The evening world. Newspaper, February 23, 1922, Page 2

1 | | “ hy" 2 Tread members of the New York Curb Market Association, Their suspension Sane was announced on the floor of the Curb Exchange. Customers to-day found Rasmussen & Co.'s doors locked ‘A Notice was pasted on the door say- ing the n had made an a cn ment to ( A. MeLaughiin, law vor, of No, 2 Rector Street No state nt of acects and liabilities was heoming. Members of ahts are Joweph A, Rasriussen and Hamasen An involuntary ruptey wax filed the U. & District Cor against Rod ney & Co. No. & adw No mention is made of asscts or linhili- ties. The fir mis a momber of the Consolidated Stock Fach and does a general brokerige business. THINK KARDOS AND BURKE! LIABILITIES $700,000, the bankruptey — proceedings ngainst the Kardos & Burke firm, conducted yester t the home of Vederal Judge Learned Hand, owing te the holiday whieh closed the courts, the liabilities of the organization were Mw mi bunk: ny petition in 1s afternoon In slated as $1,500,000, with assets of $150,000, Arthur 1. Ross for the firm, said to-day that }littes had declined to about § with assets underestimated The three creditors who forced the house into involuntary bankruptey ims were, Lawrence R fatty, $250; John W. Risteen, $100, nd Clarence 8. Car, § The re ceiver appomted by Indge Hand Robert P. Stephenson, lis bond being fixed at $25,000 At the age of wixty-three. John Burke, who, in addition to bis other distinctions, is a lawyer of ion- wide repute, is flat broke as the re- sult of the failure This fact, however, does not seem to worry the former Treasurer. He ts more concerned in the possible loss of money to customers who conducted stock transaetions through the de- funct firm largely on the strength of Mr, Burke's name, and that his name —which during President Wilson's Administration was signed to all the Government money ~~ was allegedly and their ¢ i firm | |EX-U. S. TREASURER WHO SAYS HE HAS LOST EVERY DOLLAR | | _THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1922. JOHN BORKE. Carmen STUDIOS | 1 used by his partner to exploit the | brokerage business of Kurdos &| Burke. “The whole thing,’ Mr. Burke sald to-day at his home, No 815 Park! Avenue, “reminds me of the old ada: that a cobbler should stick to his last 1 am a lawyer by profession. 1 made | @ Mistake going into the brokerage | Wusiness, concerning which | find | knew too little: | “I want the situation cleared up, ll | transactions of the firm opened wide ao the public, I know that such process would absolve me personally of all blame and I have not the slignt- est reason to doubt but what it would) against suUree j surprise to the clerks and |phers, numbering nearly a hundred All they knew of it they read in the wspapers and they reported for L.-T KARDOS JR. of strength and The suspension of the inspiration firm wa n work as usual this morning clear up insinuations made were told to go home and await in- | the firm."* structio Several of the male em ‘This reference was made principally | jiovees, who with the others, had been to his partner, L. M. Fardos. Aske!) yuig only up to last Saturday, started ¢Aow he had met Mr S,ardos and as ty whether he had fu'l confidence in him, Mr. Burke said “When I place my confidence in a man, it is absolute, unshaken. | trust him thoroughly; there is ro half-way business about it. Mr. Kar- dos had my full dence. “I met Mr. Kardds in Washington in 1920 through my brother, Thomas C. Burke, At the time I was tooking around for a business opportunity, omknowing that tay term of office would | exchange. expire on March 4, 1921. He Inter- At the height of bis prosperity *+ ested me in the brokerage business, | Kardos marr pher in tus | + showed me a statement as to his busi-| office. In 1920 be tried to bave the ness and gave me letters of reference that were from the most reputable persons—three prominent brokers who ~ > Were members of the New York Stock ~«Exshange, a number of nationally known bankers of New York, Chicago “and other cities, and other persons of equally bigh standing. These letters were unvsually good and I was glad of a chance to associate with Mr. Kardos on the strength of them. oe d'Phe contract we signed was iron- clad, One clause, for example,” here Mr. Burke showed the part he referred (o, “provided that the ‘partners could not engage in trading on thelr own account and that neither partner could engage in any trades on any ex- smeghange without the knowledge and ~®@onsent of the other.’ I, personally, do not believe that Kardos at any time violated that ment. At no time did he inform f What he was engaging in trading \Deepeculating of any nature, and I Go not believe that he ever did do go, PUT IN THE SAVINGS OF A LIFETIME. “1 went to the office daily and handled considerable correspondence, wrote a regular market letter to the public, but did not handle any of the idetails of the business, Mr. Kardos having entire charge of that depart- ment. Our diMiculties began some ime ago, before District Attorney /Ranton began his investigation into the so called bucket shops. Insidious ‘nnd malicious rumors were afloat that ‘injured all brokers, reputable and ‘otherwise, especially members of the Consolidated Stock Exchange. “Up until the last two days T be- Hieved we could avert a receivership jand I drew on every asset I had—the jpavings of my entire Jifetime—and Fire y them into the breach. I made o preparations for the event of a ceivership; did not assign one dol- Har to my wife or any one else, but gave everything T had until to-day ‘ou see me with everything lost— jeverything * But this year hus boen one of hard fuck. I think it ha» bit me worse {than most people, My old law part- per, Henry G, Middovch, now of fu Juth, and 1 started two men in Dusiness in California in a bank. | "This, through mismanigement, wen on the rocks. Mr. Middaugh and 1 wold our bonds at a tow, turned every jiauid asset we hit into the re weivers’ hands and pail cent for cent every obligation that her of us had, ‘This cost ms $60,000. came the brokerage failure. 1 had ubout $20, left uick assets and some property, Which | immediately turned over to the buciness in an ef- fort to save the money of my cus. tomers and oth “As soon as thir thing is over, I shall start anew to build my for- ’ but as a lawyer this time, I ask only that my health holds up, 1 have been singularly turtunate tn that respect and ereater—my one even taking typewriters and other office | furnishings away with them, but were stopped at the door Kardos, who is said to have a home| in New Jeravy, came to this country when he was eighteen years old. St. had been a clerk in a bank in Buda pest and In 1914 became a mesvenger for a New'WVork financial institution He gained rapid promotion during the World War and afterward be- ause of his familiarity with foreign marriage annulled on the cround of fraud. Mrs. Kardos countered with a divorce suit, naming a young woman, | and was awarded a decit Kardos made a trip to fall, it is said, and on his return « nounced he had made important con- nections on the other side. A tide of money is alleged to have resulted from Germans, Czechoslovaks and others who wanted to send funds to relatives In Central or Eastern Eu- rope, It is not known how well the obligation was fulfilled, Horned to last quoting Jor the R | deatre: co nice | army of Newrort statement was her last flight e stateme by from Clifford night Lieut the disaster Washington uf ha connection Cob “snowing L cannot believe rectly quoted his deter ttive to ma," say y under me clunate iieut. Col. Lieut. Sm ship W RE that speed times nes suas Fisher vthe Alleged Air- ‘as Dangerous. Disaster. NEWS, Feb. iy A f ni of Col Wish lions made in Ch Dr. J. M. Nicholson, letter written by Smythe, a victim of the Roma’s trip to December, In this Pisher sata: wo ter st to his father Laeut. Smythe ay 1 did, >that he has been cor in Chicago itive to the Washington trip the Colonet add She behaved y oat trying weather con Was nothing wrong ex trifle the in which account was a on of not working well These motors were re They | placed and there was nothing wrong with the craft when she left here Tuesday on what proved to be her last flight “Lieut. Smythe returned — from Washington by Jthe flight from | capital on the orde 1 to do flo after making Langley Field to the Roma, because he was so, Several higher of- q s wanted to make the return flight Doubts -EPTION POSTPONED. | ilarding Puts Off Big Army and Navy Function Because | Col AS. Fist Chief of the} | Lighter-than-Air Field, home station of the ill-fated Roma, that “there was nothing jw with the eraft when she le here esday on what proved to be | i { for experimental purposes, and Lieut. | Smythe and others were sent back to} Langley Field by steamer to make robm for them CHICAGO, eb, 23 Robert Smythe, father of Lieut of Chicago, properly const Smythe said ized the R WASHI the eceasioned by personn le had recet n few days