Hospital was called to the home of Stanislaus Nicacowsky, No. 555 West 48th Strect, on his wife's report that he had been taken suddenly ill at 8 o'clock to-day. Nicacowsky was dead whon the surgeon arrived. A bottle which had contained wood alcohol, the surgeon said, lay beside him, __THE EVENING WORLD, BATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1923, Taylor’s Room in Los Angeles Apartment ; Desk at Which He Was Writing When Slain HEIRESS TO REAM MILLIONS WEDS QUIETLY AHEAD OF TIME Mother and Brother of Bride} GENERAL BORDEN Among Forty Guests at} RESIGNS COMMAND Church as Couple Steal March on Curious Crowds| fective Only if Jersey Senate Who Awaited the Cere-| . Adioums Without Passing moti Powell Bill, ys Brig. Gen, Howard 8. Borden, Commander of the 67th Their wedding ceremony performed Brigade, in a let TOEABtey) @ day, in advance of the announced a to-day resigned his commission in time, Mrs. Marion B. Ream Stephens! tne National Guard, the resignation Vonstastskoy - Vonsiatsky and eo to be effective only if the Legislature young Russian husband are to-day 0D) gajourns without pussing the Powell thelr honeymoon in Atlantic City.| pin which provides for the dishand- They were married at 8.16 o'clock last| ment of the brigade. aight in the Russian Greek Catholic} ne advocates af the Powell Bill Cathedral, 97th Street, between Fifth! nave admitted that the principal ob- and Madison Avenues, in comparative] joct is to get Borden out of the Na- secret. There were only ‘forty, o9-l tional Guatd. Others have declared Dectally invited guests present, among] their intentions to get rid of the pres- them the bride's mother, Mrs. Nor-| ont 118th Infantry, and in particular man B. Ream, widow of the Chicago} thoge officers of it who did not serve millionaire, and the bride's brother. |in the army during the World War. So secretly were the plans for the] The Assembly has passed the wedding carried out that the invited/ measure, and if the Senate adopts It guests, arriving in motor cars, parked | and the Governor signs it Gen. Bor- the vehicles at least half a block from | den will stay tn the guard on the in- the Cathedral and then walked to the| @ctive list and the fight will be trans- door. The latter was kept locked until @ summons by kn brought some one to open it. This person, knowing all the intended guests, Inspected those requesting ad- mittance and, upon recognizing them, let them in and immediately afterward locked the door. After the ceremony the bridegroom was asked by Dean Turkevitch whether he intended to come back to the parish. “I hope so, in the near future,” was the reply. It had been reported yesterday morning that the engaged couple planned to outwit everyone save their closest friends by an early wedding, put the Rev. L. J. Turkevitch, Dean of the Cathedral, who eventually mar- ried them, said at that time that he knew of no change in the original intent to have the wedding this after- noon, However, in the rectory of the Cathedral to-day this notice, signed by the Dean, was fed: “In order to avoid publicity, the wedding of Mrs. M. B. R. Stephens and Mr. Vonsiatskoy-Vonsiatsky took Place Friday evening (Feb. 3) at 8.15 o'clock instead of Saturday as in- tended.’” The bridal couple did visit the Cathedral yesterday and the Dean said it was for the purpose of sign- img certain papers required by the church before the ceremony. The Deacon of the Cathedral, N. Andronoff, assisted the Dean in con- ducting the marriage ceremony. Mrs. Stephens wore a white bridal gown but no veil. The groom was in the uniform of a captain in the Russian army. The ring used in the cere- mony was of gold Instead of the now customary ring of platinum. The service lasted half an hour and was partly in Russian, partly in English. A choir of twenty-five rendered the mysical part of the service, | The witnesses to the signing of the marriage register were Paul Leyosac and Lawton Campbell. NEW LONDON, Feb. 4.—Mrs.