The evening world. Newspaper, February 22, 1922, Page 1

St tesverouwre “{F IT HAPPENS IN NEW YORK VOL. LXII. NO. 21,979—DAILY. Copyright AS stad York Rata Mf ‘Pree To-Morrows Weather—RAIN, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, FE BRUARY 22, : 1922, as Second-Class Matter Entered Pout Office, New Yerk, N. ¥- CONFESSES MRS, ROBERTSON WAS TO PAY HIM 1000 FR $700 EWELRY “ROBBER” ¢ Deal, N. J., Woman, Who Had $50,000 Insurance on Gems, Accused of Conspiracy. YOUTH ALSO ARRESTED. “Revolver” He Used in “Hold-| Up” Was Leather Case of a Tobacco Pipe. John Bailey, a youth of good fam- fly, was arrested by, the police of Deal, N. J., to-day, charged with having boen hired by Mrs. Sarah H. Robertson to enact the part of the owe fobber’’ in the spectacular in- vasion of her dining room last Saturday night, plunfecing her, guests at the point of a revolver and faking a bag which was said by her te contain $73,000 worth of jewelry on whieh she carried $50,000 insurance. The police assert they have a full confession from Bailey. Mrs. Robertson was arrested at oon at her cottage on a warrant ts- sued by Judge Borden, charging con- splracy. She was taken to Police Headquarters sullenly indignant and refusing to make any statement in answer to “the insulting insinua- tions’ of the detectives. H.C, Taber of Belmore, a con- tractor for the awnings for Mrs, Robertson's cottages, who was pres- ent at the ‘robbery’ and Samuel Gasn, a Cong Branch telegraph op- ¢rator, named by Ba‘vy as the go- between. who engaged him to play the part, had been taken into custody by the police during the night as mate- rial witnesses. HOW THE POLICE WERE PUT ON THE TRAIL. David S. Meyer, a real estate op- erator who was present at the ‘‘rob- bery’’ party with his youthful nephew, E. M, Lazarus, and who lost $50 dur- img the performance, put the police on the trail of Taber. Mr. Meyer had been: made suspicious because no pre- , tence had been made of robbing Taber id by learning when he ran ‘o his automobile to pursue the supposed thief that his own automobile had been disabled while that of Taber had not been molested. He was also im- pressed by Mrs. Robertson's inability to find her revolver at first, and the discovery that when found it had ap- parently, been put out of order delib- erately. M. Meyer also remembered he had at first declined Mrs. Robertson's in- vitation to dinner, and only accepted after she had telephoned him impor- tunately three times. Investigators for Lloyds, with whom the jewelry was insured, have been busy in New York, at Long Branch and Deal since Saturday. Robert Maltbie, the agent who wrote the #Molicy, spent yesterday in Dea) with Mrs. Robertson and two trained crim- inal investigators. According to the story told to the Police Saturday evening and partly corroborated by her dinner guests and Miss Olive Robertson, her niece, Mrs. Robertwon was culled to the door from the dinner table and was confronted by @ man masked with a handkerchic? who, pointing a revolver at her, foreed her to walk buck to the dining room. ‘The intruder had Uned all five per-. gens against the wall and had caused (Continued on Seventh Page.) WOMAN ACCUSED OF FRAMING $50,000 HOLD UP IN HOME MRS SARAH J ROBERTSON MRS. STILLMAN'S FATHER FOUND DEAD IN HIS BED Was Visiting in Virginia— Heart Trouble Given as Cause. RICHMOND, Va., Feb. 22.— Jumes Brown Potter of New York, Newport and Tuxedo Park, was found dead in his bed here to-day in the home of Col. W. Frank, Powers, whom he was visiting. Potter was the father of Mrs. James A. Stillman. Heart disease was given as the cause of death. The body will be taken to New York to-night for burial. James Brown Potter, who in hid early years in this city was a coffee broker at No. 68 Wall Street, was the son of Howard Potter, a banker and brother of the late Bishop Henry C. Potter, one of the leaders of the Episcopal clergy in this country. His family was distinguished in business and profession and in the social life of New York. Mrs. James A. Stillman, or, as she has most recently been known, Mrs. Anne Urquhart Potter, is a daughter of Mr. Potter and it was to give her courage and aid in the divorce suit which Mr. Stillman brought that her father came here last summer. Ho sought in every way to bring about a termination of the troubles in the (Continued on Second Page.) ‘No. 1—Self © : Sears FIVE KEYS TO WOMAN’S HAPPINESS Adornment An Interview