the giant iTON, Roma disaster and t fore the dirigible ructed his son had not criti- a's construction Feb. accident, was mourning the loss of lives of » President and Mrs. i | explosion of the Roma at Nor- | nda letter from his | ROMA IN PERFECT SHAPE, ~ SAYS AIR CHIEF, DENYING CHARGE SHE WAS UNSAFE army would want the Zeppelin | — HOUSE COMMITTEE | AGAINST DIRIGIBLES Representative Madden Opposes -ighter-Than-Air Craft After Harding Conference. WASHINGTON, Feb, 23,—Con struction of any other large dirigibles by the army or navy will be strongly opposed by Representative Madden 1. to-day by Lieut,| {_llinots), Chairman of the House Ap- propriations Committee. Because of the Koma disaster, Madden, after a Service at Lancley|call at the White House, said he had definitely decided to tuke steps through his committee to stop all ap- propriations for dirigible development At the Army Air Service it was suid nu decision had been reached as to whether Congress would be usked to approve «pproprintfons for more big dirigthles The financial loss to the Govern ment because of the Roma disaster will be more than $2,000,000, officials suid, The big ship cost slightly un- | der $2,000,000, and insurance claims will require at least $250,000 ——_—_—__- - LOMMOOD Wns YEAR EXTENSION FOR COMMITEE (Continued From First P, ved the recommendations of Sam- Untermyer, its chief counsel, on uesday. They suspended opers at 2 o'clock this morning and had worked until the same hour yesterday. It practically has been decided by the committee to ask for an extension of the Emergency Rent laws to March 15, 1924, about fifteen months. It is known the committee is not a unit on all the recommendations of Mr. Untermyer. There ts a division on the proposition to compel the fire insurance companies to divert 40 per cent. of their funds to realty mort- gages. Representatives of those com- ue ions Clifford | panies have been in Albany during the who was killed | week voicing their protests. Should the majority report of the| | lols, to-day dented published reports | committee favor such a course there that will be a vigorous fight on the floor | of both houses, according to present not | indications. Harding announced postponement un- | til ree April ption, one 19 of the army and navy of the state affairs of the official social season, which was, to have been White House. held to-night at the Four thousand invita- The announcement followed a con- President Harding The Secretary before going to the White House’ re- | Mr. Burke, who was Honorary|tiong hud been issued President of the Progress National Bank, at Seventh Avenue and 28th|terence between Street, to-day announced his resig-| ana Secretary Weeks. nation from that office and also as director. Kardos also announced his resignation us director. A, H. Walsh, President of the bank, stated shortly before noon that the receivership would in no way affect his {nstitu tion, He said that Mr, Burke was “a very fine man but probably had been ill-advised." Business was go- ing on as usual to-day at the bank, with a steady line of depositors at the receiving teller's window Kardos & Burke in March, 1921, be- gan a Ubel suit against R. H, Me- Masters, a Chicago broker, who was alleged to have turned over his busl- ness to Kardos & Burke when he got out of the brokerage business. Me- Masters was charged with calling the Kardos & Burke concern a bucket- shop when MeMasters re-entered the brokerage business, and was alleged to have sought to regain from them the business he previously had con- trolled. Wall Street was informed to-day that creditors of EB. W. Wagner & Co., a Stock Exchange house with offices in many cities and which had been in business for over thirty years, expect an carly offer of 50 cents in cash and 25 cents in notes guaranteed by secured notes and based on slow assets. ‘There is over $5,100,000 cash and securities avall- able in the bank at present. At the time of the failure Mr, Wagner said he believed the firm could pay 7 cents on the dollar and with more time would try to pay dollar for dollar CHICAGO ORPLORS "BOTH FIRMS CLOS! CHICAGO, Feb. B.S. Ruskay & Co. morning to check the Police Is were pany's whe we to hy Bathered, althon the company that any troub 1e firin’s lust statement on Jan. showed $1.20 assets for every $1 of nt, according to th bankruptey 1 to be filed hi quire several days to chi ago books, oMetals sahil tail was also sont to & Burke verul Mt the company's ¢ 1 ono tre D. The local