| Marion B. Ream Stephens, reported married in New York unexpectedly last night, is not at her villa inj) Thompson, Conn., and caretakers said this morning the couple was not ex- pected there, as the residence is closed for the winter, ES ADMINISTRATORS NAMED FOR HANNA’S DAUGHTER Girl's Ketate Has Increased to More Than §150,000. Mark A. Hanna of Watertown, N. Y., and Ruth McCormack Hanna of Chicago to-day were named by Surro- gate Cohalan to administer the prop- erty of Elizabeth Gordon Hanna of No, 14 East 60th Street. The girl was born in 1901 and is the daughter of the late Dan Hanna. Her original estate wae $32,500, but, through the death of her mother, Elizabeth Gordon Pelton, divorced wife of Dan Hanna, she inherited household effects valued at $12,600, Jewelry worth $72,685, ailverware worth $2,457 and furs worth $82,679, ———_—_—_ DIVERS FIND BREAK IN S. 1. WATER MAIN ®-Foet Will Have to Remove Length te Repair It. Divers repairing the leak In the 36- inch main running under the Upper Bay from Brook! and supplying Staten ferred to Washington, due to « pro- vision in the National Defense Act that no National Guard organization whose members have received Federal pay can be disbanded without the con- sent of the President. —— KENYON TO DELAY RESIGNING SEAT Will Remain Senator Until a Constituutional Question si Settled. DES MOINES, Feb. 4 (Associated Press).—Gov. N. E. Kendall received a telegram from W. S. Kenyon to- day stating that he will not resign his seat in the United States Senate to accept the 8th District Judgeship until the constitutional question raised has been settled. gabriela ARBUCKLE TRIAL TO BE SET MONDAY For Third Time Comedian Will Face Jury on Charge of Manslaughter. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 4.—The! date of Roscoe C. (‘Fatty’) Ar- buckle's third trial on a manslaughter charge arising from the death of Vir- ginia Rappe will be set by Superior judge Harold Louderback here next Monday morning. ‘The comedian’s second trial ended yesterday, like the| first, in a jury disagreement. The jury in Arbuckie's first trial stood 10 to 2 for acquittal and the jury discharged yesterday stood 10 to 2 for conviction, Miss Rappe died several days after 4 party in the Arbuckle suite at the Hotel St. Francis here last Labor Day. The prosecution ut both trials con- tended that she died of injuries in-| flicted by the comedian. Se See BODDY IN DEATH HOUSE | 30 DAYS AFTER CRIME| Saws Smuggled-to Him tn Tom! but Escape Plot Fatle. Luther Boddy, who shot and killed Detectives Buckley and Miller in Har- Jem Jan. 6, escaped, was captured a few days later, placed on trial Jan, 23 and conyicted Jan, 27, is In the death house at Sing Sing to-day awaitng execution in the week beginning March 13. ‘When he was sentenced yesterday it became known that two saws had been smuggled into the Tombs to him Thurs- day in a pair of shoes brought by a woman who said she was his sister. A fellow prisoner sent word to the War- den, who found the saws. Twenty min- utes after being eentenced he was on his way to Sing Sing. Hila only comment on reaching the prison was: ‘I feel easier, I'm glad to be here." After the usual preliminaries he asked: ‘When do I eat?" Half an hour after his arrival he was in the death house, ——_>___ 110 KILLED AS TRAIN 1S HIT BY AVALANCHE Victims in Japan Were Clearing Snow From Tracks, TOKIO, Feb. 4 (Associated Press). —One hundred and ten persons were killed and @ number injured when a railway train was buried by an Island with Catskill water, reported to- day that It may be necessary to remove ‘a 9-foot length of the pipe, provided the break off the foot of Arietta Street, Tompkinsville, 1s the only one, How jong this require could not be estimated. There {s a dredge digging for the new docks at this point, and it ts belleved that ft may have struck the pipe accl- dentally and broken it. —_————— GRIFFITH URGES VOTE TO END IRISH DISPUTE DUBLIN, Fed. 4. (Associated Press), ~The reassembling of the Deil Bireann, which had beon eet for Fob. 14, has been postponed until Feb. 34, it was an- nounced to-day. Arthur Grimth, President of the Dail, in an interview to-dey fully upheld the attitude of Michael Collins, head of the Provisional Government, in bis recent mier Craig of Ulater, he said, stands for of those sections in- rr Ulster’s conference with | Seuthorn Irelant aetf-dot votved in the dispute o' boun ——_————_—— HORSH BURNED IN GARAGE #TRE Fire that destroyed a garage at Nos, 12-14 North Railroad Avenue, Corona, Inet night did $5,000 damage. A touring car, and a horse stabled in the rear were burned. Michael Ferzolli, a chanf- feur, was burned about the head and face and taken to the Flushing Hos- Dital The place was ow by Alfred Kong De avalanche at Itoigawa Station, ac- cording to a despatch from Nagano to-day. The victtms were for the most part farmers, workmen and railway em- ployees who were engaged in clear- ing snow from the railway tracks. Medical reliof has been despatched to the scene, _——_—— TWO POLZCH SQUADS COMBINED. The bomb Squad of the Police De- partment, under command of Q.jeut James J. Gegan, and the Italian Squad, headed by Detective Michael Fiaschetti, were to-day combined under the com- mand of Lieut. Gegan, by order of Com- missioner Enright. The Bomb Squad numbers ten experienced men, and there are twelve Italian-speaking policemen in the other squad, ? A ee SOARLET FEVER OUTBRHAK IN FLUSHING. Health Commissioner Royal ‘8S. Cope- land announced to-day that on account of the prevalence of scarlet faver in Flushing, L. I, he had directed that eight additional physicians and ten additional nurses should be temporarily assigned to that township to co-operate with the regular force already assigned for this purpose. — GAS ®ROM HEATER KILLS AGED MAN. Gas escaping from a heater in his room killed Benjamin Bailey, seventy seven, who lived on the second floor of No, 235 East 26th Street, last night. The ‘paiiee think he scciduntally AL THOMAS PLACE AT HEAD OF STAT JQUOR SPECT Former Detective Will Hai Charge of All Withdrawals, Day Announces, State Prohibition Director Day nounced to-day the appointment Al Thomas, now a Prohibition e1 forcement officer, to be chief of th inspection division, where he will hay from fifteen to twenty men under Thomas, who was a detective Police Headquarters and was assign to the District Attorney's office, ured after twenty-five years’ se! recently. During the war he had leave of absence and was conreeti with the plant protection section Military Intelligence. He was charge of the Boston branch. It his duty to protect plants makin munitions and equipment in the Ne} England division. In his new position Thomas have charge of all withdrawal perm! of alcohol and whiskey from bond4 warehouses. In January only 11,01 gallons were withdrawn. Rome month last year the withdrawals amount: to from 250,000 to 300,000 gallo: Director Day expects about 60 cent. of the permits will be cut off. apis WHITMAN TO INQUIRE INTO MRS. BROOKS'S CAS Named Deputy Attorney Gem at Request of Prosecutor. Former Gov, Whitman has been ay pointed a special Deputy Attorney Gen- eral to Investigate the circumstances of the release of Mrs, Lucille BE, Brooks from prosecution in connection with tho murder of Police Lieut. Floyd Horton. He was appointed at the request of District Attorney Banton because Mr, Banton had formerly appeared as couns sel for Mrs, Brooks and was thus dis- qualified to act as prosecutor in a case involving her, She was released afte testifying before the Grand Jury, hav- ing refused to waive immunit, % DODGES TROLLEY, BUS KELI HIM. William Tobin, twenty-two, a clerk who lived at No. 124 Montgomery Ave nue, Tompkinsville, S. 1, died th morning at Staten Island Hospital « recelved at midnight when h was run over uy & ous operated by th Yew York City Farm Culony, of Ne} ringfle!d. Tobin, in avolding a trolle car in crossing the Richmond Turnpike Tompkinsville, was struck by the bu! ‘There were only two persons in_ th vehicle, the driver and another. took him to the hospital, where he di without recovering consciousness, Delicious AnyWay Try Ferris Ham any way— baked, roasted or boiled whole, fried, or broiled in thin slices—by itself or with other foods, You will dis cover something new in the deep richness of the old- fashioned Ferris flavor. Fa- mous for sixty years. F. A. Ferris & Co., Inc. , NewYork: FERRIS HAMS 8 BACON Alittle er Ce~, SOCIETY OF TAMMANY COLUMBIAN ORDER. ROTHER, you are respectfully tot tovacend a 'rapulat meeting of the. 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