With NEYSA McMEIN ,ON' THE MAGAZINE PAGE—TO-DAY ee IDHURT AS BUS TURNS OVER I TOLLEY CRA Women and Girls on Way Home From Social Club Pinned in Wreck.” MIXED ON _ SIGNALS. Bus Hit Jamaica Car, Knock- ing It Several Feet Off Track. A motor bus, filled with a happy crowd of persons returning from a card party, collided with a New York and Queens Railway trolley at Flush- ing Avenue and Grove Street, Jamai- ca, shortly before midnight and turned over, injuring one man, eight women and a girl. In St. Mary's Hospital, Jemaica, are these viclims, al! from Jamaica: Mary Zacker, thirty-one years old, of No. 450 Sout , Stroetp wontusions both legs. 4 Mary Battersian, thitty-Meven, No, 143% Union’ Hall Street, lagerations. of the scalp. . Katie Brace, forty-two, of No. 167 Union Hall Street, bruises, both eyes and face. Tessie Watt, forty-two, of No. 41 Campion Avenue, shock. Frances Herwing, fifteen, of No. 5025 Beaufort Avenue, lacerations of the scalp. Hattie Schroeder, forty-five, of No, 10 Centre Street, lacerations of the left ear. Irene Flynn, thirty-three, of No, 8827 Campion Street, lacerations of the scalp. In Jamaica Hospital: Joseph De Rosa, thirty-two, No. 192 Monroe Street, Manhattan, owner and chauffeur of the bus, bruises and shock. ‘Those who were attended and went home are: Mary Carrillion, fifty-cight, No. 9309 114th Street, Richmond Hill. Mary Clark, thirty-one, No. 36 189th Street, Jamaica. ‘The injured, except the chauffeur, belong to a society tha: meets weekly to play cards at various homes, and De Rosa's two-ton bus is engaged by contract to carry, them home every Tuesday night. He was driving south in Flushing Avenue when the trolley bound from the Queensboro Bridge to Jamaica ap- proached in Grove Street. Only one passenger, a man, was in the trolley car. It was in the care of Michael Eustace, No. 160 12th Street, Long Island City, motorman, and Freeman Herbert, No. 13 Second Street, Wood- side. No one on the trolley was hurt. The accident seems to have resulted from a misunderstanding of signals, The bus crashed into the front end of the trolley, breaking most of the windows and knocking It several feet off the track. The right side of the bus was ripped off and the impact turned it over. Policemen Martin Gill and George Peters of the Jamaica Station found all of the injured pinned under the wreckage of the bus, and with the help of citizens lifted the debris until all were free. They were attended by ambulance surgeons from St. Mary's and Jamaica Hospitals, A wrecking crew had to be summoned to get the trolley back on the track. ated A 2 ARBUCKLE TRIALS, COST CITY $13,000 San Fr co Pays 85,963.25 for First and $6,788.71 ter Sec: SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 22.—The two trials of Roscoe Arbuckle -1 @ manslaughter charge arising from the death of Virginia Rappe, film actress, has cost the City of San Francisco nearly $13,000, it was disclosed to-day with the filing of expense shoots, Both trials resulted in @ jury disa- greement. The first trial cost $5,953.25 and the second trial $6,788.71. SINN FEINERS PUT OFF TREATY No Vote in Dail Shall Require Resignation of Provisional Government. TEXT OF AGREEMENT. Free State Constitution and Pact to Be Submitted When Elections Are Held. | DUBLIN, Feb. 22 (Associuted Press).—An agreement to adjourn the jArd Fheis, the Sinn Fein Nationul Convention, for three months was reached to-day among the political | leaders of that body. | After Eamon De Valera and Arthur GriMth had answered several ‘ques- tions respecting the agreement, the | proved | journed. | The text of the articles of agrye- ment, as read by Mr. De Valera, ie {a8 follows: i |. “Im order to avoid division of the Sinn Fein orranization, to avert the danger tu the country | of an immediate cltetion, and to give opportunity tu the signa- tories to the London agreement to draft a constituiicn, so that when the people are asked to vote in an election to decide between the republic and the F'ree State the constitution of the latter may be definitely before them, it is hereby agreed that, “This Ard Fheis shall adjourned for three months. “2, Meantime the Officers’ Board of the organization shall act as a standing committee; the Dail Eirean, shall meet regularly and continue to function in all of its departments as before the signing of the articles of the Lon- don agreement, and no vote of the Dail Eireann shall be regarded