branch was closed this ompany's books, sent to the ae several investors sald rs of was dented 18, in the Chi A poll Joffice of | ve Abbe fice, bul cause wife has stood by ough all the piorm, and has @ constant me th been General Service, who from Langley 4 preliminary disaster, ‘The derstood to have laid Gen, report before returned early to-day Field, where he made investigation of the ceived an informal report from Major | rick, Chief of the Air| ‘War Secretary was un- | Patrick's the President. But first there will be a big fight in the committee to prevent such a report An attempt will be made to have —Due to) the report completed for presentation to both Houses next Monday night. Chairman Lockwood said to-day he would remain here through to-morrow and if possible submit the document to the Legislature before leaving for New York. The committee may embrace in Its report the recommendation to extend the operation of the emergency rent | laws to cities of the second class. They have been beseiged with re- quests from various cities to have this done, and complaints have been filed with them showing conditions in other cities are relatively as bad as in Wew York. In this regard, though, it is sald by members of the committee they have not had sufficient time to go thor- oughly into the subject. Should the committee fail to make this recommendation the Democratio Blame for the disaster does not rest | leaders are ready to start legislation with Congress, Statements that to-day. Congress to helium caused failure n. Patrick declared | to widen the scope of the emergency of | rent laws. Minority ieaders Charles appropriate funds for| D. Donohue said to-day he was ready 1 the accident ure not based on facts. The Roma disaster would have to proceed on this line, but desired to extend to the Lockwood commit- tee the courtesy of giving it first happened just the same had the ship! hearing in the matter, been filled wit drogen,’ said true, however, so great.” Airship Must Depart from officials State Depart Navy of the Versa comes to Ame when you ‘abl of & Cold coming on out Cost, $ WASHINGTON, h helium instead of hy- Gen. Patrick. “It is » that in all probability the loss of life might not have been —— t= NAVY WON’T PAY | a FOR ZEPPELIN |Buikers Say Proposition Means ‘Come to U.S. Wi Secretary Denby Vel 23. ment, |t to-day ment The wos learned ry has notified the that it does not want the German Zppelin now being ailles ‘Treaty unless erica Without cost. it The question has arisen, it was said, as to whether the amount qlotted for this pur ol money ie by the Allies under the reparations agreement to the United States was sutfictent. to complete the Zeppelin, and there is & possibility that the United States may be required to make up the dif- ference if she cares to take the ship. This Secretary, Denby is not willing to do. At the Army All Service it was uid that if the navy refused to take the Zeppelin under additional cost that would not preclude the army from taking her, and consideration would be given to the matter by the Air Service if it does turn out that more money woul ed for its completion, It aid that it Was constructed for the United States by Germany under the reparations clause | ‘drawn by LOCKWOOD PLAN FOR HOMES O. K.’D BY INSURANCE CO. Boon to House Construction, If Adopted. ALBANY, Feb. 23.—The measure the Lockwood Housing Committee to provide funds for home building by permitting Insurance com- panies to invest in realty bonds and mortgages has been approved by offi- cials of the Metropolitan Life Insur- ance Company, who gave their opin- ions last night at a hearing before the Joint Insurance Committees of the Legislature. Walter Stabler, Comptroller of the company, declared his willingness to go into the proposal “after we have satisfied ourselves without question as to the safety of the investment."’ It was said that the company’s chief in- terest was in an improvement in the housing situation so as to minimize sickness and death—a vital matter to 4 life insurance concern, Louis J. Horowitz, President of the ‘Thompson-Starrett Company, which does $40,000,000 worth of building a year, and Frederick A, Matthews, ‘Treasurer of the Matthews Build- ing Company, sald the committee's plan if adopted would mean a tre- mendous boon to building, The com- mittee has asserted that tenements can be constructed to rent for $9 a and the builders themselves say n be put up to rent for even possible or even probable that the “TERRY THE WOLF? KILLED IN PISTOL BATTLE IN CAFE Was Supposed to Have Slain the Restaurant. ‘THREE OTHERS SHOT. \Venezia Patrons Run From | Fight, Leaving the Wounded | on the Floor. Jerry Ruberto, better known as \‘Jerry the Wolf.” was killed in a | pistol battle in which three other men were wounded, one mortally, at 2.15 o'clock this morning in the Cafe Venezia, at Elizabeth and Kenmare Streets, formerly owned by Ernesto |and Silvio Melchiore, brothers, both of whom were murdered last sommer. “Jorty the W was supposed to |have killed the Melehiores and it is |the police theory that he was enticed to the V by friends of the brothers Ruberto appears to have put up a stiff fight. Probably he was accom- | panied by friends, who took part in it, ‘The wounded are; James Grasso, thirty-three, of No Grove Street, shot in abdomen, Will die, Joseph Recardo, thirty-one, of N: iM Suffolk Street, shot left shoulder, wound seriou: John Pagano, thirty, of No. 59 Watt Street, shot twice in neck, wounds not serious, The Kenmare Street place, well | known the police, has been one sated as a restaurant and cabaret and y was to have been under new management. From what the police learned there were a score of men and women {n the back room eating, drinking and listening to music, and others were at the bar in the front. Shots came suddenly and aroused the neighborhood. Policemen ran up in the fog. ‘They found the cafe filled with powder smoke. On the floor were three men, one of them dying. They were the only persons left, Mirrors were shattered, furniture was bullet scarred and large floral piece for to-day's “'grand opening,” a design ‘Success,"’ had been torn by the lead. On the tables and floor were coats, hats, one watch and some bottles of liquor, On a chair was a woman's glove and in an ash can just outside Melchiore swore that he would kil! the slayer of his brother, He was standing in front of the Cafe Venezia ou July 23 talking to a woman when a@ man walked up and drove a long stiletto through his heart. The mur derer escaped, “Jerry the Wolf’ had a record of ten arrests since 1909 on charges of assault, felonious assault, grand larceny and homicide. He evaded the! draft in 1918 but was caught and! forced into the army. | | FIELDS TELLS FULL STORY OF MURDER OF WILLIAM. TAYLOR ~INNORTHERN LY. Brothers Who Had Owned | WINTER'S WORST ~ BLIZZARD RAGING Storm and Cold Wave Sweep Northwest—Will Reach Here To-Morrow Night, Predicti OGDEN, N. ¥ Fb. ~ Northern New Yors is in the grop of the worst blizzard of the winter. A storm which has red for forty eight hours has conmpletely disrupted railroad service and forced discontin- uance of ferry service across the St Lawrence to Canada Roads leading in completely blocked by big drifts, CHICAGO, Feb, 23.—The Mid-West was in the grip of the worst storm of the winter to-day. Telegraph and telephone communication was com pletely tied up and railroad ‘trains were stalled in heavy drifts in. the Northwes' A bh 9’ y this ‘city wer, drop in temperature was reported throughout the Mid-West. The mereiy dropped 30 degrees in twelve hours over the Great Lakes district eb. $.—Storms trom the northwest at Lakes region the East Gulf WASHINGTON, and the cold wave will resell the G Ohio Valley and tates to-night or early to-morrow and will overspread the Atlant) coastal region by to-morrow night ording to the forecast to-day of Weather Burean, The Western tt NS, ROBERTSON IN JA, CHAREE PLO AGANST HER Jewelry Robbery “Victim” Receives Vistors as Though They Had Come to Tea. Mrs. Sarah J. Robertson, in fait at Freehold. Nod, charged with conspiracy to defraud Lioyd's of $72,000 by arranging an Imitation | robbery at her cottage at Deal, N. J., last Saturday night, told an Evening | World reporter to-day that there was | plot against her, Sho denied ever Bailey, young man: who says he was engaged with the prom- of $1,000 to enact the flerce bur- She denied that | th secing the ise 6 Tober, indignantly whing maker, was in- witness to the burglary. invite a mere tubdle,” she | that [ would ever tradesman to my dinner sald with apparent irritation. | announced | wound through |CREW AND SHIP'S CAT, Ch giv and ha we vited to her house to dinner to be a! belongings and the ship | “It is absurd for anyone to pretend | “Ife is | sir I newly created office, i Lo worthy man, bat le merely came on business and J invited him inte the dining room because the outer hall was so cold." Mrs Robertsou further insisted that Hailey had a real