as a party vote requiring the resig- nation of the President and the Cabinet. In the mean time no Parliament election shall be held, and when it is held the Constitu- tion of the Free State be in its final form of agreement. “3, That this agreement shall be submitted to the Ard Fheis, and, if approved, shall be bindinj Answering questions, Mr. De Valera explained that the phrase regarding the Constitution ‘tin its final form’’ meant that form in which it could not be changed, and that the advocates of the Free State must stand or fall by it. Mr. De Valera sald he him- self was satisfied at the agreement reached. Of course, he added, as neither side was likely to change its opinion, nothing in the agreement prevented elther from advocating its views. .The Officers’ Board, which is to act as a standing committee, hap- the agreement and - ¥ Ea stand (Continued on Eighth Page.) $3.60 Sunday World Real Estate Adv. 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As a direct result from The World's Real Estate advertisement, Mayer & ths L See Gundrum sold nine houses, represent: Ie eee eee in Ree rar | ing a value of over $126,000, on an tow, N.Y, Clty, ‘Telephone amas 4000, investment of $3.60. | a room for bagsawe paronls opm day and night ey orders ead (revellers’ checks (or Nae Sea Wat Relay H arld Readers Possess (Racing Entries on Page 7.) an le Purchasing Power. ACTION 3 MONTES) {Ard Iheis by a viva voce vote-ap-{! PRICE THREE CENTS WOMAN IS ARRESTED IN $73,000 “FAKE ROBBERY” BOARD SEEKING 10 PLACE DEFECT Airship Did Not Explode in Air, Says Major Gen. Patrick—Most of Victims Burned to Death After She Struck Electric Light Wires. NORFOLK, Feb. 22.—Testimony of survivors and eyewitnesses is being taken here to-day by an Army Board of Inquiry under the com- mand of Major Gen. Mason M. Patrick, Ohief of the Air Service, into the disaster that yesterday overtook the Army dirigible Roma with a loss of life of thirty-four members of its crew and passengers and serious injury to all but three of the remaining eleven persons aboard. The testimony already taken indicated that the disaster was due to an accident to the conrols regulating the altitude of the big dirigible. But Major Gen. Patrick definitely has announced that there was no explosion in the air—that is, before the bag of the Roma struck high-tension power wires near the ground. Gen. Patrick gave out the first official announce- ment of the preliminary findings of the Army Board, He said: “¥rom the testimony I have heard @——$—$——$—$____—_—_— so far it is indicated that the disaster was due to an accident to the controls regulating the altitude of the Roma. “The ship came down, striking high tension electric wires, which caused the fire. There was no explosion and no fire while the ship was in the air: “The board of investigation is tak- ing testimony from all the men, and its report will be made as soon as pos- sible, A very thorough tnvestigation is being made to determine, if pos- sible, the cause of the terrible dis- aster, which is an awful blow to the Alr Service, Everything possible is being done for the families of those who lost their lives and for the comfort of the survivors of this great disaster.” The Roma had yielded up to-day the last of its dead, Recovery of the last body fixed the toll of the disaster —the greatest in the history of Amer- tcan aeronautics—at 34 dead, elght injured and three practically unhurt. Of the dead 30 had been identified, although many of the bodies of those caught in the interior of the ship were burned, blackened and charred almost beyond recognition. Air service men from Langley Field, the home station of the craft, began shortly after dawn to-day the clearing up of the wreckuge of the warped and blistered skeleton, and at the same time preparations begun for the official inquiry in connection with the inquiry these developments, some officers sald, had been established definitely: First, that the left rudder of the Roma gave way when she was less than half @ mile from where she went down near the army base fire station, Second, that there was no fire on the ship until after the tilt began, Third, that the craft became un- manageable as she swooped over the base reservation, narrowly missing a 150-foot smokestack of the central heating plant. Fourth, that the immediate cause of the explosion with such force as te wreck the entire craft and set her on fire