revoly With a muffler when he came into her home and not a leather covercd case | for a tobacco pipe storm had its centre ¢ to-day over the Upper Lake on and vith its progress tending east-north east, the bureau's forecast indicated the cold wave will be preceded as in the Northwest by snow or rain | WEATHER BUREAU WARYS sips! Ov STORM. ! The bhazcird now raging in the Mid west will reach the. Bust to-morrow, according to the New York Wea Bureau, Kain predicted for to-night | Will probably turn to now. to-morrow with a heavy drop in tem Warr o shipping slong the ons r issued has b Waren $15,000 HOLD-UP UNDER EYES. OF Mrs. Robertson received visitors at the jail as though they had come to tea She wore a low cut blouse and short skirt and was vivacious in déseribing her, experience in her cell “LT had a lovely little room,"" she id, nd a nice be Don't ever! anybody tell you these pluces are dirty and disagreeable. Have 1 any- thing to say? Only that this whole thing is perfectly ridiculous, espe cially the delay in getting bail, ot have $200,000, you know “About the jewelry, 1 can only tell |you that F think all the jewels which were included in the insurance policy | have been recovered. T shall ne make any statement about the rob ery or the stery that it was not genuine until £ consult my attorney in New York I expect to see lim this afternoon Mrs. bertson in an effusively gra 1 all inquirers: 10 | aturday and Sun cious manner invit Hat her cotta day and hear what she thought of “the whole silly business." | John Bailey, twenty-two, a railiead |signalman of Long Brancli, who Ui | s the “holdup man" and was| — vemed only with a leathe (Contin From First 1% a pearlhandled revolver such as a woman might carry. ¢ —— Detectives came suddenly on one(from the cash register and $105 in group of seven men ut Rivington | stamps and cash from the Post Office Street and the Bowery, one of them '‘sub-atation The fifth man wounded. He was Pagano. One of |, dat the wheel of the automobile the others had a pistol and ai! were meh epeal way ih nel: ‘ |the direction of Grand Street Ernesto 'Melchiore was found with! In the fog the victims of the liold- his head almost evered in Neptune up could not see the license number Avenue, Coney Island, on June 6 of oy distinguish the make of the car | last_ year. “Jerry the Wolf,” sus-|‘rney gave the police a good descrip-| pected, established an alibi. Silvio sign of the robbers however HOLD UP THIRTY CLUB MEMBERS AT POINT OF GUN Four Robbers Line Men to Wall and Empty Their Pockets. The police of the Fifth Street Sta- tion were investigating to-day a com- plaint of members of the Ridge Dem. cratic Club, at No, 91 Attorney | that while thirty men were en gaged in an economic discussion At tubles in the elubroom at 10.20 o'clock last night, four men entered, threat ened the members with revolvers and made them line up, faco to the wall, while their pockets were searched and emptied of money and watches. Members of the club who had the oa courage to look over their shoulders (Continued From First Page.) | 48 the robbers departed said they suw | a0 them get into an automobile and murder plot in one of the dope dens. “With details fixed, they hired me to drive them to Taylor’s home. (Fields confessed to being a drug ad- dict himselff as well a member of the distributing ring. “The first night we waited in the car, but Taylor did not come out and there was no opportunity to get into his house, “The next night—that of Feb. 1— we drove first to a ‘hop joint’ and later to lor's home again. We waited around awhile and saw Taylor come out of his house, escorting Mabel Normand, who had been calling on him. X. (the murderer), lurking in the side alley smoking cigarettes, slipped into the house. Two women moved along the sidewalk in opposite directions, acting as look: | outs. I stayed in the car, “X, crouched behind a piece of tur niure and waited, according to the story he told us afterward. Taylor re. entered the house and seated himself at his desk, X. took aim from his place of concealment without wasting a minute, and sent a bullet into Tay. | lor's back. Taylor fell to the floor, | overturning the chair in which he had ‘been sitting. X. hurried from! the house, not even pausing to as- | certain If Taylor was dead. He got! into the machine, as did the two lookouts and I drove them aw: | “We went to a spot {n the out-| skirts of the city where X. burled| the gun. (The spot has heen de-| scribed in detall.) arly