was contact with « met of 220-volt high-power clectric wires, less than 100 feot from where the Roma crashed into « pile of debris. Fifth, That the Liberty motors, which were being tested, were not responsible for the disaster, unless something more tangible should be learned than appeured to-day. The point which the Army Board of Investigation, which will be organized today, will decide is what caused the rudder supports to cive way. There were two pilots in charge of the ship’s steering geur. They were Capt. Walter J. Reed ond Licut. B. G. Burt, both of whom had been at the wheels of the Roni: on previous trips Burt was uninjured and Reed is on the road to recovery from slight in (Continued on Second Page.) ’ Reba IN RUDDER WHICH CAUSED ROMA WREGK © Rr mroweerneemaeg Ry cet T or. (Copyright, Pacific and Atlantic Photos.) % palarencdocn easiness SE THREE NEW YORKERS KILLED First Lieut. William E. Riley, one of the crew of the airship Roma who lost his life yesterday, leaves his wife, who was Miss Mildred Harecher of No, 626 West 86th Street, and a five- weeks-old daughter at that address. Meny of his relatives live in Stam- ford, Conn. Iieut. Riley was twenty-five years of age and welcomed his assignment to tho Roma for trainings On the way down to report he wrote a letter to his brother here in which he ex- pressed his joy. He had spent six years abroad, preceding his eighteenth birthday, with his uncle, Edward Riley, a New York insurance broker. He studied in many schools abroad and then returned to this country and finished his preparations for Yale at SuMeld School. He was a member of the class of 1920 at Yale, but left col- lege to join the Yale Balloon Battalion in 1917 after training at Fort Ogle- thorp, Ga.; Fort Omaha and Ross Field, Cal. He received his commis- sion as Second Lieutenant, free bal- lean pilot, in November, 1918. He was discharged shortly after that and re-enlisted in October, 1919, in the Highteenth Airship Company. He was sent to Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland and remained there until he was ordered to the Roma a month ago. He will be buried on Sunday at Stamford, the services being held in St. John’s Catholic Church, None of the officers of the big dirigible had the slightest apprehen- sion of danger in navigating the alr, according to Mrs, William J. Reed of Scarsdale, N. Y¥., mother of Capt. Walter J. Reed, Filght Commander of the Roma, who Is among the sur- Lieut. Riley Leaves Wife and Baby—Jamies Murray Always Lived With Friends Here —W. J. Ryan Well Known in Brooklyn, = IN ROMA CRASH; ANOTHER IN THE LIST OF SURVIVORS ceased to fear for him when he iis in the alr, : “I never thought any kind of Tiy- ing was safe,” said Mrs. Reed, “but I felt that in a dirigible a pérson would be safer than in any other gort of aircraft, In his letters home Capt Reed seemed to feel that it wam-all perfectly safe and so we almost stopped worrying about him.” 5 About @ year ago, Feb. 4, 1021, he married Miss Maria Blackistofi, daughter of Mr, and Mrs. Harry C. Blackiston, of No. 44 West Tith Street, The day after the ceremony the couple sailed with Major Thornel! and Capt. Mabry for Italy to arrange for the transportation of the Roma to this country. Capt. Reed's father, Wiliam J Reed, who formerly had a reatesrate office in this city, has retired from active business and lives in Scars dale. Mrs, Blackiston said although Capt. Reed never seemed to worry about his safety in the alr, she felt that it was always dangerous, “Capt. Reed loved his work,” ahe said, “and neither he nor my daugh- ter seemed to worry about it He was planning several flights to New York and Chicago as soon as the dirigible had finished her trials.” With neither kith nor kin to worry about him Master Sergeant James Murray's death was a haré blow ty Charles Ellis, wife and family, at Ne. 709 Greenwich Street. Mrs, Ellis, p kindly faced old lady, sat on the thirt floor of the tenement house to-day and cried. With the tears run down her face she declared the death of Murray affected her more thaw the death of her own brother re- cently. i Her husband, who had recelved’ ® telegram this morning advising the death of Murray, had answere “Let him be buried where he felt vivors. Mrs. Reed said that her son t the hazardous job so much as a er of course that she had almost \ ‘That was his wish,” “He was born in England,” ay Mr, EMA) speaking of Murray. “Ha ff ~