the next | day X, und 1 went toa bank (named) where X. changed a $1,000 note and | gave me $900 of it for my part in the affair. “1 took Angeles and went | who had been | drive away. The intruders took about ROHIE TION 01 ‘ Tesple Zuckosky appeared in the | Fifth Avehne Court, Brooklyn, to-day | with a complaint against two men w she sald entered her cafe at No. Third Avenue, Brooklyn, acted lke Pro- Sand | DROPS ot only tissue paper Jail on a ¢ said he wa Robertson Lloyd's." Samuel Gasn, graph operat mit ta night a handbag stuffed with the is also in Freehold ge ot co y. He to get $1,008 “when Mrs eolleeted her $72,000 trom | twenty-three, a of Belmar. who hg to the police, a” the fake holdup ana 000, Was released last Me the nd Mrs, Hot ulked over the “robbery”? co as last November » Deal police and insurance vestigators said to-day they locate Mrs, son's jewels soon though they would not admit they em to get $3 $15,000 1s police report, that he ertson on in tobe know where they are. A remarkable feature of the affair is a document produced by Bailey, who said it was to be ised he was “double in ¢ County At Deal police tigators from torney’s office and came to New York te young woman of Saturday night's party who was known us Miss Olive! Robertson and was understood to be niece of the hostoss's husband, Ac cording to taeir present information the “robber the Robertson cottage young woman produced stenographer's note book and began taking down statements which she afterward trans- | scribed on a typewriter she lad| brought with her and bound them in legal looking blue covers which she | had brought with h These were | the papers presented to the insurance company proofs of loss."’ The! Present information of the police ts | that the young woman's nume is not Robertson and that she is a stenog ipher employed by a new York at orney the the had no sooner left t thi n s DEAD oN Le WHILE PLAYING, SAN DIEGO, Cal, Feb. 23.—John«o Letson Walker, fifty-seven. Boston shov LINIWS hibition agents, demanded drinks and searched the bar, They gave the names | of Albert Van Schalk, No, 168 Decatur Street, Brooklyn, A Albert Olsen, No. 165 West 49th Street, Manhattan, and | were held in $500 bail cach on charges of disorderly conduct ETLEYS Makes good TEA a certainty manufacturer, dropped dead of heart failure on the Coronado Golf Links while playing a foursome to-day. ‘The body will be sent to his Eastern home for burial | Only the tender top leaves of tea plants carefully chosen and knowingly blended could make a drink so delicious and so refreshing as Tetley’s Orange Pekoe. Tetley’s Orange Pekoe In 10c, quarter-pound, half- pound and one-pound packages. his seu was learned this evening fitted | = day to find the | — \for eltker the week day Mt Word er ‘Th Brening World i o Preceding public dey World Offi | made by The World must be | rriar ¢ y [br The World must not been received ty 4 PM Friday. and ea Eraving copy whien bat uot been received tn Publication office tr i PM. Friday, and posit Insertiou orders no iS BM. Friday win be omitted as ceudiitcus require. rigldly i The order of iatest recoil and) positive rel order provided above, ‘when vinttied” will Rot serve. t | earn discousts of any chasacier, coutract of other woe, THE WORL. DIED. SANBORN.—HAZEL STRAIGHT, wif James F, Sanborn. Funeral servicea, wilt be held priv At convenience of fan FUNERAL DIRECTORS. i 1.80 1 45th at, MISSING GIRL, 8, SLAIN BY MANIAC Body Found in Woods Near Baltl- more Shows Signs of Brutal Treatment. BALTIMORE, Feb, 23.— Clare Stone, eight-year-old school girl, whose body was found in woods on the outskirts of the city, was brutally murdered by a maniac, de- tectives believe to-day, Physicians who examined the body that the child had been cruelly mistreated by her slayer, but had not been assaulted. A bullet the th had ended the little gir IN LIFEBOAT, SAVE wauexe Snil- ning Ship. . Feb. ved to be the afire off South wrday pieked up by the { Field, according 1 radio mes age to-day. The Chief Field did no n her port of call men picked up wer been adrift threc sighted in a small by ore W =? Th Portugu: hours. Th with their "ROM COM. LONDON, Feb ic des Admiralty Ansport, as 2 (Associnied Press) former First Lord and later Minister of the first holder of tho about to resign the House of Commons. of in ‘Robert Fuiton taking his little boat up the Hudson. The invention of steam navigation —a lucky strike for him. 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